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Kunstbau January 28, 2015 - May 3, 2015On occasion of the centennial of August Macke's death, the Lenbachhaus, in collaboration with the Kunstmuseum Bonn, presented the first exhibition to explore Macke's friendship with Franz Marc and the exchange of artistic ideas between them. With around two hundred paintings, works on paper, objets d'art, and private documents, the show offered a vivid picture of the two artists' lives and art between 1910 and 1914, illustrating how Macke and Marc inspired each other and highlighting the close and affectionate ties between them.
Macke first visited Marc in his studio in Munich on January 6, 1910. The two struck up a deeply felt friendship and began a creative dialogue that would enter the annals of twentieth-century art. Their close collaboration was short-lived: Macke died in 1914, only weeks after the outbreak of World War I; in 1916, the war took Marc's life as well.
The exhibition was divided into chapters that portray the two artists' creative evolution from 1910 on, document their early encounters in Sindelsdorf, Tegernsee, and Bonn, examine their debates over the theory of colors, and show them at work on the 'Blue Rider.'
Documents from their shared travels and their visits to each other's homes, the gifts they gave each other, and objets d'art from their possessions also illustrate the important roles their wives, Elisabeth Macke and Maria Marc, played in their friendship. In 1912, they met in Macke's studio in Bonn to paint the mural Paradies as a testament to their mutual attachment.
The exhibition showed in detail how Macke and Marc absorbed the inspirations of Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, and abstraction. Out of these influences, each crafted his own art, whose development the exhibition traces to the last pictures they created in 1914 before the catastrophe of the war put an all too early end to their lives and oeuvres.
Both artists were very young when they first met—August Macke had only just turned twenty-three and Franz Marc was about to turn thirty. Neither the contrast between their personalities—Macke was impulsive and outspoken, whereas Marc was often pensive and always very deliberate in his actions—nor their diverging views on art and the politics of culture ever cast a shadow on the bonds of affection between them. In his famous obituary for Macke, Marc highlights the loss his young friend's death meant for art with great precision, but it is also, and first and foremost, a token of his profound grief.
The collections of the Lenbachhaus and the Kunstmuseum Bonn formed the basis for this comprehensive exhibition.
Macke spent the greater part of his life in Bonn; Marc was the only native son of Munich among the artists of the 'Blue Rider,' of whose oeuvres the Lenbachhaus holds the world's most important collection. Numerous eminent works on loan from German and international museums and private collections helped round out the show.
An extensive catalogue featuring essays by renowned writers, 210 color plates, and numerous additional illustrations, will be published in conjunction with the exhibition. 360 pp., Hatje Cantz Verlag.
A collaboration between the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München and the Kunstmuseum Bonn
The exhibition in Bonn: September 25, 2014 - January 4, 2015
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text: Toddler Development Learning to talk: how kids learn to speak Many parents worry about their child's language development. It's a vital part of every child's development and this guide will help you know what to expect, and when. How Babies CommunicateEven before they can speak, young children are quite skilled in getting their needs across – whether it's crying to signal they're hungry, cooing when they're happy, turning their faces away from a food they don't like or pointing at a toy that they want. These early sounds and gestures are simple forms of communication that lay the foundation for richer, language-based communication later on.Just like adults who are learning a foreign language, young children usually understand more than they can speak. Child development experts make a distinction between what kids can understand (called 'receptive language') and what they can say (called 'expressive language'). It's easy to tell what your child can say; you just have to listen to her. But how can you tell what your child understands? One way is by observing how she reacts to the things you say.When will by baby learn her name?Many children start to recognise the sound of their name when they're somewhere between four and eight months old. You can tell when it happens for your child by gently calling her name and seeing whether she turns to face you. But make sure that she's really reacting to the name, and not just to the tone or the sound of your voice. When will my baby say her first words?Around the time of their first birthdays, children usually start to say their first words. But by the time they're roughly 20 months old, many kids learn as many as nine new words every day – more than 250 new words every month! And when they're about two years old, children often hit another milestone: They start to combine words into two-word 'sentences', like 'all gone milk' (meaning either 'I've finished my milk' or 'I knocked my milk cup off the high chair').It's hard to pinpoint a specific age when every child can be expected to hit a particular stage of language learning. However, most children reach the basic language milestones within a couple of months of one another. If you have any questions or concerns about your own child's language development, be sure to bring them up with his healthcare provider.Speech Development Checklist:9 Months: Does she turn her head when you gently call her name? Does she make babbling sounds, like 'ma-ma', 'da-da' or 'ba-ba'?12 Months: Say at least one word?18 Months Say several single words?2 Years Recognise names of familiar people, objects and body parts? Point to an object or picture when it's named for him? Repeat words overheard in conversation? Use two-word 'sentences'? Follow simple instructions?Helping your child develop their speech1. Start Early From the day she's born, you can talk, sing and read to your child, to help start her on the road to learning. Try talking or singing during meal time, bath time and even while changing nappies. It'll be valuable for her, and fun for both of you. When reading to her, talk to her about the story and the illustrations.2. Talk With—Not At—Your Child Even when your child is still in the babbling stage, the two of you can still have 'conversations'. Treat your child's babble like language, and answer back with real words as if you understand what she's saying (even if you don't). Then let her 'reply' with some more babble. It may seem like a silly game, but you're teaching your child how conversations work, and how to take turns speaking and listening.3. Play the Name Game You can help your child to learn new words by saying the names of your child's favourite things while the two of you use them: 'Here comes the ball' or 'Mmmm... cereal'. Once your child gets the hang of a word, you can also check her understanding by asking 'Where's the ball?' and letting her answer by pointing at the ball. Or, once she's a little older and knows how to say the word, you can ask, 'What's this?' and let her say, 'Ball!'4. Build and Expand When your child speaks in one- or two-word sentences, include her full meaning in your reply. For example, if she says, 'No duck,' you might answer with 'You don't want the duck?' (or, in a different context, 'You can't find the duck?'). That way, you can confirm that you understand what she means, and simultaneously introduce the structure of the complete sentence.The important thing to remember is that most language development arises naturally from the sorts of activities that you and your child do every day. Take advantage of opportunities to talk, read, sing and play with your child. It will help your child to learn, and also help to strengthen the bond between you. Most important, you'll both have fun doing it, too. You might also like:


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Each Saturday, California farmers bring fresh produce to sell at the Dana Point Farmers Market from 9:00am to 1:00pm. Craft vendors join in on the fun every first Saturday of the month as well.
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"It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong,
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What kind of country and world do we want to create for our children and grandchildren? We are at a trajectory moment in history – actually, a tipping point in civilization – when we must accept our responsibility as citizens and learn the truth about our history, face today's reality head on, make choices about the future and take action . Our increasingly fragile democracy — and our world — is at stake.
Conservatives and progressives have deeply contrasting ideas of right and wrong. These worldviews are drastically at odds and affect every facet of democracy. Much of the time citizens hold different understandings of even the basic facts related to the topics we are debating. Citizens must understand how the political system and parties have changed, learn the critical implications of these culture wars, choose sides and fight for our grand children's future.
I believe ordinary American citizens will mount a massive grass roots movement to stop right wing extremists from destroying America. The current incredible outpouring of citizen action to affirm that everybody matters, that all people have value, confirms this belief.
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The mission of this website is to help restore American democracy through long term systemic change so that it works for we, the people, instead of only the rich and powerful. The goal is to help citizens know what democracy is supposed to be, to understand that right wing extremists have perverted democracy to benefit the rich and to become committed to, and prepared for, participation in the electoral process. The objective is to develop a cohesive, accessible narrative that helps citizens understand and advocate for progressive values at the authentic core of American democracy.
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Our community park system offers courts of all kinds, multi-purpose practice fields and lighted competitive athletic fields including specialty facilities. We also service a number of special purpose parks designed to accommodate specific recreation or competitive athletic activities, most with adjacent parking, playgrounds, hike and bike trails and other natural amenities.
- Alan E. Sims Cedar Hill Recreation Center is equipped with a multi-purpose gymnasium featuring two full, synthetic-hardwood courts for basketball or other indoor sports, an aerobics room, meeting and conference center, full strength and cardio fitness area, game room and childcare.
- Community Center Park has 2 lighted baseball fields, bleachers, concession building with restrooms, a play structure, picnic tables and paved parking.
- Crawford Park features 2 lighted tennis and 3 lighted basketball courts, 2 soccer style practice fields, practice backstop, a swimming pool, and gazebo.
- Dot Thomas Park has 2 lighted fields primarily for baseball, bleachers, concession building with restrooms, a play structure and trail head.
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- Parkerville Park features 5 lighted fields primarily for organized baseball, bleachers, concessions with restrooms, a play structure, adjacent paved parking and nearby overflow parking.
- The 155-acre Valley Ridge Park and Sports Complex features 18 soccer pitches (5 lighted), 6 lighted baseball and 4 lighted softball fields, 3 football fields (2 lighted), 4 concession buildings with restrooms, 4 play structures, a stocked fishing pond with pier and 2 fountains, a 3,000 square foot outdoor amphitheater, and paved parking throughout the park adjacent to athletic play areas.
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The final Billboard rankings of 2012 find Taylor Swift's Red still topping country album sales and Justin Moore's "Til My Last Day" arriving at No. 1 on the country airplay chart.
Last week, Red sold an additional 275,508 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan, driving its total tally up to 2,866,047. It has occupied the No. 1 spot since it debuted nine weeks ago.
"Til My Last Day" reaches the summit after a 41-week climb.
There is only one new album: Country: Johnny Cash (bowing in at No. 63) and four re-entries: Martina McBride's Hits and More (No. 67), Icon 2: George Strait (No. 69), the multi-artist package Now That's What I Call Country Ballads (No. 73) and The Essential Alan Jackson (No. 74).
The new songs are Rascal Flatts' "Changed" (No. 52) and Miranda Lambert's "Mama's Broken Heart" (No. 54).
Rounding out the Top 5 albums, in descending order, are Lady Antebellum's On This Winter's Night, Little Big Town's Tornado, Blake Shelton's Cheers, It's Christmas and Jason Aldean's Night Train.
Trooping in directly behind Moore on the airplay chart are the Zac Brown Band's "Goodbye in Her Eyes," Kip Moore's "Beer Money," Florida Georgia Line's "Cruise" (No. 1 the previous three weeks) and Randy Houser's "How Country Feels."
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Do female politicians represent an 'ethical and pure' force?
By Carey Roberts
Hillary Clinton has famously claimed that "Research shows the presence of women raises the standards of ethical behavior and lowers corruption." Ironically it's Mrs. Clinton who has now come under withering criticism as her ethical lapses and make-believe claims become legion.
Hillary still hasn't come clean on where her $5 million campaign loan came from. She refused to release her Senate earmark requests, even after Barack Obama made known his list.
Most comical of all, she claimed that she and daughter Chelsea had to duck sniper fire during a 1996 trip to Bosnia. "We were basically told to run to our cars," Clinton told her audience.
Oh well, it made for a good sound-bite.
Betsey Wright, confidante to Hillary Clinton, once bragged that women represent an "ethical and pure force" in politics. And Hillary recently stated a female president would represent a "sea change in our country."
It's not just the lefties who are saying it's time for a housecleaning of politics as usual. And Jo-Ann Davidson, co-chair of the Republican National Committee, has argued that "We have better public policy when more women are at the table."
There's no doubt that women bring a valuable perspective to the political arena. But do female politicians really exemplify an ethical uber-species?
One cannot do justice in a single column to the repeated misrepresentations that have marked Mrs. Clinton's career. A "trouble with truth-telling, I would think, is the constant aspect of her time in public life that is most troubling," reveals biographer Carl Bernstein.
Just consider the unending string of ethical lapses: her conflict of interest dealings at the Rose Law Firm, the cattle futures scam, White House travel-gate, her concealment of $120,000 in free ghost-writing services for It Takes a Village, Hillary's venomous attacks on Bill Clinton's sexual paramours – the list goes on.
And when Obama aide Samantha Power called Hillary Clinton a "monster," I couldn't help but think of Hillary's physical and verbal abuse of husband Bill and others.
OK, maybe Hillary isn't the most squeaky-clean politician in Washington, but what about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi? Fourteen months after anointing herself "the most powerful woman in America," where's the sea-change in the House of Representatives?
You will recall Pelosi promised to institute "the most ethical Congress in history." Then she turned around and named Rep. William Jefferson, caught with $90,000 funny-money in the fridge, to the Homeland Security Committee.
What about her pledge to end wasteful earmarks? No, not by a long shot.
And creating a culture of inclusive consensus-building? Not according to Senator Harry Reid, who revealed Pelosi "runs that place with an iron hand."
The verdict on the first female Speaker of the House? "Pelosi has emerged as a fairly conventional leader," the nonpartisan Politico newspaper recently concluded.
Look beyond the gender posturing and muscle-flexing and you'll detect the unmistakable scent of sexism.
Hillary often displays a wicked sense of humor delivered at the expense of members of the opposite sex. Once Mrs. Clinton recounted a sympathy note she received during one of the White House scandals that read, "Whenever you have trouble coping, just think of Snow White. She had to live with seven men."
Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee has openly called for male politicians to "step aside" while women move in to call the shots. Last Fall Texas Republican Kay Granger asserted, "It's important for men and women to understand that we [women] will decide this election" – a remark that sounds more like a threat than a prediction.
A February 5 editorial in the Christian Science Monitor announced grandly that "a woman leader governs differently than a man, bringing new perspectives and helping other women." That's a rather bizarre claim in light of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, multi-billion dollar programs that were enacted by men and designed to benefit mostly women.
But for a glimpse into the dark world of feminist gyno-politics, read Gloria Steinem's New York Times pity-party piece, "Women are Never Front-Runners."
Being the expert of Freudian psychology that she is, Steinem derides men because they "tend to feel they are regressing to childhood when dealing with a powerful woman." Playing the victim for all its worth, Steinem concludes that "Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life."
So as Hillary Clinton tells voters to forgive and forget her Bosnia folktale and as Nancy Pelosi's autocratic regimen reigns, we should recall that despite whatever other virtues they may possess, female politicos are cut from the same frayed ethical cloth as the rest of us mere mortals.
Carey Roberts is a Staff Writer for The New Media Alliance. The New Media Alliance is a non-profit (501c3) national coalition of writers, journalists and grass-roots media outlets.


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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- The struggling Big East Conference came up short again in the latest round of expansion.
The conference lost its fifth member in the past 18 months with Rutgers bolting for the Big Ten Tuesday. Now the league could lose one of its two most prominent remaining football programs.
Louisville or Connecticut could join the Atlantic Coast Conference -- which is seeking a replacement for Big Ten-bound Maryland.
Central Florida, Houston, Memphis, SMU, Boise State and San Diego State are due to make the big East a 12-team league next season, with Navy football arriving in 2015. But this week's news was another blow to the league's fight to remain relevant with the other five major BCS conferences -- Big Ten, ACC, PAC-12, Big 12 and the Southeastern Conference.
Still, Commissioner Mike Aresco remains confident he can keep the Big East intact and complete his own expansion plans.
He said the league will move quickly to replace Rutgers. The West coast appears to be the target region with BYU, Air Force and UNLV as possible candidates.
"There are schools that want to join the Big East," Aresco said. "And why wouldn't they? We have a model that works."
The model didn't work for TCU, at least from a geographical standpoint. The Horned Frogs were slated to join the Big East this season but opted out and joined the Big 12 instead.
Aresco is undeterred. He said he has been in contact with the other newcomers and they are still on board to join the league. He wouldn't s discuss on else might be leaving.
But the likely candidates seem to be Louisville or Connecticut.
The No. 19 Cardinals (9-1, 4-1) and the Huskies (4-6, 1-4) just happen to play Saturday in a pivotal conference showdown. But their commitment to the Big East comes down to how the model of the league that Aresco trumpets -- including financial payouts, exposure and competitive balance -- work out.
On the field, it's been good and bad for Louisville.
The Cardinals won a share of the Big East last year and are title contenders again this year. Before suffering their first loss at Syracuse on Nov. 10, they were as high as ninth in the BCS championship standings. But they were never received any consideration for the national title.
Even if Louisville had remained unbeaten through last weekend's upheaval that saw top-ranked Kansas State and No. 2 Oregon fall, it's doubtful that the Cardinals could've gotten into the discussion.
It's an uphill battle for recognition for Big East teams.
"I think the perception is that the Big East is a step or two beneath the other conferences," ESPN college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit said in a conference call last month. No. 21 Rutgers is the only other ranked team in the conference.
Aside from the lack of respect, there are the financial considerations.
The Big East paid its members $6 million each last season, about $18 million less than what the Big Ten paid out to its teams. Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti cited that as a major reason in joining the Big Ten, which gets the top-rated New York television market in return.
The ACC also has a bigger bankroll than the Big East -- two years ago the conference paid its members an average of $12-$13 million each and the league just recently signed a new TV contract that will increase that payout.
Connecticut has made it clear that it would welcome interest from the ACC. The same goes for Louisville, which had talked with the Big 12 about joining before the league admitted West Virginia this season.
But until the school is contacted, Cardinals coach Charlie Strong remains committed to the Big East.
"I try not to get caught up in that because my focus right now is just preparing this team for these next two games," Strong said Monday. "Our (athletic director Tom Jurich) and our President (James R. Ramsey) are going to put us in the best position.
"With those teams leaving, hopefully we can keep this conference together and whoever leaves, someone else will come in."
Strong pointed out that Louisville would be an asset to any conference.
"The question is what are they looking for," said Strong, referring to possible suitors. "We have a lot to offer."
What Louisville can't offer is a TV market comparable to Connecticut. Nielsen ranks the city 48th with 670,800 sets -- 18 spots lower than the Hartford/New Haven market (996,550).
But there seems to be no rhyme or reason to this process.
Realignment talks appeared to be on hold until reports of Maryland's talks with the Big Ten surfaced this weekend. It's difficult to tell what the ACC would covet and there seems to be no geographical limits to the Big East's replacement search.
"The only thing in life that is for sure is change," Connecticut coach Paul Pasqualoni said. "I think we all go through that. I think it's just part of life."
Especially when it comes to college sports.


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A state lawmaker's proposal would allow restaurants and bars in California the option of expanding alcohol service hours to 4 a.m. -- two hours later than allowed under current law.
Full Text: SB 635
Senate Bill 635 was authored by Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco). The bill gives local communities the option of expanding alcohol service hours, and establishments would go through an approval process that would allow for late-night service.
"This legislation would allow destination cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego to start local conversations about the possibility of expanding nightlife and the benefits it could provide the community by boosting jobs, tourism and local tax revenue," Leno said in a statement.
Current state law allows for alcohol service between 6 a.m. and 2 a.m. for on- and off-sale establishments. Leno's proposal only applies to on-sale businesses, such as nightclubs, bars and restaurant.
The bill, scheduled for committee hearings in the spring, does not apply to liquor stores.
In his announcement, Leno cited economic issues behind the proposal. Expanded service would better position Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego to compete for tourism dollars with Chicago, Las Vegas and New York City, he said.
He also mentioned safety issues.
"Uniform closing times put significant stress on public transportation systems and the law enforcement agencies tasked with managing and dispersing large crowds of patrons when they all leave the clubs at 2 a.m.," Leno said.
Under the plan, local communities could submit a plan to the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.


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Joining in with Jenny today for Yarn Along
~knitting for little ones~
It's been so long since my last yarn along! So happy to have a little more time to knit and for a baby no less, my favorite kind of projects!!
The Pebble pattern this pattern is quick and easy. I love the design of this pattern. Knit all in one, from the bottom up and finishing off at the shoulders. It was interesting. I have never knit a pattern constructed this way and that made this pattern ever more fun.
I love the button band on the right side. The wooden buttons just really make this little vest shine. I can't wait to see baby Finn in this. So cute.
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Expat Dating The Netherlands Success Stories and Feedback
Expat Dating The Netherlands' Success Stories and Feedback
We have only put a few here, the list is endless and we don't want to bore you to death. We're just proud of how people view us. We have dating sites for many countries (see overview on http://www.expatica.com/dating), however we started this initiative in The Netherlands back in 2001. Over 40% of our new members have joined because they were recommended by a friend. For this we are truly thankful! If you want to match, chat and date, with expat men, girls and women in Holland you will find everything you want - we have over 10.000 members in The Netherlands. Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Eindhoven, Arnhem, Utrecht, Leiden, Haarlem - in all cities of Holland we have members looking for a friend or love. Register now at http://netherlandsdating.expatica.com/registration/register.do and find out! I started in August 2013 with the dating website on Expatica, netherlandsdating.expatica.com I had never used before any dating sites so it was a whole new experience for me. During a period of 3 months I have met several women from different countries, who I emailed, phoned and met. Finally after a long search I have met the right and true one. We are talking now everyday and are making plans for a common future. Thanks, AndyExpatica Dating brings two expats in The Netherlands together
Two single expats from the UK found each other via Expatica Date and have wed October 2008.
If Craig Lovelidge hadn't read though his spam inbox carefully on 22 January 2007, there was a high chance that Cupid's arrow would have gotten lost in cyberspace.
It started with an email
On 22 January 2007, Vicky Hampson sent Craig an email that automatically landed in his spam box. Just as he was about to hit delete he saw Vicky's name and thought: 'Who's' that?' and clicked on it.
The 38-year-old Amsterdam-based, advertising creative director from London had previously spent three hours crafting, writing and re-writing his dating profile. It certainly paid off.
"I was looking for a profile that was interesting and I found Craig's" said Vicky. "It wasn't the usual blend of hi, I am interested in music etc. It was fun, light-hearted and it made me laugh. That's what made me contact him."
The correspondence started off innocently enough, with Vicky and Craig expressing some interest in one another via smiley icons. This developed into a chatty email exchange. Then Craig threw out a casual invitation to his birthday celebration, which he was co-DJing.
"I wasn't quite sure if I would be going. I was out with a friend and had a few glasses of wine. By 12.30am, I thought: Why not?" recalled Vicky.
The first encounter between the two Brits was somewhat short of romantic. Vicky, drink in hand, boldly went over to the deck to introduce herself.
"I thought it might be nice to just walk over and introduce myself to him," said Vicky, throwing a mock accusing look at Craig.
"I was concentrating really hard at the moment when Vicky approached me, so I just said something like: Oh yah, thanks." admitted Craig sheepishly.
He quickly realised how rude he had been and got a fellow DJ to cover for him while he walked over to Vicky to apologise and chatted to her for a while.
That did the trick. The next day, Vicky gave Craig a call, asking if he wanted to join her for lunch.
"I was thinking: he has already taken the first step to invite me to his birthday party, so I should also take the initiative to ask him out too."
The lunch date sealed it for them. They went their separate ways to join their friends, but remained in each other's thoughts as they sent text messages throughout the evening.
"I had seen enough, heard enough. I am quite perceptive and Craig seemed like a very honest, genuine and open guy. My instinct told me I should just go for it," said Vicky.
The weeks turned in to months and the two of them spent more and more time with one another. On 6 Jan 2008, slightly less than a year after they met, Craig popped the question – not before he'd paid a flying visit to Vicky's hometown of Liverpool to ask her dad for her hand in marriage.
Online dating – not her usual cup of tea
Vicky is not someone you would expect to have an online dating profile.
The learning and development manager admits she was always a little doubtful about using the Internet as a way of getting to know people – until she moved to Amsterdam two and a half years ago.
New to the country, the 38-year-old was eager to make more friends and expand her social circle.
A frequent visitor to Expatica's site for general and housing information, Vicky found using the Expatica dating service to be the next logical step.
"Having used Expatica, I know that it's reliable," said Vicky.
She also trusted Expatica because "it has a clear target audience of international people who are mobile and have a broader mindset."
But Vicky confessed that she hadn't had the courage to put her picture online. "I am a private person, and I just wasn't comfortable with putting up a photo up with my profile."
In fact, Craig and Vicky emailed each other for a few weeks before he finally asked for a photo of her.
Why Expatica date site?
Unlike Vicky, Craig has no problems with posting information about himself online – especially on Expatica.
"Expatica offers confidentiality and that is really important." said Craig.
"I don't want my business associates to do 'Google' me and be able to see what I have posted on my dating profile," he said.
"With online dating, you can pinpoint who you are looking for: a party girl, someone who is religious… It's great especially if you already know what you want in a partner," says Craig.
Vicky has come to terms with telling people that was how they met.
"I used to say that we met through friends," she laughed.
The couple are planning their wedding, to take place in October at a venue outside of Amsterdam. 7 August 2011
By Suzanne Ong
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It's a really simple story, we are both open for new things, and we never
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didn't hope any luck.... At the first time I (Hajnal) thought He (Ben) is
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We are both believe in destiny.
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So actually in the first week we started to chat and than speak in our all free time on the skype.
For hours....there wasn't left any secret, we were really honest . We knew it's going to be something special.
Finally we spent a wonderful week together in Budapest, and we already know it wasn't only a dream. We both fell in love before the first meet, and it's getting stronger. I'll travel to Switzerland on next week as well, and we are ready for our feature...."
Ben and Hajnal
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Midge and Karen
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"... after joining I had no idea that your support staff were not only there for technical issues, but offering personal tips too!! Thank you to the ladies on the support team, you really made me feel welcome".
"... Thanks so much for all your help with personally matching me to my now fiance, its a great feeling being in love again after all these years bless you all".
"... I was referred by my best friend, who just found the love of his life, I am looking now and having a great time too"
We started to change few messages only 6-7weeks ago? on the netherlandsdating.expatica.com
website. We were there from different reasons, He was looking for the real
one,I (Hajnal) just wanted to try something new way to find somebody, i
didn't hope any luck.... At the first time I (Hajnal) thought He (Ben) is
too young, but after few days We both realised we were born for each other.
We are both believe in destiny.


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I am in the process of installing and verifying papi 5.0.0 on an Intel Xeon E5530 computer running Ubuntu 11.04 (uname -r gives 2.6.38-11-generic). I am attempting to install PAPI with the cuda component enabled. When I attempted to run the test suite, I got a segmentation fault during ctests/all_native_events. When I went back and just ran ctests/all_native_events so that the TESTS_QUIET flag would not be set, I saw that all_native_events died after printing the message "Added and Stopped CUDA:::Tesla_C1060.domain_a:tex_cache_hit successfully."
I believe the problem is occurring during the call to PAPI_cleanup_eventset() which occurs in the subroutine check_event in the all_native_events.c file.
I note that in the README file for PAPI components, under cuda/ it says: "..., the user has to call PAPI_cleanup_eventset( EventSet ) before calling PAPI_shutdown() in the application." However, the HelloWorld.cu example does not demonstrate the use of this call. If a CUDA counter is used for EventName (e.g., char *EventName[] = {"CUDA:::Tesla_C1060.domain_a:tex_cache_hit"};) and PAPI_cleanup_eventset is added to the end of the HelloWorld.cu file (and the program is rebuilt), a segmentation fault occurs on my machine. However, the count given seems reasonable (0 for CUDA:::Tesla_C1060.domain_a:tex_cache_hit, 9 for CUDA:::Tesla_C1060:domain_b:instructions).
1. Is this a known issue?
2. Is this an installation or configuration issue?
3. Is this an issue with using an older GPU?
I appreciate your help!
Additional information:
1. My compilation procedure was:
> cd <papi-root>/src/components/cuda
> ./configure --with-cuda_incdir=/usr/local/cuda/incude --with-cupti_incdir=/usr/local/cuda/extras/CUPTI/include --with-cupti_libdir=/usr/local/cuda/extras/CUPTI/lib64
> cd ../../
> ./configure --with-components=cuda
> make
2. My machine has 2 NVIDIA cards: a C1060 GPU and a Quadro NVS 295 that is used primarily as a video card. The Tesla is a compute capability 1.3, the Quadro is 1.1.


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Today I'm pleased to have the lovely and talented Amber joining us for a guest post about an advent calender of holiday activities. A good friend of mine from the twitters, she is the mother of an adorable toddler and one on the way. I'm really excited about this idea because it's as easy on the budget as you want it to be. I can't wait to put something like this together for Isobel. Be sure to check her out on Pinterest as she pinned tons of fantastic resources.
The Thrifty Advent Calendar
I've never celebrated the Christmas season with an advent calendar. Sure we noted the time until the holiday but there was never a formalized way to count down each of the days in December leading up to the main event. I've always thought they looked like a lot of fun to make and use. Since my daughter is at the age where she's starting to really "get" Christmas I've decided to make a commitment to this particular tradition.
I touched on this idea on Miss A when I wrote about a toddler friendly holiday. I plan to wrap up 24 holiday themed children's books to create a Christmas Book Advent Calendar. You and your child open one book a night to countdown the days in December left until Christmas. In my version each book will be numbered, but the tag will also list an activity to do during the day.
I've been collecting TONS of kid friendly Christmas ideas on Pinterest. There are endless ways that you can enjoy something holiday related each and every day. Some of the daily activity ideas I have so far are:
- decorate the Christmas tree
- take a walk to see holiday lights at night
- make a gingerbread house
- go caroling
- visit Santa for photos
- ride the town's Polar Express
- go see the Nutcracker
- make a paper-plate snowman
- watch Charlie Brown's Christmas
- wrap a gift to donate to a child in need
- make cookies for Santa
It's seriously cheap and easy to do. Eventually maybe we'll own enough Christmasy books to have 24 on hand, but for now we're utilizing our public library for most of them. Many of the daytime activities will be free or close to it since I'm participating in township programs and using craft supplies I tend to keep on hand. There's almost no real prep time. All that needs to be done is to wrap 24 books and write up their coordinating tags. I may try to plan everything out on a calendar so the activity for some specific days match up with things that are already scheduled. I do wish we had a lovely mantle to display them on, like in the photo above, but I'll most likely find a cute basket to file them in. Either way, these books will look like lovely presents that add to our holiday decor. That's it…easy peasy!
I'd love to hear of some ways that you and your loved ones celebrate the holiday season. Sometimes the anticipation of the big day is the best part.
Amber is a NJ native with Southern roots. She is a recovering mommy blogger with recently acquired journalistic dreams that are being explored on Miss A's fantastical website. She enjoys long naps, but with a toddler and another on the way, who are we kidding? Amber has way too many interests to pick one as a career or a blog genre, so she writes about everything; from parenting to organizational projects. Please visit her Backwards Life and watch as the world flips upside down and inside out time and time again.


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Chiefs Open 3-Day Minicamp Without Branden Albert
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The Kansas City Chiefs began a three-day, voluntary minicamp without franchise left tackle Branden Albert, who has not been a part of the team's offseason program.
The Chiefs are allowed the additional minicamp under terms of the collective bargaining agreement that grant extra workouts to teams that experienced a coaching change.
Everybody on the roster was present for the session at the Chiefs' practice facility except for Albert, who has signed his franchise tag. Albert has said that he wants a long-term deal and there have been rumblings that the Chiefs are trying to trade him ahead of next week's draft.
The Chiefs are seeking a second-round choice for Albert after trading away their original second-round pick for quarterback Alex Smith, who took part in Tuesday's workout.


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The Bermuda Bowl of Youth Bridge is held in even-numbered years, with teams qualifying by zone, and competing in four categories. Each category kicks off with a complete round robin, qualifying eight teams for the knockout stage.
Play begins today (Wednesday, Aug 8) at 7PM Pacific time, 10PM Eastern time.
In the Under 26 category, which the WBF calls "Juniors", there are 22 teams, just as in the Bermuda Bowl itself. Participants must have been born in 1993 or later.
Under 21 is termed "Youngsters", and also has 22 teams registered. Participants must have been born in 1998 or later.
The Rona Cup, called "Girls" for short by the WBF, is for females born in 1993 or later. There are 15 teams registered this year.
Finally, there is a recently introduced "Kids" category, open to players who will not reach their 16th birthday this year. Some call this U16 and others U15. Eighteen teams are registered this year. This event is shorter than the others, and my understanding is that countries are invited directly by the WBF, as opposed to following the zonal qualification procedure of the other categories.
While participants in this championship are no doubt the future of high-level international bridge, occasionally we see a few from the present!. The U26 includes the familiar names Rimstedt and Grossack, and in 2016 the victorious Polish team included Michal Klukowski, at the time already a two-time open world champion. Though still eligible, the name Klukowski does not appear on this year's registration list.
It is less common to see players who are already winning open national and world championships in other categories' rosters. Familiar names such as Brogeland, Bertheau, and Bakhshi appear, but it's one or both parents who have made them famous in bridge so far. One notable exception this year is Giovanni Donati, playing for the Italian U21 team. Italy won this category in 2016 without Donati, who was then playing in U26. Look out, "Youngsters"!
It's likely that I don't know all the current international stars who are participating. Please add their names in comments.
Here are some links you might find helpful:
Main Event Page: http://championships.worldbridge.org/suzhouwytc17
Participants: http://db.worldbridge.org/repository/tourn/suzhou.18/microsite/participants.asp
Results: http://db.worldbridge.org/repository/tourn/suzhou.18/microsite/Results.htm
Daily Bulletins: http://db.worldbridge.org/repository/tourn/suzhou.18/microsite/Bulletins.htm
Schedule of Play; times GMT+8 (China): http://championships.worldbridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/WujiangScheduleofPlay.pdf
Vugraph schedule plus photos of each team: http://livebridge.net/bbo/wbf/2018wybtc.php?dsp=sch The vugraph schedule for the first two days is already posted.
Bridge Base Online for vugraph: http://www.bridgebase.com/
Funbridge for vugraph: https://www.funbridge.com/en/download/thankyou
I've been told that four matches will be on vugraph from each round-robin session; three on BBO and one on Funbridge. Typically the vugraph matches are specified in that day's Daily Bulletin, published several hours before play begins. I've now learned that they are specified even earlier via the livebridge.net link above. Fans can plan their days/nights accordingly!
NOTE: Unlike the ACBL, the WBF uses electronic scoring for all stages of team events. Therefore it is possible to follow along live, even when the team you are rooting for is not on BBO. I for one will be staying up all night every night here in California, obsessively updating the Running Scores. Look for that link on the Results Page when play is in progress. Though not as good as having your team on vugraph, it's possible to see who is sitting where, contracts, leads, and results.
For those interested, on Page 2 I'll talk about the US teams, their coaches, and more on my personal perspective on the event.
The USBF has sent a total of five teams; two for U26, and one team each for U21, U16, and Rona Cup. Typically each team consists of six players, which in some cases required augmentation. All augmented players participated in the Junior Trials.
Each team has an NPC, who is usually, though not always, their team coach in the USBF Online Training program. In addition, each pair had an expert work with them as partnership coach to prepare for this event.
Teams qualified back in December 2017 at the Michael Seamon Junior Championship in Atlanta. More info about that event, and photos, can be found at usbf.org.
From left, Ben Kristensen, Adam Kaplan, Zach Grossack, Christian Jolly, Kevin Rosenberg, and Oren Kriegel. NPC Michael Rosenberg is not pictured.
Group mentor Geoff Hampson. NPC Michael Rosenberg
Adam Kaplan-Christian Jolly; Partnership coach Ish Delmonte
Zach Grossack-Oren Kriegel: Partnership coach Chris Willenken
Ben Kristensen-Kevin Rosenberg: Partnership coach Geoff Hampson
Notes: All six team members competed in U26 (some on USA 2) in the 2016 World Youth Championship
Group mentor and NPC: David Caprera
Burke Snowden-Greg Herman: Partnership Coach Brian Platnick
Arjun Dhir-William Zhu: Partnership Coach Ralph Katz
Sam Amer-Yichen Yin: Partnership Coach Ai-Tai Lo
Notes: The team qualified five-handed and Yichen Yin was added.
Most team members have competed for the US in World Youth before. It is the first time for Sam Amer and Yichen Yin, though Yichen has previously represented China..
Group mentor and NPC: Sylvia Shi
Sarah Youngquist-Richard Jeng: Partnership coach Daniel Korbel
Brent Xiao-Kevin Huang: Partnership coach Sylvia Shi
Cornelius Duffie-Stella Wan: Partnership coach Debbie Rosenberg
Notes: The team qualified five-handed and Stella Wan was added. Richard Jeng has previously competed in World Youth; the rest are first-timers.
Group mentor and NPC: Jim Munday
Michael Hu-Arthur Zhou: Partnership Coach Jim Munday
Rory Xiao-Jonathan Yue: Partnership Coach David Berkowitz
Harrison Luba-Michael Xu: Partnership Coach Adam Grossack
Notes: The team qualified five-handed and Michael Xu was added. Michael Hu, Arthur Zhou, and Rory Xiao were all on the US U16 team in 2016. The rest are first-timers.
Rona Cup
Group mentor and NPC: Kent Mignocchi
Lucy Zhang-Sophia Chang: Partnership Coach Migry Zur Campanile
Emma Kolesnik-Lingyi Ma: Partnership Coach Allan Graves
Amber Lin-(Isha Thapa): Partnership Coach Mike Passell
Notes: The team qualified four-handed (Lucy, Sophia, Amber, and Isha). Emma and Lingyi were added. Unfortunately, Isha Thapa is unable to participate, and it was too late to replace her, so the team will compete five-handed in China.
USBF Training Program
While I mention only the current coaches of participating teams above, many other experts help, or have helped with the program over the years. All of this mentoring and coaching is done on a volunteer basis. Over 80 juniors currently participate.
In particular, Mike Kopera often fills in as coordinator when Michael Rosenberg is unavailable, and Barry Goren was co-organizer and an active mentor for years. Names of the many experts who have been involved, plus more info about the online training program, can be found here: http://usbf.org/junior-training-programs/junior-online-training-program
While for personal reasons I am home in California and not traveling to China, it would be difficult for me to care more about any other bridge event.
In addition to the obvious interest generated by my son's participation, I am floored by the countless hours my husband devotes to training these players, week after week, month after month, and year after year. Other experts have helped organize the program as well as mentor, some a great deal, yet Michael has stuck it out now steadily for over five years now. I really don't know how he does it.
Furthermore, I am thrilled that most of the members of the U16 and U21 teams have come through our local Silicon Valley Youth Bridge program. They have had lots of family support and too many mentors to name. Yet I will indulge in a moment as a proud mom and mention that my son, Kevin Rosenberg, has been a huge part of this. While I'm sure he cares most of all about his own team's success, he is hugely invested in the U21 and U16 teams, players he has both mentored and become close friends with.
And then there are the players themselves. So many great kids! They not only work hard to improve and play well - they also want to play bridge the right way. They care about bridge ethics, and for the most part are great partners and teammates. They have expressed much appreciation for the support they receive, and many are teaching bridge to other young people themselves. I've also come to know and like some of the Canadian juniors and others from around the world.
These young people give me hope for a bridge world I can enjoy for the rest of my life, and which my son can be a part of, for all of his.
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Macroscopic Quantum Coherence in Small Antiferromagnetic Particle and the Quantum Interference Effects (1999)
Starting from the Hamiltonian operator of the noncompensated two-sublattice model of a small antiferromagnetic particle, we derive the e effective Lagrangian of a biaxial antiferromagnetic particle in an external magnetic field with the help of spin-coherent-state path integrals. Two unequal level-shifts induced by tunneling through two types of barriers are obtained using the instanton method. The energy spectrum is found from Bloch theory regarding the periodic potential as a superlattice. The external magnetic field indeed removes Kramers' degeneracy, however a new quenching of the energy splitting depending on the applied magnetic field is observed for both integer and half-integer spins due to the quantum interference between transitions through two types of barriers.
Abstract: The periodic bounce configurations responsible for quantum tunneling are obtained explicitly and are extended to the finite energy case for minisuperspace models of the Universe. As a common feature of the tunneling models at finite energy considered here we observe that the period of the bounce increases with energy monotonically. The periodic bounces do not have bifurcations and make no contribution to the nucleation rate except the one with zero energy. The sharp first order phase transition from quantum tunneling to thermal activation is verified with the general criterions.


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House Republicans have abandoned plans to vote on an aid package for victims of Superstorm Sandy in the current term of Congress after the Senate approved more $60 billion to help affected residents recover. TODAY's Willie Geist reports.
WASHINGTON -- The House of Representatives adjourned on Tuesday night without acting on a $60 billion superstorm Sandy disaster aid bill, prompting angry denunciations from members from the states hardest hit by the storm.
The GOP leadership was criticized for what one Republican called a "personal betrayal" after it was decided that the bill would not be considered until the 113th Congress, which convenes at noon on Thursday.
The current session of the House comes to an end officially on Wednesday after the new Congress elected in November gets sworn in. Legislation does not carry over from session to session, so consideration of an aid bill would have to start all over if, as expected, nothing is scheduled before then.
"I have just been informed that we will be having perhaps no further votes in this Congress," said Democratic Representative Steny Hoyer of Maryland. "I am deeply disappointed at that information. We have millions of our fellow citizens who have been badly damaged by a storm called Sandy."
"We help each other," Representative Rush Holt, a Democrat of New Jersey, said on the House floor. "We always have ... There are thousands of people who are not going back to their homes. They deserve our help."
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Residents of the Northeast are still picking up the pieces after Superstorm Sandy.
They and others pleaded with the Republican leaders of the House to rethink the decision, but few were in the chamber to listen. House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio and Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia are in charge of scheduling the House.
"For the Speaker to just walk out is inexcusable," Representative Peter King, a New York Republican, told reporters. "It's wrong and I'm saying that as a member of the Republican Party."
In a statement, a spokesman for Boehner said: "The Speaker is committed to getting this bill passed this month." That assurance was not enough for the members who have districts that were affected by Sandy.
"I feel it is a personal betrayal," said Representative Michael Grimm, a New York Republican. "But I think more importantly, when you parse out all the politics, the people of this country that have been devastated are looking at this as a betrayal by the Congress and by the nation, and that is just untenable and unforgivable."
A bipartisan group of eight lawmakers gathered after protesting the move on the House floor after the House voted late Tuesday night to pass a bill to avert the so-called "fiscal cliff." That bill passed 257-167.
President Obama will sign the "fiscal cliff" legislation approved by a divided House of Representatives, preventing middle class tax hikes and huge spending cuts that many feared could have pushed the economy into a new recession. NBC's Kelly O'Donnell reports.
The October 29 storm devastated New York and New Jersey coastlines with lesser damage felt along coastal areas of Delaware and Maryland.
The Senate passed a bill on December 28 by a vote of 61-33 that would provide $60.2 billion in additional aid to victims of superstorm Sandy.
During that vote, 12 Republicans supported the measure, but only after a replacement amendment that would have stripped $35 billion from the bill failed to pass.
Full Sandy coverage from NBC News
"It passed the Senate in a bipartisan way," said Representative Nita Lowey, a New York Democrat. "And again, to me this is a real betrayal, a betrayal of the leadership of the Republican Party."
The House had originally planned to consider a two-step bill that would start with $27 billion in supplemental aid, but also include an amendment worth an additional $33 billion. The bill had been split to allow conservative Republicans to vote for a base level of additional aid, but not the entire package, which many Republicans said did not entirely go to those affected by Sandy.
"If we get into the next Congress, you have to hit the reset button," said Representative Jon Runyan, a New Jersey Republican who added that the Sandy aid package has been largely drowned out in recent days by negotiations over the "fiscal cliff" tax hikes and spending cuts that were set to kick in starting on Tuesday.
J. Scott Applewhite / AP
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., left, joined by other New York area-lawmakers affected by superstorm Sandy, express their anger and disappointment after learning the House Republican leadership decided to allow the current term of Congress to end without holding a vote on aid for the storm's victims, at the Capitol in Washington, early Wednesday.
Many Republicans in Congress say that the Sandy aid bill contains billions of dollars in spending on projects unrelated to damage caused by the storm or for long-term infrastructure improvements that should compete with other discretionary spending.
Among expenditures criticized was $150 million to rebuild fisheries, including those in the Gulf Coast and Alaska, thousands of miles from Sandy's devastation, and $2 million to repair roof damage that pre-dates the storm on Smithsonian Institution buildings in Washington.
Democrats, including New York and New Jersey senators, have argued that long-term rebuilding projects such as tunnel repairs would be delayed if the full funding was not approved. They say that businesses would not start to rebuild if they were not confident of reimbursement.
An aide for Cantor said that the House Majority Leader "is committed to ensuring the urgent needs of New York and New Jersey residents are met, and he has been working tirelessly toward that goal."
NBC News' Frank Thorp and Reuters contributed to this report.


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Lexie Lou is driven by Patrick Husbands for trainer Mark Casse and owner Gary Barber and now has earnings of $1,399,250 to go with six career stakes wins. cheap china jerseys . - From the pick six that closed Candlestick to a pair of goal-line stands in Carolina, it seems like whenever San Francisco needs a big play from its defence one of the 49ers decorated linebackers steps up. cheap jerseys china . -- The Eagles agreed to contract terms Tuesday with veteran running back Ronnie Brown, who spent his first six seasons with the Dolphins.CHICAGO -- Travis Wood was so dangerous at the plate Monday night that Diamondbacks manager Kirk Gibson actually changed pitchers before the Cubs starter could bat with the bases loaded in the sixth. Wood hit a three-run homer, drove in four runs and held the Diamondbacks to one run in seven innings to lead the Cubs to a 5-1. Wood (1-2) gave up a run and six hits over seven innings. His four RBIs and nine strikeouts matched career highs. "It feels good that they kind of respect you up there and that youre doing your job," Wood said. "Im not out there in the nine hole just to fill a spot. Youve got to try and be the best you can at it." Bronson Arroyo (1-2) allowed five runs and eight hits in 5 1-3 innings for Arizona. The Diamondbacks have lost nine of 10 and have the worst record in the majors (5-17). Arroyo and Wood were plenty familiar with each other having been teammates on the Cincinnati Reds from 2010-11. Wood tagged Arroyo with his three-run homer in the second inning and RBI double in the fourth. With the bases loaded in the sixth, Gibson called on J.J. Putz to face Wood, and Wood hit the ball right back to the right-hander to start an inning-ending double play. "Its supposed to be the free out in the lineup," Arroyo said. "Tonight it obviously wasnt, I mean, (Wood) pushed across almost all the runs. Hes always been good at the plate, thats something you just dont want to let beat you, but thats the way it went tonight." Wood, with a grin, admitted he was swinging hard for another home run when he faced Putz. The right-handed swinging, lefty-throwing Wood was unsure if an opposing manager had ever made a pitching change with him at the plate. Cubs manager Rick Renteria said he has not previously seen a reliever brought in to face a pitcher. "He was a one-man wrecking crew," Renteria said of Wood. "I can see where (Gibson) was looking a guy who was swinging the bat today. His sense was he needed more velocity and Putzs split." Welington Castillo hit a two-out bloop single to right field to score Starlin Castro from second for a 1-0 lead in the second inning. Ryan Kalish followed Castillos RBI single with a single of his own to extend the inning. Arroyo fell behind in the count 1-0 before Wood hit a hanging slider for a three-run shot into the left field bleachers. It was Woods seventh career home run. Wood drove in another run in the fourth wiith an RBI double that nicked off Arizona centre fielder Tony Campanas glove near the wall. cheap jerseys. Arroyo stranded Wood at second by getting Emilio Bonifacio to ground out to end the fourth, but Woods fourth RBI gave the Cubs a 5-0 lead. "Hes a good guy and a good pitcher," Wood said of Arroyo. "I was fortunate enough to get him tonight." Diamondbacks left fielder Mark Trumbo hit his MLB-leading seventh home run in the seventh. Trumbo hit the first pitch he saw from Wood into the centre field bleachers to cut the Cubs lead to 5-1. One of the Diamondbacks best chances to score against Wood came in the sixth. Arroyo led off with a broken-bat single to left field and Chris Owings singled to put runners on first and second with nobody out. But Wood struck out Hill, got Paul Goldschmidt to fly out to right field and forced Martin Prado to pop out in foul territory to strand the runners. "(Wood) was hitting that outside corner and he came out throwing his cutter inside early," Gibson said. "Mixing in his changeup, just hitting the corners. He tired a little bit there late, we had a good opportunity and we only got one run out of it." The Cubs had a prime opportunity to blow the game open in the sixth. However, they failed to score with the bases loaded and no one out. NOTES: The start of the game was delayed 1 hour, 1 minute because of rain. ... Cubs manager Rick Renteria said RHP Carlos Villanueva will remain in the starting rotation and make his next start Friday against Milwaukee. ... RHP Jake Arrieta (shoulder stiffness) pitched 5 2-3 innings at High-A Daytona, likely his last rehab start before being activated from the 15-day disabled list. Arrieta allowed five runs (three earned) on five hits with seven strikeouts and two walks. He allowed three home runs. ... Diamondbacks CF A.J. Pollack was not in the lineup Monday after leaving Sundays game against the Dodgers in the sixth inning with stiffness in the left side of his neck. Pollack will be going to see a chiropractor and is day to day. ... OF Gerardo Parra was given the day off Monday. Parra is hitting .160 in his last six games. "Hes played every game and you see certain things in his game, hes just grinding down a little bit," Gibson said. "Everything weve been going through, its been tough on everybody and you just try and rotate the guys in and give guys a break." cheap jerseys wholesale jerseys cheap jerseys cheap nfl jerseys wholesale jerseys Cristian Higuita Jersey ' ' '
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Lost among many of the big stories this week was a rather uncomfortable moment on Fox News when Arthur Laffer went public with a study which claimed that the Marketplace Fairness Act was actually a net plus for fiscal conservatives. This immediately drew the ire of popular conservative leaders, including Ted Cruz, but Laffer has been approaching the study of this issue from a perspective of necessary evils. (You can see a lot of our previous coverage of the MFA here.)
Laffer says the bill offers cash-strapped states a shot at beefing up their budgets and argues the plan doesn't create a new tax but instead gives states the opportunity to go after taxes they were already owed.
"All taxes are bad, some are just worse than others," Laffer told FoxNews.com during an interview on Wednesday. "When you look at this carefully, this is exactly what you want. The lowest tax rate on the broadest possible base."
Arthur Laffer is perhaps most famous for his "invention" (though he admits he didn't actually create the idea) of the Laffer Curve. (A novelty item, still quite popular among fiscal conservatives, which demonstrates an undeniable truth about tax rates and taxpayer participation. Unfortunately, it immediately makes itself completely useless since you can never accurately determine precisely where you are on the curve nor the human response to the next change in rates in either direction unless you are at or very near one of the extremes on the axis.) Still, Laffer remains a venerable voice in the ongoing tax debates, so it was very interesting to see him go so far as to pen an editorial on the subject of the MFA.
Because state sales taxes generally have fewer loopholes and lower rates — and therefore have a lesser impact on growth and employment — pro-growth policies should favor sales over income taxes where possible. True reform should include addressing the online sales tax loophole.
A move towards e-fairness would give states an opportunity to use additional online sales tax revenues to lower rates on more burdensome taxes, such as the personal income tax. This would create a more efficient tax system and correct a fundamental distortion of the retail marketplace, where traditional retailers must collect the sales tax and their online competitors don't.
Sadly, Laffer's article doesn't really touch on the question of the administrative burden the MFA would presumably place on small businesses dealing with the vagaries of tax law across multiple state lines. (This is a valid concern which Hot Air readers have discussed at length when I've written about this in the past, and definitely a question which deserves an answer from the act's proponents.) But, unfortunately, people arguing Laffer's position rarely get far enough in the debate to give it a full airing. The entrenched fiscal conservative position often begins and ends with, "Ugh. Taxes bad. Hulk smash taxes." And there the conversation tends to stop.
UPDATE: (Jazz) A reader writes in with the following information regarding the tax collecting burden on small businesses. Apparently virtually all of the actual "small businesses" who would struggle the most with collection are exempted, and the bill requires that free software which calculates the tax for other states must be provided for those complying. Any of you legal eagles want to take a crack at it? You be the judge. (Emphasis from sender.)
From the text of the Senate bill.
(a) STREAMLINED SALES AND USE TAX AGREEMENT.—Each Member State under the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement is authorized to require all sellers not qualifying for the small seller exception described in
subsection (c) to collect and remit sales and use taxes with respect to remote sales sourced to that Member State pursuant to the provisions of the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement, but only if any changes to the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement made after the date of the enactment of this Act are not in conflict with the minimum simplification requirements in subsection (b)(2).
(b) ALTERNATIVE.—A State that is not a Member State under the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement is authorized notwithstanding any other provision of law to require all sellers not qualifying for the small seller exception described in subsection (c) to collect and remit sales and use taxes with respect to remote sales sourced to that State, but only if the State adopts and implements the minimum simplification requirements in paragraph (2). Such authority shall commence beginning no earlier than the first day of the calendar quarter that is at least 6 months after the date that the State—
(1) enacts legislation to exercise the authority granted by this Act—
(A) specifying the tax or taxes to which such authority and the minimum simplification requirements in paragraph (2) shall apply; and
(B) specifying the products and services otherwise subject to the tax or taxes identified by the State under subparagraph (A) to which the authority of this Act shall not apply; and (2) implements each of the following minimum simplification requirements:
(A) Provide—
(i) a single entity within the State responsible for all State and local sales and use tax administration, return processing, and audits for remote sales sourced to the State;
(ii) a single audit of a remote seller
for all State and local taxing jurisdictions within that State; and
(iii) a single sales and use tax return to be used by remote sellers to be filed with the single entity responsible for tax administration.
A State may not require a remote seller to file sales and use tax returns any more frequently than returns are required for nonremote sellers or impose requirements on remote sellers that the State does not impose on nonremote sellers with respect to the collection of sales and use taxes under this Act. No local jurisdiction may require a remote seller to submit a sales and use tax return or to collect sales and use taxes other than as provided by this paragraph.
(B) Provide a uniform sales and use tax base among the State and the local taxing jurisdictions within the State pursuant to paragraph (1).
(C) Source all remote sales in compliance with the sourcing definition set forth in section 4(7).
(D) Provide—
(i) information indicating the taxability of products and services along with any product and service exemptions from sales and use tax in the State and a rates and boundary database;
(ii) software free of charge for remote sellers that calculates sales and use taxes due on each transaction at the time the transaction is completed, that files sales and use tax returns, and that is updated to reflect rate changes as described in sub- paragraph (H); and
(iii) certification procedures for persons to be approved as certified software providers. purposes of clause (iii), the software provided by certified software providers shall be capable of calculating and filing sales and use taxes in all States qualified under this Act.
(E) Relieve remote sellers from liability to the State or locality for the incorrect collection, remittance, or noncollection of sales and use taxes, including any penalties or interest, if the liability is the result of an error or omission made by a certified software provider.
UPDATE 2: (Jazz) There's not only been a lot of informative feedback in the comments, but this thread led to a couple of contacts from both the small business community and online shoppers from rural areas who would be most affected by this legislation. There are some eye opening observations of how the promises in the bill don't work out as billed. Rather than making a late addition after the piece has headed toward the bottom of the page, I'll put them in their own separate post tomorrow. If you know of any other folks who would like to contact us from verifiable sources with their own experiences along these lines, let me know.


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I'm using some plugins such as an external jquery-plugin for tooltips and the drupal plugin jQuery Media (to load flash video player for some video file-fields).
These plugins are loaded when the main page load and they parse the html content of the page.
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If there were ever a "scared straight" program for potential philanderers, all they'd have to do is watch American movies. Just as surely as the most heinous of premeditated offenses, infidelity is a crime punishable by death—or, if not death, than grievous bodily harm or the threat of mortal danger to spouses and families. Thrillers like Fatal Attraction, Unfaithful, or the generic new thriller Derailed don't really need to be thrillers at all, because the affairs at the center of them are rooted in the ordinary. Marriages gone stale, stifling home lives, the temptation of someone invigorating and new, and the complications that inevitably follow are all the stuff of compelling drama, and would be even if boiled rabbits and Smith & Wessons never entered the picture. The problem with all of these movies is that they're better off before someone goes psychotic: In a way, the real consequences posed by infidelity are more harrowing to face than anything these thrillers can dish out.
Slick and efficient to the last, Derailed doesn't waste time establishing the miseries of a man (Clive Owen) who has everything—a high-paying job as an advertising executive, a beautiful wife (Melissa George) and home in suburban Chicago, and a sweet daughter who's beating back severe diabetes. On a commuter train to the city, Owen's eyes wander to Jennifer Aniston, a financial adviser who's in a similar boat, mired in a lifeless marriage with a wealthy husband and a daughter of her own. After a few tentative encounters, the two decide to consummate their affair in a fleabag hotel, where lowlife Vincent Cassel accosts them at gunpoint, beating Owen unconscious and raping Aniston. Aniston insists on not involving the police, because the affair could result in an unfavorable settlement with her husband, but it turns out that Cassel is only getting started. With Owen's personal information and knowledge of the tryst on hand, Cassel works on extorting him for all he's worth.
From the moment Cassel enters the picture with his stock, tongue-twirling Eurotrash-villain routine, Derailed becomes another, lesser movie, casting aside the refreshing ordinariness of the affair for taunting phone calls, back-alley confrontations, and children in peril. Much of the second half is spent waiting for the other shoe to drop, though you don't have to have 20/20 vision in order to see the big twist coming from miles away. Once it arrives, the film officially disembarks from reality with an over-the-top climax and denouement that play shamelessly to the bloodthirsty masses. On Planet Hollywood, sleeping around is grisly business.


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Last week I traveled to Washington, DC to testify before the Subcommittee on Agriculture, Energy and Trade (Subcommittee of the House Committee on Small Business) on behalf of America's farmers and ranchers about the Department of Labor's proposed rules regarding Child Labor on farms and ranches. The Department of Labor has proposed new rules that would restrict children under the age of 16 from working on a farm or ranch. The list of tasks youth would not be allowed to do is astonishing to me. For example, milking cows would not be allowed, and neither would building a fence. One item that stood out to me was that no youth under the age of 16 would be allowed to use a tool that was powered by any source other than hand or foot power. That would eliminate youth using flashlights, garden hoses (because hoses are powered by water) battery operated screwdrivers, etc. When hearing this, my son asked me if that meant he no longer had to brush his teeth since his toothbrush was battery operated. (Nice try Conner, you still have to brush your teeth and yes, you will use the battery powered toothbrush I bought you!)
The work my children willingly do on our farm is a valuable life lesson they can't learn from reading a book in school or playing a video game. It's something they enjoy doing too.
It is not dangerous; we don't allow our children to do tasks that are not safe or not age appropriate. Working beside our children is precious to Kevin and I, it builds memories we will all treasure forever and it's about passing on our farming heritage to the next generation. More importantly, it teaches our children that hard work is rewarded, that doing a job well is something to be proud of and it builds self esteem.
Our daughter learned at the age of 3 ½ how to use a bolt, washer and nut to help build farrowing stalls for our hog barns. She did this along side her dad in our machine shed. She was never in danger, and the smile it brought to her face because she was helping dad farm was priceless. The lessons she learned that day have taken her far. She learned to never give up when she was turning the nut the wrong direction. She learned to follow directions – the washer had to go on the bolt before the nut and if she forgot, she had to start over because the nut wouldn't fit securely without the washer. When she and Kevin had finished building the stalls, she was so proud. She couldn't wait to show me her work. She showed every neighbor who stopped by the shed her work. And each time she went inside the hog barns, she would proudly proclaim, "I helped dad build this." Since that day Rachelle has learned to do several other tasks on our farm. And each task has taught her that determination is the key to success and that hard work pays off.
To have the Department of Labor (DOL) think my child's safety isn't a priority to me is frustrating to say the least. I love my children more than anything in this world; I would never put them in harm's way. I went to Washington, D.C. last week because farmers and ranchers need the DOL to understand they can not regulate with a one size fits all policy. I left all of my work behind because I want to secure my children's future on our family farm and to protect their freedom to farm.
I want my children to be able to choose if they want to return to our family farm one day after they finish their education. If our children are not allowed to work on our farm as they grow up, they will lose out on many lessons and skills, not to mention they will be robbed of the childhood my husband and I loved when we grew up. Besides, how will our kids know if they want to come back to the farm if they are only allowed to work on it for two years before they leave for college? I appreciate DOL's intentions to keep children safe, but as a parent, no one cares more than I do about my children's safety. I've been protecting my kids since I carried them in my womb and I will continue to protect them, even if it means testifying before Congress to protect their freedom to grow up working on our family farm.


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I wrote this post in response to the sexist coverage of the summer Olympics in 2012. I'm re-posting it now as a run-up to my next post, which will be on Miley Cyrus.
Prominent news organizations blazed past their critics to take home medals from the 2012 Olympics despite complaints of unsportsmanlike conduct. Opponents claim that the publications emphasized women athletes' weight, appearance and body parts rather than their athletic performance. According to the editor in chief of a major news outlet, this criticism is unfair.
"Sure we spiced things up a little," he said. "So what? Journalism is a competitive business. If these gals want to step out there, it's our right to try to medal off them."
This spirit of journalistic competitiveness was evident when the New York Times drummed the competition for the Misogyny Medal by sweeping the field with two articles they entered in the all-misogynist girl-baiting competition. Despite heroic effort from some of the sewer dwellers in the blogosphere, (who are the farm teams for this event,) the supposedly credible New York Times took the gold, followed closely by Melbourne Australia's Herald Sun.
The Herald Sun made a bold opening move with an article claiming that one of Australia's female swimmers was "too fat," and setting up an online poll where readers could vote on the young woman's appearance. Not to be outdone, the New York Times made a strong counter with an article criticizing one of the American women for being "too pretty" to be taken seriously. They followed this with an article discussing women water polo players' breasts. This daring maneuver sealed their win.
Skirmishes occurred further back in the pack as other "legitimate" publications tried to make up for lost time by re-printing the bulk of these articles and discussing whether or not they actually "had a lot of truth in them." Salon took home the bronze with this effort. There were excellent efforts by other outlets who discussed whether or not pretty women athletes were cheating by looking so good and if women athletes really are too fat. But, salacious as they were, none of these medaled.
After the medal ceremony, the team captain for the New York Times indicated that the publication would enter "every event out there" in the upcoming months, stating that it was part of the publication's standard to maintain a high level of misogyny in all of its coverage at all times. He said that he intended to sharpen the Times' edge by eliminating the sublety, which he felt slowed his team down. "Next time, we'll just say that it doesn't matter what women do or what they achieve, they are still second-class citizens."
The Herald Sun's captain broke into the interview to announce, "We'll do better than that. Next time, we'll skip the article and run a full-page headline saying, "No Matter What You Accomplish Girl, You're Still Just A Piece Of Meat."
When informed that the women athletes in question claimed to feel humiliated and degraded, both team captains said this was an "overreaction" and an example of the emotionalism of women. "I think it's caused by them thinking about their breasts too much," the New York Times team captain stated. "Also, carrying around all that fat," the Herald Sun captain added. "Those girls need to drop about 40 pounds."
"Yeah," the Times' Captain said. "Then we can do an article criticizing them for being too skinny."
The team captains seemed to forget about the reporter at that point and wandered off together, re-hashing the competition and looking for a brewski.
As for the female athletes, after crying their eyes out, they competed in their events.


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FLEFF Intern Voices
The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival from the interns' point of view
Monday, February 25, 2013
Blog post written by Kristen Tomkowid, Journalism '15, FLEFF Blogger, Poughkeepsie, New York.
A few days ago, I had the privilege of talking with Ithaca College Associate TVR Professor and film maker John Scott. We talked about his involvement in FLEFF, both past and present.
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Night of the Living Dead at Yonge-Dondas Square, Toronto: photo by Sasoriza (Bryan Chan), 12 September 2009
Evans City, Pennsylvania cemetery, a location for the 1968 George A. Romero film Night of the Living Dead: photo by Willjay, 2007
Scriptwriter John A. Russo playing a zombie a zombie an uncredited cameo for Night of the Living Dead, a film that Russo co-wrote co-wrote with George A. Romero: image by Cropbot, 6 April 2011
Harry: "Mass hysteria?" What do they think, we're imagining all this?
Russell Streiner as Johnny in George A. Romero's Night of The Living Dead (1968): image by Sugar Bear, 17 January 2008
Barbara: Johnny!
Johnny: Hey, you're still afraid, aren't ya?
Barbara: Stop it! You're ignorant!
Johnny: They're coming for you, Barbara!
Harry: We thought we could hear screams, but for all we knew, that have meant those things were in the house after her.
Night of the Living Dead 28-frame loop: image animation by Petrusbarbygere, 19 August 2005
Night of the Living Dead: animation cel created as part of the ongoing cartoon project at Gallery1988, Los Angeles, November/December 2012: image by jublin, 8 November 2012
Night of the Living Dead, Montreal: photo by croquembouche (Philippe M.), 5 April 2012


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This is not asking about how to apply for funding.
I just find that some NSF funding report (near the end of the funding cycle) is quite interesting read. In particular, it's almost like a research report of the PI's several years' work. It provides some insight how the PI's different papers are related, and it's for the most part very accessible for non-experts.
Are these reports open to public and where to find them?