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Giada de Laurentiis' December 2008 SELF Cover Shoot
Giada De Laurentiis is SELF's December 2008 cover star. Go behind the scenes at the chef's cover shoot!
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Giada De Laurentiis is just the perfect
December cover for Self magazine.
She has just a glow about her.
During the holiday season,
through Thanksgiving and Christmas, it's the best ever.
We all go to my grandfathers house,
there's about 45 of us, so it's mayhem.
Lots of food, lots of laughs, and we're all very loud.
It's my first Christmas with Jade
and I'm so excited
and so excited to see how excited she will be.
All the food, and all the people,
and everybody touching her and everybody playing with her.
And, I don't know, I think it's hopefully
a memory that she will take on herself
and a tradition that she will keep doing
long after I'm gone.
I love gifts.
I love giving gifts.
I love receiving gifts.
I've given the Sage Wine, many, many times.
I think that it's a beautiful gift
to bring to somebody's house.
You made it.
It doesn't take very long to make
but it looks very elegant
and you put a little cellophane and a bow on it
and all of a sudden, it makes it special.
And when people think that you have spent the time
making them something personal,
it makes them smile,
it makes them feel really good.
That's what the holidays are about
It's all about that color,
the beautiful champagne flute,
a couple different juices, a little champagne.
All three of those combinations together
create a beautiful, elegant drink.
I think everybody needs a little alone time.
I think you can't be around people 24/7.
I love sitting back and watching TV and relaxing.
Some reality TV at the end of the day,
that's what I watch.
You can just sort of veg in front of the TV.
There's nothing better.
I think it's sometimes hard
because I work all day, and all of us do,
and then we come home and we might have children
and a husband and I think it's nice to take
a little bit of time out for yourself
and just calm down the mind.
Some kind of workout everyday is the best thing for me.
Whether it's paddle surfing, doing a little yoga,
or just going for a walk.
I think just getting up and moving,
it just kind of gets your blood going
and it gives me energy for the rest of the day.
You can get out early in the morning before work.
Getting in the water and seeing the dolphins
and all of that beautiful life, it's rejuvenating.
And it makes you want to get up every day.
Starring: Giada De Laurentiis
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Engineering Round Robin at University of Illinois hosted by the Society of Women Engineers.
The event is called Engineering Round Robin, and it is a day-long event for middle and high school girls to get to participate in fun engineering activities, interact with other girls who share their interests, and ask questions to current college students who are women studying engineering! Check out the flyer below.


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Steam unveiled a multi-tiered Distribution Agreement that provides publishers a bigger share of revenue at $10m and $50m in sales, drawing ire from the indie game dev community.
On Friday, Steam announced changes to its long-standing Distribution Agreement. For years, the service has collected an industry-standard 30 percent of revenue from publishers who sell games on its marketplace. The new agreement introduces a tiered revenue model in which publishers have the potential to take a greater share of revenue: 75 percent at $10 million in sales, and 80 percent at $50 million.
"Our hope is this change will reward the positive network effects generated by developers of big games, further aligning their interests with Steam and the community," the distributor stated in a blog post. This move will likely reward bigger publishers, and it's clear that Steam wants to keep them from moving to another service or a self-distribution model.
In its original blog post, Steam stated, "The value of a large network like Steam has many benefits that are contributed to and shared by all the participants. Finding the right balance to reflect those contributions is a tricky but important factor in a well-functioning network." The agreement won't negatively affect publishers whose games fall short of the $10 or $50 million mark -- the original 70 percent/30 percent agreement still stands. But as Freya Holmér of Neat Corporation put it in a series of tweets, "Some, including me to some extent, consider this to be a blatant middle finger to smaller developers," explaining that as a result, "the rich get even richer" and the move wouldn't bring more people to Steam, making it a less viable platform for indies.
Steam's had a lot more competition in the digital distribution space in the last few years, thanks to services like itch.io and even Discord offering favorable alternatives that benefit smaller developers. The standard 30% revenue share has also been challenged recently, with Fortnite creators Epic Games instituting an 88/12 split and even doling out retroactive pay earlier this year.
Steam recently passed the 15-year mar and remains the largest digital distributor of PC games, generating around $4.3 billion in 2017. It will be interesting to see if the updated distribution agreement causes an unexpected backlash in the gaming community; while there probably won't be a mass exodus in the immediate future, indies are getting the message that Valve is more concerned with keeping large, established companies than promoting and rewarding off-the-beaten-path games.


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I loved your take on this and the reminder so thank you. For a long time I would refuse to give money but offer to buy something like food but haven't done it for awhile. Yep, I am guilty of just walking past…ignoring Lazarus. Gulp.
Peace to you too my brother! BE BLESSTIFIED!


San Luis Obispo is a city in California, located midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco on the Central Coast. It was founded in 1772 by Fr. Junipero Serra, a Spanish San Luis Obispo, one of California's oldest communities. Locally, the city is referred to as San Luis or SLO, is the county seat of San Luis Obispo County. It is surrounded by green, pristine mountain ranges and is inhabited by a mix of college kids attending California Polytechnic University, big-city transplants, and agricultural folk. The City of San Luis Obispo serves as the commercial, governmental and cultural hub of California's Central Coast.
Earliest human inhabitants of this city are the Chumash.
In 1769, the city was rechristened as llano DE los Osos by expedition's diarist, Padre Juan Crespí, when the Gaspar de Portola traveled through this area on his way to rediscover the Monterrey Bay.
One of California's oldest communities, it began with the founding of Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa in 1772 by Father Junípero Serra as the fifth mission in the California chain of 21 missions. The mission was named after Saint Louis, a 13th Century Bishop of Toulouse, France. (San Luis Obispo is Spanish for "St. Louis, the Bishop".) It was first incorporated in 1856 as a General Law City, and became a Charter City in 1876.
Some popular neighborhoods near San Luis Obispo city include Adelaide, Arroyo Trailer Park, Asuncion, Avila Beach, Bay wood Park, Bee Rock, California Valley, East Village, Gold tree, Happy Hill, Hathaway Place, Leimert, Linne, Lodge Hill, Marine Terrace, San Lawrence Terrace, Serrano, Todd Place, Wilson Corner.
According to the 2010 United States Census, San Luis Obispo had a population of 45,119.
About 84.5% of the population is White people, 1.2% are African American people, 0.6% are Native Americans, 5.2% are Asian, 0.1% are Pacific Islander, 4.4% are from other races, and 4.0% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 14.7%.
San Luis Obispo County's is based on post-industrial economy (service economy) that accrues services including government, finance, insurance, and real estate sectors, and shopping centers.
San Luis Obispo lies on the West Coast of the United States and in the Central Coast of California. The Pacific Ocean is only about 11 miles (18 km) west of San Luis Obispo. The Santa Lucia Mountains lie just east of San Luis Obispo.
San Luis Obispo city experiences a cool Mediterranean climate. On average it has 50 days with measurable rain per year – mostly during winter months.
Temperatures vary widely at any time of the year, with 80 °F (27°C) readings in January and February being not uncommon.
You can spend your day in this city by exploring miles of white, sandy beaches, browsing through unique stores and museums, wine tasting or hiking or bicycling in and around the rolling hills – the choices are endless.
Discount Travel Club, Conservation Corps State Museum, museum for children, Avila Valley Inn Bed & Breakfast, Johnson Park, San Luis Obispo Baseball Stadium, Santa Rosa Park, shopping centers are some of the popular centers of tourist attractions.


The West Law Firm P C was incorporated in year 2005 and issued company Id 32016566955. The West Law Firm P C has been on the market for 14 years, according to register it is now Franchise Tax Involuntarily Ended. Main business is located in New Braunfels. This company was first added to Texas company register on 14th January 2005.
The West Law Firm P C is registered at address 3815 Cherokee Blvd New Braunfels, Tx 78132-5089. This company agent is Jason L. West. There are 1 officer in this company: Jason L. West.


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Public universities, for-profit colleges seek higher stake in student loans
by Alexander Furnas and Lee Drutman
Younger voters are notoriously disinterested in the political process. But an analysis of student loan lobbying suggests that major players in the political process are interested in them.
Registered lobbyists are mostly compliant – but what about the unregistered ones?
by Ryan Sibley
A new report has been released reviewing how well lobbyists follow disclosure rules. According to the report, registered lobbyists aren't that bad. What it misses completely, of course, is all of the non-lobbyist lobbyists out there.
Mel Watt's ties to the banking industry
by Keenan Steiner
May 2, 2013 11:25 am
(CORRECTION: This post has been updated to eliminate the name of the American Bankers' Association's Michael Hunter, incorrectly identified in earlier versions as an alumnus of Watt's office. Hunter worked for former Rep. J.C. Watts, R-Okla.)
Rep. Mel Watt, President Barack Obama's pick to lead the agency that regulates Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, insurers of most of the country's mortgages, is getting strong support from his party's liberal wing despite close ties to an industry with a big stake in how -- or if -- the controversial quasi-government entities are wound down.
The North Carolina ...
Bernanke is positive about economy, despite poor markets
Mar 1, 2011 6:17 pm
The Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, said he believes the economy will continue to grow this year despite high unemployment rates, weak job growth and an "exceptionally weak housing sector".
In the Fed's Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to Congress, Bernanke highlighted the positive direction the economy has taken citing as evidence the real GDP's return to where it was before the financial crisis occurred.
In today's hearing conducted by the Senate Banking Committee, the focus seemed to be on the Fed's decision to buy securities issued by the Department of Treasury and the effectiveness of that ...
Proposed Policies To End Fannie, Freddie Stem From Lobbying Prohibition
by Paul Blumenthal Feb 11, 2011 2:25 pm
This week the Obama administration released three different plans to end or vastly shrink the role of the government in... View Article
Following Dirty Money
by Bill Allison
I like the concept behind what appears to be a new Washington Examiner feature called "Dirty Money" (you can see the latest installment here; I can't seem to find a page where previous installments are archived). I'm not a hundred percent certain though of their methodology of determining why certain contributions are dirty--if it's merely a company or organization that had employees or members who've committed crimes (embezzlement is one listed), that doesn't necessarily seem to taint the organization's donations. I think a little more context is needed to determine whether the employees were ...
Feds: Freddie Mac should hide info from SEC
Yesterday, we learned from the Chicago Tribune that Freddie Mac documents are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act because they contain or might compromise commercial information--that is, the proprietary insider information of a private company. Today, in the Washington Post, we learn that that private company was pressured to withhold negative information it was obligated to disclose under SEC rules. It seems that following government policy will adversely affect its bottom line, and the firm wanted to tell its remaining shareholders that.
Federal officials who took over Freddie Mac stopped short of nationalizing the company, leaving it partly ...
Freddie Mac records exempt from FOIA
Bob Secter and Andrew Zajac of the Chicago Tribune report that, while researching what went at Freddie Mac during the period White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel served on the board of directors of Freddie Mac, they were unable to get minutes of board meetings and other information:
The Obama administration rejected a Tribune request under the Freedom of Information Act to review Freddie Mac board minutes and correspondence during Emanuel's time as a director. The documents, obtained by Falcon for his investigation, were "commercial information" exempt from disclosure, according to a lawyer for the Federal Housing Finance ...
Daily Outrage: How Fannie and Freddie Bought Congress
by Paul Blumenthal Dec 8, 2008 7:12 pm
If you want your daily rage inducing news piece, this Associated Press investigation into Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae should... View Article
In Broad Daylight: Freddie's Lobbying
by Paul Blumenthal Oct 20, 2008 1:34 pm
Just like on Elm Street, Freddie killed bills in Congress. The Ted Stevens trial is set to wrap up today... View Article


Thank the old gods that Jon Snow came out victorious in the Bastardbowl! The DBs really had us stressing there, especially when Jon Snow almost suffocated to death in the Medieval Mosh Pit. Since we almost lost him (for the SECOND time), we decided it was time to show Kit Harington some love and appreciation.
3. Sometimes, he even punches them "by accident"


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Keeping an art journal has many advantages. It's a great way to express your thoughts and feelings using words and images, and also a great way to practice new art and mixed media techniques. Because the pages are small, you can often make a page in only a short amount of time.
I find making art journals a meditative process, and particularly enjoy creating PhotoArt images to use on my pages. This is a page from my Art Journal using a PhotoArt image printed onto fabric. I like the fact that you can combine fabric and paper, stitch and embellishments, to create a small but complete piece of art that is thoughtful and personal.
Nature inspires me in all possible ways.
When I feel uninspired or creatively drained, all I need to do is look out the window into the garden. Or take a walk around the neighborhood.
The colors, the textures, the shapes – and even the smells of nature – all provide creative inspiration. For me, being around nature is my favorite method for becoming creatively recharged.
I love this quote and I feel the same. Lovely work.
Hi Linda, I love this piece. What a great set of thoughts for that wonderful floral picture. It actually made me slow down for a minute and think about a flower meditating, what would a flower think about, pouring out it's beauty for all to enjoy while it is living it's brief life on the stem? I love all the texture and trinkets you added too. Lovely piece.
Thanks Roxane and Heather. Yes I often wonder what flowers think about also. They always seem to look so peaceful just nodding away, it reminds me of how I feel when in meditation.


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Stanya Kahn:
No Go Backs
Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artist Stanya Kahn (b. 1968, San Francisco) works primarily in film and video, with a practice that includes drawing, sound, performance, sculpture and writing. Humor, pathos, and the uncanny are central to Kahn's hybrid approach to moving image, which seeks to reorient relationships between fiction and document, the real and hyper-real, and varied expressions of time. Known for using improvisation and candid, real life scenarios, Kahn's projects often center language as part of a long-term investigation of how rhetoric gains and loses power, as well as the impact of socio-political conditions on lived experience. This exhibition comprises three works by Kahn produced over the past ten years, including her latest short film, No Go Backs (2020), marking its Los Angeles debut. Together, these videos present an urgent reflection of our times, foregrounding global concerns such as climate change, racism, state power, and rebellion with the artist's singular humor and embrace of experimental time and narrative.
Completed earlier this year, No Go Backs (2020), shot on Super 16mm film with an original sound score and no dialogue, follows two teenagers (and real life friends) who leave the city for the wild. Traveling north into the Eastern Sierra's monumental landscapes, the pair traverse the haunted precarity of a collapsed world, in dreamlike states of distraction, malaise, and resilience. Braving harsh weather systems and difficult terrain minimally prepared, they travel quietly along sites connected to California's historic water wars in the early 1900's—conflicts between farmers, ranchers, and Los Angeles city government over water diversion projects which still impact the region today. The two eventually encounter other youth along the way, forming camaraderie in facing the unknown. A timely indictment of current crises and a meditation on an uncertain future, No Go Backs is a compressed, allegorical epic about an entire generation that must make a new way forward.
Stand in the Stream (2011–17) is an ambient digital feature film shot on multiple camera formats over the course of six years. The film's vast and varied footage—all shot or screen-captured during livestreams by Kahn in real time—is edited to create a visceral reflection of life, power, and uprising in late capitalism. The film's progression through different settings—domestic and public spaces, urban and natural scenes, online chat-rooms and home movies—is framed by the decline and death of the artist's mother, a shipyard electrician and activist, with glimpses of Kahn's own experience of motherhood and the toil of daily life. Stand in the Stream situates these intimacies within the shift of civic and digital landscapes over time, revealing the many intersections of the personal and the political.
It's Cool, I'm Good (2010) features a severely injured protagonist (played by the artist), moving through twenty different locations in and around Los Angeles—from hospice to the desert and the sea—seducing, harassing and charming caretakers along the way. Sharing humorous anecdotes and questionable advice on living through difficult times, the bandaged character is at once narcissistic and self-deprecating, teetering between life and death. The video features a complex score, which simultaneously heightens and subverts the viewer's experience of reality within the work. Economic collapse, urban tensions, and ecological demise are contexts for Kahn's "patient," whose metaphoric embodiment of overwhelming psychic and environmental stress remains relatable and prescient, ten years later.
Exhibition Screening Schedule
Wednesdays, Saturdays: No Go Backs (2020)
Total program runtime: 35 minutes
Screens at 12, 12:35, 1:05, 1:40, 2:15. 2:50, 3:25, 4, 4:35, 5:05
Thursdays: Stand in the Stream (2011–17) and No Go Backs (2020)
Stand in the Stream screens at 12, 1:35, 3:10, 4:45
No Go Backs screens at 1, 2:35, 4:10
Fridays, Sundays: No Go Backs (2020), Stand in the Stream (2011–17), and It's Cool, I'm Good (2010)
Total program runtime: 130 minutes
No Go Backs screens at 12, 2:10, 4:20
Stand in the Stream screens at 12:35, 2:40, 4:55
It's Cool, I'm Good screens at 1:35, 3:40
*Please note: times are approximate
Credits & Sponsors
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Stanya Kahn: No Go Backs is organized by Jamillah James, Curator, ICA LA.
Support for the exhibition is provided by the Michael Asher Foundation and Vielmetter Los Angeles. Additional support is provided by the Angeles Art Fund, Wilhelm Family Foundation, C. Christine Nichols, and RF Jefferies and SL DeMartino.
No Go Backs was made with the support of the Film/Video Studio Program at the Wexner Center for the Arts and an Emergency Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Art.
ICA LA is supported by Curator's Council, Fieldwork, and 1717 Collective.
Stanya Kahn is a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow in Film/Video. Recent solo exhibitions include shows at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; Contemporary Arts Museum, St. Louis; MoMA/PS1, New York; New Museum, New York; and Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the 2018 Gwangju Biennial; Centre Pompidou, Paris; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Hammer Museum; New Museum, New York; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; MOCA San Diego; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Fearnley Astru Museet, Oslo; and the Orange County Museum of Art, among others. Her collaborative work with Harry Dodge has shown at the 2008 Whitney Biennial; Brooklyn Museum; the 54th Venice Bienniale; MOCA, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsrühe, DE; Sundance Film Festival; and the New York Underground Film Festival, among others.  She was a contributing writer and actor in the 2001 feature film By Hook or By Crook.  Her writings and drawings appear in multiple publications including Die Laughing (2nd Cannons, 2016), Moving Image (MIT Press), It's Cool, I'm Good (Cornerhouse, 2012), and Abstract Video: The Moving Image in Contemporary Art (University of California Press, 2016) Her work is in the collections of the Hammer Museum; MoMA, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Goetz Museum, Munich, among others.
Production credits for No Go Backs:
Writer/Director/Producer/Editor/Sound design/Titles:  Stanya  Kahn
Starring:  Lenny Dodge-Kahn, Elijah Parks, Marisol Prietto, Serafina Prietto
Featuring:  Melissa Alonso, John Bello, Alexa Calderon, Dean Campo, Mae-Jean Campo, Angus Frazier-Herndon, Hollis Frazier-Herndon, Aero Greenfield, Ren Greenfield, Stephanie D. Kutsch, Dalia Lundquist, Kayla Parks, Gable Stinson, Kiana Wilson, Tynique  Wilso
Camera:  Stanya  Kahn and  Consuelo Althous
Assistant Camera: Simon  Gulergun  and Alisha Mehta
Colorist: Alexis McCrimmon
Additional foley: Will Ogilvie
Special thanks: Lucy Zimmerman, Jennifer Lange, Kiersten Puusemp, Michael Light, John Wentworth, Benjamin Weissman,  Liza Womack,  Hal Kahn, and Lenny Dodge-Kahn.
Production credits for Stand in the Stream:
Writer/Director/Producer/Camera/Editor/Sound Design/Titles: Stanya Kahn
Car repair footage: Mariah Garnett
Additional original music: Alexia Riner and Stanya Kahn
Special thanks: all the live-streamers
Production credits for It's Cool, I'm Good:
Writer/Director/Producer/Editor/Sound Design/Titles: Stanya Kahn
Camera: Stanya Kahn, Mariah Garnett, Anthony Lepore, Drew Heitzler, Trinie Dalton
Craigslist guy: Marc Horowitz
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79 Online Screening: Stanya Kahn's No Go Backs and Earlier Works 2020-12-09 2021-01-10 11:43am Jan 12, 2021 Page
77 Harold Mendez:
Let us gather in a flourishing way 2020-09-26 2021-01-10
5:37pm Jan 05, 2021 Page
78 Stanya Kahn:
No Go Backs 2020-09-26 2021-01-10
6:46pm Dec 04, 2020 Page
69 Ree Morton:
The Plant That Heals May Also Poison 2020-02-16 2020-07-19
74 Ann Greene Kelly 2020-02-16 2020-07-19
9:53am Jun 17, 2020 Page
75 Agency of Assets x El Clasificado 2019-12-06 2020-01-26
10:30am Dec 09, 2019 Page
73 CURRENT:LA FOOD Public Art Triennial 2019 2019-10-05 2019-11-03
11:04am Oct 07, 2019 Page
67 No Wrong Holes:
Thirty Years of Nayland Blake 2019-09-29 2020-01-26
3:57pm Oct 21, 2020 Page
72 Sadie Barnette:
The New Eagle Creek Saloon 2019-09-29 2020-01-26
5:36pm Aug 26, 2020 Page
70 Hervé Tullet: Ideal Exhibition 2019-07-14 2019-09-08
4:04pm Mar 27, 2020 Page
71 Worldwide Orphans: Element of Play® 2019-07-14 2019-09-08
5:44pm Jul 31, 2019 Page
68 Brognon-Rollin:
Maybe Some Of Us Will Change This 2019-03-17 2019-06-30
2:28pm Nov 17, 2020 Page
63 Patty Chang:
The Wandering Lake, 2009–2017 2019-03-17 2019-08-04
19 Maryam Jafri:
I Drank the Kool-Aid But I Didn't Inhale 2019-02-10 2019-06-30
4:45pm Apr 09, 2020 Page
64 Lucas Blalock:
An Enormous Oar 2019-02-10 2019-08-04
62 Adrian Piper
What It's Like, What It Is #3 2018-10-07 2019-01-06
12:12pm Jul 16, 2019 Page
61 Agency of Assets:
Reality Augmented 2018-09-30 2019-01-06
4 B. Wurtz:
This Has No Name 2018-09-30 2019-02-17
6 Nina Chanel Abney:
Royal Flush 2018-09-23 2019-01-20
11:58am Jul 16, 2019 Page
2 This Brush for Hire: Norm Laich & Many Other Artists 2018-06-03 2018-09-02
20 sisters and brothers 2018-04-22 2018-06-17
18 Rafa Esparza: de la Calle 2018-04-22 2018-07-15
9 Grandfather: A Pioneer Like Us (1974) 2018-02-04 2018-04-22
8 Skip Arnold: Truffle Hunt 2018-01-28 2018-04-08
1 Martín Ramírez: His Life in Pictures, Another Interpretation 2017-09-09 2017-12-31


Pinnawela is one of Sri Lanka's most popular tourist destinations, it has the largest herd of elephants in Asia, almost 100 animals. (Wasgomuwa, Minneriya or Kaudulla have more elephants gathered only seasonally). But the Pinnawela herd is artificial. The elephants do not belong to a natural enlarged family, they are domesticated.
The elephant camp in Pinnawela is not only a breeding ground for elephants, it is a nursery in the first place. Trapped elephant babies left by their families would be doomed to death. Rescued in time they will be transferred to one of Sri Lanka's three elephant orphanages, two of them will return them to the wild later on, but Pinnwela will domesticate them Pinnawela also integrates injured adult elephants. It is a sheer miracle that the Pinnawela herd accepts alien babies and adults.
You can observe several activities of domesticated elephants in Pinnawela. At about nine o'clock in the morning you can take part in the bottle feeding of babies and at 10.00 am you can see the herd bathing, two restaurants offer perfect observation platforms. You can study human elephant interaction. Mahouts help washing the elephants, it would not be necesarry, but strengthens social ties. Female adults and babies take their bath together. But male adults have to be led to a separate bathing place.
You can not take part in elephant rides in the Pinnawela Elephant Orphange. But there are smaller private elephant camps in the surrounding organizing elephant rides in the jungles. You can join half an hour, one hour or two hour excursions. You can also wash animals yourself here, they are used to it, oder study exhibitions. But be aware, this is not included in the Pinnawela Orphanage ticket.


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MEEZA leverages Vertiv's IMS to accelerate digital transformation
Vertiv has announced that it has supported MEEZA to design, build and install its new data centres in Qatar. Vertiv was selected as MEEZA's vendor of choice due to the company's expertise in providing end-to-end data centre solutions that adhere to the highest industry guidelines.
To continue to progress its digital transformation and remain a country of choice for international hyperscalers, MEEZA required a significant increase in computing power, deployed in a short time frame. To achieve this, Vertiv helped MEEZA add 4.9 MW of data centre capacity in just 14 months from design to installation, instead of about 22 months or more required for a similar capacity in a brick and mortar solution.
MEEZA's new M-VAULT data centres, offering cloud services to customers in Qatar, the region and the world, were built using Vertiv Integrated Modular Solutions (IMS), which provided a simple way to install capacity in a fraction of the time it would take for a traditional data centre build, due to its pre-engineered and prefabricated nature. Within the 14-month timeline, Vertiv delivered three buildings made of 100 fully equipped prefabricated modules, with the solution integrating Vertiv critical power, thermal management, and monitoring and control technologies, systems that are designed to work together. This type of modular solution also provides business agility, as it allows MEEZA to scale along with its customers.
Vertiv's solutions help customers like MEEZA achieve energy efficiency goals; and that doesn't change when they become sub-assemblies in an integrated modular solution. Additionally, continuing to work with Vertiv's IMS services to check and fine-tune system settings will help MEEZA realise energy efficiency gains throughout the equipment lifecycle. Not only did Vertiv address the tight timeline, but it also gave MEEZA access to infrastructure and domain experts, including the local partner-provided resources. Working with Vertiv meant having technical experts both on and off site, with engineers working to ensure a design and build tailored to specific business needs while technicians managed installation and integration, ensuring seamless startup and optimal operation.
With the support of Vertiv's uniquely crafted solution, pre-sales support, installation services and after-sales support, MEEZA has been able to further optimise and accelerate its go-to-market strategy. The project has also resulted in increased revenue and minimised installation risks.
Pierre Havenga, managing director for Vertiv in the Middle East and Africa, said, "Vertiv has always been at the forefront of digital transformation, innovatively supporting our customers' goals and we are thrilled to have completed another project for MEEZA as one of its long-term partners and vendors. The next few years will reshape the digital landscape in Qatar, and we could not be more excited to be part of this transformational journey with them. Our portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services, that extends from the cloud to the edge of the network, will greatly support MEEZA in its mission of digitally disrupting Qatar and putting it on the global map."
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Posted on October 22, 2017 by Kevin Colley
Portsmouth puts on block party
Lady Trojans keep foot on gas pedal in impressive straight-set win
By Kevin Colley - kcolley@aimmediamidwest.com
The 2017 Portsmouth Trojans' volleyball program.
Kevin Colley | Daily Times
It's always fun to get together for a block party.
And after the performance that the Portsmouth Trojans' volleyball program put together on Saturday evening, one is certainly in order.
From the outset, Sarah Prosch's group wasted no time putting together a block party on the volleyball court as Portsmouth collected four blocks over the first 15 volleys of action to sprint out to a huge first set lead and never looked back as Lyda Spencer's 10 kills, four aces, and two blocks, along with seven aces and five kills from Aiden Fields, allowed Portsmouth to roll to an impressive straight-set victory over South Point (25-9, 25-15, 25-12) en route to a Division III Sectional Championship winning effort at Portsmouth High School on Saturday afternoon.
For Sarah Prosch, the key was all about starting fast against the Pointers, who took Portsmouth to five sets in a thrilling OVC matchup last Thursday in South Point in a match that the Lady Trojans pulled out.
"We really put a lot of emphasis on being ready to play and coming ready to play in practice," Prosch said. "South Point just took us to five (sets) earlier this week, and it can be hard to beat a team three times in a season, so we really pushed that all week, and the girls definitely responded by showing how well they can play with their performance (on Saturday)."
And from the outset, Portsmouth was bound and determined not to allow South Point to even obtain so much as a lead on Saturday.
After obtaining a pair of blocks from Spencer and Katie Fannin to open up the match, Portsmouth jumped out to a 3-0 lead before South Point took three of the following four service points to close the gap to a 4-3 margin.
From there, however, the Lady Trojans kicked it into high gear for the remainder of the contest.
Behind an additional block from Fannin, three kills and an ace from Savanna Spence, and three aces from Fields, Portsmouth showed to all the fans in attendance why it is considered one of the top units in the Southeast District as the Lady Trojans went on a massive 15-2 tilt to cruise to a 25-9 first set victory behind its five-ace, four-block performance.
"Our middles (Spence, Anne Marie Raies) really set that up," Prosch said of the effective blocking. "They've really come around and are working very hard."
In the second set of play, South Point obtained the initial salvo on a kill, but the aforementioned play would be the lone lead that the Lady Pointers would hold over the entire match as Portsmouth quickly stormed back behind the play of Fannin, Raies, and Spencer. The duo combined for 13 kills over the next 30 volleys in the set to quickly obtain a 19-11 advantage, then closed the deal behind the effective serving of Fields, who racked up three consecutive aces on Portsmouth's 5-0 second-set-ending spurt.
"It really is a total team effort," Prosch said. "Lyda and Katie are really strong servers, Aiden and Anne are really strong hitters, Ally Ferrera plays phenomenal in the back row, and Allison Douthat is a phenomenal setter, so it really is a total team effort. Those six seniors are really something else."
Even after the strong performances that the Lady Trojans put together over the first two sets of action, Portsmouth showed no signs of slowing down in the third set as Portsmouth followed its 5-0 run at the end of the second set with yet another 5-0 run to begin the third set behind the play of Spencer, who collected a pair of kills during the spurt.
The senior outside hitter, along with Raies, a senior middle hitter, dominated the remaining set of action as Spencer obtained six kills and two aces while Raies added a solo block, three assisted blocks, and two kills in the set to allow Portsmouth to close the deal quickly.
"The girls are really starting to come around," Prosch said. "They're playing the best when they need to play their best, so it's nice to see."
With the victory, Portsmouth improved its record to a very respectable 15-8 for the 2017 campaign. The Lady Trojans will face Chillicothe Huntington in the Division III District Semifinals on Wednesday at 7 p.m., with the winner advancing to Saturday's Division III District Final matchup against either Chillicothe Southeastern or Fairland.
"It's going to be tough," Prosch said of the district tournament. "They know that each game, from here on out, is going to be really tough. However, we were there last year and all of them know exactly what to expect, so that helps us."
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Jefferson has a very active PTA, and there are many ways you can get involved. Don't hesitate! You can improve your child's education by participating at Jefferson.
Join us at the next PTA meeting, normally scheduled on the third Thursday of each month from 6:30 to 8:00pm in the library. See calendar for specific dates.
Note: Child care is provided. Attending a PTA meeting is easy and your kids have a good time.
If you can't attend a meeting, minutes are posted to the PTA Meeting Notes page.
Download the membership forms here: Membership form English 2015-16 or Membership form Spanish 2015-16 .
Turn it in to the green box in the main office or your child's teacher.
Questions? Contact the membership coordinators.
Organizing over 10 community events, which are fun for the kids and adults too!
Fund raising was record breaking and much of it was due to our parents' and guardians' initiative. These efforts allow us to fund important programs such as PE.
Forming an African American and a Latino families group to improve our outreach and address the needs of these communities.
Supporting our teachers through stipends, volunteering in the classroom, helping with field trips and special projects, and much, much more!!
We see the impact of our efforts when we see our children enjoying the Mayfair carnival, walking all ten laps in the walkathon, painting a mural, and just enjoying and learning from all the programs we are able to assist with. Without the PTA, our school would not be as strong and effective. We could not do any of this without you! There are many opportunities to help out this year, whether you have a few hours a month, a week, or over the course of the year.
The PTA puts on many popular community events throughout the year including Halloween Fun Night, Reading Night, Cultural Night Potluck, Family Art Night, Math Night, the Mayfair, Juneteenth, Kindergarten-First Grade Play Date, and Graduation.
See the calendar for information about upcoming events.
To learn about the budget and how money is raised and spent, attend a PTA meeting.
Attend PTA meetings for detailed information.
For general questions or information, contact the PTA co-chairs.
If you have a question or suggestion about a specific event, contact one of the committee or event chairs.
If you have a suggestion, write it down and put it in the PTA box in the main office. Some of the best ideas have come to the PTA in this way.
Contact the person in charge of the event or group. See list of coordinators here.
Write down a suggestion and drop it off in the PTA box in the main office.
Every event that the PTA does, every action that it takes, is the result of someone making the suggestion: "Why doesn't the PTA do …" Our school is blessed with many individuals who give generously of their time. Your suggestion on how to strengthen our community can use those skills and abilities.
The PTA sends out a monthly newsletter and regular announcements by email.
Also PTA meeting minutes are posted to the PTA Meeting Notes page.
See those pages for more information.
Download the Request PTA Funding form.
On the form, provide a full project budget showing all revenue sources and expenses.
Email the form to the PTA Chairs and Treasurers at least 14 days before the next PTA meeting.
Forms will be reviewed as received and placed on the next PTA meeting agenda for a full membership vote.Note: Ten days notice to membership is required for a PTA budget vote.
Your request, along with Board review and notes/questions, will be emailed to membership 10 days prior to vote.
Questions? Contact the PTA Chairs or Treasurers.
Attend the May PTA meeting to vote for the PTA budget for the following school year. You must be a member and present to vote.
To ensure everyone's questions are answered before the voting in May, PTA members are encouraged to submit questions or discussion topics by the morning of the April meeting.
Note: The PTA Board may combine questions or edit the list to facilitate the discussion.
Compose your question or describe the topic.
Please strive to make your question clear and, if you have multiple topics, separate each topic.
Print it out and drop it in the PTA Box in the school office by the morning of the April PTA Meeting.


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Kevin McCarthy desperately trying to pierce memory
The latest evidence comes courtesy of CNN's KFile, which revealed a local California radio interview McCarthy did on January 12, less than a week after the rally and subsequent riots. "I say he has a responsibility," McCarthy said of Trump. "He told me personally that he has some responsibility. I think a lot of people do."
Which reflects what McCarthy said on the floor of the House the next day. Here's the key bit:
"The President takes responsibility for Wednesday's attack on Congress by mob rioters. When he saw what was happening, he should have immediately condemned the mob. These facts require immediate action by President Trump."
This is also in line with CNN reporting of an "outrageous" phone call between McCarthy and Trump on January 6 in which McCarthy pressured the then-president to call for an end to the rioting. Trump reportedly said, "Well, Kevin, I think these people are more upset about the election than you are."
All this does not match how McCarthy sought to frame his words and actions on January 6 and beyond.
By April 2021, McCarthy was changing his story to address Trump's blame.
"What I talked to President Trump about, I was the first person to contact him when the riots were going on," he said in an interview on Fox. "He didn't see it. What he ended the call with was saying – telling me, he'll do something to make sure it stops. And that's what he did, he put up a video afterwards."
Which, well, isn't entirely accurate—even if you take McCarthy's claim at face value that Trump knew nothing about what was happening at the Capitol until his phone call.
(Sidebar: Coverage of the riots that took place on cable all day that day was everywhere. And Trump is a huge consumer of cable news.)
McCarthy's revised timeline – which he has been speaking of since at least last April – is not in sync with what we know about Trump's actions (and inaction) that day.
CNN's Melissa Mahtani reported this after 4 p.m. on January 6:
It's been more than two hours since a chaotic mob of rioters surrounded and broke into the Capitol. Despite numerous calls for President Trump by both Republicans and Democrats to demand his supporters leave the Capitol building, the President hasn't done that yet."
When Trump finally released a video asking the rioters to disperse, it wasn't really a coercion. Trump said in the video, "I know your pain. I know your hurt… But now you have to go home."
This is very different from the story McCarthy is selling these days on January 6. The rioters ransacked the Capitol while doing nothing about Trump for hours at a time, effectively the entirety of yada yada. Which, well, is kind of the key.
Why is McCarthy doing this? Politics – pure and simple. In the days immediately following the rebellion, there was a real feeling—besides the furious Trumpers—that he had gone too far and that the episode would effectively be a breaking point between him and the Republican Party.
But, that break never came to an end. In fact, the cult of personality surrounding Trump only grew as the country moved on from January 6 – to the point that poll after poll shows that most Republicans believe the Big Lies that the 2020 election will hold. Stolen from Trump. (There is zero anecdotal evidence to support this claim.)
That reality forced a rapid recalculation by McCarthy, who:
a) want to be Speaker if Republicans win a majority of the House this fall and
b) knows that he must have the support of a former president (and Trump's congressional ally) to do so.
All of a sudden, Trump was not to blame for what happened, but for someone who jumped to deal with the rebels as soon as he found out about them. This story does not coincide with known and accepted facts—and doesn't—besides McCarthy's point. His only goal was to return to the good qualities of Trump.
Here's the problem for McCarthy: We have receipts. What he said in the week following the riots doesn't quite resemble what he said now. And it matters.
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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles' U.S. unit settled an antitrust lawsuit claiming the company pushed dealers to submit fraudulent sales numbers to prop up its share price.
The allegations spurred a federal investigation into whether the figures filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission misled shareholders about the automaker's financial situation. Those probes are ongoing, FCA said. The settlement terms are confidential.
"FCA US is pleased we could reach an amicable resolution to this matter," the company said in an emailed statement.
The dealers claimed that FCA "stacked the deck" against them "by soliciting fraudulent sales reports from certain dealers, and by using the numbers generated from these false sales to further subsidize plaintiffs' competing dealers and to allocate hotter selling vehicles to them."


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Latest UK cosmetic surgery figures released, revealing interesting gender split
February 26, 2018 /in News /by katharine
Statistics for the cosmetic surgery industry in 2017 have been released and it revealed an interesting split between men and women and their approach to cosmetic surgery, particularly in relation to enhancing the face or body. The data was compiled by the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS), the UK's leading independent plastic surgery association.
Its membership, including Warwickshire based cosmetic surgeon Mr Alan Park, represents the UK's leading plastic and reconstructive surgeons who are dedicated to ensuring patient safety.
Male cosmetic surgery trends in 2017
In general terms, men in 2017 favoured facial rejuvenation procedures over body procedures; liposuction was down 20 per cent, tummy tucks dropped by 12 per cent and even gynaecomastia surgery, known as a male breast reduction, saw a dive in popularity. Maybe, men are now keen to embrace the dad bod after unsuccessfully trying to emulate ripped stars such as the Davids Gandy and Beckham.
However, men were not shunning surgery last year. Eyelid and brow lifts rose by 25 and 27 per cent respectively. Facelifts also went up, by 16 per cent, possibly revealing a desire to look more rejuvenated, refreshed and dynamic in a tough working environment.
What women want from cosmetic surgery
The data for female patients revealed a very different focus; facial plastic surgery saw a big drop with the number of female facelifts dropping by 44 per cent and brow lifts by 31 per cent.
Body enhancing procedures, on the other hand, were more popular with women, possibly driven by increasing social media pressures. Abdominoplasties and fat transfer procedure figures remained static, but the ever-popular boob job rose by 7 per cent.
Overall, there was a slight decrease in the amount of plastic surgery operations performed across the board, which is hopefully indicative that prospective patients are approaching cosmetic enhancement as a serious prospect.
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PITTSBURGH - Yoko Ono, artist, singer and widow of John Lennon, is being accused by some political insiders of breaking up the Luke Ravenstahl-Dan Onorato team. Ms. Ono purportedly has allied herself with Onorato and driven a wedge between the two politicians over merging Pittsburgh into Allegheny County.
Onorato refused to comment on the allegations, noting only that "Ms. Ono and I are friends, and she is a valuable source of political insight." When Ms. Ono was asked about the allegations, she shrieked the word "why" at the top of her lungs for five minutes.
Some insiders say Ms. Ono had nothing to do with the breakup, arguing it was caused by the fact that Onorato and Ravenstahl are moving in different directions politically and musically.
Ms. Ono has also been linked to the breakup of The Beatles, China's Gang of Four, and the Three Stooges.


The Department of Jobs and Small Business is hosting a small business fair in Mandurah today.
Two fairs have already been held in South Perth and Ellenbrook, and another will be held in Bunbury tomorrow.
Response from the first two fairs was overwhelming, with hundreds guests in attendance.
The fair will be a one stop shop where people who want to start or grow their business can speak with locally based Government agencies about a range of topics.
The fair will also feature keynote speakers, live demonstrations, presentations every half hour, and practical advice from local business coaches.
The Mandurah fair is at the Mandurah Peel Convention Centre from 11am - 7pm.
No prior registration is required to attend the free event.


Violation of natural rules of justice such as unfair treatment in promotion, etc.
It is necessary to distinguish a complaint from grievance. A complaint is an indication of employee dissatisfaction that has not been submitted in written. On the other hand, a grievance is a complaint that has been put in writing and made formal.
Grievances are symptoms of conflicts in industry. Therefore, management should be concerned with both complaints and grievances, because both may be important indicators of potential problems within the workforce. Without a grievance procedure, management may be unable to respond to employee concerns since managers are unaware of them. Therefore, a formal grievance procedure is a valuable communication tool for the organization.
Grievance procedure is a Step by step process an employee must follow to get his or her complaint addressed satisfactorily. In this process, the formal (written) complaint moves from one level of authority (of the firm and the union) to the next higher level.
Grievance procedure is a formal communication between an employee and the management designed for the settlement of a grievance. The grievance procedures differ from organization to organization.
Open door policy: Under this policy, the aggrieved employee is free to meet the top executives of the organization and get his grievances redressed. Such a policy works well only in small organizations. However, in bigger organizations, top management executives are usually busy with other concerned matters of the company. Moreover, it is believed that open door policy is suitable for executives; operational employees may feel shy to go to top management.
Step ladder policy: Under this policy, the aggrieved employee has to follow a step by step procedure for getting his grievance redressed. In this procedure, whenever an employee is confronted with a grievance, he presents his problem to his immediate supervisor. If the employee is not satisfied with superior's decision, then he discusses his grievance with the departmental head. The departmental head discusses the problem with joint grievance committees to find a solution. However, if the committee also fails to redress the grievance, then it may be referred to chief executive. If the chief executive also fails to redress the grievance, then such a grievance is referred to voluntary arbitration where the award of arbitrator is binding on both the parties.
How to handle an employee grievance?
Establish whether the grievance needs to be resolved formally or informally.
Choose an appropriate manager to deal with the grievance.
Carry out a full investigation and gather all relevant evidence, sending it to the employee in advance of the meeting.
Arrange the grievance meeting, inviting the employee and reminding them of their statutory right to be accompanied.
Make sure accurate notes are taken throughout by a person who is not involved in the case.
Give the employee the opportunity to explain the details of their grievance and what they would like the outcome to be.
Adjourn the meeting consider the evidence before making a decision.
Inform the employee in writing of the decision, explaining how and why the decision was reached.
Notify the employee of their right to appeal against the outcome of the grievance procedure.
STEP 1: In the first step the grievance is to be submitted to departmental representative, who is a representative of management. He has to give his answer within 48 hours.
STEP 2: If the departmental representative fails to provide a solution, the aggrieved employee can take his grievance to head of the department, who has to give his decision within 3 days.
STEP 3: If the aggrieved employee is not satisfied with the decision of departmental head, he can take the grievance to Grievance Committee. The Grievance Committee makes its recommendations to the manager within 7 days in the form of a report. The final decision of the management on the report of Grievance Committee must be communicated to the aggrieved employee within three days of the receipt of report. An appeal for revision of final decision can be made by the worker if he is not satisfied with it. The management must communicate its decision to the worker within 7 days.
STEP 4: If the grievance still remains unsettled, the case may be referred to voluntary arbitration.


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Cheshire League
Liddle ends service to club
TENNIS: NANTWICH Tennis Club chairman Mervyn Liddle has retired after six years in the post.
During his time in the job, Mr Liddle has overseen the introduction of a new junior tennis coaching programme under coach Nicola Herbert, which has transformed tennis for youngsters in Nantwich.
Two new all-weather courts have just been completed to give the club a six-court complex with one to be given dedicated use to juniors.
The Dabbers' teams have also enjoyed continuous success, culminating in a hat-trick of Cheshire Shield victories for the ladies' first team and the runners-up spot in the National League final for the veterans' team.
At the club's recent annual meeting, Sue Winters was unanimously voted in as the new chairman.
Mr Liddle said: 'Sue and I first played tennis together at the former grounds on The Mount. After a number of years, she attained a regular place. A few years on, she captained the successful side to regular Wilson South and Mid Cheshire League Division One championships and, a few years later, became the Scottish Over 45s Open champion.
'This year her talents were recognised by England and she made a triumphant international debut by winning all four of her veterans matches.
'Her sustained continued improvement, over more than 30 years, must be a unique achievement for an athlete. She will make a great chairman.'


This Saturday, July 26, Scranton will again be home to Arts on the Square, Scranton's largest arts festival, according to its organizers and the city's Best New Event of 2013, according to Electric City readers.
Arts on the Square organizers Cristin Powers and Chrissy Manuel, both of ScrantonMade, said they are pleased to see their celebration in its sophomore year.
Crafters, painters, photographers, musicians and more than 110 vendors will line Courthouse Square. The event will be kid-friendly with an activities tent and Spirited Art instructors' art classes. There will also be adult and teen art classes, yoga classes in the lawn, a slow-motion video booth, live painting and other entertainment.
A first this year is yarn bombing, which will be one of the installation pieces for Saturday's event. A yarn bomb, or yarn storm, is a form of removable graffiti that uses knitted or crocheted pieces in place of chalk or paint. Annie Cadden of Fisher Cat Fiber Co. said the yarn bombing is already a success. "The people who wanted to get involved are all so positive and they are all people who don't even know each other. They will all meet on Friday," she said.
Yarn bombing is typically a solo project and something done on a creative whim. This piece is planned, but Cadden said she looks forward to seeing what is created with so many influences and artists' visions.
Ryan Hnat is a painter who was part of the open-air gallery at last year's Arts on the Square. This year will be the first year that he and his wife, a photographer, will have their own booth, Hnat Designs.
Some of the vendors will show and sell their wares, but others will create right on the spot. There will be live painting by Evan Hughes and Benjamin Adcroft throughout the day and the pieces will be auctioned off.
Adcroft said sometimes having an audience can be a bit strange, but he is looking forward to painting outdoors and feeding off the other painter's energy. "I like working big. I like working fast. Trying to finish a piece in one day is going to be fun," said Adcroft.
Another element of art is music. Arts on the Square will have two stages this year: One on Spruce Street, hosted by Summersteps Records and another on Linden Street, hosted by Highway 81 Revisited.
Summersteps Records is a record label started by Eric Schlittler in 1996 when he began releasing demos for his then-solo-act, Kid Icarus.
"I started doing demos with Kid Icarus and at the same time my wife and I were dating and we were going to a lot of shows in New York City, so when we would go to a show, we would run off a bunch of demo tapes and eventually the idea started, 'Well, why don't we put these tapes out on a label?'" said Schlittler.
The Summersteps Stage will feature artists from the record label and bands that Schlittler said fit the vibe of the indie rock guitar stage, such as Kid Icarus, now a full band, Cold Coffee, Eww Yaboo and A Fire with Friends.
Schlittler said he is looking forward to reaching an audience that he may not normally have access to.
"I think it's kind of a good opportunity to get your music out in front of people that maybe don't necessarily go to a bar at night and are a little more art-inclined, so I'm kind of looking forward to getting our music out there and present it to maybe some different people," said Schlittler.
Michael Lello of Highway 81 Revisited, a Scranton-based music blog, agreed.
"Just as a function of covering music and being involved with the 'local music scene,' many of the events we've been a part of have been at bars, which is fine, but it limits your audience," said Lello.
The Highway 81 Revisited Stage will showcase five bands: Indigo Moon Brass Band, Heavy Blonde, Katie Kelly & The Charming Beards, Gentleman East and Charles Havira.
"I wanted some musical diversity on stage and artists that are either relatively new or doing things that are interesting or a little different," Lello said.
With something for each of your five senses, this year hopes for more success than the last. Hnat thinks that the growth in the arts will even affect the financial situation of the city.


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Asin Thottumkal
Asin Thottumkal was born on 26th October 1985 in Kochi, Kerala to a Syrian Christian family. Her father Joseph Tottumkal who was an entrepreneur is now her manager. Her mother is Seline Thottumkal, a surgeon by profession.
Asin studied at the Naval Public School and St Theresa?s Higher Secondary School. She wrapped up her education with a degree in English Literature from St Theresa?s College.
This exposure got her noticed and she made her debut on the tinsel screen through director Sathyan Anthikad?s Narendaran Makan (2001) with Malayalyee actor Kunjachacko Boban. Before entering in Bollywood she has done lot of films in South.
Asin?s first Tamil language film was M. Kumaran son of Mahalakshmi (2004), in which she co-starred with Jayam Ravi.
Her first break in 2008 was when she did Ghajini with Aamir Khan. She was the original heroine for the Tamil version of Ghajini as well which was a blockbuster. Ghajini in Hindi version did a fantastic business at the box office.
Here recent film Ready with Salman Khan made roars at the box office.
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Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and forevermore!
From the rising of the sun to its setting, the name of the Lord is to be praised!
PRAISE IS THE UNIVERSAL CALL OF ALL GOD'S HOLY CHURCH.
The Jewish word Hallel (Hebrew: הלל) is the root from which we get the word "Hallelujah" and it means to "Praise." The Jews were commanded to "Hallel" consistently since the time of King David and dates back even further to the time of the Exodus when the Red Sea parted and the manna from Heaven, that holy bread of the angels, descended like the dew fall from Heaven down to earth and became known to the Jewish people as "the Bread of the Presence" that was later housed in the Ark of the Covenant in the Temple. Hallel is so engrained in the devotional practice of Judaism that it has become a Jewish prayer, a verbatim recitation from Psalms 113-118, which is recited by observant Jews on Jewish holidays and the monthly festival of the New Moon Rosh Chodesh as an act of praise and thanksgiving.
Interestingly, the word "Eucharist" that Catholics use to call the New Bread of the Presence, which they believe was instituted by Jesus at the Last Supper (Catechism of the Catholic Church), actually means "Thanksgiving" or "The Giving of Thanks." Many other denominations also celebrate similar traditions of gathering around in communion with others to break bread and offer up prayers and praises of thanksgiving. Even outside traditional religious practices we see many cultural traditions of giving thanks appear throughout the world, such as the American and Canadian observance of Thanksgiving Day.
When we join together to offer up the bread of the Presence, whether, Jew or Gentile, we are answering a universal call within the heart of all men to offer praises of thanksgiving. We are all designed to Hallel!
So this Thanksgiving, as you gather around your table to break bread and share in the communion of love and fellowship with your family and friends, consider joining in this universal praise sung throughout all time and around the world, both in Heaven and on Earth, and ask everyone to join hands and voices and offer up a joyous shout "Hallelujah!" Maybe even take a minute to read directly from the Hallel Psalms 113-118 and remind each other of the great blessing we are given each day to have life in our bones and Hallel in our lungs.
If you're interested in further study on the "Hallelujah" as the sound of Heaven touching Earth, I encourage you to check out my previous article on The Sound of Heaven: Lost in Translation, as well as meditate on the Scriptures referenced below.
Wherever you are and however you choose to celebrate this holiday season, I pray you come to know the beauty of God's great love for you and remember it was God who instituted the first sounding Hallel from the Heavens when he created me and YOU!
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Aquatic Ape Hypothesis
In 1960, Sir Alister Hardy, a marine biologist knighted for his contribution to the fisheries industry, gave a talk at the British Sub-Aqua Club (a scuba-diving club) and a month later published an article in New Scientist on that talk, called "Was Man More Aquatic in the Past?" Although the idea caught people's fancies and garnered some attention by the newspapers, it showed little sign of the long-lasting popular appeal it would eventually have.
It didn't happen overnight. Even with the original article and a follow-up transcript from a radio program, it was 7 years before Hardy's idea got much notice—this time with a two-page write-up by Desmond Morris in The Naked Ape.
Elaine Morgan, at the time an Oxford graduate in English and a TV scriptwriter, entered the scene in 1972 with the book Descent of Women, the idea for which she got from Desmond Morris's book. This book proved to be very popular, and in time Morgan followed it up with many articles as well as four more books on the subject (in 1982,1990,1994, and 1997).
During the 1980s, other proponents arrived on the scene, chief among them a medical doctor from Belgium, Marc Verhaegen. A 1987 conference on the subject resulted in a book presenting opposing views, The Aquatic Ape: Fact or Fiction?
The coming of age of the Internet in the 1990s brought the advent of the online venue for presentation and debate, and this subject proved popular. As with many subjects connected with humans and especially human evolution, much of the debate is rancorous and ill-informed. There are nuggets of gold in the online debate; however, just as with the mineral, finding these nuggets requires a lot of panning.
The Aquatic Ape Theory or Aquatic Ape Hypothesis (aka AAT or AAH—this entry will refer to it as the AAT/H) hypothesizes that humans went through an aquatic or semiaquatic stage in our evolution, generally said to have occurred during the transition from the last common ancestor we shared with apes (LCA) to hominids (some, like Marc Verhaegen, claim it continued on through virtually the entire span of human evolution). It claims that certain features are seen in human anatomy and physiology that are only seen in humans and aquatic animals and that these constitute conclusive evidence that our ancestors went through an semiaquatic phase in our evolution. Relying heavily on the principle of convergent evolution, it says that life in an aquatic environment explains these features and that a transition from ape to hominid in a nonaquatic environment cannot. The principle of convergence is used to explain these features, and the idea is said to be more parsimonious than other hypotheses.
Their use of the idea of convergence is generally accurate, but generally, they use parsimony to mean that only one cause explains many features (a more accurate term might be "prime mover" or "umbrella hypothesis," the latter being one that AAT/H critic John Langdon uses).
One problem with the idea is that most of the proponents have been rather vague about the degree of aquaticness to which they refer. One proponent, doctoral student Algis Kuliukas, has come up with an explanation apparently also now endorsed by Elaine Morgan, that water has acted as more of an agent of selection in human evolution than in the evolution of apes such that physical differences between the two may be at least partly explained as adaptations to more efficient movement through acquatic conditions. This definition is perhaps most notable for its vagueness, merely suggesting "more" water use by humans than by apes. Contrast that with the explanation set forth in by Bininda-Emonds, Gittleman, and Kelly: "We consider aquatic carnivores to be those species in which the aquatic habitat inevitably plays a key role in the life-cycle of an individual," which they then compare to definitions as given by others as they discuss the strengths and limitations of their own definition. The AAT/H definition suggested is not only so vague as to be virtually meaningless, it is notable that this is the first attempt at such an explicit definition, and it has taken over 40 years to show up. There has always been an implicit "how aquatic" definition, however, ascertained by the characteristics the proponents have used to build their case.
The proponents of the AAT/H have almost always been vague about just how aquatic our ancestors supposedly were, and now tend to say simply those ancestors were "more aquatic" than apes, and often use Alister Hardy's suggestion that we were less aquatic than otters. Coupled with this, they are often coy about what animals are said to share our "aquatic" features, sometimes simply saying that these features are found in an aquatic setting or that we share these features with "aquatics." This produces a disconnect between how aquatic most AAT/H proponents claim our ancestors were and what the idea clearly implies on this vital aspect.
The human features said to be accounted for by a semiaquatic past can vary a great deal from one AAT/H account to another, but they form a large and eclectic list, far too large to deal with here (various proponents have suggested sweat, tears, sebaceous glands, the shape of our nose and our thorax, and even being able to cup our hands better than chimps). Probably the most commonly cited features are bipedalism, fat characteristics, and the distribution of human hair. AAT/H proponents concede that bipedalism is not found in any aquatic or semiaquatic mammal. They use a double standard here, as they commonly argue that the idea that hominids evolved bipedality in a terrestrial setting is badly damaged by the fact that no nonhuman terrestrial mammal is predominantly bipedal, yet the fact that no aquatic mammal is bipedal is brushed off as irrelevant.
The mammals with the fat features the AAT/H proponents say are similar to ours are seals, whales, and the sirenia (dugongs and manatees) and for lessened hair, only whales and sirenia and one species of wild pig, the babirusa, which has less hair than other wild pigs and is at home in water but also seems to be, like humans, an exception, since other wild pigs that are at home in the water have plenty of body hair; the babirusa seems to be, like other mammals with lessened body hair (such as some mole rats), an exception among related mammals with similar habits. The pachyderms also have little body hair, and although this is generally accepted as being due to their size and the need for heat loss, this well-established physiological principle concerning volume versus surface area is viewed with suspicion by many AAT/H proponents as they concentrate on water as a guiding factor in evolution. So, the aquatic mammals the proponents say we resemble have all been aquatic for tens of millions of years and are so highly specialized they are virtually, or completely, incapable of living a non-aquatic life. The AAT/H claim that these features arose in a mammal less aquatic than an otter rings hollow.
So, relative fattiness and body hair loss among aquatic species are actually restricted to only a very few highly specialized aquatic mammals. Even more damaging to the AAT/H is that these features in aquatic animals do not actually resemble those of humans in any but the most superficial manner. This has particular significance in light of the AAT/H claim to be more parsimonious than other theories.
Most humans are fatter than many wild mammals, and we have, on average, less body hair than apes and most other wild mammals. But the characteristics of human hair and fat—the differences between the sexes and during the individual's lifespan—are not like hair and fat features due to convergent evolution due to environment. Instead, those characteristics in humans seem to be classic cases of sexual selection. They differ considerably between the sexes, change dramatically at puberty, and then change again at the end of the reproductive period of life. (We are also unusual in having rather fat babies, but that seems to be connected to the fact that our infancy and accompanying brain growth is itself a highly unusual affair among primates, or any other mammal.) In aquatic mammals, these fat and hair characteristics either start out similar to adults of their species or become like adults of their species very rapidly after birth. This is also true of other features that AAT/H proponents use or have used as evidence, such as sweat and sebaceous glands.
The problem vis-à-vis parsimony is that if these were due to convergence during a semiaquatic past, the AAT/H requires two major changes to these features instead of one: first, ancestral, then similar to aquatic mammals, then sexually selected as in modern humans. Other hypotheses would require only one change, perhaps gradual: first ancestral, then sexually selected, albeit perhaps with some supporting advantages in natural selection (such as Wheeler's cooling hypothesis or the recent idea that elimination of some parasites had a hand in our present hair characteristics). So, the AAT/H claim to be a more parsimonious explanation for these features falls apart.
Explanations for these discrepancies have been offered. Sometimes proponents actually suggest that the degree of aquaticness in hominids varied between the sexes and during the lifespan, so as to match the characteristics we see today. Since both sebaceous glands and hair are used as evidence, the hypothesis becomes internally inconsistent, since then females would have to be more aquatic than males to explain hair and body fat, while males would have to be more aquatic than females to explain sebaceous glands; babies would be aquatic to explain hair and body fat, but not very aquatic to explain sweat and sebaceous glands, while these same characteristics in children would mean they were relatively nonaquatic until puberty. These ad hoc explanations seem much more unlikely than the simple explanation of sexual selection.
There are other problems with AAT/H attempts to explain human hair as the result of some degree of aquaticness. The only reasonable suggestion as to why body hair would be reduced is to aid in swimming speed (some take the tack that it just is similar to aquatic mammals and offer no reason for the similarity— however, as mentioned already, it is not really similar). There is, however, conflicting evidence on body hair and swimming speed; it would seem that increasing body hair might work as well as eliminating it, but humans took neither course. We still have body hair, and many humans have quite a lot of it, often curly and just what we don't want for increased swimming speed. That is why competitive swimmers use one or both of two methods—they shave off body hair and recently many have adopted special body suits that increase boundary layer thickness and decrease drag by mimicking the effects of dermal ridges as seen in dolphins' skin or the hair of seals. The one thing competitive swimmers don't want is what we have now, yet what we have now is what AAT/H proponents say was due to adaptation for swimming speed. And then there is the hair on our heads, which is far longer, and often bushier, than that of apes. So, the AAT/H proponents are left with several ad hoc explanations They have suggested that head hair is explained by a swimming stroke, usually said to be the breast stroke, which leaves the long head hair (and beard in males) entirely out of the water—and this unlikely position is supposed to be one which allows for high swimming speeds creating selection for hair loss. Otherwise, they are faced with claiming that there was intense environmental selective pressure for reduction of body hair but not for head hair. The only other explanation would be that there were two major changes to hair instead of one as required for nonaquatic hypotheses, which destroys their claim of parsimony.
The problem of likely aquatic predators such as crocodiles and sharks being much faster swimmers than even the best human athletes today is met with the suggestion that we congregated in large groups and the aquatic predators would only catch the slower members. This is unlikely to have helped even if true, since aquatic predators are seldom seen before they strike and would not have to take the slowest swimmers even if the herding idea was true. Still, that is better than Morgan's first attempt to answer the problem of crocodiles, which was to label them "hypothetical." No credible suggestion of how these ancestors would meet the problem of aquatic predators has ever been produced. Another problem for the hypothesis is the fact that while terrestrially we can show how an animal of medium size with a low birthrate can, and still does, deal with predators, by studying chimpanzees, no aquatic or semiaquatic animal of medium size with a low birthrate exists.
A common argument for the AAT/H over the years has been the fact that many humans like to visit the seashore, and many humans like to swim for recreation. This race memory argument has been used by both Hardy and Morgan (Hardy in particular believed in the race memory idea as part of his long-held belief that race memories and telepathy had played a role in human evolution) and carries no more weight, and perhaps less, than Gordon Orians's idea that our liking for certain park settings is based on our evolutionary past on mixed savannas. Lately, the subject of fatty acids for brain growth, specifically DHA and LNA, have been promoted as support for the idea of an aquatic past, since marine fish, especially cold-water marine fish, are rich in DHA. This ignores the fact that these fatty acids are readily available in various plant sources as well as in wild game. Humans (except infants) can synthesize DHA from LNA found in plant foods; infants get it through breast milk.
Some evidence long used as support for the AAT/H has been dropped by its proponents, such as Morgan's contention that sweat and tears were analogous to salt excretion glands, as seen in marine and desert reptiles and birds. The problem here is that even when this notion was first put forward, it ran counter to basic physiological principles in osmoregulation, including the fact that such excretions are never hypertonic, as they would have to be to be part of such a system. When Morgan formally dropped this line of evidence, she claimed it was because new information had been discovered that wasn't available when she first proposed it, but in fact the contrary information was known well before she first brought it up, and some of that information was in the references she used as the sources for her claims. This does not speak well of the reliability of AAT/H research, and is not unusual.
Morgan has used a passage about bradycardia in seals, the slowing of the heart, as evidence about breath holding before dives. Morgan has also incorrectly stated that hymens are only found in humans and aquatic mammals; that humans, bonobos, and aquatic mammals are the only ones that engage in ventro-ven-tro copulation; that seals sweat via eccrine glands; that the only nonhuman animals that have been reported— none confirmed—to cry emotional tears are aquatic ones (information to the contrary was in the same book and chapter Morgan used as a source); and that the predominate mode of terrestrial locomotion of proboscis monkeys is bipedal. Morgan also has proved to exhibit something of a free hand when it comes to quotes in some of her AAT/H accounts, leaving out words or context to change their meaning, often with-out indicating the words are absent.
Marc Verhaegen has a history of dubious research. For example, he has claimed that sea lions are, after humans, the mammals that use sweat cooling the most, but in fact sea lions' sweating mechanisms are not very efficient at all, unlike those of a variety of terrestrial mammals—that information was in sources that he referenced. Verhaegen has also suggested that Neandertal noses acted as snorkels and that ear canal exotoses, seen in a small number of Neandertal and erectus specimens, can only mean they were doing a great deal of swimming and diving. Problems with this are that such exotoses also result from exposure to cold air without swimming or diving, and it seems that a pathological condition would be weeded out in a species that was long adapted for swimming and diving. Other examples of the quality of his research include his description of the rhinoceros as "predominantly aquatic" and using the mountain beaver as an example of an aquatic mammal, apparently confused by the name (the mountain beaver often likes wet areas and burrows and succulent plants, but dampness does not make one aquatic in any realistic sense).
These are far from the only examples of poor AAT/H research, and unfortunately they typify the quality of research one sees when the idea is examined closely.
In recent years, proponents have paid a great deal of attention to the research on chimpanzees and gorillas that wade, along with any information about bonobos wading. This is an abrupt about-face, since as late as the mid-1990s, most were claiming as evidence the "fact" that common chimpanzees avoided water at all costs (a common misconception disproved well before that). The amount of bipedality in these situations is often wildly overstated by proponents, and another problem the AAT/H faces with these and other primate species that wade or swim regularly is that these species don't exhibit the other changes the AAT/H predicts—changes such as fat and lessened body hair—but this problem is either downplayed or ignored. It is interesting that bonobos and other apes sometimes use bipedality when wading, and it is certainly one of the items on the list of things that apes sometimes use bipedality while doing, but the AAT/H attempts to be far more than one item on a list.
In summary, the AAT/H has been in existence for well over 40 years now, and while it has certainly attracted a following, it hasn't been very convincing to most anthropologists who've looked at it closely. Its proponents tend to use to their advantage the fact that most people accept the proponents' accounts of the features mentioned and assume that the proponents have been somewhat rigorous and honest in testing their theory against the evidence. And few people are conversant with all the varied lines of evidence that its proponents use. Perhaps a greater problem is that most people accept the proponents' claim that they are doing no more than suggesting that humans used water somewhat more than apes during the evolution of our species—certainly a noncontroversial claim, but a disingenuous one as well when you see what features the AAT/H claims as evidence.
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BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, Prime Minister Dr. Timothy Harris has been re-elected unopposed as the leader of the People's Labor Party (PLP), one of the parties in the coalition government here.
A PLP statement said that Harris was re-elected during the private session of the party's third annual national convention on Wednesday night attended by at least 300 people.
The statement said that Harris reminded supporters of the strides and progress being made in the twin-island Federation under his leadership of the Team Unity government, making particular reference to the Government Employees Mortgage Program, the Poverty Alleviation Program and the Hurricane Roof Repair Program.
The PLP was formed prior to the 2015 general election with Harris being the only successful candidate of the party.


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MADRID (AP) — Spain's royal palace says Crown Prince Felipe has canceled a two-day trip to Brazil after a technical hitch on the plane he was due to fly on.
The palace said the prince was to have flown out to Sao Paulo early Monday but there was a problem with a wing flap of the Spanish Air Force Airbus A-310.
The two-day visit aimed at promoting Brazilian investment in Spain was canceled after mechanics spent several hours trying to fix the problem with no success.