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The first of Erikson's psychosocial stages, basic trust versus basic mistrust, begins at birth and lasts about one-and-a-half to two years. For Erikson basic trust means that "one has learned to rely on the sameness and continuity of the outer providers, but also that one may trust oneself and the capacity of one's organs to cope with urges,"5 Whether children develop a pattern of trust or mistrust depends on the "sensitive care of the baby's individual needs and a firm sense of personal trustworthiness within the trusted framework of their culture's life-style."6
Basic trust develops when children are reared, cared for, and educated in an environment of love, warmth, and support. An environment of trust reduces the opportunity for conflict between child, parent, and caregiver.
Social Behaviors
Social relationships begin at birth and are evident in the daily interactions between infants, parents, and teachers. Infants are social beings who possess many behaviors that they use to initiate and facilitate social interactions. Everyone uses social behaviors to begin and maintain a relationship with others. Consequently, healthy social development is essential for young children. Regardless of their temperament, all infants are capable of and benefit from social interactions.
Crying is a primary social behavior in infancy. It attracts parents or caregivers and promotes a social interaction of some type and duration, depending on the skill and awareness of the caregiver. Crying also has a survival value; it alerts caregivers to the presence and needs of the infant. However, merely meeting the basic needs of infants in a matter of fact manner is not sufficient to form a firm base for social development. You must react to infants with enthusiasm, attentiveness, and concern for them as unique persons.
Imitation is another social behavior of infants. They have the ability to mimic the facial expressions and gestures of adults. When a mother sticks out her tongue at a baby, after a few repetitions, the baby will also stick out his tongue! This imitative behavior is satisfying to the infant, and the mother is pleased by this interactive game. Since the imitative behavior is pleasant for both persons, they continue to interact for the sake of interaction, which in turn promotes more social interaction. Social relations develop from social interactions, but we must always remember that both occur in a social context, or culture.
Attachment and Relationships
Bonding and attachment play major roles in the development of social and emotional relationships. Bonding is the process by which parents or teachers become emotionally attached, or bonded, to infants. It is the development of a close, personal, affective relationship. It is a one-way process, which some maintain occurs in the first hours or days after birth. Attachment is the enduring emotional tie between the infant and the parents and other primary caregivers; it is a two-way relationship.
Attachment behaviors serve the purpose of getting and maintaining proximity; they form the basis for the enduring relationship of attachment. Parent and teacher attachment behaviors include kissing, caressing, holding, touching, embracing, making eye contact, and looking at the face. Infant attachment behaviors include crying, sucking, eye contact, babbling, and general body movements. Later, when infants are developmentally able, attachment behaviors include following, clinging, and calling.
Adult speech has a special fascination for infants. Interestingly enough, given the choice of listening to music or listening to the human voice, infants prefer the human voice. This preference plays a role in attachment by making the baby more responsive. Infants attend to language patterns they will later imitate in their process of language development; they move their bodies in rhythmic ways in response to the human voice. Babies' body movements and caregiver speech synchronize to each other: adult speech triggers behavioral responses in the infant, which in turn stimulate responses in the adult, resulting in a "waltz" of attention and attachment.
Multiple Attachments
Increased use of child care programs inevitably raises questions about infant attachment. Parents are concerned that their children will not attach to them. Worse yet, they fear that their baby will develop an attachment bond with the caregiver rather than with them. However, children can and do attach to more than one person, and there can be more than one attachment at a time. Infants attach to parents as the primary teacher as well as to a surrogate, resulting in a hierarchy of attachments in which the latter attachments are not of equal value. Infants show a preference for the primary caregiver, usually the mother.
Parents should not only engage in attachment behaviors with their infants, but they should also select child care programs that employ caregivers who understand the importance of the caregiver's role and function in attachment. High-quality child care programs help mothers maintain their primary attachments to their infants in many ways. The staff keeps parents well informed about infants' accomplishments, but parents are allowed to "discover" and participate in infants' developmental milestones. A teacher, for example, might tell a mother that today her son showed signs of wanting to take his first step by himself. The teacher thereby allows the mother to be the first person to experience the joy of this accomplishment. The mother might then report to the center that her son took his first step at home the night before.
The Quality of Attachment
The quality of infant–parent attachment varies according to the relationship that exists between them. A primary method of assessing the quality of parent–child attachment is the Strange Situation, an observational measure developed by Mary Ainsworth (1913–1999) to assess whether infants are securely attached to their caregivers. The testing episodes consist of observing and recording children's reactions to several events: a novel situation, separation from their mothers, reunion with their mothers, and reactions to a stranger. Based on their reactions and behaviors in these situations, children are described as being securely or insecurely attached (see below). The importance of knowing and recognizing different classifications of attachment is that you can inform parents and help them engage in the specific behaviors that will promote the growth of secure attachments.
Individual Differences in Attachment
Secure Attachment
Secure infants use parents as a secure base from which to explore their environments and play with toys. When separated from a parent, they may or may not cry; but when the parent returns, these infants actively seek the parent and engage in positive interaction. About 65 percent of infants are securely attached.
Avoidant Attachment
Avoidant infants are unresponsive/avoidant to parents and are not distressed when parents leave the room. Avoidant infants generally do not establish contact with a returning parent and may even avoid the parent. About 20 percent of infants demonstrate avoidant attachment.
Resistant Attachment
Resistant infants seek closeness to parents and may even cling to them, frequently failing to explore. When a parent leaves, these infants are distressed and on the parent's return may demonstrate clinginess, or they may show resistive behavior and anger, including hitting and pushing. These infants are not easily comforted by a parent. About 10 to 15 percent of infants demonstrate resistant attachment.
Disorganized attachment
Disorganized infants demonstrate disorganized and disoriented behavior. Children look away from parents and approach them with little or no emotion. About 5 percent of children demonstrate disorganized attachment.
Source: Based on Mary Ainsworth, Patterns of Attachment: A psychological Study of the Strange Situation (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1978).
5. Erik Erikson, Childhood and Society, 2nd ed. (New York: Norton, 1963; first pub., 1950), 249.
6. Ibid.
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Increasing Values to Shareholders
In the 7th year of joining the Hitachi Group, we continue to strive for transformation of ourselves to be a "More Valuable Enterprise" through integrating operations in sales, engineering and purchasing. We shall make efforts in further advancing research and development with an aim to bring forth further evolution to increase our value to shareholders. In addition, we have established a Disclosure Policy for the purpose of communicating corporate visions and business strategies to our shareholders and investors. It also states clearly our sincere and honest approach to the issue from viewpoints of our shareholders and investors, to make prompt, accurate and fair disclosures, also in compliance with all laws, regulations and stock exchange rules. The Disclosure Committee further ensures fair and timely disclosures in accordance with the Policy.
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The image is haunting John Shulman.
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga senior guard Dontay Hampton hobbled out of a pile in the closing seconds of the first half of the Mocs' 85-61 loss at Elon on Thursday.
"Tay is my man and I can't have my last memory of Tay laying on the floor at Elon looking at me," UTC coach John Shulman said. "If you're a parent, and your kid really needs you, they have that look.
"Tay is looking at me like, 'Come out here Dad, I need you bad.'"
Hampton is scheduled to undergo reconstructive knee surgery this morning to repair a torn ACL in his right knee -- a very similar injury to tearing his knee in July.
His competitive college career is over.
But he may appear in a UTC jersey and get in the official box score one more time this season. UTC's final home game, senior day, is Feb. 23 against Elon at 7:30. Seeing something different would replace the image that Shulman currently carries in his head.
"That's not going to be my last memory," Shulman said. "We'll try to figure something out."
Hampton deserves an honorable exit and ending. He is on schedule to walk -- or hobble or use crutches -- across the stage during graduation ceremonies on May 14. That will be his greatest achievement in McKenzie Arena.
Injuries can take his senior season, but not his accomplishments.
Hampton, a two-time All-State selection at Arts & Sciences, which is a quick walk from McKenzie Arena, grew up in a difficult neighborhood "... not the roughest, not the decent either," he said last year.
Few basketball players stay in their home city to walk-on to care for siblings instead of leaving town for a scholarship. Hampton did. Few walk-on player earn scholarship status before their junior season. Hampton did.
He worked out on his own in the offseason knowing that he'd be one of two seniors guiding a team flush with four scholarship freshmen and four scholarship sophomores.
One awkward move on July 14 tore his right ACL. Hampton spent the next six months enduring the initial surgery and months of rehab.
News that he had been cleared to play in games resonated with the team. And the Mocs responded by coming from 10 points back to win at The Citadel. They were blown out at the College of Charleston. But Hampton -- who hit a game-winning shot against Appalachian State last season -- hit a game-tying shot against ASU in the next game to force overtime.
But he broke his hand in the final seconds. He just grazed his right hand and broke the middle bone of his shooting hand.
Hampton's season seemed over at that point. Doctors told Shulman nobody could withstand the pain of playing with that injury.
Hampton did. And he scored nine points in a 90-81 loss to Western Carolina with a shooting hand so swollen that his knuckles were almost invisible. His hand looked gross but his knee appeared to be fine six months after the injury.
The knee gave out when Hampton drove the lane for the final shot of the first half against the Phoenix.
News of Hampton's second surgery is making its way throughout the SoCon.
"I'm devastated for Dontay," said Georgia Southern coach Charlton Young who knew of Hampton during his days as an assistant coach at UTC. "He's one of my favorite players in the league. I love the way he wears his heart on his sleeve.
"He's a future coach. If he wants to coach, I'll do everything in my world to help him do that."
Hampton could not be reached Wednesday, according to UTC officials, as he prepared for the morning surgery. Undergoing surgery for a second time should allow Hampton to return to full strength and perhaps pursue a career as a point guard in professional basketball overseas.
Hampton's accomplishments are unlike any other player in the Shulman era -- walk-on, scholarship, leader, injured, a returning leader, and then basketball-disabled.
"He's going to be a graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga," Shulman said. "He's finished playing. It's what we thought."
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Location: United States
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Post Date: Jul 19, 2018
Your Talent. Our Vision. At Anthem, Inc., it's a powerful combination, and the foundation upon which we're creating greater access to care for our members, greater value for our customers, and greater health for our communities. Join us and together we will drive the future of health care .
This is an exceptional opportunity to do innovative work that means more to you and those we serve at one of America's leading health benefits companies and a Fortune Top 50 Company.
The Clinical Quality/Compliance Admin will be responsible for coordinating Quality Management (QM) activities related to compliance and accreditation for an assigned SBU. Primary duties may include, but are not limited to:
Develops and maintains pertinent compliance plans.
Monitors adherence to plans and prepares status reports.
Conducts audits, identifies training and communication needs, and implements related programs.
Ensures all policies and procedures are updated as legislation or accreditation standards change.
Implements standardization of procedures and documentation within SBU.
Develops and delivers executive level presentations and represents senior management on compliance issues and related committees.
This position may work from any Anthem location and can work remotely.
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By Laura Reynolds
On April 29, the European Union voted to largely ban the use of neonicotinoids, a type of pesticide, for two years beginning in December 2013. The ban had 15 member state supporters, including France, Germany, and Poland; eight opponents, including the United Kingdom; and four abstaining votes.
Neonicotinoids are a possible cause of the rapid decline in bee populations worldwide. (Photo credit: University of California)
The ban restricts the use of three pesticides—imidacloprid, clothianidin, and thiamethoxam—on flowering crops, which honeybees depend on for pollen and hive health. Environmental groups, beekeepers, scientists, and the public hailed the ban as a victory for the precautionary principle, which urges caution and careful scientific study in circumstances where the effects of a chemical or action on the environment are not sufficiently clear.
Neonicotinoids are thought to be particularly harmful for insects because the chemical is applied directly to a plant's seed instead of its leaves or flowers. This makes the pesticide present in the plant's pollen. Neonicotinoids are also persistent chemicals, meaning that they do not degrade within weeks or months, but rather remain in the nerve systems of insects, causing systemic and lasting damage.
In the United States, a coalition of beekeeping companies and environmental groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency in March over its approval of neonicotinoids for domestic use. The groups cited a lack of scientific understanding of the pesticides' effect on bees and other insects, and drew a possible connection between the chemicals and the ongoing collapse of honeybee hives across the country and worldwide.
This bee population crisis, known as colony collapse disorder, emerged in 2005, and scientists have not yet identified a clear cause. Numerous peer-reviewed scientific studies have both confirmed and denied a link between neonicotinoids and beehive collapse. Scientists agree that viruses, mites, drought, and loss of native habitat could also be contributing to the collapse.
Anecdotal reports from commercial beekeepers suggest that the U.S. bee population may have declined as much as 40 to 50 percent over the past year. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will release its official assessment in late May. Annual hive losses of 5 to 10 percent were the norm for beekeepers in previous decades, but since 2005, losses have escalated to some one-third of all hives. Simply put, no bees means less or no production of certain foods: the USDA reports that one-third of the American diet depends on pollination by honeybees.
This spring, for the first time ever, orchardists in California couldn't find enough bees to pollinate their crops. Bees are shipped to pollinate hundreds of thousands of fruits and trees in California's Central Valley. Some of these specialty crops, such as almonds, are nearly 100-percent dependent on domestic honeybee hives. Because of the high concentration of fruit and nut production in California, the state imports its bees, possibly also importing diseases and viruses from around the country.
Because of the high demand and low supply of hives this year, farmers had to pay up to 20 percent more to use hives on their farms—which could result in increased food prices over the coming months.
What is your opinion on the effect of pesticides, as well as herbicides and other agrochemicals, on bee health? Let us know in the comments!
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This beautiful aerial photo gives a different perspective of the High Line and the surrounding city. Photo by Melissa Mansur
High Line Photographer Melissa Mansur captured this amazing rainy day aerial photo of the High Line during an openhousenewyork tour at The Standard, New York last weekend.
This photo offers a great bird's-eye view of the High Line and surrounding neighborhood. On the right hand side of the photo, the frame of the four-story High Line Headquarters building and future home of the Whitney are progressing as construction continues on the two sites. In the distance, fog hangs over the skyscrapers over Lower Manhattan, where 1 World Trade Center can be seen rising over its neighbors.


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To reduce the environmental and air quality impacts of the materials acquired for use in the operations and maintenance of buildings.
Develop a lighting purchasing plan that specifies maximum levels of mercury permitted in mercury-containing lamps purchased for the building and associated grounds, including lamps for both indoor and outdoor fixtures, as well as both hard-wired and portable fixtures. The purchasing plan must specify a target for the overall average of mercury content in lamps of 90 picograms per lumen-hour or less. The plan must include lamps for both indoor and outdoor fixtures, as well as both hard-wired and portable fixtures. The plan must require that at least 90% of purchased lamps comply with the target (as measured by the number of lamps). Lamps containing no mercury may be counted toward plan compliance only if they have energy efficiency at least as good as their mercury-containing counterparts.
Implement the lighting purchasing plan during the performance period such that all purchased mercury-containing lamps comply with the plan. One or two points are awarded to projects for which at least 90% of all mercury-containing lamps purchased during the performance period (as measured by the number of lamps) comply with the purchasing plan and meet the following overall targets for mercury content:
- MR Credit 4.1 (1 point): 90 picograms per lumen-hour
- MR Credit 4.2 (2 points): 70 picograms per lumen-hour
A template calculator to aid in documenting performance for MR Credits 4.1 and 4.2 is available in the LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance Reference Guide.
Exception: Screw-based, integral compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) may be excluded from both the plan and the performance calculation if they comply with the voluntary industry guidelines for maximum mercury content published by the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), as described in the LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance Reference Guide. Screw-based, integral CFLs that do not comply with the NEMA guidelines must be included in the purchasing plan and the performance calculation.
Performance metrics for lamps—including mercury content (mg/lamp), mean light output (lumens) and rated life (hours)—must be derived according to industry standards, as described in the LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance Reference Guide. Mercury values generated by toxicity characteristic leaching procedure (TCLP) tests do not provide the required mercury information for LEED for Existing Buildings: O&M and cannot be used in the calculation.
LEED for Existing Buildings: O&M addresses only the lamps purchased during the performance period, not the lamps installed in the building. Similarly, LEED for Existing Buildings: O&M does not require that each purchased lamp comply with the specified mercury limit; only the overall average of purchased lamps must comply.
Mercury-containing lamps (or their high-efficiency counterparts) must be purchased during the performance period to earn points in this credit.
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* Q4 earnings per share $0.23 vs year-ago $0.25
* Q4 revenue $2.98 bln vs Street view $2.95 bln
* CFO says customers delay orders due to macroeconomic
* TI shares fall slightly in late trade
* Q4 earnings per share $0.23 vs year-ago $0.25
* Q4 revenue $2.98 bln vs Street view $2.95 bln
* CFO says customers delay orders due to macroeconomic
* TI shares fall slightly in late trade
By Sinead Carew
Jan 22 (Reuters) - Texas Instruments Inc posted
quarterly revenue that was ahead of Wall Street expectations but
the chip maker warned of uncertain demand and a widespread
customer reluctance to order until the last minute due to
macroeconomic worries.
TI, which makes chips for everything from industrial
equipment to cars, said on Tuesday that while orders appeared to
be following a normal pace for this time of year, customers were
still worried about increasing their inventory of chips.
Chief Financial Officer Kevin March told Reuters that
quarterly revenue was at the high end of TI's expected range
because customers had made some orders late in the quarter.
But he said that weakness in European economies and in China
as well as uncertainty about government policies in the United
States were making customers wary of ordering too many chips.
"You've got the lingering uncertainty in Europe. You've got
the slowdown in China that seems to be reversing itself now and
you've got the (U.S.) fiscal cliff taking up all the headlines,"
March told Reuters. "Combined, it's got everybody really
conservative right now and not willing to go out on a limb."
On top of this, the company's previously announced wind down
of its cellphone chip business will cut revenue much more than
it otherwise would have fallen in the first quarter, March said.
Even though January order trends are looking better than
December's, executives told analysts on a conference call that
it was too soon to estimate when the market might recover.
Since customers are still ordering at the last minute,
Bernstein analyst Stacy Rasgon said it would be hard for TI to
predict the timing for a turnaround.
"The signs look like they're slowly improving," he said.
TI said its fourth-quarter profit fell to $264 million or 23
cents per share compared with $298 million or 25 cents per share
in the year-ago quarter. Revenue fell to $2.98 billion from
$3.42 billion but was ahead of Wall Street expectations for
$2.95 billion according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
For the first quarter the company warned that revenue could
decline further as it forecast a range of $2.69 billion to $2.91
billion. This is expected to include a $135 million decline from
the wireless business.
"If the weakness in revenue is more wireless than the core
business that's a good thing," said Bernstein's Rasgon.
TI had said in November that it was eliminating 1,700 jobs
as it is winding down its smartphone and tablet chip business
due to stiff competition from rivals such as Qualcomm Inc
Instead TI is focusing on analog chips and embedded chips
that are used in a wide range of products.
TI forecast earnings per share in a range of 24 cents to 32
cents for the current quarter. This include a charge of 6 cents
related to restructuring and acquisition and a tax benefit of 6
cents related to a credit for research and development.
On Dec. 10 the company had forecast fourth-quarter revenue
of $2.89 billion to $3.01 billion and earnings per share of 5
cents to 9 cents, including 21 cents per share of charges from
its previously announced restructuring of its wireless business.
TI shares fell slightly to $33.35 in late trade after
closing at $33.46 in the regular Nasdaq session.


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WESTERVILLE, Ohio – Sammi Reiter tallied a season-high six goals, but it wasn't enough to propel Concordia University Wisconsin in a comeback effort during a 12-11 non-conference loss at Otterbein University on Sunday at Clements Field.
The Falcons trailed by as many as five goals in the opening half and by three goals with six minutes to play in the contest. Juniors Hayley Peppers and Reiter scored back-to-back goals, the last coming with 1:48 to play, but CUW couldn't score the equalizer on the road.
CUW (6-3) fell behind by four goals, 10-6, after the Cardinals netted a marker 14 seconds into the second half. Reiter and junior Emily Heckendorf put together a 3-0 scoring run for the Falcons to get within a goal with nine minutes to play. OU (8-3) answered a pair of its own goals to increase their advantage to three goals, 12-9, with six minutes to play.
The Falcons, a team generally strong on the draw control, won just 8-of-25 attempts and was held to 13-of-23 successes on clear chances. A positive was their 4-of-4 conversions on free-position shots.
Reiter (Stillwater, Minn.) also assisted on two goals for a career-high-tying eight points, picked up five ground balls and was a career-best-tying 3-of-3 on free-position shots. Peppers (Franktown, Colo.) and Heckendorf (Merrill, Wis.) each had two goals, while Peppers won a team-high four draw controls.
Freshman Veronika Metanova (Palatine, Ill.) finished with a game-best 16 saves during a complete game effort and has made double-digit saves in five-straight contests.
Maria Blaszcyk led the Cardinals with three goals, while Maddy Blackburn and Tory Blatt tallied two goals each. Annie Kelly recorded a goal and a game-high four assists. Kelley also led all players with six ground balls, eight draw control wins and three caused turnovers.
Megan Burless, a midfielder, took over in net after halftime due to an injury and helped the defense in their victory.
CUW returns to action on Tuesday for a 4 p.m. Midwest Women's Lacrosse Conference game against Aurora University at Fitting Field.


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December 06, 2012
Dear Lewis & Clark Community!
Take a break from the end of semester rush with some friends, students, and colleagues by playing in the annual SAAC Dodgeball Tournament! The tournament is on December 13 and starts at 12:00 p.m. in the Pamplin Gym.
There are 24 team slots available in the double elimination tournament on a first come, first serve basis to the entire community (THIS IS NOT JUST A STUDENT or STUDENT-ATHLETE EVENT!!!).
Teams are made up of six people, including a minimum of two women. There is a $12 registration fee per team that can be paid after registration. Each team member gets a t-shirt on the day of the tourney!
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Penguins turn to Matt Murray for Game 4 of Eastern final
OTTAWA, Ontario -- The Pittsburgh Penguins will give Matt Murray his first start of the playoffs in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference final Friday night in Ottawa.
Coach Mike Sullivan announced the decision a few hours before the game.
Murray replaced Marc-Andre Fleury in the first period of a one-sided Game 3 loss on Wednesday after the 32-year-old Fleury allowed four goals on nine shots. It was Murray's first game since April 6, which was also his last start prior to suffering a lower-body injury that kept him out until his recent return as Fleury's backup. He stopped 19 of 20 shots in 47 minutes.
"I thought he was really solid in there," Sullivan said. "He's had a lot of practice time in the last couple of weeks."
The 22-year-old Murray took over from Fleury during the Penguins' postseason drive last spring, ultimately winning the Stanley Cup as the team's No. 1 despite having never played a full NHL season. He posted a .923 save percentage this season while starting 47 games.
Fleury has been mostly sensational throughout the playoffs, including a shutout of Ottawa in Game 2. Fleury has a .924 save percentage in 15 starts this postseason.
Sullivan said he explained his decision to Fleury, but would not share details with reporters.
"Marc was a professional like he always is," Sullivan said. "Both of these guys handle the decisions that we make extremely professionally. These guys are both competitors. They both want to be in the net. We don't always expect them to agree with our decisions, but we hope that they respect our decision."
Having two Stanley Cup-winning goalies doesn't make the decision any easier on whom to start.
"It's very difficult," Sullivan said. "That's been a hard decision for this coaching staff all year long. It's a good, difficult decision to have because we have two guys that are as capable as they are."
Notes: Pittsburgh forwards Bryan Rust, Patric Hornqvist and Tom Kuhnhackl and defenseman Justin Schultz have been ruled out for Game 4 with injuries. ... Ottawa coach Guy Boucher said forward Alex Burrows was a game-time decision, but defenseman Mark Borowiecki remains out.
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Rumors have been swelling about Kawasaki introducing a full-faired version of its popular Z1000 street naked, and at Intermot today those rumors became true. Dubbed the 2011 Kawasaki Ninja 1000 (the bike is going by the Kawasaki Z1000S or Z1000SX name in other markets, which has lead other sites to misreport the model name for here in the US), the new heavyweight 1000 street bike uses the same 1043cc motor as the current Z1000, and remains largely unchanged from the Z1000 except for some modifications to make the bike fit a more touring-oriented segment.
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The St Moritz M50-DSS is the latest addition to the line with unbelievable depth rating and features!Analog is the traditional display, with a dial (face) and hands. The advantage of analog displays is that they show you the time quickly and easily. It has been shown that the human brain grasps the time more quickly on an analog watch, simply by glancing at the relative positions of the hands: this gives a quick picture of the time.
The St Moritz M50-DSS is the latest addition to the line with unbelievable depth rating and features!
Analog is the traditional display, with a dial (face) and hands. The advantage of analog displays is that they show you the time quickly and easily. It has been shown that the human brain grasps the time more quickly on an analog watch, simply by glancing at the relative positions of the hands: this gives a quick picture of the time.
St. Moritz commenced operations in North America in 1980. The corporation designs, manufactures and distributes watches, specializing in high-performance sports watches. In the 1980's we also worked with some top Swiss watch brands, developing their distribution and service in North America. This was a very good learning experience, but we found that by making our own designs, we could deliver great products and provide our customers with better value for money (often using the same high-end components as the better-known, "luxury" brands). Today, while we focus on developing watches under our own brand, we also design, manufacture and service watches under other brands, for a number of well-known companies. Our Corporate Division designs and builds watches with custom dials and logos for a growing list of corporate customers. From the beginning, we have made our watches to last and backed them with the best possible after-sales service. We sell through specialty, full-service retailers, so you will not find us in the large chains or discount stores, but our products are now distributed throughout North America and in a growing list of countries all over the world.
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Hip to Hip Theatre's Shakespeare in Socrates Sculpture Park: The Tempest
Sunday, August 4, 2013
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Hip to Hip returns to Socrates for its seventh year of free Shakespeare. Enjoy a tragedy one week and a comedy the next, performed in repertory by a professional troupe of actors. All performances are free and open to the public - fun for the whole family. Bring a blanket or low chair and picnic fare, and enjoy a Shakespeare play in the open air.
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Sunday, August 4 , 5 - 6:30 p.m.
The Hip to Hip Theatre Company will perform this classic, which combines romance and political thriller to tell the story of a duke who was deposed and exiled to a deserted island, where he became a mighty sorcerer.
Love's Labor Lost
Sunday, August 11, 5 - 6:30 p.m.
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Dorothy F. (Scudieri) Masciarotte, 82, died February 23, 2012. She was the beloved wife of Alfred C. Masciarotte for 60 years.
Born in Milford, Mass., she was the daughter of the late Luigi and Marietta (Tocci) Scudieri. Mrs. Masciarotte worked for 28 years in the Deering Junior High School in West Warwick as a guidance secretary before retiring in 1995.
Besides her husband she is survived by two daughters, Gloria-Jean Masciarotte of Providence, Rebecca G. Murray and her husband, David, of Exeter, and a son, Anthony C. Masciarotte and his wife, Natalie, of Canaan, N.Y.; and two sisters, Gloria Rossi and Connie Ruggierio, both of Cranston. She was the sister of the late Anthony Scudieri, Ralph Scudieri, Mary DeRonde and Ellen Razzo.
Her funeral will be held Feb. 28 at 9 a.m. from R.A. IANNOTTI Funeral Home, 415 Washington St., Coventry, with a Mass of Christian Burial at 10 a.m. in Sacred Heart Church. Interment will be in Rhode Island Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Exeter. Visit www.iannottifh.com.


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Actor Shia Labeouf has sparked rumors of a blossoming romance with his Nymphomaniac co-star Mia Goth after the two were spotted cuddling in Los Angeles over the weekend (22-23Dec12).
The Transformers star reportedly split from his girlfriend of two years, Karolyn Pho, last month (Nov12), and now it appears he has moved on with the leading lady of his new film.
LaBeouf enjoyed a coffee date with Goth in Ventura, California on Saturday (22Dec12), and he was then photographed wrapping his arms around the 19 year old's waist while taking in the scenery at Descanso Gardens.
The actor has a history of dating his co-stars - his exes include Carey Mulligan, who starred alongside LaBeouf in Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, and China Brenzer, who he met on the set of The Greatest Game Ever Played.


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David Metzger, Ph.D. is Research Associate Professor and Director of the HIV/AIDS Prevention Research Division at the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychiatry. He is also the Principal Investigator for the NIAID funded HIV Prevention Clinical Trials Unit in Philadelphia and the Director of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Core of the Penn Center for AIDS Research (CFAR).
Since 1989, he and colleagues from the Center for Studies of Addiction have been conducting HIV-related longitudinal studies of injection and non-injection drug users. Under his direction, over 3,000 drug using subjects from Philadelphia have been enrolled in HIV studies known collectively as the Risk Assessment Projects (RAP). Dr. Metzger's research division has developed innovative community-based strategies for recruiting and retaining individuals at high risk of HIV infection into longitudinal studies of HIV prevention interventions. A primary objective of this work has been to provide valid and reliable data that can increase understanding of the public health impact of participation in substance abuse treatment. Currently, his work involves testing the safety and efficacy of behavioral and biomedical prevention interventions including preventive HIV vaccines, vaginal microbicides, social network interventions, and agonist drug treatment strategies in Philadelphia, Thailand and China.
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If you have the money to buy a Rolls-Royce, you call the shots. Customers can customise most vehicles however they want, unless it contravenes safety regulations.
This week the brand unveiled its new Wraith model at an event in Sydney, where Rolls-Royce general manager Asia Pacific Dan Balmer shared the most interesting bespoke choices he had ever seen with Business Insider.
Hunting birds of prey in style
"We had a guy in the Middle East, a Crown Prince who wanted the interior of the boot lined with the tartan of the school he went to in Scotland.
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He said 'I want a yellow interior,' so we said 'all right, we'll make yellow leather.'
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"We built the car, and it was [sun]glasses on. It was quite a statement.
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Given current resources developed as part of the Gov Doc Kids Group, members of the GIC Standing Committee will work to support the group's mission, which is as follows: Promote government information in order to engage K-12 students in learning about history, culture, science, and government through games and other interactive activities; to assist teacher / school librarians, public librarians, academic librarians, parents, and the general public with locating teaching aids, lesson plans, and exciting tools to enhance students' learning; and provide all populations with a collection of free government resources – designed for children -- to advance their personal and professional needs.
Gov Doc Kids Group is a national group of government information librarians. The Group is endorsed by the State Library of Kansas, Kansas Library Association, ALA Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT), the State Library of Ohio, and the Government Documents Roundtable of Ohio. Utilizing virtual platforms, processes, and procedures, members of the GIC Standing committee will maintain the following websites. Gov Doc Kids Group's current projects are:
- creating links to government information resources useful to K-12 students via its online portals.
- Marketing and promotion for the Annual Constitution Day Poster Design Contest Video highlighting our Constitution Day Poster Contest
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Net::IMP::ProtocolPinning - IMP plugin for simple protocol matching
my $factory = Net::IMP::ProtocolPinning->new_factory( rules => [
# HTTP request from client (dir=0)
[ 0,9,qr{(GET|POST|OPTIONS) \S} ],
my $factory = Net::IMP::ProtocolPinning->new_factory( rules => [
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ignore_order => 1,
max_unbound => [ 1024,0 ],
Net::IMP::ProtocolPinning implements an analyzer for very simple protocol verification using rules with regular expressions. The idea is to only check the first data in the connection for protocol conformance and then let the rest through without further checks.
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Specifies the rules to use for protocol verification. Rules are an array of direction specific rules, e.g. each rule consists of
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the direction, e.g. 0 for data from client and 1 for data from server
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the length of data the regular expression might need for the match. E.g. if the regex is
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- rx
the regular expression itself. The regex will be applied against the not-yet-forwarded data with an implicit
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- ignore_order BOOLEAN
If true, it will take the first rule for direction, when data for connection arrive. If false, it will cause DENY if data arrive from one direction, but the current rule is for the other direction.
- max_unbound [SIZE0,SIZE1]
If there are no more active rules for direction, and ignore_order is true, then the application needs to buffer data, until all remaining rules for the other direction are matched. Using this parameter the amount of buffered data which cannot be bound to a rule will be limited per direction.
If not set a default of unlimited will be used!
Process of Matching Input Against Rules
When new data arrive from direction and
ignore_orderis false, it will take the first active rule and compare the direction of the data with the direction of the rule. If they don't match it will be considered a protocol violation and a DENY will be issued.
When new data arrive from direction, but
ignore_orderis true, it will pick the first active rule for this direction.
If no rule is found for direction, no action will be taken. This causes the data to be buffered in the application and they will only be released, once all rules have been processed.
To limit the amount of buffered data in this case
max_unboundshould be set. Buffering more data than
max_unboundfor this direction will cause a DENY.
A rule was found. It will add the new data to the local buffer for the direction and then try to match the first
rxlenbytes of the buffer against the rule. The regex of the rule is implicitly anchored at the beginning of the buffer.
If the rule matched and cannot match more (rxlen reached), it will
remove the rule from the list of active rules
remove the matched data from the local buffer
issue a PASS for the matched data
continue with the next active rule (if any)
If the rule might still match more data, it will issue a PASS for the matched data, but wait with the other things until the rule is definitely done.
If the rule did not match, but the length of the local buffer is greater than or equal to
rxlen, it will consider the rule failed and issue a DENY.
If the rule did not match, but the buffer is smaller than rxlen, it will wait for more data and then try the match again.
If all rules matched (e.g. no more active rules), it will issue a PASS into the future until the end of the connection, causing all data to get forwarded without further analysis.
Rules for Writing the Regular Expressions
Because the match will be tried whenever new data come in (e.g. the buffer might have a size of less than, equal to or greater than
rxlen), care should be taken, when constructing the regular expression and determining
rxlen. It should not match data longer than
rxlen, e.g. instead of specifying
\d+ one should specify a fixed size with
Care should also be taken if you have consecutive rules for the same direction (e.g. either the next rule is for the same direction or
ignore_order is true). Here you need to make sure, that the first rule will not match data needed by the next rule, e.g.
\w{1,2} followed by
\d will not work, while
[a-z]{1,2} followed by
\d will be fine.
Please note also, that the regular expression in the rule will be implicitly anchored at the beginning of the buffered data, e.g.
\d will only match if the first character is a digit, not if any character but the first in the buffer is a digit. If you want the latter behavior, you have to explicitly allow other characters and need to limit their amount, e.g. "(?s).{0,10}\d".
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I have learned to be discerning when it comes to catalog shopping. I steer clear of outrageous or cheap deals. I prefer the specialty catalog where expertise reigns, providing us with both a good product and the information to grow it well.
I shop locally as much as I can, but for some crops we must turn to the catalogs that are filling the mailbox this time of the year. I pour over the pages looking for the odd, heirloom and favorite staple, and I order early because some rare finds are often limited in supply. Companies will send seeds anytime, but plants will not be sent until recommended planting times for the zone.
Wood Prarie
Wood Prairie Farm (800-829-9765 or www.woodprairie.com) in Bridgewater, Maine has the best organic seed potatoes. They offer a wide range of varieties providing information on ideal cooking methods, harvest time, color, disease resistance and storage. Wood Prairie Farm also offers vegetable seed and whole grains like spelt, meal, ryes and wheat.
Dixondale Farm
Texas based Dixondale Farm (877-367-1015 or www.dixondalefarms.com) has a great selection of onions, shallots and leeks. They help you select the proper variety based on day length: onions come in long, intermediate and short-day varieties. Intermediate-day works for all of Kentucky and the other two can be grown in either the northern or southern extremes.
For the harder to find heirloom seeds and all purpose vegetable garden supplies, there are a handful of favorites. And, if you like to cook, these catalogs can help you select vegetables based on how you like to prepare food. It is also fun to find Italian, Spanish or English varieties of vegetables that our grandmothers used in days gone by.
Fine Garden Food
In our search for fine food to grow in the garden, for fun we pour over the pages of Johnny's Select Seeds (877-564-6697, www.johnnyseeds.com), John Scheeper's (860-567-6086, www.kitchengardenseeds.com) Abundant Life Seeds (541-767-9606, www.abundantlifeseeds.com), Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds (417-924-8917, www.rareseeds.com), Territorial Seed Company (800-626-0866, www.territorialseed.com ), Seeds of Change (888-762-7333, www.seedsofchange.com), and Pinetree Garden Seeds (888-527-3337, www.superseeds.com).
The Cooks Garden (800-457-9703 or www.cooksgarden.com) has the most extensive selection for the kitchen garden. I usually choose an array of lettuces: 'Kentucky Bibb' for the early garden, specialty mixes for the summer salad and kale, spinach and arugula and for the late garden.
Summer annuals
For heirloom summer annuals, we like the unusual selection offered by Select Seeds (800-684-0395 or www.selectseeds.com). You'll find old-fashioned sweet peas, violas, nicotiana, morning glories and fast growing annual vines like the Mexican flame vine, the black-eyed Susan vine and Spanish flag.
Gardens Alive (513-354-1482 or www.gardensalive.com) in Lawrenceburg, Ind., rounds out the list. Gardens Alive is always there when looking for something organic for the garden: neem oil, biofungicides and insecticides, natural fertilizers, weed killers and more.
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No-Sew, Fancy Kids' Pocketbook
Source: The Martha Stewart Show, March 2007
Tools and Materials
Pocketbook template
Wool felt
Fabri-Tac glue
Hand punch
Boa, necklace, or scarf (for handle)
Plastic rhinestones, butterflies, and flowers (optional)
No-Sew, Fancy Kids' Pocketbook How-To
1. Download and print pocketbook template.
2. Cut out wool felt shape using template.
2. Glue seams with Fabri-Tac.
3. Punch two holes through both layers. To add a handle, use a boa, necklace, or scarf.
4. Glue on embellishments to the pocketbook, such as plastic rhinestones, butterflies, and flowers.
The wool felt is available at magiccabin.com. Fabri-Tac glue can be found at beaconadhesives.com. Purchase the hand punch at fiskars.com. Other embellishments can be found at art supply, crafts, and discount stores.
Special Thanks
Special thanks to author Jane O'Connor and HarperCollins Children's Books for providing the audience with copies of "Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy"; FAO Schwarz for providing stuffed dogs for the segments, Danskin for providing the ballet attire, and Capezio for providing the ballet slippers.


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When the Indianapolis Colts selected Andrew Luck with the first pick of the 2012 NFL draft, they knew they were getting a special player.
In their wildest dreams they couldn't have imagined him being this special however, as the play caller out of Stanford University just keeps on performing at the highest level.
Second year quarterback Luck, who was drafted into the worst team in American Football at the time, has almost singlehandedly taken the Colts from being a poor club to Superbowl contenders.
Luck's stats present the 24-year-old as a good quarterback, but don't exactly set the world alight. In his rookie season, he had a pretty average QB rating of 76.5. Although he threw for over 4000 yards and had 23 touchdowns, he threw in a very high total of 18 interceptions.
This season, Luck has been much better with the ball, earning a QB rating of 91.5 this year. He has thrown for just under 2000 yards, 13 touchdowns and only three picks in his first eight games, marking a huge improvement from last year.
The only stat that matters in any way in professional sports however, is wins. Winning is a category in which Mr. Luck excels. The 2012 top pick has won an incredible 17 games from his first 24. This would be impressive for Drew Brees or Peyton Manning with the excellent New Orleans Saints or Denver Broncos, let alone a quarterback completely new to the league on a team that is really not that great.
In 24 games in the NFL, Luck has orchestrated ten game winning comeback drives in the fourth quarter of matches, a total that almost matches that of nine year Houston Texans veteran Matt Schaub in just one and a half seasons of play.
What Luck can do on the field can not be seen on paper however, as the quarterback's abilities go beyond those shown in the stats. Luck has an aura around him that all great players have and that seems to inspire those around him to play better.
His incredible escape ability has enabled him to avoid countless sacks, even when provided with the worst offensive line in the league in 2012. He was sacked 41 times last term, but it could have been many more if not for his Houdini-like escapes. Even with this ailing team, Luck still miraculously managed to get them into the playoffs with an 11-5 record.
This Colt's have become a vastly improved franchise this season however, with improvements in their offensive line and the addition of Trent Richardson at the running-back spot helping them to become a top team.
They have now become legitimate Superbowl contenders and have already beaten three of the other main contenders for the Superbowl crown this season. The Broncos, the Seattle Seahawks and the San Francisco 49ers have all fallen to the Colts in their impressive 6-2 start to the season.
Andrew Luck's incredible ability to win, even with few offensive weapons at his disposal, is a skill that has made him a member of the elite group of quarterbacks in the league. You would still take Brees, Manning or Aaron Rodgers over Luck for your ultimate team, but the young quarterback's clutch performances, work ethic and strong mentality will eventually propel him to the top.
Luck is so good that he may retire one of the best players ever to play the famous quarterback position.
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Auditor questions Southern Law Center financial practices
Auditor questions Southern Law Center financial practices
BATON ROUGE, La. —
An audit finds a former Southern University Law Center employee who handled some of the law school's finances improperly kept more than $500,000 worth of undeposited and unmailed checks stashed in an office for months at a time.
The Advocate reports a legislative auditor's report released Monday says the unnamed employee has since resigned.
The audit report further shows the Law Center's accounting was $1.5 million off on its 2012 annual financial statement due to some employees' practice of recording monetary transactions manually rather than using accounting software.
The improperly handled checks and the accounting error were the only two negatives found in the audit.


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- Genome sequence of the necrotrophic plant pathogen Pythium ultimum reveals original pathogenicity mechanisms and effector repertoire (2010)
- Background: Pythium ultimum (P. ultimum) is a ubiquitous oomycete plant pathogen responsible for a variety of diseases on a broad range of crop and ornamental species. Results: The P. ultimum genome (42.8 Mb) encodes 15,290 genes and has extensive sequence similarity and synteny with related Phytophthora species, including the potato blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans. Whole transcriptome sequencing revealed expression of 86% of genes, with detectable differential expression of suites of genes under abiotic stress and in the presence of a host. The predicted proteome includes a large repertoire of proteins involved in plant pathogen interactions although surprisingly, the P. ultimum genome does not encode any classical RXLR effectors and relatively few Crinkler genes in comparison to related phytopathogenic oomycetes. A lower number of enzymes involved in carbohydrate metabolism were present compared to Phytophthora species, with the notable absence of cutinases, suggesting a significant difference in virulence mechanisms between P. ultimum and more host specific oomycete species. Although we observed a high degree of orthology with Phytophthora genomes, there were novel features of the P. ultimum proteome including an expansion of genes involved in proteolysis and genes unique to Pythium. We identified a small gene family of cadherins, proteins involved in cell adhesion, the first report in a genome outside the metazoans. Conclusions: Access to the P. ultimum genome has revealed not only core pathogenic mechanisms within the oomycetes but also lineage specific genes associated with the alternative virulence and lifestyles found within the pythiaceous lineages compared to the Peronosporaceae.
- De novo assembly of a 40 Mb eukaryotic genome from short sequence reads: Sordaria macrospora, a model organism for fungal morphogenesis (2010)
- Filamentous fungi are of great importance in ecology, agriculture, medicine, and biotechnology. Thus, it is not surprising that genomes for more than 100 filamentous fungi have been sequenced, most of them by Sanger sequencing. While next-generation sequencing techniques have revolutionized genome resequencing, e.g. for strain comparisons, genetic mapping, or transcriptome and ChIP analyses, de novo assembly of eukaryotic genomes still presents significant hurdles, because of their large size and stretches of repetitive sequences. Filamentous fungi contain few repetitive regions in their 30–90 Mb genomes and thus are suitable candidates to test de novo genome assembly from short sequence reads. Here, we present a high-quality draft sequence of the Sordaria macrospora genome that was obtained by a combination of Illumina/Solexa and Roche/454 sequencing. Paired-end Solexa sequencing of genomic DNA to 85-fold coverage and an additional 10-fold coverage by single-end 454 sequencing resulted in ~4 Gb of DNA sequence. Reads were assembled to a 40 Mb draft version (N50 of 117 kb) with the Velvet assembler. Comparative analysis with Neurospora genomes increased the N50 to 498 kb. The S. macrospora genome contains even fewer repeat regions than its closest sequenced relative, Neurospora crassa. Comparison with genomes of other fungi showed that S. macrospora, a model organism for morphogenesis and meiosis, harbors duplications of several genes involved in self/nonself-recognition. Furthermore, S. macrospora contains more polyketide biosynthesis genes than N. crassa. Phylogenetic analyses suggest that some of these genes may have been acquired by horizontal gene transfer from a distantly related ascomycete group. Our study shows that, for typical filamentous fungi, de novo assembly of genomes from short sequence reads alone is feasible, that a mixture of Solexa and 454 sequencing substantially improves the assembly, and that the resulting data can be used for comparative studies to address basic questions of fungal biology.


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Punxsy wins DuBois Area Scholastic Challenge for first time
DUBOIS — Four students from Punxsutawney Area High School took first place in the 24th annual DuBois Area Senior Scholastic Challenge Wednesday night at PSU-DuBois' Hiller Auditorium, the first time that a Punxsy team has taken top honors in the event.
The team members — seniors Lucas Burke and Joe Long, junior Kendall Neal and freshman Kevin Hughes — garnered 135 total points in the final two rounds.
"Usually what happens is, whoever wins the first preliminary round takes first place," advisor Rose Graffius said. "That's not how it happened this year."
In four rounds of the preliminary contest, one person on each team competes on an individual basis, answering questions about history, current events, math, science, literature and English, some accompanied by audio/visual elements.
From there, the top four point-collecting teams move on to the final two rounds. Wednesday night, it was Brockway, Brookville, DuBois and Punxsy in the finals.
In the final two rounds, the scores are reduced to zero among all teams, and two students representing each team answer questions.
If the first student on a team incorrectly answers a question, his or her teammate can answer. Each correct answer is 10 points, while each correct answer is minus-five points.
Neal and Burke represented PAHS in the first round of the finals, while Hughes and Long handled the questions in the second round.
Punxsy emerged with 135 points in the final two rounds, followed by DuBois with 110 points; Brookville with 85; and Brockway with five.
"These guys were so excited," Graffius said. "This is the first time Punxsy's ever done this (come in first). They did really well."
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CUNYfirst Information for Faculty
- Advantages of CUNYfirst
- Activating Your Lehman E-mail Account
- Claiming Your CUNYfirst Account
- CUNYfirst Training Schedule
- Employee Self Service Training
- Faculty and Staff Training Guides
Advantages of CUNYfirst
- Each faculty member will have a single user name and password for all CUNYfirst applications.
- Faculty can directly connect via the Internet to CUNYfirst Portal from any location. CUNYfirst is not connected to the current CUNY Portal.
Human Resources Self-Service
This module enables faculty to:
- View, on demand, your personal information and work history.
- Change your personal email addresses (your Lehman email address must remain your primary address), emergency contacts, and professional memberships.
- Provide documentation to update changes and confirm current information for your:
- Home address
- Marital Status
- Name Change
- Social Security Number
- New or re-submitting I-9
- New or advanced degrees
- Honors and certifications
Campus Solutions: Instruction and Advising
This module has various features for faculty, advisers, deans, and chairs:
- Faculty can create and view weekly instructional calendar by daily, weekly, and monthly views
- Faculty can view Class Rosters as soon as students register—and email your entire class or specific individuals from the rosters
- Faculty advisers can use Advanced Advisement Tools to:
- See, in real time, student transcripts, current class schedule, and contact information, with the ability to contact students directly through CUNYfirst;
- E-mail an individual student or all your student advisees;
- Contact your advisee's instructors through CUNYfirst; and
- View "holds" and other service indicators.
- Deans and chairs can view an instructor's teaching history.
- Enrollment and instructor data feeds directly into Blackboard.
- A University-wide standard process will post grades electronically:
- This is an advantage for professors/adjuncts who have multiple campus postings.
- Quicker postings to student transcripts will support timely registration for pre- and corequisite requirements.
Activating Your Lehman E-Mail Account
CUNYfirst will send messages ONLY to your Lehman e-mail account. Please be sure that your account is activated.
Most faculty and staff members already have a Lehman e-mail account. The format follows this sequence: first name / period / last name @lehman.cuny.edu. Example: email@example.com. E-mail accounts for faculty and staff who are new to Lehman as of Fall 2011 were generated at the beginning of the semester; the same process was generated for Spring 2012. Contact the IT Help Desk in Information Technology Resources to check on the status of your account.
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Cabforce API - Developers
Cabforce allows users to search for and book taxi rides and airport transfers online. They provide services for all major European travel destinations and are currently expanding into the U.S., Asia, and Australia. Cabforce works with certified service providers who operate clean, non-smoking cars and are guaranteed to arrive on-time. Bookings are always conï¬rmed, and Cabforce provides 24/7 customer service in English. Cabforce customers pay an all-inclusive flat rate online via credit card, eliminating the issues of overpriced fares and unfamiliar currencies. Cabforce's services can be accessed directly on the website or programmatically via API. Documentation for the API is available upon request.