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Your Roth IRA: Convert or not?
A tax deduction is not a given each time you open your wallet for a worthy cause. So be sure to check with an advisor first.
Save on taxes this year by employing these savvy tactics, from harvesting investment losses to donating to charities, by Dec. 31.
Ten money-saving, tax-wise tips for 2015, from socking away as much tax-free cash as you can to doling it out where it'll do the most good.
Leverage employer-sponsored flexible spending accounts, which allot pretax dollars for certain health- and dependent-care expenses.
When tax-loss harvesting, investors should keep in mind transaction costs, maintaining proper exposure and how and when to act.
Year-end is traditionally time to undertake tax-loss harvesting to offset investment gains, a good idea for any investor, say advisors.
Rebalancing, like asset allocation, largely determines a portfolio's return, say many advisors. So it's important to pay attention.
Just in case you've been procrastinating, here's a year-end checklist to get through before heading to your New Year's Eve party.
Failing to take advantage of all your available tax breaks now gives you a lighter wallet—and Uncle Sam an undeserved bonus.
Advisors recommend you reassess your financial plan after every major life event to ensure you are shielded from financial curveballs.
The end of the year is a good time to review estate plans, particularly if you've had a change-in-life circumstance in the past 12 months.
Include insurance coverage on your financial planning checklist. All too often, this safety net protecting assets gets short shrift.
Burned by the Great Recession, investors still play it safe, but advisors say hesitancy to invest for growth hurts the size of nest eggs.
Investors planning to buy a mutual fund in a taxable account by the end of the year can get stuck paying taxes on gains they didn't earn.
The rubber's hitting the road for baby boomers nearing retirement, who must convert nest eggs into a stream of income they won't outlive.
Olivia Cruz is seen in this photo distributed by New Mexico State Police.
The sister of an escaped convicted murderer in New Mexico was charged Thursday with helping her brother, state police said.
Olivia Cruz, 38, sister of convicted killer Joseph Cruz, is charged with assisting escape, state police said. She was already being held on unrelated warrants, NBC News reported.
Police said she made contact with Cruz after he and another inmate, Lionel Clah, escaped from a prison van on March 9, and that she tried to find them a place to stay in Albuquerque.
Cruz was recaptured in Albuquerque on Friday, while Clah surrendered to police on Saturday. Two other women were arrested Wednesday in connection with the escape.
Is Warner on 3D overdrive?
While the 3D conversion work on “Clash of the Titans” went to an established Hollywood company, Prime Focus, with access to a worldwide network of facilities, a company few in Hollywood are even aware of is already at work on another Warner title.
Stereo Pictures, a Korean company with an American branch led by former Warner execs, is converting “Cats and Dogs 2” to 3D for July release.
Stereo Pictures Korea president Sung Young-seok told Daily Variety that his company is in talks for three additional pictures at Warner and is bidding on a number of 3D films for individual directors, including one for Michael Bay.
Bay’s next project is “Transformers 3,” and there have been discussions among Bay, Paramount and Industrial Light & Magic about going 3D with the pic. The big stumbling block is the extra time required to do production and visual effects in 3D, as the movie’s release date is already set. Having the pic post-converted could alleviate that problem.
Stereo Pictures has ties to Warner through its Los Angeles branch, which counts several former Warner execs among its management: James R. Miller is managing partner, and former Warner Consumer Products topper Dan Romanelli is senior partner. Onetime CFC Entertainment president Phillip Rhee is prexy.
Sung said Stereo Pictures has talked to Fox, MGM and Paramount as well. “They are asking us to do the 3D conversion on library titles. We expect to obtain orders of 19 films this year,” Sung said.
Stereo Pictures has only about 60 employees at the moment, not enough to handle those orders from the U.S.
But two weeks ago, the company signed an agreement with the Korea Film Council (Kofic) to cultivate S3D professionals and develop S3D technology to meet the current needs. They are planning to train 750 3D artists and engineers through the program this year and to recruit all of them into the company.
Set up as a small venture some 20 years ago and reorganized in 2003, company launched its L.A. branch for marketing and development in December 2007.
Disney’s “G-Force” was the first studio feature to rely on conversion for its live-action scenes. That work was primarily done by Thousand Oaks-based In-Three. Sony Imageworks did the stereoscopic visual effects and CG scenes.
It looks nice! I bought a year ago my first truck too! And that's wasn't that easy. There are so many options on https://www.truck1.co.uk/used/tractor-units/from-france. And besides tractors units, there is way more other different machinery. But eventually, I got it and became a trucker.
Unless you’ve been caught up in the justice system, most Americans’ understanding of courts comes from what you see on TV.
In popular dramas like “Law & Order,” everyone gets a lawyer, the crime is solved in a neat and timely way, and – of course – justice is served. But in real life, it doesn’t always work out that way. On this Reveal, we take a look at the cracks in the system that prevent people from getting a fair shake.
The luxury market is bracing for the worst and retailers such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Coach are anticipating a big blow to profits.
Should the Fed have given Lehman Brothers the same treatment it did Bear Stearns? If the government intervened it's possible that the investment firm could sell shares for about $2 -- instead they're selling for pennies on the dollar.
Army scientists are creating a new mind-reading device to be used on the military. These "thought helmets" will be outfitted with an array of brain-wave reading sensors.
The luxury market is bracing for the worst. Since the financial crisis of late will be felt hardest among the upper-middle class ranks, retailers such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Coach are anticipating a blow to profits.
Russia is being blamed for the mysterious fires that destroyed more than 2,500 acres of forest and tainted drinking water around Georgia.
What to do if your brokerage firm fails and other helpful tools to help you navigate the turbulent economy.
Weather data collected over the last 112 years at the Mohonk Mountain house in a remote area of upstate New York could provide evidence of global warming.
Author Salman Rushdie, winner of the Chicago Tribune's 2015 Literary Award, poses in the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library in Brooklyn, NY on Oct. 18, 2015.
Salman Rushdie is alive and well and on the telephone, calling from New York City.
Born and raised in India, educated in England, Rushdie has lived and worked and gone out to dinner with friends and family for many years in New York — ever since about 2000 when he moved there from England, where he had spent more than 10 years hiding from people who were openly encouraged to kill him.
That decade on the run was the result of a phone call he got Feb. 14, 1989, Valentine's Day, from a journalist telling him that Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini had issued a fatwa, calling on all Muslims to assassinate him for writing the novel "The Satanic Verses," deemed by some to be "against Islam" and insulting to Muslims.
"Yes, I live in Manhattan," Rushdie says, by way of being specific. "I am the one New York City writer I know who does not live in Brooklyn," by way of being amusing.
It is a couple of hours before a Manhattan book signing, yet another in the lengthy series of events, appearances, talks, signings, TV shows, interviews and who knows what else surrounding the publication of his latest book, a novel titled, a bit cumbersomely to some minds, "Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights," which is a big deal in the world of international book publishing.
"It is all a little tiring," he says. "I have been at it for several weeks but let me say that it is not at all unpleasant. It is exhausting but it is pleasurable."
His promotional road will get a bit easier and start winding down soon, but not before he comes to Chicago on Saturday morning to receive the 2015 Chicago Tribune Literary Award for lifetime achievement at the UIC Forum.
This award was created in 1988 to honor both fiction and nonfiction works. The award will be presented as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival and past winners include Patti Smith, Elie Wiesel, Arthur Miller, Tom Wolfe, Margaret Atwood and August Wilson. Rushdie will be here to speak on stage with my Tribune colleague Bruce Dold and receive the $10,000 prize.
In announcing the award earlier this year, Tribune Editor Gerould Kern said, in part, "We honor one of the world's most prominent writers, and one who has devoted his life to a principle we hold dear: freedom of speech. He has transcended boundaries and distinguished himself internationally with work that has both reflected and influenced the world. His work (is both) playful and profound and we salute his courage, intellectual prowess and faith in the power of the printed word."
"I have won a lot of awards," Rushdie says. "And I am very honored by this one."
Here are a few of those awards: the Whitbread Prize for best novel (twice), the Writers' Guild Award, Author of the Year prizes in Britain and Germany, the Budapest Grand Prize for Literature, the James Joyce Award of University College Dublin, the St. Louis Literary Prize and the Carl Sandburg Literary Award from the Chicago Public Library.
And more: From 2004 to 2006 he was president of PEN American Center and for 10 years served as chairman of the PEN World Voices International Literary Festival, which he helped create. In June 2007 he received a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours. In 2008 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was named a Library Lion of the New York Public Library.
He is happy to be coming to Chicago for this latest award. It is the former home of one of his literary heroes, Saul Bellow, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist who grew up here (he was born in Toronto), taught for decades at the University of Chicago and wrote many of his books here.
"I regret never having met him. I have enormous admiration for him," says Rushdie of Bellow, who died in 2005 at 89. "He's a wonderfully funny writer."
That is Rushdie too, a wonderfully funny writer, though the humor in his work is usually overshadowed by what he calls the "dark and very unfunny" nature of the fatwa.
"The qualities of the attack were such that I have had a hard time getting that ideological albatross off my neck," he says. "It has done lasting damage to me. The memoir helped, I suppose, by taking away, by answering a lot of questions."
That memoir was "Joseph Anton," a 2012 nonfiction book that detailed what it is like to be forced underground, to move from house to house with an ever-present and armed police protection team. It is a fine and honest book, one of more than a dozen he has written.
But have you ever read Rushdie?
It's a valid question, for, as internationally famous as the author is and for as many books as he has sold, one suspects that he is a lot more famous for being famous — for being a symbol of freedom of speech and a frequent guest on such TV shows as those hosted by Jimmy Fallon and Bill Maher — than for his writing.
He knows it will be unfair but almost inevitable that when he dies (a long way off, one imagines, since he is only 68 years old) his obituaries will likely begin, "Novelist Salman Rushdie, who was once sentenced to death …"
"Yes," he said, "that has been the lasting damage done to me, my work."
We talked for a while about his latest book, the novel "Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights." It received a negative review in the Tribune's Printers Row Journal, where there is a lengthy story by me this week about the relationship between Rushdie and Tribune book reviewers, a crowd that includes the legendary Nelson Algren. Not always the kindest critic, Algren gave Rushdie's second novel, 1981's "Midnight's Children," a rave.
That novel, a wildly inventive tale that is at once a family saga and the story of India, and the current one, an equally wild/magical/mythological story about strange happenings in the New York City of the not-too-distant future, attest not only to Rushdie's elegant way with words but his deep and playful imagination.
We talked a bit about book reviews, Rushdie saying that he does not often read them. Asked if he had read the Tribune's review of his latest novel, he said, simply, "Yes. Oh, yes."
I asked if he could remember the first story that he ever wrote.
He did, immediately, and it took him back more than half a century.
"I was 11," he said, describing a trip to a Bombay (now Mumbai) movie theater to see "The Wizard of Oz." "It was long after the movie had come out but I was so excited by it that I went right home and wrote a story. It was about a little boy, much like myself, and he is walking down the sidewalk and he finds the beginning of the rainbow and, very conveniently, steps out right into it. And so he is able to walk right over the rainbow."
It was only "five or six" pages long and he gave it to his father, who soon lost it.
"But I suppose it was in the back of my mind even then to be a writer," he says.
But he went on instead to study history at the University of Cambridge, toyed with acting ("I was fair in comedies and not at all good at dramatic roles") and began his career as an advertising copywriter until the aforementioned "Midnight's Children" was a hit.
He has been a writer ever since. "I figure writing is not worth doing if you are not taking risks," he said. "Otherwise nothing interesting will happen. There is in the process a lot of trial and error. I take various routes and then might abandon them. I do hope that every novel I write represents some sort of new direction for me, an expression of things I haven't done before. Now there is nothing wrong with the sort of things that (the late) Jackie Collins wrote. They are pleasurable for a moment. But the kinds of books I write are meant to last a little while.
"Look, writing is a lonely game but if I could not do it, what would I do?"
Salman Rushdie will be awarded the Tribune Literary Prize during a Chicago Humanities Festival event 10 a.m. Saturday in the UIC Forum, 725 W. Roosevelt Road. For more information, visit www.chicagohumanities.org.
Panel asks: What is the best way to give away your money?
Author and Sinologist Mark O'Neill will talk about his latest work "Second Tang Dynasty".
Phil Whelan meets author and Professor (of East Asian Studies at Fairfield University, USA) Danke Li on her new book "Echoes of Chongqing: Women in Wartime China". It documents the story of ordinary women in an extraordinary situation during the second world war.
What do Pope Francis and Xi Jinping have in common? More than you think. Approaching the red Rubik's Cube from a new angle, Jeffrey Wasserstrom challenges conventional commentary on China through eight experimental analogies, finding fresh and surprising ways to look at the Asian superpower.
It’s rumored that some of the original copies of the declaration of independence is written on hemp paper.
You’ve probably wondered what the deal is with hemp seed oil and other uses for the plant.
Can you use it in cooking? Will it get you high?
Are there any medicinal benefits?
Keep reading for our complete list of everything you can do with hemp seed oil and why you need it in your life.
Yes, to answer your question, but it’s a tiny amount. It has roughly 1-10% of the THC that marijuana contains.
However, this is not enough to get you high and you shouldn’t ignore the benefits to your health.
We’ve all heard the term “essential fatty acids”. There are two types.
Unsaturated, especially polyunsaturated, are the sweet spot for fats.
We eat too many omega-6 fats as a society, While the ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 should be 3:1, for the average American, it’s closer to 10:1.
Hemp seeds and hemp seed oil are packed with omega-3 fatty acids. If you’re concerned with getting more omega-3 in your diet then keep reading.
So what’s the difference between the oil from the plant and that from the seed?
If you are looking for hemp oil vs hemp seed oil, check out this post from Hippie Butter where you can find everything you need to know.
Aside from the fatty acids, hemp seed oil contains a ton of vitamins and minerals.
Everything from calcium and vitamin D, B vitamins, vitamin E, magnesium, phosphorus, and potassium. The list goes on.
Chances are good you’ve at least read about the anti-inflammatory effects of certain foods like turmeric and garlic. Hemp seeds and hemp seed oil are also on the list.
If you deal with inflammation issues on a regular basis, incorporate some of this into your diet.

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Posted by by YP.com user on April 15, 2010. Brought to you by openlist.

Stay & Play Learning Ctr is located at 1004 E Judge Perez Dr, Chalmette, LA. This business specializes in Child Care Services.

Your Roth IRA: Convert or not?

A tax deduction is not a given each time you open your wallet for a worthy cause. So be sure to check with an advisor first.

Save on taxes this year by employing these savvy tactics, from harvesting investment losses to donating to charities, by Dec. 31.

Ten money-saving, tax-wise tips for 2015, from socking away as much tax-free cash as you can to doling it out where it'll do the most good.

Leverage employer-sponsored flexible spending accounts, which allot pretax dollars for certain health- and dependent-care expenses.

When tax-loss harvesting, investors should keep in mind transaction costs, maintaining proper exposure and how and when to act.

Year-end is traditionally time to undertake tax-loss harvesting to offset investment gains, a good idea for any investor, say advisors.

Rebalancing, like asset allocation, largely determines a portfolio's return, say many advisors. So it's important to pay attention.

Just in case you've been procrastinating, here's a year-end checklist to get through before heading to your New Year's Eve party.

Failing to take advantage of all your available tax breaks now gives you a lighter wallet—and Uncle Sam an undeserved bonus.

Advisors recommend you reassess your financial plan after every major life event to ensure you are shielded from financial curveballs.

The end of the year is a good time to review estate plans, particularly if you've had a change-in-life circumstance in the past 12 months.

Include insurance coverage on your financial planning checklist. All too often, this safety net protecting assets gets short shrift.

Burned by the Great Recession, investors still play it safe, but advisors say hesitancy to invest for growth hurts the size of nest eggs.

Investors planning to buy a mutual fund in a taxable account by the end of the year can get stuck paying taxes on gains they didn't earn.

The rubber's hitting the road for baby boomers nearing retirement, who must convert nest eggs into a stream of income they won't outlive.

Olivia Cruz is seen in this photo distributed by New Mexico State Police.

The sister of an escaped convicted murderer in New Mexico was charged Thursday with helping her brother, state police said.

Olivia Cruz, 38, sister of convicted killer Joseph Cruz, is charged with assisting escape, state police said. She was already being held on unrelated warrants, NBC News reported.

Police said she made contact with Cruz after he and another inmate, Lionel Clah, escaped from a prison van on March 9, and that she tried to find them a place to stay in Albuquerque.

Cruz was recaptured in Albuquerque on Friday, while Clah surrendered to police on Saturday. Two other women were arrested Wednesday in connection with the escape.

Is Warner on 3D overdrive?

While the 3D conversion work on “Clash of the Titans” went to an established Hollywood company, Prime Focus, with access to a worldwide network of facilities, a company few in Hollywood are even aware of is already at work on another Warner title.

Stereo Pictures, a Korean company with an American branch led by former Warner execs, is converting “Cats and Dogs 2” to 3D for July release.

Stereo Pictures Korea president Sung Young-seok told Daily Variety that his company is in talks for three additional pictures at Warner and is bidding on a number of 3D films for individual directors, including one for Michael Bay.

Bay’s next project is “Transformers 3,” and there have been discussions among Bay, Paramount and Industrial Light & Magic about going 3D with the pic. The big stumbling block is the extra time required to do production and visual effects in 3D, as the movie’s release date is already set. Having the pic post-converted could alleviate that problem.

Stereo Pictures has ties to Warner through its Los Angeles branch, which counts several former Warner execs among its management: James R. Miller is managing partner, and former Warner Consumer Products topper Dan Romanelli is senior partner. Onetime CFC Entertainment president Phillip Rhee is prexy.

Sung said Stereo Pictures has talked to Fox, MGM and Paramount as well. “They are asking us to do the 3D conversion on library titles. We expect to obtain orders of 19 films this year,” Sung said.

Stereo Pictures has only about 60 employees at the moment, not enough to handle those orders from the U.S.

But two weeks ago, the company signed an agreement with the Korea Film Council (Kofic) to cultivate S3D professionals and develop S3D technology to meet the current needs. They are planning to train 750 3D artists and engineers through the program this year and to recruit all of them into the company.

Set up as a small venture some 20 years ago and reorganized in 2003, company launched its L.A. branch for marketing and development in December 2007.

Disney’s “G-Force” was the first studio feature to rely on conversion for its live-action scenes. That work was primarily done by Thousand Oaks-based In-Three. Sony Imageworks did the stereoscopic visual effects and CG scenes.

It looks nice! I bought a year ago my first truck too! And that's wasn't that easy. There are so many options on https://www.truck1.co.uk/used/tractor-units/from-france. And besides tractors units, there is way more other different machinery. But eventually, I got it and became a trucker.

Unless you’ve been caught up in the justice system, most Americans’ understanding of courts comes from what you see on TV.

In popular dramas like “Law & Order,” everyone gets a lawyer, the crime is solved in a neat and timely way, and – of course – justice is served. But in real life, it doesn’t always work out that way. On this Reveal, we take a look at the cracks in the system that prevent people from getting a fair shake.

The luxury market is bracing for the worst and retailers such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Coach are anticipating a big blow to profits.

Should the Fed have given Lehman Brothers the same treatment it did Bear Stearns? If the government intervened it's possible that the investment firm could sell shares for about $2 -- instead they're selling for pennies on the dollar.

Army scientists are creating a new mind-reading device to be used on the military. These "thought helmets" will be outfitted with an array of brain-wave reading sensors.

The luxury market is bracing for the worst. Since the financial crisis of late will be felt hardest among the upper-middle class ranks, retailers such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Coach are anticipating a blow to profits.

Russia is being blamed for the mysterious fires that destroyed more than 2,500 acres of forest and tainted drinking water around Georgia.

What to do if your brokerage firm fails and other helpful tools to help you navigate the turbulent economy.

Weather data collected over the last 112 years at the Mohonk Mountain house in a remote area of upstate New York could provide evidence of global warming.

Author Salman Rushdie, winner of the Chicago Tribune's 2015 Literary Award, poses in the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library in Brooklyn, NY on Oct. 18, 2015.

Salman Rushdie is alive and well and on the telephone, calling from New York City.

Born and raised in India, educated in England, Rushdie has lived and worked and gone out to dinner with friends and family for many years in New York — ever since about 2000 when he moved there from England, where he had spent more than 10 years hiding from people who were openly encouraged to kill him.

That decade on the run was the result of a phone call he got Feb. 14, 1989, Valentine's Day, from a journalist telling him that Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini had issued a fatwa, calling on all Muslims to assassinate him for writing the novel "The Satanic Verses," deemed by some to be "against Islam" and insulting to Muslims.

"Yes, I live in Manhattan," Rushdie says, by way of being specific. "I am the one New York City writer I know who does not live in Brooklyn," by way of being amusing.

It is a couple of hours before a Manhattan book signing, yet another in the lengthy series of events, appearances, talks, signings, TV shows, interviews and who knows what else surrounding the publication of his latest book, a novel titled, a bit cumbersomely to some minds, "Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights," which is a big deal in the world of international book publishing.

"It is all a little tiring," he says. "I have been at it for several weeks but let me say that it is not at all unpleasant. It is exhausting but it is pleasurable."

His promotional road will get a bit easier and start winding down soon, but not before he comes to Chicago on Saturday morning to receive the 2015 Chicago Tribune Literary Award for lifetime achievement at the UIC Forum.

This award was created in 1988 to honor both fiction and nonfiction works. The award will be presented as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival and past winners include Patti Smith, Elie Wiesel, Arthur Miller, Tom Wolfe, Margaret Atwood and August Wilson. Rushdie will be here to speak on stage with my Tribune colleague Bruce Dold and receive the $10,000 prize.

In announcing the award earlier this year, Tribune Editor Gerould Kern said, in part, "We honor one of the world's most prominent writers, and one who has devoted his life to a principle we hold dear: freedom of speech. He has transcended boundaries and distinguished himself internationally with work that has both reflected and influenced the world. His work (is both) playful and profound and we salute his courage, intellectual prowess and faith in the power of the printed word."

"I have won a lot of awards," Rushdie says. "And I am very honored by this one."

Here are a few of those awards: the Whitbread Prize for best novel (twice), the Writers' Guild Award, Author of the Year prizes in Britain and Germany, the Budapest Grand Prize for Literature, the James Joyce Award of University College Dublin, the St. Louis Literary Prize and the Carl Sandburg Literary Award from the Chicago Public Library.

And more: From 2004 to 2006 he was president of PEN American Center and for 10 years served as chairman of the PEN World Voices International Literary Festival, which he helped create. In June 2007 he received a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours. In 2008 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was named a Library Lion of the New York Public Library.

He is happy to be coming to Chicago for this latest award. It is the former home of one of his literary heroes, Saul Bellow, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist who grew up here (he was born in Toronto), taught for decades at the University of Chicago and wrote many of his books here.

"I regret never having met him. I have enormous admiration for him," says Rushdie of Bellow, who died in 2005 at 89. "He's a wonderfully funny writer."

That is Rushdie too, a wonderfully funny writer, though the humor in his work is usually overshadowed by what he calls the "dark and very unfunny" nature of the fatwa.

"The qualities of the attack were such that I have had a hard time getting that ideological albatross off my neck," he says. "It has done lasting damage to me. The memoir helped, I suppose, by taking away, by answering a lot of questions."

That memoir was "Joseph Anton," a 2012 nonfiction book that detailed what it is like to be forced underground, to move from house to house with an ever-present and armed police protection team. It is a fine and honest book, one of more than a dozen he has written.

But have you ever read Rushdie?

It's a valid question, for, as internationally famous as the author is and for as many books as he has sold, one suspects that he is a lot more famous for being famous — for being a symbol of freedom of speech and a frequent guest on such TV shows as those hosted by Jimmy Fallon and Bill Maher — than for his writing.

He knows it will be unfair but almost inevitable that when he dies (a long way off, one imagines, since he is only 68 years old) his obituaries will likely begin, "Novelist Salman Rushdie, who was once sentenced to death …"

"Yes," he said, "that has been the lasting damage done to me, my work."

We talked for a while about his latest book, the novel "Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights." It received a negative review in the Tribune's Printers Row Journal, where there is a lengthy story by me this week about the relationship between Rushdie and Tribune book reviewers, a crowd that includes the legendary Nelson Algren. Not always the kindest critic, Algren gave Rushdie's second novel, 1981's "Midnight's Children," a rave.

That novel, a wildly inventive tale that is at once a family saga and the story of India, and the current one, an equally wild/magical/mythological story about strange happenings in the New York City of the not-too-distant future, attest not only to Rushdie's elegant way with words but his deep and playful imagination.

We talked a bit about book reviews, Rushdie saying that he does not often read them. Asked if he had read the Tribune's review of his latest novel, he said, simply, "Yes. Oh, yes."

I asked if he could remember the first story that he ever wrote.

He did, immediately, and it took him back more than half a century.

"I was 11," he said, describing a trip to a Bombay (now Mumbai) movie theater to see "The Wizard of Oz." "It was long after the movie had come out but I was so excited by it that I went right home and wrote a story. It was about a little boy, much like myself, and he is walking down the sidewalk and he finds the beginning of the rainbow and, very conveniently, steps out right into it. And so he is able to walk right over the rainbow."

It was only "five or six" pages long and he gave it to his father, who soon lost it.

"But I suppose it was in the back of my mind even then to be a writer," he says.

But he went on instead to study history at the University of Cambridge, toyed with acting ("I was fair in comedies and not at all good at dramatic roles") and began his career as an advertising copywriter until the aforementioned "Midnight's Children" was a hit.

He has been a writer ever since. "I figure writing is not worth doing if you are not taking risks," he said. "Otherwise nothing interesting will happen. There is in the process a lot of trial and error. I take various routes and then might abandon them. I do hope that every novel I write represents some sort of new direction for me, an expression of things I haven't done before. Now there is nothing wrong with the sort of things that (the late) Jackie Collins wrote. They are pleasurable for a moment. But the kinds of books I write are meant to last a little while.

"Look, writing is a lonely game but if I could not do it, what would I do?"

Salman Rushdie will be awarded the Tribune Literary Prize during a Chicago Humanities Festival event 10 a.m. Saturday in the UIC Forum, 725 W. Roosevelt Road. For more information, visit www.chicagohumanities.org.

Panel asks: What is the best way to give away your money?

Author and Sinologist Mark O'Neill will talk about his latest work "Second Tang Dynasty".

Phil Whelan meets author and Professor (of East Asian Studies at Fairfield University, USA) Danke Li on her new book "Echoes of Chongqing: Women in Wartime China". It documents the story of ordinary women in an extraordinary situation during the second world war.

What do Pope Francis and Xi Jinping have in common? More than you think. Approaching the red Rubik's Cube from a new angle, Jeffrey Wasserstrom challenges conventional commentary on China through eight experimental analogies, finding fresh and surprising ways to look at the Asian superpower.

It’s rumored that some of the original copies of the declaration of independence is written on hemp paper.

You’ve probably wondered what the deal is with hemp seed oil and other uses for the plant.

Can you use it in cooking? Will it get you high?

Are there any medicinal benefits?

Keep reading for our complete list of everything you can do with hemp seed oil and why you need it in your life.

Yes, to answer your question, but it’s a tiny amount. It has roughly 1-10% of the THC that marijuana contains.

However, this is not enough to get you high and you shouldn’t ignore the benefits to your health.

We’ve all heard the term “essential fatty acids”. There are two types.

Unsaturated, especially polyunsaturated, are the sweet spot for fats.

We eat too many omega-6 fats as a society, While the ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 should be 3:1, for the average American, it’s closer to 10:1.

Hemp seeds and hemp seed oil are packed with omega-3 fatty acids. If you’re concerned with getting more omega-3 in your diet then keep reading.

So what’s the difference between the oil from the plant and that from the seed?

If you are looking for hemp oil vs hemp seed oil, check out this post from Hippie Butter where you can find everything you need to know.

Aside from the fatty acids, hemp seed oil contains a ton of vitamins and minerals.

Everything from calcium and vitamin D, B vitamins, vitamin E, magnesium, phosphorus, and potassium. The list goes on.

Chances are good you’ve at least read about the anti-inflammatory effects of certain foods like turmeric and garlic. Hemp seeds and hemp seed oil are also on the list.

If you deal with inflammation issues on a regular basis, incorporate some of this into your diet.