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GUJARAT, India – Rambha Gajre was desperate. She and her family faced eviction from their cramped, tin-roof hut if she didn't soon repay loans she used to cover life-saving medical treatment for her son.
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When Rambha Gajre and her family faced eviction from their cramped hut in Gujarat, India, she signed up to be a human guinea pig in drug trials for foreign pharmaceutical companies.
Hauling bags of concrete mix for $1 a day wasn't nearly enough to pay back the money she borrowed to pay a doctor to repair a hole in her son's heart, let alone feed her family of five more than one meal a day.
"Many people commit suicide," she told "Dateline NBC," "and I didn't want to become one of those and I didn't want people to think I did it to avoid repaying. I have two young kids, 10 and 12 years old. What would become of them?"
So Rambha did what thousands of other desperate women and men from India's slums, and across the world, now do to survive -- she signed up to be a human guinea pig in drug trials for foreign pharmaceutical companies.
"I am helpless, I have to do this," she said. "They don't really force us, but I don't have a choice."
Now, with the money she earns from drug studies -- up to $250 per trial -- Rambha is slowly repaying her loans.
Drug trial outsourcing to foreign countries is rapidly becoming an attractive alternative for pharmaceutical companies that are looking to save millions of dollars, avoid regulatory scrutiny and tap into a seemingly endless supply of drug study participants.
Americans fill four billion prescriptions each year. But some medical experts question how strong the safety net is that keeps unsafe drugs off the market. Dateline NBC's Chris Hansen reports.
But a year-long Dateline investigation into one of the preferred destinations for overseas drug trials, India, raises questions about lax regulatory oversight in these studies, the integrity of some of the companies contracted to run them and the reliability of the data they produce.
Foreign drug trials have become crucial to pharmaceutical companies looking for approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to sell their products to Americans. Eighty percent of the drugs that the FDA reviews for approval now rely on some tests done on foreign soil, according to a 2010 report issued by the U.S. Health and Human Service's Office of Inspector General.
The same report included another startling figure: The FDA inspects fewer than 1 percent of foreign drug trial sites, a number slightly higher than the percentage of sites inspected in the U.S.
"We have no idea what's going on in these clinical trials," said Dr. Carl Elliott, a professor at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota and author of "White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine."
Elliot worries that the lack of oversight in foreign drug studies leaves poor, and often illiterate, people vulnerable to exploitation when companies consider test subjects part of a profit-making equation.
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"Dateline NBC" correspondent Chris Hansen interviews "Rekha," another drug trial participant, in her home in Gujarat, India, which she shares with her husband and six children.
"The faster you can get the subjects, the faster that you can do the trials," he said. "The faster you do the trials, the faster you get the drug approved. The faster you get the drug approved, the sooner it goes on the market and the more money it makes."
Testing the Testers
With each drug trial costing an estimated $180 million in the U.S., many pharmaceutical companies are turning to places like India, where they can often pay less than half as much for their human experiments.
Some pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer and Bristol Myers Squibb, have their own research operations in India. But other companies rely on foreign middlemen -- contract research organizations, or CROs -- to recruit patients, conduct tests, and analyze data that will be submitted to the FDA.
The proliferation of CROs in India worries Dr. Chandra Gulhati, editor of the "Monthly Index of Medical Specialties," an Indian medical journal. Indian CROs, he cautioned, are entirely unregulated and unmonitored by the government.
"They've just come, opened the shop and nobody is asking them any questions," he said. "To my knowledge, not even one trial has been monitored from A to Z. … They have no legal status in this country. Who are they?"
To test the integrity of those unregulated companies, Dateline set up a fictitious pharmaceutical company called Malum Kinetics. The company was little more than a $13-a-month homemade website, a post office box address in New York, business cards, cell phones and an answering machine.
Using publicly available information, Dateline put together a plan to test a drug identical to Vioxx, a pain reliever withdrawn from the market in 2004 and linked by studies to thousands of strokes, heart attacks and deaths. The plan was virtually the same one that Vioxx's manufacturer, Merck, used to test whether Vioxx could shrink colon polyps. The test was halted after Merck discovered an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes.
Dateline producers removed Vioxx's brand and generic names from the plan, but left in other red flags that clearly identified the drug, including the drug maker's original abbreviation for Vioxx: MK-0966. A simple Google search shows MK-0966 is Vioxx. The plan also included other simple clues, such as Vioxx's chemical name and its approval history as a pain reliever.
The test: Would the CROs have the basic scientific knowledge to question proposed experiments on humans with a drug already withdrawn from the worldwide market? And how thoroughly would a foreign CRO check the legitimacy of an unknown drug company offering a potentially lucrative business opportunity?
Dateline sent the plan to two prominent Indian contract research companies, Lambda Therapeutic Research and Synchron Research Services. Both firms claim to do business with large pharmaceutical companies.
Along with reviewing the Dateline study plan, they were asked to develop their own plan to recruit patients, get necessary approvals, and run the actual tests.
Both companies put together plans, and meetings in India were arranged.
'Doctor is God'
In the sprawling central city of Hyderabad, Synchron's director of clinical operations, Narasimha Murthy, warmly greeted Dateline correspondent Chris Hansen, the purported CEO of Malum Kinetics, and his team (all of whom were outfitted with hidden cameras). They were escorted to a bare-bones conference room in a building prone to power outages.
During a laptop PowerPoint presentation, Murthy said that Synchron was well equipped to manage a drug company's testing from start to finish.
"It's one-stop shopping," he said.
Murthy never indicated that he knew the drug he was bidding on to test was identical to Vioxx.
In fact, he told Hansen that he showed part of the plan to private doctors who would be conducting the clinical trials and they did not spot any safety issues.
"They have not come up with any queries as such," he said. "They have no issues."
Murthy also noted that those same doctors would not have a problem finding patients to test the drug. Poor patients getting free treatment obediently follow their doctors' orders, he assured Hansen.
"Doctor is god," Murthy said. "So if I go to him, I will blindly follow what he says."
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Synchron, he said, was ready to move ahead with the plan to test Malum Kinetics' drug on humans, though he raised the prospect that an Indian ethics panel might have concerns -- not due to safety risks, but because some patients in the study would be receiving a placebo and would not benefit from the drug.
"Personally, I don't see any issues," he said. "We can do it. I am confident that we can do it."
The price tag: just over $1 million.
Hansen was invited to meet Murthy a month later at a huge expo in Chicago, where drug companies and hundreds of potential contractors from around the world were to gather to promote their products and services.
Dateline's Chris Hansen confronts Narasimha Murthy, director of clinical operations for Synchron Research Services, an Indian company that claims to do business with major pharmaceutical companies, at a trade show in Chicago.
When the two met, Hansen disclosed to Murthy that he was in fact a journalist, not Malum Kinetic's CEO. He asked how it was possible that Synchron did not pick up that the drug they were to test on humans was identical to Vioxx, a drug so potentially dangerous that it was withdrawn from the market worldwide.
At first Murthy said Synchron would have detected it after more research. But minutes later, he claimed the company knew what the drug was all along.
"We did pick up, we did pick up," Murthy said. "But the only thing is we didn't share it with you at that point of time. We didn't bring it to your notice."
Synchron, he added, would never have agreed to take on the test.
"We definitely wouldn't have taken it up," Murthy insisted. And, he added, an Indian ethics committee would have found problems with the study too, contradicting his optimism about getting approval during the meeting in India.
"The ethics committee would definitely halt it," he said before turning away and walking back to Synchron's promotion booth.
'This is a very risky trial'
Dateline's meeting with executives at the other CRO, Lambda Therapeutic Research, in India ended more contentiously.
In the fast-growing western Indian city of Ahmedabad, Lambda's immaculate headquarters and test facilities rise above desolate slums that supply an endless stream of drug study volunteers.
Armed guards met Dateline's team at the gate and directed them to an expansive reception area. A sign greeted them: "Lambda welcomes Mr. Hansen & Malum Kinetics team."
Dr. Philip Mathew, a Lambda vice president who ran clinical trials for a contract research company in the U.S. before joining the firm, led a tour of the vast facility, pointing out offices, labs and scores of human test subjects.
"These are our volunteers," Mathew said, walking past test recruits watching a wide-screen television in a waiting area. The test subjects earn an average of $150 per study, he said, noting it was a fraction of what researchers in the U.S. would pay their volunteers.
"That's for the entire study, as opposed to, say $150 a day, which is what the U.S. rates are," he said.
In a plush boardroom, Lambda's presentation was projected onto a large screen. One company executive said four specialists, all physicians, had reviewed the Malum Kinetics plan.
"They came to the conclusion it's practical," he said.
Lambda's price tag for the project: $775,000.
Well into the discussion, Mathew raised a concern that suggested he knew that the proposed study was fictitious. After months of correspondence with Malum Kinetics, he said his team had just realized the test drug was the same as Vioxx.
"It's withdrawn currently worldwide, right?" he said. "It's not sold …This is a very risky trial."
But rather than turn down the business because of the drug's potential deadly side effects, Mathew said Lambda was still interested in getting the trial started.
"We are willing to give it a fair trial," he said. "We are in the business of doing research regardless of how challenging the project is, but we have to be also realistic."
Mathew and his team said they would need to take precautions to protect patients, such as monitoring those with cardiac risks and lowering doses if necessary.
But the major challenge, he explained, would be persuading an Indian regulatory board to approve human testing.
"We have to have a huge, huge scientific argument to make the case for doing a study with Vioxx," he said, noting that Malum Kinetics would have to help Lambda prepare a scientific case.
To help build the scientific argument, Mathew proposed a strategy: hire a well-connected medical opinion leader as a consultant to persuade Indian regulators to allow the drug be tested on humans.
"Nothing works like consultants from within India who are in this field who can speak for the drug," Mathew said.
By paying a $5,000-to-$10,000 consultant fee, he added, "We can take whoever we want who is a big heavyweight in India."
Asked how confident he was that a consultant could help make a winning case for a drug like Vioxx, Mathew replied, "Very confident. Very confident."
He estimated the odds for approval were "fifty-fifty."
"From our perspective," he added, "we'd love to take on the challenge."
"Lockdown now!"
The meeting ended with Lambda ready to take the study to the next level. With most of the executives gone from the room, Hansen pulled Dr. Mathew aside, and, with two open cameras now trained on him, informed the Lambda executive that he was a news reporter. Malum Kinetics, he told him, did not exist.
"I knew that," Mathew said, laughing nervously. "You must be out of your mind to come here with a withdrawn drug."
Unaware that hidden cameras had recorded the entire tour and meeting, Mathew backpedaled.
"We are fully aware of the risks of Vioxx and we never agreed to do your study," he said. "We want to discuss with you what this is all about."
Hansen reminded Mathew, "Even after we talked about this being Vioxx, you said that we could go ahead and very likely do a study."
"No. Fifty-fifty it will get rejected," he replied.
"Fifty-fifty we could go ahead," Hansen said.
Mathew said he took offense that Lambda's integrity was being questioned.
"We stand for ethics," he said. "We work for sound scientific principles."
Another Lambda executive, Mrinal Kammili, stepped in and angrily declared the interview over. With the tension in the room rising, Hansen told the executives, "If you want us to leave, we'll respectfully leave."
But Kammili blocked the door. Raising his voice, he told the NBC crew, "Please have a seat! Please have a seat!"
"You can't hold us against our will," Hansen said, moving toward the doorway.
Kammili responded that they were calling the police, and once again insisted that the crew be seated.
Security guards at Lambda Therapeutic Research, a contract research company in Ahmedabad, India.
Mathew yelled to other staff in the room. "Call security! Lock the doors! Lock down now!"
A security detail quickly arrived to guard the door, detaining Hansen and the rest of the Dateline team for nearly five hours.
Local police arrived and logged complaints from Lambda and the Dateline crew, who were eventually escorted out of the building and brought to a small police station.
After reviewing the allegations, the top police inspector informed Lambda's executives that the Dateline crew had not violated any laws. The crew was free to leave, he said, on the condition that copies of footage taken openly at Lambda be provided to police and Lambda executives. Neither group was aware of Dateline's hidden camera footage.
Assessing the risks
Dateline took its findings to former FDA Commissioner Dr. David Kessler.
"No contract research organization should undertake any clinical trial without being sure that the risks are acceptable in light of the benefits," he said. "And in light of what was known, that conduct is just totally unacceptable."
Kessler said questions about the integrity of foreign drug trials, and those who run them, will only increase until a universal system is in place that roots out unqualified researchers.
"Any doctor who runs a clinical trial should be certified, should be trained, should have specific qualifications to do those trials," he said.
Doug Peddicord, the director of the Association of Clinical Research Organizations, defended the industry's track record.
"Concerns notwithstanding, on the whole the clinical research enterprise is amazingly safe and amazingly productive," he said.
Peddicord, whose organization does not include Lambda or Synchron as members, says there is too much at stake for the industry to tolerate unethical behavior.
"In the instances where we have seen bad actors," he said, "we've often seen that those bad actors go out of business rather promptly."
The pharmaceutical industry's lead trade group, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, declined comment.
U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, an outspoken critic of the FDA's oversight of pharmaceutical companies, faulted the agency for not taking a more active role in policing clinical trials from the very beginning.
"They don't oversee those clinical trials until most of them are completed. Then they see the results," he said. "To what extent can they trust the results?"
The FDA declined requests for an interview, but said in a statement that the agency is already "strongly engaged in the clinical research process" -- from inspecting drug makers and their contractors to monitoring drugs after they are approved for sale.
The agency also said it is establishing international offices to "improve its ability to oversee" the growing number of foreign drug trials.
Kessler believes the situation will not improve until Congress provides the FDA with the resources it needs to more fully monitor and regulate the clinical trial system.
In the meantime, Kessler worries about the ongoing risks -- risks for volunteers testing the drugs and for the people to whom they are ultimately prescribed.
"What's going to happen, and I can predict this … it's been the history over the last 100 years. We don't act until there's a problem."
"Until people die?" Hansen asked.


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Viacom Inc. Chief Executive Officer Philippe Dauman mocked Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for being the sole sponsor of a new bill to overhaul the way pay-TV distributors and programmers package and sell programming.
At Nomura's Global Media & Telecom Summit in New York, Dauman downplayed the threat, saying McCain has been pushing for similar legislation for years and has made little progress.
"McCain got a lot of publicity for his solo-sponsored bill, which he's been doing for, I don't know, 15 years now with no co-sponsors, going nowhere," he said.
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McCain recently unveiled the Television Consumer Freedom Act of 2013, which would provide incentives for the industry to start selling channels to customers on an individual basis so viewers don't have to pay for channels in which they aren't interested.
The McCain bill is aimed at fighting so-called bundling, when big companies such as Viacom and Walt Disney Co. roll all their channels into one bundle that they sell to distributors.
McCain, a longtime critic of the television industry, has called bundling an "injustice being inflicted on the American people."
Dauman argued bundling actually lowers prices and increases value for consumers because it allows smaller networks to invest in their shows while knowing they will have distribution.
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Nintendo announced a bunch of actual news over the last few days—the release window for the Wii U, the Nintendo Network, a new Mario side-scroller for the 3DS—but Next Media Animation doesn't care about any of that.
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Many investors like to look for momentum in stocks, but this can be very tough to define. There is great debate regarding which metrics are the best to focus on in this regard, and which are not really quality indicators of future performance. Fortunately, with our new style score system we have identified the key statistics to pay close attention to and thus which stocks might be the best for momentum investors in the near term.
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Short Term Price Change for Geron
A great place to look for finding momentum stocks is by inspecting short term price activity. This can help to reflect the current interest in a stock and if buyers or sellers have the upper hand right now. It is especially useful to compare it to the industry as this can help investors pinpoint the top companies in a particular area.
With a one week price change of 2.4% compared to an industry average of -0.9%, GERN is certainly well-positioned in this regard. The stock is also looking quite well from a longer time frame too, as the four week price change compares favorably with the industry at large as well.
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In addition to price performance, it is also important to take a look at earnings estimate changes for the full year. This can show if GERN is poised to make a run based on fundamentals, or if the company is simply moving on speculation.
Over the month, the full year earnings estimate for GERN has risen by 1.04%. On its own this is impressive, but consider that it also beats the industry average of 0 too. The trend is undeniably in Geron's favor right now, and it suggests that the momentum might be long lasting for this stock.
GERN Earnings Estimate Revisions Moving in the Right Direction
While the great momentum factors outlined in the preceding paragraphs might be enough for some investors, we should also take into account broad earnings estimate revision trends. A nice path here can really help to show us a promising stock, and we have actually been seeing that with GERN as of late too.
Over the past two months, 4 earnings estimates have gone higher compared to none lower for the full year, while we are also seeing that 1 estimate has moved upwards with no downward revision for the next year time frame too. These revisions have helped to boost the consensus estimate as two months ago GERN was expected to post a loss of 26 cents/share for the full year, though today it looks to have a loss of 24 cents for the full year now, representing a solid increase which is something that should definitely be welcomed news to would-be investors.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece unveiled on Monday an austerity budget which aims to unlock international aid by cutting public spending even harder, even though its economy is shrinking fast.
Painful cuts will be brought forward as the country faces what is expected to be a sixth year of recession.
The 2013 budget emerged as Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras met the so-called "troika" of International Monetary Fund, European Commission and European Central Bank inspectors, whose approval is vital to unlock the next installment of aid, urgently needed to avoid bankruptcy.
Greece will aim for a primary surplus, before debt servicing, of 1.1 percent of GDP next year, the first positive balance since 2002, after a 1.5 percent deficit in 2012. But the economy will shrink for a sixth year, by 3.8 percent.
There was no immediate comment from EU officials or the IMF, but Greek Finance Ministry officials said the troika still objected to some of the measures.
Economic output will have declined by a quarter since 2008 in a spiral of austerity and recession, with the most heavily indebted euro zone nation repeatedly missing targets set under its EU/IMF bailouts and at risk of being forced out of the single currency.
Analysts said even the recession scenario set out in the budget appeared optimistic, given Greece's slow reform efforts and a weakening euro zone economy.
The general government deficit, including debt servicing costs, will come to 4.2 percent of GDP next year from 6.6 percent in 2012, while unemployment will rise to 24.7 pct.
The draft gave no target for privatization revenues. In a sign of the daunting scale of Greece's problems, public debt is projected to reach 179.3 percent of GDP next year despite a major write-down of debt owed to private investors this year.
The budget will make more cuts to public sector pay, pensions and welfare benefits as part of an 11.5 billion euro ($14.8 billion) package of savings over the next two years.
"We must hold on tight to the helm to make the difficult turn," Stournaras said. "It's the only way for the Greek economy to return to the righteous cycle of fiscal stability and growth."
Labor unions immediately threatened more strikes this month after a crippling walkout marked by clashes last week.
"We don't have any other option. We can't just sit around doing nothing," said Nikos Kioutsoukis, general secretary of the largest private sector union GSEE.
Austerity-weary Greeks have taken to the streets in often violent protests against waves of salary and pension cuts that have driven many to the edge.
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, who has vowed this is the last round of cuts, also met the troika chiefs later on Monday to convince them to lift their last objections, but there appeared to be little progress.
"There are discussions on the measures. The troika wants clarifications," Stournaras told reporters. Officials said inspectors doubt about 2 billion euros worth of measures would actually be delivered.
Dozens of protesters waving Greek flags and shouting "out with the troika" jeered the international creditors' envoys as they entered the finance ministry on Monday.
At stake is a 31.5 billion euro installment from a 130 billion euro second bailout keeping Greece afloat. Lenders have made clear no money will be disbursed without credible measures.
However, two German magazines reported on Saturday that Athens would receive its next aid tranche despite budget shortfalls and slow progress on reforms because the euro zone does not want any country to leave the common currency.
Two junior leftist parties in Samaras's coalition government have resisted the cuts and a handful of deputies have warned they will vote against the bill in parliament, which will debate the draft and vote on the final version in mid-December.
Analysts expect the coalition, which holds 178 out of 300 parliament seats, to pass the bill despite any defections.
Government officials said Athens will frontload a big chunk of the new spending cuts under negotiation with the troika, which has yet to approve the 7.8 billion euros worth of measures, which include 3.8 billion in pension cuts and 1.1 billion in state salary savings.
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Location : Aurère / Cirque de Mafate Mountain and Trekking Hostel Set at the heart of the small plateau of Aurère in the Cirque de Mafate, Poinsétia is made up of two independent gîtes that comprise dormitories and double rooms. Pets not allowed. Towels are not included.
Ilet à Malheur (Gîte d')
Location : Ilet à Malheur / Cirque de Mafate Mountain and Trekking Hostel Located in the Cirque de Mafate, this hikers' gite has 2 dormitories: 2 bedrooms accommodating 4 people each and 2 rooms for 6 people. Towels are not included.
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Location : Ilet à Bourse / Cirque de Mafate Mountain and Trekking Hostel Welcome to the Cirque de Mafate, on a small plateau that does not receive a lot of visitors but that is very accessible to people who enjoy walking. Set on the edge of a casuarina forest on the small plateau at Ilet à Bourse, the gîte has been entirely rebuilt in a purely Creole style. Capacity: 20 persons, including 4 dormitories each sleeping 4 people, and 2 double rooms with private bathroom and toilet. Towels are not included. The gite offers sanitary facilities. Available hot water and electricity depend on the solar energy. As the electrical energy is solar , it is limited. It is also impossible to recharge your camera, handy, video camera etc… Please make arrangements for this. The dinnertime cari is put together by Christophe Thomas. For security reasons it is impossible to reheat meals or to do the cooking oneself. The kitchen is not at customers' disposal. Pets not allowed.
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Revision as of 12:12, 6 April 2012
This guide assumes that you are experienced in installing Archlinux. If you are not experienced, please read this guide in parallel with the Beginners' Guide or the Official Installation Guide. No assumptions are made on your desired environment (DE/WM). Note that the SSD will completely be wiped if you follow this guide without alterations.
- 1 Installing Archlinux
- 2 Configuring the system
- 3 Additional Information
Installing Archlinux
Boot the archlinux installer from the USB medium and log in as
Wireless connection
Since you don't have any ethernet, you'll need to manually configure your network before starting the setup. Here, we assume that the wlan is not encrypted:
ip link set wlan0 up iwconfig wlan0 essid "your_wlan_essid" dhcpcd wlan0
If your wlan is encrypted, follow the instructions in the Beginner's Guide. If it's not encrypted but requires you to login at a captive portal, you can use
elinks to enter your credentials.
SSD partitining
You'll also need to manually format the SSD before using the installer. Use GPT as described in the SSD Article. This ensures that your partitions are properly aligned. Install and run it:
pacman -Sy gptfdisk gdisk /dev/sda
o to clear out the partition table and then create at least 3 partitions by typing
n and answering the questions (type
? or
m for help). You need at least a 2MiB Partition at the beginning for the boot loader as well as a bit more than 1GiB of swap space to be able to use hibernation. Your partition table should look something like this in the end (for example using 8GiB for
/ and the rest for
/home :
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 2048 6143 2.0 MiB EF02 BIOS boot partition 2 6144 2463743 1.2 GiB 8200 Linux swap 3 2463744 19240959 8.0 GiB 8300 Linux filesystem 4 19240960 61865950 20.3 GiB 8300 Linux filesystem
w to write the partition table. Note that the SSD doesn't seem to support TRIM. Make sure to leave plenty of free space on each partition so you don't run into performance issues.
Running the installer
Progress through the installer as usual, but mind these things:
- When configuring the hard drive, select to configure the mountpoints manually and choose the mountpoints accordingly. Regarding filesystems, you can select
ext2for the BIOS boot partition. For the root and any other regular partitions
ext4is a good choice.
- You absolutely have to select
wireless-toolsfrom core to be installed in order to be able to connect to the wlan in your freshly installed system. You may also want to select netcfg.
- When editing the config files, edit /etc/fstab and add the
noatime,nodiratime,discardoptions to your ext4 partitions. Also remove
networkfrom the
DAEMONSarray in
- Skip the bootloader installation, exit the installer and DO NOT REBOOT!
Installing the bootloader
After exiting the installer, do this while still running from the install medium. Prepare the environment:
cp /etc/resolv.conf /tmp/install/etc/resolv.conf modprobe dm-mod mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev mount -t proc /proc /mnt/proc/ mount -t sysfs /sys /mnt/sys/
Chroot into your fresh installation:
chroot /mnt bash
Install grub2:
pacman-db-upgrade pacman -Syy rm -rf /boot/grub pacman -S grub2-bios grub-install --directory=/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc --target=i386-pc --boot-directory=/boot --recheck --debug /dev/sda grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Now you're ready to reboot!
Configuring the system
Power saving and thermal monitoring
The UMID SE can get quite hot because of the relatively powerful CPU and lack of air flow. This happens especially when charging the batteries. Keep an eye on the thermals at all times. Refer to dzen for an example on how to do this efficiently. Enable cpu scaling, configure the thermal sensor and enable all power saving options as follows:
Install cpufrequtils and lm_sensors:
pacman -S cpufrequtils lm_sensors
Edit the governor line in
/etc/conf.d/cpufreq selecting the
ondemand governor. No other options are required.
Run sensors-detect and hit
enter answering YES to all questions.
/etc/rc.conf add
acpi_cpufreq to the
MODULES array and
@cpufreq @sensors to the DAEMONS array:
MODULES=(acpi_cpufreq) DAEMONS=(syslog-ng @crond @cpufreq @sensors)
Reboot to apply the changes. As a quick way of checking what's going on you can run something like this:
watch -n 0.5 "cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep MHz; sensors"
A few more suggestions on how to save power, which have not been tested for effectiveness, are listed below. You can add these to
iwconfig wlan0 power on & # wlan powersaving echo 1500 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs & # increased disk writeback echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog / & # disable nmi watchdog
Graphics driver
There are several drivers and they're all terrible. The probably best option at the time of writing is the pbs_gfx driver used with fbdev. The performance (for playing videos for example) will nevertheless be awful but it works well for regular work. Install it as follows:
psb_gfx to
MODULES in
/etc/mkinitcpio.conf and rebuild the kernel initramfs:
mkinitcpio -p linux
Install the fbdev driver:
pacman -Sy xf86-video-fbdev
You should now be able to install and run X.
Install Xorg and whatever DE/WM you want to use. You don't need any xorg.conf yet. Launch X.
Screen brightness
The psb_gfx driver allows for easy brightness settings via
/sys/class/backlight/psb-bl/brightness. Just
echo a value between 0 and 100 to that file and the brightness will be set. Here's a suitable script for changing the brightness using keyboard shortcuts.
#!/bin/sh #increase or decrease the brightness by about 10% current="$(cat /sys/class/backlight/psb-bl/brightness)" if [[ "$1" == "up" ]]; then current=$((current+((current/10+1)))) [[ $current -ge 100 ]] && current=100 elif [[ "$1" == "down" ]]; then current=$((current-((current/10+1)))) else echo "1st argument should be 'up' or 'down'" exit 1 fi echo "$current" > /sys/class/backlight/psb-bl/brightness
Place it in
/usr/local/bin or similar, allow it to be run by regular users using
visudo and then you can bind it to the brightnes key combo on your keyboard by whatever means, for example through your WM. You may want to write the new value to a file and reload it upon boot-up or you can just set it to a default upon boot-up by adding this to
echo 40 > /sys/class/backlight/psb-bl/brightness &
Touch screen
At the time of writing, the touch screen works out of the box as a relative "touch-pad-like" pointer device. After some correspondence with EETI, the following can be said:
- The official "eGalax Touch driver" 3.06.5625 from EETI does only work up until xorg 1.8.
- The newer "eGTouch daemon driver" does not support the PS/2 interface used in the UMID SE.
- I've been given an update driver via email but I cannot disclose it at this time. Feel free to contact EETI through the email address mentioned at EETI and ask for the updated egalax_drv.so for Xorg 1.11.
When you have the updated egalax_drv.so, do the following. Add this to
/etc/rc.local, enabling raw access to the device at
echo -n serio_raw>/sys/bus/serio/devices/serio1/drvctl
The following kernel options must supposedly be enabled by adding them in
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet i8042.nomux=1 i8042.noloop=1"
Install the 3.06.5625 driver via AUR by editing the PKGBUILD for
xf86-input-egalax-beta, updating the Version to 3.06.5625 and the source URL to
Run the PKGBUILD and install the package. Then copy over the updated egalax_drv.so overwriting the outdated one:
cp ./egalax_drv.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/
Use the following
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "EETI" Driver "egalax" Option "Device" "/dev/serio_raw0" Option "Parameters" "/var/lib/eeti.param" Option "ScreenNo" "0" EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" InputDevice "EETI" "SendCoreEvents" EndSection
Reboot. You can now run
TKCal to calibrate your touchscreen and it should work as a proper absolute pointing device.
Optical Mouse
Not working yet.
Special keys
Create a file
/lib/udev/keymaps/umid-se containing:
0xEE battery # Fn+Q 0xDF sleep # Fn+W 0xD5 switchvideomode # Fn+E 0xF0 record # Fn+R 0xF6 camera # Fn+T 0xF9 brightnessdown # Fn+A 0xF8 brightnessup # Fn+S 0xA0 mute # Fn+D 0xAE volumedown # Fn+F 0xB0 volumeup # Fn+G 0xFC wlan # Fn+J
/lib/udev/rules.d/95-keymap.rules adding this after
ENV{DMI_VENDOR}=="UMiDCorp", ATTR{[dmi/id]product_name}=="M-BOOK", RUN+="keymap $name umid-se"
The above vendor and product IDs can be found under
/sys/class/dmi/id/*. The codes themselves are written to dmesg when hitting the keys. Reboot to apply the changes.
Capacitive stripe
The UMID SE comes with a capacitive touch area above the keyboard (where the grey dots are). Input is given as keycodes. This is relatively useless and also litters dmesg with warnings about unknown scan codes. To remedy this, you can append this to
/lib/udev/keymaps/umid-se as pointed out above:
0x75 prog1 0xF5 prog1 0x6F prog1 0xDA prog1 0x5A prog1 0x62 prog1 0xD9 prog1 0xE0 prog1 0xE2 prog1 0xEF prog1 0x59 prog1
This will associate the whole general area with the
XF86Launch1 keycode. You can now use the area as a hotkey like any other key. It's quite sensible though and may fire unintentionally, which is why it best left unused.
Suspend and hibernation
Should work in theory when using the psb_gfx driver for Poulsbo and using pm-suspend. Doesn't seem to work yet.
Doesn't seem to be even connected. Not visible at all. Probably needs to be enabled by some sort of kill switch instruction.
Additional Information
BIOS password recovery
The AMI BIOS of the UMID SE can be read out and decrypted using cmospwd which is in AUR.


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A knife-wielding robber demanded a deposit bag at an Indian River County bank and then told the man to "just report it to your insurance company," the sheriff's office said.
Seth Matthew Heart, 24, was wearing gray clothing and a mask when he walked up to a man making a deposit at a PNC Bank branch. Heart approached the man from behind while holding a knife, and the victim initially thought it was a gun, authorities said.
But instead of reporting it to the insurance company, the man called 911 and deputies arrived in less than 30 seconds, the Indian River County Sheriff's Office said.
Deputies, a helicopter and K-9s searched for Heart, who was found near the bank, authorities said.
Deputies found the gray clothing, and Heart later confessed to having gotten the clothes from an unlocked car in the area. He also confessed to the robbery and was taken to the Indian River County Jail.
He was charged with armed robbery with a deadly weapon and grand theft. It wasn't immediately known if he had an attorney.
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One of the motorcyclists who chased after an SUV driver and banged on his vehicle after a highway confrontation captured in a viral video tried to stop his fellow bikers from assaulting the driver, he tells NBC 4 New York.
Allen Edwards is the biker seen on video running toward Alexian Lien's Range Rover and banging on the rear window in Washington Heights after the motoryclist-SUV melee on the West Side Highway Sept. 29. He was charged with gang assault, rioting and coercion in the confrontation, but he says he never beat up Lien.
Edwards says he banged on Lien's passenger side window because he was concerned Lien would get away after he ran over another biker on the highway.
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"I thought that from sitting there watching this guy bleed out of the mouth, not moving, thinking he's dead, the driver was already gone," he said. "I thought, 'I gotta catch up with this guy and not let him get away' because he was already fleeing the scene."
Edwards, a 42-year-old father of three, says he once witnessed a hit-and-run that killed a young girl and was deeply affected by it. He says he wanted to make sure the SUV driver didn't get away with a potential killing.
When the other bikers started converging on Lien, Edwards says he tried to stop the attack.
"When they were attacking him, I was screaming for them to stop and leave them alone because that's not what I wanted to happen," he said. "All I could do was scream. I couldn't get involved because there were so many of them. It happened so fast."
Lien's wife and toddler daughter were in the SUV as he was allegedly assaulted by the motorcyclists. Edwards said he saw Lien's wife through the window as he started yelling at Lien through the window and "when I saw her face, I thought I couldn't do that."
"I felt, like, her being terrified, like that stopped me right there," he said. "I stopped yelling at him and I went back to my bike."
Edwards' lawyer said he tried to protect Lien's family.
"My client may have been the only reason Mr. Lien's wife was spared," said John Carney. "He pleaded with the men to not hurt her."
Edwards said he only started riding again a few years ago and believes he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
"It's changed my life drastically because that's not the person I am," he said. "I'm not the kind of person that attacks people like that. I've been working since I was 13, and try to take care of my family. It's just unfortunate that I was there that day."
Carney said he and his client have met with prosecutors and they are fully cooperating. Edwards volunteered to speak to authorities right after the alleged assault, Carney said.
Eleven bikers, including an undercover NYPD detective, were indicted last Friday on charges of gang assault, criminal mischief, riot and other counts.
Lien has not been charged. Aside from a written statement released shortly after the attack, Lien and his family have not spoken publicly.


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INDUSTRY, Calif. -- Voters approved a bond measure Tuesday that would provide $150 million for infrastructure improvements at a 600-acre site near Los Angeles where a stadium has been proposed to lure an NFL team.
Voters in Industry, a tiny town about 15 miles east of Los Angeles, passed the measure 60-1, though city officials have yet to certify the plan.
The results support a proposal by billionaire developer Ed Roski's Majestic Real Estate Co. to build an $800 million stadium if an NFL team agrees to move there.
Industry is hosting the latest in a long string of plans to bring an NFL team back to Los Angeles after the Rams and Raiders exited the nation's second-biggest market.
Majestic, which helped develop Staples Center -- home of the NBA's Lakers and Clippers and the NHL's Kings in downtown Los Angeles -- is convinced a disgruntled football team would jump at the chance to play in a new stadium.
NFL officials have said the league is monitoring potential stadium developments in the Los Angeles area but have declined to comment on specific sites or teams that might move to the region.
Majestic agreed with NFL officials not to make any formal overtures to team owners until Industry officials certified the plan, which they could do on Thursday at a City Council meeting.
Neighboring cities worried about traffic and noise have threatened lawsuits to stop the stadium. And there is no guarantee the National Football League would condone Roski shaking loose a team from its current home field.
The $150 million was proposed to improve streets, lighting and sewers on the site, with repayment coming through ticket sales and parking fees. It was included in a ballot measure that called for the city to raise a combined $500 million through the sale of general obligation bonds to funds street repairs and other enhancements throughout the city.
City Clerk Jodi Scrivens said the voting results were unofficial but appeared solid. Industry has 84 registered voters, mostly old-timers whose homes were grandfathered into the city when it was incorporated five decades ago. It is zoned primarily for business and industry.


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Preston Hemphill, dressed in his crisp veteran's uniform, lifted his head to salute the American flag on Friday morning.
His navy-colored hat complemented his crisp, white shirt decorated in battle medals.
The 81-year-old Eagle Lake native was drafted into the Army to fight in the Korean War in 1950. He was 19.
The young soldier learned quickly to survive when he arrived to Inchon, Korea. Hemphill served in the 2nd Division, 18th Regiment in the U.S. Army.
"The more I fought, the braver I got," he said.
Friday meant more to him than just a day on the calendar, but a day in history.
On July 27, 1953 President Dwight D. Eisenhower announced the armistice to end the Korean War.
On Friday, members of the Korean War Veterans Associations Chapter 223 celebrated the 59th anniversary of cease fire at the monument they built to honor those who served.
While international media showed North Korean soldiers celebrating the day with fireworks and dancing, veterans in Victoria remembered in silence. One could hear the whispering sound of the occasional breeze.
The Victoria-based organization raised $28,000 six years ago to have a designated place of remembrance. It stands in the Shenandoah subdivision.
The 20-minute dedication included post colors, call for taps, and prayers for those who have served and in active duty.
The Korean War began on June 25, 1950 and lasted three years, one month and two days. North and South Korean officials declared the armistice at the border village of Panmunjom. To this day, there was no peace treaty signed and the Korean Peninsula is still technically in a state of war, according to the Associated Press.
About 37,000 American soldiers killed and close to 103,000 were wounded. also, there are 4,500 soldiers missing in action and declared dead, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.
Some veterans believe some soldiers declared MIA could still be alive.
"They are not declared dead until we find them. They could still be some place," said Jim Friedel, the former Navy petty officer, second class.
He spent most of his military service from 1950 to 1954 stationed at the base in Sasebo, Japan.
Keynote speaker Stephen Tyler served in South Korea as a Army commander between 1990 -- 1992.
He described the inaccessible land as mountains of broken glass across the plain.
The Victoria County District Attorney said the U.S. soldiers in the 1950s were at a disadvantage in artillery but their American spirit kept them going.
"It was the grit and belief in themselves that kept them fighting in combat," he said.
Veteran Troy Howard said he is insulted that some downplay the war as a police action.
"They fought and died just like the soldiers in World War II," he said.
The 75-year-old Victoria resident was 16 when he and his now deceased twin brother Roy Howard enlisted.
It's been his goal to create more awareness about the war and the organization.
Howard said returning troops claim they didn't have a welcoming celebration, and it hurts them to not get their just due.
"They call it a forgotten war, but we lost 37,000 men, that's 1,000 a month," he said.
Armando Aguilar was eager to enter the service. He said it was in his DNA to serve. He had five brothers who also served in the military.
"I couldn't wait to be a part of the action," he said.
His excitement faded after he witnessed the wrath of war. It's taken him almost 60 years to open up to those closest to him.
"He just started talking about it. He lost his friends," said Mickie Aguilar, his wife of 56 years.
"To me, it was a job that had to be done," said the retired staff sergeant.
Hemphill, an African-American, fought in the Battles of Old Baldy, Pork Chop Hill, Heartbreak Ridge and even fought some of his fellow soldiers because of his race.
He joined the military when the units were segregated.
The grandfather of six said the news to integrate the troops resulted in a brawl. Hemphill wasn't at all surprised.
"It was just like America, racism didn't start there (in Korea)," he said.
After the tension subsided, the soldiers began bonding in the trenches and later formed lifelong friendships. It was devastating to lose a comrade.
"It's like losing a brother or son, you get to be that close," said the Prairie View A&M University graduate.
He still remembers the day the armistice was announced like it was yesterday.
Hemphill doesn't harbor any harsh feelings because of the way he was treated. He was proud to serve.
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I used Petal Pink Crinkle Ribbon on the card and the box.
The border punch is from Martha Stewart. The cupcake is cut at 2" (Sweet Treats cartridge) and the stamped sentiments all come from The Pink Stamper. The pretty scalloped square is from Gypsy Wanderings. I also used glitter, glitter glue, flower eyelet and setter, button, and Dimensionals.
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The Central Connecticut women's basketball team fell to Saint Francis U in a match-up of the #4 and #5 teams in the Northeast Conference Tournament. The Blue Devils (16-14, 10-8 NEC) fell to the Red Flash (16-14, 10-8 NEC) by a score of 66-63. Senior Jaclyn Babe scored 27 points in the loss.
The Blue Devils started the game with a 10-2 run over the first four minutes and 18 seconds and eventually expanded the lead to 24-13.
Jaclyn Babe, junior Lauren Arbogast and junior Jessica Babe all had baskets on the Blue Devils' opening run.
Jaclyn Babe finished the first half with 10 points on five-of-seven shooting. Senior Kirsten Daamen added nine points on four-of-six shooting and sophomore Kaley Watras dropped in eight on a pair of three-pointers and two free throws.
The Blue Devils finished the half with a 37-34 lead, but it was a late run by the Red Flash that changed the game's momentum heading into the break. Saint Francis scored the final five points of the period, including four points in the final six seconds of the half.
Saint Francis carried the momentum into the second half with a 7-0 run over the first four minutes of the period.
The Blue Devils answered with a basket and free throw by Daamen to make it a 41-40 game. Minutes later CCSU took a 47-46 lead on a three-pointer by Jaclyn Babe.
Saint Francis erased Central's lead just 10 seconds later with a basket by Rebecca Sparks. The Sparks jumper opened up an 8-0 run for the Red Flash, but CCSU would rally from the 54-47 deficit.
Daamen and Jaclyn Babe hit back-to-back jumpers to cut the deficit to three points and, following a Saint Francis basket, Babe hit a jumper, was fouled and hit the free throw to cut the Red Flash advantage to two points. Thirty seconds later Babe tied the game at 56-56 with a bucket.
Saint Francis pulled ahead 58-56 on a pair of free throws, but Jessica Babe dropped in two free throws on CCSU's next possession to tie the score again.
With just under four minutes to play Arbogast gave CCSU a 60-58 lead with a jumper, but SFU's Alexa Hayward tied it with a basket of her own with 2:01 left in the game. CCSU answered again with Arbogast hitting a three from the top of the key to give the Blue Devils a 63-60 lead with 1:32 left in the game.
Following Arbogast's three, SFU's Ali Williams hit a pair of free throws to cut the CCSU lead to 63-62. On CCSU's next possession Jaclyn Babe was called for an offensive foul, which gave the ball back to Saint Francis with 41 seconds left to play. On the ensuing possession, Williams hit a jumper to give the Red Flash a 64-63 lead with 27 seconds left to play. The Blue Devils were unable to score on the following possession and fouled Williams following a missed shot. Williams hit two more free throws with six seconds to play and Arbogast's last second shot fell short of the basket.
Jaclyn Babe finished with 27 points in the game and 920 points in just two seasons with Central. Babe also had two assists and three steals in the contest.
Daamen dropped in 14 points in her final collegiate game and also picked up a pair of blocks. The two blocks extend her school record for blocked shots to 200.
Jessica Babe led CCSU on the boards with 11. She also had seven points and three steals. Watras finished with eight points, three rebounds and three assists. Arbogast scored seven points and had three boards, four steals and a pair of assists. Junior Jaleen Thomas came off the bench to contribute seven rebounds and a career-high six assists.
CCSU did not have any points off the bench in the game. However, the Blue Devils did shoot 45.5% for the game, including 53.6% from the floor in the first half. Central was not as successful at the free throw line, hitting just 57.1% (8-14) for the game.
The 16 wins by the Blue Devils are the fifth most in a Division I season in the program's 27 year history.


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So lovely to have the kids home from Uni, isn't it? My boy doesn't go back 'til the 11th, but he finished later than most of his friends. Lots of lovely veggies there. I cooked up a big pot of veggie chilli and another of soup yesterday evening, in preparation for back to work/college this week.
It sounds like you had a lovely weekend apart from being stuck in traffic! I did my cupboards just before Christmas and found a lot of out of dates stuff stuck at the back, it felt so good once it was done though. Good luck with your healthy eating x
Isn't it amazing what you find lurking at the back of the cupboard! One benefit of re-doing our kitchen last year was having to empty everything out so at least I now know everything in there is completely within date (until next year ...)
Hope Gracia's journey back was easier than your quick jaunt down the A12!
Your shopping is an inspiration to us all! I'll be thinking about you as I load up my trolley tomorrow :) I have my boy here til Thursday and my brother who was supposed to fly out today, is now here for another week (don't ask, but I'm not complaining)
It seemed funny to me when Carrie started ordering "drinks" when we'd go out too. Good idea sending all the sweets away! Happy New Year!!!
Sounds like a lovely weekend and good luck in the healthy eating. Same is happening in our home too. Back to menu planning
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