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0. Preparation
You will need:
- A computer running any modern Linux distribution or Windows (Mac OS X should work, although none of us have tested it). Most of the CERN Indico development team is currently using Ubuntu, so unless you have strong feelings otherwise, you might make your life easier by installing Ubuntu 9.10.
- The following software (Ubuntu package names listed in square brackets - use Synaptic Package Manager to find and install them)
- Python 2.4, 2.5 or 2.6 [python](Windows users: there is no mod_python supporting Python 2.6. Recommended version for Windows is 2.5)
- Python development packages [python-dev]
- Apache httpd 2.2 or greater (make sure to use the pre-fork package!) [apache2-mpm-prefork]
- mod_python 3.3 or greater [libapache2-mod-python]
- git [git-core]
- gettext package [gettext]
- setuptools [python-setuptools]
- IPython [ipython] (needed if you want to run the Indico shell to manually query the database)
- The following three packages will eventually be installed automatically by Indico, but for now you will need to install them yourself:
- ReportLab [python-reportlab]
- libxml2 [libxml2]
- libxml2 Python bindings [python-libxml2]
- libxslt [libxslt1.1]
- libxslt Python bindings [python-libxslt1]
For help installing the required software in Windows, see GitAndWindows.
1. Getting the source code
You should choose one of the following two options...
OPTION 1. If you are CERN staff/user, you should do the following:
- Ask an administrator to create an account for you on indicodev.cern.ch
- Make sure you have a CERN AFS account with space
- Clone the git repo as follows:
For all examples in this document, let's pretend both your local username and indicodev account are jdoe
jdoe@localhost ~$ mkdir indico jdoe@localhost ~$ cd indico jdoe@localhost ~/indico$ jdoe@localhost ~/indico$ git clone ssh://email@example.com/afs/cern.ch/project/indico/repo/cds-indico.git Initialized empty Git repository in /home/jdoe/indico/cds-indico/.git/ firstname.lastname@example.com's password: remote: Counting objects: 7854, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5497/5497), done. remote: Total 7854 (delta 4368), reused 3252 (delta 2235) Receiving objects: 100% (7854/7854), 26.73 MiB | 5627 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (4368/4368), done. jdoe@localhost ~/indico$
Note: If you want, you could set up AFS on your own PC and access it directly instead of ssh to indicodev.
OPTION 2. If you are not CERN staff/user:
- You won't have access to the CERN AFS repository. You should clone the git repo using http as follows:
jdoe@localhost ~/indico$ git clone http://cdsware.cern.ch/repo/cds-indico.git
- If you make contributions that you would like to include in CERN's installation of Indico, read these instructions: Dev/Collaboration
Now, you should have a clone of the Indico source tree:
jdoe@localhost ~/indico$ cd cds-indico jdoe@localhost ~/indico/cds-indico$ ls AUTHORS bin ChangeLog COPYING doc etc ez_setup.py indico INSTALL MANIFEST.in NEWS README setup.py tests THANKS
2. Preparing the Development Environment
Indico requires some dependencies (libraries, etc...) that the setup.py installation script installs automatically, with the exception of ReportLab, libxml2 and libxslt (which you have already installed manually). There's no need to worry about them, but if you want to know more about these dependencies, see Admin/Installation.
Before running setup.py, you may want to switch to the most recent branch, for example v0.97-series. If you did not do this yet, you should still be in the "master" branch. You can verify this with:
jdoe@localhost ~/indico/cds-indico$ git status # On branch master nothing to commit (working directory clean)
To change to the most recent branch, first fetch it:
jdoe@localhost ~/indico/cds-indico$ git fetch origin v0.97-series:v0.97-series From http://cdsware.cern.ch/repo/cds-indico * [new branch] v0.97-series -> v0.97-series
and then switch (checkout) to it:
jdoe@localhost ~/indico/cds-indico$ git checkout v0.97-series
Finally, check that you are correctly in the target branch:
jdoe@localhost ~/indico/cds-indico$ git status # On branch v0.97-series nothing to commit (working directory clean)
Now you are ready to run the setup.py develop_config command. It will download several needed Python modules from the Web and create a development environment (as opposed to a production installation):
jdoe@localhost ~/indico/cds-indico$ python setup.py develop_config running develop_config Upgrading existing etc/indico.conf.. Indico needs to store some information in the filesystem (database, cache, temporary files, logs...) Please specify the directory where you'd like it to be placed. (Note that putting it outside of your sourcecode tree is recommended) [/home/jdoe/indico/cds-indico]: /home/jdoe/indico Creating directories... Done! uid/gid not provided. Trying to guess them... found apache(48) apache(48) We need to 'sudo' in order to set the permissions of some directories... Password:
Additionally, you should run:
jdoe@localhost ~/indico/cds-indico$ sudo python setup.py develop
So that setutools creates an egg-link in your global site-packages directory, creating a "fake egg" that will reside in your system-wide path.
You should edit the file .git/info/exclude, adding a list of patterns to match files you want git to ignore (you can add also the patterns to a .gitignore file at the root of the cds-indico folder). For example, you don't want emacs backup files being submitted to the git repo. Here is an example file you can use:
jdoe@localhost:~/indico/cds-indico$ cat .git/info/exclude # git-ls-files --others --exclude-from=.git/info/exclude # Lines that start with '#' are comments. # For a project mostly in C, the following would be a good set of # exclude patterns (uncomment them if you want to use them): # *.[oa] # *~ *.pyc *.mo *~ etc/indico.conf etc/zdctl.conf etc/zodb.conf
To check if there are more files that you want git to ignore, type git status:
jdoe@localhost:~/indico/cds-indico$ git status # On branch master # Changed but not updated: # (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed) # (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory) # # modified: indico/MaKaC/__init__.py # # Untracked files: # (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) # # setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
In the above example, the file setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg needs to be added to .git/info/exclude. The fact that this is being downloaded into cds-indico at all is a minor problem that may not get fixed any time soon
If you cannot get rid of a file even if you put its pattern in .git/info/exclude or .gitignore, you may want to use the following command:
git update-index --assume-unchanged indico/MaKaC/__init__.py
(use the path of the file that gives you a problem). However if you wish to commit a change later you will need to undo this with git update-index --no-assume-unchanged.
Set up mod_python
The information in this section was condensed from the following page: Configuring and testing mod_python. The page requires a login and probably isn't necessary.
Locate the apache2 configuration file (httpd.conf or apache2.conf). In Linux, it is located in /etc/apache2/. Enable mod_python:
- Windows users: add the following line to the Apache conf file:
LoadModule python_module modules/mod_python.so
- Linux users: If you have installed Apache and mod_python from packages, adding this line should not be necessary.
Windows users will need to edit/config the file httpd.conf. Linux (Ubuntu) users will need to create a file inside sites-available (and a symbolic link to it in sites-enabled) with the following content.
Make sure this lines appear in the Apache configuration file:
ServerName myservername.cern.ch ServerAdmin email@example.com DocumentRoot /home/jdoe/cds-indico/indico/htdocs directoryIndex index.py index.html SetEnv PYTHON_EGG_CACHE /tmp/.python-eggs
Add the following to make Apache re-route JSON-RPC requests to the json-rpc-handler.py file located in htdocs. Make sure this <Directory> entry appears BEFORE the <Directory> entry found below.
<Directory "/home/jdoe/indico/cds-indico/indico/htdocs/services"> PythonPath "sys.path+['/home/jdoe/indico/cds-indico/indico','/home/jdoe/indico/cds-indico/indico/htdocs']" SetHandler python-program PythonHandler MaKaC.services.handler Allow from All </Directory>
Add the following text so that Apache will interpret all the files in htdocs as Python script files.
<Directory "/home/jdoe/indico/cds-indico/indico/htdocs"> AddHandler python-program .py PythonHandler mod_python.publisher PythonDebug On PythonPath "sys.path+['/home/jdoe/indico/cds-indico/indico']" Allow from All </Directory>
Change the above directories to match your installation.
Here's an explanation of the above lines from a non-English speaker for your amusement:
- Directory: the directory whose files you want to be interpreted as python files. In Indico, it's the htdocs directory.
- AddHandler: it tells apache to interpret .py files as python files.
- PythonHander: mod_python has several handlers available. Depending of the handler, the methods of the .py files have to be different. In Indico, we use mod_python.publisher as handler.
- PythonDebg On: if there is an exception, you will see the trace in your browser.
- PythonPath: adds the rest of the Indico classes (in other directories than htdocs) toApache's python path (not the system global path!), so that the htdocs files can call files from other directories.
- PythonAutoReloadOff: I don't know!
Add the following lines, in this order:
Alias /indico/images "/home/jdoe/indico/cds-indico/indico/htdocs/images" Alias /indico/js "/home/jdoe/indico/cds-indico/indico/htdocs/js" Alias /indico "/home/jdoe/indico/cds-indico/indico/htdocs"
Edit the etc/indico.conf file.
Set the base URL
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # URLs #------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # BaseURL is the url where Indico will be accessed: BaseURL = "http://myservername.cern.ch/indico" # BaseSecureURL is the HTTPS location of Indico. BaseSecureURL = "https://myservername.cern.ch/indico"
Configure the SMTP server that Indico will use to send emails. Without this, you won't be able to create Indico users because Indico sends confirmation emails.
You have 2 options:
- Set SmtpServer to cernmx.cern.ch (will only work if your PC is inside CERN) and leave SmtpLogin and SmtpPassword blank (recommended), or ...
- Set up a SMTP server on your PC and set SmtpServer to your PC. On Linux, you can easily set a SMTP server on your PC by installing the Postfix [postfix] package and selecting "Internet site" during its configuration. You can run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure postfix" or equivalent command to reconfigure it later if necessary.
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # SMTP #------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SmtpServer = "cernmx.cern.ch" SmtpLogin = "" SmtpPassword = ""
Set the web user and web user group to its correct value (e.g. apache, www-data).
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # APACHE #------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # ApacheUser is the user that Apache runs as (Look for "User" inside httpd.conf) ApacheUser = "www-data" # ApacheGroup is the group that Apache runs as (Look for "Group" inside httpd.conf) ApacheGroup = "www-data"
3. Launching Indico
- To start the ZODB database, type:
jdoe@localhost:~/indico/cds-indico$ sudo zdaemon -C etc/zdctl.conf start
On Windows, some problems may occur while executing zdaemon. If so, try to type this instead:
runzeo -C etc/zodb.conf
If you are using Python 2.5, there may be problems creating the database. If so, contact indico-team@…! Also, you might be able to use the following script to create an empty database: Script to create an empty ZODB
- Start or restart Apache httpd (any time you make changes to etc/indico.conf, remember to restart Apache again)
- Open your browser and go to http://(your_host_name)/indico/index.py
- Create an Indico user account for yourself, check your email and confirm
- Log in with your new account, click on Server Admin, and under Server Administrator List, add the account you just created.
- Since we have done "python setup.py develop" (and not "python setup.py install"), JavaScript menus won't work by default, for reasons that are too complicated for your pea-sized brain. To make them work, go to Server Admin, General Settings, General System Info and check the Debug box. Isn't this fun?!
The Indico team at CERN likes to use the Firefox browser and the Firebug add-on for debugging web pages.
Room Booking module
If you need the room booking module (not activated by default) read the following: How to setup the room booking module for developers.
4. Working with Git
Before starting any development you should perform some basic steps with Git:
Setup your local Git
You can modify your .git/config file in order to setup your git environment. Here, you can see an example of config file.
Create a new local branch
You must create a new branch for each new project, bug fixing, improvement,etc. That branch must be created from a base one, for instance, if your contribution will be integrated in the official branch v0.97-series, you must create the new one based on that one, like this:
git checkout -b new-feature-A origin/v0.97-series
Working in your new branch
Every time you finish a sub-task related to your new-feature-A, you must commit it to your local repo.
If there are new files, do:
git add path/to/my/new/file.py
and now commit:
git commit -a
Write always a comment for every commit (see rules here)
Update your branch
If there are new contributions in your base branch (in our example, origin/v0.97-series) you can get them like this:
git fetch origin
and now rebase your branch with the updates (make sure you are currently in your branch new-feature-A):
git rebase origin/v0.97-series
NEVER rebase a branch that has already been published and integrated.
Once your new-feature-A is finished
You will need to do fetch and rebase, as explained in the previous point. And then you are ready to push:
git push your-public-repo new-feature-A
your-public-repo is a copy of your repo which is somewhere else and that the integrator can access to fetch and merge your new feature. In order to do that you must have these lines in your .git/config file:
[remote "your-public-repo"] url = myserver.com:/path/to/my/repo/indico-my-username.git fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/your-public-repo/*
Once, it is published you can warn the integrators in order to merge your code.
5. Troubleshooting
Q: The first time I go to http://(your_host_name)/indico/index.py, I get a strange error involving a SyntaxError and a template.
A: Maybe someone messed up the template. Or maybe you did like me and downloaded the source code with !TortoiseCVS in Windows, and then copied it from Windows to Linux. Try doing a checkout again from Linux.
Q: When Indico tries to send an email, it doesn't work.
A: Try changing the SMTP server in MaKaCConfig.py to cernmx.cern.ch.
Q: What does MaKaC mean. I cannot sleep without knowing the answer'''
A: Once upon a time, an Indico elder told me that it was not a monkey's name. It actually meant 'Make a Conference'.
Q: I got an error similar to: cannot write to such and such file.
A: Try changing the permissions of the files so that Indico can write on them. If Indico is trying to create a file in a directory, Indico should have read, write and execution rights on that directory. Also create the directory if it doesn't exist already!
Q: I get a DisconnectedError when connecting to Indico for the first time.
A: This can happen in the following situation:
- You are using python2.5 and (possibly) ZODB 3.4, 3.6, 3.7.
- You don't have a data.fs file in the data directory, i.e., you are starting without a database file.
In this case, you have to create an empty database file with the following file (courtesy of Pedro):
import ZODB from ZODB import FileStorage, DB import transaction storage = FileStorage.FileStorage("data.fs") db = DB(storage) connection = db.open() dbroot = connection.root() transaction.commit() connection.close() db.close() storage.close()


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The Story of a Marriage: Summary and book reviews of The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
With prose so fine it demands slow savoring, and a plot so intriguing it demands breathless page-turning, The Story of a Marriage also serves as a gorgeous meditation on romantic partnership, the great mystery of knowing another, and what knowing someone really means. It's a novel that invites open-ended pondering, reconstructed theories, a-ha!-moments, and meaty discussions. Just when you think you've figured it out, out pops another brilliant star or passing cloud to alter the constellation. Which is, come to think of it, kind of like a marriage. (Reviewed by Lucia Silva). Full Review (1219 words). Media Reviews
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Stage description:
From the start in Moulinet, SS16 climbs to the top of the Col de Turini at 1606 metres on a wide road, littered with hairpin bends. A fast and technical descent leads to the finish in the village square of La Bollene.
How the action unfolded:
A fastest time for Sebastien Loeb on SS16 means that with just two more stages of Rallye Monte-Carlo to go, the Citroen DS3 driver holds a 1m39.9s lead over Sebastien Ogier and remains on course to take his seventh Monte victory later today.
The second of Saturday's three passes through the Turini stage presented crews with a very different challenge to the first, when the extreme slush and snow took out three top 10 drivers. In contrast, SS16 was run in darkness, in patchy rain, and even though there was still plenty of slush about, there were also two clean lines of wet asphalt for most of the route.
The most effective approach was to keep the car in the lines and avoid the slush. However, before the drive back to Monaco for service, a deflated Loeb explained that it wasn't exactly high-adrenaline stuff. "It's really uninteresting to drive like this, but if you go out of the lines you are off the road," he explained.
"So you just drive slowly, which isn't very interesting for us or the spectators, but it's like that. I put on a small display for the spectators at the top - but only because I lost control a bit…"
Ogier also adopted a safe strategy at the wheel of his Volkswagen Polo R. The Frenchman no doubt aware of the importance of getting to the finish on the team's debut rally – especially after Jari-Matti Latvala crashed the other Polo on SS14. "Not easy stages today, but we are driving very safe now. Nothing more to do I think," explained Ogier.
Citroen DS3 driver Dani Sordo headed to service in third, 2m09.1 behind Ogier, after benefiting from Evgeny Novikov's retirement on SS14. The Spaniard was third fastest through SS16, but admitted he had backed off after he saw split times from the cars behind. "When I saw I was okay I took it a little easier," he said. "It's been a really tough morning so I'm pleased to be here."
Citroen Total Abu Dhabi Dhabi team driver Mikko Hirvonen holds fourth, having gained two places with the exits of Latvala and Novikov. "Pretty much a safe strategy now. I've got to get the car home safely," he acknowledged. "I had one small moment, when we slipped onto the slush, but apart from that no problems."
Almost three minutes behind Hirvonen, Citroen pilot Bryan Bouffier is fifth, having inherited the position from Mads Ostberg who strayed off the racing line 3km from the start. "I went wide and hit something with the right-hand rear wheel," explained the Ford Fiesta RS driver. "I broke the wheel and the suspension. The brakes aren't working well but I think we'll get back to service."
The incident cost Ostberg almost six minutes, dropping him 3m50.6s behind Bouffier. Martin Prokop is seventh 11m23.6s further back, with Sepp Wiegand (Skoda Fabia S2000), Olivier Burri (Peugeot 207 S2000) and Michal Kosciuszko (MINI John Cooper Works) rounding off the top ten.
A trio of stage wins for Sepp Wiegand kept him in the lead of WRC 2 with a healthy 8m25.8s advantage over Armin Kremer.
Despite the treacherous conditions of SS14, Wiegand began the day in dominating fashion, setting the seventh fastest time overall in his Skoda Fabia S2000. He repeated the feat on SS16 – despite a spin at the top of the Col.
"All is okay so far today but the Turini was so, so difficult. It was crazy," said the German. "On the first pass I saw a lot of cars had gone off, then we caught and passed Kosciuszko. After that we slowed down to take it a bit safer."
Subaru Impreza pilot Armin Kremer said he was relived to be in the rally at all after the 'crazy' conditions of SS14. He headed to service in Monaco with a 2m55.5s cushion over fellow Subaru driver Yuriy Protasov whose vision was hampered by a misting windscreen.
Fourth placed Rashid Al Ketbi (Skoda Fabia S2000) trails Protasov, with Ricardo Trivinio (Mitsubishi Lancer EVO X) the final runner in fifth.
Sebastien Chardonnet, the sole remaining WRC 3 entrant, completed the trio of stages without incident to remain of course for a maximum 10 points today. 'Very difficult stages, lots of slippery ice. Now we just try to drive slowly and get to the finish," said the Citroen DS3 R3T driver.


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First trip to Palm Springs
Mister Parker's at The Parker Palm Springs a la Jonathon Adler
I can't wait to go back to Palm Springs...even the airport is cool!
Oooh. We've been thinking about going to Palm Springs...Looks like you guys had a great time.
The details such as headboard and tiles are fabulous!
You look great, so does the main man.
I haven't been to Palm Springs in ages. I didn't even know about this hotel, but I love the low key vibe. I think that it's time to schedule a trip.
Lisa, should we do a blogger meet up in Palm Springs?
Darling of course FABULOUS YOU would be in such a FABULOUS HOTEL! Perfect! LOVE the Moroccan details, the purple restaurant, the big comfy looking bed. Divine!
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Tom Kloza, Opis chief oil analyst, on the potential increase in gas taxes to cover the fiscal cliff.
Nov 30, 2012
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It more for the gas to get there.
Yeah we're looking for revenue under every rock here Washington it seriously thinking about this one.
Raising the gas tax as one of the latest proposals to rake in more revenue for the federal government.
-- closes chief oil analyst at -- and he joins us on the phone.
What do you think that this idea.
Well I I think it's probably something that sensible to look at why -- we have.
Time and common.
And we REK eighteen point four cents per gallon in federal gas tax not only that.
And -- incredibly regressive I can't imagine Democrats embrace and if this hits.
-- you know lower income Americans the hardest as on a percentage basis.
It -- hit people pretty hard in the rural south in the rural midwest.
Much less so than let's say -- new York and Washington.
But it hasn't been increased since 1993.
And so and it's -- what you -- Well contraction over you you see and other industrialized countries and here's a thought.
If you really believe and I do believe that we're probably.
Going to be much less dependent on foreign oil and have cheaper US oil going forward.
There might be -- weighted index that to sort of goes US numbers and it may be that we've already peaked in terms of the highest prices will ever pass all.
I mean why would you raise taxes on something like this that get hit everyone across -- why would you raise taxes at all but you know let's keep it today -- Why would you raise taxes when people are out -- not consuming as much because everyone's budget is stretched so tight.
Housing and home values are terrible unemployment is high as you can bring ease that gas tax I mean.
That just takes money directly away from things that people would spend money on to fuel the economy.
And puts -- a pocket of the government.
You know I would probably disagree and I would've thought that -- years ago if we would've spent 483.
Billion dollars and gasoline like we will this year.
That it would sort of put the consumer right in the toilet but it hasn't so yeah.
We shouldn't even higher if it hasn't killed the consumer having right now the average price of a gallon gas three dollars and 61 cents vs 2009 it was two dollars.
And 35 cents -- we're looking at a -- thirty higher.
In the past three years in 2007.
It was two dollars and 79 cents see you look at the price of gas where it is -- you say -- it's not killing the consumer so let's raise the price even.
Higher com.
Well I'm not talking about fifty -- -- dollar like Johnny Anderson talked about many years ago at a campaign I'm talking about something nominal and I am talking about paying one's bills.
If you look at the -- and you look at the condition of the roads in the United States spirit brief -- decrepit condition.
And because the bandage drop by 600000.
Barrels a day -- the last five or six years.
The revenue which dropped with the gasoline tax being what it's been for nineteen years so.
I listen I I don't play the act the conceit game either here gas but I think I reasonable trial.
You brought up that point because it is supposed to be used to repair roads but the last two times the gas tax -- raised in 93 and in 1990.
It was used to pay down the deficit.
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Now we don't happen to pay a lot for gasoline in New Jersey because we have low estate taxes but -- Governor Christie.
Probably would get a reasonable reception if he looked at -- raising the state gas tax and New Jersey right now because if it.
Went to funding for the reparations from sandy it might make sense so.
He can't be dismissive of it in any case.
Tom clothes that always a very Smart guy this the first time you're wrong I Campbell and Pennsylvania I love you have a great weekend and thank you for coming on -- appreciate -- -- But --
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Saginaw Valley Lutheran went undefeated at its own invitational on Saturday, defeating Coleman and Freeland.
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Valley Lutheran's Sarah Appold threw five no-hit innings to lead the Chargers to victory. Appold struck out 13. Appold also contributed offensively, with an RBI on two hits, including a double.
Gaby Nueman led Valley Lutheran's offense with a home run and three RBIs. Teammate Kara Engelhardt added two RBIs on two singles.
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Valley Lutheran's Kelsey Schaus pitched five two-hit innings to earn the win. Schaus struck out nine and did not issue a walk.
Schaus also contributed from the plate with two RBIs on three singles.
Sarah Appold led Valley Lutheran's offense with a double, a home run and two RBIs.
Chelsea Niedzwiecki led Freeland with a double.
Saginaw Valley coach John Mueller was pleased with his team's performance in the invitational.
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The folks at Lucasfilm, creators of the "Star Wars" franchise, took the designer of the original Stormtrooper costume to court in the UK and had their light sabers thrust right back at them.
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Open Daily from 26th December 2012 to the 26 April 2013, Frankston Waterfront will be transformed as 3,500 tonnes of sand is carved into spectacular sculptures.This year, Sand Sculpting Australia's team of 21 talented International and Australian sculptors will bring to "life" in meticulous detail "Under the Sea" - a submerged world of breathtaking beauty and foreboding.
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With the sculptures providing a magnificent backdrop relax in our cafe and let our friendly staff serve you a quick snack, morning or afternoon tea or lunch.
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After recent news reports revealed that IRS agents were engaged in widespread, systematic targeting of individuals based on their political and religious beliefs, Americans were rightly outraged. Subsequent Congressional investigations revealed not only were people harassed by agents, but IRS officials had been caught leaking confidential taxpayer information and squandering away millions of tax dollars.
In light of these myriad scandals, the House of Representatives moved to enforce strict oversight of the IRS, curbing their power and putting strong checks in place to prevent future abuses. But thanks to the president's health care law, the IRS is poised to expand into the health insurance business. That's right, the very same agency caught harassing Americans and mishandling their tax information is tasked with the massive undertaking of implementing and enforcing Obamacare. IRS agents will now be collecting information on individual's health status, enforcing the requirement that everyone get health insurance and fining those who don't have coverage. In total, the agency will run point on almost 50 new provisions of the health care law. Summing up the cause for serious concern, the Treasury Department watchdog called the number of new responsibilities given to the IRS, "unprecedented in recent history."
Making matters worse, recent changes in the health care law's rollout could lead to even more IRS intrusion. In July, the Obama Administration announced they would delay for one year the requirement that employers offer their employees health insurance. However, the Administration left in place the requirement that individuals purchase insurance. The disjointed delay will likely leave many Americans unsure of where to go for their health care. It's easy to imagine someone thinking their employer isn't offering insurance, seeking coverage from the law's state-based health care exchanges and receiving a federal subsidy for care. But come tax season, if the IRS deems the individual was in fact not eligible for the federal benefit, they could be hit with thousands of dollars in fines. It's a nightmare scenario for people simply trying to comply with the law.
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Starring Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Kelly Macdonald, Matthew Macfadyen, Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson, Alicia Vikander, Olivia Williams, Michelle Dockery, Emily Watson, Holliday Grainger, Shirley Henderson, Bill Skarsgård.
Written by Tom Stoppard, based the novel by Leo Tolstoy.
Directed by Joe Wright.
Tolstoy is not exactly an easy read, nor are his novels very adaptable for the big screen. I'm not entirely sure the 19th Century Russian author can ever be completely understood by Western audiences, but that doesn't mean producers shouldn't try. Anna Karenina is the latest attempt to bring Tolstoy's words to life.
Keira Kinghtley stars in the title role, the wife Alexei Karenin (Jude Law), a Russian aristocrat. The basic story centers around Anna's passionate extramarital affair with Count Vronsky (Aaron Taylor-Johsnon) and her struggle to save her family once her sins are made public.
Part of the story also involves Anna's brother Oblonsky (Matthew Macfadyen) and her efforts to convince Oblonky's wife Dolly (Kelly Macdonald) to forgive him (something she later seeks for herself). Another offshoot of the main plot is Oblonky's friend Levin (Domhnall Gleason) pursuit of love while trying to maintain a clear conscience and religious beliefs.
Anna Karenina is a lavish, stunning, visual endeavor presented in two different formats. One is your garden-variety costume/period epic, while the other is more like a straightforward theatrical adaptation. It's a stage-on-screen feeling, much like Moulin Rouge. The result is a feast for the eyes and a few standout performances (Knightley. Law) that is heavy on the art and light on plot.
Tolstoy's story is adapted well, although it would seem that lust is often mistaken for love in his tale. It would also seem that Tolstoy's underlying commentary on Russian societal norms, God and culture might be lost to the naked eye under all that beauty. It's also hard to be sympathetic with a woman who portray so little moral character, often showing more concern for her lover than her children and husband (even though he is kind of a jerk).
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Not so much palaces of learning as bastions of privilege and hypocrisy
Mr López Obrador's campaign of "civil resistance" starts to fizzle
Evo Morales collides with the commercial farmers
It's not just the economy that is booming; schools are too
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Who planted heroin on a critic of the president?
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Outsiders say that something must be done. Sudan says that it mustn't
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The Prince of Egypt
MPAA Rating : PG
Year of Release : 1998
"The Prince of the Egypt" is the first feature-length animated film in many years to make a serious bid for an adult audience. Not, mind you, just to entertain the adults who have to see the movie with their children, but to attract adults on their own. With Disney reigning supreme over the animated world for the last decade, there has been little room for competing studios to make worthwhile projects for children, much less push the envelope by making a sophisticated, complex films with serious themes that also happen to be animated.
As the first full-length animated effort from DreamWorks Studios, "The Prince of Egypt" posits a serious challenge to Disney's dominion by heading in a different direction. Almost everything about it is different from the traditional Disney animated formula, from the angular manner in which the characters are drawn to the lack of comedic sidekicks (although there are two Egyptian priests voiced by Steve Martin and Martin Short who are good for a few laughs). The film still feels the need to include Broadway-style musical numbers, some of which are more effective than others. Nevertheless, "The Prince of Egypt" is something of a landmark film, and how audiences receive it will serve as a strong indicator of just how far animation can stray from the traditional kid-based approaches.
The simple fact that "The Prince of Egypt" is a respectful religious film is enough to make it stand apart from most Hollywood productions. DreamWorks was so worried about offending people of faith, that it probably had more religious consultants working on the film than animators. However, this more than anything demonstrates how serious the producers were about their product, and how much they wanted to show that Hollywood can produce solid, thought-provoking entertainment for people of all ages and faiths.
The film tells the story of Moses, from the time his mother put him in a woven basket and set him afloat on the Nile to keep him from being murdered by the Pharaoh's army, to the moment he walks down from Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments. In-between, the film includes most of the major points of the Biblical tale taken from the book of Exodus--God speaking to Moses from the burning bush, the ten plagues on Egypt, the parting of the Red Sea, and so on.
All of it has been depicted before, most memorably in Cecil B. DeMille's overwrought Technicolor opus from 1956, but directors Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, and Simon Wells make the story their own by employing just the right amount of embellishment and elaboration. In particular, it concentrates on Moses' years growing up as a prince of Egypt, an aspect of his life not covered in the Bible. The film adds an extra dimension of brotherly tension by making Moses (Val Kilmer) the brother of Rameses (Ralph Fiennes), the Pharaoh he eventually has to convince to release the Jews from slavery. It also fleshes out his marriage to Tzipporah (Michelle Pfeiffer) and takes a few liberties with small details (for instance, it was the Pharaoh's daughter, not his wife, who discovered Moses in the basket).
Details aside, much of "The Prince of Egypt" is simply breathtaking to watch. Visually, the animators mix hand-drawn characters, huge painted vistas, and detailed computer animation to form a seamless whole. Often, in animated movies that also include computerized elements, the two media clash on-screen, unable to co-exist comfortably. However, the DreamWorks animators get the mix just right, and many of the film's lavish centerpieces--including a stunning opening sequence depicting the Egyptians enslaving the Jews and forcing them to build a city--are among the most stunning examples of the vast potential animation holds.
Somehow, the film always manages to find just the right tone to convey the most well-known scenes. It can be playful, such as when Moses and Rameses as racing chariots and destroy an entire temple in the process (this scene, which owes a tongue-in-cheek debt to the car-in-the-tree sequence in Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park," jokingly explains why the Sphinx has no nose). On the other hand, it can be deeply solemn, such as the burning bush sequence, which ends with a single tear coming from Moses' eye, letting us know more than all the eye-popping special effects that preceded it how much he has felt the hand of God.
The ten plagues sent down on Egypt are some of the most visually arresting sequences in the film, although the eight middle plagues--frogs, gnats, flies, livestock, boils, hail (which, in this case, is flaming), locusts, and darkness--are compressed into a five-minute musical montage that doesn't quite do justice to the damage they inflict in the Biblical account. However, the first plague--where the rivers of Egypt turn to blood--and the last plague--where God strikes down the Egyptian firstborn--are rendered with stunning impact.
The plague of the firstborn is depicted with a perfect resonance of horror and hushed solemnity. The film does not shrink away from displaying this gut-wrenching event, but it does it with quiet authority--a menacing cloud sweeps through the streets, entering the houses that do not have blood on the doorways as God commanded, and with an almost hideously audible release of breath, takes the child's life. No scene in the film is more moving than the end of this sequence, where the silence is slowly replaced by distant weeping and anguished cries as the Egyptian parents realize what has happened.
For sheer visceral impact, no sequence in the film (or perhaps any film this year) rivals the pillars of fire impeding the Pharaoh's army and the parting of the Red Sea. This scene is accomplished with an ingenuous use of computer animation, which renders the parting of the sea both awe-inspiring and completely plausible. As the Jews walk through the dry seabed, they are surrounded on both sides by towering walls of water in which can be briefly glimpsed whales and other sea creatures. The design of the sequence is impressive because it feels distinctly imaginative by portraying the event as it would have physically transpired.
And that, more than anything, is the strength of "The Prince of Egypt." It takes a familiar story and recreates it on screen in a bold new fashion. It stays faithful to the Biblical text where it can, while also fashioning a visually enticing new world of ages gone by. By not straying from the fundamental timeless themes of the Exodus story, and not trying to reinvent the tale or put a "modern" spin on it, "The Prince of Egypt" finds great success and should entertain and move just about anyone who sees it.
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My name is Tyrin Price and I am a humble "certified" Medieval Astrologer. I will be a panel member on a gotomeeting web presentation on "Traditional" astrology in a couple weeks. There will be another Medieval Astrologer, who I believe has a diploma from Robert Zoller's course, and a couple of astrologers studying the Hellenistic tradition on the panel.
The purpose of the presentation is to give an overview of "Traditional" or "Classical" astrology... almost like a sales pitch to show modernists what this fascinating study has to offer. The first hurdle to cross has to do with definitions. Hellenistic and Medieval traditions span fairly specific time periods and geographic regions, but what exactly is "Traditional" or "Classical" astrology? In a practice session tonight the idea was put forth that "Traditional" and "Classical" are general terms while Hellenistic and Medieval are specific to times and places.
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Pembroke 7th grade class has multiple sets of multiples
Posted: 01/29/13 at 6:15 pm
Tags: Pembroke Community Middle School Twins Triplets Pembroke Multiples
PEMBROKE, Mass. (WHDH) -- Seventh graders at Pembroke Community Middle School have teachers doing a double take.
There are 16 sets of twins and one set of triplets in the same grade, according to Donna McGarrible, the school's principal.
"Sometimes they just mix us up," said Eric Kaplowitz, a twin.
"I never thought a school would have so many pairs of twins or even a set of triplets. I think it's really cool," said Kristen Reiser, a twin.
Thirty five students are either twins or triplets at the school.
One father thought this unusual statistic it might be a record.
With only 313 seventh graders the twins and triplets make up more than 10 percent of the class, but when it comes to sets of multiples they only tie the Guinness World Record.
The students love it, even if they won't get official recognition.
"We're all friends, we all like each other," said Madison Monti, a triplet.
They like to goof off like any other middle school student, but as for twin pranks the principal said if they're pulling them she doesn't know about it.
Nick and Brandon said they only tricked a teacher once while they were in kindergarten and they got away with it -- until now!
With all the sets of multiples in the grade only three sets of them are identical.