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This does exist, but it is rare and quite expensive. Gustav Klimt: With a Catalogue Raisonne of His Paintings by Fritz Novotny and Johannes Dobai. Powells seems to be cheapest, starting at $600. I'm actually about 75% going to get the upcoming Catalogue Raisonne of Stuart Davis' work. If you pre-order through Amazon they knock over $100 off the price ($300). I think I would look at it enough to justify the purchase. But I could never tell my wife how much I paid... Shit, I don't know where that "p" came from. I was going to say perhaps you were so verklimpt at the thought of such a tomb, you couldn't see the keys, but I thought better of it...

Shouldn't they have come forth, oh I don't know, while he was still alive???? 2 More James Brown Children Identified COLUMBIA, S.C. — DNA testing on about a dozen people who claim James Brown was their father has found that at least two of them are telling the truth, a longtime adviser to the late soul singer said Friday. Several tests have come back negative, while others are pending, said Buddy Dallas, who did not have exact numbers Friday night. Dallas refused to identify the two people whose DNA showed they were Brown's children, but The Augusta Chronicle reported that LaRhonda Petitt, a 45-year-old retired flight attendant and teacher in Houston, showed the newspaper a report that says there is a 99.99 percent probability she is Brown's daughter. She would be the oldest of Brown's children. Brown picked out Petitt's mother from the crowd at a show in Los Angeles in the early 1960s, and she became the singer's girlfriend, sometimes ironing his shirts before his shows, Petitt said. But when her mother became pregnant, she split with Brown and moved back to Houston. She would point to the television when Brown was performing and tell her daughter the singer was her father, Petitt told the newspaper. Petitt said that she met Brown at concerts and spoke to him over the phone, but that he never acknowledged being her father. "I was angry that he was out there making all this money, and he wasn't doing anything for my mother and me," Petitt told the newspaper. "I could have had a better life." Brown died Dec. 25 of heart failure at age 73. His body was entombed in a crypt at the home of one of his daughters in March. Brown's will, which is being disputed in court, names six children. One possible child of Brown's who hasn't undergone a DNA test is 6-year-old James Brown II, the son of Tomi Rae Hynie. Hynie was one of Brown's backup singers and said she is the singer's fourth wife. But Brown's attorneys continue to dispute that claim, and the boy and his mother are not in the singer's will. In court papers filed in recent weeks, Dallas said Brown told him that James II was not his child and that instead of calling him "son," he referred to him as "little man." Whether Petitt makes a claim to Brown's estate depends on whether the will holds up, said her lawyer, Jim Griffin. He would at least like Petitt's two daughters to be eligible for a trust the signer set up to pay for his grandchildren's education, he said. Petitt said she has grown less bitter about Brown as the years have passed. I love my daddy," she told the Chronicle. "When I hear my daddy's music, it just freezes me." http://www.accessatlanta.com/entertainment...ames_Brown.html

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story...l_boondoggles/1

Some more info about this bridge from the site I got the first photo from....Don't know the first thing about bridge construction, but I still can tell if something looks solid or not. It just doesn't. The arch shape doesn't seem right. Look at how long those bridges in Europe have lasted with a classic arch supporting everything. Never have seen a bridge or overpass like this that I can recall. Plus, the anti-icing solution that comes out of this bridge, is it corrosive like salt is??? http://www.johnweeks.com/~jweeks/bridges/pages/ms16.html

What a weak looking bridge!!!! Which one would seem stronger? The The solid old arch filled bridge, or this one???/

One of the local anchors was talking about witnesses hearing explosions, and what could have caused them....I'd imagine those massive pillars collapsing would sound just like explosions.

http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_213191448.html

Brain-Injured Man Speaks After 6 Years Aug 1 01:01 PM US/Eastern By MALCOLM RITTER AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) - A brain-damaged man who could communicate only with slight eye or thumb movements for six years can speak again, after stimulating electrodes were placed in his brain, researchers report. The 38-year-old also regained the ability to chew and swallow, which allows him to be spoon-fed, rather than relying on nourishment through a tube in his belly. The man's brain was injured during an assault, he spent six years with only occasional signs of consciousness and no useful movement of his limbs. In an experiment, researchers implanted electrodes in his brain for a procedure called deep brain stimulation, which is routinely done for Parkinson's disease and some other illnesses. They turned the electrodes on and off over six months to test their effect, and reported the results in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. The man, who was not identified at the family's request, now has them on throughout the day. Experts called the report exciting but cautioned that the approach must be tested in more people before its value can be known. The researchers have already begun a study of additional patients. Before the electrodes were implanted the man was in what doctors call a "minimally conscious state." That means he showed only occasional awareness of himself and the environment. In a coma or vegetative state, by contrast, patients show no outward signs of awareness. There are no firm statistics on how many Americans are in a minimally conscious state, but one estimate suggests 112,000 to 280,000. Doctors may try medications to improve their condition but no drugs have been firmly established as helpful. The man described in the Nature study speaks in a breathy but audible voice, said Dr. Joseph Giacino, a co-lead author. He does not initiate conversations but can reply to others, typically with one to three words, said Giacino, of the JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute in Edison, N.J. Several weeks ago he recited the first half of the Pledge of Allegiance without assistance, Giacino said. The man also recovered some movement. He can demonstrate motions such as brushing his teeth, said study lead author Dr. Nicholas Schiff of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. He can't actually carry out that task because the tendons in his arms contracted after years of immobility. "He is still totally dependent and severely disabled," Schiff said. But the treatment has helped him, the man's mother said in a statement. "Now, my son can eat, express himself and let us know if he is in pain. He enjoys a qualify of life we never thought possible," she said. Dr. James Bernat, a professor of neurology at Darmouth Medical School who didn't participate in the new work, called the Nature report exciting and important. Further study is needed to shed light on how many patients would respond and how to identify the minimally conscious patients with the best chance of being helped, he said. He noted that a similar treatment did not help Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman in a vegetative state whose care triggered national controversy before her death in 2005. That's the typical outcome for electrical brain stimulation in vegetative states, he said. Dr. Ross Zafonte of the University of Pittsburgh, who also was familiar with the study results, agreed that "we need to know more" and said the approach is "very interesting and holds great promise."

Does he have Ruth hit, or pitch??? A good lefty starter is hard to find. Perhaps he Dh's the days he doesn't pitch.....

Geez Al, what more can the braves give to you all???? From the AJC blog... By David O'Brien July 31, 2007 3:15 PM | Link to this Braves added lefty BEAU JONES to the initial four-prospect package for Tex and Mahay. That was probably got the deal completed because the Rangers were concerned about Harrison’s shoulder, but I’ll let you know when I hear for sure. It was the four previously reported, including Harrison, plus Jones, 20, a 2005 supplemental first-rounder rated the No. 14 prospect by BA last winter. Folks, that’s five of the Braves’ top 18 prospects that went to Texas in this deal. FIVE. Wow. You don’t see that often.

Penn and Teller's show tries to find out..... http://www.shoutfile.com:80/v/PfitBVgu

Heard about it late Sunday night on baseball tonight, they mentioned he was even on baseball tonight one season, 1991 perhaps? Sad of course for everyone that loved him, or considered him a friend....sad for me, because I remember that World Series being just great, with Pops hitting like crazy at 38 in his second and last chance to be in the W.S. At least two now dead from that Pirate team.

Great photos Mark!!! It would be so very weird to see a ballgame in St. Louis, and it not be the ol' generic (yet somehow loveable to me) Busch stadium. Didn't know you could see the "old" Courthouse from the stadium, very cool!

More on Elvis....If these articles don't make you all warm and fuzzy, nothing will...sigh.... http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/news/ar...b&fext=.jsp http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/news/article...sp&c_id=atl

No Al, you didn't get Salty and 3 prospects you got(or are going to get) the top 3 braves prospects(perhaps 4) according to baseball America. I heard Buster Olney say the other day that some baseball guy, a scout or exec say he'd trade Teixeira for Saltalamacchia (Learn to spell it soon! ) straight up!!!! He is a better defender than Brian McCann, right now. Better arm, better blocker. If we hadn't stupidly signed McCann for 6 years, I'd imagine he'd be the one to go....except the Braves front office LOVES him. Salty had fans drooling over him the first time he played. Guys on the AJC(ATL paper) blog saw him at the game and were going overboard on him. He is a switch hitter who was more than willing to learn 1st base(Any chance you guys use him there?) just to play. Senile dumb fuck Bobby Cox never really gave him a chance. He'd play 2 games a week at 1st, and perhaps 1 game a week behind the plate. Rarely pinch hit because we need 13 pitchers for Cox to somehow overuse, instead of a 3rd catcher. Kinda hard to really get on a role that way. Give him some time to learn the new league, plus, he's only 22. Elvis???? The AJC beat writer saw the youngster(18?) in spring training as was saying how very good he already looked. He too stood out among the other young players. But, being so young, the jury will be out for a few years on him. Though I imagine your team would be smart enough to play him there if he is ready at 19-20. We kept Yunel Escobar rotting in the minors until this year, and he has clearly been ready for the majors for awhile. Don't know much about Harrington, just that he and Jo-Jo Reyes were our best pitching prospects. Reyes has pitched ok, but doesn't have "great" stuff, just a low 90's fastball. In other words, a typical braves pitcher. I remember someone saying on baseball tonight that in one start, hitters swung and missed exactly one time. So, I hope for your sake Harrington is better than him. I know, just what the Rangers needed, more hitting...but, IMHO, your GM just screwed J.S. Oh, what exactly has Teixeira said in the past to have you rate him a Cancer??? I ask cuz the folks on the braves blog are not going to like me telling them that......

Forgot that his son died of leukemia as well! Bill Walsh dies at 75; led 49ers to three Super Bowl titles ESPN.com news services Updated: July 30, 2007, 3:21 PM ET Comment Email Print Bill Walsh, who guided the San Francisco 49ers to three Super Bowl championships and six NFC West division titles in his 10 years as head coach, has died at the age of 75. Walsh died early Monday following a long battle with leukemia, according to Stanford University, where he served as coach and athletic director. Walsh didn't become an NFL head coach until 47, and he spent just 10 seasons on the San Francisco sideline. But he left an indelible mark on the United States' most popular sport, building the once-woebegone 49ers into the most successful team of the 1980s with his innovative offensive strategies and teaching techniques. The soft-spoken native Californian also produced a legion of coaching disciples that's still growing today. Many of his former assistants went on to lead their own teams, handing down Walsh's methods and schemes to dozens more coaches in a tree with innumerable branches. Walsh went 102-63-1 with the 49ers, winning 10 of his 14 postseason games along with six division titles. He was named the NFL's coach of the year in 1981 and 1984. And few men did more to shape the look of football into the 21st century. His cerebral nature and often-brilliant stratagems earned him the nickname "The Genius" well before his election to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993. Walsh twice served as the 49ers' general manager, and George Seifert led San Francisco to two more Super Bowl titles after Walsh left the sideline. Walsh also coached Stanford during two terms over five seasons. Even a short list of Walsh's adherents is stunning. Seifert, Mike Holmgren, Dennis Green, Sam Wyche, Ray Rhodes and Bruce Coslet all became NFL head coaches after serving on Walsh's San Francisco staffs, and Tony Dungy played for him. Most of his former assistants passed on Walsh's structures and strategies to a new generation of coaches, including Mike Shanahan, Jon Gruden, Brian Billick, Andy Reid, Pete Carroll, Gary Kubiak, Steve Mariucci and Jeff Fisher. Walsh created the Minority Coaching Fellowship program in 1987, helping minority coaches to get a foothold in a previously lily-white profession. Marvin Lewis and Tyrone Willingham are among the coaches who went through the program, later adopted as a league-wide initiative. He also helped to establish the World League of American Football -- now NFL Europe -- in 1994, taking the sport around the globe as a development ground for the NFL. Walsh was diagnosed with leukemia in 2004, and underwent months of treatment and blood transfusions. He publicly disclosed his illness in November 2006, but appeared at a tribute for retired receiver Jerry Rice two weeks later. While Walsh recuperated from a round of chemotherapy in late 2006, he received visits from former players and assistant coaches, as well as California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Born William Ernest Walsh on Nov. 30, 1931 in Los Angeles, he was a self-described "average" end and a sometime boxer at San Jose State in 1952-53. Walsh, whose family moved to the Bay Area when he was a teenager, married his college sweetheart, Geri Nardini, in 1954 and started his coaching career at Washington High School in Fremont, leading the football and swim teams. He had stints as an assistant at California and Stanford before beginning his pro coaching career as an assistant with the AFL's Oakland Raiders in 1966, forging a friendship with Al Davis that endured through decades of rivalry. Walsh joined the Cincinnati Bengals in 1968 to work for legendary coach Paul Brown, who gradually gave complete control of the Bengals' offense to his assistant. Walsh built a scheme based on the teachings of Davis, Brown and Sid Gillman -- and Walsh's own innovations, which included everything from short dropbacks and novel receiving routes to constant repetition of every play in practice. Though it originated in Cincinnati, it became known many years later as the West Coast offense _ a name Walsh never liked or repeated, but which eventually grew to encompass his offensive philosophy and the many tweaks added by Holmgren, Shanahan and other coaches. Much of the NFL eventually ran a version of the West Coast in the 1990s, with its fundamental belief that the passing game can set up an effective running attack, rather than the opposite conventional wisdom. Walsh also is widely credited with inventing or popularizing many of the modern basics of coaching, from the laminated sheets of plays held by coaches on almost every sideline, to the practice of scripting the first 15 offensive plays of a game. After a bitter falling-out with Brown in 1976, Walsh left for stints with the San Diego Chargers and Stanford before the 49ers chose him to rebuild the franchise in 1979. The long-suffering 49ers went 2-14 before Walsh's arrival. They repeated the record in his first season, with a dismal front-office structure and weak-willed ownership. Walsh doubted his abilities to turn around such a miserable situation -- but earlier in 1979, the 49ers drafted quarterback Joe Montana from Notre Dame. Walsh turned over the starting job to Montana in 1980, when the 49ers improved to 6-10 -- and improbably, San Francisco won its first championship in 1981, just two years after winning two games. Championships followed in the postseasons of 1984 and 1988 as Walsh built a consistent winner and became an icon with his inventive offense and thinking-man's approach to the game. He also showed considerable acumen in personnel, adding Ronnie Lott, Charles Haley, Roger Craig and Rice to his rosters after he was named the 49ers' general manager in 1982 and the president in 1985. "Bill pushed us all to be perfect," Montana said years later. "That's all he could handle as a coach, and he taught all of us to be the same way." Walsh left the 49ers with a profound case of burnout after his third Super Bowl victory in January 1989, though he later regretted not coaching longer. He spent three years as a broadcaster with NBC before returning to Stanford for three seasons. He then took charge of the 49ers' front office in 1999, helping to rebuild the roster over three seasons. But Walsh gradually cut ties with the 49ers after his hand-picked successor as GM, Terry Donahue, took over in 2001. Walsh was widely thought to be disappointed with John York, DeBartolo's brother-in-law who seized control of the team in 1998 and presided over the 49ers' regression to the bottom of the league. But Walsh stayed active with charity work, writing, lecturing and posts on various advisory boards. He also became more involved at San Jose State, directing a search committee to hire a new athletic director and football coach in 2004, and served in various leadership positions at Stanford. Walsh wrote two books and taught classes at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. "I'm doing what I want to do," he told the AP in an interview in 2004. "I hope I never run out of things that interest me, and so far, that hasn't happened." Walsh's son, Steve, an ABC News reporter, died of leukemia at age 46 in 2002. http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2954719

Would have thought he was older....hadn't heard much from him since he went off the air in 1999. Rest in Peace.... Tom Snyder Dies: Newsman Tom Snyder Dead At 71 by Staff Tom Snyder, the veteran talk show host and newsman has passed away. Tom Snyder reportedly died from complications of leukemia. Snyder died yesterday at 4 p.m. in San Francisco. He was 71 years old. In April 2005, Snyder revealed that he is battling chronic lymphocytic leukemia, but said that his doctors had told him it was "treatable." Tom Snyder was born May 12, 1936 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was a graduate of Marquette University in Milwaukee and began his broadcasting career at the age of 21, switched to television to work as a local news anchor. In 1965, Tom Snyder, along with Marciarose Shestack, made TV history when they anchored the first noon news show in the country. The show was broadcasted from the Eyewitness News studios in Philadelphia. He eventually would become the host of the NBC interview show "Tommorrow" (1973–81), for which he won an Emmy Award in 1974. He returned to late night in 1995 with the Late Late Show with Tom Snyder (1995–1999). He was always smoking on camera, so clouds of tobacco fumes floated around his head like a spiffy special effect. Snyder had a booming laugh and sometimes was perceived as caustic. Snyder's most memorable interviews included Ayn Rand, John Lennon, Charles Manson, and Johnny Rotten. Snyder's gray hair and probing manner got the boot when NBC went for youth, replacing Tomorrow with David Letterman's Late Night in 1982 http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original..._21294894.shtml

TheBuzz Erika Engle -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- K-WHAT? Unbuilt Maui TV station lands questionable call letters THE call letters KUNT have landed at a yet-unbuilt low-power digital television station in Wailuku, Maui. Alarmingly similar to a word the dictionary says is obscene, the call letters were among a 15-page list of new call letters issued by the Federal Communications Commission and released this week. The same station owner also received KWTF for a station in Arizona. From Skokie, Ill., comes a sincere apology "to anyone that was offended," said Kevin Bae, vice president of KM Communications Inc., who requested and received KUNT and KWTF. It is "extremely embarrassing for me and my company and we will file to change those call letters immediately." On the Net: » svartifoss2.fcc.gov/reports7/callsign.cfm He thanked your columnist for bringing the matter to his attention and pledged to, "make sure I don't fall asleep on the job when selecting call signs again." One might understand how Bae's eyes could glaze over during selection, as KM has some 80 sets of call letters and alpha-numeric callsigns for TV and radio stations in several states. No KM station is yet on the air in Hawaii but its mainland TV stations carry programming from America One Network, My Network TV and the CW. The call letter snafu was a source of great mirth for Bae's attorney. "I can't tell you how long he laughed at me when he learned of my gaffe," Bae said. Broadcasters for generations have joked among themselves about call letters resembling off-color words or acronyms knowing the FCC would never approve their assignment -- but that was before computerization. KCUF-FM near Aspen, Colo. got its F-word-in-reverse call letters in August of 2005 and has been on the air since December, "Keeping Colorado Uniquely Free," its Web site says. Uh, yeah. Station officials could not be reached, but the automated pop-music slinger has been written about twice in the Aspen Daily News. The paper said radio regulators "blessed the call letters." However, assignment of call letters actually is an automated process, according to Mary Diamond of the FCC's Office of Media Relations. Broadcasters use the FCC Web site to request and receive call letters with no oversight from Beavis, his partner, or any FCC regulator. Dude, seriously. Even after years of concerns over broadcast indecency and the debate about fines for fleeting profanities that hit the air. The Code of Federal Regulations allows applicants to request call letters of their choice as long as the combination is available. Further, "objections to the assignment of requested call signs will not be entertained at the FCC," it states. http://starbulletin.com/2007/07/26/business/engle.html

Diet Pop??? Man, you are soooo upper midwest! :rsmile: I think a lot of people drink it because it doesnt have calories....I avoid non diet soda because of the amazing levels of sugar. Seriously, look at the grams of sugar in a soda(and how many servings are in that small bottle) and in ice cream per half cup. You would be better off having a scoop of ice cream instead of a soda every time you had a soda. And that couldn't be good for you. I have a diet drink once in awhile, but never addicted. It is easy for people to get hooked on the stuff though. And people go thru withdrawl just like with coffee. Nasty stuff. Oh, if people don't like water, try filtering as mentioned above, or try every single kind of bottled water. My relatives here in L.A. buy arrowhead, and I really don't like it. Don't think I like spring water in general. It's coke water (Dasani) that tastes best to me for some reason. Pepsi water (Aquafina) is second.

Sniff, sniff...tower....rest in peace....Anyone ever hit the outlet store they had, I guess in Hollywood many a year ago? I found some old RCA cut outs. I'd go to every Tower in the yellow pages when I came out this way in the 90's. I hit the one in the valley(in Canoga Park?) found my first TOM cds(The Old Masters) there. The sunset blvd store was great, there was a cool bookstore across the street from it. Just a great place to shop, cds you wouldn't see online. So far, no cd stores yet. My elderly Uncle(87) had a bad day yesterday, breathing issues, so I may not get a chance to shop......perhaps early next week.

She says hi....and why don't you write her once in a while?

Took me a minute to figure it out!

I saw Jon Lovitz on some brief tribute to Phil Hartman in TV,(An SNL primetime special?) and he was surrounded by fellow SNL cast members. And he was just a mess, so very broken up about Hartman's death, he could barely talk, and it had been awhile since he had died. Clearly he was his best friend, and for Andy Dick to do say something so mean, is just horrible. I bet Lovitz hasn't been in a fight in 25 years, if ever.

I was out there in 2004, and got to Amoeba for the first time.....hit a few small stores and Tower of course....but, no more Tower. Gonna be in the valley.... Thanks!

Thanks again for the suggestions and concern..... Well, doesn't appear to be anything serious. P.A. checked me out, and since I don't have any pain to speak of, he just gave me a diuretic(blood pressure is a bit high as well) Interestingly, he said something that I had read on the web as well, that sometimes people have a problem during the summer months. I was afraid since my Mom had congestive heart failure, that perhaps something like that was going on, but still seemed strange to have this in only one leg. No that my heart seems to be aok, I will go swimming(Which looks like a home remedy for fluid retention on the web) and later go to the gym. If I knew it would have been safe yesterday, I would have been curious to see if this swelling would go down via exercise,(Perhaps this had been going on for awhile, but didn't notice having socks on and working out) but since I have already taken the pill, won't know what had the biggest benefit. Oh, and the urgent care place near us last night closed fairly early. Like Dan, I would try to go there first off as well in the future. Going to the E.R. with my Mom a few times, and with myself, has been a nightmare each time. But, if you have any heart troubles, they really do take those cases seriously from what I saw...... Glad it's safe for me to go to L.A. to see Friday Foster, I mean my Uncle Thursday!