Patient Power

<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; font-family: tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; color: rgb(67, 68, 72); 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); "><span class="bold" style="font-weight: bold; ">Patient Power®</span> is a service of Patient Power, LLC, based in Seattle and founded by two health communications pioneers, Andrew and Esther Schorr. They previously founded <a class="APEdocument APEexternal normallink" href="http://www.healthtalk.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(117, 117, 14); text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal; ">HealthTalk</a>, a leader in support for people with chronic illnesses and cancer. Patient Power® is devoted to helping you and your family through knowledge, to get the best medicine and return to good health.</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; font-family: tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; color: rgb(67, 68, 72); 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); ">Andrew lived that. In 1996 through a routine blood test he was diagnosed with a leukemia. By reaching out to other patients and connecting with doctors who specialize in his illness he participated in a clinical trial, received "tomorrow's medicine today" and now, 12 years after diagnosis, remains in deep remission and takes no medicines.</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; font-family: tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; color: rgb(67, 68, 72); 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); ">While Andrew's success won't be everyone's story, he is committed to helping each person he touches approach their illness in a way that gives them the best chance of good health: getting smart about their diagnosis, seeking out the best healthcare providers, getting second and even third opinions on what approach to take, and drawing on others for support.</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; font-family: tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; color: rgb(67, 68, 72); 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; ">Patient Power® is built on a library of programs, which continues to grow with the addition of each week's new webcasts. These programs feature top medical experts and inspiring patients from some of America's leading medical institutions.  They can be heard live on the Web and past programs can be found on the<a class="APEdocument APEinternal normallink" href="http://www.patientpower.info/programs/replay-library" style="color: rgb(117, 117, 14); text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal; ">Program Replay Library</a> page.</p></div><a href="http://www.patientpower.info/">http://www.patientpower.info/</a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>

Patient Power

Patient Power®  is a service of Patient Power, LLC, based in Seattle and founded by two health communications pioneers, Andrew and Esther Sc...

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Why not turn your tweets into a digital newspaper!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Submitted by Fiona Beal</i><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today I was reading an article called <i>‘3 tools to turn your tweets into a newspaper</i>’. <a href="http://goo.gl/aWHMd" title="http://goo.gl/aWHMd">http://goo.gl/aWHMd</a>. I have already experimented with one of the tools mentioned, <a href="http://paper.li/" target="_blank">Paper.li, </a>and created one called ‘Fiona’s Technology Times’ which is a collection of tweets from people who I follow in the form of a weekly newspaper. In the process of doing that I created a Paper.li blogpost for the Schoolnet blog ‘<a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2012/07/30-days-of-web-tools-day-4-curating.html">Curating with Paper.li’</a>. Today I thought I would create a different kind of weekly newspaper for SchoolNet with mainly SchoolNet tweets featuring on it. Let’s get started…</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Join Paper.li and sign in</span></strong><br /><a href="http://paper.li/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Paper.li</b></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is a free curation tool that takes Twitter etc links from the people you follow on Twitter, and it organizes those links into a virtual paper for easy reading on a daily or weekly basis.   What happens is that you tell Paper.li which sources to use. After you have signed in you will be asked to </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Start your paper</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. I chose <i>Custom paper</i>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh56L3rFF3JdBahqcslJnQejlChrHwnROsUbo7v2kgUsGjxFlnZQnw1jqnvQ7kP0nxFzqNaWSY4zHrgAqLMVxvUaIxmob-QtsIB_F-6TFlPVXtXe8jF3igtkQixXRBk-CxpdQEaAL1PrZw/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From then on it is very much a case of following the prompts. When it came to choosing sources I just added two – SchoolNet’s tweets and the tweets from the weekly South African chat for teachers <i>#edchatsa</i> started by Arthur Preston of Elkanah House in Cape Town. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Background photo</span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The idea of having a background photo came from Linda Lindsay from Hawaii who was with us on the Google Teacher Academy, New York last year in October. She started a Paper.li called <i>#GTANY Daily</i> with tweets from those of us that attended the Academy. You can read her current one at  <a href="http://paper.li/mauilibrarian2/1354660613" title="http://paper.li/mauilibrarian2/1354660613">http://paper.li/mauilibrarian2/1354660613</a>. Linda got her background photo right but I am still experimenting! Here is an image from Linda's Paper.Li</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEJQ4O3gI5l4znmWSgWyZcEnm7hDEc-a3OBwe5KPHFyDk2SB4CEBKfqyPzUlOs47LGF6foP6QzT_DDlOlMk1_AjDhO4cTEpeeTLd-3CD4LJOW1fIr8SjyT23ImV5RPj_wvZsYV3Qk7TXY/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#GTANY Daily</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span></div><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The SchoolNet Weekly Times is created</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, here is the finished result. The photo part is still to be worked on – but I think a newspaper like this is a great way to summarise one’s weekly tweets. If you would like to see our first edition of the SchoolNetSA Weekly Times here is the link: </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://paper.li/SchoolNetSA/1358329701">http://paper.li/SchoolNetSA/1358329701</a>.  Enjoy the read</span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNrfDMkHlVYHdg0k1lqOHP3_6zRJSUTeBSvK-pywbey6mlUZkAgaJ51GXrI5uophJQrROrEMFwat4TCpq8eDfeCl4wNgjLmNscwMeM9gTpXPTTB3Ej_HDndruzPudqThRYMQoyzguf2KU/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The SchoolNet SAWeekly Times</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span></div></div>

PaperLi Web tools Why not turn your tweets into a digital newspaper!

Submitted by Fiona Beal Today I was reading an article called ‘3 tools to turn your tweets into a newspaper ’. http://goo.gl/aWHMd . I have ...

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Don't let exhaustion choke the love of teaching from your heart

<br />Last night, I literally got in the bed at 4:30 pm. Monday I worked 13 hours at the school... at school and then 4 hours of gate duty because someone forgot to show up... then I watched my son's game. So, yesterday, when I got home at 4:30, I knew I was going... as I call to my family...'over the top.' When I've been around people for so long and been so intense that I'm, quite literally shutting down from exhaustion.<br /><br />It is in those moments, no matter how good my day, that I wonder how I can do this job. It is in those moments that self doubt arises like a WWF Schwarzenneger-like wraith to choke this career out of my heart. <b>But I won't let it.</b><br /><br />I looked at the picture of passion on my iphone (below) and I held it in my hand as I closed my eyes for a few moments. I was bone tired and felt it all the way to my heart. I clung to the very special picture as I slept as I held onto my win today. (Sadly, it was also the phone that awoke me, when someone sent me a text message. Lesson learned, never sleep with your cell phone.)<br /><br />Let me tell you what happened and how you can cope when you're 'over the top'<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Talking about the Habitudes</b></span><br />I'm working through the "Name it" stage of the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935542621/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=httpwwwbrighc-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1935542621" id="static_txt_preview" style="background-color: white; color: #996633; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: center;" target="_blank">Classroom Habitudes</a>. This year I''ve set a goal to work on the habitudes in class for 15 minutes twice a week. In a jam packed curriculum like mine, it is a sacrifice, but I'm making it work, snatching time here and there. Last week <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.angelamaiers.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Angela Maiers">Angela Maiers</a> was at my school and did the one of the best inservice training courses I've ever absorbed. Many of us teachers at Westwood were deeply impacted and re-upped our commitment to everything we want to be as teachers.<br /><br />In this phase, you talk about the 7 Habitudes (see <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935542621/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=httpwwwbrighc-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1935542621" id="static_txt_preview" style="background-color: white; color: #996633; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: center;" target="_blank">Classroom Habitudes</a> version 2 by Angela Maiers). You talk about what it is, what it looks like - the people or what you see someone do, what it sounds like <i>(this example below didn't quite do that one correctly - specifically it is focusing on the kinds of things we SAY when we are exhibiting passion - things like "Wow!" or "I think it is so cool that..." or "I'm so excited to learn that..." "I want to learn more about..." these are just a few of the things that sound like passion.)</i><br /><br />Then, we talk about what it feels like. Of interest to me were the conversations about how the different traits feel, for example, the kids talked about how perseverance feels like doubt and struggle but afterwards, people often recognize it as perseverance because when you're in the midst of doing something great that you often don't get praised for what you're doing.<br /><br />It is important to me that my students KNOW that I only want to hear what they really think. I don't want them to "suck up" but be brutally honest about whatever we're discussing. I praise the "courage" to ask hard questions and ask them what they are "curious" about. Plus, I have great students.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>When your students choke you up</b></span><br />But yesterday, I had to stop class for a few moments - maybe 30 seconds. But I was overcome. The kids in the teams had their papers so I had no idea what they said. A young man was talking about passion and said:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"Well, we were talking about what passion looks like, and we decided, well, we decided that it looks like 'Miss' Vicki."</blockquote><br />My eyes teared over. It was an involuntary response.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd_QFOSX7GNBHJR3FljPrnp94Ft3OiFQ-dFHW64c-NVnNKvqqHXyF1K89jnVuwx4StGfsVQx2QK0Fa28MkutakX97iOOJXrP-0PaDQm0FnRANm-wslRGA971gcJV85tqagA0k59TdNxSai/s1024/Photo%252520Jan%25252015%25252C%2525202013%25252C%2525209%25253A24%252520AM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="669" id="blogsy-1358335861982.2354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd_QFOSX7GNBHJR3FljPrnp94Ft3OiFQ-dFHW64c-NVnNKvqqHXyF1K89jnVuwx4StGfsVQx2QK0Fa28MkutakX97iOOJXrP-0PaDQm0FnRANm-wslRGA971gcJV85tqagA0k59TdNxSai/s500/Photo%252520Jan%25252015%25252C%2525202013%25252C%2525209%25253A24%252520AM.jpg" width="500" /></a></div>I was so taken aback. I think all of us teachers who are in this because we love kids hope that our lives will be lessons. We want to live what we want kids to be. We want to be more.<br /><br />I tell my students... I'm not here to teach you, I'm here to COMPLETELY BLOW YOUR MIND. We don't settle for "just teaching" we teach each other. We are curious. We are passionate. We do more and be more than we've ever been. My only expectation is that we are expected to be world class in everything we do. That simple. I don't care if we're in the tiny town of Camilla, we are world class. It is what we do. It is who we are.<br /><br />But yesterday, my mind was blown and my heart was moved. I really didn't deserve that because I don't encourage people to say anything about me. I don't really want it at all. But the complete innocence of it and the way he said it as a fact, I'm sitting here crying as I type this on my ipad at 6:13 am listening to <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.saragroves.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Sara Groves">Sara Groves</a>. <br /><br />Angela told me these were million dollar conversations, but I didn't expect to be the one who the "money" so to speak. <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Savor the wins, you'll need it sooner than you think</span><br />I've encouraged the kids to keep 2 folders: an "at a girl" or "at a boy" folder and a "goals" folder somewhere in their desk in their room. All I could choke out was:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"Oh my goodness. (they could see my tears) It is my dream for you to see my passion, not only about the subject but about YOU and helping you find the things you do well. I don't know what to say, but that, that is the kind of thing that will go in my 'at a girl' folder and I'll treasure forever. Thank you for that."</blockquote><br /><h2>I Can't Fight this Feeling</h2>Those of you who don't teach won't understand this feeling I described in the opening paragraphs.  Usually it is a feeling for <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fridays_%28TV_series%29" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Fridays (TV series)">Fridays</a> and end of the semester, but it is real and it is normal for teachers to get this way. We are in a high stress high burnout job and must hold onto encouragement and go to bed at 4:30 when we are self-aware enough to realize that we're about to push ourselves to far.<br /><br /><h2>Every teacher and every classroom counts: YOU MATTER SO MUCH!</h2>So, as I end my thoughts for today and head to the kitchen to cook my family breakfast, I just want to tell you teachers that YOU MATTER. You matter very much. You are important. Every one of your classrooms counts... whether you are public, private, or homeschooling - you have a tough job and you're my heroes. It is an honor to serve among you and wear the badge of honor of being a teacher.<br /><br />It is my prayer today that you will:<br /><ul><li>Hold onto the moments that you'll need to reflect upon when you're exhausted</li><li>That you'll be self-aware enough to get some rest and reset when you feel yourself 'going over the top'</li><li>That you'll know that being tired is a normal feeling for teachers (we've had lots of conversations about this on my Facebook Fanpage, so I know that many teachers feel this way) but that when you're tired, KNOW IT and REST.</li><li>That you'll know how important YOU are and that your classroom is very important. </li><li>That you'll go into today giving your best.</li><li>Finally, that you'll consider the habitudes or at least some discussion about the "to be" list you want students to be before you get too deep into the to do list of your classroom. We want students "to be" so many things, but I was struck how I needed to formally say, "we want to be...curious, adaptable, passionate, self-aware, etc.</li></ul>Remember your noble calling teacher. You rock.<br /><br /><div id="blogsy_footer" style="clear: both; font-size: small; text-align: right;"><a href="http://blogsyapp.com/" target="_blank"><img alt="Written by Vicki Davis, author - Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds - Posted with Blogsy from my iPad" height="20" src="http://blogsyapp.com/images/blogsy_footer_icon.png" style="margin-right: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" width="20" />Written by Vicki Davis, author - Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds - Posted with Blogsy from my iPad</a></div><div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/?px" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"><img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_c.png?x-id=9785f460-9e16-47c8-97b6-7a67ecf8a12d" style="border: none; float: right;" /></a></div>

Inspiration Teaching Don't let exhaustion choke the love of teaching from your heart

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Yuck

<p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/15/horsemeat-found-in-burgers_n_2482990.html?utm_hp_ref=business&icid=maing-grid10%7chtmlws-main-bb%7cdl1%7csec3_lnk3%26pLid%3D257692#slide=1822580">Gross!</a></p><p>I may never eat a burger again........</p><p>Ciaran has eaten horse in Sardinia, but it just isn't the done thing in Ireland.</p>

Yuck

Gross! I may never eat a burger again........ Ciaran has eaten horse in Sardinia, but it just isn't the done thing in Ireland.

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bubbles with my bubbly

We've turned the corner. Now that the holidays are over, we are in the long depressing stretch of the gray, cold nothing that is winter. Not even a cuddly warm sweater or cute new scarf can trick me into being happy about the next two months. My mind is obsessed with nothing but getting warm.<br /><br />And what better way to warm up than with a nice warm, quite bath. Nothing but me and my champaign (or champs as the RHOOC ladies call it).<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0-VXzi_K54mrl7YXXP14B-cdmYYyr_IzeluTGBXjK766KNtnihBUgwzH_mjNdTc_ge66lHqOIfrQp-9KKbdJ0TA_SQ1eWqGaQfwycE8U4hATqXKWmIru5a-0WD5EacL92tJ6JBBJObCtm/s1600/1590hawthorne.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0-VXzi_K54mrl7YXXP14B-cdmYYyr_IzeluTGBXjK766KNtnihBUgwzH_mjNdTc_ge66lHqOIfrQp-9KKbdJ0TA_SQ1eWqGaQfwycE8U4hATqXKWmIru5a-0WD5EacL92tJ6JBBJObCtm/s640/1590hawthorne.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.glenngutnayercustomhomes.com/1590hawthorne.shtml" target="_blank">source</a></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFwdDfuFGz8RyiactIvHXPzf4EJU6ZEzm5XRWYQXmZcWbVzgtAo_UHzWxtwRbVnKgd5K2m_WxAsjF4tnKDYqZXKM_pOZ0wd0qGjl3YPxgdYn4Mebzbs42BisjFZ-E0YPQkB_w1-XJNEpg9/s1600/Sarah+Richardson.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFwdDfuFGz8RyiactIvHXPzf4EJU6ZEzm5XRWYQXmZcWbVzgtAo_UHzWxtwRbVnKgd5K2m_WxAsjF4tnKDYqZXKM_pOZ0wd0qGjl3YPxgdYn4Mebzbs42BisjFZ-E0YPQkB_w1-XJNEpg9/s640/Sarah+Richardson.jpeg" width="434" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.sarahrichardsondesign.com/" target="_blank">source</a></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3U4poBaMbC2SwtC4T0tYPaKhljj8qJ6qFAfKbIYe7-QxUtrhAIf6MrIH1VcnrTEOhSNqdiQBM-UO7vqAm9TgAWmghRxIi6boDply8P4Xncmx4kxuGSzsULzC1DIcVD1l-hFE26CtalCDm/s1600/en-suite.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3U4poBaMbC2SwtC4T0tYPaKhljj8qJ6qFAfKbIYe7-QxUtrhAIf6MrIH1VcnrTEOhSNqdiQBM-UO7vqAm9TgAWmghRxIi6boDply8P4Xncmx4kxuGSzsULzC1DIcVD1l-hFE26CtalCDm/s640/en-suite.jpeg" width="486" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://47parkav.blogspot.com/2012/06/en-suite.html" target="_blank">source</a></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzaxrT61ncbjTP-HPFtHT41lsTx7cnDqiZua_xa77Oq3AIq8exgTk6YFFYT3Q4fVh9dWyRIgfzwutjh-Dvl-b4Mt3bXkH6nE8sEbPo_yfGm1UOXlMoKfYZmRmGKLi1BrWbt6bJiq-6jZhT/s1600/imgres.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzaxrT61ncbjTP-HPFtHT41lsTx7cnDqiZua_xa77Oq3AIq8exgTk6YFFYT3Q4fVh9dWyRIgfzwutjh-Dvl-b4Mt3bXkH6nE8sEbPo_yfGm1UOXlMoKfYZmRmGKLi1BrWbt6bJiq-6jZhT/s640/imgres.jpeg" width="630" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farmhousemusings.blogspot.com/2011_10_01_archive.html" target="_blank">source</a></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIsvKQ5u7u5POgdhZyt8M4wdPmaueSCTh8ypcDO1BGP2qy71z8ohc9AJ4kc3eXZF-C9UsNDZ2HZ7AcePQ0Chv8R3jK6cvH4Z3s9gK1w1aQvRUQf3LS-IFYRILfP2sb91WRj1GltuRigmhO/s1600/bathroom.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIsvKQ5u7u5POgdhZyt8M4wdPmaueSCTh8ypcDO1BGP2qy71z8ohc9AJ4kc3eXZF-C9UsNDZ2HZ7AcePQ0Chv8R3jK6cvH4Z3s9gK1w1aQvRUQf3LS-IFYRILfP2sb91WRj1GltuRigmhO/s640/bathroom.jpeg" width="490" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.lonny.com/" target="_blank">source</a></td></tr></tbody></table>I feel more relaxed already. Check out my <a href="http://pinterest.com/ladybaum/bathrooms/" target="_blank">bathroom board on Pinterest</a> for more eye candy.<br /><br />What do you do to help you get thru these frigid months? Do you have a nice big tub you use regularly? If you don't use it, can I come over and borrow it? Little Mermaid always ends up in my tub and she's not keen to share.

bubbles with my bubbly

We've turned the corner. Now that the holidays are over, we are in the long depressing stretch of the gray, cold nothing that is winter....

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I Guess it's Bitch Week

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />Hola y’all! Well, it’s turned into Bitch Week here at I’m With Stupid.  I posted about people I’ve had enough of on <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/01/people-ive-had-enough-of.html" target="_blank">Monday</a>, Matt-Man did the <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/01/more-people-weve-had-enough-of.html" target="_blank">same yesterday</a>  and I’m continuing the list today.<br /><br /><b>- People who post a question on Twitter asking their followers to look something up. </b><br /><br />Really? Everyone on Twitter is your fucking secretary? People are just supposed to drop what they’re doing to look something up for you? That’s so fucking stupid. Besides, in the time it took you to Tweet, you could have just Googled it yourself dumb ass.<br /><br /><b>- People who believe crazy conspiracy theories. </b><br /><br />I have a couple of Facebook Friends who keep posting links to some video that claims to “tell the truth” about what “REALLY” happened in the Sandy Hook shootings. It’s just stunning to me that people are so willing to show off their stupidity publicly like that. How embarrassing.<br /><br />Yeah, I know Obama’s coming for your guns. Jesus, this level of stupidity is just embarrassing. Do you really think background checks are going to prevent YOU from owning your guns? Hey, if you don’t have anything to hide, you don’t have anything to worry about!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw0lbb9GTc1sZgPs93EAz33k_c4do2SCRUlve8zzzeiPSoYtCsYvlKV3U-u9aM6sNThJEPFoKoBWW1iwpKIG9zJ6xklp-ZiPv0V5Tu84IXzjEAdJlUZ9JPF-6xGavn72NYtIBkoQ3VZ2A/s1600/Scarlett+Johansson+Activist+DNC+Politics.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw0lbb9GTc1sZgPs93EAz33k_c4do2SCRUlve8zzzeiPSoYtCsYvlKV3U-u9aM6sNThJEPFoKoBWW1iwpKIG9zJ6xklp-ZiPv0V5Tu84IXzjEAdJlUZ9JPF-6xGavn72NYtIBkoQ3VZ2A/s320/Scarlett+Johansson+Activist+DNC+Politics.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b>- People who tell celebrities to “shut up.” </b><br /><br />Ever notice how people who complain about celebrities expressing their political views only do so when a celebrities says something they disagree with? Weird how that works. You don’t want celebrities to shut up, you want everyone who has an opinion that you don’t like to shut up.<br /><br />Of course when you agree with a celebrity you not only have no problem with them, you ReTweet, ReBlog or Share whatever they say. Hell, I saw some people on Facebook sharing a post by a celebrity complaining about celebrities expressing their opinions. Really weird.<br /><br /><b>- Rude fucking people. </b><br /><br />My God they’re everywhere! Every day people become less and less respectful of others. People like my upstairs neighbor who sometimes comes home at 2:30 AM and vacuums. Yes! Vacuums at 2:30 in the fucking morning! You might think he’s just trying to be an asshole, but he’s not. He would have to give a shit about someone other than himself or have a little respect for others first. But, he doesn’t. He doesn’t know anyone else in this world even exists.<br /><br />You see people like him all day long. They stand around in front of you in line talking on their phone, holding others up and generally annoying everyone. They weave all over the road or slow way down because they’re busy texting someone. They make all kinds of noise at the movie theater talking, texting or yelling at the screen. They throw their trash on the ground or at a trash can and miss but don’t pick it up. They stand outside the front door of a public building smoking and blowing their smoke at people trying to get in or out and then they throw their cigarette butts on the ground. It goes and on and on and on. It’s enough to make you never want to go out in public again.<br /><br /><b>- People who are always in the middle of some drama. </b><br /><br />There are far too many people who are always just looking to start or jump into the middle of some kind of drama. They pretend that they were insulted, or insult someone or post some stupid passive-aggressive crybaby shit online and then it just goes on all day long.<br /><br />And worst of all, people post all these vague posts referencing the “drama” that’s going on but won’t link to any of it so I will know what the fuck they’re talking about. I NEVER know what is going on or who are beefing and while so many people I follow post about it, they never tell me who it is. Pisses me off!<br /><br />And then there are the people who start a blog post with “There’s a lot going on right now, but I can’t talk about it.” Well then don’t fucking mention it at all!<br /><br /><br />Okay, that’s enough for now. Maybe I’ll have more later unless I can get it all out of my system during our <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/01/16/bitch-session" target="_blank">Bitch Session</a> on the live IWS Podcast Wednesday at 11 AM ET! Call in at let us know who or what is pissing YOU off!<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>

I Guess it's Bitch Week

Hola y’all! Well, it’s turned into Bitch Week here at I’m With Stupid.  I posted about people I’ve had enough of on Monday , Matt-Man did th...

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CRISIS IN WESTERN BALKANS’ INTEGRATION WITH THE EU

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18.0pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">GOING THROUGH THE BIGGEST CRISIS OF ITS ABOUT 60-YEAR HISTORY, THE EU HAS BEEN THE RECIPIENT OF A NOBEL PRIZE</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By Erhan Türbedar </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Nobel committee cites the reconciliation of GERMANY and FRANCE, the restoration of stability to the democracies in southern EUROPE, the integration of Eastern EUROPE with the Union and the enlargement perspective covering the western BALKAN countries and TURKEY as the reason for the EU having been deemed worthy of the 2012 Nobel peace prize. It also says the EU has made important contributions in the EUROPEAN continent regarding conciliation, democracy and human rights. Should it be a budding hope for the western BALKAN countries to join the EU with the importance attached to its enlargement perspective having been a leading factor to get the Nobel prize? </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">INDIFFERENCE BY THE EUROPEAN UNION TOWARDS BALKAN COUNTRIES</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigpM5w9bpaooje82qeQfiP-WeixGc6ZbPbcVNHXbRWds0voc066KavHNYCsG8nDgkZljsc2FbqBo6ndimuFxjhD8NFIC1nucv7fraCm_VyYljanem7NNqZq5TbxDAOUFdsPT913YBcJqcw/s1600/poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigpM5w9bpaooje82qeQfiP-WeixGc6ZbPbcVNHXbRWds0voc066KavHNYCsG8nDgkZljsc2FbqBo6ndimuFxjhD8NFIC1nucv7fraCm_VyYljanem7NNqZq5TbxDAOUFdsPT913YBcJqcw/s400/poster.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The EUROPEAN UNION has played undeniably important roles in the transformations of the BALKANS. Brussels has first coped with crisis management in the region and has later included all BALKAN countries in the EU enlargement process. It has made it clear on various occasions that the door to full membership is open for the BALKAN countries. However, the BALKAN countries are well aware of the fact that their memberships are contingent not only on the reform movements they are to carry out but also on the developments within the Union. The BALKAN countries have recently been querulous about the Union’s lack of attention. This leads to the calling into question of EU’s enlargement process and the sustainability of the reforms in the Western BALKANS. There are even those who believe CROATIA’S membership, seemingly due in the middle of 2013, may also be delayed. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Despite increased pessimism in the western BALKANS, it is obvious the Union’s eastward enlargement is underway. CROATIA’S EU membership has been guaranteed. Membership negotiations were started with MONTENEGRO in the middle of 2012. The EUROPEAN Commission has also been offering MACEDONIA to start membership talks for the fourth straight year but Skopje cannot make any progress in that regard because of the name dispute it has with GREECE. Owing to the headway it has made in the past two years in its reforms programme, ALBANIA also seems to be edging towards getting the candidacy status. On the other hand, despite the recognition of KOSOVO by five EU members, the query continues through legal channels for the Stability and Accession Agreement to be signed with KOSOVO. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">BALKAN PEOPLE FEEL THAT THE EU NO LONGER EMANATES CONFIDENCE</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7CKIaz251rxAxIsmpGFAQiG9Mgj4wvLAc1TuiMEW2LBTlKTQVwJzjWgiz7_b55IKpZeI2vqymluhoSvJWel_7qA7uKz-xYCnJroqJIsgmWgSlPUhyrr0EO5hqtSQIZCieJJiw0lBop_1S/s1600/balkans-map.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7CKIaz251rxAxIsmpGFAQiG9Mgj4wvLAc1TuiMEW2LBTlKTQVwJzjWgiz7_b55IKpZeI2vqymluhoSvJWel_7qA7uKz-xYCnJroqJIsgmWgSlPUhyrr0EO5hqtSQIZCieJJiw0lBop_1S/s320/balkans-map.gif" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Entire BALKAN</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Considering all that, qualifying the EU’s enlargement process as critical and fragile is not realistic. It is more appropriate to say that the crisis the EU is in the grips of at the moment is also making itself felt in the enlargement process. </span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The latest statistics by Eurostat indicates that the rate of joblessness in the Euro Zone has reached a record level of 11.7%. Almost 60% of those under 25 in crisis-ridden GREECE and SPAIN are unemployed. The difficulties which have shattered many of EUROPE’S economies have not only yanked further enlargement from among the basic priorities of Brussels but have also tarnished its image among the BALKAN peoples. The BALKAN peoples are of the view that the EU no longer emanates confidence and no one is certain about what shape it is going to be in after a couple of years. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">As a matter of fact, the western BALKAN states should focus on the economic measures they need to take and their growth instead of calling into question whether the enlargement process is going to be continued. Tackling high public debt and budget deficit as well as the chronic problem of unemployment, the western BALKAN countries have not been able to register any significant growth for the past three years. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAc-8i6A6ikxkAmVCd8jcIyPdmULe-Svx0mhU97CIoOqxDyrE-Swwy3jNnxr_l5pu1I1w0JAU7IWsVBxe2yCjdqDARiitue9JjYM6xlMKIocM-l39b9wpu4Hck01HE7GkVZC_E1B22C4zp/s1600/27650+POSTER+JPM+EN.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/AVvXsEhAc-8i6A6ikxkAmVCd8jcIyPdmULe-Svx0mhU97CIoOqxDyrE-Swwy3jNnxr_l5pu1I1w0JAU7IWsVBxe2yCjdqDARiitue9JjYM6xlMKIocM-l39b9wpu4Hck01HE7GkVZC_E1B22C4zp/s320/27650+POSTER+JPM+EN.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Actually, it is primarily the economic problems which put the biggest pressure on regional governments. The citizens of the western BALKAN countries condemned for years on end to live under conditions far from prosperous with the motivation of politically tinged nationalistic discourse now seem prepared to sever their support for every financially unsuccessful government. And it is at this point that the impact on the western BALKAN countries of the EU crisis may assume more serious dimensions. Save for EU funds, trade and financial relations between the EU and the western BALKAN countries may bump into hardships. What is more, the BALKAN countries are unlikely to have more investors from the EU countries in the next couple of years. There is no doubt EU enlargement will continue in the future as well, but the western BALKAN countries should concentrate on their own development problems more seriously rather than fancying the idea that their problems will melt away with a magic stick. </span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

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One in three American adults have gone online to figure out a medical condition | Pew Internet & American Life Project

<base href="data:">Thirty-five percent of U.S. adults say that at one time or another they have gone online specifically to try to figure out what medical condition they or someone else might have.<br><br>These findings come from a national survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project. Throughout this report, we call those who searched for answers on the internet "online diagnosers."<br><br>When asked if the information found online led them to think they needed the attention of a medical professional, 46% of online diagnosers say that was the case. Thirty-eight percent of online diagnosers say it was something they could take care of at home and 11% say it was both or in-between.<br><br>When we asked respondents about the accuracy of their initial diagnosis, they reported:<br><br><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• 41% of online diagnosers say a medical professional confirmed their diagnosis. An additional 2% say a medical professional partially confirmed it.<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• 35% say they did not visit a clinician to get a professional opinion.<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• 18% say they consulted a medical professional and the clinician either did not agree or offered a different opinion about the condition.<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• 1% say their conversation with a clinician was inconclusive.<br></div><div><br></div>Women are more likely than men to go online to figure out a possible diagnosis. Other groups that have a high likelihood of doing so include younger people, white adults, those who live in households earning $75,000 or more, and those with a college degree or advanced degrees.<br><br>It is important to note what these findings mean – and what they don't mean. Historically, people have always tried to answer their health questions at home and made personal choices about whether and when to consult a clinician. Many have now added the internet to their personal health toolbox, helping themselves and their loved ones better understand what might be ailing them. This study was not designed to determine whether the internet has had a good or bad influence on health care. It measures the scope, but not the outcome, of this activity.<br><br><b>Clinicians are a central resource for information or support during serious health episodes — and the care and conversation take place mostly offline</b><div><br>To try to capture a focused picture of people's health information search and information-assessment strategies, we asked respondents to think about the last time they had a serious health issue and to whom they turned for help, either online or offline:<br><br><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• 70% of U.S. adults got information, care, or support from a doctor or other health care professional.<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• 60% of adults got information or support from friends and family.<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• 24% of adults got information or support from others who have the same health condition.<br></div><div><br></div>The vast majority of this care and conversation took place offline, but a small group of people did communicate with each of these sources online. And, since a majority of adults consult the internet when they have health questions, these communications with clinicians, family, and fellow patients joined the stream of information flowing in.<br><br><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnDspPfgkBW_Lv46hh4AGrNWUoOKApmrD7GOTGhZDryUVNFcQ3Fj4Cj0O9cgd7MXBlEjDTThCMgTsafuiYkOSGs3OeVjZbyBV436huuEe4jVK4Wp0g5nI-B7joA3CwDvWezs_O_9PUhGM/s1600/ED72A0421D8745288A3AB5214258790B-748951.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5833799745226274706" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnDspPfgkBW_Lv46hh4AGrNWUoOKApmrD7GOTGhZDryUVNFcQ3Fj4Cj0O9cgd7MXBlEjDTThCMgTsafuiYkOSGs3OeVjZbyBV436huuEe4jVK4Wp0g5nI-B7joA3CwDvWezs_O_9PUhGM/s320/ED72A0421D8745288A3AB5214258790B-748951.png" /></a><br><br><b>Eight in 10 online health inquiries start at a search engine</b></div><div><br>Looking more broadly at the online landscape, 72% of internet users say they looked online for health information of one kind or another within the past year.  This includes searches related to serious conditions, general information searches, and searches for minor health problems. For brevity's sake, we will refer to this group as "online health seekers."<br><br>When asked to think about the last time they hunted for health or medical information, 77% of online health seekers say they began at a search engine such as Google, Bing, or Yahoo. Another 13% say they began at a site that specializes in health information, like WebMD. Just 2% say they started their research at a more general site like Wikipedia and an additional 1% say they started at a social network site like Facebook.<br><br><b>Half of health information searches are on behalf of someone else</b></div><div><br>When asked to think about the last time they went online for health or medical information, 39% of online health seekers say they looked for information related to their own situation. Another 39% say they looked for information related to someone else's health or medical situation. An additional 15% of these internet users say they were looking both on their own and someone else's behalf.<br><br><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIjaVtjQXZ2aMw1tUSoB0m46NSUsGuzqsUgDcGQajBLQh2MdncBl1cg_DBaz7wR3lCgxVwVAahihwea9TdCQVgF_gF5OS_Pm2BdzXvqzl2qa4ItQTFzReYjCK2K1uguglRPRYXSgaUwWA/s1600/76E10C5FA21B469284338AE3925F62C5-750456.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5833799747373686866" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIjaVtjQXZ2aMw1tUSoB0m46NSUsGuzqsUgDcGQajBLQh2MdncBl1cg_DBaz7wR3lCgxVwVAahihwea9TdCQVgF_gF5OS_Pm2BdzXvqzl2qa4ItQTFzReYjCK2K1uguglRPRYXSgaUwWA/s320/76E10C5FA21B469284338AE3925F62C5-750456.png" /></a><br><br>One in four people seeking health information online have hit a pay wall<br><br>Twenty-six percent of internet users who look online for health information say they have been asked to pay for access to something they wanted to see online.  Of those who have been asked to pay, just 2% say they did so. Fully 83% of those who hit a pay wall say they tried to find the same information somewhere else. Thirteen percent of those who hit a pay wall say they just gave up.<br><br><b>The social life of health information is a low-key but steady presence in American life</b></div><div><br>In past surveys, the Pew Internet Project has not defined a time period for health activities online. This time, the phrase "in the past 12 months" was added to help focus respondents on recent episodes. We find once again that there is a social life of health information, as well as peer-to-peer support, as people exchange stories about their own health issues to help each other understand what might lie ahead:<br><br><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• 26% say they read or watched someone else's experience about health or medical issues in the last 12 months.<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• 16% of internet users say they went online in the last year to find others who might share the same health concerns.<br></div>Health-related reviews and rankings continue to be used by only a modest group of consumers. About one in five internet users have consulted online reviews of particular drugs or medical treatments, doctors or other providers, and hospitals or medical facilities. And just 3-4% of internet users have posted online reviews of health care services or providers.<br><br><a href="http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Health-online/Summary-of-Findings.aspx">http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Health-online/Summary-of-Findings.aspx</a><br><br></div>

One in three American adults have gone online to figure out a medical condition | Pew Internet & American Life Project

Thirty-five percent of U.S. adults say that at one time or another they have gone online specifically to try to figure out what medical cond...

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Library Business Manager - Hamden Public Library

<strong>Library Business Manager - </strong><strong></strong><span style="color: #48286d;"><strong>Hamden Public Library</strong>.<strong> </strong></span>Essential Job Duties Required: This position involves administrative and technical duties requiring a substantial degree of independent action. Major responsibilities include library office management, budget and financial accounting and personnel records. Library Office Management: In accordance with library policies, priorities and procedures, manages the Library Office on a day to day basis. Establishes office procedures. Confers with other Town departments, vendors, library staff and library patrons to provide information and to resolve problems. Authorized to make decisions in response to building emergencies and assigning staff as necessary. Prepares monthly financial and narrative reports, annual reports to the Connecticut State Library and other reports as necessary. Budget and Financial Accounting: Responsible for processing all library purchases, prepares purchase orders, secures price quotations as necessary, processes invoices and returns, etc. Maintains budget database, monitors expenses against budget, prepares reports on expenditures, works closely with the Finance and Purchasing Departments to ensure accurate record of library expenditures. Maintains Library fund accounts, including management of grant funds. Responsible for petty cash, collecting and depositing revenue from fines and fees. Assists in budget preparation and other accounting functions. May manage office functions and support to Library Administrators, Library Board, and Friends of the Library. Personnel: Maintains library staff personnel records. Prepares the weekly payroll, maintains vacation, sick and personal time records, etc. Works with Associate Library Director to oversee all aspects of building and equipment maintenance and repair. Works with Library Director on planning, financing, and overseeing building improvement projects. Other: Provides public desk assistance as assigned. May include collection development responsibilities as assigned. Performs clerical and secretarial functions as required. Performs other library tasks as required. Minimum Qualifications Required: A Bachelor's degree from a recognized college or university and three (3) years of progressively responsible office administration experience is required; a Master’s Degree in Library Science from an ALA accredited library school is preferred; or any equivalent combination of training and experience necessary to perform the essential job duties. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Knowledge of office management and record-keeping; knowledge of modern techniques and methods in the operation of a public library; working knowledge of professional book selection tools and methods; skill in meeting and dealing tactfully and effectively with the public; ability to establish and maintain effective work relationships with Town officials and staff and employees; ability to work with computer systems as related to libraries and finance; ability to read, write, and interpret technical reports; knowledge of established library administration policies and protocols; ability to maintain information in confidence; works in office setting subject to continuous interruptions; ability to work under stress from demanding deadlines and changing priorities and conditions. Applications and copies of the job description are available in the Personnel/Civil Service Office from 8:30 - 4:30 PM daily. Closing date: Wednesday, <span style="color: red;">January 30, 2013</span> @ 4:00 PM.

Library Business Manager - Hamden Public Library

Library Business Manager - Hamden Public Library . Essential Job Duties Required: This position involves administrative and technical du...

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Today's archidose #644

Here are some photos of the Visitors Pavilion for <a href="http://www.paleishetloo.nl/">Palace Het Loo</a> in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, by <a href="http://www.koenvanvelsen.com/">Architectenbureau Koen van Velsen</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/8380450750/" title="apeldoorn entreegebouw paleis t loo 01 2011 v velsen k (amersfoortsewg) by Klaas5, on Flickr"><img alt="apeldoorn entreegebouw paleis t loo 01 2011 v velsen k (amersfoortsewg)" height="427" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8365/8380450750_f44f29c29e_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/klaasfotocollectie/8379368073/" title="apeldoorn entreegebouw paleis t loo 05 2011 v velsen k (amersfoortsewg) by Klaas5, on Flickr"><img alt="apeldoorn entreegebouw paleis t loo 05 2011 v velsen k (amersfoortsewg)" height="427" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8074/8379368073_46bfa75225_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/klaasfotocollectie/8379368591/" title="apeldoorn entreegebouw paleis t loo 04 2011 v velsen k (amersfoortsewg) by Klaas5, on Flickr"><img alt="apeldoorn entreegebouw paleis t loo 04 2011 v velsen k (amersfoortsewg)" height="427" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8212/8379368591_c60e39920d_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/klaasfotocollectie/8380446648/" title="apeldoorn entreegebouw paleis t loo 06 2011 v velsen k (amersfoortsewg) by Klaas5, on Flickr"><img alt="apeldoorn entreegebouw paleis t loo 06 2011 v velsen k (amersfoortsewg)" height="427" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8508/8380446648_01377e202b_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/klaasfotocollectie/8382589025/" title="apeldoorn entreegebouw paleis t loo 07 2011 v velsen k (amersfoortsewg) by Klaas5, on Flickr"><img alt="apeldoorn entreegebouw paleis t loo 07 2011 v velsen k (amersfoortsewg)" height="427" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8494/8382589025_d2d0a38579_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br />To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just:<br /><blockquote>:: Join and add photos to the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/archi-dose/">archidose pool</a>, and/or<br />:: Tag your photos <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/archidose/">archidose</a></span></blockquote>

Today's archidose #644

Here are some photos of the Visitors Pavilion for Palace Het Loo in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, by Architectenbureau Koen van Velsen (2011). P...

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Materials Manager (SAP MRP |Supply Chain |Scheduling | Production Planning)(#109013)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="WordSection1"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Job Title:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Materials Manager<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Location:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Milpitas, CA<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Duration:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Fulltime<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Job Description:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">KLA-Tencor has manufacturing sites across the globe, including Belgium, China, Germany, Israel, Singapore and Milpitas (CA).  The Global Operations (GOPS) team, comprised of Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing Engineering, Installation, and Quality, is responsible for manufacturing our leading-edge technology.  We partner with our world-wide supply base and our design engineering teams to bring new products to market.  The GOPS team is continuously working to build our products Better, Faster, Cheaper. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Responsibilities:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">1. Manage supply chain relationships and contracts for assigned commodities/suppliers within the RAPID Materials Group. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">2. Understand company business requirements, market dynamics and trends, supply base and supply base capabilities for given commodities. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">3. Lead complex supplier negotiations. Execute, manage and administer supplier contracts, SOWs, SLAs, NDAs and any other required supplier agreements. 4. Effectively manage supplier relationships at both the enterprise and division, function and project level. Lead, develop, create and deploy supplier scorecards. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">5. Lead, coordinate and manage supplier business reviews. Create, implement and/or drives industry and company supply chain best practices. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">6. Ensure adherence to company supply chain management best practices, policies, procedures and external compliance requirements. Lead and influence cross-functional and cross-organizational teams. Lead supply chain management project/program management and complex problem resolution on new product, cost reduction, value engineering, quality, reliability, delivery, inventory and service initiatives.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">Responsibilities may include developing, modifying, and executing Supplier Sourcing for new products Including the development and implementation of activities in production area(s) to meet production goals of outsourcing, part count reduction, key supplier quality & performance, and cost objectives. Establishes new product objectives and assignments, and delegates assignments to supporting materials group. Important to focus on customer (engineering) objectives/issues, program phase exits, manufacturing readiness reviews, and ensuring operational successful release of new programs.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">Determines material requirements from engineering and production schedules, and maintains inventory at planned levels. Plans, schedules, and monitors the movement of materials through the production cycle. Develops, implements and maintains policies, procedures and material control systems It may also include some financial analysis of END, standard costs/cost reduction tracking, inventory targets, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Qualifications/Education Desired:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">1. Strong MRP (ideally SAP) experience.  <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">2. 5+ years of Purchasing management / Supply Chain experience<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Basic Qualification:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">Master's Level Degree with at least 4 years of experience. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">OR <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 5 years of experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Please send in your resumes to vinod.sanker@kla-tencor.com</span></b><o:p><br /></o:p></span></div></div></div>

Materials Manager (SAP MRP |Supply Chain |Scheduling | Production Planning)(#109013)

Job Title:  Materials Manager Location: Milpitas, CA Duration: Fulltime Job Description: KLA-Tencor has manufacturing sites across the glo...

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#15: Using Google Docs & Drive to do your planning

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>30 Days of Google series #15</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span>Have you ever wondered if there is an easier way to do your daily/weekly/year planning and lessons than either writing them out by hand (worst scenario) or typing them out and keeping them on your own computer? One of the best applications to use for planning and preparing is Google Docs because you can then access your files from any computer as well as share them with anyone else who has access to the Internet. Amazing!</span><br /><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></strong><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Distinction between Google Docs and Google Drive</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Google Docs, Spreadsheets, and Slides are known as productivity apps. They let you create different kinds of online documents, work on them in real time with other people, and store them in your Google Drive online — all for free.</span><br /><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></strong><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">How to plan a lesson using Google Docs</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Firstly it is free. If you have a Gmail account you have a Google Docs account which contains a great selection of applications to use. Anything created using these applications can be saved in Google Docs and the finished products can even be downloaded as Microsoft Word documents should you so wish!</span><br /><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-JEPD3UDinWdzhUarB3SLY5_a-khAzMstAsNAgktUAGkEv8lxw1TBpdj1rukH_OjS9VAagLG6HUE-3NNNJdZvnOcS6rGZ2Al0yT6Jc1bjJTl3dAUOFoKJp1Lu3P1QkWp8j6rKmo5Tr5M/s1600-h/image%25255B4%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK1R2euOQE0EmlGDCNIuFs0ALokqy_6L6Dz6claFa8Fld_kNRgw_3DTAIn4DFjWMQYxrjRY_l-2AC4JopbA8MDRS6n-_NW4ttd5ScDcChgUlIH9mv0xvDmiLBW12T1kH3VTMi_sPDsLUU/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="247" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></blockquote> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. If you already have everything typed in Word or Excel etc. you can upload them to Google Drive. In that way you won’t have to carry around a flashdrive.  This means that everything you create will be available from any computer that you use and sign in to Google on.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. If you want to create a lesson plan but you don’t want to make a template take a look at the templates supplied by Google. Just ask Google for ‘Google Docs templates and you’ll be taken to: </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/templates" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" title="https://drive.google.com/templates">https://drive.google.com/templates</a>. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then be specific and ask for ‘lesson plans’. You will be shown a whole selection to preview and choose from. Once you have decided on one and click on it it becomes part of your Google Docs where you can customize it.</span><br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZz26dgDJiLsnf75jdbP6aArZA6u15jYk08JgdYR7K6JsQn5kqRBLGc4Vw-ksbDdkrc3v-dy3GoYR_sPa_PScAcNrhPP2lHtQigvrw7BhLDlAbuMV2m1jqShFS4PHY7QjqyzxAWkCbv50/s1600-h/image%25255B12%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcn9SJbTbA8NDjKUqiGJk4ZNOrOk3FFzAwthbT3NZ38TU3JTUFu_idpheIK2t8tCHDpL_jeK9A3q5NG88gnL_KSMCxWPUYUb1zCIkeBb8jfEz-o0eAAzTEpgJu9-k81B8KT8cgtOMN_rA/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span></blockquote><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Keep all your documents in a folder in Google Drive</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You’ll want to keep all your documents together in a folder. You could create a folder called, for example, Grade 3 English. In that folder you could put all the documents you need – calendar, timetable, year plan, term plan, week plan and daily plan. You could add your classlists, all your wordlists and assessment rubrics/sheets etc.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a)  To make a folder click the ‘Add folder’ button at the top of Google Drive.</span><br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyoma3yWmEvFZnFzWRcoUiBBrHPmSrNdnECNexKve0NxKdukvb3GGQ73zhngdoUWH9zzyG3lgWGPcaHKSoYQ40z7tKhPrBnm0E4FeXIkdKCTLG-ojvy5CRzJ9oejzkxLHXe3GLsWzDk4s/s1600-h/image%25255B16%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2S34yHd8r-PYxLEjtM7oLKYxpDDHAyYdi8sYdW13Hjz4XZjnuRJLqf8kPmudsVRUts-PYf99flr41qaTY9bs_FAnRFTMCENiKRO2V4eATiK1cAr8H4LHyrr24uEI-9sCBuOlVuPnURts/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></blockquote><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">b) To place the documents you have created into this folder find the document, add a check in the box, right-click on the document and choose <i>Organise</i>. This will show you the list of folders you have created. Choose <i>Grade 3 English</i> and your document will be added to the folder.</span><br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJeqCuD9TUl1j73Cp6FkVIwZm_MNhoq7PTDWon4A5r7qq2tOnxumxLbftowsZz4bRq4mm9bGSUNEyf65CCaQkGpjRPeCLmVNC3iJvL1N6oYGjd0CXVWP140jD6QuzhTjozpVp72715YGA/s1600-h/image%25255B27%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaw0yDEVZBJNNd6QqZq9Kmgs6TAwu5it2u6aV31m0tIj0XLRLrL_qOHoPWLPE1232BtF9vwjMNUqpwSSNUegM6YYUyRHZlUPqc5GGQHTcuPbVCRu1IP86QXsFONgMqcFUwL5VSCqPcEjk/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></blockquote><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC9JRHIgKGwg7YnpnU03G46a7WKxbsBHLrT8l8-Zc5Qthit7htSYYK-V7AyDqCUaq4N88__X8RogB6mXRlF5-EBow_E5VsITX1zhl9Q2id3wLSN9wD61jvLPj5LynHWhipfvmC5a8D3iI/s1600-h/image%25255B23%25255D.png"> </a></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC9JRHIgKGwg7YnpnU03G46a7WKxbsBHLrT8l8-Zc5Qthit7htSYYK-V7AyDqCUaq4N88__X8RogB6mXRlF5-EBow_E5VsITX1zhl9Q2id3wLSN9wD61jvLPj5LynHWhipfvmC5a8D3iI/s1600-h/image%25255B23%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWCtcGUgLOu0j_Zm3OpD5zu5GAOwVrKOgBbs5lGRZ8RoRo0KuB68IKHlFoaonJXIN0KycLKAYuqS7uDOfgvrA0B7FkKp33lntLD7C7VuV3-YUNglhw460eMsdXCghQadTjXJSBDcGzoAc/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></blockquote><br /><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Keep one another accountable </span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The beauty of it is that you can share every document with your colleagues so easily if you wanted to. What I like about this method is the accountability it could bring because if everyone in Grade 3 shared their documents you could see at a flash who wasn’t keeping up etc. etc. It could be shared with your HOD and Principal as well. </span><br /><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Use Google Drive offline when you are at home</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It would be very easy to work at home or at school without using a flashdrive even if you didn’t have Internet. You can access Google Drive offline and work on it. Your computer will sync the next time you go online.   </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, without a doubt I would say this is the easiest (and cheapest) way for doing daily and weekly planning.</span><br /><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Further reading</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a) Tuesday Tech tips - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/techtipstuesday/ideas-for-using-google-docs" target="_blank">Ideas for using Google Docs</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">b) Below is an interesting collection of things you can do using Google Docs in the Classroom started by Nik Peachy </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">using a Google Presentation</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Click on the image to be taken to the original Google presentation.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dhn2vcv5_8323t58h3ft" target="_blank"><img alt="image" border="0" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicgnRDGuKoFSvGywBYgoJXSgjZk4_HnS_lGbqc0ECOmk-JSKlYJuJE61yamjLd6euHndzI-qcKsVuwD-F8cOPfirqgqv7Ef5oI0_R9fN63v28g9tnJfccDtpgL_ok6EGYpX0PTamZ2MMA/?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></span></div><br /><br /></div>

30 Days of Google #15: Using Google Docs & Drive to do your planning

30 Days of Google series #15 Have you ever wondered if there is an easier way to do your daily/weekly/year planning and lessons than either ...

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James Duncan Interview on Fighting for the Faith Radio Program

Readers - below is an hour-long interview of Dr. James Duncan, conducted on 1/14/13 by Chris Rosebrough of the <a href="http://www.fightingforthefaith.com/" target="_blank">Fighting for the Faith</a> radio program. In the interview Dr. Duncan describes what he learned during the discovery process of his lawsuit against Perry Noble and NewSpring Church, <a href="http://christianresearchnetwork.org/2013/01/04/bloggers-lawsuit-for-harassment-against-perry-noble-and-newspring-church-reaches-settlement/" target="_blank">which was settled</a> before it went to trial.<br /><br />It is a real eye-opener as to how mega churches with rock star preachers operate. Really, there is no one so hated by these pastors and their followers than the person who dares to publicly and consistently criticize their beloved pastor. Not even child molesters within their own ranks get anywhere close to the treatment of a criticizing blogger and his spouse.<br /><br />I've got a couple of posts coming that will try to boil down all of this information into lessons we can all learn from Dr. Duncan's experience.<br /><br />Since <a href="http://fbcjaxwatchdog.blogspot.com/2013/01/perry-noble-and-newspring-church-settle.html" target="_blank">my last post</a> on this matter January 3rd, Dr. Duncan has posted some more blog articles, so visit <a href="http://www.pajamapages.com/" target="_blank">his site</a> to get the latest.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/M_hhw_D6g4M" width="560"></iframe></div>

James Duncan Interview on Fighting for the Faith Radio Program

Readers - below is an hour-long interview of Dr. James Duncan, conducted on 1/14/13 by Chris Rosebrough of the Fighting for the Faith radio...

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Family Treasures

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzjNSbNJ_ss74wb_jC9PGasN05VwNHLTIuObZNfSekd5m-QkmYzuTUSaogrws7nua-l10DljZElHPxqdxNrFCn3TVx9XuaI9_lBjsJZH8rftUFNq4DJSCnQGUCt1r5bAkqhyphenhyphenN8aH8ttGNi/s960/Photo%252520Jan%25252015%25252C%2525202013%25252C%2525206%25253A12%252520AM.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="375" id="blogsy-1358250105405.0251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzjNSbNJ_ss74wb_jC9PGasN05VwNHLTIuObZNfSekd5m-QkmYzuTUSaogrws7nua-l10DljZElHPxqdxNrFCn3TVx9XuaI9_lBjsJZH8rftUFNq4DJSCnQGUCt1r5bAkqhyphenhyphenN8aH8ttGNi/s500/Photo%252520Jan%25252015%25252C%2525202013%25252C%2525206%25253A12%252520AM.jpg" width="500"></a></div> <h3>Words are wimps</h3> <p> I'm supposed to turn in the words for my son's annual ad today. I've been writing at 5 am. It is just one page. One page to summarize how I feel and what I want him to carry with him.</p> <p>But one page can't capture it. It won't. It can't. I have to pick the words that will inspire him and hope that 18 years has been enough time to tell him how much I love him and all the things that he needs to know to make it in this world. </p> <p>So, how can I leave a tiny piece of me on this page, so that when I'm gone, he can look at it and say ... "yeah, that's my Mom... that is what she would say to me if she were here right now." How can capture a bit of immortality -- or at least a fleeting bit, as long as he's alive, because in the end, he's the only one who will really read or care what I said. </p> <h3>Tidal Waves of Change</h3> <p>I was completely clueless about what this means and still am. It is kind of like playing in the surf at the beach, I think I'm ok until the next big wave comes and smacks me in the face, stinging my eyes and causing my nose to run. I get to do this two years in a row - two tsunamis back to back, my daughter graduates next year. </p> <p>So much of who I am is wrapped up in my desire to love my children with abandon and to make them independent people who don't need me anymore. In this case, success means change. Success means letting go. My youngest will be starting middle school next year... I'm more thankful for him than ever because I've still got a lot of being a Mom left in these bones. </p> <p>Being a Mom has been the greatest joy of my life as a close second to being a wife of a great man. I had no idea how much I'd love these three little squirming, wet creatures who came into my life. </p> <h3>Tough Times Give you the Chance to Treasure</h3> <p>Sunday we were laughing about all of the times we had been in or to the hospital with our three. LAUGHING. We laughed about how my youngest inhaled a sunflower seed and had to be at Eggleston and how I held him all night as he screamed because he couldn't eat. We laughed about how my oldest woke up from wisdom tooth surgery with a violent temper and my daughter came out of having her tonsils removed sobbing. We laughed about those things that almost sent me over the edge and we told jokes and we remembered those times with fondness. Why? Because it is our story together.</p> <p>Families make memories together. <strong>Sometimes the tough times are an opportunity to show just how much you love someone</strong>. Without those times, they might be oblivious as to what they mean to us...let me demonstrate.</p> <h3>The Family Heirlooms</h3> <p>Yesterday I heard this story that fits from Dr. Charles Lowery who told a story about a little girl who was told not to do gymastics in the den because the family heirlooms were on the shelves and tables. The rug was thick, so one day when Mom was in the back of the house, she couldn't resist and started doing her back handsprings. She was fine for a while but started really getting into it and kicked a vase off the shelf. When she did, it cracked into shards and she fell on top of the vase, cracking it further but gashing her leg open.</p> <p>Her Mom heard the noise and came running. The little girl was so afraid because she knew she had broken a precious family keepsake. But when her Mom came in and saw the blood, she didn't even see or say anything about the vase. All she could do was look at the little girls leg to see if she was ok. And then the little girl realized something that changed her life. <strong>She was the family treasure</strong>. </p> <h3>See the treasure in your students</h3> <p>As you teach these precious children, remember that everyone one of them is the family treasure. And if they are not..make them yours. Every child deserves to be loved. These children in your classroom are your heirlooms. They are treasures. They are gifts. </p> <p>As we struggle through life, teaching, and everything else, let's keep clearly in focus who the treasures in our lives are.</p> <p> Notice, I didn't say what our treasures are... I said WHO.</p> <p> </p><div style="text-align: right; font-size: small; clear: both;" id="blogsy_footer"><a href="http://blogsyapp.com" target="_blank"><img alt="Written by Vicki Davis, author - Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds - Posted with Blogsy from my iPad" height="20" src="http://blogsyapp.com/images/blogsy_footer_icon.png" style="vertical-align: middle; margin-right: 5px;" width="20" />Written by Vicki Davis, author - Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds - Posted with Blogsy from my iPad</a></div>

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Words are wimps I'm supposed to turn in the words for my son's annual ad today. I've been writing at 5 am. It is just one pag...

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