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Hungary: Irén Adamné Dunai Honored for Efforts To Combat Trafficking In Persons

Dipnote - U.S. Department of State Official Blog — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:05:23 GMT

Every year, the U.S. Department of State's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons highlights the efforts of individuals from all over the world who work tirelessly to ensure that every person, no matter one's nation of origin or standing in society, is able to pursue a life of freedom. In the days leading up to the release of the annual Trafficking in Persons Report on June 14, 2010, DipNote will share their stories.

About of Author: Talley Sergent is a Public Affairs Officer in the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.

Iren Adamne Dunai is the deputy head of the Department for Gender Equality at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor in Hungary. She was a founding member of the inter-ministerial human trafficking working group and has organized numerous training opportunities for professionals and NGO to improve assistance for trafficking victims. In 2005, Ms. Dunai negotiated an agreement between the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to provide a 50-bed facility and fund a service contract to open the first shelter for victims of sex trafficking in Hungary. The same year, she helped establish the crisis hotline, which has referred more than 70 trafficking victims to crisis centers. Ms. Dunai personally ensured that crisis center workers located near the borders were trained to identify trafficking victims and support their special needs. As a result, these centers now offer short-term shelter to trafficking victims prior to transferring them to the trafficking shelter. In 2009, she secured financial support to open a second shelter for trafficking victims.

Stay up-to-date on the Department's anti-trafficking efforts; follow the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons on Facebook and Twitter.

Día de la Independencia de Paraguay

Doodle Source — Fri, 14 May 2010 09:03:49 GMT

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Közkívánatra Kossuth íróasztala

Oszkó Péter — Wed, 12 May 2010 16:28:41 GMT

Innováció, versenyképesség - ígéretes perspektívák!

Legújabb események - konferenciakalauz.hu — Mon, 10 May 2010 09:46:34 GMT

dátum: 2010.05.28.
helyszín: Garden Hotel
típus: konferencia
ajánlotta: admin

A rendhagyó konferencia PENTAGON kulcskompetenciák témakörei:

Spin-off – azaz a tudás/kutató centrumokból kinövő cégek, vállalkozások, sikertörténetek, és tapasztalatok, példák. – Debreceni Egyetem Tudás és Technológia Transzfer Iroda – Balogh Judit igazgató
A Kommunikáció/üzleti~kommunikáció új dimenziói – vagy akár a belső folyamatmenedzsmentet támogató kommunikáció – Budapesti Kommunikációs és Üzleti Főiskola – Dr. Kiss Pál István rektor
Szabadalom, szabadalmi útkeresés – hazai, európai, világ szabadalmak helyzete a gyorsuló innováció és az internet szabad információáramlás világában – Török Antal igazságügyi iparjogvédelmi szakértő
A megvalósuló innováció – világszínvonalú fejlesztés – STADLER Rail Group Hungary Kft.- DOSTO emeletes vonat – Dr. Dulin László
Innovatív város – Szolnok, – várospolitikai eszközök, amelyek elősegíthetik az innovatív folyamatokat (tudás, városmarketing, támogatáspolitika, befektetésösztönzés, városfejlesztési szempontok..stb) – Szalay Ferenc SZMJV polgármestere

Program

8.00-9.00 Regisztráció
9.00 – Megnyitó – Online videohíd az Ujvidéki nemzetközi konferenciával
9.30 – Főelőadók plenáris előadásai 5×20 perc
11.30 – 12.00 Kévészünet
12.00 -13.30 Kulcskompetencia szekciók belső vita
13.30 – 15.00 Ebéd
15.00 – 17.00 – Főelőadók plenárisan elmondják a szekciók megállapításait – 5×5 perc Kérdések/plenáris összesített vita a következtetésekről
17.00-17.30 Kávészünet
17.30 – 18.00 Online videohíd az Ujvidéki nemzetközi konferenciával
18.30 Zárás

A résztvevőknek az Innostrada PENTAGON elv (LovászS) alapján a konferencián nem csak a klasszikus meghallgató szerep jut, hanem egy moderált vita keretein belül aktívan rész vehetnek a hallottak kiértékelésében, a konferencia üzeneteinek megfogalmazásában. A konferencia tehát elsősorban az interaktivitáson alapul, semmint a “hallgasd s ámulj” klasszikus előadás forgatókönyvén.

Puccos buli volt a Fehér Házban

comment:com — Mon, 03 May 2010 12:50:29 GMT

Szombaton este Hollywood átköltözött a keleti partra, pontosabban Washingtonba, egészen pontosan pedig a Fehér Házba, ahol Obama elnök a Fehér Házban dolgozó tudósítóknak adott vacsorát, és amire a hagyományoknak megfelelően elég sok hollywoodi celebritást is meghívtak, köztük tévé és filmsztárokkal, komikusokkal, rendezőkkel és így tovább.

[...] Bővebben!

Anyák napja

Doodle Source — Sun, 02 May 2010 05:40:34 GMT

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Gastro – the punisher

pappito.com — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:26:21 GMT

A kertben valamiért csípős macskapöcse nőtt, ahelyett, hogy szép TV paprika nőtt volna, ki tudja miért. Miután a kertet felszámoltam idénre, már csak a paprika maradt, most elbántam vele. Vagy ő velem.

Szóval az van, hogy ez a hegyes, ez tényleg csíp, ami nem baj, azt szeretjük. Pontosabban, a családból csak én szeretem, ezért a felhasználása erősen korlátozott, mert a gyerek nyafog, hogy csíp, anyja meg meg se kóstolja, úgyhogy én nassolgatok csak ilyesmit, de ugye kétfélét nem főzünk, ki ér rá ilyesmire?

Leszedtem a paprikát, majd ott álltam három marék cuccal, amiből egy szem is elvinne egy nyílméregbékát. Ezen az éghajlaton a kiszárítása ugye teljesen reménytelen, illetve kiszáradni még csakcsak, de később úgyis megszívja magát a levegő páratartalmából és akkor megpenészedik. Úgyhogy – számos ötletből merítve – kétféleképpen dolgoztam fel a készletet.

Egy kisebb adagot apróra felvágtam, összekevertem sóval és még apróbbra felvágott fokhagymával, majd egy icipici üvegbe tömtem és – egy külön erre a célra vásárolt – olívaolajjal felöntöttem. Az eredeti elképzelés az, hogy majd ebből kanalaz az ember a húslevesbe, és akkor az majd finomabb lesz. Vagy csípősebb. Na erre kíváncsi leszek.

A másik feldolgozás: a csuma eltávolítása után minden paprikát hosszában kettévágtam, ami mag kiesett, az kiesett, ami nem, az benn maradt a játékban. Ezeket aztán ügyesen betuszkoltam egy nagyobb termetű üvegbe, szórtam bele egy kis zúzott fokhagymát, majd felöntöttem olajjal. Aztán ezt egy lábos vízben addig melegítettem, amíg már nem untam, és jól átmelegedett, majd fedőt rá, és hagytam a dunsztban kihűlni.

Eddig minden szép és jó, ellenben most nem merem kinyitni őket. Még este, amikor a dunsztot csináltam, lenyaltam az ujjamról az olajat, gondolván, hogy óvatos tesztnek ez is jó lesz. Öt perccel később még mindíg levegőért kapkodtam és a nej szerint furcsa volt az arcom. Alapos kézmosás után is minden csípett, amihez hozzáértem, úgyhogy körömlakklemosóval és izoporil-alkohollal vakartam le a halált, nehogy a hétfői heraldban az legyen a címlapon, hogy “kézfogással irtotta ki családját a keleteurópai”.

How I went from Apple store newbie to lifetime ban in one week at Protocol Snow

www.protocolsnow.com — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:11:41 GMT

I had planned on reviewing the iPad in my next post, but instead I’ll dedicate this entry to my photo below and an incident that happened today. Review of the iPad coming soon.

As was correctly guessed, those iPads in the photo are not for me. When Apple delayed the international iPad launch by a month, early adopters worldwide started to panic. Since my nearby Apple store initially had plenty of stock, I offered to purchase and ship iPads internationally for members of the NeoGAF gaming forum. I was doing this as a favor, unlike hoarders who were unloading iPads on eBay to cash in on the $150+ markup. Instead, my asking prices were very reasonable, just enough to cover all the tax, international express shipping, and Paypal fees with a little left over for unexpected costs.

So as the pick-up requests came in, I went on multiple visits to the Apple store, buying no more than 2 per day since I had heard there was a limit per person. I found this whole situation pretty funny considering I had never bought an Apple product prior to this madness (the iPod Touch I use at work was given to me by my medical school). But the store recently went completely out of stock. I had one last order to fulfill so an employee helped me place a reservation. A few days passed and yesterday I was sent an email notifying that my reserved iPad had come in. The story begins here…

I walk into the store today and ask somebody where I can pick up my iPad reservation. He notes my name and says he’ll be back, going behind closed doors to the stockroom.

I take advantage of this opportunity to place another iPad reservation using a store PowerBook. There are a couple more NeoGAF people considering a purchase, but they haven’t paid me yet. Oh well, by the time this reservation comes in, one of them should have made up his mind and sent payment.

But drats, reservations are limited to one per iTunes account. Luckily I have a second account so I used that to place the reservation. No sweat.

The employee emerges a few minutes later with the iPad and I hand over my credit card. If you’ve never been to an Apple store before, instead of checking customers out at a register, the employees use hand-held credit card terminals to ring up purchases. Adds to the hip factor, I suppose.

But instead of using his handheld device, he walks to the back of the store where the “Genius Bar” is. Naught a word spoken. There are registers here but this area is used mainly for technical support. I follow the guy there. He still hasn’t said anything to me. He gives my credit card to one of the staff there and says, “I want you to help me ring up this purchase.”

Guy #2 (looking at the handheld terminal) — “Why don’t you just use that?”

Guy #1 — “I need to check the card for… uh, pre-authorization.”

Guy #2 — “Ok.”

He swipes my card and they click around for about half a minute while looking at their monitor and whispering. Meanwhile, I’m standing on the other side of the Genius Bar, only half paying attention to these two guys. Instead I was curiously watching an employee ask a girl what she loves most about Apple.

Guy #2 (murmuring) — “…yeah, the 14th.”

My attention snaps back when I catch this snippet. April 14th was my last trip to the Apple store, and I had bought 2 iPads that day. When I walked to the Genius Bar, I hadn’t suspected anything out of the ordinary. But now I suddenly realize I will not be walking out of here with an iPad today.

Guy #1 says to Guy #2 — “Hold on, I’ll be right back” and disappears to the stockroom again. Guy #2 is still clicking around, not looking at me.

Me (nonchalantly) — “Is there an issue?”

He’s still staring at his monitor and a few seconds pass before Guy #2 carefully says, “There is a limit to the number of iPads that customers can buy.”

Me (playing dumb) — “Oh, is that right? What’s the limit?”

Guy #2 — “Only 2 per customer.”

Ok, so the gig is up. I stand around waiting for a bit and was preparing to leave when Guy #1 returns.

Guy #1 — “I’m sorry sir, but you have reached your lifetime limit of iPad purchases and will not be allowed to buy any more.”

Me (anticipating that statement) — “Is the iPad limit per person? Per credit card? Per household?”

Guy #1 — “All I can say is that you have reached your lifetime limit.”

Me — “What does that mean? Can I use a different credit card to buy it? I’m buying this for a friend.”

Guy #1 — “You are not allowed to buy this iPad.”

Me — “Uhh… is it ok if I have a family member or friend come to buy it for me? My reservation doesn’t expire until 6:00 PM.”

Guy #1 — “All I can say is that you have reached your lifetime limit.”

Me (suddenly realizing what he’s saying) — “Wait, what? Lifetime? What does that mean?”

Guy #1 — “All I can say is that you have reached your lifetime limit of iPads and will not be allowed to buy any more.”

Me — “I’m banned from buying iPads? I know there’s a shortage right now, but I can’t buy any more once there’s plenty of stock?”

Guy #1 — “All I can say is that you have reached your lifetime limit.”

I pause and look at him with incredulity undoubtedly written all over my face. Everybody tells me I have the worst poker face. Hey asshole, nice job with the passive aggressiveness, but who do you think you’re talking to? I’m from Los Angeles; nobody does passive-aggressive like we do!

Me — “Ok buddy, I’m not going to make a scene so I’m leaving. How many iPads is the limit by the way?”

Guy #1 — “That information is not available.”

Me (looking at Guy #2, who has been silent this whole time) — “He tells me that the limit is two.”

Guy #1 — “I wish I could say but I do not have that information.”

Me — “I’ve already purchased more than 2 iPads. Why didn’t anybody else stop me in the past?”

Guy #1 — “I wish I could say but I do not have that information.”

Me — “Alright, I’ve had enough. Have a good day.”

The icing on the cake? When I came home, I found an email from Apple waiting for me. It was an update about my reservation, the one I had placed today in the store using my 2nd account!

Ban complete.

TECHNICAL UPDATE: Thank you everybody for visiting my little site. Unfortunately, it is getting hammered with traffic and load times are quite substantial. I am trying to get Wordpress Super Cache set-up to help with traffic, but either it’s not compatible with my Wordpress version (2.7.x) or I’m doing something wrong. I have a test tomorrow to study for so I will revisit this issue on Friday. I appreciate everybody coming by to read about my experience.

APPENDIX: Many people have been emailing me to ask how much I charged people. While I had previously decided not to give any concrete numbers, I also didn’t anticipate the wide interest in my story. For full disclosure, here are the specific figures:

A 16 GB iPad model retails for U.S. $499. My initial asking price was U.S. $650. This price includes all my additional charges: sales tax, 2 day USPS international express shipping, insurance, and Paypal credit card fees.

This initial price was based on a shipping cost which I had estimated myself. Once I actually shipped the first package out and knew the actual USPS shipping cost, I refunded $20 to my buyers and lowered my price to U.S. $630.

The other models were priced the same way.

In summary, 16 GB for $630, 32 GB for $740, 64 GB for $850.

I bought 5 iPads total. You can do whatever calculation you want to figure out my “big-time profits”. I’ll save you the time: it was negligible.

Was it worth all that effort driving around after long days working at the hospital? Financially, no. But 5 diehard Apple fans in countries around the world are now very happy and spreading the iPad love to friends and co-workers, who would not have seen the iPad in person for a month at the very minimum. A couple of them have requested that I buy a few more iPads for their friends. I had to decline because… well, Apple banned me.

Photo from Flickr. I don’t know his story, please don’t go flaming him. Just a little test to see if people actually read what I write instead of being sensationalists and grabbing only what they want to hear.

Let’s play a game: how many sites will use this photo in connection with my story when they post about it?

Ha segítesz, nyerhetek egy Nikon D90-et!

bpcity feed — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 17:42:16 GMT

Második vagyok egy fotóversenyen, ahol szavazás dönt a győztesről.

A 4amproject.org-on az én fotóm – a 10-es – per pillanat második, éppen 0.4%-al vagyok lemaradva, de megközelítettem már a 0.2%-ra is.

A szavazás HÉTFŐ ÉJFÉLIG (GMT) tart, ha nyerek, kb 1000 angol font értékű felszereléssel leszek gazdagabb.

Neked csak egy klikk IDE, a 10-esre!

Drága rajongók, előre is köszönöm :)

Self Surgery

There, I Fixed It - Epic Kludge Photos — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 06:07:09 GMT

Most of the time here at TIFI, we focus on fixing things. But today I wanted to share something I stumbled across that focuses on fixing a person.

In 1961, a twelve man Soviet crew was building a new base in the Antarctic. Mindful that being trapped in sub-zero temperatures for months on end required a medical professional to be on hand, one doctor had been assigned to the team. So what happens when the only man capable of performing surgery comes down with a severe case of appendicitis? He does what any reasonably minded person would do. Performs an appendectomy…on himself. There, he fixed it.

Via: BMJ.com

If you guys would like to see more historical kludges (or even if you don’t!) where circumstances warranted making do with what was available, please voice yourself in the comments.

Gmail Adds Nested Labels and Message Preview

Google Operating System — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:30:00 GMT

Gmail Labs has two useful experimental features: hierarchical labels and message preview. If you used Greasemonkey, it's likely that you've tried Folders4Gmail and Mihai Parparita's Conversation Preview, two scripts with similar functionality to the new Gmail Labs experiments.

Nested Labels is just a cosmetic change that lets you create labels which are displayed hierarchically. If you enable this experiment and create a label like Mailing-Lists/Linux, you'll notice that Linux is displayed as a subfolder of Mailing-Lists. Unfortunately, all the other places that let you interact with labels show the label as Mailing-Lists/Linux.

"You can create complex hierarchies of labels if that's the way you like to organize your mail, and you can expand/collapse labels to save space. You'll always be able to tell whether a given label contains unread messages in its collapsed child labels by looking at whether it's bold or not," explains Google.

Message Sneak Peek shows a small preview of a conversation, so you can quickly read the first sentences without opening the conversation. Right-click on a conversation from the inbox or from another view and you should see the first unread message from that conversation. If you've read all messages from a conversation, Gmail shows the last message.

There's also a keyboard shortcut for showing the preview pane for the currently selected conversation: h. You can navigate to the previous/next conversation using k and j or dismiss the pane using Escape.

{ Thanks, Sterling. }

Twitter

Azonos, kambekol — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:28:06 GMT

Ez a Twitter-cucc nem győzött meg annyira, íróféle szénalapúnak nem elég a száznegyven karakter, és mélységesen nem kívánom a világ tudomására hozni, hogy elszáradt a magnóliám. (Amúgy elszáradt. Szomorú.)

De.

“Just spotted: ITV4, 10.35pm, Rambo II. I've seen the first one (many times) and the third one (poor), but the second one always eluded me.”

Aston Kutcher? Jennifer Aniston? Sztankay István?

Csudát. Professor Stephen “legokosabb ember a világon” Hawking. Hogy a Rambo kettőt. Amit mi még hangalámondásos, másolt VHS-en.

Nagy ribanc vagy te Technológia, sokakat juttatsz vesztükbe, lelket kárhoznak oltárodon, de alkalmanként karomba zárnálak.

Gmail Updated for the iPad

ReadWriteWeb — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:43:37 GMT

The latest in the wave of special iPad versions of your favorite apps? Gmail. Built on the year-old HTML5 Gmail web app for the iPhone, the Gmail for iPad sports a double column display and looks great with whole threads unfurled. "Tablets like the iPad give us even more room to innovate," the Gmail team said today.

We look forward to using other Google Apps on the iPad, too. Sometimes little things like far more screen real estate and touchscreen interactivity aren't so little at all.

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We expect to see some fundamental interface and user experience innovations come out of this new way to use apps. Even subtle changes like Gmail's looks exciting, though.

The use of HTML5 by web apps, which supports local caching of data for fast access, will take the mobile web or native app debate to a whole new level on the iPad.

See also: Lifehaker on how to change your browser user agent to iPad and get this interface on any other computer.

Discuss

Meghalt a babájuk, miközben virtuális gyereküket nevelték

Index - Tech - A tech rovat cikkei — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:14:00 GMT

Bűnösnek vallotta magát a dél-koreai házaspár, miután csecsemőjük éhenhalt. Az online babáról nincs hír.

Feloszlik a Kispál és a Borz

Quart — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:10:01 GMT

A Szigeten búcsúzik el a közönségtől az utóbbi húsz év egyik legfontosabb magyar zenekara, a Kispál és a Borz. Az együttes a fesztivál mínusz egyedik napján lép fel utoljára. Íme a mérföldkövek a zenekar pályáján.