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Container Garden Bounty: Growing Vegetables and Herbs
If you grow vegetables in the ground, you know that the No. 1 rule is to keep them racing along — with plenty of water, fertilizer, sunlight, and whatever else the specific crops require. Vegetables and herbs in containers are no different. In fact, providing the essentials to vegetables and herbs growing in containers can be more challenging because their growing space is limited. To ease the caretaking task, container plants can grow right outside your back door where you can dote on them. When you know what it needs, your portable garden is likely to reward your attention with tasty returns!
The right container
First question: Are you growing vegetables and herbs for show or just production? If all you want is to pick the produce and you don't care what the container looks like, requirements are pretty basic.
The container must be big enough. A minimum size for most vegetables and herbs is a diameter of 8 inches and depth of 12 inches, but a diameter of 12 to 18 inches and a depth of 15 inches is preferable — the larger size can accommodate the necessary volume of soil and water. And the container must have drain holes at the bottom. Vegetables and herbs can be found thriving in all sorts of containers that meet the size and drainage requirements, but that miss the boat in beauty: leaky buckets, garbage cans with holes, large plastic buckets from delicatessens, and even plastic milk jugs.
If the containers are going to be part of your garden scene, you probably want something more presentable (but with the recommended size and drain holes). Remember that terracotta, no matter how attractive, tends to dry out quickly — a major problem for vegetables and herbs racing full steam ahead. You may be better off planting in plastic. If you want a big container to hold a number of vegetables and herbs or a whole salad's fixings, an oak half-barrel is hard to beat.
Soil mix
Commercial soil mixes can be used straight from the bag. But many vegetables and herbs benefit from additional organic matter like bagged compost or ground bark: Add one part of organic matter to each three parts of soil mix.
In general, vegetables and herbs are heavy feeders — especially when grown in containers. Nutrient needs vary according to what you're growing. Lettuce and other leafy crops need nitrogen to produce those leaves, whereas tomatoes need some nitrogen to grow, but too much can inhibit flowering — no flowers, no tomatoes.
As a general rule, add an all-purpose dry fertilizer — organic or chemical — according to package directions when you plant. Organic fertilizers release their nutrients slowly; chemical fertilizers release all their nutrients at once, unless you pay a lot more and get the slow-release kind.
As container crops are growing, fertilize regularly, following label directions. Most people prefer to use a soluble fertilizer applied as you water. Some gardeners swear by fish emulsion — smelly for a while but not likely to burn or overfeed.
Water, water, water
Watering is always important with container plants, even more so with vegetables and herbs — let them wilt once and they may never really get back on track. Containers can dry out in a day or in a few hours depending on the planter's size and intensity of the summer heat; rewetting a dry pot may seem impossible. To avoid the problem, check pots and planters often and do not allow the soil to dry out more than an inch or two below the surface.
Experienced tomato growers know that if watering is not consistently maintained, tomato plants are unable to take up calcium, a much-needed nutrient. The result is tomatoes with a dark, leathery spot on the blossom end (the bottom). The telltale coloration doesn't signal a disease, and there's no magic spray to fix it, so pay attention.
Along with watering, sunshine is the other limiting factor in vegetable and herb gardening anywhere. Most vegetables need a minimum of six hours of direct sunlight — that is, sun on the plant, not somewhere nearby. Exceptions are lettuce and spinach, which actually benefit from some shade in the heat of midsummer to keep them from bolting — sending up flower heads that end your salad-picking days.


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Kirstone necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 196 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
E.A.R.L.I. (Acronym stands for "Early Assessment of Renal and Lung Injury")
We are a group of medical doctors at a University center in San Francisco dedicated to improving the care of critically ill patients. EARLI is a research project that is unique in that we recruit and collect biologic samples on critically ill patients early in the course of disease, right after they arrive to the Emergency room. Most of our patients suffer life-threatening infections or cardiovascular complications and, unfortunately, many go on to develop organ failure or die from their illness. Many studies are being generated within the EARLI project using cutting-edge technology to gain insights on the disease process and ultimately to improve the care of patients with critical illness.
For information purposes, "renal" refers to the kidney. However, our studies be looking at all types of organ injury.
An immediate goal is to use a logo to increase recognition of the EARLI project around our hospitals, particularily among hospital staff, patients and family members. Soon, we will also use the logo on our website so that we can collaborate and communicate with others in the scientific community. Ultimately, the many studies that result from our project will use the logo as an identifying symbol in all presentations. Here our target audience will be the international scientific community. Therefore, the logo needs to translate to a wide audience ranging from patients and their family members, hospital staff, and the scientific community of researchers.
We are looking for a logo to represent our research project: EARLI, which stands for, "Early Assessment of Renal and Lung Injury".
Our criteria are as follows:
1. Clean and crisp, preferably with 1 or 2 (max) primary colors. We like the idea of shading in one color as well. Please experiment with colors!
2. The word "EARLI" should be incorporated prominently in the logo, although it does not necessarily need to be in all caps or separated by periods. The "Early Assessment of Renal and Lung Injury" section may or may not be included in the logo itself. Please experiment!
3. Seek creative inspiration on the "Early"concept. Two main themes we like are
1) FAST: saving these patients is a race against time and we intervene EARLI.
2) Brand New Day: We hope by researching patients EARLI in their disease, we will improve care of patients tomorrow. (see discussion section)
We like lilypad designs, especially the "Project RED" (Re-engineered discharge) logo (#21):
We also like the style and simplicity of the attached file created at 99designs.com
Here is an example of what we would like to avoid:
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.

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As far as we know, these are the last 2 prints from this edition available ANYWHERE.Edition Numbers: 17/116 and 18/116.
These are brand new prints which have been SOLD OUT Everywhere since September 2014. We have been saving our very limited stock to release now, during the 2015 Star Wars Celebration.Artist: Steve Anderson18" x 24" Lithograph Print on Heavyweight CardstockLimited Edition of 116. The Edition is Closed.
They are available at the sale price during the 2015 Star Wars Celebration.The edition number you receive will be first come first serve.Accompanied by Certificate of Authenticity.Originally released by Acme Archives Dark Ink in September 2014 as part of their Star Wars Interpretive art created for their Star Wars Alliance Timed Release.
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We CAN ship this print World Wide via separate invoice. Please contact us for World Wide purchase and shipping.


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"More than a quarter of people in mortgage default or foreclosure are over 50," says the study's principal investigator, Dawn E. Alley, PhD, assistant professor of epidemiology and public health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. "For an older person with chronic conditions like diabetes or hypertension, the types of health problems we saw are short-term consequences of falling behind on a mortgage that could have long-running implications for that person's health."
Dawn Alley, PhD, was the principal investigator for the study.
The study was prompted in part by the rapid rise in foreclosure rates that began in 2007 following a dramatic increase in subprime lending. By 2009, 2.21 percent of all homes in the United States, a total of more than 2.8 million properties, were in some stage of foreclosure. Previous research had shown that home ownership is associated with better health while financial strain is associated with worse health and higher death rates.
"This study has pinpointed an issue that until now has been somewhat under the radar, but which threatens to become a major public health crisis if not addressed," says E. Albert Reece, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., vice president for medical affairs at the University of Maryland and dean of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. "Through research such as this, faculty epidemiologists and public health specialists provide valuable information and perspectives that are useful for government and private policy makers as they work to meet the health and economic needs of Americans."
The researchers examined data from the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally representative panel study of Americans older than age 50. In 2008, 2,474 participants were asked if they had fallen more than two months behind on mortgage payments since 2006. The survey included questions designed to measure psychological impairment, general health status and access to important health-relevant resources. In predicting these health outcomes, researchers controlled for demographic factors, health behaviors, chronic diseases, sources of debt and annual household income.
Among participants who were mortgage delinquent, 22 percent developed elevated depressive symptoms over the two-year period compared to only three percent of non-delinquent respondents. Twenty-eight percent of mortgage-delinquent participants reported food insecurity compared to four percent in the non-delinquent group. In addition, the delinquent group reported much higher levels of cost-related medication non-adherence (32 percent compared to five percent).
The study also found that lower-income and minority homeowners were at higher risk for mortgage default. "Our results suggest that the housing crisis may be making health disparities worse," says Dr. Alley, "because these groups had poorer health, lower incomes and higher levels of debt even before the current mortgage crisis." The researchers note that it will likely take decades for African American and Hispanic communities to recover the wealth lost during the housing crisis and that minority communities are disproportionately affected by declining home values and lost tax revenue.
The study began just as mortgage delinquencies and subsequent home foreclosures began to rise in the United States, driven mainly by increases in mortgage payments related to adjustable rate loans. Dr. Alley says the health picture is much worse today because rising mortgage defaults are compounded by unemployment. "Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that the number of Americans with depression has been increasing along with rising unemployment."
Dr. Alley adds that mortgage counselors are seeing a rising tide of health issues. "We did a separate nationwide survey of mortgage counselors and found that almost 70 percent of them said many of the clients they worked with were depressed or hopeless. About a third of them said they had worked with someone in the last month who expressed intent for self harm or suicide. These are very serious and clearly ongoing issues."
This study was supported by the National Institutes of Health. It was conducted with support, resources and use of facilities from the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center in conjunction with the Organized Research Center on Aging at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.


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Conservative media true to Republican message; revived old Kerry criticisms of Reagan
In the wake of former President Ronald Reagan's death, some of the most aggressive attempts to publicize criticism of Reagan are coming from ... Republicans. On June 7, The New York Times reported: "[I]n one sign of what may lie ahead, Republicans circulated old quotes from Mr. [Senator John] Kerry in which he criticized Mr. Reagan." Kerry's prior criticisms of Reagan found their way into conservative news outlets, including The Weekly Standard, NewsMax.com, The Washington Times, and FOX News Channel.
The Weekly Standard, from reporter Katherine Mangu-Ward's June 7 article "Kerry on Reagan," published on the magazine's website:
But it's worth taking a look back at what Kerry said about Reagan during and after his presidency. Reagan was president when Kerry was elected to the Senate, and their ideological clashes were colorful and frequent. That's to be expected. Occasionally, however, during Reagan's presidency and in subsequent years, Kerry crossed the line into strident invective.
The article proceeded to quote Kerry's past criticisms of Reagan.
NewsMax.com, a right-wing news site, from a June 7 article titled "Kerry: 'I'm Proud I Stood Against Reagan'" by Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff:
[A]s recently as last year Kerry boasted:
"I'm proud that I stood against Ronald Reagan, not with him, when his intelligence agencies were abusing the Constitution of the United States and when he was running an illegal war in Central America."
That's just one of a series of anti-Reagan quotes unearthed by the Weekly Standard, where the Massachusetts Democrat slams Reagan as everything from an "inexperienced" governor to a dime store cowboy.
The NewsMax.com article continued, quoting Kerry's past criticisms of Reagan, as reported in The Weekly Standard article cited above.
The Washington Times, from an article by Stephen Dinan headlined "Democrats praise the man once scorned as a 'dunce'":
Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, who announced this weekend he was suspending his presidential campaign for several days to honor Mr. Reagan, less than a year ago used the former president as the symbol of what Democrats should oppose.
"My life history is I fought Reagan, fought Nixon, fought the war in Vietnam, fought their struggle against civil rights. I fought for civil rights, and I fought against their tax cuts for the wealthy," Mr. Kerry told the Miami Herald last year as he was running in the Democratic primary.
FOX News Channel chief political correspondent Carl Cameron, from the June 7 edition of FOX News Channel's Special Report with Brit Hume:
CAMERON: Never a Reagan fan, Kerry has long boasted that he led the fight against Reagan's, quote, "illegal war" in Central America.
For more, see Media Matters for America's June 7 report titled "GOP Reagan-Bush spin echoed by the media."


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Saturday, October 27, 2018
12:00 am - 11:59 pm
The Olivier Award Winner for Best New Comedy, which took audiences by storm in its Shakespeare's Globe London debut, has its American premiere in the Courtyard Theater this fall. Be transported to the flamboyant world of seventeenth-century London, dripping with decadent excess and bawdy amusements. Her quick wit and exceptional beauty propel the winsome Nell Gwynn from selling oranges on the streets of London's burgeoning theater district to performing on its stages. Nell captures the hearts of her audiences—and England's King Charles II. Thrust into the royal spotlight, the king's mistress is dealt a new role as the nation's sweetheart in this joyous song- and dance-filled romantic comedy. Tickets available at chicagoshakes.com.
Planning to attend this event? Getting to Navy Pier has never been easier. Learn more about our convenient transportation and parking options.


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== Installation ==
== Installation ==
Before installing KDE, make sure you have a working [[Xorg]] installation on your system.
Before installing KDE, make sure you have a working [[Xorg]] installation on your system.
KDE 4.x is ''modular''. You can install an entire set of packages or only install your preferred KDE applications.
KDE 4.x is ''modular''. You can install an entire set of packages or only install your preferred KDE applications.
=== Full install ===
=== Full install ===
[[pacman|Install]] {{Grp|kde}} or {{Grp|kde-meta}} available in the [[official repositories]]. For differences between {{Grp|kde}} and {{Grp|kde-meta}} see the [[KDE Packages]] article.
[[pacman|Install]] {{Grp|kde}} or {{Grp|kde-meta}} available in the [[official repositories]]. For differences between {{Grp|kde}} and {{Grp|kde-meta}} see the [[KDE Packages]] article.
=== Minimal install ===
=== Minimal install ===
If you want to have a minimal installation of the KDE Software Compilation, install {{Grp|kdebase}}.
If you want to have a minimal installation of the KDE Software Compilation, install {{Grp|kdebase}}.
=== Language pack ===
=== Language pack ===
If you need language files, install {{ic|kde-l10n-yourlanguagehere}} (e.g. {{Pkg|kde-l10n-de}} for the German language).
If you need language files, install {{ic|kde-l10n-yourlanguagehere}} (e.g. {{Pkg|kde-l10n-de}} for the German language).
For a full list of available languages see [https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/kde-l10n/ this link].
For a full list of available languages see [https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/kde-l10n/ this link].
== Upgrading ==
== Upgrading ==
Revision as of 17:56, 17 June 2014
From KDE Software Compilation and Getting KDE Software:
- The KDE Software Compilation is the set of frameworks, workspaces, and applications produced by KDE to create a beautiful, functional and free desktop computing environment for Linux and similar operating systems. It consists of a large number of individual applications and a desktop workspace as a shell to run these applications.
The KDE upstream has a well maintained UserBase wiki. Users can get detailed information about most KDE applications there.
- 1 Installation
- 2 Upgrading
- 3 Starting KDE
- 4 Configuration
- 4.1 Personalization
- 4.2 Networking
- 4.3 Printing
- 4.4 Samba/Windows support
- 4.5 KDE Desktop activities
- 4.6 Power saving
- 4.7 Monitoring changes on local files and directories
- 5 System administration
- 6 Desktop search and semantic desktop
- 7 Phonon
- 8 Useful applications
- 9 Tips and tricks
- 9.1 Using Openbox in KDE
- 9.2 Integrate Android with the KDE Desktop
- 9.3 Get notifications for software updates
- 9.4 Configure KWin to use OpenGL ES
- 9.5 Enabling audio/video thumbnails under Konqueror/Dolphin file managers
- 9.6 Speed up application startup
- 9.7 Hiding partitions
- 9.8 Konqueror tips
- 9.9 Firefox integration
- 9.10 Setting the screensaver background to the same as the current one
- 9.11 Setting lockscreen wallpaper to arbitrary image
- 10 Troubleshooting
- 10.1 Configuration related
- 10.2 Clean akonadi configuration to fix KMail
- 10.3 Getting current state of KWin for support and debug purposes
- 10.4 KDE4 does not finish loading
- 10.5 KDE and Qt programs look bad when in a different window manager
- 10.6 Graphical related problems
- 10.6.1 Low 2D desktop performance (or) artifacts appear when on 2D
- 10.6.2 Low 3D desktop performance
- 10.6.3 Desktop compositing is disabled on my system with a modern Nvidia GPU
- 10.6.4 Flickering in fullscreen when compositing is enabled
- 10.6.5 Screen Tearing with desktop compositing enabled
- 10.6.6 Display settings lost on reboot (multiple monitors)
- 10.7 Sound problems under KDE
- 10.8 Konsole does not save commands' history
- 10.9 KDE password prompts display three bullets per char
- 10.10 Nepomukserver process still autostarts even with semantic desktop disabled
- 10.11 Dolphin and File Dialogs are extremely slow to start
- 10.12 Default PDF viewer in GTK applications under KDE
- 11 Unstable releases
- 12 Other KDE projects
- 13 Bugs
- 14 See also
KDE 4.x
Before installing KDE, make sure you have a working Xorg installation on your system.
KDE 4.x is modular. You can install an entire set of packages or only install your preferred KDE applications.
Full install
Install kde or kde-meta available in the official repositories. For differences between kde and kde-meta see the KDE Packages article.
Minimal install
If you want to have a minimal installation of the KDE Software Compilation, install kdebase.
Language pack
If you need language files, install
kde-l10n-yourlanguagehere (e.g. kde-l10n-de for the German language).
For a full list of available languages see this link.
KDE 5.x
Frameworks 5 are available in the [extra] repository as kf5 and kf5-aids; while Plasma 5 is available in the AUR as plasma-desktopAUR.
KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.11 and Applications 4.13 are the current major releases by KDE. Important hints for upgraders:
- Always check if your mirror is up to date.
- Do not force an update using
# pacman --force. If pacman complains about conflicts please file a bug report.
- You can remove the meta packages and the sub packages you do not need after the update.
- If you do not like split packages just keep using the kde-meta packages.
Starting KDE
Starting KDE depends on your preferences. Basically there are two ways of starting KDE. Using KDM or xinitrc.
Using a Display Manager
A display manager, or login manager, is typically a graphical user interface that is displayed at the end of the boot process in place of the default shell. It allows easily logging in straight to KDE. KDE has its own display manager, KDM.
KDM (KDE Display Manager)
See the KDM page for more information.
kdm.service to start the display manager.
See the LightDM page for more information.
To ensure the best integration with KDE, it is recommended to make sure the following packages are installed:
- lightdm-kde-greeter: add the ability to configure LightDM via the KDE system settings;
- accountsservice and kdebase-kdepasswd: add the ability to change your LightDM avatar picture via the KDE Settings.
Using xinitrc
See the xinitrc page for more information.
exec startkde
startx or
xinit to start KDE.
All KDE configuration is saved in the
~/.kde4 folder. If KDE is giving you a lot of trouble or if you ever want a fresh installation of KDE, just backup and rename this folder and restart your X session. KDE will re-create it with all the default configuration files. If you want very fine-grained control over KDE programs, you may want to edit the files in this folder.
However, configuring KDE is primarily done in System Settings. A few other options for the desktop are available in Default Desktop Settings in the desktop's context menu.
For other personalization options not covered below such as activities, different wallpapers on one cube, etc., please refer to the Plasma wiki page.
How to set up the KDE desktop to your personal style: use different Plasma themes, window decorations and icon themes.
Plasma desktop
Plasma is a desktop integration technology that provides many functions like displaying the wallpaper, adding widgets to the desktop, and handling the panel(s), or "taskbar(s)".
Plasma themes can be installed through the Desktop Settings control panel. Plasma themes define the look of panels and plasmoids. For easy system-wide installation, some such themes are available in both the official repositories and the AUR.
Plasmoids are little scripted (plasmoid scripts) or coded (plasmoid binaries) KDE applications designed to enhance the functionality of your desktop.
Plasmoid binaries can be installed using PKGBUILDs from AUR, or you can write your own PKGBUILD.
The easiest way to install plasmoid scripts is by right-clicking onto a panel or the desktop:
Add Widgets > Get new Widgets > Download Widgets
This will present a nice frontend for kde-look.org that allows you to install, uninstall, or update third-party plasmoid scripts with literally just one click.
Most plasmoids are not created officially by KDE developers. You can also try installing Mac OS X widgets, Microsoft Windows Vista/7 widgets, Google Widgets, and even SuperKaramba widgets.
Sound applet in the system tray
Install Kmix (kdemultimedia-kmix) from the official repositories and start it from the application launcher. Since KDE, by default, autostarts programs from the previous session, it does not need to be started manually upon every login.
VolumePercentageStep=1 in the
[Global] section of
Adding a Global Menu to the desktop
Install appmenu-qt from the official repositories and appmenu-gtkAUR and appmenu-qt5AUR from the AUR in order to complete the preliminaries for a Mac OS X style always-on global menu. To get Firefox and LibreOffice to use the global menu as well, install firefox-extension-globalmenuAUR and libreoffice-extension-menubarAUR from the AUR.
To actually get the global menu, install kdeplasma-applets-menubarAUR from the AUR. Create a plasma-panel on top of your screen and add the window menubar applet to the panel. To export the menus to your global menu, go to System Settings > Application Appearance > Style. Now click the fine-tuning tab and use the drop-down list to select only export as your menubar style.
Window decorations
Window decorations can be changed in:
System Settings > Workspace Appearance > Window Decorations
There you can also directly download and install more themes with one click, and some are available in the AUR.
Icon themes
Not many full system icons themes are available for KDE 4. You can open up System Settings > Application Appearance > Icons and browse for new ones or install them manually. Many of them can be found on kde-look.org.
Official logos, icons, CD labels and other artwork for Arch Linux are provided in the archlinux-artworkAUR package. After installing you can find such artwork at
Fonts in KDE look poor
Try installing the ttf-dejavu and ttf-liberation packages.
After the installation, be sure to log out and back in. You should not have to modify anything in System Settings > Fonts.
If you have personally set up how your Fonts render, be aware that System Settings may alter their appearance. When you go System Settings > Appearance > Fonts, System Settings will likely alter your font configuration file (
There is no way to prevent this, but, if you set the values to match your
fonts.conf file, the expected font rendering will return (it will require you to restart your application or in a few cases restart your desktop). Note that Gnome's Font Preferences also does this.
Fonts are huge or seem disproportional
Try to force font DPI to 96 in System Settings > Application Appearance > Fonts.
If that does not work, try setting the DPI directly in your Xorg configuration as documented here.
Space efficiency
Users with small screens (e.g. netbooks) can change some setting to make KDE more space efficient. See the upstream wiki for more information. Also, you can use KDE's Plasma Netbook which is a workspace made specifically for small, lightweight netbook devices.
You can choose from the following tools:
- NetworkManager. See NetworkManager for more information.
- Wicd. See Wicd for more information.
You can also configure printers in System Settings > Printer Configuration. To use this method, you must first install kdeutils-print-manager and cups.
avahi-daemon and
cupsd daemons must be started first; otherwise, you will get the following error:
The service 'Printer Configuration' does not provide an interface 'KCModule' with keyword 'system-config- printer-kde/system-config-printer-kde.py' The factory does not support creating components of the specified type.
If you are getting the following error, you need to give your user the right to manage printers.
There was an error during CUPS operation: 'cups-authorization-canceled'
For CUPS, this is set in
lp to
SystemGroup allows anyone who can print to configure printers. You can, of course, add another group instead of
# Administrator user group... SystemGroup sys root lp
Samba/Windows support
If you want to have access to Windows services, install Samba (package samba).
The Dolphin share functionality requires usershares, which the stock smb.conf does not have enabled. Instructions to add them are in the Samba article, after which sharing in Dolphin should work out of the box after restarting Samba.
KDE Desktop activities
KDE Desktop Activities are Plasma-based virtual-desktop-like sets of Plasma Widgets where you can independently configure widgets as if you have more than one screen or desktop.
On your desktop, click the Cashew Plasmoid and, on the pop-up window, press "Activities".
A plasma bar presenting you the current existing Plasma Desktop Activities will appear at the bottom of the screen. You can navigate between them by pressing the correspondent icons.
Power saving
KDE has an integrated power saving service called "Powerdevil Power Management" that may adjust the power saving profile of the system and/or the brightness of the screen (if supported).
Since KDE 4.6, CPU frequency scaling is no longer managed by KDE. Instead it is assumed to be handled automatically by the the hardware and/or kernel. Arch has used
ondemand as the default CPU frequency governor since kernel version 3.3, so no additional configuration is needed in most cases. For details on fine-tuning the governor, see CPU frequency scaling.
Monitoring changes on local files and directories
KDE now uses inotify directly from the kernel with kdirwatch (included in kdelibs), so Gamin or FAM are no longer needed. You may want to install this kdirwatchAUR from AUR which is a GUI frontend for kdirwatch.
System administration
Set keyboard
Navigate to:
System Settings > Hardware > Input Devices > Keyboard
In the first tab, you can choose your keyboard model.
In the "Layouts" tab, you can choose the languages you may want to use by pressing the "Add Layout" button and subsequently choosing the variant and the language.
In the "Advanced" tab, you can choose the keyboard combination you want in order to change the layouts in the "Key(s) to change layout" sub-menu.
Terminate Xorg server through KDE system settings
Navigate to the submenu:
System Settings > Input Devices > Keyboard > Advanced (tab) > "Key Sequence to kill the X server"
and tick the checkbox.
KCM stands for KConfig Module. KCMs can help you configure your system by providing interfaces in System Settings.
Configuration for look and feel of GTK applications.
Configuration for the GRUB bootloader.
- grub2-editorAUR
Configuration for Synaptics touchpads.
- synaptiksAUR
- kcm_touchpadAUR
- kcm-touchpad-gitAUR
Configuration for the Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW)
- kcm-ufwAUR
Configuration for PolicyKit
Configuration for Wacom tablets
More KCMs can be found at kde-apps.org.
Desktop search and semantic desktop
According to Wikipedia, "the Semantic Desktop is a collective term for ideas related to changing a computer's user interface and data handling capabilities so that data is more easily shared between different applications or tasks and so that data that once could not be automatically processed by a computer can be (automatically processed)."
The KDE implementation of this concept is tied to (as of KDE Applications 4.13) two major pieces of software: Akonadi and Baloo. Between the two of them, these programs look at your data and make an easily searchable index of it. The idea behind these pieces of software is to make your system "aware" of your data and give it context using meta-data and user-supplied tags. Baloo uses Xapian to store its data.
Using and configuring Baloo
In order to search using Baloo on the KDE Plasma Desktop, press
ALT+F2 and type in your query. Within Dophin press
By default the Desktop Search KCM exposes only two options: A panel to blacklist folders and, as of 4.13.1, a way to disable it with one click.
More advanced configuration options are available through kcm_baloo_advancedAUR.
Alternatively you may edit to your
~/.kde4/share/config/baloofilerc file. For example to disable Baloo add:
[Basic Settings] Indexing-Enabled=false
Note: [Basic Settings] section in ~/.kde4/share/config/baloofilerc also supports an Enabled entry if you want.
Once you added additional folders to the blacklist or disabled Baloo entirely, a process named
baloo_file_cleaner removes all unneeded index files automatically. They are stored under
How do I index a removable device?
By default every removable device is blacklisted. You just have to remove your device from the blacklist in the KCM panel.
Akonadi is a system meant to act as a local cache for PIM data, regardless of its origin, which can be then used by other applications. This includes the user's emails, contacts, calendars, events, journals, alarms, notes, and so on. It interfaces with the Nepomuk libraries to provide searching capabilities.
Akonadi does not store any data by itself: the storage format depends on the nature of the data (for example, contacts may be stored in vCard format).
For more information on Akonadi and its relationship with Nepomuk, see [1] and [2].
Disabling Akonadi
See this section in the KDE userbase.
Database configuration
akonaditray from package kdepim-runtime. Right click on it and select configure. In the Akonadi server configure tab, you can:
- Configuring Akonadi to use MySQL/MariaDB Server
- If your home directory is on a ZFS pool, you will need to create
~/.config/akonadi/mysql-local.confwith the following contents:
[mysqld] innodb_use_native_aio = 0This is issue is highlighted in MySQL#OS error 22 when running on ZFS
- If your home directory is on a ZFS pool, you will need to create
- Configuring Akonadi to use PostgreSQL Server
- Configuring Akonadi to use SQLite
Running KDE without Akonadi
The package akonadi-fakeAUR is a good option for those who wish to run KDE without Akonadi.
What is Phonon?
From Wikipedia: Phonon is the multimedia API for KDE 4. Phonon was created to allow KDE 4 to be independent of any single multimedia framework such as GStreamer or xine and to provide a stable API for KDE 4's lifetime. It was done for various reasons: to create a simple KDE/Qt style multimedia API, to better support native multimedia frameworks on Windows and Mac OS X, and to fix problems of frameworks becoming unmaintained or having API or ABI instability.
Phonon is being widely used within KDE, for both audio (e.g., the System notifications or KDE audio apps) and video (e.g., the Dolphin video thumbnails).
Which backend should I choose?
You can choose between various backends like GStreamer (phonon-gstreamer) or VLC (phonon-vlc), available in the official repositories, and MPlayer (phonon-mplayer-gitAUR), QuickTime (phonon-quicktime-gitAUR) or AVKode (phonon-avkode-gitAUR), available in the AUR.
Most users will want VLC which has the best upstream support. GStreamer is currently not well maintained. Note that multiple backends can be installed at once and chosen at System Settings > Multimedia > Phonon > Backend.
- According to the Feature Matrix, the GStreamer backend has some more features that the VLC backend.
- According to the KDE UserBase, Phonon-MPlayer is currently unmaintained.
Useful applications
The official set of KDE applications may be found here.
Yakuake provides a Quake-like terminal emulator whose visibility is toggled by the F12 key. It also has support for multiple tabs. Yakuake is available in the package yakuake.
KDE Telepathy
KDE Telepathy is a project with the goal to closely integrate Instant Messaging with the KDE desktop. It utilizes the Telepathy framework as a backend and is intended to replace Kopete.
To install all Telepathy protocols, install the telepathy group. To use the KDE Telepathy client, install the kde-telepathy-meta package that includes all the packages contained in the kde-telepathy group .
Tips and tricks
Using Openbox in KDE
The Openbox window manager works very well within KDE, combined with a noticable improvement in performance and responsiveness. By default, a
KDE/Openbox session will be made automatically available upon installing Openbox, even if the KDE environment itself has not been installed. Most popular display managers will therefore allow KDE with Openbox as the window manager to be selected as a session.
To manually start KDE with Openbox as the window manager - as a default session for SLiM, or where not using a display manager at all - add the following command to the Xinitrc file:
exec openbox-kde-session
When using KDM
To use Openbox as a default windows manager when logging in with KDM just go to Default Applications -> Window Manager -> Use a different windows manager then select Openbox within the dropdown box.
Re-enabling compositing effects
Where replacing the native
kwin window manager with Openbox, any desktop compositing effects - such a transparency - provided will also be lost. This is because Openbox itself does not provide any compositing functionality. However, it is easily possible to use a seperate compositing program to re-enable compositing.
Integrate Android with the KDE Desktop
Install kdeconnect and KDE Connect from the Google Play store for great Android-KDE integration.
Get notifications for software updates
Install apper to get notifications about package updates in your KDE system tray and a basic package manager GUI. See the PackageKit website for more information.
Configure KWin to use OpenGL ES
Beginning with KWin version 4.8 it is possible to use the separately built binary kwin_gles as a replacement for kwin. It behaves almost the same as the kwin executable in OpenGL2 mode with the slight difference that it uses egl instead of glx as the native platform interface. To test kwin_gles you just have to run
kwin_gles --replace in Konsole.
If you want to make this change permanent you have to create a script in
$(kde4-config --localprefix)/env/ which exports
Enabling audio/video thumbnails under Konqueror/Dolphin file managers
For thumbnails of videos in konqueror and dolphin install kdemultimedia-mplayerthumbs or kdemultimedia-ffmpegthumbs. For thumbnails of audio files in Konqueror and Dolphin install audiothumbsAUR from AUR.
Speed up application startup
User Rob wrote on his blog this "magic trick" to improve application start-up time by 50-150ms. To enable it, create this folder in your home:
$ mkdir -p ~/.compose-cache/
/usr/share/X11/locale/your locale/Compose. This file is quite long (>5000 lines for the en_US.UTF-8 one) and takes some time to process. libX11 can create a cache of the parsed information which is much quicker to read subsequently, but it will only re-use an existing cache or create a new one in
~/.compose-cache if the directory already exists.
Hiding partitions
In Dolphin, it is as simple as right-clicking on the partition in the
Places sidebar and selecting
Hide partition. Otherwise...
If you wish to prevent your internal partitions from appearing in your file manager, you can create an udev rule, e.g:
KERNEL=="sda[0-9]", ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1"
The same thing for a certain partition:
KERNEL=="sda1", ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1" KERNEL=="sda2", ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1"
Konqueror tips
Disabling smart key tooltips (browser)
To disable those smart key tooltips in Konqueror (pressing
Ctrl on a web page), use Settings > Configure Konqueror > Web Browsing and uncheck Enable Access Key activation with Ctrl key o
[Access Keys] Enabled=false
Using WebKit
WebKit is an open source browser engine developed by Apple Inc. It is a derivative from the KHTML and KJS libraries and contains many improvements. WebKit is used by Safari, Google Chrome and rekonq.
It is possible to use WebKit in Konqueror instead of KHTML. First install the kwebkitpart package.
Then, after executing Konqueror, navigate to Settings > Configure Konqueror > General > Default web browser engine and set it as
Firefox integration
See Firefox.
Setting the screensaver background to the same as the current one
Kscreensaver's background can be changed from the default.
KDE by default is not able to change this for the 'Simple Lock', but a workaround exists:
[...] #source: theme.wallpaperPathForSize(parent.width, parent.height) source: "1920x1080.jpg" [...]
Now you copy your current background image to
Note you have to redo this for each update of the package kdebase-workspace.
Setting lockscreen wallpaper to arbitrary image
Copy an existing wallpaper profile as a template:
$ cp -r /usr/share/wallpapers/ExistingWallpaper ~/.kde4/share/wallpapers/
Change the name of the directory, and edit
[Desktop Entry] Name=MyWallpaper X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name=MyWallpaper
Remove existing images (
contents/screenshot.png and
$ rm ~/.kde4/share/wallpapers/MyWallpaper/contents/screenshot.png $ rm ~/.kde4/share/wallpapers/MyWallpaper/contents/images/*
Copy new image in:
$ cp path/to/MyWallpaper.png MyWallpaper/contents/images/1920x1080.png
Edit the metadata profile for the current theme:
[Wallpaper] defaultWallpaperTheme=MyWallpaper defaultFileSuffix=.png defaultWidth=1920 defaultHeight=1080
Lock the screen to check that it worked.
Many problems in KDE are related to configuration. One way to resolve upgrade problems is to start over with a fresh KDE config.
Reset all KDE configuration
To test whether your config is the problem try quitting your KDE session by logging out and, in a tty, run
$ cp ~/.kde4 ~/.kde4.safekeeping $ rm .kde4/{cache,socket,tmp}-$(hostname)
The rm command just removes symbolic links which will be recreated by KDE automatically. Now start a new KDE session to see the results.
If the problem is resolved, you will have a fresh, problem-free
~/.kde4/. You can gradually move parts of your saved configuration back, restarting your session regularly to test, to identify the problematic parts of your config. Some files here are named after applications so you will probably be able to test these without needing to restart KDE.
File Indexer Service not working even after enabling everything properly
This is caused due to a corrupted Nepomuk database. It may be remedied by moving the database or deleting it all together. Log out of KDE and issue this command from a virtual console:
$ mv ~/.kde4/share/apps/nepomuk ~/.kde4/share/apps/nepomuk_backup
to move your existing (and corrupt) nepomuk database. It will be recreated when you log in again.
Plasma desktop behaves strangely
Plasma problems are usually caused by unstable plasmoids or plasma themes. First, find which was the last plasmoid or plasma theme you had installed and disable it or uninstall it.
So, if your desktop suddenly exhibits "locking up", this is likely caused by a faulty installed widget. If you cannot remember which widget you installed before the problem began (sometimes it can be an irregular problem), try to track it down by removing each widget until the problem ceases. Then you can uninstall the widget, and file a bug report (bugs.kde.org) only if it is an official widget. If it is not, it is recommended you find the entry on kde-look.org and inform the developer of that widget about the problem (detailing steps to reproduce, etc).
If you cannot find the problem, but you do not want all the KDE settings to be lost, do:
$ rm -r ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma*
This command will delete all plasma related configs of your user and when you will relogin into KDE, you will have the default settings back. You should know that this action cannot be undone. You should create a backup folder and copy all the plasma related configs in it.
Clean cache to resolve upgrade problems
The problem may be caused by old cache. Sometimes after an upgrade, the old cache might introduce strange, hard to debug behaviour such as unkillable shells, hangs when changing various settings and several other problems such as ark being unable to unrar or unzip or amarok not recognizing any of your musics. This solution can also resolve problems with KDE and QT programmes looking bad following upgrade.
Rebuild your cache with the following commands:
$ rm ~/.config/Trolltech.conf $ kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental
Hopefully, your problems are now fixed.
Clean akonadi configuration to fix KMail
First, make sure that KMail is not running. Then backup configuration:
$ mv ~/.local/share/akonadi ~/.local/share/akonadi-old $ mv ~/.config/akonadi ~/.config/akonadi-old
Start SystemSettings > Personal and remove all the resources. Go back to Dolphin and remove the original
~/.local/share/akonadi and
~/.config/akonadi - the copies you made ensure that you can back-track if necessary.
Now go back to the System Settings page and carefully add the necessary resources. You should see the resource reading in your mail folders. Then start Kontact/KMail to see if it work properly.
Getting current state of KWin for support and debug purposes
This command prints out a wonderful summary of the current state of KWin including used options, used compositing backend and relevant OpenGL driver capabilities. See more on Martin's blog.
$ qdbus org.kde.kwin /KWin supportInformation
KDE4 does not finish loading
There might be a situation in which the graphic driver might create a conflict when starting KDE4. This situation happens after the login but before finishing loading the desktop, making the user wait indefinitely at the loading screen. Until now the only users confirmed to be affected by this are the ones that use Nvidia drivers and KDE4.
A solution for Nvidia users:
[Compositing] Enabled=false
For more information, see this thread.
If a minimal install was done, make sure you installed the required font by your phonon backend listed here: #Minimal install
KDE and Qt programs look bad when in a different window manager
If you are using KDE or Qt programs but not in a full KDE session (specifically, you did not run
startkde), then as of KDE 4.6.1 you will need to tell Qt how to find KDE's styles (Oxygen, QtCurve etc.)
You just need to set the environment variable
QT_PLUGIN_PATH. E.g. put:
export QT_PLUGIN_PATH=$HOME/.kde4/lib/kde4/plugins/:/usr/lib/kde4/plugins/
into your
/etc/profile (or
~/.profile if you do not have root access). qtconfig should then be able to find your KDE styles and everything should look nice again!
Alternatively, you can symlink the Qt styles directory to the KDE styles one:
# ln -s /usr/lib/kde4/plugins/styles/ /usr/lib/qt4/plugins/styles
Under Gnome you can try to install the package libgnomeui.
Low 2D desktop performance (or) artifacts appear when on 2D
GPU driver problem
Make sure you have the proper driver for your card installed, so that your desktop is at least 2D accelerated. Follow these articles for more information: ATI, NVIDIA, Intel for more information, in order to make sure that everything is all right. The open-source ATI and Intel drivers and the proprietary (binary) Nvidia driver should theoretically provide the best 2D and 3D acceleration.
The Raster engine workaround
If this does not solve your problems, your driver may not provide a good XRender acceleration which the current Qt painter engine relies on by default.
You can change the painter engine to software based only by invoking the application with the
-graphicssystem raster command line. This rendering engine can be set as the default one by recompiling Qt with the same as configure option,
-graphicssystem raster.
The raster paint engine enables the CPU to do the majority of the painting, as opposed to the GPU. You may get better performance, depending on your system. This is basically a work-around for the terrible Linux driver stack, since the CPU should obviously not be doing graphical computations since it is designed for fewer threads of greater complexity, as opposed to the GPU which is many threads but lesser computational strength. So, only use Raster engine if you are having problems or your GPU is much slower than you CPU, otherwise is better to use XRender.
Since Qt 4.7+, recompiling Qt is not needed. Simply export
QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM=raster, or
opengl, or
native (for the default). Raster depends on the CPU, OpenGL depends on the GPU and high driver support, and Native is just using the X11 rendering (mixture, usually).
The best and automatic way to do that is to install kcm-qt-graphicssystemAUR from AUR and configure this particular Qt setting through:
System Settings > Qt Graphics System
For more information, consult this KDE Developer blog entry and/or this Qt Developer blog entry.
Low 3D desktop performance
KDE begins with desktop effects enabled. Older cards may be insufficient for 3D desktop acceleration. You can disable desktop effects in:
System Settings > Desktop Effects
and you can toggle desktop effects with
fglrx). This driver is known for having problems with 3D acceleration. Visit the ATI Wiki page for more troubleshooting.
Desktop compositing is disabled on my system with a modern Nvidia GPU
Sometimes, KWin may have settings in its configuration file (
kwinrc) that may cause a problem on re-activating the 3D desktop
OpenGL compositing. That could be caused randomly (for example, due to a sudden Xorg crash or restart, and it gets corrupted), so, in case that happens, delete your
~/.kde4/share/config/kwinrc file and relogin. The KWin settings will turn to the KDE default ones and the problem should be probably gone.
Flickering in fullscreen when compositing is enabled
As of KDE SC 4.6.0, there is an option in Sytem Settings > Desktop Effect > Advanced > Suspend desktop effects for fullscreen windows. Uncheck it would tell kwin to disable unredirect fullscren.
Screen Tearing with desktop compositing enabled
KWin may suffer from screen tearing while desktop effects are enabled. Uncheck the VSync option under System Settings > Desktop Effects > Advanced > Use Vsync.
For proprietary driver users, ensure that the driver's VSync option is enabled (
amdccle for Catalyst users, and nvidia-settings for NVIDIA users).
Display settings lost on reboot (multiple monitors)
Installing kscreen might fix the problem unless your screens share the same EDID. Kscreen is the improved screen management software for KDE, more information can be found here.
Sound problems under KDE
"Falling back to default" messages when trying to listen to any sound in KDE
When you encounter such messages:
The audio playback device name_of_the_sound_device does not work. Falling back to default
Go to:
System Settings > Multimedia > Phonon
and set the device named
default above all the other devices in each box you see.
MP3 files cannot be played when using the GStreamer Phonon backend
This can be solved by installing the GStreamer plugins (package group gstreamer0.10-plugins). If you still encounter problems, you can try changing the Phonon backend used by installing another such as phonon-vlc. Then, make sure the backend is preferred via:
System Settings > Multimedia > Phonon > Backend (tab)
Konsole does not save commands' history
By default console command history is saved only when you type 'exit' in console. When you close Konsole with 'x' in the corner it does not happen. To enable autosaving after every command execution:
shopt -s histappend [[ "${PROMPT_COMMAND}" ]] && PROMPT_COMMAND="$PROMPT_COMMAND;history -a" || PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a"
KDE password prompts display three bullets per char
This setting can be changed at System Settings > Account Details > Password & User Account:
- Show one bullet for each letter
- Show three bullets for each letter
- Show nothing
Nepomukserver process still autostarts even with semantic desktop disabled
Go to System Settings > Startup and Shutdown > Service Manager > Startup Services and uncheck the Nepomuk Search Module.
Dolphin and File Dialogs are extremely slow to start
This may be caused by the upower service. If the upower service is not needed on your system, it can be disabled:
# systemctl disable upower # systemctl mask upower
Obviously this will not have any side effect on a desktop system.
Default PDF viewer in GTK applications under KDE
In some cases when you have installed Inkscape, Gimp or other graphic programs, GTK applications (Firefox among all) might not select Okular as the default PDF application, and they are not going to follow the KDE settings on default applications. You can use the following user command to make Okular the default application again.
$ xdg-mime default kde4-okularApplication_pdf.desktop application/pdf
If you are using a different PDF viewer application, or a different mime-type is misbehaving, you should change
kde4-okularApplication_pdf.desktop and
application/pdf respectively according to your needs.
For more information, consult Default applications wiki page.
Unstable releases
When KDE is reaching beta or RC milestone, KDE "unstable" packages are uploaded to the [kde-unstable] repository. They stay there until KDE is declared stable and passes to [extra].
You can add [kde-unstable] with:
[kde-unstable] Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
pacman -Syu will not install them, and will warn that they are "too new" if installed manually. Also, some of the libraries will stay at the older versions, which may cause file conflicts and/or instability!
- [kde-unstable] is based upon testing. Therefore, you need to enable the repositories in the following order: [kde-unstable], [testing], [core], [extra], [community-testing], [community].
- To update from a previous KDE installation, run:
# pacman -Syuor
# pacman -S kde-unstable/kde
- If you do not have KDE installed, you might have difficulties to install it by using groups (limitation of pacman)
- Subscribe and read the arch-dev-public mailing list
- Make sure you make bug reports if you find any problems.
Other KDE projects
From the release of KDE 4.x, the developers dropped support for KDE 3.5.x. Trinity Desktop Environment is a fork of KDE3 developed by Timothy Pearson (trinitydesktop.org). This project aims to keep the KDE3.5 computing style alive, as well as polish off any rough edges that were present as of KDE 3.5.10. See Trinity for more info.
It is preferrable that if you find a minor or serious bug, you should visit the Arch Bug Tracker or/and KDE Bug Tracker in order to report that. Make sure that you are clear about what you want to report.
If you have any problem and you write about in on the Arch forums, first make sure that you have fully updated your system using a good sync mirror (check here) or try Reflector.


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The God Delusion
The God Delusion is a book by the agnostic Richard Dawkins, in which he argues that belief in God is irrational (see also: Richard Dawkins and agnosticism).
In terms of the theism vs. agnosticism/atheism issue, Dawkins has shown himself to be rather ignorant in matters of philosophy and theology. For example, atheist philosopher Dr. Michael Ruse declared concerning Dawkins' book The God Delusion: "The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist."[1] See also: Errors of Richard Dawkins
Although Richard Dawkins declared himself an agnostic in the book The God Delusion, he declared that atheist evangelism is important.[2] Author Vox Day wrote concerning this matter, "While the fact that Dawkins declared himself a literal agnostic in the very book in which he declared the importance of atheist evangelism is both ironic and incoherent, it will surprise no one who has read the chapter of The Irrational Atheist entitled "Darwin's Judas".[3]
In 2010, it was reported that The God Delusion sold 2,086,402 copies and 907,161 of those copies were sold in North America. Contrastly, in 2010, the evangelical Christian Rick Warren sold between 25,000,000 and 50,000,000 copies of his book The Purpose Driven Life.[4] According to the website Guinness World Records, a survey by the Bible Society concluded that around 2.5 billion copies [of the Bible] were printed between 1815 and 1975, but more recent estimates put the number at more than 5 billion."[5] The Economist reported in 2007, "...over 100m copies of the Bible are sold or given away every year. Annual Bible sales in America are worth between $425m and $650m; Gideon's International gives away a Bible every second. The Bible is available all or in part in 2,426 languages, covering 95% of the world's population."[6]
Dawkins' main objectives are to convince his readers that the existence of God or any other deity is highly unlikely, that the Bible is incoherent, that morality does not come from religion, and that if religion does effect morality, it only does so negatively.
Critics have called the book "surprisingly intolerant".[7]
- Richard Dawkins (2006) makes great play in his recent book The God Delusion of what he calls the appalling propensity of religious people to base their ideas on dogma rather than on the evidence. Well, many do, but this reads strange in a book bursting at the seams with its own dogmas, its uncritical acceptance of metaphysical theories such as Identity Theory, its refusal to take note of the relevant evidence from parapsychology, and its special pleading with regard to the views of Darwin and Wallace on genocide (see Smythies, 2007, for details). For example, Dawkins states that he knows that this life is the only life we have. How could he possibly know that? [1]
Dawkins also intends to teach that atheists can live happy, intelligent, lives—perhaps even happier lives than religious people. He asserts that atheists do not do evil things in the name of atheism, while religious people have been known to commit atrocities in the name of their religion.
The God Delusion has been subject to a great deal of criticisms from the religious and the non-religious alike.
Andrew Brown: Prospect Magazine
"It has been obvious for years that Richard Dawkins had a fat book on religion in him, but who would have thought him capable of writing one this bad? Incurious, dogmatic, rambling and self-contradictory, it has none of the style or verve of his earlier works."[8]
Andrew Brown of Prospect Magazine was unimpressed by Dawkins' book. Brown calls atheism "unnatural" and points out that many atheists were violent in their belief (or lack thereof), citing Stalin killing members of the clergy.
Brown also attacks Dawkins' argument that suicide bombers are caused by religious schools. While Dawkins states that if these children were not taught what he calls "faith without question", suicide bombings would not be an issue. Brown, however, says that religion is not a necessity in suicide bombings. He points out that it is a tactic used by Marxists in Sri Lanka.
Marilynne Robinson: Harper's Magazine
"There is a pervasive exclusion of historical memory in Dawkins's view of science. Consider this sentence from his preface, which occurs in the context of his vision of a religion-free world: 'Imagine . . . no persecution of Jews as 'Christ-killers.'"[9]
Robinson's major complaints about The God Delusion lie in how sheerly false the book is in many aspects. Although Dawkins claims that "the majority of us believe in free speech", she points out that most countries do not, pointing out that China (population 1.3 billion[10]) does not. In her review, Robinson basically says that Dawkins purposefully ignored important parts of history in his attempt to convince his readers. "It's a shame," she says, "to see him reduced to one long argument from professorial incredulity."
Terry Eagleton: London Review of Books
"Card-carrying rationalists like Dawkins [...] are in one sense the least well-equipped to understand what they castigate, since they don't believe there is anything there to be understood, or at least anything worth understanding."
Alister McGrath: The Dawkins Delusion?
The Dawkins Delusion? is a response to Dawkins' The God Delusion by Alister McGrath.
Quotes from The God Delusion
"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."
- -Chapter 2
"I am one of an increasing number of biologists who see religion as a by-product of something else."
- -Chapter 5
"By contrast, what I, as a scientist, believe (for example, evolution) I believe not because of reading a holy book but because I have studied the evidence... Books about evolution are believed because they present overwhelming quantities of mutually buttressed evidence."
- -Chapter 8
"... [Moral absolutism] rules the minds of a great number of people in the world today, most dangerously so in the Muslim world and in the incipient American theocracy... Such absolutism nearly always results from strong religious faith, and it constitutes a major reason for suggesting that religion can be a force for evil in the world."
- -Chapter 8
See also
- ↑ http://www.alternet.org/media/47052?page=entire
- ↑ Mailvox: Richard Dawkins is not an atheist!
- ↑ Mailvox: Richard Dawkins is not an atheist!
- ↑ How Many Copies of The God Delusion Have Been Sold?
- ↑ Best-selling book of non-fiction, Guinness World Records
- ↑ The battle of the books, The Economist
- ↑ (August 2006) The God Delusion. Publishers Weekly. "For a scientist who criticizes religion for its intolerance, Dawkins has written a surprisingly intolerant book, full of scorn for religion and those who believe."
- ↑ http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7803
- ↑ http://solutions.synearth.net/2006/10/20
- ↑ http://geography.about.com/od/populationgeography/a/chinapopulation.htm


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Mission, Learning Goals, and Assessment
Exercise and physical activity play an important role in improving the quality of life of individuals, including decreasing the risk of disease and injury. The mission of the Exercise Science and Sport Studies Department is to prepare liberally educated men and women for graduate study in exercise and health related fields, and to prepare graduates to function competently and ethically in the fields of exercise science and coaching. Consistent with the Coordinate Mission of the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University, the department fosters integrated learning, critical thinking, strong communication skills, exploration of culture and gender related issues, and provide leadership and service opportunities for students.
Learning Goals
A student that graduates from CSB/SJU with a minor degree in Exercise Science and Sport Studies will...
- demonstrate the ability to effectively engage in scholarly inquiry and analysis in the area of
Exercise Science and Sports Studies.
- demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate information through disciplinary writing.
- demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate disciplinary information through oral communication.
- demonstrate ability to make ethically reasoned decisions relative to sport and exercise science.
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PractiSwing - Friday 5th August/
Our next PractiSwing takes place on Friday August 5th at 19:30 in the MMaP Gallery, Arts and Culture Centre.
A chance to practice your Swing dance in an informal environment. It's not a class or necessarily social dancing, but a comfortable in-between. You can work on the things you've already learned and want to improve, share some new moves, play!
We'll provide the space and the music, and there'll be at least one experienced dancer to host and answer questions.
For beginners, we have a half-hour beginner lesson promptly at the start. This class will be a standalone class, and will work for people totally new to Lindy Hop as well as those in a beginner class already.
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What is Secure boot?
Secure boot is a setup using UEFI firmware to check cryptographic signatures on the bootloader and associated OS kernel to ensure they have not been tampered with or bypassed in the boot process.
With the release of Windows 8, Microsoft has decided that all hardware that is marked "Windows 8 client ready" should:
- Have secure boot enabled by default.
- Allow a physically present user to disable secure boot in the firmware interface.
- Ship the Microsoft keys in firmware.
- Allow a physically present user to enroll their own keys in the firmware interface.
This means that Fedora releases prior to Fedora 18 will refuse to boot until the user disables secure boot in the firmware. The Fedora 18 release supports booting in Secure Boot mode.
How does it work?
Fedora and Secure Boot
Maintainers of the grub2, kernel and associated packages have proposed a plan where by Fedora will have Verisign (via Microsoft) sign a bootloader shim that will in turn boot grub2 (signed by a Fedora key) and the Fedora kernel (signed by a Fedora key) to allow out of the box booting on secure boot enabled hardware. Additionally, they will provide tools and information for users to create their own keys and sign their own copy of boot shim and grub2 and kernel (and whatever else they wish to sign). This plan has been approved by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee as of 23-Jul-2012.
Questions and Answers
Q: I think it would be much better if "Microsoft or UEFI or All hardware OEMs or The Government" would just "do X"
A: Feel free to contact any of the above and ask them to change their plans. Sadly, we can only work with the plans as we know them.
Q: Are you sure secure boot will be possible to disable in the firmware?
A: Yes, the Microsoft Windows 8 ready requirements require that to be the case.
Q: Can I remove the Microsoft key and use my own?
A: YES. According to the UEFI and Microsoft Windows 8 ready requirements you can remove all the keys and enroll your own. You will need to sign and install the various components with your new keys.
Q: Whats this about a $99 fee?
A: There is a one time fee of $99 to access the Microsoft sysdev portal in order to get your binaries signed by the Microsoft key (shipped by default in all Windows 8 ready devices). The Fedora shim binary has been signed via the Microsoft service and the $99 fee has already been paid. Individual users do not need to pay $99 unless they wish to build their own UEFI applications and get them signed independently.
Q: What if I want to build a custom kernel or load 3rd party kernel modules?
A: You will need to disable Secure boot, or setup your own keys and sign everything with them.
Q: What if I want to make a Fedora remix or distro based on Fedora?
A: If you ship the Fedora boot shim, grub2 and kernel unchanged, your remix or distro will boot on secure boot enabled machines (if the proposed plan is approved).
Q: what about ARM?
A: On ARM Microsoft Windows 8 ready requirements say that Secure boot should be enabled by default and cannot be disabled. Fedora has no plans to support secure boot on that platform and suggests buying Non Windows 8 ready hardware.
Q: What about the Fedora ARM folks, if UEFI cannot be disabled ? What will the impact be, if we ever are able to install Fedora on to mobile phone units ? Does this not limit users choice ?
A: Fedora is not responsible for the Windows 8 ARM requirements. There is nothing we can do in this case. See the answer to the above question.
Q: Does this apply to servers too?
A: No. This is a Windows 8 client ready set of requirements. Servers will not have secure boot enabled by default.
Q: If I disable Secure boot, and I have a dual boot setup with Fedora and Windows 8, will Windows 8 boot ok?
A: Yes. Windows 8 will boot ok with Secure boot disabled.
Q: What are all these secure boot databases that are talked about?
A: There are a number of databases kept by Secure boot:
signature database (db) - signatures or image hashes of UEFI applications, operating system loaders, and UEFI drivers that can be loaded
revoked signatures database (dbx) - no longer trusted/loadable signers or image hashes.
Key Enrollment Key database (KEK) - database of keys that can be used to update the signature database and revoked signatures database.
platform key (PK) - Generated by OEM's, this database/key allows updating KEK or db's.
Machine Owner Keys (MoK) - A list similar to db above, but provided by shim itself. There is a userspace tool called 'mokutil' that allows for easier enrolment of keys from Linux userspace.
Q: What are the supposed benefits to us all, if Secure Boot is used ? what exactly are they ? (Elaborate a little please)
Free software Foundation on Secure boot:
Matthew Garret's post outlining the background and problems and possible Fedora plans:
Microsoft Windows 8 requirements:
UEFI specs:
Source code repo for signing tools:
Source code repo for bootloader shim:
Miscrosoft intro to Secure boot tech paper:


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16-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Thursday, October 5, 1911: Besse was out a little while this afternoon. Brought some chestnuts. Didn't have any before. Such an extraordinary occurrence. Ruth's cow had twin calves. Both are white, rather good lookers. Ruth and I carried one down out of the field and out to the barn. Then we put him in the express wagon and he tumbled out.
Her middle-aged granddaughter's comments 100 years later:
This entry befuddles me. I'm surprised that Grandma considered chestnuts a treat when her married sister Besse brought them, and that she'd never previously eaten any.
I would have guessed that chestnut trees were very common in central Pennsylvania in 1911—and my research supports that impression. Here's what I found:
Chestnut trees were once more popular in the US than they are today—but many died due to a chestnut blight.
According t o Wikipedia, the blight was first identified on Long Island, New York in 1904—and chestnut trees largely died out in the US over the next 40 years. Wikipedia also says:
In some places, such as the Appalachian Mountains and others, one quarter of hardwoods were chestnuts. Mature trees often grew straight and branch-free for 50 feet (15 m), up to 100 feet, averaging up to 5 feet in diameter. For three centuries, most barns and homes east of the Mississippi River were made from it.
Bottom line—I still think that chestnut trees were common in 1911, so I'm still confused by this entry.
Twin Calves
It's relatively rare for a cow to have twins. When I was growing up on a farm in the 1960's we had a herd of 40 cows—and about one set of twins was born per year. I'm not sure how many cows the Muffly's had, but it probably was in the range of 5 to 10 cows—so years probably went by between the birth of twins.
I can almost picture Grandma and her sister Ruth chatting and laughing as they collaboratively worked to bring one of the calves down to the barn.
For a discussion of how the Muffly children owned their own cows see the previous post on this topic.


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Since his departure from Fox News almost a year and half ago, conservative media icon Glenn Beck has been markedly absent from the political landscape.
But in the wake of last week's Republican defeat, the Tea Party leader has message for those in the political Establishment who are already writing his movement's obituary: We're not going anywhere.
In a remarkably sedate address to viewers of his daily online talk show last week, Beck offered a candid apology for wrongly predicted a Romney victory, and urged conservatives not to despair at the loss:
"We're not going to sit and wallow in it, we're not going to point fingers, we're not going to yell at anything," Beck said. "What we're going to do is what Americans always do is pick ourselves up by the boot straps, take stock of what happened and move on."
And later, he added this warning to the party:
"I have to tell you, I think the only one that is in real trouble is the GOP," he said. "It's Karl Rove and the Establishment Republicans that spent half a billion dollars and look where they got. We were making signs, and showing up at rallies and calling our neighbors and friends — which one really wasted their treasure? We didn't waste our time because we connected with people and we know what we are."
"I believe we have to double down on what we've started."
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