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Summerville Resort is a new and prestigious collection of town-home villas just 5 miles from the entrance to Walt Disney World! Be among the first to stay in this contemporary vacation rental with pristine finishes & amenities. No need to wait in line to shower here; each of the 5 bedrooms has its own attached bath. After a day exploring the parks, come home to indulgence at the Resort, which features a community hot tub, heated pool, fitness center, playground, and a sleek Clubhouse. BBQ Grill - Patio with alfresco dining and BBQ grill (let us know in advance if you plan to use the grill; we must apply a $65 fee to cover the cost of setup and cleaning) HOT TUB: This property is equipped with a private outdoor Hot Tub which requires manual setup on the day of arrival. There is a $100 setup & Sanitization fee required. A $35 additional fee is required for each change of water and sanitization during the stay. Guests must prepay and make arrangements to use the Hot Tub prior to arrival. PARKING - Vehicles are to be parked in designated parking areas only. The reserved parking space number for this property is the same as the street address. If you have more than one vehicle in your party, please use the designated "guest" parking spaces. Parking on the road is not permitted. Any illegally parked cars are subject to towing; applicable fines/towing fees are the sole responsibility of the vehicle owner. SHIPPING POLICY - All deliveries can be done via private carriers such as Federal Express and UPS as well as USPS. Guests must use the property address for door delivery. The resort does not receive, store, or hold packages on behalf of guests. VALET TRASH PICK-UP - Door-step collection begins after 11 AM - 7 days a week. Please bag and tie all waste – loose items are a safety hazard and will not be collected. Do not include needles or other sharp objects. Please breakdown all cardboard boxes. In addition, there's also a Community dumpster available for trash disposal. COMMUNITY POOL/SPA HOURS - The Resort pool area is open from dusk to dawn daily. However, hours are subject to change so be sure to check at the clubhouse before making any plans for the day. Night-time swimming is not allowed. POOL TOWELS - Summerville Resort does provide pool towels so there is no need to bring towels from your home. PARTY/EVENTS - No parties or loud activities are permitted. If guests are found to have had a party without host permission which results in extra cleaning, guests will be responsible for extra cleaning charges, and in the unfortunate event of the disruptions alerting neighbors, our community patrols will contact the authorities and GUESTS WILL BE ASKED TO VACATE THE PROPERTY IMMEDIATELY. The Space Summerville Resort is the ideal basecamp for your Disney vacation. Just a short drive from the parks (5-8 minutes, traffic depending), walking distance from the nearest supermarket, and within a couple miles of restaurants and more shopping. The villa's interior design is contemporary and washed in Florida sunlight—the perfect mix of relaxed and refined style. Perks at this 5-bedroom, 6-bath villa include: · Smart TVs in every bedroom and the family room · Modern, fully equipped, eat-in kitchen with new stainless appliances · Waterfall granite island with bar-stool seating · Washer & dryer in your villa · Pack and play and highchairs available upon request · Patio with alfresco dining and BBQ grill (let us know in advance if you plan to use the grill; we must apply a $65 fee to cover the cost of cleaning) · WiFi · Luxuriously appointed beds · Open-concept, group-friendly layout · Dining table for 8 (plus 4 at the kitchen bar) · Shared community amenities like a pool, hot tub, and Clubhouse with fitness center · Pet-friendly with $120 pet deposit (max 2 pets) · A/C A Day at Summerville Resort Wake up in a comfy bed after a restful night's sleep and get ready for the day—all 5
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Hosts can enter monthly specific pricing and the average rent is the average monthly rate for all 12 months. The actual monthly rate can be higher or lower depending on your stay dates. Enter your stay dates to see the exact monthly rate for your stay.
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If you're like most companies, the thought of using eSignature technology and going paperless is an intriguing one. Lifting the burden of piles of paper sounds fantastic, and the idea of never having to deal a printer again is compelling.
Yet, you remain unsure.
You've done the research, like what you see, but have a few hesitations on whether eSignatures is the right move for your organization. Sure, change is hard and embracing new technologies can be difficult. We understand the uncertainty. All that paper, oddly enough, is like a nice, warm blanket. You are comfortable with the current processes, and it's hard to let go.
We're here to say don't delay any further.
The main reason why you should make the change now?
Cutting back on paper means cutting back on costs
Perhaps the most overlooked aspect of using eSignatures is the amount of money that they can save you.
With something as prevalent as paper, we often ignore the actual dollar amount associated with its use. We need it, we buy it, we move on. Rarely does anyone in a business environment question the purchase of paper.
In many ways, it's similar to a commodity like milk or bread. Even if we notice a slight uptick in its price, it remains a necessary staple of the business world, so we believe we cannot operate without it.
It's not just the paper itself either. We often excuse associated costs that come with using that paper.
Consider the following:
- The related expenses that go into printing, copying, or scanning paper documents. You must also account for the toner and maintenance and upkeep required on your business machines.
- The shipping costs required to send physical documents versus virtual files.
- The cost in storage, either in real dollars for off-site facilities or lost in a lease due to square footage set aside for boxes of documents.
- The disposal fees when it comes time to purge outdated or unnecessary paperwork.
- Taken individually, usage costs may be nominal, but they do add up.
The office worker in the US uses on average 10,000 sheets (or two cases) of paper every year. It may seem a slight number, but when you account for printing and copying, costs can increase upwards of 31% of the original purchase price of the paper.
Considering a case of paper costs roughly $50, that means $131 in paper per employee.
Add to that expenses from document distribution, storage (which usually means 10% to 15% of your monthly office lease), and destruction of dead files, and the expenses quickly rise.
Adding insult to injury, a large number of printed materials never even make it out of the printing tray. As Kelly Glaser notes:
The real issue is how that paper is being used or, in this case, not used. According to a recent survey, 70% of the total waste in offices is made up of paper and as much as 30% of print jobs are never even picked up from the printer. Even worse, 45% of printed paper ends up in the trash by the end of the day. When you consider that the total amount spent annually by U.S. companies on printed documents is $120 million, it's clear that there is a lot of pointless printing in modern offices (and a lot of wasted money).
Even a modest office of 25 to 50 employees will experience a considerable level of savings moving to eSignature technology.
But there's a lot more to signing a piece of paper than penning in your name and initials.
It's not just money you will save.
A more efficient way to function
When you adopt eSignature technology, dollars aren't the only thing to consider. Streamlining your paper management procedures does wonders for your operations and levels of efficiency.
Think about the time it takes your company to obtain a signature on a hard copy document.
Do you measure it in minutes? Hours? Or can it take days? If your organization falls into the last category, you are by no means alone.
To grasp the full scope of what goes into to getting a contract or other document signed traditionally, let's detail it out:
Look, we even tossed in the email shortcuts to help streamline the process, but even then there's a lot of printing and scanning.
At best, it's a cumbersome process.
Now, let's detail it out, this time with eSignature technology doing all the heavy lifting:
If you're keeping track, we used 117 words to describe the first procedure. The eSign instructions required less than half that.
Free your team from the pushing of paper
If you're not convinced already, there are still several more benefits to streamlining your document management efforts with eSignatures. For example, the advantages an eSignature platform present for your team members also stand on their own.
We've already touched on the reduction in time by not having to print, scan, or mail documents that require signatures. But similar to the overlooked costs of paper, eSigning can also relieve your employees of some of the hidden realities that come with a paper-centric company.
First, it eliminates the need to chase down signatures and makes following up far easier. When the document execution process is handled electronically – from start to finish – emailing reminders or sending out a fresh set of docs is as simple as a click of the mouse or tap on a trackpad.
It also dramatically reduces the need to check for and correct errors in the documentation. In addition, there is no need to fiddle with difficult PDF forms that can be a challenge to create and manage.
Next, lost docs become a thing of the past. If your signer misplaces a contract or fails to sign signature pages promptly, you no longer have reprint, rescan or re-email the forgotten or lost pages to get them signed. Just submit a new set of documents seeking their eSignature.
Finally, moving to eSignatures makes the overall storage and management of your signed agreements easy to control. Gone are the towers of floor-to-ceiling document boxes, the dead file destruction costs, and the stacks of paper blooming from desks and floors like miniature cities.
Your hard copies are now soft copies and fully managed electronically.
All of this amounts to less time your team has to spend organizing paperwork. Which means more time to focus on what matters – your company.
Try it out for yourself!
Even if you choose to push your transition out a little longer, you are ultimately just delaying the inevitable. Society is moving to less paper. When you stop and realize the number of tasks you perform every day on your smartphone or tablet, it's not hard to see the execution of signed document as a logical next step. So why delay and deny yourself and your company the rewards that come with eSignatures?

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Thursday, February 3, 2011
Early Children's Rooms in Public Libraries
We take separate children's rooms in public libraries for granted today, but that was not the case before the 1890s. It was in that decade that the transition from no separate children's rooms in public libraries to almost every public library having a separate children's room began. I was prompted to investigate the start of this practice in public libraries when a friend passed along a link to an article in Pittsburgh.magazine.com about the formation of the Children's Department at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. The article by Rick Sebak ends by saying: "So we may not have the first, but we may have had the first really good one, carefully managed and "organized" by a caring staff of well-trained librarians. We taught the rest of the world what makes a quality children's department." Sebak makes note in his article of the role played by Frances Jenkins Olcott who came to the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh in 1898 in developing the Children's Deaprtment. Although various libraries including the Boston Public Library lay claim to having the first public library children's room, the Brookline Public Library in Massachusetts seems to have the strongest claim. Their children's room was established in June of 1890 primarily to get noisy children out of the adult reading room. It was initially supervised by the library's janitor. Of the large public libraries, the Denver Public Library under the leadership of John Cotton Dana was the first to establish children's services in 1894. Dana reporting on the success of the children's department at Denver in 1896 said this: "If public libraries are of value, this form of a children's department must be, if not the ideal thing, certainly an ideal thing." Mary Wright Plummer, Director of the Pratt Institute Free Library in Brooklyn and an advocate for children's services in public libraries, conducted a survey in 1896 and found that the majority of public libraries did not allow membership by children under 12. She identified only 15 public libraries that provided services from a children's room. Under Plummer, a new library building for the Pratt Institute was the first to include a children's room in its initial design and was actually constructed. My source for this information is the book American Library Development 1600-1899 by Elizabeth W. Stone (H. W. Wilson, 1977). There was another recent online article about the first children's library in Quebec, Canada. The postcard above shows children using the Carpenter Memorial Library in Manchester, New Hampshire.
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There was another very early children's room (1888) in the New York Free Circulating Library (NYFCL) although it did not become permanent. According to HM Lydenberg's History of the New York Public Library (1923) Melvil Dewey wrote the NYFCL on behalf of the Children's Library Association in January 1888 asking that a children's room be provided on the third floor in the newly-opened George Bruce Branch. The NYFCL agreed, and the CLA provided the books and the librarian. The experiment apparently didn't extend beyond December 1888. NYPL absorbed the NYFCL in 1901 to create NYPL's Circulation Department and NYPL's children's work officially began in 1906 under Anne Carroll Moore.
- February 3, 2011 at 1:37 PM
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The West Chester Public Library, PA (1872) listed "boys, girls, and youths" among its borrowers as early as 1881. The 1888 building, which we still occupy though it is expanded and renovated, had "an alcove ... filled with juvenile books" by 1897. The need for a separate children's room was formally addressed in 1911 with the appointment of a children's librarian. By 1915 the library had it's Children's Room. (www.wcpubliclibrary.org)
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AMD is now in a position to make a pretty compelling overall argument to server customers
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Fanstastic multi-socket scaling Massive bandwidth and floating point performance Impressive power efficiency improvements
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It's been a long time coming, but AMD finally has a decent quad-core chip. Launched today in Opteron server trim, AMD's new 45nm microarchitecture is far from revolutionary. But it does make for an excellent server CPU and also bodes well for upcoming desktop derivatives.
Known internally at AMD under the Shanghai codename, the new microarchitecture doesn't amount to much more than a die shrink from 65nm production technology to a new 45nm node.
Both the overall quad-core layout and the detailed architecture of the cores have been carried over pretty much unchanged. OK, the memory controller has been massaged. It now supports DDR2 running at 800MHz. The HyperTransport links have also been upgraded to 3.0 spec.
Oh, and AMD has improved some aspects of the chip's virtualisation support. Particular attention has been paid to the time taken for so-called 'world-switching'.
That's the process of shifting a virtual machine between host and guest systems. If that sounds rather arcane, virtualisation is an increasingly important aspect of server CPU performance. This stuff really matters.
Banishing Barcelona
But when you get right down to it, Shanghai is all about 45nm silicon. And the good news is that all the indications are that it's a very healthy process for AMD.
Unlike last year's troubled Barcelona launch, Shanghai is on time and hitting the ground running at decent clockspeeds. At launch, the new Opterons span a range of clockspeeds between 2.3GHz and 2.7GHz.
That might seem a little ordinary compared to the 3.4GHz clock of Intel's top Xeon server CPU. But it's worth remembering that the best quad-core server processor AMD could actually ship a little over a year ago was 1.9GHz.
Arguably even more impressive are the power ratings of the new Opterons. Even the top 2.7GHz 2384 model is rated at just 75 watts. That's a huge step forward compared to the 105 watt rating of the outgoing 2.5GHz 65nm Opteron 2360. Overall, AMD says the new 45nm process is 35 per cent more power efficient.
As you'd expect with any die-shrink, the new 45nm process also allows AMD to pack a few more transistors into the die. For the new Opterons, that takes the form of a boost from 2MB to 6MB of L3 cache memory.
Building on strengths
But what about performance? Given the carry-over architecture, we weren't expecting fireworks. However, what Shanghai does extremely well is build on the existing strengths of its Opteron family of processors.
As before, multi-socket scaling is excellent. In benchmarks that major on data bandwidth and floating point performance, a pair of 2.7GHz Opteron 2384 chips are probably the fastest dual-socket solution currently available.
Certainly they have the measure of Intel's Xeon processors running at 3.2GHz in our computational fluid dynamics benchmark. And this is just the dual-socket version of Opteron. Given AMD's traditional advantage as sockets are added, we'd expect the four-way model to have an even greater advantage.
That said, integer performance is slightly less impressive. But it's significantly closer than before thanks to the boost clocks and cache memory. The overall picture is extremely solid, therefore.
Factor in the big improvements in power efficiency - again, that's something that really matters for high density server installations - and AMD is now in a position to make a pretty compelling overall argument to server customers.
At least, that's true in the context of the current Intel competition. Early next year, Intel will roll out its impressive new Nehalem architecture in servers. We've already seen what a beast it is on the desktop in Core i7 trim. AMD had better make the most of the next few months.
Comparative benchmarks - AMD Opteron 2384 v Intel Xeon X5472
AMD Opteron 2384
Memory bandwidth 20.62 GB/s
Sandra Dhrystone ALU arithmetic 77.72 GIPS
Sandra Whetstone FPU 62.99 GFLOPS
Cinebench 10 multi-core 45secs
Cinebench 10 single-core 4mins 2secs
X264 encode 74fps
Stars CFD 30.32secs
Intel Xeon X5472
Memory bandwidth 10.4 GB/s
Sandra Dhrystone ALU arithmetic 104.57 GIPS
Sandra Whetstone FPU 83.76 GFLOPS
Cinebench 10 multi-core 37secs
Cinebench 10 single-core 3mins 44secs
X264 encode 86fps
Stars CFD 37.34secs
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Sick of renting, but not ready to spend your Saturdays on a lawn mower? Often featuring desirable locations, minimal maintenance, quality amenities, and smaller price tags than single-family homes, it's no wonder young homebuyers find condos attractive. But living in a condo can present some unique challenges.
Ask yourself these 5 questions to make sure a condo living is right for you.
Condos are clusters of individually-owned units typically sharing common walls, landscaping, and driveways. To fairly maintain these common areas, condo owners pay a monthly fee for routine and emergency maintenance including lawn mowing, snow plowing, painting, and roofing repairs.
While freedom from yard work can be a perk, condo fees—which can be several hundred dollars—will take a bite out of your budget. Most condo associations only maintain property from the walls out. That means when a bathroom pipe bursts, you still have to play plumber.
While monthly condo fees cover ongoing maintenance and contributions to a reserve fund for small emergency repairs, condo associations may assess separate fees for unexpected expenses or to fund major property improvements like repaving.
Take this example, a condo association charged $150 additional one month to cover the previous winter's higher-than-normal snow plowing expenses and $200 another month to cover pool repairs. While hopefully a few hundred dollars won't throw off your entire budget, if you buy a condo, be prepared for fluctuating or increasing condo fees.
Every condo association has rules. While some associations' rules may provide owners with most of the liberties of owning a stand-alone residence, other associations' rules can be restrictive—or downright bizarre. Every association is different, but examples of rules you might find include: no dogs, no window air conditioners, no kids, no late-night laundry, or no flags or outdoor decorations.
Associations can sue over continued violations. Be sure to read the condo documents (which include association rules) carefully before purchasing a unit to make sure that your lifestyle and the building code are a good fit.
Condos make ideal homes for singles and couples who lead busy lives and don't spend much time at home and homeowners who want to spend less time and energy on maintenance. They are also great for those looking for amenities that would otherwise be very expensive to include in a single-family home. Some examples are a pool, dog run, on-site gym, or an outdoor lounge area to enjoy on nice days. Consider your lifestyle—both now and in a few years—and make sure a condo is the right fit.
It's not uncommon for young home-buyers to find condos that are significantly smaller—and more affordable—than even the smallest single family homes. While a small condo can be an affordable way to get out of renting and begin building equity in your home, it has to be the right condo.
The rumor that condos do not appreciate as fast as single-family homes is false; according to the National Association of Realtors condos have routinely outpaced single-family homes in appreciation. Unlike houses, however, a condo's value is closely linked to the association fee.
Newer condos require less maintenance and may have lower fees. If banks foreclose upon multiple units in an association, the remaining owners may be stuck with splitting those units' fees. Older condos will have a number of stable owners, typically with increased fees for increased maintenance.
It's important to consider myriad variables affecting the price and potential of any piece of real estate, and condos are no exception. Choose wisely, and a condo could not only be the perfect place to call your first home, but a sound investment, too.
Disclaimer: The information contained in the article has not been prepared by Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation and is distributed for educational purposes only. The information is not guaranteed to be accurate and may not entirely represent the opinions of Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation.
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A brand new addition to the Saturday Night Movie Sleepovers rotation is the Podcast that started it all, Dion and Blake's Side-Cast. Originally airing on the sister site Podwits.com, the Side-Cast was the catalyst for what became SNMS. To showcase where it all began we are reissuing this series, highlighting the anthology podcast that covered a variety of topics, so they can breath a second life, and because eventually it will be a new off-shoot of the regular SNMS Podcast, where brand new podcast content will be generated for SNMS website.
(This podcast was originally published on July the 30th of 2014, we hope you enjoy!)
Dion and J. Blake are back for an all new, exciting episode of The Podwits' Side Cast! The topic today is the man, the myth, the legend…. Bruce Campbell; and all things Mr. Campbell! The boys get into the nitty-gritty and talk about his mainstream successes like The Evil Dead and Burn Notice, but also get into some lesser known gems like Moon Trap, Running Time and Crime Wave, and even some forget beauties like The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.and Bubba Ho-Tep. A mandatory listen for any Campbell or Raimi fan, or any Film fan for that matter!!! Come on down and have a listen!
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A refinance pays off your current mortgage and gives you cash based on your equity. These are good for:
l Lowering or locking in your mortgage interest rate
2 Getting large sums of money ($30,000 or more)
Home equity loans (second mortgage) are installment loans that are paid out in one lump sum. They're good for:
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A neon light is the sort of light you see used in advertising signs. These signs are made of long, narrow glass tubes, and these tubes are often bent into all sorts of shapes. The tube of a neon light can spell out a word, for example. These tubes emit light in different colors.
A fluorescent light, on the other hand, is most often a long, straight tube that produces white light. You see fluorescent lights in offices, stores and some home fixtures.
The idea behind a neon light is simple. Inside the glass tube there is a gas like neon, argon or krypton at low pressure. At both ends of the tube there are metal electrodes. When you apply a high voltage to the electrodes, the neon gas ionizes, and electrons flow through the gas. These electrons excite the neon atoms and cause them to emit light that we can see. Neon emits red light when energized in this way. Other gases emit other colors.
A fluorescent light works on a similar idea but it has an extra step. Inside a fluorescent light is low-pressure mercury vapor. When ionized, mercury vapor emits ultraviolet light. Human eyes are not sensitive to ultraviolet light (although human skin is -- see How Sunburns and Sun Tans Work!). Therefore, the inside of a fluorescent light is coated with a phosphor. A phosphor is a substance that can accept energy in one form (for example, energy from a high-speed electron as in a TV tube -- see How Television Works) and emit the energy in the form of visible light. In a fluorescent lamp, the phosphor accepts the energy of ultraviolet photons and emits visible photons.
The light we see from a fluorescent tube is the light given off by the phosphor that coats the inside of the tube (the phosphor fluoresces when energized, hence the name). The light of a neon tube is the colored light that the neon atoms give off directly.


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BFM fittings are sanitary, dust-tight and explosion-resistant connectors for conveying, processing and packaging equipment. They're designed for use with vibrating and oscillating equipment since the flexible sleeve doesn't have any pinch points. This reduces the risk of premature sleeve wear, material being trapped, bacteria growth and cross contamination.
BFM fittings consist of a flexible sleeve, complete with integral snap bands on each end, and two metal spigots. After welding the spigots to your piping, the snap-in sleeve can be removed or replaced in about one minute without tools. There are no hose clamps to seize, slip off or burst from internal pressure.
Sleeves can be fabricated from clear polyurethane, polyester, vinyl, Kevlar and other materials. Diameters and lengths from four inches through 48 inches are available.


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5 Valuable Tips to Beat Tooth Sensitivity
Gulp – ouch! You just took a sip of your favorite drink and are now experiencing a sharp pain through your teeth. Does this scenario sound familiar? Maybe it's your favorite hot or cold dish that's setting off these pains. Either way, you may have sensitive teeth.
Several factors could trigger tooth sensitivity pain, including receding gums, teeth whitening, tooth decay, or genetics. However, there are ways to relieve your pain. In this blog, we'll share 5 ways to get rid of tooth sensitivity.
1) Use toothpaste made for sensitive teeth
There are plenty of brands, such as Colgate, Crest, Arm & Hammer, and Sensodyne, that offer toothpastes designed to help people with sensitive teeth. Look for the ingredient potassium nitrate, which helps combat tooth sensitivity and stop the pain. Combine your toothpaste with a mouth rinse with stannous fluoride to desensitize your teeth better.
2) Swap out your toothbrush and habits
The way you brush and the type of toothbrush you use can aggravate your teeth sensitivity, so it's crucial you take a hard look at your brushing habits. Be sure you're using a soft-bristled toothbrush while gently brushing your teeth. Aggressive brushing with hard bristles will contribute to receding gums, exposing your sensitive teeth and wearing away enamel, increasing your teeth's sensitivity.
3) Avoid acidic foods and drinks
The Mayo Clinic reports acidic foods and drinks, such as coffee and citrus fruits, can dissolve your enamel, thus creating tooth sensitivity. Try to avoid those acidic foods altogether, but we understand it's hard to give up your cup of morning joe. Instead, try to limit your exposure to these foods and drink acidic beverages through a straw to limit contact with the liquid. Also, drink a glass of milk after consuming these foods to help neutralize the acid.
4) Wear a mouthguard
Do you grind your teeth at night? This type of trauma can wear away your tooth enamel, making your teeth feel sensitive and sore. At our dental practice, we make customized mouth guards, which are molded to your smile, cushioning and protecting your teeth from the nightly grind.
Not sure if you grind your teeth at night? Symptoms such as constant, severe headaches and unexplained jaw pain are good clues to look out for. Contact your dentist to determine if a mouthguard is the best option to get rid of your tooth sensitivity.
5) See your dentist
In the end, your dentist can help you. Be sure to visit every six months to ensure your dental experts can develop a customized treatment plan to get rid of your teeth sensitivity.
Are there any at-home remedies you've tried to limit your teeth sensitivity pain? Share your findings with the community by commenting below.
The content on this blog is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of qualified health providers with questions you may have regarding medical conditions.
Re-posted with permission. Source: https://www.quickdentalanswers.com/
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A common question since launching BitScope Micro with element14 is how do I to connect an oscilloscope probe?
BitScope analog channels have always been electrically compatible with scope probes because they have 1MΩ / 20pF input impedance. Any probe designed for use with an oscilloscope can therefore be used with any BitScope.
The BitScope Micro Diagnostic Port has inputs configured for twisted pair access on its two analog channels.
It's therefore quite easy to rig up a pair of BNC sockets and twisted pair flying leads to connect an oscilloscope probe to each input as shown above.
However, we've since come up with a more convenient and robust solution !
We call it Micro Port 01 (MP01, aka HammerHead), a universal mixed signal I/O adapter for BitScope Micro.
MP01 is a dual channel BNC probe adapter with logic, waveform generator and clock ports custom designed for BitScope Micro.
It connects standard oscilloscope probes.
Any passive probe with 1:1, 10:1 or other attenuation ratios can be used. It supports active differential, current or any other type of probe which is BNC terminated and designed for a standard oscilloscope.
MP01 is not just for oscilloscope probes.
It allows the use of BNC coaxial cables for connection with other lab equipment and it connects the logic inputs and waveform and clock generator outputs via a 16-pin connector between the BNC sockets.
When used with MP01 it means BitScope Micro can be configured and used in many different ways; as a compact dual channel digital storage oscilloscope, an 8 channel logic analyzer, a mixed signal data acquisition system, a waveform and/or clock generator, a configurable automated test system or various combinations of these.
Shown here is BitScope Micro and MP01 connecting a pair of oscilloscope probes and 10 mixed signal test clips for logic, waveform and clock signals. The IDC-10 Diagnostic Port means you can set up more than one MP01 for different test setups. Simply plug and play with BitScope Micro in each one when needed, very convenient !
BitScope Micro Port 01 is available online now and soon via Farnell, element14, Newark and other distributors.
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A Pound of Flesh
by Alex Gray
on Tour November 6 – December 6, 2017
In the depths of a freezing winter, Glasgow finds itself at the mercy of not one, but two serial killers
This is Detective Inspector Lorimer's worst nightmare and beyond anything he's faced in his many years on the force. Can he find a link between the brutal slaying of prostitutes in the back streets of the city and the methodical killing of several unconnected businessmen?
When the latest victim turns out to be a prominent Scottish politician, the media's spotlight is shone on Lorimer's investigation. Psychologist and criminal profiler Solly Brightman is called in to help solve the cases, but his help may be futile as they realize that someone on the inside is leaking confidential police information. Meanwhile two killers haunt the snowy streets and Lorimer must act fast, before they strike again…
Book Details:
Genre: Mystery & Detective
Published by: Witness Impulse
Publication Date: November 7th 2017
Number of Pages: 368
Series: DCI Lorimer #9
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It wasn't always easy to see the moon or the stars. This city's sodium glow rose like yellow fog from its streets, blotting out any chance of star gazing. But she knew it was there. That cold white face dominated her thoughts tonight and she shivered as though it already saw her flesh naked and exposed to its unblinking watchfulness. Perhaps it was because she was trying to be seen that she felt such awareness. The red jersey pencil skirt folded over to create a too-short mini, those agonisingly high-heeled sandals cutting into her bare toes; spread across the bed back in the hotel they had seemed the garb of an adventuress.
Now, revealed in the glare of the street lamp on this corner she felt a sense of…what? Shame? Perhaps. Self-consciousness, certainly. But such feelings must be overcome if her plan was to work.
She had already overcome the blank indifference of the girls down in Waterloo Street, their body language both defiant and compelling. Her hips shifted, one slender foot thrust forwards, as she remembered how they had stood, languidly chewing gum, waiting for their punters. Their desperation drove them to return night after night, the price of a wrap of drugs equating to an hour with some stranger.
Her own need was just as strong, fuelled by a passion that would not be spent until she had fulfilled her desire. It was warm in this Glasgow summer's night and her black nylon blouse clung to her back, making her uncomfortably aware of her own flesh. The thin cotton coat she'd worn to conceal these trashy clothes as she'd tapped her way across the marble foyer of the hotel was now folded into the black bag at her feet, along with her more sober court shoes. When it was over she would slip them on and return the way she had come, hair clipped in a businesslike pleat. She smiled thinly. Being a woman had some advantages; the facility for disguise was just one of them. Her carefully made-up face was stripped of colour in the unforgiving lamplight, leaving only an impression of dark eyes, darker hair tossed back to reveal a long, determined mouth. She recalled what Tracey- Anne, one of the girls at the drop-in centre, had told her: I get through it by pretending to be someone else for a few hours, then I can be myself again.
Tracey-Anne was lucky, though. After tonight she could never again be the person that she used to be. Glancing at the elegant façades around the square, the dark-haired woman suddenly saw these city streets through different eyes: the shadows seemed blacker, the corners harbouring ill intent. Her chin tilted upwards, defying those inner demons tempting her to turn back.
After tonight things would change for ever. When the car slowed down at the kerb her heart quickened in a moment of anticipation that astonished her. She had expected the thrill of fear, not this rush of excitement sweeping through her blood.
The man behind the wheel had bent his head and she could see his eyes flicking over her hungrily, appraising his choice. He gave a brief nod as if to say he was pleased with his first instinct to stop. Her lip-glossed mouth drawn up in a smile, she stepped forward, willing him to reach across and open the window, ask her price. For a moment he seemed to hesitate and she could see tiny beads of sweat on his upper lip, glistening in the light. Then the door of the big car swung open noiselessly and she lowered herself inside, swinging her legs neatly together to show as much thigh as she could. But the gestures were still ladylike, almost reserved, as if she knew that would quicken his senses.
'How much?' he asked. And she told him, one shoulder moving insouciantly as if to declare that she wasn't bothered whether he could afford her or not: someone else would pay that price if he wouldn't. She glanced at him briefly, catching sight of the tip of his tongue flicking at his lips like a nervous lizard, then he made a gruff noise of assent, looking at her again, as though to be sure of his purchase, before accelerating into the night.
Excerpt from A Pound of Flesh by Alex Gray. Copyright © 2017 by Alex Gray. Reproduced with permission from Witness Impulse. All rights reserved.
Author Bio:
Alex Gray was born and educated in Glasgow. After studying English and Philosophy at the University of Strathclyde, she worked as a visiting officer for the Department of Health, a time she looks upon as postgraduate education since it proved a rich source of character studies. She then trained as a secondary school teacher of English. Alex began writing professionally in 1993 and had immediate success with short stories, articles, and commissions for BBC radio programs. She has been awarded the Scottish Association of Writers' Constable and Pitlochry trophies for her crime writing. A regular on the Scottish bestseller lists, she is the author of fourteen DCI Lorimer novels. She is the co-founder of the international Scottish crime writing festival, Bloody Scotland, which had its inaugural year in 2012.
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By: Institute for Energy Research |
Very cold weather increased the demand for natural gas used for home heating and for gas-fired electric generators in the Northeast, causing a spike in prices earlier this month. Prices spiked because of the increased demand for natural gas and because constrained gas pipelines could not handle the additional volume. Natural gas for all uses is increasing in the Northeast, and is expected to continue, as the EPA implements policies drastically reducing the use of coal fired generation and nuclear plants are being retired. The Northeastern states has been reducing their fuel diversity, but it is unclear whether decision makers are giving adequate consideration to the demands on natural gas–their replacement fuel of choice. New and expanded pipelines, more local production of natural gas and other means of obtaining abundant and reliable supplies are needed in the Northeast lest even more dramatic price shocks should occur due to inadequate supplies.
The recent cold wave should serve as an early warning signal to the people of the Northeast and their political leadership. On Monday, January 6, natural gas prices more than doubled in New England and almost quadrupled in New York. Electricity prices also spiked. On Tuesday, January 7, a megawatt-hour of electricity on the wholesale market, which normally sells for $40 or $50 was selling for $500 to $1,000 in New Jersey, Delaware and areas of Pennsylvania and Maryland. In parts of New England, the wholesale electricity prices were over $200. While in New York City, wholesale electricity prices were under $200 because electric utilities substituted oil for natural gas—oil, which is normally too expensive to burn as a generation fuel, was more economic than natural gas when the spike occurred.[1]
In New York, the higher natural gas prices caused a stir because New York has a moratorium on producing natural gas from the Marcellus shale formation using hydraulic fracturing. (Vermont and New Jersey also have prohibitions on fracking, though there is little shale availability in these states geologically.) As a result, New York is not letting its natural gas and electricity consumers benefit from local shale gas production. While New York will not let natural gas be produced within the state using hydraulic fracturing, it does use shale gas produced from the Marcellus formation in Pennsylvania, whose consumers benefit from its production. According to the Energy Information Administration, natural gas prices in Pennsylvania in 2013 were only 11 percent higher than in 2012 due to continued growth in production from the Marcellus shale compared to price increases of 61 percent in New York and 75 percent in New England – states that must import natural gas from other states, Canada, or from aboard as liquefied natural gas.
The Changing Energy Market in the Northeast
The natural gas drilling boom in shale fields due to the use of hydraulic fracturing coupled with horizontal drilling led to a plunge in gas prices that caused an increase in natural gas-fired generation and a shift from heating oil to natural gas in the Northeast. Natural gas generated less than 30 percent of New England's electricity in 2001, but provides more than 50 percent today. Natural gas pipelines are able to handle the increased demand during the summer months, but the pipelines become constrained in the winter due to the added demand for heating, particularly in very cold weather. During the cold spell, some power providers imported more gas from Canada through pipelines that have become underused in recent years due to the domestic shale gas renaissance and from abroad as liquefied natural gas.
Twenty interstate pipeline systems operate between Virginia and Maine, delivering gas from the Marcellus field, the Gulf of Mexico, and Canada. Due to several regional natural gas price spikes occurring last winter, several gas pipeline expansion projects were completed over the past year connecting the Marcellus field to New York and New Jersey. More expansions are scheduled through 2015. Additional pipeline service to New England, an expansion of Spectra Energy's Algonquin Incremental Market pipeline project bringing new Marcellus gas production through Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, is anticipated for 2016.
Unfortunately, the expected retirement of coal-fired plants, such as the Brayton Point power plant in southeastern Massachusetts, the largest coal-fired plant in New England[iii] with 1,055 megawatts of coal-fired capacity and 435 megawatts of natural gas-fired capacity, scheduled to be shut down in 2017, will cause even more pressure on pipelines to deliver natural gas to the area. The Institute for Energy Research has found that over 1,100 megawatts of capacity in the Northeast are expected to be prematurely retired due to EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Rule (colloquially called Utility MACT) and the Cross State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR).[iv]
Not only are coal-fired power plants retiring prematurely, but nuclear plants as well. On August 27, Entergy announced the pending closure of the Vermont Yankee plant, which is expected in the fourth quarter of 2014, when the plant's current fuel cycle ends. The closure of this 41-year-old nuclear plant is expected to affect natural gas and electricity markets throughout New England because the plant had been generating about 4 percent of New England's electricity supply and about three-quarters of Vermont's power. Entergy cited a number of financial factors for the retirement including increased costs to comply with new federal and regional regulations. Because Vermont Yankee is operated as a merchant generator, its costs cannot be recovered through regulated cost-of-service rates.[v]
New England expects more than 1,369 megawatts of generating capacity to be retired between 2013 and 2016. Dominion Energy Resources is planning to retire the nearly 750-megawatt Salem Harbor coal- and petroleum-fired power plant in Massachusetts in 2014 due to the costs of compliance with new environmental regulations and declining profits for coal-fired units in Independent System Operator (ISO) of New England.[vi] To keep operating its coal-fired power plants, the company would need to spend millions of dollars on environmental equipment to comply with EPA regulations.
Reliability experts are noting that the New England grid is entering risky territory. With the above early retirements, and other resources contemplating closure, the New England grid is becoming dangerously reliant on natural gas. The ISO New England, the electric grid operator, recommended against the closure of the 1500 megawatt Brayton Point facility because the plant is needed to ensure reliability.[vii]
Clearly, the amount of electricity from natural gas fired plants in New England will be increasing beyond its current 52 percent share due to these premature retirements of nuclear and coal-fired power plants caused primarily by onerous federal regulations. This turn of events is also dangerously narrowing energy diversity in the region. Energy diversity is needed due to pipeline constraints for moving natural gas and future expected increases in natural gas prices.
If government leaders in the Northeast and throughout the country are looking to natural gas as the answer to their future energy needs, it is important that the infrastructure be available to transport needed energy from sources of supply to demand areas, particularly when demand increases quickly due to extremely cold weather when consumers need the energy for warmth. If the infrastructure is sufficient, large price spikes will be less likely to occur. In the case of the Northeast this month, the availability of Canadian gas and liquefied natural gas helped to alleviate even larger price spikes.
However, a separate cause for concern is the lessening in diversity in Northeast energy markets with natural gas used for electric generation increasing from a 30 percent share to over 50 percent in New England, coal-fired generators being prematurely retired due to onerous regulations from the EPA, and natural gas displacing heating oil because of its favorable economics. This trend will put an even larger strain on inadequate pipeline infrastructure, and likely lead to price spikes and other disruptions if care is not taken to ensure adequate production and flow of energy. The recent cold spell should serve as a wakeup call to those whose policies have consequences for consumers, businesses and jobs.


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The image url is: http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/getfile/57642/
I believe you are understanding the site collections and the sites from the above picture. [All site collections are using their own content databases]
SC6 is the main/big site collection in the diagram. It has 5 regions named Europe, Asia, East, West and Central. And there are "Department" sites in the same level as regions under the site collection.
The Department sites contains high level information which can be accessible by owners, managers etc. And each region also has department data which can be uploaded by the department users. Now, the requirement is all department owners able to see the department related data from a region directly in their department sites instead of going to the each region. And we have to write some custom logic to show the data from region sites in department sites.
Each region itself is very big and contains many sites in it.
And the questions are:
If we use the above architecture then the site collection (SC6) size will grow around 500-600GB in one year. But there are limitations on site collection size 100GB and Content database size 200GB. If we Remote Blob Storage then there are some other issues [But not sure]
We cannot create the region sites as site collections as the department users should be able to view the regions. [Implementation of permissions, security will be difficult]
So, how to resolve these kind of problems? Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.


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ILLUSIONS Las Vegas starring Jan Rouven features some of the most dangerous and thrilling acts and gives the audience a front-row seat into the imagination of a master illusionist. The audience has unwittingly signed on to take a journey of discovery in search of the mystery of ILLUSIONS with heart-thumping music and five dancers helping Rouven cross many boundaries. Magic, mystery and imagination, set to the current hit music such as Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" and Katy Perry's "ET," will transport the audience on an unforgettable journey into his world of Illusions. The seamless ride will include acts such as the Bed of Death, Fire Spiker, Hand Stab where a volunteer from the audience will play Russian roulette with a sharp knife, the Water Tank where the thrill level rises even more when the illusionist nearly drowns cuffed and chained under water and many more you just have to see to believe. The lure of danger and the penchant to create highly risky acts with a debonair charm and a handsome smile will surely be a crowd pleaser.
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This article extends from a longer piece, entitled "Remembering Balfour: Empire, Race and Propaganda," which the journal Race & Class is publishing to mark the centennial of the Balfour Declaration. The journal's editors have lifted paywall restrictions to make that article widely accessible for the centennial, and it is available in full here.
The coming months mark the centennial of Palestine's forcible incorporation into the British Empire. In November 1917, British foreign secretary Lord Arthur Balfour declared his government's support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people"; in December, Jerusalem fell to British troops. One hundred years later, the effects of these events continue to reverberate. This should be a time of sombre reflection about international responsibility for the unfolding tragedy in Palestine.
This responsibility should weigh heavily on the West. Walid Khalidi put it well: "The Zionists were the initiators. But they were also, as they still are, the protégés of their Anglo–American sponsors and the emanations of their power, resources, and will." The fact is that the Israeli state can't be credited for much originality – either in its brutality or in the hypocrisy deployed to cover it. And it is all too fitting that it was British imperialism that propelled the Zionist movement onto the world stage.
Palestine was occupied, after all, amid one of the British Empire's last great scrambles for territory in the Afro–Asian world. The scramble was pursued amid an outpouring of imperial self-adoration. Balfour was not alone in proclaiming, wherever and whenever he could, "the extraordinary novelty, the extraordinary greatness, and the extraordinary success" of the British Empire, a system drawn together, he insisted, not by "the bonds merely of crude self-interest, but the bonds of a common belief in a great ideal." Freedom and justice marched with British troops. These may seem the banal platitudes of an imperial state. But during its "Great War," the British state deployed them as never before. Its propaganda set a new world standard in its scale, its organization, and its impact.
This is an appropriate time to look back to that propaganda and all that it revealed. The aspect of Britain's wartime propaganda that has been most widely criticized is the manipulation of atrocity stories coming out of Belgium. That's a reasonable place to start. The centerpiece of British atrocity propaganda was the "Bryce Report" of 1915, named after Viscount James Bryce. Bryce was chair of the Committee on Alleged German Outrages. As it happens, he was also a leading white supremacist and a pioneer of the kind of democracy that Britain helped Israel bring to the Middle East.
Those who know Israeli politics will find Bryce's theories familiar. Democracy and self-government were, he insisted, the rightful preserve of civilized and conquering peoples. The key to democracy was therefore the establishment of a demographic basis for it. Africans, Asians, Indigenous peoples the world over – all were in Bryce's judgement "subject races," unfit for self-government. Only through colonial settlement and a restricted franchise could democracy flourish. Bryce lectured and wrote incessantly about "the risks a democracy runs when the suffrage is granted to a large mass of half-civilized men." This great liberal's theories were influential from Australia to the United States, and they attained near-biblical authority amongst settlers in South Africa.
Their application in Palestine, in turn, was made possible thanks to British power. This history was from the beginning steeped in propaganda. As the British war effort turned east, the Holy Land was a potent symbol. In the first instance it conjured images of the Crusades. Howevever, if the goal of Allied conquests was the defence of Christendom in the Levant, France had the stronger claim. British propaganda found a convenient alternative in support for Zionism. As Herbert Sidebotham, the Manchester Guardian's military correspondent, explained, the Bryce Report didn't have to do its work alone: "great as the ideal of relieving Belgium from the invader may be, the ideal of restoring the Jewish State to Palestine is comparably greater." This could tap into deep public emotions, Sidebotham argued, and was another opportunity for Britain to deploy "ideal considerations as the allies of our military and political interests."
No one did so with greater gusto than the Scottish writer John Buchan. Buchan is best remembered as the author of adventure novels, one of which, The Thirty-Nine Steps, was readapted for the screen in a feature film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. But he was also an accomplished propagandist. More even than Bryce, Buchan had built his public service around the imposition of white rule in South Africa. In early 1917 Britain's Imperial War Cabinet selected him to direct the wartime propaganda service, with instructions to whip up public support for British war aims in the Middle East.
Buchan spun Britain's eastern war as "the Last Crusade." Tolerance and secular justice, oddly, were its supposed hallmarks. He assured his readers that the capture of Jerusalem by Allied troops was nothing less than "a parable of the cause for which fought. They would recover and make free the sacred places of the human spirit which their enemies sought to profane and enslave, and in this task they walked reverently, as on hallowed ground." Today we see what this freedom has brought to Jerusalem. Buchan's propaganda itself suggested a politics that was far from ecumenical.
Where Buchan excelled, after all, was in channeling racism in service of state. This is what he had done for the Empire's cause in South Africa, using a combination of nonfiction studies and novels. And it is what he did for the Great War. Some of his bigotry will ring familiar. So it is with his description of the menace of Islam, "a fighting creed," Buchan warned, its fanatics taking to "the pulpit with the Koran in one hand and a drawn sword in the other." Buchan's racist depiction of Jews, on the other hand, have fallen out of favor in polite Western society. Here, for example, is his fictionalized image of who was pulling the strings in Germany: "a little white-faced Jew in a bath-chair with an eye like a rattlesnake. Yes, Sir, he is the man who is ruling the world just now, and he has his knife in the Empire of the Tzar, because his aunt was outraged and his father flogged in some one-horse location on the Volga."
The antisemitism expressed by Buchan, and by the imperial establishment for which he acted as mouthpiece, squared more easily with support for Zionism than one might think. Jews were cast in various roles: as a subversive threat in Europe (Buchan did not forget the "Jew-anarchists"!); as a justification for Britain to hold Palestine; and as potential settlers, allies of the Empire in the east. These were not contradictions so much as a faithful expression of British settler colonialism. For Britain, colonial settlement was indeed a means of territorial expansion; but it was also a means of offloading the contradictions of industrial capitalism onto distant frontiers. Empire, as the Marxist literary critic Raymond Williams remarked, was represented in British culture as an "escape-route," to which the ruined, the misunderstood, "the weak of every kind could be transferred." This theme dovetailed with straight imperial calculations to structure British support for Zionism. A Jew settled in Palestine was a Jew not knocking on Britain's doors. We would do well to remember that the first modern British statesman to clamp down on Jewish immigration, imposing the Aliens Act of 1905, was none other than Lord Balfour himself.
The worsening crisis in Palestine reflects more than a local record of colonial crimes, severe as these have been. Responsibility for it is global. Arundhati Roy was right to describe the Palestine tragedy as one of "imperial Britain's festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modern world." It is also a product of a history of racism and empire that extended across most of the West. On this centennial of the Balfour Declaration, reflection on this shared culpability should serve as a reminder of the responsibility for the political action that comes with it.


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JST, John 1:1–34. Compare John 1:1–34
The gospel of Jesus Christ has been preached from the beginning. John the Baptist is the Elias who prepares the way for Christ, and Jesus Christ is the Elias who restores all things and through whom salvation comes.
1 In the beginning was the gospel preached through the Son. And the gospel was the word, and the word was with the Son, and the Son was with God, and the Son was of God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made which was made.
4 In him was the gospel, and the gospel was the life, and the life was the light of men;
5 And the light shineth in the world, and the world perceiveth it not.
6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7 The same came into the world for a witness, to bear witness of the light, to bear record of the gospel through the Son, unto all, that through him men might believe.
8 He was not that light, but came to bear witness of that light,
9 Which was the true light, which lighteth every man who cometh into the world;
10 Even the Son of God. He who was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God; only to them who believe on his name.
13 He was born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the same word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the Only Begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
15 John bear witness of him, and cried, saying, This is he of whom I spake; He who cometh after me, is preferred before me; for he was before me.
16 For in the beginning was the Word, even the Son, who is made flesh, and sent unto us by the will of the Father. And as many as believe on his name shall receive of his fullness. And of his fullness have all we received, even immortality and eternal life, through his grace.
17 For the law was given through Moses, but life and truth came through Jesus Christ.
18 For the law was after a carnal commandment, to the administration of death; but the gospel was after the power of an endless life, through Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father.
19 And no man hath seen God at any time, except he hath borne record of the Son; for except it is through him no man can be saved.
20 And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem, to ask him; Who art thou?
21 And he confessed, and denied not that he was Elias; but confessed, saying; I am not the Christ.
22 And they asked him, saying; How then art thou Elias? And he said, I am not that Elias who was to restore all things. And they asked him, saying, Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.
23 Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?
24 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as saith the prophet Esaias.
25 And they who were sent were of the Pharisees.
26 And they asked him, and said unto him; Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not the Christ, nor Elias who was to restore all things, neither that prophet?
27 John answered them, saying; I baptize with water, but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;
28 He it is of whom I bear record. He is that prophet, even Elias, who, coming after me, is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose, or whose place I am not able to fill; for he shall baptize, not only with water, but with fire, and with the Holy Ghost.
29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and said; Behold the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world!
30 And John bare record of him unto the people, saying, This is he of whom I said; After me cometh a man who is preferred before me; for he was before me, and I knew him, and that he should be made manifest to Israel; therefore am I come baptizing with water.
31 And John bare record, saying; When he was baptized of me, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.
32 And I knew him; for he who sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me; Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
33 And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
34 These things were done in Bethabara, beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
JST, John 1:42. Compare John 1:42
Cephas means "seer" or "stone."
42 And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon, the son of Jona, thou shalt be called Cephas, which is, by interpretation, a seer, or a stone. And they were fishermen. And they straightway left all, and followed Jesus.


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Saturday, 04 July 2009 04:20
IPY International Early Career Researcher Symposium
Save the date! Announcing the IPY International Early Career Researcher Symposium from 4 Dec 2009 to 8 Dec 2009 in Victoria, B.C., Canada. The Symposium is organized in conjunction with the 2009 ArcticNet Science Meeting, which will be held after the Symposium in Victoria.
With the support of IPY Canada, ArcticNet, and the Northern Research Forum, the Symposium will bring together Arctic and Antarctic early career researchers from across the world with experts to build skills, knowledge, and networks. The workshop is based around seven themes:
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Saturday, 27 June 2009 12:48
IPY Polar Field School- June 27th
Today was the first day of our excursion to Isfjord Radio on Kapp Linne, which is on the west coast of Spitsbergen. We started off the day by picking up our Regatta suits and goggles before we were transported to the docks and our polarcircle boats. After a fun, bumpy two hour boat ride we arrived at our landing site. On the way there we saw lots of puffins and the spectacular, but foggy, southern coast of Isfjorden! In the next few hours we walked 10 km through 500 million years...
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Sunday, 28 June 2009 14:11
IPY Polar Field School- June 28th
Kapp Linné Day 2.
After a pleasant night's sleep at Basecamp Isfjord Radio, we woke up to a wondrous breakfast of meats, veggies, caffeine and Gnutella. We were given a nice introduction to the history of Kapp Linné by the owner of Basecamp and how it has evolved into what it is today. Soon enough, our lunches were packed, rifles gathered and we were back on the tundra road for another day's lesson in geology, permafrost, and how to avoid getting your shoes soaked while hiking.
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Monday, 29 June 2009 13:51
IPY Polar Field School- June 24th
The day began with an introduction to the projects we are going to be working on for the rest of our time in Svalbard, ranging from oceanography to permafrost and biology. After a lecture on Arctic predators and their use as indicators of the state of tundra ecosystems by Nigel Yoccoz (University of Tromso), we had our first group meetings for our projects, taking a first look at the data and literature for our respective assignments. The final lecture of the day was a fascinating talk on auroras by Kjellmar Oksavik (UNIS), discussing their formation and the possible link between solar activity and climatic cycles in the Arctic. Since the catering staff at UNIS forgot to provide us with dinner, some of us needed a traditional Norwegian snack, the icecream sandwich, before heading up to Hus...
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Monday, 22 June 2009 10:18
HIking with the IPY Polar Field School- June 22nd
Today was our first and only free day and it came as a welcome break from lectures. The group consensus was for some exercise along the mountains surrounding Longyearbyen. We assembled early, much to some peoples despair, and began our climb up the sloppy muddy ridge at the south end of the beach end of town. The track turned to loose rock and then we were soon in snow. The weather was grey and we ascended into the cold cloud eventually coming out into clear skies. The jackets went away and the shades and sunglasses came out. 'Waterproof' shoes proved otherwise. Hiking in snow was a brand new experience for at least one member of the group and a bit out of the ordinary for a number of us. We summated mt Trollsteinen (~850m), took in the fantastic view of the Svalbar...
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Sunday, 21 June 2009 10:12
IPY Polar Field School- June 21st
We were a little worse for wear following the midsummer party at the beach the previous night but managed attentiveness throughout the days lectures. Mostly. We studied the arctic marine ecosystem, zooplankton, the arctic cod and the polar bear. I have studied very little biology previously and felt I gained a lot from this introduction. I particularly enjoyed the polar bear lecture given by Jon Aars as he spoke with practical experience about the study of these fantastic animals in the wild with particular emphasis on the Svalbard population. The marine biology talks were also interesting and I look forward to the lessons being reinforced in the field next week. However, by the days end the brain had reached saturation.
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Wednesday, 24 June 2009 21:02
Arctic Frontiers 2010 First call for papers
The scientific conference of Arctic Frontiers 2010 (27-29 January 2010 in Tromso
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009 12:42
IPY Polar Field School- June 23rd
It was a long and full day in the fresh air of Svalbard. Our day began with a bit of a glitch as the cruise ship came in early blocking our marine research boat from leaving the docking area. Plans were altered and we all started out the day with a stunning 10 km ride west of Longyearbyen along the fjord to Bjorndalen. In Bjorndalen we were shuttled by zodiac boat along the water to bypass a river, and arrived at out terrestrial study site. Birds seen before the field work even began included: arctic skua, black-legged kittiwake, arctic turns, black guillemots, northern fulmars, Brunnich's guillemots, common eiders , a king eider, and hundreds of little auks. A pretty impressive selection of arctic birds! During the morning and into the early afternoon we hiked up the sl...
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Saturday, 20 June 2009 12:37
IPY Polar Field School- June 20th
20.06.09 Midtsommerfest Because of the Friday gathering the day before, some of us had a hard time getting up this day, but in the end we all made it to the university on time. It was the first biology day, and the focus of the lectures was the challenges that come with living in an arctic environment, especially at sub zero temperatures. The lectures were awesome, so we had no problems staying awake through a long day (maybe not everyone will share our (biological) opinion on the lectures). After lunch we headed out in the hills close to Sukkertoppen to look at some representatives of the beautiful flora of Svalbard. Some of us got really wet from the melting snow (leading to some -barefooted students), but it was obviously worth it - the flowers were great. We fini...
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Thursday, 18 June 2009 12:34
IPY Polar Field School- June 18th
Thursday, 18 June
We woke up to a beautiful, sunny and warm day. The day started with a lecture about Permafrost with Hanne H. Christiansen. As 60% of Svalbard is covered by glaciers and the rest is periglacial environments, permafrost and the forms developed there is an important part of the science of Svalbard. The next lecture was about avalanches on which we did some fieldwork yesterday. The lecturer was Markus Eckerstorfer. Since avalanches are common on Svalbard a lot of research is provided on this field. After lunch we headed out to the field, in Adventsdalen. This was our first big excursion outside Longyearbyen and we had to carry rifles and signal pistols, which made it a little more serious. In Adventsdalen we measured the depth of the thawed layer on over 120 preset loc...
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Minivan Stop Turns to Wild Chase for Mom, Kids
The incident is being investigated after an officer shot at the van.
Nov. 16, 2013 — -- Video from a police dashboard camera showed how a routine traffic stop devolved into an intense incident that involved a high speed chase and a police officer appearing to shoot at van full of children.
The incident began when a woman who police have identified as Oriana Ferrell was pulled over by a New Mexico State Police officer for going 71 miles per hour in a 55 miles per hour zone according to station KRQE-TV in Albuquerque, N.M.
The dash cam shows the woman and the officer arguing, and when the officer goes back to his car to check paperwork, the woman drives away and is pulled over again by the same officer.
When the officer goes to the car a second time he opens the door and demands that Ferrell get out of the car, yelling "Get out of the vehicle right now!"
When she refuses, the officer appears to attempt to pull her out of the car as her five children, ages 6 to 18, according to The Taos News, start screaming in the car.
After a few moments, the woman's 14-year-old son gets out of the car and tries to engage the officer. But the officer pulls his taser and the teenager goes back into the car.
As the officer tries to get the woman to leave the car, he tells her that she is already facing charges for leaving the scene after she was first pulled over.
Traffic Stop Turns to Brawl as Murderer Battles Cop
"Look, I'm going to ask you one more time to get out of the vehicle and then I'm going to pull you out, OK?" the officer said. "You're already facing evading charges. You ran away from me."
"Sir, I pulled back over, I didn't run away," the woman said. "You see my children. I'm not doing anything wrong. I'm just trying to take them to the Rio Grande."
Eventually the woman gets out of the car to talk to the officer, but when he tells her to turn and face the vehicle she tries to run back into the driver's seat of the car. The incident quickly escalates with the woman's son this time engaging the officer. Only after the officer aims his taser at the boy does he run back into the van.
As back-up arrives, the woman and her family are locked inside. The officer takes his baton and starts to break the windows of the van as he tries to get the family out of the car.
At that point the woman starts to drive away, and another officer who came on the scene later appears to fire three shots at the back of the minivan even though five children were in the back seat.
The woman leads the officers on a 10-minute chase before stopping in front of a hotel and turning herself in. Both the woman and her 14-year-old son were arrested.
The actions of the different officers and the fact that the routine traffic stop ended with an officer shooting at a car and a high speed chase has led to an internal investigation, the New Mexico State Police told ABCNews.com. However, the officers involved have not yet been removed from active duty.
Ferrell was charged with five counts of abuse of a child, aggravated fleeing an officer, resisting an officer, reckless driving and possession of drug paraphernalia, according to The Taos News. Her teenage son was charged with battery of an officer.
The Taos News reported that New Mexico State Police said they allegedly found two marijuana pipes in the minivan.


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Hear 25 Unreleased Van Halen Songs: A Hidden History
There are more than two albums' worth of unreleased Van Halen songs waiting to be heard on YouTube.
Below, we chronologically break down 25 demos and live cuts that never found their way to one of the group's 12 studio albums. We also include information about an additional 16 tracks that have never been bootlegged. And we conclude by rounding up the seven previously unreleased tracks that were reworked to varying degrees on the band's 2012 album A Different Kind of Truth.
"Gentleman of Leisure" (1973)
"Glitter" (1973)
Van Halen recorded their first demos of original material in the fall of 1973 at David Lee Roth's family house. According to the book Van Halen Rising, only three-quarters of the band's classic lineup was featured in this five-piece group. Michael Anthony had yet to replace Mark Stone on bass, and keyboardist Jim Pewsey was still an active member of the band. In 1998, Roth shared these demos on his website as part of his Dave TV series.
"Angel Eyes" (1974)
"Believe Me" (1974)
With Pewsey gone and Stone about to be shown the door because of his refusal to sing background vocals, Van Halen were offered an opportunity to record at Hollywood's Cherokee Studios. In addition to early versions of future Women and Children First cuts "Take Your Whiskey Home" and "In a Simple Rhyme," the band recorded two tracks that have never appeared on an album. "Angel Eyes," featuring Roth on acoustic guitar, was reportedly considered for inclusion on 1979's Van Halen II. Ultimately it was decided that the gentle ballad didn't fit alongside the rest of the album's songs.
"Woman in Love" (1976)
"Babe, Don't Leave Me Alone" (1976)
At the height of his fame in Kiss, Gene Simmons offered to help Van Halen find a record deal, a process that included making a new demo. Four of the 10 songs that have leaked from the sessions wound up on the band's first six studio albums: "On Fire," "Runnin' With the Devil," "Somebody Get Me a Doctor" and "House of Pain"; "She's the Woman," "Let's Get Rockin'," "Big Trouble" and "Put Out the Lights" were reworked decades later for inclusion on A Different Kind of Truth. A pair of others have never seen proper release, including "Woman in Love," which has no musical relation to Van Halen II's similarly titled "Women in Love ... "
"Eyes of the Night" (1976)
"Honolulu Baby" (1976)
Van Halen were prolific in their early days, regularly debuting new songs at their club shows and often abandoning them just as quickly. According to The Van Halen Encyclopedia, the woman who inspired "Honolulu Baby" was actually from Waikiki - but Roth couldn't think of lyrics that rhymed with that city's name.
"We Die Bold" (1977)
"Young and Wild" (1977)
"I Wanna Be Your Lover" (1977)
"Piece of Mind" (1977)
"Light in the Sky" (1977)
"Get the Show on the Road" (1977)
"Voodoo Queen" (1977)
"Last Night" (1977)
"Gonna Take a Lotta Drugs" (1977)
Unable to find a record deal for Van Halen, and reportedly under pressure from his Kiss bandmates to focus on his own group, Simmons bowed out of the picture by tearing up the management contract between the two parties. Not too long after, Van Morrison and Doobie Brothers producer Ted Templeman was tipped off to the band, went to see them perform and instantly set about getting them a deal at Warner Bros. He cut a 25-song demo with the group that included new versions of every track they had recorded with Simmons, except for "Woman in Love." Most of the songs eventually found their way onto Van Halen albums, including the four tracks reworked for A Different Kind of Truth. But "We Die Bold," "I Wanna Be Your Lover," "Piece of Mind" and "Light in the Sky" (not to be confused with Van Halen II's "Light Up the Sky") remain unreleased. So does the band's version of the Kim Fowley- and Steven Tetsch-penned "Young and Wild," which was later recorded by Cherie Currie. It took a couple of minor modifications for "Bring on the Girls" to become Van Halen II's "Beautiful Girls," so we're not including that one. Three other tracks from the Templeman sessions seem at least partially familiar to fans but have varying degrees of differences: "Get the Show on the Road" features half of "Romeo Delight"'s chorus; "Voodoo Queen" shares its main riff - but not much else - with "Mean Street," and also features the coda eventually used on "Hot for Teacher"; and "Last Night" is a nearly complete version of Diver Down's "Hang 'Em High" but with a different chorus and lyrics. Anthony and Roth also recorded a short, druggy parody of Nicolette Larson's "Lotta Love" as an inside joke for Templeman.
"No More Waiting" (1977)
"Here's Just What You Wanted" (1977)
"The Shape You're In" (1977)
"One More Time" (1977)
As live bootlegs of these four songs prove, not even a 25-song demo was big enough to include all of the songs in Van Halen's 1977 repertoire. The guitar intro of "No More Waiting" resurfaced in 1995 on Balance's "Take Me Back (Deja Vu)," but otherwise there's no record of these tracks ever being recorded in a studio. Another song from the band's live shows around this time, "Down in Flames," had its opening swiped for their cover of "You're No Good." The song's main riff and basic arrangement was also used for A Different Kind of Truth's "Tattoo."
"Act Like It Hurts" (1980)
After using the majority of the songs from its club days on Van Halen and Van Halen II, the band was eager to explore more sophisticated and experimental material on 1980's Women and Children First. This unreleased instrumental demo is anchored by a thumping Michael Anthony bass line.
"Any Time, Any Place" (1983)
"Eat Thy Neighbor" (1985)
Audio has yet to surface on these two tracks. The Van Halen Encyclopedia lists "Any Time, Any Place" as an unreleased song from the 1984 album sessions, while "Eat Thy Neighbor" comes from Van Halen's aborted attempt to record a seventh album with Roth before he left the band. It's also rumored there's a version of 5150's "Summer Nights" featuring Roth on vocals in the vaults. An unverified label memo discussing 1984 also lists the songs "Baritone Slide," "Lie to You," and "Ripley" as being "in the can."
"I Want Some Action" (1985)
This song may not have earned a spot on Van Halen's first album with Sammy Hagar, but Eddie Van Halen didn't give up on it so easily. Elements turned up during the guitarist's 1987 performance of the new instrumental track 'Stompin' 8H" on Saturday Night Live. Two years later Eddie handed over the song to Steve Lukather and even played bass on "Twist the Knife" from the Toto guitarist's debut solo album. Nearly a decade later, a similar riff turned up on Van Halen III's "Dirty Water Dog"
"You Never Know" (1990-91)
"The Wish" (1990-1991)
"Out of the Ether" (1990-1991)
The first two of these unheard outtakes from 1991's For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge featured "She Blinded Me With Science" hit maker Thomas Dolby assisting on keyboards. In return, Eddie Van Halen appeared on two songs from Dolby's 1992 album Astronauts & Heretics. It was eventually decided that "You Never Know" and "The Wish" didn't fit in with the back-to-basics approach of the rest of the Van Halen album. "Out of the Ether" was reportedly also considered for inclusion on the band's next album, Balance, with the working title of "Hendrix Jam"
"I Remember" (1994)
"Shaker" (1994)
"Backdoor Shuffle" (1994)
"Numb to the Touch" (1994)
According to The Van Halen Encyclopedia, four unreleased songs emerged from the sessions for Balance, the band's tumultuous final album with Hagar. When the group reunited with Roth for two new songs in 1996, "Backdoor Shuffle" was reworked as "Can't Get This Stuff No More," which annoyed Hagar. "They totally stole the melody in the chorus from my original," he later said. "I just made one phone call, and Ray Danniels overnighted me a check for $35,000, saying he was sorry. These guys don't have any class anymore."
"It's the Right Time" (1996)
In between Hagar's departure and Roth's brief return to Van Halen, singer Mitch Malloy was reportedly offered the chance to be Van Halen's third singer. He said he turned it down because "it was clear to me that something was amiss," but not before he recorded at least one leaked song, "It's the Right Time."
"That's Why I Love You" (1988)
"Blood From a Rock" (1988)
"It's Not Over 'til It's Over" (1988)
"Why? Because Why" (1988)
"That's Why I Love You" was a last-minute scratch from Van Halen's first and only album with singer Gary Cherone, even appearing on early test pressing versions of the record. According to The Van Halen Encyclopedia, the group also attempted to record the song during its brief reunion with Roth in 1996. The book also lists three other tracks recorded during the Van Halen III sessions that have never leaked: "Blood From a Rock, "It's Not Over 'til It's Over" and "Why? Because Why."
"Left for Dead" (1999)
"Say Uncle" (1999)
"You Wear It Well" (1999)
"River Wide" (1999)
On May 19, 1999, Van Halen's website reported that the band had written more than 20 new songs for the follow-up to Van Halen III. Seven tracks were reportedly recorded as demos. Four titles were included in the story, but none has ever been bootlegged in any form. Another report on the sessions offered four more unconfirmed song titles: "More Than Yesterday," "I Don't Miss You ... Much," "Love Devine" and "From Here, Where Do We Go?"
"She's the Woman" (1976, 2011)
"Big Trouble" (1976) becomes "Big River" (2011)
"Ripley" (1983) becomes "Blood and Fire" (2011)
"Down in Flames" (1977) becomes "Tattoo" (2011)
"Let's Get Rockin'" (1976) becomes "Outta Space" (2011)
"Put Out the Lights" (1977) becomes "Beats Workin'" (2011)
"Bullethead" (1977, 2011)
Van Halen reunited with Roth for their first new studio album together in almost three decades, raiding their vaults for 2012's A Different Kind of Truth. Six previously unreleased songs from the Simmons and Templeman demos were dusted off for the project. The 1983 instrumental "Ripley" was reborn as "Blood and Fire," with Roth adding new lyrics about the band's history and early struggles. The singer also rewrote almost all the lyrics on the seven repurposed tracks, resulting in five of them getting new titles. Eddie Van Halen's son Wolfgang took over for Anthony on bass, and it's his enthusiasm that's widely credited with pulling the band out of semi-retirement. He also came up with a new breakdown for "She's the Woman," since the original one was used on Fair Warning's "Mean Street." Some songs, such as "Bullethead," emerged from the rewrites mostly unchanged; others underwent more significant modifications, most notably "Down in Flames," which became the album's lead single, "Tattoo."