Anna Burns Welker, wife of Patriots star, apologizes for criticizing Ray Lewis on Facebook

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="image620 " style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 350px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 620px;"><img alt="Ray Lewis (52) of the Baltimore Ravens covers Wes Welker (83) in a file photo." src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2013/01/22/lewis_welker_file_78237363_620x350.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /></div><div class="imgText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8em; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ray Lewis (52) of the Baltimore Ravens covers Wes Welker (83) in a file photo. <span class="greySplitter" style="border: 0px; 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color: #b12124; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tom Brady's wife Gisele made headlines</a> after the Patriots' season ended, essentially blaming Wes Welker for dropping a key pass in the Super Bowl loss to the Giants.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Now, it's Welker's wife who is in the news for comments she made on Facebook following New England's season-ending loss to the Ravens.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After the game, Anna Burns Welker took to Facebook to support her husband - but mostly take a few shots at Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis, <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/baltimore-sports-blog/bal-anna-burns-welker-wes-welker-wife-ray-lewis-critical-facebook-page-0121,0,5768158.story" style="border: 0px; color: #b12124; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">according to the Baltimore Sun</a>.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; 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font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.07em; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 220px;">2013 NFL Postseason: Conference Title Games</h3></div></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 15px;"></span><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Proud of my husband and the Pats," Welker wrote on her Facebook page. "By the way, if anyone is bored, please go to Ray Lewis' Wikipedia page. 6 kids 4 wives. Acquitted for murder. Paid a family off. Yay. What a hall of fame player! A true role model!"</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The post has since been deleted.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lewis, who is retiring at season's end after a surefire Hall of Fame career, was cleared of murder charges in 2000 after a Super Bowl party fight involving Lewis and his entourage resulted in the stabbing deaths of two men in Atlanta.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It didn't take long for Mrs. Welker to apologize for her post.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I'm deeply sorry for my recent post on Facebook," she said in a <a href="http://larrybrownsports.com/football/anna-burns-welker-apologizes-ray-lewis/171214" style="border: 0px; color: #b12124; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">statement sent to Larry Brown Sports</a>. "I let the competitiveness of the game and the comments people were making about a team I dearly love get the best of me.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"My actions were emotional and irrational and I sincerely apologize to Ray Lewis and anyone affected by my comment after yesterday's game," she continued. "It is such an accomplishment for any team to make it to the NFL playoffs, and the momentary frustration I felt should not overshadow the accomplishments of both of these amazing teams."</div><br /></div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><iframe height="360" id="kaltura_player_1358910385" src="http://cdnapi.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/1_xub5j4m4/uiconf_id/3775332/st_cache/23503?referer=http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/lone-star-college-multiple-people-shot-18287129&autoPlay=false&addThis.playerSize=392x221&freeWheel.siteSectionId=nws_offsite&closedCaptionActive=true&addThis.playerSize=640x360&closedCaptionsOverPlayer.fontsize=18" style="border: 0px solid #ffffff;" width="640">Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames.</iframe> <div style="font-size: x-small; margin-top: 0; text-align: left;"><br /><div id="date_partner" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; height: 32px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 150px; min-height: 30px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 490px;"></div><div class="byline_date" style="float: left; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 490px;"><div class="byline_date_inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 485px;"><div class="byline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">By <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/author/colleen_curry" rel="author" style="color: #336699; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">COLLEEN CURRY</a> and GINA SUNSERI From: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/" style="font-size: 11px;">http://abcnews.go.com</a></div><div class="date" style="margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px;">HOUSTON Jan. 22, 2013</div></div></div><br /><div id="sponsoredByAd" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; left: 430px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 0px; text-align: right; top: 405px;"><span id="sponsoredbylogo1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span id="_fw_container_sponsoredbylogo1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">A fight at a Houston college campus today resulted in a shooting that left three people injured and two others in custody, officials said.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">Shots were fired on campus of the Lone Star College shortly shortly before 1 p.m. CT, causing the campus to go into lock down and some students to be evacuated, according to police.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">Three people were injured in the gunfire, which police say stemmed from a fight that broke out between two men on campus. 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All three were hospitalized.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">A fourth individual, a woman in her mid-50s, suffered from a medical condition during the incident and was transported to the hospital, where she is stable, the college said.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">"The was an altercation between two individuals, one individual did have a student identification, and during the altercation there was a man that was shot due to crossfire," Major Armando Tello of the Harris County Sheriff's Department said.</div><div class="rel_container g_4" id="rel_image_feature" style="background-color: white; clear: left; color: #333333; float: left; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; 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Officials evacuated some of the students from campus buildings.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">The shooting comes only a month after the massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Conn., in which 20 students and six staff members were shot, sparking a wave of attempted copycat crimes in states like California and Indiana.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">The Connecticut shooting inspired calls from government officials including President Obama for stricter gun control laws.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">Officials from the college said they had three drills on campus in the psat seven days to prepare for emergencies like this one, noting that they had never had an incident like this in 40 years of operation.</div></div></div>

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Don't Be Too Quick to Dismiss HarBowl

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line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style><![endif]--> <br /><div class="MsoNormal">I’ve already heard it. “Any more talk about the Harbaugh brothers coaching in the Super Bowl and I’m going to puke.” </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Usually I am one of those people. Any overhyped, media-crazed story has me rolling my eyes and flipping the channel. I’ve written about the hype, and how horrible it is, many times. I’ve verbally complained to people about the hype. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">But this time? This time, folks, I’m taking the side of hype.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">So sue me.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Let’s go over the other facts of the past fourteen days: the baseball writers decided no one was worthy of making the Hall of Fame, Lance Armstrong confessed to Oprah that he took PEDs, and Mante Te’o was the victim of a horrid prank (or so we think at the moment). Those types of stories are pretty depressing. The media trounces on those stories to get us to react. They want us to talk about the validity of the BBWAA (Baseball Writers Association of America) and whether or not baseball players accused of taking steroids are should be in the HOF. They want us to ream out Armstrong for his jerkiness. They want us to feel pity for the Notre Dame defenseman.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Now think about the Harbaugh story. Jim and John – born a little over a year apart from each other – are head coaches of the two teams headed to the Super Bowl: the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens. John has established himself as a solid head coach, even while having no NFL playing experience. Jim played 15 years in the NFL after being a stellar college quarterback for the University of Michigan. The boys’ parents, a happily married couple named – get this – Jack and Jackie live in Mequon, Wisconsin, a little burb north of Milwaukee. Jack has gotten coaching film from the boys throughout the season and has given each support every step of the way. And now these two men are going to have to try and best the other on one of the biggest stages in sports.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Does that make us irritated at an organization? Does that make us think that a player is a giant jerk? Does that make us feel pity? </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">No! It makes us feel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">good!</i>It makes us feel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">happy!</i> Stories like this one are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">meant</i> to be overhyped! Why complain about this? Do you really want to hear more about the Los Angeles Lakers’ nosedive into the basement of the NBA? <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Really?</i> Because I’d much rather hear about two men from a solid Midwestern family who have reached the pinnacle of their sport. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Last year I was already salivating at the idea, but then both the 49ers and the Ravens lost in their respective championship games, making the Super Bowl last year – even with Tom Brady – a little less important in my book.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">This year, though, I’m very excited for this game. I am looking forward to seeing the pregame and postgame talk about the Harbaughs. I look forward to seeing any screen shots of their parents – or maybe their sister and her husband, Indiana basketball head coach Tom Crean. I eagerly anticipate the CBS crew messing up “Jim” and “John” about twenty-one times. (Is there a prop bet for that one yet?) </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Why? Well, I take pride in family. It’s probably similar to me enjoying a good Peyton-Eli matchup. Okay, I also enjoy a good Peyton-Eli commercial. But they’re brothers, too. Like the Harbaughs, they grew up together, played with and against each other, had arguments, fought, laughed, joked, and lived together. To see a family story extend beyond college is a treat, especially because many times we hear about sports figures’ broken homes or tragic backstories. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Wouldn’t you like to play a giant game like this against your brother or sister? Pick your favorite sport. Now have your sibling be on the opposing side. For me, it would be swimming. If my sister was in the lane next to me in the finals of the 400m individual medley, I would sooooooo want to beat her. But at the same time, if she beat me, I would be very proud of her. Put yourselves in Jim or John’s shoes. Think of how much fun it would be!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">So enjoy the only kind of family drama there should be – played on a football field, where the outcome doesn’t really matter and they’ll shake hands at the end. Stories like this one are the ones that I will gladly overhype, whether you like it or not.</div>

Don't Be Too Quick to Dismiss HarBowl

I’ve already heard it. “Any more talk about the Harbaugh brothers coaching in the Super Bowl and I’m going to puke.”  Usually I am one of t...

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You Are Going to Die - NYTimes.com

<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; text-align: left; " class=""><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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; " class="">My sister and I recently toured the retirement community where my mother has announced she'll be moving. I have been in some bleak clinical facilities for the elderly where not one person was compos mentis and I had to politely suppress the urge to flee, but this was nothing like that. It was a very cushy modern complex housed in what used to be a seminary, with individual condominiums with big kitchens and sun rooms, equipped with fancy restaurants, grills and snack bars, a fitness center, a concert hall, a library, an art room, a couple of beauty salons, a bank and an ornate chapel of Italian marble. You could walk from any building in the complex to another without ever going outside, through underground corridors and glass-enclosed walkways through the woods. Mom described it as "like a college dorm, except the boys aren't as good-looking." Nonetheless I spent much of my day trying not to cry.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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; " class="">At all times of major life crisis, friends and family will crowd around and press upon you the false emotions appropriate to the occasion. "That's so great!" everyone said of my mother's decision to move to an assisted-living facility. "It's really impressive that she decided to do that herself." They cited their own stories of 90-year-old parents grimly clinging to drafty dilapidated houses, refusing to move until forced out by strokes or broken hips. "You should be really relieved and grateful." "She'll be much happier there." The overbearing unanimity of this chorus suggests to me that its real purpose is less to reassure than to suppress, to deny the most obvious and natural emotion that attends this occasion, which is sadness.<br class=""><br class="">My sadness is purely selfish, I know. My friends are right; this was all Mom's idea, she's looking forward to it, and she really will be happier there. But it also means losing the farm my father bought in 1976, where my sister and I grew up, where Dad died in 1991. We're losing <em class="">our old phone number</em>, the one we've had since the Ford administration, a number I know as well as my own middle name. However infrequently I go there, it is the place on earth that feels like home to me, the place I'll always have to go back to in case adulthood falls through. I hadn't realized, until I was forcibly divested of it, that I'd been harboring the idea that someday, when this whole crazy adventure was over, I would at some point be nine again, sitting around the dinner table with Mom and Dad and my sister. And beneath it all, even at age 45, there is the irrational, little-kid fear: Who's going to take care of me? I remember my mother telling me that when her own mother died, when Mom was in her 40s, her first thought was:<em class=""> I'm an orphan.</em></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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); " class="">Plenty of people before me have lamented the way that we in industrialized countries regard our elderly as unproductive workers or obsolete products, and lock them away in institutions instead of taking them into our own homes out of devotion and duty. Most of these critiques are directed at the indifference and cruelty thus displayed to the elderly; what I wonder about is what it's doing to the rest of us.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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); " class="">Segregating the old and the sick enables a fantasy, as baseless as the fantasy of capitalism's endless expansion, of youth and health as eternal, in which old age can seem to be an inexplicably bad lifestyle choice, like eating junk food or buying a minivan, that you can avoid if you're well-educated or hip enough. So that when through absolutely no fault of your own your eyesight begins to blur and you can no longer eat whatever you want without consequence and the hangovers start lasting for days, you feel somehow ripped off, lied to. Aging feels grotesquely unfair. As if there ought to be someone to sue.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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); " class="">We don't see old or infirm people much in movies or on TV. We love explosive gory death onscreen, but we're not so enamored of the creeping, gray, incontinent kind. Aging and death are embarrassing medical conditions, like hemorrhoids or eczema, best kept out of sight. Survivors of serious illness or injuries have written that, once they were sick or disabled, they found themselves confined to a different world, a world of sick people, invisible to the rest of us. Denis Johnson writes in his novel "Jesus' Son": "You and I don't know about these diseases until we get them, in which case we also will be put out of sight."</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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); " class="">My own father died at home, in what was once my childhood bedroom. He was, in this respect at least, a lucky man. Almost everyone dies in a hospital now, even though absolutely nobody wants to, because by the time we're dying all the decisions have been taken out of our hands by the well, and the well are without mercy. Of course we hospitalize the sick and the old for some good reasons (better care, pain relief), but I think we also segregate the elderly from the rest of society because we're afraid of them, as if age might be contagious. Which, it turns out, it is.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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); " class="">Because of all the stories we've absorbed, we vaguely imagine that our lives will take the shape of a narrative - the classic Aristotelian ramp diagram of gradual rising action (struggle and setbacks), climax (happy marriage, professional success), and a brief, cozy denoument (kicking back with family and friends, remembering the good times on a porch someplace pretty). But life is not shaped like a story; it's an elongate and flattened bell curve, with an attenuated, anticlimactic decline as long as its beginning. Friends have described seeing their parents lose their faculties one by one, in more or less the reverse order that their young children are acquiring them.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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); " class="">Another illusion we can't seem to relinquish, partly because large and moneyed industries thrive on sustaining it, is that with enough money and information we'll be able to control how we age and die. But one of the main aspects of aging is the loss of control. Even people with the money to arrange to age in comfort can die in agony and indignity, gabbling like infants, forgetting their own children, sans everything. Death is a lot like birth (which people also gird themselves for with books and courses and experts) - everyone's is different, some are relatively quick and painless and some are prolonged and traumatic, but they're all pretty messy and unpleasant and there's not a lot you can do to prepare yourself.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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); " class="">I'm not trying to romanticize the beauty of osteoporosis, the wisdom of Alzheimer's or the dignity of incontinence. More than one old person has ordered me, "Do not get old." They did not appear to be kidding. I'm not talking about Learning from the Invaluable Life Experience of Our Elders, or even suggesting we need to accept the inevitable with grace. I am all for raging against the dying of the light, and if they ever develop DNA rejuvenation or some other longevity technique I will personally claw, throttle and gouge my way through Warren Buffett, Rupert Murdoch and any number of other decrepit billionaires in order to be first in line.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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); " class="">But we don't have a choice. You are older at this moment than you've ever been before, and it's the youngest you're ever going to get. The mortality rate is holding at a scandalous 100 percent. Pretending death can be indefinitely evaded with hot yoga or a gluten-free diet or antioxidants or just by refusing to look is craven denial. "Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through," Conrad wrote in "Typhoon." "Face it." He was talking about more than storms. The sheltered prince Siddartha Gautama was supposedly set on the path to becoming the Buddha when he was out riding and happened to see an old man, a sick man and a dead man. Today he'd be spared the discomfiture, and the enlightenment, unless he were riding mass transit.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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); " class="">Just yesterday my mother sent me a poem she first read in college - Langston Hughes's "Mother to Son." She said she could still remember where she was, in her dorm room at Goshen College, when she came across it in her American Lit book. The title notwithstanding, it does not make for Hallmark-card copy. <em class="">Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.</em> It tells us that this life is not a story or an adventure or a journey of spiritual self-discovery; it's a slog. And it orders us to keep going, don't you dare give up, no matter what. Because I'm your mother, that's why.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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; " class=""><em class="">Tim Kreider is the author of "<a href="http://books.simonandschuster.com/We-Learn-Nothing/Tim-Kreider/9781439198704" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); text-decoration: none; " class="">We Learn Nothing</a>," a collection of essays and cartoons. His cartoon, "The Pain - When Will It End?" has been collected in three books by Fantagraphics.</em></div></div><a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/20/you-are-going-to-die/?src=me&ref=general&pagewanted=print" class="">http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/20/you-are-going-to-die/?src=me&ref=general&pagewanted=print</a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; " class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>

You Are Going to Die - NYTimes.com

My sister and I recently toured the retirement community where my mother has announced she'll be moving. I have been in some bleak clini...

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My Micro NY

Today at the Museum of the City of New York, Mayor Bloomberg announced the winner of the <a href="http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/developers/HPD-adAPT-NYC-RFP.shtml"><i>adAPT NYC</i> competition</a> for a micro-unit apartment building in Kips Bay.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nycmayorsoffice/8404839263/" title="adAPT_NYC_Rendering_Fall by nycmayorsoffice, on Flickr"><img alt="adAPT_NYC_Rendering_Fall" height="414" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8216/8404839263_d50891a728_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br />The winner is "My Micro NY" from a team made up of Monadnock Development, the Actors Fund Housing Development Corporation, and nARCHITECTS. Their winning project is a 10-story building with 55 micro-unit apartments ranging from 250 to 370 square feet.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nycmayorsoffice/8405929666/" title="adAPT_NYC_Rendering_Winter_Construction by nycmayorsoffice, on Flickr"><img alt="adAPT_NYC_Rendering_Winter_Construction" height="414" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8512/8405929666_396a27c748_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br />Head over to Houzz for more images and <a href="http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/6853312/list/Microunits-Are-Coming-to-NYC--See-the-Winning-Design">my write-up on the winning project</a>.

My Micro NY

Today at the Museum of the City of New York, Mayor Bloomberg announced the winner of the adAPT NYC competition for a micro-unit apartment ...

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Sr. Global Brand Strategy Manager (#109054)

<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";"> Sr. Global Brand Strategy 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-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Business Unit:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">Corporate marketing at KLA-Tencor works to deliver highly valued, unique marketing services and solutions that maintain and improve our penetration, share and adoption (PSA) among manufacturers in semiconductors, LEDs and other related nanoelectronics industries. We strive to create a better customer experience in order to add value and differentiate the company from our competitors. Corporate marketing includes: corporate communications (brand, employee communications, P.R., social media, web and advertising); strategic marketing (business intelligence, forecasting and market analysis); field/technical marketing (competitive intelligence, PSA programs/value modeling and technical communications); and groups focused on specific technology segments or markets such as the Process Control Solutions (PCS) group, which provides technical roadmap planning, consulting on yield enhancement and collaboration with customers. The corporate marketing group reports to the President and CEO of KLA-Tencor.<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-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">General Brand Strategy and Management:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">1.Lead the development and execution of the global brand strategy and manage and monitor all activities for the company’s visual identity, including, but not limited to, conceptualizing, managing and enforcing the visual identity for a brand or product, both internally and externally<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">2.Develop, execute and monitor employer brand strategies at the global and local levels<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">3.Identify opportunities and monitor brand strategy and standards across all internal and external communication platforms, including the Web, video, social media, print and digital collateral<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">4.Understanding of and ability to adjust brand strategy to the audience, including past, present and future employees, customers, investors, the media and the community at-large, as well as adjust strategies to resonate with global populations or local audiences in all KLA-Tencor regions<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">5.Able to create brand differentiation strategies and plans to ensure that the KLA-Tencor brand makes a positive impact in the communities where we live and work<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">6.Develop, design and protect brand identity, including direct involvement with any new product introduction. Create processes by which to manage the brand and provide employees guidelines to properly execute the brand globally<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">7.Educate employees on the appropriate use of the KLA-Tencor brand. Partner with divisions and regions to develop and maintain the visual consistency of the KLA-Tencor brand<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">8.Preserve consistency, ensure branded materials express the most effective and recognizable company message<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">9.Develop regional brand strategies to elevate the presence of the KLA-Tencor brand in the communities where we live and work<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">10.Lead the development of the global KLA-Tencor Foundation brand<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">11.Lead the development of the global YMS brand, a KLA-Tencor sub-brand<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">12.Oversee creation and use of company collateral materials (logos, trademark, etc.), for commercial-, institutional-, PR- or employee-related purposes<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">13.Oversee use of logo on tools and machines<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">14.Manage and update brand book (guidelines, templates, presentations, logos)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">15.Assess competitive and peer brands to gather key insights to report to team<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Project Management:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">1.Work collaboratively to establish processes, procedures and controls to facilitate consistent, timely and effective use of brand<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">2.Manage multiple project schedules, ensure adherence to production goals and communicate progress to stakeholders and team to produce timely deliverables<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">3.Coordinate branding projects and provide guidance to team<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">4.Prioritize projects, develop and execute action plans, report on what has been produced and resources used<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">5.Communicate to customers, internal and external, on any delays or shifts in schedule<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">6.Develop, prepare and manage budgets and annual operating plans associated with internal communication<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">7.Assess fair costs for goods and services, negotiate pricing, and develop external project budgets<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Vendor Management:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">1.Develop, implement and manage the processes that determine how vendors interact with the company<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">2.Develop relationships, negotiate contracts, generate agreements and execute on all communication-related contracts to meet organizational work requirements<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">3.Manage the work of graphic illustrators, print vendors and the use of outside graphic services<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">4.Manage vendor relations and invoicing<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";">Preferred Qualifications:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Technical Competencies:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">1.Brand expert with strong understanding of design elements—color, typography, illustration, photography, animation, print and digital media techniques—to organize ideas visually to convey desired impact and message<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">2.Able to understand industry best practices<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">3.Proficient in:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">  Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, HTML, Power Point, Word, Excel, Outlook<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">  Print production<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">  Photography<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">  Communication skills<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">  Effective verbal and oral communication skills with internal and external customers<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;"> Strong writing skills and ability to customize content for a variety of formats (presentations, email, reports, etc.), and deliver error-free content in globally understood language<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">4.Strategic planner<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">  Forecast future trends and consequences accurately<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">  Uncover defects and develop solutions, while keeping in mind the big picture<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">  Poses a broad knowledge and perspective of marketing/branding processes<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">  Forward-looking mind set<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">  Able to paint a clear and credible picture of possibilities, evaluate potential outcomes<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">  Able to create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans for branding on a quarterly and annual basis<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">5.Able to develop others<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">  Develop a branding creative network, building capability and facilitating the sharing of knowledge, ideas and best practices across the communication team   and organization as a whole<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">  Help others grow their skill set<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">  Provide templates, toolkits and resources to help build competence<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";">Cultural Competencies:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">1.Customer-focused:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">  Meet expectations and requirements of internal and external customers<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">  Flexible and patient; able to integrate many different opinions and changes with ease<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">  Acquire first-hand customer information, utilizing it for improvements in products and services<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">  Acts with customers in mind<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">  Establish and maintain effective relationships with customers, gaining trust and respect<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">2.Strong interpersonal skills:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">  Ability to relate to people of all professional levels<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">  Build rapport and constructive and effective relationships<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">  Diplomatic and tactful<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">  Ability to diffuse high-tension situations comfortably:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">3.Think creatively, explore innovative ways of working and delivering original and imaginative solutions to communication problems<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">4.Strong business acumen and a clear understanding of business issues and how to effectively communicate in order to solve organizational problems and achieve desired objectives<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">5.Commitment to quality and attention to detail<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">6.Committed team player<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">7.Desire to learn new technologies<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">8.Positive, can-do attitude<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";">Emotional Intelligence Competencies:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">1.Demonstrate self-awareness and self-control<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">2.Display social expertness<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">3.Exercise personal influence<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">4.Demonstrate understanding of purpose and vision<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";">Minimum Qualifications:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">1.Bachelor’s Degree in fine arts or master’s degree in fine arts<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">2.10 years of global brand management experience<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">3.Business-to-business, high-tech brand experience required<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">4.Consumer and employer brand experience a plus<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";">Please send in your resumes to vinod.sanker@kla-tencor.com<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div></div></div>

Sr. Global Brand Strategy Manager (#109054)

Job Title: Sr. Global Brand Strategy Manager Location: Milpitas, CA Duration: Fulltime Job Description: Business Unit: Corporate marketin...

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Dollar dog

<p>Dollar dog......or should I say Euro dog.</p><p>For some reason Bones loves money! Maybe it's the smell but if you leave any notes near where he can get them he will take them and very kindly shred them in to little pieces! I was able to snatch this note back before he ripped it.</p><div class='separator' style='clear: both; text-align: center;'> <a href='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDjywRYGEn6AZj27W35KOT4Pbk-CHfNLpH6cu5hCsGRhH-o59KS6etozrgBnnOERW3lrKrc7uDjEtDFvfsayv-H5wF9FgkFBw1qNM3Fx8mJLt2BDsaX8F_YP1DN1mAWje8g4pV6PPK5aT2/s1600/20130122_201017.jpg' imageanchor='1' style='margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;'> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDjywRYGEn6AZj27W35KOT4Pbk-CHfNLpH6cu5hCsGRhH-o59KS6etozrgBnnOERW3lrKrc7uDjEtDFvfsayv-H5wF9FgkFBw1qNM3Fx8mJLt2BDsaX8F_YP1DN1mAWje8g4pV6PPK5aT2/s400/20130122_201017.jpg" /> </a> </div>

Dollar dog

Dollar dog......or should I say Euro dog. For some reason Bones loves money! Maybe it's the smell but if you leave any notes near where ...

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WILD School Sites

<h1> </h1><em>Another guest author, John Windau, Wildlife Communications Specialist in District Two, writes about the appeal, benefits and process of creating a WILD School Site in Ohio.  Look for more upcoming articles from John on this topic.</em><br /><br />If you ask someone to describe the world around them, most will describe buildings, streets, bridges, and other structures of human endeavor. Beyond that, fewer and fewer people remember that nature and wildlife still exist in and around the world we have constructed. WILD School Sites, land labs, outdoor classrooms; whatever name you use, these programs remind students and educators that nature exists everywhere. In addition, these sites offer a location for educators to enhance their curriculum by allowing students to apply new styles of learning. The new state standards call for project based learning. WILD School Sites offer one way educators can incorporate project based learning into their teaching. <br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="216" src="http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Portals/9/nature%20hike-0016.jpg" width="325" /></div><br /><strong>So what are WILD School Sites and how are they used? </strong><br /><br />Although learning has always occurred outdoors, most formal education takes place inside a building. WILD School Sites offer a location near the school that can be used by students, teachers, and the school community as a place to learn about and benefit from wildlife and the environment. <u>Every school, regardless of size or location</u>, can provide outdoor educational opportunities that can and should be part of any integrated education program. <br /><br />The WILD School Site program believes educators should incorporate students in the planning, design, and construction stages of the site. This provides an avenue for cooperative learning, hands-on activities, problem solving, and communication: all 21st century skills students will need. <br /><br />In addition, outdoor areas provide a setting where the goals of different learning disciplines can be met. This is not just a science program. Math, social studies, language, visual art, as well as science, can all benefit from incorporating outdoor learning into the syllabus. These benefits continue beyond the construction phase. Educators and students continue to use the site to meet education objectives throughout the school year.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="216" src="http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Portals/9/nature%20kids-0177.jpg" width="325" /></div><br /><strong>So, how do people get started?</strong><br /><br />Over the next several months, we will feature a series of articles highlighting a few projects which may work in your setting. It is important to remember that no two sites are the same, so each site will face different challenges; however, outdoor education is possible anywhere! There are no size restrictions either. Some sites are quite small, while others can encompass a large area. What is important is that students use the site to become more aware of the environment around them so, as adults, they are better able to make informed decisions. <br /><br />The Division of Wildlife offers are variety of resources for educators interested in WILD School Sites including training, on-site consultations, start-up grants, and school certification. More information on WILD School Sites can be found at <a href="http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Home/wild_resourcessubhomepage/Educator_Resources/Wild_Schoolsplaceholder/resourceswildschoolsdefault/tabid/5821/Default.aspx" target="_blank">wildohio.com</a> or contact your district’s <a href="http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Home/ContactUsStandIn/tabid/18270/Default.aspx" target="_blank">Wildlife Communications Specialist</a>.

WILD School Sites

  Another guest author, John Windau, Wildlife Communications Specialist in District Two, writes about the appeal, benefits and process of cr...

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Facilities Maintenance Supervisor (# 109047)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="WordSection1"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Position:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Facilities Maintenance Supervisor<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Location:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Milpitas, CA<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Duration:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Full time<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Job Description:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The Real Estate and Facilities group is a corporate organization that is responsible for the management of all leased and owned property domestically and internationally. Facilities group provides Strategic and Tactical space planning, Construction Project management, Facilities Engineering, Facilities and Security Operations, and Site Services for our Milpitas Campus. The group also provides assistance for other domestic and international facilities with these services when requested. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The Facilities Maintenance Supervisor is responsible for all the normal day to day work and service requests that are assigned to the Facilities Maintenance Group. In this role, the supervisor must be able to determine the most cost effective way to get the work done in established time frames. To accomplish this, the Facilities Supervisor must be able to manage both internal and external resources, provide technical information, and complete quality checks. Other responsibilities would include providing assistance to upper facilities management personnel with group gap analysis, training requirements, and maintenance budgeting and any other related duties.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Preferred Qualifications:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Preferred to be proficient in Microsoft Office which includes Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word. Knowledge in construction practices.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace: none;"><br /><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Basic Qualifications:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 2 years of experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">OR<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Master's Level Degree with at least 1 year of experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Kindly send your resume to <a href="mailto:raju.balaji@kla-tencor.com">raju.balaji@kla-tencor.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div>

Facilities Maintenance Supervisor (# 109047)

Position: Facilities Maintenance Supervisor Location: Milpitas, CA Duration: Full time Job Description: The Real Estate and Facilities gr...

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Library Director - Kent Memorial Library

<strong>Library <span _fcktemp="1"></span>Director - </strong><strong><span style="color: #48286d;">Kent Memorial Library</span></strong> in Kent, CT is seeking a community-oriented, adaptive and technically proficient Director to lead our growing and progressive library into the exciting next generation - Library 2.0. This position is a unique opportunity to work in the wonderful town of Kent with a dynamic board and creative team of staff and volunteers, managing the diverse operating and planning efforts to get us there. As information science evolves, so will the needs and efforts of our library; the position must stay on top of and integrate new technologies and networking trends while offering diverse programs and culturally rich and educational offerings. The library is a private institution that serves as the Town’s public library. It is a popular destination; our traffic in the past twelve months exceeded 38,000, with annual circulation of approximately 16,100 for adults and 17,200 for children. Last year we presented over 330 educational and interactive programs for children and adults, including a lecture series with nationally-recognized speakers, book discussions, poetry writing, self-help and language classes, authors’ readings, films, art exhibits and special vacation programs ranging from fun reading to Quiz Nights to maintaining an earth-friendly garden. Kent, CT is located in the scenic northwest corner of Litchfield County and is ready to take on the future! The ideal candidate will have the background afforded by Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degrees in Library or Information Science from an ALA accredited college or university. Five years of professional public library experience with demonstrated proficiency in the above skills and capabilities as well as three in a supervisory capacity are preferred. Salary commensurate with experience. For more information and a job description, visit our website at <a _fcksavedurl="http://www.kentmemoriallibrary.org" href="http://www.kentmemoriallibrary.org/" target="_blank">www.kentmemoriallibrary.org</a>. Send resume and cover letter to <a _fcksavedurl="mailto:kladirsearch@gmail.com" href="mailto:kladirsearch@gmail.com">kladirsearch@gmail.com</a>.

Library Director - Kent Memorial Library

Library  Director - Kent Memorial Library in Kent, CT is seeking a community-oriented, adaptive and technically proficient Director to lea...

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50x50 - 50 States in 50 Weeks

Over at American-Architects I've been developing a <a href="http://www.american-architects.com/en/pages/50x50">Building of the Week</a> feature that takes a state-by-state look at architecture in the United States in 2013. We are presenting one recent project from each state in alphabetical order, from Alabama to Wyoming. Projects are added every Monday, and this week's building is the <a href="http://www.american-architects.com/en/projects/project-review-detail/39575_south_mountain_community_library">South Mountain Community Library</a> in Phoenix, Arizona.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.american-architects.com/en/pages/50x50"><img alt="50x50.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/50x50.jpg" title="50x50 Screenshot" /></a><br /><br />Have a project in mind for your state? Please <a href="mailto:jh@world-architects.com">email me</a>.

50x50 - 50 States in 50 Weeks

Over at American-Architects I've been developing a Building of the Week feature that takes a state-by-state look at architecture in the...

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Do we debate? Eracism 2013 is around the corner

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i>I hope you'll forgive the posts about upcoming projects in the Flat Classroom family but so many things are getting ready to start and some of you may not have heard about some of these projects. The Eracism project was invented by students at the first Flat Classroom conference in Doha Qatar and was voted up by the world of educators and students as being most needed. They were so right! Last semester we ran 4 brackets (2 middle school and 2 high school). The debates begin by debating on Voicethread and the finals are synchronous in Blackboard Collaborate. We're excited to be working with ObaWorld as a result of meeting Yong Zhao at ISTE this summer. We'll be beta testing this platform for use with future projects. </i></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i>So, I copied an email that Julie Lindsay just sent out to our mailing list and am inviting any of you who would like to do this. It doesn't take a lot of time, but you do need to help students prepare to field a team. My classroom actually won the first competition back three or four years a go, and I had the whole class prepare and debate one another to select the team and then supported the team as they went through the competition. It was a great project. I'm not fielding teams now, just because it is the right thing to do for the projects and because the timing doesn't fit with my keyboarding class. </i></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i>You're invited to join in Eracism! Here's information.</i></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><br /></i></span><h2><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i>About the Eracism Project: A Message from Julie Lindsay.</i></span></h2><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">You are receiving this email because of your interest in the </span><a href="http://eracismproject.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank">Eracism Project.</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> In fact you may have already completed a project in the past, you may have been a judge, or you may have filled in a form asking for more details, or you may be involved in another Flat Classroom Project. You may also be a classroom teacher who has already signed up for the Eracism 13-1 project! </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I am writing to you all to help us spread the word about the NEW project starting in February, Eracism 13-1</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">. We are madly working in the background to bring you the BEST asynchronous global debate we can. Thank you to those who provided feedback via our survey from the last project, and we are acting NOW to make even more improvements:</span><br /><ul style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><li style="margin-left: 15px;">We have tidied up the <a href="http://eracism.flatclassroomproject.org/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Eracism wiki</a> - most details are there now for the new semester!</li><li style="margin-left: 15px;">We are reviewing all protocols and procedures, including the judges rubric, to ensure all language is clear and provides a 'flattened' learning environment for all global participants</li><li style="margin-left: 15px;">We are joined in <a href="http://eracism.flatclassroomproject.org/Eracism+in+Oba+World" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">partnership with ObaWorld</a> from the University of Oregon's College of Education to offer, for this semester, a free online platform (ObaWorld) for teachers, judges and students to form a community around this project. Many comments we have received in the past were about the challenges of communication between teachers and the need to get students connecting across classrooms before, during and after the debates. ObaWorld will help us solve this, and be a lot of fun as well!</li><li style="margin-left: 15px;">We have reviewed the project Timeline and have the current <a href="http://eracism.flatclassroomproject.org/Calendar" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Calendar dates</a> on the wiki - we are giving MORE TIME for each asynchronous debate so that schools can work more efficiently around holidays and interruptions and judges can provide feedback in a more timely manner</li><li style="margin-left: 15px;">We are carefully considering the <a href="http://eracism.flatclassroomproject.org/Debate+Topic+13-1" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Eracism 13-1 Debate Topic</a>, and will provide a Topic and Resource page on the wiki to help clarify and share resources - the topic should be finalised this coming week! Watch this space!</li></ul><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So, spread the word! <b>Applications for classrooms and debate teams are due February 7</b>. Expressions of interest to help with judging and coaching will be taken any time from now on. Classrooms applying and Judges and Volunteers fill in the same online form: <b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/Eracism13-1" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/Eracism13-1</a><wbr></wbr>. We need more classrooms from all over the world to take part!</b></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><span style="color: #000099;">What teachers said about Eracism 12-2:</span></b></div><ul style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Hearing how the other teams debated was fascinating because we learned about how/what other people think about key global issues.</span></span></span></b></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Working with the students in my school in a different context was a spectacular opportunity to know them better.</span></span></span></b></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Loved the whole thing. Despite the amount of work and sacrifice it entailed, it was a ton of fun and our team learned a lot about debating. Next time, we will be more prepared.</span></span></span></b></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The final live debate was a highlight!</span></span></span></b></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>T</b>his makes learning applicable and real for the students. They no longer care about a grade, but instead want to do well as the world listens in.</span></span></span></b></li></ul>

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