Boylan Bottling Company Review

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZcasB6vn3GKtBxIyaaKwVUnMbfp08WnPpt7NTZIn6mxn_U4B7KBLMDQb_tvdPOGsxS4TnQiXbRAVHst4jqqn8iMoAwWQJ1SkwEFgm2xzQjyAi6H268YJQkHhg1b2MArzmgW3My_UEhVQ/s1600/boylan+bottling.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZcasB6vn3GKtBxIyaaKwVUnMbfp08WnPpt7NTZIn6mxn_U4B7KBLMDQb_tvdPOGsxS4TnQiXbRAVHst4jqqn8iMoAwWQJ1SkwEFgm2xzQjyAi6H268YJQkHhg1b2MArzmgW3My_UEhVQ/s320/boylan+bottling.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was sent Boylan Shirley Temple sodas for review.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First though let me tell you a little bit about the company and how it got the name.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1981 William Boylan developed an elixir in his Paterson, New Jersey apothecary. He named it Boylan's Birch being a derivative from birch trees.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Through out the years they were distributed in many forms and packages.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Marketed as a soda fountain beverage in the early days before it was bottled in the 1900's.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During the prohibition in the the 1920's it was actually contained in beer barrels!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The birch beer was sold primarily in kegs to taverns in New Jersey.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Their 12 ounce bottles that are creative by structure are well known.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Boylan still today can be found in soda fountains at restaurants. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not only do they have birch beer, they have a wide selection stemming from regular, club, seltzers, and diet!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>Flavors:</u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cola</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Grape</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Orange</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Black Cherry</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ginger Ale</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Creme</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Root Beer</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shirley Temple</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Boylan's Creamy Red Birch Beer</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>Story:</u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I absolutely loved drinking soda as a kid.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I remembered when my family and I would go to the Malt Shoppe right up the road from where I live and we would get a soda and ice cream.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just the look of the bottles from Boylan took me back to my childhood, reminding me of the great memories of the Fourth of July when we would be patiently awaiting for the fireworks to be set off while snacking on our ice creams and sipping our sodas.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So sad that it went out of business many years ago though.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We need businesses like these again!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh to be young again! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Check them out online!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like their face book page! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love the old fashion soda bottles and that you can save them!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.boylanbottling.com/">http://www.boylanbottling.com/</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/boylanbottling">https://www.facebook.com/boylanbottling</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/boylan_bottling"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">https://twitter.com/boylan_bottling</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>

Boylan Bottling Company Review

I was sent Boylan Shirley Temple sodas for review. First though let me tell you a little bit about the company and how it got the name. In 1...

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Cost Accountant ( Product Costing | Inventory flows ) (#108844)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="WordSection1"><div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Position: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Cost Accountant<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Location: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Milpitas, CA<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Duration: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Full time<o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p><br /></o:p>Job Description:<br />Responsibilities:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />Primary responsibility will be to provide financial, analytical and technical support to the Operations Accounting, Corp Services, and Regional Finance groups.  Ideal candidate will have the skill set to gain an advanced understanding of the Cost accounting business processes on the SAP system and develop, oversee and drive corporate-wide processes improvements in the Operational Accounting area.  In addition, the candidate will also need to thoroughly understand the Regional Balance Sheet review process, including a review and audit of multiple global legal entities financial statements.  Lastly, the candidate will also aid in supporting the development and maintenance of the financial accounting systems and business processes to support Operations Accounting, Corp Services (AP, Payroll, etc), and Regional Finance. Candidate will participate in a number of system enhancement projects and may also lead some small to medium sized projects as well.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Preferred Qualifications:<o:p></o:p></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />The ideal candidate will have proven success in the following areas:<o:p></o:p><br />1) Advanced Cost Accounting process knowledge, with a strong working knowledge of Supply Chain and Materials Management processes<o:p></o:p>.<br />2) Experienced in analyzing and/or auditing financial statements, analyzing trends and reviewing for completeness and accuracy.<br />3) Ability to lead small project teams for policy reviews/updates, system conversions/updates, and business process improvements<o:p><b>.<br /></b></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Key skills the candidate must have demonstrated include:<o:p></o:p></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />1) Ability to perform at a high degree of accuracy, achieves results with diligence and precision.<br />2) Is meticulous with details, and conforms to high standards expected of finance team.<o:p></o:p><br />3) Effectively communicates with all levels of management, and effectively explains and interprets organizational policies and procedures<o:p></o:p>.<br />4) Ability to succeed in a challenging and fast paced environment<o:p></o:p>.<br />5) Comfortable working and aligning across functional boundaries, and comfortable working in a matrixed/multi-divisional environment<b>.<br /></b><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Minimum Qualifications:<o:p></o:p></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />Bachelor’s degree is required with at least 5 years of business experience, or equivalent.<o:p></o:p><br />Master's in Business Administration is desired.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p>Kindly send your resume to <a href="mailto:sivaram.bose@kla-tencor.com">sivaram.bose@kla-tencor.com</a><span style="color: #1f497d;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div></div>

Cost Accountant ( Product Costing | Inventory flows ) (#108844)

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Supply Chain Manager (# 109133)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="WordSection1"><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Position:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">  Supply Chain Manager<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Location:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Milpitas, CA<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Duration:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Full time<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Job Description:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">KLA-Tencor has manufacturing sites across the globe, including Belgium, China, Germany, Israel, Singapore and Milpitas (CA). The Global Operations (GOPS) team, comprised of Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing Engineering, Installation, and Quality is responsible for manufacturing our leading-edge technology. We partner with our world-wide supply base and our design engineering teams to bring new products to market. The GOPS team is continuously working to build our products Better, Faster, Cheaper.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Responsibilities:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Technology Supplier Account Manager (TSAM) is Supply Chain Management role that requires technical background particularly in optics, light sources, and sensors as it relates to their application in KT Tools. This position will work with external suppliers of those products on existing products and next generation products. This position will internally coordinate with operations, supply chain, engineering, and advanced technology groups to understand their requirements and help identify suppliers and develop sourcing strategies for these critical needs. This position will also negotiate key supplier agreements.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Basic Qualifications</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 4 years of experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Master's Level Degree with at least 3 years of experience. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Kindly send your resume to <a href="mailto:raju.balaji@kla-tencor.com">raju.balaji@kla-tencor.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div>

Supply Chain Manager (# 109133)

Position:   Supply Chain Manager Location: Milpitas, CA Duration: Full time Job Description: KLA-Tencor has manufacturing sites across the...

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Juil's Sandals Review

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl0rDW0c2PKm1ittXvbnV_36JQhhGbS7FcsL8-UJtjo1lfGS6Zry9ZD7sGysC8TUIJLsiQcxPCjk1tImzgyykHLBEnaYF22xGVoy6P8YKUx1RSpefhN9yOHykSnkyr6mz67tOy68XqFv0/s1600/sandals.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl0rDW0c2PKm1ittXvbnV_36JQhhGbS7FcsL8-UJtjo1lfGS6Zry9ZD7sGysC8TUIJLsiQcxPCjk1tImzgyykHLBEnaYF22xGVoy6P8YKUx1RSpefhN9yOHykSnkyr6mz67tOy68XqFv0/s320/sandals.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was sent a pair of these beautiful sandals from <a href="https://juil.com/">Juil</a> for a review.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I opened the box the wow factor was set!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I could not believe my eyes at how beautiful these looked and to add the perfect touch they added in a bag to put them in!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Above in the photo is the super cute bag!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They even have little toe inserts where your toes go right inside of the sandals!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How cute is that!?</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-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When it comes to my feet I don't know about you but I need something that is comfortable and easy to walk in.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Especially in the Summer time!</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-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Being at the beach is just enough sometimes walking on that hot sand all day without sandals or flip flops!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Am I right?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your feet get burned and then you are uncomfortable and want to leave the beach which is no fun.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or even when you go out somewhere fancy and you have to dress up just a bit, these are the perfect footwear for that!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are pretty, comfortable and match just about any color or type of clothing you may have in your wardrobe!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE_U91X0fXA5x6B3EOCl5gugZ8XlViqWeuKEZGDRpX5iJMImE6Jrv06ygbRSCQZj8w5pHkHJpuOSb2HDVkP2qCUUIgEkyqUjW6qS-rjVXDuvocTqb_CjHaHSwHwBd6m16rZZh7P7khTKU/s1600/omg+love+them!.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE_U91X0fXA5x6B3EOCl5gugZ8XlViqWeuKEZGDRpX5iJMImE6Jrv06ygbRSCQZj8w5pHkHJpuOSb2HDVkP2qCUUIgEkyqUjW6qS-rjVXDuvocTqb_CjHaHSwHwBd6m16rZZh7P7khTKU/s320/omg+love+them!.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They offer a wide selection from men's to women's in sandals, flip flops and shoes!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For all of you shoe lovers you need to go and take a peek!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://juil.com/">https://juil.com/</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Juil's Sandals Review

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Library Circulation Assistant - Lyme Public Library

<b>Library Circulation Assistant -</b> <b><span style="color: #48286d;">Lyme Public Library</span></b>. 13 hrs./wk – Tues. & Thurs. eve. and Sat. for small public library. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the Library’s centennial celebration in 2013 and opening of a new library building in 2014. Opportunity to work additional hours substituting for other staff as needed. Responsibilities include working circulation desk and assisting both adult and juvenile patrons with reference and reader’s advisory. Must possess good customer service and computer skills. Previous library experience a plus. Starting wage $11.00/hr. Send résumé, cover letter, and names, addresses, and phone numbers of three references to: Theresa Conley, Lyme Public Library, 482 Hamburg Road, Lyme, CT 06371-3110 or email to <a _fcksavedurl="mailto:tconley@lymepl.org" href="mailto:tconley@lymepl.org">tconley@lymepl.org</a>. Application deadline <span style="color: red;">March 16, 2013</span>. EOE.

Library Circulation Assistant - Lyme Public Library

Library Circulation Assistant - Lyme Public Library . 13 hrs./wk – Tues. & Thurs. eve. and Sat. for small public library. This is an ...

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Optical Engineer ( Zemax/Code V | optics | design |sub-systems | metrology) (#108787)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="WordSection1"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Job Title:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Optical Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Location:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Milpitas, CA<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Duration:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Fulltime<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Job Description:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">The Wafer Inspection Division (WIN) of KLA-Tencor designs and manufactures systems that are used for capturing yield-impacting defects at the front-end-of-line (FEOL) and the back-end-of-line (BEOL). A successful candidate will be joining a world leader in wafer inspection products and technologies designing and manufacturing the next generation of products.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">The Wafer Inspection Division (WIN) is seeking an Optical Engineer in our Milpitas, California campus.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Responsibilities:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">Within this role, the selected Optical Engineer will-<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">1.Develop experiments to investigate new optical design concepts and optical components.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">2.Design optical sub-systems and alignment procedures.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">3.Interact with vendors to qualify optical assemblies.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">4.Help solving critical production issues related to optical systems.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">5.Provide optical analysis support to help solving optical system issues and improve overall equipment performance<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Preferred Qualifications:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">1.MS in optics with 5 plus years relevant experience focusing on optical engineering. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">2.Strong background in optical imaging and optical system design. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">3.Hands-on experience aligning optical systems. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">4.Working knowledge of opto-mechanical systems<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">5.Experience with Zemax/Code V optical design software and stray ray analysis software. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">6.Excellent communication skills and ability to work in within a dynamic team environment.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">7.Ability to carry out a project from design phase to production. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Minimum Qualifications:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 5 years of experience. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">OR <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">Master's Level Degree with at least 3 years of experience. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">OR <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">Doctorate (Academic) with at least 0 years of experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Please send you resumes to vinod.sanker@kla-tencor.com</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></div></div></div>

Optical Engineer ( Zemax/Code V | optics | design |sub-systems | metrology) (#108787)

Job Title: Optical Engineer Location: Milpitas, CA Duration: Fulltime Job Description: The Wafer Inspection Division (WIN) of KLA-Tencor ...

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What seems obvious to you may be AMAZING to others! Keep sharing…

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We live in the social networking age, the age of sharing information generously with others. But how often does it happen that we want to share something but we think it is too ordinary – that everyone knows about it. Everybody’s idea seems obvious to them. But maybe what’s obvious to you is amazing to others!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The thoughts expressed in this video by David Sivers are so inspirational that I thought it would be good to embed the whole video here.</span><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/xcmI5SSQLmE" width="420"></iframe><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy sharing! Just do it!</span></div>

Inspiration What seems obvious to you may be AMAZING to others! Keep sharing…

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Soft Scrub All purpose cleaner review and giveaway

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Congratulations to Angel Poling, Allison Downes and Sally!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFPTPYSBlmkZEt5OkN_ETbXZifg-mOu4ys8iR0X_-eTDx9LBcV-ML6nB0BoDbOpvmxc3J_XkRJYu1mxpwu-Qwp3VtrOLQUgjTu-AHHWbWXUnSXXh6yQqw9xooOEsrrH4bHf_IqF_adxig/s1600/soft+scrub+all+purpose+cleaner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFPTPYSBlmkZEt5OkN_ETbXZifg-mOu4ys8iR0X_-eTDx9LBcV-ML6nB0BoDbOpvmxc3J_XkRJYu1mxpwu-Qwp3VtrOLQUgjTu-AHHWbWXUnSXXh6yQqw9xooOEsrrH4bHf_IqF_adxig/s320/soft+scrub+all+purpose+cleaner.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Soft Scrub has provided me with a free sample of Soft Scrub Total All Purpose Bath and Kitchen Cleaner to review.</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-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don't you wish there was a cleaning product that cleans everything, instead of having different bottles for glassware, surfaces and tubs?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well now there is!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Soft Scrub all Purpose bath and kitchen cleaner is tough on those stains you just can't seem to get rid of.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You scrub and scrub and it's still on the surface!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With this wonderful stain fighting cleaner it's also gentle on surfaces.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's new and improved formula has a lot more whitening power with less residue for better rinsing.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Works oh so fantastic on tile,sinks, grout and even tubs!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not only did the product get a makeover but the bottle did too!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's new and improved cap has improved to prevent spills and makes your cleaning experience a lot better and easy too!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Time to get scrubbing with the new and improved Soft Scrub All purpose bath and kitchen cleaner!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ahh, fresh lemon scent! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can try it too!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will be selecting 3 winners to win a coupon for a free bottle!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.softscrub.com/OneSurfaceSweepstakes">http://www.softscrub.com/OneSurfaceSweepstakes</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">1. What do you hate cleaning the most?</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Want an extra entry? </span></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. Follow my blog.</span></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3.Then also follow me via Twitter, here. https://twitter.com/kelli_bliss </span></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. then Re tweet my post about the giveaway and if you tweet on your own make sure you use #softscrub</span></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. leave me a link here to your tweet.</span></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6. like the soft scrub face book page please! </span></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/SoftScrub?ref=ts&fref=ts"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">https://www.facebook.com/SoftScrub?ref=ts&fref=ts</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Soft Scrub All purpose cleaner review and giveaway

Congratulations to Angel Poling, Allison Downes and Sally! Soft Scrub has provided me with a free sample of Soft Scrub Total All Purpose Bat...

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Honey Bunches Of Oats:Tropical Blends Review and Giveaway

<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Congratulations to Elisabeth, Kelsey and  Elena! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwA3D1B18Ni0u7etYMIsI5Lps8XuK7d4lg_N_4_TMoreaFs8xHfe-BGWjs6ZEQFCrE_Z1L-WkWorgp_C1FRY4tv95Sf_r6wbJLge5jzxhr1pHtaus00z1EoYTW6M0SCbVxcwKZSkHpJ9k/s1600/Honey+Bunches+of+Oats+Tropical+Blends.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwA3D1B18Ni0u7etYMIsI5Lps8XuK7d4lg_N_4_TMoreaFs8xHfe-BGWjs6ZEQFCrE_Z1L-WkWorgp_C1FRY4tv95Sf_r6wbJLge5jzxhr1pHtaus00z1EoYTW6M0SCbVxcwKZSkHpJ9k/s320/Honey+Bunches+of+Oats+Tropical+Blends.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm a Purex insider and was sent this delicious cereal from Honey Bunches of Oats to review and host a giveaway with my readers!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With all of the snow and cold weather don't you wish you could just take a vacation?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With just one bite of Honey Bunches of Oats Tropical Blend cereal you will feel like you are on an island!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's just that amazing!</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkRfo3RCBwxyIpx8qiG40n4RUNvDX0WffZvqzjBLF2QHycFjGEAYVrEE14ZAPW9rDVBdueOuAAyOeq4e5HdoVnJYrZBMB40_2sx9TLTrmPCoj3NSA0-R7ErZv3ds9fzTeB9LJ7ufQGzTA/s1600/Tropical+Blends+yogurt+bowl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkRfo3RCBwxyIpx8qiG40n4RUNvDX0WffZvqzjBLF2QHycFjGEAYVrEE14ZAPW9rDVBdueOuAAyOeq4e5HdoVnJYrZBMB40_2sx9TLTrmPCoj3NSA0-R7ErZv3ds9fzTeB9LJ7ufQGzTA/s320/Tropical+Blends+yogurt+bowl.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This morning I made breakfast the healthy way.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I used some Vanilla Chobani Greek yogurt, some berries and a sprinkle of Tropical Blends Honey Bunches of Oats.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was blown away by how good the cereal tasted!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Along with the berries, yogurt and the little Tropical Blend clusters it was all I needed for a delicious and healthy breakfast. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can hear the waves already and just smell the scent of suntan lotion!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whether it's in a bowl or layered on top of some delicious yogurt you are sure to love it, your taste buds will too!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ladies and gents, it's time for some tropical goodness because it's giveaway time!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've got three coupons to giveaway.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Winner will win a coupon good for a box of Tropical Blends!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Where would you like to go on vacation if you could go?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Want an extra entry? </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. Follow my blog.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3.Then also follow me via Twitter, here. https://twitter.com/kelli_bliss </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. then Re tweet my post about the giveaway and if you tweet on your own make sure you use #HoneyBunchesOfOats</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. leave me a link here to your tweet.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6. like the Honey Bunches of Oats Face Book page</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/honeybunchesofoats?fref=ts">https://www.facebook.com/honeybunchesofoats?fref=ts</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How many of you would love to go on a vacation? </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.purex.com/tropical-trio-sweepstakes">http://www.purex.com/tropical-trio-sweepstakes</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You will not want to miss out on this!</span><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Purex Brand has teamed up with Honey Bunches of Oats as well as Outrigger hotels and resorts to launch a huge prize giveaway!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First place winner- five winners in total. will win a year supply of Purex's natural elements Tropical splash detergent and the Honey Bunches Of Oats Tropical Blends.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Second place winner- 100 winners selected will receive coupons for the Purex Natural Elements Tropical Splash and The Honey Bunches of Oats Tropical Blends.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Grand prize winner- One winner will win a four night stay for two at Outrigger Waikiki on the beach! </span><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><br /></div>

Honey Bunches Of Oats:Tropical Blends Review and Giveaway

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What I've Been Eating

<br />Today I'm going to talk about my eating habits since getting pregnant.<br /><br />Now, you might think that since I've expressed so much worry about gaining baby weight, that I must be eating super healthy, remaining conscientious of every single thing I put into my mouth.  Noooooooooooo.<br /><br />It's not that I couldn't continue to follow Weight Watchers.  In fact, my midwive encouraged it - saying I would just need to add a few extra Points to my day.  However, this really has never been a possibility at all.<br /><br />Since the very beginning of this pregnancy, I have had more food aversions than food cravings.  At first, I lost a few pounds simply because I had the hardest time eating.  Absolutely nothing appealed to me, and every. single. day. sucked.  Trying to abide by Weight Watchers Points+ was my last concern.  I knew I had to be eating something each day, and so I just ate whatever I could tolerate.  Most of the time, they were not healthy choices I was typically accustomed to.  Oatmeal? Forget it!  Eggs?  No thank you! Yogurt? Gag. Me. Now!  Still, I felt a tremendous amount of guilt for veering so drastically off my WW course.  WW is practically all I've known for the last several years.  To not be worrying about what food I ate next and how many Points+ it was felt foreign to me.  I finally had to accept that the pregnancy was only going to be for 9 months, and not forever, and then I'd resume as normal. <br /><i><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="color: #666666;">I'm going to make a very obvious statement, but I believe sometimes people don't truly realize what they're saying.  Every pregnant lady's journey is different, just like that of weight loss.  So even if you and I both experienced the DREADFUL "morning sickness" throughout our entire pregnancies, what worked for you might not necessarily work for me and vice versa.  When others have told me to simply "Just eat healthy and you'll be fine" I want to scream.  It's not that simple for me.  It's not that I don't want to eat healthy.  I actually want to eat healthy now more than I did when trying to lose weight.  I want to provide my child with the most optimal of nutrition.  However, I am at the mercy of whatever my body can not puke up at this point, and that my friends, does not leave me with many options!  So with that said, I'll continue...</span></i><br /><br />Honestly, the more I think about it, the more I realize how much I detested food in general those first 3 months.  I just did not want to eat but I knew I had to, not only for the benefit of the baby, but because not eating made the sickness even worse.  I think those were the hardest moments of my life thus far.  As I said before, there was so much change, overnight, that trying to adapt to those changes was really getting the best of me.  I did a lot of crying because I felt so physically awful, and I just wanted it all to go away.  I felt like a helpless child.  In terms of food, I could hardly stand to pour myself a bowl of cereal without gagging, much less trying to cook any type of meal.  Joel was unbelievably supportive, as was my workplace and friends and family.  I am tearing up now just reflecting on those first few months.  It was truly horrible for me.       <br /><br />Now, 5.5 months into this pregnancy, not much has really changed in terms of eating habits.  While the intensity of my sickness has died down considerably, there are still many foods that gag me at the mere sight of them, much less smelling them cooking. Overall, the most consistent food group I've enjoyed while pregnant has been pasta.  The pasta and red sauce just really seemed to soak up the sickness in my belly.   My eating patterns have transitioned from force-feeding myself to finding one food that I currently enjoy, and thus eating it over and over and over again.  Daily.  I've done this with pasta, pizza, sauerkraut, and currently, Boston Market.  <br /><br />Having said all of that, I still struggle daily with every meal.  For example, Joel made these delicious lasagna wraps last week that I devoured for dinner one night.  He packed them for my lunch the next day.  Then, everyday thereafter I toted that same container of lasagna wraps back and forth to the office.  I had no desire for them at all after that.  On Joel's days off, he will text me in the morning asking what I'd like for dinner.  Even if I can manage to come up with something, by the time I get home and he's prepared it, I don't want it.  It truly makes me feel terrible when this happens, and it's happened more times than not.  He's just spent his precious time preparing a meal, and I just don't want it at all.  The bottom line is, I've wasted so much food since being pregnant and I feel awful about it.  I've wasted a ton of Joel's time, him spent preparing a meal that I ultimately cannot tolerate eating.   <br /><br />The bottom line is that food is more of a struggle for me than ever before.  Yes, even pre-pregnancy.  I know that God is going to continue to reveal all the reasons why me being a parent is part of His plan.  I truly believe going through the pregnancy process is going to have many lessons learned in regard to my future weight loss journey.  I thought my battle with food before was difficult.  That was nothing by comparison!   <br /><div><br /></div>

Baby Busbee What I've Been Eating

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Product Marketing Director (Sales | Marketing | Product Life Cycle | Semiconductor Capital Equipment) (# 109145)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="WordSection1"><div class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Position: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Product Marketing Director<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Location: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Milpitas, CA<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Duration: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Full time<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoPlainText"><br /></div><div class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Job Description: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The Film and Scatterometry Technology (FaST) Division provides industry leading metrology solutions for worldwide semiconductor IC manufacturers.  The FaST Division portfolio of metrology products includes hardware and software solutions for optical film thickness, optical critical dimension (CD), composition, and resistivity measurement systems.  These products are essential for the IC manufacturers as they provide critical metrology capabilities for the development and implementation of their advanced IC processes.  The FaST division is committed to support our customers to achieve performance entitlement of our solution and we effectively partner with our customers from their early research and development phase to the high volume in-line manufacturing implementation specific for their process needs. The division consists of a global team located in US, Israel, China, and India.<br /> <br /> <b>Responsibilities:</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The successful candidate will be responsible for managing new products within the product lifecycle process including defining requirements, setting priorities for the development team, selecting and working with test partners and managing product launches. Strong leadership across differing functional groups and effective communication with executive management will be key elements to success in this role.<br /> <br /> There will also be significant account management responsibilities working with an international sales team to define penetration strategies, formulate competitive responses and manage tool evaluations and competitive run-offs. Also as a senior member of the marketing team the successful candidate will contribute to the strategic planning process defining the future direction of the division. The successful candidate will have a strong understanding of the semiconductor manufacturing process and the importance of metrology tools and techniques in improving process control and will likely have worked in a wafer fab environment.<br /> <br /> <b>Preferred Qualifications:</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Minimum of a Bachelors Degree in a technical discipline.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">10-15 years experience in semiconductor industry, direct wafer fab experience is considered an advantage.<br /> <br /> Experience in scatterometry based metrology would be considered an advantage.<br /> <br /> Direct product marketing experience in a semiconductor or related industry is required.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">MBA is considered an advantage but not essential to the position.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoPlainText"><br /></div><div class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Minimum Qualifications:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Master's Level Degree with at least 6 years of experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">OR<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 10 years of experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoPlainText"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Kindly send your resume to <a href="mailto:sivaram.bose@kla-tencor.com">sivaram.bose@kla-tencor.com</a><span style="color: #1f497d;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div></div>

Product Marketing Director (Sales | Marketing | Product Life Cycle | Semiconductor Capital Equipment) (# 109145)

Position: Product Marketing Director Location: Milpitas, CA Duration: Full time Job Description: The Film and Scatterometry Technology (...

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Library Assistant 1 - Guilford Free Library

<strong>Library Assistant 1 - </strong><strong><span style="color: #48286d;">Guilford Free Library</span></strong> has a job opening for a Library Assistant 1, with responsibilities at the Circulation Desk and in the Children’s Department. This is a Part Time, 16 hour per week position, including nights and weekends. Please visit the Town of Guilford website, <a _fcksavedurl="http://www.ci.guilford.ct.us" href="http://www.ci.guilford.ct.us/" target="_blank">www.ci.guilford.ct.us</a>, for more information, and a job application. Applications must be completed and submitted to the Human Resources Office at Town Hall, 55 Park Street, Guilford, CT 06437 no later than 3:00 pm Friday <span style="color: red;">March 8, 2013</span>.

Library Assistant 1 - Guilford Free Library

Library Assistant 1 - Guilford Free Library has a job opening for a Library Assistant 1, with responsibilities at the Circulation Desk and...

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Children's Room Librarian / Assistant Library Director - Plainville Public Library

<b>Children's Room Librarian / Assistant Library Director - </b><b><span style="color: #48286d;">Plainville Public Library</span></b>. Energetic, creative librarian needed for busy suburban Hartford County Public Library. Supervises children's room staff of three. Creates children's programming, school visits, and story hours. Assists Library Director in general management including scheduling, personnel, and budgeting. Requirements: MLS and professional library experience with children. Needs excellent interpersonal, patron, and computer skills. Thirty-five hour work week includes rotating Saturdays and evenings. Medical insurance, sick leave, and vacation benefits. Annual salary range of $53,000 to $55,000. Hiring process will remain open until the position is filled. The Plainville Public Library serves a population of 17,000. Total employees - part-time and full-time (19). Apply to: Human Resources, Town of Plainville, One Central Square, Plainville, CT 06062. More information about the library is available at the Library's website <a _fcksavedurl="http://www.plainvillelibrary.org" href="http://www.plainvillelibrary.org/" target="_blank">www.plainvillelibrary.org</a>. EOE.

Children's Room Librarian / Assistant Library Director - Plainville Public Library

Children's Room Librarian / Assistant Library Director - Plainville Public Library . Energetic, creative librarian needed for busy subu...

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No Country for Old People: ‘Kings Point’ Exposes the Hidden Elder Crisis - The Daily Beast

<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><div class="text parbase section" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><p>I just finished proctoring the geriatric psychiatry station of the comprehensive examination that second-year students take at the Harvard Medical School. Serendipitously, I also viewed Sari Gilman's <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2013/01/10/oscar-nominations.html#introSlide">Academy Award–nominated<i> Kings Point</i></a>, a 30-minute documentary covering 10 years in the life of an age-restricted community in Florida, that's set to premiere on HBO on March 11. While the doctors-to-be all did well in interviewing and diagnosing a "standardized" geriatric patient, it occurred to me how their interactions could have been enhanced by viewing Gilman's film.</p></div><a name="body_inlineimage" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); visibility: hidden; "></a><figure class="multimedia section" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAO6omuQLxhe5Tw8XHbXRmen2aRpQfRigNUDKiUrd3LmYvE7xKOpvYk_NW9tdYZKLWdO0CkQF1n4pZ5nF5tbqPBf2CTO4opY4M2BafgpLrl7HeYITWg9zEv1D3uzMntyqhrRu-bllE7mA/s1600/1360983586509.cached-706747.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5847433079481210578" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAO6omuQLxhe5Tw8XHbXRmen2aRpQfRigNUDKiUrd3LmYvE7xKOpvYk_NW9tdYZKLWdO0CkQF1n4pZ5nF5tbqPBf2CTO4opY4M2BafgpLrl7HeYITWg9zEv1D3uzMntyqhrRu-bllE7mA/s320/1360983586509.cached-706747.jpg" /></a><figcaption class="figcaption"><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></figcaption></figure><a name="body_text1" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); visibility: hidden; "></a><div class="text parbase section" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p><i>Kings Point</i> takes the viewer into the lives of five aging-in-place residents who are extremely insightful into their own circumstance. They accept with equanimity the true horror of aging alone, sundered from family and community. They all bought the Florida dream and left New York City for what they believed to be the Promised Land. The promise of home ownership, eternal sunshine, and companionship with like-minded people lured them into a desperate trap. For as they aged and developed infirmities, <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/15/oscar-s-85-year-old-darling-a-talk-with-emmanuelle-riva-of-amour.html">as their spouses died off, they were left alone and frightened</a>. As one of the elders noted, "Nobody gets too close here; they are afraid." And<i> Kings Point </i>elucidates these fears all too clearly and poignantly. They desire connection but are so afraid of loss that they shy away from closeness and commitment, two essential aspects of our human nature.</p></div><a name="body_breakout" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); visibility: hidden; "></a><div class="adBreakout section" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></div><a name="body_text2" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); visibility: hidden; "></a><div class="text parbase section" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p>The result is isolation and a focus on simple self-preservation. As Gert, one of the elders, notes, "I'm taking care of myself." The cinematographers—Daniel Gold, Gabriel Miller, and Toby Oppenheimer—manage to capture both the surface beauty of the setting with its pink houses, lush lawns, bubbling brooks, and tall palm trees and contrast it with a glimpse into the residents' sense of living in a prison they cannot escape from. Filming through windows with protective bars on them, down long, empty, and sterile corridors—all reinforce the loneliness and despair of the individuals living there.</p></div><a name="body_text3" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); visibility: hidden; "></a><div class="text parbase section" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p>And therein lies the importance of this film. As we have long known from Eric Erickson, the last crisis in life is one of ego integrity vs. despair. We see here what most of the aging are up against. And they are up against an environment and society that makes it very difficult to resolve this conflict in any manner other than depression, loneliness, and despair.</p></div><a name="body_text4" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); visibility: hidden; "></a><div class="text parbase section" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p>Elders in America are the fastest-growing segment of our population and as baby boomers "age out," we approach a very human crisis of significant proportions. In the near past, it was not unusual for three generations of a family to live under one roof (in Boston, this was the reason for the ubiquitous three-decker house). The mobility of the current generation has forced parents to rely on "the kindness of strangers" for what was formerly the care of the family, and they are left with choices labeled independent living, assisted living, or nursing home. It is imperative that the caregivers of the elder population truly grasp the position that elders have defaulted to and the issues they are up against.</p></div><a name="body_pullquote" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); visibility: hidden; "></a><blockquote class="blockquote section" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p>It is imperative that the caregivers of the elder population truly grasp the position that elders have defaulted to and the issues they are up against.</p></blockquote><a name="body_text5" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); visibility: hidden; "></a><div class="text parbase section" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p>In training psychiatry residents and postdoctoral psychologists, I am impressed by the breadth and depth of the trainees' technical knowledge. What is lacking in their training is a way for them to develop an emotional understanding of the elders' predicament. It is our challenge as the teachers of this next generation of caregivers to help them identify the needs of the elders for whom they will be caring. It is only through understanding the painful losses and limited choices that this elder generation of Americans must inevitably endure that will help these future caregivers to provide the necessary therapeutic interventions to optimize their quality of life. Ultimately, it must be our goal to help elders resolve that last Ericksonian crisis in favor of ego integrity and satisfaction in the lives they have led. Trainees as well as current health-care professionals must learn (to paraphrase Walt Kelly's<i>Pogo</i>) that they have met the elderly and they are us.</p></div><a name="body_text6" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); visibility: hidden; "></a><div class="text parbase section" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><p><i>Kings Point</i> should be required viewing for all medical students, residents, physicians, social workers, psychologists, and nurses. It conveys, as no other film or teaching tool does, the major challenges of aging in our society. As America continues to turn increasingly gray, health professionals need to empathetically understand the needs, the crises, and the losses of our elders. <em>Kings Point</em> is a moving start in the right direction.</p></div></div><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/16/no-country-for-old-people-kings-point-exposes-the-hidden-elder-crisis.html">http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/16/no-country-for-old-people-kings-point-exposes-the-hidden-elder-crisis.html</a><div><br></div><div>Trailer:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://vimeo.com/43636930">http://vimeo.com/43636930</a><br><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div>

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<base href="data:"><div style="color: black; text-align: left; "><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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; "><strong style="font-weight: bold; ">1. Routine Care, Unforgettable Bills</strong></p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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; "><b><br></b>When Sean Recchi, a 42-year-old from Lancaster, Ohio, was told last March that he had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, his wife Stephanie knew she had to get him to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Stephanie's father had been treated there 10 years earlier, and she and her family credited the doctors and nurses at MD Anderson with extending his life by at least eight years.</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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; ">Because Stephanie and her husband had recently started their own small technology business, they were unable to buy comprehensive health insurance. For $469 a month, or about 20% of their income, they had been able to get only a policy that covered just $2,000 per day of any hospital costs. "We don't take that kind of discount insurance," said the woman at MD Anderson when Stephanie called to make an appointment for Sean.</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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; ">Stephanie was then told by a billing clerk that the estimated cost of Sean's visit — just to be examined for six days so a treatment plan could be devised — would be $48,900, due in advance. Stephanie got her mother to write her a check. "You do anything you can in a situation like that," she says. The Recchis flew to Houston, leaving Stephanie's mother to care for their two teenage children.</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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; ">About a week later, Stephanie had to ask her mother for $35,000 more so Sean could begin the treatment the doctors had decided was urgent. His condition had worsened rapidly since he had arrived in Houston. He was "sweating and shaking with chills and pains," Stephanie recalls. "He had a large mass in his chest that was … growing. He was panicked."</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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; ">Nonetheless, Sean was held for about 90 minutes in a reception area, she says, because the hospital could not confirm that the check had cleared. Sean was allowed to see the doctor only after he advanced MD Anderson $7,500 from his credit card. The hospital says there was nothing unusual about how Sean was kept waiting. According to MD Anderson communications manager Julie Penne, "Asking for advance payment for services is a common, if unfortunate, situation that confronts hospitals all over the United States."</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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; ">Why? The total cost, in advance, for Sean to get his treatment plan and initial doses of chemotherapy was $83,900.</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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; ">The first of the 344 lines printed out across eight pages of his hospital bill — filled with indecipherable numerical codes and acronyms — seemed innocuous. But it set the tone for all that followed. It read, "1 ACETAMINOPHE TABS 325 MG." The charge was only $1.50, but it was for a generic version of a Tylenol pill. You can buy 100 of them on Amazon for $1.49 even without a hospital's purchasing power.</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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; ">Dozens of midpriced items were embedded with similarly aggressive markups, like $283.00 for a "CHEST, PA AND LAT 71020." That's a simple chest X-ray, for which MD Anderson is routinely paid $20.44 when it treats a patient on Medicare, the government health care program for the elderly.</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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; ">Every time a nurse drew blood, a "ROUTINE VENIPUNCTURE" charge of $36.00 appeared, accompanied by charges of $23 to $78 for each of a dozen or more lab analyses performed on the blood sample. In all, the charges for blood and other lab tests done on Recchi amounted to more than $15,000. Had Recchi been old enough for Medicare, MD Anderson would have been paid a few hundred dollars for all those tests. By law, Medicare's payments approximate a hospital's cost of providing a service, including overhead, equipment and salaries.</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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; ">On the second page of the bill, the markups got bolder. Recchi was charged $13,702 for "1 RITUXIMAB INJ 660 MG." That's an injection of 660 mg of a cancer wonder drug called Rituxan. The average price paid by all hospitals for this dose is about $4,000, but MD Anderson probably gets a volume discount that would make its cost $3,000 to $3,500. That means the nonprofit cancer center's paid-in-advance markup on Recchi's lifesaving shot would be about 400%.</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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; ">When I asked MD Anderson to comment on the charges on Recchi's bill, the cancer center released a written statement that said in part, "The issues related to health care finance are complex for patients, health care providers, payers and government entities alike … MD Anderson's clinical billing and collection practices are similar to those of other major hospitals and academic medical centers."</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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; ">The hospital's hard-nosed approach pays off. Although it is officially a nonprofit unit of the University of Texas, MD Anderson has revenue that exceeds the cost of the world-class care it provides by so much that its operating profit for the fiscal year 2010, the most recent annual report it filed with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, was $531 million. That's a profit margin of 26% on revenue of $2.05 billion, an astounding result for such a service-intensive enterprise.<sup style="line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; ">1</sup></p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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; ">The president of MD Anderson is paid like someone running a prosperous business. Ronald DePinho's total compensation last year was $1,845,000. That does not count outside earnings derived from a much publicized waiver he received from the university that, according to the Houston <i>Chronicle</i>, allows him to maintain unspecified "financial ties with his three principal pharmaceutical companies."</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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; ">DePinho's salary is nearly triple the $674,350 paid to William Powers Jr., the president of the entire University of Texas system, of which MD Anderson is a part. This pay structure is emblematic of American medical economics and is reflected on campuses across the U.S., where the president of a hospital or hospital system associated with a university — whether it's Texas, Stanford, Duke or Yale — is invariably paid much more than the person in charge of the university.</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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; ">I got the idea for this article when I was visiting Rice University last year. As I was leaving the campus, which is just outside the central business district of Houston, I noticed a group of glass skyscrapers about a mile away lighting up the evening sky. The scene looked like Dubai. I was looking at the Texas Medical Center, a nearly 1,300-acre, 280-building complex of hospitals and related medical facilities, of which MD Anderson is the lead brand name. Medicine had obviously become a huge business. In fact, of Houston's top 10 employers, five are hospitals, including MD Anderson with 19,000 employees; three, led by ExxonMobil with 14,000 employees, are energy companies. How did that happen, I wondered. Where's all that money coming from? And where is it going? I have spent the past seven months trying to find out by analyzing a variety of bills from hospitals like MD Anderson, doctors, drug companies and every other player in the American health care ecosystem.</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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; ">When you look behind the bills that Sean Recchi and other patients receive, you see nothing rational — no rhyme or reason — about the costs they faced in a marketplace they enter through no choice of their own. The only constant is the sticker shock for the patients who are asked to pay.</p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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; ">More ...<br><br></span></div><a href="http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/20/bitter-pill-why-medical-bills-are-killing-us/print/">http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/20/bitter-pill-why-medical-bills-are-killing-us/print/</a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>

Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us | TIME.com

1. Routine Care, Unforgettable Bills When Sean Recchi, a 42-year-old from Lancaster, Ohio, was told last March that he had non-Hodgkin's...

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Flash Flood

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHMrtc5p_aSWMPOOoEgost7Jl6UVs8fhJPVUwec98YMJuMKb19QNQNAh36HUyKW88ZZUWdEJtLPtUgdMKX-QlQATkJbgRr8Odb6cGlmtnTdqk_tm4SJTU4A34SXCiSWRk9CIisWaTxeajy/s960/Photo%252520Feb%25252021%25252C%2525202013%25252C%2525207%25253A22%252520AM.jpg" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="" height="375" id="blogsy-1361449752820.551" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHMrtc5p_aSWMPOOoEgost7Jl6UVs8fhJPVUwec98YMJuMKb19QNQNAh36HUyKW88ZZUWdEJtLPtUgdMKX-QlQATkJbgRr8Odb6cGlmtnTdqk_tm4SJTU4A34SXCiSWRk9CIisWaTxeajy/s500/Photo%252520Feb%25252021%25252C%2525202013%25252C%2525207%25253A22%252520AM.jpg" width="500" /></a></div>Sitting at the table drinking a tepid cup of coffee watching Shadow-cat attack the dragons in my son's bookbag on top of my son's drafted CHAMPs poster as my husband finishes breakfast while reading his devotional on his iPad, I snapped this picture. The flowers from Valentine's day are wilted but I don't want to take them off the table. <br /><br />I head to school in just a moment after reading devotionals of God's unfailing love and <a href="http://thinkexist.com/quotation/simplify-simplify-/145742.html" target="_blank">stories of simplicity </a>from Thoreau this morning. My digital picture frame forwards in the background of the many memories I have with my children and family as I get a text from my sisters wishing me good morning.<br /><br />But still, as I ponder today, a sense of being overwhelmed comes over me like the flash flood watch my area is under until Saturday morning. My life is a flash flood. Such is the life of a teacher.<br /><br />In the business world, I knew I had to facilitate meetings far ahead of time and they stood on my calendar like bright lights beckoning me to work on them for hours. Whether I was teaching or facilitating, those meetings were important. Now, I facilitate 6 hours a day with but 50 minutes to prepare for all of that. If you proposed such a job to a businesswoman like I used to be, I wouldn't have taken it and told you that you were crazy if you expected me to get all of that done.<br /><br />Such is the life of a teacher. Flash flood. We handle the rivulets of work, crisis, teenage angst, and struggle bound up in the lives of these precious children.<br /><br />May you have a great day. Your work is worthy and and important and so are you, you noble teacher. Be it.<br /><br /><div id="blogsy_footer" style="clear: both; font-size: small; text-align: right;"><a href="http://blogsyapp.com/" target="_blank"><img alt="Written by Vicki Davis, author - Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds - Posted with Blogsy from my iPad" height="20" src="http://blogsyapp.com/images/blogsy_footer_icon.png" style="margin-right: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" width="20" />Written by Vicki Davis, author - Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds - Posted with Blogsy from my iPad</a></div>

Teaching Flash Flood

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Is Karl Rove a Nazi?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Hola Comrades! By now you know that what started out as a <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/20/chuck-hagel-friend-of-hamas-how-the-right-wing-press-got-it-way-wrong.html" target="_blank">smart-ass joke by a NY Daily News reporter</a>, turned into a really moronic story on a right-wing website which then turned into a super embarrassing situation for Senator Rand Paul. The guy who ran the bullshit story that SecDef nominee Chuck Hagel had given a speech to the “Friends of Hamas” now claims that he had THREE separate sources for that story, but admits that he doesn’t know if they were being truthful or not. Well, since that’s how journalism is done, here is my report for IWS World Media for Thursday, February 21, 2013…<br /><br /><b>BREAKING NEWS!</b> IWS World Media has learned from sources that the photograph of Karl Rove as a Nazi Officer distributed by the Tea Party, originally assumed to be a photoshop, is in fact REAL!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiki9B6kGMAoNvj3mjsQ7DEVZHJlrDOmtFqqKdSUg8Ks1-_FhnDW5zo02wD1efB8M4XUoY1B9_aeBrvYDoNmECTlGxkUstZPlDua8X_Ge3aaffhI-HePmG5GtqWvSwvCY2ljMRvS8S4Muw/s1600/Karl-Rove-Nazi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiki9B6kGMAoNvj3mjsQ7DEVZHJlrDOmtFqqKdSUg8Ks1-_FhnDW5zo02wD1efB8M4XUoY1B9_aeBrvYDoNmECTlGxkUstZPlDua8X_Ge3aaffhI-HePmG5GtqWvSwvCY2ljMRvS8S4Muw/s1600/Karl-Rove-Nazi.jpg" /></a></div><br />It turns out that Mr. Rove, AKA: Turd Blossom is a big fan of both Adolf Hitler and his Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels! Rove has long admired Goebbels ability to put out all kinds of loony stories about his political enemies and make people believe it. In fact, he used Mr. Goebbels’ techniques when the Bush Administration convinced America to go to war with Iraq.<br /><br />In addition to that, Rove has made many statements to friends and colleagues over the years about how much agrees with Hitler and Goebbels visions for the world. In fact, we have gathered some things that Mr. Rove has said over the years about different groups of people.<br /><br /><b>Blacks:</b> <i>“I just don’t see any use for black folks at all. I mean, I guess maybe some blues and jazz music, but nothing else. They freaking ruined basketball. It used to be a beautiful sport of men passing, screening and running backdoor plays then laying the ball off the backboard as softly as they touched their newborn baby’s cheek. Now? They run up and down the floor so fast and dunk the ball and jump so high and people think that’s exciting? Pathetic! Basically blacks are just lazy criminals who are just sitting around looking for a government handout. Not a single one of them ever worked hard for anything they have, and that includes Obama!” </i><br /><br /><b>Latinos:</b> <i>“They do a good job mowing my lawn and keeping my flowers pretty, I’ll give them that. I’m also a big fan of Chicken Tortilla Soup which they seem to excel at making. And, they definitely can make Tacos and Burritos though. Honestly though? That’s it. If I never have to listen to another GOD-DAMN mariachi tune again it’ll be too soon. Seriously, all I think of them is how I’ll see 12 of them stuffed into a Toyota 4x4 on the highway or 27 of them living in a one bedroom apt. They live like animals!” </i><br /><br /><b>Asians:</b> <i>“They do a good job of cleaning my suits and Asian Women are HAWT! That’s it though. They pretend to not understand what I’m saying when I know they speak better English than I do. They’re scheming, back-stabbing, lying, product-and-intellectual-property-stealing little bastards! They cut in front of you in line at the market too.” </i><br /><br /><b>Jews:</b> <i>“Gass ‘em all! There will finally be jobs available to good Christians in the financial, media and entertainment world. Best of all, I won’t have to hear about that bullshit Holocaust story they made up for sympathy anymore. MY GOD I’m sick of that!” </i><br /><br />As you can see folks, Mr. Rove has a long history of saying very unfortunate and hurtful things about a number of minority groups. I know you are probably having a hard time believing that he actually said those quotes that I found on the internet. I can understand that, but let me assure you I have confirmed each of those statements with at least three separate people whom I interact with on a regular basis online and know for a fact to be quite reliable arbiters of the truth. Most of the time anyway.<br /><br />Jayman<br /><a href="mailto:Jayman3768@gmail.com">Jayman3768@gmail.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/jayman_iws" target="_blank">@Jayman_IWS </a><br /><br />Editor’s Note: The body of this article has 666 words, which we here at IWS World Media consider to be confirmation from God that we believe everything written here that came from our trustworthy sources to be true. God wouldn’t lie to us.<br /><br /><br />In other news you should totally listen to Matt and Jay Uncrossed on Wednesday's <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid" target="_blank">I'm With Stupid</a>. We talked about Mindy McCready shooting her dog, Tim Tebow being a raging bigot and Mississippi joining the 19th Century among other hilarious topics. 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Is Karl Rove a Nazi?

Hola Comrades! By now you know that what started out as a smart-ass joke by a NY Daily News reporter , turned into a really moronic story on...

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