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    Feb 12, 2013 |Story| Daily Pilot

  1. Commentary: The state of our city is strong

    At the recent Speak Up Newport Mayor's Dinner, I reported on the state of our city and proposed some new initiatives to enhance our quality of life and improve the functioning of our city government. First, the state of our city is financially strong,...

    Tags: Culture, Artists, Arts, Arts and Culture

    2. Feb 19, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  2. Citywide Expo Art Week announced

    Several of the city's major cultural institutions announced plans Tuesday to join together this fall for a "citywide celebration of arts and culture."
    Tribune reporter
    Several of the city's major cultural institutions announced plans Tuesday to join together this fall for a "citywide celebration of arts and culture." Dubbed “Expo Art Week,” the event is set to encompass museum and gallery exhibitions,...

    Tags: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Entertainment Events, Sepia, Chicago Cultural Center, Spiaggia

    3. Feb 19, 2013 |Story| Herald Mail

  3. Bonanza event set for Saturday at Fort Ritchie

    Fort Ritchie Community Center invites the community to its Last Chance Bonanza Saturday in the gymnasium at Fort Ritchie Community Center, 14421 Lake Royer Drive, Cascade. Only 139 tickets will be sold for the event, which includes dinner, dessert, games...

    Tags: Culture, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Arts and Culture

    4. Feb 17, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Foreign government offices

    For tourist information about foreign destinations, contact the government offices below. Several no longer list phone numbers, so information is available only through their websites. For information about a country not listed, call the United Nations at...

    Tags: International Travel, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Antigua and Barbuda, United Nations, Politics

    5. Feb 17, 2013 | Los Angeles Times

  5. World War II internment site considered for historical status

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    Former site of internment camp considered for historical status...
    6. Feb 1, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  6. In nationwide innovation battle, Baltimore area lags on patents

    Dr. Luis Diaz is an oncologist at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, a researcher with patented findings and the co-founder of a small, fast-expanding company.
    Dr. Luis Diaz is an oncologist at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, a researcher with patented findings and the co-founder of a small, fast-expanding company. "We've grown from no employees to one employee to four employees and now we have 12,"...

    Tags: Research, Science and Technology, Invention and Innovation, Stanford University, Google Inc.

    7. Feb 17, 2013 |Story| Glendale News Press

  7. L.A. tries to save Verdugo Hills Golf Course

    Los Angeles this week began a process that could end up protecting Verdugo Hills Golf Course from controversial plans to build hundreds of homes after the City Council voted unanimously to review the site of a former internment camp for possible status as a historical monument.
    Los Angeles this week began a process that could end up protecting Verdugo Hills Golf Course from controversial plans to build hundreds of homes after the City Council voted unanimously to review the site of a former internment camp for possible status as...

    Tags: Culture, Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), Golf, Google Inc., World War II (1939-1945)

    8. Feb 18, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  8. Saying farewell to Steven Muller, one of Baltimore's best

    Steven Muller, the president of Johns Hopkins University from 1972-1990, died on Jan. 19.  He was one of the giants of his era.  I knew him well.  I write to share three remarkable stories which reveal the character of this great man.
    Steven Muller, the president of Johns Hopkins University from 1972-1990, died on Jan. 19.  He was one of the giants of his era.  I knew him well.  I write to share three remarkable stories which reveal the character of this great man. 1. Steve was...

    Tags: Science, Wars and Interventions, Research, Religion and Belief, Science and Technology

    9. Feb 16, 2013 |Story| Herald Mail

  9. Washington County location major plus in economic development strategic plan

    <em><strong>Editor&rsquo;s note:</strong> This is one in an occasional series of stories about findings and recommendations in the Hagerstown and Washington County Economic Development Strategic Plan.</em>
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    Editor’s note: This is one in an occasional series of stories about findings and recommendations in the Hagerstown and Washington County Economic Development Strategic Plan. “Location, location, location” is an old real estate adage...

    Tags: Frederick County (Maryland), Poverty, Economic Policy, Washington, DC, Hopewell (Hopewell, Virginia)

    10. Feb 15, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. A world of difference in reactions over foreign, U.S. film violence

    Genre filmmaking helps make sense of the world, creating codes by which the seemingly irrational ways of human behavior can be understood. With storytelling modes that travel from country to country &mdash; the crime picture, the horror film, the action movie &mdash; genres cross borders and barriers with audiences the world over. On-screen violence can be seen as an international language.
    Genre filmmaking helps make sense of the world, creating codes by which the seemingly irrational ways of human behavior can be understood. With storytelling modes that travel from country to country — the crime picture, the horror film, the action...

    Tags: Kill List (movie), Akira Kurosawa, Venice International Film Festival, Film Festivals, Italy

    11. Feb 14, 2013 |Story| Daily Pilot

  11. Lee Chapin Sammis

    Lee Chapin Sammis passed away February 12, 2013, in his home in Newport Beach, CA, where he lived and built his business for the past 50 years.&nbsp; He was born on February 15, 1931 in Los Angeles to MIT graduates Ford Woodruff and Constance Sharp Sammis.&nbsp; His family lived all over the country during the depression until settling in Pasadena, CA where he graduated in 1949 from South Pasadena High School.&nbsp; The experience of frequently being the new kid in class shaped his scrappy nature and he became an inveterate reader, mechanical tinkerer and collector extraordinaire of many things.&nbsp; Ambition and tenacity being innate, he was a teamster in San Pedro at age 14 for 65&cent; an hour, had his driver&rsquo;s license at the same age, trained with legendary boxer Canto Robletto to win a Golden Gloves title as a teen, played football with distinction at South Pasadena High and won intramural track meets in the 100 yard dash, all while faithfully keeping a full social calendar.&nbsp; He often hitchhiked down to the beach at Balboa in those years to sail the family Thistle, swing at the Rendezvous Ballroom and attend Bal Week festivities.&nbsp; He attended UCLA and UC Berkeley where he was an active member of Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity and Skull &amp; Keys, amongst others.&nbsp; Lee also worked as a hasher in the Kappa House at Cal to supplement his diet and &ldquo;foster fraternal relations.&rdquo;&nbsp; After college he enlisted in the Army, being discharged in 1957 a 1st Lieutenant stationed at Fort Ord.&nbsp; He married his beloved wife, Joan Howard of Pasadena, in 1955 and they settled in their hometown in 1957.&nbsp; He worked in Los Angeles for RA Rowan and in 1962, the family moved to Newport Beach, where he was a founding member of the Orange County office of Coldwell Banker on PCH in Corona del Mar.
    Lee Chapin Sammis passed away February 12, 2013, in his home in Newport Beach, CA, where he lived and built his business for the past 50 years.  He was born on February 15, 1931 in Los Angeles to MIT graduates Ford Woodruff and Constance Sharp Sammis. ...

    Tags: Entertainment, Orange County (Virginia), Music, Music Industry, Hatteras

    12. Dec 17, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  12. Video game creator Eugene Jarvis is Player One

    The young guy in the trucker cap, skinny jeans and Air Jordans squeezed the trigger on the toy shotgun and his umpteenth round of &ldquo;Big Buck Hunter&rdquo; blasted to life. The guy was maybe 25 and so focused on bagging digital deer, the butt of the gun pressed hard into his shoulder, that he never noticed the tall, smiling man behind him, watching.
    The young guy in the trucker cap, skinny jeans and Air Jordans squeezed the trigger on the toy shotgun and his umpteenth round of “Big Buck Hunter” blasted to life. The guy was maybe 25 and so focused on bagging digital deer, the butt of the...

    Tags: Bob Dylan, Wrigley Field, Science and Technology, Bankruptcy, Explosions

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