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Rihanna is getting her own fashion reality TV show — just in case her three Grammy nods and her impeccable style sense weren't enough.
"Styled to Rock" will feature 12 designers hand-selected by the singer, The Style Network announced Wednesday.
Each hour-long episode will challenge designers to create looks for various celebrities. The show is slated to begin airing sometime during in the second half of 2013.
"Fashion has always played an integral part in my life and career. I am so excited to partner with Style Network and share my creative insight with these 12 designers and give them this opportunity to showcase their work," Rihanna said in a press release.
The 10-episode series will be similar to a British show of the same name that Rihanna executive produced and appeared in this past August, according to Billboard.
The singer recently earned three nominations for the 2013 Grammy Awards: Best Short Form Music Video, Best Pop Solo Performance and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration.
Selected Readings: Billboard, The Style Network


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Business and labor leaders joined in support of the White House's immigration overhaul efforts while also launching high-stakes negotiations to overcome an issue that has derailed past efforts to revamp the system -- creating a guest-worker program to ensure future immigrants come to the country legally.
The broad agreement on a need for immigration changes and a pathway to citizenship for an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants already here is driven largely by self-interest. Both business and labor see an overhaul of the country's broken immigration system as a way to boost economic competitiveness with other nations while increasing the ranks of workers and union members.
For President Barack Obama, a partnership between factions that have often been at odds -- both with each other and with the White House -- allows him to turn up pressure on Congress and try to isolate congressional Republicans who oppose parts of an immigration overhaul.
Despite disagreements over the particulars, immigration has emerged as Obama's best chance for achieving bipartisan agreement on one of his second-term priorities. Many Republicans are pushing for immigration overhaul as a way to reach out to Hispanics, a key voting bloc that overwhelmingly supported Obama and the Democrats in the November elections.
Obama held separate private meetings at the White House on Tuesday with labor leaders and top business executives.
"This is all very encouraging to have labor and business come together to explore what could be some common ground," said Janet Murguia, president of the National Council of La Raza, a leading immigration rights groups. Murguia and other immigration activists joined Obama's meeting with labor groups.
Despite such optimistic public statements, the fragile business-labor alliance is still in question as the Chamber of Commerce meets with the AFL-CIO and other labor groups privately to hammer out details of how to deal with future immigrants who come to the U.S. to work. The labor and business groups have been tasked by Sen. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, with reaching a deal within weeks that can be included in legislation being crafted by a bipartisan Senate group, officials say.
The guest worker issue helped scuttle the last attempt at a comprehensive overhaul of immigration law in 2007. If the parties can't reach a deal, senators and their staffs are prepared to write temporary-worker language themselves, said a Senate aide, who spoke only on condition of anonymity because the aide was not authorized to discuss the private negotiations publicly.
The Senate negotiating group has included a guest-worker program in its immigration proposals, but Obama has not. That omission has drawn criticism from Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, a key negotiator on the Republican side. Republicans view the omission as a cave-in to labor supporters, who see a substantial new guest-worker program as a possible threat to Americans who are seeking jobs.
White House officials say the president is open to a guest-worker program, so long as it protects workers and responds to workforce demands, not politics. That puts the White House in line with AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, who said following his meeting with Obama on Tuesday that they discussed "a data-driven system that is actually driven by needs and not by aspirations of employers."
Even if overhaul legislation makes it through the Senate, trouble lies ahead in the Republican-controlled House.
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said Tuesday the nation's immigration system is "in desperate need of repair" as he opened an overhaul hearing. But he also said there are many questions about how any large-scale legalization program would work, how much it would cost and how it would prevent illegal immigration in future.
The chairman, Rep. Bob Goodlatte of Virginia, questioned whether another approach besides citizenship might be possible: "Are there options we should consider between the extremes of mass deportation and a pathway to citizenship for those not lawfully present in the United States?" he asked.
Obama has found himself at odds with both business and labor during his first term. Business leaders, in particular those representing Wall Street banks, recoiled at the president's financial regulation law and his labeling of bankers as "fat cats." Labor unions opposed Obama's pursuit of free trade agreements.
By bringing both factions together to support immigration overhaul, the White House sees an opportunity to pressure Republicans to back the president -- and set the Republicans up to carry the blame if the current negotiations fail.
Underscoring the risk for Republicans, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, a Virginia Republican, on Tuesday embraced "an opportunity for legal residence and citizenship for those who were brought to this country as children and who know no other home." It appeared to be a change for Cantor, who voted against DREAM Act legislation to allow a path to citizenship for certain immigrants brought here as youths.
The guest worker program addresses what's called "future flow" -- the influx of migrants to the U.S. that's sure to come whether or not Congress passes an immigration bill.
If Congress does act to provide a pathway to citizenship for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants now in the country, it's just as important to deal with future immigration, advocates say. Otherwise, the country will again find itself home to many illegal immigrants. A major criticism of the 1986 immigration law signed by President Ronald Reagan, which offered legalization to some 3 million illegal immigrants, was that it did not deal with the issue of future immigration -- allowing today's problems to emerge.
In 2007, comprehensive immigration legislation foundered after an amendment was added to end a temporary worker program after five years, threatening a key priority of the business community. The amendment passed by just one vote, 49-48. Obama, a senator at the time, joined in the narrow majority voting to end the program after five years.
The U.S. does have several temporary worker programs already, but they're viewed as cumbersome and outdated, and experts say a large proportion of migrant workers in agricultural and other low-skill fields like landscaping or housekeeping are in the U.S. illegally.
For business and labor, the question is how to come to an agreement on how many workers to let in, under what circumstances and how much they would be paid. Another key issue: whether and how they would be able to attain eventual permanent residency, the critical step toward citizenship.
The Senate aide said that lawmakers are eyeing somewhere in the range of 200,000 to 400,000 visas for low-skilled temporary workers, including for agriculture and non-agriculture. Unlike in current programs, negotiators are also eyeing ways to peg the numbers to labor market demands. Employers would have to show they could not find American workers for the jobs.
Associated Press writers Erica Werner and Julie Pace contributed to this report.
Published: Thu, Feb 7, 2013


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Ron Brown drives through the city every morning looking for unsightly graffiti. The foreman of the city's Graffiti Task Force knows where to look. He knows how annoying tags are to neighbors — and to him.
"It drives me nuts," said Mr. Brown, who is part of the city's Department of Public Works and Parks. "Take Vernon Hill. The city put in money for the baseball field and park. They tag the basketball hoops and the playground."
Seeing graffiti as a nuisance and blight, the city created the task force four years ago to deter the problem. The city has three departments working on graffiti: the Department of Public Works, the Police Department and Inspectional Services. Mr. Brown said the task force has been very effective.
Cameras are used to check problem areas. Mr. Brown works with businesses that have their own cameras, asking for footage. The Police Department tracks graffiti as well.
Department of Public Works and Parks Commissioner Robert L. Moylan Jr. said more than 860 places were hit with graffiti from January through the end of September this year.
Graffiti on city property are removed by public works employees. When private property is hit, city officials tell the business or homeowner to have it removed within seven days, per city ordinance.
"Some owners get upset," Mr. Brown said. "I try to tell them it is a city ordinance. Most homeowners and business owners are pretty good at cleaning their properties."
From Nov. 16, 2011, to Nov. 16, 2012, 349 orders were issued to private properties to have graffiti removed. In 94 percent of those cases, the issue was corrected within the seven days. The remaining 6 percent required enforcement through court.
There are some places in the city where graffiti — completed as styled artwork — were done with the owners' consent. That is allowed within the city's ordinance.
In July, Cristoforo Colombo Park was covered in black spray paint. Mr. Brown said there were more than 100 different markings in that incident. Chemicals and power washers were used to remove it all, in about three hours.
Mr. Brown said he has seen markings in different areas of the city, but the Canal District and areas around Southgate Street — especially the bridges — are hit often.
The Ernest Johnson tunnel was getting tagged a lot as well.
His task force put one of its three cameras in the tunnel six weeks ago to stop the activity.
"They haven't tagged it since," Mr. Brown said.
The city Department of Public Works and Parks works with police to identify the markings, some of which are done with permanent marker. Mr. Brown takes pictures and gives them to police.
Police Chief Gary J. Gemme said his department has seen hateful graffiti directed at particular groups.
"We see that in neighborhoods, tagging impacts the quality of life," he said. Graffiti are reviewed weekly by police.
Gang unit Sgt. Stephen L. Roche said his unit reviews graffiti, but gangs don't mark their territories. That was something seen in the 1980s and early 1990s, he said.
"I don't see an uptick," he said. "It goes in spurts. Some kids think it is a form of art. One tagger will go around and hit the whole city."
Nothing is sacred, either. Churches, parks and schools have all been covered over the years.
Police photograph graffiti, looking for similarities, to determine if one person is responsible, and if so, who. Arrests have been made for graffiti.
"As a whole I don't think it is a huge problem for a city our size," the sergeant said. "We don't want it to spread. We do our best to make an arrest. Once we do that, it usually comes to an end."
A few weeks ago Walter Green, a 53-year-old resident, saw someone using a rock to draw in freshly poured pavement.
He told the city workers and a police officer, but was frustrated by a lack of response.
He sees the graffiti in Main South. They are a nuisance, and the graffiti carved into the pavement further infuriated Mr. Green.
"Look at the new sidewalks. It is basically graffiti," he said. "It just keeps going on around here and it seems like no one cares."
Sgt. Roche doesn't see the pavement carving that often. The Telegram & Gazette gave him pictures of a person carving into fresh sidewalk concrete, and it is now under investigation, the sergeant said. The graffiti in the picture appear to be a reference to the Latin Kings gang.
"We will now distribute that picture within the department and try to identify that man," Sgt. Roche said.
People may call the Department of Public Works and Parks Customer Service Center at (508) 929-1300 to report graffiti or send police an anonymous text to 274637 beginning with TIPWPD, or submit an anonymous message online via www.worcesterma.gov/police.


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