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| Clips: Mr. Woo, the Chinese Robot Farmer |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 5:20 pm |
| Tags: Chinese, Chinese Robot Farmer, Clips, Farmer, Mr Woo, Robot Farmer, Robots, Woo |
| How can a man with no formal robotic education create funny and awesome robots out of electronic parts he finds in the junk heap? Mr. Woo found a way, and created so many robots his wife has threatened to leave him (partially because he burned the house down in doing so). Among the more impressive ones are an actual working rickshaw robot that |
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| Farmer Mac Reports Second Quarter Results |
| Published: August 11, 2007, 2:21 pm |
| Tags: Mortgage Industry Press Release, Farmer, Agm |
| Mortgage Corporation (Farmer Mac) (NYSE:AGM) (NYSE:and) (NYSE:AGM.A) today announced that it achieved strong new business volume in the quarter ending June 30, 2007, bringing its outstanding program volume as of that date to a record $8.4 billion. Farmer Mac noted that its guarantee portfolio, consisting of guarantees, loans and |
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| Weekend Well-Being: Make Your Own Garden Tortilla Pizza |
| Published: August 18, 2007, 6:00 am |
| Tags: Basil, Farmer S Market, Tomato, Tortilla Pizza, Veggies, Weekend Well Being |
| my family, but Saturdays are farmer's market days. I love strolling past all the baskets of crisp greens, brightly colored veggies, and the bunches of aromatic herbs. Our market even has fresh homemade cheeses, which of course taste so much better than what I buy at the store. I'm always trying to figure out exciting ways to use all the yummy |
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| Weather Pattern Lock |
| Published: August 22, 2007, 9:54 am |
| Tags: Farmer S Forecast |
| For the same reason the south has been in drought the midwest and Texas have suffered too much rain. High pressure parked over us has pushed gulf moisture (and now tropical systems) into the heartland. Below is the year-to-date rainfall precentages. Some areas in the central Texas have already DOUBLED the amount of rain [...] |
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| Dry Every Direction You Look |
| Published: August 22, 2007, 9:46 am |
| Tags: Farmer S Forecast |
| Its not only a major drought for middle Tennessee but for a large region of the south. As you can see in the graphic below the SEVERE drought (in the lightest color) extends north just into Ohio, east half-way into South Carolina and down to northern Florida. The highest catagory drought that can be [...] |
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| Update on the food experimentations |
| Published: September 12, 2007, 9:23 am |
| Tags: Bills, Eating, Farmer 039 S Market, Food, Groceries |
| buying most of my food at a farmer's market. It's so cool because I can take a $20 bill in there, and I walk out with enough veggies to fill my refrigerator. For example, last week, we saw a man who had garlic for sale. For one small bulb, they want 50 cents at the cheapest grocery store around. Here, he had some enormous bulbs that were $3 |
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| FRIDAY, Sep. 14, 2007 - John Farmer |
| Published: September 14, 2007, 7:27 am |
| Tags: Friday, John Farmer |
| Relative difficulty: Medium-ChallengingTHEME: noneIn retrospect, this is a mighty admirable puzzle, but I assure you that there were times while I was solving it when I would not have been inclined to say many nice things. This is because of some thorny patches (not to be confused with SOUL PATCHes - 61A: Frank Zappa or Dizzy Gillespie feature - |
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| What’s Happened to the Jack London Square Farmer’s Market? |
| Published: October 7, 2007, 10:41 pm |
| Tags: Community, East Bay, Environmentalism, Food, Oakland, Farmer S Market, Happy Boy Farms, Jack London Square, Kashiwase Farms, Mental Masala, Organic, The Ethicurean |
| Chronicle article about how farmers’ markets can sometimes hurt farmers and discussing the exodus of many farmers from the markets. The Chronicle article centers on the experience of the San Francisco Ferry Building market, which now is full of tourists who may want to purchase a couple prepared items but aren’t interested in |
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| BPO in the Anuradhapura backwoods |
| Published: October 22, 2007, 11:41 pm |
| Tags: India, Anuradhapura, Back Office, Backwoods, Business, Calls, Capably, Cheaper, Client, Colombo, Communications, Computer, Cottoned, Countries, Data, Dozens, Effective, Elsewhere, English, Farmer, Global, Growing, Handle, Horizon, Information, Initial, Technology |
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| Australia, Indonesia organizing joint fishery patrols |
| Published: November 3, 2007, 2:36 am |
| Tags: Arnhem, Australia, Ambassador, Arafura, Bill, Customs, Farmer, Fish, Fishery, Illegal, Indonesia, Indonesian, Jakarta, Joint, Macan, Maritime, Patrol, Politics, Vessel |
| "According to the Australian Embassy here on Friday, Australian Customs Vessel (ACV) Arnhem Ba read more |
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| Jakarta`s catwalks to feature Australian fashion |
| Published: November 5, 2007, 5:07 am |
| Tags: Alannah, Aliec, Ambassador, Australian, Bill, Camilla, Carl, Catwalks, Collection, Designs, Entertainment, Farmer, Fashion, Finetti, Goot, Have, Hill, Indonesia, Jakarta, Johnston, Josh, Kalivas, Kemang, Kirrily, Ksubi, Lover, Marc, Mccall, Nicola, Parade, Sydney, Tina, Willow |
| "The first Australian Fashion Parade, in Kemang this Wednesday, will showcase the latest collection read more |
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| Australia to improve coordination on prevention of illegal fishing |
| Published: November 5, 2007, 4:47 am |
| Tags: Australia, Kupang, Bill, East, Farmer, Fishermen, Fishing, Illegal, Immigration, Indonesia, Mamulak, Nusa, Politics, Said, Tenggara |
| ""As part of the improvement in the coordination, Australian Ambassador to Indon read more |
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| Scotland: Farmer tell's Donald Trump "Piss Off"! |
| Published: November 16, 2007, 8:39 am |
| Tags: Aberdeen, Agency, Balmedie, Battle, Beach, Britain, Britain, Donald, Europe, Europe, Farmer, Forbes, Golf, Hotel, Apartments, Believes, Billion Dollar, Conserve, Culture, Developer, Dune, Enlisted, Environment, Estate, Five Star, Habitat, Hardly, Houses, Idyllic |
| I saw a brief interview on this, and found it in the news, where a Scottish Farmer in his scottish brogue basically tell the Donald to "Piss off" his farmland is not for sale. read more |
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| Canada's Notorious Serial Killer's Trial Coming To A Close. |
| Published: November 18, 2007, 9:35 am |
| Tags: Canada, Bellwood, Centre, Coquitlam, Court, Farmer, Georgina, Jury, Justice, Lynn, Mona, New Westminster, Pickton, Police, Robert, Vancouver, Williams, Wilson, According, Accused, Addict, Allege, Arguments, Arrest, Butchered, Cannot, Coming, Crime, Crown, Days, Decision, Defence, Delibe |
| If ever a case for Capital Punishment, Wally PIckton deserves it many times over. I hesitate to comment further, as I do not believe the man deserves publicity in any form. read more |
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| Australia increasingly more attractive to Indonesian students |
| Published: November 19, 2007, 3:05 am |
| Tags: Australia, Farmer, Indonesia, Jakarta, Ambassador, Bilateral, Bill, Compliance, Education, Embassy, Politics, Student, Study, Visa |
| ""Australia is the number one destination for Indonesians seeking to study abroad. read more |
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