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(CNN) – A community in Brooklyn is fighting to keep its local hospital, Long Island College Hospital (LICH), open. However, it's drowning in debt.
Community activists like Joanne Simon says closing LICH would create a significant problem for many in the neighborhood.
[1:41] "Well there would be very few options for a lot of people. You know, there aren't enough institutional resources, medical resources, to absorb the population and this is an area that's growing in terms of population."
Dr. John Williams, president of SUNY Downstate Medical Center, which owns LICH, says he has no other option but to close the community hospital.
[2:15] "With the cuts in Medicare, Medicaid, and with decreased state support, and not being able to fill the hospital, we are hemorrhaging about $1 million a week in that institution."
Caroline Steinberg of the American Hospital Association says what's happening at LICH is not unique.
[2:35] "Hospitals around the country are facing significant threats currently. They are facing very large cuts in payment under the Accountable Care Act."
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The person being interviewed is clueless. What is the "Accountable Care Act"?
Yes, illegal immigrants (pardon me, undocumented aliens) are responsible for a tremendous amount of medical care expenses. So are the under/uninsured individuals also. What about all the people who go to the ER because 1) it's the weekend and I/we can't be sick on my time and 2) it takes too long to get an appointment with my regular doctor. Then when the bill comes, they are stunned at the amount and can't pay it.
I do admit, medical care costs are out of control in this country and I have no idea what to do to contain them. One problem is doctor's are so afraid of being sued by patients that they order incredible amounts of tests to make sure they are covered. Insurers are determined to make as much profit from the insured as they can without covering as much as they can. What really amazes me is looking at an EOB and seeing the cost of services, the discounted amount from the provider, how much my insurer covers and what my part is.
For all you ignorant clueless rethuglicans and neo conservatives, Under all the noise of the retiring pope and the rouge cop in California a small article apperaed in the NY Times last week and briefly was about how the federal deficit shrunk last week due to decreasing health care costs as a result of the implementation of your oh so hated Obama care and will continue . You Imbeciles will eat your own words in 2 years when the real results of the affordable health care act come to fruition and you have no leg to stand on,.
What's the surprise, some politicians said this was going to start happening.
I came to the 'states in 2005 to WORK and have seen the premium on my employer group health insurance go up 60%, the deductible go up 70%. The previous provider constantly failed to meet medical payments on my checkup and maintenance visits on time, and did not make the agreed payments for my daughter's hospitalization. My wife's previous doctor told her for 5 years that her excessive menstrual bleeding and pain were normal for her age, a second opinion examination last year revealed that growths in her uterus had been allowed to progress during the previous 7 years, and that because of this, a partial hysterectomy was now required. If I had kept all the premium payments on our health insurance and found a proper doctor from the outset, my wife would still have her womb and I would have been able to pay our medical expenses thrice over. Tell me again how it's us immigrants, and not the appallingly poor management of healthcare in this country, that are the cause of medical bankruptcy?????
I don't know Jorge. I guess we lack common knowledge here in Dallas and the rest of the country when we see our Emergency rooms and public hospitals loaded with illegal immigrants. Those places in our area have went bankrupt on avg 3 times in the last 10 years. Do you honestly think illegal immigrants give our correct information and pay their bills? Don't act surprised. Unpaid bills ran were 3 billion at Parkland hospitals WE THE TAXPAYER had to help pay. Parkland hospital is for those like the illegal immigrant as they can't refuse service .
how about America immediately STOP giving many,many BILLIONS in foriegn aid to over 140 country`s are the world,many of which are oil producing countries and start using that money at home.I sure wish CNN would do a story about this and if can happen.
The usa is done. Closing hospitals and the healthcare is already bad, closing police stations with crime through the roof. guns and drugs. It's a real hole of country. Pure garbage.
Government Force hospitals to provide services to the 25 million illegals for free, how can they stay in business ?? Each illegals family have about 3 to 4 kids add that up in free services.
Having worked in healthcare for two decades I can say that most hospitals that hemorrhage cash do so not because of a change in payment structure but because of a significant change in the payment population and/or poor planning and expenditures on the part of the administration.
I seriously doubt that this hospital was financially solvent and doing well and all of a sudden started to lose $1 million per week based solely on reimbursements under Obamacare; most of which have not yet gone into effect.
This has always been an indigent care facility
II agree! Not just hospitals, but management in general is quick to blame employees for their bad decisions and poor performance. Employees do what their told. Employees do not make policy or strategy. If a ship runs aground, is it the crews fault or the captain's? If a battle is lost, is it the troops fault or the general's? If the battle is lost, the troops are dead but the general is safe in the rear pondering his next blunder. When administrators, managers and executives are finally held accountable for their bad decisions, then matters will change for the better.
Something New York might consider – In Ruskin, FL there is a large migrant population. A sliding fee scale health clinic was created for the migrants and the poor in that area in the 1970's. Privately owned, though I am sure they must get some grants and such, they could divert a number of cases from a hospital, clearly have a working business model and have recently expanded their main office in Ruskin as well as adding clinics in other locations. Maybe the answer, folks, is not polarization, but community – government working in conjunction with business and state resources, not the big brother government controls your health care the Dem's want nor the screw everyone but me, it's a dog eat dog world of the republicans.
The story also ignores that "specialty care" facilities are being opened by doctors so the partners/doctors can put more money in their own pockets rather than have hospitals make the money. Doctors and big pharma are our medical problem. Blaming Obamacare is a joke.
Thanks Obama
God forbid there is a catastrophic even in NYC, people will not get the assistance they so critically need. Hospitals all around the city such as Cabrini, St. Vincent's, Victory Memorial have been closed and the storm-ravaged Coney Island, Bellevue and NYU are trying to recover. Is this a good time to propose closing more hospitals? There should be federal aid in some form to bail out these hospitals in a city so vulnerable to catastrophe and then just make people pay in the ER or get sent away if it means that the hospitals stay open.
"Government is not the solution, government is the problem".
Ronald Reagan
Hey, clueless Dave, was that before or after he gave amnesty to 4 million illegal aliens?
I have worked at SUNY Downstate for the past 12 years. Many employees of SUNY Downstate have many unanswered questions regarding the failed acquisition of Long Island College Hospital (LICH) and the issues raised by the Comptrollers report.
In the SUNY 2011-12 Office of General Counsel Report dated June 2012 it states regarding the LICH acquisition, On page 16: "Accordingly, over the past year, Downstate, with outside counsel Hogan Lovells LLP, continued to diligently pursue completion of the seemingly infinite number of required steps and agreements necessary for the deal to close. OGC attorneys (mainly Kevin O'Mara, Jason Weiss, and Michael Morgan) negotiated and brought to completion an Asset Purchase Agreement and other material transaction documents for regulatory approval. "
In the New York State Comptrollers Report he states: "A major cause of the Hospital's fiscal stress is the acquisition of LICH on May 29, 2011."
The NYS Comptroller added in his audit report: "The acquisitions of LICH and Victory Memorial in the midst of known underutilization and recurring operating losses suggests an overall lack of leadership and governance in planning the future of Downstate. Specifically, Downstate had not prepared comprehensive financial analyses supporting these acquisitions. Instead, current Hospital officials provided consultant studies prepared for and accepted by former Downstate management, indicating that LICH could become financially viable in the future. These studies were flawed, as they were based on business assumptions that were inconsistent with the realities faced by the Hospital and the broader Brooklyn health care community. "
One of the Comptrollers recommendations is: Ensure that any decisions to acquire or expand hospital locations are thoroughly supported with documented financial analysis demonstrating the financial viability of such decisions.
With that said: How did SUNY get passed, all the NYS checks and balances that are supposed to exist for Downstate to acquire LICH?
The Comptroller reported LICH has lost money for 17 years in a row.
Did/has someone at SUNY reviewed the financial statements of LICH?
The answer: In the 2011 SUNY Financial Report page 4, the auditor KPMG said, "We did not audit the financial statements of certain discretely presented component units, the auxiliary service corporations, theDownstate at LICH Holding Company, Inc., the Alfred University College of Ceramics and the Cornell Statutory Colleges which represent 53% of the total assets and 47% of the total revenues of the aggregate discretely presented component units and 14% of the total assets and 12% of the total revenues of the University's business-type activities. Those financial statements were audited by other auditors whose reports thereon have been furnished to us and, our opinions, insofar as they relate to the amounts and disclosures included for those component units, the auxiliary service corporations, the Downstate at LICH Holding Company, Inc., the Alfred University College of Ceramics and the Cornell Statutory Colleges, are based solely on the reports of the other auditors." Dated November 17, 2011
So the answer perhaps?
This may cost New York State hundreds of millions of dollars before all is said and done. This will affect all the taxpayers from Buffalo, to Rochester, to Albany, to Long island paying for this mistake.
New York State should have an open hearing examining how SUNY was able to push through the Long Island College Hospital acquisition. If there was wrong doing, there should be criminal charges. New York State failed in it's fiduciary responsibilities to insure the acquisition of Long Island College Hospital was sound fiscally!
What happened to the "seemingly infinite number of required steps and agreements necessary for the deal to close." Did no one from N.Y.S. look at the fiscal issues before giving an okay to this deal?
Instead of looking for simplistic answers like mergers, or hiring consultants for millions who know nothing about Brooklyn or its problems. New York State and SUNY should follow the Comptrollers recommendations: Work with the consultant, SUNY System Administration, state policy makers, union officials and the Brooklyn community to identify solutions that balance the Hospital's need for fiscal stability with the strategic goals of Downstate as well as the health care and economic needs of the community.
Have someone actually talk to the people of Brooklyn, the people who work here, live here, and utilize the health care system for possible solutions. We don't bite!
Governor Cuomo step up and take part in these discussions and possible solutions to Brooklyn's Health Care problems. Come to Brooklyn and see and meet the people of Brooklyn. Two past governors of N.Y.S. went onto become immortal Presidents of the United States. They did that by fighting for the working person, fighting for peoples rights, fighting for people who are unable to speak for themselves. We carved one, his likeness into a mountain, the other we know by his initials. The path to the White House is not be abandoning Brooklyn or delegating Brooklyn's health care problems to others.
James Hayes
The link at the bottom is of a report while dated (2006), the information is still valid. Hospital closures are nothing new but the data in this report gives some indications as to why this hospital in particular may be closing. While occupancy rate is cited the percentage is never given.
The NY times covers this same story in an article, but there is one inconsistency. NY times reports 50,000 emergency patients per year while CNN reports 29,000 per year. Any clarification? I am writing a paper regarding the closure of this hospital. Here is the link to the NY times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/09/nyregion/suny-board-votes-to-close-long-island-college-hospital.html?_r=0
sorry for the delayed response. I'm the reporter who put this story together. The 29,000 figure is what I was given by hospital administrators. The 50,000 figure may have come from the unions. I'm not sure.
ObamaCare is working! They said they would lower health care costs and they did! For those people living in these areas where ObamaCare Costs are closing all the hospitils, those people will save money, as they have no place to spend it on health care! NO health care is the cheapest! Pay your insurance or get fined and GOOD Luck finding a Doctor or Hospital OPEN if you need one! SCORE? Government wins with fines revenue, Insurance Companies win with mandatory customers and no hospitals or doctors available to rack up charges....the BIG LOSER?..go look in the mirror!
Your complete lack of clues only amplifies the fact that your entire comment is driven by hatred, which makes it useless.
How does it feel to wake up im the morning ,look in the mirror and see a huge fecal matter dripping anus instead of a face?
Don't be mad at the Cuomo, it's our fault. We allowed a society that sues everyone and places to large a burden on the health care system. People have forgotten that medicine is a practice.
Its not possible guns to be allowed, banks to be bailed out and to just let the hospital die out...SHAME ON YOU gov Cuomo...close it and you will never be a president.
He'll never be pres anyway


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SSSD\&.CONFSection: File Formats and Conventions (5)
Updated: 06/22/2012
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NAMEsssd.conf - the configuration file for SSSD
The file has an ini-style syntax and consists of sections and parameters. A section begins with the name of the section in square brackets and continues until the next section begins. An example of section with single and multi-valued parameters:
[section] key = value key2 = value2,value3
The data types used are string (no quotes needed), integer and bool (with values of lqTRUE/FALSErq).
A line comment starts with a hash sign (lq#rq) or a semicolon (lq;rq)
All sections can have an optional description parameter. Its function is only as a label for the section.
sssd.conf must be a regular file, owned by root and only root may read from or write to the file.
The [sssd] section
Individual pieces of SSSD functionality are provided by special SSSD services that are started and stopped together with SSSD. The services are managed by a special service frequently called lqmonitorrq. The lq[sssd]rq section is used to configure the monitor as well as some other important options like the identity domains.
Section parameters
config_file_version (integer)
- Indicates what is the syntax of the config file. SSSD 0.6.0 and later use version 2.
Comma separated list of services that are started when sssd itself starts.
Supported services: nss, pam
reconnection_retries (integer)
Number of times services should attempt to reconnect in the event of a Data Provider crash or restart before they give up
Default: 3
- A domain is a database containing user information. SSSD can use more domains at the same time, but at least one must be configured or SSSD won't start. This parameter described the list of domains in the order you want them to be queried.
re_expression (string)
Regular expression that describes how to parse the string containing user name and domain into these components.
Default: lq(?P<name>[^@]+)@?(?P<domain>[^@]*$)rq which translates to "the name is everything up to the [email protected] sign, the domain everything after that"
PLEASE NOTE: the support for non-unique named subpatterns is not available on all platforms (e.g. RHEL5 and SLES10). Only platforms with libpcre version 7 or higher can support non-unique named subpatterns.
PLEASE NOTE ALSO: older version of libpcre only support the Python syntax (?P<name>) to label subpatterns.
full_name_format (string)
printf(3)-compatible format that describes how to translate a (name, domain) tuple into a fully qualified name.
Default: lq%[email protected]%2$srq.
try_inotify (boolean)
SSSD monitors the state of resolv.conf to identify when it needs to update its internal DNS resolver. By default, we will attempt to use inotify for this, and will fall back to polling resolv.conf every five seconds if inotify cannot be used.
There are some limited situations where it is preferred that we should skip even trying to use inotify. In these rare cases, this option should be set to 'false'
Default: true on platforms where inotify is supported. False on other platforms.
Note: this option will have no effect on platforms where inotify is unavailable. On these platforms, polling will always be used.
krb5_rcache_dir (string)
Directory on the filesystem where SSSD should store Kerberos replay cache files.
This option accepts a special value __LIBKRB5_DEFAULTS__ that will instruct SSSD to let libkrb5 decide the appropriate location for the replay cache.
Default: Distribution-specific and specified at build-time. (__LIBKRB5_DEFAULTS__ if not configured)
Settings that can be used to configure different services are described in this section. They should reside in the [$NAME] section, for example, for NSS service, the section would be lq[nss]rq
General service configuration options
These options can be used to configure any service.
debug_level (integer)
Bit mask that indicates which debug levels will be visible. 0x0010 is the default value as well as the lowest allowed value, 0xFFF0 is the most verbose mode. This setting overrides the settings from config file.
Currently supported debug levels:
0x0010: Fatal failures. Anything that would prevent SSSD from starting up or causes it to cease running.
0x0020: Critical failures. An error that doesn't kill the SSSD, but one that indicates that at least one major feature is not going to work properly.
0x0040: Serious failures. An error announcing that a particular request or operation has failed.
0x0080: Minor failures. These are the errors that would percolate down to cause the operation failure of 2.
0x0100: Configuration settings.
0x0200: Function data.
0x0400: Trace messages for operation functions.
0x1000: Trace messages for internal control functions.
0x2000: Contents of function-internal variables that may be interesting.
0x4000: Extremely low-level tracing information.
To log required debug levels, simply add their numbers together as shown in following examples:
Example: To log fatal failures, critical failures, serious failures and function data use 0x0270.
Example: To log fatal failures, configuration settings, function data, trace messages for internal control functions use 0x1310.
Note: This is new format of debug levels introduced in 1.7.0. Older format (numbers from 0-10) is compatible but deprecated.
debug_timestamps (bool)
Add a timestamp to the debug messages
Default: true
debug_microseconds (bool)
Add microseconds to the timestamp in debug messages
Default: false
reconnection_retries (integer)
Number of times services should attempt to reconnect in the event of a Data Provider crash or restart before they give up
Default: 3
command (string)
By default, the executable representing this service is called
sssd_${service_name}. This directive allows to change the executable name for the service. In the vast majority of configurations, the default values should suffice.
Default: sssd_${service_name}
NSS configuration options
These options can be used to configure the Name Service Switch (NSS) service.
enum_cache_timeout (integer)
How many seconds should nss_sss cache enumerations (requests for info about all users)
Default: 120
entry_cache_nowait_percentage (integer)
The entry cache can be set to automatically update entries in the background if they are requested beyond a percentage of the entry_cache_timeout value for the domain.
For example, if the domain's entry_cache_timeout is set to 30s and entry_cache_nowait_percentage is set to 50 (percent), entries that come in after 15 seconds past the last cache update will be returned immediately, but the SSSD will go and update the cache on its own, so that future requests will not need to block waiting for a cache update.
Valid values for this option are 0-99 and represent a percentage of the entry_cache_timeout for each domain. For performance reasons, this percentage will never reduce the nowait timeout to less than 10 seconds. (0 disables this feature)
Default: 50
entry_negative_timeout (integer)
Specifies for how many seconds nss_sss should cache negative cache hits (that is, queries for invalid database entries, like nonexistent ones) before asking the back end again.
Default: 15
filter_users, filter_groups (string)
Exclude certain users from being fetched from the sss NSS database. This is particularly useful for system accounts. This option can also be set per-domain or include fully-qualified names to filter only users from the particular domain.
Default: root
filter_users_in_groups (bool)
If you want filtered user still be group members set this option to false.
Default: true
override_homedir (string)
Override the user's home directory. You can either provide an absolute value or a template. In the template, the following sequences are substituted:
- login name
- UID number
- domain name
- fully qualified user name ([email protected])
- a literal '%'
This option can also be set per-domain.
allowed_shells (string)
Restrict user shell to one of the listed values. The order of evaluation is:
1. If the shell is present in lq/etc/shellsrq, it is used.
2. If the shell is in the allowed_shells list but not in lq/etc/shellsrq, use the value of the shell_fallback parameter.
3. If the shell is not in the allowed_shells list and not in lq/etc/shellsrq, a nologin shell is used.
An empty string for shell is passed as-is to libc.
The lq/etc/shellsrq is only read on SSSD start up, which means that a restart of the SSSD is required in case a new shell is installed.
Default: Not set. The user shell is automatically used.
vetoed_shells (string)
- Replace any instance of these shells with the shell_fallback
shell_fallback (string)
The default shell to use if an allowed shell is not installed on the machine.
Default: /bin/sh
PAM configuration options
These options can be used to configure the Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) service.
offline_credentials_expiration (integer)
If the authentication provider is offline, how long should we allow cached logins (in days since the last successful online login).
Default: 0 (No limit)
offline_failed_login_attempts (integer)
If the authentication provider is offline, how many failed login attempts are allowed.
Default: 0 (No limit)
offline_failed_login_delay (integer)
The time in minutes which has to pass after offline_failed_login_attempts has been reached before a new login attempt is possible.
If set to 0 the user cannot authenticate offline if offline_failed_login_attempts has been reached. Only a successful online authentication can enable offline authentication again.
Default: 5
pam_verbosity (integer)
Controls what kind of messages are shown to the user during authentication. The higher the number to more messages are displayed.
Currently sssd supports the following values:
0: do not show any message
1: show only important messages
2: show informational messages
3: show all messages and debug information
Default: 1
pam_id_timeout (integer)
For any PAM request while SSSD is online, the SSSD will attempt to immediately update the cached identity information for the user in order to ensure that authentication takes place with the latest information.
A complete PAM conversation may perform multiple PAM requests, such as account management and session opening. This option controls (on a per-client-application basis) how long (in seconds) we can cache the identity information to avoid excessive round-trips to the identity provider.
Default: 5
pam_pwd_expiration_warning (integer)
Display a warning N days before the password expires.
Please note that the backend server has to provide information about the expiration time of the password. If this information is missing, sssd cannot display a warning.
Default: 7
AUTOFS configuration options
These options can be used to configure the autofs service.
This is an experimental feature, please use http://fedorahosted.org/sssd to report any issues.
autofs_negative_timeout (integer)
Specifies for how many seconds should the autofs responder negative cache hits (that is, queries for invalid map entries, like nonexistent ones) before asking the back end again.
Default: 15
These configuration options can be present in a domain configuration section, that is, in a section called lq[domain/NAME]rq
min_id,max_id (integer)
UID and GID limits for the domain. If a domain contains an entry that is outside these limits, it is ignored.
For users, this affects the primary GID limit. The user will not be returned to NSS if either the UID or the primary GID is outside the range. For non-primary group memberships, those that are in range will be reported as expected.
Default: 1 for min_id, 0 (no limit) for max_id
timeout (integer)
Timeout in seconds between heartbeats for this domain. This is used to ensure that the backend process is alive and capable of answering requests.
Default: 10
enumerate (bool)
Determines if a domain can be enumerated. This parameter can have one of the following values:
TRUE = Users and groups are enumerated
FALSE = No enumerations for this domain
Default: FALSE
Note: Enabling enumeration has a moderate performance impact on SSSD while enumeration is running. It may take up to several minutes after SSSD startup to fully complete enumerations. During this time, individual requests for information will go directly to LDAP, though it may be slow, due to the heavy enumeration processing.
While the first enumeration is running, requests for the complete user or group lists may return no results until it completes.
Further, enabling enumeration may increase the time necessary to detect network disconnection, as longer timeouts are required to ensure that enumeration lookups are completed successfully. For more information, refer to the man pages for the specific id_provider in use.
entry_cache_timeout (integer)
How many seconds should nss_sss consider entries valid before asking the backend again
Default: 5400
entry_cache_user_timeout (integer)
How many seconds should nss_sss consider user entries valid before asking the backend again
Default: entry_cache_timeout
entry_cache_group_timeout (integer)
How many seconds should nss_sss consider group entries valid before asking the backend again
Default: entry_cache_timeout
entry_cache_netgroup_timeout (integer)
How many seconds should nss_sss consider netgroup entries valid before asking the backend again
Default: entry_cache_timeout
entry_cache_service_timeout (integer)
How many seconds should nss_sss consider service entries valid before asking the backend again
Default: entry_cache_timeout
cache_credentials (bool)
Determines if user credentials are also cached in the local LDB cache
User credentials are stored in a SHA512 hash, not in plaintext
Default: FALSE
account_cache_expiration (integer)
Number of days entries are left in cache after last successful login before being removed during a cleanup of the cache. 0 means keep forever. The value of this parameter must be greater than or equal to offline_credentials_expiration.
Default: 0 (unlimited)
id_provider (string)
The Data Provider identity backend to use for this domain.
Supported backends:
proxy: Support a legacy NSS provider
local: SSSD internal local provider
ldap: LDAP provider
use_fully_qualified_names (bool)
If set to TRUE, all requests to this domain must use fully qualified names. For example, if used in LOCAL domain that contains a "test" user,
getent passwd test
wouldn't find the user while
getent passwd [email protected]
Default: FALSE
auth_provider (string)
The authentication provider used for the domain. Supported auth providers are:
lqldaprq for native LDAP authentication. See sssd-ldap(5) for more information on configuring LDAP.
lqkrb5rq for Kerberos authentication. See sssd-krb5(5) for more information on configuring Kerberos.
lqproxyrq for relaying authentication to some other PAM target.
lqnonerq disables authentication explicitly.
Default: lqid_providerrq is used if it is set and can handle authentication requests.
access_provider (string)
The access control provider used for the domain. There are two built-in access providers (in addition to any included in installed backends) Internal special providers are:
lqpermitrq always allow access.
lqdenyrq always deny access.
lqsimplerq access control based on access or deny lists. See sssd-simple(5) for more information on configuring the simple access module.
Default: lqpermitrq
chpass_provider (string)
The provider which should handle change password operations for the domain. Supported change password providers are:
lqiparq to change a password stored in an IPA server. See sssd-ipa(5) for more information on configuring IPA.
lqldaprq to change a password stored in a LDAP server. See sssd-ldap(5) for more information on configuring LDAP.
lqkrb5rq to change the Kerberos password. See sssd-krb5(5) for more information on configuring Kerberos.
lqproxyrq for relaying password changes to some other PAM target.
lqnonerq disallows password changes explicitly.
Default: lqauth_providerrq is used if it is set and can handle change password requests.
session_provider (string)
The provider which should handle loading of session settings. Supported session providers are:
lqiparq to load session settings from an IPA server. See sssd-ipa(5) for more information on configuring IPA.
lqnonerq disallows fetching session settings explicitly.
Default: lqid_providerrq is used if it is set and can handle session loading requests.
lookup_family_order (string)
Provides the ability to select preferred address family to use when performing DNS lookups.
Supported values:
ipv4_first: Try looking up IPv4 address, if that fails, try IPv6
ipv4_only: Only attempt to resolve hostnames to IPv4 addresses.
ipv6_first: Try looking up IPv6 address, if that fails, try IPv4
ipv6_only: Only attempt to resolve hostnames to IPv6 addresses.
Default: ipv4_first
dns_resolver_timeout (integer)
Defines the amount of time (in seconds) to wait for a reply from the DNS resolver before assuming that it is unreachable. If this timeout is reached, the domain will continue to operate in offline mode.
Default: 5
dns_discovery_domain (string)
If service discovery is used in the back end, specifies the domain part of the service discovery DNS query.
Default: Use the domain part of machine's hostname
override_gid (integer)
- Override the primary GID value with the one specified.
case_sensitive (boolean)
Treat user and group names as case sensitive. At the moment, this option is not supported in the local provider.
Default: True
Options valid for proxy domains.
proxy_pam_target (string)
The proxy target PAM proxies to.
Default: not set by default, you have to take an existing pam configuration or create a new one and add the service name here.
proxy_lib_name (string)
- The name of the NSS library to use in proxy domains. The NSS functions searched for in the library are in the form of _nss_$(libName)_$(function), for example _nss_files_getpwent.
The local domain section
This section contains settings for domain that stores users and groups in SSSD native database, that is, a domain that uses id_provider=local.
Section parameters
default_shell (string)
The default shell for users created with SSSD userspace tools.
Default: /bin/bash
base_directory (string)
The tools append the login name to
and use that as the home directory.
Default: /home
create_homedir (bool)
Indicate if a home directory should be created by default for new users. Can be overridden on command line.
Default: TRUE
remove_homedir (bool)
Indicate if a home directory should be removed by default for deleted users. Can be overridden on command line.
Default: TRUE
homedir_umask (integer)
Used by
to specify the default permissions on a newly created home directory.
Default: 077
skel_dir (string)
The skeleton directory, which contains files and directories to be copied in the user's home directory, when the home directory is created by
Default: /etc/skel
mail_dir (string)
The mail spool directory. This is needed to manipulate the mailbox when its corresponding user account is modified or deleted. If not specified, a default value is used.
Default: /var/mail
userdel_cmd (string)
The command that is run after a user is removed. The command us passed the username of the user being removed as the first and only parameter. The return code of the command is not taken into account.
Default: None, no command is run
The following example shows a typical SSSD config. It does not describe configuration of the domains themselves - refer to documentation on configuring domains for more details.
[sssd] domains = LDAP services = nss, pam config_file_version = 2 [nss] filter_groups = root filter_users = root [pam] [domain/LDAP] id_provider = ldap ldap_uri = ldap://ldap.example.com ldap_search_base = dc=example,dc=com auth_provider = krb5 krb5_server = kerberos.example.com krb5_realm = EXAMPLE.COM cache_credentials = true min_id = 10000 max_id = 20000 enumerate = False
sssd-ldap(5), sssd-krb5(5), sss_groupadd(8), sss_groupdel(8), sss_groupmod(8), sss_useradd(8), sss_userdel(8), sss_usermod(8), pam_sss(8).
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First, the problem. After installing LMDE (Sept. '09 edition), Windows boot failed with a message about a missing or corrupt hal.dll file. I ultimately solved this by deleting the LMDE partitions (/, /home, swap) and re-installing.
I am not sure if the issue started after I ran Mintupdate and installed the 600+ updates available as of around December 20, 2010. If so, then it's just one more "issue" with installing the 9/10 edition and installing all 600 updates while accepting new versions of files when the updater prompts you. "One more," because after doing so, I lost the Mintmenu and had to reinstall. I am still waiting for advice on another thread to see how to handle the LMDE updates (the famous 600) as I want to avoid going through this again. (!)
At any rate - if that isn't confusing enough - here are the standard steps I tried in order to resolve the hal.dll issue. All of them failed.
1. booted to Windows Restore console and ran the "expand" command from the DOS prompt, as suggested in various Microsoft and other help guides. Failed to resolve missing/corrupt hal.dll issue.
2. From the Windows Restore console, issued a bootcfg /rebuild command. At the "install to boot list" prompt, answered Y, at Load Identifier prompt, typed "Windows XP Professional," and at OS Load Options prompt, entered /Fastdetect. This failed to resolve the issue.
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4. From the Windows Restore console, ran chkdsk /r. Failed to fix issue.
5. Booted Windows install CD and at the prompt, pressed Enter to install, then R to repair. Failed to fix the issue.
6. From the LMDE live CD, copied the hal.dll file from the Windows Service Pack 3 folder (c:\windows\servicepackfiles\i386) to c:\windows\system32. (This was recommended in preference to restoring the hal.dll file using the expand command as in step 1 above, since the older hal.dll file is known not to work with Service Pack 3.)
None of these attempts worked. Re-installing LMDE fixed the issue and now I can boot normally into Windows. This tells me that somewhere along the way LMDE caused the issue - and it wasn't LMDE install that did so, but the updates - i.e., running the 600+ updates with Mintupdate, and accepting each prompt to install a newer file.
I wonder if the issue is related to the Mint desktop issue. Before I ran Mintupdate, I executed the commands that Clem recommended to fix the Mintdesktop issue. I.e.:
BTW, I couldn't tell when those commands are supposed to be entered, in order to prevent the mintdesktop 3.2.2 bug. I entered them before running MintUpdate with the 600 updates and accepting defaults at the prompts. That's when I began to get various error messages after entering my username/password and booting into LMDE (I didn't write them down), and lost the MintMenu.
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STILLMAN VALLEY — Rock Falls banged out 11 hits Monday against second-team All-State pitcher Payton Abbott.
"I was really shocked when they came in and started hitting like that," Stillman Valley second baseman Lexi Morrison said.
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This season has been one extended high note for Stillman Valley (19-0, 9-0 BNC West). That includes a 3-0 and 4-2 season sweep of Rock Falls, which tied Stillman for the conference title last year and went undefeated in its first year in the league two years ago.
"This meant a lot to us, because it's the first time in history we've ever done that and we hope to keep doing that," said Abbott, who struck out seven and walked zero.
Michaela Ward allowed one earned run for Rock Falls (15-7, 8-2), but dropped a popup that led to three unearned runs in the third. Abbott followed with an RBI triple and Dobson hit a two-out RBI triple high off the fence, then scored on a single by Morrison.
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"We loaded the bases with two outs at the end and she hit the ball really hard," coach Kris Nunez said. "A couple of inches here and there made the difference, but today we were ready to play. We played hard and didn't give up, especially considering it's Monday after prom.
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In yet another blow to positive thinking supporters, scientists have found that a bad mood can improve people's memory and judgment, and make them less reliant on stereotypes.
According to Miral Fahmy of Reuters, researchers first put their subjects in sad or happy moods by having them watch movies or recall positive or negative memories. Then they conducted several different experiments. They found that people in bad moods were less likely to believe urban myths or rumors, and were also less likely to make decisions based on racial or religious prejudice. They were better at remembering events they'd seen, and better at persuasive writing. Study author Joseph Forgas wrote that a "mildly negative mood may actually promote a more concrete, accommodative and ultimately more successful communication style." He added, "positive mood is not universally desirable: people in negative mood are less prone to judgmental errors, are more resistant to eyewitness distortions and are better at producing high-quality, effective persuasive messages."
So despite the conventional wisdom that thinking positively will help us solve all of our problems, it seems that feeling sad can actually be productive — maybe there's a use for a bad mood after all. Negative feelings appeared to boost subjects' critical thinking skills, the kind of skills that come in handy when something bad happens to you. Being the victim of a crime would be a good example — if it puts you in a bad mood, you may actually remember the incident better, making it more likely that the police can catch the criminal. Perhaps bad moods, rather than being a relic of some less-evolved mental state, are actually adaptive, sharpening our cognitive faculties when we need them most. As Forgas says, "our research suggests that sadness ... promotes information processing strategies best suited to dealing with more demanding situations."
Of course, the research raises questions. Were the good or bad moods induced by scientists really similar to feelings subjects would experience on their own? And how bad does a bad mood have to be before it stops being a help and starts being a hindrance? Clinical depression might actually reduce cognitive ability, and it seems possible that a certain intensity or duration of negative feelings could impair judgment rather than boosting it. Still, it's intriguing and in a way reassuring to hear that our bad moods may be doing something for us — perhaps instead of fighting against them, we should learn to use them.


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Dream of Conservation Corps facing economic reality
It was one of the highlights of Gov. M. Jodi Rell's initial, two-year budget proposal in February -- a $7.5 million investment to create the Connecticut Conservation Corps, modeled after the Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps.
"We would hire people in need of work, particularly those with dependents, and pay them a decent wage to help with projects such as cleaning beaches and clearing trails at state parks," Rell, a Republican, told lawmakers during her Feb. 4 budget address. "Good and honest work on projects we need undertaken in exchange for good and honest wages."
The goal was to have it up and running within the Department of Environmental Protection by July 31, the start of the new fiscal year.
But little has since been heard about the program. It took phone calls last week to the governor's office, Legislature and Department of Environmental Protection to piece together the fate of the ambitious proposal.
"I just assumed it was all tied up in the budget mess," said Curt Johnson, director of programs and senior attorney for the Connecticut Fund for the Environment, referring to the inability of Rell and the Democratic-majority Legislature to reach an agreement on a two-year budget.
"This was one of the projects we thought had some promise," Johnson said.
A spokesman with the Rell administration last week said that while the full corps never got off the ground, a successful pilot program employing 29 individuals has been under way at select parks around the state using federal stimulus dollars.
"The effort had never died," said Matt Fritz, a special assistant to the governor overseeing the state's distribution of stimulus.
A few days after The Advocate began making inquiries last week, Rell's office announced she would be in Valley Falls Park in Vernon on Monday to promote the Conservation Corps concept.
On Feb. 10, Rell visited Vernon, home to a former 1930s Civilian Conservation Corps camp, to tout her initiative. She said there would be challenges to getting it up and running for the summer.
"We recognize that there are many I's to dot and T's to cross to turn my vision ... into a reality," Rell said at the time. "However, I am confident that we can create a program ... that will make a real difference in our state and for our people."
Jeffrey Beckham, spokesman for Rell's budget office, initially blamed the Legislature for not moving the corps forward, stating, "It was not looked upon with any great favor" earlier in the year.
Rell asked lawmakers during her Feb. 4 address to help her craft a plan.
But according to a spokesman for state Sen. Edward Meyer, D-Guilford, co-chairman of the Legislature's environment committee, the governor never submitted a more detailed proposal in the form of a bill for lawmakers to consider during the regular 2009 session.
Beckham also said that the state's worsening fiscal situation caused the administration to have second thoughts about the $7.5 million investment. Rell's initial budget was based on a $6 billion deficit. That figure is now estimated at $8.55 billion, and her subsequent budget proposals have, according to budget staff, dropped the Connecticut Conservation Corps.
"(It) is no longer a recommendation of the governor's," Beckham wrote in an e-mail.
But Fritz said that rather than tie up the concept in the budget battle, the administration decided to take another approach to try to move the program ahead using stimulus dollars.
"It was decided clearly we should take a look at building this program from a pilot and working with resources we have available," Fritz said. "Who knew when the budget would be resolved? So looking at a summer being lost ... it would be an appropriate activity to do that."
Fritz said that the administration, with the help of the DEP, Department of Labor and some of the state's regional Workforce Investment Boards, decided to use a portion of the $11 million in stimulus funds aimed at summer youth employment.
The pilot program, Fritz said, currently employs 29 individuals, ages 18 to 24, at state parks near Hartford, New Haven, Willimantic and Danielson.
"Their traditional job sites are maybe in corporate offices," Fritz said of the participants. "This was a new experience for them."
Work includes building park bridges and lifeguard towers at beaches and removing invasive plants. Fritz said there also is an environmental education component.
They are paid $8 to $10 an hour for about three eight-hour workdays. There are no benefits. The pilot is expected to last about six to eight weeks, Fritz said.
Asked about the possibility of the program evolving into a full Conservation Corps, Fritz said DEP and labor officials will evaluate expanding the program.
"A direct source of funding has not been identified at this juncture," Fritz said.
Johnson said he was glad that a pilot for the Conservation Corps had at least gotten off of the ground. But he said the apparent lack of funding for Rell's full initiative, along with continued threats by lawmakers to cut job-creating Clean Energy Funds to help address the deficit, has him concerned about Hartford's commitment to green jobs.
"We certainly understand the state is in very difficult times, but the disappointment has been there doesn't seem to be very much planning or commitment toward the kind of economic stimulation that is behind things like the Connecticut Conservation Corps," Johnson said. "A role of government is to put people to work in difficult times. I'm please to hear there's a small pilot this summer, but if you compare that to the original (corps proposal), it was a whole different level of activity."
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Google is taking one more step into Microsoft's territory by allowing Office users to sync and access their documents through Google—without having to leave the Office interface. The service is being called Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office, and already works with Office 2003, 2007, and 2010 (no word on the Mac versions of Office, though).
Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office used to be through DocVerse, a company that Google acquired in March of this year. DocVerse allowed Office users to edit their documents collaboratively on the Web, much like Google Docs. Office does (now) come with its own collaboration tools, but they work differently than Google and DocVerse, and some users prefer the real-time editing nature of Google's services.
Immediately following the acquisition announcement, Google rolled out a migration tool for Microsoft Exchange, showing that it was serious about going after Microsoft's customers. The reintroduction of DocVerse as Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office only furthers that goal—Google says it's meant for users who haven't yet migrated to Google Docs and prefer the Office interface.
"Once synced, documents are backed up, given a unique URL, and can be accessed from anywhere (including mobile devices) at any time through Google Docs," group product manager Shan Sinha said in a statement. "And because the files are stored in the cloud, people always have access to the current version."
Just like Google Docs, Office documents that are synced with Cloud Connect for Office can be shared and edited simultaneously among multiple users. It can be done within Office, too, so editing in a Web browser isn't necessary. Google keeps track of the revisions so that documents can be reverted if necessary.
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communekôm´yo͞on [key], in medieval history, collective institution that developed in continental Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. Because of the importance of the commune in municipal government, the term is also used to denote a town itself to which a charter of liberties was granted by the sovereign or feudal overlord. Although in most cases the development of communes was inextricably connected with that of the cities, there were rural communes, notably in France and England, that were formed to protect the common interests of villagers.
Sections in this article:
- Introduction
- Important Communes
- Development
- Bibliography
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On Purple Heart Day, honoring recipients of a badge of equality and sacrifice
By CLIFFORD DAVIS | The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville | Published: August 6, 2014
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — On Aug. 7, 1782, Gen. George Washington authorized the first American badges for military merit because, in his words, "The road to glory in a patriot army and a free country is thus open to all."
The badges, in that uniquely American quality, were not awarded on the basis of birth or family nobility, but on the basis of one's actions on the battlefield.
In contrast to European armies of the day, one did not have to be born into nobility to move up the ranks in the Continental Army.
The Badge of Military Merit, authorized by Washington that day, was a piece of purple cloth to signify royalty in the shape of heart.
Though the award was allowed to lapse just a few years later by Congress, today's Purple Heart, given to U.S. servicemembers wounded and killed in combat, now bears that purple heart along with Washington's profile and family crest.
Nearly 200 years later, a poor sawmill worker's son from Adamsville, Ala.,would earn three of them, helping to fulfill Washington's promise of awards based on merit and not on one's class in society.
The city of Jacksonville, along with the Military Order of the Purple Heart, will hold its own Purple Heart day observance Thursday at the Veterans Memorial Wall downtown to honor men like Marion Bankhead.
Bankhead migrated from rural Alabama to New York, looking for a better life.
"I had two sisters that had left Alabama and went to New York, so I left Alabama and went up there," Bankhead said. "I just couldn't pick cotton. Basically, that's what it was."
Bankhead took a job in the Bronx as a stock clerk and cashier to put himself through high school while living with his sisters.
Then, he saw the uniform.
"A Marine recruiter came to the school and I took one look at that uniform and fell in love," he said.
He left for Paris Island before his class of 1965 graduated, so a younger brother had to fill in and walk across the stage for him to pick up his diploma.
Boot camp at Paris Island was sobering. "I wrote my mother a letter and said please get me out of here," he said. "She said no, you volunteered."
After serving a tour at Jacksonville Naval Air Station, where he met a girl, the young Marine was sent to Vietnam in 1967.
He was assigned to a combat unit made up of men he'd never met.
"All the Marine units were on the DMZ and they sent me to 2nd Battalion 4th Marines," Bankhead said. "These guys were really gung ho. They wanted action. They loved action.
"I was kind of afraid.
"You see, coming from the states and stepping into a war, it's different," he said. "You were used to marching guys back and forth to the chowhall and now you're in charge."
The 'Magnificent *****s,' as the unit is affectionately known, had just been hit when Bankhead arrived.
There were no officers. The only non-commissioned officer, a staff sergeant, was acting as platoon leader. That made Bankhead, a corporal, the platoon sergeant.
"I was kind of afraid of that, but I said hey, I've been trained for this and I've got to do it," he said.
The Tet Offensive, a massive invasion of South Vietnam by North Vietnamese Army regulars in early 1968, quickly followed his arrival. Though the offensive was a tactical failure, resulting in the decimation of the NVA as a fighting force, it enflamed anti-war sentiment at home when American casualty numbers began to climb.
"The first time I was wounded was April 30, 1968," Bankhead said. "We were hit by 10,000 North Vietnamese regulars."
The NVA were attempting to take a U.S. ammunition depot at Dong Ha.
"They kept trying to hit it with artillery and they couldn't, so they tried a major ground assault — and we were out there," he said.
One night during the battle, Bankhead and his fellow Marines were acting as a blocking force. The NVA hurled rockets, artillery and mortars into their positions.
One round erupted near Bankhead sending shards of metal into his skull.
"A corpsman told me that he couldn't do anything for me and that I was going to die, because it hit me right here (he pointed to the side of his head) and it cut that artery going to my brain and blood was gushing out," he said.
Because the firefight was so intense and in such thick jungle, Bankhead and others had to make for a safer landing zone.
Finally, the men reached a point where they could set up a perimeter for a helicopter to land.
"I carried a small Bible in my helmet all the time and that night I just prayed and my prayers were answered," he said. "Some pilots volunteered to come get us out because we were taking such heavy casualties.
"When I was getting off the helicopter, I had lost so much blood that I passed out."
The battle, near a little village called Dai Do, is recorded in Marine Corps history.
The wound would've probably been enough to send Bankhead back home for good. But he had his own reasons for staying that no one else knew.
"The only reason I stayed there was because I had a baby brother in the Air Force and they wouldn't send him to Vietnam while I was there," he said. "That's the reason why I really wanted to stay in Vietnam because I really wanted to keep him out."
Bankhead would be wounded on two more occasions in 1968 before he was able to say goodbye to Vietnam.
"After that third Purple Heart, he [his brother] was about ready to rotate home from Taiwan so I came on home," he said. "I was able to keep him out of it."
However, for those who survive earning the Purple Heart, the physical toll is only part of the cost.
"When I first came back, I had post-traumatic stress and still do," he said. "I was a wreck, basically.
"People didn't feel like we were worthy of a parade — and that hurt for a long time."
Bankhead believes his wife — the girl he met at Jacksonville Naval Air Station — his family and his church are the only reasons he made it through those difficult years.
Though the effects have abated, they haven't completely left.
One incident still haunts him.
"We were on patrol and got ambushed. My point man, his name was Riggoni, they set off a claymore and it blew and hit him all in here," Bankhead said as he brushed his stomach and chest with his hands. "I had to go out and get him and bring him back.
"And that has haunted me all my life."
Washington spoke of a "road to glory" in the United States military.
For Bankhead, his service was more about what he was able to give rather than what he received.
"The Purple Heart means that I was able to contribute something to America," he said. "I was able to give something by my service to America.
"I was part of something that stood for good."


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- 1 Introduction and Scope
- 2 Basic Usage
- 3 Customizing the plot
Introduction and Scope
KPlotWidget is used for easily creating 2-D plots of data sets, complete with plot axes that include labeled tickmarks and optional axis labels. Data sets can be represented as any combination of: discrete points (using a variety of point shapes), connected line segments (using any QPen), or bar-graph rectangles (using any QPen/QBrush). In addition, any data point can have a label string attached to it.
Here is a simple example showing sine and cosine curves:
This example demonstrates most of the commonly-used features of KPlotWidget. It is included in KDE, under kdelibs/kdeui/tests. The first part of this tutorial will explain how to produce this plot using KPlotWidget.
Basic Usage
The data to be plotted in KPlotWidget are stored as a list of KPlotObjects. Each KPlotObject itself consists of a list of KPlotPoints (which store the coordinates of each data point, as well as an optional text label), and methods to modify the parameters which control how they are drawn in the plot. KPlotWidget also contains four KPlotAxis objects, which encapsulate the plot axes, tickmarks, tickmark labels, and axis labels along the four edges bounding the plot.
KPlotWidget takes care of much of the plot rendering automatically, so simple data plots can be done with just a few lines of code:
- The area shown in the plot is determined from the range of the data in the KPlotObjects
- Tickmark positions are optimally computed, and synced between the top/bottom and left/right axes
- Tickmark labels are placed automatically along the left and bottom axes
- The padding area outside the axes is adjusted according to whether tickmark labels and/or axis labels are being drawn
- Data points are automatically transformed from their natural units to screen-pixel coordinates. In most cases, you will not have to care about pixel coordinates at all.
Basic usage of KPlotWidget is illustrated with the following example:
// Create a new KPlotWidget, provide a minimum size,
// and activate antialiased drawing:
KPlotWidget *plot = new KPlotWidget( parent );
plot->setMinimumSize( 400, 400 );
plot->setAntialiasing( true );
// Create a KPlotObject which will display data
// points by connecting them with red line segments
// with a width of 2 pixels:
KPlotObject *sineobj = new KPlotObject( Qt::red, KPlotObject::Lines, 2 );
// Add data points to the KPlotObject for a
// sine curve (these are stored internally
// as KPlotPoints):
for ( float t=0.0; t<=6.28; t+=0.04 )
sineobj->addPoint( t, sin(t) );
// Add the KPlotObject to the plot:
plot->addObject( sineobj );
// Add a text label to the bottom axis:
plot->axis( KPlotWidget::BottomAxis )->setLabel( i18n("Angle in radians") );
Rendering Options for KPlotObjects
The data points in a KPlotObject can be rendered in a number of ways: as discrete points, connected line segments, or bar-graph style rectangles. In fact, the same KPlotObject can be rendered in any combination of these styles; here is an example of a KPlotObject which will be rendered with all three styles:
po = new KPlotObject( Qt::white, KPlotObject::Points, 10, KPlotObject::Pentagon );
po->setShowLines( true );
po->setShowBars( true );
Note that when constructing a KPlotObject which will be rendered as Points, the third argument is the size of the points in pixels, and the fourth argument describes the shape to use when rendering each point. The options are:
- Circle
- Triangle
- Square
- Pentagon
- Hexagon
- Asterisk
- Star
By default, the same QPen and QBrush will be used to render the Points, Lines, and Bars. The color of the default pen and brush are set in the constructor. However, it is easy to provide custom pens and brushes for the different plot styles:
// Modify the pen used to draw Lines connecting
// data points in this KPlotObject:
po->setLinePen( QPen( Qt::red, 3.0, Qt::DashDotLine ) );
// Modify the brush used to fill Bars in this
// KPlotObject:
po->setBarBrush( QBrush( Qt::blue, Qt::BDiagPattern ) );
Traversing All Data Points
Both KPlotWidget and KPlotObject provide functions that return the list of KPlotObjects and KPlotPoints that they contain, so if one needed to access all of the data points in the plot, it can be done like this:
// "plot" is a KPlotWidget containing several KPlotObject data sets,
// each of which consists of several KPlotPoints
foreach( KPlotObject *po, plot->plotObjects() ) {
foreach( KPlotPoint *p, po->points() ) {
// Do stuff to each KPlotPoint
Labeling Data Points
Text labels can be attached to any point in a KPlotObject. The easiest way to accomplish this is to add the label text as the second argument to KPlotObject::addPoint( const QPointF&, const QString& ). There is also a KPlotPoint::setLabel( const QString& ) function, if you need to add a text label after the point has already been created.
Note that KPlotWidget will automatically try to place the labels intelligently, so that each label is close to its point without overlapping other labels or plot elements. If a label needs to be placed at some distance from its point, then the label and point will be connected with a line segment.
Customizing the plot
The basic usage outlined above will usually suffice for simple data plots. However, the time may come when you need more flexibility. Many aspects of the plot rendering which are normally done automatically can be manually overidden.
Custom Colors for the Plot Area
Besides setting the colors of KPlotObjects (using KPlotObject::setPen(), setLinePen(), setBrush(), etc), you can also customize three color elements for the plot as a whole: the background, foreground and grid colors. The functions for this are:
KPlotWidget::setBackgroundColor( const QColor& );
KPlotWidget::setForegroundColor( const QColor& );
KPlotWidget::setGridColor( const QColor& );
The background color is self-explanatory; its default is black.
The foreground color is used for drawing the axes and their labels; its default is white.
The grid color is used for drawing the optional grid on the plot (see the section in this tutorial); its default is grey.


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