30 Days of Google #5: The AMAZING Google Chrome (webinar presentation)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><i>Submitted by Fiona Beal</i><br />My experience of Google Chrome is that it is one of the fastest internet browsers available today. It also offers some great features, including synchronization across computers, multiple browsers, autofill, application and extensions for every browsing situation. The webinar last night mentioned some of these features. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Thank you very much to all who attended the SchoolNet webinar last night entitled 'T<i>he AMAZING Google Chrom</i>e'. I hope you were inspired to try more of what this browser offers.</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><b>The presentation on SlideShare</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />If you would like access to the presentation used in the webinar it can be downloaded from Slideshare as a PDF. Here is the link:</span><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="356" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/15169088" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin-bottom: 5px;" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="427"></iframe><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><strong> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/fionabeal/the-amazing-google-chrome" target="_blank" title="The AMAZING Google Chrome">The AMAZING Google Chrome</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/fionabeal" target="_blank">Fiona Beal</a></strong> <br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>Recording</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you missed the webinar (18 minutes) and would like to list to what was said, here is the recording link: </span><a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p29kfsqcsu3/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p29kfsqcsu3/</a></div></div></div></div>

30 Days of Google 30 Days of Google #5: The AMAZING Google Chrome (webinar presentation)

Submitted by Fiona Beal My experience of Google Chrome is that it is one of the fastest internet browsers available today. It also offers so...

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It's Called "Valuable" For A Reason

Hey everybody! Miguel Cabrera won the MVP!<br /><br />For all of the hype and hoopla over whether Mike Trout was going to unseat Cabrera due to his dynamic June, July, and August, the end result was a little...lacking.<br /><br />22 first place votes to just 6? Is this the battle of the old fogey sportswriters against the Internet stat masters? If this vote had been 10 years in the future, would we be talking about the result being far different?<br /><br />Well, it doesn't matter. Cabrera won.<br /><br />Whenever an MVP debate surfaces, I always ask myself, "It's called the <i>Most Valuable Player</i>." What exactly does that mean? Well, it means that the player has the ability to lift his manager, teammates, and city up to the caliber that is expected of them. That can be through offense, defense, and being the leader in the clubhouse.<br /><br />When it comes to stats, each side will find the numbers to support their man. Yes, Cabrera won the Triple Crown. Yes, Trout won the battle for Wins Above Replacement. But what matters most to me is that in the long run, the Tigers were able to conquer the teams in their division and win the crown, while the Angels - even with the likes of Trout - couldn't beat <i>two</i> other teams in their division, and Trout's numbers declined when September hit - the most crucial part of the season.<br /><br />To be completely honest - and I don't like doing this often - but I'm inclined to state that Trout will fade into the shadows come next season. Eventually, we may even laugh at this debate between a potential Hall of Famer and a "one-hit wonder." There are lots of players in Major League Baseball who can be solid hitters and fielders for a few months at a time - but only the most solid players can step up and make a long-lasting impact.

It's Called "Valuable" For A Reason

Hey everybody! Miguel Cabrera won the MVP! For all of the hype and hoopla over whether Mike Trout was going to unseat Cabrera due to his dyn...

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GAZA MISSILES HIT TEL AVIV

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCXqNB8CixmIP4QoTRlwcRlEHL1j0L8hY60-QS-L1iy8KSNWqjPRLdi8jsVojuAV54CVBh7p8HFtpanzNAL_YIQrQq1MjKbDdRV3Cdi9h5hXY1PSIc_8vRUpHv3m8tIGFFPRGuwo7nGaZ-/s1600/TelAviv_aerial(194).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCXqNB8CixmIP4QoTRlwcRlEHL1j0L8hY60-QS-L1iy8KSNWqjPRLdi8jsVojuAV54CVBh7p8HFtpanzNAL_YIQrQq1MjKbDdRV3Cdi9h5hXY1PSIc_8vRUpHv3m8tIGFFPRGuwo7nGaZ-/s400/TelAviv_aerial(194).jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;"> </span></span></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: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">First three Gaza missiles hit Tel Aviv. Israel drafts 30,000 reservists</span></span></div><span class="articleDescription">via DEBKA<em>file</em></span> <span class="articleDescription red italic"></span><div class="articleBodyWrapper"><div class="photoContainer" id="photoContainer" style="width: 150px;"><div class="photoContainerCaption" id="caption"><br /></div></div><span class="articleBody"> <span style="font-size: large;">The first three Palestinian missiles reached the Tel Aviv conurbation, Gush Dan, Thursday night, Nov. 15. shortly after a long-range missile exploded in Rishon Lezion southeast of Tel Aviv and sirens sounded in outlying towns of Holon, Ness Ziona, Gan Raveh and Beer Yacov. None report casualties or damage. Defense Minister Ehud Barak has ordered 30,000 army reservists drafted. The IDF spokesmen earlier reported units of the elite paratroop and Givati Brigades were mustering outside the Gaza Strip on the second day of Israel's counter-terror operation Pillar of Cloud.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"> From <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s earlier report Thursday:  As the rockets kept coming through Wednesday night – and the first three fatalities Thursday morning, Nov. 15 -<strong> </strong>the cautious lift in Israeli spirits generated by the death of Ahmed Jabari, who fashioned Hamas into a paramilitary machine of terror, and the destruction of dozens of missile sites in Gaza, gave way to resignation for a long haul before southern Israel is free of its decade-long rocket nightmare.</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQNujSzFWoCKQ-j-3WNQ-ILcB9R-8EBk7smo-gjuH24lZoHbIYx4_l8mD_Zz2hrYrsvSPLZBnCnzsMW-pVGaPBKkgFYXXBhkfD6M11nPaS-qq9uPeUVzBuFiq6gpLhXAk7TxgMYssNlmd5/s1600/israel-map-e1353002601276.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/AVvXsEjQNujSzFWoCKQ-j-3WNQ-ILcB9R-8EBk7smo-gjuH24lZoHbIYx4_l8mD_Zz2hrYrsvSPLZBnCnzsMW-pVGaPBKkgFYXXBhkfD6M11nPaS-qq9uPeUVzBuFiq6gpLhXAk7TxgMYssNlmd5/s400/israel-map-e1353002601276.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">Thursday morning, a rocket from Gaza killed three Israelis in Kiryat Malachi. By then, some 120 rockets – mostly targeting the major towns of Beersheba and Ashdod, but also smaller locations – had followed Jabari's death. Iron Dome intercepted 27.The first reserve units had been mobilized for possible ground action in Gaza to supplement the air offensive against the Palestinian missile arsenal.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> But Operation Pillar of Cloud’s first part showed a favorable balance: Palestinian missile fire was as erratic as ever, although intense; Iron Dome filtered out the rockets aimed at Israel’s major towns; Israeli casualties were relatively low though painful; and the enemy in Gaza was decapitated – for now.<br /> But most of all, the Palestinians and their allies in Tehran and Hizballah suddenly discovered that the old IDF had come roaring back.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> In the only former major Israeli operation in Gaza, Cast Lead (late 2008, early 2009), the IDF was slow, unwieldy and unfocused. Its counter-terror offensive was foreshortened by heavy diplomatic pressure before achieving anything, owing to the government’s lack of resolve. In the 2006 Lebanon War, the army was stalled before developing an effective tactical offensive.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"> The IDF of 2012 is in a different class, recalling its rapid-fire performance in the Six-Day War then fought on multiple fronts.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> In just a few hours late Wednesday, Nov. 14, Pillar of Cloud achieved more than Cast Lead managed in weeks: It was driven by clockwork, integrated intelligence by the Shin Bet and Military Intelligence, precise, surgical air force strikes and a command-and-control with fast reflexes which recalled Israel’s military skills of 45 years ago.</span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGPLwBem48s67ZnAT8sRwmHHeLOAYw8FuxD-n2YVMHUIXX1MU8cruK92gez2u0tuB5e7VjBYVABeFrZ79aOdPD1xM7LOI8q07OJVy1db_IH_HtLYXzHDPKY5XIA3HyHID0eT4wIJu3DRtd/s1600/Crossing-Red-Sea-620x431.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGPLwBem48s67ZnAT8sRwmHHeLOAYw8FuxD-n2YVMHUIXX1MU8cruK92gez2u0tuB5e7VjBYVABeFrZ79aOdPD1xM7LOI8q07OJVy1db_IH_HtLYXzHDPKY5XIA3HyHID0eT4wIJu3DRtd/s400/Crossing-Red-Sea-620x431.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="articleBody">"Operation Pillar of Cloud’s<span style="font-size: x-small;">"</span> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Biblical reference</span> </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;">The rapid destruction of scores of Fajr-3 and Fajr-5 rockets, whose respective ranges of 45 and 75 kilometers placed Israel’s heartland in line of Palestinian strikes, compared with the destruction of the Egyptian air force on the ground in the early hours of the 1967 war, rather than the bombardment of Hizballah’s long-range missiles in 2006 which failed to draw its sting.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> In 1967, the Egyptian army had to fight in Sinai without air cover. In 2012, the Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip were stripped of their key commander and terror strategist and lost substantial, though not all, its missile arsenal.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> Wherever Operation Pillar of Cloud goes next – and the IDF is preparing for a long, hard haul – Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz deserve kudos for their performance thus far. It may be said that Israel’s Gaza operation did in fact start on Oct. 24 in Sudan with the attack on the Yarmouk complex manufacturing Iranian missiles near Khartoum. Former Military Intelligence chief Amos Yadlin Wednesday confirmed <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>’s exclusive report that the factory had housed the emergency reserve stocks of the Palestinian Hamas and Jihad Islami in the Gaza Strip.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> Its destruction contributed to their loss of infrastructure.The tough part of the Israeli operation to eliminate the terrorist war peril hovering over southern Israel from the Gaza Strip is still to come. For now, Hamas is at a loss for a strategic answer to the IDF offensive – unless one is provided by Tehran or Hizballah coming to its rescue.</span><br /> </span> </div>

GAZA MISSILES HIT TEL AVIV

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Uniquely CMC!

<span style="font-size: large;">Tonight I was considering what design point are what I call "uniquely Ciaran".  When looking at plans and designs from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ODKMarchitectsanddesigners?fref=ts">ODKM's office</a> there are certain items that identify Ciaran as being the lead designer as he tends to include certain things.  They are little things but I think they are becoming signature items of his! </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">He is a big fan of both bench seats and pocket doors.  He likes bench seats so much that we ended up with two large bench seats in our house - both can seat 10 people.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">In just about every house that he has designed recently he has put in a pocket sliding door.  When remodelling our last house he put a pocket door in to our utility room.  My twin sister and I developed a fascination with this room - we reckoned that one day I would open it and find the Stasi Secret Police sitting in there listening to all of our conversations - it just had a very East German feel to it!!</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Another thing that Ciaran always does when designing kitchens is that he specifies that the cabinets are built to the ceiling.  Generally kitchen cabinets in Ireland only have two shelves and then have a dust catcher at the top of them.  CMC insists that there is three shelves in the kitchen cabinets - I guess it is just a clever use of space to build them all of the way to the ceiling.  I don't know why all designers don't do it!</span>

Uniquely CMC!

Tonight I was considering what design point are what I call "uniquely Ciaran".  When looking at plans and designs from ODKM's ...

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Droid Perk

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8jxCzqqexE9URF9flwTg1XEzbZtt3C2ZrXYc9UTWxyhS9enLsITrrFFyLR4LHC_9WQ2PHK3m8WabOJR2P4rmX8rSaTDwauMBFE4rxIbDuWncix-f_934OQYWyihSFPwTT92BIA_728Yw/s1600/Droid+perk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8jxCzqqexE9URF9flwTg1XEzbZtt3C2ZrXYc9UTWxyhS9enLsITrrFFyLR4LHC_9WQ2PHK3m8WabOJR2P4rmX8rSaTDwauMBFE4rxIbDuWncix-f_934OQYWyihSFPwTT92BIA_728Yw/s320/Droid+perk.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> This afternoon I had a surprise waiting for me on my doorstep. I was so excited when I found out that it was a box from Klout. I was so anxious to open the box to see what was inside. So I went to get my scissors to cut the box open. I was ecstatic to find the Galaxy cell phone from Verizon! I can not wait to use this and share my review! Thanks so much @Klout and Verizon!

Droid Perk

This afternoon I had a surprise waiting for me on my doorstep. I was so excited when I found out that it was a box from Klout. I was so a...

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Modernism Prize 2012: Hizuchi Elementary School

On Tuesday evening I attended the lecture for the <a href="http://www.wmf.org/modernism/">2012 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize</a>, given to the Architectural Consortium for <a href="http://www.wmf.org/slide-show/hizuchi-elementary-school">Hizuchi Elementary School</a> for their restoration of Hizuchi Elementary School in Hizuchi, Yawatahama City, Ehime Prefecture, on Shikoku Island, Japan. I had seen the press release last month, as well as a couple photos there and picked up on the Internet, but Tuesday night at MoMA was my first in-depth look at a building that was also a discovery for the jurors.<br /><br /><img alt="Hizuchi01.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/Hizuchi01.jpg" title="© Architectural Institute of Japan Shikoku Chapter/Photographer KITAMURA Toru" /><br />[Veranda of East and Middle Building | © Architectural Institute of Japan Shikoku Chapter/Photographer KITAMURA Toru]<br /><br />The opening remarks of jury chairman Barry Bergdoll positioned the 2012 award in some contrast to the previous two recipients: Bierman Henket's and Wessel de Jonge's restoration of the <a href="http://www.wmf.org/slide-show/zonnestraal-sanatorium">Zonnestraal Sanatorium</a> in Hilversum, the Netherlands (awarded 2010); and Brenne Gesellschaft von Architekten's restoration of the former <a href="http://www.wmf.org/slide-show/adgb-trade-school">ADGB Trade Union School</a> in Bernau, Germany (awarded 2008). Those two buildings were known (if not extremely well-known) modern buildings, and therefore the awards "reintroduced the buildings to a larger audience."<br /><br /><img alt="Hizuchi03.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/Hizuchi03.jpg" title="© Architectural Institute of Japan Shikoku Chapter/Photographer KITAMURA Toru" /><br />[02 East, Middle, and West Buildings from the North | © Architectural Institute of Japan Shikoku Chapter/Photographer KITAMURA Toru]<br /><br />Hizuchi Elementary School, on the other hand, was a "real discovery" for the jury, whom were not familiar with the building or its architect, Masatsune Matsumura. After the lecture I even consulted David Stewart's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/4770029330?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=4770029330&linkCode=xm2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><i>The Making of a Modern Japanese Architecture</i></a>, where I figured there might be some mention, but he was nowhere to be found. Working as municipal architect for Yawatahama City at the time (the school was constructed from 1956 to 1958), the architect was considered one of the ten most influential architects in Japan—alongside Kenzo Tange and other familiar names—before embarking on a private practice. Yet outside Japan he was little known, as I'm sure municipal architects from other locales have rarely gained renown in a wider geography.<br /><br /><img alt="Hizuchi02.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/Hizuchi02.jpg" title="© Architectural Institute of Japan Shikoku Chapter/Photographer KITAMURA Toru" /><br />[East Building Second-Floor Stair (Classroom on Left, Corridor on Right) | © Architectural Institute of Japan Shikoku Chapter/Photographer KITAMURA Toru]<br /><br />Following Bergdoll's remarks and the award presentation, historian and consortium member Yoshiaki Hanada gave a lecture on the school, the architect, and the restoration. He shared the above information about the architect's top-ten status, for example, and he boiled down the design and the restoration into numbered bullet points (noted below). At the end of the lecture, Hanada poetically summarized the project and its influence.<br /><br /><img alt="Hizuchi04.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/Hizuchi04.jpg" title="© Architectural Institute of Japan Shikoku Chapter/Photographer KITAMURA Toru" /><br />[Middle Building First-Floor Teachers’ Room and View of Stairs | © Architectural Institute of Japan Shikoku Chapter/Photographer KITAMURA Toru]<br /><br />Important aspects of Matsumura's design, as articulated in Hanada's lecture:<br /><blockquote>1 - Cluster-style school with classroom and corridor separate.<br />2 - "Dual facade fenestration" (windows on opposite sides of classroom) achieved through internal "daylight gardens."<br />3 - Hybrid structural system of wood (columns and beams) and steel (cross bracing). </blockquote><ol></ol><img alt="Hizuchi05.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/Hizuchi05.jpg" title="© Architectural Institute of Japan Shikoku Chapter/Photographer KITAMURA Toru" /><br />[Middle Building First-Floor Corridor in front of Teachers’ Room | © Architectural Institute of Japan Shikoku Chapter/Photographer KITAMURA Toru]<br /><blockquote>4 - "Rich spatiality" that contemporary architecture lacks.<br />5 - "Spatial embodiment of democratic thought in education" after World War II (stairs and overlook in first photo are illustrations of this).<br />6 - "Original interpretation of Western modern architecture."</blockquote><img alt="Hizuchi06.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/Hizuchi06.jpg" title="© Architectural Institute of Japan Shikoku Chapter/Photographer KITAMURA Toru" /><br />[Corridor Connecting Middle and West Buildings | © Architectural Institute of Japan Shikoku Chapter/Photographer KITAMURA Toru]<br /><br />Important considerations for restoration and addition of western wing, again as articulated by Hanada:<br /><blockquote>1 - Restore whole building to original design, respecting its cultural value.<br />2 - Bring in line with today's seismic codes.<br />3 - Restore original classrooms into specific rooms (home ec, music, etc.). </blockquote><img alt="Hizuchi07.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/Hizuchi07.jpg" title="© Architectural Institute of Japan Shikoku Chapter/Photographer KITAMURA Toru" /><br />[First-Floor Stairway in West Building | © Architectural Institute of Japan Shikoku Chapter/Photographer KITAMURA Toru]<br /><blockquote>4 - Make wall at teacher's room more transparent (visible in fourth photo).<br />5 - Create two classrooms in central building (previously offices).<br />6 - Improve functional performance (plumbing, acoustics, etc.). <br />7 - Build new west wing with four additional classrooms.</blockquote><img alt="Hizuchi08.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/Hizuchi08.jpg" title="© Architectural Institute of Japan Shikoku Chapter/Photographer KITAMURA Toru" /><br />[Second-Floor Multi-Purpose Space in West Building | © Architectural Institute of Japan Shikoku Chapter/Photographer KITAMURA Toru]<br /><br />These last few photos show the addition designed by consortium member <s>Kouichi Wada</s> Kazutomi Takechi. The addition is sensitive to the original's structure, materiality, and circulation (the shallow stairs of the original are reiterated in the addition, for example), but it veers from it in terms of space—it opts for a radial plan rather than a linear one. As a whole the building is marvelous, particularly in the way daylight infuses every space, from the classrooms to the offices and the circulation. It looks like a fantastic environment for learning.<br /><br /><img alt="Hizuchi09.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/Hizuchi09.jpg" title="© Architectural Institute of Japan Shikoku Chapter/Photographer KITAMURA Toru" /><br />[Façade of the West Building | © Architectural Institute of Japan Shikoku Chapter/Photographer KITAMURA Toru]

Modernism Prize 2012: Hizuchi Elementary School

On Tuesday evening I attended the lecture for the 2012 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize , given to the Architectural Consortium fo...

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Librarian III, Automated Services - West Hartford Public Libraries

<strong>Librarian III, Automated Services - </strong><strong><span style="color: #48286d;">West Hartford Public Libraries</span></strong>. Salary Range: $74,620 - $94,068. Job Purpose: Supervises and plans all aspects of library computer and network systems, including software selection, installation and maintenance, and supervises cataloging, materials acquisitions and processing services. Manages public and staff access to information services through the integrated library system. Work Environment: Work is performed in a library setting, which requires attending to computer and network problems at branch locations, and throughout the library’s computer network. Evening and weekend work may be required as is travel to attend regional meetings. Essential Job Functions: Supervises, coordinates, maintains, and plans computer services for the library system, including branch locations. Supervises and coordinates cataloging services, acquisitions and processing. May perform professional cataloging and classification. Supervises and directs the work of individuals or work groups engaged in library projects and/or activities including scheduling, assigning, overseeing and reviewing the work of employees. Establishes performance standards, evaluates work performance and recommends merit increases. Provides staff training to assure proper methods, practices and opportunities for staff promotion and development. Participates in the administration of the library system through taking an active part in supervisory meetings, staff meetings, and meetings with the Library Director. Additional Job Responsibilities: Participates in the management, planning, and development of the regional automated library system. May select books and other materials for the library’s collections. Participates in professional development in the specialized field of library service assigned, through attendance at technical training programs and/or professional association seminars and conferences. Provides technical supervision to individual staff or work groups. Prepares various reports and assists in the preparation of departmental budget as required. Performs related work as required. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Extensive knowledge of computers, computer networks, and software appropriate to a library setting. Knowledge of professional library principles, methods, materials and practices, including knowledge of library principles of classification. Knowledge of HTML, XML, and database applications. Ability to administer a Local Area Network. Ability to analyze professional administrative problems and to make recommendations for their solution. Ability to express oneself clearly and concisely both orally and in writing. Ability to establish and maintain favorable public relations and effective working relationships with other employees. Ability to direct, plan, assign and evaluate the work of employees in a specialized library service. Skill in use of Microsoft software and including server related software. Minimum Qualifications: Graduation from an ALA accredited Master’s Degree program in Library or Information Science and four (4) years of experience in professional library work, including at least two (2) years of supervisory experience; or any satisfactory equivalent combination of education and experience. Method of Selection: Oral Board Examination (Weight: 100%, Passing Score: 70). Candidates must achieve a passing score of 70 on the oral examination in order to have their name placed on the Eligible List for this position. An individual appointed to the position must satisfactorily complete a one (1) year probationary period. The Town reserves the right to limit the number of qualified candidates invited to any portion of the selection process. Applications: Applications may be obtained from the Job Openings page of the West Hartford website, <a _fcksavedurl="http://www.WestHartford.org" href="http://www.westhartford.org/" target="_blank">www.WestHartford.org</a>. Applications must be completed no later than Friday, <span style="color: red;">December 7, 2012</span>, unless the Director of Employee Services extends such date.

Librarian III, Automated Services - West Hartford Public Libraries

Librarian III, Automated Services - West Hartford Public Libraries . Salary Range: $74,620 - $94,068. Job Purpose: Supervises and plans all...

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Teaching Assistant, Library Media Center - West Hartford Public Schools

<strong>Teaching Assistant, Library Media Center -</strong> <strong><span style="color: #48286d;">West Hartford Public Schools</span></strong> has a full-time (6.5 hours daily - 182 days per year) Teaching Assistant position available for the 2012-2013 school year. This position is available in one of our high schools to assist in the daily operation of the Library Media Center. Duties include but are not limited to: processing and circulating library resources, assisting students and staff in using library resources, equipment and facilities; and providing clerical support. Ability to attend to task details. Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills. Must possess excellent work ethic and self-direction skills. Bachelor’s degree required. Library or related experience is preferred. Experience with Microsoft Office applications. Excellent keyboard and data entry skills. Salary: Substitute teacher rate ($75/day), without benefits. Interested applicants should submit an online application. Visit our web site at: <a _fcksavedurl="http://www.whps.org/whps/" href="http://www.whps.org/whps/" target="_blank">http://www.whps.org/whps/</a>. For more information call the Library Media Services Office at 860-561-6634. Apply immediately. Open until filled. Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

Teaching Assistant, Library Media Center - West Hartford Public Schools

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Pop Warner football: Kids should not be allowed to put on helmets and knock each other in the head. - Slate Magazine

<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; "><div 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; ">Last week, I took part in <a href="http://www.aspeninstitute.org/events/2012/11/09/playing-safety-future-youth-football" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; ">a roundtable discussion in Washington</a> on the future of youth football.<a href="http://www.bu.edu/cste/about/leadership/robert-cantu-m-d/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; ">Robert Cantu</a>, the CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) researcher and NFL adviser, was there. So were Chris Nowinski, the Harvard defensive tackle turned pro wrestler turned brain-injury activist; neurosurgeon Julian Bailes, who has advised the NFL Players Association, the NCAA, and Pop Warner football; and DeMaurice Smith, the head of the NFLPA. An NFL executive attended, as did various youth-football organizations. There was an ex-Jet/Jaguar/Redskin, a plaintiffs' lawyer, a school board member, the head of a sporting goods trade group, academics, and a bunch of journalists like me.</div></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; "><div 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; ">The event was organized by the Aspen Institute and moderated by ESPN reporter Tom Farrey. His topic question: "How can football serve children, communities, and public health?" Three hours of talk yielded, for me anyway, an unsurprising answer: Tackle football can best serve children, communities, and public health by disappearing.</div></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; "><div 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; ">I know that Matt Chaney, who wrote for the roundtable this week about <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/features/2012/nfl_2012/week_10/heads_up_football_the_tackling_technique_roger_goodell_says_will_make_the.html" style="color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; ">the tackling technique that won't make football safer</a>, is on board with the idea that tackle football is simply too dangerous for the brains of children, and that a distinction needs to be made between what adult men choose to do professionally and what kids are permitted or often pushed to do by parents and other adults. In his new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006R8PDNS/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B006R8PDNS&linkCode=as2&tag=slatmaga-20" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; "><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; ">Concussions and Our Kids</em></a>, co-written with journalist Mark Hyman, Cantu proposes barring tackle football before age 14, or the start of high school. The cutoff is arbitrary, Cantu said at the Washington panel. The more important consideration is an individual child's physical development: If he's skeletally immature, if he hasn't developed axillary hair, he shouldn't play tackle football.</div></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; "><div 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; ">"Youngsters are not miniature adults," Cantu said. For starters, he explained, their brains are not fully myelinated, meaning their nerve cells lack the complete coating that offers protection. That makes them more susceptible to concussions and means they recover more slowly from them than adults. Cantu said children have big heads relative to the rest of their bodies and weak necks, creating a "bobblehead-doll effect" that elevates the risk of concussion. They typically play in the oldest equipment, with the least educated coaches, and with little or no available medical care. They are allowed to hit each other in practice—up to 40 minutes per session in Pop Warner football, under new guidelines—to a greater extent than NFL players are in season. And finally, kids are unable to provide meaningful informed consent. "Rarely do they really understand the risk they're taking," Cantu said.</div></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; "><div 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; ">That brief presentation was a devastating synopsis of the perils of football for small children. (How small? Pop Warner, the formal name of which is, I joke not, Pop Warner Little Scholars Inc., is open to children <a href="http://www.popwarner.com/football/footballstructure.htm" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; ">as young as 5 years old and as light as 35 pounds</a>.) And none of it was refuted by the representatives of children's football who participated in the event. Instead, what emerged was the playbook for the youth-football-industrial complex—3 million players and tens of millions of dollars in revenue, backed by the NFL, college football, equipment manufacturers, and other sports businesses—in what will be a long battle against the forces of science, medicine, and common sense.</div></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; "><div 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; ">First is the rhetoric. Scott Hallenbeck, the executive director of USA Football, the governing body/trade group funded by the NFL and NFLPA, thanked Cantu for raising "important issues," declared that a "healthy debate" was necessary, and reminded us that "we're all in this together." Our goal? "A better and safer environment for parents and players." Indeed, "safety" is the key word in the kids' tackle football PR effort; it's all over the websites of organizations like <a href="http://www.popwarner.com/football/footballsafety.htm" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; ">Pop Warner</a>, <a href="http://www.americanyouthfootball.com/index.php/about/safety-first" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; ">American Youth Football</a>, and <a href="http://www.americanyouthfootball.com/index.php/about/safety-first" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; ">USA Football</a>. Who's against safety?</div></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; "><div 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; ">The words are buttressed by limited, practical changes, like USA Football's "Heads Up" program and Pop Warner's limits on head contact and hitting in practice. Better than nothing, sure. But Matt and <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/features/2012/nfl_2012/week_1/nfl_2012_embracing_the_power_of_spite_.html" style="color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; ">ex-NFL player Nate Jackson</a> have already debunked the notion that football can always be played with the head up. And kids aren't usually capable, physically or mentally, of implementing precise technique, as five minutes on the sideline of any youth sports game will demonstrate. As for rules, well, Pop Warner's <a href="http://www.popwarner.com/About_Us/Pop_Warner_News/Rule_Changes_Regarding_Practice___Concussion_Prevention_s1_p3977.htm" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; ">concussion-prevention guidelines</a> call for "no full speed head-on blocking or tackling drills in which the players line up more than 3 yards apart." You can bet some suburban Belichick is lining up his players exactly three yards apart and instructing them to go at 90 percent speed, or ignoring the rules entirely.</div></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; "><div 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; ">Which leads to part two of the youth-football change mantra: better coaching. Hallenbeck said USA Football has "trained" almost 100,000 coaches in the last five years. It also has "looked at the concept" of a national accreditation program with "15 chapters" and "15 quizzes" with a passing grade of 80. "So you could argue there's 80 percent competency in a program like that," he said. Or you could argue that the numbers are a way to conceal the reality that youth sports coaches are mostly amateur volunteers, usually parents, with little knowledge about sports or coaching or injuries but lots of preconceived ideas gleaned from years of watching the pros. How else to explain that <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/23/sports/football/pee-wee-football-game-with-concussions-brings-penalties-for-adults.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; ">Pop Warner mismatch in Massachusetts</a> in which five kids suffered concussions?</div></div><div class="pagebreak section" style="margin: 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; "></div><a name="pagebreak_anchor_2" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; 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; visibility: hidden; "></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; 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; display: inline !important; float: none; "></span><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; "><div 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; ">"The coaches that coach this game ... for whatever reason don't embrace change very well," former NFL linebacker Eddie Mason told the panel. "That's the issue. ... Pop Warner, USA Football can implement all the things that they want to. You can implement rules, you can implement changes, but until the football community embraces the reality of the sport, the reality of concussion, the reality of the damage that comes along with it if you start at an early age, that's the problem."</div></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; "><div 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; ">Youth football officials are aware their coaching problem goes beyond education. Hallenbeck's answer was another "concept": installing a player-safety monitor in every youth league to ensure that coaches are teaching "proper" tackling and using sanctioned practice plans, and who also reassure concerned parents that football is getting safer. "Parents are literally looking at us and saying, 'Thank you, you're making us feel more comfortable,' " Hallenbeck said.</div></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; "><div 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; ">The third and most critical component of the youth-football defense wouldn't be out of place at a debate over climate change: The science just doesn't exist to justify banning youth football at any age level. Over and over, Hallenbeck cited the lack of "evidence-based" data. And while Cantu and others agreed that more research is needed, there's already data that shows the effect of tackle football on undeveloped brains, like <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/r1w055654612u47j/fulltext.pdf?MUD=MP" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; ">a study released this year by researchers at Virginia Tech and Wake Forest</a> that found that 7-year-old players absorb impacts on par with those in college football.</div></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; "><div 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; ">Even that sort of science is used to defend kids' football. Brooke de Lench, who founded the youth sports website <a href="http://www.momsteam.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; ">MomsTEAM</a>, said her business outfitted the helmets of an Oklahoma high-school team with accelerometers to track and measure the impact of hits. (She's making <a href="http://www.thesmartestteam.com/%23!home/mainPage" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; ">a documentary</a> about the project.) "The kids want the accelerometers, either in their helmet or as an earbud or a mouthpiece," de Lench told the panel. "They want that responsibility"—of determining when they might have suffered a head injury—"taken away from themselves."</div></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; "><div 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; ">To sum up: The defenders of youth football envision a sport in which players must be outfitted with <a href="http://www.riddell.com/shop-riddell/helmet/riddell-revolution-iq-hits-helmet/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; ">expensive</a> electronic sensors to determine when they have suffered brain injury; in which coaches have to pass 15-part examinations in order to be certified; and even after doing that, in which safety watchdogs must be deployed on the sidelines of every practice and game to supervise the performance of coaches. "Burning down the village to save it," sportswriter Patrick Hruby said after the Washington event.</div></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; "><div 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; ">It's not as if there aren't alternatives. Maybe have kids play flag football wearing no pads until they're 10, then with shoulder pads until 13. At 14 or 15, if they are determined to be physically mature, players can don helmets and wrap up opponents to bring them to ground. Any blow to the head or leading with the head is an automatic ejection. Full hitting can start on high-school varsities. Tackling can be taught over time—flag football teaches the proper entry point for contact, around the hips; <a href="http://vimeo.com/10315677%23" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; ">rugby-style</a> tackling might be instructive—to prepare kids for full contact when their bodies are ready, or at least readier, for it.</div></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; "><div 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; ">None of this is likely, at least anytime soon. Science or no science, the real reason 5- and 6-year-olds will keep padding up and hitting is consumer demand. If Pop Warner offered only flag football, its executive director, John Butler, candidly told the panel, "90 to 95 percent of our members would drop out" and play for independent teams "because whether it be kids or parents, they want to play tackle football."</div></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; "><div 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; ">Of course they do. They watch it on Sundays. It's fun. But as Eddie Mason responded, "Sometimes you have to take the decisions out of the hands of the parents and you have to just make the change. You say, well, we don't offer tackle at this age, we offer flag, and these are the reasons why." Mason said he isn't letting his 8-year-old son play tackle football.</div></div></div><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2012/11/pop_warner_football_kids_should_not_be_allowed_to_put_on_helmets_and_knock.single.html">http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2012/11/pop_warner_football_kids_should_not_be_allowed_to_put_on_helmets_and_knock.single.html</a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>

Pop Warner football: Kids should not be allowed to put on helmets and knock each other in the head. - Slate Magazine

Last week, I took part in  a roundtable discussion in Washington  on the future of youth football. Robert Cantu , the CTE (chronic traumatic...

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A Young Reporter Chronicles Her 'Brain On Fire' | WBUR & NPR

<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><p style="font-size: 0.9375em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.071em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">In 2009, Susannah Cahalan was a healthy 24-year-old reporter for the<em> New York Post</em>, when she began to experience numbness, paranoia, sensitivity to light and erratic behavior. Grasping for an answer, Cahalan asked herself as it was happening, "Am I just bad at my job — is that why? Is the pressure of it getting to me? Is it a new relationship?"</p><p style="font-size: 0.9375em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.071em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">But Cahalan only got worse — she began to experience seizures, hallucinations, increasingly psychotic behavior and even catatonia. Her symptoms frightened family members and baffled a series of doctors.</p><p style="font-size: 0.9375em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.071em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">After a monthlong hospital stay and $1 million worth of blood tests and brain scans that proved inconclusive, Cahalan was seen by Dr. Souhel Najjar, who asked her to draw a clock on a piece of paper. "I drew a circle, and I drew the numbers 1 to 12 all on the right-hand side of the clock, so the left-hand side was blank, completely blank," she tells <em>Fresh Air</em>'s Dave Davies, "which showed him that I was experiencing left-side spatial neglect and, likely, the right side of my brain responsible for the left field of vision was inflamed."</p><p style="font-size: 0.9375em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.071em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">As Najjar put it to her parents, "her brain was on fire." This discovery led to her eventual diagnosis and treatment for anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, a rare autoimmune disease that can attack the brain. Cahalan says that doctors think the illness may account for cases of "demonic possession" throughout history.</p><p style="font-size: 0.9375em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.071em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Cahalan's new memoir is called <em>Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness</em>.</p><hr style="border: none; line-height: 1px; height: 1px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 226); width: 620px; margin: 5px 0px 10px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><h3 style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">Interview Highlights:</h3><div style="font-size: 0.9375em; line-height: 1.375em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.071em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="font-size: 0.9375em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.071em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong>On the moment when Cahalan lost her sanity</strong></p><p style="font-size: 0.9375em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.071em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"I don't remember anything from this experience. This was all told to me after the fact. [My boyfriend] Stephen heard guttural sounds coming from me. He thought maybe I was just angry because I hadn't slept for days, and he knew that it was really frustrating. And so he thought, 'Maybe she's just venting her frustration.' But the grunts were very unnatural sounding, so he turned and looked at me. And he saw that my eyes were wide open but completely unseeing, and at that point he tried to shake me and say, 'Are you OK, Sue? What's going on?' And at that point, my arms whipped out, and I had a grand mal seizure, and I was convulsing. And I bit my tongue so that blood and kind of a combination of blood and foam was coming out of my mouth. And he had the presence of mind — and I think this is incredible — to know that this was a seizure because I had never had a seizure before. And so he turned me on my side and he called 911. And [that's, for me] ... the difference between sanity and insanity ... that moment where kind of my memory goes dark."</p><p style="font-size: 0.9375em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.071em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong>On some of the symptoms she exhibited at the hospital</strong></p><p style="font-size: 0.9375em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.071em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"I slurred my words. I drooled. I didn't have proper control over my swallowing ... I kept my arms out in unnatural poses. At one point, I was like the Bride of Frankenstein — I kept my arms out rigidly. I was slow. I could hardly walk, and when I did, I needed to be supported ... I started [acting] very psychotic. I believed that I could age people with my mind. If I looked at them, wrinkles would form, and if I looked away, they would suddenly, magically get younger. And I believed that my father had murdered my stepmother. I believed all these incredibly paranoid — a huge, extreme example of persecution complex. And then as the days went on, I stopped being as psychotic, and I started entering into a catatonic stage, which was characterized by just complete lack of emotion, inability to relate, or to read, or hardly to be able to speak."</p><p style="font-size: 0.9375em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.071em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong>On being supported by her parents and boyfriend</strong></p><p style="font-size: 0.9375em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.071em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"Without them, I wouldn't be here right now, especially with my mom. She was a bulldog. I mean she would not take 'no' for an answer, especially in the beginning when they were saying it was alcohol withdrawal and partying. She refused to see that as an answer, and so she did her own research. She asked questions. At home, after a day at the hospital, she'd make a list of all the different terminology they used, and she'd look it up and, you know, not everyone is capable of doing that. ... I was so lucky to have someone there for me that could do that. ... If everyone could have someone like that, it would just be a better world."</p><p style="font-size: 0.9375em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.071em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong>On the possible connection between her rare immune disease and cases of "demonic possession" throughout history</strong></p><p style="font-size: 0.9375em; line-height: 1.375em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.071em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">"When you think about the symptoms — in my case alone, this grandiosity, this violence. In a lot of children, you see hypersexuality. Even my grunts and these guttural sounds that came from me sounded superhuman to someone who might be inclined to think that way. ... When you see videos of people — in fact, when I see videos of myself — demonic possession is not far from your mind. It wasn't far from Stephen's mind when he first saw that seizure. And I've talked to many people who've had this disease, and one woman I spoke to actually asked for a priest because she said, 'The devil is inside of me. I need it out.' A little girl was grunting — they had a monitor in her room — and she was grunting so unnaturally that her parents looked at each other and said, 'Is she, is she possessed?' They actually said that about a little girl. You can see throughout history why people would believe this."</p></div><a href="http://www.wbur.org/npr/165115921/a-young-reporter-chronicles-her-brain-on-fire">http://www.wbur.org/npr/165115921/a-young-reporter-chronicles-her-brain-on-fire</a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>

A Young Reporter Chronicles Her 'Brain On Fire' | WBUR & NPR

In 2009, Susannah Cahalan was a healthy 24-year-old reporter for the  New York Post , when she began to experience numbness, paranoia, sensi...

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Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, cartoonist Ellen Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Flagrantly manic and terrified that medi...

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Uj3dbWAn25_TjKz9MO94bscEZFf35YS4bJ3R99iNHmL32UZA6HaGOI86WQ6M8fG-gNqVMfNMTr3uPdf62QDhu4ixdzVyQpzTPLMakXW5zMpRZc4QeWij1-qzwDxxlKYrQUaWYLZH2_Q/s1600/webinars1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /><img border="0" height="85" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Uj3dbWAn25_TjKz9MO94bscEZFf35YS4bJ3R99iNHmL32UZA6HaGOI86WQ6M8fG-gNqVMfNMTr3uPdf62QDhu4ixdzVyQpzTPLMakXW5zMpRZc4QeWij1-qzwDxxlKYrQUaWYLZH2_Q/s320/webinars1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 15.75pt;">A classroom newspaper using Google Docs </b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u style="line-height: 15.75pt;">Meeting Name</u><span style="line-height: 15.75pt;">:</span><span style="line-height: 15.75pt;">  </span><span style="line-height: 15.75pt;">Create a classroom newspaper using Google Docs</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Presenter</u>: Brenda Hallowes from Port Elizabeth in South Africa<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Summary</u>: This is a webinar from Brenda Hallowes showing how she uses Google Docs to create a lovely classroom newspaper with her Foundation Phase students. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Invited By</u>: Fiona Beal (fiona@schoolnet.org.za)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>When</u>:  11/15/2012 6:00 PM - 6:15 PM<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Time Zone</u>:  (GMT+02:00) Harare, Pretoria<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 15.75pt;"><u>To join the meeting</u>: </span><span style="line-height: 15.75pt;"><a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/newspapers/">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/newspapers/</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15.75pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These webinar recordings will be placed on the blog the following day in case you cannot join us at the time of broadcast. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do join us!</span><br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p></o:p></div></div></div></div></div>

webinars Webinar this evening - do join us!

A classroom newspaper using Google Docs  Meeting Name :   Create a classroom newspaper using Google Docs Presenter : Brenda Hallowes from Po...

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The Worst Blog Post Ever

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />Hola y’all! Man, I don’t know why everything has to be such a hassle. You might remember the ridiculous effort it took to just change out a burned-out tail light back in the summer on my car? Well, that thing is at it again, causing trouble. Now it’s the windshield wipers. What could be more basic than that, right? WRONG! You can’t just use ANY wipers. Oh no! The driver’s side gets a different size than the passenger’s side and apparently not too many people make any that will fit.<br /><br />My plan is to try and find just the blades and see if I can rip the old ones out (they’re already ripped anyway) and then slide new ones in. But, we all know I’m going to end up having to get the expensive shit and use some stupid adapter to make them fit. Why do car companies do this? Can we drop another atomic bomb on Japan to make me feel better? Please?<br /><br />It’s always the little things isn’t it? When big things happen, you just sit back, take it all in and then figure out how to deal with it and move forward. But, the little things? Things that should only take a few minutes out of your day and be simple that turn into huge half-day efforts full of running all over town and getting dirty? That’s when you have to keep your cool.<br /><br />I really should work on that. Maybe I’ll make that my New Year’s Resolution. Or not. I can’t be bothered by shit like that right now, I’m too focused on getting ready for my big trip.<br /><br />Shit. You know what? This is the worst blog post I’ve ever done. And that’s saying something too cause I’ve done some stinkers. I’m talking about my windshield wipers like y’all give a crap. I’m sure each of you are on the edge of your seat saying “Damn! Which company still makes wipers that fit your car? Hope it’s not Rain-X cause that’s some expensive shit right there. I know it isn’t Bosch cause they never make anything anyone needs. Or something. I don’t really know, I just read it on the internet.”<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgToSirKuGXSyScq0Mz2pzJtUjr_IjAo7zmcClTP_URnr9jA94WzA_Vw1_uo9u5xoGoNbdg1eKw3S8bYENqo2HowUFJ4_-r5v04gB7Wi_yOmERB3CZgOSpUZCHKMP5Vs736d_EkuXhh_Q0/s1600/Miranda+Kerr+Victoria%27s+Secret+Nude+Hot+Sexy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgToSirKuGXSyScq0Mz2pzJtUjr_IjAo7zmcClTP_URnr9jA94WzA_Vw1_uo9u5xoGoNbdg1eKw3S8bYENqo2HowUFJ4_-r5v04gB7Wi_yOmERB3CZgOSpUZCHKMP5Vs736d_EkuXhh_Q0/s640/Miranda+Kerr+Victoria's+Secret+Nude+Hot+Sexy.jpg" width="425" /></a></div><br />Yeah well, EXCUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEE MEEEEEEEE! I live a very quiet and boring life. The only exciting thing that happened to me all year was when my apartment building nearly burned to the ground a couple of weeks ago.<br /><br />I was originally going to outline my reasons for wanting Arkansas to secede from the union, but I don’t really have any. I mean, what would Arkansas do as an independent country? We can’t even field a decent football team. Our state army would get its ass kicked so fast it wouldn’t even be funny. Probably by Louisiana as they seem like the mostly likely to start some shit with other states that have seceded and are giving it a go as an independent nation. Then Louisiana would control our precious rice fields and they would get to export the rice to Asia and make all that money. Fuck that.<br /><br />Unless we entered into some kind of alliance with Texas and they agreed to whip up on anyone who messed with us. That would be a pretty sweet deal. They probably wouldn’t do it. Texas wouldn’t get anything good out of it. What could we offer them? Not a damn thing. So, that whole secession idea sucks.<br /><br />Oh hey! I’m closing in on 600 words. That means it’s time to wrap it up. You never want a blog post to be too long because people have really short attention spans. I mean, people are busy. Yeah, that’s it.<br /><br />So what have we learned today kids? My car needs wiper blades that aren’t easy to find, little things get annoying really fast and Arkansas wouldn’t last two days as an independent nation. I’m pretty sure none of that shit matters to you, but there you go.<br /><br />Jayman<br /><a href="mailto:Jayman3768@gmail.com">Jayman3768@gmail.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/jayman_iws" target="_blank">@Jayman_IWS </a><br /><br /></div><br />Be sure to check out the I'm With Stupid show! 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The Worst Blog Post Ever

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When we were 5....

<span style="font-size: large;">My twin sister and I had our birthday the other day.  Amy sent me a birthday wishes text along with this cute pic of the two of us when we were 5.  I love it!</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Would you believe we dressed the same for a few years after this picture was taken?!! (I won't embarrass myself by saying for exactly how many years!)</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyDwHyOiy1boK-lyJIs_rJtCo6kzx_ZbcAT5LFIjpSB83wlwPtqxlkOpRRwBav0CJHKNvUM0Cicpy52PCClErl7dBEVUddD0_JhmUrGOq3RE1XkXaSMqRNjh53re2zQY74rYt0vKRBS5PJ/s1600/IMG_2384%5B1%5D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyDwHyOiy1boK-lyJIs_rJtCo6kzx_ZbcAT5LFIjpSB83wlwPtqxlkOpRRwBav0CJHKNvUM0Cicpy52PCClErl7dBEVUddD0_JhmUrGOq3RE1XkXaSMqRNjh53re2zQY74rYt0vKRBS5PJ/s320/IMG_2384%5B1%5D.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>

When we were 5....

My twin sister and I had our birthday the other day.  Amy sent me a birthday wishes text along with this cute pic of the two of us when we w...

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Library Manager - The Hospital of Central Connecticut

<b>Library Manager - </b><span style="color: #48286d;"><b>The Hospital of Central Connecticut</b></span><b> </b>has an excellent opportunity for a Library Manager to join our Health Sciences Library. Reporting to the Director of Medical Education, the Manger will direct the activities of the Health Sciences Library, including strategic planning, development, evaluation, and outreach functions. Administrative responsibilities include: personnel management, space planning, fiscal management, collection development, outreach, quality improvement, and maintenance of resource-sharing arrangements with library consortia. Direct Service responsibilities include: advanced computer information retrieval, reference, and teaching. The qualified candidate will have an MLS with three years of relevant health sciences library experience. Expert knowledge of several computer-based systems including: biomedical online information databases and web services (e.g. Medline via NLM’s PubMed; DOCLINE; OVID databases; OCLC cataloging and ILL) is also required. Skills in using automated library system applications and proficiency in MS Office are also essential. For more information, and to apply online, please visit our website at <a _fcksavedurl="http://www.thocc.org/jobs" href="http://www.thocc.org/jobs" target="_blank">www.thocc.org/jobs</a>. AA/EEO M/F/D/V.

Library Manager - The Hospital of Central Connecticut

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8 jobs in social media

<br /><div class="RXart" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-right: 20px; text-align: left;"><div class="ArticleHeadline" style="margin-top: -30px;"><div class="hdr_org_bld" style="color: #ff6600; font: normal normal bold 18px/normal arial, helvetica;"><h1 id="articleHeadline" style="color: #000066; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span id="cbArticle_lblHeadline">8 jobs in social media</span></h1></div><b><span id="cbArticle_lblByLine">By Susan Ricker, CareerBuilder Writer</span></b><br /><div class="cb_share_more_wrapper"></div></div><br /><div class="ArticleContent"><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="media-image" src="http://artstg.icbdr.com/sites/all/files/styles/large/public/Social%20media%20careers_0.jpg" typeof="foaf:Image" /></div>Most people try to stay off of social-media websites such as <a href="http://www.facebook.com/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Facebook</a> or <a href="http://www.twitter.com/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Twitter</a> while working, knowing that if their boss catches them, they'll get lectured about putting more time and effort into their work. But what if your job required you to be on Facebook, interacting with friends and getting paid for having the most retweets?<br /><br />You're in luck: This workplace daydream is a career reality. Demand for social-media jobs is growing as more companies want to join the social-media community. "The world's dependency on technology, the pervasiveness of social media and the need to drive sales and expand into new markets are all driving double-digit growth across a variety of fields," says Matt Ferguson, CEO of CareerBuilder. The Bureau of Labor Statistics' <a href="http://www.bls.gov/ooh/about/projections-overview.htm" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">2010-20 projections</a> show the same, stating, "The growth of social media will result in the need for more workers to maintain an organization's public image."<br /><br />Here are eight jobs that either directly relate to or involve social media*:<br /><br /><strong>1.</strong> <a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/advertising/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Advertising</strong></a><strong>, </strong><a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/promotions/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><strong>promotions</strong></a><strong> and </strong><a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/marketing+managers/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><strong>marketing manager</strong></a>: Advertising, promotions and marketing managers plan programs to generate interest in a product or service. They work with art directors, sales agents and financial staff members. According to the BLS, "Advertising and promotions managers will be needed to plan, direct and coordinate advertising and promotion campaigns, as well as to introduce new products to the marketplace. They will also be needed to manage digital media campaigns, which often target customers through the use of websites, social media and live chats."<br /><strong>Pay: </strong>According to the BLS, the median annual pay for advertising, promotions and marketing managers is $108,260.<br /><br /><strong>2.</strong> <a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/social+media+AND+blogger/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Blogger</strong></a>: According to <a href="http://www.creativegroup.com/Home" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">The Creative Group's</a> guide for social-media job descriptions, bloggers are "responsible for opinionated, stylish writing and frequently posting new content to the Internet. Duties may also include developing and/or revising text for other venues, including online communities, press releases, Web articles and video blogs."<br /><strong>Pay:</strong> The median annual pay for bloggers is $55,420, according to the BLS.<br /><br /><strong>3. </strong><a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/social+media+AND+community+manager/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Community manager</strong></a>: "Community managers create and execute social-media strategies designed to accomplish real business objectives for brands," says Katherine Leonard, digital-content developer at <a href="https://lonelybrand.com/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">lonelybrand</a>, a digital marketing agency in Chicago.<br /><strong>Pay: </strong>According to social-media education company <a href="http://socialfresh.com/how-much-money-do-community-managers-make-infographic/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Social Fresh</a>, the average annual pay for a community manager is $61,800.<br /><br /><strong>4.</strong> <a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/social+media+AND+content+marketing+manager/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Content-marketing manager</strong></a>: "I spend my days writing and promoting business blogs, e-books and white papers," says Jasmine Henry, content-marketing manager for <a href="http://www.inboundmarketingagents.com/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Inbound Marketing Agents</a>in Nashville, Tenn. "No blog does well in a bubble, so being able to parse pithy quotes and pick topics that are going to inspire shares and retweets on major social-media channels is critical to our clients' success. I typically spend a great deal of time watching conversations on Twitter to figure out which topics are driving conversations, writing blog articles about these topics and then responding to questions and retweets."<br /><strong>Pay: </strong>According to CBSalary.com, the national average salary for content-marketing managers is $56,752.<br /><br /><strong>5.</strong> <a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/event+planner/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Meeting, convention and event planner</strong></a>: Meeting, convention and event planners coordinate all aspects of professional meetings and events. They choose locations, arrange transportation and coordinate other details. The BLS states that "planners must be familiar with computers, database software, budgets and online social media."<br /><strong>Pay: </strong>According to the BLS, the median annual pay for this role is $45,260.<br /><br /><strong>6.</strong> <a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/public+relations/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Public-relations manager and specialist</strong></a>: PR managers and specialists create and maintain a favorable public image for their employer or client. They write material for media releases, plan and direct PR programs and raise money for their organizations. "Growth of both will be driven by the need for organizations to maintain their public image in a high-information age and with the growth of social media," notes the BLS.<br /><strong>Pay: </strong>According to the BLS, the median annual pay for PR managers and specialists is $57,550.<br /><br /><strong>7.</strong> <a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/social+media+AND+analyst/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Social-networking analyst</strong></a>: "A good portion of time is spent engaging with customers and acquiring new followers and fans," says Giselle Gonzales, social-media analyst at <a href="http://www.sandboxindustries.com/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Sandbox Industries</a>, a venture capital firm in Chicago. "We also scour the Web finding content that is most relevant to our follower base and will help us get a good conversation started."<br /><strong>Pay: </strong>According to CBSalary.com, the national average salary is $82,020.<br /><br /><strong>8.</strong> <a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/social+media+AND+social+media+manager/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Social-media manager</strong></a>: "Social-media managers are responsible for deciding what content to feature on our social-media channels, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn," says Jodey Smith, Web and social-media manager for <a href="http://www.seaventures.com/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">SeaVentures Inc.</a> in Alpharetta, Ga. "Daily tasks include posting, responding to community discussions and combating spam. Ongoing testing and various strategies and techniques make up a large part of the day."<br /><strong>Pay: </strong>According to CBSalary.com, the national average salary for social-media managers is $106,160.<br /><br /><em>Susan Ricker is a writer and blogger for </em><a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><em>CareerBuilder.com</em></a><em> and its job blog, </em><a href="http://www.theworkbuzz.com/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>The Work Buzz</em></a><em>. 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8 jobs in social media

8 jobs in social media By Susan Ricker, CareerBuilder Writer Most people try to stay off of social-media websites such as  Facebook  or  Twi...

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winterizing the kitchen

I was baking cookies the other day and as I waited for the timer to ding I stared at this.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr7jOtMMPlqpo3qugoGd9k8FB98XlXJJpgm19SoaOgWn-Nfs_zjrEivhv6kqIyR8Bi4oV6pXQ2_wzIMoUxr20Yl9JXRKC_GNskZmG2HJUBIeWVTTFJGwv8LPcDNMnhpPmXPWrOXKtNaqNS/s1600/PA300411.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr7jOtMMPlqpo3qugoGd9k8FB98XlXJJpgm19SoaOgWn-Nfs_zjrEivhv6kqIyR8Bi4oV6pXQ2_wzIMoUxr20Yl9JXRKC_GNskZmG2HJUBIeWVTTFJGwv8LPcDNMnhpPmXPWrOXKtNaqNS/s640/PA300411.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br />I'm over it.<br /><br />Not the shelves, but the white. Ever since I added my <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2012/10/paint-rug-party-week-3-reveal.html" target="_blank">lovely new rug</a> by the sink, I've been thinking the other side of the kitchen needed some blue as well.<br /><br />This is where all of those purchases of blue and white come in handy. Proof to the hubs that you can never have too much blue and white. 10 minutes later...<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8UTCXvpOWhkoR3xIkbzRbkn499uL-zLW1RadkoCt5c8XTIWZyu6p8h21S_TtINaxKyjVF4ih5_lvrZUkzXwQ8pFCGgffdgvtbA_c14izTOZhk4Z7JqZzOqJUuYtOqVC9uMR-6cY2AoKcI/s1600/BlueandWhiteKitchen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8UTCXvpOWhkoR3xIkbzRbkn499uL-zLW1RadkoCt5c8XTIWZyu6p8h21S_TtINaxKyjVF4ih5_lvrZUkzXwQ8pFCGgffdgvtbA_c14izTOZhk4Z7JqZzOqJUuYtOqVC9uMR-6cY2AoKcI/s640/BlueandWhiteKitchen.jpg" width="514" /></a></div><br />Voila. Much better and a bit cozier for winter. We'll consider this my 'winter kitchen'. If you can't have a winter home, you can at least have a winter kitchen.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG7IzEIFoF_-nuRjp74VSCrj8HPDs0aZv5WDvduuIlk5xQxejSlqGsyopPUmrywYYM_IwfJn_y8pvGsULAKV_1XD2ApMHHa4rmo2qF1Y2dXBkrgZB-IlDF8zfylN3FdEolZX29I5D-AZh0/s1600/BlueandWhiteKitchenclose.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG7IzEIFoF_-nuRjp74VSCrj8HPDs0aZv5WDvduuIlk5xQxejSlqGsyopPUmrywYYM_IwfJn_y8pvGsULAKV_1XD2ApMHHa4rmo2qF1Y2dXBkrgZB-IlDF8zfylN3FdEolZX29I5D-AZh0/s640/BlueandWhiteKitchenclose.jpg" width="630" /></a></div><br />And if I decide to change it again in the Spring, I know it will be quick and easy.<br /><br />Have you made any quick changes around the house? Have a collection that moves from place to place? Have a winter home you'd like to share with me?

winterizing the kitchen

I was baking cookies the other day and as I waited for the timer to ding I stared at this. I'm over it. Not the shelves, but the white. ...

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