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Frank Lloyd Wright fans eye station

July 02, 2005|By Susan Berger, Special to the Tribune

Marianne Crosby used the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed train depot in Glencoe more than 70 years ago, waiting for transportation to New Trier High School.

"They called it `The Tripper,'" said Crosby, Class of 1934. "The first two cars were for the girls and the last two for the boys."

The depot, built in 1915, was torn down in the 1950s when the rail line was torn up. But Wright aficionados are angling for village approval to reconstruct the building near Maple Hill and Old Green Bay Roads, an area now part of the Green Bay Trail.

Proponents envision the 14-by-30-foot station, which a village official estimated would cost $50,000 to $75,000, as a rest stop for joggers and bikers.

The rebuilding effort is spearheaded by Sonia Bloch, a member of the Ravine Bluffs Association, who lives in a house designed by Wright on Sylvan Road. She said the project is an important part of heightening interest in Wright.

"We are losing so much of his legacy," Bloch said. "This is a time when so much of Glencoe is being destroyed. Glencoe has been going through a period of so many teardowns, and I feel the village has a very special historical heritage."

Bloch told village trustees that between fundraising efforts and people and companies donating time and services to the project, the village won't have any major expenses.

The Village Board is expected to vote on the proposal this month.

"If you meet certain goals financially, we're going to do this," Village President Scott Feldman said.

Bloch has secured a commitment from CBI, a Glencoe homebuilder, to donate work to rebuild the station. A fundraising effort would provide long-term maintenance costs, she said.

There are no original plans for the waiting station, but Glencoe architect Scott Javore used photographs and a schematic drawing as a template. Javore, a member of the Glencoe Historic Preservation Commission, has donated his time to the effort.

Trustee Deborah Cogan said she is concerned about authenticity.

"We are not restoring an existing structure," she said. "We are reconstructing. We don't even have the original plan."

"Sonia Bloch is a Frank Lloyd Wright historian," said Trustee Mitch Melamed. "She wouldn't allow this if it wasn't accurate. And if you can replicate it, it's better than not having it all."

Crosby, who lives in her parents' home on Sylvan, said: "It was a long walk up Green Bay Road to Central School. We would get warm in the station before going home."

Crosby said she is interested in the rebuilding effort but is concerned about its use.

"It could be an attractive nuisance if no one uses it during the day," she said.

Bloch said it is not uncommon to reconstruct Wright projects, and in 1985, the Sylvan Road Bridge, the only vehicular bridge designed by Wright, was rebuilt.

Glencoe is also home to three subdivision markers designed by Wright. The wait station is reported to have been partially funded by Sherman Booth, Wright's attorney, who established the Ravine Bluffs subdivision.

Glencoe has four Wright homes on Meadow Road, two on Sylvan and a cottage on Franklin Drive, Bloch said. The waiting station was built to serve those in the subdivision.

Javore, the architect, said there is no downside to the project.

"If it is privately funded, it will put a unique structure back into place," Javore said. "And it will define the entry point of the Ravine Bluffs subdivision."

Although Bloch is confident the project can be privately funded, some trustees expressed concerns.

"The board needs to look at designating money for maintenance," Melamed said. "It clearly is the obligation of this board."

The cost of utilities, security and insurance also were discussed.

Cogan, a former Glencoe Park Board president, also said she is concerned about reclaiming open space to build something that will not be used and will be largely aesthetic.

"I like the idea but would like to visit the site," she said. "And invite the community to get input."

Melamed, who will serve as the Village Board liaison for the project, said space won't be a problem because the building would be small and a survey shows no major trees would be removed.

Village Manager Paul Harlow said that after a plan is developed, there will be a public hearing this summer.


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100 held in search for kidnap suspects

August 20, 2006|By Items compiled from Tribune news services.

PORT HARCOURT, NIGERIA — Government troops arrested about 100 people in a search for militants suspected of taking oil industry workers hostage in Nigeria's petroleum-rich south, the army said Saturday.

The forces set up roadblocks around the key city of Port Harcourt Saturday, a day after the troops began house searches in one neighborhood.

An army spokesman said 100 people were arrested but didn't elaborate on a connection to the abductions.

Port Harcourt has been rocked by a series of kidnappings -- 15 in two weeks -- that led President Olusegun Obasanjo to declare a clampdown last week. Ten hostages have been released unharmed.

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The new meat: Meat with panache, Protein with panache, Meat goes natural

Sustainable protein sources expand in the marketplace

January 12, 2011|By Monica Eng, Tribune Newspapers

Even as more Americans embrace sustainable food, meats often remain the final frontier. Grass-fed, pastured and organic meats can produce wonderful meals, but they can be hard to find, more expensive and a challenge to cook just right.

Still, with a recent swell in films and books ("Food Inc.," "Eating Animals," "The Omnivore's Dilemma," "Animal Factory" and "CAFO") that illustrate problems with industrially raised animals, more consumers are turning to those meats that fall under the "sustainable" umbrella.

These include meats with the certified labels organic, grass-fed, Animal Welfare Approved, Certified Humane and heritage. But they also can include less stringent credentials of Amish, natural, hormone-free, local and pastured.

Though generous estimates place America's sustainable meat supply at less than 5 percent of the overall market, the trend is flowing steadily into the mainstream.

Whole Foods plans a national rollout in the next few months of a color-coded, five-step animal welfare rating system for all of its meat. That will show consumers how long the animal was allowed outdoors, what it ate and how it was treated, among other things.

Grass-fed beef recently has roamed far beyond the borders of high-end restaurants to become an attraction at midrange eateries across the nation with grass-fed burgers. In November, some of the biggest names in food service, production and retail (namely McDonald's, Cargill, JBS and Wal-Mart) co-hosted a conference with the World Wildlife Fund in Denver focused on moving to a more sustainable beef supply.

"This was an unprecedented event and a great first step in our journey to achieve a more sustainable beef industry," said Jason Clay, senior vice president of markets at WWF.

Whether you call the movement clean meat, humane meat or sustainable meat, it's a niche industry that's poised to grow.

"This is no longer a fringe thing," said cookbook author Deborah Krasner. "It's the future, and it's now."

Krasner lives in rural Vermont, where she has raised several animals for meat and eggs. The resulting cooking adventures and lessons serve as the backbone of her authoritative new book, "Good Meat: The Complete Guide to Sourcing and Cooking Sustainable Meat." The 400-page tome walks readers through the common quandaries of how to find, afford and cook sustainable meat products that often need to be treated differently than industrial meat.

But what is sustainable meat? No one, not even the participants of the sustainable beef conference, has been able to establish a common definition. Krasner has made up her own.

"It's animals who are raised on a diversified farm on grass primarily and are in balance with the environment so their waste doesn't form toxic waste lakes but deepens the fertility of the soil," she said recently as we dove into a lunch of pastured beef and pork sandwiches.

Among the hundreds of recipes in the book for beef, pork, poultry and game are directions for a crispy skinned heritage chicken and the perfect grass-fed steak. The writer believes that those who have had bad experiences with the meats probably didn't cook them correctly.

Though certain breeds of pastured pork can have much more fat and marbling than their industrial counterparts, many breeds of pastured beef and chicken end up with less. And even the farmers who recently have revived traditional breeds and husbandry methods don't always know the best ways to cook the meat they produce.

Grass-fed steak, for example, should be rinsed, dried thoroughly and brought to room temperature before being cooked quickly in a very hot pan. And, Krasner suggested, never cook it beyond medium rare.

Krasner acknowledged the higher costs of sustainable meat but offered several tips on making it more affordable. Pastured heritage chickens can cost up to $30 a bird, but because of their plentiful meat and excellent bones for soup, the author suggested using them for up to five meals, a rich broth for risotto being the last.

Costs can be further trimmed, she said, by thinking ahead — by, for instance, buying half a cow to share among four households.

"The last time I bought half a cow, I split it with three other families, and each of us ended up with about 75 pounds per person at about $6 a pound," she said.

Krasner said she is very excited by the latest science linking conjugated linoleic acids (abundant in the fat and dairy of pastured animals) to human fat reduction, lean muscle development and cancer prevention.

"I don't know how much people think about health when they buy meat, but it is revelatory to think that eating red meat could be not just health neutral but a health benefit," she said.


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Giants win World Series opener in a rout

Sandoval homers 3 times and Zito keeps Tigers in check in Game 1

October 25, 2012|By Dave van Dyck, Chicago Tribune reporter
  • Pablo Sandoval circles the bases during one of his three home runs in Game 1.
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SAN FRANCISCO — They call him the Panda because he is a big roly-poly happy specimen.

But Pablo Sandoval is a vicious beast with a bat in his hands, as the Tigers and Justin Verlander discovered Wednesday night in Game 1 of the World Series.

Sandoval became only the fourth player to hit three homers in one World Series game as the red-hot Giants sent an October chill through the American League champions with an 8-3 victory at AT&T Park.

And he lost his bat in the process — to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

"I used that bat all postseason," he said. "I don't have too many superstitions with the bat. It's not the bat, it's you."

And he and his bats have a thing against Verlander, against whom he tripled in the All-Star Game.

"He's one of the best pitchers in the big leagues," Sandoval said. "You want to face the best."

But on Wednesday, Verlander was second best to Sandoval and Giants' starter Barry Zito, who allowed only one run before leaving after 52/3 innings.

"I just didn't execute," Verlander said. "It was a battle from the get-go."

He was done in on Sandoval's first-inning solo homer and his third-inning, two-run homer to left field. Sandoval added a third homer against reliever Al Alburquerque and a bullet single against Jose Valverde.

And he created instant Pandamonium for the crowd of 42,955 — many of them wearing Panda-style hats — as he joined Babe Ruth (twice), Reggie Jackson and Albert Pujols as the only players with three homers in a World Series game.

Even more amazing?

Sandoval hit only 12 homers in the regular season but already has six in 13 postseason games.

His exploits upstaged Zito, the surprise Game 1 starter who wasn't even on the Giants' World Series roster in 2010.

"Coming out in a game like that, you expect a 1-0, 2-0 game if you're going to win," Zito said. "To go up early like that and get momentum, that's big."

Zito baffled the Tigers, who hadn't played in six days, with a blend of off-speed pitches and his patented curveball. The one-time Cy Young winner with the A's had fallen on hard times the last few years but was at his best again Wednesday as he was in the must-win Game 5 of the NLCS.

Not to take anything away from the hot Giants bats, but the baseball gods have been with them.

In the NLCS Game 7 clincher, Hunter Pence's broken-bat, twice-hit knuckleball hit took a weird turn and contributed to a big inning.

And in Game 1 Wednesday, the Giants' three-run third inning began with two outs on Angel Pagan's infield chopper that should have been the third out but instead turned into a double when it hit third base and caromed into left field.

Marco Scutaro followed with an RBI single and then trotted home on Sandoval's second homer.

And now the Giants have the momentum after their fourth straight playoff victory, although playing with a lead in a series is strange to them.

"There's a lot of baseball left, but there's no question it's good not to be behind right now," manager Bruce Bochy said. "This was a great game for us. It's a great way to start but that's what it is, a start."

Said Tigers manager Jim Leyland: "I'm a guy who doesn't believe in momentum. When you use five pitchers in a game that Justin Verlander starts, that's not good. Probably whoever pitches best (Thursday) will win."

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RPT-FACTBOX-Thought presidential campaign was over? Now it's time for 2016

November 11, 2012|Reuters

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By Steve Holland

WASHINGTON, Nov 11 (Reuters) - The dust has barely settled
from the 2012 presidential campaign, and already there is talk
about who might run for president in four years, when both
Democrats and Republicans will be searching for a nominee.

From Secretary of State Hillary Clinton - a Democrat who ran
a tough primary battle against eventual President Barack Obama
in 2008 - to Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan, the Republican
vice presidential nominee this year, both parties appear to have
a deep bench from which to draw candidates to compete for the
chance to succeed Obama in 2016.

Here is a look at some of those who could be in the running
during the next presidential election cycle.

Jeb Bush

Bush, 59, is a popular former governor of the politically
divided state of Florida who opted not to run in 2012. He will
again face pressure from party activists to seek the White House
in 2016. Many in the party believe he could have given Obama a
better contest than Mitt Romney did this year.

But Bush might be reluctant to chase the presidency, in part
because of his surname. He is the brother of former President
George W. Bush and the son of former President George H.W. Bush.

Jeb Bush would have to decide whether a third Bush could get
elected - his brother left office amid historically low
popularity ratings - or whether he would face voter fatigue with
the Bush name.

Jeb Bush, whose wife was born in Mexico, would have an
easier time reaching out to increasingly potent Hispanic voters
than the failed 2012 nominee, Mitt Romney. He has warned
Republicans they must reach out to engage minority voters.

"Our demographics are changing and we have to change not
necessarily our core beliefs, but ... the tone of our message
and the message and the intensity of it, for sure," Bush told
NBC's "Meet The Press" in August.

An education expert, Bush chairs an education organization
called the Foundation for Florida's Future. He showed his
loyalty to the party by actively campaigning for Romney in

Marco Rubio

Another Floridian, Senator Marco Rubio, got tongues wagging
by scheduling a speaking engagement in the early voting state of
Iowa on Nov. 17, just 11 days after the election. The
41-year-old Cuban-American is a fresh face in the Republican
Party and has built a solid reputation among conservatives by
emphasizing America's founding principles and embracing the Tea
Party movement. He was a keynote speaker at the Republican
National Convention in Tampa and might have gotten more
attention had he not spoken just before actor Clint Eastwood's
unusual appearance, when he lectured an imaginary Obama as if
the president were sitting in an empty chair.

In his speech, Rubio emphasized his modest upbringing. "My
dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock
clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich.
And yet they were successful, because just a few decades removed
from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that
had been impossible for them," he said.

Rubio would have the ability to engage Hispanic voters. The
question that he will face in 2016, just as in 2012, is whether
he is experienced enough to serve as president.

He currently sits on two important Senate committees,
intelligence and foreign relations. A minor controversy broke
out over his biography last year when The Washington Post
reported his parents did not flee Fidel Castro's Cuba in 1959 as
he had stated but left in 1956, before Castro seized power.

Paul Ryan

Representative Ryan, 42, was Romney's vice presidential
running mate and as such would have an inside track in seeking
the Republican presidential nomination should he choose to do
so. As chairman of the powerful House Budget Committee, he is
beloved by many conservatives for pushing a budget plan that
would lead to deep cuts in government spending.

A Wisconsin native, he would have the potential of winning
that traditionally Democratic state, although his presence on
Romney's ticket did not help deliver Wisconsin for Romney.

Some obstacles for Ryan: It is not easy for a member of the
House of Representatives to win the presidency and he has little
experience outside Washington. He would also face criticism over
his budget plan and how it would overhaul the Medicare health
insurance plan for seniors, an easy target for Democrats in
2012. He used part of his convention speech in Tampa to defend
himself. "We have responsibilities, one to another - we do not
each face the world alone. And the greatest of all
responsibilities is that of the strong to protect the weak. The
truest measure of any society is how it treats those who cannot
defend or care for themselves," he said. He held his own in a
debate against Vice President Joe Biden, despite lacking the
Democrat's foreign policy expertise.

Chris Christie


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Preview: Missouri at Mississippi

November 20, 2013|Reuters

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Preview: Missouri at Mississippi

No. 8 Missouri knows it must win its final two games to claim the SEC East Division title. Tigers coach Gary Pinkel insists his team, however, is only focused on its trip to play red-hot Mississippi on Saturday. "That is clutter," Pinkel told the media Monday. "Teams that prepare right don't let that (pressure) affect them. They focus on what they can control, and that is playing well."

The Tigers, who won back-to-back games by a combined 59 points before a bye, welcome back quarterback James Franklin this week. The Rebels have racked up at least 500 yards every contest during their four-game win streak, including a home upset of then-No. 8 LSU. The teams feature two of the biggest receiver groups in the SEC, led by Missouri's 6-6 Dorial Green-Beckham and Mississippi's 6-3 Laquon Treadwell.

TV: 7:45 p.m. ET, ESPN. LINE: Missouri -2.5

ABOUT MISSOURI (9-1, 5-1 SEC): Franklin, who was completing 67.7 percent of his passes before the injury, missed four starts with a sprained throwing shoulder. L'Damian Washington and Green-Beckham each have nine touchdown catches after Green-Beckham set a school record with four TDs against Kentucky. Michael Sam has a conference-best 10 sacks and the Tigers, who have forced a turnover in 40 straight games, lead the league with 17 interceptions.

ABOUT MISSISSIPPI (7-3, 3-3): The Rebels' starting corners - 5-9 Senquez Golson and 5-8 Mike Hilton - will have their hands full trying to slow Missouri's big receivers. Running back Jeff Scott (488 yards, two touchdowns) returned last week after missing three games because of a bone spur. Bo Wallace (2,664 passing yards and 232 rushing yards) ranks third in the SEC in total offense (289.6 yards per game) and has 17 passing touchdowns and four on the ground.

1. The Rebels have averaged 43 points during their win streak.

2. The Tigers are one of eight teams nationally ranked in the top 20 in offensive scoring (41.3) and defensive scoring (20.2).

3. Missouri leads the series 5-1, but this is the first meeting as SEC foes.

PREDICTION: Missouri 33, Mississippi 24


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Apple to launch iPhone 5C, 5S in India on November 1

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NEW DELHI: Apple, the maker of iPhones and iPads, on Wednesday said the latest models of its smartphones will go on sale in India just before Diwali. The iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c will be available in more than a dozen countries, including India and Mexico, from November 1, Apple said, without revealing the prices.

Apple has timed the release of iPhones in India before Diwali, which is on November 3. Apple products have previously hit the Indian markets in the last fortnight of November or the the first fortnight of December.

The iPhone 5s and the iPhone 5c will hit retailers in 25 countries, including Italy, Russia and Spain, from October 25, it said. A contractfree and unlocked 16GB version of the iPhone 5c is available for $549 (about Rs 34,700) in the US; an unlocked and contract-free iPhone 5s costs $649 (Rs 41,000) in the US.

New iPad on Oct 22: Apple will update its lineup of iPads at an October 22 event, a person with knowledge of the plans said, as the company works to remain ahead of rivals in the increasingly crowded tablet market. The Cupertino, California-based company will unveil a new version of the original 9.7-inch iPad as well as the smaller iPad mini, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the plans haven't been made official. Apple also will show its new Mac personal-computer operating system, called Mavericks, and Mac Pro PC, the person said. The event, scheduled for a month after Apple debuted two new iPhone models, will feature changes to the bigger iPad that include a thinner design, people familiar with the plans said in August. A new iPad mini will sport the highdefinition screen, the people said.


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Sea Hero Deep-Sixes Derby Field : Horse racing: Equipment change and move by jockey Jerry Bailey along the rail in the stretch bring longshot its first victory in six months.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Years ago, after losing a race with a horse ridden by Ralph Neves, trainer Charlie Whittingham walked off the track, talking to the jockey.

"What's wrong with this horse is that he needs blinkers," Neves said.

"What the . . . are you talking about?" Whittingham said. "He was wearing blinkers."

"Well, take 'em off, then," Neves said.

On April 10, Sea Hero, a well-bred colt who hadn't won a race in six months, finished fourth in the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland. He had been wearing blinkers, and jockey Jerry Bailey suggested to trainer Mack Miller that they take them off, a drastic equipment change considering that the next race was the Kentucky Derby.

"He was wearing blinkers in the beginning because he was green," Bailey said. "But then with the blinkers on, he was getting too aggressive too early. The idea (about removing the blinkers) was to get him to relax. If you're getting ready to run a mile and a quarter, you don't want to have a horse who's fighting you."

At Churchill Downs on Saturday, Sea Hero and Bailey found an opening along the rail with slightly more than an eighth of a mile to run and went on to win the 119th Kentucky Derby by 2 1/2 lengths.

Owner-breeder Paul Mellon, 85, joined Miller, 71, in the winner's circle. Both were beginning to believe that they would never win the Derby.

"It's been a long time between drinks of water," said Miller, who had started only one horse, Jig Time, who finished fifth in 1968. "We thought time was running out."

A Pittsburgh-born philanthropist, Mellon has won some of the world's most important races, including the Arc de Triomphe in France, the Epsom Derby in England and the Belmont Stakes twice in New York. But his three Derby starters, trained by the late Elliott Burch, had never done better than second, and Mellon's Rokeby Stables colors of yellow and gray hadn't appeared in a Derby post parade since 1972. Last year, Mellon began trimming back his bloodstock, figuring he might not live long enough to see some of the young horses run.

Late Saturday, on his 45th wedding anniversary, Mellon said: "You can't put this into words. It's very exciting, something you never believe is going to happen to you until it does. I've had disappointments over the years. I had three or four horses who looked like they might be able to win a race like this."

This Derby had no clear-cut favorite in the field of 19. For the millions watching on television and 136,817 at Churchill Downs, the outcome was predictably unpredictable.

Prairie Bayou, becoming the 14th consecutive favorite to fail in the Derby, took the wide trip that Bailey and Sea Hero were able to avoid and made his customary late run to finish second. A head back in third was Wild Gale, a member of the parimutuel field who, like Sea Hero, hadn't won this year. In fourth place, a neck behind Wild Gale, was Personal Hope, who held the lead before Sea Hero passed him; and after him, in order, came Diazo, Corby, Kissin Kris, Silver Of Silver, Ragtime Rebel, Truth Of It All, Bull Inthe Heather, Dixieland Heat, Wallenda, Mi Cielo, Union City, Storm Tower, Rockamundo, El Bakan and Tossofthecoin.

The early fractions, set by Storm Tower with Personal Hope pestering him until taking the lead at the quarter pole, were 22 4/5, 46 3/5, 1:11 1/5 and 1:36 4/5. Sea Hero's winning time was 2:02 2/5 on a fast track that was damp from late-afternoon sprinkles, and his across-the-board payoffs as the 12-1 eighth choice were $27.80, $12.80 and $8 at Churchill Downs. Prairie Bayou, the longest-priced favorite in Derby history at $4.40-1, paid $7.20 and $4.80. Wild Gale, because of his position in the seven-horse mutuel field, was only 8-1 and paid $4.20 to show. The $2 exacta on the first two finishers paid $190.60.

Of the $985,900 purse, $735,900 went to Sea Hero, who had lost four consecutive races, going winless since the Champagne at Belmont Park on Oct. 10. He went into the Derby with three victories in 10 tries.

Prairie Bayou, on a four-race winning streak, was 16th after three-quarters of a mile, about 12 lengths behind Storm Tower. Jockey Mike Smith took the wide route that had worked for him in the Jim Beam and Blue Grass Stakes, but the gelding failed to deliver Saturday.

"I just had to go around, and the winner got through," Smith said. "That's not taking anything away from the winner. He just beat me today. My horse was a little late switching (his lead) on both turns, and it didn't help him none. He made his move big, and I thought I could get them from there. But when the horse exploded down inside, I said, 'Oh, man, it was going to be hard to get him.' "

Gary Stevens, riding Personal Hope, the Santa Anita Derby winner, believed at the top of the stretch that he might be en route to his second Kentucky Derby victory.

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* Rene Dussaq; World War II Paratrooper Had Reenacted Airdrop in France 50 Years Later

June 15, 1996

ENCINO — Rene Dussaq, the oldest of 39 World War II veterans who in 1994 reenacted their invasion of German-held France 50 years earlier, has died. He was 85.

Dussaq succumbed to cancer June 5 at Encino Hospital, according to his wife of nearly 50 years, Charlotte Dussaq.

Born May 6, 1911, in Buenos Aires, Dussaq lived in Geneva, and moved to Cuba--his father was a Cuban diplomat--after college. During World War II, Dussaq was a major in the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the elite 101st Airborne Division.

In 1994, veterans of the paratroop divisions that landed in Normandy on June 6, 1944, to launch the D-Day invasion staged a reenactment airdrop outside Saint-Mere-Eglise, the first French town liberated that night.

Dussaq caused a scare during the reenactment when strong winds blew his parachute miles away from the drop zone, out of sight of U.S. spotters in helicopters. He was later found in Saint-Mere-Eglise, drinking a glass of wine.

"Ironically, he died on the very same day that he did the jump [in 1994]," said his widow. The paratroopers began landing during the night before the June 6 invasion from the sea.

During his life, her husband had been a lecturer, stuntman, revolutionary, tennis champion and insurance salesman, she said. "He loved to challenge his body . . . he lived a wonderful life."

A private funeral service was held at the couple's second home in Bear Valley Springs.

In addition to his wife, Dussaq is survived by a son, Maurice Dussaq of Carson City, Nev.

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In Libya, a spectacle greets Moammar Kadafi's corpse

As Libyans line up to view Kadafi's body in Misurata, they ridicule, reflect and look ahead. Meanwhile, the U.N. calls for an investigation into the former leader's mysterious death.

October 22, 2011|By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
  • Libyans gather around the body of Moammar Kadafi in a storage freezer in Misurata. Boys and their fathers lined up as if going to a carnival to glimpse the man they once believed invincible.
Libyans gather around the body of Moammar Kadafi in a storage freezer in… (Saad Shalash, Reuters )

Reporting from Misurata, Libya — His body lay pale in the half-light of a meat locker, head tilted to one side, blood streaking his chest. Men laughed and ridiculed him as the scent of onions rose from the souk.

In life, his specter was towering, but in death Moammar Kadafi was diminutive, put on display along a row of butcher shops and vegetable stands. Boys and their fathers lined up for hundreds of yards outside the market's gates as if going to a carnival to glimpse the man they once believed invincible.

"I want him to keep the face of a tyrant in his mind," said Abdul Rahmen Swasi, pointing to his 11-year-old son, Mohammed. "We saw Kadafi talking for so many years on TV. Blah, blah, blah. But now we see him dead."

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Swasi and his son inched forward, stepping over blowing trash, past men in fatigues brandishing guns. They pushed through the doorway into the room's chill, hurrying past the bullet-marked corpse and out into the air of a country much changed since Thursday, when revolutionary fighters killed the man who had ruled Libya for decades in still unexplained circumstances in his hometown, Surt.

The viewing was emotional and surreal, but Kadafi's reign was often beyond imagination. It seemed fitting that Misurata, a city by the sea that was pummeled into a hallmark of Kadafi's brutality during a siege this spring, gave the leader — stripped to the waist, his once famous locks forlorn — his final humiliation.

"Yes, he's gone," said Nagwi Omar, "but I'm an old man. He took my youth."

The United Nations on Friday called for an investigation into Kadafi's mysterious death. Cellphone videos show the former leader bleeding but alive when captured hiding in a drain pipe by fighters of the Transitional National Council. Later pictures show Kadafi dead in the back of an ambulance. The council said he was killed in a crossfire, but some of the footage suggests he may have been executed.

"There seem to be four or five different versions of how he died," said Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. "There are at least two cellphone videos, one showing him alive and one showing him dead. Taken together, these videos are very disturbing."

Kadafi's burial — reportedly to be in a secret place so his grave doesn't become a shrine for loyalists — has been postponed until an investigation is completed. This has angered some Muslims who contend that he should have been given a funeral quickly in keeping with Islamic law.

The eight-month civil war that led to Kadafi's demise was one of the more disturbing dramas of the so-called Arab Spring, which has slipped from inspiring uprisings against tyranny into a succession of unfinished revolutions. For Libyans, the death of their mercurial dictator has silenced the personality that defined their collective hatred. They must now confront tribalism, a wrecked economy and other problems that could lead to suspicions and new divisions.

For now, those concerns have been tempered by the euphoria over Kadafi's death. Celebratory gunfire rattles the sky, fighters toss candy into windows of passing cars at checkpoints, and streets and alleys are streaked in the colors of the new Libyan flag. But joblessness is high, phone cards are scarce, and heavy-caliber guns perch in the backs of countless pickups.

"There's a joke going around," said Reda Azzrroug, a university architecture student turned rebel who now limps from a gunshot wound. "An engineer from the U.S. came to fix Libya. He said, 'Take me to the highest point in the country.' They took him to a tower in Tripoli. He looked out over the country and said, 'Cover the whole thing in dirt and start over.'"

Azzrroug smiled: "Yes, we have our differences, but it will never come to a gunfight or a civil war again."

Across town, past a burned tank and streets of mortar-pocked buildings, Anwar Swan, a businessman who became an anti-Kadafi fighter, directed his men in an industrial courtyard of cement mixers, a pile of gravel, a forklift and three refrigerated shipping containers, all with shiny new padlocks. The middle container held the body of Mutassim Kadafi, killed in Surt the same day as his father.

Swan and his men were anxious, sweeping debris from outside the container and watering the ground to tamp blowing dust. In a few hours, he said, Moammar Kadafi's body would be brought from the souk and placed alongside his son's. Swan said the slayings of the two men would spare the country years of turmoil and recrimination.

"If we took him to trial, we wouldn't now be seeing his body and his story would drag on," said Swan, sweat running through his beard, his tunic stained with dirt. "We want the story of Kadafi finished. Today, the sun rose and Libya became new."

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Tony Romo ripped by former Cowboys Deion Sanders, Michael Irvin

December 31, 2012|By Houston Mitchell
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The Dallas Cowboys had another mediocre season, losing to the Washington Redskins on Sunday night with a playoff berth on the line. Former Cowboys Deion Sanders and Michael Irvin, now analysts for the NFL Network, had some strong words for Tony Romo, whose tenure as the Cowboys' quarterback has been disappointing.

In his career, Romo is now 1-6 for the Cowboys with the playoffs on the line.

"[Cowboys owner] Jerry Jones said it earlier, if you're not in the playoffs, it's not a successful season," Irvin said. "I'm never going to say 8-8 is a success, not a guy who holds three rings. Playing hard is good. Winning is better. You watch all these guys, Robert Griffin III, Eli Manning, Michael Vick -- these are top quarterbacks, drafted in top spots, they know and feel like they belong in that situation. Tony Romo is the only undrafted QB in the East and sometimes, in those moments, he feels like, 'I have to prove to everybody I belong here,' and tries to do so much and that gets him into trouble."

Sanders was equally hard on Romo.

"How many times are we going to sit here as fans and say, 'Here we go again?' " Sanders said.  "I love to win at all costs. 1-6 in elimination games, that's telling me something is not getting better around here. The kind of person I am, I need to jump off and try to correct this thing.... I can't put this one thing all on Tony. But Tony brings me to the same situation at the conclusion of every year. Take a picture, this date, and see if we're playing the same picture next year. We always think it's going to get better, but it's the same-old same-old."

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Review: A welcome, belated L.A. debut for Wim Vandekeybus' 'Body'

March 17, 2013|By Jean Lenihan
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Belgian choreographer-filmmaker Wim Vandekeybus’ body of dance/theater works for his company Ultima Vez lends itself to evocative shorthand: There’s the one with the frozen shirt (“Les Porteuses de Mauvaises Nouvelles,” 1989), the one with the eggs (“Always the Same Lies," 1990), the one with the climaxing woman (“Blush,” 2001) and dozens more.

This weekend’s two shows presented by the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA brought a restaging -- and the Los Angeles premiere --  of his first work, the Bessie-Award-winning “What the Body Does Not Remember” (1987),  a.k.a. the one with the bricks.

What a great programming coup to revisit Vandekeybus’ rootstock as well as to remedy L.A.’s heretofore weird angle on his career, a sporadic sampling that has featured the breadth of his work -- from pure dance/theater to film to film/dance hybrid  -- but has never shown his most profound depths.

At its premiere decades ago, “What the Body Does Not Remember” stunned audiences with its edgy, erotic tone, its full-bodied pedestrian movement and its minimalist, cycling progressions.

In the six-section non-narrative work, Vandekeybus presented a male version of the great theatrical sculptures coming from the 1980s European dance/theater toolbox. His score was from Thierry De Mey and Peter Vermeersch, who also wrote for Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker’s “Rosas Danst Rosas.”

At Friday's reprise at Royce Hall, on an enjoyably rangy group of dancers, “Body” stood up exceedingly well. Though its tone may have lost some bite, the work’s solid framework -- of incremental and abrupt delineations and progressions -- came to the fore.

From the opening, where two men walked onto the bare, side-lighted stage, then casually laid  themselves in fetal positions on the floor, then rose again -- a map of verticality and horizontality was delineated.

The woman who appeared next, assuming control of the duo’s moves by stroking and slamming her hands against a miked tabletop, issued cues that kept the men relentlessly pinned down, until their final release. When the brick-throwing scene erupted, action careened into the airspace above the dancers with a heady vision of wild soaring and geometric weight.

Wandekeybus’ spatial relationships made for a magnificent restoration of “Body's" singular, etched image of women standing with arms and legs outstretched rigidly, like Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian man, while men ceaselessly frisked and hugged them.

The men squatted low -- groping a leg, nuzzling groins -- while the women’s responses were at eye level: glowering expressions, or a swatting arm, or a hand reaching to replace a piece of fallen hair. It’s a scene featured in “Spiegel,” the "greatest hits" collage that played Royce in 2008, but never has the effect as it does here.

Of the six sections, only one felt weak (the unconventional chair-sitter who sets off the conformist posse) and one seemed to scream for updated props (trade out at least one of those cloaking jackets for the veil of a cellphone?).

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A champion to remember Mel Sheppard won the first of his 4 Olympic golds 100 years ago.

Posted: July 14, 2008

One of America's greatest Olympic champions was a South Jersey native who ran his first race as a Philadelphia schoolboy.

He was a fierce competitor whose humble background and dogged determination made him a personal favorite of President Theodore Roosevelt.

He was a former street tough - a self-styled member of the "Grays Ferry Roaders" gang in South Philadelphia around the turn of the 20th century - who ran so fast and so well that U.S. middle-distance stars have been chasing his accomplishments for a century.

And they haven't caught him yet.

One hundred years ago today, Mel Sheppard won the first of his three gold medals at the Olympic Games in London. A century later, Sheppard remains the last American to win a gold medal in the 1,500 meters.

Sheppard also won the 800 meters and anchored the U.S. sprint medley relay team to a victory in those Games. At the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, he won a gold medal in the 4x400 relay and a silver medal in the 800.

Four Olympic gold medals, three in world-record time. An Olympic silver medal. Seven AAU national titles. World indoor records in the 600 and 1,000 yards.

All that athletic glory springing from such an unlikely background - plus an eyewitness brush with the aftermath of the sinking of the Titanic - make Sheppard one of the more compelling characters to emerge from the Philadelphia area.

But 100 years is a long time: Today, Sheppard might be the most famous athlete that most people never heard of.

"He should be our Steve Prefontaine," said longtime Haddonfield track and cross-country coach Nick Baker, referring to the late Oregon running star.

Sheppard was born in 1883 in Almonesson, a section of Deptford Township in Gloucester County. He lived there, in a twin house, for the first nine years of his life.

"What I remember most is swimming in Almonesson Lake," Sheppard wrote in his autobiography, Spiked Shoes and Cinder Paths, which was published in serial form in Sport Story magazine (newstand price: 5 cents) in 1924.

At the time, Almonesson Lake was a rural body of water popular with fishermen and young boys who would tie ropes to trees that grew near the shoreline. For most of the first half of the 20th century, Almonesson Lake was a recreation spot for boaters and swimmers, with amusement rides near the current location of Auletto's Caterers.

At age 9, Sheppard moved with his family to Clayton, and got a job "rolling jars" in a glass factory for $9 a month. His family moved to Haddonfield a few years later, then to the Grays Ferry section of Philadelphia when Sheppard was about 15.

Sheppard wrote that he had jobs "pulling tacks out of shoes" and as a messenger boy, but that he also joined the Grays Ferry Roaders, a street gang that clashed with rival gangs such as the Ramcats, Pine Streeters and Race Streeters.

Sheppard wrote that the Ramcats were his gang's "special enemies, with whom we would fight when we had nothing else to do."

Sheppard's emergence as a world-class athlete was astoundingly sudden. When he was 17, his family moved to West Philadelphia, near Fairmount Park, and he joined the Preston Athletic Club.

About the same time, he enrolled in Brown Preparatory School, in the Odd Fellows Temple at Broad and Cherry Streets. The building, erected in 1893 at a cost of $1 million, was demolished in 2007 to make way for the Convention Center expansion.

Sheppard wrote that his first race was a 100-yard dash in Washington Park in Philadelphia. He finished third.

"The longer races were more fit to my nature," Sheppard wrote.

In 1904, Sheppard won three races while representing Brown Prep at schoolboy events held in conjunction with the Olympics in St. Louis - a foreshadowing of his success four years later in London.

Sheppard qualified for the 1908 U.S. Olympic team by winning the 800 meters in the Olympic trials, which were held at Franklin Field.

He set sail for London on June 29 with about 100 other members of the U.S. team on the liner Philadelphia. He wrote that the track team trained on "a cork track on the promenade deck," and noted that javelin throwers amused themselves by tying ropes to their spears and throwing them at sharks that approached the ship.

The 1908 Games were the first to have an opening ceremony. About 2,000 athletes, representing 22 countries, competed.

There was a fierce rivalry between the American and English teams, fueled when American shot-putter Ralph Rose did not dip the U.S. flag in salute to King Edward VII. Rose's refusal became standard practice for U.S. athletes in the opening parade.

Sheppard was a surprise entrant in the 1,500 meters - he hadn't even run the event in the trials - but won his heat in 4 minutes, 5 seconds. The next day, he set a world record by winning the final in 4:03.5.

"If it was necessary to die at the finish, why, that would be perfectly satisfactory as long as I hit the tape first," Sheppard wrote. "It was the proudest moment of my life."

Sheppard won the 800 meters in 1:52.4, another world record. And he was the anchor man on the sprint medley relay team that won another gold medal.

About a month later, Sheppard and the rest of the U.S. team were invited to meet President Theodore Roosevelt at his summer home in Oyster Bay, N.Y.

"The president was particularly interested in Mel Sheppard and asked for him several times," the New York Times reported Sept. 1, 1908. "The great middle-distance runner was compelled to describe his races . . . and the president listened with great attention."

Roosevelt was particularly interested in the 1,500 meters, which he called "the greatest race I ever read about." Sheppard told the president about the event, then pulled a Moroccan leather case out his pocket and handed it to the man known as the Rough Rider.

"This is my prize for winning the event," Sheppard said of his gold medal. "I would be honored if you would keep it."

When Roosevelt refused, Sheppard said, "I have two others, and I will not miss this one."

When Roosevelt accepted, he told Sheppard, "This will be one of my most treasured possessions."

In his autobiography, Sheppard described Roosevelt's reaction this way: "The president was like a schoolboy who won his first ribbon."

Sheppard later wrote to Roosevelt asking for help in acquiring a job as a customs inspector at the Port of Philadelphia. Roosevelt's personal secretary wrote back, and Sheppard got the position.

He later was transferred to the Port of New York, and he was on duty the night of April 18, 1912, when the RMS Carpathia arrived with the survivors from the sinking of the Titanic.

From 1906 to 1912, Sheppard was America's best middle-distance runner. He won seven AAU national titles, and barely missed another gold medal in the 800 meters at the 1912 Olympics. His time of 1:52 would have been another world record, but teammate Ted Meredith edged him at the tape and won in 1:51.9.

When his running career ended, Sheppard turned to coaching. He was a civilian athletic director at military bases during World War I. He served as a field secretary for the Playground and Recreation Association of America, traveling the country to help set up leagues and playgrounds. He was the coach of the U.S. women's track team at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam.

For the last 20 years of his life, Sheppard worked for Wanamaker's in New York as recreation director of the Millrose Athletic Association. He died in 1942 in Queens, N.Y., at the age of 59.

"He was kind of a rough-and-tumble individual," said Howard Schmertz, 83, who served as meet director of the Millrose Games from 1975 to 2003.

Schmertz's father directed the Millrose Games from 1934 to 1974, and was an attorney for Wanamaker's during Sheppard's time with the Millrose Athletic Association.

Looking back, Schmertz said, "In those days, everybody knew Mel Sheppard."

Contact staff writer Phil Anastasia at 856-779-3223 or panastasia@phillynews.com.

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Industry ties a prescription for conflict on FDA panels

Posted: March 16, 2013

James McGough might be a highly qualified psychiatrist, but he served on an FDA advisory committee Thursday in part because his conflict-of-interest issues were less disturbing than seven other doctors the agency tried to recruit.

McGough and another committee member offered two more examples of the conflicting interests inherent in parts of the U.S. drug-approval process. As required by law, the pediatric advisory committee was reviewing applications for several drugs to be used for children or for wider groups of children. One drug was Invega, already approved for some patients with schizophrenia and made by Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a Titusville, N.J.-based subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson.

Federal Drug Administration officials retain authority for drug approval, but advisory committees of non-agency experts in areas of care are asked to review applications and safety studies, and offer recommendations. The FDA often follows committee opinions, but is not required to do so.

Picking committee members can be challenging for the FDA because it tries to find members without conflicts of interest - such as doctors who do not take money from drug companies. At the end of September 2012, 22 percent of committee spots were vacant.

McGough, who works at the University of California, Los Angeles, and could not be reached for comment, needed a waiver from an FDA lawyer.

"The Office of Pediatric Therapeutics invited eight specialists in psychiatry to this meeting," Walter Ellenberg, the FDA official coordinating the committee meeting, wrote in a letter requesting the waiver of normal conflict-of-interest concerns. "Seven are unable to attend because of conflicts judged to be more substantial than Dr. McGough's financial interest as a consultant to [company name redacted]."

In a published paper, McGough listed Eli Lilly & Co. and Shire Plc as companies from which he had received fees for consulting and research. Lilly makes Zyprexa, a schizophrenia drug that is a competitor to Invega.

Also at issue was the advisory committee's acting industry representative, Dr. Samuel Maldonado, who is a J&J vice president and leads its Pediatric Drug Development Center of Excellence.

Philadelphia lawyer Stephen Sheller, whose clients have sued J&J over allegedly harmful side effects of drugs including Invega and another antipsychotic, Risperdal, has appealed to the FDA to withdraw approval of Risperdal. He also sent letters to Ellenberg - and the committee members - seeking to have Maldonado removed from the committee.

Maldonado, Sheller wrote, "does not appear to hold the 'essential expertise' required by the committee," and the industry representative should be "someone without this obvious and clear conflict of interest."

Maldonado recused himself from the Invega discussion and left the room before it began, according to FDA spokeswoman Sandy Walsh.

"Many of our scientists and researchers are regarded as leaders in their field and from time to time represent industry within their area of expertise," Janssen spokeswoman Teresa Mueller said in a statement.

Contact David Sell at dsell@ or 215-854-4506. Read his blog at and on Twitter @phillypharma.

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Friday, August 30, 2013

Have You Been to an Artist Studio?

Why have a Studio Tour?
One of the main purposes of our Art Mob Studio Tour is to introduce you and our local population to the artist that just happens to live or work next door... and you did not even know the artist was there!

So much mystique is out there floating around about what an artist does to create their art. Why not find out for yourself? It might be one of your more interesting few hours ... visiting many different types of artists and seeing and talking to them. You will see artwork of all kinds ... painting, jewelry, sculpture, glass ... and who knows what else.

What is Medium?
Many artists are creative in several different mediums. They might be an artist in painting and also do sculpture! "Medium" is what we call the genre we work in ... such as metal, clay, watercolor, oil, wood ... etc. Here is one of our artists that builds sculptures:

Marie Weaver
Medium: Ceramics, Relief Prints

And, if the artist is a painter, medium can refer to whether they paint in oil, acrylic, pastel, or watercolor or other types of mixed media paintings.

Here is a photo from one of our glass artists:

Cher Thompson Austin
Medium: Fused Glass Assemblages
and Paintings

Be creative?
Wouldn't you find it interesting to walk into the studio of these artists and talk to them about what they are doing? And many of these artists give lessons, so you might find a place to use your own creative juices!

Be sure to check the side panel for the participating artist names for links to visit their website. And, I decided to make their names under the painting a website link, so you can click that also (if they have a website). We do have just a few artists that do not have "official" websites, but most of them show some of their work on Facebook or a gallery site.

More Artists!
Here are four more of our artists for you to have a look at.
Jes Gordon
Medium: Acrylic Painting

Jane Springfield
Medium: Watercolor, Oil or Pencil Painting

Trisha Selgrath
Medium: Oil Paintings

Ann Rhodes
Medium: Oil Painting

Now, want to have a fun day? Join us and visit some artist studios... or plan for two days and visit one area one day, and another part of Metro Atlanta the next day! Get to know about the artists that are creating in our local area. You just might make a new friend of them, and you might find some fabulous pieces of art that are affordable.

See "You" at the Art Mob Studio Tour! And don't forget, if you purchase something, 5% goes to help the Children's Restorative Network.

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Look at Six More of Our Artists!

We have enjoyed getting to know all the artists that have decided to participate for 2013 in our Art Mob Studio Tour ... an open studio is an invitation to learn what your neighborhood artists are doing in their work space! Be sure to save the dates: Friday, Nov. 15 (6 - 9pm), Saturday, Nov. 16 (10am - 6pm), and Sunday, Nov. 17 (1 - 6 pm). Check the studio address page for the dates each studio will be participating!

Six Artists Share an Image

Jane Biven
Oh Say Can you Ski
Elizabeth Carr

Cathy Ehrler
At The Highland Games
Ronnie Offen
Shane McDonald

Virginia Dauth
Have you always wanted to see how a piece of artwork looks during the process?
The Art Mob Studio Tour is really a wonderful way to spend a day ... visiting the artist next door ... seeing what they do, and how they do it! Most of the time it might not look at all like the end product, and it is fun to see the way it started. You will get to talk to the artists, ask questions, maybe even see them work a little bit.
Be sure to check out each artist's website or blog listed along the side panel here. Plan your route and visit them!
Also, we will benefit a wonderful charity!
If you are interested in purchasing something, you will benefit the Children's Restorative Network ... 5% of all sales will be donated to their worthy cause. Do look them up ... here is a link to their "about" page: Children's Restorative Network Web Site. Most of the artists will have a variety of  artwork at different price levels.

Do tell your friends about this tour ... ask them to join you. The Atlanta area has an awesome art community! Now, I hope to see you at one of these fantastic studios ... and you might just make a new friend while visiting.

Thursday, August 8, 2013

We are Growing ... adding artists and studios

Photographic Teasers

Here are some teaser shots of artwork by participating artists for this fall's Art Mob Studio Tour which takes place Nov. 15, 16 & 17 ... Friday, 6 - 9 pm, Sat. 10 am - 6 pm, and Sun. 1 - 6 pm. Be sure when planning your visit, you do check who is participating on which days. Some are only doing Saturday and/or Sunday.

Winged Friends
Deanna Jaugstetter
Winter Song
Helen DeRamus

Hilde and Velvet
Kathy Rennell Forbes
Anne LeBaire

Vision Bear
Marsha Hamby Savage
The blog will show all the participating artists in coming posts. So, be sure to keep checking back with us!

More Information

Be sure to check out our Facebook Page: ArtMobStudioTour for posts from the artists. We also have a group page with the same name, so ... you might see something different on the "page" and the "group"... but well worth it!

And, I have added more artist links ... here on the side... so check out their websites and blogs. Also, I have added a few names and studio addresses to the "Address" page above (it's a "Tab" at the top of this blog) and I will be adding the short biographies of each participating artist on the "Bio" page which is also a tab at the top of this blog. I hope that is not too confusing! Please do accept my apologies if I spell it out a "little too much." I have to take into account not everyone is computer savvy ... sometimes that could be me!

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Art Mob Studio Tour, November 2013

Save the Date: Nov. 15, 16, 17, 2013 to visit the "Artist Next Door"!

A Studio!

The Art Mob Studio Tour will take place the weekend of November 15, 16, 17, 2013 (Friday night, Saturday and Sunday days). Artists throughout the Atlanta area will open their studios to the public. 5% of any sales will go to benefit the Children's Restoration Network. The times the studios will be open, and more information to follow!

This blog is a continuation of a previous blog called "Studio Tour Artists of Northwest Atlanta" ... we are growing and including more areas in the studio tour. Since we are no longer just Northwest Atlanta, we have changed the name to "Art Mob Studio Tour."

Locations are coming in: Fulton, Cobb, DeKalb, and Cherokee are where most of the studios are located. You will have two days and one night to visit as many as possible. See where an artist creates, and some wonderful art by these artists will be available. Sign up for their mailing list if you are interested. Some will even have a drawing from those names for a free gift!

We will be adding the names and addresses of the artists participating in this "Art Mob Studio Tour" soon! There will be a page with bios and one image of their art for each artist. The deadline to participate is this coming Saturday! We will be meeting and finalizing as much of the planning as possible.

How will I find the studios?

There will be wonderful signage at each location and a major street pointing the way! And we will have press releases going out to as many media places as possible. If you know of a way to advertise in your area for us, please do contact me or leave a comment on this blog.

There will also be a page on this blog with a google map in "pdf" form you can download to show the locations of studios.

More information about this wonderful studio tour!

We have a page on Facebook you can see and like the page ... ... and we hope to post as much as possible to get you excited about attending. We also have a Facebook Group: Art Mob Studio Tour Group

So ... put these dates on your calendar and visit! More information will be posted here as it becomes available.


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“Scarecrow” cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond @ LACMA

Following a double bill at LACMA so soulful and affecting that the feeling was beatific [“Electra Glide in Blue” & “Scarecrow” both from 1973], the museum hosted the great cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond for a talk. Zsigmond, in tandem with his compatriot Laszlo Kovacs, introduced a palette of mittel European muted natural light to Hollywood. According to ...

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We enjoyed an impromptu Hungarian arts festival in Los Angeles over the past month. First was a Disney Hall recital by Hungarian pianist Andras Schiff known for his Bach interpretation, but lately he is performing all the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas. Schiff is a sublime artist — except when he is glowering at the audience for coughing or rustling programs, ...


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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Oracle Celebrity Seminar Tour in APAC

For those who attended my seminars in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Kualalampur and Singapore - I thank you very much for taking the time. I sincerely appreciate the gesture and hope that you found them useful.

As I mentioned during the seminars, I would love to hear from you your thoughts - what you liked, didn't like, wanted to learn but didn't, or specific areas you applied in your workplace. Please drop me a line at arup@proligence.com.
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Legal experts of AskMe, I ask for your advice (which is not to be interpreted as legal advice)! Company X provided two online bonus offers. At the time I registered for the offers, neither offer stated that they could not be combined with the other. However, Company X only wants to apply one of the offers.

Their justification is:
1) AFTER I registered for the offer, they added a term to one of the offers saying it could not be combined with another offer.

Applying the new terms to me without informing me of the new terms seems like it would breach the common law principle of mutual assent, and the mirror image rule. (IANAL)

2) They had a clause in the offer stating that "Offers, rules, and participating merchants are subject to change without notice."

To me, this "Anthing Goes" clause seems like it would cause only one party to be bound to the contract and associated transaction, since Company X can change any of the rules of the offer at will without notice. Therefore it seems like it would be unenforceable under the doctrine of Unconscionability, as stated in section 2-302 of the United States Uniform Commercial Code. (See also Williams v. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co., 350 F.2d 445 (D.C. Cir. 1965)) (IANAL)

Aside from the legal aspect, attemting to enforce this clause over a petty matter seems like terrible PR.

I spent hundreds of dollars to participate in these offers. I am going to write to Company X and ask that they enforce both offers. Based on what I have said, are my legal grounds solid, and/or do you have any better ideas? (No responses will be interpreted as legal advice.) Thanks!
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 to Law & Government (8 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
I'm not an American. I'm not a contract lawyer. This isn't legal advice.

If you read and agreed to their offer and relied on it to your detriment, you might have a case. The fact that you spent money participating in these offers might be construed as performing your end of the contract, and the court might be inclined to ignore the clause you've pointed to, especially if your performance/detrimental reliance occurred before they changed the terms on you. You'd need a lawyer in your jurisdiction with access to the whole contract to tell you for sure.
posted by smorange at 9:47 AM on April 11, 2011 [1 favorite]

Thanks for the response. The timeline for this is as follows:
1) I registered for Offer #1
2) Unbeknownest to me, they change the terms of Offer #1 to say that it can't be combined with another offer
3) I register for Offer #2, which doesn't say it can't be combined
4) I pay money to Company Y, which then activates the Company X offers. At no point am I informed of the new terms of Offer #1. Company X only applies Offer #1, not Offer #2.
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 9:51 AM on April 11, 2011

Hard to give more specific analysis without knowing what we're talking about though, as it's not immediately clear why the two companies have anything to do with each other.

Mostly, it seems likely that you simply failed to see something in the fine print from one or both companies which would permit them to do this. But without actually seeing said documents, it's hard to say more.

Either way, getting a judge to bite on an argument premised on the doctrine of unconscionability is really, really tough. We're talking "utter outrages to one's sense of justice," i.e. things which border on fraud and/or impose significant unexpected hardship on the plaintiff, not marginally sketchy stuff like this.

Besides, the UCC isn't actually law. It's a model law drafted by a group of academics which has been implemented in many states, but it is not, itself, law. Also, citing to precedent from the 1960s, even from the DC Circuit, isn't going to get you much. Even more than statutes, case law is subject to change. You'll want to find stuff from the past twenty years, preferably the past ten. In short: none of the legal authority to which you cite is going to help you all that much.

Look, you may be able to get somewhere on the PR angle, but odds are really good that they're legally permitted to do this. I'm just sayin'.
posted by valkyryn at 10:16 AM on April 11, 2011 [1 favorite]

It's impossible to say whether you have a case or not without knowing what precedent and legislation look like in your jurisdiction. Since there's only a few hundred dollars at stake here--albeit presumably more if both contracts were performed--if your income is low enough, you might try getting a law student at a local law school to write a letter for you. Many law schools offer free legal advice, under the supervision of a lawyer, and will even write and send a demand letter to the company for you. That would make it look more official, at least. But I have to tell you, depending on the company, I wouldn't be surprised if they ignored any letter you sent. Still, it might be worth a try.
posted by smorange at 10:19 AM on April 11, 2011 [1 favorite]

Thanks for your responses. Company X is an airline which made two offers to provide bonus miles if I transferred reward points from a Company Y credit card. I spent money to get the points from Company Y, and then I transferred them to Company X.
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 10:26 AM on April 11, 2011

Okay, that makes sense.

Probably doesn't help you though. The contracts regarding airline miles and credit card reward points are notoriously byzantine. Like multiple legal-sized pages of fine print. Finding something in there which will permit them to do this strikes me as almost a certainty. Again, can't know without reading said documents, but things aren't looking good just on first impression.
posted by valkyryn at 10:36 AM on April 11, 2011

Try posting your question with specifics here.
posted by Xurando at 11:41 AM on April 11, 2011 [1 favorite]

Followup: My wife is a student who gets cheap legal services for "consumer problems". We went to the university lawyer, and for $50 he agreed to send a demand letter to Company X (which is Delta Air Lines, who owed us SkyMiles). The lawyer proceeded to spend months ignoring our case, but he eventually apologized, refunded our $50, and wrote Delta the demand letter, including a threat of future legal action. Delta responded without any admission that they owed us, but they agreed to give us the SkyMiles as a gesture of goodwill.

Thanks for your answers!
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 1:07 PM on July 22, 2011 [1 favorite]

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