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Though casinos accepting Americans experienced a bumpy road, particularly in 2009 2009, hope lies coming. The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, which held a deadline of December of 2009, has been delayed. This delay bought time, half a year to be exact, that could enable legislators to reconsider the law's passing. Several legislators, particularly Congressman Barney Frank, have already been pushing for a big change in legislation. So as to aid in the push for regulated Internet casino gambling, any individual may contact their senators and representatives to be able to express their opinion. There are also political action committees, such as the Poker Player's Alliance, which are attempting to bring casino gaming in to the homes of players throughout the USA. Despite these laws, the casinos still operating for American players are ranked far above those who have decided against continued operation Stateside.


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Scrimmage: Football in American Art from the Civil War to the Present
Scrimmage: Football in American Art from the Civil War to the Present
Scrimmage features 78 artworks, dating from the 1850s to 2014, that take as their subject various aspects of the game of football. Some works, such as Frederic Remington's Touchdown, Yale vs. Princeton, are straightforward depictions of the early days of the sport, while others offer more ambiguous commentaries on football's meaning in the larger society. For instance, Mark Newport's Heroes Past, questions the role of masculinity in the sport by hand beading football cards; combining masculine icons with a traditionally "feminine" medium, while Shaun Leonardo's Bull in the Ring, also explores male identity by revealing the violence of the game. Geoff Winningham's Super Bowl (Houston) from 1972 turns from the field to the stands, showing a row of Vikings fans in their horned helmets cheering on their team, with the Goodyear blimp floating above them.
Rather than presenting a history of the sport, Scrimmage raises questions about sports, art, and their roles in our history and culture, revealing attitudes and transitions in American life over the past 150 years. Works by artists such as Winslow Homer and J.C. Leyendecker illustrate the concept of the "strenuous life" championed by President Teddy Roosevelt, while works by Andy Warhol and Red Grooms embody the cult of the celebrity athlete that is so prominent today. Other artists address issues of class, ethnicity, gender and violence as they relate to the sport of football.
On view January 21-May 14, 2017
Presented at the Figge with the support of the Thomas A. and Mary Waterman Gildehaus Memorial Fund, Tom Figge, and Jeff and Lynda Eirinberg.
Scrimmage has been organized by Linny Frickman at the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art at Colorado State University at Fort Collins in partnership with Danielle Knapp at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, Eugene.
Frederic Remington (American, 1861-1909), Touchdown, Yale vs. Princeton, Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 27, 1890, Yale 32, Princeton 0, 1890, oil on canvas, Yale University Art Gallery, Whitney Collections of Sporting Art, given in memory of Harry Payne Whitney (B.A. 1894), and Payne Whitney (B.A. 1898) by Francis P. Garvan (B.A. 1897); M.A. (Hon) 1922, Courtesy of the University Art Museum, Colorado State University, and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon
Companion Events
Thursday, February 2
Opening reception & Curator Lecture with Linny Frickman
Thursday, February 23
Social hour & Figge One-Minute Film Contest: Friday Night Lights
Thursday, March 9
Social hour & Author Talk with Dr. Thomas Oates
Thursday, April 20
Social hour and Exhibition Talk: Dr. Jaime Schultz
Thursday, May 11
Social Hour and Exhibition Talk: Brett Biebel
Exhibition Tours
1:30 p.m. Sunday, February 12
1:30 p.m. Saturday, February 25
1:30 p.m. Saturday, March 18

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google has settled a U.S. government probe into its business practices without making any major concessions on how the company runs its Internet search engine, the world's most influential gateway to digital information and commerce.
Thursday's agreement with the Federal Trade Commission covers only some of the issues raised in a wide-ranging antitrust investigation that could have culminated in a regulatory crackdown that re-shapes Internet search, advertising and mobile computing.
But the FTC didn't find any reason to impose radical changes, to the relief of Google and technology trade groups worried about overzealous regulation discouraging future innovation. The resolution disappointed consumer rights groups and Google rivals such as Microsoft Corp., which had lodged complaints with regulators in hopes of legal action that would split up or at least hobble the Internet's most powerful company.
Google is still trying to settle a similar antitrust probe in Europe. A resolution to that case is expected to come within the next few weeks.
After a 19-month investigation, Google Inc. placated the FTC by agreeing to a consent decree that will require the company to charge "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory" prices to license hundreds of patents deemed essential to the operations of mobile phones, tablet computers, laptops and video game players.
The requirement is meant to ensure that Google doesn't use patents acquired in last year's $12.4 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility to thwart competition from mobile devices running on software other than Google's Android system. The products vying against Android include Apple Inc.'s iPhone and iPad, Research in Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry and Microsoft's Windows software.
Google also promised to exclude, upon request, snippets copied from other websites in capsules of key information shown in response to search requests. The company had insisted the practice is legal under the fair-use provisions of U.S. copyright law. Nonetheless, even before the settlement, Google already had scaled back on the amount of cribbing, or "scraping," of online content after business review site Yelp Inc. lodged one of the complaints that triggered the FTC investigation in 2011.
In another concession, Google pledged to adjust the online advertising system that generates most of its revenue so marketing campaigns can be more easily managed on rival networks.
Google, though, prevailed in the pivotal part of the investigation, which delved into complaints that the Internet search leader has been highlighting its own services on its influential results page while burying links to competing sites. For instance, requests for directions may turn up Google Maps first, queries for video might point to the company's own site, YouTube, and searches for merchandise might route users to Google Shopping.
Although the FTC said it uncovered some obvious instances of bias in Google's results during the investigation, the agency's five commissioners unanimously concluded there wasn't enough evidence to take legal action.
"Undoubtedly, Google took aggressive actions to gain advantage over rival search providers," said Beth Wilkinson, a former federal prosecutor that the FTC hired to help steer the investigation. "However, the FTC's mission is to protect competition, and not individual competitors."
Two consumer rights groups lashed out at the FTC for letting Google off too easily.
"The FTC had a long list of grievances against Google to choose from when deciding if they unfairly used their dominance to crush their competitors, yet they failed to use their authority for the betterment of the marketplace," said Steve Pociask, president of the American Consumer Institute.
John Simpson of frequent Google critic Consumer Watchdog asserted: "The FTC rolled over for Google."
David Wales, who was the FTC's antitrust enforcement chief in 2008 and early 2009, said the agency had to balance its desire to prevent a powerful company from trampling the competition against the difficulty of proving wrongdoing in a rapidly changing Internet search market.
"This is a product of the FTC wanting to push the envelope of antitrust enforcement without risking the danger of losing a case in in court," said Wales, who wasn't involved with the case and is now a partner at the law firm Jones Day.
FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz said the outcome "is good for consumers, it is good for competition, it is good for innovation and it is the right thing to do." Before reaching its conclusion, the FTC reviewed more than 9 million pages of documents submitted by Google and its rivals and grilled top Internet industry executives during sworn depositions.
The Computer & Communications Industry Association, a technology trade group, applauded the FTC for its handling of the high-profile case.
"This was a prudent decision by the FTC that shows that antitrust enforcement, in the hands of responsible regulators, is sufficiently adaptable to the realities of the Internet age," said Ed Black, the group's president.
The FTC has previously been criticized for not doing more to curb Google's power. Most notably, the FTC signed off on Google's $3.2 billion purchase of online advertising service DoubleClick in 2008 and its $681 million acquisition of mobile ad service AdMob in 2010. Google critics contend those deals gave the company too much control over the pricing of digital ads, which account for the bulk of Google's revenue.
If Google breaks any part of the agreement, Leibowitz said the FTC can fine the company up to $16,000 per violation. Last year, the FTC determined that Google broke an agreement governing Internet privacy, resulting in a $22.5 million fine, though the company didn't acknowledge any wrongdoing.
Google's ability to protect its search recipe from government-imposed changes represents a major victory for a company that has always tried to portray itself as force for good. The Mountain View, Calif., company has portrayed its dominant search engine as a free service that is constantly tweaking its formula so that people get the information they desire more quickly and concisely.
"The conclusion is clear: Google's services are good for users and good for competition," David Drummond, Google's top lawyer, wrote in a Thursday blog post.
Google's tactics also have been extremely lucrative. Although Google has branched into smartphones and many other fields since its founding in a Silicon Valley garage in 1998, Internet search and advertising remains its financial backbone. The intertwined services still generate more than 90 percent of Google's revenue, which now exceeds $50 billion annually.
Throughout the FTC investigation, Google executives also sought to debunk the notion that the company's recommendations are the final word on the Internet. They pointed out that consumers easily could go to Microsoft's Bing, Yahoo or other services to search for information. "Competition is just a click away," became as much of a Google mantra as the company's official motto: "Don't be evil."
Microsoft cast the FTC's investigation as a missed opportunity.
"The FTC's overall resolution of this matter is weak and — frankly —unusual," Dave Heiner, Microsoft's deputy general counsel, wrote on the company's blog. "We are concerned that the FTC may not have obtained adequate relief even on the few subjects that Google has agreed to address."
FairSearch, a group whose membership includes Microsoft, called the FTC's settlement "disappointing and premature," given that European regulators might be able to force Google to make more extensive changes.
"The FTC's inaction on the core question of search bias will only embolden Google to act more aggressively to misuse its monopoly power to harm other innovators," FairSearch asserted.
Yelp also criticized the FTC's handling of the case, calling "it a missed opportunity to protect innovation in the Internet economy, and the consumers and businesses that rely upon it."
Investors had already been anticipating Google would emerge from the inquiry relatively unscathed.
Google's stock rose 42 cents Thursday to close at $723.67. Microsoft, which is based in Redmond, Wash., shed 37 cents, or 1.3 percent, to finish at $27.25.
In a research note Thursday, Macquarie Securities analyst Benjamin Schachter described the settlement as "the best possible outcome" for Google. "We believe that the terms of the agreement will have very limited negative financial or strategic implications for the company." Schachter wrote.


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The real challenge proved to be finding the right kind of inspiration for this months Daring Bakers challenge. I am not the biggest fan of the traditional British pudding and even less so in Spring, when there are a plethora of desserts I would much rather make. But, the Daring Bakers' challenges are usually a lesson to be learnt in some way or the other and this time was no different.
The British love their puddings that's for sure. Whether it's a treacle sponge, roly poly, spotty dick or a proper rice pudding, whether baked, or steamed, pie or tart, flan or fool there are so many variations and always served with a thick custard.
I went to a British school and was exposed to many of these puddings and while some were good I failed to share the real passion for them.
For this challenge we were to make a steamed cake-like dessert using suet, which is a very common ingredient in such dishes. However, it makes me shudder! I was very glad that we had the option to use "as close a replacement as you can manage or is acceptable".
The required elements of this challenge are:
- to make a suet pudding using real suet or as close a replacement as you can manage or is acceptable to you; and
- to cook it by steaming or if you want to be even more traditional by boiling tied up in a cloth.
The April 2010 Daring Bakers' challenge was hosted by Esther of The Lilac Kitchen. She challenged everyone to make a traditional British pudding using, if possible, a very traditional British ingredient: suet.
Well the suet thing was out of the question for me. Besides the fact that it's not available in Germany, the similar products like schmaltz and lard are not something I use in my kitchen. So, I stuck to good ole butter.
Seeing rhubarb appearing all over the markets made me crave Spring even more. Ok they were the green stalk variety, the typical German Wine, but I am never picky with my rhubarb.
One of the most popular steamed puddings I know of is the Christmas pudding making use of several types of dried fruit, spices and nuts. I considered what my Spring version of a steamed sponge pudding would look like.
With rhubarb of course, light and fluffy and kept moist by grated pear. Zesty blood orange peel add a lovely tangy flavor and blends the aromas, highlighting the rhubarb wonderfully.
So, what started out to be a laborious and uninspiring challenge turned into one filled with light spongy fruity goodness perfect for a warm sunny day in Spring.
The recipe is not the one suggested by Esther, but one I developed myself based on various recipes for sponge puddings I studied. Adding fresh fruit instead of dried keeps the cake light and moist. I poached the rhubarb and thinly sliced a pear lining small ramekins with the fruit then topping it off with the sponge batter. I baked the ramekins in a water bath in the oven, very similar to a crème brulee or a custard. The best part however is the drizzle of rhubarb syrup.
Rhubarb Pear Sponge Pudding with Vanilla Sauce
Printable version of recipe here
For Poached Rhubarb
250g rhubarb, sliced
65g sugar
juice of one lemonFor Sponge Pudding
2 pears, 1 grated and 1 thinly sliced
100g Muscovado sugar
140g all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
2 eggs
85g butter, softened
2 tablespoons milk
zest of 1 blood orange (substitute with orange)Homemade Vanilla Sauce
Pistachios, coarsely chopped
- To poach the rhubarb, place rhubarb, sugar and lemon juice in a saucepan and heat on a low heat. Poach for approx. 5 minutes or until soft. The pieces should hold their shape and not turn too mushy. Drain and reserve the juices. Set aside to cool.
- Heat the juice in a small saucepan and simmer until the juices cook down to a syrup.
- Pre-heat the oven to 160 degrees C. Butter 6 ramekins.
- In a bowl toss the poached rhubarb and pear slices with 2 tablespoons sugar. Arrange a few slices of pear and a tablespoon of rhubarb at the bottom of each ramekin. Set aside.
- Sift flour and baking powder into a clean bowl. Beat remaining sugar and softened butter with and electric hand held beater until thick, creamy and light.
- Break in one egg and beat until incorporated. Beat in the second egg. If the mixture begins to look curdled – don't worry about it.
- Add half of the flour into the mixture and using a rubber spatula fold it in. Stir in half of the milk, then add the rest of the flour, folding well followed by the remaining milk.
- Fold in the blood orange/orange zest and the grated pear. Spoon the mixture into the buttered ramekins and level off.
- Place each ramekin in a roasting tin and fill the tin with hot water. Bake in the oven for 45 to 60 minutes, depending on your oven, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
- Loosen the sponge pudding from the sides of the each ramekin with a knife and carefully invert it onto a serving plates. Serve drizzled with the rhubarb syrup, vanilla sauce and chopped pistachios.
The Food Guide Tips:- Rhubarb – it's really a veggie!
- Oranges
This was a fantastic twist to the traditional British pudding adding fruity flavors of Spring to give it a brilliant kick. The sweet rhubarb syrup adds such wonderful flavor to the entire dish and makes perfect use of the leftover juices. Soeren, Tom and I enjoyed these on the weekend outside on our terrace, with the sun shining, birds chirping and a warm breeze blowing a shower of white petals through the air.
Thank you Esther for putting this challenge together!
You might like these dessert ideas from WFLH:
Bakewell Tart with Thyme Infused Cherry Preserve and Cashew Frangipane | Bostini Cream Pie | Chocolate Mountains |
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Archibald John Motley Jr. is born October 7, in New Orleans, LA, to Mary Huff Motley and Archibald John Motley Sr.
After brief residencies in New Orleans, LA; St. Louis, MO; and Buffalo, NY, the family settles in Chicago, IL, with homes at Sixty-First and Sixty-Fifth and Morgan, and Sixty-Second and Sangamon.
Sister Florence ("Flossie") Motley born.
Moves with family to 350 West Sixtieth Street. Attends St. Brendan's Roman Catholic Church.
Attends Englewood High School.
Nephew Willard Motley born to Flossie Motley and a "Mr. Bryant," a boarder in their home. Willard is told that Mary and Archibald Sr. are his parents and Flossie and Archibald Jr. are his siblings. Although Willard is informed of his true parentage in 1921, the Motleys maintained their pre-1921 familial roles.
After declining a full scholarship to study architecture at Chicago's Armour Institute, applies to and is accepted into the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Frank Gunsaulus, president of the Armour Institute, pays the first year of tuition at the SAIC. Studies at the SAIC with Albert Krehbiel, John Norton, George Walcott, and Karl Buehr.
While attending the SAIC, develops friendships (and rivalries) with fellow art students, most notably Charles C. Dawson, William McKnight Farrow, William Schwartz, and Joseph Tomanek.
Pardoned from military services during WorldWar I because of a medically diagnosed "weak heart."
Work prominently featured in the Arts and Letters Society exhibition Paintings by Negro Artists, Chicago, IL.
Publishes "The Negro in Art" in the Chicago Defender (July 6), arguing for each African American artist to "have the same broad field as our white competitors" and to be given "a chance to express himself in his own individual way."
Occasionally joins his father, a Pullman porter, as a waiter on selected train routes.
Safeguarded by white friends during a major race riot on Chicago's South Side. Takes a postgraduate class at the SAIC with painter George Bellows. Shares an artist's model with former classmate Joseph Tomanek.
Included in the Art Institute of Chicago's Twenty-Fifth Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity. Shows paintings in eleven subsequent Art Institute annual exhibitions until 1949.
Marries neighborhood friend Edith Granzo.
Awarded the Frank G. Logan Prize for A Mulattress and the Joseph N. Eisendrath Prize for Syncopation from the Art Institute of Chicago.
Paintings in the Twenty-Ninth Annual Exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago are discussed at length in the French art journal Revue du vrai et du beau.
Acknowledged as "a credit to the race" in 1925 by W. E. B. Du Bois in the Crisis.
Mending Socks (1924) voted the most popular painting in the Newark Museum exhibition Paintings and Watercolors by Living American Artists, Newark, NJ. Flossie Motley's second child, daughter Rita, dies of diphtheria.
Shows work in Exhibition of Paintings by Archibald J. Motley, Jr., New Gallery, New York, NY. Exhibition discussed at length in the New York Times and the New Yorker. Visits relatives in Pine Bluff, AR. Awarded the Harmon Foundation Gold Medal.
Awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for a year of study in Paris. Rents a room at the legendary Surrealist haunt Hôtel d'Istria at 29 rue Campagne Première, in Paris's 14th arrondisement.
Later finds a studio/apartment at 16 rue Simon Dereure, in the 18th arrondissement. Wife and mother join him there.
Included in a major traveling European exhibition of American paintings, making stops at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, Stockholm, Sweden; the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark; and Die Kunstverein, Munich, Germany.
Included in the auction Notable Paintings and Drawings Chiefly of the Modern Schools, Property of George S. Hellman, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, NY.
Prominently featured in J. Z. Jacobson's Art of Today, Chicago, 1933 (Chicago: L. M. Stein, 1932).
Holds one-person exhibition at the Chicago Women's Club, Chicago, IL. Son, Archibald J. Motley III, born. Included in the exhibition Contemporary Black Artists in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
Included in Exhibition of Works by Negro Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Included in the exhibition A Century of Progress, The Art Institute of Chicago.
Assigned to work for the easel division of the Public Works of Art Project. Appointed visiting instructor at Howard University, Washington, DC.
Completes mural for the Nichols School in Evanston, IL, for the Illinois Emergency Relief Commission. Father, Archibald John Motley Sr., dies.
Commissioned to paint a mural for the Wood River, IL, post office by the Treasury Department. Included in Exhibition of Fine Arts Productions by American Negroes, Hall of Negro Life, Texas Centennial, Dallas, TX.
Included in the exhibition Contemporary Negro Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD.
Participated in the dedication and opening of the South Side Community Art Center in Chicago. Included in Exhibition of the Art of the American Negro, 1851 to 1940, Tanner Art Galleries, American Negro Exposition, Chicago, IL.
Included in the exhibition Commemoration of the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Proclamation of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Included in the exhibition American Negro Art, 19th and 20th Centuries, Downtown Gallery, New York, NY.
Moves wife and son into a newly purchased home at 3518 S. Wentworth Avenue, but as his wife's health deteriorates, sells the house and moves the family back into his mother's house at 350 W. Sixtieth Street.
Included in The Negro Artist Comes of Age, a National Survey of Contemporary American Artists, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY.
Nephew Willard Motley publishes his first novel, Knock on Any Door, which is made into a film starring Humphrey Bogart in 1949.
Wife Edith Granzo Motley dies. To support son and mother, begins working for Styletone, a manufacturer of hand-painted shower curtains.
Nephew Willard Motley's second novel, We Fished All Night, is published.
Makes several trips to Guanajuato and Cuernavaca, Mexico, where his nephew Willard resides.
Sentenced to six months in Chicago's Bridewell House of Correction for assault with a deadly weapon against his mother's husband, Ernest Hill.
Shows work in Archibald John Motley, Jr., Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL.
Nephew Willard publishes his third novel, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, which is made into a film starring James Darren in 1960.
Mother, Mary Huff Motley Hill, dies.
Works intermittently on his last painting, The First One Hundred Years: He Amongst You Who Is Without Sin Shall Cast the First Stone; Forgive Them Father for They Know Not What They Do.
Nephew Willard Motley dies in Mexico City.
Included in The Evolution of Afro-American Artists: 1800–1950, City College of New York in cooperation with the Harlem Cultural Council and the New York Urban League City College, Albany, NY.
Included in Invisible Americans: Black Artists of the '30s, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.
Included in Dimensions of Black, La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA.
Profiled in the television documentary The Last Leaf: A Profile of Archibald Motley, on WMAQ-TV, Chicago, IL.
Honored by the National Conference of Artists, Chicago, IL.
Included in Two Centuries of Black American Art, making stops at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; and the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY.
Because he is unable to maintain the South Side home he has lived in since 1907, moves into an apartment at 1809 N. Lincoln Park West.
Receives an honorary doctorate of fine arts from the SAIC. One of ten African American artists honoredby President Jimmy Carter at a White House reception.
Archibald John Motley Jr. dies, January 16, Chicago, IL.


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How did a landscape by turn-of-the-century French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir end up sold for $7 at a West Virginia flea market? An alleged museum heist decades ago, for starters.
The piece, a colorful depiction of a sunny day along the banks of the Seine River, garnered national attention after Alexandria-based Potomack Co. confirmed it as an original Renoir and slated it for auction last weekend. Experts believed the artwork to sell for between $75,000 and $100,000.
But a bit of sleuthing by Washington Post reporter Ian Shapira forced company officials to shelve the piece — never previously reported as stolen — just days before the auction.
Working on a follow up story to the intriguing tale of the landscape's discovery, Shapira decided to trace the painting's past and hopefully track down the chain of events that led to its sale to an anonymous Virginia woman in 2010. He expected to file – at most – a colorful story of the painting's last known owner, Herbert May, and his descendants.
May bought the painting in 1926, and until Shapira got on the case, many believed it vanished after he died, perhaps passed down to an unimpressed grandchild, friend or employee.
Then, going through the Baltimore Museum of Art's library on September 25, Shapira found a decades-old inventory of Renoir's artwork housed at the institute, including "Paysage Bords de Seine." He alerted museum staffers, who in turn checked their archives and discovered the painting was reported stolen in November 1951.
"We embarked on the story fully expecting not to find anything but a colorful tale of different characters and family descendants," Shapira said. "I wanted to basically … take readers through a little journey. That was sort of the idea; I did not expect to end up finding that the painting had been at the museum for at least more than a decade."
While Potomack Co. officials point to May as the last known owner, his wife – collector Saidie May – lent the piece to the BMA in 1937, according to the records Shapira and museum staff dug up. It allegedly vanished shortly after her death, said Anne Mannix, BMA communications director.
"Saidie May left her entire collection to the [BMA] and we assumed if there was anything it would have been part of our permanent collection," Mannix said. "We checked those records and didn't see any mentions of it. After Ian from the Post discovered the painting had been loaned to us, we checked loan records and found the card noted the painting had been stolen … six months after she died. Her estate was still being settled. So it never made it to the permanent collection."
Museum staff contacted Potomack Co. and the FBI launched an investigation soon after. Associated Press reporters also uncovered a police report detailing the theft late last week, she said.
But just who owns the painting remains a mystery. The museum received an insurance claim for the stolen piece, but the policy's specifics have yet to turn up, though BMA employees are searching for the document.
"[Current ownership] is unclear and that's part of what's happening with the investigation," Mannix said.
As for the Potomack Co., employee Lucie Holland is just happy details of the painting's disappearance broke before the auction. The news came as a surprise, she said.
"There is a mixture of regret and relief that we found out about this issue before the painting was sold," she said. "We would not want to sell anything without a title."


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Redd Last Name Popularity, Meaning and Origin
In this article we'll look at the origin and meaning of the surname Redd and how popular it is in the United States. We'll also look at the race and ethnic origin of people in the United States who are named Redd.
Redd, like all of the names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Redd surname is from the 2010 census data.
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According to the data, Redd is ranked #2,749 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Redd surname appeared 13,119 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 4.45 would have the surname Redd.
We can also compare 2010 data for Redd to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.
Race and Ethnic Origin of People with the Last Name Redd
We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Redd.
The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups: "White only", "Black only", "American Indian and Alaskan Native only", "Asian and Pacific Islander only", "Two or More Races", and "Hispanic".
For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Redd was:
- 50.51%, or 6,626 total occurrences, were "Non-Hispanic White Only".
- 43.50%, or 5,707 total occurrences, were "Non-Hispanic Black Only".
- 0.48%, or 63 total occurrences, were "Non-Hispanic Asian and Pacific Islander Only".
- 0.38%, or 50 total occurrences, were "Non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaskan Native".
- 3.09%, or 405 total occurrences, were "Non-Hispanic of Two or More Races".
- 2.04%, or 268 total occurrences, were "Hispanic Origin".
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With mango season here it was inevitable that I head down to Little India (Toronto) to look for the Alphonso mangoes. Alphonso mangoes are considered by many to be the best variety of mango with regards to sweetness and flavour. Here in Canada the alphonso mangoes are imported directly from India and thus they are a just a little bit expensive. Despite the expense I like to indulge on them while they are in season as they are really good. I was in luck! They had the alphonso mangoes in at both Kohinoor Foods and Cash and Carry and I picked up a case. On my long tram ride back I was thinking about how I was going to enjoy them.
Other than just snacking on them fresh one of the top things on my list to try was a mango shrikhand. A shrikhand is and Indian dessert made by mixing thick and creamy strained yogurt with sugar, cardamom and saffron. From there you can add other things like mangoes. For a mango shrikhand you commonly add mango pulp but for my first mango shrikhand I decided to just and some freshly chopped alphonso mangoes so that I could enjoy the mangoes more. The mango shrikhand was easy to make, though you do have to wait a while for the yogurt to strain. The alphonso mango shrikhand was amazing! The yogurt was nice and thick and creamy and sweet and the cardamom and saffron flavours worked really well in it. I also added some chopped pistachios for a bit of colour and for a contrasting texture.
I enjoyed the mango shrikand so much that I have already made several of them this week. For the second one that I coated the mango pieces in brown sugar and caramelized them in a pan before adding them to the shrikhand. The warm caramelized mango was so good! For the third mango shrikhand, I made the one with the mango pulp mixed into the yogurt and it definitely enhanced the overall mango flavour. In the end I think that my favorite was the first one as I got to fully enjoy both the wonderful fresh alphonso mangoes and the cardamom and saffron strained yogurt.
Mango Shrikhand
- 1 cup Greek yogurt (or strained plain yogurt)
- 1/4 cup mango pulp (optional)
- 2 tablespoons sugar (confectioners sugar works well)
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom
- 1 pinch saffron (soaked in 1 tablespoon warm milk)
- 1 tablespoon pistachios (toasted and chopped)
- 1 mango (peeled, stoned and cut into bit sized pieces)
- Mix everything save the mangoes and top with the mangoes.


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Senators finalizing a massive immigration bill are arguing over plans to boost visas for high-tech workers, Senate aides and industry officials say, with disputes flaring over how best to punish companies that train workers here only to ship them overseas.
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who's taken the lead in pushing to crack down on outsourcing firms, also is seeking higher wages for workers brought in on the H-1B visas that go to specially skilled foreigners, aides and officials say. High-tech industry officials say his efforts risk punishing companies not involved in the abuses he's trying to target, and lawmakers including Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., are taking the other side.
The dispute comes as aides to four Democratic and four Republican senators have been racing to put the finishing touches on sweeping immigration legislation that would secure the border and grant eventual citizenship to 11 million people here illegally, while also allowing tens of thousands more high- and low-skilled workers into the country on new visa programs.
Aides worked into the evening Monday on the high-tech visa issue, and senators were to resume meeting in person Tuesday after returning to Washington from a two-week spring recess. They were hoping to complete their legislation this week, though next week may be looking more likely. The high-tech visa question loomed as one of a few remaining unsettled matters.
At issue is overwhelming demand from companies like Microsoft, Apple and Google for the H-1B visas, which are now capped at 65,000 annually, plus 20,000 more that are reserved for foreign workers who have earned an advanced degree from a U.S. university. On Friday, the Homeland Security Department announced that after less than a week of accepting applications, it already had received more requests than visas available for the 2014 budget year.
Faced with that demand, senators have contemplated lifting the cap to around 100,000, with the ability to go as high as 150,000, aides and officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because negotiations were ongoing, and they stressed the numbers remained in flux and no final decisions had been made.
Such an increase would be a win for the tech industry, which has boosted its lobbying muscle in Washington in recent years. On a related issue, the legislation also is likely to allow permanent U.S. residency to unlimited numbers of people who get advanced degrees in science, technology or math from U.S. universities.
But the proposal to increase H-1B visas is focusing attention on problems with the current system.
Daniel Costa, immigration policy analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, said the top 10 companies with the most H-1B visas last year were all firms that bring workers here to work at lower cost than Americans would, then send them back home. Many are technology companies based in India.
"There need to be some major reforms before expansion happens," Costa said.
Senate negotiators have discussed fees and other penalties for companies that use large numbers of H-1B workers, including requiring those with more than 30 percent of their workforce made up of H-1B workers to pay higher wages than others, and those with more than 50 percent of H-1B workers to pay higher wages still. There would potentially be a prohibition against a company hiring more than 75 percent of its workers on H-1B visas. No such limit exists in current law.
But Durbin has been pushing to block companies from hiring any more than 50 percent of their workers on H-1B visas, aides and officials said. More problematically for U.S. firms, he also is pushing for higher wages, which industry officials contend could result in H-1B workers getting paid more than their American counterparts. And he's sought to push companies to make greater efforts to hire American workers first.
"Sen. Durbin has advocated for meaningful reforms of the H-1B visa program for years, and that hasn't changed in these negotiations," Durbin spokesman Max Gleischman said late Monday. "Any discussion of raising H-1B caps must also include protections for American workers and safeguards to ensure American jobs aren't being shipped overseas."
Scott Corley, executive director of Compete America, which represents high-tech companies including Google, Intel and Microsoft, said companies that are not heavily dependent on the H-1B visas shouldn't be subject to some of the new restrictions Durbin has advocated.
"If you believe these visas are somehow being exploited, who is more likely to exploit them?" Corley said. "There are tons and tons of people who apply for one or two of these visas every year, so you have to step back and say do we want to do this in a judicious way."
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May 23, 2003
The President
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President:
We write today in light of the upcoming Group of 8 (G-8) summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, to express our concern about a significant resurgence of anti-Semitism and related violence in many European countries, as well as the United States. Seven of the countries represented at the summit are participating States in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), with Japan included as a Partner for Cooperation. As the G-8 summit provides a timely opportunity to address political as well as economic issues facing societies represented and the wider international community, we respectfully urge you to raise this matter of mutual, international concern, and seek a joint commitment to work closely together to counter this disturbing trend.
Mr. President, last summer, Europe experienced an alarming spike in anti-Semitic violence. Members of Congress have been actively engaged, working with our European counterparts through the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly to respond to this problem at the parliamentary level. We have seen some positive reactions as a number of governments have taken meaningful steps such as the enactment of new laws, more vigorous law enforcement, and the introduction of educational programs aimed at combating anti-Semitism. Many government officials and parliaments, including our own, have spoken out to denounce these anti-Semitic acts. We fully understand the problem, as the United States is not immune from sporadic acts of vandalism and violence against members of the Jewish community and their institutions.
The G-8 summit provides an important and extraordinary occasion for leaders to discuss international issues of the day, and we hope you will take the opportunity to set anti-Semitism as an international priority. We believe that a joint, public commitment from the political leaders, reflected in the summit communique, will bolster further efforts to eradicate the disease of anti-Semitism, deliver an unmistakable message to those who would promote bigotry and hatred, and encourage other leaders to speak out on this problem.
With your leadership we are confident that a strong and vigorous coalition will be formed to fight anti-Semitism.
Ben Nighthorse Campbell, U.S.S.
Christopher H. Smith, M.C.
Christopher J. Dodd, U.S.S.
Steny H. Hoyer, M.C.
Gordon Smith, U.S.S.
Zach Wamp, M.C.
Saxby Chambliss, U.S.S.
Robert B. Aderholt, M.C.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S.S.
Benjamin L. Cardin, M.C.
Barbara A. Mikulski, U.S.S.
Alcee L. Hastings, M.C.
Jim Bunning, U.S.S.
Barbara Lee, M.C.
Bill Nelson, U.S.S.
Joseph Crowley, M.C.
Evan Bayh, U.S.S.
Jo Ann Davis, M.C.
Larry E. Craig, U.S.S.
Gary L. Ackerman, M.C.
Byron L. Dorgan, U.S.S.
Timothy J. Ryan, M.C.
Mitch McConnell, U.S.S.
Carolyn B. Maloney, M.C.
Frank R. Lautenberg, U.S.S.
Brad Carson, M.C.
Eliot Engel, M.C.
Martin Frost, M.C.
Joseph M. Hoeffel, M.C.
Henry A. Waxman, M.C.
Jim Saxton, M.C.
Betty McCollum, M.C.
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November 12, 2012 (LOS ANGELES) — From sea to shining sea, the nation paid tribute to its members of the armed services Sunday.
In California, a long legal case drew to a close as a war memorial cross that had been deemed unconstitutional was being resurrected Sunday in the Mojave desert, capping a landmark case for veterans fighting similar battles on public lands.
Sunday marked the official commemoration of Veterans Day, but the federal holiday will be observed Monday.
President Barack Obama laid the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia and noted that this is the first Veterans Day in a decade with no American troops fighting and dying in Iraq, and that a decade of war in Afghanistan is coming to a close.
In a speech at the Memorial Amphitheater, he said America will never forget the sacrifice made by its veterans and their families.
"No ceremony or parade, no hug or handshake is enough to truly honor that service," the president said, adding that the country must commit every day "to serving you as well as you've served us."
He spoke of the Sept. 11 generation, "who stepped forward when the Towers fell, and in the years since have stepped into history, writing one of the greatest chapters in military service our country has ever known."
Over the next few years, he said, more than 1 million service members will make the transition to civilian life. "As they come home, it falls to us, their fellow citizens, to be there for them and their families, not just now but always."
Later, the president and his wife, first lady Michelle Obama, and Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, greeted families in the cemetery's Section 60, home to graves of service members killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.
In California, a war memorial cross that once stood on a rocky hilltop in a national park before being deemed unconstitutional and ordered removed was being resurrected in the stunningly stark Mojave desert, marking the end of a longstanding legal dispute that had become entangled in patriotism and religion.
Henry Sandoz, who cared for the original cross as part of a promise to a dying World War I veteran, will rededicate a new, 7-foot steel cross on the same hilltop. The site is now in private hands as part of a land swap with the National Park Service that ended the legal battle.
"Judges and lawyers may have played their roles, but it was the veterans who earned this memorial, and it is for them it rises once more," said attorney Hiram Sasser of the Texas-based Liberty Institute, which represented veterans in the legal fight.
The settlement approved by a federal judge in April permitted the Park Service to turn over the acre of land known as Sunrise Rock to a Veteran of Foreign Wars post in Barstow and the Veterans Home of California-Barstow in exchange for five acres of donated property elsewhere in the 1.6 million acre preserve, about a four-hour drive east of Los Angeles.
The donated land was owned by Sandoz and his wife, Wanda, of Yucca Valley.
Sandoz has cared for the memorial as a promise to World War I veteran Riley Bembry, who with other shell-shocked vets went to the desert to help heal and erected a wooden cross on Sunrise Rock in 1934. It was later replaced with a cross made of steel pipes.
Then Sunrise Rock became part of the Mojave National Preserve in 1994, putting the Christian symbol on public land.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in 2001 on behalf of a retired Park Service employee who argued the cross was unconstitutional on government property because of the separation of church and state, and federal courts ordered it removed.
Congress stepped in and ordered the land swap in 2003, but the courts rejected the transfer. The issue made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which in April 2010 refused to order the cross removed. ___
Storm-ravaged New York hosted the country's largest Veterans Day parade with turnout sparse along portions of the 30-block route along Fifth Avenue. Standing in warm fall sunshine, officials said veterans should be honored and remembered more than just one day a year.
"This nation has a special obligation to take care of you," U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter told the crowd.
Several officials also made a note of mentioning Vietnam veterans. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War.
One Vietnam vet, 66-year-old Laurence Lynch of New York, said simply, "It's about time. It's about time."
Along a number of blocks of the parade route, just a few dozen spectators were lined along the barricades.
Candice and Jeffrey Stark stood nearly alone on one stretch, waving tiny American flags. "We are shocked," Candice Stark said. "Very disappointed and terribly appalled. Don't get me started!"
The Long Island couple was among the many residents displaced by the storm. The military has been very visible in the Sandy cleanup, so the Starks said they went to the parade to show their appreciation. ___
In an event befitting the nation's movie capital, the GI Film Festival Hollywood was launched this weekend in Los Angeles.
Films at the two-day festival highlighted the successes and sacrifices of American military personnel and the worldwide struggle for democracy, said festival co-founder Brandon Millett. Movies must have at least one main character, real or fictitious, who plays a military role with respect.
The festival's mission is to preserve the stories of American vets, he said.
"We noticed a lot of films portray GIs in an unfavorable light," said Millett, who founded the festival with his wife, a West point graduate. "We wanted to show the courage, the heroism and the sacrifice of men and women in uniform."
The festival showcased eight feature films culled from Millett's annual GI Film Festival held in Washington, D.C., in May, and debuted short films made by filmmakers who are veterans. It also recognized actors for their contributions to the U.S. Armed Forces and held a fundraising auction to benefit the Semper Fi Fund, which aids wounded Marines and their families.
"We show all aspects of the GI experience, in the arena of war and when they come home," Millett said. ___
Chicago's National Veterans Art Museum unveiled its latest exhibit called "Welcome Home" as it celebrated its grand reopening in a new location.
"'Welcome home' is the customary message given to soldiers returning from war," a museum statement said. "After this initial greeting, familiarity dissolves and the traumas of war surface. Veterans set out to relearn the world they left behind, and their family meets a transformed person."
The exhibit is part of a series that examines the ongoing war in Afghanistan and the rising need for mental health care for returning veterans
The museum has more than 2,500 works of veterans' art with the mission of inspiring greater understanding of the real impact of war with an emphasis on Vietnam. The museum focuses art inspired by combat and created by veterans. ___
A Las Vegas casino rolled out the red carpet for some 60 injured veterans in a special Veterans Day weekend trip.
The annual "Salute to the Troops" weekend started with free American Airlines flights for veterans and their guests and a welcoming committee of MGM Resorts employees Thursday.
Employees held welcome signs, waved flags and chanted "USA" as the honored guests arrived.
MGM Resorts is hosting the veterans free at the Mirage Hotel and Casino, and treating them to a variety of attractions and shows during the five-day trip that ends Monday.
Their itinerary includes a ventriloquist show, a trip to the Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat at the Mirage, and the Aviation Nation air show at Nellis Air Force Base. ___
Genealogy website Ancestry.com has launched an online, searchable collection of the burial sites of more than 500,000 members of the military.
The project, a partnership with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the National Archives and Records Administration, allows people to search by name, for a fee.
The collection includes burial information for prominent figures in history, including President Abraham Lincoln and Gen. George Armstrong Custer, who was killed with more than 200 of his men in the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn against a coalition of Native American tribes.
The project includes two new, searchable collections of U.S. burial registers, military posts and national cemeteries from 1862-1960 and of U.S. headstone applications from 1926-1963.


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In lower Manhattan, the New York Stock Exchange was closed yesterday. It's closed again today; slated to reopen tomorrow. More on that, coming up. But Wall Street is not the only industry in lower Manhattan facing trouble from the hurricane. Zoe Chace, of NPR's Planet Money team, has been getting a look around.
ZOE CHACE, BYLINE: The South Street Seaport is a historic part of the city - some of the oldest buildings in town. It's right at the tip of the island of Manhattan, and it used to be a shipping port, of course. Today, it's mostly high-end shops and restaurants - or was, as this restaurant owner tells it.
PAUL MORGAN: My name's Paul Morgan. I have a restaurant on Front Street and Peck Slip - well, I had restaurant on Front Street and Peck Slip.
CHACE: What does that mean?
MORGAN: That means it's not there anymore. Catastrophic, in one word. The whole place has been ripped up. My fridges are at a 45-degree angle. It's - it's just an absolute mess.
CHACE: You see that everywhere, here. There are a bunch of businesses around, with windows broken. There are headless mannequins, from an Ann Taylor store, strewn about. There's a couple up the block; carried there, presumably, by the floodwaters, which were way higher than Paul Morgan - and many others - anticipated. He was nearby, at a friend's house, during the height of the storm last night.
MORGAN: By the time we put our shoes on and run down, the water was up to our ankles. By the time we got to the corner, it was up to our knees. And the cops were like, you guys - got to go. And we're like, yeah, we figured that one out.
CHACE: You can see the water line on what's left of the glass windows here. Above my head, Morgan points across the street, at another restaurant.
MORGAN: They an outdoor bar. It's over on Water Street right now.
CHACE: How far away is that?
MORGAN: That is two blocks, yeah. This is a lot worse than people think.
CHACE: Walk up the street; there's Ray Hoshoe. He came out this morning and found a couple products from a Brookstone store, two blocks away.
RAY HOSHOE: And I just brought it back, and tossed it back in the broken window.
CHACE: Reverse-looting, kind of awesome; makes sense in New York. When there's trouble, sometimes people like to help each other out.
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Remember that cherry red Chevy Malibu convertible that John Travolta drives in Pulp Fiction? You know the one that he crashes, trying to get help after Uma Thurman overdoses? Did you know it's been missing for 19 years because it was stolen? Well, it's not missing anymore.
The car, which belongs to filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, turned up in the Oakland, Calif., area, according to the San Bernardino Sun. Officers were able to locate it through the sleuthing of a law enforcement officer farther south.
Earlier this month, a San Bernardino sheriff's deputy saw two men taking parts off of a car in the town of Victorville, which is about 85 miles northeast of Los Angeles. The deputy questioned the men, says Jodi Miller, the public information officer for the sheriff's department, as part of an "investigation of suspicious circumstances." Everything was in order, she says, and the car was found to be in the care of its rightful owner.
But in running the car's vehicle inspection number, or VIN, the deputy noticed there was another vehicle in the Oakland area with the same identification. He notified authorities there, and Miller says these officers discovered a second vehicle using a "cloned VIN," or the same identification number belonging to the San Bernardino County car. The Sun says that second car turned out to be Tarantino's missing wheels. The Associated Press reports the present owner of the red convertible isn't thought to be part of the theft and is considered a fraud victim.
It's unclear whether the Pulp Fiction convertible is back in Tarantino's possession; a message seeking comment from him was not immediately returned. But the thief may want to think about the sage advice Travolta's character delivers in the movie: "Don't f - - - with another man's vehicle."
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Five hundred thirty-eight electoral votes were up for grabs on Election Day. President Obama has won, so far, 303 of them, a comfortable majority. Mitt Romney has 206. Twenty-nine are still unaccounted for - the electoral votes of Florida. Too close to call there. Less than a percentage point divides the candidates. But down the ballot, Democrats did well. The party retained a Senate seat and picked up a few key congressional races as well. NPR's Debbie Elliott reports.
DEBBIE ELLIOTT, BYLINE: Florida's only statewide elected Democrat, Senator Bill Nelson held off a challenge from Republican congressman Connie Mack. In Orlando after his victory, Nelson called for unity.
SENATOR BILL NELSON: We have to bring this country together. It's an extremely polarized, excessively partisan, ideologically rigid political environment. And the people are tired of that.
ELLIOTT: But Mack, the GOP challenger, didn't sound conciliatory.
REPRESENTATIVE CONNIE MACK: We may have lost the battle, but we haven't lost the war.
ELLIOTT: In one of the hardest fought congressional battles here, Democrat Patrick Murphy, a political newcomer, is claiming a narrow victory over Republican incumbent Allen West. It was the most expensive House race in the country. West, a Tea Party freshman, isn't conceding.
Democrats will also be sending former West Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel and Miami attorney Joe Garcia to Congress. The state party called it a good day to be a Democrat in Florida.
Republicans, meanwhile, gathered in downtown Tampa for the state GOP's election night party - a party that never really got started.
LENNY CURRY: Look, it's been a long night.
ELLIOTT: Florida Republican chairman Lenny Curry addressed the crowd late in the evening, just after the news that President Obama had passed the electoral threshold for re-election.
CURRY: Stick around as long as you'd like to. Pray.
ELLIOTT: Disheartened Republicans, like Tampa businessman Dwight Lankford, slowly filed out of the hotel ballroom.
DWIGHT LANKFORD: I think it's a great disappointment, and America took a wrong step tonight.
ELLIOTT: As the tight Presidential race here indicates, both campaigns worked hard to turn out their voters. Long lines were the story for both early voting and on Election Day.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Chanting) Fired up.
GROUP: (Chanting) Ready to vote.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Yeah, we're fired up.
ELLIOTT: Outside an east Tampa precinct, Vietnam veteran Oliver Sutton waved Obama signs and rallied voters.
GROUP: (Chanting) Four more years, four more years.
ELLIOTT: He says he voted for President Obama in 2008, but this year was rejected at the polls because of questions about whether his voting rights had been restored after a felony conviction. It didn't deter his participation.
OLIVER SUTTON: So what I did, I got 14 people to register to vote because they wouldn't let me vote. So, ha-ha.
ELLIOTT: The economy was the dominant issue for most voters I spoke with in this mainly African-American working class neighborhood. Jewel McMillian is an unemployed, single mother of three who uses food stamps. She voted for President Obama. She says Romney doesn't understand her plight.
JEWEL MCMILLIAN: I don't feel like he can relate to us, like, because he never had to struggle.
ELLIOTT: Exit polls show President Obama with strong support among black and Hispanic voters in Florida. In a statement last night, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, a key surrogate for the Romney campaign, said Republicans need to work harder to communicate their beliefs to people in minority and immigrant communities.
Debbie Elliott, NPR News, Tampa.
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