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The unemployment rate remains stubbornly high and millions of Americans are looking for work. So is it really time to start worrying about labor shortages?
That's the view of economists at the Conference Board, who argue in a new paper that the United States will soon enter a period of prolonged labor shortages that could drive the unemployment rate down to 3.8% or less in the next 15 years, lower than at any time since the 1960s. The current unemployment rate is 6.7%.
As the retirement of baby boomers accelerates—nearly all these Americans born between 1946 and 1964 will leave the workforce by 2030, multiple forecasts predict—the labor force will contract, especially in occupations that currently employ a disproportionate number of older workers.
Industries likely to see significant worker shortages include rail transportation, plant operations and law enforcement, according to authors Gad Levanon and Ben Cheng. On the other hand, STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) professions will be insulated from the brunt of this trend because large shares of those workers are young immigrants, they write.
Unemployment will return to its "natural rate" of 5.5% by the end of 2015, the authors write.
That seems like good news at first glance, especially for those who are out of work and eager to earn a paycheck, but there are darker elements to it.
Along with retirements, another factor fueling the tight labor market of the future is the erosion in skills and qualifications of those who have been unemployed for a long time—a segment that has remained high during this recession. These individuals will, most likely, constitute an unemployable group that will eventually drop out of the workforce, the authors write.
As of March, 3.7 million Americans had been out of work for six months or more, and the median duration of unemployment was 16.3 weeks—"down from the record high of 25 weeks in mid-2010, but well above pre-recession norms," as the Pew Research Center noted on Wednesday. A paper from the Brookings Institution this year found that 15 months after a bout of long-term unemployment, only 36% were employed in any type of job. And 34% had dropped out of the labor market completely.
Levanon and Cheng also argue that the declining unemployment rate will drive up wages and put pressure on companies' growth. Indeed, wages have been rising since the trough of the recession in 2009, according to Labor Department statistics, as is typical as the unemployment rate declines.
But pay increases are not keeping up with inflation as a whole. Real average weekly earnings crept up 0.5% in March 2014 compared with a year earlier, but consumer prices rose 1.5% in that time, so workers still come up short. But the authors predict employers will open their pocketbooks further as the market tightens, or will find other ways to keep costs down, such as outsourcing work overseas.
The projections of a labor shortage may not come to pass if immigration policy loosens, allowing more foreign-born workers to fill job openings in the U.S., the authors write. In addition, employers are already beginning to create incentives that encourage older workers to stay on the job, from phased retirements to consultant roles for retired staff.
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Burma, renamed Myanmar, has been remade so swiftly that, last November, Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the country. But Myanmar — the subject of this month's Minnesota International Center's "Great Decisions" dialogue — is still far from democratic. And the greater international recognition comes at a time of increased interethnic strife.
Alongside Myanmar's military junta, the major player in the country's political process is Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who now serves as opposition leader in parliament and is increasingly criticized for compromising with the military. Suu Kyi, the daughter of one of Burma's liberation leaders, has played many roles in the country's drama. Most notably, she is the internal and international symbol of resistance.
"It was very important to have someone who symbolized to people all over the world what was good and hopeful and promising about the Burmese democracy movement, and someone who could articulate its goals and serve as such a beautiful contrast to the ugliness and evil of the regime that was repressing her, " said Tom Malinowski, Washington director for Human Rights Watch.
The optics were optimal in getting the world's focus, said Malinowski. "Everyone could visualize this — this beautiful, striking, courageous woman who seemingly single-handedly (although not at all true) was standing up to this brutal regime. Presidents and prime ministers … stood up for human rights in Burma not for the country; they felt like they were doing it for Aung San Suu Kyi. And that's just human. We care more when we can personalize an abstract cause."
There were practical applications, too. Suu Kyi united the opposition in order to negotiate with the ruling regime in the same way that Nelson Mandela, Lech Walesa and Václav Havel did during their nations' transitions.
Conversely, many Arab Spring nations lacked a legitimizing figure, which created chaos or, worse, a different kind of authoritarianism, like in Mohammed Morsi's Egypt.
A galvanizing leader works the other way, too. Hugo Chavez's Venezuela wasn't the only leftist Latin American regime — neighboring nations such as Bolivia and Ecuador adopted similar stances. But Evo Morales and Rafael Correa didn't crystallize concerns the same way Chavez did.
"We respond to caricatures," said Malinowski. "Having a Gadhafi to personalize the evil of the Libyan regime, or an Assad to personalize the Syrian regime, helps explain things to people. In the end, it's not a person, but a system that we are at war with. But that's harder to explain in shorthand."
Chavez wasn't alone in seeking the limelight, even if the shadow he created revealed dark intentions. Others, however, shun it. Take Russian and China, two permanent members of the United Nations Security Council that seem to permanently weaken Western efforts to hold rogue regimes accountable.
"Russia is a little more pugnacious in the person of Vladimir Putin, while the Chinese style is to hold back, and sometimes hide behind the Russians, " said Nicholas Burns, a former undersecretary of state for political affairs and now a professor and director of the Future of Diplomacy Project at Harvard.
The styles may be different, but the outcome often is the same: dictators not held accountable.
But Burns believes it's getting harder to menace undetected in the modern media age. And in fact, some leaders lacking democratic credentials turn to public relations — or "reputation laundering," as it's labeled in London, the capitol of the practice.
To be sure, perceptions are important. But they should be earned, not bought.
"If countries need to hire a PR firm to burnish their image, they start with significant problems, " Burns said. "If you have a good story to tell, if you're democratic, if you're making a positive contribution, you don't need a public-relations firm."
Ideally, international efforts to rein in repressive regimes wouldn't depend on personal attributes of dictators or dissidents. But in a world in which freedom has declined for the seventh consecutive year, according to an annual analysis by Freedom House, personalities can pierce the consciousness of an often inconsistent or even incoherent international community.
Malinowski uses this analogy: "If 10 people are lost in the woods and one of them has a flashlight, you're more likely to find that one and save him. Is that fair? No. But we try to help who we can in life, and it's hard to help everybody. I'll take what I can get. If Aung San Suu Kyi gives Burma an advantage and human rights activists and democracy campaigners can seize upon that opportunity to push out a dictatorship, I'll take it, and then try to shine a light on countries that don't have that advantage."
Malinowski is realistic. He's also right. But the international community should still strive to alleviate all circumstances similar to Myanmar's, even if they don't have a savvy, sympathetic symbol like Aung San Suu Kyi.
The Rash Report can be heard at 7:50 a.m. weekdays on WCCO Radio, 830-AM. On Twitter: @rashreport. The Star Tribune Editorial Board and the Minnesota International Center are partners in "Great Decisions," a monthly dialogue discussing foreign-policy topics. Join the conversation.

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Zurich, New York, 10 June 2014 – This month UBS -- a longstanding global patron of contemporary art -- marks its 21st year of support for Art Basel in Basel, the world's premier international Modern and contemporary art show. This partnership has prospered and grown throughout the years with UBS assuming the role of global Lead Partner for all Art Basel shows in 2013, most recently including Art Basel in Hong Kong. On the occasion of the 2014 edition of Art Basel, UBS has commissioned Swiss artist John Armleder to create a monumental installation for the UBS lounge to complement one of the artist's Pour Paintings from the UBS Art Collection that will also be on view. UBS is also Lead Partner of '14 Rooms,' a major exhibition organized by the Fondation Beyeler, Art Basel, and Theater Basel that will be on view in Basel from June 14 to 22, 2014.
"On the heels of our first year participating at Art Basel in Hong Kong, and as we embark on our 21st year here at Basel, we are reminded what makes UBS's relationship with Art Basel such a very special one," stated Jürg Zeltner, CEO UBS Wealth Management. "Collecting is at the heart of our longstanding, global support of contemporary art, and, as Art Basel has grown, so has our continuing commitment to the organization, making the partnership an ideal fit as it reflects the firm's and our clients' interests in the dynamic and ever-expanding art world."
UBS is home to one of the world's most distinguished corporate art collections. It also serves as an active partner in global contemporary art projects and is a source of information and insight for investors and collectors through its UBS Arts Forum and UBS Art Competence Center.
For the UBS Lounge, John Armleder has created a large scale installation (approximately 30 feet by 10 feet) of custom designed wallpaper, which relates to the artist's ongoing exploration of the limits of surface and support and the way contemporary art is displayed and perceived. In addition, Armleder's Untitled (Pour Painting) (Mixed media on canvas, 300 x 450 cm), created in 1993 and part of the UBS Art Collection, will be prominently featured in the main area of the lounge. The artwork was initially commissioned for UBS's office in Geneva and forms part of the artist's ongoing series of Pour Paintings, in which Armleder recycles art historical impulses such as Abstract Expressionism and Color Field paintings. The metallic, rainbow colors of Untitled (Pour Painting) also served as an inspiration for the pattern of the wallpaper in the Lounge, featuring the iconic image of flint. The design has been printed first on traditional wall paper with a digital inkjet technique and then laminated on the surface with a decorative film to create an additional three dimensional effect.
The public will have access to the UBS Art Hub in Hall 1, where show visitors will be able to share their impressions of Art Basel on camera, and their comments will then be integrated with statements by art experts. The combined footage will later be on view in the UBS booth, as well as UBS's newly built video portal (http://www.ubs.com/artstudio) and social media channels during the fair. Also on view at the UBS Art Hub will be projected video footage of select UBS & the Arts projects.
In addition to its role as global Lead Partner of Art Basel, UBS is providing support for '14 Rooms,' a major exhibition curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Hans Ulrich Obrist that features performative works by artists including Marina Abramović, Allora and Calzadilla, Ed Atkins, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Damien Hirst, Joan Jonas, Laura Lima, Bruce Nauman, Otobong Nkanga, Roman Ondák, Yoko Ono, Tino Sehgal, Santiago Sierra, and Xu Zhen. '14 Rooms' is a collaboration among Fondation Beyeler, Art Basel, and Theater Basel, and will be accompanied by an education program conceived and run by Fondation Beyeler. The exhibition is designed by the renowned Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron.
UBS is also arranging special behind-the-scenes video footage of the performances, including the castings, interviews with the artists, rehearsals, and the final performances. These videos will be available on http://www.ubs.com/artstudio set to launch on June 13.
'14 Rooms' will be staged from June 14 to 22, 2014 in Hall 3 of Messe Basel, walking distance from Messeplatz. The project was originally commissioned as '11 Rooms' by Manchester International Festival in July 2011, as '12 Rooms' at the International Arts Festival RUHRTRIENNALE 2012-2014 and as '13 Rooms' by Kaldor Public Art Projects at Pier 2/3 in Sydney's Walsh Bay in April 2013. For each edition, the list of artists has partially changed. While the artists themselves are not present in these works, they instruct performers on how to act out their specifications, resulting in over 70 performers – primarily from the Basel region – taking part in the exhibition.
Art Basel in Basel, held at Halls 1 and 2 of Messe Basel at Messeplatz from June 19 to 22, 2014 is a premier art world destination and features 285 leading international galleries, drawn from countries across North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, representing the work of more than 4,000 artists.
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UBS has a long and substantial record of engagement in contemporary art, and actively enables clients and audiences to participate in the international conversation about art and the global art market through its contemporary art platform. At the core of UBS's extensive art sponsorship portfolio is its long-term global support for the premier international Art Basel shows in Basel, Miami Beach and Hong Kong, for which they serve as global Lead Partner, as well as a global partnership with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation. The UBS global art sponsorship activities are complemented by a number of regional partnerships including the Swiss Institute in New York, the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, the Fondation Beyeler in Switzerland, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. UBS is also active in the contemporary art world through the UBS Art Collection, through the expertise of the UBS Art Competence Center, and as a source of information and insight for investors and collectors through its UBS Arts Forum.
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UBS draws on its 150-year heritage to serve private, institutional and corporate clients worldwide, as well as retail clients in Switzerland. Its business strategy is centered on its pre-eminent global wealth management businesses and its leading universal bank in Switzerland. Together with a client-focused Investment Bank and a strong, well-diversified Global Asset Management business, UBS will expand its premier wealth management franchise and drive further growth across the Group.
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We�ve never been fans of the privilege license charged by cities and towns that allow businesses to operate. The criticism leveled by Republicans in the General Assembly is accurate and worthy of discussion. Indeed, the costs vary from city to city and town to town. Sometimes regulations within the cities themselves favor one type of business over another.
It all seems so � random and arbitrary. It can also influence whether a business might decide to operate in a particular city. It seems odd that a business would pay one thing in Burlington and another in Salisbury or Gastonia � cities of similar size.
But we�re also not fans of the state dictating orders to local governments either. We like to see cities, counties and boards of education free to make their own decisions about the best solutions available for individual communities. We�re also not too choked up when the federal government mandates regulations for states to follow for that matter. We know state lawmakers don�t care much for it either.
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For lawmakers in Raleigh who ran on more local control and less state government, this seems like an odd path. First, there was a law telling North Carolina cities and towns they no longer had control over billboards in their jurisdictions. Then there were the laws limiting local authority over inspecting rental properties and environmental rules, not to mention attempts to take away control over housing design standards and smoking bans
Now, the legislature�s Revenue Laws Study Committee has drafted a proposal capping how much cities can charge for business privilege licenses. The committee wants to cap that tax at $100 per business. It�s a change that could cost Burlington $250,000 in revenue annually if it applies the $100 fee to all businesses in town equally.
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To kick the thread off, I'll start with Record of Agarest War, the first one specifically (since I haven't played the others)
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There were so many issues with this game. The game was so poorly coded that the 2d-pixel art graphics would LAG on a PS3. And while there were no random-encounters, the game was grindy as all hell. For those who are actually into the visual novel / romance dating sim elements, the game was crude and poorly written. Making a decision to take literally the left or right side of a fork in the road would change the romance points of characters arbitrarily. Most of the decisions made it impossible to know ahead of time which decisions would get you where... and without a guide / several playthroughs, you'd never be able to predict which decisions to make.
So even as a visual novel, this game was trashy. And I mean beyond just the female characters making dick jokes with bananas in their mouths... the actual visual novel mechanics (story, plot, and choices) were actually awful.
Note on the sexual jokes: the first major fight is against a giant chicken. Its name? Jumbo Cock. You can't make this stuff up. I'm still wondering if this was bloody brilliant, or utterly sophomoric / juvenile.
This continued beyond just the overworld screen. There are several dungeons where the design of the levels were so awful, you wouldn't know where you were inside of the dungeon. They would copy/paste level designs in an awful attempt at making a "puzzling" maze, when frankly this is just awful level design.
Pretty bad right? But I kid you not, this is probably one of the deepest and richest turn-based tactical games I've ever played. As grindy as the game was, on my first playthrough... I was something like 300+ battles into the game and I was still learning tricks and nuances with regards to the battle system.
Characters would have "extended zones" that allow other characters on your team to act on a turn. So lets say Ellis was inside of Leo's extended zone... then Leo can act on Ellis's turn, OR Ellis can act on Leo's turn. This was recursive AND awarded with ability-point bonuses, so you would start chaining extended zones of your characters together. The more people in more extended zones, the better. (Leo has a special ability that grants more action points to characters inside his extended zone). You learn tricks like having the slow-tank (Borgenine) enter the extended zone of your high-speed thief, so that Borgenine would cheat the turn order and the tanky-high damage but slow character will go first in the turn order.
If that weren't possible, maybe you'd chain Borgenine into the extended zone of Leo who would then connect to the extended zone of your thief. Get it?
Here's the crazy part: the AI also knew of these tricks and fully utilized them against you.
The game is hard and challenging. Not only does character turn order matters, but your attacks will morph into new attacks depending on the order of your attacks. A particularly devastating attack for example, was combining five elements: fire, ice, wind, electric and earth. And of course, no single character has access to all five elements.
So you know what that means: combining character turns using extended zones.
But it wasn't sufficient to just use those attacks... you had to have all five elements next to each other in the turn order for it to morph into the new attack. Turn order was exceptionally important here.
The amount of detail in these combination attacks were particularly well implemented. The "Gun" character (Winfield) who specializes in "Blast" type attacks will attack three squares at the same time (the three squares in front of him). Scythe characters attack the three squares horizontal one square in front of them. While most characters (swords or gauntlets) only attack one square at a time (the square in front of the character).
The crazy part: combining attacks between characters merges the properties of the two characters. "Power Attack" and "Double Edge" for example, combines into an advanced attack which takes on the properties of the Power-attack user. So Winfield can use Power Attack, and a sword-user can add Double-Edge through the extended field, and you may attack up to 3 different enemies at the same time... using the attack-range and spread-damage of the gun user... while using the higher strength score from the sword user.
Of course, this only worked if Winfield was facing the correct orientation, but that's why you have Scythe users (Zerva) who has slightly different multi-hit orientations... or Spear users who have a different orientation still.
Needless to say, the battle system makes up for the rest of the game. The boss fights and AI are all incrementally designed to help you grow as a gamer, and learn throughout the game.
And yeah, while eventually the game turns into "Ellis->Impact" or "Ellis->Stardust" (the best magic character using the widest, most powerful simple single-attack in the game), the path to that point is fraught with danger. And even Ellis's powerful magic isn't enough to take on the big boss fights (some of which are magic-immune). So complete mastery of the full battle system is required by the game design.
And with that said, Record of Agarest War is the worst game that I fully enjoyed. It was a laggy, grindy, piece of garbage that actually had a really good and awesome tactical system.
Anyone else have a similar experience?


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No sustainable development without hunger eradication
On the path to Rio+20, FAO calls for a future with both healthier people and healthier ecosystems
30 May 2012, Rome
- Sustainable development cannot be realized unless hunger and malnutrition are eradicated, FAO said in a
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prepared for the Rio+20 Summit to be held in June in Rio de Janeiro.
"We cannot call development sustainable while this situation persists, while nearly one out of every seven men, women and children are left behind, victims of undernourishment," said FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva.
"The quest for food security can be the common thread that links the different challenges we face and helps build a sustainable future. At the Rio Summit we have the golden opportunity to explore the convergence between the agendas of food security and sustainability to ensure that happens," he added.
One of the great flaws in current food systems is that despite significant progress in development and food production hundreds of millions of people are hungry because they lack the means to produce or purchase the food they need for a healthy and productive life, according to FAO's report.
"Improving agricultural and food systems is essential for a world with both healthier people and healthier ecosystems," it says.
The report,
Towards the future we want: end hunger and make the transition to sustainable agricultural and food systems
, urges governments to establish and protect rights to resources, especially for the poor; incorporate incentives for sustainable consumption and production into food systems; promote fair and well-functioning agricultural and food markets; reduce risks and increase the resilience of the most vulnerable; invest public resources in essential public goods, especially innovation and infrastructure.
Link between hunger and environment
The report stresses that hunger reduction and sustainable development are irrevocably connected, and that better governance of agriculture and food systems is key to achieving both targets.
Agriculture and food systems are already major users of resources. For example, food systems consume 30 percent of the world's energy. The crop and livestock sectors use 70 percent of all water withdrawals.
Three fourths of the world's poor and hungry live in rural areas and most of them depend on agriculture and related activities for their livelihoods. Forty percent of the world's degraded lands are in areas with high poverty rates. "Hunger puts in motion a vicious cycle of reduced productivity, deepening poverty, slow economic development and resource degradation," the report says.
Access to natural resources — such as land, water or forests — is essential for the 2.5 billion people who produce food for their own consumption and income.
The farmers who operate the 500 million small farms in developing countries face various resource limitations resulting in insufficient access to food and nutrition. They need clear tenure rights to promote equitable access to and sustainable management of resources like land and water.
Towards sustainable food production and consumption systems
Food consumption and production systems must achieve more with less. On the consumption side, we need to shift to nutritious diets with a smaller environmental footprint, and reduce food losses and waste throughout the food system.
FAO estimates that global food losses and waste amount to 1.3 billion tonnes per year — roughly one-third of the world food production for human consumption — and correspond to more than 10 percent of the world's total caloric energy consumption.
On the production side, soil, water and nutrient depletion, greenhouse gas emissions, pollution and the degradation of natural ecosystems must be targeted, the report said. Benefits provided by nature such as clean air and water (ecosystem services) need to be protected and harnessed to achieve sustainable growth.
More with less
Agriculture must produce more food but with fewer resources like energy and water. FAO is promoting an eco-system approach called
Save and Grow
to agriculture that draws on nature's contribution to agricultural growth, for example, soil organic matter, water flow regulation, pollination and natural predation of pests — and applies appropriate external inputs at the right time and in the right amount to improved crop varieties that are resilient to climate change and use nutrients, water and external inputs more efficiently.
Feeding 9 billion people
In 2050 there will be an expected global population of 9 billion, with increased incomes and rising food demand. Pressure on the world's agricultural and food systems and the resources they use will grow. Worse, unless purposeful action is taken, the increase in food production of 60 percent needed to meet effective demand will still leave behind over 300 million people who are expected to suffer from chronic hunger in 2050 because they will remain without the means to access food.
The only way to ensure their food security is by creating decent jobs, paying better wages, giving them access to productive assets and distributing income in a more equitable way.
"We must bring them into society, complementing support to smallholders and income generation opportunities with the strengthening of safety nets, cash for work and cash transfer programmes that contribute to strengthening of local production and consumption circuits, in an effort that must contribute to our sustainable development goals," said Graziano da Silva.
FAO believes that feeding all the of the earth's population is possible if bold policy decisions are taken on enhancing poor people's access to food, levels of food waste and how agriculture is used for non-food purposes. All depends on the choices made today in managing agricultural and food systems, the report said.
Improved governance is essential
FAO's new policy paper calls for improved governance of the food and agriculture system as a prerequisite for a sustainable future. Part of the debate around good governance will also need to decide who pays for these costs.
The paper describes a fair and effective governance systems as one which is transparent, participatory, results-focused and accountable — at the global, regional, national and sub-national levels. The report cites the reformed
Committee on World Food Security
, which now includes a large number of stakeholders including governments, civil society, international organizations and the private sector as one of the models that could be followed.
FAO calls upon the governments attending Rio+20 to commit themselves to reducing hunger and malnutrition more quickly; to use the
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State of the Union
Education was one of key areas President Obama focused on during his 2012 State of the Union address. Specifically, he mentioned four education issues:
College Affordability
"When kids do graduate, the most daunting challenge can be the cost of college. At a time when Americans owe more in tuition debt than credit card debt, this Congress needs to stop the interest rates on student loans from doubling in July. Extend the college tuition tax credit we started that saves middle-class families thousands of dollars. And, give more young people the chance to earn their way through college by doubling the number of work-study jobs in the next five years.... Of course, it's not enough for us to increase student aid. We can't just keep subsidizing skyrocketing tuition; we'll run out of money. States also need to do their partby making higher education a higher priority in their budgets. And, colleges and universities have to do their part, by working to keep costs down. Recently, I spoke with a group of college presidents who've done just that. Some schools redesign courses to help students finish more quickly. Some use better technology. The point is, it's possible. So, let me put colleges and universities on notice: if you can't stop tuition from going up, the funding you get from taxpayers will go down. Higher education can't be a luxuryit is an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford."
"At a time when other countries are doubling down on education, tight budgets have forced states to layoff thousands of teachers. We know a good teacher can increase the lifetime income of a classroom by over $250,000. A great teacher can offer an escape from poverty to a child who dreams beyond his circumstances. Every person in this chamber can point to a teacher who changed the trajectory of their lives. Most teachers work tirelessly, with modest pay, sometimes digging in their own pocket for school supplies, just to make a difference. Teachers matter. So, instead of bashing them or defending the status quo, let's offer schools a deal. Give them the resources to keep good teachers on the job, and reward the best ones. In return, grant schools flexibility: to teach with creativity and passion; to stop teaching to the test; and to replace teachers who just aren't helping kids learn."
"We also know that when students don't walk away from their education, more of them walk the stage to get their diploma. So, tonight, I am proposing that every state requires that all students stay in high school until they graduate or turn 18."
Job Training
"I want every American looking for work to have the same opportunity.... Join me in a national commitment to train two million Americans with skills that will lead directly to a job. My Administration has lined up more companies that want to help. Model partnerships between businesses like Siemens and community colleges in places like Charlotte, Orlando, and Louisville are up and running. Now, you need to give more community colleges the resources they need to become community career centersplaces that teach people skills that businesses are looking for right now. And, I want to cut through the maze of confusing training programs, so that, from now on, people have one program, one web site, and one place to go for all the information and help that they need. It is time to turn our unemployment system into a reemployment system that puts people to work."
A handful of students, educators, and advocates were guests of First Lady Michelle Obama during the address.
After the address, the Administration released "A Blueprint for an America Built to Last," a series of ideas (such as those cited above) to build an economy that works for everyone.
Meanwhile, anyone who watched the online broadcast of the address saw something a little different: a side-by-side display of charts, graphs, and other visual representations of why the President's policies are important for the country and the economy.
Budget Tables
This week, the Department posted budget tables for the Fiscal Year 2012 appropriations. Funds included in the state-by-state tables are for agency programs that allocate funds to states or school districts using statutory formulas. The totals do not reflect all Department funds that a state may receive. States and other entities may also receive Department funds awarded on a competitive basis. The tables also include, for each state, financial support from selected student aid programs that provide funds to the postsecondary institutions that students attend, as well as the amount of new federally supported loans made to students attending postsecondary institutions in the state.
Note: The President is now scheduled to release his FY 2013 budget on February 13.
Completing the FAFSA
Last week, Secretary Duncan announced the expansion of a pilot project to increase the number of students completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) in selected school districts. The one-year-old project will be expanding to an additional 92 districts, helping identify students who have not completed a FAFSA. Research indicates that 90% of students who complete a FAFSA will enroll in postsecondary education. Through the project, participating districts will have access to FAFSA completion data and give students information about how to pursue a college education. The Department is accepting applications for the pilot project until March 2.
In related news, the Secretary traveled to Minneapolis on January 20 to speak with students, parents, and local, state, and national leaders at South High School about the importance of higher education and college affordability. The Administration has taken a number of steps to make it easier for students to get financial aid and understand the true cost of college: the biggest investment in college since the G.I. Bill; $40 billion for Pell Grants; simplifying the FAFSA; "Pay as You Earn" income-based repayment; and "Know Before You Owe" financial aid shopping sheet, among other items. The Secretary also launched the @FAFSA Twitter account.
Undersecretary of Education Martha Kanter is also hosting "FAFSA Office Hours," during which she will solicit and answer students' FAFSA questions live on Twitter using the #askFAFSA hashtag.
ADA Amendments Guidance
Also last week, the Department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a Dear Colleague letter regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Amendments Act. The letter and accompanying Frequently Asked Questions provide guidance on the requirements of the ADA and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act in elementary and secondary schools, given changes to those laws under the Amendments Act. That act broadened the meaning of disability and, in most cases, shifts the inquiry away from the question of whether a student has a disability as defined by the ADA and Section 504 and toward actions and obligations to ensure equal education opportunities.
Teacher Ambassador Fellowship
Applications for the Department's fifth cohort of Teaching Ambassador Fellows recently opened and are scheduled to close on February 22. Since 2008, this highly competitive program has enabled a total of 69 outstanding teachers, each with a record of leadership, strong communications skills, and insights into education policy based in classroom expertise to work with the agency on either a full- or part-time basis. The program offers three separate paid positions. The Washington Fellowship is a full-time appointment based at the Department's headquarters in Washington, D.C. The Classroom Fellowship enables teachers to participate on a part-time basis with the Department, working with the agency's regional offices, in addition to their regular school responsibilities. The Regional Fellowship, offered for the first time this year, is a full-time appointment based at one of the Department's regional offices. All fellows spend a year learning about federal programs and policies, sharing their expertise with federal staff members and providing communication and outreach about federal initiatives to other educators on behalf of the agency in order to help teachers understand and implement these efforts at the federal, state, and local levels. (Note: In a blog post, current Washington fellows react to the President's comments on teachers in his State of the Union address.)
Odds and Ends
The December 2011 edition of "School Days," the Department's monthly video journal, features President Obama's Osawatomie, Kansas, speech emphasizing the importance of education for middle-class prosperity, a celebration of the teaching profession at the White House, and recent grants for education reform.
The President recently announced his intent to nominate Deborah Delisle as Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education.
When the White House celebrated the latest class of National Board Certified teachers, several of the honorees traveled from some of America's most remote and distant rural communities. Department staff caught up with these teachers to hear their stories. The teachers describe challenges with funding, a lack of technology, and the need to elevate the teaching profession, while expanding curriculum to prepare students for today's economy.
Today, the Department will welcome more than 200 teachers for a screening of the documentary "American Teacher," which chronicles the stories of four teachers working in different areas of the country. It follows the teachers as they reach different milestones in their careers and provides a compelling portrait of the teaching profession in America today. Following the screening, participants will engage in a discussion regarding how to reshape the culture of American education to better attract, retain, and support highly effective teachers, and teachers all across the country are welcome to join the discussion by logging onto Twitter and using the hashtag #TeachTalk starting at 7:45 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
The Promise Neighborhoods Program released a list of applicants that scored 80 points or higher in its 2011 competition, spotlighting high potential applicants who, due to limited funding, did not receive grants.
The next in a series of blog posts on the Green Ribbon Schools' pilot year is an open letter to potential applicants, thanking them for their enthusiasm and encouraging them to apply and take advantage of the resources available on the program web site.
On January 25, at Parklawn Elementary School in Alexandria, Virginia, First Lady Michelle Obama, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, and celebrity cook Rachel Ray introduced final guidelines improving nutrition standards for school lunches. The guidelines substantially increase the amount of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains on the menu, while reducing saturated fat, trans fat, and sodium. They also set calorie limits based on the age of children being served.
The Department is collecting information and gathering suggestions to assist states, districts, and organizations in preventing, detecting, and responding to irregularities in academic testing.
The new year marked the start of new five-year contracts for the Regional Educational Laboratories.
In its latest Challenge to Innovate (C2i) initiative, the NEA Foundation has partnered with Microsoft-U.S. Partners in Learning to urge public school educators to explore, share, and discuss their responses to this question: how can interactive technology and game-based learning help students learn? Proposed solutions for the challenge will be accepted through March 5. The 10 best ideas, as judged by the community on the Department's Open Innovation Portal, will receive $1,000 cash awards and recognition as their solutions are shared with educators nationwide.
Quote to Note
"One of the biggest disagreements I have with some folks in Washington is the nature of America's success. Each of us is here only because somebody somewhere felt a responsibility to each other and felt a responsibility to our country's future. And, that starts within our own families. It starts with us making sure our kids are responsible, and we're instilling in them the values of hard work and doing your homework and treating other people with respect. But then it expands from there, to our neighborhoods and our communities. And, we recognize that if everybody is getting a fair shot, everybody has a chance to do better."
|President Barack Obama (1/25/12), speaking on "An America Built to Last" in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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February is African-American History Month. Need help planning activities? The Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) web site offers over 1,500 free teaching and learning resources from dozens of federal agencies, including 69 resources specifically highlighted for the month.
Secretary Duncan and Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar have organized Tribal Leader Education Roundtables to engage tribal and other community leaders, Indian education stakeholders, and the public on the development of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the two Departments that will take advantage of both agencies' expertise, resources, and facilities to improve American Indian and Alaska Native students. Three roundtables have been held to date, and a fourth roundtable is planned for Seattle (on February 16). Additional roundtables may be held at a later date.
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The day before our wedding I was warned not to marry her by her own father.
He said she was selfish and vain and would never make me happy.
On our honeymoon she flirted with every waiter and other male guest.
One afternoon, she went for a deep massage at a local spa and didn't return for four hours.
Every time I went to look for her, the receptionist fobbed me off saying she had booked extra treatments.
But I suspect she was having sex with one of the male staff in a back room. I suspect she's slept with at least 30 other men since she's been with me.
She's one of those women who has to be adored all the time. If she's not turning heads and being the centre of attention, then she doesn't feel alive. I've even had male friends beg me to "have a word with her" because she won't stop pursuing them.
Why have I always stayed with her? Because I love her. Well I thought I did.
Just recently I got really ill. It wasn't "man flu". I was off work for three weeks and she couldn't have been less sympathetic.
She kept huffing and puffing that I was a burden and wouldn't pick up my prescriptions. At one point she said that if I didn't get better soon, then I'd had to move out. Eventually my sister came round with some soup and told me my wife was making a fool out of me. Can I change her?
I GET the impression that you've been blind to your wife's faults from the start.
Because she's so outrageous, outspoken and so much largerthan-life, you've looked away and forgiven her almost anything.
But it's taken a serious illness for you to see just how selfish and vain she really is.
Let's face it, the woman is only interested in herself. If she's not having fun, sleeping around and being adored, then she's not interested.
She showed her true colours during your sickness. She proved herself unsympathetic and cold.
When it looked like you might need constant care; her first reaction was to get shot of you, like a lame duck.
Is there any coming back from this? I don't think there is.
Your wife is never going to change, because she is what she is. What you've had is a wake-up call.
I urge you to start putting yourself first and plan for a future that doesn't involve her dragging you down and humiliating you.


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Is SSD only for performance?November 24, 2012 – 12:34 pm
Normally solid state devices (SSD) including non-persistent DRAM, and persistent nand flash are thought of in the context of performance including bandwidth or throughput, response time or latency, and IOPS or transactions. However there is another role where SSD are commonly used where the primary focus is not performance. Besides consumer devise such as iPhones, iPads, iPods, Androids, MP3, cell phones and digital cameras, the other use is for harsh environments.
Harsh environments include those (both commercial and government) where use of SSDs are a solution to vibration or other rough handling. These include commercial and military aircraft, telemetry and mobile command, control and communications, energy exploration among others.
What's also probably not commonly thought about is that the vendors or solution providers for the above specialized environments include mainstream vendors including IBM (via their TMS acquisition) and EMC among others. Yes, EMC is involved with deploying SSD in different environments including all nand flash-based VNX systems.
In a normal IT environment, vibration should not be an issue for storage devices assuming quality solutions with good enclosures are used. However some environments that are pushing the limits on density may become more susceptible to vibration. Not all of those use cases will be SSD opportunities, however some that can leverage IO density along with tolerance to vibration will be a good fit.
Does that mean HDDs can not or should not be used in high density environments where vibration can be an issue?
That depends.
If the right drive enclosures, type of drive are used following manufactures recommendations, then all should be good. Keep in mind that there are many options to leverage SSD for various scenarios.
Which tool or technology to use when, where or how much will depend on the specific situation, or perhaps your preferences for a given product or approach.
Ok, nuff said.
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Google (GOOG) said Monday it agreed to buy intelligent home appliance startup Nest Labs for $3.2 billion in cash.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based tech giant will help expand into more countries Nest's suite of smart appliances.
"They're already delivering amazing products you can buy right now -- thermostats that save energy and smoke/CO alarms that can help keep your family safe," Google CEO Larry Page said in a statement.
Nest Labs will continue to operate under the leadership of Tony Fadell with its own distinct brand identity.
The transaction is expected to close within the next few months pending regulatory approval and other customary closing conditions.
Google has invested billions of dollars in a acquiring a slew of next-generation tech startups in recent months as it looks to expand its footprint.
It bought travel app Waze for more than $1 billion last spring and in December bought military robot maker Boston Dynamics.


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Inspired this time of year by the earliest signs of spring to carry on their ancient species, shad don't know they're failing the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's survival test.
They're just doing what comes naturally.
That's returning from ocean to Chesapeake to the river headwaters of their birth. To fish used to cold oceanic waters, 40 means spring. When water temperatures top that mark, they begin their migration from Bay to river. The spawning drive makes a fish impatient.
You may not know much more about shad than they do about their status as one of 13 indicators of Bay Health on the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's State of the Bay report.
Shad were one of the great fish of the pristine Chesapeake, so abundant and easily netted that the American colonies survived on their tasty flesh. John McPhee writes in The Founding Fish that shad fueled George Washington's Continental Army.
In the last half of the 18th century, American shad — the best eating of the six species — was the Bay's largest fishery, with catches up to 17 million pounds, according to Fishes of the Chesapeake Bay.
Nowadays shad are much reduced from their historic population, protected as a no-keep fishery in the Chesapeake and most of its rivers.
Such a loss! Not only to the fish but also to the ecosystem, to anglers and to eaters. Shad flesh is smoky, sweet and compelling; the granular roe inside the sacs rich and delicious as caviar though not so salty. I know because every year this time, when the shad run to the rivers of their birth, I eat a meal of the scarce delicacy.
Fish caught in the Potomac are the exception to the ban. Cleaned by anatomists able to remove the many hair-thin bones yet leave the fillet intact, the fish element of my dinner cost $11.95 a pound this year. You must purchase generously because half of each fillet is dark meat and skin better fed to the cats. The succulent paired roe cost $25.95 a pound. Fortunately, their taste is so satisfying that even a very small set of sautéed roe is enough for a dinner for two — if you are extravagantly combining fish and roe.
Eat such a dinner, and you will value this fish according to its true worth.
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation values shad as an indicator of the health of Bay fisheries because, says scientist Bill Goldsborough, "They are representative of different aspects of the Bay system."
Shad go hundreds of miles up the watershed into fresh water to spawn. On their journey, they pass through what Goldsborough calls "sensitive lifecycle changes in the greater Bay system."
Shad biographer McPhee calls their journeys "heroic," ascribing 2,000 miles a year to a "typical individual." How far they travel in the Chesapeake depends on the location and length of the river of their birth. Up the Susquehanna, the Bay's main stem, they travel as far as 300 miles.
Yet these valiant travelers "are at their lowest point on record coast-wide," according to Goldsborough, who is both fisheries director at the Bay Foundation and a member of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission.
Shad Salvation
How can a species bounce back from such a low?
|American and hickory shad, once an abundant Chesapeake mainstay, are now caught in Bay tributaries to breed future generations in fish hatcheries.
With more than a little help from the humans who set them back in the first place by overfishing, development and pollution.
The process is as complex as the fish's own spawning migration.
Key strategies are four: restricting fishing, breeding in hatcheries, building fish passages and removing dams.
Many remedies are under way. In and around the Chesapeake, shad fishing is much restricted. Commercial fishing is allowed only in the Potomac, where hatcheries are helping restore populations. Commercial ocean fishing is also restricted. In coastal waters, some recreational catch-and-keep fishing is allowed; in the Chesapeake, all shad fishing is catch-and-release.
The Bay Foundation's nine-point score tells us those restrictions are not enough.
By-catch of shad in offshore fisheries directed to other species may be one reason restrictions are not bringing recovery. Shad territory stretches so far — from the St. Lawrence River to Florida — that managing off-shore fisheries requires cooperation.
"Both the Mid-Atlantic and New England and the South Atlantic are grappling with the problem," Goldsborough says.
Hatcheries are part of the solution, "helping shad maintain their low or recover a bit," Goldsborough says. The fish are fecund, producing 100,000 to 600,000 eggs in a single roe sac, so a little help can go a long way. In the Potomac River — where George Washington fished shad for pleasure — fish are captured on their spawning runs, their larvae raised in captivity in hatcheries and fingerlings released to survive on their own.
Shad are also raised in hatcheries and released by the millions in the Anacostia, Choptank, James, Nanticoke, Pamunkey, Patapsco, Patuxent, Rappahannock and Susquehanna rivers.
Free passage is another way we can help shad recover by enabling them to do what comes naturally.
"We have to provide any anadromous fish — including both American and hickory shad and herring — access to its historic spawning grounds," Goldsborough says.
Maryland Department of Natural Resources counts over 2,500 constructed blockages between fish and their spawning habitat in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Under the Chesapeake Bay Agreement of 1987, 1,838 miles were opened by 2005, expanding to 2,807 miles by next year.
Building fish ladders and elevators is small work compared to the alternative: removing dams, the three-hundred pound gorilla on many rivers.
The Connowingo Dam between the Susquehanna and the Bay must be re-licensed next year to continue operation. Negotiating the license opens up lots of doors, windows and passageways for fish both up and down stream. Also part of those negotiations will be managing the sediment that builds up behind the dam, adding to the pollution that inhibits every species.
That dam, built in 1928, is only one of many on the watershed, including four others on the Susquehanna.
Mitigation by smaller-scale changes is the usual approach to helping fish around dams. But in the long term, Goldsborough says, "we should not take dam removal off the table.
"Nobody," he says, "said this was going to be easy."


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CORDOVA, Ala.—Main Street in this old mill town looks about the same as it did the day after tornadoes killed about 250 people across Alabama a year and a half ago: Battered red bricks and broken glass litter the pavement, and the buildings still standing are rickety and roofless.
The entire one-block downtown, still deemed unsafe, remains sealed off by a chain-link fence. City officials blame the Federal Emergency Management Agency, saying the money to demolish skeletons of the old buildings is mired in miles of red tape.
When one request for photos or historical documentation is met, FEMA makes another, the mayor and others in this town of 2,100 say. One crop of workers is replaced by another, forcing locals to constantly explain their problems to new people.
"It's very frustrating," said Mayor Drew Gilbert, a 25-year-old Cordova native who served on the City Council before taking office this month. "You would think it's been touched and seen now by everyone who needs to touch and see it."
On April 27, 2011, dozens of tornadoes ripped across the southeast, spawned by freakish weather. Hundreds were killed and thousands of homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed, causing more than $1 billion in damage.
While cleanup and demolition projects are moving along in devastated communities like Tuscaloosa and Hackleburg—where wrecked homes and businesses are mostly gone and new ones are slowly being built—Cordova's downtown stands out as an eerie reminder of the destruction.
FEMA officials say they're only doing their job in Cordova, documenting damaged buildings and covering all the details before providing money to tear them down.
"This project involves demolition of multiple historically significant structures and requires that FEMA consider all pertinent environmental and historic preservation laws before funding the project," the agency said in response to questions from The Associated Press.
Yet the process has been baffling not just for local residents but to the head of historic preservation for the state, Elizabeth Brown.
"I think FEMA needs to give their people in the field more latitude," said Brown, preservation officer for the Alabama Historical Commission. "It seems things have to keep going back up the chain."
Brown said the demolition process seems to be taking longer than usual in Cordova, but government rules don't set out a strict timetable for such decisions since needs and damage can vary so greatly from one place to another. Town leaders say FEMA has never given them a firm timetable.
Located in coal country about 35 miles northwest of Birmingham, Cordova began in the 1880s at a spot where two railroad lines converged. A textile mill operated in town for about seven decades before closing in 1962.
The mill's failure displaced 800 workers and sent Cordova into a tailspin. Most of the 19 or so buildings in the downtown block were vacant and deteriorating by the time the twisters struck last year.
Many people left town for work in metro Birmingham or nearby Jasper before the twisters, and there are even fewer jobs in Cordova now aside from schools, a bank, a pharmacy and a health clinic. The town's sole grocery store was wiped out and has yet to reopen; a convenience store near the battered downtown block has closed, too.
Cordova Fire Chief Dean Harbison, who also serves as the town's recovery coordinator, said FEMA was helpful at first.
"They've provided us some money," Harbison said. "But as far as recovery, they've slowed us down."
A long-term plan sponsored by FEMA initially recommended reclaiming downtown Cordova, but Haribson said an in-depth examination revealed major structural problems and city officials decided to demolish the entire block.
The mix of privately and publicly owned buildings with shared walls and varying amounts of damage proved confusing.
"You'd think they've encountered that before," Gilbert said. "But it's been a problem."
Town leaders didn't anticipate historical considerations being the main roadblock to demolition because the damaged buildings weren't on state or national historic registers, but FEMA started asking for photos and reports documenting the buildings' past and architecture, Harbison said.
After two rounds of requests and a conference call, FEMA finally sent its own photographer to document what's left of the city on Oct. 29, he said.
"They're saying they should be finished with the review by Jan. 4," said Harbison. That means no decision will be made on whether to fund the demolition will be made for at least two more months, he said, and the two-year anniversary of the tornadoes could pass with the fractured buildings still looming over Cordova.
It's hard to come or go from the town without driving past the decimated area, and the mayor said the sight is a mental barrier to moving the city forward. Three fires have burned in the damaged area since the tornadoes—one accidental, two suspected arsons, including one in which two people were charged—and the blazes further weakened structures blasted by the twisters.
Gilbert said the rickety buildings stand in an area that could become a home for new businesses now that a new four-lane highway linking Birmingham and Memphis, Tenn., runs just a few miles from the city, but that can't happen until the old ones are demolished. The struggling city can't afford the estimated $933,000 cost of demolishing the structures, he said, so it's counting on FEMA to fill the gap.
"Our entire economy is gone, and it's like they're just doing nothing," said Gilbert.
FEMA spokesman Danon Lucas said that's not true.
"I know the city looks at it as delays, but we have been working through the process that's required," he said. "This doesn't happen often. Demolition like this isn't a regular occurrence."
No other Alabama city has had the same problem since the twisters, Brown said. While it took about a year to approve the demolition of the high school in the northwest Alabama town of Phil Campbell because of historical considerations, Cordova is in a league of its own, she said.
"I can't blame them for being frustrated with FEMA," she said.


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PIERRE - A Pierre man has pleaded guilty to raping an 18-year-old woman. Antoine LaDeaux, Jr. pleaded guilty Friday to raping the woman as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors.
Prosecutors say LaDeaux held the woman against her will at his residence in March 2012 and forced her to have sex until she was able to escape.
LaDeaux, Jr., was initially charged with third-degree rape, second-degree kidnapping and being a habitual offender.
The kidnapping charge and charge of being a habitual offender were dropped as part of the plea agreement.
Sentencing is scheduled for April 30. LaDeaux, Jr., faces a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison and a $50,000 fine.
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Last week women's, men's and kids' footwear designers descended upon New York City and opened their showrooms to buyers, editors and stylists to view the must-have trends for next spring and summer. It's a chance for buyers to pick the styles they'll stock on their store shelves next spring, for editors to start planning photo shoots around these looks and for the fashion-obsessed to be the first to wear the trend.
That's why you'll soon see stylist Rachel Zoe's celebrity clientele walking the red carpet wearing mod black and while heels, why your favorite fashion magazine will be gushing over pastel oxfords and GQ will be encouraging style-conscious men to try leather shoes with woven details—or so I predict, as these three trends were everywhere.
On the children's side, Spring '14 is shaping up to be a sweet and delightful season with vibrant colors, lots of embellishment and playful characters for girls. Check out these four not-to-be-missed trends for your tot. She's sure to be the trendiest girl on the playground. By Angela Velasquez
Animal Farm
It's easy to be the cat's meow in quirky, whiskered Mary Janes. Brazil-based Mini Mel, known for jelly shoe constructions for women and teens, is winning over kids' and mom's hearts with a new range of animal-themed styles for spring. From kittens with heart-shaped noses to black and white cows, these fresh faces are a nice alternative to over-used character licenses and a new way to wear animal print.
Caption: Mini Mel rubber Mary Janes
Fashion Athletes
Olympians may sport their country's colors with pride, but cool kids on the playground will run amuck with splashes of bubble gum pink on their footwear. Pink and purple are nothing new to girls' fashion, but paired with vibrant teal and found on sporty while outsoles, the color blocking dazzles. Glossy patent materials and glitter as fine as sugar amp up the fashion factor, too. Also, be on the look out for yellow- and orange-hued styles, which are vying to be the next pink and purple duo.
Caption: Michael Kors pre-walkers, Nina Kids play shoes
Rock Star
Spikes and studs may have overstayed their welcome in womenswear, but the edgy elements add a bit of coolness and glam to girls' sandals and sneakers. In Day-Glo shades of neon green and pink, studded footwear gives off a 80s-vibe that new moms may remember all too well. And on the bows of ballet flats, the classic and ultra-girly silhouette softens the rocker embellishments.
Captions: Nina Kids ballet flats, Enzo studded sandals and sneakers
Going Dotty
You wore them. You're mother probably wore them and maybe even your uber-stylish grandma donned them. Polka dots continue to decorate girls' fashion and this season, designers add a unique twist by using a smattering of shoelace eyelets to tell the story. Other polka dot styles blend the retro print with other modern day trends, including neon, glitter and denim.
Caption: Nina sneakers, Enzo sandals and sneakers
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With 4 years of experience as a children's stylist and magazine editor, Angela brings you an insider's perspective on trends and seasonal looks that will make babies and toddlers shine in their holiday photos and at birthday parties! Angela also has a way of making everyday clothes and accessories look special — she'll show you how.