Theatre Communications Group Announces 57 Theaters Now ...

Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for theatre, is pleased to announce that?57 theatres have now joined the?Blue Star Theatres?program. In partnership with Blue Star Families and with support from MetLife Foundation, the Blue Star Theatres program will connect a variety of theatre offerings to military personnel and their families across the?United States.? This initiative recognizes the profound contributions of service families and seeks to build stronger connections between theatres, military families and their communities.? ? ? ? ? ??

On?Friday, October 19, a press conference will be held from 2:30-3:00pm (MT) at the Ricketson Theatre at the?Denver?Center?for the Performing Arts (Denver,?CO) as part of the League of Resident Theatre?s (LORT) annual conference.?This event will feature?Teresa Eyring, executive director, TCG;?Colonel Loren ?Skip? Johnson, commander,?140th Mission Support Group, Buckley Air Force Base, Greely Air National Guard Station (Aurora, CO);?Sheri Lapan, senior director, Blue Star Families;?Tim Shields, president, LORT; and?Kent Thompson, producing artistic director, Denver Center Theatre Company.

Blue Star Theatres will build on the work already occurring at many theatres nationwide, including: playwriting classes to empower creative expression for veterans; community discussions on plays whose themes resonate with military families; free or discounted ticket programs; job postings and casting notices on military bases; and much more. TCG and Blue Star Families will connect theatres with local bases, and develop and disseminate best-practices for engaging with deployed personnel, veterans and service families.

?We?re grateful that so many LORT and TCG Member Theatres have stepped up to give back to our service members and their families,? said?Teresa Eyring, executive director, TCG. ?Theatre can provide an invaluable means of integrating military families into our communities while helping us process the consequences of these long years of war.?

?I?m honored to represent the 39?LORT theatres that have signed on to participate in the Blue Star Theatre program,? said?Tim Shields, president of LORT and managing director of the?McCarterTheatre?Center?in?Princeton,?NJ. ?Theatre remains a place in our communities where all can gather to have a common experience; to participate in an art form that through the stories it tells provides such deeply felt emotion and entertainment. At the?McCarter?Theatre?Center, we look forward to welcoming service members and their families so that they?ll be able to have those experiences and join in that community.? When we each give back to those who have given us so much, we strengthen our own organizations and communities.?

?Thanks to the generous support of the MetLife Foundation, and the contributions of TCG and theatres across the county, military families will now have another way to enjoy time together through the arts in their communities,? said Blue Star Families executive director,?Mark Smith. ?TCG and participating theatres have gone above and beyond to offer interactive experiences for service members and their families, creating truly enriching opportunities.?

?MetLife Foundation is proud to expand our partnership with Blue Star Families and support the launch of the Blue Star Theatres program,? said?Dennis White, president and CEO, MetLife Foundation.? ?Opening doors to theatres across the country is a wonderful way for members of our military and their families to share time together and experience the arts in their communities.? The Blue Star Theatres program is also a way for MetLife Foundation to say ?thank you? to our servicemen and women.?

Fifty-seven TCG Member Theatres?have already signed on to participate in Blue Star Theatres, including: 2nd Story (RI ), Actors Theatre of Louisville (KY), Alliance Theatre (GA), American Conservatory Theater (CA), American Repertory Theater (MA), Arena Stage (D.C.), Arkansas Repertory Theatre (AR), Artists Repertory Theatre (OR), The Arvada Center (CO), Asolo Repertory (FL), Barter Theatre (VA), Berkeley Repertory Theatre (CA), Burning Coal Theatre Company (NC), California Shakespeare Theater (CA), Center Theatre Group (CA), Childsplay (AZ), Cincinnati Playhouse (OH), Cleveland Play House (OH), Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center (CO), Coterie Theatre (MO), Court Theatre (IL), Creede Repertory Theatre, (CO), Curious Theatre (CO), Dallas Theater Center (TX), Denver Center Theatre Company (CO), Florida Studio Theatre (FL), Folger Theatre (D.C.), Ford?s Theatre (D.C.), Gamm Theatre (RI), Geffen Playhouse (CA), Geva Theatre Center (NY), Goodman Theatre (IL), Hartford Stage (CT), HERE Arts Center (NY), Kansas City Repertory Theatre (MO), La Jolla Playhouse (CA), Lincoln Center Theater (NY), McCarter Theatre Center (NJ), The Old Globe (CA), Penobscot Theatre Company (ME), People?s Light and Theatre (PA), Pittsburgh Public Theater (PA), PlayMakers Repertory Company (NC), Portland Center Stage (OR), Seattle Repertory Theatre (WA), Signature Theatre (VA), South Coast Repertory (CA), Stages Theatre Company (MN), Syracuse Stage (NY), THEATREWORKS (CO), Theatre Aspen (CO), Trinity Repertory Company (RI), Two River Theater Company (NJ), Virginia Stage Company (VA), William Inge Center for the Arts (KS), Wilma Theater (PA) and Yale Repertory (CT).

For more information about Blue Star Theatres, visit:?http://www.tcg.org/advocacy/bluestar/map.cfm.

Blue Star Families?is a non-partisan, non-profit organization, created by real military families.? We are committed to?supporting?one another through the unique challenges of military service and asking the larger civilian population to help as well,?connecting?military families regardless of rank, branch of service or physical location, and?empowering?military family members to create the best personal and family life possible for themselves.?For more information, visithttp://www.bluestarfam.org/.

MetLife Foundation?was established in 1976 to continue MetLife?s longstanding tradition of corporate contributions and community involvement.?The Foundation?s commitment to building a secure future for individuals and communities worldwide is reflected in its dedication to empowering older adults, preparing young people and building livable communities.? Since it was established, MetLife Foundation has provided more than $530 million in grants and $70 million in program-related investments to nonprofit organizations addressing issues that have a positive impact in their communities. For more information, visit?www.metlife.org.

For over 50 years,?Theatre Communications Group?(TCG), the national organization for the American theatre, has existed to strengthen, nurture and promote the professional not-for-profit American theatre. TCG?s constituency has grown from a handful of groundbreaking theatres to nearly 700 member theatres and affiliate organizations and more than 12,000 individuals nationwide. TCG offers its members networking and knowledge-building opportunities through conferences, events, research and communications; awards grants, approximately $2 million per year, to theatre companies and individual artists; advocates on the federal level; and serves as the U.S. Center of the International Theatre Institute, connecting its constituents to the global theatre community. TCG isNorth America?s largest independent publisher of dramatic literature, with 11 Pulitzer Prizes for Best Play on the TCG booklist. It also publishes the award-winning AMERICAN THEATRE magazine and ARTSEARCH?, the essential source for a career in the arts. In all of its endeavors, TCG seeks to increase the organizational efficiency of its member theatres, cultivate and celebrate the artistic talent and achievements of the field and promote a larger public understanding of, and appreciation for, the theatre.?For more information, visit?www.tcg.org.

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FOSS Patents: Non-infringement finding and publicity order over ...

Earlier today there were various media reports on a UK appeals court decision in Samsung's favor against Apple with respect to the non-infringement of a Community design (EU equivalent of U.S. design patent) by the Korean electronics giant's tablet computers. Rather than commenting immediately I took my time to read and analyze the full decision by the England and Wales Court of Appeal.

In July, Judge Colin Birss of the High Court of England and Wales granted Samsung the requested declaration of non-infringement and ordered Apple to publicize its defeat. The non-infringement finding was upheld, and the publicity order was upheld in a modified form.

The declaration of non-infringement would have been overturned only if the appeals court had found that Judge Birss "erred in principle", which apparently corresponds to the "clear error" standard of review in the United States. The legal test for Community design infringement is whether a product produces "on the informed user a different overall impression" (taking into consideration "the degree of freedom of the designer in developing his design"), which is so subjective that a high degree of deference is afforded to the court of first instance.

In upholding Judge Birss' finding of non-infringement, Sir Robin Jacob stresses differences between Apple's 2004 design registration and the iPad (a gadget he owns, as he notes in hits order). In fact, the decision does not address (because it doesn't have to) whether the iPad itself would fall within the scope of that registration. In my interpretation of the ruling, it actually wouldn't. If Apple asserts a Community design, what matters is the document, not a subsequently-released product that is different in some respects. In Germany, Apple also brought an unfair competition claim, which is based on similarities between actual products -- but that was not the case in the UK.

The size and location of the Samsung logo also plays a role (though not a major one) in the UK reasoning, not because the logo would help avoid consumer confusion just because of the brand per se but because it is ornamental. I have a different perspective on this. I think it's clear that a registered design generally does not show a logo, but it's nevertheless obvious that companies wouldn't build devices of this kind without one.

Some of the reasoning behind the non-infringement ruling addresses a decision made by a German appeals court, the D?sseldorf Higher Regional Court, later that month (July), on the Galaxy Tab?7.7. The D?sseldorf court disagreed with Judge Birss. Sir Robin Jacob now defends his countryman and disagrees with his German counterparts.

Without a doubt, the London and D?sseldorf rulings in July contradicted each other, not only because of different findings concerning the same issues but because of geographic overlap. The D?sseldorf appellate decision enjoined Samsung from selling the Galaxy Tab?7.7 anywhere in the EU outside of Germany (the D?sseldorf Regional Court had already banned the product in Germany, but Apple appealed the cross-border part). This already included the UK, but, still worse, the UK declaratory judgment had EU-wide scope. So the question was how to resolve this contradiction.

Note that a Community design is an EU-wide intellectual property right, while patents granted by the European Patent Office are not subject to EU law except in some limited respects and areas.

Sir Robin Jacob makes an important point: the D?sseldorf rulings were related to a preliminary injunction request, while the UK declaration was a final ruling. Just like the D?sseldorf court is the forum that Germany designated as its national court authorized to make EU-wide Community design decisions, the London-based High Court is the UK's designated court for this purpose. But if one such court makes a final decision after a full-blown main proceeding with a trial, it should render any preliminary injunctions obsolete.

While it's unusual for UK officials to promote the idea of European unification, Sir Robin Jacob notes that "[i]f courts around Europe simply say they do not agree with each other and give inconsistent decisions, Europe will be the poorer", effectively accusing his German colleagues of being bad Europeans. If this represented nothing more than a professional disagreement between appellate judges, or maybe (I'm not taking a firm position here) even some kind of power struggle between the courts of two different EU member states, it would be an interesting debate to follow. But what Sir Robin Jacob and his two concurring colleagues decided to do was to punish Apple for its conduct. And I'm not sure that this is fair and appropriate.

The UK judges didn't like the fact that Apple still pursued its preliminary injunction appeal in Germany, which resulted in a late-July ruling that contradicted Judge Birss's earlier UK decision. This was outcome-determinative in the second part of today's appellate ruling, which obligates Apple to publicize the non-infringement finding in Samsung's favor. The legal test Sir Robin Jacob applied is whether there is a "real need to dispel commercial uncertainty". He believes Apple created such uncertainty because reports of the D?sseldorf ruling might have made Samsung customers in the UK wonder whether the Galaxy Tab was illegal on an EU-wide basis.

Apple actually ceased the enforcement of the German cross-border injunction during the course of the UK proceedings to address this concern. Nevertheless, the UK appeals court felt that a publicity order was necessary.

Again, Sir Robin Jacob is right that a final ruling should supersede preliminary injunctions. But Apple's pursuit of a preliminary injunction appeal in Germany was not a bad-faith action in my view. The German court had the right to disagree with Judge Birss if it considered his decision clearly erroneous. I believe Apple had every right to find out whether the German appeals court would arrive at that conclusion. It was acting in good faith, trying to defend its rights. Frivolous litigation and other misconduct should result in sanctions of some kind, possibly even drastic sanctions, but a legitimate defense of legal interests is an inherent part of the rule of law, including in multijurisdictional disputes. In my opinion, today's UK ruling disregards the legitimacy of Apple's course of action in a high-handed manner. The UK court can punish Apple but doesn't have the authority to punish its German equivalent. Still, Apple didn't commit any wrongdoing here in my view. The publicity order also appears disproportionate to me because Apple voluntarily ceased its enforcement of the German cross-border preliminary injunction.

Apple is still going to vigorously enforce its rights regardless of this order. But others may be discouraged by today's ruling from defending their rights in legitimate ways in multi-jurisdictional litigation in Europe if part of it takes place in the UK.

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How Keeping Fit and Healthy is like Running a Successful Business

How Keeping Fit and Healthy is like Running a Successful Business

A fellow entrepreneur and regular client of mine recently commented that working out was like running a business. ?I?m extremely motivated, focused, and goal-oriented when it comes to my business?, she said. ?Now I?m doing the same for my fitness!? I then came up with 5 ways you can apply winning business strategies to your own personal health.

?1. Set goals
?Goals keep you on track for success. Just as you would set financial or achievement-based goals for your business, setting goals for your personal health keeps you motivated and focused. Sign up for a race event, make a deal with your spouse to work out 4 days per week for a month, or set performance goals for the gym.

?2. Push beyond your comfort zone
?I believe that the most success and the best results come from stepping outside of our comfort zones ? even just a little bit. Our comfort zones are havens of safety and habit, but by bursting through them, we?ll experience adventure, excitement, new opportunities, and newfound confidence. Outside your comfort zone, you?ll reach your goals more quickly, feel more accomplished, and have more fun ? whether it?s business or personal health.

3. Envision your success
Just as successful entrepreneurs envision their future business success, you can envision your health and fitness success. Athletes preparing for races do it all the time: sit in a relaxed position, close your eyes, and use all of your senses to imagine achieving your goal. How will your body look after losing 10 pounds? How will you feel while achieving your goal of running 10K?

?4. Keep your eye on the prize
Focus, focus, focus. Just as you?re 100% dedicated to the success of your business, you need to be 100% dedicated to maintaining good health. Make no excuses (rather, find solutions), and keep in mind what you?re working toward. Better physical health will mean better business productivity. If that?s not a win-win, I don?t know what is!

?5. Effectively manage your time
Running a business (especially as a solopreneur) is all about getting the most tasks done in the least amount of time. Apply this principle to your health and fitness. You don?t have to spend hours at the gym for optimal health. Instead, spend 20 to 30 minutes a day doing high intensity activity. Jump rope in your driveway, run as fast as you can for 30 seconds (then recover for 2 minutes, and repeat), or try high intensity home workouts like Insanity or P90X. As for nutrition, make large amounts of healthy meals on weekends, then freeze leftovers for use during the week.

?LEAP OF THE WEEK: Choose 2 of the above principles to put into action this week. How will you increase your health, and as a result, your business efficiency? Let us know in the comments below.

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9/11 mastermind dons camo vest to face Gitmo court

ACLU lawyer Hima Shamsi (background) addresses Judge Pohl, while 9/11 victim family members (left to right): Gordon Haberman, Kathy Haberman, Jo Aquaviva, and Anthony Aquaviva observe from behind a glass barrier at the U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on Wednesday.

By NBC News staff and wire services

The self-professed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks showed up to court in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Wednesday wearing a camouflage vest after a judge ruled that the military-style garment would not disrupt the proceedings.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was using his attire to make a political statement, which he coupled with a monologue late in the day?s proceedings to condemn what he called prosecutors "elastic" use of national security to justify its actions.

"The government uses national security as it chooses," the Arabic-speaking Mohammed said through a translator while seated at a defense table. "Many can kill people under the name of national security and torture people in the name of national security."

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Mohammed was appearing before the military commission for the third day of hearings that will set the ground rules for the trial of the 47-year-old Kuwaiti and four accused co-conspirators accused of planning and aiding hijackers who flew commercial airlines into the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania, killing 2,976 people.

All five defendants are charged with terrorism and murder and could be sentenced to death if convicted. The trial is likely more than a year away.

Fashion statement
Mohammed, who has grown a long beard in detention and dyed it with henna, wore the vest over his traditional white tunic and turban. He and a co-defendant had sought to wear camouflage items at their May 5 arraignment, but that request was denied.

At the time, the commander of the Guantanamo Bay prison said the camouflage might make it harder for the military prison guards to gain control if necessary, suggesting the clothing could create confusion about telling the difference between prisoners and fellow troops.

Earlier coverage of the week's Guantanamo pre-trial hearings:
Tuesday: Hearings for accused Sept. 11 terror planners haggle over rights, secrecy
Monday: 9/11 mastermind, alleged accomplices return to Guantanamo court

In Tuesday?s hearing, Military Judge Army Col. James Pohl dismissed the suggestion that the more than a dozen military members in the courtroom would have any problem distinguishing the bearded defendants. But just to be sure, he specifically prohibited them from wearing any items from U.S. military uniforms.

Mohammed considers himself a prisoner of war and wanted the same right to wear a uniform as the Japanese and German troops prosecuted for war crimes after World War II, according to his lawyers.

Mohammed surprised the courtroom midway through the afternoon by raising his hand to request that the court allow him to make a statement.

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Judge?Pohl said defendants are not generally permitted to comment on proceedings, but then granted his request.

"This is a one-time occurrence," Pohl told the defendant after some some back-and-forth.

"We are all human beings," Mohammed said in his brief monologue. "Your blood is not made out of gold and ours is made out of water."

He said that while Americans were sad that 3,000 people were killed on Sept. 11, the U.S. government has "killed millions of people."

He urged the judge not to be persuaded by the government's "crocodile tears," and he complained that the U.S. president can "legislate" assassinations in the name of protecting Americans.

Battle over secrecy?
Earlier Wednesday, the court resumed hearing arguments on the admissibility of testimony that includes information about the period of detention and harsh interrogation techniques employed at secret CIA prisons, before the men's transfer to Guantanamo Bay in 2006.

Even the judge grew frustrated with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed during a hearing at Guantanamo Bay as he refused to answer his questions. NBC's Michael Isikoff reports.

The government has already acknowledged some details about the secret prisons, including the fact that Mohammed was subjected to a near-drowning technique called water-boarding 183 times, but prosecutors have said that restrictions are necessary to prevent the release of information that would reveal information about intelligence sources and methods.

ACLU attorney Hina Shamsi picked up where she left off Tuesday when court adjourned, arguing that the detention information should be part of the public record.

Shamsi said the restrictions were overly broad and intended not to protect national security so much as to prevent the public from learning more details about the harsh confinement of the defendants in the CIA's prisons overseas.

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"We are aware, your honor, of no other protective order that is as radical as what the government is asking you to judicially bless here," Shamsi said.

But government prosecutor Joanna Baltes said the ACLU and other critics of the proposed rules are exaggerating the restrictions. She said the restrictions, known as protective orders, are similar to those in major terrorism cases in civilian courts.

"I think it is a very inflammatory allegation for the ACLU to come in and claim they have never seen anything like this," Baltes said.

The painstaking pre-trial hearings are intended to deal with 25 motions, many of them dealing with security rules and defendants? rights.

On Monday, the court agreed that the defendants could not be forced to attend the pre-trial hearings.

At Wednesday?s hearings, Mohammed, who was born in Kuwait, and Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, a Pakistani, were the only two of the five who attended. Mustafa Al Hawsawi, a Saudi; and Walid Bin Attash and Ramzi Binalshibh, both from Yemen, sat this one out.

Hearings were slated to continue on Thursday morning.

The Associated Press and NBC News' Courtney Kube and Kari Huus contributed to this report.

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dashTHIRTYdash to Distribute Grants to 75 Laid-Off Times-Picayune ...

Seventy-five laid-off Times-Picayune employees, who worked for the newspaper for a combined total of almost 1,568 years, will receive direct cash grants from dashTHIRTYdash in the charity?s first of two planned distributions.

dashTHIRTYdash, a non-profit created by newspaper alumni and civic activists to raise money for the hundreds of Times Picayune employees and contractors who lost their jobs Oct. 1, has raised approximately $60,000 to-date. The money came from individual donations, benefits held by New Orleans restaurants and businesses, an online auction that attracted donations from some of the country?s biggest names in news and talk, and a Sept. 29 New Orleans fundraiser underwritten largely by the community.

The layoffs, which the newspaper reported in June reduced its total staff by one-third and its newsroom by almost one-half, came as the 175-year-old Times-Picayune ended daily publication in favor of a thrice-weekly edition and decided to focus on its website. NOLA Media Group, the newspaper?s new parent company, has since hired some new, primarily younger and less-experienced employees.

The grant applicants? average tenure with the newspaper was 20.6 years.

?It?s clear that members of this group were among the most experienced working at the newspaper,? said dashTHIRTYdash founder and former Times-Picayune reporter Rebecca Theim. ?Because of the stage many of these people are in their careers, they may face considerable challenges securing new employment, particularly if they want to remain in New Orleans.?

The odds may be even more formidable if they hope to continue their careers in the newspaper business: in the past five years, U.S. newspapers have eliminated almost 40,000 jobs, or more than 11% of total industry employment, according to?Paper Cuts, the recognized industry source on newspaper layoffs and consolidations.

?We realize the assistance dashTHIRTYdash is able to provide each individual is nominal, but we hope it will help make a mortgage or rent payment, go toward equipment or training needed for a new job or business, or help meet some other important need,? Theim added. ?More than anything, we want the former employees and contractors to know their work at the daily newspaper was deeply appreciated.?

Of those applying for assistance, 41% came from the newspaper?s pressroom and packaging operations, while 28% came from editorial (including the newsroom, and photography and graphics/art/design staffs). Those departments were the hardest-hit by the layoffs, according to figures in a?June 12?Times-Picayune?article.

The size of grants each applicant will receive depends on whether he or she was full-time, or a part-time employee or contractor. Eleven were part-time, and 64 worked full-time. More information about how the money is being allocated is available at http://dashthirtydash.org/2012/08/23/formula/.

The fund anticipates making at least one additional disbursement. The deadline for applying to receive money in that second distribution is Dec. 1. Any former employee or contractor who applied for a grant in the first disbursement will be contacted regarding his or her desire to be included in the second. Any laid-off T-P employee or contractor who did not apply for the first distribution may apply for the second distribution by completing the form at http://dashthirtydash.org/dashthirtydash-grant-application/ and submitting it as directed.

Individuals, companies or organizations are encouraged to continue to donate to dashTHIRTYdash, which will include additional contributions in its second distribution. Donations may be made securely by credit card at https://donationpay.org/dashthirtydash. Alternatively, contributions by check should be made payable to the ?Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans? ? with ?dash30dash? written in the memo line ? and mailed to CAC, c/o Glenn W. Gruber, Associate Director/CFO, 900 Camp St., New Orleans, LA 70130-3908. (The CAC is serving as the fund?s fiscal agent, making dashTHIRTYdash contributions tax-deductible.) More information is at http://www.dashTHIRTYdash.org.

Major Contributors To-Date

Contributions have come from a wide cross-section of the community. The largest contributions to-date are:

• Anonymous gift via the Greater New Orleans Foundation, Inc.: $4,000
• Former Times-Picayune Managing Editor Dan Shea, and Stephanie Stokes, the newspaper?s ?Inside Out? editor: $3,625 (including $1,625 in auction proceeds)
• New Orleans jeweler Mignon Faget, who is donating 10% of the sales of her Times-Picayune-themed pins and double old fashioned glasses: $3,266
• Times-Picayune ?Social Scene? columnist Nell Nolan, former Times-Picayune political cartoonist Steve Kelley, local actress Ashley Nolan and Mid-City Theatre, which donated proceeds from a September stage production in which the trio starred. The donation was made in memory of communications strategist and civic activist Diana Pinckley, the late wife of longtime Times-Picayune reporter John Pope: $3,528
• Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group (Red Fish Grill, Jazz Kitchen?, Ralph?s on the Park, caf? b, caf? NOMA and Heritage Grill), which donated 100% of the proceeds from its ?Save the Picayune? signature cocktails created shortly after the news of the paper?s coming changes broke in late May: $3,344
• The Avenue Pub, which donated 100% of its June 28 bar proceeds, and included beer donated by?NOLA Brewing Co. and Crescent Crown Distributing: $2,812
• Former Times-Picayune Outdoors Editor Bob Marshall, whose Lake Pontchartrain fishing expedition proved so popular in the fund?s online auction that he agreed to provide two additional ones to requesting runner-up bidders: $2,550
• The New Orleans law firm of Smith Stagg LLC, which was a sponsor of the Sept. 29 fundraiser: $2,500
• LaPetite Grocery Restaurant and Bar, which donated 30% of its sales from a special June 26 benefit dinner: $2,451
• Slim Goodies Diner, which donated 20% of its July 1 receipts, and also collected about three dozen direct donations solicited from customers: $1,340

?We?re deeply grateful to the businesses, organizations and individuals who not only donated to this important cause, but also often provided a way for people in the community to also rally behind those who were losing their jobs,? Theim said.

Sept. 29 Fundraiser Largely Underwritten by Community

The Sept. 29 fundraiser and accompanying auction raised the most money for the charity. It was also billed as a send-off to the daily Times-Picayune and occurred on the newspaper?s final Saturday of daily publication. All laid-off employees and contractors were invited to attend for free. The Howlin? Wolf donated its Warehouse District facility for the event, which drew more than 300, including Times-Picayune staffers and alumni from seven decades and about 10 U.S. states, spanning from Hawaii to New York.

Restaurants and eateries that donated cuisine to the Sept. 29 fundraiser included: a Mano; Cafe Atchafalaya; Galatoire?s; Ralph?s on the Park; Rio Mar Seafood; Liberty?s Kitchen; Martin Wine Cellar Catering; and Whole Foods Market Arabella Station.

Musicians who organized or donated entertainment included: Jason Patterson, of Snug Harbor and the New Orleans Jazz Celebration; keyboardist and WWOZ host David Torkanowsky; longtime former Radiators guitarist Camile Baudoin; jazz pianist and vocalist Matt Lemmler; the Charmaine Neville Band; swing harmony group The Pfister Sisters; jazz saxophonist and bandleader Martin Krusche; and singer and guitarist John Rankin.

Celebrities who contributed experiences or items for the online auction included: Anderson Cooper; The Ellen Show; TODAY Show; ?Meet the Press;? CNN anchor, special correspondent and New Orleans native Soledad O?Brien; ?Good Morning America;? ABC-TV and NPR veteran political analyst and New Orleans native Cokie Roberts; and notedauthor, New Orleans native and States-Item alum Walter Isaacson. The auction also featured art work, photography and other items donated or created by Times-Picayune employees and alumni and New Orleanians.

In addition, Rock ?n? Bowl donated its facility for a Sept. 28 reunion that attracted almost 200.

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