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Ah, surprising. What don't you like about them? Stay lucky is one of my favorites actually.
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This site is the archived OWASP Foundation Wiki and is no longer accepting Account Requests.
To view the new OWASP Foundation website, please visit https://owasp.org
OWASP Houston
Welcome to the Houston chapter homepage. The chapter Leaders are; Anthony Francone and Paul Scott
OWASP Foundation (Overview Slides) is a professional association of global members and is open to anyone interested in learning more about software security. Local chapters are run independently and guided by the Chapter_Leader_Handbook. As a 501(c)(3) non-profit professional association your support and sponsorship of any meeting venue and/or refreshments is tax-deductible. Financial contributions should only be made online using the authorized online chapter donation button. To be a SPEAKER at ANY OWASP Chapter in the world simply review the speaker agreement and then contact the local chapter leader with details of what OWASP PROJECT, independent research or related software security topic you would like to present on.
to this chapter or become a local chapter supporter. Or consider the value of Individual, Corporate, or Academic Supporter membership. Ready to become a member?
Upcoming Events
We will be posting new events here as we have details. Our events are open to anyone but may be limited by capacity so RSVP. You should expect the quarterly meetings will fall on February, May, August, and November of 2013. Quarterly meetings will be more formal with two presenters. We will try to make sure that one of these presenters is from out of town. The monthly meetings will be less formal. The crowd will share their research and we will have some hands on workshops so you should bring a laptop that can run some VMs. There will be a lock picking station at each event. Food and beverage is provided.
OWASP Houston Kick-Off Meeting (November 19th)
We'll be reviewing survey results and trying to finalize some details like when and where to hold our meetings. If you want to get involved with OWASP Houston now is the time.
Sponsored by: Imperva, Alert Logic
When: November 19th 2012 (Monday 6PM - 8PM)
Where: Stag's Head Pub (Private Room) - 2128 Portsmouth Street Houston, TX 77098
Phone: (713) 533-1199
We're organizing at meetup.com you don't have to use your real name but you should consider registering so we can get a good idea of who is planning to attend.
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Sponsorship Opportunities
We're always looking for sponsors to help us provide the highest quality experience for our attendees. For sponsoring OWASP Houston we will list your name on our site, mention your sponsorship in all announcements on the mailing list, send us a banner and we'll hang it at the event, and send you some pictures. If you'd like to send someone to attend the event we will make room for a table. We encourage sponsors to have raffles to try and capture leads. Rather than sponsoring just one event consider sponsoring a few from the 2013 series.
Opportunity #1 - Monthly Informal Meeting
At our monthly meetings we will be having lightning talks, workshops, bug hunting, lockpicking, and freehack sessions. Your sponsorship of this event includes appetizers and beverages for the attendees. We estimating $100 in appetizers and $200 in drink tickets. By using drink tickets, we ensure that our sponsors are able to interact with every attendee who wants a drink. Feel free to pass out business cards and network just like you would anywhere else. We will have seven of these types of meetings in 2013 so you can sponsor all of them for just $2,100. On months where we have a formal meeting we will not hold an informal meetup.
Opportunity #2 - Quarterly Formal Meeting
At our quarterly meetings we will be hosting two quality presenters. Generally we try to pull one presenter from out of state. Your sponsorship of this event includes food and beverages for the attendees. We are estimating $100 for food, $200 for beverages, and $300 to cover speaker travel expenses. Consider supporting the Houston OWASP community by sponsoring all of our quarterly meetings for $2,400.
Opportunity #3 - OWASP Presenter Sponsorship
Although OWASP is a non-profit organization, we strive to provide our members with the best presenters possible. In exchange for covering travel expenses for these presenters, our chapter will provide you with five minutes at the start of the meeting to introduce yourself and tell us about the products or services that your company offers. This benefit is in addition to special mention for sponsoring the travel. The speakers traveling expenses may vary but with a $1,200 donation we think we can handle the rest.
Opporutnity #4 - Meeting Space
Think you have a better place to meet? Donate space for our quarterly meetings.
Opportunity #5 - Lock Pick Table
We are coordinating a lock picking table at every event. To help us get some new locks and create some mock door setups. For $1,000 bucks you can sponsor the table for a whole year. This is a limit one deal. We'll credit you for it in all promotions, list you as a sponsor on the website. The whole deal.
Call for Papers
We're actively accepting abstracts. Please send all abstracts to paul dot scott at owasp dot org.
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November 5th 2012
Houston OWASP Chapter has been activated. Please join us in making this a successful security meetup. First meeting to finalize details around 2013 series of meeting has been scheduled for November 19th, 2012. Please fill out the quick five question survey if you have not.

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It was always one of the cardinal rules when I was younger: when shown a mosasaur or plesiosaur labeled as a dinosaur, one could quickly refute it by saying that dinosaurs were not aquatic. It missed the point, perhaps, but it was one pithy characteristic to keep at the ready.
Of course, that story is much more complicated now that the dinosaurian origin of birds is recognized, and the line between "dinosaur" and "bird" gets so fuzzy as to be absurd. As Craig Dylke pointed out recently, there certainly were marine dinosaurs, with Hesperornis as a good example.
Continuing its 2012 lecture series, the Royal Tyrrell Museum's YouTube channel recently shared a lecture from Joe Sanchez covering the hesperornithiforme fossil record in Saskatchewan. "Diving Birds in the Prairies: Late Cretaceous Hesperornithiformes" covers a general overview of the family as well as highlighting the bonebeds in Canada which have given us the oldest North American hesperornithiforme fossils, dating to about 95 million years ago. These fossils represent the genus Pasquiaornis, a basal member of the clade, and Sanchez demonstrates the way that its anatomy is transitional between wing-propelled divers and foot propelled divers like the famous Hesperornis. Enjoy!


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Well, it's hard to believe, but the time has finally come for me to say goodbye to India. it seems so unreal to think that two years have already passed by, but at the same time, it seems like so much has happened since I left home that it's been far more than just 2 years!
These past few weeks have been really good, though hard, saying lots of goodbyes and trying to finish up things with work here and close out our house. It's been hectic and crazy at times, but also incredibly amazing to see how God has been at work and given many opportunities to share with and encourage others, even in our final days here.
12 hours from now, I'll be in the car with my roommates Preeti and Sophy, going to Mumbai. They'll fly back to Delhi in the evening, and I will be flying out of Mumbai airport at about midnight tomorrow night (technically early morning Aug 1st). I'll arrive in Lafayette that same afternoon (about 24 hours after I depart from Mumbai), and spend a little time with family before going out of town for a few days. I will be back in Lafayette by Monday, August 6th, and I'd love to meet up with any of you that are in town and available! If you want to meet up, you can email me at email@example.com Right now, my plan is to stay in Lafayette for the time being and spend some time with family while I seek what God has in store for me next.
Well, see you on the flip side!
chillin with friends in thailand
goofing off with some of our friends at our apartment. we've been saying a lot of goodbyes these past 2 weeks...
goodbye party at our house
girls pic at coffee jar on Alisha's last night in town
one of the many birthdays we've celebrated in the past week. beware, if i come to your birthday part in the states, something like this could happen!!!
according to the little counter on my blog, i have less than 4 days left...i'm not sure if that means in india or until i arrive in america--either way, it's not much time.
i'm sitting on one of my big black trunks, in my near empty room, listening to john mayer, and realizing i really don't feel like i have words to describe this experience--saying goodbye, transition, two years, who i am, who i was, etc--i feel dazed by it all, and yet, somehow, also incredibly alert and focused, working hard to get stuff done, to finish details of moving and leaving and all that.
if you know me well, you'd be amazed by how smooth the packing and all is going. i'm pretty much done, except for stuff i still need. our house is fairly messy, but not out of control. somehow, this is turning out to be one of the smoothest moves i've made so far, which is saying a lot.
but i think that, while this transition has been pretty smooth so far, there is a very surface level aspect to that. it's like i'm fine now, but i can sense this heart break on the horizon, and i'm not sure how on earth to deal with it, so i'm packing and sorting and cleaning and doing things that normally i'm terrible at. i'm trying to prepare my heart, and asking God to guide me forward, but i don't look forward to the day when the reality of the end of the past two years of my life sinks in...i mean, i'm excited beyond words about seeing my family and friends. it's been almost exactly 2 years since i saw them, and i can't wait for all the hugs and laughs and stories to come. but the friends i've made here, well, they've become family too, and i'm not sure how it's going to be to say goodbye.
but even in that, i still find hope. there have been so many bad days and heartaches and frustrations in these past two years, but God has never failed to teach me through them as i've clung to Him more and more with every step. so, even though i don't know what's in store in the next few months, i have a lot of hope for good things. i mean, i survived india--nothing seems impossible right now!
there's a song i wrote back in november when my friend shannon was leaving, and it's been in my mind and heart a lot lately, so i'll share it and mabye it'll give you an idea of where my heart is now.
Reflections on the Journey, or, Joy in the Journey
(17 November 2006)
It took more than just a step of faith
To follow You to such a strange place
But now the strange has become home
A home like none I have ever known
With friends who became my family
It turned out not so different from what I left behind
But now it's time for me to carry on
A new chapter has begun
It's time to say goodbye to this part of my journey
And I'm torn, because I long to see what You have in store
But this broken land my heart will not release
So I'll step out in faith like I did when I followed You here
Because this strange place has made a home in me
There is joy in the journey
Though it breaks our hearts to take some steps
In faith we find
You've been leading us all along
There is joy in the journey
For when we follow You
We find out who
We really are…
I've learned it takes more than a step of faith
To follow You to each new strange place
But somehow You make the strange become home
So I'll rejoice in what the daybreak brings
As You teach me new songs to sing
Of Your grace, through the joy and the pain
And through the sweetest of joys and the hardest of blows
My heart can rest where Your Spirit goes
Because I know You'll always be walking with me
They say time heals all wounds
But I pray that it leaves
A broken piece in me
To remember each place,
And who I became
Every step of this journey…
There is joy in the journey
Though it breaks our hearts to take some steps
In faith we find
You've been leading us all along
There is joy in the journey
For when we follow You
We find out who
We really are
When we follow You
We find out who
We really are…
my family here, goofy as ever, and amazing beyond words...


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WEDNESDAY, April 3 (HealthDay News) -- Although doctors treating people with lung cancer are aware of the importance of kicking the smoking habit, most don't routinely offer this type of assistance to their patients, according to new research.
A survey conducted by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) revealed many doctors do not feel prepared to effectively help their cancer patients stop smoking.
"This is the largest assessment of tobacco assessment, cessation and perceptions of tobacco use by physicians who treat cancer patients," study author Dr. Graham Warren, vice chair for research in radiation oncology at the Medical University of South Carolina, said in an IASLC news release.
"Tobacco use affects outcomes for virtually all cancer patients by increasing mortality, treatment complications, and other adverse health outcomes such as heart disease. Stopping tobacco use may be the most important activity a cancer patient can do to improve their chances of successful cancer treatment," he said.
The online survey conducted in 2012 involved 1,500 doctors who are IASLC members. The doctors were asked about how they practice medicine as well as their views on tobacco cessation among their patients.
The survey results showed that more than 90 percent of the doctors questioned believe that current smoking has an effect on a patients' treatment and that help to quit smoking should be a routine part of care for those with lung cancer.
However, the research revealed that only 39 percent of the doctors polled regularly provide their patients with assistance to quit smoking. The survey also found that doctors believe their patients would not be open to tobacco cessation treatment.
"As clinicians and researchers, we must work to improve access to tobacco cessation resources and improve effective methods of tobacco cessation for cancer patients," Warren stated in the news release.
The survey was a collaborative effort that also included researchers at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, the Medical University of South Carolina, Yale University and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
Study co-author, Dr. Ellen Gritz, chair of the department of behavioral science at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, pointed out that "the fact that several institutions worked together to assess physician practice is a very positive step. Hopefully, we can continue to make progress by bringing experts in diverse fields together and increase our ability to address adverse health behaviors, such as tobacco use, in cancer patients," noted Gritz, who is also a member of the Institute of Medicine.
Dr. Carolyn Dresler, member of the IASLC Board of Directors and the Tobacco Control and Smoking Cessation Committee, commented on the importance of the findings. "Clearly there is a need to increase tobacco cessation assistance for cancer patients," she said in the news release. "This study really helps us better understand the barriers to implementing tobacco cessation and gives us a target to improve cessation support."
The study was published in a recent issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology.
-- Mary Elizabeth Dallas
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Would you like to serve as Election Judge? You must be a registered voter in Gilpin County. This is a paid position.
Please contact Sahari McCormick 303-582-5321 or email@example.com if you are interested in becoming a judge or would like more information. You can also sign up at the party caucus.
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Elections in the State of Colorado are all mail ballot with an option for voters to also vote in person at the Old Courthouse in Central City.
There are several judge duties needed:
Mail Processing Judge: This duty requires some basic computer skills. The commitment to days worked for mail processing would be half days beginning approximately 22 days before an election up to and including Election Day.
Count Team Judge: Is responsible for opening envelopes and processing ballots thru the computer that counts the votes. Must be able to work a 12-16 hour day on Election Day.
Voter Service and Polling Center (VSPC) Judge: Be able to work full 8 hour days and a 12 hour day on Election Day. Be able to work in a busy and possibly stressful environment. Must possess basic computer skills to process and issue a ballot to an in-person voter. Great customer service skills are a must.
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Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department have arrested a second suspect in connection with a vicious beating in May that left a transgender woman with a broken jaw, shattered cheekbone, and two cracked ribs.
Los Angeles CBS affiliate KCAL reports that officers aren't releasing information about the newly arrested suspect, but noted that the authorities planned to do so at a press conference Thursday.
Vivian Diego, a 22-year-old transgender woman, was walking toward the Metro transit station on Hollywood Boulevard at about 2:30 a.m. on May 31 when a group of four men jumped her and began punching and kicking her, Diego says. Diego spent a week in the hospital after the attack, and her mouth was wired shut while she recovered.
Police offered a $65,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the four suspected men involved in the attack, and arrested Nicol Shakhnazaryan, 21, of Los Angeles, in June. Shakhnazaryan pleaded not guilty to charges of battery with serious bodily injury, assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury, and a special charge of great bodily injury, according to KCAL.
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Lesson 6: Lavoisier's Law and Creation
We have all seen names of fire, and we recognise what they are, but when we see these flames soaring up do we ever stop to ask what in fact they are. Today we know that flames are composed of gases combined with oxygen from the air. But, previously some chemists had thought that there was some invisible substance in charcoal and oil which, when there is ignition, is released in the form of flames. To this substance they gave such names as "sulphur" This idea gathered many supporters, and many scientists subscribed to it, calling this invisible substance "phlogiston".
George Ernst Stahl; German scientist, chemist and biologist, who, in 1694, became professor at Hall University. (b. 1660, d. 1734) said that phlogiston was a substance, which escaped and which was the basis and essence of fire; that it was hidden inside inflammable materials; and that at the time of burning it was released in the form of flames.
He said that the reason that wood, charcoal and oil burn readily is that there is more phlogiston in them, but that in metal there is less of it. He and other followers of this idea believed that in the combustion of iron, phlogiston was released and what remained took the form of rust. They also said that when sulphur was burnt, phlogiston was released, and a colourless gas remained which was sulphur without phlogiston.
Rouelle [French scientist (b. 1703. d. 1770) a great chemist and the tutor of Lavoisier, also accepted this theory, and tried very hard to prove it. Lavoisier, the French scientist, one of the founders of modern chemistry, researched into what his teacher, Rouelle, and other scientists had said, spending much time thinking about their theory, until he realised that the belief in phlogiston was groundless.
In 1772, he effected the combustion of a piece of lead by focusing the rays of the sun on to it by means of magnifying lenses. He observed that its weight increased. He deduced that some part of the air had become combined with the metal and had added to its weight: if phlogiston had been there, the weight of the lead would have decreased. Thus, he claimed, the phlogiston theory should be abandoned.
In support of his view he asserted that if the 'burns' lead were heated it would return that part of the air which it had taken, and would again become lead.
In 1776 he performed another experiment in which he put a crucible of mercury over a heater and left it for 12 days. It was not long before a light red film was observed on the surface of the mercury. He found that the air in contact with the mercury could not support life. He deduced that a part of the air inside the crucible had reacted with the mercury, forming a light red film. In order to confirm this, he separated the light red film and heated it. He observed that a gas was released from it. This gas supported life. He came to the conclusion that there is nothing, which is given off from mercury when it is heated. But rather that there is a gas in the air which combines with the mercury to form mercurous oxide (HgO).
Lavoisier then asserted that there was no evidence for the existence of phlogiston. In chemical reactions the total weight of all substances entering into the reaction equals the total weight of all the substances resulting from that reaction. In other words, 'Rien ne se pera, et rien ne se crea.' (Nothing perishes, and nothing is created).
In this way the theory of phlogiston lost its supporters. We know today that when something catches fire it is because it enters into combination with oxygen, and not because an invisible substance comes out of the combustion in the form of flames. The history of phlogiston and the theory of Lavoisier show us clearly that when Lavoisier said 'Nothing perishes and nothing is created.' By this he meant that in a chemical reaction nothing disappears and nothing is added, and he was not referring to the origin of the creation of the world, which is a philosophical issue.
Unfortunately, some people, imagining that Lavoisier had wanted to answer a philosophical question, asserted that the event of creation was not compatible with Lavoisier's theory, because he has said that nothing is created and nothing is lost. How, they asked, could something be created from nothing? However, by referring to the history of the two theories, it becomes clear that Lavoisier was referring only to chemical reactions, which take place in the present world, and he meant that this world is such that within its bounds nothing extra can be added and nothing can disappear. And the problem of whether the world was created or whether it is eternal is a philosophical matter about which Lavoisier's theory remains totally silent.
The point is that when we learn about scientific theories and ideas, we must look deeply into what has been said, and be careful to examine them with specialists in each matter so that the truth may become clear. Because it is possible that inattention to these matters may result in a weakening of our beliefs.
Moreover, we must not submit to a theory without carefully examining it, so that we imagine it to be an indubitably ascertained fact. There have been many theories, which have been supported through the ages by various scholars, but which were refuted later and all traces effaced. An example of this is the theory of phlogiston whose history we have just related. Even the theory of Lavoisier has lost its original form (the principle of the conservation of matter), and has become the principle of the conservation of matter and energy. For example, if 8 grams of oxygen were made to react with I gram of hydrogen, Lavoisier's theory would predict that 9 grams of water would be formed. But we now understand, through more exact calculations that a small part of the substance is converted into energy and that the amount of water formed is a little less than 9 grams.
1. What substance forms the flame in a burning fire?
2. What was people's opinion about this phenomenon before the opinion of Lavoisier?
3. Whose theory says, "Nothing perishes and nothing is created?"
4. What should be our attitude to the changing theories?
5. Should we accept some opinion without ascertaining its truth?
6. Is it true that flame is a certain form of substance that comes out of the burning materials?
7. Does Lavoisier's theory deal with whether the world is created or not?
8. What happens to the gases coming out of the burning materials and the oxygen present around?
9. Is there a difference between a philosophical and a chemical issue?
10. Is Lavoisiers's theory a chemical or a philosophical issue?
11. Does the principle of the conservation of matter prove that it is not created?
12. What change has taken place in the theory of conservation of matter?


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If you're considering or planning a relocation to London, then it makes sense that you should have some kind of steady income to support yourself. If that's the case, you're probably going to need a working visa, as is required by most all relocation jobs. A few things to remember for your relocation jobs requirements, should that be the case for you.
First of all relocating to London obviously implies that you're looking at something pretty long-term in terms of relocation jobs and employment.


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This is what I have to program:
Write an application that creates and prints a random phone number of the form XXX - XXX - XXXX. Include the dashes in the output. Do not let the first three digits contain an 8 or 9, make sure that the second set of three digits is not greater than 742.
Im so confused on how to start this.
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FARMINGTON — On Wednesday, Dec. 5, the Goodwin Library has rescheduled Jenna Bourne, the Stonyfield Farm speaker, so be sure to mark your calendar! The Goodwin Library will also be holding its Annual Polar Express event on Thursday, Nov. 29 and the Rec Dept. will host the town Tree Lighting this Saturday, Dec. 1. Bring the whole family down for the event and enjoy hot chocolate, Santa and Christmas carols! See the column below for details on these and other town happenings.
Police Dept.
Police Chief Kevin Willey and his family will be dressed as the Claus family to distribute presents to those in need on Christmas Eve via police car. 'Blue Light Special' registration began Monday, Nov. 26. Families can sign up or drop off gifts for the drive thru Dec. 19. Call Deb at Farmington PD (755-2731) to register.
Fire Dept. Toy Drive
Once again the Farmington Firemen's Relief Association is looking for donations of new unopened toys for redistribution to children in the Farmington area. We especially need donations for teen age children. You may drop off toys at the Fire Station located on Main Street in Farmington between the hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily or you can drop them off at the Holy Rosary Credit Union branch located on Route 11 during regular business hours. Help us spread the Holiday Cheer to a young child this year. Thanks to Rick Gladding for the info!
Toys for Tots
Toys for Tots needs your help! Please donate a new unwrapped toy to a child in need!
Drop off your toy at the Town Municipal Offices prior to Dec. 14
For those families in need of assistance with gifts for your children; applications can be obtained at the following locations: the Farmington P.D.; the Town Hall/Welfare department; the Recreation Department; or the Goodwin Library. The deadline for applications is Dec. 12.
Pickup date for toys will be on Dec. 21 at the Town Hall from noon to 4 p.m.
The Nutcracker
Don't miss out on Northeastern Ballet Theatre's 2012 production of The Nutcracker. This holiday classic is being presented by New Hampshire's premier ballet company and features dancers from around the state as well as professional performers from New York, Boston, and Cleveland and right here, in Farmington. Experience the magic as Clara and The Nutcracker visit the Land of the Sweets and meet snowflakes, flowers, Spanish, Arabian, a Dew Drop Fairy, and the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier and more.
This spectacular production is not to be missed and should be on everyone's holiday "to do" list! Performances are on Dec. 1 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. at the Farmington Opera House. Northeastern Ballet Theatre is the performance company for Edra Toth's Academy of Dance and Music, with studios in Dover and Wolfeboro. Why travel to Boston when you can see a professional production like this in our own town! Thanks to Nancy Langfeld for the press release.
Rec Dept. holiday news
Tree Lighting Ceremony: It's time to turn the lights on in downtown Farmington! Join in on Dec. 1 at 5 p.m. as we flip the switch and kick off the holiday season. There will be music, hot chocolate, cookies, caroling and a special visit from you know who! Come on down to the center of town and enjoy a festive evening with all your friends.
Meet and Greet with Santa: Santa is making one last appearance before the big day. Bring the children to have a quick chat and a photo with Santa on Friday, Dec. 14 from 6 to 7 p.m. in the Recreation Department gym. (Children up to 10 years old.) The event is free and donations will be accepted. Printed photos will be $3 each.
House Decorating Contest: Decorate your house with lights and novelties to see if your house can be featured in next year's Farmington Parks & Recreation Fall/ Winter Brochure. All you have to do is call the Recreation Department before 5 p.m. on Dec. 10 and leave us your address. On Dec. 14 the Recreation Department will judge the houses. Don't forget to turn on your lights!!! Try to beat last year's winners pictured in the brochure!
Senior Trips: On Dec. 7 "A Christmas Carol" is at the Leddy Theatre. We will go out to dinner before the show so bring some extra money. The fee is $25. The bus will leave at 4 p.m.
On Dec. 10 — Mystery Lunch Bunch Fee: $5.00. The bus will leave at 10:30.
On Dec. 20 — Christmas Tea Party: Join us for our holiday tea party and enjoy some yummy treats! Fee: $5. The party will start at noon.
Goodwin Library
Children's Room: Get Onboard for the Polar Express on Thursday, Nov. 29 at 6 p.m. at Valley View Community School in the Multi-Purpose room. Join us for this favorite Family Holiday Event. Come in your pajamas and fuzzy slippers and enjoy our holiday stories and songs followed by cookies and hot chocolate. Please make a note of our new date and location. FMI please call 755-2944, ext. 3
Stonyfield Farm is coming to Goodwin Library on Dec. 5: We had to re-schedule this event because of the storm and will now be presenting Jenna Bourne from Stonyfield Farm on Dec. 5 at 6 p.m. so mark your calendars! Jenna, Stonyfield's Sustainability Innovation Project Coordinator, will speak about how they got started, how they became the best known yogurt company in the country and what they are doing in the way of green and organic innovations. Jenna will also be bringing samples of some of their products! Don't miss this opportunity to hear this interesting program and ask questions.
Reading with Ava is on Thursdays, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Sign up to read to our wonderful therapy dog Ava. Snuggle down in one of our beanbags with this beautiful soft gentle dog for 20 minutes of undivided attention. Please call or email (755-2944, ext 3; firstname.lastname@example.com) to make an appointment today!
Historical Society
Antique Appraisal Evening with David Aubert on Friday, Dec. 7 at 7 p.m. in the Historical Society Museum of the Goodwin Library (lower floor). The Society will convene for its regular monthly meeting at 6:30 p.m. The business meeting will end at 7 p.m. at which time David Aubert will begin a two hour program of antique appraisal. Due to our two-hour limitation, attendees wanting to have their items appraised will be asked to sign a card at the start of the event. Cards will be drawn randomly from those submitted. Participants are limited to two items in the interest of time. David will continue to appraise items by random drawing until 9 p.m... We'll try to do as many as we can while respecting the time limitations. We regret that we might not be able to appraise everyone's items. The presentation will be free to the public. Refreshments will be served. (From the Historical Society website www.farmingtonnhhistory.org/)
High School
On Tuesday, Dec. 4 at 6:30 p.m. in the FHS Library financial aid experts discuss ways to apply for aid, what type of aid is available, and how to complete the financial aid and scholarship applications successfully. Funding options, scholarship searches and the importance of deadlines are discussed. For more information, call 755-2811, ext. 106 or email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Veterans' events
Please see Gale Grace's Veterans' Corner for full details of the Meat Raffle on Friday evening, Nov. 30 and the Ham & Bean Supper on Saturday Dec. 1
The Planning Board meets on Tuesday, Dec. 4 at 6 p.m. in the Selectmen's Chambers.
The Capital Improvement Committee will meet on Wednesday, Dec. 5 at 5 p.m. in the Selectmen's Chambers.
The Zoning Board will meet on Thursday, Dec. 6 at 7 p.m. in the Selectmen's Chambers.
The Board of Selectmen will meet on Monday, Dec. 10 at 6 p.m.
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Farmington tree lighting is on Saturday, Dec. 1
FARMINGTON — On Wednesday, Dec. 5, the Goodwin Library has rescheduled Jenna Bourne, the Stonyfield Farm speaker, so be sure to mark your calendar! The Goodwin Library will also be holding its Annual Polar Express event on Thursday, Nov. 29 and the Rec Dept. will host the town Tree Lighting this Saturday, Dec. 1. Bring the whole family down for the event and enjoy hot chocolate, Santa and Christmas carols! See the column below for details on these and other town happenings.


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The Chinese government has put a heavy focus on innovation as a means of driving its economy and improving its recent, flagging performance. Local governments have heard the call and have rushed to erect new infrastructure and buildings designed to support this movement.
Unfortunately, there appears to be a big problem with this plan as an economic driver: businesses are not on board and nobody is making use of these newly built spaces and services.
China has been notorious for its over-adjustments and excessive push in promising new directions. It is a uniquely Chinese tendency to flock behind programs suggested by senior leadership with a fanatical zeal that usually results in wild production swings, short-term gains, and long-term problems. Previous examples of such programs that resulted in such bubbles over the last several years have included housing, steel, and theme parks, to name but a few.
According to Shi Jiqiang, a Partner at Leilai Management, a startup management firm near Beijing, "The risk of a bubble is extremely large…This is both a test for [the] government and for the managers of startup spaces…there aren't enough entrepreneurs."
For its part, the Chinese government in Beijing does not see prior bubbles as failures at all. In fact, it considers each a great success for its time, and plans to pursue a similar approach with innovation. It has encouraged students and migrant workers to create their own technology-based startups in an effort to shift the economy's focus away from production and into the potentially much more profitable technology and services sectors.
Nearly 80% of the capital for the infrastructure and building projects designed to support this push has come from the government, however. This has raised a number of red flags for outside analysts, who are concerned this could create a huge drag on China's financial resources.
"In any sort of market, you want the experts making the decisions, not some technocrat or bureaucrat," according to William Bao Bean, Investment Partner at venture capital fund SOSV, a firm specialized in startup investments. "You don't tend to see too many successful companies come out of a government-based decision-making process."
The sentiment seems to be mirrored by people on the street, as well. "I wouldn't consider becoming an entrepreneur. You need money to do that. No, for someone like me, I don't really have many options," said Liu Haiyang. Haiyang runs a shop selling bathroom fittings in a space next to one of the recently constructed "innovation centers" created by the government.
Most venture capitalists agree that startups tend to gravitate toward, and experience the greatest success, in locations where successful innovation centers already exist. Simply creating locations dubbed "innovation centers" by the government fails to produce the requisite mix of talent, expertise, market, and culture necessary to prompt success in this sort of venture.
Moreover, cultural influences, like social pressure to find "dependable" work has caused many to shun the idea of moving into the uncertain realm of technology startups.
As a result, many analysts fear that China is simply pushing for growth too hard in a direction it is not yet prepared to go. Until deeper roots have grown for this sort of economic transformation, many fear it will simply lead to yet another bubble, which, when it pops, could have negative implications for the economies dependent on China.


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Topics › All Forums › General › The Corner Pub › 15 Years Ago: Van Halen Mount Disastrous Reunion With Sammy Hagar
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It should have worked. Van Halen, six years after an ill-fated attempt to carry on without Sammy Hagar, reunited with the "Red Rocker" for a trio of new songs and a huge 80-date tour. Rather than signal a triumphal second act for the most commercially successful Van Halen line up, however, this 2004 tour marked a ugly end — even as it pointed the way for what would come next, both for Van Halen and for Hagar.
"What happened on that reunion tour in '04," Hagar told Sally Steele eight years later, "was some of the most miserable, back-stabbing dark crap I've ever been involved with my whole life."
What the public didn't see, Hagar says, was how badly things had turned for Eddie Van Halen behind the scenes in the interim. Hagar says that Van Halen, then in the throes of addiction, was in such a bedraggled state that it shocked him. The legendary guitarist, Hagar wrote in his memoir Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock, was unkempt, hunched over, frighteningly skinny, drinking wine straight out of a bottle, missing part of his tongue (after a cancer scare) and several teeth. As his descent continued, Hagar says their relationship was irretrievably broken.
The initial — and quite unlikely — detente had begun with a phone call to Alex Van Halen, Eddie's sibling drummer. "I've been saying this for 100 years: 'I'm going to give Alex a call one of these days,'" Hagar told Fox in 2004, and finally — while vacationing at a Southern California beach resort with his family — he did. "It was like a complete love fest," Hagar said. "It was just, 'Wow, I really miss this friendship.'"
Emboldened, Hagar stopped by Eddie's 5150 studios next on a social call, simply to chat. Soon, despite Van Halen's condition, they were jamming together for the first time since an acrimonious '96 split that seemed to spell the end to a productive collaboration which once catapulted Van Halen to its first-ever chart topping album — and then three more in a row. Next came talk of recording again and Hagar did, in fact, help contribute a trio of new songs for their 2004 greatest-hits compilation The Best of Both Worlds — a project that would debut at No. 3 on the Billboard chart. Then came the announcement of a tour.
"Ed and Al started playing me some music they had been working on, and it was just extremely inspiring," Hagar told the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune in the summer of 2004. "We said, 'Here's what we're gonna do: We're going to pretend like it never happened. We're gonna rise above it.'"
It didn't work out that way. In fact, an issue erupted even before the first show, with an argument over who would play bass. Eddie and Alex no longer wanted to work with fellow co-founder Michael Anthony. It seems the Van Halens hadn't taken kindly to the fact that Anthony stayed friends with, and even performed with, Hagar following his initial departure from the band.
Hagar, however, said there would be no reunion without Anthony. The logjam was broken when Anthony reportedly agreed to a brutal series of demands — including a pay cut, and signing away his portion of the rights to the Van Halen name and logo.
"When we did the 2004 reunion, Eddie didn't even want me to be a part of that because he was so torqued up that I was buddies with Sammy," Anthony recalled in 2009. "Why can't I be buddies with Sammy and still play with Van Halen? With those guys, it was a cut-and-dried situation. You are in or you are out."
The resulting tour would, in fact, be a huge financial success, grossing $54.3 million according to Pollstar. Still, by the end of it, things had been torn forever between the two factions. "I don't get along with Eddie anymore," Hagar told Billboard afterward, "and that's all there is to it."
By all accounts, Anthony and Hagar barely spoke to Eddie Van Halen, on or off stage. Hagar, in his autobiography, says they had different jets, different hotels, different limos, different security details. Meanwhile, Hagar says Eddie's health was continuing to deteriorate. Even Van Halen's accounts of the concerts were odd. "I would just show up for sound check," he said in a rambling 2004 interview, "and I go, 'Hmm, why do extra laundry? So, I would just wear whatever I'm wearing, then take my shirt off and play."
Hagar says the guitarist collapsed more than once backstage. Rumors of arguments that nearly led to blows proliferated. "There were nights where it was kind of like a rollercoaster, up or down," Anthony remembered a few years later, "and myself, I would have liked to have seen him totally clean up if we were gonna take this further."
Forty shows in, Hagar says he tried to quit. Only the threat of a lawsuit changed his mind. With 17 shows left, Hagar admitted to listeners on KSHE in St. Louis that he preferred working with his solo group, even as the tour lurched toward a predictably disastrous conclusion at its final stop in Tucson on November 19, 2004. "It was," Hagar says in Red, "the worst show we'd ever done in our lives. Eddie played so bad." Everything ended as Van Halen smashed his guitar to bits in a fit of sudden rage, sending pieces of it into the crowd. "You don't understand," a crying reportedly Eddie said to the crowd.
Hagar says he's never spoken to either of the Van Halen brothers since that night. "I was just hoping it was going to be great and everybody was going to be happy and a big love fest and just go at it again," Hagar told NBC in 2011, "but it wasn't that at all. It was the complete opposite."
From the ashes of this awful mishap, however, emerged both a reworked edition of Van Halen and a new band featuring Hagar and Anthony. Eddie's son Wolfgang had joined him onstage playing rhythm guitar during "316," an instrumental dedicated to the youngster from 1991′s For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. Wolfgang would eventually replace Anthony in Van Halen, beginning in 2006. Two years after that, Hagar and Anthony formed Chickenfoot with Joe Satriani and Chad Smith.
"Obviously Mike and I are dearest friends on the planet, but Ed and I … he turned on me," Hagar said in 2012. "It was a horrible, horrible ending to a beautiful, beautiful story, and I'm still disappointed that they have not reached out to be friends — especially Alex, because Alex and I didn't have a problem.
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Founded in 1451, the University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world. Originally located on High Street in the city centre near Glasgow Cathedral, in 1870 it moved to the stunning collection of buildings perched upon Gilmorehill today, where it continues to watch over the bustling city and picturesque tenements of Glasgow's West End.
This walking tour will take you on a fascinating journey around some of the university's most significant spots - from philosopher Thomas Reid's tombstone and the atmospheric cloisters to the very same staircase Lord Kelvin would take from his house to his laboratory - whilst discovering the connections of James Watt, Adam Smith and Isabella Elder whose names are inscribed on the university's Memorial Gates.
For your consideration, we have prepared a video preview of the tour: University of Glasgow Tours Preview
Tours leave the University Visitor Centre Tuesday - Sunday 2pm and 11am April to October. Tickets can be bought via Eventbrite. Alternatively, tickets can be purchased from SRC Welcome Point McIntyre Building or from the Tour Guide prior to the tour starting.
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The Visitor Centre is situated within the main building, just through the gates on University Avenue.
The University is in the West End of the city, 2 miles from the city centre and round the corner from Byres Road and Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
- Bus: First Bus 4 and 4A stop directly outside.
- Subway: Hillhead station - 5 minute walk.
- Train: Partick station - 20 minute walk.
- Car: Pay and display on surrounding streets.
Assistance dogs are permitted in all areas. The majority of the tour is accessible for wheelchair users, although the route will deviate slightly to accommodate lift access.
Due to the nature of University business access to all rooms cannot be guaranteed on all days.
Our guides would be more than happy to let you into the SRC's Gilchrist Postgraduate Club after your tour if you fancy a coffee or a panini, open 10am-11pm Monday-Saturday and 12 noon-11pm Sunday. The Club serves a selection of hot and cold beverages, paninis, sandwiches, nachos and a lovely range of home-baking.
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7 Ways to Stick to Your Budget on Vacation
Keep Your Budget
This article originally appeared on LearnVest.com.
Whether you're planning a vacation in Paris or a skydive in the States this summer, we don't want you counting pennies while you stroll along the Seine or thinking about your savings account as you plummet toward Earth.
Vacations are well-deserved treats and money shouldn't be a cloud over these precious times away. On the other hand, the "anything goes" spirit that is so intoxicating during a trip can turn a little…toxic afterward, when you're home facing staggering credit card bills.
Follow our tips for staying within your budget on vacation so money concerns don't interfere with your good times.
Start Planning Early—With a Budget in Mind
The key to optimal vacation spending is—you guessed it—planning and budgeting. About 8 percent of your total yearly budget can go toward "fun" spending like travel. If you love to travel, you can increase this portion of your budget by cutting other areas. When trip planning, balance your total costs based on 1) where you're going; 2) how you plan to get there; and 3) what you'll do once there. For example, while a small island in the Pacific might have really great rates on hotels or restaurants, it might cost a small fortune to fly there—but you'll save on low-cost beach activities. If you're on a budget, plan a trip that doesn't gouge you in all three areas.
Create a Daily Cash Allowance
After the initial investments of transportation and hotel, set a daily budget for expected food, drink, activities and souvenirs/shopping. Inflate the number by 10 to 15 percent as a cushion for small emergencies or unforeseen expenses. Vacations are a great time to practice the "cash diet." Once you arrive at your daily allowance, set aside that amount in separate envelopes for each day and stash the envelopes in the hotel safe. Each day, use only what's in one envelope. Your credit card can be saved for emergencies.
Foreign money often doesn't feel like real money—we don't have the same psychological association with spending it. So you don't blow through half an envelope on a tip, consider jotting the cost in US dollars on the envelope to keep track. Or just keep looking at the envelope to see how much is left for the day!
Be an Exchange Expert
You'll get the best exchange rate at your destination (not at home), and usually at a bank ATM. Foreign banks will have lower exchange rates than commercial exchange counters. Exchange the total amount of money you can spend based on your budget.
Call your bank and credit cards ahead of time to find out their foreign transaction fees—some charge, some don't. You'll definitely want to know this ahead of time so you're not racking up fees at the ATM every day or incurring extra charges every time you swipe. Credit card companies will also freeze your card if you don't tell them ahead of time you're heading to another country, or even to a different state (they'll think someone has stolen your card). A courtesy call to your credit card company will save you from embarrassment in the gift shop.
Don't Play Santa (But Don't be Scrooge, Either)
It's tempting to pick up souvenirs for friends and family every time you pass a store. But while we're all for gift giving, there's no need to return from Italy with four leather bags for your mom, or a candle and a bracelet and a bar of soap for your best friend.
Before leaving, make a list of people to buy gifts for and how much you want to spend on each person. When you hit a nice shop where you can knock several gifts off your list, buy in bulk and negotiate a discount. Shop with your budget in mind—don't pick up cheap tchotchkes whenever you see them. And speaking of…
How Many Snow Globes Do You Really Need?
When going on vacation, you want to make your memories last. But before buying that miniature Eiffel Tower, think about whether the "souvenir" in question fits into your lifestyle or home décor. Snag items that work seamlessly with your lifestyle, like a fair-trade clutch from South America or a jar of pineapple jam from Hawaii—that way, vacation memories become a part of your everyday life instead of relegated to a dusty mantle display. Plan your year's budget with your vacation in mind—if you know you can get an inexpensive silk scarf in Vietnam when you head there later this year, don't buy one stateside, where it will be more expensive. Also, consider buying less stuff but taking a lot of photos you can later frame or keep on your phone or computer screen.
Eat Like a Local
Hotel restaurants can often be much pricier than restaurants in the surrounding area. If you can't afford to spend $30 each morning on the breakfast buffet, ask for recommendations for inexpensive cafes or sandwich shops nearby. Street food is another inexpensive option and is a great way to try authentic local cuisine. You can also save on breakfast, lunch and snacks—and experience local color—by buying fresh produce at local markets.
Leave Room for More
Leave room in your suitcase for items you may want to bring back so you don't have to buy another luggage piece on your trip or get slapped with additional baggage fees. If you're allowed to carry on or check another bag, consider bringing a fold-up tote bag and packing it in your suitcase to accommodate extra items.


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U.N. Confirms Sarin Gas Killed Civilians in Damascus
Aug. 21 Incident Brought U.S. to Brink of Attack
UNITED NATIONS—A U.N. weapons inspectors' report confirmed that rockets filled with sarin gas were responsible for killing a large number of civilians on Aug. 21 in Damascus, in an incident that brought the U.S. to the brink of war in Syria.
The report, based on physical samples and interviews with survivors and witnesses, says "several surface-to-surface rockets capable of delivering significant chemical payloads were identified" at the site of the attack.
"Samples later confirmed to contain Sarin were recovered from a majority of the rockets or rocket fragments," the report said.
"Environmental, chemical and medical samples we have collected provide clear evidence that surface-to-surface rockets containing the nerve agent Sarin was used in Ein Tarma, Moadamiyah and Zamalka in the Ghouta area of Damascus," the report said.
The inspectors said that 330-mm caliber rockets fired into one neighborhood likely came from the same multiple-rocket launcher. The resulting craters were small, indicating that the rockets were carrying chemical weapons rather than explosives.
The rockets had the markings 97-179 and what appear to be Cyrillic letters and numbers on the bottom ring of an engine, the report said.
It wasn't immediately clear whether these markings relate to munitions in the Syrian government arsenal or whether opposition fighters could have had access to such munitions.
The U.N. team was mandated only with determining whether and what kind of chemical agent was used in the attack, and not who was to blame.
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Responsibility for the attack has been at the heart of the debate about whether the U.S. military should punish the government of President Bashar al-Assad and degrade his capability to use chemical weapons.
The U.N. inspectors' findings could also influence Congress in any pending vote on military action. French President François Hollande said that France's final decision on whether to take part in a military operation would wait until the U.N. inspectors report.
A deal was reached between the U.S. and Russia in Geneva on Saturday to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons, but that accord could break down over how to implement such a move, and U.S. forces are still in the region poised to strike.
The inspectors said that the fragments they studied "have clearly been handled/moved prior to the arrival of the investigation team."
In addition to rocket fragments, the inspectors took numerous physical samples—including from the sole of a slipper, from the head scarf of a victim and from the fabric of a pillow.
The inspectors visited the site during arranged five-hour cease-fires over three days, from Aug. 26 to Aug. 29. The team obtained statements from 50 survivors of the attack.
"Survivors reported an attack with shelling, followed by the onset of a common range of symptoms, include shortness of breath, disorientation … eye irritation, blurred vision … [and] vomiting," among other symptoms, the report said.
Nine nurses and seven doctors interviewed said they saw shortly after the attack "a large number of ill or deceased persons lying in the streets without external signs of injury."
Weather conditions kept the gas close to the ground, maximizing its effectiveness, the report said.
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Ambrose "Dutch" F. Seifert 1925 - 2009
A memorial Mass for Ambrose "Dutch" F. Seifert, 84, Basehor, will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20, at Holy Angels Catholic Church, Basehor.
Mr. Seifert died Friday Oct. 16, 2009, at his home.
He was born March 15, 1925, in Greeley, Kan.
Mr. Seifert served in the U.S. Army during World War II and retired from Union Pacific Railroad in 1987.
He married Teresa M. Bussell on Aug. 25, 1947, at Holy Angels Catholic Church in Fredonia. She survives of the home.
Other survivors include seven children, Barbara (Larry) Easter, Tonganoxie, Brenda (LeRoy) Chadwick, Freeman, Mo., Bonnie Banks, Olathe, Mike Seifert, Illinois, Terrie (Lorin) Phipps, Merriam, Cindy (Gary) Chadwick, Sapulpa, Okla., and Alfred Seifert, Germany; 15 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.
Two sons, Joseph and Paul Seifert, died earlier.
Visitation will be from 9:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. Tuesday prior to the Mass at the church.
The family suggests memorials to St. Jude's Hospital or Sunflower Health Care, sent in care of Alden-Harrington Funeral Home, 214 Oak St., Bonner Springs, KS 66012.
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