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Academic Regulations
Every student at Moravian College has a faculty advisor. Each first-year student is assigned an advisor to assist in the planning of academic work and in the selection of a major, generally toward the end of the first year.
When a student has selected a major, a faculty member in the appropriate department becomes the student's advisor and continues in that capacity unless the student elects to change the major to another area of study. At the time of registration for courses, the student consults with the advisor about the selection and sequence of courses as well as about career plans and further study.
Advisors are provided to assist students in planning their academic programs. They are not authorized to change the College's established policies. Each student is responsible for ensuring that his or her academic program complies with the requirements for the major, the program of general education, and any other degree requirements of the College. Any advice at variance with established policy must be confirmed by the Office of the Provost in writing.
Declaration of Major
In order to ensure better advising within the major and to allow departments to plan courses a year in advance, students are required to declare a major after earning 16 course units. Students who do not do so will be blocked from course registration. (Add-Venture students are exempted from this requirement.) Students who transfer to Moravian with 16 or more units will be permitted to register once without a declared major, but must declare a major before their second term of enrollment at the College. Registration holds may be lifted due to extenuating circumstances. Such holds may only be removed by the associate provost or the assistant dean for academic advising.
To declare a major, students must submit a completed declaration of major form to the registrar's office. The form is available from the registrar. While first-year students may not officially declare a major, they may submit the completed declaration of major form to the registrar during the spring term of their first year, and the major will be added to their academic record in the subsequent summer term.


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WATCH: Wu-Tang Brings Out Full Nine Rappers to Perform on 'Daily Show'
This might be the best #ThrowbackThursday the hip-hop world has ever seen.
RZA and Raekwon put aside their differences and stepped out together with the full Wu-Tang Clan for a performance on 'The Daily Show' with Jon Stewart, also revealing that they will release their long-awaited album before Christmas.
Raekwon, GZA, RZA, Ghostface Killah, Method Man, Inspectah Deck, U-God, Masta Killa and Cappadonna performed renditions of 1997's "Triumph," and renditions of "Ron O'Neal."
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'Ch2 Sports has learned that Hamister's bid includes about $60 million for the team, but the figure will be closer to $90 million when including some assumed debt. Hamister's bid, according to a source, will pay off Adelphia's $33 million secured debt on the HSBC Arena.'
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Unhittable Glasnow strikes out 13
Power righty racks up career high in Ks over five no-hit frames
By Jonathan Raymond / MiLB.com | August 22, 2013 8:57 PM ET
To hear Tyler Glasnow tell it, his start for Class A West Virginia on Thursday was emblematic of his season as a whole.
The right-hander delivered five no-hit frames for the Power, striking out a career-high 13 while walking five in an eventual 5-4 loss to the Charleston RiverDogs.
The No. 6 Pirates prospect issued four of the five free passes in the first two innings. Over his last three frames of work, he struck out eight of the 11 batters he faced.
"I came in the first inning, and I don't know, it just didn't really feel right. I struggled a lot in the first two innings. I was just wild, the ball was up and so I had I think like four of the walks in the first two and I guess I settled down in the fourth and fifth innings," he said. "My tempo at the beginning of the game was pretty fast. I had to slow it down a little. I was caught up in the game and had to relax in between each inning, make things easier for me and it started to flow.
"I feel like the first two innings was more of me being effectively wild. Walk a guy, strike a guy out, walk a guy, strike a guy out. Then I settled down in the fourth and fifth and had my best stuff, hit my spots and my curve and changeup felt better later too."
That path in Thursday's start provided a nice parallel for the season Glasnow, who turns 20 on Friday, has experienced in general.
In April and May he was still plenty effective, going 3-1 with a 2.95 ERA in 10 starts and he struck out 64 in 42 2/3 innings for a 13.50 K/9 mark. But he was also plenty wild, walking 6.33 per nine innings.
In the three months since, he's been even better, going 5-2 with a 1.84 ERA in 14 starts. He's maintained his strikeout rate, with a 13.57 mark over his last 63 2/3 innings. But he's cut his walks in about half, issuing free passes at a 3.28-per-nine innings rate since the beginning of June.
"From the beginning of the season to now, I've gotten a lot better. As opposed to the beginning where I was getting up there just like, whatever, throwing it, not having a plan and trying to overpower the hitter. Now I'm really starting to get a feel for all my pitches," he said. "Even if the game is not good, every game I've learned so much more. Jeff Johnson, our pitching coach, has helped me so much this year and I'm really learning how to pitch, how to command, how to read swings, how to manipulate hitters. I've still got a long way to go, but this year has been the biggest learning experience I've ever had in baseball.
"A big thing is my command and that has gotten a lot better, especially from the beginning of the season, when it was pretty bad. It's just slowly but surely gotten better each game and that's been a focus point for me, really repeating a form and staying consistent with it. Even like tonight, I had five walks and was bad in the beginning, but I feel like last year, if I had walked a couple guys in the first inning I'd just sort of fall apart. This year I'm like, 'Okay, what do I gotta do to fix it.'"
His overall stat line is impressive. With a 2.29 ERA, he ranks second in the South Atlantic League, and his 160 strikeouts in 106 1/3 innings have him tied for second-most with Triple-A Durham's Matt Buschmann across the Minor Leagues. The two hurlers are four behind the pace set by Double-A Tulsa's Daniel Winkler.
"I'm really happy with this year, not just all the strikeouts and all the stats -- that's a benefit that comes with it -- but just how much I've learned. I had no idea what I was in for at the beginning of the season and how much a full season can do. I just feel like a better pitcher overall, and the stats are cool. But even if they weren't that good, I'd be really happy with this year," he said.
Jonathan Raymond is a contributor to MiLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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Just a Thought -- Book Expo America 2012
You may have noticed last week that the Readers Advisors desk was missing two of its regular librarians. We headed off to New York City to meet with hundreds of other librarians, along with booksellers, publishers, authors, and bibliophiles of all stripes at this year's Book Expo America conference. Held every year in June, BEA is a great way to keep up with what's happening in the world of books, from forthcoming hot titles to book club reading suggestions to those pesky eBooks and how libraries and publishers can work together to make them available to patrons. A highlight is always getting to meet the authors themselves, of course, and get books signed! We came back with piles and piles of great forthcoming books that we think you're just going to love. Here are just a few of the great titles you have to look forward to!
Diaz, Junot. This is How You Lose Her, September 2012.
Evison, Jonathan. The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, August 2012.
Jacobson, Howard. Zoo Time, October 2012.
Jakobsen, Mette. The Vanishing Act, September 2012.
Millet, Lydia. Magnificence, November 2012.
Powers, Kevin. The Yellow Birds, September 2012.
Roorbach, Bill. Life Among Giants, November 2012.
Shapiro, B.A. The Art Forger, October 2012.


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After planning her wedding for a year, this wasn't how Erin Lounsbury expected to spend her big day last Friday.
"We were sitting in the house, defrosting chicken and playing video games," the 27-year-old Long Island resident told TODAY.com after superstorm Sandy shut down her Nov. 2 nuptials. (Unless you count a small celebration in Ohio, where the lone groomsman who was able to get his tux donned the suit and poured some vino to cheer the couple up.)
Lounsbury and her fiance are among the thousands of East Coast couples set to say "I do" on the post-Sandy weekend or later in November whose weddings were upended by the storm. Venues lost power or were waterlogged, hotels where guests were staying lacked power and downed trees and power lines made travel difficult if not impossible for guests and the couples themselves. More than 4,000 East Coast couples have had their weddings affected by Hurricane Sandy, reported wedding site TheKnot.com.
Lounsbury's wedding was taking place on Long Island, one of the hardest areas hit because of its proximity to the coastline.
At one point, Lounsbury's flowers were ready but she couldn't reach her guests' Hyatt Place Garden City hotel in Garden City, N.Y., and the Jericho Terrace wedding reception hall in Mineola, N.Y., only had 25 percent power — did she want to choose between light or a DJ?
"What were we going to do? They were trying to get more generators," Lounsbury said. "They called Wednesday night, 'We'll give you a new date.'"
Downed power and phone lines and spotty cell service hampered communications with vendors and guests so many couples took to Facebook. Lounsbury updated her status telling people that the wedding was off, but she had invited all 500 students at Wenonah Elementary in Lake Grove, N.Y., where she is a librarian, to the church and isn't Facebook friends with any of them.
"I'm not sure if everyone knew that the wedding was off," she lamented Saturday.
After Sandy, East Coast brides to be, many stuck at home due to the gas shortage, including Lounsbury, turned to a Facebook page set up by TheKnot.com: "Helping Brides In the Wake Of Hurricane Sandy" to exchange stories and try to fix their weddings.
Wrapped up in wedding replanning mode, Lounsbury is keeping the same hall but looking for a new hotel and new vendors for her Nov. 24 redo. She posted on The Knot's Facebook page over the weekend:
"Wondering if anyone has leftover church decorations like the bows on the pews? My grandma made wreathes and her house was flooded. Thankfully I picked up my veil she made before the storm."
Another poster said her friend had plenty of bows and would be "happy to help."
Others offered to donate calligraphy to Lounsbury and remake her programs at cost. She posted she'd "pay it forward" to other brides. She said the wedding help has freed her up to donate to Sandy victims without basic needs.
"As much as I'm upset, if you think about it, we have water, food. Our family is OK," Lounsbury reflected. "Some people don't have working toilets. How can you be upset over your wedding?"
Anja Winikka, TheKnot.com's site director, said the popular wedding site blasted the Facebook page to their network of brides, venues, vendors and wedding planners. The Knot employees were making calls on behalf of brides and helped one garner a generator to save her wedding.
"We saw big wedding venues flooding in front of our eyes and knew people wouldn't be able to have their weddings there for quite some time," Winikka told TODAY.com. "We needed a way to connect everyone."
Kathi Evans, a New Jersey-based wedding planner at All the Best Weddings & Celebrations, was one of the lucky ones in her neighborhood to have power last week so she busied herself, calling contractors to update brides on The Knot's Facebook page. The spirit of generosity, she contended, spread to some vendors but not all.
"True wedding professionals that understand what's going on are the ones being cooperative and more generous," she said. "The new ones to the business or the ones only motivated by money might not be as accommodating and don't understand what they do today will affect them tomorrow, years down the road."
What brides expected to remember years to come as one of the happiest times has been a whirlwind of emotions.
Shana Rae Clavijo from West New York, N.J., thanks her fiance, Jeff Gelles, for being "the voice of reason" amid her crying. It's been a roller coaster ride with ups — when her Nov. 3 wedding still seemed plausible — and downs — when it was pushed back to Dec. 8.
"He has been really great trying to distract me and stay really positive," Clavijo, 35, gushed about her fiance. "There was a day there he didn't know what to say. 'Everything is going to be OK. Please stop crying.'"
Instead of completing their wedding checklist this week, Clavijo and her fiance were stormed in with their two pups, watching downloaded movies on their iPads (until the batteries died) and living off protein bars and shakes for a day and a half.
"It's amazing, really tragic events, stress, can bring you closer together," Clavijo told TODAY.com on the day she was supposed to marry Gelles.
Vendors and guests now have to save a new wedding date just weeks away.
For her rescheduled wedding, Clavijo feels lucky to keep her vendors, but she's disappointed to lose guests. Clavijo planned a Jewish wedding that incorporates special traditions and honors guests specifically. With about half coming from out of town, and her fiance being ex-military, and inviting current service members who might not be able to get leave, they expect to lose more than three dozen.
"Nobody wants to walk down the aisle and see nobody there," Clavijo said.
Sandy does have brides, some of whom notoriously plan down to minutiae, realizing that details aren't everything.
"You can't worry about the small details," Lounsbury said. "It's not the wedding I had in mind in the first place. I just have to be thankful that we're OK."
After Hurricane Irene foiled her fiance's proposal to her last year at bed and breakfast Sayre Mansion in Bethlehem, Penn., and superstorm Sandy crashed her wedding this year, she's wondering what's going to happen on her honeymoon, also set at the B&B.
"I'm afraid to rebook at this place — they'll be a snow storm or something," the bride-to-be joked.
TODAY.com writer Jasmin Aline Persch is trying to imagine a wedding reception without light or a DJ.


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GSA's USA Services Wins Federal CIO Leadership Award
Cost Calculator Helps Agencies Improve Citizen Services
April 26, 2006
Contact: Viki Reath, (202) 501-1231
The CIO Leadership Award is given for innovative solutions that improve service to citizens by federal agencies and "for electronic government and information technology advancements that will have major impact on the way government conducts business on a government-wide basis."
The Citizen Services Cost Calculator assists the user to determine how to save time and money when estimating the expenditures required to establish and operate contact centers that meet citizen expectations for timely, accurate and consistent responses. It is designed to outline all the support costs involved in running a call or contact center, and the approximate cost for that support.
"This Cost Calculator was developed to provide federal agencies with the means to respond quickly and accurately to questions from the public, which is integral to the fulfillment of the President's Management Agenda," said M.J. Pizzella, GSA's Associate Administrator for Citizen Services and Communications, which manages USA Services. "In particular, the calculator is helpful to agencies that are establishing a contact center for the first time and want to ensure that every tax dollar is accounted for and spent wisely. It also helps agencies evaluate the cost-effectiveness of current contact centers."
USA Services, the citizen's advocate in the Federal government, developed the software, working with 10 Federal agency partners and the MITRE Corp. of McLean Virginia, a non-profit, Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC).
USA Services, a Presidential E-Government initiative, received the award from the CIO Council on April 24, 2006, during the 45th Annual Interagency Resources Management Conference (IRMCO), held in
To obtain a copy of the Citizen Services Cost Calculator, please visit the USA Services Web site, www.usaservices.gov/calculator.htm
GSA is a centralized, federal procurement, property management, policy development and information provision agency, created by Congress to improve government efficiency and help federal agencies better serve the public. In this role, GSA acquires products and services on behalf of federal agencies; plays a key role in developing and implementing governmentwide policies; provides services and solutions for the office operations of more than one million federal workers; and encourages a citizen-centric relationship with government by providing a single "point of entry" to the information and services citizens need in a timeframe they can appreciate. This allows citizens to receive accurate, timely and consistent answers and information, and helps Federal agencies better respond to citizen inquiries.


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Over 15 million children and adults visit Indiana's 24 state parks and 9 reservoirs each year. Visitors have access to nearly 400,000 acres of forests, prairies, historic features, wetlands, rivers, soaring rock cliffs and plunging waterfalls and all the plants and wildlife living there and providing diversity. You can help us grow and support this wonderful array of natural and cultural resources by donating to any one of these funds in our supporting not-for-profit, the Indiana Natural Resources Foundation.
The Indiana Natural Resources Foundation's mission is support and sustain the educational and scientific programs and policies of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. Since our founding in 1990 we have helped protect and restore over 9,000 acres of land and contributed over $1,000,000 scientific and educational programs across Indiana. Visit our website to learn more about the Foundation's vital role in outdoor education and land acquisition or call us at 317-234-5447 and we will happily answer your questions.
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Receipts are provided for all monetary donations except those placed in property bluebird donation boxes. For more information or other giving opportunities at your local properties, contact the Deputy Director for Stewardship at (317) 232-4143. Thank you for supporting Indiana state parks and reservoirs, either through the Indiana Natural Resources Foundation or through your favorite property.


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|Public Law 86-784
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That notwithstanding any provisions of the Act of September 1, 1888 (25 Stat. 452 and the following), relating to the ratification of an agreement between the United States and the Shoshone and Bannock Indians, or any other provision of law, no forfeiture or reversion to the United States or to any tribe or tribes of Indians shall take place by reason of any conveyance, quitclaim, or otherwise, by the Oregon Short Line Railroad Company and/or the Union Pacific Railroad Company (corporations of the State of Utah), to the Pocatello First Corporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (a corporation sole of the State of Idaho) of any or all right, title, or interests which such companies, or either of them, has or would have in and to the following described real property lying in Bannock County, State of Idaho:
An irregular tract of land situate in the northeast quarter of southwest quarter of section 35, township 6 south, range 34 east of the Boise meridian in the city of Pocatello, Bannock County, Idaho, bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at the northwest corner of said northeast quarter of southwest quarter of section 35; thence east along the east and west centerline of said section 35, a distance of 465.8 feet, more or less, to the southwesterly line of Grant Avenue in the city of Pocatello; thence southeasterly along the southeasterly extension of said southwesterly line of Grant Avenue, a distance of 643.5 feet; thence southwesterly, at right angles, a distance of 228.2 feet; thence west along a straight line parallel with said east and west centerline of section 35, a distance of 563.5 feet, more or less, to a point in the southeasterly extension of the northeasterly line of Lincoln Avenue; thence northwesterly along said extension of northeasterly line of Lincoln Avenue a distance of 229.0 feet, more or less, to a point in the west line of said northeast quarter of southwest quarter of section 35; thence north along the west line of said northeast quarter of southwest quarter a distance of 463.0 feet, more or less, to the point of beginning.
Containing an area of 10.0 acres, more or less.
Said railroad companies are hereby authorized to quitclaim jointly or separately any or all interest they, or each of them, have in and to the above described property to said church, reserving, however, to themselves, their successors and assigns, an easement for any and all existing pipelines and pipeline right-of-way over, under, and across the premises hereinbefore described, and also reserving to said railroad companies the right to operate and maintain the same, and the rights of forfeiture or reversion of all lands granted in said Act passed and approved September 1, 1888, are in all respects, insofar as they pertain to the lands above described, including the easements and rights reserved, hereby revoked and held for naught.
Upon said railroad companies, or either of them, conveying by quitclaim deed, or otherwise, to such Pocatello First Corporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints pursuant to sections 1 and 2 of this Act, the lands described in section 1, the United States hereby waives, relinquishes, and quitclaims to said railroads, or either
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of them, all right, title, or interest which the United States may have in or to the easements and rights reserved by said railroad companies, or either of them, and waives, relinquishes, and quitclaims to said church all right, title, or interest which the United States may have in and to such lands, subject to the aforementioned reservations in favor of said railroads.
The provisions of this Act shall be effective only upon payment to the United States within one year from the date of this Act of the present fair market value of the lands described in section 1 hereof except such part of said value as is attributable to improvements on said lands which were not placed thereon by the United States determined by the Secretary of the Interior.
Approved, September 14, 1960.


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In August, after 49 years of teaching since earning his PhD from the University of Michigan, Dr. Stephen A. Zeff, Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Accounting, did not retire. Instead, he presented the Presidential Scholar Address at the annual meeting of the American Accounting Association in Denver. His lecture, The Evolution of the IASC into the IASB, and the Challenges It Faces, was delivered to the entire body of the AAA, which included many former and current colleagues, research collaborators and friends.
In acknowledgement of the high regard in which he is held, as well as his distinguished career as an accounting educator and scholar — at Rice since 1978 and, before that, Tulane University since 1961 — Dr. Zeff's Rice colleagues planned an event to pay tribute to his years of teaching, research, and influence on the discipline and what comes next. Guests gathered for a cocktail reception and dinner at the Hyatt Regency to applaud, roast and reward a man who, in the words of Peter Firmin, dean emeritus, Daniels College of Business at Denver University, "is meticulous, a mentor to faculty and students, a student's friend, a visionary, and a leader. He set the standards for achievement and ethical conduct."
The stories about Dr. Zeff flowed all evening. Beginning with a welcome by Thomas Dyckman, professor emeritus of accounting at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management and master of ceremonies, Dean Bill Glick, followed by formal comments from colleagues — first Firmin then Charles Horstmann, Robert Herz, Gary Sundem and J. Howard Creekmore Professor Emeritus Bala Dharan.
Before getting up to express his gratitude, Dr. Zeff was presented with a crystal owl mounted on a black marble base engraved with the words, "Stephen A. Zeff, Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Accounting, for his distinguished career as an accounting scholar and educator, August 8, 2011, Denver Colorado." When the floor was finally his, the room went quiet.
Dr. Zeff spoke of his travels, experiences, personal relationships and his love for teaching. He spoke about his international accounting approach to teaching and how that affected his career and thanked Gil Whitaker who always gave him good advice. After a standing ovation, Dr. Karen Nelson, accounting area coordinator and professor of accounting, closed the evening with an expression of her respect for his impact on the Jones School and his contributions to Rice University.
Along with teaching in the new accounting PhD program and research with a history of the International Accounting Standards Board and other projects, Dr. Zeff will find time to accept other awards, including the International Federation of Accountants International Gold Service Award in Berlin and an honorary doctorate in economic and management sciences from Universidad de Alcala in Madrid, both this month. The accolades just keep coming in what is now Dr. Zeff's 50th year of teaching.
Read this article in its entirety in the fall issue of The Parliament, the accounting group newsletter, coming soon to the website. Dr. Zeff's presentation of the Presidential Scholar Address is available in its entirety here business.rice.edu/FacultyResearch.aspx.


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Pruitt's walk-off single sends Brevard to victory over Mercyhurst, 7-6February 15, 2009
Tornados rally from four-run deficit
Brevard, N.C. – Matthew Pruitt's two-out, two-run single in the ninth inning scored Adam Arrowood and Spencer Linn, capping a furious rally and sending the Brevard College Tornados to a walk-off 7-6 win over Mercyhurst College Sunday afternoon at Gil Coan Field. Win the win, Brevard (5-1) takes two of three from the Lakers in the weekend series.
Luke Smithson (Mills River, N.C.) pitched 1 2/3 innings of scoreless relief work to get his first win of the season. Jamie Walczak (Painesville, Ohio) took the loss for Mercyhurst.
Pruitt (Hendersonville, N.C.) went 2-6 on the afternoon and drove home three runs. Brice Warner (Clover, S.C.) had 2 RBI, while Will Scholer (Norwalk, Iowa) and Stephen Mullis (Charlotte, N.C.) each drove home one. Jonathan Dziomba (Williamsville, N.C.) was 2-5 with 2 RBI for the Lakers, while Ethan Santora (Gates Mills, Ohio) homered.
Mercyhurst (1-2) got on the board in the first inning, tagging Brevard starter Shane Galloway (Rosman, N.C.) for an early run. Jeff Stoll's (Barberton, Ohio) RBI groundout plated Walczak, making the score 1-0.
The Tornados briefly took the lead with a two-run bottom of the first. Pruitt doubled home Warner off of Laker starter Nick Gillung (Worthville, Pa.) to tie the game, and Mullis singled with one out, scoring Pruitt. The Tornados had the bases loaded with one out, but could not add to the lead.
The visitors tied the game in the second inning. Santora, the first batter of the inning, launched a home run over the left-center wall to tie the game at two apiece.
Mercyhurst retook the lead in the fifth frame. After Galloway walked the first two batters of the inning and Trey Bennett (Hudson, Ohio) loaded the bases with a perfectly-placed bunt single, Thomas Kufel (Marilla, N.Y.) scored on a passed ball and Dziomba scored two with a double. After Payne Parker (Florence, S.C.) relieved Galloway, the visitors scored another as Dziomba touched home by way of another passed ball.
Brevard narrowed the gap with two runs in the eighth. With Jeremy Cressley (Corry, Pa.) pitching, Warner singled home Linn (Fletcher, N.C.) to make the score 6-3. Two batters later, Scholer scored Jason Merrill (Hendersonville, N.C) with a single to make the score 6-4.
The Tornados won the game with three runs in the bottom of the ninth. With two outs and the bases loaded, Warner coaxed a walk off of Walczak to score Jackie Corn (Hendersonville, N.C.) and draw the home side within a run. The next batter, Pruitt, lined a single off the glove off Walczak and into right field, scoring Linn and Arrowood (Asheville, N.C.) to secure the victory.
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The Marquette University College of Nursing Natural Family Planning teacher training program is a professional online educational experience based on the standards for diocesan NFP ministry of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).
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I had the same problem (but the ssid was broadcasted) trying to use Cowpatty against a WPA CCMP-cipher handshake. I think Cowpatty only works with WPA TKIP handshakes...
Try using Airolib-ng instead of Cowpatty, I hope this will help.
I have been trying to test the strength of our office wlan passphrase and I captured the handshake file & ran multiple dictionary attacks to rule out a weak password that can be found in a dictionary.
I am now trying to run a precomputed WPA attack using cowpatty, I already got a hash file from shmoo group for the ssid but when I ran the command below:
cowpatty -r capfile.cap -d hashfile.hash -s hidden_ssid_name
End of pcap capture file, incomplete TKIP four-way exchange. Try using a different capture.
I know I captured the handshake from looking at airodump output and when i ran aircrack-ng against the capfile I get this result and I am able to run a dictionary attack against it:
# BSSID ESSID Encryption
1 00:11:22:xx:xx:xx WPA (1 Handshake)
2 00:AA:BB:xx:xx:xx sum_other_ssid No Data - WEP or WAP
Anyway, so I searched my cap files for another capture and when I ran cowpatty against it i get this:
Collected all necessary...
Starting dictionary attack...
Invalid word length -33
Found a record that was too short, this shouldn't happen in practice!
Unable to identify the PSK from dictionary file. Try expanding your passphrase list, and double-check SSID. Sorry it didn't work out.
0 passphrases tested in 0.00 seconds: 0.00 passphrases/second
I'm thinking maybe its because the cap file does contain the handshake but does not have the associated ap ssid name because it was hidden despite having the bssid - and cowpatty does not provide an option to use the mac address in the -s option since the ssid is what was used to precompute the hash...
so at this point I am looking for extra input as to why I may be getting this error and if anyone has been able to use this approach on a hidden ssid ap audit.
Thanks for looking.
I had the same problem (but the ssid was broadcasted) trying to use Cowpatty against a WPA CCMP-cipher handshake. I think Cowpatty only works with WPA TKIP handshakes...
Try using Airolib-ng instead of Cowpatty, I hope this will help.
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PHMSA Adjusts Hazmat Annual Registration Fee
On April 19, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) issued a Final Rule temporarily adjusting the amount of the annual registration fee, to account for an unspent balance in the Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness Fund. PHMSA is lowering the fee for the 2013-2014 registration year. According to the notice, the fee for a small business or not-for-profit organization is revised to be $125 (plus a $25 processing fee), and for all other businesses the fee is $1300 (plus a $25 processing fee). After the 2013–2014 registration year, the registration fees will return to 2012–2013 registration year levels. The Final Rule is effective April 19, 2013.
FMCSA Issues Request for Comment on CMV Marking Requirements
Earlier this month, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) issued a Notice and Request for Comments announcing its intent to gather information from industry regarding the burden associated with the marking regulations codified in 49 CFR 390.21, ''Marking of Self-Propelled CMVs and Intermodal Equipment.'' These regulations require marking of vehicles and intermodal equipment by motor carriers, freight forwarders and intermodal equipment providers engaging in interstate transportation. Comments are due June 10, 2013.
Electronic Logging Device Proposal Expected in September
According to reports, FMCSA Administrator Ferro told attendees at the Mid-America Trucking Show last month that the agency would miss the October 1 deadline, included in MAP-21, for an electronic logging device (aka EOBR) mandate. MAP-21 included additional requirements and considerations for the agency to include in its development of the regulations, which delayed the rulemaking process. The agency is on schedule, however, to release a Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in September of this year, with a Final Rule due out some time next year.
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PHMSA Issues Update on HM-ACCESS Program
Earlier this week, PHMSA released an update on the HM-ACCESS program. In the document, the agency summarized efforts to date and outlined the parameters for the next phase of the project, a series of pilot tests. According to PHMSA, the goal of the pilot tests is to demonstrate the potential for electronic hazmat communication systems to provide an equivalent or better level of safety as compared to the current hazmat shipping paper requirement. The agency plans to conduct pilot tests in three or four regions of the U.S., with at least one pilot test conducted in a rural area. The agency plans to complete the pilot tests and report back to Congress by October of 2014.
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Focus on Economic Data: Consumer Price Index and Inflation, March, 2013
Each month, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases an estimate of the level of the consumer price index (CPI) and the rate of inflation in the United States for the previous month. The report provides the most recent current and seasonally adjusted consumer price indexes for all urban consumers, urban wager earners, and the chained index, plus a breakdown by major expenditure groups. The BLS also collects price level data for major metropolitan areas and regions.
This lesson focuses on the April 16, 2013, BLS press release of data on the consumer price index for the month of March, 2013.
- Identify the current rate and recent changes in the consumer price index.
- Identify the factors that have influenced recent changes in the rate of inflation.
- Identify the potential policy implications of the current economic conditions, including deflation.
- Describe how inflation and deflation impact individuals, families, and different groups in the economy.
We see prices everyday of our lives. We see big prices like $25,000 for a new car and we see small prices like 89 cents for a hamburger. When the new model of the car goes up to $26,000 we may not realize it, but when the hamburger goes up from 89 cents to 99 cents we do. When we get used to paying a particular price for something, it disturbs us when the price changes, but we can often find a substitute. If we purchase a particular item regularly, we may be more aware when the price changes.
Students: How do you learn about the prices of the goods and services you purchase? Do you comparison shop for lower prices? Have the prices of goods and services you purchase gone up or down recently?
Take gasoline, for example. Gasoline is, maybe, the one product where we can see the price every day. Gasoline prices are posted on big signs for all to see at the gas stations on the corners. Some people look for the lowest price and select a brand. Others may be loyal to a brand and choose to pay a little more for their brand. Unlike gasoline, most prices take a little more work to find. We have to go into the store and look for them. We may have to shop around at several stores to find a lower price for something we want. For everyday purchasing decisions, product prices are good information that helps us make choices.
Prices help us use our income to make decisions about the things we want - what to buy and what not to buy. When all prices (or most) increase and we experience the effects of inflation (an increase in the average price level in the economy over some time period) we face other decisions. We may have to make difficult choices, giving up some things to have others. Inflation - a rising price level - erodes the purchasing power of our incomes and threatens our lifestyles. A falling price level over time - called deflation - sounds great to consumers, but may also have a harmful impact on the economy.
Is inflation or deflation an issue today? Are prices increasing? Are they falling? Let's see what the Bureau of Labor Statistics has to say about consumer prices in March, 2013.
Students: Have you personally noticed any inflation or deflation? How have lower or higher gasoline price affected your spending or driving habits?
Note: Unless otherwise cited, the quoted materials in this lesson are from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Economic News Release, "Consumer Price Index Summary," April 16, 2013. URL: www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/cpi_04162013.htm
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Announcement
Consumer Price Index Summary, March 2012
Released April 13, 2012
"The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) decreased 0.2 percent in March on a seasonally adjusted basis, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 1.5 percent before seasonal adjustment."
The overall price level (CPI-U) went down in March. Was it "deflation"? Be careful! One month does not make a trend and a one month decrease in the CPI-U does not mean deflation. This is especially true when the overall price level was affected so much by one product group.
The gasoline price index decline 4.4 percent in March. The indexes for electricity and fuel oil also fell. The larger energy index declined 2.6 percent in March. March was a good example of the impact that one product category with more volatile prices can impact the reported "inflation" numbers in the short term.
While the "all items price index (including energy and food) fell in March, the "core" index (excluding energy and food) increased. The BLS added, "The index for all items less food and energy increased 0.1 percent in March, after a 0.2 percent increase in February. The indexes for shelter, used cars and trucks, medical care, personal care, and airline fares all rose in March."
A "wildcard" like energy and food - products that tend to fluctuate more widely in price - will affect people differently, based on their consumption habits. Did those who complained about the rise in gasoline prices in February notice as much when gas prices dropped 4.4 percent in March?
When the BLS reports on prices, it provides two basic numbers. One is the CPI-U, including a broad variety of goods and services. This measure of the price level is often referred to as the "headline" number.
The second number is referred to as the "core" rate of inflation and excludes energy and food prices that tend to fluctuate more. Excluding food and energy is assumed to provide a better picture of the general price level over time. The BLS uses the term "all items less food and
Students: Make sure you know the difference between the reported CPI-U and the "core" rate of inflation. Which is more meaningful to you?
Figure 1, below, breaks down the changes in the CPI-U for February and March, 2013 and for the last twelve months by major spending category. Note the categories with significant changes.
Students: you can look at the price level changes for different product groups and suggest why those prices have changed more or less than the average? Have political, economic or natural events impacted some prices more than others?
Use this BLS search page to select CPI data for specific spending categories. data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost?cu ]
Selected Consumer Price Index Data for March 2013
U.S. food prices have been increasing gradually, but not much in March. We are not experiencing the much greater increases in food prices as some other regions of the world.
Energy prices go up and down fairly regularly, depending on a variety of factors - the weather, geo-political issues, trade agreements (or lack thereof), etc. What will happen next month? Who knows?
All Items Less Food and Energy
"The index for all items less food and energy increased 0.1 percent in March following increases of 0.3 percent in January and 0.2 percent in February."
Take another look at the changes from February to March in Figure 1, above. Note the spending category indexes that increased in March. Compare those changes to energy and food. How important are energy and food prices in your family's budget? Did the items you typically purchase go up or down?
Looking at prices over the last year may be more meaningful. "The index for all items less food and energy increased 1.9 percent for the 12 months ending March. Component indexes rising more quickly than this include airline fare (3.8 percent), medical care (3.1 percent), and shelter (2.2 percent)."
For the past year, the price index for all items less food and energy increased 1.9 percent. This is right at the 1.9 percent average over the last 10 years. Again, look the last column in Figure 1. What categories increased and decreased? Did you experience more or less inflation than the average?
Not Seasonally Adjusted CPI Measures - The Actual Numbers
In March, 2013, the CPI-U "market basket" cost $232.77. In 1983, the same "market basket" cost $100. A year ago, the same basket of goods and services cost $229.39. Most of the difference over the past year has been higher energy costs. Again, the big variable is how you spent your income over this time period. The CPI is a "weighted" index, meaning that each category of spending has a difference level of importance (weight) in the market basket. You might, for example, spend a larger portion of your income on clothing. If so, your "personal" price index probably did not increase as much in March as that of someone who spent a larger portion of their income on gasoline.
Students: The BLS "market basket" is a group of goods and services typically purchased by urban families. It may not reflect your consumption pattern. What would you put in your "market basket."]
Figure 2, below, shows the weights of the major categories of items making up the CPI-U. Note how some categories (energy and other*) have changed greatly in price level since the base period of 1982-84. Other categories (apparel and recreation) have changed very little in their price level. The CPI-U for all items has increased from the base period when it was 100 by over 123 percent.
* The "other" category includes items such as tobacco products, personal care products and services, and other personal services.
Students: Do these categories make sense to you? What products do you suggest should be part of the CPI "market basket"? For information about the make-up of the BLS market basket, go to "How is the CPI market basket determined?" in the BLS FAQs .
Recent CPI-U History
Figure 3, below, shows the monthly changes in the CPI from 2002 through March 2013. Note the periods of slow price level growth and a few periods of more rapid price level growth. Also note the few months of decreases in the CPI-U, the most recent of which were in late 2008 - the beginning of the recession. At that time, many analysts feared a period of deflation - an extended period of price level decrease. Continued price level decrease may have signaled a longer continuation of the recession.
Connections between the CPI and Other Macroeconomic Data
It is sometimes instructive to find relationships between various macroeconomic data. These relationships may sometimes give us a more broad picture of the economy. For instance, there is a general relationship between output (GDP) and employment. As GDP increases, employment tends to increase. In the past several months, as real GDP has increased, the unemployment rate has decreased. One piece of data may confirm the meaning of the other.
Figure 4, below, provides four sets of macroeconomic data - CPI, unemployment, real GDP growth and the federal funds rate target. Notice the long term relationship of periods of output growth and decline with the changes in the unemployment rate. This relationship makes sense as the number of employed is directly related to output. Some increase in output can be attributed to improvements in productivity, but growth is very much dependent on labor force growth and employment. In late 2008 and 2009, as U.S. real GDP declined, the unemployment rate increased substantially. Note the "recovery" from 2010 to today.
Business Cycles
Business cycles or periodic fluctuations in growth and employment illustrate the relationships of some data (see Figure 4). When the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) tracks cycles in order to identify recessions, they use the combination of employment, GDP growth and other factors. How do consumer prices fit into this analysis? The NBER uses real GDP growth and real personal income as primary factors identifying business cycles. Using employment and income data adjusted for inflation allows the NBER to make more accurate comparisons from one data period to the next.
Students: The business cycle illustrates the growth pattern of the U.S. economy over the past couple of years - expansion, peak, contraction, and trough. Are we still in the trough?
Inflation and GDP
Accurate measurement of gross domestic product or GDP growth is also dependent on the accurate measurement of inflation. A rise in the price level "inflates" the measurement of GDP growth - miscalculating real growth in the economy. A more meaningful measurement of the growth of output is real GDP - the nominal GDP measurement adjusted for the impact of inflation. Although CPI is the most common measurement of inflation for many uses, the adjustment of GDP uses a process based on the GDP deflator. Both the CPI and the GDP deflator are measurements of average prices, but the GDP deflator includes all of the goods and services produced in the economy, not just the CPI market basket.
The GDP is the market value of all goods and services produced in a year. Real GDP is the market value of those goods at a constant price level. Measuring the nation's output in a year at a constant price level means that you can accurately compare it to the output in another year.
CPI vs. GDP Deflator as Measures of Inflation
The rate of inflation rate determined by the CPI and GDP deflator are normally quite similar. Since the CPI uses a fixed market basked of goods and services, it assumes a fairly constant pattern of consumer purchases. Over time, the market basket may be changed, based on changes in consumer behavior. The GDP deflator uses a flexible basket of goods and services based on the actual quantities of goods and services produced in a year, while the prices of the goods and services are fixed. The GDP deflator uses a much larger quantity of goods and services.
The CPI does not take into account substitution - the tendency of consumers to choose lower priced goods in place of more expensive ones. Just the opposite sometimes happens, as consumers may choose to purchase more expensive goods as their incomes increase. The GDP deflator can take these substitutions into account. Because the GDP deflator assumes substitutions, it may underestimate the impact of inflation when consumers do not (are not able to) substitute. The CPI may overestimate the impact of inflation when consumers do substitute.
Most government agencies and many private contracts use the CPI to determine a cost of living adjustments (COLA). The Social Security Administration added a 5.8 percent COLA to Social Security benefits and SSI payments in January 2009, based on the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) from the third quarter of 2007 to the third quarter of 2008. If there had been no increase in the CPI in that time period, there would have been no increase in benefits.
Inflation and Unemployment
Long-standing economic theory has assumed that there is a predictable trade-off between the impact of public policy decisions and economic change on inflation and unemployment. This theory, developed by New Zealand Economist William Phillips in 1958, was based on his observation of an inverse relationship between money wage changes (inflation) and unemployment in the British economy over a period of time. The "Phillips Curve" proposed that when unemployment is low, inflation tends to be high and when unemployment is high, inflation tends to be low.
The implication for policy makers was that "Keynesian" policies could be used to control unemployment and inflation. Increased spending can lower unemployment with the risk of a high rate of inflation. Policy makers face the Phillips Curve trade-off. Today, policy makers who propose to use monetary policy (lower interest rates) or fiscal policy (deficit spending) to stimulate the economy, and increase GDP and employment, are aware of its potential inflationary effect. The Phillips Cure theory lost favor in the late 1980s when there were periods of both high unemployment and high inflation, followed in the 1990s by periods of low unemployment and low inflation.
One of the Federal Reserve System's (Fed) mandates is to maintain a stable price level and purchasing power. The Fed recognized this potential trade-off in its most recent monetary policy statement when it justified an aggressive stimulatory policy by saying that the current conditions did not include an inflationary threat. Low inflation provides room for aggressive policies to stimulate the economy. Should inflation become a real threat, the Fed may slow down growth of the money supply.
Students: Does the trade-off of the Phillips Curve make sense? Does it apply in this recessionary period?
Not long ago, many observers of the CPI thought a little inflationary pressure was back. Some have predict a greater inflationary threat as a result of the Federal Reserve's "loose" money policies in recent years. But, the CPI-U decreased March, primarily as a result of the fall in energy prices. Over the last year, the CPI-U increased just 1.5 percent before seasonal adjustment. This is well below the Federal Reserve's goal of a 2.0 percent annual price level increase.
The inflation "wildcard" is, again this month, energy and food prices prices. Excluding energy and food, the "core" CPI-U, "all items less food and energy," increased 1.9 percent in the past twelve months. Gasoline and food prices accounted for much of the all items price level decrease in March. The average gasoline price (all types) has bounced up and down over the past year, dropping 13 cents between March 2012 and March 2013. [Note: Although not shown in the BLS data yet, gasoline prices have dropped significantly more in early April, 2013.]
For most of our spending categories, prices have been relatively stable, but the real story may be whether or not our incomes have kept up with prices and we can still purchase the same goods and services we did last year. For many families, higher gasoline prices in recent years have meant giving up other consumption, so that they can drive to work or take a vacation.
Those who say that the "core" rate of inflation is a better long term measurement of the price level face criticism from many who have lived in an extended period of higher energy and food prices.
Students: What do you think?
The BLS tracks a variety of international data, including prices. Take a look at some of the international data.
Go to, "Consumer Prices (CPI) 15 Countries ," (February 2012 to February 2103.) Read the inflation data about the fifteen industrialized nations.
- Do you see any patterns?
- Which nations have had higher inflation rates than the U.S.? Lower rates?
What do you think may account for the differences?
Go to, "U.S. Import and Export Price Index, March 2013 ." Read about the price changes for U.S. imports and exports.
"The price index for U.S. imports declined 0.5 percent in March, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today, following increases of 0.6 percent in February and 0.5 percent in January. The March decrease was primarily led by a downturn in fuel prices. U.S. export prices fell 0.4 percent in March after rising 0.7 percent in February."
- How much have import and export prices changed compared to U.S. domestic prices?
- What imported goods have had the greatest price increases recently? Exports?
- Which nations' goods have increased in prices the most? Least?


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