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Wearing sandals here might actually be too casual. Sandals Resorts owns and operates about a dozen resorts in the Caribbean. The all-inclusive resorts, located in Antigua, the Bahamas, Jamaica, and St. Lucia, cater to couples and offer such upscale amenities as gourmet dining, spa services, and scuba diving and golf. Sandals also offers free wedding packages for guests planning their honeymoon at the resort. The company additionally owns four Beaches resorts (the Turks & Caicos islands near Miami, and Boscobel and Negril in Jamaica) that cater to families. Sandals is credited for being the first resort to use swim-up pool bars. The company was founded in 1981 by Jamaican businessman Gordon "Butch" Stewart.


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Snooki and Jionni LaValle were "proud parents" on Sunday, as friends and family watched their son Lorenzo get baptized. Take a look at photos from the big event that were shared on Instagram, including pictures of the first-time mom with her best friend JWoww — now officially known also as "Lorenzo's god mommy!!"
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That last photo? It was posted Monday morning after the baptism celebration had ended. In case you somehow missed the big announcement earlier this month, Snooki wrote on Twitter this morning, "On CNN this morning talking about Lorenzo & my upcoming pregnancy book."
Yes, it seems the 25-year-old we came to know as a pickle-loving princess/Jersey Shore reality star is joining the ranks of celebrity authors.
"I hope that this book will help all pregnant ladies out there and also help you realize you aren't as crazy as you think," Snooki, obviously quite excited, explained in early March. "This book isn't advice, it's what I went through throughout my pregnancy! Can't wait to finish and share with all of you!!!!"
Here's a look at other stars who are authors in the pregnancy, parenthood and children's book world:
Will Snooki's pregnancy book be any good? Certainly, she's not afraid to get personal with some of the less-than-pleasant parts of the journey, but just when I start to fear it will be a total gross-out read, I'm reminded this new mom has proven she's taking her parenthood duties quite seriously — not to mention she and fiancé Jionni LaValle apparently plan to stick to some traditions I hadn't expected.
I'll be curious to see which side of her personality comes out when pen gets put to paper! The as-yet-untitled is due out in early 2014.
Are your kids baptized, as Snooki's son Lorenzo recently was?
Does a pregnancy book written by Snooki interest you?
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Do you wonder about the interesting facts associated with Olympic athletes? Do you want to know what the athletes do in their free time? Are you interested in learning where the athletes attended college?
You'll find answers to those questions and more in the list to follow, where you'll be introduced to each member of the 2014 U.S. Olympic figure skating team.
The team, which is made up of 15 athletes — seven men and eight women — will head to Sochi in an effort to bring home gold in their respective events. The sport of figure skating is composed of several events, including men's and women's individual, pairs skating, and ice dancing. There's even a new event this year: the team competition, which allows extra skates for those selected.
The figure skating events began on February 6 with the skates for the team event. You can find a full schedule of luge events here.
Tucker West
West is a first-time Olympian who lives in Ridgefield, Conn. He attends National Sports Academy High School and has a luge track in his backyard.
Summer Britcher
Britcher is a first-time Olympic who lives in Glen Rock, Pa. She studied at Devry University and enjoys reading and painting in her free time.
Preston Griffall
Griffall previously competed in the 2006 Olympic Games where he finished 8th in the doubles luge event. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah and is a member of the U.S. Army World Class Athletes Program. His favorite movie is Top Gun.
Matt Mortensen
Mortensen is a first-time Olympian who studies at DeVry University. He lives in Huntington Station, N.Y., and comes from a family of nine. He is a member of the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program.
Kate Hansen
Hansen is a first-time Olympian who lives in Chula Vista, Calif. She studies at Brigham Young University. Her hobbies include surfing as well as playing the guitar and ukulele.
Jason Terdiman
Terdiman is a first-time Olympic who lives in Berwick, Penn. His favorite food is homemade macaroni and cheese, and in his free time he enjoys swimming and frisbee.
Erin Hamlin
Hamlin is a three-time Olympian whose highest finish came in 2006 when she placed 12. She lives in Remsen, N.Y., and her favorite athlete is Mia Hamm. She studied at DeVry University and SUNY-Empire State College. Her favorite book is Angels and Demons by Dan Brown.
Christian Niccum
Niccum previously competed at the 2006 and 2010 Olympic Games. His highest finished came at the 2010 Olympic Games when he finished sixth. He lives in Woodinville, Wash., with his wife Bobbie Jo and his daughter Hayden Lulu. He studies business administration at DeVry University.
Chris Mazdzer
Mazdzer previously competed at the 2010 Olympic Games where he finished 13th in the men's singles event. He lives in Lake Saranac, N.Y., and studies at DeVry University. His favorite show is Family Guy and he likes riding his motorcycle.
Aidan Kelley
Kelly is a first-time Olympian who lives in Lake Placid, N.Y. He studies at DeVry University, and his hobbies include long boarding and playing volleyball.


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Insanity's HRTP - Peragus
A few months ago I came back to KotOR and started looking for mods right away. One of the things I was looking for was a high resolution texture replacer, I searched for a while and found a lot of smaller ones and one larger pack but none were what I was looking for.
So I've decided to make my own and I've started with Peragus :D The aim of this pack is to recreate the textures and keep them close to the vanilla style as possible while adding extra details where needed along with an increase in resolution. At the moment most are 2048x2048 but that's before I start optimizing things, not all will be that size when it's done.
Below I've posted a few WIP screenshots of the progress I've made so far.
WIP Screenshots:
Those are some nice-looking textures, Sorrow.
Ooooohhhh pretty!!
Wow, those look incredible! Keep up the good work!
Hey there Insanity! Good to see you working on some KotOR stuff. Your texture mods for Skyrim were fantastic. :)
Wall in first picture looks kind of wonky, imo.
The floor in the last picture is too harsh on the eyes, also.
But other than that, great work! Is it possible to do the same thing for characters?
Looks awesome!
Thanks :)
Wow that's looking good! So many Peragus retextures out there, it is hard to choose which should be used. I'd love to see some people retexture another planet, for example, Malachor V... Until then, keep doing what your'e doing, it is very eye candy ;)
There are more for Peragus because it's smaller and easier to re-texture :)
Very nice, I like the very slight variations from the vanilla style.
Insanity, I hope you'll release each planet separately - as you finish them. That way we won't have to wait for some "mega-pack" that might come years down the line (or not at all as we've seen with at least two major packs I've seen throughout the years.)
Speaking of skyboxes, if you figure out how to replace the Peragus II planet texture on the Peragus skybox - could you send me a PM on that? I've got something in the works for that and I'm running into some trouble on it. Simply replacing the texture with my texture doesn't seem to be cutting it for some reason.
Looks like the next planet has been chosen for me :lol:
I get that it is the smaller one to do, but the way the models are done on this particular planet (or maybe it is just because we know these flaws, having seen so much reskins on that one) makes them a bit hard and the result are not always as impressive as they should be because of this. But if you say you want to redo some of the models/uv mapping to get a better texture job without so many overlap, that would of course be pretty much unprecedented and I'd love that ;)
I've not yet looked into modeling for TSL, but I do want to fix or even replace meshes on Peragus. Depending on how things work out I'd love to replace most or even all the meshes used throughout the level to improve the visuals.
I'll be finishing the textures first though and tackling the mesh side of things later on.
Replacing or redoing the meshes is unlikely at best. We lose so much when we bring existing area models into Max; lights, lightmaps, walkmeshes, effects, emitters, etc.
I'm not sure that the improvement would be worth the time that it would take to re-create all of that. But, if you find a way, more power to you and I am more than happy to answer any questions you have in that area.
I think the work you're doing on the textures is fantastic, and I'd love to see all the planets done in TSL and KotOR in similar fashion.
For redoing the area models, I think the best you could hope for is hex editing the model files to accept different textures on certain wall surfaces.
Crap, I didn't think things were so bad in that area, that's going to spoil my fun :lol:
Thanks for the information :D
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InsanitySorrow, I'll chat with you about this in a PM so as to not derail your thread and to keep the WIP private at the moment.
Not a problem, posted here to make sure I was on the right track :D
Wow, Peragus looks great! It'll be hard to choose between your's and SIC's texture overalll project over on Deadlystream, glad to see TSL getting some texture love.
Been a little busy and not had much time for this project, but I do have a couple of exterior screenshots showing a few new textures.
Just wanted to say u did an excellent job restoring the original look nice work......I also wanted to say keep at its a long road a lot of textures I hate to see promising texture mods fade into the dark......so far no body has retextured the entire game besides me....that's lonely company is like to see someone else with the same dedication complete these type of mods...I got one more kotor v.e. mod in me then I retire so just wanted to add words of inspiration.
Don't think I'd seen those exteriors... they look awesome! The rock really looks like rock. So... rock on! OHHHH GOD NOOO WHYYYY
Thanks :)
So, I just wanted to say this is really cool, good job
Thanks :)
Tell me you gave these textures some metalic shaders. Obsidian stripping 90% of the textures from them severely gimped the game, and I hope you rectified that while adding these new textures.
I haven't no, my main focus has been creating the textures, not looked into anything else yet :)
I've uploaded a WIP version of the mod for those that want to try it.
Peragus HRTP WIP 1.0 (192mb)
This is brilliant! I appreciate the work done on other texture mods, but very few actually were creating textures that felt OE would have made them. I want my HD textures to look like the original area, not some strange bastardization. Looking forward to this!
I haven't seen them in game yet but they look good in my art program. However, I do agree the previously made statement by Kainzorus Prime would help these textures out.
Once I've finished the textures I'll look into adding the metallic shader, probably have 20 textures or so before I get to that though.
How does the game handle the metal shader?, Is it just a case of linking up a specular map or are there other files that need editing?
Well, it's just an alpha channel, and for the shine you have to attach a .txi file with specified envmap. Most things use either "Envmaptexture CM_Baremetal" or "Envmaptexture Mycube".
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Witnesses describe white-out conditions leading up to the accident that turned into a mile-long pile-up.
19:37, UK, Thursday 31 January 2013
One adult and two children have been killed and 20 others injured after a massive motorway crash in Detroit involving at least two dozen vehicles in icy, snowy conditions.
Michigan State Police Lieutenant Michael Shaw said the chain-reaction pile-up happened Thursday morning on a mile-long stretch of Interstate 75 on the southwest side of the city.
Witnesses described white-out conditions and slippery roads leading up to the crash. Temperatures were still below freezing in the afternoon.
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National Champion
Eight-Time All-American
Five-Time Pac-12 Champion
2013-14: Outdoor – NCAA national champion in the long jump (21-6/6.55m)…placed second in the 200 meters with a time of 22.63 at the NCAA Championships…The 100 meter dash brought her another All-American honor; finished third with a time of 11.42…her 24 points were the most scored in an NCAA Championships since 2001…aided the 4x100 meter relay team to a first-place finish at the Oregon Preview (44.1)…claimed both the 200 meter and 4x100 meter relay titles at the Aztec Invitational (22.98 and 43.74, respectively)…won the 100 meters (11.42) and the long jump (20-3.75/6.19m) at the Pepsi Dual…victorious in the 100 meters with a time of 11.11 and runner-up running a leg of the 4x100 meter relay team (43.31)…notched a runner-up finish as a part of the 4x100 meter relay team at the Penn Relays (43.33)…at the Pac-12 Championships she placed first in three meets: 100 meter dash (11.21), 200 meters (22.6, school record, Mooberry Track record and a Pac-12 Meet record) and long jump (20-11.25/6.38m)…named both the Pac-12 Track and Pac-12 Field Athlete of the year…Indoor – Took seventh at the NCAA Championships in the 60 meters (7.32)…won the 60 meters at the MPSF Championships (7.34)…placed third in the long jump (20-5.75/6.24m), second in the 200 meters (23.3) and second in the 60 meters (7.25) at the Don Kirby Elite…finished in second place in both the long jump (20-1.50/6.13m) at the Rod McCravy Memorial Invitational and 60 meter dash at the UW Preview (7.24)…Season Bests – Indoor – 60 Meters – 7.24, UW Preview, Seattle, Wash., (1/18/14); Long Jump – 20-5.75/6.24m, Don Kirby Elite, Albuquerque, N.M., (2/14/14)…Outdoor – 100 Meters – 11.11, NCAA Championships, Eugene, Ore., (6/11/14); 200 Meters – 22.60, Pac-12 Championships, Pullman, Wash., (5/18/14); Long Jump – 21-6/6.55m, NCAA Championships, Eugene, Ore., (6/11/14).
2012-13: Outdoor – Three-event All-American with a seventh-place finish in the finals of the NCAA Championships in the 100 (11.43)…led off the 4x400 which finished fourth and tallied the third-fastest time in Oregon history during its preliminary run (3:28.15)…part of the 4x100 relay team which also took fourth and also recorded the third-fastest time in Oregon history (43.73)…Pac-12 Champion in the 100 and 4x100 while taking third in the 200 and fifth in the long jump…set a personal best in the 200 at the conference championships with a time of 23.15 which is the fifth-fastest mark in school history…set a PR in the 100 at the Mt. Sac Relays at 11.31 which ranks third at Oregon…top mark in the long jump was a distance of 20-2.25/6.15m and made it on to the Oregon record book with the 10th longest jump…won the long jump at the Oregon Pepsi Invitational…Indoor – All-American with a fifth-place finish in the 60…ran a 7.29 in the prelims which is the third-best time in school history…runner-up at the MPSF Championships in the 60…won the 60 at the Blue and Orange Opener…Season Bests – 60 – 7.29, NCAA Championships, Fayetteville, Ark., (3/9/13); 100 – 11.31, Mt. Sac Relays, Walnut, Calif., (4/20/13); 200 – 23.15, Pac-12 Championships, Los Angeles, Calif., (5/12/13), Long Jump – 20-2.25/6.15m, Pac-12 Championships. Los Angeles, Calif., (5/12/13).
2011-12: Outdoors - Redshirt season. Appeared in the Oregon Preview prior to her injury and ran the third leg of the 4x100 meter relay squad that won in the fifth fastest time in school history (44.29). Also made a brief appearance the USC Invitational, where she was first in her section of the 200 meters (24.07). Indoors - Redshirt season. Season Bests: Outdoors - 200 Meters - 24.07, USC Invitational, Los Angeles, Calif. (3/23/12).
Prep: The 2011 USATF Junior national champion in the long jump. Remarkable senior year for Clovis High School included the USATF national title, three California state crowns (100, 200, long jump) and an appearance at the Pan Am Junior Championships. At the state meet, captured the 100 in 11.69, the 200 in 23.81 and the long jump with a mark of 19-11.75. Followed that by winning the long jump at the USATF Junior Championships (20-5.75w) and placing fifth in both the 100 (11.51) and 200 (23.75). Ran an all-conditions prep best 23.51w 200 in the preliminaries. Capped season by representing Team USA at the Pan American Junior Championships, where she was fourth in both the 100 (11.56) and the long jump (19-4). Wind-legal long jump mark of 20-4.25 led the nation in 2011, while she ranked eighth in the 100 (11.51) and ninth in the 200 (23.75). As a junior in 2010, ranked third nationally in the 100 meters (11.34) and triple jump (42-7.25). Swept the California state long jump and triple jump titles as a junior. Went a prep-best 42-7.25 to take the triple jump and 20-5.75 in winning the long jump. Prep-best in the long jump, 20-7.75, came during the state preliminary rounds. Was also the 2010 state runner-up at 100 meters in 11.42. Ran a personal-best 11.34 in the preliminaries. High School Bests: 100 Meters - 11.34, 2010; 200 Meters - 23.51w, 2011; Long Jump - 20-7.75w, 2010; Triple Jump 42-7.25, 2010.
Personal: Major is psychology.
Personal Bests
60 Meters – 7.24
UW Preview
Seattle, Wash., (1/18/14)
100 Meters – 11.11
NCAA Championships - Preliminaries
Eugene, Ore., 6/11/14
200 Meters – 22.6
Pac-12 Championships
Pullman, Wash., 5/18/14
Long Jump – 21-6/6.55m
NCAA Championships
Eugene, Ore., 6/11/14
Triple Jump - 42-7.25w (legal - 41-9.25)
California State Championships
Clovis, Calif., 6/5/10
NCAA Outdoor Championships
2014 – 100 Meters, 3rd, 11.42
2014 – 200 Meters, 2nd, 22.63
2014 – Long Jump, 1st, 21-6/6.55m
2013 – 100 Meters, 7th, 11.43
2013 – 4x400, 4th, 3:28.24
2013 – 4x100, 4th, 43.80
NCAA Indoor Championships
2014 – 60 Meters, 7th, 7.32
2013 – 60 Meters, 5th, 7.38
Pac-12 Championships
2014 – 100 Meters, 1st, 11.21
2014 – 200 Meters, 1st, 22.60
2014 – Long Jump, 1st, 20-11.25/6.38m
2013 – 100 Meters, 1st, 11.46
2013 – 200 Meters, 3rd, 23.15
2013 – 4x100, 1st, 43.81
2013 – Long Jump, 5th, 20-2.25/6.15m


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Opala In Paradise - Hawaii
By PacificNetwork.tv
Opala In Paradise - Hawaii Ocean View Estates
Meet 70 of your best friends. These are folks who live on the Big Island and today marked another day that these citizens (just like you and me) came together to voluntarily clean up illegal dump sites. Remember that film "Network" and its main character, newscaster Howard Beale? "All I know is, you've got to get mad. You've got to say, "I'm a human being, goddamn it. My life has value."... I'm tired of it and I'm not going to take it any more!
Well these folks aren't going to take it any more. They got off their duffs, some even with kids in tow, to clean 9 sites of approximately 62 tons of rubbish and scrap metal, 16 cars, 60 tires, countless loads of plastic, aluminum, household and industrial waste and trash. The organization is Keep Hawaii Beautiful, inspired by Starsha Young and a cadre of incredibly great people who devote their time to clean up of Hawaii Island trash." Opala in Paradise is the Facebook group that brings folks together. So if you're interested in joining them that's where you can find the 411. Mahalo to the County of Hawaii for funding support; Starsha Young, Damon Tucker, Ed Miner, Tiffany Edwards Hunt, Kevin Dayton of the Mayor's Office, and so many others. Big mahalo to all the local Big Island businesses, groups and agencies that were there this morning getting their hands dirty: the Office of the County Prosecuting Attorney, Hawaii Police Department, Office of the Mayor, Prevent Illegal Dumping Task Force, Goodfellow Brothers Inc., Pacific Waste Inc., Superior Sanitation, Ocean View Auto Parts, Big Island Scrap Metal, Junk Yard Dog Towing, Arrow Hawaiian, Precision Construction, The Opala in Paradise Facebook Group, Kolohe Auto Repair and Big Island Gear. If you're interested in joining them visit:
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MEETING AGENDA FOR February 15, 2007
I. Approval and Adoption of the Agenda
II. Reading and Approval of the Minutes
minutes of 2/8/07
III. Officers= Reports – Will be in writing this week
Vice President
IV. Committee Reports – Will be in writing this week
Academic Standards
Community Education
Governance Committees/Budget
V. Action Items
a) Distance Learning Charge to Curriculum Committee
b) Retreat Rights Policy
VI. Discussion
a) Committee Appointments Procedure
b) Testing Center Update
c) Program Review & Disciplines Merger
d) Modernization
e) Safety and Student Conduct in Classrooms Policy
f) Program Review Faculty Meeting Possible Dates
g) MOU for Program Review
h) Bylaws Revisions Ad Hoc Committee
i) Ian Walton's Suggested Meeting Improvements
j) Outstanding Teacher/s Selection Procedure
k) Cost of Open College to Students
l) Cell Phone/Electronic Devises Guidelines
VII. Proposed Agenda Items for Future Meetings
a) Online Application Project (Linda Beam)
b) Goals Survey
c) Communicating with the Press (Cathy Summa-Wolfe)
d) Compressed Calendar
e) English & Math Graduation Requirements
f) Budget
g) Banner Time Line
VIII. Public Requests to Address the Senate on Non-Agenda Items
IX. Adjournment: 2:00 PM
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One thing you probably wouldn't know from looking at the DSquared shoes that make the most waves in the fashion world is that the brand's footwear isn't all made for a crazy person. In fact, most of it is quite sane, and the brand even make a lot of flats and sneakers. The twin brothers that design the label have seen so much editorial success from shoes that push design boundaries, though, that it doesn't surprise me that they've followed up the DSquared Spin Heel Platforms with the DSquared Ice Skate Booties.
Admittedly, it had never occurred to me that anyone would look at an ice skate and say to themselves, "Self, someone will want to walk around all day in this," but I suppose that's why I'm writing instead of designing. And although the heel of the shoe does seem to be somewhat narrow like a hockey skate, the platforms sides appear to jut out in order to provide a bit more stability. But still, the question remains – which crazy fashion person will be the first to wear these to the Spring 2012 shows?
The prospect of walking in these shoes is too ankle-achingly awful to consider, so instead, let's try and answer the previously posed question. Anna Dello Russo is always reliable for an insane and brilliant outfit, but there must be some better guesses to be head. Let us know in the comments.
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More TU14 patch details have been posted for "Minecraft PS3 Edition" and "Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition." According to a report from International Business Times on Feb. 27, 4J Studios hinted that the 14th main title update for the console versions of "Minecraft" will feature dyed armor and wolf collar.
Players will be able to use items to change the color of their attire with the TU14 patch. In the PC version of the sandbox video game, up to 16 paint options are available for armor customization. The colors can be extracted from items found in the various biomes.
One of items that can be customized is the wolf collar. Players are able to tame some of the animals as domesticate pets. Although the default color for the collars is red, the item could be dyed to different colors. You can find a screen showcasing the new features, along with other images from "Minecraft PS3 Edition" and "Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition," in the slideshow to the left side of this article.
4J Studios recently stated that the TU14 patch is still at least several weeks away from release as the development team is still working on the new contents in addition to fixing several glitches. The 14th main title update will then have to be tested by Microsoft Studios and Sony Computer Entertainment before the file could be sent to the players to download.
"Minecraft PS4 Edition," "Minecraft Vita Edition" and "Minecraft Xbox One Edition" are also in development at 4J Studios.
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- 'Minecraft' PS3 and Xbox 360 TU14 patch release date and more updates posted
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Best Flooring Options for Passive Solar Retention
Theres no getting around the fact: your home needs flooring. You likely want flooring material thats attractive, comfortable, and sustainably manufactured, but dont stop there. If you had a green designer, youd learn that flooring can work for you on another level. In passive solar design, flooring is like a sponge, absorbing heat throughout the day and releasing it slowly at night. This reduces the amount of dollars you put into conventional heating and cooling while increasing your homes comfort, all without extra maintenance troubles or costs.
So, which flooring options should you look out for? According to the U.S. Department of Energy, concrete, tile, brick, stone, and other masonry options are the most common flooring choices for thermal storage in passive solar buildings. In addition to having high thermal capacity and dark colors and textures that help absorb sunlight, these options are attractive and durable as well. Heres a little more info on each.
Dense concrete has a high thermal mass, especially when a darker color is selected and additional insulation is added underneath. For an environmentally friendly option, look out for concrete that incorporates fly ash and that has been heated through a dry kiln process.
Concrete can have numerous applications in the modern home. Stained concrete comes in a multitude of color options, while overlays, stencils, and dyes, as well as stamping and finishing, can help make concrete floors a stand-out feature of any room.
A masonry product, tile absorbs heat more so than a material such as wood. One of the more popular flooring options, tile is made from all natural materials. It mimics stone while costing less. In addition, tile can be installed over concrete or other masonry products for added thermal capacity. Select tile in a darker color, and leave the floor uncovered for maximum heat gain.
Brick is a great material for both floors and walls, where they are known to provide more thermal mass than mud-rammed walls. Bricks can be made of mud or ceramic, exuding a sense of warmth and permanence to your home design. Keep in mind that some bricks, such as paving bricks, are denser than others and retain more heat.
More than just a flooring option, natural stone is considered a work art. Heavy and dense, stone provides excellent heat storage. This can be heightened with textured surfaces and dark colors. In addition to providing excellent thermal mass for passive solar homes, stone floors can last a lifetime. It is expensive but comes in more affordable faux stone and stone tile options.
Have you got a flooring material in mind? Get free installation quotes from a certified flooring contractor. Want to know more about solar heating? Get the heads up from the Solar Pros.
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Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
Lewis Sperry Chafer (1871 - 1952)
Contributed by: Zaady
Salvation is the work of God for man; it is not the work of man for God.
When led of the Spirit, the child of God must be as ready to wait as to go, as prepared to be silent as to speak.
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Edgeley Park to host Chappy tribute match
- 10 July 2013 09:03
- Posted by @markbooth_mcfc
One of the most popular characters at City, Kit Manager Les Chapman, is to have a tribute game at Stockport County's Edgeley Park on Sunday 4 August.
Former City favourites have been lining up to play in the game for Chappy including Paul Dickov, Patrick Vieira, Andy Morrison, Robbie Fowler , Steve McManaman, Ben Thatcher and Darren Huckerby.
The managers for the day are Joe Royle and Brian Horton and tickets are expected to sell fast for what should be an entertaining afternoon for all the family.
A limited number of unreserved tickets are now available priced as follows:
£8.00 – Adults
£4.00 – Over 65s & Under 16s
Tickets are available online at www.mcfc.co.uk/tickets, by telephone on 0161 444 1894 (option 1, option 3) and to personal callers at the Stadium.
The Ticket Office and Supporter Services Team are available Monday - Saturday, 9am to 5:30pm (closed Sunday & Bank Holiday).


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Cormier Keeps Family Name Going At B-CU
Courtesy: BCUathletics.com
Release: 08/16/2012
By Dan Ryan
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- There's no sibling rivalry or family tradition overshadowing Aria Cormier.
Her older sister, Irie, played here from 2002-05 and left the family name throughout the program record book as the single-game service ace leader and third on the all-time digs list.
Stats hardly come up during sisterly chats, though. The focus on is Aria's development as a middle blocker and her matriculation at B-CU.
"Irie asks me how I am and how I'm progressing as a player," Aria said. "We never talk what about she did [during her playing days]."
Aria transferred after her brother-in-law informed her there was an opportunity to play at B-CU. Some family lines are important.
"It was a big factor," Aria said. "I saw what Irie did and even though she had a different coach, I saw the progress she made while she was here. This is where I want to be."
Head Coach Isaac Raphael thinks the Cormiers may be the start of a volleyball tradition at B-CU.
"A lot of the players have younger siblings and some of them have shown interest in the program," Raphael said. "It's nice to know we have that culture here and I'm excited to see what's going to happen in the future.
For now, the focus is Aria's play as a middle blocker. The Lady Cats lost starter Linda Nwabuko to graduation last season.
"It's been rough at first, but I'm learning the position," Aria said. "The hardest thing is transition; coming down from a block and making a hit where I'm supposed.
Raphael's pleased with Aria's effort.
"She's playing with a lot of heart. She's 5-8 and plays 6-3," Raphael said. "Even though we have more size this year, Aria's going to give the taller players a run for their money."
Aria is a role player on this team and her stats probably will be quiet in the box score. It's the stuff that isn't in the box that Raphael likes the most.
"Attitude and enthusiasm," Raphael said. "She does the little things on the court and the important off the court, putting the time in the weight room, making the effort in practice and making great grades. That's what you want."


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Confesses that self-esteem "is still a work in progress"
Yes, male Directioners DO exist. Read on for their experiences waiting in line for 1D's "Today" performance.
Nick Lachey hints that there's more to come from the "man band," while reminding us of how much we love chair-dancing.
Will she stay or will she go now? Does anyone know for sure?
Our Popdust correspondents experience Bieber Fever live and deliver tips for those considering future "Today" campouts.
The big has finally come! Surprise guests, Selena Gomez-avoiding and lots of Believe, after the jump.
The latest from Popdust's Today correspondents from Rockefeller Plaza, where Beliebers have stopped being polite and are definitely getting real.
On the scene at Rockefeller Plaza, where The Bieb has made his triumphant arrival.
Our Today correspondents are spending 48 hours in the streets waiting for The Bieb. Read on for their first report from Rockefeller Plaza.
As in the morning show performance scheduled for this Friday. Check out those Beliebers in for the long haul, after the jump.
Chris Brown returns to Today to pump New Yorkers up before a long day of work.
We knew this was possible, but now it's real: Three out of the five guys are taken. Find out who to redirect your attentions to, after the jump.
We hate to do compare boy bands and "Today" appearances, but double-decker buses > in-studio performances.
Please, please, please play "Boyfriend," Hoda Kotb.
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Reggie and Kim kiss, but he didn't propose? (Hip Hop RX)
With one Super Bowl win, Colts try to rebound in the 2011 season (Nate Davis, USA Today)
Rock Band White Stripes complaint forces Air Force to pull commercial (Joel Hanek, MTV)
Tim Tebow commercial the least watched of Super Bowl ads (Huffington Post)
Still Super? Where Peyton Manning fits among the best (Ray Didinger, CSNPhilly.com)
Retiring official says NFL has it wrong on pass interference (Toni Monkovic, New York Times)
Are the 2009 Saints the most memorable team ever? (Dan Shanoff, Sporting News)
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Consider a graph with N nodes. All nodes are distributed as a Poisson point process with density of λ in a L*L area. There is an edge between two nodes if and only if the distance between them is less than or equal to R. What is the adjacency matrix of this graph? What is the distribution of 0,1 in this adjacency matrix?
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Seems like you need to read up on "What is a random geometric graph?" before posing further similar questions on this site. There are many references; for mathematics I would suggest:
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There was a crasher at this season's "Bachelorette: Men Tell All" taping, and spoiler king Reality Steve Carbone has revealed who she was and what she was doing there. In a July 22 post on RealitySteve.com, the longtime "Bachelor" blogger wrote that it was no coincidence that rejected contestant Chris Soules had a secret admirer in the audience and that she ended up on the stage after interrupting his Q&A with host Chris Harrison.
Dishing that the female fan was most certainly planted by producers, the spoiler king wrote, "Of course it was set up. Now, Chris Harrison might not have known it was going to happen (Chris Soules definitely didn't know), but it's not like this woman wasn't coached beforehand on when to raise her hand and when to start speaking."
The blogger—who has nailed every aspect of the current season of the ABC dating show thus far—also revealed that the mystery woman's name is Khatera "Kat" Safi and she lives in Guelph, Ontario. Carbone also noted that her LinkedIn page lists her as the Marketing Coordinator at the Ministry of Agriculture.
While the gutsy audience member was bold enough to ask Soules for date and give him her phone number, the hunky farmer told TV Guide he was "totally caught off guard" by the incident and was mum on whether he's actually call her or not.
The "Men Tell All" taping ended with a preview of next week's "Bachelorette" finale as well as a clip of Harrison handing this season's star Andi Dorfman a letter from one of her two final men (that'd be either Nick Viall or Josh Murray) and dramatically telling her, "I think you should read it."
But before you get worked up over the significance of the letter, Reality Steve issued a reminder that a similar thing happened on Sean Lowe's season of the show, and the "letter" simply turned out to be a love note from final pick Catherine Giudici.
"I don't know what the letter says or who wrote it," Reality Steve wrote. "Nor do I know when the letter was written. Whatever the case, the point I'm trying to make is, it has zero effect on the outcome of the season… I just know it has no bearing on the outcome I've been telling you about all season. So no need to read into it at all. Just more manufactured drama to get people to think that it's something bigger than it is since it doesn't change the outcome."
The season finale of "The Bachelorette" airs on Monday, July 27 at 8:00 p.m. on ABC.


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Entity Framework- The Crib Sheet
For things you need to know rather than the things you want to know
Prasanna Amirthalingam provides an overview of Entity Framework and how it can be used. He shows that it can provide an excellent interface between the Object-oriented model and the relational. The Entity Framework allows developers to work with data in the form of objects and properties without having to concern themselves directly with either the stored procedures or functions of the defined interface, or the underlying database tables and columns where this data is stored.
- Introduction.
- ADO.NET Entity Data Model
- Working with the designer and tools
- Working with data.
- Summary.
- Further Reading.
Database developers and application developers need to model business processes and data differently. Database developers use a relational model to represent data and develop stored procedures to represent processes. Application developers use the richness of object oriented models to work with business data and business processes. This mismatch between the relational world and the object oriented world can be addressed by using the ADO.NET Entity Framework. This article is based on the ADO.NET Entity Framework that ships with Visual Studio.NET 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta.
The ADO.NET entity framework is an evolution of ADO.NET to provide object relational mapping between conceptual entities and the data store. Conceptual entities are standard .NET classes. The ADO.NET entity framework provides a mapping technology to map these conceptual entities to the data store schema of your database. This allows an application developer to work with the conceptual entities without having to be concerned about the underlying data model.
ADO.NET Entity Data Model
The ADO.NET entity framework uses an Entity Data Model. The Entity Data Model consists of the storage schema, the conceptual schema, the mapping schema and the entity classes.
Storage Schema Definition (SSDL)
The storage schema describes, in an XML definition, the schema of the data store. This is the exact schema of your data store. The storage schema definition can be generated directly from the data store. The Storage schema describes the schema of a database table as an entity type. The following XML fragment shows the definition for a Customer table:
<EntityType Name="Customer">
<PropertyRef Name="ID" />
<Property Name="ID" Type="int" Nullable="false" />
<Property Name="Name" Type="nvarchar" Nullable="false" MaxLength="25" />
<Property Name="City" Type="nvarchar" MaxLength="25" />
<Property Name="Country" Type="nvarchar" Nullable="false" MaxLength="25" />
<Property Name="IsCorporate" Type="bit" Nullable="false" />
<Property Name="CompanyName" Type="nvarchar" MaxLength="25" />
<Property Name="Designation" Type="nvarchar" MaxLength="25" />
<Property Name="LastModified" Type="timestamp" StoreGeneratedPattern="Computed" />
The storage schema also describes relationships between tables as an association. The following definition for an association shows that the Customer table has a relationship with an Order table:
<Association Name="FK_Orders_Customers">
<End Role="Customer" Type="ContosoModel.Store.Customer" Multiplicity="1" />
<End Role="Order" Type="ContosoModel.Store.Order" Multiplicity="*" />
<Principal Role="Customer">
<PropertyRef Name="ID" />
<Dependent Role="Order">
<PropertyRef Name="CustomerID" />
The storage schema also refers to any stored procedures in the data store. The following XML definition defines an existing stored procedure named SelectByCountry that accepts a single parameter named ctry:
<Function Name="SelectByCountry" Aggregate="false" BuiltIn="false" NiladicFunction="false" IsComposable="false" ParameterTypeSemantics="AllowImplicitConversion" Schema="dbo">
<Parameter Name="ctry" Type="varchar" Mode="In" />
Finally all the defined entity types and associations are mapped into an entity container. The entity types are grouped into an entity set and the associations are grouped into an association set.
<EntityContainer Name="dbo">
<EntitySet Name="Customer" EntityType="ContosoModel.Store.Customer" store:Type="Tables" />
<EntitySet Name="Order" EntityType="ContosoModel.Store.Order" store:Type="Tables" />
<AssociationSet Name="FK_Orders_Customers" Association="ContosoModel.Store.FK_Orders_Customers">
<End Role="Customer" EntitySet="Customer" />
<End Role="Order" EntitySet="Order" />
Conceptual Schema Definition (CSDL)
The conceptual schema describes the conceptual entities as entity types and is defined in XML. This is created to describe the schema of the conceptual entities. Conceptual entity types are .NET classes. Though this schema can be auto-generated, most of the times the application developer would alter the conceptual schema to reflect the model used for the conceptual entities. If the conceptual schema is auto-generated it would simply map a conceptual entity type to a table. The following shows the schema for two conceptual entities named Customer and CorporateCustomer. The CorporateCustomer entity type inherits from the Customer entity type.
<EntityType Name="Customer">
<PropertyRef Name="ID" />
<Property Name="ID" Type="Int32" Nullable="false" />
<Property Name="Name" Type="String" Nullable="false" MaxLength="25" Unicode="true" FixedLength="false" />
<Property Name="City" Type="String" MaxLength="25" Unicode="true" FixedLength="false" ConcurrencyMode="None" />
<Property Name="Country" Type="String" Nullable="false" MaxLength="25" Unicode="true" FixedLength="false" />
<Property Name="LastModified" Type="Binary" MaxLength="8" FixedLength="true" ConcurrencyMode="None" />
<NavigationProperty Name="Order" Relationship="ContosoModel.FK_Orders_Customers" FromRole="Customer" ToRole="Order" />
<EntityType Name="CorporateCustomer" BaseType="ContosoModel.Customer" >
<Property Name="Designation" Type="String" Nullable="true" />
<Property Name="CompanyName" Type="String" Nullable="true" />
The conceptual schema also describes relationships between entity types as associations. These relationships are references in the conceptual schema for the entity type when an entity contains instances of another entity. For example in the schema above the navigation property in the Customer entity type references entities by using an association. The following schema shows the association between the Customer entity type and the Order entity type:
<End Role="Customer" Type="ContosoModel.Customer" Multiplicity="1" />
<End Role="Order" Type="ContosoModel.Order" Multiplicity="*" />
Finally all the defined conceptual entity types are grouped into entity sets and associations are grouped into association sets. An entity container is defined to include the entity sets, association sets and any function definitions that can be mapped to stored procedures:
<EntitySet Name="Customer" EntityType="ContosoModel.Customer" />
<EntitySet Name="Order" EntityType="ContosoModel.Order" />
<AssociationSet Name="FK_Orders_Customers" Association="ContosoModel.FK_Orders_Customers">
<End Role="Customer" EntitySet="Customer" />
<End Role="Order" EntitySet="Order" />
<FunctionImport Name="SelectByCountry" EntitySet="Customer" ReturnType="Collection(Self.Customer)">
<Parameter Name="ctry" Mode="In" Type="String" />
Mapping Schema (MSL)
The mapping schema definition is the glue that binds the conceptual model and the data store model. This XML definition contains information on how the conceptual entities, functions and associations are mapped to the storage schema. The following shows the mapping definition to map the Customer and CorporateCustomer conceptual entities defined in the conceptual schema to the database table named Customer defined in the storage schema:
<EntitySetMapping Name="Customer">
<EntityTypeMapping TypeName="ContosoModel.Customer">
<MappingFragment StoreEntitySet="Customer">
<ScalarProperty Name="ID" ColumnName="ID" />
<ScalarProperty Name="Name" ColumnName="Name" />
<ScalarProperty Name="City" ColumnName="City" />
<ScalarProperty Name="Country" ColumnName="Country" />
<ScalarProperty Name="LastModified" ColumnName="LastModified" />
<Condition ColumnName="IsCorporate" Value="0" />
<EntityTypeMapping TypeName="IsTypeOf(ContosoModel.CorporateCustomer)">
<MappingFragment StoreEntitySet="Customer">
<ScalarProperty Name="ID" ColumnName="ID" />
<ScalarProperty Name="LastModified" ColumnName="LastModified" />
<ScalarProperty Name="CompanyName" ColumnName="CompanyName" />
<ScalarProperty Name="Designation" ColumnName="Designation" />
<ScalarProperty Name="Country" ColumnName="Country" />
<ScalarProperty Name="City" ColumnName="City" />
<ScalarProperty Name="Name" ColumnName="Name" />
<Condition ColumnName="IsCorporate" Value="1" />
The associations we define in the conceptual schema is mapped to the associations that we define in the storage schema
<EndProperty Name="Customer">
<ScalarProperty Name="ID" ColumnName="CustomerID" />
<EndProperty Name="Order">
<ScalarProperty Name="ID" ColumnName="ID" />
The functions we defined in the conceptual schema is mapped to the stored procedures defined in the storage schema
<FunctionImportMapping FunctionImportName="SelectByCountry" FunctionName="ContosoModel.Store.SelectByCountry" />
Entity Classes
Entity classes are .NET classes that are generated from the conceptual schema XML definition. The Entity classes are similar to business entities and will be used by the other layers in your application. When working with the Entity Data Model, any changes to the conceptual schema updates the auto generated .NET class definitions. Since these entity classes are partial classes you can extend the functionality by creating your own business logic for the entity classes. The generated entity classes also contain partial methods to plug in your own validation logic.
The following code shows the auto-generated class for the CorporateCustomer entity
C# Code:
[global::System.Data.Objects.DataClasses.EdmEntityTypeAttribute(NamespaceName = "ContosoModel", Name="CorporateCustomer")]
public partial class CorporateCustomer : Customer
public static CorporateCustomer CreateCorporateCustomer(int ID, string name, string country)
CorporateCustomer CorporateCustomer = new CorporateCustomer();
CorporateCustomer.ID = ID;
CorporateCustomer.Name = name;
CorporateCustomer.Country = country;
return CorporateCustomer;
public string Designation
return this._Designation;
this._Designation = global::System.Data.Objects.DataClasses.StructuralObject.SetValidValue(value, true);
private string _Designation;
partial void OnDesignationChanging(string value);
partial void OnDesignationChanged();
//Other property definitions omitted
You can plug in your own validation logic by providing implementation for the partial methods. For each property in the entity class there will be partial methods that are called before a property changes and after the property is changed. For example on the above code let us assume we want to execute validation logic to make some validation checks if the designation is set to "Manager". Then we can create a partial class definition for the above class and provide implementation for the OnDesignationChanging partial method as follows:
C# Code:
partial class CorporateCustomer
partial void OnDesignationChanging(string value)
if (value.Equals("Manager"))
//validation checks
Working with the designer and tools
Visual Studio.NET 2008
Visual Studio has a project item template for an Entity Data Model. Adding an Entity Data Model to your project allows you to design the conceptual entities and map them to the data store using the Entity Framework designer. You can also create new conceptual entities, create association, and inherit from existing conceptual entities in the designer.
When you work with conceptual entities in the Entity Framework Designer, you can use the Mapping Details window to map the conceptual entity to a data store.
The Mapping Details window also has an alternate view to map your own user defined stored procedures to perform Inserts, Updates and Deletes for your conceptual entity
Visual Studio also has a Model Browser window that shows the conceptual entity types, entity sets and data store. This is similar to the Class Browser window and provides a better view to browse through the Entity Data model.
EdmGen tool
The EdmGen is a command line tool available with Visual Studio.NET 2008. You can use this to generate ADO.NET entity data model schema files and .NET classes for your application. For example the following command generates the XML files for the conceptual schema, storage schema, mapping schema and entity classes by using the database Contoso:
EdmGen /mode:FullGeneration /project:Contoso /provider:System.Data.SqlClient
/connectionstring:"server=.\sqlexpress;integrated security=true;database=Contoso"
You can change the mode for EdmGen to specify different starting points. For example if you have already created the storage schema, mapping schema and conceptual schema, and you want to generate the entity classes, you can change the mode to "EntityClassGeneration". EdmGen is very useful when you want to configure it to be used along with an automated build process.
Working with data
Using Object Services
Object Services allows you to work with data as conceptual entities (.NET objects). This also allows you to perform CRUD operations on objects without writing query statements that are provider dependent or targeting a particular database product. The CRUD operations for entities are executed through the ObjectContext class. The ObjectContext class also manages state for retrieved entities.
Querying data
You have different ways of querying data through Object Services. When data is queried through Object Services, the results are returned as strongly typed objects. This allows you to work with data as working with any strongly typed object or collection in .NET. The simplest way to query data is by using the ObjectQuery type in .NET. The ObjectQuery type represents a query that can be executed against the conceptual model.
Using Query Builder
An ObjectQuery can be constructed by using the available extension methods such as Where, OrderBy, Select etc. The ObjectQuery always work with an ObjectContext (in this instance ContosoEntities). For example the following code block calls the Where extension method to build the query to return only entities from the Customers entity set where the Country property is Australia.
C# Code
using (ContosoEntities ent = new ContosoEntities())
ObjectQuery<Customer> query = ent.Customers.Where("it.Country=@ctry");
query.Parameters.Add(new ObjectParameter("ctry", "Australia"));
List<Customer> res = query.ToList();
Using Linq to Entities
The entities in ADO.NET are Linq enabled. You can use the language integrated query (Linq) features available in .NET 3.5 to query data. The following code shows the same query we wrote earlier using Linq to entities.
C# Code
using (ContosoEntities ent = new ContosoEntities())
string country = "Australia";
List<Customer> res = (from c in ent.Customers where c.Country == country select c).ToList();
We can also retrieve only a few properties of the Customer entity by using anonymous types and type inference feature in C# 3.0. For example the following query retrieves only the Name and the Country of CorporateCustomer instances:
using (ContosoEntities ent = new ContosoEntities())
var res = (from c in ent.Customer where c is CorporateCustomer select new { c.Name, c.Country }).ToList();
The above code will select Customer entity instances that are of the type CorporateCustomer. The res variable will hold a reference to a list of anonymous type instances that has the Name and Country properties. You can also use the query builder methods to retrieve few properties of entity instances.
Using Entity SQL
Entity SQL is a SQL like query language that can be used to query data. Unlike SQL, Entity SQL uses entities, property names and associations defined in the conceptual schema in retrieving data. The following code block shows the query that we wrote using query builder and Linq to entities written using Entity SQL.
C# Code
using (ContosoEntities ent = new ContosoEntities())
ObjectQuery<Customer> query = new ObjectQuery<Customer>("SELECT VALUE c FROM ContosoEntities.Customer as c WHERE c.Country=@ctry", ent);
query.Parameters.Add(new ObjectParameter("ctry", "Australia"));
List<Customer> res = query.ToList();
You can retrieve few properties of your entity instances similar to how we did using Linq to entities. But when using Entity SQL the results can be returned as instances of the type DbDatRecord.
C# Code:
using (ContosoEntities ent = new ContosoEntities())
ObjectQuery<DbDataRecord> query = new ObjectQuery<DbDataRecord>("SELECT c.Name,c.City FROM ContosoEntities.Customer as c WHERE c.Country=@ctry", ent);
query.Parameters.Add(new ObjectParameter("ctry", "Australia"));
foreach (DbDataRecord item in query)
string name = item.GetString(0);
string city = item.GetString(1);
//process data
Using Stored Procedures
If you do not want to rely on the dynamic SQL statements generated by the Entity Framework, you can create your own stored procedures and map them as functions. You can use these functions to query data. For example in the mapping files we had a stored procedure named SelectByCountry mapped to a function with the same name. We can directly call the function from our code to query data:
C# Code
using (ContosoEntities ent = new ContosoEntities())
List<Customer> res = ent.SelectByCountry("Australia").ToList();
Updating data
Updating entities retrieved happens through the ObjectContext. The ObjectContext manages state changes on the entity set (inserts, updates and deletes). When the entity set needs to be updated with the data store, you can call the SaveChanges method of the ObjectContext class. This method would execute the required insert, update and delete statements specific to the data store based on whether the entity instances were newly created or updated or deleted.
C# Code:
using (ContosoEntities ent = new ContosoEntities())
Customer c1 = ent.Customer.First(c => c.ID == 1);
c1.Name = "Altered";
Customer c2 = ent.Customer.First(c => c.ID == 2);
Customer c3 = new Customer();
c3.Name = "Customer 3";
//Set other properties for c3
The above code will update the Customer entity instance c1, delete c2 and insert the instance c3 as a new entity to the data store. All the inserts, updates and deletes would occur when the SaveChanges method is invoked.
While updating data, the Entity Framework uses optimistic concurrency. Rows are not locked when entities are retrieved, but at the time of updating it checks whether data was changed. You can control the properties of the entity that will be part of the concurrency check by setting the Concurrency Mode to Fixed. If the Concurrency Mode for a property of an entity is set to fixed then the auto-generated SQL statement would compare the original value that was retrieved with the current value in the data store. If there are any conflicts, an exception would be thrown.
If you do not wish to use the auto-generated SQL statements for persisting changes, you can define your own stored procedures for inserting updating and deleting your entity instances. Once these stored procedures are defined as functions in the storage schema you can map them in the mapping schema to be used by the ObjectContext for performing inserts, updates and deletes:
<EntityTypeMapping TypeName="ContosoModel.Customer">
<InsertFunction FunctionName="ContosoModel.Store.InsertCustomer">
<ScalarProperty Name="ID" ParameterName="id" />
<!-- Other properties mapped to parameters-->
<UpdateFunction FunctionName="ContosoModel.Store.UpdateCustomer">
<ScalarProperty Name="ID" ParameterName="id" Version="Current" />
<!-- Other properties mapped to parameters-->
<DeleteFunction FunctionName="ContosoModel.Store.DeleteCustomer">
<!-- Other properties mapped to parameters-->
<ScalarProperty Name="ID" ParameterName="id" />
The above mapping indicates that we want to use the stored procedures defined as functions in the storage schema to be used for inserts, updates and deletes for the Customer entity.
Using the Entity Client Data Provider
The Entity Client Data Provider is an ADO.NET provider for your ADO.NET Entity Framework. The Entity Client Data Provider is built on top of the ADO.NET provider model. This allows you to work with ADO.NET objects that you are familiar with when working with other ADO.NET provides. For example we can run a query and retrieve data through a data reader as follows:
C# Code:
EntityConnection con = new EntityConnection();
con.ConnectionString = @"metadata=res://*/Contoso.csdl|res://*/Contoso.ssdl | res://*/Contoso.msl;provider=System.Data.SqlClient;provider connection string='Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=Contoso;Integrated Security=True;MultipleActiveResultSets=True'";
string sql = "SELECT c.Name,c.City FROM ContosoEntities.Customer as c WHERE c.Country=@ctry";
EntityCommand cmd = new EntityCommand(sql, con);
cmd.Parameters.Add(new EntityParameter("ctry", DbType.String)).Value = "Australia";
EntityDataReader rd = cmd.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior.SequentialAccess);
while (rd.Read())
string name = rd.GetString(0);
string city = rd.GetString(1);
//process record
The above code creates an EntityConnection object and sets the connection string. The connection string for the Entity Client provider refers to the schema files, the database provider to use and the connection string to the database. An EntityCommand object uses an Entity SQL statement and the EntityConnection object to execute a query that returns an EntityDataReader instance. The data can be retrieved from the EntityDataReader instance.
The ADO.NET Entity Framework provides a framework and gives life to otherwise static entity data models. Conceptual entities designed in the development life cycle can be mapped to data stores. This allows an application developer to work with an object oriented model, and a database developer to work with a relational model.
Further Reading
- ADO.NET Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/default.aspx
- Entity SQL reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb387118.aspx


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With a Keynote Address from the Honorable Allen Weinstein, Archivist of the United States, the Symposium on Presidential and Public Papers focused on the significance of presidential recordings and materials, looking towards the future of preservation through legislation and the debate over public v. private papers.
Lecture by Senator Dick Lugar (R-IN) and Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-MD).
Featuring Professor Paul C. Light; Virginia Thomas, Associate Vice President, Hillsdale College; and, Rudy deLeon, Senior Vice President, The Center for American Progress
Conducted by Professor Paul C. Light.
The Center produces publications consistent with its mission of developing a greater understanding of Congress. Publications focus not only on examining the rules and procedures of Congress but also the ways in which the Senate and House of Representatives help determine the substance of law and policy for the Government of the United States – through their leaders, committees, caucuses, conferences, staffs and individual members, and through the interaction of Congress with the executive and judicial branches. Publications also focus on public opinion about Congress.


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Fractional Calculus and Dynamic Approach to Complexity
Date: December 2015
Creator: Beig, Mirza Tanweer Ahmad
Description: Fractional calculus enables the possibility of using real number powers or complex number powers of the differentiation operator. The fundamental connection between fractional calculus and subordination processes is explored and affords a physical interpretation for a fractional trajectory, that being an average over an ensemble of stochastic trajectories. With an ensemble average perspective, the explanation of the behavior of fractional chaotic systems changes dramatically. Before now what has been interpreted as intrinsic friction is actually a form of non-Markovian dissipation that automatically arises from adopting the fractional calculus, is shown to be a manifestation of decorrelations between trajectories. Nonlinear Langevin equation describes the mean field of a finite size complex network at criticality. Critical phenomena and temporal complexity are two very important issues of modern nonlinear dynamics and the link between them found by the author can significantly improve the understanding behavior of dynamical systems at criticality. The subject of temporal complexity addresses the challenging and especially helpful in addressing fundamental physical science issues beyond the limits of reductionism.
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Nonlinear and Quantum Optics Near Nanoparticles
Date: December 2015
Creator: Dhayal, Suman
Description: We study the behavior of electric fields in and around dielectric and metal nanoparticles, and prepare the ground for their applications to a variety of systems viz. photovoltaics, imaging and detection techniques, and molecular spectroscopy. We exploit the property of nanoparticles being able to focus the radiation field into small regions and study some of the interesting nonlinear, and quantum coherence and interference phenomena near them. The traditional approach to study the nonlinear light-matter interactions involves the use of the slowly varying amplitude approximation (SVAA) as it simplifies the theoretical analysis. However, SVVA cannot be used for systems which are of the order of the wavelength of the light. We use the exact solutions of the Maxwell's equations to obtain the fields created due to metal and dielectric nanoparticles, and study nonlinear and quantum optical phenomena near these nanoparticles. We begin with the theoretical description of the electromagnetic fields created due to the nonlinear wavemixing process, namely, second-order nonlinearity in an nonlinear sphere. The phase-matching condition has been revisited in such particles and we found that it is not satisfied in the sphere. We have suggested a way to obtain optimal conditions for any type and size of material medium. ...
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Variational Calculations of Positronium Scattering with Hydrogen
Date: December 2015
Creator: Woods, Denton
Description: Positronium-hydrogen (Ps-H) scattering is of interest, as it is a fundamental four-body Coulomb problem. We have investigated low-energy Ps-H scattering below the Ps(n=2) excitation threshold using the Kohn variational method and variants of the method with a trial wavefunction that includes highly correlated Hylleraas-type short-range terms. We give an elegant formalism that combines all Kohn-type variational methods into a single form. Along with this, we have also developed a general formalism for Kohn-type matrix elements that allows us to evaluate arbitrary partial waves with a single codebase. Computational strategies we have developed and use in this work will also be discussed.With these methods, we have computed phase shifts for the first six partial waves for both the singlet and triplet states. The 1S and 1P phase shifts are highly accurate results and could potentially be viewed as benchmark results. Resonance positions and widths for the 1S-, 1P-, 1D-, and 1F-waves have been calculated.We present elastic integrated, elastic differential, and momentum transfer cross sections using all six partial waves and note interesting features of each. We use multiple effective range theories, including several that explicitly take into account the long-range van der Waals interaction, to investigate scattering lengths for the 1,3S ...
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Complex Numbers in Quantum Theory
Date: August 2015
Creator: Maynard, Glenn
Description: In 1927, Nobel prize winning physicist, E. Schrodinger, in correspondence with Ehrenfest, wrote the following about the new theory: "What is unpleasant here, and indeed directly to be objected to, is the use of complex numbers. Psi is surely fundamentally a real function." This seemingly simple issue remains unexplained almost ninety years later. In this dissertation I elucidate the physical and theoretical origins of the complex requirement. I identify a freedom/constraint situation encountered by vectors when, employed in accordance with adopted quantum representational methodology, and representing angular momentum states in particular. Complex vectors, quite simply, provide more available adjustable variables than do real vectors. The additional variables relax the constraint situation allowing the theory's representational program to carry through. This complex number issue, which lies at the deepest foundations of the theory, has implications for important issues located higher in the theory. For example, any unification of the classical and quantum accounts of the settled order of nature, will rest squarely on our ability to account for the introduction of the imaginary unit.
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Synthesis and Characterization of Ion Beam Assisted Silver Nanosystems in Silicon Based Materials for Enhanced Photocurrent Collection Efficiency
Date: May 2015
Creator: Dhoubhadel, Mangal S.
Description: In recent years a great deal of interest has been focused on the synthesis of transitional metal (e.g. Ag, Cu, Fe, Au) nanosystems at the surface to sub-surface regions of Si and SiO2 matrices for fundamental understanding of their structures as well as for development of technological applications with enhanced electronic and optical properties. The applications of the metal nanoparticle or nanocluster (NC) systems range from plasmonics, photovoltaic devices, medical, and biosensors. In all of these applications; the size, shape and distribution of the metallic NCs in the silicon matrix play a key role. Low energy ion implantation followed by thermal annealing (in vacuum or gas environment) is one of the most suitable methods for synthesis of NCs at near surfaces to buried layers below the surfaces of the substrates. This technique can provide control over depth and concentration of the implanted ions in the host matrix. The implanted low energy metal ions initially amorphizes the Si substrates while being distributed at a shallow depth near the substrate surface. When subject to thermal annealing, the implanted ions agglomerate to form clusters of different sizes at different depths depending upon the fluence. However, for the heavier ions implanted with high fluences ...
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Analysis of Biological Materials Using a Nuclear Microprobe
Date: December 2014
Creator: Mulware, Stephen Juma
Description: The use of nuclear microprobe techniques including: Particle induced x-ray emission (PIXE) and Rutherford backscattering spectrometry (RBS) for elemental analysis and quantitative elemental imaging of biological samples is especially useful in biological and biomedical research because of its high sensitivity for physiologically important trace elements or toxic heavy metals. The nuclear microprobe of the Ion Beam Modification and Analysis Laboratory (IBMAL) has been used to study the enhancement in metal uptake of two different plants. The roots of corn (Zea mays) have been analyzed to study the enhancement of iron uptake by adding Fe (II) or Fe (III) of different concentrations to the germinating medium of the seeds. The Fe uptake enhancement effect produced by lacing the germinating medium with carbon nanotubes has also been investigated. The aim of this investigation is to ensure not only high crop yield but also Fe-rich food products especially from calcareous soil which covers 30% of world's agricultural land. The result will help reduce iron deficiency anemia, which has been identified as the leading nutritional disorder especially in developing countries by the World Health Organization. For the second plant, Mexican marigold (Tagetes erecta), the effect of an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomus intraradices) for the ...
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Electrical Conduction Mechanisms in the Disordered Material System P-type Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon
Date: December 2014
Creator: Shrestha, Kiran
Description: The electrical and optical properties of boron doped hydrogenated amorphous silicon thin films (a-Si) were investigated to determine the effect of boron and hydrogen incorporation on carrier transport. The a-Si thin films were grown by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) at various boron concentrations, hydrogen dilutions, and at differing growth temperatures. The temperature dependent conductivity generally follows the hopping conduction model. Above a critical temperature, the dominant conduction mechanism is Mott variable range hopping conductivity (M-VRH), where p = ¼, and the carrier hopping depends on energy. However, at lower temperatures, the coulomb interaction between charge carriers becomes important and Efros-Shklosvkii variable hopping (ES-VRH) conduction, where p=1/2, must be included to describe the total conductivity. To correlate changes in electrical conductivity to changes in the local crystalline order, the transverse optical (TO) and transverse acoustic (TA) modes of the Raman spectra were studied to relate changes in short- and mid-range order to the effects of growth temperature, boron, and hydrogen incorporation. With an increase of hydrogen and/or growth temperature, both short and mid-range order improve, whereas the addition of boron results in the degradation of short range order. It is seen that there is a direct correlation between the ...
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Interaction of Plasmons and Excitons for Low-Dimension Semiconductors
Date: December 2014
Creator: Lin, Jie
Description: The effects of surface plasmon for InGaN/GaN multi-quantum wells and ZnO nanoparticles optical linear and nonlinear emission efficiency had been experimentally studied. Due to the critical design for InGaN MQWs with inverted hexagonal pits based on GaN, both contribution of surface plasmon effect and image charge effect at resonant and off resonant frequencies were experimentally and theoretically investigated. With off- resonant condition, the InGaN MQWs emission significantly enhanced by metal nanoparticles. This enhancement was caused by the image charge effect, due to the accumulation of carriers to NPs region. When InGaN emission resonated with metal particles SP modes, surface Plasmon effect dominated the emission process. We also studied the surface plasmon effect for ZnO nanoparticles nonlinear optical processes, SHG and TPE. Defect level emission had more contribution at high incident intensity. Emissions are different for pumping deep into the bulk and near surface. A new assumption to increase the TPE efficiency was studied. We thought by using Au nanorods localized surface plasmon mode to couple the ZnO virtual state, the virtual state's life time would be longer and experimentally lead the emission enhancement. We studied the TPE phenomena at high and near band gap energy. Both emission intensity and decay ...
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Sputtering of Bi and Preferential Sputtering of an Inhomogeneous Alloy
Date: December 2014
Creator: Deoli, Naresh T.
Description: Angular distributions and total yields of atoms sputtered from bismuth targets by normally incident 10 keV -50 keV Ne+ and Ar+ ions have been measured both experimentally and by computer simulation. Polycrystalline Bi targets were used for experimental measurements. The sputtered atoms were collected on high purity aluminum foils under ultra-high vacuum conditions, and were subsequently analyzed using Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy. The Monte-Carlo based SRIM code was employed to simulate angular distributions of sputtered Bi atoms and total sputtering yields of Bi to compare with experiment. The measured sputtering yields were found to increase with increasing projectile energy for normally incident 10 keV - 50 keV Ne+ and Ar+ ions. The shapes of the angular distributions of sputtered Bi atoms demonstrated good agreement between experiment and simulation in the present study. The measured and simulated angular distributions of sputtered Bi exhibited an over-cosine tendency. The measured value of the degree of this over-cosine nature was observed to increase with increasing incident Ne+ ion energy, but was not strongly dependent on incident Ar+ ion energy. The differential angular sputtering yield and partial sputtering yields due to Ar ion bombardment of an inhomogeneous liquid Bi:Ga alloy have been investigated, both experimentally and ...
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Studies of Charged Particle Dynamics for Antihydrogen Synthesis
Date: December 2014
Creator: Correa, Jose Ricardo
Description: Synthesis and capture of antihydrogen in controlled laboratory conditions will enable precise studies of neutral antimatter. The work presented deals with some of the physics pertinent to manipulating charged antiparticles in order to create neutral antimatter, and may be applicable to other scenarios of plasma confinement and charged particle interaction. The topics covered include the electrostatic confinement of a reflecting ion beam and the transverse confinement of an ion beam in a purely electrostatic configuration; the charge sign effect on the Coulomb logarithm for a two component (e.g., antihydrogen) plasma in a Penning trap as well as the collisional scattering for binary Coulomb interactions that are cut off at a distance different than the Debye length; and the formation of magnetobound positronium and protonium.
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Greg Kelly Accuser Named by New York Post
The tabloid seems to be punishing the woman for alleging a crime.
The Manhattan district attorney has decided not to charge police commissioner Ray Kelly's son Greg Kelly, a Fox 5 anchor, with rape, as reported last night; the New York Post has responded this morning by identifying the accuser. When the news first broke that the case would be dropped, the Post story did not include the name of the woman, who claims Kelly assaulted her in the office of a law firm — where she works as a paralegal — after the pair had drinks. The article has since been updated with personal details and a photo of the woman and her boyfriend, who both the Post and the Daily News have said pressured the accuser into reporting Kelly after finding out about their encounter. Despite the journalistic tradition in the U.S. not to name accusers in sexual abuse cases, this does not exactly come as a surprise.
When the allegations against Kelly were first reported, local tabloids immediately began publishing details that undermined the claims, including the existence of what the Post calls today "steamy texting" between Kelly and the accuser, along with anonymous law enforcement sources doubting the woman's story. Also included was information about the woman — her job, her brother's job — and many identifying details about her boyfriend, who could be easily tracked down in a Google search.
I wrote at the time, "As a public figure accused of rape, Kelly's reputation has already been somewhat tarnished and the details of his life aired out. But if charges are not filed against him, it's the accuser and those close to her who can expect the media glare moving forward, whether or not she decides to go public herself." And here we are. The Post today names the "aspiring-model accuser" and notes her exact age; atop a photo of Kelly is one of the accuser and her boyfriend. (The Daily News, which previously published excessive information about the accuser's boyfriend, has so far opted to leave the woman's name out.)
A source tells the Post, "There are no plans to prosecute her because [authorities] don't believe she is lying. She never wavered from her story that she was too drunk to consent." But the paper seems to be exercising some vigilante justice of its own. Last year, the paper treated other female accusers similarly: Nafissatou Diallo, whose sexual abuse allegations against Dominique Strauss-Kahn didn't stick, was villainized and even called a prostitute. When two NYPD officers were found innocent of rape, the woman who accused them was tracked down by the paper in California and put on the cover of the Post, her face slightly obscured. It's a bullying tactic that could prevent women from reporting sexual abuse crimes; who would volunteer for this treatment?
Kelly, on the other hand, is called "the unmarried, popular host of Fox's Good Day New York." Not noted in the tabloid's article: Kelly's employer and the Post are both owned by News Corp.


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Fast-track your studio lighting journey! Let Dan teach you his various, exciting styles and start to implement simple lighting and various moods in your future shoots NOW.
- Pages: 280
- Photos: over 600
- Dan's Methods, Insights & Essentials in detail
- 19 all-inclusive case studies/lighting setups for 1, 2, 3 & 4 lights (+ reflectors)
- All technical parameters used during the exercises
- Comprehensive 3D lighting setups from different point of views
- Detailed explanation on light directions, impacts on shadow casting, light interaction and location composition
- Behind the scenes images
- Nudity: Yes
- Price: $29*
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Dramatic Lighting with Playboy Centerfold Coxy
This lighting guide is the first comprehensive and intuitive photo lighting guide with visualized 3D setups, full gear description and lighting diagrams showing 5 different, tasteful sexy scenarios with Playmate Centerfold Coxy Dominika.
Drama light does not mean to create dusky scenes but rather working with well-chosen light areas and corresponding accents.
In this eBook Dan shares his extensive knowledge and vast experience in an easy-to-follow visual and intuitive way to help you fast-track your journey for capturing meaningful and seductive model photos.
- Pages: 105
- Over 70 key visuals & descriptions in 3D
- 36 tasteful nude images in 5 sets
- 5 lighting plans (2D) for replicating situations in your studio
- Over 30 behind the scenes & illustrative images
- Lighting setups for 1, 2 & 3 lights
- All technical parameters used during the shoots
- Nudity: Yes
- Price: $27*
If you don't like this product for any reason, I offer an unconditional 30 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE.


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