NFL preseason: Jake Locker, Joe Flacco shine; Kevin Kolb rises?

What we learned from watching Thursday night's Week 3 NFL preseason action, leading off with passers under the spotlight in Nashville:

Jake looks comfortable; Cardinals still unsettled

The Tennessee Titans felt good about their starting quarterback decision, but the Arizona Cardinals continue to have an uneasy feeling about the choice they have yet to make.

Jake Locker, the Titans' first-round draft pick last year, didn't disappoint in his first game since getting the nod as the No. 1 QB. He displayed the arm and athleticism the team loves. Locker (11-for-20, 134 yards passing, two touchdowns) could have been more accurate?some of his throws sailed high?but otherwise he starred in front of the home crowd.

Locker was locked into his best receivers even without Kenny Britt, throwing short TD passes to wideouts Nate Washington and Kendall Wright. It's clear Locker has developed good chemistry with Wright, the Titans' 2012 first-round pick. It helps that he's also supported by Chris Johnson's running and a strong offensive line.

On the other hand, the Cardinals' competing quarterbacks, John Skelton and Kevin Kolb, continue to get little help up front. Left tackle D.J. Young, thrust into the lineup to replace injured Levi Brown (torn triceps), struggled mightily, and the interior line also consistently succumbed to the Titans' pressure.

Skelton didn't do much with his short first-half stint (4-for-10, 41 yards, interception), opening the door for the resilient Kolb. The good news for the Cards is that Kolb looked comfortable and had his healthiest, most efficient game (17-for-22, 156 yards, TD) of the preseason. On the downside, he also threw a pair of bad interceptions.

Kolb had nowhere to go but up and probably did enough to move into a dead heat with Skelton. The hard truth, however, is the Cardinals aren't a playoff team with either quarterback starting in 2012.

Packers run with Benson

Although quarterback Aaron Rodgers was the most productive Green Bay rusher (six carries, 52 yards, two TDs) in a 27-13 win over the Cincinnati Bengals, the team had to be pleased by the debut of former Bengal Cedric Benson.

The recent free-agent addition (6 carries, 38 yards) looks well-equipped to handle being a complementary power runner to Rodgers and the Pack's high-flying passing attack. That may signal the end in Green Bay for banged-up former starter James Starks.

Another Packer offensive player in trouble is Rodgers' backup, Graham Harrell. After having a dismal game against Cleveland, Harrell completed only five of 12 attempts for 26 yards against Cincinnati and also lost a fumble. It will be interesting to see if team officials start looking for outside help at No. 2.

Raves for Ravens' Flacco

Joe Flacco is out to prove he belongs among the NFL's select quarterbacks this season and earn a lucrative long-term extension in the process. He was razor- sharp in Baltimore's dress rehearsal, cutting through the Jacksonville Jaguars' defense (27-for-36, 266 yards, two TDs, INT) while spreading the ball around in an up-tempo passing game.

Flacco and emerging second-year speed receiver Torrey Smith (8 catches, 103 yards) are picking up where they left off in the AFC Championship game in putting more pop in the Ravens' offense. The result Thursday was a 48-17 romp.

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Jury finds Apple did not infringe on Samsung's patents, awards no damages

The jury in Apple v. Samsung dealt a big blow to Samsung by finding that it did infringe on some of the Apple patents at the center of the case, and it didn't have any better news for the company when it came to Samsung's own claims that Apple infringed on some of its patents as well. The jury found that Apple did not infringe on those in all five cases (the so-called utility patents), although it did rule that the patents were valid. That also, of course, means no damages awarded to Samsung.

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First lady doesn't 'trip' over girls' TV viewing

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Michelle Obama says she doesn't "trip" about her daughters watching "Keeping Up with The Kardashians."

The first lady said in an interview with iVillage that the girls "need to explore all of it: the great and the not so great" and "learn lessons from everything."

Mrs. Obama said she wants to raise her girls with "the tools to make judgments" and she hopes she's a good enough role model for them.

She called her daughters, 11-year-old Sasha and 14-year-old Malia, "pretty level-headed kids who can interpret stuff."

As for dating, she said "we're not in that territory yet," but she vows not to embarrass them by talking publicly about their social life.

She is serving as a guest editor this week for the women's website.

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BIRN Journalists Polish Information-Gathering Skills :: Balkan Insight

Helen Darbishire, Executive Director of Access Info Europe, encouraged journalists to exercise their rights guaranteed by freedom-of-information laws and approach the EU to gather information.

?Don?t get discouraged by bureaucracy. I often got information I didn?t expect to get and was denied information I couldn?t believe they wouldn?t provide me,? Darbishire said on Tuesday, adding that everyone has the right to ask for any public document in any country.

She pointed out that journalists from non-EU countries can also benefit from approaching EU institutions, as the EU is more likely to provide them with relevant documents than their home-country institutions.

Lawrence Marzouk, editor of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network in Kosovo, shared his experience with practicing freedom-on-information laws in Kosovo and advised journalists to be persistent.

?It?s not enough just to send an email or a written request. We always call institutions and ask for information over and over again and insist as long as it?s necessary,? he said.

Marcus Lindemann, a producer and journalist from Germany who is responsible for TV reports mainly broadcast on ZDF, Europe?s largest TV station, trained BIRN Summer School participants in how to gather information online.

Lindemann taught use of Google search tools and the provision of simple "tricks" to optimize online searches.

The third BIRN Summer School started in Mavrovo, Macedonia, on August 20. Over the one-week programme journalists will hone their investigating skills with some of the most prominent investigative journalists in the world.

The lead trainer this year is Sheila Coronel, Director and Professor of Professional Practice at the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University.

The principal focus of the BIRN Summer School is reporting on organised crime and corruption for print and broadcast media.

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Art from Office Supplies? The ?migr? Experience of Peter Meller ...

Imagine a European scholar with the immense cultural knowledge of an Erich Auerbach or an Erwin Panofsky; someone also on the run from the twin threats of Nazism and Communism. Now plunk him down in late-1960s flower-power Santa Barbara. How would he react? What would he write? What if he couldn't write? Then take this hypothetical scenario a step further, and grant our mythical ?migr? knowledge not only of the high art of Europe, but also of the key objects and languages of antiquity. Against his apparent writer's block, pit his extreme facility with drawing, his active, ironic imagination, and an abundance of nervous energy. He may not write his great book, but he will leave behind evidence of his erudition in a more unusual form--a vast archive of brilliant and original graphic art. Cardboard boxes and filing cabinets stuffed with drawings, prints, and even paper airplanes prove conclusively that once upon a time, someone possessed the confident draftsmanship of a William Steig or a Saul Steinberg, the directness of a Mad Men-style advertising genius, and the range of reference and sensibility of an Aby Warburg or a Meyer Shapiro all at once.

The strange truth is that just such a mythical figure once existed: Peter Meller. Although the art of UCSB professor emeritus Peter Meller is only now becoming available to the public, Meller actually does represent just such a fascinating and nearly lost chapter in the epic story of the European intelligentsia who moved to Southern California to escape Nazism and World War II. Through a pair of exhibitions organized by the UCSB Art, Design and Architecture Museum currently on view in Santa Barbara, and a publication, The Zodiac of Wit: Peter Meller and the Graphic Imagination by Robert Williams, Peter Meller's secret career as an artist is finally reaching an audience.

Unlike its elusive creator, who never sought recognition beyond a small circle of intimate friends and family for his prodigious output, Peter Meller's graphic art is extraordinarily accessible. He deemed his charming (and scary) origami "harpy" paper airplanes to be suitable for children's play, (and much to the dismay of their parents) so did the children who received them.

Despite the fact that Meller was a professor of art history who possessed a commanding knowledge of the Renaissance and of classical culture, he chose standard office supplies as his media, in the process elevating such lowly items as rubber erasers and liquid Wite-Out to the ironic status of contemporary stand-ins for the techniques and materials of the Italian Renaissance, and even for the illustrated vases of Greek and Roman antiquity. His favorite method of printmaking was to make multiple exposures of a drawing on a standard office-type photocopier. It is Meller's gift for working with these decidedly "minor" or non-standard emergent technologies that gives his brilliant and learned images their unique place in the history of art. Through this darkly comical and highly self-aware vision, Peter Meller, whose work was virtually unknown until after his death at age 85 in 2008, may still earn his place alongside such of his contemporaries as Billy Wilder and Ernst Lubitsch as one of our region's greatest ?migr? ironists.

As a professor of art history at UCSB from 1968 to 1994, Meller earned the respect and gratitude of his students and colleagues for his deep knowledge of European culture, particularly of the Renaissance and classical antiquity, and for the dry wit of his extraordinarily well-informed lectures and seminars. Yet, on the level of publication, that great academic standard of productivity, Meller's output remained relatively sparse. Certain manuscripts, including a projected translation of Lucretius' philosophical poem De Rerum Natura, were lost during his years of exile in Italy, and while at UCSB, although he published several well-received articles, the big book that would make his reputation alongside Gombrich and Panofsky never materialized. His son-in-law, John Moore, who has now taken over managing the large archive of Meller's work, remembers him as someone who exemplified his contemporary and fellow-?migr? Theodor Adorno's concept of a "damaged life." "No one knew he was an artist on this scale," said Moore, referring to the many thousands of individual works and hand-carved ink stamps in his possession, adding that Meller's "involvement [with creating graphics] was not exactly casual."

The two shows now on view, one at the UCSB Art, Design, & Architecture Museum through September 16, and the other, also organized by the AD&A but located in downtown Santa Barbara at the Jane Deering Gallery on East Canon Perdido (that one will be up through September 29) demonstrate the range and ingenuity of a major artist, albeit one who celebrated the joys of working in supposedly minor genres. Meller's gift manifested in many ways--he made drawings, prints, sculptures, ink stamps, printed silk scarves, and even refrigerator magnets (!), but he never lost sight of his beloved antiquities, which were a common source of imagery and inspiration. For example, in the remarkable photocopy image of Aristotle and Phyllis, Meller recalls a common story about how Aristotle's uxorious nature led his overbearing wife to ride on his back.

Elsewhere Meller brought forth mythological figures and loaded them with ironic sympathy for the limitations imposed by human vulnerabilities. His Mary Magdalene uses a mirror to admire her recently acquired halo, and his numerous cupids, satyrs, and fauns rarely meet with the kind of reception they expect. His wise Minerva, her lips pursed as she learns something from an intelligent pig, is unforgettable, even as the classical reference that served as the inspiration for the image remains obscure. The fate of his reputation as an artist remains to be seen, but for now it is clear that the art of Peter Meller has much to offer audiences today, and the UCSB AD&A Museum is to be congratulated for making his work widely available for the first time.

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