AFRICA and the USA

<h1 class="h1" style="color: blue; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;">USA increases its presence in Africa "the rising continent", while Europe keeps on underestimating it until its too late to take advantage, for "frontier" markets of today's AFRICA will be the emerging markets of tomorrow.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span></h1><h1 class="h1" style="color: blue; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></span></h1><h1 class="h1" style="text-align: center;">  <span style="color: red;">AFRICOM Expands Mission In Africa</span></h1><h1 class="h1" style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: red;"> </span></h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZBSd1onaNWs?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><h1 class="h1" style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In 2012, SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA is rapidly coming of age as an economic region and as an investment destination. The so-called "frontier" markets of today's AFRICA will be the emerging markets of tomorrow.</span></span></h1><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Over the next five years, according to the IMF, seven economies in SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA are expected to be among the ten fastest growing economies in the world. In 2011, the economy of GHANA grew by 13.7%, while ETHIOPIA'S grew by 8.5%. Elsewhere, the MOZAMBIQUE economy grew by 7.5%, NIGERIA and ZAMBIA by 6.8%, and the Democratic Republic of CONGO by 6.5%. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /><div style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">AFRICA IS FORECAST TO EMERGE AS THE FASTEST-GROWING REGION IN THE WORLD OVER THE NEXT 20 YEARS.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Seeking economic ties with the continent augurs well for the future, both for AFRICA and the USA. AFRICA is forecast to emerge as the fastest-growing region in the world over the next 20 years. To realize this growth, it will have to nurture a number of key competitive advantages: the world's richest mineral and energy deposits, the most arable land, and what is predicted to be the </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">youngest population in the world by 2050</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">. </span></span></div></div>

AFRICA and the USA

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NO NEW REVELATIONS BY BBC

<br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">On <u>17 July 2012</u> <b>BBC</b> wrote:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">SYRIA: ASSAD REGIME 'READY TO USE CHEMICAL WEAPONS'</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The most senior Syrian politician to defect to the opposition has told the BBC the regime<b> <u><span style="color: red;">will not hesitate to use chemical weapons if it is cornered</span></u>……….. </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18864629"></a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The rest of the article seems a “Psy Ops” style assumptions in line with British doctrines regarding Syria. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">It needed an defected Syrian ex - ambassador telling mainstream media this revelation!!!!!!!!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Read full article under: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18864629">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18864629</a></span></span><br /><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">On <b><u>7 of July 2012</u> Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring</b> wrote:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">UNLIKE IN EGYPT AND LIBYA, THE SYRIA’S ASSAD REGIME WILL LEAVE WITH AN IMPACT, IF TOPPLED…….</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times","serif";">One should not underestimate SYRIA threat of using its bio chemical weapons arsenal if pushed into the corner</span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times","serif";">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";"> This could also have devastating consequences for TURKEY. The fact that SYRIA possesses these Bio chemical weapons is probably the main reason foreign intervention by western powers is put on hold, for it would affect the entire region.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">Read full article at: <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></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">See also: Useful excuse for foreign intervention: Syria’s bio – chemical weapons arsenal?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">and</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/06/syria_11.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/06/syria_11.html</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">BBC seems a bit late with its revelations. To go further back:</span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">On <b style="color: red;"><u>8 of March</u></b><u style="color: red;"> <b>2012</b></u><b>Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring</b> already reported that <b>Syria does possess bio chemical weapons and <span style="color: red;">that sooner or later they will either be used by Assad, if pushed into the corner</span></b>,<a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/03/given-fact-syria-does-possess-chemical.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/03/given-fact-syria-does-possess-chemical.html</a>, or by western allies, in favor of toppling the regime, as a “Psy Ops” tool to either increase covert operations, or to justify a full out military intervention. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">On <b><u style="color: red;">20 of March 2012</u>Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring reported:</b> Syrian Missiles will pre emptive any military intervention. See: <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/03/syrian-missiles-will-pre-empt-any.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/03/syrian-missiles-will-pre-empt-any.html</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

NO NEW REVELATIONS BY BBC

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Recipe: Potato Torta with Romesco Sauce

Doesn't the name of this recipe sound super fancy?  Well guess what?  It's not!<br /><br />I made this breakfast dish last week and it was simple to prepare with easy on-hand ingredients (at least in my kitchen). <br /><br />This recipe comes to you from the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Weight-Watchers-PointsPlus-Power-Cookbook/dp/B006KHWHI0" target="_blank">Power Foods Cookbook</a> by Weight Watchers.  I've loved the few recipes I have made out of this book thus far.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2yWq-i599sA0elbAGCuLxg7c8qubxj9NwpqeV6D4BclY6s5K5olvfDQE5d3KOoyBTLFPxnKeTOp_Iuy8GJgoUAMp1NFy3EIgRuZSDXIdRkVORkUI2HR10nnF3RHT30kn304B3RZUYlEE/s1600/potato+torta.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2yWq-i599sA0elbAGCuLxg7c8qubxj9NwpqeV6D4BclY6s5K5olvfDQE5d3KOoyBTLFPxnKeTOp_Iuy8GJgoUAMp1NFy3EIgRuZSDXIdRkVORkUI2HR10nnF3RHT30kn304B3RZUYlEE/s400/potato+torta.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Unfortunately the picture doesn't quite do it justice! <br /><br />I've included the recipe in it's entirety below.  I will say this - it's an extremely versatile dish that can really go many directions.  I left mine as-is but next time I will add some spinach and protein into it to bulk it up, but you could get really creative with your add in's.<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="color: #351c75;"><b><u>Potato Torta with Romesco Sauce</u> - <i>4 PointsPlus</i></b></div><br /><i>Ingredients:</i><br /><ul><li>12 oz small red potatoes, sliced</li><li>1/2 c chopped roasted red bell peppers, drained (not oil packed)</li><li>1 small tomato, quartered</li><li>2 Tbsp slivered almonds</li><li>2 Tbsp orange juice</li><li>1 small garlic clove, chopped</li><li>1/2 tsp smoked paprika</li><li>1/4 tsp ground cumin</li><li>1 c Egg Beaters</li><li>1 Tbsp minced fresh chives</li><li>1/4 tsp salt</li><li>1/8 tsp black pepper</li><li>1 Tbsp olive oil</li></ul><br /><i>Directions:</i><br />1. Bring potatoes and enough cold water to cover to boil in medium saucepan.  Reduce heat; partially cover and simmer until potatoes are fork tender, about 6 minutes. Drain.<br /><br />2. To make the sauce, combine roasted peppers, tomato, almonds, orange juice, garlic, paprika and cumin in food processor and process until smooth.  Set aside.<br /><br />3. Whisk together Egg Beaters, chives, salt, and black pepper in medium bowl.<br /><br />4. Heat oil in 12 inch nonstick skillet over medium heat.  Add potatoes, spreading them in a single layer, and cook until lightly browned, about 5 minutes (do not stir).  Turn potatoes, keeping them in a single layer, and cook until lightly browned 3-4 minutes.<br /><br />5. Pour egg mixture evenly over potatoes.  Reduce heat and cook, covered, lifting edges with spatula once or twice until eggs are set 4-5 minutes.  Cut into wedges and serve with sauce.<br /><br /><span style="color: #351c75;">Serves 4 (cut into 4 wedges)</span></blockquote>I actually loved the potato "pie", but didn't much care for the Romesco sauce.  Now, I also don't like tomatoes, which is a base for that sauce.  Joel, however, loves tomatoes, and also didn't care for it.  We both thought it tasted too garden-y fresh.  Yes, apparently this can be a bad thing.  <br /><br />Next time I would add in some vegetable (a 0 PointsPlus one) and perhaps some turkey bacon or turkey sausage.  It would certainly affect the PointsPlus value depending on how much you added in, but I think it would make this dish even better!<br /><br />Enjoy! <br /><br />

Weight Watchers Power Foods Cookbook Recipe: Potato Torta with Romesco Sauce

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The Age of Common Sense

In the Information Age we are in dramatic need of some intelligence to it all. Information is everywhere, but where is the common sense?<br /><div><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/AVvXsEjBf9LZtfAKr80O47sGVk-TL4auyWYdU7q30bdrQTRp2lNBhrt-uT69w4k0wqPLPNaMK7JiEhcwnZqiPJdphy8rEC0DBErUldEowsMKx12JQhWqImzzpQ0OGv2yc-9bBAnVpDLgwOT3kbrr/s1600/iStock_000020672296XSmall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBf9LZtfAKr80O47sGVk-TL4auyWYdU7q30bdrQTRp2lNBhrt-uT69w4k0wqPLPNaMK7JiEhcwnZqiPJdphy8rEC0DBErUldEowsMKx12JQhWqImzzpQ0OGv2yc-9bBAnVpDLgwOT3kbrr/s320/iStock_000020672296XSmall.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">iStockPhoto - used with permission</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><h3> Does all the stuff make sense?</h3></div><div>In the 1990's we all hit WalMart and the mall with our credit cards and started organizing our stuff only to realize that we didn't need all that stuff. Our closets were overflowing, our waistlines were growing, and our debt was showing. More didn't improve our lives and we should have known better, but we didn't.</div><div><br /></div><div>When the Internet came along we started shopping online, racking up more debt all the time and losing ourselves in the wonder of the new library of Alexandria for hours at time.</div><div><br /></div><div>Then, we connected with friends and thought that more was more again and the more friends we had  online somehow the more legacy we had. The more we shared, the less privacy we had. We were "liked" for goodness sakes, didn't that count for something?</div><div><br /></div><div>Now, we can connect via our cell phones and smart phones. Every second we can be in touch with who had a baby, who got a promotion and who is on vacation. But more isn't more. More connections mean less time, less flow state, and less focus.</div><div><br /></div><div>We can stream, find, connect, and remind ourselves 24/7 to do more and be more. But 1000 apps reminding me to do 10 things is just keeping me from doing those things I need to do.<br /><br />When Kip turns me loose to blog, he says "do your stuff" and that is often what it is -- stuff. Not one specific thing but a thousand tiny things.</div><div><h3> Making sense</h3></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii3G4qCrhzRtkEKkOhepzR542gK0_fX-CTP6t_LCTqCqzBCGK8kPcniytS9enAJNCKL0flVjsWL-xIEQYGczrPj7WF7CmkPZgufoFPsYraURG5XLpWZlrWE975lgCPS2z17yQ7ZbIFMWSU/s1600/img_0046_01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii3G4qCrhzRtkEKkOhepzR542gK0_fX-CTP6t_LCTqCqzBCGK8kPcniytS9enAJNCKL0flVjsWL-xIEQYGczrPj7WF7CmkPZgufoFPsYraURG5XLpWZlrWE975lgCPS2z17yQ7ZbIFMWSU/s320/img_0046_01.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My youngest son and I went rafting a few weeks a go.</td></tr></tbody></table>Life is beautiful, fun, and a blast but those moments are often best when I get offline, away from all of this and make sense of things. </div><div><br /></div><div>Marketers have gotten so incredibly good at targeting me that my inbox is full, customized ads show up on the side of every website, and hyped up product launches make me think I have to have that or this new apps. My kids buy music and tune out or get psyched for something big while I buy an app so I can squeeze one more ounce of something out of this life I'm trying to live.</div><div><br /></div><div>So many people blame everyone else. In the US we have 2 political parties sworn to fight to the death but if they don't back off and start to work together, they'll find they didn't kill each other but rather, the nation they supposedly love. The truth is power is what people love and importance and being "followed" and "liked" and whatever narcissitic mess someone else can invent in order to make us feel important and like our life of more is not really worth less.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Wisdom doesn't guarantee you popularity, just legacy. </b>We need more wisdom and a good old healthy dose of Grandma's common sense.</div><div><h2> The Age of Common Sense would be a blessing</h2></div><div>Common sense. Good, plain old common sense. We've had the Industrial Age and the Information Age. We can often be defined by the age in which we live. </div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Big-80-s-Hair-the-80s-300441_308_194.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Big-80-s-Hair-the-80s-300441_308_194.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">via <a href="http://www.fanpop.com/spots/the-80s/images/300441/title/big-80s-hair-photo" target="_blank">fanpop</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div>All the stuff sprayed on my hair didn't make me prettier in the 80's,<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/apreche/130101390/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="closet by Apreche, on Flickr"><img alt="closet" height="320" src="http://farm1.staticflickr.com/50/130101390_06e986247d_q.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>the stuff in my closet didn't make me happier in the 90's,<br />nor did all the bookmarks in the 00's,<br />nor did all the friends in the 10's,<br />nor do all the connections nor the fact that I can tweet from the bathroom just before I hop in tub.<br /><br />What has made me happier is getting offline for longer periods of time, looking people in the eye, spending my mornings on my knees asking God what I should do with my day, and applying common sense before I buy another app, before I go shopping or before I spend a dime or my precious time on anything.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>If I could name an age and wish it upon us, it would be the age of Common Sense. </b>The whole world is being seen in "shades of grey" - and this attitude of "what is right for you may not be right for me" is crazy -- murder is wrong and so is lying and stealing.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqSzdIP9Esi9WuSNPQznhfoIaFSJtbjgQAlqStFfr09Z15XY80F5ps1lpe4oAUSLpOvWn2e8fm5wukhut30fl_fGkuMG36BAY_6AisCE2YfiCAg0E40rIJaldCkX_2edRaxU1hX2A4jyOc/s1600/iStock_000005946391XSmall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqSzdIP9Esi9WuSNPQznhfoIaFSJtbjgQAlqStFfr09Z15XY80F5ps1lpe4oAUSLpOvWn2e8fm5wukhut30fl_fGkuMG36BAY_6AisCE2YfiCAg0E40rIJaldCkX_2edRaxU1hX2A4jyOc/s320/iStock_000005946391XSmall.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Freedom has always come at a price and every human being on this planet deserves respect as a human being but not necessarily the right to be heard. Some people are crazy and others are crooked and their ideas and ideals don't belong alongside great men and women of history. </div><div><br /></div><div>As I am inundated and my inbox is full, I'm feeling completely and utterly rebellious. I think common sense has gone out the window but I'm not just going to whine about it. <span style="background-color: white;">So, I'm proclaiming my own age of common sense including:</span></div><div><ul><li>Time with family, in nature, exercising, reading, and talking to people are just as important as online time. </li><li>I will not elevate a person who is not there over a person who is right there. I will pay attention to people. People are important. I will be PRESENT.</li><li>I'm just not going to get hyper over anything NEW because it is new. I'm not a fangirl who worships any person or gadget or app, that is ridiculous.</li><li>I will look for people who are up front about who they are, their motivations and even their beliefs. We've been in a time of "abstaining" - no one wants to tell anyone what they believe because we're to the point that some people think "if you're not like me, I'm not going to follow you." I will look for honest, truthful people and work hard to be one myself. I will keep following people who are different from me, that is OK.</li><li>I will be minimalistic in the apps, alerts, and streams I allow into my life but intentional about participating where I want to be. If I can't use my iPad because I'm being alerted that Talking Tom needs to be "fed" then that is over the top.</li><li>I'm a human being not a human doing. Being is as important as doing and vital to my own sanity.</li><li>I'm going to go with the research that the fountain of youth is exercize. Mrs. Grace Adkins who is 80+ now rides her bike for an hour 6 days a week. She's de-aged 15 years, has lost 20 pounds, and still comes to work 5 days a week. She feels better than most 50 year olds I know. I'm going to work out an hour a day 6 days a week, no matter what. Tweeting another tweet and blogging another blog isn't going to make me live longer, exercise can.</li><li>I want to find people who have common sense and wisdom but also let them be human's who mess up. I'm not going to run away from a person because they screw up once. This "disposable people" society is ridiculous where people mess up and can never be forgiven. I guess it makes people feel better than a great person who messes up but part of my faith is the belief that I can be forgiven and have the ability to start over at any moment in my life.</li><li>My followers, friends, and those I follow are a cool, fun, powerful way to interact but I will not give them more importance than my husband or children. </li><li>Helping others live their dreams by being helpful and shining the spotlight on greatness wherever it is, is a lasting legacy.</li><li>A cell phone in my hand does not excuse rudeness. I will not stand up in front of people who are there in order to capture a moment for those who aren't. Manners start with me.</li><li>Complaining about everybody else is a sorry way to live life and will make me bitter and worthless. I will be the kind of person I think this world needs and ask God to give me wisdom to do that.</li></ul><div>What would you add to the age of common sense? I wish we could start using more of it.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigT6f0jFxCLy3YN8E5mQoahcCYZRpvVHMoN5hO5hDjCUACWvZwy6ZKlISwtV4a00OphvESmrBKyShJmIV6uFJ0OyJYWKedLCgBtT3UEeivRDCAsT8mPohcaJcchRfKhj3pPxeJQhd8oz79/s1600/Zipline+2012+(1).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="425" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigT6f0jFxCLy3YN8E5mQoahcCYZRpvVHMoN5hO5hDjCUACWvZwy6ZKlISwtV4a00OphvESmrBKyShJmIV6uFJ0OyJYWKedLCgBtT3UEeivRDCAsT8mPohcaJcchRfKhj3pPxeJQhd8oz79/s640/Zipline+2012+(1).JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some would say ziplining isn't good common sense. But that is not what I'm talking about in this post. Common sense is that I left my iPhone behind and enjoyed every "wahoo" and "wow" on this trip. Common sense is taking time to go to the mountains with your family even if it means you lose a little privacy. Common sense is living your life offline as well as online and encouraging others to do the same. For life to be sweet, it takes more than a tweet. Get out there and live it!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div></div>

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30 days of webtools: #9: Create PDFs from webpages using the Chrome Extension ‘Send to Google Docs”

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Recently I was faced with a problem. Some of the Constant Contact newsletter links that I had placed on the blog no longer worked…they had expired.  I thought the best thing to do would be to convert the newsletters to PDFs and upload them to Box.net with a link to the blog.  But, Constant Contact didn’t seem  to supply any way of converting these newsletters to PDF. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">Google Chrome extension – Send to Google Docs</span></b>. <br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Then I remembered the wonderful free Chrome extensions for Google Chrome. They seem to provide the answers to many a problem. I went to the Chrome Web Store and searched for the ‘Send to Google Docs’ extension…and installed it. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiloTnTsoxqQ0wi5v_8Uj2TAYsbqNdULlmlOkNrYz-IZithNk1DhnaxVZrtNnHKGti4ZLGEHMwWRFI2Xm1GwkkoN8BtwhWBYPjG0RRlOk233obiA_65e_VxnZZen52DDN8K1B_GjA3kI8g/s1600-h/image%25255B4%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOOtCGHPuDf8nbmXG61vxkYsG_TZ89aUzpGcy4M3kCzf1N0azsQe29FWU1rJQ3KO40Ux3wFsc7EnXyThbutg725I04zm2eRtS8ouC_mZ2dbWBmYWjouD2JhAYHUYD9SyPyGarNR6aIqYI/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="361" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It neatly took its place alongside my other Chrome Extensions on the top right side of my Chrome browser. I then did what I had to do and converted the newsletters to PDFs. This is an amazing feature in Google Docs. You can take any web page and convert it to a PDF in this manner. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>How to save a web page as a PDF</b></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><u>Step 1</u>: Find the web page you would like to save</span><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Step 2</u>: Click on the installed Chrome extension ‘<i>Send to Google Docs’</i> on the browser bar </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBwL_MGR-3qLD_l2yYGRDfQFH0xvV3TQMOXW-cWEi2Inc_VdUY3Napw4mEkQh1ZAGI5ypzAuowZUIroV4RPf7xr9M23a4YOCFtqbM_jx_cLPhlRTNpxjbihNtxT82OUS5GnJY8Dg5fEpE/s1600-h/image%25255B12%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="30" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMMsCq7-0FfXztL6WZBmaos8lXgUaCN_AosCX6vor6u6wIh79Ub12kMDK_NVEQSPXuGwEAWpvYkERjRDhZGTHWS14jraZW_WVU4eM99iDNFAWb2YhlyExhhkLrItC46wIE2aFq_otyqB8/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="244" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The web page will appear in your Google Docs in no time at all.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzV8oP6y_o42j0F-MX15pqHncfa5nfA5bwsGUudgeOsRLPVruFnnl8N4SdqD0swy5tqy1B-jevXh8yBVqQnJYvBHdHToCS7hcGsrInqKe-Htt92Xv8RyQM9AQygbBQbo2ZgOqfRjak1bc/s1600-h/image%25255B9%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW873h-hLr6DL1pE6Txtdi6AZOPB3Sroe5uxiBaHBszNAqf4umDpYi4-4ux-y3VQNB6sda8TmGF5cPU2l1kClNPbPGLMZe3XthLdc5pm07rDNJXVrjbVvuNQhfUF_YlZXAfg1oDdosOdE/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="417" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Step 3</u>: You’ll notice at the top of the page in Google Docs that three options are given.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhscGST-h1S5b2GPXZUUxlGu8icmZThQmH8O8PEJY2wNgLDTxGdtTnNAXo_34g42NUCfIROp-IcUdL2iI1TSaxbvbvL5FrbELC1NuicmBdeZMn1WdqX-XycKV7a6sG6-97rL0Nnvh-wztA/s1600-h/image%25255B17%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="56" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Z7F4WaEQOgnLGQ7lyJZY6m2uf4m6cpnuZfT1WBets2ojSiAOeG_yLNFXEAbFU5-Lbgrt0lyxOk2lQvqK9DUsTgTot63hIZJAHpZ6hprbsnzaiGLgSFbIwEpbnsfYRYh7kU2_A5r5e_s/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="406" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />You can actually do all three! I chose to <i>download the original</i> which it does in a PDF format which is perfect. From then on you can either link the document from Google Docs to a blog, wiki or website or you can upload it to a programme like Box.net to link from there.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So, why not download the Google Chrome extension ‘<i>Send to Google Docs</i>’? It is a marvelous way of saving webpages as PDFs. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">  </span></div></div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Recently our Programmes Manager, Omashani, received a letter about the SABC Education Show ‘Mother of all professions’ from Unathi Memela, the Content Producer of the show. The show will be filming in the different provinces and planned to complete Gauteng before the June break.  If you are from one of the other provinces and would like to be considered for this as per the conditions outlined below, please contact Omashani at SchoolNet via the email address on the SchoolNet website (<a href="http://schoolnet.org.za/">http://schoolnet.org.za</a>)</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here is the request:</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“I hope this mail finds you well. I am urgently looking for interesting stories to profile for  the new season of the SABC Education Show "Mother of All Professions"  The show is looking for exceptional and inspiring people, schools, projects or organisations that are doing exceptional work around education whether in the classroom or in communities. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The theme for this new season is "anyone can be a teacher" and teaching doesn't necessarily have to happen in the traditional classroom. One of the themes that we would like to look at is the successful use of technology in education especially in disadvantaged schools. I came across a very interesting article on the how the use of I-pads have impacted learners in Embalenhle Primary School in Vosloorus. This is the kind of innovative approach to education  that the show is looking to showcase. We would like to profile this school as an example of how technology can help educators in the classroom </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am hoping you can assist me with putting this episode together. I am also open to any suggestions of other exciting elements (besides the school profile) that you might have that would make this episode exciting. We would like to film this episode before the schools close for the June break.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The episode would be 24 minutes dedicated to showcase ICT implementation in schools.”</span></div></div>

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30 Days of Web tools: #8: Use Mergely to edit and compare documents

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><img height="257" src="http://www.lostintechnology.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/after-fork-edit.png" width="400" /><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Have you ever tried to open two documents to compare them? You wish you could see immediately what changes you have already made? Comparing, editing and sharing documents is really a way of life for most of us – and Mergely provides a way of doing this easily. </span></div><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">What is Mergely and how does it work?</span></b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mergely is a useful online tool that can help you merge text documents and highlight changes made to existing documents.  To do this you open Mergely and paste the original document into the left column. Make changes in the right hand version and the edited changes can then e seen in the right column</span>.<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When you are finished you can generate and share a URL and send the documents to someone else.</span> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span> <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFk2i3BRv6w7Yh5J_ISmrf4TkVm2NuIG91pFK_NNRAg-gbSpKnmAJE7F_INeJqYCZx1m4Unm78owSacLmL7F8I1Dx9ti7NkbyMlmsXT5SKR0orb6PJyUzilMGeATd2hGM8e3DMpi70XQg/s1600-h/image%25255B3%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDmGWP9bUNeJZyvvDRjbMutnsHYpWXeFZveIo1JejuojT1ZcnM5L4WzIY5rRmLAMaQ9zpAynZ897joslDQbiw3idHVq0vqIZfJLCnEiz4_YpqVAEHvQhED64MpsYinGX53DEi_crQfc-Q/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a> <br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><b>What are the Mergely buttons used for?</b></span> </div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></b>  <br /><h4> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZyjOgr36v_KI_8mEn4ciMbGy5iPT22wSNAG7iO5PToJ1tmitt_6KIXuxF8pWcsGC_7XWQ4Yj7B1KOcNFGHHBDF5v0ijhbv6yEXQKCeQI6Y5mQB4zxrKz5EMOtaklV9BD89Xir-xeYEZc/s1600-h/image%25255B7%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="55" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit4_kHYq8muxfdXS_5PtCKkmAoSZWTvi5muivkj3fEXHeG518xYbxONN6sAIdVtaB9oAErX_hL0RNkWAQncxP1O4o8tgc3xfGkSUBi-fuxeO4UmOsNSWOn7n-xmZ3Wewe09VNXDY2QnKg/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></h4><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Next to the search box, you will find seven buttons. <br />*The first one is a search button. <br />The second one lets you replace the right file with the left or the inverse. <br />*The third one is for swapping left and right. <br />*The next one clears the entire scroll area, and the last button is to download and save a file. <br />*The next two buttons are are download buttons (one as a .diff file)<br />*The last one is to open a file on your computer and load it if you so wish.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2BVo1EhqFdik_Y-S1i-QWDF6w4P8FxSl7zvUXLsbiyiCYR7mw3jKBj4xR8XZUC4inJbfvPFq2ZhJt7fewbp5I7j2gGtfZ0S-T6iaoinfsIISmSyehV7sJ_IqG96phnD62B0cLhWIiXJk/s1600-h/image%25255B11%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="56" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA5q1R-K1WNdQMZztzsLmaYTMzUWOtNdasWHxST1HRcN2l5GP33N5d0mpsVs0Q4LdAmpxfVgT_I1wWSi6zp3VPDLvHMyLqyp0sZfsoO7LSyWV7ET2HtC5DbtcLxDEND7fSlplHbPap-qo/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a> <br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The main save button allows you to save a file online. When you click on save a message appears.</span></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtcYjaZ0-U0YytWdHbdOzJzH6MsEUrDStatO2tU8M6rTlBSUHaocxNcGuSvMjY0rt6_VAWgKA487cA_D4zegaT3HbaB8rNkUMf75P1_9TysLpPn9V7QV0ykv0ZG5kw1oh81exgFCsWllM/s1600-h/image%25255B16%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjod-RxoNifkaAGRIgh9GBiIte_hv2oZVjkon2oSX1Zw5NeHkPSUDOKVbolTqjdKzWtBAbU_D4dlxrQkILXQTQJ8L1YFroo0HfqaKCgemOngsJLyeFXHON1wpESagJWmwaus68poNod348/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="365" /></a></span><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Two new buttons appear.</span></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMRMbj1fpS6mtSEO-5OeY5OEIR2PCKxMZV8qRheC7c9ENe-4WrVco6WLXmR-nwkUey_McuRED-sRHwX9bexmt2ZNPPpQspngZB7zUiWhgqQeBQZCh0wrqaTDd2qASmnMIfRTJuOBA0iL0/s1600-h/image%25255B21%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="73" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKLL4cRo-xC7ddnGlRyXQ4P-riLU3h_97mCTn4U_3Dq_MsqHeFYrWF3K1y1dA4p_tas2yobDXsIoYJFbVobJbyhv1IohhwECIg2lb-E97HKqXxXzTRMDkwM9Sacs4psKvfg4Ldctma7cs/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="415" /></a><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>'Share'</i>  gives you a URL that you can share and open from any remote location.</span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioN_YAP6GD58_7BfsRPq3gFI569hXANR49gQRu3bUVNBkqv_fZf-oi2OBbj1IXAB63VAjO4LO9eNaVRP01KAuaRGSORDl2BJn-91BOeJ4svFazGkAgPup7TSJf56iwC2XiHJCRGuOOt2k/s1600-h/image%25255B26%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="82" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Vq0YoCBXnenLI3nOADRJmwFl9EX9RFz0oWbTc5BBSQtqL_SO8Hg-Q3WpDNTxyPhv_fqC2nGBlBMQw-c9o4GIBsVtKZYwQSyUm0DkjWqxzFlA4I8bSq5FuGdhNMD4y1NF9r-0N6xpcxE/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="393" /></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b></b></span><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>'Fork'</i> creates a new version of the same documents with a new unique URL. It helps for multiple sharing and making back up copies. </span></div><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Summary of features</b></span></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><span style="font-size: small;">Free and easy to use. </span> </li><li><span style="font-size: small;">Compare documents and highlight changes. </span> </li><li><span style="font-size: small;">Upload documents from your PC</span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;">Either download or share these as a unique URL.</span></li></ul><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Classroom uses</b></span></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><span style="font-size: small;">This is a handy tool for Language teachers to teach writing composition and show how to edit a document. </span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;">A useful feature is the ability to share a URL to share with others. This will enable documents to be passed around</span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;">Students could </span><span style="font-size: small;">use Mergely to review a document without editing the original.</span></li></ul></div>

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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6WuQm5in7x6pb7eX5WL9Pwi-V20JDp7PXztfOmg108UDmfC1eT7UKI68W1Wxfd-FFAyg9OaiD4nLsx_KhVhumD6P3JI0a_35JVJ4u8kxmpY9D1Ydki5e-_KFeAtHc4zo0pgaLKrOT37cp/s1600/iStock_000016515746XSmall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6WuQm5in7x6pb7eX5WL9Pwi-V20JDp7PXztfOmg108UDmfC1eT7UKI68W1Wxfd-FFAyg9OaiD4nLsx_KhVhumD6P3JI0a_35JVJ4u8kxmpY9D1Ydki5e-_KFeAtHc4zo0pgaLKrOT37cp/s320/iStock_000016515746XSmall.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">iStock photo - All rights reserved.</td></tr></tbody></table>Cool apps and tablet news across my radar recently. <br /><ul class="diigo-linkroll"><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.sharemylesson.com/teaching-resource/20-iPad-Apps-for-Educators-50001270/">20 iPad Apps for Educators - Resources - SML</a></div><div class="diigo-description">A pdf with 20 ipad apps for educators - this may be something you could email to your teachers if they've just gotten ipads to teach them how to open and read a pdf on their ipad. This is really just a powerpoint converted to PDF but it does include links and screenshots.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education.">education.</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ipad">ipad</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a></div><div class="diigo-tags"><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.tech2date.com/40-ipad-apps-for-language-learners.html">Tech2Date » 40 iPad Apps For Language Learners</a></div><div class="diigo-description">40 ipad apps for language learners that teach language and culture. My top complaint continues to be the lack of feedback to parents and teachers, however, if you're implementing iPad 1:1, this is a must review list.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ipad">ipad</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ios">ios</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a></div><div class="diigo-tags"><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://static.chrisbray.com/bookmarklets/#tumbler">Adding Bookmarklets on iPad and iPhone</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Instructions for adding a safari bookmarklet for just about every service (except Diigo) on Chris Bray's website. If you have an ipad or iphone and want to send things to your Tumblr blog you can follow these instructions. (For pinterest, go to the Pinterest website.)</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/productivity">productivity</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/eduapp">eduapp</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/edapp">edapp</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Tumblr">Tumblr</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Twitter">Twitter</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Facebook">Facebook</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Evernote">Evernote</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ios">ios</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ipad">ipad</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ipadchat">ipadchat</a></div><div class="diigo-tags"><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://alienblue.org/">Alien Blue - Reddit Client for iOS</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Reddit is increasingly a site where technology news breaks as well as having a tight integration with top technology sites like Twit.tv (they use Reddit to curate topics for the show.) This app is the highest recommended app for using reddit on the ipad and for that reason I've installed it.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/technology">technology</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/productivity">productivity</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/reddit">reddit</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ipad">ipad</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ipadchat">ipadchat</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/edapp">edapp</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/eduapp">eduapp</a></div><div class="diigo-tags"><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.icab-mobile.de/">iCab Mobile - The Internet Taxi for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad</a></div><div class="diigo-description">This web browser for the ipad integrates tightly with dropbox. If you want to download and save to dropbox from your ipad web browser, this is worth it.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/dropbox">dropbox</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/eduapp">eduapp</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/edapp">edapp</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ios">ios</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ipad">ipad</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ipadchat">ipadchat</a></div><div class="diigo-tags"><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://ipadinsight.com/ipad-apps/demo-display-recorder-ipad-app-hurrah-and-how-did-this-make-it-into-the-app-store/">Demo: Display Recorder iPad App – Hurrah and How Did This Make It Into the App Store? — iPad Insight</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Display recorder is a cool app that lets you record everything on your ipad screen. This is a demo. I found out about this at socialedcon during our smackdown. Unfortunately it has been taken down out of the app store for some reason, but I'll mention it because it was there.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/eduapp">eduapp</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/edapp">edapp</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ipad">ipad</a></div><div class="diigo-tags"><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/05/goclass-create-and-deliver-lessons-on.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+freetech4teachers%2FcGEY+%28Free+Technology+for+Teachers%29">Free Technology for Teachers: GoClass - Create and Deliver Lessons on iPads</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Another lesson deployment app for the iPad that you can compare to NearPod. Another one worth testing.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/eduapp">eduapp</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/edapp">edapp</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ipad">ipad</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/flippedclass">flippedclass</a></div><div class="diigo-tags"><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.collobos.com/index.html">Collobos Software</a></div><div class="diigo-description">This software is supposed to make it easy to airprint all of your printers so you can print from iPad or iPod ir iPhone. It uses Bonjour and comes highly recommended. My sister is a graphic designer and says all of her friends are raving about it right now. Worth a try as her friends are super picky.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/eduapp">eduapp</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/edapp">edapp</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ipad">ipad</a></div></li></ul><ul class="diigo-linkroll"><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.tweetmagapp.com/">TweetMag</a></div><div class="diigo-description">An app that uses your Twitter account to make magazines.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/twitter">twitter</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/eduapp">eduapp</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/app">app</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ipadchat">ipadchat</a><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://help.getpocket.com/customer/portal/articles/483627-using-the-pocket-bookmarklet">Pocket | Using the Pocket Bookmarklet</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Detailed instructions for installing pocket onto any web browser including for mobile devices.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/productivity">productivity</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/pocket">pocket</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/app">app</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/eduapp">eduapp</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/edapp">edapp</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ios">ios</a><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://help.getpocket.com/customer/portal/articles/483679-how-to-save-to-pocket-on-ipad">Pocket | How to Save to Pocket on iPad</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Instructions for adding Pocket (formerly read it later) to the safari web browser. This is the sole competitor for Instapaper in my opinion. Cool App.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/eduapp">eduapp</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/app">app</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/edapp">edapp</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/productivity">productivity</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ipad">ipad</a><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.smore.com/n57d-iste-2012-the-big-events">ISTE 2012: "Other" Events | Smore</a></div><div class="diigo-description">You should read this page if you're at ISTE and if you're not. It is created using Smore - an app recommended at the smackdown today. It includes many of the other events of iste that you'll want to join.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/iste12">iste12</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/iste">iste</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/app">app</a><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.wollage.com/">Wollage , the social-scrapbook!</a></div><div class="diigo-description">A new social network around scrapbooking called Wollage to share memories. This might be a great one for using this summer.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/app">app</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ird">ird</a><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.socrative.com/">Socrative | Student Response System | Audience Response Systems | Clicker | Clickers | Student Clickers | ARS | Mobile Clicker | Software Clicker</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Socrative is an app that turns any device into part of a student response system. Not sure why I haven't written about before as it has won all kinds of awards. If you have BYOD or iPad or any type of 1:1 technology, Socrative is a must use so you don't have to buy a separate response system.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/eduapp">eduapp</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/app">app</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/assessment">assessment</a><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/draw-something-by-omgpop/id488627858?mt=8">App Store - Draw Something by OMGPOP</a></div><div class="diigo-description">This is like pictionary with friends. Draw something and send it to a friend and have them guess what it is. This app is on sale right now. Lots of fun.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/eduapp">eduapp</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/edapp">edapp</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/drawing">drawing</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/app">app</a><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://appsineducation.blogspot.com/2011/12/are-we-really-evaluating-use-of-ipads.html">Apps in Education: Are We Really Evaluating the Use of iPads in Our Classroom</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Research and information collected about ipads and app use in education.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/research">research</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ipad">ipad</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/app">app</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/learning">learning</a><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://appadvice.com/appnn/2011/12/capture-memories-and-save-them-to-ibooks-with-my-istory">Capture Memories And Save Them To iBooks With My iStory -- AppAdvice</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Take photos and text in this iPad app and create an iBook to share. This is very cool. You could use this for journal ing in a 1:1 iPad program.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Ebook">Ebook</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/app">app</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/iBook">iBook</a><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://discussion.evernote.com/topic/22720-skitch-for-ipad">Skitch for iPad! - Evernote User Forum</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Skitch for the Ipad is here. This whiteboard drawing, mind mapping ipad tool saves to evernote. If you love evernote, this is a must download tool.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/eduapp">eduapp</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/evernote">evernote</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/skitch">skitch</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/app">app</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/edu_news">edu_news</a><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://booksandglitter.blogspot.com/2011/11/i-symbaloo-do-you.html?spref=tw">Books and Glitter: I Symbaloo--do you?</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Many teachers are raving about symbaloo, here is a another one.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/app">app</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/web2.0">web2.0</a> <br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.buzztouch.com/pages">Free iPhone App Builder | Free Android App Builder | iPhone and Android CMS</a></div><div class="diigo-description">An app building content management platform. This was recommended to me by Jarrod Robinson (Mr Robbo the PE Geek - a very helpful guy).</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/app">app</a><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://en.linoit.com/">Online Stickies - lino</a></div><div class="diigo-description">A sticky note account. I may use this for my pkflow method that uses stickys. This website lets you have a page with online stickys and notes. Cool tool that reminds me of corkulous on the ipad.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/app">app</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/webapp">webapp</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/productivity">productivity</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/technology">technology</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/edu_newapp">edu_newapp</a><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/edu">Google Apps for Education | Official Website</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Official website of Google apps for education. If you're interested in setting this up for your school or college, here is where you start.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/cloud">cloud</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/app">app</a><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="https://docs.google.com/#home">Google Docs - Home</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Google docs is a word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation software of choice in the cloud for many that need to be collaborative. But perhaps the most useful thing to me is google forms which let students make the form and put it out on the web for others to answer. Then, examining results is as simple as pasting into a word cloud maker.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/tool">tool</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/productivity">productivity</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/app">app</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/cloud">cloud</a><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.tilespeak.com/">TileSpeak: Play Mahjong, Learn Chinese!</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Teacher yourself chinese and play mahJong at the same time. This is an app.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/learning">learning</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/chinese">chinese</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/language_teacher">language_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/language">language</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/app">app</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/edu_newapp">edu_newapp</a><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/showme-interactive-whiteboard/id445066279?mt=8&ls=1">ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard for iPad on the iTunes App Store</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Hook your ipad up to your projector and it becomes a personal whiteboard. IWB's are they as useful?</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/app">app</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ipad">ipad</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/iear">iear</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/techintegrator">techintegrator</a><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.showmeapp.com/">ShowMe - The Interactive Learning Community</a></div><div class="diigo-description">The showme app on the ipad has some fascinating potential. I am going to play with this over the summer. Would love to hear from anyone who is already using it.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ipad">ipad</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/app">app</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/freeapp">freeapp</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/freeipadapp">freeipadapp</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/iear">iear</a></div></li></ul><div class="diigo-ps">Posted from <a href="http://www.diigo.com/">Diigo</a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">here</a>.</div>

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The world is my pearl #flatclass

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container zemanta-img" style="float: right; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8107002@N03/3121817819" imageanchor="1" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: clear:right;"><img alt="Flat Classroom Skype" border="0" class="zemanta-img-inserted" height="180" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3213/3121817819_bced0e0fe5_m.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center; width: 240px;">Flat Classroom(r) Skype (Photo credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8107002@N03/3121817819" target="_blank">superkimbo</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container zemanta-img" style="float: right; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8107002@N03/3122642350" imageanchor="1" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: clear:right;"><img alt="Flat Classroom Skype" border="0" class="zemanta-img-inserted" height="180" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3262/3122642350_c622f19853_m.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center; width: 240px;">Flat Classroom(r) Skype (Photo credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8107002@N03/3122642350" target="_blank">superkimbo</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Often, we envy those who had the ability to "discover" things and yet many seem to gravitate to discussing answers that have already been found. Many think everything that has been discovered is all there is. They lack imagination and wisdom.<br /><br />I choose to live my life on the new frontier, the frontier where we are discovering what it is like to connect classrooms and students in ways never before imagined.<br /><br />These things we do strike fear in the hearts of warmongers and the media who would rather kids believe their propaganda and hateful words that someone is evil just because they are different. I fear that when ambassadors and bureaucrats realize we are operating under their radar, without their facilitation or official "endorsement" that they will cringe and become angry.<br /><br />The fact is that the world is flattening and teachers don't need someone with money and power to pull the trigger on a sanctioned interaction. We can collaborate and connect with free tools at lower bandwidth than many thought possible and we are, every day. Few know what we're doing but we do and we smile with the knowledge that our children travel with us around a world that is more reachable than ever before.<br /><br />Pascal said "Those we call the ancients were really new in everything."<br /><br />See those who discovered as beginners and life takes on a new meaning.<br /><br />The <a href="http://www.flatclassroomproject.net/" target="_blank">Flat Classroom(r) project</a> is my new frontier. I am sad for those schools who honestly think they can have a world class education without connecting to the world. The world isn't my oyster - it is my pearl and the pearl of my students.<br /><br /><div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/?px" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"><img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_c.png?x-id=c6b1f31b-50f1-4327-9a89-4356ba29d0a3" style="border: none; float: right;" /></a></div>

flatclassroom The world is my pearl #flatclass

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SYRIA: BIO CHEMICAL WARFARE EQUATION

<h1 style="color: red; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Current Mainstream Media Headlines: </span></h1><h1 style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;">U.S. Concerned as Syria Moves Chemical Stockpile</span></h1><h1 style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Israel advised to brace for Syrian missile attack – conventional or chemical</span></h1><h1 style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Syria Chemical Weapons Arsenal: Stockpile of Chemical Weapons Reportedly Moved Out Of Storage</span></h1><h1 style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;">                                                                 ........... </span></h1><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> SYRIA’S ARSENAL OF BIO CHEMICAL WEAPONS: </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">INFORMATION WAR, STRATEGY OR REALITY </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisQFByGnqZd6Bgjexf1jJV5su9cNnNU1ltXJ9JvdSrZYxivWGG1MsWETcUg17xvtVdlLFEDvqHWxlUfXXqsWRF0nPdy0tdAvnOqR4LSRtPLAYb8-8Z9dReRfAC9DL3WNl41JT0igAgwAkC/s1600/pg39.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisQFByGnqZd6Bgjexf1jJV5su9cNnNU1ltXJ9JvdSrZYxivWGG1MsWETcUg17xvtVdlLFEDvqHWxlUfXXqsWRF0nPdy0tdAvnOqR4LSRtPLAYb8-8Z9dReRfAC9DL3WNl41JT0igAgwAkC/s400/pg39.gif" width="362" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">It’s interesting to see that <b>only now</b> (this week), western mainstream media and governments are picking up on the subject of SYRIA’S bio chemical weapons arsenal and threat of using them. </span></div><h1 style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring<span style="font-weight: normal;"> has reported on subject matter </span>since March 2012<span style="font-weight: normal;">. It is hard to believe that Western military intelligence have not been aware of the fact that Assad possesses these weapons and is willing to use them if pushed into the corner, thus it would seem that at this stage of the Syrian conflict, the protégées of covet warfare in Syria are stepping up the info war by deliberately publishing the Syria’s Bio Chemical threat through their media outlets, such as FOX, DailyMail UK, Reuters and indeed all major western mainstream media “opinion makers”. Headlines such as</span>”U.S. Concerned as Syria Moves Chemical Stockpile”, “Israel advised to brace for Syrian missile attack – conventional or chemical”, “Syria Chemical Weapons Arsenal: Stockpile of Chemical Weapons Reportedly Moved Out Of Storage” <span style="font-weight: normal;">are currently circling the media landscape. </span></span></h1><h1 style="color: red; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;">COVET WAR: THE BETTER OPTION THAN FULL SCALE INTERVENTION</span></h1><h1 style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The fact that Syria possesses these weapons together with an advanced missile system is one of the reasons Western powers, in favor of toppling the Assad Regime, have opted for covert warfare rather than full-scale Libyan style intervention. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></span></h1><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">To reiterate:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">On <b>8 of March</b> <b>2012</b> <b>Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring</b> stated that Syria does possess bio chemical weapons and that sooner or later they will either be used by Assad, if pushed into the corner. <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/03/given-fact-syria-does-possess-chemical.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/03/given-fact-syria-does-possess-chemical.html</a>, or by western allies, in favor of toppling the regime, as a “Psy Ops” tool to either increase covert operations, or to justify a full out military intervention. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">On <b>20 of March Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring </b>wrote: Syrian Missiles will pre emptive any military intervention. See: <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/03/syrian-missiles-will-pre-empt-any.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/03/syrian-missiles-will-pre-empt-any.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">On <b>7 of July Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring</b> wrote:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: red;">UNLIKE IN EGYPT AND LIBYA, THE SYRIA’S ASSAD REGIME WILL LEAVE WITH AN IMPACT, IF TOPPLED…….</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">One should not underestimate SYRIA threat of using its bio chemical weapons arsenal if pushed into the corner. This could also have devastating consequences for TURKEY. <b>The fact that SYRIA possesses these Bio chemical weapons is probably the main reason foreign intervention by western powers is put on hold, for it would affect the entire region.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Read full article at: <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="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">See also: <b>Useful excuse for foreign intervention: Syria’s bio – chemical weapons arsenal</b><b>?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/06/syrian-conflict_11.html%20"> </a>and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/06/syria_11.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/06/syria_11.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL7iD8GR70i3R2LGcgIB9DQpQbCxhXiTmSmR-nyoslb7cvKQlPkZKHU3Cxvf6LyJ2nWS6s18C4UOgrxK6rbElqFtTtYsimn_HhzCv3qqxxjHTuVGcOPglVl5F1cJprQRSjjfLEZl0hVsBb/s1600/T-iEifjiPqwm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL7iD8GR70i3R2LGcgIB9DQpQbCxhXiTmSmR-nyoslb7cvKQlPkZKHU3Cxvf6LyJ2nWS6s18C4UOgrxK6rbElqFtTtYsimn_HhzCv3qqxxjHTuVGcOPglVl5F1cJprQRSjjfLEZl0hVsBb/s400/T-iEifjiPqwm.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Debkafile, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">an Israeli information outlet wrote on 14 July 2012:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>ISRAEL ADVISED TO BRACE FOR SYRIAN MISSILE ATTACK – CONVENTIONAL OR CHEMICAL</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="articlebody">As the already unthinkable pace of slaughter in SYRIA accelerates further, </span>WESTERN military sources warned that not only ISRAEL, but additional strategic targets in MIDDLE EAST lands deemed enemies by Bashar Assad should prepare for him to launch surface-to-surface missile attacks. The assaults would start out with conventional warheads, but as the regime continued to be hammered, the beleaguered ruler might well arm the next round of missiles from his huge stockpile of mustard gas - not to mention sarin nerve poison and cyanide.<br />Western intelligence sources say Assad has a list of targets ready to go. Analyzing the SYRIAN war game taking place last week, they calculated that Wednesday and Thursday, July 11 and 12, the SYRIAN army practiced shooting missiles at strategic centers in ISRAEL, TURKEY and JORDAN.<br />But while most Western officials now confirm that Assad has moved his WMD warheads and shells out of storage, they are already divided on what it means. Some US officials are soft-pedaling the menace, offering the theory that the SYRIAN ruler is only safeguarding his unconventional weapons from falling into rebel – or what he calls “terrorist” – hands.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Other Western intelligence watchers, especially in BRITAIN, believe he is preparing a campaign of ethnic cleansing at centers of revolt and report that chemical weapons have already been transferred to Homs, Latakia and Aleppo for operational use.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">Comment by <b>GEOPOLITICAL ANALYSIS AND MONITORING</b>:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>PSY-OPS OR LEGITIMATE INFORMATION  </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="articlebody"><span style="color: blue;">“Unthinkable pace of slaughter in SYRIA”, “</span></span><span style="color: blue;">hammered”, “the beleaguered ruler” are hardly terms used to reflect objectivity, but rather to opinionate readers. To imply that, according to Western intelligence watchers, especially in BRITAIN, the Assad regime is preparing a campaign of ethnic cleansing at centers of revolt shows that Debkafile is used as a tool, by those who run the info and covert war against Syria, to opinionate readers. Using the term BRITISH intelligence watchers, instead of BRITISH intelligence indicates that the ethnic cleansing assumption probably comes from the BRITISH based “</span><b><span style="color: blue;">Syrian Observatory for Human Rights</span></b><span style="color: blue;">” which it is alleged of being a one man show, run by a man called </span><span style="color: blue;">Rami Abdulrahman</span><span style="color: blue;">! </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>GAME-CHANGING PREDICAMENT FACING THE WEST – CONVENIENT DOOMSDAY SCENARIO </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0070c0;"><br /></span>That is one game-changing predicament facing the West. It would quickly assume a regional dimension if TURKEY, ISRAEL and JORDAN were to come under SYRIAN missile assault.  Air and missile reprisals against SYRIAN military or regime centers would carry the danger of Hizballah retaliation from LEBANON leading to direct attacks from IRAN. Before going down that road, ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and TURKISH Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan – who are not on speaking terms – would certainly confer with US President Barack Obama.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">Comment by <b>GEOPOLITICAL ANALYSIS AND MONITORING</b>:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: blue;">THE USE OF BIO CHEMICAL WEAPONS BEARS HUGE RISKS FOR ONE’S OWN FORCES IF USED IN ONE’S OWN “BACKYARD”</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">“Game-changing predicament facing the West”, phrases used as warmongering tactics to justify full scale intervention? Though Assad will most probably use his bio chemical weapons as a last resource if cornered, it is common knowledge that bio chemical weapons could “backfire” if used in one’s own back garden or near vicinity of the “neighborhood”. A fact all military strategists are aware of and thus usually used as the last tactical resource. The threat however becomes legitimate if Assad launches missiles with bio chemical warheads that reach further north into TURKEY as well as SAUDI ARABIA, for it would not bear the danger of affecting homeland territories. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">  </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>COVERT WARFARE CARRIES A PRICE IN FAILURE AND CASUALTIES</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; 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: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">Even then, their consultations would not necessarily lead to action.<br />For example, three weeks have gone by since SYRIA shot down a TURKISH Air Force reconnaissance jet and yet after, close consultation with Washington, the Erdogan government was persuaded to leave the incident without response. Administration officials explained to the TURKS that covert warfare carried a price in failure and casualties.<br />This US attitude might well embolden the SYRIAN ruler to risk his arm with limited missile strikes against TURKEY and ISRAEL and bank on the Obama administration twisting their leaders’ arms behind their backs to prevent them making any serious response.</span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></div>

SYRIA: BIO CHEMICAL WARFARE EQUATION

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Senior Product Development Engineer (optics, laser, Thin film, Metrology)(#108272)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: small;"><b>Position</b></span><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: small;">: Senior Product Development Engineer<br /> </span><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: small;"><b>Location</b></span><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: small;">: Milpitas, CA<br /> </span><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: small;"><b>Duration</b></span><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: small;">: Full time<br /> <br /> </span><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: small;"><b>Job Description</b></span><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: small;">:<br /> The FaST Division develops and supports products in the areas of Film and CD Metrology<b><br /><br />Sustaining Engineering / Continuous Improvement Project Role:</b></span></div><div dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: small;">Responsible for engineering activities on existing products. These activities will include the development and release of new options, features or cost reduction improvements that provide more value to our customers (external or internal). Integral to this role is an understanding of the customer’s use-case and successfully working in conjunction with other groups to define the requirements. Must have the ability to follow through and release / support these product enhancements effectively. Train service and manufacturing employees. May be required to travel to customer sites to efficiently and effectively resolve technical issues (Fly and Fix).</span></div><div dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: small;"><b><br />System Driver Role</b><br />Maintains and coordinates daily schedules, prioritizes system usage, and supports all functions of the tool which include weekly health checks, maintenance, troubleshooting and repair, system calibrations, SW/HW upgrades, revision control, testing, debugging and data analysis of measurement performance. Completes the initial diagnosis of any system issue. Must have the knowledge and experience to effectively work with experts in optics, laser, stage, loader, image computer, and algorithms to actively assist in resolving the issues. Is expected to be a key contributor in design reviews and during the engineering / alpha builds and test phases of programs, which includes testing against design tolerances and marketing specifications of a product release. Prepare first draft of system alignment, calibration and troubleshooting diagnostics. Train service and manufacturing employees. May be required to travel to customer sites to efficiently and effectively resolve technical issues (Fly and Fix).<br /> <br /> </span><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: small;"><b>Key Responsibilities</b></span><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: small;">:<br />Gain a systems-engineering level knowledge of highly complex, leading edge metrology systems by working with design engineers during the development process. Assess system optics, electronics, software, and mechanics with respect to design for reliability, stability, and serviceability.  Help develop, and validate maintenance, troubleshooting, and part replacement procedures, BKMs and Recipes. Leverage alpha and beta tool builds and customer engagements to obtain a level of system understand that will allow you to support the product post release. Support internal and external customers in the operation, installation, upgrade, diagnosis, repair and application of semiconductor wafer metrology systems.</span></div><div dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: small;">Respond to situations where first-line support has failed to resolve problems by providing written plans of action by e-mail or hands-on assistance at customer sites in the US, Asia, and Europe. Train tech support personnel and others and assist in developing training materials. Gather and analyze data from the field to identify sources of systematic issues across tool populations. Write technical reports to communicate issues, analysis, technical assessments, system status, and engineering recommendations.</span></div><div dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: small;">Act as a two-way conduit for information transfer between the engineers who are responsible for designing our products and field service teams who are responsible for product maintenance and support.</span></div><div dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: small;">The person who will thrive in this job is interested in technology, human factors, and business, is motivated by helping others succeed and by driving improvements, and enjoys communicating and building working relationships.</span></div><div dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: small;"><b><br />Minimum Qualifications</b></span><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: small;">:</span></div><div dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: small;">Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 8 years of experience.<br />OR<br />Master's Level Degree with at least 5 years of experience.<br />OR<br />Doctorate (academic) with at least 3 years of experience.</span></div><div dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: small;">Kindly send your resumes to</span><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="mailto:Sivaram.bose@kla-tencor.com"><span lang="en-us"><u><span style="color: blue;">Sivaram.bose@kla-tencor.com</span></u></span></a></span><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: small;"> </span></div></div>

Senior Product Development Engineer (optics, laser, Thin film, Metrology)(#108272)

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Library Assistant - E. O. Smith High School

<strong>Library Assistant -</strong> <span style="color: #48286d;"><strong>E. O. Smith High School</strong></span>, Storrs/Mansfield, CT (10 month position beginning late August, 2012). Job requirements: Enthusiastic and committed individual with a desire to supervise and work with teens. Responsibilities include managing the circulation desk and overdue materials, organizating all periodical and newspaper subscriptions, providing reference assistance to students and staff, maintaining library usage statistics, and computer trouble shooting. Ability to attend to task details with self-direction, excellent interpersonal and organizational skills with the ability to multi-task a necessity. Minimum two years of college and/or library experience preferred; library technician/technology assistant certificate also welcome. Looking for previous work experience with teenage students and familiarity with all components of Microsoft Office. Please send letter of interest, resume and three letters of reference to: Bruce W. Silva, Superintendent, Regional School District #19, 1235 Storrs Rd., Storrs, CT 06268.

Library Assistant - E. O. Smith High School

Library Assistant - E. O. Smith High School , Storrs/Mansfield, CT (10 month position beginning late August, 2012). Job requirements: Ent...

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