Biographical information and a history of the Morial administration from the New Orleans Public Libray by Judith Martin.
Mayor Ernest N. Morial Photographs from the City Archives at the New Orleans Public Library.
Drummer Robert "Bob" French, led of The Tuxedo Jazz Band from 1977 until his death on November 12, 2012 at the age of 74. As a child, he took drumming lessons from Louis Barbarin and, in his professional career, performed with James Booker, Art Neville, Charles Neville, Kidd Jordan, Alvin Batiste, Earl King, Snooks Eaglin, Fats Domino, and Dave Bartholomew. Mr. French was also a WWOZ radio host.
Actor Nicholas Cage's property, the LaLaurie house ("Most Haunted House in America") named for former owner Delphine LaLaurie who mistreated her slaves, was foreclosed and sold at auction on November 12, 2009.
On November 12, 1999, HCI Construction and Design submitted plans for renovation of the American Can Multi-Use Building at 3700 Orleans Avenue.
Helvetia "Vet" Boswell, born in Birmingham, Alabama on May 20, 1911, died on November 12, 1988. She was a member of The Boswell Sisters -- nationally popular close harmony 1930 singing group which were considered the model for the Andrews Sisters. The group included sisters Martha Boswell (June 9, 1905 – July 2, 1958) and Connie (Connee) Boswell (December 3, 1907 – October 11, 1976).
On November 12, 1959, Bodman & Murrel & Smith submitted plans for St. Joseph Academy at 1453 Crescent Street.
NORD Football photos (01-Sparky Knight; 02-Coach Don Maitland, Kepper Maitland; 03-Action shot; 04,05-Behrman Spartan Squad) from November 12, 1955. Scroll down to #131.
Gregory Michael Aymond, born in New Orleans on November 12, 1949, became the fourteenth Archbishop of New Orleans on June 12, 2009.
Sculptor Edward Virginius Valentine. born on November 12, 1838, completed the John James Audubon statue which was unveiled in Audubon Park on November 26, 1910. The statue is placed in front of the zoo. Valentine died on October 19, 1930.
The House of Representatives of the Territory of Orleans was established by Act of Congress and proclaimed by Gov. Claiborne on or about October 9, 1804. The first session was held on November 12, 1804.
At a November 12, 1773 meeting of the Cabildo, payment was authorized for three Negroes, the property of Don Antonio Tomassin, Don Santiago Beauregard and Don Zacarias Foussier. At the next meeting, the assessment of each citizen to contribute their prorata for the payment of these Negroes was acted upon, and collection ordered.
During the "revitalization" efforts of 1950s, the intersection of Canal Street at the river was considered a prime site. A decade later, on November 12, 1964, C.H. Leavell & Co. submitted plans for "Rivergate" at number 4 Canal Street.
The Rivergate was originally called the International Exhibition Facility. It was to be a key element with International House, the International Trade Mart, and the hotels in downtown New Orleans as the necessary units required to qualify the City as a World Trade Center. The concept of the World Trade Center was conceived at the International House by Dr. Paul Fabry and was the first such institution in what has now become a great worldwide organization.
The proposed construction of an elevated expressway along the riverfront threatened to thwart the site plan of the Rivergate and would have separated the building from the river and from the International Trade Mart office building. The decision was made to funnel this section of the expressway into an underground tunnel at an estimated additional cost of $1.5 million. Meanwhile, the plans for the Rivergate were being seriously delayed, awaiting a final decision regarding the actual construction of the expressway. At this time the idea for the great covered porch materialized. The sheltered driveway not only made good sense as a way to deal with the possibility of tropical downpours during Rivergate events, but it also left open the option of constructing the tunnel at a later date while allowing construction of the building to proceed on schedule. In time the tunnel, 6 lanes wide and 30 feet high, was authorized, designed into the plan, and constructed. The Riverfront Expressway, however, was eventually defeated, and the tunnel remained, unused, during the life of the Rivergate.
The Rivergate was designed by the local firm Curtis and Davis (Nathaniel Cortlandt Curtis Jr. (1917–1997) and Arthur Quentin Davis (1920–2011) who had also designed the Thomy Lafon School (1954) and the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola (1956) and would later design the Superdome. The undulating forms of the Rivergate's thin barrel vaults were not whimsical but are the precise shape necessary to manage the unusually long spans required for the roof over the column free space below. The cantilevers all around contribute to the stability of the roof structure. The selection of six temple like bays utilized to the limit the spans between columns; the columns themselves are slender and graceful, suited to the task of support. The Rivergate, while it stood in New Orleans, was looked upon by many as a significant example of outstanding national and international contemporary architecture and was compared to the recognized masterpieces of its period. The most distinguishing feature of the Rivergate was the roof. The 95,500-sq. foot South Hall was covered by a swooping and sweeping dual curved roof. This reinforced concrete barrel-arched roof design was symbolic of the rolling Mississippi River which flows about 500 feet from the building. Engineering News Record referred to these "humpbacked" 1-1/2 catenary curve barrel arches 453 ft. long as having the profile of a whale. The Rivergate roof was perhaps the longest thin shell concrete roof span that had been constructed at that time. The 34,500-sq. foot North Hall, later called Penn Hall, in honor of its distinguished and successful manager, Herman Penn, was spanned by steel trusses 6' deep and covered with a flat roof.
It was under construction from 1964 to 1968, at a cost of $25 million. By 1994, this building was estimated to be worth $300 million. The Rivergate had pedestrian entrances on Canal and Poydras Streets and Convention Center Boulevard. The South Peters Street elevation was dedicated to entrance and exit openings for the two-level subsurface 800-automobile parking garage, a long loading dock with two access doors 20' x 20' to the first floor, and freight elevators.
The caption for the postcard (above) reads: The RIVERGATE, which covers six city squares, located where famed Canal Street meets the Mississippi River, is one of the most uniquely constructed convention-exhibition halls in the country. Boasting 130,000 square feet of clear, unobstructed space, with no posts or pillars; it is capable of seating more than 16,000 persons for an assembly or meeting with 733 - 10' x 10' exhibit spaces, or a combination of both. This 13 1/2 million dollar ($13,500,000) structure will be one of the nation's newest and finest facilities".
Ground breaking ceremonies on December 4, 1964 were followed by the driving of piles and a deep excavation to provide space for the parking garage, mechanical and electrical equipment, stairs and escalators to move people from subsurface levels up to the first floor, and the tunnel 60' x 750' ($1.3 million).
Although the Rivergate was conceived and designed as a convention-exhibition facility, it was also used as the venue for Mardi Gras balls, high school graduations, and the lying in state of New Orleans native Mahalia Jackson in 1972). But like the Municipal Auditorium, the Rivergate became obsolete in its usefulness as a convention and exhibition center. The Ernest N. Morial Convention Center was being planned in 1978. As of 2006, it has about 1.1 million square feet of exhibit space, covering almost 11 blocks, and over 3 million square feet of total space. It is the 5th-largest facility of its kind in the United States and would dwarf the old Rivergate.
In June 1992, Louisiana House Bill 2010 (Act 384 of the 1992 Regular Session) authorized a land-based casino in New Orleans. The legislation specifically defined the location of the land-based casino -- the Rivergate site at the foot of Canal Street. The law did not require the Rivergate to be torn down, and it did not require a new casino to be built.
The City of New Orleans then altered the zoning ordinances to allow construction of a casino at the Rivergate site. The city issued a call for casino proposals due on August 14, 1992 which required a $50,000 payment for the privilege of submitting a proposal, half of which was refundable to unsuccessful bidders.
On November 5, 1992, Mayor Sidney Barthelemy and the City Council picked Christopher Hemmeter-Caesar's Palace (known as the Grand Palais group) to lease the city-owned Rivergate site for development of a casino. The lease was signed on April 27, 1993.
Subsequently, the Casino Board awarded the casino operator's license to Harrah's Jazz, a partnership of Harrah's and the Jazzville group (all local investors).
On April 15, 1993, Mayor Barthelemy and the City Council finalized the selection of Hemmeter as the "developer" -- he later teamed with Caesar's World of Las Vegas to operate the casino in a renovated Rivergate but soon the Hemmeter-Caesar's group proposed its demolishion to make way for a new building called Grand Palais. This plan would include a twenty-two-inch deep pond, called Celebration Lake which would run across the foot of Canal Street, ending at One Canal Place. And there would be a sound and laser-light show and much more including a recreation of Bernard the colonnaded arcades at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. In the end, the only elements of the Grand Palais scheme that were constructed were the "Casino Support Facility" -- a ten-leve, 2 1/2 block long parking garage) which replaced a group of nineteenth-century buildings at the corner of Poydras and South Peters Streets and the tunnel linking it to the casino. But everything else fell through.
The official "wall-breaking" ceremony took place on Friday, January 13, 1995. On this occasion, a back hoe equipped with a claw toothed bucket and a "Harrah's" banner draped on its back climbed up the steps at the Canal-South Peters Streets entrance and began wrecking the underside of the cement plaster entrance canopy.
Much of the concrete debris was hauled to West End at Lake Pontchartrain to be used as fill for enlargement of a park off Breakwater Drive. Although only reinforced concrete was supposed to be dumped there, other debris was included. The nature of the debris stirred environmentalists and their protests stopped the dumping at the West End site.
On October 28, 1999, Harrah's Casino was completed at the foot of Canal Street, three years behind schedule.


I have gotten the Xentry to display real time values at idle. I have the checkboxes checked and I am watching the parameters as compared to the safe interval shown on the right.
I got the bar graph working too.
My question is : I don't see a checkbox "start recording the data" and it doesn't seem to be recording. How do I get Xentry to log a record of the live data, where's the save button? Or does it not record ?
Should I post a screen shot ?
This logic makes sense in idle.
There is however also a different live data section called full load.
You see how for full load, while the data is either in or out of spec, one may be busy driving to get to that full load, rather than watching.
Also the data has to be corroborated.
Meaning at a later time, looking that the recorded data, you look for the rpm and for the timing advance and the load. You try to see what the timing was for a certain load.
Or you try to see the state of the cooling fan versus the temperature of the coolant and the rpm (there probably is a set of tables in the ECU, several conditions have to be met).
Or position of throttle at 100% accelerator, over 5500 rpm.


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MN State Fair Food Becomes Subject of "Little America" on Apple TV+
Laura Bradshaw
Laura Bradshaw Published: January 10, 2023
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Everyone knows that you can get almost ANYTHING on a stick at the Great Minnesota Get-together, otherwise known as the Minnesota State Fair.
One of the more unique choices was Camel on a Stick. This was available in the International Bazaar on the fairgrounds. I love going through that area. There is live music, unique foods and drinks. and lots and lots of craft type things and apparel. It's interesting to explore that area each year.
Back in 2010, Somali chef Jamal Hashi introduced Camel on a Stick at the state fair. Right before the fair, there were some very challenging things that happened. The restaurant flooded, he broke a rib and wound up fainting from exhaustion. But, in the end, things worked out and he wound up selling out of his Camel on a Stick within 4 days of the fair.
Fast forward to the end of 2022, and there is a show on Apple TV+ focusing on this adventure. The show is called "Little America" and on the second season there is an episode which features several Somali actors and a Somali screenwriter, many of whom are from Minnesota.
The "Little America" episode, "Camel on a Stick," is considered the first major Hollywood studio production to portray Somali life in Minnesota or the United States. It also features multiple Somali actors and a Somali screenwriter, some of whom are from Minnesota.
Jamal Hashi said that his main concern was to make sure that the series would portray the situation in an authentic way.
From the Sahan Journal:
Jamal, 41, a successful entrepreneur who has started 13 restaurants in Minnesota and New York, said his biggest concern was that the studio tell his story authentically. Jamal's story received national media attention at the time, and in 2017 a production agency reached out to him about adapting his story into a show.
If you are interested in seeing the episode which ran in December, if you have Apple TV+ it's available on that streaming network.
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China Successfully Lands Spacecraft on Moon
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The Long March-5 Y5 rocket, carrying the Chang'e-5 lunar probe, is seen before taking off from Wenchang Space Launch Center, in Wenchang, Hainan province, China, November 24, 2020. (REUTERS/Tingshu Wang/File Photo)
China successfully landed a spacecraft on the moon's surface on Tuesday in a historic mission to retrieve lunar surface samples, Chinese state media reported.
China launched its Chang'e-5 probe on Nov. 24. The mission, which was manned remotely by an earthbound team aims to collect lunar material to help scientists learn more about the moon's origins.
The mission will attempt to collect 2 kg (4-1/2 lbs) of samples in a previously unvisited area in a massive lava plain known as Oceanus Procellarum, or "Ocean of Storms".
If the mission is completed as planned, it would make China the third nation to have retrieved lunar samples after the United States and the Soviet Union.
The lander vehicle that touched down on the moon's surface was one of several spacecraft deployed by the Chang'e-5 probe.
Upon landing, the lander vehicle is supposed to drill into the ground with a robotic arm, then transfer its soil and rock samples to an ascender vehicle that would lift off and dock with an orbiting module.
State broadcaster CCTV said it would start collecting samples on the lunar surface in the next two days. The samples would be transferred to a return capsule for the trip back to Earth, landing in China's Inner Mongolia region.
China made its first lunar landing in 2013. In January last year, the Chang'e-4 probe touched down on the far side of the moon, the first space probe from any nation to do so.
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We were lucky enough to attend the event — a privilege and bit of a novelty for a bunch of graphic designers like us — after being invited to design a commemorative book and exhibition to document this year's nominees and the long history of the award. A very nice brief indeed.
Like the stories from gathered past-winners at the Palace, research for our assignment provided an eccentric romp through the past half century of UK design history. Although flanked each year by a selection of industry heavyweights put forward by the country's most highly-regarded design bodies, H.R.H. personally chairs the judging of the Prize, and there is no doubt that the selection of winning designers and designs are evidence of his own, well publicised concerns about the impact of design on society and business.
Ritchie's win demonstrates this and brings us up-to-date. Brompton is a shining beacon of British optimism and an entrepreneurial triumph in these times of globalisation, and economic doom-and-gloom. The bike and almost all of its parts are wholly manufactured in the UK. Only after each one is lovingly constructed (and checked, checked and checked again many times) is the famous folding logo affixed to the frame, and they are ready to be delivered from the company's single factory in West London, just a few miles from where Ritchie built the first prototype in the cramped confines of his bedroom in the mid 1970s. Today, 22,000 Bromptons are sold annually to enlightened customers around the world, with demand growing exponentially every year.
The bike is also an icon of our more environmentally aware times. The preponderance of two wheels is in no greater evidence than from where I write this, in Shoreditch — that well-known corner of East London so popular with creative-types, sitting snugly (or smugly) beside the skyscrapers of the financial district next door.
Designers are a sensitive bunch, and bikes are an eco-statement here. We're trendy too, so they're a fashion accessory as well — you can't cross the street for fear of being startled by a fluorescent-coloured fixie. Like impossible vector graphics made physical, riders flit around the streets like beautifully crafted Flash animations. Next to them, the Brompton cuts quite a different silhouette. Its distinctive design makes a clear statement that there is more to this machine than deliberate aesthetic. Importantly, it's a great, sturdy ride to boot, and popular with designers and non-designers alike. City slickers and Hoxtonites are drawn to the bike for practical elegance, rather than just elegant lines.
So it can ride the same wave of the fashionable and socially conscious zeitgeist as the fixies, but the Brompton's unmistakable form is almost wholly attributable to its Prize-winning innovation — the ingenious fold — a victory of function before form which has been applauded in the industry for helping to sell the two-wheeled dream to the unconverted, and promoting sustainable transport to the masses in the process.
Like the (often fanatical) converted, Brompton are proud of this fact. And for good reason too: while other styles appear and disappear, Brompton (and Ritchie), stoically pedal onward and upward, past their competitors, earning a hard-won place in design history as they go.
Ben Brookbanks is a graphic designer and founder at MultiAdaptor.
Portrait and Brompton photography by Christine Donnier-Valentin.


Cambridge, MA : Perseus Pub., 2002.
Dr. David Lawrence has had a long and distinguished career in medicine, crowned by his current role as CEO and Chairman of Kaiser Permanente, the largest non-profit healthcare system in the world and the leader in integrated medical care. A sophisticated, team-based approach that draws on the strengths of the healthcare organization as well as on community resources, integrated care is a most cost-efficient healthcare business model. It also gives patients that all-important sense of control over their conditions and provides the kind of care they can navigate and trust: personal, safe, cohesive, and effective.In From Chaos to Care, Dr. Lawrence shares his unique medical and leadership perspective, outlining a blueprint for lasting and healthy change for the business of health care. Rich with stories of the ways in which integrated, team-based care succeeds on both the human and organizational fronts, this book is an urgent manifesto for the implementation of high-quality and cost-effective health care for all. For doctors and insurers, specialists and healthcare administrators alike, From Chaos to Care illuminates the path to the future of American medical care.
Imagine a team of medical professionals, including doctors, health educators, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and therapists, that is interested in and knowledgeable about your personal medical history. These experts have access to the latest research and technology, as well as your complete medical and pharmacological history, and communicate regularly with one another and are open to your input to form a treatment plan. Sound too good to be true? Lawrence, a physician and the longtime CEO of the large, not-for-profit HMO Kaiser Permanente, contends that team-based medical care not only works well but can also provide better treatment than traditional single practitioners. Lawrence acknowledges that there are many challenges to achieving the goal of integrated, team-based care, but he offers numerous real-life examples of organizations heading in this direction. Although the lack of bibliographical references may frustrate the scholar, this brief but persuasive book is highly recommended for public libraries and health science collections.-Tina Neville, Univ. of South Florida at St. Petersburg Lib. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.


Notable Californian real estate expert and community-centric investor, Kenny Slaught of Investec Real Estate Companies, continues to show tremendous support and empathy towards those who experienced hardships in life. In keeping with his personal philosophy as a visionary philanthropist, Slaught has advocated for the Hospice of Santa Barbara and its Parenting After Loss program. He continues to educate the broader public of the importance of social support, especially for people who have experienced the loss of their beloved ones, and has recently promoted this initiative on his blog at KennySlaught.com.
Few of the most well-known Santa Barbara architecture features comprise, the centuries old Hotel Virginia, El Pueblo Viejo district in historic centre and the two pink towers of the Old Mission, which holds retreats and festivals. The brightly colored tiles of the County Courthouse houses vivid displays of murals and other attractive attributes. Close is the clock tower and observation deck, delivering a panoramic view of the entire city. The Lobero theatre not only houses the regions premier performing arts events but also goes back to 1873 and was rebuilt in the 1920's by George Washington Smith. These are some examples of the rich history in Santa Barbara as per Kenny Slaught, where, because of the founder's advanced planning, many antique, architecturally remarkable buildings line the streets of the old districts.


You can now check out both of our new singles "Home" and "Don't Come Knocking" on YouTube, FaceBook, ReverbNation, Spotify, etc., AND you can buy them on iTunes!
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Tulum's original name Zama means sunrise. Very apt as so many people come here and like the sun, they rise to their higher consciousness and after a process of recovery and/or rediscovery, they get reborn.
My time here has been magic. I came with no expectations. And I leave bewitched. Tapping into the magnetic spiritual energy of the ancient Mayan culture has brought me several steps closer to myself. I have learned so much. Especially about myself. Coming on a trip alone was very daunting for me. To be here by myself in a totally new place where I knew no one. I leave knowing that I can be by myself and enjoy it. That alone is merely a state of mind and not being. Very thankful for special unexpected connections I made here.
Beginning to trust the Universe in its plans for me & open to receive it. The dots are starting to connect. Its as though a veil is slowly being lifted in front of me and I am starting to see. Clarity. Intuition. Not just words but finally senses.
Looking at myself, right at myself. Not turning my eyes down eyes away, as I usually do, physically and metaphorically. Seeing myself for the essence that I am and what I could be.
I leave with inner strength that I never thought I had, looking forward to what the future has in store for me. And being Ok not knowing exactly what it will be. Living each day as it come. Gracias Tulum. Te Quero. Regreso pronto.
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Raffia Aerin pouches awaited guests at their table settings along with bunches of late summer dahlias and hydrangeas lining the center of the white wooden tables. Poached lobster salad was followed by various flavors of sorbet—everyone clamored for coconut—berries, and petit fours as well as etched crystal bowls of classic candy: Swedish Fish, chocolate malt balls, licorice allsorts.
Tabitha Simmons, garden party–perfect in pool-blue-and-white Tory Burch, was giddy about the allsorts, "These were always my favorite!" the Brit exclaimed happily while model **Lindsay Ellingson'**s eyelet romper matched the vermillion hue of the Swedish Fish in front of her. Kelly Klein popped a chocolate caramel in her mouth, "Of course Aerin would think to do this!" said the photographer appreciatively, "Candy in crystal bowls. So great. She always knows how to do it." That sentiment seemed to be true of every aspect of the afternoon.


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From Oscar-nominated visionary filmmaker Baz Luhrmann comes Warner Bros. Pictures' drama "Elvis," starring Austin Butler and Oscar winner Tom Hanks.
This film explores the life and music of Elvis Presley (Butler), seen through the prism of his complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker (Hanks). The story delves into the complex dynamic between Presley and Parker spanning over 20 years, from Presley's rise to fame to his unprecedented stardom, against the backdrop of the evolving cultural landscape and loss of innocence in America. Central to that journey is one of the most significant and influential people in Elvis's life, Priscilla Presley (Olivia DeJonge).
Starring alongside Hanks and Butler, award-winning theatre actress Helen Thomson ("Top of the Lake: China Girl," "Rake") plays Elvis's mother, Gladys, Richard Roxburgh ("Moulin Rouge!" "Breath," "Hacksaw Ridge") portrays Elvis's father, Vernon, and DeJonge ("The Visit," "Stray Dolls") plays Priscilla. Luke Bracey ("Hacksaw Ridge," "Point Break") plays Jerry Schilling, Natasha Bassett ("Hail, Caesar!") plays Dixie Locke, David Wenham ("The Lord of the Rings" Trilogy, "Lion," "300") plays Hank Snow, Kelvin Harrison Jr. ("The Trial of the Chicago 7," "The High Note") plays B.B. King, Xavier Samuel ("Adore," "Love & Friendship," "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse") plays Scotty Moore, and Kodi Smit-McPhee ("The Power of the Dog") plays Jimmie Rodgers Snow.
Also in the cast, Dacre Montgomery ("Stranger Things," "The Broken Heart Gallery") plays TV director Steve Binder, alongside Australian actors Leon Ford ("Gallipoli," "The Pacific") as Tom Diskin, Kate Mulvany ("The Great Gatsby," "Hunters") as Marion Keisker, Gareth Davies ("Peter Rabbit," "Hunters") as Bones Howe, Charles Grounds ("Crazy Rich Asians," "Camp") as Billy Smith, Josh McConville ("Fantasy Island") as Sam Phillips, and Adam Dunn ("Home and Away") as Bill Black.
To play additional iconic musical artists in the film, Luhrmann cast singer/songwriter Yola as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, model Alton Mason as Little Richard, Austin, Texas native Gary Clark Jr. as Arthur Crudup, and artist Shonka Dukureh as Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton.
Oscar nominee Luhrmann ("The Great Gatsby," "Moulin Rouge!") directed from a screenplay by Baz Luhrmann & Sam Bromell and Baz Luhrmann & Craig Pearce and Jeremy Doner, story by Baz Luhrmann and Jeremy Doner. The film's producers are Luhrmann, Oscar winner Catherine Martin ("The Great Gatsby," "Moulin Rouge!"), Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick and Schuyler Weiss. Courtenay Valenti and Kevin McCormick executive produced.
The director's behind-the-scenes creative team includes director of photography Mandy Walker ("Mulan," "Australia"), Oscar-winning production designer and costume designer Catherine Martin ("The Great Gatsby," "Moulin Rouge!"), production designer Karen Murphy ("A Star Is Born"), editors Matt Villa ("The Great Gatsby," "Australia") and Jonathan Redmond ("The Great Gatsby"), Oscar-nominated visual effects supervisor Thomas Wood ("Mad Max: Fury Road"), music supervisor Anton Monsted ("Australia," "Moulin Rouge!") and composer Elliott Wheeler ("The Get Down").
Principal photography on "Elvis" took place in Queensland, Australia with the support of the Queensland Government, Screen Queensland and the Australian Government's Producer Offset program.
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Screening Of Documentary "Peace Out"
Special screening of the award-winning BC documentary "Peace Out"
The SFU Greens student club is committed to fostering community dialogue about energy, sustainability and environmental issues in BC. For our year end event, we're thrilled to host a special screening of the award-winning BC documentary Peace Out. It premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival and was the only film from BC selected for 2012 Hot Docs, North America's largest documentary festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize for a Canadian Feature. The SFU Greens are bringing Peace Out and director Charles Wilkinson to SFU Harbour Centre on April 11 to screen the full-length movie followed by an audience Q&A.
Peace Out explores the Peace River Valley and the tangled web of issues surrounding the "incredible amount of resource extraction" that's underway and planned for Northern BC, including BC Hydro's controversial Site C Dam. The film offers a broad discussion of the role that energy plays in modern life, including its costs and its benefits, and features interviews with speakers from across the political and economic spectrum. The director's goal was to collect interviews from business leaders, government, scientists and community groups in a way that humanizes an extremely polarized debate.
Charles Wilkinson is an SFU alumni and has produced critically acclaimed documentaries for the National Film Board of Canada. He's directed six independent features, written a popular directing book, teaches screenwriting and film history at Capilano University, and directs film and television programs.
Students, faculty and members of the public are welcome to attend this unique event as we explore these issues in the lead up to the next BC provincial election. The event is free and refreshments will be served. The documentary night will take place on Mon. April 11, 7pm, room 1425 at SFU Harbour Centre, 515 W. Hastings St. in downtown Vancouver.
Thu. Apr 11, 2013
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Festival with ancient origins.The cart is drawn by white oxen from Piazzale Porta al Prato to the cathedral. Once it is positioned in front of the church, a metal wire is connected, through the open doors, to the main alter. A replica of a dove with an olive branch in its beak and a lit fuse, is released from the alter and it slides along the wire to ignite the fireworks on the cart. According to tradition, if the lighting of the cart comes off well, a good year is predicted for the city of Florence.
Beginning of the good season. There's a procession in renaissance costumes, a mediaeval market and gastronomic stands with typical products of Chianti.
Saint Lucchese met Saint Francesco of Assisi and decided to live his life in the same way. So he became a holy man. Now his body rests on the Basilica of San Lucchese and for the day of his celebration the body is brought in procession. Stands with typical products, fireworks in the evening.
Wine producers open their cellars to the public. It is an excellent opportunity to enjoy the wines proposed, and also to sample typical traditional products and dishes.
Medieval Festival in honour of Saint Bernardino. Historical crossbow competition with parade in costume.
Ferie delle Messi – June Historical re-evocation in the streets and squares of the town, with medieval stands, parades in costume and a knightly tournament called "Giostra dei Bastoni".
Florence celebrates this day with the lively medieval football matches played on Piazza di Sante Croce, ending with a fireworks display over Piazzale Michelangelo.
Gastonomic Festival discovering the most typical and savoury plates of this area.
Palio - 2nd July - Proceeded by trial races the two days before.
Since 1147 historical secular horse race held in Piazza del Campo, connected with districts or contradas into which the town is divided.
Representation within the walls of scenes from medieval life. Stalls inspired by medieval crafts; musicians and figurants in costume move through the streets of the village.
Torchlight parade and crossbow competition.
The streets and the squares of the medieval town animate with artists, musicians, acrobats, artisans who practise their crafts producing works of art with iron, copper, ceramics, wood, and glass.
Held in the Patron day. It is a re-evocation of the ancient "palio race".
Volo di Cecco Santi [Vinci Fair] – Last Sunday in July.
Fair with historic processions in costume, tournaments, exposition of local crafts and, of course, gastronomic stands.
The "Accademia dei Leggieri", ancient theatrical association founded in the 16th century, organizes classical music concerts all summer long.
Barrel race through the town in medieval costume.
in honour of the "Madonna dell'Assunta", proceeded by trial races the two days before. Since 1147 historical secular horse race held in Piazza del Campo, connected with districts or contradas into which the town is divided.
Outdoor opera festival. Famous Festival of lyric music since 1930 following the Giacomo Puccini 's wishes.
In a giant barbecue, steaks "alla fiorentina", rigorously of "chianina" meat race, are cooked as it wants the ancient Tuscan tradition. Stands with typical Tuscan products.
It has its origins in the 14th century. Competition in medieval costumes.
Mostra del Cristallo [Crystal glass festival] - Last 15 days in September.
The old part of the village "Castello" becomes a factory in open air with expert craftsmen attempting to the working of the crystal. Shops expose and sell crystal objects.
Festivity of the florentine tradition with performers of all kind, especially dedicated to children.
The capital of pecorino cheese "dresses" with perfumes and colours of its typical products.
Ancient game on horseback, with an historical procession.
It takes place in the beautiful public square of Greve. Typical wine and products of this famous wine area.
The festival recalls the hunting that it is carried out with the arc. Plates made up of game and local wine; dances and songs in traditional costume.
Gastonomic Festival in the village of Giovanni Boccaccio.
Festival in honour of the grape picking.


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NBC's 'Beautiful People' Casts A Human And A Robot
Posted January 2nd, 2012 by Scott West
When I first read that Michael McDonald, the guy most famous for playing the man-child Stewart on 'MAD TV' had created a science fiction television show, I immediately wrote it off a drivel.
But, the more I hear about the show, I am becoming intrigued. It's called 'Beautiful People' and is being developed by NBC. The plot revolves around a company that has created androids called "Mechanicals" and begs some of the age-old sci-fi questions of artificial intelligence: Are synthetic beings as real and as important as humans beings? Can they have emotions? Should they have rights? Sure… all of these questions have been asked before and had answers from all over the spectrum. But, as an avid fan of artificial intelligence in sci-fi, I always like seeing a fresh take on the subject.
Today, Deadline announced that NBC has cast its first actors for the show. British actor James Murray ('Primeval') will play the son of Lydia. Lydia is the widow of the head of the company that created the Mechanicals. Murray's character is a priviledged kid who is now a lawyer who crusades for civil rights for Mechanicals.
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Patrick Heusinger ('Royal Pains') has been cast in the role of a Mechanical who is a house servant for the family. The twist… Heusinger's character, after losing one of his daughters in a car accident, begins to experience grief and loss. As emotions are forbidden for Mechanicals, he is declared "defective". It's also interesting to note that this synopsis seems to imply that Mechanicals can reproduce.
It sounds like Steven Spielberg's 'A.I. Artificial Intelligence' with an extended cast of characters and more corporate/legal intrigue. I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this one as it develops.
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Dance takes us to a new cosmos tonight
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It might seem like it was only yesterday that the 21st Cyprus Contemporary Dance Festival started dancing its way into our hearts – time flies when you have your dancing shoes on – but it has been almost a month. We have seen acts from the Netherlands, France, Cyprus, Italy and Israel, and now it is time for Greece to take centre stage.
The dance piece Ion, a production of the Onassis Cultural Centre choreographed by Christos Papadopoulos, will concentrate on the world of Nature and present us with questions having to do with human nature – because out there we are all ions, electrically charged.
Papadopoulos' minimalist, poetic, artistic universe is a place we can all inhabit. Ion is a performance that focuses on the microphysics of motion, the volume of detail that can flow from a kinetic pattern allowing the eye to wander, to travel through the boundless field of human relations.
According to the press release: "The flight of birds, the co-ordination of fireflies, a series of micro-phenomena that comprise the world of Nature, become a starting point for the kinetic research of Christos Papadopoulos. The choreographer does not merely represent the aforementioned enchanting coincidences; he moves on with a reductionist approach to kinetic patterns encountered all around us.
"In this piece, Papadopoulos searches for the mechanisms or the algorithm that lies behind the function of co-ordination. A living system of 10 dancers tests our powers of observation with unnoticeable changes and noiseless transitions in order to reveal the fragility of human relations that validate the pace of life, that is, the natural order of things.
"So, while the title refers directly to the phenomenon of ionisation, the performance tends to work by association, highlighting elements that transcend form, the mechanism of choreography, the rigour of a system," the press release continues.
What fascinates the choreographer, and what will ultimately fascinate us in his choreography, is how these elements connect and create a unique cosmos. Through his fascination with this new world, Papadopoulos puts forward a multi-sensory experiment focusing on the repetitive nature of kinetic motifs. He relies on the primal elements of rhythm, movement, place and time when composing his work. Even so, the way he links actions allows the audience to gradually discover the interaction of movement with other elements.
Papadopoulos studied politics at Padion University in Athens, where he also joined the university theatre group and set about discovering theatre. He then went on to study theatre at the National Theatre School of Greece. It was during this time that he discovered dance via classes provided by the school as well as extra dance lessons which he took independently. He continued with dance studies at the SNDO School in Holland.
When asked about his process of choreography, Papadopoulos said it is down to questioning things. "I always start with a strict limitation. I feel that if I worked on what arises in the process of making, I would never manage to finish any piece. I remain loyal and firm to the limitation I set myself. This limitation evolves, prompting all the materials that become the performance, unravelling things I would have never imagined."
Dance performance choreographed by Christos Papadopoulos as part of the 21st Cyprus Contemporary Dance Festival. June 28. Rialto Theatre, Limassol. 8.30pm. €5. Tel: 77-777745
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Q: How to batch insert multiple rows at once into a table with an auto incremented id field in oracle? I am using Oracle 12c. I have a table with an auto increment column, pk_id. For a single row insert I do this:
insert into mytable (colA, colB) values (1,2);

It works. The primary key column pk_id is auto generated.I found how to insert multiple rows in one go here. So I tried this to do batch insert:
insert all
    into mytable (colA, colB) values (2,4)
    into mytable (colA, colB) values (3,6)
    into mytable (colA, colB) values (4,8)
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select 1 from dual;

But it is showing this error:
An UPDATE or INSERT statement attempted to insert a duplicate key

How can I do batch insert?
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Abengane is one of the hunters hired by Battera to try and complete the game. His power becomes clear after he has a bomb placed on him by Bomber: He can remove Nen curses placed by other. This means that he is the Jyounen user the Genei Ryodan is looking for.
He is eventually hired by Hisoka to remove Kuroro's curse.


The Void is an unabashed celebration of classic B-movies, a smorgasbord of horror tropes lovingly arranged for nostalgic consumption. Co-written and directed by Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski, the film champions an old-fashioned approach to horror filmmaking, and will certainly delight fans of the genre. Though some of the plot elements end up feeling rushed and overly complicated (especially the ending), The Void offers some astonishing visuals, a gripping and creepy story, and wonderful gore effects. This is B-movie charm at its absolute finest, and should delight lovers of '80s horror, even if it is a little haphazard.
Get your horror trope checklist ready for The Void. A police officer named Daniel (Aaron Poole) finds a man stumbling down a road and takes him to a local abandoned hospital. Bizarre cultists surround the hospital as the people inside start to act strange, and then transform into Cronenberg/Carpenter hybrid creatures, or sometimes zombies. As people are slashed and turned into monsters, darker machinations are set into motion to open a portal to another dimension. The hospital can't keep its lights on, and there's a reasonable amount of body horror as well. Axes are dragged on the ground, tendrils erupt from people's eyes, and lots of things are incinerated.
Without exception, the best elements of The Void are the in-camera practical effects. These include some awesome gore and makeup, creepy-crawly animatronics and puppets à la The Thing, and other horrific visuals. These visuals can be incredibly simple, like the stark costuming of the cultists (seen below), or batshit insanity that reminds of Brundle Fly. It is obvious that Gillespie and Kostanski cut their teeth on practical effects and makeup, because everything in The Void is beautifully built, lit, and executed. It is a kind of horror filmmaking that we rarely see anymore.
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The clearest visual stylistic choice in The Void is the rampant use of darkness. This movie is darker than a DCEU trailer, to the point that the action on the screen is sometimes unintelligible. To its credit, this is often to ramp up the tension, isolate the characters, and hide the monsters, so it isn't just dark for the sake of dark. There's a balance to strike though, and sometimes it feels like The Void dials down the lighting just a tad too far, for too long. The film plays a little with the tone of the lighting too, shifting to a haunting red light in the climactic moments of the movie. This is a powerful effect, and lends some variety to the appearance of the movie.
Why is red light so creepy? Are there horror scenes set in darkrooms? There should be.
The devotion of Gillespie and Kostanski to stunning visuals is such that practically every other aspect of the film is subservient to its practical effects. The characters are not particularly likeable or well-developed, so there is a lack of emotional resonance when they start dropping. The story is also pretty slap-dash, blending together elements of zombie movies, supernatural horror in the Lovecraftian vein, body horror, and a few other weird things. Finally, the themes are a little too thin and varied for there to be any weight to them. The film gets bogged down trying to develop complex ideas like trauma, family, the afterlife/alternate dimensions, but spends too little time on each.
One may bristle at the lack of focus in these areas, but classifying The Void as a simple cohesive film may be missing the forest for the trees. Nit-picking the weaker elements of the movie distracts from the fun of nostalgic exploration of time-honored horror tropes. This is not to say that The Void is simply the horror movie equivalent of a Family Guy episode, piecing together The Fly, The Thing, and Night of the Living Dead and riffing on them ad nauseam. It seems fueled more by respect and homage than by aping references. It is fun to see the toys that Gillespie and Kostanski bring to that sandbox.
Because The Void wears its inspiration so brazenly on its sleeve, it is hard to recommend the film to non-genre fans. It is possible that you could hook someone with The Void, and then show them its myriad predecessors if they are interested. But I believe it much more likely that someone unfamiliar with the tenets of the genre will see the film's foibles as faults. Not all films have to be for everyone, though, and those pining for the good-old-days of in-camera practical horror effects will find plenty to gush over in The Void.
The Void opened in select theaters on April 7th, with a simultaneous release on VOD platforms (I rented it from Amazon). If you consider yourself a super-fan of '80s horror films and practical effects, I would love to hear if you enjoyed The Void and its blatant celebration of these kinds of films. If you don't consider yourself a big fan of these kinds of movies, I'd love to hear from you even more! Did this movie win you over to the genre, or at least pique your interest? Comment down below, and be sure to share this review with horror-loving friends, or friends that you are trying to goad into the horror rabbit hole. And, if you dig the post and want to read more of my stuff, make sure you sign up for notifications (either below or on the sidebar to your right).


Gardening even on a small scale is so rewarding and teaches you patience, allows you to practice kindness and caring as you look after your plant friends and it soothes the soul. I'm not sure that words have the capacity to really explain just how beneficial it is to keep a garden. It's a balm, nature's medicine that can cure stress and keeps you in the now, nurturing not only your mind but body and spirit too. When you get hooked and your budget is limited, you can still create the garden of your dreams. Today is part 3 of the urban gardening how-to series detailing how to make a wooden raised planter for your balcony, any size. Part one of the series on planning your balcony garden can be found here and part two garden focal points & building a simple fountain can be found here.
*A note about using used wood – there are 2 things to consider when using "used" wood. The first is that the life of your plant bed will be a bit shorter which generally should not be a problem and in fact recycling is great for the earth and for economic reasons. However, some woods may be impregnated with toxins. Generally known to be chemically treated are wood pallets – if you use them grow flowers, not edibles and at least line them with another material.
The planter shown in this article was built for a vertical application to grow 2 vining plants – cucumbers and nasturtium. Nasturtiums are great in salads (you can eat both the leaves and flowers) and the flowers not only are beautiful, they have a peppery taste. Cucumbers must be planted by seed or if you can transplant seedlings but only after the last frost. Be careful they are sensitive and tender when they are young.
The planter is quite a lengthy planter yet narrow. The climbing vines will produce food and provide much-needed shade. The dimensions are – (L) 300cm x (W) 30cm x (H) 20cm. It was also probably the easiest of the few that were built this year since the boards that were purchased came in 300cm lengths. Using 4 whole pieces each at 300cm x 10cm for the front (2) and back (2) and then chopping up another for the sides (4) 30cm x 10cm with a piece leftover to be used for other boxes.
The pieces were all screwed together and small scraps of wood left over from other projects were used for added support at the inside corners and midway through the box.
screw the boards together – use the soap at the tip of each screw, it makes the screws turn easier. Another little tip is to not screw them all tight at once, get them all in 3/4 of the way and then go back and tighten them up. also if the weather is tricky or you have just run out of strength and you are having a hard time to finish screwing the pieces together – have a coffee or tea and take a little break and try again later – you will be honestly amazed how much easier it is then.
using scrap wood or other wood of the same height of the box, in this case 20cm, fasten these with screws at the interior corners and midway if the box is long.
Voila! you are ready to either build a vertical extension or skip this step and get those boxes filled.
If you decide to use chicken wire, wear good gardening or work gloves to protect your hands.
screw the board/wire panels to the back or interior of the box – it is a lot easier if you have another person helping you with this part.
This is a very rewarding project and watching the garden grow is nothing short of amazing. If you have any questions or if you would like to share any of your experiences, please leave a comment.
I've also created an infographic that details the process and have included it below. Feel free to share it on your own blog, Pinterest, Instagram or any of your fav social networks. I only ask that you do not remove the credit on the infographic and if you republish it on a blog, link back to this post.
A variation of this post was originally published on my former gardening blog yourbalconygarden.yoyoro.net.
You can read a more detailed article on planning a balcony garden here.
In my opinion, every garden where ever it is, deserves to have a focal point. It could be a larger flower, a cluster of flowers, a statue, a fountain, a bird, bat or insect house or any myriad of items. Here are 2 examples of focal points that I photographed on one of my trips to Glastonbury, England.
Perennial bloom succession is most certainly something to look forward to throughout the growing season! During the long winter months snuggled up in blankets, wandering mind produces dreams and visions of lush foliage, colourful flowers blooming and trailing vines.
Nice Wooden plant bed for balconies…..
Do you use anything for an inner lining or do you plant directly into your boxes?
so sorry for the long time in replying – yes i do line the boxes and somewhat loosely since i dont want it to be air tight so it can drain a bit. i mostly have used the plastic bags that the soil came in as the lining and heavy duty garbage bags sliced so they are only 1 layer. Hope that helps and would love to see pics of your project – thanks for the comment.
Hi Nancy wishing you success with your veggies growing on the balcony. I havent posted any pics in a very long time but can tell you that the reward is so great. This year tomitillos, tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers were my primary veggies. Don't get discouraged …for instance this year my tomitillos weren't filling out their paperlike shells that appear first and then suddenly it seemed I had a massive amount of tomitillos ready to harvest.
One other difficulty is learning the 'climate' on your balcony. My balcony faces south and there were a few days where I had to protect some of my plants from the sun. Please share some photos. Thanks for the comment.
Hi, I was wondering about the drainage on a balcony. Does the water actually leak out of the box onto the balcony? If so, is there a way you direct it over the edge? I live in an apartment and have a shared balcony…I don't think my neighbors would appreciate it much if I leaked all over the balcony!
I actually happen to have a gutter off of my balcony – HOWEVER – water the fills the plant boxes really does get absorbed and used by the plants. Vegetables especially need lots and lots of water. Right now when it rains your neighbor below you would probably get more run off from your balcony. But there are things you can do to be sure that when you water it isnt getting wasted and running off – this year, I have added a few cut bottle tops and a few milk cartons with holes in the dirt and water directly in them so that the roots get direct access and i dont have to use as much water. Also and especially if your balcony faces south you can line it with one big piece of plastic without any drain holes or minimal holes since the intense heat will evaporate a lot of the moisture. If you are in a very wet climate it could mean root rot for some things. You can also use drought tolerant plants to keep things to a minimum. I would love to know more specifics about your balcony – is there an overhang? how big? etc. and maybe you can send me a picture to my email amyinro at gmail.com. I will be posting some pics soon of some of the changes that I have made on my balcony this year.


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U.S. Navy Policies Battling COVID-19 Rely Heavily On Isolation
KPBS Radio | By Steve Walsh
Published June 9, 2020 at 5:00 AM EDT
The Navy recently suffered a very public outbreak of the coronavirus on the USS Roosevelt. It confirmed the value of testing and tracking and quarantine as the nation continues to reopen. Steve Walsh with member station KPBS in San Diego has more.
STEVE WALSH, BYLINE: On April 23, a sailor from the USS Kidd was diagnosed with COVID-19, the second outbreak onboard a Navy ship. Commander Michael Kaplan was at the Navy Medical Center in Jacksonville, Fla. His team was flown to El Salvador, where the Navy destroyer was anchored off the coast.
MICHAEL KAPLAN: So we were there within hours of that positive test result.
WALSH: By the time they arrived, the ship's medical team had isolated 20 to 30 sailors who were showing symptoms.
KAPLAN: It was actually kind of somewhat of a surreal situation. Not too many people would probably want to run into a burning building, and that's probably the best analogy.
WALSH: And it's not an overstatement. The Navy has had the most cases of any of the services. Roughly half of its more than 2,000 cases have come from outbreaks aboard two ships - the carrier USS Roosevelt and a month later onboard the USS Kidd. One of the lessons learned from the Roosevelt, the Navy moved quickly to track down everyone who was sick onboard the Kidd. Again, Navy doctor Michael Kaplan.
KAPLAN: That was exactly our plan, was to try to test 100% of the crew as quickly as possible. So we worked 24/7, round the clock, from the moment we got there to the time we left. And it took us about 3 1/2 days to get everybody onboard, over 300 people, tested.
WALSH: Keeping the virus away from sailors is a constant challenge. The new Navy buzz phrase is creating the bubble. They isolate sailors in small groups. In May, the Navy SEALs used the bubble to justify reopening portions of its notoriously grueling basic training, including hell week.
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WALSH: In this 2011 footage of SEAL training, cadets are shown being pushed to the brink of collapse. Commodore Bart Randall says the Navy can keep sailors crammed together during training because the cadets are isolated from other classes and from the rest of the base.
BART RANDALL: Those guys - that bubble is solid. We are increasing all the social distancing in our classrooms, in the chow hall. There are some things that we just - we're not going to change these standards, though. We're not changing the quality of training.
WALSH: The Navy is still ramping up testing. It's been a struggle. The Naval Health Research Center was granted authority to test by the CDC on February 12, but it took another two weeks before hospitals figured out a process for getting samples to the lab, says Dr. Chris Myers.
CHRIS MYERS: The case definition in the beginning was very limiting. Right? So you had to have specific travel to Wuhan, China, and other limitations or at least contact with someone that met the COVID definition. So meeting that narrow case definition may have been problematic in the beginning.
WALSH: With each month, the tests themselves are getting faster. The test used on the Kidd showed results within 15 minutes, says Dr. Kaplan, who responded to the initial outbreak. Testing is still the only way to find out if people have the virus but who don't show symptoms. That includes roughly half of the some 90 cases found onboard the Kidd.
KAPLAN: A ship is a tough place to have an outbreak. But again, we actually were able to implement a number of different steps to try to mitigate the spread that, hopefully, other ships in the future, we're going to make it part of their standard operating procedures, such as, you know, routine cleaning.
WALSH: The Navy is also keeping vessels at sea to prevent the cruise from coming into contact with the virus. While the carrier USS Nimitz was in San Diego, sailors were not allowed off the ship. The entire crew were sequestered in Washington state for nearly a month prior. The ship was just deployed, but all ports of call are canceled. Even pilots that fly in to deliver supplies will have to be isolated for two weeks to preserve the Navy's new bubble.
For NPR News, I'm Steve Walsh.
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Since 2003 Kai has been developing his approach "Authentic Eros", which focuses on sexuality and relationships while integrating processes of group dynamics, bodywork, partner communication and Somatics. He founded the Somatic Academy of Berlin as well as the Community Center Village Berlin and curates the STRETCH and the BODY IQ festivals. Kai is a breath therapist based on Prof. Ilse Middendorf's breath experience, holds the German Heilpraktiker license for psychotherapy, is a Continuum teacher who was authorized by Emilie Conrad from 2011 until her passing in 2014 and he is a founding member of the Continuum Teachers Association. He believes that the conscious body (embodiment) and a broader understanding of Eros as a creative force can support our evolution toward a more integral and sustainable way of life. Kai runs seminars, workshops and trainings in Europe and the US since 2002. His Authentic Eros work for groups including all genders and sexual orientations is described on www.authentic-eros-new-culture.com and on www.kaiehrhardt.com; his somatic work and professional trainings are on www.somatische-akademie.de.
Peter Kogelbauer works as a somatic educator and Gestalt therapist in Spain. He is trainined in Sexological Bodywork and developed his own approach to embodied sexuality ("Sexualidad Somática"), which he teaches at his Institute in Barcelona.
For more that 13 years he has worked with gay and sexually diverse men individually and in groups and trainings, both in Spain and internationally. His objective is to create safe enough, lively and transformative learning spaces where persons can develop a deeper connection to themselves, their capacity for pleasure, and to others.


Cover reveal for Zompoc Survivor: Inferno!
If you've been on Facebook in the last few hours, you've already seen this, but I also wanted to post it here. I get thousands of its here a month, so I know a lot of traffic comes here. And here, I get to go into a little more detail.
I got to watch Gerry Kissell do the preliminary work on this on Saturday, and I was amazed at how quickly this came together and how much detail he packed into it. Everything on this cover reflects an element from the book, from the place the story starts to important details about the building itself. And I love how Gerry managed to add in the visual link back to how book one ended. I could spend hours picking out amazing little things about this.
This one is much better than the one I did for ZS: Exodus, and in time, you can bet I'm going to ask Gerry to redo the cover to it, too. But for today, I'm moving forward. If you want to see more of his work, go to his awesome website.
I plan to get ZS: Inferno out hopefully by end of week, and when I do, I'm going to be making some noise. I hope you'll help me.
I love this, very eye-catching. Congrats on yet another milestone Mr. Reeder.


A lesbian couple from Salem County are locked in a custody battle over their son after a sperm donor sued them for parenting time.
The outcome of their case, according to their attorney and a Rutgers law professor, might change the status of reproductive rights for couples around New Jersey who conceive by artificial means.
Sheena and Tiara Yates of Pennsville had a son who was conceived by at-home artificial insemination -- known colloquially as alternative insemination -- in June 2013 under the counsel of a physician. The couple already had a toddler, also conceived by artificial insemination from a different donor, and had drawn up contracts in which both men relinquished their legal paternity.
It looked for a while as though everything had gone smoothly. In the same five-month span between December 2013 and April 2014, however, both sperm donors came forward and filed for visiting rights with each child.
State law addressing artificial insemination and domestic issues, as the Yateses discovered, says that only when the insemination process is carried out under the direct supervision of a physician, can the non-biological parent be legally considered the natural parent of the child. The law also protects the donor from having any "rights or duties stemming from the conception of the child."
The Yates family lost the first custody case, and that donor now has visitation time with the older child -- a court ruling the couple decided not to dispute. The same thing happened with the second suit in September after a Salem County Superior Court judge ruled in favor of the donor, Shawn Sorrell. His parenting time begins with a few hours each weekend in addition to paying $83 a week in child support.
"Emotionally it's very hard for us," said Sheena Yates. "All we want is a family, and we can't have kids without an outside party. It's a lot for us to have to deal with. It's not just hard on us, it's hard on the kids, too."
The Yateses asked that their children's names not be revealed to protect their privacy.
The couple's son is now a year old, and according to Sheena, had not met his biological father until visitation began. Sorrell, of Wilmington, Delaware, is representing himself in the case. He could not be reached for comment.
As they file their appeal with the Superior Court of New Jersey's appellate division, the Yateses not only argue that the precise location of the procedure should be irrelevant, but also hope one major factor will influence an appellate court's decision about custody over their younger child. They had no legal recognition of their relationship when their first child was born, but have been in a civil union since 2011 and got married in May 2014.
"The question now is whether the presumption of marriage is stronger than the artificial insemination statute," said Kimberly Mutcherson, a professor of law at Rutgers-Camden. "You're battling out two different parts of the statutory scheme and figuring out which one would prevail."
Without the marriage aspect, she added, the case would be fairly cut and dry.
"It's a core mistake people make. The court says if you go to a physician and do it their way, [donors] don't have a legal connection to the child," Mutcherson said. "When you don't have that anymore, you have two people on equal footing. At that point it's just a custody proceeding."
John Keating, the Glassboro-based attorney representing the Yateses, said he hopes the question of marital status will strengthen their case.
"We think it's important the appellate division make a decision. Our purpose here is for other couples not to go through this. They set out to start a family together, and they did what they thought was the right thing," he said. "They entered into contracts with sperm donors, they consulted a physician and are now in a position of raising two children with two sperm donors instead of being two parents and their children. Now there are four parents raising these children."
Sheena said she hopes bringing attention to her case will help other couples avoid similar problems in the future.
"It's not just us," she said. "It's thousands of others who could go through it, too, and it affects people's lives every day."
Keating also argues that their consultation of a physician should hold up in court, despite the fact that the procedure was carried out at home. Furthermore, he said, the court's interpretation that artificial insemination must be carried out only by a doctor puts lower-income people, gay or straight, at a disadvantage. Fertility clinics carry a hefty price tag, and sperm banks aren't cheap.
"We don't think this is an anti-LGBT decision," Keating said, but noted that even initial fees at most sperm banks tally about $1,000. "But we do think it disparately impacts LGBT couples, and disproportionately impacts lower-income people."
"The way the law is structured is most protective of people who have the money to buy from a cryo-bank or have the insurance to cover fertility treatment. The courts want this to be a relatively hands-off transaction," she said. "There are pockets of people that are negatively impacted."
The Yates family said that they would have done things differently if they had fully understood the specifics of the law, but that they hope a successful appeal would change current regulations.
"I can admit that we just assumed that if we had a contract, these guys would be donors and nothing else," Tiara said. "But now that we have our kids, we can't change our minds. We're trapped. I want to make this known so that if there are more people out there, they can fight for their rights."
In the meantime, both Keating and Mutcherson strongly urge couples considering having children by way of a third party to get educated on their rights.
"Understand what the law requires and decide if it's going to help you create the family you want or if you're opening yourself to what these folks are experiencing," Mutcherson said. "It's devastating and could've been avoided."
"I want to caution anyone who's thinking about doing any sort of assisted reproduction to consult an attorney and know what their rights are going to be," said Keating. "They should know what their donor's rights are so they don't end up in this situation."


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Prep girls volleyball: Branson's Wallace…
Prep girls volleyball: Branson's Wallace looking to have big senior season for four-time defending state champions
By Marin Independent Journal and Brian Sanchez |
PUBLISHED: September 13, 2013 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: July 19, 2018 at 3:20 a.m.
It would be difficult to compile a more impressive list of achievements over the course of a high school career than Sarah Wallace has.
The senior outside hitter from the Branson School has been a factor at the varsity level since her freshman year. Entering her final season for the Bulls, Wallace is already a three-time state champion and two-time league champion.
Perhaps the only thing more difficult may be handling all of that success with more humility than Wallace has. She always puts her team first and credits them for her success as much as she does herself.
"I've never thought of myself as the star," Wallace said. "I've always thought of my team as the star."
Branson is once again expected to be the cream of the crop in the ultra competitive MCAL. This is nothing new for Wallace or Branson and the competition is welcomed.
"We're excited to play the other teams in the league," Wallace said. "We know they're going to be coming out and playing their best against us."
Wallace is stepping into a leadership role this season as the lead senior on the team which is a stark contrast to how she was as a freshman.
Back then Wallace described herself as timid, not scared, but in awe of the size and strength of the seniors she was going up against. She never wavered though and her team needed her.
"(Sarah) had a large role as a freshman," Branson coach Michelle Brazil said. "At a school that's so small, everyone on the team has such a huge role."
Off the court, Wallace is like any other high school kid. She enjoys spending time with her friends, going shopping, cooking, and swimming.
Wallace also spends time giving back to the community. She is a part of the interact club at Branson which raises money for organizations locally, nationally and internationally. She also spends her summers volunteering at Glide Memorial Church in the soup kitchen.
"I like the interaction with those less fortunate," Wallace said. "I like to see what their life is like and see that I am making a difference."
Looking beyond this season, Wallace knows she wants to play volleyball in college, but she is not sure where yet. She is looking at Division III schools right now and she really wants to focus on the academic merits of the school. Not sure as to what she wants to study in college, she does know that she wants to focus on her favorite subjects — math and science.
One topic that seemed as if it were almost taboo to both Wallace and her coach was that of player of the year. Each of the last two years a Branson player has been named MCAL player of the year. Last year it was Gaby Steiner, and the year before that it was Sarah's older sister Kathleen.
"If it happens it happens," Wallace said. "The thought honestly never even occurred to me, the end of the season is so far away, I would rather win the league."
"Would not want to put that high of an expectation on anyone," said Brazil, who added that there are so many good players in the league that you could not know who would win the award, but she would not be surprised if Wallace did win it.
Branson is 2-0 with Wallace being the model of consistency. In those two games she has 30 kills and has split them evenly with 15 in each game.
Wallace, Brazil, and the rest of the Bulls open MCAL play on Tuesday with a home match against Tam and Wallace is ready.
"This is the year for me to be a leader on the team," she said. "It's flattering to know all the teams want to beat us so badly, it makes us better."
Contact Brian Sanchez via email at bsanchez@marinij.com
Brian Sanchez


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The vision of a just knowledge society
Maisha M. Auma accepts the first Audre Lorde guest professorship of the Berlin University Alliance
News from Jun 10, 2021
The diversity network of the Berlin University Alliance (BUA) DiGENet has launched a guest professorship for diversity studies. The "Audre Lorde-BUA-Guest Professorship for Intersectional Diversity Studies" is intended to shape Berlin as a research hub on a par with the reality of urban society. The educational scientist Prof. Dr. Maisha M. Auma will be the first researcher to accept the guest professorship. In the public seminar series "Yallah Diversity" she is seeking to enter into dialogue with Berlin stakeholders.
As an educational scientist and gender researcher, Maisha M. Auma bundles and updates research approaches that deal with unevenly distributed social power, privilege structures, and barriers to participation. "Gender studies have already made a huge difference in Berlin as a research hub," says Maisha M. Auma. But there is still a need for action: Only when existing patterns of exclusion are identified can those who have been discriminated against not only participate, but also become involved on a permanent basis – and help steer the fate of research institutions.
"So far, Berlin research has not yet reflected the hyperdiverse, post-migrant reality of Berlin society," says Maisha M. Auma. Multiperspectivity in research and teaching is the task of current and sustainable diversity policies and research. "The aim is to transform homogeneous social spaces so that the diversity of society can be institutionalized scientifically." As a black woman, Maisha M. Auma has experience of belonging to the academic world that is not a matter of course: "I have worked on and sharpened this knowledge within the framework of German-language educational science, gender studies, and childhood studies in a power-critical and reflexive manner." The researcher analyzes social reality intersectionally, from the perspective of those groups that have little social power. She works consistently transnationally, both on topics of diversity pedagogical research and intersectional-racism-critical theory and practice.
The DiGENet guest professorship is named after the black Caribbean-American writer, library scientist and English professor Audre Lorde. She worked as a guest professor at Freie Universität Berlin and between 1984 and 1992 was repeatedly in Berlin for longer stays. The Audre Lorde guest professorship is intended to shape contemporary, future-oriented diversity studies for and from a hyperdiverse, post-colonial metropolis. Its aim is to make this research visible – locally as well as transnationally – and to open it up to a broader debate.
"New and important social issues, debates and research objectives in the Berlin area are, for example, diversity-oriented restitution research," emphasizes Maisha M. Auma. "The fact that Berlin, as a former colonial metropolis, is now assuming political responsibility to address colonial injustices such as the genocide against the Namaqua and Herero or the return of stolen objects gives rise to hope that racially marginalized groups and post-migrant realities in Berlin, including academia, will become institutionally visible in Berlin. The Berlin University Alliance takes on a central role in establishing these contemporary issues."
The DiGENet guest professorship in the cross-cutting theme Diversity and Gender Equality of the BUA structures partial aspects of these debates and the research questions generated from them in the form of public lecture series, seminars, and colloquia. The first of these is "Yallah Diversity". In this public series of seminars, Maisha M. Auma discusses theoretical terms such as "post-migrant", "decolonial", and "critical of racism" with actors from the Berlin academic landscape. The series of seminars started on May 27 and will run until July 15, 2021.
The Berlin University Alliance
The Berlin University Alliance is a consortium consisting of three major Berlin universities – Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin – and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, established to shape research and education in Berlin. The four partners joined forces to further develop Berlin as a research hub with international drawing power. Together the partners explore major societal challenges, increase public outreach, promote the training of junior researchers, address issues of quality and standards in research, and share resources in the areas of research infrastructure, teaching, diversity, equal opportunities, and internationalization. The Berlin University Alliance is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the state of Berlin under the Excellence Strategy of the Federal Government and the Länder.
Joint press release from Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin along with Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Hans-Christoph Keller, acting press spokesperson for the Berlin University Alliance and press spokesperson for Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Email: medien@berlin-university-alliance.de


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Progress for Auckland's St James Theatre (+ VIDEO)
Tuesday, 21 October 2014, 5:18PM
Updated 4:45: Auckland's iconic St James Theatre may be a step closer to re-opening.
The St James Theatre complex is to be redeveloped, with a high-rise apartment building on part of the site but with the developers looking to save and restore the St James Theatre.
VIDEO: St James Theatre complex development
The theatre was sold to the Lee family on Friday.
Dylan Moran reports the family has appointed a company to look into developing the theatre and restoring it to its former glory.
"That does come with a trade off though.
"They will be building a 307 room apartment building on the site as well, and there have been no guarantees that they will actually reopen the theatre, just that they'll look into it."
Source: Newstalk ZB


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Q: Strange behaviour of DateTime.Parse We have a large application that (unfortunately) use DateTime.Parse(text) a lot.  Replacing DateTime.Parse with something better is not an option right now.
Recently I upgraded windows (to windows 10) and started to have issues. According to the documentation at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime.parse(v=vs.110).aspx the method should use CultureInfo.CurrentCulture as default formatprovider. This does not appear to be the case on my pc, unless I'm missing something obvious.
The following code calls a function two times, first without changing any culture settings, then with norwegian culture set on both the culture and ui-culture.
For some reason it is able to parse a text given in en-US format (M/d/yyyy) in both cases, but it is unable to parse a date in the format expected by CultureInfo.
What is going on here? I hope I'm missing something obvious..
class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        var norwegianCulture = new CultureInfo("nb-NO");

        Console.WriteLine("First");
        ParseDates();

        Console.WriteLine("\nSecond");
        Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = norwegianCulture;
        ParseDates();

        Console.ReadKey();
    }

    private static void ParseDates()
    {
        Console.WriteLine($"CultureInfo.CurrentCulture: {CultureInfo.CurrentCulture}");
        Console.WriteLine($"CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture: {CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture}");
        Console.WriteLine($"{Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture} - CurrentCulture - {Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern}");
        Console.WriteLine($"{Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture} - CurrentUICulture - {Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture.DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern}");
        var shortDateString = new DateTime(2015, 9, 5).ToShortDateString();
        WriteParsedDate(shortDateString);
        WriteParsedDate("1/2/2015");
        Console.WriteLine();
    }

    private static void WriteParsedDate(string shortDateString)
    {
        try
        {
            var d = DateTime.Parse(shortDateString, CultureInfo.CurrentCulture);
            Console.WriteLine($"The text {shortDateString} parsed to Year: {d.Year}, Month: {d.Month}, Day: {d.Day}");
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            Console.WriteLine($"The text {shortDateString} could not be parsed.");
            Console.WriteLine($"Error: {e.Message}");
        }
    }
}

Writes this to the console:
First
CultureInfo.CurrentCulture: nb-NO
CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture: en-US
nb-NO - CurrentCulture - dd.MM.yyyy
en-US - CurrentUICulture - M/d/yyyy
The text 05.09.2015 could not be parsed.
Error: String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.
The text 1/2/2015 parsed to Year: 2015, Month: 2, Day: 1

Second
CultureInfo.CurrentCulture: nb-NO
CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture: nb-NO
nb-NO - CurrentCulture - dd.MM.yyyy
nb-NO - CurrentUICulture - dd.MM.yyyy
The text 05.09.2015 could not be parsed.
Error: Strengen ble ikke gjenkjent som en gyldig DateTime.
The text 1/2/2015 parsed to Year: 2015, Month: 2, Day: 1

PARTIAL WORKAROUND
As shf301 writes, this is due to a bug in Windows 10.
I managed to get it to work by changing the time seperator from "." to ":" - As in older versions of Windows. I guess it's working with that change since we are only using the users settings, and not loading/specifying them manually.

A: This is an open bug listed Connect.  It appears that date parsing is failing for any locale that has the same separator's for date and time.
Estonian (Estonia)
Finnish (Finland)
Norwegian Bokmål (Norway)
Norwegian Bokmål (Svalbard and Jan Mayen)
Serbian (Cyrillic, Kosovo)
Serbian (Latin, Montenegro)
Serbian (Latin, Serbia)
Serbian (Latin, Kosovo)

Your example never parses nor format's the date using US settings.  First of all DateTime.Parse without an IFormatProvider uses CurrentCulture and not CurrentUICulture and second you explicitly pass CurrentCulture into DateTime.Parse.   That's why the output in both cases is exactly the same.
Had "1/2/2015" been parsed using en-US rules, it would have output:
The text 1/2/2015 parsed to Year: 2015, Month: 1, Day: 2

DateTime.Parse is just being clever and assuming that you used a / as a date separator instead of a . and parsing the date as d/M/yyyy.
Until this is fixed you will unfortunately have to changed your calls to DateTime.Parse.  Or switch to .Net 3.5 or earlier which is not affected.


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Shae Byrts is a hot commodity in her hood. Using her body and beauty has earned her the title, "Project Queen". She's got it, and was born to flaunt it! She's determined to break away from her abusive mother, and leave her impoverished lifestyle far behind.
When she begins dating a notorious drug dealer, she assumes all of her problems are over. She couldn't be further from the truth. She finds out that beauty is only skin deep, and all of the money, spinning rims, and glitter, can come at a violent price.


2007/00001 Road traffic - Unlawful use of vehicle - Endangerment - Imprisonment - Drug addict. Same offender on different bill to 2007/00002 and 2007/00003. Accused sentenced on all three bills on same day.
2007/00002 Imprisonment - Robbery - Drug addict. Same offender on different bill to 2007/00001 and 2007/00003. Accused sentenced on all three bills on same day.
2007/00003 Imprisonment - Unauthorised use of a vehicle - Dangerous driving - Drug addict - Disqualification. Same offender on different bill to 2007/00001 and 2007/00002. Accused sentenced on all three bills on same day.
2007/00004 Burglary - Criminal damage - Imprisonment.
2007/00005 Assault causing harm - Imprisonment. Same offender on different bill to 2007/00006. Accused sentenced on both bills on the same day.
2007/00006 Robbery - Imprisonment - Consecutive sentence. Same offender on different bill to 2007/00005. Accused sentenced on both bills on the same day.
2007/00007 Drugs - Sale or supply - Section 15A - Imprisonment - Part suspended.
2007/00008 Robbery - Imprisonment - Drug addict - Part suspended.
2007/00009 Drugs - Sale or supply - Section 15A - No previous convictions - Imprisonment.
2007/00010 Unauthorised carriage in motor vehicle - Assault - Alcohol problem - Imprisonment.
2007/00011 Unlawfully taking possession of a motor vehicle - Criminal damage - Imprisonment - Car chase. Linked with 2007/00012 and 2007/00013.
2007/00012 Imprisonment - Unlawful carriage - Unlawfully taking possession of motor vehicle. Linked with 2007/00011 and 2007/00013.
2007/00013 Unlawful carriage - Unlawfully taking possession of a motor vehicle - Imprisonment. Linked with 2007/00011 and 2007/00012.
2007/00014 Assault causing harm - Alcoholic - Imprisonment.
2007/00015 Drugs - Imprisonment - Foreign national - Section 15A - No previous convictions.
2007/00016 Robbery - Imprisonment - Drug addict - Imitation firearm.
2007/00017 Armed robbery - Imprisonment - Possession of a handgun. Co-accused at 2007/00018 and 2007/00019.
2007/00018 Armed robbery - Imprisonment - Possession of a handgun. Co-accused at 2007/00017 and 2007/00019.
2007/00019 Armed robbery - Imprisonment - Possession of a handgun. Co-accused at 2007/00017 and 2007/00018.
2007/00020 Theft - Imprisonment - Suspended in full - No previous convictions.


The plan of this Maribor office centre on the eastern edge of the medieval nucleus was commissioned from the architect Vlado Emeršič during the 1970s. The office centre in a proposed pedestrian zone stretching from the railway station to the university building was formed by the Social Accountancy building (1971) and the Commercial Bank of Maribor (1973-75). The new square was formed on the pedestrian axis between those buildings. Both buildings are reinforced concrete skeleton structures, their exterior parts exhibiting the functional divisions of the interior space. Emeršič tried to develop a personal, expressive architecture which emerged within the field of questioning the results of structuralist architecture. Emeršič divided the building into two functionally separate parts: the higher office volume and the lower assembly complex including the claims settling departments.