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YIELD: Serves 6
Boil broth and pickling spice in heavy large saucepan 10 minutes. Strain and return liquid to saucepan. Add chicken, onion, vinegar, garlic, oil and cumin to pan. Simmer over very low heat until chicken is just cooked through, about 10 minutes. Transfer chicken and onions to shallow dish. Top with bell peppers and minced chili.
Boil cooking liquid until reduced to 2/3 cup, about 10 minutes. Pour liquid over chicken and let cool 30 minutes.
Add cilantro to chicken mixture. Cover and refrigerate until well chilled, turning chicken occasionally, about 4 hours.(Can be prepared 1 day ahead.)
Slice chicken and transfer to plates. Top with marinated vegetables and some of the juices. Pass tortilla chips to use as 'pushers'.
Per serving: calories, 130; fat, 4 g; sodium, 72 mg; cholesterol, 44 mg
Nutritional analysis provided by Bon Appétit


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Your official information source from the .NET Web Development and Tools group at Microsoft.
We have released ASP.NET and Web Tools 2013.1 for Visual Studio 2012. This release brings a ton of great improvements, and include some fantastic enhancements to ASP.NET MVC 5, Web API 2, Scaffolding and Entity Framework to users of Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2012 Express for Web.
You can download and start using these features now.
Below are details on a few of the great improvements you can take advantage of with this release. Please visit http://asp.net/aspnet/overview/aspnet-and-visual-studio-2012/aspnet-and-web-tools-20131-for-visual-studio-2012 for additional release notes, documentation, and tutorials.
With this release of ASP.NET and Web Tools, it is now possible for developers using Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013 to collaborate on an ASP.NET MVC 5 application. This release brings in key features such as support for ASP.NET Razor 3 editing which allows developers to use syntax highlighting and Intellisense when editing a Razor View in their MVC application. Developers can also be productive by using the new ASP.NET Scaffolding framework in Visual Studio 2012 in any type of web application project such as ASP.NET Web Forms, MVC, and Web API.
You can now use MVC 5 or Web API 2 project templates to create an application. These project templates will install the necessary NuGet packages for MVC 5 and Web API 2.
You can also add MVC 5 and Web API 2 controllers or views using item templates.
To learn more about what's new in MVC 5 please visit http://www.asp.net/visual-studio/overview/2013/release-notes#TOC10
To learn more about what's new in Web API 2 please visit http://www.asp.net/visual-studio/overview/2013/release-notes#TOC11
ASP.NET Scaffolding is a code generation framework for ASP.NET Web applications. In previous versions of Visual Studio, scaffolding was limited to running within ASP.NET MVC projects. Since the advent of "One ASP.NET" there is no specific ASP.NET MVC project type, as all projects are just ASP.NET projects.
With this update, you can use MVC's scaffolding from within any ASP.NET project, including scaffolding MVC controllors within Web Forms apps. To learn more about what is new in Scaffolding, please visit http://www.asp.net/visual-studio/overview/2013/aspnet-scaffolding-overview
With this release you will also get great editor support for editing Razor views in MVC. This includes features such as syntax highlighting, Intellisense etc.
When you Scaffold a MVC controller or Web API controller using Entity Framework, the controller will use Entity Framework 6 to generate code to perform CRUD actions on an entity. The controller also show cases some of the key features in Entity Framework 6 such as generating async actions. For more information on what's new in Entity Framework please visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/data/jj574253
When you Scaffold a MVC controller with Entity Framework and generate views for CRUD operations, the views use Bootstrap CSS framework to style the pages. Bootstrap is a responsive mobile first CSS framework that makes front end web development much easier. For more information on how to customize Bootstrap please visit http://www.asp.net/visual-studio/overview/2013/creating-web-projects-in-visual-studio#bootstrap.
NuGet 2.7 includes a rich set of new features which are described in detail at NuGet 2.7 Release Notes.
This version of NuGet improves the experience around automatic package restore. When installing NuGet 2.7, users implicitly consent to automatically restoring missing packages. Users can explicitly opt out of package restoration through the NuGet settings in Visual Studio. This change simplifies how package restore works.
ASP.NET and Web Tools 2013.1 for Visual Studio 2012 enables developers to take advantage of the improvements in ASP.NET MVC 5, Web API 2, Scaffolding, and Entity Framework when using Visual Studio 2012. This release also makes it possible for developers to collaborate on MVC 5 or Web API 2 projects across Visual Studio 2012 and 2013.
Please download and start using this update now. If you want an offline installer then please goto http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=41532
Is there any offline installer available? My company doesn't permit such connection to install it in other way... :(
Is there no way to get this update as a standalone download?
Silence may only mean it's just being prepared :).
I just installed the update on top of my VS2012 Ultimate Update 4 installation, and I don't get an ASP.NET MVC 5 Empty Project" project template as shown in the first screenshot. To avoid an corrupted installation I removed the update, added the "Web Developer Tools" feature again to VS and installed the update again. Unfortunately, still no MVC 5 project template. Even a repair install didn't help. Any solution to this problem?
Hi Bram,
Sorry to hear that, Could you please check if your .Net Framework selection in the project creation dialog is set to 4.5 or 4.5.1? The dialog will filter the template base on framework.
It that doesn't work, Can you see if following path exist?
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplatesCache\CSharp\Web\1033\MvcEmptyApplicationProjectTemplatev5.0.cshtml
Troy Dai
We are working to provide standalone installers on the download centre
How did you remove the update?
That's the first thing I checked after installing the update. Changing the .Net Framework selection to 4.5 or 4.5.1 doesn't bring up the MVC 5 template.
The path you mention doensn't exist.
What further steps do you suggest?
In Programs and Features, I removed the "Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools 2013.1 - Visual Studio 2012" entry. After uninstalling I had to add the "Web Developer Tools" feature again to VS, because the update installer complained that I hadn't installed the "Web Developer Tools". Uninstalling the update, uninstalls also the "Web Developer Tools", it seems.
My problem is solved!
After some uninstalling, installing and Googling, the MVC 5 template is available in VS 2012.
I installed "Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.3 - Visual Studio 2012" and "Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Frameworks 2013.1 - Visual Studio 2012". For the second one I used the "Direct Download" link of this StackOverflow answer (stackoverflow.com/.../19560412)
Screenshot quality is abysmal. Clicking on the images is pretty much useless.
Can you not create a MVC 5 Web Application like you can with MVC 4?
MVC 5 Empty Project is just that, empty. VS 2013 gives you a working application when you create a new MVC 5 Web Application.
Still waiting a offline installer
It is Good
Here is the link to the offline installer www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx
i need help with mvc..im just not getting it

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It's the lighting.
And Cheesus.
It's the lighting.
And Cheesus.
Good lord I hate this if it happens. If Vitor can't get a license in Nevada and similar challenges face his possibility of getting licensed in other states(there is ALWAYS Texas though), I'd give Jacare the next shot. It's not worth sullying Weidman's growing stardom against a 37 year old, twice caught cheater.
* allegedly caught cheating twice. Come on guys, get it right....this is a completely normal transformation vitor has gone through.
Got a lot of soul searching to do. Sorry to everyone I've let down
While this is bullshit, I thought Vitor was gonna lose to Weidman before the TRT ban and I still do regardless of where the fight is held.
Belfort will not get licensed by Nevada. Wish they would just say so already.
I like the fact that Weidman will fight Vitor, allegedly on stuff, or not. The champ has to know it doesn't matter who he faces, that he can still beat them.
I'm still not completely sold that Vitor straight up juiced. I'm an admitted old school nostalgia mark, so I am absolutely biased, and I hope Vitor can get through this licensing garbage free and clear so we can focus on the actual fight instead of all the other nonsense.
Unless he pisses hot with obvious PEDs, then I could give a fuck about Vitor or his skills.
You have to know what you don't know.
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The Ballet Company
ECB's Board of Directors:
Dr. Ivis Alvarez
Mr. John Fletcher
Mrs. Theresa Graham
Mrs. Mindi Mende
Mr. Rick Mende
Mrs. Christine Posey
Mrs. Cyndi Sauer
ECB's Advisory Board:
Mrs. Kathleen Fannin
East Coast Ballet does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, age, or national origin.
Copyright © 1997-2015 East Coast Ballet, Inc.. All rights reserved.
East Coast Ballet is committed to enriching the lives of individuals in the Northeast Florida, Southeast Georgia communities, and beyond through the art of dance. The foundation will foster an appreciation and aesthetic awareness for the arts by providing a high standard of artistic instruction and performance opportunities for artists and students, allowing them to discover and develop their talents for the benefit of their community.
East Coast Ballet's professional company members inspire others through performances, building relationships with young adults and children in classes and workshops, and reach out to the community through special projects throughout the year. Scroll to the bottom to meet the company.
ECBF non-profit foundation relies on the generous support of individual giving and corporate sponsorship. All donations are tax deductible and are 100% dedicated to outreach, scholarships for individuals who otherwise are unable to afford dance training, and the continued development of a professional company. Our desire is to house a company of dancers which will give our student base future career opportunities as professional dancers. East Coast Ballet does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, age, or national origin.
Anton Iakovlev, along with his wife Darli Iakovleva, will be holding workshops periodically throughout the school year & instructing during summer intensives. Anton graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy with Boris Bregvadze from 1992-2000, earning a Bachelor of the Arts. Anton has danced at the St. Petersburg Ballet of Russia, the Vanemuine Ballet of Estonia, New York Theater Ballet, Albany Berkshire Ballet, Akjun Ballet, Montgomery Ballet, Oklahoma City Ballet, Ballet Theater of Maryland, and Connecticut Ballet. Some of Anton's favorite roles include performing the Pas de Deux from Le Corsaire, Hilarion in Giselle, Cavalier in The Nutcracker, & principal roles in Le Sylphides, Gerald Arpino's Light Rain, Sleeping Beauty, & Don Quixote. Anton performed in East Coast Ballet's 2013-14 Season as Cavalier in The Nutcracker Prince & The Prince Toy in Spellbound.
Darli Iakovleva & her husband will be training ECB students & company apprentices & trainees in workshop classes in ballet, pas de deux, and classical variations. Darli trained at European Dance Studio in her mother Ilona Nogarr's footsteps, continuing at GSA, Washington Ballet School, Tallinn Ballet School, Kirov Academy in Washington D.C., Kaatspan, and JBS in NY. Darli graduated from N.C. School for the Arts and Tallinn University with a Bachelor's Degree in Dance and Choreography. Darli's professional experience includes dancing principal, soloist, and corps roles with the following companies: Vanemuine Ballet of Estonia, New York Theater Ballet, Albany Berkshire Ballet, Oklahoma City Ballet, Montgomery Ballet, Ballet Theater of Maryland, and Connecticut Ballet. She has also performed with the Estonian National Ballet, Washington Ballet and Ajkun Ballet. She has enjoyed performing Pas de duex-e Corsaire, Sugar Plum Fairy-the Nutcracker, Pas de duex-Gerald Arpino's Light Rain, Prayer, Lead Mazurka and Czardas couple, Lead Waltz of Hours- Coppelia, Lead in Les Sylphides, Pas De Six-Giselle. Darli performed in East Coast Ballet's 2013-14 Season as Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker Prince & The Princess Toy in Spellbound.
Rick Mende & Mindi Mende are the founding Directors of the East Coast Ballet. Mr. Mende is the Executive and Marketing Director. Mrs. Mende is the Artistic Director. Classically trained by her mother, Katha Bardel, Mrs. Mende has followed a professional dance career path from cords de ballet, principle, ballet mistress, instructor, choreographer, and director over the past 30 years. She studied in classical ballet along with jazz, tap, and musical theatre under acclaimed instructors including Hilary Cartwright, Edward Villella, Conrad Ludlow, Kelly Brown, Wilhelm Burmann, David Holliday, Olga Kostritsky. She toured throughout the US, Asia, and South & Central America via secular and Christian platforms. Mrs. Mende has performed and choreographed for various Theatre, TV, video, industrials, and film productions. In 1989 she invented and patented the Jazz Pointe Shoe, the design used in the Dance Sneaker. She developed and patented a tight design, on the market by BodyWrappers. Her joy is guiding, training, and mentoring students, many of whom have gone on to excel as accomplished performers, choreographers, instructors, and directors in various professional dance endeavors. She is passionate about directing performances that reach into the heart of both the dancers and audience, challenging and encouraging a deeper relationship with the Lord.
Lindsay Lynch joinied East Coast Ballet in the 2013-14 season and will be returning for the 2014-15 season. She has been with ECB school as a choreographer / instructor since Summer 2012. Lindsay tours and performs with ECB in The Nutcracker Prince as the Mouse King and the Marionette Doll in Spellbound. Ms. Lynch choreographs for both the Nutcracker Prince and Spellbound, as well as, contemporary ballet works for the ballet company & school. Her training started in Orlando Florida and reaches to Paris, France under Christina Teague Mann. She has received her A.A. in Dance Performance and her B.F.A. in Dance at Jacksonville University. Her heart is inspiring children of all ages to reach their full potential in the art of dance.
Vladimir Abremenko has been teaching at East Coast Ballet since 1999. He is an inspiration as a performer and instructor to all of our students. His instruction follows the Vaganova method of ballet training. Vladimir speaks four languages: English, Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian. He has choreographed a variety of concerts and group performances in Russia, Ukraine, France, Canada, Holland, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium and the USA. He holds government rewards and diplomas for production and best performance. His extensive instruction and choreography experience extends 34+ years of art service in ballet, classic and character dancing, stage managing, and production.
Rachael Walker is moving to Jacksonville Beach from Brunswick, Georgia to dance for ECB. She has returned for her fourth year in the professional division. This year she has been promoted as an apprentice in ECB's Company, 2014-15 season. Rachael's additional summer training includes American Ballet Theatre NYC, Joffrey Chicago, Tampa, & Atlanta Ballet. She has danced prominent solo roles at ECB including Clara Princess, Snow Queen, Sugar Plum in The Nutcracker Prince, Spanish Dancer & Princess in Spellbound. In her spare time, Rachael is models. Her passion is sharing her talent for the glory of the Lord.
Stephanie Estcourt joins ECB in her third year in the professional division as an apprentice in ECB's Company, 2014-15 season.. She trained under Boris Chepelev and Janna Kirova in Melbourne, Florida, along with attending Ballet Magnificat's summer intensive program. Before relocating to dance for ECB, Stephanie studied at the Storling Dance Theatrer's Artist Program in Kansas for 2 years. Prominent roles include Chinese in Spellbound and Mirliton, Snow, & Flowers in The Nutcracker. During this year's Nutcracker, she will be playing the soloist roles of Snow Queen & Sugar Plum, along with dancing in the Party Scene with her husband, Dan. Stephanie is the instructor of our little bakers in the 2nd Act. Her passion is to mentor and use her talents to glorify the Lord.
Annie Clingman is joining ECB's 2014-15 season in her 2nd year as a trainee. She is from Minneapolis, MN. Annie is excited to use her talents in a Christian professional trainee ballet program. Her previous training experience includes Twin Cities Ballet, St. Paul City Ballet, and Grand Rapids Ballet, as well as, Joffrey Chicago summer program. Annie has performed dancing roles in The Nutcracker, Cinderella, Peter Pan, Red Riding Hood, & Snow White. Prominent roles with ECB include Nurse in Spellbound and Mirliton, Snow, & Flowers in The Nutcracker Prince. This year, she will be playing the soloist roles of Snow Queen & Sugar Plum. Annie loves working with children and desires a dance teaching career in her future.
Taraneh Partow joins ECB this year in the company division for our 2014-15 season as a first year trainee. She trained in ECB's pre-professional school before joining IHOP (International House of Prayer) ministry in Kansas City. Along with a full-time dance schedule at ECB, she attends UNF as a Political Science major. She has played the prominent role of the Spanish Dancer in ECB's Spellbound and will be playing the roles of a Maid, Snow, Mirliton, and Flowers in The Nutcracker Prince this year. Taraneh is a wonderful example of God's love to her peers and inspires young students as a great mentor. She is beautiful both inside and out and desires to use her dance to bring glory to God.
Jasmine Beasley joins ECB this year in the company division for ECB's 2014-15 season as a first year trainee. She has been training in ECB's pre-professional school since 2012. Jasmine is a young 16 year old, finishing her senior year of high-school through virtual school. She has played the prominent role as the Clown in ECB's Spellbound and will be playing the roles of a Maid, Soldier, Snow, Mirliton, and Flowers in The Nutcracker Prince this year. In addition to being a strong technical dancer, Jasmine is known amongst her peers as being a wonderful dance actress. She enjoys spreading the love of God with her dance.
Daryl Munn has been teaching at East Coast Ballet since 2000. Ms. Munn has a B.F.A. in Dance from Oklahoma University under the tutelage of the famous Jo Rowan. She is an inspiration as a performer and instructor to all of our students. She offers diverse training instruction and serves ECB as a tap and classical ballet instructor. She is famous for her role as "The Baker/Mother Ginger" in ECB's Nutcracker Prince. Her enthusiasm on stage is widely spoken about and well-known in ECB circles. Her passion is to use her gifts for the Lord.
Brian Alford has been with ECB's School since he was eight years old. He has danced with ECB in many productions. His notable roles include: The Nutcracker Prince, Toymaker's Son, & Adam in "Hands." Brian has toured with ECB to Oklahoma and New York City. Brian inspires tappers with his teaching contributions in Ms. Daryl's tap classes. Along with being a wonderful dancer, Brian is a jazz trombonist and drum major at Providence High School. He has appeared in FSCJ Summer Musical Theatre Experience productions as well as Providence spring musicals. Brian enjoys entertaining others and demonstrating the love of God through the many roles he has performed with ECB.
Braden Mende is a born and raised East Coast Ballet dancer. In addition to training at ECB, Braden has been the recipient of several full-scholarships to train around the Country including: American Ballet Theatre in NYC, Harid Conservatory, Ballet Magnificat, and Miami City Ballet. At age twelve, Braden was chosen as the Nutcracker Prince for Miami City Ballet's 2009 production of George Balanchine's The NutcrackerTM directed by Edward Villela in a tour of 18 performances in Naples, Miami, and Ft Lauderdale. He will be dancing with ECB's professional company as The Toymaker in Spellbound and God in "Hands." Braden loves using dance as a tool to spread the Gospel.
Monet Mende began dancing at East Coast Ballet at the age of three. She has been summer trained at well-known institutions, such as American Ballet Theatre NYC, Miami City Ballet, and Joffrey Chicago. She joins ECB as an apprentice during her fourth year with the professional company. Her roles have included Clara Princess, Snow Queen, & Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker Prince, & Clown, Princess, & Evil Magician in Spellbound. From February to May 2014, Monet trained at Ellison Ballet in NYC in their advanced program. Monet's love of dance stems from doing what she loves to do, sharing the love of Jesus in a powerful way.
Dan Doherty has been performing as a guest artist with ECB since Nutcracker 2013. He has played the role of a parent in the Party Scene, The Pirate in Spellbound and is now looking forward to adding the role of the Mouse King to his list of performing roles. He has extensive training in college cheer-leading and is acquainted with some
ballet, partnering, mime and ballroom technique. He is also a professional 3d artist and volunteers for a homeless ministry in his spare time.
Kathyrn Pitre joins ECB this year in the company division for our 2014-15 season as a first year trainee. Additionally, she has trained in summer intensives with Joffrey Ballet School in NYC and Miami. She studies daily in ECB's dance classes, as well as, a sophomore at FSCJ as a dance major with a full ride scholarship. Kathryn danced in Spellbound's corps de ballet last year and will be playing a toy in the Spring 2015. Today, she will be playing the roles of a Soldier, Snow, Spanish, Mirliton, and Flowers in The Nutcracker Prince 2014. Kathryn loves using her gifts for the Lord and thanks Him for her talents.


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This is about as far as you can get from the chaste, sublimated world of Twilight.
This stood in contrast to the chaste 19th century, when marriage, rather than romance, was the main topic of interest.
Later, as a head coach with Tampa Bay, and then the Indianapolis Colts, Dungy also cut a chaste figure.
c.1200, "virtuous, pure from unlawful sexual intercourse" (as defined by the Church), from Old French chaste "morally pure" (12c.), from Latin castus "clean, pure, morally pure" (see caste). Transferred sense of "sexually pure" is by 15c., perhaps by influence of chastity, though chaste as a noun meaning "virgin person" is recorded from early 14c. Related: Chastely.


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Rights group urges Ukraine to end police abuses
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - An international human rights watchdog on Wednesday called on Ukraine's president and his government to ensure accountability for human rights abuses by bringing the country's laws and practices into line with international standards.
Amnesty International Senior Director Nicola Duckworth said the government of newly elected President Viktor Yanukovych mustn't squander the progress in the protection of human rights that Ukraine has made since the Soviet collapse.
Five years after its last report on torture and ill-treatment in police detention in Ukraine, the group noted that these practices persist, fostered by a climate of impunity as police continue to rely on extracting confessions and fail to respect the presumption of innocence.
Procedures for investigating allegations of torture and other ill-treatment fall short of European standards of impartiality and independence, and few prosecutors bring charges against police officers for torture, Amnesty said.
Yanukovych's deputy chief of staff, Anna German, said in response to the report that the government will do its utmost not to allow any case of human rights violation to go unnoticed or culprits to escape justice, the Interfax news agency reported.
"Ukraine's new government must establish, as a matter of priority, an independent police complaints mechanism," Duckworth said. "It must also allow independent, regular and unannounced visits to all places of detention as a reliable deterrent against torture or other ill-treatment."
Amnesty's report noted that racially motivated crimes are prosecuted most commonly just as hooliganism, and racism is part of police culture in Ukraine. Migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers often fall victim to human rights violations by the police, and the situation is compounded by an asylum system that fails to protect the right of asylum-seekers to seek international protection, it said.
Amnesty recommended to record and monitor all incidents of racially motivated crimes across Ukraine, to establish a functioning and fair asylum system and to set up an independent agency to investigate all allegations of human rights violations by the police.
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Federal and state officials have been sharing geospatial data to coordinate disaster response, a DHS official says
A Homeland Security Department program that allows emergency response officials from states and localities to more readily share geospatial data is helping officials coordinate their response to the BP oil spill, according to a DHS official.
State officials from Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida have been using DHS' Virtual USA program to share data related to the oil spill, according to David Boyd, director of the Command, Control and Interoperability Division in the department's Science and Technology Directorate.
Federal officials from DHS, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Coast Guard, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have also used Virtual USA in the response work, he added.
Boyd said the Virtual USA program that allows states share their geospatial data and metadata and create data mashups is being used to coordinate responses across states' jurisdictional boundaries.
"What [states] are doing is coordinating their responses across [jurisdictional boundaries]," Boyd said. "Many of these wildlife areas cross state boundaries, so you've got to coordinate how the response is going to work."
Boyd said historically the coordination would have been done over the telephone, but now officials can work with a common set of images and metadata. "There may still be some phone calls, but a lot more of it is now a lot easier to coordinate…it eliminates lots of confusion," he said.
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The Gulf Coast states are part of a group of southeastern states that have been testing technologies for Virtual USA, Boyd said. Five states in the Pacific Northwest have also started a pilot program, and six states in the Northeast just started a test program, Boyd added.
Boyd stressed that although Virtual USA allows increased sharing of the information, states and localities maintain ownership and control of their data. The program is based on existing systems that states already have in place, he said, describing Virtual USA as a "system of systems."
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Congrats Frank!
Well I just spent 5 hours making a measuring wall… Now that is stupid!
Before someone says, theres already a bunch on ShareCG, I intended to make a much more detailed one… down to each individual inch/centimeter. It's less designed for "cop line up" renders, and more designed as a tool for vendors/content creators and serious character dialers, for use with DAZ.
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...The even more stupid thread with even more stupid* than the old one.
[*by weight not by volume, note that the level stupid in the thread may have settled slightly due to splitting and handling]
...it's three minutes to midnight…
I'd rather have a blue sky above me than a blue screen in front of me.
I'm just curious how long it took you guys to get to thread 8. When did the first one start?
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Vaskania - 14 August 2013 03:25 PMI'm just curious how long it took you guys to get to thread 8. When did the first one start?
I know it has been a while.
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Who is cuter Loki or Thor?
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Not long after the New Forum went live. Unless we counted the one in the old Forums as Stupid thread 1 , can't remember now
Chohole's Space NeilV's Freebies and stuff Summer 1 Bryce Rendering Challenge July Freebie Challenge
My DAZ 3D Gallery 11915
no link page 100 old one!!
firtunately not hard to find
WARNING do not click what video horrors will be seen if you do cannot be unseen.
my render thread
never forget
A Drows Walk
Jaderail is at it again
chohole - 14 August 2013 04:19 PMVaskania - 14 August 2013 03:25 PMI'm just curious how long it took you guys to get to thread 8. When did the first one start?
Not long after the New Forum went live. Unless we counted the one in the old Forums as Stupid thread 1 , can't remember now
8 threads in a year? Welp, that explains the post counts. LOL
Reminds me of our kittens
As the Grand Poo-Pa and Fadder of the Stupid Threads this is the low down…
The very first Stupid was the, Just Because I can, the Stupid Thread. It was born on the old forums and reached a grand total of 34 pages.
When this Forum went live it went negative fast and Stupid Thread II was born. It was adopted by the users that need a bit of stupid to offset the bad. And as they say the rest is History. The Stupid lives!! Get your Stupid on and enjoy the Stupid!
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I like that. But I got my sign, did you?
...And once again, an Admin runs off with possession of a Thread.
Where did I leave that tinfoil hat?
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We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
That was a hat? I just floated it down the stream running through my yard from all this Stupid rain…
oddly enough, I have a roll of aluminium foil in my locker at work.
not tin
but does it deflect the mind control as well?
(I just use it to wrap stuff to put in the canteen pie warmer actually)
Curses!! Foiled again….


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- Everything You Wanted to Know About Synchronization But Were Too Afraid to Ask (PDF) — This paper presents the most exhaustive study of synchronization to date. We span multiple layers, from hardware cache-coherence protocols up to high-level concurrent software. We do so on different types of architectures, from single-socket — uniform and non- uniform — to multi-socket — directory and broadcast-based many-cores. We draw a set of observations that, roughly speaking, imply that scalability of synchronization is mainly a property of the hardware.
- Raspberry Pi as Low-Cost Security Camera (Instructables) — $120 HD motion-sensing web-viewable security camera.
- Inside YouTube's Fame Factory (FastCompany) — great article about the tipping point where peer-to-peer fame becomes stage-managed corporate fame, as Vidcon grows. See also Variety: If YouTube stars are swallowed by Hollywood, they are in danger of becoming less authentic versions of themselves, and teenagers will be able to pick up on that," Sehdev says. "That could take away the one thing that makes YouTube stars so appealing."
- Sherlog.js (Github) — Javascript error and event tracker application. Honestly, I have no idea if this is any good but the name is golden. I'm such a sucker.
"raspberry pi" entries
Four short links: 8 August 2014
Synchronization, Security Pi, YouTube Stardom, and Javascript Logging
Four short links: 10 June 2014
Trusting Code, Deep Pi, Docker DevOps, and Secure Database
- Trusting Browser Code (Tim Bray) — on the fundamental weakness of the 'net as manifest in the browser.
- Deep Learning in the Raspberry Pi (Pete Warden) — $30 now gets you a computer you can run deep learning algorithms on. Awesome.
- Announcing Docker Hub and Official Repositories — as Docker went 1.0 and people rave about how they use it, comes this. They're thinking hard about "integrating into the build ship run loop", which aligns well with DevOps-enabling tool use.
- Apple's Secure Database for Users (Ian Waring) — excellent breakdown of how Apple have gone out of their way to make their cloud database product safe and robust. They may be slow to "the cloud" but they have decades of experience having users as customers instead of products.
Four short links: 8 April 2014
Our Robot Future, Embeddable Pi, Behavioural Economics Not Solved Problem, and Imagine Processing Language
- Next Five Years for Robots — plausible summary of the near future progression, taken from Helen Greiner's DEMOlabs talk.
- Raspberry Pi Compute Module — a Raspberry Pi shrunk down to fit on a SODIMM with onboard memory, whose connectors you can customise for your own needs. (via Makezine)
- Behavioural Economics and Public Policy (Financial Times) — interesting how A/B trials revealed that implementations of Cialdini's social proof didn't test as well as non-social-proof persuasive techniques. More useful than something that claims to be the right answer is knowing when you're closer to the right answer. (via Mind Hacks)
- Halide Language — open source programming language designed to make it easier to write high-performance image processing code on modern machines. Its current front end is embedded in C++. Compiler targets include x86/SSE, ARM v7/NEON, CUDA, Native Client, and OpenCL.
Four short links: 4 February 2014
UX Fundamentals, Mozilla Persona, Pi Tests, and The Holodeck
- UX Fundamentals, Crash Course — 31 posts introducing the fundamental practices and mindsets of UX.
- Why We Love Persona And You Should Too — Mozilla's identity system is an interesting offering. Fancy that, you might have single-sign on without Single Pwn-On.
- Raspberry Pi As Test Harness — Pi accessory maker uses Pis to automate the testing of his … it's Pis all the way down.
- The Holodeck Begins to Take Shape — displays, computation, and interesting input devices, are coming together in various guises.
Supercomputing on the cheap with Parallella
Blowing open the doors to low-power, on-demand supercomputing
Packing impressive supercomputing power inside a small credit card-sized board running Ubuntu, Adapteva's $99 ARM-based Parallella system includes the unique Ephiphany numerical accelerator that promises to unleash industrial strength parallel processing on the desktop at a rock-bottom price. The Massachusetts-based startup recently ran a successfully funded Kickstarter campaign and gained widespread attention only to run into a few roadblocks along the way. Now, with their setbacks behind them, Adapteva is slated to deliver its first units mid-December 2013, with volume shipping in the following months.
What makes the Parallella board so exciting is that it breaks new ground: imagine an Open Source Hardware board, powered by just a few Watts of juice, delivering 90 GFLOPS of number crunching. Combine this with the possibility of clustering multiple boards, and suddenly the picture of an exceedingly affordable desktop supercomputer emerges.
This review looks in-depth at a pre-release prototype board (so-called Generation Zero, a development run of 50 units), giving you a pretty complete overview of what the finished board will look like.
Four short links: 1 November 2013
AI Lecture, Programming Provocation, Packet Laws, and Infrared Photography
- Analogy as the Core of Cognition (YouTube) — a Douglas Hofstadter lecture at Stanford.
- Why Isn't Programming Futuristic? (Ian Bicking) — delicious provocations for the future of programming languages.
- Border Check — visualisation of where your packet go, and the laws they pass through to get there.
- Pi Noir — infrared Raspberry Pi camera board. (via DIY Drones)
Four short links: 20 September 2013
Insecure Hardware, Doc Database, Kids Programming, and Ad-Blocking AP
- Researchers Can Slip an Undetectable Trojan into Intel's Ivy Bridge CPUs (Ars Technica) — The exploit works by severely reducing the amount of entropy the RNG normally uses, from 128 bits to 32 bits. The hack is similar to stacking a deck of cards during a game of Bridge. Keys generated with an altered chip would be so predictable an adversary could guess them with little time or effort required. The severely weakened RNG isn't detected by any of the "Built-In Self-Tests" required for the P800-90 and FIPS 140-2 compliance certifications mandated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
- rethinkdb — open-source distributed JSON document database with a pleasant and powerful query language.
- Teach Kids Programming — a collection of resources. I start on Scratch much sooner, and 12+ definitely need the Arduino, but generally I agree with the things I recognise, and have a few to research …
- Raspberry Pi as Ad-Blocking Access Point (AdaFruit) — functionality sadly lacking from my off-the-shelf AP.
Four short links: 13 September 2013
Remote Work, Raspberry Pi Code Machine, Low-Latency Data Processing, and Probabilistic Table Parsing
- Fog Creek's Remote Work Policy — In the absence of new information, the assumption is that you're producing. When you step outside the HQ work environment, you should flip that burden of proof. The burden is on you to show that you're being productive. Is that because we don't trust you? No. It's because a few normal ways of staying involved (face time, informal chats, lunch) have been removed.
- MillWheel (PDF) — a framework for building low-latency data-processing applications that is widely used at Google. Users specify a directed computation graph and application code for individual nodes, and the system manages persistent state and the continuous flow of records, all within the envelope of the framework's fault-tolerance guarantees. From Google Research.
- Probabilistic Scraping of Plain Text Tables — the method leverages topological understanding of tables, encodes it declaratively into a mixed integer/linear program, and integrates weak probabilistic signals to classify the whole table in one go (at sub second speeds). This method can be used for any kind of classification where you have strong logical constraints but noisy data.
The Myth of the Private API
The Fundamental Interconnectedness of Things
A little over a week ago, I wrote about how the authentication model for an unpublished Tesla REST API was architecturally flawed because it failed to take basic precautions against the sharing of credentials with third-parties common to most REST-based services these days. Since its publication, the main criticism of the article centered around the fact that the API is neither a published API nor has it been advertised as being meant for third-party consumption.
The adding of value to devices and services with or without the knowledge/permission of their creators is an integral part of the Internet of Things. These days, people expect an API around their devices. They will discover any APIs and add value to the device/service—even if the task requires a little reverse engineering work. A responsible creator of a device or service in today's world defined by the Internet of Things must therefore do the following things—always:
- Give it a public API
- Protect any internal communications so they can't be reverse engineered
- Protect any public communications so that they don't put end users at risk when they leverage third-party devices and services


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True 3D (t3D) is a medical visualization software solution that enables physicians to uniquely visualize and interact with image data depicting tissue and organs as if they were real physical objects.
EchoPixel's True 3D (t3D) applications enhance both clinical efficacy and workflow by optimizing clinical knowledge and expanding human experience through sensory inputs that trigger intuition.
EchoPixel provides expert derived protocols for diagnostic, surgical planning and image guided surgery applications that help doctors with the cognitive strain they encounter when working medical images.


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Starkville Academy's streak of perfection was extended one more game.
The Lady Volunteers did so by knocking off the Lady Patriots of Madison-Ridgeland Academy 54-22 on Tuesday evening.
The dominos have fallen when it comes to the coaching carousel in college football.
It's not surprising to see Tommy Tuberville and Bobby Petrino be right in the middle of it.
When Butch Jones left Cincinnati to fill the vacancy left at Tennessee, Tuberville made an unexpected move from Texas Tech to Cincinnati.
The Starkville Academy Volunteers surrendered a lead to the Pillow Academy Mustangs on the soccer field Tuesday night, but they were still able to avoid their first loss of the season.
Starkville Academy and Pillow Academy played to a 3-3 tie at the Starkville Sportsplex soccer complex.
The Mississippi State Bulldogs are going to lose a great amount of talent at wide receiver when the season is over.
Replacing those guys has been a top priority for the Bulldog coaching staff, and Sunday there were indications that help is on the way.
MSU picked up commitments from junior college receivers Corey Smith and Jeremey Chappelle.
The Starkville 9th grade boys basketball team picked up another victory Monday night, but it wasn't just against ordinary competition.
Louisville sent its B-team squad to face the Yellowjackets and Starkville still made it look somewhat easy.
The Jackets used an 11-0 run in the second quarter to take control of the game and won a 55-39 decision at the Armstrong Gymnasium.
Carnail Minor shot lights out to lead the Starkville Academy Volunteers to a 44-35 Saturday night victory after starting the season with nine road games.
It didn't take long for the Starkville Academy Lady Volunteers to impress the home crowd.
The Lady Vols ended the first quarter on a 16-0 run to take a 29-7 lead and never looked back in beating Parklane Academy of McComb 73-24 Saturday night.
It's an amazing thing to watch the Starkville Academy Lady Volunteers at work.
Even when starting post player Sallie Kate Richardson went down with what appeared to be only a turned ankle in the pre-game warm-ups, the Lady Vols didn't miss a beat and continued to play well in a 73-24 victory over Parklane Academy Saturday night.
MERIDIAN – The Starkville Lady Yellowjackets won their fifth-straight game by defeating Northeast Jones 54-41 at the Meridian Tournament.
"We hope the trend continues," SHS girls coach Kristie Williams said of the recent success of her team. "We hope to keep them going as we look to get back in action against Grenada next Saturday."
The Mississippi State football team has had quite a layoff since the last time it saw the gridiron.
That all changed on Friday.
The Bulldogs had their first bowl practice in preparation for the TaxSlayer.com Gator Bowl. MSU faces Northwestern on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013 in Jacksonville. ESPN2 will televise the 11 a.m. kickoff.


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Deploying a Successful Enterprise Social Network: Best Practices From the Field
Deploying a successful enterprise social network requires a holistic plan that not only focuses on deploying the new technology, but also on the human aspect of the cultural change it entails. With the proliferation of social media tools in the consumer space, most users find it very easy to understand Yammer and how to use it. Even so, there could be some hesitation by users to leverage an enterprise social network if they are unclear on how the organization itself is embracing it, how they are expected to use it on a daily basis and the benefits they will achieve from it. Over the many successful deployments of Yammer, we have gained insights into the ingredients for success. Success should be defined by every organization to align to its own strategic objectives at the outset; what we define as success is meeting and exceeding these predefined success metrics laid out by each customer.
While specifics differ across customers, all successful deployments have included the following steps in common:
Define and communicate a clear vision
- Provide clarity for employees on how this new platform supports the Company's core values, mission and stratetic objectives. In addition, employees must have a clear understanding of how it will help them acheive their own day-to-day goals.
- Define success metrics up front. In order to design the right strategy to achieve your vision, you need to have a way to measure success. Success metrics serve as markers and will provide crucial information on how to adjust the tactics and strategy.
Create awareness to increase adoption
- Form a coalition across different business groups to champion this vision. Identifying internal influencers and partners allows you to drive excitement that leads to greater adoption. These partners should include both, executives from different parts of the Company, as well as respected non-executives who can motivate through informal authority.
- Have an official launch event to build excitement and to provide next steps on how to use the network. A launch event focuses the initial adoption, which creates a momentum that leads to greater adoption and modeling of desired behaviors. Follow it up with official re-launch events to introduce the platform to new users and to remind exisiting users of its power.
Reduce obstacles for adoption
- Identify groups and users that have use cases that can benefit the most from the Enterprise Social Network. This discovery process allows you to find users that are ready to adopt and quickly buy into the vision.
- Enable all your users to use the network. You may focus on specific use cases, but should expect for voluntary adoption by other users to lead to unexpected new use cases. Integrating the platform with existing tools, such as Sharepoint, also reduces obstacles for adoption.
- Seed the network with useful information to quickly show value to users. ESNs are only as valuable as the information that users can get from it. With a critical mass of activity, static information will morph into conversations.
- Provide targeted training. Because your users have different levels of understanding, addressing specific needs with the right information will increase adoption. Some common user levels include executives, power users, champions and new users.
Increase engagement
- Leverage your champions to promote and pull in others. A fully utilized network encourages top-down, bottom-up and horizontal communication. Champions should include executives and non-executive users, in order to encourage 360-degree communication.
- Nudge people by utilizing different tactics. For example use the Praise feature to publicly recognize people, publicly @ mention users with questions, help connect people to experts. After you've done that, get out of the way and let them carry on the conversation.
- Convert new users to power users, power users to champions. Everyone has the chance to be a champion, but their journey may be different. Providing targeted support will help them on that journey.
Learn from your users
- Follow up with users to identify new use cases and best practices. Our many customers have allowed us to work together to define common best practices. However, you organization is unique, and your specific goals and circumstances should be taken into account. Keeping in touch with your users will alert you to some creative use cases that you wouldn't be able to predict otherwise.
- Adjust your strategy as you learn. Establishing specific metrics of success is crucial to understanding if you are meeting your goals. If something is not working, be flexible to course correct based on your learnings. Also, understand that your organization is not static either; there are new objectives, new challenges, new employees, new use cases. Build in flexibility to monitor, reassess and act.
Back to you reader! How do you ensure success in deploying a successful Enterprise Social Network?
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I think best practices first and for most is to respond to customers inquiries. I have been waiting for either an email or a phone call for over a week. My first request was responded within 10 hours, I was very please. But, after that first email, even though the return email address seems to be genuine and should have gone to the individual that originally sent the first and only email. I have not received any responses, despite my multiple (sorry!) requests via the web site support ticket.
I am interested in Yammer and most likely want to have some kind of paid subscription, but you sure don't make it easy for me to spend my money on you.
Apologies for the difficulties you had getting in touch with our sales department. We contacted the sales rep, and he should be getting in touch with you shortly. Please let us know if you need anything else.
Yes I agree with Anne-Marie, we use Yammer in the company and love it, but moving from the free app to a paid version was painful to the point I started looking for another. Don't get me wrong Yammer is great and the staff have been helpful and friendly but, oh my the signup process needs a process.
Nolan: Thank you for taking the time to write in this comment. Can you send me an email and let me know exactly what got stuck? I'd like to take steps to rectify the situation. Was it the signup process itself (through the website) or was it the sales process? Please email me if you get a chance: maria (at) yammer-inc (dot) com
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Under Pressure to Change, Saudis Debate Their Future
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR
Published: November 23, 2003
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Nov. 19— The struggle over the future of Saudi Arabia is on.
The idea of reshaping the kingdom's religious and tribal form of monarchy remains tentative, more vague public discussion than concrete plan. But a series of deadly bombings clearly intended to destabilize the rule of the House of Saud, combined with rare street protests and the grudging recognition of the heavy involvement of Saudis in the Sept. 11 attacks, have forced this once extremely isolated nation to re-examine the way it is run.
''There is an opportunity to turn this relatively sad time in our history, with the violence, to turn it into something that is good for everyone,'' said Prince Bandar bin Khalid, the chairman of the board of Al Watan newspaper and a grandson of the late King Faisal.
''I think you will find a more decentralized system,'' he added. ''I think you will find more people will have a bigger say in governing. I don't think we have an option, we need to go in that direction to ensure social stability.''
Gauging the degree of change considered possible depends on whom you talk to. Government critics say that except for small steps like an ill-defined promise for municipal elections next year and some greater latitude in news media freedom, the ruling clan maintains absolute power. Critics worry that the half dozen or so septuagenarian princes who actually run the country are too entrenched to consider diluting the role of the monarchy, especially since there is no clear ruler, because the ailing King Fahd is incapacitated.
Supporters of the government think that the change has already started, and that the only question is finding an acceptable pace.
Over all though, there is a sense here that Saudi Arabia is entering a period of ferment, and the various interest groups -- the religious zealots, the generally more liberal intellectuals and technocrats, women -- all seek to shape the changes to their benefit.
Emblematic, perhaps, of the contrary nature of the changes is the theology textbook for 10th graders in Saudi schools.
Previously, it contained lesson after lesson emphasizing that Muslims should shun those outside the faith -- saying, for example, that a good Muslim living among foreigners ''must feel, deeply inside, hatred for them, their religion and everything they represent.''
That passage and indeed the complete chapter were cut from the books introduced this fall. But an entirely new lesson suggests the danger of dividing mosque and state, warning that anyone supporting Western methods of government deserves ''excommunication from God's mercy, from Islam.''
Muhammad A. al-Zulfa, an avuncular historian who serves on the government-appointed Consultative Council, told of attending prayers every Friday at what he used to refer to as the ''Taliban Mosque'' in his Riyadh neighborhood.
Every sermon was laced with attacks against the United States, Israel and sundry other villains. ''God pray for the Sunnis in Iraq and damn the Shiites there,'' Mr. Zulfa remembered the prayer leader bellowing this spring to a crowd of mostly young worshipers.
Then, a couple of months ago, the prayer leader disappeared -- apparently removed under a government campaign to tone down virulent mosque sermons -- and with him went the crowds.
Mr. Zulfa considers that a small turning point in the fight against rampant extremism, but one that must go further.
''We have to stop the religious authority from saying the country's legitimacy is based on them,'' he said, before enunciating the rallying cry for those who want to dilute the puritanical Wahhabi tenets that have long dominated life here. ''Religion is important, but we don't want to have a religion different from other Muslims.''
It is a measure of change that the word Wahhabi can be mentioned in a newspaper column without getting the editor fired. Discussing elections is also no longer a crime, and the government recently admitted that there were thousands of AIDS cases in the kingdom. There are still topics that editors usually reject -- women driving, for example -- but over all, Saudis find far fewer taboos.
Analysts believe that the most important shift is the fact that the religious doctrines prevalent in the kingdom can now be openly discussed in a way unthinkable even two years ago. Prohibitions have not entirely disappeared, however, hence the demand for free speech is one of the strongest.
Mansour al-Nogaidan, a former zealot turned reformer, was the first columnist to suggest publicly that the extreme lessons within the Wahhabi sect about shunning foreigners helped terrorists to justify their attacks. That column and subsequent ones created such an uproar that Mr. Nogaidan's writing was suspended for a couple of months, and this summer he found himself summoned by a conservative judge who he said sentenced him to 75 lashes.
''He told me that all my articles in the Riyadh newspaper are against our religion, against Islam,'' Mr. Nogaidan said. The sentence has not been carried out, and Mr. Nogaidan used his return column this week to write that music -- considered sinful under Wahhabi tenets -- could aid spiritual enlightenment.


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The best way to describe me would be cool, calm, collected and intelligent with a dash of spice. I am also very quick witted and most people find me to be extremely amusing. I love to laugh and making other's laugh seems to come natural to me. Coming from a competitive racing background, I can be hyper-competitive and a definite thrill seeker. I love spontaneity and adventures. I have been blessed with great genetics that allow me to still compete at a high level as a competitive athlete. I also believe that anything worth doing is worth doing at one's best. Some of my greatest successes and achievements have come because of my ability to sacrifice and stay focused on my goals. I take this approach in every facet of my personal, professional and competitive life. I am a proactive and responsible father first, having been blessed with two amazing children. Now that they have grown older, I find myself with the time to finally look for my perfect match. I am not a serial dater and consider myself to be extremely picky. In other words, I prefer quality over quantity. However, once you have my attention, I can be very charming, attentive, creative and original. Chivalry is also big on my list. I really don't understand why it has become so obsolete in establishing relationships nowadays. If you want to catch my eye you should be fit, considerate, caring and have a good sense of humor. I like women who naturally exude an air of confidence and sensuality regardless of their surroundings. It would be nice to meet someone whose inner beauty matches their exterior looks as well. If one also knows and believes in reciprocation, then we should get along quite fabulously.
Camping , Cooking , Dining out , Fishing/Hunting , Hobbies and crafts , Movies/Videos , Performing arts , Playing sports , Travel/Sightseeing , Volunteering , Watching sports , Wine tasting
Aerobics, Billiards / Pool, Bowling, Cycling, Dancing, Football, Inline skating, Tennis / Racquet sports, Weights / Machines, Yoga
I exercise 5 or more times per week.
I have Dogs, Exotic Pets, Fish
Middle of the Road
I love experiencing different cultures and my 3 favorite destinations are Spain, Hong Kong and China. However, I also love nature and nothing beats watching a beautiful sunset, while sipping on champagne in a jacuzzi up in the mountains.
The University of Tampa, Tampa, FL
I am currently a competitive cyclist and spend a lot of time training and racing all over the U.S., Caribbean, Central and South America. This summer I plan on racing in Italy and Austria.
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|What he is looking for
|5'10" (177cms)
|5'0" (152cms) to 6'0" (182cms)
|Body type:
|Athletic and toned
|Slender, About average, Athletic and toned
|No preference
|Dark brown
|No preference
|No Way
|Yes, but trying to quit
|Social Drinker
|Social Drinker
|Self-Employed / Entrepreneur
|No preference
|$100,001 to $150,000
|No preference
|No preference
|Have kids:
|Yes, and they sometimes live at home (2)
|No preference
|Wants kids:
|Not sure
|No preference
|Latino / Hispanic
|No preference
|Christian / Catholic
|No preference
|No preference
|Some college
|High school


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- Deadly rise in wait for cancer care
- Parcel plot work of a sick 'loner'
- Pensions cut - but not for bosses
- Queen pays Edward £1/4m to quit TV
- Digital Domesday Book lasts 15 years not 1000
- UK news in brief
- David Irving's secret backers
- The two David Beckhams
- How thousands of cancer patients and doctors have been betrayed
- It's not just cash, we must have a revolution in thinking
- Bottom of the cancer league
- Time runs out for Britain's old trades
- Now you're over the hill at 42
- Tourette's sufferer rails against cuts
- Revealed: nuclear bunker plan for old masters
- Internet galleries fuel boom in fine art
- 25 years in jail for denying that he's a killer
- Now every day is Ladies' Day
- Cancer information on the web
Main sectionRSS
- Addicts consulted in war on drug abuse
- Dana signals she will stand for Dail
- Bid to outlaw DNA trophy hunters
- TV Joan faces jail for gay poem
- Irish Media accused of distorting polls
- There's only two David Beckhams...
- Drug video's shock tactics 'won't work'
- Soft-voiced star adopts the hard line
- TV opera on Diana's death shows crash in slow motion
- Stephen Byers: Dead man walking
- Peter Preston: Frankly, who gives a damn?
- Mean girls
- The dirty secret that drives new technology: it's porn
Observer ReviewRSS
- Tony Wilson: It was the best party... ever
- Capital punishment
- So there's Jilly, Sue and me...
- That's what friends are for?
- The £75 wedding outfit that doubles as a summer frock...
- They work like a dream
- All roads lead to Death Row
- Surrealism, paranoia and the sound of a flapping raincoat. Marvellous...
- A slow news day on craggy island
- Hollywood's hip who's who
- Parr excellence
- You're the One that I want
- The devil's in the detail...
- Observer review: Three Uses of the Knife by David Mamet
- Observer review: The Secret State and Know Your Enemy
- Observer review: The Child that Books Built by Francis Spufford
- Observer review: More, Now, Again by Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Interview: Mavis Cheek
- Observer review: Stealing the Mona Lisa by Darian Leader
- Observer review: The Hunters by Claire Messud
- Observer review: The Monkey in the Mirror by Ian Tattersall
- Paperbacks: 3 Mar
- Girl from the South by Joanna Trollope read by Emilia Fox
- Paperback of the week: Mrs P's Journey
- Classicwatch: Journey Without Maps
- Primed and ready for my $1m
- Don't leave us this way
- Library revolutionary
Observer EscapeRSS
Observer Business, Media & CashRSS
- New cash crisis at ITVDigital
- Will Nigella make the advertisers bite?
- Britain ready for 'steel wars' if US imposes tariffs
- Brown set to pull out of airline rescue
- Iceland scotches rights issue with debt restructuring plan
- Unambiguous problem for the euro
- Wetherspoon makes music
- BT goes organic with hi-tech market
- Black arts flourishing among the black-eyed beans
- Amen to Blackpool's casino plan
- ECB: Hands off €40bn windfall
- Sportal bounces back
- Brussels to ban low food prices
- The banks with cash to burn
- A gamble too far for the City
- Egg hatches new growth plan
- Tips to keep your shopping bills down
- Canny shoppers
- Most essential of all: a home
- Money men take on key-worker crisis
- 'Disco-dancing' figures keep Eddie on hop
- Picture dims for boxed-in ITV
- Why Sky's the limit on new TV operations
- Cashpoints
- Is it red or dead for the Mirror?
- Review can't mend Equitable's black hole
- CD pirates forcing down the volume
- Media diary
- Get stuck inn. Turn a pub into a home
- A spring in the step and the troop on fire, it can only be downhill from here
- Royal & Sun seeks new dawn
- When the going gets tough...
- Could house prices go into free fall again?
- The real pub landlord
- Business Comment
- On the market
- Why things can only get riskier for shares
- MPs revolt on reform
- On the road again - in my late 50s
- Money writes: We win help for computer novice of 81
- Work writes
- Why the nurse is treated worse
- Junior doctors
- All the pretty Tang horses
Observer MagazineRSS
- Barbara Ellen: Turning the tables
- Phil Hogan: On a wing mirror and a prayer
- Loafer's guide
- The cost of... being famous
- Go see
- The perfect lover
- Dial M for mobile
- Interview: Bijou Phillips
- The last-chance saloon
- The Beats go on...
- Barefoot Doctor: Open wide
- Treating serious head injuries
- Dr John Briffa: Pill of rights
- Nigel Slater: Finding the salami
- Restaurants: Circa, Lewes, East Sussex
- Monty Don: Lawn order
- Interiors: The grass is greener
- Life support
- The last-chance saloon (part two)
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All countries, including wealthy economies like the United States, struggle with problems of food availability, access, and nutrition, said Stanford professor Rosamond Naylor in an Earth Matters lecture on the challenge of alleviating global hunger.
Rosemary Knight talks to KSBW about her team's ongoing project to map saltwater intrusion into aquifers along Monterey Bay.
High school students participating in the School of Earth Sciences internship program sat down with Earth Systems BS/MS candidate Alessandra Santiago to discuss their work in active research labs, their analysis of ancient animals and climate change, and what they gained from their time on the Stanford campus.
The extreme atmospheric conditions associated with California's crippling drought are far more likely to occur under today's global warming conditions than in the climate that existed before humans emitted large amounts of greenhouse gases, Stanford scientists say.
From as far away as Iceland, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, China and Brazil, and from as close as our own campus and the big state university across San Francisco Bay, 74 new students are on the path to Master's and PhD degrees in the Stanford School of Earth Sciences.
It's still 2014 but Geophysics Professor Mark Zoback can look forward to being honored in the New Year with the Robert R. Berg Outstanding Research Award. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists is recognizing Zoback's contributions to the field of reservoir geomechanics.
Earth Systems alumnus Dan Karp is the co-lead author of a new study in Costa Rica that revealed that habitat destruction significantly reduces the incidence of evolutionarily distinct species.
A new study led by Rob Jackson finds that rising supplies of natural gas could benefit the environment by replacing coal as a fuel for electricity, but hydraulic fracturing poses dangers for people living near the wells.
Earth Sciences professors Kevin Boyce and David Lobell discuss the unexpected benefits of winning 2013 MacArthur Fellowships.
Peter Vitousek and colleagues in China have shown in a new Nature study that Chinese farming practices could be designed to simultaneously improve yields and substantially reduce environmental damages.
Geophysics Assistant Professor Tiziana Vanorio will receive the 2014 Innovative Teaching Award in late October from the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Large earthquakes occurred much more frequently in the Bay Area during the 19th century, says Stanford geophysicist Greg Beroza. Last weekend's magnitude 6.0 quake in Napa was a reminder to stay ready for something bigger.
The Summer Undergraduate Research in Geoscience and Engineering (SURGE) program brings students from smaller colleges, minority serving institutions, or underserved backgrounds to Stanford for a summer of Earth science research.
Geophysics professor Eric Dunham, the 2014 winner for Excellence in Teaching in the School of Earth Sciences, sits down for an audio interview to discuss his approach to teaching, the source of his infectious enthusiasm for mathematics and physics, and why students rave about his unusual oral midterms.
A new way of determining the hydrogen content in mantle rocks could lead to improved estimates of Earth's interior water and a better understanding of our planet's early evolution.
Chris Field will receive the Roger Revelle Medal, while the biennial Charles A. Whitten Medal will be presented to Paul Segall.
In a recent TEDx talk, Margot Gerritsen reveals the beauty that is inherent in the mathematical equations that scientists and engineers use to model everything from ocean tides and blood flow in the heart to internet search engine results and connections in the brain.
Earth Sciences Dean Pamela Matson was appointed to the board of the new Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, created by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
With school out for high schools across the Bay Area, students turn toward Stanford labs, including those in the School of Earth Sciences, to find internships.
California experienced its record warmest winter in 2013-2014, and is currently experiencing its warmest year on record to date, writes Daniel Swain in an update about the state's ongoing drought, which he calls "a tale of exceptional dryness and record warmth."
The latest edition of the School of Earth Sciences e-newsletter features stories about research advances, as well as updates on the school's faculty, students and alumni.
Mom's understated observation that her sports-minded teen was "very curious and not bad at math" led Jef Caers to a career in academic energy resources engineering.
Eitan Shelef and George Hilley developed powerful mathematical tools to extract three-dimensional information about Earth's evolving landscape from two-dimensional images, with possible applications to channel on Mars and the human circulatory system.
In Prof. Scott Fendorf's perennially popular Science of Soils class, students get their hands dirty while learning about the essential properties of soil for life on Earth.
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Mine subsidences ongoing problem
Old mines dot northern Muhlenberg County, Ky.
When surface subsidence from underground mines shifts a building's foundation or causes other damage, assistance from state agencies is often available to help owners deal with the problems.
Assistant director in the Division of Abandoned Mine Lands (DAML) Mark Meade said mine subsidence in Kentucky is a small, but ongoing problem.
"It is going to keep happening," Meade said. "But we've not had any outstanding number of cases."
Kentucky only sees a few subsidence complaints a year, with cases ranging from a small hole in a resident's yard to an entire foundation shift. Meade recalled a case occurring about three years ago in Western Kentucky involving three houses affected by mine subsidence. He said it was one of the larger cases he has seen in a few years.
"It's not very predictable," Meade said. "People need to know what's underneath their homes."
While homeowners have the option of purchasing mine subsidence insurance, Meade said most coverage only extends to property reimbursement, which does not fix the actual problem. The Department of Abandoned Mine Lands steps in to investigate and mend cases of mine subsidence. Meade said agency representatives visit a home, check for the source of subsidence and, if it is determined to be caused by abandoned mines, fill the old shaft with concrete to support the foundation.
"It is a fairly permanent solution," Meade said. "But it is expensive."
The Kentucky Office of Mine Safety and Licensing offers a mine mapping information system to residents. The system searches by county and city for all known mine shafts in the area. Meade said it is important for homeowners or potential homeowners to research and find out if their homes rest over these old, abandoned mines.
There are some types of non-classic subsidence that are not necessarily caused by abandoned mine shafts.
Structures built on top of clay soil are at risk for natural subsidence. During times of dry weather, clay soil retracts from foundation and can lead to shifts and cracks.
Downspouts that drain water directly next to a house can also pose a threat.
"The first thing we check is whether or not it was caused by a mine," Meade said. "It is important for any homeowner anywhere to check the geology of their house and know what they are building on."
The Illinois State Geological Survey estimated that nearly 201,000 acres of urban and built-up lands lies close to underground mine shafts, with about 330,000 homes that could be affected by them. On the Illinois Mine Subsidence Insurance Fund website (imsif.com), it states all insurance companies writing property insurance in Illinois are required to include mine subsidence in their coverage.
There are currently 34 counties in Illinois riddled with old underground mines in which mine subsidence insurance inclusion is required in both residential and commercial policies. The maximum liability for those policies is usually the same for any other property damage source via fire and windstorm, about $750,000.
A prime example of the need of geologic home research is Western Kentucky's Muhlenberg County. Meade said abandoned mine shafts dot the northern part of the county while there are nearly none in the southern half, so residents living there have less of a need for subsidence insurance.
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Healthcare in Kenya
Expats should make sure they're well informed of the health risks when moving to Kenya. It's essential that foreigners living in Kenya have a comprehensive health insurance policy to cover them for any health-related issues that may occur during their time in the country.
Public healthcare in Kenya
Expats will want to steer clear of the government hospitals in Kenya. Underfunding has made for poor quality care and poorly staffed facilities, which leads to overcrowding and limited service provision.
There is a national healthcare plan in Kenya that all civil servants are required to join. While expats are eligible to take advantage of this, most won't as healthcare services aren't up to the standard they are accustomed to and it is a bureaucratic nightmare to enroll.
Private healthcare facilities in Kenya
Kenya has an extensive network of private healthcare facilities, from small local clinics to large hospitals. There are a number of private hospitals and medical clinics in Nairobi and Mombasa offering all medical services at international standards.
Private healthcare can be good, with small but modern health facilities and well-trained medical staff. However, for any serious operations, it's advised that expats look outside the country for help (South Africa has the best medical facilities on the continent).
Pharmacies in Kenya
Pharmcies in Kenya are also refered to as chemists and expats can easily find these in any major town or city.
The best pharmacies are often attached to hospitals. There are also a number of trustworthy pharmacy chains in Kenya such as Yaya Chemists, TriChem Pharmacies and MedWorld Pharmacies. Branches of these can be spotted in any town centre of shopping mall in Kenya.
Expats suffering from chronic ailments or needing prescription medication should try to bring a supply with them, as well as copies of the prescription and generic names of the drugs.
Expat health insurance
There is a national healthcare plan in Kenya, which is, theoretically, for all Kenyans and civil servants, but expats shouldn't bother.
Private health insurance is extremely necessary in Kenya; without it, healthcare costs are just as expensive as in Western countries, and covering all the costs for emergency care out-of-pocket can be impossible.
Medical evacuations out of Kenya (mostly to South Africa) can cost more than USD 80,000.
Often employers relocating expats to Kenya will provide insurance, but if not, expats should obtain suitable Expatriate Health Insurance prior to arriving in Kenya. They should ensure their plan covers private healthcare in Africa and, more importantly, emergency medical evacuations.
Pre-travel restrictions and vaccinations for Kenya
Expats should get the latest medical advice on vaccinations and malaria prevention at least three weeks prior to arriving in Kenya. A malaria risk exists all year round, but more so in the coastal regions than in Nairobi and on the high, central plateau.
Immunisation against yellow fever, polio and typhoid are often recommended. Protection against bites from sandflies, mosquitoes and tsetse flies is the best protection against malaria, dengue fever and other insect-borne diseases. It's recommended that expats sleep under a mosquito net.
Water quality in Kenya is variable, so expats are advised not to drink water directly from the tap unless they have a pathogen and bacteria-killing water filter. Cholera outbreaks occur frequently; expats should take care not to drink contaminated water and be cautious of food prepared by unlicensed roadside vendors.
Emergency medical services in Kenya
The standard of emergency medical services in Kenya can be very varied. In cities like Nairobi and Mombasa, the standard of emergency medical services isgood with the Kenyan Red Cross and the St Johns Ambulance providing services to those in need. In rural areas, however, the standard of emergency medical services is poor or non-existent.
Private hospitals in Kenyan cities often have a small fleet of ambulances that are sent out to assist patients. However, in most cases it will be faster to get a patient to the nearest hospital in a private vehicle, as waiting times for ambulances in Kenya can be long.
In the event of an emergency, expats can call an ambulance on the emergency number 999.