Is This High-Tech Workout The Next Great Exercise Craze?

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When a serial entrepreneur met a martial artist, a new fitness concept was born. Can Fitwall's high-tech workout make it bigger than Pilates?

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Aitken train: 'Station' is a great big Artsy (photos) road trip

Doug Aitken goes on a journey by road from New York to San Francisco, and who is performing in some of the best contemporary artists and musicians with him. Very jealous?

Station to station: a nomadic art happening

Piece of public art ambitious Aitken, entitled "station to station: nomads passing," the artist will travel cross-country via train, making ten stops along the way.

Each stop will contain an art site-specific happening, art drawing often too separate, music, culinary, literary and film worlds. Art of Aitken train rolling deep with creative participants such as Kenneth Anger, Urs Fischer, Carsten Höller, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Ariel Pink, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Dan Deacon, Dave Hickey, Alice Waters and many, many more.

Station to station: a nomadic art happening

While this project may seem larger summer mobile party, Aitken commentary makes the piece looks more as a multi-disciplinary, contemporary outlet in the speciality of Gauguin, "where come us from? What are we? Where we going?"

In a press release from the exhibition Aitken whips some questions equally large, including: who are we? Where are we going? And, at this time, how can we express ourselves?" Adding, "our intention is to create a modern cultural manifesto."

The tour will start this month of September; more details about the entries and collaborators will be released throughout the summer. Check the web site of the "station" to learn more. For a look at the previous work of Aitken, see images of his exhibition "Mirror" at the Seattle Art Museum down.

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"Mirror", 2013 (rendering) © Doug Aitken Workshop

"Mirror", 2013 (rendering) © Doug Aitken Workshop

"Mirror", 2013 (rendering) © Doug Aitken Workshop

"Mirror", 2013 (rendering) © Doug Aitken Workshop

"Mirror", 2013 (rendering) © Doug Aitken Workshop

"Mirror", 2013 (rendering) © Doug Aitken Workshop

Thug notes of "The Great Gatsby", explains: "is not no one can recover time ' (VIDEO)"

Sweet Sparky, PhD is back with more literary analysis, the Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald - and Baz Luhrmann - classic again.

If never you've read the book, seen the game of Word by word or caught any of the previous films based on it, but still I would like to be able to express an opinion vaguely high in Gatsby, then this is the video for you.

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Angela Ahrendts, CEO of Burberry, is the first woman to become the Executive better paid in Great Britain

An Executive American woman has finally reached the top ranks of the payment of a nation.

Burberry, a native of Indiana, Angela Ahrendts, CEO is now the Executive better paid in Britain, according to a survey of manifest, a British group of corporate governance and pay consultant MM K &, cited by the Guardian. 16.9 Million pounds, the package of payment ' Ahrendts is nearly 5 million pounds more than the next most senior British Executive paid, according to the Guardian.

While achievement ' Ahrendts mark an important step forward for the women of high power on either side of the pond, women in both countries still faces many obstacles to reach the position ' Ahrendts. In Great Britain, Ahrendts is one of only three CEOs women running major companies in the country. In the United States, women represent only 4 percent of CEOs at S & P 500 companies.

Despite the position of ' Ahrendts as one of the few females in the top of the corporate ladder, she opposes possible policy changes that could help other British women get. Ahrendts said last year that she is not in favor of quotas requiring that a certain number of women is present on the boards of the companies, according to the Telegraph.

"Just put the best person at work. It is not about gender, it's experience, leadership and vision. "" A man can do this job, he said.

That may be true, but often men are becoming much more to do so. ' Ahrendts pay - that amounts to about $26.2 million - pales in comparison to some of their male counterparts American. CEO of Oracle Larry Ellison for example, earned $96 million last year, according to CNNMoney.

Of course equality in the workplace is not a problem only that women face in the upper part, the pay gap also exists for ordinary women. In the United States, working, made about 80% of what their male counterparts earned last year, as the gender wage gap expanded. And in Britain, the global gender pay gap was around the 19.7 percent last year, according to a report from the guardian.

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Obama On Democrats' 2014 House Hopes: 'We've Got A Great Chance'

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CHICAGO, May 29 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, whose agenda has been frustrated by Republicans in Washington, said on Wednesday he believed his party could reclaim control of the House of Representatives in the 2014 midterm elections but conceded it was an uphill struggle.

The party in power in the White House typically loses seats in the first midterm election after a presidential campaign, and many political analysts believe Democrats could lose seats in Congress in 2014.

But Obama, appearing at fundraisers for Democratic House candidates in his hometown of Chicago, said he believed 2014 could prove different.

"We've got a great chance to take back the House," he told more than 100 people gathered at a cocktail reception in an ornate ballroom at the Chicago Hilton, where ticket prices ranged from $1,000 per person to $5,000 per couple.

Obama, who was reelected in 2012, told donors that he is willing to work with Republicans on issues like creating jobs through national infrastructure programs, but said he has a hard time finding Republican lawmakers willing to compromise.

"We've got a politics that is stuck right now. And the reason it's stuck is because people spend more time thinking about the next election than they do thinking about the next generation," Obama said.

Obama said he is willing to work with Republicans, who currently control the House, but accused them of "obstructionism" and "an interest only in scoring political points or placating a base."

It was the fifth time since April that Obama has traveled to raise money for Democrats running for Congress in 2014.

In Chicago, about 70 people paid $10,000 per person or $32,400 per couple to attend dinner in the sculpture-filled apartment of Bettylu and Paul Saltzman, longtime Chicago Democratic activists and some of Obama's earliest political benefactors.

Obama told the group, which he described as "kind of an Obama cabal," that a Democratic-controlled House is key to achieving goals he views as his legacy, like curbing climate change and gun violence.

"My only interest is making sure that when I look back 20 years from now, I say, 'I accomplished everything that I could while I had this incredible privilege to advance the interests of the broadest number of Americans,'" he said.

But he admitted winning back the House won't be easy.

"This will be hard," he said, blaming "gerrymandering" or the redistricting process which many Democratic groups have said unfairly benefits Republicans.

First Lady Michelle Obama also spoke at two Democratic fundraisers on Wednesday in Manhattan.

"We need all of you to get engaged in every special election and every midterm election all across this country," she told donors who paid between $5,000 and $25,000 to attend a fundraiser in the Manhattan apartment of fashion designer Tory Burch.

"We need you to keep on writing those checks and, if you haven't maxed out, max out. Get your friends to max out," she said, referring to caps on donations set by U.S. election law.

At a Park Avenue gala with about 350 people who paid $1,250 to $32,400 to attend, the first lady was introduced by basketball player Jason Collins, who recently came out as the nation's first openly gay major professional sports player. (Additional reporting by Steve Holland in Washington; Editing by Paul Simao)

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