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So, today was my first day as a Cisco employee. Feels very different -- not. I realized last night how cool an acquistion really is -- at least this one. First off, you get to work with the same people on the same stuff. This could be good or bad I suppose depending on your situation. For me, its good. In addition, you get a bit of a fresh start. I updated my resume last night -- not because I am looking for a new job but because I like to keep my "records" up to date. I always tell my co-workers to do this because when you look back over a period of a few years, its hard to remember some of the things you should have written down on your resume. Its better to do a yearly assessment.
Plus, this helps bring closure to the last 5 years of my work life with Latitude and opens up a new chapter as Cisco. I always had this mental issue of "I only want to work in one place for 5 years". After about that long, people start wondering why you are still hanging around. Now, with this change, I feel like the clock is reset.
So now I am off to fight the battle which plagues Cisco Systems -- and that is to prove to everyone that we are not the company that delivers food service products to restaurants. Geez. 1/2 the time I say we were acquired by Cisco I either get the response of "Oh them...I lost a ton of money in that stock after the crash" or I get the puzzled look that indicates the confusion over what conferencing has to do with food service products. This could be a long 5 years. ;)


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Posted: Saturday October 09, 1999 09:15 PM
NEW YORK (AP) -- This was the kind of moment - a stroke of baseball magic - that gives the New York Mets every reason to believe this, indeed, is their year.
The improbable team found an unlikely hero when Todd Pratt, replacing injured Mike Piazza for the second straight day, homered in the 10th inning Saturday for a 4-3 victory that gave the Mets a 3-1 win over Arizona in their first-round NL playoff series.
"I'm not an offensive power like Mike, but I can handle the bat all right," said Pratt, who hit just the fourth homer in baseball history that ended a postseason series.
"Honestly, I don't think it was that big a deal," Pratt said. "To be honest with you, it's just like another game. Don't get me wrong, I'm very happy I gave my team a chance to go to the NLCS, but I'm one guy in the mix. I could have easily been the goat today."
Just nine days after their season was considered over, the Mets advanced to the NL championship for the first time since 1988, starting Tuesday night at Atlanta, and they did it in the incredible style they've flashed all year long.
On an intense afternoon of dramatic shifts, the Mets were four outs from winning before Jay Bell's two-run, two-out double off Armando Benitez put the Diamondbacks ahead 3-2 in the eighth.
A dropped fly ball by Tony Womack, who had just moved to right field, led to Roger Cedeno's game-tying sacrifice fly in the bottom half - an inning in which third-base coach Cookie Rojas was ejected and shoved left-field umpire Charlie Williams in the chest.
Pratt, a career backup who had no chance of starting once Piazza was acquired in May 1998, then set off fireworks when he connected off Matt Mantei with a drive to straightaway center.
Steve Finley jumped against the eight-foot wall at the 410-foot sign - the fence is a few inches higher there than the rest of the outfield - and 56,177 fans at Shea Stadium held their collective breaths for a second, unsure where the ball was caught.
"I thought he came down with it," Mets manager Bobby Valentine said.
Pratt stopped between first and second, not knowing. Finley even brought his glove down and looked in it.
"We have all seen it a million times on the highlight films, Steve bringing back balls," Pratt said. "I thought he had the ball, actually. Then he put his head down."
Pratt leapt up and down with his arms raised in the air, sending the crowd into a frenzy and the Mets out of the bullpen and dugout.
"I thought I had it," Finley said. "I felt it in my glove. It took me a second to realize I didn't catch it. I still don't believe it."
Rey Ordonez raced onto the infield and jumped in the air, Valentine high-fived his players. Piazza, with a cast on his left hand, embraced Pratt.
Then in the chaotic Mets' clubhouse, it was time for beer-and-champagne showers as the Doors' 'LA Woman' blasted on stereo.
"He deserves this moment," said Piazza, out with a swollen left thumb. "He's worked hard all year. That's what this team is all about."
Only Pittsburgh's Bill Mazeroski in the 1960 World Series, the Yankees' Chris Chambliss in the 1976 AL championship and Toronto's Joe Carter in the 1993 World Series hit homers that ended postseason series.
Now, the Mets play Atlanta, which went 9-3 against the Mets this season and beat them five of six in the final two weeks.
"It's going to take a good effort to stop us, and the next team we are playing is going to be playing against some ghosts, because they said we were dead," Valentine said.
Pratt, signed as a minor league free agent after being out of baseball in 1996, hit a comebacker in the eighth with the score tied and runners on first and third.
"I had a couple of chances to drive in some runs," he said. "We overcame adversity."
Pratt's drive made a winner of the Mets' fan favorite, John Franco, who has struggled since coming back from a finger injury but pitched a 1-2-3 10th. Franco had lost 10 straight decisions since Sept. 13, 1997.
"Twenty-four or 25 guys in that locker room think he is a hero today," Franco said. "Todd Pratt has got the toughest job in baseball, sitting behind one of the best catchers, one of the best players in baseball. Sitting day in, day out not being able to play has got to be tough."
The victory keeps alive the possibility of baseball's first Subway Series since 1956. The defending World Series champion Yankees began Saturday with a 2-0 lead over Texas in their first-round series.
Arizona heads back to the desert bitterly disappointed. The Diamondbacks, in the greatest turnaround in major league history, went 100-62 and became the first second-year franchise to make the postseason. They could have brought back Randy Johnson on three days' rest Saturday, but elected to hold him back for a fifth game that won't be played.
Without Piazza, Edgardo Alfonzo provided the power again with his third home run of the series, a solo shot in the fourth.
Greg Colbrunn's homer tied it for Arizona in the fifth and Benny Agbayani's RBI double gave New York a 2-1 lead in the sixth.
Al Leiter, who had come up with the Mets' biggest wins all season, took a two-hitter into the eighth. It was Leiter who stopped an eight-game losing streak in June, ended the seven-game skid in late September that nearly finished off the Mets, then pitched a shutout at Cincinnati on Monday in the wild-card tiebreaker.
He walked pinch-hitter Turner Ward with two outs in the eighth and Womack reached when the Mets' usually infallible infield hiccuped. Alfonzo couldn't come up with the one-hopper to second - it would have been a good play if he had made it - and Womack reached on the hit.
In came Benitez, who converted 22 of 28 saves chances during the regular season, taking over as the closer after Franco got hurt.
Bell doubled off the wall in the left-field corner, and all of a sudden it seemed like the series was headed back to Phoenix for a decisive game Sunday.
Melvin Mora, who came in for Rickey Henderson at the start of the inning, then saved a run - and possibly the game. Matt Williams singled to left and Mora threw to the plate, where Pratt tagged out Bell.
The Mets tied it, taking advantage of Womack's second error in two games - letting a fly ball by John Olerud pop out of his glove after Greg Swindell walked Alfonzo leading off.
That put runners on second and third with no outs, and Cedeno's sacrifice fly off Swindell tied it.
But Mantei escaped without giving up the tiebreaking run when Pratt hit a comebacker that led to Olerud getting tagged out near third and Rey Ordonez struck out with the bases loaded.
In between, Rojas was ejected for arguing with Williams, who ruled that Darryl Hamilton's liner down the left-field line was foul.
While replays showed Williams made the correct call, Rojas gave the umpire a two-handed push, and had to be restrained by Valentine and Ventura.
Notes: Arizona hadn't lost consecutive road games since July 18-19 at Seattle. ... Alfonzo is 5-for-7 with two homers off Brian Anderson in his career. ... Womack made two errors in 258 outfield chances during the regular season.
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- n. A decorated platform or framework on which a coffin rests in state during a funeral.
- n. Roman Catholic Church A coffin-shaped structure draped with a pall, used to represent the corpse at a requiem Mass celebrated after the burial.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A platform used to display or convey a coffin during a funeral, often ornate.
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- n. A temporary structure sometimes used in the funeral solemnities of eminent persons, for the public exhibition of the remains, or their conveyance to the place of burial.
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French, from Italian catafalco.
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For whatever it's worth, the Rangers were 21-13 in the exhibition season.
The good news is that 21-13 is .617 ball!
Or, 100 wins!
The bad news is that it's a spring training record. Most exhibition games are decided by players who won't be playing on opening day.
Nevertheless, I can remember prior springs when the Rangers struggled to play .500 ball.
So I'll take a winning record, in exhibition or real baseball!
Winning is always better than losing!
Last season, the Rangers' killed their season with a 7-19 start. They fought back and were 6 games over .500 in early August. They just collapsed after that! It was pathetic to watch!
What's different this year?
Like everything, it starts with pitching.
Kevin Milwood is healthy after a painful season. If healthy, Milwood should give you 200-innings plus and 25 quality starts. We remember Milwood in 2006 when he was healthy and won 16 games.
Vicente Padilla won 14 games last season but got hurt at the end. If healthy, he is good for 15 wins and lots of innings.
Can we count on Milwood and Padilla in 2009? I think so because they are healthy.
The other starters are Brandon McCarthy, who is always hurt, and Matt Harrison, another player who came in the Texeira deal.
McCarthy has a lot of talent. Can he stay healthy?
Harrison looks like a major league left handed pitcher.
Chris Benson will be the 5th starter. He is coming back from injuries. It's hard to tell how it will play out. He was very good before he got hurt.
The closer will be Frankie Francisco. He is good. He took over for CJ Wilson, who has a lot of talent but needs a little more maturity.
Overall, it should be a better pitching staff than 2008. Of course, it doesn't take much to improve on the 2008 staff!
What about the daily lineup?
Ian Kinsler will lead off. He was an All Star last year and had a legitimate shot at the batting title until he got hurt in August.
Michael Young is playing 3b this year. Young is 32 and should have a couple of more good seasons with the bat.
Josh Hamilton was the baseball story of 2008. Can he repeat? He should. He may not blow up the HR Derby again but should have another productive season.
Hank Blalock is finally healthy and should split between 1b, 3b and DH. Blalock was a great hitter a couple of years ago.
Chris Davis is an awesome young hitter who looks like a young Mark Texeira. He will play 1b and put up some nice numbers.
David Murphy was headed for a Rookie if the Year award in 2008 until he suffered a season ending injury. He still drove in over 70 runs as a rookie! He plays hard and looks like a young Rusty Greer.
Jarrod Saltalamachia came over in the Texeira deal. He will be given a shot at catching now that Laird was traded to Detroit. I'm not sure if he can catch everyday but he can hit. Time will tell if he can handle a pitching staff. Again, he can hit!
Nelson Cruz is probably going to get a shot at RF. He hit a ton at AAA last year. Let's see if he can hit major league pitching. If he can't hit then watch for Andruw Jones to get a lot of at-bats.
Elvis Andrus is another one of those players who came over in the Texeira deal. He is 20 years old and will start at shortstop. I have never seen him play but the scouts love him.
What's my prediction? 85 wins and a decent September. The Rangers will fight the Angels and phase out in late September.
Can they win the division or wild card? No, not in 2009 but this is a young team and there are some awesome young pitchers coming up.
What about Manager Ron Washington? I like him. He is very positive and seems to get along well with the team.
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You have to love worms. The leaders debate sort, that is.
All the many political animals in this state should have learned one thing last night. Voters love positivity.
Given the lack of anything new to come out of the leaders debate policy-wise, one new fact did emerge.
The negative campaigning both major parties have engaged in is a major turn-off. The worm's efforts to get above ground came easiest when both Alan Carpenter and Colin Barnett focused on what they might do to improve the lot of voters.
Or talk in positive terms about anything. That, and the one thing politicians hate doing, but if they were better tuned to what the public respects, would do more often.
Admit their mistakes.
The worm - and despite all the criticism levelled at it I believe 50 swinging voters are as good a gauge as anything - went skywards when Mr Carpenter admitted mistakes in handling ministers such as Norm Marlborough, and Mr Barnett admitted his party had less female influence than he would like.
It was less than happy when either side was sinking the boot into the other. It turned down sharply when Mr Carpenter mentioned the Liberals' handling of John McGrath. It went up when he admitted "moral failures" and punished Mr Barnett when he claimed not to have any.
Of course it also went skywards when issues like more prisons, tax relief or saying politicians were paid too much were mentioned. That's no surprise.
What also wasn't a surprise, but probably would be to those who watch politics in this state, was the lack of interest in the finer points of lobbyists influence in WA. For much of the debate about Burke, Grill and Crichton-Browne, it was hard to tell if the audience was awake.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Just a Stroller. (Without The Stroller).
I've been chatting to checkout chicks and shopkeepers, jumping in and out of the car without wrestling with straps and small people, just living the glorious life of the flaneur. Now I'm home, in the quiet, about to tackle the washing up and listen to the Slate Culture Gabfest.
I'm into my second week of quitting sugar (and gripped with sinus detox issues) so I hunted down some raw cacao nibs, which the Internetz say are the bomb. The packet cost me twelve thousand dollars and I ripped it open with unseemly haste. They are bitter! Bitter! I honestly thought they were going to be some yummy get-out clause.
I shake my fist at you, bitter raw cacao nibs.
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I started the no-sugar gig about 6 months ago after a zillion bouts of thrush.....so glamorous. Now I occasionally have something sweet, but hardly ever crave sweet stuff like the days of old. I'm totally obsessed with veggies now. It is worth it in the end (particularly if the alternative is piling itchiness onto the daily kid-wrangling gig). I never went near those cacao nibs....glad to hear they taste crap before I bothered!
The kids took a while to adjust, now they are mostly sugar-free, but WHOA....when they get a hit of the stuff they are off the scale (not sugar-fit I guess)
Good luck!Ah, quiet times, washing up and Slate Culture Gabfest. It's almost like you were at our flat. I promise the no sugar will get easier. I'm back on now, in moderation, but after 2-3 weeks, you won't even miss it (nb, almonds with a cup of fennel tea is pretty good...I mean, it's not a lamington, but it's still nice).
ReplyDeleteOkay, won't try and find the cocoa nibs. I've just finished week one and haven't yet passed the crazy, wild-eyed stage that requires A LOT OF WILLPOWER. I'm finding stevia helps. Not much, and it has a funny aftertaste, but it's something. (That could well be the most pathetic sentence I have written for a while.) Good on you for making it to week two!


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Bob Geldof "doesn't know" how to pronounce his grandson's name
By: Amy Andrews | Published Thursday, May 10, 2012, 10:30 AM | Updated Thursday, May 10, 2012, 10:30 AM
Bob Geldof
Boomtown Rats front man Bob Geldof admits he is unhappy with the moniker his 23-year-old daughter and her partner Tom Cohen chose for their baby, Astala Dylan Willow Cohen-Geldof, and suggested an alternative for the two-week-old tot.
Asked how to pronounce the baby's name on 'Lorraine', he said: "Shut up, I don't know. I don't know, I haven't said it yet - I can't bring myself to say it.
"I wanted to call him Leonard - Leonard Cohen. 'Have you met my grandson Leonard Cohen?' But he's a fantastic little chap."
Bob - who also has daughters Fifi Trixibelle, 29, and Pixie, 21, with late ex-wife Paula Yates - is thrilled at how well Peaches and Tom have settled into family life.
He added: "He is cute and they're really good parents so it's great. They're really happy."
Bob is very happy that Peaches - who was previously married to Chester French drummer Max Drummey - has settled down with Tom - particularly because he likes the S.C.U.M. rocker's music.
Asked if he is happy Peaches is with Tom, he said: "I am, and he's a great guy, but importantly he's a fantastic musician - really, really good. I'm so thrilled that I can go to the gigs and not have to say, 'That was quite good,' I mean an amazing band. So it excites me actually, aside from the fact he's Astala's dad."
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Dr. Margaret Cary, who wrote the Foreword to LOVE ADDICT: SEX, ROMANCE AND OTHER DANGEROUS DRUGS, passed along a couple of interesting articles, and I pass them along to you.
First, the New York Times published a piece by Richard A. Friedman, professor of clinical psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College, called I Heart Unpredictable Love, about how some people (guess who?) are neurochemically drawn to inconstant lovers. Dr. Cary smiley-faced, "You could have told them this years ago."
Then, from the same source — both Dr. Cary and the Times — is a piece by Sonja Lyubomirsky, professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside. New Love: A Short Shelf Life again connects the dots between surprise, lust and dopamine. The professor also offers advice on how to keep a long-term relationship fresh — in case any of you are in long-term relationships, and somehow I suspect that's not too many of you.
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Etnolog 6 (1996)
Bojana Rogelj Škafar |
Introduction 0354-0316_6_rogelj_uvodna.pdf |
11-14 |
Inja Smerdel |
The project called "The Slovene Ethnographic Museum"
The article entitled "The project called the Slovene Ethnographic Museum" discusses some of the museum's essential constituents and provides a cross-section of what occurred to the museum and in it from its beginnings to the present day; it illustrates the architectural plans and the envisaged functions of its future halls in the complex of buildings situated in Metelkova Street; it also presents proposals and other ideas concerning the permanent exhibition in the museum's future exhibition palace and explains the road that led to them.
 0354-0316_6_smerdel_projekt.pdf |
17-58 |
Janja Žagar |
"Images of a culture" or "Objects about people" 0354-0316_6_zagar_podobe.pdf |
59-70 |
Andrej Dular |
Proposal scheme of the permanent exhibition of the Slovene ethnographic museum, gallery section 0354-0316_6_dular_idejna.pdf |
71-78 |
Andrej Brence |
The Museum of Viticulture in Ptuj from its foundation in 1937 to its opening in 1946
The articles presents the origins of the Museum of Viticulture in Ptuj, focusing on the period from its formal foundation in October 1937 until the actual opening in 1946. The articles deals on the one hand with the political, financial and building efforts, and on the other with the exhibitions and collections.
 0354-0316_6_brence_vinarski.pdf |
79-91 |
Tanja Roženbergar |
Urban ethnological themes in museums
Urban ethnology does not occupy an exactly defined place of its own in Slovene museums. Selected themes are rather the result of initiatives from individuals than of a carefully elaborated programme policy. An appeal to institutionalise the field of urban ethnology in museums too therefore seems to be quite necessary.
 0354-0316_6_rozenbergar_urbane.pdf |
93-98 |
Zvezdana Koželj |
A network of regional open-air museums in Slovenia
The article presents a chronology of initiatives related to the establishment of openair museums in Slovenia and links them to the persisting demands of the ethnological discipline for a central ethnological museum in premises of its own. The author introduces us to the project "Network of Open-Air Museums in Slovenia", arguing that the expert and operational running of open-air museums should he directed try the Slovene Ethnographic Museum.
 0354-0316_6_kozelj_mreza.pdf |
99-122 |
Nina Gockerell |
Podobe in znaki pobožnosti 0354-0316_6_gockerell_podobe.pdf |
125-147 |
Hartmut Prasch |
Prispevek etnoloških muzejev k muzejski pokrajini Koroške 0354-0316_6_prasch_prispevek.pdf |
149-162 |
Polona Sketelj |
The process of the research work in the village of Globasnica, South Carinthia, Austria
As indicated by the article's title - The process of the research work in the village of Globasnica. South Carinthia, Austria - the author presents in it a critical analysis of the process of her own research work in the village of Globasnica in South Carinthia which resulted in tiie book Na stičišču dveh kultur: med delovnim in prostim časom v Globasnici (At the junction of two cultures: Work and leisure in Globasnica).
 0354-0316_6_sketelj_potek.pdf |
165 |
Andrej Dular |
Bela krajina picture postcards - sources for an ethnological study of Bela krajina
The article was inspired by the book Sledovi časa - Bela krajina na razglednicah v letih 1895-1945 (Traces of time - Bela krajina on picture postcards between 1895 and 1945). The author analyses the motifs on these picture postcards in order to trace themes of possible interest to ethnology. He points out how valuable and useful the information provided by this kind of pictorial material can he, but also emphasises that the information has to be verified by printed and
 written documents and oral sources.
 0354-0316_6_dular_belokranjske.pdf |
181-196 |
Mojca Šifrer - Bulovec |
Loški potok in the light of the land-register of Francis I, crop-yield assessment and the registers of births, marriages and deaths from 1801 to 1840
The articles describes how the people of Loški potok lived and worked in the forties of the 19th century. It is largely based on data from the land-register of Francis I (1824), German-Slovene questionnaires (1930), crop-yield assessment (1833) and from the registers of births, marriages and deaths from 1801 to 1840.
 0354-0316_6_sifrer_loski.pdf |
197 |
Borut Juvanec |
The Karst kutja, the lost stone of Europe's stone shelters
In his article The Karst kutja, the lost stone of Europe's stone shelters the author ties rudimentary stone structures into a system which extends from Malta to Scotland and from Catalonia to Istria and Dalmatia. The Slovene Karst variety of stone shelter - called kutja or hiška - thus completes a horizontal arch spanning the northern part
 of the Mediterranean.
 0354-0316_6_juvanec_kraska.pdf |
217-234 |
Mira Omerzel Terlep |
Bone flutes
This interdisciplinary study combines ethnology, archaeology and musicology in an attempt to shed light on the issue of palaeolithic bone flutes - sound-producing perforated tubular bones, bear mandibles and simple whistles made of animal phalanxes, excavated in the caves of Potočka zijalka, Mokriške jame. Divje babe I and from the Betalov spodmol. They date back to the Mousterian culture of the Neanderthals and the Aurignacien culture of the Cro-Magnons. 0354-0316_6_omerzel_koscene.pdf |
235-294 |
Mojca Ramšak |
The living conditions of vineyard labourers in the hills of Svečina before the Second World War
The author first presents a historical survey of vineyard labour in Slovenia and then describes the living conditions of vineyard labourers in Svečina near Zgornja Kungota in the north-western part of Slovenske gorice before the Second World War. She is mainly interested in the work itself, the relation to the land, the housing conditions and nutrition of the labourers, their social hierarchy and family life. 0354-0316_6_ramsak_zivljenski.pdf |
295-328 |
Nena Židov |
An outline of homeopathy in Slovenia from the early 19th century until the present day
The article discusses the presence of Hahnemann's homeopathy in Slovenia from the early 19th century to the present day. Despite the fact that homeopathy was banned in 1819 some physicians and laymen continued to practice it and homeopathy survived until the end of the Second World War. In recent years the expansion of alternative medicine has revived the interest in homeopathy.
 0354-0316_6_zidov_oris.pdf |
329-335 |
Ralf Čeplak Mencin |
Slovenes and Tibet
The article is a survey of the information on Tibet available in Slovenia
 during the past century, that is from the first information in the early 20th century up to 1995. For the period until 1945 the author has taken into account information in Slovene newspapers and books, afterwards only books. Unfortunately, there have been no serious scientific efforts in this field yet.
 0354-0316_6_ceplak_slovenci.pdf |
337-349 |
Aleš Gačnik |
Ethnological heritage and philately
Ethnological heritage and philately are the field within which the author of the article defines his framework for discussing the use of motifs from the cultural heritage on Slovene stamps. The analysis is limited to two "ethnological" series issued by the National Post Office: Europe in miniature and Folklore. The greater part of the article is dedicated to an analysis of the Shrovetide mask and masquerading heritage, focusing on the latest issues of the National Post Office and issues of the Ptuj Philatelic Society covering several decades. 0354-0316_6_gacnik_etnoloska.pdf |
351-365 |
Tanja Roženbergar |
A museum in an open-air museum
The author emphasises the necessity to approximate and complement the activities and working methods of museums and those related to the protection of historical monuments. Her arguments are based on the example of the Open-Air Museum in Rogatec.
 0354-0316_6_rozenbergar_muzej.pdf |
369-376 |
Herta Maurer - Lausegger |
The project "Research of Slovene dialects in Carinthia" at the Institute for Slavistics of the Klagenfurt/Celovec University
The article brings a survey of the research project "Research of Slovene dialects in Carinthia", carried out by the Institute for Slavistics of the Klagenfurt / Celovec University. During the first decade of its implementation (1984-1994) the project's archive acquired approx. 100 sound tapes and about 90 cassettes of dialect material. The author of the present article was appointed head of the project in 1994 and introduced visual dialectology to the discipline. The archive now contains about 70 tapes of visual material.
 0354-0316_6_maurer_projekt.pdf |
377-382 |
Andrej Dular |
The candle and pastry workshop of Jakob Krbavčič from Ljubljana - an enrichment for the Slovene ethnographic museum's collections
In January 1996 the Slovene Ethnographic Museum acquired for its collections the rich material from the candle and pastry workshop of master Jakob Krbavčičfrom Ljubljana. The article introduces us to Krbavcic's professional career and briefly presents the acquired material.
 0354-0316_6_dular_svecarska.pdf |
383-395 |
Ana Motnikar |
Protection of textiles in exhibitions
Museum textiles are often exposed to accelerated decay due to inadequate treatment. The author draws attention to the most frequent oversights and dangers textiles are exposed to, to the damages arising from them and proposes ways to prevent such damages from occurring.
 0354-0316_6_motnikar_varovanje.pdf |
399-410 |
Tatjana Dolžan |
The Exhibition "Monuments of rural architecture in Gorenjsko" 0354-0316_6_dolzan_razstava.pdf |
411-417 |
Aleš Gačnik |
"Viticulture images" between the ethnographic past and the museum present 0354-0316_6_gacnik_muzejska.pdf |
418-426 |
Tadeja Primožič |
Exhibition of Slovene bobbin-lace 0354-0316_6_primozic_razstava.pdf |
427-428 |
Polona Sketelj |
Domesticated light 0354-0316_6_sketelj_udomacena.pdf |
429-432 |
Janja Žagar |
In search of everyday life 0354-0316_6_zagar_po.pdf |
433-436 |
Irena Keršič |
Copy of a village lantern-post "faral" 0354-0316_6_kersic_kopija.pdf |
437-439 |
Sonja Kogej Rus |
The Slovene Ethnographic Museum in 1996 0354-0316_6_kogej_slovenski.pdf |
441-456 |
Tanja Roženbergar Šega |
Report on participation in The Second European Conference of the Ethnographic Museums in Bucharest, May 17-19, 1996 0354-0316_6_rozenbergar_porocilo.pdf |
457-460 |


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The heads of two congressional defense panels vowed to examine corrective actions taken by the Air Force after the remains of fallen troops were mishandled, with one not ruling out congressional action.
The Air Force in a report released Tuesday said "gross mismanagement" of deceased troops' remains had occurred at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. Officials said new steps had been enacted to improve the way fallen troops are handled there.
"This panel will evaluate the changes that have been implemented to ensure that we are treating all of our fallen service members with the greatest reverence, dignity and respect," Panetta said.
The leaders of the congressional Armed Services committees, which would be tasked with crafting any legislative changes to military mortuary operations, said Wednesday they are closely monitoring the situation.
"Paying tribute to our returning deceased heroes is a difficult task, made more so because there can never be any room for error," House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) said Wednesday. "It appears that this important standard has not been upheld in all cases.
"We are also closely examining the special counsel's report, and the Air Force has committed to quickly providing a full briefing to the Armed Services Committee," McKeon said in a statement. "The committee will not hesitate to act to reinforce standards of perfection for our returning fallen warriors."
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) said in he is "deeply distressed to learn that the remains of service members were not handled properly."
The SASC chairman said he has asked his staff "to review the Air Force investigation to ensure the adequacy of the findings and of the corrective action taken."
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) vowed Wednesday to tighten congressional oversight of military mortuary efforts.
"The reports from the Dover Air Force Base mortuary betray [a] commitment to our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines," she said in a statement.
"Congress will work with the Department of Defense to strengthen oversight and management of the Dover mortuary and other facilities," Pelosi said. "Our service members and their families deserve nothing less."
Updated at 4:20 p.m.
Kyl, Lugar press Clinton to fend off alternate cluster weapons ban
Generals warn senators not to expand the Joint Chiefs


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Penn Badgely must be finding his job very difficult at the moment as he gets close with gorgeous former love Blake Lively.
The duo, who play on-off couple Serena and Dan in the hit series Gossip Girl, were spied filming scenes together for the sixth and final season in New York.
Appearing to be shooting inside an Upper East Side penthouse apartment, the two stars looked like they were getting emotional before Blake stormed out of the building.
With her blonde hair wrapped neatly in a bun atop her head, she resembled onscreen mum Kelly Rutherford as she showed off her amazing 5ft 10in figure.
We wonder whether the awkwardness was between their characters or the actors, following Blake's recent marriage to Ryan Reynolds.
But after her surprise wedding, co-star Penn said he 'couldn't be happier' for his ex, whom he dated from 2007 to 2010. He is also now seeing Zoe Kravitz, daughter of Lisa Bonet and Lenny Kravitz.


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The first pillar: We alert on what we draw
The first pillar of monitoring that I propose is that we should alert on what we draw. What I mean by this is that the data we use to determine whether a system is behaving anomalously should be the performance data that we are already collecting for trending purposes. What is the thinking behind this pillar? Well, if we cast our minds back to yesterday's introduction, we agreed that one of purposes of monitoring systems was to provide data to allow us, as engineers, to detect patterns, and predict issues before they become production impacting. In order to do this, we need to be capturing data and storing it somewhere which allows us to analyse it. If we care about it - if the data could provide the kind of engineering insight which helps us to understand our systems and give early warning - we should be capturing it. If we have that data, why not use it as the basis for our alerting. To understand why this would be anything other than blindingly obvious, we need to consider the mainstream approach to this.
The most common open source tool used for alerting is Nagios. A typical Nagios setup operates by carrying out a check for a certain metric, and comparing it to a predetermined threshold. An example might be disk space or CPU load. Although sometimes carried out over ssh, the most frequently used way of running these checks is via NRPE - the Nagios Remote Plugin Executor. A central monitoring server runs a check which speaks over the network to a remote machine, which carries out a check in real time, which returns a status, and sometimes some values associated with that check. There are a couple of weaknesses in this approach. Assuming we've agreed that if we care about the metric enough to want to alert on it then we should be gathering that data for analysis, and graphing it, then we already have the data upon which to base our check. Furthermore, this data is not on the machine we're monitoring, so our checks don't in any way add further stress to that machine. This might not sound like a very resource-intensive task, but it could be the proverbial last straw.
Another reason to eschew this approach is security. It's a fundamental principle that we should run and expose as few network services as possible. Given that we don't need to run our monitoring over NRPE if we're already capturing the data elsewhere, an Ockhamist attitude would suggest we should stop using it. Notwithstanding this general principle, in order to enable user customisation of alerts, NRPE is often configured to allow command arguments to be passed through. The risk can be mitigated by ensuring NRPE runs over SSL, as the nagios user, with strict sudoer configuration, but if it can be shown that this isn't actually needed because we can simply alert on our performance data, the whole question is moot.
From the other side of the argument, there are good positive reasons to alert on your performance data too. The obvious one is that it allows for complex event processing - we have access to more data in the same place - it might be very valuable to know, for example, that not just one machine but all machines in a load balancer pool have an abnormally high load. Another great advantage is that you are never in any doubt as to the veracity of your data. You receive an alert, and can look at the graphs, and know that you're looking at exactly the same data at exactly the same time. This pleases me, as an engineer
OK - so there's a strong philosophical and practical case for doing our alerting on our performance metrics. How can we go about this?
Well, firstly, if you're already using Zabbix or Zenoss, you're already using a homogenous alerting and monitoring system - there's no practical difference between the data you graph and the data you use for your alerting. If you use Nagios, however, you're probably gathering trending data somewhere else. Popular options are Munin, Cacti, Graphite, Collectd or Ganglia. What we need to do is to be able to query this data with a nagios plugin and alert based on the thresholds we've agreed.
The simplest and most obvious way to do this is to pull the metrics to the Nagios server and process them. This is the approach taken by Vladimir Vuksan and Michael Conigliaro to enable Nagios to alert on metrics collected in Ganglia - see https://github.com/mconigliaro/check_ganglia_metric.
Another approach is to use Nagios to query your RRD data stores. This is the approach used by the check_munin_rrd tool - see http://nagios-munin.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/check_munin_rrd.pl. Naturally, this logic could be adapted to collectd or cacti. The Nagios Exchange has a number of plugins for speaking to RRD databases that all look to be worthy of exploration.
One of the most important tools to gain attention and advocates in the last 18 months is Graphite. Graphite was written in 2006 as a real time graphing system. It has three components - a processing engine, called carbon, a datastore, called whisper, and a Django app which presents the graphs. The API is written in such a way as to allow the raw data that would be used to create a graph to be requested. This makes it possible to write a Nagios plugin that uses data from Graphite for alerting purposes. An example plugin can be found at https://github.com/recoset/check_graphite.
The final option I'd like to mention is Reconnoiter. Reconnoiter is a ground-up implementation of enterprise monitoring emanating from the engineering team at Omniti. Reconnoiter's architecture is based around two daemons - noitd and stratcond. Noitd is the agent in the field - it ships with various modules, and pulls in metric data from remote nodes, very rapidly. Typically one noitd is deployed per datacentre. This data is then fed over a secure connection to the stratcond. Stratcond is responsible for aggregating information from various noitd instances in the field, and inserting them into a PostgreSQL database. Fault detection is possible via hooks into the Esper complex event processing system. The last time I looked into this, earlier in the summer, it was possible to write alerts in Esper's EPL language to run against the live data, and push it back over a message queue, however there was no easy way to consume these results. At Atalanta Systems we make considerable use of Circonus - the monitoring-as-a-service offering from Omniti that has Reconnoiter at its heart. This provides the alert capability and interfaces nicely with Pager Duty to make an excellent end-to-end solution. In R&D time we have backlog stories to look into getting alerting working with Reconnoiter, and have also invested time in Flapjack, the promising but dormant project from Lindsay Holmwood.
So, to summarise, with current open source tools, the options to implement the first pillar are as follows:
- Build your monitoring system around Zenoss or Zabbix - both tools collect performance data and alert based on that
- If you use Nagios, look into one of the plugins that can speak to the tool you use for performance metric gathering, and think seriously about deprecating your NRPE checks
- If you have development and R&D time available, look into Reconnoiter or Flapjack
If you have the budget or appetite to outsource your monitoring infrastructure to an as-a-service provider, Circonus is an excellent option.
In the next article I'll be discussing the second pillar - corellation is king.


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Are you happy?
Are you healthy?
Are you financially secure?
Are you looking for a job or to change careers?
And how do you go about getting the things you want?
Good questions.
But how do you find the answers? The correct answers for you, that is?
You decide, that's how.
Before you can attempt to succeed, Mark Rodgers, who gives a local seminar on lifestyle changes, feels people need to be taught — or rather re-taught — how to make the correct decisions and choices for themselves.
He can teach people how to make the correct choice — and avoid any pitfalls they may encounter along the way — and stick to the path that will let them achieve their goals.
Just picture three intersecting circles, which only all overlap in a very small segment in the center. Each big circle corresponds to a different segment of decision-making: mediocrity, apathy and profitability. Under mediocrity, do you have the talent, ability and vision — all three, probably less than 20 percent of your choices meet all requirements — to achieve what you want to achieve. Under apathy, do you have the focus, intensity and time to achieve what you desire. And under profitability, will you profit yourself, will you profit others, will you profit the community.
Most people don't realize what was involved in making a good decision or even what has to be considered. It's easier said than done for most. That's why most people may need a little help.
Rodgers knows this from personal experience.
Rodgers is an award-winning business professional and international communicator, earning more than 100 awards. He is a graduate of the University of South Carolina School of Business and a Dale Carnegie graduate. He also is the president of the Sunrise Rotary club. He is a staunch supporter of local charities.
After a lifetime living his own life, overcoming all manner of obstacles, and also teaching others how to excel, Rodgers has put his knowledge into a simple and easy to understand life plan — and he is offering to share his advice with those who may need a change, some motivation, a direction or just a way of making a decision of what to do with their lives — right here in the Southeast.
Having worked at a variety of jobs, Rodgers' most recent work includes 14 years of sales and training experience, in addition to running a Dale Carnegie organization. Currently, he is a sales and training expert who is the executive trainer of the program "No vs Yes/The Battle to Success," which is an integral part of his own motivational seminar company called Power Speak 101. He developed the program himself and has been giving motivational lectures since the company first was founded five years ago.
He works with Steve Addis, operations manager and computer expert for the company, throughout the Southeast. The two have worked together for a long time, even going to Haiti to help start several schools and business ventures.
"Three years ago, I took everything I've done and made a program that worked for decision-making," Rodgers said. According to Rodgers, not making the correct decision FOR YOU is the No. 1 reason why people fail.
"Your successes and/or failures in life are based on the decisions you've made," Rodgers said. "To succeed, you must focus on the things you are passionate about."
The question is, how and on what do you focus. That's where Rodgers can help.
But after making the correct decision for you, you have to work on your goal every day. You have to be prepared for that door to open and to make sure you are ready to work through it, Rodgers said.
But you can still be destroyed by succumbing to even one of these seven "deadly" decisions.
"We are conditioned to say 'Yes." People don't always consider there are lots of 'No's' in any decision."
But Rodgers can teach people exactly how to go about making the correct "No" decisions.
In fact, there are seven "deadly" No's, Rodgers said. Any one of these pitfalls can cause a person or a business to keep from achieving his or her goals.
The first is saying "No" to distraction means saying "Yes" to focus.
Second, by saying "No" to your circumstances, you say "Yes" to accomplishing your vision of your life.
"Circumstances are temporary," Rodgers said.
For example, Abraham Lincoln could have looked at his circumstances and never once tried to become president. It is said he came from a poor background, he lost jobs, had failed at many businesses, had lost many a political race, his sweetheart died, he had a nervous breakdown, lost several more elections — until he finally became the 16th, and perhaps the most beloved, president of the United States.
"When you say "Yes" to one of these things, you say "No" to the opposite," Rodgers said.
Third, by saying "No" to shortcuts, you are saying "Yes" to excellence.
"You have to make a choice to be excellent," Rodgers said.
Fourth, say "No" to pride and you'll be saying "Yes" to listening to others — as well as learning how to listening properly.
"I already know everything I know," he said. "If I shut up, maybe I'll learn something."
Fifth, say "No" to procrastination and "Yes" to urgency.
Sixth, say "No" to yesterday and "Yes" to today.
And, seventh, say "No" to tomorrow — "That's just daydreaming," Rodgers said — and "Yes" again to the present.
"And you are going to give into these seven deadly "No's" if what you are doing isn't in your heart," Rodgers said.
Just think of all the things you should have said "No" to in the last 10 years, he asks his seminar audience.
For example, Rodgers knows of this successful company which had 110 clients. The owners wanted to expand the company to 225 clients to make more money. As they tried to expand, they said yes to shortcuts and no to excellence. That "Yes" destroyed the company.
Rodgers will even teach people the best way, the right way to say "No" to get the best results.
"But I can't motivate anybody," he said. But Rodgers can help people figure out how to use their skills and abilities, use them to find life's perfect fit for them alone. "Everything I do has to do with action. Action creates energy. Energy creates destiny."
For more information or to sign up for a seminar, call (423) 310-3118 and/or check out powerspeak101.com.


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Imported American soul was big news in the UK in the 1970s. Before the Brits developed their own brand of soul, the Americans were over here showing us how it was done and being appreciated by all and sundry.
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When Dan Sileo learned last week about the accusations leveled against the University of Miami football program, he said he was disgusted.
"I was very disappointed in the fact the administration would allow a scumbag like that walking the hallways," Sileo said of Nevin Shapiro, the booster who is at the middle of the scandal. "I want to know how he got on the football field. Someone has to fall."
Sileo played for the Hurricanes during part of their glory years, in the mid-80s, before any of the alleged wrongdoing took place. He was part of a heralded defensive line that included future NFL star Jerome Brown, Danny Stubbs and Bill Hawkins. He was selected in the third round, as the 59th pick, in the 1987 NFL Supplemental Draft by Tampa Bay, played a season with the team, then later got into preseason games with Detroit and Dallas before retiring.
Sileo started his college career at Maryland. Before that, he was a star player at Stamford Catholic, which is now Trinity Catholic, graduating in 1982.
"That was such a great time for me. I got to play high school ball with Tony Brown," recalled Sileo, referring to his teammate who went on to play at the University of Pittsburgh and for the Buffalo Bills, and lost a long battle with cancer last summer. "I was All-City three times. That's something I am really proud of."
Sileo has a forum for expressing what is always a strong opinion about Miami and other sports news: He has a highly-rated morning talk show on WDAE in Tampa, the flagship station for the Buccaneers. He said his alma mater has been the main topic of conversation since the investigation by Yahoo! Sports came out last week. He said he has kept strong ties to the Miami program and claimed that he speaks to its first-year coach, Al Golden, every day.
"This has been massive because obviously everyone knows how close I am with that place," Sileo said. "People want information on the program and they know they can get it from me. There's my family, my daughter and wife, and then there's my football family. The University of Miami has meant everything to me. It really has."
Sileo has an interesting background, one he does not hide from. He stayed at Maryland for a year, then was thrown out of school for throwing a person out of a one-story window. Sileo has also admitted to using anabolic steroids while in the NFL — he told his story years ago during a special series in the Stamford Advocate.
Sileo went to the University of Cincinnati for a summer to get his grades up, and then had his football career saved by Miami coach Jimmy Johnson.
"If it wasn't for Jimmy, I don't know what would have happened," Sileo said. "He threw me a lifeline."
Sileo said he won't get any satisfaction until anyone proved to be involved in wrongdoing at Miami is punished.
And he said Stamford will always remain close to his heart.
"My aunt still lives there and I still come back once a year during the winter time," Sileo said. "I still go to Bobby Valentine's restaurant and hang out. I love Stamford."


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Underneath That Smile
Discoveries Come From Chaos
"Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish." ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
Mandy striking a pose amongst the rubble
Through the Looking-Glass
Yes, The River Knows
Thank God it's Friday. I'm beat.
Nightmares and Dreamscapes
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Children's Hospital is designated as a Level 4 epilepsy center by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers. Level 4 epilepsy centers have the professional expertise and facilities to provide the highest level of medical and surgical evaluation and treatment for patients with complex epilepsy. Children's Hospital has Wisconsin's only Level 4 pediatric epilepsy program.
The Epilepsy Program provides comprehensive services for children with epilepsy including the newest drug therapies, vagal nerve stimulation, ketogenic diet and epilepsy surgery. Children's Hospital is home to the largest and most advanced pediatric epilepsy monitoring unit in the region.
Staff has extensive experience with patients who have unusual or difficult to control epilepsy. Medical treatment is offered for all types of epilepsy, and epilepsy surgery is provided for certain types of seizures in children. The pediatric epileptologists are experienced with conventional antiepileptic medication, as well as medications developed in recent years. Surgical results are excellent, a tribute to experienced pediatric neurologists, pediatric epileptologists and pediatric neurosurgeons.
Take a tour of the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit.
Epilepsy Program highlights include:
- A state-of-the-art epilepsy monitoring unit was created to diagnose and treat children with hard-to-control epilepsy. The eight-bed unit is extended through the use of several mobile units for monitoring patients in the pediatric and neonatal intensive care units and other areas of the hospital. The EMU, the largest of its kind in the region, has a central nurses' station with a 360-degree view of the private patient rooms. Neurophysiology technologists monitor video and EEG equipment in the unit 24 hours a day. Each room in the EMU provides a bed for the parent staying with the child, as well as other amenities to make the family's stay more comfortable.
- Patients can receive long-term video EEG monitoring within the EMU, the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.


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The Charm City Roller Girls hold their final interleague doubleheader of the season with Female Trouble kicking off the action in a bout against the Garden State Rollergirls' all-star team, the Ironbound Maidens. Fresh off of an amazing come-from-behind victory against the Lehigh Valley Rollergirls, Female Trouble is looking unstoppable due to the depth of their jammer rotation and solid pack work. Nevertheless, the Maidens are not to be underestimated as their schedule has been twice as heavy as Female Trouble's, giving them the advantage when it comes to team cohesiveness and defensive game play.
Immediately following, the CCRG All Stars (#3 WFTDA East) play their final home game, in preparation for the 2012 playoff season, against the Rat City All Stars (#5 WFTDA West). Charm and Rat City have sparred twice in their history. The first was during the 2009 East Coast Derby Extravaganza where the All Stars were able to squeak out a nail-biting victory despite travel issues and technical difficulties at the venue. However, Rat City controlled the 2010 rematch by catching Charm at the end of a grueling West Coast road trip that started with hard-hitting bouts against Rose City and Oly. This matchup is Charm's opportunity to settle the score on their home turf.
In addition, this doubleheader will feature the release of a "one time only" Flying Dog ale made specifically for the Charm City Roller Girls. Join the fun at the Clarence "Du" Burns Arena, 1301 S. Ellwood Avenue. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., the first whistle is at 6:30 p.m. with the second bout starting at approximately 8:00 p.m. This event is family friendly and wheelchair accessible. Tickets can be purchased at the door for $15, but it's recommended that patrons buy online at www.missiontix.com; kids under 12 are $5; general admission is $12; and VIP tickets are $25. Street parking is plentiful and paid parking lots are within walking distance of the venue.
The Charm City Roller Girls (CCRG) is Baltimore's only all-female flat track roller derby league. CCRG is a member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) and is proudly skater owned and operated.
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Jarhead1982 writes:
So sad for you antis, Harris & Keilbold, you know, the 2 Columbine shooters, used 10 round magazines, so much for smaller magazine capacities reduced killings eh!
But hey, forcing untrained psychos to use smaller ultra reliable magazines that are battle tested and never jam thereby making them more effective killers, sigh, such is the unintended consequences of fools!
Unfortunately for people who dont know anything about firearms, were the ban to occur, the psycho idiot would ...
1) just go to the blackmarket as we see how ineffective that ban on illicit drugs is
2) use a 12 ga pump shotgun, 2 3/4" #2 shot w 50 .27 caliber balls at 1,300 fps (thats faster than most .22 rifle rounds and that has killed amny, many people).
A 12 ga fired at 20 yards (thats 60ft for you math illiterates) which is maximum size of any classroom, penetrates 4.5"-6" of ballistic gel.
You do realize that a .177 cal pellet fired from an air rifle will penetrate 6" into ballistic gelatin eh?
You do know how deep such a .27 caliber ball would have to penetrate an adult to be fatal, 2" is all it would need to be able to pentrate a vital organ, much less if it was a head hit. A child is what, half the thickness of an adult body wise, yeah.
Dont forget that a shotgun shot dispersion in an open choke at 20 yrds is 3.5' to 4' in diamter meaning one only has to point and pull the triger, hitting more than one target at a time, just like Holmes did.See Lanza fired 79 -100 rounds in that nearly 11 minutes he had to kill at will.
If Lanza had used a shotgun, he would have fired 79 - 100 rounds x 50 .27 caliber ball per round = 3,950-5,000 .27 caliber projectiles.
Man that sure makes killing easy and even weirder, you dont want to ban this weapon even though it is more effective and easier to use than a semi-auto rifle that only fired 79-100 rounds.
You antis should really learn about that which you are trying to ban, otherwise you just end up looking stupid, then again, that works for us!
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Bee-a-thon 2011 - Taking World by Swarm
From 11 a.m. to 11 p..m July 16 Central Time Citizens, Science and Social Media Join Together To Kick Off The Great Bee Count.By: Press release, Pine Journal
On July 16th, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. (US Pacific time), YourGardenShow.com is presenting Bee-a-thon 2011, the first-ever, free online "town hall" event broadcasting live to a worldwide audience to shed light on the plight of our disappearing bee populations. Bees and pollinators are responsible for one in every three bites of food and contribute billions of dollars to global economies, so their dwindling numbers affect everyone.
The Bee-a-thon live online event brings together top bee experts and environmental players with backgrounds in science, activism, conservation, arts and education who will be interacting with viewers via a user-friendly live chat area and providing inspiring ways to help the bees this summer. People will be tuning in to the event for anywhere between 12 minutes or 12 hours, from living rooms, gardens, mobile devices and "backyard bee parties."


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A recent publication of the Brookings Institution advocates that American parents should have the right and receive the financial wherewithal to select the schools their children attend. Brookings, a liberal-leaning think-tank, has supported the work of authors John Chubb and Terry Moe, who now join many U.S. conservatives in advocating an open market approach as the way to improve the public schools.
Clearly, choice in education is still a hot issue, stimulating new interest among those favoring vouchers and raising the red flag for others who view competition as the last thing our public education system needs just now.


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For Lemon Drop Bark, just melt the candy coating, add the candy, and you're done -- it's that simple. The crushed lemon drops give this sweet treat some pucker.
Biscotti gets its crunch from baking twice. Our citrus-speckled Lemon Walnut Biscotti recipe comes from the Inn at Kristofer's in Sister Bay, Wisconsin.
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Through the Benjamin A. Botkin Folklife Lecture Series, the American Folklife Center presents the best of current research and practice in Folklore, Folklife, and closely related fields. The series invites professionals from academia and the public sector to present findings from their research. The lectures are free and open to the public. In addition, each lecture is recorded for permanent deposit in the Archive of Folk Culture, where researchers can access them.
Benjamin A. Botkin (1901-1975) was a pioneering folklorist who believed that people continually create folklore out of their collective experiences. He was national folklore editor of the Federal Writers' Project (1938-39), chief editor of the Writers' Unit of the Library of Congress Project (1939-1941), head of the Archive of American Folksong (1942-45), and author of numerous folklore treasuries. The American Folklife Center is indebted to his work as both a folklorist and a government official. For all these reasons, the American Folklife Center has chosen to name this lecture series in his honor. Select this link for a biographical sketch, " Benjamin Botkin's Legacy-in-the-Making," by Jerrold Hirsch.
Traditional Music of Coastal Louisiana: The 1934 Lomax Recordings, presented by Joshua Caffery, Alan Lomax Fellow in Folklife Studies, Kluge Center, Library of Congress
This talk examines the songs recorded in the summer of 1934 by John Lomax, with assistance from his son Alan, who was then a teenager. While the music they recorded there has often been described as Cajun or Creole music, what they actually found was much more complex: a diverse admixture of old medieval lays, Continental pop songs, blues ballads, round dance songs, traditional ballads in French, a Scottish jig, and much more. This talk coincides with the release of the book Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana, a study of the 1934 trip.
Dr. Josh Caffery is a writer and musician, and a native of Franklin, Louisiana. He is a founding member of The Red Stick Ramblers and a longtime member of the Louisiana French band Feufollet. Caffery was nominated for a Grammy in 2010 for his work on the Feufollet album En Couleurs. He is currently the Alan Lomax Fellow in Folklife Studies at the John W. Kluge Center in the Library of Congress.
The "Hidden" Carols: A Christmas Singing Tradition in the English Pennines, presented by Ian Russell, Director of The Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen
For well over two and a half centuries, the performance of distinctive carols has been a feature of the seasonal holiday of Christmas in villages in many parts of England, especially in the West Country and in the region of South Yorkshire and Derbyshire around Sheffield, on the eastern edge of the Pennine hills. The latter region comprises some fifty or more significant settlements and associated communities, many of which maintain a vernacular carolling tradition, which will be the focus of this lecture. In contrast to the monodic examples of solo performers recorded by folksong collectors in the early part of the twentieth century in England, these carols and their manner of performance are wholly dependent on group interaction, characterized by part-singing and often by complex instrumental accompaniment. In his lecture, Ian Russell will explore the development of this tradition in terms of musicality, group structure, style, and repertoire. He will analyze the dynamics of performance that characterize these groups, including the roles of singers and the performance milieux – currently most singing groups focus their activities in the village pub rather than the church or chapel. These carols differ in both style and content from the standard repertoire broadcast by the media and promoted by churches and choral institutions. They are performed without formal musical direction by ad hoc groups, largely comprising untrained singers, rather than by choirs and conductors. Russell will discuss the overall sound ideal created by such carolling and the dynamic soundscape that identifies this form of cultural expression, drawing on the ethnographic fieldwork he has undertaken during the past forty years.
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Breast Reduction Questions
What is breast reduction surgery?
Breast reduction surgery, medically referred to as reduction mammaplasty, is a plastic surgery procedure intended to reduce large breasts as well as to make them more symmetrical and proportioned to the rest of the body.
Who is a good candidate for breast reduction surgery?
The best candidates for breast reduction surgery are women whose breasts have fully developed and who are experiencing physical discomfort due to their breast size. Many women whose breasts are very large experience back and spinal problems.
What are some of the benefits of breast reduction surgery?
Breast reduction surgery can remedy a number of problems associated with enlarged breasts including back and neck pain, shoulder strain, poor posture, skin irritation and infection, shortness of breath, difficulty participating in sports or other recreational activities, difficulty fitting clothes, and social/sexual embarrassment. When you feel better about how you look, you typically feel better about everything else!
Are there risks involved with this breast surgery?
As with any surgery, there are risks with breast reduction procedures. Complications may include infection, blood clots, adverse reaction to anesthesia, nerve damage, loss of sensation, asymmetry of breasts, and scarring. The ability to breastfeed may be affected, but Dr. Lapuerta will discuss this with you at the time of your initial appointment.
What is involved with the procedure for breast reduction?
The techniques for breast reduction vary; however, the procedure is almost always performed under general anesthesia. Generally, Dr. Lapuerta will make an incision similar in shape to an anchor or inverted keyhole that encompasses the area from the top of the nipple to the crease of the breast. Then, he removes excess fat, skin, and tissue and repositions the remaining skin and areola. Breast reduction surgery usually takes one to three hours per breast.
What should I expect after the surgery?
After surgery, your breast area will be wrapped in gauze and an elastic bandage or surgical bra. You will have to continue wearing the bra/bandage even after the gauze has been removed, which usually happens several days after the breast reduction surgery. For several weeks to several months, you can expect to experience soreness and swelling while your breasts heal. Patients can usually resume work and other activities between one and six weeks after the surgery, depending on the individual.
If you live in Houston or the surrounding areas such as Pearland, Sugar Land or Friendswood and would like to learn more about breast reduction surgery, please contact Pearland plastic surgeon Dr. Leo Lapuerta, Jr., today to schedule your initial consultation.


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Gerald L. Nelson, 66, of Carlton, passed away Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012 at his home, after a long courageous battle with cancer.
Gerald L. Nelson, 66, of Carlton, passed away Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012 at his home, after a long courageous battle with cancer.
He was born April 13, 1946 to Edwin and Eva (Curtis) Nelson.
Jerry worked as a truck driver for Brenny-Dahl Block Co. and Ready Mix in Duluth for many years. He loved playing Bingo at the Black Bear Casino; water skiing in his younger years, hunting and fishing; living at Chub Lake in Carlton since 1994, and especially spending time with family and grandkids.
Gerald was preceded in death by his parents; and one brother, Michael Nelson.
He is survived by three children, Susan (Dale) Thrun of Hermantown, Christopher (Kara) Nelson of Maple Grove and Jeremy (Amanda) Nelson of Cloquet; four grandchildren, Andrew, Ava, Alexis and Aiden Nelson; two brothers, Curtis (Kathy) Nelson and Barry (Rhonda Erickson) Nelson both of Cloquet; one sister, Linda (Jim) Boyd of Cloquet; one sister-in-law, Barbara Nelson of Cloquet; and numerous nieces and nephews.
The family would like to express their special thanks to the staff at Home Instead Senior Care and especially the wonderful care given by his hospice nurse, Stephanie Marshall "The Boss".
VISITATION: 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012 in Nelson Funeral Care in Cloquet. The visitation will resume on Friday, Sept. 28, 2012 from 10 a.m. until the 11 a.m. funeral service in Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Cloquet, followed with a luncheon in the church social hall. See the family online guest book at www.nelsonfuneralcare.net
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