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On this day in 1969, center fielder Curt Flood of the St. Louis Cardinals writes a letter to Bowie Kuhn, the commissioner of major league baseball, protesting the Cardinals' decision to trade him to the Philadelphia Phillies and asking to be made a free agent.
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Yep! that seems fair… mum and daughter go to the baseball game while dad and son go to a pageant (at the local bar/strip club).. great idea that….although I think sports is probably going to be the least of your worries when your daughter gets older…
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My first comment was gobbled up by the ether gremlins. Hmmm
…Like I was saying ~ EEeeeWWww! I'd get motivated just so I wouldn't get slapped by you and "that". Gotta admit to you…there is something wonderfully magical about a Mom/Daughter Baseball night at the game while the boyz are busy elsewhere. I think that's great!
Did you and your Pop/Mom share a lot of baseball time together?
Sounds like you're raising a she-fan, Sue. I know she wanted the stuffed animal but she stayed for the baseball and even asked you a baseball related question. Woohoo! Great pics as always.
I couldn't stop laughing at your pics. The one of the bullpen was so funny. They certainly looked riveted!! Mother-daughter baseball is terrific as well as mother-son baseball which I have once in a while with my son. Those are my favorite times.
Peter – OK, my son is 12, a little young for a strip club😉. He had his own baseball practice that night.
Mike – Unfortunately, I did not get to see much baseball as a kid, except on TV. We didn't live close enough to any teams to go, and my mom wasn't (and still isn't) much of a fan. As she says, "You take after your father."
Jane – I can only hope. A lot of baseball "purists" are not fans of mascots, but if it gets kids to come to the ballpark, then I think it's a good thing.
Cat – Once it gets a little too dark for good action photos, I start looking around for other photo ops. The bullpen is always good, because I don't think they think anyone's watching them. I'm so glad my kids are finally getting to the point where they actually watch (some of) the game.
Beautiful picture of your daughter Sue. Sorry about the second game today. Ouch! I hope we don't do the same tonight. That Green monster is just swallowing Phillies. I hope the same does not happen to us when my bums are there. We did not do any better last night against the Angels.
Loved the shot with the eyes closed…lol That kid has a lot to learn. Glad you were able to bribe your daughter with a stuffed animal to get her to watch….ha, ha :O) Kids…they are funny.
Great pictures!! Glad to hear that you were able to spend a quality time with your daughter. I give her a thumbs up for being able to get the stuffed animal🙂 I would be the one dragging my mom to the ballpark. LOL
Minor League games are the best, especially for the kids. There is always something going on, and the players are usaully a lot friendlier and give autographs for the kids. Great pics.
'Minoring In Baseball'
Ah, the Reading Phils. The place where my favorite player of all time, Ryne Sandberg, played for a brief time. Glad to see that your daughter got her toy at the game. I have to say, I was/am just like her. I'll always ask my wife before we leave for the Rays game, "What if we aren't one of the first 10,000 fans? We have to get there early!" Gotta get the toys.
Guess that is one way to get kids to look differently about their veggies. Still think that the cheese stands alone…near the concession stand.
Seriously, sounds like a great mother and daughter time out at the ballpark. Even if there was an ulterior motive involved ( a stuffed animal), it was still a time both traveling and enjoying the game for you both to bond closer.
And that is always a good thing.
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trust all is well in the land of RRRT, just thought I would stop by and be nosey…:-)


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Kim Kardashian loves London so much that she wants to buy a home in the British city. Last week she visited the city with her sisters, Kourtney and Khloe, to launch the Kardashian Kollection in the United Kingdom.
Kim was also spotted hanging out in the British capital with her boyfriend Kanye West before jetting to Germany for the MTV European Music Awards.
The reality star has such a good time when she visits London that she wants to buy property there.
She told British newspaper The People, "I want to live over here in the U.K. and I am going to buy a property here. It's just so beautiful in London. I've been here maybe six or eight times before. I love it here, it reminds me of a cleaner New York."
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For those who battle tirelessly against the never ending onslaught of anti-vaccine propaganda, misinformation, and fear, there was great news the other day from Merck. The pharmaceutical company, and maker of the MMR vaccine against measles, mumps, and rubella, has decided not to resume production of the individual, or "split", components of the vaccine. A Merck representative made the announcement during a meeting of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) on Tuesday. During previous ACIP meetings, science experts on that committee presented compelling arguments against continued, large scale production of the monovalent components of the MMR vaccine, which were echoed by scientists in Merck's vaccine division. In a moment, I'll discuss the arguments against the split vaccine, and why this is so important a decision. First, some background on the issue of splitting the MMR.
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Home List of Titles Representing service-relationships as first class entities in service orchestrations
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- Representing service-relationships as first class entities in service orchestrations
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- Kapuruge, Malinda; Han, Jun; Colman, Alan
- Abstract
- Service orchestration approaches are widely used to composing multiple business services (partner services) into a business process to achieve a particular business objective. The business relationships captured in such a service orchestration are primarily those between the partner services and the business process itself. This however results in tight-coupling between processes and partner services and inadequate capturing of relationships between partner services that participate in an orchestration. These limitations create problems concerning the stability and runtime adaptability of a service orchestration. To address these limitations, we propose in this paper an approach that represents the service-relationships as first-class entities in service orchestrations during design-time and runtime. It provides the required stability and improves the runtime adaptability for service orchestrations amidst changing business requirements. A novel process enactment platform supporting the approach has been implemented by further extending the Apache Axis2 Web service engine.
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- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science: proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2012), Paphos, Cyprus, 28-30 November 2012 / X. Sean Wang, Isabel Cruz, Alex Delis and Guangyan Huang (eds.), Vol. 7651, pp. 257-270
- Publication year
- 2012
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- 08 Information and Computing Sciences
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- Adaptability; Service orchestration; Service-relationships; Stability
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- Springer
- 0302-9743 (series ISSN)
- 9783642350627, 3642350623
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Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, left, speaks with his visiting Egypt counterpart Mohamed Amr as they meet on the Syrian crisis in Moscow on Dec. 28.
Russia urged the Syrian government on Friday to act on its stated readiness for dialogue with its opponents, throwing its weight behind a diplomatic push to end a 21-month-old conflict in Syria.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he had urged Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Makdad to emphasize his government's openness to dialogue with the opposition during talks in Moscow on Thursday.
"We actively encouraged ... the Syrian leadership to make as concrete as possible its declared readiness for dialogue with the opposition," Lavrov told reporters after talks with his Egyptian counterpart Mohamed Kamel Amr in Moscow.
He said the Syrian government should stress its readiness for talks on the widest possible range of matters, in line with an international agreement in Geneva last June calling for a transitional government.
"I think a realistic and detailed assessment of the situation inside Syria will prompt reasonable opposition members to seek ways to start a political dialogue," added Lavrov, who last week said that neither side would win by force.
Putin says fate of Assad unimportant to him
Russia expects to meet a senior U.S. diplomat on Syria next month to discuss with international Syria envoy Lakhdar Brahimi his plans to end the civil war there, the Kremlin's envoy to the region said earlier on Friday.
Brahimi will visit Moscow on Saturday for talks on the results of his negotiations with Syrian President Bashar Assad and his opponents during a five-day trip to Damascus in which he called for political change to end the bloodshed.
"We will listen to what Lakhdar Brahimi has to say about the situation in Syria, and after that, probably, there will be a decision to hold a new meeting of the 'three Bs'," Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told the RIA news agency -- in a word play on the first letter of the diplomats' last names.
Bogdanov, U.S. Undersecretary of State William Burns and Brahimi, the joint special representative of the United Nations and the Arab League, agreed that a political solution to the crisis was necessary and possible in talks earlier this month.
Bogdanov, the Kremlin's special envoy for Middle East Affairs, said the three would meet again in January after the holidays.
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Russia has also invited the head of the internationally-recognized, opposition Syrian National Council, Moaz al-Khatib, to talks, he said, in comments that appeared underline Moscow's commitment to helping Brahimi seek a way out of the crisis.
Brahimi, who has called for a transitional government to rule until elections, is trying to broker a peaceful transfer of power in Syria, where more than 44,000 people have been killed in a revolt against four decades of Assad family rule.
Past peace efforts have floundered as what began as peaceful protests in March 2011 turned into civil war. The conflict has become an increasingly sectarian struggle between mostly Sunni Muslim rebels and Assad's security forces, drawn primarily from his Shiite-rooted Alawite minority.
Assad forces accused of using 'poisonous gases'
World powers think Russia, which has given Assad military and diplomatic aid during the uprising, has the ear of Syria's government and must be a central player in any peace talks.
Moscow has tried to distance itself from Assad in recent months and has denied it is propping him up. But it maintains Assad's exit cannot be a precondition for talks and has repeatedly said Western powers should not impose solutions on Syria.
Lavrov warned on Thursday that time was running out to find a peaceful solution to the conflict and halt a descent into "bloody chaos".
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The crisp sweetness of Trentino Apple Balsamico is perfectly balanced with juicy fresh strawberries.
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'The Voice': Another Coach Is Eliminated As The Final 4 Are Revealed
The Voice may have only one coach standing by the time the show reaches its December 17-18 finale.
Tuesday night, Big Red Chairs talked with the two artists who were eliminated from the NBC singing competition, and with their dismissal another coach was also knocked out of contention. Adam Levine saw both his remaining artists - Melanie Martinez and Amanda Brown - sent home after the results of America's vote were revealed.
Coaches Blake Shelton and Cee Lo Green each have two artists still up for The Voice grand prize, but with two more singers being eliminated next week, it's possible that either of them could also be left without anyone in the race.
For his part, although he has half the competing field on his team, Shelton isn't taking it easy. "Even though two coaches are eliminated, I'm not changing anything," he said Tuesday night. "It's listening that got Team Blake here and that's what's going to keep us here hopefully, is communicating with each other and being sure that when we do pick a song, it's for a really good reason. It needs to be something that they're passionate about every time they go on that stage."
Melanie Martinez said afterward that she wasn't surprised by her elimination. "Me and Amanda are really close, so we kind of felt it today. We felt that we were both leaving, and we felt really bad because we're like 'we're both on Team Adam and he's got nobody left,'" she said with a laugh, but added, "I think it's not really about that. I think it's just genuinely about being yourself and just showing who you are as an artist on the show."
She added that she benefited from having The Voice come along at such an early point in her career. "I think that this is an amazing opportunity and I've grown as an artist because of the people like Amanda who've been through so much," she said. "They've definitely taught me a lot."
You can continue to keep up with Melanie via Twitter (@MelanieLBBH).
"I don't feel any kind of negativity in regards to this entire experience," reflected Amanda Brown. "I made it to the Top 6 and I feel like it was just a tremendous accomplishment for me. There's nothing but love and positivity and hope for the future."
"I feel really proud of those performances and really proud of the decisions that I made. I really left my all on the stage last night and so I don't think I would have changed anything," she continued. "I've definitely learned a lot about myself along this entire journey and I feel like the lessons that I've learned I most definitely will take with me."
What will she take away personally from The Voice? "Definitely being able to work with Cee Lo and Adam was an amazing opportunity," she said, "and just to be in the company of such talented young artists. I feel both honored and excited for their journey and excited for mine."
You can continue to keep up with Amanda via Twitter (@Amanda__Brown).
Their coach was philosophical about Tuesday's results. "You know, you win things and you lose things. If you win everything all the time, then you wouldn't be human. It's kind of how you respond to the losing and tweak things and change things and come back that much stronger for understanding the dynamics of whatever failures you make," Levine said.
"No one failed. That's what's really crazy," he continued. "So they didn't get the $53,000 after taxes and the really crazy weird record deal that they are already going to get anyway. Those six people are winners and every single one of them should be proud for however much further they make it in the competition.
"I think actually, there are so many amazing allegiances that have been formed on the show that are so great that, that is the saddest thing to see end – the camaraderie amongst artists.
"It's on to a new chapter for these guys," he added. "Listen, the winner has to go home too. People don't realize that. The winner probably experiences the biggest culture shock when they say to themselves, 'Now what?' The winner still has to go home. Don't forget that."
Cassadee Pope, Terry McDermott, Nicholas David and Trevin Hunte remain.
The Voice continues next Monday at 8 PM ET/PT on NBC.
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The 2012 Farm Bill continues to address the unique circumstances and concerns of socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers, as well as beginning and limited resource farmers and ranchers. It provides for voluntary participation, offers incentives, and focuses on equity in accessing U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) programs and services.
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PELLA—Central College men's track distance runner Drew Jackson (junior, Johnston) and women's track sprinter Abi Davis (sophomore, Des Moines, Dowling Catholic HS) have been named Iowa Conference track events performers of the week following their efforts at Friday and Saturday's Jim Duncan Invitational.
Jackson made a splash Friday with a runner-up finish in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 9:31.86, bested by South Dakota State's Andrew Thies, who finished five seconds earlier. Jackson followed it up by taking Saturday's 1,500-meter run title in 3:57.71, besting teammate Eli Horton (junior, Runnells, Southeast Polk HS) by less than one second. Jackson was also a member of the Dutch 4x400-meter relay team that finished sixth in 3:23.85.
His steeplechase time ranks first in the conference and 23rd in the nation.
It's Jackson's fourth career league weekly honor, with three outdoor awards and one indoor award.
Davis finished fifth in the 200-meter dash in 25.31, less than 0.5 seconds off the pace. She was bested by runners from Drake, Northern Iowa and Iowa State. Davis also led the Dutch 4x100-meter relay and 4x400-meter relay teams to fourth- and fifth-place finishes, respectively.
Her 200 time ranks second in the conference and 28th in the nation.
It's Davis' second career league weekly honor since transferring to Central at semester, with her first coming during the indoor season.
The Dutch are back in action Wednesday at the Central College Open. Field events are slated to begin at 2 p.m., with running events starting at 2:30 p.m. It's the second home competition for the squads this outdoor season.


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Research assistance from North Central College could help determine whether residents of China receive government-funded vaccinations for chicken pox. This summer, Linda Gao, professor of mathematics, hosted a representative of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Dapeng Yin, M.D., an epidemiologist who works for the agency in Beijing, visited North Central for five weeks to consult with Gao. She has been using mathematical models to research trends of the spread of the disease and the cost-benefits of various vaccination strategies in China. In 2005, Gao spoke to the World Health Organization on rubella vaccination strategies for China and her work has been published in the Chinese Journal of Vaccines and Immunization.
Yin happened to see that article prior to publication. "He sent me a very enthusiastic email," Gao says. "One thing led to another."
The pair's findings will be presented to Chinese officials, who could then decide to fund distribution of the vaccine, explains Yin. "The government pays for 14 other vaccines but the parents need to pay for the chicken pox vaccine," he says. "The government wants to know the result if it covers the cost of the vaccine. This research has been very useful." One of the challenges of the research is that the population of China continues to grow, while the population of the United States as stabilized. And new vaccines, like the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, continue to become available, Yin adds.
Gao also supervised three North Central students who investigated mathematical models for determining the impact of chicken pox and shingles vaccines on the U.S. population. The student team was using a more simplified model to test and compare vaccine strategies and predict the outcome among age groups. "It's been great to apply mathematics to real-world problem-solving," says Donglun Liu '14, who is majoring in math, economics and actuarial science.
Joining him on the project were math and actuarial science majors Maria Gommel '13 and Sam Jaros '12. The team presented their findings as a poster presentation on August 3 along with other students who teamed with faculty for summer research.


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Sponsors often contact us by phone and e-mail to find out when their children will complete the child sponsorship program. The contact usually occurs around a child's 18th birthday. After all, an 18-year-old in the United States is viewed as an adult and is legally released from a parent's care on that magical birthday. So it's understandable when sponsors assume the same standard applies to their sponsored children.
Although age is a determining factor in a child's completion, we do not finalize a completion just for that reason. Our completion guidelines include consideration of our goals for each child and the goals each has personally set.
Our goals for the children in our program include:
- Follow Jesus Christ in faith and deed as part of their spiritual training.
- Support themselves and share with others in need as part of their economic training.
- Be responsible members of their family, church, community and nation as part of their social training.
- Maintain their own physical well-being.
To ensure that the child reaches these goals, we use "indicators" or guidelines to determine the child's spiritual, physical, socio-emotional and cognitive development. Some examples are: the child knows and understands the Bible, follows Jesus, experiences better health, completes a primary education (at a minimum), shows good relational skills, and learns and uses an income-generating skill.
These indicators help the child development center staff identify which goals children have completed and which they need to work on. It also gives all centers unified evaluation criteria so that every child receives the same opportunities (or so that all children are held equally accountable).
In some instances, age can prevent a child from completing a goal.
For example, a young Rwandan woman, age 21, decides she would like to learn how to be a seamstress. The center she attends has a vocational course that teaches this skill, but she must complete the course before her 23rd birthday or risk not finishing it. This is because the maximum program participation age for Rwanda is 22 years old.
When children in our program turn 12, they create a "My Plan for Tomorrow" folder with the help of the center staff. The child sets yearly goals in this folder. At the end of each year the children evaluate their achievements with the staff.
Each child's goals are different, according to what that child wants to accomplish. But remember, these are just goals. There are no repercussions if the child does not reach them. The main purpose of the goal-setting is to help the children dream. And the folder helps give them a plan to achieve their dreams.
Brett, a representative in Compassion's contact center, made a video of a child's folder during his trip to Haiti last fall. Watch with caution — it is very shaky and not made for the easily queasy.
You can also view this child sponsorship video on YouTube.
The center staff determines a child's completion date by reviewing the goals set for the child, the goals the child has set for themselves, and the maximum age that the child can stay in the program. The maximum age depends on the country, and is typically between the ages of 18 and 22.
A child may continue to participate in our sponsorship program if he or she still needs time to reach a personal or programmatic goal as long as the maximum participation age for the program hasn't been reached yet.
Although we would love for every child to complete our program, regrettably, some children aren't able to. The most common cause of this is that their family relocates to an area where we do not have a child development center. (For more information on why children leave our program, please read Why Do Children Leave Our Program?
If you are interested in knowing when your sponsored child is expected to complete our program, and your child is older than 13, log in to your account at compassion.com, click "My Sponsorships," and then scroll down to view the "Child Information" tab. Your child's completion date will be noted there.


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From the Eye of the Storm
Cardinal Girl won't let a little thing like a massive storm with possible tornados and no electricity and a boil-water order stand in the way of her blogging! I am resourceful and have been taken in by a friend in relatively untouched St. Charles today so that I can enjoy the A/C and telecommute to LA via her high speed internet connection. I sure did pick a great week to visit my hometown. The storm came out of nowhere last night and knocked out our power in North St. Louis County around 7pm. It was over fairly quickly, but the winds were indeed fierce. Many tree branches snapped off around our neighborhood, but I didn't see any serious damage. The power to the water plant was knocked out, hence the boil water order. And they say we may not get power back for 3 days! I hope they are just trying to keep our expectations low.
Anyway, conditions at the ballpark were pretty brutal last night too. It seems almost biblical that the tarp ripped in half. Kudos to the grounds crew for holding things together and enabling the Cards to play the game and salvage one game out of the series. At least we can count on Carp, but it would be great if we could consistently put up a lot of runs for the rest of our less than stellar pitching staff. Edmonds is hot, homering in 3 straight games now. Let's go beat up on the Dodgers some more!
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If you want to see how bad it got at the stadium last night, check out these pics from Foxsports…
I know a lot of people who were affected back there, and still are. Incredible what happened, and especially hoping AmerenUE gets all electricity (and A/C!) restored fast.


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Protect your livelihood with plain language
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As people in major towns of the UK sweep their lives back into order, it has been suggested that the national riots were triggered after a 29-year-old man, Mark Duggan, was shot in London by police officers. But the absence of plain English in a major public crisis has again made matters worse with details of the shooting being poorly communicated by the police force, and the difficulties experienced by police officers in deciphering the street language of young rioters.
Earlier this year, the 7/7 evidence hearings were heavily criticised by the attending judge, Lady Justice Hallet, for being seriously short of 'plain English'.
Banks' crippling charges and switching stand-off
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The Treasury Select Committee are pushing the Independent Commission on Banking (ICB) to press the Government into taking action to make bank charges clearer and switching between bank accounts easier. In the meantime, this triangle of pressure is causing account holders unnecessary costs and loss of choice, while the Financial Services Authority and the Treasury Select Committee argue about taking action.
This betrayal of customers' rights cuts deeper when, to a great extent, the issue of clearer information to promote fairer competition was addressed in Northern Ireland as early as 2007.
Pension 'trail commissions' create a trail of misery
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Recent research from the watchdog Consumer Focus shows that the banned pension trail commissions paid to independent financial advisers may continue to cost some pension savers millions of pounds. This is money that could be invested in the saver's pension scheme rather than the financial advisers' pockets.
Read more: Pension 'trail commissions' create a trail of misery
OCBC house is in order with plain language
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Plain English Campaign congratulate Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited (OCBC Bank), Singapore for taking another lead in the banking industry by achieving the Crystal Mark accreditation for their mortgage information. OCBC are working with Plain English Campaign in response to findings from studies about unclear financial information made in December 2010. OCBC are determined to make sure that every step of their mortgage process will be written in plain English. The first OCBC documents to receive the only internationally recognised standard for clear writing are the Home Loan mortgage application form, the letter of offer, the mortgage terms and conditions and the letter of declaration.
Crystal-clear Korea
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Plain English Campaign is honoured to be invited as guest speakers for the national conference of 'Korean Language Officers'('GugEo- ChaekImGwan') in Seoul at the end of May 2011. The organisation works to promote plain language, or as they call it in Korea, 'public language, as used by central and local government.
The two-day conference will gather the Korean Language Officers throughout the country to share language policies and operations for raising awareness and providing education for anyone communicating public information.


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this doesn't have anything to do with bf, but I have a friend who has recently had her second baby who was born at 20 weeks. he doesn't breathe on his own, but made it through the night. What are his chances?
I haven't seen my friend in a long time, and I heard about this through the grapevine, and I am feeling sad about it.


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The sleeve of Oh No's Gets Mine b/w Lights Out 12 was on the stonesthrow's homepage few months ago (like the chrome promo today).
Is there anybody who have the pic of the sleeve or any link, please?
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Hi, all...I guess I am officially "extended breastfeeding" now! My son turned one today! I am very excited, and I can't believe he is a big boy now! I don't feel like I'm extended BFing, he's still my baby, he still needs his mama's milk! It just seems natural, no different than yesterday!
I'm so happy to still be nursing him and hope to for a while longer as he goes through his toddler years!


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Can anyone out there check Hale's book to see if it is safe for me to take Zoloft while breastfeeding my dd? I had posted previously about taking Celexa and due to the feedback I received from everyone, I chose not to take it because of the possible side effects to my dd. I took everyone's advice and spoke with my doctor who agreed that Celexa wasn't the safest thing that I could take and she then prescribed the Zoloft.
Well, when I went to fill my prescription, I mentioned what had happened to my pharmacist and she told me that Zoloft was not safe to take while breastfeeding either. :confused: I am getting REALLY frustrated. :mad: I feel like I'm in a constant battle between my doctor and my pharmacist and I just need an educated reason why I should or shouldn't take the Zoloft now. I NEED to take something for my anxiety and depression...I don't want to have to stop breastfeeding my dd to fix this but if that's the only solution for me to feel better then I guess that's what I'll have to do. I'm just feeling really desperate right now. :(
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Thank you even before i thought about my LO i have always wanted to make my own baby food. So thank you again.
Thank you even before i thought about my LO i have always wanted to make my own baby food. So thank you again.
I make all my LO's food, with the exception of the organic oatmeal that she gets periodically. I but fresh stuff, wash it good, boil it or bake it, put it through a hand cranked food mill once, and then through the food processer for good measure. It comes out and pureed, trust me! The only thing I really dont do that with is bananas b/c they're already pretty mushy. I freeze stuff in ice cube trays in huge batches and have plently throughout the week. HTH!
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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies - Damn it, you've got to be kind. - Kurt Vonnegut
I would recommend the book Super Baby Food by Ruth Yaron. This book has some great info on making baby food and on into making healthy toddler foods.
I made a ton of ice cube trays of pureed green beans and carrots, but my daughter (almost 9 months) won't eat anything I put in her mouth...other than my boob of course. I recently gave her a bit of smashed avacado and she seemed to like it.
Good for you for making your baby's food. No need to buy commercially made stuff. Good Luck!
For some of the "denser" veggies (sweet potato, winter squash, carrots, green beans, etc) , after I run then through a food processor, I spoon them out on a cookie sheet and put that in the freezer. Once the lumps are frozen I put them in a plastic bag or some tupperware in the freezer.
Since it's fall and squash is abundant, I do the following with acorn or buttercup squash: 1) Fill a crock pot with 2 in of water. 2) Stick the whole squash in the CP on high for 4 hrs. 3) Once it's done, open up the squash, remove the seeds and scoop out the cooked insides.
Super Baby Food Diet is a GREAT book.


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Westtown man arrested for assault
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On December 9, 2013, State Police in Middletown announce the arrest of Jesse D. Castro, age 25, of Westtown NY for attempted assault and other charges following the investigation of a disturbance at Castro's residence.
The previous evening, troopers responded to the residence and interviewed a female acquaintance of Castro, who reported that Castro physically assaulted her, and threatened to kill her while holding a hand saw to her neck. Castro fled the scene prior to troopers' arrival. The victim was taken to Bon Secours Hospital, where she was treated for minor injuries and released.
Castro surrendered to State Police on the afternoon of December 9th. He was charged with one count each of attempted assault in the second degree, a felony, menacing in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, and aggravated harassment in the second degree, all misdemeanors.
Castro was arraigned before Town of Minisink Justice Paul Lattimer and committed to Orange County Jail in lieu of $4,000.00 cash bail or $8,000 bond.


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Iowa extends comment period on runoff plan
The state has responded to requests and added two weeks to the public comment period on a plan to cut pollution running down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico.
The Des Moines Register says Friday was the scheduled end of the 45-day comment period. Comments now will be taken until Jan 18.
Under the plan that was released in November, wastewater treatment and industrial plants would be asked to make costly upgrades to cut pollution while farmers would do so voluntarily.
It took two years of study and private meetings to formulate the plan. It comes in response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's order in 2008 for 12 states along the Mississippi River to develop strategies to prevent nitrates and phosphorous from reaching the gulf.
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'Einstein on the Beach': Much more than sum of its parts
Like the birth of a child, Robert Wilson's Einstein on the Beach: An Opera in Four Acts, co-written with Philip Glass, featuring choreography by Lucinda Childs and brought to Berkeley at October's end by Cal Performances, presented a conundrum of experience.
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The 1976 original, hailed by critics as revolutionary and largely credited with establishing Wilson, Glass and Childs as leaders in (respectively) contemporary theater, music and dance, today bears some resemblance to an old home movie made by an eccentric uncle. But, while madness in the hands of a family relative may result in silly entertainment, in the hands of three masters, it makes for brilliant, universe-shifting theater. … Continue reading »


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Deluxe, CoZy, Newly rennovated Rm1 for 2-3ppl @ Mong kok
Size140 ft²
Floor No.8(with elevator)
- Family/child friendly
- Air conditioning
- Disabled access
- Elevator in building
- Towels
- Lockable room
- Internet/WiFi
Accommodation summary
|sai yeung choi st, Mong kok, Hong Kong
|Property type
|Private room
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|Calendar updated
|More than half a year ago
We are liscensed guesthouse with Liscense No : H/5196. Our guesthouse satisfies the statutory fire safety as well as structural requirement under Hong Kong Laws. Therefore, guests are absolutely safe to stay here.
As we are new to wimdu, now we are on promotions to attract more valuable guests to stay here, especially for public holiday!!! Flexible check in and out can be arranged as best as we could. Please check for this special arrangement before your booking ^.^
This private room welcomes rent on both monthly rent and daily rent basis. Please contact us for the availability before booking. Now, please allow me introduce to you some main features and advantages of staying here
Here we locate at the heart of Mong Kok, simply a must-go place during your Hong Kong trip with convenient transportation to all others places of Hong Kong and various distinctive restaurants, stores and shopping streets. Restaurant, streets eats and markets are right downstairs of the apartment. Ladies Market, gadget centre and mobile phones, camera specialized shopping centres are just few blocks away. Michilin dim sum restaurant is just 2 min walk from it. Perfect for anyone who wants to experience a rich and authentic part of the city's life . We guarantee you an enjoyable and memorable stay in Hong Kong.
--Local food stalls and distinctive restaurants downstairs
--Supermarkets, electronic stores, money exchange stores are around
--5 minute walk from MTR Mong Kok-Exit E2
--5 minute walk to the Ladies' Market and Sneakers Street
Located at the very heart of Mong Kok, the hostel has extremely convenient access to elsewhere of Hong Kong. Literally you can go anywhere in Hong Kong within 1 hour.
--10 minute to Tsim Sha Tsui
--15 minute to Central, Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai and Causeway Bay
--40 minute to famous spots Disneyland and Ocean Park
--Direct Airport Bus A21, which can be taken downstairs, travels to and from Airport for only 35 minutes
--Two lines of MTR and numerous bus routes pass through
【About the room】
--There're five separated rooms in one big apartment, each with private code lock and bathroom
--Newly decorated, providing you with a most comfortable stay
--Elevator service from the ground floor to our apartments
--Thorough cleaning before guest arrival, including changing on all clean pillows, quilt and bed covers
--Private bathroom with necessities including towel, shampoo, shower gel, toilet paper
--High Definition digital TV
--Free wifi, stable and fast-speed
--An extra mattress can be added in the case of extra guests staying. Please select the right number of guests when booking
House rules
--No Smoking
--keep clean and quiet
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Reviews of this property
I stayed in this guesthouse over Chinese New Year with a friend. While the room was quite small, that is to be expected in Hong Kong. Overall we had a nice stay and the room was generally clean with daily, but basic maid service included. While we generally had a good experience, the guesthouse got noisy at night, and sometimes there were people banging on the door to get inside which made us feel unsafe as there is no staff on duty. Furthermore, there were people smoking in the other rooms which filtered in through the vents and turned our room into a hotbox. Not a pleasant experience for non-smokers. The wifi connection was superb, as was the location. We dealt with Maxwell who gave us all of the information we needed for our stay. He was efficient and readily available via WhatsApp.
We enjoy our accomodation so much when we visited again hongkong...our host Mr. Xin is very accomodating, evethough we never meet him personally but once we emailed him, he response quickly and send his hotel staff to accomodate us, and give our needs...and the most important thing is, our place is very near to all, ladies night market, sneakers market, mtr, etc...
I'm travelling to Hong Kong every year and I must say that this is one of the best places to stay. U can not whish for a better location in Mong Kok. It's right in the middle of the centre! The room is small but enough for 2 people and most important it is clean!
I did not know what to expect, but the service and help provided by Mr. Xin was excellent. For sure I will stay there the next time.
Great location and the room is clean. I never met the owner but he did his best by mail to help us. Just a little probleme, I'm 183cm told and the length of the bed was limit for me (wall to wall). Except this detail I recommend this place!
I enjoyed my stay here because the host was very friendly and responsive to any issues I had. The location is awesome, only 2 minutes walk from the MTR, it was quiet enough, bed was comfortable and the room was very clean.
One small problem I had was with the shower water flow, however Xin assured me that they will be fixing it. As I was travelling by myself, the room size was perfect. I'm not too sure if it would be adequate for 2-3 people though.
In all, I recommend the room to any budget travellers :)
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The room is clean and silent.
The location is great, 2 minutes from metro station.
The Host is available always by phone/whatsapp and he is very reactive and willing to help.
However there are some issues:
- The length of the double bed is no more than 1,80m, so if you are tall you will touch with your head and/or feet the wall.
- Place for 2 is OK, for 3 it is impossible...
- The bathroom's door is made of glass (some parts are transparent)
All in all, the price is very good for the provided facilities
I would definetly recommend the place for a couple but not for 2 friends.
This place is good if you are just looking for a place to sleep and shower while you are in Hong Kong. But if you are taller then 6feet. This is not for you. I'm 6 and my head and feet touches both end of the bed. The TV doesn't really work.
Max is a nice guy. He was really courteous and was willing to help us at any Time.
The Room was a bist smaller as it looks on the pictures but it was okay for 2 People. Everything was clean and tidy.
I would highly recommend the Room to everyone.
If you're looking for a right place to stay in HK, it's definitely here! New and clean room for a low price in a good location, what else do you need? Thanks to Max, me and my sister felt that we're not alone in this big city, because of all the help, Max just knows answers for all questions, he really cares about guests!
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Dell's Salvation May Be Upon Us
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Buyout speculation is once again swirling around the beleaguered Dell(DELL) , a move that could finally unlock the company's value after its shares fell by a third last year.
The No. 3 PC maker, once the world's largest, is in buyout talks with private equity firms, according to Bloomberg, which cited two people with knowledge of the matter. One unidentified source said Dell is in discussions with at least two firms. The sources, however, say the talks are preliminary and could collapse if the private equity firms are unable to gain financing or work out a future exit strategy.
Dell hasn't yet responded to TheStreet's request for comment, although at least one analyst says it would be a shrewd move for the Texas tech giant.
ISI Group analyst Brian Marshall notes that Dell is currently in the throes of a long-term transition from selling commodity PCs and servers to enterprise services, such as storage, networking, security and software.
"In our view, it can be difficult to realize the full value of various corporate assets (e.g., sum-of-parts) during transition periods and executing on a long-term transformation as a private company could have advantages," he wrote in a note released Monday. "Going private makes sense given Dell's low valuation, solid free cash flow, Michael Dell's large ownership stake and a multi-year business transformation."
Michael Dell owns just over 15% of the company's shares, according to Securities and Exchange Commission Filings as of May last year.
Investors welcomed the rumor. Dell shares, which have lost more than 22% over the past 12 months, closed up 13% to $12.29 on Monday.
Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu says a Dell private equity buyout is possible, but rates the likelihood of it happening as low.
"It would take sizable financing for a company of Dell's size with its $21 billion market cap," he wrote in a note on Monday. "In addition, a deal of this size would likely involve multiple private equity firms and we estimate that the majority of its businesses (70%) remain under structural and secular pressure."
This isn't the first time Dell shares have spiked on a buyout rumor. In October 2010, the company's stock rose following chatter that Michael Dell would make a bid to buy his company from shareholders.
Earlier in the same year, TheStreet reported Dell could be a take-private target , although analysts voiced doubts about whether Michael Dell could garner sufficient financing.
One thing's for certain, Dell's unlikely to get a boost from the PC market, which remains under pressure from tablet devices such as Apple's(AAPL) phenomenally successful iPad.
Last week, tech-research firm Gartner published its report on worldwide PC shipments, which declined during the fourth quarter as more consumers opted for tablets. Dell was the third-largest PC vendor worldwide, after HP(HPQ) and Lenovo, and its market share slipped to 10.2% from 12.2% in the prior year's quarter.