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An Army sergeant protects the perimeter outside his unit's MRAP vehicle during the U.S. military's last combat patrol in Iraq. (The Associated Press)
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New combat uniforms
The Army in 2012 will select three new combat uniforms: a woodland variant, a desert variant and a "transitional" variant that covers everything in between.
The current Universal Camouflage Pattern is not an option.
Officials this month will unveil the top five selections three from industry and two from the government. Wear and field tests will follow. If all goes as planned, production will begin in October.
For now, design and colors are anyone's guess. For example, digital patterns work well in some environments but not as well in others. Sometimes a vertical orientation is best, while other times horizontal would be optimal. And when it comes to colors, there are 15 different military operating environments with unique colors that change with elevation and seasons.
The Army will spend as much as $10 million on the effort. The new pattern must provide the best possible concealment for soldiers deploying worldwide.
New PT test
More than 10,000 soldiers took a new physical training test in 2011, and you are likely to follow suit when the test becomes official in late 2012.
This will mark the first changes to the PT test since its inception in 1980. Officials are finalizing the details, but the new test will likely include:
A 60-yard shuttle run.
A two-minute rower.
A standing long jump.
Dead-hang pull-ups.
A two-mile run.
Initial tests had a one-minute rower, push-ups instead of pull-ups and a 1½-mile run. Data collection and soldier input drove leadership to make the test tougher.
The Army is likely to add full body armor to the Army Combat Readiness Test, as well.
The ACRT incorporates sprinting, climbing drills and other high-intensity exercises that mimic the challenges soldiers face in combat. It kicks off with a 400-meter run with a weapon. This segues into an obstacle course with low hurdles, high crawls and over-under obstacles to test individual movement techniques. Soldiers then do a 40-yard casualty drag, followed by a 40-yard run with ammo cans atop a balance beam. Next comes point, aim and move drills, followed by a 100-yard ammo can shuttle sprint. The ACRT wraps up with a 100-yard agility sprint.
Smartphones on the job
The Army is only months away from secure, battle-ready smartphones, according to an official spearheading the effort to harness mobile technology.
The National Security Agency is expected to certify a secure version of the Android operating system, and the operating system used by the iPhone and iPad, iOS, is being considered separately by another agency which regulates cryptographic standards.
With NSA-approved smartphones, soldiers would be able to connect smartphones to secret-level mission command computer systems, finally unlocking the potential of the mobile revolution for the Army, said Mike McCarthy, director of the mission command complex of the Future Force Integration Directorate at Fort Bliss, Texas.
He said he expects NSA approval for a secure version of the Android operating system, called a hardened kernel, in early 2012. Afterward, it would begin the process of gaining further certification for use with classified networks.
Smartphones and tablets will likely be fielded to soldiers in deploying units by mid- to late 2012, McCarthy said. The Army will officially open its own app store in early 2012. The selection, at first, will include unclassified apps for training and administration, which won't interface with battle command systems. A secure Army app store will open on an Army network in 2012, officials say.
BCT overhaul
The coming year will see significant momentum in a reorganization that will result in fewer, stronger brigade combat teams. The effort is designed to make brigades more effective as the Army shrinks from 570,000 to 520,000 or fewer.
Brigades are expected to add a maneuver battalion and redistribute headquarters units. Combat enablers such as engineers and fire teams will also get a boost. But the cost is expected to be 10 to 15 fewer BCTs. Details of what officials have called a "rigorous examination of risk and trade" are expected to be part of the annual Total Army Analysis, due to service leaders this month.
The Army has 73 BCTs: 45 in the active component and 28 in the reserve component.
More time at home
The Army will move to nine-month deployments and increase soldiers' time at home during the coming year.
Active-duty units deploying after Feb. 1 will do nine-month tours, said a senior Army planner, who spoke on background to Army Times.
There will be some exceptions, including corps headquarters and individual deployers, who will still go for 12 months.
Other exceptions could include units with high-demand capabilities, such as explosive ordnance disposal, some intelligence specialties and military working dog teams, the planner said.
If Army planners determine a high-demand unit should deploy for 12 months instead of nine, they must seek an exception to the policy. Depending on the type of unit deploying, approval for that exception can be granted by officials on the Army staff up through the secretary of the Army.
Aviation units remain in high demand, but the planner said he expects to see improved dwell times for those units, and deploying aviation units should, for the most part, be able to do nine-month tours instead of 12.
The Army's minimum guidelines for active-duty units are one day at home for every day a unit is deployed, or a 1:1 deployed-to-dwell ratio. The minimum for reserve-component units is three years at home for every year a unit is mobilized.
The Army's dwell time goals remain two days at home for every day an active-duty unit is deployed, and five years at home for every year a reserve-component unit is mobilized, the senior planner said.
Some units have already reached the 1:2 deployed-to-dwell ratio, the planner said, but building dwell takes time about a year after leaving Iraq, he said.
Leadership changes
The Army will welcome a new vice chief of staff and several other key leaders in the coming year.
Gen. Lloyd Austin, who brought the U.S. military's mission in Iraq to a close, will succeed Gen. Peter Chiarelli as the Army's 33rd vice chief of staff Jan. 31.
The career infantryman has led divisions and joint task forces in combat. As commander of XVIII Airborne Corps, the 1975 U.S. Military Academy graduate became the first African-American to command a corps in combat.
Chiarelli, who has served as vice since August 2008, will retire.
Austin will again work directly alongside Gen. Ray Odierno, who became the Army chief of staff in September.
Odierno and Austin served together in Iraq, when Odierno was the top commander there and Austin commanded the XVIII Airborne Corps during its deployment from January 2008 to April 2009. Austin would later succeed Odierno as the top commander in Iraq.
Two other changes at the top involve the deputy chiefs of staff for personnel and intelligence. Maj. Gen. Mary A. Legere, commanding general of Army Intelligence and Security Command, had been nominated for a third star and assignment as the deputy chief of staff for intelligence, or G-2. Legere would succeed Lt. Gen. Richard Zahner, who has been the G-2 since February 2009.
Maj. Gen. Michael Tucker, commanding general of the 2nd Infantry Division, had been nominated for a third star and assignment as the deputy chief of staff for personnel, or G-1. Lt. Gen. Thomas Bostick, who is the current G-1, was nominated in April to lead the Army Corps of Engineers.
The Senate had not confirmed the nominations of Legere, Bostick or Tucker as of Dec. 15.
Also in transition is the Army Reserve. Lt. Gen. Jack Stultz, chief of the Army Reserve and commanding general of Army Reserve Command, has announced he plans to retire in May. No announcement has been made about his successor.
At the Army National Guard, a new director is learning the ropes. Lt. Gen. William Ingram, a former adjutant general of the North Carolina Guard, assumed the duties of the director of the Army Guard in late November. He succeeded Maj. Gen. Raymond Carpenter, who had served as the acting director since Lt. Gen. Clyde Vaughn retired in May 2009.
Year of the professional
The coming year will see a focus on the profession of arms, especially for junior officers and noncommissioned officers.
Along with revamping leader courses and intermediate-level education, the Army will place a greater focus on common military courtesies, as well as drill and ceremonial skills. NCOs will take ownership of daily unit activities.
These skills have been dulled during the busy deployment cycle of the past decade. Most of the Army has served during this period 72 percent of soldiers and 81 percent of staff sergeants and below entered service after the Sept. 11 attacks, as did 40 percent of warrant officers. Forty-five percent of officers and 72 percent of company-grade officers are also in that category.
Senior leaders described the post-9/11 soldiers as tactically experienced, culturally aware, eager and ready to serve. But they also are "at risk [of] disenchantment in a garrison environment," prone to leadership through texting rather than personal contact, and described as an "entitlement" and "train-me" generation.
Big changes to grooming standards are also coming. Hot topics include military haircuts, earrings with the Army Combat Uniform and whether soldiers should be allowed to use cellphones while walking or have visible tattoos on their hands and neck.
The Army also will crack down on body-fat regulations in 2012. Chandler is leading a review of body-fat percentages and the tape test.
"The Army has gotten a little bit larger, and I have some concerns about that," the Army's top enlisted soldier said.
Education benefits
Troops seeking to go to school on the government's dime should do so now because the military's tuition assistance benefit could change dramatically in the near future.
Many top military officials want to scale back the TA program, cutting the benefit offered and adding new restrictions. TA costs have more than tripled since 2001 to well over half a billion dollars a year.
Adding to the uncertainty is the fact that students may be unable to use TA money as freely as in the past because of a dispute over the Pentagon's proposed new rules. Many schools are balking at signing the new agreement because they say it comes with too many bureaucratic strings attached.
The Pentagon recently delayed the planned Jan. 1 effective date of its new rules for 90 days to allow for more discussion, so for now, troops can still tap up to $4,500 a year in benefits at nearly any school they choose.
But that could easily change.
Career tracking online
A one-stop online tool for plotting careers, assignments, training and education is on schedule for fielding to the Army's entire military and civilian workforce in 2012.
Called Army Career Tracker, the personalized professional development application already has been fielded to most enlisted soldiers.
The remaining effort for the enlisted component will focus on several state National Guard organizations.
Full deployment with commissioned officers, warrant officers and Army civilians is slated for late summer or early fall.
When fielded with the entire force, Career Tracker will provide some 1.3 million soldiers and civilians with a tool that integrates training, assignment history and education information from 15 databases and systems into one interactive, easy-to-use interface.
ACT delivers that information in a personalized way that takes account of an individual soldier's experiences, education, training and needs. It also shows the general career progression status of other members of a soldier's peer group. For example, the system is designed so that it can show what percentage of soldiers in a particular MOS and grade have completed the recommended level of professional military education for that grade.
Soldiers who are interested in reclassification also can draw on information provided by an MOS proponent, typically a branch service school, about requirements of a new specialty, as well as assignments and future training and schooling requirements.
The system is designed to show officers how they measure up to professional development requirements. It also lets officers share long-term goals with their Human Resources Command career managers who, in turn, can assist the officer in achieving career milestones. This is a departure from the assignment preference statement, or "dream sheet," of the past.
ACT's tailored information and online delivery also is seen as a boon for the professional development of National Guard and Army Reserve soldiers. Reserve officials note that because ACT is online, information is available every day, so that leaders, mentors and part-time soldiers do not have to go to a monthly drill, training noncommissioned officers or readiness NCOs for professional development information.
Re-enlistment deadlines
As the Army draws down, it will shape the force by making some re-enlistments contingent upon soldiers reclassifying to a new military occupational specialty, according to the top enlisted soldier.
"For some folks, that may not be palatable," said Sergeant Major of the Army Raymond Chandler, according to an Army release.
With the Army on the verge of launching a five-year, 50,000-soldier drawdown, re-enlistment options will be tightly managed in the coming year, according to service officials.
"The retention piece (of the drawdown) is the one that is going to affect a lot of folks in our Army," Chandler said.
"Everybody will be touched in some capacity," Chandler said at a blogger's roundtable Dec. 7. "For soldiers who are eligible to re-enlist, the standard is going to be excellence. We are looking for the best and brightest to offer the privilege of service."
The 2012 retention campaign has two phases, each with different re-up goals and eligibility windows.
The two-phase approach requires that soldiers whose terms of service expire in fiscal 2012, and who want to re-enlist, do so by Jan. 31.
Phase I: The goal for the first phase, which opened Oct. 1, is to re-enlist 10,800 to 11,800 soldiers.
That option is limited to a relatively small cohort of soldiers and will close Jan. 31. Only soldiers whose current enlistments expire Jan. 31 through Sept. 30, 2012, are eligible to re-enlist under Phase I.
Phase II: The second phase of the campaign is expected to begin in early March and probably will focus on soldiers whose enlistments expire in fiscal 2013.
While the specifics of that program will not be determined until February or March, sources speculate the re-enlistment goal will be about 50,000.
An Army policy requiring soldiers to re-enlist at least 90 days before their expiration term of service remains in effect. Soldiers whose 90-day window falls before Jan. 31 are subject to the restriction. For example, soldiers with an ETS of March 30, 2012, must re-enlist no later than Dec. 30 to avoid hitting their 90-day window.
The Army continues to offer retention bonuses for soldiers in priority MOSs. Programs now in effect include the Tiered Selective Re-enlistment Bonus program, the Critical Skills Retention Bonus program, and the Bonus Extension and Retraining program.
NCO promotion forecast
More than 44,000 active-component soldiers will advance to the ranks of sergeant through sergeant major in 2012, according to a promotion forecast developed by Army personnel officials.
The projected total of 44,141 represents a 6 percent reduction from 2011, when 47,129 soldiers added stripes.
More than half of the 2012 promotions will go to corporals and specialists on the servicewide recommended list for sergeant, and one-quarter will go to promotable sergeants competing for advancement to staff sergeant.
While the 2012 promotion plan calls for nearly 3,000 fewer NCO advancements than last year, it is similar to the annual totals authorized before the Army launched a major force buildup from 2005 to 2009.
NCO promotions vary each month, based on requirements to fill current and projected vacancies, by grade and MOS, throughout the Army.
The Army will begin a campaign in 2012 to reduce active-component manning by nearly 50,000 soldiers. However, personnel officials note that no major personnel authorization changes are planned for 2012, which means there will not be a big slowdown in promotions.
Promotion points
Promotion points have been adjusted for thousands of specialists, corporals and sergeants under changes to the Promotion Point Worksheet that take effect Jan. 1.
The changes put a greater emphasis on education. Under the revised format, the Military Education section of the worksheet has been divided into subcategories, each with a maximum point value designed to encourage soldiers to pursue a mix of resident and correspondence courses.
The three subcategories are Professional Military Education, Resident Military Training and Computer Based Training.
In a change from the previous scoring template, 40 percent of the points soldiers can potentially earn are related to NCO Education System achievements, such as graduation from the Warrior Leader Course or Advanced Leader Course. That compares to 35 percent for sergeant promotions under the old system, and 32 percent for staff sergeant scores.
The change intentionally limits a soldier's ability to max out the PME subsection to soldiers who are designated as distinguished honor graduates or distinguished leadership graduates of an NCOES course, according to Army officials.
A review of the mid-ranks promotion system indicated many soldiers were maxing out the military education section of the worksheet by avoiding NCOES and loading up on correspondence courses and computer-based training.
Graduation from the Warrior Leader Course and Advanced Leader Course are considered key components of the Army's leader development strategy and are used as promotion incentives.
The Army has added several other new features to the Promotion Point Worksheet that are effective for January promotions and later.
The new form has five sections, rather than two. They are Military Training, Awards and Decorations, Military Education, Civilian Education and Total Points.
Senior NCO promotions
Big improvements are in store for senior NCO promotions for 2012.
Selection rates from the fiscal 2012 master sergeant promotion boards that met in the fall bode well for other senior NCO panels that meet in the coming year.
Results of the Regular Army master sergeant board released Dec. 8 show that nearly 3,000 soldiers were the beneficiaries of a new promotion policy that sharply increases selection rates for advancements to the senior NCO ranks.
Another 458 Army Reserve soldiers were selected for promotion to master sergeant by the annual Active Guard and Reserve board.
The overall select rate for the RA board was 16.2 percent, a sharp increase from last year's rate of 6.9 percent, and 8.7 percent in fiscal 2010.
The overall select rate for the AGR board was 14.7 percent, about triple the rates of other boards in recent years.
The increased selection rates are the result of new policies that increase the time-in-grade requirement for primary- and secondary-zone master sergeant consideration by one year. The same policy will apply to the sergeant first class boards that convene in late January, and the fiscal 2013 master sergeant boards that meet this fall.
The time-in-grade requirement for promotion consideration increases from three to four years for the primary zone, and two to three years for the secondary zone. The time-in-grade requirement for senior NCO promotion eligibility in the non-AGR categories of the Army Reserve has increased from two to three years. Also, the minimum time-in-service requirement for master sergeant consideration in the non-AGR categories of the Army Reserve increases from 11 to 12 years, and for sergeant major from 13 to 17 years.
The changes mean a smaller inventory of soldiers competing for promotion and increased selection rates.
The time-in-grade requirements support the Army's leader development goal of having soldiers complete their requisite NCOES courses within three years to qualify for advancement to the next higher grade.
Retirement overhaul
Active-duty and retired service members will be watching to see if retirement reform rises on the radar again this year.
Last year, the frenzy to cut federal spending led to fairly serious discussion of changing or even scrapping the traditional 20-year retirement model that has been in effect for almost two generations.
The talk died down a bit after troops and retirees expressed widespread outrage and top Pentagon officials tried to tamp down the furor. Congress considered, but eventually dropped, a proposal to create a new "commission" to review military compensation, but Pentagon officials said they are working internally on possible changes. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said spiraling military personnel costs must be addressed somehow.
Help with transition
An ambitious program to help soldiers prepare for post-service employment or schooling begins in the coming year.
Soldiers will need to begin transitioning counseling no later than one year before they leave the Army, according to policy.
The effort to improve the breadth, quality and integration of Army transition services comes at a time when departing soldiers face one of the toughest civilian job markets in years.
"We want to prepare them so they can meet whatever their goal is when they leave the Army," Chiarelli said. "We want them to be able to get a job."
A key theme of the program is the early preparation of soldiers for separation.
"Army studies have found that the earlier a soldier begins preparing for separation … the more successful he or she will be," said Walter Herd, director of the Army Career and Alumni Program.
Commanders will have responsibility for overseeing the process using tracking tools and supervisors in a soldier's chain of command to assist in transition preparations.
Realistic training
New simulation gear will make force-on-force training on posts as realistic as running ops at Maneuver Combat Training Centers.
The new "laser tag" system registers injuries caused by simulated improvised explosives devices, artillery rounds and machine-gun fire, and assigns wounds based on weapons effects.
The Homestation Instrumentation Training System also allows leaders to replay battles with up to 8,000 participants within a 20-kilometer-by-20-kilometer area on screens or listen to radio chatter during after-action reviews, according to Col. Patrick E. Connors, a program director at the Training and Doctrine Command.
The system, which includes an electronic vest and transmitters for weapons, can also track ballistic missiles of friendly and enemy personnel and number of rounds fired.
Past generations of Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System gear don't provide that type of feedback, said Brian Lucke, a training coordinator at Fort Campbell, Ky.
Twenty-one posts will begin fielding the latest version of HITS this spring, and fielding will run through 2017.
A battalion set includes about 1,160 player radios, antenna nodes and an Exercise Control Station that assists in storing electronic, audio and video information for feedback, according to Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation.
The set costs about $9 million and works with Tactical Engagement Simulation Systems.
The vehicle dilemma
The coming year will be one in which combat vehicles will be scrapped, upgraded and purchased.
Roughly $4 billion is needed annually to recap, divest and buy new tactical wheeled vehicles, but the Army can only afford about $2 billion. To cut costs, the Army will not recapitalize as often, which means vehicles will have to run longer than expected.
The Ground Combat Vehicle, poised to become the next-generation infantry fighting vehicle, is under attack. Army leaders have said the final cost must come in below $13 million per vehicle. But the Pentagon's Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation office predicts each vehicle will cost closer to $17 million.
The Army also wants to replace one-third of its 150,000 Humvees with the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, a program the Senate appropriations defense subcommittee has recommended be terminated. The House appropriations defense subcommittee in July recommended a $50 million cut from the program, noting "the operational niche to be filled by the JLTV appears to be shrinking." To keep the program, the Army cut costs to that of a recapped Humvee.
Up to 5,000 M113s must also be replaced. They will likely be replaced with Bradley Fighting Vehicles; mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles; Strykers; or a combination of those.
About 9,000 Humvees are scheduled to be recapped in 2012, and thousands more will be updated using a competitive recap program, which will give the Humvees the same level of protection as MRAPs. About 1,000 MRAPs will get engineering upgrades and other changes in 2012.
The defense budget
The $600 billion question to be answered in 2012 is whether lawmakers really will let across-the-board cuts in federal programs go forward because of their failure to approve a $1.2 trillion, 10-year deficit reduction plan in 2011.
Defense and service officials have used the words "catastrophic," "devastating" and "dangerous" to describe what will happen if automatic cuts, known as sequestration, take effect Jan. 2, 2013, as required by the Budget Control Act.
Republicans in Congress are working on plans to exempt defense from its $500 billion to $600 billion share of sequestration by cutting more deeply into other programs, which sounds great for the military but is unlikely to be signed into law. Only a bipartisan plan that includes governmentwide spending cuts without exempting defense is likely to prevent sequestration.
Gays in the military
The legal skirmish over gays in the military likely will move into a new phase this year. Benefits will be the key issue now after the final repeal of the ban on gays serving openly in uniform last September.
Can gay couples live in base housing? Can same-sex spouses count as dependents for the purpose of calculating a housing allowance? Should same-sex spouses get Tricare health benefits? So far, gay-rights advocates say the transition has gone remarkably well and troops have reported few problems.
Nevertheless, harassment and discrimination claims by gay and lesbian service members may crop up this coming year.
Stolen Valor Act
By this summer, the Supreme Court will issue a decision on the constitutionality of the Stolen Valor Act, the 2005 law that made it a federal crime to lie about receiving military medals or decorations.
Specifically, the court will hear the case of Xavier Alvarez, a Southern California man who campaigned for a seat on his local district water board in part by claiming he was a retired Marine and a recipient of the Medal of Honor neither claim was true.
A federal judge sentenced Alvarez to three years probation, but an appeals court later said the 2005 law violates the First Amendment right to freedom of speech and was no different than "criminalizing lying about one's height, weight, age or financial status on Match.com or Facebook."
Tricare pharmacy turbulence
Barring an 11th-hour breakthrough between retail pharmacy giant Walgreens and the contractor that manages Tricare's pharmacy benefit, more than a half-million Tricare customers will start 2012 looking for a new pharmacist if they haven't done so already.
Contract negotiations between Walgreens and pharmacy benefit company Express Scripts ground to a halt in June, setting off a public dispute that affected countless Tricare beneficiaries.
Those customers will have to switch to another Tricare network pharmacy in 2012, use Tricare's mail-order service, or stay with Walgreens but pay full price and file reimbursement claims, which are subject to deductibles, out-of-network cost shares and Tricare-required co-payments.
Customers who still need to switch can take their prescription bottles to another Tricare network pharmacy, found at www.express-scripts.com/TRICARE/pharmacy, or call 877-363-1303.
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Crosskix Introduces a Revolution in Hybrid Footwear on Kickstarter
Stylish, Multi-functional and 100% Recyclable: A Superior Alternative in the Foam Composite Footwear Category is Born
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PORTLAND, Ore., April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Crosskix Footwear, the most stylish, athletic and functional shoe in the EVA (soft foam composite) footwear category, has launched their 40-day Kickstarter campaign (ending May 7, 2013) and pre-sells their first designs to start production. Crosskix offers the perfect mix of style, comfort, and most of all, functionality, and is a superior alternative to Crocs and other brands in the foam composite footwear category.
"We believe there's definitely a void in this category for a more sportier, stylish, and functional shoe," said Eric Saligumba, founder, Crosskix Footwear & Apparel Co. "Our goal was to design a shoe that everyone can proudly wear for multiple uses, and of course, look good while doing it." After over 4 years of designing, redesigning, testing, retesting and producing sample after sample, Crosskix has come up with a shoe that all men, women and children can wear.
Unlike other EVA shoes that are made with just one mold, Crosskix shoes are made with separate components. This allows the shoes to be more flexible, resulting in a fit and wear comparable to fabric-made sneakers. Crosskix shoes only weigh 7.5 oz, making them very lightweight and comfortable for multiple uses including leisure, exercise as well as work.
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In a file photo from July, 2010, mail processing clerk Tina Brown of Pontiac searches through mail dropped in one of the mail boxes outside the Bloomfield Hills Post Office on E. Long Lake after a local resident said she may have accidentally dropped something into a mailbox. on Tuesday, July 27, 2010. / PATRICIA BECK/Detroit Free Press
State Sen. Bert Johnson
The unwillingness or inability of the U.S. Congress to deal with the sustainability issues facing the United States Postal Service (USPS) is one of the most egregious examples of government not working in the best interest of the people. Though the shift toward online communication and the drop in direct-mail advertising due to the recession have harmed the Post Offices financial stability, the real culprit has been Congress itself.
In 2006, Congress passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, which restricted the Postal Services ability to raise the cost of stamps, limited the possibilities of it to engage in non-postal services and mandated the Postal Service, which receives no direct taxpayer dollars for its day-to-day operations, to prefund 75 years worth of retiree healthcare benefits over the next 10 years. This type of mandate is not required for any other agency, public or private. It costs the USPS about $5.5 billion per year.
And, it demonstrates that in many cases, government is not the problem. Rather, politicians, driven by ideological zeal and an interest in furthering corporate dominance in our society, are the problem.
The possibility of laying off of hundreds of thousands of postal employees and closings of thousands of post office branches is detrimental to every American, particularly those who are low-income and reside in urban or rural areas. The service provided by the post office is affordable and efficient. The USPS would be financially sustainable with a few legislative tweaks and without the absurd requirement to prefund three-quarters of a century worth of healthcare costs.
In recent years, the USPS has eliminated 130,000 full-time positions and proposed changes would eliminate 155,000 more. This would directly lead to higher costs to the USPS and lower standards of service to American citizens. In a time with a sagging economy and unemployment rates still much too high, why is cutting hundreds of thousands of workers and no longer guaranteeing top-notch service even an option? The answer lies with our woefully inadequate leaders in Congress from the ones who hate government and purposely want to eliminate the USPS to the ones who recognize the role postal service plays but do not have the courage to stand up and defend it.
The postal service also has a sterling reputation for its hiring of minority employees. My mother was a post office delivery person for 36 years and African-Americans make up more than 20% of the Postal Services work force. Roughly the same percentage of postal workers are veterans, and nearly a third of those are disabled. These are quality jobs. On her salary, my mother was able to support my father through law school and afford a top-notch education for four children. I credit her tenacity in making sure I attended the University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy with helping me become the person I am today.
The Post Office should not cease deliveries on Saturday. Congress should eliminate the requirement for it to prefund health care and it should be allowed to engage in other revenue-generating opportunities. Closing thousands of branch offices would result in many more Americans finding themselves unemployed.
The United States Postal Service is a worthwhile institution. It has long history, with roots in the Second Continental Congress, and is one of the very few federal agencies authorized by the U.S. Constitution. I urge our leaders in Washington, D.C. to protect it from sabotage by a corporate agenda.


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A new ad from an independent political group is giving voters a peek of the unrelenting barrage of negative ads linking likely Democratic Senate nominee Alison Lundergan Grimes with the as-unpopular-as-ever the President. The ad - which cost $552,000 - began running on Friday and will continue through Kentucky's May 20 primaries. It is paid for by the Kentuckians for Strong Leadership, an independent political action committee run by Scott Jennings, a former adviser to President George W. Bush.
After months of hard work and planning, a way to help single parents receive a college education became a reality in Downtown Pikeville. Nestled in the middle of town, within walking distance of of both the University of Pikeville and Big Sandy Community and Technical College, the Scholar House of Central Appalachia provides a place for single parents and their children to not only live...but thrive.
Highland Mine complex near Henderson is being idled while repairs are made to a preparation plant damaged by a structural failure last week. Patriot Coal announced Monday that the complex was stopping all coal production and expects full production to be restored by June 30. limited production may resume earlier when sufficient repairs have been made to the preparation plant to resume partial coal processing operations. More than 500 people work at the complex at full operation.
The Whitley County coroner says 26-year-old Robert Young drowned about 8 p.m. Sunday at the Laurel Lake Spillway. Rescue crews believe Young was swimming with a friend when he tried to swim out to a buoy. He was last seen about 200 feet from shore, where the water is more than 60 feet deep. When he didn't make it back to the beach, divers searched the water for five hours. They finally found his body around 1 a.m. Monday.
Hundreds of Kentucky bikers are honoring one of their own that was killed in a crash last week in Laurel County. Randolph Scott, 71, was died after the crash Wednesday night on Highway 25, north of London.Investigators say a car pulled out from Hazel Patch Road onto southbound U.S. 25 in front of a Harley Davidson motorcycle heading northbound. Scott was thrown from his bike. He died Wednesday night. Scott was from Lexington.
A man is dead after he was hit by a train Sunday in Letcher County. Officials say 36-year-old Michael Shaun Fields was on foot when the CSX train struck him. The CSX freight train came to a stop on the tracks behind the Isom shopping center on Kentucky Route 7. When they got to the scene, investigators found 36-year-old Michael Shaun Fields dead. "Preliminary impression is just multiple trauma due to being struck by the train," Letcher County Coroner Marty Baker said. More questions remain as investigators work to find out why this deadly accident took place. Fields's body was sent to Frankfort for an autopsy. The coroner says he expects to have those results Monday.
Police are investigating after a roadway incident in Breathitt County led to one man attacking another with a knife and subsequently being shot. Police said a man ran another vehicle off Highway 15 near the Walmart in Jackson Friday morning. After running the other man off the road he approached and attacked him with a knife. Police say his intended victim had a gun and shot his attacker, who then fled. Police are not sure what led to the attack and shooting.
Kentucky State Police shot and killed 50-year-old Neil Saylor following an hours-long standoff. Police say he robbed the Coldiron(Cold-eye-ern)Dollar General Store late Friday night, stealing $250 cash and cigarettes at gunpoint. The incident is still under investigation by Kentucky State Police.
Marlow Tackett the well-known country music singer from Eastern Kentucky, has died. For 35 years, he organized "Marlow Tackett's Christmas for the Needy," which provided toys, clothes, furniture, and other necessities to thousands of area children. Family and friends say Tackett never met a stranger, and would do anything he could to help anybody.
Officers with the Manchester Police Department are asking for help finding the people who stole three trash bags full of pills from a Clay County pharmacy Thursday. Police officers say they are working on a few leads. In the meantime, they are asking anyone with information to contact the dispatch office directly.
A woman involved in a collision with a school bus is now facing a DUI charge. Sherry Wilson was driving along "Dead Man's Curve" on Highway 38 and was going around the curve when she crossed the center line, side-swiping a school bus full of children. Though injuries were not reported, police say they consider the roadway one of the most dangerous in their jurisdiction. Wilson admits she was on prescribed nerve medication and Loratabs.
The Taylor County coroner confirms that a 19-year-old drowned while on a church outing in Green River Lake State Park. Jose Zambrano, of Lebanon, was found around 5 p.m. on Sunday. Zambrano was at Green River Lake for a baptismal service and church picnic. The coroner confirms he swam fifty feet away from the shore and drowned in twenty feet of water.
Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell says he raised more than $1 million in the month before the GOP primary. McConnell's campaign announced Thursday it raised over a million in April. Kentucky's Republican Senate primary is May 20. McConnell will face Louisville businessman Matt Bevin, who lags McConnell in fundraising and public polling. But McConnell's overall cash balance did not increase much. The Republican Senate leader's campaign said it still has more than $10 million in cash available, roughly the same amount it had at the end of the first fundraising quarter in March.
An eight-year-old Jenkins boy died Wednesday night from head and chest injuries he suffered in an accident. Police say the accident occurred when Trent Carty lost control of his bicycle while riding down a hill on Williams Street in the Muddtown community of Jenkins. The mishap occurred around 8 p.m. Trent was transported to the Whitesburg hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
State Troopers in Morgan County believe a string of fires were intentionally set. They say the fires happened at the beginning of the month along Dyer Branch Road. Troopers say a cabin, barn, and abandoned building were set on fire. There's a one thousand dollar reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of arsonist.
Investigators want to find a driver who ran away from the scene of a deadly crash. Laurel County Sheriff's Deputies say a Dodge Neon pulled into the path of a motorcycle on U.S. 25 Wednesday night. 71 year old Randolph Scott was thrown from the bike. He was flown to UK where he later died. The other driver ran into the woods and hasn't been found.
Former Kentucky first lady Martha Wilkinson, who championed efforts to reduce adult illiteracy and ran a brief campaign to succeed her husband as governor, has died. She was 72. Her husband, Wallace Wilkinson, had an eventful term as governor from 1987 to 1991. Voters approved creation of the Kentucky Lottery, which the Democatic governor had pushed as an alternative to higher taxes, and lawmakers overhauled public schools.
An eight year-old Letcher County boy was killed in a bicycle accident Wednesday night. According to Jenkins City Police, the crash happened around 8:00 p.m. on Williams Street in the Muddtown area of Jenkins. The Jenkins Police Chief said the boy was biking down a steep hill, somehow lost control and hit his break too hard. Investigators are not sure if he was wearing a helmet when he crashed. Police said emergency crews quickly got to the scene and tried to airlift the boy, however he was not stable enough to fly. Police said he was instead taken to Whitesburg ARH and pronounced dead at the hospital. The 8 year old's name has not been officially released.
Kentucky State Police have arrested a man in connection with a series of copper wire thefts in Harlan County. Timothy Shepherd, 34 of Cumberland is facing charges of Theft by Unlawful Taking and Criminal Mischief first degree. According to detectives, the thefts happened at an Appalachian Wireless cell phone tower over the past few weeks. A portion of the stolen copper was recovered after officers located Shepherd at a residence stripping wire May 3. Shepherd is being lodged in the Harlan County Detention Center.
A crash involving a school bus in Lincoln County has sent 20 students and the driver of a pickup truck to area hospitals. Lincoln County Schools Superintendent told media outlets the crash happened around 8 a.m. Wednesday on Kentucky 78. She didn't know what caused the crash. the bus had at least 38 children aboard and those who were taken to hospitals didn't appear to be seriously injured. The driver of the pickup truck was air-lifted from the scene.
A local community is seeking volunteer firefighters in an effort to reopen two stations that closed nearly three years ago. The Bell County Volunteer Fire Department board shut down stations in the Colmar and Brownies Creek communities during a funding dispute with the county. Each station would need between six and 12 volunteers, who must pass training courses before they can be firefighters.
The Funeral Service Program at Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College has gained full accreditation from the American Board of Funeral Service Education. Soon, 10 students from the program will receive their associate's degree marking the end of a two year program as they achieved a total of 68 credit hours of learning. With degrees in hand, graduates of the Funeral Service Program will be eligible to sit for the national board examination. Additionally, graduates are required to take a state law test in order to practice in a particular state.
The Evarts Police Department, the Harlan County Sheriffs' Office, and the Harlan County Detention Center are looking for an inmate who walked away from work release in the Black Mountain section of Harlan County. 28-year-old Micheal Day escaped work release around 2:30 Tuesday. Day was last seen on Old School House Road. Officials said Department of Corrections Officers approved Day to work outside Monday.
A handicap pool lift was recently installed at the Whitesburg Municipal Swimming Pool. To use the lift, a person must be mobile enough to sit in the chair and use the remote control to lower himself or herself into the water. The equipment cost $5,500 and labor totaled nearly $4,000. The pool lift was paid for by a partial grant awarded through the Kentucky River Area Development District and the City of Whitesburg's general fund.
The Tennessee Valley Authority says 750 employees have retired or resigned through a voluntary incentive program, another 1,000 vacant positions are being eliminated and more cuts are on the way. it will be the largest staff reduction at the federal utility in more than 20 years. Cuts also are planned in TVA's nuclear program and involuntary layoffs are expected later this year. The cuts are being made so staffing levels and electric rates will be more in line with other utilities as power consumption growth slows.
A Pike County man has died after his ATV was struck by a train on Monday. Gary Williams, 66 of Pikeville, was riding his ATV near some railroad tracks and was attempting to cross them when he was hit by a CSX train. Williams was pronounced dead at the scene. The accident is currently under investigation by Kentucky State Police.
About 40 Breathitt County students are not allowed to walk across the stage at graduation in a couple weeks because they didn't meet the 95% attendance criteria. State Manager Larry Hammond says they will still receive a high school diploma, but will not be allowed to walk across the stage. Even more high school students weren't allowed to attend prom over the weekend for that same reason.
An inmate who walked away last month from a work detail is back in custody. Officials with the Powell County Detention Center say Joshua Sparks is now back in their facility. They say that Sparks was captured at a home in Powell County by a sheriff's deputy late Monday night. Sparks walked away from the transfer station on Highway 15 in Stanton on the morning of April 28th. Sparks was serving time in Powell County for theft by unlawful taking.
Kentucky State Police at the Pikeville Post are investigating what led to one woman's death and a man's injuries. According to authorities, the incident occurred Sunday evening in the Little Robinson Creek Community in Pike County. Authorities say both had suffered apparent stab wounds. The names of the victims have not been released.


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Who was there: From Naughty Dog, there was creative director Amy Hennig, cinematic production lead Taylor Kurosaki, and lead cinematics animator Josh Scherr. These three were accompanied by members of the acting cast, including Nolan North, who plays Nathan Drake; Emily Rose, who does Elena Fisher; and Richard McGonagle, the actor behind Victor Sullivan.
What they talked about: While the panel was largely focused on the motion-capture techniques behind the Uncharted series, one consistent theme was the importance of Naughty Dog's collaborative spirit within everything the studio does. Hennig stressed early on that any member of the development team has to "check their ego at the door" when they come on board, which leads to an environment where staffers feel comfortable bouncing ideas off one another in a free-spirited work environment--an atmosphere that Naughty Dog has previously called "messy and chaotic in a good way."
Hennig suggested that the key to Uncharted's success is that this sort of team mentality doesn't exist purely on the technical side of the game's development; it applies to the actors as well. "So much of what we do is about nuance and humor, and you're not going to get that with actors acting alone in a booth," said Hennig. What Naughty Dog does is film in-game cinematics with every actor together on the same motion-capture set, simultaneously capturing both full-body animations and vocal performances for everyone involved. This contrasts with the more traditional approach where motion capture and vocal recordings are done separately, generally one actor at a time in a sound booth.
"It's just common sense," said Hennig. "It's something that I'm so glad our industry is finally coming around to, realizing acting is about reacting. It's about getting them together, getting them to know their characters and getting to own their characters. The reason [these actors'] characters are the way they are is that they've inhabited them. And because I've worked with them and known them for five years, I can write the characters and hear their voices in my head...especially Richard's laugh."
Early on, there were challenges with this approach. According to Scherr, the actors had to put a lot of faith in Naughty Dog while shooting the cinematics of the original game because of the starkly minimal nature of the motion-capture sets and the fact that there was no in-game footage to use as a reference point. And not only that, certain traditional acting techniques didn't really apply. At one point, Rose asked Scherr where she needed to stand for a particular shot, only to be caught by surprise when Scherr said it didn't really matter. They could make her stand wherever they wanted in postproduction.
One interesting note about Naughty Dog's preferred motion-capture technique is that unlike another notable PlayStation 3 action game, Resistance 3, the motion-capture sessions intentionally leave out sensors on the face to record facial animations. The reason, according to Scherr, is flexibility. Leaving facial animations up to the postproduction animation team allows Naughty Dog to mix and match the best full-body take and the best vocal take and then splice them together after the fact.
With each subsequent game, the actors have become more comfortable with this method of storytelling. In fact, to make the postproduction animating process easier and more flexible, the motion-capture sets have grown more minimal with each game. According to Kurosaki, for one of the jeep scenes in the original Uncharted, Naughty Dog wheeled in an actual vehicle onto the motion-capture stage to help the actors with the scene. Now the vehicles in Uncharted 3 are shot on little more than a few chairs pushed together.
The on-stage banter between Naughty Dog and the actors suggested that the motion-capture technique isn't the only thing that's become more casual. One video Naughty Dog showed the audience during the panel began with a shot of the actors on stage in motion-capture suits, acting out a complete scene from the game. However, the video ended with an extended montage of the actors standing around making comically strained grunting noises for additional audio material to fill out the game's action scenes. This second half of the video earned hysterical laughter from the audience and helped show that the relationship between developer and talent is so comfortable now that the former has no issue with teasing the latter.
"We laugh more than you can imagine," said North in reference to the loose atmosphere that the actors work in during these capture sessions. "I'd love to give you some technical speak, but it's just professional play time."
Quote: Before Naughty Dog rolled the video of the actors in their embarrassing skin-tight motion-capture suits, McGonagle quipped, "If any of you are wearing glasses, this will look a lot better without them."
The takeaway: There are a lot of hurdles that go into making a great video game, but Naughty Dog has shown that having fun and maintaining a casual atmosphere can go a long way toward reaching that goal.


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ATLANTA Outgoing offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn had drawn a lot of criticism for Auburns struggles this season.
Hired at Arkansas State last month, Malzahn stuck around to call the plays in the Chick-fil-A Bowl for an Auburn offense that did not have its leading rusher and lost its starting quarterback early in the first quarter.
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Posted: 05/28/2008 - McCain plans to be in Los Angeles Wednesday, as well as Reno, Nevada, where he'll also hold a town hall meeting.
Posted: 05/28/2008 - McCain plans to be in Los Angeles Wednesday, as well as Reno, Nevada, where he'll also hold a town hall meeting.
Updated: 05/28/2008 - The numbers are in. Dan May will run against District Attorney John Newsome this fall. May is the former Assistant District Attorney of the 4TH Judicial District Attorney's Office.
Posted: 05/27/2008 - Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada aren't definitely Democratic blue or Republican red. Instead, political junkies refer to them as "purple states."
Posted: 05/27/2008 - Democratic Congressman Mark Udall has officially launched his campaign for the U.S. Senate. He began a four-day tour of the state Tuesday morning in Colorado Springs.
Posted: 05/27/2008 - McCain spoke on the issue Tuesday at the University of Denver.
Posted: 05/27/2008 - Democratic congressman Mark Udall has officially launched his campaign for the U.S. Senate. He began a four-day tour of the state Tuesday morning in Colorado Springs.
Posted: 05/27/2008 - He's headlining a trio of fundraisers in Arizona on behalf of presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain.
Posted: 05/27/2008 - One quarter of Americans have never known life without a Clinton having the presidency or trying to get it.
Posted: 05/26/2008 - John McCain has used a Memorial Day appearance to defend his opposition to Senate-passed legislation that would provide more college financial aid to veterans.
Posted: 05/26/2008 - Both Barack Obama and John McCain will be in the "Land of Enchantment" meeting veterans while Hillary Clinton campaigns in Puerto Rico.
Updated: 05/23/2008 - Cindy McCain has released her 2006 tax returns, showing total income of more than $6 million. The wife of Republican presidential candidate John McCain paid more than $1.7 million in taxes.
Updated: 05/23/2008 - Democrat Barack Obama says he wants to pursue direct diplomacy with Cuba and Latin America and criticizes Republican rival John McCain for offering the Cuban-American community empty promises.
Posted: 05/23/2008 - Senator Dianne Feinstein says that if Barack Obama becomes the Democratic nominee, he should select Hillary Rodham Clinton as his running mate.
Updated: 05/23/2008 - The local host committee for the Republican National Convention says it's disappointed the state didn't follow through on promised financial help.
Posted: 05/22/2008 - McCain issued a statement after audio surfaced in which Hagee said God sent Adolf Hitler to help Jews reach the promised land.
Updated: 05/22/2008 - At issue is an expansion of the GI bill that would guarantee full college scholarships for those who serve in the military for three years. Obama voted for the measure, which passed the Senate today 75-22.
Posted: 05/22/2008 - Democratic officials say Barack Obama has begun a top-secret search for a running mate.
Posted: 05/22/2008 - Democrat Barack Obama is zeroing in on Republican presidential candidate John McCain.
Posted: 05/21/2008 - But Clinton is painting her win in Kentucky Tuesday as a big vote of confidence and says she's still running for president, not to demonstrate that she's tough but to ensure that Democrats retake the White House.
Updated: 05/21/2008 - Barack Obama has split another couple of primaries with Hillary Clinton and now has an insurmountable edge in the number of pledged delegates.
Updated: 05/20/2008 - Barack Obama could stake a claim to the Democratic presidential bid as primary votes are counted Tuesday in Oregon and Kentucky.
Posted: 05/20/2008 - Barack Obama can secure more ammunition for his claim to the Democratic presidential bid in Tuesday's primaries in Oregon and Kentucky.
Posted: 05/19/2008 - Another request is for food to be in at least three of the following five colors: red, green, yellow, blue/purple, and white.
Posted: 05/19/2008 - McCain accuses Obama of inexperience and reckless judgment for saying Iran does not pose the same serious threat to the United States as the Soviet Union did in its day.
Posted: 05/19/2008 - John McCain's national finance co-chairman has resigned because of ties to lobbyists.


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Manhunt SpeedRun
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manhunt 2 compared with manhunt 1. video is from gamevideos.com
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this is a vid made showing every execution in Manhunt 1. Without interuption by video distorion and music. personally i think the hammer and the meat cleaver are the WORST! #Warning# contains exrteme violence.
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A nice video what the game Manhunt is about underlined with the perfect kind of music!
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Is Suda51! What do you expect?
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You'll want to pass on this hunt
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here is a montage of manhunt I was playing this game and filming at the same time the background music comes from the original soundtrack! enjoy
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Song doesn't work lyrically but its one hell of a song and fits the video quite well.
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Manhunt all kills
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A video I made using sound clips from movies and also I recorded some of the lines the Director says in the game. I also made the music. Please Comment.
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New York Times , October 3, 2014
" Hearts & Arrows" for L.A Dance Project
"A propulsive, kinetic stream of movement to Philip Glass's "String Quartet No. 3 (Mishima)," the as-yet-untitled work offers a glowing display of Mr. Millepied's craftsmanship — the way he keeps his eight dancers constantly moving through asymmetrical and contrapuntal patterns, surging in and out of groups, separating into solos and pairs. Tiny narratives, emotion, histories, memories are evoked in the way the dancers coalesce and part, the surprise of formations and their dissolution. Everything is unexpected, everything feels serendipitously right"
New York Times, May 12, 2014
"Daphnis & Chloe" for Paris Opera Ballet
"Mr. Millepied's choreography — imaginative, musical, attentive to the gifts of his dancers — is perhaps the best work he has done yet. He has long demonstrated talent and potential, with admirable craftsmanship in his ensemble patterning and inventive partnering. But his work can often feel dry, theoretical. Here he finds a wonderful suspension between abstraction and narrative, in a physical language that is balletic but spare, with frieze-like compositional echoes of figures on Greek vases, and floor-skimming partnering that never feels showy or overly elaborated"
"Mr. Millepied's ability to create ever-shifting pattern — often echoing Mr. Buren's geometries — is on dazzling display here, fully equal to the music's intensifying dynamics and colors."
The London Times, May 13, 2014 -Debra Craine
"Daphnis & Chloe" Paris Opera Ballet
"Benjamin Millepied's choreography of Ravel's ballet was shimmering yet contemporary, his most passionate work to date"
New York Times, September 20, 2013 -Brian Seibert
"Neverhwere" New York City Ballet
"Though both the music and the dance are broken into sections — silences met with blackouts — it's in fluency that choreographer and composer are well matched. Particularly in a late, tender duet for Sterling Hyltin and Tyler Angle, the endless thread typical of Mr. Millepied's partnering floats on Mr. Muhly's drone"
Dance Magazine, May 11, 2012 -Wendy Perron
"Two Hearts" New York City Ballet
"Tiler Peck and Tyler Angle are both the kind of dancers who can make their breath visible, and they create a flow of Millepied's inventive moves in three separate duets. The partnering doesn't have nifty geometry like Wheeldon's, or elaborate swirls like Ratmansky's. It's Millepied's own voice—and partnering was always his strong suit. These duets have an intimacy tinged with a sense of loss. The first duet feels like the flush of dawn, the second is more sinuous, and the third is slow and concentrated. - See more at: http://www.dancemagazine.com/blogs/wendy/4390#sthash.2rcZ5wp7.Rarely have I seen such an enthralling whiff of romance in a thoroughly contemporary ballet"
New York Times, January 6, 2010 -Alistair Macaulay
"3 Movements" Pacific Northwest Ballet
Its other impressive item is Benjamin Millepied's "3 Movements," which closes the program. It's externally important: you can't miss its structural sophistication. The entrances and exits of the opening alone show Mr. Millepied's command. Small groups of men and women successively cross the stage from left to right; the sequence makes them feel like a whole population. When they return from right to left, we see a new weapon in his armory: they're now in vertical rows, as if regimented. A later grouping shows the dancers in concentric rings, the women in turns (on point) circumnavigating, clockwise, the men.
New York Times, October 31, 2014
"His Plan: Have One Eye on Everything - Benjamin Millepied Takes Over at Paris Opera Ballet
One thing was clear after spending two days with Mr. Millepied in early October, as he plotted his first season, for 2015-16, and shaped his plans for the company: No detail is too small, no project too large.
Whether insisting that the stage gets cleaned between ballets, proposing the Palais Garnier's Grand Foyer be used as an installation space ("like the Tate Modern"), improving partnering skills among the dancers, or planning ambitious artistic collaborations and musical commissions, Mr. Millepied appears to have his eye on every ball and — at least for the moment — to be hitting them too." Full article
Vogue, October 18th, 2014
"Natalia Vodianova's Grand Tour of the Paris Opera Ballet with New Director Benjamin Millepied
Millepied brings the positivity and can-do enthusiasm of two decades spent in the States to an establishment notorious for its bureaucracy. "He'll be up against a lot of institutional crustiness," observes Sulcas. "Things are done in a certain way because they've always been done that way. But he's an incredibly talented director, fund-raiser, and people manager—he proved that early on with his entrepreneurial ventures. All of that bodes very well for Paris." Millepied is also used to wearing many hats. He fondly remembers one heady evening when he danced with NYCB at the Opéra Bastille and then took a motorbike taxi to see his own ballet at the Palais Garnier. "It was amazing," he remembers," Full article


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To hear Manuel Corpas tell it, he probably has thrown his last pitch in 2010.
"My ligament is no good," he said. "I think it's old."
So it is that Corpas, after being placed on the 15-day disabled list with a sprained ulnar collateral ligament, will fly to Los Angeles next week for a second opinion from Dr. Lewis Yokum, the Los Angeles Angels' team surgeon.
The Rockies didn't make anything official Friday, but all signs point to Corpas' season being finished after he walked off the Coors Field mound in obvious pain Wednesday. With the Rockies' bullpen in a state of upheaval, he had been pitching for weeks with a sore arm.
"My arm was a little bit sore, but I'm trying to help," Corpas said. "I knew my arm was no good in the first inning. When the trainer (Keith Dugger) asked me, 'Are you OK?' I said 'I'm OK' because I'm trying to help. Maybe that's my fault that I kept throwing, but I did it for the team."
Corpas, for all his pedestrian numbers — 3-5, 4.62 and 10 saves — has been one of the Rockies' unsung heroes. With Huston Street disabled and Rafael Betancourt struggling, Corpas was a stabilizing force in the bullpen in April and May.
He broke out of the gate with a 1.06 ERA in April. He was at 2.30 with four saves by June 1, enabling the Rockies to stay above .500 in the midst of all their injuries.
"He has actually saved our bullpen," Rockies manager Jim Tracy said. "He's virtually worn every hat you can wear in that bullpen, and he's done it with tremendous professionalism and dignity."
Footnotes. Brad Hawpe cleared waivers and signed a minor-league contract with the Tampa Bay Rays. . . . The Rockies recalled right-hander Samuel Deduno and lefty Franklin Morales. Given their command issues, don't look for either in a tight game anytime soon. . . . Betancourt's lower abdominal strain is improving, but Tracy said before Friday's game he hoped to give him one more day of rest before using him. . . . Jeff Francis threw a pain-free bullpen session, putting him on schedule to return to the rotation sometime in September.


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Kate Beckinsale wasn't sure how she would look in her tight-fitting costume while filming Underworld: Awakening. The actress says she was filming Contraband in New Orleans during her training period and couldn't help but indulge in some of the not-so-healthy foods the city has to offer.
"The whole time I was preparing for Underworld, I was actually shooting Contraband, so New Orleans is a wonderful city, but it's not the most fantastic place to get in shape because we want to go try those beignets and all those wonderful things. It's got the worst kind of Underworld suit food, really," Beckinsale said. "So it was a miracle. I guess having a lot of training for the first one, thank goodness, it wasn't quite as extensive as that but there were still a lot of complicated fight scenes to learn and stunts I hadn't done before and just the sheer terror of getting back into that suit, which is a bit like a 'put your bikini on and stand in Times Square' kind of feeling."
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@You_Slay_Me: Bogus social media messaging tough on campaigns
CORPUS CHRISTI - They may make you LOL, but bogus political social media sites have a sinister side.
What started out as a free, easy way for candidates to reach potential voters, social media in recent years has turned ugly, with users indulging in a type of digital shape-shifting, creating fake profiles and putting words in candidates' mouths.
While often humorous interludes for political junkies and pundits, the fake accounts have real consequences for politicians and campaign managers who now must scour social media sights for rogue accounts. Some accounts have gained a measure of traction with followers.
An anonymous user established the Twitter feed"@AaronforAaron" in Dec. 2010, not long after state Rep. Aaron Peña won his Valley district as a Democrat, only to switch to the Republican party before taking the oath of office in Jan., 2011.
"Hello world I am tweeting for the first time. I am still a sellout," read the first of dozens of messages mixed with personal shots, quotes and policy quips no doubt meant to exact a certain level of revenge on Peña. It picked up about 250 followers before going dormant in early May, 2011.
The fake Rick Perry feed, "Rick Perry-ish" (@Fake_Rick_Perry), has fired off more than 1,300 messages — not all fit for family viewing — and accumulated almost 600 followers since going live on Aug. 11, 2011 with "Yeehaw!!! The Rickster is on the twitter" as it's first post.
"It's about taking up the politician's persona and saying all the wrong things," said Christine Garrison, an Austin-based Democratic political consultant with more than a decade of experience.
More recently, state Rep. Raul Torres, R-Corpus Christi became the target of at least two fake Twitter feeds, "RaulTorresFake" and "RaulvsRaul," both established anonymously and directed against Torres, who is running against longtime Democratic state Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa, D-McAllen, for the 20th Senate District.
Neither feed has gained much ground, combining for less than 70 followers since "RaulTorresFake" went live in early August and "RaulvsRaul" went live Sept. 3.
Torres says he pays little attention to the sites, which he said have no bearing on campaign strategy.
"I learned a long time ago from a very wise manager to not waste time on issues you have no control over," Torres said. "Whatever these accounts are in cyberspace, I don't believe there is any value to them."
He said his poll data suggests most Americans are sick and tired of the mudslinging.
"We just keep working on our message," he said. "Whatever happens on the other side, that's them."
Another feed, "Chuy Hinojosa,"It can drive a campaign right into the ground," she said.
But, the quid pro quo of social media outlets cannot be denied.
"It is an even playing field," Garrison said. "There's nothing that my opponent can do on social media that I can't come back and do."
U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Corpus Christi, is known as a technologically-savvy member of Congress who understands and has embraced the role of social media in the day-to-day communications of a politician who often must communicate with constituents in another time zone.
"Social media gives politicians at any level a way to brand themselves, on their own terms," said Amanda Nunez, Farenthold's communications director. "It's accessible and it's mobile. But, at the same time, it can also be dangerous."
A twenty-something, Nunez said social media is, now more than ever before, a way to follow the movers-and-shakers while serving constituents in new, creative ways.
"We integrate social media as another layer of our communications strategy," she said. "It's a way to reach people on whatever platform they are comfortable."
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text: GamesBeat Bethesda opens Australian publishing offices Above: Characters from the upcoming The Elder Scrolls Online.Image Credit: Bethesda Softworks October 2, 2013 11:00 AM Mike Minotti 0 Australia's known as the home of some of the most dangerous animals on the planets. Hope they have room for a few dragons. Publisher Bethesda, best known for the The Elder Scrolls fantasy role-playing series, has opened a new publishing office in Australia today. The new facility will help manage the upcoming Australian releases of Bethesda games like The Elder Scrolls Online, Wolfenstein: The New Order, and The Evil Within, according to Gamasutra. Bethesda opened the new the offices, named ZeniMax Australia, in Sydney. Simon Alty will serve as managing director. Alty was previously the managing director at marketing firm One to Another, which helped with the Australian launch of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. More information: Bethesda Softworks Bethesda Softworks, a division of ZeniMax Media Inc, founded in 1986, has a long history of success as a developer and publisher of award-winning video games for PCs, Sony's PlayStation®, PlayStation® 2, and Microsoft's Xbox®, a... read more » Powered by VBProfiles


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Question: Can I get approved for an American Express credit or charge card if I had a bankruptcy three years ago?
Answer: This is a difficult question to answer as other issues are involved, such as what you have been doing since the bankruptcy. As an example, let's say since your bankruptcy you have purchased a home and a car and made regular payments on these for the last three years, never once being late. Though more difficult to obtain because of the bankruptcy--and probably with a higher interest rate--you would probably be approved for a credit card. If, on the other hand, you have had no credit extended, or worse yet, been late on a payment since the bankruptcy, your chances for approval are far less.
But you are on the right track; the three-year point does offer one of the first time periods after bankruptcy for a better evaluation of your score. Adding to all of the above, please realize credit extension has become far more difficult in the current economy. All you can do is try. However, if this will be your line of credit since the bankruptcy, you might want to think about applying for credit card offers for bad credit first. Use the secured credit card wisely for a year or so, then apply for an American Express card.