Crisis Budgeter Donald D. Kummerfeld Dies at 78

Donald D. Kummerfeld, a budget director and deputy mayor, the emphasis on financial discipline policy and an excellent touch to help New York City from bankruptcy in 1970, died Thursday at Jersey City.

He was 78 years.

I was sick, and gardening in the intense heat and died in a hospital emergency room, his wife, Elizabeth, said.

In 1975, financial markets closed the door to New York after years of indebtedness, and the State of New York intervened to issue bonds to run the city. However, the State requested financial rigor.

Mr. Kummerfeld role was to attend the details of the cleaning of bad accounting practices of the city, imposing budget cuts and for the first time that prolong the years of financial planning in the future.

Richard Ravitch, an advisor to Governor Hugh L. Carey during the crisis, said in a telephone interview Tuesday that the work was Mr. Kummerfeld said. "To have a balanced budget, this is what you do"

Mr. Kummerfeld led to years of experience as a budget official in Washington and as a investment banker on Wall Street.

But those who worked with him say that his negotiation skills combined with his experience with numbers. The New York Times in 1977 quoted an official who had dealt with him, saying:

"What I like about Don is that at least does not pretend to understand. Even when you put in the position of having to act as 2 and 2 is 5, you can say, 'Don, please' And he looks at you and shake his shoulders and said: 'Yes, but this is our policy here.' "

In an interview, Felix Rohatyn, who led the agency to restructure the debt of the city during the crisis, said: "What has brought to the table and had a great knowledge of the facts and politics of the situation."

Your signature does not necessarily mean that popular. The news at the time said the agency goes up in tears after meeting with Mr. Kummerfeld. At a public hearing has been accused of "insensitivity."

But medicine has worked hard, and since 1977 the city was beginning to turn a corner. "It is not always obvious, but the city is run now, mainly because Kummerfeld," said Peter C. Goldmark Jr., the director of the state budget, told the Times.

When Edward I. Koch, after defeating Mr. Beame and other Democratic candidates in the three main rivals in the general election, became mayor of 01 January 1978, Mr. Kummerfeld asked to remain as deputy mayor, but without title of Deputy Prime Minister. Mr. Kummerfeld refused.

Mr. Koch said in an interview on Tuesday that it had decided not to have a deputy mayor of New York because I wanted to see who takes the city personally. "It would have been wonderful," Koch said of Mr. Kummerfeld, he described as "a true hero who helped save New York."

Mr. Kummerfeld once accepted an appointment by Governor Carey to be Executive Director of the Board of Control of New York state financial emergency.

This meant that Mr. Kummerfeld be responsible for overseeing the financial operations of the city that had just left. "I know for a fact that all the details of what to look for," he said.

Mr. Kummerfeld has continued with the direct participation of the American Society of Rupert Murdoch and two trade groups, publishers of journals in America and the International Federation of the Periodical Press.

It is also recommended that the new mayor of New York and other elected officials on tax matters.

Working group of citizens led by Mr. Ravitch and A. Paul Volcker, former Federal Reserve will release a report on the week's state budget crisis and face. Will be dedicated to Mr. Kummerfeld, who has a lot of work into it.

Besides his wife, the former Elizabeth Miller, Mr. Kummerfeld, who lived in Jersey City, survive him his daughter, Theodosia Kummerfeld, and a grandson.

Along with the public service, gardening is a passion of Mr. Kummerfeld, for many years and grew vegetables and flowers on the terrace of his penthouse, Fifth Avenue. His hobby is reading seed catalogs.

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Canadian celebrity chef Anthony Sedlak Dies at 29

VANCOUVER - Canadian celebrity chef Anthony Sedlak has died aged 29.

Sedlak family issued a statement on Monday saying that collapsed last Friday for an undiagnosed medical condition and his body was found in his apartment in North Vancouver.

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Woman dies hours after meeting Obama at diner on bus tour

Pittsburgh - The 70-year-old restaurant owner in Akron, Ohio, died hours after his meeting with President Obama, when he stopped for breakfast on Friday morning, according to a published report.

Josephine "Ann" Harris, owner of the cafe square Ann, died of a heart attack at 11:18 after suffering from fatigue and was taken to an emergency room closest to the Akron Beacon Journal.

Obama arrived at the restaurant at 8:06 in the morning, and went to 08:42, according to a report of group printing.

Harris, described as sick, had embraced the reports of Obama in the parking lot after leaving a plate of bacon and eggs at the beginning of the second day bus trip through Ohio and President of Pennsylvania.

Obama has called the daughter of Harris, Wilma Parsons, the Air Force One on his way to Pittsburgh, where he finished the tour bus in Washington, White House press secretary Jay Carney said.

"The president has expressed his sympathy and condolences," Carney told reporters traveling by plane.

"Very sad event, he was honored to meet with her this morning and sent to his feelings all the family in their thoughts and prayers are today."

The Beacon Journal reported that Harris adored Obama, citing as his sister Frankie Adkins said Friday that the meeting was "a highlight."

The president was using the two-day bus tour to connect with voters in key states. He made several impromptu stops along the way to interact with ordinary Americans, providing many photo opportunities for local and national media documenting the journey.

Obama had breakfast instead of Ann, with three employees of a facility near Goodyear, according to the Obama campaign. The White House press pool report described Obama as if he approaches a table of men wearing baseball caps and joking, "This is a section name of the troublemakers."


Body nod to the press, the president added: "Do not do anything wrong, but these guys have the cameras were put up.".

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Martin L. Swig Dies at 78

When viewed today, rare cars, like Lancia Lambda 1925, 1941 or 1953 Tatra T87 1900 Coupe Pininfarina Alfa Romeo are generally fixed, delivered to the sample auto dealerships or inelegant trailers.

With the founding of the California Mille, an event known worldwide and manages classic sports cars of more than 1,000 kilometers of mountain roads of Northern California, Swiga Martin said that people see the cars that do what they should do: eat the hot asphalt.

Swiga Sr., who died Tuesday at age 78, he organized the first California Mille in 1991. The tour of the cars built in 1957 or before, lasting four days from the last Sunday in April, and for many twenty kilometers along the northern coast of California extraordinary view.

Around 75 vehicles around the world join the tour each year, each owner pays nearly $ 6,000 to enter.

Mr. Swiga, who also owned one of the first performances of several major automobile franchises in the United States, died in Greenbray, California, and lived in Sausalito. His son David said he had a stroke on Sunday.

The California Mille is based in the Italian Mille Miglia, an endurance race from Brescia to Rome and back that was from 1927 until 1957. Swiga and Mr. John Lamm of Road and Track magazine has participated in a revival of 1955, the 1982 Alfa Romeo Mille Swiga Mr. Zagat 1900. Then it was about 50 thousand events in Japan and Australia, Italy and California.

The Tour of California requires an exceptionally dedicated unit, said Swiga Sports Car Digest in 2011. "They have a car driving off and not just once a year," he said. "One has to be one with your car."

Many car collectors focus on one brand or model, but the collection of Mr. Swiga about 30 cars is eclectic. In addition to the rarity of the above, has had five different models of Alfa Romeo Giulietta, a pair of 510S and a Datsun Toyota Corona 1968 Hardtop two doors. His most recent was a 2013 Subaru BRZ.

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Michael J. Ybarra dies at 45

Michael J. Ybarra, a former Times reporter who recently told his adventures in extreme sports for The Wall Street Journal, was killed in a climbing fall during the weekend at the edge of Yosemite National Park. Was 45.

An experienced climber, was left alone to cross the rocky crest of the Eastern Sierra and the summit of Matterhorn Peak Sawtooth 12.280 feet before falling to about 200 meters until he died, said his sister, Suzanne Ybarra.

His family reported his disappearance on Sunday, a rescue team and realized that his body on Tuesday in a rugged area of ??difficult access by foot, according to Kari Cobb, a park ranger. His body was found on a hillside, said his sister.

"He died doing what he loved most," he wrote in his Facebook page.

In a statement, the Wall Street Journal Ybarra called "an outstanding journalist. According to the best traditions of his profession has enlightened and engaged readers in a wide range of topics in a clear and lively prose."

Although their activities outdoors often are inherently dangerous, often made jokes about their fears and sometimes face in his writings. A piece he wrote in May last year for the Journal of whitewater kayaking with the title: "When death is only one stroke Away."

That same month, Ybarra, wrote about how "he straddled the edge of the knife between caution and confidence" before the fall frosts during the climb mountains near Bozeman, Montana.

"Climbing a mountain is a serious thing," he wrote in the Journal. "Mistakes have consequences - for you and your partner awake at night wondering if I wanted to go to a rock climbing gym or finding the most sensitive sports like table tennis" ..

About five years ago, in essence, Ybarra decided to live on the road and his car to follow her passion for adventure, said Bret Israel, Sunday Calendar editor of The Times, who met the writer When Ybarra interned in the Metro department of the end of 1980.

Ybarra was also the author of a biography noted, "Washington Gone Crazy", which arose from the report by The Times. The book tells the story of Pat McCarran, a former senator from Nevada who has exercised his power during the anticommunist hysteria of the 1950.

When time was called one of the best books of 2004, the reviewer pronounced "master," said Ybarra and "meticulously recounts McCarran rise to power" in creating "... an indispensable tool nuanced assessment" of a period in recent history.

The biography also was a finalist for the Times Book Prize 2005.

Michael Jay Ybarra was September 28, 1966, in Los Angeles to Eugene Ybarra, Los Angeles Unified School District administrator, and his wife Lillie, a social worker.

During his senior year at UCLA, political science major at times started practice in 1988 one year that included a stint with the Washington Office.

After earning a degree in political science from UC Berkeley in the 1990, Ybarra held various practices and spent four years working for The Wall Street Journal, but took advantage of the limitations of a full time job in a large organization.

As a freelance writer, Ybarra has contributed to numerous publications, including The Times, where he wrote about nature and art in the West for over two decades.

One of his recent articles in The Times about an exhibition in Venice, photo gallery of the Eastern Sierra, will be published on Sunday.

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Jazz Trumpeter Abram Wilson Dies at 38

Abram Wilson, a jazz trumpeter and acclaimed American composer from New Orleans, which helped a new generation of jazz artists in Britain, playing a kind of cultural attaché of the cradle of jazz, died on 9 June in London. He was 38 years.

He died several days after stopping a series of concerts and recording equipment in a hospital with stomach pains, his wife, Jennie Cashman, said the London Evening Standard newspaper. The cause was cancer, said his wife.

Mr. Wilson, who grew up in New Orleans and its rich musical traditions hybrid was known for his combination of musical forms - Quicksilver mix of bebop, with storms of hip-hop songs of Stevie Wonder sang with the heart of his modest voice Domingo.

He wove into the plot of his most ambitious music. The autobiographical concept album of 2007, "Ride! Wheel to the Modern Day Delta," for example, was a kind of work of a jazz trumpeter who tries to escape his roots to become a jazz superstar hip-hop, but returns to "sometimes to the extreme.

While British make a series of awards to his work, including the BBC Jazz Award for best new CD in 2007, Mr. Wilson has demonstrated a commitment to their roots of jazz Americans often faced with a fervor almost missionary, music critics, he said.

On stage, between numbers, sometimes gave impromptu lessons in the history of the many streams that flowed into the jazz music of New Orleans.

In cities where loans are made English, who often took his hand in schools to talk about the history of music, teaching the basics of improvisation and give you a flavor of the music of many They had never heard.

"I speak of the story - how people were brought from Africa to work on cotton plantations in America, and how the blues was created, and how he brought jazz," said an interview with a British newspaper in 2008. "Jazz is so different. People should be introduced to it."

Jason Toynbee, an expert on immigration cultural influences at the Open University of London, has described Mr. Wilson as a figure "very important" in the British music scene of jazz known as Black. "Approaching jazz as a form of music in evolution, but also as an important cultural force in history," he said in an interview last week.

In a melting pot of British jazz musicians from Europe, the Caribbean and Africa, added Mr. Toynbee, Mr. Wilson has seen his role, at least in part, as a representative of the American sensibility.

Abram Wilson was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, August 30, 1973, the eldest of six children of Doris and Willie Wilson. After his family moved to New Orleans, was inspired to learn the trumpet, with local musicians to visit their school.

But he credited his parents with his decision to make music his profession. When I was a teenager, said he told his father that he was considering becoming a lawyer, a doctor or an engineer. His father replied: "You know what I will take a screen test."

Mr. Wilson attended the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (Wynton Marsalis and Harry Connick Jr. also studied there), and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University before receiving a master in performance and composition at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester.

In New York, he formed his own quartet and played with trumpeter Roy Hargrove Big Band, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and rhythm and blues singer Ruth Brown.

After moving to London in 2002, Mr. Wilson has made three albums for the records of dunes, the British jazz: "Jazz Warrior" (2004), "! Ride ferris wheel to the Modern Day Delta "(2007) and" Life Tables "(2009).

He is survived by his wife, his parents, four brothers, a sister and his grandmother, Oradell Barker.

Had just finished and started to run a jazz suite life of Philippa Schuyler, an American piano prodigy, born black father and white mother, who visited the country in 1930 and '40, I was disappointed by American racism and died in 1967 at a charity mission in Vietnam in 35 years.

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Jim Drake dies at 83

Aeronautical engineer Jim Drake had already solved the "riddle" coupling of a surfboard with a sail, when a young man who stopped to admire the "Lower the Board" in late 1960 suggested that he called "perfect name": windsurfing.

In his garage in Santa Monica, Drake had designed and built a prototype designed to operate in a new way - on foot - and guided by a set of hand wing of the invention.

He first tried the card in 1967 out of Marina del Rey and the "wind-propelled apparatus" was patented three years later.

The vessel has caused the sport to take off in Europe, and by early 1980 some 200,000 had been sold windsurfing enthusiasts.

Windsurfing when he debuted as an Olympic sport in 1984, Drake looked at his first competition outside of Long Beach.

There was also a measure of the influence of the amorphous tip: "Windsurfing" essentially has become the generic name for the sport.

Drake, who also made a significant contribution to the aerospace industry, died June 19 at his home in Pfafftown, North Carolina, of complications from pulmonary disease, said her daughter Hollis Fleming. He was 83 years.

While working for the Defense Department in the East in 1962, thought of the "standing on a surfboard in the middle of the Potomac and the power of the kite flying with a laptop," said Drake in 1981 The Times.

Back in California, the sailor has suggested the idea to combine sailing and surfing in his intimate friend Hoyle Schweitzer, a surfer who offered to pay for the development board, Drake told the Times in 1983.

I had to understand "how to make everything work in a simple, direct and emotionally satisfying settings. The key was how to handle," said Drake in 1983. "I knew I wanted to stay and did not want a rod thyme, then there was the problem of thinking in a control mechanism."

Plates small sailboats were popular at that time, but had to be used during the session. Drake devised a way of uniting sailing on board via a universal joint, allowing the screw to navigate a full circle or flat - and allowed the pilot to stand. Has also been updated "an old idea" that had worked on many boats, appliances laptop quadrilateral that has allowed the wing to tilt and rotate in any direction.

From the beginning, Schweitzer was more interested in the transformation of a business card, Drake recalled later. Together they form Windsurfer International to manufacture the panels, and both their names appear on the patent.

At best, Drake said he considered himself "re-inventor" of windsurfing, two men who could claim for himself the invention. "My contribution was to be really effective and functional," said Windsurf magazine in 1996.

When the Association of Professional surfing. Schweitzer and Drake presented his Hall of Fame in 2002, was acclaimed as an aid "to mold windsurfing into its present form." The Drake Group called the "father of surfing", Schweitzer and co-developer "who brought surfing to the masses."

However, the couple had separated for a long time. In early 1970, Drake sold his interest in the business of Schweitzer for 36,000 dollars, equivalent to about U.S. $ 175 000 today.

Drake then explained his decision by saying simply "It's just too little my cup of tea."

"It's always been a hobby for him," said his daughter. "He had six mouths to feed young and I honestly never wanted to give the aerospace industry, which he loved."

As an aeronautical engineer and analyst for national security systems, dividing his time between private industry in Southern California and the government work in Washington.

He worked on the project by the X-15 rocket plane and finding the configuration of the successful supersonic strategic bomber B-70, according to the Times in 1983.

He also was involved in the initial plans for the Tomahawk cruise missile, according to the Rand Corporation, where he worked as an aeronautical engineer.

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Pop Art Dealer Ivan Karp Dies at 86

Ivan Karp, the owner of the gallery in New York that Newsweek called "the assistant chief of the pop art movement," died of natural causes in his bed in Charlotteville, New York, on June 28. He was 86 years.

From 1959 to 1969, Karp is assistant director of the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York, where he participated in the early careers of some of the biggest names of the time, as John Chamberlain, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol.

Karp, once said in an interview that while working as a distributor for the Martha Jackson Gallery in late 1950, sold a sculpture before Chamberlain in the basement of the gallery for $ 275, "based on my enthusiasm and my faith ... that was really something interesting.

"He said that the venda convinced Jackson to keep Chamberlain after evaluating the work of the artist" very strange and very difficult. "

Karp has worked as an art critic for The Village Voice 1954-55. "Somebody said that writers need to be working for nothing," he said after joining the paper.

After ten years of Leo Castelli, Karp branched own business in 1969 and founded the avant-garde art gallery OK Harris in Soho, which regularly promotes the movement of photo-realistic and was one of the first gallery showing Artist Robert Bechtle.

The gallery is open even after 43 years, now at 383 West Broadway. A memorial service will be held this fall, according to the magazine OK Harris.

Ivan Karp was born June 4, 1926, the Bronx. His father, a hat salesman, soon moved with his family in Brooklyn. Mr. Karp Erasmus Hall left school to join the Army Air Forces in 1944. He remembered taking the middle name of Conrad, when he was in line to enlist.

He pointed out that men without names were marked as "not me", for the sixth grade and I thought it was a terrible aspect. Wearing "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad at the time.

Mr. Karp attended the New School for Social Research and the GI Bill was an early art critic for The Village Voice in mid 1950. He has also published short stories. At one point sold Humor ice cream and tried to organize a union for employees of the company.

In another, he was hired by the New York theater companies to change the romantic scenes in movies from the west, believing that fans just liked guns and galloping.

As president of the Society of Arts Recovery Anonymous, Mr. Karp shooting in New York in a jeep atrotinat looking gargoyles, capitals and cornices of the buildings had been cleared. It is a particular pleasure, was to find portraits carved stone Italian craftsmen who were immigrants from one another, warts, missing teeth and all.

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Margot Feuer dies at 89

After Margot Feuer in 1965 moved to the hills of Malibu, she "launched a community action" by the threat of development in the surrounding Santa Monica Mountains.

The frightening suggestions include building a nuclear plant in a remote ravine and a highway through Malibu Canyon.

"I looked around I in the midst of was," she later said, "I thought, gosh, the idea of ​​a park is a wonderful idea."

Hundreds of her movement to a national park in Los Angeles would join to create, but Feuer and two other activists will be recognized as the "founding mothers" of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, in 1978 the federal approval.

Feuer, the last survivor of the trio of advocates, died June 16 of a stroke in her Los Angeles home overlooking Stone Canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains, said her son, Mark. She was 89.

"We are indebted to Margot for her lifelong environmental activism and the role she played in the founding of the nation's largest urban national park," Lorenza Fong, acting superintendent of the recreation area, in a statement to The Times said.

Feuer's sister was in activism Jill Swift, that grassroots awareness building through increases in the Santa Monica Mountains to organize, and Susan Nelson, who works closely with then-Reps. Phillip Burton (D-San Francisco) and Anthony C. Beilenson (D-Woodland Hills).

When the Sierra Club Feuer talks on country meetings, she was asked to join Swift as co-chairman of the group's Santa Monica Mountains Task Force.

Feuer Sierra Club's chief lobbyist for the park and become repeat trips to Washington to testify before Congress, according to the 2006 edition of the "National Parks and the woman's voice: a history"

"A few people like Margot had happened. This is not something that an agency did," said David Brown, the conservation chair of the Santa Monica Mountains Task Force. "She insisted, she had connections that helped his mind."

On the West Side in 1978 a group of park supporters are nervously awaiting the results of a conference vote when a phone rang.

Feuer has to answer, and again to announce that legislation establishing the recreation area has passed. The park has since grown to more than 150,000 hectares to include.

Feuer sees the creation of the park as a great achievement - and a reaffirmation of the democratic process.

"The public is so often instructed not really in" action on a specific goal depends, she said to The Times in 1978. "It confirms the need for really depends. All the people who worked there - for the length of time - did it."

A portion of the quote on a plaque at the recreation area was recently opened visitor center at the historic King. Gillette Ranch, a piece of land in Calabasas that Feuer helped the rescue of the development.

Margot Elizabeth Kramer was born in 1922 and grew up in New Haven, Connecticut, the youngest of two daughters, Eva and Morris Kramer, immigrants from Russia. Her father was farming in South Dakota to fur up.

Grew, she developed an appreciation for nature while walking the roads of Long Island, her son said.

At Wellesley College, she earned a BA degree in music in 1943 before moving to New York to try to make it in the theater.

In 1946, she moved to Los Angeles for her singing career to promote. She soon met and married Stanley Feuer, who was a mechanical engineer.

If a local environmental activist Margot Feuer started as a founder of Stamp Out Smog, by women who formed "self-described amateur in politics, but willing to learn," The Times reported in 1959.

Since the mid-1960s, she was involved with the provincial government on land use planning issues and has served on the South Coast Regional Commission of the California Coastal.

As a founder and leader of the Save Open Space Santa Monica Mountains, Feuer has an important role in helping the Ahmanson Ranch preserve on the eastern edge of Ventura County and neighboring Jordan Ranch, according to. Joanne Jackson, a longtime friend.

Feuer Besides her son, Mark of Boulder, Colo., is survived by two sons, Zachary Feuer of Los Angeles and Dr. Joshua Feuer Santa Barbara, and four grandchildren. Her husband died at 74 in 1989.

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