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When did you arrive in Australia? Why did you leave Slovenia?
My name is Margareta –Metka Lap-Lenarčič, I am from Posavec in Gorenjska. After I finished high school in Radovljica I started working in Kranj in 'Iskra'. I finished technical college and became a draftswoman. Five years later my department moved to Ljubljana, to the tobacco factory. It was not possible for me to travel to Ljubljana every day or to leave my home village. An opportunity came my way, I got a permit to spend two years in Australia. As you can see, after all these years I am still here. I arrived in Sydney, Australia, in 1963 onboard a ship called 'Roma'. In Sydney I met Peter Lenarcic and two years later we moved to Melbourne.
In what ways have you participated in the community life?
As all other young people we were quick to meet other Slovenians. In 1968 my husband and I started to look for a house and a year later we were able to buy one. We had two daughters: Michelle was born in 1966 and Wendy in 1971. Worries, work, kindergartens, schools. Our company were mainly our friends who lived nearby. Among them were also Slovenians. Soon we were invited to join Planica Club which was on this side of Melbourne. My husband and I joined this club which was the closest to our home in 1978. In 1980 we started a club newsletter 'Novice Bulletin - Planica'. Every issue was typed by me. I also added pictures and edited it and have remained the newsletter editor to this day. We have published 116 issues since 1980. My aim was to record events, parties, meetings, visits from other associations and Slovenia, sports events such as bocce, hunting, chess. We also had a school and a folk dancing group for adults; I taught folk dances for five years and then this knowledge was passed on to the younger generation and they continued for another ten years. I worked as a club secretary, one year as its president, and did so many other things.
Please tell us more about your work as s a Slovenian radio broadcaster on 3ZZZ.
All this work just grew and progressed. Somebody suggested that I offer some help on the radio with reports on events in Slovenian organisations. Again I agreed thinking it was just temporary. This is how it started. Eventually some people resigned, even the convenor resigned and I was offered his job. I started in 1991 and in 1994 I became the convenor which is what I still do. Our work at 3ZZZ is the labour of love. After all these years I have nothing to show, this is just our love for the homeland, the Slovenian language and music. It has been 23 years since I started and 20 years since I became the editor. Some work is split between the secretary, the treasurer and two or three board members. There are annual meetings, fundraising once a year, annual barbeque for our maintenance, stationary, transport, music. The weekly one-hour program includes news from Slovenia, announcements from organisations, phone interviews with our guests from the Slovenian community, radio birthday cards. We cooperate with two radio stations in Slovenia, with Radio Ognjisce for the last12 years, and with Radio Potepuh Bled for seven years. Our one-hour program is one among 69 ethnic programs. It is attractive to our listeners for its information and entertainment contents. We do everything ourselves, including looking after the technical side.
As a former president of Slovenian Club Planica in Melbourne, do you feel that Slovenian organisations with buildings and grounds still have a place in the community life?
There have been considerable changes in the Slovenian community. At first we were building, physically: brick by brick at 40 degrees. Women were cooking while only five minute drive away the ocean was beckoning. Instead of taking a break at the end of the week we worked instead. Today all this is behind us. Young people have grown up and hardly ever come to clubs and associations, million-dollar buildings are mainly closed. We only celebrate special occasions, like New Year's Eve, 'Pust', Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day, 'Dan mrtvih' on 1 November and 'Miklavzevanje'. The way of life has changed completely. When we had a party then, three to four hundred fellow Slovenians attended, we started at 7.30 pm and finished at 1.30 am. These event are now just distant memories. These days we get around two hundred members and friends who arrive at midday to have lunch and by 6 pm it is all over. Memories and good will are still alive, everything else is drying up. It won't be long before we have to close everything down or pass it on to younger hands. It is sad, but that's how it is.
How would you like to see the Slovenian community in Australia develop in the future?
This is the hardest question ever! What we would like and what our youth can offer us? These were our dreams which will never come true. And we are supposed to build on the past? Let me just mention year 2010-11 when I was the president of Planica Club. Two progressive and very capable men in their work from the second generation joined the committee. We started off well but suddenly they, especially one, ran out of enthusiasm and will to continue. It was all insufficient, too slow, too much following the old ways. Well, tell us what you want to do. The way we worked can't even be compared to how the younger generations work today. What does this mean... while we are around, things are like this, but afterward??? There is no future in this. And it is all the same in all organisations.
Do you have any suggestions as to what the Slovenian formal and/or informal groups in Australia could do to reach wider audiences?
This questions is an unknown for all of us! New migrants from Slovenia... I don't know if there will ever be the time to at least come together and ask, how are you? Where are you? Is there anything we can help with, suggest or contribute for your well-being considering you created so much; can we continue for you and your youth? There is no such thing from the newcomers and I don't think there ever will be! This is Slovenia today! We built with our hands, young people studied and now they should take over from here for their own sake. This is how they could show love and respect for the Slovenian community on this fifth continent of Australia.


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One of the most popular and versatile annuals found in the horticulture world is the petunia. You can probably find any shade of color that you want and would be able to plant it anywhere other than a deep shaded area in your garden. If you can give it sunlight it will grow.
However, not every petunia is the same. There are a couple of distinctive characteristics that are set petunia apart from each other. So distinct that petunia are separated into different classifications: grandiflora, multiflora, milliflora, trailing and mounding types.
Petunia Hybrid Grandiflora: Grandiflora types produce the largest flowers of all petunia, however they will bear the least amount of flowers. These plants can grow as tall as 24 inches and certain varieties or strains can give you a spreading habit of 24-36 inches wide. Some of the more popular strains are Ultra, Storm, Magic and Frost.
Petunia Hybrid Multiflora: This is also known as a floribunda. Plant growth or habit is similar to that of the Grandiflora varieties, but the flowers are smaller, usually only producing flowers that are 2 inches across. Certain strains offer a neat compact habit that makes them excellent for mass planting in flower beds. Prime Time, Celebrity, Plum, and Whispers are strains that can offer the widest range of colors for your garden.
Petunia Hybrid Milliflora: These are cute dwarf petunias growing in mounding habits of about 6 to 8 inches in height and width. One of the best features is that there is no need for pinching or pruning to keep these babies in tip top shape. Dainty flowers cover the whole plant offering a burst of color in containers or in your garden. Plant them where they can be seen and not covered over. You will find these as Fantasy or Tiny Tunias.
Trailing and Mounding Petunia: You might have heard or seen the Purple Wave petunia, but have you seen the Tidal Wave or even the Ramblin' petunias? These phenomenal petunias definitely have made a splash in the cascading flowering plants. Some of these varieties can grow up to 5 feet wide. That is a lot of color to have in one area.
Petunias are a flower that everyone has had in their garden at one time; personally I think you should have them somewhere all of the time. I find that the purple ones, no matter which variety offers the best fragrance to enjoy from your garden. Plant them and enjoy.


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Dubai, UAE: More than 6,000 medications will be cheaper by up to 40 per cent, making health care more affordable for patients in the UAE.
The UAE Cabinet on Sunday approved a new system which will reduce the prices of 6,619 medicines.
The system will unify the prices of medicines with those of GCC countries, providing alternatives for every kind of medication for chronic and other diseases. It will also include mechanisms for regulating and following up on the prices of medicine.
The system was approved during a cabinet meeting held on Sunday at the Presidential Palace chaired by His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai.
Shaikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, and Lieutenant General Shaikh Saif Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, were present.
"The government's regulation of the medicine sector represents a national benefit that cannot be neglected," said Shaikh Mohammad.
He said that the medicine and food sectors are very important and cannot be overlooked, and that providing medicine at a reasonable price for all consumers will contribute to bolstering the medical sector and all concerned bodies operating in it.
Series of studies
The system was approved following a series of studies and meetings held between parties operating in the sector. The aim was to create an integrated system for unifying the prices of medicine imported into the private medical sector by altering the profit margin between pharmacy and agents.
The Cabinet gave the UAE Ministry of Health (MOH) three months to implement the new prices. The MOH has been negotiating with pharmaceutical drug manufacturing groups for several years. Its lobbying for reduced pricing resulted in the price reduction in January 2012 of 115 generic drugs from 5 per cent to up to 30 per cent.
Speaking to Gulf News, Dr Ameen Hussain Al Amiri, Assistant Undersecretary for Medical Practices and Licensing, said that reduced price will benefit patients. "We have been discussing the issue of pricing for several years. This is this first time that a pricing system is unified at a regional level. The new procedures will affect all private pharmacies. I will head the team that will be tasked with implementing the new system."
He said key details on the new system will be announced shortly.
Gulf News spoke to representatives from the pharmacology and pharmaceutical industry.
Zeydan Abuissa, Country Manager at Pfizer Gulf and Levant region, said, "It is yet another milestone achieved by the UAE government and the Ministry of Health. Pfizer is constantly at full readiness to cooperate with the Ministry of Health to ensure fast and wider patients access to the innovative medicines they need."
D. Azad Moopen, founder and fhairman of DM Healthcare, said, "We welcome the decision. For patients, this is very good news. … We also hope that the new system will take into account the entire chain from manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer and patient."
New system
The new system will ensure that 6,619 types of medicines get cheaper.
It unifies and discounts the prices of medication that are bought in US dollars and imported into the private sector. The discounts will vary from 1 per cent to as much as 40 per cent.
The system alters the profit margin between pharmacies and agents. It works on curbing the phenomenon of rising prices of medicine resulting from foreign currency fluctuations.
It also has provisions to encourage investments in the UAE's pharmacology sector.
The system also aims to unify the prices of medicine with those in other Gulf Cooperation Council countries, and providing alternative medicines for chronic and other diseases.
The system was approved following a series of studies and meetings.
The Cabinet instructed the Ministry of Health to immediately begin issuing the new prices for the medicines included in the system.
The ministry was given three months to ensure that the new prices are implemented in the local market.
The new system includes mechanisms for regulating and following up on the prices of medicine. Once the three-month period lapses, inspectors from the Ministry of Health and other health authorities will visit private pharmacies to ensure the new prices have been complied with.
Other Cabinet decisions
In other decisions, the Cabinet approved the 2013 draft budget of Emirates Transport. Emirates Transport is expected to generate revenue of Dh1.4 billion, an increase of 8 per cent compared to 2012. Expenditures are pegged at Dh1.3 billion, an increase of 7 per cent from last year. Gross profits are projected at Dh110 million, a 13 per cent increase from 2012.
The budget includes a capital outlay of Dh464.9 million, of which Dh140 million will be allocated for school transportation. The rest will be allocated for transportation contracts provided for ministries and governmental bodies, and setting up and renovating customer service centres and service centres for technical testing of buses.
The Cabinet also approved the 2011 closing statement of the National Bureau of Statistics. The bureau's expenditures for 2011 was Dh35.9 billion, while revenues reached Dh42.5 billion.
The Cabinet also ratified the signing of a double taxation avoidance agreement with Hungary.
With inputs from WAM
© Gulf NewsFeb 2013
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The Law of Mobility talks about value increasing with mobility. The impact of this law is being felt because the barriers to building mobility in are being obliterated week after week. Here are examples of technology advances enabling this to happen:
- WiMax (check out the video at the bottom)
- "Tilt and scroll" navigation
- WiMax modems
- Tiny DVR
- Video eyewear
- eInk keypad
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I recently set up a farm discovery box for the children to use during their free play time this week. I lined a shallow tote box with crumpled brown paper to represent dirt. (Tape the paper down if you don't want it to move.)
Then, I got out all of our farm related toys, like our Fisher-Price Little People Barnyard (affiliate link), and set them in the box. I finished the discovery box by adding some field corn.
The children loved playing with the corn. They pretended to feed the animals and had a great time just manipulating the corn.
I set a shower curtain under the box to catch any spilled corn for easy clean-up. A sheet or tablecloth would also work well. Just know that the children will get the corn out of the box. 🙂
If you would like to use corn but don't live right next to your uncle's corn field like I do, there are other places to get corn. I have seen field corn for sale at farm and feed stores as well as some farmer's markets. Some stores sell it off the cob in bags and others sell it on the cob. It is usually very inexpensive, but make sure you get field corn and not sweet corn.
This activity goes with our study of the letter "F", so I found a book to go along with the farm discovery box. Farming (affiliate link) by Gail Gibbons is a nice story that gives lots of information in a simple way about farming through the year.
So, if you are looking for a frugal way to entertain your child a discovery box may be just the thing. If you don't have access to corn check out this post on using beans and rice.
I just wanted to say that if you use this activity with children who are still prone to put things in their mouths please watch them carefully. My 1 1/2 year old loved this, but I kept a close eye on him to make sure he didn't stick any of the corn in his mouth.
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A thought leader and innovator, our colleague, Jorge Gotuzzo embraces technology in an industry that's been slow to digitize: produce. He's traveled extensively, lived in multiple countries, and managed diverse food-related brands around the globe, always focused on sustainability and shared responsibility. Since 2014, he has been applying his skills as Global Marketing Director at Pace International, the world's leader in post-harvest produce solutions, in order to do his part to help prevent a global food shortage.
I recently connected with Jorge to discuss food production in today's world, and how we can avoid world hunger in 2050.
Mary Olson
You've said that the world is in danger of running out of food, and I believe you, since you understand today's food production systems better than anyone I know. I wanted to dive into root causes.
For example, we Americans have been conditioned to select fruits and vegetables that appear cosmetically perfect. How might that impact us in the decades to come?
Jorge Gotuzzo
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), when you measure all produce from harvest to consumer usage, more than 45% of all fruits and vegetables go unused. That is almost half our global production!
7 billion people are alive today. By 2050, that number is expected to reach 9 billion. The question isn't just how we produce more food to feed the growing population, but how we reduce overall waste. The looming crisis requires both food production innovations and changes in consumer behavior.
We must do much better. Imagine if the discarded product can get distributed to food programs in poor communities, rather than going straight to landfill? Imagine replacing processed snacks at schools with healthy and nutritious food, made from fruits and vegetables that would otherwise be thrown out. Just these things alone would be game changing.
Mary Olson
Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. It was devastated by a 2010 earthquake, which killed more than 160,000 and displaced 1.6 million people.
At the time, you were with Alltech—and living in Port-au-Prince. For a decade, you managed marketing initiatives in dairy, beef, and aquaculture on behalf of this global biotech company working to boost the health of plants and animals using nature and science.
After the earthquake, you led the Sustainable Haiti Project, and Alltech adopted a small school. What can you tell us about your experience there? How did the widespread devastation affect your views on humanity, corporate philanthropy, and the need for sustainability?
Jorge Gotuzzo:
While at Alltech, I was able to spend three months working with Haitian children and helped develop a sustainable coffee project. After the earthquake, Alltech adopted a small school to resume education—in spite of the widespread devastation. All of these experiences were life altering for me.
At that time, the company was the title sponsor of the World Equestrian Games (WEG2010) and our dream was to put together a children's choir and to bring it to the U.S. for the opening ceremony performance. We wanted to show Haiti to the world through these beautiful little voices—and raise awareness about the recovery efforts.
Three months later, in time for start of the games, I found myself in Lexington, Kentucky with 26 children, two teachers, and one Catholic nun. That experience changed my life forever and helped me understand how lucky we are and how grateful we should be every day we're alive.
Mary Olson
That's beautiful, and very inspiring.
Data allows us to listen, engage, communicate, and act faster—and with greater accuracy. But the food industry's been slow to adopt it—and embrace the digital advances available today.
You recently led a holistic online rebranding effort—and introduced an innovative digital product catalog that stands out as a "first" among all Sumitomo Chemical companies. How did you help Pace International break the mold of slow adoption?
Jorge Gotuzzo
Culturally, Pace International is all about innovation and technology. We are always looking for new ways of supporting our customers, their consumers, and the industry overall.
But there was a disconnect between our digital efforts and the day-to-day business. The digital experience we offered the customer was falling behind—and causing the company as a whole to miss out on our best opportunity to engage. To stay current, we had to step up our game and create a digital face-lift. We committed to this—and elevated the entire brand experience.
I enjoy operating in an ever-increasing complex digital realm. I look forward to putting my energies toward innovations that sustain the world and meet people's needs. It's a win for me, a win for my company, and a win for society. I hope.
Feel free to connect with Mary Olson or Jorge Gotuzzo for further information.
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WRHA sets new targets for reducing ER wait times
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Published Tuesday, January 22, 2013 3:24PM CST
Last Updated Tuesday, January 22, 2013 6:49PM CST
The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority has established new "patient flow targets" aimed at ensuring patients don't spend unnecessary time in hospital emergency rooms.
"These targets are clear. These targets are measurable. Meeting these targets will require all of us working in the system to be innovative, ready for change and accountable while maintaining patient safety as our number one priority," said Arlene Wilgosh, president and CEO of the WRHA.
The WRHA said the targets it aims to meet by 2015 include:
- Ninety per cent of all non-admitted patients are to be treated and discharged from emergency departments within four hours;
- Ninety per cent of admitted patients are to be treated and discharged from emergency departments within eight hours;
- No patient is to be in an emergency department for longer than 24 hours;
- All ambulances are able to off-load patients within 60 minutes; and
- All non-emergent visits to emergency room make up no more than twenty per cent of all ED visits.
Doug Duffy, an emergency room patient, said he's seen his wait times vary.
"Last time it was about six hours waiting and this time, I was out in about three hours," said Duffy.
Wilgosh said health care providers need to work together to coordinate care to meet the new targets.
"Overall we have a lot of work to do. In different emergency departments, our degree of compliance with those targets will vary," said Wilgosh.


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Ontario Place and Exhibition Place. Image via Google Maps.
There's something we're not saying when we talk about revitalizing Ontario Place and Exhibition Place. THEY ARE THE SAME PLACE.
In recent re-development studies, including the one for Ontario Place the province just endorsed, both Places have noted that more integration and co-operation with their neighbour is something to consider, but I'd argue that combining the two entities into one organization is essential to the future success of this massive plot of urban lakefront property. An investment in one place (say, building transit) is an investment in the other place. To more effectively attract public investment in their restorations, Ontario Place and Exhibition Place should merge into a single organization.
You could call it Ontario Exhibition Place. Or Place Place. Or something much catchier. (It must be something civic though, let the corporate name buyers get the individual venues, but the whole place belongs the people.)
With one governing body instead of two, the Places could share maintenance costs and offer a wider range of venue rental options to generate revenue. More importantly it would become the defacto destination for large-scale events in the city, become a landmark for tourists and source of civic pride for locals.
"Where should I bring the family when we come to Toronto?"
"Head down to Place Place. They've got everything down there!"
"Check out the awesome line-up for *insert festival here* in Toronto! Where's all this fun stuff going down?"
"Place Place! Where else?"
Corny dialogue aside, this giant chunk of land can be where Toronto hosts really big, special stuff. Planning and facilitating that stuff can be bureaucratically, financially and psychologically streamlined if we merge the Places into one Place.
Each Place has a lot of good plans already in the works when it comes to how individual pieces of land should be used, but a big picture unification vision is missing.
National Post's recent Posted Toronto Political Panel gets it right when they point to transit as the most important piece of the puzzle. A western waterfront LRT is in the mix for Metrolinx's long term Big Move plans. But, in the mean time, I'd route a dozen or more of those new bendy buses per hour along Lake Shore Blvd to ferry downtowners from City Place and points east to a mini-terminal in the Ontario Place parking lot. You could get on an express to Union Station or board local service buses that would let you transfer onto streetcar lines at Bathurst or Spadina or deliver you to the south end of Parkdale and Roncesvalles. But buses or even light rail running along Lake Shore Blvd isn't going to solve the fundamental design failure of the jewel of our western waterfront.
The missing link at Place Place is a pedestrian friendly Lake Shore Blvd. If you're hanging out by the Princes' Gates to snap some pictures of the photogenic arches, walking down to the Molson Amphitheatre should not be a harrowing experience. You could walk along Princes' Blvd and hang a left on Nunavut Rd, but the point is that visitors shouldn't regret choosing the wrong route here. All of Place Place should be integrated and easily accessible. The effect of a minor highway cutting through the two Places is that they stand with their backs to each other. A vibrant, well-groomed promenade along the spine of this destination district would unite this land into something greater than the sum of its parts.
That means broad sidewalks with room for street vendors, handsome street furniture, and traffic signals with pedestrian crossing at key intersections. Building more land bridges over Lake Shore Blvd, like some reports suggest, would be repeating the same car-focused planning mistakes of the past. It brings to mind the massive pedestrian bridges serviced with outdoor escalators in Las Vegas that make crossing the street a ten-minute ordeal. Lake Shore Blvd needs to be more than a way to get from A to B, it should be a complete street and a place unto itself.
The parking lots out front of Ontario Place are the most obvious offenders to pedestrians, but also the most obvious location to build something transformative. Any development on these lots, in addition to being everything outlined in John Tory's Expert Panel Report [PDF], should acknowledge Lake Shore Blvd as a multi-modal street, not an expressway (#LowHangingFruit).
Another challenge is that the south end of Exhibition Place is fenced off and meets Lake Shore Blvd with a little hill. Arguably the city's most beautiful fountain is located on the Ex lands just south of Bandshell Park, but it faces Lake Shore Blvd and thus its beauty goes unappreciated. The good news is that the solution is obvious: tear down the fences and re-landscape the hills. Imagine a broad staircase leading up to that fountain from the boulevard; a place where you could linger, watch the lake and soak up the gorgeous monument. Spending time near this stuff enriches your life and we need to build the space to do that. Plus, those steps would be the best seats in the house for Caribana.
You might have noticed my casual suggestion that we tear down the fences surrounding Exhibition Place. You'd be correct in assessing my proposal as being nothing less than a fundamental re-think of Exhibition Place's operations. While buildings like the Liberty Grand or the Allstream Centre (Automotive Building) could remain available for private or ticketed functions, there's no reason we shouldn't be able to walk right up to those buildings from the street they face free of charge. And if the CNE or other big events want to charge admission to the grounds, the onus should be on them to erect temporary fencing, though I'd suggest event organizers charging admission should carefully consider where they erect their barriers. The need for Place Place to be wide open most of the time far exceeds the requirement that it be closed some of the time.
Admittedly, this is armchair planning at its most self-indulgent and there are considerably more things to consider beyond what I have addressed here. But I warn would-be critics of this idea that I have no time for complaints about car traffic being slowed down on Lake Shore Blvd. If you must drive fast, the Gardiner Expressway is so close it hurts. The city can handle its waterfront being severed by one highway, but two is too many. A Place needs a street to stand on, not a road to run through it.
Michael Kolberg is The Sprawl Editor at Toronto Standard. Follow him on Twitter for jokes @mikeykolberg
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Ever since we moved into our house, I've been wanting a dining room table.
To sit at.
To eat at.
To spend an afternoon chatting over coffee or tea.
Well, today, my wish finally came true! Actually, it happened last Saturday when we decided to "start" shopping for a dining room table. We went to Rooms to Go on our way to church. I personally didn't think we'd buy anything that day. But after browsing for a while and vetoing each others' choices, Cent and I came to a mutual decision and chose this table and chairs.
Next thing we knew, we had just purchased our first big ticket piece of furniture. So I guess that makes us legit adults now? Washer/Dryer, Refrigerator, now Dining Table?!
To me, it has a very French country farmhouse vibe (I love French stuff), and the model was called California Cottage. I think it was a sign.
A close up of the detailing:
Note: I am not a furniture photographer. I prefer photographing people…
We can eat breakfast with the sun shining in!
This is what the farmhouse chairs look like.
I love the look of this furniture. It's a little rustic. It's a little beat up already. It definitely gives me the French farmhouse table vibe.
So I couldn't help but work from the dining room table today.
We found our table at Rooms to Go in Grapevine. Be sure to ask for Starr. She was awesome!
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FERGUSON, Mo. — Federal and state officials unveiled a sweeping response Thursday to clashes between police and protesters over the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager, with Missouri taking over security operations from local police and authorities agreeing to accept Justice Department help in handling protests.
Speaking from Martha's Vineyard, Mass., President Barack Obama called for national unity after the police shooting Saturday of Michael Brown, 18, in this St. Louis suburb.
"Now is the time for peace and calm on the streets of Ferguson," Obama said. "Let's remember that we're all part of one American family."
Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. announced a series of steps his department is taking, including a meeting held Thursday with civic leaders to calm tensions and a civil rights probe in which federal investigators have already interviewed witnesses to the shooting.
In unusually blunt remarks, Holder said he was "deeply concerned" about "the deployment of military equipment and vehicles" on Ferguson's streets. He said that Missouri officials have accepted federal assistance "to conduct crowd control and maintain public safety without relying on unnecessarily extreme displays of force."
Even as dozens of protesters continued their campaign near the shooting scene for a fifth day Thursday, state officials followed the federal lead.
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon announced that the Missouri Highway Patrol would take over security operations in Ferguson, led by Capt. Ron Johnson, an African-American who grew up in the area.
"We are going to have a different approach and have the approach that we're in this together," Johnson said.
As a result, the heavy riot armor, the SWAT trucks with sniper posts and the gas masks were gone from the streets of Ferguson on Thursday night, and Johnson marched with the crowd, eliciting cheers from the protesters.
Johnson vowed to not blockade the streets, to set up a media staging center, and to ensure that residents' rights to assemble and protest were not infringed upon.
"I'm not afraid to be in this crowd," Johnson said to reporters.
Obama's remarks were the most visible step in a rapid coalescence among political and community leaders to tamp down the violence, as images of riot police, tear gas and government intervention provoked a national debate about race and justice.
In a burst of interest fueled by photos and video of heavily armed police on social media, politicians from both sides of the aisle rushed Thursday — five days after the shooting — to condemn the tactics of the nearly all-white police force in the predominantly black town.
The reactions were remarkably similar across the political spectrum. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., called for authorities to "de-militarize this situation," while Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, a likely Republican presidential candidate, condemned "the militarization of our law enforcement" in a Time magazine essay.
Underlying the dispute was the lack of clarity about just what happened Saturday night in Ferguson.
According to a friend who said he witnessed the incident, Brown was walking down a Ferguson street when a police officer in a car ordered him to get on the sidewalk. Brown had his hands in the air to show he was unarmed when the officer shot him multiple times, the friend said.
The police version is that Brown attacked the officer in his car and tried to grab his gun. Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson said during a news conference Wednesday that the officer was struck in the face during the encounter. The side of the officer's face was "swollen," Jackson said, and he was treated at an area hospital.
Federal investigators are trying to sort out the conflicting versions of events but are proceeding cautiously and deferring to state investigators for now, a federal law enforcement official said Thursday.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation, said the investigation is a high priority for the Justice Department and FBI but it is far too early to determine whether charges will be brought.
Holder, who met with Obama on Thursday about the case, said, "Our review will take time to conduct, but it will be thorough and fair."


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What is Project Management?
Project Management is an in demand course wherein a Project Manager creates a plan and direct its team members to achieve a particular goal in a business. A good project manager can do multiple tasks, assist and guide the team and can create a plan to produce effective results.
Would you like to be in a managerial position? Do you want a school that can offer you Project Management courses that can enhance your skills?
We have three qualified distance learning schools to choose from: Damelin, Intec College and UNISA, distance learning schools in South Africa offer Project Management full time and short courses for residential students and students abroad.
Damelin Business School
Damelin, a distance learning school in South Africa, was named after Benjamin Damelin. Damelin College offer full time students, part time students (for employed students) and training courses.
This school offers four (4) courses under Project Management.
- Computerised Project Management Diploma including Software
This course helps a student to ensure that a project is delivered. Computerised Project Management Diploma includes software for managing effectively. Programmes for this course are introduction for Project Management and use of Microsoft Project software.
- Computerised Project Management Diploma
- PMSA Introduction to Project Management
- PMSA Project Management Certificate
This course contains subjects like Project Integration, Scope, Cost, Quality and Time Management, Human Resource, Communications, Risk and Procurement Management. A certificate for PMSA Introduction to Project Management is required before a student can apply for this course.
All courses duration takes within 18 months.
INTEC College
INTEC College offers a number of Project Management courses to guide them on this career.
- Introduction to Project Management Certificate – Career Booster
This programme is an introduction to students with the skills of a project manager. It will enhance a student's management skills. This course consists of Project Integration Management, Scope Management, Time, Cost and Quality Management, Human Resource Management, Communication, Risk and Procurement Management.
This course takes within 18 months to finish.
- Project Management Techniques Certificate – Career Booster
This programme tackles the same course covered on Introduction to Project Management but on a advanced level.
Courses include Project Integration Management, Scope, Time, Cost, Quality, Communications, Risk, Procurement and Project Human Resource Management.
This course takes within 18 months to finish.
- Computerised Project Management Diploma – Career Diploma
This course covers Fundamentals of Project Management, all about Project Management and using Microsoft Project 7.
This course takes within 12 months to finish.
- Computerised Project Management Diploma with Software – Career Diploma
This course will improve a Project Manager or students' managing skills and teaching them how to use Microsoft Project 7. This course includes MS Project software package.
This course takes within 12 months to finish.
UNISA - University of South Africa
University of South Africa offer four courses for Project Management under Centre of Business Management.
- Certificate in Project Management Basic
In this programme, a student will earn a Certificate in Basic Project Management and learn more about Projects and concepts, Project Management Framework and processes. Students will receive a Project Management Study Guide, Basic Textbook and CertBlaster CD when enrolled in this course. A CertBlaster CD contains quizzes to practice a students' understanding on Project Management.
This course takes within 6 months to finish.
- Certificate in Project Management Professional
Would you like a job that involves Project management? If yes, then Project Management for Professionals is the right course for you. This programme contains two subjects: Orientation and Certificate Level. It includes Basic study guide, textbook, professional study guide and CertBlaster CD.
This course takes within 12 months to finish.
- Certificate in MS Project 2010 Basic
MS Project is a project management tool used to manage projects excellently and calmly. In this programme, students will know how to use MS Project including views and tables, filters, sorting and finalising a task plan.
This course takes within 3-6 months to finish.
- MS Project 2010 Advanced (Including Basic)
This programme includes a basic and advanced learning on MS Project 2010.
This course takes within 6-12 months to finish.


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Spectacular direct oceanfront views surround this 5,000 +_ square foot residence .Exquisitely designed throughout, with a sophisticated, yet relaxed waterfront ambiance. A grand living room with adjacent dining room and den overlook the waterway.. Privately located is the master suite complete with his and hers baths en suite, a separate sitting room and spacious closets. Three additional guest suites each with its own bath make this the perfect oceanfront retreat. This full service luxury condominium offers every amenity. Pet Friendly.


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The great size and the impresive and modern qualities are the main features of this house. This basque style house has 550 sqm with 7 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms and 7500 sqm of plot and 2550 sqm of garden. Even if the house maintains its original and classic style, it is eqquiped with all the necessary amenities. It has been completely renewed mantaining the wooden structure of the house. This wonderful house is surrounded by nature and has fantastic views.
The house has a stone wall perfectly integrated in the construction. It also has a Txoko, security cameras and wifi, spacious parking área and a completely independent and renewed "borda".
Gaztelu is a Little village in Tolosaldea, 7 minutes far from Tolosa and 33 km far from San Sebastian. It is in the border with Navarra, next to a local secondary communication route that has contributed to the maintanance of the isolation of the village. This village had in year 2008 a population of 166 inhabitants and has a extensión of 9,15 km.
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It's time for the owners of Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 GT-I8160 to be happy as Samsung has started the Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean firmware update roll out. If you remember, the test firmware of the update had leaked a month ago but it was buggy. The new firmware, however, has been reported to work smoothly and is now available for download. The users of the Ace 2 in Portugal (TMN) have already been receiving the OTA update and as usual it will make its way to the rest of the world in phases.
The users of the Galaxy Ace 2 should now start keeping an eye on Kies and keep checking on their device (Settings>About> Software Update) to get the update notification as the countdown has begun. It's is a long-waited as Samsung had promised to treat the handset with Jelly Bean and it has kept its promise.
With the Android 4.1.2 being leashed out, the Galaxy Ace 2 has become one of the few (the only in my knowledge) lucky phones to be blessed with directly to Jelly Bean from Gingerbread. It's really a big leap! The new firmware update has so many new things to offer such as Google Now, Project Butter, new actionable Notification system, Page Buddy, shortcuts on lockscreen, and lots more. All these new goodies are now just a few steps ahead.
Below is the link of the available firmware and we'll be adding more of them as they come out. So if you are from Portugal and have got your Ace 2 from TMN, you can also upgrade your phone's software to Android 4.1.2 manually by installing it using Odin. The advanced users can also flash this firmware to taste the Jelly Bean even if they are not from Portugal.
Portugal (TMN): I8160XXMC8_I8160TMNMC3_TMN.zip
United Kingdom: BTU-I8160XXMC8-20130327095112.zip
United Kingdom (O2I): O2I-I8160XXMF1-20130621170948.zip
Germany: DBT-I8160XXMF1-20130610182226.zip
Italy: ITV-I8160XXNA1-20140120102830.zip [mirror link]
Poland: XEO-I8160XXMG2-20130724144829.zip [mirror link]
Singapore: XSP-I8160XXMF2-20130703110603.zip [mirror link]
Finland: NEE-I8160XXMG2-20130712162838.zip [mirror link]
Russia: SER-I8160XXMG2-20130727121439.zip [mirror link]
Indonesia: XSE-I8160XXMF2-20130703094547.zip [mirror link]
Philippines: XTE-I8160XXMF2-20130703095046.zip [mirror link]
Greece: EUR-I8160XXMF1-20130723142443.zip [mirror link]
How to Install
Download the firmware file and follow the steps given in the following tutorial-
We strongly recommend that you perform a factory reset on your phone via stock recovery. You can also do it by dialing the following code: *2767*3855#. Since it will wipe your phone's internal memory, backup your contacts, apps, call logs, messages, etc using these free backup apps.
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Mindful Movement: Green Space Is Important For Mental Health4 Comments May 5, 2010 / Posted in Mindful Running, Mindfulness, The Running Mind
As someone who has run and walked with patients and friends for 35 years, this little article shared by Christine Messier brings out the fact that being in nature quickly brings a person to "present moment, beautiful moment." What is interesting is that when one is in the present moment there is no cause and effect. It's not the green space and it is the green space. It's not the exercise and it is the exercise. It's not being present and it is being present. In the present moment, one is observing and being. Thoughts are just thoughts that come and go. And being surrounded by the beauty of nature; and experiencing one's feelings and one senses of, as George Sheehan would put it, one as being a good animal. Awake and fully present in the present moment. One with the world.
As the first Running Therapist trained by Tad Kostrubala, it is nice to know that the tradition of Running Therapy has been carried on by of group of psychiatrists and therapists in Germany. Since the early days, and learning the skills of a Running Therapist, I only run with friends and people who I am training to walk and run properly. Being out in nature and being out in public with a Running Therapist one only sees people walking or running. In those moments there is no mental illness. Only two people running, talking, laughing, crying, and playing together. And of course, the Running Therapist has learned that it is the walking and/or running along with the "Green space" that creates the healing.
Remember the word "therapist" comes from the Greek "theraps" which means to attend or listen to. Back in 400 BCE, the Aesculapian "theraps" would prepare the patient for their healing dream. The healing came from within not from without. It was only later that oracles, priests, physicians and others took on the role of healers to the wounded. The dialogue about Wounded Healers is for another time.
Green space is important for mental health
Just five minutes of exercise in a "green space" such as a park can boost mental health, researchers claim.
There is growing evidence that combining activities such as walking or cycling with nature boosts well-being.
In the latest analysis, UK researchers looked at evidence from 1,250 people in 10 studies and found fast improvements in mood and self-esteem.
The study in the Environmental Science and Technology journal suggested the strongest impact was on young people.
The research looked at many different outdoor activities including walking, gardening, cycling, fishing, boating, horse-riding and farming in locations such as a park, garden or nature trail.
The biggest effect was seen within just five minutes.
With longer periods of time exercising in a green environment, the positive effects were clearly apparent but were of a smaller magnitude, the study found.
Looking at men and women of different ages, the researchers found the health changes – physical and mental – were particularly strong in the young and the mentally-ill.
Green and blue
A bigger effect was seen with exercise in an area that also contained water – such as a lake or river.
Study leader Jules Pretty, a researcher at the University of Essex, said those who were generally inactive, or stressed, or with mental illness would probably benefit the most from "green exercise".
We would like to see all doctors considering exercise as a treatment where appropriate
Paul Farmer, Mind
"Employers, for example, could encourage staff in stressful workplaces to take a short walk at lunchtime in the nearest park to improve mental health."
He also said exercise programmes outdoors could benefit youth offenders.
"A challenge for policy makers is that policy recommendations on physical activity are easily stated but rarely adopted widely."
Paul Farmer, chief executive of mental health charity Mind, said the research is yet further evidence that even a short period of green exercise can provide a low cost and drug-free therapy to help improve mental wellbeing.
"It's important that people experiencing depression can be given the option of a range of treatments, and we would like to see all doctors considering exercise as a treatment where appropriate."
Mind runs a grant scheme for local environmental projects to help people with mental illness get involved in outdoor activities.
arnold said on May 5th, 2010 at 10:24 pm
i experience a walk in nature as connecting
to the greater realities of this planet and the universe
nature itself is mindful……………….taking us beyond the confines
of thought
Stephen Frost said on May 18th, 2010 at 3:59 am
Good to see articles like this coming out and research backing them up. Being among natural surroundings is very important for wellbeing and inner peace, and when combined with mindfulness and meditation the effects on the soul and the psyche can be absolutely amazing. Thanks for such a great article! Namaste.
Tammie Rosenbloom, MSW,LICSW said on February 2nd, 2014 at 4:12 pm
green space is important for mental health-YES! let's gather more evidence and create a movement!
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With Medieval II: Total War marching ever closer to its November 24 release date, we've got another contingent of screens for your historical battle-viewing pleasure.
Every Total War game manages to look more gobsmackingly impressive than the last, and Medieval II is no exception - its battles in the mud of Europe or the dust of the Holy Land are up there with the franchise's very best.
Covering a period that includes the Crusades and the discovery of the Americas, history will be providing all the spectacle the game's scenario modes can take - and we thought it wouldn't get any bigger than Rome.
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Pennsylvania state government's budget season is typically hectic, with raucous rallies echoing through the Pennsylvania Capitol, lobbyists packing the corridors and top lawmakers and governor's aides rushing to closed-door meetings.
This year's is starkly different, two-and-a-half months into an entrenched stalemate between freshman Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf and leaders of the Legislature's huge Republican majorities.
The Capitol is empty and quiet.
"I've not heard anything new about the budget," said Gene Barr, president and CEO of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry. "When I talk to people about it, I get a lot of shrugs and 'hey,...


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MGIC Joins Radian Rally on Bets Insurers Survive
MGIC Investment Corp. (MTG) and Radian Group Inc. (RDN) extended rallies as investors bet the mortgage insurers can take on an expanded role as the U.S. scales back its role in the housing market.
MGIC gained 27 percent to $3.79 at 4:15 p.m. in New York, extending its five-day advance to 39 percent, the biggest weekly rally since 2009. Radian is up about 15 percent since trading closed on Feb. 22.
Radian raised $689 million this week selling stock and notes, and MGIC said yesterday it may also bolster capital. Additional funds make investors more confident the insurers can take on added housing risk as the Federal Housing Administration works to cut its role in the market, said Doug Harter, an analyst at Credit Suisse Group AG.
"You have less risk of a bankruptcy," Harter said by phone. "If they're around, you feel pretty good about the growth prospects, given that the FHA is pulling back."
MGIC Chief Executive Officer Curt Culver said yesterday that the Milwaukee-based insurer may raise funds to cut its risk-to-capital ratio, which breached regulatory limits. The measure was 44.7 to 1 as of Dec. 31, compared with a maximum of 25 to 1 set by some overseers.
"There is a significant amount of capital interested in our industry," Chief Financial Officer Michael Lauer said on a conference call with analysts yesterday. "We've got new competitors coming in, they have attracted capital. We had the offering this week that was well received."
Mounting Losses
MGIC reported a loss of $927.1 million in 2012, and neither MGIC nor Radian has had a yearly profit since 2006. Costs from backing mortgage investors against losses have drained capital at guarantors, forcing companies including Triad Guaranty Inc. and PMI Group Inc. to stop selling new policies.
Investors may view the mortgage guarantors as a new way of betting on a housing market recovery after other companies tied to real estate rallied, Harter said. The Standard & Poor's 500 Homebuilding Index (S5HOME) jumped 79 percent in the past 12 months, while MGIC has dropped 15 percent. Radian has more than doubled over the period.
Lawmakers may push the FHA to increase the premium it charges for backing mortgages, Ed Mills, an analyst at FBR Capital Markets, said in a note today after a Senate committee hearing.
Private Capital
"An underlying theme of yesterday's Senate hearing was the quest for private capital to reenter the mortgage market," Mills said in the note. "There was support for recent market share gains by private mortgage insurers."
Private insurers had 32 percent of the market last year, according to data from Inside Mortgage Finance. That compares with 23 percent in 2011 and 77 percent in 2006, before the housing slump
Radian, based in Philadelphia, was the top private seller of mortgage insurance last year, with a 26 percent market share. American International Group Inc. (AIG)'s United Guaranty Corp. had 24 percent and MGIC had 20 percent.
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NO FGM AUSTRALIA works to PROTECT GIRLS and EMPOWER SURVIVORS of FGM
Female genital mutilation is the purposeful destruction of women and girls sexual organs for non-medical reasons. It is practiced globally in 29 countries in Africa, some countries in the Middle East and in Asia. Due to immigration, FGM has spread to Western countries such as the UK, USA, Europe and Australia. Therefore Australian girls are now also at risk of female genital mutilation.
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You can help us protect girls from female genital mutilation, and support and empower survivors of FGM. There are many things you can do. We welcome people from every background to get involved in our work. We especially welcome survivors of FGM to contact us to find out how we may best support you. If you are a professional or community member concerned about a child at risk, please contact the police on 000, or call us.
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Be warned...
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Welcome to my life. lolReplyDelete
I adore you... even when you're grumpy!ReplyDelete
Hang in there. I'm dying to know what this super secret project is.
I watched Semptember Issue the other day and was simultaneously disgusted and fascinated, what a weird world.
Totally agree with those sentiments :) I wish there were such a thing as creative leave from work.ReplyDelete
Milla, I'm reading your post while I procrastinate some finishing touches to my own writing. The promise land is insight, I just have to get off my butt and do it.ReplyDelete
As for baby-making, I share both your anxiety and disdain at times for those that ask us about it. It's supposedly the logical next step, didn't you know that? Maybe we should just eat a whole heck of a lot of icecream so people will just assume we're already pregnant?
Good luck on work & super secret assignments :) Which I'm also dying to find out about.
Wow...my week has been pretty grumpy-making as well, but yours sounds particularly stressful! It sometimes shocks me that people still insist we all must breed immediately after settling down with a partner. I have tried to make it quite clear that I am averse to children, so everyone pretty much leaves me alone at this point.ReplyDelete
ha! yeah for grumpy honesty! it's even more annoying when people ask when you are going to have a baby and you've already been trying for years...ugh! okay, now i am so curious to see the secret project unveiled.ReplyDelete
Just saw 'The September Issue' yesterday! Strange but watchable. On babies: I don't think people mean to be rude, I think it's more of a "how's the weather" type of remark, and people who ask are unaware of how deeply personal and rude a question it can be. It feels like your supposed to offer up a quick explanation of your life in a neat little package for someone to easily understand. Well life doesn't work that way. I used to answer that question with "when the timing feels right" and that kept them at bay.ReplyDelete
Good luck.
I can't understand why people keep asking when you're going to have a baby? Surely that is personal? Anyway, grump away, I'm hungover and feel like slapping everyone in my path today.ReplyDelete
I am currently living in south dakota, I'm from Seattle and DEAR GOD I have been asked so many questions like that-ReplyDelete
"so how many children to you have?"
"Oh and is this your child" (I work in child care)
"when are you having children?"
"so thought about marriage?"
Screw off you crazy uber religious, conservative stay at home moms!!!!
Yeah when I'm pmsing it's no good.
Good luck feeling better!
Can I quote you if I'm every been told I look pregnant? That was amazing. I was once asked white wearing a bikini top and a cover-up skirt. TRAUMATIC!ReplyDelete
Best venting blog I've read in a while.
You're beautiful. You don't look preggers. And you should do whatever makes you happy -- laundry or not. Complaining or not!
So, are you going to have a baby?ReplyDelete
I think the baby interrogation is just one in a series of intrusive questions people feel entitled to ask. "When are getting married?", "When will you have a baby?" and once you do they seem to only get worse. "Are you going to circumcise, breastfeed... etc.(My baby is a week old and I read your posts late at night when he feeds.)Arghh to all of those people. Babies are incredible but so is an artist's creative life. I used to answer the question with something absurd like, "We're waiting for the Year of the Rat."ReplyDelete
ruuhkavuodet ;pReplyDelete
I've been reading our blog for awhile now, and thoroughly enjoying it. I haven't really commented until now, but this entry hit rather close to home, and I felt compelled to at last. ;-)ReplyDelete
Don't worry, once you get to a certain age people will stop asking you if you are pregnant, and just look at you with pity assuming that you have desperately tried, and can't. This is about the place I find myself at now, as I am pushing age 36.
I still haven't figured out why people assume that a woman is some sort of genetic aberration if she is not rushing out to make babies. It's like the thought that having a child is actually a life choice, and that there are plenty of women out there who choose not to, just doesn't occur to them.
Oh well, keep your chin up. Work can't last forever, I suppose. Here's hoping that things calm down for you in the near future, and you get some time to yourself again.
Great to find some fellow females who are also not rushing out to have some babies!! No disrespect to those who are wanting babies of course. Just comforting to find some other ppl like me who are taking a step outside of the social norm. Seems like theres not many ppl who can understand such a choice.ReplyDelete
Hope you are all having a fantastic weekend! Momma's and non momma's alike, and what the hey, all you guys too :)
I totally feel you re: baby questions, especially if they come from total strangers. Ugh.ReplyDelete
I promise to never ask you when you plan to have a baby. Deal?ReplyDelete
yup. I wish there was such a thing as a creative leave also. i answer that line of questioning a lot also--and it gets me down for the same reasons. Thank you for venting, Milla! And good luck on your secret project!ReplyDelete
Ha! I was just wondering today if you have plans to procreate. Now I know...ReplyDelete
Okay I have read every post from this one to the latest- did I miss the secret project?
And did I miss Elephant Revival? I will go google them...


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Acroban, A Playful Humanoid Will Appear At SIGGRAPH 2010
SIGGRAPH 2010 is still a few months away (it takes place July 25th ~ 29th, 2010) but we know at least one robot will be present as part of the Emerging Technologies wing of the conference. It was built by a group of French scientists headed by Dr. Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, who previously worked on cognitive robotics using AIBOs at SONY's Computer Science Laboratory in Paris; the same lab that worked on language acquisition using the QRIO. No doubt inspired by his experiences with the QRIO, in 2007 he and a small team developed RhoBan, a 42 cm (16.5″) custom bipedal humanoid built with 22 servos.
Their new robot, called Acroban, will be presented at SIGGRAPH this July:
Acroban the Humanoid
Olivier Ly, INRIA/LaBRI; Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, INRIA
Acroban is the first humanoid robot able to demonstrate playful, compliant, and intuitive physical interaction with children while moving and walking dynamically. Also, it is able to keep its equilibrium when moving even if unpredicted physical interactions are initiated by humans.
Potential Future Use:
The system is presented in an entertainment human-robot interaction context specifically meant to engage children. In this demonstration, the robot has a range of behaviors that it combines in order to react intuitively, naturally, and creatively to uncontrolled external intervention.
Sounds interesting! Unfortunately no photos or video are available at this time, but we'll keep you posted.
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That said, we should probably move this to P.M. to prevent a cull if we wanted to discuss this further. Though Civ Pro was one of my least favorite classes, I do enjoy the mental exercise and the break from studying for Contracts (the Parole Evidence rule can go f itself right along with K interpertation) and Torts.
You know you are arguing like a BJJ white belt right? Not saying you are wrong but, that is actually who you sound like right now.
On the other hand, you're still a fucking idiot.
Discovery motions tend to be granted even if they are extremely broad. Even a tenuous connection to a claim is sufficient.
Go read Jamie Zawinski's account of how a private Netscape.com mailing list for airing internal grievances got subpoenaed by Microsoft. What was the relevance to the lawsuit? Who knows? But the request was granted.
Or just shut the **** up.
Guys like this piss me off , I looked at some clips and read some of his claims,
No im not really impressed, must be good $$$ in spinning a yarn !!! the real victim is the student's.
Still claiming that his American Combat Kempo is used by the USMC.
He probably has a couple of jarheads paying him for his video distance learning classes.
And now, there is the Carter Hargrave FoundationQuote:
After training in four different styles in the same time in the early nineties, Hargrave started teaching as an assistant instructor. He noticed people were turning to martial arts schools in order to gain self defense skills, but were not finding what they would have needed. This is how the idea of American Combat Kempo was born. Hargrave followed this idea and now his style is recognized by many organizations and is used by the United States Marines.
The Carter Hargrave Foundation is in infancy and will be growing rapidly to accommodate the charity and giving mission of helping others in unexpected ways.


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Never walk down Wire Street at midnight, that's what my gran told me. It's a chilling place if there ever was. If you take a step out the door to put the milk bottles out, then you wish you'd never woken up.
There was this one guy called John Pace who never took any notice of anything scary or frightening, he just said "What are you doing?" When the neighbourhood kids jump out with a creepy mask on. But one night when he left the house to get some bread for a midnight snack he was going to be out for a long time...a very long time indeed...
It all starts when one night he jumps out of bed and runs down the stairs to make a midnight snack when he finds that there is no bread for a sandwich, so he pops on his shoes and starts walking down the street to the 24/7 corner shop. All of a sudden, all the street lamps, lamps in windows and the shop light die out. He squints his eyes to see. He glimpsed movement in the old alleyway.
"It's nothing" He whispered to himself. He popped through the door of the shop.
"Hello, Mr Pace. What brings you out this late at night?" Said the old man at the counter in a sleepy voice.
"Loaf of bread. What a horrible time to come out, eh?" Groaned John. As he was paying the old man, he looked up suddenly and looked like he had seen a ghost.
"You couldn't go walking around these parts at this time" His voice was different. Not his usual old weary voice, but a slow deep almost evil voice. John took a step back.
"Never walk down Wire Street at midnight"
Something about this last sentence was strange and eerie. It did not sound like a suggestion, more of a threat.
"What an earth are you talking about you stupid man" John yelled. The yelling seemed to make the old man wake up more. "Sorry, Mr Pace, what were you saying?" At this John stormed out of the shop without the bread.
While he walked down the street, cursing, he noticed the fog was much more thicker and more cold then earlier. "What a-" A lot of the time when John speaks, he swears. So I have to cut off the word as there are children reading this. Let's carry on the story. "-horrible fog this stupid street gets!" His voice was load but it came out in a sort of whisper. There was that movement in the old alleyway again. "W-w-who's there?" Yet again, his voice came out in a whisper. John caught sight of a figure in a long hooded cloak. The hooded figure started to walk slowly towards John. John tried to run but his feet were glued to the floor. He soon realised that the figure had friends, eight at the most. They all walked closer to John.
"Who are you people?!" John whimpered. They reached inside their long, black cloaks and pulled out knives.
"Please! Have mercy!" John yelled out and managed to run but it was to late, The first figure grabbed his arm and pulled him back. They started humming a strange creepy hum.
"Oh great God of Sacrifice! We offer you another soul to stop the hunger!"
The cold and eerie voice came from one of the figures which John guessed as their leader. "Please! Somebody help me!" The fog was so thick that it blocked out the screams as the figures moved in for the sacrifice for the gods...
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Just to clarify; everything is already installed inside the case but nothing is connected.
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CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($29.99 @ Newegg)
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I think they threw Rachael a bone there (with the 1st alternate to 4CC) because it's only a few weeks after nationals and because she's got such strong ties to the area. Plus there is the little matter of that 45 foot mural!
Mirai's alternate to worlds spot was probably 1/2 respect for Frank's history and Mirai's talent, and 1/2 concern about Rachael's poor form in the GP + competing priorities. I think they trust her to acquit herself well if an event is close in time to Nationals, where she peaked, but not so much at the end of March, which is right before her Winter quarter finals.


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BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghani-stan – Soldiers of the 10th Combat Aviation Brigade celebrated the unit's 48th birthday here Aug. 21 with a barbecue, entertainment and music provided by the 101st Airborne Division band."It's fitting that we take the time to celebrate this great brigade's birthday this year (during) the unit's fourth and likely final time in Operation Enduring Freedom," said Col. David Francis, 10th CAB commander. "This deployment may well close another chapter in a long and distinguished history."Although the unit has called Fort Drum home for more than two decades, the 10th CAB actually traces its lineage to Fort Benning, Ga., where the unit was constituted into the regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 10th Aviation Battalion, on Aug. 21, 1965. The brigade, officially activated two years later, would go on to perform valorously during the Army's efforts in Vietnam, receiving numerous commendations and awards.Eight years after the brigade was deactivated in 1980 at Fort Lewis, Wash., it was reconstituted as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Aviation Brigade, 10th Mountain Division (LI), on April 1, 1988. Three months later, on July 2, 1988, the unit was activated at Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome. The brigade moved to its home at Fort Drum two years later.Units from the 10th CAB provided support for Hurricane Andrew relief in south Florida; Operations Restore Hope and Continued Hope in Somalia; Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti; and stabilization force missions in Bosnia and Kosovo.Over the last decade, 10th CAB has deployed four times to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and once to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. "The legacy we leave will form the foundation upon which this unit's future commanders, aviators and support personnel build their future successes," said Maj. Jonathan Shaffner, 10th CAB executive officer. "Future generations of warriors will draw upon the heroic deeds of 10th CAB Soldiers, past and present."Coming up on the halfway point of their nine-month deployment to Regional Command-East, members of the brigade used the celebratory event as a brief respite to sit back and reflect on the unit's illustrious history.


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- 1 c. whole-grain Dijon mustard
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