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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Scorchy Smith and the Art of Noel Sickles
Christmas came early for me last week when "Scorchy Smith and the Art of Noel Sickles" arrived in the mail. I can only imagine that if Robert Fawcett, Austin Briggs and Al Parker (just to name a few) were still with us today, they'd have to be a little envious of this handsome volume.
Dean's original intention was to collect Sickles' 3-year run on the newspaper strip, Scorchy Smith...
... and include some biographical material and examples from Sickles' later career in illustration. However, writes Dean, "We found so much incredible art and bio material that I had to add 40 pages to the book. The Scorchy strips don't even start until page 142!"
I was fascinated to see so many examples of Sickles' rough sketches and meticulous attention to research for historical subjects, as shown above.
And while we might otherwise have had the opportunity to easily find the artist's work for mainstream publications, the book also collects copious amounts of rare and obscure artwork, like the 1960 recruitment booklet Sickles did for the U.S. military...
... or this unsold 1960's strip, of which Sickles produced only 6 inked and lettered dailies.
There are over 200 pieces of art in the front section of Scorchy Smith and the Art of Noel Sickles, from the artist's youth, through his many decades in commercial art...
... and up to his last work in the early 1980's, just before he passed away.
With Dean's permission, as we devote a week to the art of Noel Sickles, we will dip into the book for the occassional excerpt or anecdote. Many thanks, Dean!
Dean would like you to know that "the book is available from all bookstores, comics shops, and online retailers. If your local bookstore doesn't have it in stock, they can order it for you: ISBN 978-1-60010-206-6."
My Noel Sickles Flickr set.
15 comments:
Christmas in August!ReplyDelete
Oh Lord, I had forgotten this was coming out... amazing. Thanks for the preview pics.ReplyDelete
I still have a bunch of Sickles' stuff from Readers Digest Condensed Books I should post on my blog...
Can't wait to pick this up myself.ReplyDelete
Amazon & Chapter's only have listed as available for pre-order only .
May have to hit the Beguiling or Dragon Lady stores this week.
What wonderful news! Thanks for the preview.ReplyDelete
thanks,leif...this is a fantastic book,and i just ordered it from amazon...brianReplyDelete
Great news. I had no idea this was out. I'll have to get a copy as soon as I can. Thanks!ReplyDelete
Sickles was Alex Toth's all time favorite, Wow, cannot Wait to get my hands on that.ReplyDelete
ACK! Gotta get a copy of THIS too! Thanks for the timely heads up, Leif!ReplyDelete
Leif, my copy arrived yesterday.ReplyDelete
Wow!!! and it's gorgeous. I see each each illustration and just paused to drink it up. Truly a master. Thanks for expanding my horizons.
Pros: The book is very thick and encyclopaedic, nice color prints etc. Got it really cheap ($20 for new copy on Amazon, from a seller in UK)
Cons: Binding seems OK but the 1st and last pages which contact the covers tearing apart. Easily solved with a strong tape. Should not detract anyone from buying the book.


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McClatchy Pentagon Correspondent James Rosen sat down this week with John Rizzo, former CIA acting general counsel, to discuss recently published findings of a four-year Senate Intelligence Committee report on harsh interrogation techniques used on terror detainees. Here are excerpts from their interview.
MCCLATCHY: You put yourself right at the center of this. You write in "The Company Man," your memoirs: "I have no doubt that if I had said the word, much if not all of the EIT (enhanced interrogation techniques) initiative would have quietly died before it was born." So you sound like the legal kingpin.
RIZZO: Well, yeah, I was the legal architect at the agency.
MCCLATCHY: So you're the right person to talk with.
RIZZO: Yep.
MCCLATCHY: So here (in the book) you name two al Qaida big guys who were captured through the waterboarding intel from Zubaydah _ Ramzi bin al Shibh and Rahim al Nashiri. And then later on you say more broadly that everybody realized it might not be great for their careers, but what mattered is that it was good for the country.
RIZZO: I knew it wasn't going to be good for my career.
MCCLATCHY: You said (in your memoirs) that you and others were staunchly "convinced that EITs were proving to be an indispensable element to discovering and thwarting a reprise of the 9/11 attacks." That seems to directly refute one of the supposed findings of the Senate report: "The CIA's use of enhanced interrogation techniques did not effectively assist the agency in acquiring intelligence or in gaining cooperation from detainees." What's your response?
RIZZO: To state the obvious, it's hard to respond to a one-sentence conclusion. I have no idea what was. . . .
MCCLATCHY: I will provide every caveat _ you said that you had not read the report, you were only going by published accounts.
MCCLATCHY: But back to the question that they didn't produce good intelligence, they didn't help prevent more terrorist attacks.
RIZZO: Well, Jim, this program went on for six years. And I watched daily – every night there was a meeting in those early years at 5 o'clock. It was chaired by the CIA director, George Tenet. And every night, during the course of those briefings, the career CIA analysts and operatives would sit there and recite the information that had been acquired from these detainees. I mean on a daily basis. I'm not an analyst or an operative, but I'm not stupid, and I sat there and listened to this relentlessly. And it just convinced me _ especially, as I said in the book, that some of these career CIA people were not generally enamored of the Bush administration, so it wasn't like they were ideologues. But I was convinced that these techniques were yielding detailed, valuable information into terrorist plots. Now was there ever a ticking time-bomb scenario? I don't remember a particular: "Tomorrow, LAX is going to blow up," but it was incremental and it was steady. And I became convinced just by listening to these career people that the program was yielding very, very valuable benefits.
RIZZO: The other point I would make is that, you know, this program went on for over six years _ from 2002 through 2008. It was ended by President Obama the second day he took office.
MCCLATCHY: So that would have been actually into January of 2009.
RIZZO: And of course, as you know, the program, certainly after the first couple of years, because of leaks, had become pretty well known in the media. And it was becoming politically more controversial and toxic by the day. And it was reasonably clear that the agency was in a huge political firestorm. The question I would ask your readers: Why would the CIA continue in that kind of atmosphere _ that toxic, corrosive political atmosphere _ would the agency continue a program that wasn't yielding anything?
MCCLATCHY: That's a good point. In other words, the agency's reputation was taking a hit.
RIZZO: Yeah, yeah. And you know anyone who was near it could see that their careers were being damaged. And me, my career was largely aborted because of the program. You know, the failed confirmation. If I didn't think it was worthwhile, why would I have stayed involved with it? It wasn't getting me anything career-wise.
MCCLATCHY: It's interesting that you say your career was aborted. You were still the top lawyer at the CIA.
RIZZO: Yeah, I was still the chief legal officer. It would have been nice for the Senate to confirm and to actually be called general counsel. What I'm saying is that would have been the culmination of my career to be confirmed as general counsel, but I wasn't because of this program. But no, one of the things that's so strange is after this big conflagration over my nomination, I withdrew it; next day I go back to the office, I'm sitting in the same place, I'm still the chief legal officer.
MCCLATCHY: Sometimes when people withdraw nominations, they get replaced by another nominee. Why didn't that happen with you?
RIZZO: Well, the Bush White House. . . .
MCCLATCHY: . . . didn't want to signal political defeat.
RIZZO: Yeah. And the CIA director, who at that time was Mike Hayden, said, "You're still my lawyer." I actually stayed about eight months into the Obama administration. I was sort of amazed that I survived. I thought I was going to be the first guy out of there when they came in. (Laughing.) They called it torture, and here's the chief legal architect.
MCCLATCHY: This is another important point [from the committee findings]: "The CIA repeatedly provided inaccurate information to the Department of Justice, impeding a proper legal analysis of the CIA's detention and interrogation program." We've got a DOJ document that we FOIAed – and I think this is the DOJ pushing back at some of the memos that came out. You know, the Yoo memo, the Bybee memo. But basically DOJ folks told Feinstein's people that you guys misrepresented the EITs to them, that you did not give them the full extent of the program, and thus they were not able to provide a proper legal analysis. You say in your book that you guys went to a lot of effort to vet these programs and to describe them, in writing, in a number of memos to DOJ. So what's your response to the claim that you – you – did not fully inform DOJ of the EITs that were subsequently used?
RIZZO: Well, I mean, it's just false. First of all, if the implication is that – and it has to be directed at me – that I purposely misled the Department of Justice about what the techniques were and how they were being implemented, I absolutely reject that. Jim, four years this committee had this investigation, $50 million – they never once asked to interview me. Never. And I would have happily given the interview for as long as they wanted. I mean, I was just an $8 cab ride away. But why didn't they do that? And not just me, they didn't interview any CIA people. Now they claim that there was a pending criminal investigation ongoing by the Department of Justice into the (interrogation) program, and they were concerned that CIA people would be reluctant. Well, I wasn't reluctant. Maybe some people would have been reluctant, but I will tell you – I've talked to some of my fellow. . . . There are probably two dozen senior CIA people that were heavily involved in this program, who are retired. I've talked to a number of them. I can tell you, a good many of them would have welcomed the opportunity to be interviewed. And none of them _ nobody (was interviewed). And here they are making an accusation about my honor and my integrity, without the basic fairness of giving me an opportunity to explain and defend myself. I just think that's unconscionable. This one's clearly aimed at me; there's no getting around it. I'm the guy who was dealing with Justice, so they're saying I gave – whatever – repeated, false, misleading. . . .
MCCLATCHY: "The CIA subjected detainees to interrogation techniques that had not been approved by the Department of Justice or had not been authorized by CIA headquarters." That could be cowboy operators operating beyond the scope of the program.
RIZZO: There were incidents when CIA interrogators went beyond the authorized techniques. So I'm not denying that. It didn't occur frequently, but it did occur. But the point is, each time that was done and discovered, CIA reported it to the Department of Justice because anything that was beyond the authorized scope of the techniques was potentially a criminal violation. So I'm not aware of any unauthorized techniques that were not reported in a timely fashion to the Department of Justice, among those we learned about. So that conclusion is actually accurate, but if the idea is that we covered this up, nothing could be further from the truth.
MCCLATCHY: Can you give any quantitative sense of that? They were used for seven years.
RIZZO: At most, I would say six times. Just to be safe – eight times. Once a year, approximately.
MCCLATCHY: I assume if there's bad stuff in one of the IG reports, it's going to be in the Senate report.
RIZZO: (Laughs.) I'm guessing that's right, Jim.
MCCLATCHY: So what about mock executions? Is that one of the excesses that you knew about?
RIZZO: Well, there was at least one instance – I don't know about mock executions – where a detainee was threatened with execution. That's the only one I remember. But I mean, this is like 12 years ago.
MCCLATCHY: What about threats of harm to the detainee's family members?
RIZZO: I don't remember that one, but I can't deny it happened. I just don't remember. It could have happened. I don't know. But it clearly would have been beyond the scope of the authorized techniques.
RIZZO: Getting back to this notion that I repeatedly misled the Justice Department: If you read all those legal opinions that came back to me, they are extraordinarily detailed and graphic. And the reason they were is that we – meaning me, because I was – I didn't personally write them, but they were given to me – I wanted to make sure that the Justice legal analysis was as complete and comprehensive as possible, with all of the most explicit facts about the program disclosed to them, before they made their decision. Because I didn't want the agency to be in the position of Justice saying years later, "Well, you didn't tell us everything." So that's why those memos. . . . I understand why the public found those memos shocking because they ARE explicit. But that's the way I wanted them to be, so that there would be no misunderstanding about what we were going to do and how we were going to do it.
MCCLATCHY: And yet you reference in your book that as soon as the shit hit the fan, DOJ started moon-walking rapidly away from those memos.
MCCLATCHY: Did you see that Sen. Feinstein wrote a letter to President Obama expressing extreme disappointment that it's going to be the CIA that decides which parts (of the report) are going to be declassified? You could see from the letter that Sen. Feinstein's really pissed off by that. I assume you think that Senate oversight, congressional oversight, is an important part of our government. Do you think it's proper for the Senate Intelligence Committee to spend four years, $50 million, doing a review, and you have it go to the president, and the president apparently farms it out to the CIA? So the CIA's going to decide what the public is going to see about a Senate oversight report about the CIA. Do you think there's a conflict there? Do you think the CIA should be in that position?
RIZZO: I think CIA is the agency most conversant with the facts of this program. You know, it's regular order for that agency to do the first cut of a review. But it's also important to remember – and people forget this sometimes – the president of the United States is the ultimate declassifier. I've been through a number of CIA declassification exercises of congressional reports in my time. And what happens is, CIA takes its cut – what they think should be redacted. It is then sent over to the White House with CIA's explanations: 'We think this paragraph discloses secrets.' But the president is the declassifier in chief. So the White House is going to have the final say on declassification. It's not gonna be CIA. So I understand the concern about CIA getting to censor its own conduct, but in the real world it doesn't operate that way. If the Obama White House, if the president, thinks the CIA is basically defenestrating the findings of the committee, the White House has every right to overrule the CIA. So it's important for people to understand that the final declassified version is not going to be a CIA . . . The CIA does not have the final word. The president of the United States has the final word.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story gave the wrong year for when Rizzo's book "Company Man" was published. It came out in January.

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Bryant Mbamalu scored 24 points, leading six Louisiana-Lafayette players in double figures, and the Ragin' Cajuns routed Louisiana-Monroe 90-66 Sunday night.
Louisiana-Lafayette (9-16, 5-9 Sun Belt) never trailed, but it was mostly a close game until the Ragin' Cajuns went on a 24-0 run in a 6-minute stretch midway through the second half to lead 78-50.
Elfrid Payton had 15 points, seven assists and four steals for the winners. Alan-Michael Thompson scored 12 points, Shawn Long had 11 points and 11 rebounds, Elridge Moore scored 11 points and Steven Wronkoski scored 10 for Louisiana-Lafayette.
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SAP NEWSBYTE — SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced the appointment of Rick Costanzo as executive vice president and general manager of Global Mobility Solutions. In this role, Costanzo will lead a team of professionals in field sales, enablement and solutions management across the comprehensive SAP mobile product portfolio to drive customer success. He will report to Steve Lucas, president of the Platform Solutions Group.
"Rick's extensive experience in the enterprise mobility market, combined with SAP's enterprise mobile solutions portfolio, will help our customers embrace a 'mobile first' mindset to accelerate their business," said Lucas. "We are confident that under Rick's leadership, SAP will continue to lead and drive continued innovation in the enterprise mobile market."
Costanzo brings an extraordinary amount of enterprise mobile expertise and leadership experience to SAP. His understanding of mobile solutions and telecommunications has been developed over more than 20 years in senior management roles, including network services, operations, marketing and sales at both BlackBerry and AT&T. Most recently, Costanzo was executive vice president of Global Sales at BlackBerry, where he led the sales organization to new levels of execution with enterprise customers and mobile services providers.
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It was Earl Warren who said, "I always turn to the sports section first. The sports page records man's accomplishments; the front page has nothing but man's failures." There is a lot of truth to that, so let's take note of one of the most remarkable sports stories of 2012: Adrian Peterson's comeback. "All Day" came back this year from a catastrophic knee injury and made medical history, as well as sports history, by having his best year over. Before his injury a year ago, Adrian already was the best running back in the NFL. It is astonishing that when he returned, he was actually better.
Peterson's combination of power and speed is second to none, but what makes him unique is his aggressive attitude. Unlike most offensive skill players, Adrian considers himself to be the hunter, not the hunted. He looks for defensive backs to hit, and he can keep it up all day long. Eventually, many of them stop being enthusiastic about tackling him. This highlight video sums up Adrian's performance this year, which turned out to be the second most productive of any running back, ever:
With Peterson leading the way, the Vikings bounced back from their three-win season last year to go 9-6 entering today's game against arch-rival Green Bay, at the Metrodome. Going into today's game, Adrian needed 208 yards to break Eric Dickerson's record of 2,105 rushing yards in a season. In the first half, the Vikings and Peterson dominated, leaving the field with a ten point lead. But the Packers tightened up in the second half, and yards were hard to come by. With a little over two minutes to play, Green Bay tied the score at 34, giving the Vikings just enough time to make a last drive down the field.
Which they did, with a lot of help from Peterson. Following a 26-yard run by All Day, rookie sensation Blair Walsh kicked a chip shot field goal–which he almost missed–to give the Vikes a 37-34 victory.
In the end, Peterson had rushed for 199 yards, a phenomenal total, but nine yards short of what he needed to surpass Dickerson. Coming off the field at the end of the game, All Day was buttonholed by a sideline reporter who wanted to talk about his disappointment over falling nine yards short of the record. Only Adrian had no idea what she was talking about. He hadn't been counting the yards, all he knew was that his team had won and was going to the playoffs. It was a nice moment and provided a good insight into what makes for a winning team, in any sport and at any level.
So the Vikings get to play the Packers one more time, in the first round of the NFL postseason. At Lambeau Field. The odds are against them, but no one doubts that the Vikings will have one edge: the best running back in football.


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The Kagan Kids
Why the younger generation doesn't care about the debate over the latest Supreme Court nominee.
Read Slate's complete Elena Kagan coverage.
As the Elena Kagan Bore'Em to Death Tour rolls on into Memorial Day weekend, it's clear that almost no narrative about her is going to stick. A CBS poll released today shows that almost three weeks after her nomination for the Supreme Court, 72 percent of Americans have yet to form an opinion on her. And since she's all but disappeared from the front pages, it's not clear how we're going to get to know her better before the confirmation hearings, which are scheduled for the end of June. The meta-narrative about Kagan seems to be that there is no meta-narrative about Kagan. This doubtless makes the White House very happy.
Efforts to unearth a judicial philosophy or any clear constitutional preferences continue to show Kagan to be equivocal, careful, and impossible to know. That makes the search for a compelling Kagan narrative even more imperative. But there's no there there. As my colleague John Dickerson pointed out a few weeks ago, the White House's early effort to present her to America as champion of the little guy (and gal!) was destined to fizzle. Kagan has many great virtues, but being an ordinary American champion of ordinary American nonchampions probably isn't one of them. Lacking Sonia Sotomayor's up-from-poverty life story and John Roberts' sprinkled-with-fairy-dust charm, Kagan has been halfheartedly sketched by her enemies as a snarling hater of the military, and by her friends as awfully nice. From a narrative standpoint, I'd call that a draw.
Which is why the White House probably thinks its work here is done. The nominee will be confirmed with minimal bruising. And while Democrats are certainly wasting yet another opportunity to engage Americans in a debate about the courts, at least nobody is being hurt by this shallow conversation. Nobody, that is, if you consider the creeping sexism, looksism, and homophobia surrounding the Kagan nomination to be painless.
I don't. I've been worried that with all this attention focused on Kagan's wardrobe, gender, marital status, and dating history, we've once again allowed the public conversation about courts to be swallowed up by the kind of toxic race and gender stereotypes we heard during Sonia Sotomayor's hearings. Leave it to call-in radio to show me why I am wrong.
Every time I've been on a radio show on the subject of Kagan's wardrobe/softball playing/marital status, some twentysomething caller has taken me to school. It turns out, they invariably tell me, that twentysomethings just don't care if their Supreme Court justices are black, white, Jewish, Protestant, gay, or straight. Every day someone under the age of 30 either sends me an e-mail or tweet or a Facebook post reminding me that those of us making a huge big fat media deal about the nominee's race, religion, sexual preferences or marital status are quickly becoming cultural dinosaurs.
Young people reading Robin Givhan's article on Kagan's scandalously open knees think they're reading something hilarious from their grandparents' stack of dating magazines from the 1950s. When they hear us yelping about racial diversity at the court, they think about the fact that their classrooms are already incredibly diverse and their Facebook friendships span continents. When they hear us shrieking over women's softball, they shake their Title IX heads and figure we're just idiots for thinking straight women don't play sports. And when they hear us whispering behind our hands about whether someone is gay, most of them tell me they think we're just freaking idiots. Just as they embody Barack Obama's post-racial America, they identify almost completely with Kagan's post-gender America—in which womanhood simply isn't defined by skirts, babies, or boyfriends anymore.
Never has my own obsolescence thrilled me more. As those of us in the media continue to relitigate the 1960s—from the Civil Rights Act to Vietnam—the people who will live through Kagan's decades-long tenure at the court have moved on. The debate over identity politics will take on new meaning over the next few decades, I'm sure. But it probably won't mean bickering about Kagan's color, race, or gender. What I hear on these call-in shows is pretty much what recent polling of the millenials reflects: They care passionately about the economy, and they are ambivalent about the government. They are far more tolerant than their parents about race and sexual choice; they aren't so in love with the idea of marriage; and religion just isn't as big an issue as we think it is. And they seem to be telling me, over and over again, that when it comes to a Supreme Court nomination, they value competence and intelligence over the check-the-box identity politics.
One last thing, with respect to these young people, and maybe even to Kagan herself. It's worth reminding ourselves that part of the reason they are poised to inherit an America that isn't defined solely in terms of their differences on race, gender, religion, and sexual preference is attributable at least in part to the doings of the Supreme Court—specifically the much-maligned Warren Court. These young Americans are, don't forget, the products of Brown v. Board of Education, Cooper v. Aaron, and Bakke, which have filled their classrooms with students of other races; and of Loving v. Virginia, which allowed their parents to marry; and of Frontiero v. Richardson, which first called gender-based laws into question; and of Griswold v. Connecticut and Eisenstadt v. Baird, which allowed their parents to control their own fertility.
Both Obama and Kagan have been at great pains to distance themselves philosophically from those crazy "judicial activists" of the '60s and '70s. Yet the president and his nominee are also reaping the benefits of an America that every day becomes more accepting of difference and personal choice as a result of that very same judicial activism. When Obama and Kagan talk about the landmark victories of Thurgood Marshall's era with a nostalgic smile and express their confidence that such battles are behind us, they really aren't wrong. But they also ignore the ways in which the Supreme Court has used the argument that the old intolerance is behind us to upend voluntary desegregation programs and threaten affirmative action in recent years. These open-hearted twentysomethings are proof that integrated schools and affirmative action and gay rights have created a more tolerant nation. But what today's twentysomethings should know—and what one hopes Kagan will remember—is that that this tolerance is partially their own choice, and partially an inheritance they need to fight to protect.
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Local Business, Church Selected as Winners in FirstEnergy Solutions' Thanks a Million Giveaway
Carothers A-1 Pest Control in Mansfield, Ohio, First Presbyterian Church in Bucyrus, Ohio, receive cash prizes
Jan 09, 2013, 02:09 EST
AKRON, Ohio, Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- FirstEnergy Solutions announced two $50,000 winners in the FirstEnergy Solutions Thanks a Million giveaway, an opportunity for residents and businesses throughout Ohio to win cash prizes and secure a low electric generation price for four or seven years. All eligible Ohio residents and businesses that enrolled in a FirstEnergy Solutions electric generation offer between August 1, 2012 and October 31, 2012, were automatically entered into the giveaway.
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FirstEnergy Solutions is also making long-term fixed price offers available to residents and businesses interested in locking in an electric generation price for four or seven years.
"Our PriceControl offers are a great opportunity for residents and businesses to take advantage of today's historically low prices in the energy market," said Smith. "And by locking in a low fixed price for four or seven years, customers could potentially see considerable savings over the long term."
Ohio residents and businesses can sign up to receive 6.99 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) on electric generation until 2019, or 6.49 cents per kWh until 2016. To enroll or for more information, residents can call 1-855-849-2645 or go online to www.fes.com/pricecontrolohio.
Through this campaign, eight businesses are winning $50,000 each, eight residents are winning $25,000 each, and FirstEnergy Solutions is giving $50,000 to each residential winner's local school district to use however they see fit.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic governors meeting with President Barack Obama say their state economies will be hurt by automatic, across-the-board federal government spending cuts scheduled to begin on March 1.
Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin, chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, says states have seen increased employment, but that their prosperity is being hindered by "the games being played by the Republicans in Congress."
Obama met with the Democratic governors Friday. The governors are in Washington for a National Governors Association meeting this weekend. Governors from both parties will attend the White House Sunday for dinner and Monday for meetings.
Obama has proposed averting $85 billion in cuts this year with more targeted reductions and with tax increases. Republicans oppose further increases in tax revenue unless it is used to lower tax rates.


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// February 27, 2008, 5:12 AM PST
By Drew McBeeRemember the legendary Motorola StarTAC? Released in 1996, it was the smallest cell phone available, and the first to feature the now-ubiquitous clamshell design. It was also the first mobile to sport the vibrate option. In addition, in 2005 it was number six on PCWorld's "Top 50 Gadgets of the last 50 years." Not too shabby. Naturally, we had to crack one open.Here we have the intrepid "Wearable Cellular Telephone," as it was called by Motorola, along with its accessories for your viewing pleasure. As I recall, these phones were very expensive at the time.
Really a nice size, considering most phones then were close to the size of a pop can.
This has never happened to you, has it?The antenna was broken on this unit when I received it, as were most extendable antennae, at some time or other, I think.
I think this picture really shows how slim this unit really was.
Top view, complete with dangling antenna.
Aside from the battery mounted on the cover, this basic design has persevered for some time.
A view of the unit opened and ready for action, only needs to be activated.
Nice view of the keypad and screen.
A closer view of the screen - Ready now.
Removing the battery. This happens to be an extended life battery, as you can see.
It appears that this will be an important piece of the puzzle in getting the lid separated from the base.
So now we get down to brass tacks. Looks like this houses our speaker and our "vibrate device."
Yes, there she is – simple little specimen. We see here our speaker, our power pickups and what appears to be the ribbon that runs under the protective black tape and back to the main unit.
A closer look at the unit that makes it shake.
Anyone know what purpose this serves? At first I though it might be something for noise cancellation, but it is not magnetic...
Here we have the ribbon that runs the upper half of our device. All of the pieces just snapped into place, and the ribbon was just glued down with the black sticker under the battery.
The "vibra-motor" broke off – looks like a good time for fun with batteries.
I tried 4 times to get this picture, but the motor kept jumping out of the micro-pliers that I was using. I finally had to get a pair of pliers with "some hair on them" as my Dad used to say. I was surprised to see how much vibrate this little unit put out.
Minus the sagging antenna tip.
Not much remarkable here – anyone who has broken their antenna before has seen this.
I had a bit of a time getting this removed – once I found the two little holes at the bottom, it slid off quite nicely.
Here we have the cover off to reveal lots of silicon body armor. I don't know if they do this on all phones, but it sure looks like a good idea. These steel covers are all soldered into place. I didn't see much point in removing them – just chips underneath. Maybe these doubled as heat sinks for the board as well. At the top you can see where our speaker, etc ties into the mainboard.
Close up of the connector lock.
Another close up of the ribbon disconnected. In the back ground you can see where it snakes out from behind the hinge.
After the ribbon came out, I found that the board separated into two parts.
This is the half that has the body armor on the back. At the edge of the board (bottom of the picture) you can see the clips that held the antennae tube, which is still lodged in the other half of the case. Also notice the steel cover on the right - it comes up later.
Here we can see the antennae tube at the bottom of the the case, and the back of the LCD. Actually, this is not the LCD itself, but the backlight screen for the LCD - as you will see later.
Notice the nifty little socket that connects the two boards together. Anyone know what that is called specifically?
This is the block that is covered by the steel cover mentioned before. It looks like it is phenolic, and does not appear to have any contacts inside. Maybe used as part of the manufacturing process, but since it has a heat shield, it has to have a purpose.
Removing the bottom board to reveal the plactic/rubber keypad below.
Here is the unit complete with keypad etcetera out of the case. Later, I'll plug it all in and test sans case.
Not sure, but this looks to me like a thermal fuse. Its got two overlapping fingers that would indicate such.
Only included this because its a nice pic of the keypad...
I broke the ribbon connecting the two halves when trying figure out how it fished through the hinge. Bummer – wanted to get that out in one piece.
Okay – so now to get that hinge apart without breaking it. After some prodding, I found that this little piece swings out like a trap door and ....
It is revealed that this is a kind of floating pin, holding the two pieces together.
One half can then be lifted up and slid away from the other...
To reveal the simple, modular unit that holds the lid open and closed.
This shows the little spring loaded unit removed, and shows how it mated with the base via a very durable triangle type of configuration.
I had to find out what made that thing so strong and durable. I can't turn it at all with my fingers, and it is tough with a small pair of pliers. Flip phones in general open and close a thousands of times and I have never heard of anyone having trouble with them. So, there it is – a simple little spring-loaded cam-operated deal.
It lives, IT LIVES! I put the pieces back together and powered it up. I had to hold my broken ribbon together, since the kids did something with my hemostats. Still getting a digital signal, even.
The only thing holding the lcd to the board were these two little black clips and the ribbon itself.
Next I decided to strip down that pink keypad membrane.
As it turns out, that pink membrane over the LCD board only had one function...
..to power the backlight.
The two little tabs on the pink membrane were only to pick up power for the back light.
This is a not-so-good picture of the backlight, well – lit. I laid it over the lcd board, and had to apply a little pressure to make contact.
Next to get a look under the keypad membrane. Simple little metal cups close the circuit for each key. Notice the interesting little hole next to it – presumably for air passage – lest the membrane get an air bubble in it.
And here we have the whole unit, blown up for your enjoyment.
If you were wondering, yes, it did go back together and worked properly. I had to solder the motor back on, and "fix" that broken ribbon first.
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RAMADI, Iraq (AP) — An Iraqi special forces patrol moves on foot past ruined homes on the outskirts of Ramadi, a city west of Baghdad where al-Qaida-inspired militants have held off the military for three months. As they head down an alleyway, shots from snipers ring out, followed by grenade blasts.
The troops take shelter behind walls and Humvees and return fire. No one is wounded and the operation continues.
A short while later the unit is clearing a house. They blow open the outer gate with a charge and a bomb expert goes inside. He pronounces the building safe to enter and calls on the rest of the soldiers to search it. Moments later a huge explosion collapses the building, shakes the ground and sends dust billowing in the air.
The house was booby-trapped. Four soldiers are killed and 10 are wounded.
"God curse Daesh," one junior officer swore, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the al-Qaida spin-off group leading the militants. Soldiers nearby said they could hear the militants taunting them through loudspeakers: "Our slain are in Heaven, while your slain are in Hell."
This grueling urban warfare in the Ramadi suburb of al-Bakir, witnessed by an Associated Press reporter on Thursday, is part of a deadly standoff pitting government forces and allied tribal militias against the Islamic State and allied militants in Anbar province, the heartland of Iraq's Sunni minority. The militants hold part of the provincial capital of Ramadi and nearly all of the nearby city of Fallujah.
It's the biggest challenge yet to the Shiite-led government of Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki and has dragged on far longer than officials had expected, costing the lives of scores of Iraqi soldiers. It is likely to disrupt voting in elections scheduled for the end of April, shaking the credibility of the government.
Anbar operations commander Lt. Gen. Rasheed Fleih says U.S.-trained special forces are taking the lead in fighting since the regular Iraqi army lacks experience for this kind of warfare. He says more than 100 Iraqi soldiers have been killed and 400 wounded in three months of fighting, while about 250 militants have been killed.
He estimates the number of militants at around 1,000 fighters in Fallujah alone, half of them foreigners.
The government says it is making progress in the battle. The al-Bakir operation was intended to clear our insurgents from this middle-class suburb and re-establish government control.
But Lt. Gen. Ali Ghaidan, commander of the army's ground forces, says that Iraqi military commanders did not expect that the fight against armed groups in Anbar would take such a long time. He blames the intelligence agencies for providing bad information. The militants are equipped with anti-tank guns and advanced sniper rifles and their favorite tactic is booby-trapping houses, said Ghaidan, who was inspecting units around Ramadi when the AP visited.
The militants took control of Fallujah and parts of Ramadi in late December, taking advantage of a months-long surge in Sunni discontent against al-Maliki's government. The takeover was sparked when security forces arrested a Sunni lawmaker sought on terrorism charges, then dismantled a year-old Sunni anti-government protest camp.
Taking the lead in the fighting is the Islamic State, an extremist group with which al-Qaida recently broke ties. Emboldened by fellow Sunni fighters' gains in the Syrian civil war, it has tried to position itself as the champion of Iraqi Sunnis angry at the government.
Their main ally is the Military Council For Tribal Revolutionaries. It's a mixture of tribal representatives and militants drawn mainly from the Saddam Hussein-era army. They don't pledge allegiance to ISIL, but avoid confronting them.
In Fallujah, history is repeating itself. A decade ago the Islamic State's jihadi predecessors took a high-profile role in defending the city against U.S. forces in the biggest battle of the Iraq War, boosting the group's profile and allowing it eventually to eclipse other insurgent groups.
The al-Qaida-aligned jihadis, or holy warriors, ultimately alienated many Sunnis with their hard-line ideology, and many in Fallujah ultimately fought against them. Now the Islamic State is trying to repair its image in the city. They have cleared garbage and planted flowers in road medians and allow some practices — like barbers trimming beards — that in years past they would have considered haram, or forbidden.
The Iraqi army talks a tough line. Acting Defense Minister Saadoun al-Dulaimi said that his forces are determined to continue the fight as along as it takes.
"Terrorism is still there and we have to continue fighting. We will clean the province of terrorists and we will chase them from house to house," al-Dualimi told the AP in a brief interview held in a military base near Ramadi.
But the army appears to be moving cautiously — partially because the government wants to avoid a bloodbath going into elections, and partially because it does not want to endanger its alliance with those Anbar Sunni tribes who have thrown in their lot with Maliki. Thousands of Sunni fighters back Baghdad's forces, with their leaders stressing that the war against al-Qaida should take priority over grievances with Baghdad.
The prolonged battle in Anbar is likely to disrupt parliamentary elections scheduled for April 30. If the fighting goes on, Iraqi military officials say it would be impossible to hold elections inside Fallujah, but they can perhaps be held in its outskirts. As many as a third of the province's cities might be affected, elections officials say.
The exclusion of some Sunni cities from the nation-wide election could deepen Sunni fears of being marginalized by the Shiite majority, which was long oppressed under Saddam's rule and rose to power after he was toppled by the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
"The people of such areas will feel that they are not rightly represented in the parliament and this will fuel feelings of marginalization. Such sentiments will not serve stability and security in the country," says Sunni lawmaker Hamid al-Mutlaq.
The fighting has driven out many residents. In battleground areas of Ramadi, streets and houses are deserted, and shops are closed. Even in relatively calm districts, life stops before nightfall.
Abu Taha, a Ramadi resident, fled his house in the flashpoint area of Malaab three months ago.
"We thought that the fighting would last only for two or three weeks. We did not expect that our suffering would be open-ended," he said, speaking on condition he be identified only by his nickname for fear of recriminations.
Abu Taha is now staying along with his eight-member family in a relative's house in a relatively safe area in Ramadi. His savings have run out and he is dependent on his extended family to survive.
Asked to describe his circumstances, he responds: "Total misery."
Yacoub reported from Baghdad. Associated Press writer Sinan Salaheddin contributed to this report.


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Mike Allen of Politico said on Morning Joe today that the trial balloon for a Chuck Hagel nomination as Secretary of Defense "has been popped" and is "really losing a lot of altitude." Allen attributed Hagel's woes to the view that no "natural constituency" exists for a Hagel nomination.
Actually there is such a constituency. It consists of folks who dislike Israel; who want to keep U.S. and Israeli hands off of Iran; and who, more generally, strongly oppose, under nearly all circumstances except perhaps purely humanitarian ones, the use of U.S. ground forces in foreign conflicts.
I would argue that President Obama is part of that constituency, though he won't say so. This would explain how Hagel became the frontrunner for the Pentagon job in the first place. The alternative explanation, that because Hagel was a Republican Senator he would be seen as a bipartisan selection, assumes a naivety that ill fits the Obama administration.
In any event, the Hagel constituency, even if it includes the president, is well outside the American mainstream. Couple that with Hagel's anti-gay comment from the late 1990s, which he never repudiated until it resurfaced in connection with a possible cabinet post nomination, and I wouldn't be surprised if Hagel's trial balloon has indeed popped.


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I have been using puppy shampoo from the start and it has been great but i was just taking a look at changing it as Mimi has more hair now and it seems to be getting a little more fuzzy at the ends so i think she needs a better shampoo but i dont know what to go for and would i need a separate conditioner??? Any help would be great. Thanks.


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Keene State College joins program to help first-generation studentsBy MEGHAN PIERCE
Union Leader Correspondent
February 25. 2014 8:25PM
KEENE — Keene State College has joined a program to help first-generation students seeking a higher education.
Keene State recently announced it is now a College Partner in the "I'm First" program, which is an online community founded by the Center for Student Opportunity to support students who are the first in their family to attend college.
Keene State College has had a long-standing commitment to first-generation students, said Dr. Anne Huot, president of Keene State College, on Tuesday.
More than 40 percent of first-year students are first-generation students at Keene State.
The "I'm First" program offers tools to families and students.
"So it's online tools for students and their families, and they are able to get online and chat with other first-generation students," Huot said. "It's essentially a resource, a tool kit that has been put together for first-generation students."
If your parents went to college or university, she said, you tend to hear about it through stories and dinner table conversations, so the challenges and issues a college student faces and how to resolve those issues are familiar to those students.
When first-generation students run up against problems or issues, however, "if they have difficulty resolving them they frequently tend to leave," Huot said.
The program is also a resource for college administrators, such as Margaret Richmond, Keene State's admissions director, and Kristin Sweeney, director of TRIO, who say they are excited to start working with the program.
"More importantly, it will help us to learn new and better ways to serve these students through the application process," Richmond said.
As director of TRIO, Sweeney helps students access federal programs that could help them pay for college or university.
Navigating through the process of financing higher education and managing college debt can be intimidating, Sweeney said.
Being keyed into the challenges these first-generation students face helps the administrators connect the students with the resources they need, she said. But a lot of times it's just being there to answer questions and concerns because the terrain is unfamiliar to the student and their parents.
"Sometimes it's just taking time to answer their questions," Sweeny said. "Then all of a sudden, it's a level playing field."
Huot herself is a first-generation student.
She said that growing up in Manchester as one of seven children, her parents worked hard to make sure she and her siblings went to college, which continues to have a lasting positive impact on her life.
"Here I am a kid that grew up in a very average family, a first-generation college student, now with a job I never imagined would be in the cards for me. That degree opened doors for me and prepared me for jobs you don't even think about when you're 22. … It's the great equalizer. It's that thing that gives you opportunities," she said.
You can learn more about the "I'm First" program online at www.imfirst.org.


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Words by Sean Moeller, Illustration by Johnnie Cluney, Sound engineering by Patrick Stolley
Maybe the most compelling aspect of the Chicago band Speck Mountain is that it makes such a sinful awning. The music that gets made by these youngsters spans over top of you like a gray cloud that stands for murder, that spells it in its dismissive chest-swelling, that is out to get people. It's packing a wallop - some mean-spirited winds, a lightning show that will strike emphatically and too close for comfort and rain that will bruise skin as it lands.
It's good to remember too that all storms come to their conclusions, to their demise - though that's only partially true as they just continue on across the land, finished in this particular spot, but rampaging elsewhere with no real diminished ferocity. A storm always drops a portion of its skin, like a snake, wherever it romps and tosses a few chairs, breaks a few limbs, roaring like a hungry lion. Speck Mountain is what happens before, when the birds all shut their traps and the stillness makes you shake a little at all that's impending. There might still be a jar of iced tea sitting on the formerly hot and sunny front stoop, roasting into an amber orange blend that's ready to be imbibed. There are a couple rows of damp clothing on the lines, drying as fast as they can, ready to start whipping like crazy. A mad dash to bring everything inside that needs to be inside - the kids, the tea, the laundry, the pets - is the first sign of caution that takes place just as that calm transforms itself into concern.
Speck Mountain rides the storm in a mood that downplays that concern, choosing to let whatever's going to happen just go ahead and happen. If the electricity is going to get snapped off, they'll spark some candles and demurely celebrate the faint and flickering lights in the darkened corridors of where they are. Songs like "Shame On The Soul," "Blood Is Clean" and "Girl Out West" - from this session especially - are the finest testaments to this pregnant feeling of temporary doomsday, of the lights going completely dead in the very middle of an afternoon, a sight that never feels right no matter how many times you've experienced it. They've made a very personal creepy feeling of anxiety that is held together and made all that much more creepy by its sense of normalcy, as if the feeling of calm collection were something you've had to live and become numb with. It feels okay and then it feels better than okay.
Lead singer Marie-Claire Balabanian doesn't write the kind of acid-spawned poetry that The Doors' Jim Morrison did, but there's a Lizard King vibe to many of the general themes of the blood running things, of familial disruption, of rebirth and of swaying in the balance. Into this house we're born and into this world we're thrown is what takes place as she sings on "Shame On The Soul," the lines from Morrison fly slowly through your mind as the song plays and the rainy keyboard atmospherics silence any and all inner rumblings. You freeze as the music methodically overtakes your every known sense. You'll think you hear every floorboard speak at once and you'll start believing that you're smelling them burn. Balabanian is hiding fur coats at one point and bringing them into the conversation again at another, leading us to think things that we've never thought about, leading us to be absolutely curious to hear what else she and this engrossing new group have in store.


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Re: Fett Unmasked - Would Boba Fett really unmask?
i would love to see a real shot of Boba unmasked!
(non-Robot Chicken, though. "Whoa! Surprise ending!" haha...)
Coming to theaters whenever George Lucas dies.
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i would love to see a real shot of Boba unmasked!
(non-Robot Chicken, though. "Whoa! Surprise ending!" haha...)
i think i've seen a picture of him unmasked somewhere.
i think we've all seen THAT trading card...
I posted a similar topic in the "General" category, but I wanted to ask everyone this question, "Who thinks Boba Fett would ever be careless enough to remove his mask in view of the public?"
there is one.
that's the one!
0_0 *scared* That picture is.... horrid.
0_0 *scared* That picture is.... horrid.
i know. here is a better one.
(what's up with the scar goin' across his cheek/nose?)
good question. i think he got it in a battle. lol. i found it wookiepedia.
Where did you get that picture come from? Is there a comic out there tht has it?
That picture, the second one of Boba sitting in the chair, that's from the ESB Infinities comic book. That picture is ok, but I still don't like too much. I don't see how he would get a cut like that if he always wears his helmet. Though I guess he does have it off here. So I dunno.
is that post- or pre-sarlacc?
Well, considering it's the ESB Infinities, I'd have to say that it would probably be before the sarlacc as that happened in ROTJ.
I've read that comic, and its during the bespin city crises
I like the 'new hope infinets'
yeah its good
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Isaac_fett: "there is one."
Oh that is HORRIBLE!!!! I'm scared! I'll kill that crazy man who drew THAT picture! Oh my!!! I imagine him not like this. I think he must be very sexy man really!!!
I guess that comic is old. I think that the newer comics have a higher standard now. I think I could do a better job if I tried to. (Perhaps drawing isn't my top skill). The perspective is all wonky ( technical term my drawing professor uses) in the face. I didn't think that Boba was of african decent either.
Personally I can't see him taking it off in public. That was Jango's thing, not Boba's.
Boba does love his helmet. In the young Boba Fett series he decides that its better when no one knows his idenity, that it is an edge, and can unnerve those that he is hunting.
Jango only did it once that we know of (at least in the movies. Did he do it else where that I don't know of??)
But I agree; Boba keeps the helmet on. Why should he take it off?
Jango also did it in the Bounty Hunter game. He didn't seem that worried about keeping his helmet on except in battle.
do games like that really count as canon?? I thought they were for the basic story and accompishments, but far from canon in every detail.
The fact that Boba keeps his helmet on may be because of paranoia.
Anyways, keeping a helmet on is impractical, it makes you reliant on its sensors and equipment. If he were to be hit by an EMP, chances are his effectiveness would drop. I assume that he trains without his HUD enabled sometimes, to be prepared. You get to reliant on your equipment, what happens when it fails?
That's a good point. With that in mind, he probaby does take of the helmet off; but ONLY when alone. Probably only when he's on board Slave I, even
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Police search for Salem shoplifter
August 31. 2013 8:34PM
SALEM - Police are searching for a woman they say stole more than $100,000 in merchandise from several stores at Rockingham Park Mall and possibly from malls in Nashua and Peabody, Mass.
Sgt. Jason Smith said the woman took items from numerous stores, including Abercrombie & Fitch, Sephora and Victoria's Secret.
He said Salem police were contacted by police in Peabody to be on the lookout for a woman who shoplifted from stores at Northshore Mall.
"There was over $100,000 worth of merchandise that she believed responsible for removing from stores in Massachusetts and New Hampshire," Smith said.
Anyone with information about the thefts is asked to call police at 893-1911.


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Arvydas Sabonis Plays Basketball, Is Huge
Last year, the Blazers' and international legend suffered a heart attack while playing basketball. He was supposed to take it easy after that. "The doctors told me, 'You can't smoke, you can't drink, you can't play basketball.' So of the things I like, only sex is left."


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(Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(4) [div. B, title IV, § 402], Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A–267.)
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The other reality during finals is, as if there weren't enough things to do, it's prime time for group assignments. Or, at the very least, it's when projects and presentations are due. is that reality of how to work in group projects. Once, again, I've composed a short list of things I've learned. (I'm really sporadic in real life, so lists help me organize my constantly avalanching thoughts.
1. Respect other group member's time. This is especially true for FIT since so many students commute. Some come from moderately close, like me, or from a bit further like Long Island of New Jersey, and some come from even further like Connecticut. Though there aren't a lot of people in the last category, they do exist, and may only be taking classes one day a week, so finding a time to meet with them may be a bit of challenge. Which brings me to my next point,
2. We have technology to help cut through distance problems, use it! Group messaging is a lifesaver. I used group messaging for all of my group projects this semester. We also used Google Docs. For my semester long project, it was a life saver! Google Docs is located in the Google Drive and is a free web based office suite. Documents, power points, folders, spreadsheets, forms and drawings, can all edited ans stored in this comprehensive suite. The best part is that multiple people can work on the documents on the same time. This is obviously a huge advantage when working in a group setting. As soon as one of my group members posted something I was able to immediately provide feedback, which is pretty convenient.
3.Volunteer to be the group leader! It may be additional work, but there are so many benefits. Firstly, teachers always appreciate people who step up. Being a group leader helps you to be a better group member in other situations, ( ie. job, internships, clubs,etc.). Also, when you're the group leader and you are able to learn what does and doesn't work in group settings, and you have to be the one to make sure it all comes together since you're the one responsible for the group. Lastly, and what I think is most important, you you get to know what the experience is like. When you are in the role of a leader, and become comfortable in that role, it's what you begin to strive for. When you act as a leader for so long, you may realize that it's the only option for you, That small piece of knowledge can change your world.
4. Lastly, practice! If it's an oral presentation take at least 30 minutes the week of the presentation to practice so everyone gets comfortable. Presenting in front of the entire class can be nerve-wrecking and being completely unprepared only heighten anxieties.
After this post, there will no more talks of finals ans tests from me. I'm over them & I'm everyone else who is/ recently finished finals is as well. So that'e enough for the test talk. This topic was jut super relevant. Now, on to other things!
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As we proceed in earnest toward defoliation and harvest, some producers may continue to look for additional pricing opportunities.
We have stated here for quite a while that the 75 to 78 cent area was an opportunity worth considering, depending on how much of the expected crop had already been priced.
We've also stated that, otherwise, patience might be needed as even old-crop prices may have potential to increase into winter and spring — riding on the coat tails of new crop needing to bid in acres for 2013 from soybeans and corn.
USDA's September estimates sent somewhat mixed signals. The U.S. crop estimate was lowered as expected but expected exports for the 2012 crop year were also lowered by 300,000 bales. The lower export number could simply be a reflection of the lowered production and thus less available supplies, but it is somewhat concerning nonetheless.
The September report made revisions from the August report for the now-ended 2011 crop year. It was these revisions that impacted the supply/demand picture.
The 2011 world crop was raised 1.49 million bales — accounted for mostly by larger estimates for India and Australia. World demand/usage for the 2011 crop year was lowered 1.10 million bales.
These two adjustments and other minor changes raised 2011 ending stocks by 2.1 million bales. In other words, we now go into the 2012 crop year with 2 million bales more cotton than previously thought.
To make matters a little worse, world demand for the 2012 crop was lowered 610,000 bales (lowered by 1 million bales for China) from the August estimate.
The total result of all this was an increase in expected 2012 crop year world ending stocks from an already burdensome 74.7 to 76.5 million bales. Prices responded accordingly, but have since tried to improve.
Prices (Dec12 futures) closed near 73 cents on 2 occasions, but recovered back above support last week.
Dec13 was above 76 on Wednesday last week. Friday, prices broke down below support at 75 and, as the previous week, are testing the uptrend we've been in since early June.
There is some belief that prices will eventually trek to challenge support at the 70-cent area and perhaps move to 65. This could occur as cotton harvest begins and new crop cotton eventually enters the pipeline.
What could save the day here is increased buying at these lower price levels. There is already some evidence suggesting that sales and exports pick up when prices move lower.
If demand materializes (either actual sales and/or speculative buying), it will support prices. But as previously mentioned in this space, how China manages its large stocks/reserves also comes into play.
The cotton supply/demand situation appears especially bleak right now but not all hope is lost.
There is also some belief that prices will eventually challenge the 80-cent area. That hope is based on a still uncertain U.S. and world crop, the hope/likelihood of export buying, improved demand, and speculative buying if prices become too low, questions regarding USDA's estimates, policy measures to improve the U.S. and global economies, and cotton's need to some degree to compete with other crops for 2013 acreage.


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Pointer are a fashion given, their simple designed footwear borders the boundary between smart and casual wear. Owned by Carhartt, Pointer have dug themselves a little niche that is ever expanding in a business dominated by one swoosh and three stripes, with even the most hardcore of Ekin (a person who knows Nike back to front- work it out) dropping a pair of Pointers into their collection.
Fashion Vs. Sport
The link between fashion and sport is undeniable, even the fashion heavyweights such as Ralph Lauren and Fred Perry have history in sporting activities of various types. Assuming you're not head to toe in bespoke suit and a pair of wingtips it's an almost certainty that you're wearing some kind of sportswear, unless of course you're reading this naked. In which case kudos.The link is even more noticeable in the street fashion scene with uber-weight sport's companies like Adidas and Nike pretty much owning the game with vintage re-releases and limited editions.
Adidas Aditennis Hi
With Stan Smiths and Rod Lavers firmly in staple territory you can't blame Adidas for re-releasing the Aditennis Hi (£41-50). Whilst they're unlikely to become staples, they look great – benefitting from more than a slight resemblance to Raf Simons high tops.
When We Were Casuals – for all your Fila, Reebok and, um, deerstalker needs
Now this is something you can be fairly sure nobody else in the pub will be sporting.
Adidas Pro Model Vin trainers
The Adidas originals range hasn't adapted
to the internet. They're still hoarding most of their good items in store and
putting drips of it online. They do have an extensive range of trainers,
including these Pro
model Vin trainers.
Adidas Rod Laver Vintage
There's times when you want your footwear
to be the centrepiece of your outfit and there's times when you just want them
to bring together what you're wearing. These Adidas
Rod Laver trainers are for those latter occasions. With no branding on the
outside, it's perfect for those times when you don't want to feel like a
walking billboard.
Adidas Originals denim by Diesel
The Adidas originals range tends to throw
up interesting collaborations from time to time and this is no different. The originals
denim by Diesel range is an interesting mix – if only for the fact that you
wonder why Diesel agreed to it. It's not bad in any way, it's just that the
pieces are just Diesel jeans with some Adidas branding attached.
David Beckham strikes a pose for Adidas
Blaps! David Beckham's new pictures for a campaign for Adidas makes him look like a wannabe gangster rapper, but more Vanilla Ice than Eminem. Don't you think his leg looks really hairy? This is probably an attempt to rebrand him for the American market, ahead of his multi-million-dollar move to join 'soccer' team L.A. Galaxy this summer. Safe blud etc.
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Flynn Complex Aquatics Center
Plex Pool Resurfacing Project
The Flynn Recreation Complex Pool was completely resurfaced in 2013 to make some much needed improvements to our natatorium, including:
- Resurfaced pool bottom with new lane line tile markers
- New tiled dept markers around the pool deck and dept markings on pool gutters
- Freshly painted walls with hooks for towels, signs, and new graphics
- Upgraded HVAC system, including new air socks and improved exhausts
- New lane lines
- New backstroke flags
- New ADA 5 step easy chair for improved access into the pool
- We will also be installing a new battery operated ADA pool lift
- Aesthetic upgrades to the diving board stands and meet platform
- New gutters will be installed within the next two months
- New starting platforms for the Varsity Swim team
Plex Pool Facts
- Length: 25 yds
- Dept: 3.5ft to 5ft
- 72 lengths (36 laps) equal 1 mile
- Temperature: 82 degrees (80-84 range)
- Please check the pool schedule for the correct open lap swim lanes
Dive Well
- Dept: 12ft in the middle
- Temperature: 82 degrees (80-84 range)
- 2 one-meter diving boards
- 1 three-meter diving board
- To be used only for: diving, water therapy (aqua jogging, treading), or water basketball
- Temperature: 104 degrees
- Max time allowed in spa: 15 minutes
- Must be 16 years or older to use
Varsity Swimming & Diving
The Boston College Varsity Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving programs practice and compete in the Flynn Complex Pool. Their season runs October - February and all meets are free and open to the public.
Space Requests
Areas of the Plex are available for your event. To see if you can be accommodated, please fill out our Space Request Form online.
Aquatics Center Rules
The lifeguards are in charge of all operations on the deck. Please see them if you have a question or problem. Please make sure to check out our pool rules before your first visit. There is a complete list of pool, diving well, and spa rules and regulations. The rules are designed to promote health, sanitation, and safety, as well as a pleasant and enjoyable experience for all of the pool users.
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Yes, I'm back with another hybrid of horror and nerd-ism! And this one made me cream my jeans!
If you're like me and had a Super Nintendo or Sega Genesis then when you were a kid then you probably owned the game "Zombies Ate My Neighbors". So you're going to be super excited that there's going to be a movie made out of the game. You're then going to also think back to how you were overweight, had acne, wore way too many Metallica t-shirts and couldn't get a girlfriend until college. It's OK to cry, I am.
For those of you giddy about "The Walking Dead" then you're probably going to waddle your chubby ass to the store on march 8th when Season 1 hits DVD and Blu-Ray. Well put down the McRib fat ass and enjoy this new DVD trailer in honor of the release. I have no idea why I'm calling everyone fat, I've run out of other sarcastic things.
If there's one thing that's a good time it's making fun of people who World of Warcraft, sorry Erin. But now Undead Labs has teamed up with Microsoft to build a new zombie franchise game that will be available on Xbox Live for the Xbox 360. The game will allow gamers to play out their sickest fantasies of what they would do in a zombie apocalypse. They're currently calling the game "Class3" but I assume that will change by the time it comes out.
As much as it pains me to keep talking about "Drive Angry" I just can't stop. Here's a new NSFW video for the film that literary has a half a second shot of boobs for no reason whatsoever other than to make it a NSFW clip. "Not Safe For Work"? More like "No Stupid Freakin Way"! I'm still working on it.
OHNOYOHBOYOHBOYOHBOY!!! It's almost time for Halloween!!!!!!
Some rumors this morning around everyone's favorite ghost fighting franchise. Word has it Peter Venkman and Dana Barrett's love child will play a large role in the upcoming "Ghostbusters 3" film. Why the hell not, I'm sure it will be the focus of "Ghosthumpers 3" also.
A new clip for the upcoming trapped in an elevator thriller "Devil" has found its way online. It's full of blood, horror and suspense. But you'll probably only pay attention to the last 2 seconds where you see down the girls shirt. You're so predictable.
Muscle cars and zombies in Vegas you say? I'm pretty sure the creators of the new Xbox 360 game "Blood Drive" are listening in on my drunken rants, but I couldn't be happier. The game sounds awesome.
We've got the first details on casting from the upcoming killer shark flick "Shark Night 3-D". Sinqua Walls, Chris Carmack, Alyssa Diaz and Joel David Moore. The last guy is the doofy looking kid from "Avatar", I'm really drawing a blank on the rest.
If there is one thing I've been infatuated with over the years as much as horror, it's video games. From the early days of the Atari 2600 up until the XBOX 360, if I haven't owned one of the consoles out there, I've laid my hands on them at least once.
However strange it may seem, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon has been the go-to place for video game content on the late night scene. Keeping with that theme last night, he debuted this "Bioshock 2" launch trailer, which lays a basic stage for the game.
I don't understand one word in the "Dead Rising" trailer, well other than when they say "Dead Rising" but the rest is completely lost on me. What I do know is that the film is based on the much loved video game and it'll be hitting Xbox 360's marketplace sometime in the near future.
I've fallen out of the loop on the whole "Alien Vs. Predator" movie craze but apparently they haven't been very good. The video game coming out on March 31st though looks good, very good even.
Concept art of a "Necromorph" from EA's upcoming "Dead Space 2" for the XBOX 360 and PS3. The survival horror sequel is currently set for a March 31st, 2010 release date.


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General Comments: Futures closed lower on signs of improving weather. Some speculators are rolling positions or liquidating positions as First Notice Day is coming with the start of May as well. The growing conditions are getting better in many parts of Florida, and are expected to improve over time. Some good rains were seen in the state over the weekend, but drought conditions persist overall. Conditions should turn dry again for the rest of this week. Greening disease and what it might mean to production prospects continues to be a primary support item. Irrigation is widespread, even with recent rains. Temperatures are warm in the state. The Valencia harvest is continuing. Brazil is seeing near to above normal temperatures and dry weather.
Overnight News: Florida weather forecasts call for mostly dry conditions after some showers today. Temperatures will average near to above normal. USDA said that total FCOJ in Cold Storage is now 89,829 gallons, from 88,455 in February and 95,691 gallons last year.
Chart Trends: Trends in FCOJ are mixed to down with objectives of 138.00 and 132.00 May. Support is at 141.00, 140.00, and 135.00 May, with resistance at 140.50, 150.50, and 152.00 May.
General Comments: Futures were higher on talk of more Chinese buying interest. No new buying has been confirmed, but China has been buying here, anyway, despite big government stocks that are becoming available to industry there. Planting and growing conditions remain in a state of flux in the US. Rains are moving through the Delta and Southeast this week to slow planting progress, and it is still cold and dry in the north Texas region. The weather after this week is expected to turn somewhat warmer and drier. Some traders think that US planted area will increase from the estimates released at the end of March due to more favorable Cotton futures prices and sinking Corn and Soybeans futures prices. Weather will be watched as more wet weather in the Delta and Southeast could create less interest in Corn and more in Cotton to avoid having Corn pollinate in the hottest time of the year. Producers have been active planting depending on the region involved. Demand ideas remain strong overall based on the strong export paces seen in the USDA reports in recent weeks and on reports of tight domestic and world cash markets, but export demand is a little less lately.
Overnight News: The Delta and Southeast will see rains and storms over the second half of the week. Temperatures will average below normal. Texas will get mostly dry weather. Temperatures will average much below normal through Wednesday, then will trend to near normal by Friday. The USDA spot price is now 80.93 ct/lb. ICE said that certified Cotton stocks are now 0.498 million bales, from 0.487 million yesterday. USDA said that Cotton is now 10% planted, from 8% last week, 17% last year, and 14% average.
Chart Trends: Trends in Cotton are mixed. Support is at 85.00, 84.00, and 83.30 May, with resistance of 86.60, 87.50, and 88.00 May.
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LaRue County coach Travis Wootton and his staff emerged from the locker room just over 4 minutes into the halftime break Monday night at Caverna, much earlier than they usually do.
Boys' district basketball tournament
Junior forward Caleb Sheffer had 22 points, 10 rebounds and four steals Friday to lead the visiting Hawks (15-12) past the Knights (19-9), 63-60.
Senior forward Kody Key-Close added 13 points and five rebounds, while junior guard Micah Wiseman had 12 points, three assists and two steals.
Senior guard Thomas Harman scored seven and senior guard Michael Neal six for LaRue County, which won its second straight.
The LaRue County Lady Hawks celebrated Senior Night last week, but Friday night was actually the final curtain call for Ivy Brown at Corky Cox Court in Hodgenville.
The senior forward, one of the most decorated players in school history, went out with a bang in her final home contest.
Brown poured in 29 points and set a single-game program record with 23 rebounds to lead the Lady Hawks to a 65-53 victory over the Louisville Mercy Jaguars in their final regular-season game.
LaRue County High School's wrestling team finished 41st out of 88 teams in the KHSAA State Wrestling Tournament held Friday and Saturday at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington.
Union County won the tourney, followed by Campbell County, Trinity, St. Xavier and Woodford County.
Six Mat Hawks accumulated 20 points in the tournament: eighth-graders Dalton Bell, Noah Davis and Griffin Dulak; sophomore Ed Hernandez; junior Koy Lindsey; and senior Raymundo Perez.
The team struggled with injuries and vacant weight classes throughout the season.
Round 1 (32 Man)
Champ. Round 1 – Dalton Bell (LaRue County) 28-8 won by major decision over Bailey Bixler (Franklin County) 7-10 (MD 13-3)
Round 1 (32 Man)
Champ. Round 1 – Brock Ervin (Union County) 44-1 won by fall over Noah Davis (LaRue County) 1-3 (Fall 1:03)
LaRue County High School seniors accepted the Homecoming Spirit Stick during the basketball game on Friday. Students compete against other classes for the spirit stick in activities that include dressing up, participating in pep rally games, creating banners to hang during the game and others.
Lady Hawk seniors and families were honored at the team's final home basketball game of the season. From left, Samantha Drake, Ivy Brown and Ally Evans.
Mat Hawk seniors and their families were honored last week. From left, Kyle Edlin and Raymundo Perez.
LaRue County High School senior cheerleaders and their families were honored at the last home basketball game. From left, Brigitte Skaggs, Kristen Kells, Haley Dragoo, Taylor Dawson and Emily Armes.
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What is the difference between travel journalism and blogging? This was the topic of Travel Blog Exchange, an event held in Chicago in July 2009.
Sara Rosso, digital strategist, writer and photographer, interviewed three bloggers about their day by day relationship with digital and analogic tools.
In these videos Elise Bauer, Jessica Spiegel and Christopher Elliott talk about the role computers and notebooks have in their life, saying they need both.
"If I really need to think, I do it on paper" says Elise Bauer. Jessica Spiegel agrees: "I tried on line tool to write "to do" things, but I never remembered them! Good old paper just works for me". Christopher Elliott, who defines himself a doodler, says when we deal with pc we are always worried about battery, while when we see a written note we are sure it will stay there.
Elise Bauer was formerly an executive with an Internet software company and for many years a Silicon valley strategy and marketing consultant. She maintains several weblogs in addition to award-winning recipe and cooking blog, Simply Recipes (http://www.simplyrecipes.com), which was named one of Time Magazine's 50 Coolest Websites of 2006. You can also find her on Twitter @simplyrecipes
Jessica Spiegel is a self-declared Italophile and writes for Italy Travel Guide (http://www.italytravelguide.com), which is part of the BootsnAll Travel Network. She also served as community manager for BootsnAll for several years and contributes to other sites within the network. She's currently in the process of moving to Italy and can be found on Twitter @italylogue
Christopher Elliott is a journalist and consumer advocate. Elliott is National Geographic Traveler magazine's reader advocate and writes the nationally syndicated Travel Troubleshooter column, which appears in more than 50 U.S. newspapers and Web sites. He also pens a popular weekly travel column on MSNBC.com. He writes on his site http://www.elliott.org and is also on Twitter @elliottdotorg


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Here is a selection of toys ranging from the late 1800's up to the 1940's. The cast iron clown is part of an original J.E. Stevens & Co Trick Dog Bank. The wooden cruiser was made in the 1940's, and fires shells when a lever is pulled. The ring toss game is from the 1920's, and the actors jokes book was printed in New York in 1908.


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I would love to see SDCC just for Matt's badgering of the Hasbro reps
But I'm sure Colman already has plans to rip them about 8 new ********.
I'm betting after C3 they have pictures of him and he won't be allowed in the room. That had to be just about the most entertaining moment of the entire Celebration, seeing Matt ignored time and time again.
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Chairman and CEO of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts to Speak at CIU
Today's economic climate is making it difficult for businesses to stay focused on their mission while at the same handling the daily challenges. That's why Columbia International University is hosting a luncheon with Jim Morgan, the Chairmanand CEO of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. on March 1 from noon – 2 p.m. Morgan will discuss Krispy Kreme's mission statement: "To touch and enhance lives through the joy that is Krispy Kreme" and the ways his company strives to achieve the mission in their daily operations.
The luncheon is a part of CIU's Marketplace Luncheon series.
Morgan has more than 35 years of business experience. He was named Chairman and CEO of Krispy Kreme in 2008 after serving on the company's board since 2000. He has also served as chairman and CEO of Wachovia Securities and chairman and CEO of the securities firm Interstate/Johnson Lane, Inc. Morgan is a past member of the Securities Industry Association Board of Directors and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) regional firms committee, and is currently on the board of directors of Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated. He has also served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and is a graduate of Vanderbilt University.
Morgan maintains a lifelong commitment to youth and education through his involvement with numerous charitable organizations. As an active member of Providence Baptist Church in Charlotte, N.C., Morgan teaches a young couples class and has been a Sunday school teacher for the past 37 years.
Columbia International University President Dr. Bill Jones also recognizes Morgan's heart for Christians in the marketplace.
"Bringing Jim Morgan to Columbia is another opportunity for Columbia International University to fulfill our desire to help men and women in the marketplace grow in their walk with the Lord," Jones said.
Morgan will also address the CIU student body during a chapel service at 10:50 a.m. Both the chapel and the luncheon are free, but RSVPs are required for the luncheon by 5p.m. on Feb. 28. To RSVP contact Amy Westra at email@example.com or (803) 807-5084.


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U.S. Senate leaders have not yet been able to reach a deal to a avert a "fiscal cliff," and with time running out, it is uncertain if they will get one, a senior Senate aide said on Sunday.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have been aiming to reach an agreement by 3 p.m. EST (2000 GMT) so that they can present it to previously scheduled closed-door meetings of their respective Democratic and Republican colleagues in an attempt to beat a New Year's Day deadline.
However, at this point, they still do not have an agreement, the aide said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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Dittman is tribe's interim police chief
Mashantucket — William Dittman, the former New London police captain whose January retirement occasioned controversy, has been named interim chief of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Police Department.
The tribe announced Dittman's appointment in a statement Thursday afternoon.
"We feel the combination of his education and over 30 years of experience in law enforcement will prove to be most beneficial to the tribal nation," Roy Colebut-Ingram, who chairs the Tribal Council's Public Safety Committee, said in a statement.
Dittman, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment, was quoted in the tribe's statement.
"I am honored to be appointed interim chief of police of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Police Department, and look forward to the opportunity to blend my law enforcement experience, knowledge and expertise with the unique sovereign components inherent within tribal police departments," he said. "I thank the tribal council for their support."
Dittman most recently worked for the Chief State's Attorney's Office.
"I feel Mr. Dittman is an excellent choice; he is a fine police officer with good sense and good judgment," Chief State's Attorney Kevin Kane said in the tribe's statement.
Dittman sued the City of New London after the City Council refused to fund enhanced retirement benefits that Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio had approved for Dittman and two other officers. Dittman's suit, filed in New London Superior Court, also named Finizio, city Police Chief Margaret Ackley and Bernadette Welch, the city's personnel director.
Dittman's dispute with the city was resolved last week when the council accepted settlement agreements addressing the retirement packages of Dittman and another former captain, Michael Lacey.
The Mashantuckets launched a search for a police chief soon after the tribal police department's former chief, Dan Collins, resigned at the end of May.
Collins' resignation was believed to be related to an Associated Press report that raised questions about the tribal police force's ability to assume a greater role inside the tribe's Foxwoods Resort Casino and MGM Grand at Foxwoods. The state's tribal casinos, including Mohegan Sun, share law-enforcement duties inside the gaming facilities with state police.


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And good riddance to the Spice Girls...
BLOG: I suffered through poor digital reception on the ABC last night, the picture breaking up and the sound cutting in and out and thought: Only for a new Midsomer Murders.
For a new series of Midsomer Murders is to be anticipated and then thoroughly enjoyed by crime fans.
I know some former devotees who've abandoned the series following scandal over the lack of characters of ethnic minority origin, but it's still hard to put aside, even with a new Detective Barnaby - Heaven forbid, did I hear you mutter?
John Nettles certainly had his following as Tom Barnaby and we miss him sorely but Neil Dudgeon has delivered a Barnaby (John, that is) who's intelligent in a different manner to his cousin, with different quirks and style, a different sort of wife and a different relationship with offsider Sergeant Jones (and I still miss Sergeant Gavin Troy when it comes to characters being replaced).
Now into its 15th series, what is it that draws us back to this detective series?
Well, we know what we're going to get: A murder, or perhaps two or three, based on some secret, perhaps long hidden, or passion in Midsomer village life (love, jealousy, greed, ambition), a red herring or two, clues, twists, interesting characters and in the end the satisfaction of Detective Barnaby seeing through all the lies and revealing the real killer or killers.
Last night's episode had all the ingredients we've come to enjoy: bizarre deaths among an aristocratic family (after the deaths were heralded by a headless horseman), a number of suspects and then John Barnaby uncovering the truth.
While some of the later plots aren't quite as wickedly deceptive as early ones based on Caroline Graham's books (I'm thinking The Killings at Badger's Drift as an example), the series always has a style and formula that crime fans love.
And because we know and enjoy the formula as well as the familiar characters, Midsomer Murders is always entertaining without necessarily being challenging. And TV doesn't always have to be challenging, confronting or educational. It can be fun and diverting in an almost comforting sort of way.
So bring on the rest of the series, though may the ABC digital reception in our region choose to behave for Sunday nights, although I'm already counting down to the release of this series on DVD to catch up with what was missed.
MY KITCHEN RULES (Seven):
Is anyone despairing at the disappearance of the Spice Girls after the first elimination of My Kitchen Rules?
The only reason I can think of for anyone being sorry to see the back of them is that Jessie and Biswa's absence leaves us minus a couple to root against.
I found myself watching the reruns of My Kitchen Rules at the weekend partly to relive their failure to produce anything worthy of a high score when it came to their time to host an instant kitchen.
They were irritating to the extreme, declaring before they started cooking that they represented no more boring food (which drew unhappy looks from their opponents).
It was even hard to feel sorry for them afterwards, given they sneered at the following couples' efforts. Their constant, negative whining was met with mutters like "here we go again" from other contestants. As for, "I don't like cinnamon". Well, okay. But: "I don't like chocolate"? Really? What's that?
I'm guessing some My Kitchen Rules fans might have been keen to see Jake being taken down a peg (what was he thinking with that T-bone steak) but I find he and his sister Elle are fun. And is confidence that unappealing?
On the other hand, the Spice Girls with their constant sniping won't be missed - except as the couple we wanted to loudly boo.