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In the days leading up to Friday night's show, Jimmy Fallon had been teasing his followers on social media with sneak peeks at "Game Of Desks", "Late Night's" sure-to-be-epic "Game Of Thrones" parody. And when Friday finally rolled around, he did not disappoint.Complete with an animated title sequence showing a map of "Rockefell", the digital original saw Fallon as a Ned Stark-ish version of himself fighting to hold onto the "iron desk" of Studio 6B.More...

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Paul George quieted the Heat fans in the final seconds of the third quarter in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals with a vicious dunk. Then LeBron James woke them back up.With nine seconds remaining in the quarter, Indiana's emerging star drove to his left and blew right by James. A five-time First Team All Defensive player, LeBron was unable to contain George and neither could Chris "Birdman" Andersen. George soared over Andersen and threw down a one-handed dunk while drawing a foul with 5.1 seconds left in the quarter.More...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Alison Redford says the robocall scandal dogging her party's arch-rival, the Wildrose, shows it's a group prepared to ignore the rules to win."We are faced with an extremist opposition," Redford told Progressive Conservative party delegates in a speech Friday night."We see every day, and we certainly saw today in the news, political parties that are prepared to get involved in tactics that undermine the political process."Earlier this week, the Wildrose party announced it paid a $90,000 fine levied by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission for so-called robocalls in 2011 and 2012 in the run up to the provincial election.It’s the biggest fine ever levied against a political party by the CRTC.Earlier Friday, PC Caucus government liaison Doug Griffiths said he wants the Wildrose party — which is the official Opposition in the Alberta legislature — to ask the chief electoral officer to investigate.Griffiths said the robocalls may have resulted in election manipulation given that the some ridings were won in close races.Wildrose president David Yager has said the party relied on the firm it hired to make the automated phone calls to work within the rules. Yager said he believes his party isn't the only guilty party.The calls were in contravention of CRTC regulations that say the calls must include the name of the party sponsoring the call, an address, and contact telephone number.Redford's speech opened a weekend party discussion of policies and ideas, some of which may come forward for adoption at the next meeting in November.The speech was another salvo in a sustained direct rhetorical attack by Redford against the Wildrose in recent months.Redford reiterated her characterization of the Wildrose as the party of yesterday, restrained by dogmatic chains of fiscal conservatism, out of step with a province facing slumping oil revenues and a booming population.She reminded the delegates that the Wildrose questioned the science of climate change in the 2012 election, a position believed to have contributed to the party winning just 17 seats to the Tories' 61.This year, the Wildrose, particularly Leader Danielle Smith, has sharply criticized Reford's plan to run up $17 billion in debt over the next four years to pay for infrastructure.More blinkered thinking, said Redford."All their talk about debt is really talk about the schools, and the hospitals and the roads that our province so clearly needs today," said Redford, her voice occasionally raspy and cracked as she fought through a cold.Redford warned that as the 2016 election approaches the Wildrose will be burnishing its image, but not to be fooled."We know that the Opposition will redouble their efforts to deny who they really are in the months ahead," said Redford."And I fully expect them once again to sweep some of their extreme policies under the rug, and to pretend to be something that they're not. But they'll only succeed in exposing their own hypocrisy."We have to be ready, and we have to ensure that Albertans understand what's at stake as they choose between the party that builds up or the party that tears down."The feud between the two parties is nothing short of venomous.Both are right-centre groups. The Wildrose has grown in popularity, gaining support from former Tories who believe the governing party has abandoned fiscal prudence and no longer listens to the grassroots.Redford had a message for those grassroots Friday.Rank-and-file party members will now have a chance to speak to cabinet ministers and MLAs through new policy advisory committees, she said.The committees are to be up and running by the fall, she said."With policy advisory committees, our grassroots will have an unprecedented opportunity to help define where we're going as a province," said Redford, who was given a standing ovation for her remarks.More...

A UBC student says he's happy to be alive after the Skagit River bridge collapsed beneath him on Thursday night.Mount Vernon, Washington resident Bryce Kenning says he was making a trip he had made hundreds of times with no incident. But this time was different.More...

Click here to view this media Following President Obama's big speech this Thursday on national security and counterterrorism, The Daily Show's Jon Stewart took the opportunity to go after the Obama administration and the DOJ for their willingness to go after whistleblowers, journalists, potheads, hackers and even people who just lied on their mortgage applications, while refusing to prosecute a single Wall Street banker. While I agree with Stewart on majority of his criticisms here, I'd use the term "journalist" lightly when it comes to anyone from Fox and as Tommy Christopher over at Mediaite pointed out, James Rosen was not just simply reporting that North Korea wanted to do more nuclear tests to draw the government scrutiny he did, as Stewart asserted here. I'd also like to hear more about that AP story and what was going on there before rushing to judgement as well, although I think the bigger argument ought to be over all of our privacy rights and just how much of that has been thrown out the window. In an age following the hysteria right after 9-11 and the Patriot Act and with the NSA pretty well out of control along with most corporations who aren't kept in check with protecting our private information, I'm glad to see there is at long at last some attention being drawn to the subject. It's pitiful that it took some members of our corporate media finally being subjected to what sadly is potentially perfectly legal overreach for them to care at all about what's been happening to a whole bunch of our citizens for years on end now, and well before Barack Obama was elected president. Maybe they could do something constructive like calling for members of Congress and President Obama to roll back some of the horrid legislation that was passed during the Bush administration. But then, who am I kidding... right? They'd rather just use this as an excuse to pile on with the scandal-mongering we've seen over the last half a year or so. But back to The Daily Show segment above, when it comes to criticism about these Wall Street bankers run amok and the fact that not a one of them has ever gone to jail, while they're aggressively going after things like medical marijuana dispensaries, or someone who lied about their income on their mortgage papers, or whistleblowers who are actually trying to uncover government malfeasance, and not the Benghazi/IRS Tourette syndrome scandal-mongering we've been subjected to -- by all means, have at them Jon Stewart.

Un internaute futé a fait un montage montrant Céline Dion se déhanchant au son de la chanson «Get Lucky» du groupe Daft Punk. La chanteuse dansait initialement sur «Staying Alive» des Bee Gees. Étonnamment, l’illusion est assez bien réussie.More...