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See [[Creating packages#Checking package sanity]] about using {{ic|namcap}} to debug packages. If you would like to have a {{ic|PKGBUILD}} reviewed, post it on the [https://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/aur-general aur-general mailing list] to get feedback from the TUs and fellow AUR members, or the [https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewforum.php?id=4 Creating & Modifying Packages forum]. You could also seek help in the [[IRC channel]] [ircs://chat.freenode.net/archlinux-aur #archlinux-aur] on [https://freenode.net/ Freenode].
See [[Creating packages#Checking package sanity]] about using {{ic|namcap}} to debug packages. If you would like to have a {{ic|PKGBUILD}} reviewed, post it on the [https://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/aur-general aur-general mailing list] to get feedback from the TUs and fellow AUR members, or the [https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewforum.php?id=4 Creating & Modifying Packages forum]. You could also seek help in the [[IRC channel]] [ircs://chat.freenode.net/archlinux-aur #archlinux-aur] on [https://freenode.net/ Freenode].
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== Web interface translation ==
== Web interface translation ==
Revision as of 14:14, 17 May 2019
The Arch User Repository (AUR) is a community-driven repository for Arch users. It contains package descriptions (PKGBUILDs) that allow you to compile a package from source with makepkg and then install it via pacman. The AUR was created to organize and share new packages from the community and to help expedite popular packages' inclusion into the community repository. This document explains how users can access and utilize the AUR.
A good number of new packages that enter the official repositories start in the AUR. In the AUR, users are able to contribute their own package builds (PKGBUILD and related files). The AUR community has the ability to vote for packages in the AUR. If a package becomes popular enough — provided it has a compatible license and good packaging technique — it may be entered into the community repository (directly accessible by pacman or abs).
- 1 Getting started
- 2 History
- 3 Installing packages
- 4 Feedback
- 5 Sharing and maintaining packages
- 6 Verifying packages
- 7 Web interface translation
- 8.1 What is the AUR?
- 8.2 What kind of packages are permitted on the AUR?
- 8.3 How can I vote for packages in the AUR?
- 8.4 What is a Trusted User / TU?
- 8.5 What is the difference between the Arch User Repository and the community repository?
- 8.6 Foo in the AUR is outdated; what should I do?
- 8.7 Foo in the AUR does not compile when I run makepkg; what should I do?
- 8.8 ERROR: One or more PGP signatures could not be verified!; what should I do?
- 8.9 How do I create a PKGBUILD?
- 8.10 I have a PKGBUILD I would like to submit; can someone check it to see if there are any errors?
- 8.11 How to get a PKGBUILD into the community repository?
- 8.12 How can I speed up repeated build processes?
- 8.13 What is the difference between foo and foo-git packages?
- 8.14 Why has foo disappeared from the AUR?
- 8.15 How do I find out if any of my installed packages disappeared from AUR?
- 8.16 How can I obtain a list of all AUR packages?
- 9 See also
Getting started
Users can search and download PKGBUILDs from the AUR Web Interface. These PKGBUILDs can be built into installable packages using makepkg, then installed using pacman.
- Ensure the base-devel package group is installed in full (
pacman -S --needed base-devel).
- Glance over the #FAQ for answers to the most common questions.
- You may wish to adjust
/etc/makepkg.confto optimize for your processor prior to building packages from the AUR. A significant improvement in compile times can be realized on systems with multi-core processors by adjusting the MAKEFLAGS variable. Users can also enable hardware-specific optimizations in GCC via the CFLAGS variable. See makepkg for more information.
It is also possible to interact with the AUR through SSH: type
ssh firstname.lastname@example.com help for a list of available commands.
In the beginning, there was
ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/incoming, and people contributed by simply uploading the PKGBUILD, the needed supplementary files, and the built package itself to the server. The package and associated files remained there until a Package Maintainer saw the program and adopted it.
Then the Trusted User Repositories were born. Certain individuals in the community were allowed to host their own repositories for anyone to use. The AUR expanded on this basis, with the aim of making it both more flexible and more usable. In fact, the AUR maintainers are still referred to as TUs (Trusted Users).
Between 2015-06-08 and 2015-08-08 the AUR transitioned from version 3.5.1 to 4.0.0, introducing the use of Git repositories for publishing the PKGBUILDs. Existing packages were dropped unless manually migrated to the new infrastructure by their maintainers.
Git repositories for AUR3 packages
The AUR Archive on GitHub has a repository for every package that was in AUR 3 at the time of the migration. Alternatively, there is the aur3-mirror repository which provides the same.
Installing packages
Installing packages from the AUR is a relatively simple process. Essentially:
- Acquire the build files, including the PKGBUILD and possibly other required files, like systemd units and patches (often not the actual code).
- Verify that the PKGBUILD and accompanying files are not malicious or untrustworthy.
- Run
makepkg -siin the directory where the files are saved. This will download the code, resolve the dependencies with pacman, compile it, package it, and install the package.
First ensure that the necessary tools are installed by installing the base-devel group in full which includes make and other tools needed for compiling from source.
Next choose an appropriate build directory. A build directory is simply a directory where the package will be made or "built" and can be any directory. The examples in the following sections will use
~/builds as the build directory.
Acquire build files
Locate the package in the AUR. This is done using the search field at the top of the AUR home page. Clicking the application's name in the search list brings up an information page on the package. Read through the description to confirm that this is the desired package, note when the package was last updated, and read any comments.
There are several methods for acquiring the build files:
- Option 1: Clone the git repository that is labelled as the "Git Clone URL" in the "Package Details". This is the preferred method.
$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/package_name.git
- An advantage of this method is that you can easily get updates to the package via
git pull.
- Option 2: Download the build files with your web browser by clicking the "Download snapshot" link under "Package Actions" on the right hand side. This will download a compressed file, which must be extracted (preferably in a directory set aside for AUR builds)
$ tar -xvf package_name.tar.gz
- Similarly, you can download a tarball from the terminal (and extract it):
$ curl -L -O https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/package_name.tar.gz
Build and install the package
Change directories to the directory containing the package's PKGBUILD.
$ cd package_name
View the contents of all provided files. For example, to use the pager less to view
PKGBUILD do:
$ less PKGBUILD
- To view changes since the last git commit you can use
git show.
- To view changes since the last commit using vimdiff, do
git difftool @~..@ vimdiff. The advantage of vimdiff is that you view the entire contents of each file along with indicators on what has changed.
Make the package. After manually confirming the contents of the files, run makepkg as a normal user:
$ makepkg -si
--syncdepsautomatically resolves and installs any dependencies with pacman before building. If the package depends on other AUR packages, you will need to manually install them first.
--installinstalls the package if it is built successfully. Alternatively the built package can be installed with
pacman -U package.pkg.tar.xz.
Other useful flags are
--rmdepsremoves build-time dependencies after the build, as they are no longer needed. However these dependencies may need to be reinstalled the next time the package is updated.
--cleancleans up temporary build files after the build, as they are no longer needed. These files are usually needed only when debugging the build process.
The AUR provides various means for users to communicate with package maintainers, provided they have setup an account on the AUR Web Interface.
Commenting on packages
Comments allow users to provide suggestions or respond to updates and maintainers to respond to users or make announcements. The Python-Markdown syntax is supported, which provides basic Markdown syntax for formatting. Maintainers may pin comments by clicking the thumbtack button in their top-right corner.
- The markdown implementation has some occasional differences with the official syntax rules.
- Commit hashes to the Git repository of the package and references to Flyspray tickets are converted to links automatically.
- Long comments are collapsed and can be expanded on demand.
Voting for packages
One of the easiest activities for all Arch users is to browse the AUR and vote for their favourite packages. All packages are eligible for adoption by a TU for inclusion in the community repository, and the vote count is one of the considerations in that process; it is in everyone's interest to vote!
While logged in, on the AUR page for a package you may click "Vote for this package" under "Package Actions" on the right. It is also possible to vote from the commandline with aurvoteAUR, aurvote-gitAUR, aur-auto-vote-gitAUR, or aurvote-utilsAUR.
Alternatively, if you have set up ssh authentication, you can directly vote from the command line using your ssh key and avoid having to save or type in your AUR password.
ssh email@example.com vote <PACKAGE_NAME>
Flagging packages out-of-date
While logged in, on the AUR page for a package you may click "Flag package as out-of-date" under "Package Actions" on the right. You should also leave a comment indicating details as to why the package is outdated, preferably including links to a release announcement or a new release tarball. Also try to reach out to the maintainer directly by email. If there is no response after two weeks, you may file an orphan request.
pkgver changes, do not flag them as the maintainer will merely unflag the package and ignore you.
Sharing and maintaining packages
Users can share PKGBUILDs using the Arch User Repository. It does not contain any binary packages but allows users to upload PKGBUILDs that can be downloaded by others. These PKGBUILDs are completely unofficial and have not been thoroughly vetted, so they should be used at your own risk.
Submitting packages
If you are unsure in any way about the package or the build/submission process even after reading this section twice, submit the PKGBUILD to the AUR mailing list, the AUR forum on the Arch forums, or ask on our IRC channel for public review before adding it to the AUR.
Rules of submission
When submitting a package to the AUR, observe the following rules:
- The submitted PKGBUILDs must not build applications already in any of the official binary repositories under any circumstances. Check the official package database for the package. If any version of it exists, do not submit the package. If the official package is out-of-date, flag it as such. If the official package is broken or is lacking a feature, then please file a bug report.
- Exception to this strict rule may only be packages having extra features enabled and/or patches in comparison to the official ones. In such an occasion the
pkgnameshould be different to express that difference. For example, a package for GNU screen containing the sidebar patch could be named
screen-sidebar. Additionally the
provides=('screen')array should be used in order to avoid conflicts with the official package.
- Check the AUR if the package already exists. If it is currently maintained, changes can be submitted in a comment for the maintainer's attention. If it is unmaintained or the maintainer is unresponsive, the package can be adopted and updated as required. Do not create duplicate packages.
- Make sure the package you want to upload is useful. Will anyone else want to use this package? Is it extremely specialized? If more than a few people would find this package useful, it is appropriate for submission.
- The AUR and official repositories are intended for packages which install generally software and software-related content, including one or more of the following: executable(s); config file(s); online or offline documentation for specific software or the Arch Linux distribution as a whole; media intended to be used directly by software.
- Do not use
replacesin an AUR PKGBUILD unless the package is to be renamed, for example when Ethereal became Wireshark. If the package is an alternate version of an already existing package, use
providesif that package is required by others). The main difference is: after syncing (-Sy) pacman immediately wants to replace an installed, 'offending' package upon encountering a package with the matching
replacesanywhere in its repositories;
conflicts, on the other hand, is only evaluated when actually installing the package, which is usually the desired behavior because it is less invasive.
- Packages that use prebuilt deliverables, when the sources are available, must use the
-binsuffix. An exception to this is with Java. The AUR should not contain the binary tarball created by makepkg, nor should it contain the filelist.
- Please add a comment line to the top of the
PKGBUILDfile which contains information about the current maintainers and previous contributors, respecting the following format. Remember to disguise your email to protect against spam. Additional or unneeded lines are facultative.
- If you are assuming the role of maintainer for an existing PKGBUILD, add your name to the top like this
# Maintainer: Your Name <address at domain dot tld>
- If there were previous maintainers, put them as contributors. The same applies for the original submitter if this is not you. If you are a co-maintainer, add the names of the other current maintainers as well.
# Maintainer: Your name <address at domain dot tld> # Maintainer: Other maintainer's name <address at domain dot tld> # Contributor: Previous maintainer's name <address at domain dot tld> # Contributor: Original submitter's name <address at domain dot tld>
For write access to the AUR, you need to have an SSH key pair. The content of the public key needs to be copied to your profile in My Account, and the corresponding private key configured for the
aur.archlinux.org host. For example:
Host aur.archlinux.org IdentityFile ~/.ssh/aur User aur
You should create a new key pair rather than use an existing one, so that you can selectively revoke the keys should something happen:
$ ssh-keygen -f ~/.ssh/aur
Creating package repositories
If you are creating a new package from scratch, establish a local Git repository and an AUR remote by cloning the intended pkgbase. If the package does not yet exist, the following warning is expected:
$ git clone ssh://firstname.lastname@example.com/pkgbase.git
Cloning into 'pkgbase'... warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository. Checking connectivity... done.
pkgbase matches a deleted package.
If you already have a package, initialize it as a Git repository if it isn't one, and add an AUR remote:
$ git remote add label ssh://email@example.com/pkgbase.git
Then fetch this remote to initialize it in the AUR.
pkgbase matches a deleted package.
Publishing new package content
git config user.name "..." and
git config user.email "...".
To upload or update a package add at least PKGBUILD and .SRCINFO then any new or modified .install files, patches or other local source files; commit with a meaningful commit message, and finally push the changes to the AUR.
For example:
$ makepkg --printsrcinfo > .SRCINFO $ git add -f PKGBUILD .SRCINFO $ git commit -m "useful commit message" $ git push
- After modifying a package, except for very minor changes (such as fixing a typo) that would not require re-installation of the package, update its version accordingly.
- Regenerate
.SRCINFOafter updating such
PKGBUILDmetadata in order to publish it in the AUR.
- If
.SRCINFOwas not added before your first commit, add it by rebasing with --root or filtering the tree so the AUR will permit your initial push.
Maintaining packages
- Check for feedback and comments from other users and try to incorporate any improvements they suggest; consider it a learning process!
- Please do not leave a comment containing the version number every time you update the package. This keeps the comment section usable for valuable content mentioned above.
- Please do not just submit and forget about packages! It is the maintainer's job to maintain the package by checking for updates and improving the PKGBUILD.
- If you do not want to continue to maintain the package for some reason,
disownthe package using the AUR web interface and/or post a message to the AUR Mailing List. If all maintainers of an AUR package disown it, it will become an "orphaned" package.
Other requests
Deletion, merge, and orphan requests can be created by clicking on the "Submit Request" link under "Package Actions" on the right hand side. This will send a notification email to the current maintainer and to the aur-requests mailing list for discussion. A Trusted User will then either accept or reject the request.
You may request to unlist a
pkgbase from the AUR. A short note explaining the reason for deletion is required, as well as supporting details (like when a package is provided by another package, if you are the maintainer yourself, it is renamed and the original owner agreed, etc).
- It is not sufficient to explain why a package is up for deletion only in its comments because as soon as a TU takes action, the only place where such information can be obtained is the aur-requests mailing list.
- Deletion requests can be rejected, in which case if you are the maintainer you will likely be advised to disown the package to allow adoption by another maintainer.
- After a package is "deleted", its git repository remains available for cloning.
You may request to delete a
pkgbase and transfer its votes and comments to another
pkgbase. The name of the package to merge into is required.
You may request that a
pkgbase be disowned. These requests will be granted after two weeks if the current maintainer did not react.
Promoting packages to the community repository
When AUR packages receive enough community interest and the support of a Trusted User, they may be adopted into the community repository (maintained by the TUs), from which binary packages can be installed using pacman.
Usually, at least 10 votes are required for something to move into community. However, if a TU wants to support a package, it will often be found in the repository.
Sufficient votes are not the only requirement; there has to be a TU willing to maintain the package. TUs are not required to adopt a package even if it has thousands of votes.
Usually, when a very popular package stays in the AUR it is because:
- Arch Linux already has another version of a package in the repositories.
- Its license prohibits redistribution.
- It helps retrieve user-submitted PKGBUILDs (AUR helpers).
See also Rules for Packages Entering the community Repo.
Verifying packages
If you are having trouble building a package, read its PKGBUILD and the comments on its AUR page. It is possible that a
PKGBUILD is broken for everyone. If you cannot figure it out on your own, report it to the maintainer (e.g. by posting the errors you are getting in the comments on the AUR page). You may also seek help in the AUR Issues, Discussion & PKGBUILD Requests forum.
To avoid problems caused by your particular system configuration, build packages in a clean chroot. If the build process still fails in a clean chroot, the issue is probably with the
See Creating packages#Checking package sanity about using
namcap to debug packages. If you would like to have a
PKGBUILD reviewed, post it on the aur-general mailing list to get feedback from the TUs and fellow AUR members, or the Creating & Modifying Packages forum. You could also seek help in the IRC channel #archlinux-aur on Freenode.
Avoid common pitfalls:
- Ensure your build environment is up-to-date by upgrading before building anything.
- Ensure you have both base and base-devel groups installed.
- Use the
-soption with
makepkgto check and install all the dependencies needed before starting the build process.
- Try the default makepkg configuration.
- See Makepkg#Troubleshooting for common issues.
Web interface translation
See i18n.txt in the AUR source tree for information about creating and maintaining translation of the AUR web interface.
What is the AUR?
The AUR (Arch User Repository) is a place where the Arch Linux community can upload PKGBUILDs of applications, libraries, etc., and share them with the entire community. Fellow users can then vote for their favorites to be moved into the community repository to be shared with Arch Linux users in binary form.
What kind of packages are permitted on the AUR?
The packages on the AUR are merely "build scripts", i.e. recipes to build binaries for pacman. For most cases, everything is permitted, subject to the abovementioned usefulness and scope guidelines, as long as you are in compliance with the licensing terms of the content. For other cases, where it is mentioned that "you may not link" to downloads, i.e. contents that are not redistributable, you may only use the file name itself as the source. This means and requires that users already have the restricted source in the build directory prior to building the package. When in doubt, ask.
How can I vote for packages in the AUR?
See #Voting for packages.
What is a Trusted User / TU?
A Trusted User, in short TU, is a person who is chosen to oversee AUR and the community repository. They are the ones who maintain popular PKGBUILDs in community, and overall keep the AUR running.
What is the difference between the Arch User Repository and the community repository?
AUR packages are maintained by community members and provided in source format, while the packages in the community repository are maintained by the Trusted Users and provided in pre-compiled binary format. See #Promoting packages to the community repository for more information.
Foo in the AUR is outdated; what should I do?
See #Flagging packages out-of-date.
In the meantime, you can try updating the package yourself by editing the PKGBUILD locally. Sometimes, updates do not require changes to the build or package process, in which case simply updating the
pkgver or
source array is sufficient.
Foo in the AUR does not compile when I run makepkg; what should I do?
You are probably missing something trivial; see #Verifying packages.
ERROR: One or more PGP signatures could not be verified!; what should I do?
See Makepkg#ERROR: One or more PGP signatures could not be verified!.
How do I create a PKGBUILD?
The best resource is the wiki page about creating packages. Remember to look in AUR before creating the PKGBUILD as to not duplicate efforts.
I have a PKGBUILD I would like to submit; can someone check it to see if there are any errors?
There are several channels available to submit your package for review; see #Verifying packages.
How to get a PKGBUILD into the community repository?
See #Promoting packages to the community repository.
How can I speed up repeated build processes?
See Makepkg#Improving compile times.
What is the difference between foo and foo-git packages?
Many AUR packages are presented in regular ("stable") and development versions ("unstable"). A development package usually has a suffix such as
-bzr or
-darcs. While development packages are not intended for regular use, they may offer new features or bugfixes. Because these packages download the latest available source when you execute
makepkg, a package version to track possible updates is not directly available for these. Likewise, these packages cannot perform an authenticity checksum, instead it is relied on the maintainer(s) of the Git repository.
See also System maintenance#Use proven software packages.
Why has foo disappeared from the AUR?
It is possible the package has been adopted by a TU and is now in the community repository.
Packages may be deleted if they did not fulfill the #Rules of submission. See the aur-requests archives for the reason for deletion.
If the package used to exist in AUR3, it might not have been migrated to AUR4. See the #Git repositories for AUR3 packages where these are preserved.
How do I find out if any of my installed packages disappeared from AUR?
The simplest way is to check the HTTP status of the package's AUR page:
$ comm -23 <(pacman -Qqm | sort) <(curl https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.gz | gzip -cd | sort)
How can I obtain a list of all AUR packages?
- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.gz
- Use
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Speaking of the offensive line, the Ravens haven't established their running game in the preseason. Pro Bowl running back Ray Rice has rushed for just 79 yards on 27 carries and backup Bernard Pierce has carried the ball 13 times for 28 yards, 20 of which came on a touchdown run in the preseason opener. Combined, they have averaged 2.7 yards per carry. Sure, the Ravens are likely keeping things vanilla and Yanda missed the first two preseason games. Still, it's discouraging that they have struggled to open running lanes for their backs.
33 -- Instances when the Ravens have blitzed a defensive back.
Just like the offense, the defense hasn't been tipping its hand too much in the preseason. But defensive coordinator Dean Pees hasn't been afraid to rush the passer with his defensive backs. The Baltimore defense has been on the field for 195 plays and the Ravens have blitzed a defensive back 33 times, according to Pro Football Focus, but some of those were on the same play. Strong safeties James Ihedigbo and Matt Elam have rushed the passer eight times and Corey Graham, likely the team's nickel corner, has done it five times.
15-8 -- Baltimore's preseason record under John Harbaugh.
No one keeps track of preseason records. Well, except for the Ravens media relations team, which reports that the Ravens have won 14 of their last 19 preseason games and have a 15-8 preseason record under Harbaugh. While preseason records aren't always an indicator of future success -- for example, the Super Bowl champs went 2-2 in the preseason last year -- they can be a pretty good indicator of organizational depth. The Ravens usually have one of the NFL's deepest rosters, which explains their success in these exhibitions.
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A new movement of 'anti-globalists', inTime Magazine's words (24 April 2000), now 'oppose corporate dominion over the planet's poor and disfranchised'.Naming the Enemyis the first systematic documentation of this international resistance to transnational corporations and globalization which has so recently burst into the public gaze with the street protests in Seattle, Washington, London and Prague. A wide and heterogeneous range of social movements now oppose the very fundamentals of market capitalism. Their challenge is beginning, Amory Starr shows, to amount to a sweeping critique of its purposes and practice. She explains how these movements understand their enemies and what sort of future they envision. There are, she suggests, three basic types: Movements trying to constrain corporate power through democratic institutions and direct action; Movements attempting a completely different kind of 'globalization from below' in which corporations will be reshaped in the service of new international democratic structures that will be populist, participatory and just; Movements seeking to delink their localities and communities from the global economy and rebuild instead small-scale socieites in which large corporations have no role at all. This new phenomenon has received scant media or scholarly attention. But it is likely to become much more important politically as the globalized economy dominated by giant corporations and institutions like the World Bank and IMF fails to deliver on jobs, social justice, Third World development and the environment. The course of this new kind of political struggle will have huge implications for human welfare and civil liberties. This unique and important book is relevant to activists as well as students and scholars of globalization, new social movements and political economy.
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It looks like the Wanted have been feeling bad about the comments they made about singer and The Voice judge Christina Aguilera.
During an in studio interview at 92.3 NOW/New York this past April, the Wanted's Max George was asked why he jumped off the stage to give a little hug and a kiss to American Idol judge Jennifer Lopez during their visit to the show but didn't give the same love to Christina Aguilera when they were on The Voice.
Max replied, "She was bit scary, to be honest."
His band mate Tom Parker jumped in to add, "She's a total b**ch." When pressed, he added, "She might not be a b**ch in real life but to us she was a b**ch. She just sat there and didn't speak to us. Wouldn't even look at us."
Towards the end of April the Wanted had been taking some heat on the Internet for their comments. When TMZ caught up with Tom Parker he tried to shed some light on the situation.
"We shouldn't have said it, to be honest with you," Parker said. "We just think manners cost nothing, you know what I mean? The rest of the judges were really nice and she didn't even talk to us, but we apologize for the comment."
But two months after issuing that apology, the boys went right back into attack mode, with Tom Parker and his band mate Siva going so far as sticking a photo of Christina "up their arse," as the Brits say.
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In a recent interview with The Huffington Post, Tom Parker took his words back, again, after seeing an interview with the singer that helped change his mind.
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In what is potentially the culmination of the rosé trend, a live museum pop-up exhibition dedicated to the pink drink called "Rosé Mansion" has opened in New York City. Every room in this elaborate "mansion" just blocks from Grand Central Station is dedicated to the history, science, and economics of rosé. Whether you're blending your own wine, swinging from a golden chandelier, or visiting what the museum is calling "the greatest rosé wine bar on the planet," this pop-up is sure to satisfy your summer-long craving for all things rosé.
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Today: Symantec announces a new approach to its core security business, declares antivirus "is dead." Also: Apple closes higher than $600 for the first time since 2012 after Samsung verdict.
The Lead: Symantec challenges younger rivals, ditches antivirus
As Silicon Valley security upstarts find strong sales growth, antivirus pioneer Symantec announced Monday that it will ditch its focus on antivirus products for an approach that mimics its younger rivals.
Symantec announced new offerings that promise to detect threats and immediately fight them as opposed to its current software offering, which mostly attempts to block incursions but is not as useful once a bad actor has managed to sneak through the defense.
"To successfully defend against the types of targeted attacks we're seeing today, you need to expand the focus from prevention to detection and response," Symantec executive Brian Dye said in Monday's news release.
Dye was more blunt in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, saying antivirus protection, the core of Symantec's offering for years, "is dead,"
"We don't think of antivirus as a moneymaker in any way," Dye told the Journal.
Symantec's financial performance of late gives credence to that view: The security software company saw its sales drop 0.6 percent in 2013 while profits plummeted 23.5 percent. Turmoil has reigned at its Mountain View headquarters, with the ouster of CEO Steve Bennett just two years after his hire leaving a previously announced turnaround plan seemingly in limbo.
Symantec's first new product to roll out will be a network security offering that attempts to detect and prevent network incursions. In a nod to the advances competitors have made in the space, Symantec's network offering incorporates partnerships with rivals that have found success in the sphere: Check Point, Palo Alto Networks and Sourcefire, which Cisco acquired for $2.7 billion last year.
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Ives believes Symantec should have acted on this type of strategy years ago, before new players such as FireEye managed to win fans in the enterprise space.
"They continue to be late to the game, and this doesn't really move the needle," Ives said, comparing the move to "an Italian restaurant that all of a sudden starts to serve bread."
FireEye, the Milpitas security company that went public last year and has already exercised a $1 billion acquisition and a $1 billion secondary offering, "continues to be miles ahead of the competitors here," Ives said, later calling the company "the LeBron James" of endpoint-security offerings.
Symantec dropped 1.3 percent to $20.10 Monday, and has now declined 14.8 percent so far in 2014. Meanwhile, Palo Alto Networks jumped 3 percent to $67.02 and FireEye gained 0.7 percent to $40.23.
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Wall Street indexes improved slightly Monday while Silicon Valley stocks rose faster thanks to a post-Samsung-verdict boost from Apple.
Apple gained 1.4 percent to $600.96, the first time the Cupertino tech giant's share price has closed higher than $600 since October 2012. The positive move comes after jurors in the company's San Jose legal patent battle with Korean rival Samsung reached a verdict late Friday afternoon that awarded Apple about $120 million after Apple sought more than $2 billion. Unlike the jury in the first trial between the two massive tech giants, the jury foreman said Monday, "It wasn't a decision based on trying to send a message to one company or another." While its legal team works on patent litigation, Apple has built up an impressive team of medical-technology experts that will likely look to use their knowledge to develop wearable sensors for future Apple products, Reuters reported Monday.
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Down: Ruckus Wireless, Symantec, AMD, Twitter, VMware, Zynga, Splunk, Adobe, Intel, eBay
The SV150 index of Silicon Valley's largest tech companies: Up 10.52, or 0.75 percent, to 1,405.3
The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index: Up 14.16, or 0.34 percent, to 4,138.06
The blue chip Dow Jones industrial average: Up 17.66, or 0.11 percent, to 16,530.55
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Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley), Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood), Warwick Davis (Prof Flitwick), Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy), and director David Yates attended a photo call at Leavesden Studios today to open the Warner Bros Making of Harry Potter studio tour. Where's NEVILLE?????????????????????????Leavesden is where they filmed. Full Story
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Snape & Jo! And ... they all say goodbye
Massive premiere in London today – the final, final, FINAL carpet for the Harry Potter series in the motherland. There will be a premiere in New York on Monday but ... Harry is English, England is the heart of it. And here they almost all are to say goodbye and thank you. No, thank YOU. F-ck me I am crying again. Full Story
In a year from now...
Harry Potter will be over. Like over over. When the books were over there was always the movies. But by next July, after the theatrical release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, then what? Well, then they move on. They're moving on already. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Tom Felton, and other members of the Harry Potter cast including David Thewlis and Jim Broadbent attended a party this weekend to celebrate the end. Full Story
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Goddamn is it November yet? It hasn't even been a year yet since the Half Blood Prince was in theatres but f-ck it feels like forever and we've still 5 months to go before Part 1 of the Deathly Hallows. They take their time. Because it's GOOD. Because Potter fans demand quality. So yes, I will accept the wait. Full Story
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Related to this question I also had some troubles to understand the classification of module categories over $Rep(G)$. Specifically, on page 12 of Ostrik's paper what is the category $\mathrm{Rep}^1(\tilde{H})$? $k^\*$ acting as "identity character on V" means $a.v=av$ for all $a \in k^*$ and $v \in V$? Then what is the structure of module category over $Rep(G)$? Tensor product should be after restricting representations of $G$ to $H$ and then inducing back to $\tilde{H}$?
Concretely, I was thinking about the following example. Let $H$ be a subgroup of $G$. Then $Rep(H)$ is a module category over $Rep(G)$ via tensor product as $H$-modules. What is the decomposition of $Rep(H)$ in indecomposable module categories and what are the corresponding subgroups $H$ and cocyles $\omega \in H^2(H,\;k^*)$ for each indecomposable subcategory?


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Genetic disorders are diseases that can be passed from parents to
children. Some disorders may be inherited if only one parent has the abnormal gene,
while others can be inherited only if both parents have the abnormal gene.
If one or both parents have a defective gene or have a genetic
disorder, the risk of passing the disorder on to a child is the same with each
pregnancy. Having one healthy or one affected child doesn't change the odds
that future children will or will not be affected.
If the baby's mother or father or anyone in either of their
families has a genetic disorder, genetic counseling may help the family decide
what type of prenatal testing they want.
Genetic disorders that may be inherited include:
A small number of disorders occur because of a one-time mistake in a single
gene (new mutation), such as a change in a gene of one of the parents' egg or
sperm cells or because of a change in a gene of the fetus. These one-time genetic changes are unlikely to happen again in future pregnancies.
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Ever wondered if beauty bloggers get all the stuff they write about for free? The answer is yes, most of it. And it's nothing compared to print publications. Here is one blogger's account of the stages of shock, awe, hoarding, and blase acceptance a blogger goes through when she (or he!) gets into the beauty racket.
Get a paid beauty blogging gig and have it be awesome. Get to review all the products you've always loved and hopefully send business to independent retailers and manufacturers with ethical business practices that care about the earth and animals and consumer health. Stop having to ever buy shampoo or nail polish. Spend hours doing your makeup like celebrities going to the Oscars just to go to Target and look at more makeup, and have it be your job.
Run out of cool quirky alternative beauty brands whose ethics you agree with to talk about, as there's about five of them. Figure you'll start hitting up the PR reps at bigger beauty brands. Be seduced as well as disgusted by the hugely wasteful excess shipping material and pretty, pretty packaging of their products and the fact that they send you full size versions of every item in their line. The PR girls are so nice. Why do people hate PR girls? They ask about your weekend and your favorite color of nail polish and send you gifts and cards at the holidays.
Air kiss at fashion week. Begin twice yearly pilgrimages to this mecca of excess right at the point when they're about to stop being so free with swag. Need an extra carry on for all your loot and be simultaneously giddy and aloof about it.
Read Confessions Of a Beauty Editor by Linda Wells, the editor of Allure, Beauty Confidential by one-time roman à clef beauty blogger Nadine Haobsh and her follow up Confessions of a Beauty Addict, and Free Gift with Purchase: My Improbable Career in Magazines and Makeup by Jean Godfrey-June, the beauty editor of Lucky and patron saint of beauty writers everywhere. These books will blow your mind, providing both a reality check about what the business is truly like and an unfiltered view of the industry as it was coming into its own.
See your European coworkers and beauty bloggers you follow on Twitter be sent on things called "press trips" to spas in exotic places like Morocco or Los Angeles and be jealous. Run out of your favorite mascara and be unable to ask for another because you already reviewed it, and be not important enough to just be sent it on the regular because it's your favorite. (Bet Linda Wells doesn't ever run out of her favorite mascara.) Get annoyed when that cult beauty brand you have a great relationship with stops sending you every product they ever make. This is where the entitlement sneaks in.
Become genuinely annoyed at the amount of makeup in your possession. Remember you're an internet freelancer, not a corporate-owned print media glossy and you don't have the space to devote an entire closet in your home to "a beauty closet." Have boxes and boxes of unopened makeup you keep meaning to give to friends. Pawn products off on everyone who enters your home. This is when the beauty blogging racket begins to normalize. You are jaded, but you are also a knowledgable powerhouse.
Start buying shampoo again (though you will still probably never have to buy another lip gloss).


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The 7th Guest Trivia (DOS)
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1001 Video GamesThe 7th Guest appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.
BudgetThe overall budget for this game was more than one million dollars (a lot for a game on that times) and it was the first game on the history that comes with 2 CD-ROMs. Also one of the first ones on CD-ROM format at all.
CD-ROMLimited versions of The 7th Guest were bundled with a 13 minute video titled "The Making Of The Seventh Guest", which included interviews with the founders of Trilobyte and supporting developers/writers/directors. The 7th Guest was so ahead of its time that, during the closing credits, one of the sound designers predicts that "in months, we will see an explosion of CDROM technology that may change the way games are distributed--all games will come this way." How right he was (although it took about two years, not a couple of months).
EndingsThe 7th Guest has 2 different endings. The ending you see depends on if you cheat your way through the game (using the book in the library to solve the puzzles).
EngineThe 7th Guest was pioneering in its day; it had SVGA/VESA motion video and a fully-rendered game world that you could navigate through (with some limitations). It side-stepped technological limitations of the day by allowing all of this to take place on a single-speed CDROM drive and a 386.
All rendered rooms in The 7th Guest were built and rendered with 3D Studio for DOS.
Limited EditionThe limited edition version of the game came in a book-style box with a lovely poem inside.
LocalizationPlaying the game on my German CD-i system surprisingly revealed that the whole game has been localized in Speech and Text for the German market and the CD-i game system.
Matthew CostelloMatthew Costello was already an established horror writer in 1992, which is why the team turned to him to write the story and dialog.
Microscope PuzzleThe Microscope puzzle in the game is actually a game of Spot (as in the former 7-up mascot) for the NES set to the highest difficulty level. Spot for the NES was one of the previous games created by the group that made The 7th Guest.
MusicThe second disk contains about half an hour worth of music, both from the game and two or three original songs.
NintendoNintendo paid Virgin a million dollars up front for the rights to this game to help showcase their Super Nintendo CD-ROM system. What Super Nintendo CD-ROM system you ask? Exactly. Sometimes it sucks to be Nintendo.
Digging a bit deeper, rumour has it they knew at the time it would never be served up on one of their systems but just wanted to squat the property to spoil the chances of its ever turning up as a Sega console exclusive. Sure, it looks like a spiteful waste of money on the surface, but which company is still active as a hardware vendor? Sometimes it sucks to be Sega.
NovelThe screenwriter of the game, Matthew Costello, has also written a novel to go with the game, which was released by Prima (ISBN 0761500863). The book, which works out the game's story in more detail, can still be found in some online stores.
PatchTrilobyte released a patch to run the game in Windows 9X/NT systems - however, the company's website vanished years ago, and the file is very difficult to find.
However, you can find the file at ComputerHope.com! http://www.computerhope.com/download/games.htm
ReferencesThe Zaphod Beeblebrox cheat code that is mentioned in the Tips & Tricks section refers to a fictional character in the humorous books The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
StoryThe game's actors were filmed on a blue screen and placed into the game's render environments. Due to an error in the filming process, however, the filmed characters were found to have a ghostly aura around them. The game makers worked around this problem by changing the story to make all the characters ghosts.
The Official strategy guide for the game included the full pre-shooting script for the game. Innumerable changes were made during production due to various limitations (and a decision midway through to cut most of the blood and violence). Had the game been made according to the original plans, it would have been far scarier.
The Fat ManGeorge "The Fat Man" Alistair Sanger, the composer of the game's soundtrack has his picture in the game. You can view it here: http://www.fatman.com/t7gphoto.htm
If you tend to travel a lot, you might have been to "TGI Fridays"... A friend of The Fat Man did the interiors of the hotels and added some real portraits of The Fat Man - pretending, they are pretty old...
He booked two women from the hairdressing salon on the other side of his studio to sing on the red book-part of the soundtrack.
- Computer Gaming World
- November 1996 (15th anniversary issue) –#2 Worst Back Story of All Time
- Electronic Entertainment
- March 1994 – Editors' Choice Awards: Breakthrough Game
- Issue #4 - #23 in the Top 100 Video Games of All-Time list
- GameStar (Germany)
- Issue 12/1999 - #74 in the "100 Most Important PC Games of the Nineties" ranking
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Contributed by Trixter (9116) on Sep 19, 1999. [revised by : FatherJack (62739), JudgeDeadd (26643) and Patrick Bregger (247538)]. -- edit trivia


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This Saturday, the latest series from Misfits creator Howard Overman will air in the United States for the first time. And to celebrate, here are two exclusive clips from Atlantis — including one featuring a Minotaur. Which is excellent.
OK, here's the run down: Young Jason teams up with Pythogoras and Hercules to form the ultimate hot Greek guy team. Together they go on many adventures that collide with various famed myths and folklore from ye olden tunic times. Bottom line: We'll give anything Overman creates a try.
Check out the premiere this Saturday at 9 PM on BBC America.


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A team of Greenpeace activists attach themselves to the anchor chain of the Anna Akhmatova and chain their inflatable to it, preventing the ship from lifting anchor and sailing to the Prirazlomnaya oil platform (seen in the background) to complete the work that will allow them to begin drilling in this fragile region.
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This study will look at people who have been taking anti-HIV drugs but still have detectable
levels of HIV. The purpose of the study is to find out what happens in those people who
change anti-HIV drugs when their viral load reaches 200 copies compared to those who change
anti-HIV drugs when their viral load reaches 10,000 copies. This study will also look at
drug resistance (how well HIV responds to drugs), viral fitness (how well drug-resistant HIV
copies itself), and immunologic reconstitution (how well the immune system recognizes
various infections, including HIV).
Many patients experience virologic relapse (increase in viral load after sustained viral
load suppression) within 1 to 2 years of taking anti-HIV drugs. The approach to treatment
for patients who experience virologic relapse while on a highly active antiretroviral
therapy (HAART) has not been defined. Current guidelines recommend switching to a new
treatment regimen as soon as possible to prevent HIV from becoming even more resistant to
anti-HIV drugs. However, there is evidence that patients can benefit from staying on the
same HAART drugs, even after virologic relapse. This study wants to find what happens when
drugs are changed immediately after virologic relapse (when the viral load is lower)
compared to what happens if drugs are changed only after a delay (when the viral load is
Virologic relapse occurs within 1 to 2 years of antiretroviral therapy in up to 50 percent
of HIV-infected individuals. The best treatment approach for patients who experience
virologic rebound while on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has not been
defined. Current guidelines recommend switching to a new treatment regimen shortly after
virologic rebound in an effort to avoid sequential accumulation of multiple resistance
mutations. However, early treatment switching has numerous disadvantages: risk of virologic
rebound on the new therapy, a limited number of drug combinations available to treat such
rebounds, and difficulty in obtaining early genotypic and phenotypic drug-resistance
information to guide treatment modification. Delaying a switch to a new antiretroviral
regimen has the advantage of preserving future treatment options, and HIV levels may remain
partially suppressed even after drug-resistant mutants emerge. Moreover, several
observational studies describe maintenance of immunologic and clinical benefits of HAART
even after virologic rebound. Delayed treatment switches, however, raise concerns about
sequential accumulation of drug resistance mutations that may diminish the chances of viral
resuppression with successive HAART regimens, and the long-term immune consequences of
virologic rebound on HAART are not known. It is therefore important to evaluate the viral
and immunologic responses among patients randomized to either an early or delayed HAART
This study enrolls patients who have a viral load of at least 200, but less than 10,000
copies/ml. The patients are randomized into 2 treatment arms. Arm A (immediate switch)
patients have genotypic resistance testing at entry. Based on the resistance test results,
their antiretroviral treatment regimen is modified to a switch treatment regimen. Switch
treatment initiates no later than Week 4. Arm B (delayed switch) patients continue their
current antiretroviral regimen and have genotypic resistance testing when their plasma HIV-1
RNA levels reach 10,000 copies/ml or greater. Based on the resistance test results, their
antiretroviral treatment regimen is modified to a switch treatment regimen. Switch treatment
initiates no later than 4 weeks from the date of at least 10,000 copies/ml viral load, or
from the date of an absolute CD4 count reduced by 20 percent from baseline value. Patients
who never meet the switch criteria remain on study.
All patients are followed for a minimum of 48 weeks after entry. No antiretroviral drugs are
provided by the study.
Inclusion Criteria
Patients may be eligible for this study if they:
- Are HIV-infected.
- Have a CD4 cell count of 200 cells/mm3 or more within 45 days prior to entry.
- Are currently receiving the same HAART regimen for at least 4 months.
- Had a documented viral load of less than 500 copies/ml at any time prior to screening
on the current stable antiretroviral regimen.
- Have a detectable plasma viral load on current stable anti-HIV regimen, as defined in
the protocol, within 52 weeks prior to screening.
- Are willing to remain on their current regimen until their scheduled switch.
- Have a negative pregnancy test within 48 hours prior to entry.
- Are at least 13 years old.
- Agree not to participate in the conception process (active attempts to become
pregnant or to make someone pregnant) while on study and for 60 days after going off
- Agree to use 2 acceptable forms of contraception while on study and for 60 days after
going off study.
Exclusion Criteria
Patients may not be eligible for this study if they:
- Do not adhere with current antiretroviral therapy.
- Have an infection or cancer that requires treatment within 45 days prior to entry.
- Are pregnant or breast-feeding.
- Have used any experimental agents, systemic corticosteroids, or drugs that interfere
with the immune system within 45 days prior to entry.
- Have received any HIV vaccine within 90 days prior to entry.
- Use drugs or alcohol that, in the opinion of the investigator, would interfere with
the study.
Effects of Changing HIV Therapy at Lower Versus Higher Viral Loads
A Phase II, Randomized, Controlled, Pilot Study of Antiretroviral Switch at Lower Versus Higher HIV-1 RNA Levels in Subjects Experiencing Virologic Relapse on a Current HAART Regimen
Phase 2
13 Years
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United States: Federal Government
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Darien forecast: Bright start to the new year
The new year dawns today on a fairly bright note, with mostly sunny weather in the forecast for southwestern Connecticut through the weekend.
The first day of 2013 will see partly sunny skies, according to the National Weather Service, with the daytime high temperature in the upper-30s and a northwest wind 11 to 15 mph.
Tonight is expected to be partly cloudy, with a low temperature around 20 degrees and a northwest wind 8 to 13 mph.
Tomorrow should be mostly sunny, with a high temperature in the low-30s. Tomorrow night should be mostly clear, with a low temperature about 20 degrees.
Thursday will be sunny, the NWS says, with a high temperature in the low-30s. Nighttime will be mostly cloudy, with a low around temperature in the low-20s.
Friday also will be mostly sunny, with a high temperature in the mid-30s. Friday night will be mostly clear, with a low temperature in the low-20s.
The outlook for both weekend days, according to the weather service, is mostly sunny and temperatures in the 30s.


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I've seen a few stories in the advisory media lately talking about "The X (insert number here) Traits of Top Advisors."
Some of these traits are okay, while others are mostly harmless, but the problem with them is that for the most part they either sound like wishful thinking or an adaptation of some business school theory. The reality is that successful owner-advisors really do have many of the same traits. Unfortunately, you can't identify them by looking at firm "metrics" or asking them in a survey. Instead, you have to work with these folks to see what they actually do. Over the years, I've worked with a lot of great owner-advisors, in small firms to super giants, and here's my list of the seven traits those successful leaders have in common:
Trait 1: Successful Advisors Lead Instead of Manage
Great business owners don't seek to manage and/or oversee the people who work for them: they take average people and make them into great leaders themselves, so they don't have to be managed. These advisors don't see themselves as "the boss" cracking the whip every day to get the most out of their employees, because they intuitively know that not only will that take away from making their maximum contribution to the firm, but it will also limit firm growth to what they can do. Instead, they see themselves as coaches (maybe "player-coaches"), whose job is to train, support, and motivate each employee to make their maximum contribution to the business.
Trait 2: Successful Advisors Hire People Smarter Than Themselves
Great owner-advisors are fond of saying that they aren't really all that smart, they just hire smart people. Of course, that's a sign of being really smart, because it's based on the concept that to build a business that's more than just a job with some support, you have to hire people who can also make substantial contributions to the firm's growth and success. (This mentality also applies to outsourcing partners and strategic partners and consultants ;). )
Trait 3: Successful Advisors Operate From a Business Plan
That plan is updated every year, and reviewed at least once a month. This allows their employees (and themselves) to know exactly where they are and where they are going as a company. It also makes sure that everyone is on the same page, with the same vision about what kind of firm you are trying to build. The ability to communicate their vision is one of the essential skills of successful owner-advisors: growth is a lot easier when everyone is pulling in the same direction.
Trait 4: Successful Advisors Don't Care What Everybody Else Is Doing
Not only that, but successful advisors don't compare themselves to anyone else. Great owners know their own business plan, and those benchmarks are the only metrics that matter. Building a successful business is a contest with yourself: putting together a good team, finding what works for you and then doing it. Every firm is different and what works for one firm maybe a disaster for another. Worrying about what other firms are doing or how you measure up is just wasted time and energy.
Trait 5: Successful Advisors Never, Ever Say, "We're Different"
They also don't say, "Our firm is further along," or "We are bigger, more advanced." I have prospective clients tell me this all the time: "We are different, we might be further along in our strategic work than your 'traditional' client." I find that all my great firm owners would never say this. It is the biggest red flag I have in prospective meetings that makes me want to avoid working with that client. Great owners actually believe they are simply average, and it's that mental attitude which drives them to work hard, to be better, to learn more—and eventually makes them the best.
Trait 6: Successful Advisors Make Hard Decisions Quickly and Don't Look Back
Advisors often have a hard time making the really big, hard decisions, such as hiring the next employee, firing the bad partner, acquiring the next firm, building the better service model, firing the horrible client, etc. Great owner-advisors make the necessary decisions and move on. Sure, they learn from their mistakes, but they don't dwell on them. They're all about moving forward, not looking back.
Trait 7: Successful Advisors Know Their Greatest Strength Is Their Greatest Weakness
This is my favorite trait because it's usually the most important one. Nearly every great owner-advisor's greatest strength is coming up with big ideas to improve the business and/or client service. But unlike the vast majority of owner-advisors, they also know that there is a right time for every idea to be implemented. Mostly, that time is not "Right Now!" Even though they want it done immediately, they know that every major change requires preparation (including employee buy-in) and then careful implementation. Great owners take the time to ensure each idea is done right—to get the right result.
While some owner-advisors intuitively have many or all of these traits, the good news is that they can be learned. The first step is to realize that building a business that's bigger than they are can't be all about them. Once they make the commitment to be better, the sky really is the limit to awesomeness.


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Tools for planning STIS observations
The Exposure Time Calculators (ETCs) are online tools that predict the count rates and S/N in various observing modes given specified source characteristics. STIS provides ETCs for three separate scenarios:
Spectroscopic Science Exposures
Use this ETC to calculate the count rates and S/N ratio for a simulated spectrum of ONE source in a STIS spectroscopic observation.
Imaging Science Exposures
Use this ETC to calculate the count rates and S/N ratio for imaging observations of external targets.
Imaging Target Acquisition
Use this ETC to calculate exposure times for target acquisition exposure.
Previous Calculations
Use this ETC to recall previous calculations, using the ETC ID number. Note all STIS ETC ID numbers must include the preceding "STIS" to recall a previous calculation.
*** Last updated 02/15/2010 ***
Known Issues and Features
Known Issues and Features for Previous Builds
ETC 20.1 Known Issues for All Instruments