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Base Price $69.50Of late, the USGA has been putting all sorts of rules and restrictions on club head design to prevent that very situation from occurring. This is why designers have to be more creative in designing clubs. One method is to design clubs around the way average golfers swing, rather than creating perfect clubs and expecting golfers to swing that way.The most common tendency is when a golfer comes over the top and makes an outside-in move evident by most shots off the tee resulting into a push, fade or the dreaded slice. A Golf Digest article Add 42 Yards Now explained that if you were able to change to more of an inside-out movement a golfer who swung 95 mph could gain as much as 42 yards. Of course, this would require a huge change in how the person swings the club and let's face it most golfers are not going to be able to put in that time and effort. But through creating design features in the club head, the golfer can be encouraged to make more of an inside path.This is how the Acer XDS Insider got its name. The profile of the head as well as the contour on the crown was specifically designed to create a mental picture of swinging from the inside to encourage one to swing the driver on an inside-out swing path instead of that dreaded distance robbing over-the-top move.The XDS Insider also helps you in other ways. Internal weighting creates a draw bias shifting weight toward the heel to assist in rotating the head and squaring the face at impact. The face angle is a little more closed than normal to provide some additional corrective measures but cleverly disguised by the masking on the crown to provide a square appearance so they can just trust their natural swing. Lastly, the Acer XDS Insider also boasts a variable face thickness, cup face design to make the entire club face becomes one gigantic sweet spot and ensure all the distance possible.Comes with FREE Headcover! Learn More
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Base Price $99.95Golfers try to obtain more distance by using a lighter weight shaft, which most do so already. But that is only half of the equation if someone is seeking additional distance. The other component for tape measure drives is to increase the club length for greater leverage. But there is a potential problem: existing head weights are too heavy, creating a club that feels unwieldy. The solution is the Acer XF Leggera. A lighter weight head, which when married to today's lighter and longer length shafts, reduces the overall weight of the club for an even faster clubhead speed. Featuring advanced manufacturing which sheds the weight from only the crown area and ensures the center of gravity is in the right place to create those monstrous drives you have only dreamed of. Greed is good, so go long and not wrong, with the Acer XF Leggera.Comes with Free Acer headcover! Learn More
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Acer XF Titanium Driver - Custom Assembled
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Acer XF Titanium Thriver - Custom Assembled
Base Price $94.95If you are missing fairways off the tee on a regular basis, then the Acer XF Thriver was designed for you. What exactly is a Thriver? If you combine the terms Three Wood + Driver you get Thriver. A 3 wood is more lofted and this cuts down on side spin, plus is shorter to enable you to have more control. On the other hand, a driver is approximately three times the size of a 3 wood which makes it much more forgiving on off-center shots. Plus you have the large confidence building, thin face that produces maximum distance. The Thriver has the best of both worlds when it comes to these two heads.The Acer XF Thriver is a full 10g more than a normal driver to allow for a shorter, more controllable length that now has the proper amount of weight in your hands. Plus the addition of the supplementary weight produces even greater forgiveness making this the ultimate in control off the tee. Or yet another way think about is this is a fairway seeking demon.The Acer XF Thriver is the 4th distinctive version to address yet another common challenge that faces golfers today. Thus making the XF line by far the most comprehensive driver line in the golf industry.Comes with FREE Headcover! Learn More
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Acer XK Titanium Driver - Custom Assembled
Base Price $94.95Meet the latest generation of Acer woods loaded with many added features to improve the game of a wide range of players. First we focused on the face technology by offering a variable face thickness, cup-face design. While it is easy to provide for the maximum allowable performance on center shots, the difference of a premium club is the ability to provide near perfect results with less than perfect shots. The cup-face moves the welds away from the corners of the head to provide a thinner, more active face to maximize ball speed on the off-center shots. The variable face thickness further reduces the wall thickness around the perimeter of the impact area so the entire club face becomes a gigantic sweet spot. Now off-center or miss hits will launch the ball directly down the fairway like you perfectly struck the ball in the center of the face. The shape of the head was carefully selected to appeal to the eye of a wide range of golfers, yet improve stability by expanding the front-to back dimension. The center of gravity moves lower and further from the face to optimize launch conditions. The Acer XK Drivers are available in a multitude of loft angles to meet all your custom fitting needs.Base price assembled with Acer Velocity Graphite Silver and Karma Black Velvet grip. Learn More
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Acer XS Draw Titanium Driver - Custom Assembled
Base Price $109.95Incorporating the same cutting edge technology as the new Acer XS titanium driver, with one major difference; the addition of a generous offset hosel. This helps to further assist squaring up the clubface without having to resort to a severely closed face angle. The draw-enhancing attributes produce a more powerful, penetrating ball flight for those that typically push, fade or slice the ball off of the tee. Comes with Free Acer headcover! Learn More
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Users on old land line phones are limited by being wired in place. Today, there's the cell phone, which is wireless and mobile. An analogous upgrade has recently taken effect for heart monitoring devices used by cardiologists at Martha Jefferson Hospital.
Doctor Tim Williams uses the new technology to diagnose patients.
"I've seen patients for low heart rates or symptoms of a low heart rate, which will include light headed or passing out, alternatively fast heart rates can present a similar manner, either light headed or a racing of the pulse," said Dr. Williams.
Prior to the upgrade, a system called a "Holter Monitor" gave doctors a picture of a patient's heart. Just like the old desk phone, the Holter system was limited in what it could do. Wires had to be applied to patients and a limited amount of information could be transferred.
"It's a closed system, meaning we don't know what's on that monitor or tracing until you turn it in," said Dr. Williams.
Contrarily, the new technology is not so limited. Data transmits instantly to the monitoring doctor and no effort is required of the patient.
"Based on what we find on these monitors, we are able to find what is happening quicker and kind of hone in on the problem," said Dr. Williams.
The new remote heart monitoring device looks very similar to a cell phone and shares some features with the modern mobile device, including wireless mobility and bluetooth technology.
"The patient has a real time alert. If they have a dangerous situation, we can call them," said Dr. Williams.
Dr. Williams believes these new technologies provide more efficient care and allow for quicker answers for patients and doctors alike. At the end of the day, the new system will allow cardiologists to dial into the patient's vital organ and listen for urgent messages from the heart.
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CA 348 Theories of Communication
Norris, Virgil "Rusty"
Sr. Instructor of Communication Arts/Adjunct Faculty
MA: Communication & Leadership, Park UniversityMLA: Social Science concentration, Baker UniversityBA: Liberal Arts, Park University
Office Location
Central Time Zone
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Semester Dates
August 20 - October 14, 2012
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Textbook: Communication theories in action: An introduction (3rd or most recent ed.). Belmont, CA:
American Psychological Association (APA). (2010). Publication manual (6th ed.). American Psychological Association.
Textbooks can be purchased through the MBS bookstore
Textbooks can be purchased through the Parkville Bookstore
Additional Resources: Companion Site (Textbook) Communication Theories in Action: An Introduction, 3rd Edition
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL): APA
McAfee Memorial Library - Online information, links, electronic databases and the Online catalog. Contact the library for further assistance via email or at 800-270-4347.Career Counseling - The Career Development Center (CDC) provides services for all stages of career development. The mission of the CDC is to provide the career planning tools to ensure a lifetime of career success.Park Helpdesk - If you have forgotten your OPEN ID or Password, or need assistance with your PirateMail account, please email email@example.com or call 800-927-3024Resources for Current Students - A great place to look for all kinds of information http://www.park.edu/Current/.Advising - Park University would like to assist you in achieving your educational goals. Please contact your Campus Center for advising or enrollment adjustment information.Online Classroom Technical Support - For technical assistance with the Online classroom, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call the helpdesk at 866-301-PARK (7275). To see the technical requirements for Online courses, please visit the http://parkonline.org website, and click on the "Technical Requirements" link, and click on "BROWSER Test" to see if your system is ready.FAQ's for Online Students - You might find the answer to your questions here.
Educational Philosophy:
Class Assessment:
Chapter quizzes - 10%. (100 points) DUE SUNDAY.
Midterm Test - 5%: (50 points) DUE SUNDAY, WEEK 4.
Final Exam - 20%. (200 points) DUE FRIDAY, WEEK 8.
Core Assessment Planning, including Abstract, Outline, & Reference List - 5%. (50 points) DUE
Core Assessment APA Research Paper - 25%. (250 points) DUE SUNDAY, WEEK 6.
For this paper, select a contemporary communication issue or question
and predict a finding based on published research from Communication and Mass Media Complete
database (EbscoHost). Follow the American Psychological Association (APA) style and content for a
research proposal. If you will be doing a Senior Project in Communication Arts, write this paper as the research proposal for your Senior Project.
F = 599 or below
Late Submission of Course Materials:
Discussion activities cannot be made up because they happen in class.
Missed assignments must be made up within one week of the excused absence.
Classroom Rules of Conduct: Critical thought,
robust discussion, and civil dialog can all exist at the same time. Don't fear
presenting your honest views or asking tough questions, but always do so with
respect for your classmates and instructor.
Course Topic/Dates/Assignments:
Academic Honesty:Academic integrity is the foundation of the academic community. Because each student has the primary responsibility for being academically honest, students are advised to read and understand all sections of this policy relating to standards of conduct and academic life. Park University students and faculty members are encouraged to take advantage of the University resources available for learning about academic honesty (www.park.edu/current or http://www.park.edu/faculty/).from Park University 2011-2012 Undergraduate Catalog Page 95-96
Plagiarism:Plagiarism involves the use of quotations without quotation marks, the use of quotations without indication of the source, the use of another's idea without acknowledging the source, the submission of a paper, laboratory report, project, or class assignment (any portion of such) prepared by another person, or incorrect paraphrasing. from Park University 2011-2012 Undergraduate Catalog Page 95Work needs to be original for this course. Cite and reference the source of information in speeches and papers, whether a direct quote or paraphrased in your own words.
US society values private ownership, including ownership of ideas. Cite and reference all sources of information and ideas according to APA style. Academic integrity is crucial to this course. You will see basic expectations in your Park University catalog and in your APA manual. USE YOUR OWN WORDS in everything you write or present in this course.
BE RESPONSIBLE. When conducting research and preparing assignments, take precise, correct, and careful notes. Use your own words by paraphrasing, but remember to record a reference listing of the source you will use. Any notes where you copy the words of others need to be indicated by quotation marks and referenced so you remember the source. If you are unsure, go back and look it up.
Plagiarism in this course is failure to use APA style by crediting the source of ideas or information.
Some examples of plagiarism include the following:
1. Using words from a journal article without using quotation marks.
2. Using a review of literature information from a journal article without indicating that you are citing the secondary source. You should look it up in the original source--primary source--if you plan to use the information.
3. Failing to use quotation marks when providing a direct quotation.
4. Failing to cite and reference the source of paraphrased ideas.
5. Using part or all of an assignment turned in previously in another course.
6. Using part or all of an assignment written by another student or someone else.
7. Coping cited text without using quotation marks for the real author's words.
8. Using a "service" that provides student assignments.
9. Using material taken from the Internet.
Academic dishonesty includes unethical behavior, such as falsification of data.
Some examples of unethical research or writing include the following:
1. Taking any material—even a sentence—directly from another source without using quotation marks.
2. Quoting more than 200 words from a single source, even when using quotation marks, a citation, and reference listing.
3. Quoting an author's abstract or other published words in a review of literature.
Under Park University policy, academic dishonesty can result in a failing grade for the assignment, course, or expulsion.
Previously in some communication courses, students have earned an "F" for assignments that appear to be plagiarized or an "F" in the course when a section of the major course assignment (core assessment) appears to be plagiarized.
Faculty may use plagiarism detection software to determine whether the content can be found through the Internet, published sources, or in an assignment submitted by another student at another university. Any student who duplicates content--as identified by Turnitin software--without direct quotation marks and proper citation should expect a course grade of "F."
The Style Manual for the Communication Studies is APA (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
READ and KNOW American Psychological Association (APA) Ethical Requirements for this program:
Expectations of ethical behaviors pp. 11-20.
Compliance checklist p. 20.
Complying With Ethical, Legal, and Policy Requirements, p. 231-236.
Crediting Sources pp. 169-174.
Self-plagiarism, pp. 16, 29, 170.
Attendance Policy:Instructors are required to maintain attendance records and to report absences via the online attendance reporting system.
Park University 2011-2012 Undergraduate Catalog Page 98
Disability Guidelines:Park University is committed to meeting the needs of all students that meet the criteria for special assistance. These guidelines are designed to supply directions to students concerning the information necessary to accomplish this goal. It is Park University's policy to comply fully with federal and state law, including Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, regarding students with disabilities. In the case of any inconsistency between these guidelines and federal and/or state law, the provisions of the law will apply. Additional information concerning Park University's policies and procedures related to disability can be found on the Park University web page: http://www.park.edu/disability .
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International Manhunt Is on for Suspect in Nun's Death
Federal authorities are in the midst of an international manhunt for the suspected driver in the July 9, 2012, hit-and-run death of Sister Jacqueline Walsh, according to Newsday, which cites a law enforcement source in a report Monday.
Newsday reports that the suspect, Carlos Armando Ixpec-Chitay, is believed to have fled the country. The 30-year-old was known to frequent Water Mill and Riverhead, and authorities say he was behind the wheel of his employer's SUV when it fatally struck Sister Jackie, who was on a walk on Rose Hill Road in Water Mill. Sister Jackie, a 59-year-old pastoral associate at St. Edward the Confessor in Syosset, was staying at a retreat house with fellow members of the Sisters of Mercy.
Ace Detective Tina Giles Gets Top Honors
Tina Giles, a detective with the East Hampton Town Police Department, is being lauded for cracking one of the town's biggest sex abuse cases.
After a victim came forward in April claiming rape, Fidel Castro-Brito was arrested for the crime. But Giles had a feeling there was more to the case. "Her instincts took over and she knew there was more to it," Chief Ed Ecker said. "It was fantastic police work."
In late November, a Suffolk County grand injury handed down a 70-count felony indictment related to criminal sex acts against three young victims.
"It was a pretty a chilling case," Ecker said. "Even in the DA's office, or with detectives who have been doing this for a long time, no one had ever seen anything like this before," he said.
DEC to Inform Public on Speonk Plume Decision
A decision by the state Department of Environmental Conservation not to further remediate a toxic plume that runs a few miles under homes and businesses in Speonk will be vetted before the public, according to Aphrodite Montalvo, a spokeswoman for the DEC.
The meeting comes at the request of both the Group for the East End and Assemblyman Fred Thiele after they got wind of the decision, which is based on a report submitted to the DEC.
Montalvo explained that after reading the report, the DEC "determined that no one was drinking the contaminated groundwater and there were no residences impacted by vapor intrusion such that a mitigation system is needed."
The DEC was also not able to ever identify the original source of the plume, she said.
Public Input Sought on Homeless Sex Offender Trailers
When Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone missed a Jan. 1 deadline to shutter two controversial homeless sex offender trailers in Riverside and Westhampton, County Legislator Jay Schneiderman vowed to host a community meeting to let residents' voices be heard.
To that end, Schneiderman has announced an East End Community Meeting seeking public comment on the county's homeless sex offender trailer program. The meeting will be held on Jan. 30. at 7 p.m. at the Riverhead County Center, in the Maxine Postal Legislative Auditorium.
a vegetable farm that has locations in Cutchogue and now on Middle Road in Calverton, from the New York State Regional Economic Development Council toward more machinery and equipment to expand its vegetable processing and packaging line at the Calverton location. The farm is one of two dozen projects across the First State Senate District to receive grant funding, but some readers questioned the grant after Patch published the story of the awards last month.
Paulette Satur is a member of the economic advisory council, and for years now, the farm has been the subject of neighborhood conflict, located close to residential houses on the other side of the street on Alvah's Lane in Cutchogue. Though a dispute which made it to the courts involving dust, diesel pollution and noise created by the loading and unloading of large refrigerated trucks on Alvah's Lane has simmered down — the trucks have been relocated to the Calverton facility — another neighbor is now fighting to get a diesel generator removed or relocated.


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marks the 100th anniversary of the university and numerous
activities have been planned to celebrate .A parade to celebrate homecoming
will be held at 9 a.m. from the Gentry Center and travel toward Albion Street
where it will end.
"This year's celebration is expected
to be our biggest ever," said Cassandra Griggs, Director of Alumni Relations
and Annual Giving in an interview with the school's newspaper. "We recognize
that every year Homecoming is a special time at the University, but 2012 promises
to be even larger because of our Centennial. This celebration promises to bring
students, alumni and the campus community together to commemorate the
University's 100-year anniversary."
In May 2012, the school announced a
change to the typical parade plan, saying that the parade would no longer travel
down Jefferson Street due to security concerns.
In 2011 two people were shot near the Wendy's restaurant on Jefferson
Street during homecoming festivities.
road closures will occur during the hours of 8:30 a.m. until approximately
10:30 a.m. to accommodate the parade.
roads include:
for the homecoming game between the TSU Tigers and Arkansas-Pine Bluff is
scheduled for 5 p.m. at LP Field. Gates to the stadium open at 3:30 p.m. Fans are encouraged to arrive early.
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So, you have your off the shelf application driving some important business process, maybe it doesn't quite do everything you need so you think about altering the application through plugins, changing source code or otherwise. Some of these changes may drive you further away from that off the shelf's product road map, making upgrading later difficult and expensive. Perhaps you don't intend to alter the code, but you may think that later on there may be a better off the shelf product that suites the needs of the business and that changing solutions is the best thing to do.
Depending on how these tools are used really drives the way these tools should be deployed and designed into a business process. If you only have one client talking to this application, you probably don't need to think too hard about how to solve this problem. However, if you have multiple clients wanting to talk to this application, you may want to give it some thought. If you have multiple clients, accessing the application in multiple different ways, then you definitely want to think about this problem.
I'm not an advocate of big design up front, but what I'm proposing isn't that exactly. What I'm suggesting is capturing the data model and contract of interactions early and use this as a way of driving an abstraction layer between the off the shelf product and the clients using that product. By doing this, you've isolated the application, meaning you can upgrade easier even if there are breaking changes, and you can introduce additional application logic all behind the safely of a contract and data model. After you've done this, anyone who uses your abstraction layer, need not know what you're using underneath. The way it should be really. This also defines a contract for working against, meaning that applications who talk to the abstraction layer can be tested easier against known behaviours.
We can start to push the boat out a little here and start thinking about roles and policy for access. There maybe different types of clients and users who wish to use the abstraction layer, and they may have different permissions and access to different resources, so how can you control access and protect your resources? You may be able to control that at the application layer, but what if you've added plug ins or additional application logic layers? And what if you change the application which manages permissions, and how do you bind them to the resources at the abstraction layer? It may be better to think in terms of the abstraction layer and data model rather than what's behind the lines of the abstraction. This way, binding to resources will be easier to control. While we're dealing with authorisation, authenticaion doesn't stray far, you'll want a way to authenticate the clients and users attempting to use the abstraction layer, and you may want that authentication to come from multiple sources, say a database user store, or an internal directory service. This will make it easier for those users to gain access to the systems, and easier to administer access through roles and policies of clients and users.
What we now have is a platform. An off the shelf application with or without additional application logic, wrapped with an abstracted and understood data model which must be accessed via an authenticaion and authorisation mechanism. Put a bow on it, you're done.
Depending on your network security preferences, you could now expand this in two ways. For every off the shelf product you employ for different business processes, you could put an abstraction layer on it with an understood data model and give access to that abstraction via the same authentication and authorisation layer you've created for the first platform, or you could replicate the authenticaion and authorisation layer and have lots of self contained, secured platforms. It doesn't particularly matter which is employed, but what should fall out of this is a common data model across several platforms, with a uniform authentication and authorisation layer.
It does raise the question of why you'd want to be doing this in the first place, you are after all creating more work than strictly necessary. There is a temptation to say "if we're building this abstraction layer, we may as well replace the off the shelf component itself". Well, let's not get ahead of ourselves. We have to remember where the business value comes from, and that's generally in products and services, not business support and operational support systems themselves. However, by abstracting the applications used and exposing the data, the cost of integration, migration and maintenance is lowered. This model can be applied to internal exposures and for exposing data on the web.
I just want to close with what I believe is the most important aspect here, and this is the business case. There is a business case for abstraction, but it does come at a cost. What it brings is contractual interactions and can lead to common, agreed upon resource based exposure.


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Cuts made-any surprises?
I thought Norwood might make it to the next cut but knew he was gone. Keiser is an absolute beast. I'm glad we are giving the kicking duties to the youngster, not because Mare isn't good, but because the youth will be good for the future. Olindo was good for us just missed a few crucial fg's, one of which probably costs us the game. I guess being JRich's neighbor really doesn't mean anything, but I expect Bersin to make practice squad and mature. What is up with Brandon Hogan on IR? I missed that one I guess. Sure thought he was going to be a stud despite the injury. Oh well, plagued again...
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Bro I'm praying Josh Norman grows some balls and steps up because Captain is not gonna cut it. I'm just convinced he is not a good corner at all, and I don't wanna hear about the pick because that was early Christmas for him.
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Exciting news from Upper Deck regarding 2011-12 Fleer Retro Basketball:
"We are pleased to announce that we have added the popular Jambalaya insert to this already loaded product! Jambalaya is arguably the most important insert set of the last 20 years, and it will return featuring the same ground-breaking design and feel from its 1997-98 debut. The Michael Jordan cards from the original release consistently sell for over $3,000 each, and even the "common" players from the original set sell for a few hundred dollars each! We will have additional surprises in this product as well.....more to come!"
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Assignment ProcessAssignment completes candidacy for all people, including those ordained in another Lutheran church or Christian tradition, moving them toward first call and admittance to the appropriate roster in the ELCA. Through prayerful discernment at the assignment consultation, candidates are assigned to a specific region and later a synod where they will seek their first call.
Confidence in the surprises and faithfulness of God can provide sustenance and comfort for this assignment process, addressing the natural human anxieties that come with any venture into the unknown. This is truly a faith venture that includes the candidate and this whole church. We continue to keep you in prayer.
A list of all of the required candidate forms is available in the Assignment resource page [link here].
About assignment forms
A simple list of forms is posted on the Assignment resource page.
Assignment forms are to be submitted electronically only (The Candidate Paperwork Form should be sent by email and the Rostered Leader Profile should be submitted electronically to the Mobility Database System as per the instructions on the form itself). In order to be included in an assignment process, the Candidate Paperwork Form (A, B and R, commentary) must be emailed to our office. Please note that simply submitting your Rostered Leader Profile to the Mobility Database System will not get you on the list for Assignment.
Welcome to the new ELCA website!
By now most of you have been informed of the new improvements coming to ELCA.org. We are preparing to implement some technical improvements to eliminate the Formatta forms we use in the Assignment Process. Our Information Technology (IT) staff has been working to make the transition from Formatta to Adobe/web-based forms a simpler experience. These improvements were expected to be completed by December 9. However, to ensure a successful migration, which includes the conversion of the current Formatta data to the new technology, IT is requesting more time to validate and add quality assurance to their work before asking the synod to test these forms as well. Rather than risking a go-live date that would run into the Christmas season, we will be moving the date into the first part of 2014. You should continue to use the Formatta forms until further notice.We will let you know at the beginning of the year of the revised go-live date. We thank you for your patience through this process and appreciate your work on behalf of the Gospel.
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Auth MemCookie is an Apache v2 authentication and authorization module based on a cookie authentication mechanism. The module doesn't do authentication by itself, but verifies if the cookie used for authentication is valid for each URL protected by the module. The module also validates whether the authenticated user has authorization to access the URL. Authentication is done externally through an authentication form page, and all authentication information necessary to the module is a stored in memcached.
Bunny the Fuzzer is a closed loop, high-performance, general purpose protocol-blind fuzzer for C programs. It uses compiler-level integration to seamlessly inject precise and reliable instrumentation hooks into the traced program. These hooks enable the fuzzer to receive real-time feedback on changes to the function call path, call parameters, and return values in response to variations in input data.
The Enterprise Sign On Engine (ESOE) allows an enterprise to meet its goals for identity management, single sign on, authorization, federation, and accountability for resource access in a very extensible manner. The ESOE is built using the OASIS SAML 2.0 specification, and the ESOE's powerful authorization engine is built around a reduced version of the OASIS XACML 2.0 standard called Lightweight eXtensible Authorization Control Markup Language or "LXACML".
Google Authenticator Demo is an implementation of two-factor authentication using the Google Authenticator that can be used on your own site or application. It allows you to register a user name and then log in using the information provided by the Google Authenticator. It also works with OATH HOTP compliant hardware tokens.
GridShib is a glue layer that transparently binds a grid service provider such as the Globus Toolkit to a role-based authentication and access control system such as Shibboleth, so as to provide fine-grained access controls to members of virtual and physical organizations within a grid without having to distribute and synchronize information about individual users between those organizations.
Jumblar is a tool that converts map coordinates into passwords. It hopes to provide increased user security by assuming that it is easier for people to remember a secret location than a strong password, and that a location that could be anywhere in the world is practically impossible for others to guess. By using this property of secret locations, secure passwords can be generated. SCrypt is used to protect user information.
Keyczar is a cryptographic toolkit designed to make it easier and safer for developers to use cryptography in their applications. It supports authentication and encryption with both symmetric and asymmetric keys. Cryptography is easy to get wrong. Developers can choose improper cipher modes, use obsolete algorithms, compose primitives in an unsafe manner, or fail to anticipate the need for key rotation. Keyczar abstracts some of these details by choosing safe defaults, automatically tagging outputs with key version information, and providing a simple programming interface.
Netscape Security Wrapper manages the loading of NPAPI (Netscape Plugin API) plugins and applies simple policy decisions. The intention is to allow administrators to deploy deprecated, unreliable, or unsafe third party plugins while minimizing the security exposure. Safari, Google Chrome, Firefox, and other NPAPI-compatible browsers are supported on OS X and Linux. Use cases include: restricting plugins to certain domains, restricting the use of deprecated plugins to known outliers, allowing internal corporate workflows which use insecure or deprecated plugins without exposing the plugin to the hostile Internet, and allowing multiple outdated plugin versions (e.g., Java) to co-exist for use in whitelisted, trusted enterprise tools.
OpenSAML is a portable implementation of the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) standard for the formation and exchange of authentication, attribute, and authorization data using XML, as defined by OASIS. There are interfaces for a range of languages, including C++ and Java.


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A Mahwah family may have found the secret weapon behind the NY Giants' Super Bowl victory – crumb cake made at Lotito's Deli in Ramsey. And now, the cake might be helping to catapult the Mahwah High School Thunderbirds toward their first state championship in over 30 years.
Known as the "Crumb Cake of Champions," the sweet treat was originally handed out to the Giants players and coaches as a 'thank you' from the Accurso family, whose son, 9-year-old Vinny, suffers from pulmonary hypertension, a life-threatening lung disorder. After hearing about Vin's condition, Coach Tom Coughlin invited the family to a Giants practice last season. They brought the crumb cake as a present for the team.
After the Giants won their next game, the Accursos started receiving positive feedback from the team's players and crew, and some staff members began frequenting to deli to buy the crumb cake.
During a conversation with Coughlin, Nadine said she'd keep sending crumb cake if the team kept winning. The Giants went on to be crowned Super Bowl champions.
Coincidence? The Accursos think not.
"We are really big on karma and all of that stuff," Nadine Accurso said.
The Giants also seemed to think the crumb cake may have had something to do with their success.
Coach Coughlin sent Vin Accurso a personalized Christmas card, signed Super Bowl Program, and one of the three original coin toss Super Bowl coins, Nadine said.
This season, the Accursos decided the crumb cake might hold the same luck for the Thunderbirds. Ever since the Mahwah football team started eating the "Crumb Cake of Champions," they haven't lost a game. The team is heading into the playoffs Friday with an 8-1 record.
"I think [the players] are a little superstitious," MHS football coach Jeff Remo said Friday morning. "They think it helps. It's definitely an interesting thing."
Remo said the team is three games away from its first state sectional title since 1981.
"We believe we can win," he said. "They are a good football team."
Vin, who loves football but can't play, has been an honorary member of Mahwah football teams since his brothers started playing in the mid-2000s. Last year, Mahwah athletes, enthusiasts and the rest of the community came together to support Vin during a purple-out game that raised money and spread awareness about PH. The idea of giving back has stayed with the family ever since.
Earlier this season, the Accursos realized the magic crumb cake might be good for more than touchdowns. They are hoping it might bring luck to other kids with Vin's condition.
The family has founded Baking for a Cure, which sells the crumb cake to raise money for the Pulmonary Hypertension Center at Columbia Presbyterian, Morgan Stanley NY Children's Hospital, where Vin gets treated.
Nadine said none of this would have been possible without last year's Purple Out game in Mahwah. The media attention the game attracted prompted the Giants to invite Vin, she said.
"Those kids need to know the impact they had," Nadine said. "They did something nice for Vin, and look what it created."
While the Accursos have already started to raise money from their charity, they say their ultimate goal is to open a mobile bakery that they will take to childrens' hospitals across the country. The bakery will not only raise money and spread awareness, but will teach kids in hospitals how to bake the crumb cake - a fun, unique experience for them.
Though she won't give out her crumb cake recipe, Nadine, her husband Frank, their other two sons and daughter, and all of the supporters they have met along the way agree that Vin is the secret ingredient.
"There's a reason we are all here," Nadine said. "There's a reason God chose for us to go through this – it's Vin and his personality. He's magnetic and he has an amazing impact on people."
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Hi Dave,
I haven't found any plug-in for panos so far. I export the untouched images as TIFF and stich them in either PTGui or Autopano. You'll find a couple of freeware tools on the web aswell. Also have PS CS5 but I'm not happy with it's pano functions. As I''m shooting 360x180° virtual panos the result is an equirectangular pano.
After stitching I import the result and work on the image in lightroom (sharpening, exposure or whatever). Export again and create the virtual (flash or QT) pano in pano2vr. Find results here: http://www.oliver-wendel.de/pano.html
You might work on the images in lightroom before exporting but be sure to do the same actions on all images. Otherwise blending in the pano software might not work...
When shooting a pano it' best to set your camera in M mode.
Autopano Giga (great pano software) has a LR Plugin - see http://www.kolor.com/autopano-pro-giga-comparison.html
I do not use this version, I use the plain autopano pro - work on my images and export to a watch folder then fire up APP. But I only use LR3.6 for panos, LR4 causes me some grief with not applying the same changes to all images - which I consider a bug but Adobe considers a feature
My use would be to stitch two scanned images together from a book scan of a yearbook photo (taken in 1972). I want to also fix a seam either cropping it out at the stich point or both crop and adjust the image at the stitch poiint). Any ideas?
Hugin is an amazing and free program for stitching, however it does not do multiple exposure like PTgui Pro does
PTgui Pro does tone mapped HDR and fusion based ( much more natural looking) HDR.
I've tried both, but PTgui is just amazing -
They are not plugins, but very powerful tools for panoramics
Thanks for the info, Hamish. May I call you that?
Nice work.
I also stitch the raw images in PTGui first.
Then I do postprocessing in Lightroom.
BUT I sometimes get a little seam after optimizing my panos in Lightroom, see here: http://www.archiviz.ch/download/Bildschirminhalt_erfassen-1.jpg
Does anyone know what I do wrong ?
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Fr. 485, 1882 $5 "Brown Back" National Bank Note, Creede Colorado, Ch. 4716, VF35 PPQ PCGS
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Fr. 485, 1882 $5 "Brown Back" National Bank Note, Creede Colorado, Ch. 4716, VF35 PPQ PCGS
Serial number 1, a discovery note (previously unreported)!
Prior to the American Civil War, state banks issued their own (unsecured) banknotes which often resulted in financial disaster. In 1863, During the Civil War, the National Banking Act established a system of National Banks which were empowered to issue National Bank Notes subject to federal oversight. The chartering of banks and administrative control over the issuance of National Bank Notes were the responsibility of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. National Bank Notes are comprised of six very distinct series: 1) Original Series, 2) Series of 1875, 3) Series of 1882, 4) Series of 1902, and 5 & 6 (Small Size) Series of 1929-Type One and Type Two. These series are often grouped into Charter Periods with Charter numbers on the notes; The First Charter, Original Series and Series 1875, Second Charter, Series of 1882; Third Charter, Series of 1902; and Small Size. The Terms of a Charter Period and Charter Number refer to the issuing authority of each particular bank. The National Currency Act of 1863 provided that banks (organized under its provisions) be chartered as National Banks for a period of 20 years. The first National Bank Notes were originally authorized by an Act of Congress Feb. 25, 1863. Their issue peaked in 1933, when about $900 million of these notes were in circulation. Issue ceased in 1935, when the bonds backing the notes were redeemed and the notes were recalled. By 1960 the volume of nationals reported in circulation had shrunk to approximately $50 million. Through the years, many notes have been lost or destroyed. It's very rare to see one in circulation today, unless one is spent when a collector dies and relatives don't understand its collector value.
One such National Bank Note, Series of 1882, is presented in this lot from the First National Bank of Creede, Colorado. The town of Creede is the county seat of, and the only incorporated municipality in Mineral County, Colorado. The town population was only 290 at the 2010 census. Creede was the last silver boom town in Colorado in the 19th century. The town leapt from a population of 600 in 1889 to more than 10,000 people in December 1891 due to rich mineral discoveries in nearby Willow Creek Canyon in 1889. The Creede mines operated continuously from 1890 until 1985. Creede's boom lasted until 1893, only one year after the First National Bank was opened, when the silver panic hit all of the silver mining towns in Colorado. The price of silver plummeted and most of the silver mines were closed. Creede never became a ghost town, although the boom was over and its population declined. After 1900, Creede stayed alive by relying increasingly on lead and zinc mining. Today, Creede remains a beautiful tourist location deep in the San Juan mountains in Southwest Colorado.
This note represents an unbelievable find for collectors. The First National Bank of Creede, Colorado was chartered March 29, 1892, the date of issue on this note, and only existed until December 31, 1895 when it was liquidated as a result of the aforementioned silver crash in 1893. This is the only known example of any National Bank Note from Creede, it presents with bank serial number 1 and is accompanied with a paper envelope stating: "FIRST BILL ISSUED AT THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CREEDE. SIGNED BY JOHN MCDONOUGH PR J.W. MERRITT CASHIER." All currency from this bank, Charter 4716, was issued as $5 notes in vertical sheets containing four subjects. As of 1910, only $255 face value (total) was still outstanding making this issue virtually unobtainable, even then. This note displays bright, original paper and inks and is wonderfully centered, obviously carefully cut from the flagship sheet of currency issued to the bank. The signatures of McDonough (President) and Merritt (Cashier) are clear and evenly impressed. Visually, this note appears somewhat finer than the VF35 PPQ designation by PCGS with only signs of light handling and minor creasing. A personal examination is recommended. Collectors and connoisseurs alike will pay close attention as this note crosses the auction block.
Provenance Note: This note descended in the family of James Birss, who came to America from Scotland in 1891, lived in Washington DC and then settled in Santa Barbara, CA. He was manager of the Johnson Fruit Company (later Sunkist), and was on the board of Citizens Savings and Loan in Santa Barbara. To our knowledge, the Birss Family did not have any connection to Creede, CO or to the bank itself. One can only speculate how the note came to be in the Birss Family except as a random and very fortuitous accident of history. (About Uncirculated)
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