The Images of Architects

For the <a href="http://www.world-architects.com/en/pages/biennale-architettura-2012">2012 Venice Biennale</a>, Swiss architect <a href="http://www.olgiati.net/">Valerio Olgiati</a> curated a selection of "Pictographs—Statement of contemporary architects." The inspirational images from well-known architects were displayed on a large table in the Arsenale, and soon they'll be collected in a book published by <a href="http://www.quart.ch/">Quart</a>.<br /><br /><iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/WfCZvRYYyfA?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><blockquote><i><br />I asked architects to send me important images that show the basis of their work. Images that are in their head when they think. Images that show the origin of their architecture.<br /><br />In this book we find 44 individual "musées imaginaires". The most unique architects living today each present up to 10 images to explain the autobiographical roots of their oeuvre. The images are explanations, metaphors, foundations, memories and intentions. They are poetic and philosophical avowals. They reveal a personal perspective on thoughts. They show the roots of architecture and expectations concerning projects. Conscious and unconscious.<br /><br />This book has the format of a reader. As little as possible is said. The images are small, legible and interpretable as icons. As individual collections, they present a personal view of an individual world, while as a whole they provide a universal view of the perceptible origin of contemporary architecture.<br /><br />Valerio Olgiati</i></blockquote>

The Images of Architects

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Micromax A116 Canvas HD Display ,Price RS. 13,990

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQL5YaQqJ8OiJD-hIfvs0nBLVaZ9CHBBbQzCBXtpNbwl2ePbzkuSsPhoWFzGPjygls8eYKzwr3n31AWVQS4D8auiY1lMIaTLsxvGF8Dq7h3c7kfUKYhONdT8pFSR4lH39DcNQwsw-HpWY/s1600/canvasHD111.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" lua="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQL5YaQqJ8OiJD-hIfvs0nBLVaZ9CHBBbQzCBXtpNbwl2ePbzkuSsPhoWFzGPjygls8eYKzwr3n31AWVQS4D8auiY1lMIaTLsxvGF8Dq7h3c7kfUKYhONdT8pFSR4lH39DcNQwsw-HpWY/s320/canvasHD111.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">      Micromax A116 Canvas HD is the successor to the company's popular budget phablet, the A110 Canvas 2. The company has bestowed the phone with an HD screen, has put a quad-core chip, under the hood, and has doubled the on-board RAM.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><strong><u><span style="font-size: large;">Design</span></u></strong></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The screen forms the largest part of the front and the bezel is, thankfully, much thinner than that of the Canvas 2. The three capacitive navigation buttons sit below the screen, while the earpiece (also black in colour), notification light, and the front facing camera, are located above the screen. To be honest, the front has a very plasticky feel to it, but then this phone costs Rs. 13,990, so you don't expect premium materials to be used.</div><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The front of the phone is black in colour, while the back is white. Looking from the sides, it gives the impression that the phone bears both colours since the removable back cover doesn't just cover the back and extends to the sides.</div><br /><strong><u><span style="font-size: large;">Display</span></u></strong><br /><br />The USP of the Canvas HD is indeed its HD screen. The phone's 5-inch HD IPS screen sports a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels and a colour depth of 16.7 million. Thanks to the higher resolution, text, icons and images look much sharper compared to the Canvas 2 and the recently launched Samsung Galaxy Grand.<br /><br />Under sun visibility was good though the screen is very reflective. Thanks to the IPS panel that facilitates wider viewing angles, we found that the viewing angles were indeed wide, which essentially means that more than one person can view content playing on the screen properly, even from different angles. <br /><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEHY5Wro85VPKhE3ejcFW0dEkQ01kqLnzcPeUdr2KgjRhJnyX9zI9byqDXWA1CRpGciU9jnOBYPUdocwz5fBm1faB1tpvx95qFG6cmhB-AeR1REWBdujqhBMjVgstU5Jm50-sV29EFwXg/s1600/canvasHDprofile11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="218" lua="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEHY5Wro85VPKhE3ejcFW0dEkQ01kqLnzcPeUdr2KgjRhJnyX9zI9byqDXWA1CRpGciU9jnOBYPUdocwz5fBm1faB1tpvx95qFG6cmhB-AeR1REWBdujqhBMjVgstU5Jm50-sV29EFwXg/s320/canvasHDprofile11.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><strong><u><span style="font-size: large;">Software</span></u></strong><br /><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The Micromax Canvas HD runs Android 4.1.2. Micromax has skinned some elements of the user interface, such as the app icons and the notification tray. The notification tray includes toggles for settings such as Wi-Fi, Brightness, Rotation, Bluetooth, GPS, Data, Screen timeouts and profiles.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The three capacitive buttons, Home, Menu and Back help in navigating through the phone, with the Home button also doubling up as an app switcher on long press.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYKBtexibZ6Uj_VknSwdImMSka9fvAWAci6HrgYam8RfEyzFUEgSvfIiw1VVZl_435d5e6ykcV9cgh1NL7o1cqSjz5jW_nrvGrdhlI-y-_D75g80XqaLL-Z0EeueFo-U7REcxVzAmsvHw/s1600/CanvasHDUI1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="192" lua="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYKBtexibZ6Uj_VknSwdImMSka9fvAWAci6HrgYam8RfEyzFUEgSvfIiw1VVZl_435d5e6ykcV9cgh1NL7o1cqSjz5jW_nrvGrdhlI-y-_D75g80XqaLL-Z0EeueFo-U7REcxVzAmsvHw/s320/CanvasHDUI1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><strong><u><span style="font-size: large;">Camera</span></u></strong></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> The camera takes good quality videos depending on the ambient light. However, it saves video clips in .3GP file format, which is an older file format.The phone features an 8-megapixel autofocus shooter that takes decent images in daylight. However, we found the photos taken through the phone a bit overexposed, and the white-balance in the automatic mode was not optimal. </div><br /> Micromax has put its own camera app. The app leaves out the Panorama mode, but offers a burst mode, letting users click up to 99 shots at once. We also noticed that there is minor gap between two consecutive camera shots in the continuous shot mode. The phone offers three basic modes - Face Beauty, HDR and Photo.<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0VVozKk1ZabcCCxlbLMzO2A791BPxtDNxBAUW88k5PSxHssJkjcUxnT9GCDvAdrlLr_6BAYPNOl6UHa8LqXkCiX3v03uwxNnqrNmx2BW56A-OVHctKqsI21CIfzin5-mPEvb0F4G29WE/s1600/CanvasCamshots1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="122" lua="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0VVozKk1ZabcCCxlbLMzO2A791BPxtDNxBAUW88k5PSxHssJkjcUxnT9GCDvAdrlLr_6BAYPNOl6UHa8LqXkCiX3v03uwxNnqrNmx2BW56A-OVHctKqsI21CIfzin5-mPEvb0F4G29WE/s320/CanvasCamshots1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><strong><u><span style="font-size: large;"></span></u></strong><br /><strong><u><span style="font-size: large;">Performance</span></u></strong><br /><br />The Micromax A116 Canvas HD is powered by a 1.2GHz MediaTek MT6589 quad-core processor with 1GB RAM onboard, and PowerVR SGX544MP chip for processing graphics. There is 4GB of internal storage, which is expandable up to 32GB via a microSD card.<br /><br /><br /><strong><u><span style="font-size: large;">Verdict</span></u></strong><br /><br />The Micromax A116 Canvas HD is a worthy upgrade to the A110. A 5-inch screen phone, with a quad-core processor, running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, at a price point of Rs 13,990 is indeed a value for money proposition.<br />The Samsung Galaxy Grand is another budget phablet, if you don't mind spending Rs 6,000 to Rs 7,000 extra for a phone which has an inferior screen and battery life compared to the Canvas HD, but a better camera and bears the Samsung brand name.<br /><br /><br /><strong><u><span style="font-size: large;">Here are the device's core specification at a glance:</span></u></strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Price:</strong> <strong>Rs. 13,990</strong></span><strong><span style="font-size: small;">Pros</span></strong></span><br /><ul><li><strong><u><span style="font-size: small;">Good screen</span></u></strong></li><li><strong><u><span style="font-size: small;">Decent performance</span></u></strong></li><li><strong><u><span style="font-size: small;">Excellent value for money</span></u></strong></li></ul><br /><strong><u><span style="font-size: small;">Cons</span></u></strong><br /><ul><li><strong><u><span style="font-size: small;">Plasticky feel</span></u></strong></li><li><strong><u><span style="font-size: small;">Power button is recessed</span></u></strong></li><li><strong><u><span style="font-size: small;">Sub-par camera</span></u></strong></li></ul><br /><strong><u><span style="font-size: small;">Ratings (Out of 5)</span></u></strong><br /><ul><li><strong><u><span style="font-size: small;">Design: 3</span></u></strong></li><li><strong><u><span style="font-size: small;">Display: 4</span></u></strong></li><li><strong><u><span style="font-size: small;">Performance: 4</span></u></strong></li><li><strong><u><span style="font-size: small;">Software: 3.5</span></u></strong></li><li><strong><u><span style="font-size: small;">Battery Life: 3.5</span></u></strong></li><li><strong><u><span style="font-size: small;">Value for Money: 4.5</span></u></strong></li><li><strong><u><span style="font-size: small;">Camera: 3</span></u></strong></li><li><strong><u><span style="font-size: small;">Overall: 3.5</span></u></strong></li></ul></div>Published by <br /><a href="https://plus.google.com/112865615030946176397" rel="author">Priyanka</a>

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Be gentle with yourself

Be gentle with yourself. How many times have I received this advice over the years? From my friends, my relatives, my coworkers and my blog friends (who I consider real friends).<br /><br />I heard the words, but I didn't listen to them. I didn't know how to be gentle with myself. I didn't know how important it was to really live these four little words, "Be gentle with yourself". <br /><br />The diagnosis of cancer is opening my eyes to so many things. Staring my own mortality in the face is making me take stock of my life. I'm seeing things so differently now. I never would have done this without cancer. I would have continued stumbling through life, dealing with things like I always have, filled with anger at the unfairness of it all. I have always stressed out over the smallest things, and the bigger the event, the bigger the stress reaction. Now I have to step back, re-evaluate and think about what I'm doing to my body internally when I react to external forces.<br /><br />I'm reading a couple really good books, one is about dealing with cancer (or any serious illness, but the focus is on cancer), and the other one is preventing cancer. Preventing a recurrence of cancer is the same as preventing cancer. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=love+miracles+and+medicine&tag=googhydr-20&index=stripbooks&hvadid=22864665001&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1901531285899508474&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_7ylb66xd1r_b" target="_blank">Love, Medicine & Miracles</a> by Bernie S. Siegel, M.D. is an amazing book. Dr. Siegel is a traditional medical doctor and writes about patient empowerment and the choice to live fully and die in peace. I love this book! The other book that I highly recommend for everyone, even if you don't have cancer (and especially if you don't want to get cancer) is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Definitive-Guide-Cancer-3rd-Integrative/dp/1587613581/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1367506599&sr=1-1&keywords=the+definitive+guide+to+cancer" target="_blank">The Definitive Guide to Cancer</a> by Lise N. Alschuler, ND, FABNO, and Karolyn A. Gazella. This book takes a holistic approach to cancer prevention (and recognizes the benefits of traditional medicine). It focuses on nutrition, diet and stress reduction. It's also an excellent book. I love how they talk about the 80/20 rule. Eat clean 80 percent of the time, and it's okay if you bend the rules other 20 percent. In other words, a cookie now and then won't kill me. <br /><br />Here's an excerpt from The Definitive Guide to Cancer, page 40-41. This is from chapter three, Prevention is Paramount:<br /><br />"But for those of us trying to prevent cancer recurrence, enhancing our overall health will help add quantity and quality to the years we have left. The first step in making changes and setting goals is to access where you are right now. So to that end, and without judgement, take some time to evaluate your life. On a piece of paper, write down your answers to these questions:<br /><br />1. How many hours a week do you spend working?<br /><br />2. How many hours a week do you spend playing?<br /><br />3. How many hours a week do you spend doing some type of spiritual practice (praying, mediating, volunteering, connecting with nature)?<br /><br />Next, make a list of activities, things, and people that make you feel happy, at peace, and fulfilled. How many hours a week do you spend with those people or doing those things? At the end of your life, no matter when that occurs, what will you cherish more:  money or moments, power or peace; chaos or caring? A life well lives is a life well loved, and that begins with self-love. Don't let everyday obstacles get in the way of such devoted self-love."<br /><br />Now if that doesn't make you want to buy this book, I don't know what will. It's filled with this type of thinking, as well as a lengthy discussion on nutrition and diet. <br /><br />If nothing else, cancer is life changing. Even if I only have a few years left, I intend to make those the best years possible. Whether it's five or twenty-five, I intend to have a life well lived.

Be gentle with yourself

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Librarian - Hoffman Family Library, Goodwin College, East Hartford

<strong>Librarian </strong>- <strong><span style="color: #48286d;">Hoffman Family Library, Goodwin College</span></strong>, East Hartford. 20 hour part-time academic librarian position. Primary duties include information literacy instruction, circulation, and reference help for undergraduate students. The position requires ability to work with library staff, student workers, and other members of the Goodwin community in a busy environment. Library Master of Library Science (MS or MLIS) from an American Library Association accredited institution is preferred, but students in a library science program will be considered. Flexible hours for weekends and/or nights may be arranged. Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience and qualifications. Consideration of applications begins immediately and continues until the position is filled. Please send cover letter, resume, and the names, addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses of three references electronically to: Jean McGill. Title: Director of Human Resources. Email: <a _fcksavedurl="mailto:Jobs@goodwin.edu" href="mailto:Jobs@goodwin.edu">Jobs@goodwin.edu</a>. Goodwin College is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and invites applications from all who meet the stated qualifications.

Librarian - Hoffman Family Library, Goodwin College, East Hartford

Librarian - Hoffman Family Library, Goodwin College , East Hartford. 20 hour part-time academic librarian position. Primary duties include...

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Part Time Library Cataloger - Acton Public Library, Old Saybrook

<strong>Part Time Library Cataloger -</strong> <strong><strong><span style="color: #48286d;">Acton Public Library</span></strong></strong>, Old Saybrook, is seeking qualified candidates for the position of part-time (25 hours/week) Cataloging Librarian. Under the direction of the Library Director, the Cataloging Librarian performs original and copy cataloging of all library materials in various formats, using nationally accepted cataloging formats and standards. The Librarian hired for this position will be responsible for cataloging all materials added to the Acton Public Library collection. The position will also include hours on the reference desk, providing public assistance with computer use issues, use of electronic devices to access library materials, and basic reference needs. The cataloger may be assigned special projects, including collection development. Skills required: Knowledge and understanding of cataloging principles including AACR2, Dewey Decimal Classification, MARC formats. Maintaining an awareness of developments in general cataloging issues and standards, metadata standards, and librarianship in working with print, serials, digital, e-materials and evolving formats. Excellent communication skills (reading, writing, speaking). Flexibility and ability to work in a fast-paced, rapidly changing work environment. Working independently, as well as collaboratively, within the library. Representing the library at consortium meetings. Utilizing excellent analytical, time management and problem-solving skills. This position requires an ALA-accredited MLS, as well as cataloging experience. This is a 25 hour/week union position, with no health insurance benefits. It does include paid vacation time, sick time, and holidays. Please submit resume with references to: Michele Van Epps, Library Director, Acton Public Library, 60 Old Boston Post Road, Old Saybrook, CT 06475. Closing date: <span style="color: red;">May 20, 2013</span>.

Part Time Library Cataloger - Acton Public Library, Old Saybrook

Part Time Library Cataloger - Acton Public Library , Old Saybrook, is seeking qualified candidates for the position of part-time (25 hour...

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ISRAEL: ASSAD OR JIHADISTS - TO BE OR NOT TO BE? THAT IS THE QUESTION

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center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><b>"C-Gate" the only  UN manned crossing point between ISRAEL and SYRIA</b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ISRAEL’S GEO-STRATEGIC BENEFIT REQUIRES COLLAPSE OF ASSAD REGIME </span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Executive Summary:</span></b></span></div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Split” in ISRAEL’S intelligence community</span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ISRAEL’S choice between two evils</span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fall of the regime will weaken IRAN’S strategic position in the MIDDLE EAST?</span></b></li></ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">By John Davison</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A rebel victory in SYRIA’S civil war would be the most positive outcome for ISRAEL despite fears of instability and a stronger jihadist presence on the Golan should the regime collapse, analysts say.</span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpG-Ds0ELy2JeyJAk7Q5d_op6BrnXnR7qTnARRV03y2mlK5s6Wird1shFy3Uqxbxps1xurXIv3iQ7eB7IzvWeTGiEL8kv7Ao1JCWq9feNonI-2MTG8hBPwTUtYeDMuwkTe7sm7sfTzQNaG/s1600/013113_norbertschiller_syria-israel_mural_16x9-690x388.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpG-Ds0ELy2JeyJAk7Q5d_op6BrnXnR7qTnARRV03y2mlK5s6Wird1shFy3Uqxbxps1xurXIv3iQ7eB7IzvWeTGiEL8kv7Ao1JCWq9feNonI-2MTG8hBPwTUtYeDMuwkTe7sm7sfTzQNaG/s320/013113_norbertschiller_syria-israel_mural_16x9-690x388.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">40 years stable Eastern frontier because of Assad clan</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The SYRIAN conflict has increasingly affected ISRAEL, as alarm mounts over the deployment of President Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons arsenal and the potential for it to fall into the hands of non-state militant groups.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The conflict has split the ISRAELI defence community into two camps — those who oppose the fall of Assad, and those who see his ouster as less dangerous for ISRAEL.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But experts believe a rebel victory would have the best geostrategic implications for ISRAEL.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The defence advantages of Assad going outweigh the potential security risks,” said Jonathan Spyer, a senior researcher at the Global Research in International Affairs Centre in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“SPLIT” IN ISRAEL’S INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Comment by Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring:</span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Though the Assad regime has provided ISRAEL more than 40 years of “stability” along its EASTERN frontier, above argument of toppling the Assad regime has some legitimacy if one takes into account the 15 year civil war in LEBANON, which has not caused much security concerns for ISRAEL, despite the fact that Jihadists of various fractions fought a vicious war along ISRAEL’s NORTHERN frontier.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The split in the intelligence community “to some degree reflects the split that existed prior to the uprising in SYRIA,” Spyer said.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The Assad regime is a dangerous force because of its alliance with IRAN” — but it is “not fanatical,” and has never supported hardliner Islamist groups such as those leading the rebel fighting.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These groups pose the lesser risk, he maintains.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The presence of fledgling armed groups on the border… is a concern.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“But Assad going would be a blow to Hezbollah, which is the most powerful paramilitary force” opposing ISRAEL in the region, Spyer said.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmM9eWLq4UJ2BDDl5nL6vfZhHAJOaExBz12P_IRG3Wtx-kF9N8mNok2xkQG1FKyuw8_1_k-hO2zCYKbNuME0wBFhscyzk_-s0bMmqM19HTI7kY3WZSeKFcjCBXjYbDq3QWJahGzaSigPWx/s1600/0006f5aa-642.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmM9eWLq4UJ2BDDl5nL6vfZhHAJOaExBz12P_IRG3Wtx-kF9N8mNok2xkQG1FKyuw8_1_k-hO2zCYKbNuME0wBFhscyzk_-s0bMmqM19HTI7kY3WZSeKFcjCBXjYbDq3QWJahGzaSigPWx/s320/0006f5aa-642.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">IAF Airstrike in Syria</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Earlier this month, ISRAEL implicitly admitted carrying out a January air strike on a weapons convoy in SYRIA thought to be en route to LEBANON’S Hezbollah — a long-time Damascus ally.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mike Herzog, former head of strategic planning in the Israeli army and a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, agreed.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Background Information: </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #cc0000;">IRANIAN GENERAL AND TWO AIDES WERE THE REAL TARGET OF ALLEGED ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE IN SYRIA</span> at:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/02/israels-syrian-airstrike-aftermath.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/02/israels-syrian-airstrike-aftermath.html</a></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">INCREASED IRANIAN INFLUENCE IN SYRIA PROVOKED ISRAEL TO CHANGE ITS LONGSTANDING TACTICS REGARDING SYRIA</span> at:</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/06/syria-israel-iran-and-usa.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/06/syria-israel-iran-and-usa.html</a></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Comment by Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring: </span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One should not forget that in most likelihood Israel’s rhetoric regarding Iran, to some extent is a welcome geopolitical tool as well as bargaining chip for future negotiations, economic deals and strengthening of its political position in the Middle East, rather than a real security concern. Such rhetoric’s also distract from internal problems and justify increasing its weapon arsenal etc.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Israel would be better off without the Assad regime,” he said, describing the SYRIAN president as “a lynchpin” connecting IRAN and Hezbollah.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“If the regime collapses this will be a very serious blow to IRAN, Hezbollah and the whole axis.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Background Information</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">: </span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">IRAN SOFTENS TUNE ON ISRAEL</span> at:</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/05/iran-and-israel-improvement-in.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/05/iran-and-israel-improvement-in.html</a></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“This doesn’t come without risks — the risk of Islamists and jihadists becoming a dominant force in a future SYRIA,” Herzog cautioned.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ISRAEL’S CHOICE BETWEEN TWO EVILS</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But Assad clinging onto power would “outweigh the risk of Islamist elements coming to the force. Of course that’s not something ISRAELIS would like to see… (but they) have to choose between two evils,” he said.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A victorious jihadist-dominated rebel force would not be able to form as cohesive and large-scale a threat to Israel as Assad, IRAN and Hezbollah working together, Herzog said.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“There are other elements in SYRIA. It’s a very complex mixture of ethnic and sectarian groups. It’s more likely to go in the direction of… areas controlled by different elements.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We’re more likely to see this scenario than a central government with control over the whole of Syria,” he said.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><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/AVvXsEiRO5JReP06lIq2SIZ7hd8mQT9G26dVLJp-DpxF72R2C4Op5HZz27gxZM2ZI7Hv4353KgmzV0PXzxT7YQJJp4wQkgohPYB4E8L4FQoN8HN-zKukX1holWoHHBW5wtI-7LnRLjlOolZuI3lb/s1600/new-syria.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRO5JReP06lIq2SIZ7hd8mQT9G26dVLJp-DpxF72R2C4Op5HZz27gxZM2ZI7Hv4353KgmzV0PXzxT7YQJJp4wQkgohPYB4E8L4FQoN8HN-zKukX1holWoHHBW5wtI-7LnRLjlOolZuI3lb/s400/new-syria.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"NEW SYRIA"</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The perceived jihadist threat, whilst a concern is far less worrying than the possibility of chemical or non-chemical weapons falling into wrong hands. This is a much more complicated challenge to deal with,” said Herzog.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">FALL OF THE REGIME WILL WEAKEN IRAN’S STRATEGIC POSITION IN THE MIDDLE EAST?</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Eli Karmon, a senior fellow at the Institute for Policy and Strategy in Herzliya, also saw the fallout of Assad’s ouster as a more manageable threat.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The most important thing is to see the fall of the regime. This will provoke … the weakening of Iran’s strategic position in the Middle East… and Hezbollah will be much more isolated and under pressure,” he said.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Background Information:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">SUNNI VERSUS SHIITE</span> at:</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/turkeys-sunni-crescent.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/turkeys-sunni-crescent.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/05/turkey-shiite-persians-versus-wahhabi.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/05/turkey-shiite-persians-versus-wahhabi.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">  </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Karmon acknowledged the opposing view in certain defence and strategic circles.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“There are some who think the best thing would be to have the regime and opposition fighting as long as possible in order to weaken (both of) them,” he said.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In any case, ISRAEL cannot decisively influence the outcome of the SYRIAN conflict, the analysts noted, saying the best course of action for the Jewish state was to avoid involvement unless its security is directly threatened.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Llk26XyC8wNJYY5vlP1xpMql5LuAsGq2TYKpmN72T1AqWjY2fHCTS7IXyZ6MwDzLsNe2F2apGIUl8opK6D77ixPUCSoSAYw98TVbbctvUd0yREdiU6W7MSfsk8DpXyws4u8623LN6Xjo/s1600/golan_heights_rel891.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Llk26XyC8wNJYY5vlP1xpMql5LuAsGq2TYKpmN72T1AqWjY2fHCTS7IXyZ6MwDzLsNe2F2apGIUl8opK6D77ixPUCSoSAYw98TVbbctvUd0yREdiU6W7MSfsk8DpXyws4u8623LN6Xjo/s320/golan_heights_rel891.jpg" width="249" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ISRAEL has already responded with fire to mortar and small arms fire spilling over the ceasefire line in the occupied Golan Heights this year.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What is assumed in government is that “40 years of quiet along the northern border will come to an end,” Herzog said.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At that stage, “both sides in the ISRAELI (intelligence) discussion would have to agree on the practical measures needed to be taken, which would boil down to strengthening border security,” said Spyer.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Related topics:</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2011/12/syria-cause-and-effect.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2011/12/syria-cause-and-effect.html</a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/01/strait-of-hormuz-and-syria.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/01/strait-of-hormuz-and-syria.html</a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/05/syria-switching-perception.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/05/syria-switching-perception.html</a></div>

ISRAEL: ASSAD OR JIHADISTS - TO BE OR NOT TO BE? THAT IS THE QUESTION

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Gearing Up for Common Core in Math #ccchat #mathchat

I skipped a class and showed up the next class day to be handed a test. I haven't studied for it. It wasn't on <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.theann.com/WMBK/1Burris.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://www.theann.com/WMBK/1Burris.gif" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Darren Burris @dgburris<br />shares his thoughts on Common Core<br />math and how it CAN be done.<br /><a href="http://www.bamradionetwork.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1052:jackstreet54&catid=91:every-classroom-matters&Itemid=259">Listen to the show.</a></td></tr></tbody></table>the syllabus. It wasn't based on anything I'd learned. I'm in class looking at the test sweating and realizing that I know nothing on the test and have never heard of it. Just as I start to panic, BOOM! I wake up. I have this dream at least once a year before school starts or any time I feel unprepared.<br /><br />This is sadly, being lived out by many students today who are being tested by standards that aren't integrated into their textbooks and classrooms. Students are looking at content for the first time and realizing that they've never seen it. They are unprepared, but is it their fault? No! It is time to prepare and update our classrooms.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.scoop.it/t/common-core-mathematics">Darren Burris</a> is a math teacherpreneur who has been noticed for his effectiveness of integrating Common Core Math standards into his classroom. Not only does he love the standards, but the practices they bring to his classroom. I hope you'll listen to my conversation with Darren as we discussed "<a href="http://www.bamradionetwork.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1052:jackstreet54&catid=91:every-classroom-matters&Itemid=259">Gearing Up for Common Core in Math</a>" on Every Classroom Matters (BAM Radio network.)<br /><br />The biggest point for me is that Darren believes that meeting the standards and working with curriculum should be ITERATIVE. It is going to take a while for math to get there. This jumps out as a perfect time to purchase etextbooks updated yearly. Why would anyone buy a paper textbook that says it is aligned with Common Core math when the best math teachers like Darren say none of them are really there yet?<br /><br />If you're working with Common Core math, I hope you'll share what you're doing and your thoughts.<br /><br />We need to be fair and help kids prepare so that nightmares can just be when they're asleep.<br /><br /><b><u>Places you can find more information:</u></b><br />Darren Burris<br /><br /><div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">Math teacher at Boston Collegiate Charter School.</div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">Curator of <a href="http://commoncoreessentials.posterous.com/">http://commoncoreessentials.posterous.com/</a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">Common Core Online: <a href="http://goo.gl/cE7Cr" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/cE7Cr</a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">Common Core Essentials: <a href="http://coreessentials.wordpress.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://coreessentials.wordpress.com/</a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">PARCC in  MA: <a href="http://parccinma.wordpress.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://parccinma.wordpress.com/</a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/@dgburris" style="color: #1155cc;">@dgburris</a></div></div>

Gearing Up for Common Core in Math #ccchat #mathchat

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Molecules in the brain trigger ageing : Nature News & Comment

The area of the brain that controls growth, reproduction and metabolism also kick-starts ageing, according to a study published today inNature1. The finding could lead to new treatments for age-related illnesses, helping people to live longer.<br><br>Dongsheng Cai, a physiologist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and his colleagues tracked the activity of NF-κB — a molecule that controls DNA transcription and is involved in inflammation and the body's response to stress — in the brains of mice. They found that the molecule becomes more active in the brain area called the hypothalamus as a mouse grows older.<br><br>Further tests suggested that NF-κB activity helps to determine when mice display signs of ageing. Animals lived longer than normal when they were injected with a substance that inhibited the activity of NF-κB in immune cells called microglia in the hypothalamus. Mice that received a substance to stimulate the activity of NF-κB died earlier.<br><br>"We have provided scientific evidence for the concept that systemic ageing is influenced by a particular tissue in the body," says Cai.<br><br><b>Health and well-being</b><div><b><br></b>The researchers examined the health and mental abilities of the mice six months after the initial experiment. Animals injected with the NF-κB inhibitor performed better than controls on tasks designed to test their cognition and movement. They also showed less age-related decline in muscle strength, skin thickness, bone mass and tail-tendon integrity. The mice in which NF-κB was activated experienced more age-related decline. The results were similar in males and females.<br><br>Most previous studies have simply observed how long mice live after treatment, says Richard Miller, a pathologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. "Looking at different aspects of age-specific functions is a very good idea," he says. "It makes a much stronger case that the whole ageing process has in some way been decelerated."<br><br>Treating middle-aged mice to suppress the production of IKK-β, an enzyme that activates NF-κB, in microglia in the hypothalamus also reduced age-related cognitive and physical declines. Suppressing IKK-β in all areas of the brain increased median lifespan by 23% and maximum lifespan by 20%.<br><br>The researchers report that NF-κB counteracts the effects of a hormone called gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH), reducing brain-cell growth and shutting down the mice's reproductive systems. Injecting mice with GnRH slowed down ageing and triggered the growth of new brain cells. That suggests that inflammation and stress are an evolutionary signal to the body to stop reproducing, which triggers the start of the ageing process. <br><br>The findings are "a major breakthrough in ageing research", says David Sinclair, a molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.<br><br>He says that a key finding is that blocking the effects of NF-κB produced anti-ageing effects even when it was done in middle age. "If we're going to translate this research into medicines that can help people, clearly we cannot start very early in life."<br><br>The research "is certainly worth a lot of additional attention", says Miller. He thinks that Cai's study will stimulate research into treatments for slowing down age-related illnesses that are linked to inflammation, such as arthritis, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease.<br><br><a href="http://www.nature.com/news/molecules-in-the-brain-trigger-ageing-1.12891">http://www.nature.com/news/molecules-in-the-brain-trigger-ageing-1.12891</a> </div>

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When the Doctor Is Overweight - NYTimes.com

<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><div id="well" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; 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; "><div align="left"><div class="entry-content"><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; ">Dr. George Fielding, a pioneer of weight loss surgery in Australia, remembers how patients treated him in the late 1990s, when his weight reached 330 pounds on his six-foot frame. He would meet new patients, dressed in Armani suits and feeling on top of the world, and then be abruptly upended.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; ">"They'd say, 'Mate! You're sitting there telling me <em>I</em> need it? <em>You</em> need to have your surgery!' "</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; ">Despite being an internationally recognized expert on lap band and gastric bypass surgeries, Dr. Fielding knew that his appearance was dissuading some patients from using his services. And years of yo-yo dieting and extreme exercise hadn't helped him keep the weight off.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; ">"People would come for consultations and say they would do it, and then they didn't come back," said Dr. Fielding, who now works at New York University's Langone Medical Center. "I knew they were probably thinking, 'Wow, he's fat! Is he any good?' "</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; ">So Dr. Fielding wasn't at all surprised by the results of a <a href="http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ijo201333a.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); text-decoration: none; ">recent study in the International Journal of Obesity</a> showing that patients secretly — or not so secretly — look with disdain on doctors who are overweight or obese. Just as overweight people are stigmatized in an array of professional and personal settings, overweight doctors are seen as less credible than "normal weight" doctors, and patients are less likely to follow their medical advice, the study found.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; ">The study's stinging conclusions resonated, too, with Dr. Deep Ramachandran, a pulmonary critical care and sleep doctor at Genesys Regional Medical Center in Grand Blanc, Mich. After administering tests exploring his patients' breathing irregularities, he often has to tell them a blunt truth: they need to lose weight.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; ">That can be a particularly tough message for this messenger to deliver. Dr. Ramachandran, 42, says he has a body mass index of 38 and should lose at least 60 pounds.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; ">"It's easy for doctors to assume that once we put on the white coat, patients will listen to what we say," he said. "But this study says the white coat doesn't protect you. You have to own your problems and communicate with patients in ways they can understand."</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; ">So he often tells patients that he, too, struggles with weight loss and knows how hard it is.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; ">"How do we deliver a message that may be seen as hypocritical? I don't know the answer," Dr. Ramachandran said. "But doctors are human beings first and scientists second. We are subject to the same maladies as the rest of society. It's an incredibly difficult problem, and a challenge."</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; ">The bias against overweight people is so socially accepted, said Dr. Rebecca M. Puhl, the lead author of the study and the director of research and weight stigma initiatives at Yale University's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, that "despite all the doctor's training and expertise, it can jeopardize the doctor's ability to have a conversation about health care with the patient."</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; ">Patients seem to hold doctors to a stricter standard: "If you're a health professional, people think you shouldn't be struggling with weight," said Dr. Puhl, who is a clinical psychologist and has conducted extensive research into weight stigma.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; ">For the study, the Yale researchers randomly assigned 358 participants — about 57 percent female and 70 percent Caucasian, with an average age of 37 — to complete one of three online surveys about a hypothetical doctor, responding to questions like whether they would choose the doctor as a provider, follow the doctor's advice about exercise and losing weight, or consider the doctor credible and trustworthy. The only difference among the versions — indeed, the only identifying characteristic about the gender-neutral doctor — was whether the doctor was "normal weight," "overweight" or "obese."</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; ">The researchers also included a widely used "fat phobia" list of 14 pairs of adjectives that ranks the respondent's perceptions on a scale. Typical pairs include "lazy/industrious," "good self-control/no self-control" and "attractive/unattractive."</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; ">Those who answered the surveys about doctors described as overweight or obese were significantly more likely to change providers than those with doctors described as being of normal weight, regardless of the weight of the patient. The higher respondents' fat phobia scores, the more likely they were to place their trust in a physician of "normal weight."</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; ">Dr. Fielding, the Australian bariatric surgeon, knows firsthand the change in attitudes that can occur in patients and colleagues when they deal with doctors of different weights. Since having lap band surgery 13 years ago, at age 43, he has maintained his weight at 210 pounds, following a regimen of regular, moderate exercise and 800 calories a day. "I was treated completely differently by patients and doctors," he said. "They weren't distracted by the fact that I was fat."</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; ">He acknowledged that the respect now automatically conferred on him sometimes ignited an ancient flicker of resentment. "I'm the same guy, still George," he said.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; ">Dr. Puhl suggests that medical professionals have a front-line position to change the bias against people who are overweight and should make sure that patients understand the many factors that contribute to excess weight, including genetics, food chemistry and the biology of satiety.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; ">"Then shift the conversation from weight loss to health behaviors that patients can improve, regardless of body weight," she said. "I've met enough people who are thin and unhealthy because of drinking or smoking, or are overweight by the B.M.I. but are very healthy. And that is true for doctors as well as patients."</div></div></div></div></div><a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/01/when-the-doctor-is-overweight/?pagewanted=print">http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/01/when-the-doctor-is-overweight/?pagewanted=print</a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 05/02/2013

<ul class="diigo-linkroll"> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/05/looking-ahead-at-touchscreen-technology-where-do-we-go-from-here/">Finger-free phones, full body gesturing, and our “touchscreen” future | Ars Technica</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">I think those who think that we will not need keyboards are missing a few important points. Here's the issue - I can type faster than I can talk. Also, in the classroom - 20 kids talking to their computers it would be chaos and a mess. Typing, however, has a speed benefit and doesn't require a "cone of silence" as a everyone talking to their glasses would. I think keyboarding will remain part of the productive equipment of most of us - until our devices can read our brain waves. For those who type less than 30 words a minute and work in a quiet office, this is likely to be true. Meanwhile, this is a great read about what will happen in our homes, at least.</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/gesture_based_computing">gesture_based_computing</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 05/02/2013

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Bones goes to the butcher

Here is Bones on a trip to the butcher to buy dinner. He waits patiently outside while Ciaran chooses what to buy. <br /><br />He even met a friend!<br /><br />Once he gets to our cul de sac he is allowed off the lead to walk free <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkMTeN-nF-vZ6XQemvWueA_F9ryzUWTmCr5H9NuAB9P9Jed7NkcLsgAxcUTgaDAHxdTmLD3UEUnrVhaKJvfdoNKar05HlfCN9tAO61L4Sg2ecIW8RVb1JOPriF3N0jVZ1E-Y2jKRJoQp3H/s640/blogger-image--972880134.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkMTeN-nF-vZ6XQemvWueA_F9ryzUWTmCr5H9NuAB9P9Jed7NkcLsgAxcUTgaDAHxdTmLD3UEUnrVhaKJvfdoNKar05HlfCN9tAO61L4Sg2ecIW8RVb1JOPriF3N0jVZ1E-Y2jKRJoQp3H/s640/blogger-image--972880134.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoCS3L76GkRdP-irhp3XM_Xmx8w0aV_NFFJRy9xxhasjNOwnMtrNqWbo6g13JC7WpejhmgPPsAVqsNIDJACN0wF9ceqfnve65u5xceMhDYLH6-H6JANj_xT-f4tx3eD79MK4SVRwso4gWH/s640/blogger-image-718386146.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoCS3L76GkRdP-irhp3XM_Xmx8w0aV_NFFJRy9xxhasjNOwnMtrNqWbo6g13JC7WpejhmgPPsAVqsNIDJACN0wF9ceqfnve65u5xceMhDYLH6-H6JANj_xT-f4tx3eD79MK4SVRwso4gWH/s640/blogger-image-718386146.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTXOoL45SRXWhwocb2mcYfk73o7kkHXOtR0o8RIi5mTisMFWtSkHrkwZRMSK9iDHXVe3NUGkMs31vPwEptGuJHweJCel5jorRJwTrcNgT9UzLxFJuLKSjG-LkIoU8EFdnqKzAfB3vabNiv/s640/blogger-image--536240567.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTXOoL45SRXWhwocb2mcYfk73o7kkHXOtR0o8RIi5mTisMFWtSkHrkwZRMSK9iDHXVe3NUGkMs31vPwEptGuJHweJCel5jorRJwTrcNgT9UzLxFJuLKSjG-LkIoU8EFdnqKzAfB3vabNiv/s640/blogger-image--536240567.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBKKUHWv51hAaYF6GZoorZTe5ZU6HRj3yCcuWGA2jzEf8mnyoNFxCR6NMF7HPsRJogVnPB3y1CaPYA8miTVjtG53feN6XCv5XRg9eiIHqlffmch4GaJOkGbzBXQET9yU73LQo-k0Dz1Tye/s640/blogger-image-1965447587.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBKKUHWv51hAaYF6GZoorZTe5ZU6HRj3yCcuWGA2jzEf8mnyoNFxCR6NMF7HPsRJogVnPB3y1CaPYA8miTVjtG53feN6XCv5XRg9eiIHqlffmch4GaJOkGbzBXQET9yU73LQo-k0Dz1Tye/s640/blogger-image-1965447587.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGCvKQUtLURUpPxoHFIHNnv5lg-vdGZQWbbTal5v6AlZ2S1Sj-VrBYeCn9oavp-1eZnAZg5Gqchkr3QOwypcT5repePXEZw0Ay__duMxwo76djB3ygLh5jtgWLx4TZqzvNJIa-qFhKWF_P/s640/blogger-image--905248391.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGCvKQUtLURUpPxoHFIHNnv5lg-vdGZQWbbTal5v6AlZ2S1Sj-VrBYeCn9oavp-1eZnAZg5Gqchkr3QOwypcT5repePXEZw0Ay__duMxwo76djB3ygLh5jtgWLx4TZqzvNJIa-qFhKWF_P/s640/blogger-image--905248391.jpg" /></a></div>

Bones goes to the butcher

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