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Zhang, Pei and Wills, Gary B. and Howard, Yvonne and Oussena, Samia and Kramer, Dean and Barn, Ravinder and Barn, Balbir (2009) An e-learning support toolkit for social work students on placement. In: Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference on e-Learning: June, Algarve, Portugal, 2009. Nunes, Miguel Baptista and McPherson, Maggie, eds. IADIS. ISBN 9789728924836


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Towns-Alumni Ministry Training Center nears completion
Liberty University's new Towns-Alumni Ministry Training Center will unveil its spacious 750-seat lecture hall with optimal sound and lighting features for students in mid-August.
"They're going to have it booked out for every class. Everybody wants to be there," said Charles Spence, LU's director of planning and new construction.
Named in honor of LU co-founder and Dean of the School of Religion Dr. Elmer Towns, the center is an expansion of the existing B.R. Lakin School of Religion on Main Campus.
The lecture hall will have sloped floors, cushioned seats, and amazing acoustics, Spence said.
Additionally, a renovation of the school's exterior will include an addition of columns and steps to create a Jeffersonian-style façade similar to the Arthur S. DeMoss Learning Center.
The Office of Alumni Affairs began spearheading a three-year, $2 million campaign in Sept. 2006 to cover the cost of the project, and Liberty University officials — including the late Dr. Jerry Falwell — broke ground on the site behind the School of Religion next to U.S. 460 in 2007.
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President Barack Obama makes an opening statement during his news conference yesterday in the East Room of the White House. The president says the economy cannot afford a tax increase on all Americans and is calling on congressional Republicans to support an extension of existing tax rates for households earning $250,000 or less.
"Why couldn't Barack Obama pass gun control?" is a bad question. Not because there isn't a story to tell about the new push for gun regulations, but because Obama isn't the main character. On broad questions like gun control and immigration reform, the president has a say, but the show belongs to Congress and all of its dysfunctions. The Manchin-Toomey plan for expanded background checks hit familiar barriers—the filibuster, near-unanimous Republican opposition, skittish red state Democrats—and failed as a result. The president can't "pass" legislation—the most he can do is influence, pressure, and cajole.
And even that depends on forces out of his control; Obama's support was important to passing health-care reform, but that had everything to do with the Democratic Party's enormous majority in the House and Senate. On the other end, can you pressure an ally who doesn't rely on your voters? Can you bully a senator who has been in office longer than you've been an adult?
Common sense says "no," but that hasn't stopped Beltway pundits from lambasting the president. The latest critique comes from Maureen Dowd of The New York Times, who blames the death of new gun regulations on Obama's refusal to "get down in the weeds and pretend he values the stroking and other little things that matter to lawmakers." Of the president who helped shepherd stimulus and health-care reform, Dowd says he "still hasn't learned how to govern." She elaborates:
How is it that the president won the argument on gun safety with the public and lost the vote in the Senate? It's because he doesn't know how to work the system. And it's clear now that he doesn't want to learn, or to even hire some clever people who can tell him how to do it or do it for him. […]
It's amazing to watch pundits swing back and forth between two, mutually exclusive critiques. The first is that Obama did too much in his first term, and alienated the American public as a result. The second is that he is too lazy, and can't harness public opinion to push his agenda. How does Dowd think Obama should have moved forward? She offers a vision of what might have been, had he been willing to "fetch" his "brass knuckles":
Obama should have called Senator Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota over to the Oval Office and put on the squeeze: "Heidi, you're brand new and you're going to have a long career. You work with us, we'll work with you. Public opinion is moving fast on this issue. The reason you get a six-year term is so you can have the guts to make tough votes. This is a totally defensible bill back home. It's about background checks, nothing to do with access to guns. Heidi, you're a mother. Think of those little kids dying in schoolrooms."
Of course, we don't know that this didn't happen. Either way, Heitkamp has an easy reply for Obama, "And how many votes do those kids have?" It's cold and it's cruel, but it's also the truth. What exactly could Barack Obama do to threaten her, or Max Baucus of Montana, or Kay Hagan of North Carolina, or Mark Begich of Alaska? Democrats are a rare breed in North Dakota. Mitt Romney won the state by 20 percentage points, which is to say that Heitkamp won her office in spite of her party affiliation, not because of it. Obama is president, but Heitkamp has the power in the relationship—she doesn't need him, but he needs her to further his agenda as much as he can.
You'd think that this would be apparent to long-term observers of Washington, who should understand that lawmakers—from freshman House members to long-time senators—come with their own agendas and priorities. Often, they have as much power as any president to decide domestic policy, and determine the course of the country. It's only in unusual circumstances that this situation plays out in reverse, and even then, it's still difficult for a president to enforce his will.
What's funny is that we just had this conversation. After Lincoln hit theaters late last year, Washington was consumed with what the film said about presidential power. And if it said anything, it's that even the "best" circumstances—a civil war that invested the White House with immense authority, a large set of allies and supporters—aren't enough to bend Congress to the president's will.
In policymaking, environments and institutions matter as much, if not more, than individuals. And given the current unfavorable landscape, I doubt even Lincoln—or any president you want to name—could have forced the Senate to accept a gun bill.


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Nobles County Residents May Have to Wait For Power
WORTHINGTON (AP) — Residents in Nobles County may be without power through Friday, after a spring snow and ice storm knocked down power lines in the area.
Nobles Cooperative Electric says Sunday that crews are still trying to restore power to residents in southwestern Minnesota. As of Sunday morning, 2,000 members were still without power.
The company estimates 90 percent of members in the Murray County area will see their power restored on Sunday. But Nobles County members will be without power for longer.
Federated Rural Electric says it had nearly 300 customers without power as of Sunday morning.
Meanwhile, Nobles County authorities are still seeking volunteers to help with storm cleanup efforts.


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What was the big boom?
By Joseph Bell - Record Editor - Several Elk County residents placed calls to emergency services personnel and law enforcement agencies Sunday night regarding what they described as a loud "boom." Although the source of the noise was initially attributed to seismic testing for Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling, no cause or explanation has formally been discovered. According to several news sources, residents called 911 to report feeling and hearing a blast in Johnsonburg around 10:30 p.m. on Sunday evening. Other residents in the neighboring municipalities of Ridgway and Wilcox also called emergency services to report hearing a loud, explosion-type noise. Calls to Elk County's 911 were received at 9 p.m. from Jones Township, 10:15 p.m. from Ridgway and 10:30 p.m. from Jones Township. Police in those areas also received inquiries about the sound.When anything goes wrong in the area lately, most folks seemingly are quick to blame it on Marcellus Shale drilling however I don't quite think that's the case here.The East Branch area has long been known for being used as military training airspace and the latest "boom" could no doubt be a military jet breaking the sound barrier. In talking with some of the locals in that area, on more than one occasion the "boom" from a jet actually broke a window. Military helicopters also are routinely seen throughout the area which further illustrates that point.But what do you think the big boom was? Is it because of the Marcellus Shale drilling? Is the boogie man coming to get us? Or is it something even more outrageous?


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Thanks to a busy session that saw Democrats pass a flurry of legislation, there's a long list of new laws going into effect Monday. Among them are:
• Magazine limits: A law limits most gun ammunition magazines to 15 rounds. A federal hearing about the ammunition limits is scheduled for July 10 in Denver.
• Renewable energy: A new law requires rural electricity co-ops to double the amount of electricity they get from renewable sources by 2020.
• Marijuana safety: The state Department of Revenue, which will oversee pot regulation, must release detailed regulations on how the drug is grown and sold. One major detail the department must announce Monday is how marijuana should be tested for safety and potency before it can go on sale to the public Jan. 1.
• Crimes against pregnant women: Colorado joins other states with a felony crime of unlawful termination of a pregnancy.
• Job-seeker credit protection: Employers face new limits on accessing the credit history of job applicants.
• Career assistance: House Bill 1004 sets up a three-year grant program and a study of current labor-pool requirements and qualifications.
• Tobacco taxes: Sales taxes on cigarettes will now be permanent.


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GM Omar Minaya said he'd take one out of three in St. Louis. He got it, but is anybody really happy? They could have won all three with a little bit of hitting. Then again, they could have been swept, too.
John Maine was better last night, but the qualifier is he was better in comparison to his previous two rotten starts. Adam Wainwright pitched a complete game last night with 107 pitches. Maine was lucky to get through five with the 115 he threw.
Maine worked out of trouble in each of the first four innings, which showed some improvement, but gave up a three-run homer to Colby Rasmus in the fifth. How often does a manager pull a pitcher winning 3-0 after four scoreless innings?
If he had to do it all over again, that might have been the way for Jerry Manuel to go last night.
While Maine on a whole was a disappointment again, he showed enough to where he'll get the ball again. He threw his fastball more, and the more he throws it the harder it will become. He's still throwing it in the low 90s with little movement. It should get better.
The one thing the Mets have to take out of their 2-4 road trip to Colorado and St. Louis was a definite improvement in the rotation collectively. What they got received from their five they'll take every time.
Of course, they'll still come away 2-4 at best because they offense is non-existent, especially with runners in scoring position, hitting .155 on the trip.
Moving Jose Reyes to the three hole isn't the answer, because he's not getting on base anyway. Nobody is hitting, including now Jeff Francoeur, whose 10-game hitting streak has fallen into an 0-for-9 slide.
Jason Bay? Well, he's still on the team, but you'd never know it by his production.
"I'm living what they are watching," Bay said in St. Louis last night. "It's just one of those things you go through… I'm just going through a slump."
Although Bay struck out four times Saturday, he did scorch a line drive that was robbed of a hit late in the game. Given he finally made contact, I thought he would have played last night.
A lot of pressure will be put on Ike Davis when he arrives, presumably tomorrow, as he was in the starting line-up today in Buffalo.
I'm encouraged by the pitching on the trip, but also tempered because it is one time through the rotation. We'll see what we get from Jon Niese tonight against the Cubs.


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Robson exits Barnet
Barnet have announced that Mark Robson has left his duties as joint head coach at the club.
Robson shared the role with former Ajax and Juventus midfielder Edgar Davids who signed as a player/coach in October this year.
The 43-year-old leaves the club with immediate effect while Davids will continue in his role as head coach and takes full responsibility for first-team matters.
The Bees have recently won back-to-back games, including victory over league leaders Gillingham, to lift them out of the relegation zone.
A club statement read: "Barnet FC can today confirm that Mark Robson has left his duties as joint head coach at the club.
"It was felt that clarification was required regarding the coaching responsibilities at the club and to this end it was agreed that Mark should leave with immediate effect.
"The club would like to thank Mark for all his efforts and hard work and wish him the very best for the future."


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Darn rationing. Darn war! Oh well. Onwards to victory!
It is once again my patriotic duty to try and make my family think they are eating tasty food, when they really aren't!
Can you give me a new soup recipe?
Here's a delicious one: Golden Barley Soup. Grate or mince 2 lb. of carrots, put with 1 small teacup of barley into 1 quart of water and simmer for 2 1/2 hours. Roll a piece of margarine the size of a walnut in 1 tablespoonful of flour and stir it into the soup. Cook fast for 8 minutes, season. Serves 4 or 5 helpings.
"Neat! Where did you find duck??"
"No no, it is WWII duck."
"Wait. Wait, no! WHAT IS IT REALLY."
Mock Duck
Cooking time: 45 minutes Quantity: 4 helpings
1 lb. sausagemeat
8 oz cooking apples, peeled and grated
8 oz onions, grated
1 teaspoon chopped sage or 1/2 teaspoon dried sage
Method: Spread half the sausagemeat into a flat layer in a well greased baking tin or shallow casserole. Top with the apples, onions, and sage. Add the rest of the sausagemeat and shape this top layer to look as much like a duck as possible. Cover with well greased paper and bake in the center of a moderately hot oven.
Golden Barley Soup: Have you noticed that this is made of massive amounts of carrot, with water and barley? Guess what it tastes like? Massive amounts of carrot. With a little bit of water and some chewy bits of barley. Just... a great big pile o' carrot. Now, I like carrot, but really. Really?
I crammed down a few bites, then dumped a duck head in the middle of it to help it go down easier. It did not help. Even the tastiness of sausage did nothing. Besides the attractive goldeny color, this is a very depressing soup.
Mock Duck: Ha HA! You thought it was a real duck when you looked at the picture, did you not? Of course you did, no doubt due in no small part to my cunning carrot duck bill. Well it isn't! What it is, though, is... really really good.
Yes. A "mock" whatever from WWII is delicious. I could hardly believe it my own self. The oniony appley interior sounds a little strange (although not, of course, to fans of apples n' onions), but it is great! All parties in attendance agreed that this was so. I will even, contrary to all expectations, recommend this. It's about time those living under WWII rationing restrictions had a bit of cheer.
"I'm making goose for dinner!"
"Cool! Where'd you find a g... WAIT. IS THE GOOSE MADE OF GOOSE."
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Take a look at the International Space Station, where Don Pettit constructs what can only be called Russian Nesting Bubbles - a series of thick-rimmed bubbles inside other bubbles, all of which center themselves.
I'm beginning to think that gravity is the force most responsible for not letting us have any fun. Take a look at the latest demonstration conducted by Don Pettit, an astronaut on the International Space Station. Because there is not gravity pulling down on the water bubble he constructs, it can have very thick rims and it lasts for a long time. While it's bubbling around (I don't know the verb for what bubbles do with themselves.), it is injected with more bubbles, many of which have bubbles inside them.
Later, when there's just a water droplet, the water is set to spin, and the air bubbles are injected inside it. (Then there are lasers just for fun.) What's strange is, why do the bubbles inside the water droplet seem to clump around the center of the spinning drop? They bumble (that's what bubbles do!) around a bit, but eventually they all head towards the center. To understand the answer, we have to understand that we're not just seeing a droplet, we're seeing a centrifuge. The surface tension of the droplet, not having to contend with gravitational force, does a pretty good job keeping the droplet together, and it spins just like a centrifuge would spin. The reason why we have centrifuges in labs is to separate out materials. Dense materials will shoulder their way to the outer edge of the spinning centrifuge, while lighter material will get pushed to the center. Since water is denser than air, the same thing happens here, and the bubbles get pushed to the center of the spinning drop.
And, this doesn't have anything to do with anything, but we'd like to thank Don Pettit for not just doing these experiments, but for uttering the phrase, "That's where I'd go if I were a bubble."
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(CNN) -- Force India entered the elite division of motorsport when Indian businessman Vijay Mallya and Dutchman Michiel Mol purchased the now-defunct Spyker team in 2007.
Having steadily improved with each season, posting a fourth-place finish at the 2009 Italian Grand Prix, the Britain-based marque will be eying a spot on the podium in 2012.
The 2011 season was the best yet for Force India, finishing sixth in the constructors' standings. Paul di Resta enjoyed an impressive rookie year and Adrian Sutil placed ninth overall despite the uncertainty caused by his court case for assaulting an executive of rival team Lotus Renault in April.
Sutil has since departed the team after being found guilty, receiving a suspended sentence and $262,000 fine.
Paul di Resta
The Scotsman is the cousin of IndyCar legend Dario Franchitti, and showed glimpses of his racing pedigree during an encouraging first F1 season.
Di Resta's highest finish of the year was sixth in Singapore and he ended the season 13th in the drivers' championship on 27 points.
The 25-year-old is a former Formula Three champion and he will want to prove he can become the Silverstone-based team's top driver.
Nico Hulkenberg
Hulkenberg steps up from his Force India test driver role in 2011 to replace fellow German Sutil.
The 24-year-old's last F1 race was the 2010 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, before he was dropped by Williams despite an impressive rookie season.
The 2009 GP2 series champion finished sixth in Hungary for Williams, his best F1 result to date, and made headlines when he claimed his first and only pole position at the Brazilian Grand Prix, where he placed eighth in the race.
Australia: Di Resta 10th, Hulkenberg DNF
Malaysia: Di Resta 7th, Hulkenberg 9th
China: Di Resta 12th, Hulkenberg 15th
Bahrain: Di Resta 6th, Hulkenberg 12th
Spain: Hulkenberg 10th, Di Resta 14th
Monaco: Di Resta 7th, Hulkenberg 8th
Canada: Di Resta 11th, Hulkenberg 12th
Europe: Hulkenberg 5th, Di Resta 7th
Britain: Hulkenberg 12th, Di Resta DNF
Germany: Hulkenberg 8th, Di Resta 11th
Hungary: Hulkenberg 11th, Di Resta 12th
Belgium: Hulkenberg 4th, Di Resta 10th
Italy: Di Resta 8th, Hulkenberg 21st
Singapore: Di Resta 4th, Hulkenberg 14th
Japan: Hulkenberg 7th, Di Resta 12th
Korea: Hulkenberg 6th, Di Resta 12th
India: Hulkenberg 8th, Di Resta 12th
Abu Dhabi: Di Resta 9th, Hulkenberg DNF
Brazil: Hulkenberg 5th, Di Resta DNF


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Ghost Hunters of Urban Los Angeles (GHOULA)
Monday, May 13, 2013 from 8:00 PM to 11:59 PM (PDT)
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GHOULA meets for cocktails in haunted places on the 13th of each month. "SPIRITS with SPIRITS" is a casual social gathering of regional ghost hunters and those that just like ghost stories. Open to all, from the curious skeptic to the passionate phantom pursuer. Make friends, and toast a ghost! Let's put the "Boo!" back into "booze."
May 17th will be GHOULA's 60th SPIRITS with SPIRITS, and as such, it will mark 5 years of our humble group meeting once a month to explore this great city and tell ghost stories over cocktails. Help us celebrate this milestone at one of the most enchanted places in Los Angeles.
This meet-up will be in the Oviatt Penthosue, with a full-service (no host) bar set up just for us. The good people at Truly Yours Catering have arranged for GHOULA to get special access into this famously haunted building's inner sanctum (not normally open to the public), so come out for this rare opportunity to see one of the great hidden gems of Downtown.
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Oviatt Penhouse
617 S Olive St
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Monday, May 13, 2013 from 8:00 PM to 11:59 PM (PDT)
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If the kingdom belongs to children (19:13-15)-those who receive the kingdom as humble dependents (18:1-6)-then someone accustomed to being powerful and supporting dependents might find it difficult to enter the kingdom (compare 5:20; 7:14; 18:8; 25:46). This is the illustration with which 19:16-24 confronts us: wealth and status make perfect surrender to God's will more difficult, because we think we have more to lose.
Many examples of faith in the Bible are acts of desperation; few are the acts of self-satisfied individuals. Ultimately one who would receive the kingdom must not only obey like a trusting child but also relinquish worldly possessions and cares, acknowledging the absolute authority of our King.
Those Who Want Eternal Life Must Obey God's Commands (19:16-20)
The good thing the man must do is show his fidelity toward God's covenant by obeying his laws. These laws were part of first-century Jewish culture, and the young man is convinced that he has kept them, as many of us have avoided breaking the laws of our society (compare Odeberg 1964:60). But if he is really ready to submit to the yoke of God's kingdom, he must also become a follower of Jesus and submit to Jesus' demands. That he is unwilling to spare all his goods to help the poor will soon bring into question whether he really loves his neighbor as himself (vv. 19-22).
Jesus Summons Disciples to Absolute Commitment (19:21-22)
The commandments listed in verses 18-19 are humanward, summarized in the decree Love your neighbor as yourself (Lev 19:18); by adding these words from 22:39, Matthew underlines this point. Yet if God alone is good (19:17), the man is lacking in some way (he himself admits it in v. 20, allowing Jesus to echo in 19:21 the call in 5:48 to "perfect obedience"). Now the man's allegiance to the Godward love commandment (22:37-38) is tested: does he serve God or money (6:24)? Loss of our wealth or fear of how our needs will be met can test us in this way (6:19-34); the needs of the poor can test us in the same way, as here. Love for God demands a true love for neighbors that not only avoids harming them but actively serves them. The young man wants a teacher (19:16); he does not want a Lord who demands sacrifice (20:20-28).
By "going" (19:21; also 8:4; 20:4; compare 10:6; 28:19) and abandoning all else (compare especially 13:44), the man could have "followed" Jesus, that is, become his disciple (compare 4:19; 8:22; 9:9; 16:24). The kingdom demands more than merely keeping many commandments; if we recognize Christ as our King, we must surrender to him everything we have and are (compare L. Johnson 1981:17). Whether he then allows us to use some of what he has given us is his choice. Disciples do not always lose all possessions upon conversion-but they lose all ownership of them, for they themselves belong to a new ruler.
Jesus generally called his own chief disciples (Mt 4:19, 21). Yet on some occasions prospective disciples did approach him (8:19); as here, Jesus sometimes thrust them aside-probably, like some other ancient teachers, to test the would-be student's real willingness to become a learner (as in Diog. Laert. 6.2.21, 36; 7.1.22; compare Sipre Num. 115.5.7). When Jesus turned away prospective disciples with heavy demands, he probably intended the same as some other teachers did: disciples must count the cost, repudiate their prior assets and recognize the incomparable value of his teaching.
Persistent seekers throughout the Gospels display the appropriate response: the Canaanite woman (Mt 15:25-28), the blind men (20:31-34), the Gentile centurion (8:7-13) and Jesus' own mother (Jn 2:3-9). Jesus' sorrow over the unwilling disciple (Mk 10:23-25) indicates that he hoped not to turn inquirers away but rather to make them genuine disciples, which they could become only if they counted the cost and chose the narrow way of following him.
When we tell prospective disciples today, "Just ask Jesus to forgive your sins and you can go to heaven," we are not telling the whole truth of the gospel. Jesus is available for the asking, but accepting Jesus means accepting the reign of God and God's right to determine what we do with our lives. When we invite our Lord to free us from sin, we are inviting him to rule our life; and while we may yet fall short in submission to his will, we must actively acknowledge his right to determine our lives, acting on the knowledge that he has begun to transform us by his Spirit. If we accept Jesus' terms of unconditional surrender to him, however, he promises an unlimited supply of what truly matters (Mt 19:23-30).
The wealthy would-be disciple was not the only person whose attachment to possessions proved a challenge to his commitment to Christ. As Dietrich Bonhoeffer, martyred by the Nazis, pointed out, the difference between us and the rich man in the story is that Jesus stood before him and did not allow him to reinterpret the Master's words in a more convenient manner. Bonhoeffer claims that the man's honesty in rejecting Jesus' command was better than disobedience that pretends to be obedience today (1963:88). He compares a boy told by his father to go to bed; the boy has studied theology, however, so he is now intelligent enough to reason, "Father tells me to go to bed, but he really means that I am tired, and he does not want me to be tired. I can overcome my tiredness just as well if I go out and play." But a child offering such arguments to his father would likely meet with language or an experience he would have to interpret more literally, as would a citizen with her government-or a disciple who reasons away God's demands (Bonhoeffer 1963:90).
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From polkit homepage:
- polkit is an application-level toolkit for defining and handling the policy that allows unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes: It is a framework for centralizing the decision making process with respect to granting access to privileged operations for unprivileged applications.
Polkit is used for controlling system-wide privileges. It provides an organized way for non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged ones. In contrast to systems such as sudo, it does not grant root permission to an entire process, but rather allows a finer level of control of centralized system policy.
Polkit works by delimiting distinct actions, e.g. running GParted, and delimiting users by group or by name, e.g. members of the wheel group. It then defines how – if at all – those users are allowed those actions, e.g. by identifying as members of the group by typing in their passwords.
Polkit can be installed with the package polkit, available in the official repositories.
Authentication agents
An authentication agent is used to make the user of a session prove that the user of the session really is the user (by authenticating as the user) or an administrative user (by authenticating as an administrator). The polkit package contains a textual authentication agent called 'pkttyagent', which is used as a general fallback.
If you are using a graphical environment, make sure that a graphical authentication agent installed and autostarted. Cinnamon, GNOME, MATE, KDE and LXDE have an authentication agent already.
In other desktop environments, you have to choose one of the following implementations:
- lxpolkit, which provides
- mate-polkitAUR, which provides
- polkit-gnome, which provides
- polkit-kde, which provides
Make sure that its executable is autostarted on login.
Polkit definitions can be divided into two kinds:
- Actions are defined in XML
.policyfiles located in
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions. Each action has a set of default permissions attached to it (e.g. you need to identify as an administrator to use the GParted action). The defaults can be overruled but editing the actions files is NOT the correct way.
- Authorization rules are defined in JavaScript
.rulesfiles. They are found in two places: 3rd party packages can use
/usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d(though few if any do) and
/etc/polkit-1/rules.dis for local configuration. The .rules files designate a subset of users, refer to one (or more) of the actions specified in the actions files and determine with what restrictions these actions can be taken by that/those user(s). As an example, a rules file could overrule the default requirement for all users to authenticate as an admin when using GParted, determining that some specific user doesn't need to. Or isn't allowed to use GParted at all.
The actions available to you via polkit will depend on the packages you have installed. Some are used in multiple desktop environments (org.freedesktop.*), some are DE-specific (org.gnome.*) and some are specific to a single program (org.archlinux.pkexec.gparted.policy). The command
pkaction lists all the actions defined in
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions for quick reference.
To get an idea of what polkit can do, here are a few commonly used groups of actions:
- systemd-logind (org.freedesktop.login1.policy) actions regulated by polkit include powering off, rebooting, suspending and hibernating the system, including when other users may still be logged in.
- udisks (org.freedesktop.udisks2.policy) actions regulated by polkit include mounting file systems and unlocking encrypted devices.
- NetworkManager (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy) actions regulated by polkit include turning on and off the network, wifi or mobile broadband.
Each action is defined in an
<action> tag in a .policy file. The
org.archlinux.pkexec.gparted.policy contains a single action and looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE policyconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Policy Configuration 1.0//EN" "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/PolicyKit/1/policyconfig.dtd"> <policyconfig> <action id="org.archlinux.pkexec.gparted"> <message>Authentication is required to run the GParted Partition Editor</message> <icon_name>gparted</icon_name> <defaults> <allow_any>auth_admin</allow_any> <allow_inactive>auth_admin</allow_inactive> <allow_active>auth_admin</allow_active> </defaults> <annotate key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.path">/usr/bin/gparted</annotate> <annotate key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.allow_gui">true</annotate> </action> </policyconfig>
The attribute id is the actual command sent to D-Bus, the message tag is the explanation to the user when authentication is required and the icon_name is sort of obvious.
The default tag is where the permissions or lack thereof are located. It contains three settings: allow_any, allow_inactive, and allow_active. Inactive sessions are generally remote sessions (SSH, VNC, etc.) whereas active sessions are logged directly into the machine on a TTY or an X display. allow_any is the setting encompassing both scenarios.
For each of these settings the following options are available:
- no: The user is not authorized to carry out the action. There is therefore no need for authentication.
- yes: The user is authorized to carry out the action without any authentication.
- auth_self: Authentication is required but the user need not be an administrative user.
- auth_admin: Authentication as an administrative user is require.
- auth_self_keep: The same as auth_self but, like sudo, the authorization lasts a few minutes.
- auth_admin_keep: The same as auth_admin but, like sudo, the authorization lasts a few minutes.
These are default setting and unless overruled in later configuration will be valid for all users.
As can be seen from the GParted action, users are required to authenticate as administrators in order to use GParted, regardless of whether the session is active or inactive.
Authorization rules
Authorization rules that overrule the default settings are laid out in a set of directories as described above. For all purposes relating to personal configuration of a single system, only
/etc/polkit-1/rules.d should be used.
addRule() method is used for adding a function that may be called whenever an authorization check for action and subject is performed. Functions are called in the order they have been added until one of the functions returns a value. Hence, to add an authorization rule that is processed before other rules, put it in a file in
/etc/polkit-1/rules.d with a name that sorts before other rules files, for example
The layout of the .rules files is fairly self-explanatory:
/* Allow users in admin group to run GParted without authentication */ polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) { if (action.id == "org.archlinux.pkexec.gparted" && subject.isInGroup("admin")) { return polkit.Result.YES; } });
Inside the function, we check for the specified action ID (org.archlinux.pkexec.gparted) and for the user's group (admin), then return a value "yes".
Administrator identities
addAdminRule() method is used for adding a function may be called whenever administrator authentication is required. The function is used to specify what identities may be used for administrator authentication for the authorization check identified by action and subject. Functions added are called in the order they have been added until one of the functions returns a value.
The default configuration for administrator identities is contained in the file
50-default.rules so any changes to that configuration should be made by copying the file to, say,
40-default.rules and editing that file.
polkit.addAdminRule(function(action, subject) { return ["unix-group:wheel"]; });
The only part to edit (once copied) is the return array of the function: as whom should a user authenticate when asked to authenticate as an administrative user? If she herself is a member of the group designated as admins, she only need enter her own password. If some other user, e.g. root, is the only admin identity, she would need to enter in root's password. The format of the user identification is the same as the one used in designating authorities. The Arch default is to make all members of the group wheel administrators.
Polkit operates on top of the existing permissions systems in Linux – group membership, administrator status – it does not replace them. The example above prohibited the user jack from using the GParted action, but it does not preclude him running GParted by some means that do not respect polkit, e.g. the command line. Therefore it's probably better to use polkit to expand access to privileged services for unprivileged users, rather than to try using it to curtail the rights of (semi-)privileged users. For security purposes, the sudoers file is still the way to go.
Disable suspend and hibernate
The following rule disables suspend and hibernate for all users.
polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) { if (action.id == "org.freedesktop.login1.suspend" || action.id == "org.freedesktop.login1.suspend-multiple-sessions" || action.id == "org.freedesktop.login1.hibernate" || action.id == "org.freedesktop.login1.hibernate-multiple-sessions") { return polkit.Result.NO; } });
Allow mounting a filesystem on a system device
The following rule enables mounting a filesystem on a system device for the
storage group.
polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) { if (action.id == "org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system" && subject.isInGroup("storage")) { return polkit.Result.YES; } });


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'Temple Run: Brave' Mobile Game Review
Growing up in the golden age of arcades during the 80′s you had one objective and one objective only – get the highest score possible.
Video games lost their high score luster over the next couple of decades, giving way to storylines, polygon pushing bragging rights and which mascot was going to rule over the other. But lately there's been a resurgence in high score achievements thanks to things like Gamecenter and Xbox Live. And mobile gaming seems to be bringing back what made games great back in the day. With games like Temple Run: Brave, if you want to prove you're the best, you've gotta earn it.
To promote their upcoming animated film 'Brave,' Disney Interactive decided to team up with Imangi Studios and breathe some new life into one of Imangi's most popular titles, 'Temple Run.' The result is 'Temple Run: Brave,' a free-running game where the only goal is to stay alive for as long as you can. It's addicting, it's novel, and I absolutely 100% suck at it.
Controls are simple, and the game has a tutorial for first time players. Swipe the screen down to slide, swipe up to jump, and swipe left or right to turn in that direction. Tilt your device to move Miranda on the path. The further you get, the faster she runs and the less response time you have to make a decision. And you're going to have some very frustrating short response times.
Coins are littered throughout the course. Collect them to purchase powerups which I'll cover in just a bit. Disney and Imangi added something new to the Temple Run style of gameplay – targets. Since Miranda is an expert at archery, at various points in the game targets will appear. Tap the left or right side of the screen as soon as you see the target and she'll nail it. Targets only appear during long straightaways, so you don't have to worry about jumping or sliding during them. Getting all the targets earns you a bonus. You can also purchase coins separately though I don't know why anyone would waste the money.
Once you've collected enough coins (you start with 2,500 for your initial purchase of .99 cents) head to the store to buy powerups, outfits and wallpapers. Permanent powerups include – Increasing the Mega Coin Value, Make the Coin Magnet last longer, make Invisibility last longer, Increase Boost, Triple Value Coins and Increase Coin Reward.
Utilities, which can only be used once each time you purchase them, include – Resurrect Wings, boost ahead 1000m at the start of the game and mega boost 2500m at the start of the game. You can also purchase three more outfits and three different kinds of wallpaper. Scrolling in the store is extremely difficult for some reason. Sometimes I purchased a powerup when I didn't mean to because I was trying to scroll down. A separate scroll bar should be added in a future update.
You can also earn achievements in the game. Various objectives include running 2,500 meters, collecting a certain number of coins, unlocking outfits, etc. These objectives, once completed, increase your score multiplier. The game also comes with a Stat screen, showing how many times you've played, your longest run, total coins, etc. It's a nice little summary to remind players like me how terrible we are at the game.
The graphics have been changed from the ruined temples of Temple Run to the beautiful Scottish Highlands. There's quite a bit of fog in the background, which means when you turn, slide or jump, you won't have a lot of time to react when there's a new obstacle in front of you. Trees on the road and long jumping gaps are your worst enemy. Trip up over a small branch and the bear comes right up on you, waiting for you to screw up once more so he can grab you and end your game.
Controls weren't as responsive as I would have liked. Swiping seems fine at first but the faster you run, the less time you have to swipe the screen. But quite a few times I'd swipe right and Miranda wouldn't turn, running straight ahead into her watery grave. So my twitch skills have gone down the drain or something isn't quite right with the game's response time. Turning the sensitivity up in the options menu could help, but that may only work for the tilt controls. Not too sure.
The music is nice to listen to. Miranda will sometimes speak as she's running, making comments about how tired her legs are or complain that she's jumping around too much. You can change the music and sound volume in the options menu. You can also turn the tutorial on or off. One thing that I found to be very disappointing was the exclusion of any online Gamecenter area, where you can see the longest runs of other players. Not sure why that was omitted from the game and it should be included.
The game is a decent distraction for twitch gamers like myself, and the Pixar branding will help attract a younger crowd who might have skipped the original Temple Run. Nice graphics and sound and endless gameplay can be addicting, but the questionable gameplay mechanics could turn off some players. And the exclusion of online high scores means the only person you're going to be bragging to is yourself in the mirror. Hopefully some future updates will fix these problems before Temple Run: Brave runs out of steam.
App Store Link: Temple Run: Brave | By Disney Interactive/Imangi Studios | Price: $.99 | Version: 1.1 | 43.7 MB | Rating 4+


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Herbes De Province Recipes
Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto Palmier
If you're planning on having a romantic meal on Valentine's Day, check out these adorable heart-shaped puff pastry appetizers. They're called palmiers. I've made a different version before with a traditional basil pesto, but today I decided to make them with sun-dried tomato pesto. Not only does it taste great, but the red color makes these little treats perfect for Valentine's Day.
Even though palmiers look really fancy, they are ultra simple to make. If you're in a real hurry, you can even use store-bought pesto. Don't worry, I won't tell.
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For most, the name of this dish evokes dreams of animated rodents scurrying around a Parisian restaurant kitchen. In reality though, ratatouille is a French stewed vegetable dish from the seaside city of Nice. I make my version with zucchini (courgette in French), eggplant (aubergine), olives, capers, bell peppers, mushrooms and tomatoes. With the exception of the tomatoes, everything is fresh. I prefer canned tomatoes in this dish because they tend to be sweeter (especially during the winter season).
Given the abundance of fresh vegetables, this dish would be perfect for the summer. In fact, I make it often when the vegetables in my garden ripen. I also like it in the winter though, because it's excellent comfort food. The flavor of the veggies marries wonderfully with the herbs and spices. My family always ends up fighting over the "broth" at the bottom of the bowl.
Ratatouille can be eaten with just about anything. Crusty bread and rice are common options, but my personal favorite delivery device is a savory crêpe. However it makes it to your mouth though, you'll be happy it did!
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Purple Potato Gratin with Salmon Mousseline and Beurre Blanc
I bought Peruvian purple fingerling potatoes at the Farmers' market. Purple potatoes have a subtle grainy texture and I thought they'd pair perfectly with salmon mousseline.
Beurre blanc sounds like a sophisticated element in a French dish, but it's really just a white wine butter sauce. It's quite common in France and is often paired with poached fish and steamed vegetables. I think that it complements the crunchy potatoes and velvety salmon mousseline quite well. I finished each dish with a dollop of crème fraîche, some fresh dill and a couple of pink peppercorns. It's a feast for the eyes as well your taste buds.
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Water is precious. So much so that it can even lead to arguments between states.
That's what happened when Montana became concerned that water produced along with coalbed methane in Wyoming could flow into rivers and be carried into Montana, potentially making it too salty and not optimal for irrigation.
After Montana passed regulations to address its concerns, the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming objected, ruling that the Cowboy State's neighbors to the north had not shown that their regulations were based on appropriate scientific and technical data.
That's when University of Wyoming geology professor Carol Frost and her students stepped in to help settle the issue. They collected 30 water samples on the Powder River, along its course from central Wyoming to Montana, to its confluence with the Yellowstone River, and measured carbon isotope levels during both the spring and fall.
Their findings, says Frost, supplied the critical scientific information that dispelled Montana's notion.
"Water from the coalbed methane wells was different than the Powder River water. As you follow the river downstream, the carbon isotope values of the river go up because of the presence of coalbed methane-produced water," says Frost, who also serves as UW's vice president of special projects. "But, further downstream, other tributaries come in and carry fresh water. By the time the water enters Montana, the isotope levels are back down to a normal range."
When water crosses state lines, Frost acknowledges that the downstream state (in this case, Montana) can hold the upstream state responsible. But, she says, the parameters Montana used to determine agricultural use aren't distinct between produced water from coalbed methane and ordinary surface waters.
Under the Clean Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved Montana's water regulations in 2003 and 2006, respectively. Montana intended the regulations to address the possible impacts of coalbed methane gas development in Wyoming on water quality.
Subsequently, four separate actions were filed and later consolidated, which sought review of the EPA's approval of Montana's water quality standards. In October 2009, the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming vacated the EPA's approval of Montana's 2003 and 2006 water quality standards. The court remanded the matter to the EPA with instructions to consider the 2003 administrative record and determine whether the 2003 numeric standards were based upon appropriate technical and scientific data.
"Our work showed that the parameters Montana was regulating weren't the parameters that would allow them to identify the source of the problem," Frost says. "When we identified a suitable parameter —carbon isotopes—we established that water quality degradation in Montana was not the result of coalbed methane production in Wyoming."
Rather, saline levels in Montana's portion of the Powder River were found to be caused by agricultural practices, such as how much fertilizer was applied to crops, Frost says.
The state of Montana took its case to court, but the court ruled that Montana's regulations were not based on science. As a result, the case was thrown out, Frost says. Montana is sticking to its argument based on its water quality regulations, which are under EPA review.
"Basically, we've produced a better chemical discriminant for identifying when coalbed methane water is in the surface water," Frost says of the court actions.
The UW College of Law published an article about the subject in Wyoming Law Review in 2011.


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Pretty please can Abbi go home tonight? Hopefully, but first we have to listen to her for the entire episode.
The morning after Tribal Council, Abbi is still reeling from hearing what people actually think about her. She has to be one of the least self-aware people I have ever seen.
She's not mean, she's just fiery! And she can be mean, but no one can be mean to her! Bleh. Denise and Jonathan (arguably two of the smartest people in this game) feel the same way I do.
Malcolm and Abbi go to get Treemail, and it looks like letters from home, which makes Abbi cry. Malcolm provides a sympathetic shoulder to cry on, and while I don't doubt that he's empathic towards her (although he also calls her out on not being self-aware) but he's probably also setting her up as a possible jury vote.
Treemail is not letters from home, but money for a "Survivor" auction. Everybody gets $500, and you can't share food or money. Denise spends all of her money right away on pancakes and bacon, and Mike does the same thing on wine and cheese, even though he doesn't drink wine.
Iced coffee and donuts go to Malcolm for $200. I think I'd hold out for something with protein. Jonathan bids $100 for a mystery item, which turns out to be chicken and fries. See, that I'd pay the $500 for.
There is a second mystery item, which Carter bids on. It's a baked 'patata,' as Jeff calls it. But Carter gets the chance to trade his item for rice and beans for the whole tribe, which he takes. The next item (again mystery) Carter bids for, but Lisa outbids him and gets a huge sandwich. Kind of rude to outbid the guy who just gave up his food for the whole tribe.
And then there's an 'advantage in the game,' which Abbi immediately bids $500 for. We'll see how that goes. Carter gets to bid on another item, and Lisa tries to outbid him again, but he has more money left than her. The item is veal shanks, which the whole tribe gets 60 seconds to eat. This challenge has done a lot to make Carter look good to the rest of the tribe, that's for sure.
I miss a lot of the name titles because I'm typing while I watch, but I just realized that I've been spelling Abi's name wrong the whole time. Whoops, sorry Abi.
Everyone is all happy and full back from the auction. Until Abi and Jonathan start talking that is. She feels that she deserves an apology form the people who ganged up on her.
I love the start of Jonathan's explanation -- "Well, in a game ..." She's so put out about how 'mean' people were to her, but then turns around and immediately says that she's only 'honest.' Pot, the kettle called, and you're black.
Malcolm thinks Abi's advantage is either a clue to another Immunity Idol, or an advantage in the next challenge. And he's right, she will go directly to the final round of the next Immunity Challenge. Which may or may not help her, considering how much she sucks at challenges.
Abi plans to start messing with people, and insinuating (lying) that she has more power than she does. Does she not realize that this plan will only work to the beginning of the next challenge, when her advantage is announced? Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, there.
Malcolm refers to her as that ex-girlfriend that just won't go away, and is all bitter and hasn't forgiven you, but wo''t leave you alone. Ha. That is exactly what she is. She tries telling Malcolm that she already has the Immunity Idol, but it doesn't look like he's buying it.
Immunity Challenge and Abi's comeuppance time! More ropes wrapped around obstacles. They really like the rope thing this season, don't they? Did they get a good deal on rope or something?
Jeff asks Abi to read her note, and she totally lies to everyone, and says that there were two notes, and reads the part about the challenge advantage. I can't stand you, but well played, Abi. There are also quiz questions, which Lisa and Denise get wrong and get 5 percent of their body weight to carry through the course.
Denise is out to an early lead, despite the extra weight. Carter, Mike, Malcolm, and Jonathan make it through the first round. Denise, Carter and Mike miss the second question, and get another 5 percent. Jonathan and Carter make it through the second round. When did Carter get so good at challenges?
Last round is Carter, Jonathan, and Abi. All they have to do is untie knots to get through. Could they have made this any easier for Abi? I admit that I'm sitting here, along with all the other Survivors, chanting "Go, Carter, go!" because I desperately don't want Abi to win. Which, crap, she does. She will be unbearable when she get back to camp, because she can't fathom that she should be thinking ahead.
Malcolm is not all that upset about Abi getting immunity, because it gives him the opportunity to get rid of Jonathan now. And geez, now Lisa is whinging about having to get rid of Carter and Jonathan because she made an alliance with Denise and Malcolm, and how she's not made for this game. And she goes right to Jonathan and her woes, which is stupid, stupid, stupid.
I don't know why I'm recapping this, since she's dead to me. She cries all the time, but has no problem stabbing people in the back. And wow, can Lisa get a pair of tweezers in a reward, because, damn.
Jonathan calls her on her crap, which is awesome. He tells everyone exactly what he thinks and they all like him anyway. He also realizes that he should have solidified an alliance when he had the chance. He gets Carter and Abi together to vote for Denise, and tries to work on Mike. Mike is contemplating going along with it, because he feels that he could beat Jonathan in the final three.
Tribal Council time! Jonathan is dancing around trying his darndest to save himself; he reminds me of "Razzle Dazzle" from Chicago. Oh, jeez, Lisa is crying again, about a similar situation in her personal life? Is this somehow about the Facts of Life? I'm so confused. It all comes down to who Mike votes for ...
And it's Jonathan. He didn't quite dazzle them enough, I guess. He hugs Carter, and flat out refuses to hug Abi when asked. Ha. He leaves, whistling, and telling everyone to "suck eggs" cheerfully.
Next week: It's family visit time! Good for Lisa, and possible bad for Malcolm because his brother is a weenie? We'll see.
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Christoph Frei: carbon and gas prices pose key market uncertainties
The future of carbon pricing poses the greatest uncertainty for energy investors in the next 5–10 years, according to WEC Secretary General Christoph Frei. The current lack of a carbon price is "the single biggest reason for people ending up with stranded investment," Frei told diplomats and energy analysts at the Global Energy Security Conference, […]
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Christoph Frei speaks at major conferences in UK, Jordan and Canada
During May 2012, Christoph Frei presented the key findings from the WEC's flagship studies at conferences in UK, Jordan and Canada. On 3 May he spoke at the UK Energy Summit, held by The Economist in London. Dr Frei called for greater emphasis on effective policymaking to encourage long-term energy investment, and reminded the audience […]
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World Energy Council at UN SE4ALL meeting in London
Dr Christoph Frei represented the World Energy Council at the meeting of the UN Secretary General's Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) High-Level Group in London on 24 April. Dr Frei thanked the SE4All co-chairs for their invitation on behalf of the WEC, and congratulated SE4All on the progress achieved in ensuring energy is understood as […]
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Rocha Urges History Study Instead of Celebrationby Howard Hewitt • February 25, 2011 Share:
Owen Duston Visiting Asst. Professor of Philosophy and Teacher Education Sam Rocha told Wabash students Thursday they should study and not celebrate history.
Rocha made his point using examples like Black History month and Dr. Martin Luther King. He suggested instead of making Dr. King a celebrity to revere, instead study the man's history and ideas
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The is a nice laptop, or rather a really small and light desktop replacement.
It is build upon the Intel NAPA platform with i945PM Chipset, Core Duo CPU and ipw3945 wireless.
It is build upon the Intel NAPA platform with i945PM Chipset, Core Duo CPU and ipw3945 wireless.
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The is a nice laptop, or rather a really small and light desktop replacement.
It is build upon the Intel NAPA platform with i945PM Chipset, Core Duo CPU and ipw3945 wireless.
Remember to update the BIOS on ftp.zepto.dk/Firmware/Bios/6214W
What does work?
3D Acceleration using the latest nvidia driver
Wireless using ipw3945
Wired network using r1000 (included in arch stock kernel)
Suspend to swap. though it was really slow to suspend.
20/2-07:Texas Instrument card reader works, some drivers are loaded but to make the card reader working just add tifm_sd in the module section from rc.conf
20/2-07:TV output is fine with nvidia driver and an appropriate xorg.conf, either dual screen or twinview mode.
These worked for me nearly ootb
Frequency-Scaling with acpi-cpufreq Tv-Out Bluetooth
Not tested
Texas Intrument card reader, there's currently a developement running to make it work here and here
Installation is straigt forward. You might have to select IDE-Legacy in the first Grub menu, otherwise you might get a kernel panic. Drivers for the wired and wireless network cards are included.
Kernel boot options
Boot the kernel with
noapic because the BIOS is a little buggy. This prevents random freezes when watching DVD's, gaming etc.
My MODULES looks like this:
MODULES=(!ata_piix ahci !hw_random r1000 ipw3945)
This makes sure eth1 is wired network and eth2 is wireless. The hw_random module seems to fail on this laptop so I blacklist it.
Graphic Card and Xorg
This laptop has a GeForce Go 7600 graphic card and works only with the proprietary nvidia driver (or vesa). Native resolution is only possible with the nvidia driver.
The monitor runs at 1280x768 60Hz, so remember to add "1280x768" to Modes
You have to use ipw3945 in order to make your wifi connection work.
pacman -Sy ipw3945
will install the necessary packages (for the stock kernel that is)
Then add
ipw3945d to DAEMONS in rc.conf. See wireless setup for additional information on wireless networking
The sound will work out of the box, make sure you have:
pacman -Sy alsa-lib alsa-utils
packages installed, and add yourself to audio group.
As of kernel 2.6.26 you might not be able to adjust the PCM volume, as there is no slider. You can workaround this with setting the following in your /etc/modprobe.d/sound
options snd-hda-intel model=lenovo enable=1 index=0 alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel
To get volume hotkeys to work create ~/.Xmodmap with:
keycode 160 = XF86AudioMute keycode 174 = XF86AudioLowerVolume keycode 176 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume
(If you use openbox do not forget to map the XF86xxxxxx keys in rc.xml)
External Links
- This report has been listed in the Linux Laptop and Notebook Installation Survey: Zepto.


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A man who has been married for 15 years suddenly begins losing weight and buying new clothes. He starts staying late at work and taking weekend business trips, unusual behaviors for him. His wife thinks he is having an affair. Why?
A usually happy teenager turns sullen. Her grades drop, she withdraws from activities that she's always loved, and she spends almost all of her free time in her room. Her parents think she is depressed or on drugs. Why?
A 40-year-old patient who has been coming to the same doctor for 12 years complains to him that she has recently been experiencing sudden weight loss, lingering thirst, increased night visits to the bathroom, and tingling in her feet. The doctor immediately has her tested for type 2 diabetes. Why?
The answer to each question is "patterns." The wife, the parents, and the doctor have all noted a change in a usual pattern and its replacement by a new one. It doesn't matter that the patterns are almost clichés-after all, spouses usually stray in typical ways and teens often act predictably when they disengage. What matters is the pattern for this person in this instance.
The ability to detect patterns is one of the things that sets us apart from other creatures. We see the whole rather than isolated parts. A cow sees a truck that comes weekly and takes some of her companions away-none of whom ever return. Although she notices the truck's visit every week, she does not see the pattern or understand its implication for her.
So, what does all of this have to do with diabetes? Very simple: Although diabetes is fairly easy to detect and define, it expresses itself differently in each person who has it. For you to best deal with it, you must learn the pattern it takes with you. Once you recognize that pattern, you can achieve the maximum possible control over diabetes.
What Does Diabetes Do to You?
Most of us who have been diagnosed with either type of diabetes are pretty familiar with its symptoms and effects. The bottom line for us, of course, is that uncontrolled blood sugar, too high or two low, can cause long-term organ damage or even unconsciousness, coma, and death.
Yet each of us uses a different set of benchmarks to tell us how severe our symptoms are. Professional surfer Scott Dunton, whom we profiled in Diabetes Health last year, will not work out or compete unless his BG is at least 140 mg/dl. In a non-diabetic person, that BG level would set off medical alarms. Even in a type 1 like Scott, it's not considered a good level by any stretch.
But Scott has "learned" his disease, and he knows that a high BG level fuels the intense two- or three-hour workouts that he requires to stay competitive. It's a compromise that kills two birds with one stone: After he finishes a workout, his BG levels are close to normal, and he has kept his edge. If Scott decided to follow the conventional pattern of giving himself a strong dose of insulin whenever his BGs reached 140 mg/dl, the world would be minus both a talented surfer and a happy young man.
When I was diagnosed with type 2 in 2003, the first thing I had to learn in dealing with it was to control my impatience. It was impatience that made me try to force the disease into submission by battering at it with everything I could think of: really vigorous exercise-more than I had done in years-combined with a stringent low-fat, low-calorie diet from which I exiled most of my favorite foods and daily doses of the sulfonylurea my doctor had prescribed.
At first my progress was gratifying. My A1c dropped to 5.6% within two months of diagnosis, and my fasting blood glucose level was often in the 120s-not ideal, but pretty good. I even began flirting with hypoglycemia, coming back from brisk five-mile walks with readings in the high 60s or low 70s. I quickly learned to keep a tube of glucose tablets in my pocket "just in case." But what I hadn't yet learned is that no trend is permanent and that the pattern I had established was far from being the only one I'd ever establish or need.
One day, months after my diagnosis, I took a particularly strenuous walk that had me breathing hard most of the way. When I came home and took my blood sugar reading it was just over 200. When I saw that reading, I think I came the closest I ever have to outright despair. I pricked myself again to double check, and the number came up almost the same. I couldn't believe that after having been a good boy for all those months and establishing a high level of control over my disease, my body would betray me so dramatically.
But one dismaying BG reading doth not a disaster make. After my initial shock and indulgence in a "why me?" moment wore off, I realized that I had made the mistake of assuming that all progress is permanent and that my body was like a rescue pet that, if properly fed, medicated, and stimulated, would fall into the routine I had set for it.
That's when I decided to take a step back and be a little more patient and methodical about monitoring my condition. I realized that having diabetes was not a straight-line affair. Just when I thought it was, the line would veer off in a wild direction or turn back on itself. So I had to figure out a way to account for those crazy departures from my expectations. Here's what I learned about how to find your pattern.
Set up a monitoring routine and stick to it. Typically you'll start with at least four daily readings: pre-breakfast; two post-meal (lunch and dinner); and pre-bedtime. You may want to add additional readings to monitor your pre- and post-exercise levels.
You should stick to this routine for a few weeks so that you can see what pattern emerges. For example, just after you've been diagnosed and have begun taking medicine and making lifestyle changes, your readings throughout the day might show:
- Fasting: 180 mg/dl
- 2 hours after lunch: 150 mg/dl
- 2 hours after dinner 165 mg/dl
- Before bed: 140 mg/dl
Two months later, those same readings might consistently show:
- Fasting: 115 mg/dl
- 2 hours after lunch: 120 mg/dl
- 2 hours after dinner 125 mg/dl
- Before bed: 120 mg/dl
Now you can begin experimenting to see what you can do to drop those numbers even 1ower:
- Add certain foods to your diet, or delete certain foods. If you have eliminated cereal from your breakfast routine, now would be a good time to see how a low-carb cereal, such as puffed rice, affects your post-breakfast reading.
- If you have been doing one kind of exercise, such as walking or bike riding, you can experiment with adding resistance exercises or weight training to the mix and see how it affects both your daily and your weekly readings.
- Alter your sleep habits to see if a change in the number of hours you sleep affects your fasting BG levels. Too much sleep (more than eight hours) can backfire on people with diabetes, leading to higher BG levels. Too little sleep (fewer than seven hours) can lead to daytime naps, a habit that researchers increasingly suspect plays havoc with BG levels (and can even be a sign of pre-diabetes).
- With your doctor's permission, see what happens if you scale back on your diabetes drug dosage or even stop taking it. This is not that radical a step-many diabetes researchers are saying that doctors are too quick to prescribe drugs to newly diagnosed diabetes patients. They advise that treatment with diet and exercise alone should precede the introduction of drugs.
Patience allows you to track the larger pattern. By taking time to methodically work through all the "what ifs" of your diabetes, you can see your larger pattern. Take each of the above steps one at a time and then wait to see what, if any, effect it has on your readings. If you do them all at once and you see a drop in your numbers, how do you know which of them is responsible?
Yes, being this methodical takes time-several weeks or months. But fortunately, diabetes is not a disease that gives you only months to live after diagnosis. You've already begun making lifestyle changes to slow its progression, so putting in some time now to find out your own ideal combination of food, sleep, exercise, and medication will pay off handsomely.
Expect anomalies and learn how to deal with them. Who knows why people who have been diligently doing the right things suddenly experience dramatic spikes in their blood sugar readings? Who knows why you can run six miles one day and come home with a 90 mg/dl BG reading, and then run the same distance two days later and come back with 210 mg/dl?
Bodies are not machines that never vary their output if you just keep delivering the right fuel and maintenance. They can react to stress by upping their production of glucose in response to exercise, and they may react to the onset of another condition, like a cold or allergy, by doing something that pushes your carefully built routine out of whack.
But chances are pretty good that occasional anomalies won't become a persistent pattern. Your ability to wait them out, by patiently tracking how often they appear and noting what you were doing when they did, will do much for your peace of mind.
Expect your pattern to change over time. Remember, diabetes is a progressive disease-not in the political or social sense of things getting endlessly better, but in the sense that damage from it is cumulative. You are experiencing a disease that can be managed, but for now cannot be cured. Managing it means that you can stalemate it for a very long time by keeping your blood sugars in control and thwarting its ability to create organ-destroying inflammation.
But bodies and metabolisms change. The effects of diabetes, though gradual, will eventually force a reappraisal of the medications you're taking, your diet, and your levels of exercise. But by then you'll have had years of practice at finding and knowing your pattern. You'll have the attitude and experience that will allow you to track your responses to a new set of circumstances and make the necessary changes in how you manage your disease.
Don't complicate things. If you're newly diagnosed with diabetes, the temptation is to learn everything you can as quickly as you can about the disease. The problem with that approach is that there is far more to know about the disease than any one person could ever master, and the attempt to learn it all can be overwhelming.
How do you know what's good information and what isn't? How do you reconcile conflicting information? Which theories and scientific studies are authentic insights into diabetes and which are dead ends? The answer is that it all comes back to being patient and methodical. Give yourself time to observe and experiment so that you can build an accurate map of the disease's effects on you and your best responses to it.


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New Jersey! Cerebellar Hypoplasia Kitty in Danger! Needs help now or he will be euthanized due to lack of space!!!!
Please contact ASAP [email protected]
I have been asked by my veterinarian who treats all of our senior Dachshunds to help today with placement of "JERSEY BOY," a beautiful, young cat with CH, or cerebellar hypoplasia. JERSEY BOY is a local boy here in Hunterdon County, NJ; he was found on a rural roadway. The kind soul who stopped to help him thought he had been struck by a car; he was not familiar with the condition of CH. If YOU are not, it is a condition that a cat can be born with, and it causes instability in their balance and coordination. Often called "the wobbly disease," cats are just as normal as any other cat in every other way, they just wobble when they walk! They eat normal foods, use a bigger litter box due to their need for balance, and give their companions the same amount of love that any other cat would, if not more! This is NOT a contagious condition to other household cats. Please consider helping JERSEY BOY to find an adopter that will offer him the special attention he so deserves! He has spent his kitten youth in a cage at our veterinarian's office since AUGUST! Please don't let him die there, due to lack of space to keep him any longer....
I AM CONTACT PERSON! and I need to hear from you SOON! LIKE NOW! Pickup/delivery available! The veterinarian and his staff would REALLY like to meet anyone taking JERSEY BOY home! They have cared for him since August, and provided all of his basic veterinary needs, as well as exercised his legs to support his development into the beautiful young cat you see here! Please help me to help him! He needs out!
My email is: [email protected] ; Thank you, for considering JERSEY BOY;
I pray as I write this today that there is just one soul somewhere that will open heart and home, and that after everything this cat has been through, his story will not have a sad ending... Schultz Senior Dachshund Sanctuary in NJ; Friend of Felines, too!
Please contact Kim Immediately!!!! [email protected] loveaseniorweiner (AT) yahoo (dot) com


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French In Action "Families" Our two characters get names: Mireille and Robert. Mireille has two sisters. Robert is an only child; his mother is French. His parents are divorced.G
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French In Action "Portraits I" Mireille is petite, but healthy, athletic, strong, with long blond hair, and blue eyes. She's quick and has a certain fondness for poking fun.G
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Unfinished Nation "A Precarious Experiment" Peace Treaty (1783) with Great Britain negotiated by Richard Oswald, John Jay, and Benjamin Franklin. Uncertainties facing young country. Effects of war on new nation's people, politics, and economy. Difficulty of functioning as "nation" under Articles of Confederation. Partial resolution of controversies related to western lands, but not problem of mounting national debt. Annapolis Convention to modify Articles of Confederation fails to attract enough delegates.G
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Unfinished Nation "Vision for a Nation" Delegates meet in Philadelphia, May 1787 to create a government with sufficient power to govern vast territory. The convention, closed to public, chaired by George Washington. Controversy over basis for representation in House of Representatives and slavery issues; over sovereignty and limiting national power. Ground rules for ratification process. Debate between Federalists and Anti-federalists; winning approval. George Washington, first elected president, puts plan to work. Different philosophies within cabinet, Federalist vs. Republican. Washington declines to run for third term.G
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Discovering Psychology "Remembering and Forgetting" Takes a look at the complex process called memory: how images, ideas, language, even physical actions, sounds, and smells are translated into codes, represented in memory and retrieved when needed.G
2:30 pm
Discovering Psychology "Cognitive Processes" Explores the higher mental processes - reasoning, planning and problem solving - and the "cognitive revolution" that is attracting a diverse assortment of investigators, from philosophers to computer scientists.G
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Design Squad Nation "A Cut Above - Part 1" Judy and Adam travel to New York City, the fashion capital of the United States, to meet up-and-coming designers Eduarda and Juan. Eduarda and Juan's dreams come true when fashion designer Christian Siriano challenges them to showcase their individuality and creativity by drawing upon Judy and Adam's engineering know-how to re-interpret a gown from his collection. Their red carpet-worthy designs are treated to a surprise critique when two editors from Teen Vogue magazine join Christian at a fashion shoot. D
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Biz Kid$ "Understanding Business Ethics" Do the right thing! You'll learn with the Biz Kids as they examine several aspects of ethics in business. You'll also see the downside of not following ethical business practices. In this episode you will discover what it means for management to lead by example, and how employees must take responsibility for their behavior. D
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Wishbone "Furst Impressions" This live-action program follows the exploits of Wishbone the dog and his human friends, Joe, David and Samantha through their adventures intheir hometown of Oakdale. Wishbone's everyday experiences trigger hi s imagination and he finds himself in scenes from classic works of literature. In this episode, attending the Oakdale school beach party social has the kids in an uproar. D
4:30 pm
Cyberchase "Gone with the Fog" The CyberSquad is in Gollywood making a movie when Glittertown's top designer, hairdresser and make-up artist go missing in a dense and unexpected fog. Turns out Hacker is responsible and has spirited the stylists away to his home base. Cyberspace's favorite weathercaster Stormy Gale (Janice Huff) helps the kids discover how to make fog, but to pull off a daring rescue, the kids have to find the elusive dew point at the Northern Frontier on their own. D
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Lap Quilting with Georgia Bonesteel "The Quilters' Alphabet" Georgia Bonesteel kicks off her Country to Country Quilt Tour with a visit to Quilt Expo VII in Stratsbourg, France, and a meeting with Martine House. Then, Canuck quilter Carol Goddu shows off her unique applique quilts from Canada. Quilters' Alphabet: A-B (Show Block: Eiffel Tower). D
5:30 pm
Paint This With Jerry Yarnell "Kim, Part 2" Having completed the basic under painting, Jerry can now start to shape the figure. This is done by adding the next layer of highlighting as well as using loose strokes to form shadow areas. Jerry continues to work throughout the painting adding highlights and shadows where appropriate. D
6:00 pm
Joanne Weir's Cooking Class "Spicy Crab Linguine & Winter White Salad" Joanne gives her student Leigh a crash course on working with crab and creating a composed salad. Recipes: (1) WINTER WHITE SALAD WITH A HINT OF GREEN, (2) LINGUINE WITH SPICY HOT CRAB AND TOMATOES. Student: Leigh Balkom - Healthcare Professional. D
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Cooking with Nick Stellino "Luscious Soups" A soup can be a form of art! Chef Stellino shares his secrets for the perfect soups, smooth, luscious and elegant. Nick visits the green grocer and prepares Butternut Squash Soup topped with Peppers, Arugula & Spicy Sausage and a Pea Soup topped with Peppers & Shrimp. D
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This Old House "Jersey Shore Rebuilds 2013/Go with the Flow" Roger learns about barrier island ecology, while the Bay Head job is in limbo waiting for FEMA. Breakaway walls and flood vents are installed in Point Pleasant, and Rita's modular cape is steaming along. Alex Burke shows Roger which plants and trees survived Sandy's salty onslaught, which didn't, and how to landscape for the future on a barrier island. D
7:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "Venice and Its Lagoon" Rick samples sumptuous art treasures, and explores back-street wonders. He cruises its lagoon, stopping in fiery Murano for glass, pastel Burano for lace, and murky Torcello for a sense of where Venice was born. Part 2 of 2G
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Joseph Rosendo's Travelscope "Bhutan - Part 1 - Gross National Happiness" Travel is a life-changing experience, though often these changes come when least expected. Joseph heads to the Kingdom of Bhutan, a devout Buddhist country, fully aware of the possibilities for enlightenment that Bhutan offers him and his viewers. His trip through the "Land of the Thunder Dragon" begins in Paro with a conversation with an esteemed Buddhist master and an invitation to watch a local thangka (spiritual art) artist at work. D
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Lidia's Italy In America "From Bloomfield to the Strip In Pittsburgh" Lidia opened her own restaurant in the Strip District in Pittsburgh where other Italian-American immigrants also started earlier businesses. But Pittsburgh's other well known "Little Italy" is called Bloomfield. In this episode, Lidia shares recipes from both of these areas, Braised Veal Shank, Olive Oil Mashed Potatoes and Peas with Bacon. D
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Simply Ming "Blanching with Guests Seth & Angela Raynor" On the premiere episode of Simply Ming, it's all about blanching - the secret to improving color, taste and texture in foods. In the studio Host Ming Tsai cooks on the fly with Nantucket chefs Seth & Angela Raynor. Using the blanching technique and secret ingredients they team up to create two new dishes: Grilled Lobster with Summer Herbed Butter Roasted Potatoes and Fried Pork & Couscous with Peach Sesame Compote. D
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Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse & Co.: Our Food Heritage "Foods of Africa" Foods such as yams, red beans, rice, melons, okra and eggplant are indigenous to West Africa, the ancestral homeland of most of Louisiana's African-Americans. Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall and Professor Eileen Julian give audiences an insight on the roots of much of Louisiana's African-American cuisine. Chef Leah Chase gives Chef Folse a lesson on making Gumbo Des Herbes, a traditional Holy Thursday dish. D
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Rick Steves' Europe "Venice and Its Lagoon" Rick samples sumptuous art treasures, and explores back-street wonders. He cruises its lagoon, stopping in fiery Murano for glass, pastel Burano for lace, and murky Torcello for a sense of where Venice was born. Part 2 of 2G
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Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish "Asf Fue: II" This episode is the second segment of the four-part review and covers the time Raquel spent in Argentina.G
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Calif., March 9 (UPI) –pi.comNiche U.S. auto company Tesla Motors Inc. said it would pay off its $465 million government loan five years earlier than originally planned.
In its annual report, the California electric car maker said it had been given permission to repay the Department of Energy's loans early, completing payment by the end of 2017, rather than the end of 2022, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday.
The loans were intended to help Tesla build alternative-energy vehicles, which is the company's specialty.
The company makes only top-end, electrically powered vehicles and power train components.
In its annual report, Tesla said production of its Model X crossover sport utility vehicle had been pushed back a year with an expectation of starting production in late 2014.
Instead, the company will concentrate on production of its Model S sedan, for which the company forecasts sales of 20,000 units, Tesla spokeswoman Shanna Hendriks said.
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