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BERLIN — A proposed solution to a dispute over Ukrainian natural gas debts to Moscow would see Ukraine's gas company pay $2 billion to Russia's Gazprom this week and trigger talks on the price Kiev should pay for future deliveries as it tries to avert a supply cutoff, a top European Union official said Monday.
EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said after meeting the Russian and Ukrainian energy ministers in Berlin that both sides must still consult with their political leaders and the gas companies involved, and they have until Wednesday evening to approve the deal. He stressed "we are not done" but said he is optimistic of an agreement.
The proposal calls for Ukraine's Naftogaz to make an initial $2 billion payment to Gazprom on Thursday to settle part of Kiev's outstanding bills for gas delivered between November and March. Doing so would send "a clear signal of creditworthiness," Oettinger said.
If the payment is made, Russia would be prepared to hold EU-brokered talks in Berlin on Friday with Ukraine on the price of gas delivered in April, May and in the future, Oettinger told reporters. Naftogaz would make a second payment of $500 million to Gazprom on June 7. And Gazprom would agree to continue supplying gas for June without insisting on prepayment, according to the European Commission.
Ukrainian energy minister Yuri Prodan was more guarded on the likelihood of a deal but didn't rule one out.
"So far there is not yet a decision taken, and I also assume that from the Russian party no decision has been taken yet," he said. "It was a suggestion by the European Commission to be discussed."
Russia says Ukraine's total gas debt is $3.5 billion. It has said that it would only deliver gas to its economically struggling neighbor in June if it pays in advance. The prospect of a possible cutoff has worried European countries that receive Russian gas piped through Ukraine.
Ukraine has said it could start paying off the debt if Moscow restores gas price discounts canceled following the ouster of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych. He fled to Russia in February after months of protests, triggered by his decision to dump a pact with the EU in favor of closer ties with Moscow.
Gazprom has scrapped a discount granted to Yanukovych in December and then another rebate linked to a 2010 deal on Russian navy presence in Ukraine's Crimea, which Moscow annexed in March. Canceling the discounts raised the price by 80 percent, which has caused Ukrainian debt to swell.


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Please don't be frightened by the title. This is a scheme to get us all to experiment with new ideas and techniques. Since there seems to be some interest in expanding horizons into 'artistic' type quilts a few of us thought it would be good to have monthly themes for using the other side of your brain. (You know the one you have a suspicion might be atrophying?)
Remember that these are experiments which means a lot of what you will try won't work but some will be very unexpectedly satisfying. Techniques are whatever....I personally use up a lot of Wonder Under and some of the ugliest fabrics imaginable just to see what happens. Size is whatever seems to be required by your idea but of course small is more manageable. (Also fits well on the bathroom wall or as a gift
Come and join us for feedback and ideas on how to accomplish things you might otherwise not tackle!
May's theme is 'The unknown world' -- splat some weird shaped blobs on a block and you have cells. What about coral shapes from deep undersea? Then embellish....... You get the idea.........

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With nine people around the table, eight of them considered on the frontline of the horrors of human trafficking, the job was to talk openly. Solutions will be long in coming, but action now to curtail this exploitation needs to be taken.
South Dakota Representative Kristi Noem is putting sex trafficking high on her legislative agenda. She says the main takeaway from the Legislative Roundtable on Sex Trafficking in Sioux Falls Thursday is that stronger laws are needed.
"We are at the bottom of states when it comes to our state laws protecting the victims that have been hit so hard with this industry. We also have some federal legislation that we have to pursue that will protect them more. The (victims) need housing and more support. We all need to really work together to make sure that here in South Dakota when this industry comes in and devastates the lives of children and families, that we're all working together to do whatever we can to stop it."
Breaking through the discussion at one point was the usage of the word survivor of human trafficking instead of victim. Noem felt the resonation of that description. "So many times we refer to people who have been exposed to sex trafficking industry as victims. One of the women here said, 'I like to think of them as survivors.' It's so true. What they have been through does make them a survivor."
Law enforcement, advocacy groups and people who provide shelter were all involved in the discussion.


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"Emma Sullivan just became the new Ferris Bueller."
That was the astute observation of a writer for Roll Call, one of countless panegyrics to the 18-year-old Kansan who refused to apologize to Gov. Sam Brownback for sending a not-very-nice tweet about him to her 60-some followers.
The tweet in question, which Sullivan composed on Nov. 21 at a Youth in Government Program in Topeka, went as follows:
"Just made mean comments at gov. brownback and told him he sucked, in person #heblowsalot."
Of course, this being the Internet, Sullivan wasn't exactly going for accuracy. In fact, she never even met Brownback. "I just took out my phone [and tweeted]," Sullivan explained later. "I guess it was kind of a heat-of-the-moment thing." Nonetheless, Brownback staffers, who monitor tweets bearing the Republican governor's name, were alarmed and contacted the Youth in Government program, which contacted Sullivan's school principal, who demanded that Sullivan write a letter of apology.
The rest of the story, in a nutshell, went like this. As word got out liberal bloggers began painting Sullivan as a martyr and her Twitter followers swelled from 61 to 15,710 (as of Wednesday). When Sullivan announced that she would not apologize, another media flare-up caused school district officials to revoke the demand, saying, "The issue has resulted in many teachable moments concerning the use of social media." Then Brownback was the one apologizing, saying his staff had overreacted and that "freedom of speech is among our most treasured freedoms." The Bueller comparison (demanding an apology for a tweet sounds like something Ferris' hapless principal, Mr. Rooney, would do) and all manner of blogospheric righteousness ensued.
Teachable moments indeed abound here. But despite the governor's ameliorations and the media's inclination to spin the story into a David and Goliath parable for the Internet age, not all of the lessons fall into neat categories like "Stand up for free speech" or even "Wow, social media is powerful!" Many of them, in fact, serve as sad reminders of just how crude public discourse has become.
I don't just mean foul language or rudeness. I mean literally crude: as in raw, unfinished, lacking in refinement or subtlety. The Sullivan dust-up revealed how unconsidered, abbreviated, heat-of-the-moment remarks are now given the credence and attention once reserved for more carefully thought-out ones (the kind, for instance, that involve editing or rewriting or that at least exceed 140 characters).
Brownback is being mocked for being thin-skinned, but the partisan bloggers and knee-jerk GOP haters who used Sullivan to further their own agendas deserve a drubbing too. After all, are we really supposed to believe that Sullivan, a student whose tweets before last week concerned themselves with Justin Bieber and the "Twilight" series, meant "#heblowsalot" as a serious political statement? Or did she just do what kids (and many adults) do all the time: write something dumb on the Internet?
Among the ironies here is that on the spectrum of dumb Internet postings, Sullivan's comment was mild. Just about anyone who holds any kind of public platform is the target of far worse invective on a daily basis. A seasoned politician like Brownback surely understands that (even if certain members of his staff did not), as do the reporters and pundits who are happy to fill air time and column inches perpetuating the idea that the story raises Very Big Questions about the influence of social media.
The problem, though, is that many of those questions, like many of the teachable moments, miss a fundamental point, which is that first thoughts should not have equal status with best thoughts. It's also worth noting that social media, in addition to being powerful, is such a fundamentally narcissistic enterprise that a governor's communications director can misinterpret a teenager's goof-off so wildly that a molehill turns into a volcanic mountain that erupts all over the news cycle.
Moreover, alas, it forces us to recognize that Emma Sullivan isn't just a hero of free speech; she's a victim (and a perpetrator) of cheap talk. She's a casualty of a culture so saturated with mindless chatter that it can't separate truth from hyperbole. And, as Ferris Bueller might say, "Pardon my French, but #thatblowsalot."


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Texas House Panel Approves Guns on Campus Bill
A Texas House panel has voted to allow concealed handgun license holders to carry their weapons into college classrooms.
The measure has been opposed by state universities and gives schools a chance to opt out of the campus-carry provision if they first consult with students, faculty and staff. For campuses that still ban weapons, the bill reduces the penalty for a violation from a felony to a misdemeanor.
The 7-1 vote by the House Committee on Homeland Security and Public Safety sends the bill to the full House for consideration. The committee did not debate the bill before taking a vote.
Gun rights supporters say the bill is a self-defense measure that will help prevent campus shootings. Opponents say allowing guns into campus buildings only increases the chances for violence.


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Sophia Bush Shares Her Emmy Picks With Us! Which Shows & Stars Are YOU Rooting For?
The biggest night in TV is almost upon us, friends! Find out who Sophia thinks should bring home that little golden lady.
When you're watching the Emmys, with your fingers crossed for your favorite stars and shows, do you ever wonder who other celebs are rooting for? We do too, which is why we had to get Sophia Bush's take on this year's Emmy frontrunners when we saw her Sept. 14 at the Cinema Society's premiere of Restless in NYC.
"I'm always rooting for Modern Family and 30 Rock," she told HollywoodLife.com of her picks. "And I'm so excited for Game of Thrones! My Hitcher co-star Sean Bean killed it on that show, so I'm really rooting for them. It's hard because there's so much good TV happening now. I'm just excited to see what happens!"
Sophia's a Game of Thrones fan? That makes two of us! My pillow is still stained from the night we lost Ned Stark. (Seriously, I could write a Taylor Swift-style song about how upset that made me.)
Who are YOU rooting for this weekend? Drop us a comment with your top picks!


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Founded by Finnish settlers, this Northwest Michigan village offers the quality of life that is vanishing all too rapidly in today's society. Life is slower, savored more fully, lived close to nature. Founded by Finnish immigrants in 1900, Kaleva has many streets with quaint sounding Finnish names - a challenge to pronunciation and a source of uniqueness to the visitor. The names were taken from the national mythology of Finland— "The Kalevala."
KALEVA is located in the center of Manistee County. Ten miles from Lake Michigan, 25 miles from the National Music Camp at Interlochen, 8 miles from Crystal Mountain Resort, 20 to 45 miles from larger cities for shopping, hospitals and healthcare.
We enjoy all four seasons of climate from the sparkling beauty of winter, to the renewal of spring, the warmth of summer and the blazing glory of colors in the fall. Activities such as skiing, ice fishing, golfing, swimming, and hunting are right outside our back door. There are miles of trails through the majestic natural resource that is the Manistee National Forest...there for all to enjoy. And wait until you view the frenzy of giant Salmon spawning in our streams under a canopy of fall color.
Our roadside park is a popular spot providing overnight camping. Many community gatherings are held here during warm weather. The aroma of charcoal smoke finds friends and neighbors and organizations sharing fun and food piled on brightly covered tables. You'll find families here picnicking and holding family reunions with the kids playing and running freely about.
Simple homes and yards with lovely flower gardens attest to the conservative, caring influence of Kaleva's residents. This small community of about 500 people is blessed with diversified commercial establishments. We have our own branch bank, post office, retail stores, restaurants, beauty shops and gas station. A farm supply store and lumber yard provide for the agricultural and construction endeavors outside the Village. Fire protection needs are provided for by an excellent volunteer fire department.
Diversified farming and oil exploration and production have been the core of Kaleva's economy for many years. Farmers grow fruit, potatoes and vegetables. The village owns an industrial park in a Renaissance Zone with paved streets, municipal water, and reliable electrical and broadband service. Imagine driving five minutes to your own plant--or even walking.
Our spiritual needs are met with a Baptist and Lutheran church in the village and other denominations in nearby Brethren, Marilla, Onekama, and Copemish. Active service clubs and committees reflect the personality of a community and Kaleva is no exception. The Lions Club, the Veterans of Foreign Wars post, the Kaleva Beautification Team, the Kaleva Historical Society, and the Kaleva Relay for Life Team are always there for the things that need doing. The children of Kaleva attend school at the Kaleva Norman Dickson schools in Brethren, five miles south of Kaleva.
The closest motel is Alpine Motor Lodge-Budget Host, 231-889-4281 or Bella-Vista Inn in Bear Lake, 231.864.3000. These are both about fifteen miles/minutes away. There is also Crystal Mountain Resort, 231-378-2000. A little further away are accommodations in Manistee.


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We all know that computers process binary code (1010...) and that it somehow (I don't know exactly) they send information to different components which do their required job. But how do you think computers will work in the future? Will we still use a binary system or will it evolve into something more complex?
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Dr. Susan Field Named Asst. Prof. of English, Oct. 5, 2000
SOCORRO, N.M.October 5, 2000 -- Susan L. Field, who has been a visiting professor for the past two years at New Mexico Tech, recently was appointed to the full-time, tenure-track position of assistant professor of English at the state-funded research university.
Field first came to New Mexico Tech in August 1998, after previously working as an instructor of English at the University of Phoenix and also at the University of New Mexico's (UNM) Valencia campus.
As a visiting professor at Tech, Field also directed the university's Writing Center and served as coordinator for the school's Freshman English Program.
Field earned her bachelor of arts magna cum laude, master of arts, and doctoral degrees in English at UNM. She also earned a master of library science degree from George Peabody College in Nashville, Tenn.
This fall semester at New Mexico Tech, Field is teaching two sections of English 111, "College English," as well as an undergraduate course on professional ethics. She also currently is serving as a member of the university's Retention Committee.
"At New Mexico Tech, I'm always challenged to teach in ways that are both conducive to learning and relevant to my students' particular educational interests, pursuits, and experiences,"
Field says. "It helps that my educational background includes a chemistry minor, but that was about a million years ago!"
Field's current academic research interests focus on American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson and the American Romanticism Movement, 19th Century American Literature, philosophy and literature, and women studies, particularly contemporary feminist theory and literature.
In the course of her research, Field has written a book on Emerson, titled The Romance of Desire: Emerson's Commitment to Incompletion, which was published by Farleigh Dickinson University Press in 1997.
"I was hired to teach writing and philosophy at Tech, and because of the considerable amount of interest that's been expressed by my students concerning various topics related to Eastern religions, I'd eventually like to put a course together which explores Eastern religions and philosophies," she says."
Field says she enjoys traveling, when she can find the time to do so, and would one day like to retrace Emerson's visit to Europe, a sojourn which will take her from Malta to Milan.
"As a Tech visiting professor, I soon became aware that Tech students are very focused and very intense, as are the professors who teach them," she says.
"This became even more apparent to me on a cold, early morning in December, when a few Tech professors in our van pool from Albuquerque got into a spirited discussion about the constraints of the universe," Field relates. "The conversation eventually progressed to the topic of the constant value of pi and how a black hole might affect the value of pi. Needless to say, I was very impressed."
Field also has added insights into what makes Tech students tick since her son, Sam, is majoring in electrical engineering at New Mexico Tech.
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Just stopping by to post this recipe for the few who have requested it, enjoy. Thanks, Chrissy!
- Sausage and Grits Souffle2 c. milk
2 c. water
1 c. quick grits
salt & pepper
1.5 c. grated sharp cheddar cheese (6 oz.)
1 tsp. hot sauce
3-4 sprinkles of nutmeg
6 large eggs, separated
1/2 c. grated parmesan cheese (1.5 oz.)
1 lb. ground hot sausage
Preheat the oven to 425 F. Grease a 2 quart souffle or round casserole dish and put in the freezer.
Brown the sausage and set aside.
Bring the milk and water to a boil in a large saucepan. Whisk the grits into the milk mixture in a slow, steady stream (to avoid lumps), bringing the mixture back to a low boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 3-5 more minutes, stirring until the grits are tender. Season with salt and pepper. Remove from heat and transfer to a large bowl. Stir in the cheddar cheese, hot sauce, nutmeg. Let cool slightly.
Whisk the egg yolks into the grits until combined, stir in the sausage. Place the egg whites in a large bowl and beat until soft peaks form. Fold in one-third of the egg whites to lighten the grits mixture. Then gently fold in the remaining whites.
Spoon the mixture into a prepared dish, spread evenly, and sprinkle with parmesan cheese. Bake about 25 minutes, until puffed and firm around the edges and still slightly soft in the middle. Remove from oven and let sit about 5 minutes before serving.


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Last week, I bought a rather large flat of local blueberries. Since then, I've been happily immersed in the wonderful world of blueberries. I canned blueberry plum butter. I froze a few bags of blueberries. I've been eating handfuls of blueberries with Greek yogurt and honey.
And, I made a few jars of blueberry vodka. Just because it seemed like a good thing to do.
Let me tell you, it was a great thing to do. Fruit vodkas are ridiculously easy to make and they don't taste half bad, either. (No, really: Just soak some fruit in some vodka for a few days. Strain out fruit. Simple as that.)
This blueberry vodka is great with soda water or tonic, and is a great base for summer fruit, citrus, or herb cocktails. Give it a try!
- For the lavender simple syrup:
- 1 cup water
- 3 Tablespoons dried culinary lavender
- 2 cups white sugar
- For the blueberry vodka:
- 1 cup fresh blueberries
- 3-4 cups vodka
- For the cocktail:
- 1.5 ounces blueberry vodka
- 2 teaspoons lavender simple syrup
- The juice of 1 lemon
- Sparkling water, to taste
- Blueberries, for garnish
- Ice
- To make the lavender simple syrup: Combine water, sugar, and lavender flowers in a small pot. Heat over high heat until mixture comes to a boil. Reduce heat and stir, and let the syrup simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to cool. Strain out the lavender and store in an airtight container in the refrigerator. The simple syrup will keep for one week.
- To make the blueberry vodka: Place blueberries and vodka in a large jar or airtight container. Store at room temperature away from sunlight. Shake the jar a few times a day, and allow the vodka to infuse for at least 3 days. When the vodka has a distinct blueberry taste (and color), strain out the blueberries. Store the vodka in a sealed bottle or jar at room temperature.
- To make the cocktail: In a large glass (or cocktail shaker), mix together the simple syrup, blueberry vodka, and lemon juice. Taste, and adjust levels if needed. Fill a cocktail glass with ice and pour mixture over ice. Top with a splash of sparkling water and garnish with fresh blueberries. Enjoy responsibly!
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The Patriots have lost Julian Edelman for the rest of the season.
WBZ in Boston reports that Edelman has a broken foot that will require surgery, and he is likely to be placed on injured reserve, which would end his season.
Edelman got hurt during Sunday's win over the Dolphins, and he left the stadium on crutches and wearing a protective boot. The Patriots have offered no official updates on Edelman's status, although the fact that they signed receiver Donte Stallworth strongly suggests that they don't expect Edelman back any time soon.
For the Patriots, the loss will be significant both to their offense and to their special teams, where Edelman is having an excellent season returning punts and is also a solid player on kick coverage.
UPDATE 4:50 p.m. ET: The Patriots have confirmed that Edeleman was placed on injured reserve.


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- 1 Adding a Window Manager/Desktop Environment
- 2 Boot Scripts
- 3 User & Group Management
- 4 Internet Access
- 5 Package Management
- 6 Pacman
- 6.1 Adding/Upgrading a package with a package file
- 6.2 Removing packages
- 6.3 Refreshing the package list
- 6.4 Upgrading the system
- 6.5 Adding/Upgrading a package from the repositories
- 6.6 Searching for packages
- 6.7 List installed packages
- 6.8 Check if a specific package is installed
- 6.9 Display specific package info
- 6.10 Display list of files contained in a package
- 6.11 Find out which package a specific file belongs to
- 7 Accessing Repositories
- 8 Arch Build System (ABS)
- 9 Binary vs. Source
- 10 Synchronizing Your ABS Tree
- 11 How to Build Packages
- 12 Package Guidelines
- 13 Frequently Asked Questions
- 14 During the initial package installation, pacman fails to resolve dependencies for package A because package B is not in the package set
- 15 How can I install packages from the install CD with pacman --sync (so it resolves dependencies for me)?
- 16 How can I create multiple swap partitions during the install?
- 17 How do I reconfigure LILO from the rescue system?
- 18 I can't ssh into my machine!
- 19 How should I load modules during boot now?
- 20 Kernel refuses to boot because of "lost interrupt"
- 21 I get "access denied" errors trying to play music or read DVDs
Adding a Window Manager/Desktop Environment
See also .xinitrc
Boot Scripts
Arch Linux uses a fairly simple bootup sequence quite similar to *BSDs. The first boot script to run is /etc/rc.sysinit. When it's done, /etc/rc.multi will be called (in a normal bootup). The last script to run will be /etc/rc.local. When started in runlevel 1, the single user mode, the script /etc/rc.single is run instead of /etc/rc.multi. You will not find an endless symlink collection in the /etc/rc?.d/ directories to define the bootup sequence for all possible runlevels. In fact, due to this approach Arch only really has three runlevels, if you take starting up X in runlevel 5 into account. The boot scripts are using the variables and definitions found in the /etc/rc.conf file and also a set of general functions defined in the /etc/rc.d/functions script. If you plan to write your own daemon files, you should consider having a look at this file and existing daemon scripts.
Boot Script Overview
- /etc/rc.sysinit
- /etc/rc.single
- /etc/rc.multi
- /etc/rc.local
- /etc/rc.shutdown
- /etc/rc.local.shutdown
- /etc/rc.d/*
The main system boot script. It does boot-critical things like mounting filesystems, running udev, activating swap, loading modules, setting localization parameters, etc. You will most likely never need to edit this file!
Single-user startup. Not used in a normal boot-up. If the system is started in single-user mode, for example with the kernel parameter 1 before booting or during normal multi-user operation with the command init 1, this script makes sure no daemons are running except for the bare minimum; syslog-ng and udev. The single-user mode is useful if you need to make any changes to the system while making sure that no remote user can do anything that might cause data loss or damage.
For desktop users, this mode usually is useless as crud. You should have no need to edit this script, either.
Multi-user startup script. It starts all daemons you configured in the DAEMONS array (set in /etc/rc.conf) after which it calls /etc/rc.local. You shouldn't feel a pressing need to edit this file.
Local multi-user startup script. It is a good place to put any last-minute commands you want the system to run at the very end of the bootup process. This is finally the one and only script you should modify if needed, and you have total freedom on what to add to this script.
Most common system configuration tasks, like loading modules, changing the console font or setting up devices, usually have a dedicated place where they belong. To avoid confusion, you should make sure that whatever you intend to add to your rc.local isn't feeling just as home in /etc/profile.d/ or any other already existant config location instead.
System shutdown script. It stops daemons, unmounts filesystems, deactivates the swap, etc. Just don't touch.
Analogous to the /etc/rc.local file, this file may contain any commands you want to run right before the common rc.shutdown is executed. Please note that this file does not exist by default, and for it to work properly, it must be set as executable.
This directory contains the daemon scripts referred to from the rc.conf's DAEMONS array. In addition to being called on bootup, you can use these scripts when the system is running to manage the services of your system. For example the command
/etc/rc.d/postfix stop
will stop the postfix daemon. Of course a script only exists when the appropriate package has been installed (in this case postfix). With a basic system install, you don't have many scripts in here, but rest assured that all relevant daemon scripts end up here. This directory is pretty much the equivalent to the /etc/rc3.d/ or /etc/init.d/ directories of other distributions, without all the symlink hassle.
User & Group Management
Users and groups can be added and deleted with the standard commands provided in the util-linux package: useradd, userdel, groupadd, groupdel, passwd, and gpasswd. The typical way of adding a user is similar to this procedure:
useradd -m -s /bin/bash johndoe passwd johndoe
The first command will add the user named johndoe to the system, create a home directory for him at /home/johndoe, and place some default login files in his home directory. It will also set his login shell to be /bin/bash. The second command will ask you for a password for the johndoe user. A password is required to activate the account.
As an alternative to the useradd command, the adduser script is also available to interactively create new users on your system simply by answering questions.
See the manpages for more information on the remaining commands. It is a good idea to create one or multiple normal users for your day-to-day work to fully use the available security features and minimize potential damage that may be the result of using the root user for anything but system administration tasks.
Additional information about adding users and groups can be found on the User Management wiki and on the Groups wiki.
Internet Access
Due to a lack of developers for dialup issues, connecting Arch to the Internet with a dialup line is requiring a lot of manual setup. If at all possible, set up a dedicated router which you can then use as a default gateway on the Arch box.
There are quite a few dialup related documents in the Arch Linux Wiki
Analog Modem
To be able to use a Hayes-compatible, external, analog modem, you need to at least have the ppp package installed. Modify the file /etc/ppp/options to suit your needs and according to man pppd. You will need to define a chat script to supply your username and password to the ISP after the initial connection has been established. The manpages for pppd and chat have examples in them that should suffice to get a connection up and running if you're either experienced or stubborn enough. With udev, your serial ports usually are /dev/tts/0 and /dev/tts/1.
Instead of fighting a glorious battle with the plain pppd, you may opt to install wvdial or a similar tool to ease the setup process considerably.
In case you're using a so called WinModem, which is basically a PCI plugin card working as an internal analog modem, you should indulge in the vast information found on the LinModem homepage.
Setting up ISDN is done in three steps:
- Install and configure hardware
- Install and configure the ISDN utilities
- Add settings for your ISP
The current Arch stock kernels include the necessary ISDN modules, meaning that you won't need to recompile your kernel unless you're about to use rather odd or old ISDN hardware. After physically installing your ISDN card in your machine or plugging in your USB ISDN-Box, you can try loading the modules with modprobe. Nearly all passive ISDN PCI cards are handled by the hisax module which needs two parameters; type and protocol. You must set protocol to '1' if your country uses the 1TR6 standard, '2' if it uses EuroISDN (EDSS1), '3' if you're hooked to a so called leased-line without D-channel, and '4' for US NI1.
Details on all those settings and how to set them is included in the kernel documentation, more specifically in the isdn subdirectory, available online. The type parameter depends on your card; A list of all possible types is to be found in the README.HiSax kernel documentation. Choose your card and load the module with the appropriate options like this:
modprobe hisax type=18 protocol=2
This will load the hisax module for my (Dennis) ELSA Quickstep 1000PCI, being used in Germany with the EDSS1 protocol. You should find helpful debugging output in your /var/log/everything.log file in which you should see your card being prepared for action. Please note that you will probably need to load some usb modules before you can work with an external USB ISDN Adapter.
Once you confirmed that your card works with certain settings, you can add the module options to your /etc/modprobe.conf:
alias ippp0 hisax options hisax type=18 protocol=2
Alternatively you can only add the options line here, and add hisax to your MODULES array in the rc.conf. Your choice, really, but this example has the advantage that the module will not be loaded until it's really needed.
That being done you should have working, supported hardware. Now you need the basic utilities to actually use it!
Install the isdn4k-utils package, and read the manpage to isdnctrl, it'll get you started. Further down in the manpage you will find explanations on how to create a configuration file that can be parsed by isdnctrl, as well as some helpful setup examples.
Please note that you have to add your SPID to your MSN setting separated by a colon if you use US NI1.
After you configured your ISDN card with the isdnctrl utility, you should be able to dial into the machine you specified with the PHONE_OUT parameter, but fail the username and password authentication. To make this work add your username and password to /etc/ppp/pap-secrets or /etc/ppp/chap-secrets as if you were configuring a normal analogous PPP link, depending on which protocol your ISP uses for authentication. If in doubt, put your data into both files.
If you set up everything correctly, you should now be able to establish a dialup connection with isdnctrl dial ippp0 as root. If you have any problems, remember to check the logfiles!
DSL (PPPoE)
These instructions are only relevant to you if your PC itself is supposed to manage the connection to your ISP. You do not need to do anything but define a correct default gateway if you are using a separate router of some sort to do the grunt work.
Before you can use your DSL online connection, you will have to physically install the network card that is supposed to be connected to the DSL-Modem into your computer. After adding your newly installed network card to the modprobe.conf or the MODULES array, you should install the rp-pppoe package and run the pppoe-setup script to configure your connection. After you have entered all required data, you can connect and disconnect your line with
# /etc/rc.d/adsl start # /etc/rc.d/adsl stop
respectively. The setup usually is rather easy and straightforward, but feel free to read the manpages for hints. If you want to automatically dial in on bootup, add adsl to your DAEMONS array, and put a ! before the network entry, since the network is handled by adsl now.
Package Management
Pacman is the package manager which tracks all the software installed on your system. It has simple dependency support and uses the standard gzipped tar archive format for all packages. Some common tasks are explained below with the respective commands in long and short option form. For an up to date explanation of pacman's options, read man pacman. This overview is merely scratching the surface of pacman's current capabilities.
Typical tasks:
Adding/Upgrading a package with a package file
pacman --upgrade foo.pkg.tar.gz pacman -U foo.pkg.tar.gz
This will install the foo.pkg.tar.gz package on the system. If dependencies are missing, pacman will exit with an error and report the missing deps, but not attempt to resolve the dependencies automatically. Look at the --sync option if you expect this functionality. Adding multiple package files is possible, and if the listed files depend on each other, the packages will be automatically installed in the correct order. This will additionally upgrade an already-installed package at no extra cost.
Removing packages
pacman --remove foo pacman -R foo
This will remove all files belonging to the package named foo, except for configuration files that have been edited. Only supply the name of the package to this command, without the pkg.tar.gz suffix.
To remove any and all trace of a package, add the --nosave option to the above command.
Refreshing the package list
pacman --sync --refresh pacman -Sy
This will retrieve a fresh master package list from the repositories defined in the /etc/pacman.conf file and uncompress it into the database area. You should use this before using --sysupgrade to make sure you get the newest packages. Depending on your pacman.conf settings, this command may require a working internet connection to access FTP/HTTP-based repositories. This option is quite similar to Debian's apt-get update command.
Upgrading the system
pacman --sync --sysupgrade pacman -Su
This command will upgrade all packages that are out-of-date on your system by comparing the local package version to the versions in the master package list that get downloaded with the --refresh command. It's a good idea to run this regularly to keep your system up to date. Note that this command does NOT implicitly refresh the master package list, so it's usually wiser to combine both commands into one like this:
pacman --sync --refresh --sysupgrade pacman -Syu
With these options pacman will automatically retrieve the current master package list and do a full system upgrade to the latest packages with all dependencies being automagically resolved. You will want to run this quite often.
Adding/Upgrading a package from the repositories
pacman --sync foo pacman -S foo
Retrieve and install package foo, complete with all dependencies it requires. Before using any sync option, make sure you refreshed the package list, or add --refresh or -y to the options to do it before the installation attempt. Unlike --add, the --sync option does not differ between installing and upgrading packages. Depending on your pacman.conf settings this function requires working internet access.
Receiving strange errors when downloading packages from the server, ie. broken downloads or files that aren't found, usually are either caused by not refreshing the package list with --sync, or if you're unlucky enough to try downloading from a mirror while it's syncing its contents, and is thus in an inconsistent state.
Searching for packages
pacman -Ss foo
Search for package foo.
List installed packages
pacman --query pacman -Q
Displays a list of all installed packages in the system.
Check if a specific package is installed
pacman --query foo pacman -Q foo
Instead of grepping the full list for a name, you can append the name of the package you are looking for to the query command. This command will display the name and version of the foo package if it is installed, nothing otherwise.
Display specific package info
pacman --query --info foo pacman -Qi foo
Displays information on the installed package foo (size, install date, build date, dependencies, conflicts, etc.). To display this information for a package file that is not yet installed, add the --file or -p option, respectively:
pacman --query --info --file foo.pkg.tar.gz pacman -Qip foo.pkg.tar.gz
Display list of files contained in a package
pacman --query --list foo pacman -Ql foo
Lists all files belonging to package foo.
Find out which package a specific file belongs to
pacman --query --owns /path/to/file pacman -Qo /path/to/file
This query displays the name and version of the package which contains the file referenced by its full path as a parameter. Just using the file name without the path will not yield results.
Accessing Repositories
A package repository is a collection of packages and a package meta-info file that can reside in a local directory or on a remote FTP/HTTP server. The default repository for an Arch system is the core repository. This is kept up to date by developers with the latest version of most software and stays fairly bleeding-edge.
Many users also choose to activate the extra package repository which contains more packages that are not part of Arch's core package set. You can activate this repo by uncommenting the appropriate lines in your /etc/pacman.conf. This repository is activated by default.
You can also build, maintain and use your own package repositories. See the pacman manpage for instructions.
If you install from CD-ROM and end up having problems accessing the Internet, you may need to install additional packages from the CD. Refer to the FAQs, specifically FAQ #3 later in this document, to find out how to define a repository that uses the installation CD-ROM as a package source.
Arch Build System (ABS)
Binary vs. Source
Where pacman is responsible for the binary side of the package world, ABS is responsible for the source side: It helps you to build your own custom packages from source code, also letting you rebuild Arch Linux packages with your own customizations.
The procedure usually goes as follows:
- Install the abs package via pacman
- Synchronize your ABS tree with the server by running abs as root.
- Create a build directory, named after the package you are going to create.
- Copy the PKGBUILD.proto prototype from /var/abs/ into your newly created directory, remove the .proto suffix, and edit it to fit the new package.
- Run makepkg in the working directory with the PKGBUILD file.
- Install the newly built package with pacman.
- Send the package to your friends for bragging rights (or give it to an Archer so s/he can stick it in the master ABS tree).
Synchronizing Your ABS Tree
You can synchronize all the required package building files in /var/abs by running the abs script as root. A working internet connection is also required, of course. Using SVN as the transfer medium allows you to follow different version trees within ABS - this can be configured in /etc/abs/supfile.arch. For example, the default supfile is set to track the core package tree, which is bleeding-edge and the recommended source to follow. You can also follow specific versions. See the comments in the supfiles for more info.
ABS supports multiple repositories, which can be enabled or disabled in /etc/abs/abs.conf. By default, abs will follow the core and extra repositories, but not anything else.
You will also see an /etc/abs/supfile.extra file. This will give you access to all the unofficial build scripts that were not included in the main ABS repository. If you do not want to use this repository, you can delete the file, but usually it makes more sense to edit abs.conf accordingly instead, and disable the repositories you don't need.
How to Build Packages
The build process is thoroughly explained in the makepkg manpage. Read it for instructions on building your own packages. If that's not helping you, keep your eyes peeled for tutorials in the Wiki, or ask for help in the forums or IRC.
Package Guidelines
When building a package for Arch Linux, you should adhere to the package guidelines below, especially if you would like to contribute your new package to Arch Linux.
Package Naming
- Package names should consist of alphanumeric characters only; all letters should be lowercase.
- Package versions should be the same as the version released by the author. Versions can include letters if need be (eg, nmap'sversion was 2.54beta32 a good while ago). Version tags may not include hyphens! Letters, numbers, and periods only.
- Package releases are specific to Arch Linux packages. These allow users to differentiate between newer and older package builds. When a new package version is first released, the release countstarts at 1. Then as fixes and optimizations are made, the package will be re-released to the AL public and the release number will increment. When a new version comes out, the release count resets to 1. Package release tags follow the same naming restrictions as version tags.
Configuration files should be placed in the /etc directory. If there's more than one configuration file, it's customary to use a subdirectory in order to keep the /etc area as clean as possible. Use /etc/{pkgname}/ where {pkgname} is the name of your package (or a suitable alternative, eg, apache uses /etc/httpd/).
Package files should follow these general directory guidelines:
/etc System-essential configuration files /usr/bin Application binaries /usr/sbin System binaries /usr/lib Libraries /usr/include Header files /usr/lib/{pkg} Modules, plugins, etc. /usr/share/man Manpages /usr/share/{pkg} Application data /etc/{pkg} Configuration files for {pkg} /opt Packages that do not fit cleanly into the GNU filesystem layout can be placed here. If a package's files can be cleanly placed into the above directories, then do so. If there are other high-level directories that do not fit, then you should use /opt.
For example, the acrobat package has Browser, Reader, and Resource directories sitting at the same level as the bin directory. This doesn't fit into a normal GNU filesystem layout, so we place all the files in a subdirectory of /opt.
Clear as mud? Good.
makepkg Duties
When you use makepkg to build a package for you, it does the following automatically:
- Checks if package dependencies are installed
- Downloads source files from servers
- Unpacks source files
- Performs any necessary patching, if specified in the PKGBUILD script
- Builds the software and installs it in a fake root
- Removes /usr/doc, /usr/info, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info from the package
- Strips symbols from binaries
- Strips debugging symbols from libraries
- Generates the package meta file which is included with each package
- Compresses the fake root into the package file
- Stores the package file in the configured destination directory (cwd by default)
Do not introduce new variables into your PKGBUILD build scripts, unless the package cannot be built without doing so, as these could possibly conflict with variables used in makepkg itself. If a new variable is absolutely required, prefix the variable name with an underscore.
Avoid using /usr/libexec/ for anything. Use /usr/lib/{pkgname} instead.
The "Packager" field from the package meta file can be customized by the package builder by modifying the appropriate option in the /etc/makepkg.conf file, or alternatively by exporting the PACKAGER environment variable before building packages with makepkg:
export PACKAGER="John Doe <your.email>"
Submitting Packages
If you'd like to submit packages, please take a look at the Arch User Repository and their guidelines. New packages should be submitted to the AUR.
If you're submitting a package, please do the following:
- Please add a comment line to the top of your PKGBUILD file that follows this format:
Contributor: Your Name <your.email>
- Verify the package dependencies (eg, run ldd on dynamic executables, check tools required by scripts, etc.). It's also a good idea to use the namcap utility, written by Jason Chu firstname.lastname@example.com, to analyze the sanity if your package. namcap will tell you about bad permissions, missing dependencies, un-needed dependencies, and other common mistakes. You can install the namcap package with pacman as usual.
- All packages should come as a compressed tar file containing a directory with the newly built package, the PKGBUILD, filelist, and additional files (patches, install, ...) in it. The archive name should at least contain the name of the package.
- Read the appropriate documents regarding the AUR, and the newest version of the packaging guildelines on the AUR Homepage.
Frequently Asked Questions
The FAQs listed here are only covering any problems that may keep you from booting or installing an initial Arch Linux system. If you have questions regarding further usage of the system utilities, X11 setup, etc. or how to configure your hardware, please head over to the Wiki. If you think an issue is not covered here that should be, please notify the author of this document, whose address is to be found at the very top of this file.
During the initial package installation, pacman fails to resolve dependencies for package A because package B is not in the package set
Unless something is very broken and thus very likely to be reported by multiple people soon, you probably just forgot to mount your target partitions properly. This causes pacman to decompress the package database into the initial ramdisk, which fills up quite nicely and ultimatively leads to this error.
Make sure that you use the DONE and not the CANCEL option offered by the Filesystem Mountpoints menu to apply your choices. This error should not happen if you use the Auto-Prepare feature; If it does nevertheless, please report this as a bug.
How can I install packages from the install CD with pacman --sync (so it resolves dependencies for me)?
If you would rather have packages install from the CD instead of downloading them, then mount the install CD somewhere (eg. /mnt/cd) and add this line right below the [core] line in /etc/pacman.conf: Server = file:///mnt/cd
Replace /mnt/cd with the mountpoint you chose. Then use pacman --sync as you normally would - It will now check the /mnt/cd directory first for packages.
How can I create multiple swap partitions during the install?
Naturally you won't be able to use the Auto-Prepare feature if you want to create and use multiple swap partitions. Create the partitions manually instead, and create as many swap partitions as your little heart desires. Go through the rest of the disk preparation steps, don't mind that you're only asked for one swap partition during the mount-point setting. Once you're through with the install and are about to edit your system configuration files, you can edit the fstab file and include a line for every swap device you created earlier. Simply copy the automatically generated swap line, and modify the referenced device according to your setup. The additional swaps will be activated after the bootup when swapon -a is being run by the initscripts. Make sure you ran mkswap on all of your swap partitions manually, or else your system will complain on bootup!
If, for any odd reason, you can not wait until after the installation with activating multiple swap partitions or files, you will have to open a shell on one of the virtual terminals and issue the swapon <device> for every swap drive or file you partitioned/readied before with mkswap. Then continue as explained above with the install.
In case you are honestly contemplating setting up multiple swap files or drives, you should keep in mind that a kernel that needs to swap is actually crying bitterly for more RAM, not more swap space. Please keep your penguin well fed. Thank you.
How do I reconfigure LILO from the rescue system?
As a first step you simply boot from the Arch Install CD or disks. If your partitions are intact and don't need checking, you can try choosing one of the recovery boot options according to your partition layout, or fiddle with the GRUB boot manager settings on your own to get your existing system to boot properly. That will boot directly into your system, and you can skip all but the last step of actually reconfiguring and running LILO.
If you cannot boot your old root directly, boot from the CD as if you were going to start an installation. Once you're in a shell, you mount the root partition of your harddisk into the /mnt directory, for example like this:
mount /dev/hda3 /mnt
Then you mount any other partitions to their respective mount points within that root of yours, for example a /boot partition:
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/boot
Now you need to mount a /dev tree in the /mnt area, where LILO will be able to find it:
/mnt/bin/mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
Once everything is mounted, make this /mnt directory your new root with the chroot /mnt command. This will start a new shell and drop you into the /mnt directory, which will be considered your / from then on.
Now you can edit /etc/lilo.conf to your liking and run lilo to fix anything that needs fixing. Simply type exit when you want to break out of this root again, back into the original file tree. You can now reboot and test your changes.
I can't ssh into my machine!
The default configuration will reject all incoming connections, not only ssh connections. Edit your /etc/hosts.allow file and add the line:
sshd:all to allow all incoming ssh connections.
How should I load modules during boot now?
If you want to load a module unconditionally without a specific device binding, add the name of the module to the MODULES array of your /etc/rc.conf. For on demand loading on device access, add it as usual with the alias and optioncommands to your /etc/modprobe.conf, in the rare cases that the automatisms employed by udev don't cut it. To pass any options to a module you want to load through the MODULES array, only add the appropriate options line to your /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf.
Kernel refuses to boot because of "lost interrupt"
Kernel refuses to boot. It locks at: IRQ probe failed for hda hda lost interrupt
This or a similar error occurs for some HD controllers on kernel 2.6.x. A workaround is to pass the acpi=off option to the kernel at boot time.
I get "access denied" errors trying to play music or read DVDs
Add your user to the optical and audio groups.
gpasswd -a johndoe optical gpasswd -a johndoe audio
Logout, then login again as that user (eg. johndoe) so the group changes can take effect, and the device permissions shouldn't be a problem anymore.
If you have a DVD drive, you may want to create a /dev/dvd symlink to your real DVD device. Usually udev does this for you already, but this will serve well as an example for setting up similar symlinks.
For example, if your DVD drive is accessible through /dev/sdc, you can do the following as root:
cat >>/etc/udev/rules.d/00.rules <<EOF > KERNEL="sdc", NAME="sdc", SYMLINK="dvd" > EOF /etc/start_udev mount /dev/pts mount /dev/shm


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Reduce potential for accidental poisonings
Unwanted medicines left in the home endanger our children, seniors and pets. Over half of the 37,000 calls to the Washington Poison Center in 2009 were for young children poisoned by medicines found at home. The elderly are also at risk of accidental poisonings and human medications are the leading cause of pet poisoning.
Reduce medicines in the environment. Don't flush! Don't trash!
Flushing drugs send them into our waters. Throwing them in the garbage makes them available for others to take and use and can still get into the environment. Take-back programs are the only secure, environmentally sound way to dispose of unwanted medicines.


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Skydiver Blaine Wright to be Honored at Saturday's Football Game [AUDIO]
It was a windy Saturday afternoon on October 29th, 2011 when the Silver Skydivers began their traditional jump into Washington Grizzly Stadium, when tragedy struck.
The first man in the formation, veteran skydiver Blaine Wright, was blown off course by strong winds out of the Hellgate Canyon. As he attempted to avoid falling into the stands and possibly injuring the crowd, Wright's parachute snagged on a tree, and he fell on a concrete retaining wall, traveling at between 25 and 35 miles per hour, causing devastating injuries.
Wright says he remembers nothing of the minute before the crash, but only that he did not think he was that badly hurt, until he realized that his arm and leg were both broken.
In fact, Wright's pelvis was completely crushed, his skull was fractured, in all..he suffered 19 broken bones. He found out later, that the injury to his pelvis nearly caused him to bleed to death internally.
Now, a year later, Wright is not only walking again, but he is hiking and swimming. In fact, at Saturday's Idaho State football game, Wright will walk onto the field during the pre-game festivities to, in part..thank all the thousands of well-wishers who sent him cards, letters and emails, but also to complete the journey he started almost exactly a year ago to the center of the bear, where he consistently landed as a Silvertip skydiver.
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Wells Fargo, the San Francisco-based bank with $1.3 trillion in assets and $131 billion in 2009 revenue, named Timothy Sloan CFO. He succeeds Howard Atkins, the bank's CFO since 2001, who is taking a leave of absence and will retire in August. Sloan, 50, most recently was Wells' chief administrative officer and senior executive vice president. Earlier, he served as head of commercial banking, real estate and specialized financial services, overseeing more than 25 lines of business. Sloan has worked at the bank for 23 years.
Boeing Co., the $68 billion aerospace and defense contractor, named Robert Verbeck CFO of its $34 billion Boeing Defense, Space & Security division. He replaces Randy Simmons, who is retiring. Verbeck, 51, most recently was CFO for Boeing's military aircraft business unit. Earlier, he served as controller of the Defense, Space and Security division and program manager for its U.K. tanker program. Verbeck joined Boeing in 1986 when it acquired McDonnell Douglas. He began his career as a steelworker.
Bunge, the $42 billion oil products and processing company in White Plains, N.Y., named Andrew Burke CFO. He had served as interim CFO since Jacqualyn Fouse left in September to become CFO at Celgene. Burke, 55, will retain the title of global operational excellence officer, a role he has performed since July 2010. Earlier, he was co-CEO of Bunge's global agribusiness and product lines, after joining the company in 2002 as managing director of soy ingredients and new business development.
Xerox, the $22 billion document management company in Norwalk, Conn., named Luca Maestri CFO and executive vice president. He replaces Lawrence Zimmerman, who is retiring. Maestri, 47, had been CFO of Nokia Siemens Networks since 2008. Prior to joining Nokia, he spent 20 years at General Motors, where he served as CFO of both GM Europe and GM Brazil and as executive-in-charge of the Fiat Alliance for GM in Switzerland. Earlier, Maestri worked in finance positions for GM in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.
J.C. Penney Co., the $17 billion department store chain based in Plano, Texas, named Michael Dastugue CFO and executive vice president. He succeeds Robert Cavanaugh, who is retiring next year. Dastugue, 46, had been the company's senior vice president of finance since February 2010. From 2005 to 2010, he was senior vice president and director of property development, handling new stores and renovations. Dastugue has worked in finance positions, including a stint as treasurer, since joining J.C. Penney in 1991.
Constellation Energy Group, a $15 billion energy company, named Jennifer Lowry treasurer and vice president. She replaces Reese Feuerman, who was named vice president of operational finance. Lowry, 42, joined the company in 2008 as assistant treasurer after working at Cogentrix and AES. Constellation named Carim Khouzami CFO and treasurer of its Baltimore Gas and Electric unit. Khouzami, 36, formerly director of investor relations, replaces Kevin Hadlock, who left to become CFO of Questar.
Sara Lee, the $11 billion consumer goods company, appointed Mark Garvey CFO, making permanent the job he had been performing on an interim basis since May 2010. He succeeds Marcel Smits, who was promoted to CEO. Garvey, 46, previously was Illinois-based Sara Lee's senior vice president of global business services. He served as CFO of Sara Lee International from 2006 to 2008 and of the company's North American businesses from 2008 to 2009. Garvey has also served as corporate controller.
SLM Corp., better known as Sallie Mae, the student loan company with $235 billion in loans, promoted Jonathan Clark to CFO and executive vice president. He replaces John Remondi, who was named president and COO. Clark, 52, was formerly the company's treasurer and executive vice president. He joined Sallie Mae as senior vice president of corporate finance in 2008 from Credit Suisse, where he worked on student loan financing. Earlier, Clark worked at Prudential Securities and First Boston.
Con-way, a $4.3 billion freight transportation and logistics company in San Mateo, Calif., named Michael Morris treasurer and senior vice president. He succeeds Mark Thickpenny, who retired last fall. Morris, 42, is joining Con-way from semiconductor company Kulicke and Soffa Industries, where he had been CFO since 2009. Earlier, he served as Kulicke and Soffa's treasurer, was assistant treasurer at Constellation Energy Group and worked in various positions in the treasurer's office at General Motors.
Regis Corp., a $2.4 billion operator of hair salons based in Edina, Minn., named Brent Moen CFO and senior vice president. He succeeds Randy Pearce, who was promoted to president. Moen, 43, had been the company's controller and vice president since 2006. He joined Regis in 2000 as director of finance and was appointed vice president of finance in 2002. Prior to joining Regis, Moen worked at Carlson Cos. and GlaxoSmithKline and was an accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Bob Evans Farms, the $1.7 billion restaurant operator and sausage maker in Columbus, Ohio, named Paul DeSantis CFO, treasurer and assistant corporate secretary. The company's chief risk and compliance officer, Richard Green, had served as interim CFO since Tod Spornhauer left in January. DeSantis, 46, had been CFO and treasurer at A. Schulman since 2006. Earlier, he was corporate treasurer at Scotts Miracle-Gro and worked in finance at Kellogg and as a financial analyst at GMAC.
Sunrise Senior Living, a $1.5 billion operator of assisted-living and nursing homes, named Marc Richards CFO. He replaces Julie Pangelinan, who is leaving the McLean, Va.-based company. Richards will retain his current title of chief accounting officer. Before joining Sunrise in 2009, Richards, 39, served as a vice president at JE Robert Cos. and as controller for JER Investors Trust, the company's REIT unit. Earlier, he was controller of Republic Property Trust, an operator of commercial office buildings.


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Sandia contact: Bill Murphy, 845-0845
Los Alamos contact: Jim Danneskiold, 505-667-1640
New Mexico Tech contact: George Zamora, (505) 835-5617
NEW MEXICO -- Sept. 17, 2003 -- Officials of Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology this week are establishing the Center for Energetic Materials and Energetic Devices (CEMED).
While researchers in the technical security community often call them "energetic materials and devices," the public calls them explosives and bombs. By any name, as the nation remains under the threat of terrorist attack, there is a growing urgency to develop advanced capabilities to identify, evaluate, test, and disarm such devices. At the same time, there has been a decline in recent years in research into the science of energetic materials, and a corresponding decrease in development of new energetic devices for both peaceful and military applications.
The three CEMED partners are establishing the Center to address the immediate terrorist threat as well as the longer-term the need to revitalize the nation's energetic materials R&D activities.
Each CEMED partner brings unique capabilities to the table. Sandia for more than 50 years has had as one of its core missions the design and production of advanced energetic devices and subsystems. CEMED projects will offer Sandia and its Regional Alliance for Manufacturing Program (RAMP) partners a chanced to stretch their manufacturing capabilities on high consequence/low volume systems and assemblies. Los Alamos brings to the new partnership a long history of developing and characterizing new energetic materials under normal and extreme conditions using sophisticated experimental diagnostics and accurate materials and test fabrication facilities. New Mexico Tech is the only US university to offer degrees in explosives engineering; it conducts research and testing related to energetic materials and explosives for industry and government agencies.
Customers for CEMED will include a broad range of federal and state agencies with an interest in energetic materials and devices. Additionally, the Center will be a resource for U.S. companies that develop, use, and manufacture energetic materials and devices. They include companies from various industry sectors including transportation, mining, oil and gas, automotive, and munitions manufacturers.
Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin company, for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. With main facilities in Albuquerque, N.M., and Livermore, Calif., Sandia has major R&D responsibilities in national security, energy and environmental technologies, and economic competitiveness.
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Sandia contact: Bill Murphy, 845-0845
Los Alamos contact: Jim Danneskiold, 505-667-1640
New Mexico Tech contact: George Zamora, (505) 835-5617


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That's a wrap! After three long days in Montreal, etnies and Underworld Skateshop's Am Getting Paid—one of the gnarliest am contests in all of Canada—is over, Le Taz Skatepark took a beating, and Matt Berger walked away with first place honors for the second year in a row, collecting a cool five Gs as a result. Not too shabby for an am. (Hopefully that'll pay his hospital bills from bustin' his hand the night before. Oh wait, this is Canada we're talkin' about; they've got free healthcare. Must be nice.)
The day started out with the semifinals, pitting the top 30 qualifiers from the past two days against each other in one-minute-long runs plus three three-minute jams, and then pulled the top 15 from that into the finals. Needless to say, it was an insanely heavy amount of skating, and the dudes who even made it to the finals should be awarded just for that. While everyone killed it, Matt Berger, who might just be the next Shane O'Neill based on his freakishly supernatural amount of board control and consistency, came out on top. Bigspin front board down the big rail first go, smoother than shit? Fifty other ridiculous tricks, all first try with zero effort? Yup. You earned it buddy.
But no competition is complete without a best trick contest. Alex Bastide, owner of Underground Skateshop and founder of Am Getting Paid, handed out 20-dollar bills for each worthy trick, going through a few hundred bucks in the process. And let's just say JS Lapierre and Fletcher Renegar walked away with newly filled wallets of cold, hard cash.
See ya next year, Montreal. Save me some maple syrup and poutine, eh?
Full Results:
1 Berger, Matt 92.17
2 Cosentino, Jon 89.83
3 Hanson, Magnus 85.83
4 Renegar, Fletcher 83.50
5 Rogers, TJ 81.67
6 Marshall, Will 81.17
7 LaCroix, Alexis 80.17
8 Gagnon, Julien 80.00
9 Heinert, Leo 79.83
10 Barrette, Mitch 79.17
11 Midler, Alex 78.50
12 Hanlon, John 75.00
13 Del Valle, Vince 74.17
14 Peterson, Ty 71.17
15 Lapierre, JS 70.17


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M. Ali Alpar
In August 2011 the Turkish Government issued a decree to bring in government appointments to the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA). This resulted in an appointed majority of members in TÜBA, many with mediocre academic records. 52 of the 82 formerly elected regular members of TÜBA resigned. A new academy, Bilim Akademisi – the Science Academy was founded on Nov. 25, 2011. These developments took place in a background of increasing political interference in publicly funded institutions as well as professional associations, non-governmental organizations and the media. Many academies throughout the world receive support from public funds. They are accountable financially but are independent in their academic and scientific activities, including, fundamentally, the election of their members. Academies and scientific societies can function as sources of reference and advice to the public and to governments on the basis of this independence.
The universities system in Turkey is centralized, rigid and hierarchical. There are constraints on academic freedom which have led to an increasing number of investigations and court cases in recent years. Science policy is shaped by the misconception of developing or adopting technology while downplaying basic scientific research. This goes hand in hand with an ideological distrust of science by the present government.
The Science Academy was set up as a Society under Turkish Law, financed by members' dues and donations so as to be independent of any state support. It now has 121 members, of which 29 are physicists. Ordinary members are Turkish citizens elected on the basis of academic excellence who sign a Declaration of Academic Merit, Freedom and Integrity on joining the Science Academy. The first elected (2012) foreign honorary members are the physicists Edouard Brezin, Joel Lebowitz and David Pines, the astrophysicist Lord Martin Rees, the chemist Atta-ur Rahman, the philosopher Dagfinn Follesdal, and political scientists Dame Helen Wallace and Sir Adam Roberts.
To attract young talent to careers in science and scholarship is a fundamental priority. The Science Academy has started a research award program for young scientists and scholars, and in its first year has already made 20 awards for two-year research support based on donations from business and individuals. The support we received at the launch of this program was very encouraging. In the US tax deductible donations to the Science Academy can be made through the Turkish Philanthropy Funds.
The Science Academy has started studies and made declarations on science and education policy, in particular on recent official statements that the theory of evolution is "controversial" vis-a-vis creationism. Our members in social and political sciences and economics have made an analysis of the current political developments in Turkey in the summer of 2013.
The Science Academy is already a member of the International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies, IHRNASS, an international network of academies hosted by the US National Academy of Sciences. We have applied for membership in other international leagues of academies like the European ALLEA, the Inter Academy Panel and the Academy of Sciences of the Developing World (Trieste).
Professsor M. Ali Alpar, astrophysicist, is on the faculty of Sabanci University in Istanbul and Chairman, of the Science Academy
Disclaimer - The articles and opinion pieces found in this issue of the APS Forum on International Physics Newsletter are not peer refereed and represent solely the views of the authors and not necessarily the views of the APS.


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Can you help a person who doesn't
really want to quit smoking?
Video discusses how some people who say or think that they don't want to quit can still be helped to successfully stop smoking.
Can we help a person quit when they are pretty sure they don't want to quit?
Over the years I have seen numerous members thrust into my program, totally against their wills who still manage to succeed in quitting smoking. I had two in the last clinic who clearly stated they did not want to quit but were forced in by parents. Other people are forced in by doctors, some people have even been tricked into coming to my seminars by family and friends who told them they were going somewhere else and literally brought them to the room under some form of false pretense. While I won't say this tactic works in the majority of cases, it works a lot more often than most people would think.
To say that these people had no prior motivation or desire to quit would probably not be true. I suspect most smokers have some level of motivation to quit, but motivation without understanding isn't enough to succeed. That is what I try to do in the first session of a clinic or in the single session seminars. I try to cram in four areas of understanding, all of which I think are crucial for the smoker to understand if they are going to have a good shot at success.
The areas I try to cover are why they smoke, why they should stop, how to quit and then how to stay off. I think these four areas are crucial points of understanding, without having a firm grasp of each component, the smoker is handicapped in his or her efforts.
Understanding why he or she smokes help the smoker see that all the magical qualities associated with smoking are false feelings. While most smokers think they smoke because they want to, the real reason they smoke is because they have to. Their bodies demand it. They are drug addicts, plain and simple and understanding this premise is the crucial first step. As with any other addiction or 12 step program, the premise of being powerless over the drug is the first step in recovery.
I want them to recognize that while they thought smoking was keeping them calm, it was actually increasing their stress levels, or more accurately, their reactions to stress. While they thought smoking made the energetic, it in fact robbed them of endurance and energy. That it made keeping their life style fun and active, it was actually robbing them if ability to do many things and was in fact putting every activity and relationship at risk. That it was at their core of their ability to be an active member of society, it was in fact causing them to resort to many antisocial behaviors, leading them to smoke in lieu of human contact or even leaving gatherings because smoking was not permitted.
Why they should stop smoking is probably the least surprising to most people, they already know smoking is bad for them, but most people don't recognize how bad it is. Many people are blown away when they realize the full magnitude of the dangers from smoking. While I don't spend a great quantity of time on the issue, maybe only an hour and a half of 10 hours of presentation time, it is still one of the areas that many people refer back to years later as a major motivating factor to stay off. The recognition that quitting smoking is in fact a fight for very survival is often of paramount importance in long term success, dealing with the occasional thoughts that are still triggered by circumstances and situations faced throughout the ex-smoker's life.
How to quit, now there is a shock to most people, especially after the more reading and research they have done prior to coming to my programs. If they are medical professionals, bombarded by the influence of the state of the art of smoking cessation techniques, what I am proposing is so radical that it takes them a few minutes to overcome the idea that I am out of my mind. After being bombard by study after study and expert after expert, to come out and accept that the way to quit smoking is simply to quit smoking seems ludicrous. It is only when I have them think real hard of all the long-term (one year plus) ex-smokers they know, of how these people initially quit, that they start to realize that the vast majority of these people, and in many cases all of them, quit by cold turkey. It is often like a light bulb goes off in their head for the first time seeing the obvious, even though it flies in the face of conventional wisdom.
Finally, how to stay off, here is another kicker. Almost every piece of professional literature on smoking cessation produced over the last 30 years will bury one line in the text, or sometimes make it really obvious that will undercut the most truly motivated and educated smoker. The line is "don't let a slip put you back to smoking." That makes as much sense as don't let a drink put you back to drinking to an alcoholic, or a heroin addict given the message of don't let a little injection put you back to using. The message needs to be stronger than that, not don't let a slip put you back to using, the message had better be – DON'T SLIP!
There is no such thing as a slip, or an accident, or a mistake, or a puff, or just one, they are all a RELAPSE! This point, more than anything else is what is going to make a quit last. Forgetting this concept, or worse, never knowing it all but assures failure.
I have seen the education of the smoking problem work thousands of times in getting people to be properly prepared to quit. Again, that problem is more than just the physical dangers of smoking. It entails the smoker developing a full appreciation of the physical, mental, social, economic, and aesthetic implications of smoking. I have also witnessed the understanding of these issues to be the tools utilized by thousands of ex-smokers in keeping their quits going as long as they keep the understanding of all these issues at the forefront of consciousness.
So can we motivate a smoker to want to quit? I think most smokers of any appreciable time period is already motivated. If not most smokers in general, any smoker who shows up here for even a glimpse at Freedom is motivated or they would not even have typed in the word smoking into a search engine or followed a link sent by a friend. If they took a peak, there is an interest. Now it is a matter of tapping into that interest and helping them realize that there really is a way out. You have all found it here. Those just starting, listen to those who are here for months and years already. Listen to how they sound about not smoking, the overall improvement of life experienced by most.
Those who are here for months and years now, listen to those who are just joining. Hear the fear and doubt expressed and realize that was you so long ago and how you never want to be back at that stage of your life again. You don't know you will have the strength or sufficient desire or opportunity to quit again if there were another need to do so. For everyone, recognize to quit smoking and stay smoke free, always remember to never take another puff!
References referred to in this video:
- Setting quit dates
- "I'll never be as productive again if I quit smoking"
- "I'll be a nervous wreck forever if I quit smoking"
- "I am climbing the walls because I quit smoking"
- Smoking does not help you overcome stress
- Why do smokers smoke?
- Quitting smoking: A fate worse than death
- "But smoking is the only vice I have left"
- Update to video "Premature deaths caused by smoking"
- Premature deaths caused by smoking
- Consequences of smoking playlist
Other resource materials addressing concepts discussed in this video:


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This global survey includes industrial respondents across 9 counties: Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, South Africa, the UK, and the United States. The research highlights how industry executives are evolving their business models to accommodate the new digital era and the Internet of Things.
Key Finding
Highlights of the research across four, key trends for industrial equipment companies:
Internet of Me places the end user at the center of every digital experience. Digitally-enabled objects open up a powerful new channel for businesses to connect with their customers in authentic, meaningful ways.
Outcome Economy helps give satisfying outcomes through connected hardware, products and components.
Platform (R)evolution enables entirely new digital models for companies—creating new kinds of products, value, and differentiation for buyers and sellers across the entire supply chain.
Workforce Reimagined supports new and more effective means of collaboration, virtually across humans and machines.