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Former No. 1s Venus Williams and Kim Clijsters unseeded? Former champ Maria Sharapova the No. 1 seed after reclaiming the No. 1 ranking? Serena Williams lurking down at the No. 6 seed? Strawberries and cream half price?
We're searching for new storylines for the 2012 version of Wimbledon, but it's looking a lot like the same-old same-old between the "old guard" of the Williams sisters, Sharapova, Clijsters, etc. Isn't this around the time of year that Justine Henin makes a comeback? Martina Hingis in doubles? Yawn…we need some shake-ups in women's tennis. Was 2011 just a fluke for Petra Kvitova, who could not claim a grasscourt title coming into the All England Club this year?
Here's a breakdown of the four quarters of the draw at 2012 Wimbledon:
Top Quarter
Seeds: (1) Maria Sharapova, (8) Angelina Kerber, (12) Vera Zvonareva, (15) Sabine Lisicki, (18) Jelena Jankovic, (23) Petra Cetkovska, (28) Christina McHale, (29) Monica Niculescu
Floaters: Kim Clijsters, Sloane Stephens
Notes: How about a (1) Sharapova vs. unseeded Clijsters QF?; Sharapova opens against fellow Russian Anastasia Rodionova, and Clijsters against (18) Jankovic, who can't win pressure matches on grass (or anywhere?); Jankovic 1-6 career vs. Clijsters; possible third round featuring former world No. 2 (12) Zvonareva vs. former No. 1 Clijsters; (28) McHale gets the cake opener against Brit wildcard Johanna Konta; first Sharapova test probably not until 4th rd. against (15) Lisicki.
2nd Quarter
Seeds: (3) Aggie Radwanska, (5) Sam Stosur, (11) Li Na, (16) Flavia Pennetta, (17) Maria Kirilenko, (20) Nadia Petrova, (27) Daniela Hantuchova, (30) Shuai Peng
Floaters: Venus Williams, Melanie Oudin
Notes: Here's where Venus lands, opening against Russian Elena Vesnina, with (3) Radwanska in the 2nd rd.; Oudin could face (20) Petrova 2nd rd.; not a lot of excitement in this quarter — (5) Stosur vs. Venus QF?
Third Quarter
Seeds: (4) Petra Kvitova, (6) Serena Williams, (10) Sara Errani, (13) Dominika Cibulkova, (19) Lucie Safarova, (24) Francesca Schiavone, (25) Jie Zheng, (31) Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Floaters: (Q) Coco Vandeweghe, (WC) Laura Robson
Notes: Tough openers for the French Open finalist (10) Errani against the hard-hitting qualifying-toughened Vandeweghe, if the American can hold it together and cut down the regular flotilla of errors, and for (24) Schiavone against the Brit hope (WC) Robson; fast forward to the (4) Kvitova vs. (6) Serena QF.
Bottom Quarter
Seeds: (2) Victoria Azarenka, (7) Caroline Wozniacki, (9) Marion Bartoli, (14) Ana Ivanovic, (21) Roberta Vinci, (22) Julia Goerges, (26) Anabel Medina Garrigues, (32) Svetlana Kuznetsova
Floaters: Tamita Paszek, Yanina Wickmayer, Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez, Shahar Peer, Simona Halep
Notes: Definitely the most competitive quarter with a number of seeds facing first-round upset possibilities including (7) Wozniacki vs. Paszek, (32) Kuznetsova vs. Wickmayer, (14) Ivanovic vs. Martinez Sanchez, (22) Goerges vs. Peer, and (26) Medina Garrigues vs. Halep; Woz lost first round at Eastbourne this month; (1) Azarenka opens against American Irina Falconi, and the draw only gets easier after that; (1) Azarenka vs. (9) Bartoli in the QF?
(1) Sharapova d. Clijsters
Venus d. (5) Stosur
(6) Serena d. (4) Kvitova
(9) Bartoli d. (1) Azarenka
(1) Sharapova d. Venus
(6) Serena d. (9) Bartoli
(6) Serena d. (1) Sharapova
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Keosha: I was 15 when my mom found out that I liked girls. She kicked me out of the house. That's what hurt me the most. She was there for them boys [brothers] more than she was there for me.
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Keosha: No… she just always told me, "my mama didn't raise me like that so I'm not gonna raise you like that."
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AUSTRALIA has been better at economic reform than most developed countries. It's no coincidence that Australia is one of only a handful of developed countries to have enjoyed more than two decades of recession-free economic growth. Across the political spectrum there is general acceptance that this growth would not have been possible if not for the economic reforms of the Hawke-Keating era. But growth, and the better opportunities for the underprivileged it enables, won't keep coming unless we keep reforming.
Yet Australia is about to shirk a significant economic reform, an emissions trading scheme. As a party of reform, Labor must have no part in its repeal.
Consider the record of the major parties in implementing the big post-war economic and social reforms. For the Coalition side, chalk up the 1957 Australia-Japan commerce agreement, gun laws, the GST, formalising the independence of the Reserve Bank, labour market deregulation (that went too far) and the now abandoned Charter of Budget Honesty.
Labor has been in power for just 40 per cent of the time since World War II. On its side of the reform ledger are: Ben Chifley's nation-building infrastructure investment; Gough Whitlam's early engagement with China; universal health insurance through Medicare; the floating of the dollar; financial market liberalisation; removal of most industry protection; the 1985 tax reforms; school funding reforms that led to a doubling of the proportion of young people finishing high school; establishment of an education export industry through immigration and education policy reforms; energy market reform; a national superannuation scheme; national competition policy; a strategic partnership with China; a demand-driven university system; legislation for a national disability insurance scheme and school funding reforms; and an ETS.
Of those reforms the Coalition has opposed or sought to abolish: Medibank and Medicare; the fringe benefits tax and capital gains tax that funded reductions in higher marginal income tax rates; compulsory superannuation; the needs-based school funding system; and the ETS.
If this account of the reform record of the two parties and the proclivity for wanting to reverse them seems biased, any proposed modifications would be graciously acknowledged. Both parties can take credit for the great post-war immigration program. The Coalition would lay claim to superior fiscal management, but the budget papers confirm it as the highest taxing government in Australia's history.
Many on the conservative side will object to the proposition that an ETS is an economic reform. Some claim it is socialism masquerading as environmentalism.
But the climate change science is becoming more certain across time, not less. It is accepted by the world's meteorological organisations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the OECD and, at home, by the Bureau of Meteorology, the CSIRO, the Productivity Commission and the federal Treasury.
If the Coalition government truly believed human-induced climate change was not happening, it would abandon its bipartisan commitment to reduce carbon emissions by
5 per cent from 2000 levels by 2020.
Instead, the government brazenly asserts that its vague direct action plan will achieve the 5 per cent reduction target and, in an astonishing coincidence, that it will hit the target by spending the $3.2 billion its budget committee has allocated to the plan, not a cent more.
Most Liberal MPs argue that markets are far better at allocating resources than governments. Yet on climate change they are choosing central planning over markets.
Labor is playing word games when it claims it now opposes a carbon tax but supports an ETS. If the Rudd government's carbon pollution reduction scheme with a one-year fixed price was an ETS, then the Gillard government's clean energy scheme with a three-year fixed price is an ETS.
By allowing the market to seek out the lowest cost emissions abatement possibilities, an ETS can achieve the agreed cap on emissions at least cost.
Before John Howard revealed last week that he developed an ETS only to insulate his government against a voter backlash, he argued there were big benefits for Australia being a first mover in our region. Now we are seeking to become first remover, as China implements emissions trading in seven cities and provinces and South Korea implements an ETS.
An ETS is an essential economic reform. As with many post-war economic reforms, the Coalition is seeking to repeal it. Labor successfully saw off Coalition pledges to repeal universal superannuation, Medicare, the fringe benefits tax, the capital gains tax and the needs-based school funding reforms.
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The main aim of this Vehicle Information Communication Safety Combined with Mobile RFID System project is to get vehicle information using Radio frequency identification tag. This ECE project mainly use the equipments of microcontroller of type LPC2148, it is a 64-pin device, RF ID reader is used to drive the vehicle, when the tag is shown to the vehicles microcontroller then access the tag and the information regarding which person is using the vehicle is directly send to the owner by using the GSM technology. In this GSM technology GSM modem is used this modem contains the SIM and the RF ID tag contains the memory, tag consists battery because tag has to send the microwaves to the microcontroller to access. So we need a battery in the tag, there are several types of the batteries, one is chargeable and other is rechargeable batteries and also here using the regulator, filters, rectifier.
The software used in this project are KEIL IDE, embedded C Programming Language, the tag internally it has some memory where one identification is present then that information is sent to the owner by using GSM modem. This project mainly used when the owners having more vehicles so to access the data regarding vehicles which rout the vehicle is going and drivers information, and in this project we can use the accident switches in the front and back side. These switches are connected to the microcontroller. Whenever accident occurs the switches are pressed and the GSM modem send the information to the owner but this project not give the information regarding the vehicle position.
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Culture, history and friendship [October 14]
Last weekend i paid my second visit to the Islamic Museum in Thornbury. The first had been organised by my friend and fellow writer Fiona Scott-Norman. In a gesture of friendship she responded to a letter to a newspaper in which the museum's communication's director, Sherene Hassan, issued an open invitation to come and have a coffee at the museum. Via Facebook, Fiona gathered about sixty friends to join her for two separate visits – 'Coffee With Sherene' – and a lovely time was had by all.
We were given a tour of the museum by some of the volunteers and learnt a lot about the faith, history, culture and complexity of Islam. We shared stories and made new friends. I met a woman who has two aunts stuck in the Syrian town of Aleppo. Now every time i see a news story about the horror of war in that town i worry specifically about these two women i haven't met but feel distantly connected to.
I was so inspired by our first visit that i gathered a group of about 20 friends and family members and went back for another coffee and tour with the incredibly generous Sherene. I would encourage everyone to consider joining the Facebook groups Friends of Sherene and going down to Thornbury one day to see this architectural marvel and its fascinating exhibits – and say hello to Sherene. Small gestures of friendship and respect like this can make a dent in the wall of racism that is building in our country. I truly believe this.


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Seperating Business From Pleasure - Fleet World July 2006
Jaama's internet-based Key2 Vehicle Management system integrates with an organisation's own intranet to allow drivers to log-on and keep and day- by-day record of journeys, business mileage and fuel expenditure.
Jason Francis, managing director of Jaama, says: 'This method is changing attitudes and processes by getting the drivers to own the responsibility of capturing their mileage which brings a number of benefits. 'Jaama's Key2 Vehicle Management software enables companies to set their own business rules so that drivers, irrespective of whether they are at the wheel of a company-provided vehicle or use their own private car on business trips, can feed in data to meet individually set timetables.
'Key2 Vehicle Management has relegated the days of drivers filling in paper-based mileage logs and expense sheets on a monthly basis to the history books,' says Mr Francis. 'However fuel is paid for and whatever parameters are set by individual companies for capturing business mileage, the flexibility of Key2 Vehicle Management enables the accurate recording of information immediately a journey has been completed.
'Understandably, drivers who pay for all fuel and claim back business mileage feel the pain if they miss mileage return deadlines or provide insufficient information for their expenses to be calculated and paid on time. It is important therefore that the mileage capture process eliminates the possibility for drivers to make mistakes.
Not only is our system easy to use from a driver perspective, there are also built-in validation processes to safeguard businesses against fuel fraud by checking how much fuel has been used against miles driven and vehicle tank capacity. Not only does Jaama's system put the onus on drivers to be responsible for informing their employer of all mileage and fuel use data, but it overcomes the problem of an odometer reading being out of date as soon as it is taken.'


text: Take Part & Learn Please note this event has already taken place and you are viewing an archived page of the Lakeside website. For a list of current events, exhibitions and workshops, please click on 'What's On' in the menu above Art Investigator Max Creative Saturday afternoons at Djanogly Gallery. Whatever your age or ability come along to AIM as an Art Investigator to enjoy the exhibitions and take part in related arts and crafts activities led by University of Nottingham students. Suitable for all. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Sessions each Saturday except 6 & 27 October and 3 & 10 November.


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text: Kira Talent was co-founded in 2012 by Maxwell Brodie, Emilie Cushman, Konrad Listwan-Ciesielski and Edward Sun. Truly a disruptive technology focused on the HR Services market, Kira Talent infuses video into the recruitment process to allow organizations meet their candidates via video. Organizations can record video questions and send them to candidates who can then respond via video using their webcam. Afterwards, the selection committee can collaborate virtually to rank, share, and compare candidate responses. Kira Talent helps organizations find the hidden gems in their talent applicant pool in an easy-to-use, cloud-based platform. Kira Talent achieved a great deal of traction and venture success during the N36 program, and was recognized with the "Outstanding Venture" award on Venture Day in August 2012. Since graduating from The Next 36 program, the company has continued growing rapidly - expanding their team to 11 members, and adding several clients including Steam Whistle, Staples, Queen's School of Business and 1-800-GOT-JUNK? In December 2012, they raised seed funding from Relay Ventures, with participation from over 10 angel investors including Wind Mobile chairman Anthony Lacavera. Shortly after, Emilie Cushman was named one of the "Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada" with a Telus Future Leaders Award. Today Kira Talent is actively managed by Emilie and Konrad, and is based at Ryerson's Digital Media Zone (DMZ) Incubator in Toronto.


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I sincerely hope ACW 2 fixes the current crazy randomness of retreats. Just had this happen in a PBEM:
The Union has a small fleet standing off from a Union force which has landed to siege Fort Philips off the coast of Louisiana. A CSA ironclad and gunboat fleet comes out and, after a battle, manages to force the small Union fleet to retreat.
Where does the Union fleet go? Out to sea from whence it came and where safety lies?
The Union fleet retreats UP the Mississippi River, AWAY from safety, TOWARDS hostile enemy held New Orleans, and PAST the guns of two CSA held forts - which rake it and send the remnants to the bottom. Scratch the Union fleet.
Now I understand you can invent some sort of rationale for this, e.g. the CSA manages to get its river fleet to seawards and drove the Union like sheep up the river. But this is the equivalent of inventing a rationale as to why Napoleon's defeated army at Waterloo should retreat through Wellington's Army and towards Brussells.
I understand the retreat routines are this way to help the AI, Athena. Fair enough. But the AI routines should be tweaked for PBEM to be more logical. Everyone has enough stories of mindless retreats by now to indicate its a real problem if this persists in ACW2.


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Baby, it's cold outside. Well, at least it is here in the Northeast. I've been going to bed with socks on. Yeah, I know hubby doesn't think it's sexy either. So what can a woman do to crank up her libido during the cold winter months? If you're like me, first ditch those socks, then try some fun and flirty games to warm-up not only your toes but your sweetheart.
Naked Twister
Yep, pull out the kid's old twister game. Strip down naked and spin the wheel. Wherever you land, and whatever body parts get tangled, it's great fun.
Sexy Dice
You can buy specially marked dice for this game, or you can make up your own. Simply write a list numbered 2-12, then give each number an act, position, or even a location. Sitting down with your partner to make up this list can be great foreplay for the mind. Then roll the dice and enjoy.
Grab Jar
Take an empty glass jar and fill it with a bunch of new sex positions. Then each night when you're feeling adventurous and tired of the missionary position or whatever position you always fall back on, pick a slip of paper out of the jar. If you're more of a visual person, you can always print out some pictures from the web. *wink*
Strip Poker
One of my favorites. Why? Because I wear a lot more layers of clothing than my hubby. So, I love the odds. If you want to make it a bit sexier put on some lingerie—a G-string, a lacy bra, and a garter belt with sheer stockings, and surprise you partner with each layer you remove. You can play this one right in bed after you tuck the kiddies in. If you want to UP the ante, let the winner choose what they'd like to do after the cards are put away.
Location, Location, Location
Yep, we hear realtors natter on about this all the time. How important location is. Yet, most sex acts take place in the bedroom. So why not be adventurous and mix it up. The shower, the tub, under the dining room table, back seat of the car. Who gets to decide? Get the Monopoly Game out and make each set of properties a different location. The first set collected is your location.
Blind Man in the Buff
This is a twist on the old parlor game Blind Man's Bluff, except you don't play it with a room full of people. Well, you could if you are into that kind of thing. Get naked, blindfold your partner, then try to touch any part of his or her body with a feather. If you don't dash away quick enough and your partner catches you, he or she wins and you have to do the act of his or her choosing.
So, is it cold in your neck of the woods? Have these ideas sparked your libido to crank up the heat? I hope so. And if you have a game you want to add to the list, I'd love you to post it. Have fun and stay warm!


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Haisley hopes to promote healing through understanding and education. We want people to work through grief and readjust to life by mutual support and encouragement. We wish to create an atmosphere of understanding and friendship.
Life will never be the same, but grief can be survived and hope restored. There are not easy solutions, no easy answers, and there is no timetable for recovery. Grief is a long, hard process, but it is also a very human process. A sense of humor and a sense of hope are essential ingredients. The objectives of our After Care Program is to offer support and friendship to grieving people, to provide a warm atmosphere of caring acceptance and confidentiality, and to listen with understanding.
After Care meetings are held the first Monday evening of each month at the Haisley Reception Center from 6:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. The Reception Center is conveniently located next to the funeral home in the yellow building at 1614 South 31st Street, Ft. Pierce, Florida. Patti Williams is the After Care Coordinator for Haisley Funeral Home. She hold a Doctors degree in Ministry and Christian Counseling. She is a retired educator and author of three books dealing with relationships.
Pastor Ian Crawshaw is Chaplain for Haisley Funeral Home. He is an ordained minister with over 40 years of experience in various facets of ministry. Ian is originally from New Zealand and has ministered in over 40 countries, both as a minister and a gospel soloist.
This service is available at no cost to anyone in the community whether or not they or their families used Haisley Funeral Home.


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Creating and sharing real estate content that engages others on a regular basis can bring you plenty of exposure.
What if we told you that you can get that exposure from over 400,000 real estate professionals worldwide - and counting?
With RESAAS, you can count on having that kind of audience available right at your fingertips. All you have to do is post and share.
The RESAAS platform houses plenty of opportunities for REALTORS® to share content with other agents and expand your reach and network. Opening up your network can also open you up to a world of opportunities that you may not have had access to before.
Posting content to your network is quick and easy, and you can get started by logging into your RESAAS account. Here are five content ideas that you can post:
1. Listings
Are you selling an amazing house? Share it with your network! From your activity feed, click into 'Listings' and then '+Create a listing'.
When completing the listing form, be sure to complete it with as much detail as possible so that agents that are looking at it will know exactly what you are listing!
Be sure to also add photos to your listing to add a visual component to it! You can do so by expanding the 'Add photos' section at the bottom. If you want to up your visual game, consider adding a link to a video tour of your listing. You can do this by expanding the 'Add more property details' section, and then adding a link in the video URL field.
Once you add your listing, other REALTORS® will be able to see it and reach out to you. It will also be posted to your profile page as a 'reblast' (real estate broadcast, or a post).
Tip: You know this house better than anyone, so be sure to add a description of the house to highlight the major selling points and amenities. You can add this description in the 'Add more property details' section.
2. Buyer needs
Connections are a valuable part of a social platform, and RESAAS enables you to create new business connections to further expand your network. One way to do this is to post a buyer need.
If you have a client who is looking for a specific property type, you can share that buyer need with your network to find an agent who has a property that matches your buyer's need. From the main activity feed, click on 'Leads' and click '+Create a Lead'.
Click on the box that says "I'm looking for a Property for my client", and then fill out the form with as much information as possible.
Tip: You can further add property details to improve your chances of finding a property, as well as the commission details and terms that you will work out with the agent you decide to work with.
3. Referrals
Another excellent way to grow your network and help your client find their dream home is to find a referral partner using RESAAS.
Under 'Create a Lead', you can also create a referral by filling out the referral form. You can access the referral form by clicking on the box that says "I'm looking for an Agent to refer my client to". Fill out as much information as you can so as to give prospective agents enough information to work with.
Tip: You can also add client details to the referral, which will only be visible once you have awarded the referral to an agent.
4. Real estate blogs
If you've recently read great articles about real estate trends in your area or wrote a blog post about marketing tips for REALTORS®, the RESAAS platform is a great place to get exposure for it and share your knowledge!
Navigate back to the activity feed page so that you can share your article. In the text box, you can write a little description about what you're sharing and then add a link to the blog so that agents can read more. You can also add an image to accompany your post by clicking on the image icon at the bottom and uploading one.
Tip: Want more eyes on your post? Don't forget your hashtags! Hashtags allow you to jump into a larger conversation that exists about a topic. You can do this by adding a "#" sign in front of a phrase, just like this: #realestate.
5. Ask a question
RESAAS is a social platform, which means that we thrive when agents are connecting with other agents and asking questions about anything and everything having to do with real estate!
You can ask your question right from the feeds page. For example, let's say you just read a great article from the RESAAS Blog on video marketing, and you would love some referrals for professional videographers. You can create a post on your feed and add an image. You can also add hashtags so that you can get wider exposure.
Tip: If you want to make sure that a particular person sees this question, you can tag them in your question. By adding a '@' sign in front of their first/last name, that user will be notified and can respond back to you.
The RESAAS platform provides agents with plenty of opportunities to create new, original content, which can help to increase your exposure, share knowledge, and find new business contacts. You can post listings and leads, share useful blog articles or ask questions so that you can connect with other REALTORS® both in your area and around the world.
Ready to get noticed? Your network awaits! Login to post some eye-catching content on RESAAS now!
Rachel Wong is the Digital Content Co-op student at RESAAS. She loves coffee and beer, writing and talking, and has been the same height for pretty much ever. Check out her RESAAS profile ›


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Record Store Day Black Friday Exclusive! Glow in the dark 12" pressing of one of the greatest hip-hop tracks of all time. Only 1982 pressed up for RSD so act fast! Our vintage Lab review courtesy of DJ Ayres - "Planet Rock" is the best hip-hop song ever made. Even if it's become a cliche, it's more important than ever now that Williamsburg is threatening to ruin electro by making it a fashion statement. Roctakon likes to pretend that he likes it, but that wimpy Depeche Mode soundalike shit can't fuck the real deal: bulletproof Arthur Baker drum machines and Kraftwerk synths with that gangster bass line. Bambaataa freaks the vocoded robot voice on the intro, and MC G.L.O.B.E. and company kill the raps and chants. "Get on down, let your soul lead the way, shake it now, go ladies, it's a living dream, love like this!" Or flip it over and scratch to the instrumental if that's your thing - it's the sure shot. Recommended.
- glow in the dark vinyl pressing
- includes instrumental on the flip
- 1982 copies pressed worldwide
- music label: Tommy Boy 1982 / Get On Down 2014
reviewed by Von Bee 12/2014
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There's nothing more encouraging than seeing new life begin in an old and tired world. For Trinity Evangelical Free Church (EFC), this logo represents the beginning of a journey to regain the relevance it once had in the Bay Area.
The logo is reminiscent of recycling icons, with fluid movement and refreshing hues. My hope and prayer is that it refreshes the church with a new outlook to reach the community for Christ.
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An insightful and thought-provoking column regarding the "education gap" by Marty Solomon, former University of Kentucky professor, appeared in the Lexington Herald-Leader of 29 June. The thrust of his piece had to do with the irreversibleness of the gap in learning among public-school students that exists because of the financial factor, i.e., that students from poor backgrounds achieve at far lower levels than those from more affluent ones and will continue to do so.
Solomon mentions a number of reasons for this circumstance that accrue to the financial aspects affecting the family of the student and consequently the student himself, such as the need for poor parents to work at multiple jobs, thus depriving the child of their time for both encouraging him to study and helping him academically, although many such parents lack the background to be of much help academically. Solomon does not mention that the gap is probably most recognizable as obtaining between African-American students and those of other races, especially those of whites and Asians.
Solomon correctly points out the fact that taking teachers from the best schools in affluent areas and inserting them in the worst schools in the poor areas would not significantly address the problem. He essentially makes his entire case on the basis of rich vis-à-vis poor. There is significant validity to this claim, though it doesn't go far enough in explaining the problem. In Kentucky, the futility of this approach (placing the entire burden on the educator) was seen a few years ago in the legislature's law-rescinding deletion of the eight Regional Centers staffed by top educators designed and mandated as part of the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990 in an effort to provide top-quality help for poor schools throughout the state. Notwithstanding state financial constraints, the centers would have been continued if they had been successful.
Feeding into the rich/poor issue – and actually far more significant as a reason for the gap – is the sociological side of the problem. This actually translates into the diverse approaches to "family" within ethnic groups, the primary premise being that the nuclear family – father, mother, their biological children – is best suited as the vehicle guaranteeing success in education for the children. Seventy percent of births in the black community are illegitimate, i.e., with no documented father, the result being the "single-parent household" from the get-go. This household is most often poor, for obvious reasons, and reeks of the neglect inherent in particularly a father's abrogation of his natural responsibilities as provider, disciplinarian, encourager, etc. The mother is often promiscuous, bears other illegitimate children, and subsequently neglects her responsibilities, as well, even though she may work hard.
In 1960, the rate of illegitimacy among blacks was 23.6% of births, meaning that more than 75% of black families could be assumed to be headed by a man and wife. Now, that illegitimacy rate is 70%, probably much higher in places like New Orleans, the logical conclusion being that currently only 30% of black families or fewer are headed by both parents. Whites have also gotten into the act, with illegitimacy rates increasing from 3 percent in 1960 to 28.5% in 2002 and probably 30% by now, for a probable increase of 900%. Besides connoting a perverse lifestyle, these figures explain in large part why millions of youngsters are damned educationally and economically. They lack the most important kind of support – that of the family.
Solomon is right in asserting that educators shouldn't hammer themselves – at least unduly – over the fact that poor youngsters do poorly in school. They can't undo in six hours on 176 days a year the damage done by parents whose priorities 24/7 on 365 days a year are "self first," the devil take the hindmost.
A model for thought – Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Born into abject poverty and abandoned by his father at age one and abandoned by his mother at age 7, he was sent to live with his grandfather, who, unlike in most cases, instilled the learning/work ethic into the boy. The rest is history. The big difference in his life had little to do with education/pedagogy per se, but with his support system. Solomon should have at least mentioned the sociological aspect, especially since it contributes directly to financial matters, which he sees as defining.
And so it goes.
Jim Clark


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They say the best athlete is made in the off-season. As fair-weather cyclists hang up their bibs for the winter there are the few elite that layer up and take to the roads no matter what the conditions. We've put together a list of 7 winter riding essentials that will make the off-season's grueling temperatures comfortable and safe for every rider.
Using a windfront base layer will keep your temperature regulated and your ride more enjoyable. It acts as a shield for winter wind while also keeping you warm. Layering for long rides will ensure comfort throughout the entire day.
Nothing is more miserable than frozen fingers. Gloves should offer breathability and protection from the elements and depending on the conditions one of our go-to gloves are the Over/Under. It can be used as a lightweight glove on its own or can be paired under a heavy glove for freezing temperatures. We love the utility of this piece!
The Giordana gaiter is lightweight and an extremely versatile piece. Insulating the neck where a rider's major arteries and veins are, you can efficiently maintain core body temperature. It can easily be adjusted over the course of a long winter ride to cover you where you need it most.
A great multi-season warmer, especially for areas where the winters are more temperate. They have a very wide range of operating temperatures, don't bunch at joints, and are easily removed and stuffed into a jersey pocket.
A very high percentage of body heat is lost through the ears and head so having accessories that cover those areas are critical in keeping you warm throughout the winter. The Balaclava and Ear Covers are perfect to help you regulate your temperature and are easily stashed in pockets when not needed.
Rule number 1 of winter riding is covering your extremities. Covering up the ventilation holes in your shoes delays the point where your toes go numb, provides insulation and keeps your feet dry from any spray that may be flung up from riding through wet conditions (melted snow, rain, etc.). Even a simple pair of our Toesters does the basic job of covering any holes in your shoes and are simple to pop on and off.
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|Pair of Whimbrels seen at Carlos Pointe, Ft Myers Beach
This morning I headed to the south end of Ft Myers Beach to a location known as Carlos Pointe. The site is part of a protected stretch of beach reserved for breeding Least Terns, Wilson's Plovers, Snowy Plovers and Black Skimmers. Currently the skimmers are active nesting here with several young birds present. However I came here looking for Whimbrels or avocets. We don't see many of these birds here, but they have been reported recently. Luckily for me a trio of Whimbrels were present, keeping company with several Marbled Godwits.
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Design With Consideration: Jennifer Preston on Listening Fully and Finding Her Power
By Julia Gamolina
Jennifer Preston is Partner at SHELTER Stories, a sustainable architectural design practice. Her design process weaves building science, material craft and spatial beauty. Her work is driven by an open-minded rigor, and a respect for nature; the result is lasting sanctuary. In addition to SHELTER, she is a Design Architect for The Laurentia Project where she supports the collaboration of creatives through concept design, topic generation, menu development, equitable facilitation and post-event action.
Prior to founding SHELTER and Laurentia, Jennifer was Senior Associate and Sustainable Design Director at BKSK Architects in New York City. While there, she fostered multiple award-winning projects, twice garnering BKSK a coveted spot on the Architect 50 top sustainability firms in the country. In addition to her design work, Jennifer has recently joined The Equitable Housing and Livability Institute, a grant-funded research group focused on developing responsible housing in emerging cities. In her conversation with Julia Gamolina, Jennifer talks about designing with consideration and her visions for a sustainable practice, advising young architects to be open and to keep their eyes on the many inspiring practitioners on the rise.
JG: How did your interest in architecture develop?
JP: Growing up, my mother, sister, and I lived with my grandmother in a little town in Colorado called Golden. When you're a generation removed from the person you're living with, the space never feels of your time or of your body. I loved growing up in my grandmother's home, but there was a sense that it wasn't really ours – I remember always imagining what my own home would look like, and I started building and drawing little plans really early on.
I used to think I became an architect to make my own home, but realize looking back that I wanted to make homes for others – as my career progressed, I wanted to take care of people by making sanctuary spaces for them to inhabit. Also, I had an art professor in high school who had steered me towards architecture. He saw that I could draw and envision things, but that I was a little too obsessive and particular to be an artist [laughs].
How did you end up in New York?
I'm sure a lot of people say this, but there was just a pull. I first came to the edges of New York – I wasn't quite ready to dive into the biggest city in the country coming from Golden. I came to Connecticut first and worked for an architecture firm there. At a certain point, they were choosing someone to promote to a certain managerial position, and I was up against a colleague of mine, whom I was also dating at the time. Christopher had a five-year degree, and I only had a four-year, so because he was closer to licensure, they picked him, even though we had the same years of experience. It profoundly affected me! It made me realize that I needed to go back to school, and the graduate program at Columbia finally brought me to New York.
What did you first do after Columbia?
I was one of the lucky ladies and gentlemen who graduated at the cusp of the recession, right in 2008. Lehman Brothers crashed that September. During my job search, there was a company that came to Columbia, looking for someone to take over their "High-Performance Research" Department. I went to Boulder for undergrad, and that program ingrains you in sustainability, appreciation for the planet, and resource efficiency. In my early twenties, I rejected all of that, thinking I just wanted to make gorgeous unrestrained architecture, but I just couldn't wring the values of my undergraduate program out of my body [laughs].
At the end of Columbia, I looked at my portfolio and everything was steering me towards a care for the environments we were building and how we were impacting the future. This high-performance design company felt like it could be a good incubator for me.
When I met you, you were the Director of Sustainability at BKSK. How did this come about?
After about a year at this start-up, an opening at BKSK popped up on Archinect for a sustainable design coordinator. I knew I could do every little bit of it, so I interviewed, connected immediately with the people there, accepted the job and dove right in. Looking back on it now, eight years after that day, my time at BKSK was so fun, because I got to craft the way the firm was incorporating sustainable practices and build my role into something substantial. It's been a really really good chapter.
How did you grow at BKSK and what did you make the position in sustainability into?
When I first started, my role was about guiding how they were detailing high-performing walls across the firm's projects. That evolved into how they were calibrating their window specs, and then all other product specifications, which led to looking at their material library and reconfiguring it, which you were involved with! My colleague James Wilson and I did a whole research piece on toxic materials and established "Toxic Tuesdays" [laughs]. Not fair to Tuesday, but people in the office really looked forward to them, to hearing the story of a material, how it's made, how it impacts the planet, how it impacts the human body, all information that people weren't really getting back then. We ultimately established a red list in the office which identifies all the toxic materials architects shouldn't be using.
They promoted me to Associate, and eventually to Senior Associate, and then we really started to dig in. We established what we called an "Early Analysis Protocol" which tackled the very early stages of design, looking at things like daylight autonomy and energy use intensity. The most recent project I did at BKSK was to look at the Integrated Design Process, which is a game-changing AIA contract and ANSI standard that reconfigured the way we assume risk and reward on a project, fundamentally shifting the relationship between owner, architect, and builder. We dug into the integrative design process from our own perspective as a firm and started to shift our approach.
What have you learned during your tenure with BKSK?
I learned that relationships matter more than anything and that listening is a skill that is very difficult and requires practice. I learned this lesson in Lambaye, Senegal, working on a pro-bono project there – a site planning and programming charrette for the village. It's my heart project for sure and those two days with that community transformed me. There were women and men from the village representing the community, young and old – a very diverse, very equitable group. We had a five-hour meeting – that would never happen in the United States. We do one-hour meetings, sometimes two-hour, but our attention span is not programmed for this kind of generous presence.
One by one, each person spoke, and each person was listened to fully. There were no phones out, no note-taking – just nodding and sometimes audible responses of agreement or disagreement. It took forever, but to the benefit of the project. Everybody spoke and everybody was heard – ideas came and consensus happened. Their only goal was to end up with a building that served the community over a long period of time. That's something else I don't really hear much on the projects in the States – there's not a timeline for a building after it's built. We don't yet ask what buildings will do in 100 years, or even ten years. I learned the importance of listening to each other, listening to your community, and also looking at how long a building should serve a place.
Why did you decide to leave BKSK and what are you doing now?
I needed to get my hands on drawings and on my pencils again. Maybe there's a thing that happens to us at 40, perhaps a turning point in our careers – all I know is that my body was telling me to work on projects at this moment. I've done a lot with BKSK and with sustainability, and there's still a lot more work to do. I'm not turning away from sustainable design at all – in fact I really want to deepen my practice in terms of sustainability.
I'm currently doing things that are exciting to do, which feels like such a privilege and a little bit indulgent. To make that possible, I've escaped Brooklyn and relocated myself to the Northern Berkshires, in a town called North Adams. The rent, the access to daylight and sunsets and sunrises, and the pace of this place are all really so good. I am convinced that everybody should take time to sabbat. It's given me literal space, emotional space, and headspace – god, headspace! What an amazing gift, headspace is.
What are the things you are doing that are exciting to do?
With SHELTER and my partner Pedro Marmolejos, I'm working on a passive house on a lake in New Hampshire, some really fun interventions in SoHo, and a larger project focused on local food and community space. Another piece is a start-up I founded with my colleagues Tristan Roberts, Erin Carraher and James Wilson, called The Laurentia Project. We started it because we were speaking at various "think tank" conferences full of brilliant people trying to solve very complex problems, but the conferences were taking place in spaces that are completely unlike where we are right now, in the Wing. The Wing is just so well thought out – the lighting, the space, the smell even – every piece of atmosphere has been considered here. We weren't meeting in good space like this – we were meeting in windowless hotel conference rooms, with terrible carpets and really terrible ceilings. Also, I heard people repeating the same issues year after year and felt that nothing was coalescing, nothing was catalyzing, and it was all deeply frustrating.
We've decided to rethink conferences and get people to spaces that are gorgeous and thoughtful – not overdone, just considered – to have discussions around food, with just a little bit of facilitation. In order to energize people, you need a more intimate experience, with human exchange, eye contact, and great atmosphere. The Laurentia Project puts on a collection of events – last year we asked attendees to see the poetry in climate change and to celebrate, not fear, the Anthropocene. The dinner was in a gallery in Chelsea surrounded by the work Bryce Guariglia, who makes glorious relief sculptures of glaciers, the exhibit was called "After Nature." Its also a response to where we are politically right now, and how divided we are on climate change and how politicized the term has become. We're seeking new ways to develop a shared language in catalytic settings and have already seen the dinners move people into a better headspace.
What has been your general approach to your career?
When I went to grad school, my approach was that I was a sponge. I absorbed everything in. I think that's what grad school is for, that discovery and absorption and wandering – losing yourself and then putting yourself back together again.
After grad school, the approach was to survive the recession. Just survive, survive, survive. It was hard to watch really smart and talented colleagues struggle to find work, so in surviving, the approach was to say yes to everything. This required a rejection of the architect ego, the "No, I don't need to go to conferences, and no I don't need to participate." Getting involved and being enthusiastic enabled me to take on a really particular piece of work, and I gained in-depth knowledge about how to design with consideration of my impact.
What are the biggest lessons you've learned?
Learning to say no, which is very hard. In the early part of my career, I said yes to everything – yes, I will be there for that group, yes, I will make that Excel spreadsheet for you, yes, I will create those graphics for free. Granted saying yes led to relationships that I still hold dear, so I think it was the right thing to do in the early parts of my career. As I'm shifting over to managing my own design and consulting practice, I'm finding that it's more important to say no, unless the opportunity makes you want to say, "Hell yes!" Learning to listen to your personal capacity is really important.
What have been some highlights?
A great gift of my career so far has been finding a community of sustainable design leaders, a nationwide group of folks that have my role in firms across the country. We convene at a retreat every year where we think hard and laugh hard in the absence of ego – the absence of competitive attitudes about, "You can't have this wisdom because it's owned by me only." It's a real flow of ideas, friendship, and support, and in the rest of the architecture profession, something like this doesn't really exist. I feel incredibly lucky that I picked this particular segment of the profession and found this particular group of people. They've taught me a great deal, and will continue to be a part of my professional life. All architects deserve this kind of community, and women in particular!
I'm also noticing a lot of women this past year are leaving large firms and starting their own practices. I think the election has affected us all, and women are responding by standing up and saying, "I can do this on my own!" The November loss and what happened in the campaign, whether you liked Hillary or not, was intimately brutal. The language directed at her as a female candidate, the disparity between her qualifications compared to his, and then the blame of her loss on her gender…I think 2016 presented the world as it was, and made it very clear to many of us that something needed to change. It's a wonderful thing to witness how women have responded. It is meaningful, empowering and compelling that the response has been individuals standing up, putting their shoulders back, and getting to work.
What are the biggest challenges that you've faced?
As a woman in this industry, I worry that we're a little big gun-shy about admitting challenges related to gender. It's a very real thing though, this notion that women have to work twice as hard for less. My challenge has been finding the voice inside me that is a female voice, and finding that there is power and not weakness there. Becoming OK with the things that make me a woman, and seeing them as powerful, has been a good – and long – lesson.
Where do you see yourself in five, ten, twenty years?
I would ask that question at a lot of different junctures, and I've finally stopped asking it. It's best to be open. I know I will be practicing architecture and I will be trying my damnedest to create something for the world that's good, but I have also learned that sometimes, life just happens. Except in drawings, lines are never straight [laughs]. Nothing is linear – just be open.
For those interested in learning more and getting involved with Students for Senegal who are building community centers, visit https://www.studentsforsenegal.org. The Phase 2 build out of the community that Jennifer worked on is just getting started!
*originally published on ArchiteXX.org on April 12, 2018.


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Las Culpass is a feminist brand concept that is taking the Spanish world by storm. When friends Alexandra Cánovas del Rey and Martaé Martínez Martínez joined together with a mission not just to redefine how we think of fashion and the stereotypes that come with it but to do it in a way that exudes empowerment and authenticity; they had no idea their name would be spread all across the world. Through their innovative and provocative creations, Las Culpass breaks boundaries and asks for no apologies along the way.
Fall is on it's way which means it's time to do a little shopping and I'll be one of the first to say that the edgy style of Las Culpass is definitely on my list. Check out some of photos from one our favorite shoots with them and see their newest lines here. If you're in the Murcia region, you can see their newest lines en el Centro Párraga for their upcoming show (Friday, Sept. 25) with mens designer Pedro Lobo. Check out more information here.
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Ariclix, the Inner Animal
Name: Ariclax
Age: 16
Origin/Home: Guro's Tropics
Gender: Female
Deity: Terra
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Race: Human
Background/History: Ariclax's mother died while giving birth to her, which left her exposed to the wild of the tropics. She only stayed alive by drinking her dead mothers milk for a few hours. after that, she was left to die on the forest floor. But, where she would've died, she didn't. Instead, she was bitten in the ankle by a leopard and dragged to it's den. It was strange, instead of eating her, they took her in as a cub. She drank her milk, play-fought with them, and, overall, got along very well. Eventually, at the age of 3, she had begun a transformation, a magical one. She was becoming more animal than human, and the magic that was coming to effect was bodily-transformation magic. It started with her growing leopard fur along her back. Then, months later, her back legs developed into paws. And, gradually over that year, she became a leopard, but, that was when disaster struck. A number of extremely venemous snakes had come during the night and poisoned and killed almost all of the leopards, except for Ariclax. The snakes let her live, see, snakes were very itelligent and magical creatures, and they could sense the pure magic running through Ariclax's veins. They took Ariaclax in hoping to make her one their own, because, a leopard cub could definitely get them some proper food. For the next year, Ariclax was raised by the snakes, and, eventually, she started to become a snake. She hunted various rats and other vermin. Until, when she was hunting, she had seen a bear. She followed it, without it's knowledge for months, until it finally realised she was there. After that, it tried to attack her, resulting in Ariclax having to kill the bear. After she killed it, a glow smothered his vision, and drew her into the bears body, making her black out when she touched it. When she woke up, she was the bear. It was then, that she realised her true power. She could turn into an animal by bring near it for extended periods, or by killing it. She could change into any animal at will, and could revert to human form. After finding out this, she sought to strenghten her power, not only did she take the animals form, but could mix them! As in, having the strenght of a bear, the claws of a leopard, the eyes of a snake, etc. Not to mention she could speak to them instead. After many years, Ariclax had learned to master her power. Until, one day, she heard of a species she had not yet understood, the most dangerous of all. A DRAGON! After her encounter with the dragon, she sought weapons, swords, axes, pickaxes, anything he could find. After this, it was the hardest of all, Races, Angel, Orc, Vulcum, Faerie, Deamon, Mermaid, Terrali and most improtantly... Human. She began her journey to Kiru City, to try and find out as much as possible about this most inquititive species.
Personality: Ariclax is an inhumane person, she acts odd due to growing up in so many different ways, sometimes not knowing what to do, she doesn't know a lot of english, but she really tries. She can be easily described as animalistic.
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I will move through air / A Woman Who Taught Me How to Write in Her Dreams / Is the Reader Outer Space?
"If the Earth is a curator, what does an exhibition look like? The premises are to think about the Earth as a living organism, and to grasp the earth's perspective to look at the world. It broadens the subject of art more worldly, including the world of non-human beings." (Jaewook Lee, 2014)
Jaewook Lee, an artist selected for the SINAP 2014, attempts to combine science with the humanities in our industrialized society where knowledge has become little more than a tool for most people. Lee regards physical phenomena as something unstable that continues to change through human intervention, rather than something fixed and universal, and pays attention to the way physical phenomena are recognized subjectively by individuals.
At this exhibition, dancers wander through structures containing phrases written by Raimundas Malašauskas, objects resembling ores, and paintings symbolizing zero gravity or nothingness. Through these elements, the artist seeks to induce visitors to ask a basic question about themselves from the perspective of the universe rather than from a human perspective.
Artist Jaewook Lee has been selected as the finalist for the 2014 Sindoh Artist Support Program (SINAP). Sindoh Artist Support Program (SINAP) was created in 2011, following the efforts and passion of Gaheon Sindoh Foundation, and led to promotion for highly innovative and critical artistic projects by contemporary Korean artists. The year of 2014 marks SINAP's fourth anniversary, continuing its efforts provide young and contemporary artists in South Korea with fertile grounds to extend their artistic experimentations on a global scale. Every year, the panel of an international judge and a Korean judge researches and reviews South Korean artists whose projects have great potentials in international art world. The jury then selects three finalists based on their presentations and interviews. Dongyeon Koh (art critic) served as the SINAP jury in Korea from 2011 to 2014. Hans Ulrich Obrist, who is an International Director of Serpentine Gallery, and Beatrix Ruf, the Director of Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum (previously the Director of Kunsthall at Zurich), have served as the international jury from 2011 to 2012 and 2013 to 2014, respectively.
* The title is the excerpts from Paper Exhibiton, Selected Writings by Raimundas Malašauskas.


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Its not goodbye, simply see you soonly.
A couple of my moms got together and planned a going away party for me. It was the sweetest thing ever. They invited all the little ones I've had a school since I started. It was at a local park I ran by daily when training for my marathon. Some great memories were shared at that park, so it was a wonderful way to say my "see you soon's" to them. There were cookies and juice for everyone to enjoy, even some speciality monogrammed ones made just for me. I had this pit in my stomach all day because I knew this would be the last time we would all be together for a while. I breaks my heart having to leave them all. Many of their parents say they've grown and learn so much because if me and I feel as if I've grown and learn because of them. They put a smile on my face and make the worst days seen so much better. I can't even begin to thank everyone at EDS for an amazing 3 years. You can call it luck, maybe fate that brought me here but what ever it is I'm so blessed and thankful for the opportunity given to me.
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BAGHDAD — The main rival of Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki urged the Iraqi leader on Sunday to keep his promise to fairly distribute power in the new government about to be formed.
Ayad Allawi, leader of the Sunni-backed alliance that won the most seats in March parliamentary elections, grudgingly agreed to be part of the government after holding out for nine months. But he warned he could pull his support if al-Maliki violates their agreement aimed at assuring Sunnis they will not be sidelined in the new Shiite-dominated government.
"If the other party starts derailing and deviating from the drawn-up line that was agreed upon, then all stands will be reconsidered," Allawi told reporters in Baghdad.
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Sectarian strains between Iraq's Sunni and Shiite Muslim groups have been at the heart of much of the violence in the country in recent years. The minority Sunnis dominated under Saddam Hussein. But since he was ousted in the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Shiites have been in charge.
Allawi agreed to go into the government as head of a newly created council that his allies say will give him veto power over al-Maliki's security and foreign policies. But he said Iraqiya would abandon the job if it does not come with executive power.
"We will accept the leadership of the council based on the (power sharing) agreement that has been signed," Allawi said. "If there is any change to the agreement on powers, then there will be a different story altogether."
Iraqiya is also supposed to get several key ministries in the new government.
Allawi — a Shiite and former prime minister — said he has not given al-Maliki his party's nominations for Cabinet posts, casting doubt on the prime minister's hopes of announcing a new government on Monday. Under a deadline set by the constitution, al-Maliki has until Saturday to present the new government for parliament's approval.
The political morass has stalled the formation of a new government since the March vote when Iraqiya edged out al-Maliki's political coalition by two seats in the 325-member parliament. The mixed results meant no alliance won a clear majority, forcing the parties into nine months of backroom negotiations to build enough allies for a ruling coalition.
Al-Maliki ultimately held onto his job by cobbling post-vote support from Kurds and religious Shiite hard-liners. Iraqiya cried foul, saying it had the right to form the government because it won the most seats in the election.
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Parliament postponed debate on Saturday over how much power the new council that Allawi is to head will have.
After al-Maliki announces his Cabinet, parliament must approve the candidates for 37 ministries, three deputy prime ministers and at least two vice presidents before the government can get to work.
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On July 1, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada launched an aerial search for a severely injured North Atlantic right whale, believed to be in Canadian waters. The whale, spotted on June 29 by NOAA Fisheries Northeast Fisheries Science Center aerial survey team, appeared to be entangled in multiple lines and in poor overall condition. It was among a group of about two dozen right whales, approximately 180 nautical miles east of Provincetown, Mass., too far for a U.S. ship-based disentanglement team to respond.
North Atlantic right whales are among the rarest and most endangered large whales in U.S. waters. NOAA Fisheries is working to reduce risks to these animals and other large whales (humpback, sei, fin and smaller whales like minke whales) posed by trap/pot fishing operations. A range of measures are in place to reduce these risks, and revisions to these measures were announced just last week.
The revisions further reduce the amount of vertical line in the water, better tailor closure areas, and improve gear-marking requirements useful in determining where and in what fishery an entanglement occurred.
"We realize that complying with the requirements also costs the fishing industry time, money, and sometimes efficiency. Where we could, we tried to adjust new measures to mitigate costs while still providing needed protections to whales," said David Gouveia, acting assistant regional administrator, Protected Resources, Greater Atlantic Region, NOAA Fisheries. "However, this incident is a grim reminder why these management measures are needed and the cost to an endangered species if we fail."
While it may not be possible to relocate and save this particular right whale, collaborative efforts can save entangled whales. In early June, a Bar Harbor whale watch vessel was able to assist a rescue team in the successful disentanglement of a humpback whale. The whale watch vessel provided important location information that enabled a rescue team to easily find and help the animal.
"Further, the new management measures, developed with the help of fishermen, state fishery managers and others, should reduce the risk of future entanglements," added Gouveia. "If we continue to work together, I believe there will be fewer and fewer reports of entangled whales with serious injuries along our coasts."
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Bob Mueller has some questions for comedian Randy Credico, according to the comedian himself. Credico told radio host Jimmy Dore on Sunday evening that the special counsel has reached out to him for a voluntary interview.
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Imagine having any idea what the hell just happened in the Westworld finale.
President Trump's schmoozy summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un was less than two weeks ago. That's how interminably long the last week has been.
In the most vibrant, blissfully chaotic scene on TV, it's Billy Porter you notice.
One might have thought that as king-in-waiting and president of the Football Association, Prince William would be able to structure his day in such a way as to allow him to watch England's matches in the ongoing World Cup without interruption.
It's been a rough month for ABC.
We haven't heard the last from survivors of the deadly February school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Dozens of the high school students who were thrust into a mortality crisis before they could order a beer at a bar have graduated from teenage angst to social justice, and they're continuing to sing truth to power while pulling together to help one another to heal.
I wonder what our president would think of a man who immigrated to the United States at a young age not because he yearned to breathe the air of freedom or hungered to make America great again, but because he was ducking compulsory military service in the home country.
A few months before the 2016 election, an undercover operative working for conservative sting-meister James O'Keefe posed as an intern to infiltrate Democracy Partners, a Democratic consulting group.


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With her uniquely warm, husky, and sometimes mournful voice, Grace Woodroofe is about to make a special mark on the music scene.
At just twenty years of age, Perth-born Grace possesses wisdom and artistry well beyond her years. Forming a bond with music as a teenager, Grace taught herself to play guitar and sing.
"I was greatly inspired by blues singers, and developed my own blues indie sound," she says. At the age of sixteen, Grace's demo was placed in the capable hands of Ben Harper by none other than the late Heath Ledger.
"I got an email from Heath saying 'I think you make really honest, pure music, and I want to help you get it out there'. Heath flew me out to LA, and he organised for me to do some recordings with several producers that he thought could help me. That's when I first met Ben."
Ben led her into the studio, and together they began creating her debut self-titled album. "It started when I was 16, and I'm 20 now, and it's taken a lot of work. This wouldn't have happened if I didn't have my heart and soul into it, and it wasn't meant to happen. It happened because it needed to."
Both determined and introspective, Grace explains, "Most of the songs on the album were written in my bedroom in the dark in the early morning. I put my guitar in my lap, closed my eyes and the songs just released themselves."
With a deep, honeyed huskiness, Grace creates incredible observations of life, youth, love and death. "It's definitely a dark album," she reveals. "The songwriting is very honest on my behalf, and it's very much written from a personal perspective. I wouldn't know what else to write about and I do feel like I'm exposing myself. Especially when I play a live show, I feel so emotionally exhausted because I've just given so much of myself."
Grace has been developing her stunning live show for the last two years, with the encouragement of Ben. "When I was living in LA, I was playing in some small clubs and I opened for Ben on his Californian tour. I learnt a lot and matured a lot there. I was away by myself there for eight months, and I pushed myself out of my comfort zone, and I was inspired so much."
Grace's time away from home was rewarded with a glowing review from LA Weekly who announced her show was 'powerful, dynamic and striking'. She has since performed several shows, at Byron Bay's own East Coast Blues and Roots Festival and Perth's Ellington Jazz Festival. In August 2010, Grace joined Ben Harper and his full orchestra on stage at Splendour In The Grass to play a mesmerizing rendition of one of her original songs, 'I've Handled Myself Wrong' in front of the 30,000 strong crowd.
In the words of Mr. Ben Harper himself, 'You are not going to believe this girl'.
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[Paste Magazine] by Ilana Kaplan Grace Woodroofe's voice calls to mind Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone and Etta Jamesmaybe even the weighty, raspiness of Tom Waits. Certainly not a 22-year-old singer/songwriter from Perth, Australia. And if she sounds like someone who's lived through decades of crucial life experiences, it's no accident. Woodroofe has already toured with […]
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[NY Times] by JON PARELES "Always Want" (Modular) Grace Woodroofe has a voice made for melancholy and danger: a husky, bluesy alto that lingers over each aching phrase of a ballad or steels itself to warn, in a song called "Bear," that, "I'm gonna have to hunt and kill you." She's 20, and her debut […]
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[Consequence of Sound] By Lauren Rearick Grace Woodroofes rise to stardom has not been short in big name assistance. Demos discovered by the late Heath Ledger gained the actor's eager support and the eventual production and creative help of Ben Harper. Over a four year period she recorded Always Want, a debut exuding a surprising […]


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