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Although his works are recognized throughout the firearms and art worlds, we don't know much about Philip Goodwin, the man. Perhaps this is because he shied away from the limelight, preferring a quiet life instead. Very little information exists concerning his personal life, and the small amount that we do know is attributable to Goodwin's sister-in-law, Neva T. Goodwin (the wife of his brother Ray). Among the items that she donated to the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, are letters Goodwin wrote to his mother from Charles Russell's lodge in Montana, as well as letters to Goodwin from Russell. From these documents we get a brief glimpse at his personality.
Born in Norwich, Connecticut, on September 16, 1881, Goodwin was the youngest surviving child of his parents, John B. and Ella Willoughby Raymond Goodwin. Although his brother Ray was four years older, they were close companions. But Goodwin's interests were in art, while his brother's lay elsewhere, and they eventually went their separate ways. Goodwin began sketching at a very early age, and by the time he was eleven, his first illustrations were already being published in Collier's.
In 1896, Goodwin sold an illustrated story, "A Story of Strife," to Harper's Roundtable. For this piece of work he was awarded a first prize. Not only did "A Story of Strife" bring Goodwin more opportunities to sell illustrated stories to Harper's Roundtable - it brought Howard Pyle into his life as well.
Pyle, "America's foremost illustrator" (as he has been called by art historian Walt Reed), took Goodwin under his wing when the young man was just nineteen. Along with some of Pyle's other students, such as N.C. Wyeth, Thornton Oakley and Frank Schoonover, Goodwin thrived. He took what his teacher said to heart, and the atmosphere and spatial qualities with which Goodwin learned to paint would, in turn, be taught by Goodwin to someone else.
After Goodwin finished his studies with Pyle, he went to New York City, where he established a studio. It was in New York that he met Charles M. Russell, one of the West's great painters. Russell and Goodwin went on to become great friends, despite their seventeen-year age difference. Russell, the senior of the two, had a lodge in Montana that Goodwin frequently visited. In a letter to his mother, Goodwin wrote, "It is one of the prettiest spots I have ever seen here on the lake with the Giant Rockies surrounding it. It is all big forests around the lake here though and I expect to do lots of sketching."
During Goodwin's visits with Russell, the two would camp, fish and sketch. It was during this time that Goodwin taught Russell how to bring atmosphere and space into his paintings. "Russell didn't paint outside until he started painting with Goodwin," said the late Western artist John Clymer. "And before he started painting with Goodwin, there was no atmosphere in his work-brown leaves he painted brown, blue skies were blue, red coasts were red. Then all of a sudden you started seeing air in his paintings and distance. That was the result of the things he learned from Goodwin who, in turn, had learned them from Pyle" (Quote taken from Wilkinson, Todd. "Why Philip R. Goodwin?" Wildlife Art News, May/June 1991.) It was on one of his trips to Montana that Goodwin painted "Hunters with Dog", which depicts Goodwin, Russell and Goodwin's dog, Jock, who was Goodwin's constant companion.
But Russell wasn't the only person with whom Goodwin went out West. Goodwin also became good friends with Carl Rungius, whose studio in New York was fairly close to his own. They spent six weeks in the Canadian backwoods for the purpose of sketching, during which time Goodwin was working on big game subjects for firearms calendars and posters.
Goodwin's work for firearms calendars and posters is best termed "predicament painting," in which the subject often finds himself in an unanticipated situation. Take, for instance, "Unwelcome Visitor", in which a hunter rounding a corner finds himself confronted by a bear exiting a cabin. Ironically, Goodwin once found himself in a somewhat similar situation. During one of his sketching outings, he saw, out of the corner of his eye, a grizzly bear. Although he had been told by Rungius to always have his rifle with him, this time he didn't. The bear was just as surprised as Goodwin and, fortunately, lumbered away after a few minutes.
Goodwin never married. He lived with his mother and was fiercely loyal to her. Upon her death in 1924, he grew very lonely-a feeling that was further compounded by the death of his friend Charlie Russell, in 1926. By 1935, Goodwin had decided to leave New York for the sunny state of California, where his bother and sister-in-law lived. He was finalizing plans to leave when he was stricken with pneumonia and died.
Goodwin's aptitude for painting animals earned him commissions for illustrating books in addition to advertisements. Among the books that he illustrated are: Cardigan by Robert W. Chambers, The Call of the Wild by Jack London and Silent Places by Stewart Edward White. Goodwin's work for Theodore Roosevelt's African Game Trails was most remarkable since he never went on the expedition and worked only from Roosevelt's descriptions of how the animals looked.
Like many other artists of the time, Goodwin earned a living illustrating for firearms companies. He worked for Remington, Peters Cartridge Company, Marlin and Winchester among others. It was for Winchester that Goodwin was most prolific. He was, in fact, the most productive of all Winchester artists. In total, he executed three calendar scenes, seven poster vignettes, as well as a few scenes for stationary, cardboard pop-ups and line types. But he is most famous for his "Horse and Rider" trademark, which he designed in 1919, and it still endures today.


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I've selected five likely subjects — all of which are available on Netflix Watch Instantly — and whichever gets the most votes will receive the honor of our merciless, merciless love.
So, vote below, and be sure to follow @io9commentary and the #io9moviemonday hashtag. We'll all see you tonight at 9:30pm EST!

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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
1857 - 1920
Historical Period:
The 19th Century
Rolleston (1857-1920) was an Irish poet and writer who was interested in Celtic myths and complied an important collection of stories which appeared in 1911. After living for a period in Germany he also became interested in the mythology behind Wagner's Ring Cycle. Rolleston also introduced and edited Shelley's long lost and forgotten essay on "Philosophical Reform" in 1920.


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Gretchen and I fancy ourselves as BBQ Purists, love the charcoal, we do not make ribs in the oven, we grill more than we cook in our oven and if we can grill it, we grill it. So when Brad Barrett from Grill Grate in Georgia met with Mike Mills and Amy Tunicliffe in NYC back in June, we heard about his product and had to give it a try. Elizabeth Karmel spoke about them in a recent interview and that lit the fire so to speak, to get these on our web site.
Brad shipped us a sample and we put it together and had it on the grill in about five minutes. We were cooking homemade Italian sausages and so we thought we would put it to the test. So we did and the results were spectacular! I have been cooking Poeta's sausage for at least 25 years, a Highwood Illinois staple and this was by far the most juicy and perfectly cooked I had ever done it. We loved the product so much we placed an order and now carry the GrillGrate Hard Anodized Grill Grate Kit in www.bbqproshop.com.
So what is the idea behind this? Well Gretchen and I have a four burner and six burner Weber Summit 450 and 650 which we are so happy with and have been using for ten years as our go to gas grills. The only issue is that over the years of use, they develop hot spots or areas of the grill that get a lot hotter and cook a lot faster than other parts of the grill. So you are constantly rotating the food, and looking out for the food in the hot spot and rotating in the ones that have not cooked so well.
So the GrillGrate lays over the existing grate system on your grill and conducts the heat over the super conductive Aluminium GrillGrates and gives you an even heat that gets the hottest at the tip of the grate. So you get really professional looking grill marks and because of the raised grate, you can access the food from underneath it and you are not "scraping" the food off the grate with your spatula. In fact, the GrillGrate Hard Anodized Grill Grate Kit includes a spatula called the GrateTool that makes it even easier to flip fish, burgers, chicken, ravioli and even bacon, yes bacon on the grill.
This technology makes burning your meat a thing of the past and helps you to avoid the flare ups from marniades and or greasy and uses that juicy to cook right back into the meat. The panels interlock and extra Grill Grate Panels are sold seperatly so that you can actually cover any grill surface with the grates. You can slide them together or remove them to fit your needs and grill surface size which we loved them. Brad tells me that he has professional teams using them and from the looks of his photo gallery, you can cook just about anything on the grill!


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The first thing I noticed, to my horror, was a large truck driving across the grass. Having been stopped on more than one occasion by people complaining about Glendale vans on the grass, I expect this truck will attract complaints too.
The playground was busy, as were all the tennis courts and the table-tennis too. I've rarely seen the place so well used before 10am, but little birdlife. Just a few Carion Crows and Woodpigeons on the north, soon-to-be-cricket-pitch, field. Down in the meadow south of the school: nothing. Alongside the road west of the school: nothing.
I didn't venture east of the school, but returned to Keith the park-keeper's office to get birdfeed for the feeder in the quiet garden; very quiet, no birds there either. However, along from the garden at the back of Cliffview Road I heard Blue Tits, Greenfiches and a Parakeet. Couldn't spot any on them!
Keith told me the new cafe beside his office will be a regular feature throughout the school holidays, so I took myself off there and had a very decent cup of tea in a real mug for £1.
Later I bumped into friends out for a stroll and walked down past the bowling green with them; no birds there either.
This morning hasn't been a good time for birds in the park; it was probably too busy for them, but back home in Cliffview Road there were Greenfinches, House Sparrows, Blue Tits, Great Tits and a Woodpigeon around our feeder where we've also seen a Great Spotted Woodpecker early every morning for the last week.
Oh, yes! I nearly forgot to mention... Hilly Fields received its Green Flag award on Wednesday


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I wanted to limit the sharing the miraculous personal testimonies of my readers to those that are simple so that my readers wouldn't start to think that all miracles are always spectacular. However, this is one miracle that is too good to not be written about.
Gerald is a 31 years old employee. He is the eldest of 4 kids, the youngest is graduating in college this 2017. According to Gerald, they can't be called rich, but they have a comfortable life in the sense that they can eat whenever they want, they can eat what they want, and the family was able to travel to some Asian countries every three years or so, as long as they plan for it in advance.
His father passed away when he was only 20 years of age, but aside from longing his father's love nothing changed much because his mom is a take-charge mom and when he the father passed away, Gerald's mom resigned from her job to take charge of the business of his her husband.
Last 2014 she finally sold the business, and according to Gerald, their mother informed them that she was able to sell it at a very good price, she was able to sell it about 50% more than her intended price. Her mother then concentrated being a real estate sales manager. This is something that she did even when she was managing the business. At the same time she got several properties as an investment, which she plans to rent out.
October last year, Gerald's mom had a stroke and half of her body was paralyzed. Her speech was also severely affected.
Since a lot of the money generated from the sale of the business was invested on several real estate properties, they are not financially liquid. However, with the high hospital bills and therapy sessions and high cost of medicines, her money in the bank was used up. It was up to Gerald and her other siblings to support her. Then, she had another stroke and this time in the hospital was longer, bills were really high. And so Gerald thought of selling some the properties that her mom has acquired. They will do this with a heavy heart because he knows that their mom and dad worked hard for all of it. But there is not much choice.
But when they started selling a particular property, there was no strong prospective buyer and some people will inquire but there was no strong lead. They were starting to become desperate.
It was Gerald's sister who told Gerald about me and at that time that they requested for a copy of a Traditional Sutra Amulet (TSA), Gerald was still in doubt whether he is just wasting money in getting a TSA. But he decided to get one. What he got is the Avatamsaka Sutra Amulet. That was less than a month ago. And so this is what he has to say, which I have translated verbatim or as close as possible.
Good news JP. You told me that it would take about three to seven months before I experience a miracle from the Avatamsaka Sutra Amulet but it has only been about 3 weeks and I already got what I wished for.
You were right when you said that I should expect a miracle but I should not dictate it. Because at that time the miracle that I was hoping for is for us to be able to sell one of land properties so we can have money. But what we got was so much better. My aunt paid the money that she owes my mom. We didn't know that she owes my mom money. It's really a miracle nobody was collecting from her, and we don't know for sure that she owes my mom money, although we have some doubts. The money that we got is enough for us for what we need to pay off and we also got some extra from it.
Thanks a lot for everything JP.
Apparently, her aunt owes their mother about 2 million pesos. They have doubts about this but is not sure because their mom never told them whether it pushed through or not, not a single one of them was able to ask their aunt because they were afraid that it might offend her. But one day, her aunt just told them that she owes their money and decided to pay off her debt. While it took her awhile to tell them that she owes their money is something that they can only guess. But what is important is that the money has been paid off at a time that they need it most.
If this is not a miracle, I don't know what is.
Now Gerald told me that he knows that his mother will get better. That is still with the help of the Avatamsaka.
If you wish to know more about the Sutra Amulet (A Special Recite – A – Sutra Article) Series you can click on the links below:
- The Many Benefits of A Sutra: How A Sutra Can Be Use As An Amulet (A Special Recite – A – Sutra Article)
- "The Diamond of Perfect Wisdom Sutra" Is One of the Holiest and Most Powerful You Can Keep: A Special Recite – A – Sutra Article
- Getting Rid of Bad Luck and Bad Spirits With the Use of A Traditional Sutra Amulet: A Personal Testimony of A Reader (A Special Recite – A – Sutra Article)
- Recite – A – Sutra (9): A Sutra Called Avatamsaka Sutra and Powerful Amulet Called Avatamsaka Amulet that Dispels Off the Hindrances in Our Life's Luck!
- Marital Problem Fixed, Financial Problem Solved with the Unexpected Coming In of a Huge Amount of Money / Problem with Bank Loan Reversed: Two Personal Testimonies of Two Readers with Two Different Sources of Miracles! – And Why Do I Write About Miraculous Personal Testimonies?
- Money Luck or Financial Luck Blessings Received in About 15 Days Upon Receiving the Vajrapani Ruel and A Copy of the Traditional Sutra Amulet: A Reader from Dubai Shares Her Personal Miraculous Testimony!
- Financial Luck Received After Receiving the Vajrapani Ruel and Descendant Luck Activated by the Traditional Sutra Amulet: Two Different Personal Testimonies of A Reader and How She Still Saw the Simple Miracle As A Miracle.
- A Business Deal That Brings In A Huge Financial Miracle and Improves Physical Health: A Personal Miraculous Testimony of A Reader About the Traditional Sutra Amulet.
You can read all the other post about the 'Recite A Sutra' Series:
- Invite Wonderful Blessings in Your Life by Reciting A Sutra!
- Recite A Sutra (1): Create Harmony and Peace Thru The Powerful Sutra Called 'The Heart of Prajna Paramita Sutra'!
- Recite A Sutra (2): Get Healed or Good Health, Create An Aura of Protection, Attract Wealth, With the Power of 'The Medicine Buddha Sutra'!
- Recite A Sutra (3): For Protection & Unlimited Blessings of Auspiciousness Recite One of the Most Powerful & Highly Revered Sutra Both in Tibetan & Chinese Buddhism Called 'The Diamond of Perfect Wisdom Sutra'!
- Recite A Sutra (4): Attract Auspiciousness and Cure Bad Feng Shui with "The Noble Stack of Auspiciousness Sutra".
- Recite A Sutra (5): In Times of Conflict Recite the Powerful Protector Sutra Called "The Golden Light Sutra"!
- Recite – A – Sutra (6): Why Do We Have to Loudly Recite Sutras?
- Recite – A – Sutra (7): Recite the Ullambana Sutra on the 15th Day of the 7th Lunar Month – How the Hungry Ghost Month is Not Just About Negative Energies – It is Also Time To Change One's Bad Fate to a Positive One!
- Chant – A – Mantra (7) & Recite – A – Sutra (8): Additional Protection from the Double Illness Star and Double Wu Wang in the Northeast!
- The Many Benefits of A Sutra: How A Sutra Can Be Use As An Amulet (A Special Recite – A – Sutra Article)
- "The Diamond of Perfect Wisdom Sutra" Is One of the Holiest and Most Powerful You Can Keep: A Special Recite – A – Sutra Article
- Getting Rid of Bad Luck and Bad Spirits With the Use of A Traditional Sutra Amulet: A Personal Testimony of A Reader (A Special Recite – A – Sutra Article)
- Recite – A – Sutra (9): A Sutra Called Avatamsaka Sutra and Powerful Amulet Called Avatamsaka Amulet that Dispels Off the Hindrances in Our Life's Luck!
- Recite – A – Sutra (10): Blessings from Reciting "The Sutra of the Past Vows of Earth Store Bodhisattva"!
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I am embarressed to say I have been unable to find the comparible function in calc to excel that allows me to simply select a number format for accounting work that provides for () around negative numbers and the ability to designate no decimel places and apply this format to the whole worksheet as the number format for the sheet. I would prefer that every new sheet open with this as the default format.
Sorry to interject such a simple concept need - maybe I have simply missed it - truly new to calc but wanting to use it for all of my spreadsheet needs.
Thanks - Eldon


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Blazeloop Collects Customer Feedback on the Spot
Nov 30, 2012 5:00 AM PT
Benbria has launched Blazeloop, a customer engagement platform that revolves around one pointed question aimed at the consumer: How did we do?
The theory behind the Web-based app is that most customers do not take the trouble to complain about little things -- but it is those very little things that can drive them away.
In the case of a restaurant, perhaps the food was not quite as warm as it should have been, explained Tony Busa, director of marketing at Benbria. At a retail outlet, possibly the line to check out was too long.
A Real-Time Complaint, a Real-Time Response
The point is that the customer has a chance to inform the front-line manager -- that is, the person who is actually at the store -- when the problem occurs, Busa told CRM Buyer.
"Our key value proposition is to capture in real time on-the-spot customer feedback from a variety of mobile online sources," he said.
These sources could be a poster with a QR code that the customer scans, or a text message sent to the customer's cellphone with a URL or a kiosk located on-site.
The customer is asked basic questions from a list of categories, which basically boil down to whether the service or product was acceptable. The answers are then routed to the manager's email box or smartphone.
"He or she can respond back to the customer in real time and offer something to fix the issue or otherwise respond," Busa said.
The application also monitors social media for complaints or compliments.
It is different from typical customer surveys, which tend to have several questions and don't give the consumer the chance to vent until the very end, where there is a text box provided for additional comments, Busa said.
Fringe Benefits
The application offers other advantages as well, Busa continued. It can be a boost for staff when customers respond favorably -- and they do so far more often than they make negative comments.
"I would say about 80 percent of the feedback users receive is positive," said Busa.
The application can also act as "eyes on the ground" for regional managers who have to monitor many stores or outlets. For example, one regional manager saw a customer complaint about a store's hours, Busa recalled. As it turned out, the store's staff was closing early without permission, which the manager learned via the complaint.
Blazeloop doesn't replace the social media teams that so many companies have put in place to make sure their reputations remain pristine online, Busa concluded, but it does fill a gap that companies have, even with those teams in place.
"Social media teams provide a band-aid solution when they offer an apology or a coupon to appease a customer," he said. "Blazeloop routes customer feedback to the right people at the right location so they can actually fix the problem."


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School's almost out. The fog will soon be rolling in and summer will officially be here. What are San Francisco families to do? Why not explore your own backyard? Walk across the Golden Gate Bridge. Step inside Mission Dolores. Spread a blanket out at serene Michelangelo Park tucked away in Russian Hill. During the school year families easily become focused on their own neighborhoods and forget that there's an exciting 49 square miles waiting to be explored. Go explore!
To help families (and those who are young at heart), I've put together a list of 101 things all San Francisco kids should do in the city before they grow up. Think of it as a bucket list for the San Francisco childhood—and a great resource for when your kids scream "I'm bored" this summer.
The list is massive and exhaustive. It had to be. Our city is overflowing with cool things to do. I couldn't leave out the Telegraph Hill parrots or the Chinatown Fortune Cookie Factory. Or the Winfield Slide in Bernal Heights—yes, it's just a small neighborhood attraction but special and every city kid should zoom down it. That said, I know that I left out many favorites so please include those in the comments.
Want the slide show in a list format? Download Things to do with kids in San Francisco (PDF).
How many of these places have you already visited? Which ones will you go to this summer?


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Affiliate Policy
Revision Date: 2012-03-12
Revision Number:2.0
Policy Information:
1.0 Purpose
This policy establishes guidelines for Information Technology Services (ITS) support of the management of affiliations at NAU. This document also details the rules and procedures for establishing and maintaining information technology (IT) affiliations at NAU. The intended audience is NAU administrators, VP's, Deans, and Information Technology Services staff. Please direct comments on this document to NAU's Chief Information Technology Officer, Fred Estrella (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Executive Summary
There are two central terms used in this document: affiliate and affiliation. An affiliate is a person: someone who belongs to an affiliation. An affiliation is a relationship with NAU usually defined by an agreement. As used in this document, an Affiliation is also the broadest formal category of relationship. An Affiliation can be further broken down into Affiliation Types.
Core Affiliations include the central institutional relationships of students, staff, instructors, or faculty. Members of these Core Affiliations are administered through the campus administrative computing systems. Historically, in addition to Core Affiliations, NAU has provided email and other computing-related services to people who are members of affiliated organizations. These supporting relationships represent Supplementary Affiliations. In some cases, such as with the ROTC faculty, full computing privileges are provided. In most cases, such as community college librarians serving NAU students, only a subset of services are provided (such as access to restricted NAU library databases).
Over time, ITS established ad hoc rules to handle Supplementary Affiliates. Managing these accounts required extra resources since these people were not automatically tracked in the student or human resources system. ITS designed a system to manually track these outside users and is in the process of implementing automation of online identification and provisioning of their default IT services. The intent of this document is to formalize rules for granting IT services to people who have a legitimate affiliation with NAU and thus a valid need for computing and networking services.
Examples of Supplementary Affiliation Types historically recognized for computer accounts include:
- Academic Computing
- Adjunct Faculty
- Researchers (Arboretum, USGS, etc.)
- Auditor General
- Grant Related Organizations (CEE Gear Up, etc.)
- Cline Library
- Contracted Individuals
- Contracted Organizations (NNAD, US Forest Service, etc.)
- Librarians at 2+2 Community College Campuses
- Navajo Nation Archeology Division
- Emeriti
- Retirees
- ROTC faculty
- Visiting Professor
The data currently consists of over 1000 affiliate individuals in 78 different Affiliation Types. This number is about 1/3 of the faculty and staff combined total, or, put differently, affiliates make up by size about a third of the non-student IT support commitment. Each affiliate requires a minimum of two hours annually for account set-up and administration, plus at least an hour (though typically the unique aspects of these relationships far exceed this) of related support. This easily consumes at least one FTE of support that would otherwise be dedicated to faculty and staff. The business rules described herein state that each individual and each Affiliation Type must have an appropriately high level NAU sponsor.
Affiliate accounts cost the University more money to host and manage than faculty, staff, or student accounts. There shall be a clear University business need established before any computer accounts are issued. Simply desiring an email account in order to communicate with NAU counterparts is not a sufficient reason to establish an affiliation with NAU.
Affiliate data is now entered in LOUIE, the Oracle/PeopleSoft system, and managed in the campus Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory system. The LDAP server provides many campus "middleware" functions. One of these functions is to reflect the electronic identity for any affiliated person, which includes an Employee ID (EMPLID) and a registered username (UID). Once an LDAP directory identity has been established, access to various information technology (IT) services may then be granted to the individual. Examples of IT services that require a directory identity include email, an individual web site, library access, a domain login, etc. The LDAP directory is a critical, but often invisible, part of the integrated NAU personnel information system, which also includes the NAU LOUIE student and human resources systems. Integration of these systems means that LDAP and LOUIE automatically feed each other information identifying all affiliates.
Automated management of Core Affiliations is integrated in the administrative computing system more completely and IT services can be obtained through their LDAP electronic identity. Supplementary Affiliations are situations where it is also in the best interest of Northern Arizona University to grant IT resources to people or organizations that do not fall into the Core Affiliation categories. Here is a list showing some examples of such Supplementary Affiliation Types:
- Adjunct Faculty
- AWC NAU-Yuma
- Researchers (Arboretum, USGS, etc.)
- Auditor General
- Grant Related Organizations (CEE Gear Up, etc.)
- Cline Library
- Contracted Individuals
- Contracted Organizations (NNAD, US Forest Service, etc.)
- Four Corners Math Science Program
- IHD SELECT Program
- Librarians at 2+2 Community College Campuses
- Navajo Nation Archeology Division
- Park Ranger Program
- Emeriti
- Retirees
- ROTC faculty
- Upward Bound student
- Visiting Professor
- Vista Access
Many Affiliation Types have been established by formal agreements. Others have become historical working relationships with no identifiable written agreement in place. These agreements historically may or may not include any direct mention of IT services. Existing IT services have been assigned on an ad hoc basis through experience, trial and error. The services are sometimes implied as part of the spirit of these agreements. In other cases, such as with contract workers, a Dean or a Director entered into an agreement with the individual or agency. Implied in that agreement is a need for the worker to have access to some IT services.
2.0 Definitions
In past general usage, "affiliate" loosely meant any affiliation's member who was not included in a Core Affiliation category. In simpler terms, an affiliate was anyone who had a formal relationship with the University but was not a student, faculty, instructor, or staff. Going forward, "affiliate" will be used to denote any member of an affiliation as defined earlier in the Executive Summary. Affiliates are allowed default services based upon their Affiliation. Additional services may be granted based on signed agreements with NAU or by signed agreement between the sponsor and ITS based on reasonable IT service needs.
In order to avoid confusion and produce a structure to organize and administer groups of affiliations, this document defines additional categories and groupings below and summarizes them in Table 1. Guests of NAU consisting of the general public and any group not specifically requiring IT services as provided for below also have no identification or security requirement, and are therefore not entered into any of the personnel systems.
There exist many relationships with NAU across the spectrum from completely informal to formal employment. Entire organizations may represent an Affiliation, such as the Arboretum or the Museum of Northern Arizona, or they may describe a group participating in a working situation such as Adjuncts. The Affiliation establishes the relationship and a default set of IT services derives from the needs of that relationship.
Many Affiliations already exist to facilitate administration of institutional relationships such as employment or various stages of student matriculation. These specifically NAU organizational Affiliations, such as Faculty, Staff, Instructor, Applicant, Student, etc. are shown in Table 1 as Core Affiliations and are administered under existing enterprise software systems including LOUIE and the LDAP directory.
This policy document concentrates on Affiliations that fall into categories not previously categorized or covered by either direct employment or enrollment at the University. All Supplementary Affiliations have previously been described generally as "affiliates". They represent all of the related, complementary partnerships that make up Affiliations not included in the Core category.
Core Affiliations and Supplementary Affiliations (together comprising the overall formal term Affiliation) represent an equal, top level of organizational hierarchy. They are differentiated only by a very broad description of the general relationship with the University that also allows for description of the transition from old terms and for administration of the updated organization scheme of this document. With the exception of those Affiliations qualified with "Future", the Core Affiliations consist of existing, well-defined categories of employees and students who are processed in to the system through the Human Resources process. Future-qualified affiliations are so designated in order to provide IT services for known incoming affiliates before their official paperwork results in entry into the administrative computing systems.
Credentialed Association: This Supplementary Affiliation category consists of affiliates who are entered into NAU computer systems for identification management purposes only. While their identification on computing systems is necessary to facilitate other types of services from various campus departments, no additional computing services are necessary. Policy and business rules concerning administration of non-IT services is the purview of the cognizant functional department. Examples include vendors servicing residence halls, persons receiving NAU ID cards for service purposes other than computing, Recreation Center members who do not fall into the Student, Faculty or Staff categories, etc.
Collaborative Association: This Supplementary Affiliation includes community or fraternal types of organizations located outside of the mountain campus and thus away from related infrastructure computing needs. These organizations have established a partnership with NAU. This working relationship benefits from their members receiving NAU IT services. Examples of current Collaborative Association affiliation types include the Arboretum and the Museum of Northern Arizona.
Collaborative Campus Association: This Supplementary Affiliation is similar to the Collaborative Association. However, the associated organization is hosted on the NAU mountain campus or another NAU location such as NAU Yuma or other statewide offices, and thus the NAU computing network. All affiliated organizations located on campus tend to have a closer working relationship with NAU and typically require more extensive IT services. Affiliation Types include US Forest Service and USGS researchers.
Collaborative Student: This Supplementary Affiliation category includes various Affiliation Types supported by the Academic Computing area of ITS. This Affiliation facilitates collaborative academic work with students not included in existing Affiliations related to enrollment at NAU. Examples include Cline Library affiliates, the Park Ranger Program, and the Four Corners Math and Science Program.
The group including Credentialed Association and the Collaborative Associations and Students represent the main focus of this document. Administration of these Affiliations begins by entry into LOUIE. Account and service provisioning is currently manual with an ongoing project designed to maximize automation and include tools such as LDAP groups. The organizational scheme in this policy will provide the foundation for this work.
Adjunct: Adjunct contains the single Supplementary Affiliation "Adjunct". Adjunct professors are generally recognized by the Department Chair and may or may not have an associated salary. Adjunct status requires approval and is verified by the Provost's office. Affiliation Type will be assigned by department in order to facilitate administration and assignment of sponsors.
Emeritus: Professors Emeriti have been so formally designated upon retirement by the President. There also exist such approved Affiliation Types as Staff Emeritus and Coach Emeritus.
Retiree: Retirees must meet the profile of having 5 years of credited service, be at least 50 years of age, are receiving a retirement annuity under an Arizona university-sponsored retirement program, and whose employment was not terminated for cause by the university. Individuals on long term medical disability status from Northern Arizona University, regardless of age, are also eligible. Retirees are given the option of opting-in to this program by Human Resources as they process their retirement.
NAU Affiliations Categories
Core Affiliations
Affiliations Types
|Future Staff
|Future Staff
|Previous Staff
|Previous Staff
|Future Faculty
|Future Faculty
|Previous Faculty
|Previous Faculty
|Housing Applicant
|Housing Applicant
|Recent Student
|Recent Student
|Former Student
|Former Student
|Degree Completed
|Degree Completed
|Supplementary Affiliations
|Adjunct further designated by department
|Emeritus generally implies faculty, however may be further designated as staff, coach, etc.
|Credentialed Association
|Multiple. Ex: residence hall dispensing machine vendors.
|Collaborative Association
|Multiple. Ex: Museum of Northern Arizona
|Collaborative Campus Association
|Multiple. Ex: USGS
|Collaborative Student
|Multiple. Ex: Associated Support, Vista Access, Park Ranger Program
Affiliation Types
Affiliation Types represent a more granular way to categorize Affiliations. The Core Affiliations are so tightly defined that no further division is necessary or desired. Those Affiliations will have an identical Affiliation Type name. Multiple affiliation types are utilized within the Supplementary Affiliations to significantly improve administration and organize IT services.
Services Allowed
Affiliates will typically be assigned default sets of IT services by the ITS Department. Existing Affiliations will conform to this policy except where existing written agreements specify differently. Requests to ITS to provide services beyond the default set will contain a copy of the pertinent agreement. Future agreements will indicate whether the default set of IT services will suffice. If specific exceptions apply they should be coordinated in advance with ITS and ITS will be included in the approval process.
Additional services such as the site-licensed software utilized by Institutional Affiliations are typically governed by existing contracts. An example includes the Microsoft conditions of employment regarding licensing on institution-owned computers. Where specific restrictions do not apply, contracts may need to be renegotiated to include coverage of proposed new affiliation groups. Sponsors should include a funding source for additional costs incurred by ITS in delivering the services in question.
3.0 Persons Affected
- Any element of the NAU community who is an affiliate or desires to become an affiliate.
- The President's Cabinet, university administrators, Deans, Directors, Chairs, ITS, and functional campus offices with a vested interest in creating and sponsoring new affiliate accounts.
4.0 Policy and Responsibilities
- The management of NAU Affiliations will be controlled by the President's Cabinet.
- The technical aspects of implementing this policy will be the responsibility of ITS.
- IT services shall only be assigned going forward based on coordinated agreements that recognize the tenets of this policy and have been agreed-upon by ITS. All interagency agreements that include IT services shall be coordinated with ITS before being approved. ITS resources will only be expended based on agreements that are signed by an authority on the List of Authorized Signers. Boilerplate language that covers the default situations defined above is available from ITS. Exceptions must be coordinated with ITS.
- The Identity Management Committee (IDMC) will review more specific business rules and make recommendations to the President's Cabinet regarding ongoing issues such as new Affiliation Type requests.
- There will be appropriate ITS participation representative on the IDMC. Efficient means such as email will be utilized to expedite review of new, time-critical Affiliation Type requests between periodic meetings.
5.0 Procedures
- An Affiliation Sponsor must petition the President's Cabinet for any new Affiliation Type. The President and his Cabinet will periodically review and either approve or disapprove all new applications for Affiliation Types.
- Changes to existing Affiliation Types, including any changes to services that they receive, must be reviewed by the IDMC, concurred with by ITS and approved by the President.
- Approval of new top-level Affiliations or changes to existing Affiliations must be reviewed by the Cabinet and approved by the President, however, creation of new top-level Affiliations should be approached very critically and only considered under conditions of concurrence by ITS and the IDMC.
- Current Affiliations and detailed business rules and procedures for the technical management of Affiliations will be maintained by ITS.
- More specific business rules such as default service packages by Affiliation, distribution of Affiliate Types within Affiliations, and variations from default service packages or expiration dates will be maintained by ITS and periodically reviewed and approved by the IDMC.
- In all cases, people seeking an account through ITS must identify their Affiliation. Affiliations other than Core Affiliations require an appropriately high-level NAU Sponsor. In all cases, it is the Sponsor's responsibility to assure that the resources granted are in NAU's best interest, serve a public purpose, and further the mission of the University. Public funds may only be expended for public purposes and cannot be used to foster or promote purely private or personal interests. The dispensing public entity must receive "consideration" which is not so inequitable and unreasonable that it amounts to an abuse of discretion. The NAU Sponsor should proactively contact ITS when there is a change in an affiliate's status and is responsible for reviewing their assigned affiliate accounts at expiration.
- Affiliates will receive the default set of IT services specified for their Affiliation unless the sponsor arranges for specific exceptions with ITS in advance. Such exceptions will be approved by the Affiliation Review Committee prior to being implemented.
- In cases where the Affiliation is with an external organization (Collaborative Association), an External Administrator should be identified when possible. This person is someone who assumes responsibility for their organization's members and serves as a point of contact for administering all aspects of the Affiliation. They will assist their members in understanding the limits on use of their University accounts and services, including the necessity to adhere to the Network Acceptable Use Policy. The external administrator is responsible for reviewing assigned affiliate accounts at expiration.
- All Affiliation Types, and the associated affiliates, will be reviewed on an annual basis. A designated Affiliation Contact shall be identified as part of the paperwork necessary to set up an LDAP affiliation. The Affiliation Contact is someone designated by both the NAU Sponsor and, if such exists, the External Administrator to verify membership in the Affiliation Type. This person will be responsible annually to review the current Affiliation Type list for expiration and continued validity. This review will determine if the affiliates are still members of the Affiliation Type. If purged, they must reestablish an affiliation with the University should that need arise. Where more appropriate, such as for temporary account purposes, an expiration date shorter than one year will be assigned to the affiliate. Affiliate accounts that are not requested for extension will be purged. The Affiliation Type Contact Person also needs to approve and verify new affiliate requests.
- A review of the services offered for Affiliations will be conducted periodically by the IDMC and the Chief Information Technology Officer.
6.0 Business Rules for Establishing a New Affiliation
Sponsors may delegate the administrative work of requesting new affiliate accounts, account review, and purges to their designated Affiliation Contact. However, they must remain cognizant of all changes for which they are responsible and provide the appropriate authorization.
Each Affiliation Type must be supported by an appropriately high level NAU Sponsor. The NAU Sponsor must seek final approval from the President's Cabinet. Requests will be reviewed and a recommendation as to approval or disapproval made to the Cabinet. If recommended for approval and services in addition to the default set are requested, the committee will also make a recommendation regarding approval of those services. This request should contain justification for IT services by articulating how the University mission is served, or, alternatively, contain a copy of an official agreement. A request form can be obtained at: http://www4.nau.edu/louie/affiliates.html .
Certain Affiliation Types are proliferated by department. They are specifically identified by annotating the department name to the Affiliation Type title. For example, there may be Adjuncts who exist as Adjunct Anthropology, Adjunct Engineering, Adjunct Mathematics, etc. This practice will be continued and facilitates administration by allowing for specific Sponsors to be tracked within each department. Whenever a department requests an existing Affiliation Type that is new for their department, that request needs to contain all of the pertinent information for a new Affiliation Type request regarding Sponsor information and so on. However, it does not require Cabinet review or Presidential Approval.
Once the Affiliation Type is set up, the Affiliation Contact can be delegated as the person to administer and manage the memberships in the Affiliation. The Affiliation Contact may be either an NAU employee or a member of the external organization. Both the External Administrator (if there is one) and the NAU Sponsor need to agree on who is to be a designated Affiliation Contact. The Affiliation Contact is essentially going to have authority to commit NAU IT services and resources to someone who would otherwise not be eligible for these services. The Sponsor should impress upon their designated contact the importance of assuring that these resource allocations are serving the mission of the University. The Affiliation Type data contained below in Table 2 will be provided to ITS.
In all cases there should be a clear University business need to give each affiliate access to NAU IT resources. Each Supplementary Affiliate account actually costs the University more money to host and manage than faculty, staff or student accounts. Existing affiliates represent more than one third of the total non-student institutional IT support commitment. They include requisite support that typically is more burdensome due to unique, non-standardized situations. Examples of extra costs include staff time to create, review and administer accounts and support time as affiliates need assistance with services. In some cases it may be beneficial for NAU to provide in-house services, for example, NAU email accounts might be established for an organization that is already housed on campus—in these cases hosting these accounts may be cheaper for NAU than setting up phone lines for an outside Internet Service Provider service.
NAU email is commonly requested as easier for communications purposes between organizations. However, the transparency of email, including the ready availability of free or minimally expensive service means that this is less true than in the past. Alternate Internet Service Providers provide much higher speed service and also typically have both spam and virus controls in place. Dial-up Internet service for as long as it exists via the NAU modem pool is similarly an attractive benefit to offer, but is also hard to justify for free to organizations that are not hosted at NAU or are not very closely associated by business process. Both consume server capacity and bandwidth that are heavily used by NAU faculty, staff and students and are very expensive to expand and maintain.
Other IT services generally involve accounts on NAU systems such as a domain account, LDAP (which will exist by default for any affiliate), Blackboard Vista, PeopleSoft, and BusinessObjects. The justification for these accounts is for business process access to NAU online information. However, it should be remembered that granting these privileges incurs accompanying security and information access considerations, FERPA and other privacy impacts being examples. Many times an alternative form of web reporting or other information transfer can be arranged to preclude the necessity of granting this access while still efficiently answering the business need.
Sponsors' careful consideration of these implications is essential when they enter into agreements on behalf of NAU. It is strongly suggested that potential Sponsors contact ITS to facilitate the Affiliation Type approval process or answer any other questions this may have raised. Other NAU departments providing IT services to affiliates based on authentication will coordinate service delivery with ITS. Additional IT services will be granted as justified by official agreements, but additional IT access should be limited to only approved services.
In addition, NAU does not intend to compete with private enterprise; many requests for services are best handled by local Internet Service Providers. Simply wanting an email account in order to communicate with NAU counterparts is not a sufficient reason to establish an Affiliation Type.
Additionally, the Sponsor should consider security implications of granting access to their proposed affiliates. Extending services beyond the NAU employee and student population incurs additional risks that the Sponsor accepts responsibility for justifying. Sponsors will insure that all affiliates become familiar with the Network Acceptable Use Policy and email Use Policy both at account creation and renewal.
Affiliation Information Data Collection
The following information needs to be collected to establish an Affiliation Type:
Affiliation Type Data
Affiliation Type Name
Major Affiliation Category
Beginning Date
NAU Sponsor
NAU Sponsor Title
NAU Sponsor email
Required, default to NAU email
NAU Sponsor phone
Date of President's Office Approval
Definition of Relationship with NAU
External Administrator
External Administrator Comments
Optional. (non-NAU employed contact)
Designated Affiliation Contact
Designated Affiliation Contact Email
Required if contact exists, default to NAU email
Designated Affiliation Contact Phone
Required if contact exists
Publish Status
Optional. Defaults to "publish"
Services Allowed
Required, defaults to Principal Affiliation
Service Period
Required. Shorter if needed, default to 12 mo., no greater than 60 mo.
Expiration Date
Service periods are generally set for one year, unless the Affiliation Type is specifically for a shorter period of time, in which case the service period should be set for immediately after the end of the needed period. Longer periods can be approved by the IDMC.
The NAU Sponsor
Note that "Visiting" Affiliation Types imply that a short-term expiration date will be set for each affiliate. The accounts should not last beyond the time the person is actually visiting the campus.
The NAU Sponsor will be a high level NAU official. Various levels are required for different types of Affiliation agreements.
President, Provost, Vice President, Vice Provost
Unusual or long-term relationships with the University should be approved at the VP level. These include any agreements that require resources beyond those normally offered to affiliates, agreements with external entities, or an offer to assist an agency or individual using IT resources. In all cases it is expected that the agency is a non-profit, that there is no inappropriate competition with local business, and that the University has a compelling mission-related reason to offer these services.
Examples of these sorts of affiliations include the ROTC program, the USFS agreement, and the NAU Retirement Association Officers use of campus email, WGU Non-credit students, and the Colorado Plateau Studies partnership.
Dean or Directors
A Dean or Director can approve reasonable Affiliation Types involving outside agencies or groups of individuals that are obviously beneficial to the University in support of student or departmental goals. Examples of these sorts of Affiliation Types include the Library 2+2 arrangement with Community Colleges, The CEE Gear UP grant, and contract employees.
Department Chairs
A Department Chair can establish Affiliation Types in their area for the following:
- Visiting Professors
- Visiting Scholars (graduate or undergraduates invited to NAU)
- Cline Library
- Academic Computing
Note that "Visiting" Affiliation Types imply that a short-term expiration date will be set for each affiliate. The accounts should not last beyond the time the person is actually visiting the campus.
7.0 Business Rules for Establishing a New Affiliate
Once an Affiliation Type has been approved and established, a member of that type may request a computer account. The Sponsor or their duly designated contact may request account creation by completing an NAU Affiliate Authorization and Application Form. The current application form is available at http://www4.nau.edu/louie/affiliaterequest.html. By authenticating in to the form's web page, Sponsors or their designated contacts will provide an electronic signature verifying that the affiliate meets the requirements of this policy. A new account will then be created for the affiliate, provisioned with default services unless additional services are specifically requested and justified.
The form requests the disclosure of the person's Social Security number in order to assure that our data is accurate and to preclude any efforts to acquire and keep a "shadow" computer account not linked with the person's true identity. These accounts are not part of normal University business, and are considered a privilege and not a right for the individuals requesting this service. Therefore, it is legitimate to deny this service to people who do not wish to disclose their Social Security Number. However, if ID privacy concerns become a critical issue, a substitute, uniquely identifiable number such as an employee ID number, driver's license number, passport number or visa number can be utilized in the National ID number field. Entry of affiliates will be the responsibility of the ITS identity management staff position on the Campus Information Team (CIT). This function may be further distributed to campus functional offices when the capability exists. Service provisioning will be the responsibility of the Academic Computing staff (for the unique services provided to Academic Support and Vista Access affiliations) and the Service Desk (for all others). Automated service provisioning is a near-future project.
Expiration dates are generally set for one year, unless the Affiliation Type is specifically for a shorter period of time, in which case the expiration date should be set for immediately after the end of the needed period. A unique expiration date will be set if the new affiliate does not need services matching the default Affiliation Type service period. Some Affiliation Types (such as Visiting Professor) require a unique expiration date. Also, some affiliates have specific Affiliate Contacts. An example might be a visiting professor working collaboratively with a faculty member in a department. Under such an arrangement, the Department Chair can designate his faculty member as the contact responsible for the affiliate's privileges. This contact information is stored both at the Affiliation Type and the affiliate level.
The list of approved default services will automatically be assigned to new affiliates, unless existing agreements or prior consultation with ITS justify any exceptions. Known agreements will be consulted when setting up accounts, to insure that any agreements with the NAU Sponsor are not violated. In some cases, such as Library privileges, software licenses and other legal issues must be considered before access to a service can be provided. Hence, this step is very important. Other NAU departments providing services based on authentication will coordinate service delivery with ITS. Additional IT services can be granted as justified by official agreements, but additional IT access should not be granted when an acceptable alternative authentication procedure can be implemented.
Affiliate Information Data Collection
The following information will be collected from the Sponsor or their designated Affiliation Contact in order to add a person as an affiliate:
Affiliate Data
Last Name
First Name
Middle Name
Social Security Number or other positive ID
Required (alternative positive ID such as employee id, can be substituted for SSN)
Affiliation Type
Beginning Date
Affiliation Contact
Optional, but required if exists
Contact Email (not NAU)
Required (provide non-NAU email contact)
Birth Date
Affiliation Name
Expiration Date
Default to affiliation service period, may be specified as shorter
Publish Status
Required, defaults to "publish"
Agree to Network Acceptable Use Policy
Sponsor responsibility. Will be referenced multiple times.
Sponsor Name
Required, must be appropriate NAU employee
Sponsor email
Required, will default to NAU email
Sponsor phone
Department Affiliated With
Activities in support of NAU mission
Required to determine appropriate services
Designated Affiliation Contact
Optional. Must be NAU employee. May renew affiliates but not authorize new ones
Designated Affiliation Contact email
Optional but required if designated affiliation contact exists
Designated Affiliation Contact phone
Optional but required if designated affiliation contact exists
External Administrator
Optional. (non-NAU employed contact)
8.0 Business Rules for Reviewing Current Affiliation Types and Affiliates
Sponsors and contacts will also perform an annual audit of affiliate accounts. Sponsors and contacts will receive notification via email 30 and 10 days prior to terminating the account. The affiliate will be copied and also receive a notification at 3 days remaining. Contacts should then verify to the ITS Affiliate Management staff on the CIT (responsible for entry, review and purge of all affiliate accounts) that both the Affiliation Type and list of affiliates should be carried forward for another year. The review will take considerable time and resources, so it is not possible to do this more than once a year. Any inaccuracies in the affiliation information will be updated at this time. In the rare case that the Affiliation Type itself is no longer needed, then the accounts under that Affiliation Type and the Affiliation Type itself will be removed. People who are no longer affiliates will have their LDAP record changed to reflect the loss of affiliation and their accounts will be scheduled for removal. On most of NAU ITS systems, account removal involves a warning to the account holder and a backup to preserve the data before the account is actually removed. It is the individual affiliate's responsibility to retrieve data before terminating their relationship with NAU.
Sponsors and contacts will contact ITS when NAU IT services are no longer appropriate for an affiliate or when they are no longer part of the population for which the affiliation is extended. Such notifications help improve our overall network security and limit any potential concerns about providing University IT services to non-affiliated people. Failure to notify ITS increases the chance for abuse by a disgruntled affiliate and may ultimately put the affiliation at risk. Pursuant to this document the sponsor of an affiliate has assumed the risk to NAU that may be posed by that affiliate.


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Millwork walls in cabinetvision??10/23
I am wanting to draw millwork walls for a reception desk and was wondering how I could do that in cv and have electrical chases in the studs...I would like to be able to scm these walls and parts also with the panels applied to them also. Is this feasible or do I need to draw them in autocad and import a dxf file to scm or is that even possible. I know I can use a regular wall and set it to heights that are needed but that does not allow me to scm the walls or parts just cabs and panels. Any suggestions?
I guess what I really want to know is there a way to make a wall assembly that can be reused (saved) without having to modify each part in the assembly editor each time.
In Cabnetware I treat these as cabinets. I create a set of parameters for a special cabinet/no kick/no back with the top and bottom that goes past the end panels and set interior partitions. Set the correct materials and machining on the parts, use the full section opening edit to add the machining for the wire chase, save to library......bingo and bam, die walls as needed. Vision is a bit different but close. Hope this gets you in the right direction anyways.
I did that in cv but when you go to lengthen the wall It does not work out correctly. Not sure what is going on with it. Now I just did a wall with no chaces just to test the theory but still have not got it figured out. I am still looking for answers. If I just draw it in autocad and import the dxf's to SCM I would have to do that as individual parts correct??
I don't know what SCM is.
If you have Screen to Machine then you have to set up a template for walls, rename parts to the name of the parts in Ware to match those parts.....end caps, studs, etc. add the machining if you want to dado them to the top and bottom plate, etc.
Draw a picture of a wall, name the parts, go through the wizards and create a cabinet style to match how you want to build the wall, name the parts, start a room and make a cab/wall and verify that it is correct in Vision. Go to S2M and create a template call walls, go to the parts tree and change the names of the parts as you did in the front of the house....add any machining and test.
you can do it.
Are you on the CV forum? There's a great post about this.
I am starting to get some insight on this. Yes I do mean S2M I just got in a hurry when I typed it. In a perfect scenario I am wanting to be able to manipulate the wall however I want weather it be straight or a radius. I am not so concerned about having panels front or back implemented into the wall I just want the wall with studs and a chase. Then I would add the panels as needed due to reveals and such might need a doubled up panel to allow for the reveals....so that would be something that I would add after the walls are placed and I would then filter out any radiused panels when I sent it to S2M. I guess the main issue I am having is getting the intelligence correct for all the parts to stretch correctly. I would also like to somehow keep my studs at 16" or 12" on center as it stretches be it adding or subtracting studs as the wall length requires. I think I am wishing too much on that part though lol.
I am not on the CV forum as I cannot find a link to it! I do have CV support but still no link can you provide me a link to where I can get in? I have all license info if needed to log on. Just can not find the forum lol
Here is log in for forum
Pdub How would I get the top and bottom plate to go over the ends like a partion and keep intellegence? I can adjust the parts and get the top and bottom to stretch with intelligence but when I stretch the wall the end stud does not move with it. Do you know a formula to get that to move with the stretch? That really is all I am lacking now. I have the top and bottom moving and the chases made but I cannot figure the end studs to change position with the stretch.. I have searched all over CV's help and support files and still can not figure it out. The other thing is how do i get the construction method to apply to the end studs as well? When I change them to fit inside the top and bottom plates I lose the dado/dowell hole inteligence. I hear if you edit from the end that it keeps the inteligence but I have not found that to work for me.
The ends are actually Unfinished Ends, not partitions. If you Edit Shape from the end Ortho view, all the middle verticals will change. If you need the outside verticals (Unfinshed Ends) to move in toward the center, you can use scribe (I think).
So if I use scribe on the left and right ends from the end ortho view will it then have intellignece once I shrink the height of the ends and scribe them into the top and bottom? I am still lacking on a formula to move the ends position when I stretch the wall or shrink it in length. I have been all over every one of those die wall threads...Problem is the one that actually speaks in a video already has his walls made. and the others go so fast it is very difficult to pick anything up. I have watched all of those countless times. I will try the cribe thing and see if it works for the ends.
The studs are partitions. Somebody above told you to use unfinished ends for the end studs- that would work but not what I do. I set the ends to End-No End and use a partition for that too. Then there's no formula, it gets put where it goes.
You're maybe thinking about this too hard. A wall is just a cabinet, if you think about it.


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Adel Zamel Abd al Mahsen al Zamel
Adel Zamel Abd al Mahsen al Zamel is a 57-year-old citizen of Kuwait. He was transferred to Kuwait on Nov. 2, 2005.
Note: These documents include some assertions that cannot be independently verified. Many allegations have been contested by detainees and their lawyers, and some have been undercut by other evidence.
Internment Serial Number: 568
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When Nick Leach met Keanna Yalowicki it took him a few weeks to work up the courage to ask her out. When the time came to propose, he knew exactly what to do. Hint: It involves beer and National Proposal Day.
There's a day for everything. National Doughnut Day is June 1. National Siblings Day is April 10. And National Proposal Day is March 20. It's also the day Nick decided to propose to Keanna with a Blue Nile ring. Here's how it went down, in Nick's words.
"I proposed at the Columbia Tower Club in Seattle. I framed the night like it was a birthday party for one of her best friends. Since we both love beer, I gave a custom beer flight tray engraved with "Will you marry me," to the hostess and ordered a flight of beer. When the waitress brought out the flight for Keanna, I dropped onto a knee and popped the question. Her parents and my mother were hidden on the other side of the restaurant and came out to surprise her."
Nick gave Keanna a cushion cut diamond with a solitaire setting, which they then had set in a custom setting. Nick did what a lot of proposers do: Focus on the diamond and go with a simple setting knowing you can personalize it later on.
"My experience with Blue Nile was awesome," says Nick. "They helped me throughout the entire process. I was definitely a newbie to the diamond world but they explained all of the little nuances that can come with picking out the best diamond."
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In the July issue of Investment Advisor, we take on succession planning and study groups. Tom Giachetti, securities chairman for law firm Stark & Stark, has called study groups "a bunch of people sitting around convincing each other that they're right." A group borne out of the Financial Planning Association's NexGen community, though, has provided major support, personally and professionally, for its members.
Following last year's TechLeaders survey, Beacon Strategies took another look at the state of broker-dealers' technology planning. The firm surveyed major independent and insurance broker-dealers to find out what they're working on now, what they expect for the future and what's changed since last year.
Succession Planning for an Entire Industry: Why Study Groups Are Critical
Study groups have had a lot of flak lately, but one group that arose out of the FPA's NexGen community shows that they can be valuable. "Seven of our 10 members have experienced major personal and professional transitions during the time frame of the group's existence," Mike Anderson, the advisor and de facto head of that group, told Editor-in-Chief John Sullivan. "Imagine our meeting after 2008; tears were definitely shed. But the body of knowledge this group possesses is immeasurable."
Three Is NOT a Crowd in the Cloud: The 2013 TechLeaders Survey
What initiatives and priorities are broker-dealers focusing on? How are their relationships with their solution providers? The 2013 TechLeaders survey from Beacon Strategies answers these questions. The firm surveyed major independent and insurance broker-dealers in the United States to monitor significant trends in the industry, as well as important changes in priorities, vendor relationships and resource allocations over time.


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ATLANTA, GA – Former customers of Red Oak Sanitation, Inc. who live in unincorporated Gwinnett County may be due a refund from the company. The refunds will be paid as part of an agreement reached by the company with the Governor's Office of Consumer Protection (OCP).
When Red Oak Sanitation's authority to provide waste collection services to residents of unincorporated Gwinnett County was revoked by The Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners in July 2010, those residents were entitled to have their trash bins collected and receive a refund of their $25 or $50 deposit. However, an OCP investigation revealed that the company failed to refund those deposits in a timely manner and that it had made no effort to develop a plan for the timely collection of trash bins or the return of the refundable deposits.
At the conclusion of this investigation, Red Oak Sanitation, Inc. entered into a settlement with OCP, under the terms of which the company is setting up a trust account for customers who have not received refunds of their deposits. The company returned almost $60,000 to consumers during the course of the investigation.
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About 90% of middle-income Americans don't feel prepared to handle the financial cost of a critical illness diagnosis, according to a survey released Tuesday.
The study, Middle-Income America's Perspectives on Critical Illness and Financial Security, from the Washington National Institute for Wellness Solutions (IWS), found just 11% of respondents have enough money saved to cover family emergencies and health costs from a critical illness.
Most said they would turn to savings to cover costs their insurance wouldn't, but 75% have less than $20,000 in savings. A quarter have no savings at all.
The survey found those who are confident they have saved enough may be underestimating how much they'll need. "Middle-income Americans frequently omit associated costs—like post-treatment wellness visits, nonmedical bills, professional caregiving, lost income from missed work, travel to and from treatment and other expenses—when they consider the total costs of critical illnesses," according to the report.
Americans understand it's expensive to be sick, though. Nearly half of respondents said they would probably never recover financially from an Alzheimer's or dementia diagnosis, and 38% said the same of a cancer diagnosis.
"What we try to do [as an insurance company], is provide products that meet a wide range of needs for individuals," Barbara Stewart, president of Washington National, told AdvisorOne on Wednesday. "At the end of the day, it's the psychographics related to people having their risk characteristics and what they feel is adequate to cover, and balancing that with their savings and support mechanisms, like family, friends, etc."
Still, 58% of respondents haven't spoken with advisors, or even loved ones, about potential caregiving options, and 60% haven't discussed financial planning, according to the report. In fact, when it comes to getting information about how to pay for a serious illness, financial institutions and advisors rate pretty low. Nearly 30% of respondents said their insurance company would be their go-to source for information, followed by the hospital (13%), health care provider (12%) and their family and friends (11%). Just 9% of respondents said a financial advisor or insurance agent would be their primary source of financial information.
"First and foremost, people are going to go back to their medical plan insurance company to figure out what coverage they have, and consequently what financial protection they have, as well as learn about the gaps that exist," Stewart said.
Stewart stressed that it was important for advisors to "raise the question as it relates to middle-income consumers in terms of the whole area of health risk and the opportunity incidence of a critical illness and the financial gaps that'll be caused by that." Advisors should make sure "their conversations are not solely focused on wealth accumulation or insurance, but bring in that full financial picture that also brings in the health consideration and the fact that you need to be planning not just for [critical illness], but what happens to their retirement nest egg if it occurs at some point later in time and they still don't have adequate financial coverage."
Just 5% of respondents said they had purchased critical illness insurance, and most were not even aware of it, the report found. Of the 23% who have heard of such products, two-thirds haven't purchased them because they think they're too expensive. Almost 40% don't think they'll provide enough to cover their expenses.
"The issue is there's a misconception as it relates to options for coverage. One of those misconceptions is clearly that it's too expensive," Stewart (left) said. "What we try to do is position a wide range of options for folks for what they feel is the appropriate level [of coverage] and so that there are affordable coverage options at all of those considerations."
She added, "For middle-income consumers, critical illness insurance is definitely an option. I just don't think there are enough financial advisors who actually share the story and help raise the awareness of the issue."
IWS found respondents were most concerned about a cancer diagnosis, followed by heart disease, stroke and Alzheimer's. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, heart disease, cancer and stroke account for half of all deaths each year, and nearly half of adults suffer at least one chronic disease.
The report noted that those who were most concerned about cancer and heart disease worried about the cost of treatment, in addition to the disease itself, while those who said they were most concerned about stroke and dementia were more likely to worry about their independence and quality of life following a diagnosis.
Critical illness is a long-term concern for those who said they were worried about it, the report found. Nearly half of respondents said there was a possibility they could be diagnosed with a serious disease in the next 20 years, while 22% said it could happen in three years. Those who feel most vulnerable were more likely to be uninsured or unemployed, in poor or fair health, and had lower income.
"The biggest concern is related to paying bills as it relates to today. We know there are gaps in health coverage and there will be incremental expenses, including non-medical like caregiving expenses and travel and the like. The other component of that is to help as it relates to protecting retirement savings."
Boomers specifically feel most vulnerable to critical illness, Stewart noted, and are more likely to have a family member or friend who has experienced a major illness, "so it resonates more to them as it relates to risk."
"The study was about wellness as well as critical illness," Stewart said. "Always practice healthy living. No one is invincible."
Washington National is a subsidiary of CNO Financial Group. The Institute for Wellness Solutions is its research and consumers education program. The survey polled 1,001 Americans between ages 30 and 66 with an annual household income of between $35,000 and $99,999 for the report.
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"A 20-year-old in Letcher County admits he stole gas from a police cruiser! Once he posted the picture of him in the act and making an obscene gesture on Facebook, it spread like wildfire and Jenkins police began investigating. Michael Baker's girlfriend snapped the picture they say was meant to be a joke. It was not so funny when Baker was put in the back of one of those cruisers. "We was just standing there and thought it would be funny to take a picture and then post it on Facebook," said Baker. At first, Baker and his girlfriend were apprehensive to talk about what really happened last Friday." - WYMT
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The attractive pink waxcap (Hygrocybe calyptriformis) has a pinkish-lilac conical cap with fine striations and a slightly greasy appearance. As specimens age, the cap often becomes more flattened and splits at the margins (2). The gills are pinkish to whitish (1). The stem (stipe) is long and delicate, and often becomes split lengthwise (3). The flesh of the pink waxcap is also fragile and pinkish (8). The generic name Hygrocybe means 'moist head' (5).
WARNING: many species of fungus are poisonous or contain chemicals that can cause sickness. Never pick and eat any species of fungus that you cannot positively recognise or are unsure about. Some species are deadly poisonous and can cause death within a few hours if swallowed.
Fungi are neither plants nor animals but belong to their own kingdom. They are unable to produce their own food through the process of photosynthesis, as plants do; instead, they acquire nutrients from living or dead plants, animals, or other fungi, as animals do. In many larger fungi (lichens excepted) the only visible parts are the fruit bodies, which arise from a largely unseen network of threads called 'hyphae'. These hyphae permeate the fungus's food source, which may be soil, leaf litter, rotten wood, dung, and so on, depending on the species (8).
The fruit bodies of the pink waxcap develop between August and October (4), especially after rain (6).
The pink waxcap is found in Europe, North America and Asia (1) The pink waxcap is widespread but local throughout the UK (1).
The pink waxcap is found in unimproved short grasslands (1), pastures (3), lawns, and woodland edges on calcareous (1) or acidic soils (4).
The pink waxcap is provisionally classified as Low Risk in Great Britain (4).
The past population trends of the pink waxcap are not known, however the main threat to this species is the 'improvement' of its grassland habitats by ploughing and fertiliser use. Changes in the grazing or mowing regime at some sites may also have resulted in this species being ousted by invading woody species and tall vegetation (4). Atmospheric pollution and agricultural drift may also be important factors (7). The pink waxcap, along with other members of the waxcap family, is thought to have declined right across its European range (8).
The pink waxcap is a priority species under the UK Biodiversity Action Plan (UK BAP) and is included in English Nature's Species Recovery Programme. The Action Plan aims to maintain current populations, and increase them where possible. One of the important sites in Wales is managed by the National Trust in ways that benefit the species. One site in England and four other Welsh sites are Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs), and therefore receive a level of protection (7). At all pink wax cap sites, scrub should be controlled (4).
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