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LOVELY OLD 11-PIECE GERMAN TEA SETI am pleased to offer this lovely little tea set for you this week. It is a beautiful shade of green with lacy gold floral decoration and solid gold in the teacups. So pretty! The set is marked with a lion in a shield mark and the word Duisdorf and Eva, but I can't quite make out the manufacturer name, which looks like Rhenania. The set consists of a small teapot standing about 5-1/2" tall and measuring 7" from handle to spout. The pot has some gold wear on the knob of the lid. We also have a lidded sugar bowl measuring a little over 3" in diameter and standing a little over 2" tall, and a creamer standing 2-3/4" tall and measuring 3-1/2" from handle to spout. For your guests, t are four cup and saucer sets. The cups are just under 3" in diameter and stand 1-1/2" tall. The saucers are 4-3/8" in diameter. I see gold pattern wear on most of the saucers. This is not a significant problem, but when viewed on their own, you can see pattern loss. One teacup has a small rim chip, as shown below. It's a diminutive and delicate tea set you will appreciate in your collection for many years. Stuff You Should Read About How We Do Business: ~We are always happy to combine orders for shipping if we can. Even when we must ship items in separate boxes for safety, we waive our $2 handling fee on the second and subsequent boxes. ~We do not use Buy-It-Now on our auctions and don't end auctions early for offers. It's not fair to those who are watching and expecting to bid at the end (a risky business, but many chance it nonetheless.) ~All our auctions are no-reserve. ~We guarantee your satisfaction on all items we sell. If we have missed something, which does happen from time to time with the antique and vintage items we handle, we will always make it right. ~We hate leaving negative feedback and only do when items are unpaid and the eBay unpaid item process fails. Don't make us do this! ~We will not misrepresent values (lie) on customs forms. We love our international shoppers and value them highly, but please don't embarrass us and yourselves by asking us to lie and then sign our name to the lie. It's not going to happen, so if you need that type of "assistance," it's a good thing not to bid
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Cape Girardeau, Mo. –It is official! Union Pacific's steam locomotive No. 844 will be coming to Cape Girardeau as part of Union Pacific's Great Excursion Adventure. The steam engine is scheduled to arrive at 2:30 p.m. on June 4. It will be on display for the public from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on June 5. Union Pacific's policies will not allow members of the public to board the train. However, in addition to viewing there will be opportunity to buy a variety of souvenirs. The train is scheduled to depart Cape Girardeau at 8 a.m. on June 6. Cape Girardeau's Mayor, Harry Rediger, will be giving a brief welcome to Union Pacific around 1p.m. June 5. The train will be parked along the tracks at 500 Aquamsi street. To maximizes safety Aquamsi street will be closed. So, to view the train shuttles will run continuously from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 5th. Shuttles will pick up those wanting to view the train at the River Campus parking lot and the Hutson's parking lot. Signs noting "UP Shuttle" will be placed at both lots clearly designating where visitors will be picked up.
Steam Locomotive No. 844 is the last steam locomotive built for Union Pacific Railroad. It was delivered in 1944. A high-speed passenger engine, it pulled such widely known trains as the Overland Limited, Los Angeles Limited, Portland Rose and Challenger. When diesels took over all passenger train duties, No. 844 was placed in freight service in Nebraska from 1957 to 1959. It was saved from being scrapped in 1960, and held for special service. The engine has run hundreds of thousands of miles as Union Pacific's ambassador of goodwill. It has made appearances at Expo '74 in Spokane, the 1981 opening of the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, the 1984 World's Fair in New Orleans and the 50th Anniversary Celebration of Los Angeles Union Station in 1989. For more information on the steam engine and its travels please visit upsteam.com.
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High Water:
Building A Global Flood Atlas
The small plane droned loudly as it made its way from western Minnesota toward St. Louis in June 1993. Through his window, Dartmouth College geologist Bob Brakenridge glimpsed the white dome of a grain silo that seemed to float like a bleached lily pad on a muddy, inland sea. Everywhere he looked water sloshed up the sides of houses, swallowed fields full of early-season crops, transformed roadways into canals. It was tempting to just stare out the window and gawk at the greatest flood in the recorded history of the Upper Mississippi.
But he hadn't bought eight hours of flying time just for sightseeing. He was a scientist on a mission. Brakenridge, a geologist who specializes in studying the shape and structure of the topography produced by rivers, wanted to see how well satellite imagery of the floods matched up with the conditions on the ground. The idea had been floating around in the back of his mind since 1991, when he had spent a year as a visiting senior scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
All day he had been looking for boundaries—locations where the line between flooded areas and dry land was obvious. He directed the plane's young pilot to an area that looked promising. A powerline whizzed by the window as they dropped down from 900 feet for a closer look. He found their current location on a grainy radar image, and nodded with satisfaction at the pattern that was emerging: against the lighter colors of dry land, flood waters stood out in black.
"When that flood began, so many scientists just dropped whatever they were doing and focused on the Mississippi," Brakenridge recalls. "I contacted NASA and asked for help in getting imagery from ERS-1 [European Remote-sensing Satellite-1], and then I quickly applied for a small grant from the Association of American Geographers. A week later, I was in a plane flying over the Upper Midwest."
His study of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1993 with remote-sensing data was the launching off point for what has become Brakenridge's passion for the last decade: creating a satellite-based, global atlas of flood hazards and putting the information into the hands of disaster relief and planning organizations. Brakenridge is motivated by the hope that current information will help people cope with today's flood disasters, but also by the hope that as his flood archive covers more of the globe over a longer time, patterns will emerge that will help people prepare for floods more confidently.
Predicting precisely when a flood is going to occur or how severe it will be is mostly a matter of assessing the current weather and environmental conditions in an area, and that isn't the kind of information you can get from an archive. "What a global archive of flood information can do," says Brakenridge, "is to help disaster management planners and re-insurance companies to constrain flood hazards, giving a clear indication of what areas are susceptible to floods, how severe those are, and how often severe flooding returns to the same area." [See Sidebar: Teleconnections]
Hurdles and Milestones
Brakenridge's success with the study of the Great Mississippi Flood in 1993 paved the way in 1995 for a NASA grant to study "extreme hydrological events" with remote-sensing data. Brakenridge says that before this activity there were only a few ad hoc, commercial flood-hazard applications. The Dartmouth Flood Observatory, as he named the project, was the first providing a global perspective.
In the early stages, says Brakenridge, "The project was a preservation activity—just like when you go into towns and you see where people have put signs of high water marks on stream gauges and buildings to preserve the flood history—but we were using satellite data, whatever we could get our hands on."
Knowing what to do with the satellite data once he had it was another matter. "When the current generation of Earth-observing satellites was being planned, people pretty much assumed that runoff from rivers and streams was just too small to be observed from satellite," explains Brakenridge. "Everyone just assumed that was one part of Earth's cycles that we would have to understand through models."
In the absence of specific sensors and technologies intended for flood mapping, Brakenridge and his team—usually no more than a graduate assistant or two—have been pioneers, evaluating available satellite resources and tinkering with the kinds of imagery that they could make from each. During the life of the project, they have raided the immense storehouse of information at several of NASA's specialized data centers: Earth Sciences at Goddard Space Flight Center, Land Processes in South Dakota, and Snow and Ice in Boulder, Colorado. They have used satellite observations from a host of NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellites, including the original efforts with the European Remote Sensing satellite, Landsat, QuikSCAT, Terra, Aqua, and the NOAA-NASA Pathfinder.
"When I think about the work I'm able to do, it is really amazing. All scientists get to use special instruments, lab or field instruments, for example. But NASA has these instruments in space that cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and we get to use them! Sometimes we can have one of them turned on for us," he says, as though even after all this time, he can't believe his good luck.
"NASA has really been leading the way [in Earth observation], especially with their open data policy. It's really exciting, taking these systems that haven't really been designed for us and having the access to the data and the opportunity to figure out how they can help us."
Flooded With Information
The real explosion in satellite-based flood information came in 2000, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite began collecting 250-meter-spatial-resolution imagery of almost the entire globe every day. A second MODIS instrument was launched on NASA's Aqua satellite in 2002. Although MODIS wasn't specifically designed to observe floods, Brakenridge says it's turned out to be the perfect tool.
"Before the era of satellite remote sensing, and particularly before MODIS, there was no way to map flooding over large regions," he says. The limitation is due to the inescapable trade off between the level of detail a satellite can provide and the size of the area it can observe at one time. As the level of detail goes up, the area covered goes down. For large floods, says Brakenridge, "A satellite with high spatial resolution isn't very useful if it means you need 30 scenes to get a complete image of the flooded area."
MODIS provides the right balance of coverage and detail, showing large floods as they are happening all over the world. Brakenridge uses the imagery provided by the MODIS Rapid Response Team, a group at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center that processes and distributes global MODIS imagery and customized products in near-real time. He uses natural-color imagery that looks like a digital photo and a kind of false-color imagery that adds color to non-visible wavelengths of energy detected by MODIS, such as infrared. Standing water absorbs infrared wavelengths of energy, so in the imagery it appears almost black.
Sometimes even those kinds of image enhancements aren't enough. After all, where there are floods, there is rain, and where there is rain, there are clouds. Son Nghiem of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at California Institute of Technology helps Brakenridge accommodate those unwelcome visitors in many flood-related images. He processes radar data collected by NASA's QuikSCAT satellite, which sends out microwave pulses that can penetrate clouds. The timing and strength of the return signal reveal the surface beneath. Brakenridge combines those observations with the images from MODIS and other sensors to map floods even when the clouds linger for days or weeks.
Even when they can see through the clouds to see how big an area is underwater during a flood, Brakenridge points out that they are still missing a key piece of information: depth. Recently Brakenridge has been investigating how to use topographic information collected by radars on the Space Shuttles to get an idea of how deep standing water might be. Brakenridge has been combining the high-quality topographic maps produced by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) with the flood imagery from MODIS and other sensors. The SRTM maps tell him the altitude of various features on the surface, and he can gauge how high the water is by what features have been covered up.
Knowing What's Normal
Because of MODIS' near-daily observations of every spot on Earth, Brakenridge has the opportunity to construct baseline maps of watersheds when they are not flooded. "It's important to have a standard reference so that when we map a flood, we don't mistakenly include areas that are normally under water, such as lakes, reservoirs, or wetlands," he explains. [See Sidebar: Monitoring Wetlands.]
Brakenridge is also interested in documenting another normal reference: the normal flood. One thing you notice when you look through the Dartmouth Flood Observatory's archives is that there are places on Earth—for example, northern India, China, and Bangladesh—where large-scale flooding is surprisingly regular. As more people crowd into flood-prone areas the normal cycles of flooding can begin to be seen as dangerous or unusual. "We don't want to make a big fuss about major flooding along a particular river when, in fact, it floods every year," he says.
Sharing What They Know
Monitoring the floods and creating the global atlas of flood hazards is only half of the Dartmouth Flood Observatory's mission. They also want to get their information into the hands of disaster management planners and relief agency workers as quickly as they can when a disastrous flood occurs.
"Within large parts of Africa, Asia, and South America, there are no flood warning systems," says Brakenridge. Getting the word out to aid organizations that this online resource is available to them, however, wasn't an easy process. Brakenridge has now teamed up with the AlertNet Website to help get flood maps to the international aid community. Established by the Reuters Foundation, AlertNet provides news and information to international humanitarian aid and disaster relief organizations.
Even though satellite data are freely available from NASA, humanitarian relief agencies often don't have the expertise or resources to directly download and process data. AlertNet presents satellite data as imagery that is easy to understand and more meaningful to emergency managers. "It has taken a long time for the international aid community to recognize the value of satellite imagery, but this is beginning to change because of services such as AlertNet," says Oliver Greening, a data visualizer with ESYS Consulting who has been funded by the European Space Agency to produce satellite images for AlertNet.
Brakenridge hopes that making flood maps publicly available online in near-real time will overcome technological, financial, and infrastructure barriers in developing countries that prevent aid agencies there from taking advantage of satellite data.
Wetlands store large quantities of carbon in both vegetation and in their mucky soil, which means that as they change—getting bigger or smaller, or warming up and drying out—their influence on the global carbon cycle changes. Also, wetlands are the largest source of methane emissions worldwide, and methane is a powerful greenhouse gas. How much methane wetlands emit can vary depending on how flooded they are. Keeping tabs on where and when seasonal wetland flooding is underway will help scientists create more realistic models of the role of naturally occurring greenhouse gases in the climate system.


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Subnational conflicts are the most deadly, widespread, and enduring violent conflicts in Asia. Recent studies by The Asia Foundation indicate that more people have died in the region's 26 subnational conflicts than in international conflicts during the past 20 years. In South and Southeast Asia, active conflicts affect regions that are roughly the size of Indonesia and inhabited by more than 130 million people. In many countries, such as the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Thailand explored in this slideshow, conflicts often derive from deeply rooted religious and ethnic differences and struggles over minority rights. Compiled by In Asia editor Alma Freeman.


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This is my new caricature of the mayor so I thought I'd better put a label on him. I've updated the drawing to reflect his aging face just a little bit. He's actually in pretty good shape, considering. He's got a couple more lines down the sides of his cheeks but he's no Keith Richards. Not bad for a guy who burns midnight oil by the tankerful keeping downtown safe for investors, real estate moguls, office workers and the handful of residents living there.
This is my third caricature of Perez. The first was the one with the mustache when he was elected. He was the muscular strong mayor, the first after the charter change, the first since the late 1940s. Then, I came up with a new caricature after he shaved off the 'stache. I used that one until now. I can't tell for sure, but I think he's dying his hair. It's not like I can see his silver roots, but how many guys his age have chestnut hair?
Now, unfortunately, I'm forced to draw him as a weakling. I don't think his tough talk scares anybody, much less the gangstas, muggers, drag racers, degenerates and other neighborhood criminal types that ruin Hartford for the law-abiding folks. I can just hear the hindsight advice from Eddie's yes-men and women in city hall. "We shouldn't have released that video. That was our big mistake."
I must confess I had high hopes for Mayor Eddie. At the time of his first election, he seemed to be the best man for the job. Now, on top of this global embarrassment, we're still waiting for a one-judge grand jury's verdict on whether or not the mayor will be formally charged as a crook.
I had decided to back off Hartford cartoon-wise for a while. There are so many other issues confronting us in the land of steady bad habits. I was doing fine -- except for the cartoon about that little problem of treating the library like it was Caligula's living room -- until this hit and run on Park Street. I didn't think our capital city could trump Waterbury as the most notorious town in the state, but it did. I don't know what Hartford can possibly do now to improve its image. Maybe hire John Rowland?


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In 1990 Tom Friedman took a container of red eraser shavings and scattered them on the floor in the shape of a soft-edged circle. How do we understand this gesture as art? One of the things that we can do is look for precedents. Below is a typical target painting by Kenneth Noland on the right of it a painting by Mark Rothko.
Rothko was known for his soft edges whereas Noland is known for his hard edges. Rothko is known for his rectangles whereas Noland is renowned for his circles. Both artists came into prominence in the 1950s and had half a century of European abstract art backing their practice up behind them. But by the 1960s abstract art was the fine art establishment which is probably why the younger generation of artists in the 1960s largely rejected it.
What Friedman is doing in his circle of eraser shavings is most certainly referring to abstract art; but we can also say that he is deconstructing it by shifting from the venerable medium of oil on canvas to eraser shavings on a floor. In so doing he was following the deconstructive turn that arose in the fine art during the 1960s and which remains the bedrock for a contemporary practice today. And we can trace deconstructive art further back into the early twentieth century, to the Duchampian Readymade, Cubist collage, and the use of found objects and lowly materials, such as pieces cut out of newspapers, in Cubist and Surrealist sculpture.
One might wonder why we have to bolster the work of a contemporary artist by referencing it to the history of modern/postmodern art; well, it is one of those things that we tend to do in the discipline of fine art. One way of rationalising this protocol relates to the notion of the creative game which I have mentioned elsewhere (Coulter-Smith 2006). Understanding contemporary art in terms of the creative game leads to the notion of people who are able to play that game skilfully, and more importantly people who are able to develop what Jean-Francois Lyotard (1984) has referred to as a "new move". The notion of the "new move", however, presupposes and is encompassed by old moves. Which is to say, the "game" is bigger than any individual artist.
We can see this very clearly in the comparison of images above; on the left we have an illustration of a classic work of "deconstructive" or "transgressive" art, Piero Manzoni's Artist's Shit, 1961. On the right we have Tom Friedman's 1992 variation which consists of a tiny half millimetre diameter ball of the artist's shit placed on a white, 51 cm cube pedestal. The white cube signifies yet another reference, this time to black squares, black cubes and white cubes.
On the left we see one of the founding icons of modern/postmodern art, Kasimir Malevich's Black Square 1915. This is the original minimalist gesture. On the right is displayed an elaboration of the Black Square by the Russian Constructivist El Lissitzky in 1924 which uses a cubic version of Malevich's black square as a pedestal for a podium from which Lenin would be able to deliver his speeches. Returning to Friedman's half millimetre ball of his faeces on a white cube pedestal, we can note that it is not much of a transition from a black cube to a white cube; but one can also note that the term "white cube" is used within the art world to refer to a typical modern art gallery with its minimal-modernist white walls.
So, considering Friedman's ball of faeces on a pedestal, we have two ideal forms (the sphere and the cube) one white the other almost black. The ideality of the sphere is deconstructed by its material which is faeces, generally considered impure. The cube is not only a cube but also represents, metaphorically, the fine art system. Symbolically, the individual artist sits on top of the ideal realm that is the art system and, metaphorically, defecates on it. One remembers here Duchamp's metaphorical urination on the fine art system when he conceived Fountain, 1917; which, quite extraordinarily, has become the most influential work of art of the twentieth century.
Friedman's tiny sphere of faeces perfectly centred on its white cube pedestal is replete with references, as is the circle of red eraser shavings scattered on the gallery floor in the shape of a soft edge circle. We could say that both works are self-referential in the sense that they are discursive art objects: objects that reflect on the discourse of art. The obvious question that this observation invokes is whether it is possible to have a work of art that does not have such references? Such a work would be truly original, but is this possible, or even desirable?
We can shift to another high concept work of art: Ceal Floyer's Projection (Nail), 1997, shown at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003. The work consists of a projector projecting an image of a nail hammered into a white wall projected on to a white wall of the gallery. Again there is an element of self-reference in the sense that the photograph of the nail in the white wall refers to the white walls of an art gallery. But the self-referentiality also steps outside the boundary of art. We can contemplate Projection (Nail) as a philosophical statement regarding the way in which the concrete reality of the nail is replaced by an immaterial image.
One is reminded here of the conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth's classic One and Three Chairs which the artist claims he conceived in 1965, but did not actually create until later (Buchloh 1989). Kosuth's One and Three Chairs is a philosophical meditation on the relationship between signs and physical objects. We have an actual chair, a black-and-white photograph of that chair and a dictionary definition of the word "chair".
In his 1929 painting The Treason of Images Magritte commented upon the betrayal of reality by the sign. Animals, we suppose, are in much more intimate contact with physical reality due to the fact that they lack language and perhaps imagination. Memory, imagination and language provide human beings with the capacity to plan actions in the mind before implementing them. Daniel Dennett (1996) has pointed out that this gives human beings a considerable evolutionary advantage because if we had to test all our actions in reality it is possible that some of the results could be damaging or fatal.
Although we possess a far from perfect ability to think before we act we do have sufficient ability such that our capacity for survival is greater than that of most other animals. It is also the case that our capacity for constructing models of the world is so powerful that one wonders whether there will come a point where we do not need reality. Jean Baudrillard constructed an entire intellectual career on the basis of a post-surrealist theory of hyperreality and simulation in which the simulacrum (a representation, copy etc.) became not only as good as but superior to the original (see Baudrillard 1994) .
We can contemplate, for example, our capacity to become totally absorbed in a film or play, reacting and making observations on it as if it were real. Obviously we are aware that it is not real, nevertheless, the way in which we think about such simulacra is extremely similar to the way in which we think about real actions and events. There is also something philosophically curious about the profession of acting because here are people who dedicate their lives to pretending. And what is more fascinating is that we accept their pretense without a second thought. The fact that somebody can be celebrated, can become a "superstar" for their capacity to pretend points to a fascinating intersection of the dimensions of common sense and imagination.
It is as if our grasp on reality is a little bit more tenuous than it ought to be. Such observations serve as a basis to contemplate what Magritte may have meant by his use of the term "treason" in reference to images. Representational images betray reality, but for the Surrealists this act of betrayal pointed towards the core of creativity, which is in turn based upon the nature of mind.
But from the standpoint of contemporary semiotics we would understand signs not as mysterious phenomena but as socially determined. For example, Peter Bürger notes that the "positing of meaning is always the achievement of individuals and groups; there is no such thing as a meaning that exists independent of a human communications nexus" (1984: 66). And he argues that the Surrealists were unaware that this was the case citing as evidence their belief that chance—not common sense, in the sense of a community of sense—is the source of truth. Bürger notes that the Surrealists saw "something like objective meaning" in chance (1984: 66) and that "for the Surrealists, meaning is contained in the chance constellations of objects and events that they take note of as 'objective chance'" (1984: 66); which is to say, for the Surrealists, the reality of chance is more real than reality.
We can see this fairly clearly in Magritte's," Key of Dreams, 1930, in which the relationship between images and words is deliberately deconstructed as if images and their labels were put into a hat and shaken.
It is possible to counter Bürger's critique of Surrealism by pointing out that the object of the Surrealists' artistic interest was imagination and creativity rather than common sense. Nobody, not even a Surrealist, could exist without common sense. But common sense is that which is given whereas creativity is about shifting, dislocating and invaginating the manifold fabric of common sense (which indicates the intimate relationship between creativity and common sense). When we understand the Surrealists primary interest as an exploration of creative processes we can understand chance more as a methodology than as a substitute for reality or truth. Deconstructive processes such as metaphor, displacement, dislocation, transposition, superimposition, etc. become ways of both articulating and understanding creative process. Chance simply points to an equivalence between the quantum leaps between ideas in the mind and coincidences and accidents or mistakes in the material world. We sometimes equate creativity with intuition, but intuition can be understood as an unconscious form of common sense. Even imagination can be habitual, but an imaginative leap is something else.
Is pouring a container full of eraser shavings onto the floor a leap of imagination or can it be considered in terms of a consciously conceived displacement of knowledge common to a specific discipline: in this case that of modern/postmodern art? The degree to which the act is repetition or a quantum leap determines the degree to which we can judge it as a good, very good or excellent work of art. In the case of Friedman's eraser shaving circle we would deem it competent, nothing more. The pouring of references over such a work does not improve the gesture, it merely frames it as "art".
Baudrillard, Jean. 1994. Simulacra and simulation. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press.
Buchloh, Benjamin. (1989). "From the Aesthetic of Administration to Institutional Critique (Some Aspects of Conceptual Art 1962-1969". In L'art conceptuel: une perspective. C. Gintz. Paris, Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris.
Bürger, Peter. 1984. Theory of the Avant-Garde. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Dennett, Daniel. 1996. Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Consciousness. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.


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The Broncos will face their former quarterback Brian Griese when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers come to Denver this weekend.
Denver cut Griese in 2003. He then played for Miami, Tampa Bay and Chicago before returning to Tampa Bay this spring.
The Bucs are 3-1, with all three victories coming when Griese started. He engineered come-from-behind victories over the Bears and Packers.
He's also thrown six interceptions, and Tampa Bay coach Jon Gruden says that has to change.
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Late-night travelers be warned: Getting onto the Baltimore Beltway from Interstate 95 south of the city could be tricky.
According to the State Highway Administration, the ramps from northbound and southbound I-95 to westbbound Interstate 695 will close tonight and tomorrow night at 11 p.m. and remain closed until 5 a.m. Travelers will be diverted onto eastbound I-695, where they will be directed to the Hollins Ferry Road exit, where they can circle around to get on the westbound Beltway.
The highway agency said the closings will allow road crews to place pavement markings and set up concrete barriiers as part of a $3 million plan to widen the I-95 westbound ramps -- now the scene of frequent backups. The entire project is expected to take until fall to complete. Additional midday and overnight closings are expected as work progresses on the project.
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Charlie Sheen friend Steve Brodersen insists it was excessive laughter that landed the Two and a Half Men star in the hospital with a hernia injury, but porn star Kacey Jordan has a different story, telling TMZ it instead had something to do with chugging vodka and smoking cocaine all night.
For his part, Sheen doesn't think he's going to die, with a friend telling People, "In his eyes, he thinks, 'I'm having fun, so what? I'm making $2 million a week, the show has the best ratings, I show up for up work. What's the problem?'" Hard to argue with that logic.
TNT has issued an apology for Tracy Morgan's comment during an NBA pregame segment where the actor said Sarah Palin was "serious" material for pleasuring oneself. Watch Charles Barkley's priceless reaction.
While The Social Network is the odds-on-favorite to win best picture, producer Scott Rudin is not taking any chances, positioning Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for an SNL cameo alongside star Jesse Eisenberg, who plays him in the movie.
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Can Pope Bring God Back to Europe?
Nick Spencer, Foreign Policy
The Vatican's recently-founded Pontifical Council for New Evangelization seems at first glance to be a somewhat redundant enterprise. Isn't the Catholic Church already pretty good at spreading the faith? Not in its own backyard, it turns out.
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High risk for Dubai's high rise residents
Know what to when there's a real emergency in your building? Maybe it's time you did. Precious de Leon, asks who's responsible for your safety at home and at work.
November 14, 2011 4:21 by Precious de Leon
I once heard of an architect friend's work colleague who never stayed above the 4th floor of any residential building or hotel. He says he did this because the fireman's ladder does not go any farther than the 4th floor. He valued his life more than the view, he says.
How many of us really think about this safety issue when we daydream of living in penthouses and top floor suites? Hotels even charge us a premium for the high rise views but it never comes with clauses for safety in case of fire or natural disasters.
Nobody never wants to think about that, especially not while they're on vacation. But what about safety at home? As this Emirates 24/7 article points out, residents living in higher floors are not aware of what to do in a worst-case scenario.
There have been only four instances I can remember that I have had to use the fire escape in an emergency situation in the UAE.
The first instance was in a four-story building in Dubai. My office was on the second floor and the fire was on the fourth. The next two were in Sharjah: one was for an earthquake and the other was for a fire in the garbage shoot. For the former, I had to go down from the sixth floor and the latter forced me to climb down from the 24th floor of a 26-storey building. The latest one was about three years ago in Kipp's previous office in Dubai Media City. I went down to the lobby from the 19th floor only to find out that the alarm was triggered by someone in the 28-storey building smoking in the fire escape.
In all four cases, people vacated the building using the fire escape.
But there have been times when the fire alarm went off and most of the people in the office didn't budge. We all just assumed it was a false alarm, because it often was. So what happens when it becomes the real deal?
There are two issues with getting people more aware about safety hazards of living and working in a high-rise building. First, it's not legally mandatory for building developers or owners to create an emergency evacuation plan for their tenants. Secondly, can you imagine how much tougher of a sell it would be to show a prospective property buyer or renter the amazing view and then hand them a thick pamphlet about the evacuation plan in case of fire. It's not exactly a deal closer, is it?
Of course we can't go around being overly cautious to a point of paranoia. But it is a wonder why society has come a long way with creating skyscrapers that seemingly reach for the heavens but no real means of safety or rescue for those who live at the top.
I hardly think the solution is to keep all buildings no higher than four storeys. High rise buildings, after all, are an efficient use of space. But shouldn't even the most basic safety programs progress as much as our feats in construction?
Maybe some arms need to be twisted to get any kind of safety regulation for evacuation plans. Who do you think should be responsible for this? Is it the government? Is it the building owners? Or is it on the tenants to get together and come up with a plan?
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Me thinks Kipp should up its editing skills, this article is full of mistakes people…. MS word autocorrect should have picked up on most of them? did you type this on a smart phone? common…
as for the subject, i avoid high floors like the plague, there are a number of reasons why fourth or 5th are the most i would go up to. fire is only one of them…a power outage is another.
Without pointing mistypings :o)
Most of this article raise a very important point on architecture and urbanism : Do we always manage to prevent worth case scenario?
No we sure do not, because on a statistical point of vue, the "Case" has only a very few chance to show up, but experience tells us that this case always happens" once" somewhere, it is just a matter of time….
Shall architects and other concerned personal be more civil responsible ? Yes but at what cost, and for what benefice.
If you try design a Skyscraper with 100% safety exit solutions… you will fail there is no 100% in this life.
Therefore it is not a solution to accept that real estate promoters and architects (to name a few) could completely avoid the point of security.
And in most country i know, they do not, because laws (this what they are made for) are more and more restrictive on security conditions in order to get a construction license. (especially for constructions receiving public).
Since now many years, The fire departments are very closely involved in the process, and they even have the right to refuse a license or delay an opening until the place is conform.
This is good, even if it raises the price of constructions and exploitations, but there is no way we could avoid the risk… Risk is part of the process of living.
So far, living only beneath the 4th flour of a building is a very funny behavior, because if you really want to live that way, so it is imperative (on a statistical point of vue) that you completely avoid to :
– Travel by car
– Travel by plane
– Go on holiday to most of the tropical countries
(Almost only travel by walking)
– Leave close to any sea side or big river…
– Avoid any earthquake like country
– Smoke, Eat meat….
– Drink anything but plain water from the bottle of a french moutain :o)
– Avoid all sports such as diving, flying… and golf (yes it is a statistical dvery dangerous sport )
– Never kiss anybody you do not know and be aware it is 100% in good health….
And we can go like there for many more.
This was just to remember you that life is a risky job :o) at any floor.
Sorry for my English which is not my mother's tongue.
Regards to all
A year or two ago, the interim Owners' Association in my 34-storey building put together an excellent presentation to advise residents what to do in the event of a fire, what to do to avoid starting a fire and how to use extinguishers, etc. A total of two, yes two people turned up to the presentation …..


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Once I got some choice advice about hotel room service from a well-known chef. "I always order a club sandwich," he said, "because nobody can screw that up." To this day, when I find myself in unpromising or ugly restaurant and menu situations, I always order the club and the club always bails me out. The club sandwich is an iconic piece of Americana: Food historians say the first recipe for one was published in 1894, and that it was popularized simultaneously in train cars, in the dining room of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, at the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904, and in the casino restaurant at the Saratoga Club House in New York State. A club sandwich can be composed of anything the sandwich maker likes, of course (I've seen softshell crab clubs, egg salad clubs, and, once, a chopped liver club). But I think that to earn the moniker, a club must be a double-decker and must contain slices of very ripe tomato and very crispy bacon. Frilly toothpicks, optional. Napkins and good pickles, mandatory.


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In yet another instance of discrimination against disabled people, a woman was today offloaded from a SpiceJet flight from Kolkata to Goa. Jeeja Ghosh, a teacher at Kolkata's Indian Institute of Cerebral Palsy and a frequent flier across the country and abroad, was offloaded because the pilot felt she was not fit to fly. She has travelled alone in the past, but the pilot did not allow her to do it this time.


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Aside from the Pipettes, Friday afternoon was more of a behind-the-scenes thing. I perused the posters at Flatstock, interviewed a Canadian band called the Cliks for a story to run in April and connected with several band publicists.
Friday night was all about the music.
After the Last Town Chorus, we went to see Andrew Bird (pictured here). He focused mainly on his excellent new record, "Armchair Apocrypha" (out March 20 on Fat Possum). The Chicago musician just gets better on stage every time I see him, and he was pretty good to start. He's added a bass player to his live lineup, which also features drummer Martin Dosh, and the low-end helps shape the presence of his songs on stage. He sings, plays violin, guitar and xylophone, and whistles. It's fascinating to watch him record and loop a violin part, then add a guitar figure on top of it and whistle counter-melodies between verses. He's already toying with the arrangements of his new songs, which made for a thrilling ride on a fierce version of "Plasticities" as the noodly, meandering verses resolved into a tight, defiant-sounding chorus. He also drew a huge crowd (for SXSW, anyway), which was heartening to see.
Next was Pagoda, a self-described grunge band from Brooklyn. There's been buzz about this group, the musical project of actor Michael Pitt, but it was hard to see why at the Ecstatic Peace showcase. It was pretty boring sludge rock, and the his audience dwindled as the set wore on (and on and on).
Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore was next, though, and the Connecticut native and Northampton resident packed them in for a set of uncharacteristically mellow acoustic tunes with a drummer and violinist. Producer John Agnello (the Hold Steady, Son Volt, Dinosaur Jr.) was in the crowd here, and he told me he's heading to western Massachusetts soon to start work with Moore on an album of these songs.
Finally, it was off to see the Electric Soft Parade, a rollicking rock 'n' roll band from Brighton, England. Singer and guitarist/pianist Alex White evidently had some sort of technical difficulties, and although he was clearly frustrated, whatever problems he was having were hardly noticeable in the audience.
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Annual General Meeting
Finally, the Army is promoting the right officers.
Almost all these new generals have had multiple tours of duty leading soldiers in battle. In other words, they have a depth of knowledge about asymmetric warfare that the generals at the start of the Iraq war did not. And many of them were promoted straight from their combat commands. That is, they didn't have to scurry through the usual bureaucratic maze.
For instance, just last year, nine of the 38 new one-stars had been executive officers to a commanding general—and, in most cases, not a combat commander—at the time they were promoted. This year, only four of the 40 were serving in that role, and all of them under commanders who had something to do with combat.
How this change happened is another intriguing tale. Usually, the promotion board consists of the upper echelon of the Army's bureaucracy—the vice chief of staff or one of his deputies and the generals in charge of various commands. In 2007, the promotion board included only one general who reported in from Iraq.
This year, Petraeus wasn't the only unusual general on the board. Another panelist was Lt. Gen. Peter Chiarelli, Defense Secretary Robert Gates' senior military assistant, who was also a corps commander in Iraq and the author of several articles in military journals calling for an overhaul of the Army's personnel policies. Others included Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of the Joint Special Operations Command, who, like Petraeus, was called back from Iraq to serve on the board; Maj. Gen. John Mulholland, commander of special operations for U.S. Central Command (which covers Iraq and Afghanistan); and Lt. Gen. Ann Dunwoody, commander of Materiel Command and a former parachutist in the 82nd Airborne Division, who, as the Army's top-ranking female officer, is well disposed to the idea of opening doors.
Any officer looking at the names on this panel—and the ones I've listed aren't the only ones—would very clearly get the message: The Cold War is over, and so, finally, is the Cold War Army.
In October 2007, a month before Petraeus was appointed to chair the promotion board, Secretary Gates gave a speech to the Association of the United States Army—usually a forum for back-patting boilerplate, but Gates sounded the trumpet for what many in the audience must have heard as revolution. Speaking of the officers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, "who have been tested in battle like none other in decades" and "have seen the complex, grueling face of war in the 21st century up close," Gates said:
These men and women need to be retained, and the best and brightest advanced to the point that they can use their experience to shape the institution to which they have given so much. And this may mean reexamining assignments and promotion policies that in many cases are unchanged since the Cold War.
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For Delta State football coach Ron Roberts, it was simply a matter of keeping the faith after his team dropped its third game of the season on Oct. 28.
After North Alabama pulled away late for a 31-7 victory in Cleveland, Roberts' Statesmen were 6-3 overall and had two conference losses – not exactly a high-profile resume with which to impress the NCAA Division II playoff selection committee.
"We lost a heartbreaker to Harding but had a good week of practice and beat West Georgia pretty good," Roberts said earlier this week. "Then the game with UNA, we fell apart."
Even after that loss, Roberts said he remained confident that the Statesmen were a good football team and that the playoffs remained a distinct possibility.
Five straight wins later, Delta State (11-3) is in Saturday's championship game against Minnesota-Duluth (14-0).
That's quite a turnaround for a team that was barely scraping by until late in the season. Four of Delta State's wins this season have been by six points or fewer.
Those wins were early in the season, however. In its winning streak, the Statesmen have been steamrolling opponents by an average of 17.2 points.
Roberts said he saw something in his team after the UNA loss that gave him hope.
The beating at home by North Alabama was followed by what Roberts called "a great week of practice" and a narrow 33-27 win against Ouachita.
The Statesmen have been rolling ever since.
"I knew our backs were against the wall after we got that second Division II loss, but I felt like if we could win out we would be in good shape. At that point we were hoping to get the No. 5 or No. 6 spot (in the playoff seedings.)"
Instead, a series of late-season upsets left Delta State in a three-way tie for first place in the GSC and a first-round bye for the playoffs.
"Everything fell our way," he said.
Now that the Statesmen are Florence-bound for the first time since 2000, Roberts said he doesn't expect them to get caught up in the hoopla of the game.
"We've been on some big stages," he said. "We've played in five TV games this year and twice on national TV. I don't think we're going to get big-eyed. I just want our guys to soak it all in and have fun."


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The dark times came to Vvanderfell. Vivec loses his power, Imperial Legion convened to Cyrodiil and forces of Dagoth Ur prepare to invade Morrowind. Make allies or deny them and keep going by yourself. You are Nerevarine. And the destiny of Morrowind is belong to you.
Here you can see improvements of Vivec what we made. Now all the plazas are open and they are similar to Molag Mar plaza. By the way, there is a new port in the city and a new beautiful square in front of High Chapel.


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As part of our coverage of the Office of Tax Simplification's Small Business Tax Review, we're exploring the three options for IR35 reform laid out in the report. The following analysis comes to you straight from our sister site, Contractor Advisor – where you will find lots more useful information on all things Contractor-y.
As part of its report on simplifying Tax for small businesses, the Office of Tax Simplification raised two possible short-term solutions. One was to suspend IR35 with immediate effect, and the other was to keep IR35 but improve how it is administered.
It's time to ask: should we really consider keeping IR35? Though most contractors would firmly reject the idea, it's only fair that we examine the argument put forward by the OTS…
The first thing to mention is that the OTS's big idea for simplifying this tricky area of tax legislation lies in a long-term restructuring of the tax system. They believe that merging income tax with National Insurance will largely make IR35 redundant. However, such radical change will take a long time to achieve – if it's achieved at all – so, other measures are needed to help contractors andfreelancers in the short-term. The question is, can there really be a case for retaining this complex piece of legislation? It's called the Office of Tax Simplification, not the Office of Tax Continuation, after all.
The OTS says that under this plan, IR35 will remain but with a commitment to specific changes to provide better support to the IR35 affected population. By gaining feedback from contractors and contractor groups (such as the PCG), the OTS has found anecdotal evidence that the burden of IR35 has decreased over the ten plus years that it has been in existence.
And this does make sense. After all, experience makes people more savvy and the number of specialist contractor accountants has increased, providing specialist services for those particularly concerned about their employment status. The number of websites and blogs offering advice on the issue has also helped increase awareness and understanding. It's a typical case of the better the devil you know.
The OTS isn't complacent on this issue and makes clear that even those with an improved understanding of IR35 are still left with an unnecessary administrative burden. That's why they recommend taking steps to simplify it in its current form.
One of the key ideas is to create a list of genuine business criteria which could be used by a contractor to self-certify their employment status. Alternatively, HMRC could publish a list of what practices are likely to attract an investigation. Another suggestion is to eliminate the risk of investigation for those who have taken 'reasonable care' to clarify their IR35 status (by undertaking an IR35 review of contracts, for example).
The OTS also recommends more clarity and transparency over HMRC's investigation process. The aim would be to give 90 per cent of those currently concerned by IR35 more certainty over their status.
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Attention Hy-Vee Shoppers: Autographs Available!
On Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Royals players will be signing autographs at Hy-Vee locations in Gladstone, Lee's Summit, and Overland Park as part of the 27th Annual Royals Wives Food Drive. Participating players will sign autographs for a $5 donation or five cans of food. The locations and players are as follows:
Gladstone (7117 N. Prospect): David DeJesus and Ron Mahay
Lee's Summit (310 SW Ward Road): Billy Butler and Mark Teahen
Overland Park (8900 W. 135th Street): Willie Bloomquist and Mitch Maier
All donations go to St. James Place food pantry and its sister site, the Bishop Sullivan Center. Come on out to get your groceries and meet a few Royals before heading out to Kauffman for Salute to the Negro Leagues Day and the Monarchs jersey giveaway!
KU baseball pulls upset after talk by Buck
The Royals aren't the only area team playing games in Surprise. KU's baseball squad had a weekend set against perennial national powerhouse Arizona State.
On Saturday, the Jayhawks received a tour of Royals camp. Catcher John Buck fashioned a KU baseball hat and gave pointers to a few members of the KU squad, who proceeded to defeat the 4th-ranked Sun Devils, 3-2.
Earlier in camp, Buck sported Florida Gators gear as a prank toward Ryan Shealy, a former Florida standout.
Now, John has adopted another prominent university. Buck proudly took bragging rights over teammate and ASU alum Willie Bloomquist.
Lineup for Spring Opener: Teahen at second
Trey Hillman has released a tentative lineup for Wednesday's charity game against the Texas Rangers (the game will count in the Cactus League standings.)
Coco Crisp – CF
Mike Aviles – SS
David DeJesus – LF
Mike Jacobs – DH
Billy Butler – 1B
Alex Gordon – 3B
Mark Teahen – 2B
Miguel Olivo – C
Willie Bloomquist – RF
Horacio Ramirez – P
Note that Mark Teahen is scheduled to get the start at second, which is expected to be a position up for grabs this spring. Here are photos of Teahen, Bloomquist, Alberto Callaspo, and Esteban German, who are all vying for the position.
Baseball FUNdamentals
The early days of Spring Training are dedicated to the fundamentals. Bunting, sliding, and defense are a few of the drills being emphasized in Surprise. Let's take a look:
First base coach Rusty Kuntz specializes in teaching baserunning. He had everyone take off their shoes for this fun drill…it looks like some of the guys were taken back to their Slip 'n Slide days! (Left – Willie Bloomquist, right – Billy Butler, below right – Alex Gordon)
Every player has been working on getting the bunt down…including Kila Ka'aihue.
The outfielders worked with Kuntz on technique (below left). Coco Crisp later spent some time fielding batting practice.
Crisp and his teammates were all smiles as they took some cuts in the cage.
New Royals take the field
Greetings, Royals fans! Team photographer Chris Vleisides is in Surprise. He sent along pictures from the last few days. Here are some of your newest Royals in action – Willie Bloomquist, Coco Crisp, Tug Hulett, and Mike Jacobs. Check back as we will post more pictures from Spring Training!
FanFest Photos: Main Stage
9,500 fans flocked to the Overland Park Convention Center for the 2009 Royals FanFest. The main stage was home to a variety of question and answer sessions. Let's take a look at a few of the highlights:
General Manager Dayton Moore explains his thoughts on the 2009 Royals to Ryan Lefebvre and Tim Scott. At right, Ryan interviews the newest Royals. (Left to right – Kyle Farnsworth, Mike Jacobs, Coco Crisp, Willie Bloomquist)
The broadcasters held court on Saturday for some unscripted banter. Mike Swanson, VP of Communications and Broadcasting for the Royals, chats with Denny Matthews as Ryan Lefebvre, Steve Stewart, and Joel Goldberg look on.
One of Sunday's most popular events was the Kids Only Press Conference. David DeJesus, Alex Gordon, and Willie Bloomquist took some tough questions from the youngsters in the crowd.
Fans at the main stage took home some new Royals gear as members of the K Crew tossed items to the crowd before and after each event.
FanFest update: Bloomquist, Crisp, Farnsworth and Jacobs to attend
FanFest is just four days away, and we have big news to report! You can meet the newest members of the team this weekend at the Overland Park Convention Center. It was just announced that Willie Bloomquist, Coco Crisp, Kyle Farnsworth, and Mike Jacobs will all be in attendance!
Visit the FanFest page on royals.com where you can purchase tickets and read about all of the activities.
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Say Hey to Willie Bloomquist
The Royals added a versatile player to the puzzle today by signing free agent infielder/outfielder Willie Bloomquist, a veteran of seven seasons, all with Seattle.
Bloomquist batted .279 in 2008 (71 games). Despite limited playing time, he has reached double digits in steals in four of the last five seasons. He has 71 lifetime steals in 87 attempts (82 percent). Willie can play all of the infield and outfield positions. Since 2006, he is the only Major League player to play at least 30 games at second, short, third and the outfield.
Willie is a native of Bremerton, Washington, and a graduate of Port Orchard High in Washington. The Mariners drafted him for the first time in the eighth round of the 1996 draft, but he chose to accept a scholarship to Arizona State University. Bloomquist attended ASU for three years and helped the Sun Devils reach the College World Series championship game in 1998. As a junior, he was named both the Pac-10 Player of the Year and an Academic All-American. Willie also gave up his scholarship so fellow Sun Devil Andrew Beinbrink could return for his senior year. Seattle selected Willie in the third round in 1999, and he had been in the Mariners organization since that point…until today.
Bloomquist will have a short commute to the Spring Training complex in Surprise as he resides in Peoria, Arizona with his wife and two daughters. Welcome Willie!
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At the San Diego Comic-Con this year, I had a chance to interview writer Pam Brady, director Andrew Fleming and star Steve Coogan from the Sundance hit Hamlet 2. The first question I had for Coogan was, "Have you no shame?"
Fortunately, the guy doesn't. It is his commitment to do anything for a laugh that makes a film like Hamlet 2 work. Whether he's freaking out over meeting Elizabeth Shue or finding himself bare-ass naked after a drug-induced black-out, Coogan carries this film on his shoulders.
The story follows an emotionally brittle acting teacher named Dana Marschz (Coogan) in Tucson who is facing the loss of the school's drama program due to budget cuts. In order to breathe some life into the program, Marschz writes an original play called "Hamlet 2" that is guaranteed to offend everyone.
And offensive it is, but not so much that it gets protesters outside of the premiere. That's too bad because some media attention for this film would have been great. I suppose if Brady and Fleming had written a song entitled "Rock Me Retard Jesus" rather than "Rock Me Sexy Jesus," it would have caused more public outrage.
Fleming assured me they planned the film as "an equal-opportunity offender," since it pokes fun at the ACLU as much as it pokes fun at conservative Tucson and the Christian elite. But the charm of the film is that it actually has a heart behind its humor. You don't necessarily feel uncomfortable when you laugh at the jokes (unlike last week's Tropic Thunder, which relied on nervous laughter to be a success). I never thought I'd bemoan the fact that an otherwise offensive movie wasn't offensive enough. (Scratch that… I say that kind of thing all the time.)
Along with Coogan, the cast is great. Catherine Keener is hilarious as Marschz's alcoholic, unfaithful wife, and David Arquette delivers a subdued but funny performance as Keener's extra-marital love interest. But the real casting choice that rivals Coogan is Elizabeth Shue playing herself, who has turned from acting to nursing to find meaning in life.
Shue, who is by far not a great actor, gets the joke that Brady and Fleming were going for, and she lampoons herself all in good humor.
Hamlet 2 offers us a rare moment in cinema to see something truly original. I can't think of a movie in recent history that has the same feel and attitude, or even remotely the same story. It's creative and it's unique. You don't find that sort of thing at the movies nowadays.
THE UPSIDE: Hilarious performances by Steve Coogan and Elizabeth Shue.
THE DOWNSIDE: Apparently not offensive enough to incur the wrath of Timothy Shriver.
ON THE SIDE: At Comic-Con, Pam Brady asked me to write an angry letter to the Christian Coalition to protest the movie. If anyone wants to send a complaint, here's their web site: http://www.cc.org. Angry letters can be sent to Christian Coalition of America, P.O. Box 37030, Washington, DC 20013-7030.


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The Tigers intentionally walked consecutive batters to load the bases for Davis, and the rookie singled over the head of drawn-in left fielder Matt Joyce.
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- Denver Broncos CB Drayton Florence aims for personnel job someday
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- AFC West breakdown: Chiefs have issues on defense heading into first week of regular season
- Jim Leonhard, Keith Brooking no locks to make Broncos' 53-man roster
- Broncos CB Champ Bailey takes over leadership role from Brian Dawkins
- Broncos Peyton Manning, Drayton Florence willing to lead the way
- Still looking for balance in Broncos offense behind Peyton Manning
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- Broncos' depth chart crowded at safety, with Quinton Carter, Jim Leonhard back
Denver Post NFL reporter Jeff Legwold tracks the progress of Broncos rookies this season.
Denver's 2012 draft class
DT Derek Wolfe - He is the Broncos' leading tackler in the preseason (seven stops) and tied for the team lead in sacks (two). He was a three-down player against the Seahawks, seeing time at both defensive end and defensive tackle. With Jason Hunter's injury, Wolfe becomes one of the most important players in the Broncos' defensive front.
QB Brock Osweiler - Saturday's game was the kind they warn rookies about. Osweiler played a half and the Broncos' offense had just one first down as he finished a choppy performance at 5-of-11 passing for 38 yards. He struggled against a more active Seahawks pass rush than he did against the Bears the week before. He had a few bobbles in Monday's practice as well, so while there is plenty of time to consider the decision, the Broncos may still look to add a veteran quarterback once roster cuts are made around the league next week to give the 21-year-old Osweiler a chance to settle in a little more.
RB Ronnie Hillman - Took part in Monday's practice, which included a one-on-one session with quarterback Peyton Manning. Manning went over what the quarterback is looking for on few specific routes, including out of the backfield and with Hillman lined up wide. Hillman has yet to play in the preseason because of a hamstring injury, but he says he's hopeful he's ready to go Sunday afternoon against the 49ers.
CB Omar Bolden - Was in the game Saturday when the Broncos' defensive reserves had a tough evening against the Seahawks' offensive reserves. Things are tight at defensive back for the Broncos with roster cuts looming. But he should get plenty of action at the right cornerback spot in the preseason finale in Arizona to go with some spot duty Sunday against the 49ers.
C Philip Blake - Was playing as the No. 3 center early on in camp, but the Broncos have played C.J. Davis, who had been working at center with the second-team offense, more at left guard of late. That has moved Blake into the No. 2 spot at center.
DE Malik Jackson - Had a sack against the Seahawks to go with another quarterback hit. Has shown good quickness off the snap and, working at defensive tackle with the second-team defense, has forced the issue on the inside. Given he played most of two seasons at defensive end at USC to go with two seasons at defensive tackle at Tennessee, he could be the kind of swing player teams like to have in their reserve linemen.
LB Danny Trevathan - Did not play against the Seahawks because of the ankle injury he suffered against the Bears and spent last week sitting out of practice. But he returned to practice Monday, and given the Broncos are fairly thin at linebacker right now because of injuries to Keith Brooking and Mike Mohamed, he is expected to play at least some against the 49ers.
The rest of the rookie class:
DE Jamie Blatnick - He has quietly been active from the left defensive end spot and is tied for second on the team in tackles with six in the preseason.
LS Aaron Brewer - Continues to be fairly consistent when given the opportunity to play. He snapped on five punts against the Seahawks and showed good velocity.
LB Elliot Coffey - He has not been credited with a tackle in the two preseason games in limited duty. He still finds himself behind some of the other undrafted rookies on the team's depth chart and needs to find a way to get into the action.
LB Jerry Franklin - Lined up as the second-team weak-side linebacker against the Seahawks and was credited with three tackles in the game. The team struggled, however, overall in run defense and he is one of the players who have to do a little better at the point of attack.
S Duke Ihenacho - In the end it will be difficult for him to climb up the depth chart enough to make final 53, but he continues to be a quality practice squad candidate and finished with two tackles against the Seahawks to go with a tackle on defense and on special teams against the Bears.
LB Steven Johnson - Like most of his defensive co-workers, he had a difficult night in trying to close out things against Seattle. He lined up at middle linebacker with the second-team defense and finished with four of his five tackles of the preseason against the Seahawks.
TE Anthony Miller - Has had limited work overall - he has not been targeted on a pass attempt in two preseason games.
S Anthony Perkins - Like most of the other reserve safeties, his practice snaps will take a hit this week since Quinton Carter has returned to practice following arthroscopic knee surgery earlier in training camp. Perkins will have to make something happen on special teams.
T Mike Remmers - Has worked as a backup left tackle and has flashed good footwork at times. Overall, however, the Broncos reserves have surrendered four sacks in two games.
WR Gerell Robinson - Unless the Broncos pick youth over experience at his position, he is going to need the team to keep seven receivers - a rarity - to have a shot at the 53-man roster. Did not have a catch Saturday night, but continues to show his potential in practice.
G Wayne Tribue - He continues to work at the right guard spot with the backups. The Broncos did struggle mightily to run the ball against the Seahawks, overall, once the starters left the game.
G Austin Wuebbels - He plays tough and keeps scrapping on every play, but plays a little stiff in his hips at times, which inhibits his ability to keep his leverage on the defender. He could be a practice squad prospect.
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Christmas "On The Square" at S. Klein!
Founded in 1906 as a wholesale manufacturer of women's garments by Samuel Klein, a tailor's son who emigrated from Russia at the age of five, S. Klein on the Square had evolved into a "full line" store by the early 60's. They staked out the rarefied territory between department store and discounter, in a similar vein to E.J. Korvette and Alexander's. Although Klein would eventually carry everything from furniture to food, the emphasis remained on fashion, for women in particular. In 1966, they were acquired by McCrory Corporation, assuming the role of high-end counterpart to McCrory's Lerner Shops division and their growing stable of variety stores. Sadly, Klein was another in a long list of 70's recession casualties, gradually closing stores in the early part of the decade and gone altogether by its end.
But times were good when the photo above, showing the Woodbridge, New Jersey location in one of its first Christmas selling seasons, was taken. This store opened on November 11, 1963 (a few weeks after the opening of a lookalike Klein unit in Greenbelt, Maryland), causing "jammed traffic for more than three miles in both directions on Route 1", with some customers walking a half mile to the store, the next day's New York Times stated. At a massive 360,000 square feet with parking for 4,000 cars, the Woodbridge store was Klein's top selling location by 1970.
A little snow would have made this the perfect scene, but I'll bet that parking lot was a bear as it was!
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- Paul DucaDecember 23, 2011 at 7:15 AM
Bye, bye babyReplyDelete
remember you're my baby
when they give you the eye,
and just to show that I care
I will write and declare
that I'm on the loose
but I'm still on the square.
Merry Christmas!
We had a Klein's in Yonkers NY where I lived, and also a huge one in the Bronx. I remember buying parakeets there when I was very young in the early 60's. Nice article!ReplyDeleteReplies
Where was Klein's in the Bronx? I grew up in the Bronx in the '60s shopping at Klein's in Yonkers.Delete
Paul – Perfect lyric for the occasion - that's one movie I really need to watch one of these days! Hope you had a great Christmas.ReplyDelete
Laurie – Thanks very much! I look forward to digging deeper into Klein's history for future posts.
The Yonkers store, which predated this by a few years, had parking on the roof -- or at least, on a level that allowed you to enter via a staircase that actually went DOWN to the top floor -- due to its location built into a hillside. Also had the greenhouse as seen here. It later became a Bradlees, and is now subdivided into a number of stores.ReplyDeleteReplies
Gosh, these were gigantic stores! Unusual for stores of this type to be built on a grade like that. Was this near Cross Country Shopping Center? Always good to learn more about S. Klein!


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