text: Contents IT Service Management Previous Topic Next Topic Convert an SLA to an SLA Definition Subscribe Log in to subscribe to topics and get notified when content changes. ... SAVE AS PDF Selected Topic Topic & Subtopics All Topics in Contents Share Convert an SLA to an SLA Definition You must replicate the default SLA record as a new SLA definition. About this task To convert old SLAs to SLA Definitions: Procedure Transfer the Name and Table fields. If desired, check the Retroactively Start checkbox. If checked, this will cause the SLA to calculate from the moment the record is created (or from the date and time on the selected task), rather than the moment the SLA is attached. This is especially helpful for Task SLAs that will attach to active incidents that have old SLAs currently running. Transfer the Conditions field to the Start Conditions field. Make sure to add Active is True as well, so that the new Task SLAs don't attach to closed incidents when they are updated. Define a new set of Pause Conditions and Close Conditions. Set the Duration Type and Duration fields. The old SLAs did not support relative duration, so to define the Task SLA to behave similarly to the old SLA, select User Defined Duration as the Duration Type and put the total length of time of all of the escalations here. For instance, an old SLA that has escalations of 4 hours to Moderate, 2 hours to High, and 2 hours to Overdue, the new Task SLA should have Duration set to Days 0 Hours 08:00:00. Calendars have been replaced by Schedules, so if schedules haven't been defined yet, they will need to be. Instead of escalations, attach an SLA Workflow. There is a default SLA workflow, however, you must create a new workflow to replicate the escalation levels on the old SLA. Escalation Levels are defined hour-by-hour, whereas the SLA Workflow uses a percentage timer. So for the above example of 4 hours to Moderate, 2 hours to High, and 2 hours to overdue, the workflow will need a 50% timer and then two 25% timers. The new task SLA records do not use the Escalation or Made SLA fields on the task record. Example The following example is an old SLA for Priority 1 incidents to be resolved on a Monday-Friday (8-5) Calendar, with escalations to Moderate at 4 hours, to High at 2 hours, and to Overdue at 2 hours: Figure 1. Old SLA Example This is the new Task SLA created from the same information: Figure 2. New SLA Example This is the workflow which powers the new Task SLA. Note: This example workflow responds to each escalation by firing off an event. A business rule can be configured to respond to escalation events, or the workflow can be adjusted to match the organization's process. Figure 3. New SLA Workflow Task SLA tableWhen an SLA Definition is triggered against a particular task, the Task SLA record is generated and contains all the tracking data for the specific SLA on that record. In many cases there will be multiple Task SLA records against a single task since many definitions apply. The Task SLA [task_sla] table stores Task SLA records for the SLAs attached to particular tasks. On this page Send Feedback Previous Topic Next Topic


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The system of homeopathic medicine was introduced to the world by a German scientist Dr. Samuel F. Hahnemann during the years 1793-96. The bicentenary of homeopathy is being celebrated this year. On the 10th April, it is 239th birth anniversary of Dr.Hahnemann. One of the most leading contemporary homeopaths George Vithoulkas says about Dr.Hahnemann : With time, I am certain that this man will rank as one of the greatest in history, alongside such giants of discovery as Einstein, Newton and Hippocrates. In this article Dr.Rajesh Shah gives bird's eye view of Dr.Hahnemann's exceptionally remarkable contribution to the medical world.
Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, father of homeopathy, lesser known and under-appreciated medical scientist of sovereign caliber, his 239th birth anniversary falls on 10th April 1993. He was a great experimenter, original thinker, thorough scientist, a genius who dared to live ahead of his time.
He was born when it was dark: Those were the days when patients were treated with inhuman and cruel methods of blood letting (cutting the veins to remove impure blood), application of Leeches on skin to suck impure blood, purgatives etc. Medical system had no direction, no scientific principles, no light.
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HATTIESBURG, MS (WDAM) - The City of Hattiesburg is facing a lawsuit by Gulf Restoration Network (GRN) for its inability to meet sewer treatment standards under existing law.
The suit was filed in 2012, and an economist submitted his expert opinion last month for a discovery deadline. In that opinion, Jonathan Shefftz states that the city's inability to make changes to the sewer treatment has prevented the city from spending 7.2 to 15 million dollars.
Shefftz began these calculations in 2007 after the city was issued its first violation. But according to council president Kim Bradley, the work to get the new land application system to treat the waste water has complied with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality contract so far.
"We had these issues under control," said Bradley. "We had not had a violation in some time, but now we do. We're working to get this solved, but the GRN will try to use this as a leverage to get us into court."
According to the opinion, the Hattiesburg is liable for at least 4,962 Clean Water Act violations. Since the first violation in 2007, the city did not come to an agreement on a treatment facility until January of this year.
After the 4-1 vote to support the Groundworx contract with the understanding that sewer rates would increase, the council then voted a few weeks later 3-2 to hike those rates to begin payments on the interest of the facility. One week later the mayor vetoed that decision, and one week after that, the council reached a unanimous decision to present a vote on a sales tax increase to pay for operating costs. Now the facility and the contract are at a stand-still while the council decides on how it will move forward with both operation and costs.
"We understand that we've really done nothing with our aeration," said Bradley. "We have a contract that's been laying around and hasn't been exercised and put in place. We need to get a handle on what's going on."
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You know what's fun? Going to AlexanderMcQueen.com and just looking around, window-shopping online. If you're anything like me, you're probably never going to be able to afford any of it (well, maybe a scarf ... someday), but eye candy is eye candy, and it's a lovely way to spend ten minutes.
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That was fun, wasn't it? Let's say you were able to pick one pair of shoes, one handbag and one item of clothing — which would they be? I think I'd choose the gold and black leather booties, black and gold embroidered cluch with the huge winged skull, and the strapless black maxi dress.


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Real Lambrusco is a rarity in this country, but here it is, purple hued, with just enough fizz to help cut through the fattiness of fine salume. It's grapy and dry, with hints of anise and herbs that prevent it from being too simple. *Best Buy*
Lambrusco is not part of the upper echelon of Italian wine. To begin with, it is not expensive. Also, it doesn't come from Tuscany or Piedmont or any of the well known wine-producing regions of Italy. It comes from Emilia-Romagna. And then there's the fact that it's red and sparking. Actually, foaming is closer to the truth. When you open a bottle of this 'boutique' Lambrusuco (Grasparossa is the particular type of the Lambrusco grape, and Castelvetro is the region from which it hails), it really does foam in your glass, a big purple expanse of bubbles. But then it settles down a bit and, in the presence of a big plate of pasta with meat sauce (Bolognese) or a pizza or even a ham and cheese sandwich, it can even become a little elegant, but mostly it's just plain delicious. The grapes are estate grown, and fermented into a dry red base wine; three or four times a year batches of the base wine are re-fermented in pressurized tanks to add sparkle. The wine is bottled in a Champagne-style bottle with a traditional sparkling wine cork. A wine to be drunk, not talked about.
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7/17/12: Psalm 100:1 says that we should "make a joyful noise unto the Lord!" Sara Baer (Gary's youngest) and one of our patrons, Larry Randle did just that tonight. They wrote and will "sing to the Lord a new song" this Saturday at our Grand Opening (Psalm 96:1). Don't miss it! We will also be blessed with a testimony from our Gospel artist at 7pm and praise and worship with Leo Ahlstrom at 8pm. I can't wait! We hope to see you there! Linda


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North Carolina had never been a docile colony. She was rough-hewn, populated by ambitious men whose interests often clashed with those sent to govern them. Yet she was a reluctant revolutionary and her citizens, so suspicious of authority, so covetous of personal independence, were slow to embrace the message of the Sons of Liberty. Between the French and Indian war and the American Revolution, between the end of salutary neglect and the beginning of independence, Carolinians witnessed a domestic revolution which altered internal politics for the decades following renunciation of British sovereignty. Before 1763 Carolina's colonial government was dominated by "gentlemen," by individuals who had become accustomed to deference from those whose birth or fortunes placed them lower on America's somewhat informal social scale. Yet in the wake of England's attempts to make her colonial policies more responsive to her own needs and as an unintended consequence of resistance to those attempts, Carolina's domestic politics drastically and permanently changed. Initially, the Albermarle hegemony was shared with men from the Cape Fear region. However, that ascendancy was destined to erode. Piedmonters were suspicious of the intentions of both easterners and gentlemen. As a result of legislative neglect, overt corruption, and reaction to the regulator controversy, they came to view Albermarlians as personifiers of both, as men who cared little for western needs. Consequently, a new political alliance, one composed of men from the central coastal plains and of their less cosmopolitan contemporaries in the west emerged simultaneously with Carolina resistance to what was perceived as British oppression. By late 1776 two dominant forces in North Carolina had been replaced: the colony had formally declared independence from Britain and informally withdrawn support from the Albermarle aristocracy. However, the local political coalition forged among those groups deteriorated as the impotence of the new government became obvious. The state was derelict in her obligations to the war effort. She was unable to field an effective militia. She could not control the deterioration of her economy, could not restrain her citizens from outrages against loyalists, nor could she moderate a growing quarrel between the bench and the state bar. Those men accustomed to prominance before 1776, men whose political sympathies were decidedly conservative, men who were uneasy with the prospect of democracy, men like Samuel Johnston, James Iredell, and Archibald Maclaine, began to realize that if they were to challenge those radicals in control of the state house they too would have to become organized. What had been a casual desire to cooperate before the Revolution became a conscious decision to form a political party thereafter. Factions which had once been despised as contrary to the common good became a political necessity. Thus, some Carolinians joined forces with other Americans who sought to amend the Articles of Confederation in the hope that national alterations in government would influence local changes. The ensuing struggle between Carolina's Federalists and Anti-Federalists dominated the years between 1787 and 1789. Ultimately, the forces supporting the Philadelphia constitution won, and that victory proved the last hurrah of the state conservatives. The political confrontations which ensued as a result of the ratification controversy, the open acknowledgement of competitive politics, ushered in a new, a modern, concept of political science in North Carolina.
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Walking and Fell Running - The Brecon Beacons National Park is internationally recognised as a fantastic spot for walking. Pen y Fan, Wales' 4th highest peak, sits at the centre of the park. The Central Beacons area is also home to the photogenic and easily recognised Corn Ddu, Cribyn and Fan y Big which together make up the famous Beacons Horseshoe, and a circular route of these peaks will surely feature in every walker's 'to do' list. But there's more to the Park than just the famous summits, and Ed's years of fell-running in the area mean that he will be able to offer detailed route advice to make the most of the quiet, hidden valleys and seldom-trodden heights that make up the less well-known areas of the National Park, and the Black Mountains region in particular. In addition, we have the Wye Valley Walk, Offa's Dyke Path and Beacons Way all within easy reach for those looking for routes that are renowned for their stunning scenery and beautiful, varied terrain.
Cycling - Both Old Great Marlborough and Lower House Farm are ideally placed for the mountain biker and roadie alike. For off-road adventures, the high mountain trails of the Black Mountains can be enjoyed from the farm gate at Lower House Farm, and a short spin away from Old Great Marlborough. The Wye Valley, Forest of Dean and the Bike Park Wales and Cwmcarn centres are within an hour's drive, offering perfect purpose-made single track and incredible views. For road cyclists, there is something for all abilities. The Gospel Pass climb between the Vale of Ewyas and Hay-on-Wye will have even the fittest panting for breath, as will the infamous Tumble, climbing from Abergavenny to Blaenavon and the setting for the end of Stage 3 of the 2014 Tour of Britain. But it's not all calf-burning climbs and big days out. There are plenty of pleasant back lanes with fantastic views for gentle family rides on a summer's day, the Monmouth-Brecon canal route as well as Sustrans routes 8 and 42 are within reach. Ed is on hand to offer route advice, as well as full of suggestions for the best watering holes en-route. We can also arrange bike hire with 'pick up and drop off', as well as guiding through an excellent local company, please contact us for more information.
Climbing and Caving - For rock climbers, the Wye Valley offers some classic pitches. From the open, multi-pitch face climbs of Wintour's Leap to the esoteric delights of Symond's Yat, there is plenty to keep both the traditional and sport climber happy, as well as some excellent bouldering at Huntsham. The limestone geology of the Brecon Beacons means that it is home to some excellent caving for those that fancy a trip underground. Again, Ed is very happy to provide suggestions based on your group and ability range.
Canoeing - the River Wye offers scenic canoeing and kayaking, and we are 20 minutes away from one of the most popular points to join the river at Hay on Wye. Symonds Yat is also renowned for it's canoeing and kayaking, and is popular both with beginners and experts due to the variety of river conditions found on that stretch. We can work with our guests to arrange a bespoke canoeing adventure to suit all abilities, please contact us for more information.
Fishing - we have several stretches of fishing available in the area, on the Wye, the Usk and the Arrow. Guests at Lower House Farm also have on-site access to the Olchon River, where they are very welcome to try their luck on the local trout and grayling! Please contact us for more information if you are interested in fishing.
History, Literature and Leisure - Hay on Wye is world famous as a literary hotspot. Home to dozens of bookshop and the hugely popular Hay Festival, it is the destination for the avid reader. In addition, Hereford Cathedral houses both the Mappa Mundi and the Chained Library, both fascinating examples of medieval literature and an insight into how the world was mapped and documented hundreds of years ago. Hereford is also a top-spot for boutique shopping, with Church Street and the independent shops surrounding the Cathedral Close a big draw. Meanwhile, Abergavenny hosts an internationally renowned food festival in September, which is well worth planning a gastronomic weekend around! We are also blessed with beautiful Castle ruins in both of our locations - Grosmont for OGM guests and Longtown for those staying at Lower House Farm.


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This book provides research-based insights that deepen and broaden current understandings of the nature of reading. Informed by psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic views of reading-as-meaning-construction, the studies build on principles of scientific realism – an approach to inquiry that incorporates and values a wide variety of methods of observation to find the most inclusive, ecologically valid description of the reading process as it is observed in a variety of contexts from a wide range of perspectives.
Focusing on how facts are discovered, developed, and used in the construction of knowledge about reading – a data-driven and theory-driven construction that results from observing the reading process with a variety of tools, methods, disciplines, and conceptual frameworks – scientific realism goes beyond rationalism and experimentation to include studies of events and experiences, but still satisfies even the most narrow definitions of what state and national lawmakers refer to as "reliable and replicable research on reading." Each study in this volume breaks ground for a new line of reading research underpinned by the theory of reading based in scientific realism.
Scientific Realism in Studies of Reading is directed to reading researchers, teacher educators, reading specialists, special educators, graduate students, and related education professionals in the disciplines of applied psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics, and is appropriate as a text for advanced courses in these areas.
"There is no other book on the market like this…. It is a counterpoint to those which talk about scientific studies of reading in that, by the methodologies used, it reveals how much more context-rich studies of reading offer to our understanding of the reading process. This book would be excellent for graduate courses on oral reading analysis or oral reading assessment, psycholinguistic or sociolinguistic models of reading, or research methods in literacy education."
Sharon Murphy, York University
"This book is unique; there are many arguments out there about our current climate but this work looks beyond those to a place of intellectual and scholarly vitality. This is a timely and important book."
Richard J. Meyer, University of New Mexico
"This volume is certainly cutting-edge. It presents research that many in the reading field are not aware of. The scholarship is outstanding…. It will contribute significantly by helping to move the field past its current preoccupation with rapid and automatic word recognition…. It could set the standard for a new approach to 'scientific research.'"
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Contents: D. Taylor, Foreword. Preface. Part I: The Study of Reading: From Data to Theory. Introduction to Chapter 1. K.S. Goodman, Miscue Analysis As Scientific Realism. Introduction to Chapter 2. E.J. Paulson, K.S. Goodman, Re-Reading Eye-Movement Research: Support for Transactional Models of Reading. Part II: Socio-linguistic and Systemic Functional Linguistic Studies of Reading. Introduction to Chapter 3. P.H. Fries, The Role of Redundancy in Reading. Introduction to Chapter 4. A.G. Obregón, Reimagining Literacy Competence: A Socio-Psycholinguistic View of Reading in Aphasia. Part III: Studies of Beginning Reading. Introduction to Chapter 5. P. Duckett, Seeing the Story for the Words: The Eye Movements of Beginning Readers. Introduction to Chapter 6. A. Ebe, What Eye Movement and Miscue Analysis Reveals About the Reading Process of Young Bilinguals. Part IV: Studies of Reading in Non-Alphabetic Orthographies. A. Syllabic Orthograpy. Introduction to Chapter 7. K.S. Goodman, The Reading Process in Arabic: Making Sense of Arabic Print. B. Ideographic Orthography. Introduction to Chapter 8. S. Wang, Y. Goodman, A Linguistic Description of Written Chinese and Its Cueing Systems. Introduction to Chapter 9. K. Kim, Y. Goodman, J. Xu, F. Gollasch, Chinese and English Readings of Embedded Anomalies in Written Texts. Introduction to Chapter 10. S. Wang, Y. Goodman, Making Sense of Written Chinese: A Study of L2 Chinese Readers' Miscues. Part V: Studies of Reading that Reconceptualize "Errors" and "Fluency". Introduction to Chapter 11. E.J. Paulson, Miscues and Eye Movements: Functions of Comprehension. Introduction to Chapter 12. A.D. Flurkey, Reading Flow.


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From George Busk [c. 27 August 1863]1
Roberts Lodgings | Maentwrog | N. Wales
My dear Darwin
The above address will account for my delay in not answering your letter sooner, which I received this morning.—2 I am very sorry to hear that you are suffering so much. The particular form of complaint you describe, is what the doctors term 'Waterbrash".3 It is obviously a diseased secretion of the stomach, but of its true nature I am not aware that anything very certain is known, as it accompanies various kinds of general derangement. The treatment usually recommended is light bitters with subnitrate of bismuth & hydrocyanic acid & I think it not improbable unless, as is most probable, you have already tried it that some such combination might do you good. But I think a useful adjunct under any circumstances would be to give the stomach something to do, very early in the morning, & before the vomiting usually occurs. Perhaps a cup of milk & water with a few grains of calcined Magnesia, say 10 or 15 taken early in the morning with a little biscuit or dry toast, might persuade the stomach to limit itself to its proper function. I have enclosed a prescription for the other medicine which you can try or not as you think proper.4
With respect to the flocculent matter you mention as contained in the ejecta I should not be at all surprized to hear that Goodsir detects his Sarcina in it.5 That organism however, whatever it may be is I believe extremely common, though under certain circumstances it becomes so much increased in quantity as to cause the idea that it is the cause of the disordered function.
I do not think that this is so, & in minute quantity I do not myself consider its presence a sign of any importance whatever. All that I have been led to conclude respecting it when more copious than usual, is that for some reason or another the contents of the stomach are delayed longer than usual in that organ, I imagine that your stomach is weak in its muscular power & perhaps in consequence very dilatable, & that it does not push on its contents as rapidly as it ought to do— whether there is any cause of obstruction besides this, I cannot say, but think, that reason is alone sufficient—
I think however that with this change of Symptoms as it would seem to be, you had better ask some advice,— as regards the man to apply to—I think you would get a good opinion from Dr Brinton who has paid much attention more especially to diseases of the stomach & is a sensible & prudent man at any rate not likely to do you any harm—6
I have been down here with my family for about a week, but until today we have nothing but rain, though it seems now inclined to take up.—
Believe me | Yours very truly | Geo Busk
Discusses and suggests treatments for CD's stomach complaint. Recommends he consult William Brinton.
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"The hallways here are repulsive."
If you read that in the voice of Werner Herzog — possibly the only human alive who could find a nondescript UCLA hallway repulsive, and certainly the only one who would commit the observation to film — congratulations, you're a dyed-in-the-wool documentary fan. The words are indeed his, and they open his latest effort, which examines the revolutionary technologies that tie person to person, city to city, country to country. The title of the film is Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World and, besides being a mouthful, it is a reference to the first word ever transmitted over the Internet. Herzog's first guest, Dr. Leonard Kleinrock, explains how the message originated at a UCLA computing lab as a transmission to a similar lab at Stanford in an attempt to remotely log in to their server. During this experiment, the Stanford computer crashed in a brilliant stroke of fate, truncating the word "LOG" to "LO". As in, the professor enthusiastically reminds us, "Lo and behold!".
Enthusiasm has always been a common trait of the subjects Herzog chooses to interview. Not all those who appear in Lo and Behold are as outwardly giddy as Kleinrock, but they're all willing to engage in conversations that go beyond the dry talking head fare that would typically show up in a tech documentary made by a less existentially inquisitive director (read: any other director). As the film progresses through ten chapters, we follow the Internet from its birth into its uncertain future, stopping along the way for musings on hacking, technological dependency, artificial intelligence, and more. The poetic is never sacrificed for the informative, and experts at the top of their fields end up stumped, chuckling while trying to answer questions like, "Does the Internet dream of itself?" Therein lies the greatest strength of a film built on information that, in a ceaselessly changing digital era, is already stale, or soon will be. Lo and Behold is less concerned with what the latest technologies are and more concerned with how they reflect the incomprehensible complexity of human life.
Human life, perhaps, like that on display in another new documentary: Gianfranco Rosi's Fire at Sea. The film weaves together two vastly different ways of life on the Italian island of Lampedusa, near the northern coast of Africa. The local population is just over six thousand people, many of them sailors and fishermen, who Rosi shows leading simple, pleasant lives. Far more urgent to the film are the refugees for whom Lampedusa serves as the closest landfall as they flee the turmoil in their home countries of Syria, Eritrea, and beyond. Recent records show migrants arriving on the island at rates of over 100,000 per year. In case those figures don't already paint a picture of the humanitarian importance of Lampedusa, consider that it is also the deadliest escape route; in a guest introduction at the Carbon Arc screening, Dalhousie professor Ruben Zaiotti noted that nearly 80% of all in-transit refugee casualties occur while crossing that small stretch of the Mediterranean. The dissonance between these two intersecting worlds serves as a starting point for Fire at Sea's impressive emotional heft.
But emotional heft does not a prize-winning documentary make. The Berlinale jury that awarded the Golden Bear, their top award, to the film must have also been impressed with its craft, of which there is no shortage. Rosi, who acted as cinematographer as well as director, draws deep meaning from luscious visuals. From the early shot of a lone searchlight scanning the choppy seas to the wide landscapes of the island's misty cliffs, each frame teases something just out of sight — a capsized boat, a body washed up on shore — that never materializes. This crisis, the film suggests, is happening right under our noses. Take Samuele, the young "star" subject whose loquaciousness is matched only by his appetite for spaghetti. By day, he carves grotesque faces into cacti and shoots at them with his slingshot; by night, he and his friends run around by the glow of flashlights. That the tension and imagery recall a horror movie is no mistake, but horror movies come built to release that tension. Here, the horror is of a different sort. By the time the camera finally dips below deck on a refugee ship, we're steeped in an almost insidious sense of quotidian normalcy that quadruples the gut punch of the innumerable lives lost. Much like Herzog bringing philosophical wonderment to technology in a way only he can, Rosi has taken a topic that easily could have been manipulative or pleading and deftly crafted a document as moving as it is timely and exigent.
Another back-to-back trip to the cinema is in store for Carbon Arc audiences this week, as we bring you two Friday night films on October 28. First up at 7pm is Ixcanul, a romantic drama set at the base of a Guatemalan volcano and filmed entirely in the indigenous Mayan language of Kaqchikel. At 9:15pm, we're offering a special Halloween presentation of The Love Witch, a feminist spin on 1960s thrillers from director Anna Biller, who also wrote, produced, and personally designed the sets and costumes.


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This question is from the Microsoft Live Chat which took place on July 13th.
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New York International Gift Fair - January 30 to February 3, 2011
Hello everyone! I finally got around to taking photos from the New York International Gift Fair in New York! Here is my new booth in Accent on Design! Today was day 3 of 5...the show ends on February 3.
Here is my artsy wall display...
Rainbows for Spring 2011!
The classic Grey Collection:
Here is the jewelry section:
That's the latest from the New York Gift Fair!


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Easy: Beautiful images with easy operations
Simple operation with only frequently used functions.
Easy shooting mode
The shooting menu shows only "Pic Quality/Size" so operations are simplified, and there is less worry of errors. This can be helpful when asking others to take your picture. Also, switching to easy shooting mode returns the camera to default settings, enabling you to shoot instantly without having to think about what the current settings are.
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ISO Setting (Auto-Hi *)
Camera Shake Correction (ON)
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Macro mode automatic switching.
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- *The wide-angle (28 mm equivalent) minimum shooting distance is 3 cm.
Convenient for people photography in backlight.
Backlight compensation function
The backlight compensation function helps avoid problems in situations where the main subject ends up being too dark, such as when shooting people or other subjects in front of a bright background. When shooting in easy shooting mode, this function can be turned ON/OFF with the Fn button.
Blur reduction of both hand motion and subject motion.
Blur reduction functions
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- *Blur reduction functions are not guaranteed to work in all photographic conditions
Quick and accurate camera leveling.
Electronic level
Using the level sound and the level indicator shown on the picture display, you can confirm that the image is level. This is convenient when shooting landscapes, buildings, and other subjects where tilting can be a problem.
Recognize faces and portray them beautifully.
Face recognition mode
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Harrods Place
Built on the old Harrods Depository, the high-end apartments required a landscape to match. Playing on the unusual shapes in the spatial geometry, the design creates a series of small rooms shared amongst the residents at garden level. For those above the geometry becomes an art piece complete with computer controlled lighting that alters its mood between dusk and dawn from ambient to subtle tracer lights. A variety of materials ranging from natural stone, concrete flags, self-binding gravel and timber decking provide variations in colour and texture that help define the angular geometry of the courtyard.
Harrods Place - Decking
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Come be a part of a great race for a great cause, Registration is available at https://runsignup.com/Race/AZ/Tucson/MissionPossible5k. All proceeds go towards supporting youth mission trips and First Love International.
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My first attempt at a box….
Or, I should say, "my first attempt at a box where the four sides actually fit together and somewhat resembled a rectangle."
It's made of 3/4" mahogany, dimensions are roughly 9" x 6". I made a jig for my router table in order to make the box joints. The top profile was made on the router table with a chamfer bit. The bottom is 1/4" plywood.
I finished it with several coats of shellac. Currently I use it to hold a block plane in the shop.
-- Follow me on Instagram @endgrainy
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#1 posted 03-26-2013 10:38 AM
Darn nice box for a plane. Good looking project.
-- Nature created it, I just assemble it.
#2 posted 03-26-2013 02:30 PM
Great start, soon you will be addicted .
-- Bob in Montana. Kindness is the Language the blind can see and deaf can hear. - Mark Twain
#3 posted 03-26-2013 05:29 PM
Thanks for the words of encouragement!
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#4 posted 03-26-2013 06:09 PM
Nice tool box!! be very careful, boxes become very additive.
-- If no one will ever see it, all the more reason to make it right
#5 posted 03-27-2013 01:31 AM
Nice first box! Don't listen to these guys. Boxes aren't addictive (I can stop anytime I want) – NOT
-- " I'll try to be nicer, if you'll try to be smarter" gfadvm
#6 posted 03-27-2013 02:33 AM
Very nice work!
-- Gerardo from Argentina.
#7 posted 03-27-2013 04:12 AM
Isn't it nice to get it right! And such encouragement from the 'dark' side. I would stop making them, but I have all of this nice wood. good wood choices and work.
-- Robert, so much inspiration here, and now time to work!!!
#8 posted 03-27-2013 12:05 PM
It's a box to some, to us it's Beauty.
#9 posted 03-27-2013 02:13 PM
Congratulations on a nice box. It looks great.
helluvawreck aka Charles
-- helluvawreck aka Charles, http://woodworkingexpo.wordpress.com
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text: Stroke is a brain attack and a major cause of disability and the third biggest killer. Active intervention can prevent stroke especially in high risk groups. Patients who have transient ischaemic attacks (TIAs) are at an increased risk of stroke and should be targeted. Primary care physicians are the first to diagnose the TIA, and are therefore vital in helping reach these people; they are the doctors who can undertake a considerable amount of stroke prevention treatment. Stroke Prevention in Clinical Practice fills the need for a short clear text to explain how to accurately diagnosis a TIA, determine what investigations are indicated and how and when to intervene to reduce the risk of stroke. Short chapters written in point form with clear diagrams and figures, each chapter written by an expert in the field.


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HealthLeaders Media has one of the more interesting reports available.
ICD-10: Skating on Thin Margins has two parts:
- Results of a survey of hospital executives on how much they expect to spend transitioning to ICD-10 coding.
- Excerpts from a roundtable discussion of hospital CFOs.
Survey says...
The survey isn't revealing anything too shocking. ICD-10 implementation will be expensive. But what I find really interesting is the responses to the question, "Once your ICD-10 systems become operational, how long do you expect before you realize a return on investment?"
- 27 percent said, "We don't expect to recoup our outlay"
- 26 percent said, "Not sure "
That's slightly more than half the respondents who aren't counting on getting a return on investment. That gives you some idea of why doctors are not vigorously appreciating the granularity of ICD-10 coding.
Where's that money going?
Here's the part I'm fixating upon. The round table discussion starts with how much the ICD-10 transition will cost. Some hospitals are budgeting less that $1 million. But several executives argued that is only the IT costs. The total can be 10 times as much once the training costs are assigned.
It's kind of hard to consider training costs as investment. Especially when the training isn't exactly designed to make staff members more productive than they are now. The training will enable them to be more productive in a system that's less productive.
And there are estimates of ICD-10 compliant systems costing the hospital less than $1 million. That's because those systems already are on order as part of a bigger upgrade. ICD-10 code capacity is a perk.
Which seems to fit in with estimates that consider meaningful use and ICD-10 as collaborative projects.
[See also: Week in Review: Trying to figure out the true costs of Meaningful Use & ICD-10 | Meaningful Use: Is it an obstacle or tool for implementing ICD-10?]
The goal would be to save money by purchasing technology that allowed hospitals to satisfy meaningful use requirements and be ICD-10 compliant.
But even if that's possible, this round table discussion puts the emphasis on training and education rather on technology. In other words, the real money seems to be in training not technology.
Which is why hospital executives are not looking to realize ROI from training sessions or count on meaningful use.
Carl Natale blogs regularly at ICD10Watch.com.


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The nunatak trek
A glacier-focused journey below the towering Cerro Arenales on the edge of the Northern Patagonian Ice Field.
A rugged, rewarding addition to the AGT. Sustained intimacy with one's of the world's most dynamic and remote glacial systems.
An alpine-style expedition with sweeping views over vast landscapes of snow and ice.
Noonatak Highlights
Route overview
The Nunatak Trek can be undertaken as a ten-day standalone trek, or as a five-day addition to the AGT. The following itinerary begins at Camp 5 of the AGT:
Day 1: Travel through thick forest and then open valley to camp at Laguna Corazón Incognito, a radiant blue glacial lake.
Day 2: Traverse the Colonia Glacier in a long day of glacial travel.
Day 3: Explore the fascinating glacial terrain below Cerro Arenales.
Day 4: Descend the Arco Glacier.
Day 5: Cross Lago Colonia to Sol de Mayo Ranch.


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Make the most of your brief visit to Picton and explore the beautiful Queen Charlotte Sound an eco marine haven on either a scheduled tour or charter your own private vessel.
Our smooth riding modern catamarans are the best way to discover this unique part of the world.
Join our scheduled Sounds Delivery Cruise. This tour departs daily October 1st - April 30th at either 10:00am or 1:30pm.
This is a 3 hour tour which will travel approx 50 - 60 nautical miles delivering locals to their homes, dropping visitors and supplies at jetties in all parts of the Queen Charlotte Sound where there are no roads and the boat is the only means of access. There is an abundance of wildlife to see along the way and it is not uncommon to come across seals and dolphins along the journey. Cruises return to Picton at approx 1:00pm & 4:30pm.
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Book your own customized tour for up to 12 people. Our skipper will show you some of the most beautiful secluded bays and coves in the Queen Charlotte Sound.
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text: Foresters Extras Foresters Extras are a unique range of benefits available to all our members at no additional cost. Once you have been a Foresters member for six months, you can take advantage of Foresters Extras discretionary benefits which cover all life stages and include: Financial Assistance An annual dental or optical grant. Discretionary grants including Educational Awards to assist with the costs of higher education or training. Hardship Grants to help adult members with difficult times. Discretionary grants of this kind have helped members affected by floods, facing illness and in other stressful circumstances. Social and community events Each of our social branches organises regular meetings and community events, from coffee mornings to theatre trips. Foresters Care Any member struggling with a serious health condition, or diagnosed with one in the future, can use Foresters Care to: Access your own Personal Nurse Adviser who will be there to provide you with practical information and emotional support for as long as you need it. Access a specialist nurse to answer your questions, or arrange a course of therapy or counselling. Membership benefits aren't regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority or Prudential Regulation Authority and are regularly reviewed by us to ensure they are relevant to our members. More about Foresters Extras. Apply Now >


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Consumers can find Wells Fargo bank locations by using the ATM and Banking Locations tool on the bank's official website. This tool can be accessed by clicking the "ATMs/Locations" tab at the top of the website. Consumers can enter an address, ZIP code or city and state to find locations.
When using the ATM and Banking Locations tool consumers also have the option to narrow their searches to fit specific criteria. For example, consumers can search for banks that are open on Saturday, banks that are located inside grocery stores or stand-alone Wells Fargo branches. Users can also search for basic ATMs, branches that offer safe deposit boxes or branches that have notary services. The tool also provides information on Wells Fargo Branch locations that allow customers to make an appointment to meet with a Wells Fargo banker.
The ATM and Banking locations tool also gives consumers the option to select a specific state from an interactive map, and it then provides a pop-up that allows users to select from a list of cities in that state.
Consumers can also contact Wells Fargo via phone at 1-800-869-3557. The phone lines are open 24 hours per day, seven days per week.


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MCZ Club
Technical Data
Nominal output power - 10.10 kW
Minimum output power - 2.90 kW
Efficiency at Max - 90.30 %
Hopper capacity - 42.00 lt
Pellet hourly consumption (Min) - 0.70 kg/h
Pellet hourly consumption (Max) - 2.20 kg/h
Autonomy (Min) - 39.00 h
Autonomy (Max) - 13.00 h
Heatable volume - 248m³ (*)
Smoke outlet - 8 cm
Net weight - 160 kg
Temperature of exhaust smoke at Max - 180 ºC
Mass of smoke - 8.00 g/s
(*) Heatable volume refers to the number of cubic metres that can be heated by the product in an insulated room, therefore with an average calorific requirement of 35 kcal/h per m³
Pellet stove with steel structure, ceramic top and sides. Cast iron brazier. Intelligent combustion management with Active+. Remote control with room thermostat as standard.
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Inspiration: Galeries Lafayette
In Paris, you'll find an incredible department store that I absolutely love. In fact, it's the largest department store in the world! Galeries Lafayette is a Paris fashion institution that dates back to the late 1800s. Can you imagine nearly 350 brands from all over the world under one roof? Collections are constantly refreshed and reflect the best in French and international design.
Galeries Lafayette even houses one of Paris' delectable gourmet food markets, Lafayette Gourmet — a foodie's dream come true.
Today's inspiration is Galeries Lafayette' beautiful architecture:
Its stunning and provocative displays give me so much inspiration for color, pattern, and whimsical style:
A must-see when in Paris! Just be sure you leave enough time to take it all in.


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Believe it or not, even during the tremendous lulls of this site where there were no updates there were plenty of ideas and half-written articles. Sorting thought my archives I came across one that stood out as a truly, truly, terrible idea. This was originally designed to be an article series, in some way, attempting to illustrate how terrible fast food is for you to eat, especially on a consistent basis. This, of course, is a relatively pointless message to try to convey. You'd have to be an idiot to think eating any of that crap is actually a good idea. There's more studies and information about the dangers of fast, cheap, and processed foods out there that anything that I would do or say would only come off as either redundant or preachy.
That's actually only part of the reason. The idea was, to 'review' each new fast food sandwich or product that came out and describe in detail the after-effects of consuming said product would be. The name of this article series, because I thought after eating some of these sandwiches that it was a real possibility I was going to die, was 'Fast Food Suicide.' Now, I'm not a paragon of health and fitness, but I don't normally eat a lot of fast food. My general tendency is to cook my own meals at home, and in general I don't eat a lot of extremely fatty or salty foods. I don't even have cheese or breads that often. This is actually the perfect storm for fast food to come in and thoroughly wreak havoc on my guts. Thus there were some pros and cons to consider in such a writing endeavor.
– Could be humorous.
– Could serve as a warning.
– Could deter sales of certain fast-food products.
– I'd have to actually eat this crap.
– In addition I'd have to actually pay money to eat this crap.
– The after-effects are not always super unpleasant, but when they are… oh buddy.
– Do people really want to know in great detail that the triple baconator nearly made me die in the bathroom?
In the end, I did try four new fast food products. Below are the actual reviews I wrote up for three of them. The fourth I tried was that double-chicken sandwich that KFC made, but I never wrote a review for it. Forgive me for anything that is written beyond this point, and may god have mercy on my soul.
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Items may be returned within 30 days of receipt of shipment. Shipping and handling for the returned item is borne by the buyer. If the order is valued at $100 or more, insure the return shipment for the value of the merchandise and ship your return with a signature and trackable shipping service (USPS, UPS, FedEx, etc.). For items under $75, you may utilize the USPS delivery confirmation service.
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We have just submitted an update to The Chain. It's a small update to be sure, but one that will bring a change that we think you will notice instantly. It relates to how long the App shows you your chain lengths before telling you you're back to zero and that you really should get to work.
Basically the app is now less harsh. It will give you time to get your chain completed for the day without unceremoniously zeroing your Chain until you have completed your tasks. It's now more motivational friend than Tiger Mum. In testing it really makes us like The Chain even more.
What is particularly great about this update is that it was requested by you, the people who use The Chain! Thank you. Knowing our App as being used and is helping people achieve their goals is why we do this.


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Really excited to let you know I will be hosting my own bi-weekly radio show with TranceRadio.FM.
My show 'In the Zone' will be on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month at 14.00 UK time.
You can get full info and international timings from http://www.facebook.com/events/1377738899120539/
I will be tweeting the tracklist using #ITZ
First episode will be on Sunday 1st September. Are you ready to go 'In the zone'


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I was born in Jaurez, Mexico. My family came to LA when I was 12 years old. Jaurez is one of the most dangerous cities of the world. Especially back then, there was a lot of rape and killing. Our routine was to go from home to school, and then school to home. My mom didn't let us play outside because it was too dangerous. I didn't really feel the heaviness of this when I was younger, but my mom always wanted to raise her daughters in a safer place, so we came to the United States.
Our family had a lot of immigration issues. While I went to high school in the United States, I couldn't apply for university. I couldn't apply for financial aid or do the normal things that my friends were doing. As I grew up, I watched God work in the legal system to provide everything that I needed for school. I made a timeline of different laws that were enacted when I was growing up, and everything worked towards my favor.
I've always moved a lot - maybe 15 times. My family moved every year. One of those times, in high school. I was a sophomore, and the reality of fatherlessness was pressing in on me. I realized just how broken my family was because my parents were divorced. I had a friend invite me to her church. God began the work to help me open up about my pain. This was the beginning of the process of healing for me.
My life has been unstable in a lot of aspects. One of the things that I appreciate about God is that He has always been the stable one. God's protected us, and helped us get to the States. Even if my parents, my school, or money is not stable, God is stable.
As I'm close to graduation, I've been thinking about missions. I want to go to the underserved and the underprivileged. I went to Urbana 3 years ago, and I did Los Angeles Urban Project last year. This ignited something in me. I worked in Boyle Heights and helped tutor kids and worked with homeless people. I learned a lot about injustice though the Bible and what God says about this. This was really healing for me, because I never knew that God had such a heart for justice.
I am the underserved, and yet I'm the privileged at the same time. I asked God, "What does this mean?" Now that I have an education and I'm bilingual, I'm able to appreciate and serve others in need through this. I'm going to be the first in my family to go to college. Recently God has called upon me to pray for Jaurez. I don't know if it means that I will go back, but I know that it needs a lot of prayer.


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Biases: Whether We Like it or Not, They're in All of Us
By: Megan Smith and Yana Weinstein
Yana and I started Learning Scientists about 2 months ago. This project has allowed us to start having conversations outside of our higher-ed academic setting. We are learning a ton, and are both basically obsessed with our new-found passion: blogging about science.
Today, we wanted to write about something that is a little bit outside of our normal topic of student learning. Because of our blog and social media conversations, we have been thinking a lot about the differences between laboratory research and classroom settings. We have also been focusing a lot on the biases that come into play when assessing learning strategies, and general biases various groups tend to have about researchers, teachers, and administrators as a whole.
When you really start to think carefully about bias and apply it to your everyday life, you see it everywhere.
Example: the issue of gender in this year's election. For the first time, with Hillary Clinton as a very serious front-runner for the democratic nominee, it seems we will have a choice to vote for a female President in the general election. (Yana would like to interject here that this "we" does not include her, since she is not a US citizen. And she is not bitter about this. At all…)
Hillary's gender has come up in the election, and there's no end to the articles we can read about gender issues in the primaries: whether Cruz and Sanders are playing the gender card, or whether it is in fact Clinton who is "running as a woman" and "playing the gender card".
These issues have come up a ton, but the American people might be wondering: are we really that sexist in 2016? Haven't things improved for women? Does Hillary Clinton's gender even matter at all, at this point in our highly evolved society?
Our answer is yes (we still are sexist in the 21st century), yes (things have, to some extent, improved), and yes (Hillary's gender matters). Gender shouldn't matter, but it does. Given implicit biases, we really can't ignore gender as an issue. Comments like the ones in this video demonstrate that she is being evaluated in a gendered way. Yes, this video is a compilation of clips around a certain theme; but this is by no means all of the sexist media coverage she's had, and it shouldn't happen at all.
Let's explore why this type of sexism occurs. Some people might hold explicit biases, and are more than willing to say "Hillary Clinton can't be President because she's a woman, and we can't have a woman in the White House." Probably the majority of our readers will agree that this is problematic; but at least, in such cases what you see is what you get.
Many (most? dare we say, all??) other people, however, hold implicit biases – biases that reside outside their conscious awareness. For example, people might say they support gender equality, they want to support gender equality, they have every reason to believe a woman could be President, but deep down, they're biased. They have implicit, unconscious expectations about how men and women should act, and these biases come from simply living in our society.
Here's a great example of implicit bias. In a relatively recent study from 2012, identical student resumes were sent to faculty in science fields. Each faculty member received the same resume, with either a typically male or a typically female applicant name on it. Researchers then asked the faculty (male and female professors) whether they would be willing to hire the student to be their lab manager, and whether they would be willing to mentor these students to help them get into graduate school. Even though the applicants' credentials were identical, the students with typically male names were more likely to be hired, and faculty were more willing to mentor these hypothetical male students to help them get into graduate school. Furthermore, this bias was still seen when just looking at the FEMALE faculty.... and presumably, most female scientists don't run around explicitly thinking women would make worse lab managers simply because they're women. The bias is implicit, and therefore, these women likely aren't consciously aware that they are discriminating, even though it harms a fellow female scientist.
The thing is, it actually makes sense from an evolutionary perspective for us to hold onto these biases. Implicit biases are deeply tied to our use of heuristics (or mental short-cuts). Heuristics allow us to make decisions quickly and save cognitive energy for other tasks, and so we have evolved to use tons of heuristics that help us make decisions, and many work most of the time. Take, for example, someone who looks different to you. In prehistoric times, making snap judgments about out-group members based on appearances may have been sensible. It may have been safer to assume an out-group member was dangerous and run away, than to assume they were friendly and be killed. The problem is that we don't live in a primitive society any more, and so these heuristics aren't really useful (instead, they can be quite harmful). Survival in today's world means a completely different thing than it used to. But the heuristics are ingrained.
To sum up: even if we aren't consciously aware of the biases we hold, we perceive the world through a lens that is affected by societal bias, expectations, and the deep past. And just because someone is an ally, or a member of the group themselves, doesn't make them immune from bias. The best we can do is be aware that we may all hold biases, and pause to question our own. We find it useful to play devil's advocate with ourselves, to try to take a new perspective and bounce ideas around with people who disagree with us. Because as much as we would love to say we should simply look past Hillary's gender, it seems that it might not be that simple.


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Timeline illustrates 10 years of recovery in New Orleans
August 29 marks the tenth anniversary of the day that Hurricane Katrina hit land in Louisiana. Since then, the areas affected have gone through extensive road to recovery.
SEE MORE: Special coverage on the 10th anniversary OF Hurricane Katrina
The lives of those who were in New Orleans or fled when the storm hit the city have been forever changed. While recovery and a return to normal came quickly for some, for others the lingering effects still remain.
This exclusive timeline (above) helps contextualize that recovery process, juxtaposing the last ten years in New Orleans with other major events in recent U.S. history. See the slideshow below for photos of New Orleans' recovery through the years:
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In early 2009, Obama was sworn in as our first black president, but by late summer there were still more than 1,500 families who'd been forced from their homes by the storm living in temporary housing. Nearly In July 2012, we saw tragedy strike Colorado with the "Dark Knight" theater shooting. That same month, FEMA trailer occupancy finally hit zero.
SEE ALSO: Meet one of the celebrities who's given back to the community
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Austrian, 1812–1905
Born in Vienna, Rudolph von Alt was the son of the lithographer Jakob Alt (1789–1871) and the brother of the painter Franz Alt (1821–1914). He studied at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna. Hiking-trips through the Austrian Alps and northern Italy awoke a love for landscapes, and he painted with his brush using watercolors in a very realistic and detailed style. In 1833, inspired by a visit to Venice and neighbouring cities, he also made a number of architectural paintings.
Alt demonstrated a remarkable talent for expressing certain peculiarities in nature. He managed to paint nature authentically by focusing on the different hues of sky, the colour-tone of the air and the vegetation. His later works came closer to Impressionism. His perspectives on architecture were interesting, and he often chose everyday objects to paint. The painting of interior views also became one of his strong points, giving him attention in Vienna. He visited and worked for a while in Rome and Naples; after that he visited the lakes of Lombardy, then Galicia, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Bavaria and then returned multiple times to Italy. In 1863 he went to the Crimea to paint some views of an estate of the Empress, and in 1867 he went to Sicily. Most of his paintings are held by various museums in Vienna. The Albertina in Vienna hosted a retrospective exhibition from September 2005 to January 2006.
Museum Collections:
Hamburg Museum, Hamburg
Leipzig Museum, Leipzig
Salzburg Museum, Salzburg
Museo Civico, Venice
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna


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Happy 4th of July!
Today is one of my favorite days of the year!
I hope everyone has a safe and wonderful 4th of July!
Send us your 4th off July celebration or firework videos, to firstname.lastname@example.com
It is going to be a beautiful day out there, High of 90 degrees. There is a slight chance of storms between 3pm and 6 pm. But that should not effect the fireworks displays.
I plan on attending the Downtown or Shorewood Park fire works. I have yet to make up my mind. Both are good. So if you see me, feel free to stop and say hi! 🙂
I will probably be streaming LIVE, the fireworks display on our Facebook page at Rockford Scanner Facebook Page
If you fly your quad-copter (AKA: Drones) I would love to see those videos!
Note: Just be sure to call the RFD tower to request flight clearance if you are within 5 miles of the airport. They do grant clearance all the time to quad-copter pilots.
The RFD tower number is: 815-484-5312
Remember, if you are lighting off fireworks, the police plan on cracking down on that again this year. So do so at your own discretion.
I hate to be the Debbie Downer and tell you that, because I love fireworks. But the law is the law.
I hope everyone has a safe and wonderful 4th of July! ~ Rickie Traeger
(WIFR) – The Fourth of July means family time, cookouts and most notably, fireworks.
Here is a list of fireworks happening around the stateline. All shows are on the Fourth of July unless otherwise noted. Some events may come with a fee.
– Rockford at Davis Park, 211 N. Main Street.
– ComEd Independence Day Spectacular at the Starlight Theatre, 3301 N. Mulford Road. The show starts at 8 p.m. on July 3. Purchase tickets by clicking here or call 815-921-2160.
– Fireworks Extravaganza at Rockford Speedway, 1601 West Lane Road. The show starts at 7:05 p.m. on July 4. Purchase tickets by clicking here or call 815-633-1500.
– Cherry Valley at Baumann Park
– DeKalb at Hopkins Park, 1403 Sycamore Road
– Freeport at Stephenson County Fairgrounds, 2250 S. Walnut Road on July 7
– Kirkland at Hiawatha High School, 410 First Street
– Winnebago at Winnebago High School, 200 E. McNair Road
– Mount Morris at David L. Rahn Jr. High School, 105 W. Brayton Road
– Byron at the Byron Dragway, 7287 River Road
– Dixon at the Petunia Festival in downtown Dixon
– Janesville at Traxler Park
– Beloit at Riverside Park, 1340 Riverside Drive
– Sharon, Wis. at Goodland Park
– Stockton at Stockton Memorial Park on Highway 20
If you are not able to attend the fireworks tonight, our good friends at WTVO is also going to be doing their thing on TV.


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Sunday, May 5th. 2019
Sunday, May 5th. 2019
Sunday, May 5th at 8 am on the US Oval, Plattsburgh, NY!
5k starts at 9am
Registration starts Dec 1
The event was tag (chip) timed and provided "start mats" to give you a NET time. Please note that results and awards are based upon GUN time with the NET time provided for your personal use and reference. Your tag shoud have been returned after the race.


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Charles Kim
The Little Gym of Tribeca
Contact info:
Pierce Williamson/Gym Director email: email@example.com ; ph. (212) 941-9300
How many years have you been in business in NYC?
10 years
How did you get your start and what was your initial inspiration?
My one year old son at the time was enrolled in a tumbling program and after stopping by the class, I wanted to see if there were other tumbling programs in the city
What do you feel differentiates you from others in your field?
It's a unique, time proven program that helps children develop not just physical but social and emotional skills. Time and time again, parents have told me how much their child loves the program and the growth the program enables.
What do you feel gives you longevity in this big city with so many options?
Putting the child and parents first and foremost. We take an individual approach to the program, making sure that all the children are learning to the best of their ability. Our motto is "you don't have to be the best as long as you try your best."
How do you positively impact your clientele?
We celebrate children's milestones every day and we either call or email the parents
What is your favorite part of your job?
Just soaking in all the excitement and happiness in the lobby when the children are here waiting for their class to begin.
What is your favorite secret NYC spot?
Pier 1 at the Brooklyn Bridge Park. It's a beautiful grassy field with amazing views of Manhattan, Governors Island and the Statue of Liberty.
Pay it forward and name your top colleagues in the same field or related field:
Carmelo the Science Fellow and Manhattan Fencing Academy


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Sully and I just returned from an unbelievable shoot in Sweden for our partners at Garden & Gun Magazine and Volvo.
The shoot took us all over the country from the Volvo factory in Gothenburg all the way up north to the Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi.
Perhaps the most challenging and the most fun shoot along the way was documenting our dog sledding excursion from the airport in Kiruna up a frozen river to the Ice Hotel.
The day began with an early morning spent loading up our 16 cases of gear and flying from Gothenburg to Kiruna, with a layover in Stockholm. Once we arrived in Kiruna and collected all of our gear, we headed to a tee-pee, where a hot meal and some extreme-cold-weather clothing was waiting for us. While eating lunch as quickly as possible, we suddenly heard the sound of the dogs arriving! We had less than one hour to eat, get dressed AND unpack and prep all of our gear to shoot the dog sled trip. This was crazy stressful and was made even more so by the nonstop sound of howling and barking dogs.
To document the trip, we hired a snowmobile outfitted with a sled for Sully and I to shoot from. Our plan was to use our Red Epic mounted on a MOVI Pro to capture very stable shots while underway. For stationary shots, I had a Sony A7s II and tripod to use when we hopped off of the sled.
After much speculation, and a frantic rush to get everything mounted and balanced, I am stoked to say that the system worked! Sully held the MOVI Pro, and I operated the camera with the mimic controller. We used the Redmote to control the Epic, including stop start and ND control for the PL Motion Mount we had on the Epic. (The new MOVI Pro will control an Epic, but unfortunately, we did not have the correct cable.)
We used our awesome (and economical) hdmi wireless video system from Nyrius to feed to a SmallHD AC7 monitor. I was even able to pull focus wirelessly on our Cooke Mini S4 lenses using our Ikan PD Movie Air Pro Wireless Follow Focus.
It was insane to think we could pull all of this off so quickly, but I'll be damned if it didn't work! Definitely one of the top 10 craziest things we have attempted and pulled off.
Thanks so much to Gordon Keiter for the great GoPro shots of us at work and for busting a$$ on the trip!
Adam Boozer


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Have you ever had someone offer to take you to lunch while they "Pick Your Brain?" Now I know I'm not the only one. At least once a week I have someone offer to pay for my lunch in exchange for information. Well, I have news for you. "I can buy my own lunch!"
Last year I made a sound decision not to allow anyone else to pay for my lunch. Here are 3 reasons why:
- It costs you money. When you allow people to treat you to lunch in exchange for information, it cheapens your business. You are giving away valuable information for a $20.00 meal. Just like the rest of your clients, they should have to pay for your services. Don't allow people to utilize your services for FREE!
- It's time-consuming. People will enjoy a 1.5- 2-hour lunch with you trying to soak up as much information as possible. I've had people to bring a pen and pad to lunch. I've even had someone to ask if they could record the conversation. Your time, like mine, is valuable and unless you are charging $10.00-$20.00/hr for your work, you should not be satisfied with giving away your time. And if you are only charging at that rate, you're doing EVERYTHING wrong!
- You're not getting anything out of it! What's in it for you besides a free lunch? Absolutely nothing! How is this fair to you? It's not. You even use your own gas to get there. And not only that, they will take your information for free and go and pay someone else thousands of dollars for what they have to offer!
People will take what they can because they don't want to do their own research. Just like you invested in yourself, do them a favor and allow them to invest in themselves. I found that people appreciate things more when they have to pay for them. They feel that it holds value. And this is the reason you should be charging for your services and your time. So, the next time someone offers to buy you lunch in order to pick your brain, you just simply say, "I can buy my own lunch." Then give them the number to your assistant and let them set up a "paid consultation."
- Tammy Jurnett-Lewis


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I was able to buy some of these 4 inch long silver paper clips that can be decorated to use for bookmarks. I didn't have much time but wanted to show you what I quickly did the other night. I used the Scallop Circle punch with Certainly Celery cardstock. Used the Owl punch with some retired Designer Series paper & cardstock scraps.
These would also be cute with some punched flowers.
I had a great time at my Kids Class last night & hope to have some pictures soon to show everyone. See everyone in the New Year as I have no more stamping events prior to then. Have a safe Holiday Weekend. Michele Schmidt, Waterloo, IA


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Robert Hertzel on Milton Friedman in the Economic Quarterly of the Richmond Federal Reserve. (PDF file)
Archive for March, 2007
Friedman's Contribution to Economics
Posted by PrestoPundit on 03/30/2007
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Forbes on Guiliani's Economic Record
Posted by PrestoPundit on 03/30/2007
Steve Forbes argues that Rudy Guiliani has the best "free market" record of all the GOP Presidential candidates.
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Transcript — Kudlow Interviews Guiliani
Posted by PrestoPundit on 03/28/2007
Read it here. Quotable:
If you're talking about a response of government, probably what government can do best is to try to limit spending and try to bring down government spending. We haven't done that in a while. We haven't done it in a concerted way. And it seems to me that's how the federal budget can have the best impact on the private economy. And make it clear that we're going to extend the tax cuts and it's not just a temporary thing so people can look forward to long term planning. And look for other ways in which we can put money back in the private sector.
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Steve Forbes Endorses Guiliani
Posted by PrestoPundit on 03/28/2007
Forbes will be Co-Chairman of Guiliani's national campaign committee.
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Is "Cuteness" The Problem With Economics?
Posted by PrestoPundit on 03/28/2007
Alex Tabarrok considers Noam Scheiber on "Freakonomics". Quotable:
The truth is that even today most of economics is a wasteland of boring papers on profoundly uninteresting questions.
Tyler Cowen adds:
I can assure you matters [in economics] were once worse [before "Freakonomics"]: too theoretical, too much game theory, and too little interest in the real world. That has all changed. At a bare minimum, the Freakonomics movement ensures that everyone understands incentives and that is not to be taken for granted ..
If there is any problem in top economics graduate students, it is not excessive interest in the clever at the expense of substance. It is lack of interest period, lack of breadth, and excessive careerism. There is plenty of room in the profession, and in people's brains, for a bit more Freakonomics.
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The Ability to Execute An Exit
Posted by PrestoPundit on 03/28/2007
One reason private enterprise has a huge advantage over government enterprise. Quotable:
Koch is the CEO of Koch Industries Inc., one of the best-performing firms in American history. Koch Industries is the largest private company in the country with businesses in minerals, energy, financial services and consumer goods. It brings in over $90 billion in revenues and has over 85,000 employees around the world ..
In his book Koch provides a list of over 40 businesses they exited, from pizza dough to tennis court surfaces to air quality consulting. It is clear that Koch's management is proud of its ability to identify areas they should exit and take the steps to do so. Exit is often a painful and difficult process and there are significant obstacles to its realization – sentiment, bureaucracy, loss of business vision. But exit is nonetheless crucial for success.
More on Koch and his book here.
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Posted by PrestoPundit on 03/26/2007
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It's A Third World Slum
Posted by PrestoPundit on 03/26/2007
Populated with third world citizens — living in California.
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Obama's Bogus "Autobiography"
Posted by PrestoPundit on 03/26/2007
The Chicago Tribune has the true untold story of Barry Obama. Quotable:
In his best-selling autobiography, "Dreams from My Father," Obama describes having heated conversations about racism with another black student, "Ray." The real Ray, Keith Kakugawa, is half black and half Japanese. In an interview with the Tribune on Saturday, Kakugawa said he always considered himself mixed race, like so many of his friends in Hawaii, and was not an angry young black man.
He said he does recall long, soulful talks with the young Obama and that his friend confided his longing and loneliness. But those talks, Kakugawa said, were not about race. "Not even close," he said, adding that Obama was dealing with "some inner turmoil" in those days.
"But it wasn't a race thing," he said. "Barry's biggest struggles then were missing his parents. His biggest struggles were his feelings of abandonment. The idea that his biggest struggle was race is [bull]."
HT Sailer, who writes:
The downside for Obama in these Hawaiian articles is twofold: First the vast majority of Americans have no idea that his autobiography is stuffed full of racial resentment. That's the opposite of the image he's trying to project. Second, these investigative reports make him look hyper-sensitive and disingenuous.
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Ike & Civil Rights
Posted by PrestoPundit on 03/26/2007
The untold history of one of the best U.S. Presidents over the last 100 years. Notable:
His journey on the issue began during World War II at the Battle of the Bulge. Here, needing more troops to send to the front, Ike went against War Department policy and encouraged African-American soldiers in the Supply Service to train for combat and be treated "without regard to color or race…." Many responded. And served well. Ike took note and later told an African-American aide during the 1952 presidential campaign that he was inspired by the heroic service of black troops in World War II. "They fought nobly for their country," he said. "And I will never forget."
Eisenhower's [excellence can] be seen in the actions he took over the course of his presidency in handling civil rights ..
First, Ike desegregated the District of Columbia. Having full constitutional power over the nation's capitol, he effectively ended decades of segregation. He even pressured Hollywood executives to open up their DC theaters on a color-blind basis. They did.
Second, Ike desegregated the military. In response to Truman's executive order in 1948, many in the military had dragged their heels. Eisenhower used his military aura to help finish the job of creating a desegregated military. Interestingly, Truman's executive order in many ways can be traced back to Ike's decision at the Battle of the Bulge, which proved that African-Americans were just as brave as any soldiers.
Third, Ike weighed in on Brown v. the Board of Education. He had mixed feelings about the case, worrying about the size and scope of it. But he agreed to let Attorney General Herbert Brownell file a brief on behalf of the NAACP that separate schools were unequal. When the ruling came down, he vowed to enforce it.
Fourth, Ike pushed for and signed the first major civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. His only disappointment with the new law was that Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson successfully attached a "jury-trial" amendment so that whites accused of racial crimes would have the home field advantage offered by a white jury.
Fifth, he appointed fair-minded judges who would hand the civil rights movement its biggest victories for years to come. "The best civil rights judges in the South," remembered Andrew Young, "were the Eisenhower appointees…"
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2016 has been the craziest year since 2011 when I got married, had a baby, and purchased our first home. This year hasn't been that crazy. I'd say it's been cray. Not cray-cray. Just cray. Like a wolf in sheep's clothing (or like Steve Buscemi dressed in a Taylor Swift skirt and crop top), it didn't start off indicating the whirlwind was a-comin. Quite the opposite. We finally finished a 4-year renovation. Phew! Now we can sit back and enjoy it!
January, February, WHAT???? We relaxed for 3 months. THREE months. As I've ranted about before, I came home one day to my hubs telling me he found a realtor! Yay! "E! It'll be awesome! We can get a house with a basement!" He says. Sounds so simple. Like if Miley Cyrus and Ryan Lochte had a baby. That baby would be "simple". Only it wasn't as simple as a Michte baby. At all. It was stressful and complicated and scary! Like if Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton had a baby. Chelsea Handler. That's their baby. I'll name those 3 months my Chelsea Handler months.
Now, the next 2 months are a blur. All I know is we sold our house, made 2 offers that weren't accepted, and 1 that finally was. It felt like a lifetime, waiting til closing. Closing day was INSANE. We closed on both houses in one day. And we moved. On the same day. Closing day. Ugh. Now we can rest! LOL, I'm so silly.
Nope. Three weeks after we moved we went on family vacation. Which isn't really vacation. It's just uprooting your life and transplanting it to another location. I mean, it was fun and all. But NOT a proper vacation. Most of it was spent trying to keep the kids from destroying the sea turtle nests. No pressure. Oh, and we came home to packed boxes.
The proper vacation happened 4 weeks later. Yes. Time for rest. Sunday through Thursday of couple-time. Oh, it was lovely. Then back to crazy for August. School started, meaning my tiny little man started kindergarten. WHAT? Nooooooo. It's bad enough that Bella is in THIRD grade! Dam. "They" tell me that this isn't optional. Life can't pause. Yeah, well "They" are pathetic a-holes. I DON'T LIKE IT! (Ooooh, now I know where Roman gets his tantrums from) Ugh.
Little did I know that while I was out living ma life lika fool, tryin to keep a job and 2 kids alive, a storm was a'brewin'. Anyone out there have family members that think they're the long lost Kardashian? Maybe they are. I mean, it wouldn't surprise me. Maybe they think they're famous, only they aren't, and they get pissed when people don't treat them as though they're famous, because they aren't, then they get pissed and play the victim when you stand your ground and then the overreact by cutting off all of your communication but not before calling you names that even YOU wouldn't use, among other, worse things… maybe. Just hypothetically speaking.
In summary, this year's been crazy. I'd be ok if 2017 is super boring. That would be ok with me.


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crush of the week/
Dyeing of love (see what I did there?) for these beautiful little jumpsuits and culottes from Wolfechild. Is $58 for some dip dye culottes a little silly? Yes....in fact, in my world, it's a lot silly. But aren't they beautiful!? When I next have acres of uninterrupted spare time, preceded by a full night's sleep and the foresight to buy all the materials, I absolutely plan on forging ahead with some home made ombre jumpsuit creation. Watch this space.


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Wedding Thank You Cards/
I wrote a few weeks ago about how momma Mary was working on these thank you cards. Well NOW they are in my hot little hand and I am just FLIPPING OUT over how DAMN cute they are. I really wish I could take credit, but I cannot. What a perfect project for a long distance friend or in-law who wants to help! And can we just pause in appreciation for the packaging?!? I am going to see if Momma Mary is interested in selling these bad boys on Katie and I's in progress Etsy store. ;) These sweet little ring bearer cards just make me wanna slap on a suit & tie.
The flower girl ones from the previous post all done up pretty like.
The bridesmaid and groomsmen ones have special little photos in each one. Mostly photos of LB and I, cause, well, we're awesome.
Then she made 12 personalized thank you cards for all of the vendors: photographer, baker, candlestick maker... ya know. The usual peeps.
The mother load of mother-in-law made thank you cards. MAN... I just wanna roll around in their cuteness. I am so glad to have these special cards to give to the people who mean the most to us. We ARE incredibly grateful and while a thank you card will never fully express our gratitude, it sure does help that they are cute as hell.
*OH! And we got our first official wedding/shower gifts last Thursday! We now have enough silverware for 12 people. Who is coming over for dinner?