Librarian III, Automated Services - West Hartford Public Libraries

<strong>Librarian III, Automated Services - </strong><strong><span style="color: #48286d;">West Hartford Public Libraries</span></strong>. Salary Range: $74,620 - $94,068. Job Purpose: Supervises and plans all aspects of library computer and network systems, including software selection, installation and maintenance, and supervises cataloging, materials acquisitions and processing services. Manages public and staff access to information services through the integrated library system. Work Environment: Work is performed in a library setting, which requires attending to computer and network problems at branch locations, and throughout the library’s computer network. Evening and weekend work may be required as is travel to attend regional meetings. Essential Job Functions: Supervises, coordinates, maintains, and plans computer services for the library system, including branch locations. Supervises and coordinates cataloging services, acquisitions and processing. May perform professional cataloging and classification. Supervises and directs the work of individuals or work groups engaged in library projects and/or activities including scheduling, assigning, overseeing and reviewing the work of employees. Establishes performance standards, evaluates work performance and recommends merit increases. Provides staff training to assure proper methods, practices and opportunities for staff promotion and development. Participates in the administration of the library system through taking an active part in supervisory meetings, staff meetings, and meetings with the Library Director. Additional Job Responsibilities: Participates in the management, planning, and development of the regional automated library system. May select books and other materials for the library’s collections. Participates in professional development in the specialized field of library service assigned, through attendance at technical training programs and/or professional association seminars and conferences. Provides technical supervision to individual staff or work groups. Prepares various reports and assists in the preparation of departmental budget as required. Performs related work as required. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Extensive knowledge of computers, computer networks, and software appropriate to a library setting. Knowledge of professional library principles, methods, materials and practices, including knowledge of library principles of classification. Knowledge of HTML, XML, and database applications. Ability to administer a Local Area Network. Ability to analyze professional administrative problems and to make recommendations for their solution. Ability to express oneself clearly and concisely both orally and in writing. Ability to establish and maintain favorable public relations and effective working relationships with other employees. Ability to direct, plan, assign and evaluate the work of employees in a specialized library service. Skill in use of Microsoft software and including server related software. Minimum Qualifications: Graduation from an ALA accredited Master’s Degree program in Library or Information Science and four (4) years of experience in professional library work, including at least two (2) years of supervisory experience; or any satisfactory equivalent combination of education and experience. Method of Selection: Oral Board Examination (Weight: 100%, Passing Score: 70). Candidates must achieve a passing score of 70 on the oral examination in order to have their name placed on the Eligible List for this position. An individual appointed to the position must satisfactorily complete a one (1) year probationary period. The Town reserves the right to limit the number of qualified candidates invited to any portion of the selection process. Applications: Applications may be obtained from the Job Openings page of the West Hartford website, <a _fcksavedurl="http://www.WestHartford.org" href="http://www.westhartford.org/" target="_blank">www.WestHartford.org</a>. Applications must be completed no later than Friday, <span style="color: red;">December 7, 2012</span>, unless the Director of Employee Services extends such date.

Librarian III, Automated Services - West Hartford Public Libraries

Librarian III, Automated Services - West Hartford Public Libraries . Salary Range: $74,620 - $94,068. Job Purpose: Supervises and plans all...

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Teaching Assistant, Library Media Center - West Hartford Public Schools

<strong>Teaching Assistant, Library Media Center -</strong> <strong><span style="color: #48286d;">West Hartford Public Schools</span></strong> has a full-time (6.5 hours daily - 182 days per year) Teaching Assistant position available for the 2012-2013 school year. This position is available in one of our high schools to assist in the daily operation of the Library Media Center. Duties include but are not limited to: processing and circulating library resources, assisting students and staff in using library resources, equipment and facilities; and providing clerical support. Ability to attend to task details. Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills. Must possess excellent work ethic and self-direction skills. Bachelor’s degree required. Library or related experience is preferred. Experience with Microsoft Office applications. Excellent keyboard and data entry skills. Salary: Substitute teacher rate ($75/day), without benefits. Interested applicants should submit an online application. Visit our web site at: <a _fcksavedurl="http://www.whps.org/whps/" href="http://www.whps.org/whps/" target="_blank">http://www.whps.org/whps/</a>. For more information call the Library Media Services Office at 860-561-6634. Apply immediately. Open until filled. Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

Teaching Assistant, Library Media Center - West Hartford Public Schools

Teaching Assistant, Library Media Center - West Hartford Public Schools has a full-time (6.5 hours daily - 182 days per year) Teaching As...

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Pop Warner football: Kids should not be allowed to put on helmets and knock each other in the head. - Slate Magazine

<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><div class="text parbase section" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Last week, I took part in <a href="http://www.aspeninstitute.org/events/2012/11/09/playing-safety-future-youth-football" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; ">a roundtable discussion in Washington</a> on the future of youth football.<a href="http://www.bu.edu/cste/about/leadership/robert-cantu-m-d/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; ">Robert Cantu</a>, the CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) researcher and NFL adviser, was there. So were Chris Nowinski, the Harvard defensive tackle turned pro wrestler turned brain-injury activist; neurosurgeon Julian Bailes, who has advised the NFL Players Association, the NCAA, and Pop Warner football; and DeMaurice Smith, the head of the NFLPA. An NFL executive attended, as did various youth-football organizations. There was an ex-Jet/Jaguar/Redskin, a plaintiffs' lawyer, a school board member, the head of a sporting goods trade group, academics, and a bunch of journalists like me.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">The event was organized by the Aspen Institute and moderated by ESPN reporter Tom Farrey. His topic question: "How can football serve children, communities, and public health?" Three hours of talk yielded, for me anyway, an unsurprising answer: Tackle football can best serve children, communities, and public health by disappearing.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">I know that Matt Chaney, who wrote for the roundtable this week about <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/features/2012/nfl_2012/week_10/heads_up_football_the_tackling_technique_roger_goodell_says_will_make_the.html" style="color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; ">the tackling technique that won't make football safer</a>, is on board with the idea that tackle football is simply too dangerous for the brains of children, and that a distinction needs to be made between what adult men choose to do professionally and what kids are permitted or often pushed to do by parents and other adults. In his new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006R8PDNS/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B006R8PDNS&linkCode=as2&tag=slatmaga-20" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; "><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; ">Concussions and Our Kids</em></a>, co-written with journalist Mark Hyman, Cantu proposes barring tackle football before age 14, or the start of high school. The cutoff is arbitrary, Cantu said at the Washington panel. The more important consideration is an individual child's physical development: If he's skeletally immature, if he hasn't developed axillary hair, he shouldn't play tackle football.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">"Youngsters are not miniature adults," Cantu said. For starters, he explained, their brains are not fully myelinated, meaning their nerve cells lack the complete coating that offers protection. That makes them more susceptible to concussions and means they recover more slowly from them than adults. Cantu said children have big heads relative to the rest of their bodies and weak necks, creating a "bobblehead-doll effect" that elevates the risk of concussion. They typically play in the oldest equipment, with the least educated coaches, and with little or no available medical care. They are allowed to hit each other in practice—up to 40 minutes per session in Pop Warner football, under new guidelines—to a greater extent than NFL players are in season. And finally, kids are unable to provide meaningful informed consent. "Rarely do they really understand the risk they're taking," Cantu said.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">That brief presentation was a devastating synopsis of the perils of football for small children. (How small? Pop Warner, the formal name of which is, I joke not, Pop Warner Little Scholars Inc., is open to children <a href="http://www.popwarner.com/football/footballstructure.htm" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; ">as young as 5 years old and as light as 35 pounds</a>.) And none of it was refuted by the representatives of children's football who participated in the event. Instead, what emerged was the playbook for the youth-football-industrial complex—3 million players and tens of millions of dollars in revenue, backed by the NFL, college football, equipment manufacturers, and other sports businesses—in what will be a long battle against the forces of science, medicine, and common sense.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">First is the rhetoric. Scott Hallenbeck, the executive director of USA Football, the governing body/trade group funded by the NFL and NFLPA, thanked Cantu for raising "important issues," declared that a "healthy debate" was necessary, and reminded us that "we're all in this together." Our goal? "A better and safer environment for parents and players." Indeed, "safety" is the key word in the kids' tackle football PR effort; it's all over the websites of organizations like <a href="http://www.popwarner.com/football/footballsafety.htm" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; ">Pop Warner</a>, <a href="http://www.americanyouthfootball.com/index.php/about/safety-first" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; ">American Youth Football</a>, and <a href="http://www.americanyouthfootball.com/index.php/about/safety-first" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; ">USA Football</a>. Who's against safety?</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">The words are buttressed by limited, practical changes, like USA Football's "Heads Up" program and Pop Warner's limits on head contact and hitting in practice. Better than nothing, sure. But Matt and <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/features/2012/nfl_2012/week_1/nfl_2012_embracing_the_power_of_spite_.html" style="color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; ">ex-NFL player Nate Jackson</a> have already debunked the notion that football can always be played with the head up. And kids aren't usually capable, physically or mentally, of implementing precise technique, as five minutes on the sideline of any youth sports game will demonstrate. As for rules, well, Pop Warner's <a href="http://www.popwarner.com/About_Us/Pop_Warner_News/Rule_Changes_Regarding_Practice___Concussion_Prevention_s1_p3977.htm" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; ">concussion-prevention guidelines</a> call for "no full speed head-on blocking or tackling drills in which the players line up more than 3 yards apart." You can bet some suburban Belichick is lining up his players exactly three yards apart and instructing them to go at 90 percent speed, or ignoring the rules entirely.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Which leads to part two of the youth-football change mantra: better coaching. Hallenbeck said USA Football has "trained" almost 100,000 coaches in the last five years. It also has "looked at the concept" of a national accreditation program with "15 chapters" and "15 quizzes" with a passing grade of 80. "So you could argue there's 80 percent competency in a program like that," he said. Or you could argue that the numbers are a way to conceal the reality that youth sports coaches are mostly amateur volunteers, usually parents, with little knowledge about sports or coaching or injuries but lots of preconceived ideas gleaned from years of watching the pros. How else to explain that <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/23/sports/football/pee-wee-football-game-with-concussions-brings-penalties-for-adults.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; ">Pop Warner mismatch in Massachusetts</a> in which five kids suffered concussions?</div></div><div class="pagebreak section" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "></div><a name="pagebreak_anchor_2" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; visibility: hidden; "></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; "></span><div class="text parbase section" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">"The coaches that coach this game ... for whatever reason don't embrace change very well," former NFL linebacker Eddie Mason told the panel. "That's the issue. ... Pop Warner, USA Football can implement all the things that they want to. You can implement rules, you can implement changes, but until the football community embraces the reality of the sport, the reality of concussion, the reality of the damage that comes along with it if you start at an early age, that's the problem."</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Youth football officials are aware their coaching problem goes beyond education. Hallenbeck's answer was another "concept": installing a player-safety monitor in every youth league to ensure that coaches are teaching "proper" tackling and using sanctioned practice plans, and who also reassure concerned parents that football is getting safer. "Parents are literally looking at us and saying, 'Thank you, you're making us feel more comfortable,' " Hallenbeck said.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">The third and most critical component of the youth-football defense wouldn't be out of place at a debate over climate change: The science just doesn't exist to justify banning youth football at any age level. Over and over, Hallenbeck cited the lack of "evidence-based" data. And while Cantu and others agreed that more research is needed, there's already data that shows the effect of tackle football on undeveloped brains, like <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/r1w055654612u47j/fulltext.pdf?MUD=MP" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; ">a study released this year by researchers at Virginia Tech and Wake Forest</a> that found that 7-year-old players absorb impacts on par with those in college football.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Even that sort of science is used to defend kids' football. Brooke de Lench, who founded the youth sports website <a href="http://www.momsteam.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; ">MomsTEAM</a>, said her business outfitted the helmets of an Oklahoma high-school team with accelerometers to track and measure the impact of hits. (She's making <a href="http://www.thesmartestteam.com/%23!home/mainPage" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; ">a documentary</a> about the project.) "The kids want the accelerometers, either in their helmet or as an earbud or a mouthpiece," de Lench told the panel. "They want that responsibility"—of determining when they might have suffered a head injury—"taken away from themselves."</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">To sum up: The defenders of youth football envision a sport in which players must be outfitted with <a href="http://www.riddell.com/shop-riddell/helmet/riddell-revolution-iq-hits-helmet/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; ">expensive</a> electronic sensors to determine when they have suffered brain injury; in which coaches have to pass 15-part examinations in order to be certified; and even after doing that, in which safety watchdogs must be deployed on the sidelines of every practice and game to supervise the performance of coaches. "Burning down the village to save it," sportswriter Patrick Hruby said after the Washington event.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">It's not as if there aren't alternatives. Maybe have kids play flag football wearing no pads until they're 10, then with shoulder pads until 13. At 14 or 15, if they are determined to be physically mature, players can don helmets and wrap up opponents to bring them to ground. Any blow to the head or leading with the head is an automatic ejection. Full hitting can start on high-school varsities. Tackling can be taught over time—flag football teaches the proper entry point for contact, around the hips; <a href="http://vimeo.com/10315677%23" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; ">rugby-style</a> tackling might be instructive—to prepare kids for full contact when their bodies are ready, or at least readier, for it.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">None of this is likely, at least anytime soon. Science or no science, the real reason 5- and 6-year-olds will keep padding up and hitting is consumer demand. If Pop Warner offered only flag football, its executive director, John Butler, candidly told the panel, "90 to 95 percent of our members would drop out" and play for independent teams "because whether it be kids or parents, they want to play tackle football."</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Of course they do. They watch it on Sundays. It's fun. But as Eddie Mason responded, "Sometimes you have to take the decisions out of the hands of the parents and you have to just make the change. You say, well, we don't offer tackle at this age, we offer flag, and these are the reasons why." Mason said he isn't letting his 8-year-old son play tackle football.</div></div></div><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2012/11/pop_warner_football_kids_should_not_be_allowed_to_put_on_helmets_and_knock.single.html">http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2012/11/pop_warner_football_kids_should_not_be_allowed_to_put_on_helmets_and_knock.single.html</a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>

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<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><p style="font-size: 0.9375em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.071em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">In 2009, Susannah Cahalan was a healthy 24-year-old reporter for the<em> New York Post</em>, when she began to experience numbness, paranoia, sensitivity to light and erratic behavior. Grasping for an answer, Cahalan asked herself as it was happening, "Am I just bad at my job — is that why? Is the pressure of it getting to me? Is it a new relationship?"</p><p style="font-size: 0.9375em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.071em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">But Cahalan only got worse — she began to experience seizures, hallucinations, increasingly psychotic behavior and even catatonia. Her symptoms frightened family members and baffled a series of doctors.</p><p style="font-size: 0.9375em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.071em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">After a monthlong hospital stay and $1 million worth of blood tests and brain scans that proved inconclusive, Cahalan was seen by Dr. Souhel Najjar, who asked her to draw a clock on a piece of paper. "I drew a circle, and I drew the numbers 1 to 12 all on the right-hand side of the clock, so the left-hand side was blank, completely blank," she tells <em>Fresh Air</em>'s Dave Davies, "which showed him that I was experiencing left-side spatial neglect and, likely, the right side of my brain responsible for the left field of vision was inflamed."</p><p style="font-size: 0.9375em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.071em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">As Najjar put it to her parents, "her brain was on fire." This discovery led to her eventual diagnosis and treatment for anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, a rare autoimmune disease that can attack the brain. Cahalan says that doctors think the illness may account for cases of "demonic possession" throughout history.</p><p style="font-size: 0.9375em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.071em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Cahalan's new memoir is called <em>Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness</em>.</p><hr style="border: none; line-height: 1px; height: 1px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 226); width: 620px; margin: 5px 0px 10px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><h3 style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">Interview Highlights:</h3><div style="font-size: 0.9375em; line-height: 1.375em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.071em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="font-size: 0.9375em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.071em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong>On the moment when Cahalan lost her sanity</strong></p><p style="font-size: 0.9375em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.071em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"I don't remember anything from this experience. This was all told to me after the fact. [My boyfriend] Stephen heard guttural sounds coming from me. He thought maybe I was just angry because I hadn't slept for days, and he knew that it was really frustrating. And so he thought, 'Maybe she's just venting her frustration.' But the grunts were very unnatural sounding, so he turned and looked at me. And he saw that my eyes were wide open but completely unseeing, and at that point he tried to shake me and say, 'Are you OK, Sue? What's going on?' And at that point, my arms whipped out, and I had a grand mal seizure, and I was convulsing. And I bit my tongue so that blood and kind of a combination of blood and foam was coming out of my mouth. And he had the presence of mind — and I think this is incredible — to know that this was a seizure because I had never had a seizure before. And so he turned me on my side and he called 911. And [that's, for me] ... the difference between sanity and insanity ... that moment where kind of my memory goes dark."</p><p style="font-size: 0.9375em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.071em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong>On some of the symptoms she exhibited at the hospital</strong></p><p style="font-size: 0.9375em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.071em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"I slurred my words. I drooled. I didn't have proper control over my swallowing ... I kept my arms out in unnatural poses. At one point, I was like the Bride of Frankenstein — I kept my arms out rigidly. I was slow. I could hardly walk, and when I did, I needed to be supported ... I started [acting] very psychotic. I believed that I could age people with my mind. If I looked at them, wrinkles would form, and if I looked away, they would suddenly, magically get younger. And I believed that my father had murdered my stepmother. I believed all these incredibly paranoid — a huge, extreme example of persecution complex. And then as the days went on, I stopped being as psychotic, and I started entering into a catatonic stage, which was characterized by just complete lack of emotion, inability to relate, or to read, or hardly to be able to speak."</p><p style="font-size: 0.9375em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.071em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong>On being supported by her parents and boyfriend</strong></p><p style="font-size: 0.9375em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.071em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"Without them, I wouldn't be here right now, especially with my mom. She was a bulldog. I mean she would not take 'no' for an answer, especially in the beginning when they were saying it was alcohol withdrawal and partying. She refused to see that as an answer, and so she did her own research. She asked questions. At home, after a day at the hospital, she'd make a list of all the different terminology they used, and she'd look it up and, you know, not everyone is capable of doing that. ... I was so lucky to have someone there for me that could do that. ... If everyone could have someone like that, it would just be a better world."</p><p style="font-size: 0.9375em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.071em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong>On the possible connection between her rare immune disease and cases of "demonic possession" throughout history</strong></p><p style="font-size: 0.9375em; line-height: 1.375em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.071em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">"When you think about the symptoms — in my case alone, this grandiosity, this violence. In a lot of children, you see hypersexuality. Even my grunts and these guttural sounds that came from me sounded superhuman to someone who might be inclined to think that way. ... When you see videos of people — in fact, when I see videos of myself — demonic possession is not far from your mind. It wasn't far from Stephen's mind when he first saw that seizure. And I've talked to many people who've had this disease, and one woman I spoke to actually asked for a priest because she said, 'The devil is inside of me. I need it out.' A little girl was grunting — they had a monitor in her room — and she was grunting so unnaturally that her parents looked at each other and said, 'Is she, is she possessed?' They actually said that about a little girl. You can see throughout history why people would believe this."</p></div><a href="http://www.wbur.org/npr/165115921/a-young-reporter-chronicles-her-brain-on-fire">http://www.wbur.org/npr/165115921/a-young-reporter-chronicles-her-brain-on-fire</a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>

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<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyJmeTM5TLVsFIDXTla7vhgX7kdtgRJunp6kpfa0oRM69L3YCgqMOLFYDYm2oF9eZ6vMMa2in1cvlnqPmYTIaqY-eW-levbyhVPbfJ0scIvVf4dFzR9j_eq4t3lrY2AndqvAodvEJszWc/s1600/crazyArtist%25402x-783689.gif"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5811007790488864642" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyJmeTM5TLVsFIDXTla7vhgX7kdtgRJunp6kpfa0oRM69L3YCgqMOLFYDYm2oF9eZ6vMMa2in1cvlnqPmYTIaqY-eW-levbyhVPbfJ0scIvVf4dFzR9j_eq4t3lrY2AndqvAodvEJszWc/s320/crazyArtist%25402x-783689.gif" /></a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><p style="margin: 0px auto 12pt; text-align: left; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Gudea, HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, cartoonist Ellen Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Flagrantly manic and terrified that medications would cause her to lose creativity and her livelihood, she began a years-long struggle to find mental stability while retaining her passion and creativity.</p><p style="margin: 0px auto 12pt; text-align: left; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Gudea, HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Searching to make sense of the popular concept of the crazy artist, she finds inspiration from the lives and work of other artists and writers who suffered from mood disorders, including Vincent van Gogh, Georgia O'Keeffe, William Styron, and Sylvia Plath. She analyzes the clinical aspects of bipolar disorder as she struggles with the strengths and limitations of a parade of medications and treatments.</p><p style="margin: 0px auto 12pt; text-align: left; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Gudea, HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Darkly funny, intensely personal, and visually dynamic, Forney's graphic memoir provides a visceral glimpse into the effects of a mood disorder on the artist's work. Her story seeks the answer to this question: if there's a correlation between creativity and mood disorders, is an artist's bipolar disorder a curse, or a gift?</p></div></div></div><a href="http://marblesbyellenforney.com/">http://marblesbyellenforney.com/</a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>

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Webinar this evening - do join us!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Uj3dbWAn25_TjKz9MO94bscEZFf35YS4bJ3R99iNHmL32UZA6HaGOI86WQ6M8fG-gNqVMfNMTr3uPdf62QDhu4ixdzVyQpzTPLMakXW5zMpRZc4QeWij1-qzwDxxlKYrQUaWYLZH2_Q/s1600/webinars1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /><img border="0" height="85" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Uj3dbWAn25_TjKz9MO94bscEZFf35YS4bJ3R99iNHmL32UZA6HaGOI86WQ6M8fG-gNqVMfNMTr3uPdf62QDhu4ixdzVyQpzTPLMakXW5zMpRZc4QeWij1-qzwDxxlKYrQUaWYLZH2_Q/s320/webinars1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 15.75pt;">A classroom newspaper using Google Docs </b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u style="line-height: 15.75pt;">Meeting Name</u><span style="line-height: 15.75pt;">:</span><span style="line-height: 15.75pt;">  </span><span style="line-height: 15.75pt;">Create a classroom newspaper using Google Docs</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Presenter</u>: Brenda Hallowes from Port Elizabeth in South Africa<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Summary</u>: This is a webinar from Brenda Hallowes showing how she uses Google Docs to create a lovely classroom newspaper with her Foundation Phase students. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Invited By</u>: Fiona Beal (fiona@schoolnet.org.za)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>When</u>:  11/15/2012 6:00 PM - 6:15 PM<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Time Zone</u>:  (GMT+02:00) Harare, Pretoria<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 15.75pt;"><u>To join the meeting</u>: </span><span style="line-height: 15.75pt;"><a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/newspapers/">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/newspapers/</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15.75pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These webinar recordings will be placed on the blog the following day in case you cannot join us at the time of broadcast. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do join us!</span><br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p></o:p></div></div></div></div></div>

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The Worst Blog Post Ever

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />Hola y’all! Man, I don’t know why everything has to be such a hassle. You might remember the ridiculous effort it took to just change out a burned-out tail light back in the summer on my car? Well, that thing is at it again, causing trouble. Now it’s the windshield wipers. What could be more basic than that, right? WRONG! You can’t just use ANY wipers. Oh no! The driver’s side gets a different size than the passenger’s side and apparently not too many people make any that will fit.<br /><br />My plan is to try and find just the blades and see if I can rip the old ones out (they’re already ripped anyway) and then slide new ones in. But, we all know I’m going to end up having to get the expensive shit and use some stupid adapter to make them fit. Why do car companies do this? Can we drop another atomic bomb on Japan to make me feel better? Please?<br /><br />It’s always the little things isn’t it? When big things happen, you just sit back, take it all in and then figure out how to deal with it and move forward. But, the little things? Things that should only take a few minutes out of your day and be simple that turn into huge half-day efforts full of running all over town and getting dirty? That’s when you have to keep your cool.<br /><br />I really should work on that. Maybe I’ll make that my New Year’s Resolution. Or not. I can’t be bothered by shit like that right now, I’m too focused on getting ready for my big trip.<br /><br />Shit. You know what? This is the worst blog post I’ve ever done. And that’s saying something too cause I’ve done some stinkers. I’m talking about my windshield wipers like y’all give a crap. I’m sure each of you are on the edge of your seat saying “Damn! Which company still makes wipers that fit your car? Hope it’s not Rain-X cause that’s some expensive shit right there. I know it isn’t Bosch cause they never make anything anyone needs. Or something. I don’t really know, I just read it on the internet.”<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgToSirKuGXSyScq0Mz2pzJtUjr_IjAo7zmcClTP_URnr9jA94WzA_Vw1_uo9u5xoGoNbdg1eKw3S8bYENqo2HowUFJ4_-r5v04gB7Wi_yOmERB3CZgOSpUZCHKMP5Vs736d_EkuXhh_Q0/s1600/Miranda+Kerr+Victoria%27s+Secret+Nude+Hot+Sexy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgToSirKuGXSyScq0Mz2pzJtUjr_IjAo7zmcClTP_URnr9jA94WzA_Vw1_uo9u5xoGoNbdg1eKw3S8bYENqo2HowUFJ4_-r5v04gB7Wi_yOmERB3CZgOSpUZCHKMP5Vs736d_EkuXhh_Q0/s640/Miranda+Kerr+Victoria's+Secret+Nude+Hot+Sexy.jpg" width="425" /></a></div><br />Yeah well, EXCUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEE MEEEEEEEE! I live a very quiet and boring life. The only exciting thing that happened to me all year was when my apartment building nearly burned to the ground a couple of weeks ago.<br /><br />I was originally going to outline my reasons for wanting Arkansas to secede from the union, but I don’t really have any. I mean, what would Arkansas do as an independent country? We can’t even field a decent football team. Our state army would get its ass kicked so fast it wouldn’t even be funny. Probably by Louisiana as they seem like the mostly likely to start some shit with other states that have seceded and are giving it a go as an independent nation. Then Louisiana would control our precious rice fields and they would get to export the rice to Asia and make all that money. Fuck that.<br /><br />Unless we entered into some kind of alliance with Texas and they agreed to whip up on anyone who messed with us. That would be a pretty sweet deal. They probably wouldn’t do it. Texas wouldn’t get anything good out of it. What could we offer them? Not a damn thing. So, that whole secession idea sucks.<br /><br />Oh hey! I’m closing in on 600 words. That means it’s time to wrap it up. You never want a blog post to be too long because people have really short attention spans. I mean, people are busy. Yeah, that’s it.<br /><br />So what have we learned today kids? My car needs wiper blades that aren’t easy to find, little things get annoying really fast and Arkansas wouldn’t last two days as an independent nation. I’m pretty sure none of that shit matters to you, but there you go.<br /><br />Jayman<br /><a href="mailto:Jayman3768@gmail.com">Jayman3768@gmail.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/jayman_iws" target="_blank">@Jayman_IWS </a><br /><br /></div><br />Be sure to check out the I'm With Stupid show! 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When we were 5....

<span style="font-size: large;">My twin sister and I had our birthday the other day.  Amy sent me a birthday wishes text along with this cute pic of the two of us when we were 5.  I love it!</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Would you believe we dressed the same for a few years after this picture was taken?!! (I won't embarrass myself by saying for exactly how many years!)</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyDwHyOiy1boK-lyJIs_rJtCo6kzx_ZbcAT5LFIjpSB83wlwPtqxlkOpRRwBav0CJHKNvUM0Cicpy52PCClErl7dBEVUddD0_JhmUrGOq3RE1XkXaSMqRNjh53re2zQY74rYt0vKRBS5PJ/s1600/IMG_2384%5B1%5D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyDwHyOiy1boK-lyJIs_rJtCo6kzx_ZbcAT5LFIjpSB83wlwPtqxlkOpRRwBav0CJHKNvUM0Cicpy52PCClErl7dBEVUddD0_JhmUrGOq3RE1XkXaSMqRNjh53re2zQY74rYt0vKRBS5PJ/s320/IMG_2384%5B1%5D.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>

When we were 5....

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Library Manager - The Hospital of Central Connecticut

<b>Library Manager - </b><span style="color: #48286d;"><b>The Hospital of Central Connecticut</b></span><b> </b>has an excellent opportunity for a Library Manager to join our Health Sciences Library. Reporting to the Director of Medical Education, the Manger will direct the activities of the Health Sciences Library, including strategic planning, development, evaluation, and outreach functions. Administrative responsibilities include: personnel management, space planning, fiscal management, collection development, outreach, quality improvement, and maintenance of resource-sharing arrangements with library consortia. Direct Service responsibilities include: advanced computer information retrieval, reference, and teaching. The qualified candidate will have an MLS with three years of relevant health sciences library experience. Expert knowledge of several computer-based systems including: biomedical online information databases and web services (e.g. Medline via NLM’s PubMed; DOCLINE; OVID databases; OCLC cataloging and ILL) is also required. Skills in using automated library system applications and proficiency in MS Office are also essential. For more information, and to apply online, please visit our website at <a _fcksavedurl="http://www.thocc.org/jobs" href="http://www.thocc.org/jobs" target="_blank">www.thocc.org/jobs</a>. AA/EEO M/F/D/V.

Library Manager - The Hospital of Central Connecticut

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8 jobs in social media

<br /><div class="RXart" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-right: 20px; text-align: left;"><div class="ArticleHeadline" style="margin-top: -30px;"><div class="hdr_org_bld" style="color: #ff6600; font: normal normal bold 18px/normal arial, helvetica;"><h1 id="articleHeadline" style="color: #000066; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span id="cbArticle_lblHeadline">8 jobs in social media</span></h1></div><b><span id="cbArticle_lblByLine">By Susan Ricker, CareerBuilder Writer</span></b><br /><div class="cb_share_more_wrapper"></div></div><br /><div class="ArticleContent"><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="media-image" src="http://artstg.icbdr.com/sites/all/files/styles/large/public/Social%20media%20careers_0.jpg" typeof="foaf:Image" /></div>Most people try to stay off of social-media websites such as <a href="http://www.facebook.com/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Facebook</a> or <a href="http://www.twitter.com/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Twitter</a> while working, knowing that if their boss catches them, they'll get lectured about putting more time and effort into their work. But what if your job required you to be on Facebook, interacting with friends and getting paid for having the most retweets?<br /><br />You're in luck: This workplace daydream is a career reality. Demand for social-media jobs is growing as more companies want to join the social-media community. "The world's dependency on technology, the pervasiveness of social media and the need to drive sales and expand into new markets are all driving double-digit growth across a variety of fields," says Matt Ferguson, CEO of CareerBuilder. The Bureau of Labor Statistics' <a href="http://www.bls.gov/ooh/about/projections-overview.htm" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">2010-20 projections</a> show the same, stating, "The growth of social media will result in the need for more workers to maintain an organization's public image."<br /><br />Here are eight jobs that either directly relate to or involve social media*:<br /><br /><strong>1.</strong> <a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/advertising/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Advertising</strong></a><strong>, </strong><a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/promotions/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><strong>promotions</strong></a><strong> and </strong><a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/marketing+managers/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><strong>marketing manager</strong></a>: Advertising, promotions and marketing managers plan programs to generate interest in a product or service. They work with art directors, sales agents and financial staff members. According to the BLS, "Advertising and promotions managers will be needed to plan, direct and coordinate advertising and promotion campaigns, as well as to introduce new products to the marketplace. They will also be needed to manage digital media campaigns, which often target customers through the use of websites, social media and live chats."<br /><strong>Pay: </strong>According to the BLS, the median annual pay for advertising, promotions and marketing managers is $108,260.<br /><br /><strong>2.</strong> <a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/social+media+AND+blogger/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Blogger</strong></a>: According to <a href="http://www.creativegroup.com/Home" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">The Creative Group's</a> guide for social-media job descriptions, bloggers are "responsible for opinionated, stylish writing and frequently posting new content to the Internet. Duties may also include developing and/or revising text for other venues, including online communities, press releases, Web articles and video blogs."<br /><strong>Pay:</strong> The median annual pay for bloggers is $55,420, according to the BLS.<br /><br /><strong>3. </strong><a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/social+media+AND+community+manager/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Community manager</strong></a>: "Community managers create and execute social-media strategies designed to accomplish real business objectives for brands," says Katherine Leonard, digital-content developer at <a href="https://lonelybrand.com/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">lonelybrand</a>, a digital marketing agency in Chicago.<br /><strong>Pay: </strong>According to social-media education company <a href="http://socialfresh.com/how-much-money-do-community-managers-make-infographic/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Social Fresh</a>, the average annual pay for a community manager is $61,800.<br /><br /><strong>4.</strong> <a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/social+media+AND+content+marketing+manager/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Content-marketing manager</strong></a>: "I spend my days writing and promoting business blogs, e-books and white papers," says Jasmine Henry, content-marketing manager for <a href="http://www.inboundmarketingagents.com/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Inbound Marketing Agents</a>in Nashville, Tenn. "No blog does well in a bubble, so being able to parse pithy quotes and pick topics that are going to inspire shares and retweets on major social-media channels is critical to our clients' success. I typically spend a great deal of time watching conversations on Twitter to figure out which topics are driving conversations, writing blog articles about these topics and then responding to questions and retweets."<br /><strong>Pay: </strong>According to CBSalary.com, the national average salary for content-marketing managers is $56,752.<br /><br /><strong>5.</strong> <a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/event+planner/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Meeting, convention and event planner</strong></a>: Meeting, convention and event planners coordinate all aspects of professional meetings and events. They choose locations, arrange transportation and coordinate other details. The BLS states that "planners must be familiar with computers, database software, budgets and online social media."<br /><strong>Pay: </strong>According to the BLS, the median annual pay for this role is $45,260.<br /><br /><strong>6.</strong> <a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/public+relations/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Public-relations manager and specialist</strong></a>: PR managers and specialists create and maintain a favorable public image for their employer or client. They write material for media releases, plan and direct PR programs and raise money for their organizations. "Growth of both will be driven by the need for organizations to maintain their public image in a high-information age and with the growth of social media," notes the BLS.<br /><strong>Pay: </strong>According to the BLS, the median annual pay for PR managers and specialists is $57,550.<br /><br /><strong>7.</strong> <a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/social+media+AND+analyst/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Social-networking analyst</strong></a>: "A good portion of time is spent engaging with customers and acquiring new followers and fans," says Giselle Gonzales, social-media analyst at <a href="http://www.sandboxindustries.com/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Sandbox Industries</a>, a venture capital firm in Chicago. "We also scour the Web finding content that is most relevant to our follower base and will help us get a good conversation started."<br /><strong>Pay: </strong>According to CBSalary.com, the national average salary is $82,020.<br /><br /><strong>8.</strong> <a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/social+media+AND+social+media+manager/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Social-media manager</strong></a>: "Social-media managers are responsible for deciding what content to feature on our social-media channels, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn," says Jodey Smith, Web and social-media manager for <a href="http://www.seaventures.com/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">SeaVentures Inc.</a> in Alpharetta, Ga. "Daily tasks include posting, responding to community discussions and combating spam. Ongoing testing and various strategies and techniques make up a large part of the day."<br /><strong>Pay: </strong>According to CBSalary.com, the national average salary for social-media managers is $106,160.<br /><br /><em>Susan Ricker is a writer and blogger for </em><a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><em>CareerBuilder.com</em></a><em> and its job blog, </em><a href="http://www.theworkbuzz.com/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>The Work Buzz</em></a><em>. 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winterizing the kitchen

I was baking cookies the other day and as I waited for the timer to ding I stared at this.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr7jOtMMPlqpo3qugoGd9k8FB98XlXJJpgm19SoaOgWn-Nfs_zjrEivhv6kqIyR8Bi4oV6pXQ2_wzIMoUxr20Yl9JXRKC_GNskZmG2HJUBIeWVTTFJGwv8LPcDNMnhpPmXPWrOXKtNaqNS/s1600/PA300411.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr7jOtMMPlqpo3qugoGd9k8FB98XlXJJpgm19SoaOgWn-Nfs_zjrEivhv6kqIyR8Bi4oV6pXQ2_wzIMoUxr20Yl9JXRKC_GNskZmG2HJUBIeWVTTFJGwv8LPcDNMnhpPmXPWrOXKtNaqNS/s640/PA300411.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br />I'm over it.<br /><br />Not the shelves, but the white. Ever since I added my <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2012/10/paint-rug-party-week-3-reveal.html" target="_blank">lovely new rug</a> by the sink, I've been thinking the other side of the kitchen needed some blue as well.<br /><br />This is where all of those purchases of blue and white come in handy. Proof to the hubs that you can never have too much blue and white. 10 minutes later...<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8UTCXvpOWhkoR3xIkbzRbkn499uL-zLW1RadkoCt5c8XTIWZyu6p8h21S_TtINaxKyjVF4ih5_lvrZUkzXwQ8pFCGgffdgvtbA_c14izTOZhk4Z7JqZzOqJUuYtOqVC9uMR-6cY2AoKcI/s1600/BlueandWhiteKitchen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8UTCXvpOWhkoR3xIkbzRbkn499uL-zLW1RadkoCt5c8XTIWZyu6p8h21S_TtINaxKyjVF4ih5_lvrZUkzXwQ8pFCGgffdgvtbA_c14izTOZhk4Z7JqZzOqJUuYtOqVC9uMR-6cY2AoKcI/s640/BlueandWhiteKitchen.jpg" width="514" /></a></div><br />Voila. Much better and a bit cozier for winter. We'll consider this my 'winter kitchen'. If you can't have a winter home, you can at least have a winter kitchen.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG7IzEIFoF_-nuRjp74VSCrj8HPDs0aZv5WDvduuIlk5xQxejSlqGsyopPUmrywYYM_IwfJn_y8pvGsULAKV_1XD2ApMHHa4rmo2qF1Y2dXBkrgZB-IlDF8zfylN3FdEolZX29I5D-AZh0/s1600/BlueandWhiteKitchenclose.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG7IzEIFoF_-nuRjp74VSCrj8HPDs0aZv5WDvduuIlk5xQxejSlqGsyopPUmrywYYM_IwfJn_y8pvGsULAKV_1XD2ApMHHa4rmo2qF1Y2dXBkrgZB-IlDF8zfylN3FdEolZX29I5D-AZh0/s640/BlueandWhiteKitchenclose.jpg" width="630" /></a></div><br />And if I decide to change it again in the Spring, I know it will be quick and easy.<br /><br />Have you made any quick changes around the house? Have a collection that moves from place to place? Have a winter home you'd like to share with me?

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The Global Education Online Conference is well underway

<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/AVvXsEjxlkHzfRXG5ZwZMPoxAwvNGANeajm2ugKlEV-nsaAubjFEuAQco6zrK0n0ePwTRODyYdTB4zOa6osmaA-vUj3Dj44MRtbysY3iRSbopAyGyAq8YMsyX3YsLwCbDVO6PuKeu4UBZJdEh3g/s1600-h/image%25255B2%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="80" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivBiW9tAwTXLA7cKG3WKMlMjqaDX-ZNqLVGAA5G0OVaLuhNqsIu0znl45AklIJre32BEQKX6EbXjp1E4x6CT4uzKHmWGaqVP2aFn98E3VYZxFL4YBg1Kj9hbdQ1KFo9bfn98TgY7I6RvQ/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is just an update from Lucy Gray on the amazing, online global conference that is currently taking place.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“My co-chair, Steve Hargadon, and I would like to extend a warm welcome to new members of our online global education community. Nearly 1000 people have joined in the last day, and we're astounded by the response to our online and free conference. I predicted that we'd reach 15,000 members by the end of this year; I think we're going to be over that number by the end of the week!</span> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I'm most impressed, however, by the sheer professionalism and generosity of spirit shared by participants, presenters, and volunteers so far It's lovely to watch the conversations that are going on in our community.</span> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">At any rate. this is a mid-conference update that may help everyone get oriented to live events going on this week. Please read this memo carefully!</span> <br /><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">UPCOMING KEYNOTES</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We've been privileged to hear from a slew of global thought leaders thus far, and more experts will be joining us in the second half of the conference. Please check out their biographies and schedules here: <a href="http://www.globaleducationconference.com/page/2012-keynotes"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.globaleducationconference.com/page/2012-keynotes</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">RECORDINGS</span></strong> <br /><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Don't worry if you missed a session. All are recorded and will be available shortly after their conclusions:</span> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.globaleducationconference.com/page/2012-global-education-conference-recording-links-and-information">http://www.globaleducationconference.com/page/2012-global-education-conference-recording-links-and-information</a></span> <br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">PRESENTERS INFORMATION</span></strong> <br /><strong><br /></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We asked all presenters to join our 2012 Presenters Group (</span><a href="http://www.globaleducationconference.com/group/2012-presenters-group"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.globaleducationconference.com/group/2012-presenters-group</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> upon proposal acceptance. This is essential because we communicate conference updates to presenters in this community subgroup. You will find tips for promoting your session, a speaker's checklist, and your presenter (moderator) links to your Blackboard Collaborate rooms. Remember, there are public links for participants found in sessions and schedule page, and private links with moderator privileges for presenters only. </span> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Please make sure you've viewed training videos ahead of your time and practiced a bit. If you want more information on this, visit our training page: </span><a href="http://www.globaleducationconference.com/page/training"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.globaleducationconference.com/page/training</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">. We have people staffing our conference lounge, too, in case you need assistance: </span><a href="http://goo.gl/1AnnL"><span style="font-size: small;">http://goo.gl/1AnnL</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span> <br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">JOINING CONFERENCE SESSIONS</span></strong> <br /><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our free, online conference started Monday, November 12 and runs around the clock for five days. All sessions take place in Blackboard Collaborate webinar rooms linked from our web site. No registration is required but we do encourage you to join this network for email updates and to connect with presenters and participants.</span> </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To participate in live webinar sessions:</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><strong>STEP 1:</strong> Go to the </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.globaleducationconference.com/page/2012-sessions-and-schedule"><span style="font-size: small;">SESSIONS AND SCHEDULE PAGE</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">.</span> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong><br /></strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>STEP 2:</strong>Select your time zone and click on its corresponding blue link to the left of the locations listed. </span> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong><br /></strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>STEP 3:</strong>The conference schedule should load on this page and you should be able to see all sessions in YOUR time zone. To quickly locate a session, search the page by using Control+F (Command+F on a Mac).</span> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><span style="font-size: small;">TIP: The schedule is in a Google Calendar. You can add events to your calendar or subscribe to the entire calendar by clicking on the button in the lower righthand corner. </span></em> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><span style="font-size: small;"></span></em> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong><br /></strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>STEP 4:</strong> Open up a session calendar entry and click on a blue SESSION link.</span> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong><br /></strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>STEP 5</strong>: You should arrive at a purple Blackboard Collaborate page. Enter your name and login. Blackboard Collaborate will take a bit of time to launch. You will see the Blackboard Collaborate environment shortly.</span> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Note that you may have to download a small java applet to run Blackboard Collaborate. We can provide some help in our conference lounge: </span><a href="http://goo.gl/1AnnL"><span style="font-size: small;">http://goo.gl/1AnnL</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">. More technical support is available here: </span> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Collaborate/Support/Support-for-Blackboard-Collaborate.aspx"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Collaborate/Support/Support-for-Blackboard-Collaborate.aspx</span></a> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you want more basic information and links to suggested sessions, please download our conference guide: </span><a href="http://api.ning.com/files/2cERrRylB3Iit4vYB1L-0CPdr9l1v6VOuUwj3pepVyamh7ZX6A0mrayqAbqsWCZ6fyUGl9kzzRd8mHmgtqw4Lw__/2012GECGuide.pdf"><span style="font-size: small;">2012GECGuide.pdf</span></a> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks again for your support, and hopefully we'll see you online soon.”</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Lucy Gray</span> <br /><br /><br /></div>

conferences The Global Education Online Conference is well underway

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Poetry 'n' Such with Paul Piatt

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrThrlbzxrt1_OWngxIVi7wiqXB8yH8ZR37QCz65ehYFlqSFmEWRAr151BgvW6Koho1o3d8_BfSypLiwOjn_-Df2aPCd_1cBvIc8iwQ0hBS7icHSQD73ejFx5aOHjwaguJg10HrVduweY/s1600/Paul_Delany.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrThrlbzxrt1_OWngxIVi7wiqXB8yH8ZR37QCz65ehYFlqSFmEWRAr151BgvW6Koho1o3d8_BfSypLiwOjn_-Df2aPCd_1cBvIc8iwQ0hBS7icHSQD73ejFx5aOHjwaguJg10HrVduweY/s400/Paul_Delany.jpg" width="285" /></a>Gentle, yet heartfelt greetings to all of you discerning drinkers of the warm and aromatic coffee of life that is the IWS website.<br /><br />Renown poet and IWS Literary Editor Paul Piatt here once again, in order to share with you some of today’s finest in the world of poetry, prose, and people.<br /><br />Today during our monthly and continuing journey of words made magical, and life’s pentameters made iambic, I introduce you to a fellow sommelier of intoxicating words, my friend and fellow poet, Vincent St. Millay.<br /><br />Vincent hails from the rich and resplendent rolling hills of the eastern Kentucky coal mining cottage town, of Pikeville, KY., and writes in a tone and temper that reflects the austere background, and prevalent communal illiteracy in which his familial rearing took place.<br /><br />Whenever I talk to Vincent at this time of year, he undoubtedly oratorically waxes lovingly in timbre and song much like that of the lucid and lyrical tones of a happily impregnated indigo bunting, as he verbally relives the festive Thanksgiving celebrations he experienced while growing up in a town of 6,892 people who were all related to one and other.<br /><br />And while much of his poetry is sprinkled and written on the bias of good times for all, Vincent, in his award winning book from 1994, <i>Maybe I’d Be Happier If Didn’t Smoke Bluegrass</i>, sums up Thanksgiving from a different point of view…<br /><br />That of the turkey…<br /><br /><b>View of a Turkey*</b><br /><br /><i>The turkey lay on a barrow dead.</i><br /><i>It weighed, Eustis said, as much as three of Aunt Sheila’s head.</i><br /><i>Its eyes closed, pink white feathers.</i><br /><i>Its trotters stuck straight out.</i><br /><i>Such weight and thick pink bulk</i><br /><i>Set in death seemed not just dead.</i><br /><i>It was less than lifeless, further off, but us it will fed.</i><br /><i>It was like a sack of wheat.</i><br /><i>I thumped it without feeling remorse.</i><br /><i>One feels guilty insulting the dead,</i><br /><i>Walking on graves. But this turkey</i><br /><i>Did not seem able to accuse.</i><br /><i>It was too dead. Dead without a head.</i><br /><i>A poundage of lard will cook it up nicely.</i><br /><i>No more dignity, just a few spicelies</i><br /><i>It was not a figure of fun.</i><br /><i>Too dead now to pity, but man, oh yum!!</i><br /><i>To remember its life as he cackled about</i><br /><i>Of earthly pleasure that had been cut out</i><br /><i>Seemed a false effort, and off the point.</i><br /><i>Too deadly factual. Its weight</i><br /><i>Oppressed me — how could it be moved?</i><br /><i>And the trouble of cutting it up!</i><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheWB3PrHPDBk1mEuxvqL4CKyfFVqu3AZ4RUA4e3f1H47CRjTRbUw7fsc-EyH7ejK7SygFEIAsSpHyT8cFwyRHSH1MtwdYQ_OrGoFXYhwGk443iLhOynNKXgl1H0HgTOXAi5ZEpmV1v6yo/s1600/Dead+Thanksgiving+Turkey.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/AVvXsEheWB3PrHPDBk1mEuxvqL4CKyfFVqu3AZ4RUA4e3f1H47CRjTRbUw7fsc-EyH7ejK7SygFEIAsSpHyT8cFwyRHSH1MtwdYQ_OrGoFXYhwGk443iLhOynNKXgl1H0HgTOXAi5ZEpmV1v6yo/s320/Dead+Thanksgiving+Turkey.jpg" width="320" /></a><i>The gash in its throat was shocking, but not pathetic.</i><br /><i>And when I did cut him, I became apoplectic</i><br /><i>To catch a strong gobbler</i><br /><i>That was faster and nimbler than a cat,</i><br /><i>Its squeal was the rending of screwing a chick who was fat.</i><br /><i>Turkeys must have hot blood, they feel like ovens.</i><br /><i>Their bite is worse than a horse’s —</i><br /><i>They chop a half-moon clean out.</i><br /><i>They mock you and curse you with their evil poultry shout.</i><br /><i>Distinctions and admirations such</i><br /><i>As this one was long finished with.</i><br /><i>I stared at it a long time, and knew it would be delicious…ith</i><br /><i>We scalded it clean</i><br /><i>Scalded it and scoured it like a doorstep…</i><br /><i><br /></i><i>And then, we gave thanks, and ate it like ravenous wolves.</i><br /><i><br /></i><i>Feasting upon the death of a turkey, cranberries in their hemorrhoidal glory, and a Jell-O mold that looked like a liver gone bad.</i><br /><br />Happy Thanksgiving gentle readers!!<br /><br /><i>For now, as I travel the road less traveled,</i><br /><br /><i>Paul Piatt</i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">mattmaniws@ymail.com</span></i><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/MattMan_IWS" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue;">@mattman_iws</span></i></a><br /><br />*With apologies to one of my favorite poets, the late <a href="http://www.porkopolis.org/library/pig-poetry/ted-hughes/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><i>Ted Hughes</i></span></a>…<br /><br /></div>

Poetry 'n' Such with Paul Piatt

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BBC News - Vegetative patient Scott Routley says 'I'm not in pain'

<base href="data:">A Canadian man who was believed to have been in a vegetative state for more than a decade, has been able to tell scientists that he is not in any pain.<br><br>It's the first time an uncommunicative, severely brain-injured patient has been able to give answers clinically relevant to their care.<br><br>Scott Routley, 39, was asked questions while having his brain activity scanned in an fMRI machine.<br><br>His doctor says the discovery means medical textbooks will need rewriting.<br><br>Vegetative patients emerge from a coma into a condition where they have periods awake, with their eyes open, but have no perception of themselves or the outside world.<br><br>Mr Routley suffered a severe brain injury in a car accident 12 years ago.<br><br>None of his physical assessments since then have shown any sign of awareness, or ability to communicate.<br><br>But the British neuroscientist Prof Adrian Owen - who led the team at the Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario - said Mr Routley was clearly not vegetative.<br><br>"Scott has been able to show he has a conscious, thinking mind. We have scanned him several times and his pattern of brain activity shows he is clearly choosing to answer our questions. We believe he knows who and where he is."<br><br>Prof Owen said it was a groundbreaking moment.<br><br>"Asking a patient something important to them has been our aim for many years. In future we could ask what we could do to improve their quality of life. It could be simple things like the entertainment we provide or the times of day they are washed and fed."<br><br>Scott Routley's parents say they always thought he was conscious and could communicate by lifting a thumb or moving his eyes. But this has never been accepted by medical staff.<br><br>Prof Bryan Young at University Hospital, London - Mr Routley's neurologist for a decade - said the scan results overturned all the behavioural assessments that had been made over the years.<br><br><div><br></div>"I was impressed and amazed that he was able to show these cognitive responses. He had the clinical picture of a typical vegetative patient and showed no spontaneous movements that looked meaningful."<br><br>Observational assessments of Mr Routley since he responded in the scanner have continued to suggest he is vegetative. Prof Young said medical textbooks would need to be updated to include Prof Owen's techniques.<br><br>The BBC's Panorama programme followed several vegetative and minimally-conscious patients in Britain and Canada for more than a year.<br><br>Another Canadian patient, Steven Graham, was able to demonstrate that he had laid down new memories since his brain injury. Mr Graham answers yes when asked whether his sister has a daughter. His niece was born after his car accident five years ago.<br><br>The Panorama team also followed three patients at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability (RHN) in Putney, which specialises in the rehabilitation of brain-injured patients.<br><br>It collaborates with a team of Cambridge University neuroscientists at the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre at Addenbrooke's hospital, Cambridge.<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#505050" face="Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"><i><br></i></span></font><br>A second patient, who was not able to be fully assessed by the RHN because of repeated sickness, is later shown to have some limited awareness in brain scans.<br><br><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20268044">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20268044</a><br><br>

BBC News - Vegetative patient Scott Routley says 'I'm not in pain'

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New vet!

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bones was due his yearly shots so I signed him up with a new vet to get them done.  This is the Animal Welfare Veterinary Clinic.  It's only a short walk away from our house along the canal.  Very convenient to get to and really friendly staff.  We were very pleased with the new vet and Bones was declared in perfect shape!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPGgkpa1pHuvbNMA2wmisvNOB2WbYi7pzwq0A94Wc1p-nFPA5yQIprwTLG7tuFJqE39ZFonNFKFsBSBuUQFEnJbJO3XOdHSjuVx0urIP1ShtyBJb9azj8ZXU6BxSNwMW2FNiu_r0_sDp5t/s1600/IMG_2389%5B1%5D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPGgkpa1pHuvbNMA2wmisvNOB2WbYi7pzwq0A94Wc1p-nFPA5yQIprwTLG7tuFJqE39ZFonNFKFsBSBuUQFEnJbJO3XOdHSjuVx0urIP1ShtyBJb9azj8ZXU6BxSNwMW2FNiu_r0_sDp5t/s400/IMG_2389%5B1%5D.JPG" width="298" /></a></div> <span style="font-size: large;">In other news, the Christmas Mince Pies are now in Superquinn! ;-)</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs5DH4f6r0XA6kDaiUaCKMJsYAQcE5hHYR7CU13eBKAgkbDD3JTPrNVjbaWOd1bxS-3skV90QFz1fNiGKaxaUQq9RIvzx9_vj0R4k28FwI3n6ySsLKUl5WmLOtEXmjLEiU_RLChNpO9etB/s1600/IMG_2390%5B1%5D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs5DH4f6r0XA6kDaiUaCKMJsYAQcE5hHYR7CU13eBKAgkbDD3JTPrNVjbaWOd1bxS-3skV90QFz1fNiGKaxaUQq9RIvzx9_vj0R4k28FwI3n6ySsLKUl5WmLOtEXmjLEiU_RLChNpO9etB/s320/IMG_2390%5B1%5D.JPG" width="239" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br />

New vet!

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Today's archidose #633

Here are some photos of the <a href="http://www.meyer-vanschooten.nl/project/detail/22/traverse-hilversum">Traverse Hilversum</a> in Hilversum, Netherlands, by <a href="http://www.meyer-vanschooten.nl/">Meyer en Van Schooten Architecten</a> (2011). Photographs are by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/klaasfotocollectie/">Klaas Vermaas</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/klaasfotocollectie/8181832817/" title="hilversum traverse mediapark station hilversum noord 02 2011 meyer_v schooten (stephensonln) by Klaas5, on Flickr"><img alt="hilversum traverse mediapark station hilversum noord 02 2011 meyer_v schooten (stephensonln)" height="427" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8490/8181832817_61338d48fd_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/klaasfotocollectie/8181828395/" title="hilversum traverse mediapark station hilversum noord 09 2011 meyer_v schooten (stephensonln) by Klaas5, on Flickr"><img alt="hilversum traverse mediapark station hilversum noord 09 2011 meyer_v schooten (stephensonln)" height="427" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8068/8181828395_2a41124edc_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/klaasfotocollectie/8181868638/" title="hilversum traverse mediapark station hilversum noord 04 2011 meyer_v schooten (stephensonln) by Klaas5, on Flickr"><img alt="hilversum traverse mediapark station hilversum noord 04 2011 meyer_v schooten (stephensonln)" height="427" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8063/8181868638_ca827cce3b_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/klaasfotocollectie/8181829507/" title="hilversum traverse mediapark station hilversum noord 07 2011 meyer_v schooten (stephensonln) by Klaas5, on Flickr"><img alt="hilversum traverse mediapark station hilversum noord 07 2011 meyer_v schooten (stephensonln)" height="427" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8198/8181829507_aa26966599_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/klaasfotocollectie/8181827659/" title="hilversum traverse mediapark station hilversum noord 10 2011 meyer_v schooten (stephensonln) by Klaas5, on Flickr"><img alt="hilversum traverse mediapark station hilversum noord 10 2011 meyer_v schooten (stephensonln)" height="800" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8490/8181827659_6b32391bcc_c.jpg" width="534" /></a><br /><br />To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just:<br /><blockquote>:: Join and add photos to the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/archi-dose/">archidose pool</a>, and/or<br />:: Tag your photos <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/archidose/">archidose</a></span></blockquote>

Today's archidose #633

Here are some photos of the Traverse Hilversum in Hilversum, Netherlands, by Meyer en Van Schooten Architecten (2011). Photographs are by ...

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