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Black vs. white. Good vs. evil. Right vs. wrong. More frequently there are elements of substantial merit on both sides of the question that should be considered and evaluated.
Priorities must be established so the elements under consideration can be appropriately weighted to enable a judgment to be made determining which side of the debate shall get the nod.
Should your kids be allowed to stay up late at night because family is visiting from out of town, even though it's a school night? How do you weight the property rights of an individual homeowner in the face of the welfare of the greater community? Should parents decide the fate of schools or is that the right of adminstrators alone? Do developers develop at the behest of the community, or is the community, in need of responsible development, held hostage by the developer? Do the inmates run the asylum? Does the end justify the means? Does, "But you said!" hold any weight at all?
For any system of open debate to arrive at a just conclusion, there must be full disclosure of information from both sides. To intentionally hide a negative outcome for fear of weakening your case may be effective in a con game, but in civic discourse it is inappropriate and ineffective.
Intention – that word carries with it such import. What is the prime directive at play? If the guiding principle is anything other than a right decision, the process is flawed and the outcome in jeopardy.
Parents at Centennial, a K-8 school in northwest Denver, as with parents anywhere, are anxious to see that their children have the best opportunity possible for a quality education. You can imagine their distress that they were given the information that their school was being "redesigned," and three-quarters of the faculty would be replaced, a day after the choice period ended, negating the option of sending their children to another school.
One Centennial parent equated the situation to dressing in the darkness. Referring to the powers that be at Denver Public Schools, he opined, "They expect us to choose our children's future like I choose my socks at 6a.m., in the dark, trying not to wake anyone. I owe my children the duty of ensuring I fully understand what kind of school I am putting them in."
Clearly, the communication broke down between district and school. An oversight? Perhaps. Purposely directed to limit the possibility of a mass defection of families from Centennial? Could be. One thing is for sure – the process was flawed, and one side feels disrespected, and not heard. Another thing is that intention is difficult to uncover.
To better control an onslaught of proposed development in the Cherry Creek neighborhood, a committee of stakeholders was assembled to create a guiding document as an appendix to the neighborhood plan, similar to the creation of Blueprint Denver some years ago as an implementation guide for the city's more far-reaching Comprehensive Plan.
The group of residents, business owners and city staffers drafted and published a white paper last year that addressed issues critical to maintaining the health of the ever-evolving Cherry Creek residential/commercial landscape. The white paper had a major test drive last month when City Council was presented with a rezoning request for the old Cherry Creek post office property at 245 Columbine St. The development proposal substantially exceeded white paper guidelines in the critical areas of floor area ratio (building size vs. lot size) and parking requirements. City Council approved the rezoning 12-0.
Homeowners in the area feel disrespected and not heard. With at least 14 more projects on the drawing board over the next several years – and certainly more to come, residents question the weight of the white paper they were led to believe would protect them from excesses that would inexorably alter the quality of life they were striving to protect. They wonder in which direction the city's loyalty lies. The city feels that the "spirit" of the white paper was honored, though a pair of most notable elements were set aside. They count the developers as essential to the well-being of our city as the residents.
Different perspectives to be sure. Was the white paper process simply an effort to pacify the community? Or was the rezoning decision simply a case of one side weighing things differently than the other? One person who pays attention to such matters explained that the unanimous ballot may have been a case of collegial voting. "Council tends to support the district council member, so that when something comes up in their own backyard, the others will return the support."
If this is true, then we'll never know the true level of support for the issue. We hope it's not. While Cherry Creek area Councilwoman Jeanne Robb said that voting for the rezoning was a difficult decision that she only made following the public hearing, there's a chance the decision was not as complex for others on the council. Intention.
Denver Public Schools is governed by a Board of Education comprised of seven representatives. In recent years the board has been divided 4-3, with the majority in near lockstep support of the reform agenda of Superintendent Tom Boasberg, and the minority frequently questioning his policies.
Northwest Denver board member Nate Easley, aligned with the majority, resigned his post in January, leaving a vacancy that could alter dramatically the balance of power on the school district board. Policy demands that the remaining members agree on a replacement within 60 days, or board president, Mary Seawell, also allied with the previous majority of four, will select Easley's replacement.
DPS has a population of over 84,000 students of which 58 percent are Hispanic. Though the open application process brought 25 applicants, only three were Hispanic, and none are among the finalists for Easley's seat – eight are black and one is white. None of the board members selected a Hispanic candidate for the finals.
We do not believe that it is essential that a Latino be selected, but we do believe the process would have better respected the majority of the district's student population if the search effort had made a stronger commitment to representation of the Hispanic community.
The luck of the draw? Maybe? Some sort of attempt to maintain the balance of power on the board? No way to tell. Once again, intention is very difficult to uncover.


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Q&A: BodyBuilding.com Does Some Heavy Lifting To Generate Marketing, Awareness
By Barry Janoff
March 21, 2016: BodyBuilding.com, which launched in 1999, knows how to pump it up when it comes to reaching a core audience, attracting newcomers and forming a network among consumers and participants.
The site has some 32 million visitors, carries more than 13,500 health and fitness supplements and accessories and has customers in more than 155 countries. It provides more than 35,000 pages of free information, including more than 25,000 articles and 10,000 videos, expert-designed online training programs and new content added daily.
In addition to its plethora of material and traffic on-site, BodyBuilding.com has more than 2.9 million likes on Facebook, nearly 600,000 followers on Twitter and its own YouTube channel. Last week, it unveiled its latest commercial, "Remember Why You Started." Leading weight trainer Ashley Horner (pictured above) is among the company's spokespersons, targeting women with her fitness regimens and advice.
The company, based in a 100,000 sq. ft. building in Boise, Idaho, where many of its 800 employees work (and which includes its own weight and exercise room and an outdoor basketball court), said it passed $500 million in sales in 2015 and, since opening its e-commerce doors, "has shipped over 25 million orders in its history," according to Richard Jalichandra, who was named CEO in January.
Bodybuilding.com, which since 2008 has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Liberty Interactive Corp. — making it a sibling to QVC Group, HSN and Zulily — has had its share of crisis.
Like other sports, but perhaps more so, bodybuilding faces constant scrutiny regarding the use of supplements, nutrients and other products that go into the bodies of participants. In 2012, founder Ryan DeLuca (now a consultant to the company) entered a guilty plea for misdemeanor charges in a federal case that alleged the company sold five misbranded products marketed as dietary supplements but which contained undeclared illegal anabolic steroids. The FDA fined DeLuca, his brother Jeremy (the then president of the company) and BodyBuilding.com more than $8 million.
NYSportsJournalism spoke with Jalichandra, who came to BodyBuilding.com with more than two decades of tech, sales (he has a MBA in finance) and marketing experience, including CEO positions with iSocket, MapMyFitness and Technorati, about the growth of the category, the upcoming Olympics and the challenges of marketing to both core and casual participants.
NYSportsJournalism.com: What are your key challenges just a few months into your job at BodyBuilding.com?
Richard Jalichandra: The first thing I believe is the classic cliche: Don't screw anything up. The most important aspects to following that are watching, learning and listening a lot. And then turning that observation into analysis. And then start to press buttons and turn knobs. I see a number of tremendous opportunities both in what we are doing today and in some slight variations. Our founder had a fantastic vision of building this entire category out. So now I come in with a fresh point of view and new energy to add to that vision.
NYSJ: Is there a challenge in speaking with people and marketers who are not fully aware of the category to break the stereotype of bodybuilders and those who do heavy lifting?
RJ: There are people in this category who are bodybuilders and into heavy lifting and people who see the value in working out and using fitness to maintain or improve their health. There are pre-conceived perceptions, but there are people who understand what the overall category entails. If you go to any enthusiast site, there are hard-core users and casual users. Our audience is 32 million a month, and not all of them are hard-core bodybuilders.
In the week after I was brought in, there were more than 1,000 in my business circle who told me, via social media, in person, that they had been on the site. Looking for diet and weight-loss tips, exercise regimens, app workouts, nutrient plans. And a fair number said they had bought products from the site. So we definitely speak to that spectrum of visitors and consumers. We have a lot of hard-core athletes, but at the same time we have a lot of people who want to be more fit and lead a healthy lifestyle.
NYSJ: What is the main marketing strategy?
RJ: We have a pretty comprehensive marketing mix. Social media, word-of-mouth among people in gyms, online marketing, print, all of the off-line channels in the category. We are experimenting with some TV. We have presence at a lot of events and do a lot of event marketing. This is a big business and we have to run it like a big business. A decent percent of our overall revenue is generated by marketing. In the digital age, you want to have as much earned opportunities as you can via social and other viral techniques.
NYSJ: Considering the fact that bodybuilding is a hands-on category, how important is it for your site to interact with visitors and give them the opportunity to have hands-on experiences?
RJ: That's important. There is an important viral element. We provide a lot of interactive opportunities and we see areas to expand on that. Any time you have an audience the size of ours, if you are not encouraging networking you'd be foolish.
NYSJ: Do you find yourself having to defend bodybuilding, either by association due to the PED situations in MLB, NFL and other sports or because of the stereotypical image the public tends to have of bodybuilders?
RJ: The entire industry and sport, like all the others, has cleaned up over the past decade. We have really fine-tuned our focus. That is an area where we are doing everything to run as clean a business as possible. We have two dozen people who are making sure that we are in compliance and in perfect sync with whatever the regulations require. We sell 13,000 different products. So we spend a lot of time making sure that the product that goes in the store is absolutely within regulatory framework.
NYSJ: Bodybuilding.com is the focus, but how did you get here as CEO?
RJ: I am a lifelong fitness fanatic and have worked out almost every day of my life. And I track it like crazy. I can tell you every workout I've done since I was 17, so that's more than 30 years ago. At this point in my career, there are only a handful of things that I am interested in working on in health and wellness. So I've combined everything from my career in technology with my personal interest. Those opportunities are rare. And it's ever rarer to be able to work on something the scale and size of BodyBuilding.com. When I got the call to see if I was interested in becoming CEO, I immediately jumped on.
NYSJ: What do you feel were your strengths in your previous positions and how are you using them with BobyBuilding.com?
RJ: (Laughs.) I am a classic generalist. I'm not great at any one particular thing, but I'm really good at five or six things. I have an MBA in finance, but I've spent most of my career in marketing. I'm very good with numbers, but my natural tendency is growing companies through smart strategies and good marketing. I've also spent a fair amount of time in sales and revenue generation. So I have the ability to work with numbers and generate revenue.
NYSJ: Do people generally tend to take your advice?
RJ: (Laughs.) All you can do is offer your point of view. If people buy into it, they'll run with it. And sometimes they won't. Usually the truth is somewhere in the middle.
NYSJ: How aware were you of BodyBuilding.com before you joined them?
RJ: I was totally aware of the company but I wasn't fully aware of how big they were.
"We have two dozen people who are making sure that we are in compliance and in perfect sync with whatever the regulations require."
NYSJ: When you watch athletes from various sports, and not just those associated with bodybuilding or heavy weightlifting, do you see advantages for them to come to your site and use your content?
RJ: Some of those athletes are already at our site. I would think that most elite athletes would have weight training and nutrition as part of their normal program. We provide both, and more. Certainly if you go through our content you'll find that there are workouts that are specifically designed to support different sports and nutrition to support different sports, not just heavy weightlifting.
NYSJ: Do you see with the Olympics coming up, where weight lifting has long been a medal competition, or when major bodybuilding events happen, more traffic to your site and more product purchases?
RJ: We are not seeing anything now from the Olympics, but (moving forward) that might drive interest and awareness from which we would benefit. There are events that drive traffic and create some spikes. But we are relatively steady. We do see that January and February are very busy because that's when people are conscious about weight loss after the holidays or come into the new year wanting to start a health regimen.
NYSJ: It is still early in your tenure, but what are you looking at now and moving forward as goals?
RJ: What we are working on now is our various mobile products. We have launched a bunch of new apps over the past few months and will be launching more. The way people are consuming digital content today it's obvious that moving to mobile devices and a mobile format is the way to go, and we are adjusting our business accordingly.
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m. anderson, Vietnam veteran
Mpls, MN, USA
Senator Phil Grams,
You've heard the refrain. One of the main reasons the wounds of Viet Nam don't heal is that many of us who served our country feel our country turned it's back on us when we came home. Denying honor to anyone who made a sacrifice and contribution to the Viet Nam war effort, which is your intent with your legislation aimed at the Hmong, is precisely why so many people remain so angry at elected officials, like yourself.
The manner in which you did this is insidious and therefore indicative that you don't have the fortitude (read; are too cowardly) to address the issue head on by coming right out and saying you don't want these people to be citizens. It is not enough that your most illustrious Republican leader secretly dropped more bombs on Laos than all of what was dropped in World War II and the Hmong were working for the CIA helping to save American lives, they're being Asian is apparently reason enough for you to turn your back on them. That shouldn't be surprising considering the Republican leadership have turned their back on their own American soldiers (by delaying and obstructing construction of the Viet Nam Memorial, removing PTSD from clinical diagnosis, dragging your feet on Agent Orange and Hepatitis, refusing to fund welcome home' parades, and on and on and on.)
Throughout history, it has been fundamental for societies to honor their soldiers. I have never understood how the Republicans, who are always crowing about defense spending, security, patriotism, diplomacy by military intervention, and the like, do not, in actuality honor soldiers. I don't know if it is because so many Republicans were born into privilege and avoided Viet Nam or it is because you tend to be ingrates.
These Hmong were soldiers. Who the hell are you not to honor them?
Somehow, I expect our highest level leaders to concern themselves with lofty issues like freedom, justice, equality and ridding the world of tyrants and banana republics, but instead, right in here in Minnesota, we have a Senator spending his time figuring out ways to keep soldiers who served America from being honored.
This kind of legislative stunt is precisely why I have concluded that most Republican leaders are possessed primarily of two qualities; First, and above all else, they are cowards. Secondly, they are hypocrites.
You're a hypocrite because you run around preaching family values to the rest of us, but when you own child needed your time as a father, you were too busy punching your own career ticket to exercise your responsibility as a parent.
It is unfortunate that the media in this town has been cowed by accusations of liberal bias, because it prevented them from raising the most important and revealing issue surround your son. And, it was not whether or not you sought special treatment, (which I don't think you did,) but, how does your son's drug and alcohol abuse and other behavior reflect on you as a father. The best way for the media to draw a clear picture of the kind of person you really are, would be to interview your son and juxtaposition it with one of your family value speeches.
Anyone with common sense, especially family value Republicans' would normally acknowledge, that is in any context other than one of their own peccadillos, that problems and behavior of the kind we saw from your son typically results from spiritually and/or physically and/or emotionally absent parenting.
You have confused the recognition of being a news reader with believing you are a leader. My parting advice is, and I know you'll agree with me here; try to keep in mind, that if the T.V. took almost anyone of the street who had straight teeth and put them on the evening news for ten years, they could do what you've done.
Bottom line; how many family value' Republicans in Congress are there, would you guess, in addition to Henry Hyde, Speakers Livingston, and Gingrich who wallowed in Clinton's extra-marital affair, have had extra-marital affairs, or have children or wives who abuse drugs and/or alcohol or otherwise have been a contributor to a dysfunctional family; preach family values, as you have, or avoided Viet Nam, talk about patriotism and don't understand what it means to honor our soldiers?
Kissinger and McNamara and most of your "distinguished" colleagues are war criminals.
In case I haven't made myself clear, I feel you and your Republican brethren are singularly the most negative and destructive force on earth.
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Butley is a dark comedy about a literary professor who loses his wife and his male lover in the same day. The revival's production team includes Alexander Dodge (sets), Ann Roth (costumes), David Weiner (lighting), and John Gromada (sound). Among Gray's other plays are Otherwise Engaged, The Common Pursuit, and Quartermaine's Terms. Martin, whose New York directorial credits include Hedda Gabler and Fully Committed, is the artistic director of Boston's Huntington Theatre, where he staged Butley with Lane in 2003.
Stone was most recently seen on Broadway in The Odd Couple, which starred Lane and Matthew Broderick; she also appeared in The Smell of the Kill and Grease. Pettie's New York stage credits include Dedication, or the Stuff of Dreams and Spatter Pattern, and he recently starred in The Taming of the Shrew in Boston.
Lane is the Tony Award-winning star of such shows as The Producers, The Frogs, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Love! Valour! Compassion! Ivey, a four-time Tony Award nominee for her performances in Sunday in the Park With George, Heartbreak House, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, and The Rivals, was most recently seen on the New York stage in the Irish Rep production of Mrs. Warren's Profession. Gray appeared in the Huntington Theatre Company production of Butley and co-starred in Hard Feelings Off-Broadway. McMenamin appeared in the Playwrights Horizons' production of Julia Cho's BFE. Ovenden has had leading roles in the Donmar Warehouse productions of Grand Hotel and Merrily We Roll Along.
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Here's my story... good 'day, you see I am still Australian at heart despite my peripatetic lifestyle (that kind of means I spend my life travelling and teaching my ways). I am, as far as I know the world's most travelled wombat, well me and my wife. Both me and Mrs. Wombat - not pictured (she's the one taking the photos, that's why they are all so bad!) have been cruising the globe for many years now, leaving our home in the Blue Mountains near Sydney for a life on the road. We're the animal kingdoms closest equivalent to Michael Palin!
We once considered ourselves the world's only travelling wombats, but since creating this site we have (I kid you not) had e-mails and photos from at least five other globetrotting wombat. Nevertheless, we are in no doubt and safe in the knowledge that, we are the original mass moving marsupials.
Since my first stop in China I have managed to set paws on every continent(Antarctica aside), but still have many places to see. Nowadays I am still on the road looking for more and more famous photo opportunities - you can see some of the places I managed to get my furry face in front of below, but you will have to look hard in most cases. A kind of where's wombat competition!
In case you are a little confused, wombats are native Australian marsupials. Marsupial is Greek for 'little purse', since a marsupial is a mammal in which the female has a pouch where she carries her young for a considerable time after birth. Just like in my good friends the Kangaroos. We live (when not travelling) in burrows usually dug in the side of gullies and would you believe can run up to 40km per hour.
My travels have not always been easy, they seem to take forever (despite being able to run fast) as getting on transport can be quite tricky and I've undergone much hardship. Walking the Inca trail with no shoes on for example was a big mistake. I hope you enjoy all my snaps and please if you know of any other travelling wombats, preferably with photographic experience make sure you get in touch with
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Edmonton Oilers goalie Nikolai Khabibulin hit media headlines last February when he was arrested on suspicion of extreme DUI in Scottsdale. Yet the hockey player's name is now being thrown around once again since he was sentenced to 30 days in jail over the incident last week.
The Toronto Sun reports that a Scottsdale judge also sentenced Nikolai Khabibulin to complete an alcohol-education program and pay fines of more than $1,500 in addition to spending 30 days behind bars. But will the hockey player follow through with this sentence?
The Oiler has an experienced Phoenix DUI attorney representing him in his case, who says that he plans to appeal the sentence. Through the appeals process, DUI attorneys are looking to get Nikolai Khabibulin's sentence reduced. Because the appeals process can take months or even years to conclude, it's likely that we'll see Nikolai Khabibulin out of jail and on the ice for the 2010-2011 NHL season.
Some Arizonians might say that Nikolai Khabibulin was lucky to get off with such a lenient sentence for the convictions of extreme driving under the influence, excessive speed and driving under the influence with blood alcohol level over .08. FindLaw states that a conviction to extreme DUI, a DUI with BAC level over .15, carries enhanced penalties with a minimum sentence of 30 days in jail. Essentially, Nikolai Khabibulin may have gotten lucky with the minimum sentence for such an offense. However, a Phoenix DUI attorney can always appeal a sentence or DUI conviction. Time will tell if an appeal will work in the goalie's favor.
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An official dispatch from Constantinople admits the defeat of
Nazim Pasha in the furious five-da battle of last week. The Turks
have fallen back upon the last line of fortifications outside the capital,
nd the fall of Constantinople is now inevitable.
Panic has seized upon the city. There. are grave fears of an out
break against the Christians as soon as the situation becomes known
to the fanatical Moslems who are demanding a holy war.
Tn this perilous situation, and as a final admstsion of her helpless
ness, the porte has granted permission to the powers for each to send
one warship through the Dardanelles for the protection of their na
tionals in Constantinople.
Europe is now face to face with
the problem of the distribution of
the spoils. A momentous race is
on between the ships of the powers
and 'the victorious Bulgarian army
as to which shall enter Constanti
nople firstf " Either or both arc
needed there to present the certain
uprising against the Christians
which otherwise will occur. But
the pride of the Bulgar demands
the right to the possession of the
cit and the dictation of peace with
the Turk, unhampered, in his own
capital, without the interference of
anv"t)f tli'pOWcrS. "
It la a delicate situation, and upon the
delicacy with hich It is handled mar
depend the gtneral peace of Europe,
Old Menace a CrUU.
Lights are burning in the chancellery
it cer capital of Europe to-night, for
the Sick Man of Europe I at last In
extremis The fHe-hundred-car men
tec has become a present crisis. Four
small, inconsiderable states, fighting for
their homes, have driven the power of
Mohammed to the brink of the Bospho
rus, where it dangles while the prophet
utters cries for help.
The general consensus of opinion to
night is that the powers will not dare
to interfere with the Balkan states In
the completion of their work, or attempt
to undo what has been done. The broad
principle of their right to what they have
paid with blood of thousands of slain
will be recognised. The fate of Con
ktantinoplc is in doubt. Of this, capital
of the world once, center of cultivation,
luxury and learning, -and latterly front
nf th conization of Moslem, a buffer
state will probably be made an Inde
pendent principality, governed by all the
powers jointly. It will Decorae Binpu.
but slgnirtcantly, the gateway between
the East and the West the definite dl
ilrtlnir line bevond which the civilization
represented by the Ottoman will forever
be debarred from crossing over mio Eu
rope. And the Turk, long master of
millions of Christian subjects, who for
E00 years has held all Europe, wm De
come merely a servant the "porter at
the gate" If, indeed, he be permitted to
rule at all..
Greeks Capture
of Prevesa
Ixmdon. Nov. 3. With the surrender of
jdrlanople Imminent and the Bulgarian
army turning the flanks of the forces of
Nazim Pasha for a final rush on Con
stantinople, a Greco-Cretan force to-day
captured Prevesa, a port of great Im
portance, onythe Gulf of Arta.a
A Greek gunboat' In the gulf cannon
eded a Turkish torpedo boat which had
been lying under the forts of Prevesa
clnce the attack made at the beginning
of the late Turkish war by the Duke de
AbruzzTs squadron The torpedo boat
was set afire, and the flames obscured
the enemy from the guns of the fort.
Two motor launches were sunk In the
tiring that followed. Troops .were land
ed, and the capture of Prevesa and
NlkopoUa. a -small town to the north.
was effected without difficulty.
The foregoing news Is contained In a
menage received at the Greek Legation
.Sere irom tne Minister of TVar at Ath
Klng Ferdinand of Bulgaria left Ml
headquarters In an armored automobile
toHlay to assume active command of
the investment of Adriahople. according
to aiapatcnes irom Bona. The city Is
untenable aad of no actual use to the
Turkish forces. Tne Turkish garrison Is
holding out tenaciously to) delay sur
render and to secure. It possible, lenient
terms of capitulation. i
Tcknrlm Beswrte Tmkea.
Tchorlu was reported late to-day to
iave been taken hy the Bulgarians, but
this is denied by Constantinople.
The division of the Bulgarian army de
tached from the main force, at Adrtanopla
to hasten, to a victorious end the eam
Btign In tn -west has effected a Junc
tion with the Servian army advancing
on HslonUfi, ,.
The efforts of the powers to agree upon
st angle course of Intervsstlaa ware given
st serious setback by the declination by
Austria of. the Polncalre proposals. .A
tUspatch from Vienna states. that .Aus
'trta contends that her, interests In ths
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American Colligi Students and
Veterans Willing to Fight'
Against the Ms.
Students of Johns Hopkins University,
of Columbia University, and of Harvard;
army officers, athletes, and veterans of
the Spanish-American war have flootd,
the Grecian Legation, at the Wjoming
apartments, with letters, volunteering
their services to King George in the
war against Turkey. L. L. Caftanzoglu,
charge d'affaires of Greece, last night
declined to give the names of any of
the American patriots who are willing
to lay down their lives to drive the
Turk from Christian Europe.
Many of the volunteers hall from
John Hopkins, but the exact number
Mr. Caftanzoalu does not know Their
services were not accepted for the" time
being at least, but If the struggle with
the "Terrible Turk" becomes desperate
and the allies need troops, the Ameri
can volunteers can, upon their own vo
lition, take passage to Greece and there
enroll themselves under the flag of that
ancleut empire. The Grecian Legation,
however, will not encourage any organ
ized movement of American citizens in
this country to Join the army of King
George. Mr. Caftanzoglu said last night
Would Help Greece.
'I have received a lot of letters, espe
cially from educated people who are tn
the American universities They have
come from students at Johns Hopkins,
Columbia, and Harvard, from athletes
and men who have served In the war
with Spain. They have written that
they would like to help Greece in the
struggle to free my country from the
Turkish yoke. For the moment my gov
ernment cannot accept the services of
these volunteers. My government is
deeply grateful to every one" who ex
presses sympathy for Greece and its just
"I am not astonished, however, by this
display or sentiment Dy the American
people. Every one who has "been edu
cated, especially in America, knows of
the big part which Grecian civilization,
the Greek arts, the Greek letters, the
Greek philosophy, and the Greek Ideals
have done for the advancement of the
world. The splendid Anglo-Saxon civili
zation Is founded on the Grecian.
This is not the first time that' Amer
ica has shown her sympathy toward
Greece. In the agar of independence,
in 1S:1, when all the governments of
Europe were bound in the Holy Alli
ance, and displayed distrust and no
sympathy toward the movements of
our people in their struggle for free
dom, the united States, on the ether
hand, on hearing of , our struggle,
helped us all she could.
Much money was sent throush the
affiliated committees by dlstinsmished
Americans, as well as suns and am
munition, xne American people took
care of the Greek children made or
phans on the Lsland of Chios and the
archipelago. Greek children were
sent to America to be educated, by this
committee. That Is why I am not sur
prised at the bond of sympathy dis
played by these Amerleansito-dey. peo
ple who 'are descendants -of the -men
who helped us before In our .fight, for
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were killed, a score were Injured, and
several are miasma; a a result of the
destruction by fire early to-day of the
John Bracket dry goods store,' at Ken-
ssnsxon. tub gni uvea en. the premises.
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flows, missed the MaBawfs spreadby flro-
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MachiM Gois Over Mound
and Candidate Sustains
Cut in Head.
Princeton, N. J. Nov. 3. Gov. Wil
son sustained a three-Inch scalp wound
early to-day when an automobile In
which he was riding from Red Bank
to Princeton struck a mound In the
road at HIghtstown and hurled him
against one of the steel ribs supporting
the roof of the car.
Tho wound began to bleed profusely
and 'the Governor was hurried to the
residence of Dr. C. G. Titus, a few
blocks from where the accident oc
curred. It tobk Dr. Titus two hours to
dress the wound, but this wss because
he 'became excited when he learned
the identity of his distinguished pa
tient, and for the further reason that
like most country doctors, he was un
prepared for an emergency case.
The Governor called his own family
physician. Dr. J. M. Carnohan. when he
arose at 10 o'clock this morning, and the
wound was redressed. Dr. Carnohan
said that the Injury was slight and Uiat
the Governor could keep his engagements
to speak at- the rallies atPaterson and
PassaMStb wind up the campaign.
Capt. William J. McDonald., the Gov
ernors .jxKDguara. was ma only com
panion at the time of the accident The
captain was severely bruised In several
places.and some of bis old gunshot
wounds were reopened. Carnohan gave
the captain a thorough examination and
found that he had suffered no serious
injury. Capt. "BUI" was quite Indiffer
ent about possible injury to himself.
T don't care, so long as the Governor
escaped," he said.
The injury to the Governor did not
become known until about. I o'clock this
afternoon. There was no indication-of
any Injury when the Governor arrived
home t l:b o clock this morning.
Philadelphia. Nov. . A "riot in which
over 1,090 man and women were" the par
ticipants, started here this evening- in
the Italian ' quarter, .when, two -men
started an -argument over a fflhHfr
debt and when .the, affair was aver
scores of Italians were 4 found to have
been lulared, two perhaps fatally.
Within -JHtees -minutes :aftarithe
trouble began tbe.nght,bad spread for
four blocks aad the rsssrves of swvsn
downtown polios districts were hurried
to the soeoe.'.Womeavof tan 'nslgnhor
hood rushed tato.ths riot and mad mat
ters won. Artor-tha potias had driven
ths Italian - out xof-the ssatricLvrjoms
Falta, twenty-two years old, wasVeuad
dying with "a bullet aborBhis IMart
inches! OatMtwat)vsfa man mi i
dying with ft fractured. sta&V'aad JAn-
muo -n i , mw( yuv.vui wave
with i buHat at.;the baseef th ki.
with dirks ahdjstUettea.wWlejieaW
ucameo ,. wromn-fimm.'
"Three wise men of Gotham
Went-to, sea in a bowl;
If the bowl had been stronger,
Mylstory had 'been longer."
MOTOR CAR HltS
Seven Persons Narrowly Escape
Death in Collision in Liv
ingston Road.
Seven persons narrowly escaped death
or srious injury, a horse was nearly
killed, a surrey was wrecked, and an
automobile badly damaged in a head-on
collision between the two vehicles in
Livingston Road, near the District line
Southeast, shortly before 7 o'clock last
John Powell, an electrical contractor,
of Rosecraft. Md . and Mrs. Powell,
were returning home from the city In
their automobile, with James T. Lowe,
chauffeur, at the steering wheel, when
the machine crashed Into a horse
hitched to a surrey decupled by four
Forced back against the surrey, the
horse overturned the vehicle, throwing
the occupants to the road. The road la
unllghted at the scene of the accident.
and there was much confusion until It
was learned that no one had been
killed. ,
The occupants of the surrey, all of
whom were cut and bruled, were Will
iam R. Bonds, 709 Seventh Street North
west; William Blum, K South Carolina
Avenue Southeast: Charles Carson. 471
II Street Southwest, and James A.
Crovo, of 2X Four-and-a-Half Street
Southwest. The men had hired the sur
rey from a livery stable
A patrol wagon was sent to the scene
from the Eleventh precinct station, and
the men, Mr. and Mrs. Powell, and the
chauffeur were removed to the .car line.
The damage to, the automobile is estl
mated at KM.
Will Import
Minister to '
Newport. B. I.. Nov. S. A , minister
from Providence will be brought here to
officiate s the wedding of E. R. Thomas,
one-time multimillionaire, and -Miss Elis
abeth B. Flnley, the,,young New York
artist, according to reports current, here.
Unable 'to marry in New -York because
of the'' provisions -of his first wife's de-'
creeof divorce. Mr. Thomas also fouudC
It is saia. inat ne coum nox vmaia tai
services of-any Newport clergyman. Far
years the clergy here have '.made It a
rule not to 'marry a divorced person. -
This rule .was thoroughly tatted aad
found "stanch 'at' the tuna of the.Aster
Foroe witahsg; when. It was said, a oer-tein-Bsptl.,
minister of Nswport, el
though iaBoutrt to retire, refused a fas
of SLM0 tovomciate at the nuptials .of
Miss Fores -aad-Mr. Astor.-
Th minister for the IThnmae Tint
wedding baa bean eogasjed, hawever,' aad
it la said he"wnr come from Provlaenas
to tho home of Mr. aad Mnv H. LHktac
stoniBerkman,' at Lands nd.rThe cere
mony will be performed next Wednesday
Mrs. Samuel R. Thomas, oc jcew tot.
who returned from-Burepa last week
with her future dausAtar-to-law. Miss
FinJsy, Jaiaad'bar son ssH saagliter-in-
Mr. aad Mrs.
Unitarian Minister Eulogizis
Roosevelt While President
is in Church.
New York, Nov. i President Taft to
day heard a Bull Moose sermon and sat
through It unflinchingly. It was at the
Unitarian Church of the Messiah that
the President listened to much eulogy of
the third-term candidate bv the pastor,
the Per. Dr. John Haynes Holmes. The
President attended church accompanied
by Secretary HUIes. of the National
Committee, and Henry W. Taft. Dr.
Holmes, despite his previous knowledge
of the expected presence of the Chief
Executive, delivered his sermon, which
startled his congregation with its em
phatic progressive sentiment. The Presi
dent, while surprised at Dr. Holmes
delivery, showed no sign of annojance.
and listened attentively throughout the
sermon. He declined to make any com
ment, .and merely smiled when asked
for an expression of opinion. Dr. Holmes
to-night defended his action by saying
that the sermon had been prepared In
advance, and expressed his personal
opinion together with what he believed
to be the opinions of a majority of the
Tho President left New York at 8
o'clock to-night over the New York Cen
tral for Cincinnati. He was accompanied
by Maj. Rhodes, his aid. and Carml
Thompson, private secretary. The time
of leaving was two hours later than
originally Intended, but the pnrtv will
reach Cincinnati at tho same time, which
Is 7.30 to-morrow night.
Refnsea Statement.
Before leaving, the President an
nounced, through Mr. Thompson, that
there will bo no official statement con
cerning the new Vice Presidential candi
date at least for another twentj-four
hours, and that It was extremel) doubt
ful that any such announcement would
be made until after election. It Is known.
howeVer, that Gov. Hadley of Missouri
and John Wanamaker. of Philadelphia,
were -the two leading candidates for the
position. Gov. Hadley being favored by
about twenty of the Republican National
Committeemen and Mr. Wanamaker by
almost an equal number.' The President
was not Informed of the statement by
William Barnes, chairman, of the New
Tork State Committee, concerning the
chalrmsn's approval of Mr. Wanamaker
for the Vice Presidency, but Private Sec
retary Thompson emphatically declared
tact Mr. Barnes' utterance came as a
purely personal opinion and was not
basked' by the Presidential preference.
.When asked If the President would ap
prove the selectltn of Mr.. wanamaKer,
Mr. Thompson replied:,
The choice of the Vice Presidential
'candidate lies with the 'National Com-
satttae. The President will ratify the se
lection of tho committee."
' . V-T-Mntfal Mrfv ltl , tttlf.
talo early to-morrow morning, going
tronvthere to Cleveland, where ths Big
Four will be taken for Cincinnati. . It
la .thought President Taft will make a
number of rear platform speeches, not
longer -than, two or three minutes each,
daring his trip through Ohio. '
te'rsara and Okto ta Ptssllea Iteeaa,
ttjaora, November; I to U. Express
union station to Miiusora
on taa aautw
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mm DENIES
Carliml Says Cutty Is. ii
III Danfir, Ii Matttr
WHO is EUCM
AitiMiy if Staffs Disprm Cry
f Disaster in Cast if "Cer
tain Siccassts."
Baltimore, Md, Nov. J. A message of
assurance was given to the Catholics of
the United Slates to-day by Cardinal
Gibbons. The cardinal speaking from the
Baltimore Cathedral, assured the mem'
bers of his nation-wide pastorate that
though dire predictions as to the political
and civil future of the United States had
gained credence during the present cam
paign no material calamity could In real
ity come to this country through politi
cal Jugglery.
The cardinal closed his seml-polltlcal
discourse with a direct reference to the
three Presidential candidates. He said:
"There are three conspicuous citizens
who are now candidates for the Presides
ey. Whatever may be my private and
personal preference and prediction, it Is
not for me in this sacred pulpit, or any
where else, publicly to dictate or even
suggest to you the candidate of my choice.
"May God so enlighten the mind and
quicken the conscience of the American
people to a sense of their civic duties as to
arouse In them an earnest and practical
Interest in the coming election, and may
He so guide their hearts that they will
select a Chief Magistrate who will re
dound to the material prosperity and mor
al welfare of our beloved republic"
Guarded by Coaatltutlon.
In regard to the crisis said to be facing
the voters of the United States the car
dinal said. In part:
By the wise provisions of the Constitu
tion of the United States political author
ity Is not concentrated in one Individual,
or In one department of the administra
tion, but Is judicially distributed so that
the balance of power may be preserved
Our genenl goremmew. consipt" of the
executive, me legisiativK rw tse inilt'Ji
votucca. ml Himmns gin urons wun any
one of these deDartmentf the il Is check
ed by the other two. fend usurpation of
power Is prevented. Tljere Is an habitual
Jealousy among these blanches. They are
of the alert, zealously watching one an
other so that no one branch may exceed
Its legitimate bounds. Eternal vigilance
Is the price of liberty.
Then, again, besides the Fedtral -ad
ministration, we have State governments
and county rules, and we have city.
town, and village municipalities. If all
of these minor corporations were ab
sorbed by the-general government, if our
Governors, and State legislators, and
Sheriffs, and Mayors, and CouncUmcnH
were all under the control of the Presi
dent; It hevcould at all decapitate all
obnoxious subordinate rules with one
blow, all our political liberties would be
at an end. But. happily, all these lesser
officials enjoy full autonomy in their
spheres and are independent of the Chief
system Very Complex.
our system of government Is very
complex. It may be compared to
colossal engine, containing innumerable
wheels within wheelsr Each wheel works
In Its own orbit, like the planetary sys
tem. If the great Federal wheel gets.out
of order, the smaller wheels are not
much deranged, but keep on moving till
the big machine is repaired.
"We are all familiar with the memor
able Titanic disaster, which resulted In
the loss of so many precious llv es, as well
as the peerless vessel Itself. Had all the
compartments of that steamship been
watertight, the loss of life would have
been avoided.
"Now, our government Is often called
a ship of state. This great ship of state
Is divided into forty-eight minor States.
Each of these States may be said to ba
waterproof in the sense that the engulf
ing of one would not Involve the sinking
of the others. California, for example.
might be overwhelmed by the waters of
a political revolution without disturbing
tne neighDonng states or vvasmngton.
Nevada, or Arizona.
Autonomy the IlaliTarlc.
"The safety and permanence, there
fore, of our republic largely depends on
the autonomy of the several States, vv ith
out the danger of, absorption by the gen
eral government- Should our Governors
and legislators ever become the subservi
ent creatures of the Federal government
they would be mere puppets, subject to
Lthe will of the Chief Executive. They
would cease to be waterproof and would
share the fate of the Titanic
"Two momentous crises occurred in my
own day which were well calculated to
test the vitality and strength of the
republic The first was the war be
tween the States, when the nation was
cut In twain, when fratricidal blood
was shed over the land and a tremen
dous conflict wss carried on for four
years. This calamity has happily ended
and the dismembered States are now
more firmly untyed than ever before, be
cause slavery, which was the bone of
contention, hss been removed onco and
Oaly Possible Menace.
'The second crisis occurred ,ta the
Presidential contest la UTS between Til
den and Hayes. "Mr. Tilden was robbed
of the fruit of tho victory which. I
beBeva, he honestly won, tand by ques
tionable devices ar. Hayes was declared
the successful candidate.
. "A nation that could survive these ter
rible strains must be possessed of ex
traordinary vitality and resources, and
leads us to hope that In any future
emergency the leaders and statesmen of
the repubUo wDl rise to the occasion and
bring order out of chaos.
"It is my profound, conviction that If
ever tho republic la doomed to decay:
If ths future historian shall ever record
the decline or fall of the American re
public Ita'downfall will be due not to
a hostile invasion but to the Indifference,
lethargy, and poiiuou apostasy or her
Naflnal CuMittN (tot.
Expects Party to Carry it
Least 40 States.
Pn-icts Largist Ptfilar Viti Em
GiviH in til Histtfirf tM
Unite. Statis.
New York. Nov. 3. The Democratls
National Committee, through its ohaja,
nun, William F. McCqmbs. to-night Is
sued the following forecast on Tuesday's
"Wilson and Marshall will have the
largest majority of electoral votes given
any candidates since before the civil
war. They will also receive the largest
popular vote ever given a political
party in the history of the United States.
They will carry not less than forty of
the fortv-elght States, and are likely to
carry all of them. A unanimous vote
in the electoral college will not sur
prise any man who has seen the confi
dent reports to Democratic national
headquarters In the last days of the cam
Congress vv 111 be Democratic in both
branches. The Lower House will not
contain more than 100 of the combined
opposition, and in the Senate the Dem
ocrats I1I gain more than the ten saats
necessary to wipe out tne ttepuoucan
majority. The same sentiment that Is
sweeping Wilson into active authority
will back him up with legislative powers
to do the things the people demand.
The campa'gn hss been conducted In
the spirit expressed by Gov. Wilson In
a recent speech, appealing to the voters
of New Jersey to elect a Democratic
Congress as well as a Democratic Presi
dent and Vice President.
" 'I am not a candidate for a pedestal
said Gov. Wilson.
Pleads for Support.
'"I am not a candidate to be set up
In lonely dignity to suffer the Intoler
able dlsappolntment-f being- left'aloa'.
unahll to do the great things which the
American people will expect of-TBe if
tliy himc- ae wish their suffrage. If
3ou cannot back me up, do not put me
up all by melf and then desert me.
If you Iwlleve in me make it possible for
me to do something.
"Estimates of the popular vote can
not approach accuracy without taking
into consideration the difference in this
and preceedlng elections. Heretofore
efforts have been confined to a compar
atively small number of doubtful States.
Pennsylvania and Vermont, for cxamrle.
were neglected as hopelessly Republican,
and at the same time great Democrati
States like Texas and Georgia were not
Invaded at all. because they were sure
to be found in the Democratic column.
This year the Democratic committee has
waged a determined and active campaign
In, every State In the republic In tho
States that have been consistently In
In the Democratic column the full vot
Is not generally polled In the Fres'dential
campaign But this ar the committee
lias urged Democrats In these States to
pnll as large a vote as If the result
depended upon registering the full Dem
ocratic strength.
No Brrak gnexestrd.
'There is not a suggestion of a break
in the Democratic column from Texas to
Maryland, and yet the committee has de
voted more attention than usual to these
certain Democratic States. It has needed
and has received from theee States larger
subscriptions to the campaign funds than
ever before. Indeed, the Southern States
had never before, except In 190S. been ap
pealed to for campaign funds. This ear-
most of them have contributed liberally
and Interest has been stimulated by these
popular subscriptions.
'In the nominally Democratic State?
Wilson and Marshall will not only hold
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The dispute between the Metropolitan Opera and 15 of its unions masks a bigger problem — one that city government shares.
Just like its opera, New York itself is dangerously dependent on the top 1 percent of New Yorkers for its spending power — and the rich don't have infinite ability to rescue management or labor from their mistakes.
The Met isn't just a great opera, but a union shop — the only American house that carries a full-time opera, chorus and stage staff. Of its 1,600 workers, 77 percent are unionized.
The Met does a lot for its union labor force. If you work for 30 years, you get 60 percent of your pay as a pension for life — something that's unsustainable as pay reaches $200,000 a year. You get health care without paying a premium.
Such perks are more like what's on offer at the Department of Education or the Long Island Rail Road than at a private business. The orchestra gets 16 weeks' paid vacation, and performers get an extra fee to change their shoes.
That's why two-thirds of the Met budget is for union pay and benefits.
How could opera have afforded this stuff for so long?
Actually, it hasn't afforded it. The Met had a $68.4 million pension deficit as of last year. It's also running operating deficits — nearly $3 million of a $327 million budget.
Yes, that's less than 1 percent. But that's after taking desperate measures. The Met pulled nearly $21 million out of its long-term investment fund last year to pay operating expenses — and two years ago, it borrowed $100 million long-term from bondholders, partly to meet operating expenses.
Fact is, the Met has enjoyed an expensive evening away from reality. For years, it acted as if its rich patrons' resources were infinite — people would always pay higher prices, and if that didn't work, donors would come up with the shortfall.
But people won't pay ever more for tickets. After the Met hiked prices by 17 percent (after inflation) starting in 2008, attendance plummeted 14 percent.
As the unions say, "This should not be a surprising correlation. Lowering ticket prices brings people in. Raising ticket prices drives them away!"
A decade ago, opera-goers provided 38 percent of the budget. Now, it's just 27 percent.
Consider: 53 percent of the Met's audience earns less than $100,000. Add parking, tolls, dinner and a babysitter to opera tickets (only 24 percent of the audience lives in Manhattan), and your bill for the night can be more like four figures than three.
That leaves the Met more dependent on rich donors — but they've balked at covering the endless deficits.
So the Met is proposing changes to work rules, cutting pensions to 40 percent of salary (although people can keep what they've already earned toward their pensions) and asking workers to negotiate on health care.
The unions' argument is that their members do an excellent job of putting on operas — and since management is responsible for flops, management should pay, not labor.
Yeah, the Met puts on some clunkers. But producers are supposed to take risks. Most Broadway plays fail, too.
Anyway, it doesn't really matter who's right. An opera performer may be worth $200,000 a year — but if her employer can't find anyone to pay, she's not going to get it.
That's why, despite the drama, the Met's unions have an incentive to make a deal rather than face a lock-out. The Met can go bankrupt, as the City Opera did a year ago.
The city should take a lesson. Like the Met, Gotham depends on rich people. The top 1 percent pay 46 percent of the city's income-tax take.
Their willingness to pay higher taxes — whether for management flops like the CityTime boondoggle, or unsustainable labor costs — isn't inexhaustible.
The middle class — like operagoers who earn under six figures — can't pay ever-higher sales and income taxes, either.
Yet the city, unlike the Met, is still pretending that everything is fine.
Last week, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli and city Comptroller Scott Stringer applauded Mayor de Blasio's song and dance about his maiden budget being balanced — though it pushes billions of dollars of spending for past work into the future.
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The race for the year-end number one ranking is shaping up as one of the closest in many years. Roger Federer is currently holding on to top position despite losing in the quarter finals of the US Open.
The new rankings, which were released on the tenth of September, have Federer leading on 11,805 points, 1,335 ahead of Novak Djokovic on 10,470.
Rafael Nadal's continued absence has seen Andy Murray overtake him in the rankings at number three after a gain of 2,000 points from his US Open victory. Murray is 1,055 points clear of Nadal with a total of 8,570.
The Spaniard, who has been sidelined since Wimbledon by his troublesome knees, has already pulled out of this week's Davis Cup semi-finals. He is now expected to make a comeback several weeks before the season ending ATP World Tour Finals.
Nadal's return and his level of fitness will indicate whether he is still a major member of the 'big four', or whether it could be renamed the 'big three'. If Rafael's injuries continue to trouble him then his ranking may slide further.
All attention now turns to the top three, and who will be ranked number one at the conclusion of the ATP World Tour Finals.
Murray will need to win all three remaining Masters 1000 Series events, without Federer or Djokovic making any finals, to have a chance at taking the number one ranking.
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Federer is participating in the Davis Cup Play-off Round against the Netherlands this weekend. He played the same round last year against Australia and was well below his best, mainly due to travel and the fatigue it caused.
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Fitwall Ventures offers 40-minute interval-style classes on the Fitwall at studios in California (where you check in on an iPad and get live feedback via a heart rate monitor and Bluetooth sensor). But fear not if you live nowhere near the Golden State. The founders say they're expanding quickly and will eventually sell at-home models with downloadable workouts for your iPad or computer, just like those used in their classes (and since it only comes three inches out from the wall, you'll barely know its there when you're not using it).
Until then, you can get a sense of the Fitwall workout with these five floor-based moves (done in Fitwall classes) that you can do at the gym, or even in your living room—no equipment required! "We incorporate these moves to complement the exercises done on the wall—but they're also extremely effective when performed on their own if you can't make it to class, because they're still based on the Fitwall principles—they demand many different things at once: balance, coordination, stability, flexibility and strength, says Harski.
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At a time when many architects are using and abusing parametrics to create look-at-me buildings, Frederick Fisher stays true to his principles. For the past 30 years he has been crafting spaces for the creation and display of art and they are often so understated as to go unremarked. Artists and gallerists know that he will make them look good, and his range of accomplishment is unmatched—from PS 1 in New York and the Colby Museum extension in Maine, to the Huntington in Pasadena and an art space for the Otis Institute. He transformed a decrepit tram depot into Bergamot Station, and designed several of its gallery interiors, in addition to a dozen more he has done across LA.
Marc Selwyn Fine Art in Beverly Hills is the third space he has designed for this gallerist, and it's a model of adaptive reuse. Somehow a 1940s auto body shop survived untouched amid the smart boutiques and restaurants on Little Santa Monica Boulevard. Marc and Jane Nathanson, who own the property, are passionate collectors so they were happy to have a friend and fellow spirit give the decaying facility a new life. It's a homecoming for Selwyn who is a native of Beverly Hills, and was a west coast director for Sotheby's, and Pace Wildenstein, before opening his first space in a five-year partnership with gallerist Anthony Grant.
Fisher stripped the interior and laid a new floor slab, but preserved the rough brick façade and the bow-truss roof vault. Within the shell, one white space flows into another. A square central gallery is lit from a skylight and seems to float between the loading area and private viewing room. "Count Panza told me that the perfect gallery is a white shoe box," the architect recalls, "and it has more wall space in relation to its area than a square room." But that was what Selwyn wanted and the artworks he has displayed there for his inaugural—by Mel Bochner, Richard Misrach, Robert Heinecken and Allen Ruppersberg—have never looked better. "Simplicity isn't an easy thing to achieve," Fisher remarks, and he had to conceal the roof insulation, calibrate the plan, and tweak the proportions of the interior to achieve this ideal fusion of old and new.
Marc Selwyn Fine Art, 9953 South Santa Monica Blvd; marcselwynfineart.com.
Read more about 2013 AIA|LA Gold Medal Winner Frederick Fisher and his career in FORM's January/February print edition coming soon.


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Halle Berry's ex-husband Eric Benet is returning to married life – he's engaged to Prince's former wife.
The Oscar-winner divorced the musician after four years of marriage in 2005 amid allegations Benet was cheating.
Berry has since insisted she will never marry again and split from her daughter's father Gabriel Aubry last April, but her former partner is ready to walk down the aisle again.
The singer proposed to his girlfriend of three years, Manuela Testolini, in November.
A representative for Benet says, "They are engaged and very happy."
Testolini was married to Prince from 2001 to 2006.
— WENN Newsdesk


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In Alaska
In 1900, the post office at Uyak was established on Kodiak Island with Herbert Hume as postmaster.
In 1913, Juneau's new city hall, at the corner of Fourth and Main streets, was ready for occupancy.
In 1942, the Alaska Highway formally opened.
In 1967, Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall announced plans to open the continental shelf in the Gulf of Alaska to oil and gas exploration. He suggested that oil and gas revenues could provide a solution to the Alaska Native Land Claim problem.
In 1977, Doyon Ltd. and Louisiana Land & Exploration Co. abandoned plans for a fourth exploratory well in the Kandik Basin (northeast of Fairbanks) after the first three yielded nothing.
In 1979, 4,000 pounds of mail for Anchorage and Rural Alaska was lost as a mail container van washed overboard in the Gulf of Alaska.
In the nation
In 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
In 1922, Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia was sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate.
In 1927, picketing strikers at the Columbine Mine in northern Colorado were fired on by state police; six miners were killed.
In 1934, the Cole Porter musical "Anything Goes," starring Ethel Merman as Reno Sweeney, opened in New York.
In 1964, the upper level of New York's Verrazano Narrows Bridge, which connected Brooklyn and Staten Island, was opened.
In 1967, President Johnson signed the Air Quality Act.
In 1969, the Senate voted down the Supreme Court nomination of Clement Haynsworth, the first such rejection since 1930.
In 1973, President Nixon's attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, revealed the existence of an 18 ½-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate.
In 1980, 87 people died in a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas, Nev.
In 1997, President Clinton signed a law giving the Food and Drug Administration new powers to speed the approval of drugs to combat a host of killer diseases, including cancer and AIDS.
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I guess we should do a post on the Preakness, seeing as there's been a bit of a hullabaloo about this lady horse being favored to win. But some people at the Louisville Courier-Whatzitcalled are worried that everyone's gonna think of Eight Belles again if something TERRIBLE HAPPENS OH MY GAWD, NO! (via GameOn):
She's not only the 8-5 Preakness morning-line favorite, she's also instant adrenaline for horse racing, the next great thing to turn the heads of casual fans.
Unless …
Unless the tragic memories are stirred again about Eight Belles and Ruffian, who both suffered fatal injuries while running against colts.
Women. Can't live with 'em. Can't hop on their backs and ride them for nine-and-a-half furlongs. Oh, yeah, I guess that's an image of Sarah Jessica Parker there and not a horse. That's an honest mistake on my part and I'll fix it right away. Shortly. Maybe.