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As a native New Yorker who is currently straddling both coasts, Emily Jerome’s namesake Jerome line has come a long way since its launch in Spring 2010. After being given the opportunity to debut a small collection in Paris that March alongside Gregory Parkinson, Jenni Kayne, and Katy Rodriguez, Jerome (who counts Intermix and Confederacy as stockists) was compelled to take her designs to the next level.

For her 70-piece Spring ‘12 lookbook, the emerging designer enlisted Charlotte Kidd to photograph her nouveau Western collection against MASS MOCA’s imposing instillations, by artists like Sol LeWitt, Katharina Grosse, and Federico Díaz. “This collection dealt with the familiar ideas of the American West and paid homage to it in an updated way,” Jerome tells Style.com. For the collection, Jerome reimagined Western symbols like the bullhorn and chevron and hippie silhouettes were rendered in sleeker fabrications with richer design details. Instead of doing fringe in conventional suede, she uses silk paired with an equestrian fabric for good measure. “We see suede and fringe jackets in vintage stores all the time, but there hasn’t been a lot of updating of that aesthetic, which was an inspiration behind what I’m trying to do.”

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SAUGERTIES, N.Y. Dick Kniss, a bassist who performed for five decades with the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary and co-wrote the John Denver hit “Sunshine on My Shoulders,” has died. He was 74.

Kniss died Wednesday of pulmonary disease at a hospital near his home in the Hudson Valley town of Saugerties, his wife, Diane Kniss said.

Kniss was born in Portland,wholesale NFL Jerseys, Ore., and was an original member of Denver’s 1970s band. He also played with jazz greats including Herbie Hancock and Woody Herman.

Active in the 1960s civil rights movement, Kniss performed at benefits for a range of causes and played during the first celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday as a national holiday.

Peter, Paul and Mary’s Peter Yarrow said in a statement that Kniss was “our intrepid bass player for almost as long as we performed together.

“He was a dear and beloved part of our closest family circle and his bass playing was always a great fourth voice in our music as well as, conceptually, an original and delightfully surprising new statement added to our vocal arrangements,” Yarrow said.

LOS ANGELES The doctor convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson’s death asked a judge Friday to release him from jail pending his appeal.

Dr. Conrad Murray, who is serving a four-year jail sentence, said in a declaration that he should be released either on his own recognizance or on bail with electronic monitoring.

He said he is not a danger to society, will not flee the area, and wants to work to help support his seven children.

His lawyer, J. Michael Flanagan, said in the motion that Murray knows he cannot work as a doctor but would find other employment. He suggested the sentence and Murray’s mode of confinement is extremely severe for a man with no prior criminal record.

He said Murray is being held in solitary confinement and is chained to a table when he meets with his lawyers. He also said Murray is extremely sorrowful about Jackson’s death.

Jackson died in June 2009 from an overdose of the anesthetic propofol, administered by Murray. Flanagan conceded that Murray made some medical misjudgments but said he never intended harm to Jackson.

Murray’s appeal has not yet been filed, but the motion offered a preview of some issues that will be raised,wholesale NBA, including the claim that Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor should have allowed testimony about Jackson’s financial condition.

Flanagan said the exclusion of that evidence “seriously compromised the defendant’s ability to demonstrate the desperate situation which was guiding the decisions and choices of both Mr. Jackson and Dr. Murray.”

Murray appeared to be blaming Jackson for decisions that led to his death.

“Mr. Jackson was an uncooperative patient who made decisions and demands based upon his particular needs,” said Flanagan. “One of which was his extremely precarious financial situation complicated by drug addiction. ”

Flanagan also cited the judge’s refusal to sequester the jury and the presence of cameras in the courtroom as appellate issues.

With Murray’s appeal expected to take more than a year to move through the courts, the attorney said it would be unfair to keep him jailed in the interim.

Under sentencing guidelines, Murray is expected to serve no more than half of his sentence. The attorney said if he served his complete sentence he would not receive the benefits of a favorable appeal decision if his case was overturned.

A hearing on the motion was set for Feb. 24.

Some European countries have made high-profile gestures in recent years that have angered China. French President Nicolas Sarkozy riled Beijing when he met with the Dalai Lama in 2008. In 2010, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded imprisoned dissident Liu Xiabo the Nobel Peace Price, prompting angry statements from Beijing and rejecting calls for his release.

Heavily indebted European countries are struggling for economic lifelines to stay afloat to avoid defaulting on their debts. The chief of Europe’s bailout fund visited Beijing in October to discuss possible terms for cash-rich China and other global investors to help finance a multibillion-dollar plan to resolve the continent’s debt crisis.

Richardson said it’s wrong for countries with growing economic ties with China to assume that “to press for better human rights protections would be somehow to compromise the economic ties.”

“At the end of the day, many of the same laws and processes that protect human rights are the same ones that protect better economic relations,” Richardson said.

She was responding to a question at a news conference about whether the Euro-zone debt crisis would result in a shift in the balance of power that would leave European governments feeling they have less leverage over rights issues.

“Particularly on the Euro-zone question, we are concerned” that the unfolding debt crisis may make human rights less of a priority, said Human Rights Watch’s China director, Sophie Richardson.

HONG KONG A human rights group said Thursday it’s worried that debt-ridden European countries pondering the idea of bailout money from China may be tempted to dial back the pressure on Beijing about human rights.

On Tuesday, the German government’s human rights commissioner made a symbolic euro100 ($137) donation to a campaign helping Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei pay a tax bill that supporters view as government harassment.

The result will come as a relief to the world’s largest auction house and the contemporary art market in general, for which this week’s Frieze Art Fair in London and related auctions were seen as a key test of confidence.

LONDON (Reuters) German artist Gerhard Richter may have called the prices his works fetch “daft” this month, but that did nothing to dampen collectors’ enthusiasm at a Christie’s auction in London on Friday.

His 1982 “Kerze,” one of a series of images of candles seen as a key part of his canon, sold for 10.5 million ($16.5 million) at the auction house’s post-war and contemporary art sale, compared with pre-sale expectations of 6-9 million pounds.

It also proved that high prices for rare works of art are still possible amid global economic turmoil.

Stripping out the buyer’s premium, which is only included on the auction results, the painting still came in at the top end of estimates and set a record for Richter at auction, Christie’s said.

That was comfortably within the 43.3-62.1 million pound price target set in advance even after buyer’s premium was stripped out.

Sotheby’s held its smaller day sale on Friday, raising 6.7 million pounds on top of the 39.5 million at Thursday’s main auction.

(Reporting by Mike Collett-White; Editing by Jill Serjeant)

British sculptor Antony Gormley also saw his auction record tumble when a human-sized version of his giant “Angel of the North” structure sold for 3.4 million pounds.

Surveys have shown investors are more wary of spending money on art amid the debt crisis and volatility on other markets, but Christie’s results could help soothe the worse of their fears, at least in the short term.

Overall Christie’s sold art worth 55.7 million pounds at its combined sale of post-war, contemporary and Italian art, according to preliminary results posted on its website.

The combined tally of 46.2 million pounds was within expectations of between 42.1 and 58.4 million, although taking into account buyer’s premium the final result was at the low end of estimates.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. A federal judge has ordered the immediate removal of a prayer mural displayed in the auditorium of a Rhode Island public high school.

Teenage atheist student Jessica Ahlquist had sued Cranston city and Cranston High School West officials, demanding they remove the banner because it promotes a religion. She calls it offensive to non-Christians.

City officials claimed the mural is a historical artifact from the school’s early days and serves no religious purpose. The prayer encourages students to strive academically. It begins with the words “Our Heavenly Father” and ends with “Amen.”

A senior U.S. District Court judge on Wednesday ruled in the atheist student’s favor.

The student has 20 days to file counsel fees and costs. City officials will have 10 days to respond. The court will enter judgment after these issues are resolved.

CONCORD, N.H. As candidates crisscross New Hampshire in their quest for votes, an Academy Award-winning writer thinks the time is ripe for “Political Suicide.”

That is the title of four one-act plays Ernest Thompson who wrote “On Golden Pond”_ will stage beginning Sunday at Pitman’s Freight Room in Laconia.

The plays are dark comedies that parody politicians and protesters alike.

One is about taking the best attribute from each of the candidates to make one candidate who might excite two jaded polling place workers. Another is about a small-town protester who longs to be part of a movement but attracts the attention of no one but the police chief.

Thompson told the Associated Press on Friday that the plays each take a different angle on where our culture is at, but called them “equal opportunity offending plays.”

“I like stirring things up a little,” Thompson said.

Thompson bills his plays as “funnier than the debates” and said the debates inspired one of the plays “Mr. Potato Head” about rolling all the candidates into one dynamic candidate.

“They were pretty funny to watch those debates but also pretty sad, because you kept thinking someone has to stand up and say something profound,” Thompson said.

Thompson says he purposely did not shape his characters to resemble any of the current candidates.

“What I’m hoping is that four years from now we can do these same plays and they’ll have the same resonance,” he said.

Thompson wrote one of the plays_ about a disillusioned senator _six years ago. He says he wrote the other three recently, as campaigning intensified.

The 1981 movie “On Golden Pond” filmed in New Hampshire netted Oscars for Thompson and stars Katharine Hepburn and Henry Fonda. Last summer Thompson directed the stage production of the play, which he wrote in 1978 for a summer stock theater in Holderness.

Thompson, 62, moved to New Hampshire from Los Angeles 21 years ago.

“The fun part of being in New Hampshire is that you really get to see those characters up close and personal,” he said of the candidates.

Thompson said he chose Pitman’s Freight Room in downtown Laconia in part because of the short commute from his home and production studio in New Hampton. He said the venue holds about 70 and features a stage they assembled for the 16 performances, including one the night of the primary Jan. 10. The play runs through Jan. 15,wholesale Ed hardy sunglasses, then reopens for six additional performances in early February.

Pitman’s owner Dick Mitchell said that there is a lot of buzz around town about Thompson’s production and that it’s exciting for the renovated train depot to host its first theater production.

“It’s very timely, and I think his message is on target everything is screwed up,” Mitchell said.

Thompson he had a run-in with the Mitt Romney camp Friday not over politics, but turf.

Romney campaign workers wanted to take over Pitman’s Freight Room for nine hours Friday to set up for and stage an evening rally, Mitchell said. But Thompson has dibs on the property.

“The show has to go on,” Thompson said, laughing.

WASHINGTON Executing a classic Washington dodge, Newt Gingrich told Americans that Medicare and Medicaid could be kept solid merely by ending fraud in the system, a promise of gain without pain that ignores the aging population and other great forces pressing on the programs.

Mitt Romney told voters he’s done the math supporting his claim that he created more than 100,000 jobs in the private sector, but didn’t share it. And Ron Paul came up with a shocking figure on Fed “bailouts” that bears little resemblance to reality.

A look at some of the claims in a pair of weekend Republican presidential debates and how they compare with the facts:

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GINGRICH: “The duty of the president is to find a way to manage the federal government so the primary pain is on changing the bureaucracy. On theft alone, we could save $100 billion a year in Medicaid and Medicare if the federal government were competent. That’s a trillion dollars over 10 years. And the only people in pain would be crooks.”

THE FACTS: Those who have crunched the numbers believe that squeezing every last penny of fraud from health care programs would not solve long-range problems that are at the heart of the federal government’s budget woes and imperil Medicare and Medicaid.

Those problems are driven by an aging population, the cost of high-tech medicine and what some researchers see as a pattern of overtreatment the widespread use of medical tests, procedures, drugs and devices that wind up being of little or no benefit to patients.

If policymakers once viewed health care fraud as akin to a cost of doing business, that hasn’t been the case for years. President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law toughened penalties and gave law enforcement agencies new tools to combat fraud. That built on earlier efforts by the administrations of George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

Health care fraud investigations are a major source of money recovered for taxpayers by the Justice Department, surpassing fines and penalties collected from defense contracting fraud.

Although cracking down on fraud and abuse will help to maintain Medicare and Medicaid, the administration and lawmakers are convinced it is not a magic elixir to restore the financial health of the programs. Knowing that has not stopped a succession of presidents and lawmakers of both parties from ducking tough choices and promising painless dividends by going after “waste, fraud and abuse” in government.

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PAUL: “I don’t see how we can do well against Obama if we have any candidate that, you know, endorsed, you know, single-payer systems and TARP bailouts and don’t challenge the Federal Reserve’s $15 trillion of injection bailing out their friends.”

THE FACTS: First, there are no fans of government-run, single-payer health insurance in the Republican field, despite Paul’s suggestion otherwise Sunday. Newt Gingrich once endorsed the idea of requiring everyone to have health insurance, and Romney introduced a mandate for health coverage as Massachusetts governor. But that’s a far cry from a Canadian-style health system that makes government the primary payer of people’s medical bills.

TARP is the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program that was proposed by President George W. Bush and passed by Congress in 2008 to help rescue imperiled financial institutions. Nearly all of the money has been paid back, with interest.

Paul’s slam against the Fed ignores the fact that most of the $15 trillion he is talking about involved loans that were quickly repaid, sometimes the next day. And that’s if these Fed transactions can even be considered loans in the conventional sense.

When the Fed lends money to banks, it creates the money out of thin air. When the banks pay it back, the money disappears from the system. If a bank borrows $5 billion from the Fed one day, then pays it back the next, and a week later borrows $5 billion more and quickly pays it back, the total would be listed as $10 billion, even though it’s just the same money going back and forth and the treasury is in no sense being emptied.

That’s how a federal report counted a running total of about $15 trillion in emergency Fed loans to domestic banks and their foreign subsidiaries between 2007 and 2010. The actual loan total, once paybacks are accounted for, is estimated at $1.1 trillion.

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ROMNEY: “In the business I had, we invested in over 100 different businesses and net-net, taking out the ones where we lost jobs and those that we added, those businesses have now added over 100,000 jobs…. I’m a good enough numbers guy to make sure I got both sides of that.”

THE FACTS: Romney has never substantiated his frequent claim that he was a creator of more than 100,000 jobs while leading the Bain Capital private equity company. His campaign merely cites success stories without laying out the other side of the ledger jobs lost at Bain-acquired or Bain-supported firms that closed, trimmed their workforce or shifted employment overseas.

Moreover, his campaign bases its claims on recent employment figures at three companies Staples, Domino’s and Sports Authority even though Romney’s involvement with them ceased years ago.

By that sort of charitable math, President Barack Obama could be credited with creating over 1 million jobs even though employment overall is down about 2 million since he came to office. But Romney accuses Obama of destroying jobs while using a different standard to judge his own performance cherry-picked examples that leave everything else out.

By its nature, venture capitalism often results in lost jobs because profitability and efficiency are key to investors, not how many people are on the payroll. Bain Capital profited in cases where employment went both up and down.

Staples, now with close to 90,000 employees, and Sports Authority, with about 15,000, were startups supported by Romney. The direct workforce at Domino’s has grown by nearly 8,000 since Romney’s intervention. But Romney got out of the game in 1999, which has not stopped his campaign from crediting him with jobs created at those companies since then.

Romney toned down the braggadocio in the Saturday debate, saying that of the Bain-supported companies that grew, “we’re only a small part of that, by the way.” But he mentioned a few more successful companies, again without giving voters a breakdown of his “net-net” calculations.

No one has been able to produce a full accounting of job gains and losses from the scores of companies Romney dealt with at Bain. But a Los Angeles Times review of Bain’s 10 largest investments under Romney found that four of the big companies declared bankruptcy within a few years, costing thousands of jobs and often pension and severance benefits.

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GINGRICH: “Under Obama, 2011 was the highest price of gasoline in history. It is a direct result of his policies, which kill jobs, raise the price of heating oil and gasoline, weaken the United States, increase our dependence on foreign countries and weaken our national security in the face of Iran trying to close the Straits of Hormuz.”

FACT CHECK: It’s true that the average price of gas last year was a record: $3.52 per gallon. Tying that completely to Obama is a stretch because some of the reasons for expensive fuel have nothing to do with him or the United States.

Oil and gas prices jumped early last year due to the political uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa. The revolt in Libya, for example, cut off about 1.5 million barrels of daily oil exports. While that’s only a small part of what the world uses, global demand was rising at the same time as fast-growing economies in the developing world, such as China and India, needed more oil.

The Republican candidates almost uniformly blame Obama for hindering U.S. energy development, taking their cue from his moratorium on oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, a ban now lifted. Oil and gas companies have been ramping up extraction of oil and gas from shale rock deposits in states such as North Dakota and Texas.

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ROMNEY: “I cut programs, a whole series of programs. By the way, the number one to cut is Obamacare. That saves $95 billion a year.”

THE FACTS: That math looks like it doesn’t add up. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that House Republicans’ legislation to repeal Obama’s health care law would have actually increased federal deficits by $210 billion from 2012 to 2021.

Romney’s statistic approximates how much the government expects to be spending annually once the law’s provisions are fully rolling. But it appears to ignore the law’s revenue-generating provisions, such as a tax on the most generous insurance plans and fees imposed on parts of the health care industry.

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Associated Press writers Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Tom Raum, Christopher S. Rugaber, Nancy Benac, Charles Babington and Jim Drinkard contributed to this report.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) Geek chic will soon be back when Napoleon Dynamite returns in an animated TV show and joins “Family Guy” and “The Simpsons” on the Fox network’s “Animation Domination” night.

“Napoleon Dynamite,” the 2004 independent film about a socially awkward teenager in a small town, directed by Jared Hess and starring Jon Heder, became a hit and received praise for bringing something fresh to the teen comedy genre.

The film is about a high-school loser, Napoleon, who becomes a bit of a winner while retaining his geekiness. The original cast is voicing their animated characters in the TV shows that debuts on January 15.

They are joined by new characters and guest stars including Amy Poehler, Sam Rockwell and Jemaine Clement.

Heder, 34,wholesale Burberry, talked to Reuters about returning to play Napoleon and working in animation.

Q: Napoleon is back! Why now?

A: “We played around with the idea of an animated series or live-action series for a sequel, but we never played around seriously because we made this with a bunch of friends, so we weren’t thinking cash franchise. But it came out and became a success, and I think all these years later, when Fox came to us, we said, ‘Hey, we’d talked about it. We think the time is right, let’s do it,’ and we were all on board.”

Q: Why animation over live action, especially with the original cast?

A: “Honestly, because it’s probably cheaper and we’re probably all old and flabby now! A live-action show still has a certain lifespan, but with shows like “Family Guy” and “King of the Hill,” successful animated shows can go on forever.”

Q: Where does the new series pick up from after the film?

A: “Napoleon is already friends with Pedro and Deb, and he still has a rivalry going with Summer and Don, but Kip really hasn’t met LaFawnduh yet. The idea was that Kip might have lots of potential female romantic interests. It’s kind of a prequel, in between the end of the movie and the wedding (between Kip and LaFawnduh), because the wedding at the end of the movie, that could have been much later, even years later, so maybe they took some time apart to try out some different mates.”

Q: What can we expect from Kip’s online dating adventures?

A: “We just like the idea that Kip is always online, especially because he doesn’t really know what he’s getting into. In one of the episodes, he’ll be talking to Tatiana from Russia, and he has no idea who she is, she could be a man, so we’re playing with the idea that Kip is clueless. It also lends itself to stories where Kip and Napoleon are going after the same girl, some sibling rivalry there.”

Q: Do you ever feel pigeonholed by playing Napoleon?

A: “He’s very much like me. He’s not pretentious. He was raised in a small town, and he’s an outsider. So, I relate a ton to the character. It is kind of a part of me and it probably will be for the rest of my life. That’s why I have no problem coming back and doing Napoleon again.”

Q: How do you think fans will respond?

A: “… I think true fans will like it, hopefully. It’s animated but it’s trying to capture the feeling and the integrity of the movie. There’s an innocence that’s still there and the naivety of the characters and there’s such a lovability about them.”

Q: Does Napoleon’s iconic dance to Jamiroquai’s “Canned Heat” make an appearance?

A: “Sadly, because it’s animated, unless they do some motion-capture on me, that was the only thing I was a little bit bummed about. I’m playing the part, but it’s only the voice, and so much of the Napoleon character is capturing the image and the physical movements. But from what I’ve seen, the animators are doing a pretty funny job.”

(Editing by Bob Tourtellotte and Patricia Reaney)