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People with Dirty Hands: The Passion for Gardening
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A lively, offbeat tour through the landscape of colorful American gardeners, "People with Dirty Hands" is "one of the most amusing, eclectic gardening books in recent memory" ("Publishers Weekly"), "written with style, passion and readable, quirky nosiness" ("Chicago Sun Times").
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Ahhhhh.....no. Just....no.
I may be critical of Obama as any Left Independent, but Riverdaughter's obsession of refighting the 2008 Democratic primary and sanctioning Hillary Clinton as the "One True Progressive Feminist who got robbed" is wearing just a bit thin now.
Hillary Clinton was then and is now as much a corporatist Democrat as Obama is; she would have not changed a thing fundamentally if she had won the Presidency. And, in fact, it's not necessaily a safe bet that she would have beaten McCain, especially if instead of going with Sarah Palin, McCain had gone with a more sensible choice for VP like, say, Mitt Romney.
That she is getting smeared by the usual right-wing whackjobs and reacting with the strength she has shown as SoS is to her credit, but that doesn't change the basic fact that she's a pillar of the establishment. But, I suppose that RD just can't get 2008 out of her head enough.
Besides, if Hillary wants it, she's the overwhelming favorite to lap the field in 2016, anyway...and Obama won't be around for her and her sister PUMA's to kick around anymore.

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Probably, yes, and arguably it's healthy too. It's human nature to prefer the familiar because it doesn't challenge us. Come on, who really likes having their values questioned?
Yet history is littered with examples of the new being vilified, then taken to our hearts a generation or less later. In art, Van Gogh, Cezanne and many others, derided by respected contemporary commentators, come to mind easily enough. And when it comes to architecture, there are plenty of examples. Today we love the Houses of Parliament and the famous red phone box, and certainly the value to Paris and the French of the Eiffel Tower is incalculable. Yet the designs of each were criticised when new.
There was considerable pressure for the Houses of Parliament to adopt Sir John Soane's neo-classical rather than Barry and Pugin's gothic style (can you imagine a White House/Federal Capitol style building facing the Thames at Westminster?). The red phone box has become a British icon, although it was not universally loved at the start, particularly, and ironically, its colour. And the novelist Guy de Maupassant hated the Eiffel Tower so much that he supposedly ate in its restaurant every day, claiming that it was the only place in Paris where he did not have to look at it.
It's always been good sport to criticise the new, particularly when, as in the cases of the Eiffel Tower and Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond's ArcelorMittal Orbit in the Olympic Park, an attempt is made to reach a wide audience by including a great view or a fun experience in a piece of art.
Remember Carsten Holler's slides at Tate Modern? In the case of the Orbit, further ammunition is delivered to the doubters by the fact that no-one can really say what it is: Work of art? Visitor attraction? Viewing tower? Olympic symbol? Corporate advertisement? This multi-dimensionality lays the ArcelorMittal Orbit open to criticism, because everyone tends to suspect that the real intention is not the one that they favour (whichever it is), but actually, this 'something for everyone' aspect is the Orbit's strength, not its weakness.
The ArcelorMittal Orbit demonstrates what can happen when steel, art, cutting edge technology and sport get together. It's worth remembering too what the initiators of the project, the steel and mining company ArcelorMittal and the Mayor of London, said when the project was announced, which was that they wanted to create an icon for London 2012 and, in legacy, a symbol of the regeneration of East London. Both objectives are worth pursuing.


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Fourteen years ago, the court upheld Colorado's 8-foot "floating" buffer zones around individuals to protect patients and staff entering and exiting these clinics. Since then, buffer zones have prevented demonstrators from closely approaching patients and staff without permission.But the issue is back before a different and more conservative Supreme Court.
Protesters "wore Boston Police Department hats and shirts and stationed themselves, carrying clipboards, at the garage entrance," demanding that patients give them personal information. Protesters would attack clinic escorts with umbrellas.
They picked about the most benign person to bring the case, but the history there has been anything but benign.http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/01/15/supreme_court_hears_abortion_clinic_buffer_zone_case_the_judges_should_uphold.htmlQuote Protesters "wore Boston Police Department hats and shirts and stationed themselves, carrying clipboards, at the garage entrance," demanding that patients give them personal information. Protesters would attack clinic escorts with umbrellas. I think it should be legal to drive over such people to get to your medical appointment.
If that is free speech, then holding up a compressed air boat horn to their ear and holding down the button is also would be free speech, no?
well, see, they got this really nice old lady who is very friendly and just wants to have a nice quiet conversation with people to convince them her view is right to file the suit. So while the reality is this appeal is for the whackos and thugs, the seemingly reasonable senior citizen is the public face of it.
And having watched Occupy demonstrators get pepper-sprayed, and rousted with considerable force from the public parks, and having been herded into "free-speech zones" at political conventions, I am disinclined to care very much about a relatively minor inconvenience imposed generally on a debate in which one side literally has a body count behind it.
So the Court will be hunky-dory with labor unions or Occupy activists blocking the entrance to businesses? Why am I skeptical of that?
I always say what I mean. But sometimes I'm a sarcastic prick whose tone can't be properly communicated via text.
A sidewalk is a public easement for anyone to use when they walk down the street. Anyone has a legal right to use a sidewalk.Is it legal for a homeowner to stand in his front yard, very close to the sidewalk, and yell at people as they walk by telling them that they are committing a sin by using that sidewalk? Is that type of intimidation permitted? Does his First Amendment right trump the rights of others to use the sidewalk? Might potential users of the sidewalk feel threatened and avoid exercising their rights to pass over that portion of sidewalk? Would the homeowner be arrested for creating a public disturbance? A noise violation? Would he be sent for a pysch evaluation for doing this every day?


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hi, im having a little bit of trouble creating a user account in redhat linux 7.1
i got redhat with a bookcalled the linux bible and the book is sometimes a bit patchy on what im meant to be actually doing...
ive added the username in the /etc/passwd file and have set up home and such, got most of the login files there, but cant find the .login file and another one i cant remember
ive done this all under the root account of course and then logged out to see if the account worked, but i would try to log in and the screen would go blank and return me to the login screen.
i tried to use the GUI method to make the account but couldnt find the linuxconf utility on the menu's anywhere
the actual account name is called 'user', im not sure if this is the problem as when i try to make a password i get some sort of validation table error and the password doesnt change.
the entry in /etc/passwd is something like (sketchy details as the box is in another town)
user::500:501: user:/home/user:/usr/user
something lke that i think, any clarification or help would be great as i'm fairly new to linux and want to learn a few things like setting up a internet connection with linux as a firewalland other stuff


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The Social Security Administration is cutting back its hours of operation for the second time in as many years, the agency confirmed to Federal Times.
Mary Glenn-Croft, deputy commissioner for operations, said in an email to employees that SSA offices will close to customers 30 minutes earlier. The agency also announced in August 2011 that it would reduce its office hours by half an hour each day.
An SSA spokeswoman told Federal Times the decision was made due to reduced funding in the continuing resolution that President Obama recently signed. The agency will receive "significantly" less funding than it requested, the spokeswoman said.
In her email, Glenn-Croft said the change will reduce the number of overtime hours that employees work, leading to savings.
Witold Skwierczynski, an American Federation of Government Employees official who represents the 28,000 SSA field office workers, said this policy, on top of the 47 SSA offices that have closed or are scheduled to close in 2011 and 2012, unfairly harms employees.
"We think it's the wrong thing to do," he told Federal Times.
The agency remains open to the possibility of reinstating its operating hours, telling Government Executive, "Restoration of the hours in the future will be determined based on the level of funding in the final fiscal 2013 appropriations bill."


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Great Ride. I had a blue one myself. It might be a yacht, but as I remember the girls love to put on a bikini and play on the water!
Nov 21, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Didnt you mean to put that vehicle under the boat category? That thing is a land yacht!!!


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Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Theodore Shapiro.
And the soundtrack is available for listening on I-tunes (music-store) now. No 'believe I can fly' by our Jim however.
It sounds awfull without the movie! Really! (besides 'main title')
edit : not that awfull, just heard it all, it's a bit ok.
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ANAHEIM – Before we get to the sticky stuff, the real hard questions, let's start with what we know, since the tradition each year at this time is to not know.
Teemu Selanne is certain he can continue playing, physically and mentally. He is 100 percent healthy, something he hasn't always been at year's end. After a slumping second half of the regular season and a first-round flameout in the playoffs, he's fighting lingering feelings of expectations not met and business not finished.
Yet, here we are again today, unsure if the next time we officially see Selanne's No. 8 jersey it will be hanging from his shoulders or from Honda Center's rafters.
Teemu Selanne's playing future is in doubt? Must be spring in Anaheim.
"The good thing is, I don't have to play," said Selanne, 42, and the franchise leader in everything from goals scored to fans made. "I play because I want to play. And that's the motivation that's every player's dream."
Like he has each of the past several offseasons, Selanne will travel back home to Finland with his family for the summer. While there, he'll decide if he's ready to commit to another NHL season, which, for him, would be his 21st.
This summer, though, arriving at a conclusion will be more difficult because this no longer is simply an issue of will he or won't he, can he or can't he.
No, this time it's more complicated. Selanne and the Ducks have to decide if they still fit together, a seemingly awkward and bizarre notion for a player and a team so interwoven that they share the same face.
As this season progressed, Selanne's ice time and production sharply decreased as his status was marginalized. He averaged fewer than 16 minutes a game for the first time since such records have been kept.
"The first half I thought I had the energy I was looking for," Selanne said Tuesday, after his exit meeting with Ducks management. "The second half was a little more disappointing. The schedule (compacted because of the lockout) was tougher."
He also was paired with a variety of linemates, Coach Bruce Boudreau's tweaking not exactly meshing with Selanne's desire and need to establish continuity.
At times, he was teamed with the Ducks' younger, less-confident players. When center Nick Bonino was injured in early March and missed 21 games, Selanne's struggles only increased.
He finished with a minus-10, his worst season as a Duck.
"In the second half, I didn't find that chemistry I was looking for with somebody," Selanne said. "Obviously, that was affecting me. Then my ice time started coming down, and then the job was harder."
In the playoffs against Detroit, Selanne didn't receive as many as 16 minutes of ice time once. In Game 4, he didn't have a single shot on goal. In both Game 1 and Game 7 – with the Ducks' season in need of saving – he finished with just one shot.
And if the bitter loss to the Red Wings proved anything, it's that 20-year-old winger Emerson Etem deserves more playing time. Those minutes next season could come at Selanne's expense or, from the optimistic side, the two could be paired together.
"We didn't leave everything out there," Selanne said of early playoff exit. "That's a disappointing feeling. This team was way more ready to go farther."
The Ducks won't have the same roster next season, something General Manager Bob Murray promised Tuesday. Though a major overall won't happen, it's unclear if the Ducks will be willing or able to build a lineup that accommodates Selanne's wishes and maximizes his opportunities.
There should be room for him, but will there be enough room for him and what he wants? Will a player and a team that have shared so much for so long now share the same vision?
The guess here is, if the start of next season looks like the end of this season looked, Selanne will pass, he'll retire as one of the all-time greats. But if he sees more potential for himself, a chance to re-establish his status and his game, he'll return and continue to extend that greatness.
"We have such a good team here right now," Selanne said. "We knew we're better than this. I think that everybody felt there's some unfinished business.
"Every night that I felt normal, when the energy was there, it was so much fun. And I know I can still play well. No, no doubts."
With that, Selanne ended his final media session of the 2012-13 season, bent down and picked up his little daughter, Veera, and headed toward the exit, toward another summer, another decision.
He left behind the usual uncertainty and the annual unanswered question and cleared the Honda Center stage for an act that, under the circumstances, couldn't have been more age or mood appropriate.
The first of two shows for this building is scheduled for Wednesday night, assuming the performers can dig deep enough to manufacture the necessary energy once again.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Rolling Stones.
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Between summer squash, tomatoes, peach pies and cupcakes, the local farmers market sells a wide assortment of fresh produce on the town green. But one local vendor sells a "skin-quenching" item: soap.
Anneliese Dadras, a long-time resident of Southington, is the founder of her own soap-making business called "Bradley Mountain Soaps." Dadras started making soap last year after suffering from the skin condition, psoriasis, for nearly 20 years. She has experienced itchy, bleeding skin, and felt self-conscious in public.
"It can be a little debilitating or even embarrassing, and you're always fighting an itch," Dadras said.
Skin conditions are not new to Dadras's family—her mother has dealt with them, and her 11-year-old son Kiyan has suffered from eczema since he was about five years old. This led Dadras to take a proactive approach to solve her family's skin problems.
"We wanted to address our own skin conditions, and then what we realized is there's just some people and children that have issues with their skin, and actually it feels really good to help people," Dadras said.
The key ingredients that make this soap different from store-made soaps are olive oil, coconut oil, castor oil and goat milk. Dadras said goat milk helps fight an itch, and unlike soaps sold at the local drug store, her soaps do not contain any special additives or alcohol.
Although it took a few months for her skin to improve, Dadras is happy with the results, and she hopes to share her product at Southington's Farmers Market, which runs through October.
"Over time, it's a major improvement in my psoriasis, and also my itch. I'm not itching my scalp, not itching my elbows. It's really changed my quality of life. I don't always have to be thinking about my skin," the local soap-maker said.
Between glistening lotion bars, body bars, and guest soap sets, Dandras sells her soaps in a variety of fragrances including apple jack peel, citrus lily and herbal garden. Other fragrances include almond butter, English rose, country kitchen, old-fashioned pine and honey oatmeal. She sells her products not only at farmers markets but also at Karabin Farms and A.S. Labienic, Inc. in Kensington. Dadras said her soaps would soon be sold at Brass City Market in Waterbury.
"We have a growing list of people that that like to buy their stuff locally, and that like hand-made items, so hopefully it will catch on more," she said.
Dadras said she makes the soaps in the basement of her own home where she has lines of crock-pots stocked up together. The process takes three to four hours to make as Dadras combines lye with oils in a crock-pot. Then she adds essential oils, fragrance oils, or other natural ingredients geared toward certain problems like poison ivy. Dadras said the soap usually dries between two and three weeks.
"We can really control the ingredients which is awesome," she said.
Handing out a variety of her soap samples to customers at the Farmers Market, Dadras has received positive feedback from the community. She said many customers returned to buy more of her soaps, which improved their own skin problems.
"It's a different experience when you use a product that has different ingredients in there," Dadras said.
Dadras plans to sell her product during the local Farmers Market this season in Southington. She said she hopes to continue educating the community about healthy skin through her product.
"I hope they understand that there are options, and that not all the options come from a store. Trust that when somebody makes something by hand, doesn't necessarily mean it's not as good."
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Friendship House has announced the opening of a new center for early learning in Honesdale.
- Friendship House has announced the opening of a new center for early learning in Honesdale.
The center for early learning, named "Growing by Leaps and Bounds," is a full day Pre-K program and daycare center for boys and girls, ages six weeks through 12 years. The program is expected to open and be ready to accept enrollments in Spring 2013.
The Friendship House center for early learning, Growing by Leaps and Bounds, features research-based education, and social, emotional, behavioral curricula, including Opening the World of Learning (OWL) and The Incredible Years.
Growing by Leaps and Bounds is an expansion of early learning services first made available in Scranton in 2012 with the development of the East Mountain Center for Early Learning (EMCEL), and Growing by Leaps and Bounds in Hawley at Lake Wallenpuapack, opening Spring 2013.
Growing by Leaps and Bounds will be available at 190 Delaware Street in Honesdale. Friendship House has provided Early Childhood Partial Hospitalization services for the past seven years at this location and will be discontinuing this program in March 2013.
While the utilization of center-based Partial Hospitalization program services has diminished, the opportunity to serve children through new and innovative ways has emerged. Friendship House has responded to this change with the development of centers for early learning.
As Justine Fraser, Child Care Center Manager/Lead Teacher of EMCEL explains, "'Our Centers for Early Learning' are inclusive centers with a structured educational program in addition to the daycare portion of the day.
"With the help of a social and emotional program and a research-based curriculum, we will be teaching typically developing children as well as children with mild physical and developmental disabilities to learn and grow together."
Outpatient Services are still available on site. Connections: Child and Family Counseling Services continues to provide a combination of services for children ages two to 21 and their families and features an evidence-based, positive parenting, live coaching program entitled "Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)."
The Friendship House Center for Early Learning and Outpatient Services is located at 190 Delaware Street in Honesdale, across from Bold's Floral & Garden Center on Route 6.
Hours of Operation
Daycare: Monday to Friday- 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Pre-K: Monday to Friday- 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. with extended day care hours available
Before and After School Care available
Outpatient: Weekday hours available with evening and weekend hours based upon request and availability
Private and subsidized child care payments accepted
The Friendship House Center for Early Learning is a Pre-K program and daycare center designed to help all children reach their potential. They rely on more than 140 years of experience in the field of child care.
Change has been a regular, integral part in the evolution of programs and services over Friendship House's proud 142 year history. Continuing to provide services for children and families in the Honesdale area will be an exciting expansion to the services that Friendship House provides to support the children and families in our community.


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Omygosh, DAC's here again! Has it already been a year? Apparently yes, and apparently once again the Design Automation Conference is going to be great. And how does one know? Because once again the DAC Executive Committee is great, lead in 2015 by the more-than-capable Anne Cirkel (Mentor's own). Everything from academia to industry, from networking to hard-core learning (read, 'Nerd Alert!)', from food and libation to product announcements: DAC is always special.
So today is Sunday, which in the world of DAC is a lovely day full of workshops for those interested in the newest, and social opportunities for those interested in the noshing and nattering. Sunday is also lovely, because it's a moment for astonishing realizations, and this year's 52nd DAC Sunday is no different. Here are my 10 favs:
10 — Per Stanford's Philip Wong speaking in Workshop 2, carbon nanotubes are smooth which helps with mobility-restricting surface roughness and band-gap issues. Also CNTs are no longer "a bowl of spaghetti" when manufactured. Now they're 99% orderly and courteously aligned. (read, 'Is asking about the other 1% a legitimate question?')
9 — EDA's own Karen Bartleson of SNPS fame, has not only just completed 2 years of distinguished service as President of IEEE's worldwide Standards Organization, she's now been nominated to serve as President of the Whole Enchilada; Bartleson's running for President of the IEEE itself. In a word, Wow!
8 — Design Automation Summer School, for those who have not been keeping up (read, 'me'), is no longer a week-long confab in July. These days Summer School is a one-day event on DAC Sunday. Still highly attended and full of pithy content for The Young & The Restless in EDA.


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April 22, 1983
To: All Faculty and Staff
From: President Gail Fullerton
Subject: Robert D. Clark Distinguished Professor
I invite you to attend the lecture "The American Continents as Humanistic Metaphors," by Dr. Tomas Rivera, Chancellor of the University of California, Riverside, and the first Robert D. Clark Distinguished Visiting Professor, Thursday evening, May 5, 1983, 7 p.m., in the Faculty-Staff Dining Room. A reception honoring Chancellor Rivera will follow.
As many of you know, the Robert D. Clark Distinguished Visiting Professorship was established to recognize and honor the many lasting contributions to the campus of President Emeritus Clark. We are fortunate to have Chancellor Rivera as the first Clark Professor. He is an acknowledged leader in American higher education, and a significant voice in the growing body of Mexican-American letters. I hope you will join your colleagues in participating inthis historic event.


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You might be right. I just checked and Iggy has cracked the 50 goal mark twice, and the 40 goal mark twice in his career (he hit 39 goals once too). Beyond that he's been a 30-35 goal scorer.....and to be honest I can't think of the last time a big name was traded at the deadline who was over 35 years old that went on to make an impact and won a Cup.Uncle dans leg wrote:Iginla is almost done. I wouldn't pay a 1st for him, let alone throw in more picks. He has lost almost all of his explosive quickness and if you're looking for the guy who can score at a 40 goal/year pace...that guy is long gone.Meds wrote:It won't surprise me at all to see Iginla still in Calgary at the end of the season. I suspect that Feaster is going to want too much for him and the window of opportunity will close. Calgary's only hope for the future is that Feaster realizes that he doesn't have the pieces needed to compete and is willing to take draft picks in exchange for his aging stars. Iginla should get him, at the very least, a 1st and a couple of 2nd round picks, and they should take them and rebuild.$lacker wrote:I would assume that the Morrow deal will eliminate Pitt from the Iginla sweepstakes.
Boston will be upping their efforts me thinks!
To be honest Morrow is no different. These teams are giving up way too much for players well past their top form but are somehow still able to bring back top level returns. Joe Morrow was a huge gift to Dallas and it only went down because they have 3 or 4 more young D-men in the pipe...although none as good as Joe.
Pitt overpayed huge and if the price for a quarter speed Iginla is a 1st, a prospect and a player then I can't see any sane GM paying that price.
I dunno...maybe our GM should be credited for the trades he didn't make rather than chastised for not trading the future.
I have to admit that I feel pretty sorry for Iginla, he's been with the Flames for over a decade and that entire time all the talk was how good he was and how much better it would be if he had a real center to play with.....and no Calgary GM ever got that done.


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A Reddick man accused of misusing a company credit card at gas stations has been sentenced to serve a 240-day term in the Marion County Jail for organized fraud.
A Reddick man accused of misusing a company credit card at gas stations has been sentenced to serve a 240-day term in the Marion County Jail for organized fraud.
Anthony David Rodriguez, 41, accepted a plea agreement from the State Attorney's Office on Tuesday and pleaded guilty to the charge. He will receive a 63-day credit for time served pending resolution of the case.
After being released from jail, he will be placed on house arrest for two years and must complete 70 hours of community service.
Rodriguez was originally charged with 16 third-degree felony counts that included grand theft and fraudulent use of a credit card.
The State Attorney's Office decided to consolidate the charges into one third-degree felony count of organized fraud.
Rodriguez was arrested on May 29 by the Marion County Sheriff's Office after deputies spoke with the owner of Hercules Fencing Co. on Southeast Maricamp Road. The owner said he had recently hired Rodriguez and believed the defendant took the fleet gas credit card assigned to his work truck and used it over a weekend for personal use without permission, racking up $1,176.20 in charges, according to a sheriff's report.
The card was used 17 times over a five-day period at various gas stations in Marion and Lake counties. Store video surveillance showed Rodriguez using the card.
An investigation revealed Rodriguez purchased gas with the credit card for other motorists and then had them pay him a reduced price in cash, which he pocketed.
In an interview after he had been advised of his rights, Rodriguez admitted to using the card without authorization and said he would sell a tank of gas for about $40.
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Marshall's history of alleged violence against women has been chronicled without restraint. Last year, he disclosed he has borderline personality disorder, a mental illness characterized by impulsive behavior and uncontrolled emotions. After...


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September 2007
Getting a head start
Under No Child Left Behind, districts are required to notify parents of eligible students of their public school choice options no later than by the beginning of the school year. In many cases, districts need to receive school AYP results from the state before knowing which schools are identified for improvement and thus which students are eligible for public school choice. As states often do not provide AYP results until shortly before the school year starts, districts are often faced with tight timelines for notifying parents, and many do not begin to implement transfer requests until well into the school year. Districts confronted by these circumstances should, at a minimum, begin the planning process for implementing public school choice well before release of AYP results. Following are some ideas for districts to help ensure that parents can make choices as early as possible.
Determining which schools may serve as transfer options regardless of latest AYP results. Each spring, districts should know if there are schools that can serve as transfer options for the following fall regardless of the latest AYP results (i.e., Title I schools that have not missed AYP or non-Title I schools). Districts should be able to inform parents well before the school year starts that these schools are transfer options. Districts also should consider working with principals to prepare these schools for receiving transfers for the next school year.
Implementing public school choice early for students in schools that cannot exit identified status. Districts also know which schools cannot exit improvement, corrective action, or restructuring status regardless of latest AYP results (i.e., identified schools that did not make AYP for the prior school year's AYP determinations, as schools must make AYP for two consecutive years in order to exit identified status). Students in these schools will continue to be eligible for public school choice, and nothing should prevent districts from offering public school choice and implementing transfer requests by parents of these students in advance of release of AYP data. Indeed, a district should consider offering public school choice to parents of students in such schools at some point during the prior year, and may choose to make such offers coincide with offers of other choice programs that do not depend on AYP data.


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how do i upload a custom avatar for my profile. i have made an image and i want to use it for my avatar instead of the ones already provided.
You can find it on this page, all the way on the bottom: http://www.antionline.com/member.php...ion=editavatar
I wish to express my gratitude to the people of Italy. Thank you for inventing pizza.
Ummm... it's on the front page, if you're allowed to do it (and I think that's in the FAQ). My guess is that you're going to need to be here a bit longer before you're allowed such priviledges.
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Hello Shantz,
Good day to you and Welcome to AO! If I may recall it right, you can upload your custom avatar only after 40++ posts. I am sorry but I can't recall the exact figure but it's around 40-45++ .
**** A bessed day to all!!
Alexzel, I currently have a custom avatar, and have not posted 40 as of yet. I was just able to do so yesterday. There will be a message under earned site benefits stating custom avatar when obtain permission.
I believe when I came on it was 10 posts and 10 days after you first joined. Then you would be given the option of a custom avatar.
Just remember: Abraham Lincoln didn\'t die in vain. He died in Washington D.C.
Originally posted here by DarkGuardian
10 posts / option of a custom avatar.
The 10 post sounds about right. I can't agree with the time frame. I haven't been a member for 10 days as of yet.
Originally posted here by Joey_Batch_File
The 10 post sounds about right. I can't agree with the time frame. I haven't been a member for 10 days as of yet.
That's what it was for me -- it might have been changed, but I got past 10 posts pretty quick, but I still had to wait 10 days from when I created the account. If it's changed between now and then, I don't know.
thnx all for ur help!!
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The hotel reservation cutoff date – as well as the deadline to register to win one of three great prizes – for the 2007 Central Coast Cotton Conference is Nov. 1. The meeting will be held Nov. 27-29, 2007 at the Monterey Plaza Hotel & Spa in Monterey, Calif. Conference organizers say anyone planning to attend to the conference needs to make their hotel reservations by the cutoff date to ensure they stay at the conference hotel and receive the discounted room rates.
"Registration for the conference will remain open until the day of the conference," said conference organizer Becky Zelinski. "However, the discounted hotel rate is only guaranteed through Nov. 1, and the discounted conference preregistration deadline is Nov. 12. Additionally, anyone who registers by Nov. 1 has a chance to win some really great prizes."
According to Zelinski, this year's meeting will be held at one of California's nicest hotels, making the meeting a great educational and networking opportunity, as well as a wonderful opportunity for a mini-vacation at the end of a hectic season. The Monterey Peninsula is one of California's top destinations and the Monterey Plaza Hotel & Spa is known for its impeccable service and amenities. The discounted conference is $156 per night for a deluxe, non-ocean view room (almost 40% off the regular room rate), and ocean view rooms are $260 per night based upon availability.
The conference preregistration rate is $209 for attendees and includes admittance to all sessions, the trade show and meals served during the meeting. There are discounted registration rates available for students and anyone who brings a first-time attendee to the conference. There will also be a benefit golf tournament on Nov. 28 at the Rancho Canada Golf Club in Carmel. The golf tournament is $150 per person and includes lunch, beverages, cart, green fees and prizes. The proceeds will provide funds for a college scholarship for the winner of the 2007 high school FFA cotton judging contest.
Anyone who submits their conference registration by Nov. 1, 2007 will be entered into a drawing to win one of three great prizes courtesy of Western Farm Press and Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. Western Farm Press is giving away a free trip to the meeting, which includes two nights accommodations (garden or Cannery Row-view room) at the Monterey Plaza Hotel & Spa and one conference registration. Toyota is giving away two free rides to the meeting, which includes the use of a brand new, full-size 2007 Toyota Tundra for seven days. The trucks will be delivered to the winners on Monday, Nov. 26, and picked up the following Monday.
Toyota's 2007 Tundra bears very little resemblance to previous Tundra models. This Tundra is a true full-size pickup available in 31 model configurations and a choice between 4x2 and 4x4 drivetrains. It has a towing capacity of up to 10,800 pounds depending on the model and drivetrain.
It comes with a punch to back it up. It has an available new 381-horsepower 5.7-liter iForce V8 engine teamed to a new six-speed automatic transmission. The 2007 Tundra is built on a new frame that is optimized for vigorous work duty, impact safety and ride quality. Compared to the previous Tundra, the new model features more reinforced areas, increased high strength steel, increased steel gauge and higher-rigidity suspension mounts.
"It's definitely a nice ride," says Becky Zelinski who tested the truck on-road and off-road for a few days. "Whoever is lucky enough to win a ride to the conference will most certainly enjoy the experience."
The Central Coast Cotton Conference is a continuing education course for pest control advisors, certified agronomists, educators and researchers working in the West Coast cotton industry. It includes three half-day sessions and a benefit golf tournament on Wednesday, Nov. 28, at the Rancho Canada Golf Club in Carmel, Calif. The theme for 2007 is: "The Perfect Season: Managing for maximum yield and quality" and will feature more than 20 speakers on topics that will help growers and PCAs manage their crops to achieve maximum results.
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For complete details about the conference, contest rules or to register, visit www.cottonconference.com or call (805) 239-8200.


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1. Re: Bad performance when deploying EJBs on JBoss 4.0Francisco Reverbel Dec 15, 2004 3:18 PM (in response to jlsredondo)
You probably mean JBoss 3.2.5 rather than JBoss 2.3.5, right? (IIOP support appeared for the first time in 3.0.0.)
Anyway, two IIOP-related changes may cause a performance decrease in 4.0:
1) jacorb.jar was updated to (a patched version of) JacORB 2.2. A performance decrease has been reported for JacORB 2.2. The degradation shows up when JacORB tries to access unset configuration properties:
2) Portable interceptors were added to deal with transaction context propagation and with security over IIOP (CSIv2). Usage of request interceptors in JacORB effectively disables the local call optimization that would otherwise happen on in-VM calls. This has a negative effect on the performance of applications that do in-VM calls to (remote interfaces of) IIOP-enabled EJBs. If you don't need transaction demarcation/propagation and security over IIOP, then you get rid of the negative effect by commenting out the tx and csiv2 interceptors in iiop-service.xml.
2. Re: Bad performance when deploying EJBs on JBoss 4.0jlsredondo Jan 3, 2005 1:16 PM (in response to jlsredondo)
Hi Francisco,
I've managed to disable the transaction demarcation over IIOP as stated in the file iiop-service.xml. However, i'm unable to do the same with the security attribute service interceptors. If I comment out the initializers:
Jboss throws an exception when starting up:
2005-01-03 19:06:44,419 ERROR [org.jboss.ejb.StatefulSessionContainer] Initialization failed jboss.j2ee:jndiName=Interest,service=EJB
at org.jacorb.orb.ORB.create_policy(ORB.java:584)
any idea ?
By the other hand,is it possible to substitute JacORB by other CORBA implementation?. If so, could you possibly indicate the requirements that must be satisfied by the new CORBA implementation and the steps involved?
Thank you very much.
3. Re: Bad performance when deploying EJBs on JBoss 4.0Francisco Reverbel Jan 15, 2005 8:33 AM (in response to jlsredondo)
The PolicyError exception will go away if you comment out just the SASInitializer, which is the one that installs a request interceptor and thus affects performance. The CSIv2Initializer must remain enabled, as it defines a POA policy that is used at EJB deployment time. This initializer does not install a request interceptor, so it should not cause a decrease on performance.
There is another problem, though. Due to a coding oversight in releases 4.0.0 and 4.0.1 of JBoss, commenting out the just the SASInitializer will result in another exception. No exception will be thrown at EJB deployment time, but you will get an exception whenever the EJB receives a remote call. This problem has been fixed in CVS and won't be present in JBoss 4.0.2.
Right now what you can do is get Branch_4_0 from CVS and build JBoss 4.0.2beta, which works properly with no request interceptors at all (with SASInitializer and Tx interceptor initializers commented out).
4. Re: Bad performance when deploying EJBs on JBoss 4.0Javier Viguera Jan 17, 2005 10:23 AM (in response to jlsredondo)
Hi Francisco,
I downloaded Branch_4_0 from CVS but when I try to build an error message appears.
I think that I have to download fron CVS other addicional files. Is this correct or all I need is in Branch_4_0?
Best regards
5. Re: Bad performance when deploying EJBs on JBoss 4.0Scott Stark Jan 17, 2005 12:23 PM (in response to jlsredondo)
All that is needed is:
cvs co -r Branch_4_0 jboss-4.0 cd jboss-4.0/build ./build.sh
6. Re: Bad performance when deploying EJBs on JBoss 4.0Javier Viguera Jan 18, 2005 6:04 AM (in response to jlsredondo)
the command I used is:
cvs -d :pserver:email@example.com/cvsroot/jboss co -r Branch_4_0 jboss-4.0
It begin to download a lot of files, but comparing these files with its its webview, there are many differences.
The file build.xml reference to a non-existen file, for example ../tools/etc/buildmagic/buildmagic.ent
Furthermore, in webview there are some folder that
they are not download with command above.
I'm running under windows 2000. When I execute build.bat nothing happend. If a try to execute build.xml with ant, an error message appears saying that buildmagic.ent file not found.
What am I doing bad?
Thanks and regards
7. Re: Bad performance when deploying EJBs on JBoss 4.0Scott Stark Jan 18, 2005 11:04 AM (in response to jlsredondo)
Then your co is not completing. Keep trying until the complete structure is obtained.
8. Re: Bad performance when deploying EJBs on JBoss 4.0Javier Viguera Jan 31, 2005 3:50 AM (in response to jlsredondo)
I tried to download again and this time all was right.
Jboss4.0.2beta has a good performance even with interceptors enabled.
Thanks a lot
9. Re: Bad performance when deploying EJBs on JBoss 4.0Sunil Arora Feb 23, 2005 5:36 AM (in response to jlsredondo)
Can any one send me the code or configuration files you have make changes to work with iiop client (CORBA) client. I am not able to register the bean on 3528 port and not able to acces C++ client
10. Re: Bad performance when deploying EJBs on JBoss 4.0Adrian Brock Feb 23, 2005 12:07 PM (in response to jlsredondo)
1) Use the USER FORUMS
2) DO NOT CROSS POST - post your question on multiple topics
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GPSolo Magazine - December 2004
Dumpster Disasters
Tips for Ethically Retiring Your Old Computers
In a regular and predictable ritual, similar in level of irritation to the 17-year locusts but much more frequent, you need to replace your PCs, laptops, and network files servers. Not that they necessarily wear out, but they are simply no longer up to the task of running contemporary software. Sadly, using a three- or four-year-old desktop PC is a lot like driving a car with 800,000 miles on it—it just barely limps along.
So what happens to all those elderly PC systems once you've relegated them to the dustbin of techno-history in your firm or law department? What are your choices? Tossing them in the dumpster seems wasteful, and it is certainly not very environmentally conscious. Much of this equipment is considered hazardous to the environment and must be managed and disposed of in compliance with federal, state, and local laws and regulations. You could try to sell your old computers for a few cents on eBay, or maybe you could donate them to charity.
Any of these choices could cost you your law license.
Why? Because all those old computers are packed with confidential client information—information that you have an ethical duty to protect. Further, the computers undoubtedly have sensitive firm information, as well as software licensed to your firm or organization (for which you have specific obligations under the respective "end-user license agreements," or EULA). Giving away control and access to these computers—through either the dumpster approach, the eBay sale, or the well-intended charitable donation—can lead to malpractice claims and ethical violations at worst, and, at best, serious embarrassment. And not to further ruin your day, but potentially there could even be violation claims as a result of HIPPA (for disclosing employee or client healthcare information) and Sarbanes-Oxley (for giving away corporate documents that you must maintain). So what should you do?
You Need a D.U.M.P.: A Disposal Un-Malpractice Plan
The key to a D.U.M.P. is ensuring, to the greatest extent reasonably practical, that you remove confidential client information, firm or organization information, and all licensed software that you do not intend to formally transfer. This means using a technical process that will remove this information in an effective manner, rendering the information as unrecoverable as you can reasonably accomplish. It may not be possible to delete information so that no one could ever recover it. Practically speaking, if someone wants to spend enough money and enough time, they could probably find a way to recover at least some of your data, no matter what you do. But the reality is that the standard to meet is one of reasonableness. What steps would a lawyer need to take to ensure the reasonably effective removal of this information?
Well, here's what doesn't work:
• Deleting files using Windows Explorer or the Windows My Computer functions. Even the great mass of techno-peasantry knows they can click the Recycle Bin and undelete these files in short order. It's fairly well known that deleting files using Windows or even "DOS" command line functions doesn't remove the files. It merely removes the "directory listing" so that Windows can no longer "see" the file. Think of it as removing the address numbers over the front door to your house. Visitors from out of town may not know it's your house if they're looking for your address, but the house is most assuredly still there. Even reformatting a hard drive or removing a storage "partition" yields easily recoverable information—cheap or free utilities abound that can perform such recoveries.
• Deleting the files and emptying the Recycle Bin. A little more clever, but the files are still recoverable by even "entry-level experts" in about 30 seconds.
• Throwing the hard drive in your building's incinerator. Still not good enough. Just ask the data recovery experts at companies such as Kroll Ontrack ( www.krollontrack.com) or Drive-savers ( www.drivesavers.com). Give them a couple days (and a few thousands dollars) and they can probably recover most, if not all, of the information from utterly scorched hard drives.
• Letting David Letterman throw your computers off of a 40-story building. Entertaining, but equally ineffective.
Now for what does work:
Electronic "File-Shredding" Software
These software systems delete files in a number of ways that you cannot accomplish using Windows alone. They typically will run a routine that deletes the files and then overwrites the areas of the hard drive with repeated patterns of random characters. The more "passes" made by the overwriting routine, the harder it becomes to recover the original information. The product and methodology used should comply with the standards promulgated by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Deleting information pursuant to this standard should satisfy the "reasonableness" requirement.
The U.S. Department of Defense has a set of published guidelines related to the clearing and sanitizing of PC media (DoD 5220.22-M). This set of guidelines recommends that you "overwrite all addressable locations with a character, its complement, then a random character and verify" for all writable media (i.e., hard drives, floppy drives, backup tapes, ZIP disks, flash drives, etc.). One example of such an "electronic shredder" is the DataEraser software system, produced by zDelete. Its website ( www.zdelete.com/dod.htm) displays the DoD's table prescribing the specific methods required for adequate and compliant information destruction on all sorts of media types in common use in law practices today.
Be sure to understand all the places where data may be located. These include but may not be limited to:
• Hard drives in PCs
• Old hard drives sitting on your shelves that may have failed and were removed but still have recoverable information
• Floppy disks (all sizes—don't forget the old ones in your building's basement)
• ZIP disks and other removable data cartridges
• Backup tapes
• The newer "flash drives"
There are many software products that will accomplish electronic file shredding to DoD standards. A Google search of "file deletion software" will yield a treasure trove of capable utilities. Products such as DataEraser, CyberScrub ( www.cyberscrub.com), and many others are suitable. Look for the specific DoD 5220.22-M certification as a sign of competence. Then be certain to use the product correctly. In other words, read the instructions!
Finalizing Your D.U.M.P.
It is also imperative, from a legal and ethical perspective, to comply with your software license agreements. You must remove all licensed software that you do not intend to formally transfer with the PC system. Read each end-user license agreement to learn precisely what must be done with each software product on the hard drive of any computers or any other electronic media you plan to get rid of.
Then, a "best practices" approach would involve the creation of a formal written computer usage policy detailing the goal of the D.U.M.P. process, the process itself, and a written requirement that the process always be used when disposing of PCs or electronic media. This is the most complete way to CYA—Cover Your Assets.
Be sure to inform your clients of their need to take the same precautionary measures when they dispose of their PC systems and media. The last thing you need is a corporate client tossing backup tapes into the dumpster—packed with damaging information about a matter in litigation—and a digital dumpster diver hired by the opposition finding it and using it against them. This happens—it's not fantasy.
Technical Assistance
If you don't understand, or don't want to acquire and learn to use electronic file shredding software, hire an expert to handle the process for you—it will be money well spent. Be certain to get a written statement from the service provider documenting its destruction of the information, the methodology and software used, and its compliance with the DoD standards. Ideally, such a written statement would also indemnify your lawyers from liability for the service provider's failure to adequately destroy the information.
Retirement Options
Once the critical step of removing the data and licensed software is accomplished, you can look at your disposal options. The chief options include sale, donation, and recycling.
Sale or donation to employees. For all practical purposes, the sale of computers is limited to employees because few law firms would want the hassle of selling computers in the marketplace. If you have relatively recent PCs that are still usable for home/college/student use, offering them to your employees may make a lot of sense and be seen as an employee benefit. You can either sell them at a very low price or simply donate them.
Donation to a charitable entity. Let us be clear: Charitable donations should not be a way to foist your computer disposal problems on someone else. Because charities often have the same software needs as you, trying to unload 15-year-old '486-class orolder PCs, or even your early generation Pentiums 4s, may not be very easy. It is possible a charity would want to use them for some type of vocational training or cannibalize them for parts. But many well-known charitable organizations have stopped accepting computers and monitors altogether. The best thing to do is to ask the organization before you donate.
If you cannot find a donee locally (i.e., church groups, municipal agencies, homeless shelters, etc.), think national. One group to consider is the National Cristina Foundation (www.cristina.org). It matches companies and individuals interested in donating computers and related equipment with nonprofit organizations and schools that serve people with disabilities in the United States and abroad. Donors send equipment directly to the beneficiary. Many more donation sources are available if you run the Google search "donating used computers."
Recycling. Taking up space in landfills is one problem, but few people realize that computers and monitors contain high levels of lead, mercury, and other envi-ronmental contaminants. The good news, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is that 50 percent of the materials in a personal computer can be recycled. There are avenues for recycling old computers to ensure they don't harm our already oppressed environment—you just have to know where to look.
To find a reuse and recycling program in your area, contact your state or local waste management agency, or try the EIA Environment page at www.eiae.org. For basic information on how to reduce electronic waste, along with related web links, see the Environmental Protection Agency's website, www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/recycle/ecycling/basic.htm.
One more option: Some computer manufacturers (including Dell, Gateway, HP, IBM, and Apple) are offering product take-back services to their customers for recycling, trade-in on a new product, or donation to the needy.
For those of you who prefer to think of old PCs as antiques or historical relics, there's a website for you, too: www.old-computers.com. Wax nostalgic for your old computer among more than 800 examples in their computer "museum." If you don't find your computer there, try Google's collection of historical computers at http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/History. You never know, your old PC might be just the one some museum is looking for.
The bottom line is simple. PC in the dumpster = potential malpractice claims, ethical violations, embarrassment. Imagine the community embarrassment that happens when your local vocational retraining institution calls you to ask if you intended to donate a network server containing your entire time and billing system (this actually happened). Develop a D.U.M.P. for your firm or law department, then make it official policy and use it.
Ross L. Kodner is president and founder of MicroLaw, Inc., a national legal technology consultancy based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com, via www.microlaw.com, and at 414/540-9433. Courtney G. Kennaday is the practice management advisor for the South Carolina Bar, where she helps lawyers deal with myriad law office issues. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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This film is cunningly crafted in every detail--direction, script, performances, comic timing, special effects--from thunderous start to delicious finish.
Drag Me to Hell is unlike any scary thriller in a while: frightening, frenzied and fun.
Raimi knows how to modulate his technique, as with the coolly controlled morality tale "A Simple Plan," but he's a firm believer in the power of an active, expressive camera, as well as the value of insinuation.
Raimi's still very much up to his old tricks, retaining that deliriously over-the-top brand of Grand Guignol horror that he had abandoned by the mid-'90s in pursuit of other genres.
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Parents need to know that this is a review of the movie seen in theaters and not the unrated version available on DVD. Many of the scares, jumps, and jolts in this horror/action movie from Spider-Man director Sam Raimi are played for comic effect. Still, it's quite bloody, and along with the scary moments and gore, there's extensive discussion of curses, spells, ghosts, and spirits. Surprisingly, the film also has an ethical core, as the main character makes several tough decisions and tries to do the right thing despite implacable odds -- though she occasionally fails.
Families can talk about the choices Christine faces. What could her character have done differently? What would the cost of those decisions be?
Families can also discuss the tradition of horror films as cautionarytales; do the scares and startling moments make the message go downmore easily?
Messages: For all of the movie's horror-film trappings and scares, the message about the consequences of your ethical choices is quite strong.
Role models: Lohman's character repeatedly struggles to do the right thing. The movie offers a stereotypical depiction of "Gypsies," but it's notmalicious and is in keeping with the movie's horror-film historicalcontext.
Violence: High on scares, but they're peppered with some humor. Extensive fighting and scuffling, with a mix of graphic imagery and good-natured goofiness; blood, but in such outlandish amounts that the effect is ultimately more cartoony than grisly. An old woman grapples with the main character, who fights her off with fists, a stapler, and the laws of gravity; a staple is plunged into human flesh. A spectral vision is hit by a falling heavy object, to squishy, comedic effect; spectral forces hurl, batter, and buffet people around. A machete is used. Discussion and depiction of animal sacrifice.
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I ran out of mutton tallow this morning! I searched my tool chests, under the benches and in the drawers hoping to find just enough white magic to ease the passage of the big jointer plane up and down the long shooting board. But all the grease boxes were licked clean – the cupboard was bare. Must … find … tallow!
It was a set of smelly black British planes that started me down the slippery slope of the tallow trail. Unlike American planes, British planes are often black from ceaseless soaking in linseed oil and relentless rubbing with tallow – a practice that was perhaps not so good in the long run. Aside from linseed oil turning planes black with age and dirt, the royal armorers at the Tower of London have recently discovered that the walnut stocks of the Brown Bess muskets that they have been rubbing with linseed oil since the time of King George are getting a bit soft. They now recommend that you switch over to wax after 250 years or so.
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President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin both plan to attend ceremonies marking the 70th anniversary of D-Day next month in Normandy, but it's unlikely they'll be meeting.
The White House doesn't expect Obama to hold any one-on-one meetings with world leaders -- including Putin -- at the World War II commemoration on June 6, White House Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters Thursday.
The White House in September, however, downplayed the chance that the two leaders would meet at a summit in St. Petersburg -- and they eventually did.
But Earnest said the event is "primarily an opportunity for the President and leaders from around the globe to pay tribute to the heroism of Allied forces that led to victory in World War II."
He noted Putin's appearance isn't unexpected, despite tensions between Russia and the U.S. and the European Union over Russia's intervention in Ukraine.
"If you consider that the Russian soldiers were fighting on the same side as American soldiers in that battle, it shouldn't be a remarkable surprise that the Russian president would attend," Earnest said.
German chancellor Angela Merkel, who is said to be close to Putin, said she was "pleased" that Putin would attend, calling it "good news" amid the conflict. Earnest, however, declined to say whether Obama shared the sentiment.
"We're focused on remembering the sacrifices and heroism of troops," Earnest said.
Obama and Putin have spoken several times by phone since Russia seized Ukraine's Crimea, but the conversations have apparently done little to persuade Putin to abandon his efforts. Press Secretary Jay Carney said earlier this week that he didn't expect the two to meet -- but said the dispute between the two countries isn't because of a lack of talks.
"There have been direct and multiple conversations between Secretary Kerry and (Russia's) Foreign Minister Lavrov. There have been direct and lengthy conversations between Presidents Obama and Putin," Carney said. "Our views are quite clear. They happen to coincide with the views of the vast majority of leaders in nations in the world about what's happening in Ukraine and the unacceptable actions that Russia has engaged in. I don't see, again, an absence of communication to be the problem here."
Obama and Putin most recently met in person last September in St. Petersburg, Russia -- a 20 minute unscheduled tete-a-tete that came even as Obama had scrapped a pre-summit meeting with Putin over mounting frustration with Moscow.
White House officials had downplayed the chances of a meeting, but Obama -- who has characterized Putin as a sullen schoolboy -- called the talk candid and constructive. He said the two had agreed to keep working on a political solution to the Syrian crisis. The Russians had pinned the use of chemical weapons on the Syrian opposition, a charge the administration dismissed.
Putin, at a news conference that preceded Obama's by just minutes, called the conversation "very friendly," but said the two "stuck to our guns." He said Syria was the sole topic. The issue of Russia granting intelligence leaker Edward Snowden temporary asylum wasn't broached, he said.
A week after the meeting, the administration opened the door to a deal with Putin to rid Syria of its chemical weapons.
French President Francois Hollande invited Obama to the ceremony when he visited the U.S. in February.
"This will be a strong message because we will commemorate the sacrifice made by those soldiers. But we will also celebrate reconciliation and peace," Hollande said.


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There are many articles describing how to make a password more secure. They usually suggest using letters, symbols, and so on, to increase the complexity of the password, such as is the case with this article by Apartment Therapy.
There is also an argument that simply increasing the length is the best way to achieve password security, such as described in the vaunted 936th xkcd comic.
However, these techniques only increase the security of the password from an outsider's perspective by making it harder to guess. What about the security of the password when stored on the remote site? The best password in the world is no good if the site itself isn't secure, or if they store it in plain text somewhere.
One giveaway that a site probably stores your password in the clear is when they enforce a maximum length on the field. This probably indicates that they store passwords in a database column and the max password length is the size of that database column.
Secure sites don't store your password in the clear at all. Rather, they pass it through a one-way encryption algorithm such as SHA-1, and store the encrypted value. When you sign in with your password, the password you type is encrypted with the same algorithm and compared to the encrypted value.
To add security, these sites will often add a "salt" value to this algorithm, meaning that even if an attacker steals the encrypted passwords and manages to guess a value that encrypts to the same value as one of the stored passwords, it won't work because the stored passwords are created with a combination of the typed password and the salt value.
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — As a Boys Club kid growing up in the South Dakota city of Sioux Falls, Chuck Brennan never had the opportunity to learn an electric guitar lick or pound out a lengthy drum solo.
The founder of the Dollar Loan Center payday loan company now wants to give the city's youth a better chance to master guitar, bass, drums, keyboards or vocals with the opening of the $3.6 million Brennan Rock & Roll Academy just blocks from where he grew up.
"We're going to be focused," Brennan said. "Even though it's going to be for the kids of the Boys & Girls Clubs, we're going to run this like a professional music academy and really have these kids learn something, so they come out of here with a skill."
Brennan is pulling out all the stops for this week's grand opening, hosting intimate fundraiser concerts featuring Alice Cooper, Robby Krieger of The Doors, Night Ranger, and '80s rockers Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil, Joey Allen and Stephen Pearcy. Comedians Louie Anderson and George Lopez also are slated to perform.
Jack Blades, Night Ranger's vocalist and bassist, said the band is humbled to be the first to take the academy's stage, which he said could produce the next AC/DC, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton or U2.
Blades said the state-of-the-art environment is nicer than most of the places where he's rehearsed, and its vibe recalls the Whiskey a Go Go on the Sunset Strip in the '70s. He said the academy will provide an amazing opportunity for kids to learn and grow.
"I think to have something like this it's going to really elevate the kids' spirits to the way they should be, that dreams can come true," Blades said.
Once the dust settles on the grand opening, kids will get to begin their lessons and work up to performing for their families and classmates in the same 300-person venue.
Kids who enter the academy's lobby will be able to grab a juice box or snack or plug in headphones and practice as they wait for their instructors. Lessons will be given in nine soundproof rehearsal rooms, five of which are wired to a professional mixing and recording studio.
The four upstairs rehearsal rooms honor the band Kiss, with each decorated as an homage to the Demon, the Starchild, the Catman and the Spaceman. Young guitarists will get to play 20 Paul Stanley signature Washburn guitars donated by the Kiss founder.
Brennan, who got the idea for such a facility from Alice Cooper's Solid Rock Foundation, said kids will be able to take their musical creations with them.
"We're going to be able to mix all that stuff live," he said. "So when they go home, they'll have a CD or MP3, or their parents will be able to log on to the website, put in their kids name and their password and see where they're at in their lessons and see any live performances."
Karen Fogas, CEO of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Sioux Empire, said the organization's more than 400 members are excited about the upcoming opportunity. She received a call recently from a mother of middle school boy with Asperger's syndrome who's small for his age and often gets bullied, but he has a brilliant ear for music.
"That could be life-changing for that boy," Fogas said.
Brennan operated Minnesota's Blitz Ballroom rock club in the late '80s, and he said he's made a lot of great contacts in the entertainment business. He "called in every favor I've ever had" for the academy's opening, with Thursday night featuring an all-star lineup of Cooper, Krieger, Bach and Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer of Kiss.
"They're doing Kiss songs, they're doing Doors songs with Alice signing the parts of Jim Morrison, they're doing a full Alice Copper set, and they're topping it off with a little Skid Row," Brennan said. "What a show."
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