Just FYI
The battery monitor widget was showing 0% on a full charge after the last dist-upgrade. It just had to be "calibrated" I guess. I unplugged the AC brick and the widget jumped to 99% and works now in both 'battery' and 'AC power' modes.
du on 2013-09-01 04:44 EDT (US) included vmlinuz-3.10-9.towo-siduction-686 and a host of others (including grub).
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