Today's archidose #624

Here are some photos of a couple projects in Zaandam, Netherlands, designed by <a href="http://www.soetersvaneldonk.nl/">Soeters Van Eldonk Architecten</a>, both photographed by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/klaasfotocollectie/">Klaas Vermaaas</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.soetersvaneldonk.nl/en/architectuur/werken/zaandam.html">City Hall Zaanstad</a> (2011):<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/klaasfotocollectie/8046774573/" title="zaanstad stadhuis 01 2011 soeters s (provinciale wg) by Klaas5, on Flickr"><img alt="zaanstad stadhuis 01 2011 soeters s (provinciale wg)" height="427" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8457/8046774573_e860c03a2e_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/klaasfotocollectie/8046779952/" title="zaanstad stadhuis 02 2011 soeters s (provinciale wg) by Klaas5, on Flickr"><img alt="zaanstad stadhuis 02 2011 soeters s (provinciale wg)" height="427" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8171/8046779952_705e84dbbe_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.wam-architecten.nl/projecten/Intell_Hotel_Zaandam.php?english">Inntel Hotel</a> (2010):<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/klaasfotocollectie/8050075942/" title="zaanstad hotel inntel 06 2010 wam_molenaar_v winden (provinciale wg) by Klaas5, on Flickr"><img alt="zaanstad hotel inntel 06 2010 wam_molenaar_v winden (provinciale wg)" height="427" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8313/8050075942_be2ab778cc_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/klaasfotocollectie/8050078810/" title="zaanstad hotel inntel 03 2010 wam_molenaar_v winden (provinciale wg) by Klaas5, on Flickr"><img alt="zaanstad hotel inntel 03 2010 wam_molenaar_v winden (provinciale wg)" height="800" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8169/8050078810_6c3aebaa43_c.jpg" width="534" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/klaasfotocollectie/8050077042/" title="zaanstad hotel inntel 05 2010 wam_molenaar_v winden (provinciale wg) by Klaas5, on Flickr"><img alt="zaanstad hotel inntel 05 2010 wam_molenaar_v winden (provinciale wg)" height="800" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8033/8050077042_1ce6f9cb12_c.jpg" width="534" /></a><br /><br />To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just:<br /><blockquote>:: Join and add photos to the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/archi-dose/">archidose pool</a>, and/or<br />:: Tag your photos <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/archidose/">archidose</a></span></blockquote>

Today's archidose #624

Here are some photos of a couple projects in Zaandam, Netherlands, designed by Soeters Van Eldonk Architecten , both photographed by Klaas V...

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My Freaky Neighbor

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />Hola freaks and weirdos  After months of involuntarily listening in on my upstairs neighbor’s activities I have suddenly put all together. Well, it wasn’t so sudden really. It actually took several nights of lying awake in my bed while listening to a rhythmic squeaking and banging noises going on above me.<br /><br />My neighbor gets a lot of action. I always figured that he was either a really charming guy or had access to great drugs that girls were willing to do anything for. But, the more action he got, the more things didn’t seem to add up.<br /><br />See, it sounded like my neighbor had an air mattress that he used as his “sex bed” because it wasn’t bed springs or a bed frame type squeaking. If you've ever slept on an air bed you’ll know what I mean. It sounds like squeezing a beach ball.<br /><br />Here’s the weird part. I've never hear any HUMAN noises up there. No moaning or screaming or cooing or anything. No talking beforehand or afterwards. Also, after he’s through he jumps out of bed and runs to the bathroom. But, nobody else does. In fact, there’s only one person walking around up there EVER.<br /><br />Hell, three minutes before he’s in bed getting bizz-ay he’s outside talking on his cellphone. Next thing you know he’s squeezing the beach ball for ten minutes and that’s it. Then, after a trip to the bathroom, he goes into the other bedroom, gets into a bed that has a real squeaky frame and goes to sleep.<br /><br />So, I think we all know where this is going, right? Yup … My upstairs neighbor has a girl drugged and chained to an air mattress in his apartment.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF8ZlpUnQ30eca9i22ds1HodsgwqeFqbz56quf5RnjpuJCRwchnQECS4CNhp4fQKLHDP3bgSkytLZHhzvFHD4oJ-KtQ4qlvsM5o6k3Z_TXfcIJVhipswlFAuPwAvQ5y0wDsHMTnfm3uag/s1600/Blow+Up+Doll+Twins.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF8ZlpUnQ30eca9i22ds1HodsgwqeFqbz56quf5RnjpuJCRwchnQECS4CNhp4fQKLHDP3bgSkytLZHhzvFHD4oJ-KtQ4qlvsM5o6k3Z_TXfcIJVhipswlFAuPwAvQ5y0wDsHMTnfm3uag/s320/Blow+Up+Doll+Twins.jpg" width="273" /></a></div>Wait … No, that’s not it. I hope. His girlfriend is a blow up doll.<br /><br />Not that there’s anything wrong with that. And I’m certainly not one to judge, but it’s just one of those things that seems odd and one feels they must share on their blog with the whole world.<br /><br />Has anyone out there ever tried a blow up doll? I guess maybe some people just need a little help when it comes to masturbating. If this dude was in the blogosphere or twitter he would meet more than enough hot babes to fantasize about and maybe he wouldn't need something like that and wouldn't have worry about hiding his “girlfriend” in case maintenance came into his apt when he was gone. And that’s exactly what’s going to happen if I can talk the maintenance dude into to. I’m totally going to try to get him to go in there and look. Just for confirmation, not so I can mock him again. I would never do something like that. But, just so I’ll know if my months of detective work were worth it.<br /><br />If there is no blow up girlfriend up there, I will have to ask him where he finds all these deaf and mute girls. Unless he’s good at finding girls who don’t mind having duct tape over their mouths during sex. That would be kinda hot.<br /><br />Jayman<br /><a href="mailto:Jayman3768@gmail.com">Jayman3768@gmail.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/jayman_iws">@Jayman_IWS </a><br /><br /><br />Also, on Wednesday we had a great show talking about the Presidential Debate, Nicki Minaj vs Mariah Carey, speaking Canadian and Drive-By Mikey called in to update us all on the Great Mouse Hunt of 2012. All that and so much more! 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Rain, rain go away.....

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I went for a walk before work today. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was lovely weather when I set off.  I walked along the canal.  There were loads of people out cycling and walking as it was quite a nice day.  </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh572mMU4RzUs0on-F29jTl4U9i33jfgK7ZbJRrNf1VopdXYKHzWw8p3ygJf8UZ3HR53Wms3jbH2-58KjocCEf3wIyTfTxjkf8UnmbM50mc8mRvwjuq93j_n1yYWPTgRKJIO5y9MD7HViIa/s1600/IMG_2110%5B1%5D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh572mMU4RzUs0on-F29jTl4U9i33jfgK7ZbJRrNf1VopdXYKHzWw8p3ygJf8UZ3HR53Wms3jbH2-58KjocCEf3wIyTfTxjkf8UnmbM50mc8mRvwjuq93j_n1yYWPTgRKJIO5y9MD7HViIa/s320/IMG_2110%5B1%5D.JPG" width="239" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">It began to get windy and then started to rain a little.  All of the pictured swans on the canal began to make their way under this tree for shelter from the rain.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQOJEZDxxTpzJT8p58ZpqWP1Vwl7WYvKIt5aue2m4ou7WIrkggHYMy6qIa9gNrkugl99JOlMYPdLrK4vQbMBV5ZdeOa1cdRwy82cwA1Hbse09wil7RNZYu8cCdakgsSRJJMCsPbL49upto/s1600/IMG_2115%5B1%5D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQOJEZDxxTpzJT8p58ZpqWP1Vwl7WYvKIt5aue2m4ou7WIrkggHYMy6qIa9gNrkugl99JOlMYPdLrK4vQbMBV5ZdeOa1cdRwy82cwA1Hbse09wil7RNZYu8cCdakgsSRJJMCsPbL49upto/s320/IMG_2115%5B1%5D.JPG" width="239" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I made my way straight to Starbucks on Mespill Road to avoid getting wet! </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBRN3NmJHLYUDHEGzkrn9TYa7aoMec48CjFQ5xt-Jiyp9H9_f_6-9RBA54SHkNPGkswMY0PBdbtaIRWSCbcx1SykDe9mn7DTpZMSfdzoyN8qt4cmJxlNkfuumkkz0QTNR2rBGTeaCP-Cli/s1600/IMG_2111%5B1%5D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBRN3NmJHLYUDHEGzkrn9TYa7aoMec48CjFQ5xt-Jiyp9H9_f_6-9RBA54SHkNPGkswMY0PBdbtaIRWSCbcx1SykDe9mn7DTpZMSfdzoyN8qt4cmJxlNkfuumkkz0QTNR2rBGTeaCP-Cli/s320/IMG_2111%5B1%5D.JPG" width="239" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">It is a very small Starbucks, I think it is more of a takeaway coffee spot for all of the offices in the locality. The sit in area is not hugely attractive........but luckily for me it is not my closest Starbucks - that's the one at the Luas Stop on Harcourt Street.</span>

Rain, rain go away.....

I went for a walk before work today.  It was lovely weather when I set off.  I walked along the canal.  There were loads of people out cycli...

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Booster Shots - health, medicine, nutrition, disease, healthcare, fitness - latimes.com

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Senior Staff Opto-Mechanical Engineer (108717) (DUV Systems)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><!-- Converted from text/rtf format --> <br /><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Job Title:</span></b></span><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Senior Staff Opto-Mechanical Engineer</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Location:</span></b></span><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Milpitas, CA</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Position:</span></b></span><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Full time </span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">  </span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Responsibilities:</span></b></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Surfscan-ADE division of KLA-Tencor is an industry leading supplier of wafer inspection and metrology systems. Wafer suppliers and device manufacturers worldwide rely on our measurement and inspection systems to certify and ensure the highest quality bare silicon substrates. Semiconductor device yields begin with the bare wafer, and our leading technologies provide early insight into surface defects, shape, flatness and nanotopography of these advanced 300 and 450mm substrates. Our optical inspection and metrology tools will support the next several generations of wafer and IC manufacturing.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> We are seeking a Senior Opto-Mechanical Engineer whose responsibilities will be to:</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Define the architecture of cutting edge wafer inspection systems.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Work alongside optical engineers to understand and engineer solutions to critical opto-mechanical requirements.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Lead the development and qualification of complex opto-mechanical assemblies.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Assume responsibility for design, fabrication, alignment, performance characterization, and technical interaction with vendors.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Perform hands-on use of conventional and cutting edge DUV metrology tools to characterize subsystem performance.  System level inspection tool operation will also be used to establish and verify subsystem requirements and operation.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Collaboratively interact with a multidisciplinary project team and regularly communicate requirements and results in oral and written form.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Some travel may be required. </span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Qualifications :</span></b></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Candidates must possess the following qualities:</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Visionary 3D thinker capable of taking complex concepts and packaging them in a manufacturable design.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Capable 3D modeler who enjoys iterating through multiple product architecture proposals with an open mind for improvement and progress.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Understand complex mechanical tolerancing.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Able to collaborate with Optical Engineers to engineer a complete alignment methodology.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Top down thinker who understands all current manufacturing technologies.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Experience taking conceptual information and architecting multiple solutions and approaches to solving design challenges.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Experience with actively adapting to changing design requirements.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Firm foundation in machine design.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Experience with optical alignment methodology and tooling.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Candidates will have some combination of the following qualities:</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Experience with Opto-Mechanical design principles: kinematic design, flexures, athermalization, environmental effects.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Experience designing opto-mechanical modules and custom fixtures and tooling leading to successful introduction into manufacturing.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Structural analysis: finite element analysis, stress in optics, creep and stress relaxation, modal analysis.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Experience working with Optical metrology equipment including lasers, interferometers, autocollimators.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Fundamental optics knowledge: geometric optics, ray tracing, wavefront propogation, polarization, fabrication tolerances, environmental effects desired.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Thermal analysis: heat transfer, temperature gradients, thermal transients, thermo-elastic analysis.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Vendor management: component fabrication, manufacturing process transfer, qualification.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 12 years of experience or equivalent. </span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">OR</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Master's Level Degree with at least 8 years of experience or equivalent. </span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">OR</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Doctorate (Academic) with at least 5 years of experience or equivalent. </span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Kindly send your resumes to</span></span><span lang="en-us"><b> <span style="font-family: Arial;">abhinav.rajkumar@kla-tencor.com</span></b></span><span lang="en-us"></span></div></div>

Senior Staff Opto-Mechanical Engineer (108717) (DUV Systems)

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Internet addiction diagnosis: DSM revision to include "internet-use disorder" as a possible condition for further study.

<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><div class="text parbase section" style="margin-top: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; ">Everybody panic: Internet-use disorder is a thing now. Kind of.</p></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin-top: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; ">The new version of the DSM—the international psychiatric diagnostic manual—will list "Internet-use disorder" as a condition "recommended for further study." Essentially, they're saying that some people who spend a lot of time on the Internet demonstrate similar symptoms to people diagnosed with other addiction disorders, and that the psychiatric community should study it and consider promoting it to a full-blown disorder down the road. In other words, no one's getting a diagnosis, yet.<br></p></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin-top: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; ">The classification seems to stem from previous concerns about gaming addctions in kids, as <a href="https://rt.com/news/internet-use-mental-illness-389/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">Russia Today'</a>s write-up of the DSM change explains:</p></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin-top: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><blockquote style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 40px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 0.9em; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; ">Australia was one of the first countries to recognize the problem and offer public treatment, and established clinics to treat video game addiction. That such widely used technologies can cause deep harm to children has lead to further examinations of adults habits surrounding devices used 24/7 for reading, gaming, and social interactions.</blockquote></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin-top: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; ">For those of you who are rolling your eyes a bit at yet another addiction in the public eye, the<strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; "><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; ">Slate</em></strong> archives have you covered: <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2009/07/bitterness_compulsive_shopping_and_internet_addiction.html" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; ">Christopher Lane</strong></a> explains the madness behind the DSM-V process and examines some of the more absurd sounding disorders considered for inclusion in recent years. As he puts it:</p></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin-top: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><blockquote style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 40px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 0.9em; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; ">"If you spend hours online, have sex more frequently than aging psychiatrists, and moan incessantly that the federal government can't account for all its TARP funds, take heed: You may soon be classed among the 48 million Americans the APA already considers mentally ill." </blockquote></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin-top: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; ">Meanwhile, <strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2009/12/the_addiction_habit.html" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">Vaughan Bell</a></strong> laments the "creeping medicalization of everyday life" and asks if we're pretty much just addicted to being addicted.</p></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/10/02/internet_addiction_diagnosis_dsm_revision_to_include_internet_use_disorder_as_a_possible_condition_for_further_study_.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content"></a></span><a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/10/02/internet_addiction_diagnosis_dsm_revision_to_include_internet_use_disorder_as_a_possible_condition_for_further_study_.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content"></a></div><a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/10/02/internet_addiction_diagnosis_dsm_revision_to_include_internet_use_disorder_as_a_possible_condition_for_further_study_.html">http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/10/02/internet_addiction_diagnosis_dsm_revision_to_include_internet_use_disorder_as_a_possible_condition_for_further_study_.html</a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>

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<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><div class="text parbase section" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; ">Everybody panic: Internet-use disorder is a thing now. Kind of.</p></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; ">The new version of the DSM—the international psychiatric diagnostic manual—will list "Internet-use disorder" as a condition "recommended for further study." Essentially, they're saying that some people who spend a lot of time on the Internet demonstrate similar symptoms to people diagnosed with other addiction disorders, and that the psychiatric community should study it and consider promoting it to a full-blown disorder down the road. In other words, no one's getting a diagnosis, yet.<br></p></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; ">The classification seems to stem from previous concerns about gaming addctions in kids, as<a href="https://rt.com/news/internet-use-mental-illness-389/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">Russia Today'</a>s write-up of the DSM change explains:</p></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><blockquote style="margin: 1em auto; padding: 0px 40px; border: 0px; font-size: 0.9em; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; ">Australia was one of the first countries to recognize the problem and offer public treatment, and established clinics to treat video game addiction. That such widely used technologies can cause deep harm to children has lead to further examinations of adults habits surrounding devices used 24/7 for reading, gaming, and social interactions.</blockquote></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; ">For those of you who are rolling your eyes a bit at yet another addiction in the public eye, the<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; "><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; ">Slate</em></strong> archives have you covered: <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2009/07/bitterness_compulsive_shopping_and_internet_addiction.html" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; "><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; ">Christopher Lane</strong></a> explains the madness behind the DSM-V process and examines some of the more absurd sounding disorders considered for inclusion in recent years. As he puts it:</p></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><blockquote style="margin: 1em auto; padding: 0px 40px; border: 0px; font-size: 0.9em; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; ">"If you spend hours online, have sex more frequently than aging psychiatrists, and moan incessantly that the federal government can't account for all its TARP funds, take heed: You may soon be classed among the 48 million Americans the APA already considers mentally ill." </blockquote></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; ">Meanwhile, <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2009/12/the_addiction_habit.html" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">Vaughan Bell</a></strong> laments the "creeping medicalization of everyday life" and asks if we're pretty much just addicted to being addicted.</p></div></div><a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/10/02/internet_addiction_diagnosis_dsm_revision_to_include_internet_use_disorder_as_a_possible_condition_for_further_study_.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content">http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/10/02/internet_addiction_diagnosis_dsm_revision_to_include_internet_use_disorder_as_a_possible_condition_for_further_study_.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content</a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>

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<ul class="diigo-linkroll"> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://flatclassrooms.ning.com/group/flat-classroom-certified-teacher-12-1/forum/topics/what-are-creative-ways-we-can-create-symbiotic-learning-relations?xg_source=activity">What are creative ways we can create symbiotic learning relationships between different types of learners? - Flat Classrooms</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">This is a fascinating conversation about connecting, symbiotic relationships and more with some powerful, spot on answers. The teachers in our current Flat Classroom 12-1 cohort are amazing (and we have another cohort starting soon -- here's what we've been talking about this week. "This is happening now. Live Mocha and other sites have tandem learning - each learner teaches the other a different language. In my classroom, I have the older students teach younger students about computer hardware. But we could be doing so much more. Some professors like Dr. Leigh Zeitz (his students have served as expert advisors) and Dr. Eva Brown (her students helped run Eracism last year) are flattening their college classrooms with preservice teachers by having the teachers connect with high school and younger classrooms. These preservice teachers are understanding the nuances of the global collaborative classroom before graduating from college! There are so many ways we could be creating these types of learning relationships. This week, let's publicly talk about our ideas and also experiences in creating these experiences. We can learn more and do more in this area and technology opens up limitless possibilities. What do you think?"</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/globaled">globaled</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/flatclass">flatclass</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/tumblr">tumblr</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/all_teachers">all_teachers</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2012/09/google-drive-updates-for-ios-and-android.html">Google Drive: Updates for iOS and Android | Docs Blog</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">iPad schools that are also Google Apps will love that the new updates for iOS let you edit google docs simultaneously much like you do on the web! Great news.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/google">google</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/edapp">edapp</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/googleapps">googleapps</a></p> </li> </ul><p class="diigo-ps">Posted from <a href='http://www.diigo.com'>Diigo</a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher'>here</a>.</p>

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