Calling for presenters at the Google Summit in Cape Town – a great incentive involved!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><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://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYEwT4ptoITS9gQ7m0DZIwnESjVCvHE1t7DmEHIw31NaVrwr_28zDCp51F2ODcZtfSwk5AxB1V9edsfHfREt6nJW0csggMNsbK4uMN9LaN-ka6kxcR9r5Mh2Z9Sfk9VVG6Ol1MUFvkYOs/s1600-h/image%25255B6%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="116" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ5v7et_K1iPbj3K0VnxHEWAvrPqN8KLIwaW5GWCJwXJ3UuOSxWiYYLEzZIg6uGz5jGtyJPXIjVjSRe2sEn_AwXLI55rRlnt9ppXCS1qpAzIMnCiltyWoLr1egWZntHr4eDIfeGfrIORQ/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="240" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8WbsHwGrxo-aJ0VPNSKfzwoPjM8563qA9KdGjbmI5DdVgZJNVidaPlvzBmehl35idtJKlV3dbd2HwiPe1qlHMQKdxYX8a8_e9LkN1ARRadRu0XGdfWDMVoP5AGXr3pHTUH4k8o155aYc/s1600-h/image%25255B2%25255D.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia8JHoqUCzrRp_P9yz4-ATwehQKnein72INLaYVc_QmqYRbUqDNUZMCLEAcwx6F8ElMQlHXTspszfjwUGpQyK3yFWo8sICUSV07kZc1ccIGYlQF_yPcEuaJDbisDcA4DvSLauYOgecHJA/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="244" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Greetings from the<b> </b>South Africa Google in Education planning committee. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recently, we announced the first annual Google in Education South Africa Summit to be hosted by </span><a href="http://www.schoolnet.org.za/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SchoolNet South Africa</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://www.parklands.co.za/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Parklands College</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">  on Sep. 26th and 27th, 2013.  Registration is now open! We’re especially excited to announce William Florance from Google to keynote our event. Here is a link to the event website with all of the information: </span><a href="http://za.gafesummit.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">za.gafesummit.com</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Request for presenters</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are hoping that you would be interested in presenting at the Google Apps Summit. If you are interested, please take a look at a few of the session titles listed below (differentiated in levels of expertise) and fill out <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1QK_p-pCgX4Zu6BplOmMeA_47TJO-J4G_j0TCVzbn49s/viewform">this form</a> sharing your interest in presenting.  Each of the sessions will be one hour in length and should engage the participants as much as you can. We encourage our participants to bring a device to engage with the topics and presentations. We will provide you with a projector and a screen, however you need to bring your own laptop for your presentation. Participants will also have WiFi to follow along with your presentation. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please fill out this Request with the title and description of your session. It will also ask for some biography information. <b><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1QK_p-pCgX4Zu6BplOmMeA_47TJO-J4G_j0TCVzbn49s/viewform">Request for Presenters</a></b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You do not have to stick to a title of ideas from the list below, it is just a list of suggested topics.  If you have another session that you would be interested in sharing that is not on the list, please feel free to add your own presentation and description.  We will have a lot of sessions throughout the two day conference so feel free to fill out the form more than once if you would be willing to share more than one presentation.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you know of anyone else that would be a great presenter at the Summit, please forward this email on to them. Please submit your presentation proposals by August 1st.  We will be in touch with you shortly after to let you know more about the schedule for your presentation(s).   </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Compensation to presenters</span></b><br />For compensation, you will receive a complimentary registration to the two-day conference (a R2000+ value) and be able to work closely with this amazing group of Googlers and presenters.  We sincerely hope that you will accept the invitation to present to make this a successful professional development event for all.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />If you have any questions, please let us know. Please forward this email on to others you think might be interested in presenting at the Summit.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Ideas for presentations</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As mentioned, these are just ideas. If you have something else relating to Google that you would like to present please submit your idea with your application.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Strands</b><u></u><u></u> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u>Technical<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u>Beginner- Getting Going with Google<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u>Intermediate- Gear Up with Google Apps<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u>Advanced- Getting Geeky with Google<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u>Administrators<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u>Higher Ed </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Technical Strands</b><u></u><u></u> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u>Technical Deployment of Google Apps for Education<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u>Google Apps for Education Dashboard<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u>Security, Archiving and Managing Google Apps for Education<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u>The Guide to Going Google- Deploying Google Apps at your School<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Beginner- Sessions will be labeled “Getting Going”</b><u></u><u></u> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u>Getting Going with Google Apps for Education Overview<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u>Getting Going with Google Earth<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u>Getting Going with Google Chrome<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u>Getting Going with YouTube for Schools<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u>Getting Going with Student use of Google Apps for Education<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u>The Guide to Going Google- Deploying Google Apps at your School<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Intermediate- Sessions will be labeled “Gearing Up”</b><u></u><u></u> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u>Gearing Up with Google Forms and Scripts<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u>Gearing Up: Creating a Personalized Google Map<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u>Gearing Up: Building tours with Google Earth<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u>Gearing Up: Even More- Picasa, Blogger, Reader and Voice<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u>Gearing Up: Chromebook Classroom<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u>Gearing Up: Google Voice in the Classroom<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u>Gearing Up: Google Apps for Administrators<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u>Gearing Up with Advanced Google Search<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gearing Up: Change Management with Google Apps for Education</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u>Gearing Up: Getting Creative with Picasa and other photo editing apps<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Advanced- Sessions will be labeled “Getting Geeky:</b><u></u><u></u> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u>Getting Geeky with Google Lit Trips & Google Earth<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u>Getting Geeky: Becoming a Chrome Ninja<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u>Getting Geeky with Google Apps Scripts<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u>Getting Geeky with Google Forms and Scripts<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u>Getting Geeky with Google Spreadsheet Magic<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u>Getting Geeky with Fusion Tables </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See you there! Early bird rates for applications apply till the end of July.</span></div>

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What I Did On My Summer Vacation

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Cheeeeeeeeers Chuckleheads!!  Matt-Man here writing on this here IWS Radio blog for the first time in, oh I don’t know…since this past Sunday.<br /><a href="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/p480x480/1002240_10151438815501734_60965827_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Photo: Sporting my new FREE shoes compliments of Dr. Scholl's. The Doctor does customer service RIGHT!!" border="0" height="400" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/p480x480/1002240_10151438815501734_60965827_n.jpg" width="355" /></a><br />Holy Cow!!  That’s like a century in dog years…I think.<br /><br />Anyhoo…<br /><br />On the IWS Radio Show this past Sunday, I mentioned to Jayman that we should take a couple of days off from the website, so I could do some things that tighten up our IWS brand, and tie up some loose ends as far as our You Tube page which is under my name and not the IWS Radio name.  And plus…<br /><br />We could relax for a few, and let out a nice big Social Media sigh, and then come back refreshed.<br /><br />I stated that merely taking Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday off would be good for our souls, our creative juices, and I could fix our You Tube page.  Jayman, while not necessarily agreeing, acquiesced.<br /><br />So…<br /><br />After <i><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/07/07/matt-and-jay-live" target="_blank">Sunday’s show</a>,</span></i> my best friend Schmoop and I drank, played music, and talked about rearranging furniture.  The Schmoopster was scheduled off and has been off, all <strike>her life</strike> week, so she would do that, and then?<br /><br />We ate Johnsonville Brats…and lots of them.<br /><br />Monday, I had to go to work…go to work with a hangover.  It wasn’t that bad until, I got THE PHONE CALL.  On the other end of the line was a crazy woman who was insisting that I should pay her $100.00 a week in order to help her put our son through college.<br /><br />Her argument was built on a pile of sand, but she quickly and convincingly firmed up her philosophical treatise, and won me over to her side by calling me immoral, and labeling The Schmoopster, as homely.<br /><br />So Monday night, drunk on the euphoria of being on a quasi-vacation and the lyrical tones of the crazy woman’s voice in my head, I had a couple of beers, a frozen pizza, and then went to bed.<br /><br />Tuesday was awesome, because I only work Noon-5 on Tuesdays.  Sure it was raining, but my adorable, college bound son showed up at The Beer Mine needing $200.00.  I gave it to him, and after a couple of moments nervous of laughter, he went on his way.<br /><br />When I got home shortly after 5 PM I walked into the Bagwine digs and the furniture had indeed been rearranged by The Schmoopster and it looked awesome, however…The cat was none to pleased.<br /><br />I had a couple of drinks, and then before I knew it, it was 6:30 PM and it was time for Jayman and I to be interviewed by Katie D on her Blog Talk Radio Show.  We were there.  We were pithy, and then…<br /><br />Ol’ Katie ran out of questions, cut the interview short, and the evening took a turn for the worse.<br /><br />It turns out that the adorable, yet awkward interview was a result of Jayman and I, especially me, threatening the young Miss Katie through our penchant for answering the questions that Miss Katie asked.<br /><br />I think it was my answer to her question,<i> “How did your show come about?”</i> and I responded, <i>“Jay sent me an e-mail.”,</i> that sent the young ingénue’s protector and psychotic sansei into a verdant and virulent attack upon my character upon the timeless timeline of my Facebook page.<br /><br /><a href="http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/000/218/365/elisabeth-hasselbeck_display_image.jpg?1273098218" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/000/218/365/elisabeth-hasselbeck_display_image.jpg?1273098218" /></a>With my good name besmirched by accusations of pedophilia and felonious assault, Schmoop ate and went to bed, and shortly afterwards, I ate and went to bed.<br /><br />On top of all of that heartache, I was crushed to find out that Gretchen Carlson will no longer be on Fox and Friends in the morning, as her gravitas, and journalistic instincts necessitate a primetime afternoon show, and she will be replaced by Elisabeth Hasselbeck.<br /><br />So much anguish…I have had better vacations, but it’s not a total loss.<br /><br />The re-arrangement of the Bagwine digs looks awesome.  Ryno and I are meeting for pizza tonight at The Hut, and…<br /><br />Looking back on these past few days of vacation?  I know that I am living the thug life.  Word!!<br /><br />Oh the You Tube thing that was the impetus for all of this?  Eh, I never really got around to that, but trust me, I will.<br /><br />After all, I am one immoral son of a bitch who lives with a homely chick, and that’s how we roll.<br /><br />Cheers!!<br /><br />Matt-Man<br /><a href="mailto:mattmaniws@ymail.com">mattmaniws@ymail.com</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/MattMan_IWS" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">@mattman_iws</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/mattmaniws" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Matt’s Facebook Page</span></a></div>

What I Did On My Summer Vacation

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Insanity Workout Review

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Jody Whitley</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>You may be wondering where you can order Insanity. First of all, this is an insanely hard to do set of workout DVD's . When you first start out it's harder. It gets very much easier the more fit you become and even addicting if you keep it up and start seeing results. I am overweight and just shy of 40, but I have dreams of getting back into my pre-marriage body. I did <a href="http://sell.com/2FSH25">Order Insanity Online</a> and as I decided to seize the day and go for it, and I am not sorry.<br /> <br /> My muscles are currently screaming, every bit of me hurts. Every day, I both love and dread pushing play on this dvd, because I know what will happen when I do. I will spend 45 minutes gasping, lurching around, heart pounding, sweat running off me like a monsoon, desperately trying to keep up with a workout designed by fitness demigods. Afterwards, when I can catch my breath and pull myself up of the ground.<br /> <br /> After my workouts and for the rest of the day I feel so good it is not even funny. Yesterday when I finished my workout and was talking to my husband, I said "You know what I feel like? I feel like I'm on vacation!". You know, that feeling you get on day one of vacation when you have the whole thing stretching before you, when there is a cool beer in your hands and not a care in the world? It's like, life is good today. That's how I feel when my blood is pumping, when my body is sore and I am really so proud of myself. I was inspired by this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq_OGHDHQJw">Shaun T Workout</a> review by Elena. You can also order at the link under this particular youtube video for $49.95.<br /> <br /> The DVDs themselves are good, the music is great, the instructor is incredible and never demeaning. Although I did figure him out after a few rounds, his team goes at it hard core, and when he gets tired he goes over to one of his team members, like "Tanya" or "Akeel". (At least he gets a break and can still talk otherwise he'd be huffing and puffing I'm sure.) I feel like he is speaking directly to me and he is very encouraging. I am also encouraged when the folks exercising with him can't keep up, because I know that if these very in shape people can't do it, then I am in good company. The rest of the package is fine. I'm also on weight watchers, so I am not using BeachBody's eating plan right now. I don't plan to be changing diets mid-stream.<br /> <br /> The workout calendar is nice, I keep it up to date and it is a good motivational tool for me. The DVD case is compact and sturdy. It IS a little pricey, but I think that it is worth it so far. It is giving me back my self respect. Not to mention making me become addicted to looking better and becoming more in shape.<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>Want to find out more about <a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRsmJUwyGqI'>Insanity Workout Houston</a>, then visit jody whitley's site for information on<a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq_OGHDHQJw'>Reviews On Insanity</a>.</div><br /> </div><br />

Insanity Workout Review

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Software QA Manager ( C++, SQA/SQC, White/Black/Gray box testing, SCM ) (#109379)

<font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> <div><b>Position</b>: Software QA Manager<br> <b>Location</b>: Milpitas, CA <br> <b>Duration</b>: Full time<br> <br> <b>Job Description</b>:<br> The Film and Scatterometry Technology (FaST) Division provides industry leading metrology solutions for worldwide semiconductor IC manufacturers.  The FaST Division portfolio of metrology products includes hardware and software solutions for optical film thickness, optical critical dimension (CD), composition, and resistivity measurement systems.  These products are essential for the IC manufacturers as they provide critical metrology capabilities for the development and implementation of their advanced IC processes.  The FaST division is committed to support our customers to achieve performance entitlement of our solution and we effectively partner with our customers from their early research and development phase to the high volume in-line manufacturing implementation specific for their process needs.  The division consists of a global team located in US, Israel, China, and India.</div> <div> </div> <div><b>Responsibilities:</b></div> <div>1) Lead and manage a team of SQA/SQC engineers for metrology products.</div> <div>2) Develop and implement testing methodologies consistent with the division's software development lifecycle model.</div> <div>3) Ensure that the required level of quality is achieved in the products' software releases.</div> <div>4) Create/enforce software process improvement initiatives to include more thorough white box/gray box testing; early involvement of  SQA/SQC engineers in the requirements phase, improvement in software development process, etc.</div> <div>5) Encourage a division-wide "Quality Culture" where quality is viewed as everyone’s responsibility.</div> <div>6) Ensure/Audit compliance to development process and quality performance by the software development and SQA teams.</div> <div>7) Work with software development teams to ensure resources and test plans are aligned with development schedule.</div> <div>8) Incorporate industry BKM to existing software process, e.g. quality reviews, etc</div> <div>9) Ensure software quality plans are written and reviewed with the product team ahead of time for each planned software release.</div> <div>10) Responsible for developing and maintaining the projects' software processes and coordinating the activities to assess, develop, maintain, and improve these processes.</div> <div> </div> <div><b>Preferred Qualifications:</b></div> <div>- BS, MS or PhD preferred, in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent.</div> <div>- Minimum of 5 years of management experience in software quality management.</div> <div>- Having some software development experience preferred.</div> <div>- Knowledge (with experience preferred) on different software development lifecycles and methodologies, e.g. Waterfall, Spiral, Agile, etc.</div> <div>- Experience with the development of automated testing.</div> <div>- Fluency in SQA/SQC methodologies and tools, including programmatic-level testing; knowledge of white, black, and gray box testing methodologies</div> <div>- Experience with CMM or ISO 15504 certification  preferred.</div> <div>- Knowledge of Software configuration management.</div> <div>- Experience with Rational Team Concert.</div> <div> </div> <div><b>Minimum Qualifications:</b></div> <div>Doctorate (Academic) with at least 3 years of experience.<br> OR<br> Master's Level Degree with at least 4 years of experience.<br> OR</div> <div>Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 5 years of experience.<br> <br> Kindly send your resumes to<font color="navy"> </font><a href="mailto:Sivaram.bose@kla-tencor.com"><font color="navy"><u>Sivaram.bose@kla-tencor.com</u></font></a></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></div> </span></font>

Software QA Manager ( C++, SQA/SQC, White/Black/Gray box testing, SCM ) (#109379)

Position : Software QA Manager Location : Milpitas, CA Duration : Full time Job Description : The Film and Scatteromet...

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Alert: Bicyclist missing in Shenandoah National Park

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Blue Ridge Mountains Dickey Ridge missing person Shenandoah National Park Tyler Keefer Alert: Bicyclist missing in Shenandoah National Park

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Cocktail time!

Cocktail time!<div><br></div><div>I got this cocktail mix in Dunnes Off Licence.  It says it contains alcohol but not what type of alcohol.  I bought the Citrus Daiquiri but there were others available.</div><div><br></div><div>You stick them in the freezer and then squeeze them out in to a glass - kind of like a slushy!</div><div><br></div><div>They are marketed as a "Squeeze & freeze" cocktail. </div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgVK3jztOA_4dSsVBAjpwg6g56ymUsvsluBgW-uOb-EZ03n6l_TgJHxchO8CsBx8A2BLvoEGSl8WIQoGc1iBSxUVBiOi3O7IzEq_Ev33ZuZlNNNNOzGC-jM5FeVK5lZToUyPqzT2etjEtR/s640/blogger-image-925122236.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgVK3jztOA_4dSsVBAjpwg6g56ymUsvsluBgW-uOb-EZ03n6l_TgJHxchO8CsBx8A2BLvoEGSl8WIQoGc1iBSxUVBiOi3O7IzEq_Ev33ZuZlNNNNOzGC-jM5FeVK5lZToUyPqzT2etjEtR/s640/blogger-image-925122236.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Generally I make my own cocktails (Caipirosca & Cosmo) but I like the convenience of these.  They are probably full of sugar but sure I'll give them a whirl!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7ZHAL0gphJcDy6fs6yjW0i8IHKaBKb_lPAItZ2dEmdIQ4PV5D-I9xR_ePYDwmTmj2oiK5HFzWBNlIy5zhqHoNT6Q5NfhkI3Oc-bFJF0LOfsrrhiQQ3wOcUIyXUwSGOHGf_sy41qC0XRMs/s640/blogger-image--610654329.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7ZHAL0gphJcDy6fs6yjW0i8IHKaBKb_lPAItZ2dEmdIQ4PV5D-I9xR_ePYDwmTmj2oiK5HFzWBNlIy5zhqHoNT6Q5NfhkI3Oc-bFJF0LOfsrrhiQQ3wOcUIyXUwSGOHGf_sy41qC0XRMs/s640/blogger-image--610654329.jpg"></a></div><br></div><br></div>

Cocktail time!

Cocktail time! I got this cocktail mix in Dunnes Off Licence.  It says it contains alcohol but not what type of alcohol.  I bought the Citru...

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71 ALEC bills let corporations off the hook for injuring or killing people

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisqbBvOSjWyjb8EovjG4xMi2cYSqbWLEpgNJdfwfWxgXoT2P1fAht8UrnSOvGijhszYW4rUhFQcXUFFvacYCorY1_l8XLm4Z6hyX0xpROYBXY9slOUBW_cOZWT1R-xiqBE092AFGTKVc4j/s1600/alec-exposed-600x400.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisqbBvOSjWyjb8EovjG4xMi2cYSqbWLEpgNJdfwfWxgXoT2P1fAht8UrnSOvGijhszYW4rUhFQcXUFFvacYCorY1_l8XLm4Z6hyX0xpROYBXY9slOUBW_cOZWT1R-xiqBE092AFGTKVc4j/s200/alec-exposed-600x400.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div>The corporate escort service for state lawmakers known as <a href="http://alecexposed.org/">ALEC</a> wants corporations to become even more powerful than they already are. In this year alone, 71 -- yup, 71 -- ALEC-backed bills have been filed to make it harder for citizens to sue companies that kill, maim or sicken them.<br /><br />Brendan Fischer at the <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/">Center for Media and Democracy</a><a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/07/12172/justice-denied-71-alec-bills-2013-make-it-harder-hold-corporations-accountable-ca"> reports</a>,<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">For decades, ALEC has been a conduit for the oil, tobacco, and pharmaceutical industries to push legislation that changes the rules to limit accountability when a corporation’s products or actions cause injury or death -- such as when a Koch Industries pipeline <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-02/koch-brothers-flout-law-getting-richer-with-secret-iran-sales.html">explodes and kills teenagers</a>, or when the tobacco or pharmaceutical industries withhold evidence that their products are dangerous.</blockquote>In just six months, these corporate-empowerment bills were introduced in 30 states.<br /><br />Now it's a fundamental tenet of American law that someone who is injured by another has the right to pursue justice in front of a jury. ALEC wants to take away that right -- at least for citizens.<br /><br />These ALEC bills limit how much a corporation must pay for injuring people: <br /><ul><li>The ALEC “Noneconomic Damage Awards Act” (versions of which were introduced in five states in 2013) limits the amount a jury can award to compensate a person for their diminished quality of life as the result of an injury. </li><li>The misleadingly-named "Full and Fair Noneconomic Damages Act" (introduced in two states) limits the amount a corporation might have to pay to compensate a person for their pain and suffering.</li><li>The “Phantom Damages Elimination Act” (introduced in two states) changes the rules so a person who paid health insurance premiums for years would recover less for their medical bills than a person who had no insurance: rather than placing the full cost of paying for medical bills on the wrongdoer, the bill would reduce the amount they must pay if a person's insurance company negotiated a discount. </li></ul>This one gives immunity from certain kinds of lawsuits:<br /><ul><li>Ten states introduced the “Trespasser Responsibility Act,” which would largely absolve landowners from a responsibility to maintain safe premises, and tends to benefit large landowners like railroads, utility companies, and big agriculture. These large corporations would be absolved from their duty to act responsibly, and would be immune if a person accidentally wanders onto their property and are injured by poorly-maintained electrical boxes, dangerous chemicals or farm implements.</li></ul>The list goes on and on. To see if your state lawmakers are considering one of ALEC's corporate empowerment bills, click <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/07/12172/justice-denied-71-alec-bills-2013-make-it-harder-hold-corporations-accountable-ca">here</a>.<br /><br />

ALEC 71 ALEC bills let corporations off the hook for injuring or killing people

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"Times New Roman";">If there is one place on earth where the effects of the July 3 military coup in EGYPT were felt as much as in Cairo by deposed president Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood, it must be TURKEY.</span></b></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; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><i><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-AR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By Cengiz Candar</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/contents/authors/cengiz-candar.html" target="_blank"><span lang="ES-AR" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-AR;"></span></a></span></i><i><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-AR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> via Al Monitor </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-AR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></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";"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">COUP IN EGYPT CAME AS AN ADDITIONAL TREMOR TO PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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";">As Ankara coped with the trauma of the events in Istanbul and most other parts of the country, the military coup in EGYPT came as an additional tremor to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). It so shook Erdogan that he interrupted his much-needed holiday and returned to work, convening his top aides and within 48 hours launching a vigorous campaign of criticism against the West, especially EUROPE, for not acknowledging the EGYPTIAN coup as a coup.</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="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCZZITgrnpdImHBiAJVMKIModv0T-0GTlTonZY_EBUU3u-fGFl9ZsPlpEFxDna6YnXtRwbc9c3FQ0RQbyuAdNT8RmMeC1hXm4V135fCfimlF5ealFgBte8WPoG2gSpejblWc1rdKi6TcZl/s1600/TurkeyEgypt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCZZITgrnpdImHBiAJVMKIModv0T-0GTlTonZY_EBUU3u-fGFl9ZsPlpEFxDna6YnXtRwbc9c3FQ0RQbyuAdNT8RmMeC1hXm4V135fCfimlF5ealFgBte8WPoG2gSpejblWc1rdKi6TcZl/s320/TurkeyEgypt.jpg" width="320" /></a></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";"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><br /><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";"></span></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";">TURKISH Islamists are living the EGYPTIAN coup not as a coup in EGYPT but as profoundly as a coup against themselves in TURKEY.… The EGYPTIAN military’s unseating of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood also serves as a dose of palliative care that AKP rule needs badly given its own traumas, especially the Taksim-Gezi protests. Erdogan and his fellow party members have again retreated to the shelter of victimhood and legality, two themes they voice persistently. The AKP has successfully employed the theme of “victimhood’ in its claim that it represents the “black TURKS” against the “white TURKS,” and its leaders always aver that to come to power through elections is the source of legitimacy for a political movement that has victimhood as its starting point.</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; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">THE BALLOT BOX IS THE CHASTITY OF DEMOCRACY</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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";">In a speech on July 5, Erdogan, while rejecting the military coup in EGYPT, justifiably emphasized that an elected Morsi and Muslim Brotherhood government must be deposed through elections. He frequently repeated, “The ballot box is the chastity of democracy.” Two TURKISH dailies under strict government control used the expression for banner headlines the following day.</span></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";">The TURKISH public and certainly the ruling party apparently did not pay much attention to the June 30 gathering of record numbers of people in Tahrir Square and elsewhere in EGYPT to demand Morsi’s resignation and did not feel that given Morsi’s autocratic tendencies, the June 30, 2012, elections that brought him to power may well have been the last elections for EGYPT for quite some time.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The principle that those who enter by elections must go with elections was cited as a sine qua non of democracy. This serves to reinforce the democratic legitimacy of the Muslim Brotherhood government in EGYPT and AKP rule in TURKEY. It also helps in resuscitating the theme of victimhood that the AKP finds highly useful.</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";">There is another functional aspect of this approach. Erdogan and his supporters want to believe and demonstrate that the Taksim-Gezi events in Istanbul were a product of “foreign forces,” an international plot seeking to topple Erdogan by preparing the ground for a military coup. The July 3 Egyptian coup is therefore presented as a (self-fulfilling) prophecy of Erdogan’s Taksim-Gezi narrative.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Background Information:</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">ERDOGAN SUGGESTS: TURMOIL IS ORCHESTRATED BY FOREIGN SOURCES</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2013/06/turkey-in-turmoil.html">http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2013/06/turkey-in-turmoil.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Further articles related to above topic:</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/turkeys-sunni-crescent.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/turkeys-sunni-crescent.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/06/turkeys-double-edged-sword-policies-or.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/06/turkeys-double-edged-sword-policies-or.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKT4TILVroqpPCOBEz8UZJT3lWuvM01CSlHAQSIwOVEZo3bNKCFCTsyHezG4c3UHkvzFkjAkoH2bJXLqcPe-S2-THJ8DeRh4VM4pPRLJDMRd3hmIrXVsj7cMq4-wudPUDjNR_jSKTHwxDQ/s1600/tur_1787216c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKT4TILVroqpPCOBEz8UZJT3lWuvM01CSlHAQSIwOVEZo3bNKCFCTsyHezG4c3UHkvzFkjAkoH2bJXLqcPe-S2-THJ8DeRh4VM4pPRLJDMRd3hmIrXVsj7cMq4-wudPUDjNR_jSKTHwxDQ/s320/tur_1787216c.jpg" width="320" /></a></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";">The AKP and its propagandists also latched on to the EGYPTIAN coup as a life preserver in an attempt to recoup the moral high ground they lost because of the Taksim-Gezi events. In the meantime, some of the liberal-democrat intellectuals in TURKEY who had supported the Taksim-Gezi protesters, and were distancing themselves from the AKP to avoid being seen as supporting a military coup, went to such great pains in denouncing the events in EGYPT that their support for Taksim-Gezi appeared to have been meaningless. </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; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TURKEY</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’S<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> GRANDEST DREAM — THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A TURKEY- EGYPT AXIS IN THE REGION.</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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";">Thus on one side of the coin, the military coup in EGYPT paradoxically represented something of a magic cure for the AKP. On the other side of the coin, however, the worst loses accrued to TURKEY’S AKP as much as to the EGYPTIAN Muslim Brotherhood.</span></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";">There is no threat whatsoever to the AKP's grip on government. This is the basic difference between EGYPT and TURKEY. That said, the overthrow of Muslim Brotherhood rule in EGYPT denies the AKP the chance to fulfill one of its goals, which is also Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu's grandest dream — the establishment of a TURKEY-EGYPT axis in the region. The AKP and Muslim Brotherhood's ideological kinship was to have played a determinant role in the realization of this dream.</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; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TURKEY GRANTED A FIVE-YEAR, $1 BILLION LOAN TO EGYPT WITH NO REPAYMENT FOR THE FIRST THREE YEARS</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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";">That is why TURKEY had chosen to use its soft power most generously for the benefit of the Brotherhood government. While the Morsi administration was struggling to obtain a $4.8 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund in fall 2012, the Erdogan government granted a five-year, $1 billion loan to EGYPT with no repayment for the first three years. This is a massive amount of money for both countries.</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="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijvZnk0bb2gYerYzU1r_NvHWAWZqDLcAT-sMFjuCTesRrLdRLqfC6ib6rCvOOh8JOgjDgyf3VnjfP-fNPvaSdZhhqiwrupDOjt1pKQ6eLxT_BavFO8ETIdHg6dChPCyJeveWEDPQrR1Vm7/s1600/news-graphics-2006-_631107a.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijvZnk0bb2gYerYzU1r_NvHWAWZqDLcAT-sMFjuCTesRrLdRLqfC6ib6rCvOOh8JOgjDgyf3VnjfP-fNPvaSdZhhqiwrupDOjt1pKQ6eLxT_BavFO8ETIdHg6dChPCyJeveWEDPQrR1Vm7/s1600/news-graphics-2006-_631107a.gif" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the six months that elapsed since then, the expectation was that as a consequence of TURKEY’S largesse to EGYPT, Morsi and his Brotherhood would decide to emulate the Erdogan AKP of 2002–2011 to prove the theory that Islam and democracy can coexist. The opposite, however, occurred, with Erdogan beginning to look more like Morsi, and the AKP beginning to resemble the Muslim Brotherhood ideologically.</span></b></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; 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";">This is why the overthrow of the Brotherhood came as such a severe shock to the AKP. The party’s self-confidence — driven by its successes in power and increasingly morphing into arrogance — was shaken, and in terms of realpolitik, TURKEY’S power, influence and room for maneuver in the region was significantly curtailed. One cannot now speak of a TURKEY-EGYPT axis.</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; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">THE OUSTING OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD FROM POWER WILL ALSO NEGATIVELY AFFECT TURKEY’S SYRIA POLICY</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. </span></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; 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";">It is an unquestionable reality that the developments in EGYPT have allowed the Damascus regime to breathe much more easily.</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; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Background Information:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">TURKEY WOULD MAKE A SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO THE RESOLUTION OF THE SYRIAN CRISIS IF IT COULD BRING ITSELF TO RISE ABOVE THE SECTARIAN CONSIDERATIONS THAT HAVE DICTATED ITS REGIME CHANGE POLICY IN SYRIA. At:</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/08/turkeys-syrian-policies.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/08/turkeys-syrian-policies.html</a></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; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">FROM FRIEND TO FOE, WHAT CAUSED THE SHIFT IN TURKEYS SYRIA STRATEGY? At:</span></b></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/turkeys-sunni-crescent.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/turkeys-sunni-crescent.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></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";">The AKP that tended to correlate its Palestine and regional policy with Hamas will now have a tough time given the seismic aftershocks of the end of Muslim Brotherhood rule on its Gazan neighbor. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">One of the first victims of the military coup was the postponement of Erdogan’s visit to Gaza, once considered crucial to the revitalization of his political fortunes.</b></span></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";">The spread of resistance to the military coup in EGYPT and the possibility of Muslim Brothers returning to power seem a grand hope and dream for the AKP, but this is an excessively optimistic outcome that is all but impossible to predict and may entail unwanted developments, including a civil war. While the EGYPTIAN events offered some relief to Erdogan and his party, it is hoped that they are able to read and grasp the realities of EGYPT that cannot but be demoralizing for them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

TURKISH LEADERSHIP DEMORALIZED....

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Back on Weight Watchers

I have been anxious to get back to Weight Watchers, especially during those last few weeks of pregnancy, so I went back on Monday night, exactly 2 weeks postpartum. <br /><br />Our meeting center moved locations, and was upgraded to the fresher, more modern WW look that I had seen in other meeting centers (the green chairs, more private weigh-in stations, etc).  It was great to be back at the meeting, but I will be honest - I was so distracted the entire time I was there.  That was the first time I had left Avonlea and all I wanted to do was race back home to be with her.  It didn't help that I chose a meeting with a leader that isn't my fave.  You know how that can be - slightly off-putting.... demotivating, etc.  I will go to a different meeting next week for sure!<br /><br />Still, I was excited to get myself all set up online, and was anxious to get back into the Weekly's and see what new materials were available.  For example, I like this "My Routines" tool.  Something I was awful at in the past was eating my fruits/veggies.  Being such a picky eater, and obviously someone who would rather eat chocolate than an apple, it's a tough habit to get into with eating fruits/veggies.  I thought the "Eat vegetables or fruit with every meal or snack" was a good routine to select. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmx4Wt-n9fHpdyxBnm8Jsl6zmJ31pwcVKL7j9XqPI2R13W2J4hmrKRM-GsfmucQOc_jbQ0LT9zFqH5ZUtwtrPzGsYb8yqEUIlgWEUB1Zke5b3aYvuQ704u94Q-j6bQ4O8v3iy_P4hbzmM/s1600/routines.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmx4Wt-n9fHpdyxBnm8Jsl6zmJ31pwcVKL7j9XqPI2R13W2J4hmrKRM-GsfmucQOc_jbQ0LT9zFqH5ZUtwtrPzGsYb8yqEUIlgWEUB1Zke5b3aYvuQ704u94Q-j6bQ4O8v3iy_P4hbzmM/s400/routines.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />My last weigh in while pregnant was recorded the Friday before giving birth.  I was at 280 lbs.  For Monday's weigh in I was 252.4!  Can you believe I've lost nearly 30 lbs in just 2 weeks?!  Why can't it work like that <i>all </i>the time!! :)<br /><br />I'm now 2 days into the WW journey and I've already encountered my familiar challenges.  I forgot how well I do if I plan my meals in advance.  Tuesday was a clear reminder of what happens when I just eat and record the food as I go.  I'm out of Points before I know it!  Today (Wednesday) has gone so much better as I pre-tracked all of the main meals this morning. <br /><br />Something I also forgot about with doing WW is the desire to eat just because I have Points to eat.  Not that this is the healthiest thing ever, but during those 2 weeks postpartum, I was eating, on average, 1-2 meals per day.  That's all I needed.  I wasn't walking around thinking about what thing I could eat next.  I ate when I was hungry, until I was satisfied, and that was that.  I wish I could have that mentality all of the time, because then I wouldn't have to rely on WW!  Still, I was reminded on day 1 of being back on this journey that I don't need to eat my Points just because I have them.  I know that's a big WW faux pas, because they want you eating all of your Points, but I think, at least right now, it's more important for me to listen to my hunger cues than to eat just for the sake of ticking away at those Points.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Do you share in the same sentiment with your PointsPlus values - eating them just because you have them?</span></b><br /><br />

Weight Watchers Back on Weight Watchers

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Union members' stories from across the USA

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi0O2cAJdFKMwfKGj016623gsjjbJmkEYNeO2PXLXU5p9E4Yth05Qsw4f6sr0vTtY1a0FqqHXK2LP0j-rrcLv56q5Zl6sfwjXMP5_4mIw2krqPhA13SPOY8X8Zj0TYZxOOzZtoQ11NungZ/s1600/mike+kerwin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi0O2cAJdFKMwfKGj016623gsjjbJmkEYNeO2PXLXU5p9E4Yth05Qsw4f6sr0vTtY1a0FqqHXK2LP0j-rrcLv56q5Zl6sfwjXMP5_4mIw2krqPhA13SPOY8X8Zj0TYZxOOzZtoQ11NungZ/s200/mike+kerwin.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rick interviews Mike Kerwin.</td></tr></tbody></table>The good works, struggles and victories of union members are stories that need to be told. Our Teamster brother Rick Smith has been telling them for years on his radio show from Harrisburg, Pa. And since June 10, Rick has been traveling the country telling those stories from Pennsylvania to California.<br /><div><div><br />In St. Louis and Detroit, Smith spoke with Roy Gillespie,<a href="http://www.teamster.org/content/human-rights-commission"> Teamsters Human Rights Commission</a> representative, and Greg Nowak, president of Teamsters Joint Council 43 in Detroit. He also interviewed local labor historians about the history of organized labor in Michigan.<br /><br />Gillespie has asked Teamster locals in Missouri, Oklahoma and the New York area for help in recovering from natural disasters. Never was help refused. Said Gillespie, </div><blockquote class="tr_bq">We worked with the Red Cross and FEMA coordinating the type of union assistance that is needed after a disaster strikes. Whether it’s building stairs or transporting food or furniture, we have met the need. The Teamsters Human Rights Commission is a network of people who are community-minded. It’s what being part of a union is all about.</blockquote><div>Mike Kerwin, a labor historian and a director of the <a href="http://mlhs.wayne.edu/">Michigan Labor History Society</a>, described how Henry Ford, seen by many as a benevolent employer, actually pushed workers to their limit.  Ford forced them to work faster and longer on his production lines. Other auto companies followed a similar model. Then, said Kerwin,</div><blockquote class="tr_bq">...in December of 1936 workers in the General Motors plants had had enough of being pushed and sat down at work – and soon similar sit-down strikes occurred at other plants. But, union organizers were ready so 41 days later the workers had their first contract.</blockquote><div>Nowak said Michigan will rebound from the recent passage of Right-to-Work (for less) laws. The passage of the law in Michigan has long been the goal of CEOs and billionaires who want more of workers’ income for themselves. These laws weaken workers’ rights, lower wages and make workplaces more dangerous.<br /><br />Said Nowak,</div><blockquote class="tr_bq">Michigan and Detroit are resilient. Our main challenge will be to educate voters about how wrong Right to Work laws are. Lower wages, erosion of the middle class – that’s what Right to Work is about.</blockquote><div>Rick's daily labor radio show is available on <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/">Stitcher</a> and via his <a href="http://www.ricksmithshow.com/">website</a>. Listen to the shows from Detroit and St. Louis <a href="http://ricksmithshow.com/july-8%2C-2013-show">here</a>.</div></div>

Union members' stories from across the USA

Rick interviews Mike Kerwin. The good works, struggles and victories of union members are stories that need to be told. Our Teamster brother...

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Book Briefs #15: Even More Journals

<i>"Book Briefs" are an ongoing series of posts with two- or three-sentence first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that make their way into my library. These briefs are not full-blown reviews, but they are a way to share more books worthy of attention than can find their way into reviews on my <a href="http://archidose.blogspot.com/search/label/book-review">daily</a> or <a href="http://www.archidose.org/books/books.html">weekly</a> pages. See my recent installments on magazines: "<a href="http://archidose.blogspot.com/2012/10/book-brief-11-bunch-of-journals.html">a bunch of journals</a>" and "<a href="http://archidose.blogspot.com/2012/12/book-briefs-13-bunch-more-journals.html">a bunch more journals</a>."</i><br /><br /><img alt="BB15-1.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/BB15-1.jpg" title="Covers" /><br /><br /><b>1: <a href="http://www.evolo.us/magazine/evolo-05/"><span style="font-style: italic;">eVolo #05: ARCHI73C7UR3 X3NOCUL7UR3</span></a> | eVolo Magazine | Winter 2013 | <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1938740033/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=1938740033&link_code=as3&tag=aweeklydoseof-20">Amazon</a></b><br />The fifth issue of <i>eVolo Magazine</i> is the first with a guest editor. Carlo Aiello hands over the reigns to Juan Azulay of <a href="http://www.ma77er.com/">MTTR MGMT</a> with Benjamin Rice. Xenoculture is the issue's theme, and its focus is on the other that dwells within; the exuberant, the grotesque, the mutations that the majority fears, or at least are wary of. It's a topic that can easily be limited to the aesthetic, but the editors insert some pretty interesting interviews among the predominantly visual pages. Across five "acts" are contributions from a diverse array of architects, artists, and photographers, from Nick Cave and Francois Roche in Act 01 to David Maisel and Perry Hall (who contributes the cover image) near the end of the XL issue.<br /><br /><b>2: <a href="http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/projects/hdm-35-architecture-s-core.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">Harvard Design Magazine 35: Architecture's Core?</span></a> | Harvard GSD | 2012</b><br />Starting with issue 35 of its biannual magazine, Harvard GSD is exploring the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism (urban planning and urban design), by looking inwards at their "cores" rather than outwards to their relationships with other fields. This may run counter to the popular thinking of inter-disciplinary processes and breaking down boundaries (or at least bridging) between disciplines, but as Dean Mohsen Mostafavi puts it his introduction to this issue, "we cannot speak of cross-fertilization...unless we understand and possess the know-how, creativity, and conventions distinct to each of these disciplines."<br /><br />What follows are contributions by familiar names in academic circles: Preston Scott Cohen, K. Micheal Hays, Stan Allen, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Mario Campo, and many others. I particularly like Cohen's essay on "the hidden core of architecture" relative to late 19th-century changes in the construction and the subsequent shift to an architecture of facade and appearance; his call for transforming the core is a good one. Reinhold Martin's dissection of two books on "digital culture" and Farshid Moussavi's analysis of 30 St Mary Axe are other highlights. The other essays come at the theme from a multitude of ways, though given that it's the GSD academic flourishes prevail.<br /><br /><b>3: <a href="http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/projects/hdm-36-landscape-architecture-s-core.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">Harvard Design Magazine 36: Landscape Architecture's Core?</span></a> | Harvard GSD | 2013</b><br />Emily Waugh (Survey Studio) is guest editor for issue 36, the middle of the three-issue focus on the disciplines taught at Harvard GSD (I'm especially interested in 37, the forthcoming issue on urbanism). There's a stronger structure to this issue; instead of the previous issue's loose collection of essays, Waugh breaks the contributions into four sections: Features (Jane Hutton's and Antoine Picon's one-two punch of material culture and digital culture, respectively, is a highlight), Territories of Engagement, Conjectures, and Excerpts. The bulk is made up of the first two, and I'd imagine that landscape architects will be drawn to the second, in which leading professionals (Andrea Cochran, PEG, Topotek 1, Dlandstudio, etc.) describe how their work addresses four areas: Scale and Scope, Approach, Tools, Challenges. Unlike the academic preference of issue 35, this one is a good balance of academia and practice.<br /><br /><img alt="BB15-2.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/BB15-2.jpg" title="Covers" /><br /><br /><b>4+5: <a href="http://bookstore.boundaries.it/en/boundaries/12-recycling-2239033205.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">Boundaries n.5: Architecture and Recycling</span></a> + </b><b><b><a href="http://bookstore.boundaries.it/en/boundaries/14-container-2239033206.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">Boundaries n.6: Container Architectures</span></a></b> | Boundaries · International Architectural Magazine | 2012 | <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AES4ORS/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00AES4ORS&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20">Amazon</a></b><br />Each issue of the Italian magazine <i>Boundaries</i> is devoted to a theme, such as "<a href="http://archidose.blogspot.com/2012/02/two-magazines.html">Architecture for Emergencies</a>" and "<a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2012/05/14/three-journals/">Architectures of Peace</a>." Issues 5 and 6 have very similar themes, in that buildings made from shipping containers are another means of recycling; in fact, a couple of the projects collected in "Architecture and Recycling" use such containers. These two themes, and the projects found within, have a larger reach than, say, the first issue's focus on architecture in Africa; yet there still exists an emphasis on responsible architecture and finding alternatives for underserved people in much of the world. "Container Architectures" is an especially good issue, loaded with some of the best examples in the still-popular trend. It's as good (if not better in some respects) than the <a href="http://www.archidose.org/books/container.html"><i>Container Atlas</i></a>; and it's quite a bit cheaper.<br /><br /><b>6: <a href="http://monocle.com/magazine/issues/63/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Monocle Issue 63</span></a> | Monocle Magazine | May 2013 | <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CVZ4JFY/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00CVZ4JFY&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20">Amazon</a></b><br />I have three issue of the UK magazine <i>Monocle</i>: the very first one, from March 2007; a special edition "devoted to building better cities, neighborhoods and residences" from summer 2008; and most recently an issue from a couple months ago. What is amazing when charting the changes between these three issues is how little has changed—the size, the design, the A-B-C-D-E structure, the page layout, the subjects, even the overall tone of the magazine. Sure, there are some tweaks to certain things (some flexibility in the column layouts, for example), but it's as if Tyler Brûlé and his crew had everything figured out before the first issue went to press. While the editors clearly have a knack for latching on to what's interesting, fashionable, and well-made, what I appreciate most about the magazine is just how much is crammed into each issue. Combined with a design that makes everything look appealing, the magazine is a great excuse for getting away from the screen and diving into some printed content. <br /><br /><b>7: <a href="http://www.abitare.it/en/in-edicola/december-january-528/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Being BIG</span></a> | Abitare | December-January 528 | <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0983820430/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0983820430&link_code=as3&tag=aweeklydoseof-20">Amazon</a></b><br />About every year or so, <i>Abitare Magazine</i> devotes a single issue to one architect after following them around for about the same amount of time. In 2009 it was <a href="http://www.abitare.it/en/in-edicola/abitare-497/">Renzo Piano</a>, followed by <a href="http://www.abitare.it/en/in-edicola/being-zaha-hadid/">Zaha Hadid</a> and <a href="http://www.abitare.it/en/in-edicola/being-jean-nouvel/">Jean Nouvel</a> in 2011, and most recently Bjarke Ingels at the end of 2012. Setting aside the fact of starchitect hero-worship and questions of if architects with the most press really need this much more, the idea is a great one. In the case of BIG, the editors are able to delve deeply into how Ingels travels back and forth between the offices in Copenhagen and New York, how he meets people, gets publicity, who he works with, what he's working on, what people think of him, and much more. The issue presents projects (most in-progress), but the focus is clearly on personalities, the architect(s) more than the architecture.

Book Briefs #15: Even More Journals

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A Personal Trainer Redwood City Shares Some Exercise Tips For Busy People

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Brandon Watkins</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>Redwood City is a city in California that is situated right in the San Francisco Peninsula. Today, the city is notoriously recognized for being the home of some of the biggest companies worldwide. Among these are Oracle and Electronic Arts. Because of the presence of these companies, most of the people in Redwood are busy professionals who cannot even think of their health and wellness. But despite how busy you might seem to be, your health should be your top priority, because as they say, health is wealth. So here are some fitness tips for busy people as shared by a leading personal trainer Redwood City.<br /> <br /> Sit On An Exercise Ball<br /> <br /> Instead of sitting on your usual office chair, invest on an exercise ball and use it as your office chair instead. Furthermore, the personal trainer Redwood City suggested that you look for that ball that is huge enough to allow you to reach your desk, forcing you to engage on your task so you can sit up. These balls are often used by yoga enthusiasts and it is guaranteed to improve your posture.<br /> <br /> Ride Your Bike To Work<br /> <br /> Instead of taking a cab or driving your car to work, do yourself a favor and ride a bike instead. Well, if your office is just a walking distance from home, then why not walk? If you cannot find time to exercise, then doing these things can somehow help to shed a few pounds off. Aside from helping yourself, you are actually helping the environment as well as this helps to lessen the pollution.<br /> <br /> Exercise With Your Family<br /> <br /> Always take the stairs whenever you are in your office building, at home or in the mall. This can somehow help you to shed off a few pounds. Others would in fact, use the stairs to exercise every day. So if you have stairs at home, the personal trainer Redwood City suggested that you take the stairs up and down for up to five times each day as this can make for a good exercise. This should take only a few minutes of your time each day but the benefits that you can gain in the future could be huge.<br /> <br /> Use The Stairs<br /> <br /> Always take the stairs whenever you are in your office building, at home or in the mall. This can somehow help you to shed off a few pounds. Others would in fact, use the stairs to exercise every day. So if you have stairs at home, the personal trainer Redwood City suggested that you take the stairs up and down for up to five times each day as this can make for a good exercise. This should take only a few minutes of your time each day but the benefits that you can gain in the future could be huge.<br /> <br /> If you are really determined to lose weight and live a healthy lifestyle, then there are absolutely plenty of ways to that, despite of your busy schedules. But as much as possible, make an effort to allocate even two or three days in a week to train with a personal trainer Redwood City. Because no matter how rich you are, if your health isn't in good condition, all the money that you have saved for could be taken away from you.<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>Becoming in excellent condition by using the aid of <a href="http://www.theperfectworkout.com/personal-trainer-redwood-city/">Personal Trainer Redwood City</a> not just boosts your entire body but also your health as well. The advantages that one can receive from <a href="http://www.theperfectworkout.com/personal-trainer-moorpark/">Personal Trainer Moorpark</a> are limitless.</div><br /> </div><br />

A Personal Trainer Redwood City Shares Some Exercise Tips For Busy People

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How the media hyped an IRS non-scandal

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2IgE093zCTqKecELX0hymaBd5w4CDEfcvN03o12bzobdAbpT3qDrXL_I4qkWsV0J3bKAsLvoeL1u9dWeQx28a0iQuhxhfEwCDN0U1k38tr44S6zDNJIXjxd1DblwL-jVIK5YcoiaK90Uf/s1600/anderson+cooper.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2IgE093zCTqKecELX0hymaBd5w4CDEfcvN03o12bzobdAbpT3qDrXL_I4qkWsV0J3bKAsLvoeL1u9dWeQx28a0iQuhxhfEwCDN0U1k38tr44S6zDNJIXjxd1DblwL-jVIK5YcoiaK90Uf/s200/anderson+cooper.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">The mainstream news media misses some of the biggest stories in North America today. You know, <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/26/mexicans-turn-to-social-media-to-report-on-drug-war/">drug war in Mexico</a>. Or the <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/04/30/the-failure-to-prosecute-corporate-crime-undermines-u-s-justice/">criminal bankers who don't go to prison</a>. Or the impoverishment of the working class. </span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">R.J. Eskow writes in "<a href="http://blog.ourfuture.org/20130709/where-the-hell-is-the-outrage">Where the Hell Is the Outrage</a>?"</span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Conditions continue to become objectively worse for the great majority of Americans. But these ongoing changes — in actual wages, in employment, in social mobility and wealth equity — have received very little media attention or meaningful political debate.</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit;">Eskow explains why that's a bad thing: </span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s not that things aren’t changing. It’s that people don’t know they’re changing. And without that knowledge the public becomes a canary in a coalmine, only aware of its declining oxygen supply when it keels over and dies. </span> </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s an almost classic state of alienation, in which people may be acutely aware of their own increasing difficulties (although sometimes they can be numb to that as well) but experience them in a state of isolation. That turns the anger inward, leading to crippling reactions like guilt and despair. And repeated individual failures — failures made increasingly likely in a skewed system — lead to a sense of learned helplessness. </span></blockquote>If mainstream media reporters don't miss a story, they may well get it wrong. Like the IRS "scandal," where supposedly "liberal" IRS employees investigated "conservative" Tea Party groups.<br /><br />Only, it didn't happen. (And, by the way, even if it did, there's plenty of evidence that radical billionaires like the <strike style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.89583396911621px;"><a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2011/10/bombshell-kochs-sold-oil-equipment-to.html" style="color: #336699;">Benedict Arnold</a></strike> Koch brothers are (a) <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/right-wing-billionaires-behind-mitt-romney-20120524">not disclosing their political contributions</a> and (b) funneling money to phony Tea Party groups like <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/lauriebennett/2012/03/31/tracking-koch-money-and-americans-for-prosperity/">Americans for Prosperity</a>.)<br /><br />Alex Seitz-Wald in <a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/07/08/how_the_media_outrageously_blew_the_irs_scandal_a_full_accounting/">Salon</a> blows the whistle on how the mainstream media "outrageously blew the IRS scandal."<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">...we know that in fact the IRS targeted lots of different kinds of groups, not just conservative ones; that the only organizations whose tax-exempt statuses were actually denied were progressive ones; that many of the targeted conservative groups legitimately crossed the line; that the IG’s report was limited to only Tea Party groups at congressional Republicans’ request; and that the White House was in no way involved in the targeting and didn’t even know about it until shortly before the public did. </blockquote>As a result of the media's misreporting, half of the American people wrongly thought the White House ordered the IRS to target Tea Party groups, Seitz-Wald writes.<br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Have reporters corrected the record? </span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">We think you know the answer. </span>

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The mainstream news media misses some of the biggest stories in North America today. You know, drug war in Mexico . Or the criminal bankers ...

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