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Shell and initialization
Your batch script executes in a shell on a compute node. The environment is identical to what get when you connect to a login node except that you have access to all the resources requested by your job. By default, the script is executed using the same shell that you get when you log in (bash, tcsh, etc.). The appropriate "dot-files" (
.login ,
.profile ,
.cshrc ) will be executed, the same as when you log in. (For information on overriding the default shell, see the Job Scripts section.)
Execution begins in your home directory, regardless of what directory your script resides in or where you submitted the job from. You can use the
cd command to change to a different directory. The environment variable
$PBS_O_WORKDIR makes it easy to return to the directory from which you submitted the job:
cd $PBS_O_WORKDIR
There are dozens of software packages available on OSC's systems, many of them with multiple versions. You control what software is available in your environment by loading the module for the software you need. Each module sets certain environment variables required by the software.
If you are running software that was installed by OSC, you should check the software documentation page to find out what modules to load.
Several modules are automatically loaded for you when you login or start a batch script. These default modules include
- modules required by the batch system
- the Intel compiler suite
- an MPI package compatible with the default compiler (for parallel computing)
The module command has a number of subcommands. The most useful of these are documented here. For more details, type "
module help ".
Certain modules are incompatible with each other and should never be loaded at the same time. Examples are different versions of the same software or multiple installations of a library built with different compilers.
Note to those who build or install their own software: Be sure to load the same modules when you run your software that you had loaded when you built it, including the compiler module.
Each module has both a name and a software version number. When more than one version is available for the same name, one of them is designated as the default. For example, the following modules are available for the Intel compilers on Owens: (Note: The versions shown are out of date but the concept is the same.)
- intel/12.1.0 (default)
- intel/184.108.40.2069
If you specify just the name, it refers to the default version or the currently loaded version, depending on the context. If you want a different version, you must give the entire string. Examples are given below.
You can have only one compiler module loaded at a time, either intel, pgi, or gnu. The intel module is loaded initially; to change to pgi or gnu, do a
module swap (see example below).
Some software libraries have multiple installations built for use with different compilers. The module system will load the one compatible with the compiler you have loaded. If you swap compilers, all the compiler-dependent modules will also be swapped.
Special note to gnu compiler users: While the gnu compilers are always in your path, you should load the gnu compiler module to ensure you are linking to the correct library versions.
To list the modules you have loaded:
module list
To see all modules that are compatible with your currently loaded modules:
module avail
To see compatible modules whose names start with fftw:
module avail fftw
To see all possible modules:
module spider
To see all possible modules whose names start with fftw:
module spider fftw
To load the fftw3 module that is compatible with your current compiler:
module load fftw3
To unload the fftw3 module:
module unload fftw3
To load the default version of the abaqus module (not compiler-dependent):
module load abaqus
To load a different version of the abaqus module:
module load abaqus/6.8-4
To unload whatever abaqus module you have loaded:
module unload abaqus
To swap the intel compilers for the pgi compilers (unloads intel, loads pgi):
module swap intel pgi
To swap the default version of the intel compilers for a different version:
module swap intel intel/184.108.40.2069
To display help information for the mkl module:
module help mkl
To display the commands run by the mkl module:
module show mkl
To use a locally installed module, first import the module directory:
module use [/path/to/modulefiles]
And then load the module:
module load localmodule
PBS environment variables
Your batch execution environment has all the environment variables that your login environment has plus several that are set by the batch system. This section gives examples for using some of them. For more information see "
man qsub ".
Several directories may be useful in your job.
The absolute path of the directory your job was submitted from is
$PBS_O_WORKDIR . Recall that your job always starts in your home directory. To get back to your submission directory:
cd $PBS_O_WORKDIR
Each job has a temporary directory,
$TMPDIR , on the local disk of each node assigned to it. Access to this directory is much faster than access to your home or project directory. The files in this directory are not visible from all the nodes in a parallel job; each node has its own directory. The batch system creates this directory when your job starts and deletes it when your job ends. To copy file
input.dat to
$TMPDIR on all your job's first node:
cp input.dat $TMPDIR
To copy file
input.dat to
$TMPDIR on all your job's nodes:
pbsdcp input.dat $TMPDIR
Each job has a temporary directory,
$PFSDIR , on the parallel file system, if users add node attribute "
pfsdir" in the batch request (
nodes=XX:ppn=XX:pfsdir). This is a single directory shared by all the nodes a job is running on. Access is faster than access to your home or project directory but not as fast as
$TMPDIR . The batch system creates this directory when your job starts and deletes it when your job ends. To copy the file
output.dat from this directory to the directory you submitted your job from:
cp $PFSDIR/output.dat $PBS_O_WORKDIR
$HOME environment variable refers to your home directory. It is not set by the batch system but is useful in some job scripts. It is better to use
$HOME than to hardcode the path to your home directory. To access a file in your home directory:
cat $HOME/myfile
Informational variables
Several environment variables provide information about your job that may be useful.
A list of the nodes and cores assigned to your job is in the file
$PBS_NODEFILE . To display this file:
cat $PBS_NODEFILE
For GPU jobs, a list of the GPUs assigned to your job is in the file
$PBS_GPUFILE . To display this file:
cat $PBS_GPUFILE
If you use a job array, each job in the array gets its identifier within the array in the variable
$PBS_ARRAYID . To pass a file name parameterized by the array ID into your application:
./a.out input${PBS_ARRAYID}.dat
To display the numeric job Identifier assigned by the batch system:
echo $PBS_JOBID
To display the job name:
echo $PBS_JOBNAME
Use fast storage
If your job does a lot of file-based input and output, your choice of file system can make a huge difference in the performance of the job.
Shared file systems
Your home and project directories are located on shared file systems, providing long-term storage that is accessible from all OSC systems. Shared file systems are relatively slow. They cannot handle heavy loads such as those generated by large parallel jobs or many simultaneous serial jobs. You should minimize the I/O your jobs do on the shared file systems. It is usually best to copy your input data to fast temporary storage, run your program there, and copy your results back to your home or project directory.
Batch-managed directories
Batch-managed directories are temporary directories that exist only for the duration of a job. They exist on two types of storage: disks local to the compute nodes and a parallel file system.
A big advantage of batch-managed directories is that the batch system deletes them when a job ends, preventing clutter on the disk.
A disadvantage of batch-managed directories is that you can't access them after your job ends. Be sure to include commands in your script to copy any files you need to long-term storage. To avoid losing your files if your job ends abnormally, for example by hitting its walltime limit, include a
trap command in your script (Note:
trap commands do not work in csh and tcsh shell batch scripts). The following example creates a subdirectory in
$PBS_O_WORKDIR and copies everything from
$TMPDIR into it in case of abnormal termination.
trap "cd $PBS_O_WORKDIR;mkdir $PBS_JOBID;cp -R $TMPDIR/* $PBS_JOBID;exit" TERM
If a node your job is running on crashes, the trap command may not be executed. It may be possible to recover your batch-managed directories in this case. Contact OSC Help for assistance. For other details on retrieving files from unexpectedly terminated jobs see this FAQ.
Local disk space
The fastest storage is on a disk local to the node your job is running on, accessed through the environment variable
$TMPDIR . The main drawback to local storage is that each node of a parallel job has its own directory and cannot access the files on other nodes. See also "Considerations for Parallel Jobs".
Local disk space should be used only through the batch-managed directory created for your job. Please do not use
/tmp directly because your files won't be cleaned up properly.
Parallel file system
The parallel file system is faster than the shared file systems for large-scale I/O and can handle a much higher load. You should use it when your files must be accessible by all the nodes in your job and also when your files are too large for the local disk.
The parallel file system is efficient for reading and writing data in large blocks. It should not be used for I/O involving many small accesses.
The parallel file system is typically used through the batch-managed directory created for your job. The path for this directory is in the environment variable
You may also create a directory for yourself in
/fs/scratch and use it the way you would use any other directory. You should name the directory with either your user name or your project ID. This directory will not be backed up; files are subject to deletion after some number of months (see policies for details).
Note: You should not copy your executable files to $PFSDIR. They should be run from your home or project directories or from $TMPDIR.


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Czech Foreign Ministry urges release of Azeri national
The Czech Foreign Ministry has urged the release of an Azeri national who has been granted political asylum in the Czech Republic. Professor Sadai Nazarov, an aide to the former Azeri prime minister Sarat Huseynov, fled to the Czech Republic in the mid 1990's after the regime of president Heydar Aliyev accused Huseynov of planning a coup. He was granted political asylum three years later. Nazarov was arrested in Azerbaijan several days ago on a visit to his homeland. The Czech Foreign Ministry has called for "a humanitarian approach and a speedy resolution to the case", stressing that Nazarov is under the Czech Republic's protection.
Latest News
Church of St. Michael ravaged by fire10/28/2020
The wooden Orthodox Church of St. Michael in the Kinský Garden in Prague was ravaged by fire on Wednesday afternoon. Despite efforts to save the 17th century building the main tower of the church collapsed and the church burnt down to the beams.
The Church of St. Michael was relocated from the village of Medvědovce near Mukačevo in today's Ukraine to Prague in 1929 to celebrate the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia into then-Czechoslovakia. It is part of the collections of the Ethnographic Museum. No one was reported injured. The cause of the fire is being investigated.
Weather forecast10/28/2020
Thursday should be cloudy to overcast with rain and day temperatures between 9 and 13 degrees Celsius.
PM tells Czechs: We will come out of this test stronger10/28/2020
Speaking on the 102nd anniversary of the country's founding, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš called on Czechs to pull together to overcome the coronavirus pandemic, saying the country would come out of the test stronger and return to its former economic successes.
Prague Mayor Zdeněk Hřib reminded Czechs that the country had overcome many crisis in the past and would do so again with solidarity and discipline.
He said the dedication of the country's doctors, nurses and emergency crews should serve as an inspiration in these difficult times.
Culture Ministry hands out state awards in the arts sphere10/28/2020
The Czech Ministry of Culture traditionally handed out awards in the arts and culture sphere on the occasion of Czechoslovak Independence Day.
Due to the coronavirus restrictions the names of the laureates were announced online.
Michal Ajvaz received the Prize for Literature, Blanka Stárková for Translation.
The late Czech-born film director Miloš Forman received an award for lifelong contribution to cinematography in memoriam.
The list of 2020 laureates also includes Jiří Tichota from the folk spiritual quintet and former artistic director, now artistic advisor of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Eva Zaoralová.
The names of the eight winners can be found on the ministry's website.
Several hundred people protest against coronavirus restrictions10/28/2020
Several hundred people took to the streets of Prague to protest against government measures aimed at bringing the coronavirus epidemic under control on Wednesday.
The biggest protest took place on Prague's Namesti republiky square where police officers and the anti-riot squad intervened to enforce the government-imposed health restrictions by forming a barrier to keep large groups of protesters apart.
Current government measures against the spread of Covid-19 allow demonstrations with a maximum of 100 participants.
The speakers addressing the crowd accused the government of enforcing measures that did not work but impoverished the nation.
Independence Day celebrations low-key10/28/2020
Celebrations of Czechoslovak Independence Day are low-key this year due to the ongoing pandemic.
The traditional award-giving ceremony at Prague Castle has been cancelled as has the ceremony at Vitkov Hill at which the country's top officials, war veterans and church dignitaries lay wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
The country's top officials and political leaders are visiting Vitkov Hill individually to lay wreaths and flowers at the memorial.
Prague Castle will release a list of those who have been awarded high state distinctions on the occasion of the public holiday and President Miloš Zeman will address the nation on national television.
Planned cultural events have had to go online and Czech Television is featuring a series of special programs to mark the 102 anniversary of Czechoslovakia's founding.
Number of newly registered Covid-19 cases hits new high10/28/2020
The number of newly registered Covid-19 cases reached 15,663 on Tuesday, an increase by 400 on last weeks record.
The number of people hospitalized and those in a serious condition continues to grow steeply, as does the death toll.
170,000 people are currently fighting the infection, over 6,000 people are hospitalized with Covid-19, of which close to 900 are in a serious condition. The death toll has reached 2,547.
Night curfew and ban on Sunday sales now in force10/28/2020
Strict new measures aimed at bringing the coronavirus epidemic under control came into force on Wednesday, October 28.
The government has enforced a night curfew between 9pm and 5am, employers have been asked to employ home office wherever possible, food and other stores selling essential goods, which still remain open, have to be closed on Sundays and will have to close their doors by 8pm on weekdays.
People are being encouraged to shop twice a week instead of going out daily and minimize their contacts with others as much as possible.
In an interview for Czech Radio, Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček said the authorities were running out of possible measures to bring the epidemic under control and did not rule out a complete lockdown if the present measures fail to be effective.
He said that at the present time the government was still divided on a complete lockdown.
Centre-right opposition parties sign alliance memorandum for 2021 elections10/27/2020
The leaders of the Civic Democrats, Christian Democrats and the TOP 09 party met at the statue of former president T.G. Masaryk on Tuesday morning to sign a memorandum on forming an alliance for next year's 2021 elections into the Chamber of Deputies.
A similar coalition is currently being negotiated between the opposition Pirate Party and the Mayors and Independents.
Jan Blatný to become new health minister on Thursday10/27/2020
The Deputy Director of the Faculty Hospital in Brno Jan Blatný, will succeed Roman Prymula as Czech health minister. The official inauguration will take place on Thursday mid-day, President Miloš Zeman's spokesman Jiří Ovčáček announced after Mr. Blatný met with President Miloš Zeman in the latter's Lány residence on Tuesday afternoon.
News site iDnes.cz broke the story on Monday that Mr. Blatný was the proposed replacement for Mr. Prymula, citing a source familiar with the ongoing negotiations. However, Mr. Blatný can only assume office once he is approved by the president.
Jan Blatný is a pediatrician and hematologist. He has previously served as the Chief Physician at the Faculty Hospital in Brno and lectures at the Medical Faculty of the Masaryk University in Brno. He faced controversy during the spring first wave of the coronavirus pandemic from the NGO League of Human Rights, because he did not allow the parents of coronavirus infected children visits.
The current health minister, Roman Prymula, is set to leave office after being dismissed by Prime Minister Andrej Babiš for breaking the government's coronavirus measures. He was caught visiting a Prague restaurant last Wednesday.

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That's HCL Infosystems – the company that not only pioneered Indian IT, but perhaps more importantly nurtured literally over a thousand entrepreneurs, CEOs and CXOs to become known as the 'Talent Foundry'. Our People are a potent blend of home-grown talent and inducted expertise from some of the best companies in the world. We are totally achievement-focused and completely merit-driven. And we always have room for great people like you to succeed and grow.
Innovate & Re-invent
Right from Day 1, growth at HCL Infosystems has been powered by the twin drivers of Innovation & Re-invention. But what is perhaps lesser known is that most of the major innovations and re-inventions are triggered-off by ideas that came from individuals at every level and role in the organization. Innovation at HCL is institutionalized. Every year the top Innovative Ideas are selected for proof-of-concept funding and further development.
This is because Work @ HCL is driven by the 3 E's: Empowerment –Enablement – Encouragement. There is a 4th E, which is the essence of who we are and where we come from – Entrepreneurial Spirit. It is why we are acknowledged, in addition to being the 'Talent Foundry' as the 'Entrepreneurial Incubator' of the Indian IT industry. The fact is that both honorifics are symbiotic. At HCL, we believe in teamwork and individual excellence; in self-belief and trusting your team; in achieving and supporting others to achieve. These are the values that have built the 'HCL Family' and continue to create new benchmarks of performance excellence in the industry.
Challenge & Achieve
To us Work @ HCL means managing challenging tasks and challenging the status quo to drive continuous improvements and innovations. It often means being given roles and responsibilities – and most of all freedom – which one would expect much later in their career. This is because our history has proven time and time again that trusting people to perform and deliver beyond what they think is possible pays rich dividends – both for the organization and the individual. We call this Performance @ Full Potential. That is how and why to date HCL has contributed over 100 CEOs to the Indian industry. At HCL, individuals can chart their own career options of being an Entrepreneur or Manager or a Technocrat. We believe in empowering and encouraging people to Learn, Grow and Own.
- Be An Entrepreneur: At HCL you can start your career from campus and grow to head a business. We recruit from campuses all across India, creating entrepreneurs from and for HCL
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HCL Culture
We enable business transformation and enrichment of lives by delivering sustainable world class technology products, solutions and services in our chosen markets thereby creating superior shareholder value.
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Our aim is to be your Technology Lifecycle Partner by consistently providing the Choice of best-in-class products and the Capability of world-class IT services and solutions. Our approach is trust-based and value driven By being consistently innovative, proactive and responsive we strive to be the solution provider and business associate of choice for our Clients, our Channel Partners & Principals. Culture at HCL is shaped by our Mission, Core Values & DNA. But above all it is the bond that unities us all in our journey to continuously create milestones of excellence and achievement through exemplary commitment, performance and integrity. Our culture is driven by transparency and equality and devoid of position and hierarchy.
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HCL Infosystems believes that equal opportunity in employment for all sections of society is an important component of its growth and competitiveness. We are committed to Affirmative Action for social equity for the disadvantaged sections of the society (particularly Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) in the workplace. All decisions or actions such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs, returns from layoff, organization-sponsored training, education assistance, growth opportunities and social and recreation programs will be administered without regards to race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, pregnancy, marital status, family status, disability, veteran status or any other class protected by local laws.
HCL Affirmative Action initiatives are a part of our Corporate Sustainability model.
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Have you ever wondered how to get a business that has plateaued to jump to the next level? Have you struggled with the problem of balancing your business and your personal life?
Have questions such as how to turn a social relationship into a business one, how to differentiate yourself from the competition, or how to help clients paralyzed by fear take appropriate actions troubled you?
There are solutions to all these challenges, and a newly formed CEO Advisor Institute, sponsored by OppenheimerFunds, wants to help financial advisors address these common concerns in an intensive and ongoing fashion.
The New York-based mutual fund company has hired Paul Blease, a former Smith Barney executive, to direct the new program, launched this week. The CEO Advisor Institute is so named because it aims to coach advisors in the skills needed to manage their practices in the creative and analytic fashion for which the most accomplished CEOs are renowned.
It has long been standard practice in the industry for asset management companies to provide value-added practice management insights to advisors through their broker-dealers. But Blease (left), who provided this kind of training to Smith Barney advisors for 15 years (and informally for 25 years), says the CEO Advisor Institute is offering an entirely new model.
"The industry's attempt at this has been weak, to be generous," Blease told AdvisorOne in an interview. "What tends to happen is that a fund company will hire an outside speaker or will bring a piece of valued-added content and then speak about it.
"The problem with that model is it stops there. They do not have a web capability where [advisors] can hear it and follow up with tools and templates and collateral material that helps them implement those ideas," Blease says.
The Institute's model is to provide ongoing coaching rather than a fleeting flash of inspiration.
In the conventional approach, "Somebody hears a good speaker. They like the content but that's it. When the wholesaler comes in with his valise and charts, it's disconnected from that great experience. There's no follow-up," Blease says.
In contrast, Oppenheimer has already immersed its wholesalers—now deliberately referred to as "consultants"—in this new consultative platform for two years so far, and Blease says it is only just getting started.
"Over the next five years, we want to take our wholesalers on a journey [enabling them to] coach and consult top producers around their greatest challenge, which is managing these complex [advisory] businesses," he says.
In practical terms, the inability of advisors to manage complexity is what keeps them from rising beyond production plateaus. Advisors, Blease says, often get stuck in the $350,000 to $500,000 production range, and can't seem to go beyond that. Similarly, those who produce $750,000 struggle to get to the million-dollar range, and million-dollar producers are no less challenged in climbing to the next level.
The CEO Advisor Institute endeavors to help advisors break through these production barriers to become multimillion-dollar producers. To that end, Blease has identified three barriers to advisors managing the growing complexity of their business.
The first difficulty is that advisors are hardwired as hunters.
"Most advisors are like John or Jane Wayne," Blease says, referring to the gunslinging hero of Hollywood Westerns. "They want to get up every morning, get on the horse, hunt, kill, fire it up, eat it and get up the next morning and do the same thing. All these people wired like that and you think through osmosis they'll know how to run a complex practice?"
The second impediment to managing complexity is imbalance in one's work and life commitments. Says Blease:
"We have to put a stake in the heart of our industry's false dichotomy. Our industry sends a message to everybody that you've got a choice in life: You can have a robust high-performance career or a really rich and meaningful life—pick one.
"You don't have to make this false choice in life," Blease continues. "You can have a successful business and a life of purpose. That false dichotomy assumes that if your personal life is imploding it doesn't affect your business and that if your business is falling apart it doesn't affect your life. We know that's not true."
A third barrier to managing a complex business is a lack of perspective, particularly in letting a down economy get you down. It's an advisor's job, Blease says, to shield customers from their emotions.
"When it's your money, it's hard to be rational. The advisor has to play the role of the counselor, the person who provides emotional perspective. Most people don't have that broad perspective that helps clients understand that it's a difficult time, but it's not dissimilar from other times," he says, adding that today's depressed economy is more akin to the early 1980s recession than to the Great Depression to which it is exaggeratedly compared.
To help in all these areas, the CEO Advisor Institute presents materials at all the major broker-dealers and offers rich multimedia content on a host of commonplace advisor challenges.
One segment of this content concerns what Blease calls "recurring conversations"—issues that come up routinely when advisors are dealing with clients and prospects.
How often, for example, does an advisor become acquainted with someone who would make an ideal client, but doesn't know how to convert a social relationship to a business one?
"Almost all advisors have someone that they know in their community who would be a great client, but they haven't broached the subject of considering doing business together," Blease says. "They haven't figured out a way to bring up the subject without seeming like some ham-fisted salesperson. What they're waiting for is for that prospect to come to them and say, 'Hey, I need help.' That could be a long wait."
Blease proposes language that the advisor could insert midpoint in a normal social conversation, particularly when financial planning topics arise, to this effect:
"You and I always run into each other at these events. If you ever want to pick my brain, I want you to know that as a friend I'm there for you. However, that being said, our friendship is worth far more to me than any business relationship that might ever materialize. But I want you to know that as a friend, I'm always there for you. The door's always open."
If the friend, thus liberated to seek the advisor's counsel, immediately asks for it, don't answer him right then, Blease says. "You don't want to have a conversational transaction," he says.
Instead, say: "That's a great question. It's a complex question. Why don't we grab lunch in the next couple of weeks so we can talk about that or anything else on your mind. I'll have my assistant call you and set something else up."
Now you have an appointment that can lead to a solid business relationship rather than informal friendly conversation.
Another recurring conversation involves the frightened client or prospect. Blease's suggested response:
"You're not just hiring me to managing my assets. You're hiring me to manage you and your emotions. There's no product I have that can destroy you financially. The only thing that can destroy you financially is you."
Blease says the CEO Advisor Institute has "voluminous" tools and templates to help advisors deal with the full gamut of issues that can fuel, or impede, an advisory practice's growth, though he expects the institute's website won't be fully operational until the third quarter next year.
He adds that advisors interested in learning more about OppenheimerFunds' CEO Advisor Institute can call 800-255-2770 and request contact information for the region's senior advisor consultant.


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Anonymous factions threaten cyber-war on one another over anti-NSA hacks
The group known as "Anonymous Indonesia" took responsibility last week for hacking more than 170 websites in Australia. Anonymous Indonesia told the website Tempo that the hack was in response to a report that the Australian government granted the US National Security Agency access to its embassy in Jakarta to spy on Indonesians.
Yet instead of retaliating against the Australian government Anonymous Indonesia seems to have disturbed the operations of private Australian businesses including a dry cleaner, a bouncy castle business that provides inflatable party toys, and others that obviously had nothing to do with any NSA activity.
The warning issued Monday was not the first video addressed to the Indonesian hackers.
"Innocent businesses should not be attacked," the first video declared. "We all bound together in an effort to bring down our tyrant governments to shape our world as a better place."
"You have not stopped your attacks against the Australian public where we have tried to plead with you," Monday's video said. "What is there to prove? We do not want a cyber-war, do you? …We have been patient with you, Anonymous Indonesia. There will be no more warnings if you choose to attack again."
The message goes on to suggest that Anonymous Indonesia instead focus its efforts on the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS), the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO), and the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD).
That advice seems to have taken hold, as the ASIS website was knocked offline for hours on Monday. The other pages seemed to be operating as normal but Heru Satudi, executive director of the Indonesian technology think tank the Indonesia ICT Institute, told the Sydney Morning Herald a distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack crashed the site.
Frustration with the Australian government's complicity in the NSA spying has stretched far past Anonymous, though. The clandestine activity was first exposed by a leak from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden last month and reverberations from the revelations are still echoing throughout the region.
"Enough is enough," Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa told reporters last week. "While [the US and Australia] are not able to confirm or deny past activities, at least they should be able, and I'm making a public expectation here, I think they should be able to henceforth say they are not going to do it anymore.
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DR. HOOK- Get familiar: Women: know your body
Sex and The City put women's sexuality on the map. Or did it? They touched just about every sexual topic that exists for women, and yet they left us wanting to watch more. However, according to my female friends, women just don't talk that openly with each other about sex. Really? I thought Tupperware parties were just an excuse for women to get together and unseal their containers.
I guess women don't want to reveal their ideas or questions about sex. But if that's true, why do they all ask me sex questions? (Dr. Ruth, eat your heart out!)
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"Ew, Dr. Hong, that's disgusting. I can't bare to check things out south of the Mason-Dixon line. I don't even travel to South Carolina."
It's amazing to me to see how many women find their own body parts to be unappealing. C'mon! The female anatomical parts sound like flowers in a Japanese garden. They aren't odd or disgusting. Yet, I have quite a few women who just won't do their homework.
You might ask what this "homework" is. As you might know, I type out an instruction sheet for all my patients. So I simply incorporate the sexual issues within the rest of the stuff.
"Your tetanus shot is due next year. Your mammogram is due next month. Your blood pressure is 110/70, which is perfect. Go to the sex store, get blah blah blah, play some Barry White music... And come fasting on your next visit so we can check your cholesterol."
Don't think I'm insane. I do the same for men with erectile dysfunction or other sexual issues. Speaking of ED, remember in Sex and The City when Samantha was using Viagra? Well according to urban legend, some women have been "followers of Samantha" with good results. (I still find in interesting insurance won't pay for many blood pressure medicines but will pay for erectile dysfunction medicines. Oh, that's right; it's hardly necessary.)
Sue Johanson, the Canadian RN who had a sex talk show, constantly told women to get over their fears of sexuality and their own sexual parts. And she is 70 years old! I think she should be in the Sex and The City movie. The problem is Samantha would respond to everything with, "Been there! Done that!"
How anti-climatic that would be.
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One dead, one critical: And it could have been prevented
One college freshman is dead, and another one lies critically injured after a train roared over the trestle on which they were stargazing. As officials wring their hands over the November 17 death of 18-year-old Liberty University student Hannah Emmaline Williams and rightly point out that the public has no business on the private property of railroads, youth remain eternally curious, so it's unfortunate that few realize there is a way to survive an encounter with a train. As this reporter wrote nine years ago, "Lie down: Expert reluctantly offers safety tip," it can be as simple as letting the train thunder over you.
"It's not a sure-fire way to avoid getting killed," cautioned the Roanoke-based safety expert for Norfolk Southern, "but we have had individuals who laid flat and survived."
In Charlottesville, over Moore's Creek in the Woolen Mills neighborhood, there's a well-travelled railroad bridge which features a pedestrian walkway running the length of the elevated span. However, the Lynchburg bridge might not have been so well-equipped. If it were equipped with safety pods or walkways, they're not obvious in a satellite photo of the structure which stands nearly 200 feet above the James River.
–final two paragraphs added 11:29am, Tuesday, November 22.Read more on: train tracks
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If you're lucky and nothing is hanging down from the train, says safety expert Gilbert. . One more tip --lose weight; thin people stand a better chance of surviving.
Very sad !
Lose weight really Nancy?
Getting run over by a train usually involves losing a few limbs. I have seen drunks passed out on the tracks, emerge untouched though.
@hookreader see link above " Danny Gilbert advises lying very low between the rails.
"It's not a sure-fire way to avoid getting killed," cautions Gilbert, the Roanoke-based safety expert for Norfolk Southern, "but we have had individuals who laid flat and survived."
That's what he'd do if he was caught high on a trestle facing a looming train. "But I could be killed if something drags and catches me," he says. Air hoses, for instance. They connect all the cars and routinely hang mere inches above the rails. A thin person, Gilbert says, stands a better chance of avoiding death or injury from an air hose.
Sad, and unnecessary to add that "it can be as simple as letting the train thunder over you" hopefully no person reads this goes out and tries it to get a rush and is killed by this extra comment.
The students were feeling good last night. And back and forth across the train tracks at 15th Street and the tracks at the end of Elliewood Avenue they go all night long. And in complete contrast to the stepped up enforcement not long ago, the police pass right by them without saying a word to them. It's just a matter of time before.......
Icarus learned the hard way also.
I have a brother-in-law who works on a railway. The paperwork is hideous. The nightmares are hideous. He's had amputees and decapications.
A few weeks ago, I yelled at a few people going under, over, through a stopped train. They thought I was insane; off the rails, so to speak. One asked how to get around the train: I told them. One listened: I was grateful.
Stupid chances are stupid. Some number of railroad employees are haunted today.
Just don't put yourself in a position where lying down and being skinny might save your life. Surely that's a simple imperative.
How could you people be so insensative? Hannah Williams grew up in church, went to a christian school her ENTIRE life & had started her freshman year at Liberty University a CHRISTIAN institution. There was a meteor shower the night her & her friends went on the train tressle to look at it, because it was up very high and it was a better view. Hannah was always down for something new and something exciting to do. she was a risk taker. She was an angel on earth. @NancyDrew Hannah was VERY thin and healthy, she played sports her whole life. What a cruel thing to say. Is this all you people have to do with your lives? Mock & ridicule and make fun of articles on the internet about young, intelligent believers in christ? Oh, I bet you are doing these things because Hannah was a follower of Jesus and you probably hate christians. How dare you.
I don't hate christians at all, I piety them.
"I don't hate christians at all, I piety them.", So, you have a religious devotion to them. Interesting.
Closer to home, the CSX trestle over Moore's Creek is a disaster waiting to happen. The wooden parts are in bad shape and there's no place to go but straight down if a train comes. The tracks and trestle get an endless stream of kids, homeless people, and the merely curious, most headed to the old building to party. They've completely tagged the place and thrown trash everywhere. It's a pity that the property owner encourages this.
@lots of stuff - LOL
@OliviaDale - Nobody said a single word - either in the article or in the comments - about this young woman's religious beliefs or her weight. For the most part, they mocked the advice given for surviving.
But, as my mother used to say to me, "if you're gonna keep crying, I'll give you something to really cry about": So, what's up with sky-daddy letting this devout angel-on-earth get chiffonaded (big word, I know, google it) by the choo-choo? Why not some of those evil public-school, secular university kids? I know, 'it's a mystery' we dare not question.
@OliviaDale I am very sad for your loss.
The comment I made was taken from the statement of the Roanoke safety expert for Northern Southern. The value of this article is to hopefully prevent future tragedies of this nature. Unfortunately, the information provided above was of no help to these young people, but, may give pause to others in the future.
Having the presence of mind to lie down as a train thundered overhead would be an act of courage most people I know would not be capable of, even knowing it may save their lives. Jumping out of the way - no matter how far down, would be anyone's normal instinct.
If this skinny theory holds any weight, that is another good reason for our over-reaching government to force tofu in school cafeterias and Libs like Bloomberg (and like believing progressives around the nation) to start regulating how kids eat and exercise.
I reckon areas like the Sudan see very low rates of train fatalities.
Not enough details - but I have to wonder if this was actually a suicide? Why would people be lying on the tracks when I train is approaching? It just doesn't make sense.
@dolce, I'd kill myself if I had to go to Liberty University, too.
@dolce, if you read the article linked above the circumstances are fully explained - not intentional, but kids being kids, and not unlike risk taking adults.
Yup, going to Liberty would make me walk right into the path of a train as well. No wonder.
Interesting that this thread only got anti-Christian after we were told we already were.
Self-fulfilling profecy, anyone.
"Williams' death was the latest of several that have occurred on the trestle through the years; at least nine people have been struck by a train and killed while on the span."
I am a good Christian, but stories like this make me think Darwin was onto something. I am sorry for the poor young woman's death, but at the end of the day we can only do so much to protect people from their own curiosity.
You may not find yourself on a train trestle, so here's some more practical advice: when you're running or crossing the street, can you please take one of the headphones out?
I've heard a lot of people refer to natural selection concerning this incident.
I'm a christian. I went to Liberty for 3 semesters.
While it is sad that someone had to die this way it was completely preventable. I almost feel guilty for not feeling much compassion towards these people. Yes, it's tragic. But there's a reason it's illegal to trespass on the trestle. There are PLENTY of other places to watch meteor showers in Lynchburg without putting yourself in danger.
@Olivia - Hannah Williams may have been a good Christian, raised in a Christian home and going to a Christian school but that didn't stop her from breaking the law, which she died for. If she was concerned about doing the "right" thing she wouldn't even have let herself, or her friends, get in a situation like that. I'm not saying she was a bad person but don't try to justify her actions by saying she was a good christian and did nothing wrong.
Haven't we all done crazy things to see the stars ? The death of anyone is tragic, but the death of young people, and the toll it takes on family and friends even more so. No one is perfect.
Yes I read the article - that's why I asked. Star gazing? REALLY? How do we know? How do we know it wasn't really suicide? How could someone not know a train was coming? Those things are LOUD and VIBRATE tremendously. I still wonder. It just doesn't add up.
My only sibling died at age 19 - I do understand the effects on the family - intimately. No one is perfect - but how does one die on the train tracks? that does somehow seem more preventable than other 'accidents.'
I grew up mere feet from the RIVERMONT Trestle and I can tell you people have been walking out on that damn thing forever. And been killed doing so. Maybe it's because my grandfather worked so many rescues there or maybe it's the unpredictability of freight traffic or maybe it's the signs that warn of danger or maybe it's the sheer height of the thing, but I have always known that going out on that bridge was a huge risk.
There are a great many dark places to watch a meteor shower in and around Lynchburg. The RIVERMONT trestle is not one of them.
Growin up in Lynchburg, I have known many LU students who have confessed to walking on that trestle. And it boggles my mind. You're so right with God you don't believe in horrifying death by fast train? Long fall? Seriously? There are fences for a reason. Visit Riverside Park and look at how some idiots have cut the fencing around the trestle and rolled it back. That's not a casual, wandering, wrong turn into death. It's like wondering what clearly labeled poison tastes like and drinking your fill, with friends!
It's the length of the trestle. It's no mere bridge that spans a road. It spans the entire James River gorge from one high hillside cliff to the other. You get far enough out, there's nowhere to go but over the side and it is impossibly high. It'd be like tip-toeing the top ledge of a sky scraper while lions are on the roof.
This girl didn't commit suicide. She died in a stupid stupid stupid way. We will never find an end to lamenting the incredibly stupid ways in which really wonderful people die. Especially the young.
I had no idea - didn't think someone would take such a risk. I assumed they fell asleep and didn't hear the train coming? I'm not familiar with the area obviously. thanks for filling in the details. Very senseless and sad.
There is no reason for the RIVERMONT trestle to have a walkway. It doesn't connect to anything that any pedestrian would have/need access to. From the rural Amherst County side to the short lead-in to an underground tunnel on the Lynchburg side. It's not a by-way or a short-cut for anything other than rail traffic. The only reason people venture out on it is for the the thrill or the view.
My grandfather spoke of people crossing it on foot in the 30s to save hours walking from Amherst County to Lynchburg and even then, people died doing so.
Putting a walkway along the trestle would only embolden people to go out on it more often. Better to leave it alone, I think, and educate people of he danger. How about a sign similar to Crabtree Falls, warning of the danger and listing the names of those that have died or been injured? But still, there will be people who do stupid things...often with tragic consequences.
Think of that poor engineer.
A sign commemorating those who have died at the entrance is an excellent idea.
I agree with rivermont girl, with all of it.
Especially the poor engineer, I was thinking that before, there was nothing more he could have done and now he has to live with the tragedy.
I hate that things like this happen and could be prevented.
The walkway is more than likely there for railroad workers, so they can perform maintenance on the tracks; maintenance workers who are 1 – allowed to use the walkway and 2 – coordinate with the railroads in order to perform maintenance when a train won't be passing through. Not for public use. It boils down to people obeying the law and not walking along something that is neither safe, nor allowed. Unfortunately these two young people made a terrible choice. My heart goes out to the families of the two and I hope the one person in critical condition is able to recover. Hopefully it will serve as a reminder to others, but I have a feeling it won't.
good to know there's a walkway on the Moore'sCreek crossing.I've been here some thirty years and did not know that.That could be a Cville bucket-list item.
@think about it: I get the reasoning behind maintenance of way walkways, etc. I meant that having a walkway, designed more to shelter trespassers would be unlikely to curb the trespassing, merely increase it. I don't know what repair crews use to maintain the trestle. Perhaps simply detouring or stopping traffic? But I've never heard of a railway worker falling from or dying while doing trestle repairs.
stay off of the RR bed. No train has EVER swerved and hit something. Sad that it happened, but the only sign commemorating those who have died is all ready there "NO TRESPASSING"


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Smashing pumpkins (link to the Battle Royal 12 - "Will unbelievers spend eternity in the lake of fire" and Battle Talk thread)
Recap of main issues (link to the James E Padgett messages)
Touching on essentials (going beyond 'biblical' assumptions)
Raising the bar
Logic is not the only tool in determing what is true
Seeing God for who He is (as Love)
How is eternal punishment just?
Love's will is supreme
Souls have immortality-potential
Misrepresenting God
Still problems
ECT Meltdown
Recent posts as of 11- 8 - 2013
Iniquity fully embraced results in death
Points covered over and over
Investigating further
The truth about 'aion'
Here is another sister thread called 'Justification of Eternal Punishment', I continue to share my thoughts starting on page 4, post # 53.
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An expanded and more detailed description of 'soul-death' is found in the Urantia Papers, but one must understand the terms of the teaching there, which includes 'free will', 'personality' and those conditions with enable a soul to choose eternal survival or fusion with that divine fragment of 'God' within, whereby the soul truly becomes 'immortal' like 'God'. Souls in this school's opinion can choose a final and eternal death (cessation) of existence, if and when they totally reject life and wholly embrace iniquity which results in 'death', the absence of life, a true destruction of the soul.
As shared before, other factors influence affections here, such as 'free will' and the law of karma, conditioning and determining certain and possible outcomes in the unfolding of events. There is also a more universalist outlook that sees all souls beginning as simple/innocent, progressing thru time and space to eventually/ultimately be reunited with God, thru trial & error, experience and learning, thru time and space, merging at last with their heart's true source of joy and eternal home.
All souls who still have the ability and capacity to repent or return to 'God', are allowed in that space to be saved, healed, restored, enlightened, inspired, liberated, empowered, etc. for such is the spirit of Love and Wisdom whose very nature and movement is towards wholeness, healing and salvation, building on those eternal principles of goodness, truth and beauty. Love and Life inspires such eternal survival and infinity of good, worlds witout end.
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I t's time to wipe the slate, cleanse the palate and buy a new calendar as soon as they're discounted 60 percent. In this new year, I resolve: to observe a moratorium on Sideways references—it's been fun for three years, but it's time to cork it; to step out of the debate of Champagne vs. sparkling, but to drink more of each; to lay down wine for longer than a few days' storage on the kitchen counter, so as to note how nuances of bouquet develop after, say, three weeks; and to give the topsy-turvy ex–Topolos Vineyards another chance, and see what's going on there now. Hey! I can take care of that last one right now.
Last time Swirl 'n' Spit dropped in on Russian River Vineyards was in February 2006. Ownership was up in the air, and the restaurant had cleared the tables for the last time. Topolos, with its distinctive North County architecture—part hop barn and part Russian fortress—was a funky favorite for locals and visitors alike. The vintages could be at times uneven, but memorable. I still recall an evening more than 10 years ago, when my neophyte palate was stunned by a 1994 Topolos Piner Heights Zinfandel, not quite sure if the wine was shockingly overextracted and overoaked, or simply, brutally, glorious.
It's got a new, classy label, and while some of the funky details are gone, there is a sense that it's not done with its makeover. If asked, hosts will still show curious guests a bottle of Topolos' infamous "Stu Pedasso" brand.
The nicely priced 2005 Rosé of Pinot Noir ($12.99) is a tasty, dry pink wine with substance. Save it for summer or turn up the heat and have it now. You might note Russian River Valley cola notes in the 2002 Pinot Noir ($39.95), enjoying perfumed raspberries on the way to an herbal, rustic finish. I have no problem with blueberry Sharpie accenting the leathery bouquet of a 2005 Dry Creek Syrah ($24.95), but with the 2005 Dry Creek Petite Sirah ($34.95), we finally move into the deep purple territory of luxury tannins that sweep roasted nut aromas and blackberry-pie flavors to their happy home.
The tasting room star that everyone seems to show up for is the just-released 2004 Redwood Valley Barbera ($31.95), a bright and food-friendly table wine. Watch for the upcoming 2003 Napa Valley Charbono ($29.95), sure to be a special treat. Also on the horizon is the return of the Old Vine Zin that was a darling of the Topolos crowd. With all that coming on line, and the restaurant reopened as the new location of Greg Hallihan's Stella's Cafe, there's little reason in the new year to pass up this friendly, rambling old landmark.
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As many a child learns a euphemistic name for their "private parts," several - if not all - of us have used little nicknames for parts or our life with MS.
I was listening to a short interview on the radio with a woman who has written a book about her experience after her husband's death. It was her use and explanation of several euphemisms around dying, death and grieving. As grief and the grieving of loss is part of our regular MS exercise routine, I thought we'd give it a go here on the Life With MS Blog.
We use non-scientific names and tags for events for the same reason we teach children alternatives for their bits; it's less frightening.
As you may recall, I'll often refer to an MS attack as a "thing". I'm not afraid of an attack (or my disease… on most days) but "thing" is something that I can talk about without other people being afraid. "Spot" or "Plaque" sound soooooo much better than "Lesion" and the list goes on.
An old stand-by that has lost favor in the past years is "good day, bad day". I think we got tired of people saying that they had "bad days" too as if they had any idea what ours were like. I suppose that others have gone the way of the dodo as well.
Some of these names will be for symptoms; others will represent the disease activity itself. I look forward to reading your thoughts.
So, as we head into the weekend, I thought we'd share some of the less-than-clinical monikers we used for the different parts of MS. No one is going to judge you for your use of such things. Quite the contrary, I expect that many of your will be admired and your nicknames adopted.
So, lift those "Frankenstein arms", place those "dodgy fingers" on the keys and stamp out your epithet before that "bumble bee but" makes it hard to sit in your chair.
Wishing you and your family the best of health.
You can also follow me via our Life With MS Facebook page, on Twitter, and in our group on MS Connection.org. Also, check out our bi-monthly MS blog for the United Kingdom, look for our very special new monthly blog for the National MS Society, and don't forget to check out TrevisLGleason.com.
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In Magicka, you don't just shoot fire or ice at things. You can combine them with electricity then shoot everything on the screen. Including your friends. And yourself.
It's the surprise PC hit of the year (so far, anyway!), and while it's had a litany of technical problems, it's also a lot of fun. If you've heard people talking about it but haven't yet seen what all the fuss is about, here's a few minutes of me killing things before setting myself on fire and dying.
Besides the carnage — which works best if you're playing with up to three friends co-operatively, as spells (especially beam weapons!) can be combined — Magicka also has a strong slant towards humour, being a parody of not just Norse mythology, but many fantasy games, genres and properties as well.
Also, apologies for the audio at the end, the EXPLOSIONS and DEATH RAYS start to drown out my voice. Not that you need my voice. You're here for the magic, not the token Australian.
Magicka was developed by Sweden's Arrowhead Game Studios, is published by Paradox, and was released on Steam on January 25. It sells for $10.


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You can find this new section under the "Free on the App Store" heading. The section currently holds 98 apps, including the "lite" renditions games such as Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown, Metal Gear Solid Touch and Labyrinth 2 and free adaptations of apps such as Moodagent and AccuTerra.
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The Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee today voted to reject the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission budget, an effort by Sup. John Avalos and others to force Mayor Ed Lee to the bargaining table over the city's neglected sustainable energy infrastructure needs.
"I wanted to get the mayor's attention and to find a practical way to let the mayor know the Power Enterprise infrastructure needs help, as well as CleanPowerSF," Avalos told the Guardian. CleanPowerSF would provide electricity derived from renewable sources to enrollees in the municipal program.
After CleanPowerSF was approved by a veto-proof majority on the Board of Supervisors last year, Lee's appointees to the SFPUC blocked implementation of the program during what should have been a routine vote to set a maximum rate. Then Lee this year raided those funds and transferred them to his GoSolar program.
"Because he raided our funds, I worked with [fellow Budget Committee members Sups.] Eric Mar and London Breed to kill his budget," Avalos told us, noting that he alerted Lee on Sunday of his intention to do so and never got a response. "It was remarkable that he thought he could just bring this to committee and thought everything was hunky-dory."
Christine Falvey, the mayor's spokesperson, said the mayor hadn't had time yet to develop his next step but "the mayor is committed to funding GoSolar, a program that can start immediately, help us reach our agressive environmental goals and employ San Francisco residents."
The tendrils of the mayor's power could be felt even in the SFPUC's Citizens' Advisory Committee meeting last night. The committee makes recommendations to the PUC with no authority for mandate, but rather for long-term strategic, financial and capital improvement plans.
As the committee considered a vote to recommend the PUC move forward with CleanPowerSF, the tussle between the mayor and the supervisors reverberated through their frank discussions.
"The problem is the mayor is violently against this program," said Walt Farrell, a committee member from Supervisor Norman Yee's District 7. He added, "How will you convince them?"
Director of Policy and Administration at Power Enterprise Kim Malcolm was slated to be the Director of CleanPowerSF, but she deflected, saying it wasn't up to her.
"We view our job as, we do what the policy makers tell us to do," she said.
Jason Fried, executive director of the Local Agency Formation Commission, told the CAC most of the mayor's concerns regarding CleanPowerSF have since been addressed.
The mayor critiqued the program for relying on Shell for energy, Fried said, but now Shell is out of the picture.
Kim Malcolm presents information on CleanPowerSF to the SFPUC Citizens' Advisory Committee.
He said the program could also possibly provide extra money for Power Enterprise, the city's Hetch Hetchy powered hydroelectric system.
Highlighting all the benefits of CleanPowerSF, Jess Derbin-Ackerman, a conservation organizer speaking on behalf of the Sierra Club, urged action.
"This program was in the works for ten years," she said, and "it's largely been fought because of political attachments to PG&E."
She noted more than four other counties in Northern California are now shifting to clean power, and San Francisco lags behind.
"Get with it," she said, "the rest of the Bay Area is."
Ultimately the CAC opted to push the vote backing CleanPowerSF until its next meeting, due to absent members. The CAC's chair, Wendolyn Aragon, supported the supervisors stalling the PUC budget.
"CleanPowerSF has been proven time and time again as a viable source of clean energy," she told the Guardian. "But if Mayor Lee and the SFPUC Commissioners (whom he appoints) want to keep denying that … it's time to draw a line in the sand."
Now that the PUC's budget has been formally rejected, the agency has $20 million in reserves that it can spend until it comes up with a budget that meets the approval of the Board of Supervisors, as the City Charter requires. In the meantime, Avalos called on Lee to negotiate in good faith with the board.
"The path forward is to negotiate," Avalos told us. "The mayor has overstepped his bounds on this issue. He is not taking the leadership to convene us together to find a solution."