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The Raphael Cartoons are seven large cartoons for tapestries, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, painted by the High Renaissance painter Raphael in 1515-16 and showing scenes from the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles. They are the only surviving members of a set of ten cartoons commissioned by Pope Leo X for tapestries for the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican Palace, which are still (on special occasions) hung below Michelangelo's famous ceiling. Reproduced in the form of prints, they rivalled Michelangelo's ceiling as the most famous and influential designs of the Renaissance, and were well-known to all artists of the Renaissance and Baroque.[1] Admiration of them reached its highest pitch in the 18th and 19th centuries; they were described as "the Parthenon sculptures of modern art".[2]
Commission and the tapestries
Raphael, whom Michelangelo greatly disliked, was highly conscious that his work would be seen beside the Sistine Chapel ceiling, which had been finished only two years before, and took great care perfecting his designs, which are among his largest and most complicated. Originally the set was intended to include 16 tapestries. Raphael was paid twice by Leo, in June 1515 and December 1516, the last payment apparently being upon completion of the work. Tapestries remained enormously prestigious; the Sistine set cost at least five times as much as Michelangelo's ceiling.[3] Most of the expense was in the manufacture: although the creation of the tapestries in Brussels cost 15,000 ducats, Raphael was paid only 1,000.[4]
The cartoons are painted in a glue distemper medium on many sheets of paper glued together (as can be seen in the full-size illustrations); they are now mounted on a canvas backing. They are all slightly over 3 m (3 yd) tall, and from 3 to 5 m (3 to 5 yd) wide; the figures are therefore over-lifesize.[5] Although some colours have faded, they are in general in very good condition.[6] The tapestries are mirror-images of the cartoons, as they were worked from behind; Raphael's consciousness of this in his designs appears to be intermittent.[7] Raphael's workshop would have assisted in their completion; they were finished with great care, and actually show a much more subtle range of colouring than was capable of being reproduced in a tapestry.[8] Some small preparatory drawings also survive: one for The Conversion of the Proconsul is also in the Royal Collection,[9][10], and the Getty Museum in Malibu has a figure study of St Paul Rending His Garments.[11] There would have been other drawings for all the subjects, which have been lost; it was from these that the first prints were made.
The seven cartoons were probably completed in 1516 and were then sent to Brussels, where the Vatican tapestries were woven by the workshop of Pieter van Aelst. Various other sets were made later, including one acquired by Henry VIII of England in 1542; King Francis I of France had another of similar date. Cartoons were sometimes returned with tapestries to the commissioner, but this clearly did not happen here. The tapestries had very wide and elaborate borders, also designed by Raphael, which these cartoons omit; presumably they had their own cartoons.[12] The borders included ornamentation in an imitation of Ancient Roman relief sculptures and carved porphyry. The tapestries were made with both gold and silver thread; some were later burnt by soldiers to collect the precious metals. The first delivery was in 1517, and seven were displayed in the Chapel for Christmas in 1519 (then as now, their display was reserved for special occasions).[4]
Raphael knew that the final product of his work would be produced by craftsmen rendering his design in another medium; his efforts are therefore entirely concentrated on strong compositions and broad effects, rather than felicitous handling or detail. It was partly this that made the designs so effective in reduced print versions. The Raphael of the cartoons was revered by the Carracci, but the great period of their influence began with Nicolas Poussin, who borrowed heavily from them and "indeed exaggerated Raphael's style - or rather concentrated it, for he was working on a much smaller scale".[13] Thereafter they remained the touchstone of one approach to history painting until at least the early 19th century - the Raphael whose influence the Pre-Raphaelites wanted to reject was perhaps above all the Raphael of the cartoons.
The Raphael Cartoons represent scenes from the lives of Saints Peter and Paul. The programme emphasised a number of points relevant to contemporary controversies in the period just before the Reformation, but especially the entrusting of the Church to Saint Peter, the founder of the Papacy. There were relatively few precedents for these subjects, so Raphael was less constrained by traditional iconographic expectations than he would have been with a series on the life of Christ or Mary. He no doubt received some advice or instructions in choosing the scenes to depict. The scenes from the Life of Peter were designed to hang below the frescoes of the Life of Christ by Perugino and others in the middle register of the Chapel; opposite them, the Life of Saint Paul was to hang below the Life of Moses in fresco. An intervening small frieze showed subjects from the life of Leo, also designed to complement the other series. Each sequence begins at the altar wall, with the Life of Peter on the right side of the Chapel and Life of Paul on the left. Including the three subjects with no surviving cartoons, the set contains (the full scriptural quotations and a commentary are on the V&A website):[14][15]
- Life of Peter
- The Miraculous Draught of Fishes (John 21: 1-14)
- Christ's Charge to Peter (Matthew 16:16-19) The key moment from the Gospels for the claims of the Papacy.
- The Healing of the Lame Man (Acts 3:1-8)
- The Death of Ananias (Acts 5:1-10).
- Life of Paul
- The Stoning of St Stephen (no cartoon) at which Paul (Saul) was present before his conversion.
- The Conversion of Saint Paul (no cartoon) [1]
- The Conversion of the Proconsul or The Blinding of Elymas (Acts 13:6-12). Paul has been invited to preach to the Roman proconsul of Paphos, Sergius Paulus, but is heckled by Elymas, a "magus", who Paul miraculously causes to go temporarily blind, thus converting the proconsul.
- The Sacrifice at Lystra (Acts 16:6). After Paul miraculously cures a cripple, the people of Lystra see him and his companion Barnabas (both standing left) as gods, and want to make a sacrifice to them. Paul tears his garments in disgust, whilst Barnabas speaks to the crowd, persuading the young man at centre to restrain the man with the sacrificial ax.
- St Paul in prison (no cartoon), smaller than the others.
- St Paul Preaching in Athens (Acts 17:16-34), the figure standing at the left in a red cap is a portrait of Leo; next to him is Janus Lascaris, a Greek scholar in Rome. The kneeling couple at the right were probably added by Giulio Romano, then an assistant to Raphael.
In England
The cartoons were bought from a Genoese collection in 1623 by Charles I of England, then still Prince of Wales, using agents. He only paid £300 for them, a price that suggests they were regarded as working designs rather than works of art in their own right. Charles in fact intended to make further tapestries from them at Mortlake (and did, with new borders, paying £500 each) but was well aware of their artistic significance.[16] They had been cut into long vertical strips a yard wide, as was required for use on low-warp tapestry looms, and were only permanently rejoined in the 1690s at Hampton Court. In Charles' time they were stored in wooden boxes in the Banqueting House, Whitehall. They were one of the few items in the Royal Collection withheld from sale by Oliver Cromwell after Charles' execution.[17] The fate of the other three cartoons from the set is unknown.
William III commissioned Sir Christopher Wren and William Talman to design the "Cartoon Gallery" at Hampton Court Palace in 1699, specially to contain them. By this date the prestige of tapestries in general was beginning to wane, and those of the early sets that had survived were probably already rather faded and dirty. From this point on the cartoons became regarded as the most authentic and attractive expression of Raphael's conceptions. European taste had also moved in their favour; their dignified classicism was very much in tune with a movement away from the more frenzied versions of the Baroque. The fame of the cartoons, as opposed to the designs in general, grew rapidly.
In 1763, when George III moved them to the newly-bought Buckingham House (now Buckingham Palace) there were protests in Parliament by John Wilkes and others, as they would no longer be accessible to the public (Hampton Court had long been open to visitors). They had been greatly studied by artists and cognoscenti alike whilst at Hampton Court, and played a crucial role in forming English expectations of a monumental style of painting - one of the great preoccupations of English art in the 18th century. They were often mentioned in the Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the dominant English critical work on art of the century. Having explained that "The principal works of modern art are in fresco" he specifically adds the cartoons "which, though not strictly to be called fresco, yet may be put under that denomination" before claiming that "Raffaelle ... stands in general foremost of the first painters..." (ie the best painters) and comparing Raphael's works in oil unfavourably to his frescoes.[18]
In 1804 they were returned to Hampton Court, where in 1858 they were photographed for the first time by Charles Thompson Thurston, having been taken out into the courtyard and placed upside down on special scaffolding.[19] In 1865 Queen Victoria decided that the cartoons should be exhibited on loan at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England, where they are still to be seen in a specially designed gallery.[17] There are also copies at many locations, including Knole House and Hampton Court Palace, where the copies painted in the 1690s by an artist named Henry Cooke are displayed in the Cartoon Gallery. The Royal Collection also has a set of the tapestries. A set of copies painted by Sir James Thornhill have been owned by Columbia University since 1959[20], and another is in the Royal Academy[21]
Prints after the designs
In the early 16th century many Italian artists learnt the lesson of the huge, and very rapid, international prestige that Albrecht Dürer had gained through his prints, and set out to emulate him. Raphael had no knowledge of printmaking himself, and was probably too busy to want to learn the techniques, but he was the most successful of the Italians in spreading his fame through prints, through his much debated relationship with the engraver Marcantonio Raimondi and his workshop.[22] Raphael made many drawings solely as designs for prints, and the workshop made a large number of prints, apparently working always from drawings rather than the finished work, of Raphael's paintings in the Vatican and elsewhere; the tapestry designs were no exception. These prints themselves were very widely copied by other printmakers, and spread rapidly through Europe.[23]
The earliest datable print after one of the designs is an engraving of 1516 by Agostino Veneziano, then working in the workshop of Marcantonio Raimondi, of the Death of Ananias,[2] This was probably made even before that tapestry was woven. The composition is in the same direction as the tapestry, but since the printmaking process would also reverse the direction of the composition, this almost certainly means it was deliberately reversed compared to the detailed preparatory drawing in the Royal Collection on which it was based (see above; the two agree in all details), probably by taking a counterprint from the chalk drawing.[24] All Raimondi and Veneziano's prints of Raphael's designs in Raphael's lifetime were based on drawings, according to both Landau and Pons.[25] Raimondi himself engraved one of the set, which were presumably all produced around 1516, so that even many in the Roman art world may have seen prints of the designs before they saw the tapestries themselves. [26]
Agostino's engraving was rapidly copied in another well-known version, a four-colour chiaroscuro woodcut by Ugo da Carpi, dated 1518.[27] The da Carpi woodcut is often cited in studies of the complex question of early image copyright, as it bears (in its first state) a Latin inscription beneath the image claiming "copyright"-style privileges from both the Venetian Republic and the Papacy (covering the Papal States) and threatening excommunication for anyone breaching the latter.[28] Apart from other straightforward copies of the prints from the Raimondi set, Parmigianino did a typically individual print version of one design from the set in about 1530[29]
A later large set of engravings by Matthaeus Merian the Elder illustrating the Bible, from around the end of the century, used some of the compositions, slightly increasing the height, and elaborating them. These were much used and copied in popular books, further widening the knowledge of the designs to a much larger audience.
After the cartoons were reassembled at the end of the 17th century, by which time printmakers were well accustomed to copying direct from large paintings, they became the dominant source of new print copies. By the 18th century many different print versions were in circulation, of varying faithfulness and quality.
- ↑ Raphael's Tapestries and Their Cartoons,John White, John Shearman, The Art Bulletin, Vol. 40, No. 3 (Sep., 1958), pp. 193-221. Rather oddly, both Jones & Penny and Grove Art say, wrongly, that the V&A have eight of the ten cartoons.
- ↑ Quoted in Wölfflin, Heinrich; Classic Art; An Introduction to the Renaissance, p. 108, 1952 in English (1968 edition), Phaidon, New York.
- ↑ Thomas P. Campbell, Introduction in Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2002 (exhibition catalogue), quoted here
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Jones & Penny:135
- ↑ Raphael Cartoons; V&A website Accessed Nov 8, 2007
- ↑ Jones and Penny:133-135
- ↑ Right and Left in Raphael's Cartoons by A. Paul Oppe in the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 7, 1944 (1944), pp. 82-94 analyses this aspect of the cartoons and tapestries
- ↑ V&A website on the colouring. Wölfflin:108 believed they were entirely executed by Penni, one of Raphael's studio, but Jones and Penny and most writers now believe Raphael did much of the painting himself.
- ↑ Whitaker & Clayton: 82-3
- ↑ "The Art of Italy" in the Royal Collection
- ↑ The Getty: St. Paul Rending his Garments.
- ↑ A good photo of The Miraculous Draught of Fishes from a slightly later set of 1545-57 from the Metropolitan.
- ↑ Jones and Penny:142
- ↑ Victoria and Albert Museum
- ↑ Jones and Penny:135-142
- ↑ Charles' original Mortlake set belongs to the French Government In Metropolitan exhibition
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Whitaker & Clayton:12 & 16
- ↑ Seven Discourses on Art
- ↑ Susan Lambert, The Image Multiplied; Five centuries of printed reproductions of paintings and drawings, p.112, 1987, Trefoil Publications, London, ISBN 0862940966
- ↑ Thornhill Copies of Raphael's Tapestry Cartoons To Go on Display at Columbia University
- ↑ RA website
- ↑ Pon;102-3
- ↑ Pon op cit, especially Chapters 1,3 and 4. There is also extensive discussion in Landau op cit, especially pp. 120-146
- ↑ that is, rubbing a piece of paper against the print, so that a faint reversed image is transferred
- ↑ Landau:120-121
- ↑ Childs Gallery
- ↑ David Landau in: Landau & Parshall,p.150 & illus. p.145
- ↑ Landau:150 and Pon:74-5
- ↑ MFA Boston
Main references
- Roger Jones and Nicholas Penny, Raphael, Yale, 1983, ISBN 0300030614
- Lucy Whitaker and Martin Clayton, The Art of Italy in the Royal Collection; Renaissance and Baroque, Royal Collection Publications, 2007, ISBN 978 1 902163 291
- David Landau & Peter Parshall, The Renaissance Print, 1996, Yale UP, ISBN 0300068832
- Lisa Pon, Raphael, Dürer, and Marcantonio Raimondi, Copying and the Italian Renaissance Print, 2004, Yale UP, ISBN 9780300096804
Further reading
- John Shearman, Raphael's Cartoons in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen and the Tapestries for the Sistine Chapel, Oxford: Clarendon 1972
- John Pope-Hennessy, The Raphael Cartoons, London, 1950
- Sharon Fermor, The Raphael Tapestry Cartoons: Narrative, Decoration, Design, Scala Books / Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1996
External links
- Raphael Cartoons V&A Official Site
- this article, contains a good account of tapestries in general, and the Sistine set in particular
- Australian National University, sections 98-101 cover the cartoonszh:拉斐爾漫畫


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The supplied line up for this gig is Tag-Team Preacher, Miranda Versus The Crok, Ols Moore And The Gypsy Dogs, Ryan Rockit.
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Court documents: Couple used fake gun during attempted shoplifting at Arrowhead Towne Center abc15.com staff 3:43 PM, Jan 6, 2014 3:46 PM, Jan 8, 2014 region wev | glendale Share Article Michael, 35, and Shaashana Hough, 33. Courtesy of Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Copyright 2014 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Show Caption Hide Caption Previous Next GLENDALE, AZ - Newly-released court documents reveal a woman accused of shoplifting from a Valley mall last week was threatening a security officer with a fake gun when a bystander opened fire. Michael Hough and his wife Shaashana were arrested Saturday in Phoenix after they attempted to steal a DeWalt drill from the Sears store at Arrowhead Towne Center the previous day, said Sgt. Jay O'Neill. The couple was stopped by an unarmed loss prevention officer as they attempted to leave the store, said O'Neill. Shaashana, 33, then pulled out the gun from her backpack when the prevention officer tried to detain the two, said police. O'Neill said 61-year- Martin Brewer waiting in the parking lot for his wife witnessed the suspect brandishing a gun in the officer's direction, and exited his vehicle armed with his own weapon. The man then saw his wife leaving the store in the direction of the officer. Fearing for the safety of both his wife and the officer, the man fired his handgun four times toward the suspects, O'Neill said. O'Neill said no bystanders or security officers were struck in the confrontation. The suspects then fled on a motorcycle, which authorities were able to recover at a residence near the 17600 block of North 79th Avenue, said O'Neill. Authorities then used surveillance video to positively identify the suspects. According to court documents, the plastic gun was located on the roadway leaving the mall. The orange trigger had been colored black. The couple told police they were stealing the drill to sell it for money to buy food. Authorities say the couple had their initial appearances Monday in Maricopa County Superior Court. Shaashana Hough is being held on $50,000 bond on suspicion of armed robbery and aggravated assault while Michael Hough is being held on $38,000 bond on suspicion of armed robbery. Police said Brewer is facing a felony charge of unlawful discharge of a firearm charges. Share Article A Share A A A Share Article


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U.S. Deficit Cut by Almost One-Third to $492 Billion: CBO
Derek WallbankThe U.S. government's deficit will fall to $492 billion this year, according to the Congressional Budget Office, a steeper drop than originally predicted from $680 billion in fiscal year 2013.
The 2014 deficit will be 2.8 percent of the economy, according to CBO, almost 32 percent below fiscal year 2013, when it was 4.1 percent. The deficit will shrink again in fiscal 2015 to $469 billion, before rising to about $1 trillion in fiscal years 2022 to 2024, CBO said.
"This will be the fifth consecutive year in which the deficit has declined as a share of GDP since peaking at 9.8 percent in 2009," CBO said in a report released today. The 2.8 figure as a percentage of gross domestic product is lower than the 3.1 percent average of the last 40 years, CBO said.
President Barack Obama has often pointed to the declining deficit in making the case for his economic program, including greater spending on infrastructure and other items. Republicans have called for deeper cuts to balance the budget.
CBO revised its projection from $514 billion in February, "mostly because the agency now anticipates lower outlays for discretionary programs and net interest payments," the office said. The 20-page report is an update of CBO's 10-year baseline projections released in February.
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White House spokesman Jay Carney noted the report and a separate one CBO released showing that the 2010 health care law will cost $104 billion less than expected over the next decade. That law, Carney said, is "making historic progress in slowing health care cost growth and improving our nation's fiscal outlook by lowering deficits."
Deficits will rise sharply after next year, CBO said. Cuts to discretionary spending on programs such as military defense and national parks will be more than offset by a rise in health care and Social Security costs, as the baby boomer generation ages into retirement, as well as higher interest payments on the national debt.
"If current laws do not change, the period of shrinking deficits will soon come to an end," CBO said.
The looming spike will boost Republicans who have urged additional cuts. The House last week adopted a budget written by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, that aims for balance within 10 years from steep cuts while increasing military spending.
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"President Obama opposes any effort to reduce the deficit, and proposes policies that would dramatically increase the deficit, so it is bizarre to watch a White House spokesperson hail lower deficit numbers," Rory Cooper, spokesman for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, a Virginia Republican, said in an e-mail.
The Standard & Poor's 500 Index pared gains today while the Nasdaq Composite Index erased its advance after U.S. stocks had their worst weekly losses in two years.
The S&P 500 rose 0.3 percent to 1,821.51 at 3:04 p.m. in New York. The U.S. equity benchmark slid 2.6 percent last week, the biggest drop since June 2012. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 70.66 points, or 0.4 percent, to 16,118.33 today. The Nasdaq Composite was little changed around the 4,000 level.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — It's nearly impossible to overstate the role Apple Inc. plays in the U.S. stock market.
One would have to go back more than three decades to find a public company with a remotely comparable ability to jolt Wall Street, and even then the scenario doesn't come close.
"Apple AAPL, -0.19% has the most impact of any issue in history," said Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at S&P Indices. Read: Apple shares still below biggest target cuts.
"The closest is [International Business Machines Corp.] back in 1982, when PCs were just starting to become popular and everyone figured IBM would own the world," he said.
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For two years, IBM IBM, -0.34% dominated the market. But "Apple today has more of an impact quicker," Silverblatt noted.
From September 1981 through September 1983, IBM shares rose 134%, adding $44 billion to the S&P 500 SPX, +0.03% which had a $1 trillion value, on average, at the time. The index gained nearly 43% during that two-year period, with IBM accounting for nearly 11% of that gain.
From late last January to mid-March of 2012, Apple went from a $420 stock to over $600, adding $170 billion in market value. "The impact on portfolio managers was enormous, you had to be in Apple," Silverblatt recalled. The iPhone and iPad maker's meteoric rise continued, with the stock climbing another near 17% in the following six months, with Apple shares hitting a high of $702 on Sept. 19.
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"And only with high expectations for Apple could anyone complain, and people were complaining, so the impact of Apple was enormous on the marketplace. Traders were nervous as heck; everybody had an exit strategy for Apple, but you had to be in it to play," said Silverblatt, who added: "It gets money managers nervous to have so much profit in one area." Read: Apple problems may bring opportunity.
Consider the portfolio manager who has to tell a client they would have had an 11% gain in profit, but because the portfolio did not include Apple, they're down 2.6%. The information technology sector is up 11% since its bull-market high of October 2007. Without Apple, it is down 2.6%.
As the final quarter of 2012 came to a close, Apple accounted for 3.9% of the S&P 500 index, yet it is expected to contribute 5.5% of its earnings.
Apple is scheduled to announce fourth-quarter earnings on Jan. 23 after the market close, and its results will have a big impact. "They will make or break technology for the quarter. They are to technology what Exxon [Mobil Corp.] XOM, +0.48% is to energy," said Silverblatt.
One of 70 information technology companies on the S&P 500, Apple accounts for 19% of the IT sector's value. And Unlike AT&T Inc. T, +0.26% which is the largest player in the telecommunications sector but is closely followed by competitor Verizon Communications Inc. VZ, -0.28% "Apple has no number two," according to Silverblatt.
Looking at Apple's footprint in another time frame, since the market close the day of the last presidential election on Nov. 6, 2012, to Monday's finish, the S&P 500's IT sector rose 0.7%; without Apple, it is up 5%.
Or take Monday's session, the S&P 500 finished the day down 0.09%. Without Apple, it would have finished the day up 0.04%. Read: Apple erases $17 billion from stock market.


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The Moffat County Commission said it made one of its hardest decisions Tuesday: the appointment of new board members to the Moffat County Tourism Association.
"This has been one of the hardest boards to pick from," Commissioner Tom Mathers said. "We never had so much interest in it. … This has been tough."
Altogether, 12 people applied for four board seats. The applicants included all four of the incumbent board members whose terms expired.
The commission voted, 3-0, to replace three of the incumbents, two of whom had been with the organization for more than three years and one who is the current board president.
Commissioner Tom Gray said he didn't like the thought of overhauling the board, and that the commission's decision was in no way a reflection of the service that current and past board members gave to the community.
"I think we do practice rotating positions of boards," Gray said, referring to an informal policy of giving as many residents as possible a chance to volunteer. "I think we had an inordinate number of terms expiring right now."
Local residents Annie MacGregor and Kandee Dilldine replaced tenured board members Diane Brannan and Patt McCaffrey. Each will have a one-year term.
Renee Campbell replaced board president Melody Villard — who was reappointed as an alternate — while incumbent board member Frank Moe was kept on. Campbell, who is the Daily Press advertising manager, and Moe will have three-year terms.
Current board members Cindy Looper, Gina Robison and Elisa Hayes fill the remaining seats.
New terms begin Jan. 1, 2010.
Moe originally was going to be replaced on the board by Craig city councilor Terry Carwile, until Looper interjected.
First, she said MCTA policies require two of the seven board members to work in the lodging industry. If the commission took all four incumbents off the board, Looper said that would leave her as the only lodging representative.
Later, she added that she thought part of MCTA's contribution to the Moffat County Visitor Center paid for Carwile's part-time job as the sportsman's information specialist.
MCTA does contribute a large portion of the Visitor Center's total finances, including $23,367 in 2009. The Colorado Division of Wildlife also pays $15,000 a year, and the Bureau of Land Management contributes an average of $5,000 annually.
If Carwile were appointed to the MCTA board, Looper said he would have at least some control of his own paycheck.
The commission chose to reappoint Moe after Looper spoke. He also co-owns the Best Western Deep Park Inn and Suites, giving the board two lodging representatives.
However, there still is some dispute as to whether she was right about Carwile's conflict of interest.
Christina Currie, executive director for the Craig Chamber of Commerce, which runs the Visitor Center where Carwile works, said he would have no such control whether or not he served with MCTA.
Carwile's salary is not dependent on MCTA funding, and he has no say in how the Chamber or Visitor Center spend money, Currie said.
She added that there was more of a conflict of interest for the MCTA board to be made up of mostly hotel, motel and lodge owners than for Carwile to be on the board.
"I think it's probably more of a conflict for members of the lodging industry to be on a board that tries to get more people to spend money to stay at their businesses than it would be for Terry to be on that board," Currie said.
MCTA spends taxpayer dollars to generate tourism, she said. Although she doesn't think the group has mismanaged its funds, Currie said it has chosen not to fund certain projects because they didn't generate overnight stays for local lodgers, and past board members also have requested funding for their own planned events while they were on the board.
Bridge closed for repairs
The commission voted, 3-0, to temporarily close the Browns Park swinging bridge for repairs up until May 31, 2010.
Moffat County road and bridge officials said the two main suspension cables that hold the bridge up have broken wires, and there is a fear that continued wear could cause the bridge to collapse.
Bill Mack, road and bridge director, said each cable contains 66 individual metal wires. About nine of the wires are visibly broken, though he cautioned it's impossible to tell how many wires inside the cable strands also have snapped.
It would only take 18 broken wires to void the bridge's 3-ton load designation, added Jeff Comstock, county natural resources department director.
Other officials added that state engineers consider one of the cables "pretty brittle," and their recommendation is to close it before it collapses.
The commission did not decide how to proceed with repairs, but it discussed various solutions such as bolstering the existing cables or replacing them with new ones.
Estimates brought up during the meeting ranged from $100,000 to $750,000.
The bridge will not be closed to everyone, however.
County resident T. Wright Dickinson, who attended the meeting, as well as any other landowners or government agencies who need access to the bridge for business reasons can cross with the condition each sign a liability waiver.


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American Progressive Tax System explained with Beer!
I think I've posted this before. It is a simple analogy towards why an overly-progressive tax system does not work. It describes what happens when you go too far to the right on the x-axis of the Laffer curve.
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten
comes to $100.
If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like
* The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
* The fifth would pay $1.
* The sixth would pay $3.
* The seventh would pay $7.
* The eighth would pay $12.
* The ninth would pay $18.
* The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.
So, thats what they decided to do.
The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the
arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve.
Since you are all such good customers, he said, Im going to reduce the
cost of your daily beer by $20.
Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.
The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the
first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what
about the other six men - the paying customers? How could they divide the
$20 windfall so that everyone would get his fair share?
They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that
from everybodys share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end
up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would
be fair to reduce each mans bill by roughly the same amount, and he
proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.
And so:
* The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
* The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).
* The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).
* The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 ( 25% savings).
* The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 ( 22% savings).
* The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).
Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to
drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare
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I only got a dollar out of the $20,declared the sixth man. He pointed to
the tenth man,but he got $10!
Yeah, thats right, exclaimed the fifth man. I only Saved a dollar, too.
Its unfair that he got ten times more than I!
Thats true!! shouted the seventh man. Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!
Wait a minute, yelled the first four men in unison. We didnt get
anything at all. The system exploits the poor!
The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.
The next night the tenth man didnt show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didnt have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!
And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.
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Three classes of stellar engines are defined in reference 1 below. A class A stellar engine uses the impulse of the radiation emitted by a star to produce thrust and is also called a Shkadov thruster. A class B stellar engine uses the energy of the radiation emitted by the star to generate mechanical power. It is a particular type of Dyson sphere. Stellar radiation of temperature T makes the inner surface of star's enclosing shell (thickness h, distance Rp from the star) to have a temperature Tp higher than the temperature Tr of the outer shell surface. The temperature difference Rp - Rr is used to drive thermal engines producing work. A class C stellar engine is a combination of class A and class B stellar engines as part of the shell's inner surface is covered by a mirror (see figure). Thus, a class C stellar engine could provide at the same time available work and a thrust. There is a minimum radius for a class C stellar engine to provide useful power. An optimum class C stellar engine radius Rp allowing maximum power delivery is identified in reference 2 below. In the case of our own solar system, this optimum radius is around 450 million km. A and C stellar engines make the star's temperature increase significantly, which affects the thrust acting on the star. References
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'Top Chef's double elimination Wednesday night sent Dale Levitski and Stephen Asprinio packing. On a call Thursday, the Chicago-based Dale shared his thoughts on departing, what went wrong with his french toast and veal, and whether he'd ever make a return appearance to the show.
Is there anything you learned from the first time around that you tried to bring with you this season?
I tried to keep it a blank slate. You can never figure out the challenges. You just have to keep your head in the game – it's the only thing you really can do. If you try to over-analyze, then your head's out of the game. But it's not like that hasn't worked for other people.
Like who? Everyone who's still in the game?
[Laughs.] Yeah. I guess I'm just not one of the people that is going to be writing down recipes in my notebook for hours obsessing about it. I always cook from the top of my head. It didn't work out for the best this time.
Do you think not planning was part of your demise? What do you think went wrong?
I think I was mostly confused about cooking in someone elses style, or in the style of someone I've never worked for. You can't get in their head. I think my dish had the whimsy factor but the judges thought it was too sweet.
Do you agree with them?
I would never serve that dish in my restaurant. It was not my shining moment, but given the factors of the challenge and the way the episode panned out, it really looked like it was a complete toss up.
Do you think anyone else should have gone instead?
I'm really not the kind of person who's bitter. If it was my time it was my time.
Do you think the team challenges are inherently more difficult?
The Quickfire was some of the most fun I've had on the show, period. It was amazing. In the team challenges it's rare that you get a full team that's 100% solid.
And the teams are haphazardly chosen.
Right. I would be on a team with Casey and Antonia any day.
When you're preparing such large quantities of food and you only wind up making one or two dishes, what happens to the remains?
I think that's a mystery for us all. We don't know! We'll cook it for the crew. I did hear in some challenges that the food has been donated to local charities. If it's true then that would be awesome. If it's not, then they should be horrified.
Was it weird for you being back in the house or did it feel like second nature?
I think a little bit of both. It's really funny because you can really see the different seasons sticking together in the beginning, even though we're competitors, it's like, 'You're my green blankie, my safety net.' By no means was anyone intimidating. The only competitor in 'Top Chef' is yourself.
"Don't pull a Jen" was said before Judges' Table last night. Was everyone shocked by her outspokenness last week?
Well I was at Judges' Table with Jen. It was definitely shocking. But having no point of reference to compare it to, I was like, 'Were you like this in your season all the time? Whoa!' Jen has a passion and a commitment to the integrity of what she does and I think going on 'Top Chef' is kind of like a cooking intervention. The challenges are so hard and the parameters are so frustrating that it's kind of like being stripped down. It's like, How good are you at your worst?
Who would you like to see win?
That's interesting. The people that I know the best that I think could benefit the most out of life for the win…well, Tre Wilcox I just adore. He's become a really great friend. Obviously Casey. Antonia and Carla are both lovely people. And I'm really proud of Dale Talde. Sitting in the van, Dale and I totally bonded. He used to live in Chicago and we realized that we had like 10 different chef friends in common. Anyone deserves to win, but my heart's rooting for them.
Would you ever go back on "Top Chef" if you were asked?
Absolutely. Even though it's in front of millions of people, it is a game. Why not? I was a college athlete and I'm a competitor. If competing in 'Top Chef' was a career, sign me up!


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[JURIST] US District Judge William Hoeveler temporarily blocked the French extradition of former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] Wednesday to give Noriega's lawyers time to argue that his rights will not be fully protected in France. Defense lawyers will have until 9 AM local time Thursday [read more]
[JURIST] An Australian government solicitor Wednesday filed an appeal [case summary] contesting last month's Federal Court of Australia decision [text; JURIST report] to reinstate the work visa of Dr. Mohammad Haneef [JURIST news archive], who was detained by Australian authorities in July in connection with July's attempted UK car bomb [read more]
[JURIST] An anchoring and fastening product manufacturer pleaded not guilty [AG press release] Wednesday to criminal charges stemming from the July 10, 2006 ceiling panel collapse in Boston's $15 billion Big Dig [official website] tunnel project that killed one person. Power Fasteners [corporate website] was indicted [press release; JURIST report] [read more]
[JURIST] Israel's justice minister has dropped language from a proposed amendment to the nation's inheritance law that would define common law marriage to be between a man and a woman, according to a statement made to the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) [advocacy website] Tuesday. Daniel Friedmann [official [read more]
[JURIST] Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel [official website] Wednesday issued an advisory opinion [PDF text] rejecting certification of a voter-backed ballot proposition that would ban adoptions by unmarried couples. The measure, submitted by the Family Council of Arkansas [advocacy website], would prevent unmarried couples, regardless of their sexual orientation, from [read more]
[JURIST] The Canadian Army [official website] Tuesday announced that independent investigators have found no evidence [press release] to support allegations [JURIST report] that the army "may have aided or abetted the torture of detainees" by transferring them from Canadian to Afghan custody. Amnesty International Canada [advocacy website] and the British [read more]
[JURIST] The Supreme Court of Pakistan [official website] Wednesday heard the first set of arguments in a legal challenge to the rule of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf [BBC profile]. The lawsuit challenges the fact that Musharraf is both the country's president and army chief, and alleges that any bid for [read more]
[JURIST] On a visit to Sydney, Australia to attend the 2007 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit [official website], US President George W. Bush said Wednesday that it was "inexcusable" for the recently-concluded constitutional convention in Myanmar to have excluded opposition party National League for Democracy [Wikipedia backgrounder]. US State Department [read more]
[JURIST] A Bulgarian special panel investigating the country's communist-era police records said Tuesday that current Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov [official profile] and 19 other lawmakers collaborated with the country's communist-era secret service [Wikipedia backgrounder]. The panel, created under legislation declassifying communist-era files [JURIST report], has published a list of 138 [read more]
[JURIST] The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund [advocacy website] and other civil rights groups filed a lawsuit in federal court [complaint, PDF; ACLU press release] Tuesday against the state of Arizona claiming that the Legal Arizona Workers Act [AZ HB 2779 materials] is unconstitutional and could lead to [read more]
[JURIST] UK Lord Justice Stephen Sedley said Wednesday that all UK citizens and visitors should have their DNA included in the national DNA database [UK Home Office backgrounder; POST backgrounder, PDF] because the current repository is insufficient. Sedley said that the UK DNA database, the world's largest at 4 million [read more]
[JURIST] Iranian-American journalist Parnaz Azima has been granted permission to leave Iran [RFE/RL report] after months of being held in the country due to security-related charges against her, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) [media website] said Tuesday. Azima, employed by a Persian service of RFE/RL, originally traveled to Iran in [read more]
[JURIST] EU Justice, Freedom, and Security Commissioner Franco Frattini [official profile] said Wednesday that the European Union will move forward with plans to establish an EU-wide airline passenger data recording system despite privacy concerns because the threat posed by terror attacks remains high. Frattini's comments came on the same day [read more]


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Roberto Cavalli: Traveling Man
With his newly recharged Just Cavalli collection, the fashion icon proves that there's nothing like a change in scenery to shake up your look and outlook on life.
Always tanned, rarely seen without sunglasses or heard without a smoker's rasp, Roberto Cavalli doesn't seem like someone burdened with existential concerns. Over the past 40 years, he's built an unparalleled, sex-infused universe of whipstitched leather pants and plunging necklines more suited to an after-party than an ashram. But sitting in his Parisian flagship, the 70-year-old designer is contemplative about his life as a fashion rock star. "I don't think it's enough," he says, before erupting into a belly laugh. "I'm sorry. Maybe I think too much."
Lately, the Florentine has been searching for meaning — and inspiration — in some of the earth's least glamorous places. Between collections, he spent a month aboard an icebreaker in Antarctica, slept in a clay hut in Papua New Guinea, and hobnobbed with goatherds in a remote region of Colombia. Movies and television don't interest him at the moment. "I learn much more by traveling by myself," he says.
Cavalli's personal quest is evident in his latest resort collection for Just Cavalli, his line for younger women who have actual jobs. More hands-on than ever in the design process, Cavalli referenced a photograph he took of sand dunes to create wave-printed stretch-cotton jeans. Camel and white strips on an ethereal caftan suggest clouds on a desert horizon.
There are signature Cavalli pieces, too: Cotton skirts in leopard and mixed jungle prints are matched with prim cotton-poplin blouses in white, black, and baby pink. But he styles most of the shirts buttoned up to the neck, acknowledging that even the Just Cavalli girl can't always flaunt her cleavage at the office. It's a new blend for the brand — a soul-searching sex appeal — that reflects the creator's current lifestyle.
That's not to say that Cavalli is giving up on VIP lounges or nightclubs anytime soon. He's still energized by youth culture. But after the fall fashion shows, he's planning a trip to Bhutan and Tibet. "Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist," he says, laughing. We'll take the philosophy, as long as he keeps creating the clothes.


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We moved into The Haddington, formally The Kingston Hotel, in 2011 on a long-term contract to provide amazing hospitality, private dining, food, music, art and all things Oliveto for hotel and non-hotel guests alike. In August 2015 we extended this contract to include the rooms and will go forward to provide a seamless experience across the entire hotel.
Oliveto continues to mix classic authentic Italian dishes with a growing passion for chargrilled meats & fish. From our cured salumi & grilled veg starter board to homemade pasta, fresh fish, grilled meats and dare we say, the best pizzas outside of Italy, there's lots of great dishes on our menus.
Your dad's 70th, best friend's birthday, family christening, we love all types of parties at Oliveto. In the Winter, our library bar is a cosy oasis with a roaring fire and sea views. When the sun is out, we love nothing better than to host a BBQ in the garden, and finish the night off with a live band in the back ballroom.
We have two artists exhibiting at the moment. Brigitte Mc Govern has a number of paintings on display in our Library Bar, and Padraig McCaul exhibition can be viewed in the hotel lobby. Come on in for a glass of wine and a peek, all works are available to view and buy!!
Getting hitched? What a great time in your life and we'd love to be a part of it. From intimate wedding dinners in our library bar to full-on marquee bashes in our garden with dancing till late in our Oak Room Bar, we'll always go the extra mile to ensure your wedding is a blast.
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Making its debut in the tasting room of the Catskill Distilling Co. Saturday will be Rico Suave's Chimps in Tuxedos. The boys have been playing like mad over the past few years, and in everywhere from Hudson to Poughkeepsie to Beacon. Playing a wide variety of classic songs, Chimps can do heavy guitar rock, cool doo-wop and everything in between. The show starts at 8 p.m.
What: Chimps in Tuxedos
When: 8 p.m. May 11
Where: Catskill Distilling Co., 2037 Route 17B, Bethel
Price: Free
Information: dancingcatsaloon.com
The chimps are on the loose; find them in Bethel
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CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — Investigators say the cause of a huge wildfire burning through Southern California's coastal mountains appears to be accidental.
Fire spokesman Tom Piranio says Saturday that the 44-square-mile fire at the western end of the Santa Monica Mountains was started by an undetermined ignition of grass and debris on the side of U.S. 101. He says it's possible a piece of metal fell into the tinder-dry bush early Thursday, sparking an uphill fire that was quickly stoked by hot, windy weather.
The fire threatened thousands of homes as it marched to the coast, but only caused damage to just 15 homes.
Cool, moist air that returned to the region late Friday helped firefighters gain control of the blaze. It is 75 percent contained.
Cause of California wildfire appears accidental
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Robert Gist was a tough kid who grew up around the Chicago stockyards during the Depression. Reform school-bound after injuring another boy in a fistfight, Gist instead ended up in Chicago's Hull House, a settlement house where he first became interested in acting. Work in Chicago radio was followed by stage acting roles in Chicago and on Broadway...
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February 10th 2009 <3
Rest In Peace Fardin
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This has to be the prettiest Hungary I have ever seen!
it is so amazing cosplay
Magnificent ><
wow beautiful ~~~
This is amazing! Lovely shot ^^
Wow, Amazing poto!
stunning, wonderful pic. if it is possible to like your facebook? Thank you very much.
Denika Kiomi replied on 03-13-2012 at 05:49 AM: Thank you ^^ |
really great!!
The absolute beauty makes my heart stop. <3
Amazing! Both you and the horse~
WOW!!! So Great Photo!
Very Beautiful
you look alot like sarah michelle gellar in this pic, she is my favorite actress!
Denika Kiomi replied on 02-29-2012 at 06:14 AM: Oh ^^" |
Really beautifull!
Amazing photo!
So beautiful! Looks like a piece of art
Really beautifull shoot!!
Wow! So perfect> <
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The video for Santigold's killer new single, "Disparate Youth," is an example of when an artist decides to toss aside the vibes running through the song to go in a completely different direction. Everything about the track screamed revolution, which led me to think that we'd been seeing some war/uprising-themed visuals. But instead, Santi's kept it trippy and left-field by releasing this psychedelic/tropical video. That's not to say it doesn't work, because it most certainly does. I'm just not really sure what's going on here aside from the ritual stuff. Maybe you can figure it out when you watch the video below. Santi directed it herself with some help from Sam Fleischner. [P4K]
Kid Cudi, WZRD - Kid Cudi & Dot Da Genius' WZRD Album To Sell 70K Copies In First Week | Cee-Lo Green, Whitney Houston Listen: Cee-Lo Green's Demo For Whitney Houston "All Alone Now" |


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ATI RadeonHD Driver: First Release
Submitted by Ty on November 30, 2007 - 3:00pmThe X Window System developer team at SUSE has released version 1.0.0 of the ATI Radeon R5xx and R6xx chipset driver it has been developing over the past few months for Novell's technology partner AMD.
Novell Ships SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 10
Submitted by Ty on November 27, 2007 - 9:00amNovell today announced the availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 10, the latest version of Novell's enterprise-class, open source real-time operating system for running high-performance, time-sensitive, mission-critical applications. With SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 10, financial organizations can respond more rapidly to changing markets and new information, get greater application reliability and predictability, and identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks. This will allow them to increase revenue opportunities and improve service to their customers, even while reducing computing infrastructure costs.
Fresh, cool and clean … sounds like Linux
Submitted by Ty on November 19, 2007 - 10:00amThe 8,000 employees of Watts Water Technologies make innovative products to control the efficiency, safety and quality of water within residential, commercial and institutional applications. To support its new ERP software, Watts Water Technologies chose SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop for use in a thin-client deployment. The company also runs SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on IBM, HP and Dell hardware for its back-end applications, print servers, DNS servers and Legato network backup environment.
Mexico's Largest Mortgage Lender Chooses SUSE
Submitted by Ty on October 2, 2007 - 1:00pmThe Instituto del Fondo Nacional de la Vivienda (INFONAVIT), Mexico's largest mortgage lender, has tapped SUSE Linux Enterprise from Novell as its platform for customer transactions. Providing services to more than 12 million people and 830,000 employers, INFONAVIT has deployed SUSE Linux Enterprise as the basis for its new payment collection system. With SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, INFONAVIT has a stable, flexible platform that enables it to provide a high-quality, easy to use service, while streamlining costs and administrative processes.
Discontinuation of SUSE Linux 10.0
Submitted by Ty on September 20, 2007 - 9:00am"SUSE Security announces that SUSE Linux 10.0 will be discontinued soon. Having provided security-relevant fixes for more than two years, vulnerabilities found in SUSE Linux 10.0 after November 15th 2007 will not be fixed any more for this product. Expect the last updates around November 30th 2007."
Lenovo and Novell To Offer SUSE Preload on ThinkPad Notebooks
Submitted by Ty on August 7, 2007 - 11:00amLenovo and Novell announced an agreement to provide preloaded Linux on Lenovo ThinkPad notebook PCs and to provide support from Lenovo for the operating system. The companies will offer SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 from Novell to commercial customers on Lenovo notebooks including those in the popular ThinkPad T Series, a class of notebooks aimed at typical business users, beginning in the fourth quarter of 2007.
Novell unleashes hundreds of developers for SUSE Hack Week
Submitted by Ty on June 25, 2007 - 12:00pmNovell is setting its entire Linux engineering team loose to hack on whatever Linux or open source projects interest them for the week of June 25 - 29.
SUSE Linux 9.3 security support is now discontinued
Submitted by Ty on June 18, 2007 - 10:00amWith todays release of the CUPS bugfix/security fix update this will mark the last security update for SUSE Linux 9.3. It is now officially discontinued and out of support.


text: Penn State Admits Official Fired Earlier This Week Was Fired For His Role In Sandusky InvestigationSean Newell4/21/12 4:49pmFiled to: Penn state scandalJerry sandusky sex scandalTim curleyMark sherburneDavid joynerRodney ericksonNews2EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink In an admission that shocks absolutely no one, unnamed sources within the Penn State athletic department have confirmed that associate athletic director Mark Sherburne was fired this week for his role in the investigation of child sex abuse claims against former coach Jerry Sandusky and the administration's failure to properly act on same. Specifically, sources indicate Sherburne was fired for his failure to timely comply with the state Attorney General's subpoena for documents related to the investigation.AdvertisementOne person said Sherburne was dismissed for failing to produce in a timely fashion documents under subpoena by the state Attorney General's office related to its investigation into Sherburne's boss, athletic director Tim Curley. Curley is on administrative leave after being charged with lying to a grand jury and failing to report an abuse allegation against retired assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.The documents were eventually produced voluntarily and without further court intervention, however information is scarce and it is unclear if Sherburne produced the documents or someone else in the department eventually complied with subpoena.AdvertisementJust about every high ranking official and his or her cousin declined to comment on the story—deferring to some other department —making this just another Penn State story. AP sources: PSU official firing connected to probe [AP]Reply2 repliesLeave a reply


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Chainsaw (punk zine)
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Chainsaw, a punk zine edited by "Charlie Chainsaw" was published in suburban Croydon in 1977 and ran to fourteen issues before ceasing publication in 1984. A hand-lettered 'n' became a stylised trademark in articles after the 'n' key broke on the editor's typewriter. In addition to a free flexi disc promoting two or three up-and-coming punk bands, 1980s issues featured cartoon strips and two innovative colour covers by Michael J. Weller. 1970s issues featured the cartoon strip 'Hitler's Kids', authored by Andrew Marr using punk nom-de-plume "Willie D" at the beginning of his successful journalistic career. [1] Charlie Chainsaw formed the band Rancid Hell Spawn when the punk zine discontinued.
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FedEx Sees Shipment Peak on Cyber Monday as E-Commerce Grows
Caroline Chen and Danielle KuceraFedEx Corp. projects its busiest shipping day this holiday season will be Cyber Monday, Dec. 2, with online retailers driving an 11 percent increase from 2012 to produce the company's highest volume in history.
FedEx, operator of the biggest cargo airline, forecasts more than 22 million shipments will move through its global network on Cyber Monday, according to a statement today. The Dec. 2 date is the earliest peak day since at least 2007, the company said. For the past six years, the busiest day has fallen in the middle of December.
"What we're clearly seeing is the effect of e-commerce," Raj Subramaniam, executive vice president of marketing and communications, said in a telephone interview. Cyber Monday was the second-busiest day last year, Subramaniam said.
For the past two years, Cyber Monday has generated the most sales of any day in the week after Thanksgiving, according to ComScore Inc. The day's volume totaled $1.5 billion last year, a 15 percent increase from 2011.
More consumers have turned to online venues for holiday shopping, boosting an e-commerce growth rate that's outstripping brick-and-mortar retail. In the second quarter of 2013, e-commerce spending increased 18.4 percent from a year earlier, while total retail sales rose just 4.7 percent in that period, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Shopping Earlier
FedEx's predicted peak volume includes pickups on Cyber Monday as well as orders that are entered over the Thanksgiving holiday and are processed that day, Carla Boyd, spokeswoman for the Memphis, Tennessee-based company, said in an e-mail.
Besides the growth in e-commerce, FedEx's peak shipment date also reflects an earlier start to the holiday shopping season, said Simeon Siegel, a New York-based analyst at Nomura Securities. Over the last few years, competition has driven some stores to open their doors on Thanksgiving, not waiting for Black Friday, Siegel said in a telephone interview.
"People are shopping earlier because they're seeing deals earlier, because retailers are promoting earlier," Siegel said.
FedEx estimates more than 85 million shipments for the entire week, Dec. 1-7. That would be a 13 percent increase from last year's busiest week, according to the statement.
More Seasonal Workers
The company plans to hire more seasonal workers than last year, when it added 20,000, to handle the additional volume, spokeswoman Parul Bajaj said in an e-mail on Oct. 10. The National Retail Federation forecasts holiday sales will increase 3.9 percent this year to $602.1 billion, even with economic uncertainty and customers taking a "conservative approach" to spending.
FedEx beat profit estimates in its most recent quarter after moving lower-priority packages to cheaper transportation methods, such as ocean shipping.
United Parcel Service Inc., the world's largest package-delivery firm, hasn't issued a holiday forecast yet.


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Handmade Holidays...
We want to give our teachers a small little gift every day for Teacher Appreciation Week. So I'm looking for some fun, creative, but inexpensive ideas. Anyone have any ideas?
How about if you have someone talk a picture of the class and then make it in to a puzzle and give her one piece a day, then on Friday you can have a little party with cake and juice for her.
Maybe Take is spell teacher with your gifts like this
T - a tablet or tablets to kept her notes on for class
A- an Apple Candle
E- easers for the kids
C- chocolate
T - The gift of time with a gift to a spa for a few treatments
E- eggs a gift ceft for a place in town that makes the best breakfast
R- read a good book to read to the class
You ladies can up with different gift spelling out the word, Also what does she do in her spare time anyone know maybe something for that.
This might be beyond your budget, but I'm going to suggest it anyway just in case. I make gift baskets for a living. Here is what my Teacher Basket looks like:
If you're interested, check out my website for prices and how to order. http://www.oneofakindbaskets.com/


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By Jeff Knox
Manassas, VA –-(Ammoland.com)- With the NRA's call for an armed police officer in every school, a debate has erupted over cost of such a strategy, but there is a much more efficient and inexpensive path to secure schools.
For some reason the teachers' unions, politicians, and school administrators think that teachers are somehow less responsible, less capable, and less trainable than those who choose a career in law enforcement, and that having anyone with access to a gun in school besides a uniformed police officer would interfere with children's ability to learn.
Setting aside those confused perceptions for a moment, what about those of us who are not teachers or school administrators? What about parents, grandparents, and other concerned citizens?
As the loving grandparent of a wonderful 6-year old, a veteran, shooter, and all-around good guy, my answer to school security is the same as Isaiah's answer to God thousands of years ago; "Here am I; send me!"
I am competent with firearms. I work well under pressure. I have a proven track record as a responsible and law-abiding citizen, and I have a deep concern for the safety and security of my grandson and the other children who attend his school. I also know that there are literally millions of intelligent, responsible parents, grandparents, and concerned citizens just like me who would gladly step up to serve as protectors of their own local schools. All of us are ready, willing, and able to fill the security void exposed by the demented coward in Connecticut. We are here. We are available. We are ten million strong voices, all saying "Here am I; send me!"
Perhaps this is part of the broader idea that NRA was suggesting during their press conference. I don't know their full plans. NRA's Wayne LaPierre mentioned retired police and firefighters as potentially part of their proposed school security plan, and that's a good start, but there is no rational reason to limit service only to these groups. There are plenty of other people who have what it takes to learn and implement security practices.
Some media have suggested that LaPierre called for the arming of teachers. That is a complete distortion. LaPierre's call was specifically for armed police officers and then he mentioned the idea of drawing upon the experience and trust found in retired police and firefighters. Never did he suggest that teachers or other school staff be included in the NRA's proposed security force.
I was personally disappointed that such an idea was not included, but I am less politically correct than Wayne and more confrontational in my opinions. The media's distorted reporting of the NRA proposal demonstrates the wisdom of being excessively conservative in their initial announcement. Now, according to their plan, former congressman Asa Hutchinson will lead a team of experts in developing school security plans based on facts and logic, not emotion and irrational fear. I hope that Mr Hutchinson's panel of experts will recognize the vast pool of qualified, caring individuals who would gladly put their lives on the line for the sake of innocent children.
I read recently that each full-time School Resource Officer in the state of Arizona costs their school over $95,000 a year – plus benefits. On the one hand we say, that's a small price to pay for our children's safety, but on the other hand, I ask, why would we pay so much when highly qualified and effective guards can be had for little or no cost at all.
As primarily a writer and researcher, my personal schedule and circumstance would allow me to provide my grandson's school with full-time service in exchange for nothing more than a comfortable chair in a quiet corner with an internet connection. The majority of the day I would simply do my work as normal, but would do so while maintaining a view of the school's entrance and with the means to stop an attacker close at hand. I know a number of other retired and self-employed individuals who could, and would do likewise. Others would require some small stipend or health insurance benefits to be able to provide full-time service, and still others could only serve part-time.
Another huge pool of qualified individuals ready and willing to take on this responsibility are, as mentioned earlier, the people who are already working at the schools and dealing with the children every day. There are teachers, school administrators, and other school personnel who would gladly join us in our mission to ensure the safety of our children. These are among the most highly educated, widely respected, and most reliable citizens in the country. The suggestion that they are somehow less capable or less responsible than the average police officer is idiotic.
These are the people we trust with our children already, why would we doubt their ability to act responsibly with a firearm or in a crisis?
All of us, teachers, parents, grandparents, and other concerned citizens would be willing to submit to background checks, psychological evaluations, and undergo special training. Most of us could even provide our own weapons and ammunition. We don't need extravagant salaries or fancy uniforms, we just need a commitment from politicians and school administrators to support our efforts and provide us with the most basic resources to accomplish our mission.
The idea that police officers are the only ones capable of safely handling firearms or dealing with difficult or delicate situations is ridiculous. The fear that one of us would misplace a firearm, mistakenly shoot the wrong person, or go crazy and go on a rampage of our own, while not completely impossible, is so unlikely as to be ludicrous.
Our children are vulnerable. No gun bans or restrictions are going to stop lunatics who choose to target them. Whether they use guns, knives, automobiles, or samurai swords, the only way to stop them is to be able to physically incapacitate them instantaneously. Only a gun can reliably do that. Whether in the hand of a police officer, a school employee, or a community volunteer, only armed resistance can effectively stop an armed attack.
So in the wake of the terrible atrocity in Newtown, as the nation cries out for reassurance that their children are as safe as they can be, I ask responsible parents, grandparents, and school personnel to join me in answering the call and saying "Here am I; send me."
The Firearms Coalition is a loose-knit coalition of individual Second Amendment activists, clubs and civil rights organizations. Founded by Neal Knox in 1984, the organization provides support to grassroots activists in the form of education, analysis of current issues, and with a historical perspective of the gun rights movement. The Firearms Coalition is a project of Neal Knox Associates, Manassas, VA. Visit: www.FirearmsCoalition.org