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We had a great time sailing on the Disney Dream and doing a thorough Dine Around in January 2011. During that sailing, DFB researched (um, okay, ate) our way through the bountiful offerings on this all-you-can-eat cruise.
Disney's next cruise ship, the Fantasy, is set to sail its maiden voyage in March of 2012. The 2,500 passenger ship will be identical in size and layout to the Disney Dream, although the two will not be exactly the same. Let's review the venues for food and beverages on the Fantasy!
Main Dining
On board the Disney Fantasy guests will have many options when it comes to dining. They can of course choose to follow the rotational dining schedule that is set before departure, or opt out on certain nights to enjoy restaurants like Cabanas, Palo, and Remy.
The main dining options on the Disney Fantasy will be similar to those offered on the Disney Dream; the main changes will include a new show that will be offered at Animator's Palate, a entirely new them for the adults-only district on the ship, and design changes for some of the other restaurants.
Animator's Palate
Animator's Palate is one of the main dining experiences on all three existing Disney ships, and the Fantasy will be no exception. However on the Fantasy, guests will experience the all new "Animation Magic" show starring none other than Mickey Mouse.
Diners will be treated to a truly magical experience led by Sorcerer Mickey. Watch as the characters on the wall move from black and white to color, and experience the Beauty and the Beast classic "Be Our Guest" in a whole newway. Guests will also have the opportunity to draw their own characters that will be featured in the show's finale!
The Finding Nemo-themed experience that debuted on the Disney Dream will also be a featured on a separate night at Animator's Palate.
The menu for the Animator's Palate on board the Fantasy has not been finalized, but is said to feature Pacific Rim and American entrees.
Enchanted Garden
The Enchanted Garden is one of the Fantasy's main dining restaurants and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Inspired by the gardens of Versailles, the Enchanted Garden is a magical experience for guests of all ages. Watch as the ceiling transforms from the bright blue of the day sky to a twinkling night sky, and catch a glimpse of the flower sconces blooming. A 7-foot tall fountain will be the centerpiece of this truly magical restaurant.
Breakfast and lunch are both served buffet style while dinner is an elegant 4-course meal. Enchanted Garden will also feature a children's menu that will be sure to please even the pickiest of eaters.
Royal Court
Royal Court is another one of the main dining restaurants aboard the Fantasy. It serves French-inspired cuisine for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and carries decor inspired by the Disney princess classics Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The centerpiece and focal point of the restaurant will be the beautiful chandelier.
In addition to serving dinner, Royal Court will also be offered as a full-service lunch option and a continental breakfast option.
Cabanas offers diners a casual dining experience with a California feel. Diners who visit Cabanas for breakfast and lunch will have the opportunity to browse the many food stations filled with culinary classics. Those attending Cabanas for dinner will enjoy a delicious table-service meal with menu items being cooked in front of your eyes in the show kitchen.
Those wishing to dine under the stars or feel the ocean breeze while they eat can choose to have dinner at Cabanas instead of at one of the ship's main dining options. The whole family will be able to enjoy dinner here and may choose to sit outside on the deck or inside in the dining room.
Adult-Only Dining
Similar to the options on board the Disney Dream, the Fantasy will offer two adult-only dining options, Palo and Remy. Both will offer phenomenal cuisine and a sophisticated, elegant atmosphere for guests to enjoy.
Palo is one of the two adult-only dining options available on the Fantasy. Floor to ceiling windows and raised seating on one side of the restaurant allows all guests the opportunity to have an ocean view as they dine.
With a menu inspired by the North of Italy, Palo is sure to be a favorite among many Disney Fantasy passengers. Passengers will have to make reservations to dine at Palo, and there will be an additional charge to dine here ($20 currently on the Dream).
For some itineraries brunch and high tea will also be available at Palo.
The second adult-only dining option on the Fantasy, Remy will be the most elegant dining experience available on board. Reminiscent of a fine-dining experience in the south of France, Remy will provide guests the perfect setting for a sophisticated, intimate dinner.
The menu was created by Chef Arnaud Lallement from l'Assiette Champenoise in Reims, France, and Chef Scott Hunnel from Victoria and Albert's at Walt Disney World.
Passengers wishing to dine at Remy will have to make reservations, and there will be an additional charge for dining here ($75 currently on the Dream).
Meridian is an adults-only lounge inspired by world travel. It is located between Palo and Remy for those guests who wish to have a pre- or post-dinner cocktail. Guests will be able to enjoy their drinks in an inside lounge with an ocean view or on an outdoor deck, which features a cigar bar.
Adult-Only Lounges
For the Fantasy's adult-only nighttime entertainment district, Disney has decided to go with a European theme: Europa. Disney executive Joe Lanzisero said that "it will be night out in Europe."
Similar in size and layout to the entertainment district aboard the Dream, Europa will offer something for everyone, whether they want to sip champagne, dance the night away, or enjoy a pint with their friends.
La Piazza
La Piazza is a part of the Europa district on board the Fantasy and will allow guests 18 and older to relax and enjoy the Italian themeing of this bar and lounge. The centerpiece to La Piazza is the bar, which is modeled after a vintage Italian carousel.
Think Irish pub with a contemporary vibe. That is what designers had in mind when coming up with concept behind O'Gills Pub. O'Gills is the perfect place to unwind after a busy day, enjoy an adult beverage, and watch the big game.
Skyline Bar
The Skyline Bar on the Dream was such a big hit that Disney decided to include it in the plans for the Fantasy as well. The bar will feature electronic windows providing ever changing views of Paris, London, Barcelona, Athens, and St. Petersburg.
Ooh La La
With velvet tufted walls, Victorian furniture, and Louis XV-style chaise lounges, the Ooh La La champagne bar has been designed to resemble a French boudoir and will provide guests an elegant setting to unwind.
The Tube
The Tube is a London inspired nightclub in the Europa entertainment district on the Fantasy. Complete with 1960's furniture, a red English phone booth, and an illuminated Union Jack dance floor, the Tube will certainly be a favorite place among adult Fantasy passengers.
Pool Bars and Lounges
In addition to the Europa nighttime entertainment district, the Fantasy will also offer various other bars and lounges throughout the ship for guests to enjoy throughout the day. Some even offer options for the whole family.
Bon Voyage
Bon Voyage will be located in the grand atrium of the Fantasy and will offer adults the opportunity to grab a drink and relax during the day. The art-deco inspired bar will offer a full bar menu with a comfortable seating area in addition to bar seating for guests.
Vista Cafe
A cafe bar located on Deck 4, Midship. Vista will serve drinks and snacks throughout the day. Vista Cafe will also be a hot-spot on the Fantasy offering wireless connectivity for those wishing to surf the internet (this was the ONLY place I could get reliable connection on the Dream). There will also be a photo kiosk where guests can view the photos available at Shutters, Disney's onboard photography studio.
Cove Cafe
Located beside the Quiet Cove Pool, the adults-only pool, the Cove Cafe is another adults-only cafe on the Fantasy. The Cove Cafe will allow guests the opportunity to relax indoors or outside by the pool.
Guests will be able to grab a book or magazine from the Cafe's library, watch the news, or check-out one of the cafe's wifi enabled laptops to check their email or surf the internet.
The initial menu at the Cove Cafe says that guests will be able to get specialty coffees here such as lattes, cafe mocha, espresso, and cappuccinos. There will also be an array of specialty teas such as russian earl grey, thunderbolt darjeeling, and more.
Guests who wish to enjoy an alcoholic beverage can choose from champagne and sparkling wines, or one of their after-dessert martinis such as espresso martinis, toblerontinis, and chocolatinis. Snacks such as danishes, cookies, croissants, and brownies will also be offered and will be complimentary.
An outdoor bar that boasts incredible panoramic views of the ocean, Currents will offer a variety of drinks for the whole family ranging from bar drinks to fruit juice and milk. Guests wishing to get some sun can grab one of Currents' deck chairs to relax in as they enjoy their refreshing beverage.
Waves is the perfect place for adult guests to unwind and enjoy the sea breeze while they are cruising aboard the Fantasy. This open-air bar has plenty of table seating in addition to seating available in the bar for guests and offers a full bar menu.
Ooh, I hope I get to go on the Fantasy!! But I'll admit, I'm still excited about my opportunity to be on the Dream. Be sure to check out our coverage of the Disney Dream (where we've reviewed many of the restaurants that will appear on the Fantasy) in our Disney Dream Dine Around section!
Our Disney Dream excursion in January was a two-night, Disney-sponsored media event to showcase the newest ship in the Disney Cruise Line fleet prior to its official maiden voyage.


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Bridesmaids, The Ides Of March And War Horse Among Producers Guild Nominees For Best Picture
The Producers Guild of America, one of several industry organizations whose nominations for the Best Films of the year are thought to predict the Oscars, have announced their Best Picture picks this morning. The list includes a lot of familiar awards season favorites like The Artist, The Descendants and Hugo, but also a surprise or two, namely David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, long thought to be too dark for awards attention. The full list of nominees is below.
The Artist
The Descendants
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Help
The Ides of March
Midnight in Paris
War Horse
There was also a list of animated feature nominees, which consists of The Adventures of Tintin, Cars 2, Kung Fu Panda 2, Puss in Boots and Rango-- all major studio releases. The films nominated for Best Documentary were Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest, Bill Cunningham New York, Project Nim, Senna and The Union.
The other big surprise on the Best Picture list has to be Bridesmaids, a raunchy summer comedy with a really remarkable staying power throughout awards season-- the Screen Actors Guild also nominated the film, and while the Oscars and their long-standing aversion to comedy may still not be game, the little female-driven comedy that could is still doing amazingly well. It's also kind of strange to see The Ides of March in the mix-- the George Clooney-directed drama seemed to fall off the map after its release in the early fall, but this nomination may give it a boost, as Academy voters are now sitting at home with the Best Picture nomination ballots in hand.
The Producers Guild Awards will be handed out on January 21 this year; the Academy Award nominations are announced just three days later on January 24. The next big guild to announce their nominees will be the Writers Guild, which announces Thursday, and then the Director's Guild, who announce their winners on Monday, January 9.
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As one GOP presidential candidate after another bounces up, and then down, in the polls, Mitt Romney has established himself as the slow and steady front-runner for most of the race.
Even if he's not thrilling the Republican Party's conservative wing, the former Massachusetts governor has managed to hover at or near the top. That's also true in the leadoff caucus state of Iowa, despite waging a low-key campaign.
The latest candidate to jump up in the polls, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, is in Iowa four out of five days this week. Romney, meanwhile, has announced he will be in the state the day before Thanksgiving — only his fifth public visit to the state all year.
A Smaller, Leaner Operation
Last week in Davenport — one of the Quad Cities straddling the Mississippi River in eastern Iowa and northwest Illinois — Romney said he wants Iowans to get better acquainted with him.
"There are things on TV, right? There's even Monday Night Football, right? There are all these things, and yet you're coming out to get a look at someone who's running for president and saying, 'I'm gonna take some time to get to know this guy, because Iowa's gonna have the first say as to who our nominee should be, and that person has got to be able to beat Barack Obama and get America right again,' " he said.
Some candidates have the luxury of focusing on just one state — that's not our campaign. We're focused on the country and winning the nomination.
He didn't take questions after his stump speech, but he asked the crowd of a few hundred people to stick around and shake his hand.
David Kochel is a consultant for Romney's campaign in the Hawkeye State.
"We have a small operation as compared to four years ago. Right now, we have four [paid] staff and me," he says. "We're relying a lot more on volunteers."
Kochel won't say how much smaller the operation is this cycle. But in addition to spending less time in Iowa, he says, Romney is spending a "fraction" of the $10 million he shelled out here during his 2008 campaign — more like a few hundred thousand dollars.
The strategy, Kochel says, is different this time around, because Iowans already know who Romney is.
"Romney wasn't known four years ago, and Iowa was a good opportunity for him to break through," he says. "We needed to spend a lot of time here, and resources, to introduce him to Iowans. And so we advertised early, we put a lot of focus on the straw poll ... and we were successful with that. But it's an expensive strategy."
'What He's Doing Is Working'
In 2007, Romney was the clear winner of the unofficial but much-talked-about Iowa Straw Poll. But he finished a disappointing second in the real contest — the Iowa caucuses — 9 points behind former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. The campaign skipped this year's straw poll and has yet to buy any ads there.
All that has some Iowans wondering whether Romney is serious about winning Iowa. Des Moines attorney Doug Gross was Romney's state campaign chairman in 2008. He hasn't thrown his weight behind anyone yet and says he wants to see how the Republican field sorts itself out.
"The other thing I'm waiting to see, is see if he commits himself to the state of Iowa," Gross says. "It's difficult for me as an Iowan to get behind, wholeheartedly, a person who's not attempting to compete in my state."
Ultimately, how Romney campaigns in Iowa may not matter all that much. The most recent Des Moines Register poll had Romney at 22 percent to businessman Herman Cain's 23 percent lead. That was before Romney's latest visit, and before allegations of sexual harassment emerged against Cain.
Gross says Romney may do just fine in Iowa despite the low profile, given that his opponents are, as he puts it, "self-immolating."
"I mean, so far what he's doing — at least to his mind — has got to appear to be working," Gross adds. "The oldest rule in politics is: Don't get in the way of someone destroying themselves."
Even so, Kochel says Romney will be "campaigning vigorously" in Iowa, but he adds that he's keeping a bigger picture in mind.
"We have a whole country to focus on. Some candidates have the luxury of focusing on just one state — that's not our campaign," he says. "We're focused on the country and winning the nomination."
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Currently, bulk build results are sent to the pkgsrc-bulk mailing list. To figure out if a package is or has been building successfully, or when it broke, one must wade through the list archives and search the report e-mails by hand. Furthermore, to figure out what commits if any were correlated with a breakage, one must wade through the pkgsrc-changes archive and cross-reference manually.
The project is to produce a web/database application that can be run from the pkgsrc releng website on NetBSD.org that tracks bulk build successes and failures and provides search and crossreferencing facilities.
The application should subscribe to the pkgsrc-bulk and pkgsrc-changes mailing lists and ingest the data it finds into a SQL database. It should track commits to each package (and possibly infrastructure changes that might affect all packages) on both HEAD and the current stable branch, and also all successful and failed build reports on a per-platform (OS and/or machine type) basis.
The web part of the application should be able to retrieve summaries of currently broken packages, in general or for a specific platform and/or specific branch. It should also be able to generate a more detailed report about a single package, containing for example which platforms it has been built on recently and whether it succeeded or not; also, if it is broken, how long it has been broken, and the history of package commits and version bumps vs. build results. There will likely be other searches/reports wanted as well.
The application should also have an interface for people who do partial or individual-package check builds; that is, it should be able to generate a list of packages that have not been built since they were last committed, on a given platform or possibly on a per-user basis, and accept results from attempting to build these or subsets of these packages. It is not entirely clear what this interface should be (and e.g. whether it should be command-line-based, web-based, or what, and whether it should be limited to developers) and it's reasonable to expect that some refinements or rearrangements to it will be needed after the initial deployment.
The application should also be able to record cross-references to the bug database. To begin with at least it's reasonable for this to be handled manually.
This project should be a routine web/database application; there is nothing particularly unusual about it from that standpoint. The part that becomes somewhat less trivial is making all the data flows work: for example, it is probably necessary to coordinate an improvement in the way bulk build results are tagged by platform. It is also necessary to avoid importing the reports that appear occasionally on pkgsrc-bulk from misconfigured pbulk installs.
Note also that "OS" and "machine type" are not the only variables that can affect build outcome. There are also multiple compilers on some platforms, for which the results should be tracked separately, plus other factors such as non-default installation paths. Part of the planning phase for this project should be to identify all the variables of this type that should be tracked.
Also remember that what constitutes a "package" is somewhat slippery as well. The pkgsrc directory for a package is not a unique key; multiversion packages, such as Python and Ruby extensions, generate multiple results from a single package directory. There are also a few packages where for whatever reason the package name does not match the pkgsrc directory. The best key seems to be the pkgsrc directory paired with the package-name-without-version.
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NYT's Bronner Laments 'There Was No Criticism of Israel', While Kershner Whines About Romney Support There
Where was the criticism of Israel? That was the plaint from Ethan Bronner (pictured) in his Wednesday "News Analysis," "Foreign Policy Debate's Omissions Highlight Skewed Worldview."
Bronner, former Jerusalem bureau chief for the New York Times, wrung his hands over all the issues missed during the third and last presidential debate Monday night, which focused (mostly) on foreign policy. While he didn't suggest criticizing Muslim countries, or critcizing Palestinian terrorism against Israelis, he used the term against Israel, wondering where the "criticism" was of "its settlements or its occupation of the West Bank."
There was no mention, let alone discussion, of the role of Turkey or its dilemma as a Muslim nation sharing a border with Syria, no discussion of the aging royal family of Saudi Arabia and its sponsorship of radical and conservative Islam, no mention of Somalia or Islamist threats to allies like Jordan and Morocco. There was a glancing reference to the Palestinians, but no discussion of their divisions, of the role of Hamas, of the separate status of Gaza, of the weakening grip of Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah movement, of what might happen if and when Mr. Abbas, the Palestinian president and leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, leaves the scene.
And there was no criticism of Israel, its settlements or its occupation of the West Bank. Mr. Romney did say that Mr. Obama had not visited Israel as president even after his 2009 visit to Cairo in which he pledged a new era in relations with the Muslim world.
In other Israel election news, Isabel Kershner didn't seem very pleased reporting from Jerusalem Wednesday on strong Romney support among American citizens there, griping about the pro-Republican leanings of a get out the vote organization in "Among Americans in Israel, More Forceful Backing for Romney – Voting Group Offers Push From Abroad."
Americans living in Israel went to the polls this week, dropping sealed envelopes into improvised ballot boxes at community centers in this city and at other locations around the country. Instead of a unifying experience, though, participating in the November presidential elections from afar seemed to accentuate the distance between the American Jewish voters here and those back in the United States.
An American Jewish Committee Survey conducted in early September showed nearly two-thirds of Jewish voters were supporting President Obama, in line with support in past elections. According to exit polls since 1992, about three-quarters of Jewish Americans have supported the Democratic presidential candidate.
Historically, the vote from Israel has hardly counted. The number of eligible American voters here is now estimated at about 160,000. In 2008, about 30,000 cast absentee ballots. Many here said the process of registering and voting was just too complicated.
But this time as many as 75,000 Americans in Israel have registered for a ballot, spurred on perhaps by the critical issues on the American-Israeli agenda but also by the efforts of iVoteIsrael, a get-out-the-vote group that says it is nonpartisan but that critics accuse of working quietly for the Republicans.
But critics from the Democratic camp have noted that some of iVoteIsrael's messaging, particularly on its Facebook page, has a distinct anti-Obama flavor, including an appeal to vote from the hawkish former United Nations ambassador, John R. Bolton, who has endorsed Mr. Romney.
Adding to the uncertainty, iVoteIsrael has also been vague about the sources of its financing. Its parent organization, Americans for Jerusalem, is a registered 501(c)(4) organization that does not have to disclose its financial backers. But the Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group said last week that Americans for Jerusalem appeared to have ties to Ronald S. Lauder, the conservative American businessman, philanthropist and supporter of Republican causes. Mr. Lauder's office said it had no comment.


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Burton Rascoe
American writer (1892-1957)
Arthur Burton Rascoe (22 October 1892 – 19 March 1957) was an American journalist, editor and literary critic. His most famous work, Titans of Literature, appeared in 1932.
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- When H. L. Mencken unpacks his idiomatic brasses, tunes up his verbal strings, and gets in readiness his phrasal wood winds to orchestrate a fugue in damnation or in praise of man, god or book, his all too meagre audience cancels all other engagements to be on hand at the initial presentation. The result, that audience knows, will be an experience of pure enjoyment. His musicianship is unfailing. His program is unsatisfactory only in its impermanence. Though the theme he proposes is invariably Mencken — Mencken apropos of this or that — he gives it infinite and intricate variations.
- "Fanfare", in H. L. Mencken (1920)
- American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The majority, initiate in a few of the patent rituals of Aristotle and Quintilian, don the forbidding robes of high priests to Sweetness and Light, and go about their business much as if the idea were to keep all they know to themselves.
- "Fanfare", in H. L. Mencken (1920)
- I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.
- "Contemporary Reminiscences" in Arts & Decoration, Vol. 26 (1927), p. 50
- It is true, of course, that like the fruit of the tree of life, Mr. Cabell's artistic progeny sprang from a first conceptual germ — "In the beginning was the Word." That animating idea is the assumption that if life may be said to have an aim it must be an aim to terminate in success and splendor. It postulates the high, fine importance of excess, the choice or discovery of an overwhelming impulse in life and a conscientious dedication to its fullest realization. It is the quality and intensity of the dream only which raises men above the biological norm; and it is fidelity to the dream which differentiates the exceptional figure, the man of heroic stature, from the muddling, aimless mediocrities about him. What the dream is, matters not at all — it may be a dream of sainthood, kingship, love, art, asceticism or sensual pleasure — so long as it is fully expressed with all the resources of self. It is this sort of completion which Mr. Cabell has elected to depict in all his work: the complete sensualist in Demetrios, the complete phrase-maker in Felix Kennaston, the complete poet in Marlowe, the complete lover in Perion. In each he has shown that this complete self-expression is achieved at the expense of all other possible selves, and that herein lies the tragedy of the ideal. Perfection is a costly flower and is cultured only by an uncompromising, strict husbandry.
- Introduction to Chivalry (1921) by James Branch Cabell, later published in Prometheans : Ancient and Modern (1933), p. 279
- Once we understand the fundamentals of Mr. Cabell's artistic aims, it is not easy to escape the fact that in Figures of Earth he undertook the staggering and almost unsuspected task of rewriting humanity's sacred books, just as in Jurgen he gave us a stupendous analogue of the ceaseless quest for beauty. For we must accept the truth that Mr. Cabell is not a novelist at all in the common acceptance of the term, but a historian of the human soul. His books are neither documentary nor representational; his characters are symbols of human desires and motives. By the not at all simple process of recording faithfully the projections of his rich and varied imagination, he has written thirteen books, which he accurately terms biography, wherein is the bitter-sweet truth about human life.
- Introduction to Chivalry (1921) by James Branch Cabell, later published in Prometheans : Ancient and Modern (1933), p. 279
- A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life — what people are interested in. That's journalism.
- As quoted in Useful Quotations : A Cyclopedia of Quotations (1933) edited by Tryon Edwards, C. N. Catrevas, and Jonathan Edwards
- What no wife of a writer can ever understand, no matter if she lives with him for twenty years, is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.
- Quoted by Bennett Cerf in Shake Well Before Using (1948)
- I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing.
- As quoted in the dedication to The Pumpkin Coach (1935) by Louis Paul


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GALLERY: Donald Trump, Rob Ford and more VIPs at the opening of the Trump Tower
The new Trump International Hotel and Tower is over the top—naturally, so was the opening. Rob and Doug Ford (along with Rob's wife Renata, who made a rare public appearance with her husband), Blue Jay J.P. Arencibia and Maple Leaf John-Michael Liles were all on hand to watch Donald Trump and his kids Ivanka, Eric and Donald Jr. cut the ribbon on the tower (using gold-plated scissors brought in on silver trays by scantily-clad models, of course). Technically, the 65-storey luxury behemoth at Bay and Adelaide opened its doors in January, but, hey, everyone loves a ceremony, especially when it involves The Donald entering in a procession of Toronto police officers and bagpipes.
Arencibia and Liles each gave Trump a jersey to take home, emblazoned with his last name and the number 1. Trump returned the Toronto love, even saying that Ford—always controversial among the locals—has a "spectacular" reputation around the world. Still, in spite of the hoopla, it's hard to ignore the fact that the luxury hotel and condo has had a few hiccups, namely, falling glass and angry investors looking to back out condo deals. Needless to say, the Toronto Star, which faithfully kept tabs on the development and its many shortcomings, was not invited to the party.


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Sunday, October 28, 2012
PixelPi Update
I've forked (https://github.com/mostley/PixelPi) github fork into the PixelPi/PixelPi trunk. It significantly changes the architecture of the project. Now there is a simple controller.py file which simply receives pixel data (currently raw (pixel invaders) type;
DMX/Artnet/OLA Support:
I have added on proper IP protocol support using OLA Open Lighting Architecture. This allows support of standardized lighting protocols and allow you to control your pictures from many more applications.
There is now a shim layer which interfaces the output of OLA to the pixels; I'm still learning about the OLA package; its quite impressive and I think it will suite these needs perfectly.
Pixel Grouping:
I've added support for grouping pixels so they can be controlled with a single group of RGB DMX data.
Getting organized:
So right now the new pixel pi implementation is missing much of the test mode stuff in the original. I'll be adding it over time.
Issues and contributions:
I've added an issues page to the PixelPi github page; please feel free to make a new issue for any changes, bugs, enhancements.
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Sweet!! Can't wait to mess around with it this weekend. Just finished putting together a temporary 16x16 matrix while waiting on the other half of my WS2801 pixel strings to get here. Keep up the great work!
- October 31, 2012 at 7:45 PM
Great job. I dont know yet how to make work the ola script. About the site, to make it work you have to run server.py and controller.py at the same machine?
- November 1, 2012 at 6:10 AM
- Scott Gibson said...
I tested it with running the scripts on the same machine; but really only the controller.py script needs to run on the rPi. A
- November 9, 2012 at 10:04 AM
- luis said...
So where do you run the server.py to make the site work, the pong? I tested and I run the server and the control and the same rasbpi.
- November 10, 2012 at 12:27 PM
great job,
I have a question. I'm now able to control one pixel led (LPD6803) with your code pixelpi.py . but i dont understand how to get it work with ola.
I installed ola and was able to patch one universe as an input and send dmx values via artnet. My question is how to configure ola and your plugin to have one side ola receiving and if i understood your plugin listening to ola.
NB : I changed also the value in controller.py of self.chip_type = 'WS2801' to self.chip_type = 'LPD6803', is it correct ? - November 17, 2012 at 10:07 AM
I finally managed to get it work, i just didn't enable the controller.py at the same time to listen and then send the values...
Thank's for the work and keep it up - November 20, 2012 at 4:38 AM
- François said...
Hi, I'm trying to see if PixelPi would be suitable out-of-the box for a little personal project. Is it possible to use more than one universe from OLA with it in order to get more than the 170 addressable LEDs that fits in the 512 channels? Thanks for your help.
- February 8, 2013 at 7:12 AM
- Scott Gibson said...
Hey Francois;
So right now it only works with one universe but it could be made to work with more; I can help with it if you want to take on some python programming
- February 8, 2013 at 9:46 AM
- Unknown said...
hi, thanks to you i have tested my 50 leds ws2801, works with the fade and chase option. Can I control individual leds? How? I need for example:
pixelpi.py led 30 --rgb 100,33,23
to turn the led 30 in thats rgb values, It's possible? or simillar thing?. - March 17, 2013 at 12:10 PM
- Alessandro Grechi said...
could you explain how to set-up and use artnet protocol ?
I would like to use Glediator software... is now possible?
Thank you so much ! Great job! - September 7, 2013 at 10:25 AM
- Unknown said...
Same here!
I would like to use it with Glediator, but I really need some help setting it up.
Thanks in advance! - November 6, 2013 at 3:14 AM
- Jonas said...
Hey there,
Somebody got experience with p9813?
Would love to try the with PixelPi.
Thanks in advance,
Jonas - November 10, 2013 at 6:39 AM
- dschoni said...
Hi Mr. Gibson,
I tried my best to follow all your instruction sets and ran into one big issue:
My first LED pixel is flickering and blinking like crazy, even when not connected to the GPIO of the Raspberry. When I touch the clock and data cable, the flickering stops. Nevertheless the problem remains when I plug the LED strip into the pi and the colors turn on and of with uncontrollable patterns. As soon as I touch the plugged in cable, everything starts to work normally. Does that have something to do with unstable ground connection? Nevertheless thanks for your great work on that whole thing! - November 15, 2013 at 2:29 PM
I try controller.py with glediator 2.0.2 but only 7 LED of my 100 LED strip are blinking.
all_off, all_on, fade and chase work fine.
Please help me configure glediator.
Thanks. - January 20, 2014 at 1:31 AM
- Unknown said...
Are you still working on this?
- February 14, 2014 at 8:39 AM
- Scott Gibson said...
Hey David; I haven't done development on it a while other than a few bug fixes. I'm continuing to support it as needed.
- February 14, 2014 at 8:43 AM
- Simon Newton said...
Can you please update the link to OLA, the new site is at http://www.openlighting.org/ola/
- March 1, 2014 at 6:01 PM


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A number of artists are celebrating the day by releasing special vinyl records, including Katy Perry (with 12" pink vinyl), David Bowie (with a picture disc of "Starman"), Arcade Fire, Flaming Lips, Paul McCartney, and even some never before heard songs by James Brown.
Most record stores are small independent "mom and pop" stores these days and they really do need our help to survive. Head out to a store today. Look through the albums and CDs, and maybe even buy something.
Support your local record store. You'll be glad you did.
You should follow me on Twitter for daily news and updates on production and the music business.
Don't forget to check out my Music 3.0 blog for tips and tricks on navigating social media and the new music business.


text: Watermelon is a large fruit that has a thick rind that surrounds a juicy, sweet flesh, which is often eaten on its own but can be added to salads, or made into jam, sorbet, and salsa. Watermelon's airy flesh consists of 80 to 90% water. See how to remove the thick rind and how to remove the seeds.


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PHOENIX -- The former chief operating officer of the Fiesta Bowl has been indicted on charges of filing false income tax returns for the bowl game, the first charges against a former official of one of the top national college football bowls and Bowl Championship Series member since a scathing report led to the firing of its president in March.
Natalie Wisneski, 47, also faces federal campaign finance and conspiracy charges over allegations she solicited campaign contributions from bowl employees for federal, state and local political candidates and arranged for the bowl to repay them. The U.S. attorney's office in Phoenix announced the indictment Wednesday.
Wisneski resigned from her job in March, shortly after bowl president and chief executive officer John Junker was fired after the apparent campaign-donation scheme was made public.
The investigation into the Fiesta Bowl's conduct under Junker is ongoing and the organization under its new leadership is cooperating. The Arizona attorney general is also involved in the probe, and an investigation into numerous state politicians who took free tickets from the bowl is also under way.
It could not immediately be determined if Wisneski has an attorney, and she did not immediately respond to a message left at her listed phone number. She will receive a summons to appear in court Nov. 30.
The scandal at the Fiesta Bowl, which also hosts the national football championship every four years, put its role as one of the four top-tier bowl groups in jeopardy. But it avoided the worst sanctions -- the loss of the championship game and its NCAA license.
A 276-page report of an investigation conducted by Fiesta Bowl board members and a retired Arizona state Supreme Court justice found the "apparent scheme" to reimburse at least $46,539 for employees' political contributions.
The probe also found "an apparent conspiracy to conceal the reimbursement scheme from the bowl's Board of Directors and state officials," according to the news release accompanying the report.
The bowl has asked the politicians, including U.S. Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl of Arizona, to return the contributions. Kyl and McCain instead gave the money to charity.
The report also uncovered spending of $33,000 for a birthday bash for Junker in Pebble Beach, Calif., $13,000 for the wedding of one of his aides and a $1,200 tab at a Phoenix strip club. The report outlined junkets and free football tickets for many Arizona legislators who had not revealed the gifts as required by state law.
The BCS fined the Fiesta Bowl $1 million in June and the NCAA placed it on probation for a year.
The Arizona attorney general's office is investigating parts of the scandal not involving politicians. It sent the investigation involving state politicians to the Maricopa County attorney to avoid a conflict.
The indictment alleges Wisneski twice signed tax returns for the nonprofit bowl that stated it did not give money to political campaigns or pay for lobbyists, both barred practices for tax-emempt entities. She also allegedly collected political donations from co-workers and later wrote checks from Fiesta Bowl accounts to reimburse them.
The nine-count indictment also refers to "Officer A" and "Lobbyist C" collecting checks for politicians. The two remain unnamed, but nearly identical language is included in the Fiesta Bowl's own report, referring to Junker and lobbyist Gary Husk.
Husk did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
The Fiesta Bowl hired University of Arizona president Robert Shelton to replace Junker in June, charging him with repairing the organization's once-stellar reputation.
Fiesta Bowl attorney Nathan Hochman said the bowl "continues to fully cooperate with all federal, state and local investigations." He would not comment about the indictment.


text: On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 12:02:32PM -0800, Jim Lux wrote: > > > > > There are also some other immediate things like running Mosix or Condor > > on the cluster. A small group that has a need for a computation server > > could find this useful for single process computational jobs. > > This brings up an interesting optimization question. Just like in many > things (I'm thinking RF amplifiers in specific) it's generally cheaper/more > cost effective to buy one big thing IF it's fast enough to meet the > requirements. Once you get past what ONE widget can do, then, you're forced > to some form of parallelism or combining smaller widgets, and to a certain > extent it matters not how many you need to combine (to an order of > magnitude). The trade comes from the inevitable increase in system > management/support/infrastructure to support N things compared to supporting > just one. (This leaves aside high availability/high reliability kinds of > things). > Someone else who's thought of hybrid combiners and "stuff" to produce more RF - and potentially discovered all the fun of imbalances :) > by the time I had it all spec'd out and figured out and costed, it turned > out that I'd been passed by AMD/Intel, and it was better just to go buy a > (single) faster processor. There are some interesting power/MIPS trades > that are non-obvious in this regime, as well as anomalous application > environments where the development cycle is much slower (not too many "Rad > Hard" Xeons out there). > If you have a long running problem - DON'T start it now. If it needs to run for two years - buy next year's equipment (which is twice as fast as today's) and run it for just one year. One year wait then one years intensive compute - and you're still ahead. Next year's computer is _automatically_ faster and potentially much better value for your $$ :) > There are also inherently parallel kinds of tasks where you want to use > commodity hardware to get multiples of some resource, rather than some > special purpose thing (say, recording multi-track audio or the > aforementioned video wall). Another thing is some sort of single input > stream, multiple parallel processes for multiple outputs. High performance > speech recognition might be an example. > High quality codecs on individual parts of a signal? Travelling salesman type problems? Finite element modelling or NEC type antenna modelling? De-noising pictures / signals? [Or, conversely, recovering coherent signals from close to the noise floor] Real time RF propagation correlation with all observed magnetic/auroral/weather/other propagation factors and propagation prediction. > What about some sort of search process with applicability to casual users > (route finding for robotics or such...) > Correlating spammers with IP ranges: correlating spam patterns with originators [working out ICBM missile co-ordinates for their hosting networks and zombies :) ] > > > > > I also have an interest in seeing a cluster version of Octave or SciLab > > set to work like a server. (as I recall rgb had some reasons not to use > > these high level tools, but we can save this discussion for later) > > > > > Finally, once we all have our local clusters and software running to our > > hearts content, maybe we can think about a grid to provide spare compute > > cycles to educational and public projects around the world. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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Bathrooms are changing. Today, homeowners are trading the relaxing bath for the power shower. Plumbing fixture designers around the country are creating bathroom accessories like new shower heads that turn your shower into a spa-like experience that can relax you, recharge you, massage sore muscles and make you feel like a million bucks.
The challenge is that most American homes feature a 5'x 8′ bathroom with a standardized layout. And, according to plumbing fixture and accessory manufacturer Moen, 86 percent of America's master baths still have a bath-shower combo. The company conducted a bathroom inventory of 2,400 bathrooms and found that only 14 percent have the kinds of master baths commonly found in magazines.
Upgrading your bathroom into a stylish spa is not only a great investment, it's an improvement that you'll appreciate for many years. Homeowners taking out a standard bathtub and replacing it with an improved shower will enjoy features like multiple shower heads, steam, massaging spray, and even seats.
Alt=Bathroom Remodeling and Shower AccessoriesSo how do you instill spa-style in your sparse bathroom? It can be a simple project or a total remodeling job. Here are a few things to consider:
You can change your shower head for one of the new models with just a few tools and a little elbow grease. This project, which typically costs under $200, can add a whole new dimension to your shower experience. Now, you can choose from body sprays — fixed units on the side of the walls that turn the shower into a vertical whirlpool — and multiple showerheads that offer various settings, such as a fine mist or a hydro-massage, as well as a showerhead that converts to a hand-held unit.
There are three broad categories of bathroom accessories in shower heads — pan-type rain shower heads, multi-head body sprays and handheld massagers. Many manufacturers offer custom shower kits that combine handheld shower heads and multi-head sprays in numbers tailored to the size of your water heater and the water pressure in your home. Some "power showers" require their own, dedicated water heaters and special plumbing, so check with your plumber before starting on a major upgrade.
If you decide to exchange your bathtub for a shower, the latest trends in shower design feature natural stone such as marble, slate and limestone. These materials look beautiful, are easy to maintain and offer a wide range of style options. Accessories like a built-in seat is great for relaxing in the shower, and built-in shelves provide storage for soap and shampoo.
To let light into your shower experience, consider a frameless glass shower door or glass-block shower walls. Both add a clean, sophisticated look and open up a small bathroom. Another option is the walk-in shower without a door – a great option for homeowners who want space and luxury.


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Sunday morning turned out to be nice and sunny although a bit on the chilly side. Friends and family attended our church services at Jacob and Emma's house, in honor of baptismal services being held for Mose, Susan and Elizabeth. Jacob had two bench wagons there so he would have plenty of benches to set up. It was a good thing he had prepared. The big tool shed was filled with people by the time services started at 9 a.m. People attended from South Holland, Illinois, Hicksville, Ohio, from several towns in Indiana including Grabill, Shipshewana, Middlebury, Berne, LaGrange, and Nappanee, and Hersey and Charlotte Michigan. There were also people from surrounding church districts in this area. Taking a rough estimate I would think about 350 were in attendance. The three young souls were taken into the confession of faith by Bishop Sam Bontrager from Nappanee, Indiana. Sam would be a great-uncle to Mose. 19 ministers were in attendance as well. We appreciate all the support and encouragement that was given by being there for these three young people taking such a wonderful step in life. May God continue to be their guide in everything they do. And how blessed we are to have a savior such as Jesus Christ who died on the cross for all our sins.
Lunch was served to everyone afterwards. We served 17 tables of people. Eight tables were set at a time. In between, the settings were quickly washed by all the willing helpers so they could be reused. A lot of the children were fed in the house where Emma had a 12 qt. kettle of chicken noodle soup ready.
On the lunch menu was homemade wheat and white bread (of which Emma had 75 loaves brought in by the church women), bologna, cheese, tomato slices, peanut butter spread, hot pepper butter, dill pickles, freezer pickles, red beets, strawberry jam, butter, coffee, tea and various kinds of cookies. They were well prepared and had plenty of food for everyone. It was a lot of work to prepare for a big service like this, which Jacob and Emma and family so willingly did. After dishes were all washed popcorn was served to anyone still there. Emma had invited quite a crowd back for supper so some of the people decided to stay all afternoon.
I was taking some of my containers out to the buggy so they would be out of the way when someone came to get me saying daughter Verena is choking on popcorn. After several of us tried to retrieve the popcorn we noticed she wasn't choking but she was losing her breath, couldn't talk or walk. The EMS was called and she was taken to the hospital. The EMS men thought at first she could be having a seizure but after treating her for one she still didn't act different. After taking some tests and x-rays the Dr. Said she was dehydrated and under a lot of stress which might have led into an anxiety attack when she kind of choked on the popcorn. After being able to talk, Verena told us her chest starting hurting really bad and she was hardly able to breath so she wanted to go for a drink of water but fell, not being able to help herself anymore.
How blessed we felt to be able to bring her home after they gave her some IV fluids. Joe and I spent the evening at the hospital. The children ate supper at Jacob's. They had quite a few people there for supper. Too bad it had to turn out this way that we couldn't be there, but God's ways are not our ways.
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon lemon juice
⅔ cup pumpkin
¾ cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons cinnamon
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon ginger
½ teaspoon nutmeg
1 cup pecans (optional)
Confectioners sugar
Whip eggs for 5 minutes. Add sugar, lemon juice and pumpkin. Mix well. Add remaining ingredients except pecans. Grease jelly roll pan. Place waxed paper in jelly roll pan, making sure waxed paper is extended beyond both ends of pan. Pour batter into waxed paper lined jelly roll pan. Cover batter with pecans. Bake at 375 for 15 minutes. When baked, remove from waxed paper immediately and roll in a towel which has been sprinkled with confectioners sugar. Be sure to roll towel and cake together. When cool, unroll and spread with filling.
8 ounces of softened cream cheese
½ teaspoon of vanilla
1 cup of confectioners sugar
4 tablespoons margarine
Combine cream cheese, vanilla, confectioners sugar and margarine. Beat until smooth and creamy.


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I was recently out in Brooklyn visiting with a girlfriend who works in fashion PR. These girls always know what's cool and true to form she walked in the door and I obsessed over her shoes and bag. "Where are they from?" I asked, "Loeffler Randall". Of course they are.
It seems almost every time I love a New York girlfriend's shoes they are Loeffler Randall. I myself am a fan girl… I've worn them to the beach, at southern mansion cocktail parties, and over coffee in L.A. They are easy and cool. Quality and comfortable. Or, as the founder and designer Jessie Randall puts it, "understated, elegant, effortless." I stopped by their Soho studio to see what's new this summer, what I will be lusting after like those red strappy heels above… UGH sooo good. And to talk with the beautiful designer herself only to realize, the products are good because the soul of the designer is too…
10 Questions with LOEFFLER RANDALL's President and Creative Director Jessie Randall
If you could give advise to yourself 10 years ago when you started Loeffler Randall, what would it be?
JR: Hire a merchandiser. Stop being so hard on yourself!
Above, Jessie wears Arbella Platform Sandal with Drawstring Tote in her Soho office.
Where do you find inspiration?
JR: I find it everywhere – especially in craft techniques and doing crafts myself, art, furniture and I love love love ceramics.
What one famous person has worn your shoe where you had a holy-cow moment?
JR: Roz Chast
Above, Drawstring Tote & Flap Bucket bag // Below, Bo Tassel Wrap sandal


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Same-sex marriage and religious liberty
on Aug 16, 2011 at 9:08 am
The following piece for our same-sex marriage symposium is written by Thomas C. Berg, James L. Oberstar Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota). He has written numerous articles on religion, law, and constitutional law; four books, including Religion and the Constitution (Aspen, with McConnell and Garvey) and The State and Religion in a Nutshell (ThomsonReuters); and many briefs in the Supreme Court and appellate courts.
Civil recognition of same-sex marriage is spreading. Four state legislatures, plus the District of Columbia, and one state court have successfully taken the step, with more likely to follow. Arguments against gay marriage have declined in public appeal in recent years; warnings that it will undermine marriage seem abstract to more and more people in the face of same-sex couples pursuing committed relationships and raising children.
The question in Perry v. Schwarzenegger and Windsor v. United States is whether this emerging situation should lead the courts – ultimately, the U.S. Supreme Court – to declare opposite-sex-only marriage unconstitutional. To say that same-sex civil marriage should be recognized does not mean, of course, that judges should require it under the Constitution.
In making that distinction, one could raise arguments about proper methods of constitutional interpretation, or warn about political blowback that aggressive judicial decisions can trigger (as even some pro-choice observers have remarked about Roe v. Wade). I focus, however, on a different reason for the Court to tread gently in Perry: the religious liberty of traditionalist objectors to gay marriage, and how legislative recognition of marriage may be a better vehicle than judicial rulings for balancing religious liberty and gay rights. (I belong to a group of scholars, including symposium participant Robin Wilson, who have proposed model religious- accommodation provisions to legislatures considering same-sex marriage; my opinions here should not be attributed to those colleagues.)
For all of Judge Walker's lengthy fact-finding in Perry, he utterly fails to take religious-liberty issues seriously. He notes that "[p]rior to Proposition 8, no religious group was required to recognize marriage for same-sex couples.† That is true about the church wedding, but there are many other potential conflicts (detailed, for example, here). Antidiscrimination and public-accommodation laws in California and other states could force many religious non-profits to give direct assistance to marriages or ceremonies that violate their tenets.  Catholic Charities ceased providing adoptions in Massachusetts and, to a large extent, San Francisco because it faced being compelled to place children in same-sex households. A religious college that provides married-student housing might violate state law if it refused to house same-sex married couples. These groups can face civil liability or the loss of generally available government benefits such as tax exemptions or licenses.
Marriage ceremonies also affect small businesses – wedding planners, caterers – in which individuals directly lend their personal skills to facilitate marriages.  An Albuquerque, New Mexico, wedding photographer had to pay more than $6600 in legal fees for declining to photograph a same-sex commitment ceremony. In short, religious liberty is a context where gay marriage may affect others directly.
The adoption and photographer cases arose before same-sex marriage, under preexisting laws against sexual-orientation discrimination. (As Judge Walker notes, California already recognizes domestic partnerships and prohibits discrimination against them.)  But recognizing same-sex marriage without significant religious accommodations will multiply the conflicts, since some traditionalists have particular objections to marriages because of the term's religious significance. Affirmative recognition of marriage, without accommodation, may also intensify the idea that opposition to homosexuality is so far beyond the pale that it deserves almost no accommodation. Consider the race context: in Bob Jones University (1983) the Supreme Court held that the long list of laws against race discrimination, covering mainstream education and employment markets, showed the existence of a "firm national policy†that justified extending penalties against an insular fundamentalist college that surely had no effect in such markets. There is plenty of reason to think that religious dissenters, organizations, and individuals will more frequently face the Hobson's choice between directly facilitating same-sex marriages and giving up their charitable activities or livelihoods.
It is possible to minimize these conflicts: to protect religious liberty for many traditionalist dissenters while ensuring that gay couples have full ability in practice to marry and build families. The Albuquerque couple presented no evidence they incurred costs in finding another wedding photographer in the phone book. In Massachusetts, as Dale Carpenter has noted, "[g]ay couples could still adopt through dozens of other private agencies or through the state child-welfare services department itself.â€
As Robin Wilson's symposium contribution will detail, state legislatures that have enacted gay marriage have all acknowledged and accommodated religious-liberty concerns to some extent. Some states have protected religious organizations beyond the immediate context of celebrating or hosting a marriage ceremony. Others have protected fraternal societies, like the Knights of Columbus, that might object to hosting a wedding or reception. New York protected, among other things, against depriving an organization of generally available government benefits such as tax exemptions or licenses.
Although some of these accommodations could have gone further, they still serve the purpose of reducing social conflict by letting both sides in the culture war "live and let live.â€Â But before I turn to the relative roles of legislatures and courts in striking such balances, let me briefly add why recognizing gay marriage with significant religious-liberty protections is not just politically expedient but morally principled. Even though gay marriage and religious liberty clash in particular disputes, the arguments for the two have important common features. As I've argued elsewhere, the strongest arguments for recognizing same-sex civil marriage also support giving significant protection to religious dissenters.
Among the parallels, both same-sex couples and religious believers claim that their conduct stems from commitments central to their identity: love and fidelity to a life partner, faithfulness to the moral norms of God. Gay couples claim that it is insensitive, even cruel, to tell them their conduct is separate from their orientation – but so too, religious believers claim it is insensitive to tell them they can keep their beliefs but can't act on them. Both groups also claim that they should be able to live their commitments in a public way, touching all aspects of their lives.  Gay couples claim a right beyond private behavior – participation in the social institution of civil marriage – but so too do religious believers who seek to follow their faith not just in houses of worship, but in charitable efforts and in their daily work lives.
These arguments suggest that religious accommodation ought to protect not just churches and clergy, but also religious nonprofit organizations like Catholic Charities, in contexts beyond the ceremony itself such as adoption or marriage counseling. Accommodation in the commercial sphere is typically more limited, but it can extend to small, personal businesses like the wedding photographer, with an exception in cases – for example, small rural markets – where one religious objector's refusal of services would cause a concrete hardship on the ability of the same-sex couple to marry.
Unfortunately, courts that have found a constitutional right to same-sex marriage have been blind to the range of religious-liberty issues. Like Judge Walker, the California Supreme Court in In re Marriage Cases (2008) found that same-sex civil marriage "will not impinge upon the religious freedom of†anyone, for two reasons: "no religion will be required to change its religious policies or practices with regard to same-sex couples, and no religious officiant will be required to solemnize a marriage in contravention of his or her religious beliefs.â€Â The first reason overlooks the reach of antidiscrimination and public-accommodations laws; the second indefensibly limits religious-freedom concerns to the church ceremony and the clergyperson.
It's understandable that judges ruling on gay marriage would avoid opining on the whole range of possible conflicts with religious liberty. Courts by nature discuss only the precise issues before them. But the narrow judicial references also reflect that constitutional doctrine on the free exercise of religion has become quite weak. Both the U.S. Supreme Court, in Employment Division v. Smith (1990), and the California Supreme Court, under the state constitution, have held that courts should not order an accommodation from "laws of general applicability†that are formally neutral toward religion. Presumably, this includes laws prohibiting discrimination against same-sex couples.
Therefore, once the California Supreme Court ordered same-sex marriage, voters could understandably lack any confidence that religious-liberty concerns would ultimately be addressed and given weight. In that context, I believe, voters had a rational basis for rejecting same-sex marriage. As the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty argued in an amicus brief in Perry, "Since the California Supreme Court left Californians with an all-or-nothing choice between same-sex marriage and full protection for the rights of conscience, Proposition 8 was an entirely rational response to the threat to religious liberty.â€Â Concern for religious liberty in no way amounts to irrational bigotry or prejudice; it stems from a fundamental value in our constitutional and political system. That courts are unwilling to protect religious exercise vigorously in constitutional cases is a reason for – not against – protection of that right through political decisions (the U.S. Supreme Court in Smith expressly invited the political branches to accommodate religion).
Although I think Proposition 8 was therefore rational, it would be fairer to all to recognize gay marriage and accommodate religious liberty. The record shows that legislatures have done better than courts in striking this balance. That makes sense for institutional reasons: while a court focuses on the case before it, a legislature can take evidence on the range of situations that might be affected by its action. One by one in recent years, legislatures have acted as "laboratories of experimentation†and provided data, however imperfect, on how best to balance religious liberty with access to marriage. I believe that legislative superiority in striking such balances is one reason why legislation recognizing same-sex marriage is preferable to constitutional decision-making – preferable especially to a single decision by the U.S. Supreme Court requiring equal marriage in all fifty states.
If courts declare gay-marriage rights, however – whether state courts or the U.S. Supreme Court – they must do a better job on religious liberty than they have so far. They should expressly acknowledge the broad range of potential conflicts. And if they are not going to order religious accommodations as constitutional mandates, they should expressly encourage state legislatures to consider them as wise policy.


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The last of the summer corn is hitting markets everywhere, and if you want a fast and safe way to get the corn off of the cob for salads, soups, or sautees, this method from the folks at Saveur uses a bundt pan to make the process a snap.
Of course, this method only works if you have a bundt pan to begin with. If you do it right however, you get all of the corn right into the pan without cutting yourself or spraying corn around your kitchen. It's fast and easy—the only change we'd make is to the knife technique in the video: You'll have an easier time slicing down the cob if you start slicing at the heel of your knife and draw the blade across and down the corn cob instead of just pushing it from top to bottom. Even so, it's a solid method, and if you don't have a bundt pan, a wide mixing bowl could do the job just as well.
How to Get Corn Off the Cob | Saveur


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Let $R$ be a regular local ring of dimension $d$ and let $x_1,x_2,...,x_d$ be a regular system of parameters. Now, for any $y\in R$, the colon ideal $(x_1,x_2,...,x_h):y$ where $h\leq d$ is a prime ideal or the whole ring. I was wondering, if given a prime ideal $P$ in a regular local ring $R$, does there exist a subset of a regular system of parameters, such that $P$ is a colon ideal of the above form?
1$\begingroup$ Since each ideal generated by a partial system of parameters $(x_1, \dots, x_h)$ is prime, your colon ideal $(x_1, \dots, x_h):y$ is just $(x_1, \dots, x_h)$ again as long as $y \notin (x_1, \dots, x_h)$, and is the ring otherwise. $\endgroup$ Sep 9, 2011 at 10:24
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The answer is no. It is easy enough to construct counter-examples, but to convince yourself that such a statement is hopeless, here is a salient point.
Any ideal $P$ such that $P$ is a "colon ideal" of a regular system of parameters is such that $R/P$ is itself a regular ring (indeed $R/P$ is of dimension $d-h$ and its maximal ideal is generated by $x_{h+1},\cdots,x_{d}$). On the other hand, Cohen's structure theorem tells you that any equicharacteristic complete noetherian local domain is a quotient of a regular ring by a prime ideal (and quite a bit more than that, of course). So any equicharacteristic complete noetherian local domain which is not regular would provide a counterexample.


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openais_overview (8) - Linux Manuals
The openais project is a project to implement a production quality "Revised BSD" licensed implementation of the most recent SA Forum's Application Interface Specification. The Application Interface Specification is a software API and policies which are used to develop applications that maintain service during faults. The API consists of Availability Management Framework (AMF) which provides application failover, Cluster Membership (CLM), Checkpointing (CKPT), Eventing (EVT), Messaging (MSG), and Distributed Locking (DLOCK).Currently Messaging is unimplemented.
Faults occur for various reasons:
* Application Faults
* Middleware Faults
* Operating System Faults
* Hardware Faults
The major focus of high availability in the past has been to mask hardware faults. Faults in other components of the system have gone unsolved until AIS. AIS can mask many types of faults in applications, middleware, operating systems, or even hardware by providing a simple framework for allowing developers to create redundant applications. These redundant applications can be distributed over multiple nodes such that if any one node faults, another node can recover.
Application programmers develop applications to periodically record their state using the checkpointing service. When an active application fails, a standby application recovers the state of the application. This technique, called stateful application failover, provides the fundamental difference between openais and other systems that have come before it. With stateful application failover, the end-application user doesn't have to reload the application or redial a telephone. The full state is recorded, so the end-application user sees no interruption in service.
Because programmers can now distribute applications across multiple processes or nodes, a mechanism must exist for them to communicate. This mechanism is provided by two services. The event service provides a publish/subscribe model for events. The messaging service provides end to end messaging. Finally a mechanism to synchronize access is provided by the distributed lock service.
The openais project also provides a group messaging toolkit called EVS. The EVS service implements a messaging model known as Extended Virtual Synchrony. This model allows one sender to transmit to many receivers. Certain guarantees are provided for message and membership delivery which make virtual synchrony ideal for developing distributed applications.
The openais executive must be configured. In the directory conf in the source distribution are several files that must be copied to the /etc/ais directory. If openais is packaged by a distro, this may be complete.The directory contains the file openais.conf. Please read the openais.conf(5) man page for details on the configuration options. The openais project will work out of the box with the default configuration options, although the administrator may desire different options.
An user and group of the name "ais" must be added to the system. If openais is packaged from a distro, this step should already be completed. This can be achieved by executing:
[root [at] slickdeal root]# adduser ais -g ais
The openais executive uses cryptographic techniques to ensure authenticity and privacy of the messages. In order for openais to be secure and operate, a private key must be generated and shared to all processors.
First generate the key on one of the nodes:
unix# ais-keygen openais authentication key generator.
Gathering 1024 bits for key from /dev/random.
Writing openais key to /etc/ais/authkey.
After this operation, a private key will be in the file /etc/ais/authkey. This private key must be copied to every processor in the cluster. If the private key isn't the same for every node, those nodes with nonmatching private keys will not be able to join the same configuration.
Copy the key to some security transportable storage or use ssh to transmit the key from node to node. Then install the key with the command:
unix#: install -D --group=0 --owner=0 --mode=0400 /path_to_authkey/authkey /etc/ais/authkey
If a message "Invalid digest" appears from the openais executive, the keys are not consistent between processors.
Finally run the openais executive. If openais is packaged from a distro, it may be set to start on system start. It may also be turned off by default in which case the init script for openais must be enabled.
After running aisexec, a list of all processors IP addresses running the ais executive and configured on the same multicast address will appear. If they don't appear, there may be a problem with multicast in the distro or hardware. If this happens, participation in the openais mailing list may help solve the problem. The email address is openais [at] lists.osdl.org.
The openais AIS libraries have header files which must be included in the developer's application. Once the header file is included, the developer can reference the AIS interfaces.The openais project recommends to distros to place include files in /usr/include/openais. The following include lines must be added to the application to use each of the following services:
#include <openais/saClm.h> For the Cluster Membership B.01.01 service.
#include <openais/saCkpt.h> For the Checkpointing B.01.01 service.
#include <openais/saEvt.h> For the Eventing B.01.01 service.
#include <openais/ais_amf.h> For the AMF A.01.01 service.
The openais project recommends to distros to place library files in /usr/lib. The following link lines must be added to the LDFLAGS section of the makefile.
-lsaClm For the Cluster Membership B.01.01 service
-lsaCkpt For the Checkpointing B.01.01 service
-lsaEvt For the Eventing B.01.01 service
-lsaAmf For the AMF A.01.01 service
-lais Specify this to get access to all AIS libraries without specifying each library individually.
The openais project supports both IPv4 and IPv6 network addresses. The entire cluster must use either IPv4 or IPv6 for the cluster communication mechanism. In order to use IPv6, IPv6 addresses must be specified in the bindnetaddr and mcastaddr fields in the configuration file. The nodeid field must also be set.An example of this is: nodeid: 2 bindnetaddr: fec0::1:a800:4ff:fe00:20 mcastaddr: ff05::1
To configure a host for IPv6, use the ifconfig program to add interfaces: box20: ifconfig eth0 add fec0::1:a800:4ff:fe00:20/64 box30: ifconfig eth0 add fec0::1:a800:4ff:fe00:30/64
If the /64 is not specified, a route for the IPv6 network will not be configured which will cause significant problems. Make sure a route is available for IPv6 traffic.
The AIS libraries are a thin IPC interface to the openais executive. The openais executive provides services for the SA Forum AIS libraries as well as the EVS and CPG libraries.The openais executive uses the Totem extended virtual synchrony protocol. The advantage to the end user is excellent performance characteristics and a proven protocol with excellent reliability. This protocol connects the processors in a configuration together so they may communicate.
The openais executive process uses four environment variables during startup. If these environment variables are not set, defaults will be used.
This specifies the fully qualified path to the openais configuration file.
The default is /etc/ais/openais.conf.
This specifies the fully qualified path to the openais Availability Management
Framework configuration file.
The default is /etc/ais/amf.conf.
This specifies the LCRSO that is used to parse the configuration file. This
allows other configuration file parsers to be implemented within the system.
The default is to use the default openais configuration file parser which parses the format specified in openais.conf (5).
This specifies the fully qualified path to the shared key used to
authenticate and encrypt data used within the Totem protocol.
The default is /etc/ais/authkey.
The openais executive optionally encrypts all messages sent over the network using the SOBER-128 stream cipher. The openais executive uses HMAC and SHA1 to authenticate all messages. The openais executive library uses SOBER-128 as a pseudo random number generator. The EVS library feeds the PRNG using the /dev/random Linux device.If membership messages can be captured by intruders, it is possible to execute a denial of service attack on the cluster. In this scenario, the cluster is likely already compromised and a DOS attack is the least of the administration's worries.
The security in openais does not offer perfect forward secrecy because the keys are reused. It may be possible for an intruder by capturing packets in an automated fashion to determine the shared key. No such automated attack has been published as of yet. In this scenario, the cluster is likely already compromised to allow the long-term capture of transmitted data.
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As mentioned in prior articles, April 18th marked the public release of the first batch of the secret colonial documents known as the "migrated archives." Robert Hill, Professor of Afro-American and Caribbean History at UCLA, who has been deeply involved in the "migrated archives" since their discovery, shares his insights into the release of the archives and what it entails for the Caribbean history.
Professor Hill is editor of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project, and is also internationally recognized as a leading authority on the life of Garvey and the history of the Garvey movement. He is also the Literary Executor of C.L.R. James, the Marxist historian and Pan-African political activist.
Interestingly, Professor Hill's work with the migrated archives is not the first time that he has come across secret or forgotten documents. In 1970, he learned from a New York Times story that a community organization in Harlem had been given a derelict building to start a drug rehabilitation center. In this building, the staff found cabinets, safes, and boxes that turned out to contain the entire documentary record of the central division of Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association.
"They were going to throw them away!" Hill exclaimed. The community organization that discovered the Garvey papers eventually fell apart, but a struggle over the papers began in earnest. The struggle became so serious that the organization's director was even held up at gunpoint, with the papers being sold by the addicts to the highest bidder. Eventually a group led by the historian John Henrik Clarke arranged for the purchase of the entire batch of papers, and brought them to the New York Public Library.
Professor Hill has been archiving Garvey papers at UCLA's James S. Coleman African Studies Center since 1977. He has published those papers in 11 books so far, with the latest volume being The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers: The Caribbean Diaspora, 1910-1920.
You have had a very interesting experience in regards to your presence in the discovery of classified or forgotten documents. It's amazing that the discovery of the migrated archives is not the first time you have encountered this kind of thing. Can you please elaborate how the discovery of the migrated archives fits into your previous areas of research?
Well, in a way, within Caribbean historiography, it comes as a big shock to stumble upon these police, or confidential and secret, documents. In the historiography of popular movements in Europe its standard, it's not at all a big surprise because European historians have always understood the huge significance of police records for studying the poor, clandestine political repression carried out from the 18th century in European society.
Now we, as a former colonial people, we throw up movements of resistance, call them what you will, popular movements, resistance movements, anti colonial movements – and then in the case of Marcus Garvey, we discover, because the Garvey movement operated here in the United States in a major way – the institutions and the agencies of government monitored these movements very carefully, and there is a tremendous paper trail within the archives of the United States government, the Canadian government; and also European governments. This is a paper trail that enables us to write the history of the Garvey movement, which without those archives we could never have really undertaken.
You might say it was the preservation of these records which really places some kind of order, some kind of intellectual order on the material. On the one hand we have to be careful of course, not to get trapped into some kind of interpretative paradigm, but nonetheless, the records of the U.S. state department, the FBI, the Department of Justice, the Office of Naval Intelligence, even the Post Office, those records are what allowed us to construct a history of the Garvey movement. So I've spent probably 35 years systematically going through the records as they became declassified, of the U.S. government dealing with Garvey, and the European governments dealing with Garvey in Africa and the Caribbean. So when the word of these migrated archives came up, I instantly recognized their value – in a very concrete way if you let me explain.
When I was working on Garvey, I asked the archivist of the Jamaica archives, where the colonial secretariats files related to Garvey were located. He said, "they're not open, they're not accessible to you." I asked what I would have to do to appeal that? He said I would have to write a letter to the Chief Justice of Jamaica, which I did. And I made an argument (this is now in the early 1970's) explaining why these files were important and why they should be made accessible. Now, follow me, he informed me that the Chief Justice had approved my request, but he himself did not have the secret and confidential files on Garvey. To get them, he had to go to Spanish town in Kingston to the building where these confidential files were housed.
Now here is what Professor Anthony Badger (the man in charge of the migrated archives) wrote to me when I asked him about the time span of the migrated archives for Jamaica. He said that they begin in the late 1920's—you see the convergence? They had already removed the files on Garvey out of Jamaica when I had asked for them.
What I am hoping is that I will now find the missing files of the 1930's and will then be able to link them back to the ones from the 1920's that we have. In other words, it's the same work we're doing—only now we have to go to England to get these files, they're not in Jamaica in the way that the files of the 1920's were. Now why did they choose to take away those starting in the late 1920's? Now I can't tell you, I don't know. They had to have some kind of cut-off point, they must have just said that let's just take 1929 as our base year and anything going forward. So we will see in September, when I go to England. I will know very quickly whether these are the files connecting back to the ones from the 1920's that I saw.
So, the point I'm making is that, whether it is the FBI, the state department or the colonial secretariat's records of the 1920's in Jamaica, it's all just one continuing story, one continuing saga. I had been extremely frustrated for years at not being able to find the colonial secretary's files for the 30's, but now since that time—I've gone on to do work on the back to Africa movement of the 1950's which led to a tremendous political explosion in Jamaica in 1959 and 1960—what I'm now hoping is that these files, which go up to August 1962, will have files that I have tried my very hardest to find, and couldn't find in Jamaica, I'm hoping to find them amongst these migrated archives.
This is the final segment of my interview with Professor Robert Hill. Read Part 1 & 2.
Kevin Edmonds is a NACLA blogger focusing on the Caribbean. For more from his blog, "The Other Side of Paradise," visit nacla.org/blog/other-side-paradise. Edmonds is a former NACLA research associate and a current PhD student at the University of Toronto, where he is studying the impact of neoliberalism on the St. Lucian banana trade.


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A single tear rolled down my cheek when she left Glock. It's pretty obvious she can crush it in the shooting and looks department no matter what company she's at though so I'm not mad.
I'm assuming that PH Factor of 9 means her 1911 is chambered in 9mm. (Blasphemy!!!)
Thoughts? Does she make you want to buy a Taurus?