| Sale of the century (again) at Fishs Eddy
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Need some dinner plates adorned with the Lexus car logo? Or unglazed porcelain hand molds (the five-finger kind once used to make plastic gloves)? Those are some of the more unusual items shoppers can expect to find at a sale later this month inside the Fishs Eddy storage warehouse on Front Street in Stapleton. For those who thought the Manhattan-based tableware retailer had disappeared completely from Staten Island when it closed its Bay Street retail shop in St. George in 2005, there is one last chance to get the bargain home goods in this borough. Never before open to the public, the storage warehouse at 450 Front St. will open for a close-out weekend sale starting Friday, Jan. 25. There the bulk of inventory, stacked high in dusty baskets and boxes, consists of thousands of pieces of surplus restaurant-grade tableware, glassware and silverware, including demitasse spoons, cocktail forks, shot glasses and whiskey jugs, according to Fishs Eddy owner Julie Gaines.
WALTHAMSTOW: Mystery cyclist thwarts mugger
A MUGGING victim is keen to contact a Good Samaritan who chased the thief on his bicycle. Ayesha Hassan was walking along Somers Road, Waltham-stow, at 9.15am on February 6 when the hooded hoodlum struck, grabbing her bag and running off with it. She gave chase, desperate to recover the bag with her wallet, prayer books and mobile phone inside. .
Mail halted after feisty feline wounds postie
Oreo is one tough cookie. In fact, Darlene Carlin's 15-year-old cat scared Canada Post so much that it stopped delivering the mail. The postal problem started on Jan. 2, when a postie delivered the mail to Carlin's Richmond home. .
Study Says India Has Smoking Crisis
The study, one of the most comprehensive ever in India, sent 900 field workers to survey 1.1 million homes across the country. They compared the smoking history of 74,000 adults who died from 2001 to 2003 with 78,000 living adults. The study says there are currently about 120 million smokers in India. More than 30 percent of men and 5 percent of women between 30 and 69 years of age smoke either cigarettes or "bidis," small, cheaply made cigarettes which contain about one-fourth the tobacco of a regular cigarette, the study said. .
Movie Talk
Well, there's a cameo at the end from Vin Diesel. And, I mean, that's the least he can do, since the original "Fast and the Furious" launched the career he managed to deep-six in record time. Turning up in this sequel feels like Vin's way of saying, "Please forgive me for 'The Chronicles of Riddick' and 'A Man Apart' and 'xXx' and 'The Pacifier,' and especially for wearing a dead cat on my head and trying to 'act' in that courtroom flick Find Me Guilty'" — am I right? Permalink | | Categories: The 'B' Movie King Another reason to be proud if you're Italian By Alan Smithee | Friday, June 16, 2006, 07:17 AM The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Dear Mr. Smithee, Fifteen years ago, when I was but a young teen, my friends and I watched an old horror movie.
Inside Boeing's mega-factory
The Boeing factory near Seattle is so massive, it once began generating its own weather systems. A state-of-the-art air circulation system had to be installed inside the monolithic manufacturing plant because clouds - the product of accumulated warm air and moisture - were forming inside. Even if you're not really into aeroplanes, such facts make touring the Boeing factory - the world's biggest building by volume - truly fascinating. Located at Everett, 50km north of Seattle in the Unites States' north-west, the almost 100 acre (40.47 hectares) factory houses Boeing's 747, 767, 777 and new 787 aircraft production lines. About 25,000 people work at the site, which boasts its own security force and fire department, a fully equipped medical clinic, a childcare centre, a water treatment plant, its own electrical sub-stations, and 19 cafeterias which serve around 17,000 meals per day.
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