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Enhance Application Security with Automated, Open-Source Security Management
Almost every major company uses or builds software containing open-source components today—96% of them, according to a report from Black Duck by Synopsis. The same report revealed that 78% of the apps that were audited had at least one vulnerability, including several that were reported nearly six years ago! Needless to say, not having solid open-source use policies and procedures in place for your developers poses a significant risk to any enterprise.
Black Duck and Pivotal collaborated to deliver a secure and simple user experience for rapidly building and deploying applications so that developers can benefit from the many advantages of using open source in their apps with confidence.
Join Dave Meurer from Black Duck and Kamala Dasika from Pivotal as they discuss:
- Key security concepts you need to know pertaining to cloud-native application development
- How to simplify and automate open-source security management for your applications and reduce license, operational risk, or policy violations
Dave Meurer, Alliances Technical Manager at Black Duck by Synopsys, leads solution development, enablement, and evangelism for Synopsys Software Integrity Group.
Kamala leads GTM with Pivotal Cloud Foundry Technology partners. She has been working at Pivotal since 2013 and has previously held various product or engineering positions at VMware, Tibco, SAP, and Applied Biosystems.
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BBC dismisses calls for inquiry into Rolf Harris
The BBC has dismissed calls for an inquiry following the conviction of veteran entertainer Rolf Harris for sex crimes, saying its review prompted by the Jimmy Savile scandal will be sufficient.
The 84-year-old's reputation was left in tatters after he was found guilty of 12 charges involving four women, most while they were under age.
Dozens more alleged victims came forward during his trial, and police have said they will look at fresh allegations that were not part of the trial.
Child protection campaigners called on the BBC to launch an investigation for "turning a blind eye" to the the situation with Harris, but the corporation said there was no link between his crimes and the BBC.
Peter Saunders, from the National Association for People Abused in Childhood, told The Sun the BBC's attitude to the Harris case was similar to that taken with jailed TV presenter Stuart Hall and serial paedophile Savile.
He said: "Harris, like Savile, like Hall, was part of a corporation that helped cover up institutionalised abuse. The BBC has to come clean to expose what has gone on."
Mr Saunders said the BBC was "almost aiding the abusers", adding: "They need to lance this horrible boil and get it out there."
A spokesman for the corporation said: "The convictions do not relate to the BBC. We already have the Dame Janet Smith review which is making an impartial and independent investigation into the past culture and practices of the BBC during the period Savile worked for the corporation.
"And related to that, we commissioned an independent assessment of our current child protection and whistleblowing policies which will report later in the year."
He said any relevant information the BBC received had been passed on to police, adding: "The BBC had an agreed process when revelations about Savile were coming out. When contacts of this nature were made to the BBC they were passed to our Investigations Service who then passed them on to the police."
The Dame Janet Smith review was commissioned to examine how Savile carried out a decades-long campaign of abuse.
Delayed until later in the year until after Dave Lee Travis's forthcoming trial, it has been reported that the review is expected to uncover hundreds of victims and reveal a culture of ignorance which ''protected'' Savile.
Harris faces jail when he is sentenced on Friday for his offences, and his reputation lies in ruins.
There is growing pressure for him to be stripped of his honours from the Queen, and he has already had his Bafta fellowship, awarded two years ago, removed. Galleries and art houses are also reportedly ridding themselves of his work, removing it from online catalogues.
Tributes in his home country of Australia have been defaced, while the mayor of Perth in Western Australia said the council was considering tearing up a plaque to Harris inlaid in the city's St Georges Terrace.
Australian prime minister Tony Abbott said he was "gutted and dismayed" by the news of the conviction.
Sir Keir Starmer, the former director of public prosecutions, who advised on the decision to charge Harris in August last year, said the publicity of Harris's arrest had been vital in encouraging victims to come forward.
He said: "It's very difficult for victims of sexual abuse to come forward in ordinary circumstances. It's particularly difficult where there is a celebrity involved because very often victims feel they simply are not going to be believed against someone such as Rolf Harris.
"It was exactly the same with Jimmy Savile - very few victims did come forward in that case. they felt they couldn't take Jimmy Savile on, they wouldn't be believed. That's a critical part of this whole case."
Among the further alleged victims who have come forward are several in Australia, and Scotland Yard has been in touch with their counterparts in the Australian police. It is not yet clear whether they are pursuing any investigation in Harris's home country.
Richard Scorer, abuse lawyer for Slater & Gordon which represents 176 victims of Savile, said they had been contacted by "up to a dozen people" with allegations about Harris and were considering them carefully.
The women are thought to be from the UK, New Zealand and Australia.
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Rants about generalisations notwithstanding, I'm a fan of typeful programming (I'm sure I'd love Ada). For a script that will be moderately complex, I like to sit down and think about the types I'm going to use before I start.
Any library that will enable me to specify my types more precisely and concisely is obviously a win.
And speaking of Moose…
Moose has a bunch of methods to specify your types and a built-in type hierarchy available that you can build off.
Abusing an example I've used before:
use Moose; use Moose::Util::TypeConstraints; use MooseX::Params::Validate; subtype 'LegalDrinkingAge' => as 'Int' => where { $_ >= 18 } ; coerce 'LegalDrinkingAge' => from 'Int' => via { 1 } ; sub can_legally_drink { my $age = pos_validated_list( \@_, { isa => 'LegalDrinkingAge' }, ); return 1; } print can_legally_drink(18), "\n"; print can_legally_drink(17), "\n";
Checking for a LegalDrinkingAge type here is obviously the wrong thing to do, but for the purposes of the example it will do.
The resulting error is fine, if a little ugly.
$ perl5.10.1 moose-types.pl
Parameter #1 ("17") to main::can_legally_drink did not pass the 'checking type constraint for LegalDrinkingAge' callback
at /u/packages/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/MooseX/Params/Validate.pm line 168
MooseX::Params::Validate::pos_validated_list('ARRAY(0x976ce40)', 'HASH(0x911b6f8)') called at moose-types.pl line 24
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Anxiety Therapy That Won't Induce Anxiety in Your Wallet
Get off of Facebook
The first thing that you should try doing is to spend less time on Facebook or any social networking sites for that matter (assuming you regularly go on them, of course). A recent study was done by Monash University where participants' social anxiety levels were assessed for various amounts of time spent on social networking sites. The results suggested that although social networking sites initially seemed to lead to a reduction in anxiety (because they had a broader network of social support as well as online resources for support), the amount of anxiety that they experienced in actual "face-to-face" social situations increased. In other words, spending more time on Facebook increased their "online" friends, but ironically boosted their social anxiety in real life situations.
Hypnosis is more of a viable option than you would think, since you don't need to hire a sketchy expensive hypnotist to put you to sleep in their office while they "do work" on you. A simple technique that you could do on your own involves creating a trigger for a "special place" that you go to where your anxiety is nonexistent. All you need to do is describe yourself descending through a relaxing place such as a beach or garden (preferably recorded) down stairs until you reach a "special place." This place can be anything, as long as it offers complete relaxation. Do something to signify that you are in that place, such as pinching your arm or blinking one eye. If successful, it will be like Pavlov's experiment, and every time you encounter a stressful situation, using your signifier to return to your happy place should calm you down. You should note that if you're already a person that exhibits symptoms of OCD, this may not be the best solution for you.
By exercising, I don't mean to go hit up Google on ways to lose stomach fat, but to focus on exercises that are actually designed to reduce anxiety. Exercises such as PMR, or Progressive Muscle Relaxation, have been proven to reduce anxiety for those who practice it. PMR was invented in the 1920s by a physician that realized that since muscle tension and anxiety are directly correlated, a reduction in one should cause a reduction in the other. Simply tense each set of muscles for 20 seconds and then release for 10 seconds, starting with the legs and moving up the entire body. PMR has not only proven to relieve anxiety, but insomnia and even ulcers as well.


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Yes, you can attend as a delegate.
Submit your paper via email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Maximum 2 presentations can be given by a single speaker.
With the consent of the main author, co-author can present their work.
No, you can directly register as a delegate.
Individuals that require an official letter of invitation in order to obtain a visa and authorization to attend the meeting must first register for the meeting and then request a Visa Letter of Invitation via email by writing to us at firstname.lastname@example.com
Details to be sent for letter of invitation:
- Full name
- Affiliation
- Passport Number
- Scan copy of passport
- Contact details
- Nationality
- Purpose of visit: Speaker/Delegate.
Each poster will be allotted with a unique identification number, and those will be placed at the venue on the allotted day for poster presentation as well as the unique number will be mentioned in the scientific program.
Poster board size depends on venue, but the posters should be in the dimension of 42" x 56".
Poster should be placed at the allotted places 2 hours prior to the poster session and can be removed at the end of the day.
Best posters will be awarded at the closing ceremony of the conference.
Yes, we have separate oral category for students i.e. Young Scientist Awards
In case I have to cancel my conference participation after registration, can I obtain a refund of my registration?
The refund policy is posted on the conference terms and conditions web page.
All fully paid registrations are transferable to other persons from the same organization, if registered person is unable to attend the event. Transfers must be made by the registered person in writing to email@example.com. Details must be included the full name of replacement person, their title, contact phone number and email address. All other registration details will be assigned to the new person unless otherwise specified.
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Attendees requesting for partial financial assistance can mail us direct at firstname.lastname@example.com
Unfortunately, we are not in a position to offer such grants.
Exhibitors/Sponsors/Media Partners
You can directly get the info in the website in exhibitor/sponsor column or mail us at firstname.lastname@example.com
Every attendee is responsible to take care of their own transport, if there is any free shuttle service the info will be share to you priorly by the program managers.
I do not need accommodation, however only registration fees with accommodation are available – do I get a reduction?
Yes, we have option of only registration or packages i.e., (Package A and Package B). If you do not wish to book accommodation from our end you can opt for general registration which excludes accommodation.
Hotel information will be sent to you with a confirmation letter. A block of rooms has been reserved at a special rate and will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Please contact us by writing at firstname.lastname@example.com . After the allocated rooms have been filled, reservations may be made at the regular room rate if space is available.
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It depends on the availability of room, if it's available we can confirm your bookings till 15days prior to the event dates.
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Reviewed By Samuel M (Houston, TX) Reviewed for a 2000 Mitsubishi Eclipse —8/15/2009 8:54 AM
Once out of the box, these lights are beautiful. After playing with a few wires here and there, and after messing with an included battery, I was able to light the halo up. MAN is it bright. I plan on changing the halo's to have red led's, but that shouldn't too much of a problem because the led's pop right out. Haven't installed them yet, but I have a feeling they will be a little difficult to mount in my 2000 Mitsubishi eclipse. Besides that, this is a GREAT BUY.


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(RNN) – When the devastating Camp Fire broke out in Northern California last month, it spread so fast that in many instances people who were away from home didn't have time to get back and save their possessions and often, tragically, their pets.
One couple who lost their home and were finally able to return to survey the damage this week, though, found their dog Madison waiting for them.
The group K9 Paw Print Rescue posted the story of Madison on Facebook on Thursday.
"Madison's parents were unable to get home to him when the Camp Fire spread," K9's post read. "They hoped and prayed he would be OK. When they finally got clearance to go back to the lot where their house once stood … Madison was waiting there for them as if he were protecting his former home."
"Never give up!!" the group added.
A volunteer with the group, Shayla Sullivan, explained in the comments that the couple's other dog, Miguel, had turned up in another town, and she had held out hope that Madison would too.
Sullivan said every time she was allowed inside the burn zone over the last month, she would "put out fresh food and water" for Madison.
She wrote that she "had the idea of placing an article of clothing that would smell like" the dog's owner, Andrea, "to keep Madison's hope alive until his people could return."
"WELL, I'm so HAPPY to report that Andrea was allowed to return to her property today and THERE MADISON WAS!!!!!" Sullivan wrote. "He had stayed to protect what was left of his home, and NEVER gave up on his people! I'm so happy I'm crying as I write this!"
"He didn't give up through the storms or the fire! A LOOOOOONG month it must have been for him!" she added.
Further into the comments, Sullivan also explained how Miguel was found about an hour away.
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Nascimento's killing was the third shooting of a Brazilian journalist to be documented by CPJ this year.
"Brazilian authorities must thoroughly investigate Valério Nascimento's murder, determine if it was work-related, and bring those responsible to justice," said Carlos Lauría, CPJ's senior coordinator for the Americas. "We are alarmed by a series of violent attacks this year targeting journalists who report on official corruption."
Nascimento, owner of the newspaper Panorama Geral, was found dead Tuesday morning outside his doorway, shot in both the head and chest, according to news reports. Panorama Geral had only published four editions, according to a local news report.
Police are still establishing a motive for the killing, and haven't ruled out that it could have been politically motivated, press reports said. Citing local police, O Globo reported that the latest issue of Panorama Geral had uncovered irregularities in the administration of the mayor of the neighboring town of Bananal. The paper had also criticized the management of Bananal's public services including sewage treatment, public parks, and health clinics, according to press reports. Nascimento, who was also active in area politics, served as president of his local residents association and had twice run for alderman.
In April, Luciano Leitão Pedrosa, a radio and television journalist known for his critical coverage of local authorities and criminal groups, was shot in Pernambuco state. In March, critical blogger Ricardo Gama was seriously wounded when an unidentified gunman shot him in the head, neck, and chest as he walked in his Rio de Janeiro neighborhood.


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Bisons run for win in T-town
Valentino Pascucci isn't known for stealing bases and without a stolen base in 133 games he decided to change that by swiping second base in the sixth inning of Saturday night's game reaching second standing up in the Bisons 134th game of the year.
Thanks to Pascucci's first stolen base of the 2011 season and a single into right field by Josh Satin the Bisons ended their four game losing streak by beating Toledo 3-2 at Fifth Third Field.
Zach Lutz put the Bisons in the lead in the third inning smashing a two run home run over the left field wall scoring Jordany Valdespin. After the Mud Hens battled back into the game the Bisons manufactured the game winning run in the sixth.
Pascucci didn't steal a base at all in the 2010 season with the Bisons. Pascucci did have one stolen base in the 2009 season with triple-A Portland Beavers and two in 2008 with the triple-A Albuquerque Isotopes.
Pascucci planned the steal well coasting into second without a throw or having to slide. Satin drove a single into right field scoring Pascucci from second for Satin's 16th RBI with the Bisons.
Fernando Perez drew a walk in the seventh and on a single by Valdespin into left field Perez went from first to third putting himself into scoring position. With Luis Hernandez batting Perez broke for home on a sucide squeeze but with the pitch in the dirt Hernandez couldn't make contact and Perez was hung out to dry.
Dale Thayer closed out the game in Toledo earning his 19 th save of the season giving the Bisons a 4-4 split on a road trip that the Bisons started 3-0.
Game Notes: Valentino Pascucci stole second base for the first time in 193 games with the Bisons…Jordany Valdespin extended his hit streak to six games going 3-3 and scoring a run on Saturday night…Dale Thayer added to his save total getting his International league leading 19 th save Saturday night.


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>Whenever a diver complains of chest pain, several possible diagnoses must be ruled out. The first is pulmonary barotrauma, an over-pressure injury to the lung; the other is a related pneumothorax, or lung collapse. Both conditions can cause chest pain, especially when the injured person tries a deep breath. To rule this out, a physician can use a chest X-ray, a spiral CT scan or listen to the individual's breathing. The examining physician should rule out any cardiac event like a mild heart attack.
>Finally, it has to be determined whether your pain is really DCI disguised as chest pain. After a physical examination and an X-ray have eliminated the above-mentioned potential diagnoses, osteochondritis is a reasonable diagnosis, although it is not very common in scuba divers.
>Any physical activity involving lifting or straining against a heavy weight may have caused this inflammation. It is impossible to know which activity triggered this episode. Straining against the weight of your tank, which is shifted upward as you fall out of the boat backwards, may have caused an inflammation. For those who have never used a roll-in entry, it is generally practiced from a smaller boat or inflatable craft. It will allow multiple divers to enter the water at the same time, and divers don't have to stand up in the boat after donning their equipment.
>The inflammation may also have begun as you lifted yourself from a sitting position balancing your weight as you moved backward and upward to the gunwales of the boat. This is not a common body movement in everyday life. It may have even begun from just lifting luggage off the airport conveyor belt.
>It is impossible to say when it occurred, but all it would have taken was enough stress to irritate the cartilage. Then either the repetitive movement of gearing up to dive, falling into the water backward or perhaps even breathing underwater against the resistance of your equipment further aggravated the condition.
>The resolution of your symptoms after taking medications and refraining from further diving seems to have been the right advice. Once you are free of symptoms and back to full activity, begin diving again.


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Preliminary Comments for Senate Commerce Committee Hearing on DNT
June 26, 2012
This Thursday, the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation is holding a hearing entitled "The Need for Privacy Protections: Is Self-Regulation Adequate?" Mozilla along with several others have been asked to comment at the hearing on the current state of: i) industry self-regulation; ii) Mozilla's Do Not Track feature; and iii) the industry's ability to provide consumers with adequate tools to protect their personal information online.
We're planning to participate and provide comments based on our experience and perspective. We also posted the questions to governance for input.
In addition to core Mozilla messages about user choice, control, and transparency, the comments will include the following key key points:
- Industry self-regulation can work when it's a multi-stakeholder process that reflects the views of all of the relevant parties involved in data transactions including users, developers, service providers, publishers, and the ad networks.
- Non-voluntary regulatory measures are a last resort. They can introduce unintended consequences that can be harmful to a fragile web ecosystem. As a result we should be cautious in this regard and give voluntary industry efforts every chance to succeed before interceding with regulation.
- The desire to predict and deliver content that appeals to users is a core driver behind efforts to collect and analyze data about us. This will only increase particularly with the inclusion of the mobile data graph. This is not inherently bad, and delivering content that users want, when they want it, is a good thing if it's done transparently and in harmony with user intent.
- Commerce is a vital and beneficial Internet activity. Enabling and maintaining economic ecosystems on the web is essential to a robust and healthy Internet. Commercial imperatives and user choice/control are not mutually exclusive. They can and must coexist through a combination of technical capabilities and user-centric business and data practices.
- DNT requires cooperative efforts of services providers, ad networks, browsers, and other parts of the web ecosystem. We're optimistic that the multi-stakeholder process ongoing at the W3C will result in a consensus on both the meaning of DNT and how websites should respond.
- DNT is one method to give users a voice in how third parties collect, use, and track information about them. It's not the only method, nor the be all and end all of the data and privacy relationship that exists between users and service providers.
We're in the process of completing the comments now and will submit them in advance of the hearing on Wednesday.


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Theresa Rebeck's "Seminar" is a sturdy example of a genre that once ruled Broadway but is now more or less defunct: the intellectual light comedy. With its literary lion (Jeff Goldblum) roaring and sniffing out red meat among his writing group's eager acolytes, "Seminar" is fueled more by plot mechanics than by the thrum of real life, but on its own limited terms the Ahmanson Theater presentation is quite enjoyable.
The potential in Rebeck's premise for bon mots, sexual antics and reversals is realized almost to a fault. Early on, you realize those most superficially promising in the seminar will bring the least to the party, and the doofus will actually be the prodigy. The most and best sex will go to those who seem least capable of or interested in it. A towering Colossus will have feet of clay. And so on.
This is a world in which a reader need only scan a page or two of manuscript to detect a work of utter genius. (Really?) But let's face it, we embrace boulevard comedy because of, not in spite of, its distance from verisimilitude: David Zinn's apartment setting, for example, is almost a cartoon parody of Upper West Side gentility.
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The brittle artificiality of "Seminar" is rather comforting and certainly leaves us receptive to the playwright's many on-point zingers about the writer's craft. "Don't defend yourself," Goldblum's Leonard advises. "If you defend yourself you're not listening." Good advice, even if the teacher is a first class a-hole.
Goldblum's familiar screen persona — the distracted, narcissistic academic whose surface affability disguises a viper's tongue — serves him well in giving slack to, and then reeling in, his hapless prey. "You'll never be on a panel," he confidently but soul-crushingly predicts to a talented newcomer, and to another, "It's hollow. The work is hollow. I'd think about Hollywood." (Judging by the opening-night cheer at such swipes, the hometown crowd has no problem with Rebeck's biting the hand that feeds the Ahmanson.)
Sam Gold, the original Broadway helmer, stages efficiently and often wittily, as when the group suddenly advances on the hostess as she reveals the manse's stabilized rent. That fury everyone can relate to.
But the playing of the students — all written as types — mostly lags behind that of their mentor. Lucas Near-Verbrugghe and Jennifer Ikeda exude comic energy but aren't very believable as compositors of anything more difficult than a shopping list. Greg Keller's crabbed nerd is stuck with endless, tedious questioning of self-evident fact ("Wait; you like him?!"), and the thesp's visual, vocal and temperamental resemblance to Johnny Galecki's Leonard in "The Big Bang Theory" throws everything a little off.
Only Aya Cash's self-satisfied Bennington grad who's uncertainly confronting adulthood seems to have multiple layers going on. The sparks she and Goldblum give off, whose nature keeps changing over time, prove the evening's best anchor to the give and take of genuinely observed behavior.


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By Rob Glidden
Staff Writer
The summer between the last school year and the new school year about to begin has been one with many transitions, but Southington's teachers and administrators are planning to greet students with the same enthusiasm they have made a priority in the past.
Thalberg Elementary School Principal Megan Bennett, who is taking over for longtime principal Beecher Lajoie, said she intends to spend the first day greeting as many students and families as she can before returning to her work keeping the school running smoothly on a daily basis.
"So far it's wonderful," Bennett said of her first several weeks on the job. "People keep coming in and introducing themselves and I'm really excited for the school year to start."
Teachers typically visit their classrooms in late August to organize their materials and update decorations like posters or personalized nametags.
"I'd like them to feel like it's a cheerful place," said Rebecca Richards, a fifth-grade teacher at Thalberg. "Fifth graders aren't necessarily as excited about school as younger kids but I try to make sure they feel welcome."
Each of the students in her classroom will be greeted by green notebooks with their names on them, which she said reflects the important role writing has in fifth grade. The students are encouraged to personalize their notebooks with pictures and other decorations, although Richards said she would communicate that professional writing typically does not use social media language and abbreviations, such as "u" instead of "you."
At South End Elementary School, second grade teacher Keith Lamontagne said he makes an effort to meet his future students at the end of the previous school year.
"Most of the kids already know me," he said. "I'm the only male teacher here and that's a big deal for some of the second-graders. At this age, they want to do well but every year is different. Last year, I had 16 kids and this year I have 21."
Even though second graders do not have to take the Connecticut Mastery Test (CMT), Lamontagne said there were still many benchmarks students had to meet and that in general, current second graders were learning more complex information than previous generations.
Over the course of the school year, he will be teaching the students about calculating time, money, 2-digit addition and subtraction and the basics of multiplication and division. He said he was looking forward to the imminent first day of school, referring to his job as "the best job in the world."
Third-grade teacher Christy Michalak was in the process of sorting through the large amount of books in her classroom, which will eventually be organized by reading level, series and genre. After the year begins, her students will choose their own book for a "reader's workshop."
"I'd like them to feel that it's not my classroom, it's ours," she said. "It's a place of comfort."
South End is another elementary school with a new leader going into the new school year. After administrator Sally Kamerbeek was moved to Hatton Elementary School, the school board appointed Jim Quinn as the new South End principal. Quinn had previously been an Assistant Principal at Derynoski Elementary School before working as a principal in Meriden for a few years.
"It's going great so far," Quinn said. "I'm working to get to know a lot of people and learn what makes this school tick."
The school district's annual "convocation" event is on Monday, August 27. After two additional days of professional development, students return to school on Thursday, August 30.


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Per PUC 10009, a 10 day notice of termination for nonpayment is required for residential customers. The notice is mailed not earlier than 19 days after mailing bill for services and must state that the 10-day period does not start until 5days after the notice is mailed.
PUC 10009 requires a privately owned public utility to make a reasonable attempt to contact an adult person residing at the premises of the customer by telephone or in person at least 24 hours before termination of services if telephone or personal contact cannot be made, a termination notice must be posted in a conspicuous location on the premises at least 48 hours before termination.
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- Give the subject/topic title a name along this format:
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ie. Title (1972) (DVDrip)
As this is a mixed format section you may wish to add if your file is not mpeg4:
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- Sci-fi, Science, paranormal, weird, etc. Documentries only
- Provide as much info as you feel neccessary, to correctly reflect content. It is a good idea to include a poster/cover shot for the same reason
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Striped Panel Wool Mohair Tailored Trousers
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The Yankees won six pennants in Andy Pettitte's first nine years with the team. They fell three outs short in 2004, Pettitte's first year as a Houston Astro, but Pettitte claimed another flag with the 'Stros in 2005. Last night, Andy Pettitte punched his ticket to his eighth and the Yankees' fortieth World Series, exorcising the ghosts of the 2004 ALCS and 2002 and 2005 ALDS with a fine performance and a 5-2 Game Six victory over the Angels.
Pettitte made just one mistake all night, a hanging curveball that man Jeff Mathis hit for a double to lead off the third for the Angels. Mathis moved to third on a groundout and scored on a two-out Bobby Abreu single. It was the only run the Halos would get off Pettitte in his 6 1/3 innings of work. Pettitte got into a bit of a jam with two outs in the sixth when Torii Hunter singled and Vlad Guerrero doubled him to third, but Hunter's single was a chopper that didn't get beyond the infield grass and Guerrero's double was a bloop to shallow right that Vlad golfed out of the dirt. Andy then fell behind Kendry Morales, 3-0, but got a Morales to chop a comebacker right at his beak for the final out of the inning.
In the meantime, the Yankees put up a three-spot on Angels starter Joe Saunders in the fourth. After Robinson Cano walked and the newly Swish-hawked Nick Swisher punched a single through the shortstop hole, Melky Cabrera bunted both runners up. Saunders then pitched around Derek Jeter, walking him on eight pitches, to get to slumping fellow lefty Johnny Damon. Damon got ahead 2-0, then punched the 2-1 pitch up the middle to give the Yankees a 2-0 lead. After Mark Teixeira reached on an infield single deep in the shortstop hole that reloaded the bases, Saunders walked in a third run on five pitches to Alex Rodriguez. The last pitch to Rodriguez seemed to be a strike (Alex was seen saying as much to Mick Kelleher at first base), but one got the sense that Saunders got off easy given Rodriguez's hot hitting in this postseason. Darren Oliver got Jorge Posada to hit into a double play to end the threat, but Pettitte and the Yankees had their lead.
With one out in the top of the seventh, Juan Rivera singled on Pettitte's 99th pitch of the night. Joe Girardi then called on Joba Chamberlain to pitch to the righty Mathis. Mike Scioscia countered with switch-hitting Maicer Izturis, thus taking one of his hottest hitters out of the game. Given his struggles in this series, Chamberlain seemed like a dubious choice with a slim, two-run lead, but Joba got Izturis to hit a would-be double play ball to shortstop. The ball took a funny bounce on Derek Jeter, but rolled right to Cano standing on second base for a fielder's choice. Joba then got Erick Aybar to ground out to Jeter on two pitches.
Just six outs from the World Series, Girardi didn't mess around. He skipped right over the scuffling Phil Hughes and went straight to Mariano Rivera. Rivera was greeted by a Chone Figgins single that was later plated by a single by Guerrero, but the other three men he faced in the eighth grounded out to the right side of the infield.
Nursing a one-run lead, the Yankee bats added some insurance in the eighth, again initiated by a Cano lead-off walk, this time on four pitches from Ervin Santana. With Scott Kazmir on in relief, Nick Swisher attempted to bunt Cano to second, but second baseman Howie Kendrick dropped the throw at first base leaving men on first and second with none out. Cabrera then attempted to bunt both runners up, but Kazmir babied the throw which sailed over Kendrick allowing Cano to score and pinch-runner Brett Gardner to go to third. After an unproductive groundout by Jeter, who has been battling a cold, Damon worked a seven-pitch walk, and Mark Teixeira hit a sac fly to deep center to plate Gardner and set the score at 5-2. Jered Weaver then came on and walked Rodriguez on four pitches before striking out Posada on six.
With that, Rivera popped back out of the dugout and set the Angels down in order, wrapping up the pennant by striking out pinch-hitter Gary Matthews Jr. with a fastball up and away.
There's a sense that the Yankees are back in familiar territory, but while Pettitte will be playing in his eighth World Series, Jeter and Rivera their seventh, and Posada his sixth, this is a first for the vast majority of the team. Hideki Matsui was on the 2003 pennant winners, Jose Molina was on the 2002 Angels, Johnny Damon and Eric Hinske were on the 2004 and 2007 Red Sox, respectively, and Damaso Marte was on the 2005 White Sox, but for the other 16 men on the roster, including Alex Rodriguez, Mark Teixeira, CC Sabathia, and even home grown Yankees Robinson Cano and Melky Cabrera, this will be their first World Series.
One could see that difference in the celebrations. While Rivera and Posada shared a long, quiet embrace, Teixeira and Rodriguez acted like, well, like they had just won the American League pennant.
The Yankees have two days to celebrate and prepare for the arrival of the Phillies on Wednesday. With Pettitte having done his job, CC Sabathia will start Game One of the World Series in a stellar matchup against fellow lefty Cliff Lee. For the first time since 1996 the Yankees will be the challengers to the defending world champions. That's fine by me. Feels like old times.


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August 4, 2015
In this excellent talk the mathematician Vicky Neale gives a fascinating and easy-to-follow introduction to the prime numbers.
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MICHAEL BROWER, PH.D., is a physicist and expert on energy and environmental issues. WARREN LEON, PH.D., is deputy director for programs at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Since 1969, the Union of Concerned Scientists has brought scientists and citizens together to work for a healthy environment and a safe world.


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BALTIMORE – UMBC sophomore forward Malik Garner (Philadelphia, Pa./Chestnut Hill Academy) shattered his career-high with 32 points and freshman guard Rodney Elliott (Batlimore, Md./John Carroll) hit a late 25-footer to send the game to overtime and the Retrievers prevailed, 84-79, in overtime over Eastern (Pa.) at the RAC Arena.
UMBC (1-1) trailed an inspired Eagles' team by 10 points, at 68-58, with 3:28 to play. But the Retrievers made a quick 7-0 run, capped by a thunderous dunk by junior Devarick Houston (Jonesboro, Ga./Mays) to trim the deficit to 68-65 with 2:05 remaining.
Eastern held UMBC off, but Eagle forward Caleb Knudsen hit only one of two free throws with nine seconds left and the visitors only had a 71-68 advantage. After a UMBC time out, Elliott squared up from behind the arc and buried his lone trey of the night with 2.4 seconds to play.
Garner, a sophomore captain, scored 12 of UMBC's 13 points in overtime. The Retrievers never led in regulation, but only trailed once, at 76-74, with 2:43 to play in overtime. EU's Malcolm Garrison had give his side that advantage with a trey, but Garner responded with a three of his own at the 2:19 mark and the hosts never trailed again.
UMBC built the lead to 81-76 on a Garner layup with 38 seconds left, but Eastern freshman guard Shaquan Turk converted a three-point play to cut the deficit to 81-79 with 17 seconds remaining. But Garner calmly sunk two free throws with 10 seconds to play and another with three seconds left to seal the come-from-behind victory.
Due to injuries and one-game player suspensions, UMBC dressed only eight players for the game and a pair Retrievers fouled out in overtime.
Garner just set a career high with 12 points at Arizona State on Nov. 8. He hit 9-of-14 shots from the floor and converted 12-of-18 from the charity stripe. He also recorded a career-best in rebounds (11) and posted his first career double-double.
Elliott added 19 points and a team-high five assists in his second collegiate game. Senior post Brett Roseboro (Quakertown, Pa./Quakertown) was the other Retriever in double figures with 15 and he added nine caroms.
Garrison and Turk scored 13 points each to lead Eastern.
There were 60 fouls whistled in the contest and four players, two aside, fouled out. UMBC continued its free throw woes, hitting only 27-of-50 attempts, while Eastern made two less (25) in 16 fewer attempts.
The Retrievers rallied off the strength of forcing 28 turnovers.
Eastern led, 41-29, at halftime, as the Eagles buried 5-of-11 three-point attempts in the first 20 minutes.
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Ben Bernanke: Central Planner
There's a great piece in the spring issue of The Independent Review on Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke by San Jose State Professor Jeffrey Rogers Hummel. Although a bit long, its well worth the read for anyone wanting to understand both Bernanke's thinking and his actions during and since the financial crisis.
First, Prof. Hummel discusses the differences between Bernanke's and Milton Friedman's explanations for the Great Depression. Those that debate whether Bernanke's actions, especially the quantitative easings, would be approved of by Friedman will get a lot out of this discussion. From this comparison, you get the point that Friedman was concerned about overall credit conditions and liquidity, whereas Bernanke is less focused on the monetary factors than on the impairment of credit intermediation, which explains his support of selective bailouts.
Hummel's comparison of Greenspan and Bernanke is also insightful, particularly since many (myself included) often lump the two's policies together. From the analysis, it is clear that Greenspan falls into the Friedman camp, his "rescues" were of the financial system in general, and not of specific firms.
One might say a bailout is a bailout, so what's the difference between rescuing the system and rescuing individual firms within the system? Certainly that's a view I have some sympathy for. The "Greenspan put" was as much a contributor to reckless risk-taking as anything else. Hummel, however, discuses why this difference ultimately matters, and why it shows Bernanke to fit the role of economic central planner. In short, the facts are presented that during the financial crisis, Bernanke did not actually increase overall liquidity by much, he re-directed it to those firms he deemed most important. This process of reducing liquidity to some sectors while re-directing it to others, arguably less efficient sectors, goes a considerable distance in explaining some of the decline in both aggregate demand and consumption in 2008.
Again, the piece is one of the more accessible and insightful I've read on Bernanke in quite a while.


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pitcher Cain to have season-ending surgery
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(Reuters) - San Francisco Giants
right-hander Matt Cain will undergo season-ending surgery on his elbow,
the team announced on Monday.
Cain has not pitched since July 9 due to the injury to his
throwing arm. The procedure will remove bone chips from the elbow
and he is expected to be ready for Spring Training.
The news is the crushing final blow in what has been a tough
campaign for the 29-year-old, who finishes the year with a 2-7
record and a 4.18 ERA.
Cain has played his entire career with the Giants, beginning in
2005. A three-time All Star and two-time World Series champion, Cain
tossed the first perfect game for a San Francisco Giants pitcher in
He is currently in the fifth year of an eight-year, $139.75 million
contract that also includes a club option for 2018.
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