Please excuse me while I attempt to discern whether you are friend or foe. I need to know if you are intuition revealing to me the secrets to my success or a distant cousin of OCD promising me ridiculous, infomercial-type control of my environment.
Are you here to inspire, lead and direct or distract and pacify my anxiety. Please tell me so that we can carry on, would you?
You insist that if I devote time now to putting systems and plans in place (and that will be A LOT of work), I will have more time for the rest of the year to do some things I want to do. You say if I declutter, sell, donate, give away and otherwise dispose of extraneous items from my house and put cleaning, meal planning and other nasty little chores on automatic systems, I can be relieved of some of the burdens that are giving me a pain from the inside of my left shoulder blade up to the back of my head.
You assure me that 'Spring Cleaning' is not, in fact, reserved for Spring and NOW – right now – is the time to wash the cabinets, mop the floors and wipe down baseboards. You are completely certain that one full, top to bottom scrubbing of walls, windows, shelves and anything that will stand still is the answer to even my most existential questions.
Do you really have answers or are you trying to make me crazy?
The thing is, I am starting to believe you. Now, do you happen to know where I can get seven, magical days in which to clean & organize everything I need to make the year easier? Does anyone know how to stop space & time? Message me.
This entry was posted in cleaning, KonMari Love, thoughts and tagged cleaning, new year's cleaning, ocd on January 6, 2017 by Janet.
I have a list entitled, "Things I Want The Boyz To Learn".
Algebra, world history, and chemistry have not made my list. They can pursue these things if they wish – or their schools require it, it's just that my list is way more important.
How to tie and tie, clean a bathroom, grill a steak and an effective way to make a sincere apology ~ those are on my list. How to start a charcoal grill, light a fire in a fireplace and jump start a car. It's a long list. I take every chance I can ~ or make sure someone else can ~ to teach them things they simple won't and can't learn in school.
I made some homemade soup for a sick family member last week. I called the boyz off their various electronic devices and sat them at the kitchen counter – do you think they were thrilled? They have NO concept of why food preparation might be hard if you are ill or grieving. Their food magically appears without much care for the planning, the list, and the shopping. They are getting better at cooking – and don't worry, "how to make lasagna and chicken soup" are on the list. I explained disposable containers were imperative and not asking, just doing, is the preferred method for providing food – that most people will say that they are 'fine'. We are men of action – remember that, boyz.
Two of the boys, unfortunately, had the experience recently of learning how and why we send sympathy cards. Mikey, the sweet boy, asked if sending a card did not just remind the person of their loss. As sad as it was, I was glad we had a chance to talk about why we participate in certain social rituals regarding loss.
It takes a certain level of mindfulness to remember to pull them or push them into circumstances in which they can master all types of practical life skills. It is usually easier to do these tasks yourself, but not a good, long-term plan.
Other wise moms have reminded me that when there is a huge sink full of dishes – I am not the only one with working arms and when we are out of cookies….
This entry was posted in 4 Boys, cleaning, cooking, parenting, sports, Things To Teach The Boys, Uncategorized on March 1, 2016 by Janet.
Have you read it? Do you know about The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up? I've read it and now I am putting into practice the wisdom of the magnificent Marie Kondo.
But, I did not always feel this way about Ms. Kondo. She wasn't jiving with me. I didn't feel her. The videos I watched on Youtube did not do her and her theories justice – or I just couldn't 'hear' it yet. Then, some interesting things happened. First, although I was on the waiting list for her book at the library (36 of 52!) I found the book on the 'It's Your Lucky Day' table. And it was indeed. Her written words found their way to my heart. Not coincidentally, I have also decided to engage in a particular type of therapy (the kind with a therapist) that has a lot to do with 'unburdening' parts of yourself.
People, if you don't think things and clutter are all mixed up with the 'things' and 'clutter' inside of you…well, they are. This sister is more than ready to part with all the issues and stuff that rears it's ugly head in both therapy and in the 'Kondo'ing of my home.
So top to bottom, I am clearing out the crap. And it's not all crap – but that doesn't mean you have to own it. Some things are useful, some things seem sentimental, some things can still be used – none of that means you need to keep it.
Do not take anyone else's word for how to sort your things with the KonMari Method – you really need to let her words sink into your psyche on their own. I thought I was good at this – not so much.
Her method is better. I have done my clothes, my dresser, closet, pantry, china closet, and most of the kitchen cabinets. I am doing the bathrooms, attic and linen closets.
Here are my beloved baking supplies. I don't even think the first picture 'looks' that bad. I have assumed for a really long time that all was well in that cabinet. But, Ms. Kondo has you empty the entirety of the cabinet to assess what's going on. I swear – I thought I had this.
Above, is my spice/cooking cabinet. I thought the same thing about that. Turns out I took a whole tash bag full of things out these cabinets. I found multiple items that were grotesquely expired. I found things I had three of and donated or gifted them to friends and family. I found things that I thought I would use someday – it just doesn't happen and it is time to accept that. Because being 'unburdened' feels…well…like being unburdened.
This is a small example of Kondoing – and yes, I am using it as a verb – because it feels like a verb.
She explains that this 'cleaning' up time is an event. You should not have to do it forever. Those methods of slow, progessive decluttering only prolong an event that could be over & done with. She says 'organizers' are hoarders ~ gasp!
As an chronic organizer, I have to agree. So I quit.
I am over here, Kondoing. Even the books. Yes, even those. So far, no regrets. I feel lighter, I feel freer. I just know that this is step in the right direction for whatever is coming next.
This entry was posted in cleaning, Family, KonMari Love, thoughts on July 9, 2015 by Janet.
Clean. Cull. Swipe. Wipe. Scrub. Dust. Sweep. Buff. Polish. Shine. Purge. Disinfect. Arrange. Shine. Tidy. Mop. Scour. Stack. Pile. Collect. Organize. Brush. Cleanse. Sanitize. Fold. Fluff.
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Recorded: February 26, 2018 Although you don't need DITA to write according to minimalism principles and you can certainly take a non-minimal approach when writing in DITA, the two go together like chocolate and peanut butter. In this presentation, Dawn explores the relationship between DITA, minimalism, and other technical communication best practices, demonstrating how each aligns with and complements the other. She provides guidance for forming your DITA information model and authoring guidelines to reflect writing best practices while maximizing the benefits DITA offers. Presented by: Dawn Stevens, Comtech Services at LearningDITA Live 2018 Dawn Stevens is President of Comtech Services, a content-management and information-design firm based in Denver, Colorado. She is also Director of the Center for Information-Development Management, a membership organization focused on content-management and information-development best practices. With over 25 years of experience, including 15 years at Comtech, Dawn has practical experience in virtually every role within a documentation and training department, including project management, instructional design, writing, editing, and multimedia programming. With both engineering and technical communication degrees, Dawn combines a solid technical foundation with strong writing and design skills to identify and remove the challenges her clients face in producing usable, technical information and training.
Recorded: January 20, 2016 DITA-based technical documents are inherently sophisticated and complex hyperdocuments. They are developed through complex revision processes, often by highly-distributed teams. Thus DITA documents and their management present a number of challenges inherent in the nature of sophisticated technical documentation. While the value of this sophisticated approach to documentation has tremendous value to organizations as a whole, it can make the life of individual authors much more challenging, leading to the common complaint "DITA is too hard". This talk presents the link and configuration management challenges inherent in sophisticated hyperlinked documentation and discusses the features of DITA and DITA component content management systems that address these challenges. If authors and managers understand the challenges inherent in DITA-based authoring they can at least set their expectations and provision tools and resources appropriately. What can attendees expect to learn?
The way in which DITA documents are sophisticated hyperdocuments
What "configuration management" means in the context of DITA-based documentation
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Presented by Eliot Kimber, Contrext, LLC. Eliot Kimber is a founding and active member of the DITA Technical Committee. He has been working with structured markup for more than 30 years. Eliot is also a co-editor of the HyTime standard. Eliot currently focuses on the application of DITA to the business challenges of Publishers. Eliot is the founder and principal developer of the open-source DITA for Publishers project. Eliot lives and works with his family in Austin, Texas.
Recorded: October 29, 2015 Were you taught how to write a classical five-paragraph essay in elementary school? Did you ever learn about beginning paragraphs with topic sentences? Do you know that legal documents like contracts have standard sections in a standard order? Do you think action steps should be in the order they are performed? If none of these structures are new to you, you already know something about structured writing. Yet, the thought of moving to writing with a consistent, prescribed, and semantic structure often strikes fear into the hearts of technical writers and subject-matter experts alike. In this webinar, learn why structured authoring is essential to clear and consistent communication. Consider why using a semantic structure enhances the quality of your writing while also making it available for repurposing and retrieval. Rather than considering structure something to avoid, think of it as something to embrace to make your writing more understandable for your readers. And, consider ways to help those who resist a move to structure to understand its benefits by providing them with a supportive authoring environment. Presented by: JoAnn Hackos, Comtech Services Dr. JoAnn Hackos is President of Comtech Services, a content-management and information-design firm based in Denver, Colorado, which she founded in 1978. She is Director of the Center for Information-Development Management (CIDM), a membership organization focused on content-management and information-development best practices. Dr. Hackos and colleagues are called upon by corporate executives worldwide to consult on strategies for content management, development and organizational management, product interface design, customer studies, Web and traditional information architecture, and tools and technology selection.
Recorded: April 19, 2016 In this presentation, we embark upon re-thinking the entire content production cycle, and we use The Toyota Way as our philosophy. Expect fun and engaging conversation that will make you question some or all of the time-honoured content production processes and to start looking for waste. We will discuss the Lean principles in Japanese car manufacturing and apply them to content production. We will debate that not only can this be done today, but also that it can be done well. Finally, we will look how using Lean together with a good quality DITA/CMS solution can lead to incredible results in reducing production time and costs, improving team morale, and achieving superior product quality. By product, we, of course, mean content output.
Presented by: Nenad Furtula, Bluestream and Galyna Key, Datix
Nenad Furtula is partner and a VP of Sales and Marketing at Bluestream Database Software. Nenad has been working with XML and bringing XML related products to market for over a decade. Currently his primary professional interest lies in building and socializing a DITA-enabled value-based component content management system called XDocs. Since discovering the field of technical communication 15 years ago, Galyna remains convinced that it is the coolest and most creative discipline out there. Over the years, she stopped trying to figure out whether she is a project manager, product manager, engineer, designer, tester, localisation expert, or a knowledge architect and decided to have fun changing her hats on a regular basis. Galyna is currently leading the transformation of customer learning experience (LX) at Datix. Previously, she did the same at Autodesk, where she built a high-performing LX team from the ground up. She holds two Master's Degrees; one in Philology and another one in Technical Authorship, and she is a Fellow of the Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators.
Using Structured XML to Power your Learning Content
Recorded: February 27, 2018 Join us to learn how companies are using Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) as the single source to power their learning content, including leveraging learning objectives to drive personalized learning. Dawn Stevens, President of Comtech Services, and Amber Swope, President of DITA Strategies, are co-chairs of the Learning & Training OASIS subcommittee and will explain how DITA can provide the structured foundation for your learning initiatives. Presented by: Dawn Stevens, Comtech Services and Amber Swope, DITA Strategies Dawn Stevens is President of Comtech Services, a content-management and information-design firm based in Denver, Colorado. She is also Director of the Center for Information-Development Management, a membership organization focused on content-management and information-development best practices. With over 25 years of experience, including 15 years at Comtech, Dawn has practical experience in virtually every role within a documentation and training department, including project management, instructional design, writing, editing, and multimedia programming. With both engineering and technical communication degrees, Dawn combines a solid technical foundation with strong writing and design skills to identify and remove the challenges her clients face in producing usable, technical information and training. Amber Swope is an internationally recognized expert on the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) who specializes in helping teams develop their information architecture and implement DITA. With over 20 years of experience in the information development field and 12 years of DITA expertise, Amber helps teams design and optimize their environments to improve efficiency and reduce costs. When she's not busy helping to change the world with XML, she can be found playing soccer, walking her puppsters, and enjoying Portland, OR.
Using DITA for Small Technical Documentation Teams
April 1, 2020 Implementing DITA with a small team of technical writers does not have to be expensive or difficult to set up. We'll go through the steps of implementing a DITA solution using GitHub for storage and workflow and Oxygen XML Editor for editing. We'll also look into how you can automate publishing and receive feedback from your end users. As a practical example we'll look into how editing, collaboration and publishing on the Oxygen XML Blog works. Presented by: Radu Coravu started working more than 10 years ago as a software developer for Syncro Soft SRL, the manufacturer of the popular oXygen XML Editor. During the last years, his main focus has been in the development of the visual XML Author editing environment and the specific-DITA support provided by oXygen. He provides support for complex integrations and helps steer the product in the right direction, all this with some development on the side.
The State of Structured Content Management in 2018 – The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
April 5, 2018 Content can be created and managed in primarily two different ways – structured, following an XML-based information model or unstructured, without any specific information model. Over the last few years, we have seen a surge in companies (more so in a few particular industries) evaluating or migrating to structured content. • What is the current state of these companies and/or the industries? Did these companies migrate successfully? • Which specific information model did most of these companies choose? Why did they choose what they did? Adobe recently surveyed a diverse group of 2000+ content professionals across 30+ countries to better understand their preferences, usage, and practices around structured content. The results revealed interesting trends in the areas of adoption of structured authoring, structured content management, the journey towards chatbots, and collaboration use cases, to name a few. Join Adobe Tech Comm Evangelist, Stefan Gentz, as he shares the latest insights in structured content management based on the findings from Adobe's 2017 – 2018 Tech Comm Survey. Presented by: Stefan Gentz, Adobe As the Global Evangelist for Technical Communication at Adobe, Stefan's mission is to inspire enterprises and technical writers around the world and show how to create compelling technical communication content with the Adobe TCS tools. Stefan is also a certified Quality Management Professional (TÜV), ISO 9001 / EN 15038 auditor, ISO 31000 Risk Management expert and Six Sigma Champion. Stefan is a popular keynote speaker and moderator at conferences such as tekom, tcworld, Information Energy, Intelligent Content Conference, Congility, LocWorld, TCUK, STC, GALA, ELIA, TTT, Translation Forum Russia and many other. He is also a member of the Conference Advisory Board of the world's biggest TechComm event, the tekom / tcworld Conferences, and an Ambassador for the Globalization and Localization Association. He is also an active social networker on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Recorded: January 18, 2018 The experts will discuss the evidence of trends for more SME-authored content, and investigate the forces driving the trend. They will also share good practices for safeguarding quality content and efficient production when more and more documentation is written by people outside of the information development team. They will also discuss potential benefits to using more SMEs, and raise some questions around the real cost of using SMEs to author content. What does it mean for the tech writing profession if "anyone can write technical documentation"? If you feel as though you have to fight to have information development specialists write your content, come and hear how others are experiencing changing patterns of content development. Share good practice regarding handling SME-authored content as we look for ways to build collaboration without sacrificing standards and efficiencies. Discuss how to leverage your Information Developer experience and skills when folks from other teams are writing content, and brainstorm with the panel the new skill sets we must nurture to be successful in a collaborative environment. Presented by: Sharon Figueira, Toni Mantych and Joe Pennachio Sharon Figueira has eighteen years' experience as a technical communicator. For the past few years, the main focus of my career has been DITA XML, content management, and migrating content into DITA and a CCMS. My team won the RFQ to migrate Ericsson's content to a DITA XML/CCMS solution. Since then, we have migrated thousands of pages of content, performing pre-migration analysis, restructuring content, maximizing reuse, and producing variant output. Sharon recently joined IXIASOFT, a leader in the content management software industry. Toni Mantych describes her professional purpose and passion as "Solving client problems with content, and content problems with technology." She is currently Director of Information Experience at ServiceNow. She has taught numerous courses in the graduate Technical and Professional Communications program as Portland State University and speaks regularly at content industry conferences. Joe Pennachio is a skilled professional with experience building and directing technical teams globally. Significant strategic and operational experience with a strong bias towards executing organization-wide transformation, achieving increased efficiency, and reducing cost. Proven ability for identifying and analyzing critical customer and business needs and implementing change. Joe joined QUALCOMM in January of 2016 as a Senior Director of Technical Communications.
The challenge of delivering a truly personalized search experience
March 6, 2019 In a world where Google sets the gold standard for providing relevant search results, how can technical documentation teams create findability that is always spot-on for every single reader? Relevance of search is determined by a combination of content metadata, contextual knowledge about the user, and the search query itself. The challenge therefore resides in collecting and analyzing these elements, and applying them systematically to every search query to create truly personalized search results. Presented by: Fabrice Lacroix is a known Web pioneer and the founder of Antidot, the company that puts enterprise content to work. As an entrepreneur, he has been working for 25 years on the development of the Internet and of the Web through several major companies.
Taking DITA to the Masses
Date: June 12, 2019 Abstract: Ever since DITA was first used, the greatest obstacle to adoption has been usability. Whilst technical authors have been prepared to learn the intricacies of DITA, others in the content creation lifecycle have been more obstinate. Bluestream together with Simply XML will show how the extensible XDocs CCMS can be integrated with clear browser and desktop authoring environments to allow subject matter experts to create and collaborate on content without ever having to see a tag. Presented by: Rik Page is Sales and Marketing Director at Bluestream Software and has been working with both component content and document management solutions since 2001. During this time he has worked with custom DTDs and Schemas, S1000D, iSpec2200 and DITA. His experience covers a wide range of industries including education, banking and finance, manufacturing and healthcare. A keen advocate of technology and innovation Rik has taken part in multiple consultancy projects and helped formulate solutions all over the world. Over more than two decades, Doug Gorman commercialized the structured writing methodology known as Information Mapping. In the process he realized that XML(DITA) could be used beyond Technical Publication Departments to modernize the enterprise content supply chain. The authoring and repository tools, however, would need to be easy to use. XML would need to be utilized but hidden "under the covers." Simply XML's authoring tool, Content Mapper, is a Word Plug-in where the author sees a Word User Interface and the CMS uses DITA XML. Content Mapper is designed for organizations that understand the value of XML as the content architecture, but with many of the 1 Billion plus non-technical authors who use MS Word on a PC. Content Mapper is integrated with Bluestream's XDocs CCMS to help organizations achieve better content for readers with the important efficiencies of content reuse, single source publishing, and other process improvements.
September 9, 2020 This is a presentation that provides an intersection between content and design. It is a high-level practical guide to analyzing your content, deciding what you want to do with it, developing style naming conventions, and developing editorial style guides, design style guides, and style templates. Once you get to that stage, you can then consider how content management systems, automation, and xml might fit into your publishing processes. Presented by: Marie Gollentz is a Senior Solutions Consultant focusing on the European market. Prior to joining Typefi, she held a number of positions in the publishing industry in London, including at the publisher of Research Fortnight and the London School of Business and Finance. Marie holds a Masters degree in European Political Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a Bachelor's degree in Political Sciences from Sciences Po Strasbourg. She is trilingual in English, French and Spanish.
Streamlining the Localization Process with New Automation
February 12, 2020 Products are sold into markets that cross both country and language boundaries, so product documentation must be localized. Localizing documentation is made easier with DITA, a capable Component Content Management System (CCMS), and a Translation Management System (TMS). Even with these systems in place, you must always consider best practices and pitfalls. Jim will begin with an overview of the localization process, of how content flows across systems and organizations. In this context, we will discuss techniques and also wins and pitfalls in automating and streamlining the localization process. In this session, attendees will learn:
About the localization process-what are the various roles and how does content flow
About use cases and constraints-what is incremental localization and what is the relationship of localization to the product release lifecycle
About release management and localization-what role can branching play in localization
About localization tools-how do CCMS, TMS, and LSP relate in the localization process
About recent developments in automation-how can the localization process be accelerated through automation and what are the wins and pitfalls of automation
Presented by: Jim Tivy is CTO at Bluestream and a product architect of the XDocs CCMS. Jim has been designing software technology in the area of XML content for twenty years. In 1999, he designed the first commercial XML database called XStreamDb and was a member of the W3C XQuery working group during that time. In 2005, Jim became involved with DITA as Bluestream added support for DITA to the XDocs CCMS. Since then, Jim has taken a lead role on further features of the XDocs CCMS and participates as a member of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee.
June 3, 2020 In these difficult times, it's absolutely critical to demonstrate your value to your organization. As a technical communicator, your mission is to make sure you're getting the right information to the right people. Part of the solution is to find the right tools – but they will only take you so far. Good content is crucial. You must write content in a way that best suits your audience and best matches their search patterns, so they can organically surface the information they need. Join Lawrence Orin, Product Evangelist and Customer Implementation Expert at Zoomin, as he takes an intriguing look at content strategy, and reveals a down-to-earth, practical approach that will ensure your writing is making a visible impact on your company. In it this webinar, you'll learn:
Practical steps to improving your writing skills
Best practices for structuring content
How to tailor your writing to your audience
Presented by: Lawrence Orin is Product Evangelist and Customer Implementation Expert at Zoomin, where he leverages his experience as a past customer to help new customers with their implementation and content strategy. He previously led documentation teams at Radvision and Riverbed, as well as other teams in technical support and customer services. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science with Cognitive Science from University College London.
Recorded: October 13, 2016 Change is difficult and often avoided, and everyone knows insurance companies are risk averse. However, that didn't stop a small team of technical writers from upending the way they created content for California Casualty. By embracing modular structured content, unproven in their industry at the time, they were able to dramatically increase content findability which had a ripple effect on their entire business. Now California Casualty is an example to other insurance companies on how change can sometimes be a good thing. Join our webinar with Susan Lalor, Senior Information Designer at California Casualty, to find out how her team was able to accomplish this transformation. See how internal stakeholders and content users are just as important as customers. And most importantly, learn best practices for sowing your own seeds of transformation. Susan Lalor wrote her first computer user manual in 1982 when she wondered how the big blank screen sitting on her desk actually worked. She knew then that technical writing was her passion. For the last 13 years, she's worked as a Senior Information Designer for California Casualty where she is a champion for single sourcing and user experience. She's also been lucky enough to dabble in web and graphic design, project management, and business analysis over the past 30 years. Susan has a B.S. degree with a concentration in professional writing and has been a STC member since 1998. Chip Gettinger is VP, Solutions, SDL. He manages a team working with SDL customers to maximize their own customer experience by deploying SDL Knowledge Delivery applications. Chip has over 20 years' experience in global publishing, content strategies, customer experience management, business management, and content management solutions, working closely with industry organizations, partners, and customers in technology solutions and deployment.
Sort it out! The Lego Approach to Classifying Content
August 28, 2019 Looking for a single piece of content on a web site is often compared to digging in a giant bucket of LEGOs for a single unique piece – an often frustrating and futile endeavor. If those LEGOs are sorted by certain distinguishing attributes, such as color and size, the odds of finding a particular piece increase dramatically. As a result, companies often take a "LEGO-block" approach to their information taxonomies. However, the sorting of LEGO blocks is child's play, compared to the intricacies of sorting technical content – the distinctions are not always as visible as color or size, and attributes that are that obvious may not be very useful in a search. Nevertheless, there are lessons we can learn from the "LEGO-block" approach. In this session, Dawn draws parallels between sorting LEGOs and sorting technical content, and provides suggestions for going deeper when the Lego model falls short. Presented by: Dawn Stevens is the President, and owner of Comtech Services and the Director of the Center for Information-Development Management. With over 25 years of experience, including 15 years at Comtech, Dawn has practical experience in virtually every role within a documentation and training department, including project management, instructional design, writing, editing, and multimedia programming. With both engineering and technical communication degrees, Dawn combines a solid technical foundation with strong writing and design skills to identify and remove the challenges her clients face in producing usable, technical information and training.
Recorded: January 30, 2018 Borrowing the title of Fisher and Ury's popular work, this session suggests strategies and invites conversation around the challenge of negotiating with your business partners—no matter who they are in your organization. In today's environment, our technical content organizations are continually asked to support additional services with fewer team members. But doing more with less simply isn't always possible. Informing a business partner that you cannot support a request can spark a fraught conversation, but adding more to your plate might risk sending your team into overload. Even asking for trust in your decisions as the authority in your area can be tough. Yet these conversations don't have to become uncomfortable, and can instead provide an opportunity for dialog leading to mutual gains. You can get what your team needs, draw boundaries, and inspire confidence at the same time. Within the context of technical content's organizational position and business value, this session will cover core negotiation strategies that achieve win-win outcomes and how to avoid zero-sum exchanges. Since relationships are key, we'll discuss how to identify allies and when to call on them. Finally, we'll address the inevitable question of data—seemingly irrefutable information that can turn opinion into hard fact. Presented by: Jill Orofino, DellEMC California born and raised, Jill attended UCLA where she received her B.A. in English, and then pursued graduate studies at Boston University. Jill went on to teach at BU for seven years before moving into high tech. Technical content development, research and writing made up the most of Jill's teaching experience. Jill loves to learn new things and help others reach their goals. Five years into her career in technical content, Jill assumed leadership of a technical writing team at a Boston start-up called Acme Packet. Management was another natural extension of teaching, championing staff members and motivating them. Jill started at EMC (now Dell EMC) about five years ago, bringing with her a focus on customer experience and a drive for simplicity. Jill led the global technical content teams that support core storage for four years before taking a role in Product Marketing. Jill is now exploring a new part of the content ecosystem and its relationship to the unified customer experience.


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Newington Neighbourhood Plan
The Newington Neighbourhood Plan is a plan for the Anlaby Road area of the Newington ward which will enable the local community to have more say in the development of their neighbourhood.
Neighbourhood Plans are a new tier in planning policy which enables local people to shape the development of the community in which they live for the next twenty years. Anyone resident or working in the area can become a forum member and help shape planning policies and how the area develops in the longer term.
If you would like to get involved and have ideas of your own for the area then please contact us for full details.
Currently we are looking at possibilities within West Park and the land behind the KCOM Stadium commonly known as the 'Railway Triangle'. This is the site of the original Hull City Football ground and we would like to celebrate its significant historical status and improve the site as a community green space.
Since the Stadium Management Company (SMC) installed a controversial gate across the route through the Railway Triangle cutting off West Park and Walton Street from Argyle Street the Forum are supporting Hull City Councils application to establish an official Public Right of Way connecting Argyle Street to Walton Street through West Park. Consultation by Hull City Council's Riverside Area Committee is currently live and you can comment and contribute your views online here.
Other issues the plan is reviewing are the local economy, traffic issues, culture & community and the built environment.
Please see the linked documents for more information
Newington Neighbourhood Plan Questionnaire


The special committee tasked with pursuing development of a residential high school in Wrangell is currently courting support from a major consortium of tribal villages in Interior Alaska. The school would be the first year-round residential facility to be operated under the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program (ANSEP), a supplementary learning program which earlier this fall opened its first full-time accelerated high school in the Matanuska-Susitna area. The program is part of the University of Alaska system, and was founded to improve enrollment numbers and hiring patterns for rural, predominately Native Alaskan students in science- and math-related career fields. With Wrangell looking at redeveloping 134 acres of its former Institute property, ANSEP has expressed interest in possibly locating a residential academy there. The proposed campus would house between 400 and 450 students from around the state, and would condense high school to a three-year timeline. After better acquainting itself with the program, in late July the Borough Assembly approved formation of a steering committee to observe ANSEP's Mat-Su school and pursue potential development of the new residential campus. Committee members include representatives of the city, public school system, and Wrangell Cooperative Association. Spearheaded by Wrangell schools superintendent Patrick Mayer, the committee has since obtained a memorandum of understanding with the city and WCA, and is looking for support for the project from the Alaska Federation of Natives, the state's largest Native organization. To that end, Mayer explained in a meeting Monday evening that since August he has been in contact with the Tanana Chiefs Conference, which is "a huge voting body" within the AFN. Their support would be critical to the project's success moving forward. In its correspondence with Mayer, TCC explained its board needed additional details on the proposed school's funding, whether the project had the support of the WCA, and whether other locations for such a facility had been considered. For funding, the ANSEP residential school project will at first be seeking support from private sources and grants. This may in time give the project stronger footing in applying for Capital Improvement Project funding through the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development. The funds are expected to be hard to come by in light of the state's budget deficit. The full project could cost as much as $50,000,000. As for the support of the local Native community, in addition to the MOU finalized on December 6, WCA president Richard Oliver is drafting a letter to the TCC board of directors, explaining the Tribal Council's view on ANSEP and the opportunities it should provide. "This is a strong statement from our local tribe," Mayer commented on the draft. As for the proposed facility's location, Mayer cited the performance records of Wrangell Public Schools, land availability and infrastructure, the community's overall support for the development, its access to air and ferry service, and low crime rate. In a response sent November 16, TCC explained its board continued to have concerns with the plan. This included the size of the project, the problem of outmigration from Interior communities, the educational emphasis, and negative experiences related to the Wrangell Institute's history itself. It noted it could also make a compelling case to have a school situated in the Fairbanks area. Mayer and other members of the ANSEP steering committee were invited to address these concerns at the TCC board's scheduled meeting for November 28. He explained the meeting went alright, and that only a few of its 13 members seemed averse to the idea. They voted to table the item until the board's next meeting, scheduled for February. "Overall I think it was well-received," Mayer said. "I see them making a decision here at this next meeting." He took heart that the concept was tabled rather than voted down outright, and expected further conversations await. He noted TCC support would bolster Wrangell's case moving forward, but that a lack of support would not be "a deal-breaker" for the ANSEP project. In the meantime, he said he would continue working on the proposed school's residential application with DEED, which is a necessary step toward securing its Base Student Allocation. Asked his opinion on the project's progress, committee and WCA board member Ken Lewis replied he was pleased. "I absolutely think we're on the right track. There's definitely a lot of support locally." He was enthusiastic about the school's intended goals, and felt it would be a benefit to Alaskan youths wherever it may be located. "In my mind, the location doesn't matter as much," said Lewis.


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The Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame
Celebrating, advancing and sharing Wisconsin's Conservation Legacy
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David C. Engleson
Inducted 2013
"David Engleson was one among a small vanguard nationally that transformed Conservation Education into Environmental Education. It is, however, as a lifetime educator that he has had his greatest impact. For nearly 40 years, he touched the lives of thousands of students, teachers, and aspiring environmental educators." — Joe Passineau
David Engleson was born in Beloit, Wisconsin, in 1928. He graduated from UW-Madison in 1954 with a B.S. degree in Natural Science in the School of Education. While teaching science in southern Wisconsin he completed an M.S. degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He took additional science courses from Purdue University, U of Minnesota, Michigan Tech at Houghton, and Wayne State in Detroit.
In 1967, based on his exemplary work as a science teacher/coordinator and his leadership in the Wisconsin Council for Conservation Education, Engleson was appointed as the first Science and Conservation/Environmental Education Consultant for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI), a position he held until his retirement in 1991.
His most significant achievements as the DPI Consultant for environmental education involved bringing people together to harness diverse talents, and build coalitions for environmental education and conservation. For over 30 years he organized conferences and workshops, created and led organizations, drafted and lobbied for legislation, developed environmental education plans for Wisconsin, conducted environmental education teacher training programs, published newsletters, articles, and books, and promoted environmental education statewide, nationally and globally.
Engleson served as the first Executive Director of the Wisconsin Environmental Education Council and helped produce the 1974 Wisconsin State Plan for Environmental Education. Over the next 40 years, he and his environmental education colleagues, worked hard to implement, with remarkable success, the basic tenets of this plan in an effort to ensure that the environmental advances he championed during his career would continue into the next century.
As Environmental Education Consultant for DPI for nearly three decades, Engleson helped shape the policies of three Wisconsin governors, the state legislature, state agencies, and local school boards. He worked within the DPI to bring environmental education to every school district, teacher, and child in the state through his efforts to update Administrative Rules for teacher training and certification. Through the development of in-service teacher workshops he wrote the book Department of Education Guide to Curriculum Planning in Environmental Education. Engleson is known by professionals in the field as "the father of environmental education in Wisconsin." His influence on environmental conservation has extended internationally.
This biography has been developed from work by Wisconsin Hall of Fame Director Milo Harpstead, and biographers Alan Haney, Donald Waller, and Joseph Passineau.
For more information read his Hall of Fame monograph.
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Entertainment, Star Wars, TV Show Reviews, TV Shows
'The Bad Batch' Concludes With a Muted Bang
August 13, 2021 Annlyel James	2 Comments
I've got to admit, that finale was pretty good. Yes, it was slow with a lot of dialogue but for the first time in weeks I felt invested in the storyline, in the moments shared between the characters, and I'm not ashamed to admit that I got a tiny bit emotional at the end.
This episode invoked that old-timey Star Wars feeling in me that I haven't felt in a long time; that essence of familial drama in the midst of a terribly tense situation while the music adds another layer of weight to the subject material. I loved that the series concluded the way that it did with no major cameos in sight and an enticing cliffhanger that has me actually kind of excited to see the second season next year.
Did that finale suddenly change my conflicted opinion on the overall series? No, it did not. But it was better than I expected it to be and that's a relief.
Overall, I still think that Star Wars: Rebels had the best first season for a series because by the finale I was far more invested in the characters and their story. Plus, that *SPOILER ALERT* reveal at the very end of the first season was so exciting I remember exclaiming with joy. Talk about a long wait for a second season!
However, if I had to pick between The Clone Wars and The Bad Batch for best first season I'd undoubtedly give it to The Bad Batch. Even with all of its narrative flaws it benefits from years of storytelling set up by The Clone Wars, resulting in a story that ultimately is far more interesting in subject matter than the beginning of The Clone Wars could've ever been.
Now, onto the next Star Wars series, The Book of Boba Fett. Woo!
I thank you for reading and I hope you have a wonderful day. May the Force be with you!
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2 thoughts on "'The Bad Batch' Concludes With a Muted Bang"
Eric Foley says:
I did think the ending was a bit anticlimactic, but I'll see how I feel when I mull it over for my own post tomorrow. It was mostly suspense and, probably for the first time all season, no combat involved. Mostly just a lot of tension, both existentially and personally. One got resolved. The other didn't. That said, it probably would've been contrived if the other didn't at this point, and it's very possible it never will. That's probably better for the story in the long run. We both rolled our eyes when Wrecker's wobbles became a nothingburger, and that this one didn't follow suit is not a bad thing.
Celebfantastiq says:
It was anticlimactic as I was just not fully invested with the characters as CW. As for Crosshair I'm honestly glad that he will be a wildcard. And the head writer confirmed that Crosshair did get his chip out which is even more interesting. As for Omega , it has to get off her as the focus. The others are right, she's al, but the leader of this group. Hunter has to step up next season and make a firm decision, are they going to help and become founding members of the Rebel cause or stick to mercenary work?
Not to mention the show has to make a decision about that. Will they open it up to more characters or refocus on the group?


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Grass Fed From Start to Finish.
We have been farming for over forty years. Our concern has always been on long-term land improvement. During the last fifteen years, we have been focused not only on soil and water conservation, but also on producing safer and more nutrient-dense foods. We also must do these things in a manner that will be economically viable for future generations on the farm. In the past five years, we have been converting to certified organic production, We have been active members of the Weston A. Price Foundation for more than ten years. We want to be an information source for people seeking to improve their health and lives.


Enjoy a free one-category upgrade on the Grand Canyon Railway when booking a qualifying tour. Book by 30 April 2019 for travel in 2019. Use promo code FREEUP.
Valid for new bookings only made by 30 April 2019 for travel in 2019. Promo includes a free one-category upgrade from coach class to first class. Offer has no cash value and is non-transferable. Offer is subject to availability and may be modified or withdrawn at any time. Additional terms and conditions may apply.
From New York City to the Grand Canyon, see the best of the United States by train. Travel coast to coast aboard four renowned Amtrak trains as you travel from New York City to Los Angeles via Washington, DC, Chicago and the Grand Canyon on this 14-day cross-country rail adventure. Start in the Big Apple, where you have the opportunity to see the sights at leisure. Taking in a Broadway play or strolling around Central Park are always popular choices.
After New York, board Amtrak's high-speed Acela train to Washington D.C. While in the nation's capital visit historic monuments such as the Lincoln Memorial and the Library of Congress. From Washington D.C, continue your cross-country adventure to the Windy City, Chicago on the shores of glittering Lake Michigan. While in the city, visit classic highlights such as Navy Pier and Millennium Park, or visit one of the city's several museums including the Art Institute and Field Museum.
Welcome to the Big Apple! Upon arrival in New York City, transfer on your own to your centrally-located hotel and enjoy the remainder of the day at leisure. Visit Times Square, take in a theatre performance, and enjoy one of New York's many fantastic restaurants. Overnight New York City.
This morning head to bustling Penn Station and board Amtrak for the train trip to Washington, DC. Upon arrival, transfer on your own to your centrally-located hotel with the remainder of the afternoon at your leisure to explore the nation's capitol. Overnight Washington, DC.
Washington, DC is full of amazing things to see and do. Get a lay of the land while learning all about the history that surrounds this great city on today's guided sightseeing tour of DC's top monuments and attractions. A special highlight is a boat cruise on the Potomac River. Overnight Washington, DC.
You have a full day at your leisure in the Windy City. Visit one of the city's amazing museums to view precious works of art, age-old fossils, or the solar system. Shop the fine stores along the Magnificent Mile. Enjoy a cocktail--and the views--from the 95th floor of the John Hancock Building. Visit the Lincoln Park Zoo, situated in the heart of the city. Stroll along the lakefront, see a first-run play, and dine in a renowned steak house. Overnight Chicago.
Your day is steeped in movie magic as you revel in the thrills of amusement park rides and behind-the-scenes tours at Universal Studios. Your front-of-the-line attractions pass gives you priority boarding privileges for all attractions, reserved seating at all Universal Studios shows, and behind-the-scenes privileges at select attractions. Overnight Los Angeles.
Your holiday comes to an end this morning. Transfer on your own to the airport or railway station for your return trip home.
Hotels include the Stewart Hotel, Holiday Inn Capitol at the Smithsonian, Palmer House Hilton, Grand Canyon Railway Hotel, Maswik Lodge, and Millennium Biltmore.
Amtrak accommodations are available in Coach class, Roomette and Bedroom. Coach accommodations include a reclining seat with leg rest. Roomette accommodations include a private cabin that features two comfortable seats beside a picture window during the day, which converts to an upper and lower berth at night. Bedroom accommodations feature a sofa and chair by day and upper and lower berth by night. Bedroom accommodations also include a sink and self-enclosed toilet and shower. All train accommodations include all meals aboard the train and access to the Sightseer Lounge car. Sleeping car passengers aboard the Southwest Chief enjoy meals in the train's Dining car. New contemporary and fresh dining choices replace traditional dining car service on the Capitol Limited. Sleeping car passengers may elect to have a chilled prepared meal selection delivered to your Roomette or Bedroom or enjoy meals in a private cafe or lounge car.
Enter your details below if you would like to be notified when 2021 dates and prices are available for America Coast to Coast with Grand Canyon.
Senior discounts is available upon request. Contact a rail specialist for details.
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The money is part of a $380 million national election protection program President Donald Trump approved in March. There was an effort to infiltrate Florida's election systems ahead of the 2016 elections.
Florida is going to quickly get a $19 million federal grant aimed at protecting the state's election systems from cyberattack.
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio's office on Monday announced the U.S. Election Assistance Commission had approved the grant request. The commission wrote a letter to Rubio saying the money would be given to the state this week.
Gov. Rick Scott ordered the state to apply for the money late last month. His move came one day after the state's top election official said the money wouldn't be available until after the November elections.
The money is part of a $380 million national election protection program President Donald Trump approved in March.


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Rosekrans and Galleries B-F, Legion of Honor
This exhibition reveals how, before Mount Vesuvius blew up in AD 79 and rocked the Bay of Naples, people in Pompeii and nearby farms and villages were engaged in typical daily activities, many of which revolved around food and drink. Thousands were killed in the midst of their daily routines. The swiftness of the eruption and the depth of the volcanic cover of pumice and hot ash preserved the buried ruins, creating a time capsule that left the city of Pompeii virtually intact. Its rediscovery gives us a picture of what life was like in a thriving Roman city.
Antiquities on view in the exhibition run the gamut from luxury furnishings and tableware of precious metal; mosaics and frescoes; and marble and bronze sculpture decorating the home, to carbonized foodstuffs laid on the table. Together the objects open a vista onto the splendor and luxury loved by the wealthy Romans who called Pompeii their homes.
This exhibition is conceived and developed by the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, and is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in collaboration with the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli and the Parco Archeologico di Pompei.
John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn
Clare C. McEvoy Charitable Remainder Unitrust and Jay D. McEvoy Trust
Diane B. Wilsey
Major Support
William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation
The Bernard Osher Foundation
Significant Support
Ruddock Foundation for the Arts
Generous Support
Iris S. Chan and Dr. Michael Chan, MD
Additional Support is provided by Bernard and Jane von Bothmer in honor of Dr. Dietrich von Bothmer; The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation; Elizabeth D. Moyer, Ph.D., and Michael C. Powanda, Ph.D.; Sheila Wishek; Ancient Art Council; and Consulate General of Italy and Istituto Italiano di Cultura, San Francisco.
For tickets information, please visit: https://legionofhonor.famsf.org/exhibitions/pompeii.
June 12, 2021, 9:00:00 PM
Painting Pompeii: pigments, prices, and painterly practice
July 17, 2021, 9:00:00 PM
Survivors of Vesuvius: Tracking Refugees from Pompeii and Herculaneum
August 28, 2021, 5:00:00 PM
Symposium | Convivium: AD 79: When Time Froze in Pompeii
This exhibition will be held in the
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About Exhibitions at the Ancient Art Council
Exhibitions are an important aspect of a curatorial department. The Ancient Art Department has organized and mounted over the years exhibitions showcasing art from different ancient cultures in the Mediterranean. Some of these exhibitions are also accompanied by scholarly catalogues written, edited, or with contributions by the curator in charge of Ancient Art and Interpretation, and published by the Publications Department. Exhibitions, like publications, fulfill the fundamental commitment of the Department to education, research, and scholarship.


What's a "gear inch"? Yeah…well back in the High-Wheeler years before 1866 or so, the pedaling gear you had was determined by the diameter of the wheel, because the crank was attached to it, so one revolution of one meant one of the other, too. In that case, Wilt Chamberlain would win all the flat-road races, because his shorter competitors would be twirling too fast on a smaller wheel.
When chain-drive bikes came about with their cogs attached to the rear wheel, the English "gear-inch" concept came about, which allowed a rider to pick front and rear sprockets and be able to compare the distance-traveled per revolution to that of the high-wheelers.
On this chart, the numbers derived by dividing the rear cog into the chainring, then timesing that by the wheel diameter, is the equivalent wheel diameter of your great-great-grandfather's high-wheeler. That is combo bike history and trivia, but is relevant if you wanna know which is lower, a 34frong x 36rear, or a 24front x 32 rear. The lower the gear-inch number, the easier the gear. Gear charts like this tend to bring out the inner weirdo extreme bike geek in all of us. Beware.


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Artwork shown in scale for illustrative purposes only.
These prints are marked E.A. which stands for épreuve d'artiste- Aritists Proof in French.
One of LeRoy's first forays into art was creating posters for local merchants at a young age to advertise their store sales. Later, as an established artist, he often made posters to commemorate and promote special sporting and cultural events. Neiman's posters remain a tribute to his vibrant work and life.
Neiman painted every type of sporting event during his lifetime, with his influence earning him the title of "Father of Contemporary Sport Art." As the official artist of five Olympics, his art reached millions of people via al fresco paintings of the competitions. His comprehensive coverage of other sporting events includes the Super Bowl, the World Series, the Kentucky Derby, championship boxing, PGA and The Masters golf tournament, and the Tour de France.
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In this lesson, students will review the future tenses and how they are used through listening tasks.
T writes on the board: 'You have to be home before it gets dark' T asks 'who do you think told me that?' and elicits 'parents' T elicits other things parents tell their children. S brainstorm things parents say to control their children.
Teacher tells Ss to work in pairs and. 'A asks question and B answers' Ss ask the questions and answer them. Ask the Ss to swap roles halfway through. 'Now B asks the question and A asnwers' Monitor and listen for any possible good uses of language and mistake and correct in the feedback if needed.


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Wasps make history with female matchday announcer
She will take over the microphone for the Premiership Rugby Cup clash with Worcester Warriors at the Ricoh Arena
Bobby BridgeReporter
Verity Brown of Wasps
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Wasps are set to become the first top-flight English rugby club to have a female matchday announcer.
Long-serving matchday announcer Pete Nuttall will be temporarily handing over the microphone to Wasps employee Verity Brown for the club's Premiership Rugby Cup clash against Worcester Warriors at the Ricoh Arena on Saturday, October 12.
The idea was initially mooted during the summer by Pete, who is sitting out Wasps' clash with Warriors as he will be announcing his 20 consecutive Rugby League Grand Final on the same day.
Verity's moment of fame comes in what will be her fourth season with Wasps after she initially joined the club as a volunteer in December 2014 for eight months, before working her way up to become community manager and then matchday marketing manager.
Verity said: "Working for Wasps is not a job for me, it's a passion and lifestyle, so I was absolutely honoured to be asked to do the matchday announcing.
"I get a real buzz from working the matchdays and co-ordinating a lot of the pre-match activities, but it will be great to view the Worcester game from a different perspective.
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"I shadowed Pete at the last home game and there's an awful lot that goes into matchday announcing – the preparation in terms of writing the script, the running order and liaising with the matchday operations team – to the actual game itself where you're having to pay great attention to what's going on throughout the match!
"Hopefully hearing my voice over the microphone will inspire other females out there to pursue roles that have traditionally been dominated by men."
Pete – who has been the voice of Wasps since 1997 – will return to matchday duty for the club's opening Gallagher Premiership clash with London Irish at Ricoh Arena on Sunday 20 October.
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He added: "I've seen Verity close up on matchdays and her passion for the club is unbelievable – she bleeds Black and Gold.
"She deserves a chance in the limelight to show off her passion in front of the club's supporters – she will do a brilliant job. Hopefully, not too brilliant though – as I'm very fond of my role with Wasps!
"I also think it's important that more female voices are heard in men's sport. I've been fortunate enough to be able to announce plenty of Ladies' finals and Women's internationals. Why shouldn't things be allowed to work the other way?"
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Evolution: Science or Philosophy?
Kara Braun
"Science, you might say, has discovered that our existence is infinitely improbable, and hence a miracle." John Horgan, science journalist
"An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going." Francis Crick, who helped discover the molecular structure of DNA.
"Scientists who utterly reject evolution may be one of our fastest growing controversial minorities… Many of the scientists supporting this position hold impressive credentials in science."
Larry Hatfield, writing in Science Digest
These quotes taken from Lee Strobel's book, The Case for a Creator, illustrate a tiny sample of what one man found in his search for the possibility of a Creator for the universe. As a journalist with a love for investigation, Strobel personally interrogated scientific authorities from numerous fields of study to find out what science's most current findings had to say about the origin of the universe and of living things. He began his journey as a skeptic with a lot of difficult questions, but was quickly forced to change his position. What amazed him repeatedly was that science itself points toward God! The experts were aware of it. Of course, there were many loyal atheists in the ranks of science, but they were having a hard time finding theories to explain away the weaknesses in Darwinian philosophy. Some were atheists because that was more "scientifically" acceptable–they feared to be censured by scientific colleagues or to voice objections that were not politically correct. Some doubtless refused to acknowledge God because of the inconvenience of being accountable to Him. But scientific evidence itself was farther away than ever from explaining the existence of the universe apart from God. And the men who were most advanced in their fields were the ones most aware of this problem.
One scientist whom Strobel interviewed pointed out the hypocrisy in biology textbooks of the day. Common "icons of evolution"–images used widely in textbooks to stamp evolutionary theory upon the minds of American students and cited by almost any scientist to describe the evidence for evolution–were all either false or misleading. These icons included Darwin's tree of life, which depicted a branching tree as the pattern by which complex life forms developed and branched off gradually through natural selection from a single common ancestor; Haeckel's embryos, which showed the similarities of various creatures in their earliest stages; the archaeopteryx, which was supposed to be a missing link between reptiles and birds; and Miller's experiment, which used electric sparks to produce amino acids from a supposed early-earth atmosphere.
Investigation overturned every one of the icons mentioned. Darwin's tree of life was a theory contradicted by the fossil evidence. Rather than showing a gradual change in life forms from a few simple organisms to gradually more complex forms over a long range of time, the fossil record shows a remarkably fast appearance of major groups of animals all at the same time with characteristics widely differing from each other. Haeckel's drawings of embryos had been accused of fraud over one hundred years ago. Besides picking out only examples that supported his theory and ignoring those that didn't, Haeckel had apparently used the same woodcut for embryos of different classes and had falsely represented the drawings to be at different developmental stages than they really were. When recent biologists brought the fact to light, expert scientists showed no signs of surprise. They had known about the discrepancy for years, and yet it was still being published as fact in science textbooks!
Another evolutionary icon was the archaeopteryx, a beautiful creature but no more of a missing link than the duckbill platypus or any other unusual animal we see in existence today. It had the essential body structure of a bird and did not overcome the problem of how a transitional form with a body structure between that of a reptile's and a bird's could have survived.
Finally there was the Miller experiment. It began, scientists agreed, with the wrong atmosphere, and it produced only amino acids, something far short of life even in its simplest form. The scientist whom Strobel was interviewing used an example to describe the impossibility of creating even one living cell by mere electricity. If you put an existing cell into a test tube with a sterile salt solution and poke a hole in it so that the contents leak out, you have all the components of life, which is already more than Miller's experiment was able to do. Still, no scientist in his right mind would try to put them back together again in just the right way to produce a new cell. The process is simply too complicated. In reply to Strobel's question of why examples like these were still published in evolutionary textbooks, the scientist acknowledged: "It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that this is materialistic philosophy masquerading as empirical science. The attitude is that life had to have developed this way because there's no other materialistic explanation. And if you try to invoke another explanation–for instance, intelligent design–then the evolutionists claim you're not a scientist."
Lee Strobel went on to interview learned men from the fields of cosmology, physics, astronomy, biochemistry, and more. Everywhere the evidence piled up in favor of God. Not only did science show that the universe had a beginning–which fact implies something greater than the universe to have given it a beginning–but science also showed that this first Cause was an intelligent cause. Strobel found that physical laws which govern the universe are fine-tuned with stunning precision to make life possible. If the force of gravity were set on a dial that spanned the entire width of the universe, and that dial were moved by just one inch in either direction, the universe could no longer support life; and gravity is merely one of more than thirty unrelated physical laws and parameters which require such infinitesimal precision that a slight change in their numerical values would mean disaster for us.
Design is also evident in the extreme complexity of the information stored in the human DNA molecule. This information is spelled out in computer-like code using only four letters which have no chemical attraction to each other and therefore no inherent force ordering them into a certain sequence. Their arrangement is ordered by something outside the system–leading Strobel to marvel "It's almost as if the Creator autographed every cell." There has obviously been a purposeful mind at work all over creation. If the universe were put on trial for how it originated, Strobel says there would be more evidence for God being "guilty" of creating it than the DNA evidence that is used in modern courtrooms to convict a thief or murderer of his crime.
Walter Martin, in a lecture entitled "Common Campus Curses," supports the argument of design with the example of a beautiful new automobile rolling off the end of an auto manufacturing assembly line. You look at the automobile and exclaim, "Wasn't that an amazing assembly line to have produced such a remarkable automobile!" The people around you start wondering if you are crazy because they know that it takes an engineer to produce an automobile; the assembly line can do no more than put it together. In the same manner, evolutionists try to ascribe the wonders of the universe to nature, but nature has no creative, designing power–it is only a mechanism used to put the design together. We cannot say that chance brought the universe about with so much beauty and precision. Chance, if given enough time, can produce momentary order, but it does not have the power to sustain that order. You can throw down a box of alphabets and end up with "abc," but the next throw will invariably scramble the letters again. In Martin's words, "What chance creates, it almost instantaneously annihilates."
Science has never proved that there is no God. Science, by definition, cannot prove how the universe came into existence. It cannot prove that God created it, nor can it prove that God did not create it. Why? Because science can only prove things that can be observed and repeated. No scientist was there when the universe began. Nobody observed and documented how it happened. Nobody can repeat the creation of the universe. Chance and natural selection themselves are not repeating any creative process beyond slight, predetermined variation within a species (determined, in other words, by information that was already there and not by added information). What has not been observed and cannot be repeated cannot be proved to have happened. People can propose theories, but they will remain theories. To conclusively affirm how the universe came about is outside the realm of science and, in that sense, a decision of faith (whether faith in God or faith in nature). All we can do is look at the evidence that is there and judge which conclusion is the most reasonable. Where does the evidence point? Toward creation! God has left fingerprints all over Creation–on the stars, the rocks, and the oceans; on complex systems and individual atoms; and most of all on living man with his will, his mind, and his personality. These fingerprints are difficult to ignore.
What if God does exist? The mere chance that God exists should inspire a person to seek for Him. The mere chance that we may have to give account to Him should make us find out what He requires of us. To ignore the possibility of His existence and dare to meet Him unprepared is too risky when the evidence of His handiwork is undeniably strong.
Information used in this article has been taken from the following sources:
"The Case for a Creator" by Lee Strobel; published by Zondervan, copyright 2004
"Common Campus Curses," a lecture by Walter Martin (date and place unknown)
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Fatima Siad (en somalí: Fadumo Siyaad, , Mogadiscio, 17 de diciembre de 1986) es una modelo de origen somalí. Creció en Boston, Massachusetts, y quedó en tercer lugar en el décimo ciclo de America's Next Top Model.

Primeros años
Nacida en Mogadiscio, Somalia, Siad se crio en esa misma ciudad con su madre y dos hermanas. Sus padres se divorciaron a una edad temprana. Fue sometida a una mutilación genital femenina cuando ella tenía siete años. Sus dos hermanas fueron asesinadas por el ejército de Somalia durante la guerra civil somalí. Después de la muerte de sus hermanas, Siad y su madre viajaron a Estados Unidos cuando tenía trece años por seguridad. Fue becaria de Posse y asistió al Bryn Mawr College en 2004. Fue transferida a la Universidad de Nueva York para estudiar medicina y ciencia política. Siad finalmente volvió a Bryn Mawr College para terminar su educación.

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America's Next Top Model

Siad entró en la competencia con una poderosa historia que contar y una oportunidad de inspirar a otros. Ella quedó tercera en su ciclo. En la segunda semana, fueron los cambios de look y a ella le dieron extensiones de color marrón castaño. Siad recibió tres veces el primer llamado, cayó cuatro veces en el bottom-two y dos de las apariencias, la misma cantidad que la ganadora Whitney Thompson. Ella ganó un reto, en la cual recibió 50 cuadros adicionales para su sesión de fotos. Por otro lado, Siad fue criticada por no ser capaz de tomar direcciones. Siad perdió una sesión de fotos, por no poder obtener documentos de viaje que ella, supuestamente, perdió en Atlanta.  Le costó la competencia, ya que cayó en las dos últimas, junto con Stacy Ann Fequiere, pero el fuerte portafolio que tenía, la salvó.

En una entrevista, Siad declaró que sentía que el show fue una broma y pensó que Claire Unabia, Lauren Utter, Katarzyna Dolinska o Anya Kop debieron haber ganado o al menos no ser eliminadas tan pronto. También declaró que el programa puede basarse en la política.
Siad fue la última concursante que aparece en las modelos superiores en el segmento de acción que se emitió durante el Ciclo 12.

Otros trabajos

Siad tiene un contrato firmado con la New York Model Management en Nueva York, en la división editorial, La Modelo de Gestión en Los Ángeles, situada en la división femenina, Ace Modelos en Atenas, Grecia, y modelos de hielo en Milán, Italia.
Siad ha realizado una sesión fotográfica para el Boston Globe y tenía un margen Essence Magazine, 11 de noviembre de 2008 También fue destacada en Look Magazine del Reino Unido, octubre de 2008.  Ella ha aparecido en CosmoGirl dos veces, las cuestiones de noviembre de 2008 y el Prom Invierno / Primavera 2009.  Ella ha modelado para las Bermudas Estilo en la tanda de llamados anochecer hasta el amanecer "y tiene trabajo Cosmopolitan. Siad también ha modelado para Maggie Norris Couture.  Ella apareció en Ebony Magazine, diciembre de 2008, y el 18 de diciembre de 2008, en un Número de Women's Wear Daily.  Ha estado en  Fashion Magazine y Elle, marzo de 2009 y julio de 2009. Siad ha estado en las portadas de revistas francés, La amuser, número dos y de perfil en Femme, abril de 2009. Siad tiene un contrato con la empresa de cosméticos suizos Arbonne, y es una de las caras nuevas de Arbonne FC5, aparece en los anuncios de los productos. Ella ha aparecido en la portada de la revista coluros. Ha sido la portada de estilo de la página del Frente el 29 de mayo de 2009, respectivamente.

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Through Houser's signature style of visual poetry and personal iconography, the artist extends his practice of self-examination to include the topic of art making itself. Works in this exhibition serve to consider Houser's relationship to the artwork he creates, the compulsion to create it and how his lifestyle has been formed, consequently.
Houser's collages become visual poems through which he cathartically communicates his most private thoughts and emotions with surprising candor. By cataloging his experiences and feelings through a unique pictorial language, the artist creates his own brand of curative iconography. Houser's aesthetic often mixes stylized figures, hand-drawn typography and geometric shapes, creating quilt-like collages in a cohesive color palette.


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