Videos / Releases: JR ? ?Action in Kesennuma, Japan? Lithograph

Back in November, French photograffeur?JR headed to Japan and toured the disaster area, furthering his Inside Out project in the area ? dedicated to the victims of the tsunami.? If you remember, one of the most poignant images from that trip was the pasting of the eyes of a local fisherman on a boat that was stranded and abandoned as the water receded. This piece has now been recreated as a?12 color lithograph (released here) along with a video documenting the creation process at the storied printing house that is still using the same machines that Picasso and Matisse used to make their prints on. As you know, JR is currently in Japan where his show at the Watarium Museum just opened (more on this soon).

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The Legal Employment Market, Student Debt, and Legal Education ...

There has been a great deal of press recently about the sorry state of the legal jobs market, student debt, and the irrelevance of legal education (see, e.g., here). ?A lot of the thinking on these issues has struck me as incredibly ga-ga and muddled and as reflecting unrelated and pre-existing agendas about legal education, student debt, and the role of lawyers in society. ?The jobs market, student debt, and legal education are all distinct, if related issues. ?But it's important to untangle them and see where the problems are and what can be done about them. ??

(1) If Supply > Demand, then Prices Will Fall...

The legal employment market is a services market, nothing more, nothing less. ?It doesn't particularly matter that the services performed are legal. ?It's a market. ?And that means it is subject to the inexorable laws of supply and demand. ?I don't know of a good measure of demand for legal services, but it is clear that aggregate demand is either not growing as fast as it once did or perhaps shrinking. ?There are lots of reasons for this including in-housing and out-sourcing. ?The reduction in demand is not itself a problem. ?The problem is that the supply of lawyers is outstripping demand. ?Some of this is greater longevity and the decline of mandatory retirement, but a lot has to do with the expansion of the number of JDs being produced annually. ?Simply put, law schools are flooding the market with supply and that's a problem when demand doesn't keep pace.?

(2) What's New Are Problems in the High-End of the Market

The legal employment market, however, is not a single market. ?To oversimplify, it has a high end and a low end. ?The supply-and-demand problem at the high-end of the market is reversed at the low-end of the market. ?There are lots of consumers who need legal services and cannot afford them. ?This is a problem and one that those of us who work in consumer bankruptcy and consumer finance are very familiar with, but it's not a new one. ?The problem that has recently emerged in the legal market is about the high-end of the market, not the low-end one. ?These are different problems and point to different solutions.?

(3) Reduce Oversupply and Prices Will Stabilize

For the high-end of the market, there's really nothing that can be done to stoke demand. ?(Ok, a true Machiavellian would be pushing for lots more complicated regulation in order to increase demand for legal services.) ?As long as supply outstrips demand, there will be downward pressure on compensation. ?At a certain point, however, as compensation declines, a legal education becomes a comparatively less attractive investment, particularly because it is a leveraged investment. Taking on lots of debt to pay for law school is a bad idea if employment prospects are such that debt service will be onerous or impossible. ?And that will affect law schools. ?Virtually all law schools are funded primarily by tuition. Some have endowments that pick up some slack, but tuition is the economic driver, and it might not be possible to keep up tuition levels or at least increase them at past rates. ?The result will likely be some law schools failing. ?It won't be pretty--on a human level it will be painful for many people. ?But from the perspective of the legal employment market overall, it will be a good thing. ?Fewer law schools graduating fewer JDs would reduce supply and thus keep up high end lawyer salaries. ?Alternatively, if states just got more restrictive on their bar admission requirements, the oversupply of lawyers would be mitigated. ?All of this is to say, the market should correct. ?It might take a while, but the closure of some law schools or political pressure from lawyers to tighten up bar admission standards is likely to reduce supply and stabilize compensation.?

(4) Legal Education Reforms Will Not Create Jobs

Many of the responses to the problems in the legal jobs market focus on changing legal education to give law students more practice skills and/or reduce the length of legal education so as to reduce student debt. ?Both ideas strike me as incorrect responses to the job market problem. ?

?Ok, let me put this in all caps: ?CHANGING LEGAL EDUCATION WILL NOT CREATE DEMAND FOR LEGAL SERVICES. ?LEGAL EDUCATION REFORM WILL NOT CREATE JOBS. ?It's not clear how it possibly could. ?Law school graduates could emerge from 3L year like Athena from the head of Zeus, fully formed lawyers in all their glory, and that wouldn't result in greater employment. ?Instead, the only thing that education reforms (more practical courses, externships, etc.) can possibly do is provide graduates of one school a leg up on graduates of other schools in competing for a slice of the legal employment pie. ?It won't grow the pie. ?

(5) Reducing the Length of the JD Education Will Not Result in Lower Education Costs

What about reducing the length of the JD educational program from 3 to 2 years? ?It's not clear to me why that would translate into a 33% reduction in the cost of legal education. ?If students' post-JD salaries are the same irrespective of 2 years vs. 3 years of education, their demand for legal education should be unchanged. ?Indeed, going from 3 to 2 years should actually increase demand for legal education because there will be an extra year's worth of earning time. ?If demand is unchanged (or even increases), why would the cost of legal education go down? ?Schools have lots of fixed costs (faculty salary and benefits, physical plant, utilities), and these don't depend on 2 vs. 3 years. ?Unless we think the legal education market is comprised of eleemosynary institutions, reducing the length of the JD should have no effect on the cost a JD. ?(Admittedly, few law schools are run with Bain-like efficiency. ?But when it rains gravy, even if they don't bring a kettle, they bring a cup, not a fork.) ?

(6) Legal Education Reforms May Help Create Supply for the Low-End of the Market...But That's Not the a New Problem

There is still the problem of the low-end of the market, i.e., legal services for the middle class and poor, where demand outstrips supply. ?Again, it is not a new problem, and it has nothing to do with the current Chicken Littleism about the legal employment market. ?It's just a separate problem, and it is not one that is contributing to the current concern over law school economics. In terms of serving the low-end of the market, there is plenty of room for creative thinking about legal education reform, and in particular different types of law licensing. ?It's a topic that I can't hope to cover in this blog post, other than to emphasize that law schools can't and don't need to shift from serving the high-end legal market to the low-end legal market as a solution to the current problems in the high-end of the market. ?

All of this is to say?that legal education reforms need to stand or fall on their own merits. ?The changes in the legal employment market place should not provide an excuse for pre-existing legal education reform agendas. ?

Source: http://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2013/02/the-legal-employment-market-student-debt-and-legal-education-reform.html

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Mardi Gras rolling despite New Orleans rain threat

Members of the Mardi Gras dance group "The Sirens" perform during the Krewe of Orpheus Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, Monday, Feb. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Members of the Mardi Gras dance group "The Sirens" perform during the Krewe of Orpheus Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, Monday, Feb. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Revelers yell for beads and trinkets during the Krewe of Orpheus Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, Monday, Feb. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Members of the Laissez Boys Pleasure Aid &Leisure Club parade in motorized easy chairs during the Krewe of Orpheus Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, Monday, Feb. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Flambeaus parade down St. Charles Avenue during the Krewe of Orpheus Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, Monday, Feb. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

This photo provided on Monday, Feb. 11, 2013, by the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office shows Deron Bridgewater in New Orleans. New Orleans Police says 23-year-old Bridgewater surrendered to authorities Monday after seeing his picture on a television newscast Sunday night. Police say he's cooperating with detectives who are investigating the shooting that wounded four during the countdown to Fat Tuesday. (AP Photo/Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office)

NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? Overcast skies and the threat of rain couldn't dampen the revelry of Mardi Gras as parades took to the streets early Tuesday, showering merrymaking crowds with trinkets of all descriptions.

Parading began around dawn, led by clarinetist Pete Fountain and his Half-Fast Marching Club. The Zulu krewe and the parade of Rex, King of Carnival, were to wind their way down stately St. Charles Avenue to the business district during the morning.

Parade-goers lined up despite the threat of inclement weather. Some families camped out overnight to stake out choice spots to view parades.

The French Quarter stirred to life and later in the day was expected to become the center of the celebration's raunchier side.

The wet streets that greeted revelers who braved rainy forecasts threatening to wash out Mardi Gras, New Orleans' biggest free show.

Freddie Zeigler, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Slidell, La., said there's an 80 percent chance of rain Tuesday. Fog blanketed the riverfront and business district in the early morning.

Still, lulls are predicted throughout the day and no parades had been canceled. The Zulu parade began on time at 8 a.m.

"It's going to be dicey though for parades, but it all depends on how fast that warm front moves to the north," Zeigler said.

Following the Zulu and Rex parades would be hundreds of trucks decorated by families and social groups.

Fountain's Half-Fast Marching Club stepped off from a staging point in the Garden District just after dawn. Others with colorful names such as the Jefferson City Buzzards would follow, tossing beads to the crowds along stately St. Charles Avenue and winding their way into the city's business district.

Fountain and his clubmates were clad in garish red suits and feathered hats as they got ready to march in the Garden District.

Fountain no longer walks the route, which will take him to the French Quarter, but rides a truck-towed trolley. As he boarded, parade-goers snapped photos with camera phones.

Fountain wasn't worried about the rain forecast.

"This is my life," he said, referring to his 63rd parade with the group he founded. "We're going to make it before it rains."

Bob Johnson sipped on a screwdriver as he prepared to march with Fountain. "This is a half-healthy drink," he joked.

Johnson has done parades on floats and has been with Fountain's street marchers for six years. "It's a whole different perspective than riding a float. You can get right up to people," he said.

In the French Quarter, where the revelry almost didn't stop overnight, crowds were expected to cruise down Bourbon Street, pleading for beads from revelers on balconies before heading to Canal Street for the parades.

Traditionally, the French Quarter is the scene of Mardi Gras' most ribald activities, while the streetcar line along St. Charles is given over to family groups who set for a day of barbecues and parade watching.

On the uptown parade routes, families carried on generations-old traditions of camping out overnight in tents to catch the earliest action. Many hoped to catch one of the colorfully decorated coconuts handed out by grass-skirt-clad riders on the Zulu floats.

Bryan Clark, 42, said it would take more than the threat of rain to break his family's tradition of camping near the place where the Zulu parade turns onto St. Charles Avenue. "We stay here rain sleet or snow," he said.

The New Orleans native said his parents hooked him on the Mardi Gras ritual and now he does it with his wife and children. "There is no other place in America you can do this," he said.

Parading was planned across south Louisiana and the Gulf Coast. In Louisiana's Cajun parishes, the tradition of the Courir du Mardi Gras was set to start after dawn, as groups of maskers on horseback would ride from community to community making merry.

Rain or shine, it was parade-goers last chance during the Carnival season, which ends with the stroke of midnight Tuesday night. After that, the solemn season of Lent replaces the revelry until Easter.

"We're going to get here extremely early," said Carly Gerhard, who drove with a friend from Philadelphia to New Orleans over the weekend ? through storms that spawned tornadoes along the way ? for her first Mardi Gras experience.

Gerhard said her most memorable experience so far has been the French Quarter.

"We're looking forward to the parades. We're looking forward to it all," she said.

Frank Warford, of Riverdale, Ga., was holding an umbrella Monday as he walked Bourbon Street. He said he was ready to party through the rain.

"This is a party city. Everybody's partying and having fun, catching beads like crazy," said Warford, his neck draped in beads. "If it rains, put a hat on. It's as simple as that."

Scattered showers didn't keep revelers away Monday as thousands flocked to the French Quarter and along the Mississippi River for Lundi Gras festivities.

As local brass bands played on stages set up along the river, Jim and Sheron Rogers, of Bay St. Louis, Miss., beers in hand, said they hadn't missed a Mardi Gras since 1990, and that come rain or shine they were taking in this one.

"We just love it," Sheron Rogers said. "The people, the music. It's just a beautiful, fun city."

Many said they weren't going to let the rain or weekend shooting on Bourbon Street wreck the party.

"You can't let the threat keep you from having a good time," Jim Rogers said.

Deron Bridgewater, 23, of Marrero, La., faces four counts of attempted first-degree murder for the weekend's quadruple shooting during the final weekend of revelry that culminates with Mardi Gras.

Bridgewater surrendered Monday after seeing his photograph on a television newscast Sunday night, New Orleans police spokesman Frank B. Robertson III said. Police have issued an arrest warrant for a second suspect in the shooting and authorities sought a third person who is believed to have critical information regarding the shooting, Robertson said.

Associated Press

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Carolina Herrera plays with fur at New York Fashion Week

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fur stole the show at Carolina Herrera's fashion show on Monday - fur in eye-catching hues and unusual places.

Herrera dyed fur a rich green and deep violet in her fall and winter 2013 collection, one of hundreds on display at New York Fashion Week, which runs through Thursday.

Furthering the unexpected, the New York-based fashion pacesetter included fur as a bib at the front of a black turtleneck, at the cinched waist of a satin jacket and along the neckline of a strapless cocktail dress.

Not to fear, the chic Venezuela-born designer used fur in traditional colors and places as well - in coat collars and stoles. The deep mint green and purple dyed fur also appeared in stoles and neckpieces atop sleek dresses and gowns.

Her dresses featured high necks and cinched waists, with attention drawn to shoulders capped in black velvet or encrusted with jewels.

KaufmanFranco, the team of designers Ken Kaufman and Isaac Franco, also showed on Monday, mixing high-brow with low while unveiling sequined gowns with fur trim alongside black leather jackets decorated with metallics. One biker jacket featured a plunging neckline with mink and silver fox.

The collection by Maison Martin Margiela emphasized top-heavy silhouettes with capes and puffer jackets over slim-cut trousers.

Designer Tracy Reese made the catwalk a real cat walk, sending out a model carrying a live cat, a first for New York Fashion Week.

Reese, a designer popular with first lady Michelle Obama, opened her show with a cheetah print jacket of black and gray, dotted with jewel-like colors.

She followed up with mix-and-match animal prints in an array of pieces - a cardigan, pullover sweater, tube skirt, tunic, skinny pants, shawl jacket and trench coat.

From fashion stalwart Diane von Furstenberg came jumpsuits in burnt orange suede and red felt, and boxy, cropped jackets in her vibrant collection of hot pinks, purples and graphic prints.

At the Tommy Hilfiger show, the designer drew inspiration from 1960s icons - giving a nod to designer Mary Quant and the model Twiggy in his trademark preppy pieces.

Hilfiger used a Prince of Wales check pattern in white, ivory and burgundy and magnified pinstripes and argyles in women's suits and outerwear.

Rebecca Taylor's fall and winter line went with slick biker chic silhouettes - a motorcycle jacket paired with a chiffon-pleated skirt and blazers topping skinny trousers.

The New Zealand-born Taylor, who is based in New York, showed a wealth of leather - T-shirts, biker vests and a leather pleated skirt with lace trim.

Taking a page from architecture, Taylor embellished looks with chain mail and lace mesh and used color blocking that evoked stained glass windows - deep blue, oxblood, plum and violet.

Fashion Week wraps up on Thursday with shows by big names Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren.

(Additional reporting by Marguerita Choy, Erin Geiger Smith and Eric Platt; editing by Steve Orlofsky, G Crosse)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/carolina-herrera-plays-fur-york-fashion-week-221703134.html

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China calls in NKorean ambassador over nuke test

BEIJING (AP) ? China's foreign minister called North Korea's ambassador in for a dressing-down Tuesday and demanded his country's cease making further threats, in a show of Beijing's displeasure over its earstwhile ally's latest nuclear test.

Yang Jiechi delivered a "stern representation" to Ji Jae Ryong and expressed China's "strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition" to Tuesday's test, the ministry said in a statement posted to its website.

"Yang Jiechi demanded that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea side cease talk that further escalates the situation and swiftly return to the correct channel of dialogue and negotiation," the statement said. It did not say if Ji made any response. Calls to the North Korean Embassy rang unanswered Tuesday.

Yang reiterated China's desire for peace and stability on a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula and said issues should be resolved within the framework of long-stalled denuclearization talks involving North Korea, China, the U.S., South Korea, Japan and Russia.

The appeals were contained in an earlier statement from the ministry calling on North Korea to abide by its denuclearization pledge, and not to "take additional actions that could cause the situation to further deteriorate" ? echoing the wording of China's responses to previous North Korean nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009.

Yang's meeting with the ambassador shows China's anger and frustration over North Korea's actions since the ministry calls in foreign diplomats only in cases of extreme pique, such as U.S. arms sales to Taiwan or Japan's nationalization of a disputed island group. However, neither statement pointed to any specific actions Beijing would take in response to Tuesday's nuclear test, the North's third.

The meeting also followed a warning from North Korea that the test was merely its "first response" to what it called U.S. threats, and that it will continue with unspecified "second and third measures of greater intensity" if Washington maintains its hostility.

Despite being the North's biggest source of aid and diplomatic support, Beijing has been reluctant to back more severe measures that could destabilize the North's hardline regime, which serves as a buffer between China and democratic South Korea backed by U.S. forces.

China's patience appears to be wearing thin, however, and Beijing reacted in unusually strong terms to the North's December rocket launch by agreeing to tightened United Nations sanctions on the country, a move that brought criticism from Pyongyang.

China had repeatedly called on the North not to conduct a test, and Pyongyang's decision to proceed anyway will likely strengthen Beijing's arguments that it has little power to influence its neighbor and that harsh actions against the regime will have only a negative effect.

Although Beijing hasn't proposed any concrete plans to punish the North, disgust with Pyongyang's defiance and lack of gratitude is growing in. Tuesday was a public holiday in China, but the nuclear test was widely criticized on the country's popular Twitter-like Weibo microblogging service, with users calling it inhuman and anti-social and urging the government to reconsider its assistance to the regime.

Many found the test offensive because it took place less than 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the Chinese border and came on the third day of the Lunar New Year, when most work stops for family gatherings.

"We're all celebrating the new year, but it feels like someone just tossed a hand grenade at my front door. North Korea is just too crazy," said a Beijing office worker standing outside a downtown McDonald's restaurant, who would give only his surname, Ke.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/china-calls-nkorean-ambassador-over-nuke-test-124106587.html

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Protect Your For Lease Property with Advanced Tenant Screening ...

As a landlord, you always want to manage your for lease property with ease without having to worry about future fraud and tenant discrepancies that will ruin your business in the future. If you have any fear of having your property abused and destroyed since it has been used by your tenant for some illegal activities, you need to take extra precautions to keep it safe.

You are a lucky landlord if that undesirable scenario has not yet happened to you. But for some landlords who have already suffered from this reputation breaking scenario, perhaps they are now looking for ways and means to protect their property from future unwanted scenario to re-occur.

To avoid this, you need to conduct tenant screening to every tenant you wish to welcome and take hold of your rented property. This is essential for you to test your tenant and to make sure that they have been possessing good background records and can be worth your trust by allowing them to dwell on your lease property.

The screening itself will check the existing income of your prospective tenant as well as their past records and criminal record if there is any. These include credit history, eviction and bankruptcy history, employment record, tenant credit check and last address history.

Luckily a new and advanced tenant screening software that has a built-in screening capabilities that can help you screen your tenant in a more convenient and cost efficient way is now available.

No need for you to hire a private investigator to follow your tenant just like what a stalker and a paparazzi do. You can actually do it secretly and accurately with the use of this amazing software. Some of its features include National Criminal Super Search, Bankruptcies, Evictions and Judgments Check and Address History Check.

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iCookbook dishes up CROCK-POT recipes at Macworld|iWorld 2013

This year we went straight from Macworld|iWorld 2013 to Mobile Nations Fitness Month, but who says we can't have some overlap? iCookbook was on the show floor with their new CROCK-POT app, and while not everything you slow cook may be healthy, it will come from home, and that means you can choose to make it healthy! Just pick great ingredients and let the flavors do the work.

Su Bermingham showed us the CROCK-POT app, which includes over 250 recipes, and features like voice-command, so you don't have to get your iPhone or iPad dirty, easier-to-see Prepare Mode for when you're working, handy kitchen tools like timers, and the ability to not only favorite any of the included recipes so they're always easy to find, but the ability to add your own as well.

Some might call CROCK-POT cooking easy -- or lazy -- but when you're in a time crunch, it's also a great way to make sure you and your family can enjoy a homemade meal, and not have to rely on junky takeout all the time.

CROCK-POT is a universal app for both iPhone and iPad. Grab it now and get slow cooking!

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