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Public Enemy
No. 1 The Media!
By Ted Lang
No conspiracies, huh? And no media collaboration with these conspiracies either, huh? When I tried to point out the unity of government and media that continuously partner to propagandize illegal and immoral policies guaranteed to destroy America's founding concept of maximum individual human freedom, a so-called "libertarian" website put me down. I wasted no time in relegating that highly articulate and totally ignorant moron and "libertarian" gatekeeper and his website to the lowest level of news and opinion writing. Fortunately for the mainstream libertarian Internet philosophers, this is a lightly trafficked and not very popular site.
"The media is the enemy!" This is the title of the introductory narrative of American Free Press.net. AFP offers: "In the old Soviet Union, the government controlled the media. Not a word of substance could be published without prior approval from the Bolshevik commissars. Today, in the United States, the situation is starkly similar. But most Americans don't even know it.
In the United States today, it is a select handful of super-rich families and tightly-knit financial interests-a plutocratic elite-who own the Big Media and who control the government through their ownership of that media. . . . Every single one of the major media outlets is controlled by this powerful interlocking combine."
Now if this isn't a revelation, I don't know what is. It is well known that today's media is subservient to the Bush administration, having consistently covered up the staggering number of Bush violations of both domestic and international law and treaties. So there is nothing at all revealing about such observed and proven fact. Let's digress for a moment and review the long and growing list of totally spiked vital news issues and those that have been severely delayed or underplayed to dilute their newsworthy significance.
We can start with the spiriting out of the country by the FBI, immediately following 9-11, of about two dozen relatives of Osama bin Laden. Although briefly aired, the mainstream media quickly dismissed this blockbuster issue and never revisited it in terms of commentary and analysis. No one in America was allowed such rapid, secret and taxpayer-funded expatriation, presumably for their own safety. And remember as well the connection between 9-11 Commissioner Tom Kean, the former governor of New Jersey, and his Amerada Hess oil business association with Khalid bin Mahfouz, Osama's brother-in-law. Do you recall either reading or seeing this blockbuster revelation air in "our" mainstream media [MSM]?
What about the "Weehawken Five?" Remember when the MSM first exposed the eyewitness account leading to the arrest of the "five celebrating Arabs?" Was there any follow-up? Was there any emphasis in reporting that the five were not only Israeli nationals, but were employed at the time of their arrest as agents of the MOSSAD?! Recall the blockbuster headlines revealing traces of explosives in their van, and box cutters, and over $4,000 in cash? Recall the blockbuster headlines when Chertoff and "our" Department of "Justice" quietly released them and allowed them to return to Israel? And what of the four-part FOXNews Carl Cameron series about the 140 "art students," all of whom were Mossad agents? Why has that archived story disappeared?
Then we have the spiking of the Downing Street Memo, the confused reporting and media bumbling related to the Plame-CIA scandal, and the virtual total spike of the AIPAC/Larry Franklin spy affair. And although some news developments were appropriately aired initially, the Abu Ghraib and the Sibel Edmonds exposés come to mind, there was no real investigative follow-up and analysis on either. It was the Internet that blew the lid off these government criminal activities.
These spikes, downplays and failed follow-ups are easily verified by FAIR [Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting], the media watchdog group founded by Jeff Cohen. The organization went totally ballistic when The New York Times continuously refused to air the Downing Street Memo. A review of the P. U. Awards on their site will list even more despicable journalistic practices.
That all having been once again established, let's return to what precisely constitutes the astonishing revelation offered by American Free Press. It is AFP's position that it is not the government that dominates the media, but just the other way around! After laundry listing the big media newspapers and national TV networks, AFP goes on: "And these media powerhouses control dozens-actually thousands-of other daily and weekly newspapers, magazines, and radio and television outlets across America (and around the globe)."
AFP continues: "To consolidate their influence, the Masters of the Media and their international corporate allies reward obedient journalists with membership in the Council on Foreign Relations or the Trilateral Commission where they rub shoulders with others in the international policy-making networks. A handful get promoted to the higher ranks of the secret Bilderberg Group."
It has long been pointed out by Dr. Henry A, Makow, that the Rothschild-Rockefeller satanic cult of international bankers, identified as the "Illuminati," conveys their presence, influence and control through these very same established, legitimized and powerful international organizations. Bill Clinton was supported by the Trilateral Commission, while just in the past presidential elections, Democrat John Edwards was picked by the Bilderbergs as the vice presidential candidate after impressing them with his public speaking capabilities.
It was Rush Limbaugh who so vituperatively and correctly pointed to "liberal media bias," but only because the regime then in power was the Clinton administration. A truckload of anti-media books hit the conservative publication circuits, eventually led by media veteran Bernard Goldberg. This episode of MSM bashing was what started their demise. Comparing their favoritism for Clinton then, to their kowtowing for Bush now, their dedication to any American regime that implements their policy negates the validity of the existence of a "liberal" media. All that needs doing to verify the falsehood of a "liberal" media is to read the angry editorials launched by liberal Jeff Cohen at the "liberal" New York Times for not airing the Downing Street Memo.
The next dark void of political sophistry an inquiring mind must traverse is that of the false journalistic posturing that offers that the press is always mindful of the stresses of those in power in Washington, especially during a time of war. This stance excuses journalists and the press from asking the "hard" questions. But what is so biased about questions such as those inquiring as to our military's body counts, or battle maps, or communicating information in terms of front line combat film and videos as was the practice in World War II, Korea and Vietnam? How about advancing this simple question: Where's the "front?" Why virtually no combat videos or photos from any MSM entity? Without even a rudimentary front line, it is clear we are fighting armed civilians, armed civilians who are not "insurgents," but in reality freedom fighters, constituting an armed resistance against Bush's illegal and immoral invasion.
The nose-diving popularity of both Bush and his war tell the story of an American public that is becoming increasingly informed, in spite of news event and information manipulation by the "American" press. Limbaugh brought it into focus, even if by way of inaccurate analogy; but now it's here to stay! On an ever-increasing basis, Americans are beginning to distrust the mainstream media Limbaugh first isolated via his "bias" label.
An article carried on DRUDGE and originated on Breitbart.com and entitled "A future of empty doorsteps? Dark days for US newspapers," once again laments the decreasing popularity and declining circulation numbers of America's newspapers. Understandably, Matt Drudge, obviously enjoying these glum statistics citing the continuing decline of the American MSM, which they themselves admit to, relishes their misery as it serves to alleviate any frustration whatsoever that he may have experienced for their having banished him from their exclusive and elitist circles. His override of the decision by the Washington Post, exacerbated by Michael Isikoff's flight over the intended spike by the Post of the Clinton-Lewinsky affair and his joining Newsweek, gave Drudge the break he needed to run with the story on the Internet. The Lewinsky blockbuster was to the Internet what the Nixon-Kennedy televised debates and Watergate were to network TV news.
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Breitbart article basically follows on to the dismal reports first announced this year back in May, as offered by the media's mainstream internal journal, Editor & Publisher. As presented by Kevin Craver on Rathergate.com, in his "Opening thread declining newspaper circulation," Craver writes, "The newspaper industry is calling May 2 'Black Monday.' Editor & Publisher crunched the latest circulation numbers, and hoo-boy, are they bad.
How bad, do you ask? The Baltimore Sun's circulation dropped 11.5 percent in daily circulation and 8.4 percent in Sunday circulation. In one year, the paper lost 10 percent of its readers.
As for other big losers, the Chicago Tribune was down 6.6 percent daily (as was the Rocky Mountain News) and 4.6 percent Sunday. The Denver Post lost 6.3 percent for daily circ. The Los Angeles Times dropped 6.4 percent daily and 7.9 percent on Sunday. The Cleveland Plain Dealer lost 5.2 percent daily, and the San Francisco Chronicle slid by 6 percent daily and 7.7 percent on Sundays.
Nationwide the hurt was still significant. The Miami Herald was down 3.7 percent daily and 3.9 percent Sunday. The Houston Chronicle slipped by 3.9 percent daily, and the Washington Post was down 2.6 percent for daily and 2.4 percent for Sunday."
As newspaper circulation continues to tank, viewership of network TV news is also declining. I combined this observation, as well as that of newspapers in a piece I wrote earlier challenging the myopic views of one Evan Cornog, whom I introduced in that effort as being the publisher of the Columbia Journalism Review, and who also serves as an associate dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. I then pointed out, as I am doing once again, that it is his prestigious institution of higher learning that awards the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism, and is, therefore indeed, a bastion of journalistic professionalism in America. I reflected upon how Cornog sounded off in New Jersey's largest newspaper, The Star-Ledger, complaining about the plight of the poor underdog "free and independent press." He whined about the government bullying of the press.
Apologizing for my redundancy in focusing on this highly-credentialed superior elitist educator and enabler of the American press, it is obvious that Cornog must keep tabs on the pulse and activities of all the journalistic endeavors performed by the MSM, and evaluate and tailor journalistic education to adequately prepare new and emerging journalistic professionals for a successful career. As such, his adulation of the suffering of Judith Miller was totally out of place, as confirmed by her and The New York Times' parting of ways. It was only weeks after Cornog's myopic and incorrect observations whereupon Miller departed the Times.
Confirming my earlier argument, the Miller debacle now joins the Jason Blair debacle at The New York Times, the latter disgrace resurrecting the 1932 Pulitzer Prize scandal of William Duranty. It was Cornog's Columbia Graduate School that awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Duranty's cover-up of the starvation murders of approximately eight million Ukrainians and his shilling for Communist Dictator Josef Stalin. And to avoid redundancy, I will point to only Cornog's title and subtitle in his Columbia Journalism Review essay of January/February 2005: "Lets Blame the Reader Is it possible to do great journalism if the public does not care?" The titles alone tell the story Mr. Cornog is totally out of touch with reality.
Cornog's complaints are not only removed from reality; they're twice removed! First, it is clear that Cornog would never subscribe to the Limbaugh-originated charge of either a biased or "liberal" press. And secondly, he would never entertain the idea of a small group of power brokers using the press as an instrument to control government. Let's look at both these aspects of the MSM.
Realistically, and starting with newspapers and/or "news" pamphlets, the latter identified even by Cornog as having informed, educated and then motivated a large number of American colonists to initiate the Revolutionary War against England and King George III, it is unrealistic to cite political objectivity in any journalistic endeavor. No matter how much effort is expended to display an aura of objectivity delineating fact from opinion, there really is no such thing. As offered by Doug Thompson, long-time journalist and editor-publisher of Capitol Hill Blue, "Journalism is best served by those who follow the story wherever it leads and don't let political or philosophical bias sway their course. That's something that those who write from a partisan point of view, and too many of those who teach journalism, can't possibly comprehend but those of us who actually practice the craft understand. I've been doing it that way for more than 40 years and I expect to be doing it for 40 more."
Thompson offered that statement in a combative piece entitled, "Partisans can't be journalists," published in Capital Hill Blue in his column "The Rant." Thompson wrote the article in anger, anger directed at a fellow pundit and sometimes "liberal journalist," William Rivers Pitt. Permit me once again, to digress for a bit. I am not now, nor have I ever been, a journalist. But the rapid and astonishing demise of the political institutions of our nation, in terms of our loss of domestic freedoms and our international war crimes against all humanity, forces me to express my disdain for ALL politics, thereby, in all likelihood, nullifying my baccalaureate diploma in Political Science. I try to avoid name-calling or specific references to either Internet websites or other writers, including the "libertarian" moron who set me off on this effort.
But as Columbia's associate dean Cornog points out, newspapers didn't take off in the Colonies until they aligned themselves politically one way or another either for or against the English king. Regrettably, that journalistic fact of life, establishing that there was indeed a partisan bias on the part of the American press even back then, is now used to protect both American politicians and the MSM today. There is NO BIAS in the MSM they now ALL speak with one tongue. The growing irrelevance of newspapers and the entire MSM is so precisely because they are now seen by the American public as being a centralized, monolithic and totally homogenized political support entity.
Journalistic bias in the MSM was never the problem! The problem is lack of competition between journalistic sources that can build support from the reading and news-consuming public. Competition is the key, and not a monolithic press joined together by the one voice of the Masters of the Media! Bush is being protected by these wealthy globalists! Serving the military-industrial complex and Israel, both of which serve the globalists and their New World Order agenda, is what motivates them in ensuring Bush and the GOP's success! And as there is no "product differentiation" between MSM entities, there is also no difference between Republicans and Democrats.
At first, I was repulsed by the partisanship that has now infected the new "alternative media," the Internet. Here's Doug Thompson's assessment: "Normally, I don't pay much attention to the patter on Internet bulletin boards particularly extreme partisan boards like Free Republic on the right or Democratic Underground on the left." There is no question, that the larger and more successful and highly trafficked websites can be codified as either "Republican" or "Democrat." This has, in the past, extremely depressed me; but no longer. It may take time, but eventually, the freedom of the Internet, allowing the news-consuming public to make choices, will serve to inform the public of the truth much faster than a homogenized, monolithic MSM controlled by eight plutocratic families.
Ideally, journalistic professionalism and objectivity would be best, but this is increasingly recognized, at least by me, as becoming an unattainable quest. Although Thompson seems well anchored in professionalism, the mainstream sites in today's alternative media [AM] on the Internet are evidencing the same start-up partisanship characteristic of our founding loyalist versus radically-oriented American press. I subscribe fully to Thompson's quest for the truth: "I don't like liars. I don't like elected leaders who deceive the country they have sworn to serve. I've found in more than 40 years of journalism that most elected officials are dishonest and put their own political interests above what is best for the nation. It doesn't matter if they are Democrat or Republican, conservative or liberal, left-wing or right-wing."
Thompson reinforces his posture offering further: "And I don't care much for partisans who claim to be journalists while publishing under a political party banner. Truth is non-partisan. It doesn't' subscribe to a particular political philosophy. And truth is not served by an alternative media that looks at things from a partisan political slant. A Robert Novak who writes that all things Democratic are bad is no different from a William Rivers Pitt who claims the same things about Republicans." Perfectly said, and in fact, a repeat of my own quote in my newsletter founding my own citizen's action group: Truth is non-partisan.
Once this simple concept is grasped, the propaganda rants of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, as well as those of Michael Moore, Al Franken, and William Rivers Pitt, fall by the wayside. Their opinions and statements are totally irrelevant. They support what is only the most evil and immoral aspect of American life: politics.
Politics will not fix a flat tire. Politics will not feed and clothe a hungry child. Politics doesn't protect human life it usually serves to do just the opposite. Politics and its government institutions offer absolutely nothing useful to the sustenance of human life it only takes away from God's precious gift. The only value MSM political and statist whores focus on is the speechmaking and speaking capabilities of politicians. They never take lying politicians to task requiring them to follow through on either their promises or oaths of office. Political campaigns are just another way of separating hardworking Americans from their wealth and the fruits of their labors by transferring tax dollars into campaign payoffs to the MSM's Masters; the latter grow rich via the lies, falsehoods, criminal activities and mass murders orchestrated by our criminal political ruling class and their evil destructive governments.
It is the corporate establishment mainstream media that makes political crimes either acceptable or allows them to go completely unnoticed. It is the MSM that is destroying America. And if the Masters of the Media start to recognize that they are losing the ability to bullshit the American people en masse, you can readily assume that these eight gangsters will do whatever is necessary to bring the alternative media in line with their globalists New World Order agenda. Control of the Internet is definitely on their radar screen. Look at what the Internet has already done to retard and obstruct the Bush/GOP agenda to sell America out to the New World Order.
But if the Masters of the Media destroy the Internet, computer-based publishers and other non-professional journalists will again start printing and handing out newsletters and pamphlets think of Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin. Our nation was launched by a pamphlet I see it being saved by secretly distributed and circulated pamphlets and newsletters. The truth has always been more powerful then any tyrant and his blue, brown or black-shirted goons and thugs and their badges, uniforms, arm bands and guns. Every dictatorship in human history has been brought down, either non-violently or via the brute force of the people. Considering the terror-based people control that Democrat and Republican partisans both are increasingly subscribing to, there will indeed be a forceful overthrow of our criminal and tyrannical despotic American political State. And I am hoping it will happen in my lifetime!
Theodore E. Lang
THEODORE E. LANG 11/30/05 All rights reserved
Ted Lang is a political analyst and freelance writer.
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Baron Vitelius of Astara is about to have a bad day, though you wouldn't know it by the smug look on his face as he's being tried by a Spanish Inquisition for witchcraft, necromancy and assorted wrongness in 1661. If convicted – and it's pretty much a slam dunk by the black hooded tribunal who only speak in sub-titles – Baron Von Smirky Smirk is gonna be the featured attraction at a good old fashioned witch burning.
Before he can do his impression of a S'more, a 300 year cycle comet suddenly appears overhead, and the BBQ Baron swears to the sparky meteor that he will return in 300 years (as when the comet does its round trip) to exact revenge on all his accusers' descendants. (He's lucky no one is gay so he can return from the dead and make kill happen to all of the above.) Thus is the gripping beginning of 1962's Spanish horror camp classic, The Brainiac (aka, Baron of Terror).
Sure as the morning wood rises, 300 years to the day the comet crashes the party and Baron Vitelius is hitching a ride. A fragment breaks off and gently lands on the ground and turns into the Baron, who in turn transforms into a human-sized demon fly-headed creature with a pointy tongue that would make Gene Simmons turn clown white with envy. Time for some tongue-lashing retribution.
Posing as a foreign dignitary, in human form he lures the descendants into flame-y deaths, which are preceded by Baron Von Fly Face sticking his 18-inch tongue out and sucking out the brains of his victims through the back of their necks. Then he sets fire to the surroundings, charring the evidence.
As the Baron he's smooth, smokes cigarettes like they were medicine, eats those aforementioned unrefrigerated raw brains from an ornate bowl with a dessert spoon, and makes out with chicks – all with sparse dialogue. (Actions speak louder than words when it comes to smooth smooching.) He can also make his face brighten and darken, like an open/close sign on a tavern, which wide-eye hypnotizes his kills into standing still while he changes into the monster and sucks them dry.
Better still is when the Baron, in creature form, breathes – his head expands and contracts like a paint-huffing paper bag. And his fingers turn into two claw-esque tubes that he softly clacks together as if pinching a marshmallow to death.
Two detective are onto the clues and corner Baron Von Suck Suck. His fate, like shampooing and rinsing, repeats itself with the cops showing up with scuba tank sized flame throwers. The Brainiac is loaded with hilariously interpreted dialogue ("You are guilty of clumsy and illegal practices…") and tension-less drama. But it's the monster with the expanding and contracting head and that rock star quality tongue that makes this one a classic keeper.

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If fabric stores had a 10 Most Dangerous Fugitives list like the F.B.I., my face would be plastered all over them. The irony? I'm not crafty in the slightest. Every time I have to go to one of these stores, it's under duress from the PTO president to pick up supplies for the class party or from my church (like today) to buy things for a project for the teen girl's group. So not only do I have to figure out what type of fabric 15-year-old girls think is cool these days (Are animal prints still in?), but I have to deal with my children. I don't know what it is, but something about a crafty paradise sends my kids from erratically bad-tempered to full-on tantrums. Today, the Andersen family outdid themselves with my 19-month-old daughter discovering her terrible twos early and my 4-year-old son going ballistic when I refused to buy him a dog toy that looks like a roadkill raccoon.
It's the mother of all mom quandaries: What do you do with a child throwing a tantrum in a public place?
A parent's first option—and the one preferred by the general public—is to immediately take the child outside. As Dr. Phil during his Oprah days explains, even if you have a full cart of groceries, just leave it, take the child and walk out. I have two questions for Dr. Phil: 1. Doesn't that teach the child that by throwing a fit they get what they want (i.e. to leave)? and 2. When can I do my grocery shopping? If I left the store every time one of my four kids threw a fit over something, the pantry would be completely bare. (And with a husband who works full time and is in graduate school, leaving them at home is not usually an option.)
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Option number two is to try and talk your kid down. Dr. Harvey Karp, also on Oprah (I'm sensing a theme here), tells parents they can keep their kids in the store or restaurant, but to talk to them on their level. "If your child is screaming because you took away the lipstick he was using as a crayon, passionately echo his feelings by saying, "You want! YOU want!!! You want it nowwww!! You want! YOU want!! You want it nowwww!!" Notice the repetition, the short phrasing and the way the sentence builds up to the final emphasized word. You should be energetic, but never shouting." My preschooler was definitely intrigued by this approach, but when he realized he still wasn't getting what he wanted, he went right back to shrieking.
The third option is to stay in the store and completely ignore them. Dr. Sears advises, "You send a clear message when you ignore his fits or walk away. This teaches him that tantrums are not acceptable. This is part of toddler discipline." He adds reassuringly,"You are neither responsible for his tantrums nor for stopping them. The 'goodness' of your baby is not a reflection on your parenting ability. Tantrums are common when a baby starts to strive for independence." Personally, I like this option as the more upset my children get, the calmer I get (I know, it's weird), so it doesn't bother me a bit to finish up my shopping with a hysterical kid on one hip. But I know it sure bothers everyone around me, so I don't know how I feel about this one either.
Whether you decide to leave or stay, Dr. Sears adds that parents should prepare for the next time by identifying the trigger, empathizing with their child's feelings and above all else, stay cool-headed yourself.
Charlotte Hilton Andersen is the author of the new book The Great Fitness Experiment: One Year of Trying Everything and writes the blog of the same name.


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i shot with heather gildroy (this shoot in a cemetery in paris caught my eye) two weeks ago and it was a blast. she scouted this beautiful house with lush trees and so much charm. here was some of my inspiration for this first look…
i saw this bright orange tulle skirt in shareen vintage and knew it had to be mine. i normally like to pair my fancier skirts with casual tank tops so it's not overboard girly.
this month i teamed up with elva fields to design a one-of-a-kind necklace. (see our process here!) it ended up being bright yellow with a sparkled heart brooch. predictable? yes. but i love it anyways.
now that you have seen my choices, what would you wear to a summer soirée? if you would like, you can get a very similar look with these lovely items below!
shop: 1. American Apparel tank, 2. Elva Fields necklace, 3. D&G tulle skirt, 4. Dolce Vita shoes
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28 April 2004
The shock move follows the decision last week by the head of the US occupation authority in Iraq, Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, to lift the ban on former members of Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath party holding government jobs. Thousands of former Ba'athists are expected to return to work as civil servants, schoolteachers and police. Iraq's US appointed defence minister even reappointed three of Saddam's former generals to top posts in the new Iraqi army.Richard Snarle, of the think-tank, The Center for Wild-Eyed Schemes of World Domination, one of the strong backers of the Iraq war, denounced the move to restore Saddam, saying that it undermined the US goal of bringing freedom, democracy and Wal-Mart to the Iraqi people.
But Bremer offered a robust defense, saying, "Not every dictator is a bad person. Some dictators only behave badly so they can get a job on the CIA payroll. Saddam is just such a dictator. There are many others too. Right now we employ Musharraf in Pakistan." Bremer added, "People like Mr. Hussein have a great deal of experience in running Iraq. They possess a lot of valuable local knowledge, like for example, how to speak Arabic. In the new Iraq, everyone must have a role in pulling together and building for the future."
Saddam, who appeared neatly turned out in the blue uniform of the US-created Iraqi Civil Defense Force, told reporters that he looked forward to working with the United States to build a new and better Iraq. "For many years now, we have been estranged," Saddam said, "but now we must put our minor disagreements behind us, and go back to the positive relations we had in the past."


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Understanding the Origin of Delphix Date and Timestamps (KBA1107)
Dates and Timestamps
Date and timestamps appear in several places within the Graphical User Interface (GUI) and the Command Line Interface (CLI). This article provides information on the origin of these timestamps, why they were chosen, and their configurability.
Time and date data is sourced from three areas within a Delphix ecosystem:
- Browser time
- Source database
- Delphix Engine
Time and date information via the CLI
Time and date stamps are presented as UTC within the CLI.
There is no conversion to a configurable locale as is the case with time and date information presented in the Graphical User Interface. UTC as expressed in the CLI is ultimately dependent on either the NTP (Network Time Protocol) configuration or based on the timing provided during installation.
Time and date information via the GUI
Browser time
For users and administrators running the User Interface (UI) on local systems, the time and date stamp local to their own computer is visible when viewing metrics covering audits, events, capacity, network, disk, CPU and memory.
Configurable: Yes, from local computer.
- System > Audit
- System > Event Viewer
- Resources > Performance Analytics
Source database
The merit in keeping a separate source database date and time relates primarily to the fact that the Delphix Engine must cover more than one database source. As it is not unusual for different source databases to be located in different physical time zones, differentiation on this basis is required. Tracking objects such as snapshots in the database source local time is logical and functionally desirable for many customers.
Configurable: Yes, from the source host.
- dSource and VDB timeflow cards, which are created and displayed after each successful snapshot against a source.
- Snapshot policies displayed within the Graphical User Interface (GUI) are run based on the timezone of the source database.
Delphix Engine
The time and date stamp is an important setting included within the Delphix system locale as it provides one source of timing visible to users. Delphix Engine time and date stamps are exposed to users to track events directly tied to the Engine itself, for example the timing of a job or throwing of a fault.
Configurable: Yes, on the Delphix Engine as the sysadmin user.
- Manage > Dashboard: Job History
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Uncovering The Science Behind Zapping Bacteria With Ultraviolet Light
In the perennial clash between man and microbe, ultraviolet light has emerged as one of man's powerful tools against many pathogens. Although ultraviolet light can wipe out several germs, the exact mechanisms that orchestrate the radiation's damaging action have long been elusive.
In the September issue of PNAS, Texas A&M University researchers have reported that ultraviolet radiation creates holes in the microbes' outer protective sheath by dislodging tryptophan — a molecule that is an important component of the bacteria's outer covering. The researchers said that these holes provide gateways for ultraviolet radiation to go into the bacteria and disrupt its DNA, which then stops the microbes from replicating.
"Our study provides the science behind the germicidal action of ultraviolet light," said Dr. Peter Rentzepis, TEES Eminent Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a member of the National Academy of Science. "We'd like to use this knowledge to develop better ways to monitor bacteria inactivation in various settings, including the food industry and health care."
Ultraviolet light is a highly energetic beam of radiation that has been harnessed for a variety of applications ranging from food contamination prevention to infection control. Although ultraviolet radiation has been used for over five decades to kill bacteria, the means by which it enters microorganisms and then accesses their genetic material has not been clear.
To reach the interior of the bacterium, where the DNA-containing nucleus is located, ultraviolet radiation must pass through an outer layer surrounding the microbe, called the cell membrane. Attached to this membrane are tryptophan molecules. Although tryptophan is popularly known for its sleep-promoting effects in humans, in bacteria, tryptophan anchors proteins made within the microbes onto the cell membrane. Consequently, the bacterial outer covering is studded with tryptophan molecules.
Also, unlike most other biological molecules, tryptophan interacts with ultraviolet light. When hit by ultraviolet light, tryptophan molecules absorb the radiation and get energized, and when they lose this absorbed energy, they reemit a much weaker ultraviolet light, dubbed fluorescent light. Rentzepis and his team investigated if these ultraviolet light-tryptophan interactions played a role in killing bacteria.
For their experiments, the Texas A&M team looked at the fluorescent light emitted by tryptophan molecules in Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis bacteria after shining a beam of ultraviolet radiation on them. As expected, they found that at the end of radiation, which typically lasted several minutes, the fluorescent light emitted by the tryptophan molecules was drastically reduced, indicating that the radiation was killing the bacteria. However, to their surprise, this decreased fluorescent light came after an initial increase, immediately after the radiation was turned on.
"The surge of the emitted ultraviolet light just after the radiation onset made us suspect that changes happening to tryptophan molecules before they are ultimately destroyed by ultraviolet light may be involved in how radiation gets into the bacteria," said Rentzepis.
Past studies have shown that when hit by ultraviolet light, protein molecules that are normally wound up in complicated shapes unfold and, as a result, expose tryptophan. Rentzepis' research group's findings suggest that in bacteria, ultraviolet light might unfold membrane proteins and detach tryptophan molecules, which may then cause the initial increase in the emitted light signal. With tryptophan plucked out of the cell membrane, the space left behind forms gaping holes for the ultraviolet light to enter and damage DNA, he said.
While the general profile of emitted light is similar for different strains of bacteria, Rentzepis noted that there are subtle differences that are unique to each species, and keeping track of these differences might help in identifying and cataloging different species of bacteria.
Rentzepis and his team have also developed and patented the technology for a handheld device that can collect emitted light from bacteria during irradiation. "Bacterial invasion can happen in different contexts, from food processing centers to operation theaters," he said. "But we now have both the science and technology to address these real-world problems since we have a grip on the biological basis behind ultraviolet-induced bacteria inactivation and an instrument that can, within minutes and in situ, determine how many bacteria are dead after radiation."
Other contributors to the research include Dr. Runze Li and Dinesh Dhankhar, Anushka Nagpal and Arjun Krishnamoorthi from the Texas A&M Department of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Dr. Maria King from the Texas A&M Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering; Dr. Jie Chen from Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology and Dr. Thomas C. Cesario from University of California at Irvine's School of Medicine.
This work was supported, in part, by the Welch Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station funds.


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This year, I've partnered with The Home Depot to participate in the Holiday Style Challenge 2018. One of my favorite spaces to decorate is my front entry way throughout the seasons. Here's a peek at my DIY Over sized Christmas Door Wreath.
Small touches can make huge impact in your outdoor space. Something as simple as a festive door mat can make a difference.
Here's one of two LED Standing Deer that will go into the space.
Ribbon galore…. the selection of Dazzle Ribbon was is just amazing. So many styles and colors to choose from. My eyes went straight to red.
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Can Immigration Help Shore-Up Our Social Security Retirement System?
A paper by the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) provides intriguing insights into the role of immigration on our Social Security retirement system. [See "America's Demographic Challenge: Understanding the Role of Immigration," Aug. 2017, by Kenneth Megan and Theresa Cardinal Brown].
The U.S. population has been aging rapidly the past few decades, due mainly to declining fertility rates and increasing life expectancies, a trend that is expected to continue. This demographic shift has placed a strain on our Social Security retirement system because the Social Security trust fund is financed by workers' payroll taxes, but an ever smaller pool of workers is paying into the fund to finance a growing number of retirees. The solvency of the trust fund depends on having enough workers to support the current population of Social Security retirees. Projections indicate that, absent changes to the system and other policy changes, the Social Security trust fund will be depleted by 2034, requiring immediate and drastic benefit cuts.
The authors of the BPC paper posit that immigration can help boost the solvency of the Social Security trust fund because immigrants tend to be of working aging when they move to the United States and are more likely to be employed than their American-born counterparts, in part because many are highly educated and/or entrepreneurs. Having more workers paying into the Social Security trust fund relative to the number of retirees extends the trust fund's solvency.
Even undocumented immigration may have a positive impact on the trust fund's insolvency because, although many undocumented workers pay into the system, they are ineligible to collect Social Security benefits. According to estimates from the Social Security Administration, in 2010, $12 BILLION more was collected from undocumented workers' payroll taxes than were paid out in benefits. While immigration alone is insufficient to solve Social Security's long-term solvency problems, the BPC authors believe that, without immigration, more payroll taxes and/or larger benefit cuts (or both) would be needed-and sooner. So, the next time you're pondering the immigration issues, you might want to consider this bipartisan perspective.
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A "silent" session of the Sejm was held here on the night of September 24, 1793 in which the act of the Second Partition of Poland was passed, and November 25, 1795 saw the abdication of the last king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Stanisław August Poniatowski.
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RALEIGH — Support for moving the State Bureau of Investigation under the governor's control solidified Tuesday, as the proposal picked up support in the House and an administration official assured that the integrity of public corruption cases could be protected.
A key budget-writer said that the House spending plan would reflect the Senate's budget provision taking the SBI out of Attorney General Roy Cooper's justice department and putting it in Gov. Pat McCrory's Department of Public Safety.
Rep. Leo Daughtry, a Republican from Smithfield who is a co-chairman of the House budget committee on justice and public safety, said members drafting the House budget wanted to be sure the SBI would remain independent. Putting in place a director who is chosen by the governor and approved by the General Assembly for an eight-year term, as the Senate recommends, satisfies that concern, he said.
McCrory told reporters on Tuesday that Frank Perry, secretary of the Department of Public Safety, supports the move, and the two plan to meet soon to discuss it in detail.
"He is strongly recommending consolidation of those resources to me," McCrory said.
Perry is a retired FBI agent who directed investigations at the state auditor's office, worked with the state Ethics Commission, and was director of investigations and public affairs for a public ethics foundation he helped form.
In a phone interview Tuesday, Perry said the move reflects the direction law enforcement is headed nationally: consolidating in order to share intelligence quickly in a post-9/11 world, adding that he is the designated U.S. Homeland Security adviser for North Carolina. Perry said the two previous administrations considered the move during an era of Democratic rule, and that 41 other states have similar arrangements.
He said the SBI would still pursue the kinds of cases it does now: crimes against children, cybercrime, arson, theft of state property, and assist local agencies. In public corruption investigations initiated at the request of local district attorneys, Perry said, it makes sense for the attorney general to still oversee those cases, along with the U.S. Attorney's Office, through its special unit of prosecutors who assist district attorneys or replace them if they have been recused.
"I would welcome that scrutiny," Perry said.
He said he favors the idea of a director appointed by the governor for a long term, and who can only be removed for drastic reasons. He said it was similar to how the FBI is structured. "That would take a lot away from the argument that it is a political move," Perry said.
Cooper opposes the move, saying it would make the SBI less independent. A number of prosecutors and the N.C. Sheriffs' Association are also opposed to moving the agency out of the Department of Justice.
"There's still time for both the full House and the Governor to support the wishes of law enforcement across North Carolina and stop this move," Cooper's spokewoman, Noelle Talley, said Tuesday. "The timing of this sudden shift jeopardizes the integrity of ongoing public corruption investigations."
The proposed move has raised concerns that it is politically motivated because it would shift the state's premiere investigatory force, the State Crime Lab and 638 employees out from under a Democratic attorney general to a Republican governor – both of whom could face each other in a gubernatorial campaign in 2016.
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The Clan Napier Society (CNS) came into existence at a meeting of Napiers and Napier descendants on Saturday 29 June 1999 held in Merchiston Tower by kind permission of the Principal of Napier University. What better place to hold an inaugural meeting!
The CNS was created primarily for those Napiers and Napier descendants who live in Scotland, the rest of the UK, and other parts of the world, except North America (USA and Canada). An organisation for Napiers who live in Continental North America, the Clan Napier in North America (CNNA), has existed since 1985 and has many members. There is a close association between the CNS and the CNNA and they work to the mutual benefit of each other's members.
Since the inception of the CNS, contact has been made with Napiers and Napier descendants from all over the world. Although the core of CNS membership lives in Scotland, quite a few members live in England and Wales as well as overseas, as far away as Australia, South Africa and New Zealand.
The CNS holds its Annual General Meeting in June of each year, as near the anniversary of the inaugural meeting as possible, and another General Meeting in November. Two issues of the Society newsletter The Napier Log are produced each year, generally in May and October.
The aims of the Clan Napier Society, as stated in its Constitution, are:
- To promote and strengthen a mutual interest and fellowship between all persons bearing the name Napier, or one of its derivatives, their relatives, and anyone interested in the Clan Napier, no matter where in the world they live;
- To research, collect, document, preserve and record, the history, records, relics and traditions of the Clan Napier and its members, for their mutual benefit;
- To assist Members research their genealogies and to collect and preserve those genealogies for the mutual benefit of the Members of the Society;
- To encourage links between Members of the Clan Napier and educational institutions, for the mutual benefit of both;
- To encourage Members of the Clan Napier living outwith the UK to form sister societies in their own countries;
- To publicize the existence of the Society wherever possible, such as attendance at Highland Games or similar organized meetings and gatherings.
There are two classes of membership:
- Regular Membership is open to all persons, no matter what colour, class, creed or nationality, who bear the surname Napier, or one of its derivatives, or can show descent from a person bearing one of these names.
- Associate Membership is open to all persons, no matter what colour, class, creed, or nationality, who do not qualify for Regular Membership but who demonstrate an interest in furthering the aims of the Society.
Anyone interested in joining the Clan Napier Society should contact us.
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This week was a little heavier (as far as distance is concerned) as we approach the Hot Chocolate 15K. As I mentioned, I have some goals but nothing lofty. I am expecting to come in at my B goal when all is said and done. I have to cut myself some slack; I had a baby (and surgery) 10 weeks ago! If I can manage that 10:00 pace in that amount of time, the next few seasons are going to prove very promising. PR city soon, I hope!
Monday: I set out to do 11 but knew as soon as I arrived at the park that I only had time for 10. Went really easy, 4:1 intervals, averaged 10:45 overall.
Tuesday: Hardcore Spin with Aimee. An hour long class, but I opted to skip the ab workout at the end. The instructor probably was thinking, "Lady, you need to do abs!" I started to launch into WHY I wasn't going to do it, but then thought I didn't need to explain myself. Either way, we deserved the delicious crepes we had afterward!
Wednesday: Off
Thursday: 4 miles easy, 10:30 pace.
Friday: 3 miles tempo, 9:37 pace. I realize that 9 miles is terribly different from 3 miles, but if I can grab onto anything close to this pace at the 15K without burning out, well that would just put a huge smile on my face!
Saturday: 10.25 miles easy with my friend Kim at the Team in Training practice. She just ran her first marathon, at Houston, two weeks ago! What a rockstar! We kept it at 5:1 intervals and I felt great today, so we did it right.
Here we are at mile 6.5.
With my coach, Liz!
Sunday: Had plans of riding 40 miles on the IMTX course, but Mother Nature shut that down with the rain. Joanna and I did a two hour trainer ride instead – check out our sweet setup. I'm proud of us, the trainer sucks!
Aero bottle selfie – YIKES.
First comeback race is less than a week away! I can't wait!
Disclaimer: I am not a fitness or health expert. This training plan was designed for me only and is not meant to be followed by others!


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We only provide support for the fallbacks delivered through the Abinit Website. If you modify them, we suppose that you know what you are doing and are a sufficiently skilled programmer to solve most issues by yourself. We may be able to help you to a limited extent, but you have to remember that we are developers of Abinit, NOT of its fallbacks. An infinitely better way to address your issues will be to collaborate directly with the developers of the relevant projects. Some of us can however send you a quote if working with Abinit developers is mandatory for you.
In order to be able to modify the Abinit Fallbacks, you need at least the following skill set:
Unless you are an Abinit Developer, we will not provide any support regarding these topics, which are widely documented on many websites. Wikipedia is a good starting point.
The best way to make the fallbacks evolve towards a direction useful to you is to join the Abinit Project.
By joining the team, you commit to:
In exchange, you will receive help, training and collaboration from other Abinit Developers with all the issues you may encounter.
Please note that if you do not join the team, you will have to maintain your modified versions of the fallbacks on your own, including synchronization with the trunk.
In order to be integrated into the fallbacks, a package has to follow a minimum set of coding standards:
In particular, at no time may the Abinit Fallbacks be considered as a substitute for the distribution of undocumented and untested low-quality code with support to be delegated to the Abinit Developers. And since the Abinit Test Farm will be used for the validation of its portability, adopting a design strategy oriented towards portability and interoperability will greatly ease the integration of your package with the already existing fallbacks.
Another important aspect is that a package integrated within the Abinit Fallbacks must always remain available as a fully autonomous and stand-alone package at the same time. In other words, the Abinit Fallbacks cannot substitute the normal distribution of a package, even if it comes out of Abinit. Many mature and reliable services such as Gitlab and GitHub make it extremely easy to distribute free software and provide much broader services than a ad-hoc simplified embedding system could ever do.
Last but not least, the package must follow some conventions when installing files:
where PREFIX is the top install directory of the package. These conditions are usually fulfilled when using standard build systems.
There is a standard procedure to improve the Abinit Fallbacks. It involves different levels of validation and may take a significant amount of time before the new fallbacks are fully deployed. Please expect significant delays and be prepared to contribute with the Test Farm Team all along the process. Once a new package has been successfully installed, providing newer versions is relatively faster.
Please note that you have first to request an Abinit Fallbacks repository access to the Test Farm Team before starting to contribute to the fallbacks.
Here are the different steps:
Please note that this full procedure has to be performed for any of the modifications described in the sections below.
To update the version of a package, the only required modification in the fallbacks source tree is to update the self-documented ~fallbacks/config/specs/fallbacks.conf file:
For more information, please read the instructions contained in the file itself.
The more important steps to take are:
All these steps should of course be taken as early as possible, in order to make the changes as smooth as possible for everybody. Ideally, informing and coordinating should be done when starting the project or its next development cycle, with an early reminder as the release date approaches.
The most valuable service the Abinit Fallbacks provide to the users of Abinit comes through portability tricks. Every fallback must have them. These tricks are located in M4 macros, one for each package, in the following file:
Let us have a detailed look at one of the historical macros:
# AFB_TRICKS_ETSF_IO(FC_VENDOR,FC_VERSION) # ---------------------------------------- # # Applies tricks and workarounds to have the ETSF I/O library correctly # linked to the binaries. # AC_DEFUN([AFB_TRICKS_ETSF_IO],[ dnl Do some sanity checking of the arguments m4_if([$1], , [AC_FATAL([$0: missing argument 1])])dnl m4_if([$2], , [AC_FATAL([$0: missing argument 2])])dnl dnl Init afb_etsf_io_tricks="no" afb_etsf_io_tricky_vars="" tmp_etsf_io_num_tricks=2 tmp_etsf_io_cnt_tricks=0 dnl Configure tricks if test "${afb_etsf_io_cfgflags_custom}" = "no"; then AC_MSG_NOTICE([applying ETSF_IO tricks (vendor: $1, version: $2, flags: config)]) dnl NetCDF tmpflags_etsf_io='--with-netcdf-incs="$(afb_netcdf_incs)"' CFGFLAGS_ETSF_IO="${CFGFLAGS_ETSF_IO} ${tmpflags_etsf_io}" tmpflags_etsf_io='--with-netcdf-libs="$(afb_netcdf_libs)"' CFGFLAGS_ETSF_IO="${CFGFLAGS_ETSF_IO} ${tmpflags_etsf_io}" dnl Internal ETSF_IO parameters tmpflags_etsf_io='--with-moduledir="$(prefix)/include"' CFGFLAGS_ETSF_IO="${CFGFLAGS_ETSF_IO} ${tmpflags_etsf_io}" dnl Finish tmp_etsf_io_cnt_tricks=`expr ${tmp_etsf_io_cnt_tricks} \+ 1` afb_etsf_io_tricky_vars="${afb_etsf_io_tricky_vars} CFGFLAGS" unset tmpflags_etsf_io else AC_MSG_NOTICE([CFGFLAGS_ETSF_IO set => skipping ETSF_IO config tricks]) fi dnl Fortran tricks if test "${afb_etsf_io_fcflags_custom}" = "no"; then AC_MSG_NOTICE([applying ETSF_IO tricks (vendor: $1, version: $2, flags: Fortran)]) case "$1" in ibm) FCFLAGS_ETSF_IO="${FCFLAGS_ETSF_IO} -qsuffix=cpp=f90:f=f" ;; esac dnl Finish tmp_etsf_io_cnt_tricks=`expr ${tmp_etsf_io_cnt_tricks} \+ 1` afb_etsf_io_tricky_vars="${afb_etsf_io_tricky_vars} FCFLAGS" else AC_MSG_NOTICE([FCFLAGS_ETSF_IO set => skipping ETSF_IO Fortran tricks]) fi dnl Count applied tricks case "${tmp_etsf_io_cnt_tricks}" in 0) afb_etsf_io_tricks="no" ;; ${tmp_etsf_io_num_tricks}) afb_etsf_io_tricks="yes" ;; *) afb_etsf_io_tricks="partial" ;; esac unset tmp_etsf_io_cnt_tricks unset tmp_etsf_io_num_tricks ]) # AFB_TRICKS_ETSF_IO
Each macro is named "AFB_TRICKS_PACKAGE", where PACKAGE is the upper-case name of the package, with possible spaces replaced by underscores. It expects 2 arguments, provided automatically by the build system of the fallbacks:
These arguments are automatically provided to the macro and respectively available under the $1 and $2 variables.
After a short section dedicated to initialization, the macro applies portability tricks in a strictly categorized manner and counts them one by one. Global variables used by other M4 macros and the configure script are prefixed with afb_, while variables internal to the macro are prefixed with tmp_. Two important variables must be defined there: tmp_package_num_tricks, which tells how many tricks have to be applied for the tricks to be complete, and tmp_package_cnt_tricks, set to 0, which counts how many tricks have been applied so far. They are instrumental in letting the user know whether some custom flags have been provided and quite drastically reduce user support requests due to wrongly set environment variables. To complement the information, the afb_package_tricky_flags variable lists the flags that have been enhanced by the tricks.
The tricks are categorized using the different stages of a typical build. For each category, a specific set of build flags is set. The following table summarizes the categories of tricks and associated flags:
|Build stage
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|C preprocessing
|C compiling
|Fortran preprocessing
|Fortran compiling
|Link flags
|Library flags
where PACKAGE is replaced by the upper-case name of the package, just as for the name of the macro. The tmp_package_num_tricks variable must be set to the number of lines in this table used within the macro.
For each category, the tricks can be applied only if the user has not provided custom flags. This is why each sequence of instructions starts with:
if test "${afb_package_someflags_custom}" = "no"; then
where someflags is replaced by the lower-case version of the flag type referenced in the above table. The afb_package_someflags_custom variables are set and provided by other macros. Please always remember that the priority is to inform the user, which is why all sections start with a AC_MSG_NOTICE telling what they will do and have a else part telling the user that the tricks have not been applied. Before the else, the trick counter is incremented by one in a shell-portable manner.
Be careful to always close the if block with a fi when adding such a section and test modifications to the macro as incrementally as possible, since errors of this kind are usually difficult to diagnose when running the configure script.
If the package has dependencies among the other fallbacks, they will be referenced through the Makefile variables in the configure part of the tricks. Here, since ETSF_IO depends on NetCDF, it has to be linked against NetCDF libraries which can either be external or provided by the fallbacks. This is why this information is transmitted through variables the setting is taken care of by other macros (afb_netcdf_incs and afb_netcdf_libs here). Please note that, since we reference Makefile variables from a shell script, they have to be both double-quoted and single-quoted, in order not to be interpreted.
The recommended way to apply the Fortran tricks is to use a case … esac block on the Fortran compiler vendor when necessary (first macro argument), with possibly another nested case … esac on the Fortran compiler version (second macro argument).
The best practice is to unset all internal variables of the macro just before returning.
If you wish to add a tricks macro for a new package, we recommend that you copy/paste the closest existing macro, automatically replace the package name in the new macro (both upper-case and lower-case), and modify the code to match the needs of the new package. Please place the new macro in the file following alphabetical order.
Removing a package from the Abinit Fallbacks is always good news, since it means that the package has reached a sufficient maturity and popularity to be distributed with common operating systems, or that dead code has been removed from Abinit.
The operation is very simple:
In principle, the extremely automated build system of the fallbacks should take care of updating all the relevant information when running ./quicktests.sh. If you encounter issues unrelated to the deleted package, please contact the fallbacks developers team as soon as possible.
The Abinit Fallbacks have never been designed to replace the work of a skilled system administrator and will completely loose their stability, portability, and genericity, if the dependencies expand over more than 2 levels. This is why all enhancements introducing 3 levels of dependencies between some packages will systematically be refused. Thank you in advance for your understanding.
Adding a new package to the Abinit Fallbacks is never recommended, since they should ideally only be used temporarily for the integration into Abinit of new features depending on fully stand-alone external packages, removing the fallback once the solution is deployed and working. Focusing directly the efforts on the availability and usability of the external package will always repay infinitely better than spending time tuning the parameters of a transient crappy embedder.
If you however still wish to add a new package to the fallbacks, the following information is of extreme importance. Since adding a new package will always bring a lot of ripples and side-effects to various components of Abinit, it must always be prepared with a lot of care and as early as possible. In particular, please always check that the following persons are duly informed and given the opportunity to provide feedback before starting:
They will provide you with useful guidance, as well as helpful information about the delays you can expect. Please always remember that there are permanently many ongoing projects within Abinit, above all when a new major release of Abinit is scheduled. Patience and dialogue will always bring many more positive outcomes than you could ever expect. In the process, you may be asked to take over a certain number of tasks that were previously performed by other persons. Please make sure that you (or someone else) will be able to reliably take care of them.
Regarding the fallbacks themselves, the only changes you need to perform are very similar to those described in the "Updating the version of a package" and "Improving the portability of a package" sections, except that, this time, you will respectively add a section and a macro in the files instead of changing them. Please follow the alphabetical order to select the positions of the new blocks in the files, in order to facilitate the work of the other developers and maintainers.
Once you have provided the required enhancements, the extremely automated build system of the fallbacks should take care of the rest by itself when running ./quicktests.sh from the top source directory. If you encounter issues unrelated with the new package, please contact the fallbacks maintainers as soon as possible.
Patching the source code of a package should be avoided at all costs. It is always infinitely better to report bugs and improve the package upstream than to produce special versions, since the latter prevents the users of Abinit from using the stand-alone pristine version of the package, depriving them at the same time of any means to correctly validate the package. Worse: if the pristine version is installed on the system, the probability of conflicts and/or inconsistencies is greatly amplified.
If, for some very good reasons (please note the plural), you really need to temporarily patch a package, just copy the patch file to ~/fallbacks/patches/package-version-index.patch, where you replace package by the package name, version by its version, and index by a four-digit number starting at 0001. The build system of the fallbacks will automatically take care of registering the patches and applying them sequentially to the package source just before configuring it.
In any case, if you feel the need for a more sophisticated patching mechanism, then it just means that you forgot that what you actually want is to collaborate with the upstream developers of the package to fix its bugs and improve its design.


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The only part of this recipe where measure matters is for the rice and even there I haven't found the need to be too precise. Perfect rice is perfect for you: add more water, less water, more salt, oil, a bay leaf, a chopped onion. In time, you'll have a lot of perfect rice. I like baked brown rice— it turns out with a little more bite left to it. This also works well if you are roasting the asparagus since you can make double use of the heat your oven worked hard to get. I do try to make extra rice since it is so useful for so many things— even plain for a quick snack. But sometimes everyone is really hungry and the only thing left is a small prize of rice scrapings for whoever is cleaning the dishes. If you need to adapt this for a tiny kitchen, you can do the rice and salmon on a two burner stove and the asparagus in a toaster oven.
Asparagus options: If I am using medium to thick asparagus, I roast them. These seem to really like being roasted and will thank you with a smoky sweet flavor. If I have the thin asparagus, I trim their woody ends, leave them whole and drop them into boiling, salted water for two minutes at most and then run them under a bit of cold water and onto a kitchen towel. If you can't find asparagus, you could try broccoli or broccolini or any other greens.
Salmon options: I have been seeking out wild Sockeye, King, or Coho salmon because they have the deepest color. I'm not sure what goes on with farmed salmon, but they look like I do after a long winter—pale. Some even have 'natural' color added. What color was it before? I would rather have a smaller piece of a salmon that lived the salmon life. And here you don't need a big piece. I might try arctic char the next time.
Rice options: Instead of brown rice, you could use white rice, quinoa, couscous, or some sort of small pasta.
Sauce options: Greek yogurt has been finding its way into more of my cooking all the time, but I used to use mayonnaise and there are probably other things that would work well. Regular plain yogurt would be fine. The herbs could be anything: dill, tarragon, basil….
Time note: If you do the baked rice, it will take about 10 minutes to prep and boil the water and 50 minutes in the oven. Everything else will come together within that time. I usually manage to clean up the kitchen and check messages, email, etc. while things are cooking.
For this four person version, you'll need:
1/4 to 1/3 of a pound per person for the salmon
3 cups of medium grain brown rice
2 bunches of asparagus (should be around a pound)
1 plain Greek yogurt (small 5.3 oz.)
1/4 to a 1/3 cup each of finely chopped chives and parsley— save some chives or parsley to garnish.
2 tablespoons or so of lemon juice
Salt, ground pepper, olive or canola oil
Optional: sea salt flakes, fresh cracked pepper
Cooking Equipment I used:
Frying pan for salmon (I used a 12″ pan for four pieces of salmon)
13×18 sheet pan for the asparagus
Anchor Hocking 11 cup covered baking dish or 9×13 baking dish with foil to cover for the rice
4 cup Pyrex measuring cup for boiling water
Make sure there is room in the oven for the baking dish with the rice on the middle shelf and the baking sheet with the asparagus on the top rack and get the oven going at 375º.
Next, get the rice going.
• Mix 2 cups medium grain brown rice and 3/4 tsp table salt in the baking dish
• Bring 3 cups water to a boil in a pot or microwave in a four cup Pyrex measuring cup or other microwave safe bowl.
• Add the boiling water to the rice
• Stir in 1 tablespoon of canola olive oil
• Cover and bake for about 50 minutes.
Once the rice is in, put the bowls on the stove to warm up and cut up the asparagus. I usually cut them on the bias (just because I like the way they look and it doesn't take any more time here) in roughly 3 inch pieces. Discard (or compost) any really woody ends. Toss with a little olive oil. Spread on a baking sheet, sprinkle with sea salt flakes, and put them in the oven with the rice for the last half hour. When you take the rice out, you can broil them for a few minutes to get some nice brown spots.
Mix the Greek yogurt, or any plain yogurt or mayonnaise, with a handful of fresh minced chives and parsley. You can also try adding mint. Or maybe some tarragon could work. Squeeze in enough lemon juice to get the taste and consistency you like (I've been using around two tablespoons) and add a dash of salt and a little fresh ground pepper. Set it aside to let the flavor come together.
When the rice has about fifteen minutes left, set a pan or a griddle on the stove and let it get good and hot. Prepare your salmon: rinse, dry, remove any bones, season with a little table salt and ground or fresh cracked pepper. Sear the flesh side, turning after it releases from the pan and has a little crust to it; I don't find that I need any oil here, I just have to wait for the pan to let it go after a few minutes. Sear the other side a few minutes and let the skin crisp up, someone at the table will probably love a side dish of crispy salmon skins. Turn the heat down and let it finish cooking, anywhere from 3 to 5 minutes depending on how thick it is and how done you want it to be. Sneak a peek with a sharp knife if you're not sure. I always do this because I'm never sure. When the salmon is almost done, take out the rice and move the asparagus to the top rack and broil for a few minutes.
It's ready. Remove the skins from the salmon if you want. Or leave them on. Assemble your little bowl with as much or as little as you want. Top with a few chive batons if you're in the mood.
Notes: For olive oil, I use Columela or Nunez de Prado— they have a sort of spicy flavor, for sea salt flakes, I use Maldon, and for pepper, I use the Tellicherry variety. I use table salt for anything mixed in or cooked and save the sea salt flakes for finishing or roasting. Using these ingredients adds a little extra flavor to the dish and they're getting much easier to find now.
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On Saturday, Aug. 31, Bethlehem High School in Bardstown, Kentucky, honored Sharon Cecil, SCNA, as Alumnus of the Year at the annual Hall of Fame Awards Ceremony. This award is "given annually to an alumnus, living or deceased, who has contributed to his or her community and enriched lives around him or her. As a graduate of Bethlehem High School, his or her outstanding accomplishments bring distinction to the school and the strong foundation it fosters in young men and women."
Tom Hamilton, principal of Bethlehem High School, recognized Sharon for her years as an educator and the many ways she helps Bethlehem. He also recognized her volunteer service in the Bardstown community and her relationship as an SCN Associate. Sharon thanked the Bethlehem faculty, staff and students and especially her family, many of whom were there to support her.


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I wish I knew
Where to find
My words
I wish I knew
Where to find
My heart
I wish I knew
Where to find
Anything of me
Worth finding
I wish I Knew
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10 Thursday Dec 2015
I was once in a house in a city, continents, even an ocean away, and I felt more at home than home ever did. I know what you're wondering – what was this city?
And you see, that's exactly the wrong question. It didn't matter what house, what city, even what continent away.
No, the question is why home has never once, in all my life, felt like home.
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I'm lost
But that's a lie
Isn't it
The truth is
I know where I am
I just wish
This wasn't it
Is where I wish I was
Away from here
Away from anywhere
For as long
As I can remember
I've always been
Where I shouldn't
By my own hands
By hands not my own
Maybe it isn't
That I'm lost
Maybe it's that
I'm looking for you
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There is a certain gravity
A pull
Every time I look
Into her eyes
The world just seem to stop
Everything around me fades away
And my heart somehow manages
To both stop and beat harder
And then I see her lips
And I realize
That I will never be the same
A fundamental shift has occurred
All I can imagine
Is how it must feel
Those lips gently and tenderly
Wrapped up with mine
What it must be to get caught
In her beautiful gaze
Breathing her in
Before tasting her
And in those moments
When my heart
Both beats and doesn't
I get utterly and completely lost
Somewhere between
Her eyes and her lips


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African and global business leaders will gather for the Initiative for Global Development's Spring Frontier 100 Forum on May 13-14, in Nairobi, Kenya.
Under the theme, 'Engines of Growth: Powering African Companies to Create Employment and Accelerate Development,' the forum will focus on how African companies and multinational corporations can drive job creation and capitalise on today's business environment for growth.
The Initiative for Global Development (IGD) is a US-based organisation that engages an influential network of global business leaders in creating sustainable growth and poverty alleviation through strategic business investment.
The Frontier 100 Forum is an exclusive, invitation-only biannual event that convenes the IGD Frontier Leader Network, a network of CEOs and senior executives from the US, African, European and South Asian companies operating in Africa. More than half of IGD Frontier Leaders hail from the African continent.
"The African region is experiencing unprecedented economic growth and Africa's homegrown companies are at the center of that growth, creating more than 80 percent of jobs on the continent," said IGD's President & CEO, Dr. MimaNedelcovych.
"The Frontier 100 Forum will bring together global business leaders and leading economists to address how to advance economic growth to bolster employment opportunities through greater investments in growth sectors, industrialisation, as well as regional cooperation," he added.
The forum will open with an afternoon session on May 13, on trade promotion and facilitation.
The half-day session, Achieving Inclusive Growth through Greater Trade Opportunities, will uncover the details on how African companies can take full advantage of trade opportunities to boost their export potential and drive Africa's economic transformation.
The two-day forum was designed to encourage business leaders to offer insight, collaborate, and identify bold, action-oriented strategies to promote a business-driven development agenda on the African continent.
Forum sessions will range from strengthening Africa's private sector to fuel job creation, harnessing the current global business climate for growth, industrialisation and matching African companies with multinational corporations to build supply chains.
The Forum will also launch report findings from IGD reports, including work with the Rockefeller Foundation on the Yieldwise initiative to tackle post harvest loss and the summary of impact assessment with the Niger Delta Partnerships Initiative.
With the fast-growing working age population in Africa projected to increase by 70 per cent or about 793 million by 2030, according to the International LabourOrganisation (ILO), the Forum will address how to build a skilled workforce and absorb Africa's "youth bulge" to meet the needs of an expanding workforce.


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Tickets are selling fast for the 12th Annual Winter Festival of Wine at Sun Peaks Resort in the B.C. Interior. The Medal Winners Tasting is sold out already and there are only a handful of tickets left to the Varietal Showdown and Dinner, a brand new event on Tuesday, Jan. 19 featuring a wonderful collection of B.C. wines paired with a uniquely seasonal menu.
The expanded festival kicks off this Saturday with Wild Meats and Wild Wines, another new event for the 2010 festival. This event features an assortment of tribal-inspired regional wild game and fish paired with distinct B.C. wine varietals before dancing to live music.
New events are mixed in with old favourites, such as the Taste of Sun Peaks, Icewines & Nothing More, and the Sun Peaks Progressive Tasting, which features 20 wineries spread throughout the alpine village offering participants samples of their best varietals.
Event tickets start from $17 per person (for the Sun Peaks Wine and Dine) to $125 per person (Varietal Showdown and Dinner). "Whether guests consider themselves a wine connoisseur or just a wine rookie, there are an array of events available to satisfy every palette and budget," says Jen Barter, Resort Experience Manager at Tourism Sun Peaks.
For a full event schedule, ticket prices, packages and accommodation information, head to www.sunpeaksresort.com/winterwine or call 1-877-212-7107.


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Maybe I am too sensitive. I seem to remember hearing that growing up somewhat regularly. Even now, I can't say that I don't cherish the times that I am noticed or praised for who I am or for what I've done. It feels good. While this is part of our human nature, in reading the Saints writings, I see that I am invited into new vision and understanding about the "downer moments" of life.
While I'm not talking about staying in an unsafe situation, ordinary humiliations can be extra ordinary teachers for us on the path of holiness and mature living. When grace percolates through us from a real and personal relationship with Jesus, we become capable of beautiful growth. In a certain sense, we can lose a self focus to gain a docility to the Spirit that brings us and others through us, true life.
Venerable Concepcion Cabrera, "Conchita" who I have regularly read and wrote about for the almost twenty years wrote, "Humiliations in the autumn of the soul are indispensable for her to be happy; they constitute her food, her delight and her repose. she feels miserable and hungry when she is not given this bread. The unfavorable judgments of others no longer touch or move her, because she has experienced her deformity, has felt her weakness…she has contemplated herself a great deal through glasses that never lie, those of humility, being happy in her poverty and ever trying to submerge herself in the deepest forgetfulness of self, which is where the Beloved is found!" from Seasons of the Soul, p. 31.
While her language seems to be from another era, I'm not suggesting that we work to hate ourselves. I am inviting us to learn to welcome humiliations as opportunities to mature into fuller self forgetfulness and ability to love others. We always will encounter challenges at the hands of others for we are not in heaven yet. Maybe this Lent, in the course of ordinary living you could grow in real time holiness! ~ Mary Kaufmann, Director of Incarnate Institute.


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Design of cover and front matter for the North American edition of a comprehensive survey of the Los Angeles art scene from 1955 to 1985. The original book and accompanying exhibition were originated by the Pompidou Centre in Paris. The custom typeface is based on a LAICA Journal logo. Designed during a design fellowship at Chronicle Books.


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Via is targeting trucks as the light duty pickup trucks are the best selling vehicle in America. Some of their trucks offer the ability to export electric power at 110v and 240v to power tools. Fleets can receive up to $57,000 per vehicle as an incentive.
Key Fleet Customers include: Verizon, Coca Cola, Fedex, PG&E, Aaramark and many others.
Goto Viamotors.com/payback to determine how much an electric work vehicle can save you. Eight life cycle savings can be over $70,000. This is in addition to the zero emissions benefits!
Clean air and huge savings — sounds good to me!


text: Pokemon Cards Complete Jungle Set 64/64 Flareon Jolteon Mr. Complete Jungle collection 64/64 with varying conditions from (Lightly Played) LP- (EX/NM) condition! Most cards will be in the LP spectrum but will have some EX/NM & a few MP conditioned cards as well. All holos, uncommons, and commons included.All other cards are in NM Condition with a few in LP/EXC. Your item will be carefully packed and dispatched within 48 hours Mon. Please pay within 48 hours of ordering. The item "Pokemon Cards Complete Jungle Set 64/64 Flareon Jolteon Vaporeon LP-(EXC/NM)" is in sale since Wednesday, May 22, 2019. This item is in the category "Toys & Hobbies\Collectible Card Games\Pokémon Trading Card Game\Pokémon Complete Sets". The seller is "flor1dausa" and is located in Port Saint Lucie, Florida. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, Mexico.


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Blue Shield Won't Pay For Proton Cancer Treatment
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A major California health insurer says it won't pay for an expensive cancer treatment because there's no science to justify the price.
The Los Angeles Times says beginning in October, Blue Shield of California won't cover proton beam treatment for early-stage prostate cancer.
Blue Shield will continue to pay for the proton treatment of certain tumors in children.
The therapy can attack cancer cells and spare healthy tissue but many studies have found it's no more effective than older and cheaper alternatives.
Blue Shield says there's no justification for spending an additional $30,000 on the treatment.
Hospitals have rushing to build the proton facilities, with nearly 20 planned in cities nationwide. Currently only one exists in California -- at Loma Linda University Medical Center near San Bernardino.


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Funding for volunteer coaches
Download the file "Funding for TT coaches in Aberdeen area". This gives an indication of where funding may be available but the information will inevitably become out-of-date.
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