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Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Rush Limbaugh: Jan Brewer being 'bullied' to veto — Right talk radio is turning its focus this week to Arizona's controversial bill that would allow business owners to deny service to gay and lesbian customers, and Rush Limbaugh is leading with the charge that Gov. Jan Brewer is being …
Discussion: The Daily Beast, The Week, CNN, Hinterland Gazette and ABC News
Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast: Once-Supportive Republicans Go From Anti-Gay to No Way
Edward Morrissey / The Week: On wedding cakes, gay marriage, and our growing inability to tolerate one another
Abby D. Phillip / ABC News: GOP Senators Urge Veto of Controversial Arizona Anti-Gay Bill
Arizona Republic:
SB 1062 opponents are putting Arizona at risk — Advocates: Bill offers necessary protections, clarification — FONT: — Our Turn — Opponents of the proposed amendment to Arizona's Religious Freedom Restoration Act are putting the people of Arizona in a high-risk disaster zone when it comes to their First Amendment freedoms.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Ben Giles / Arizona Capitol Times:
Senators on SB1062: "We made a mistake"
Senators on SB1062: "We made a mistake"
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Daily Beast
Georgia Logothetis / Daily Kos: Abbreviated pundit roundup: Pressure builds for Brewer to veto Arizona discrimination bill
Arizona Republic:
Don't wait to veto SB 1062, Gov. Brewer
Don't wait to veto SB 1062, Gov. Brewer
Discussion: New York Times
Jeremy Duda / Arizona Capitol Times:
Apple, 83 others, join anti-SB1062 chorus
Apple, 83 others, join anti-SB1062 chorus
Discussion: ThinkProgress, NBC News, TechCrunch, Advocate, Re/code, Joe. My. God. and Towleroad News #gay
ThinkProgress: Apple Warns Arizona Governor Anti-Gay Bill Will Hurt Highly Anticipated Sapphire Glass Factory
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-LGBT Bill Before Opening Sapphire Glass Plant
Daniel Reynolds / Advocate: Arizona Gov. Says She Will 'Do the Right Thing' on Anti-LGBT Bill
Ina Fried / Re/code: Apple Comes Out Against Arizona Anti-LGBT Bill
Joe Jervis / Joe. My. God.: Apple To Brewer: Veto Or Else
Oops: Dick Cheney Unintentionally Trashes Troops In Attempt To Hit Obama — Former Vice President Dick Cheney took to Fox News on Monday night to lambaste the Obama administration's proposed cuts to the military budget, lamenting the president's desire to ensure that Americans have access …
Discussion: The New Republic, Americans Against the …, Talking Points Memo, Hot Air and The Agonist
Aattp / Americans Against the Tea Party: War Criminal and Racist Dick Cheney Slurs Obama On Food Stamps v. Military
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo: Cheney Dings Obama: He'd Rather Have Food Stamps Than A Strong Military
Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Dick Cheney: President Obama favors food stamps — Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday night called the Pentagon budget proposed "absolutely dangerous." — Appearing on Fox News's "Hannity," he said President Barack Obama "would rather spend the money on food stamps …
Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog, The Daily Caller, The Plum Line, The Dish, Daily Kos, The Raw Story and TIME
Steve M. / No More Mister Nice Blog: ARE REPUBLICANS STARTING TO DO LESS OBAMACARE-BAITING AND MORE POOR-BAITING?
Jamie Weinstein / The Daily Caller: Cheney: Obama would 'much rather spend the money on food stamps' than military
Andrew Sullivan / The Dish: The Tiger Gets Hungrier
Laura Clawson / Daily Kos: Noted military expert (see Iraq War) Dick Cheney complains about food for the poor
David Edwards / The Raw Story: Dick Cheney rips Obama for defense cuts: Spend on military, not food stamps
Zeke J Miller / TIME: Jindal Breaches White House Protocol To Take Shots At Obama
Obama prepared to leave no troops in Afghanistan after 2014
Obama prepared to leave no troops in Afghanistan after 2014
Discussion: Liberaland, Outside the Beltway and Hot Air
Cheston Catalano / Liberaland: Obama Tells Pentagon To Prepare For Possibility Of Leaving No Troops In Afghanistan
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: White House: U.S. Will Leave Afghanistan If Karzai Balks On New Troop Deal
Fox News:
Obama asks Pentagon for complete Afghanistan withdrawal plan, speaks with Karzai
Obama asks Pentagon for complete Afghanistan withdrawal plan, speaks with Karzai
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Fox News Insider
Jaime Fuller / Post Politics:
Cheney says Obama would rather have food stamps than a strong military
Cheney says Obama would rather have food stamps than a strong military
Discussion: The Huffington Post, Associated Press and Washington Wire
Paige Lavender / The Huffington Post: Dick Cheney: Obama Would Rather Spend Money On Food Stamps Than A Strong Military
Colleen McCain Nelson / Washington Wire: Obama's Budget Includes 1% Pay Raise for Federal Workers, Military
Jose Pagliery / CNNMoney.com:
Mt.Gox site disappears, Bitcoin future in doubt — What was once the world's largest trading platform for bitcoins is now a blank page. — The Bitcoin-trading website Mt.Gox was taken offline late Monday, putting at risk millions of dollars put there by investors who gambled on the digital currency.
Discussion: Re/code and The Switch
New York Times:
Apparent Theft at Mt. Gox Shakes Bitcoin World — The most prominent Bitcoin exchange appeared to be on the verge of collapse late Monday, raising questions about the future of a volatile marketplace. — On Monday night, a number of leading Bitcoin companies jointly announced that Mt. Gox …
Discussion: Fortune, Re/code, The Switch, Forbes, DealBook, The Monkey Cage, Gizmodo, The Verge, Engadget and Capital New York
Dan Primack / Fortune: SecondMarket to launch first U.S.-based Bitcoin exchange
Andrea Peterson / The Switch: Everything you need to know about the latest Bitcoin crisis
Henry Farrell / The Monkey Cage: Bitcoin is like Tinkerbell: If people stop clapping, it's going to die
Jamie Condliffe / Gizmodo: Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox Disappears, Not Getting Help From Authorities
Richard Lawler / Engadget: Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox goes dark (update: HTML, domain suggest it could relaunch as Gox)
Laura Nahmias / Capital New York: Lawsky: Mt. Gox proves need for 'tailored' Bitcoin regs
The Two-Bit Idiot:
Bitcoin's Apocalyptic Moment: Mt. Gox may have lost 750,000 bitcoins
Bitcoin's Apocalyptic Moment: Mt. Gox may have lost 750,000 bitcoins
Discussion: Fortune, DealBook and Mashable, more at Mediagazer »
Dan Primack / Fortune: SecondMarket knew about Mt. Gox troubles
Sydney Ember / DealBook: @GSElevator's Big Reveal
Todd Wasserman / Mashable: Mt. Gox Implodes, Putting Bitcoin's Future in Jeopardy
Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox goes dark in blow to virtual currency
Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox goes dark in blow to virtual currency
Discussion: Bloomberg, Guardian, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite and The Two-Bit Idiot
Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo: Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox Disappears From Web Amid Reports Of Massive Theft
Evan McMurry / Mediaite: Must Reads: The Day Bitcoin Died?
Bill / The Hill:
Bill Press: Democrats' Enemy No. 1 — Democrats have a big job in 2014: they need to hold onto control of the Senate, win back leadership of the House, and elect Democratic governors and state legislators in key states. But to get there, they face one big obstacle.
Curtis Gans / Washington Monthly:
Midterm Signals and Noise
Midterm Signals and Noise
Discussion: Booman Tribune and BillMoyers.com
Eliana Johnson / National Review: Bill Cassidy: The End of the Landrieu Line?
Dan Merica / CNN:
Atheists plan conservative outreach with booth at CPAC — Washington (CNN) - American Atheists, an outspoken organization that advocates for atheists nationwide, will have a booth at the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference. — The atheist institution, which is well known …
Discussion: Politico, Joe. My. God. and Hot Air
Natalie Villacorta / Politico: CPAC un-invites American Atheists
Joe Jervis / Joe. My. God.: Perkins Wins: CPAC Boots Atheist Group
Allahpundit / Hot Air: The new era dawns: Atheists to have a booth at CPAC this year; Update: Booth canceled?
Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Conservatives Boot American Atheists From Booth At Conference
Conservatives Boot American Atheists From Booth At Conference
Discussion: CNN, The Raw Story and Joe. My. God.
Travis Gettys / The Raw Story: CPAC boots American Atheists for seeking to draw godless conservatives 'out of the closet'
Emmeline Zhao / RealClearEducation:
Blue Devil: The Duke Porn Star and College Costs — Stories about soaring college costs are perennial media favorites, at once playing to parental anxiety while highlighting a genuine education problem. But this one was different: A Duke University freshman confirmed to her college paper …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh, Hit & Run, Real Clear Politics, Eduwonk, The Daily Beast and Questions and Observations
Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Hit & Run: Duke Freshman Porn Star Wishes the GOP Would Get More Libertarian
Carl M. Cannon / Real Clear Politics: From RealClearPolitics: Duke Blue Devil Porn Star Speaks Out; Longest Tenured Members of Congress …
Arotherham / Eduwonk: Blue Deviled - Does The Duke Porn Star Really Tell Us Much About College Costs?
Bruce McQuain / Questions and Observations: And this woman wants to be a lawyer
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
GOP Lobbyist Behind Anti-Gay NFL Bill Has A Gay Brother — Anti Gay NFL Bill Nfl Gay Ban Michael Sam Gop Bill Nfl Jack Burkman Gay Bill Michael Sam NFL Republicans Anti Gay Jack Burkman Michael Sam Gay Video Gop Anti Gay Bill Republican Bill Nfl Gop Lobbyist Ban Gays NFL Nfl Gay Players Politics News Politics News
Discussion: Advocate, Extra Mustard, Slate, Mediaite, AMERICAblog News, Talking Points Memo, CBS New York, The Raw Story, Outside the Beltway and The Hill
Daniel Reynolds / Advocate: Lobbyist Proposes Gay Ban for NFL, Predicts Support From Dozens in Congress
Sam Page / Extra Mustard: D.C. Lobbyist Reportedly Prepares Legislation Banning Gay Players from the NFL
Josh Voorhees / Slate: Even the Conservative Lobbyist Hyping a Ban on Gay NFL Players Admits It's a PR Stunt
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog News: GOP lobbyist, who has gay brother, drafting bill to ban gays from NFL
Tom Boggioni / The Raw Story: Gay brother: Anti-LGBT lobbyist is trolling for business with NFL proposal
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: GOP Lobbyist Drafting Bill To Ban Gays From NFL
Rebecca Shabad / The Hill: Lobbyist drafts bill to ban gays from NFL
Ben Giles / Arizona Capitol Times:
Cardinals, Super Bowl Committee voice concern about SB1062
Cardinals, Super Bowl Committee voice concern about SB1062
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, LGBTQ Nation and Towleroad News #gay
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo: With Super Bowl At Stake, NFL Keeps Close Eye On Arizona's Anti-Gay Bill
Ross D. Franklin / LGBTQ Nation: Super Bowl committee, more than 80 companies call for veto of anti-gay bill
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Bibi, Merkel Photo Makes Waves — German chancellor Angela Merkel is in Israel visiting Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. This photo, apparently taken by photographer Marc Israel Sellem of the Jerusalem Post is making waves: — As Jerusalem Post report Ben Hartman notes on Twitter:
Discussion: Jerusalem Post, Israel Matzav, rubber hose and Althouse
Tovah Lazaroff / Jerusalem Post: Merkel: Boycott not an option, settlement labeling acceptable
The Hill:
ObamaCare stars fade — The Obama administration is short of star power as it begins its last public relations blitz for ObamaCare. — President Obama's celebrity supporters are not in the forefront as they were during the star-studded campaign-style videos that hogged the airwaves in 2008.
Discussion: The PJ Tatler, Weekly Standard and Hot Air
Rick Moran / The PJ Tatler: Obama's Celebrity Friends Prefer Social Media to Appearing with him in Selling Obamacare
Geoffrey Norman / Weekly Standard: Celebrity Retreat
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Where has all the A-list gone? — Barack Obama has had a lot …
Matt K. Lewis / The Daily Caller:
When 'leave us alone' became 'bake us a cake!' — Would Jesus bake a cake for a gay wedding? — It's a weird question, but we do live in interesting times. And believe it or not, this has become one of the most heated debates of the week. This week, liberal Christians began arguing …
Discussion: Hot Air and Ed Driscoll
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations — One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction.
Discussion: Boing Boing, Taylor Marsh, Techdirt, Althouse, Informed Comment, CANNONFIRE, RT, Daily Kos and The Agonist
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing: GCHQ's dirty-tricking psyops groups: infiltrating, disrupting and discrediting political and protest groups
Mike Masnick / Techdirt: New Snowden Doc Reveals How GCHQ/NSA Use The Internet To 'Manipulate, Deceive And Destroy Reputations'
Ann Althouse / Althouse: How to Screw With People On Line, by The Government.
Juan Cole / Informed Comment: 4 Darknesses: Internet being Manipulated, Deceived by Western Intel Trolls
Joseph / CANNONFIRE: MIND BLOWING! — I doubt that this blog has ever published a more important post.
Meteor Blades / Daily Kos: Open thread for night owls: Covert agents manipulate Internet discourse and destroy reputations
Sean Paul Kelley / The Agonist: Are you comfortable with your government having this kind of power?
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Netflix mocks Amazon Prime Air with hilarious 'Drone 2 Home' video — BY RICHARD LAWLER @RJCC FEB 25TH 2014 6:56AM — Netflix's not-Qwikster DVD-by-mail business doesn't get the same amount of attention as the company's streaming arm, but as this video (embedded after the break) shows, it still has some imagination.
Discussion: Taylor Marsh, The Verge, TechCrunch and Business Insider
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: Netflix's Drone Delivery Video Shows A Different Side Of Amazon Prime Air's Vision Of The Future
Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider: Netflix Employees Mock Amazon With 'Drone To Home' Parody Video
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
House GOP tax plan would cut top rates but also hit high earners with a surtax — The long-awaited simplification of the tax code being drafted by House Republicans would slash the top income tax rate to 25 percent from 39.6 percent and impose a surtax on some of the nation's wealthiest households.
Discussion: Wonkblog, Politico, AEIdeas, Washington Monthly and Washington Wire
Lori Montgomery / Wonkblog: The GOP's new tax-cutting plan still hits the rich
James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas: Dave Camp's tax reform plan shows how the US is sabotaging its own economy
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: Big Red Grinnin' Devil in the Details
John D. McKinnon / Washington Wire: House GOP Tax Overhaul Would Cut Capital Gains, Dividend Rates
J.D. Harrison / Washington Post:
Obama administration: Health law's new rules will increase costs for most small businesses — Nearly two-thirds of small businesses that currently offer health insurance to their workers will pay more for coverage as a result of new rules in the health care law, as will millions …
Discussion: WDJT-TV, Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit and Scared Monkeys
Chris Patterson / WDJT-TV: REPORT: Affordable Care Act to raise premiums for 2/3 of small companies
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit: Another Obama Lie: O-Care Will Raise Premiums for 2/3 of Small Businesses (Video)
Molly Redden / Mother Jones:
GOP Lawmaker: We Need to Ban Sex-Based Abortions Because of Asian Immigrants — Supporters of a South Dakota bill to ban "sex-selective abortions" say Asian Americans don't value girls as much as boys. — South Dakota already has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the nation.
Discussion: Washington Monthly, Talking Points Memo and The Raw Story
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo: South Dakota GOPer Wants To Ban 'Sex-Selective' Abortions, Cites Asian Population
Dave Helling / Kansas City Star:
Radiologist's lawsuit becomes an issue in campaign for Senate in Kansas — A lawsuit involving dozens of Kansas City-area doctors has spilled into the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate seat in Kansas. — Mark Idstrom — a physician and a former employee of Kansas City-area company Alliance Radiology — is suing the firm.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and National Review
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo: Roberts Campaign Hits Wolf On Lawsuit Against Radiology Practice
Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:
@GSElevator Tattletale Exposed (He Was Not in the Goldman Elevator) — A three-year parlor game has been taking place on Wall Street to identify the Goldman Sachs employee behind a Twitter account that purports to reveal the uncensored comments overheard in the firm's elevators.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Gawker, Mediaite, The Verge and Balloon Juice, more at Mediagazer »
Michael Muskal / Los Angeles Times: GS Elevator: The 'Goldman Sachs' tattletale exposed
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: Goldman Sachs elevator Twitter account is really just a Texas banker
Anne Laurie / Balloon Juice: Open Thread: Speaking of Douchecanoes...


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SKF contributes to Jeep Renegade's driving pleasure
2016 February 23, 14:00 CEST
Gothenburg, Sweden, 23 February 2016: SKF is supplying the FCA Group with solutions for their compact SUV model, the Jeep Renegade. The products being supplied are wheel hub bearing units for front and rear wheels, shock absorber seals, transmission seals and engine seals.
Andrea Reisoli-Matthieu, Strategic Account Manager, Automotive Market says,
"We are very happy to be a supplier for the Jeep Renegade and to see the positive response in the market for this model. Whether you are driving on the motorway or off-road, SKF's solutions play an important role in the Jeep Renegade's impressive ride and handling experience. In April 2015, FCA officially opened the new Jeep production facility in Goiana, located in the state of Pernambuco in northeast Brazil. SKF is there to support FCA with its local capabilities linked to its global network."
Every four-wheel drive Jeep Renegade is equipped with Selec-Terrain traction control. This system allows the driver to tune traction settings according to road conditions. The Auto, Snow, Sand and Mud settings are specifically tailored to ensure optimum traction and fuel-efficient operation. SKF's bearings and seals are designed to meet the robustness and performance requirements of the Renegade, contributing to an efficient, comfortable and smooth driving experience.
SKF is already supplying similar components for the Fiat 500X, which is based on the same platform as the Jeep Renegade. The bearing units and seals are presently supplied from SKF's factories in Italy, Germany, Korea and Brazil.
Aktiebolaget SKF
For further information, please contact:
Press Relations: Sabine Hergenröder, +46 31 337 6418, +46 705 77 6418, firstname.lastname@example.com
SKF is a leading global supplier of bearings, seals, mechatronics, lubrication systems, and services which include technical support, maintenance and reliability services, engineering consulting and training. SKF is represented in more than 130 countries and has around 15,000 distributor locations worldwide.
Annual sales in 2015 were SEK 75 997 million and the number of employees was 46 635. www.skf.com
® SKF is a registered trademark of the SKF Group.

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State Codes and StatutesStatutes > West-virginia > 30 > 30-18-5
§30-18-5. Eligibility requirements to be licensed to conduct security guard business.
(a) In order to be eligible for any license to conduct security guard business, an applicant shall:
(1) Be at least eighteen years of age;
(2) Be a citizen of the United states or an alien who is legally residing within the United States;
(3) Not have had any previous license to conduct security guard business or to conduct the private investigation business revoked or any application for any such licenses or registrations denied by the appropriate governmental authority in this or any other state or territory;
(4) Not have been declared incompetent by reason of mental defect or disease by any court of competent jurisdiction unless said court has subsequently determined that the applicant's competency has been restored;
(5) Not suffer from habitual drunkenness or from narcotics addiction or dependence;
(6) Be of good moral character;
(7) Have had at least one year verified, full time employment conducting security guard business or conducting the private investigation business working for a licensed firm or have one year of substantially equivalent training or experience;
(8) Not have been convicted of a felony in this state or any other state or territory;
(9) Not have been convicted of any of the following:
(A) Illegally using, carrying or possessing a pistol or other dangerous weapon;
(B) Making or possessing burglar's instruments;
(C) Buying or receiving stolen property;
(D) Entering a building unlawfully;
(E) Aiding an inmate's escape from prison;
(F) Possessing or distributing illicit drugs;
(G) Any misdemeanor involving moral turpitude or for which dishonesty of character is a necessary element; and
(10) Not having violated any provision of section eight of this article.
The provisions of this section shall not prevent the issuance of a license to any person who, subsequent to his conviction, shall have received an executive pardon therefor, removing this disability.


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Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) - Successor TEN-T
The Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), (successor of TEN-T and TEN-E) runs between 2014 and 2020 with a budget of circa €30 billion. CEF finances projects which fill in the missing links in Europe's energy, transport and digital backbone.
CEF is divided into three sectors:
CEF promotes growth, jobs and competitiveness through targeted infrastructure investment at European level. It will support the development of high-performing, sustainable and efficiently interconnected trans-European networks in the fields of transport, energy and digital services. Projects can be submitted by private entitites with the agreement of the Member State concerned. Projects will be managed by INEA.
CEF Energy
CEF Telecom
The priorities identified by the CEF Telecom Workprogramme are:
The CEF Telecom Call Europeanea has a maximum budget of 8.9 million euro. The CEF Telecom Call Safer Internet has a maximum budget of 9.7 million euro.
CEF Transport
It's focus is on:
Under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), €26.25 billion has been made available from the EU's 2014-2020 budget to co-fund TEN-T projects in the EU Member States. Of this amount, €11.305 billion will be available only for projects in Member States eligible for the Cohesion Fund.
80 - 85% of the total CEF budget is reserved for so-called "Pre-identified projects" located on the Core Network Corridors. These Corridors have been identified by the EU and the Member States. Projects focus on new technologies that are ready for market introduction. Research is not funded by CEF TEN-T.
CEF financial support takes primarily two forms:
Uniresearch BV Elektronicaweg 16-C
2628 XG Delft
The Netherlands
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Predicting violence remains difficult, despite years of study by mental health experts
After every act of incomprehensible violence, the world asks whether the killer could have been identified ahead of time. It's as automatic as the call for more gun control and better mental health services.
Psychologists and psychiatrists have been working for decades to try to figure out whether there's a link between mental illness and violence, and if so, which people are likely to act. Using an ever-changing tool kit of theories and questionnaires, they've made some progress.
It's now fairly clear, for example, that people with severe mental illness, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and some personality disorders, are more likely to commit violent acts than others. But the risk is small. The vast majority of mentally ill people won't commit assault, rape, arson or homicide, although the risk rises sharply among those who abuse drugs and alcohol.
These insights are proving useful to psychiatrists, psychologists, judges, school administrators and others who must decide whether someone seems too dangerous to be left alone. But they aren't good enough to identify an Adam Lanza, the young man who killed 28 people, including himself, in Newtown, Conn., last month. (Lanza's mother told friends that he had Asperger syndrome, a developmental disorder, but no evidence has emerged that Lanza was diagnosed as mentally ill.)
"There is no instrument that is specifically useful or validated for identifying potential school shooters or mass murderers," said Stephen Hart, a psychologist at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia who is the co-author of a widely used evaluation tool. "There are many things in life where we have an inadequate evidence base, and this is one of them."
Even when someone has a history of threatening behavior, the killing of innocent people can't necessarily be prevented.
The woman accused of pushing a man to his death in front of a New York subway train on Dec. 27 had been arrested several times for assault and treated in the psychiatric wards of two hospitals. The man who fatally shot two firefighters and himself in Webster, N.Y., on Christmas Eve had killed his 92-year-old grandmother three decades earlier.
The task of identifying violence-prone individuals is even trickier with young people, who have shorter histories and whose normal development often includes a period of antisocial behavior.
The prospect that the most recent massacre, or the next one, could lead to efforts to find young men contemplating the killing of strangers worries many people. Among those expressing concern are some psychologists and former patients forcibly swept into the mental health system and treated against their will.
"I think people are going toward wanting all their kids to be screened in high school for mental illness and violence risk -- and that's a bad idea," said Gina Vincent, a forensic psychologist at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. "That's my biggest fear of what's going to come out of this."
"We can't go out and lock up all the socially awkward young men in the world," said Jeffrey Swanson, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University. "But we have to try to prevent the unpredicted."
The best-known attempt to measure violence in mental patients found that mental illness by itself didn't predict an above-average risk of being violent. People released from psychiatric wards were more violent than their neighbors only if they also had drug and alcohol problems, according to the MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study, which tracked almost 1,000 former patients in the early 1990s.
Other research has found a link -- although not a particularly strong one -- between mental illness and violence.
In a 2001 study funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers asked 35,000 adults whether they had been diagnosed with a mental illness anytime in their lives and in the previous year. They also asked a long list of questions about the subjects' personal histories and behaviors. Re-interviews were conducted three years later, asking about violent events in the intervening period.
People who reported that they'd had both "severe mental illness" and substance abuse problems in the year before the first interview had the highest rate of violence; 9.4 percent had committed a violent act. The next most violent were people with other types of mental illness (mostly antisocial personality disorder) accompanied by substance abuse -- 7.2 percent of them reported violent behavior.
Groups with lower rates of violence included people suffering only from severe mental illness, 2.9 percent of whom reported having been violent; those only with substance abuse problems (2.5 percent); and those with other mental illnesses alone (1.4 percent). People without any of these problems had just a 0.8 percent rate of violence.
Over the years, researchers have made a particular effort to study violence and schizophrenia, a disorder that emerges in young adults and often includes paranoid thoughts.
An analysis of 20 studies published three years ago found that schizophrenia increased the risk of acting violently fourfold in men and even more in women. The risk of schizophrenics committing homicide was 0.3 percent -- more than 10 times greater than the average citizen.
The evidence suggests that "there's a modest relative risk" for violent behavior in people diagnosed with a serious mental illness, said Swanson, the Duke researcher.
If some of the mentally ill are dangerous, can they be found?
Over the years, studies have shown that psychiatrists' accuracy in identifying patients who would become violent was slightly better than chance -- "obviously not good enough, given what's at stake for public safety as well as for civil liberties," said John Monahan, a University of Virginia psychologist who helped direct the MacArthur study.
So Monahan and many others came up with a constellation of "risk factors" and "protective factors" for violent behavior -- analogous to the risk factors for heart disease, such as age, blood pressure, smoking and cholesterol -- and included them in questionnaires.
Some of those instruments rely heavily on adding up scores. Others put more emphasis on the interviewer's clinical judgment. The most popular current strategy combines both approaches; it forces the evaluator to include any pertinent issue.
All of the approaches consider the presence of a mental disorder as only a small contributor to risk, outweighed by other factors such as age, previous violent acts, alcohol use, impulsivity, gang membership and lack of family support.
There have been numerous efforts to test these violence-predicting tools. For example, Monahan and his colleagues incorporated 106 risk factors into a software interview program and administered it to patients being discharged from psychiatric units in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Of those judged to be low-risk by this tool, 90 percent committed no violence over the next six months. Of those judged to be high-risk, 49 percent committed violent acts.
"From our research, we could quickly distinguish between a patient whose chance of being violent was 1-in-10 from one whose was 1-in-2," he said.
Last summer, a large study published in the British Medical Journal found much the same thing.
It analyzed the findings of 68 studies that involved about 25,000 people in psychiatric hospitals, prisons or court-ordered detention. (The studies used a variety of assessment tools.) Of the people predicted to "violently offend," 41 percent did. Of those predicted to be nonviolent, 91 percent were. In practical terms, that meant that if authorities used the tools for the purposes of public health, they'd have to detain two people to prevent one from becoming violent.
The authors of the analysis concluded that "risk assessment tools in their current form can only be used to roughly classify individuals at the group level, and not to safely determine criminal prognosis in an individual case."
Most of this research has been conducted on populations already "enriched" with the potential for violence: psychiatric patients, drug users, binge drinkers, people who have been arrested. But some mass shooters don't fall into any of those categories.
For the general public, there's no screening tool for violence, and nobody expects that there ever will be.
Is what's known about the relationship between mental illness and violence of any use after events like the mass shooting in Connecticut?
People who study and provide mental health treatment generally say, "Yes." However, that's not because people prone to violence can be found and stopped. It's because if psychiatrists, psychologists and judges become more aware of the relationship between social circumstance, behavior and risk factors for violence, then they might be able to exert influence long before a killer's plans are made.
At least that's the current thinking.
"Most people who are thinking about violence are ambivalent about it," said Hart of Simon Fraser University. "Our job is to find people who are ambivalent and convince them that violence is a bad idea."
He cited the recent case in Vancouver of a college student who told a friend she was thinking of killing a homeless man. The friend notified authorities; the student was detained and evaluated with an assessment tool called the HCR-20. She had a "death kit" of tools in her possession and had killed a cat and dog for pleasure. She was convicted of animal cruelty but will soon be released on probation, with close supervision.
But some people warn that a more aggressive mental health system would pose its own dangers.
James Gottstein, a lawyer in Anchorage, Alaska and head of the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights, has won four cases in his state's Supreme Court supporting patients' rights to refuse to take psychiatric medicines, limiting conditions for involuntary commitment and other issues. He learned firsthand what it's like to be forcibly drugged and stigmatized by psychiatric treatment.
In June 1982, he had a manic episode that he attributes to sleep deprivation. He was working hard, suffering from jet lag after returning from Europe and living in a place where the sun didn't set at night. He was taken by the police to a mental hospital, where he spent a month.
"One of the problems that happens when you become a psychiatric patient is that everything that you do or say can be labeled as a psychiatric symptom," said Gottstein, 59, a graduate of Harvard Law School.
"If the police knock down your door and haul you off and you get upset, you get labeled as 'hostile' and 'labile.' If you decide that you're not going to react to these provocations, you get labeled as having 'a flat affect.' If you think something is funny and you laugh to yourself, then they write down 'responding to internal stimuli,' " he said.
It's not that people don't want help, Gottstein said, but that "the system basically forces things on them that they don't want." He thinks it is "entirely possible to create a system where things are voluntary."
Essential are peer counselors -- people once similarly diagnosed who might be able to connect with the mentally ill when the professionals can't. There's a largely unknown movement trying that approach. But he's quite sure that's not what people calling for "greater access to mental health services" these days are talking about.
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Guys, let's keep this thread as it was intended– a thread about what Hitch meant to people. That doesn't mean that we can't say that some of the things that he said and wrote were wrong in our personal view. But let's keep it free of discussions about where Hitch is, in heaven or in hell, or why indeed an atheist would feel sorrow at the loss of another human being (As well as free of replies to those kinds of posts because they will be removed). Those questions can obviously be hashed out elsewhere in the forum of course!
What Christopher Hitchens meant to me cannot really be described in words. He was such an amazing human being and I cannot believe he is really gone. Over the past few months he had even exchanged emails me with me on a couple of occasions. He was truly a hero.
Christopher Hitchens was a man of courage and honor. Hitch always spoke his mind and took the fight to religious bigotry and was unapologetic about it. In addition, he was not a cultural relativist or an Islamic apologist like is the case with many atheists. He called Islamic ideology for what it truly was: totalitarianism and oppression. In addition, he was a great friend for freedom and democracy and although he was a leftist all his life, he stood and supported the Iraqi people for their quest for freedom - particularly the great Kurdish people. And as an Iranian, he was a great friend of the Iranian people and it is a shame that he was not able to see a free Iran in his lifetime. Most importantly: he was genuine and one of the most insightful and intelligent human beings I have ever heard whom possessed great insight and a realistic foresight of world problems.
I will write more on him later but he was truly a hero of mine and I don't have any other heroes. He was someone that inspired me in ways that cannot be expressed. For the rest of my life, I will try to live with his ideals and inspiration as much as I can. To be honest, right now has become one of the gloomiest and darkest days, and my heart feels empty.
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i hate to say this but i never really knew the man seeing as i'm still relatively new at being an atheist. but i have seen videos of him and he was like a master boxer in the ring - always had something to say that resulted in a big ZING! at the very least. plus i wanted to share something from the fellows at cyanide and happiness.
I admired him very much. His prose was, and is, sublimely enthralling. It seems to me that he possessed, at the same time, a magnificent ego and a charming tendency toward self-deprecation. I am grateful that atheism had such a tenacious champion, and that he allowed us the pleasure of reading and hearing his thoughts. I think that what I liked best about him, from my poor vantage point, is that he was the same brilliant, opinionated, fiercely argumentative, unapologetically rational man (with good taste in Scotch) to the end.
I'll have a glass of Mr. Walker's amber restorative for him, to be sure.
How do you put into words the depth of someone as great as Hitchens. He was truly a master of language and wit and the world is a darker place without him. He has left behind and intellectual legacy so profound that it will transcend the ages. With words that will continue to inspire and set free the minds of people lucky enough to pick up his books or watch his many debates. In a sense he has reached a form of immortality, the only immortality anyone can achieve.
In my eyes, Christopher Hitchens was a flawed hero. I cheered him on for having the courage to swim against the tide and call out the iconic Mother Teresa for the Catholic proselytizer she was. On the other hand, I was saddened by his support for war criminal, George Bush, and the inhumane Iraq War. It kind of tarnished his image as a humanist, I thought.
But he was a GREAT rhetorician and a passionate, no-holds-barred atheist, which cements him overall as a hero in my mind. I can only hope (NOT pray) that I will face death as courageously as he did.
What you see as flawed I see as virtue. The great Christopher Hitchens was a great supporter of human rights, freedom, and self-determination; particularly of the great Kurdish people who suffered so long under the brutal tyranny and terror of Saddam Hussein. More importantly, he demonstrated that he uses his own logic and prowess rather than being purely an ideologue of the left or the right. While he was to the left, he decided on issues on their own merits and rationality.
I learned of his death last night just as I was getting ready to go to bed. Then found myself unable to sleep. Although I never met him, I had read much of what he had written and felt, in some small way, that I sort of knew him. His clarity of thought and remarkbale wit helped me immensely in developing and articulating my own views.
In a sense, we atheists possibly mourn death more than others, as we know there is nothing else: the world has lost a great thinker and there is no heaven in which to reap his reward. We are justifiably angered and saddened at his loss, comforted only by the knowledge that, due in great part to his influence, he has left us this legacy: a generation of free thinkers unbound by the shackles of religious dogma committed to continue the fight against theist ignorance and tyranny.
Beautifully put and I agree with you 100%. We do prob. mourn more than believers for the reasons you cited.
"The one word that comes to mind when I think of my brother is 'courage'. By this I don't mean the lack of fear which some people have, which enables them to do very dangerous or frightening things because they have no idea what it is to be afraid. I mean a courage which overcomes real fear, while actually experiencing it."- Peter Hitchens..this says it all..there will be no another Hitch!!
He did have some of the best pictures I've ever seen.
he was one of the reasons why i became a militant atheist him and richard dalkins made me proud to be an atheist and taught me to be myself and speak out so i came out about being bi and all the dipression slipped away so in a form he helped me save my life decay without disturbance C.H.


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Learning to Leave Bad Enough Alone: Washington's Clumsy Meddling in Fragile Countries
U.S. officials too often succumb to the temptation to try to impose order and justice in unstable or misgoverned societies around the world. The temptation is understandable. It is hard to learn about—much less watch on the nightly news—brutality, bloodshed, and gross injustice and not want to do something about it. Some foreign policy intellectuals, including the new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, have become strident lobbyists for the notion of a "responsibility to protect" vulnerable populations.
But it is a temptation that wise policy makers should avoid. U.S. meddling has frequently caused already bad situations to deteriorate further—especially when Washington has based its humanitarian interventions on the false premise that the subject of our attentions is, or at least ought to be, a coherent nation state. As I point out in an article over at The National Interest, U.S. administrations have made that blunder in Bosnia, Iraq, Libya, and other places.
In many parts of the world, the Western concept of a nation state is quite weak, and the concepts of democracy and individual rights are even less developed. The primary loyalty of an inhabitant is likely to be to a clan, tribe, ethnic group or religion. U.S. officials appear to have difficulty grasping that point, and as a result, the United States barges into fragile societies, disrupting what modest order may exist. Washington's military interventions flail about, shattering delicate political and social connections and disrupting domestic balances of power.
An especially naive and pernicious U.S. habit has been to try to midwife a strong national government in client states when the real power and cohesion lies at the local or subregional level. Thus, Washington still insists on keeping the chronically dysfunctional pretend country of Bosnia intact and on international life support more than 17 years after imposing the Dayton peace accords that ended the fighting there. Similarly, the United States harbored the illusion that Hamid Karzai could run a strong, pro-Western, democratic Afghan central government from Kabul, and even Karzai's ineptitude and extensive misdeeds have not entirely dispelled that notion. In both cases, the national cohesion, underlying democratic values, and strong civil societies needed for such a scheme to work are woefully lacking.
One would hope that U.S. officials would be sobered by those bruising experiences, but there is little evidence of that. Even now, the Obama administration continues to flirt with intervening in Syria. That would be a huge mistake. Syria's ethno-religious divisions make those of Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya look mild by comparison. Bashar al-Assad is undoubtedly a thuggish ruler, and the humanitarian situation in Syria is tragic. But a U.S.-led intervention could cause Syria's fragile political and ethnic tapestry to unravel entirely, and that might make the current situation far worse. The Obama administration needs to exercise great care and restraint.


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First Symbian, then Windows Mobile, and now Android. Bucking the trend of many manufacturers in today's market, Sony Ericsson has opted to work with several different operating systems (with the potential for more, according to recent comments made by the company's CEO) as opposed to narrowing it down to a particular focus. As the company's first Android-powered device, will the unlocked (at the time of this review) XPERIA X10 be able to compete with carrier-supported Android devices such as the DROID, myTouch 3G, and the HTC EVO 4G (when it launches)?
Design & Features
The XPERIA X10 is quite clean when it comes to exterior buttons. The top of the unit contains the power button, 3.5mm headphone jack, and microUSB charging port, while the right side of the unit contains the volume rocker and camera shortcut key. The front of the device offers a menu button, home button, and back button. Overall, the design of the X10 is very nice, though I wish the exterior offered less plastic and more metal.
Coming in at 4.69 inches long by 2.48 inches wide by 0.51 inch thick, the device weighs 4.76 ounces, making it thin and easy to fit in a pocket or purse. The X10 offers a 4.0-inch screen with 480 x 854 pixels and 65,536 colors (which I'm told is a limitation of Android 1.6), and I find it to be the perfect balance between the 3.2-3.7-inch market, and the 4.3-inch screens found on the HTC EVO 4G and the HD2. It's big enough, but not overwhelming. Despite the large screen, the X10 is still relatively thin, and feels great in the hand. When conducting a long phone call, I found the unit to be quite comfortable against my ear.
Usability & Performance
The XPERIA X10 ships with Android 1.6 (Donut), and while I found myself missing Android 2.1, the inclusion of Timescape, Mediascape, and Sony Ericsson's custom UI helped to mask it most of the time. That being said, notable features that I use in 2.1 on a regular basis are missing – the ability to add multiple Gmail accounts, pinch-to-zoom functionality, and voice-to-text, just to name a few. No official word on it just yet, but rumor has it that the unit will be upgradeable to 2.1 at some point (Sony Ericsson has committed to updating the phone on a regular basis).
Despite the 1 GHz Snapdragon processor, the XPERIA X10 was laggy and unresponsive at times. While operating in Timescape and Mediascape (the places where one would think lag would be present), the device performed flawlessly. When attempting to open programs, unlock the screen, or perform basic tasks in the menu, I often found it to be laggy and inconsistent. Additionally, the scrolling itself was erratic – I found that there were times where one scroll did the trick, and other times where it required a few before it recognized the gesture. It's not a deal breaker, but could prove to be annoying after extended use. It's important to note that the software running on our review unit is pre-production software, so things could change by launch time.
The X10 ships with the Android keyboard, and Sony Ericsson's "standard keyboard." After five minutes of using Sony Ericsson's "standard" option, I had to revert back to the Android keyboard due to strange gesture problems. At times, typing would be decent, and other times, it was quirky and would miss letters. For those that frequently message, it's quite the challenge to use. I'm hoping it's either something that can be fixed with future updates, or that there are alternative on-screen keyboards in the marketplace.
The XPERIA X10 ships with an 8.1-megapixel camera with autofocus and flash, and in my testing, picture quality was outstanding. The camera performed well in most situations I was able to throw at it, and video quality was very good as well. Editing options include several "capturing modes" (normal, scene recognition, smile detection, and touch capture), a number of resolutions (8MP, 6MP, 2MP, and low 2MP), a variety of different scenes (normal, portrait, landscape, night scene, night portrait, beach and snow, sports, party, and document), and various focus modes (single autofocus, multi autofocus, macro, face detection, and infinity). Sony Ericsson has always prided itself in high-quality device cameras, and the XPERIA X10 doesn't disappoint.
The unlocked device was tested in the Las Vegas and Charlotte areas using AT&T, and call quality was decent. Callers were able to hear me well, though I had a bit of background static on my end and an occasional dropped call. When visiting a known AT&T trouble spot in the Charlotte metropolitan area, I had trouble initiating calls. When testing the speakerphone in a noisy coffee shop, I was able to hear my callers without a problem. Though they said that they could hear the espresso machines in the background, it didn't prevent us from having a conversation. I successfully paired my Plantronics Voyager Pro Bluetooth headset to the device without a problem, and callers said that I sounded equally clear. The only issue I encountered was the earpiece; it seemed a bit lower than other handsets on the market, even at the highest volume.
The XPERIA X10 offers 3G HSPA connectivity (on AT&T's bands in the US), so browsing speeds were very quick. The full CNN webpage loaded in about 18 seconds, and the PhoneDog homepage loaded in 29 seconds. Other data-intensive tasks such as Google Maps, the Android Market, Google Talk, and Timescape worked well.
Estimated talk time is about 10 hours with 3G connectivity, and about 17 days of standby time. Like other smartphones on the market, the battery life on the X10 isn't going to last that long, particularly during regular day-to-day use. With moderate to heavy use including calling, text messaging, browsing the internet, and use of Google Maps, I was able to get about a day and a half out of it before it powered down. It's no featurephone, but given the abilities of the device, I found the battery life to be acceptable. For the individual that is away from the office on a regular basis, I'd recommend an extra battery or car charger.
The XPERIA X10 has a few quirks and issues that could prove frustrating to experienced smartphone users. That being said, most of the problems I encountered could be fixed with software updates, and since Sony Ericsson has committed to providing updates on an ongoing basis, we could see them resolved over time. At any rate, the X10 is going to be one of those love or hate devices. I hope to see the XPERIA X10 land on a US carrier at some point in the near future, as I think it would make a great addition to any carrier's Android lineup.


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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Trichomoniasis, or trich, is the most common curable sexually transmitted disease, but only 1-in-5 U.S. women are familiar with it, a survey indicates.
The survey, commissioned by the American Sexual Health Association, found women surveyed perceived trich as the least common STD, but there are more new cases of trich annually in the United States -- 7-8 million -- than syphilis, chlamydia and gonorrhea combined.
"Trich is the forgotten STD -- few are aware, and few know it is easy to get tested and treated," Lynn B. Barclay, the association's president, said in a statement.
Trich is a parasite that is passed on during sex and only about 30 percent of people with trich develop any symptoms, which in women can include itching, burning, redness or soreness of the genitals, discomfort with urination, or a thin discharge.
The CDC recommends any sexually active woman seeking treatment for vaginal discharge should be tested for trich, but 65 percent of women surveyed said they would not seek medical attention if they experienced unusual symptoms.
Pregnant women with trich are more likely to have preterm or low birth weight babies, and it also increases the risk of acquiring and transmitting human immunodeficiency virus, which causes AIDS.
The survey was conducted via an online panel by Research Now, an independent research company. Interviews were conducted between Jan. 28 to Feb. 2 among a nationally representative sample of 1,000 female respondents ages 18-50. No margin of error was provided.


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Irish national Donal O'Sullivan, who was reported missing by concerned relatives on Sunday evening, was found by chance in a stairwell by the manager of an office building's cleaning company.
Mr O'Sullivan, 33, had last been seen leaving the Tea Gardens Hotel in Bondi Junction on Saturday morning.
He was found about 8pm on Wednesday, lying in an emergency stairwell in a commercial building called East Tower, about 150 metres from the Tea Gardens.
Shortly after, he was taken to St Vincent's Hospital with serious head and back injuries.
Police believe it was a case of "misadventure" that resulted in Mr O'Sullivan going missing, and will interview him when his condition allows.
Robert Goodsell, who runs a clinic in East Tower and is chairman of the body corporate, said Mr O'Sullivan was found by chance when the manager of the building's cleaning company, Phoenix Cleaning, was doing a check-up on his employees' work.
"One of the owners of the cleaning company found him on level 6 about 6.30pm [on Wednesday]," Mr Goodsell said.
"Every week we have the fire stairs cleaned - usually on a Friday - and it just so happened that, fortunately, the owner of the cleaning company had a look in the fire stairs last night to check to make sure that the regular cleaner had been doing his work," Mr Goodsell said.
"Luckily he found him there, otherwise it wouldn't have been until Friday."
Mr Goodsell said no one used the fire stairs as they were meant only for emergency.
Mr Goodsell added it was still not clear how Mr O'Sullivan got access to the fire stairs or what he was doing there.
Police had asked for CCTV footage to try to work out what had occurred, he said.
Asked if he believed Mr O'Sullivan became trapped, Mr Goodsell said that he did not believe so, as the fire door on level four of the building allowed people to get out of the stairwell.
He also said the floor on which Mr O'Sullivan was found was directly opposite lifts, and that Mr O'Sullivan could have screamed out for help if he was physically able to.
"We didn't hear anything," he said. "If there was any crying out or yelling, people would have heard straight away."
Initial media reports said that Mr O'Sullivan fell in a rarely used stairwell in Easts Leagues Club. But a spokeswoman for the club denied this was the case and said that he was found in East Tower, which is next door.
The club spokeswoman said a person came into the Easts Leagues Club to call emergency services after finding Mr O'Sullivan on Wednesday night.
Scott Melton of Barass Macarthur Unit Administration, which manages East Tower, said he could make "absolutely no comment".
Mr O'Sullivan's brother, Johnnie O'Sullivan, who also lives in Sydney, had been searching with family and friends for Mr O'Sullivan since the weekend.
He said his brother was reported to be suffering from dehydration and "some injuries" when he was found.
"He managed to give his address and mobile number so we're very relieved," he told the Irish Echo newspaper.
More than 2000 people had joined a Facebook group dedicated to finding Mr O'Sullivan.
"Thank god for a happy outcome for once," wrote Bernie Glynn.
Another supporter, Esther Dixon-Mitchell, wrote: "God Bless you speedy recovery thank God."
Mr O'Sullivan works for formwork company KNF Construction, living in Bondi but travelling to Canberra for work on weekdays.
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Downgrading packages
This guide will show you how to downgrade a package to a previous version. Downgrading a package isn't normally recommended and is often only necessary when a bug is introduced in the current package.
Developers note:
Before downgrading, consider why you are doing so. If it is because of a bug, please help both Arch and upstream developers by spending a few minutes reporting the bug on the Arch bug tracker or on the parent project itself. Because Arch is a rolling release distribution you will likely be continously working with new packages and will experience a bug from time to time.
Both us and the upstream developers would appreciate the effort. That extra bit of information could save us hours of testing and debugging and also helps us release more stable software.
The process of downgrading is that of uninstalling the current package and installing a previous version. The previous version can be an immediate version (the package version directly before it) or to a number of versions prior.
The reasons for downgrading include (among others): that the current version has a bug, does not yet contain the desired functionality, or was done for experimental reasons. In any of these cases, the user has chosen that it would be less problematic to revert to a previous version than to wait for a new release.
Downgrading a package may mean that other packages may have to be downgraded with it. For those that have installed a good amount of experimental or testing packages, and edited a good deal of configurations, it may be preferable to re-install the system rather than trying to downgrade.
The Details
However, the user must keep in mind the following points. First, there is going to be the need to consider the dependencies of each program. The required libraries and such often change with each version, and the functionality of associated files may be completely different from previous ones. The solution will require changing these to earlier versions as well.
Second, one must consider if the necessary files have been removed from the system and are even going to be available from any source. Arch Linux's rolling release system of repositories are automatically upgraded without saving any older versions. See more about this problem below.
Third, we must be careful with changes to configuration files and scripts. At this point in time, we will rely upon pacman to handle this for us, as long as we do not bypass any safeguards it contains.
Please keep in mind that this issue brings us to the cutting edge of pacman package management development. The Arch Rollback Machine concept is being developed and awaiting useful incorporation into pacman. Once that occurs, this will become automated. Until then, please follow the instructions following this.
How to downgrade a package
- Q: I just ran pacman -Syu and package XYZ was upgraded to version N from version M. This package is causing problems on my computer, how can I downgrade from version N to the older version M?
- A: You may be able to downgrade the package trivially by visiting /var/cache/pacman/pkg on your system and seeing if the older version of the package is stored there. (If you have not run pacman -Scc recently, it should be there). If the package is there, you can install that version using pacman -U pkgname-olderpkgver.pkg.tar.gz.
This process will remove the current package, it will carefully calculate all of the dependency changes, and it will install the older version you have chosen with the proper dependencies down the line.
Finding Your Older Version
There are three ways to do this.
Out-Of-Sync Mirrors
If you can not find older versions on your system, check if one of the mirrors is out of sync, and get it from there. Click here to see the status of mirrors.
You can also check one of these mirrors:
- http://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/sunsite.unc-mirror/distributions/archlinux/ [Err. 404]
- http://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/sunsite/distributions/archlinux/ [Good]
- http://ftp.parrswood.manchester.sch.uk/Mirrors/ftp.archlinux.org/ [Err. 404]
- http://schlunix.org/?page_id=11 [Good] (Stores old packages)
The Arch Rollback Machine (ARM) contains archived snapshots of all the repos going back to 1 November 2009. The site is in a state of flux as of this date (21 November 2009), and now has lost the items back thru 1 October 2008, as previously reported.
If you are interested in ARM, it would be best to view the introductory forum announcement and discussion, so as to stay abreast of the current progress of the project. The introductory forum thread is here.
It is said that the goal was to construct the urls in such a way as to facilitate easy wget+pacman scripting to "roll back" your system to a particular date. The automation process is not yet explained. To just manually search for a particular package, one can use the search page which has been provided at ARM Search.
Re-Compile The Package
In worst-case scenario, if the package is not located anywhere else, you will need to compile the older version yourself. To do this you will need a PKGBUILD for the file; you could edit the existing PKGBUILD provided by ABS to use older sources, or you can visit http://www.archlinux.org/packages/ and search for the package you wish to downgrade. Once you find it, click "View SVN entries" and select "View Log". Locate the version you need and click on the path. Then just download the files located in that directory and build it with makepkg.
Other Information
The basic concept of user control in pacman package management is to edit the pacman.conf file by logging in as root at the command prompt and using "nano /etc/pacman.conf" (without the quotes) to edit that file. (While this can often be done from within your GUI frontend of choice, such as Shaman, sometimes it is more accurate to do it right from the CLI. It is suggested that you clean up any accumulated junk while in the file.)
One is simply going to be changing the locations of repositories in which pacman searches for programs. Remarking out any existing repos by the use of the pound sign at the begining of the line will leave the current ones without making them accessible to pacman and the package management system.
For instance, to add a repository from the ARM, one simply remarks-out the old line and adds the appropriate directory location in the format:
[core] #Server=http://mirrors.gigenet.com/archlinux/core/os/i686 Server=http://arm.konnichi.com/2009/11/01/core/os/i686
In this example, the date section is taking whatever packages are available as of the date of November 1st, 2009. Please note that all repositories are snapshots of the official repositories. You need only change the mirror in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, placing an ARM mirror at the top. e.g http://arm.konnichi.com/2009/11/01/$repo/os/i686 to sync all official repositories listed in /etc/pacman.conf to the chosen ARM mirror then update with:
pacman -Syy # refresh the sync databases pacman -Suu # downgrade all packages with a lower version in the repos
This alone does not guarantee a seemless rollback as there are sometimes package conflicts with regards to verion numbers, etc. If you know the repository it may be easier to visit the global mirror, e.g http://arm.konnichi.com/core/os/i686, note the omission of the date.
What about dependencies?
- Q: I can not downgrade a package, because of dependencies.
- A: You can ignore dependencies when upgrading or removing with 'd'. e.g. pacman -Ud pkgpkgname-olderpkgver.pkg.tar.gz but this might break your system further.
Stopping Pacman from updating certain packages
- Q: How do I stop Pacman from upgrading downgraded packages?
- A: With the "IgnorePkg" variable in your Template:Filename.
Template:Codeline in your Template:Filename instructs Pacman to ignore any upgrades for selected packages when performing a --sysupgrade.
Reverting to a Savepoint
- Q: I want to go back to how my system was yesterday.
- A: It is easy provided you enabled periodic snapshots.
You can rely on a logical volume manager (LVM) for creating and maintaining snapshots. These snapshots should not be confused with CVS snapshots. LVM snapshots are kernel-level filesystem snapshots that, unlike a full backup, use a COW (copy-on-write) scheme which means that it occupies very little disk space so long as no files were modified, and if files were modified, the snapshot occupies only a little more than the disk space needed to store the pre-modified files. This usually means that you can snapshot a 35GB system with only 2GB free space, considering that pacman -Sy will likely modify far less than 2GB of data. If the state of your system after the upgrade is undesirable, you can quickly rollback to previous snapshot images of your system.
See Also
- Arch Build System for more information.
- LVM for how to enable snapshots and how to revert to their state.


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How to Get a Divorce
How Do I Get A Divorce?
Sheila Chrzan
Atlanta Legal Aid Society
Last Revised: July 2004
It is always a good idea to have an attorney represent you when getting a divorce.
If you do not have an attorney, then you are representing yourself in court and are applying for a divorce "pro se" (pronounced "pro say"). You may be able to find forms and instructions on how to file for a divorce in the Clerk's office or the courthouse law library. A few courts have a specific pro se section that will help you.
(1) File the Complaint for Divorce. First you file a Complaint for Divorce and tell the court why you want a divorce. You must tell the court why you want a divorce. There are specific reasons that the law will allow you to get a divorce. You must say which of the reasons you are asking the court to grant a divorce. In the Complaint you must also tell the court what you want the court to do. Do you want custody of any children you and your spouse have? Do you want the court to award you child support so that you can have money to take care of the children? How do you want the court to divide the property that you and your spouse have? There is a fee to file for a divorce.
You generally file the Complaint for Divorce in the Superior Court of the county where your spouse lives. You may file in the county where you both lived if your spouse moved to another county within six months of the date you are filing. If your spouse has moved out of state, you can file in your county.
(2) Service of Process - the Legal Way to Give the Complaint for Divorce to Your Spouse. You must have a copy of the Complaint for Divorce "served" on your spouse. This means that the sheriff or another "process server" will give the divorce papers to your spouse in the way that the law requires. This is called "service of process". There is also a fee to have the Complaint served.
(3) Hearing or Trial. After your Complaint for Divorce is served on your spouse the spouse may file an answer. If your spouse does not file an answer, your divorce is considered to be "uncontested". If there are no issues to be decided (such as child custody, child support, division of property, etc.) then the court will schedule a hearing where the court will make a final decision. If the divorce is contested by your spouse (when they file the Answer), the court may schedule the case for a temporary hearing or a trial.
Courts have different schedules for trying divorces. The court may require that the parties attend mediation. Check with the Clerk of Court concerning your court's requirements.
Again, it is always a good idea to have an attorney represent you when getting a divorce.
I Have Not Seen My Spouse For Years and I Do Not Know Where My Spouse Is. Can I Still Get a Divorce?
Yes. You will need to tell the court that you tried to find the defendant. You give the court a signed, statement (an "affidavit") where you:
- swear that to the best of your knowledge the whereabouts of your spouse (the defendant) are unknown
- swear that you have used reasonable diligence in trying to find out where the defendant is currently
- state what the last residence of the defendant was.
A notice must then be published in the newspaper that the court designates for such notices for four (4) consecutive weeks. If your spouse does not file an Answer within 60 days after the notice is first published, the court can grant the divorce at a hearing. NOTE: In a divorce by publication the court cannot award alimony, child support, or property situated outside of Georgia.
If your spouse does file an Answer, the court will schedule a trial.
My Spouse Now Lives in Another State, Can I Still Get A Divorce In Georgia?
Yes. If your spouse was a resident of Georgia at one time, you can request child support, alimony and property division. You will have to arrange to have the petition for divorce "served" on your spouse in the new state.
My Spouse Has Never Lived In Georgia, Can I Still Get A Divorce?
Yes, if you have lived in Georgia for six months or more. But if the court cannot get personal jurisdiction over your spouse then it can not award alimony or child support, or award property in another state. "Personal jurisdiction" means that there are enough connections between your spouse and the State of Georgia that the Georgia Courts have the power to make decisions that will affect your spouse. This is a complicated area of law.
Again, it is always a good idea to have an attorney represent you when getting a divorce.


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Original Trinity Hymnal, #367
We give thee but thine own,
Whate'er the gift may be:
All that we have is thine alone,
A trust, O Lord, from thee.
May we thy bounties thus
As stewards true receive,
And gladly, as thou blessest us,
To thee our firstfruits give.
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Are straying from the fold.
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mr7eveN Senior Tuesday 23/10/2012, 21:44
☆ TriClan Power ™ 21 Survivor ☆ R&C guys
AznRepublic Guru Wednesday 24/10/2012, 06:30
Why would anyone wanna use this deck
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Cuz it's hard 2 play for you Grace w/o 5 dr's w/o clan bonus ? =)
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This deck require risk&tactic, im not saying use it, but people can see that's possible to play sometimes
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I'm someone who caught up with "Mad Men" thanks to the wonders of Netflix and DVD bingefests. Once you start up on "Mad Men" that way, it isn't easy to stop. Watching one episode becomes watching a second becomes watching a third, and then it's 4 am and half the season is in the bag. It's that kind of show: Hypnotic, all-engrossing. Alas, now that I'm caught up, I now have to suffer through one episode a week rations, like the rest of the suckers.
And so I'll savor these upcoming weekly hourlong morsels much the way I did "The Sopranos" back in its heyday. It's no secret that "Mad Men" has plenty in common with the mob smash, specifically the contributions of Matthew Weiner and episode directors like Alan Hunter.
But, in many ways, "Mad Men" has exceeded that show for pure viewing satisfaction. Unlike "The Sopranos," this show isn't under the thumb of David Chase, who seemed just as likely to flip the audience the bird each week as he was to give them what they want. "Mad Men," on the other hand, has no qualms about delivering the goods: affairs, firings, sudden moments of violence, sex… and it does all that while remaining just as stunningly unpredictable as its predecessor was. I literally have no clue what will happen this season, and neither do you. Nothing makes me more excited than that prospect. "Mad Men" is unpredictable without being tangential, and that's a trick "The Sopranos" didn't always pull off.
And so that's what I'm looking forward to this year. I'm looking forward to the show building off of the last four episodes from last season, which were flat-out dazzling entertainment. I'm looking forward to wanting to punch Pete Campbell in the face. I'm looking forward to Betty Draper's new marriage crumbling. I'm looking forward to wanting to adopt Sally Draper and tell her everything will be all right. And mostly, I'm looking forward to Roger Sterling getting LOADED and saying impossibly clever things. Man, do I wish I was that guy. I asked a few other dedicated "Mad Men" fans in the blogosphere what they were looking forward to most about this upcoming season. Here's what they said:
"I'm looking forward to watching Roger Sterling press the 1960s envelope for most sundaes consumed while nursing a martini and getting a backrub. I'm looking forward to giggling at Joan's wretched husband getting excited about his impending death in Vietnam. I'm getting giddy over the increasingly reptilian adventures of Pete Campbell amidst the "humans" surrounding him. I'm looking forward to drinking a bit too much on Sunday nights. I'm looking forward to Betty Draper working as a Vegas showgirl and developing a horrible drug habit."
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:View title="Add Employee" add="view1_addHandler(event)" …>
protected function view1_addHandler(event:FlexEvent):void
In this tutorial, you use the Flash Builder debugger to debug your Flex code. First, you trace variables to display their values at runtime in the Flash Builder Console view. Next, you add breakpoints to stop code execution inside of an event handler and look at the values of variables in the Flash Builder Debugger as you step through your code. You debug the application running in the desktop emulator and on the device. To debug on a device, the computer and the device must be on the same Wi-Fi network.
Note: You can complete the majority of this tutorial for a Flash Builder project set up to use either your local or public server. To complete the last steps and debug on the device, you need to have your project set up to use a public server as discussed in the earlier tutorial, Run on a device.
In order to debug applications you must have the debug version of Flash Player installed for your browser. Debug versions of Flash Player are installed when Flash Builder is installed. You can also download them from the Adobe Flash Player Download Center.
Note: To see how to use Flash Builder to test your server-side code, see the tutorial Test server-side code in the Flex Test Drive.
Step 1: Trace employee related variables.
Return to AddEditView.mxml and inside and at the end of the
add handler use the
trace function to display
employee and
Your handler should appear as shown here:
protected function view1_addHandler(event:FlexEvent):void
Step 2: Debug the application.
Click the Debug button or from the Debug menu, select FlexMobileTestDrive (desktop) (see Figure 1). In the application, edit an employee and then return to Flash Builder and go to the Console view.
Note: If your project is set up to use your public server (see the earlier tutorial, Run on a device), you can also debug on the device if your computer and device are on the same Wi-Fi network.
Figure 1. Debug the application on the desktop.
For the first trace of
employee.firstname , you see the value for the employee you edited (see Figure 2). For the second trace of
employee, you get [object Employee], indicating it is a complex object of type Employee; however, you don't get any of the property values.
Figure 2. View employee related variables traced in the Console view.
Step 3: Stop the debugger and switch perspectives.
Click one of the red Terminate buttons and then click the Flash and Flash Debug buttons in the upper-right corner to switch between the development and debugging perspectives. End in the development perspective.
If you do not see both buttons, click the left edge of the tab and drag it to the left until you see both (see Figure 3).
Figure 3. Switch between the development and debugging perspectives.
Step 4: Add a breakpoint.
In AddEditView.mxml, double-click in the marker bar (to the left of the line numbers) next to the first line of code inside the
add handler (see Figure 4).
Figure 4. Add a breakpoint.
Step 5: Debug the application on the desktop.
From the drop-down menu for the Debug button, select FlexMobileTestDrive (140). In the application, select an employee and click the Edit button.
The application will freeze (because code execution has stopped) and you will be returned to Flash Builder automatically (or you may see it flashing in your dock or task bar and need to navigate to it manually). If you get a Confirm Perspective Switch dialog box, click Remember my decision and click Yes (see Figure 5).
Figure 5. Confirm the switch to the Flash Debug perspective.
In the Editor view, locate the arrow next to the first line of code inside the handler indicating that code execution has stopped there (see Figure 6).
Figure 6. Locate where code execution has stopped.
Step 6: Look at variables in the Variables view.
Drill-down into the inherited properties of the
event object.
You should see two variables,
this and
event (see Figure 7).
this is a reference to the View itself, AddEditView.
event is the variable passed to handler the breakpoint is located inside of. It is of type mx.events.FlexEvent. Drill-down into its inherited properties. The properties inherited from the FlexEvent object's parent class, flash.events.Event, and their values are displayed.
Figure 7. View variables in the Variables view.
Step 7: Look at the currentTarget property of the event object.
Drill-down into the
event object's inherited
currentTarget property and then into its
employee property (see Figure 8).
currentTarget is a reference to the view itself, the object listening for the event that was broadcast. Locate the
employee property that you declared as a property of that view. Drill-down into its properties and see that all of its values are currently null.
Figure 8. Drill-down into the event object's inherited currentTarget property.
You can double-click the Variables tab (or any tab in Flash Builder) to have it go full-screen. This is helpful so you can see more variables at a time. Double-click the tab again to return it in its initial size.
Step 8: Step into your code.
Click the Step Into button (see Figure 9) several times and watch as the debugger steps through your code. Stop when you are in a different file and then click the Step Return button to return code execution back to your MXML file. Use the Step Into, Step Over, and Step Return buttons until the code after the
employee object declaration is reached (see Figure 10).
Figure 9. Use the buttons in the Debug view toolbar to step through code.
Various files will open and close as code in other classes is executed.
Figure 10. Step through the code until the employee variable is set.
In the Variables view, drill-down to event > [inherited] > currentTarget > employee > [inherited] again and see that the
employee object now has values for its properties (see Figure 11).
Figure 11. See the new property values for the employee object.
If you are interested in watching the value of one (or more) particular variables, instead of walking through the code and watching its values as you just did, you can also explicitly watch them instead.
PHP developers using Flash Builder for PHP: You can also place breakpoints in the PHP files located in the Flash Builder PHP project enabling you to debug and step through both client and server-side code. To debug server-side code, you must debug as a Mobile (PHP) Application and not as a Mobile Application. To make sure you are running as a Mobile (PHP) Application, choose Debug As from the Debug button menu or the main Run menu option or create a specific debug configuration.
Step 9: Watch the employee variable.
employee anywhere inside your code, right-click it, and select Create Watch Expression.
You should see the expression listed in the Expressions view (see Figure 12).
Figure 12. Create a watch expression.
You can also add watch expressions by manually typing them into the Expressions view or by right-clicking a variable in the Variables view.
Step 10: Step through code and watch the expression change value.
Click the Resume button (see Figure 9) and then return to the running application. Return to the employee list, select an employee, and click the Edit button. In Flash Builder, expand the
employee variable in the Expressions view and then use the Step Into, Step Over, and Step Return buttons and see the value of the watched expression change (see Figure 13).
Figure 13. Watch the employee variable.
Stop the debugger.
Step 11: Set up debugging on a device.
Connect the device to the computer with the USB cable. Make sure your project is set up to use your public sever (and not the local server). Make sure the computer and the device are on the same Wi-Fi network.
For more details about setting up the project to use your public server, see the earlier tutorial, Run on a device.
The USB cable is used to install the application on the device initially. The Wi-Fi network is used for all communication between the device and Flash Builder when the application is debugged.
Step 12: Debug the application on a device.
From the drop-down menu for the Debug button, select FlexMobileTestDrive (device) (see Figure 14). After the application launches on the device, select an employee and click the Edit button.
If you get a dialog box asking for the IP address of the host computer, enter it.
The application will freeze and you will be returned to Flash Builder automatically – just like when you were debugging the desktop version of the application. You can now step through your code as you did in the previous steps.
Note: If you do not have a run configuration created for the device, see the earlier tutorial, Run on a device.
Figure 14. Debug the application on a device.
If you have trouble debugging on the device, check to see if you computer is on a VPN and/or using a firewall. If the computer is on a VPN and the device is not, you may need to take the computer off the VPN for debugging to work. If you have a firewall turned on, try disabling it. If you cannot or do not want to disable it, try opening port 7935, the port used by the Flash Builder debugger to communicate with the device.
In this tutorial you learned to use the Flash Builder Debugger to debug your client-side code. In the next tutorial, you learn to package your application for distribution.
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