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Steven Holl Architects has an incredible installation planned for Milan's Interni Hybrid Architecture Exhibition. Called INVERSION, the installation consists of six void-cut limestone sculptures made from 21 million-year-old Italian stone. The LED-lit installation will be displayed in the picturesque courtyard of the Università degli Studi di Milano starting April 9th as part of Milan Design Week.
Steven Holl's projects often start as beautifully artistic watercolors, and INVERSION is no different. The project began when the architect painted a simple five by seven-inch watercolor sketch at his office in New York City. That watercolor was then converted into a 3D file, serving as the only design file for the project—requiring no other working drawings. The file was then sent to Lecce, Italy, the site of the ancient limestone quarry.
Six chunks of limestone were then carved into inverted sculptures, using a five-axis CNC mill by Pimar. Each sculpture weighs in at a hefty 2,500 pounds and rise to around four feet high. Each of the sculptures twists and turns with negative space, echoing the signature style of the architecture firm.
Placed around the ornate courtyard, they are a contrast of modernism, made with an ancient material. At night, each sculpture seems to glow with high-powered LED strips, transforming them into stone lanterns. The sculptures have been placed on a sheet of reflective water with a misting system by Teuco Guzzini, which makes each 2,500 slab of stone seem to hover above the ground.
Holl himself with give a lecture in conjunction of the exhibition for the FuoriSalone 2013. After the exhibition, INVERSION will be flown to Princeton, where they will be on permanent display at the Performing Arts Center, designed by Steven Holl Architects of course.
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Deleted Sterling tweet sparks confusion over future
Raheem Sterling has created confusion over his Liverpool future by first stating on Twitter that he would be signing a new contract and then deleting the tweet.
Sterling, 17, who is likely to make his England debut against Sweden in Stockholm on Wednesday night, reacted angrily to reports that he had demanded £50,000-a-week to stay at Anfield.
However, a message intended to reassure Liverpool fans that he would sign a deal once he turns 18 on December 8 quickly disappeared.
Sterling wrote: "I've just woken up to this rubbish. I can assure you I've not asked for that stupid amount, we're waiting till I'm 18 to sign."
The deleted tweet does tally with indications given by Liverpool officials earlier this season that Sterling will sign a new contract after his birthday, and it is not clear why he chose to remove it.
A newspaper report on Saturday morning suggested that his advisers want an improved contract to bring his earnings into line with those of Jordan Henderson and Stewart Downing, who both earn around £50,000-a-week yet are behind Sterling in the first-team pecking order.
Sterling's current £2,000-a-week contract has 18 months to run, and Liverpool are keen to offer a new deal that reflects the progress he has made this year.
The winger, who arrived from QPR's youth setup aged 15, made his Liverpool debut against Wigan in March, and has become a regular in the side under manager Brendan Rodgers this season.
He has also progressed through the England Under-19 and Under-21 setups to the senior squad, for whom he won his first call-up as an unused substitute against Ukraine in a World Cup qualifier in September. It is understood that Liverpool are ready to offer him around £20,000-a-week.
Rodgers has indicated that he is relaxed about Sterling's future. He said: "There will be something but there's no need to rush it.
"He has become a very talented young man in the space of four months, so he and his representatives and family know our thoughts on him and we just want to make sure his concentration is on his football."

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text: Food for All October 28, 2011 11:18 AM Tweet FFA and Farm Journal Foundation combat hunger Indianapolis was buzzing with corn gold and national blue in late October as FFA members from across the nation converged for the 84th Annual National Convention. Among the hustle and bustle of workshops, career development events and networking with fellow FFA members, students had the chance to learn about a new grant that will help them fight hunger in their communities. Whether it is raising laying chickens to donate eggs to the local food bank or providing a hospital with fresh produce from a community garden, FFA members are using their service learning opportunities to feed the hungry. Uniting the National FFA Organization's Feeding the World—Starting at Home program with the Farm Journal Foundation's Farmers Feeding the World initiative, the two organizations hope to help America's youth fight world hunger in a localized grassroots campaign that will allow them access to additional funding for such projects. "FFA members are the future farmers, ranchers, scientists and agribusiness leaders who will feed our growing world population," says Farm Journal Foundation chairman Andy Weber. "Through this new partnership, FFA members will waste no time by starting to eradicate hunger in their local communities while they are still in school—and Farmers Feeding the World looks to help give them the tools they need to succeed." How to apply. In the new partnership, Farmers Feeding the World, with matching funds from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, will provide a minimum of $500,000 annually to sponsor 130 local chapter grants. "FFA: Food for All" will allow the more than 7,700 FFA chapters in the U.S., Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands to apply for up to $2,500 to develop and initiate a sustainable hunger program. The service learning projects can occur locally or worldwide and must take place from February through November 2012. The grant applications are due Dec. 15, 2011, and funding announcements will be made in early February 2012. Throughout November, FFA will host technical assistance webinars to help chapters learn how to prepare and write their grant applications. Visit www.FFA.org/FoodforAll for the grant application and webinar details. Back to news


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Guillem Balague has been blogging for skysports.com from Brazil throughout the World Cup - and here are the players who have caught his eye.
Golden Glove winning goalkeeper Manuel Neuer takes his place between the sticks after helping Germany to their World Cup victory.
The Bayern Munich man is protected by a talented three-man defence, including his club captain Philipp Lahm, who made more passes than any other player in the World cup. Argentina ace Ezequiel Garay also makes the cut, along with Holland's defensive rock, Ron Vlaar .
Guillem opted for a four-man midfield, with finalist Javier Mascherano at the heart of the action. Winger Juan Cuadrado gets the nod after his impressive display for surprise-package Colombia, while Toni Kroos and five-goal hero Thomas Muller bring World Cup-winning quality to the midfield.
For his frontline trio, our Spanish football expert has selected tournament top-scorer James Rodriguez, who netted six times for Colombia, Dutch master Arjen Robben, who was a thorn in defences' sides throughout, and Golden Ball winner Lionel Messi.
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47 One Direction Fans Treated for Asphyxia at Peru Concert
One Direction's Where We Are Tour has been underway for only one week and already things are getting a little crazy. The band's fans got to experience 1D mania firsthand last Sunday (April 27) in Lima, Peru, where 47 fans had to be treated for asphyxiation. Yikes!
Billboard reports the concert's venue, the Estadio Nacional stadium boasts a capacity of 40,000. That's a LOT of fans. On top of that, the floor of the stadium was general admission, meaning a chunk of those fans were all jammed together and likely being pushed forward towards the stage. It's easy to see how the situation led to asphyxia, which occurs when there's a lack of oxygen.
Harry, Louis, Zayn, Niall, and Liam must have known their tour crowds would get a little hectic. They thoughtfully recorded a safety video advising fans to stay safe, have fun, drink plenty of water, and tell a staff member if they're feeling unwell. Hopefully fans are more likely to pay attention since it's the boys themselves telling everyone to be safe! Check out the full video below.
The guys also urged fans during the show to be careful and respectful of each other's space.
"If you don't want anyone to take us off the stage, make sure you stay back," Niall cautioned.
Luckily, everyone seems to be okay and back in good health. Pop-up tents were used to treat fans pulled from the crowd and the British-Irish boy band was able to finish out their 23-song concert in Lima.
Directioners, are you heading to a Where We Are show? Be careful in those crowds!


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The movement to save the High Line started as a grassroots operation, localized in Chelsea and the Meatpacking District. From the very early days, the neighborhood newspapers of Community Media (The Villager, Gay City News, Downtown Express, and later, Chelsea Now) have carried some of the best coverage of the project.
Chelsea Now was launched in 2006 to focus exclusively on the recently-rezoned and rapidly-changing neighborhood. Larry Lerner was hired as a reporter for the paper and quickly promoted to Associate Editor. (Community Media's Associate Editors are its papers top editors). During his time at Chelsea Now, in addition to many, many other valuable Chelsea stories, Larry wrote some of our favorite High Line articles. (He also took some compelling photographs.)
Larry was the first journalist to note the High Line's threatened status at the Rail Yards. In December, the paper carried an extensive interview with Robert Hammond about the Rail Yards, and a forceful editorial making the case for the High Line at the Rail Yards.
He's also covered many of our public programs, including the High Line Cell Phone Tour.
A more complete list of Larry's articles for Chelsea Now can be seen here.
Along with two other editors and a creative director, Larry was laid off in late January. I sat down with him briefly to chat about his time at Chelsea Now, and what's coming up next. Our conversation is after the jump.
KL: What did you see as the role of a community newspaper in a changing neighborhood like Chelsea?
LL: Documenting that change, and capturing the dynamism and energy of the area. The story of "change" that kept jumping out at us, not surprisingly, was gentrification and tenant displacement, taken in its myriad forms. But there's a pretty clear trajectory to follow here: Much of that stemmed from the West Chelsea and Hudson Yards rezonings combined with the red-hot real estate market, which wrought transportation and pedestrian-safety issues, the Hudson River Park and Pier 40, the High Line, and the Hudson Yards development project. Throw in issues like affordable housing, changes in many of Chelsea's schools, the liquidation of the neighborhood's artist community, and shifts at the public housing complexes, and there's no end to the stories that need to be told.
KL: While you were at Chelsea Now, what was something you learned about the neighborhood that really surprised you?
LL: Just how incredibly diverse it is, topographically, demographically and culturally. There's an incredible mix here. In fact, many people whom I interviewed for stories said that it was Chelsea's diversity that first attracted them to the neighborhood. During my time at Chelsea Now, I came to understand exactly what they meant, and why many of them fear that this diversity is being lost.
KL: What was your favorite story you covered as part of Chelsea Now?
LL: Oh gosh, there were so many great stories I got to cover. One of my favorites was a feature that I did in the wake of the Michael Richards incident on how stand-up comics handle hecklers, which I set at Chelsea's Gotham Comedy Club. One of the most moving, for me personally, was a profile I did on a man living with HIV/AIDS. I felt incredibly privileged that he let me into his life, and humbled by his resilience.
KL: What will you miss most about covering the neighborhood for Chelsea Now?
LL: The people. Chelsea and C.B. 4 are stocked with a disproportionate number of sharp, wonderful people from all walks of life.
KL: What would you like to do next?
LL: Answer a phone call from editors at The New Yorker or The Nation asking me to write about socio-political issues. Short of that, take the next step up by writing, and perhaps editing, for a mid-to-large-circulation newspaper or magazine here in New York City.
More of Larry's work is on his Web site.
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It feels like Star Command Mobile is pretty much dead. Is there a probability that you guys open your code to the community or just me, so we could bring this awesome game back to life? Or maybe we could even build some better game on top of it for everyone's fun and profit? Current windows build looks very promising, but it's obvous that you're totally with Galaxies right now, while Mobile still have a lot of potential. I'd really love to have an opportunity to mess with Mobile version.
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Hi folks …. have shoveled myself out. Went to the post office with mail that needed to be postmarked by Dec. 31. Ran some errands. Ready for tonight to ring in the new year.
It's slow now, so I'm posting another Loose Threads. Share what's on your mind, be it your New Year's resolutions … comment about the Jets game Sunday night … talk of the bowl games … give me a movie review … your plans for the weekend … and, of course, anything about baseball. My plans for the weekend include watching the Jets on Sunday and Ohio State tomorrow.
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Gold traders are the most bearish since June as the threat of an imminent attack on Syria eased and speculation mounted the Federal Reserve will start curbing stimulus as the U.S. economy improves.
Fifteen analysts surveyed by Bloomberg expect prices to fall next week, seven were bullish and three were neutral, the largest proportion of bears since June 21. Gold rose (COMEX:GCZ13) as much as 5.4% since the alleged Aug. 21 chemical attack in Syria that the U.S. said the government should be held accountable for. Prices retreated to a five-week low today as the U.S. pursued a proposal that Syria surrender its chemical weapons.
Gold is set for the first annual drop in 13 years as faith in the metal as a store of value weakened and the Fed indicated it could buy fewer bonds. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said tapering may spur more gold sales and Societe Generale SA advised selling bullion. Prices rose to a three-month high Aug. 28 on concern that strikes on Syria will disrupt Middle East oil supply and stoke inflation, increasing demand for gold as a hedge.
"With Syria there may be some volatility going forward but I doubt if it will have an impact unless you have huge escalation," said Georgette Boele, a commodities strategist at ABN Amro Group NV in Amsterdam. "If the Fed doesn't surprise majorly in one way or another and the sentiment improvement continues, there's no reason to be in gold."
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The metal fell 21% to $1,319 an ounce in London this year and tumbled into a bear market in April. Prices slid as much as 9% since Aug. 28. The Standard & Poor's GSCI gauge of 24 commodities added 0.3% this year and the MSCI All-Country World Index of equities gained 12%. The Bloomberg U.S. Treasury Bond Index lost 3.8%.
Oil futures (NYMEX:CLV13) fell 4.1% since reaching a two-year high on Aug. 28. U.S. President Barack Obama said Sept. 10 he was asking Congress to postpone the vote authorizing military action following a Russian-backed proposal to place Syria's chemical arsenal under international control. Syria said it would abide by an international treaty banning the chemical arms.
There are signs bullion demand is already waning after prices jumped 12% from a 34-month low in June. Sales of coins and bars from Australia's Perth Mint dropped 46% in August from July. The U.S. Mint sold 11,500 ounces of American Eagle gold coins in August, the least in six years and down from as much as 209,500 ounces in April.
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Title: Royal Street
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As the junior wizard sentinel for New Orleans, Drusilla Jaco's job involves a lot more potion-mixing and pixie-retrieval than sniffing out supernatural bad guys like rogue vampires and lethal were-creatures. DJ's boss and mentor, Gerald St. Simon, is the wizard tasked with protecting the city from anyone or anything that might slip over from the preternatural beyond.
Then Hurricane Katrina hammers New Orleans' fragile levees, unleashing more than just dangerous flood waters.
While winds howled and Lake Pontchartrain surged, the borders between the modern city and the Otherworld crumbled. Now, the undead and the restless are roaming the Big Easy, and a serial killer with ties to voodoo is murdering the soldiers sent to help the city recover.
To make it worse, Gerry has gone missing, the wizards' Elders have assigned a grenade-toting assassin as DJ's new partner, and undead pirate Jean Lafitte wants to make her walk his plank. The search for Gerry and for the serial killer turns personal when DJ learns the hard way that loyalty requires sacrifice, allies come from the unlikeliest places, and duty mixed with love creates one bitter gumbo.
Royal Street has been on my TBR mountain for a long time, so I jumped at the opportunity to host a spot on Suzanne Johnson's blog tour. New Orleans is a great setting for books, especially urban fantasy reads, and I admit that I'm fascinated by the city and it's history. I haven't had the pleasure of visiting yet, but it's on my list of places to visit. Setting the story after Hurricane Katrina just made it that much more appealing to me. That big, scary storm caused so much damage, why couldn't it have ruptured the borders to another dimension? I'm totally buying into that!
Drusilla Jaco, AKA DJ, is a junior sentinel for New Orleans. She controls green magic, which is kind of weak and lame compared to her mentor's. Gerry is a powerful wizard, and he can do things that DJ can only dream about. Light a candle with the flick of a finger? It's a snap for Gerry. Banish nasty paranormal critters back to the Beyond? No problem with that, either. What DJ wants is to test her wings and prove that she is capable of more than the menial tasks Gerry sends her on. The story starts with her confronting Jean Lafitte, in the bayou. If she can send him back where he belongs, maybe Gerry will give her more important tasks.
Her first assignment starts to go sour, but DJ proves that she's a quick thinker and that she's also clever and resourceful. She also pisses off Lafitte, and he menaces her for the rest of the book. I loved him. He had more personality than any of the other males characters, and I found myself hoping that DJ and Lafitte would hook up. Their tense, charged encounter so early in the novel spoiled me for her relationships with Alex and Jake. Unfortunately.
When Katrina rumbles into town, DJ is ordered by Gerry to evacuate. DJ needs to be safe, just in case something happens to Gerry. Gerry is the major force keeping the dangerous beings that live in the Beyond right where they belong. Though DJ believes the storm will blow over, just like all the rest have, she obeys and crashes with her grandmother. When the storm obliterates the city she loves, DJ just wants to get back home and make sure that Gerry and her friends are all right. When Gerry disappears without a trace, she is frantic to find him. When the wizard Elders believe that Gerry's a traitor, DJ is determined to prove them wrong, even if it means risking her life to prove his innocence.
Overall, I enjoyed Royal Street, but there were times when I was so frustrated with DJ. I just don't understand why these bright, intelligent women constantly turn off their common sense and go skipping into danger with hardly a second thought. Again and again and again. This is one of my biggest pet peeves with PNR and UF. The heroines are in such a hurry to solve whatever mystery they are confronted with that they cease to think things through. When everyone you know tells you to hunker down or you will die, I think that you need to listen every now and again, but maybe that is attributed to my cautious nature.
I didn't find the relationship with Alex or Jake very compelling, but Jean Lafitte spoiled me for other men. He's a pirate, for goodness sakes! It's hard to compete with that! Mix in his apparent immortality, and, wowzies! I want DJ to bring out the noble man that I know must be hiding under that rakish pirate attire. I'm not saying that Alex and Jake are 100% chopped liver, because they're not. Jake, the wounded Marine who now runs a bar, did have some appeal, and Alex, an uber alpha, gun-toting enforcer, would have been more interesting to me if not for the presence of Lafitte. I dig pirates! So sue me.
I found the pacing occasionally ponderous, but when the action clicked into gear, things really rocked. The ending, in particular, was a blast, and kept me turning the pages in rapid succession. DJ was just starting to come into her own, and I'm curious to see where the story goes next.
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The indie elephant in the room, Minecraft, has changed the perception of what a "beta" truly entails in the mind of the average gamer. No longer do people hearing the word "beta" expect the buggy, frustrating, horribly broken, and not-fun-at-all experience they should. Instead it is now viewed as a supposedly incomplete early development milestone with a high degree of playability and quite a bit of polish. "Who does the actual beta testing of these milestones, then?" you ask. Most probably not the people coming to an indie-game dev forum stating that they are qualified beta testers because they've "beta-tested Minecraft."
Let us get some definitions clear-cut first. A beta version is a feature-complete, but not yet bug-fixed, nor polished version of a given working package in development. That might be a single little feature in a game, or a full software suite. As the example above already has shown, this definition is far from being universal, but herein thou shalt see it as the undeniable, utmost truth. With this definition, Notch's brilliant creation was released in no more (and no less) than well-polished milestones, probably internally alpha and beta tested prior to the release to the self-proclaimed "beta testers."
How have these recent changes in mentality affected the beta testing requirements of future game-related products? The answer to that question very much depends on target audience, but in general, the freely available workhorses out there drift increasingly towards the "I just play around" category.
While Blizzard Entertainment has found a perfect use for these people, they could become a potentially harmful ingredient in any small- or medium-scale testing team. Overestimating how much (quality) work will be done per unit time and tester quickly leads to frustration and delays, causing, in turn, loss of trust and ultimately, sales.
Many indie teams seem to have solved this issue by not planning much at all and/or testing everything by themselves -- a rather workable, but far from optimal, solution.
This blissful ignorance comes as no big surprise - there is a lot of work involved in setting up proper testing infrastructure, finding the right people to do the testing, and communicating the ever-changing aims of the tests. This leads us to the gist of this write-up: POMMS-based beta testing.
The acronym stands for Project-Oriented Modular Motivational System and was incubated by the author as a tool to bring structure and clarity into the chaos that was called beta testing at our little indie game dev studio Camshaft Software, currently working on Automation: The Car Company Tycoon Game. This system implements modern game design elements into the testing process itself, a concept usually connected with the buzzword "gamification." The POMMS-based approach to testing attacks some of the biggest challenges in beta testing: the ability to plan ahead, tester coordination, tester motivation, testing focus, tester flexibility and individuality.
The system itself is quickly explained: Well-defined subprojects are outlined, and a specific amount of "points" is awarded for every task a tester completes towards realizing the subproject goals. This score is the so-called tester power level, and when it's over 9000, your subprojects are either too long or the amount of work per point too small.
Depending on the contents of a subproject, a meaningful subproject could be anything between 4-16 weeks long, with a single point being the equivalent of around 15 minutes of work. Within any given subproject, each tester has to reach a certain minimum score to continue participating in beta testing. The highest scoring testers are awarded stars that are cumulative across subprojects. It is up to the developers to decide what the rewards for attaining these stars are. For example, they could give testers special privileges, a place in the software's credits, provide them with special forum statuses, etc.
If a tester achieved more than the minimum score in a subproject, but didn't reach star rankings, the final score is carried over to the next subproject. This carryover does not count towards reaching the next subproject's minimum score, but towards the placement in the star rankings. This rewards testers who continually deliver solid work over several subprojects, as they will grab a star eventually, and by the end of the project, they will not feel like they have been anonymous testing machines after all.


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I thought I'd make a separate thread on this considering it has been a topic of conversation throughout the week. I know you all were watching how they performed in this game, as I was. With all of the hype Luck has been given throughout the draft and throughout his career, and all the ball-licking commentary praising Luck that was going on throughout the broadcast, it is clear that Luck is more highly regarded across the country than Russell Wilson. But, by any statistical measure, including total wins, completion percentage, TDs, total TDs, and QBR, Russell Wilson is clearly the superior QB.
However, Luck got the one statistic that truly mattered yesterday, when he and the Colts beat the Wilson-led Seahawks. While Luck played great, I sense from a lot of .netters that they are buying into the hype that Luck is a superior QB. If you just focus on the fact that Luck won, he played better. However, having saw the game, it was clear to me that Wilson actually played better on the field, and if not for a few costly penalties and a drop by a wide-open Lynch, we would have won. Lets look at the stats:
RW: Passing: 15-31, 210 yds; Rushing: 13 carries, 102 yds; Total yds: 312
Luck: Passing: 16-29, 229 yds; Rushing: 4 carries, 9 yds; Total yds: 236
Total net yards from both teams:
Seahawks: 423
Colts: 317
Russell Wilson was responsible for 5 LESS YARDS THAN THE ENTIRE COLTS OFFENSE!


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WASHINGTON — Add pay equity to President Barack Obama's 2014 do-it-himself wish list.
The White House is launching a campaign to promote a host of economic issues facing women, a key voting bloc in this year's midterm election.
Obama is hosting at least 10 Democratic female lawmakers at the White House Wednesday as his Council of Economic Advisers issues a report decrying a gender wage gap. The report highlights that full-time working women continue to earn 77 cents for every dollar earned by men in the workforce, despite surpassing men in obtaining college degrees and making inroads into traditionally male-dominated occupations.
The White House said the economic issues facing women and families will be addressed at a Working Families Summit the president will headline on June 23 at Washington's Omni Shoreham hotel, co-hosted by the administration and the liberal Center for American Progress think tank. The summit was announced as part of Obama's State of the Union address in January, when he declared ''when women succeed, America succeeds.''
The White House says ballots cast this fall by single women in particular will help determine which party performs best in the election. They argue the president's focus on raising the minimum wage, which faces opposition in Congress, is particularly important for those voters, especially those trying to support a family.
''That will help so many women participate as they're increasingly breadwinners in families,'' Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said in an interview on ''CBS This Morning.'' ''In the 21st century, why aren't women earning equal pay? So how can we close that pay gap?''
Republicans point out that the White House has its own pay gap — an analysis of staff salaries done last fall by the conservative American Enterprise Institute found the president's female aides were paid 88 cents for every dollar paid to men, about $65,000 to $73,729 annually. The White House responds that men and women in equivalent roles at the White House earn the same amount and that 10 of 16 department heads are women, earning the top White House salary of $172,200. However, the 77-cent gender gap that Obama is criticizing is calculated workforcewide and does not represent a comparison of equivalent positions.
The report by the White House Council on Economic Advisers says Obama's proposal to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $10.10 would shrink the gender wage gap by nearly 5 percent, since women are more likely to earn minimum wage. The report says women account for a rising share of family income, with married women's earnings on average nearly 45 percent of total family earnings in 2013.
The report says although women have increasingly entered traditionally male-dominated fields like medicine, law, management and science, even those women with advanced degrees begin to fall behind their male colleagues in earnings by their late 30s. And women are still concentrated in low-wage sectors of the workforce like health care support and personal care, the report says.
Betsey Stevenson, a member of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, told reporters that the government can help support equal pay and paid leave that will support working women, and the summit will explore more ideas. She noted that other industrialized nations have done a better job of bringing gender equity to the workplace, and that closing the gap in the United States will boost the entire economy.
''Countries that provide more support to working families, more flexible work arrangements, greater access to paid leave, greater access to child care, greater access to early childhood education — all of those things actually do facilitate women participating to a greater extent in the labor force,'' she said.
''What we want to do is make sure that we've done as much as we can, that businesses are doing as much as they can to not lose women at those critical moments when they're having children, when they have young children at home,'' she said.
The White House said administration officials will participate in regional events across the country to explore issues facing women in the workplace in preparation for the summit, which also will showcase companies with family-friendly policies.
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NEW BEDFORD — SouthCoast residents may not have had a white Christmas, but they certainly will have a white New Year, with four to eight inches of wet heavy snow expected to fall Saturday night and falling temperatures throughout the week.
NEW BEDFORD — SouthCoast residents may not have had a white Christmas, but they certainly will have a white New Year, with four to eight inches of wet heavy snow expected to fall Saturday night and falling temperatures throughout the week.
Snow began to fall around 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, and is expected to continue through 7 a.m. Sunday morning, according to National Weather Service Meteorologist Alan Dunham.
A winter storm warning went into effect at 7 a.m. Saturday for all of Rhode Island and Eastern Massachusetts except for the Cape and the Islands, Dunham said.
Dunham said the snow, which was expected to be at its heaviest between 5 p.m. Saturday and 1 a.m. Sunday, has "high water content."
"That means at least some branches are coming down from its weight," Dunham said. "There will be some power outages."
Temperatures that were in the low 30s Saturday are expected to get progressively colder throughout the week, meaning the snow will remain for the foreseeable future.
"The first week of 2013 is going to be white and chilly if not downright cold," Dunham said.
In preparation for the storm, New Bedford issued a parking ban that started at 7 p.m. Dartmouth's parking ban started at midnight Saturday and will continue through noon Sunday. Fairhaven's parking ban prohibiting overnight parking and parking on the hydrant side of a street during a snow fall goes into effect annually on Dec. 1.
By noon Saturday, New Bedford had already attached plows to the more than 170 trucks that plow the city's streets.
Department of Public Infrastructure Commissioner Ronald Labelle said Saturday afternoon that the he expected plow crews to hit the streets around 9 p.m., when the snow fall was thick enough to plow.
"The hope is that this is mostly rain, but that doesn't look like the case, so we are prepared," Labelle said.
Sanders went out earlier in the day to "pre-salt" the street to "prepare so that when the snow falls it melts right away," Labelle said.
Streets above Coggeshall Street are plowed by 70 trucks from the Department of Public Infrastructure, and streets below Coggeshall Street are plowed by 100 trucks from the Department of Public Facilities, Labelle said.
Fairhaven Board of Public Works Superintendent Vincent Furtado said Saturday afternoon that the plows were "at the ready."
"Typically the magic number is four inches, that's when we send people out," he said, adding that streets were to be sanded before snow fell "so the roads stay passable for folks."
Fairhaven has a number of unpaved roads which complicates plowing, Furtado said.
But, he said "we put the same guys in the same trucks in the same streets every year, so they know where they're going and what they are going to encounter."
In Dartmouth, Director of Public Works David Hickox said the town usually pre-treats the roads with a liquid salt treatment. For this storm, he said, the town was using straight salt to ensure that rain expected early on in the storm did not wash away the treatment.
"We're in good shape to address anything that should happen tonight," he said.
The mild but widespread winter storm began falling Saturday over most of the Northeast and the upper Ohio River Valley, the second in less than a week for the regions.
Forecasters expected the heaviest snowfall of up to 8 inches in southern New England, including SouthCoast. Farther south, New York City and Philadelphia saw a mix of rain and snowfall as the storm moved in from the west. A few inches of snow were forecast.
About 20 vehicles piled up in a storm-related chain-reaction crash on Interstate 93 in New Hampton, N.H., police said, and five people were injured.
Drivers throughout the regions were warned to be cautious. Officials lowered the speed limit to 45 mph on much of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, about 300 miles from the Ohio state line to east-central Pennsylvania.
Flights at Philadelphia's airport were delayed about an hour, mostly arrivals, spokeswoman Stacy Jackson said.
Parts of southern Indiana saw 6-8 inches from the storm, some in areas that had received more than a foot from a blizzard earlier in the week.


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The program, dubbed the Excelsior Scholarship, passed in the state budget on April 9. According to the governor, 80 percent of New York families are eligible.
"Seventy years ago, we made a decision as a society that people needed high school," Cuomo said. "We had free public high school for everyone. That was a bold step.
"Today, college is what high school was 70 years ago," he added. "It is not a luxury, it is a necessity. If we're not going to have it on the federal level, we're not going to be denied it in New York State."
Cuomo, who grew up in Queens, attributed stagnant wages, the rising cost of college, and overwhelming loans as reasons why students are struggling to obtain higher education. According to the governor, since 2008 95 percent of jobs created require some type of college education.
He also made the case that an educated workforce leads to a stronger local economy. New York used to have the most educated workforce, but it's currently ranked 12th in the country.
The United States also used to have the most educated workforce in the world, but now it has dropped to 11th.
"We have to fundamentally change the system so college and growth is available to everyone," Cuomo said, "and we regain our place as the smartest state in the smartest nation and we are economically competitive all across this globe."
Cuomo said the inspiration for the Excelsior Scholarship came from "a woman I know well," referring to former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
When Cuomo first introduced the program back in January, he was joined by Vermont senator and another Democratic presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders.
"I heard an outrageously ambitious but irrefutably smart idea," he said. "That idea was we should make college affordable. College should be accessible and free for middle-class families in this nation."
The governor said the program will help fulfill the American Dream, where young people can do better than their parents and generations before them.
"This scholarship program is going to transform lives," Cuomo said. "Tonight, there will be no child that puts their head on the pillow and wonders whether or not they're going to have a chance to make it."
The program will be phased in over three years, beginning with New Yorkers making up to $100,000 this fall. Next year, it will include families making up to $110,000, and then $125,000 by 2019.
Students who qualify must be in college full-time and average 30 credits per year to get the funding. A controversial part of the plan states that the students in the program are required to live and work in New York for as many years as they receive the scholarship.
According to the governor's office, 84 percent of CUNY and SUNY students remain in New York after graduation.
Clinton lauded the scholarship program as "exactly the image that progressive leadership believes in and delivers on."
"There is no more important issue than education, from early childhood through higher education," she said to a roaring crowd. "I believe every single child and young person in New York and America deserves the chance to go as far as their hard work, skills and education will take them."
Clinton said back when she was a student, kids from low and middle-income families had a "pretty good chance" to go to college and afford it. Both the states and the federal government invested in education, she said, so the economics worked out.
Now it's much harder for working families to achieve that goal,.
"That's upside down," Clinton said. "What we need to be doing is throwing open the doors for everybody willing to work and achieve their education."
Clinton said she hopes New York is the first of many states to enact tuition-free college programs in the country.
"Until they do, I want every young person in America to understand that if you move to New York and make your commitment to New York, you can get an affordable college education," she said. "The Excelsior Scholarship is going to send a message of hope to countless families.
"Paying for college should not defer or destroy dreams," she added. "With this Excelsior Scholarship Program, it will not."
And Clinton had a message for her former colleagues in Congress.
"I'm hoping that the Congress will come to its senses and understand we don't need to be building walls, we need to be building bridges," she said. "The best bridge to the future is a good education."
Students at LaGuardia Community College were pleased to see Cuomo's plan come to fruition so quickly. Diana Pereyra, who is set to graduate to become a radiologic technologist, said she's thinking about getting her bachelor's degree in medicine at Hunter College.
"It's amazing due to the fact that it's going to benefit many families, especially here in New York," she said. "There are a lot of students who need this in order to continue their education."
Pereyra said she isn't worried about the program requirement to stay in New York after graduation. She said she doesn't see herself living anywhere else.
"I feel that it's only fair. If I'm able to get my career and become a professional here in New York, why not give back to my community?" she said. "Why not give back to those who helped me?"
Liuer Lin, who is in her third semester studying accounting, said the Excelsior Scholarship would benefit not only her, but her two siblings. She said her family was relieved to hear about the program.
"It's a heavy burden for my family to pay tuition," she said. "I know how challenging it is to pay tuition instead of taking a loan."
Lin said she plans to transfer to Baruch College, obtain her bachelor's degree in accounting, and continue with her master's degree. But she was also thinking about her younger siblings and cousins, who can "focus on their studies without worrying about paying for it."
Yiwei Zhao, who heads academic affairs for the Student Government Association at LaGuardia, said most students who want to transfer to a four-year college are worried about tuition. They also have to pay for housing, textbooks and other needs, he said.
Although he works on the side, without the Excelsior Scholarship, Zhao said he would've had to become a part-time student.
"But this plan can bring, I hope, a better chance for me to be a full-time student in a four-year college," he said.


text: What happens when wild elephants BEGIN destroying farms and homes in areas where the human population is encroaching onto the elephants' natural habitat? Turn other elephants against them! The Flying Squad is a group in Indonesia that uses four domesticated and specially trained elephants (2 male and 2 female) to "patrol" villages to keep rambunctious wild elephants at bay. The Flying Squad works in conjunction with the World Wildlife Foundation to help avoid human-elephant conflicts in the region. So basically, it saves both human and elephant lives. Good news for everyone involved. [National Geographic]


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Pipeline giant Kinder Morgan has agreed to pay $41,000 to keep Milford Beach open this summer in the Delaware Gap National Recreation Area.
Pipeline giant Kinder Morgan has agreed to pay $41,000 to keep Milford Beach open this summer in the Delaware Gap National Recreation Area.
The National Park Service had planned to close the beach as part of federal sequestration budget cuts.
Allen Fore, Kinder Morgan public affairs director, committed the company to donate the money to cover 2013 operational costs for Milford Beach in a letter sent April 22 to DWGNRA park Superintendent John Donahue.
"We are pleased to work in coordination with Governor Tom Corbett, Congressman Tom Marino, the National Park Service, the Pike County Commissioners and others to help insure continued public access to this important community asset," Fore wrote.
Earlier this month, NPS announced the closing of Milford Beach, including the beach, picnic area, boat launch, canoe access, parking lot and trailhead to the McDade Recreational Trail.
On the New Jersey side of the river, the Kittatinny Point Visitor Center and grounds will stay closed.
Kinder Morgan has gotten a frosty welcome from local environmentalists, who have protested the company's Northeast Upgrade Project. The project includes 40 miles of a natural gas pipeline, including 10.5 miles through Pike County.
Much of the project will be placed along the company's right-of-way easement, where a pipeline already exists. But in Pike County, where the right-of-way goes through the park, the company looped around the park to avoid a lengthy and uncertain approval process.
This caused the company to cut through private property and existing forests. Protesters wanted the company to go through the park instead of disturbing new land.
The park closures put canoe livery businesses, which depend on the access points, in deep water. Livery owners met with park officials and asked them to reconsider after the closures were announced, but were unsuccessful in swaying the NPS. Park officials were unavailable to comment.
A petition was started on the White House website, asking to reverse the decision to close Milford Beach and the McDade trailhead. It needed 100,000 signatures by May 5 to capture the president's attention. As of April 22, it had 665.


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Mark and Cathy Katz listened intently as "Dancing with the Stars" dance pro Tony Dovolani explained the finer points of executing the Viennese waltz during a group lesson at the recent Superstars of Ballroom Dance Camp at the Burbank Marriott and Convention Center.
The Katzes, who traveled from their hometown of Greensboro, S.C., practiced the box step in three-quarter time, trying to perfect a move they will need when they return home. In spring they will perform in an exhibition dance for a fundraiser for their local charity, Operation Smile. As an orthodontist, the charity is very important to Mark.
The couple, like so many Americans, has fallen in love with ballroom dancing.
"It's the first athletic activity that we do together," said Cathy Katz. "It's a great couple activity, and you meet new friends." Mark quickly added, "It really has brought us closer as a couple."
They took their first ballroom dance lesson six years ago in preparation for a big family social event — their son's bar mitzvah. They immediately got hooked. Now, they are empty-nesters.
"We spent years schlepping around with his soccer team, and at night we'd go ballroom dancing. He spent his teen years as a ballroom dance orphan," joked Mark Katz.
Like this duo, America is having a love affair with ballroom and social dancing, again. And the ABC television show, "Dancing with the Stars," is one of the biggest reasons for its renewed popularity.
"I have to credit the television shows," said Brittany Petersen, 25, a former ballerina with Ballet West in Utah who teaches ballet in Ventura. "As a ballet dancer, I saw the show and wanted to try it."
At its peak last season, some 23 million viewers watched "Dancing with the Stars."
Dovolani and his Ballroom Dance Channel website sponsored the three-day "Superstars of Ballroom Dance Camp" that attracted hundreds of ballroom dance fans from across the country and abroad. Attendees, many of whom were starstruck, danced until their feet hurt, taking group and private lessons with their favorite pros on the TV show, including Dovolani, Corky Ballas, Cheryl Burke, Chelsie Hightower, Dmitry Chaplin and Kym Johnson.
Dovolani, who taught group lessons in rumba, waltz, Paso Doble and Argentine tango, said he would like to see social dance as part of the school curriculum because it teaches "boys how to be gentlemen and girls how to be ladies."
"The respect you learn on the dance floor translates directly into real life," Dovolani said during his class in Paso Doble, the flamenco-like dance depicting the power struggle between a matador and the bull.
For the Academy Award-nominated animated film "Toy Story 3," Dovolani and Burke choreographed and performed a special Paso Doble for Pixar animators. The routine, danced to the Gipsy Kings' Spanish rendition of "You've Got a Friend in Me (Para Buzz Espanol)" features Buzz Lightyear and cowgirl Jessie.
Dovolani's dance idol is Fred Astaire, who also choreographed his own famous Paso Doble for the courtyard scene in "Funny Face."
"America fell in love with ballroom dancing with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers 70 years ago," he noted. "When our show came on (in summer of 2005), we were at war and there was a desperate need for something positive."
Ballroom Dance Facts
* When the waltz appeared in the 1800s, the dance was initially met with tremendous opposition due to the semblance of impropriety associated with the closed hold, which some critics considered hugging. In 1898 the American Society of Professors of Dancing banned "hugging while waltzing."
* The dance craze of 1912 to 1916 featured "tango teas" at prominent hotels where unescorted women who dance with professional dancers who were called "gigolos."
* Joan Sawyer, "the queen of exhibition" ballroom dancing, had such famous partners in 1913 as George Raft and Rudolph Valentino.
* Ballroom dance pioneers Vernon and Irene Castle opened the Castle House dance school for the elites of New York City in 1913. They analyzed, codified, published and taught a number of standard dances.
* Irene Castle cut her hair short in the 1920s, creating the iconic flapper look with her bobbed hair.
* It was famously stated that Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.
* Fred Astaire's most famous partnership was with Ginger Rogers. His other cinematic dance partners included Cyd Charisse, Lucille Bremer, Joan Leslie, Leslie Caron, Vera Ellen, Barrie Chase, Judy Garland, Eleanor Powell and Rita Hayworth.
* Fred Astaire is considered the most prolific dancer/choreographer in film, having performed more than 150 solo and partnered dances in 31 Hollywood musical comedies from 1933 to 1968.
* Each year, more than 1 million people enroll in ballroom dancing classes, making it a growing multibillion-dollar industry, according to market analysis.
*The International Olympic Committee recognized ballroom dancing by making "dancesport" an Olympic event in 1997. However, dancesport has not been included as an official event at the Olympics.
According to health and fitness experts, ballroom dancing has many health benefits including:
* Strengthens bones and muscles without hurting your joints.
* Tones the entire body.
* Improves posture and balance.
* Increases stamina and flexibility.
* Reduces stress and tension.
* Builds confidence.
* Provides opportunities to meet people
* Moderate ballroom dancing (foxtrot, waltz, tango) burns between 250 and 300 calories per hour; vigorous dancing (swing, quickstep) can burn up to 400 calories per hour.


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In the summer of 1963, my father was one of six lay delegates from the American Lutheran Church to the Fourth Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation in Helsinki, Finland. A Google search reveals that the assembly lasted from July 30 through August 11, but my parents were gone pretty much all summer. My older brother and I spent the summer in Annapolis, Maryland, with our uncle the spy and his family. (He was actually an intelligence analyst, but we called him a spy.)
Sometime during the summer, my parents were part of a group from the Assembly that took a side trip to Moscow for several days. This was the height of the Cold War, less than a year after the Cuban missile crisis, and it was rare for Americans to visit the USSR. The slides that my parents took have been gathering dust for decades now, but I recently dug them out and thought that some of the images might be of interest to our readers. The color in some cases isn't great; no doubt a better photo editor could improve them. Still, after nearly 50 years they don't look too bad.
This was the group from the Assembly that participated in the tour. Their guide Rima–whom my parents described as the only attractive woman they saw in Moscow–is second from the left. My mother is in the front, wearing white sunglasses, which I guess must have been fashionable then. Moscow University is in the background. Click to enlarge:
Communist banners were common. This one shows Marx, Engels and Lenin and I think is an exhortation to strive for the victory of Communism:
At this time, Moscow's great monuments didn't look too bad. Here, for example, is the Bolshoi Ballet:
But my parents and their companions were strictly limited in what they could photograph. One member of their group had his camera seized by a policeman who thought he had photographed something that would not reflect well on the workers' paradise. This is the Pushkin Museum:
The group spent quite a bit of time in the Kremlin. Here it is, from across the street:
This line of people is waiting to see Lenin's tomb. Lenin's body was on display in the Kremlin for many years (if it really was his body). My parents, not surprisingly, found it creepy:
I believe this picture shows the same line from a different perspective, with St. Basil's Cathedral on the right:
This is another church in the Kremlin, which, my mother noted, contained Christian art:
This is Stalin's tomb, located outside the Kremlin walls:
The atmosphere in Russia at that time (as for a long time both before and after) was oppressive. Foreigners were viewed with deep suspicion. The hotel where my parents' group stayed was a relatively good one, but was a dump by Western standards. A woman sat in a chair at the end of each corridor as a sort of hall monitor, keeping an eye on the guests. Whenever they returned to their room after a day of touring, it was evident that someone had entered the room and searched their belongings.
My parents were struck by the large number of women who were working in manual occupations, like the woman on this street crew:
This was due, no doubt, to the extraordinary rates of mortality to which Russian men were subjected over more than a generation, beginning with World War I and continuing through the Civil War, the purges and World War II. As you can imagine, my mother did not view the opportunity to do heavy labor favorably, as a sort of proto-feminism.
What my parents most enjoyed about their visit to the U.S.S.R. was the Moscow Circus, but for some reason I can't locate any photos of it. While the visit was extraordinarily interesting to them and their companions, the atmosphere in Russia was palpably oppressive and somewhat threatening, to the extent that when their airplane taxied down the runway and took off to return to Western Europe, the passengers all began to applaud, spontaneously.
This last one is just a bonus. When they returned to the U.S., my parents spent a few days with us in Annapolis. I believe it was at that time that my uncle got word that President Kennedy was about to give a speech at the Naval Academy. Apparently this became public only on short notice, so we jumped into my uncle's car and drove a short distance to the Academy. We were fortunate enough to see Kennedy's helicopter land on the Academy grounds; he got out and walked into the building where he was to speak. It was the only time I saw Kennedy. Lee Oswald assassinated him just three months later. This picture of my parents, my older brother and me was taken at around the same time on the Mall, with the Washington Monument in the background. I am the geeky one in the red shirt; as you can see, my brother was much cooler:


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After running the numbers, ESPN.com pro football writer John Clayton arrived at a win total for every team in the division for 2012. Is the figure too high, too low or spot on?
CINCINNATI BENGALS: The Bengals didn't sit pat after last season's surprising 9-7 season and a trip to the playoffs. Cincinnati had one of the most productive offseasons in the league, even though it didn't make a splash with a big-name signing. The Bengals' prize in free agency was former Patriots running back BenJarvus Green-Ellis, who provides more ball security and a bigger punch in the red zone than Cedric Benson. There was a significant upgrade at both guard positions with free agent Travelle Wharton and first-round pick Kevin Zeitler.
The biggest question is who will start at the No. 2 wide receiver spot opposite A.J. Green. After losing two of their top three wide receivers from last season (Jerome Simpson and Andre Caldwell left in free agency), the Bengals didn't sign a wide receiver in free agency and didn't draft one in the first two rounds. Cincinnati will likely go with either Brandon Tate, Mohamed Sanu or Armon Binns.
The Bengals' defense returns nearly intact after finishing No. 7 last season. Leon Hall, the team's top cornerback, is looking to get back on the field by training camp after an Achilles injury ended his 2011 season. But the Bengals don't need to rush him back after drafting Dre Kirkpatrick in the first round and signing three former first-round cornerbacks in free agency: Adam Jones, Terence Newman and Jason Allen. Defensive end Carlos Dunlap is looking to become an every-down player this year and could have a Pro Bowl-type season.
More or less? The Bengals are determined to put together consecutive winning seasons for the first time since 1981-82, so they'll surpass Clayton's forecast. Cincinnati can reach a double-digit win total and make a run at the division title if quarterback Andy Dalton takes the next step in his progression.
CLEVELAND BROWNS: Fixing the NFL's 29th-ranked offense was the priority this offseason. The Browns used their first three draft picks on offensive players, and all three should start immediately as rookies. Running back Trent Richardson brings a hard-nosed style, quarterback Brandon Weeden adds much-needed arm strength and right tackle Mitchell Schwartz upgrades the weakest spot on the offensive line. Not to be overlooked is the hiring of Brad Childress as the team's offensive coordinator. But coach Pat Shurmur will still call the plays for the Browns.
Despite these additions, there are some major doubts about whether the Browns' offense will take the necessary step forward because of their wide receivers. Cleveland lacked speed and dependable hands (Cleveland was tied for the most drops in the NFL) at this position last season, and the Browns did very little to change that. The only new receiver who might make an impact is Travis Benjamin, a rookie fourth-round pick. Defenses aren't sweating over Greg Little, Mohamed Massaquoi and Josh Cribbs.
The Browns' defense has to figure out how to stop the run this year. Cleveland gave up 147.4 yards on the ground per game, which was an average of 43 yards more than any other team in the division. The addition of free-agent defensive end Frostee Rucker should help in this area, but the injury to defensive tackle Phil Taylor is a big blow to the defense. Taylor is trying to return by the first half of the season after tearing a pectoral muscle this offseason. Scott Paxson, John Hughes and Billy Winn are competing for Taylor's spot.
More or less? Clayton is spot-on with four wins, although I will put an asterisk by it. The Browns will be a much better team despite not improving on last season's win total. A challenging schedule, a tough division and a lack of playmakers in the passing game will lead to the fifth straight season of at least 11 losses.
BALTIMORE RAVENS: The Ravens came within a dropped pass of getting to the Super Bowl, and nothing has gone right since that painful AFC Championship Game. The key is how the AFC North champions respond to the loss of linebacker Terrell Suggs. The reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year partially tore his Achilles in April and is expected to miss a significant portion of the season. Suggs, who had a career-high 14 sacks last season, will be replaced by Paul Kruger, who has 6.5 sacks in his three-year career.
Baltimore is also dealing with the expected no-show of running back Ray Rice (franchise tag) this offseason, the unexcused absence of safety Ed Reed at mandatory minicamp, the weight issue of offensive tackle Bryant McKinnie and the loss of guard Ben Grubbs in free agency. The Ravens hope that Reed will report to training camp on time and McKinnie will lose the 9 pounds needed to get back on the field. There is no timetable for Rice, who could sit out most of training camp if he doesn't get a long-term deal by the July 16 deadline.
The area of concern is the offensive line. Baltimore is looking to replace a Pro Bowl left guard in Grubbs with veteran Bobbie Williams, a soon-to-be 36-year-old lineman coming off ankle surgery. If McKinnie struggles with his weight, the Ravens are going to have to think about shifting Michael Oher from right to left tackle and starting Jah Reid at right tackle.
More or less? It's difficult to go against a team that has gone to the playoffs every year under coach John Harbaugh (including two AFC Championship Games in four seasons), but this is the year when the off-the-field distractions cause the Ravens to drop off a bit. Baltimore will fall just shy of Clayton's predicted total and finish with nine wins.
PITTSBURGH STEELERS: A salary-cap purge and a need to get younger forced the Steelers to say goodbye to several longtime leaders: wide receiver Hines Ward, linebacker James Farrior and defensive end Aaron Smith. The biggest change, though, was replacing Bruce Arians with Todd Haley at offensive coordinator. This meant a new system for quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, who has repeatedly talked about the challenge of adjusting to Haley's scheme. It isn't known what direction Haley will take with the Steelers, but he should take advantage of an explosive and deep receiving group that includes Mike Wallace, Antonio Brown, Emmanuel Sanders and Jerricho Cotchery. That is, when Wallace decides to report to the team after protesting his restricted free-agent status.
The two injury concerns are running back Rashard Mendenhall and nose tackle Casey Hampton; each had ACL surgery in January. General manager Kevin Colbert said he anticipates both will be placed on the physically unable to perform (PUP) list, which means they'd miss the first six weeks of the regular season. Isaac Redman, who had 121 yards rushing in a playoff game last season but not much experience beyond that, will take over for Mendenhall. The Steelers would replace Hampton with either backup Steve McLendon or rookie fourth-round pick Alameda Ta'amu.
The biggest improvement for the Steelers came on the offensive line. Pittsburgh used its first two draft picks on guard David DeCastro and offensive tackle Mike Adams, which is a significant improvement over two undrafted players who started last season (Doug Legursky and Ramon Foster). These additions will move Willie Colon to guard. This should reduce the hits on Roethlisberger, who has been sacked an NFL-high 261 times since 2006.
More or less? Clayton is in the right neighborhood, but the Steelers will get one more win than his forecast. As long as Roethlisberger remains healthy and the Steelers have a top-five defense, Pittsburgh will contend for a Super Bowl every season.


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Considering SDN? Adopt Chaos Monkey
The way Ivan Pepelnjak sees it, every company could benefit from its own Chaos Monkey.
What's Chaos Monkey, you ask? It's a service Netflix built -- and now relies upon --to ensure the resiliency of its applications running on Amazon Web Services. It does this by randomly shutting down servers to see what the effect is on applications, and thus the customer experience. Netflix kills thousands of virtual instances each year this way, solving any problems that arise, and each time its applications get a bit stronger and more reliable.
As a result, the company doesn't care about hardware availability. It has dozens of virtual servers supporting the same application, and it doesn't even worry about replacing the servers it kills as it's constantly adding new ones to handle increased user loads.
"Their application architecture is resilient," Pepelnjak, chief technology adviser at consultancy NIL Data Communications, said in an interview. "If any component fails, the whole operational stack is still working."
It's an approach that's long proved successful at Netflix and other big-name online services, such as Amazon and Google. And much to Pepelnjak's pleasure, it's starting to catch on elsewhere.
"That type of mentality is slowly moving into the enterprise side of things," Pepelnjak said. "It will make things simpler, cheaper and easier to manage. You stop worrying about all the possible failure scenarios. You only worry about how resilient is your application."
According to Pepelnjak, companies can design their data centers to be hardware independent, and thus much more agile, by tapping into the software-defined phenomenon.
Doing so, he said, will enable companies to do application development in environments that duplicate the live network rather than in the stand-alone testing environments they've long depended on, which often don't adequately prepare apps for life in the real world.
Already, he said, many company are realizing the benefits of that transition. They're discovering that it doesn't make sense to buy vendor-branded boxes, and are instead buying generic servers and deploying firewalls, load balancers and other layers as virtual instances on those commodity machines.
Whether the resulting environments are called software-defined data centers, software defined networks, or network functions virtualization doesn't matter -- those are all just buzzwords in Pepelnjak's view.
What's most important, he said, is that companies not expect that they can throw technologies labeled as software-defined at a problem and expect results. Taking full advantage of software-defined data center and networking innovations requires a bit of IT soul searching.
"If you want to really get the business benefits, you should go back and totally change the way you think about applications, and totally change the way you think about security," Pepelnjak said.
[Read how Ethan Banks thinks the job of a network pro will change with software-defined networking "Network Engineers: Don't Be The Dinosaur."]
For example, an organization can place virtual layers in front of every application, thus making app teams responsible for their own firewalls, load balancers and the like, and turning network teams into consultants. Doing so can remove the roadblocks to rapid app development by enabling app teams to test their work in sandboxes that imitate production environments.
In order to make this approach work, though, Pepelnjak said companies would have to tear down walled gardens and shift responsibilities so that network and application teams work more in tandem. The traditional paradigm in which apps teams work in a disconnected silo and then point fingers when their apps don't run as expected will no longer work.
"You can deploy these new technologies and keep doing things in the old way, but then you're just wasting money," he said. "You have to reorganize the way you do business in IT."
Combining a new approach to app development with adoption of emerging software-defined technologies could result in a compelling value proposition for organizations willing to embrace change.
"Building private clouds will be way simpler and cheaper," Pepelnjak said. "And they'll be way more robust than they were a couple of years ago."
[Don't miss Ivan Pepelnjak's workshop, "Designing the Virtual Network for the Software-Defined Data Center" March 31 at Interop Las Vegas. Register today!]
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Exfoliating Lip Scrubs
A makeup artist and editor favorite, Fresh's Sugar Lip Polish ($23) gently exfoliates with sugar crystals and hydrates with grape and jojoba seed oils, shea butter, and vitamin E. (Follow with the brand's Lip Treatment!)
Sara Happ has numerous scrubs that all smooth lips to perfection--blood orange, lavender, green apple--but their classic Brown Sugar Lip Exfoliator ($24) is our favorite for its rich scent and fine granules.
You might mistake the packaging of E.l.f.'s Studio Lip Exfoliator ($3) for lipstick--until the grainy stick hits your lips. Rough sugar granules remove flaky skin, while avocado and vitamin E hydrate.
Lush masters the sweet and salty culinary trend in their Popcorn Lip Scrub ($10). Rough sugar, fine sea salt, jojoba, and coconut oils exfoliate and hydrate. Tempted to lick your lips? It's okay--this one is safe to eat!
Don't let the vanity-worthy jar on Julep's Sugar Smooch Lip Scrub ($14) steal the show--the best part is inside! Sweet molasses and brown sugar remove dead skin while vitamin E and shea butter condition lips.
Bite Beauty's natural Whipped Cherry Lip Scrub ($18) is free of chemicals and preservatives; instead it's packed with fruit acids, exfoliating beads, and resveratrol, an antioxidant found in red wine.
VS Makeup's Pro Smooth FX Lip Scrub and Balm ($16) is a creamy scrub and moisturizing balm stacked together, making the exfoliation/hydration game easy.
The creamiest formula on our list, Bliss' Fabulips Sugar Lip Scrub ($18) deeply hydrates with olive oil and cocoa butter, while fine sugar and almond flakes brush away rough texture.
Philosophy's travel-friendly Kiss Me Exfoliating Lip Scrub ($16) looks like lip gloss, but it's actually a fine scrub with sunflower seed and olive fruit oil to turn dull lips smooth.
You can whip up your own lip scrub with ingredients already in your kitchen! You'll need an oil (like coconut or olive), a sugar (brown or white), and a dollop of honey (to create a thick texture). Slowly mix half-teaspoon amounts of each ingredient in a bowl until you get a thick, grainy texture--or follow this tutorial for a sweet scrub inspired by Sara Happ's Lip Scrub.


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Strategic Business Partner
Spreetail is a profitable and growing ecommerce company that builds technology, markets products and manages warehouses to offer the best prices on tens of thousands of items. Our purpose is to make a dent in the universe by delighting millions of customers, creating opportunity and wealth for our team, and revolutionizing the communities we touch.
Spreetail is growing rapidly; our team is challenged every single day to outwork and outthink the competition. We move fast, and no one has the luxury to wait around for someone else to make the first move. We dive in, we learn, we adapt, sometimes we fail, but we never remain stagnant.
We look for team members who embody our mantra:
Be relentless. Pursue challenges. Act like an owner. Raise your bar. Practice humility. Make Spreetail better.
As a part of our People & Culture team you will offer thought leadership regarding organizational and people-related strategy and execution. The Strategic Business Partner will provide insightful data on the financial value and future worth of people-centric programs.
As a Strategic Business Partner, you will:
- Drive departments toward correlating business results (i.e., production or sales) with individual results.
- Provide proactive solutions to business needs regarding hiring, engagement, succession planning, performance management, coaching and recognition.
- Give honest feedback and coaching to individuals and teams.
- Act as a project manager for cross functional projects and objectives aiming to increase productivity, innovation and communication.
- Ensure company culture / communications are understood and achievable by individuals and teams.
- Act as a counselor in difficult employee situations to help find win-win solution.
Spreetail isn't just a job or career, it's a lifestyle that isn't for the faint of heart. Expect put in the necessary hours each week and break out of your comfort zone to tackle problems and pursue innovative solutions. If you're looking for a challenge and a career you can grow with, Spreetail is the opportunity you've been waiting for.
We'll reward you with:
- Stock appreciation rights
- Leadership development opportunties
- Untracked time off
- Group health insurance
- Yearly company trip
- Regular company-funded events and activities
- Dollar-for-dollar donation match
- Home purchase bonus after 2 years of employment
- Island getaway after 3 years of employment
- 10-day sabbatical after 5 years of employment


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Grae's Rating:
Warm fuzzy slippers for your eyes.
If there's one thing that drives me nuts in movies, it's watching a character make a contrived and exhaustingly incorrect decision that looms over an entire movie, creating its only source of tension. When it happens, you can bet it's also heading towards a predictable end. People Like Us is founded on such a premise, so it took some work to get itself out of the mire--but it does.
Sam (Chris Pine) is a fast-talking smooth operator, deftly maneuvering through every challenge life throws at him. Sure, he has no money, but he looks good convincing people to trust him, so he gets by. His father he wasn't close to, a music producer who never achieved the stardom he deserved, passes away leaving his wife Lillian (Michelle Pfeiffer) even more vulnerable and alone than usual, since her jerk son never comes around. It's hard to like Sam. He borders on being unlovable. So when Sam learns that his father had a daughter he never knew about (Elizabeth Banks), and she has a son, and Sam has been given the task of giving them some cash their father left behind, it's not immediately apparent what he will do. But it's not shocking that he befriends her and chickens out in telling her who he really is.
The movie benefits from painting characters that usually fall into cliche hell (like the recovering alcoholic single mom who is stressed but making it work, and the latch-key kid who shoplifts, and the disapproving lawyer girlfriend) with more humor than usual, and the actors work overtime in making that the real focus here. Of course Sam is going to learn something about himself and others and what family really means. But seeing he and Elizabeth Banks wandering through Los Angeles, eating tacos and talking about their least proud moments, is intimate and endearing. I was won over by their Wonder Twin power-activating. In fact, they had so much chemistry I was really sad that they weren't going to get together (unless the movie took a real turn away from the norm).
This movie also marks the first time in her last three movies that Michelle Pfeiffer has played a real human being--or even a watchable one. Her cartoony and awkward roles in New Year's Eve and Dark Shadows made me sad, because you know they weren't her fault. Even Catwoman can't fix a flat script. Lillian is a woman worn down by a man who had her in the palm of his hand for many years, and now that he's gone, she's left having to reassess her entire life. And she is also obsessed with Entenmann's baked goods. I related instantly. This role is more towards The Story of Us than anything she's done recently, which means I need to buy it on DVD and watch it while wearing sweat pants when I need to feel comforted. With all of its sweetness, humanity, and believability, People Like Us is much better than it looks on paper.
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HAN-KUN – Island Vibes (Official Lyric Video)
HAN-KUN Live DVD[HAN-KUN TOUR 2014 LEGEND -Roots&Future-]
HAN-KUN[ROAD TO ZION]MV(FULL ver.)
SHONAN NO KAZE / LIVE DVD&Blu-ray[KAZE DENSETSU DAI2SHOU TOUR2015]
HAN-KUN is a performer expresses his self with a microphone through dancehall reggae.
He is also a DJ and always seeks for his ultimate style sending his messages.
(performance such as hardcore shouts and singing along the chorus original style)
He's known for a very high skill performer through his original dancehall free style RUB-A-DUB and he's got high conscious in his DJ courier.
He met Reggae when he was in High School.
It was a song by BUJU BANTON's "UNTOLD STORIES" in a mix tape made by his friend's girlfriend that was played in a car.
He's got a strong impact from listening to a music category Dancehall.
He was influenced from BUJU BANTON's "UNTOLD STORIES", BEENIE MAN、BOUNTY KILLER and other Jamaican artists music, and also through a Japanese reggae, a growing scene back then.(He also says that there were many artists from his local Kanagawa area and in the past it was the hottest reggae town "osaka"s scene influnced him.)
In 1998,he was invited to an event of his local friends, and performed his own stage for his first time.
(Although he says that "the crowd was like 5 to 6 people" and he laughs.)
During the same period he participates in a new comer gathering dub mix tape compilation.
He meets RED RICE(from SHONAN NO KAZE) then.
After that he meets the other members from SHONAN NO KAZE.
Also meeting MURDERONE or many other local acts and becomes tight relations with them and completes the original mix tape by SHONAN NO KAZE.
By completing this mix tape SHONAN NO KAZE goes on a one box car and goes on a national tour.
SHONAN NO KAZE's debue was in 2003.(By this time he links up with many local acts and goes back and forth to Jamaica often.)
After his debut in SHONAN NO KAZE and after few big turning points of his solo acts he activates his national tour after 2006.
(There are many works that shows his turning points that I offer to everyone to seek and check them out.)
From his performance at a small local club to out door big festivals or participating at an after party as RUB-A-DUB...
It is quite recent that his name appeared as his solo acts for these events.
The reason was because even though he was particiapting in many compilation albums and featuring, he has not yet released his original solo work at this time.
He drops his first solo album in 2008.long waited by the fans.
and since then, he has released 4 albums and he is unstoppable!
Nowadays people call him "The Voice Magician"


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A's defense, Milone hold down Angels 7-1
ANAHEIM -- Coco Crisp managed to make the defensive play of the night Wednesday, even on a night with another Yoenis Céspedes whoops-boom-you're-out throw, and the A's avoided a sweep by the Angels.
Crisp leaped at the wall in the second inning to take away a homer by Josh Hamilton - a drive that looked gone enough that it triggered fireworks at Angel Stadium while Crisp was coming down with the ball in his glove. Crisp also had two hits, scored a run and drove in a run in Oakland's 7-1 victory.
"I knew it was going to be close," Crisp said. "I try to take as much pride in my defense as possible."
Crisp gave a little finger wag toward the fireworks lighting area after he landed.
"They popped the fireworks, suggesting a home run," he said. "So I gave them the 'Mutombo.' "
In the first, Angels center fielder Mike Trout took a potential homer away from Céspedes.
"When you're watching, you can't help but say, 'Nice play,' " Crisp said.
Crisp doubled in the third and scored Oakland's first run on a two-out, two-strike single by Céspedes. In the sixth, Céspedes made his second memorable throw in as many nights; this time misplaying Albert Pujols' shot to the left-field corner before nailing him trying to reach third.
Céspedes did it all. He doubled in the sixth, went to second on Brandon Moss' infield single and scored on Jed Lowrie's shallow sacrifice fly to center, giving Oakland a 2-1 lead. He also singled in a run in the ninth.
Stephen Vogt mashed a two-run homer to right in the sixth, his first of the season. That chased Angels starter Jered Weaver, who typically dominates the A's but has given up nine runs in 11 1/3 innings this year.
The Angels got two men aboard with two outs in the seventh and Ryan Cook took over from Tommy Milone and struck out pinch-hitter David Freese on three pitches.
Milone went 6 2/3 innings and allowed six hits and one run; he walked two and struck out four. He is 4-0 with a 2.00 ERA in his past seven starts after opening the season 0-3 with a 5.86 ERA.
Josh Donaldson, mired in the longest hitless streak of his career, was not in the starting lineup as manager Bob Melvin gave his third baseman "a mental rest." He entered the game in the sixth as a pinch hitter after Alberto Callaspo left with a stomach illness and went 0-for-2; he's hitless in 23 at-bats.
Donaldson is swinging earlier in the count, making him appear impatient, but he said he is swinging at strikes. "I don't want to be down 0-2, 1-2," he said. "So you start hacking more, which I don't mind. But I'd rather be 2-0."
He hasn't had a hit since the weird tantrum Manny Machado threw at him last Friday, but Melvin said he didn't think the Machado flap has any bearing at all on Donaldson's funk.
"He's a pretty strong-minded guy," Melvin said. "He's just having a tough time right now."
Susan Slusser is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @susanslusser


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St. Martin's, Mar 1995, 23.95, 304 pp. ISBN: 0312331401 Twenty years ago, Dan O'Sullivan, Jr. was doing field work in the Caribbean when he decided not to return to school and remain in the sun and fun. His father, a Brooklyn construction firm owner supported his son's lifestyle until he died and his estate turns out to be bankrupt. The Star Ace Corporation repossesses Dan's ship but also provides him a job as a Brooklyn property supervisor. D...