Progress reported in Pa. university negotiations

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- The union representing faculty at Pennsylvania's 14 public universities is reporting progress on contract talks.

The union says it reached tentative agreements on compensation with state higher education officials.

However, the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties said Monday that "significant divides" remain on issues including online education, health care and class size.

Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education officials are looking to save money. They say health care costs alone will increase by $7.5 million next year.

Union members have been working without a contract for 18 months. They have authorized their leadership to call a strike.

The parties will meet again on Wednesday.

The universities serve about 115,000 students.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/progress-reported-pa-university-negotiations-162241279.html

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?Galactic? Hits Google Play!

Developer Andronova Mobile has released its first Android game available on the Google Play Store called ?Galactic?.? This space-arcade game features very impressive 3D graphics and a rushed, but intuitive gameplay with unique physics.

?Galactic? is parted into two modes: Talent and Action. Action mode is the main campaign driven session, while Talent mode gives you the opportunity to explore all the areas of space. Providing a fusion of the old school arcade space-shooters and modern design mixed with unique gameplay, the game sure guarantees fun for both casual gamers and arcade nerds.

So go ahead and buy ?Galactic? for your Android device!

Source: Andronova Mobile Newsletter

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Huawei : Jobs'un ?l?m? ile yenilik anlam?nda eksiklik ya?an?yor, Samsung ucuz plastik kullanmaktan ka??nmal?

CES 2013 fuar?nda ?nemli ?r?nlerini ziyaret?ilere tan?tan ve MWC 2013 i?in iddial? modeller tan?tacaklar?n? a??klayan Huawei y?netim kurulu ba?kan? Richard Yu, g?ndeme dair ?nemli a??klamalar yapt?.?

Yu, Steve Jobs'un ?l?m? ile teknoloji d?nyas?nda bir yenilik eksikli?i ya?an?yor. Y?zy?l?n ?nemli vizyonerleri aras?nda g?sterilen Jobs, iPod, iPhone, iTunes, iPad gibi yeniliklerle hem sekt?r? ba?tan a?a?? de?i?tirdi hem de Apple'? d?nyan?n en de?erli ?irketi haline getirdi.?

Yu ayr?ca Samsung'u y?ksek kaliteli malzeme kullanmad??? konusunda ele?tiriyor ve ucuz plastik kullanmaktan vazge?mesini tavsiye ediyor.?

Huawei ise hem Avrupa ve Asya tasar?mlar?n? biraraya getiriyor hem de ruh kat?yor. Global bir firma oldu?u i?in Huawei tasar?m konusunda daha iyisini yapabiliyor. Her?eyden ?nemlisi tasar?ma ruh kat?yor.?

Yu, ge?mi?te insanlar?n Apple ve Samsung'un en iyi ?r?nleri ?retti?i ?eklinde bir alg?ya sahip oldu?unu ancak art?k Huawei'nin t?keticilere en iyi ?r?nleri sundu?u ?eklinde bir alg? yaratmak istediklerini belirtiyor.?

Yu, ayr?ca d???k b?t?eli cihazlar? ile tan?nd?klar? i?in ABD'li operat?rlere ?st seviye cihazlar?n? kabul ettirmede bir s?re zorland?klar?n? da ifade ediyor. ??

Yu, Ascend Mate modelinin b?y?kl??? ile ilgili ele?tirilere ise Galaxy Note modelinden daha konforlu oldu?u ?eklinde cevap veriyor.?

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UNC leads Florida State 33-31 at halftime

Updated 7 p.m.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. ? Haunting images began to come to James Michael McAdoo on Friday night when North Carolina arrived here for its game on Saturday against Florida State.

?We get to the hotel last night, I?m just like, man, this is bad memories all over,? McAdoo, the UNC sophomore forward, said following the Tar Heels? 77-72 victory against the Seminoles. ?Showing up to the arena today, just horrible memories in this place.?

Nearly a year ago to the day, UNC (11-5, 1-2) had suffered a 33-point loss against FSU here in the Donald L. Tucker Center. On Saturday, the Tar Heels celebrated a victory that both avenged that loss and provided a modicum of hope that perhaps they can turn around their season after an 0-2 start in ACC play.

McAdoo, who finished with 14 points, provided a glimpse of UNC?s strategy from the first play on Saturday. He caught a pass on the right wing, drove past a defender and into the lane for a layup. Fouled on the shot, he made the free throw to complete a three-point play.

?Just trying to set the tone from the get-go,? McAdoo said.

While he recounted that moment, P.J. Hairston, the sophomore forward, sat his locker, surrounded by cameras and microphones after scoring a career-high 23 points. Some of those points came on the four 3-pointers he made. Others came on a pair of aggressive one-handed dunks after beating the Seminoles? defense.

Hairston and McAdoo both carried vivid memories of last season into Saturday. What happened in this building a year ago was fresh on their minds.

?I felt like I wanted it more than Florida State did,? Hairston said. ?Because me, Reggie [Bullock] and Dexter [Strickland] ? all of us being on that team last year ? came down here and got basically embarrassed.

?We wanted to turn that around and come down here with revenge and basically beat them the entire night.?

It wasn?t exactly that easy. The Heels led by as many as six during the first half, and held a 33-31 halftime lead. But Florida State (10-6, 2-1) came back and held a slim lead of its own for about 11 minutes during the second half.

During that 33-point victory here last season, the Seminoles put on the kind of 3-point shooting exhibition that took its place alongside some of the most memorable in school history. And for a while Saturday, the Seminoles provided a suitable encore.

The first four shots that FSU made from the field during the second half were all 3s, and overall the Seminoles made six 3-pointers during the first eight minutes and three seconds of the second half. The last of those, which came from Aaron Thomas with 11:57 to play, gave Florida State a 55-51 lead, which tied for the ?Noles largest.

?The second half, I just didn?t think we could stop their 3-point shots from going in,? UNC coach Roy Williams said. ?? But our guys fought like crazy.?

UNC trailed 72-69 with 4:16 to play, before one of Hairston?s dunks made it a one-point game. Jackson Simmons, a reserve forward who had never scored more than four points in a college game, then gave UNC the lead for good when he rebounded Reggie Bullock?s missed 3 and put it back amid defensive pressure.

Simmons, who turned 20 on Saturday, finished with eight points and four rebounds in 15 minutes.

?I?ve never won on my birthday, even in high school,? he said of where this birthday ranked compared to others. ?So it?s up there. It?s number one by far.?

The Tar Heels on Saturday faced a set of late-game circumstances similar to those they experienced in defeats against Virginia and Miami. In those games, they wilted under pressure. On Saturday, they excelled.

UNC held Florida State scoreless during the final four minutes and 15 seconds, and the Heels closed the game on an 8-0 run. Williams said the Tar Heels felt ?as fortunate as we can possibly be.?

Still, he said, ?I just think our kids needed this, to say the least. We?ve been struggling, the pressure?s been on ? the stress of being at North Carolina, starting out 0-2, on a young team is incredibly tough to handle, much less a veteran team.?

UNC is not a veteran team, yet for a change it didn?t succumb to youthful mistakes or a lack of urgency. For weeks, Williams and his players had talked about the need to play with a greater sense of purpose.

After lackadaisical performance, the Tar Heels had talked about the need to play with more energy and intensity.

?But today was the first time that I really thought we did have a big-time sense of urgency,? Williams said.

Perhaps nowhere was that more evident than after missed shots, the great majority of which the Tar Heels secured. They scored 19 points off of 19 offensive rebounds, and they limited the Seminoles to just six offensive rebounds.

UNC fought for rebounds, fought to end a two-game losing streak and fought to produce some good memories in a place that provided nothing but bad a year ago. Now the Tar Heels will fight to build off a victory they hope proves to be a catalyst.

Source: http://blogs.newsobserver.com/uncnow/unc-leads-florida-state-33-31-at-halftime

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Mom Shoots Intruder 5 Times, Saves Children

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AudioCodes Mediant E-SBC Achieves Certification From AT&T for ...

LOD, Israel (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) ? AudioCodes, a leading provider of Voice over IP (VoIP) technologies, products and services, today announced that the company?s Mediant Enterprise 3000 Session Border Controller (E-SBC) has achieved certification with AT&T IP Flex Reach SIP Trunking for use with Genesys IP contact center applications. As a result of this certification, IT managers and network systems integrators will be able to migrate existing, or design new, cost-effective Genesys contact center solutions utilizing AT&T?s IP Flex Reach SIP Trunking services.

?At Genesys, we know that contact centers are heavily dependent on both inbound and outbound telephone traffic, making them very sensitive to the reliability and costs of those services,? said Richard Barton, Director of Product Management at Genesys Telecommunications. ?Achieving certification by AT&T of IP Flex Reach with AudioCodes Mediant E-SBCs, along with Genesys, will make our contact center customers more cost competitive, while maintaining utmost reliability.?

?We are pleased to have achieved this important certification milestone with AT&T and Genesys,? said Sharone Ben-Levi, VP Marketing and Business Development, North America at AudioCodes. ?AudioCodes? E-SBCs successfully demonstrated their ability to integrate two strategic technology partners that is expected to open new opportunities for Genesys, a leading contact center software platform, and AT&T, a leading provider of SIP Trunking services.?

Certification testing mentioned in this announcement was performed at the AudioCodes North American Interoperability Lab in Research Triangle Park, NC. The Interoperability Lab was constructed under the close guidance and recommendations by Genesys, hosting a fully operational Genesys SIP Server alongside various AudioCodes gateways and Session Border Controllers. The AudioCodes Interoperability Lab can be contracted for specific interoperability and certification services.

More about our Mediant E-SBC family can be found at www.audiocodes.com/e-sbc.

About AudioCodes:
AudioCodes Ltd. (Nasdaq:AUDC) designs, develops and sells advanced Voice over IP (VoIP) and converged VoIP and Data networking products and applications to Service Providers and Enterprises. AudioCodes is a VoIP technology market leader focused on converged VoIP and data communications and its products are deployed globally in Broadband, Mobile, Enterprise networks and Cable. The Company provides a range of innovative, cost-effective products including Media Gateways, Multi-Service Business Routers, Session Border Controllers (SBC), Residential Gateways, IP Phones, Media Servers and Value Added Applications. AudioCodes? underlying technology, VoIPerfectHD(TM), relies on AudioCodes? leadership in DSP, voice coding and voice processing technologies. AudioCodes? High Definition (HD) VoIP technologies and products provide enhanced intelligibility and a better end user communication experience in Voice communications. For more information on AudioCodes, visit http://www.audiocodes.com.

Source: http://psc.apcointl.org/2012/12/19/audiocodes-mediant-e-sbc-achieves-certification-from-att-for-sip-trunking-with-genesys-powered-contact-centers/

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Panetta orders probe of military day care centers

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Tuesday ordered a worldwide review of hiring practices at all U.S. military day care centers after the Army revealed that it discovered problems with security background checks of workers at a Washington-area center.

Shortly after the Army said it was launching an investigation of hiring practices at its 283 day care centers worldwide, Panetta's press secretary, George Little, issued a statement saying Panetta supports the review.

Little said Panetta has directed each of the military services to conduct similar reviews. The actions stem from the Sept. 26 arrests of two Army employees accused of assaulting children at a Fort Myer, Va., day care center. But the problem there apparently is much deeper; indications are that at least 30 workers at the Fort Myer facility have histories that call into question their suitability to care for children, two officials said. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation into worker backgrounds at Fort Myer is not completed.

"Military children are precious members of our Defense Department family," Panetta said. "As a department, protecting our service members and their families is paramount."

After the Fort Myer arrests, the Army replaced the day care center's management team and found what the Army called "derogatory information" in the background of an unspecified number of other employees there.

Army officials did not reveal the derogatory information.

In addition, Fort Myer began a review of the background files of about two dozen other day care workers to determine whether they should be fired, the Army said. That review apparently is ongoing.

"The safety of the children under our care is our most important responsibility," said Col. Fern Sumpter, the Fort Myer commander. "The quality of their care and safety has been and will continue to be our most important priority."

Sumpter said the day care center was closed "out of an abundance of caution" and the children moved to a separate day care center at Fort Myer. A Fort Myer spokeswoman, Mary Ann Hodges, said the center was closed on Dec. 13.

Of the two Fort Myer day care workers who were arrested, one faces five counts of assault and the other faces four counts of assault, according to the Army.

Based on the findings at Fort Myer, Army Secretary John McHugh said Tuesday he ordered an Army-wide review of hiring practices and management at every day care center.

"These initial findings are not only troubling, they are unacceptable, and we will make certain that adequate policies and procedures are in place, and that they are strictly followed and fully enforced," McHugh said.

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Associated Press writer Lolita C. Baldor contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/panetta-orders-probe-military-day-care-centers-051354988.html

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