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I had lunch with Justin the other day at my favourite sandwich shop on the island. It's been a year since my last visit to Andy's, and it's comforting to see that nothing has changed. There's a million sandwiches on the menu (along with ten million smoothies), but I always order the mushroom medley or eggplant melt. I keep meaning to venture out, though such is often easier said than done, especially when visits to Andy's are so limited.
But today Justin and I decided that something different was in order, just so that we would know exactly what we've been missing out on. The Ahi Avocado Sandwich. The name is deceiving because it's not ahi, ahi, as in ahi grilled, ahi fresh, but instead, it's ahi spread. A little sad, but what were you expecting for $5? Minor disappointment aside, the sandwich was just as awesome as the rest – lettuce, shredded carrots, piles of alfalfa (oh man, so much love for alfalfa, in everything, anything…), and the ahi spread (like tuna salad, only ahi salad) with…
…lots and lots of mashed avocados oooozing between the slices of Andy's fresh made wheat bread. Local Hawai'i avocado are so insanely delicious, a soft creamy green, more buttery than butter itself. Maybe that's why our avocado smoothies are so tasty, eh? ;) There's no point in bothering with avocados from anywhere else in the world. If customs would just turn a blind eye, I'd pack a bagazillion avocados in my suitcase back to NYC and eat nothing but avocados for the next year.
We also split a papaya-acai smoothie, which did not look appetizing with its murky brown-purple shade…funky at first sip, though grew on us ever so slowly. I'll stick with my staple guava smoothie in the future.
Dessert cravings creep up on me around ten minutes after finishing a savoury lunch (you know, for those odds days when I'm not eating piles of cake in place of a meal ;) We both instantly thought of Liliha Bakery, and drove off to Kalihi. Liliha Bakery is an old Hawai'i standby (though ownership was recently sold to Peter Kim (of Yummy's) from the Takakuwa family) and the only place on earth where you can find a Chantilly topped Coco Puff. No, these are not Beard Papa or Choux Factory puffs. These are something else entirely, in a world of their own that other establishments could only dream to ever recreate. These are Liliha Coco Puffs.
Everyone in Hawai'i knows of Liliha Bakery and their coco puffs, and if you don't, well shame on you. The chiffon cakes, date bars, pancakes and waffles are also fantastic, though it's the coco puffs that draw endless lines to this 24 hour bakery (closed only on Mondays).
This is the Coco Puff. A basic choux pastry stuffed with a thick chocolate pudding. Not dark chocolate, but milk. This is one of the rare cases in which milk works significantly better than dark. It's not a luxurious, fancy pudding. It's honest pudding. Like real stuff kine pudding. That kind of pudding. But the best part is what they put on top, oh man, it's crazy, it's CHANTILLY. Let's get this straight. Chantilly is a Hawai'i creation. Once in a while I'll run into "Chantilly" on a dessert menu or bakery on the mainland.
Noooo. Not even close.
That golden/light brown glob you see on top of the puff? That's Chantilly. Hawai'i Chantilly. How all Chantilly should be. No one knows the exact recipe for Liliha's Chantilly, save for those who are actually in the kitchen whipping it up, but this quote from an old Star Bulletin article sums it up as, "a German chocolate cake frosting, without the nuts and coconut, and with a whole lot of butter added." A lot of butter. And a fair share of egg yolks, heheheheh. The coco puff is best eaten very, very cold, just right on the verge of frozen, the chill of chocolate pudding, buttery choux and the oh god, chantilly, creamywith a slight salty twist and butter, oh butter, all over, everywhere.
And then once you eat one, then you want another. So you have another and another and perhaps a few more, till you've eaten just one too many. Then you feel slightly sick. And oh so happy.
There was a surprise in store for us on this particular visit. A small sign perched above the blueberry cream cheese squares suggested, "Try Our New Item – Green Tea Coco". How could anyone refuse such a cheerful offer?
I've been visiting this bakery for twenty odd years and they've never had green tea coco puffs before! Crazy. Curiosity got the best of us.
The chocolate pudding is replaced with a matcha pudding, significantly lighter and a tad less sweet. The chantilly is the same, only with matcha powder whipped in the frosting – it changes the colour quite a bit (perhaps they've added food colouring?), but there's no notable difference in the flavour, pure chantilly through and through. Justin liked it more than the original coco puff, and I could understand why. But sometimes you just really need chocolate pudding enrobed in choux and topped with more whipped butter and egg yolks. And other times, you want a "lighter" (hahah, who are we kidding) version, hence the matcha coco puff. Me? There's enough love for all.
And because we had both puffs, we figured why not have a bit more and indulge in the ensemada, a Filipino treat with strong roots in the island. It's big, it's pillowy, and as Betty Shimabukuro of the Bulletin proclaimed, "the ensemada has absolutely no nutritional value, unless you consider happiness to be good for the health." Ahhh, how very true. I believe the same applies for coco puffs, shave ice, chichi dango, manju, and plenty other Hawai'i treats. But we must be filled with the utmost happiness!
Poofy, yes. Much like Ani's Sweetbread, in both the light and soft texture, and creamy sweet flavour. Think challah gone local, lighter (despite the bagazillion egg yolks) with a touch more sugar. Baked in individual fist sized mounds and brushed with a bounty of whipped butter and sugar.
You see why Hawai'i is so delicious? :)
Andy's Sandwiches & Smoothies
2904 E Manoa Rd
Honolulu, HI 96822
(808) 988-6161
Liliha Bakery
515 N Kuakini St
Honolulu, HI 96817
(808) 531-1651
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Flying Purple Hippos are a Kenyan species locally synonymous with the colloquial white man's term Pink Elephants. As such, Flying Purple Hippos are often on parade, and often haunt the fuck out of those who indulge in the reality-altering act of alcohol consumption. The term first came into local vernacular in the mid-80's, around the same time as the formation of Budweiser's flagship charity effort "Beer for the Third World" began its aid dispensation to the region (where ironically, water is quite scarce).
The Kenyan government/counsel of tribal elders has created numerous pamphlets advising the risks associated with a Flying Purple Hippos attack. Unfortunately the country cannot afford a Xerox copier, and furthermore, said pamphlets would have probably been lightly garnished and devoured by all who would receive them.
Chief Elder Oumbili Bu'untu of the Mu'untosu tribe described the first sightings of Flying Purple Hippos to CNN's Wolf Blitzer in a 1991 interview. Bear in mind that the alderman is one of four people in the nation with a working knowledge of English:
|You see, it is the big, and very large hippo. This hippo, he has the wings and he flies! He comes to you when you are sleepy, from the water that burns you as swallowed. They are VERY big, and have great appetite! They come for the soul in your body and leave you with none for heaven. The fire water burn is loved by all of my people: dying of dehydration is now much more for pleasure!
Major Differences[edit]
Flying Purple Hippos are much like any other wildlife that you've encountered while inebriated, except for these 4 key differences:
- Flying Purple Hippos have wings. These wings enable the animal the ability of flight.
- Flying Purple Hippos wear tiny top hats as a confounding defense mechanism.
- Flying Purple Hippos are allergic to cornstarch.
- Flying Purple Hippos do not appreciate being mocked by having their likenesses shamelessly pirated for use in crib mobiles.
Hippos in Danger[edit]
Sadly, the end of Budweiser's humanitarian efforts in 1998 landed these wonderful creatures on the Endangered Species List. Endangered means that the animals in the certain species in question are currently dying slow, painful deaths. Every day, Kenyans are either dying from a myriad of diseases and afflictions (or just sobering up), and are thusly massacring the indigenous Flying Purple Hippo population of the region in record numbers. But fear not; thanks to the United Nations you can donate money to rape in the Congo. Don't worry though, you'll think its going to a good cause, and that's enough metaphysical catharsis to tide you over for the month.
Flying Purple Hippos in Popular Kenyan Culture[edit]
Plainly, Kenya has no popular culture. However, the closest thing to popular culture is the longstanding tradition of folk singing. In modern times these songs have been modified to include popular sentiment, and modern production elements such as AutoTune and Beat Detective aid in a well shaped, marketable sound. Once a recording studio opens on the continent of Africa, Kenyan folk will be quite well received.
Flying Purple Hippos are mentioned in the following officially sanctioned folk ballads:
- The Flybellys - Walk Like the Hippo Flies
- Su'shoo - Fundumafoon B'lale (Valley Where Purple Flies)
- Calimanti - God, I'm Fucking Drunk
- The Turtles - Everyday's a Hippo Bath
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January 3, 2017 at 10am to June 18, 2017 at 5pm – The Met Fifth Avenue The first retrospective exhibition devoted to the Indian artist Y. G. Srimati (1926–2007) is currently on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Featuring some 25 meticulously executed watercolor pa… Organized by The Met Fifth Avenue & The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation Fund | Type: visual
January 3, 2017 at 11am to June 5, 2017 at 5pm – The Rubin Museum of Art "Sacred Spaces" at the Rubin Museum of Art invites visitors to reflect on devotional activities in awe-inspiring places. For the second iteration of the exhibition, the Museum commissioned an install… Organized by | Type: other
January 19, 2017 at 7:30pm to August 6, 2017 at 7:30pm – Doug Varone and Dancers/DOVA, Inc. Doug Varone and Dancers 30th Anniversary Season New York City's famed Doug Varone and Dancers celebrates the company's 30th Anniversary Season with upcoming performances and intensives. For 30 years… Organized by Michelle Tabnick PR | Type: dance, performance
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The Okavango Delta in Botswana is a natural wonderland where delicate dragonflies dart from green reed to pastel-pink lily, and tsessebe, sitatunga and red lechwe antelope move from island to island, watched closely by lions, leopards and crocodiles. In the midst of this untouched splendour lies Xudum Okavango Delta Lodge in the Moremi Game Reserve, whose nine luxurious suites overlook the ephemeral game-rich floodplain and offer you the ultimate in comfort and privacy.
Guarded by a resident family of waddling hippos, the earthy glamour of Xudum (pronounced 'Ku-doom') compliments the electric Delta environment, where predators like African wild dogs share the floodplains with large herds of elephant and buffalo. You are able to explore the glistening waterways by mekoro (dugout canoes that are poled by your guide, depending on seasonal water levels) or traverse the golden grasslands in search of the Big 5 via 4x4. Ideal for discerning families, Xudum Okavango Delta Lodge can tailor a safari for families with children.
One of the highlights at Xudum is the rooftop lookouts built atop each suite. By day, they offer sweeping views of the lagoon and beyond, while by night they are make for adventurous place for stargazing the Milky Way.


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Apricot Roses
Roses can come in a variety of colors and fragrances and each kind can symbolize something special. Rose that have a mixture of yellows and reds to create orange roses are seen as a bridge to friendship. The yellow roses symbolize friendship while red roses represent love. With the colors together, you have a perfect mixture of the start of a new journey with someone special. This beautiful painting represents the beautiful apricots roses and can be a special gift to yourself or to a dear friend. Change up the rose colors for a new special meaning!Find events near me
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As Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's path to victory looked more imminent on Election Night, the Canadian government's immigration and citizenship website began to experience sporadic outages.
An error message on the website stated, "there is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed." Meanwhile, Google searches for "How can I move to Canada" had surged on election night.
Twitter users suggested it was the result of Americans flooding the site to inquire about packing up for a life in the Great White North. The social media site was flooded with posts, memes and gifs from dismayed voters threatening to leave the United States.
The site also crashed earlier this year during the primaries after Trump's dominant performance on Super Tuesday. At the same time, Google Trends reported a spike in the search term, "How can I move to Canada."
Trump's stronger-than-expected performance in key battleground statesstunned the Clinton campaign, which was clinging to faint hopes as the election of the nation's 45th president neared its frenzied conclusion: Clinton calling Trump to concede the election.


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Want a bigger piece of the world? Some small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) view global expansion as a daunting task, given their limited financial and staff resources, says Raymond Boggs, vice president of SMB research for the global market intelligence firm IDC. Others, he says, see unified communications—voice, video, and data all running over an Internet Protocol (IP) network—as a way to overcome those limitations.
Boggs recently talked to Cisco® about how companies can use unified communications to successfully conduct business in multiple countries—with or without offices in those countries.
Boggs: Serving international markets can add significant costs and complexities to your overhead. Unified communications can help businesses avoid that by helping employees be more productive, reducing phone costs, and providing telephone features that enable them to compete more effectively.
Unified communications is especially efficient for conducting business globally. Offshore customers, suppliers, and partners can reach you using the communication method they prefer. Unified messaging, a feature of unified communications, collects your messages into one place for easy retrieval. Despite time zone differences, you can respond to customers and colleagues more quickly, because all your voicemails, e-mails, and other messages go into one inbox.
A unified communications system can also give you a sales and marketing advantage. You could link your unified communications system to a customer relationship management (CRM) solution, giving any employee who answers the phone instant access to a caller's customer file. The employee might notice there are products the caller hasn't tried, for example, and immediately offer the customer a 10 percent discount or other incentive.
Rich media conferencing can be a convenient, cost-effective alternative to international travel. You can use it to do sales presentations or online seminars. It also makes it easy for global teams to work together across different time zones. People can collaborate online wherever they are. They can view the same video or documents at the same time, review them, and collectively make changes to documents in real time, rather than going back and forth.
Boggs: Offering around-the-clock telephone support can be an important differentiator for a business entering a new market. It helps you build positive customer relationships, which in turn leads to more recommendations of your product or service by locals.
You could set up a virtual, 24-hour support system to handle customer calls coming in from Singapore, for example. Rather than having a Singapore office with employees there to answer the phones, a unified communications system lets you place employees who are fluent in English and Malay anywhere in the world. They can even work from their homes. So it's easier to maintain a small call center staff, with workers answering the phones in shifts. If your employees speak the languages of the international markets you're serving, all of this will be transparent to your customers.
Boggs: You need a secure IP network as a foundation. On top of that, you're probably looking at $5,000 to $50,000 to add a unified communications system. The cost depends on various factors. For example: Will you have just a few people utilizing unified communications from their PCs? Or will you have several hundred people using dedicated networked phones?
Designing, installing, and managing a unified communications system requires technical skills in data networking and telephony. You don't need to have all those skills internally. You can get access to those skills through a channel partner, reseller, service provider, or other third party.
Devoting time and financial resources can be a challenge for small and medium-sized businesses. But a challenge is also an opportunity. The fact is, sooner or later, your company will probably need to address offshore competition. So why not take the lead, instead of waiting for it to happen? Why not become the disruptor, instead of being the disrupted?
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Limited Edition WAG100 Clothing Line the Perfect Holiday Gift!
One of the many ways the Winnipeg Art Gallery is celebrating its Centennial year is with the production of an ultra chic clothing line for adults and children. Available at the Gallery Shop, the WAG100 line includes t-shirts, tanks, sweats, and hoodies. Screen-printed with past WAG exhibition posters designed by artists Bill Lobchuck, Don Proch, George Swinton, and others, these unique threads are perfect gifts for any art lover.
"We have a special offer for WAG members on November 28, 29, and 30—20% off on all items in the Shop," says Gallery Shop Manager Sherri Van Went. "So this is a great opportunity for people to become members and take part in all our Centennial celebrations. They can visit the Shop, buy a membership, and then use their discount to purchase items for everyone on their gift list. And we will be serving cookies and hot drinks to help get everyone in the mood!"
Plus, with every purchase of $50 or more at the Gallery Shop, visitors get two-for-one admission to see Winnipeg Now, the WAG's first Centennial exhibition. Featuring new art by 13 of the most significant contemporary artists connected to the Winnipeg scene, Winnipeg Now is on view until December 30, 2012.
In addition to the clothing line, WAG100 merchandise includes tote bags screen-printed with Drum Dance by Inuit artist Luke Anguhadluq, pencil crayons, sketch kits, and travel mugs. Not to mention decadent chocolate bars commissioned from Winnipeg chocolatier Constance Popp.
The Winnipeg Art Gallery is grateful for the support of the following Centennial sponsors: BMO Financial Group, The Winnipeg Foundation, the Department of Canadian Heritage, TD Bank, James Richardson & Sons Ltd., MTS Allstream, Johnston Group, Air Canada, RBC Royal Bank, PACART, Great-West Life, Friesens, Manitoba Culture Heritage and Tourism, City of Winnipeg, Investors Group, Scotiabank, Volunteer Associates of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Storm Bistro, Manitoba Lotteries Corporation, Ernst & Young, Fort Garry Hotel, KPMG, Lawton Partners, Loewen, Parrish & Heinbecker, Aikins Law, AON, Cambrian Credit Union, Manitoba Blue Cross, National Leasing, CP Loewen, North West Company, NRG Management. Media sponsors: Winnipeg Free Press, CTV, CBC, Pattison Outdoor Advertising, 103.1 Virgin Radio, 99.9 BOB FM, Doowah Design, Visual Lizard, Esdale Printing, Radio-Canada, Travel Manitoba, Tourism Winnipeg, Midcan Production Technologies.
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The Winnipeg Art Gallery is celebrating its Centennial year with an unparalleled series of exhibitions, programs, and events promoting the power of art in life. As Manitoba's leading art museum, the WAG is home to over 26,000 works of art spanning ten centuries, including the world's preeminent collection of contemporary Inuit art.
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Making Sense of the Foreclosure Mess
The attorneys general of all 50 states and Washington, D.C. are launching a joint investigation into foreclosures. Why? Because it's looking like mortgage holders have been asking courts to hand over people's homes even if the mortgage holders don't have the evidence that the law requires. Even if they don't have the promissory note that establishes the debt, and never have had it. Even if they don't have any firsthand knowledge that the note ever existed.
JP Morgan Chase and GMAC have suspended foreclosures on homes in 23 states (the states where a judge's approval is required before foreclosing). Bank of America has frozen foreclosures nationwide. But, they assure us, it's only so they can look into claims of wrongdoing.
The early coverage gives a taste of how the banks and other mortgage holders are going to tell their story to the public. They're going with the "He hit me first" defense.
The Washington Post story on the new investigation said this: "Mortgage servicers have sought to downplay the problems as minor technicalities, contending that nearly all of the files show borrowers missed their payments and deserve to lose their homes."
A Reuters story gives us the JP Morgan Chase point of view: "JPMorgan Chase, the second-largest U.S. bank, said on Wednesday it had identified some issues in its review of foreclosure affidavits but was "pretty comfortable" that its decisions to foreclose had been proper.
"'We're not evicting people who deserve to stay in their house,' Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said on a conference call."
Which looks, at first glance, like a pretty fair statement. These are people who have quit paying their mortgages. They deserve what they get, and you can't blame the banks for it. They hit first, and the banks are just hitting back.
There are, however, a couple of flaws with this argument.
For starters, there are laws in all 50 states that outline what a mortgage holder has to do to foreclose on a mortgage. The procedures specify what paperwork the mortgage holder has to file with the court. Because for the court to have the authority to act, it has to have evidence to act on. In a foreclosure, the paperwork is the evidence.
There's no exception in the law for skipping steps or not filing the required proof that people don't "deserve to stay in their houses."
This isn't just a matter of fudging a signature or a notarization here and there, with everything else completely on the up and up.
One of the essential parts of a foreclosure is that the foreclosing party has to prove that it has the right to be paid. The way you do that is to show the court the promissory note that the debtor signed, or truthfully say that you own it.
This isn't a minor technicality.
A promissory note is a negotiable instrument, just like a check. The holder of a promissory note can endorse it over to another party, just like you can a check. That's what's supposed to happen when a mortgage is sold, as almost all mortgages were during the recent real estate bubble.
But it appears that may not have happened during all the excitement of securitizing real estate. Which means that the note didn't get endorsed and didn't get passed along—and maybe nobody knows where it is any more.
The mortgage holders have been sliding past that little problem by using affidavits where they swear they used to have the note, but they've just misplaced it. It happens: Buildings burn down, floods destroy paperwork, dogs eat homework. It's a rare thing, but it happens. But if, as it seems, they're claiming it happened in thousands of cases, it starts to look a bit dubious.
So what we have is banks going to court and saying, "We used to have the promissory note, but we lost it. Please give us this house anyway." If that were true, it might not be so bad: If you pay someone by check, and they lose the check, you still owe them the money. But if the first check turns up after you've paid the second time, it's still a valid check. If the other party's dishonest, they can take it to the bank and turn it into cash.
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But it's even nuttier than that. Because most of the mortgage holders who are foreclosing aren't the original lenders. They're essentially saying, "We've never actually seen the promissory note, but this guy told us it exists and he saw it and he wants you to pay us."
There's a lot of talk about irresponsible borrowers and how they're at fault for popping the housing bubble. This developing story is a look at the other side, where people were generating mortgages and selling them off so fast they didn't bother with petty things like proper chain of title. It was a lot easier to cut corners. And now they're cutting corners again as they turn people out of their homes.
There's actually a pretty good legal argument that the mortgage holders should simply lose. The law says what they have to do to foreclose. If they can't do it, they're not entitled to a remedy. If that seems draconian, well, it's not the borrowers' fault that the lenders didn't keep their paperwork straight.
Realistically, this may provide the impetus for renegotiating mortgages to make them reflect actual market value instead of bubble value. If the choice is between taking that loss or taking a total loss, standard economics says you take the smaller loss. The tradeoff for the homeowner would be a chance to get clear title. Even if a foreclosure case is dismissed for failure of proof, the mortgage is going to appear in the chain of title, and the homeowner won't be able to sell.
The banks would like us to believe they're entitled to win, even if they can't do it within the rules, because the people they're foreclosing on are in the wrong. "They hit first," in other words. What they seem to have forgotten from the kindergarten days is that the response to that is always, "That doesn't give you the right to hit back."
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Liberty educators get a lesson in Army life
Two Liberty University administrators and one staff member traded classrooms and offices for camouflage and combat boots earlier this month as they took part in the Army ROTC Leader's Training Course (LTC) at Fort Knox, Ky.
LTC, a program aimed at motivating and qualifying college students for entry into the Senior ROTC program, hosts a five-day tour for college educators each summer. Liberty's participants were: Dr. George Buzzy, Dean of the Helms School of Government at Liberty University; Dr. Stephen Parke, Associate Dean for the Helms School and a retired lieutenant colonel with the U.S. Army; and Jose Mercado from LU's CASAS (Center for Academic Support and Advising Services). Conference leaders included LU Eagle Battalion cadre/professors of Military Science. The LTC's commanding officer, Col. Chester F. Dymek III, served as senior officer of the LU/UVA ROTC cadre until recently.
Buzzy said participants observed the newly minted second lieutenants in action, who in turn trained the group of educators in rappelling, river crossing and the high ropes course.
"This truly was an amazing event, both experientially and academically," he said.
Buzzy and his crew met up with 2nd Lt. Paul Tillman, a 2009 Helms School graduate, who was an instructor and also served on a panel describing his ROTC experience. (Tillman was one of 11 LU graduates to be commissioned to the Army ROTC this year.)
Buzzy said the schedule also included a banquet and a combat platoon demonstration, where they were given the opportunity to fire blank rounds from a variety of weapons. Of the soldiers giving the demonstration, all had served at least once in Iraq/Afghanistan, and one had four tours, he said.
The group also attended a Leadership Symposium, which addressed the granting of academic credit for the leadership elements of ROTC training.
"Leadership courses and degrees are becoming very popular in academic circles and Liberty's Helms School of Government hopes to meet with ROTC cadre about this concept this fall," Buzzy said.
For information on the Army ROTC at Liberty University, go to www.liberty.edu/rotc.
For information on the Air Force ROTC, go to www.liberty.edu/studentaffairs/airforcerotc


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Welcome to the E.A.D. Designs weekly Monday hop! You should have arrived at my blog from Amy T.'s blog, if not, please start the hop at the E.A.D. Designs blog!
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Andrew Neill questions Mitchel McLaughlin of Sinn Fein on the Irish economic situation, baiting some rather obvious elephant traps in his questions.
McLaughlin, like all Northern Irish politicians, has lived through more challenging times and situations than any British politician has ever seen, and almost disdainfully swats away a mere UK media commentator's 'Ladybird Book of Politics' simplistic analysis.
But in the process, he politely explains some fundamental things about Ireland - north and south - and says things of relevance of all of us.


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With all that's happening—in the Middle East, Japan, regulation and the budget mess in our own country, as well as skyrocketing oil prices and the travails of Europe—the insight they provide will go a long way in explaining (and comforting) world events to your clients, and how these macro happenings can impact micro portfolios.
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What Fisher advises RIA leaders to do may surprise you.
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Some market surveillance would continue, but SEC's hiring plans would likely be affected.
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PIMCO's CEO tells Futures of his outlook for bonds, how to navigate the "new normal."
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The best ways to help people in retirement plans save more, and to get those who aren't saving to start.
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iv. Presentations regarding Corridor H and its benefits to the economic development to the State of West Virginia featuring: Mr. Steve Foster, Robert C. Byrd Corridor H Highway Authority; Mr. Walter Thomas Luchsinger, US-Panama Business Council; and Mr. Greg Edwards, Virginia Port Authority. vi. Miscellaneous business
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Treaty stuck in Senate could unlock Arctic's riches, panel told
WASHINGTON — Melting Arctic sea ice presents a wealth of new economic opportunities for the United States, but the nation can't take advantage of them until it joins an international treaty that has languished in the Senate, a panel of military and energy experts told a Senate subcommittee Wednesday.
At issue is the United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty, a 1982 pact that every other Arctic nation except the United States has ratified. The treaty has support from business leaders and lawmakers in both parties, and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved it overwhelmingly in 2007.
However, a small group of Senate Republicans, arguing that the treaty could compromise national security and sovereignty, has blocked its ratification.
"It ties our hands," Adm. Robert Papp, the commandant of the Coast Guard, told the Senate Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries and Coast Guard.
Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, the panel's chairman, renewed his push Wednesday for the treaty's ratification as part of an effort to improve Arctic infrastructure and policies to better position the United States to reap the benefits of economic growth as the region changes.
"We must address the broader policy implications of an ice-diminishing Arctic and make the needed investments to maintain leadership at the top of our globe," he said.
While other nations, such as Russia, are perfecting their claims to new coastal waters for shipping, fishing and energy exploration, the United States has no such edge as long as it's not part of the treaty, David Balton, the deputy assistant secretary of state for oceans and fisheries, told the Senate panel.
"The rules built into the (treaty) are highly favorable on a number of grounds," Balton said, adding that "our status as a nonparty doesn't give us the stature or the standing."
Ratifying the treaty could give the U.S. exclusive rights to oil and natural gas exploration on 200 miles of extended continental shelf, Balton said. Otherwise, the United States risks losing out.
"Only as a party to the convention can we lock in these rights," he said. "It should not be a political or partisan issue."
President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush support U.S. ratification of the treaty. So does Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., and the committee's ranking Republican, Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana.
However, some Senate Republicans have blocked the treaty and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky opposes it.
Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., was one of four votes against the treaty when the foreign relations panel approved it in 2007.
"It submits us to arbitration with countries that have consistently voted against us in the United Nations, and it would give other countries control about how we operate in our seas," he told Fox News at the time.
But Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski said that not ratifying the treaty harms U.S. interests. Non-Arctic countries, such as China, have shown an interest in the region's energy and shipping potential.
"I believe it's crucial for the United States to be party to this treaty and be a player in the process rather than an outsider hoping that our interests are going to be protected," she said last year. "Failure to ratify continues to keep the United States at a disadvantage internationally and outside the process, without a seat at the table."
Peter Slaiby, the vice president of Shell Alaska, told the Senate panel that generations of jobs are at stake. The federal government estimates that the state's offshore holds 27 billion barrels of oil and 132 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Those resources could generate hundreds of billions of dollars in royalties and further the U.S. goal of energy independence, Slaiby said.
"We believe that these assets can be safely produced, and we're ready to prove it," he said.
The longer the Senate waits to approve the treaty, the more it discourages companies from investing, said Scott Borgerson, a senior fellow at the Institute for Global Maritime Studies in Massachusetts.
"The uncertainty created by the absence of a comprehensive U.S. Arctic development strategy is an investment killer," he said. "It's a mistake to leave Alaska in the proverbial icebox."
As ice melts and technology improves, interest in Arctic grows
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For anyone looking for a last minute Valentine's Day present for their video game-loving other half, Sony might just have the answer.
The computer giant have brought out the 'super slim' 500GB PlayStation 3 in two limited edition colours. There's a choice of Garnet Red for the girls or Azurite Blue for the boys. Or, not to be sexist – alternatively you could just match it to your living room colour scheme.
If you don't already have a PS3 at home, this is the perfect opportunity to get one. Apart from the usual gaming action, it comes with Blu-ray player functionality, a world of online services from catch up TV like BBC iPlayer and 4oD, through music video services like VidZone, movie download services like Netflix and Lovefilm plus you'll get access to PlayStation's very own Sony Entertainment Network with offers movie and music downloads via the PlayStation Network.
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Principal Financial to invest $240M in Des Moines
Big changes are being planned at one of Des Moines' largest employers.
Principal Financial is working on a plan to invest $240 million in renovations to its downtown campus, and it may take 10 years to complete the project.
The company's worldwide headquarters occupies almost 2.5 million square feet in downtown Des Moines.
"It speaks volumes to Des Moines as a corporate headquarters," Des Moines Mayor Frank Cownie said. "To have our biggest stakeholder make this kind of commitment in our downtown I think is huge for all employment in Des Moines."
The project must first be approved by Principal Financial's board of directors. The city must then decide what kind of incentives to offer the company for making the investment. A large part of the incentive is expected to be tax-increment financing.
Cownie said taxpayers won't be the ones footing the bill for the project.
"It will be out of the increment that's generated -- not out of taxes," Cownie said. "There will be an immediate benefit to the Des Moines' taxpayers from day one."
The project would bring many changes to the downtown area, especially for the 6,000 Principal Financial employees in the city.
"I think, at the end of the day after they do the whole move around, they'll have certainly as many jobs in downtown Des Moines as they currently have and probably more moving forward," Cownie said.
Cownie believes the project will reinforce Des Moines on the world map.
"The next step in turning this proposal into an official plan will be at the City Council meeting on Monday," Cownie said. "If the City Council members approve it, which they are expected to, it will still need to go to the state for approval after that."
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- Circuit type Race
- Circuit Length 4.655kms
- Circuit Turns 16
- Circuit Direction Clockwise
- Capacity 107,000
- Established 1991
|First race
|Spanish Grand Prix
|September 29, 1991
|Nigel Mansell (GBR)
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|Last race
|Spanish Grand Prix
|May 12, 2019
|Lewis Hamilton (GBR)
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The circuit was originally intended to host its first grand prix in 1992 to coincide with Barcelona's Olympic Games, but it was ready a year ahead of schedule. The track is a favourite for out-of-season F1 tests as well as hosting the annual Spanish Grand Prix.
When the circuit was first used overtaking was rife as cars were able to get very close through the last two corners and make use of the slipstream on the straight. Since the changes to the aerodynamics of the cars, however, the turbulence caused from the rear wings has spoiled this opportunity. In 2007 the second to last corner was replaced with a slow chicane in an effort to improve overtaking, but it doesn't seem to have been successful.
Although the circuit has received criticism for lack of race action over the years, there have been a number of memorable moments at the track. In 1991 Ayrton Senna and Nigel Mansell were fighting tooth and nail for second place, racing side by side down the front straight in a memorable image. It was Mansell who eventually triumphed, winning the inaugural Catalunya race, while Senna finished fifth. In 2006 Fernando Alonso became the first Spanish F1 driver to win at his home circuit.


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By Jocelyn VerVelde, TTU Sports Information Coordinator
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- The Golden Eagle volleyball team (4-8, 0-2) fell to Austin Peay (4-13, 1-1) in an Ohio Valley Conference match up Saturday afternoon. Tech was able to snag set two, but lost in four sets to the Lady Govs, 24-26, 25-19, 25-27, and 21-25.
In the fourth and deciding set, The Lady Govs took the advantage at 10-9 off a kill by junior middle blocker Hillary Plybon, and they never looked back, taking the set, 25-21. Plybon appeared in only the final two sets for Austin Peay, but proved to be a difference maker as she tallied nine kills on 14 swings without an error.
Assiting Plybon on offense were junior middle blocker Liz Landon, with a team-high 13 kills, and junior outside hitter Jada Stotts, with 11 kills. Junior setter Cami Fields directed the offense with 45 assists.
Tech saw three players record double-doubles in the match. Junior outside Ellen Conti put down 16 kills and added 10 digs, senior outside hitter Natalie Penrod tallied a team-high 17 kills, while tallying 12 digs, as well. Senior setter Ashleigh Hancock dished out a career-high 53 assists and added a team-high and career-high 14 digs. Freshman Kennedy Wade dug a career-high 13 balls. Junior middle blocker Madison Keyes and senior opposite hitter Elise Robertson both hit for impressive clips of .353 while putting down nine and eight kills, respectively. Sophomore Cody Dodd added 11 kills.
From the beginning, Tech was never able to get its offense going in set one, tallying 11 team kills while Austin Peay earned 21 of their 25 points. The Lady Govs took the set 26-24.
Set two was handled by the Golden Eagles as they led the entire way. With 17 kills and a team hitting percentage of .308, Tech's offense was on fire as it earned 22 of its 25 points. The TTU defense was not too shabby, either, holding the Lady Govs to an .048 hitting percentage and just eight kills in the entire set. Tech took set two, 25-19.
Tech controlled set three, including a 24-22 lead, but was not able to close the set. Austin Peay rallied and tied the match, and with a few forced errors and timely kills, the Govs were able to pull out set three, 27-25.
Despite losing the match, the Golden Eagles tallied 63 kills to just 52 from the Lady Govs, and bested the visitors in almost every statistical category except aces (Tech 5, Peay 6) and blocks (Tech 7, Peay 10).
The Tennessee Tech volleyball team will be back in action looking to earn its first OVC wins as they head to Jacksonville State on Tuesday at 6 p.m. CDT, and then UT Martin on Friday at 7 p.m.


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4:00pm - I'm visiting teaching tonight and it's her birthday, so I'm making pumpkin bread to take her. The boys are both napping.
4:05 - I realize (A)this bread is not healthy and (B)it's making a huge batch and is difficult to stir. I should have done this in my mixer. Can't wait to taste it.
4:30 - I add ginger, even though it's not in the recipe. The batter is delicious. Then I have A Moment of Panic as I realize that I have no idea if I've got carseats or not: they were both in the van, which Daddy has taken to work. I make myself finish the bread before I look, so it will be baking. I'm trying to think up alternate plans, just in case. I almost forget to set the timer on the bread.
4:40 - Peek out the window; the carseat is there. I should have known Daddy would remember. Close the curtains because it's already dark, and turn on the Christmas tree.
4:45 - The dishwasher is running, but I realize I forgot a few things. Dragon wakes up. I wonder what he did with his other sock. Monkey is still sleeping. This is typical: he's older, but his naps are still regular and usually longer. I'll have to wake him up soon so we can discuss the rules (No saying, "Are you done yet" or anything like it) before we go Visiting Teaching. I also should feed the boys a snack.
5:10 - Finish reading some stories to Dragon. He's a tough audience, but we made it through 3 this time. I remind him again not to pinch. And again. I think it's time to wake Monkey up.
5:12 - Monkey comes downstairs before I can go up. We negotiate for good behavior while Visiting Teaching: if he doesn't complain or ask to leave he can earn an extra TV token. Then we have a snack. While the boys eat, I read some more of Gilgamesh. When Monkey is done he works on his coloring sheet. We stop and talk about the difficult vocabulary: lintel, enraged, Ishtar, and frieze are some of the words. We look at a picture in the Assyrian Art book I'm reading when the explanation of what a frieze is falls completely flat. I have him do mini-narrations to check his comprehension. It's pretty OK, and we talk about the parts he's fuzzy on.
5:38 - The bread is done (I hope) and not a minute too soon! We need to get on shoes and leave... as soon as I look up where she lives again.
5:45 - My sister calls to firm up plans for this weekend. I say, "Can you call me back in 2 hours??"
5:55 - On the road. We're more or less on time. The boys are awesome. They play with the toys and books we brought and I don't have to say anything to Monkey and only have to chase Dragon off the lady's tree once. (It's not fully decorated yet; that helps.)
6:55 - We finish the visit. I heap the praise on the boys for their awesomeness while we drive to Walmart.
7:07 - Arrive at Walmart. Spend a minute unloading all the toys and books from my purse so they don't arrest me for shoplifting. I didn't check my recipe, but I can kind of remember what it calls for. It's only been 2 years... what could go wrong?
7:30 - Back in the car with what I hope are all the ingredients I need for the cheesecake and also some deli chicken for dinner and some dish soap. Dragon is frantically signing, "more! more! more!" so I tell Monkey to pray on the food while I get rid of the cart and they dig in.
7:40 - Home again. Put Dragon in his high chair and he's happily working on chicken. I also give them both a bit of the pumpkin bread. It turned out good... except for the spots where I apparently didn't stir enough and there are nice white flour bits. Ouch. Not what I like to give away. Definitely in the mixer next time. But it's tasty. Since nap time went so long, we still have school to finish. I need to find my list for today and decide what's next.
8:30 - We've practiced sixes, fives, and fours (he'd done the others another day), which Monkey thought it was fun to join like trains, and then we added a few more elements to our Raptors lapbook. Dragon gets a diaper change. Now, we pause for a lightsaber battle. Monkey is ferocious, but I can take him! Dragon has a brand new saber too, but he hasn't quite figured out the game yet, so he's sort of milling around through the battle, but manages not to be a casualty.
8:40 - Dragon is picking up food off the floor and eating it (I just fed that kid!!) so I call a halt and sweep. Then lightsaber battles continue.
8:45 - Monkey is sent to get his jammies for a shower. Dragon and I place chase, do a few jumping-jacks (he's been watching us do PACE), and then settle in with the legos to play a few rounds of "baby towers." That is, I build, he destroys, and we both laugh.
9:00 - Monkey finally comes back with jammies. Dragon is throwing legos over the gate into the bathroom. It's very distracting, but they are having a ball. Dragon turns up with his brother's shirt on. We play more legos.
9:10 - The water is finally on. I go
wash Monkey's hair supervise while Monkey washes his hair. I also remind him that he doesn't need permission to get out of the shower. Dragon needs some jammies, so I find those while I'm waiting for Monkey to finish up. He gets cute monkeys with bananas. I also pull up All About Birds' page on mallards and pick out a couple of mallard clips from YouTube. And remind Monkey to finish up.
9:50 - Time for scriptures and prayers. No, we're not doing it at the computer. "No pinching, Dragon. Soft touches." Don't pinch your brother either.
10:08 - We call Daddy. "Are you going to be home in time to tuck boys in?" It's going to be close. He says goodnight to the boys on the phone, just in case.
10:15 - Brush teeth, go potty. All that good stuff. We're doing the scripture boxes when Daddy gets home, and pause for hugs and kisses, then finish the box. Monkey asks for a story, so I tell him about Christ's birth, and then insist that he go to sleep. "No pinching, Dragon. Soft touches." Again.
10:55 - Back downstairs. Dragon is asleep; Monkey still is not. I still need to read scriptures myself and look at my plans for tomorrow.
11:38 - Looking at Pinterest for "just a minute" doesn't work so well. I need to get busy again and finish things up before bed.
11:45 - Finished reading my scriptures. I want to read the whole Old Testament, but it's hard. I started 2 years ago, and I'm still laboring my way through Numbers.
11:50 - List of school work for tomorrow is written out on a post-it. I think I need to go through my lesson plans and make some adjustments, but I'm going to have to pray about how much is the right amount of work for Monkey. If he didn't nap it wouldn't be a big deal, but the inconsistent amount of time to do our work is killing me - 2 hours naps, but only some of the time?! Blarg. I don't know how to plan for that. I'm turning off my computer, touching up the kitchen, and going to bed.
12:45am - We're going to sleep. It's a little later than we'd prefer, but not out of the ordinary.
1:15 - Dragon's fussing so I bring him to my bed. It's sooner than I'd hoped (he was starting to sleep through the night before he got bronchitis last month), but he'd had an impressively runny nose all day, so I'm not surprised. He's getting used to being weaned, and hardly fusses when I offer him a water cup rather than nursing. He seems restless.
1:45 - He's still restless, and coughing. We think the snot is bothering him and decide that he should sleep sitting up a bit. I take him downstairs and we settle in on my new chaise lounge. He seems more comfortable, snuggles in (I love that!) and falls right to sleep.
Sometime after 2:00 - I wake up because he's coughing a lot, and decide I want a bucket handy in case he pukes while we're on my new chair. As I'm getting up with him, he pukes. On me, all over himself, and on my chair. We head for the bathroom and I aim him at the pot. When he's done I check the damage, and decide to wake up Daddy. Dragon and I shower; Daddy takes care of the chair and the floor. I get the bathroom once we're done.
2:45 - We're headed back to bed. Dragon is playing and happy, until I make him go back to bed. He fights sleep for a few minutes, then drops into a very restless sleep. He wants his feet on me, but keeps kicking them around to get the blankets off. It's chilly! I try to recover him a few times, then give in to the inevitable. His sleepers should keep him warm. Now that my boy is doing better I am slightly miffed because I'd wanted to share a normal day, not a sick day!
8:22 am - Dragon wakes up. He's coughing and restless, but clearly still tired. I try to get him to go back to sleep. I'd really like some more sleep!
8:45 - I bring him downstairs to keep him from waking up Daddy. I sit down at my computer with him on my lap and his coughing eases, he snuggles in, and finally falls asleep again. I think sitting up is helping him, and Monkey will probably wake up soon, so I type one handed for a while, then go look at pinterest again. That seems like just the right amount of mental effort.
9:30 - Monkey's up. I send him back for pants, because he likes to sleep in shorts. While he's getting dressed, Dragon wakes up too. We're all hungry, so breakfast is next. I grab the scriptures to read to them while we eat our cereal and pumpkin bread.
10:30 - Breakfast is finished, Daddy's up, and we start doing math. Monkey loves it, so we usually do it first because it's an easy way to start. Today is "Math Lab," which means it's somewhat choose-your-own-adventure, and he chooses to play Skipbo.
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11:15 - We finish our game. I probably should have made it just a touch shorter, but it went well anyway. Monkey wants to read some books, so we do. Dragon listens to most of the first one, then wanders off.
11:20 - I chase Dragon out of the tree. He brings me an ornament. He runs off with the globe and leans on the tree. It's cute. I chase him out of the tree. And try to read to Monkey about the Euphrates. Monkey's attention is wandering (with all these interruptions, who can blame him?). Dragon wants the wipes to pull out of the box, so I offer to let him empty the diapers from the basket instead. The tree is more interesting.
11:45 - I give Dragon some benedryl to try to dry up the river that keeps flowing from his nose, and try to put him down for a nap. Monkey plays with legos. Dragon, having had more sleep than me, outlasts me, and I give up on the nap and get myself dressed. Monkey comes upstairs to see what's taking so long, so the boys play in their room for a couple minutes while I update the blog and put the ornaments back on the tree. "Only" the bottom half is mostly naked. I hear regular thumps, so I know they're not doing anything too interesting, just jumping around. I need a nap.
12:20 - Since the boys are still playing nicely, I look up the recipe for the pumpkin cheesecake their Daddy asked me to bake for this weekend, and get the ingredients out so they can warm up to room temperature. Monkey tells me that they're bored, so I grab Dragon and we start doing more school.
12:25 - The boys are both saying they're hungry, and Monkey wants to make a "Super Hero map, that requires 3 pieces of paper and some tape, and the white parts are going to be bridges." So I give him paper, tape, and markers, give both boys cheese, and try to figure out lunch. This starts with finishing putting away the groceries from yesterday. I got so distracted that I didn't even open the dark chocolate I bought. How did that happen? This oversight is corrected, and I enjoy a piece of Giradelli dark chocolate. I still don't know what's for lunch or when Daddy's coming home. But the chocolate is good. Think I'll have another. We'll practice reading after lunch.
12:35 - I'm still trying to clean the kitchen so I can think. Monkey has decided that the map is in his head, so he's done with his project, and heads back to the lego pile. Daddy comes home and shortly is at the legos too, playing with the boys and also playing referee. Even with him there, there is a lot of crabbing from Dragon and more than a little whining from Monkey. Naptime anyone? Oh, yeah. That food. I start making enchiladas.
1:00 - Monkey is putting cheese in the enchiladas for me, and Dragon falls asleep in his Daddy's arms. Once the food is in the oven we play "Build a Sentence" to practice phonics while it cooks.
2:30 - Lunch is over. Monkey's getting ready for his nap. Dragon wakes up from his. So much for mine; Daddy's got work to do - he's telecommuting, not off.
2:45 - I'm done tucking Monkey in for his nap. He's not happy about it, but he clearly needs it today. Dragon grabs my face, turns it to look at him, and signs, "More! More! More!" I give him enchiladas and he chows down while I sweep the floor and consider cleaning that nasty bathroom. I also need to look at the plans I neglected last night before I run out plans to do. That would be a problem. I need a nap.
3:15 - It's starting to get dark. I turn on the tree, but put off closing the curtains. Dragon's cough sounds awful, but at least he's eating nicely. He's supposed to be rechecked from his bronchitis next week. I call about moving up the appointment to tomorrow. 11:15 tomorrow morning? Yeah. I can do that.
3:45 - Snuggles and lightsaber battles... at the same time. But it makes Dragon happy. I like that.


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- 3 Why would I want to use ABS?
- 4 Get Started: Install Packages
ABSとはArch Build Systemの略で、FreeBSDなどで採用されている'ports'に似ています。 ABSはソースコードから.pkg.tar.gz形式のバイナリパッケージを作成することができます。 このパッケージはpacmanによって、通常の(配布されている)バイナリパッケージと同様に管理することができます。
'Ports'はBSD系UNIXによって採用されているシステムです。 ソフトウェアのソースコードのダウンロード・展開、パッチの適用、コンパイル、インストールができます。 'Ports'は複数の'port'から構成され、一つ一つの'port'は対応する個々のソフト名の付けられたフォルダで、中には動作用の情報が入っています。 ソフトウェアをインストールしたい時は、多くの場合、ソフト名のフォルダまで移動し'make' 'make install'と入力することによって パッケージのダウンロードからコンパイル、インストールまでを自動的に行います。
ABSもPortsに似たシステムで、/var/abs ディレクトリ傘下に、カテゴリ - パッケージ名の順番で、ツリー状のフォルダ群を保存しています。 これにはArch Linux公式ソフトすべてのパッケージが含まれます。(Portsと同様、ソースコードやバイナリパッケージを含んでいないのでサイズはそんなに大きくありません) パッケージ名(例えば、ABS)のフォルダを開いたとします。すると、中にはPKGBUILDというファイルが含まれています。 これは簡潔なBASHスクリプトで、ソースコードのダウンロード元や、コンパイル、パッケージ作成が可能なコマンドが記述してあります。 PKGBUILDによって、ABSの"makepkg"コマンドが動作し、ビルド用ディレクトリにパッケージが作成されます。 あとはPacmanを使って、ソフトウェアを簡単に管理できます。
Quick Walkthrough
Install abs with pacman -S abs. Running 'abs' as root creates the ABS tree by synchronizing with the Arch Linux server. If you wanted to build a package from source you would copy the build files (usually residing under /var/abs/<repo>/<pkgname>) to a build directory, navigate to that directory, edit the PKGBUILD (if desired/necessary) and do makepkg. According to instructions in the PKGBUILD, makepkg will download the appropriate source tarball, unpack it, patch if desired, compile according to CFLAGS specified in makepkg.conf, and finally compress the built files into a package with the extension .pkg.tar.gz. PKGBUILDs may be customized to suit your unique configuration needs, or for applying patches. Installing is as easy as doing pacman -U <.pkg.tar.gz file>. Package removal is also handled by pacman.
You may also use
makepkg to make your own custom packages from the AUR or third party sources. (See the package making wiki article)
With the ABS Tree in place, an Arch user has all available Arch software at their fingertips, to compile from source, automatically package as a .pkg.tar.gz, and finally, install with pacman.
ABS Overview
'ABS' may be used as an umbrella term, since it includes and relies on several other components. Therefore, though not technically accurate, 'ABS' can refer to the following structure and tools as a complete toolkit:
- The ABS tree: The ABS directory structure; an SVN hierarchy under /var/abs/ on your (local) machine. It contains many subdirectories, named for all available official Arch Linux software from repositories specified in /etc/abs.conf, but not the packages themselves.
- ABS: A set of tools to retrieve and build official Arch Linux PKGBUILDs. Example PKGBUILDs are also included.
- PKGBUILDs: Text build script files residing under the ABS directories, or that are custom made, with instructions for building packages and the URL of the sources.
- makepkg: ABS shell command tool which reads the PKGBUILDs, automatically downloads and compiles the sources and creates a .pkg.tar.gz.
- Pacman: Pacman is completely separate, but is necessarily invoked either by makepkg or manually, to install and remove the built packages, and for fetching dependencies.
- AUR: The Arch User-Community Repository is separate from ABS but AUR [unsupported] PKGBUILDs can be built using the ABS makepkg tool, to compile and package up software. The AUR contains almost 16,000 user-contributed PKGBUILDs for software which is unavailable as an official Arch package. If you need to build a package outside the official Arch tree, chances are it is in the AUR.
Why would I want to use ABS?
The Arch Build System (ABS for short) is used to
- Recompile a package, for any reason.
- Make and install new packages from source, of software for which no packages are yet available (See The Arch package making HOW-TO - with guidelines)
- Customize existing packages to fit your needs (enabling or disabling options, patching)
- Rebuild your entire system using your compiler flags, "a la FreeBSD" (p.e. with pacbuilder)
- Cleanly build and install your own custom kernel. (See Custom Kernel Compilation with ABS as well as Kernel Compilation)
- Get kernel modules working with your custom kernel.
- Easily compile and install a newer, older, beta, or development version of an Arch package by editing the version number in the PKGBUILD
ABS is not necessary to use Arch Linux, but it is useful for automating certain tasks of source compilation.
This how-to tries to give you an overview of ABS and Arch packages; it's not a complete reference guide! If you want more, read the man pages.
Get Started: Install Packages
To use abs, you first need to install abs from the core repository; this can be done simply by:
pacman -S abs
This will grab the abs-sync scripts, various build scipts, and rsync (as a dependency, if you don't already have it).
Before you can actually build anything, however, you will also need to grab basic compiling tools. These are handily collected in the package group base-devel. This group can be installed with:
pacman -S base-devel
As root, edit /etc/abs.conf to include your desired repositories:
vim /etc/abs.conf
nano /etc/abs.conf
Remove the ! in front of the appropriate repos, e.g.:
REPOS=(core extra community !testing)
Create the ABS tree
As root, do:
# abs
Your ABS tree is now created under /var/abs. Note the appropriate branches of the ABS tree now exist and correspond to the ones you specified in /etc/abs.conf.
The abs command should also be used to periodically sync and update your ABS Tree.
/etc/makepkg.conf specifies global environment variables and compiler flags which you may wish to edit if you are using an SMP system, or to specify other desired optimizations. The default settings are for i686 and x86_64 optimizations which will work fine for those architectures on single-cpu systems. (The defaults will work on SMP machines, but will only use one core/CPU when compiling- see Safe Cflags.).
The ABS tree
When you run abs for the first time, it synchronizes the ABS tree with the Arch Linux server. So what exactly is the ABS tree? It is an SVN directory hierarchy located under /var/abs and looks like this:
| -- core/ | || -- base/ | || || -- acl/ | || || || -- PKGBUILD | || || -- attr/ | || || || -- PKGBUILD | || || -- ... | || -- devel/ | || || -- abs/ | || || || -- PKGBUILD | || || -- autoconf/ | || || || -- PKGBUILD | || || -- ... | || -- ... | -- extra/ | || -- daemons/ | || || -- acpid/ | || || || -- PKGBUILD | || || || -- ... | || || -- apache/ | || || || -- ... | || || -- ... | || -- ... | -- community/ | || -- ...
So the ABS tree has exactly the same structure as the package database:
- first-level directory represents categories
- second-level directories represents the ABS themselves, whose names actually correspond to the packages you want to build
- PKGBUILD files contain all information needed concerning the package
- Further, an ABS directory can contain patches and/or other files needed for building the package.
It is important to understand that the actual source code for the package is not present in the ABS directory. Instead, the PKGBUILD file contains a URL from which ABS will automatically download from.
Create a Build Directory
You must create a build directory, where the actual compiling will take place. This is where you'll do everything; you should never modify the ABS Tree by building within it, as data will be lost (overwritten) on each abs update. It is good practice to use your home directory, though some Arch users prefer to create a 'local' directory under /var/abs/, owned by normal user. Copy the ABS from the tree (var/abs/branch/category/pkgname) to the build directory, /path/to/build/dir.
Create your build directory. e.g.:
mkdir -p $HOME/abs
NOTE: The first download of the abs tree is the biggest, then only minor updates are needed, so don't be afraid about the data to download if you've got only a 56k connection; it's only text files and is compressed during the transfer.
Now that you know what the ABS tree is, how can we use it ?
The build function, traditional method
If you're not familiar with compiling from source, you should know that most packages (but not all) can be built from source in this traditional way:
- Download source tarball from remote server, using web browser, ftp, wget or alternate method.
- decompress the source file:
tar -xzf foo-0.99.tar.gz tar -xjf foo-0.99.tar.bz2
- enter the directory
cd foo-0.99
- configure the package: generally, there is a little script called
configurein the source directory that is used to configure the package (add or remove support for things, choose the install destination, etc.) and check that your computer has all the software needed by the package. It can be run by:
./configure [[option]]
You should first try the help to better understand how it works:
./configure --help
If a --prefix option is not passed to the script, most scripts will use /usr/local as the install path, but others will use /usr. For the sake of consistency, it is generally advised to pass the --prefix=/usr/local option. It is good practice to install personal programs in /usr/local, and to have the ones being managed by the distro, in /usr. This ensures personal program versions can coexist with those being managed by the distro's package manager- in Arch's case, pacman.
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
- compile the sources:
- install
make install
- Uninstalling would be accomplished by entering the source directory and running:
make uninstall
However, you should always read the
INSTALL file to know how the package should be built and installed! Not all packages use the
configure; make; make install system!
The build function, the ABS way
ABS is an elegant tool which allows for powerful assistance and customization for the build process, and creates a pacman-trackable package file for installation. The ABS method involves copying an ABS from the Tree to a build directory, and doing makepkg. In our example, we will build the slim display manager package.
- 1. Copy the slim ABS from the ABS Tree to a build directory.
cp -r /var/abs/extra/slim/ /home/yourusername/abs
- 2. Navigate to the build directory
cd /home/yourusername/abs/slim
- 2a. (Optional)
Modify the PKGBUILD to add or remove support for components, to patch or to change package versions, etc.
nano PKGBUILD
- 3. Do makepkg as normal user (to install with automatic dependency handling):
makepkg -s
Install as root:
# pacman -U slim 1.3.0-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz
That's it. You have just built slim from source and cleanly installed it to your system with pacman. Package removal is also handled by pacman- (pacman -R slim)
- What is happening:
Essentially, the same steps are being executed, generally including the ./configure, make, make install, steps, but the software is installed into a fake root environment. (A fake root is simply a subdirectory within the build directory that functions and behaves as the system's root directory. In conjunction with the fakeroot program, makepkg creates a fake root directory, and installs the compiled binaries and associated files into it, with root as owner.) The fake root, or subdirectory tree containing the compiled software, is then compressed into an archive with the extension .pkg.tar.gz, or a package. When invoked, pacman then extracts the package (installs it) into the system's real root directory, (/). Simple.
- The ABS method adds a level of convenience and automation, while still maintaining complete transparency and control of the build and installation functions by including them in the PKGBUILD.
See ABS PKGBUILD Explained for a complete overview of a sample PKGBUILD.