text:
|Generic Name
|Brand Name
Muscle relaxant medicines relax muscles and may help reduce pain in people who have muscle spasms. The muscle-relaxing effects of these medicines are most likely the result of their ability to depress the central nervous system. They are also called sedatives.
Muscle relaxant medicines are used when muscle spasms occur because of pain caused by a herniated disc.
Muscle relaxant medicines are usually helpful for reducing the pain of muscle spasms. Muscle relaxants may help to relax muscle spasms caused by a herniated disc, but muscle relaxants will not affect the herniated disc itself.1, 2
All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
Call 911 or other emergency services right away if you have:
Call your doctor right away if you have:
Common side effects of this medicine include:
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)
Regular use of some muscle relaxants, such as diazepam, can lead to physical dependence or addiction. But the risk is small when they are properly prescribed and taken by people who do not have a history of substance abuse.
Muscle relaxant medicines work best when taken before bedtime. They should not be used when driving or operating machinery.
Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
If you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or trying to get pregnant, do not use any medicines unless your doctor tells you to. Some medicines can harm your baby. This includes prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, herbs, and supplements. And make sure that all your doctors know that you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant.
Follow-up care is a key part of your treatment and safety. Be sure to make and go to all appointments, and call your doctor if you are having problems. It's also a good idea to know your test results and keep a list of the medicines you take.
Complete the new medication information form (PDF) (What is a PDF document?) to help you understand this medication.
Last Revised: April 29, 2012
This information does not replace the advice of a doctor. Healthwise, Incorporated disclaims any warranty or liability for your use of this information.


text:
User:Espionner un téléphone portable
From MeritBadgeDotOrg
|Dear User Espionner un téléphone portable, at least one of your recent edits was considered vandalism and has been removed. In accordance with our policies, vandalism is cause for your account to be indefinitely blocked without warning, which has been done. If you believe this has been done in error or have questions, you may contact the administrator who applied this block. Thank you. —Ajames15 (SysOp) 09:24, February 18, 2012 (EST)

subset: commoncrawl


text:
These topics might prove helpful when attempting to buy tickets.
Primary & Secondary Ticket Markets:
The entity that initially prints and distributes tickets for an event is the Primary Ticket Market distributor. The team, artist, venue box office or promoter is commonly the primary source and distributes the tickets at face value (plus their service fees). Face value is the price printed on a ticket.
The Secondary Ticket Market includes all those who resell tickets that were originally distributed by the Primary Ticket Market. Secondary ticket companies sell tickets at Market value, which is a price determined by the demand for a ticket and the cost associated with obtaining the tickets. Mandatory donations, PSL charges, or other membership fees are often required to purchase tickets, so those additional fees are included in the cost of their tickets. Market price fluctuates, but is typically higher than the face value printed on the ticket.
Supply and demand will drive ticket prices on the Secondary Ticket Market; a hot event will sell for more than face value while a less desirable event may sell for less than face value.
What is the face value on a ticket:
Face value is the price printed on a ticket. Face value is established by the team, artist, venue box office, or promoter that is putting on the event. Many events are tier-priced so there are multiple ticket prices based on the quality of the ticket; an upper-level seat will likely a lower face value than seat on the floor.
How to find a reliable source for tickets:
There are thousands of ticket brokers, ticket marketplaces and ticket resellers on the internet. Here are a few suggestions that might help you a good source for tickets:
How to avoid being scammed when buying tickets:
These are some tips that may help you avoid getting scammed when buying tickets:
Buying tickets from an anonymous person on the web or a scalper on the street does not provide any recourse if your deal is not legitimate. Here are some suggestions of what you should do when buying tickets:


text:
Bullying Gone Wrong: Woman Picks On The Wrong One In Los Angeles Blue Line Train!
"So what happened before the fight was that this crazy lady in the red jacket was trying to bully an innocent lady on train for some reason, that no one knows....But in the innocent lady's defense someone on the train showed the crazy lady what bullying was about...Suddenly the crazy lady was no longer about that life" - @JDotMoore
Please click the "Report" button below if the video on this page is not working properly.
Comments will only be displayed by verified emails. No Spamming or Racism.


text:
To some it's Happy Chanukah, others may celebrate Kwanzaa, and maybe you celebrate this season as Christmas (as I do.)
No matter how you celebrate the season, I want to be sure to wish you and yours a happy one. Please be sure to go out of your way at some time today to wish someone a happy holiday, go out of your way. Have a smile on your face and count your blessings.
MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY CHANUKAH, HAPPY KWANZAA AND (just for gits and shiggles) HAPPY FESTIVUS FOR THE REST OF US!!!


text:
Selecting your vehicle's make, model, and year allows us to display only parts and items specific to your car's model and year.
Part# FM14110
Mfg# 814110
Be the First to Review
OPGI Price: $689.99
Part Type: (P) High Performance, designed to improve performance
Years: 1970-77
Sold As: PAIR
2018 Monte Carlo Catalog Page: 349
Certain items which exceed standard size are exempt from free shipping promotions. These items are noted in your cart at checkout.
These high-quality stainless steel headers from Flowmaster are ready for duty on your small-block or big-block engine. Precisely bent using heavy-gauge stainless steel tubing, the headers feature a thick 3/8" flange at the head to reduce warpage and a self-sealing ball flange at the collector to eliminate constant gasket changes. All headers are finished in a silver ceramic coating to reduce temperatures in your engine compartment and maintain an excellent appearance.
3" ball flange, 3/8" flange, 14ga tubing
409S stainless steel, silver ceramic coating


text:
Bug tracking
From Openembedded.org
Bugs in OpenEmbedded-Core layer should be reported using the Yocto Project bugzilla; other layers may have their own bug tracking mechanisms - see the README in the specific layer.
(The OpenEmbedded project no longer has its own bug tracker. The old one is still available for reference purposes however.)


text:
|Santa Ana, Calif.
|High School:
|Santa Ana HS
UC Santa Barbara
Paredes continued to help the gauchos in the distance events in the 2012
season…Competed in the 5k and 10k at Big West Championships…Ran a best time of
31:46.08 in the 10k at Big West Championships where he placed eighth.
Paredes continued to compete in the long distance races this season, improving his personal bests in every single event...He also competed in the 800m at the UCSD Triton Invite where he ran a 1:54.63...He set a personal best in the 1,500m after clocking in 3:47.45 at the Big West Conference Championships for a sixth place finish...Paredes' personal best in the 5k was 14:39.07 at the Cal/Nevada Championship which we placed second overall...Paredes went on to compete in the 1,500m at the NCAA Preliminiary Rounds where he ran 3:48.59, placing 26th out of 47 runners.
Paredes competed mainly in the 1,500m, 3k, and 5k events...He set a personal best in the 1,500m with his time of 3:53.44 at the Cal Poly Dual Meet where he placed fourth...His fastest time in the 3k this season was 8:23.89 which we ran at the All-UC Cal Cup and placing second overall...Paredes ran at 15:37.77 in the 5k at the Ben Brown Invite, placing 17th overall.
Son of Zoila Marroquin and Sergio Paredes... He has two brothers, Sergio and Jose, and two sisters, Hope and Lillian. He is part of the Living Scholars Program at UCSB. Majoring in Environmental Science...Enjoys reading, biking, and going to the beach. Has competed in soccer, flag football, and baseball... Favorite sports teams are the Dallas Cowboys, LA Lakers, and the Anaheim Angels... He enjoys all the Rocky movies.. His favorite athlete is Ryan Marthin... He enjoys sleeping, eating, running, reading books and going to school.
Collegiate Career Bests
800m - 1:54.63 ( UCSD Triton Invite, 4/22/2011)
1,500m - 3:47.45 (Big West Conference Championship, 5/13/2011)
3,000m - 8:23.89 (All-UC Cal Cup, 3/12/2011)
5,000m - 14:39.07 (Cal/Nevada Championship, 3/26/2011)
10k- 31:46.08 (Big West Championships, 5/11/12)


text:
Chicago Skyline - early AM on a Sunday by Rasidel Slika, on Flickr
A little over processed looking for my taste, but it does kind of fit the mood of the scene. On my laptop screen the color seems a little too strange. The skyline and sky seem to have a strange reddish/magenta cast while the foreground is much cooler. Just feels unbalanced to my brain.
thanks for the feedback. dawn + city lights + winter = those colors. I did mess with them in HDR though.
Yeah, the colors are weird, but I think it works.
Spring time in Yosemite
Valley View by Lukas Wenger Photography, on Flickr
Camera: Anonymous
I could tell you but I wouldn't want you to get all pissy if it's the wrong brand
so I processed it slightly different for the panoramic version... did I make it better or worse?
Chicago Skyline - complete panoramic by Rasidel Slika, on Flickr
I like this new version better, though the blues in the lower left are a bit strong for me.
I like the new one, but the mood is quite different. The color is not as out of balance. The skyline is crisper and overall much cooler cast. In the first version the skyline seemed hazy.
7 shot pano of San Francisco. It's a little bigger over on Flickr
San Francisco by Lukas Wenger Photography, on Flickr
^^ nice nice
_MG_3255S by Rasidel Slika, on Flickr
Burger 360 by Faisal Khatib, on Flickr
Nikon EM, Series E lenses 50mm f1.8|28mm f1.8|100mm f2.8, Sigma 80-200mm f4.5-5.6
Minolta Riva 100AF, Sinpo PQ-3, Olympus mju-III wide 100, Yashica 635
Sony cybershot W90, cybershot T90
Canon A720i|400D|7D|5DMKII|85mm f1.8|24-105mm f4|135mm f2|40mm f2.8|430EX II*2|BG-E3|BG-E7
Sigma 24mm f1.8|50mm f2.8|105mm f2.8 Samyang 8mm fisheye
Forum Rules


text:
Post Profile for Your Business
Submit Press Release
Join Now
Sign In
Press Releases
Business Directory
Products & Services
Recent Press Releases
Press Release Pricing
Submit Press Release
Products & Services
Press Releases
Press Release Pricing
News by Category
News by Country
News by US Region
Recent News
PR.com News on Your Site
Press Releases
Jenne Distributors
Press Release
Receive press releases from Jenne Distributors:
By Email
RSS Feeds:
Jenne, Inc. Unveils Its 2013 Avaya-Oriented Reseller Training for Jenne University
Training sessions to feature Avaya IP Office Professional Certification Implementation Workshop, Avaya Communication Manager Basic Administration Workshop, Among Others.
Avon, OH, January 06, 2013 --(
)-- Jenne, Inc., a leading value-added distributor of IP telephony, audio and video conferencing, unified communications, data networking and security and surveillance products, announced its 2013 Avaya-oriented training schedule for Jenne University. This year, Jenne University will run several five-day workshops for technical training on Avaya SMB, mid-size and enterprise class product solutions in many locations around the U.S.
The Avaya IP Office Professional Certification Workshop kicks things off early in the New Year from January 7-11 at Jenne's Avon, OH headquarters before Jenne and its team of expert technical trainers bring Jenne University on the road to work with resellers in Los Angeles, Miami, Boston and Dallas. Jenne will also be running five-day Avaya IP Office Advanced Applications & Troubleshooting and Avaya Communication Manager Basic Administration Workshops in Ohio during the first half of the year.
"This year, as in previous years, we are committed to helping our SMB and enterprise oriented resellers become more competitive by bringing them technical training and certifications on the very latest Avaya solutions," commented Jim Karaffa, director of training and technical services, Jenne. "With our multi-day courses being offered in nearly every location around the U.S., there has never been a better time for resellers to take their knowledge of Avaya products to the next level."
Resellers that attend the hands-on Avaya training workshops will learn the necessary skills required to pass individual vendor certification exams before being tested. The workshop schedule for the first half of the year will include (dates and courses subject to change):
Avaya IP Office Professional Certification Implementation Training Workshop
January 7-11 – Avon, OH
January 14-18 – Los Angeles, CA
February 4-8 – Avon, OH
February 18-22 – Miami, FL
February 25-March 1 – Boston, MA
March 4-8 – Avon, OH
March 11-15 – Dallas, TX
April 8-12 – Avon, OH
May 6-10 – Avon, OH
June 3-7, Avon OH
Avaya IP Office Advanced Applications & Troubleshooting Workshop
January 15-17 – Avon, OH
March 12-14 – Avon, OH
May 14-16 – Avon, OH
Avaya Communication Manager Basic Administration Workshop
February 11-15 – Avon, OH
May 20-24 – Avon, OH
Avaya Aura Communication Manager Implementation Workshop
February 25-March 1 – Avon, OH
June 10-14 – Avon, OH
As a partner of Pearson VUE, the electronic certification and licensure testing business of Pearson, Jenne is able to provide Information Technology certification test delivery using the Pearson VUE® Testing System. The Pearson VUE advanced computer-based testing system administers exams for leading IT certification programs from leading technology manufacturers through a global network of quality test centers.
To learn more about current training offerings in Jenne University, resellers should visit https://www.jenne.com/aboutjenneu.aspx.
About Jenne, Inc.
Jenne Inc., headquartered in Avon, Ohio, is a leading value-added distributor of business telephony, data, audio and video conferencing, and security technology products, including equipment and software for the Enterprise and SMB markets. More than 150 major manufacturers partner with Jenne including Avaya, Aastra, ADTRAN, Bogen, ClearOne, Extreme Networks, GN Netcom, ICC, LifeSize, Panasonic, Plantronics, Valcom, and Verint. Jenne is dedicated to tracking emerging technologies, offering fresh solutions, new equipment and related applications, accredited training and certification to better serve dealers and resellers.
Jeff Touzeau
Hummingbird Media, Inc.
(914) 602-2913
Susan Elder
Jenne, Inc.
(440) 471-3434
Contact Information
Hummingbird Media
Jeff Touzeau
Click here to view the list of recent Press Releases from Jenne Distributors
Promote Your Business
Press Release Pricing
Email this page to a friend
Contact Us
About Us
Terms of Use


text:
Running a farm takes a lot of dedication and hard work and our farm volunteers are an integral part of what keeps us growing. Whether you are interested in learning more about sustainable farming practices or you just want to lend a hand to help support the UW food community, we would love to meet you!
Please text or call the farm manager at 206.550.4169 to let her know you are coming.
All are welcome to stop by and visit the Farm or volunteer during any of our Volunteer Hours but if you've never been to the UW Farm before, please begin by signing up to be a volunteer HERE. This helps us track volunteers and insures you in case of injury.
Click here for directions and more information on the UW Farm locations.


text:
PEORIA — In one of those sweet coincidences of life, an old football coach suggested the nickname "Two" even before Deveraux Hubbard II was born.
The nickname stuck, and Two grew up to love football, particularly Richwoods High School football, where he was a starting guard on a winning team.
Neither he nor his family knew he carried the most common hereditary cause of abnormal blood clotting. Nor did his family realize how special he was to so many people.
The various parts of Two's life — high school, football, Eagle Scout, college, friends, family — came together at his funeral last year at St. Paul Baptist Church, where his father, Deveraux Hubbard, is pastor. The parts of Two's life will undoubtedly come together again Aug. 9 for "Stop the Clot, Run, Walk or Trot," an event to raise awareness about blood clots and clotting disorders.
Naturally, it is at Richwoods, in Two's honor.
The story behind Deveraux and Kristie Hubbard's mission to raise money for scholarships and awareness about blood clots is a story of love, loss, life and the legacy of a 19-year-old.
"As a parent, you know your child as your child. You don't get to see the breadth of the person," the elder Hubbard said. "I'm more proud of him in death than I was, probably, in life."
His wife edited his words with a soft touch. "More proud of him in death than we had an opportunity to be in life," she said.
"Yes, yes," her husband agreed as he began recounting touching stories dozens of Two's friends and acquaintances have told him.
There was the girl he passed in the high school hallway. He gave her a Snickers candy bar because he thought she looked sad. The boy who had "Two" tattooed on his back because he considered Two a mentor. The boy's only other tattoo was in memory of his grandfather.
An overflow crowd spilled out of the 1,400-seat sanctuary into the gym and the chapel of the church during his funeral.
Two died Dec. 16, 2013. A sophomore at Southern Illinois University, he was home on Christmas break.
A 12-inch blood clot traveled from his leg to his lungs, his mother said, causing a pulmonary embolism.
Since then, the Hubbards have learned how common blood clots are, how risky they can be. More importantly for the family, they've learned heredity can play a role in increased risk of clotting, as it does in their case.
Two had an inherited condition, Factor Five Leiden. It is a mutation that causes a clotting factor in the blood to work over time, creating a higher risk of blood clots, said Dr. Michael Tarantino, medical director of Peoria's Bleeding and Clotting Disorders Institute.
The family has since learned Two's father and his younger brother have the same disorder.
"We had never heard of this until we lost our son," Kristie Hubbard said. But now they know the signs, symptoms and what steps to take to reduce the risks.
"Swelling in the leg that's warm? It might be a blood clot," she said.
She credits Tarantino with introducing them to the National Blood Clot Alliance, an education and prevention organization that's co-sponsoring the event. The group will receive proceeds from the Stop the Clot race. He also will speak at the event.
"The bottom line is we want to prevent other families from suffering the way we're suffering," Kristie Hubbard said.
Part of the proceeds also will go to the Deveraux Hubbard II Foundation, which already has funded three $500 scholarships for Richwoods graduates.
Two would have wanted the family to support education, his parents said.
His Eagle Scout project was "Books for Ballers," a three-on-three basketball tournament for grade school students. Before students could play basketball, they had to read 30 minutes in the gym and complete lessons on Compass Learning System, an online education program used by Peoria School District 150.
Two collected about 1,000 books for the project — another part of his legacy.
Stop the Clot Run, Walk, Trot
Ask someone if they know someone who has hemophilia, then ask them if they know someone who has had a blood clot, says Dr. Michael Tarantino, medical director of the Bleeding and Clotting Disorders Institute in Peoria.
The answer indicates how common blood clots are, he said. But many people aren't aware of the prevalence or the risks.
Smoking, diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity can increase the chances of developing blood clots, he said. But people can be born with conditions that increase the risk, such as Factor Five Leiden, the most common hereditary cause.
Tarantino will speak at a benefit to raise awareness about blood clotting.
What: Deveraux Hubbard II Stop the Clot Run, Walk, Trot, a benefit for National Blood Clot Alliance and the Deveraux Hubbard II Foundation
When: 9:30 a.m. to noon Aug. 9. Check-in, 8 a.m.
Where: Richwoods High School, 6301 N. University St.
Why: To raise awareness about blood clots and clotting disorders. Proceeds will go to the National Blood Clot Alliance and the scholarship fund of the Deveraux Hubbard II Foundation.
Registration: $20, on site or email firstname.lastname@example.com for registration form
To donate online, visit: www.crowdrise.com/NBCADeverauxHubbardWalk
Pam Adams can be reached at 686-3245 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


text:
Two great and relevant-to-TOK quotes from TEDGlobal 2013. The entire event was "visually scribed"- check it out HERE
our journey through the IB TOK
Two great and relevant-to-TOK quotes from TEDGlobal 2013. The entire event was "visually scribed"- check it out HERE
The point of this exercise was to examine the nature, extent, acceptability of various kinds of deception.
Answer the following questions on your blog:
1. Which cards did your group find easiest to place? Which did you find most difficult?
2. How similar or different was your order from that of other groups? Were there any surprises?
3. Were there cases where you'd need more information about the context before placing it?
4. How many of these forms of deception have you engaged in – be honest ?
5. How widespread do you think deception is in the population at large?
6. How do you define a "lie" – which of these cards would you classify as "not a lie" and why?
7. Under what circumstances, if any, is it acceptable to mislead or deceive other people? Should we tell the truth at any cost, or are other things, such as happiness, more important?
– adapted from Richard van de Lagemaat
"Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is" – Bhagavad Gita, 500 BCE
"Common Sense consists of those layers of prejudice laid down before the age of 18" – Einstein
"A very popular error – having the courage of one's convictions; rather, it is a matter of having the courage for an attack upon one's convictions" – Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900
The following textbites are excerpts from Richard von Lagemaat's course book "Theory of Knowledge" (we follow him on Twitter @TOKtweet):
The most obvious thing that distinguishes knowledge from belief is truth. If you know something, then what you claim to know must be true, but if you merely believe it, then it may be true or it may be false. This is why you cannot know that Rome is the capital of Italy, or that pigs have wings, or that the earth is flat.
…truth is independent of of what anyone happens to believe is true, and that simply believing something is true does not make it true. Indeed, even if everyone believes that something is true, it may turn out to be false…knowledge requires something less than certainty. In practice, when we say something is "true" we usually mean that it is "beyond a reasonable doubt".
When you know something then what you claim to know must not only be true but you must believe it to be true…while truth is an objective requirement for knowledge, then belief is a subjective requirement for it.
***If you have no conscious awareness of something, then it makes little sense to say you know it (i.e. books can't know facts, calculators can't know 2+2=4)
As technology develops, do you think it will ever make sense to say a computer knows things?
***note: there will be a separate blog post/activities on A.I.
Our beliefs must be justified and in the right sort of way. We usually justify beliefs and knowledge claims by appealing to one of the four ways of knowing:
– "I saw it!" (perception)
–"Someone told me" (language)
– "I worked it out" (reason)
– "It's intuitively obvious" (emotion)
(But…) Why are some ways of justification (such as perception), usually considered acceptable, while others (like ESP) are not? It's all about reliability…
Here are some interesting videos regarding the reliability of PERCEPTION:
1. How Your Memories Can be Twisted Under Social Pressure
2. Can You Trust Your Memory? Take These 2 Simple Tests
Of course, nothing is infallible and you can be sceptical about everything, but life is just too short, you have to make a judgement when a doubt is appropriate or not.
So, you have a reasonable belief with evidence, now what? Again, from Richard von Lagemaat:
Imagine someone claiming that there are little green men on Mars. When you challenge them to support their belief they say, "Well you can't prove that there aren't".***The fact that you can't prove that something ISN'T true does nothing to show that it IS true. This fallacy of thinking is called
Thought Experiment:
1. Which of the following is an example of argument ad ignorantium?
a. Since many people claim to have seen ghosts, it is likely they exist
b. Many members of the Society for the Paranormal believe in ghosts
c. Ghosts must exist because no one has proved they do not.
d. It is true for me that ghosts exist.
2. With a partner, make up 2 examples of argument ad ignorantium and share with the class.
Psychologists claim that humans have a tendency known as "confirmation bias", to notice only evidence that supports our beliefs. (e.g. you believe in astrology so tend to notice only when your horoscope proves right and overlook the time it is wrong). ***It is important to look not only for evidence in favor of our beliefs, but also for evidence that would count against them (aka COUNTER-CLAIMS). This interesting blog post discusses how it works- and how it relates to old movies, political pundits, and Amazon wish lists.
For fun try this activity demonstrating c.b.
Does your belief fit in or "cohere" with our current understanding of the world? Lagemaat asserts that although we should be open to new ideas, we would simply come undone if we cast doubt on all our beliefs at once. ***The more unlikely something is, relative to the current state of knowledge, the stronger the evidence in its favor should be before we can take it seriously. Carl Sagan said, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" – can you think of an example in History when this held true?
What sorts of extraordinary claims do you personally grapple with and think are less likely to be true?
Does it really matter WHAT we believe? If people have crazy ideas, should we just let them- I mean, what's the harm, right? Lagemaat reminds us that beliefs DO matter, and some are more worthy of respect than others. Beliefs DEFINE who you are as a person. You will end up leading a life that is genuinely not your own unless you periodically examine your beliefs ("An unexamined life is not worth living"- Socrates)
Moreover, beliefs affect one's ACTIONS, and can literally be a life and death deciding factor. Burning witches? Nazism? Terrorists? Death-wish cults? Voltaire pointed out that "People who believe absurdities will commit atrocities".
1. Do you think we should respect the beliefs of a racist or sexist person? Provide reasons. If possible, find a recent article or video that could be used to question this (for example, the July 2011 massacre by Norwegian "racist" Anders Breivik).
2. Find some examples of beliefs (modern or throughout History) that you think are both misguided and dangerous.


text:
MegaJustice necessitava di un nuovo design di logo e ha lanciato un contest su 99designs.
È stato scelto un vincitore tra 61 design presentati da 34 designer.
We are looking for a progressive design for a new and innovative bar and grill in Austin Texas.
Black Sheep Lodge
Desired Color Scheme:
Open to Any Idea
Desired Style:
Something new and unique
Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai)
Restaurant and Bar Description
A neighborhood bar to relax and unwind, reminiscent of a mountain lodge or lake house, to give your mind a cooler distraction from the unbearable heat of the summer; or to offer the "cozy getaway†feeling of a warm lodge during the winter. We're not looking to create an exact replica of a mountain lodge or a lake house. That's a bit too "kitschy†and "themish†for what we're after. We're after the feeling of a bar in which people feel comfortable going to everyday which has a current feel, but has a distinct ambience of the lakes or mountains, stemming from an abundance of natural looking wood with the walls, tables, and chairs; a stone layered bar; several tastefully placed artifacts from the lakes and mountains, such as possibly a moosehead, skis, fishing rods; along with landscape art depicting snowy climes and lake settings, and somewhat dim lighting accentuating the vibe of a cozy hangout.
But like was said before, we don't want it to be just a campy replica of a mountain lodge or lake house.
We like the idea of a logo with a less literal sheep…something more edgy/modern/cryptic.
In your designs, we need submissions as Vertical and/or Horizontal. We also would like inverse versions (black on white, white on black).
Maggiori informazioni su come funziona un contest di design o sui nostri servizi di design di logo.


text:
Results 1 to 1 of 1
Threaded View
01-22-2012, 09:11 PM #1New Member
- Join Date
- Jan 2012
- Posts
- 1
Couple of questions from Army vet looking to start a business
Hi Guys/Gals,
I just got out of the Army and have saved up a nice chuck of change and would like to start my own vending business. I worked for a vending company for a number of years before going in the Army so I understand the job and can handle most of the repairs myself but I am lacking information regarding soda pricing and equipment and I think this maybe the best place to ask:
1. I am located in the Seattle/Tacoma metro area of WA state and would like to know how to go about getting the best price on 20oz bottle and 12oz cans of Coke and Pepsi products?. Any suggestions on where/who to go to.
2. Does Coke and Pepsi still offer the free machines to vending companies in exchange for buying X amount of product and if so what are the general qualifications needed to get something like this going.
Thanks in advance for any help!,


text:
Help AO-Universe cover the
webserver costs for 2018
by supporting us through PayPal!
More Information
User Control Panel
Advanced search
Classic AO
Notum Wars
Alien Invasion
Lost Eden
Legacy of the Xan
Search Guides
Knowledge XML-Parser
Waypoint XML-Parser
About Us
Legal Disclaimer
Our Team
Team Openings
Mobile Pages
Support Us
Anarchy Online
The Notum Wars
Alien Invasion
Lost Eden
Legacy of the Xan
Official Forums
Community News
Advisors of Rubi-Ka
Goal for 2018: 100%
Daily Missions
Table of Contents
Where do I get a mission from?
What do I do when I get there?
Agency Handler
Alien Agency Handler
Senior Agency Handler
All your daily missions
All Classes
All Factions
All Levels
Item Links:
Quicklink (copy this):
Please Login first
Your Comment:
Freelancers Inc. are looking for Rubi-Kans to help them complete jobs across the planet. They have put up some signs across cities on Rubi-Ka giving Rubi-Kans a heads up on where to find their local offices.
Omni Mission Agency Sign.
Clan Mission Agency Sign.
Neutral Sign.
Where do I get a mission from?
If you are Omni, you will find the local Mission Agency Office in Rome Blue. For Clanners, the Mission Agency Office is in Old Athen and Neutrals are able to choose which office they go to.
Rome Blue Office, Location: 660 x 315, Rome Blue.
Old Athen Office, Location: 515 x 440, Old Athen.
What do I do when I get there?
First it is a good idea to speak with the Agency Receptionist.
Omni Automated Agency Receptionist
Clan Agency Receptionist
The receptionist will be able to give you information about Freelancers Inc. He should also be your first point of call so you can sign a contract with the Agency.
After speaking with the receptionist, you can go and pick up your mission.
Agency Handler
The Agency Handler gives out missions on Rubi-Ka. Tell them that you are looking for a job, and a mission will be uploaded to your system.
Omni Agency Handler.
Clan Agency Handler.
Alien Agency Handler
The Alien Agency Handler hands out AXP and token driven missions. You can read more about them in
this guide
Senior Agency Handler
The Senior Agency Handler gives out the Elite Missions.
Omni Senior Agency Handler.
Clan Senior Agency Handler.
These elite missions are for players that want a more challenging mission that more often than not, will require a team. Depending in your level range, you will be presented with different options.
Levels 1 - 149
You will be asked to enter one of the various dungeons scattered across Rubi-Ka, and to kill a series of mobs inside. These will span The Abandoned Subway, Temple of Three Winds, Biomare, Crypt of Home, and each of the three sections of Smuggler's Den. Once you have killed your set number of mobs (3-5 usually), you are given a new set, and this trend continues until you face the toughest mobs in the instance. You can find the guides for each of these areas listed below.
Condemned Subway
Temple of Three Winds
Biomare (Foreman's)
Crypt of Home
Smuggler's Den
Levels 150+
From 150 on, you are given the option to head in to Inner Sanctum and kill the mobs inside in the same fashion as the earlier instances. These are considerably harder and culminate in the task of taking down Hezak! You'll need a good time for this, so don't go in without preparation. You can find the guide for Inner Sanctum
Levels 200+
The final group of elite dailies that you will unlock include killing Escaped Prisoners, Dust Brigade, and Biodome mission lines.
Escaped Prisoners
Dust Brigade
On completing a mission you will receive a XP/SK reward depending on the mission. In addition to this you will receive a number of tokens commensurate with your title level.
Upon completion or deletion of a daily mission you will receive an 18-hour lock-out timer in your NCU that prevents you from receiving another daily mission until the timer expires.
All your daily missions
In case you haven't noticed, the rewards for completing a daily mission is generous, but those looking to level quickly should be aware that there are five different daily missions and each type of daily mission has its own specific lock-out timer. The following list summarizes all the different daily missions:
1 Standard Daily Mission -- described above and obtained from the Agency Handler in the Rome or Old Athen
1 Elite Daily Mission -- also described above and obtained from the Senior Agency Handler in Rome or Old Athen
1 Alien Daily Mission -- described in
this guide
and obtained from the Alien Agency Handler in Rome or Old Athen
1 PvP Daily Mission -- described in
this guide
and obtained from John Smith in Bore (if you choose the Battlestations mission, you have the option of running that mission up to 3 times before you receive the 18 hour lock-out timer.)
1 Shadowlands Daily Mission -- described in
this guide
and obtained when you find DOJA chips in SL.
Each of the above 5 different daily missions has its own 18-hour lock-out timer.
Last updated on 04.02.2013 by Llie
Written by Ukblizzard
Updated information provided by Llie
Do you have questions about this article or found an error?
No comments yet - Please login first to post a comment.
Your Comment:
Website created by the AO-Universe Team
Anarchy Online Universe © 2005-2018 - Anarchy Online is a trademark of
Website powered by
CMS and
© 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group
Website Content may not be reproduced without permission - The AOU team takes no responsibility for the content of linked or embedded websites.
Anarchy Online Universe is hosted by:
Khuri's Media


text:
SpY, an urban/graffiti artist, installed 150 fake security cameras on a building façade in Madrid, Spain. The piece, titled CAMERAS, has no intention of watching over anything, the cameras are simply on the wall for show, rather, to make a statement about excessive surveillance in today's world. As his website states, "SpY's s work involves the appropriation urban elements through transformation or replication, commentary on urban reality, and the interference in its communicative codes."
The repetitiveness, and overwhelming saturation of the cameras, imposes critical questions about cameras of any sort in our lives. Whether that might be security cameras, to a personal camera, to the camera on your phone or computer, we are surrounded by them in our urban landscape and personal space,they questions is: what are they really filming?
Cameras signify the documentation of something important, a bad or good event, but definitely not something mundane. If we are surrounded by cameras, we are also surrounded by the expectations of something grand, something bad or good always happening. This is too much of a burden.
SpY's pieces want to be a parenthesis in the automated inertia of the urban dweller. They are pinches of intention, hidden in a corner for whoever wants to let himself be surprised. Filled with equal parts of irony and positive humor, they appear to raise a smile, incite reflection, and to favor an enlightened conscience.


text:
Posted on September 23, 2013 in Miscellaneous Shoes and Apparel
The Asics Gel Resolution 4 Exclusive Tennis Warehouse Woman's Noosa colorway is back!
Guaranteed to make heads turn!
Be the talk of your tennis club and the envy of everyone on the court!
Get your pair now, before they are gone…for good!
Posted on March 12, 2013 in Miscellaneous Shoes and Apparel
They're back! And they are selling like hotcakes, but in this case, these are way better and carb free! Everyone's favorite tennis shoes are once again available in bright, bold, eye-catching colors exclusively in stock at Tennis Warehouse, and when they are gone, they are gone!
Posted on December 4, 2012 in Miscellaneous
As the time ticks away to find the perfect present, let's take a look at some of our staff's picks for the season . We asked them to pick a racquet, string, pair shoes, apparel piece and one "wild card" the
y would like to get as gift this year. Check out the entire Staff Picks. Below, Siobhan explains her choices.
This was one of the first racquets that I playtested at Tennis Warehouse, and it remains a favorite of mine. Maneuverable, yet stable. Powerful, yet spin friendly. Comfortable, yet solid. I really felt like this racquet complemented my game by allowing me to be aggressive and giving me a consistent response every time. I also like that this racquet suits a lot of game styles — if you look at our playtest you can see that everyone liked this racquet, and my mom even bought it. Whether you use polyester, multifilament or a hybrid, the Volkl Organix V1 Midplus is an all-round, enjoyable racquet.
I have great things to say about this string: firm, durable, great spin, low-powered, extremely predictable – the control is great. I really noticed the high levels of spin I got with this, and my opponents did, too. The spin, combined with being able to swing my biggest because its low-powered, allowed me to completely rip the ball. It also has decent playability, so the tension is maintained pretty well over time. If you're a poly fan, this is definitely one to try.
I bought this top a couple weeks ago, and I love it. I have actually worn it more for running than I have for tennis, but it's functional for all types of exercise. It's made of knit-jersey so it's perfect to keep you warm when it's a bit colder outside like now, but it's fitted so it doesn't move around and get in the way. The hood is a cute feature, and I like the seam feature that gives it a flattering shape. Comfy and sporty: my favorite combination.
This is one of the first shoes I playtested earlier in the year, and it is my go-to shoe now. It is a high-performance shoe that offers comfort (a wee break-in period but nothing to worry about), stability, support and good durability. It continues to maintain its support and comfort over time, and I have minimal wear for how long I have been wearing them. They also have a six-month durability guarantee so if you're wearing through them quickly, you can trade them in. I also like the colorway – it's unlike any other shoe I have worn, and I really love it.
When it comes to overgrips I'm not too picky as long as they are tacky and maintain the tack over time. This does that and has all the other characteristics too: easy to put on, wicks away any sweat, still works well over time. A quality grip. The best thing about it? I like the bright colors. Adds a bit of attitude 🙂
Happy holidays!


text:
Z68 Motherboard Roundup
Price: ASUS P8Z68-V - $179.99
Price: ASUS P8Z68-V Pro - $199.99
Price: ASUS P8Z68 Deluxe - $249.99
Are you looking to upgrade your current setup? Maybe you have been waiting to see how well the new generation of i7 processors are performing before you made the commitment to grab one of them. Is Intel's new Z68 chipset going to be the chipset for you to finally dive into the new generation of chips? Well you are going to be seeing quite a few new features with the Z68 chipset over the previous P67 chipsets that have been released. I am very interested to see exactly how well these boards are going to compare to each other and see if there is one of these that stands out from the others and is a must have board.
Closer Look:
This Z68 roundup is going to have a total of four new motherboards going head to head to see which one of them can out perform the others. The first board in the roundup is the ASRock Z68 Fatal1ty board, which has a whole list of features including next-gen PCI-E 3.0 support, which can maximize the bandwidth for the next-gen PCI Express 3.0 VGA cards and give you the ultimate graphics performance among many other features that we will get into shortly. The ASUS P8Z68-V, P8Z68-V PRO, and P8Z68 Deluxe boards are all also included in this roundup. The ASUS boards have their own list of features, such as GIGI+ VRM, TPU, and EPU, as well as other ASUS-specific features. The Fatal1ty, P8Z68-V and P8Z68-V PRO all have support for Lucidlogix Virtu technology, which we will be testing as well.
What exactly does Intel's Z68 Express chipset offer? First, it offers support for the 2nd generation Intel Core processor family with Intel's Turbo Boost Technology 2.0. The Intel Z68 Express chipset is the first product to enable performance tuning with access to the built-in visual features of 2nd generation Intel® Core™ processor family. You are also going to get Intel's Rapid Storage Technology 10.5; this is going to allow you to have a RAID 0, 5, and 10 array as well as have support for RAID arrays that are larger than 2.2TB. With Intel's Rapid Storage Technology 10.5 you will also be able to have support for eSATA devices that can reach up to 3Gb/s. Intel's Smart Response Technology is also included in the Z68 chipset, which is going to implement storage I/O caching to provide faster response times for tasks such as system boot and application start up. Intel Rapid Recover Technology is also included, which is Intel's latest data protection technology that provides a recovery point that can be used to quickly recover a system should one of your hard drives fail or there is data corruption. Finally you are going to have SATA 6Gb/s support with the Z68 chipset. What more could you want?
Now that we know exactly what boards are going to be compared in this roundup, let's take a nice close look at all four of them to see what each board offers.


text:
The Age of Revolutions
Conrad L. Donakowski
A variety of economic, ideological, aesthetic, and nationalist forces shape Christian worship in its varied manifestations today. Historical perspectives and areas of knowledge which are too often discussed in compartmentalized fashion are presented here as acting with and on each other and often serving each other's purposes. Liturgical, musical, artistic, and architectural expressions are shown to be inextricably bound not only to theology, philosophy, and ecclesial hierarchy but also to political and socioeconomic structural change, technological innovation, and—not least—the culture and the human need for authentic spiritual experience.
The Enlightenment "Age of Reason," Romanticism, the nation-state, and the Industrial Revolution from the 17th through the 19th centuries affected religious practices that were the only mass medium that reached into every town, house, and heart. Connections are established with not only overtly religious events such as urban Evangelism, preservation of old architecture, the Oxford movement, and tradition versus innovation but also socialistic communal experiments and ethnic conflict among US immigrants.
American Foreign Mission Movement, c. 1870–1920s
Tracy Neal Leavelle
The American foreign mission movement at the turn of the 20th century adopted as its watchword "the evangelization of the world in this generation." The rapid expansion of missionary boards and the enthusiasm of volunteers and supporters corresponded with European and US colonial expansion around the world. For many evangelical observers, the opening of the world seemed to offer the greatest opportunity yet to share the gospel with all. "The crisis of missions," as one prominent author put it, required that Christians recognize the spiritual importance of this moment. Divine providence appeared to be removing obstacles to evangelization. Failure to act decisively would be a form of apostasy, an abandonment of responsibility toward God and the world.
Inspired by a revivalistic spirit, women and men joined a growing list of missionary and moral reform organizations. The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions continued the work it had started in the early 19th century. New organizations like the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions and the World Student Christian Federation created networks that linked Christian evangelists and communities around the world. They published magazines, books, and pamphlets and sent inspectors, organizers, and speakers on tours of the United States and Great Britain and on grand transoceanic voyages. In 1910 the movement celebrated progress and planned for next steps at the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. Steeped in a sense of moral and racial superiority, attendees promised to transform the world.
Women found an increasingly important place in the US foreign missionary movement, especially as evangelical work diversified to include the establishment of schools and medical missions. American women labored in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and elsewhere and eventually made up the majority of workers in the field. Women brought with them an ideology of domesticity that they hoped to share with their sisters abroad. Women from the US viewed local women in the missions as socially degraded and in desperate need of moral uplift. The moral authority that came with female standing in the home seemed to explain the elevated status and Christian liberty enjoyed by American women. At the same time, as more highly educated single women entered the field, the movement created space for new models of womanhood. These "New Women" lived independent lives out in the world, apart from the confines of the home.
American missionaries at the turn of the century became deeply entangled in the imperial connections of the United States and the world. While it would be a mistake to reduce their work simply to a particular strand of imperialism, it is important to understand their connections to American expansion. Missionaries took advantage of openings created by colonial activity and contributed to the spread of American cultural, political, and economic influence at a critical moment in the development of national power in the international arena.
American Protestant Foreign Missions after World War II
David C. Kirkpatrick
After the Second World War, the drama of Protestant missions featured a diversifying cast of characters. Local actors in the Global South, alongside reform-minded missionaries from the North, revised the mission script. At the level of conciliar discourse, this can be seen in perhaps two primary ways: a widened table of leadership and a widening of the Christian mission itself. An increasingly diverse Protestantism shifted the trajectory of missions toward national control and social Christian emphases. Yet, these shifts in method and theology produced strikingly divergent results for mainline Protestantism and Protestant evangelicalism. For the former, the story was largely one of global dissolution, at least institutionally. Organizations such as the World Council of Churches (b. 1948), which represented the soaring hopes of the ecumenical movement, fractured under the pressure of radical student protests, postcolonial resistance, and declining donations from disillusioned churches in the 1960s and 1970s. Seen in a different light, however, mainline Protestant mission was the victim of its own advance, both abroad on so-called mission fields and at home in the United States. In many cases, mission schools directly contributed to the growth of nationalism through their curriculum and educational methods. Backlash against missionary leadership and control often centered around these educational institutions. In the North, while the institutions of mainline Protestant mission have largely declined, their progressive values are widely assumed today within wide swaths of American life in particular—especially within universities, mainstream media, and the Democratic Party.
For Protestant evangelicalism, the mission story is largely one of global diffusion—explosive demographic growth, especially among those practicing Pentecostal forms in the Global South, and a rapid expansion of mission and relief organizations. Within a context of increasing diversity, evangelical mission agencies, rather than sidelining traditional Protestant mission approaches, constructed new forms of evangelical mission and social Christianity. This reshaping of global evangelicalism was the result of a multidirectional conversation often led by Latin Americans. Indeed, an entire generation of theologians, shaped by the global Cold War, rejected the importation of traditional mission methodologies. As Latin Americans shifted to postcolonial social Christianities, they pulled many in global evangelicalism with them. In terms of theological methodology, they synthesized the pursuit of justice with the evangelical offer of personal salvation. While the vast majority of Christians lived in Europe and North America in 1910 (the year of the epochal Edinburgh World Missionary Conference), in 2010 the vast majority of Christians lived in the Global South. Thus, at the level of conciliar discourse, the evangelical table of leadership and theology increasingly reflected its demographic center located within contexts of poverty, injustice, and widespread inequality.
The Anabaptist Tradition: Mennonites
John D. Rempel
Anabaptism and its descendant movement, Mennonitism, came into being through the illegal baptism of believers upon confession of faith. Anabaptist worship was characterized by form and freedom. It included reading and interpreting the Bible by preachers and other worshipers, practicing baptism, the Lord's Supper, anointing, and other acts while allowing for immediate promptings by the Holy Spirit, as in 1 Corinthians 14. Routinized worship developed gradually by means of leaders internalizing important turns of phrase as well as writing prayers and publishing prayer books. Some streams of Mennonitism, like the Amish, have laid great stress on following the tradition that emerged. At the same time there arose renewal and missionary movements for whom Spirit-led improvisation was essential for true worship that was accessible to seekers. Beginning in the late 19th century, Mennonite churches arose in the Global South. For them the movement between form and freedom was essential to authentic worship. Singing is the central act of the congregation in all types of Mennonite worship. There is a lean sacramentalism in which the visible church is the body of Christ in history. In the practice of ordinances or sacraments, there has been great concern from the beginning that God's acts of grace be received by the faith of the believer in order for such acts to be true to their intention. The Lord's Supper emphasizes encountering both Christ and one's sisters and brothers in a transformative way. Baptism is entering a covenant with Christ and the church. In addition, anointing, discipline, funerals, marriage and celibacy, parent and child dedication, and ordination are practiced.
Apocalypticism in U.S. History
Matthew Avery Sutton
Apocalypticism has had a powerful impact on American life. It has fostered among adherents a strong sense of purpose and personal identity, it has helped them interpret the challenges they face all around them, and it has provided them with a triumphant vision of the future. Although there are many kinds of apocalypticism, in the United States, Christian forms have dominated. The Bible's focus on a coming millennium has offered Americans the promise of transformation and redemption in a world that sometimes seems void of both. When Christians have emphasized the Bible's apocalyptic and millennial visions, they have acted in new and important ways. Apocalyptic visions, rather than fostering a sense of indifference to the coming of the end of days, have served as a call to battle. God, millennialists insist, has given them much to do and very little time in which to do it. Positive that Jesus is coming soon, they have preached revival and engaged directly and aggressively with their culture. Sometimes their actions have served to reinforce the status quo, and at other times they have sparked revolutions. The uses of apocalypticism and millennialism are almost as diverse as their adherents.
Asian American Religions
Tony Carnes
Asian American religions have dramatically increased their presence in the United States. Partly, this is a function of the increasing population of Asian Americans since 1965.
Asian American is a name given to the United States residents who trace their ancestry back to the area of Asia from Pakistan in the west to the Pacific islands east of the Asian landmass. There are over 18 million Asian Americans in the United States (about 6 percent of the national population), and Asians are immigrating to the country at rates that far exceed those for any other group.
Other names have been taken, given, or forced upon Asian Americans. Such terms as "Chinese or Japanese imperial subjects" heightened a unity of political and religious obedience to a divine emperor. "Oriental" started as a French idealization of the Confucian state before descending to the level of being an epithet for backwardness.
Immigrants come with nationalities like Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, and so forth that often intervene into religious discourses (see an example of this process in the Chinese American experience as described by Fenggang Yang (Chinese Christians in America. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999). In the 1970s the name Asian American was popularized by West Coast intellectuals in order to gather forces at the barricades of political and racial movements. Some scholars like Michael Omi and Howard Winant (Racial Formation in the United States. From the 1960s to the 1990s. New York: Routledge, 1994) claimed "Asian American" as a racialized reality, which was the result of racial conflicts innate to American society. Others saw the identity as an ethnic claim to assimilation into American cultural reality.
Asian immigrants and their progeny find ways to balance out the religious, national, ethnic, racial, and other identities from their homeland, new nation, and religion. "Asian American" has also become a common-sense meaning that was institutionalized by the U.S. census. But one should remember that many layers of names sit upon Asian American houses of worship as so many barnacles telling tales of ancestral honors, woes, and self-reflections.
Over three-quarters of Asian Americans profess a religious faith. About a quarter say that they are "religious nones," that is, either having no particular religious faith or identifying as agnostic or atheist. About half of the "nones" actually have religious beliefs and ethics and practice them as an intrinsic part of Asian American culture, not as something that is "religious."
Two-thirds of religious Asian Americans are Christians. This is not surprising when we take into account the rapid growth of Christianity in the non-European world. Asian Americans are contributing to the "de-Europeanization" of American Christianity and signal the increasingly religious direction of the 21st century.
Other Asian American religions include Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Sikhism, Jainism, Zoroasterism, new Japanese religions, and many more.
The history of Asian American religions involves a dynamic interplay of the United States and Asia, global politics, democratic revolutions, persecution in Asia, racism in the United States, Supreme Court cases, and religious innovation.
The largest Asian American groups, those with 1–4 million people each, trace their ancestry back to Japan, China, Philippines, Vietnam, India, and Korea. Seven smaller groups have over 100,000 people each: Bangladeshis, Burmese, Cambodians, Hmong, Laotians, Pakistanis, and Thais. And there are many more smaller groups.
The diverse ethnic and national origins of Asian Americans means that their religions have a kaleidoscope of religious styles and cultures.
Baptism in Martin Luther's Theology
Kirsi Stjerna
Baptism opens a window to the heart of Martin Luther's 16th-century theology. It offers a perspective for how Luther understands the impact of grace and its channels, as well as the nature of justification in an individual's life. In his teaching about baptism, Luther demonstrates the vital working of the Word and lays a foundation for a Word-centered and faith-oriented spirituality. With baptism, Luther articulates his vision for the purpose of the Church and the rationale for sacraments. Baptism reveals different sides of the theologian: one who argues with a zeal on the "necessity" of baptism and its meaningful God-mandated practice in Christian communities and another who imagines God's saving grace too expansive to be limited to any ritual. The apparent tensions in Luther's articulation can be understood from his overlapping agendas and different audiences: in his baptismal talk, Luther is both processing his own Angst about salvation and negotiating his developing position in relation to the medieval sacramental theology and other emerging reform solutions. While feistily refuting his opponents, he is also speaking from his personal religious experience of being as if reborn with the encounter of the Word of grace and passionately extrapolating his most foundational conviction: God's unconditional promise of grace as the ground of being for human life, given to humanity in the Word. The matter of baptism leads to the roots of different Christian "confessional" traditions. The format of the ritual has generated less anxiety than differing theological opinions on (1) the role of faith in the validity of baptism, and (2) the effects of baptism in one's life. Whether infant or adult baptism is favored depends on whether baptism is primarily understood as a sign of faith, a cause of forgiveness and transformation, or an initiation into the Christian community—or all of the above. Baptism is at the center of Luther's theological nervous system; it connects with every other vital thread in the theological map. Baptism is a mystery and a matter of faith; it calls for a philosophical imagination and mystical willingness to grasp the questions of reality beyond what meets the eye. "I study it daily," Luther admits in his "Large Catechism." "In baptism, therefore, every Christian has enough to study and practice all his or her life. Christians always have enough to do to believe firmly what baptism promises and brings."
Baptist Worship in Britain
Christopher J. Ellis
Baptists stand within the Free Church and Evangelical traditions. They baptize only those who profess personal faith, and they also give a high priority to evangelism. Although there is some variety around the world in this the fifth-largest Christian denomination, the main features of Baptist worship developed in Britain, where the Baptist story began. Emerging from the Radical Reformation at the beginning of the 17th century, British Baptists formed two main groups, each holding Calvinistic or Arminian theology, respectively. Both emphasized an ecclesiology in which the church was perceived to be a fellowship of believers and each rejected the baptism of infants. By the 19th century, most British Baptists held a common, though varied, evangelical theology, and this continues to characterize this denomination. The importance of scriptural preaching, extempore prayer, and the emergence of congregational hymn singing are all continuing features of Baptist worship.
The core aspects of Baptist spirituality can be seen in their worship, including giving due attention to scripture and its relevant application for the life and witness of the church; the importance of the devotional life and an openness to the Holy Spirit, as seen in extempore prayer; emphasis on the church as a fellowship of believers, as expressed in the communal nature of the Eucharist celebrated as the Lord's Supper; and the importance of personal faith and the mission of the church, embodied in the baptism of believers and evangelistic preaching.
Bibles and Tracts in Print Culture in America
Lincoln A. Mullen
Since the first printing presses were established in Britain's North American colonies, print was a ubiquitous feature of American religion. Print was a powerful means of communicating religious ideas, both to the faithful and to people whom religious groups wished to persuade. One common form of religious communication was the pamphlet or, by the 19th century, the tract. These tracts were a way of catechizing people who were already a member of different denominational groups, and tracts provided them with inexpensive collections of religious reading material, such as hymns or psalms. Tracts become a primary feature of evangelism in the United States, as did Bible distribution. In the 19th century the American Tract Society and the American Bible Society managed to exert a long reach into the interior of the United States, with distribution channels that were more far flung than those of any other institution except perhaps the postal service.
Print also functioned as a means of creating institutional loyalties. The American Tract Society created a network of tract distribution and funding which linked together large numbers of affiliate societies. While the American Bible Society preferred a different organizational structure, it brought together a wide array of denominations to make common cause for Bible distribution. In the 20th century, trans-denominational periodical publishers managed to unite various wings of Protestantism, as periodicals staked out positions in debates between fundamentalists and modernists, or later between evangelicals and liberal or mainline denominations. Yet smaller publications also functioned to establish denominational loyalties.
The Bible was by far the most important printed text in American Christianity. One of the earliest imprints in North America was a translation of the Bible into the Algonquian language, and later missionary groups sometimes made it a priority to translate the Bible into Indian languages. Printing of the English Bible proliferated for a number of reasons. One was the repeated efforts of the American Bible Society to supply the United States with a Bible for every household. Another was the development of various editions of the Bible, containing different qualities of paper and typography, or distinguishing themselves by the purpose of the text, such as study Bibles rich in notes, maps, and other explanatory features. A third reason was the proliferation of Bible translations, beginning with the late-19th-century Revised Version. These Bible versions were aimed at improving the scholarly reliability of the text, but they were matters of intense interest and debate among Christians more generally. Bible translations came to be a key marker of group identity and a contested source of religious authority, even as they were sponsored by trans-denominational groups like the National Association of Evangelicals or the National Council of Churches.
In short, print culture was a primary means of establishing group loyalty, for various Protestant groups as well as for Jews and Catholics, yet it also represented a key attempt at Christian unity and ecumenism. Print culture was both a proxy for many other ways of being religious and a powerful religious force in its own right.
The Book of Isaiah
J. Blake Couey
The book of Isaiah is a compilation of prophetic poetry and narratives, named for an 8th-century
Isaiah is a sophisticated work of biblical Hebrew poetry, characterized by intricate combinations of imagery and wordplay. It features a high view of divine sovereignty, emphasizing Yhwh's control over world nations and superiority over all human and divine powers; these ideas contributed to the emergence of monotheism in ancient Judah. The book also articulates diverse responses to imperial domination, even as it chronicles the ebb and flow of Judah's own imperial aspirations. Striking portrayals of women and gender appear throughout Isaiah, including the extensive personification of Jerusalem as a woman and the comparison of Yhwh to a mother. Isaiah is also notable for its discourse about disability, which serves a variety of rhetorical functions in the book.
The impact of Isaiah was felt immediately, as evidenced by the number of copies of the book among the Dead Sea scrolls and citations of it in the New Testament. It greatly impacted the development of important religious ideas, including apocalypticism and belief in resurrection. In Christianity, Isaiah played an important role in reflection upon the nature of Jesus and the inclusion of Gentiles, even as it informed Christian anti-Judaism. The book has had a more complicated reception in Judaism, where it significantly influenced the growth of Zionism. Scholarly study of Isaiah continues to clarify the shape of its final form and history of composition. Current research on the book is increasingly interdisciplinary, engaging metaphor theory, disability studies, and postcolonial thought. The history of the book's interpretation and reception is another area of growing interest.


text:
Let your maid of honor or your bridesmaids stand out with one of our rosette dresses. We have adorned the Classic Collection dress with custom-made chiffon rosettes in select colors.
*All measurements from under the bust
Size A (0-12)
Size B (14-24) (+ $35)
Fabric: Jersey
Rosettes: Chiffon
Care: Dry-clean Only. Ok to steam the dress.
Production takes 12 weeks from when payment has been received. Please see information on rush orders or email us with any questions on timing.
Made in New York.
Want more coverage? Click here to view the bandeau top.
Ready to order? Click here for step-by-step instructions on how to get started!
All sales final.
Wrap Styles


text:
Golf Tidbits: Woods No. 1 again thanks to winning formula
Philadelphia, PA – One of the age old questions about golfers is, "Why don't they play more?"
Tiger Woods plays the same events every year, as long as he's healthy. He has his favorite courses, and tends not to stray from them.
And why should he?
He won his eighth Arnold Palmer Invitational on Monday, which tied him with Sam Snead as the only two players to have won a single PGA Tour event eight times.
Guess what? There are three other events Woods has won seven times.
Those events are the Farmers Insurance Open, World Golf Championship-Cadillac and WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. Twenty-nine victories in four tournaments.
If he had only played those four events every year, Woods would be tied for 18th on the PGA Tour all-time wins list and would have earned somewhere around $30 million for his career. In the last 13 months, four of his six wins have come in those events.
The formula works for Woods. There is no need to change.
Being a creature of habit, and playing well at the same events year in and year out, has helped Woods rise back to the top of the world rankings.
After his November 2009 car accident, which led to his divorce, Woods went into rehab and played just 13 official events that year. He missed Torrey Pines, site of the Farmers, and Bay Hill, which hosts the Palmer.
Missing his favorite events, and his general poor play led to him losing his long grip on the No. 1 spot atop the world rankings.
Woods competed in only 10 officials events in 2011 due to injury. Combine the injuries at the time with an on-going swing change, Woods plummeted outside the top 50 in the world rankings.
Back on track of his normal schedule in 2012, Woods won the Arnold Palmer Invitational. That marked his first victory since the car accident. He went on to The Memorial for the fifth time.
His victory two weeks ago at the Cadillac Championship marked his first WGC title since 2009. The formula is all coming back together for Woods.
The one missing piece since 2009 is a major championship.
At the aforementioned four tournaments where Woods owns 29 wins, those victories came in 12 different years. In nine of those 12 years, Woods also won a major championship.
On Monday, after the weather-delayed Arnold Palmer Invitational concluded, Woods was asked about being No. 1 again.
"If I get healthy, I know I can play this game at a high level," he said. "I know I can be where I'm contending in every event, contending in major championships and being consistent day in and day out, if I got healthy. That was the first step in the process. Once I got there, then my game turned. I've won six times on the tour in the last couple years, so that's not bad."
Woods makes it sound so simple. For him, it really is that easy. Give him his health, and confidence in his swing, and he'll be where he is now - at the top of his game.
One of the NBC commentators mentioned an odd streak with Rickie Fowler. I wasn't sure I heard the stat correctly, so I looked it up for myself.
While battling Woods down the stretch at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, Fowler dumped not one, but two balls into the water on the par-5 16th. That led to a triple-bogey, thus extending Fowler's odd streak.
Fowler has had a double or triple bogey in 15 consecutive tournaments.
I'd run down the gory details on an event-by-event basis, but that would be a painful read. Instead, I'll just give you the totals.
In his last 15 official PGA Tour stroke-play events, Fowler has 26 double bogeys and seven triple bogeys
Those numbers are a good indicator as to why Fowler has only won once on the PGA Tour.
* Woods leads the tour in some key categories such as scoring average, eagles (per hole) and strokes gained - putting. Some of other categories are as important, but not as well known. He also leads in scoring average before the cut, putting from 15-20 feet, putting from 15-25 feet and front nine scoring average.
* Everyone has seen the video of Sergio Garcia hitting a shot out of a tree at the Arnold Palmer Invitational last weekend. Neat shot for sure. But what no one paid attention to was that he duffed his next shot, then withdrew when Sunday's thunderstorm rolled through Bay Hill. Garcia, who has top-20 finishes in all of his six worldwide starts this year, injured his shoulder and Achilles while playing the shot. Hopefully, the injuries don't linger the remainder of his season.


text:
Since I first posted the cartograms, many people have emailed me asking if I could modify the cartograms to do various kinds of displays. Although changing color schemes is easy, changing the map itself is not (since I didn't generate the polygons for the map myself).
Anthony Robinson, a master's student at Penn State, works on various aspects of geographic visualization within the geoVISTA center, and has provided a toolkit developed by folks at Penn State that allows you to download Election 2004 results and play with them inside an exploratory analysis tool. He also provides the election data to work with !
Definitely check it out if you want to create your own maps; the folks at Penn State have been doing great work in scientific visualization for a while.


text:
Discover CEO receives $9.91 million in 2012 pay
NEW YORK Discover Financial Services (DFS) said its Chairman and CEO David Nelms received compensation valued at $9.92 million in the credit card company's 2012 fiscal year. That is a 28 percent drop from the prior year, and reflects lower stock awards.
Riverwoods, Ill.-based Discover said in a regulatory filing Friday that Nelms' base salary was unchanged at $1 million. He also received $5.78 million in stock awards, down from stock awards worth $9.6 million in the previous year.
- Bad credit ratings sinking job hunters
- Can paying a credit card bill weekly hurt my score?
- JPMorgan Chase investors seek to split CEO, chairman
Nelms' non-equity incentive compensation slipped to $3.12 million, from $3.2 million the previous year, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. And he received $17,150 in his 401(k) plan, unchanged from the 2011 fiscal year.
Nelms, 52, has been CEO since 2004 and chairman since 2009. He was president and chief operating officer from 1998 to 2004
For the year ended Nov. 30, Discover, which also has banking operations and offers student loans, earned $2.34 billion, up 5.3 percent from the year earlier. Revenue, net of interest expense, rose 8.3 percent to $7.65 billion.
According to the SEC filing, the company approved changes to its executive compensation program for 2013 that maintain its "emphasis on pay-for-performance and align with shareholder interests while further strengthening the risk-balancing features of our executive compensation program in a manner consistent with guidance from the Federal Reserve." These new features include lengthening the performance period for performance stock units to three years to better align reward with long-term results.
The AP's formula for calculating executive compensation is designed to isolate the value that the company's board placed on the executive's total compensation package during the last fiscal year. It includes salary, bonus, performance-related bonuses, perks, above-market returns on deferred compensation and the estimated value of stock options and awards granted during the year.
The calculations don't include changes in the present value of pension benefits, making the AP total different in most cases than the total reported by companies to the SEC.


text:
More than 150 runners participated in the Buzzard Island Adventure Run held Sunday at Pinckney Colony Road.
Runners had a choice of participating in a two- or four-mile run and were challenged by obstacles such as running through muddy marshes, climbing numerous bluffs, jumping hay bales and fences and running through a horse-filled stable.
Bob Meighan of Bluffton was the overall winner in the four-mile division with a time of 26:51. Krista Dunton took the female four mile-category with a time of 31:57.
Ten-year-old male Christian Polcari won the two-mile division with a time of 15:09. Okatie Elementary fifth-grader Emma Dewey, 11, won it for the females with a time of 16:14.
The team division of the two-mile race was won by the Gonzalez family with a time of 22:22.
The race benefited the Huntington Society of America and was sponsored by Hilton Head Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram, 4M Metals, Sherri Design, Affordable Health Care, Belfair Fine Wines and Spirits, Coastal Plains Insurance of the Lowcountry, Hilton Head Dermatology and Bluffton Today.
Members of the Bluffton Fins club swim team donated their time to help on the race course.


text:
Sunday, December 9, 2007
On the Street…..Greene St., Soho
CommentsClose comment
69 comments
Nice look! Love her cowl around her neck!
christmas trees and colors.
Her boots are wonderful.
So festive!
I personally would've done without the scarf; it covers up what looks like a very elegant neck. Also, I would have gone with slimmer boots to streamline the silhouette.
As for the coat, I love the plaid and the deep red and green. In the holiday spirit, yet decidedly less kitschy than wearing a Rudolf sweater whose nose lights up red or another variation on the infamous teacher-sweater.
I wonder: what is on her wrist and what does that grey dress look like? Her layers do a good job of making one want to see more.
nice combo of textures.casualy pleasing layers and her beautiful face calmly looking out, she looks warm, christmasy and lovely.
i want that coat! i love this photo it is so christmasey haha!
to victoria-10:35 am—no scarf. r u kidding me, have you been outside lately? She's smart wearing a scarf–not some slave to fashion. I think she looks charming. Love this type of style. She is my favorate all week.
This whole ensemble looks incredibly comfortable. I feel cozy just looking at it!
One of the cases where the outfit is stylish BECAUSE it looks so comfortable.
ohhh the christmas lights blurring in the background.. perfection. great pic sart :]
I absolutely love the combination of everything. The large cowl goes well with the oversized pockets. The shape is just amazing.
perfect. the oversized details (pockets, scarf) are surprisingly not overwhelming. countered by the bit of leg she has, i think it makes up for the lack of neck. and the christmas trees, fantastic. this look is everything i wish for.
It's way too cold here not to wear a scarf.
The proportions aren't too flattering; however, I love the idea of this outfit. It looks warm, too, which isn't something you can say about most fashionable pairings.
I love everything about this picture, especially the hint of twinkling lights in the background. And those boots are hot!
This shot made me think… I was going through some wonderful old sweaters that are no longer up to snuff– out of date or a little worn– AND… I may make some cowls out of the lower body sections! Recycle the old favorites in a new way.
Great coat and very festive with the trees as background!
She matches so well with the Christmas trees behind her!Really nice picture!
She looks so adorable! I like the overall combination of colors she chose, it feels classic (the coat reminds me of the old flannel shirt I had in the early 90s) and new (the proportion of the coat to boots reminds me of Phillip Lim's collection) at the same time. If I were to add anything it would be a red chapstick so it would make her beautiful face pop and stand out more.
I am attracted to her simple outfit, she looks so comfortable and warm. Her face is calm and elegant in an elf sort of fashion. I imagine her selling those trees in the back and I want to buy my tree from her!
Her outfit looks almost perfect for this pic. It looks really comfortable and warm. I kinda think the hose and boots are too delicate for this scene though. Id go for a cottony charcoal legging and a tan work boot instead.
I feel badly for all the trees :(
Not especially of the moment, but also it is of the moment, with her unique mix of lengths, and scarf draping. Reminds me of the woman with the hoodie and scarf and army green pants a couple of weeks ago who was not especially trendy but looked great due to the the sum of the parts. I try to go for this daily in my dressing, and i notice it in others too.
Nice Holiday feelfor the photo, but I don't love the look.
What a perfect cozy Christmas outfit!
not impressed…
color palette=confusing
overall look= fairly generic
anonymous 11:16
I wasn't suggesting that she go without a scarf- just a less bulky, more streamlined one. This scarf looks warm, but I'm sure I could find one just as warm without all the superfluous material. One could argue that this extra material on the scarf makes it more unique and gives her edge, but I find it distracting and, in fact, impractical; I believe in function as much as form in fashion.
This image evokes the holiday season to me as much as her outfit–I like the trees and lights lit in the background. Her plaid coat is lovely and the skirt peeking out from underneath is a nice touch.
This shot, and the one of Mory below, are just simply phenomenal seasonal shots. Love them both! The weather here in Chicago today is, unfortunately, far worse than NY. Everything's coated with a sheet of ice, but these pictures make me warm.
I COMPLETELY agree with Stefania…she just looks SO comfortable And pretty And approachable.
so cozy and Christmas-like! The darker light and deep green remind me of an old fashioned sort of christmas sensibility.
All of that works very well. The scarf, coat and boots.
While this page was loading and all I saw was the Christmas lights in the upper-left corner, I could already tell I was going to adore this photo.
And since this photo is so festive and wonderful, it reminded me to thank you once again, Mr. Shurman, for the delectable style you capture on film that really inspires me, and not just in dress either :)
love the hand knit cowl.
burley spun yarn, perhaps?
I don't get it, Scott, but happy hanukkah anyway!
This photo made me feel that I could smell Christmas in the air – must be those pine trees in the background. Very nostalgic as I am an English woman living in Australia and Christmas here is hot! I have to look at your July/August posts for style inspiration.
Great shot.
These boots (maybe slightly slimmer) are currently de rigueur in Toronto for winter.
A wonderful not overly trendy boho look here. I love the coat. Is it by "someone"? Or is it vintage?
I'm also really curious to see what she's wearing underneath the coat.
This is a beautiful photo that goes well beyond the merits of the outfit. Thanks.
The boots are glorious! Very luxe, and I love how they hang. The deconstructed Christmas scene in the back is cool, too. I would look terrible in the jacket, but she pulls off the look well.
anon 3.10pm, not impressed. I would like to see what you wear.
This is a real look from a real person, not out of a magazine. I am new to this site and that's what I like about it, it's real.
That picture has a very distinctive, twofold effect on me: it reminds me of the absolute necessity to enjoy every single moment before, during and after christmas, not in its loud, blaring, glittering ways, but in its more quiet accents. And secondly, there is so much more to style than brands, names and le dernier cri: it is inside of you (and me).
Oh, beautiful world!
@ victoria:
i find scarves like that much more practical in this weather. i can adjust the shape according to wind chill, pull it higher outside or on a windier street or scrunch it lower when inside. piling it up on your neck makes such a difference and keeps you so much warmer.
i think the look is streamlined enough. she pulled her hair back tight so that it would not distract from the bulk of her jacket and scarf. the only thing that makes this outfit seem less streamlined are the boots but i don't mind those either. i'd actually like to see the back of this jacket to tell the dimensions/volume better. i think this full on frontal shot is not doing it as much justice as it deserves.
wasn't santa claus wearing red last year ?
I think she looks cute, but for me not very inspiring or wow. But I would quite like to have her boots nonetheless.
I want those boots! I love the wraparound scarf too.
Wow this is fabulous in theory, but her legs look -really- short. But i can't put my finger on what it is.
Her legs do not look short. It just looks as if she's capable of walking more than a block.
Is it just me, or is it bizarre that people think a person looks ill-proportioned if she's not wearing heels?
To anon 10.44 am: yep, it IS bizarre!
Thank you, she and your picture is perfect, perfect, perfect. In a sea of black this is such a welcome change. Those not in NYC might not understand.
Sarto: this photo is perfect! Was she really hanging around the Christmas trees looking perfectly Christmassy and colour co-ordinated or did you put her there? I love her bracelet peeking out and her fabulous coat against monochrome accessories. Thanks Sarto. :)
She has the look of a ballet dancer. Grace shining through.
I love this so much.
Everything I think has pretty much been said.
I wish it was cold if Florida. A light jacket will suffice in the morning. What a pity, though. I would love a large winter jacket like this. And a peacoat. Dark olive green. Ah, bliss.
She is so striking!
As someone who adores fashion but refuses to suffer for it, she is an inspiration. Stylish, functional, perfect. :)
LOVE it! love it love it love it! so warm, cozy, comfy, and unique, not "current" but TOTALLY stylish.
for goodness sake relax people–how long do you take getting dressed while worrying about streamlining this and streamlining that.
her boots are perfect. the scarf is gorgeous. and the coat is a beauty.
boo to comments from neurotic fashionistas.
Cute girl, cute outfit, but something about the color of the jacket just grates. Is it that green, or that green next to that red?
I say Amen to what Nigerian woman in Norway said!!!
Effortless chic!
Love this photo. Captures the holiday feeling well. I think she looks fresh and captivating. I want that coat!
I love it. Those are beautiful colors and textures. She looks comfortable. It's hard to look comfortable and put together at the same time.
I love the scarf! I am inspired! I saw the photo and went straight to my knitting drawer with high hopes that I had something on had that might possibly work to create its likeness. I'm nearly finished; I only hope that I can pull it off half as well as she does.
like everything but the boots. Pretty girl.
Lovely, except for the too big boots. I suppose because her legs are slender, it can't be helped. Love the colors, shape and texture of the cowl/coat combination. As a knitter, I love the cowl. Going to make one right now!
even though other people don't seem to like it…. I think the thick cowl really makes this outfit pop because of its blue color. her whole outfit is beautiful, festive, colorful but clean and fashionable. her face looks quietly proud and kind :)
It's sweet to see she's keeping Christmas in mind :-)
I wonder if the setting makes her clothes more meaningful? Would she look as stylish in the Paramus Park Mall?
i just like..fashion style.
like this!
LOVE her look! Perfect:)
her look is great
simple and stylish
ooooh what the superboots
back to 80″
i love the Christmas trees lined up along the footpath in the background.


text:
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - January 2, 2013 --Trenton recorded its first fatal shooting less than an hour into the new year.
The Times of Trenton reports that five others were left wounded in shootings across the city in the first 14 hours of January 1st.
Police say the first fatality of 2013 was 54-year-old James Threadgill of Trenton. Prosecutors believe Threadgill was shot after a suspected verbal altercation with two men who tried to cut a line he was waiting on at a bar on East State Street.
Police say Threadgill was shot by one of the men outside the bar and was later taken off life support. The suspects remain at large.
Trenton recorded 24 homicides in 2012, the same number as the year before.
The first homicide of 2012 didn't occur until Jan. 15.


text:
Join us for the PSU Friday Transportation Seminar. The event is free and all are welcome!
Bike Planning Methods in Oregon Communities
Image by Greg Raisman
Where: Room 204 of the Distance Learning Center Wing of the Urban Center at PSU
Speaker: Tara Weidner, Oregon DOT
Topic: Bike Planning Methods in Oregon Communities
Summary: In this seminar, Tara Weidner will discuss changes in the works to the State Analysis Procedures Manual (APM) to include three graduated levels of bike planning methods for use in Oregon communities, based on community size, data needs, and planning stage. These include the Bike Level of Traffic Stress (BLTS), a sketch tool used to assess bike network connectivity, the data-heavy Highway Capacity Manual Multi-modal Level of Service (MMLOS) procedures, and a simplified MMLOS developed by the same researchers.
Bio: Tara Weidner is an Integrated Transportation Analysis Engineer in ODOT's Transportation Planning Analysis Unit (TPAU). She has over 20 years of experience in modeling and analysis of multi-modal transportation systems. Her work focuses on arming Oregon's communities with tools to plan for the future, including being the lead on ODOT's GreenSTEP Greenhouse Gas model and coordinating other multi-modal transportation and land use tools and analysis. She joined TPAU about a year ago after working as a Senior Planner for Parsons Brinkerhoff (PB), where she was the consultant lead for the ODOT StateWide Integrated Model (SWIM) and worked with the FHWA on Mega-Regions modeling tools and managed a webinar series on "Climate Change Planning for MPOs.
Watch a video of the seminar: Stream
Download video: Download (m4v)
Download audio: Download (mp3)
View slides: Presentation (PDF)


text:
Archive Tag: Marshall Crenshaw
Recent Posts
- The Communists Have the Music September 12, 2018
- The Posies Anniversary Tour August 24, 2018
- Astral Drive is here! July 6, 2018
- My Negative Friend June 15, 2018
- An Insult To The Fact Checkers June 13, 2018
afraid of ghosts animal heart ayahuasca Ben Lee bleu blitzen trapper brendan benson butch walker Butch Walker and the Black Widows danzig in the moonlight David Myhr Deeper Into Dream dial-a-song download el may farrah Fountains Of Wayne fred abbott hannah schneider i like fun interview ken stringfellow kim richey live london mike viola nanobots nina persson pugwash review Sally Seltmann sky full of holes tcv the click five the lost brothers the posies the spade they might be giants tmbg tour tour dates video vii vinyl Young Hines
© MMIV - MMXVIII Lojinx™ Ltd. We rock. Registered in England, Company No. 07884502


text:
|Attention: DocWiki has reached EOL and will be decommissioned late January 2019.
An error message plays when calling a CTI route point
From DocWiki
An error message plays when calling a CTI route point
|Problem Summary
|Callers hear a message when calling a CTI route point. The JTAPI subsystem might also be in partial service because the CTI route point cannot load the associated application script.
|Error Message
|I'm sorry, we are currently experiencing system problems.
|Possible Cause
|The application script associated with the CTI route point did not load correctly.
|Recommended Action
Validate the application script in the Cisco Unified CCX Editor as follows:
|Release 7.0(1)
|Associated CDETS #


text:
Friday, November 22, 2013
Annual Soup Supper Returns!
join or renew your membership. Do you know someone who's interested in being part of our global, grassroots organization with more than 150,000 members and 2,000 food communities throughout 150+ countries? A membership in Slow Food would be a great holiday gift!
Posted by What We're About at 1:14 PM No comments:
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Annual Meeting: Lots of Energy and Exciting Plans
Lots of energy at the November 18th annual meeting, and lots of exciting events coming soon for Slow Food Maumee Valley. Watch this space and your e-mail for news on the time/place of the first event of 2014: our annual Soup Supper. New chapter board members were elected: Paula Ross, Chair; Mary Weiss, Vice Chair; Michael Leizerman, Treasurer; Anita Levin: Secretary; Elizabeth Bergman, Lisa Blake, and Amelia Contreras, Board Members Everyone is welcome to join Slow Food Maumee Valley by becoming a member of Slow Food USA . Just choose "Maumee Valley" as your chapter and join us to celebrate food that is good, clean and fair and to help make that food available to everyone.
Posted by What We're About at 10:39 PM No comments:
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Annual Meeting
Slow Food Maumee Valley members are invited to attend our annual meeting on Tuesday November 19th, 5 PM, in the Kelly Room of the Main Library, Downtown Toledo. We will review bylaws and elect a leadership team.
Posted by What We're About at 9:43 AM No comments:
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)


text:
Thanks to a new Ohio "Third Grade Reading Guarantee" law, Nichole Smith's first grader hates reading, believes he's slow, and spends an additional 45 minutes a night on reading --in addition to his regular homework.
Nichole says, "I signed at paper at conferences saying we'd do the [extra] work they were asking. This is turning into a chore for both of us . . . I feel like he's being pressured, and he's going to hate reading which hurts me. I don't know what to do at this point."
Nichole and her son are among many Ohio residents feeling new reading pressures. It's the result of Ohio's "Reading Guarantee" law that says all third graders (excluding students with disabilities or English Language Learners) must pass the state's reading test. If they don't, they'll repeat third grade.
Ohio superintendent and principal, George Wood, finds the state's logic for retention ill-conceived. He writes it's "simply not good educational practice."
In fact, research on retention shows that retention "can increase the likelihood that a student will drop out of school" (National Center for Education Statistics, 2006) and "the preponderance of evidence argues that students who repeat a grade are no better off, and are sometimes worse off, than if they had been promoted with their classmates." (Educational Leadership, 2008)
The new requirements mandate additional interventions for students who aren't performing reading. Unfortunately, the state has not provided funding to fulfill this requirement.
But, Governor John Kasich argues this law is good for students. He cites a study showing that students who don't read proficiently by third grade are more likely to drop out than their peers. (Right now only 1/3 of Ohio fourth graders read at grade level.)
I found a sample of Ohio's test on the Ohio.gov Department of Education. Go here to download a partial practice test. Do you think the test is even a good measure of a child's reading ability?
All I know is that students like Nichole's son are feeling more pressure and increased stress.
Stress and learning don't go well together.
I'm concerned.
How about you?


text:
- Jan
- duration
- tuition
PVOL202: Solar Training - Advanced PV System Design and the NEC (Grid-Direct) - Online
Take a deep dive into National Electrical Code (NEC® 2017 (we will start using NEC® 2017 standards in the February 2018 session of PVOL202)) standards as well as other best practices that pertain to designing grid-direct PV systems. The focus in PVOL202 is on residential and commercial-scale systems, but the Code requirements, design parameters, and best practices are applicable to all types and sizes of PV installations. Detailed lessons address requirements for disconnects, overcurrent protection, and wire sizing; interconnection requirements and calculations; grounding, ground-faults, and surge protection; calculations for system sizing, inverter selection, and electrical configuration; ground and roof mount details; and commissioning and performance analysis procedures. (Prerequisite class required, see below)


text:
The World's Largest Coalition of Nontheists and Nontheist Communities!
Search Blog Posts
As America rearms for the annual War on Christmas™, a new study from the…
Added by Omnipotent Poobah on December 2, 2011 at 4:33pm —
No Comments
Welcome toAtheist Nexus
Sign Upor Sign In
Or sign in with:
Update Your Membership :
Nexus on Social Media:
© 2018 Atheist Nexus. All rights reserved. Admin: The Nexus Group.
Powered by
Badges |
Report an Issue |
Terms of Service
Please check your browser settings or contact your system administrator.