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Are the Penguins still shopping for a seventh NHL defenseman? Spector notes a report out of Montreal that Pittsburgh is interested in Francis Boullion. Signing Bouillon or someone like him would bump Lovejoy down to eighth on the depth chart, which would likely mean he spends most of the season in the AHL. It wouldn't be the end of the world for Lovejoy. He's only entering his third pro season. I think he's ready for full-time NHL duty, but that's just me.
Big news in my house today as it looks like Todd Bertuzzi has signed with Detroit. It's big news here because now I know what jersey to buy for my five-month-old Maltipoo named Bertuzzi.
USA Hockey's orientation camp is ongoing. Anyone want to take a crack at a lineup? Here are the 34 players to choose from. Since this is a pretty slow time for hockey news, I did one. I really like guys like Dustin Byfuglien and Ryan Malone, but on the big ice, I skipped them. Scuderi may be a homer pick, but someobody's got to mark Ovechkin when they play Russia, right?
Also, the blog's comments are getting bombarded by spam, so I might be missing a few things here and I apologize for that.
As for Anaheim's AHL prospects, according to this blog post, most will go to San Antonio with a few others spread around the Midwest. This wouldn't be a good year for WBS to pick up some other team's prospects. Finding ice time for their own guys will be hard enough as it is.
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KIFF: Day One in Review
Day one is complete and so far so good. Here are some initial thoughts on films I was lucky enough to see, shown Friday, September 30. Full reviews on many of the movies will be coming soon.
Made in India. Directed by Rebecca Haimowitz.
The journey of an infertile couple from Texas, who due to financial constraints, look to India for more affordable surrogacy options. Telling the story through the perspective of not only the genetic parents, but also the surrogate, this documentary manages to present a nearly unbiased account of an extremely controversial topic. It looks at the multi-million dollar business of baby-making, taking the focus away from the companies, and instead focuses on the individuals involved. It is a reminder that sometimes a person's actions can have the best intentions, even when they can be seen as harmful when looking at the big picture. Refusing to answer any questions, the film manages to be heartfelt while still only presenting the facts. Made in India seems designed to not formulate opinions, but to get people asking questions. It is a perfect film to watch in the hopes of starting a dialogue during an after-movie meal.
Bob and the Monster. Directed by Keirda Bahruth.
Bob Forrest has lead a life in three parts: a punk-rocker in the up and coming band, Thelonious Monk, a homeless man loitering the streets acquiring a collection of warrants, and a counselor attempting to change the conventions of rehabilitation for the better. Every stage of his life, sometimes constructive and oftentimes nearly lethal, have been due to his relationship with the monster that is addiction. Including interviews from Courtney Love, Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Dr. Drew Pinsky, and members of Fishbone, Jane's Addiction and Guns n' Roses, as well as plenty of footage from a musical scene in the 1980s that was as influential as it was self-destructive. Bob and the Monster is an optimistic story of turning one's life around for the better. Compelling from start to finish, it is as much about drug abuse as it is about the 1980s punk rock scene. As ease to watch, my biggest complaint is only that I found myself wanting to know even more about the man as the final credits began to roll.
Take Shelter. Directed by Jeff Nichols.
Curtis, played by Michael Shannon, leads a happy life of simplicity with his wife, Samantha (Jessica Chastain) and their deaf daughter (Tova Stewart). Everything on the surface appears idyllic, but Curtis has recently become plagued with nightmares, visions that haunt him throughout the day and lead him to extremes in an attempt to save his family from an apocalyptic storm he believes is brewing. Playing with the lines of sanity and madness, the film toys with the audiences as much as Curtis. It uses many conventions of horror, but in a much more realistic setting, that of one's own mind. The performances make the intriguing story captivating though, Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain are equally fantastic in their roles as a married couple trying to fight through obstacles unforeseen when they gave their vows. Take Shelter is a tense thriller that is beautiful to watch from start to finish.
Full review can be found here: http://frothygirlz.com/2011/09/26/fantastic-fest-2011-review-take-shelter/
That's all for today, but KIFF has only just begun. Check out http://kansasfilm.com/ for more information on films to come!


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You did good Dan!
You did good Dan!
My mile is about 12 minutes right now as well. My son and I build fence all day Saturday... best workout of the season! I am still really sore. I'm not losing much weight yet but I can feel a difference.
We got our workout schedule back from Rinda. Running starts tonight!
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Just a note to those with shoulder injuries, the Spiderman Push Ups and Alternating Planks might give you some trouble, they did for me. I have an email into Rinda for some alternates, I will let you know when I get those back. I also stepped on the scale this morning for fun and it read 297, down six pounds since we started. Last week was not as good of a week as I would have liked for my diet or workouts either, so I was glad to see the positive result. Keep at it, antelope season is only three months away!
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Human body is weird for sure... Workout for 2 weeks and lose about 1/2 pound. I skipped weighing myself for two days and then this morning I'm down 6 pounds. I didn't even work out very hard last night because I am coaching my sons baseball team and we had a 2 hour practice. Just weird...
Have a picture of an elk on my fridge to help me stay motivated to eat healthy. I want that elk hunt way more than that snack! Working so far.
Nice work Hilltop! Sounds like you're a lot like Scott, I would say your metabolism is just now kicking in. Stay at it, it will pay off!
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From Rinda...
Do birddogs instead of the alt. planks and then do an elevated or supported push-up.
For the supported push-up use a sturdy weighted structured like a couch or wall etc. the lower the ground the more difficult and more strain on the shoulder.
Birddogs is on all fours (hands and knees) and lifting opposite arm and leg at same time, hold at top for 5 sec count. Do 10 total 5 each side.
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Interval running last night in the cold and wind as a snowstorm was blowing out of the basin was not fun! I just kept thinking of a giant muley at 35 yards this fall just below snowline, in the backcountry as I start putting tension on my bowstring. Motivation for this guy!
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I have been following you guys and all I can say is keep it going. Keep a eye on the prize!! Mark
Looks like I will be trying to keep up with college kids tonight playing ultimate frisbee..... Should not only keep my pride in check but be a great workout as well.


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Many programmers use the config file to keep the application configuration data. But one disadvantage with this is, it is a read only mechanism. You cannot update data in application config files, using the ConfigurationSettings classes in .NET. In earlier days, .ini files or registry was used to save application specific data.
Of course, we can use regular files to save application data. But now the question is how to protect the data, where to save it and all other mess!
.NET introduces a concept called Isolated Storage. Isolated Storage is a kind of virtual folder. Users never need to know where exactly the file is stored. All you do is, tell the .NET framework to store your file in Isolated Storage. The physical location of Isolated Storage varies for each Operating System. But your application simply uses the .NET classes to create and access files, without bothering where it is physically located. And you can have Isolated Storage specific to each Assembly or each Windows user.
The following code sample demonstrates the basic create, write and read operations with Isolated Storage.
Make sure you include the following directives on top of your file:
using System.IO; using System.IO.IsolatedStorage; using System.Diagnostics;
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const string ISOLATED_FILE_NAME = "MyIsolatedFile.txt"; //------------------------------------------------------- // Check if the file already exists in isolated storage. //------------------------------------------------------- IsolatedStorageFile isoStore = IsolatedStorageFile.GetStore( IsolatedStorageScope.User | IsolatedStorageScope.Assembly, null, null ); string[] fileNames = isoStore.GetFileNames( ISOLATED_FILE_NAME ); foreach ( string file in fileNames ) { if ( file == ISOLATED_FILE_NAME ) { Debug.WriteLine("The file already exists!"); } } //------------------------------------------------------- // Write some text into the file in isolated storage. //------------------------------------------------------- IsolatedStorageFileStream oStream = new IsolatedStorageFileStream( ISOLATED_FILE_NAME, FileMode.Create, isoStore ); StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter( oStream ); writer.WriteLine( "This is my first line in the isolated storage file." ); writer.WriteLine( "This is second line." ); writer.Close(); //------------------------------------------------------- // Read all lines from the file in isolated storage. //------------------------------------------------------- IsolatedStorageFileStream iStream = new IsolatedStorageFileStream( ISOLATED_FILE_NAME, FileMode.Open, isoStore ); StreamReader reader = new StreamReader( iStream ); String line; while ( (line = reader.ReadLine()) != null ) { Debug.WriteLine( line ); } reader.Close();
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Film Independent has chosen six filmmakers to take part in its Directing Lab, a nine-week long intensive that provides up-and-coming filmmakers the opportunity to develop their directorial voice under the mentorship of established filmmakers. Lab participants are given a digital camera and a cash stipend to produce short scenes, receiving script feedback and production advice from their mentors. This year, Film Independent has partnered with the International Cinematographers Guild, and lab participants will have the opportunity to work with the winners of the Cinematographers Guild's Emerging Cinematographer Award.
Directors Keith Gordon ("The Singing Detective"), Karyn Kusama ("Jennifer's Body") and Jeremy Podeswa ("Boardwalk Empire") will serve as this year's Lab Mentors. Cinematographers Nancy Schreiber ("American Gun") and Amy Vincent ("Hustle & Flow"), as well as editor Amy Duddleston ("Laurel Canyon") will also be involved as Lab Advisors. The full list of lab participants and their projects is below.
"Betty" by Nicole Jefferson Asher: Singer/songwriter Betty Mabry finds happiness in her marriage to Miles Davis, until she meets Jimi Hendrix.
"Foreign Relations" by Jon Goldman: An American family hosting a South Korean exchange student for the summer learns that secrets can be harder to keep from a stranger than from family.
"Raw" by Gil Kofman: Howie falls for a much younger Williamsburg hipster when his wife gives him permission to have an affair.
"The Fencer" by Jasmine McGlade Chazelle: A strong-willed athlete faces her demons as she attempts to make the U.S. Olympic Fencing Team.
"Three" by Anna Kerrigan: A college professor, his wife and her lover navigate the complexities of a polyamorous relationship.
"Unmanned" by Casey Cooper Johnson: An Air Force drone operator attempts to reconcile the suburban life he leads in Las Vegas with the war he wages at work by remote control.


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Posted by Pamela on July 05, 2007
In Reply to: Unhappy babies posted by ESC on July 04, 2007
: : : : : What does the phrase "threw their dolly of the pram" reference and what does it mean exactly? Here is the sentence in which I found this phrase:
: : : : : It is hardly surprising, then, that when someone came along and challenged the version of history on which their new-found importance in society was to be based, they threw their dolly out of the pram, as the prison wardens in the prison in which I worked used to put it to describe the actions of a prisoner who had lost his temper.
: : : : In my experience "threw their toys out of the pram" is more common. It means they responded to frustration with an irrational and seemingly dispropotionate outburst; like a baby repeatedly throwing away everything it can get its hands on. A less common variation is "spat out their dummy"
: : : Sorry for the spelling error Ahmad Ragab - dispropotionate should, of course, be disproportionate. I'm sure you will have guessed that but I had to come back because ESC's answer reminds me you might be more at home with US English and not understand the word 'dummy', which is a rubber teat that a baby is given to suck on. I think it's called a 'comforter' in the US.
: : It's called a pacifier in the U.S. ~rb
: Also a "fooler" and a "chew-chee." But that may just be a family thing.
"Spat the dummy" (past tense "Did/Had a dummy spit") and "All toys out of the cot" (e.g. when Brian found out it was all toys out of the cot)are commmon in Australia. I haven't heard the pram version. Pamela


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Darin Morley has submitted an article responding to a post by Dana Loesch at Breitbart.com. Morley blogs regularly at Reboot Congress and occasionally at the graph:
Last week Dana Loesch attacked Peter Kinder's primary opponent, Brad Lager, over $51,850 that Lager received from Cerner in his 2008 bid for Missouri Treasurer. Loesch implies throughout that Lager's campaign coffers are tainted with the 2009 stimulus funding that Cerner received. Here's a screen grab--note the dates in the red boxes:
Let me slow this point down for Loesch's legions of lackeys who will undoubtedly leave comments below defending her anachronistic idiocy: donations for a campaign which concluded in November of 2008 could not have been made with stimulus dollars issued in 2009; however, 2012 campaigns are another matter.A little over a month ago, in a May 31st email (above) Lt. Governor Peter Kinder's campaign solicted donations from Cerner, a privately owned company specializing in healtcare IT systems. The attachment mentioned in the email is now available on Scribd.
Will Loesch now invite Kinder on her radio show to explain why he was soliciting "stimulus-tainted" donations from Cerner last month?
Interestingly, Mark Reardon covered this story on his radio show on KMOX. Reardon admited that the Kinder campaign tipped him off (hat tip: Ozarks Politics). One implication of that fact is that Dana Loesch is running Kinder's press releases under her by line over at Breitbart.com.
At the risk of being accused of burying the lede I have to ask, is it really any wonder that Loesch is no longer the Editor-in-Chief of Big Journalism? Perhaps as a one-time media watchdog she should spend a few minutes writing a press release about that organizational change.


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Jason Miller | April 17, 2015 6:05 pm
Agencies now have roadmap to ensure they safely and securely share information.
The Information Sharing Environment and the White House recently released the Strategic Implementation Plan for the President's National Strategy for Information Sharing and Safeguarding. The plan details 16 initiatives that span federal, state, local and tribal governments as well as private sector and international partners.
"Each of those priority objectives has a more detailed implementation plan that is agency based. This has been an agency-led process that we rolled up into the strategic implementation plan," said Kshemendra Paul, the program manager of the ISE, in an exclusive interview with Federal News Radio. "We wanted to do that and release it here about a year after the original strategy came out to be able to demonstrate the progress in planning, and also, this is more than just a plan, it reflects ongoing activity governed primarily by the Information Sharing and Access Policy Committee that I co-chair with the National Security Staff, but also reflecting work of the Senior Steering Committee on Information Sharing and Safeguarding, the federal CIO Council and other bodies into this space."
President Barack Obama released the National Strategy for Information Sharing in the wake of two major information breaches — WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden. Over the last year, the ISE and the White House led the interagency effort to develop an implementation plan, focusing on short and long term milestones for each of the 16 initiatives that represent the whole of government approach to information sharing and safeguarding.
19 agencies on chopping block only account for a small fraction of overall budget
The implementation plan is another in a long list of memos and executive orders from the Obama administration. Over the last five years, the White House has given agencies instructions for how to protect against insider threats, to cybersecurity information sharing to how best to share classified data among agencies.
For agencies, by agencies
What this implementation plan does is bring many of those efforts together in a more coordinated and collaborative fashion.
"We have about 20 subcommittees and working groups where the bulk of this work happens," Paul said. "We also are cross-latched with Senior Steering Committee for Information Sharing and safeguarding that is co-chaired by NSS Michael Daniel and OMB's Lisa Schlosser. They are doing a lot of work post-WikiLeaks on improving things like identity access management and things like that. That's reflected in the strategic implementation plan," Paul said. "We are cross-latched with the federal CIO Council and some of the work they are doing. An example of that is the Federal Identity, Credential and Access Management (FICAM) framework, baseline interoperability capabilities and the centerpiece for that is the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) and broad base used for that."
The ISE's role is one of planning and coordination support for these subcommittees under the Information Sharing and Access Policy Committee.
Paul said of the 16 initiatives, the first five are the most important:
OPM tells agencies how to get ready for workforce reorganization, furloughs
Paul said many of these top five, and most of the 16, areas will provide short- term benefits. He said the initiatives are around data tagging and baseline interoperabilities.
"We are all about interoperability at the information level, semantic interoperability, network interoperability and business process interoperability," he said. "So one of the things we have been working with our agency partners now for some time and it will come to fruition in the next six months is something called the ISE Interoperability Framework. It's an update for the old enterprise architecture framework this office had published in the past."
Paul said the framework will create and promote interoperable standards for these capabilities.
"Two exciting things that will happen in the next month-in-a-half are we will be doing a tabletop exercise to demonstrate the use of this framework, a tabletop exercise aimed at planning out architecture and capabilities," he said. "People do operational tabletops, but this is a system development tabletop. To my knowledge, this is the first time something like has ever been done. We are doing this with the Maritime Domain Awareness community. We are looking forward to hearing back the results and we are going to integrate that into the interoperability framework to make sure it's usable and not shelfware."
Paul said part of what they are looking for out of the tabletop exercise is how easy is it to deliver interoperable capabilities in the Maritime Domain Awareness Community of Interest. He said that includes deciding whether the participants are aligning information sharing capabilities, policy frameworks, standards and requirements.
Paul said ISE also is reviewing the framework with industry groups to get their feedback.
Securing data continuously
Another short-term effort is the integration of continuous monitoring of information and how to incorporate that concept into the safeguarding activities.
The implementation plan lays out four milestones for 2014, including determining priorities for future years, developing new progress tracking criteria and conducting an annual baseline of information security practice assessments.
Paul said identity management and access control is another high priority initiative with a goal of ensuring information is used only for mission needs, reducing how much data is stored on devices and increasing the efficiencies around validating users' "need-to-know" approvals.
"What we've seen over 2013 and what we will see coming into 2014 is really a focus on shifting to implementation of the capabilities described in the FICAM," he said.
Paul said one way ISE is doing that is by working closely with the organizations that are running the pilots under the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). Paul and NSTIC lead Jeremy Grant held a meeting with federal and private sector partners at the White House in November to discuss using the FICAM and how they can accelerate the use of federated identity management.
A huge part of many of these efforts is how data is tagged and classified. The plan stated outcome is to have common metadata standards for data tagging across agencies and cybersecurity domains to improve information sharing.
The milestones include the National Archives and Records Administration leading the effort to develop standards and specifications in 2015 and aligning them with the FICAM by 2018.
"Having an architecture for tagging doesn't work unless you have policy agreement between organizations. Priority objective two is around information sharing agreements and the point with that is to move away from point-to-point information sharing agreements and to multi-lateral information sharing agreements that use a common vocabulary that can be automated. That automation uses that data tagging," Paul said. "For that to work, you have to have effective governance where different agencies, different levels of government, public sector and private sector can have forums to come together and agree on core issues like how they think about individuals in their organization and core information assets and access to that."
Paul said agencies face three big challenges to implementing and continuing to improve information sharing and safeguarding. He said the tight budgets continue to make it difficult for agencies to run pilots or invest a little to save a lot.
But he said the diverse and fragmented threat picture is probably the biggest obstacle that agencies need to overcome.
"Our big goal for the coming year is to more formally integrate those other communities as we look to enrich the plan," Paul said. "This is not a static plan. It's something will continue to improve as we execute it."
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sp_add_log_file_recover_suspect_db (Transact-SQL)
Adds a log file to a file group when recovery cannot complete on a database due to insufficient log space (error 9002). After the file is added, sp_add_log_file_recover_suspect_db turns off the suspect setting and completes the recovery of the database. The parameters are the same as those for ALTER DATABASE database_name ADD LOG FILE.
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Transact-SQL Syntax Conventions
- [ @dbName = ] 'database'
Is the name of the database. database is sysname, with no default.
- [ @name = ] 'logical_file_name'
Is the name used in the SQL Server 2005 Database Engine when referencing the file. The name must be unique in the server. logical_file_name is nvarchar(260), with no default.
- [ @filename = ] 'os_file_name'
Is the path and file name used by the operating system for the file. The file must reside in the server in which the Database Engine is installed. os_file_name is nvarchar(260), with no default.
- [ @size = ] ' size '
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Merchants agree to close Government Street for buskers
After a successful first run, the Victoria International Buskers Festival has sold business owners on the idea of shutting Government Street to traffic in the evening.
Festival organizer John Vickers announced he has received support from affected merchants, from View to Yates streets. The closure would only be in place starting at 6 p.m. daily for the 10-day festival starting July 20.
"The overwhelming consensus is the merchants are excited to bring the buskers' festival to Government Street and we hope that a successful effort this July will mean increasing the performance locations on the street in years to come with merchant support," said Vickers in a press release.
The street closure still requires support from Victioria city council. Support from the business community, however, increases the likelihood of approval.
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More established, conservative Irish banks began to ape some of the same tactics to ward off the new contender.
He self-consciously tries to ape the mannerisms of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett.
Marlow Stern spoke with the Oscar-winning filmmaker James Marsh about the ape who lived on the Upper West Side.
The climate change deniers are jumping on this, as the first George Bush would have said, like ugly on an ape.
Yup, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld compared President Obama to an ape.
He is as full of cunning as an ape, and, I warrant me, would act his part marvellously.
Misled by certain signs of form and shape, Some think we are descended from the ape.
The ape, baffled, pursues his way; the chariot is replaced on the earth.
One would have said that this creature was less a man than an ape.
To a wise much-meditative House-Mastiff, can that be pleasant, from an unthinking dizened creature of the ape species?
Old English apa "ape, monkey," from Proto-Germanic *apan (cf. Old Saxon apo, Old Norse api, Dutch aap, German affe), perhaps borrowed in Proto-Germanic from Celtic (cf. Old Irish apa) or Slavic (cf. Old Bohemian op, Slovak opitza), perhaps ultimately from a non-Indo-European language.
Apes were noted in medieval times for mimicry of human action, hence, perhaps, the other figurative use of the word, to mean "a fool." To go ape (in emphatic form, go apeshit) "go crazy" is 1955, U.S. slang. To lead apes in hell (1570s) was the fancied fate of one who died an old maid.
"to imitate," 1630s, but the notion is implied earlier, e.g. to play the ape (1570s), Middle English apeshipe "ape-like behavior, simulation" (mid-15c.); and the noun sense of "one who mimics" may date from early 13c. Related: Aped; aping.
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For years after the 9/11 attacks, Americans worried about fundamentalist Islamic cells infiltrating the homeland and radical jihadists hiding in their midst.
The latest mass shooting at a U.S. military base _ and the second in fewer than five years at massive Fort Hood, Texas _ raises a potentially more disturbing question:
Have the Iraq and Afghanistan wars created American-grown human ticking timebombs with grievous mental and physical wounds that the military and veterans' health care systems can't adequately track and treat?
Senior Army officials Thursday provided conflicting views of Spec. Ivan A. Lopez's state of mind before his shooting rampage at Fort Hood a day earlier. Lopez killed three people at the base and wounded 16 others before taking his own life.
Military officials said that Lopez bought the gun he used in Wednesday's attack on March 1, but that he had not registered it at Fort Hood as required by regulations.
"We have very strong evidence that he had a medical history that indicates an unstable psychiatric or psychological condition," Lt. Gen. Mark Milley, the commander at Fort Hood, told reporters. "We believe that is the fundamental underlying causal factor here."
Army Secretary John McHugh, however, told Congress that a psychiatrist's examination of the Puerto Rico-born Lopez last month had not disclosed deep enough problems for him to be seen as a threat to others.
"As of this morning, we had no indication on the record of that examination that there was any sign of likely violence, either to himself or to others, no suicidal ideation," McHugh told the Senate Armed Services Committee at a previously scheduled budget hearing.
Lopez, who had served four months in Iraq, "was undergoing a variety of treatment and diagnoses for mental health conditions, ranging from depression to anxiety to some sleep disturbance," McHugh said. Lopez had been "prescribed a number of drugs," among them Ambien, a common sleeping pill, McHugh said.
Relatives of Lopez said he'd told them he had sustained a brain injury and was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, but the Pentagon did not confirm those health problems.
Whatever Lopez's condition or motive turns out to be - should it become known at all - his rampage Wednesday brings to at least nine the number of fatal criminal shooting incidents at U.S. military bases since 2008. It was the same year that the number of American troops in Iraq reached a peak and the United States was simultaneously fighting another bloody war in Afghanistan.
The deadliest of the shootings occurred in November 2009 at Fort Hood, where Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan killed 13 people and wounded 32 others. Hasan, a self-avowed jihadist and "soldier of Allah," was sentenced to death last year and is imprisoned at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
Aaron Alexis, a former Navy sailor, shot 12 people dead last August at the Washington Navy Yard before he was slain.
With the suicide rate rising in recent years among both active-duty service members and veterans, analysts said the military and veterans' health care systems are struggling to deal with a broad range of mental health problems exacerbated by more than 12 years of war.
Drake Logan, a researcher with Civilian-Soldier Alliance, a group that tries to give service members a greater voice, is completing a report based in part on extensive interviews over the last two years with soldiers at Fort Hood and veterans who formerly served there.
Logan said commanders at Fort Hood and other military installations where she's interviewed service members often ignore or countermand the directions of mental health providers treating their troops.
"Commanders in the military are allowed discretion over soldiers' medical and mental health treatment and the work restrictions that are placed on them by medical professionals," Logan told McClatchy.
Harry Croft, a former Army psychiatrist who has treated 1,700 cases of PTSD and wrote a 2012 book on the illness, said he and other health care providers tread a thin line between trying not to exaggerate such problems and imploring the government to do more to address them.
Noting that Lopez was under treatment when he went on his rampage, Croft said it is very difficult to identify such insider threats in advance.
"We still can't predict with tremendous accuracy whether someone is going to go out and hurt themselves or other people," Croft told McClatchy. "I wish we could, but it's as much an art as a science."
Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, made a similar point at a Fort Hood news briefing with Milley.
"Mental health issues are the most vexing issues from my perspective in terms of how do we identify people who have genuine problems that need to be treated," Cornyn said. "But I think at the same time, we have to be very careful and not paint with too broad a brush and assume that just because someone has been in combat that they necessarily have those issues."
In releasing the results of Pentagon probes of the Washington Navy Yard shootings, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel last month said that the reviews had "identified troubling gaps in our ability to detect, prevent and respond to instances where someone working with us _ a government employee, member of our military or a contractor _ decides to inflict harm."
Almost one-third of all Iraq and Afghanistan veterans seen at Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities have been treated for PTSD, according to the most recent VA report, and mental disorders are the second most frequent diagnosis.
While veterans have better luck finding jobs than their civilian counterparts, younger former troops who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan still lag behind, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last month.
"At the same time we recognize that the vast majority of our military and vets are not in crisis, we must all acknowledge that there are indeed problems with the way mental health and transitional support is managed and available to our service members and veterans," Paul Rieckhoff, founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, told a Senate panel last month.
Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki told Congress last month that his agency has added 2,400 mental health providers in the last two years, but shortages remain.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Thursday that President Barack Obama is frustrated by the failure of Congress to act on his legislation to increase mental health and criminal background checks for gun buyers.
"During the course of (more than) a decade of war, many (service members) have been on multiple tours of duty," Obama said. "To see unspeakable, senseless violence happen in a place where they're supposed to feel safe, home base, is tragic."
Lesley Clark, Maria Recio and David Goldstein of the Washington Bureau contributed.
CORRECTION: In an earlier version of this story remarks by White House Press Secretary Jay Carney were said to be on Wednesday. They were on Thursday.


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The Family Research Council, probably the premiere anti-gay organization, is throwing their efforts into high gear, holding a "Stand with Scouts Sunday" event this weekend....According to The FRC's logic, allowing gay scouts (even while excluding gay leaders) will drive away the more religious sponsoring organizations.
What they fail to mention is that many (and a growing number) of religious denominations and organizations support a fully inclusive scouting policy. Lutherans, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, and most branches of Judaism have formal policies that allow LGBT people into membership and leadership within the denomination.
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By Trudy Rubin
As President Obama enters his second term, Syria has become the most urgent test of his foreign policy leadership and style.
If Obama finally takes ownership of the effort to unseat Bashar al-Assad (which would not require U.S. troops or planes), there's still a chance of preventing a Syrian implosion. If the administration leads from in front, it may be possible to head off a strategic disaster that would endanger Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, and Israel.
Yet early signs indicate that Obama will continue the muddled Syria policy of his first term, while continuing to lead from way, way behind.
Our Syria policy is unclear to both our enemies and our allies, as well as to the Syrian rebels.
Washington has outsourced the arming of rebel groups to Gulf states that prefer Islamist fighters. Meantime, the United States won't help arm secular and moderate rebel commanders. So do we want Assad gone or don't we?
Ordinary Syrians are also cynical about the U.S. "red line" on the use of chemical weapons. No wonder a Turkish official told me during a recent visit to Ankara: "We want more clarity in the United States position. People expect more from the United States."
Civilians alone cannot determine the Syrian endgame. Unless Obama's policy becomes more robust – and more convincing to the region – the Syrian conflict will spiral out of control.
Col. Abdul-Jabbar Akidi, a secular senior rebel commander in Aleppo, told me in November: "Syrians believe that America is with Bashar Assad. America does not support us."
It's no wonder he feels that way, since we have outsourced delivery of weapons to the Qataris and Saudis.
The Saudis were handed control of a major meeting of Free Syrian Army commanders this month in Turkey with the goal of setting up a unified command.
Perhaps the strongest indicator of a policy muddle was last week's designation of the Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra as a terrorist organization. True, the group has some al-Qaida links. But it has waged and won some of the toughest battles against Assad's forces.
Echoing many other rebel commanders, Col. Akidi told me: "We are not united with jihadi groups, but we fight together with all people who fight Assad." For the same reason, the president of the new civilian rebel coalition, Mouaz al-Khatib, disagreed publicly with the blacklisting of the group.
If the United States were arming non-Islamist rebels, they wouldn't need Jabhat al-Nusra's help.
The longer this conflict lasts, and the stronger the Islamists become, the more likely it is that sectarian war will spill over Syria's borders. The only chance of preventing that is to speed up the endgame. That would require Obama to convince all parties, friend and foe, that he wants Assad gone.
Rhetoric will be no substitute for concrete actions. The time remaining is short.
Trudy Rubin is a columnist and editorial-board member for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Readers may write to her at: Philadelphia Inquirer, P.O. Box 8263, Philadelphia, Pa. 19101, or by email at trubinphillynews.com.


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In 1982 the Supreme Court ruled that states and school districts cannot deny education to illegal alien children residing here. Issues in estimating the costs of providing education to them are of interest because (1) policy discussions concerning illegal immigration often focus on cost impacts; (2) potential costs are borne mostly at the state and local levels; and (3) the Congress could authorize federal reimbursement for benefits provided to illegal aliens, based on estimated state costs or numbers of illegal aliens. The foreign-born population is growing and is concentrated in certain states; the illegal immigrant component is thought to be substantial. Concerns about education costs may reflect "squeezed" state and local budgets, rising school enrollments, and overcrowded schools. To address the potential for estimating the costs of educating illegal alien schoolchildren, this report (1) identifies major government sources of relevant data, (2) describes a Census Bureau plan for developing new information, and (3) outlines costestimation approaches. GAO provided a draft of this report to the National Center for Education Statistics, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Census Bureau. The agencies informed GAO they had no formal comments.
Current government information is not sufficient to directly estimate the state-by-state costs of educating illegal alien schoolchildren. Although a variety of data are available, no government source estimates the numbers of illegal alien schoolchildren for most or all states. Specifically, states and local areas record data on school enrollment and costs but not on immigration status. In response to GAO's survey, a few states estimated costs of educating illegal alien children, based partly on assumptions. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) maintains enrollment and cost data--but has no information on immigration status. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) developed state-by-state estimates of the illegal alien population, but the estimates do not break out age groups and are subject to methodological limitations. The Census Bureau is developing a plan to estimate the size of the resident illegal alien population, indirectly by age group and state. This new information might help in developing state-by-state estimates of the number of school-age illegal alien children. However, the plan does not specify the age groups to be estimated, faces technical challenges, and depends upon future funding. Overall, it is too early to evaluate the Census Bureau's plan. The simplest approach to estimating the costs of educating illegal alien children is to multiply average current per pupil expenditures by the estimated number of illegal alien schoolchildren separately for each state. At present, government information is insufficient for developing reliable estimates based on this approach. If the Census Bureau's plan proves successful, relevant data would be available by 2007-09. Taking account of cost determinants such as variation in local area expenditures, student needs, and school capacity requires additional data.
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Education's Experiences with Flexibility Waivers Could Inform Efforts to Assist States with New RequirementsGAO-16-650: Published: Jul 7, 2016. Publicly Released: Aug 8, 2016.
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To answer your question, yes. The 1% is about $388,000 and up.
Mngundog, are you a union member? I work in a profession that the unions have helped practically destroy.
Tcfarmer, but liberals only refer the greedy, selfish conservatives when they refer to 1%ers. So what do you call rich liberals?
What is your point?
I am not a Union member, I have been a part of two Union votes, voted yes once and no once, if there was a vote a my current job I would vote no again. There are some very well run companies who treat their employees fairly and their are some very corrupt companies that strong arm their employees I've been a part of both. As far as the President of NEA making almost $400K, I would agree that is to much, but I would expect with legal teams, financial managers etc., that they would have many employees clearing $100K a year. Heck the 25 year old kid who shingled my house last month made $800 a day.
[QUOTEThey voted to be in a union!][/QUOTE]
They are not given a whole lot of other choices . Have watched how unions operate. Here's 1 an example. Cross the picket line and before you punch in for the day,,,make an appointment at the local body shop
let me tell you a quick story about how unions operate...one of my friends/co workers WAS our shop steward...he and his wife have been trying to have kids but to no avail, so they decided to become foster parents, with the eventual hope of adopting the kids now in their custody...
our union told David to attend a rally at a local casino they were picketing and be prepared to be arrested....WTH....David had enough sense to know that any arrest no matter how minor the violation would result in he and his wife losing their license to be foster/adoptive parents...
what organization do you know of would knowingly send their reps to a rally knowing full well that they would be arrested, what's next..stand in front of the police or the national guard and face physical harm or worse just to further one's political agenda...


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Mumbai: Actor Amit Sadh says National award-winning composer Amit Trivedi, who is behind three songs from his forthcoming film "Kai Po Che!" is a legend. "I think Amit Trivedi is a legend. He is a phenomena! The kind of music that man gives film after film... (For 'Kai Po Che!') He has given a very beautiful and soulful music, and adding to that is Swanand Kirkire and his lyrics," Amit Sadh said here Friday in an interview. One of Amit Trivedi's songs is in the film "Maanjha", which has quite a few fans. "Dubai was also freaking on the line 'Aaja suljha de uljhe rishto ka manjha', so people are connecting with it. All the songs are beautiful, so we are happy," he said. Amit Trivedi was given the 2010 National Film Award for best music direction for "Dev D", and he has also composed for films like "Wake Up Sid" and "Ishaqzaade". (Agencies) Latest News from Lifestyle News desk
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It looks like the rumors are true: 'Glee' co-stars Lea Michele and Cory Monteith are, indeed, a couple off-screen. And by some accounts, at least, Cory is doing Lea a world of good.
"Cory is definitely having a positive effect on Lea. She's much less miserable these days. Even when she was with [ex-boyfriend] Theo [Stockman], she was always depressed being so far away from him and not getting to see him. She likes having someone with her that's actually there. Long distance is not her thing."
Lea reportedly was so eager to stay close to Cory that she accompanied him on a recent trip to New York City so she could avoid being away from him for even a few days. I don't know if that sounds so great (maybe a bit too needy?), but hey, if they're happy, then that's what counts! Here are the two filming for 'Glee.'
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In my description I put how I am a small business owner as well as being a nerd. In addition my comment history has made a reference to a tie a long time ago and being part of a Professional Business Fraternity.
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At TF.N they have an article in which GL describes how he created the midichlorians to restore the idea of the Force back to how he originally concieved it. He says that it was always meant to resemble genetics more than spirituality. He also says that it's unfair to judge the matter until everyone has seen Ep2 and 3.
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Still...all that working-out meant I had to balance it out too and so Friday I had a night out..oh yes. I started in Eat's Time - the happy hour thing with work and although I had my car - so only one glass of wine and some cokes it was nice to unwind and chat to one of the girls from work. After that I headed home, got something to eat and met up with my house-mate. I'd kind of bullied him into going out (it wasn't so hard) and at about 10.30pm we headed out with 3 of his Luxembourgish mates.
We started out in an English bar, then a Scottish one (Ecosse) and then an Irish one (the Pyg). I learnt a tiny bit of Luxembourgish and got some great tips on where to go around the area. Then when that shut at 3am we went onto a club (muko muko) but when his mates couldn't get in because they were in t-shirts we went to another club called Byblos. It was 10 euros to get in but then you got the same amount in drinks vouchers so not to bad. The music was dancy but it was busy and a nice atmosphere so it didn't seem to matter. I had a bit of dance (badly) and a few drinks, then when I found Robbie asleep in a chair I thought maybe it was time to go home...so we got in about 8am!
Oh dear...I was supposed to meet Anna the next day to go to Mondolf but I woke up half an hour after I should have been at her house. I felt so bad, I rang to explain and she was on the way over in the car because she was worried. Ooopps - really sorry. The rest of the day was a bit sleepy, and just had a relaxing time with DVDs (including the muppets that dad had recorded for me) and a trip to the supermarket (I made it before it shut this time!!).
On Sunday I had to get up early because Glastonbury tickets were on sale! Two hours later, I managed to finally get the webpage to load to buy a ticket, and half an hour after that I managed to get my friend's tickets too - they had been trying in the UK without any luck. I was gutted when I heard there were still some for sale days later - it's unheard of.
Time for a productive afternoon so I headed out with my car and map. I wasn't sure where to go because everything is shut and I only had half a day so, as the sun was shining I thought I 'd go back to Echternach and visit the massive lake that I had missed last week. On the way, the weather changed to hail and as I recognized some of the other names on the signs I passed I decided to go exploring instead.
I headed to Mullerthal (known as little Switzerland) and found myself on a beautiful winding road that carved its way through the rock alongside a stream. As I approached a parking area I pulled over and decided what to do. By then the hail was pounding down but it looked like a fantastic area to explore so I pulled on my hiking boots and waterproof - conveniently in the boot of the car - and went for a walk. I was a little apprehensive to see a guy walking off with his hiking stick, and the information point said it was a 'Nordic Walk' but I set off and followed the path along the stream. It was amazing, stone steps up and down the rock face, lovely bridges, waterfalls etc. Soon the hail then sleet then snow stopped and the sun came out. I found a little shelter with benches and pulled out my sandwich, enjoying a little break :) All this climbing must be as good as the gym I thought, and helps to balance out my night out...
After a walk around and back to the car I took a drive to Beaufort and then LaRochette, where there were some beautiful castles but unfortunately they were closed. Still I took some photos, enjoyed the views and then finally set off home.
I felt like a nice dinner that night so after some last minute advice from Owain via msn I made a nice green Thai curry yum yum. As I cooked, the snow came and started to settle. Anna called my to check I was ok - it was so deep there she was afraid we'd be snowed in and she is only 20 mins away!
I heard that the UK had had deep snow too - and mum and dad sent some amazing photos of the snow at home. Well after snowing all night we had it like that here in Luxembourg on Monday morning too :) I took some photos out the window - it was so pretty...although a bit of a pain to clear off the car before work - especially as the snow was still falling then...!
Almost as quickly as it came, it melted and by the time I finished work it looked like it hadn't been at all.
10th April - mini update
So as I come to the end of another week here it's been another busy one. I've only made the gym twice this week but worked extra hard! I have also discovered that the sauna is a lovely way to unwind after...although I have had to get used to the fact that it's a nude sauna. Women only but you are not allowed to wear a swimming costume. At least it gives me an incentive to work harder I guess! I have been eating whatever looks good since I've been here but today I was astonished to find out I'd lost a bit of weight :) Not much but if I can go to the gym, eat like a queen and loose a little then I'm very happy.
Work has been really busy too but good - the past few nights I've left around 7pm but I've enjoyed it.
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