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Recently acquired designated player Ignacio Piatti's first two goals lifted the Montreal Impact to a 2-0 victory over the Columbus Crew on Saturday night.
In the early stages of last Saturday's match in New York, the Impact looked up for the challenge of winning a third straight game in only seven days. But after the halftime break, the match quickly turned into the latest version of the Thierry Henry Show.
FIFA holds its Women's U-20 World Cup final right here in Montreal, showcasing some of the best soccer talent in the world, and the young women from Germany and Nigeria battle like lions in a highly exciting and entertaining game. And the Gazette's coverage consists of a two-inch brief on Page 6 of the sports section?
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Thierry Henry and Bradley Wright-Phillips each scored two second-half goals to lead the New York Red Bulls to a 4-2 win over the Montreal Impact on Saturday.
This has been a Major League Soccer season to forget for the Impact and the club's fans. The Impact (4-14-5) has the worst record in the 19-team league and is 11 points out of the fifth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference with 11 regular-season games remaining. The Impact has scored only 23 goals in MLS play — an average of one per game — while giving up 41 for a league-worst minus-18 goal differential.
With a 1-0 victory over the visiting Chicago Fire last Saturday, the Impact snapped its seven-game Major League Soccer losing streak. It's hard to imagine there would have been a more happy and relieved individual at Saputo Stadium than coach Frank Klopas. The victory came against Klopas's former team and with the Impact's new designated player, Ignacio Piatti, playing for the first time. Did I mention the winner came in the 84th minute?
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MONTREAL — Marco Di Vaio scored in the 84th minute as the Montreal Impact ended a seven-game losing streak with a 1-0 victory over the Chicago Fire on a wet pitch at Saputo Stadium on Saturday night.
The return of the Premier League this weekend cannot come quickly enough for English fans still lamenting their national team's worst World Cup showing.
Montreal Impact head coach Frank Klopas happy with the team's new designated player Ignacio Piatti of Argentina. Video shot during a press conference to introduce Piatti to the media at Saputo Stadium in Montreal on Thursday, August 14, 2014.
The nightmare season continued for Montreal Impact after yet another disappointing defeat. The 2-1 loss to Philadelphia Union took Montreal's total to 14 on the year, one more than they lost all of last season.
Who among us can be surprised at the news that Justin Bieber will avoid jail over that January street-racing caper in Miami?
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It has been a tough summer to be a team owner in this town. Bob Wetenhall's Alouettes are turning the post-Anthony Calvillo into something so ugly, we're soon going to be talking about the post-Alouettes era. Again.
Young soccer fans were at Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport to greet Team Canada soccer squad Saturday.
MONTREAL — It must have been a huge sense of relief for everyone involved with the Impact to finally see the team win again. Before Tuesday night's 1-0 CONCACAF Champions League win over El Salvador's Club Deportivo FAS Tuesday night at Saputo Stadium, the Impact hadn't tasted victory since a 3-0 win over Houston on June 29 in Major League Soccer play.
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They came, they saw, they conquered. They were Toronto FC, the Impact's Canadian rivals, who defeated struggling Montreal 2-0 Saturday at Saputo Stadium. TFC jumped to third in the East, while Montreal lost its sixth successive match and remained in tenth place.
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Barbara Walters named her Top 10 Most Fascinating People, TIME Magazine named its Person of the Year, and People Magazine recently put out their Best of 2011 issue. So, as 2011 wraps up, I want to touch upon some of the best and/or most important arthritis and health moments/breakthroughs of 2011! New NSAID: Vimovo, a … Continue reading
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The Difficulty of Explaining RA Pain: Can it Be Done? ~ by Ashley Boynes-Shuck
Lately, I've been coming across some blog posts that try to describe a rheumatoid arthritis flare. It is a great notion – but is it even possible to do? I've tried taking photos of bad flares, and, in that case, pictures are NOT worth a thousand words, because there's just no way to "show" that … Continue reading
Arthritis and Chronic Illness: Stripping Away Labels and Stigma – by Ashley Boynes-Shuck
When I was in graduate school, I took one psychology course that was oriented towards special education. One important thing that I took away from it was that we should always use, "people-first" language. At the time, I only thought of it in the realm of dealing with children with special needs, but, now, I … Continue reading
Health & Hollywood: Stars Get Sick, Too! A Look at Celebrities with Chronic Illness – by Ashley Boynes-Shuck
Sure, their "people" usually try to either: a.) hide the fact that their celebrity client is sick or b.) exploit the fact that their celebrity client is sick….but the truth is, stars are human, and even the most beautiful, rich, and famous people in the world get sick, too. I was saddened to hear about … Continue reading
The Time to Advocate is Now! Arthritis Advocacy and Our Health – by Ashley Boynes-Shuck
I've shared ways to advocate in the past, but there's no time like the present to get involved if you haven't already. You may or not be aware of this but Congress has appointed a "Super Committee" to find ways to reduce government spending. This is an important task, yet we as patients and advocates … Continue reading
World Arthritis Day 2011 – Do Blue & Move to Improve! (…And some words from Oprah Winfrey & Dr. Phil, too!) – by Ashley Boynes-Shuck
Today, October 12th, 2011, is World Arthritis Day. This year's theme is "Move to Improve" — and that's exactly what we want YOU to do! We would like you to move around the world for arthritis awareness. By October 31st, the Arthritis Foundation by choosing your weapon against arthritis pain. The goal is covering the distance … Continue reading
Billie Jean King and Venus Williams: Two Tennis Stars Making Arthritis News! – by Ashley Boynes-Shuck
In the past 24 hours, two tennis stars have made "rheum" for some big announcements. First, tennis legend Billie Jean King was announced as the star of the new Arthritis Foundation campaign to help fight arthritis pain. The new ads state that we "need a weapon in fighting arthritis" and asks fellow arthritis sufferers — … Continue reading
The 411 on Side Effects – by Ashley Boynes-Shuck
This afternoon, I went to an event for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. It was inspiring to be able to talk to other people – many of them young people – who are living with chronic autoimmune conditions, and doing it as best they can. However, a common thread that I notice in talking with people … Continue reading
Joys and Pains: A Rheumatoid Arthritis Poem – by Ashley Boynes-Shuck
For today's blog post, I would like to do something a little different, and share with you all a poem that I wrote about life with rheumatoid arthritis and other rheumatic conditions/chronic illnesses. It is called Joys and Pains. Please enjoy! "Unrelenting pain and never-ceasing fatigue. Hurts and aches in every place. Wondering at times, … Continue reading
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NEWPORT BEACH — Opening Day was a special one for Newport Beach Little League.
It was a special day when the ceremonial first pitch could be thrown by a boy, Harry Dill, who just four months ago discovered he had a brain tumor. It was a special day when that first pitch could be caught by a man, Jim Abbott, who was born without a right hand but went on to have a distinguished professional career.
It was a special day when another boy, Julian Dunn, who less than two years ago was given just a 20% chance of surviving cancer, could make his baseball debut.
The sun shined brightly Saturday morning at Bonita Canyon Sports Park. So did the smiles.
Abbott, the guest speaker and a Newport Beach resident, was a big part of it. The hurler, who played for the Angels, Yankees, White Sox and Brewers during his 10-year major league career, even played to the crowd.
"You know who was my favorite team?" he asked during his speech.
"Let me show you," he said, taking off his sweater to reveal an Angels jersey underneath.
The cheers were loud then. They were also loud when Dill threw out the first pitch.
"I was worried that I would miss," Dill, 12, said after the ceremony.
Better that than to be worried about a brain tumor. After his surgery in November, Harry's movement was severely limited. He could barely even put on his glove. But the sixth-grader at Andersen Elementary is doing much better now.
"His recovery was remarkable," said his mother, Amanda.
Many around the league know the story of how Dill hit home runs in two different games on a great day in November, just a day before his surgery. On Saturday, he was up to his old tricks, hitting a two-run homer back at Field No. 4 for his Majors Division team, Newport Rib Company.
Harry Dill also helped out as a Majors "buddy" to the league's Challenger Division team, the Tiger Sharks. The Tiger Sharks, in their second year in the league, are for players with physical and/or mental disabilities. It was on that squad that Julian Dunn, 8, made his debut in organized baseball.
This was a proud day for the whole Dunn family. Julian's father Rich, a longtime Daily Pilot sports editor and writer, and older brother Nolan were at the Newport Harbor Baseball Assn. Opening Day on Saturday. But they hurried back to Bonita Canyon just in time for the Tiger Sharks' game. Nolan was Julian's buddy on the base paths, helping him out after he made contact in each of his at-bats.
Julian's mother, Andrea, made sure she had the camera ready to capture the occasion. It was easy to understand why.
"In October of 2010, I didn't even think we'd get to this point," she said.
That was when the Dunns received the horrible news. The cancer they had been fighting for two years, ever since Julian was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2008, had come back in his lower spine. He was given a 20% survival chance. Julian had to undergo high-intensity chemotherapy. He lost his hair and had to eat through a tube to his stomach.
Now Julian is stronger. He can eat normally, though he still wears a port-a-cath tube to his chest, used for drawing blood. He is back in school as a second grader at Mariners Christian School, and his endurance has increased so he can go nearly full-time.
Julian is still undergoing what Andrea Dunn called "maintenance" chemotherapy, and has six more months of that to go. Every other month, he needs an MRI.
"I hope and pray that we get to that point where they only have to do [the MRIs] once a year," Andrea Dunn said. "They told us originally, before he relapsed, that he'd be monitored for like 10 years pretty closely. It's a very aggressive form of cancer ... really what we do is take things one day at a time. But we're just totally thrilled with how well he's doing."


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DALLAS -- Human remains were discovered Sunday in a grassy area along the Trinity River levee near downtown Dallas.
Witnesses told police they had been walking their dogs along the levee when they spotted a human skull. About 25 yards from that point, they saw the skeletal remains of a torso and some clothing.
Search teams used a trained dog to scour the area near the 800 block of South Riverfront Boulevard for any additional remains and clues.
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A fleet of dentists and oral surgeons at various dental offices have banded together with one aim: to keep Georgians' smiles as bright and healthy as possible. Managed by the same business, each Dental Practice Group of Atlanta office has its own name and staff. Patients at each location recline in comfy chairs as licensed dentists and experienced technicians remove excess plaque, inspect gums for signs of disease, and x-ray chompers for cavities. Available at every office, Venus White teeth-whitening treatments improve upon pearly whites' luminescence and ability to serve as a projection surface for miniature film festivals.
David A. Lamothe, DDS and his staff at Smyrna Dental restore and enhance the grins of both adults and children. Using digital technology, Dr. Lamothe fortifies maws with crowns, bridges, root canals, and dental implants, refinishes enamel façades with cosmetic treatments, and fills in sparse gum lines with partial and full dentures. Smyrna Dental also offers emergency and evening appointments, as well as free consultations. In order to reduce Smyrna Dental's carbon footprint and boost efficiency, Dr. Lamothe keeps a paperless office that reduces waste and the time his staff spends crafting origami cranes.
Dr. Eileen Buckle has always loved working with and helping children. Those passions once took her halfway around the world, to Ghana, where she provided dental care to little ones who otherwise had no access to it. At Pediatric Smile Studio in Marietta, she welcomes kids who live a little bit closer to home, but her attentive and compassionate care never wavers. She fosters the healthy growth of her young patients' smiles with low-radiation x-rays, fortifying fluoride treatments, dental sealants, and cleanings.
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Blue is everywhere here, from the cerulean-, azure-, and aquamarine-stained windows to the very name of Blue MedSpa. Dr. Landon McLain, medical director of the beauty haven inside the Westin hotel at Bridge Street Town Centre, helms a team of registered nurses, aestheticians, and physicians who focus on restoring youthful appearances. They use advanced equipment such as SmartLipo to reduce the appearance of cellulite, IPL laser machines for photofacials, and six types of dermal fillers to send fine lines scurrying beneath floorboards. Blue also provides traditional salon and spa services with Pureology and Redken products, as well as skincare products from iS Clinical and its own signature line. Regardless of the service, each med-spa staffer takes a holistic approach to treating clients to ensure their beauty goals are accomplished.
Representing the third generation in a local family of dentists, Dr. Cary Goldstein opened his eponymous dental clinic in 1995 to culminate what is now 75 years of dental care under the Goldstein name. Dr. Goldstein and his team of dentists and hygienists address a full spectrum of tooth-related complaints, brushing and flossing patients' mouths free of tartar and tartar sauce during cleanings, keeping smiles pearly with a variety of over-the-counter or in-office whitening treatments, or restoring order to undulating toothscapes with clear braces and dental implants. He also ensures new patients receive thorough initial exams and x-rays, allowing him to keep tabs on their dental improvement over subsequent visits.


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One of the biggest country music events of the year is back with a star-studded lineup and we want you to go.
Country songs about drinking beer and making love all night have played the role of Goliath for well over a year. The radio is dripping with testosterone -- heck, even females struggle to score a hit unless they're shooting someone, or so it seems.
As promised, Toby Keith had a big announcement for fans on Monday (March 3), and he didn't disappoint. The superstar is embarking on a 2014 tour in just a few short months, as revealed to fans via YouTube.
Danielle Bradbery is heading back to school! Starting March 2, the country darling will be headlining the Music in Our Schools national bus tour, spotlighting the importance of keeping music in high schools.
We are beyond excited to add Hank Williams, Jr. as a headliner to the 2014 Taste of Country Festival lineup!
Also just added to the three-day festival's lineup is Eric Paslay, Leah Turner, The Cadil
Brad Paisley sure knows how to surprise his fans, especially when he's in the home of some of country's biggest stars -- like Carrie Underwood!
Billy Currington's anthemic 'We Are Tonight' lyrics are all about summer nights, the freedom of Fridays and a beautiful girl. While it's clearly a hot weather, feel-good song, the inspiration behind it may surprise you.
It should be no surprise that many of country music's most romantic singers are pretty smooth off stage, as well. However, the most memorable, real-life love stories are honest and spontaneous. They hinge on tiny details, like the emotion she stirred when she walked on his bus, or the dress she wore when he sang to her on the beach during Spring Break.
Valentine's Day is the most romantic holiday of the year ... for some. To others, it signifies Singles Awareness Week. Country hitmaker Chris Young is making it easy for both sides of the camp to celebrate with a special V-day card release!
Gary Allan and Blake Shelton battled for most of the one-month voting period, but in the end, fans of the California-raised country singer would not be denied. Allan's 'Set You Free' was named the Best Album of the Year at the 2014 Taste of Country Awards.
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At 3:30 p.m. Saturday a man attempted to rob the Carl's Corner Convenience Store at 98th and MLK Blvd. The robber fled the scene in a green Toyota Tercell. The convenience store clerk chased the robber in a white Jeep Cherokee. While chasing the robber, the clerk called the police.
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Card Check: Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) Of 2009 Introduced In Congress
Organized labor's No. 1 priority in the 111th Congress, The Employee Free Choice Act of 2009 (EFCA) was introduced March 10 in the House by Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller (D-Calif.) and in the Senate by Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), a member of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. This legislation otherwise known as Card Check makes organizing workforces easier by removing requirements for secret ballot elections during the unionizing process.
The House version, H.R. 1409, and Senate version, S.560, were referred to the sponsor's committees.
President Obama supports the legislation and endorsed its passage recently in a recorded statement played to union officials at an AFL-CIO closed door meeting with U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis.
Now more than ever, ATA encourages members to voice their opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act of 2009 and contact their elected officials in the House and Senate about the negative effects that Card Check would have on the trucking industry and the business community as a whole.
Under EFCA, unionizing workforces would become easier because the legislation removes a requirement for secret ballot representation elections. An employer could not request a secret ballot vote to verify the worker's desire to join a union after 50 percent of the workforce signed union representation cards.
At present, employees hear from both union officials and employers during the unionizing process. The secret ballot then allows individuals to make personal decisions about their careers free from the scrutiny of others.
As ATA members know, trucking companies are unique employers, usually in contact with drivers through electronic dispatch every couple of days. A system that does not provide a secret ballot vote to validate the signed authorization cards opens the door to driver intimidation and coercion by union organizers.
A recent survey conducted on behalf of the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, of which ATA is a member, found that nearly 9 out of 10 voters (86 percent) said the process by which workers choose union representation should remain private. A mere 8 percent said it should be public information.
More importantly, the poll shows opposition coming from an unlikely source—union households. A separate survey focusing on union households shows that 74 percent of current union members oppose card check.
In addition to removing the secret ballot, EFCA also subjects employers and new union workers to mandatory binding arbitration after 120 days, if a contract is not collectively bargained. This would take contract negotiations from the involved parties and give them to government arbitrators, forcing employers and workers to accept the arbitrator's contract terms.
Union leaders claim the current system inhibits union membership growth. But recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show union membership increased the past two years. The Bureau announced Jan. 28 that union membership rose by 428,000 in 2008, marking the second consecutive year of growth.
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At most, the newly announced housing plan shows Israel doesn't want to give up all of E. J'lem as part of a peace agreement. Not exactly news.
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But that's about it. The action, if not the timing, was neither a provocation, the establishment of a "new settlement" nor proof that Israel doesn't want peace.
Anyone who knows Israel well understands this is what is called locally a
, a stupid mess-up as often happens with the government. Israel combines the candor of a First World country with the bureaucratic competence of a Third World one. The relevant office acted with a
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(narrow vision) and neither considered the impact nor consulted those dealing with foreign policy. It was just thrilled to keep its constituency happy by announcing more housing.
The area in question is not some new settlement but a neighborhood about five blocks from the pre-1967 border. The haredim who live there have the highest birth rate in the country and thus desperately need new apartments.
AT MOST, what this announcement shows is that Israel doesn't want or intend to give up all of east Jerusalem as part of a peace agreement. That's not exactly news.
Would it be better for the country's international position if the announcement had not been made? Yes. Because it allows the Obama administration (which needs excuses for its own failure to succeed at peacemaking) and the PA and Arab states (which need some rationale for their own policies) to blame Israel. But does it really change the course of a peace process going nowhere due to Palestinian intransigence on the real issues? Or does it make the PA and Arab states, which are supposedly salivating for a peace deal, change their minds and not make peace? In both cases, the answer is no.
So the timing of the announcement was stupid, but it was neither deliberate
sabotage nor proof of disinterest in peace.
Let's consider the actual background of these recent events. Israel has announced since 1993, when the Oslo Agreement was signed, that it would continue building on existing settlements. The PLO accepted this framework and during the next 16 years the issue of construction on settlements never had any effect on the negotiations.
In January 2009, the PA stopped negotiations because Hamas attacked Israel from the Gaza Strip and Israel defended itself. Of course, Hamas is also the PA's enemy and the PA would be delighted if Israel destroyed that group. But for public relations purposes, the PA had to pretend inter-Palestinian solidarity.
A few weeks later, the new US president, Barack Obama, demanded that all construction on settlements stop. Israel eventually agreed but announced it would keep building in east Jerusalem. The US accepted that arrangement and even praised Israel's policy as a major concession.
But the PA still refused to return to negotiations. Was it because the construction offended it so deeply? No, it's because Fatah's radical leaders don't want to make a peace deal since they believe they can win total victory and destroy Israel. At the same time, the more moderate ones are too weak to make a deal because of Hamas and their own radicals.
IN SEPTEMBER 2009, Obama announced that within two months there would be full and final peace negotiations in Washington. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said yes; PA leader Mahmoud Abbas said no. Finally, after more than six additional months of effort, the PA deigned to talk, but only indirectly. Wait a minute! Supposedly, Israel doesn't want a deal and the Palestinians are desperate for one since, in Obama's words, their situation is "intolerable." So why is reality the other way around? There must be something wrong with that explanation.
Just as Obama unintentionally set back negotiations by demanding a full freeze, he and Biden have now done the same thing for indirect talks. But isn't it Israel's fault in the latter case for a stupid bureaucratic case of bad timing? Absolutely, yes. Yet US handling of the issue turned an annoying problem into an even worse problem for itself.
Why aren't Western countries and media saying that the PA's refusal to negotiate for 15 months shows that it doesn't want peace? After all, according to the commonly held view of the conflict, it should be demanding immediate direct negotiations to reach a comprehensive peace and a Palestinian state.
Instead, however, Abbas seized the opportunity of the apartment-building announcement to declare he wouldn't talk. Is he indignant? Is he upset? Does he feel betrayed? No, he's delighted to have an excuse to do what he wants – not negotiate with Israel.
And so Abbas gets to close down talks, keep his winnings and blame it on Israel. While Abbas and the PA don't agree with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on much, they do agree on one point: They (wrongly) think the West is abandoning Israel. So why shouldn't they reject peace and try to destroy weakened Israel (in Ahmadinejad's case) or merely wait until the West gives the Palestinians a state on a silver platter with no concessions on their part (Abbas's case)?
As Obama himself has indicated, there is no real hope for a comprehensive deal. The talks are mainly a PR gesture for everyone involved. Still, as long as much of the West keeps sending the wrong signals – it's all Israel's fault, no real pressure will be put on the PA – their policy will delay any progress toward peace despite their best intentions to promote it.
The writer is director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs and Turkish Studies.
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Chicago is a multicultural melting pot of millions, a sophisticated metropolis without all the media madness of L.A. or New York. It's a city where the challenges of urban living and severe winter weather spawn a gritty realism in its artists, whether in music, comedy or theater.
Playwright/actor Tracy Letts has fit neatly into the Chicago scene. He's a native Oklahoman who since 1985 has found a home in the Windy City, most notably as a member of the famed Steppenwolf Theatre. Letts won a Tony and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for August: Osage County, which premiered in Chicago in 2007. His next play, Superior Donuts, debuted the following year, and Tennessee Repertory Theatre opened the regional premiere on Saturday night.
If the TV show Cheers had been set in a doughnut shop in Chicago, it might look something like Superior Donuts — there's a familiar cast of friendly locals who come and go, and the show's humor emanates naturally from its characters. Thankfully, the play is much more than a sitcom episode, and in some ways this opus might be Letts' love letter to an adopted city. Within its own narrow universe, it manages to entertain epic human concerns and encompass historic American ideas, even as its rather ordinary dramatis personae emerge as lovable unsung heroes.
Arthur Przybyszewski is getting on. Nearing 60, he owns an aging family doughnut shop under the "L" train in the sketchy Uptown neighborhood on the North Side. At curtain's rise, his place of business has been trashed, and the cops are trying to figure out whodunit.
A few local types come and go while the police go about their business, but the play doesn't really launch seriously until a young African-American man, Franco, arrives seeking a job. A writer desiring that his dreams be not deferred, Franco expresses his vision for the doughnut shop's upgrade to a Wi-Fi hipster hangout for poetry slams. ("Poets can't pay the rent," he says, "but they drink coffee like a motherfucker!")
Arthur plans no makeover for the joint, but after a lively discussion about black poets, Franco gets the job, and all seems well between the two.
Later, things get tense when a couple of quietly menacing men enter looking for Franco, who it turns out owes gamblers $16,000. From there to the play's satisfying ending — and through some vividly unsettling events — Arthur takes stock of his life, stands up for his young friend, and together with the doughnut shop regulars, fends off the bad guys.
Director Lauren Shouse has staged this engaging piece with a confidently rugged energy. The sole exception is an extended Act 2 fight scene that aims for reality but hits the mark only occasionally (and veers unintentionally close to the Three Stooges at times). No matter. The real strengths here are the roles and the actors who play them, and Shouse shepherds her cast with uniformly successful results.
Brian Webb Russell is Arthur. He relates his backstory in asides to the audience during brief hiatuses from the action. We learn about his experiences growing up Polish in the Northwest Side's Jefferson Park area, the political riots during the 1968 Democratic Convention, and finally the anti-Vietnam War movement, which inspired Arthur to become a draft dodger, move to Toronto, then later return to the Windy City courtesy of President Jimmy Carter's 1977 amnesty deal.
Russell sensitively evokes Arthur's feelings about his unresolved personal past, when he's not grappling with other big-picture regrets. In his very fine performance, he speaks eloquently for those burdened by the feeling of failure but still buoyed by the possibility for hope.
The supporting players are terrific, starting with Brandon Hirsch as Franco, whose youthful enthusiasm draws laughter early, and whose desperate situation later earns our sympathy. Shelean Newman finds authenticity in her portrayal of the lady cop with a romantic eye on Arthur, while Jon Royal, as her on-the-beat partner, equals her otherwise world-weary attitude.
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Economic socialization, saving and assets in European young adults
AbstractWe analyze the role economic socialization plays in the economic behavior and asset accumulation of young adults by parents using data from European young adults and teenagers. We study the role of four distinct strands of economic socialization (providing pocket money, jobs at home, work for others, and parental encouragement) using a Dutch sample of young adults (age 18–32, n=392). Results show positive links between parental encouragement and ability to control spending, saving preferences, future orientation, conscientiousness, and saving. A sample of teenagers (age 14–15, n=548) and their parents (256 mothers, 227 fathers) is drawn for a Norwegian study of economic socialization. Analyses reveal a small difference in the socialization of adolescents from poorer and less educated backgrounds: they are less likely to receive pocket money and to have part-time work but are more likely to have piggy banks and savings accounts at a younger age. Variations in the economic socialization by parents highlight the importance of financial education in schools.
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A Giant Gallery of Gorgeous Girl Gamer Tattoos
Alright let's be real. Not all of these are gorgeous. Some of them are actually downright terrifying. I just said that because it was another G word.
But you've got to take the good with the bad, but for every weirdo there's actually a few hotties, and that makes this gallery worth viewing.
And of course dear readers, if you are a gamer girl with a tat of your own, feel free to send me a pic firstname.lastname@example.com
Well, I can't really tell, but I HOPE this one is on a girl…
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Send in yourself or your own finds. They do not have to be like above picture. Actually preferably not.
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# Facebook, 9/11, Ségolène Royal, Last.fm, et les tatouages gaming. | zdar.neton 16 Sep 2009 at 11:57 am
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# Madisonon 16 Sep 2009 at 2:41 pm
That last one frightens me. No thanks.
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# LJon 20 Apr 2010 at 7:59 am
all i have to say is that if ppl check this, and anyone knows who the chick is that has the master sword tat. pls marry me. (im a good cook)
The girl with the master chief on her arm is my buddy. She has a yoshi and some other ones as well. Pretty cool person, but just wondering if you got permission from any of these people to use the pictures?
# Graveeon 11 May 2011 at 9:35 pm
Sure, a bit late but…
You could have gone with "Giant Gallery of Gorgeous and Grotesque Girl Gamer Tattoos."
# Sebreon 25 May 2011 at 3:01 pm
OMG! The girl with the Kirby @_@. She's so hot (her tattoo too btw).
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Discussion in 'Fly Fishing Forum' started by Backyard, Mar 14, 2006.
I promise to keep my pants on, others?
im 90% sureme and my neighbor are going. well be driving a red blazer with a gloomis decal. this is gonna be fun as hell, i gotta stock up on chromatids it seems... btw my pants are gonna stay on, but if todds gonna be there no guarantees jklol. hey zen i know u have to have some carp flies so if you bring a few ill buy/trade for them. thanks.
When I turned 18, I learned the most valuable lesson in life to that date, it was as follows; "It is much more easy to ask for forgivness then to ask for permission" Come on Hog, don't be such a pussy, tell your parents that you are going to Ephrata for a Young Democratic Water Conservation Educational Outdoor Environmental World meeting or something like that. And I am sure EVERYONE here will keep the pants zipped up, except Jim!
Look for a silver jeep, black Hyde Boat, smoke coming out of the cracked windows and if Im lucky, a toddler smeared to the grill of the jeep, damn jaywalkers anyway! They deserve a good Jeep Tattoo on the spleen! Don't throw rocks at me either, cuz I'm a Mo' Fu*k'n gangsta and shoot back! But, if you look at past gangsta shootings, you will know they are not good shots! Tupac, Biggie, Sugg, You name it, takes two clips to get 3 hits! So WATCH OUT!
Just a heads up for those new to the Sun Lakes Park. The raccoons can be a real problem. Keep all your food stashed inside a vehicle or coolers that latch well, and make sure you check your boats for any snacks - yep, they can open zippers. They will also take small coolers into the sage.
I'll be showin up at about 12:00 on Thursday.
Hey Jim, I'll be looking for you and John on Friday. I've got lots of whiskey to get rid of so if anyone wants some bring whatever you mix it with, or just a glass.:beer1: I can't remember if I drank more or fished more last year, but I do remember the night fishing and a couple of monster trout.
Mark i know you think im cute but the door doesn't swing that way for me. :rofl: :rofl: Tolar might be down tho. :rofl: Hopefuly some one there will have a few extra beers i can trade for flies or something because i'm spending my beer money for the next 2 months on a TFO. see you all up there. I'm driving a the worlds uglyest green taurus and probly will have some Black Sabbath blarring.
if you can stay till saturday i will have what ur looking for and we shall trade.
by the time you get there on saturday i will have been at work for a few hours :beathead:
100 posts YEAH!! ptyd
I'm not making any such promises.
Got a new pontoon and found a giant coleman stove for $100. Think of a double turkey cooker. I'm gonna cook so hard.
Someone should make a movie about this outing. Edit it like a nature documentary.
It would be sweet.
well, seeing as how the promise of keeping your pants on is directly talking about raping me (read the rest of this thread if that sounds wierd), I think that is really creepy. Anyways, I can't go, so you guys are just going to have to find some other unassuming kid to rape. Sorry.
Dude Sloan is just kidding, this is just about catching huge fish with flies longer than stockers at weird times of the day. Tobad u cant make it.
Yeah, i'll definetely go next year, or next event. How often do trips like this happen?
DF is a one time a year thing but people fish year round, there are always things going on.
I was hoping i would get to go but it is definately not gonna happen. I explained it to my parents and they said no at first. I kept asking and i guess really annoyed them because they threatened to sell all my fly equipment. I shut up after that, ill try and make the next one.
just curious how deep this lake is... i might need a longer anchor rope for my pontoon.
"Most of the lake is less than 25 feet deep and extensive weedy shallows dominate except in the deep basin lying just off the ancient cliffs that form the north shore." According to Washington Blue-Ribbon Fly Fishing Guide.
Get serious, work to do. Sounds like a blast but I'll be building boats. Been reading the thread "Lessons Learned" which started out as a pretty practical discussion of how to stay more or less dry and comfortable when on a flyfishing expedition then shifted into a serious discussion of the dread subject of - gasp - BEER.
So this opens up a major line of philosophical enquiry that dates back to at least the Bronze Age. And if you folks do your work it will define the flyfishing paradigm for the twentyfirst century.
Here's the topic:
Did the drinking of beer create the urge to fish, and the accompanying creation/purchase of gear, boats, lifestyle etc.?
Did the urge to fish create the drinking of beer, and the accompanying creation/purchase of gear, boats, lifestyle etc. ??
I expect a paper worthy of the best American/European philosophical journals to come out of this gathering, to be published on WFF, so we can settle this question for once and for all!
Drinking BEER creates the need to just PEE a lot. Nothing else is created from that.
But this is just the opinion from an Old Man who is not going.bawling: bawling:
On the contrary, plenty of families have been created from drinking too much beer. :rofl:


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Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) is a fully owned subsidiary of Xerox that provides a range of business and IT services and solutions to enterprise customers. The company has offerings as diverse as human resources management, IT outsourcing, document and data management, and accounting. Its global customer base represents virtually every large industry and includes major organizations in the public sector.
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In 2009, ACS began implementing a hosted mission-critical platform based on Microsoft products, which include the Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise operating system and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise data management software. A key part of this deployment is Hyper-V virtualization technology, a component of Windows Server 2008 R2.
Hyper-V provides ACS with the extensive enterprise functions of Windows Server while delivering the ability to create dynamic virtual data centers. Hyper-V virtualizes the system resources of a physical server, so that ACS can create virtualized environments to run its customers' applications and data. With the technology, ACS administrators can move a virtual machine from one physical host to another without any interruption of service. Hyper-V also supports up to 64 logical processors in a host processor pool, delivering greater virtual-machine density per physical server while giving more flexibility in assigning CPU resources to specific virtual machines.
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By moving its hosting services to a Microsoft platform, the ACS Application Management Services division is able to run a highly competitive operation. The solution has provided both cost savings and improved performance for ACS and its customers. The Microsoft platform has also delivered greater data availability and a more streamlined IT architecture.
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The Latin Playboys' amalgam of grassroots musical craftsmanship and studio experimentalism puts them in a category outside of any other band making records today. The side project of Los Lobos singer/guitarist David Hidalgo and drummer Louie Perez, along with the dynamic duo of Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake (who've done producing chores for the likes of Cibo Matto, Soul Coughing and Los Lobos themselves) has thus far resulted in two albums of incredibly strange and incredibly beautiful music. In terms of sonic inventiveness, the only group one can compare the Playboys to is My Bloody Valentine. Like MBV, the Playboys create songs that are seemingly simple in their structure, but are densely layered with eerie guitars, fucked-up drumming and a whole symphony of atmospheric noise jammed in behind it.
I hate the way most music reviewers use long, fruity metaphors to describe the bands they're writing about, but since I have to fill this article up somehow, here goes. Latin Playboys' songs are a lot like the burritos I used to get when visiting my brother in San Francisco's Mission District. I ain't talkin' about no Taco Bell refried scoop of bean and lard paste in a cardboard tortilla burrito. These burritos were the size of a WCW wrestler's forearm and were stuffed to the gills with fresh vegetables, brown rice, red and black beans and came with a side order of salsa that could eat a hole through the ozone layer. They were so huge and overflowing with so much goodness that it was impossible to digest it all in one sitting. You always had to save half of it in the fridge for later. Man am I hungry. This is the perfect way to describe the Latin Playboys, since they too draw on a vast array of sounds and natural ingredients, stir in a whole lot of love and a little bit of spice to create music that is more than the sum of its parts.
As they took the stage at Tramps on April 15th, amid a small cosmos of multi-colored Christmas lights, they sprung the crowd from their alcohol-induced stupor with a tape loop of blaring trumpets off "Viva La Raza," from their self-titled debut album. When its hypnotic, psychedelic blues riff kicked in, I was amazed at how well they were able to recreate the tonal nuances of its 4-track album sound so well.
The same can be said for "Chinese Surprise" and "10 Believers" (also off their debut). It was a near note-for-note approximation of the narcotic-like keyboard flourishes, snarling guitar and off-kilter percussion heard on record.
"Mustard" off their new album Dose had a catchy, folky quality to it with an open, plucked guitar line that built to a country fiddle showdown between Hidalgo and opener Lisa Germano. They both seemed so natural and unselfconscious in their trade-offs it was as if they were performing on someone's back porch instead of in front of a packed crowd of fans.
After the somber "Cuca's Blues," they played "Ironsides," whose lyrics about a family going to see a drive-in movie spoken over a groove of electrified Mexican guitar made me immediately think of the Velvet Underground performing a more ethnic version of "The Gift." Since most of the band members have families of their own, it's no surprise that they were able to capture the plaintive, whining voice of the child narrating the story so well.
The dizzying "Paletero" followed, and for a full 10 minutes, the room was filled with a swirling, psychedelic fiesta that I can only compare to cracking open a pińata full of acid. The whole room, if not dancing, was involuntarily swaying to the song's beat which was equal parts mariachi band and '60s freak-out jam. After fully exhausting themselves, the band ended the song on a high note and quickly vanished from the stage.
They soon returned, and for their first encore, they played the new "Fiesta Erotica." Much more anticipated, however, was their groundbreaking older material, and the Playboys did not fail to please. "Crayon Sun," another tribute to the gleeful exuberance and innocence of childhood, was performed next. It was a top-notch rendition.
"If" was a drunken blues ode about betrayal as well as a subliminal commercial for hard liquor. As Hidalgo sang "If the Ocean was whiskey or full of gin Would you push me in," I noticed a sizable crowd head back to the bar for one last drink.
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While he was an Illinois state senator in 2004, Barack Obama was one of the forces who helped get August 25th declared as "Frankie Knuckles Day" in the state. Frankie Knuckles passed away last month. He was 59-years-old.