Today's archidose #624

Here are some photos of a couple projects in Zaandam, Netherlands, designed by <a href="http://www.soetersvaneldonk.nl/">Soeters Van Eldonk Architecten</a>, both photographed by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/klaasfotocollectie/">Klaas Vermaaas</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.soetersvaneldonk.nl/en/architectuur/werken/zaandam.html">City Hall Zaanstad</a> (2011):<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/klaasfotocollectie/8046774573/" title="zaanstad stadhuis 01 2011 soeters s (provinciale wg) by Klaas5, on Flickr"><img alt="zaanstad stadhuis 01 2011 soeters s (provinciale wg)" height="427" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8457/8046774573_e860c03a2e_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/klaasfotocollectie/8046779952/" title="zaanstad stadhuis 02 2011 soeters s (provinciale wg) by Klaas5, on Flickr"><img alt="zaanstad stadhuis 02 2011 soeters s (provinciale wg)" height="427" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8171/8046779952_705e84dbbe_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.wam-architecten.nl/projecten/Intell_Hotel_Zaandam.php?english">Inntel Hotel</a> (2010):<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/klaasfotocollectie/8050075942/" title="zaanstad hotel inntel 06 2010 wam_molenaar_v winden (provinciale wg) by Klaas5, on Flickr"><img alt="zaanstad hotel inntel 06 2010 wam_molenaar_v winden (provinciale wg)" height="427" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8313/8050075942_be2ab778cc_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/klaasfotocollectie/8050078810/" title="zaanstad hotel inntel 03 2010 wam_molenaar_v winden (provinciale wg) by Klaas5, on Flickr"><img alt="zaanstad hotel inntel 03 2010 wam_molenaar_v winden (provinciale wg)" height="800" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8169/8050078810_6c3aebaa43_c.jpg" width="534" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/klaasfotocollectie/8050077042/" title="zaanstad hotel inntel 05 2010 wam_molenaar_v winden (provinciale wg) by Klaas5, on Flickr"><img alt="zaanstad hotel inntel 05 2010 wam_molenaar_v winden (provinciale wg)" height="800" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8033/8050077042_1ce6f9cb12_c.jpg" width="534" /></a><br /><br />To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just:<br /><blockquote>:: Join and add photos to the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/archi-dose/">archidose pool</a>, and/or<br />:: Tag your photos <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/archidose/">archidose</a></span></blockquote>

Today's archidose #624

Here are some photos of a couple projects in Zaandam, Netherlands, designed by Soeters Van Eldonk Architecten , both photographed by Klaas V...

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My Freaky Neighbor

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />Hola freaks and weirdos  After months of involuntarily listening in on my upstairs neighbor’s activities I have suddenly put all together. Well, it wasn’t so sudden really. It actually took several nights of lying awake in my bed while listening to a rhythmic squeaking and banging noises going on above me.<br /><br />My neighbor gets a lot of action. I always figured that he was either a really charming guy or had access to great drugs that girls were willing to do anything for. But, the more action he got, the more things didn’t seem to add up.<br /><br />See, it sounded like my neighbor had an air mattress that he used as his “sex bed” because it wasn’t bed springs or a bed frame type squeaking. If you've ever slept on an air bed you’ll know what I mean. It sounds like squeezing a beach ball.<br /><br />Here’s the weird part. I've never hear any HUMAN noises up there. No moaning or screaming or cooing or anything. No talking beforehand or afterwards. Also, after he’s through he jumps out of bed and runs to the bathroom. But, nobody else does. In fact, there’s only one person walking around up there EVER.<br /><br />Hell, three minutes before he’s in bed getting bizz-ay he’s outside talking on his cellphone. Next thing you know he’s squeezing the beach ball for ten minutes and that’s it. Then, after a trip to the bathroom, he goes into the other bedroom, gets into a bed that has a real squeaky frame and goes to sleep.<br /><br />So, I think we all know where this is going, right? Yup … My upstairs neighbor has a girl drugged and chained to an air mattress in his apartment.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF8ZlpUnQ30eca9i22ds1HodsgwqeFqbz56quf5RnjpuJCRwchnQECS4CNhp4fQKLHDP3bgSkytLZHhzvFHD4oJ-KtQ4qlvsM5o6k3Z_TXfcIJVhipswlFAuPwAvQ5y0wDsHMTnfm3uag/s1600/Blow+Up+Doll+Twins.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF8ZlpUnQ30eca9i22ds1HodsgwqeFqbz56quf5RnjpuJCRwchnQECS4CNhp4fQKLHDP3bgSkytLZHhzvFHD4oJ-KtQ4qlvsM5o6k3Z_TXfcIJVhipswlFAuPwAvQ5y0wDsHMTnfm3uag/s320/Blow+Up+Doll+Twins.jpg" width="273" /></a></div>Wait … No, that’s not it. I hope. His girlfriend is a blow up doll.<br /><br />Not that there’s anything wrong with that. And I’m certainly not one to judge, but it’s just one of those things that seems odd and one feels they must share on their blog with the whole world.<br /><br />Has anyone out there ever tried a blow up doll? I guess maybe some people just need a little help when it comes to masturbating. If this dude was in the blogosphere or twitter he would meet more than enough hot babes to fantasize about and maybe he wouldn't need something like that and wouldn't have worry about hiding his “girlfriend” in case maintenance came into his apt when he was gone. And that’s exactly what’s going to happen if I can talk the maintenance dude into to. I’m totally going to try to get him to go in there and look. Just for confirmation, not so I can mock him again. I would never do something like that. But, just so I’ll know if my months of detective work were worth it.<br /><br />If there is no blow up girlfriend up there, I will have to ask him where he finds all these deaf and mute girls. Unless he’s good at finding girls who don’t mind having duct tape over their mouths during sex. That would be kinda hot.<br /><br />Jayman<br /><a href="mailto:Jayman3768@gmail.com">Jayman3768@gmail.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/jayman_iws">@Jayman_IWS </a><br /><br /><br />Also, on Wednesday we had a great show talking about the Presidential Debate, Nicki Minaj vs Mariah Carey, speaking Canadian and Drive-By Mikey called in to update us all on the Great Mouse Hunt of 2012. All that and so much more! 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Rain, rain go away.....

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I went for a walk before work today. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was lovely weather when I set off.  I walked along the canal.  There were loads of people out cycling and walking as it was quite a nice day.  </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh572mMU4RzUs0on-F29jTl4U9i33jfgK7ZbJRrNf1VopdXYKHzWw8p3ygJf8UZ3HR53Wms3jbH2-58KjocCEf3wIyTfTxjkf8UnmbM50mc8mRvwjuq93j_n1yYWPTgRKJIO5y9MD7HViIa/s1600/IMG_2110%5B1%5D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh572mMU4RzUs0on-F29jTl4U9i33jfgK7ZbJRrNf1VopdXYKHzWw8p3ygJf8UZ3HR53Wms3jbH2-58KjocCEf3wIyTfTxjkf8UnmbM50mc8mRvwjuq93j_n1yYWPTgRKJIO5y9MD7HViIa/s320/IMG_2110%5B1%5D.JPG" width="239" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">It began to get windy and then started to rain a little.  All of the pictured swans on the canal began to make their way under this tree for shelter from the rain.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQOJEZDxxTpzJT8p58ZpqWP1Vwl7WYvKIt5aue2m4ou7WIrkggHYMy6qIa9gNrkugl99JOlMYPdLrK4vQbMBV5ZdeOa1cdRwy82cwA1Hbse09wil7RNZYu8cCdakgsSRJJMCsPbL49upto/s1600/IMG_2115%5B1%5D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQOJEZDxxTpzJT8p58ZpqWP1Vwl7WYvKIt5aue2m4ou7WIrkggHYMy6qIa9gNrkugl99JOlMYPdLrK4vQbMBV5ZdeOa1cdRwy82cwA1Hbse09wil7RNZYu8cCdakgsSRJJMCsPbL49upto/s320/IMG_2115%5B1%5D.JPG" width="239" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I made my way straight to Starbucks on Mespill Road to avoid getting wet! </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBRN3NmJHLYUDHEGzkrn9TYa7aoMec48CjFQ5xt-Jiyp9H9_f_6-9RBA54SHkNPGkswMY0PBdbtaIRWSCbcx1SykDe9mn7DTpZMSfdzoyN8qt4cmJxlNkfuumkkz0QTNR2rBGTeaCP-Cli/s1600/IMG_2111%5B1%5D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBRN3NmJHLYUDHEGzkrn9TYa7aoMec48CjFQ5xt-Jiyp9H9_f_6-9RBA54SHkNPGkswMY0PBdbtaIRWSCbcx1SykDe9mn7DTpZMSfdzoyN8qt4cmJxlNkfuumkkz0QTNR2rBGTeaCP-Cli/s320/IMG_2111%5B1%5D.JPG" width="239" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">It is a very small Starbucks, I think it is more of a takeaway coffee spot for all of the offices in the locality. The sit in area is not hugely attractive........but luckily for me it is not my closest Starbucks - that's the one at the Luas Stop on Harcourt Street.</span>

Rain, rain go away.....

I went for a walk before work today.  It was lovely weather when I set off.  I walked along the canal.  There were loads of people out cycli...

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Booster Shots - health, medicine, nutrition, disease, healthcare, fitness - latimes.com

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Senior Staff Opto-Mechanical Engineer (108717) (DUV Systems)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><!-- Converted from text/rtf format --> <br /><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Job Title:</span></b></span><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Senior Staff Opto-Mechanical Engineer</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Location:</span></b></span><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Milpitas, CA</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Position:</span></b></span><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Full time </span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">  </span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Responsibilities:</span></b></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Surfscan-ADE division of KLA-Tencor is an industry leading supplier of wafer inspection and metrology systems. Wafer suppliers and device manufacturers worldwide rely on our measurement and inspection systems to certify and ensure the highest quality bare silicon substrates. Semiconductor device yields begin with the bare wafer, and our leading technologies provide early insight into surface defects, shape, flatness and nanotopography of these advanced 300 and 450mm substrates. Our optical inspection and metrology tools will support the next several generations of wafer and IC manufacturing.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> We are seeking a Senior Opto-Mechanical Engineer whose responsibilities will be to:</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Define the architecture of cutting edge wafer inspection systems.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Work alongside optical engineers to understand and engineer solutions to critical opto-mechanical requirements.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Lead the development and qualification of complex opto-mechanical assemblies.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Assume responsibility for design, fabrication, alignment, performance characterization, and technical interaction with vendors.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Perform hands-on use of conventional and cutting edge DUV metrology tools to characterize subsystem performance.  System level inspection tool operation will also be used to establish and verify subsystem requirements and operation.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Collaboratively interact with a multidisciplinary project team and regularly communicate requirements and results in oral and written form.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Some travel may be required. </span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Qualifications :</span></b></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Candidates must possess the following qualities:</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Visionary 3D thinker capable of taking complex concepts and packaging them in a manufacturable design.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Capable 3D modeler who enjoys iterating through multiple product architecture proposals with an open mind for improvement and progress.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Understand complex mechanical tolerancing.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Able to collaborate with Optical Engineers to engineer a complete alignment methodology.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Top down thinker who understands all current manufacturing technologies.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Experience taking conceptual information and architecting multiple solutions and approaches to solving design challenges.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Experience with actively adapting to changing design requirements.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Firm foundation in machine design.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Experience with optical alignment methodology and tooling.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Candidates will have some combination of the following qualities:</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Experience with Opto-Mechanical design principles: kinematic design, flexures, athermalization, environmental effects.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Experience designing opto-mechanical modules and custom fixtures and tooling leading to successful introduction into manufacturing.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Structural analysis: finite element analysis, stress in optics, creep and stress relaxation, modal analysis.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Experience working with Optical metrology equipment including lasers, interferometers, autocollimators.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Fundamental optics knowledge: geometric optics, ray tracing, wavefront propogation, polarization, fabrication tolerances, environmental effects desired.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Thermal analysis: heat transfer, temperature gradients, thermal transients, thermo-elastic analysis.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Vendor management: component fabrication, manufacturing process transfer, qualification.</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 12 years of experience or equivalent. </span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">OR</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Master's Level Degree with at least 8 years of experience or equivalent. </span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">OR</span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Doctorate (Academic) with at least 5 years of experience or equivalent. </span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Kindly send your resumes to</span></span><span lang="en-us"><b> <span style="font-family: Arial;">abhinav.rajkumar@kla-tencor.com</span></b></span><span lang="en-us"></span></div></div>

Senior Staff Opto-Mechanical Engineer (108717) (DUV Systems)

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Internet addiction diagnosis: DSM revision to include "internet-use disorder" as a possible condition for further study.

<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><div class="text parbase section" style="margin-top: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; ">Everybody panic: Internet-use disorder is a thing now. Kind of.</p></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin-top: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; ">The new version of the DSM—the international psychiatric diagnostic manual—will list "Internet-use disorder" as a condition "recommended for further study." Essentially, they're saying that some people who spend a lot of time on the Internet demonstrate similar symptoms to people diagnosed with other addiction disorders, and that the psychiatric community should study it and consider promoting it to a full-blown disorder down the road. In other words, no one's getting a diagnosis, yet.<br></p></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin-top: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; ">The classification seems to stem from previous concerns about gaming addctions in kids, as <a href="https://rt.com/news/internet-use-mental-illness-389/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">Russia Today'</a>s write-up of the DSM change explains:</p></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin-top: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><blockquote style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 40px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 0.9em; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; ">Australia was one of the first countries to recognize the problem and offer public treatment, and established clinics to treat video game addiction. That such widely used technologies can cause deep harm to children has lead to further examinations of adults habits surrounding devices used 24/7 for reading, gaming, and social interactions.</blockquote></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin-top: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; ">For those of you who are rolling your eyes a bit at yet another addiction in the public eye, the<strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; "><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; ">Slate</em></strong> archives have you covered: <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2009/07/bitterness_compulsive_shopping_and_internet_addiction.html" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; ">Christopher Lane</strong></a> explains the madness behind the DSM-V process and examines some of the more absurd sounding disorders considered for inclusion in recent years. As he puts it:</p></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin-top: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><blockquote style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 40px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 0.9em; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; ">"If you spend hours online, have sex more frequently than aging psychiatrists, and moan incessantly that the federal government can't account for all its TARP funds, take heed: You may soon be classed among the 48 million Americans the APA already considers mentally ill." </blockquote></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin-top: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; ">Meanwhile, <strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2009/12/the_addiction_habit.html" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">Vaughan Bell</a></strong> laments the "creeping medicalization of everyday life" and asks if we're pretty much just addicted to being addicted.</p></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/10/02/internet_addiction_diagnosis_dsm_revision_to_include_internet_use_disorder_as_a_possible_condition_for_further_study_.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content"></a></span><a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/10/02/internet_addiction_diagnosis_dsm_revision_to_include_internet_use_disorder_as_a_possible_condition_for_further_study_.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content"></a></div><a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/10/02/internet_addiction_diagnosis_dsm_revision_to_include_internet_use_disorder_as_a_possible_condition_for_further_study_.html">http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/10/02/internet_addiction_diagnosis_dsm_revision_to_include_internet_use_disorder_as_a_possible_condition_for_further_study_.html</a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>

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<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><div class="text parbase section" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; ">Everybody panic: Internet-use disorder is a thing now. Kind of.</p></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; ">The new version of the DSM—the international psychiatric diagnostic manual—will list "Internet-use disorder" as a condition "recommended for further study." Essentially, they're saying that some people who spend a lot of time on the Internet demonstrate similar symptoms to people diagnosed with other addiction disorders, and that the psychiatric community should study it and consider promoting it to a full-blown disorder down the road. In other words, no one's getting a diagnosis, yet.<br></p></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; ">The classification seems to stem from previous concerns about gaming addctions in kids, as<a href="https://rt.com/news/internet-use-mental-illness-389/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">Russia Today'</a>s write-up of the DSM change explains:</p></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><blockquote style="margin: 1em auto; padding: 0px 40px; border: 0px; font-size: 0.9em; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; ">Australia was one of the first countries to recognize the problem and offer public treatment, and established clinics to treat video game addiction. That such widely used technologies can cause deep harm to children has lead to further examinations of adults habits surrounding devices used 24/7 for reading, gaming, and social interactions.</blockquote></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; ">For those of you who are rolling your eyes a bit at yet another addiction in the public eye, the<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; "><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; ">Slate</em></strong> archives have you covered: <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2009/07/bitterness_compulsive_shopping_and_internet_addiction.html" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; "><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; ">Christopher Lane</strong></a> explains the madness behind the DSM-V process and examines some of the more absurd sounding disorders considered for inclusion in recent years. As he puts it:</p></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><blockquote style="margin: 1em auto; padding: 0px 40px; border: 0px; font-size: 0.9em; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; ">"If you spend hours online, have sex more frequently than aging psychiatrists, and moan incessantly that the federal government can't account for all its TARP funds, take heed: You may soon be classed among the 48 million Americans the APA already considers mentally ill." </blockquote></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; ">Meanwhile, <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2009/12/the_addiction_habit.html" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">Vaughan Bell</a></strong> laments the "creeping medicalization of everyday life" and asks if we're pretty much just addicted to being addicted.</p></div></div><a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/10/02/internet_addiction_diagnosis_dsm_revision_to_include_internet_use_disorder_as_a_possible_condition_for_further_study_.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content">http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/10/02/internet_addiction_diagnosis_dsm_revision_to_include_internet_use_disorder_as_a_possible_condition_for_further_study_.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content</a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 10/03/2012

<ul class="diigo-linkroll"> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://flatclassrooms.ning.com/group/flat-classroom-certified-teacher-12-1/forum/topics/what-are-creative-ways-we-can-create-symbiotic-learning-relations?xg_source=activity">What are creative ways we can create symbiotic learning relationships between different types of learners? - Flat Classrooms</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">This is a fascinating conversation about connecting, symbiotic relationships and more with some powerful, spot on answers. The teachers in our current Flat Classroom 12-1 cohort are amazing (and we have another cohort starting soon -- here's what we've been talking about this week. "This is happening now. Live Mocha and other sites have tandem learning - each learner teaches the other a different language. In my classroom, I have the older students teach younger students about computer hardware. But we could be doing so much more. Some professors like Dr. Leigh Zeitz (his students have served as expert advisors) and Dr. Eva Brown (her students helped run Eracism last year) are flattening their college classrooms with preservice teachers by having the teachers connect with high school and younger classrooms. These preservice teachers are understanding the nuances of the global collaborative classroom before graduating from college! There are so many ways we could be creating these types of learning relationships. This week, let's publicly talk about our ideas and also experiences in creating these experiences. We can learn more and do more in this area and technology opens up limitless possibilities. What do you think?"</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <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/globaled">globaled</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/flatclass">flatclass</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/tumblr">tumblr</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/all_teachers">all_teachers</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2012/09/google-drive-updates-for-ios-and-android.html">Google Drive: Updates for iOS and Android | Docs Blog</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">iPad schools that are also Google Apps will love that the new updates for iOS let you edit google docs simultaneously much like you do on the web! Great news.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/google">google</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/edapp">edapp</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/googleapps">googleapps</a></p> </li> </ul><p 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>.</p>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="WordSection1"><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Position:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> Global Talent Communications Manager</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Location:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> Milpitas, CA<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Duration:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> Full time<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Job Description:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The Customer Group (CG) team is our field based, customer facing organization consisting of Sales, Marketing, Applications, Finance, Human Resources, Facilities & IT.  They partner closely with our customers to provide a comprehensive portfolio of products, services, software and expertise, to help them manage yield throughout their fabrication process-from research and development to final volume production.  Responsibilities of this group include maintaining strategic client relationships, identifying and closing sales opportunities, ensuring our products meet performance capabilities & expectations, providing critical solutions for improved yield performance, and collecting requirements for future products by understanding customer processes and technology trends.  Partnering with our service organization and factory divisions, this diverse and dynamic team helps ensure alignment between customer needs and corporate offering to maintain a high level of customer satisfaction.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Responsibilities:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">1) Develop and implement an overall internal communications strategy which engages employees with KLA-Tencor strategy<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">2) Create and execute successful communications programs that strengthen leaders, managers and employees understanding of KLA-Tencor strategy<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">3) Define global messaging and communication themes in line with the company strategy, brand promise and value proposition<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">4) Work with executives in key functional roles including CEO, CMO, and HR to identify communications objectives, brainstorm creative solutions, develop communications plans, and lead or provide oversight of the programs or plans through multiple channels (programs may include Open Enrollment, Sustainability, PMP, Health and Wellness)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">5) Develop an overall plan for targeted communications efforts using all available and appropriate channels including town halls, brown bag lunches, intranet, apps, web and email, print materials, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">6) Provide communications advice and support to business leaders, other internal communication roles, consultants and senior support staff on a range of ad hoc issues and projects as required (e.g. Organizational Announcements)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">7) Design and execute Global All Hands, webcasts and other face-to-face communications and interactions to all employees or specific audiences from the CEO and other executives<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">8) Drive the development of online and offline communications projects such as videos, apps, microsites, Web content, KLA-Tencor’s Global Collaboration Platform and other communications<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">9) Design programs to ensure leaders stay connected with employees, taking a constant pulse on their attitudes, needs, priorities and communications preferences (e.g. Quarterly GM/VP Toolkit, Engagement Survey Communications)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">10) Oversee crisis communication strategy and process, ensuring that KLA-Tencor is prepared to quickly and appropriately communicate with employees on unforeseen crises and issues<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">11) Design metrics to measure progress and results for communication strategies as required<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Technical Competencies:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">- Business knowledge<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">- Communication planning, including experience with current web practices, supporting technologies, new media (including social media and viral messaging)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">- Change management<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">- Exceptional research, writing and editing, and in particular, the ability to write in different styles to reflect the nature of the stakeholder, audience and message<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">- Strong project management skills, and the ability to execute programs with speed, accuracy and efficiency<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> Cultural Competencies<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">- Creative thinker, with a desire and ability to look for better ways to approach issues and situations<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">- Compelling storyteller<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">- Positive, can-do attitude<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">- Uncompromising commitment to quality and details; able to uncover defects and develop solutions while also able to see the big picture<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">- Self-motivated, with an appetite for working entrepreneurially and a track record as self-starter<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">- Strong team orientation, with a strong sense of commitment to team members and clients<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">- Skilled in cross-cultural communication; demonstrates heightened awareness of cross-cultural issues and strong capability of working across boundaries and differences<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">- Evidence of intellectual curiosity as demonstrated by other professional training and outside activities; experience and interest in learning about new technologies<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">- Flexibility to travel globally, attend events as required and to work, if needed, outside of standard business hours<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Emotional Intelligence Competencies:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">- Demonstrates self-awareness and self-control<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">- Conveys empathy<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">- Displays social expertness<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">- Able to exert personal influence<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">- Demonstrates mastery of purpose and vision<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Minimum Qualifications:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">- Undergraduate degree in marketing, communications or related field is preferred<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">- At least 10 years of demonstrated impact in internal or external roles involving executive communications with examples of non-traditional, innovative approaches<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">- Experience working for a global Company, and demonstrated competence in communicating with internationally dispersed employees / teams<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">- A track record of working effectively with senior management (VP and C-Level) and forming peer-level relationships with other senior members of an organization<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">- Proven history of developing successful multi-channel, global internal communications programs<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">- Experience in managing core and virtual teams that include speech writers, graphics designers, consultants and agencies<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">- Past record of successfully driving programs with tight deadlines<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">- Expertise in multi-tasking, prioritizing, and succeeding in a fast-paced, dynamic environment<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Kindly send your resume to <a href="mailto:raju.balaji@kla-tencor.com">raju.balaji@kla-tencor.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div>

Global Talent Communications Manager (# 108697)

Position: Global Talent Communications Manager Location: Milpitas, CA Duration: Full time Job Description: The Customer Group (CG) team i...

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Presidential Debate 2012...Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Tonight at 9 P.M. ET, Jim Lehrer will moderate the first of the 2012 Presidential Debates live from Denver, CO.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHpNDN7WmMEKYyAufrZLMZT5ijFfmDeV9Oxj0TV2nQJ9tuprp5NEnw8mauMH1j07KdzltPdWPfeKDVJp78cv0jmYYnFGmcKhGgM-kWrVC_UpBDhOhkRFpuRkHdltjABicdML2ehbytyyk/s1600/Obama+Romney+Debate+2012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHpNDN7WmMEKYyAufrZLMZT5ijFfmDeV9Oxj0TV2nQJ9tuprp5NEnw8mauMH1j07KdzltPdWPfeKDVJp78cv0jmYYnFGmcKhGgM-kWrVC_UpBDhOhkRFpuRkHdltjABicdML2ehbytyyk/s400/Obama+Romney+Debate+2012.jpg" width="400" /></a>Tonight’s questions will focus on fiscal and domestic policy.  Subsequent Presidential debates will focus on foreign policy and social issues.<br /><br />So, in the meantime and on the precipice of tonight’s debate…<br /><br />We brought both President Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney into the Bagwine Studios of IWS in order to have a tête-à-tête type summit in order to discover what makes the hearts and souls of President Barry and Governor Willard beat.<br /><br /><b>Matt:</b>  Gov. Romney…Let’s begin with you.  If you had been born a black man rather than a pasty white type of guy…what type of black man would you be?<br /><br /><b>Romney:</b>  Hmmmm?  That pre-supposes that my father would have been a negro as well, and since as a white man living in Detroit he ran Ford Motor Company…um…as a successful negro living in Detroit, he would have run Motown Records. So I guess I would have become the cat’s pajamas in some Section 8 mogul form or fashion. Or I’d have taken over Motown Records and be known today as, Quincy Gordy and/or Berry Jones.<br /><br /><b>Matt:</b>  Likewise President Obama…If you had been born truly white, rather than an awkwardly DNA’ed mufaletta, where do you think you’d be today?<br /><br /><b>Obama:</b>  Hell I’d still be residing in Hawaii.  And as a white man I would actually be able to enjoy the surf.  I could swim in the ocean.  Ride a surfboard, and just hang out getting a tan.  You can’t do any of that type of thing when you’re a black man.  Hawaii isn’t paradise when you’re a black man; it’s just a Zip Code.<br /><br /><b>Matt:</b>  Let’s move to religion…President Obama?  If you were a Mormon, how do you think you would react?<br /><br /><b>Obama:</b>  Well…First I would say unto myself…Why your mommy and daddy belong to a church that considered us folks of color lesser folk until 1980 or so?  But then?  I’d be all over that polygamy thing and marry Tyra Banks, Shakira, Eva Longoria, Michelle, produce 8,000 kids, and be the first Democrat Presidential candidate to ever win the State of Utah.<br /><br /><b>Matt: </b> And Governor Romney?  What if you had been raised a Muslim like President Obama?<br /><br /><b>Romney:</b>  That’s a bazaar question.  Ha Ha Ha, get it?  Bazaar?  Anyhoo…The word bazaar is a portend as to what I’d do.  I’d probably ingratiate myself to the Muslim community and make millions off of selling spices and tea leaves produced in China and Laos to my Muslim brethren in the kitschy markets of the Middle East.<br /><br /><b>Matt:</b>  Gov. Romney.  Soft Drinks…Pop…Soda…They can help to define a person.  What is your favorite?<br /><br /><b>Romney:</b>  Well as a Mormon I don’t consume caffeine, but as a drinker of soda, I do once in awhile enjoy an ice cold bottle of Coca-Cola.<br /><br /><b>Matt:</b>  Coke does contain caffeine.<br /><br /><b>Romney:</b>  Pepsi?<br /><br /><b>Matt: </b> Pepsi does as well.<br /><br /><b>Romney:</b>  Well, I do enjoy being in the bubbly presence of the CEOs of both companies.  Ha Ha Ha.<br /><br /><b>Matt:</b>  President Obama?  You favorite soft drink, pop, soda?<br /><br /><b>Obama:</b>  Hee Hee…I see you smiling Matt-Man, because as you worked in fast food in High School and work at the Beer Mine now, you know what us bruthas like.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhRQymYAmkK94Yzj9FY6_pgdGpnBBoy3ndGegFNIUAROhOvlkwlC3KBtzYzPeAdK7S2MhuIo-inkawfW8Z8AWZjFcNGkp8aT1GoxEm6qbo9TVZXcvneY2TySLWibc2x50IFKeZ4K26lMI/s1600/Tahitian+Treat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhRQymYAmkK94Yzj9FY6_pgdGpnBBoy3ndGegFNIUAROhOvlkwlC3KBtzYzPeAdK7S2MhuIo-inkawfW8Z8AWZjFcNGkp8aT1GoxEm6qbo9TVZXcvneY2TySLWibc2x50IFKeZ4K26lMI/s400/Tahitian+Treat.jpg" width="400" /></a><b>Matt:</b>  Ha…And what would that be?<br /><br /><b>Obama:</b>  We like Orange Pop, Grape Pop, and Tahitian Treat.<br /><br /><b>Matt:</b>  Word…And even though you are Hawaiian, you’ll have none of that Hawaiian Punch shit.<br /><br /><b>Obama:</b>  Fuck that shit.<br /><br /><b>Romney:</b>  Can I say fuck that shit too?  I mean, if it’ll help me be hip?<br /><br /><b>Matt:</b> You just did, Governor.<br /><br /><b>Romney: </b> Yo, Canine.  Woot Woot.<br /><br /><b>Obama and Matt:</b>  Uh-huh.<br /><br />And that concludes our debate and if you’d like, Jayman and I will be broadcasting LIVE Today at 11 AM ET on Blog Talk Radio so catch us LIVE by clicking right <i><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2012/10/03/yada-yada-yada">HERE.</a></span></i><br /><i><br /></i><i>Matt-Man</i><br /><i><a href="mailto:mattmaniws@ymail.com">mattmaniws@ymail.com</a></i><br /><span style="color: blue;"><i><a href="https://twitter.com/MattMan_IWS">@MattMan_IWS</a></i></span></div>

Presidential Debate 2012...Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney

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Book Review: The Architect Says

<a href="http://www.papress.com/html/book.details.page.tpl?isbn=9781616890933"><b><i>The Architect Says: Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom</i></b></a> compiled and edited by Laura S. Dushkes<br />Princeton Architectural Press, 2012<br />Hardcover, 160 pages<br /><br /><img alt="book-quips.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/book-quips.jpg" title="Precedents in Architecture: Analytic Diagrams, Formative Ideas, and Partis" /><br /><br />Even though architecture is a spatial, tactile, and visual medium, and architects naturally convey their ideas primarily through visual means (drawings, models, renderings), they still have a need for writing. And some architects have a knack for creating catchy phrases, many of which have been handed down (more or less accurate to the original) for generations, such as Mies van der Rohe's "Less is more" or Robert Venturi's response, "Less is a bore."<br /><br />Laura Dushkes, appropriately a librarian at NBBJ in Seattle, has compiled a number of gems both familiar and otherwise in this small book. Actually she has crafted less a book than a pocketbook of inspiration. Even the design (hardcover, rounded edges, ribbon marker, large type with various fonts) makes <i>The Architect Says</i> resemble what can best be described as a sketchbook/textbook hybrid. It's as if the "quotes, quips, and words of wisdom" were jotted down like in a sketchbook, and the architects are speaking to us as if they are our teachers.<br /><br />Beyond the actual selection of quotes, the most intentional aspect of Dushkes' editing is their ordering. They work together to give a cover-to-cover read of the book a nice flow, with certain takes, topics, and themes grouped together. Contradictions and disagreements abound, most obviously with the above lines by Mies and Venturi facing each other on one spread. Another important element is the way the type design emphasizes certain parts of each quote; given their brevity I find the blue highlights unnecessary, but they do affect the reading of the various quotes.<br /><br />Reading the whole book is fairly quick, but it's clearly meant to be a book to browse; a lack of an index and sources for the quotes (outside the architect who wrote it) means it doesn't really work as a reference. Coming across unexpected quotes or ones that hit a nerve makes a flip through the book great. A couple of my favorites includes Jan Kaplicky: "It's not a sign of creativity to have sixty-five ideas for one problem. It's just a waste of energy." and Frank Gehry: "I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do." These and other quotes make the book a great gift, especially for that architect who'd rather read the good parts instead of a whole book. <br /><br /><b>US: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1616890932?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=1616890932&linkCode=xm2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" target="_blank"><img alt="Buy from Amazon.com" border="0" src="http://www.archidose.org/books/buy-from-tan.gif" /></a> CA: <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/1616890932?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydose02-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=15121&creativeASIN=1616890932" target="_blank"><img alt="Buy from Amazon.ca" border="0" height="28" src="http://www.archidose.org/books/buy-from-tan-ca.gif" width="90" /></a> UK: <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1616890932?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=1634&creativeASIN=1616890932" target="_blank"><img alt="Buy from Amazon.co.uk" border="0" height="28" src="http://www.archidose.org/books/buy-from-tan-uk.gif" width="90" /></a></b>

Book Review: The Architect Says

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Victory Lap: Pondering the struggles of being a teacher

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdjqaQGv_iJcXAk1sbs0sozAvmvWBIM0KtJg8_hwCtR7A0R52hD5a5aJB-8EkTSZlE30ascVv6sPylb0R1Y3XXXb7ruyAs13vt-ay30QdyKBFqhkR09x3jOHVALhzUjQ5XHW1isCnV4dx0/s1600/bigstock-runners-jogging-group-in-park-26729189.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdjqaQGv_iJcXAk1sbs0sozAvmvWBIM0KtJg8_hwCtR7A0R52hD5a5aJB-8EkTSZlE30ascVv6sPylb0R1Y3XXXb7ruyAs13vt-ay30QdyKBFqhkR09x3jOHVALhzUjQ5XHW1isCnV4dx0/s400/bigstock-runners-jogging-group-in-park-26729189.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Sometimes we all have a down day. Then we have a down week. Suddenly, we realize that we are down too much. Exhausted and no longer excited, we've sat down, laid down, or been flattened and wondering where the encouragement will come from.<br /><br />The other day someone said something unkind to me on twitter about being middle aged and middle class and it hurt. (Plus the fact he was making fun of my Christian faith, but I'm about to get used to that these days.)<br /><br /><h3>It is easy to get down when you're a teacher. </h3>Just like preparing to speak for a keynote, I have that same rush of adrenaline that I feel each time the bell rings for a new class to come in. I know that if I'm leading the conversation that I must perform - I must be on top of my game. So, by the end of the day (as when I'm writing this) there's no game and no energy left for me. Going to the grocery store, cooking dinner, or preparing for an online meeting are the furthest thing from my mind. All I want to do is completely collapse in my chair and watch an old episode of Numb3rs or Monk with a big old hot brownie and some Blue Bell Ice cream on top.<br /><br />I get the great opportunity to be a full time teacher and Mom and to write about it. This is my niche. <b>If you're reading this and have nodded your head at what I'm writing</b>, you're my audience. I don't get a quiet office, I get up at 5 am when it is quiet to have my quiet time and write quietly for you each day. On my knees, I ask God what people need to hear out there and how I can be helpful.<br /><br /><h3>Retreat and struggle.</h3>But lately, with some private things in my life that I've had to do, I've felt as if I'm in retreat.<br /><br />What will happen if I open up and let you know that my schedule this school year is really getting to me? Will you think I'm a bad person? Not a worthy person? Do all speakers and authors that you read really have to be skinny, energetic, and perpetually young? Do they all have to be excited about every day and act like they've had 6 cups of coffee in their cereal for you to like them?<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/AVvXsEhOvVGaKgtdxqvp30t6sRpf2u6DkOJe7T633oNzmtNc-3XebIjZJ0cbJCqSeGjN-L-wIkBjl0pRHXiJbvIkQfudxD14Gu7uo1Nv1CGbH_kIWNEOoMIEjFvtEZ1dh1bhfDPshIANpWHAma-U/s1600/bigstock-Hoeing-5212379.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOvVGaKgtdxqvp30t6sRpf2u6DkOJe7T633oNzmtNc-3XebIjZJ0cbJCqSeGjN-L-wIkBjl0pRHXiJbvIkQfudxD14Gu7uo1Nv1CGbH_kIWNEOoMIEjFvtEZ1dh1bhfDPshIANpWHAma-U/s320/bigstock-Hoeing-5212379.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Teachers have a tough row to hoe.</td></tr></tbody></table><h2><br /></h2><h2>Reality.</h2>Reality for teachers is that we may get away to a conference for a few days but we've got a hard row to hoe every day of the week. We're up past midnight grading papers and have parents who send us emails and expect an immediate reply. We might have a tad of time and if we read our reader or education news we see another teacher basher who has written a damning article from the quiet of their office while their secretary holds their calls and their own children are off at school.<br /><br />I feel like most edreform articles are unrealistic diatribes by the clueless for the clueless. Meanwhile, those of us doing this for a living are attracted to articles about how to do it better and rarely can stomach the edreform debates swirling around us that will determine the future of education in America or the country in which we reside.<br /><br /><h2>There has to be a balance. </h2>So, for me right now, I'm not in retreat, I'm prioritizing.<br /><br />My husband and I have been working hard to balance our budget using Dave Ramsey's <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.daveramsey.com/fpu/home/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Financial Peace University">Financial Peace University</a>. It has meant packing sandwiches and cutting out extra expenses and my book budget was slashed to $20 a month. It will likely also mean that I won't be able to go to ISTE 2013. We have a son to send to college in the fall and this is the way it is.<br /><br />Maybe I am middle class. Maybe I am midway through my life. But it isn't going to to turn into a crisis.<br /><br />As I type this, I'm about to go put on my shorts and walk around the track (and run a bit too) as I listen to my new favorite Christian group, Veritas.<br />I'm going to fix a good dinner and spend time talking to our Flat Classroom Certified teacher cohort... a fantastic group of educators who excite and motivate me.<br />I'm going to know that I'm not thinking clearly right now because I'm EXHAUSTED.<br />I'm going to read some more of my <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Rapp" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Mitch Rapp">Mitch Rapp</a> book tonight as conducts black ops and gets the bad guy.<br />I'm going to fix an incredible dinner that my husband will love to come home to and put on my lipstick and give him a big kiss when he walks in that door.<br />I'm going to chat with the people who hang out on my Facebook fanpage as we talk about being teachers.<br /><br />I'm not going to judge the success of my day by whether I got to inbox zero or got some more followers on Twitter.<br />I'm not going to look at my Klout or Peerindex to measure what kind of person I am.<br />I'm not going to look at my list of 60 things that I have to get done RIGHT NOW or else.<br />I'm not going to get down on myself any more.<br />It stops now.<br /><br />I'm thankful to be a teacher. Teaching isn't like anything else. I rarely  have things I do in class that  I can mark off a list. But I can put my head on my pillow tonight knowing that I gave EVERYTHING to my students and that I was a fantastic teacher today. I gave it all. As our football coach says, "I left it all on the field" and I paraphrase, "I left it all in the classroom" -- I gave everything I had.<br /><br /><h3>An obscenely long paragraph of what I did today (you might want to Skip ;-)</h3>I was prepared when they walked in the door, I'm working hard to stay up on my grading, I've responded to all of the parents who have questions for me and I have appointments to teach all the kids before or after school who have missed because they were sick. I did an incredible job with study hall today as I helped the kids list all of the work they have to do on the board and I made sure they stayed on task so their parents won't have to worry about it tonight. I encouraged eighth graders who were sad about losing elections and helped my ninth graders Blackboard Collaborate with a classroom in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=29.4166666667,-98.5&spn=0.1,0.1&q=29.4166666667,-98.5%20(San%20Antonio)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="San Antonio">San Antonio Texas</a>. My tenth graders understand the 10 flatteners in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Thomas Friedman">Thomas Friedman</a>'s book The <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.amazon.com/World-Flat-History-Globalized-Twenty-first/dp/0713998784%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dhttpwwwbrighc-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0713998784" rel="amazon" target="_blank" title="The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century">World is Flat</a> and are ready to start collaborating. They understand the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Dot-com bubble">dot com boom</a>, the dot com bubble, and the implications of Y2k, the IIT's in India, and the history of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Tim Berners-Lee">Tim Berners-Lee</a> and the protocols that created the Internet. My homeroom is ready for Homecoming next week and I've got seniors doing SAT prep for the test Saturday. I've been conversing with teachers on the Flatclassrooms Ning as we brainstorm symbiotic learning opportunities and how e can creatively make more and been awe struck by Sue Levine's post about the <a href="http://flatclassrooms.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-sweet-taste-of-synchronicity" target="_blank">Sweet Taste of Synchronicity</a>. Heck, I even finally got my insurance company and the local hospital to admit a massive billing mistake when my son was in the hospital with pneumonia that is going to give me a lot more peace of mind. In between classes, I helped our science teacher upgrade the software for her Ken-a-vision electronic microscope and made sure the new Accelerated Reader system was working and removed a trojan horse from a computer that was preventing an important order from being placed.<br /><br />^^^<br />Look at this list. I didn't even list everything but I think I did a lot more than I thought I did. I even went and retitled the paragraph and deleted some things! I bet if you type a paragraph about what you DID today you might be as shocked as I am. I felt like I did NOTHING today. I was sitting here feeling like a loser like I didn't get a THING done and look at that list!!<br /><br />I even marked seven things off the list in my planner too.<br /><br /><h2>Routines, Classes, People Everywhere All the Time</h2>Teaching isn't like the business world. It isn't. We don't have lists, we have routines. We don't have meetings, we have class -- all the time. And we never have an empty room. We are often on the edge of hyperventilation and capitulation and yet we don't.<br /><br />I am a teacher and I'm not going to have a guilt trip about the fact that I don't get a list of 50 things done any more. I gave all I had today and that is enough.<br /><br />So, to those of you reading this, my dear friends.<br /><br />It is enough.<br />You are enough.<br />If you give all you have to your students and you grade, communicate with parents, and work hard to study and stay abreast of your subject.<br />If you juggle the clubs and the events at your school and work hard to help others.<br />If you work with a passionate intensity to better the lives of those around you.<br /><br /><h2>YOU ARE ENOUGH.</h2>You've done enough.<br />You are important, beautiful, wonderful people and YOU ARE MY HERO.<br />In fact, if the world really understand what it takes to do what you do, they'd call you a hero too.<br /><br />But they don't, and it is OK.<br />It is OK because as teachers, we MUST appreciate each other.<br />I'm not here to be thanked now, I'm here to be thanked when my students get out into the world. They'll see then that I gave them a world class education in my tiny room in my tiny school in my tiny town in my tiny county. <b>They'll see that the tiny-ness of where we live never meant that was the size of our minds.</b><br /><br />You are the modern nobility. You are teachers. I am proud to be among you.<br />Teach well. Be well.<br />I'm going to go run a mile around the track right now and the last lap will be a victory lap. It will be a victory lap because this is a good life and I am rich and I am young. Rich in experiences and young because I work with the young. I will not let a person on Twitter belittle me or make me feel any less of the winner I am because I work with CHILDREN and I love them and I love this job. It doesn't matter that people put me down, I'm doing IMPORTANT work.<br /><br />I am ashamed at my guilt trip and upset that I didn't see clearly that I did good, noble things today.<br />But I will be happy if you too see the error of our ways as teachers.<br /><br />Victory Lap, here I come! I hope that you'll find a way to do a victory lap of your own today - whether it is around the grocery store or walking around the school -take time to walk with your fellow teachers and talk about what it means to be a teacher and why you do it. You are the modern nobility.<br /><br />Take a victory lap.<br /><br /><br />Photo credits: <a href="http://www.bigstockphoto.com/" target="_blank">Big Stock</a>, may only be used with proper licensing.<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=beef183b-8659-4b93-970a-f46f255043cd" style="border: none; float: right;" /></a></div>

Victory Lap: Pondering the struggles of being a teacher

Sometimes we all have a down day. Then we have a down week. Suddenly, we realize that we are down too much. Exhausted and no longer excited,...

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Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock 10/02/2012

<ul class="diigo-linkroll"> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://1to1inpractice.blogspot.com/2012/10/why-i-gave-back-macbooks-and-asked-for.html">1:1 in Practice at Sinarmas World Academy: Why I Gave Back the MacBooks and Asked for iPads</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">This teacher wanted ipads instead of MacBooks. Here's the rationale including that the teacher can better differentiate. Now, the teacher has been using iPads for 3 weeks and captures reflections. This is what a good implementation SHOULD look like. Sadly, the teachers who use them as epaper don't get to see these sorts of results because they are missing the point. Great read.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a> <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/tumblr">tumblr</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/01/teaching-with-the-presidential-debates/?partner=rss&emc=rss">Teaching With the Presidential Debates - NYTimes.com</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">The New York Times has some options to allow students to participate and learn from the US Presidential debates. If you're teaching and you are wanting to use this as a topic, this is a great lesson plan.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/politics">politics</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/currentevents">currentevents</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/tumblr">tumblr</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.edutopia.org/blog/five-web-tools-blooms-taxonomy-weekly-news">In the News: Five Web Tools to Help Teach Bloom's Taxonomy</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Here are some great options from Edutopia for promoting higher order thinking in the classroom.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/blooms_taxonomy">blooms_taxonomy</a></p> </li> </ul><p 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>.</p>

Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock 10/02/2012

1:1 in Practice at Sinarmas World Academy: Why I Gave Back the MacBooks and Asked for iPads This tea...

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nantucket style - guest post

Happy Tuesday!<br /><br />I'm over at <a href="http://mycraftyhomelife.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">My Crafty Home Life</a> today talking about my idea of Nantucket style. Head over and <a href="http://mycraftyhomelife.blogspot.com/2012/10/nantucket-style-little-black-door.html" target="_blank">check it out</a>!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL-_EgvQNLKn3ZKqzbdL7BPF1S19NiJq2yrcS3sIvfUzmNRAWKGJZe4KahjghU-ZBhBJ43Fz0roNYbP_w_-Ev0YtU78R4Ejf0Ui-XWH5umBfSNoCgscyWHIp2xEuTENdQ60dladhrekqzF/s1600/-1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="343" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL-_EgvQNLKn3ZKqzbdL7BPF1S19NiJq2yrcS3sIvfUzmNRAWKGJZe4KahjghU-ZBhBJ43Fz0roNYbP_w_-Ev0YtU78R4Ejf0Ui-XWH5umBfSNoCgscyWHIp2xEuTENdQ60dladhrekqzF/s400/-1.png" width="400" /></a></div><br />

nantucket style - guest post

Happy Tuesday! I'm over at My Crafty Home Life today talking about my idea of Nantucket style. Head over and check it out !

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Turn up the heat without burning people out

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUQpEhcnm-VXs44SLNvKqo__NuVTP5tROyR7uQKigW5MazCMhyphenhyphen3JOJKRI07AFtzhqrb8oxyHab69hC3jreX16LGXILK3WNn_FHnRvuLa9Pg_2LtqqgoCC2HaSr5DMP3k56RErUksXsDCtd/s1600/bigstock-An-image-of-food-burning-in-a--21055262.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUQpEhcnm-VXs44SLNvKqo__NuVTP5tROyR7uQKigW5MazCMhyphenhyphen3JOJKRI07AFtzhqrb8oxyHab69hC3jreX16LGXILK3WNn_FHnRvuLa9Pg_2LtqqgoCC2HaSr5DMP3k56RErUksXsDCtd/s320/bigstock-An-image-of-food-burning-in-a--21055262.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>My house reeks of burnt brownie. My eleven year old (mistakenly) thought that if 20 seconds made a brownie, ooey, gooey and delicious, that 2 minutes in the microwave would make it ooey-er gooey-er and delicious-er. He was wrong. It was inedible.<br /><br /><b>There are times we do this with each other. </b>If my students do well with a little stress, maybe if I up the stress for a bit longer, they will perform better.<br /><br /><br /><ul><li>If we do one practice test, maybe four or five will bring up the intensity level so they work even harder?</li></ul><br /><br /><ul><li>IF my staff gets that much done in an extended work day, maybe we should extend our work day more often and get more done?<br /></li><li>If one sharp remark gets that kind of response, maybe I'm being too nice and I should be more firm all the time? After all, don't I want them to jump when I speak?</li></ul><br /><br />And on and on.<br /><br />While sports teams can handle buzzer beaters, they couldn't physically play at that level the entire game. They aren't made to handle it.<br /><br />Brownies are awful and burnt if overcooked and humans become frazzled, upset, and unproductive if they are overworked.<br /><br />There is a fine line between the perfection that comes from a little heat and extra effort at the right time and burning the people and things you care about to a blackened, stinky, mess.<br /><br />Think about the balance required in cooking and realize that you need that same balance with managing and motivating. People don't mind you turning up the heat a little if they know there is a sweet reward at the end.<br /><br /><i>Photo Credit: <a href="http://www.bigstockphoto.com/" target="_blank">Big Stock</a>, you do not have permission to reuse without licensing from the website.</i>

Turn up the heat without burning people out

My house reeks of burnt brownie. My eleven year old (mistakenly) thought that if 20 seconds made a brownie, ooey, gooey and delicious, that ...

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 10/02/2012

<ul class="diigo-linkroll"> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.eschoolnews.com/2012/10/01/newspaper-test-security-inconsistent-among-states/">Newspaper: Test security inconsistent among states</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">This report from the Atlanta Journal Constitution demonstrates that many states have no security and no measures to detect irregularities. The ostriches are rewarded. Sadly, ignorance is not only bliss, it makes states money. Consistent test administration is required before anyone can look at the test scores with any measure of credibility. "The newspaper surveyed the 50 state education departments and found that many states do not use basic test security measures designed to prevent cheating. And nearly half the states, the newspaper found, make almost no attempt to screen test results for irregularities."</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/edreform">edreform</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/tumblr">tumblr</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://edudemic.com/2012/10/education-technology-in-india/">The 5 EdTech Trends Happening In India Right Now</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">India is upgrading and evolving in its education system with an emphasis on how to learn instead of what to learn as well as social and game based learning. It is important to keep an eye on all areas of the world. The country that will succeed will be the one that can truly personalize learning. The country that invents that will export that model to others and bring in money by the fistful. Education is permanently evolving and those in silos will likely suffer the most.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/edreform">edreform</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/India">India</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/tumblr">tumblr</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://thejournal.com/articles/2012/10/01/skydrive-adds-recycle-bin.aspx?m=2">SkyDrive Adds Recycle Bin -- THE Journal</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Microsoft Skydrive has a recycle bin. This is great because Dropbox literally saves copies of just about any file deleted. Last week one of my students accidentally deleted my "Turn In" folder and all of the files, I was able to go into Dropbox and restore everything with a click. Dropbox still far exceeds everything else for cloud syncing for this reason.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/productivity">productivity</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/microsoft">microsoft</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/tumblr">tumblr</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.bethkanter.org/facebook-promote/">To Promote or Not to Promote? (…and Is That The Question?):GlobalGiving’s Experiment With Facebook Promoted Posts</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Beth Kanter, the nonprofit social media guru, discusses research about promoted posts on Facebook and nonprofits. Targeted, timely posts can represent as much as a $600 per post uptick, however, general promoted posts don't make a difference. Interesting research. If you are in charge of fundraising at your nonprofit or school, you should follow Beth's Blog and should buy her book, the Networked Nonprofit.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/nonprofit">nonprofit</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Facebook">Facebook</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/donations">donations</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=59159">A Disruption Grows Up?</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Stephen Downes reports on the first competency based degree. If one takes the tests, one can earn an associates degree. Of course, this begs one to require authentication of who a person really is that is taking the test. Just ask the college board - they still struggle with making sure the right people are taking the test and they give it face to face. </p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <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/downes">downes</a></p> </li> </ul><p 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>.</p>

Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 10/02/2012

Newspaper: Test security inconsistent among states This report from the Atlanta Journal Constitution...

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You know you live in Dublin when.....

<span style="font-size: large;">You know you live in Dublin when you can smell the hops from the Guinness factory as you drive to work in the morning!!!</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">If you want to experience all that Dublin has to offer (including the smell of the hops - has to be smelled to be believed!) come to Ireland in 2013 for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd5TwdVGnyE&list=UUnC3_Nah5LoigGNyj03wy1A&index=0&feature=plcp">The Gathering</a>!!!</span>

You know you live in Dublin when.....

You know you live in Dublin when you can smell the hops from the Guinness factory as you drive to work in the morning!!! If you want to expe...

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Taking My Anger Out on Others

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Hola y’all! For some reason I had been in a pretty bad mood for the last week. I don’t really know why. Things haven’t been any suckier than they normally are. But, I was actually feeling kind of angry. You know one of those moods where you’re just begging somebody to cut you off in traffic. Or actually hoping some snot nosed punk at some store smarts off to you? Yeah, well that was me.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZfWFo65T3MkFw4belzdmVSv68b18pFSwWnY-Rmn-mcE58h69ztpFE4_yG2UwHynyx5w2zzmdtLwwFvN2u9_RZP09Xunoyy3E2lVQygGJPk-99QGGvjAER3Dip4oz7VpR_EAVKRce9q5o/s1600/The+Godfather.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZfWFo65T3MkFw4belzdmVSv68b18pFSwWnY-Rmn-mcE58h69ztpFE4_yG2UwHynyx5w2zzmdtLwwFvN2u9_RZP09Xunoyy3E2lVQygGJPk-99QGGvjAER3Dip4oz7VpR_EAVKRce9q5o/s320/The+Godfather.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>I get this way from time to time but usually something happens to snap me out of it. Or, I take the initiative and do something to get out of that mood. I remember one day at work a few years ago I went <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Corleone" target="_blank">Michael Corleone</a> on some of my coworkers.<br /><br />I was completely frustrated with the place. Every little thing about all my coworkers and everything about the company I worked for sucked. Everybody was getting on my nerves and I couldn't get any cooperation from anyone. So, one day, in my little daydreams I took care of all family business:<br /><br /><b>The Paint Room Guy.</b> This guy started out doing as little as possible on his first day there and got worse as time went on. Eventually he was producing at about 50% of what was expected. I listened to the bosses bitch about him almost every single day, but when I reminded them that they had the ability to get rid of him they would decide not to.<br /><br />Until he walked into the oven room and the oven wasn't working properly. He pulled the stuff out of it and walked into the oven to look at a couple of things. Then “somehow” the oven door shut and it clicked on!! He was crispy bits in about 4 minutes. Poor guy.<br /><br /><b>Pretty Boy.</b> We had this guy who thought he was God’s gift to women. He was always all over the place bothering them. Actually he was only there 3 days out of the week, but when he was there he spent most of his time chasing girls around. Again, nobody wanted to do anything about him. So I had to.<br /><br />To avoid having to do his job he was building a crate to ship off a big die to be worked on. He was using a nail gun cause he was too lazy to just use a regular hammer. The nail gun never worked right and of course it jammed. When he tried to unjam the thing, it went off like 27 times right into his face. Poor guy.<br /><br /><b>Materials Guy. </b>We had this sawed-off little prick that worked in the warehouse. He was about 5’2” and had a definite Napoleon Complex. He was always refusing to release stuff, not because he was busy or because there was paper work or any of that, but because he was just an ass-hole.<br /><br />Unfortunately, a huge pallet full of extremely heavy raw plastics material fell on him. SPLAT! The only thing sticking out from under the pallet was his little feet.<br /><br /><b>The Boss.</b> Our supervisor really didn't know much about the product of the lines he was boss over. He also wasn't very good at dealing with stress. Generally he just delegated it.<br /><br />So, after he made an idiot out of himself griping at some people on the assembly line about something that he was totally wrong about he headed back to his office. The office was a modular free standing room made out of the same stuff as the cubes in the main offices.<br /><br />He noticed that his computer was turned off. So he reached down and when he pushed the button to turn it on, his office went <i>KABLOOEY!</i><br /><br />Oddly enough after taking out all my enemies that day I remember feeling much better. And I was able to get past all the annoyances and get some things done.<br /><br />So, apparently wiping some people out in my own mind is enough for me. So far anyway. <br /><br />Jayman<br /><a href="mailto:Jayman3768@gmail.com">Jayman3768@gmail.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/jayman_iws" target="_blank">@Jayman_IWS</a><br /><br /><br /></div>

Taking My Anger Out on Others

Hola y’all! For some reason I had been in a pretty bad mood for the last week. I don’t really know why. Things haven’t been any suckier than...

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