News for today's 2018: 04/09/13

Anthony Weiner for Mayor of New York!

9:00 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="MsoNormal">Hola y’all! Former congressman Anthony Weiner (D-ick, NY) is very seriously considering reviving his political career and running for <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/04/06/former-rep-weiner-reportedly-considering-nyc-mayor-run/" target="_blank">mayorof New York City</a>. Of course I think this is a brilliant idea. More people who resigned their office in disgrace should get back into the politics. Anyway, I thought I would help Mr. Weiner out by suggesting a few slogans he can use for FREE cause that’s just the great guy I am.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">NYC Deserves a Weiner. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Anthony Weiner: Rising to the Occasion <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I 8====> NY<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Anthony Weiner: Working HARD for NY<o:p></o:p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2PK3Xhr_2NJq6k58DWoGnWC-sxU_G5vqo3AXEyv_tIIOxyJ2a6LO2hyphenhyphenBA4XFA83E0Y8J6HB86NG95f41tr8WH9wnz-BXcJjMUy0dJ3nPjS8gdTp7_5_BiWtnnxFl3DQh7o2RF0V-g2Rk/s1600/Anthony-Weiner-Dick.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2PK3Xhr_2NJq6k58DWoGnWC-sxU_G5vqo3AXEyv_tIIOxyJ2a6LO2hyphenhyphenBA4XFA83E0Y8J6HB86NG95f41tr8WH9wnz-BXcJjMUy0dJ3nPjS8gdTp7_5_BiWtnnxFl3DQh7o2RF0V-g2Rk/s320/Anthony-Weiner-Dick.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />  <div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Anthony Weiner: Just Another Working Stiff <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Anthony Weiner: I’ll Hang Around For You <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Anthony Weiner: Because Erections Matter <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Anthony Weiner: Because Nobody Else Measures Up <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Stick it to the Man and Vote Weiner <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Go BIG, Go Weiner! <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Vote Weiner! He’ll Never Go Soft on NY<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Anthony Weiner: Standing Strong for NY<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">A Little Weiner Never Hurt Anyone. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Anthony Weiner: I Have Nothing to Hide! <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Anthony Weiner: Working Long and Hard for You! <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Anthony Weiner: A Cut Above the Rest<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Anthony Weiner is EXCITED to Lead NY<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Anthony Weiner Needs Your Help. Throw the Guy a Bone! <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Anthony Weiner: Pitching a Big Tent Party. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">NYC Needs a Weinervention! <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Weiner, Weiner, Chicken Deiner. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Jayman3768@gmail.com">Jayman3768@gmail.com</a><br /><a href="http://facebook.com/Jayman68" target="_blank">Facebook.com/Jayman68</a><br /><a href="http://twitter.com/jayman_iws" target="_blank">@Jayman_IWS</a><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div></div>

Anthony Weiner for Mayor of New York!

Hola y’all! Former congressman Anthony Weiner (D-ick, NY) is very seriously considering reviving his political career and running for mayoro...

What I ate today

3:20 PM Tukiyooo 0

Lunch: Corgette and red pepper soup<br /><br />Dinner: Fillet steak with sweet potato wedges<br /><br /> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjomYD6lc0LISlhzRd47sNrpYNvCi7tar4xj36UsnSkEObHgkzmtbaPcDyfOdsnSHVxMj86VbFukZBZ0Xw2yB-MaeiwdCHHs2qikUxY5Ya6_L6cZiMW0fEBGdyKv5jFffWmkImvfo00hOtR/s640/blogger-image--1228503161.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjomYD6lc0LISlhzRd47sNrpYNvCi7tar4xj36UsnSkEObHgkzmtbaPcDyfOdsnSHVxMj86VbFukZBZ0Xw2yB-MaeiwdCHHs2qikUxY5Ya6_L6cZiMW0fEBGdyKv5jFffWmkImvfo00hOtR/s640/blogger-image--1228503161.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJt_RpZVTifY5twteZvVhovV6_R4y5LI1m6m6mdtfLXRYZFV0pGKlX57gGFGxDkrSQhMQkJZxz87HN6v0qpujXF78jEiO0AfclsZBYiDzB7JSl1tYTE-Pf0ZHXjQKlwCMlOtVTbgsFfuMa/s640/blogger-image--956819498.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJt_RpZVTifY5twteZvVhovV6_R4y5LI1m6m6mdtfLXRYZFV0pGKlX57gGFGxDkrSQhMQkJZxz87HN6v0qpujXF78jEiO0AfclsZBYiDzB7JSl1tYTE-Pf0ZHXjQKlwCMlOtVTbgsFfuMa/s640/blogger-image--956819498.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnDaGOxixypuCEw8xC4yhTJAS2rgDisb6eocI_3HITOFia-63kx4krrd3qhq6AS6vch4sl6tWL4eFi6E5M8dI_TV0PAxff4ZGxVRdKdEWfZWviOD1c20pBXARj_UbiLkxXV8aWiLPKAn_h/s640/blogger-image-2127440722.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnDaGOxixypuCEw8xC4yhTJAS2rgDisb6eocI_3HITOFia-63kx4krrd3qhq6AS6vch4sl6tWL4eFi6E5M8dI_TV0PAxff4ZGxVRdKdEWfZWviOD1c20pBXARj_UbiLkxXV8aWiLPKAn_h/s640/blogger-image-2127440722.jpg" /></a></div>

What I ate today

Lunch: Corgette and red pepper soup Dinner: Fillet steak with sweet potato wedges

Yoga

2:23 PM Tukiyooo 0

Practiced yoga for 90 mins with my sister while Ciaran started on dinner.   <br /><br />Here's a pic of my sisters cat making some yogic moves! <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQM1tBOZYfFp3tjwEb_24Ij53TrsLIMqxPPrjVVynOfQAs6pDpjXG5p381MtyvXLYn_l9taP2IBYMAUA4FkCOTAmAP-iA8UAJnFNvLIYlbM7v_qwR7mgkmabXXugzLhE0mjannc78VfmFa/s640/blogger-image--396215065.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQM1tBOZYfFp3tjwEb_24Ij53TrsLIMqxPPrjVVynOfQAs6pDpjXG5p381MtyvXLYn_l9taP2IBYMAUA4FkCOTAmAP-iA8UAJnFNvLIYlbM7v_qwR7mgkmabXXugzLhE0mjannc78VfmFa/s640/blogger-image--396215065.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSKFt4EhxHKUknGcATK6Bub9p_A2yTCf0F3pFecwUOTgwL3H__fPfO4Dg9wi2a9ZDGhWXDo5i4pJOG77SBgVYrlQJLQVxuho_AnfK93NeepnwqFCxBwv3l635BjU4YuecbqQ1u-cFJ2Syt/s640/blogger-image-30269404.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSKFt4EhxHKUknGcATK6Bub9p_A2yTCf0F3pFecwUOTgwL3H__fPfO4Dg9wi2a9ZDGhWXDo5i4pJOG77SBgVYrlQJLQVxuho_AnfK93NeepnwqFCxBwv3l635BjU4YuecbqQ1u-cFJ2Syt/s640/blogger-image-30269404.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZGl9fYpbYvpWWS0Vvh5caWGe7CNIYyTTJA2KoElEZnpaTjBK8GZoELBaqLK0wLaONbuVboQZrGEvdyRD5ycDIE7Xh1CrFTzJTLm1TGW1vv3mb-ytV88aTxOaLIieVRgmUHGNY_Wvcvphq/s640/blogger-image-751000914.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZGl9fYpbYvpWWS0Vvh5caWGe7CNIYyTTJA2KoElEZnpaTjBK8GZoELBaqLK0wLaONbuVboQZrGEvdyRD5ycDIE7Xh1CrFTzJTLm1TGW1vv3mb-ytV88aTxOaLIieVRgmUHGNY_Wvcvphq/s640/blogger-image-751000914.jpg" /></a></div>

Yoga

Practiced yoga for 90 mins with my sister while Ciaran started on dinner. Here's a pic of my sisters cat making some yogic moves!

Gap haul

11:16 AM Tukiyooo 0

Dashed in to the new Gap store (love it!) and picked up a few items on my lunch break.  Glad to add some nice bright colours to my wardrobe.  <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7dSl3CDFgDZ7t1a4hgAq-bUMNznIV12npc-gh8SD_H-oMXRqAWg5GetKseXDLdvLoZkAGAQ2DClL_PvUcB4fFJAy6Lj10ikoNTt5_sRbgvru5t1EgEzwBK6k223nNJ3plGTBoq9ruDm0J/s640/blogger-image--655729726.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7dSl3CDFgDZ7t1a4hgAq-bUMNznIV12npc-gh8SD_H-oMXRqAWg5GetKseXDLdvLoZkAGAQ2DClL_PvUcB4fFJAy6Lj10ikoNTt5_sRbgvru5t1EgEzwBK6k223nNJ3plGTBoq9ruDm0J/s640/blogger-image--655729726.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdZjHe96kd4BtUnaBqCm_zh_sot_PSfMv3yytzqQxZsN3gVCpFcFIWnN_od1tqeWWVXwJncFwEpf38ypLozk2Sf47gwGnyeVshRZx68eYaA1_WhPhSrhTUsPt-wjX94rfbysxONGW7GatG/s640/blogger-image--1480218259.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdZjHe96kd4BtUnaBqCm_zh_sot_PSfMv3yytzqQxZsN3gVCpFcFIWnN_od1tqeWWVXwJncFwEpf38ypLozk2Sf47gwGnyeVshRZx68eYaA1_WhPhSrhTUsPt-wjX94rfbysxONGW7GatG/s640/blogger-image--1480218259.jpg" /></a></div>

Gap haul

Dashed in to the new Gap store (love it!) and picked up a few items on my lunch break. Glad to add some nice bright colours to my wardrobe....

Senior Systems Design Engineer (Wafer Inspection|Delta Tau|Quick Silver|National Instruments controllers|linear motors)(#108960)

11:04 AM Anonymous 0

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="WordSection1"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Job Title:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Senior Systems Design Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Location:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Milpitas, CA<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Duration:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Fulltime<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Job Description:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">The SWIFT division has the mission to  provide cost-effective solutions for high-sampling wafer inspection applications. We effectively partner with field support teams and   customers to lower overall Fab costs by supplying world-leading high-throughput inspection, metrology and review systems. Our comprehensive product portfolio includes: all-wafer-surface (front side, backside, and edge) macro inspection, standalone high-sampling   inspection, and standalone edge inspection and metrology tools that are deployed across several advanced wafer fabs for a large number of applications.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">Besides developing valuable products, the SWIFT division provides support to the customers to achieve performance entitlement through the sharing and implementation of applications   BKM (Best Known Methods). The SWIFT (Simultaneous Wafer Inspection at Fast Throughput) division is part of Wafer Inspection Group (WIG) and consists in an organization globally located in US, Germany, India, and Singapore. The SWIFT division has the mission   to  provide cost-effective solutions for high-sampling wafer inspection applications. We effectively partner with field support teams and customers to lower overall Fab costs by supplying world-leading high-throughput inspection, metrology and review systems.   Our comprehensive product portfolio includes: all-wafer-surface (front side, backside, and edge) macro inspection, standalone high-sampling inspection, and standalone edge inspection and metrology tools that are deployed across several advanced wafer fabs   for a large number of applications.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">Besides developing valuable products, the SWIFT division provides support to the customers to achieve performance entitlement through the sharing and implementation of applications   BKM (Best Known Methods).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Education and Experience:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Responsibilities:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">Successful candidate will be able to perform systems engineering work, focusing on development and implementation of control systems for the semiconductor equipment.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">This includes the following skills:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">1) Controlling mechanical stages - typically leadscrew driven with cross roller bearing guides, or air bearing stages with linear motors and optical encoders for position feedback.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">2) Testing and tuning vibration isolation systems.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">3) Controlling system components: Illuminators, mechanical mechanisms (often pneumatic actuation with thru beam sensors for end of travel confirmation), rotary and linear motors   - with and without encoders.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">4) System level technical specifications for the next generation SWIFT Wafer inspection tools with minimum input from Management and work closely with other functional groups   (Marketing, Applications, Manufacturing and Service) to define right level of compromise between performance and cost.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">5) Design, write and execute detailed test and characterization plans.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">6) Create performance models of complex electromechanical, optical and opto-mechanical systems.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">7) Create top-level system error budgets by integrating and performing trade-off analysis of contributions from various sub-systems.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">8) Create and monitor top-level system integration plans.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">9) Hold design reviews, attend design reviews and develop associated engineering documentation.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">10) Provide engineering support for escalated manufacturing and field issues.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">11) Interact and work with other engineering groups, marketing, field support and manufacturing groups in the course of the above duties.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Preferred Qualifications:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">Experience with Delta Tau, Quick Silver and National Instruments controllers.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">Semiconductor industry experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Minimum Qualifications:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">Master Level Degree with at least 5 years of experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Kindly send your resumes to vinod.sanker@kla-tencor.com<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div></div></div>

Senior Systems Design Engineer (Wafer Inspection|Delta Tau|Quick Silver|National Instruments controllers|linear motors)(#108960)

Job Title: Senior Systems Design Engineer Location: Milpitas, CA Duration: Fulltime Job Description: The SWIFT division has the mission t...

Today's archidose #665

10:30 AM Tukiyooo 0

Here are some photos of the <a href="http://www.gonzalomoure.com/coam/">New COAM Headquarters</a> (2012) in Madrid, Spain, by <a href="http://www.gonzalomoure.com/">Estudio Gonzalo Moure</a>, photographed by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ximo_michavila/">Ximo Michavila</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ximo_michavila/8629320304/" title="Gonzalo Moure. COAM headquarters #1 by Ximo Michavila, on Flickr"><img alt="Gonzalo Moure. COAM headquarters #1" height="495" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8404/8629320304_2286ef89d7_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ximo_michavila/8629320106/" title="Gonzalo Moure. COAM headquarters #2 by Ximo Michavila, on Flickr"><img alt="Gonzalo Moure. COAM headquarters #2" height="638" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8263/8629320106_a98711a930_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ximo_michavila/8629319908/" title="Gonzalo Moure. COAM headquarters #3 by Ximo Michavila, on Flickr"><img alt="Gonzalo Moure. COAM headquarters #3" height="508" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8264/8629319908_013965961f_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ximo_michavila/8632595682/" title="Gonzalo Moure. COAM headquarters #4 by Ximo Michavila, on Flickr"><img alt="Gonzalo Moure. COAM headquarters #4" height="800" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8252/8632595682_1efc47ef73_c.jpg" width="617" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ximo_michavila/8631489981/" title="Gonzalo Moure. COAM headquarters #5 by Ximo Michavila, on Flickr"><img alt="Gonzalo Moure. COAM headquarters #5" height="507" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8242/8631489981_ee35b60ceb_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ximo_michavila/8632595372/" title="Gonzalo Moure. COAM headquarters #6 by Ximo Michavila, on Flickr"><img alt="Gonzalo Moure. COAM headquarters #6" height="800" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8266/8632595372_e41fd47c2b_c.jpg" width="600" /></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 #665

Here are some photos of the New COAM Headquarters (2012) in Madrid, Spain, by Estudio Gonzalo Moure , photographed by Ximo Michavila . To c...

Part-Time Circulation/Technical Services Assistant - Trumbull Library

8:03 AM Anonymous 0

<strong>Part-Time Circulation/Technical Services Assistant - </strong><strong><span style="color: #48286d;">Trumbull Library</span></strong> has openings for part-time Library Assistants (19hrs/week) to work at  adult and children’s service desks, providing basic support services and  assistance to users. Individual must possess excellent customer service  and computer skills, be energetic, self-motivated, able to work well on  a team, be an avid reader, and willing to learn new things. Along with  duties related to circulation and processing of materials, additional  responsibilities and tasks for Assistants assigned to Youth Department  include assisting with class visits, presenting story times under the  direction of professional librarian when scheduled and assisting  librarians in the preparation of all children’s programs, crafts and  displays. Schedule includes day and evening hours weekdays and rotating  Saturdays. $10.50/hr. Apply at Trumbull Library, 33 Quality Street,  Trumbull, CT  06611. Applications available at Library Circulation Desk  or send resumes with cover letter to <a _fcksavedurl="mailto:shorton@trumbull-ct.gov" href="mailto:shorton@trumbull-ct.gov">shorton@trumbull-ct.gov</a>.  Positions open until filled. High School diploma required with  associate or bachelor’s degree preferred. Applicants must have at least  one year prior library experience.

Part-Time Circulation/Technical Services Assistant - Trumbull Library

Part-Time Circulation/Technical Services Assistant - Trumbull Library has openings for part-time Library Assistants (19hrs/week) to work at...

Update on surgery...there is no update

7:19 AM Tukiyooo 0

Well, it turns out that surgeons are human after all. Who knew? Just as my ride to the hospital pulled into my driveway yesterday at 7:30am, I received a phone call from the hospital that my surgeon had called in sick.<br /><br />I wasn't mad at all, just terribly disappointed. It never occurred to me that my surgeon might get sick. I hadn't taken a Vicodin at 2am when the last dose had worn off. Since I couldn't eat or drink anything after midnight, I couldn't take the Vicodin. It makes me really nauseated if I take it without food. By 4am I thought if I wasn't going to the hospital in a few hours that I'd be driving myself to the ER. The pain was excruciating. The first thing I did after the phone call was take two Vicodin and go to bed.<br /><br />The surgery is scheduled for Thrusday, 4/11 at 6am. This morning I thought I'd try to go without the Vicodin, and if I was okay, I'd go into the office. As expceted, the pain was once again unbearable and constant. In the beginning it would come and go without pain meds, now it comes and stays.<br /><br />Back on the Vicodin. This means I can't go into work. They have a very strict rule of no narcotics while on the job. I'm also not suppose to drive while on Vicodin. So now I'm stuck at home and really can't do much of anything except read, watch TV or surf the internet. All of which puts me into instant sleep mode.<br /><br />My newest side effect of my fibroid is that eating has become very unpleasant experience. Even the smallest amount of food sends me to a new level of pain. I guess because the my stomach presses down on my enlarged uterus causing the fibroid to then press down even harder on my cervix. I'm not sure if that's the problem, but I know that even when on the Vicodin, eating food causes pain almost instantly. Maybe I've found a new diet plan, "rapidly growing fibroid removes desire to eat". I somehow don't think this will be popular with the masses. <br /><br />I sure do miss my good health. You never know how good you had it until it's gone. Once this is over, I plan on giving my health 100% focus. Okay, sleep time is coming on. I guess I'll go lay down now.

Update on surgery...there is no update

Well, it turns out that surgeons are human after all. Who knew? Just as my ride to the hospital pulled into my driveway yesterday at 7:30am,...

More about the African Storybook project and the free online course starting on 15th April. Please join us...

3:31 AM Tukiyooo 0

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The African Storybook Project is really something to get excited about. We have written a number of blogposts about this exciting venture on this blog:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />a)  </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2012/12/this-is-fiona-beal-from-schoolnet-on.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Introducing The African Storybook Project</span><span style="color: black;">...</span></a><br />b)  <a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2013/03/30-days-of-writing-1-welcome-to-african.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue;">30 days of Writing #1: Welcome to the African Storybook project</span></a><br />c)  <span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2013/03/an-exciting-free-digital-storytelling_25.html" style="text-decoration: none;">An exciting, free digital storytelling course and writing opportunity for South African</a> </span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2013/03/an-exciting-free-digital-storytelling_25.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue;">educators. Please sign up</span></a></span><a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2013/03/an-exciting-free-digital-storytelling_25.html" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">…</a><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The ‘Digital Storytelling and the African Storybook project’ short online course for teachers</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The African Storybook Team has asked SchoolNet to create and run a free short online digital storytelling course for teachers around the country starting on 15th April. This course is open to any educators who want to improve their own writing skills and perhaps discover the writer within them! It is hope that they will donate the story they write during the course to the website, and that they will encourage their learners to write a story suitable for a Grade 3 reader. This means the writers could be foundation phase, intermediate phase or high school students – even tertiary students who would like to help the children of Africa with reading material. There is a great prize for a teacher from the school that submits the most useable stories for the website. There is more about this course and the incentive on our Free online courses page on this blog - we invite you to sign up </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/p/courses.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>here</b></span></a>.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span> It starts on 15th April.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnQqcdNk_qMC_dNFwZX1iGOHKVbcRODOxn2QC2a6CNzwqJ3RPiKdSl4f8hJcPs4SyjkpghyphenhyphenDjpU4kNtPQrhz3Q0sKu_cTMJs3VeHHMJXi3Xi_sKxD7sxC_mq9-bPK7mJRMTzKUX18Fuds/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Caption taken from <a href="http://digitalclassroom.co.za/digitalclassroom/index.php" target="_blank">Vodacom's Digital Classroom portal</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now to add some background to this project and also add the brochure about it as an e-book…</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What is the African Stoybook project again?</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">The African Storybook Project (ASP) is a project that will create and encourage the use of a digital library of stories for the first few years of reading in digital formats, openly licensed, with a process and tools for translating and versioning stories for local African languages and contexts. These will be shared on a website which is in the process of being created.This will enable users to upload and share versions of the stories in their local languages, providing numbers of stories in a range of languages way beyond the scope of conventional publishing.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz-Hv3nYZzuesReZCZ6dghFIDV5gR649zVqBJJQd0ziDyQOjUdePc375UImdoEEqD-C0wy_qPgq7-UZYBGDpyCjjx9nkcbLCPJYFqsjareu_tNXsSlGxRyBc0rNFoTwlIxEGTQZukuY-c/s1600-h/image%25255B10%25255D.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFBgD4_J91UElmLGeW7WD53JZ8vnpUwQXQIwu6nwvOahUQCNjTBIaKkwmj0j6BtL6QFZTFUs27x0jkMVCtd6RdNswXn9K2Am7RyX2M2mSX33Bw_0i7j8O7UY-1niQvRSkWfCOxBzfPLIE/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="244" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taken from the African Storybook Project brochure</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><h4><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How will the African Storybook Project help to meet the literacy needs of children aged 2-9 years old in Africa?</span></h4><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The African Storybook Project will facilitate availability, access to, and use of sufficient good stories for early reading practice for African children ages 2 to 9. It will do this by setting up an interactive website with stories for early reading and by encouraging educators and literacy development organisations working in early literacy of young children in African countries: </span><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to access openly licensed digital reading resources of various levels and types on the site</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to translate and/or adapt the stories into a familiar language and context for the children they work with</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to create their own stories and upload them in the templates provided,</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to contribute already published stories and make them available under an open licence, and </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to use them in a variety of ways for literacy development.</span></li></ul><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The project will initially operate mainly in the pilot countries (Kenya, Uganda and South Africa) in schools, community libraries/reading clubs, early childhood and family literacy settings.  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The main advantage of openly licensed stories on a website will be that educators and parents who want stories in their own language or dialect can translate some or all of the text to suit their context, without having to ask permission or pay any fee. And the adapted version of the book will be available for reading and printing immediately. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What are ‘good stories’ in this context?</span></strong> <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL_lC6W-YohftxAwiLRL1lAZS_sqnVWw70VIfU3LjwNx1s3EqbgTvWTBHctXk3ZuqyQlOx-qrcNIiqH5JP2e44J2y4qFKayfaK-D0RsbUYDowHfmTJL-1BD8LHXnNiPQrAvrsf49LGF-I/s1600-h/image%25255B6%25255D.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigKTz4TTBCa8wJIRJZFREhYK6NV8Sy0BucqJ-9XTtuAjl0Tr8Vu11uMiEKIkxqTs4jWDkbUZIuRWuPl-qOcvFnqiN5beZUOOBphGwExz7v4icALhRunu6ZipS-WfYDfdhqvi0uARiePZY/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taken from the African Storybook Project brochure</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Good stories in this context: </span><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">speak to children’s reality and contexts;</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">have rich visual images that make sense and can support the reading of the text; </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">encourage interest in the sounds and shapes and meanings of words; </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">have a story, a happening, an event or sequence of events, and characters with which children can identify;</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">can be scary: it’s OK to be frightened and take risks in a story. </span></li></ul><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But above all, they need to leave children ‘panting for more’!<br /> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>How will the African Storybook Project get their stories?</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We will draw on African oral literature and traditions of storytelling, songs, riddles, rhymes, on high quality published stories that the copyright holders are willing to donate, on openly licensed material already available on the Web, and on stories developed through workshops and competitions specifically for the project. But our main intent is to encourage creation and adaptation by users themselves in the ‘easy to use’ templates we provide on the website.  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We will develop partnerships with literacy development organisations across the continent (but particularly in Uganda, Kenya and South Africa) to use the stories and the website in their project, contributing both lessons of experience to improve the website, and stories or versions of stories.  </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The brochure</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is the brochure for the African Storybook project presented as an e-book.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>  <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youblisher.com/p/600590-The-African-Storybook-Project/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="The African Storybook Project" height="400" src="http://www.youblisher.com/files/publications/101/600590/200x300.jpg" width="282" /></a></div></div>

African Storybook Project More about the African Storybook project and the free online course starting on 15th April. Please join us...

The African Storybook Project is really something to get excited about. We have written a number of blogposts about this exciting venture on...

Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 04/09/2013

2:30 AM Tukiyooo 0

<ul class="diigo-linkroll">      <li>      <p class="diigo-link">                <a href="http://netgened2013.flatclassroomproject.org/Judges">netgened2013 - Judges</a>      </p>      <p class="diigo-description">We need judges for multimedia for the Flat Classroom project and netgen. A topic will take 3-4 hours to judge during early May. This is a great way to learn about the emerging technology trends in education and technology and to see the current range of student abilities in digital storytelling. Some college professors have students participate as part of their coursework to understand how such projects work. If this is you, please contact us at lisa at flatclassroom dot org and we'll see what we can do to coordinate your needs. The Flat Classroom project judges a few weeks earlier than NetGen (FCP is in early May versus NetGen in mid May). Thank you for your consideration and passing it along. This page is the instructions for the NetGen Project</p>              <p class="diigo-tags">          <span>tags:</span>                      <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/tumblr">tumblr</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/digital">digital</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/storytelling">storytelling</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/all_teachers">all_teachers</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/bestpractices">bestpractices</a></p>                                        </li>      <li>      <p class="diigo-link">                <a href="http://fcp13-1.flatclassroomproject.org/Judges">Flat Classroom Project 13-1 - Judges</a>      </p>      <p class="diigo-description">We need judges for multimedia for the Flat Classroom project and netgen. A topic will take 3-4 hours to judge during early May. This is a great way to learn about the emerging technology trends in education and technology and to see the current range of student abilities in digital storytelling. Some college professors have students participate as part of their coursework to understand how such projects work. If this is you, please contact us at lisa at flatclassroom dot org and we'll see what we can do to coordinate your needs. The Flat Classroom project judges a few weeks earlier than NetGen (early May versus NetGen in mid May). Thank you for your consideration and passing it along. This page is the instructions for the Flat Classroom project.</p>              <p class="diigo-tags">          <span>tags:</span>                      <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/flatclassroom">flatclassroom</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/flatclass">flatclass</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/bestpractices">bestpractices</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/all_teachers">all_teachers</a></p>                                        </li>  </ul><p class="diigo-ps">Posted from <a href="https://www.diigo.com">Diigo</a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">here</a>.</p>

Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 04/09/2013

netgened2013 - Judges We need judges for multimedia for the Flat Classroom project and netgen. A top...

You are invited to participate in SchoolNet's 'Intel Teach One Day Conference at Maritzburg College' on Saturday 13th April

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What are you doing this coming Saturday, April 13th? If you live in KZN, you won't want to miss the Intel Teach One Day Conference at Maritzburg College,  Pietermaritzburg which is proudly presented by SchoolNet.  The brochure can be seen below.  </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To book your place please contact: Info@schoolnet.org.za or phone 011 403 5777</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> If you would like to download and print this brochure, please click on the following attachment link. </span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.box.com/s/6q2z2w6aogm2gtqerve7" target="_blank">Intel Teach One Day Conference in Pietermaritzburg 13 April 2013</a></span><br /><br /><br /><b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Special Speaker </b><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our special guest presenter is Ms Priscilla Moodley who is the Eskom Expo for Young Scientists- National Science Fair Director. She will be speaking on '</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Importance of Science education and Science Fairs in our Country'.  </i><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9IzUH4SZp2epZRCWPbSkI8Ek5d_Dn5QVrZzI2WK09PQCKR1gbJdb_C5qoyjPpxQ9fIGtuSVEfO4LGWrVf_WOSM0ddcBuGG34EVBK_x9FkxThrS3rMg8NLyqC1COoL8sFwkY_6kvOc-CQ/s1600-h/image%25255B5%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="537" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTSUL1dkHsLXJppALLTHH3QHBuan161GtimmipUTmVJizrROJlqu_hyphenhyphenZP2jo_OAVVJsNbiGoqFuSZeEz2rA_2KIO-w216CqwQGw6v44Zt8a_ouL-iLfv23Er8dM3DZaztSrj_Sc4LZSh0/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="373" /></a></div><br /><br /><u><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Note</b></span></u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">: You might be asking if this is the main SchoolNet Conference this year? No, our 3-day SchoolNet 'ICT in the Classroom' conference takes place in the first week of July in Bloemfontein. You can register for the SchoolNet conference </span><a href="http://schoolnet.org.za/conference_2013/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div></div>

Intel You are invited to participate in SchoolNet's 'Intel Teach One Day Conference at Maritzburg College' on Saturday 13th April

What are you doing this coming Saturday, April 13th? If you live in KZN, you won't want to miss the Intel Teach One Day Conference at Ma...

Grey day

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Grey day

It's cold and grey in Dublin. The traffic was bad as I drove to work. I need to lighten up, enjoy my coffee and have a good day at work!...

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