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The Louis Prima Hit Parade
By: Legacy Staff
5 years ago
Louis Prima was a talented singer, songwriter and trumpeter, but perhaps what the bandleader did best was reinvent himself. For decades, Prima stayed on top by playing the music that was trendy and cool. Along the way, he showcased qualities that his earliest fans may not even have known he possessed. By the time he died, 35 years ago today, Prima had journeyed through a wide variety of musical styles, from Dixieland to Big Band to classic kid-fare – and won millions of fans along the way.
It all started in the 1920s, when Prima was just a teen. In his hometown of New Orleans, he played in the school band and with friends at clubs in the French Quarter. A distinctive style of Dixieland swing emerged, one that would carry Prima to fame in the 1930s. Louis Prima and His New Orleans Gang, as he was calling his band at the time, moved to New York City to make it big – and made the big city come alive with their infectious jazz.
As the 1940s began, Dixieland was on the way out. WWII-era America was dancing to the music of the big bands, and Prima was ready, willing and able to grab that audience. Sometimes with a female singer at the mike and sometimes singing himself, Prima played tunes that were just right for a USO dance.
Cue the 1950s: big bands are out, and finger-snappin' cool is in. Prima found his way to Las Vegas, where gigs at the Sahara and the Desert Inn kept his career swinging. A Vegas nightclub performer does best if he's not just musically talented, but charismatic as well – and Prima had charisma in spades. And he was just plain funny, too.
At the dawn of the 1960s, Prima was 50 years old: an age when many singers would slow down and enjoy life a bit. But not Prima – he released an amazing eight albums in 1960 and 1961 alone. And then he reinvented himself once again, becoming something new… and oddly orange and furry. That something was The Jungle Book's King Louie, the jazzy singing orangutan. Prima's solo number was one of the hits of the Disney classic, a toe-tapping tune that is still beloved today.
The 1970s saw Prima's health decline sharply. After a heart attack in 1973, and the discovery of a brain tumor two years later, Prima spent his last years in a coma before passing away on August 24, 1978.
Just over a decade ago, Prima's widow released re-mastered versions of the recordings he made under his own label in the 1960s and early '70s, ensuring that fans can discover and remember the music of the man The Times-Picayune called "one of New Orleans' most important, colorful and underappreciated musicians and entertainers."
Buried in his hometown, Prima's crypt includes an inscription that quotes from one of his greatest hits and speaks, perhaps, to his underappreciated musical legacy: "When the end comes, I know, they'll all say 'just a gigolo' as life goes on without me..."
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All of the cat photos are gorgeous!!!!
Ugh! Enough cats already! People are going to start thinking us camera junkies are a bunch of pussy cats!
This isn't my favorite picture, but maybe it'll break the link!
Cozmo the Rottweiler and Alex the German Sheperd.
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Cozmo the Rottweiler and Alex the German Sheperd.
It looks like they're relaxing after their cat-salad lunch! Well, here's their afternoon snack...
Canon SD500 - ISO 50, f/13, 1/60 sec
My friend's cat Ginny, taken with a Kodak DX6490 using what light was in the room.
All the best, Paul.
Kodak DC3200, CX6230, P850 + 0.7 W/A lens, P20 flash.
Nikon N90s (35mm), D70 + Tamron 19-35mm f/3.5-4.5, Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8, Sigma 28-105mm f/4-5.6, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8, Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO Macro, Tokina 80-200mm f/2.8, Pheonix 100mm f3.5 1-1 Macro, Sigma 170-500mm f/5-6.3 APO.
Nikon F6 coming soon.....
These were taken with a mere Kodak Easyshare Cx7530 with the ISO bumped a notch.
Baxter...after a 15 hour nap:
She looks like a lioness
If you liked the ones above, I'll simply blow you away with this amazing picture...I consider it my greatest work ever!
Just had to add this photo as my white cat. He looked just like your white kitty when he was younger and much naughtier - at first glance I thought it was him. I am not sure whether I should have added the soft focus edit but the colours seemed to be taking over the shot. Both cats are stone deaf so attempting to attract their attention whilst shooting is almost impossible. I just go with the flow and follow their lead.
Does anyone have any ideas of improving pictures of white animals that obviously lack much natural contrast. Flash seems to make things worse. I experience that same problems with the few swan photos I have taken.
PS comments for this novice very much appreciated
PPS Sorry the image is "shouting" I am not sure why it is so large - so much to learn.
PPPS Think I have got the image size sorted now - Doh.
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Reason: Attachment of correct size - sorry I am new and old!
Wombat, that photo is soo cute...I love it!!! I love the soft look too...how do you do that?
Here is another cat photo. My neighbors cat..,taken last year with a very cheap 2mp concord eyeQ digital camera.
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Hi Bluegrassgirl
I used the soft focus edit on Picasa2 - free editing software that can be downloaded from the net.
I am pleased you enjoyed the photo and thanks for your photo. So many white cats about ;-)
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Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick is the best book I've read in 2012.
I never thought I could love a Brian Selznick book more than I loved The Invention of Hugo Cabret but I was mistaken.
I think you should read it if you like journeys, memories, books, collecting things that mean the most to you, museums, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, the stars in the sky, and New York City.
"Ben thought about ... what it meant to curate your own life ... What would it be like to pick and choose the objects and stories that would go into your own cabinet? How would Ben curate his own life? And then, thinking about his museum box, and his house, and his books, and the secret room, he realized he'd already begun doing it. Maybe, thought Ben, we are all cabinets of wonders."
My love for this book is big and real. I can't even speak coherently about it.
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University Hospital's New York State Designated Centers include:
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Simple, Fun and Full of Challenging!
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♥Cake ninja is an addictive pickup-and-play game. It's simply, fun and full of challenging.
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Cut the Rope 2Cut the Rope 2 brings fresh challenges and unanticipated obstacles to the candy crunching, physics-based phenomenon that has delighted millions of players around the world! With new characters, fresh gameplay elements and tricky missions, candy collecting has never been so fun!
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MeldDrag and drop the numbers to the board, place 3 or more of the same number adjacently to meld them! An addicting game that challenges your strategy and puzzle solving skills!
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Armed with a handful of wooden Scrabble tiles and instructed to create a word ending in "ed," one book buddy spelled LOVED. Across the table, another had less success with RUNED.
Armed with a handful of wooden Scrabble tiles and instructed to create a word ending in "ed," one book buddy spelled LOVED. Across the table, another had less success with RUNED.
"Runed" was the right idea. It's just that run is one of those frustrating verbs whose past tense doesn't end in "ed." At Summer Book Buddies at Cesar Chavez Central Library in Stockton, mistakes are OK. There's no judgment or hurt feelings associated with failure, which may account for why 35 to 40 of the 53 children who signed up consistently attend the three sessions held each week for 10 weeks through Aug. 16.
"Kids run up to the table to sign in. They're so excited," said librarian and program director Suzy Daveluy. "It's working. They're excited about reading. That's one of the major obstacles to making children strong readers. They have to enjoy it, or they're not going to do it."
Reading proficiency in San Joaquin County is dismal. Only 36 percent of its third-graders read at grade level, as reported during University of the Pacific's Beyond Our Gates event focused on literacy in September. Educators say students not reading at grade level by the time they leave third grade are doomed to future failure.
After listening to that daunting report, Daveluy began planning, and transformed Book Buddies from a reading group to a classroom.
"Book Buddies in the past was very informal, just reading together," Daveluy said. "There was no structure, no assessment. That's OK. Just reading with a child is huge. But when we promoted this, we promoted it as reading help for struggling students."
Daveluy enlisted the help of retired teacher Sharon Tweedy and current teachers Lori Gray and Isabella Mariani, among others. They provided her with assessment tests to measure each child's needs. From those, she grouped them and turned them over to tutors to work on letters and their sounds, sight words, fluency or reading comprehension and vocabulary building.
About 35 people answered the call for volunteers, mostly teenagers but some adults, including Kim Scheffer, a first-grade teacher at Hoover School.
"I had time and it's fun," Scheffer said of giving up three days a week all summer. "It's small groups and one-on-one, and you can spend a concentrated amount of time. It's more relaxed."
It's also varied. There are Scrabble tiles to make words. There are flashcards with letters, and big, colorful magnetic letters on a cookie tray to help new readers learn the alphabet. There are white boards for drawing, and colorful cards with images on them that a volunteer used to teach words that rhyme. There are also worksheets and books. Lots of books.
All around the room there are smiles on the faces of children, who will enter first through third grades in the coming weeks, as they work with their tutors.
"First-graders, they think you're a rock star," said Scheffer, a 22-year veteran of teaching that grade level, who was hugged by departing children, some of whom will be in her class in the upcoming school year.
They think the teenagers are rock stars, too. So does Daveluy.
"I'm blown away at the commitment of the teens, who are spending six hours a week getting children to read," Daveluy said. "They're patient, they're encouraging, they're fun. It's just amazing, the interaction and encouragement. I look at the files after every session, look at the notes they write on the students, and they're making progress. They just needed a little extra help."
Providing that help was a natural for Albert Liang, 17, a Lincoln High senior.
"I've been coming to the library for a long, long time," said Liang, the son of Chinese immigrants who practiced his English in the library as a child. "I enjoy being here so much that when I was looking for volunteer hours, I realized I had a great place here.
"The biggest drive that keeps me coming back is seeing the next generation coming up, so similar to me. I want to help them."
Like Liang, T.G. Roberts, a 15-year-old sophomore in Franklin High's International Baccalaureate program, spent her youth in the library.
"I was always involved with the library," Roberts said. "I always loved reading."
She mentored younger students when she was at Kohl School, and tutored in a classroom, but this is proving to be a different experience.
"This one's more hands-on," Roberts said. "With (other tutoring experiences), the kids knew what they were doing and I just helped. This one is starting from scratch. A lot of them don't know their letters or sounds. It's fun seeing how much they've improved."
Edward Liang, 15, like his brother, Albert, also likes seeing the improvement.
"I also like seeing them smile," Edward Liang said. "I like seeing kids improving, seeing them read. They start smiling a lot."
It's a reaction that has their parents smiling, too.
Chloe Mauser, who turned 8 on July 20, used to resist reading.
"She wasn't interested in reading at all until she started this program," said her mom, Cristen Mauser. "She was (reading) picture books, and now she's reading chapter books. She gets mad if she has to miss."
Cristen Mauser's purse was full of books one day last week, some that had been checked out and another that was a gift, a reward for program attendance.
"I don't think they come just for the prizes," Scheffer said. "I think they come because it's fun."
The prizes - free books awarded after a child attends five, and then 15 sessions - are only part of the allure.
"They love it, especially on Fridays (when books are awarded)," said Blanca Gonzales, whose two girls, 6-year-old Jazzalynn Abrica and 5-year-old Jeilene Abrica, are participating. "They want to come every day."
The family visits the library four days a week and constantly checks out books.
"They were struggling with reading, especially Jazz," Gonzales said. "(Teachers at Hoover School) told me she had to work on it, and now she's reading. Jeilene needed help recognizing words. I have seen improvement. Last year Jazz wouldn't practice her spelling words, but now she knows them. They read all day."
Gonzales happily joins other parents in getting her children to the library in time for the program three days a week.
"Education is the only thing you can give your kids," Gonzales said.
Contact reporter Lori Gilbert at (209) 546-8284 or email@example.com.


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OK, our Last Word In Business is ski tweeting. Is that really a thing?
Well, the Australian Olympic Committee has placed a social media ban on its athletes at the Sochi Winter Games - coming up, in Russia. Tweeting, Facebooking and Snap-chatting join partying as officially forbidden activities.
Winter athletes can thank their summer colleagues for the new social media ban. The country's Olympic committee came up with the rule after a disappointing showing by the Australian swim team during the London Summer Games.
A recent review of that team's 2012 Olympic performance suggests excessive drinking, bullying and yes, social media were major distractions ,and kept the swimmers from bringing home multiple golds as expected.
But some Aussie athletes headed for Sochi for the Winter Games have already turned their noses up at the rule, expressing their feelings - where else? - on Twitter.
That's the business news on Morning Edition, from NPR News. I'm David Greene.
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GameJudgment's Emily Clarke examines how female characters are depicted in video games and longs for female characters that are more than just skinny, scantily clad wimps.
I really never viewed many female characters as wimps, in most the games i play if i have a option to customize my female characters usually end most power in the end.
type muscle woman into google images and see if you still want the girls in your game to look like that. they cant remove them and they cant make them look horrible, its a game, just play it.
In real life if you were in a fight against a woman like Ivy it would probably be best to concentrate on not dying rather what she is wearing or how big her breasts are. Also people don't seem to realize that women like her would be extremely deadly. They probably would slice you to bits if they caught you ogling them.
Ugh, these complaints are based around the restrictions of reality. Which is a kinder way of saying, it's a game dummy... go with it.


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University of Vermont
2012-2013 Catalogue
CAS Pre-Professional Preparation
Whether a student is interested in medical, dental or law school, or graduate work in other fields, the College of Arts and Sciences offers excellent opportunities to complete a pre-professional education.
Medicine and Dentistry
Minimum requirements for entry into medical and dental schools include one year each of biology, general chemistry, organic chemistry, physics and calculus. Increasing numbers of medical and dental schools also are requiring a year of English, work in the humanities, social sciences, and languages. There is however no required or preferred major. As long as a student completes the courses required by his/her chosen professional schools, s/he may pursue any undergraduate major in UVM's College of Arts and Sciences. Medical and dental schools are primarily concerned with the overall scope and quality of undergraduate work. Only about half the first-year students in medical or dental schools have majored in a science, for example. Thus, students should follow their true interests and work to achieve the academic standing necessary. Academic advisors will help students plan their programs. In addition, the Career Services coordinates pre-medical and pre-dental advising, and has information about the requirements of specific medical and dental schools.
Because the UVM College of Arts and Sciences offers the advantages of a small liberal arts college within a comprehensive university, students have the opportunity to do research with faculty who are nationally and internationally recognized leaders in their fields. The college has an excellent record of placing graduates in medical and dental schools. Among the institutions where recent pre-medical graduates are now studying are Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Baylor, Boston University, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Drexel University, Mayo Clinic and the University of Vermont, while pre-dental graduates are studying at Boston University, Columbia, NYU, Northwestern, and University of Pennsylvania.
The Pre-Medical Enhancement Program (PEP) is a joint offering of the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and the College of Medicine to provide enhanced opportunities for a select group of highly qualified pre-medical students. Interested students apply to PEP in the second semester of their first year. Those students accepted into PEP will be assigned a practicing physician-mentor who will introduce the concepts of patient care and practice management through regularly scheduled office-based/clinical experiences. The PEP coordinator in the College of Medicine will provide information on opportunities for medical research experience and volunteer/employment possibilities in the health sciences or health policy fields. On a monthly basis, students will receive listings about special educational offerings at the College of Medicine and the Academic Medical Center. PEP students will also be able to participate in practice interviews with members of the University of Vermont Pre-Medical Committee. In their junior year, PEP students will be able to apply to the University of Vermont College of Medicine. More information is available at the Career Services website.
A significant number of UVM students consider attending law school immediately or a few years after graduation. UVM is successful in placing its graduates in leading law programs around the country, including Yale University, New York University, Columbia University, and the University of Michigan.
The University of Vermont provides guidance to its pre-law students through the Career Services and faculty and staff advisors in Arts and Sciences. The college begins working with students as soon as they express an interest in law and provide guidance throughout their undergraduate career.
Unlike pre-medical programs, where students must take a prescribed set of courses, there is no pre-law curriculum. "What law schools seek in their entering students is not accomplishment in mere memorization," states the Association of American Law Schools, "but accomplishment in understanding, the capacity to think for themselves, and the ability to express their thoughts with clarity and force." The Association does not prescribe a specific course of study to prepare undergraduates for law school, but rather suggests a broad approach to liberal arts including work in English, humanities, logic, mathematics, social sciences, history, philosophy, and the natural sciences.
Graduate Study in Other Fields
Arts and Sciences students pursue graduate education in a variety of fields ranging from ethnomusicology to journalism or immunology. Recent UVM College of Arts and Sciences graduates have been accepted at such institutions as the University of Wisconsin, Brandeis, Harvard, University of Michigan, Yale, New York University, Princeton, Cornell, Berkeley, Tufts, and Duke.
Secondary Teaching
Students in the College of Arts and Sciences who are interested in becoming eligible to teach in secondary grades (7-12) should review the College of Education and Social Services section titled Teacher Education. All requirements must be fulfilled as listed in the CESS Secondary Education State Approved program and not simply the sequence of professional courses.


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The Washington Post's Zachary Goldfarb complains that corporate America has failed to show sufficient gratitude to its friend Barack Obama:
President Obama has repeatedly embraced three titans of American commerce, General Electric, Boeing and JPMorgan Chase, showering their chief executives with praise and adopting policies that benefit the companies. . . Yet these companies — from the C-suite to the rank and file — have shown little enthusiasm for the president. Top executives have repeatedly criticized his rhetoric and his policies or have declined to support some of his most significant proposals. Employees, in a contrast to 2008, have scaled back financial support for Obama's campaign.
The head of Boeing, for example, did not take kindly to efforts by the National Labor Relations Board, spearheaded by an Obama appointee, to stop Boeing from establishing a plant in South Carolina, an unprecedented government intrusion into the right of business to locate its operations. Go figure.
Similarly, the life-long Democrat in charge of JPMorgan was not amused by onerous and intrusive provisions of the Dodd-Frank legislation that regulates banks to an unprecedented degree. Obviously, the man has no sense of humor. It's a wonder he isn't a Republican.
Somehow, moreover, neither these two executives nor perhaps even GE's Jeffrey Immelt appreciate Obama's portrayal of businessmen as undeserving of their success and too greedy to wish to pay their fair share (i.e., even more) taxes. Astonishing.
And that great mass of new environmental regulation and the government's virtual takeover of the health insurance sector; what's not to love about that?
The real mystery, of course, is the extent of the seduction, in the first instance, of so many business leaders by a politician who at best doesn't get capitalism and probably actively dislikes it.
The mystery can be solved, I suspect, by recognizing that many big business leaders aren't super fond of capitalism either, at least not true capitalism. The capitalism they prefer is of the crony variety. They flirted with Obama because they thought he might be a willing crony, and the president flirted back with gestures, some of them substanial, indicating that he would play that part.
But given Obama's true beliefs and loyalties, this act was unsustainable over the long haul. At heart, Obama is not a crony capitalist, he is an anti-capitalist. And, though America's big business leaders tend to be slow learners, three and a half years is a long time. They aren't that slow.


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Thanks for the playlist. Getting kinda hard to dig up new demos... all the NAMM stuff is sorta the same thing over and over again. That solo during that NODE video is gorgeous and a new sound from the minibrute!
Hi, you could add this video too:http://www.musikmachen.de/Messe-News/NAMM-Show-2012/Arturia-Minibrutehttp://www.amazona.de/index.php?page=26&file=2&article_id=3824Frank
The video can be seen at the bottom of the MiniBrute page on the Comebackmusic website.For French-language lovers only!


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The victory sees the Blaugrana make the best-ever start in the Spanish top-flight's 113-year history, surpassing the mark set by Radomir Antic's Real Madrid side of the 1991-92 season, while Messi's exploits, his 83rd and 84th goals in 2012, moved him to within one of Gerd Muller's 85-goal record in a calendar year.
The marker was set from the 23rd minute, when Gerard Pique poked home the opener, before Messi and Adriano also struck to send the Blaugrana into a fully deserved three-goal lead at half-time.
Cesc Fabregas added a fourth shortly before the hour mark and despite a consolation effort from Ibai Gomez, Messi scored again with 20 minutes remaining to put the finishing touches on the win.
The hosts fashioned the first clear cut chance of the match, when Andres Iniesta's agility saw him get the better of Jonas Ramalho and free him for a strike on goal, but Gorka Iraizoz was equal to it and pushed wide.
The Bilbao keeper was left helpless in the 23rd minute however, as he made a brilliant save on a close range effort from Fabregas, only to see Pique dispatch the rebound into the back of the net to give Barca the lead.
And the Catalans doubled that advantage almost immediately after the restart. Messi latched on to a glorious pass from Xavi to clip over Iraizoz, with an attempted clearance by Fernando Amorebieta only serving to accelerate the ball's progression over the line.
Barca continued to create shooting opportunities, as Pedro and Fabregas both narrowly missed the target, before the latter forced Iraizoz into action again to tip away his low drive towards the corner.
Iniesta then missed badly from a great position inside the box, before Messi thought he had scored after getting past his marker at the near post, but his effort smacked off the underside of the bar.
The third goal would come, however, and it was no surprise to see Messi at the heart of the move. Seemingly surrounded by half the Bilbao team inside the area, the Argentine still managed to pick out Fabregas at the top of the box, who wasted little time in releasing the overlapping Adriano for a confident finish high into the net, right on the stroke of half-time.
The pattern persisted in the second half, as Iraizoz was again called upon to deny Messi, before the Argentine's control let him down inside the area after a great backheel from Iniesta seemed set to release him.
It was 4-0 in the 57th minute, and Iniesta again was the man setting events in motion, evading his marker at the top of the box before slipping in the unmarked Fabregas for a simple finish from close range.
Bilbao managed to pull one back nine minutes later, with a superb ball over the top from Ander Iturraspe picking out Gomez, whose control afforded him the time he needed to slot between the legs of Victor Valdes.
The respite would not last long, however, as the hosts added a fifth in the 70th minute, with Messi striking again with a right-footed finish into the far corner after a good piece of supportive play from Pedro.
Pique spurned a late chance for a sixth goal as Barca played out the remaining minutes in complete control, and now await the result of the Madrid derby, with the potential for a six-point lead at the top of the table looming should archrivals Real Madrid emerge victorious.


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Sure, there are plenty of star acts at the fourth annual TBS Just for Laughs Chicago festival, which runs through Sunday this week at 18 venues around the city. But sometimes, the biggest laughs come with the smallest ticket prices, as in these local shows, which feature both established and emerging comedians in intimate settings—including Scott Adsit ("30 Rock"), TJ Miller ("Cloverfield," ABC-TV's "Carpoolers") and John Glaser and Kevin Dorff ("Delocated") plus local favorites Lil Rel, Susan Messing, Brian Babylon, Sean Flannery, Jet Eveleth and more—at half the price of the big-venue shows.
To get the most bang for your bargain bucks, we've created a day-by-day itinerary of our top local picks. So grab your running shoes and get ready to head from one end of town to the other—sometimes on the same night--for some top-notch laughs.
Baseball, Hot Dogs and Schadenfreude
Comedy troupe Schadenfreude turns down the sound on classic Cubs and Sox games and invites some of Chicago's top jokesters to turn themselves into cranky, unruly sports fans by shouting at the TV in the style of the old "Mystery Science Theater 3000" shows where commentators made fun of bad movies.
Go: 7 p.m. at Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln Ave.
The Blackout Diaries
In this interactive blend of standup, improv, multimedia and bad decisions, Chicago funnyman Sean Flannery hosts an actual rocket scientist plus three local comedians—the list is top-secret because all have competing headlining shows at other venues during the fest—all of whom tell drinking stories and submit to an audience Q&A about their experiences.
Go: 8:30 p.m. at The Playground Theater, 3209 N. Halsted St.
Scott Adsit, John Glaser and Kevin Dorff
Adsit ("30 Rock"), Glaser ("Delocated") and Dorff ("Delocated," "Conan") go back to their iO and The Second City roots to create some fast and furious improv scenes with local favorites TJ Jagodowski and Dave Pasquesi.
Go: 8 p.m. at iO, 3541 N. Clark St.
Pet Project Series: Brian Babylon
The Bronzeville native—who's the producer and host of vocalo.org's "Morning Amp" radio show, a panelist on NPR's "Wait Wait…Don't Tell Me!" radio program, a contributor to BBC Radio and the host of The Moth StorySlam at Martyrs'—performs his new solo show, "Magnificent Magni**acents," which also features music by comedy-rap duo Chox n Brizz.
Go: 9:30 p.m. at The Playground Theater, 3209 N. Halsted St.
Messing with a Friend
Annoyance founding member Susan Messing—a past recipient of the Chicago Improv Festival's Improviser of the Year award who's appeared on Comedy Central's "Premium Blend" pairs up for an improv show with Greg Hess, who's a member of improv ensembles Baby Wants Candy, Cook County Social Club and The Improvised Shakespeare Company.
Go: 10:30 p.m. at The Annoyance Theatre, 4830 N. Broadway
TBS LOL Lounge
Julian McCullough from TBS' "Very Funny News" hosts sets by local funnyman Lil Rel—who's just been cast in the "In Living Color" reboot—plus "Last Comic Standing" finalist James Adomian, Upright Citizens Brigade regulars Hari Kondabolu and Brent Weinbach and L.A. comedian Lauri Roggenkamp.
Go: 7:30 p.m. at the Comedy Bar, 157 W. Ontario St.
Breakout Performers
See the newest wave of up-and-coming Chicago stand-ups including Jesnaira Baez, Brandon "Hot Sauce" Glover, Cody Wilkins, Corey Calvert, Davey Boy, T. Murph and Rion Evans, plus musical comedian Ben Hamilton and popular host Marlon Mitchell.
Go: 8:30 p.m. at Jokes and Notes, 4641 S. King Drive
Adsit & Eveleth
Want even more of Scott Adsit? Tonight he performs with former Chicago Improv Festival artistic director Jet Eveleth, who's also a regular at iO with The Reckoning.
Go: 11:59 p.m. at iO, 3541 N. Clark St.
Best of the Fest
Andy Kindler—best known as the voice of Mort on Fox-TV's animated series "Bob's Burgers" and as a frequent guest and correspondent for "The Late Show with David Letterman"—hosts "greatest hits" sets and scenes from the festival and surprise walk-on guest stars.
Go: 7 p.m. UP Comedy Club, 230 W. North Ave.
Set List
The pressure's on at the Lodge as they host Troy Conrad's cult favorite touring show. Tonight, top local comedians get handed a "set list" of topics they've never seen—as they walk to the mic—and must improvise a stand-up set on the spot.
Go: 9:30 p.m. at Lincoln Lodge, 4008 N. Lincoln Ave.
TJ Miller Performance Anxiety
The hometown comedian—as seen in the film "Cloverfield," ABC-TV's "Carpoolers" and more—hosts the Chicago version of his L.A. showcase, which blends promising newbies with top-notch established local comics.
Go: 11 p.m. at UP Comedy Club, 230 W. North Ave.
Stage Time
Bronzeville gets down and dirty—literally—in this adults-only showcase featuring J. Deep—as seen on HBO's "Bad Boys of Comedy" and eight seasons of BET's "Comic View"—plus Mike Samp, Tara Terry, Brian "Da Wildcat" Smith, D. Banks, Marvin Phipps, Roy Johnson, Shane Stay, Tyson and Schmitty B.
Go: 8 p.m. at Jokes and Notes, 4641 S. King Drive
GET TICKETS: $10-$25 at justforlaughschicago.com or venue websites


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Pardon me while I post a little tournament report as I've only gone and finally bloody won one.
I'd had a little bit of practice with some single core set decks ahead of this, with Neil C schooling me in the ways of HB (making all the money and triple biotic-ing a Pri Req like a dick) and Brian and I sneaking some games in at the prep room at school when we really should have been doing some work (including his Weyland vs my Gabe in an epic economic battle featuring long periods of not running, the biggest tower of horrible ice ever seen and a truly jammy access to secure the win). I'd changed my decks a couple of days before the tournie and managed a game with each against Brian in the bits of downtime during a staff training day. We split the games (runner wins, I think?) and then I went out to acquire a hangover ahead of the tournament on the Saturday, not exactly 100% confident in my ability to pilot what I was taking.
So, these are the decks I took and by Wotan it seems that they are indeed, hot shit. Only one minor change and that was to drop the Research Station for a Beanstalk. As the chap says, with Account Siphon (and Déjà Vu) Noise becomes a threat EVERYWHERE.
I arrived at Wayland's, saw we were a little thinner on the ground than usual (understandable in the post-nationals/summer holiday season) and got just a tiny little bit excited that I was in with a chance. I've been attending tournaments for about a year now, and my best performance was last Winter at Wayland's when at least three (possibly four) of us finished joint top on prestige with final placings decided on SoS which bumped me down to third. So close and yet so far from winning the most coveted of tat prizes; a big mousemat. I then followed that up with some fairly appalling shows in store champs around the Midlands feeling my form had left me completely. I really wanted to legitimately win a big mousemat still though and today seemed like that wasn't an absolute impossibility.
On to the games…
Match 1 – Alex Rogers
Alex and I played (and split) at the Birmingham store champs. I remember his RP deck making literally all of the money in the game when he managed to get all of his Sundews and MHCs out by turn 3 or 4. I've never been so horrendously outpaced economy wise. So, provided that didn't happen again, I would be relatively content here.
My Noise vs his HB with SanSan – Don't remember too much of this but we were each picking up agendas in the early game, though Alex was starting to hoard funds a little. No great surprise when he rezzes a SanSan to score something (a PSF, maybe?), though this has the (un)fortunate effect of basically bankrupting him. Little did he know I had a Medium in hand which I dropped first click only to then run in and hammer R&D (he can't afford to rez the ice) finding what I needed to win.
My HB vs his Gabe (the first of many) – In a moment of madness I choose to fire an ABT early in this game (because YOLO) and then dump two biotics and an agenda into archives. Alex ends up floating tags from something (following a siphon, maybe?). I score a PSF (with a biotic labor, having installed previous turn) yet he allows the tags to stay. I think he might have had four tags anyway so clearing them wasn't going to be cheap/easy. He has three cards in hand when my turn begins so I use all three clicks to empty his hand. Next turn, he takes 2 from Armitage (presumably to help enable some detagging next turn), then draws three cards again. I then biotic into a quadruple PSF BANG BANG BANG BANG.
2-0, 4 prestige – Guilt level at winning both games, 4/10.
Match 2 – Chris Dove
My Noise vs his HB – I don't remember this one terribly well but I'm sure there was some horrendous siphon spam from me after he left HQ open turn one. Think his second turn he had enough money to rez a Melange and use it to get his funds back, but I then Déjà vu the siphon back in a proper dick move and drain him once more and then trash the Melange, maybe. Not sure what happened next but it didn't last long. Sorry, Chris.
HB vs Gabe no 2 – Sneakdoor finds one of two agendas in my hand early on and forces me to drop a tollbooth in front of archives, which I follow with what I correctly assume is a fairly safe play by overdrawing to dump one of the agendas I have in hand (having drawn another up) into archives. I think I biotic an ABT out and then descends the LONGEST period of no-agendas I've experienced in a long time. HQ and archives are now protected by tollbooths (among other things) so R&D is his only real option (especially if he wants to pick up datasucker tokens, as he does), though the Hunter in front of it means he can't run as often as he might like. Not that he's seeing anything he can do anything with anyway. I pull the PSF back with archived memories, manage to score that, then continue digging, eventually finding a Pri Req. I also have a Corporate Troubleshooter in hand, as well as a Snare!. In order to set up a relatively scoring window I'm wracking my brains for how to get both the prior req and the corporate troubleshooter into my scoring server without telegraphing what I'm doing. I try to bankrupt him by dropping the Snare! into the server and forcing a run but he doesn't take the bait. Next turn I drop CT in with the Snare! and assume I'll be safe to swap the Pri Req in next turn to score it. I think (think) that Chris siphoned me next turn, opting to float the tags, or maybe just kept the hunter tag from a R&D run. Then he ran on the scoring remote. I didn't rez anything, he opted to see the CT first, at which point I can only assume he thought 'oh fuck', and then took a Snare! in the face. With few cards and fewer clicks left, PSF stepped in to gun him down.
4-0, 8 prestige – Guilt level at winning both games again, 7/10.
Match 3 – Dan B
Noise vs NBN Scorch – I got so locked out in this game, but thankfully it seems I took it as an opportunity to flush my system of all the bad decision making I'd obviously not been doing in my previous games. He gets off to what ends up being an unstoppable start by getting a melange out behind a Tollbooth turn one. I poke R&D to see a SEA Source, and then in my first 15 cards or so don't see any economy. My feeble attempts to drain him of credits by forcing ice rezzing are dwarfed by his Scrooge McDuck sized reserves and by the time I find a siphon (of questionable use at this point but anyway) he's put a Data Raven in front of HQ. He scores out, I reflect on some very silly decisions I made about the order in which I played some cards and when I chose to play viruses. Time to have a word with myself ahead of game two…
HB vs Kate. JOKES, it's another Gabe – I manage to kill his Gordian early on with a Rototurret, but soon after that he's siphoning like it's going out of fashion (through my Rototurret and a Femme'd Tollbooth) and I'm mourning my descent down the standings in my head. However, I manage to hold onto four credits, which is all I need to fire the Snare! he hits in R&D with only two cards in hand. HB ends the fun, again. Not sure I deserved to win this one, Dan was clearly in control of the board for the vast majority of our two games. I am in emotional turmoil as I simultaneously enjoy the rapture of another victory with the taint of feeling I didn't deserve it.
5-1, 10 prestige – Guilt level at winning when I probably shouldn't have, 6/10, which drops to about 2/10 when I realise I'm now in with a very good chance of winning this. I think that provided I don't just sit there and go to the toilet with my trousers on for the next match then I will do, though I don't interrogate the standings too much to confirm this, lest I collapse under the pressure.
Match 4 – Neil G
Neil and I have played twice in tournaments before. First time was a split, second time he took both, though I'm still smarting over losing that corp game to a Future Perfect psi game so I am slightly out for blood here…
Noise vs… HB! – Neil mulligans and whatever he had before, his deck is clearly angry at him for something as it's shitting out agendas and gives him another bobbins hand and this is over very quickly. I don't actually know what his build was like as I saw so little of it. I get one agenda from R&D, one that he tries to score naked which I feel happy enough to gamble a run on, and then I follow-up with a quick check of archives for the win. I'm not sure if he had two or three pieces of ice out at the end of the game but that was all he'd seen he tells me afterwards.
HB vs bloody Gabe, again – I'm trying not to get too excited going into this game as I think I can now win it (or possibly even had already) and I know Neil is a strong player so am prepared not to find this easy. Much like the game against Chris though, my deck is very charitable about when it chooses to offer up agendas. I think he Sneakdoors one from my hand early doors (a Pri Req I think), then I score something, somehow. Eventually I install a PSF behind a pair of Heimdalls, he doesn't run and I biotic it out next turn (I think) and I think I get an ABT too. I'm on six points and nervous about whether I'll manage to find a scoring window as Neil has by this point trashed all of my economy. Neil has decided to keep hitting HQ via the Sneakdoor, only having to pay through a Wall of Static, though as I'm holding a hand of nothing but ice and operations (including two Archived Memories) for a couple of turns, I'm quite happy with this. I think I pull back a Hedge Fund to enliven my finances once more, then next turn pull back a Biotic, having finally found the last ABT in R&D. I know he's coming back into HQ next turn, but cross my fingers I can hide the ABT in a hand of five cards for a turn. I'm lucky enough to do so, scoring it out with the aid of some robot helpers next turn.
7-1, 14 prestige – Guilt level at winning both games again seriously mitigated, nay ECLIPSED, by the fact that I have now emerged victorious. The big mousemat is mine. Will have to buy a big mouse now.
Cheers to everyone who came down, including the new guys Richard and Dan H (stick with it Dan, it's so worth it) and Chris, Neil and Steve for the post-tournament non-Netrunner games. Steve obviously gets special thanks for organising the thing again and for keeping the Jinteki faith, however good an idea that may or may not have been.
Until next time!
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Nice job mate, well deserved!
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Thanks for the write-up Stephen. Glad you got the win at last!
You been to pick it up yet? Sorry the GNK was not in at the time of the tournament, but it is now in, so your prizes are waiting for you.
Always a pleasure to run these events.
You been to pick it up yet? Sorry the GNK was not in at the time of the tournament, but it is now in, so your prizes are waiting for you.
Always a pleasure to run these events.
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Yes Steve, picked it up last week cheers.
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The End of Overeating
- Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite
- Lu par : Blair Hardman
- Durée : 7 h et 25 min
- Version intégrale Livre audio
- Date de publication : 28/04/2009
- Langue : Anglais
- Éditeur : Simon & Schuster Audio
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Dr. David Kessler, the dynamic former FDA commissioner who reinvented the food label and tackled the tobacco industry, now reveals how the food industry has hijacked the brains of millions of Americans. The result? America's number-one public health issue.
Dr. Kessler cracks the code of overeating by explaining how our bodies and minds are changed when we consume foods that contain sugar, fat, and salt. Food manufacturers create products by manipulating these ingredients to stimulate our appetites, setting in motion a cycle of desire and consumption that ends with a nation of overeaters. The End of Overeating explains for the first time why it is exceptionally difficult to resist certain foods and why it's so easy to overindulge. Dr. Kessler met with top scientists, physicians, and food industry insiders.
The End of Overeatinguncovers the shocking facts about how we lost control over our eating habits - and how we can get it back. Dr. Kessler presents groundbreaking research, along with what is sure to be a controversial view inside the industry that continues to feed a nation of overeaters - from popular brand manufacturers to advertisers, chain restaurants, and fast-food franchises. For the millions of people struggling with weight as well as for those of us who simply don't understand why we can't seem to stop eating our favorite foods, Dr. Kessler's cutting-edge investigation offers new insights and helpful tools to help us find a solution. There has never been a more thorough, compelling, or in-depth analysis of why we eat the way we do.
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- Deidre
- 05/05/2009
The best 'NON-DIET" diet book out there...
This is an excellent book. This isn't your typical diet book. You will not get list of foods to eat or avoid. You will not get recipes or meal plans. You will not get the exercise lecture, weight charts or BMI calculations. What you will get is straight honest talk about how the food industry uses clever marketing to make us fat. Dr. Kessler gets very technical in explaining why you just can't say no to some foods... and no, it's not because you are week or have no willpower. It's not because you had a bad childhood or your mother was the clean plate club president. This book will make you angry at the food industry and will fire you up to fight back. Dr. Kessler gives logical, effective pointers for reevaluating how you eat that will ultimately result in a healthier and better looking you. Download this book, listen, take notes and make you own game plan for your future. It may be the best credit worthy book at Audible. The readers did a good job in presenting this book. Without a doubt this is the best 'NON-DIET" diet book out there.
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- Karen
- 26/07/2009
For those that are SICK of dieting
Given his academic background, I was worried this might be too "dense" a read. Not so, it was a nice blend of science and anecdote, very entertaining and thought provoking. A must read for those that have struggled with weight and weight related health issues. His solutions for ending the cycle are not exactly revalatory. He does present compelling information to explain the explosion of weight gain in the US. I knew it was high fructose corn syrup!!
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- Sunshine
- 07/05/2009
Intelligent and Compelling
The first book of this type I have ever listened to, but on hearing the sample, it captured my attention.
I found it to be fascinating. The knowledge about food, the food industry and most importantly about the way your brain works in regards to food stimulus is amazing. You can hardly listen to this book and not gain an 'awareness' concerning what and how much you eat. I like to call it "Food Mindfulness". Knowledge is power, so if you are a little short on personal power over food listen to this book and get it back!
The food industry wants to make money and really doesn't give a damn about you, just how much you eat of their food and how often you keep coming back for more. They have few restrictions on their advertising. It is our responsibility to gain the knowledge in a free society, and the author has gone to great lengths to assist us.
The narration was excellent for this type of book. Scientific studies pointing to the real truth is always a pleasure.
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- Gina M. Danner
- 24/01/2010
You will question what you eat and why forever
A great book that will change the way you approach food and think about food, how it is made, how the industry makes money off of you, and why you eat what you eat.
I have referred multiple friends to this book and it has changed my relationship with food and the industry as a whole.
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- Brian
- 26/07/2009
Great Science, Little Implementation
The book is a fountain of great science and information on why we, as a country are fat, and getting fatter. It is not too hard to follow, and based on what (to a layman) seems like solid analysis of real scientific research. It is long, and goes on for many chapters, somewhat hitting you again and again with facts that are by the mid point, understood. The shortfall is that there is very little provided to cope with the problems the book presents. Perhaps there will be a follow on book, or perhaps others will provide solutions and coping techniques based on the research in Dr. Kesslers book. Overall though I HIGHLY recommend for anyone who has struggled, or struggles with weight, poor diet habits, or both.
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- Roy
- 02/06/2009
A Serious Subject
David Kessler's "The End of Overeating" is an informative and disturbing book. Since encounting this work, I cannot enter a restaurant with my old attitudes at all. Specifically, Kessler (a former FDA commissioner under Bush and Clinton) shows how salt, sugars, and fat are being integrated into processed food. Then he details how these three in concert can become addictive and stimulate pleasure centers in the brain. He argues that food processors take advantage of this situtation to keep customers coming back for more.
As one who struggles with my weight, this is one book that has given me a new way to look at what I am eating and (more importantly) a new motivation to further change my eating patterns. His discussion of the psychological and sensory stimuli that lead to what he labels "conditioned hypereating" can be avoided and he reveals just how that might be accomplished. This book is important to all Americans who want to live a healthier life.
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- 03/07/2009
Tough love ideas at the end
For those wanting good advice on what to do about overeating, hold out to the end of the book. The last chapters offer help on how to stop overeating. Most of the book is about why eating fat, sugar, and salt keep us eating fat, sugar and salt.
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- Chris
- 11/05/2009
An important, honest, fascinating book
I can't recommend this book enough. It is the most thought-provoking book on eating that I have ever read. It is also a very interesting look at the food industry. While not a diet book per se, I would strongly recommend reading it before you choose a diet. It will open your eyes in ways I doubt you will expect. Really, give it a shot.
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- Georgia
- 13/05/2009
The End of Overeating
This book really opened my eyes and helped me to thoroughly understand how we got into the mess we are in today with obesity. From the treatment of food to the way our brains work, this book doesn't leave a rock unturned. I feel it changed me forever and am eternally grateful I bought it.
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- Linda K..
- 23/06/2009
Valuable insights into the food industry.....
Although not a diet book per se, without reading it, a person who wants to control his/her overeating (or just to make healthier choices) starts with a huge disadvantage. It explains how the food industry, grocery chains and restaurants work hard to make food a "fun" experience which leaves you wanting more and more. We used to feel better after eating a meal....now we feel worse - bloated and over-full. That's because food that is simply prepared with fresh natural ingredients is increasingly rare. Add the alarming fact that the constant advertising to children of "snack foods" fast foods and sugary cereals starts them on a road to life-long health and weight control problems. This book altered my perceptions when looking at a menu or going food shopping. Although I enjoy eating a good meal very much, I now try to make more simple and home cooked food, to avoid "prepared foods" and to read labels. Well worth listening to!
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- 13/08/2016
Long-winded and sometimes repetitious
Interesting ideas and well explained correlations, but a bit too lengthy. A must read for those who want to find their own way to think about this topic, besides all the industry funded "research"...


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So, should we give to others in order to get something? Not for a second. We give because His love compels us to. We give because we can. We give because He gave first.So, should we give to others in order to get something? Not for a second.
Whenever God sees a generous soul who is full of mercy and empty of self, He makes certain the one "who gives much will have much" (NLV).
Kathy, who also chose this verse, wrote, "I find that when I pray for others, and reach out to help others, I am blessed. It truly is better to give than receive, for in giving we receive
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…will be refreshed. Proverbs 11:25…will be refreshed.
Love this photo. You can almost feel that cool water hitting her face. God promises those who water others "will receive a flood in return" (ISV). Since the Hebrew word, yara, is an archery term for shooting an arrow, that refreshment will be coming your way swiftly and…uh, pointedly.
God never misses His intended target. You can be certain you'll be "helped" (GNT), "enriched" (HCSB) and "satisfied" (GW) when you pour yourself out for others.
I must confess, this translation made me smile: "he that inebriateth, shall be inebriated also himself" (DRA). Not sure I'd build a lesson around that one. But "anyone who renews others will be renewed" (NIRV)? That'll preach.
If your soul is parched right now, the temptation is to focus on getting your own thirst quenched. What if instead you found a way to bless another person? Not a family member or your employer or a friend at church, but someone who can't give back? That way, when your blessing boomerangs, you'll know the true Source.
Beth likes this verse because, "It amazes me to be given stewardship here on earth of God's extravagant and generous heart! To be able to represent Him and refresh those whose hearts or countenances have fallen."
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Becker is one of those guys who thinks it is fun to sexually harass women over the internet. Only this time, the woman fought back smartly and rationally. And tracked down her harasser and threatened to send Joshua Becker's mother the screencaps of the chat.
I suspect, though, that the only lesson he learned was to do a better job of concealing his identity when he's demanding that women give him sexual favors, since his response to being told to stop and that his stupid comments would be made public was "newsflash: your fat as fuck".
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Alexandra Hennessy has been appointed assistant professor of comparative politics at Clarkson University. She began teaching this fall.
Hennessy received her bachelor of arts and her master of arts degrees in social sciences from Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. She received her Ph.D. in political science from Boston University.
Hennessy's main research interests include corporate pension policies, European Union politics, and welfare-finance reforms in liberal and coordinated market economies.
Her research has taken her to Poland, Belgium, Germany, and Harvard. She has conducted research on the Polish Ministry of Labor and European Commission and Parliament and on European pension policies and markets. Thus far, she has authored three publications and has several works in progress.
Hennessy received a postdoctoral fellowship in 2007-2008 from the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies at the University of Rochester. She also received the Dean's Award from Boston University in 2008.
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Canada's gross domestic product expanded at the fastest pace in seven months in November on gains in manufacturing, mining and energy.
Output grew 0.3% to an annualized C$1.56 trillion ($1.56 trillion), following a prior gain of 0.1%, Statistics Canada said today in Ottawa. The median forecast in a Bloomberg economist survey was for a 0.2% expansion in the month.
The report suggests growth accelerated in the fourth quarter from the 0.6% annual pace seen from July through September, in contrast to the U.S. where output shrank at a 0.1% pace at the end of last year. Canada's expansion has been supported by the job market, with the unemployment rate falling to a four-year low in December.
"We are still looking for growth of about 1% for the fourth quarter," said Robert Kavcic, a Bank of Montreal economist in Toronto. "I don't think it really changes the story too much for us."
The Canadian dollar rose 0.2% to 99.97 cents per U.S. dollar at 10:34 a.m. in Toronto. One Canadian dollar buys $1.0003 U.S. Canadian two-year bonds rose, with the yield falling one basis point to 1.16%.
Manufacturing grew 0.7% in November, rebounding from a 0.9% decline the prior month. The mining, oil and gas category grew 0.8%.
Exxon Mobil Corp. and four partners said Jan. 4 they will spend about $14 billion to develop the Hebron oil field off Newfoundland, to produce more than 700 million barrels of crude during its lifespan.
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Most other industries made little contribution to economic growth in November. Construction was little changed, Statistics Canada said, while retailing recorded a 0.6% gain as automobile receipts rose. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Jan. 22 it will spend C$450 million to add or renovate stores in Canada.
Consumer spending is being supported by recent job gains including the 59,300 increase for November, said John Clinkard, chief Canada economist at Deutsche Bank AG in Toronto.
"This is a factor which should support the first half of the year because those people are going to buy stuff," he said by telephone. "We are still looking for a rate hike by the end of this year because the basic projectors of growth in Canada seem to be reasonably intact."
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Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney said Jan. 23 an increase to his 1% benchmark interest rate is "less imminent" and cut his fourth-quarter growth prediction to 1% from 2.5%.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper said yesterday his Conservative government will make the economy and families his main focus in the session of parliament that opened this week. Speaking to party members, he said taxes "must remain low" and the expansion has benefited from strong gains in full-time private-sector employment.
In a separate report, Statistics Canada said today its index of raw-materials prices paid by manufacturers dropped 2% in December from November. Economists in a Bloomberg survey had a median prediction of a 0.3% increase.
The industrial product price index, which measures what manufacturers receive for their goods, was unchanged in December, matching the median of economist forecasts.
Industrial prices rose 0.5% on average last year while raw materials costs fell an average 6.3%, Statistics Canada said, suggesting factory profit margins widened.
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HALIFAX -- Dalhousie University is standing by its decision to suspend the women's hockey team over an alleged hazing incident, saying the squad's most recent version of what happened that September night is only half the story.
The team issued a statement Thursday saying it held a party to welcome new players that involved dressing up rookies in "odd clothing," and asking them to eat sardines, hot peppers and whipped cream.
It also said the get-together at a private house included drinking games, but no one was forced to drink alcohol and no activities were mandatory.
"Throughout the evening, senior members of the team looked out for the first years to ensure that they would come to no harm," read the two-page statement.
But university spokesman Charles Crosby said the women's statement left out a number of details. He declined to elaborate, citing privacy issues.
"These specific actions that are outlined are still extremely selective and really only part of what happened at the party, so it's disappointing," he said in an interview.
"Common sense dictates that there are certain things that you just don't do and a lot of what went on at this party were things that you just know were not OK."
The university in Halifax suspended all but first-year players from the team last week -- effectively ending their 2012-13 season -- after an investigation into the incident, which Crosby said involved excessive drinking, intimidation and humiliation.
Crosby has said no one was physically hurt during the party, but many players were "put in harm's way" both physically and psychologically.
Liz Matheson, who was suspended as team captain as part of the school's decision, said nothing more happened at the party. She said the entire team, including first-year players, agreed to the description of the events in the statement.
"I honestly don't think Crosby has all the facts and that is one of the reasons why we are fighting this, because something we believe didn't go well in the process of this investigation," Matheson said in an interview.
First-year defenceman Laura Brooks said the "odd clothing" worn by players was game-day blazers and ties.
"We weren't taking anything off or anything," she said in an interview.
Brooks said the university has overreacted to information gleaned from a flawed investigation.
"We were never bullied to do anything or forced to do anything," she said. "They did not try to humiliate us and they did not try to intimidate us ... If I didn't want to (do something) and I said no, I definitely think they would be fine with that."
Brooks admitted there was excessive drinking at the party, but she insisted no one was forced to imbibe alcohol.
"That would have been the only thing that was dangerous -- the excessive drinking," she said, adding that the team's statement did not leave out any pertinent facts.
The investigation by the vice-president of student services started after a parent approached the team's coach with concerns about the treatment of new players.
The team apologized in its statement "for any mistakes" made during the party, but lambasted the university for its handling of the situation, saying school officials aggressively and unfairly interrogated players and depicted them as criminals.
"Ambiguous questions were asked and answers were taken out of context which could have led to misinterpretation of the event," the team said.
It also argued the punishment doesn't fit the crime and unjustly penalizes first-year players by cutting their rookie season short.
"Through this process all 22 players, including the five first-year players who were not part of the official punishment, feel incredibly wronged by Dalhousie University," read the statement.
"We are proud Tigers, but it's getting harder to feel pride when the very university we work so hard for has turned around and betrayed us."
Team members also appealed in a letter to Dalhousie University president Tom Traves to reverse the suspension, saying they are willing to take the matter to court as a last resort.
As a fix, the team suggested working with the university "to help end bullying and hazing on campus and beyond." The team said their actions would be most effective if their season was reinstated.
Crosby said it's a positive step, but not one that will get the team back on the ice any faster.
"There's no quid pro quo there," he said. "It doesn't change the actions themselves."
He said forfeiting the season is disappointing for the rookies, but the bottom line is that the university has a zero-tolerance policy on initiation rituals or hazing.
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To combat the intense fatigue, I started "dipping" - using smokeless tobacco. I continued dipping on a subsequent tour in Kuwait as we worked 20+ hour days for weeks on end. What started out as a "tool" to stay awake became a habit I thought I could "always quit." Eventually it became an addiction that guided my every action.
Years later after leaving the Army and corporate America, I was sitting in my home office reflecting on my life. With my heart on the table and finally a willingness to be open, vulnerable, and honest with myself, I started crying. I had just written down all of the things I wanted from my life - finances, relationships, health and fitness, and professional work. I realized that none of my dreams were aligned with my nicotine addiction. My first goal that year was to get help.
Today, everything I do is aligned with the vision I have for my life - from where I live, to what I do for work; from my annual climbing expeditions, to the people I spend my time with. I choose to create my life based on my own dreams and aspirations - not based on fear, uncertainty, and self-doubt. In these turbulent times, we all need a vision. We all need a plan. We all need a higher purpose to guide our decisions on how we live our lives.
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Someone Please Tell Me New Mom Hilary Duff Was Just Holding That Cigarette For A Friend
Oh good Gordo in heaven! This photo of Hilary Duff holding a cigarette outside Rock N Reilly's Irish Pub in L.A makes me want to cry. Yes, it makes me want to crawl into a crib with her new adorable baby son Luca and just cry. The actress-turned-former-actress-who-only-gets-photographed-because-she-birthed-a-baby had just moved up on my celebrity point ladder — and now, because of this highly irresponsibly decision, she's getting knocked back down. I hope she enjoys making small talk with the cast of That's My Boy.
(Note: Yes, we realize that a Starbucks cup does not equal a cigarette. But we can't run the photo here, so check it out at the link above.)
For her baby's cuteness alone, I had given her several (clearly unwarranted) celebrity points, boosting her up to Jessica Alba's level. A quality celebrity mother who excels at getting photographed with her children. I figured she would join that exclusive parenting club of illustrious former actresses who now spend their days posing candidly with their children in public L.A playgrounds.
But no.
She's joining Katherine Heigl's ranks. A mother who will spend her free time going on talk shows and talking about how smoking an electronic cigarette earns her Mother of the Year awards. It's just so upsetting. You think you know someone. You think you devote a large part of your middle school years watching their TV show. And then they go and do this. Smoke a cigarette despite the dangers third-hand smoke poses to a baby.
Unless of course we all pretend that she just got photographed at an inopportune time and she really is just holding on to that cig for a friend. It's .06% likely. That gives her the same odds that I gave Nadya Suleman when it comes to her children celebrating Mother's Day after they move out of her house.
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Scripture: Acts 7:6 NIV God spoke to him in this way: 'Your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and ill-treated for four hundred years.
7 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,' God said, 'and afterwards they will come out of that country and worship me in this place.'
Observation: Stephen was reviewing Israel's history. In these verses he mentions that God promised Abraham's descendants would return to the very land where Abraham was standing. Looking at any map of the world today proves that God keeps His promises! The nation of Israel is exactly where God said it would be. 400 years did not cause God to forget His promises. At times some of the Israelites may have forgotten, or thought God had forgotten, but He remembered and was faithful to keep His word.
Application: God still keeps His promises. I benefit from the promises God made to my ancestors. It may not happen in my time schedule, but I can rest assured that God will keep His promises to me.
Prayer: Lord, thank you for your faithfulness in remembering and keeping your promises. Amen
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As the shock over events this past weekend in Charlottesville sinks in, patriotic Americans of every color and creed are filled with anger and despair. Students of history are horrified and rapid response organizations are overloaded. One thing is for certain — Charlottesville will happen again. The far-right extremists who came together this weekend are
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future marches and events with fervor. While the past presidential election did not create these individuals, they are emboldened, unmasked, and organized in ways they haven't been before. President Trump has shown us through his public statements that he is not willing to speak up against hate. But instead of debating his lack of moral leadership, we must instead show our own.We need a national strategy on pluralism, one that is bipartisan and multi-faith, to ultimately respond to white nationalism, racism, and anti-Semitism.
First, we need political leaders to commit to a national strategy that upholds American pluralism with one voice. Our country remains fractured across many lines, and we must begin to speak to and listen to one another and break down some of these barriers. Unifying against white supremacists and fascists may be a low bar, but it is a starting point. We need leaders brave enough to show courage and humility in place of self-serving posturing.
Second, we must remember the reason our motto is "E Pluribus Unum," out of many one. This strategy starts in the schools. For years, civic education and history have been neglected in favor of teaching to standardized tests. In the process, we have lost the ability to provide basic knowledge of the Constitution and transmit a shared narrative that details the role the US played in the struggle against fascism. Social Studies, as it is now called, is so bound up in a debate over an agreed set of facts — and the right way to treat the uglier aspects of our history — that it is difficult for school districts to settle on any curriculum at all. So instead propaganda on the internet fills the vacuum. School districts around the country need to step up and start educating our kids about our past and the lessons it has taught us.
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Arrest Dagestani Trucker Refuses to Report to Jail Voluntarily Dmitry Rebrov Novaya Gazeta September 16, 2016Arrest Dagestani Trucker Refuses to Report to Jail Voluntarily
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On September 16, the court considered Dagestani trucker Rustam Mallamagomedov' sappealof an August 26, 2016, ruling by the Aksay District Court. The court had found the activist guilty of violation of Article 18.104.22.168 of the Russian Misdemeanors Code (involvement in an illegal political rally)andarrested him in absentia for ten days.
The regional court judge confirmed the district court's ruling, despite the fact that, by law, a ruling of this kind can be issuedonly in the defendant's presence. Mallamagomedov was not present at either hearing. According to his attorney, Valentin Pyshkin, this is the source of the conflict. The police "forgot" to detain the trucker preliminarily, so in spite of the administrative arrest issued against him, Mallamagomedov continues to remain at liberty to roam the streets [ sic ], and has no intention of voluntarily "correcting" the mistake made by law enforcement officers.
"The thing is there no standard procedure as to what the police should do now. An administrative arrest cannot be issued in absentia. This is nonsense. For an individual to be put under administrative arrest he has to be present in the courtroom. At any rate, he is not obliged to report to jail himself. He bears no responsibility for failing to report to jail. Moreover, he cannot be detained and sent there forcibly, either, since this is not stipulated by Russian law," said Pyshkin.
"Only arrest on criminal charges can be ordered in absentia," the lawyer stressed.
In this case, the court can issue a detention order before the defendant is detained, Pyshkin explained. But this principle is not valid in the case of administrative [ misdemeanor ] violations. The lawyer was hard pressed to say what law enforcement officers would do now. In his opinion, it would be easier just to abolishthe questionable ruling. That, however, is not what hashappened.
"The Rostov Regional Court did not listen toour arguments, nor, when the case was heard on the merits, did it want to examine any of the witnesses we had brought to the hearing. And all our motions were rejected," said Pyshkin.
When our correspondent asked about the trucker's current whereabouts, the attorney declined to answer, saying that the telephones could be bugged. He did confirm, however, that Mallamagomedov was currently not in Rostov Region.
Beaten by the police when the tractor convoy was dispersed, the trucker himself does not admit his guilt.


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