Brooklyn Bridge, on the Bridge is one of many images that John Marin made over the course of a dozen years of the great span that connects Manhattan Island with the neighboring borough to the east. See at: http://collections.terraamericanart.org/view/objects/asitem/People$0040283/2?t:state:flow=1599bcf0-1c2d-4785-82e1-7f503ea1170c

Trained both as an architect and as an artist, John Marin was a superlative draftsman who began to make etchings in Paris in 1905. Upon his return to New York in 1911, Marin created his first two etchings of the Brooklyn Bridge, a marvel of Gothic architecture and modern engineering completed in 1883. He returned to this subject again in 1913. http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=61613

Marin's 1913 etching, Brooklyn Bridge and Lower New York, is at The Toledo Museum of Art. Extensive information: http://classes.toledomuseum.org:8080/emuseum/view/objects/asitem/123/6/displayDate-asc;jsessionid=A7F918FD53758890B1A062923CDF1202?t:state:flow=73a850e6-a266-4fa3-b718-676a277e0052 Thanks, Barb.

The 300 masterworks from The Toledo Museum of Art's collection at this site are drawn from the Museum's 2009 publication Toledo Museum of Art Masterworks ($39.95; available online at http://www.tmastore.org/tmapu.html), these highlights are arranged by geographical area and time period, integrating—as in the Museum's galleries—paintings, sculptures, tableware, jewelry, furniture, prints, and photographs. This selection is the first in an ongoing initiative to digitize the Toledo Museum of Art's collections. http://classes.toledomuseum.org:8080/emuseum/

The Book Bench is one of 16 blogs from The New Yorker magazine--updated every day
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/

Easy summer salads: Mix small fruits (or diced fruits) with vegetables and add your favorite salad dressing. Pick two or three items for the salad; for instance, watermelon, peaches, fresh berries, tomatoes, summer squash, peas, or corn. Add cooked, cubed meat if desired.

Though photo manipulation has become more common in the age of digital cameras and image editing software, it actually dates back almost as far as the invention of photography . See an overview of some of the more notable instances of photo manipulation in history. Also, you may view by year or topic.
http://www.fourandsix.com/photo-tampering-history/

10 Photo-Editing Flubs: Digitally Altered Photo Disasters
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=8425991

In Ohio, A News Photograph Is Digitally Altered
http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2007/04/toledo01.html

A U.S. federal judge has stepped on Christian Louboutin SA's red-soled shoes. In a ruling August 10, Judge Victor Marrero denied the fashion house's request to halt sales of similar shoes made by Yves Saint Laurent, saying Louboutin would not likely prove its use of the color deserved legal trademark protection. The issue may pale against the sea of red flowing in the markets lately, but it is big business for Louboutin, which has long colored the bottoms of its shoes to make them stand out. The company won a trademark for red soles from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 2008 and filed suit against PPR SA's YSL in federal court in Manhattan earlier this year, alleging some of its competitor's shoes featured soles in shades of red that were uncomfortably close to its own. Judge Marrero wasn't swayed. Color is regularly trademarked in industrial uses—for instance, pink fiberglass insulation—where its only use is typically to distinguish a product. It gets trickier in matters of fashion, where color actually serves a fundamental purpose. The judge delivered his views with flair of his own, invoking Whitman ("A lawyer said, What is the red on the outsole of a woman's shoe?) and asking readers to visualize "industrial models sashaying down the runways in displays of the designs and shades of the season's collections of wall insulation." He even sketched out an imaginary suit between Picasso and Monet. His conclusion: "Color constitutes a critical attribute of the goods." In other words, it can't be trademarked. But the order didn't settle the broader issue. The judge ordered the parties to show up in court next week to argue why he shouldn't just cancel Louboutin's trademark outright.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904823804576500190678090656.html

After the 9/11 attacks, the federal government closed the Statue of Liberty National Monument, the symbol of a nation’s dreams and one of the city’s best-known and most-visited tourist attractions. Allowing people inside would be unsafe, the National Park Service said, because rescuers might not be able to get them out in an emergency. Three years later, the base, the pedestal and the observation deck were reopened after $6.7 million in improvements to fire and security systems. Five years after that, in 2009, the crown — and the 146 narrow steps to it — reopened on the Fourth of July. Now the statue is closing again. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says it needs a $27.25 million renovation for additional safety improvements that he promised in 2009. Officials said the work, which is expected to take a year, could not begin sooner because they did not finish the planning and arrange the financing until a few months ago. And, they added, they did not want the statue to be closed on the 125th anniversary of its dedication on Oct. 28. So they will shut it down the next day. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/11/nyregion/statue-of-liberty-will-close-for-a-year-to-further-improve-safety.html

Two lawsuits seeking class action status were filed August 10 against Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Michigan and New York Law School. The several plaintiffs, who are all graduates of the defendant schools, seek $250 million from Cooley and $200 million from NYLS in tuition refunds, as well as other damages and reformed employment statistic reporting practices. Both lawsuits state that the plaintiffs seek “to remedy a systemic, ongoing fraud that is ubiquitous in the legal education industry and threatens to leave a generation of law students in dire financial straits.” Plaintiffs’ attorney David Anziska said his firm, Kurzon Strauss LLP, chose these two particular law schools in large part because of their large class sizes, with Cooley – at about 1,000 students in each year – the biggest in the country by far. The lawsuits argue that the law schools have distorted their post-graduate employment information by advertising the percentage of those who secure any kind of job within nine months of graduation, even ones that don’t have anything to do with the legal industry. They also allege that the reported amount for graduates’ average salaries is inflated since it is derived from a narrow, self-selected pool of people who actually provide that information to the school. A graduate of San Diego’s Thomas Jefferson School of Law filed a similar class action suit in May. New York Law School Dean Richard Matasar said in a statement that the alleged claims “are without merit and we will vigorously defend against them in court.” Last month, Cooley filed a lawsuit against Kurzon Strauss LLP – the firm representing the plaintiffs in both of the cases– for propagating defamatory ads on Craigslist and Facebook about the school.
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2011/08/10/law-grads-sue-alma-maters-for-millions-in-tuition-refunds/

Number to Know
1929: Year when the Bud Billiken Parade was first held in Chicago, and it happened on this date. The event is the oldest African-American parade in the U.S.
This Day in History
Aug. 11, 1929: Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career.
Today’s Featured Birthday Hulk Hogan (58)
Daily Quote “All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.” Babe Ruth
http://www.hillsdale.net/newsnow/x1217540530/Morning-Minutes-Aug-11