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Nov 30, 2007 2:25pm
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Something lost in translation?
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Nov 30, 2007 8:37am
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Nov 29, 2007 5:26pm
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Javno - World
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Nov 27, 2007 3:23pm
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http://www.javno.com/en/world/clanak.php?id=101462
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Name giving dangers (the M word)
This unlucky teacher is in trouble for a Teddy bear with a forbidden name.
What is really behind this zeal to punish the one who committed this horrible transgression?
I know this may sound far fetched, but please, bear (No joke intended) with me for a while;
A lifetime ago, I was leading one out of five teams in a workplace. Four of the teams were fairly even in their proficiency, the fifth team was not doing very well.
It was very obvious and that crew developed quite an inferiority complex. It was hard to cooperate with them, always an undertone of hostility and you had to choose your words carefully in order not to hurt any feelings.
Then they found their niche: Safety issues! (We were actually working in high risk environment.) They might still be under-performing, but now they were also crusaders for this sacred cause.
Woe to anybody, who they found making a mistake in these matters.
With great mock sadness, they found themselves forced to write a report and forward it to the management about the shortcomings of their fellow co-workers.
The excitement that they felt, when a big transgression was committed by a team member outside their group!
And we let it go on, since we needed that team to do its part of the job and we felt somewhat sorry for them.
Over time they caught up with the rest of us in skills and the commitment to safety issues went back to a more healthy level.
So, will we see a similar development in "real life" or will the world blow up before this has a chance to take place.
I realize that this is an overly simplified, perhaps silly comparison.
But self esteem is playing a bigger role than we might think in all relations, local as well as global and cultural.
A lifetime ago
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Nov 25, 2007 1:58pm
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Nov 24, 2007 2:12pm
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Jackdaw
 
Every winter this friendly bird comes to spend the nights in our bamboo hedge. He won't be coming until the oaks and maples are barren, which will take another two weeks, perhaps.
They come in hundreds right after sunset. The noise is unbelievable, they chatter until they all are settled. After that they are absolutely silent. One reason for this is probably the hawk, that also shows up every evening and won't give up until he has chosen and grabbed his unlucky victim. It's hard to watch, but he is only following his instincts.
A small movie sample..poor quality.
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Nov 24, 2007 12:16pm
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In the fifties there were all these books about Major Bigglesworth and his heroic adventures during WW1 and WW2. His Arch Enemy was von Stalhein, who managed to make life hard for Biggles and his mates, but our hero always won. Von Stalhein slipped away mysteriously, though, only to surface in the next book. My peers and I read them all.
We didn't think of it then, but later the major's lack of interest in the opposite sex made us wonder.
Perhaps to counteract the lack of heroines, the author, captain W.E. Jones also wrote books about Worrals, WAAF, a brave lady, I'm sure.
Unfortunately, her books had a red binding, while Biggles' books were green. We could only read the green ones, obviously, the others were girl books.
Towards the end of his career, W.E.Jones wrote three books about space. He had a somewhat different approach to space than the "normal" SciFi writers, I found those books perhaps the best of his writing, even if his knowledge in astronomy had a few fatal flaws.
All of his writing was great for kids, it made me like reading books.
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StumbleUpon - Dhajs web site reviews and blog
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Nov 23, 2007 7:56pm
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http://dhaj.stumbleupon.com/
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Let's say Hi and welcome to DHaj.
Her blog already spans from Swedish singing horses to Grilled Mussels!
And the Avatar is intriguing, too.
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Nov 21, 2007 4:10pm
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My wife and I passed Graceland on our way home from Mississippi
pretty late in the day, today.
The light was not good for picture taking, almost dusk,
but I gave it a try anyway.
Above is one of the many cars Elvis owned, I suppose.
It's permanently parked across the street from Graceland
Above a picture of "the Wailing Wall", Elvis Presley Boulevard to the left,Graceland to the right. It's filled with "Graffiti", if you will, notes from all visitors from around the world.
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Nov 20, 2007 8:59pm
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From Wikipedia, Haeckel Lichenes
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Fantastic shapes, formed by fungi and algae in symbiosis.
A magnifying glass is needed to fully appreciate the intricate parts of them and you also need to be really close to the ground to notice them, unless they are colorful like this specimen.
An insignificant blotch, like this one, is far more complicated than anything we are able to mimic in our labs.
Although I have a hard time to swallow what some creationists claim, it's even harder to believe that "it jeez happened" when prehistoric lightning struck a pool of molecular soup and took off to be plants or shrimps or elephants.
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