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Pills possible factor in Fox News anchor's arrest
Fox News Network anchor Gregg Jarrett, who was arrested in a bar at Minneapolis-St.Paul Airport, may have been under the influence of medication that did not mix well with alcohol, a police report says, according to the Associated Press.
The 59-year-old Jarrett was arrested Wednesday afternoon at Northern Lights Grill in Terminal One, according to Metropolitan Airports Commission spokesman Patrick Hogan, KARE-TV reports.
Airport police, who were called to the bar, reported that Jarrett seemed intoxicated, acted belligerently and refused to follow their orders.
A bar employee said Jarrett became intoxicated after only one drink, AP reported. He allegedly told a customer he took medication before his flight, but Jarrett denied the statement when questioned by police.
Police found gabapentin pills in his pocket, according to the report. When officers searched Jarrett's bag it was revealed he was recently released from an alcohol and chemical dependency treatment facility.
Gabapentin is an anticonvulsant used to treat conditions ranging from epilepsy to restless leg syndrome, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine. "Strange or unusual thoughts" and drowsiness are listed as potential side effects of the medication. Alcohol may add to the drowsiness, the Library of Medicine adds.
In some cases people taking gabapentin may become suicidal, and there is a risk a user may experience changes in their mental health, including "aggressive, angry, or violent behavior."
According to the Star-Tribune, the police report also said that Jarrett, at one point, became increasingly agitated and swore as the arresting officer as fire department personnel began evaluating his medical condition.
As the officer was trying to re-handcuff the newsman, Jarrett allegedly grabbed the officer's arm. Struggling to get Jarrett cuffed, other officers helped subdue the inmate, who was then driven to jail in downtown Minneapolis, the newspaper reports.
A Fox News spokeswoman said Jarrett, who has not been on the air since mid-April, is dealing with "serious personal issues" and his return to the air has yet to be determined.
"We were made aware late last night that Gregg Jarrett was arrested in Minneapolis yesterday and charged with a misdemeanor," the statement says. "He is dealing with serious personal issues at this time. A date at which Gregg might return to air has yet to be determined."
The newsman was booked into Hennepin County Jail and charged with interfering with a peace officer, a misdemeanor.
County jail records show that Jarrett posted $300 bail and is scheduled for a court appearance on June 6. He was released at 1:30 a.m. Thursday.
The website TVNEWSER reported this month that Jarrett, a weekend co-anchor, was taken off the air recently after requesting a leave of absence for personal reasons.
The veteran newsman, who was born in Los Angeles, worked at MSNBC before joining Fox in 2002.
Jarrett, who also worked at CNBC and Court TV, has covered stories ranging from the Iraq War to the O.J. Simpson trial.
Contributing: KARE-TV; the Associated Press


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Blind Items Revealed
September 6, 2013
#1 - Bruce Willis and this B- list split between television and movies actress while on the set of Charlie's Angels. Demi Moore was shooting while Bruce and this other woman hooked up.
Lucy Liu
September 6, 2013
#1 - Bruce Willis and this B- list split between television and movies actress while on the set of Charlie's Angels. Demi Moore was shooting while Bruce and this other woman hooked up.
Lucy Liu
Posted by ent lawyer at 9:00 AM
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Is it too late to add Bruce to the list that will be available later today? I'd put him at former A list, now maybe B- list. Not sure if anyone goes to see a movie these days because Bruce Willis is in it.
Damn Lucy Liu.Didn't know you roll like that. hmm
Bad Lucy and Bruce. I keep thinking about the Futurama episode where Frye buys? a Lucy Liu girlfriend-bot.
I would tap Bruce. Love the beefcakes.
Bruce was and probably still is a cheater…we saw it first hand when he was filming Die Hard in New York.
I would tap Bruce. Love the beefcakes.
Bruce "Smirks" Willis strikes again
I didn't think Demi was exactly pure as the driven snow either? Or am I just thinking of every single other married Hollywood couple who ever existed where fidelity is seemingly not part of the marriage vows.
@TTM - his smirk IS cute, you have to admit. But as my momma would say, Hollywood folks have the morals of alley cats!
But Bruce and Demi were long.divorced at that stage, so fair game.
And hell yeah Bruce could get it. Hard.
What am I missing here? They divorced late 90's (98?) and she filmed CA in 2003.
Again, where is the scandal?
Dammit IJU!!
Well, if they were long divorced, I reverse my position - get it, Bruce and Lucy!!
Dude totally has a type.
Maybe because sleeping with your ex-wife's co-star while she is filming isn't considered good form? {Kanye shrug}
I thought he was adorable in Moonlighting, and studly in his Die Hard days, but I think I've seen him be a stand-offish arse in one too many interviews. Y U so bored, Bruce?
Morning TTM.
Big meh on this one. If fidelity is what you're in to then avoid actors, rockers, models, reality tarts, athletes...
Fidelity? Mmmmm CPAs and ministers will be your soul mate.
Hmm, I always thought Lucy was more of a Ladies kinda woman. I thought she hooked up with Diaz on that shoot.
Wait they weren't married at the time? then NVM Get that D, Lucy.
Bruce of the 80's. Hot.
Bruce of the 2000's.
Oh it's in poor taste, sure. These folks aren't known for decorum. 5 years had passed, if she didn't want him 'pulling a Bruce' she probably shouldn't have invited him on set.
@Sunny - since I'll never really meet him,of course, I choose to just remember him as the adorable smart-aleck in Moonlighting. So much more fun than possible reality :-).
Morning, Queen and Frufra! I don't know about accountants being all that boring OR faithful, betcha some freaky stuff lurks under all that ordered brain matter.
Seven, I also Kanye shrug. Bad form!
They weren't married at the time, so where does the infidelity play into the scenario. Demi wasn't one of the major stars, and unless Bruce was attached to someone else back then...two grown ups having sex isn't all that scandalous...unless of course this is self righteous, overly religious, former nun Enty...then they are all gonna burn in holy heck.
@ TTM, a ministers! There are a lot of true crime stories on ID channel about " men of the cloth".. Its big on freaky.
Me too @Steampunk!
Scorned: Love Kills is a truly, truly guilty pleasure. That is a rabbit hole of a channel, werd
Only thing raising my eye brow here is that I swear Lucy Liu
Stupid phone- anyway, I swear she came out because I remember thinking she could flip me any day
Brucie would make her pay him now the way her face looks now. At least charge her for the paper bag from Von 's anyway.
I thought all 3 ladies. .Diaz. Drew. Lui. Had a thang. Going on.
I thought Lucy had better taste.
You have to be extra careful when you get close to Lucy Lui's chest. You could easily put your eye out with those things.
Bruce did a cameo in the sequel (this has to be about the sequel as Demi was also only in part 2) and you know what? I'd pay to watch that tape. Those two are damn fine.
The second installment of Charlie's angels was filmed in 2002, Bruce had already moved out. I know because she had removed him from their insurance coverage. So, in terms of their relationship, it was not scandalous he hooked up with Lucy, both him and Demi were already separated.
I call bs. Think lucy, whom i love, is gay. The more we find out about bruce, the more disgusting he becomes. All conservative and thinks his shit doesnt stink when he's a serial cheater who wasnt much of a father either.
Queen annie-ministers??!! Arent they always the ones secretly going to strip clubs and kill their wives? Um, no thank ya!
Wait, Lucy Liu is STRAIGHT? Are you kidding me?
I was going to say 'I'm pretty sure they weren't together during Charlie's Angels' - judging by so many others' comments along these lines they definitely weren't.
Bruce has a lucky face - gorgeous smile, creases in all the right places ... he's lovely!
Lucy is great in 'Elementary'.
I thought more of Lucy Liu.
Shut the front door - Lucy Liu, you seemed like someone who might have standards!
I'm jealous. I've always wanted Lucy Liu. DAMN YOU BRUCE WILLIS! DAM YOU TO HEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLL!
Not ministers evah!!!!
There is a huge difference in being friends and being in a movie together. If Bruce and Lucy were both single then they get my blessing.
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Hail, tornadoes reported as storms cross Midwest
DES MOINES, Iowa - Baseball-sized hail pummeled homes and cars in Nebraska and Iowa on Tuesday as powerful thunderstorms moved through a swath of Midwest states, also causing severe flooding and prompting reports of tornadoes.
The National Weather Service said reports of extensive hail damage and flooding trickled in as storms pushed into Nebraska and moved into neighboring Iowa, where winds of up to 85 mph were recorded. Up to 4 inches of rain was expected in parts those states, which were the hardest hit. The storm also tracked across parts of Kansas, Missouri, South Dakota and Illinois.
"This is one of these days we can't let our guard down," said Bill Bunting, forecast operations chief at the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma.
Bunting said several trained spotters reported tornadoes in central and southwest Iowa, and at least one report came in from southwest Kansas. Reports will not be confirmed until damage can be assessed Wednesday morning.
Becky Kern, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Valley, Nebraska, said the system has involved a "training" of thunderstorms, which involves a series of thunderstorms following one after another. The system will move to the southeast early Wednesday, toward parts of Missouri and Illinois, she said.
"It looks like the threat has pushed further south into northern Missouri, the strongest of the storms," she said.
Heavy rain and flooding were reported in the Omaha area of Nebraska, where dozens of residents were evacuated from low-lying homes on the northeast side of the city. The Eppley Airfield airport closed for several hours.
"It's just completely flooded these areas, and these homes are now filling up with water in their basement areas, so we're pulling people out," said Omaha police spokesman James Shade, noting a 95-year-old woman in a wheelchair was rescued.
Police also used boats to assist dozens of drivers stranded in floodwaters around the city. Shade said many cars remain stuck on those flooded streets.
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad issued Tuesday night a proclamation of disaster emergency for Pottawattamie County in the western part of the state, which will allow officials to use state resources to respond to the effects of the storms.
In the northeast Nebraska cities of Norfolk and Blair, residents reported shattered windows in homes and vehicles after baseball-sized hail passed through. The weather service received reports of two motels with roofs torn in western Iowa's Missouri Valley.
On Interstate 29 north of Council Bluffs in western Iowa, more than 25 vehicles had their windows shattered by hail, said Terry Landsvork, an observation program leader for the National Weather Service in Valley, Nebraska.
"They were driving along Interstate 29, had no place to go, and whether they were driving or pulled over, they just didn't escape the hail," he said.
The storms impacted primary elections in Iowa and South Dakota. Officials in Pottawattamie and Montgomery counties in Iowa, where polls closed at 9 p.m. CDT, reported closing some precincts temporarily due to poor weather.
"It's nasty here. You can't imagine," said Pottawattamie County Auditor Mary Jo Drake. "It's as black as the ace of spades."
In South Dakota, where polls closed at 8 p.m. CDT, a morning thunderstorm forced Senate candidate Mike Rounds, who was flying to Rapid City, to land in Pierre.
The severe weather threat arrives amid an unusually quiet late spring, with far fewer documented tornados in May than in many recent years. Bunting said the main concern Tuesday night was widespread straight-line winds.
"As we like to say, it doesn't have to rotate to be dangerous," he said.
Associated Press reporters Alan C. Zagier in St. Louis and Thomas Beaumont in Des Moines contributed to this report.


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Our vacation week in Avalon began with 7:00 P.M. reservations at the Black Duck on Sunset in Cape May for my wife, Kathy, and myself along with four other couples who were spending the night at our "house for the week". All of us were looking forward to a good meal and although we arrived on time we had to wait outside for about 20 minutes as our table for ten was occupied by a group that was reluctant to leave. Eventually, our patience was rewarded and we were seated in the back room with the women at one end and the men at the other.
Our server, Jessie, read off the list of the evening specials and it was apparent from some of the ooohs' and ahhhs' that a few folks had heard something that would influence their choices. There really was quite a diverse selection and our appetizer picks emphasized the many different items available. I must confess that a week after the dinner my mind is fuzzy as to exactly who ordered what but I know several items.
We had quite a few wines available. The 2003 Chateau St. Jean , Cinq Cepages, a Cabernet blend from Sonoma County. This one is smooth and creamy with lots of black cherry and chocolate and, at $29.99 as a Chairman's Selection awhile back, a true bargain from its normal $60.00 price tag. Joe B. brought with him something he had purchased a few years ago on a trip to Italy, the 2000 Contucci, Vino Nobili di Montepulciano, Riserva. Dark plum fruit and a smooth, round mouthfeel added enjoyment to the food. Gerry's 2006 Epiphany, Petite Syrah, Santa Barbara County, showed dark cherry, cinnamon and cedar and would have been perfect with any red meat. Although I didn't taste them we also had a 2007 Sauvignon Republic, Sauvignon Blanc, Potter County, CA and a 2006 Fattoria di Magliano, Morellino di Scansano, Heba, a Sangiovese-based Tuscan wine. I believe I also spotted a 2008 Artesa, Chardonnay at the ladies table that was perfect for the fish dishes offered.
With a ton of mouth-watering choices to choose from I picked the Duck Confit eggrolls with a fruit salsa and blackberry sauce for dipping. It was a good choice and a fine beginning to the meal.
One of the "special" appetizers that caught a lot of people's eyes and ears was the "BLT"; bacon, lobster and tomato with an arugula salad tossed with Caesar dressing. I heard no complaints from any of those who selected this unusual offering.
There were some very attractive salad offerings with lots of fresh fruit, the one on the left featuring naval orange slices and the one on the right highlighted by blackberries and fresh goat cheese in a raspberry vinaigrette dressing.
The one soup offering that sounded delicious and attracted at least one of our group was the Lobster Bisque w/ corn fritters. It looked excellent, and from the happy murmurings emanating from the recipient, it undoubtedly was just that.
The main dishes were plentiful and included several very tempting offerings from the "specials" list. Several in our party chose the Grouper, a flaky white fish that was prepared with a potato crust and served over fresh green beans, jumbo lump crabmeat and came with a lobster butter sauce for dipping. Everyone was pleased with their dish.
Several others were unable to resist the other "special" which was 3 petite filets served with sauteed mushrooms, asparagus, jumbo lump crab meat and lobster pieces. The filets were enough for two meals, which my wife, Kathy, did and everyone seemed to think the entire dish was tasty and flavorful.
I turned out to be the "Black Duck" in the group (no bad pun intended) when I chose the Salmon as my main course. I may have been influenced by the fact that it was served over a corn and sweet pea risotto but it arrived crisp and perfectly cooked. The sauces were just right and added a nice fruity touch to an entree that I was quite pleased with, to say the least.
It was hard to believe that we still had room for dessert but we decided to order four and a bunch of spoons and we passed them around, and each of us got to sample some tasty endings to the meal. Left to right above are the Creme Brulee, a trio of icy fruit sorbets, and a Blueberry compote with vanilla ice cream.
The star of the dessert line-up, as far as I was concerned, was the Black Duck Chocolate Cake which was served with fresh cream on top and some vanilla ice cream with a chocolate "duck" emerging from the frozen concoction. I tried each item once but may have snuck three or four bites of this one. It was awfully good.
When we took our leave of The Black Duck it was almost 10:00 P.M. and there were still a considerable number of people milling about outside waiting for a table. I took this as a sign that meant one of two things. Either The Black Duck was very good, and very popular with locals and tourists, or they were slow at serving meals. Since I didn't think that service was slow, I would say that many agreed with our group that The Black Duck serves good food in a welcoming environment.


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1969 Chevy Stepside - Painter's Protg
Ryan Heckman's '69 Chevy
Apparently there's a trip-switch mechanism in our brains that goes off at around 14 years of age-and we begin to experience severe car/ truck lust. Remember when the idea of driving your very own vehicle with the freedom to go anywhere you wanted was your favorite fantasy? It's an intoxicating pastime-especially for boys who dream of building a custom ride.
About eight years ago, a teenage Ryan Heckman spotted an affordable '69 Chevy short-bed Stepside near his Granada Hills, California, home. Thoughts of buying it had him lying awake at night wondering if it might be for sale. He'd have his license soon and he'd need wheels to drive to high school.
As it turned out, Ryan did purchase the '69 Chevy. Over the next seven years it provided transportation to school, but it didn't stop at being a clean daily driver. One modification after the next kept the Stepside evolving to an ever-nicer level. It helped that Ryan's dad was a well-known professional painter, one who had worked for several hot rod shops in the San Fernando Valley, including Magoo's when Dick Megugorac was the owner (see "Artistic Expression," page 14).
When the suspension and body modifications were finally completed, it came time to paint the cab and bed. The color choice was a constant debate between Ryan and his dad. They couldn't decide, let alone agree, on what color to apply. As any dad might do, Don asked Ryan's mom Anne, a professional dancer and dance teacher, what colors she liked; Anne's favorites were mainly lavender and purple. With that in mind, Don promised Ryan that whatever the precise color mix, it would be something extra special.
Life's most painful experience often comes with the loss of a cherished loved one. Ryan's mom passed away from cancer last November. But because his truck was painted with the two colors that his mom preferred, Ryan says, "When certain lights hit my truck, it glows and reminds me of my mom's glowing smile. My truck's lavender pearl and purple-painted flames are an everlasting memory of my mom."
Through the years, Ryan's dad wasn't particularly keen on Ryan painting cars for a living. He was well aware of how much hard work must be done before the color and clear coats can be sprayed. However, Ryan has discovered he shares his dad's love of hot rods and custom cars and has learned much about custom paint jobs. As a result, Ryan currently applies his knowledge to vehicles of a smaller scale- lately his model cars and trucks have been earning Best Paint and Best of Show awards.
Painting and the love of vintage cars of all kinds and sizes are things Ryan and his dad can share. You can see the pride in Don's face as he talks about his award-winning son. Somehow we believe Anne Heckman is also smiling down on her family as they share their lives with her glowing memory always in their hearts. Perhaps one day in the not too distant future, 22-year-old Ryan will tackle a full-size paint project of his own-with his dad's support and blessing. We're certain Don will feel a father's pride in a son who shares his love of custom painting and craftsmanship.
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One need only look at today's satellite image of Brazil's Amazon Rainforest to notice something's terribly wrong. A vast 1,000 mile swath of what should be some of the wettest lands on the globe running south of the world's largest river is covered by a dense pall of smoke. Scores of plumes boil up out of the burning and sweltering forest. Pumping dark clouds into the sky, the fires' tell-tale streaks out over a drought-parched Brazil, across the Atlantic, and over to Africa where the plume is again thickened by yet more wildfires.
(Massive wildfires belch smoke over a vast section of Brazil's Amazon Rainforest. These fires are occurring as much of the country suffers from drought. In the north, the current drought is the worst in at least 50 years. In the southeast, drought is now said to be the worst in at least 85 years. Image source: LANCE MODIS.)
The greatest rainforest in the world, sometimes called Earth's lungs, is burning, blackening, and belching out a thick pulse of carbon dioxide into an atmosphere that is already greatly over-burdened with industry-emitted greenhouse gasses. The world's largest watershed and remaining largest rainforest combined now finds itself in a crisis of human making. A set of insults that may not now be reversible as the forest begins to succumb to both drought and fire.
It's a crisis that threatens to turn South Brazil into a desert, to turn one of the world's vast carbon stores into a carbon emissions source, and to eventually convert the great rainforest itself into dry grasslands. Such a transition would result in yet one more major contributor to increasing global greenhouse gas concentrations even as it puts Brazil's mega-cities under threat of collapse. And it's a transition that's happening now. A violent transformation that likely started during the early 2000s. One now reaching catastrophic new intensities.
Human-Forced Warming, Slash and Burn Agriculture, Godzilla El Nino
The causes for the fires are three-fold and all too often missed in the sparse mainstream media reports of the ongoing catastrophe. First, human-caused warming of the globe is pushing the great rainforest to slowly heat up and dry out. Alone, such warming would be enough to take down the great rainforest if the Earth warmed by between 2 and 4 degrees Centigrade. Since we've already seen Earth System warming on the order of 1 degree Celsius above 1880s values, the great forest is now feeling the stress of this added heat. But the forest is now also suffering the insults of what amounts to a half century of slash and burn agriculture. Immense swaths of the forest have been cut and burned away, converted into farmlands. Increasingly, large sections of the forest are isolated into smaller, less productive islands. In addition, the ongoing burning of vast tracts of woodland adds a fire pressure to an already heat-stressed rainforest.
(The Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring System [CAMS] shows a significant carbon dioxide plume rising up off of the fires now burning in the Amazon Rainforest. It was a prediction made by global climate models that human forced warming could turn the Amazon into a net carbon emissions source by the middle of this Century. For the period of Fall 2015, heat and drought have done exactly that. Image source: CAMS.)
Finally, this year, Brazil is experiencing the effects of what is likely to become the strongest El Nino ever recorded. Such Pacific Ocean warming events have a tendency to push the rainforest to dry. And with the great Amazon already suffering from at least a decade of drought, the new, extremely intense El Nino is providing yet one more severe insult on top of all the other damage inflicted by both human warming of the atmosphere and by slash and burn agriculture.
Megacities Suffering Severe Water Shortages
As the Amazon rainforest suffers clear cutting, wildfire, and drought, it pumps less and less water into the atmosphere. Its once massive 'flying rivers' are drying out. The loss of these immense atmospheric moisture flows has a particularly acute impact on lands bordering the Amazon — especially in the region of Brazil's coastal cities. Over the past two decades, the massive cities of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro have suffered from increasingly frequent droughts. However, over the past three years, drought has been particularly extreme.
In Sao Paulo, unofficial water rationing began about two years ago and has remained in effect ever since. Today, the region's largest reservoir — the Cantariera — remains below dead pool levels even as other reservoirs have fallen under increasing stress. The result is that many of the area's 20 million people are starting to migrate to cities with better water security. Cities like Jundiai where water conservation policies have prevented shortages despite an ongoing drying of the surrounding countryside.
(In the July-September 2015 rainfall graphic measure provided by NOAA, we see the Amazon Rainforest experiencing severe water deficits in conjunction with the warmest global temperatures on record and what is likely to become the strongest El Nino on record. A heat pressure that has resulted in severe wildfire outbreaks throughout the Amazon this month. Such impacts will further reduce the moisture content of the flying rivers the cities of Southern Brazil depend on. Image source: NOAA's Climate Prediction Center.)
In Rio de Janeiro, the situation is still somewhat better than in Sao Paulo. Water cut-offs have not yet begun in this city of 10 million even though local reservoirs are also starting to dry up. But if dry conditions continue, 2016-2017 will almost certainly see Brazil's second largest city fall into a crisis similar to that of Sao Paulo.
A recent report by NPR highlights the severity of Brazil's coastal cities drought:
And [Sao Paulo] is not alone. Brazil's second largest city, Rio de Janeiro, is also facing water troubles, as are other coastal areas. It's been an enormous shock to Brazilians, who are used to their country being called "the Saudi Arabia of Water…" But not anymore. Satellite data from NASA shows that the drought in much of southeast Brazil — also home to the region's breadbasket — is much worse than originally believed.
If these droughts continue, they will threaten to collapse the cities of eastern Brazil. They will put a strain on electricity supplies, on commercial activity, and on practically every aspect of city life — which is largely dependent upon access to water. In eastern Brazil, more than 30 million people now face the threat of this climate change induced destabilization. But what's worse is the fact that the ongoing burning and drought in the Amazon to the north practically ensures that the flying rivers will continue to wilt, that the droughts in the southeast will grow to become city-killers.
As Brazil's Largest City Struggles with Drought, Residents are Leaving
Drought Takes Hold as Amazon's Flying Rivers Disappear
New NASA Data Shows Brazil's Drought Deeper than Previously Thought
NOAA's Climate Prediction Center
Drought Threatens Water Truck Lifeline in Northeastern Brazil
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Horace T. Elmo was born Arazio Theodore Elmo in New York City as the son of Italian immigrants. He worked as a stock clerk in the exporting industry before becoming a cartoonist with the New York Evening Graphic. From the mid-1930s until the mid-1940s he produced a great many syndicated weekly features, such as 'Facts You Never Knew' (1935-1938), 'The Fizzle Family', 'Goofus Family' (1935-1939), 'It's Amazing' (1941-1946), 'Laughs from Today's News' (1937-194?), 'Our Puzzle Corner', 'Sally Snickers' (1941-1946), 'Socko the Seadog', 'Useless Eustace' (1941-1946) and 'Your Health Comes First'.
Elmo syndicated his features, and some others, himself through Lincoln Features and later Elmo Features Syndicate. Jack Kirby also debuted on Elmo's Lincoln syndicate, and one of the syndicate's main features was 'Detective Riley', that was credited to a certain Richard Lee.
He was also active for comic books in the 1940s and 1950s. He made fillers for National's 'Quick Quizzes' and contributed to Timely's 'It's Amazing' and 'Oscar Comics' (the feature 'Little Aspirin'). Ace published his books 'Modern Casanova's Handbook' (1955) and 'Hollywood Humor' (1957). Later strips by Elmo were 'The Rhyming Romeos' (Arkansas State Press, 1950s), 'Puggy' and 'Tell Me' (both for the News Reporter from Hubbard, Ohio, 1960s), and 'Spirit Lake Beacon' (Iowa) in the mid-1970s. Horace Elmo passed away in the Bronx in 1992.


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Trump signs Kushner-negotiated $100B Saudi arms deal
The deal was finalized in part thanks to the direct involvement of Jared Kushner, the President's son-in-law and senior adviser
The deal was finalized in part thanks to the direct involvement of Jared Kushner, the President's son-in-law and senior adviser
The deal was finalized in part thanks to the direct involvement of Jared Kushner, the President's son-in-law and senior adviser
President Donald Trump signed a nearly $110 billion defense deal with Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on Saturday, signaling the United States' renewed commitment to its alliance with the Gulf kingdom and desire to bolster its counterterrorism partnership.
The deal was finalized in part thanks to the direct involvement of Jared Kushner, the President's son-in-law and senior adviser. He shocked a high-level Saudi delegation earlier this month when he personally called Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson and asked if she would cut the price of a sophisticated missile detection system, according to a source with knowledge of the call.
Pressured to finalize a massive $100-plus billion arms deal in the two weeks leading up to Trump's trip to Saudi Arabia, Kushner hoped to maneuver a discount on Lockheed's Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system during the Saudis' visit to the White House on May 1 -- a request that Hewson said she would look into at the time.
The New York Times first reported the exchange between Kushner and Hewson.
After an overnight flight, the president was greeted at the airport by King Salman, which was notable given that the monarch did not show up last year to welcome President Barack Obama on his final visit to Saudi Arabia.
As Trump and the 81-year-old king, who was aided by a cane, walked along the red carpet, military jets swept the sky, leaving a red, white and blue trail. During a ceremony at the grand Saudi Royal Court, Salman awarded Trump the Collar of Abdulaziz al Saud, the kingdom's highest civilian honor.
Trump bent down so the king could place the gold medal around his neck. Saudi Arabia has previously bestowed the honor on Russian President Vladimir Putin, British Prime Minister Theresa May and Obama.
What the deal does
On Saturday, near the end of Trump's first day in the kingdom, the two leaders inked a deal greenlighting a $109 billion defense deal, which Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said was a component of $350 billion in economic and defense investments between the two countries over the next 10 years.
Lockheed's Hewson was on hand Saturday in the cavernous Riyadh ballroom where Trump and Salman made the deal official.
The company was "proud to be part of this historic announcement that will strengthen the relationship between" the US and Saudi Arabia," Hewson said. The sales authorized under the deal would bolster Saudi Arabia's security, provide an economic boon to both countries and "strengthen the cause of peace in the region," she added.
The deal was a welcome sign for Saudi Arabia, which had grown nervous about the strength of its alliance with the US as President Barack Obama signed the nuclear deal with Iran and signaled a potential rapprochement with the Persian nation, which is fiercely at odds with Saudi Arabia. Trump, by contrast, has castigated Iran as a destabilizing power and criticized the nuclear deal, instead seeking to bolster partnerships with Sunni Gulf countries like Saudi Arabia -- which Trump demonstrated by making his first foreign trip as president here.
In a statement, a White House official called the defense deal "a significant expansion of the over seven-decade long security relationship between" the US and Saudi Arabia.
"This package of defense equipment and services support the long-term security of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region in the face of Iranian threats while also bolstering the Kingdom's ability to contribute to counterterrorism operations across the region, reducing the burden on the US military to conduct those operations," the White House official said.
Ultimately, the two sides were able to reach an agreement on a weapons package that amounts to nearly $110 billion in tanks, fighter jets, combat ships and the THAAD missile defense system, according to the White House.
It is unclear how much the Saudis will be paying for THAAD, but Trump called it a "billion-dollar system" last month when the US deployed the advanced missile defense radar to South Korea.
Kushner serves key foreign role
While calling the head of a major defense company and simply asking for a lower price is widely considered an unorthodox negotiation tactic, Kushner's hands-on approach has drawn comparisons to when then-President-elect Trump criticized the stealthy F-35 fighter jet for being too expensive, and Hewson gave her "personal commitment" to cut the cost of the program in February.
And the details of how the call took place also provide a window into Kushner's role during negotiations with the Saudis and the range of his influence on matters of foreign policy as a whole.
During last year's presidential campaign and later during the transition, Kushner was identified by Trump's team as the principal point of contact for foreign governments looking to either congratulate the new US leader or begin diplomatic talks.
The 36-year-old commercial real estate magnate started building a relationship with members of the Saudi royal family shortly after the election, a source told CNN, and was on hand when Trump hosted the deputy crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, in March.
Issues of foreign diplomacy evolved into an interagency effort once the administration began, according to a source, and Kushner's role in negotiating the arms deal was just one part of an larger effort that included the State Department, Department of Defense and National Security Council.
But the scope of Kushner's influence on matters of foreign policy have remained in the spotlight through the early months of Trump's presidency.
CNN reported last month that multiple White House and administration officials said Kushner had eclipsed nearly all of Trump's West Wing and Cabinet advisers in terms of influence and established himself as the key envoy for those outside the administration.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer said at the time that Kushner was working jointly with the State Department to manage the administration's foreign affairs.
"He's continuing to work with them and facilitate an outcome. But he brings a perspective to this, and began doing that during the transition. But again, it's not a binary choice where he's doing this at the expense of somebody else."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Nokia and Microsoft's recently announced tie-up for Windows Phone 7 isn't as simple as the Finns becoming another user of the OS - it goes far deeper than that.
Both are being bullish about the move, claiming that the tie up puts them firmly as the 'Third Ecosystem' in the mobile OS world, throwing down the gauntlet to Apple and Google.
So here's a run down of all the new elements you need to know - the times, they are a-changin'....
Nokia and Windows Phone 7
There has been a raft of changes announced on both Microsoft and Nokia's side with the new Windows Phone 7 announcement, with big shifts for services and strategy:
Nokia is now going to be a key decision maker in the way Windows Phone 7 develops and grows, giving its 'expertise on hardware and support' - this also looks likely to give rise to a new subset of cheaper Windows Phone 7 devices.
They also pledge to 'closely collaborate on joint marketing initiatives and a shared development roadmap' - it will be interesting to see what the likes of Samsung and LG make of this.
Nokia is planning to use its strengths in the cameraphone sector, where it employs high-end Xenon technology and Carl Zeiss optics, with the Windows Phone 7 platform.
Bing will now power Nokia's search services across Nokia devices and services, while Microsoft adCenter will offer search advertising on Nokia handsets.
Nokia Maps will become a core part of Microsoft's mapping offering. This means Nokia Maps will be integrated with Bing and adCenter advertising to form new and more relevant local search options.
Nokia will leverage its already wide-ranging operator billing agreements for WP7, making purchasing applications and services easier for consumers in countries where credit or debit card use isn't prevalent.
Microsoft development tools will be the main way to create applications to run on Nokia Windows Phones - QT is still going to be the way forward for Symbian and MeeGo, but its unlikely it will be combined with Microsoft's Silverlight use.
Nokia will integrate its applications and content to Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace "more compelling consumer experience". However, the Ovi store won't be ditched, as Symbian users will still need an outlet.
Sadly, it's unlikely that this will continue to get the same amount of love as before though, as the smartphone strategy will shift over time towards Windows Phone 7 devices.


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Klein, Melanie
Klein, Melanie, 1882–1960, British psychoanalyst, b. Vienna. She became a psychoanalyst after seeking therapy from Sandor Ferenczi, a colleague of Sigmund Freud, who encouraged her to pursue her own studies with young children. She served as a member (1921–26) of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute, using psychoanalytic techniques with emotionally disturbed children. She moved to London in 1926, on the invitation of psychoanalyst Ernest Jones, to continue her practice and to expand on areas of psychoanalysis such as the death instinct and the Oedipus complex. In her later work, Klein's theories came into conflict with those of other psychoanalysts, particularly Anna Freud. Kleinian theory is still influential as a distinctive strain of psychoanalytic theory. Her writings include The Psychoanalysis of Children (1932) and Narrative of a Child Analysis (1961).
See biography by P. Grosskurth (1987).
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2023, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Food Futures
One of the funniest articles I've read recently was Robert Webb's account of his experience writing a weekly column for the Daily Telegraph. He describes – for gleeful readers of the New Statesman – his battles with the commentators on the newspaper's online edition. The internet's equivalent to the 'green Biro brigade' of usually right-wing newspaper letter-writers, these 'Ghouls' as, Webb calls them, used the Telegraph's comment function to heap scorn and ridicule on Webb.
These guys love Britain so much that they all seem to live in Gibraltar. Their 'comments' were characterised by a suspicion of nuance, a tin ear for irony, a conviction that political correctness and Stalinism were the same thing, and a graceless irascibility of the kind we are now expected to find endearing in Prince Philip. There was also an assumption of intellectual superiority, rather cruelly undermined by a vulnerability to cliché and an inability to spell.
The problem was not that they disagreed with Webb, but that their comments were aimed solely at reminding him what a 'worthless bastard' he was.
I hadn't realised that these internet trolls had moved beyond the places I'd usually expect to find them – news sites, mainly – and on to food sites as well. In a post which seems to have gone viral this week, Shauna James Ahern of Gluten Free Girl explains the extent to which she's been subjected to internet bullying:
Every day, there is some nasty, vituperative comment on a post, something I skim quickly then delete. It could be comments about my husband ('He's obviously retarded. Look in his eyes. There's something wrong.') about our life on Vashon ('Oh that's right, everything is perfect on your fucking ISLAND.'), about our food ('That looks like dog vomit. Why does anyone pay you to do this?'), and mostly about me (my weight? my writing? my hair? my mere presence in the world? take your pick).
I want to make this clear: criticism and debate are absolutely vital – even on food blogs. I have no truck with writers who believe that any form of critical thinking is 'mean' or 'negative'. But I have no time whatsoever for bullies. I had a small brush with one (or two?) this week after publishing a post critical of the Toffie Food Festival's Menu magazine. A few commentators using dodgy Hotmail accounts and a suspiciously identical IP address sent comments which were fairly personal and meant only to tell me and the world that my ideas are stupid.
But a decade in academia has helped me to grow rhino hide for skin and it takes more than a few bullies to stop me. So troll who lives at IP 18.104.22.168, you know who you are. As do I.
Troll at IP 22.214.171.124 did, though, ask a good question, and one which is worth answering. He (or indeed she) responded to my point that the authors of Menu have a profoundly problematic conception of food as a consumer product – like jewellery or clothing – which can be used and thrown away at whim, by asking: 'where do you live where you don't have to buy food'?
Yes, dear troll at IP 184.108.40.206, you're quite right: food is a product or commodity which has to be bought (unless, of course, you grow or rear it yourself). But there's an important difference between food and bed linen, perfume, cutlery, or clothes, for example. Only one of those products is absolutely essential to human life – only one has a significant impact on people's incomes and the ways in which they live. Only one can cause ordinary people to protest when prices become too high.
Food is, then, is bought by consumers and treated as a consumer product even though it's significantly different from other products. Our understanding of food as a consumer product is a relatively recent phenomenon: it's only a century or two old, and linked strongly to the industrial revolution and mass production, as well as the development of a very powerful advertising industry.
Why should we care about this? Given that the mass production of food allowed greater numbers of people to eat better and more cheaply than ever before, surely these processes could only be considered a Good Thing. There is nothing inherently wrong with the industrialisation of food production as long as it is environmentally sustainable, humane to animals, respects workers' rights, and produces safe and uncontaminated food – which, as the industry functions at the moment, is not always the case.
Moreover, as I wrote last week, this conception of food as a consumer product means that we understand food differently. Food moves from being something we associate primarily with nourishment to being a commodity which has the same meaning for consumers as other, less essential goods. This means, for example, that they are more willing to throw away large quantities of food. As the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation reported a few months ago, the average consumer in the West wastes 95 to 115kg of food every year – and wealthy countries are responsible for half of the total amount of food wasted every year.
There are many other implications for seeing food as a consumer product – not least the foodie worship of food since the early eighties – and I'll consider these more carefully in the next few weeks. For the moment, I'd like to take a quick look at food speculation.
Of the many causes of the current global food crisis, food speculation is the most contested and seems to be the most complicated to understand. As the UN's Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Olivier de Schutter as well as Oxfam and other organisations have argued recently, the deregulation of commodities markets in the West during the mid-nineties have had catastrophic implications for food prices.
Let me explain: farmers have long traded in food futures to secure their incomes. Farmers protect themselves against bad harvests by selling their produce in advance to traders. They use the profits they make in bad years – when they have less to sell – to protect themselves against future losses. This works well for traders, who do particularly nicely in good years. Writing about the United States, Frederick Kaufman explains how well this tightly regulated system worked:
The result: Over the course of the 20th century, the real price of wheat decreased (despite a hiccup or two, particularly during the 1970s inflationary spiral), spurring the development of American agribusiness. After World War II, the United States was routinely producing a grain surplus, which became an essential element of its Cold War political, economic, and humanitarian strategies – not to mention the fact that American grain fed millions of hungry people across the world.
But things changed at the end of the twentieth century. Partly because of intensive lobbying from hedge funds and banks, like Barclays, governments in the West deregulated commodity derivatives markets. Banks and investors became interested in trading on the commodities market – once the preserve of specialists like Glencore – when bankers at Goldman Sachs (yes, they really do their best to be the embodiment of venality) devised new investment products which included speculation in food futures. Investors which hadn't before been involved in the commodities markets, like pension funds, were, then, willing to play the futures markets.
As a result of this, food – grain, cocoa, fruit, rice, and meat – can be traded in exactly the same way as other commodities, like gold, timber, and coal. Brett Scott writes:
The controversy can be broken down into two separate issues. Firstly, are financial players in commodity derivatives markets causing derivatives prices to disassociate from what the price 'should be' if it were reflecting the fundamental balance of supply and demand in the underlying commodity? Secondly, does such a disassociation in futures prices get transmitted into the real price of food people end up paying?
The answer from the UN and a range of other charities is a definite, ringing 'yes'. Irresponsible banks are driving up the price of food, they argue. John Vidal cites two well-known examples of food speculation causing price spikes:
Last year, London hedge fund Armajaro bought 240,000 tonnes, or more than 7%, of the world's stocks of cocoa beans, helping to drive chocolate to its highest price in 33 years. Meanwhile, the price of coffee shot up 20% in just three days as a direct result of hedge funds betting on the price of coffee falling.
But what role does speculation play in causing food prices to rise more generally? This is more difficult to pin down, as Scott implies. De Schutter argues, convincingly in my mind, that even if speculation was not responsible on its own for causing the spike in food prices in 2008, it was a major contributing – and new – factor. I think it's worth quoting him at length:
a number of signs indicate that a significant portion of the price spike was due to the emergence of a speculative bubble. Prices for a number of commodities fluctuated too wildly within such limited time-frames for such price behaviour to have been a result of movements in supply and demand: wheat prices, for instance, rose by 46% between January 10 and February 26, 2008, fell back almost completely by May 19, increased again by 21% until early June, and began falling again from August. The 2008 food price crisis was unique in that it was possibly the first price crisis that occurred in an economic environment characterized by massive amounts of novel forms of speculation in commodity derivative markets.
The particular area of concern is speculation in derivatives based on food commodities. A study conducted by Lehman Brothers just before its bankruptcy revealed that the volume of index fund speculation increased by 1,900% between 2003 and March 2008. Morgan Stanley estimated that the number of outstanding contracts in maize futures increased from 500,000 in 2003 to almost 2.5 million in 2008. …the changes in food prices reflected not so much movements in the supply and/or demand of food, but were driven to a significant extent by speculation that greatly exceeded the liquidity needs of commodity markets to execute the trades of commodity users, such as food processors and agricultural commodity importers.
Food speculation is a manifestation on a very grand scale of a shift in thinking of the value and significance of food: here, food is simply another commodity to be bought and traded, often very lucratively. We know the futures are useful and important to farmers, but the unregulated speculation of food means that food prices are no longer linked to what people can afford to pay. When the UN and other organisations call for a greater regulation of commodities markets – to a return, to some extent, to the derivatives trading of the twentieth century – they are also pointing to the fact that food cannot be understood in the same terms as other commodities and consumer goods.
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I love this video from Playing Out! (Thanks to Sarah Goodyear for sharing it along with her insightful post).
Take away all of parked cars and the parents milling about, and it could be a scene from my childhood. Just a regular day in the neighborhood: packs of kids on bikes and skates, games of kick the can, or any other game you can imagine, and kids young and old playing together.
If I could, I'd make one tiny edit, I'd love to take a giant eraser and rub out all of the parked cars (and the parents). Wouldn't it be better to see kids squealing and laughing while they scoot, pedal, jump rope and create chalk masterpieces in a street completely free of cars?
I guess the parked cars and the parents illustrate just how far we've fallen in thirty years.
More tips on how to get something like this going at Playing Out:
Playing Out is a not-for-profit information and advice resource for street play. We aim to increase children's safe access to informal play in residential streets through: Directly supporting resident-led street play sessions; Running workshops for parents and residents; Coordinating a network of 'street organisers'; Providing free resources and advice; Training play/community professionals; Communicating the benefits of street play; Working with policy-makers to enable street play.
Do you see scenes like this where you live? Do kids in your neighborhood play outside without parents?
– Anne


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When transparent LCD technology started popping up as consumer tech prototypes a few years ago, it was quickly dismissed as gimmick, or something for a marketing kiosk. But looking at this touchscreen concept from Fujitsu—which is double-sided and transparent—makes you wonder if there isn't hope for this tech yet.
As the video shows, the implications for gaming are especially intriguing, since you could still control the action with your grubby little fingers, but not have to obscure your view in the process. It basically takes the idea of the PS Vita's rear touch panels one step further.
But of course, there's the issue of visibility and color depth, which, by the screen's very nature, makes it inferior to a standard LCD. Maybe someday, we can have the best of both worlds. [DigInfo via Engadget]


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