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Federico Zuccaro (Italian, Sant'Angelo in Vado ca. 1540 - 1609 Ancona)
The Lord Creating the Sun and the Moon, ca. 1566-69
Pen and ink over chalk with wash and heightening
12 5/8 x 10 5/16 in. (32 x 26.2 cm)
Gift of Robert Lehman, 1947
This highly finished drawing is a preparatory sketch for the central scene in the vault in the chapel of the Farnese dynastic retreatat Caprarola, outside Rome. Although Zuccaro's final fresco faithfully follows the basic composition laid out in the drawing, a comparison between the sketch and fresco reveals significant changes in the artist's conception of the work.
Federico Zuccaro was engaged on the decorative campaign of the Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola after the death of his brother Taddeo in 1566.1 (At this time the palace was the dynastic retreat of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese [1545-1592].) Federico created the vault design for the small circular chapel about 1566-69. Located between the Loggia of Hercules and the Room of Farnese Deeds in the southeast corner of the pentagonal palace, the circular chapel was designed by Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola (1507-1573) in 1550. Its decorative scheme features depictions of Old and New Testament subjects. Zuccaro's fresco of The Lord Creating the Sun and the Moon is the central scene in the dome, with six other biblical narratives in circular frames below, including The Flood, The Sacrifice of Isaac, and The Creation of Eve. The walls of the chapel feature images of the apostles in illusionistic frames paired with grisailles depicting their martyrdoms, as well as other biblical histories also designed by Zuccaro.2
For his design for the central scene in the vault, Zuccaro drew upon Michelangelo's composition of God Creating the Sun and the Moon on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. He did, however, make three substantive changes from the famous model.
First, he reversed Michelangelo's figures so that God's gesture of creation could be read from left to right in a conventional, narrative fashion, rather than in the direction dictated by the program of the Sistine ceiling.
Second, to achieve the illusion of a quadro riportato (framed picture), he added grazing animals and a landscape to the bottom of the scene and removed the appearance of foreshortening in the figure of the Lord. The resulting composition harmonizes with other decorations in the Farnese palace, which feature a dazzling array of narrative, historical cycles.3
Finally, perhaps to subtly convey the impression of a vault open to the sky or the opening of a cupola, Zuccaro chose a round format for his scene, rather than Michelangelo's rectangular design. This decision was evidently made late in the creative process, for chalk lines around the edges of the drawing indicate a rectangular frame. Snakes, fish, shells, and other elements of marine life, originally inked in at the lower border, are truncated by the circular border of the final design, and the sun, once depicted with a complete smiling face, is cut off (see Technical Data).Related to the Oberlin drawing is a schematic design for the entire ceiling of the chapel of the Palazzo Farnese executed by Giovanni Antinoro (active ca. 1566), an artist in the Zuccaro circle also active on the commission.4The Oberlin drawing was formerly attributed to Titian, when it was owned by the Earls of Pembroke at Wilton House.5 Collobi (1938) first identified it as Zuccaro's drawing for the fresco at Caprarola.6
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Federico Zuccaro joined his elder brother and fellow artist Taddeo (1529-1566) in Rome between 1555 and 1563, and worked with him on decorative projects that included the Casino of Pius IV in the Vatican gardens and the Palazzo Farnese at Caprarola. Despite many trips to other cities and countries during the course of his career, he always returned to Rome and its environs to work on major commissions. In 1564, Federico accepted independent commissions in Venice and Florence, where he worked for the Medici family and became a member of the new Accademia del Disegno. He returned to Rome in 1565 to work with Taddeo on a number of commissions until the latter's death a year later. In 1574 Federico traveled to England, where he painted numerous portraits of aristocracy and royalty, as well as to The Netherlands, Spain, and France. In Spain from 1585 to 1588, he participated in the decorative campaign at the Escorial, the royal residence of Philip II.
Zuccaro, whose work has been associated with Counter-Reformation iconography and style, was also deeply occupied with art theory. In 1581 he was elected head of the Accademia di San Luca (the Roman academy of artists), where he lectured. He elaborated on theoretical artistic principles in the design and decoration of his own house in Rome, the Palazzo Zuccaro. His writings on art include L'Idea de' pittori, scultori ed architetti (Turin, 1607), derived from his lectures at the Roman academy.
General References
Zuccaro, Federico. L'Idea de' pittori, scultori ed architetti. Turin, 1607.
Baglione, Giovanni. Le Vite de' pittori scultori et architetti... . Rome, 1642 (facsimile ed., 1935), pp. 121-25.
Herrmann-Fiore, Kristina. "Die Fresken Federico Zuccaris in seinem römischen Künstlerhause." Römisches Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte 18 (1979), pp. 36-112.
Cheney, Liana. In The Dictionary of Art. Edited by Jane Turner. Vol. 33. London and New York, 1996, pp. 716-21.
Sale London (Sotheby's), 5 July 1917, lot 460
Collection Robert Lehman, New York, by whom given in 1947
Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, 1961. The Renaissance Image of Man and the World. 27 October - 27 November. Cat. no. 84.
Regina, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, 1970. Italian Drawings from North American Collections. 5 March - 3 April (also shown at Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts). Cat. no. 12.
The Saint Louis Art Museum, 1972. Italian Drawings Selected from Mid-Western Collections. 25 February - 16 April. Unnumbered cat.
Milwaukee Art Museum, 1989-90. Renaissance into Baroque: Italian Master Drawings by the Zuccari, 1550-1600. 17 November - 14 January (also shown at New York, National Academy of Design). Cat. no. 41.
Strong, S. Arthur. Reproductions in Facsimile of the Old Masters in the Collection of the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery at Wilton House. Vol. 1. London, 1900, no. 9 (as by Titian).
Collobi, Licia. "Taddeo e Federico Zuccari nel Palazzo Farnese a Caprarola." Critica d'arte (1938), pp. 3, 70ff., and pl. 46, fig. 2.
Stechow, Wolfgang. Catalogue of Drawings and Watercolors in the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College. Oberlin, 1976, p. 77, fig. 107.
Gere, John A., and Philip Pouncey. Italian Drawings in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: Artists Working in Rome c. 1550 to c. 1640. London, 1983, p. 185, n. 2.
Mundy, E. James. In Renaissance into Baroque: Italian Master Drawings by the Zuccari, 1550-1600. Exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Museum, 1989, pp. 146-47, cat. no. 41, ill. p. 36.
Technical Data
This drawing was executed in pen and brown ink over black charcoal or chalk, washed in borwn and grey, and heightened with white. Much of the white heightening was washed off as a result of water damage incurred sometime between 1938, when the drawing was published in its original condition,7 and1947, when it was given to Oberlin (see Provenance). The sheet was formerly laid down on two separate backing sheets; these were removed in 1969 and the drawing was mounted on Oriental tissue. Four curving cuts in the sheet reveal abandoned attempts to cut the support into a circular shape. There are also several small tears along the right and left edges of the sheet.
Watermarks of the old backing papers are 1) watermark with Crown and Star, a variant of Briquet 4832-36 and 4854; and 2) Lily, a variant of Briquet 7099 and 7100, a paper from Caprarola.8
1. On the palace, see Italo Faldi, Il Palazzo Farnese di Caprarola (Torino, 1981).
2. For illustrations of the frescoes in the chapel, see Italo Faldi, Il Palazzo Farnese di Caprarola (Torino, 1981), p. 178, ill. pp. 184-85.
3. Zuccaro thus lost Michelangelo's evocative duality, which suggests both a framed historical narrative as well as a heavenly glimpse of God in the act of creation. On Michelangelo's systems of illusion, see Johannes Wilde, "The Decoration of the Sistine Chapel," Proceedings of the British Academy 14 (1958), pp. 61-81.
4.Art market, formerly Rosenbach and British Rail Pension Fund collections; see E. James Mundy, in Renaissance into Baroque: Italian Master Drawings by the Zuccari, 1550-1600 (exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Museum, 1989), p. 146, fig. 16.
5.See S. Arthur Strong, Reproductions in Facsimile of the Old Masters in the Collection of the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery at Wilton House, vol. 1 (London, 1900), no. 9. An ink inscription on the drawing's border, below center, reads: Titian--from vol. 2nd N.15 (unidentified publicati
6. Licia Collobi, "Taddeo e Federico Zuccari nel Palazzo Farnese a Caprarola," Critica d'arte 3 (1938), p. 72.
7.A photograph of the undamaged drawing was published by Licia Collobi, "Taddeo e Federico Zuccari nel Palazzo Farnese a Caprarola," Critica d'arte 3 (1938), pl. 46, fig. 2.
8. Wolfgang Stechow, Catalogue of Drawings and Watercolors in the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College (Oberlin, 1976), p. 77; and Charles Briquet, Les Filigranes: Dictionaire Historique des Marques du Papier, 4 vols. (Leipzig, 1923).


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At J.C. Penney Co.'s Manhattan store on Sunday, a decent flow of traffic was observed in the apparel and shoe sections, but, when it came to the company's much-touted new home department, unveiled in early June and featuring some of the biggest names in furnishings, shoppers were all but absent.
As Penney's returning chief executive, Mike Ullman, seeks to reverse the company's troubled fortunes, the upscale home department, re-engineered by ousted CEO Ron Johnson, may turn out to be a significant burden.
On Wednesday, Credit Suisse analyst Michael Exstein cut his second- and third-quarter profit estimates on J.C. Penney after store visits outside the New York area over the past week suggested that the upmarket home section — featuring such noted designers and brands as Jonathan Adler, Michael Graves and Sir Terence Conran — may add to the challenges facing Penney instead of serving, as planned under Johnson, as "a catalyst for improved traffic and merchandise perception."
The department (dubbed For the Home on the retailer's website), featuring shops within stores dedicated to the likes of home-life guru Martha Stewart and architect Graves, has of late been home to price cuts of 30% and more on most items, Exstein observed. "The net result is that we believe gross margins are likely to be lower than our original expectations for the second quarter and that this could spill over to the third quarter as well," he said, adding that customer traffic at present seems to be concentrated in apparel clearance areas. "Aggressive markdowns of merchandise that are not appropriate to the core JCP customer makes much sense to us. The repricing of the new home product is a necessary step to test realistic customer appetite."
On top of an apparent difficulty in matching up customers, products and pricing, the individual in-store-shop model could make it hard for Penney to reallocate sales-floor space to more traditional or bulkier home goods, the analyst said.
A J.C. Penney spokesman said the company doesn't comment on performance beyond its quarterly earnings report.
Penney shares fell 3.3% in Wednesday's session and are down 16% this year.
The home section is a critical piece of Penney's turnaround. Sales in the department fell about $1 billion last year to 12% of Penney's approximately $13 billion in sales, down from 15% of a total $17.3 billion before Johnson's overhaul last year. As a big part of Penney's online assortment, the home area also contributed to the retailer's 33% slide in online sales last year.
While praise has been showered on the merchandise styles, the big question has been whether the new offerings will appeal to Penney's core moderate-income, price-conscious shopper.
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Timing is everything. My plan was to finish chores early, then hop in the shower and get cleaned up before joining my wife and some others at a restaurant in nearby Protivin for their weekly broasted chicken feed. They have meatballs, too, so I get to keep fowl meat out of my diet. One friend is about my folks' age and is legally blind, so he can't drive. Sherill would take a car to Decorah and pick him up and I'd take a separate vehicle and meet them in Protivin.
I had just turned on the water and was about to step in the shower when Sherill knocked on the door and said, "Ellen called. She said Speedy went in the ditch and wondered if you could pull him out, because they don't have any tractors plugged in."
The first part of that sentence would be my aunt. The second part would be, to my best estimation, what she perhaps calls her son. It's winter, so maybe he just slid a bit as he made his way out the driveway on his way home after doing chores at their place. That kind of stuff is easy enough to do with slick roads. Just the other day, I was putting a round bale in the hay cannon and started to slide with the skid loader after trying to stop. (Read "A ticking sound in the hay cannon") I was sliding right toward the cannon. It was a slow-motion maneuver, too. Pulling back on the levers as aggressively as I could, I hoped to stop my forward motion before the hay cannon did. I slid right up to it and kissed the front window of the skid loader at the rate of about three or feet per minute. Six more inches and I would have come to a stop. InertiaMobile that I was, I prepared myself for the inevitable. My front window met the hay cannon and then shattered into a million pieces right as I came to a stop.
So, yeah, I can see how a guy might cut someone some slack for a no-traction mishap in the depths of winter. I decided to put my clothes back on and head over to do a little log chain work with the tractor. Seeing as how this was probably a minor ditch maneuver, I figured I'd skip taking The Snake with me. (Read "Eden, a minister, and a serpent)
This should be no problem for a log chain.
Time is of the essence.
Time is of the essence, so I opted not to unhook the tractor from the hay cannon. Zip over, do the job, zip home. A few minutes, tops. Why bother to unhook and then have to re-hook again later?
I headed down the road and decided to come at it from a different angle than the most direct route. Turning around wouldn't be a problem once I got there, so why not see some country on the short trip to the scene of the crime.
Lo and behold, once I got to the corner where my uncle lives, I saw no one in the ditch. This was probably a minor driveway miscue, so maybe a little bit more pedal was applied and my cousin got himself out. Then I looked to my right and saw what appeared to be a delivery van in the ditch about a quarter mile away. It was a white delivery van, just like the ones Spee-Dee Delivery Service uses.
Huh. Looks like my aunt was not using a nickname for her son to reflect his driving. This was actually a guy named Spee-Dee!
I pulled up to the crime scene and got out of the tractor. No one was trapped in the van and no one was in sight. A call was placed to my aunt and uncle's house. Busy signal. A call was placed to my cousin's cell phone. He was still at work, so he was not only not up to date on local traffic conditions and situations, he was not involved in them. Another call was placed to my uncle's house. This time, I got through. I told my aunt that I was at the scene. She said the driver would be down right away. That's when I decided to hop in the tractor and start backing up to their place. Beach your vehicle in cold weather and then have to sprint a quarter mile to and from the scene repeatedly? No thanks!
I barely got started down the road when the driver started running toward me. He wasn't looking for a ride and headed straight to the scene. I hopped out when I got there and we surveyed the situation. He had apparently driven down the road and encountered a combine that crowded him toward the shoulder. (That was driven by another cousin of mine, but we'll leave him out of this story.) This particular road is fairly narrow, so two vehicles meeting or passing need to pay attention if they're normal-sized. If they're wide, then it's a bit more of a challenge. Granted, this was a pretty tiny combine, but it's still wider than a vehicle.
The delivery outfit's name more or less implies what their rate of travel is, don't you think? Accordingly, the Spee-Dee guy veered a bit too wide and ended up eating some Road Ditch Surprise for his afternoon snack. He didn't just kind of slide off the road, either. Nope, he had that puppy pretty well marooned at a rather precarious angle. Had there not been snow to cushion his landing, I'd say he may have seen the road above him by the time he came to a stop.
My first suggestion was to hook my log chain up to his rear axle and see if we could pull him back out the way he went into the ditch. That was mainly because he didn't have any chain hooks anywhere on his van (when I looked the first time I was there) and I didn't want to be the one to have to dig a snow fort in the ditch to find his front axle! My suggestion to Captain Cruise Control was to hop in the van and put it in Neutral. No need to try backing out during the procedure. Let's just take the coefficient of drag and change it in our favor.
Captain Cruise Control made his way to the driver's seat.
He entered through the sliding side door. When he was ready to come back out, I had to lean in and give him a hand. The angle of his beachment was so steep that he couldn't get himself out of the downhill side and climb back up while standing.
Then came the interesting story problem for me. I was still hooked on to my hay cannon. If I pulled Captain Cruise Control straight back at the same angle he entered the ditch, I'd probably drop the hay cannon in the opposite ditch. Granted, I could drive myself out of that one, but only if we successfully got Captain Cruise Control out of the ditch and ready to drive away. Get him partway out and get myself beached on the opposite side and then you'd have one heck of a story to tell the wrecker driver when he showed up. (Chances are, that could very well be yet another cousin of mine from the other side of the family!)
If I backed up and went at just a little bit of an angle steering to my left, I may be able to extract Captain Cruise Control and still keep myself from backing into the ditch on the other side of the road. This would all depend on the van maintaining its upright position and track as it became unstuck. Its current angle didn't give me any surplus of confidence. Captain Cruise Control needed to get his deliveries done. If we had to wait for a wrecker, he'd never finish at a decent hour and then he'd have to explain to his boss why the excessive charge was required.
I began my extraction slowly. Really, really slowly. If this thing was going to tip, I wanted to be able to stop and maybe keep it from happening. I also wanted to keep an eye on the van to make sure I wasn't tearing anything apart on it as we moved. This wasn't some stick-it-and-pick-it, hurry-up deal. I wanted to do quality work.
We got most of the way out when I decided to reposition and pull him the rest of the way at a different angle so that I didn't get crowded and he didn't tip over. Always ready to make time, Captain Cruise Control hopped into the driver's seat, threw it in Reverse and punched it.
DUDE! I'm still right behind you! Let's say you get traction. If that happens, you then have your engine revved up enough that you will climb partway over the edge of my loader bucket with your rear bumper and/or quarter panel. If your boss wasn't going to like a towing charge, wait until he sees major body damage from your encounter with one of the lovely products from the Deere & Co. line.
Fortunately, Captain Cruise Control still didn't have traction.
I got my chain hooked on again for the final pull and told the Captain to leave the van in Neutral. (Oh, and stay the ___ away from the gas!!!)
My new angle enabled me to get the Captain and his vessel pulled completely onto solid ground. He was more than excited to get it done without any damage to the van, seeing as how he still had deliveries to make. By my count, there were two boxes in the van when he beached it. Good thing, too, because any more may have shifted his center of gravity and rolled him onto his side instead of being at the angle he was. His plan, he told me, was to go down the road for his next delivery. After his beachment, he went there and found no one home, so he went the other direction and found my aunt and uncle. Oddly enough, he didn't take the package with him when he stopped at the other house to see if they could pull him out.
As Captain Cruise Control reached into his wallet, I reached into my shirt pocket and got out a card. A quick glance at his wallet left me with the impression that this guy wasn't flush with cash, so I made him a deal. No charge for the extraction, Captain. Then I handed him my card. Just remember, a farmer helped you out. We're not that bad. (Thanks, Jill!)
Captain Cruise Control seemed happy with the way things turned out, but he was still not done for the day, so we bid farewell and he hit the road once again. Sure enough, he pulled into the next driveway down the road and left them their package. Then he headed back toward my place. In that short distance, he made the delivery and still got in front of me before I made it to the corner! Start to finish from when I arrived until Captain Cruise Control left, it was 19 minutes.
After getting back home, I got the tractor and the hay cannon backed in the shed and was ready to head for the house to shower and maybe make a late appearance at FowlFest when my phone rang. It was Guy No. 1.
"Hey, is the skid loader plugged in? I think UPS is stuck in my driveway."
Yeeeeaaah, it is. I'll be right down. You know, I just got done pulling Spee-Dee out south of P's. Should I prepare myself for an adventure with FedEx, too??? It would be the perfect delivery service hat trick for the day!
Jeff Ryan is Guy No. 2 in the operation of Two Guys Farming, Inc., near Cresco, IA.


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Before the games kicked off on Sunday, Adam Schefter of ESPN reported that a trade involving Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald would be in play this offseason and that there's even a slim chance that he could be dealt by Tuesday's trade deadline.
The trade would bring the Cardinals cap relief as Fitzgerald is set to make $13 million next season and count $18 million against the salary cap with several more years of big salaries to follow through the 2018 end of the contract. Fitzgerald, who became the youngest player to catch 800 passes on Sunday, was asked about the chatter after the game and said he was focused on football not the offseason.
"I don't know," Fitzgerald said, via Bob McManaman of the Arizona Republic. "I come to work every day and just focus on how I can help the Arizona Cardinals and help my team win. If they decide to move me, that happens. I have no control over any of that. I just focus on what I can do to improve and help my team."
That stops short of saying that he wants to be a Cardinal for the rest of his career, which is probably wise since there will either be a major contract restructuring or parting of the ways come the offseason. Assuming he isn't dealt in the next two days, the final eight games of this season will probably let us know which is the likeliest outcome.


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So then romance points have priority over friendship points huh. Does that mean there are gay endings after all.
Quote from: EurAsianGirl on February 15, 2011, 08:52:44 PMSo then romance points have priority over friendship points huh. Does that mean there are gay endings after all.Like I said, they're more "bromance".
I've been trying for a few hours to get the Green Upgrade that teaches me the skill Hyper Launcher. I've been using Level 10 Orchestra and Opera has Level 10 Machinist, but zero luck (and plenty of Black and White Upgrades). Is there any kind of equipment or stat bonus that will increase my chances? Is the violin song that increases item luck better than Orchestra?
I heard something about a Limiter that changes Gabriel / Indalecio's stats. If I do the PA that activates this, will he become stronger or weaker? The source I looked at wasn't clear. Note: I *don't* want to fight the stronger version.
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WESTWOOD, California -- The USA sent one of it's best and brightest gymnastic stars to London in an attempt to medal at the 2012 Olympic Games. Gina Biltmore, 22 will compete tonight in rhythmic gymnastics. Her hopes are high. Gina had this to say:
"I am very anxious and excited to compete for Team USA in the 2012 Olympics in London. It is a dream come true for me and I won't let down my country!". Wiping away tears with her foot she continued; "It's not been easy. I always knew I could make it to the Olympics. Were it not for my parents I would not be the almost complete person I am today."
Gina was born with a disease known as "Deflation Encephalopathy", a rare genetic disorder which causes the head to deflate as one gets older. Born normal, by the age of 8, Gina could see her entire head in the side mirror of a car. By age 12 she could poke her head up into a cars oil pan thru the little drain plug hole. At age 16 she dropped out of high school "Because the boys made incessant crude jokes." It was then that she focused on rhythmic gymnastics and excelled.
Gina went to the Pan Am games in 2010. It was there that she bumped into Russian pole vaulter 'Yuri Vladmo'. The two have been inseperable ever since. Said Yuri; "It vas as if ve vere meant for von-another". Gina, " It's fortunate that we ran into one another!"
Gina attends University on scholarship. "UCLA" (the 'University of Caucasians Lost Among Asians') "finally gave me the opportunity to excell scholastically as well as athletically." As part of "Asian Athletes Among Us" Gina received a housing allowance, a tutor to help her with her studies, and a rabbit. "After competing I intend to return to my studies and focus on my next goal;to become an Opthamologist and provide care to the Poor in my hometown on Rancho Santa Margarita, CA"
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A classic red Chevrolet convertible featured in the film "Pulp Fiction'' has been found nearly two decades after it was stolen.
The San Bernardino County Sun was first to report movie director Quentin Tarantino's 1964 Chevelle Malibu, which was stolen in 1994, had been recovered.
John Travolta's character drove the cherry red car in the classic movie. He crashes it into a drug dealer's house as he tries to get help for his date who has overdosed.
Tarantino either used his own car in the movie or took possession of it after filming.
TMZ says the car was found in the Oakland area and that police have not been able to get a hold of Tarantino to tell him the good news. Apparently the VIN had been changed or cloned.
Sheriff's Sgt. Albert Anolin said an investigation into an old Malibu in the desert city of Victorville on April 18 led detectives to another Malibu in the Oakland area.
They then confirmed that vehicle belonged to Tarantino and was reported stolen in 1994.
Authorities say the car's current owner is not believed to be involved in its theft and is considered to be a victim of a fraud.
A message seeking Tarantino's comment was not immediately returned.
This is the third stolen celebrity car that has a Northern California connection in recent time.
Two years ago a thief rappelled from a rooftop into a San Francisco car dealership and then drove off with a Lamborghini Gallardo owned by celebrity chef Guy Fieri.
It was later found.
Huey Lewis had his rental car stolen while visiting Mill Valley in February. Lewis recently moved to Montana from Marin County and was back on a visit when his rental was stolen from the parking lot of a Holiday Inn Express.


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Patrick McHenry faces a Democratic challenger in his bid for re-election to U.S. House.
U.S. House of Representatives � District 10
Patrick McHenry
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Highest level of education attained: Bachelor�s degree in history, Belmont Abbey College
Profession: District 10 representative for U.S. House
Marital status: Married
Q. Do you feel the Federal Reserve is doing an adequate job of managing the money supply in our economy? Why or why not?
A. The Federal Reserve continues to print money in an effort to keep interest rates low and spur growth in the housing market. Unfortunately, these efforts are an implicit indictment of this administration's failed economic policies. These policies punish savers and those on fixed income by reducing the interest return they get on common banking products like CDs and money market accounts. I proudly co-sponsored HR 459, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act.
Q. What should the federal government�s role be in K-12 public education?
A. The federal government's role in education should be limited. I have always supported local control of schools, because parents and teachers � not federal bureaucrats � are best-suited to making decisions about their children's education. I also believe strongly that local control would lead to more innovative solutions, including charter schools and increased school choice. My opponent has opposed the expansion of charter schools and does not believe in expanded school choice for parents.
Q. Tax cuts are scheduled to expire and automatic budget cuts will kick in at the end of this year? How would you work with members of Congress from the opposite party to ensure the budget situation is resolved?
A. I would not support tax increases. Our government taxes too much, it doesn�t spend too little. We can all agree sequestration is bad policy and should be replaced with a better solution. That�s why I voted for the Sequester Replacement Act. The legislation replaces the sequester with a series of smart, targeted spending cuts that actually make sense. The legislation I support more than offsets the cost and will achieve even greater deficit reduction.
Q. What�s the top issue facing the country and how would you address it?
A. Jobs. We�re in the middle of the worst economic recovery since the Great Depression. The number one concern of most Americans and small business owners continues to be uncertainty from Washington. They don�t know how much their taxes will be next year and aren�t sure about the true cost of regulations like ObamaCare. We need to get government out of the way so that folks can stop worrying about the heavy hand of big government.
Q. How would you work with President Obama if he is re-elected?
A. I was pleased the president signed my crowdfunding legislation into law as part of the bipartisan JOBS Act. I will continue to work with him if re-elected, but there are some areas where I simply am not willing to compromise. I�m not willing to stand by while trillion dollar deficits are piled on taxpayers and I am not willing to support the economic policies that have resulted inunemployment above 10 percent for 46 months in Gaston County.


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The first four boots as the Final 4 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the season's Final 4.
Ap, I think he was referring to their entertainment value as well; not just their potential race strength, if you will.
They losing to Debbie/Bianca and Ron/Kelly in a 3-way race to the pit stop was appropriate.
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Japan Times article on recent net related legislative developments
A quick pointer to a Japan Times article about some of the issues mentioned in my last entry. Chris Salzberg, of Global Voices and Gyaku.jp fame, was so nice to include a quote from a recent conversation we had about this issue :-)
The problem, however, is that everything on the Web is downloaded. Just to view a page, a browser must store its contents on the user's computer. Since it is impossible to know beforehand whether downloaded content is legal or not, any page view would, under the proposed revision, place the user at risk of violating copyright law.
Andreas Bovens, a Tokyo-based Belgian who blogs on copyright issues in Japan at chosaq.net, sees a danger in this situation.
"It seems like the main targets of this proposed new legislation are Web sites offering unauthorized chaku-uta (ring tone) or music downloads," he says. "The message they seem to want to bring across is that downloading from those sites is illegal.
"However, although the scope of this legislation seems small, its effect is huge. It affects basically everything that we do on the Net."


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HOUSTON – Two large Houston companies, Vitol, Inc. and Johnson Controls, Inc., violated federal law by retaliating against a female employee for filing a discrimination charge with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency charged in a lawsuit it filed today.
According to the EEOC's suit, after serving as executive secretary to the president for seven and one-half years, Lucinda Gonzalez was fired by Vitol in July 2008. Gonzalez was subsequently hired by Johnson Controls as a sales assistant. In December 2008, Gonzalez filed a charge of discrimination with the EEOC in good faith against her former employer, Vitol. The charge alleged, among other things, that she was terminated by Vitol in retaliation for engaging in protected activity under Title VII.
Shortly after receiving a copy of the charge and learning that the EEOC would not be investigating it further, Vitol forwarded a copy of the charge and the EEOC notice to management at Johnson Controls, where Gonzalez was employed at the time. The EEOC argues that there was no legitimate business reason for Vitol's forwarding of the December 2008 charge and the EEOC's notice to Johnson Controls. Rather, the EEOC asserts, this action was taken by Vitol to retaliate against Gonzalez for filing the charge against the company. On the very same date that the charge and dismissal were received by Johnson Controls and reviewed by her supervisor, that company made the decision to fire Gonzalez as part of a purported reduction-in-force.
Retaliation against an employee for complaining about discrimination violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division (Civil Action No. 4:11-cv-03506) after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. In the suit, the EEOC is seeking a permanent injunction prohibiting both companies from engaging in employment discrimination, as well as other non-monetary relief. Also, from Vitol, the EEOC is seeking back pay, compensatory damages, punitive damages and other relief for Gonzalez.
"Employees must be assured unfettered access to the remedial mechanisms provided by the EEOC to address discrimination in the workplace," said R.J. Ruff, Jr., district director of the EEOC's Houston District Office. "Even if a charge, made in good faith, is dismissed, an employee must be protected from adverse action for filing the charge."
Jim Sacher, the EEOC's regional attorney in Houston, added, "Even if the EEOC chooses not to pursue an investigation of a charge, an employee's right to file such a charge must remain unimpeded. This is mandated by well-established public policy which provides that the EEOC acts on information contained in a charge not just for the benefit of the specific discrimination victim, but also to vindicate the public interest in preventing employment discrimination."
Vitol is a Houston-based company, incorporated in Delaware and a subsidiary of a multinational energy conglomerate, Vitol Group. According to the parent company's website, www.vitol.com, Vitol Group is a publicly traded "major oil multinational" company and "one of the largest traders in the world's energy marketplace." According to its website, Johnson Controls is a global diversified technology and industrial leader.
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KINGS MOUNTAIN � The biggest mystery about the Ashbrook-Kings Mountain matchup Friday night at John Gamble Stadium was how the Green Wave would adjust to being without starting quarterback Tre Brice.
Sophomore Austin Mitchell stepped into the spotlight and kept Ashbrook�s quick-hitting offense going full tilt in a 44-18 Big South Conference victory to spoil the Mountaineers� homecoming.
The Green Wave (2-2 Big South, 4-3) was able to mix up quick passes in the flats and screens with slashing runs by Tylik Roberts (109 yards) and Marcus James (87 yards) to blow the contest open quickly. Kings Mountain (0-3, 2-6) again piled up big offensive numbers with 19 first downs but couldn�t keep pace as the Ashbrook rolled to a 38-3 halftime advantage.
�Honestly we didn�t know what to expect,� Ashbrook coach Greg Hill said. �But we were not going to pull him (Mitchell) win, lose or draw. I�m proud of him, he made some plays.�
The Mountaineers got 212 yards in the air from quarterback Jonathan Clark and 101 rushing yards from Da'shon Guest but three turnovers � two of which were converted into points, hurt Kings Mountain�s chances.
�It was 10-3 and we were moving the football and lost a fumble and that really hurt,� said Kings Mountain coach Greg Lloyd. �But give Ashbrook credit. They do have great athletes.�
Ashbrook took the pressure off Mitchell � who threw for 230 yards and two touchdowns � right from the start as James burst up the middle for a 55-yard score on its first offensive play.
Kings Mountain had a drive to the Green Wave 2 derailed by a penalty and a sack and had to settle for a 29-yard Jeremiah Early field goal. Ashbrook then got a 37-yard field goal of its own from Taylor Ross.
But after the Mounties fumbled on the next series, Ashbrook blitzed the host team 28-0 in the second quarter. EJ Vanderpuye caught a 39-yard pass from Austin Mitchell for one score, Tylik Roberts punched one in from three yards out, and James was on the receiving end of a screen pass that broke for a 62-yard touchdown. Then Grant Stafford�s 90-yard interception return with 8.2 seconds left in the half capped the onslaught.
�We had played South Point and North Gaston for two straight weeks and one kind of offense,� Ashbrook�s Hill said, �and to play a team like Kings Mountain that will throw 12 formations at you, they got us off balance. Fortunately, we were able to get some big plays.�
It�s been a difficult stretch for Kings Mountain.
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Pope Francis picks Queens priest to lead Albany diocese
Pope Francis picks cleric to be leader of the Albany Catholic Diocese
Monsignor Edward Scharfenberger, a 65-year-old Brooklyn-born, Vatican-educated priest and pastor of a parish in Queens, will become the 10th bishop of Albany on April 10. His selection by Pope Francis to succeed Bishop Howard Hubbard was announced Tuesday.
Scharfenberger, who also has been a lawyer for more than two decades, played a significant role in how the Diocese of Brooklyn handled the clergy sex scandal as a member of the Diocesan Review Board for Sexual Abuse of Minors.
"I want to be a healer. I want to be a listener. I want to be a reconciler, but I can't do it alone," Scharfenberger said when he was introduced at a morning news conference at the Pastoral Center of the Albany Roman Catholic Diocese.
"Let's just get to know each other...walk together," Scharfenberger said, adding that he wants to bring back those who have been alienated by the church.
And in a reference to the closing of parishes with dwindling congregations, he said: "If we had more people coming into the churches, we wouldn't have to close any churches."
He leads St. Matthias Church in Ridgewood, a multi-ethnic church with a large German congregation, which offers services and hears confessions in German. In addition to German, Scharfenberger speaks Spanish, Italian and French. His recent assignments also included vicar for strategic planning and episcopal vicar for Queens.
The next bishop showed that he is an engaging conversationalist, quick to smile and laugh, as when he told of his surprise a week ago on learning of his new assignment.
"I got a call that in a few minutes I was going to get a call from a priest," he said. "I asked 'What did I do?' "
"Did I think I would be here in Albany?" Scharfenberger said. "No, maybe in Lake George."
Hubbard demonstrated his own brand of humor at the lectern.
"Good morning. I'm Howard Hubbard, and I used to be bishop of Albany," he said.
Hubbard, as required of all bishops, submitted his retirement last fall on his 75th birthday. But he remains bishop until his successor is installed on April 10. Officially, the church referred to Scharfenberger as bishop-elect.
Hubbard contrasted Scharfenberger's diocese, which includes Queens, with his own. "Brooklyn is one of the few dioceses in the United States that is totally urban. Albany covers 14 far-flung counties."
"You are going to have a bit of an adjustment to make here in Albany," he said, then gave Scharfenberger a map of the diocese and a zucchetto that his predecessor, Bishop Edwin Broderick, gave him in 1977 when he was elevated from Albany priest at age 38.
Hubbard rummaged around in his bag for effect and pulled out a Mets cap. Scharfenberger is a big fan. Hubbard, who was born and raised in Troy, has always rooted for the Boston Red Sox.
Richard E. Barnes, executive director of the New York State Catholic Conference, welcomed the pope's appointment "with great joy," and said his legal training and work as a pastor in the melting pot of Queens would serve him well in Albany.
"We are excited to get to know our new local bishop and we look forward to his strong voice impacting the important pastoral and public policy issues facing the church in the entire state of New York."
Barnes also said the bishops wished Hubbard "a long and healthy retirement and look forward to many more years of his wise counsel."
A member of the group of Capital Region Catholics who recently launched the website albanybishopsearch.org to ask people of the Albany diocese to share their thoughts on what they wanted to see in a new bishop said he was impressed with Scharfenberger's deep spiritual and educational background.
"I look forward to having a person who will lead the Albany diocese in a progressive and open way so we can all draw closer to God," said Bill Halligan, who is a parishioner at St. Vincent DePaul in Albany.
Scharfenberger earned a bachelor's degree in 1968 at Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception in Queens, where he majored in English. He also is a graduate the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome where he was ordained in 1973 and of Fordham University School of Law, a Jesuit institution.
He was co-author of the 2009 report, "From Shadow to Light and from Scandal to Healing: The Experience of the Diocese of Brooklyn with the Sex Abuse Scandal." The board has examined more than two dozen cases.
"We have to go forward with this important work," Scharfenberger said Tuesday. "There have been some bumps in the road, and the church has taken too long of a time to remove some offenders. I believe in transparency, but we have to be patient to protect a person's confidentiality and to protect children. People should not be afraid to speak out, and they should know they will be protected. There is nothing as unloving as abuse."
David Clohessy, head of the St. Louis chapter of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, who has been a vocal critic of Hubbard's handling of the clergy-abuse crisis, said Scharfenberger was heavily involved in handling pedophile-priest cases for a decade, "yet we've seen not a single hopeful move in the Brooklyn diocese regarding this scandal."
Hubbard has noted that he was the nation's youngest Catholic bishop when he was elevated from an Albany priest by Pope Paul VI and he retires as the longest serving bishop in the nation. He said the diocese was blessed that Pope Francis chose such a gifted leader as his successor.
"Bishop-elect Scharfenberger has a rich background as both a canon and civil lawyer, as the head of the Judicial Tribunal in Brooklyn, and as pastor for 12 years in St. Matthias in Ridgewood, a multi-ethnic parish, where he has gained fluency in a multitude of languages, which I am sure will serve him well in our diocese and will be most appreciated by our growing Hispanic ... community," Hubbard said.
Scharfenberger, the oldest of five children, paid honor to parents, Edward and Elaine Scharfenberger, both of whom are 93 and live in Warwick, Orange County.
"It is humbling when I think that I soon will be counted among the successors of the Lord's Apostles. I am not worthy of this office, and I hope that our priests, deacons, religious and laypeople will pray for me often as, together, we continue along our journey of faith," Scharfenberger said.
"What else do I ask for? What do I hope for? I ask the priests, deacons, religious and laity to help me to be myself – my best self. I promise to love and respect all of you by letting you be who you are and to bring out the best in you."
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Special Eurobarometer: Right to move and reside freely in the EU and right to good administration are the most important citizens' rights
Press release no. 14/2011 - Date Thursday | 07 July 2011
For 48% of European citizens, the right to move and reside freely in the European Union is the most important citizens' right. The second most important right is the right to good administration by the EU institutions (33%), followed by the right to lodge complaints with the European Ombudsman (32%). These are among the results of a Special Eurobarometer on citizens' rights and the performance of the EU administration, commissioned by the European Parliament and the Ombudsman and conducted by TNS Opinion & Social.
The European Ombudsman, P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, commented: "The citizens' right to move and reside freely in the EU is clearly one of the main achievements of European integration. The European Network of Ombudsmen has a key role to play in ensuring that citizens can exercise this right in practice. I am also encouraged to see that citizens consider the right to good administration and the right to lodge complaints with the European Ombudsman as very important. These responses strengthen the Ombudsman's role as a crucial link between European citizens and the EU administration."
85% lack sufficient information about the Charter of Fundamental Rights
72% of the respondents stated that they do not feel well informed about the Charter of Fundamental Rights. A further 13% have never even heard of the Charter.
42% not satisfied with transparency in the EU administration
According to the survey, 42% of European citizens are not satisfied with the level of transparency in the EU administration, while only 9% are satisfied. Their satisfaction with the effectiveness (35% not satisfied) and service mindedness (33% not satisfied) of the EU institutions is also low. However, the survey shows that the better people are informed about the EU, the more highly they rate the performance of the EU administration.
52% of respondents say the Ombudsman should ensure that citizens know their rights and how to use them
Asked about the role of the European Ombudsman, a majority of respondents (52%) thinks that he should inform citizens about their rights and how to use them, while 34% attach importance to the Ombudsman's cooperation with ombudsmen at the national and regional levels in the EU Member States, through the European Network of Ombudsmen.
The Ombudsman will use the results of the survey to enhance the quality of his own services, as well as encourage the EU administration to improve its performance, by deepening its commitment to the principles of a culture of service to citizens. He will also encourage members of the European Network of Ombudsmen to spread information in the Member States about citizens' rights and the Charter of Fundamental Rights.
For this Special Eurobarometer, TNS conducted face-to-face interviews with 27 000 citizens in the 27 EU Member States between February and March 2011.
The Ombudsman's synthesis of the Special Eurobarometer, the full Special Eurobarometer, and factsheets for each EU Member State are available at: http://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/press/statistics.faces
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A day after defeating his scrappy tea party rival in Tuesday's gubernatorial primary, Republican Neel Kashkari emerged politically scarred and drained of campaign cash for what his own supporters fear is a futile quest to bounce popular Democrat Jerry Brown from office.
"There's no question it's going to be hard," Kashkari, a first-time candidate for public office, conceded Wednesday at a press conference in Corona del Mar.
It was, by many accounts, an understatement. As the general-election campaign opened, Brown's strength was reflected in the preliminary results of the primary: The governor finished first, with nearly 55% of the vote; followed by Kashkari, 19%, and Assemblyman Tim Donnelly (R-Twin Peaks), 15%.
Indeed, Republicans looking at the political landscape after the primary were often scornful of Kashkari's chances. Many speculated that Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin, who held a narrow lead among four top candidates for controller, would emerge as the party's best hope to break a streak of losses in statewide contests dating to 2006.
The governor's race appeared unlikely to upend recent tradition for two reasons: money and political image.
Kashkari's shortage of money — he is close to broke after spending about $4 million on the primary, while Brown has banked $21 million — is one of the biggest challenges facing the former Goldman Sachs investment banker.
There's also his biography: Kashkari gained his first big public notice as leader of the Bush administration's bank bailout program, a political albatross. And the governor's political team has already begun portraying Kashkari as a corporate scoundrel, a tactic Brown and his allies used with great effect against eBay mogul Meg Whitman, his GOP rival four years ago.
And while Laguna Beach resident Kashkari holds some moderate positions on social issues — which loyalists have suggested would broaden his appeal — he was forced to move to the right to secure a spot in the general election, a positioning likely to hurt him in November.
Kashkari rejected a longtime GOP formula for success in California: Breaking with the national party on the environment, as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger did in his 2006 reelection run with a landmark law to attack global warming. Campaigning in Camarillo on Sunday, Kashkari branded the law "misguided."
"The notion that an individual state can unilaterally act on climate change is pure folly," Kashkari said.
On Wednesday, Kashkari vowed to turn the state GOP into "the biggest tent you've ever seen in your life," and he pounded Brown on jobs, education and poverty.
"Jerry Brown's legacy is the destruction of the middle class of California," he said.
For now, Brown appears poised to all but ignore Kashkari, focusing instead on the day-to-day duties of governing in the Capitol and reminding Californians that the state is running a surplus after years of chronic deficits.
"The best mode of campaigning for him is to govern the state in a sincere and earnest way, and not even give rise to the notion that there's a competitive election," said Don Sipple, a veteran Republican strategist and informal political advisor to Brown.
Indeed, it was no accident that Brown gathered with his cabinet on election night for a working dinner at the historic Governor's Mansion in Sacramento. With his wife, Anne Gust, at his side, Brown stepped outside afterward and told reporters that his first-place finish in the primary reflected voters' appreciation of state leaders "living within our means."
"There's billions of dollars floating around over at the Capitol," he said. "We're going to have to rein that in."
For a Democrat, Brown performed relatively well Tuesday in Fresno and Orange counties, while running up huge margins around Los Angeles and, especially, the Bay Area. That suggests he has come to occupy a wide swath of the state's political landscape, denying Kashkari the sort of foothold required by Republicans, the smaller major party.
For Kashkari, one of the dangers ahead is that a perception that he can't win makes it hard to raise money, which, in turn, makes it harder to win.
"It would take a candidate with strong magnetic personal appeal to overcome the Republican Party's sagging brand in California and apathy among the electorate," said Republican campaign strategist Arnold Steinberg. "I don't see donors stepping up, since Jerry's election is a near-certainty."
Some of the big establishment GOP donors who stepped in late to help Kashkari were motivated not by their drive to unseat Brown, but by the damage they feared Donnelly might inflict on the party brand.
Now, those same donors face competing pressure for contributions to Republicans in races where the odds look better as the party tries to retake control of the U.S. Senate, maintain a House majority and block Democrats from locking in a two-thirds supermajority in the California Legislature.
Kashkari also faces trouble on the right. At Donnelly's election night party in Hollywood, some supporters said they might sit out the November election or write in a candidate, because they see Kashkari as too similar to Brown.
"Might as well vote for Brown," said William Peck, an 81-year-old Ventura resident who met Donnelly through his involvement in the Minuteman border patrol.
Donnelly himself resisted the idea of asking supporters to back Kashkari.
"I will ask my supporters to fight with every last breath that they have to defend liberty, and the Constitution, and any candidates who represent that," he said. But he said he would not tell them what to do.
"I've never done that," he said, "and I never will."
Times staff writers Seema Mehta in Los Angeles and Paige St. John in Sacramento contributed to this report.


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Last March, an adoring crowd of supporters gathered outside the Ravenswood Manor home of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich and chanted "Free our governor" as the disgraced politician was about to set off for federal prison.
"This is not over," Blagojevich said as he basked in his final moments under the spotlight at the prime-time news conference. "We have faith in the future, faith in the rule of law. … I'll see you again."
The next day, exactly one year ago Friday, Blagojevich checked into Federal Correctional Institution-Englewood, a low-security prison 15 miles southwest of Denver, to start serving a 14-year prison sentence for attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama on his election as president in 2008.
In a Facebook posting today, Patti Blagojevich refused to call the day an anniversary because the word implies a celebration.
"All that we have been left with is a aching hole in our lives," she writes. "When you measure how much Rod has missed-the birthdays, holidays, Amy passing her driving test, the musical recitals and even just the ordinary moments at breakfast time before the girls leave for school, the loss feels all consuming. Unfortunately, those moment have been stolen from my children and there is no getting them back."
She notes that Blagojevich speaks to his family daily and that the former governor, "Teaches a class on the Civil War, is learning to play the guitar and runs miles and miles around the quarter-mile track that is available to him."
After logging one year as Inmate 40892-424, Blagojevich, 56, remains optimistic and positive, two of his attorneys said Thursday. He continues to have faith that he will be vindicated through the appeal of his conviction and sentence, said Lauren Kaeseberg, one of his attorneys.
"He believes justice in the end will prevail," Kaeseberg said. "He wakes up every day in a horrible place and that's what gets him through every day, is a belief that in the end the right thing will happen."
To fight the dreary routine of prison and the prospect that he could be locked up for more than a decade, Blagojevich is journaling, reading and running regularly, his attorneys said.
"He is trying to become a better man physically, emotionally and mentally," Kaeseberg said. "He is working on himself."
He is teaching history to other inmates and setting goals for himself, both physically and otherwise, Kaeseberg said. He is buoyed largely by daily calls to his wife and daughters. Inmates are allowed a total of five hours on the phone each month.
After more than three turbulent years in which Blagojevich was arrested, impeached, tried and convicted, his family has kept a low profile. They make the approximately thousand-mile journey to see him once every couple of months, Kaeseberg said.
"That visiting room has to be one of the saddest places on Earth though," Blagojevich's wife, Patti, wrote in a Facebook post last May. "All those little kids visiting their dads. It breaks your heart."
Patti Blagojevich and other relatives could not be reached or declined to comment for this story.
The former governor has adjusted well with other inmates and is living in a large, dorm-style cell with bunks, his attorneys said.
"He is a very likable person," Kaeseberg said. "He's adaptable. He is really doing as well (as he can)."
One issue Blagojevich's attorneys would not comment on was his famous raven coif. Neither attorney could say whether his hair has grayed in prison, though his longtime barber revealed after the former governor's surrender to prison the poorly kept secret that he dyed his hair.
It's unclear if Blagojevich has access in prison to hair dye, though dyes are not included in the Federal Bureau of Prisons' list of hygiene products provided to inmates.
"I haven't seen a picture," said Aaron Goldstein, another Blagojevich lawyer. "I expect proof beyond a reasonable doubt."
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Does God Really Laugh at the Wicked?
Have you ever been at your wits' end with a relative or a friend? You have tried over and over again to help that person come to their senses regarding their self-destructive behavior....but to no avail. Sometimes after you have cried all the tears you have to cry for someone, you find yourself shaking your head in bewilderment and even laughing at the foolishness of their reckless behavior.
Enter God, stage right. He creates man to enjoy loving fellowship with him. Man then rebels and pulls away from God. The Lord comes after man by giving His life on the cross to save those who have gone astray. Some people turn around and get right with God. Others press on in their rebellious ways....and some even slander their Creator with a dark heart and a foul mouth.
What is God to do with such wicked people? The Father gave His only Son as a sacrifice for our sins. What more do you want Him to do? Could you blame God if He responded with laughter when men openly mock their Maker?
Guess what? "The Lord laughs at the wicked, for He knows their day is coming." (Psalm 37:13)
He does what? Are you saying God laughs at people who are choosing the path which leads to eternity in hell? In some cases, yes. Those who choose to live in opposition to God's requirements will one day find themselves in a horrible place. God reaches out to them here on earth to rescue their souls....but because they shamelessly laugh at His goodness and salvation, God then begins laughing at them.
It's not an image most of us tend to think of when we consider God's attitude toward sinners. There is no doubt that God has tremendous compassion for lost people. God did more than we could ever hope for when Jesus suffered and died on the cross for the sins of the world. However, if a man is going to be so brazen as to not only reject God's offer of salvation, but also to laugh at the very One who is reaching out to save him....then yes, God laughs at that man....for the Lord knows his day is coming.
God was not laughing when Christ was suffering for our salvation on the cross. God does not laugh when most people suffer. There are some people, however, who inspire God's laughter by their defiant opposition to God's Word. In those cases, God always gets the last laugh.
It might sound "unloving" to say God laughs at the wicked. Well, is it any more "unloving" than sending the wicked to hell? God's love is offered to all....and received only by some. God's justice is handed down to those who reject the Lord's love and grace. If God wants to laugh at those who oppose Him, who are we to question the Almighty? God will do whatever He wishes....whenever He wishes to do so. "Woe to him who quarrels with His Maker." (Isaiah 45:9)
Remember what the Lord said to Job. "Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him? Let him who accuses God answer Him!" (Job 40:1) How will the mockers answer for themselves on Judgment Day? Their laughter will quickly turn to astonishment....and then to hopeless despair when their eternal sentence is handed down.
By the way....the Bible also says that God does not delight in the death of the wicked. "As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, O house of Israel?" (Ezekiel 33:11)
How do passages like that correspond to the verses which say God laughs at the coming judgment for the wicked? Well....just think about all the emotions you go through when someone you love keeps committing inappropriate and harmful behavior year after year. One day your heart is filled with sadness for that person....and another day you may throw your hands up in the air in laughter, exasperation, and incredulity.
God has the right to respond to the wicked however He chooses. Meanwhile, let us remain in a place spiritually where our hearts are always filled with compassion for those who have hardened their hearts toward Jesus. You and I did not create them. You and I are not their Judge....nor do we have the right to laugh at their impending doom. Only God has that right.
In one instance, God laughs at those who persecute Him. In another instance, Jesus says while hanging on the cross, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." (Luke 23:34) If you can reconcile those contrasting responses from God, you are a step closer to understanding how the cross of Christ is where God's love and God's justice came together perfectly and forever. Jesus suffered pain and wept on earth....so that you and I could enjoy pleasures and laugh forever in heaven.
Our loving God has done all that is necessary for the salvation of the wicked. That includes the wickedness God found in your heart and mine. Let us as believers press on in our efforts to reach those who laugh at God....while our gracious God laughs, and loves, and forgives, and even saves some people who opposed Him for awhile....before coming to their senses. When they come under conviction by the Holy Spirit, their laughter at God turns to shame over their sin....and then joy over their salvation.
If you ever sense that God is laughing at you, it would be a good time to reflect on where you stand with Him. You can laugh at God all day long if you wish....but He will always, and I mean always....get the last laugh. That is a sobering thought for anyone who has even an ounce of spiritual sensitivity and biblical discernment. At the end of the day my friend, your acceptance or rejection of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior is no laughing matter.


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