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Buying or Selling Your Home? Hear from the Experts Why Home ...
Buying or selling your home can be one of the biggest financial decisions of your life. I sat down with Brandon Ware, real estate broker, founding partner of The Signature Realtor Group and the top sales representative for Private Service Realty Ltd., to ask about the value of home staging.
Brandon has been selling residential real estate in Toronto for the past 9 years and is passionate about his business and helping clients invest with solid market knowledge. His brokerage is located in the heart of King West and during the wee hours of the night a
nd early morning when he?s not working, he loves chilling with his wife, playing Ultimate Frisbee and walking his pup. Brandon works with Phillip Costello of Principle Staging and Duncan Scott of The Scotts Group to enhance the aesthetics of his listings and ensure they sell for premium prices in short periods of time.
Nicola:
What is home staging?
Brandon:
Home Staging is dressing a home to sell. ?It?s the lipstick, the mascara. It?s highlighting the positive features and downplaying the negatives. An appropriate analogy might be prom night, or a big date. You want to choose the dress, the lipstick, and the hair to compliment all of your best features. You don?t want your date to see any of the negatives. You want to evoke that dreamy atmosphere.
That?s really what staging is all about: creating the perfect abode and the perfect atmosphere for the buyer to fall in love when they walk in the door.
Nicola:
What degrees of home staging are there? Can you describe what the least to the most amount of work might look like?
Brandon:
There aren?t hard and fast rules when it comes to degrees of staging. But the amount of time and money you put in could range from a quick IKEA run for some plants and light fixtures, all the way to Italinteriors on King East for custom faucets and finishes. It could entail hiring a professional stager for a complete overhaul where you?re replacing all the furniture or renting a whole new set of pieces for a vacant property.
Nicola:
How important is home staging in the selling process?
Brandon:
In my experience it is of paramount importance. The challenge with real estate is that you can?t sell a home twice ? once staged, once unstaged ? to illustrate the value that it brings. But statistically speaking, staged homes sell about 2-3 times faster and for more money than unstaged homes.
Over 95% of buyers start their search online. They?re not even going to consider going to see a home if they don?t like the photos. So right off the bat, without staging to produce good photographs online, you?ve lost a potential buyer.
Once you get buyers to your door, staging plays another huge role. A few people call it the 30-second rule; I call it the 10-second rule. It?s that instinctual, visceral response that people have when they walk in the front door. You have to win people over immediately. When you create the illusion of the ideal home, it can create a sense of urgency in the buyer to act incredibly quickly to purchase that ideal home before someone else does.
So it?s this domino effect of factors that leads to a quick sale for a great price. Staging really affects the mindset of the buyer.
Nicola:
Part of your job involves viewing properties and making suggestions to your clients about which ones to see. Does staging a property influence whether or not you will recommend it to your clients?
Brandon:
Without a doubt. Contrary to popular belief, realtors are people too! I can see beyond the dressing, but that doesn?t mean that subconsciously I?m not influenced by a home that shows very well. If I am really impressed by the home, there?s no question that I?m going to get excited about it and tell my clients.?
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AlexandriaNews - Annual Cheerleading Competition Results
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Pee Wee Division 1st (Courtesy photo)
The Alexandria Department of Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities sponsored the Alexandria Spring Invitational Cheerleading Competition on April 28, 2012 at T.C. Williams High School. The competition?s Master of Ceremonies was EZ Street, DJ from 93.9 WKYS Radio Station featured cheerleading teams from local neighborhood recreation centers at Charles Barrett, Charles Houston, Cora Kelly, Mount Vernon, Patrick Henry, and William Ramsay Recreation Centers as well as teams from Francis Hammond Middle School, Beltsville Boys and Girls Club, South County, Forestville Boys and Girls Club, Marlboro Competitive Cheer. This year?s competition also featured individual cheerleading jump off skill competitions. There were special entertainment performances from the Future Shock Freestyle Team and Future Shock Dance Troupe.? The cheerleading teams competed in three divisions and the cheerleaders put on a great show in front of an estimated crowd of 1,200 people.
Results from the Invitational:
Pee Wee Division
1st? ? MCC Energy
2nd ? William Ramsay
3rd ? Charles Houston
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Youth Division
1st ? MCC Fierce
2nd ? Cora Kelly
3rd ? Charles Houston
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Junior Division
1st ? Charles Houston
2nd ? William Ramsay
3rd ? FBGC Elite
For more information on the cheerleading program and other youth sports programs, please call the Youth Sports Office at 703.746.5402. Registration for the 2012 ? 2013 cheerleading season will begin in July.
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Annual Girls FastPitch Softball Opening Night Ceremony Held
Store Managers, Bill Posey, Dan Dillon and Director of Sports Mac Slover with members of each of the softball teams for the presentation of the $1,000.00 check. (Courtesy photo)
The Alexandria Department of Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities' Sports Office sponsored its annual Girls Fastpitch Softball Opening Night Ceremony on Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at the Four Mile Girls Softball Field. The opening ceremonies honored over 190 players and 40 coaches from 13 teams in the Rookie Coach Pitch, National League and American League teams.
The ceremony featured the softball league?s sponsor Giant Food, Inc. as special guest.? Local store managers, Bill Posey of the Giant Edsall Road Store and Dan Dillon of the Giant Monroe Avenue Store were on hand to present a check for $1,000.00 to the Recreation Department and to throw out the ceremonial first pitches.? The ceremony included a parade of all the teams before a crowd of 200 supporters and friends.?? Each team will play 10 games each through the middle of June, with the National and American teams having playoff games to complete the season.? The National and American teams will also be playing the Arlington Girls Softball League and Ft. Hunt Softball League teams in several games this season.??? A schedule game days and times can be found on the Recreation Department?s web site at www.alexandriava.gov/recreation, then look under Youth Sports.
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Youth Volunteer Coaches Needed
The Alexandria Department of Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities is currently seeking volunteers to coach youth baseball, softball, field hockey, swimming, track and field, Rugby, summer basketball and football.? Criminal history background checks are required. Interested persons should call the Sports Office at 703.746.5402 or e-mail mac.slover@alexandriava.gov or Tamika.coleman@alexandriava.gov.
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WAHOOS Swim Team Registration Underway
The Wahoos swim program offers youth ages 6 - 18 of all abilities the opportunity to develop their own unique potential.? The program will promote individual achievement and team camaraderie in an atmosphere of friendly competition.? Developing and experienced swimmers alike can refine their freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke, butterfly, turns and starts with an experienced coaching staff.? Swim meets are scheduled every Saturday morning from mid-June through early August.? There will be a parents meeting and the first team practice on Tuesday, May 29 at the TC Williams High School in the Rotunda Room at 5:00 p.m.? Swimmers must be able to swim 25 meters continuously. Registration is now running through May 29, 2012.? For more information, call the Sports Office at 703.746.5402 or go on the Recreation Department's web site at www.alexandriava.gov/recreation.
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City-Wide Hershey Track and Field Youth Games
The Hershey's Track and Field Program is a City-wide track meet where winners can advance through District, Regional, State and National Competitions.? Participants can register at any City Recreation Center.? The local meet will be held on Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 12:00 p.m. at TC Williams High School.? Youth can compete in the 50, 100, 200, and 400 meter dash; 800 and 1600 meter run, 4 x 100 relay, softball throw and standing long jump. Please note: 7 & 8 year olds will not advance beyond the City-wide event. Registration period is now running through May 11, 2012.? The Hershey's Track and Field Program is open for City of Alexandria residents only.? Participants can participate in the following events depending on their age group (Age as of December 31, 2012).
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200 meter dash
400 meter dash
4 x 100 meter relay
800 meter run
1600 meter run
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Boys and Girls ages 7 & 8 can participate in the 50 meter dash, standing long jump and the softball throw only.? This age group will not advance to the district or state meet.
Boys and Girls ages 9 - 12 can participate in one field event and two running events and the relay; or two field events and one running event and the relay for a total of four events. Since ages 9 ? 12 (4 x 100 relay) will not advance to the North American Final, those age groups will be allowed to participate in a relay as an extra event at the local, district and or state meet.? First and second place winners in this age group will advance to the district track meet which will be held in June in Fauquier County.
Boys and Girls ages 13 & 14 can participate in one field event and two running events; or two field events and one running event.? Relays are considered running events for this age group. First and second place winners in this age group will advance to the district track meet which will be held on June 5 in Fauquier County.
For more information or to register online, call the Sports Office at 703.746.5402 or go on the Recreation Department's web site at www.alexandriava.gov/recreation.
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Youth Rugby Program Registration
The Alexandria Department of Recreation, Parks and Cultural; Recreation Services Division is now accepting registration for non-contact and tackle Rugby through May 31, 2012.? This program is designed to incorporate the basic Rugby skills of running, passing, team support and decision making in a physically safe and non-threatening environment.? Boys and girls ages 6 - 15 are eligible to participate and the registration fee is $30.00.? For more information or to register online, call the Youth Sports Office at 703.746.5402 or go on the Recreation Department's web site at www.alexandriava.gov/recreation.
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Alexandria Titans Youth Tackle Football Registration
The Alexandria Department of Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities; Centers, Playgrounds and Youth Sports Division is now accepting registrations for the Alexandria Titans Youth Tackle Football program.? Teams are formed in the following weight divisions and participate in the Fairfax County Youth Football League: Anklebiters, 75 lbs/ 85 lbs/ 95 lbs/ 110 lbs/ 125 lbs/ and 150 lbs.? Participants will be weighed and assigned to teams according to their weight and age.? This program is for participants ages 7 - 16.
Registration fee is $30.00.? All participants must have a Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) Identification Card upon registration.? The Sportsmanship and Equipment Days will be held from 9:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m. on Saturday, July 21 (Anklebiters & 75 lbs.), Saturday, July 28 (85 lbs. & 95 lbs.) and Saturday, August 4 (110 lbs., 125 lbs & 150 lbs.). The Alexandria Titans Football Camps (free for Titan players only) will be held June 18 ? 21 and July 30 - August 2 from 6:00 ? 8:00 pm at George Washington Middle School.
The Alexandria Titans Youth Football Booster Club is looking for sponsorships for the 2012 season.? For more information or to register online, call the Sports Office at 703.746.5402 or go on the Recreation Department's web site at www.alexandriava.gov/recreation.
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Girls Field Hockey Program Registration
The Alexandria Department of Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities' Sports Office is accepting registrations for the Girl's Summer Field Hockey Program League for girls ages 9 - 14 years old.? The program will be begin on June 4 and will run through the end of July at the Minnie Howard Field, 3801 West Braddock Road.? The cost is $60.00 per participant. The deadline for registration is May 31.? All girls must provide their own field hockey sticks, goggles, shin guards and mouthpieces. The girls are asked to wear athletic wear and tennis or rubber sole turf cleats.? The league will run a clinic at the beginning of the program that will cover the basic fundamental techniques and skills of field hockey, including dribbling, passing, receiving, footwork, body positioning, goal scoring and goal keeping.? Teams will then be formed with 8 on 8 games being played.
For more information or to register online, call the Youth Sports Office at 703.746.5402 or go on the Youth Sports web site at www.alexandriava.gov/recreation.
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Youth Basketball Fundamental School
The Alexandria Department of Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities is now accepting registrations for the Youth Basketball Fundamentals School for boys and girls ages 5 - 12.? The school will run on Saturday's from July 7 through July 28, 2012 at Francis Hammond Middle School located at 4646 Seminary Road.? Participants will learn the fundamentals of ball handling, shooting, passing, dribbling and rebounding.? Registration fee is $50.00 per child. Register early: Deadline is June 30 or as soon as sessions are filled.? For more information or to register online, contact the Youth Sports Office at 703.746.5402 or go on the Youth Sports web site at www.alexandriava.gov/recreation.
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National junior Tennis League
The Alexandria Department of Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities is now accepting registrations for the National Junior Tennis League for boys and girls ages 8 - 16 year old.? The program will run on Monday - Friday June 25 through July 25, 2012 at the tennis courts at George Washington Middle School, Patrick Henry Recreation Center and the George Mason Elementary School.? Participants will learn the fundamentals of tennis in a fun and exciting environment.? Participants will meet new friends, expand their minds and get important exercise.?? Registration fee is $30.00 per child. Register early: Deadline is June 15 or as soon as locations are filled.? For more information or to register online, contact the Youth Sports Office at 703.746.5402 or go on the Youth Sports web site at www.alexandriava.gov/recreation.
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CIA thwarts 'undetectable' al-Qaida bomb plot
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The CIA thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, U.S. officials said Monday.
The plot involved an upgrade of the underwear bomb that failed to detonate aboard a jetliner over Detroit on Christmas 2009. This new bomb was also designed to be used in a passenger's underwear, but this time al-Qaida developed a more refined detonation system, U.S. officials said.
The FBI is examining the latest bomb to see whether it could have passed through airport security and brought down an airplane, officials said. They said the device did not contain metal, meaning it probably could have passed through an airport metal detector. But it was not clear whether new body scanners used in many airports would have detected it.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who heads the Senate Intelligence Committee, told reporters Monday that she had been briefed about an "undetectable" device that was "going to be on a U.S.-bound airliner."
There were no immediate plans to change security procedures at U.S. airports.
The would-be suicide bomber, based in Yemen, had not yet picked a target or bought a plane ticket when the CIA stepped in and seized the bomb, officials said. It's not immediately clear what happened to the alleged bomber.
White House spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said President Barack Obama learned about the plot in April and was assured the device posed no threat to the public.
"The president thanks all intelligence and counterterrorism professionals involved for their outstanding work and for serving with the extraordinary skill and commitment that their enormous responsibilities demand," Hayden said.
The operation unfolded even as the White House and Department of Homeland Security assured the American public that they knew of no al-Qaida plots against the U.S. around the anniversary of bin Laden's death. The operation was carried out over the past few weeks, officials said.
"We have no credible information that terrorist organizations, including al-Qaida, are plotting attacks in the U.S. to coincide with the anniversary of bin Laden's death," White House press secretary Jay Carney said on April 26.
On May 1, the Department of Homeland Security said, "We have no indication of any specific, credible threats or plots against the U.S. tied to the one-year anniversary of bin Laden's death."
The White House did not explain those statements Monday.
The CIA mission was such a secret, even top lawmakers were not told about it as the operation unfolded, one U.S. official said Monday.
The AP learned about the thwarted plot last week but agreed to White House and CIA requests not to publish it immediately because the sensitive intelligence operation was still under way. Once officials said those concerns were allayed, the AP decided to disclose the plot Monday despite requests from the Obama administration to wait for an official announcement Tuesday.
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security acknowledged the existence of the bomb late Monday, but there were no immediate plans to adjust security procedures at airports. Other officials, who were briefed on the operation, insisted on anonymity to discuss details of the plot, many of which the U.S. has not officially acknowledged.
"The device never presented a threat to public safety, and the U.S. government is working closely with international partners to address associated concerns with the device," the FBI said in a statement.
It's not clear who built the bomb, but, because of its sophistication and its similarity to the Christmas bomb, counterterrorism officials suspected it was the work of master bomb maker Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri or one of his prot?g?es. Al-Asiri constructed the first underwear bomb and two others that al-Qaida built into printer cartridges and shipped to the U.S. on cargo planes in 2010.
Both of those bombs used a powerful industrial explosive. Both were nearly successful.
The operation is an intelligence victory for the United States and a reminder of al-Qaida's ambitions, despite the death of bin Laden and other senior leaders. Because of instability in the Yemeni government, the terrorist group's branch there has gained territory and strength. It has set up terrorist camps and, in some areas, even operates as a de facto government.
But along with the gains there also have been losses. The group has suffered significant setbacks as the CIA and the U.S. military focus more on Yemen. On Sunday, Fahd al-Quso, a senior al-Qaida leader, was hit by a missile as he stepped out of his vehicle along with another operative in the southern Shabwa province of Yemen.
Al-Quso, 37, was on the FBI's most wanted list, with a $5 million reward for information leading to his capture. He was indicted in the U.S. for his role in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in the harbor of Aden, Yemen, in which 17 American sailors were killed and 39 injured.
Al-Quso was believed to have replaced Anwar al-Awlaki as the group's head of external operations. Al-Awlaki was killed in a U.S. airstrike last year.
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Associated Press writers Kimberly Dozier, Eileen Sullivan and Alan Fram contributed to this report.
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PSA: Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE up for pre-order today, May 18th release date hinted at Wirefly
In case you took a pass on that Sprint-branded GNex or the LG Viper 4G in order to wait it out for HTC's EVO 4G LTE, well, now's the time to get your wallet ready and unleash the cash. As promised, The Now Network has the LTE-friendly EVO priced at $199.99 (50 bucks less on Wirefly) with a beloved two-year contract, while those ineligible for an upgrade will have to shell out around $550. That being said, chances are you won't get to surf those Long Term Evolution waves when you get device, but at least you'll be all set once the rollout finally commences. While Sprint's yet to give an official release date, Wirefly (somewhat reliable in the past) does say the ICS / Sense 4 slab will be shipping on May 18th. Be sure to hit either of the source links below to get your pre-order on.
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Taking America's rarest snake back to the woods
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
On May 1, USDA Forest Service, U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the Memphis Zoo, and other partners released seven young Louisiana pine snakes on a restored longleaf pine stand in the Kisatchie National Forest in Louisiana. The release is the fourth in 2 years, part of a plan to restore a very rare snake to its range in Louisiana. Last year the partners released 20 newly hatched snakes; this year's snakes are 6 months old and about 3 feet long.
Four to 5 feet long as an adult and covered with a striking pattern of black, brown and beige, the Louisiana pine snake is a rare sight in its native range in east-central Texas and across Louisiana. Craig Rudolph, Forest Service Southern Research Station research ecologist and a member of the reintroduction team, has monitored the species for decades, and concurs with other herpetologists that it well may be one of the rarest snake species in the United States. Snakes released for the restoration effort are hatched and raised in zoos, and are the offspring of Louisiana pine snakes captured from the wild.
Already listed as threatened in Texas and a candidate for listing under the Federal Endangered Species Act, the Louisiana pine snake population has declined because of alterations to the its native pine longleaf pine habitat and that of its prey.
A nonvenomous species, the Louisiana pine snake spends most of its time underground in burrows of its favorite prey, the Baird's pocket gopher. The ideal habitat for both species consists of dry, sandy-soiled ridges covered with longleaf pine trees and an open understory of the grasses and forbs the pocket gophers feed on. This habitat largely disappeared due to commercial logging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and subsequent fire suppression.
"Without fire, these upland pine savannahs rapidly develop a midstory that shades out the grassy understory that pocket gophers need," says Rudolph. "The release site on the Kisatchie, which was intentionally restored for red-cockaded woodpecker habitat, should also support pocket gophers and Louisiana pine snakes."
Only time will tell whether the Louisiana pine snake can be sustainably restored to longleaf pine ecosystems in its native range.
Researchers implanted each of the snakes released on May 1 with a passive integrated transponder (PIT) that allows them to be tracked by recorders installed on the site. "So far we've not had much success with the recorders, which are dug into the ground in four places on the release site," says Rudolph. "We've recorded activity in the first weeks, but nothing later on. This is not unexpected, since these snakes have a large home range and probably leave the immediate area. We need to get good population estimates for the areas we've released in, but the only way to get data is by trapping, which is very time-consuming and expensive."
The animal's biology presents another constraint to its survival. While most other snakes produce large clutches of eggs, the Louisiana pine snake lays only three to five eggs, and in captive breeding programs, sometimes only one or two eggs per clutch hatch. This low reproductive rate means that the species might not recover quickly in the wild. Rudolph worries that breeding programs, which rely on the progeny of only 16 founder individuals caught in the wild, may be producing snakes that are not genetically diverse enough to survive when released.
"In the best-case scenario, there would still be Louisiana pine snakes out there that we've never caught that can breed with the released snakes," says Rudolph. "We have traps operating for thousands of trap days a year in Texas, for instance, and haven't caught a single snake in three years. When we find better ways to monitor our releases, perhaps we'll find some additional populations."
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Biden OK with equal rights for married gay couples
FILE - In this March 21, 2012 file photo, Vice President Joe Biden speaks at Mellon Auditorium in Washington. Biden on Sunday, May 6, 2012 said he's "absolutely comfortable" with gay couples who marry getting the same civil rights and liberties as heterosexual couples, a stand that gay rights advocates interpreted as an endorsement of same-sex marriage. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
FILE - In this March 21, 2012 file photo, Vice President Joe Biden speaks at Mellon Auditorium in Washington. Biden on Sunday, May 6, 2012 said he's "absolutely comfortable" with gay couples who marry getting the same civil rights and liberties as heterosexual couples, a stand that gay rights advocates interpreted as an endorsement of same-sex marriage. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Vice President Joe Biden says he's "absolutely comfortable" with gay couples who marry getting the same civil rights and liberties as heterosexual couples, a stand that gay rights advocates interpreted as an endorsement of same-sex marriage.
But the White House and President Barack Obama's re-election campaign, eager to avoid a debate on a hot-button social issue in an election year, insisted that Biden was not breaking ranks with Obama, who does not publicly support gay marriage.
Biden told NBC's "Meet the Press" that marriage should be about being loyal to someone you love, whether that marriage is between a man and a woman, two men or two women. "I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women and heterosexual men and women marrying one another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties," Biden said in the interview broadcast Sunday.
Gay rights advocates said Biden's comments signaled unmistakable support for gay marriage, which they said made him the highest-ranking member in the Obama administration to take that position.
"''I'm grateful that the vice president of the United States is now publically supporting marriage equality and I hope very soon the president and the rest of our leaders, Republicans and Democrats in Congress, will fall in line with the vice president," said Chad Griffin, a gay rights supporter and a member of the Obama campaign's national finance committee.
Joe Solmonese, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, said his group was encouraged by Biden's comments and called on Obama to speak out for "full marriage equality" for same-sex couples.
While Obama opposes gay marriage, he says his personal views on the matter are "evolving" and has noted that polls show Americans are increasingly supporting same-sex marriage.
Biden, a devout Catholic, has said previously that his personal views, as well as the country's, on gay marriage are evolving.
The vice president's office said Sunday after the interview aired that Biden's comments were not an endorsement of gay marriage, but simply a reaffirmation of his belief that same-sex couples deserve the same rights and protections as all Americans.
David Axelrod, a senior adviser to the Obama campaign, chimed in on Twitter, saying Biden and Obama share the view that all married couples should have the same legal rights.
For the Obama campaign, gay marriage has become a vexing election-year issue.
Each time the campaign promotes the president's extensive work in advancing gay rights, including ending the military's ban on openly gay service members, it is reminded of the one area where the president has fallen short in the eyes of gay rights advocates.
Several Democrats are pushing for Obama to include support for gay marriage in the party's platform, which will be finalized at the Democratic convention this summer.
Campaign officials have played down the notion that Obama's position on gay marriage will "evolve" before the November election. They say Obama's record in supporting other gay rights issues stands in stark contrast to his Republican challenger Mitt Romney, an ardent opponent of gay marriage and other benefits for same-sex couples.
One gay rights advocate said that even before the NBC interview, Biden had been hinting that his personal views of gay marriage may have evolved more quickly than the president's.
The advocate described a private meeting Biden had with about 30 gay and lesbian supporters in Los Angeles earlier this spring. When the vice president was asked about his personal views of gay marriage, the advocate said Biden told supporters that when his views differ from the president's, he often has to keep his opinions to himself.
This person spoke on condition of anonymity because participants at the meeting agreed not to discuss publicly what was said at the private gathering.
Biden did mention the Los Angeles event in his interview Sunday. He said that after meeting the children of the gay couple hosting the event, he told them he wished "every American could see the look of love those kids has in their eyes for you guys. And they wouldn't have any doubt about what this is about."
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Endangered wolves at NY preserve produce 8 pups
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) ? Eight rare Mexican wolf pups have been born at a preserve in the New York City suburbs, a development that could aid the federal program that has reintroduced the endangered species to the wild.
The Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem announced Monday that five males and three females were born Sunday to the Mexican wolves known as F749 and M740.
A video on the center's website showed a furry gray mass of tiny pups, some of them making small noises. The online announcement said the pups were no bigger than a potato.
"It's always a good day when we learn of the birth of an endangered species," said Peter Siminski, coordinator of the Mexican wolf program for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. "Eight new pups in a world population of around 366 is a 2 percent increase."
Siminski said there are an estimated 42 Mexican wolves in the wild and 324 in captivity.
The wild wolves are kept along the New Mexico-Arizona state line under the federal program that reintroduced them to the wild in 1998.
To maintain genetic diversity, that population is restocked from pups born to the wolves kept in captivity, including those at the Wolf Conservation Center, which is 45 miles from midtown Manhattan.
"This is an important accomplishment for the Wolf Conservation Center because of all the careful planning and preparation that goes into the birth of a litter," Siminski said.
If any of the new pups are selected for introduction to the wild, it won't be soon. Siminski said chosen wolves would likely be sent to a prerelease facility, paired with opposite-sex wolves and allowed to raise pups themselves before being sent out.
The parents were selected as a breeding pair under the federal program's genetic standards designed to limit inbreeding.
"These pups are not only adorable, they're also great contributions to the recovery of their species," Monday's announcement said. It said all eight appeared to be healthy.
Like their parents, the pups won't be named but will receive numbers, plus M for the males and F for the females. Maggie Howell, managing director of the preserve, said last year that resisting the urge to name the wolves is part of the effort to limit human interaction, which can give them a better chance in the wild.
Howell said Monday that the conservation center won't help the parents raise the pups.
"Hopefully one day these animals will get an opportunity to live in the wild so we'll be doing very little with them in order to best equip them for a wild future," she said.
The wolves are not on public exhibit. But various webcams, available on the website, are used to spy on them, and staffers strongly suspected in recent weeks that the wolves were expecting.
Three other pairs at the Wolf Conservation Center ? one Mexican wolf pair and two red wolf pairs ? were also designated as breeding pairs.
"We'll remain glued to our eight webcams to watch the new parents care for their young and the arrival of more potential pups in the coming weeks," the announcement said.
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AT&T Aims To Break Into the Home Security Business | Talk NYC
After hinting at opportunities in the automation and security markets, AT&T is just about ready to enter the fray. At CTIA on Monday, Ma Bell is announcing AT&T Digital Life, its competitor to ADT and other security services. The idea is that AT&T installs a home base unit that taps AT&T?s cellular networks and can connect via Wi-Fi and other methods to any number of devices in the house, from cameras and window sensors to locks, thermostats, appliances and motion detectors. The company plans to have trials of the service in Atlanta and Dallas this summer. During the trial, customers can use their own wired broadband to connect to their system and then remotely control the system from phones, tablets or PCs. ?We?re planning a unique suite of services, from start to finish, that will give homeowners control of their property and their possessions through an easy to navigate user interface,? AT&T Senior VP Kevin Petersen said in a statement.
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Playing with food at TEDx USC | Toasted Toast
Many of us at Chewse think TED talks are pretty much awesome ? the culture of thoughtfulness and the powerful effect they have is remarkable. (In particular, check out some eye-opening food talks: fish, lunch, vegetables,?foie gras, etc.) So when we got the opportunity to partner with TEDxUSC to host a food experience, we jumped!
We arranged for some of our favorite catering partners to come out and show off their best dishes. Chichen Itza brought tamales and their famed cochinita pibil. Maria?s Italian Kitchen brought garlic knots, chicken skewers, and antipasti. In the morning, we had the Fry Girl cooking up fresh donuts on-site. And to keep everyone caffeinated, Cafe Demitasse set up shop to brew coffee with just about every contraption known to man. I think it?s safe to say: No one went home without at least one new taste experience.
Our Chewse crew was also there showing off our food porn gallery, which showcased drool-worthy photos from some great local food bloggers.
We even got TED-goers tweeting their own food photos, and we?re giving away a free cooking class at Chichen Itza to the best contributor! Congrats to @connerjeffrey on Twitter for his winning photo:
The energy and excitement of the event was so much fun. Can?t wait for the next opportunity to show off our incredibly tasty restaurants and caterers!
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Will Smith supports Obama's call for higher taxes
Actor Will Smith poses upon his arrival for a press conference to promote his new movie "Men in Black III" in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, May 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Actor Will Smith poses upon his arrival for a press conference to promote his new movie "Men in Black III" in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, May 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Actor Will Smith answers a reporter's question during a press conference to promote his new movie "Men in Black III" in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, May 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? One of Hollywood's biggest and best-paid stars is supporting President Barack Obama's call for higher taxes on the country's top earners.
Will Smith said while promoting "Men In Black III" last week that he supports the move.
"I'm very supportive of that idea," Smith told The Associated Press in an interview. "America has been fantastic to me. I have no problem paying whatever I need to pay to keep my country growing."
Obama has proposed that everyone earning $1 million a year or more should pay at least 30 percent of their income in taxes. One research group said the change would affect around 210,000 taxpayers.
Vanity Fair has reported that Smith was paid an estimated $20 million for "Men In Black III."
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Rare Met revival of Britten's shipboard opera
NEW YORK (AP) ? Absent from the Metropolitan Opera for 15 years, Benjamin Britten's great maritime tragedy "Billy Budd" has made a brief but welcome return in the season's closing days.
If the lead singers were a variable lot at Friday's premiere, the night was still a success because the real stars of the show ? the conductor, the chorus and the set ? all performed magnificently.
That set, designed by William Dudley for the 1978 John Dexter production, is a cutaway depiction against a black background of the H.M.S. Indomitable, a British gunship sailing toward battle with the French in 1797. When the action begins, we're on the main deck, but as scenes change, the ship seamlessly shifts and grows before our eyes, taking us down to the captain's cabin and the sailors' berths and even expanding to reveal seven levels at once.
In adapting Herman Melville's novella, Britten and his librettists ? E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier ? invented a prologue and epilogue in which Captain Vere, now an old man, reflects on the events of the story. In brief, a good-natured young foretopman, Billy Budd, is falsely accused by the master-at-arms, John Claggart, of fomenting mutiny. Tongue-tied, Billy strikes Claggart dead, and Vere ? despite his conviction that Billy is innocent ? feels he has no choice but to see him hanged.
The role of the captain (originally written for Britten's life partner, Peter Pears) was taken in this revival by tenor John Daszak in his Met debut. He sang with a bright, pungent tone and notably crisp diction, though his sound occasionally turned strident on high notes. Dramatically, he was persuasive both as an old man tormented by guilt and as an embattled captain facing an impossible choice.
Baritone Nathan Gunn performed the title role, looking the epitome of Melville's handsome sailor and acting with youthful vigor. He sang sweetly in quiet moments like "Billy in the Darbies," his haunting aria on the eve of execution, but much of the time one longed for a more powerful sound.
Bass James Morris has virtually owned the role of Claggart at the Met, but his voice has lost strength, especially at the low end. He etched a subdued portrait of a corrupt soul who cannot tolerate the presence of unalloyed goodness in the world.
There were many strong contributions from the all-male cast, starting with the chorus, whose role in this opera is vital. The fine trio of officers consisted of baritone Dwayne Croft ? a former Billy himself ? and bass-baritones Kyle Ketelson and the debuting Ryan McKinny. Tenor Keith Jameson was impressive as the Novice, the weak-willed sailor who does Claggart's dirty work.
David Robertson, making a too-infrequent appearance, conducted the Met orchestra in an energetic and moving performance of Britten's score, which is filled with surging melodic themes amid its spiky dissonances.
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Some giant planets in other systems most likely to be alone
ScienceDaily (May 7, 2012) ? "Hot Jupiter-type" planets are most likely to be alone in their systems, according to research by a University of Florida astronomer and others, made public May 7.
"Hot Jupiters" are giant planets beyond our solar system, roughly the size of Jupiter but orbiting close to their parent stars and thus much hotter than Earth or Jupiter, said UF professor Eric Ford. They have very short orbital periods, completing a turn around their stars in fewer than 10 days. This study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provides new insights into how they are formed.
This research used information gathered by NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission, which uses a 1-meter space telescope to stare constantly at a patch of the Milky Way, registering the small decreases in the light from stars caused when a planet crosses in front of it.
Scientists dug into Kepler's data and selected a sample of 63 planetary systems containing previously detected hot Jupiter candidates. Then they looked for signals of additional planets either crossing in front of the host stars or gravitationally tugging on the hot Jupiter's orbit. In all cases they found no evidence of additional planets. To allow comparisons, they used the same methods to study a sample of "warm Jupiter" candidates, equally big planets but located farther away from their parent stars and "hot Neptunes," smaller but closer to the stars. They found compelling evidence that at least 10 percent of the warm Jupiters and one third of the hot Neptunes have other planetary companions nearby in the system. Thus, why are all the hot Jupiters so lonely?
Astronomers believe it results from the way the hot Jupiters are formed, now thought to be different from most other planets. Current models suggest that they are probably formed farther away from their host star, and then gravitational interactions with another body cause their orbits to become highly elongated. Each orbit the hot Jupiter passes very close to the host star and then travels far away. The star raises tides on the planet, repeatedly stretching it and causing its orbit to become smaller and more circular. This process would remove or destroy other low-mass planets that originally formed between the star and the giant planet.
"We looked for companion planets near hot Jupiters in order to learn a bit more about their formation," Ford said. "The lack of nearby planets supports the theory that a close encounter with another body in the system caused the elongation of the orbit. When a giant planet repeatedly passes through the inner regions of a planetary system on an elongated orbit, it would wreak great havoc on any planets that had formed there. The other planets would either fall into the star, collide with the hot Jupiter or be kicked out of the system via a gravitational slingshot."
In 1995 the first planet orbiting a sun-like star was discovered. It and most exoplanets found in the early days of the exoplanet search happened to be hot Jupiters.
"That was because they are easier to find than smaller planets or others more distant to their host star," Ford said. "Now, we know that less than 1 percent of stars harbor hot Jupiters, so they are relatively rare. A special sequence of events like strong gravitational interactions between two giant planets followed by tidal circularization seems to be the most plausible scenario for the formation of hot Jupiters."
The research was led by Jason Steffen from the Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics.
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Romney embarking on new political balancing act
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Mitt Romney will need independent voters in November, but he isn't abandoning his "severely conservative" record.
The likely Republican presidential nominee has embarked on an aggressive campaign against President Barack Obama that straddles two sometimes-conflicting political ideologies.
On some days, the former Massachusetts governor is a social conservative and social moderate, a right-wing conspiracy theorist and promoter of political compromise. With the primaries over, it's an evolving balancing act that, so far, is leaning decidedly right.
Romney spoke out Friday against China's "one-child policy," in an apparent nod to social conservatives. But later in the same Fox News interview, he defended his decision to hire an openly gay staffer who just quit under pressure from social conservatives.
Romney said he hires people "not based upon their ethnicity, or their sexual preference or their gender but upon their capability." He said the ex-aide, Richard Grenell, who was to become foreign policy spokesman, was a "capable individual" and that many senior campaign advisers had urged him not to leave. But Grenell's departure pleased some on the religious right.
The matter offered a look inside a Romney campaign that would like to broaden his appeal to the political center, while harnessing the anti-Obama intensity from his party's right. It's a tricky move, but Romney is trying to prove he won't turn his back on his party's most passionate voters.
He's devoting significant attention to skeptical conservatives who have supported his Republican rivals until recently. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum gave up his bid last month, while former House Speaker Newt Gingrich made his departure official this past week.
"We're moving quickly," said Romney senior aide Peter Flaherty, who is leading the campaign's conservative outreach. "We are going to work very hard to continue to work with conservatives, to work with the base, to keep them energized."
Romney on Friday met with Santorum, who has indicated he will endorse Romney. Since Santorum quit, Romney's campaign has been recruiting former Santorum staffers and courting his key allies and donors. Romney has hired Santorum's former campaign manager to broaden coalitions with conservative groups.
At the same time, the Romney campaign is paying lots of attention to the conservative media.
He and his wife met this past week with right-leaning bloggers, reporters and columnists for an off-the-record discussion on Capitol Hill. He has granted interviews recently to conservative publications such as The Weekly Standard, the blog "Hot Air," National Review and Human Events magazine.
Romney last month told the website Breitbart TV that the media was involved in a "vast left-wing conspiracy to work together to put out their message and to attack me."
Romney will deliver a commencement address next week at Liberty University, the evangelical institution founded by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell in Lynchburg, Va. He will be the first Mormon to speak at a Liberty graduation.
All that attention could alienate independents and more moderate voters often credited with deciding close elections.
For now, the Romney campaign seems more focused on uniting a party that just experienced a bitter primary. His aides highlight the need to rev up conservative activists, who will drive turnout on Election Day and handle the lion's share of the less-glamorous tasks needed to run a national campaign.
They note that Democrats have a ready-made army of volunteers, relying on college students, labor union members and others.
Romney has struggled for much of his primary campaign to excite most conservative voters. Aiming at that group, he described himself as a "severely conservative" Republican governor while speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington in February.
Some conservative leaders said they're still not excited about Romney.
"The attitude of the leadership of the Republican Party is to primarily ignore the evangelical vote and just presume they don't have any other place to go," said John Grant, a Tampa, Fla.-based Republican operative who served as Gingrich's state evangelical co-chairman. "There's one place. It's called home."
Grant said he's yet to hear from the Romney campaign, but he'd be willing to join in the effort to defeat Obama. He offered Romney a bit of unsolicited advice: "Stand up and energize those who can make a difference."
Flaherty said that conservative outreach had yet to reach the state levels, where Obama's team has worked with activists for months. That's all part of the campaign's next stage, he said.
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GOP plan boosts Pentagon, cuts social programs
FILE -- In a Dec. 7, 2011 file photo House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., second from right, accompanied by fellow committee members, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington . From left are, Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., Ryan, and Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah. The Republicans who control the House are using cuts to food aid, health care and social services like Meals on Wheels to protect the Pentagon from a wave of budget cuts come January. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, file)
FILE -- In a Dec. 7, 2011 file photo House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., second from right, accompanied by fellow committee members, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington . From left are, Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., Ryan, and Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah. The Republicans who control the House are using cuts to food aid, health care and social services like Meals on Wheels to protect the Pentagon from a wave of budget cuts come January. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, file)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Republicans who control the House are using cuts to food aid, health care and social services like Meals on Wheels to protect the Pentagon from a wave of budget cuts come January.
The reductions, while controversial, are but a fraction of what Republicans called for in the broader, nonbinding budget plan they passed in March. Totaling a little more than $300 billion over a decade, the new cuts are aimed less at tackling $1 trillion-plus government deficits and more at preventing cuts to troop levels and military modernization.
The House Budget Committee meets Monday to officially act on the measure, the product of six separate House panels. It faces a likely floor vote Thursday.
The measure kicks off Congress' return to action after a weeklong recess. The House will also vote on a spending bill funding NASA and the Justice Department and on legislation to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act. The Senate, meanwhile, has a test vote slated for Tuesday on a plan backed by President Barack Obama to prevent a doubling of college loan interest rates.
Fully one-fourth of the House GOP spending cuts come from programs directly benefiting the poor, such as Medicaid, food stamps, the Social Services Block Grant, and a child tax credit claimed by working immigrants. Federal workers would have to contribute an additional 5 percent of their salaries toward their pensions, while people whose incomes rise after receiving coverage subsidies under the new health care law would lose some or all of their benefits.
The budget-cutting drive is designed to head off a looming 10 percent, $55-billion budget cut set to strike the Pentagon on Jan. 1 because of the failure of last year's deficit "supercommittee" to strike a deal. The Obama administration and lawmakers in both parties warn the reductions would harm readiness and weapons procurement, and reduce troop levels.
The automatic spending cuts, known as a sequester, would strike domestic programs as well, including a 2 percentage point cut from Medicare payments to health care providers. The sequester required by the supercommittee's failure would abruptly wring about $110 billion in new spending from next year's budget, but the upcoming GOP measure is more gentle in the near term, cutting deficits this year and next by less than $20 billion ? though the cuts add up to more than $300 billion over the coming decade.
Some of the cuts may or not be realistic, though, despite the seal of approval of the respected Congressional Budget Office. Particularly dubious is $22.5 billion in savings claimed by repealing new "orderly liquidation" authority awarded to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to prevent the failure of large financial firms from endangering the economy. Costs would be offset by assessments on other institutions over subsequent years.
And $56 billion in savings over 10 years from Medicare and Medicaid as a result of curbing medical malpractice lawsuits is speculative, too, relying on a CBO estimate that assumes changes like capping punitive damages will produce a half-percentage-point cut in health care spending.
The cuts will be dead on arrival in the Democratic-controlled Senate this year. But they're likely just a sample of what's in store next year from Republicans if Mitt Romney wins the White House and the GOP takes back the Senate. Romney promises much tougher cuts to domestic programs and an even bigger boost in the Pentagon's budget, while the House GOP budget promises sharp cuts to Medicaid and a dramatic overhaul of Medicare for future beneficiaries.
Warring Democrats and Republicans hold sharply opposite views of the cuts.
To GOP lawmakers, steps like blocking states from gaming food stamp eligibility rules to boost benefits or trying to stop illegal immigrants from claiming tax refunds of up to $1,000 per child are simply no-brainers. And they won the 2010 midterm election after campaigning against Obama's health care law.
But Democrats say Republicans are unfairly targeting the poor and vulnerable. They believe that legislation to prevent the Pentagon cuts should include tax increases that strike wealthier people.
The proposed GOP cuts pale in comparison to the $5 trillion in cuts called for over the coming decade by the broader ? but nonbinding ? GOP blueprint, authored by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., who's often mentioned as a potential vice presidential choice. They're getting far less media attention as well.
Stepping into the debate, however, has been the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, who forcefully oppose cuts to programs that help the poor and vulnerable, singling out cuts to food stamps as "unjustified and wrong" and assailing the effort to deny the child tax credit to undocumented workers as sure to thrust vulnerable children into poverty. The vast majority of children who would be affected by the tax credit proposal are U.S. citizens.
Republicans would also eliminate Social Services Block Grants, a $1.7 billion a year program that gives states money for Meals on Wheels, day care, adoption assistance, and transportation help for the elderly and disabled. Democrats noted that the program comes in the form of flexible block grants, an approach that Republicans advocated in the Ryan budget regarding Medicaid and food stamps. Republicans say the Social Service Block Grants program duplicates other efforts.
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