Life, Interrupted: A Chat With Suleika - NYTimes.com

It was just about a year ago when Well readers first met Suleika Jaouad, who at 22 was facing a cancer diagnosis and a potentially lifesaving bone marrow transplant. Her first column "Life, Interrupted: Facing Cancer in Your 20s," captivated readers and transformed Ms. Jaouad from an unknown writer to a national advocate for young people with cancer.<br /><br><br /><br>Although Ms. Jaouad is now cancer-free, she is still undergoing a yearlong chemotherapy regimen. She recently took some time to talk about her writing schedule, the challenges of being a "cancerlebrity," and a new love in her life, Oscar, a rescue dog. Here's our conversation.<br /><br><br /><br>Q.<br /><br>Can you start by giving us an update on your health and treatment?<br /><br><br /><br>A.<br /><br>I just celebrated my first post-transplant anniversary, which was really exciting. I have mixed emotions about it, because the same day I celebrated my "transplanniversary," which is what I call it, I had to go into chemo that morning. As much progress as I've made and as grateful as I feel to be here today, cancer is still part of my day-to-day life in a big way.<br /><br><br /><br>Q.<br /><br>Where are you in treatment right now?<br /><br><br /><br>A.<br /><br>I've completed eight cycles of chemotherapy since my transplant. I have about four more left. I'm beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I'm kind of up and down. Because these treatments are cumulative, I have been feeling more and more exhausted by them. Luckily, I have only about four more, and then it looks like I'll be done, hopefully forever.<br /><br><br /><br>Q.<br /><br>Looking back, you've had so much professional success in the past year with your writing. Is it hard to reconcile that your success coincided with having cancer?<br /><br><br /><br>A.<br /><br>It's confusing sometimes. I don't consider cancer a gift by any means. I've seen it take people's lives, and the toll it's taken on my life and my family. As with any difficult experience, there is always a silver lining. The biggest silver lining for me has been not only finding my voice as a writer, but having an opportunity to know my audience, hear their stories and learn from them. During my transplant, the highlight each week for me was reading the comments section of "Life, Interrupted." Receiving that support was unlike anything else I've ever experienced. Hearing from other people who have gone through what I've gone through but were many years out from it – it was so inspiring and continues to be. On a professional note, it was exciting to me to see my name in print, to have my first byline during the very same week that I was going in for a life-threatening procedure. It gave me hope for the future and hope that one day I might be able to be a writer without the cancer as my main message.<br /><br><br /><br>Q.<br /><br>How do you feel about being a "cancerlebrity"? Did you ever expect that writing about your cancer would create so many new opportunities?<br /><br><br /><br>A.<br /><br>It's been a strange feeling. When I first started writing these columns, I was completely bedridden. For the first few months I was in isolation and couldn't leave my room or go to public spaces. It was only when I got well enough to walk around that I realized just how public my story had become. I was sitting in a coffee shop and the barista came over to me — this healthy, normal-looking 20-something, and she said, "Oh, you're that girl who writes the 'Life, Interrupted' column." She didn't have a cancer history, but she could relate to the life-interrupted message and found inspiration in that. That's happened to me several times since then, and every time it takes me by surprise. It's been incredible for me to meet so many new people in the cancer community and outside of it. Some of my best friends today are young women who are living with cancer whom I met through Twitter or Facebook or the comments section of my column.<br /><br><br /><br>Q.<br /><br>What are some of the other opportunities that writing the column has created for you?<br /><br><br /><br>A.<br /><br>One thing I've enjoyed has been doing the video series and doing other television and public speaking. That's something I never thought I'd be doing particularly because I had horrible stage fright. For me to stand up in front of 1,000 people and share my story and talk about advocacy or blogging and social media was something I never dreamed of doing. It's been very empowering to face that fear head-on. Now a lot of what I do is travel around and speak at colleges and hospitals. Next week I go to Las Vegas for a young adult cancer conference. I'll be speaking there and hosting a workshop called "Healing Through Writing." Then I'm off to London – it will be my first time abroad since I got sick in Paris two years ago. I'll be speaking at a blood cancer gala, and I'm very excited.<br /><br><br /><br>Q.<br /><br>Lately, you have not been writing your column as frequently as in the beginning. Readers often worry this means you are not doing well. Do you have a response to that?<br /><br><br /><br>A.<br /><br>I think post-bone marrow transplant complications are quite common. I did struggle with a minor case of graft-versus-host disease. And recently, I had to have a new port catheter placed into my chest because my veins had become difficult to access. It was a minor procedure, but it did put me out of commission for a little while. And as anyone who has done chemotherapy can tell you, the exhaustion doesn't come just the week of chemotherapy but most often the week after, when side effects start to take effect. I guess I would say that over all I'm doing really well, as well as can be expected, but because of the additional year of chemotherapy I had to do after my transplant I have been very fatigued and unable to write at times.<br /><br><br /><br>Q.<br /><br>But when you are feeling well, aren't you also incredibly busy?<br /><br><br /><br>A.<br /><br>Yes, that's part of it, too. I think the thing that helps me the most is seizing those moments when I'm well and trying to make the most of them whether it's writing a column or traveling to host a young adults cancer symposium. I really try to stay as busy as possible. My way of coping with my disease has been to constantly try and look for those silver linings and, when I find one, to make the most of it.<br /><br><br /><br>Q.<br /><br>You have such a large following on Well. Is there a way for readers to catch up with you between columns?<br /><br><br /><br>A.<br /><br>I'm constantly posting updates through my Twitter, Facebook pageand Instagram. For those who want more regular updates for what's going on medically with me or otherwise, they are welcome to look there.<br /><br><br /><br>Q.<br /><br>In your videos and column, you have shared moments in your relationship with your boyfriend, Seamus McKiernan, whom you had known only a short time before your diagnosis. How is he doing now?<br /><br><br /><br>A.<br /><br>Everything is really great. We're living together with our dog, trying to find a new normal. I think that's something I'd like to write about – what does that expression mean? I think as a cancer patient, when you transition into that survivorship period it can be difficult. For me it's been hard to know what's the next step, where do I go from here. We've been trying to figure that out together. So much of our relationship has been dominated by disease; we are both looking forward to moving on with our lives. Seamus recently started "Generation Why" a platform for other young adults to blog about their cancer. I feel really grateful to him for doing that because not only has he stood by me for all of this, but he's taken time out of his workday to offer other young patients the chance to share their stories publicly. He's seen how much writing has helped me, and he has found a way to give that gift to other young people.<br /><br><br /><br>Q.<br /><br>You also wrote about how cancer interrupted the last year of collegefor your brother, who was your bone marrow donor. What is he up to now?<br /><br><br /><br>A.<br /><br>My brother is doing really well. He's in the Dominican Republic studying Spanish and working odd jobs. He hopes to enroll in the Peace Corps. I think all of this has been very difficult for him as my donor. He's felt a lot of responsibility in regards to how I'm doing, so I think it's a really nice feeling for him to know I'm well enough that he can travel and leave the country without worrying about how I'm doing.<br /><br><br /><br>Q.<br /><br>With your personal health and life now so public, do you have a way to escape the constant focus on cancer that your column brings?<br /><br><br /><br>A.<br /><br>It can be too much cancer, 24/7, all the time. I've started drawing a lot and painting, which is something I did a lot growing up because my mother is an artist. I find a lot of pleasure and comfort in doing things that are completely unrelated to writing or speaking. It's also been so incredible to adopt Oscar, my rescue dog. I'm able to take walks with him, which is something I wouldn't have necessarily done on my own. It's a distraction that's set in stone four or five times a day. That's been really wonderful.<br /><br><br /><br>Q.<br /><br>I know you have thought about writing a book. Are you still considering that?<br /><br><br /><br>A.<br /><br>I am working on a book proposal. That's the next step for me. I'm hoping to write about my relationship with Seamus. I'd like this book to be a coming-of-age love story. Cancer is part of that story, but not necessarily the focus of it. I'm hoping to call it "Life, Interrupted," but instead of focusing so much on the interruptions, I'd like to focus on the "Life" part of the title.<br /><br><br /><br><a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/life-interrupted-a-chat-with-suleika/">http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/life-interrupted-a-chat-with-suleika/</a>

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Patients’ Genes Seen as Future of Cancer Care - NYTimes.com

<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><nyt_text style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); 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 id="articleBody"><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">Electric fans growl like airplanes taking off and banks of green lights wink in a basement at Mount Sinai's medical school, where a new $3 million supercomputer makes quick work of huge amounts of genetic and other biological information.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">Just a couple of miles away, a competitor, Weill Cornell Medical College and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell hospital are building a $650 million research tower. Across the street is a newly completed $550 million tower housing labs for another competitor, <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/m/memorial_sloankettering_cancer_center/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center" class="meta-org" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center</a>.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">Major academic medical centers in New York and around the country are spending and recruiting heavily in what has become an arms race within the war on <a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/cancer/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Cancer." class="meta-classifier" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">cancer</a>. The investments are based on the belief that the medical establishment is moving toward the routine sequencing of every patient's genome in the quest for "precision medicine," a course for prevention and treatment based on the special, even unique characteristics of the patient's genes.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">Among other projects, Harvard Medical School has its Center for Biomedical Informatics, which among a broad array of approaches uses mathematical modeling to predict when genetic information could lead to more effective treatment. Phoenix Children's Hospital opened the <a title="A link to the Web site. " href="http://www.phoenixchildrens.com/about/research/molecular-medicine-research.html" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">Ronald A. Matricaria Institute of Molecular Medicine</a> in December, recruiting researchers from Los Angeles and Baltimore and planning to sequence the genomes of 30 percent of their childhood cancer patients in their search for better therapies.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">Johns Hopkins, with its focus on public health, wants to develop a "systematic genomic sequencing program" over the next two years that will combine genomic analysis with a patient's environmental exposure, family history and other factors to support <a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/specialtopic/preventive-health-care/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Preventive health care." class="meta-classifier" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">preventive medicine</a>, said Scott Zeger, vice provost for research.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">"There will be a moment in time when whole genome sequencing becomes ubiquitous throughout health care," said Peter Tonellato, director of the Harvard personalized medicine lab and a clinical investigator in pathology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. "Let's say we figure out all the individuals who might have a cancer, and we can predict that with a relatively high level of accuracy. Then presumably we can take steps to avoid those, let's say, decades of treatment."</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">Sequencing an entire genome currently costs in the neighborhood of $5,000 to $10,000, not including the interpretation of the information. It is usually not reimbursed by insurance, which is more likely to cover tests for genetic mutations that are known to be responsive to drugs. The treatments themselves, which are sometimes covered, typically cost several times that.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">Even optimists warn that medicine is a long way from deriving useful information from routine sequencing, raising questions about the social worth of all this investment at a time of intense fiscal pressure on the health care system.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">"What's the real health benefit?" said Dr. Robert C. Green, a Harvard professor and a medical geneticist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. "If you're a little bit cynical, you say, well, none, it's foolish."</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">Dr. Green is part of a federally sponsored research project that is looking at the economic and medical impact of whole genome sequencing. "One of the most prominent downsides is you start chasing risks for a whole lot of disease you'll never have, and generate a lot of cost for little benefits," he said.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">He was not ready to dismiss the efforts of Mount Sinai and others, though. "The other side of the question is, what was there to look up on the Internet when the first person got a personal computer? Very little."</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">The race entails large sums spent not only on construction and technology but also recruitment, salaries and incentives for scientists like Weill-Cornell's Dr. Lewis Cantley, who was lured from Harvard, or Eric E. Schadt, plucked from the biotech world to head the <a title="A link to the Web site. " href="http://icahn.mssm.edu/research/institutes/genomics-institute" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">Mount Sinai Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology</a>.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell announced a new Institute for Precision Medicine, headed by a <a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/prostate-cancer/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Prostate Cancer." class="meta-classifier" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">prostate cancer</a> expert, in January. (The newly fashionable term "precision medicine" is an updated version of another genomics buzzword, "personalized medicine.") "I am not in this for competition," said Dr. Laurie Glimcher, dean of Weill Cornell Medical College. "I consider it collaboration, and I think we all have the same goal in mind, which is to cure disease."</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">As Weill Cornell was courting Dr. Cantley, Memorial was pursuing another Harvard eminence, Dr. José Baselga, to be its physician in chief. "It's a small world," Dr. Baselga, a <a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/breast-cancer/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Breast cancer." class="meta-classifier" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">breast cancer</a> specialist, said, recalling that he and Dr. Cantley had exchanged notes on what each was being offered.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">Memorial sequenced 16,000 tumors last year, mainly in lung cancer patients, Dr. Baselga said. In addition to the research building just completed on East 68th Street, a new outpatient building on East 74th Street, to be finished in 2018, will have whole floors dedicated to early-phase clinical trials.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">The promise of whole genome sequencing can be seen in trials like one for <a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/bladder-cancer/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Bladder cancer." class="meta-classifier" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">bladder cancer</a> at Memorial, where the effects of a drug normally used for breast cancer were disappointing in all but one of about 40 patients, whose tumor went away, Dr. Baselga said. Investigators sequenced the patient's whole genome. "The patient had a mutation in one gene that was right on the same pathway as the therapy," Dr. Baselga said. "And that explained why this worked."</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">At Mount Sinai, Dr. Schadt, 48, an all-around risk aficionado who rides a BMW S 1000 RR Superbike, says he will use the mathematical principles of weather and markets forecasting to assess the risk of disease, and, given a disease, determine the subtype and best drugs to use.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">Mount Sinai has collected what it calls an electronic "biobank" of information on 24,000 patients, who have agreed to participate in DNA sequencing and research over their lifetimes.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">Some of that information will be fed into the supercomputer, which is named Minerva, after the Roman goddess of wisdom. Data storage alone is a challenge: one genome is 300 gigabytes of raw data per patient sample. Minerva's supervisor is Patricia Kovatch, 44, a computer engineer who led the team that built Kraken, the world's third fastest computer, in 2009, while working for the University of Tennessee at <a title="A link to the Web site. " href="http://www.tennessee.edu/ornl/" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">Oak Ridge National Laboratory</a>.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">So much hiring has been going on surrounding personalized medicine at Mount Sinai, she said, that "it feels like a start-up."</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">At this point, scientists have only an imperfect understanding of how snippets of genetic material can determine a patient's chances of getting many diseases, especially more common ones. And patients are often reluctant to enroll in clinical trials of drugs still in development. But by setting up the right infrastructure — collecting and sequencing patient DNA, identifying patients who could benefit from a particular drug and aggressively recruiting patients for trials — the academic medical centers hope to play a bigger role in the development of new drugs, which could lead to lucrative patent royalties.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">"The pharmaceutical companies need the expertise of academic medical centers, they need our patient groups to participate," said Dr. Dennis Charney, dean of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">Those groups could include patients like Kieran P. Holohan, a 45-year-old lawyer who received a diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia in 2009. After his <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/chemotherapy/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="Recent and archival health news about chemotherapy." class="meta-classifier" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">chemotherapy</a> and the disease's remission, his original doctor pushed him to have a bone-marrow transplant to prolong the remission. A friend from his rugby club, a geneticist, told him that "this has a lot to do with chromosomes," he recalled, and sent him to a doctor at Weill Cornell, Gail J. Roboz.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">A relatively new laboratory test found that Mr. Holohan's leukemia had a mutation that meant that his chances of survival would not necessarily improve with the risky transplant. So he opted for more chemotherapy, and his cancer is still in remission.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">"They didn't go with a suit off the rack," he said. "This was bespoke medicine."</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">His doctor is more cautious. "Unfortunately, cancer is cured three times a day in the media," she said. But that does not mean that there might not be truly customized treatments for cancer 10 years down the line, she said.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">Dr. James M. Crawford, chair of pathology at Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, said his institution, a competitor in some ways with the Manhattan medical centers, was "quite literally on the fence" about whether to join the race or to "let more data emerge before we decide we are going to commit more resources to this."</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">"What is the ultimate utility of this personalized medicine?" he said. 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Lead Electronics Engineer (#109482)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Position:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Lead Electronics Engineer</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />Location:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Migdal Ha'emek, Israel</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />Duration:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Full time</span><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true" DefSemiHidden="true" DefQFormat="false" DefPriority="99" LatentStyleCount="267"> <w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="0" SemiHidden="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false" 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Name="Bibliography"/> <w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" QFormat="true" Name="TOC Heading"/> </w:LatentStyles></xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]><style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} </style><![endif]--> <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The Optical Metrology Division products are used for optical overlay metrology. The portfolio of products includes unique solution packages which are based on hardware and software systems to enhance yield and effectiveness. As a world leader in its field of expertise, the division's products are the most advanced in performance (measurement accuracy of nanometers and below), reliability, ease of use and compatibility with other KLA-Tencor's products.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>KLA-Tencor (Israel) controls over 80% of the world market sales in its field, and its products are used by every major semiconductor manufacturer around the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>KLA-Tencor Israel is located in the Migdal Haemek Industrial Park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Responsibilities</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Lead Electronics and Control development within a system development project.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Responsible for complete system electronics and electronic subsystems development process, including requirements specification, interfaces specifications, design reviews, detailed design and implementation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Responsible for prototypes production, parts procurement, subsystems verification, system integration and transfer to manufacturing. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Manage all electronic and control internal resources and subcontractors including budget, schedule and design quality.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Work with other engineering, manufacturing and service groups to ensure product quality, cost and delivery schedule. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Addresses and resolves product issues through the product phases. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Preferred Qualifications</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">B.Sc degree in Electronics Engineering</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">At least 5 years of experience in Electronics development</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Proven Experience in Electromechanical systems development</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Advantage – experience as development team leader</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Advantage - experience at the semiconductor industry</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Personal – proven leadership skills, excellent communication and presentation skills, problem solving capabilities, decision making capabilities.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Minimum Qualifications</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Doctorate (Academic) with at least 5 years of experience. OR Master's Level Degree with at least 6 years of experience. OR Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 7 years of experience.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Kindly send your resumes to <a href="mailto:vicky.palatnik@kla-tencor.com">vicky.palatnik@kla-tencor.com</a></span></div></div>

Lead Electronics Engineer (#109482)

Position: Lead Electronics Engineer Location: Migdal Ha'emek, Israel Duration: Full time The Optical Metrology Division products are...

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Keith Olbermann Says Shame on the Pulitzer Committee

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]-->Keith Olbermann here offering an hola, cheers, greetings and salutations and a harty hail and salute to the thousands of people all over the world who read the IWS Blog. While I join the rest of America, and the world, in offering my deepest and most sincere condolences to the good people of Boston and West, Texas, I feel the need to come here today to speak out about another, equally appalling outrage. <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">As you may know, a couple weeks ago we learned of the 2013 recipients of the Pulitzer Prizes. No, I’m not here to complain about the failure of the committee to award me the Pulitzer for National Reporting, International Reporting, Breaking News Reporting, Investigative Reporting, Commentary or Criticism, although I most certainly deserved to win in any or ALL of those categories. I’m here today to stand up for IWS’ Poet Laureate Paul Piatt. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijlRY21soWig5N9r5XonVqaTuh_6Onxf-L-bhjcBuREwgvsjnPTjYn8eB6haQQz7aTgZi9uzL3En1X2HAFwF36Oc775xnq5VxOVPBEjIFcHGJGHKJa75axqgt9zPPzD36Xwt941iewBgk/s1600/Paul_Delany.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijlRY21soWig5N9r5XonVqaTuh_6Onxf-L-bhjcBuREwgvsjnPTjYn8eB6haQQz7aTgZi9uzL3En1X2HAFwF36Oc775xnq5VxOVPBEjIFcHGJGHKJa75axqgt9zPPzD36Xwt941iewBgk/s320/Paul_Delany.jpg" width="227" /></a>I was shocked and dismayed to hear that Mr. Piatt was once again overlooked. I understand the </div>committee’s jealousy and envy of my great accomplishments keeping them from rewarding me as I so richly deserve, but why do they treat Mr. Piatt this way? I also know that both Matt-Man and Jayman are equally as angry as I, but I’m sure they and everyone would agree that I am a much more forceful and articulate voice for Paul. <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Given the illustrious career Mr. Piatt has had in the world of Poetry, one has to wonder if the Pulitzer Committee has spent most of their time wandering through the book section of their local Walmart. How could they possibly have overlooked Paul Piatt yet again? The lack of competence shown by the Pulitzer Committee is so shocking, so disheartening that I have no other choice but to DEMAND that they RESIGN IMMEDIATELY! </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Have you no shame people? Do you not have any sense of decency or understanding of literary greatness at all? Here sits Mr. Paul Piatt, a good, decent man who has never asked for anything in his life. He has never called attention to himself or tooted his own horn. He has done nothing but try to bring the love words made magical to the masses. The committee could have shown the world that Poetry isn’t about elitism or about popularity, but about the words themselves. They could have reminded us that Poetry doesn’t have to be snooty and full of anger and angst. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Instead the committee decided to lower itself to the very bottom of the literary barrel and award <a href="http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Poetry" target="_blank">Sharon Olds the Pulitzer for “Stag’sLeap</a>.” Just when you thought culture could not go any lower, you are proven wrong as a poetry book about a woman’s divorce is the big winner. That’s right kids something that is better suited for Oprah’s Couch than it is our bookshelves has been elevated to the highest levels of the Poetry World. My anger and disappointment is such that I cannot put it into words. Luckily for me, my talented friend, Mr. Nispsey Russell can…</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><i>“Once again Paul Piatt was over looked<br />If you ask me those votes were cooked<br />So here’s my message to the Pulitzer Brass<br />The committee can kiss my fat ass”</i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Simple, crude, from the heart, Nipsey speaks for all of us on this day of shock and OH NO THEY DIDN’T! I, along with the entire team at IWS World Media expect the Pulitzer’s Committee response and attempt to right this unconscionable wrong with, at the very least, a very sincere apology to both myself and Mr. Piatt and a promise to reform their selection process and then ….. RESIGN IMMEDIATELY! </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">For IWS this has been Keith Olbermann. </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">Facebook.com/Jayman68</a><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/jayman_iws" target="_blank">@Jayman_IWS</a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">In other news, Sunday was another EPIC episode of I'm With Stupid. We talked about the Boston Marathon Bombing and the terrible cable news channels. 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Keith Olbermann Says Shame on the Pulitzer Committee

Keith Olbermann here offering an hola, cheers, greetings and salutations and a harty hail and salute to the thousands of people all over the...

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Österreich

<br /> <div class="entry-top" style="display: block; float: left; width: 600px;"> <span class="entry-logo"> </span> <span class="entry-tools"> <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style "> <a class="addthis_button_print at300b" href="http://www.deutsche-mittelstands-nachrichten.de/2013/04/51639/#" title="Print"><span class="at16nc at300bs at15nc at15t_print at16t_print"><span class="at_a11y"></span></span></a><a class="addthis_button_expanded at300m" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&username=xa-4cfb3107653ce433" title="View more services"><span class="at16nc at300bs at15nc at15t_expanded at16t_expanded"><span class="at_a11y"></span></span></a><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Standard&Poor´s will höhere Rücklagen für Österreichs Banken </span></b></div><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style "><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></b></div><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style "><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">via Deutsche Mittlestands Nachrichten </span></span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></b></div><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style "><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div></span></div><div class="entry-meta"> <span class="entry-writer"><br /></span><span class="entry-comments"><a href="http://www.deutsche-mittelstands-nachrichten.de/2013/04/51639/#comments"></a> </span> </div><div class="entry-excerpt"> Standard & Poor's spricht eine unmissverständliche Warnung an die österreichischen Sparer aus: Für die Rating-Agentur sind die Rücklagen der österreichischen Banken genau so schwach wie in Irland, Italien oder Frankreich. </div><div class="entry-social"> <div class="fb-like-count"><span style="height: 20px; width: 103px;"></span></div><div class="twitter-button"> </div><div class="twitter-button" style="width: 90px;"> </div><div class="xing-button"> </div></div><br /><div class="entry-content"> Die Eigenkapital-Quote der drei größten Institute (Bank Austria, Erste Bank, Raiffeisen) sieht die Rating-Agentur Standard&Poor´s (S&P) als nach wie vor zu niedrig an. Die Rücklagen der Banken seien immer noch ihre größte „Schwäche, besonders bei den Großbanken“, heißt es in einem Bericht von S&P zum Rating Österreichs. Im Schnitt liege die Eigenkapitalquote bei 5,5 Prozent. Angemessen sei aber ein Wert zwischen sieben und zehn Prozent. Durch ihr überdurchschnittliches Engagement in osteuropäischen Ländern gelten die österreichischen Großbanken als sensibel gegenüber dortigen konjunkturellen und politischen Entwicklungen.<br /><br /> Die Ratings von S&P lägen um zwei Stufen tiefer, wenn nicht die Möglichkeit auf Staatshilfen im Fall einer Finanzierungskrise bestünde. Eigentlich seien die Rücklagen ähnlich schwach wie bei italienischen, irischen und französischen Banken. Bei der notverstaatlichten KA Finanz, der ausgelagerten Bad Bank für toxische Papiere der Kommunalkredit, liege das Rating sogar vier Stufen höher. Es bestehe eine sehr hohe Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass die KA Finanz weitere Staatsunterstützung braucht, urteilt S&P. In Zypern ist die KA Finanz etwa mit 360 Millionen Euro engagiert.<br /><br /> Auch das umfangreiche Engagement der österreichischen Banken in Osteuropa könnte zu Kreditausfällen führen. Und das, obwohl die größten Banken des Landes im vergangenen Jahr ihren Kapitalstock – zum Teil durch Umschichtungen – gestärkt hatten.<br /><br /> Denn etwa 46 Milliarden Euro bilanzierten alle österreichischen Banken gegen Ende 2012 an Fremdwährungskrediten für Privat- und Geschäftskunden. Davon sind allein 32 Milliarden gegenüber Privatkunden offen. „Mit ca. 25 % aller Ausleihungen an diese Kundengruppe ist Österreich damit eines der wenigen Länder in Westeuropa mit einem so hohen Anteil von Fremdwährungskrediten“, sagte Markus Schmaus, S&P Senior Director – Analytical Manager Financial Institutions in Frankfurt, den Deutschen Wirtschafts Nachrichten.<br /> Aufgrund dieser Risiken sind auch die Bankkunden in Österreich einer gesteigerten Gefahr ausgesetzt, Opfer einer Zwangsabgabe zu werden. Diese ist in Zypern bereits beschlossene Sache und wird auch als Musterbeispiel für den Rest der europäischen Mitgliedstaaten reguliert, sobald die Banken durch Risikogeschäfte in Liquiditätsnot geraten.<br /> </div>

Österreich

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Today's archidose #669

Here are some photos of the <a href="http://www.unstudio.com/projects/zve-fraunhofer-institute">Centre for Virtual Engineering</a> (ZVE) at the Fraunhofer Institute, Stuttgart, Germany, by <a href="http://www.unstudio.com/">UNStudio</a> (2012), photographed by Frank Dinger (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bcmng/">bcmng</a>). See many more photos of the project in bcmng's <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bcmng/sets/72157633263435904/">Flickr set on ZVE</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bcmng/8656298082/" title="Centre for Virtual Engineering Stuttgart by bcmng, on Flickr"><img alt="Centre for Virtual Engineering Stuttgart" height="427" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8099/8656298082_1f006585ba_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bcmng/8655200833/" title="Centre for Virtual Engineering Stuttgart by bcmng, on Flickr"><img alt="Centre for Virtual Engineering Stuttgart" height="427" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8122/8655200833_9ae996bae1_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bcmng/8656303258/" title="Centre for Virtual Engineering Stuttgart by bcmng, on Flickr"><img alt="Centre for Virtual Engineering Stuttgart" height="427" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8107/8656303258_5cc04ee5ca_z.jpg" width="640" /></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 #669

Here are some photos of the Centre for Virtual Engineering (ZVE) at the Fraunhofer Institute, Stuttgart, Germany, by UNStudio (2012), phot...

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Dublin weather

Here's the weather for the week in Dublin, Ireland. <br /><br />Looks like Monday could be nice! <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx6IgTVp1xcdwQvgRt3qPYoZfBQcHp1C9pT6DOCXhbaStr5Bl4SaEMXpPZv8IHm6mL-IfZsXuyJWtVm8N9K2EkUjmLBbyiJVHLv31PLkKCDXvNM-Srw4w9HDqPqTNgHbMJ0cy7-7lRRnDi/s640/blogger-image--760538052.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx6IgTVp1xcdwQvgRt3qPYoZfBQcHp1C9pT6DOCXhbaStr5Bl4SaEMXpPZv8IHm6mL-IfZsXuyJWtVm8N9K2EkUjmLBbyiJVHLv31PLkKCDXvNM-Srw4w9HDqPqTNgHbMJ0cy7-7lRRnDi/s640/blogger-image--760538052.jpg" /></a></div>

Dublin weather

Here's the weather for the week in Dublin, Ireland. Looks like Monday could be nice!

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Bear Naked Review

<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVYN4GmO_3dm5oRE50YMUx3Do1W89WrtVM_fHIfTxUTqNM0jrejwwubezlybz2sCl6pgAfqOkiL-Ww2vz28GHw_onFHaPGT0kr-0rk4baxuwhsRuN_b0fX1cLlmxMfwgDMzek7Duk8oew/s1600/Bear+Naked+display.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVYN4GmO_3dm5oRE50YMUx3Do1W89WrtVM_fHIfTxUTqNM0jrejwwubezlybz2sCl6pgAfqOkiL-Ww2vz28GHw_onFHaPGT0kr-0rk4baxuwhsRuN_b0fX1cLlmxMfwgDMzek7Duk8oew/s320/Bear+Naked+display.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I recently was sent a wonderful assortment of healthy and delicious foods from <a href="http://www.bearnaked.com/">Bear Naked</a> granola company.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I was amazed when the box arrived, I couldn't wait to see what was inside. So I quickly and carefully opened the box. Inside of the box there was an assortment of their Bear Naked Fit granola, morning protein power snacks and a package of fruit and nut cookies! Talk about healthy!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sweet Facts:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">100% all natural</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Low in fat</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Delicious</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Low in sugar</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fruity</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Granola I was sent:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Triple Berry Crunch-</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Vanilla Almond Crunch-</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Heavenly Chocolate-</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I haven't tried all of the products yet but the products I have tried so far are amazing.They are packed with the most amazing flavor and has healthy ingredients in them such as fruits and nuts.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Morning Protein without nuts-</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A warm sweet cinnamon taste with a light crunch with tangy cranberries mixed in. Powerful protein keep you  on the go for a quick and easy snack! Works great in yogurt or right out of the pouch!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fruit and nut cookies-</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I loved the fact that these cookies weren't hard when you bite into them, they are moist and chewy just the way I like them. They have tons of goodness in them from the nuts and fruit and so delicious and takes care of my craving for something sweet without the guilt! Some dark chocolate chips would go great with a cookie! YUM!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Be sure to check out their line of products here:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Other products:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Cereal</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">trail mix</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fit Cereal</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Bear Naked Peak</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.bearnaked.com/">http://www.bearnaked.com/</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and connect with them on social media sites here:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Face Book:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/LiveBN">https://www.facebook.com/LiveBN</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Twitter:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/LiveBearNaked"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">https://twitter.com/LiveBearNaked</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>

Bear Naked Review

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Satay chicken

For dinner we had satay chicken with rice noodles and veg <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWEqqsEZeajlYaJP8TTIxOj_rOPk9O-yItCTUfbVB5Og8BkqFm9YV-nqbnDQADQHGvAU5wdW7XEwEsvRH0G4BEgVzrc1siHX7TN-KE3eyzzOI0PPwbrmL4nOh9KmXaVP0CnLEh5NwYnIGU/s640/blogger-image-71776332.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWEqqsEZeajlYaJP8TTIxOj_rOPk9O-yItCTUfbVB5Og8BkqFm9YV-nqbnDQADQHGvAU5wdW7XEwEsvRH0G4BEgVzrc1siHX7TN-KE3eyzzOI0PPwbrmL4nOh9KmXaVP0CnLEh5NwYnIGU/s640/blogger-image-71776332.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguNp-yoSra3DebPdjBvXL45Hxdq_zmugBZUWjG1aezJ44-pXV7COnE5QHlCZ-CGqGCpyCwHS6pj8FlxoVz_INzmadvaTRl4EG9ZekhK8-8cor7fkep_IfB7rFDAeLIvepgYDcKOJ3ee8ge/s640/blogger-image-368029914.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguNp-yoSra3DebPdjBvXL45Hxdq_zmugBZUWjG1aezJ44-pXV7COnE5QHlCZ-CGqGCpyCwHS6pj8FlxoVz_INzmadvaTRl4EG9ZekhK8-8cor7fkep_IfB7rFDAeLIvepgYDcKOJ3ee8ge/s640/blogger-image-368029914.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn7kl3Un19cOUGanxs6F05XtKwvJakZ9eKz8k-UhvT5xpQX5tZZl2_BotGPghhV9NKaA18oso49toW9EvIOJ-nsu91myEPdYa0lV_3PBf7tAR1u3epLutHEgTWP1Mrm8LjQf4vPqbyZvsg/s640/blogger-image-2003319001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn7kl3Un19cOUGanxs6F05XtKwvJakZ9eKz8k-UhvT5xpQX5tZZl2_BotGPghhV9NKaA18oso49toW9EvIOJ-nsu91myEPdYa0lV_3PBf7tAR1u3epLutHEgTWP1Mrm8LjQf4vPqbyZvsg/s640/blogger-image-2003319001.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ95DKqFCJxhSqouC2MOyaMUtjMwoQReeocmP98YzVZMVZnRxTJvUOLcyVYujbGA4zxZ0wz5ARVLHQZh_vsinb6ORJircxmaBJc_-hpuugrl7Tkx3d7q8DQpxNM44T8QGjOMWb7W6m7xpF/s640/blogger-image--987544788.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ95DKqFCJxhSqouC2MOyaMUtjMwoQReeocmP98YzVZMVZnRxTJvUOLcyVYujbGA4zxZ0wz5ARVLHQZh_vsinb6ORJircxmaBJc_-hpuugrl7Tkx3d7q8DQpxNM44T8QGjOMWb7W6m7xpF/s640/blogger-image--987544788.jpg" /></a></div>

Satay chicken

For dinner we had satay chicken with rice noodles and veg

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Canelo vs Trout results: Alvarez unifies titles with decision win

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img height="425" src="http://cdn1.sbnation.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/11877181/002_alvarez_img_0108.0_standard_730.0.jpg" width="640" /><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: 'Mercury SSm A', 'Mercury SSm B', Georgia, Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: italic; line-height: 32px;">Canelo Alvarez defeated Austin Trout tonight to unify the WBC and WBA titles, and while there was some talk of controversy, it was a fight that delivered on its potential.</span><br /><br /><div class="dropcap pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #292929; font-family: 'Mercury SSm A', 'Mercury SSm B', Georgia, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"></div><div class="dropcap pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph0" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">Tonight's main event at the raucous Alamadome in San Antonio lived up to the hype in terms of quality, and had what is likely going to be the best atmosphere of any fight in the world this year, as 39,472 fans (official attendance) made it a truly special night on Showtime boxing.</div><div class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph1" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">Canelo Alvarez came out the decision winner over Austin Trout, unifying the WBC and WBA titles by scores of 115-112, 116-111, and 118-109. The WBC's awful open scoring was in effect, so viewers on TV were able to find out that after eight rounds, Trout (26-1, 14 KO) was mathematically out of the fight.</div><div class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph2" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">This also allowed Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO) to cruise down the stretch, avoiding risks that he may otherwise have taken had he suspected there was a possibility he could have lost the fight.</div><div class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph3" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">It needs to be said that both guys fought well tonight. Canelo did more damage, including putting Trout on the canvas in the seventh round with a beautiful right hand that shook Trout's legs, staggering him to the canvas. It was the first time Trout had been down in his career, and he responded pretty well, with some observers even feeling he did enough in the round to earn a 9-10 score instead of 8-10.</div><div class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph4" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">Much of the fight was closely contested, and intense, though rarely exciting in the traditional sense. What stood out in a big way was the defensive work of Canelo Alvarez, whose head movement was much better than ever before, and allowed him to slip a lot of shots. Trout was really unable to connect on anything big, but he also was able to dictate the pace in many rounds, and used his jab to keep the fight at his pace and distance enough that it wouldn't have been hard to score the fight in his favor.</div><div class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph5" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">Also notable on that front is that Alvarez, who had the showier moments, did still fight in spurts too often. At times, he looked like the boss, a hard-hitting slugger who could physically push Trout around. At other times, he was stuck in a standstill mode, with Trout maybe not dominating him, but simply doing more work.</div><div class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph6" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">It is a hard fight to recap, in that I don't have enormously strong feelings about the outcome. I could see Trout winning, and I could see Canelo winning. It was a good, close fight, a matchup that delivered in the ring as it should have, equaling its on-paper potential.</div><div class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph7" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">The only thing I do have a strong opinion on is that open scoring does nobody any favors. The nonsense that it would help eradicate poor judging is clearly just a press release line; it's not like anything has ever been done about bad scores in fights with open scoring. The only difference, really, is that we knew after eight rounds that Trout had lost the fight, unless he managed a miracle knockout. That, to me, both takes the drama out of the fight for a viewer who knows the score, and also allows a fighter to totally change his approach in a fight that looks closer than the scores at ringside are in reality, or at least "reality."</div><div class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph8" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">But if there is any great question about the legitimacy of Canelo's win, you only have to ask Trout, who was candid and gracious in defeat.</div><div class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph9" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">"He was the better man," Trout told Showtime's Jim Gray. "He was quicker, he was stronger, he was the better man."</div><div class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph10" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">Trout said he'd make no excuses. Then, in the upset of the year, he actually made zero excuses. On a night where you could complain about some of what happened on the officiating side (though it should be said that referee Laurence Cole was invisible and did a good job), it was nice to end the evening on a good note. Canelo talked no trash, nor did Trout. They were admirable in victory and defeat.</div><div class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph11" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">Alvarez marches forward as a rising superstar. Trout says he'll be back, and given his track record of going further than he's supposed to, I have to believe him.</div><br /></div>

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Colorado’s first legal ‘420’ rally marred by gunfire

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/MQgkXsg.NRhZyB5JvFQtBA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/thelookout/CivicCenter3.jpg" /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #414141; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20.383333206176758px;">Thousands of men and women celebrate the legalization of marijuana during a "420" event at Denver's Civic Center …</span><br /><br /><div id="yui_3_8_1_20_1366571435991_234" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">UPDATE 7:07 pm CT: In the minutes after the shooting, three individuals were shot by an unknown assailant. None of the injuries were described as life-threatening. Approximately seven gunshots were heard shortly before 5pm, less than an hour after the rally's keynote address completed. It was initially reported that <a href="http://photos.denverpost.com/2013/04/20/photos-2-shot-at-denver-420-rally/" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;">two people had been shot</a>, along with one of the individual's pet dog. However, the Denver Police Department tweeted that <a href="https://twitter.com/DenverPolice/status/325790112191496192" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;">a third individual, a juvenile, was grazed by a bullet</a> and escorted themselves to nearby hospital.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">*****</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">DENVER, CO. - Ten years ago, Ken Gorman, the founder of Denver’s annual “420 Rally,” stood inside the city’s Civic Center Park with about a dozen supporters as they pushed for marijuana legalization.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Today, an estimated 80,000 individuals gathered in the same location as they celebrated <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/massachusetts-votes-favor-medical-marijuana-bill-041305835--election.html" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;">Colorado voters’ decision to legalize the recreational use of cannabis last November</a>.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">“This is what freedom smells like,” attorney <a href="http://www.robcorry.com/" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;">Rob Corry</a> told the crowd, as he counted down the moments until 4:20pm CT, at which point literally thousands of people simultaneously exhaled marijuana smoke into the air, creating a haze that was visible for blocks away.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">“You’re going to be in the Guinness Book of World Records,” rally organizer Miguel Lopez told the crowd, eliciting a roar of cheers and laughter. “More people will have smoked pot at ‘420’ in this location than anytime, anywhere in the history of the world.”</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">The day's events formally kicked off at just past 10:00am on Saturday morning. And while it was readily apparent that many, if not most, attendees showed up simply for the novelty of smoking marijuana in a large public gathering, there were hundreds of people there to make money off the attendees.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Dozens of vendors quickly set up shop, offering items ranging from marijuana smoking pipes to various food offerings like "giant turkey legs." And one didn't have to walk far without being offered several varieties of marijuana for sale, which is still illegal under Colorado law.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">In November 2012, more than a million Colorado voters (55.32 percent) supported the passage of Measure 64, which legalized the recreational use of marijuana in the state. However, the consumption of the drug remains illegal under federal law.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">A similar bill passed by a broad margin in Washington State.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;"><span class="yom-figure yom-fig-right" style="clear: both; display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 20px; margin-top: 6px; width: 630px;"><a class=" yltnofollow" href="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/ski82kwE5xsdB_lFijEZHQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NQ--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/thelookout/Panorama2.jpg" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="editorial aligncenter size-full wp-image-43793" height="136" src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/AutmBP1BU.IxXKv0VHnm0g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/thelookout/Panorama2.jpg" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block;" title="An estimated 80,000 people gatehred for the &#34;420 rally&#34; in Denver's Civic Center Park (Eric Pfeiffer/Yahoo News)" width="630" /></a></span></div><div id="yui_3_8_1_20_1366571435991_234" style="color: black; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;"><a class=" yltnofollow" href="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/ski82kwE5xsdB_lFijEZHQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NQ--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/thelookout/Panorama2.jpg" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;">UPDATE 7:07 pm CT: In the minutes after the shooting, three individuals were shot by an unknown assailant. None of the injuries were described as life-threatening. Approximately seven gunshots were heard shortly before 5pm, less than an hour after the rally's keynote address completed. It was initially reported that </a><a href="http://photos.denverpost.com/2013/04/20/photos-2-shot-at-denver-420-rally/" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;">two people had been shot</a>, along with one of the individual's pet dog. However, the Denver Police Department tweeted that <a href="https://twitter.com/DenverPolice/status/325790112191496192" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;">a third individual, a juvenile, was grazed by a bullet</a> and escorted themselves to nearby hospital.</div><div style="color: black; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">*****</div><div style="color: black; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">DENVER, CO. - Ten years ago, Ken Gorman, the founder of Denver’s annual “420 Rally,” stood inside the city’s Civic Center Park with about a dozen supporters as they pushed for marijuana legalization.</div><div style="color: black; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Today, an estimated 80,000 individuals gathered in the same location as they celebrated <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/massachusetts-votes-favor-medical-marijuana-bill-041305835--election.html" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;">Colorado voters’ decision to legalize the recreational use of cannabis last November</a>.</div><div style="color: black; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">“This is what freedom smells like,” attorney <a href="http://www.robcorry.com/" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;">Rob Corry</a> told the crowd, as he counted down the moments until 4:20pm CT, at which point literally thousands of people simultaneously exhaled marijuana smoke into the air, creating a haze that was visible for blocks away.</div><div style="color: black; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">“You’re going to be in the Guinness Book of World Records,” rally organizer Miguel Lopez told the crowd, eliciting a roar of cheers and laughter. “More people will have smoked pot at ‘420’ in this location than anytime, anywhere in the history of the world.”</div><div style="color: black; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">The day's events formally kicked off at just past 10:00am on Saturday morning. And while it was readily apparent that many, if not most, attendees showed up simply for the novelty of smoking marijuana in a large public gathering, there were hundreds of people there to make money off the attendees.</div><div style="color: black; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Dozens of vendors quickly set up shop, offering items ranging from marijuana smoking pipes to various food offerings like "giant turkey legs." And one didn't have to walk far without being offered several varieties of marijuana for sale, which is still illegal under Colorado law.</div><div style="color: black; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">In November 2012, more than a million Colorado voters (55.32 percent) supported the passage of Measure 64, which legalized the recreational use of marijuana in the state. However, the consumption of the drug remains illegal under federal law.</div><div style="color: black; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">A similar bill passed by a broad margin in Washington State.</div><div style="color: black; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;"><span class="yom-figure yom-fig-right" style="clear: both; display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 20px; margin-top: 6px; width: 630px;"><a class=" yltnofollow" href="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/ski82kwE5xsdB_lFijEZHQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NQ--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/thelookout/Panorama2.jpg" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="editorial aligncenter size-full wp-image-43793" height="136" src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/AutmBP1BU.IxXKv0VHnm0g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/thelookout/Panorama2.jpg" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block;" title="An estimated 80,000 people gatehred for the &#34;420 rally&#34; in Denver's Civic Center Park (Eric Pfeiffer/Yahoo News)" width="630" /></a><span class="legend" style="color: #414141; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">An estimated 80,000 people gatehred for the "420 rally" in Denver's Civic Center Park (Eric Pfeiffer/Yahoo New …</span></span></div><div style="color: black; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">And while the thousands of pot smokers using the substance in public is technically a crime, Colorado law enforcement said they were more concerned with ensuring public safety in light of the recent terror attack in Boston.</div><div style="color: black; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">“We're aware of the events in Boston," Denver police spokesman Aaron Kafer, told the <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_COLORADO_POT_HOLIDAY?SITE=AP&#38;SECTION=HOME&#38;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&#38;CTIME=2013-04-20-04-06-45" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;">Associated Press</a>. "Our message to the public is that, if you see something, say something."</div><div style="color: black; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Lopez and a number of other leaders of the legalization movement said they remain unsatisfied with what they consider the limited scope of Measure 64, which along with forbidding consumption of marijuana in public spaces, contains other restrictions, such as driving while under the influence of cannabis. In addition, Lopez said those individuals imprisoned for past crimes involving the sale, use and distribution of marijuana should be released from jail.</div><div style="color: black; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">On Monday, several of the event’s organizers will hold another rally outside the Colorado state capital in which they will speak out against the “Driving Under the Influence of Cannabis Bill,” which aims to set a legal limit for the amount of THC a person can have active in their bloodstream while driving.<a href="http://www.coloradostatesman.com/content/994029-house-committee-passes-bill-curb-driving-under-influence-marijuana" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;">The bill passed the state House in March</a> and is scheduled to be taken up for consideration by the state Senate.</div><div style="color: black; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Despite the jubilant mood amongst the rally’s participants, the event was not without its critics.</div><div style="color: black; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://smartcolorado.org/" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;">Smart Colorado</a>, a group that opposed the legalization bill in 2012, released a statement saying the open use of cannabis set a bad image to individuals looking at Colorado.</div><div style="color: black; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">“We encourage Coloradans to pay attention to the 4/20 rallies by marijuana advocates. These events, which will be covered by national media, will send a clear message to the rest of the nation and the world about what Colorado looks like in the wake of the passage of Amendment 64 last fall,” Henny Lasley, head of Smart Colorado, said in the statement.</div><div style="color: black; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">“Does the behavior of the participants in these events reflect well on our state? And do they respect the limitations outlined by Amendment 64, which does not allow public and open consumption of marijuana or the use by anyone under 21 years old?”</div><div style="color: black; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">In addition, there were a number of dubious claims made about the alleged benefits of medical marijuana. While the substance has been shown to alleviate the symptoms of several illnesses, one organizer described the substance as a “cure” for several serious medical conditions, including Crohn’s Disease, arthritis and even cancer.</div><div style="color: black; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">A second day of similar events is scheduled to take place on Sunday in Civic Center Park but is expected to draw a much smaller number of participants.</div><div style="color: black; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"We have the law, the science, we have the people," Lopez told the crowd. “But the war is not over.”</div><div style="color: black; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;"><span class="yom-figure yom-fig-right" style="clear: both; display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 20px; margin-top: 6px; width: 630px;"><a class=" yltnofollow" href="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/umRha7ou4V1QCBJLIEEUuQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NQ--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/thelookout/FlagRally.jpg" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-43795" height="474" src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/RguLKHY6DUp5lHO8mRd8yQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/thelookout/FlagRally.jpg" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block;" title="A large American flag is waved during Denver's &#34;420 rally&#34; (Eric Pfeiffer/Yahoo News)" width="630" /></a><span class="legend" style="color: #414141; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">A large American flag is waved during Denver's "420 rally" (Eric Pfeiffer/Yahoo News)</span></span></div><span class="legend" style="color: #414141; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">An estimated 80,000 people gatehred for the "420 rally" in Denver's Civic Center Park (Eric Pfeiffer/Yahoo New …</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">And while the thousands of pot smokers using the substance in public is technically a crime, Colorado law enforcement said they were more concerned with ensuring public safety in light of the recent terror attack in Boston.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">“We're aware of the events in Boston," Denver police spokesman Aaron Kafer, told the <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_COLORADO_POT_HOLIDAY?SITE=AP&#38;SECTION=HOME&#38;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&#38;CTIME=2013-04-20-04-06-45" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;">Associated Press</a>. "Our message to the public is that, if you see something, say something."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Lopez and a number of other leaders of the legalization movement said they remain unsatisfied with what they consider the limited scope of Measure 64, which along with forbidding consumption of marijuana in public spaces, contains other restrictions, such as driving while under the influence of cannabis. In addition, Lopez said those individuals imprisoned for past crimes involving the sale, use and distribution of marijuana should be released from jail.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">On Monday, several of the event’s organizers will hold another rally outside the Colorado state capital in which they will speak out against the “Driving Under the Influence of Cannabis Bill,” which aims to set a legal limit for the amount of THC a person can have active in their bloodstream while driving.<a href="http://www.coloradostatesman.com/content/994029-house-committee-passes-bill-curb-driving-under-influence-marijuana" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;">The bill passed the state House in March</a> and is scheduled to be taken up for consideration by the state Senate.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Despite the jubilant mood amongst the rally’s participants, the event was not without its critics.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://smartcolorado.org/" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;">Smart Colorado</a>, a group that opposed the legalization bill in 2012, released a statement saying the open use of cannabis set a bad image to individuals looking at Colorado.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">“We encourage Coloradans to pay attention to the 4/20 rallies by marijuana advocates. These events, which will be covered by national media, will send a clear message to the rest of the nation and the world about what Colorado looks like in the wake of the passage of Amendment 64 last fall,” Henny Lasley, head of Smart Colorado, said in the statement.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">“Does the behavior of the participants in these events reflect well on our state? And do they respect the limitations outlined by Amendment 64, which does not allow public and open consumption of marijuana or the use by anyone under 21 years old?”</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">In addition, there were a number of dubious claims made about the alleged benefits of medical marijuana. While the substance has been shown to alleviate the symptoms of several illnesses, one organizer described the substance as a “cure” for several serious medical conditions, including Crohn’s Disease, arthritis and even cancer.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">A second day of similar events is scheduled to take place on Sunday in Civic Center Park but is expected to draw a much smaller number of participants.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"We have the law, the science, we have the people," Lopez told the crowd. “But the war is not over.”</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;"><span class="yom-figure yom-fig-right" style="clear: both; display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 20px; margin-top: 6px; width: 630px;"><a class=" yltnofollow" href="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/umRha7ou4V1QCBJLIEEUuQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NQ--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/thelookout/FlagRally.jpg" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-43795" height="474" src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/RguLKHY6DUp5lHO8mRd8yQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/thelookout/FlagRally.jpg" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block;" title="A large American flag is waved during Denver's &#34;420 rally&#34; (Eric Pfeiffer/Yahoo News)" width="630" /></a><span class="legend" style="color: #414141; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">A large American flag is waved during Denver's "420 rally" (Eric Pfeiffer/Yahoo News)</span></span></div></div>

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