Thanks for taking a leadership role with NEO STC this year!
Our first NEO STC Board meeting is scheduled for August 7, 2008.
Location: Independence Public Library
6361 Selig Drive
Independence, Ohio 44131-4926
The library is located off of Brecksville Road in the Civic Center complex.
Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008
Time: 6:00 p.m. to 8:45 p.m.
Bring: A list of your committee's goals and an estimated budget for 2008-2009. Choose one representative from your committee to give a 5-minute report to the board. Handouts are optional.
Send: A copy of your notes to our NEO STC Secretary, Renee Murray.
A light dinner and beverages will be provided.
RVSP to Amy Vogt by August 5, 2008. If you are not able to attend, please send me a copy of your notes to present at the meeting.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Academy, green print
Jeffrey T. Parsons
Vice President, Business Development
Academy Graphic Communication
1000 Brookpark Road
Cleveland, OH 44109
216-661-2550 xt.18
jeffparsons@agcinc.org
www.visitagc.com
Academy Graphic Communication is doing its part in ensuring a sustainable environment. We’ve obtained both Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Chain-of-Custody Certification and Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) Chain-of-Custody Certification. Ask today how you can begin labeling your marketing communication projects with the FSC or SFI label to help communicate your sustainability efforts.
Vice President, Business Development
Academy Graphic Communication
1000 Brookpark Road
Cleveland, OH 44109
216-661-2550 xt.18
jeffparsons@agcinc.org
www.visitagc.com
Academy Graphic Communication is doing its part in ensuring a sustainable environment. We’ve obtained both Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Chain-of-Custody Certification and Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) Chain-of-Custody Certification. Ask today how you can begin labeling your marketing communication projects with the FSC or SFI label to help communicate your sustainability efforts.
Monday, July 28, 2008
DANIEL SILVA (Moscow Rules)
DANIEL SILVA (Moscow Rules)- here is some copying -
The extraordinary new Gabriel Allon thriller from one of the world's finest writers of international intrigue and espionage.
The violent death of a journalist leads agent turned art-restorer, Gabriel Allon to Russia. Here he finds that in terms of spycraft, the stakes are the highest they've ever been. He's playing by "Moscow Rules" now.
It is not the grim Moscow of Soviet times, but a new Moscow, awash in oil wealth and bulletproof Bentleys. A Moscow where a new generation of Stalinists is plotting to reclaim an empire lost, and to challenge the global dominance of its old enemy, the United States.
One such man is Ivan Kharkov, a former KGB agent who has built a global investment empire on the rubble of the Soviet Union. Hidden within that empire is a lucrative and deadly business. Kharkov is an arms dealer - and he is about to deliver Russia's most sophisticated weapons to al-Qaeda. Unless Allon can learn the time and place of the delivery, the world will see the deadliest terror attacks since 9/11 - and the clock is ticking fast.
Filled with rich prose and breathtaking turns of plot, Moscow Rules is at once superior entertainment and a searing cautionary tale about the new threats rising to the East - and Silva's finest novel yet.
The extraordinary new Gabriel Allon thriller from one of the world's finest writers of international intrigue and espionage.
The violent death of a journalist leads agent turned art-restorer, Gabriel Allon to Russia. Here he finds that in terms of spycraft, the stakes are the highest they've ever been. He's playing by "Moscow Rules" now.
It is not the grim Moscow of Soviet times, but a new Moscow, awash in oil wealth and bulletproof Bentleys. A Moscow where a new generation of Stalinists is plotting to reclaim an empire lost, and to challenge the global dominance of its old enemy, the United States.
One such man is Ivan Kharkov, a former KGB agent who has built a global investment empire on the rubble of the Soviet Union. Hidden within that empire is a lucrative and deadly business. Kharkov is an arms dealer - and he is about to deliver Russia's most sophisticated weapons to al-Qaeda. Unless Allon can learn the time and place of the delivery, the world will see the deadliest terror attacks since 9/11 - and the clock is ticking fast.
Filled with rich prose and breathtaking turns of plot, Moscow Rules is at once superior entertainment and a searing cautionary tale about the new threats rising to the East - and Silva's finest novel yet.
Ill from food
If the restaurant is within the city of Cleveland, you may
contact the following persons:
Ron Smith: Deputy Commissioner of Environment 216-664-3596
Renee Witcher-Johnson, Epidemiologist: 216-420-7743
If the restaurant is outside the boundaries of the City of Cleveland, you
should contact the Cuyahoga County Board of Health. That number is
216-201-2000. If you have further questions, you may contact me at the
following number: 216-664-2362. Tks.
This is from the Health Centers Director for the city of Cleveland.
contact the following persons:
Ron Smith: Deputy Commissioner of Environment 216-664-3596
Renee Witcher-Johnson, Epidemiologist: 216-420-7743
If the restaurant is outside the boundaries of the City of Cleveland, you
should contact the Cuyahoga County Board of Health. That number is
216-201-2000. If you have further questions, you may contact me at the
following number: 216-664-2362. Tks.
This is from the Health Centers Director for the city of Cleveland.
Bob, 29 July
1. Thank you to God and all who help me get through a day or even an hour
2. Thank you for fund raisers such as the one on Sacha's birthday at Bob Evans, to raise money for frog habitats.
Bob Evans
1437 GOLDEN GATE BLVD
MAYFIELD HEIGHTS, OH 44124
(440) 473-4713
Some of the salads you can get at Bob Evans include:
1. Cranberry Pecan Chicken Salad
2. Chef Salad (with ham and bacon)
3. Chili & Cheese Taco Salad with sausage chilli
4. Country Spinach Salad with chicken
5. Cobb with chicken and bacon
6. Wildfire Chicken Salad
7. Fresh Fruit & Yogurt Plate
Bob Evans Raising Funds to support Vernal Pool Project
Bob Evans Farms is now a supporting sponsor of Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Frogs, Hogs & Dogs exhibit.
In conjunction with 2008 Year of the Frog, Cleveland Metroparks and Cleveland Metroparks Zoo are undertaking a project to create pools within Cleveland Metroparks and then populate them with wood frogs. In support of this effort, on Tuesday, July 29, Bob Evans will donate 10% of proceeds in 26 participating Northeast Ohio Bob Evans restaurants to the Zoo's Vernal Pool Habitat Project!
This project is supposed to help create new wetland habitats for amphibians in Northeast Ohio.
Happy Birthday Sac!
2. Thank you for fund raisers such as the one on Sacha's birthday at Bob Evans, to raise money for frog habitats.
Bob Evans
1437 GOLDEN GATE BLVD
MAYFIELD HEIGHTS, OH 44124
(440) 473-4713
Some of the salads you can get at Bob Evans include:
1. Cranberry Pecan Chicken Salad
2. Chef Salad (with ham and bacon)
3. Chili & Cheese Taco Salad with sausage chilli
4. Country Spinach Salad with chicken
5. Cobb with chicken and bacon
6. Wildfire Chicken Salad
7. Fresh Fruit & Yogurt Plate
Bob Evans Raising Funds to support Vernal Pool Project
Bob Evans Farms is now a supporting sponsor of Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Frogs, Hogs & Dogs exhibit.
In conjunction with 2008 Year of the Frog, Cleveland Metroparks and Cleveland Metroparks Zoo are undertaking a project to create pools within Cleveland Metroparks and then populate them with wood frogs. In support of this effort, on Tuesday, July 29, Bob Evans will donate 10% of proceeds in 26 participating Northeast Ohio Bob Evans restaurants to the Zoo's Vernal Pool Habitat Project!
This project is supposed to help create new wetland habitats for amphibians in Northeast Ohio.
Happy Birthday Sac!
Gratitude, 26 July
1. Thank you to God for all who help me get through a day.
2. Thank you for the nice birthday dinner for Barbara at Night Town. It has been years since I have had a steamed artichoke and what a treat. The presentation of the artichoke at Night Town was excellent. The artichoke leaves were tender and the vegetable broth-and-butter dipping sauce was an excellent touch, not to mention the choke that reminded me of rich mashed potatoes. For dinner I had the salad with olives and cheese. Barb had the ravioli stuffed with blue cheese and mushrooms.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BARB!
3. Finding Our Way Again - The Return of the Ancient Practices by Brian McLaren is an interesting read.
The author mentions five Abrahamic practices to consider putting into your life. He notes that Abraham was an important figure for the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish ways of life.
1. Pilgrimmage
2. Fasting
3. Holy meal
4. Prayers of blessing
5. Giving or tithing
6. The sabbath
What an interesting list this is. Of course, there are many ways to interpret this for my world today. The author suggests that many of these we probably already do as part of our way of life but just do not realize it. Pilgrimmage I think of as when we break with the routine of our life and go away. I have even been thinking that a trip to St. Peter's Cathedral next time we go to NY would be a nice pilgrimmage. Our recent trip to Florida tho' not of course a visit to a religious site strictly speaking was a break with the routine and an enjoyable one.
Fasting of course is something you do every day before breakfast. Keeping a longer fast is one approach that would work for me. A holy meal can be any meal that is shared. Prayers of blessing I feel help me get through every day. Giving is something I want to do more and want to help with the Meals on Wheels tho' in a way some of the work we are doing with FOEC, LOGS, and Komen involve some giving, tho' I could always do more. Observing the sabbath is something I feel I can do of course on weekends when again there is a break from the routine of work and there is resting, something that should be encouraged as even religious and spiritual observance says it is a valuable practice.
2. Thank you for the nice birthday dinner for Barbara at Night Town. It has been years since I have had a steamed artichoke and what a treat. The presentation of the artichoke at Night Town was excellent. The artichoke leaves were tender and the vegetable broth-and-butter dipping sauce was an excellent touch, not to mention the choke that reminded me of rich mashed potatoes. For dinner I had the salad with olives and cheese. Barb had the ravioli stuffed with blue cheese and mushrooms.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BARB!
3. Finding Our Way Again - The Return of the Ancient Practices by Brian McLaren is an interesting read.
The author mentions five Abrahamic practices to consider putting into your life. He notes that Abraham was an important figure for the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish ways of life.
1. Pilgrimmage
2. Fasting
3. Holy meal
4. Prayers of blessing
5. Giving or tithing
6. The sabbath
What an interesting list this is. Of course, there are many ways to interpret this for my world today. The author suggests that many of these we probably already do as part of our way of life but just do not realize it. Pilgrimmage I think of as when we break with the routine of our life and go away. I have even been thinking that a trip to St. Peter's Cathedral next time we go to NY would be a nice pilgrimmage. Our recent trip to Florida tho' not of course a visit to a religious site strictly speaking was a break with the routine and an enjoyable one.
Fasting of course is something you do every day before breakfast. Keeping a longer fast is one approach that would work for me. A holy meal can be any meal that is shared. Prayers of blessing I feel help me get through every day. Giving is something I want to do more and want to help with the Meals on Wheels tho' in a way some of the work we are doing with FOEC, LOGS, and Komen involve some giving, tho' I could always do more. Observing the sabbath is something I feel I can do of course on weekends when again there is a break from the routine of work and there is resting, something that should be encouraged as even religious and spiritual observance says it is a valuable practice.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Dept of Health
krothenberg@city.cleveland.oh.us
http://www.clevelandhealth.org/Contact/ is where I got the information to contact the Department of Health as suggested by Dr. Geyer. This concerns the four of us who became ill after eating at Taza on June 21.
http://www.clevelandhealth.org/Contact/ is where I got the information to contact the Department of Health as suggested by Dr. Geyer. This concerns the four of us who became ill after eating at Taza on June 21.
Good nature, posts
1. Thank you to God and all who help me get through everything
2. Thank you that there is hope for cotton mouth tho' sometimes it feels more like wood mouth
3. Thank goodness for Good Nature - see following -
3. What a lot of blogging this month!
What a lot of blogging I did in July so far. I'm not sure what to make of this. I don't know if there has been more than even on my mind or it's just one of those things. I wonder if my blogs are funny enough. Maybe I should work on that. There is a lot of gratitude in my life. Maybe that explains all the blogging. I have been thinking a lot lately about what retirement would be like.
7/25 application covered organic fertilizer and stress and did a surge weed control.
2. Thank you that there is hope for cotton mouth tho' sometimes it feels more like wood mouth
3. Thank goodness for Good Nature - see following -
3. What a lot of blogging this month!
What a lot of blogging I did in July so far. I'm not sure what to make of this. I don't know if there has been more than even on my mind or it's just one of those things. I wonder if my blogs are funny enough. Maybe I should work on that. There is a lot of gratitude in my life. Maybe that explains all the blogging. I have been thinking a lot lately about what retirement would be like.
7/25 application covered organic fertilizer and stress and did a surge weed control.
Friday, July 25, 2008
Gratitude, frustration
1. Grateful to God and all who help me get through a day
2. Grateful there is hope from the frustration of several things
The things that are frustrating me are a double billing from expedia (26 July contacted expedia about this) and not hearing from Taza on what caused us to get ill. I called Taza twice and wrote once but so far have not heard from them. We went to Taza the Saturday after Father's Day. I contacted Taza in June and July.
2. Grateful there is hope from the frustration of several things
The things that are frustrating me are a double billing from expedia (26 July contacted expedia about this) and not hearing from Taza on what caused us to get ill. I called Taza twice and wrote once but so far have not heard from them. We went to Taza the Saturday after Father's Day. I contacted Taza in June and July.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Simplified English
1. Thank you to God and all who help me get through a day
2. Thank you to efforts such as simplified technical English.
http://www.userlab.com/SE.html should be a good place to go as we work through my STE exercise. Maybe I should write an article about this for STC.
http://www.userlab.com/Downloads/SE.pdf
2. Thank you to efforts such as simplified technical English.
http://www.userlab.com/SE.html should be a good place to go as we work through my STE exercise. Maybe I should write an article about this for STC.
http://www.userlab.com/Downloads/SE.pdf
Monday, July 21, 2008
brocolli/patterson's
1 lg. bunch broccoli
1 sm. onion, chopped
1 c. shredded cheddar
1/2 lb. bacon, cooked & crumbled
1 c. Miracle Whip
1/4 - 1/2 c. sugar
2 tbsp. vinegar
Cut up broccoli into bite size pieces. Mix broccoli and next 3 ingredients. Combine salad dressing with sugar and vinegar. Toss with broccoli mixture 1 hour before serving. Serve cold
2 lg. heads broccoli
1/2 lb. bacon, cooked and crumbled
1 c. shredded Monterey Jack cheese
1 c. shredded Cheddar cheese
1 c. mayonnaise
3 tbsp. sugar
1 1/2 tbsp. vinegar
Cut broccoli into small flowerets. Combine broccoli, cheeses and bacon in large bowl, reserve in refrigerator until well chilled. Combine mayonnaise, sugar and vinegar until creamy. Pour over broccoli mixture just before serving and toss well. This will keep in refrigerator for 2-3 days.
Patterson Fruit Farm Market is open year round. Our hours December through May are 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and June through November 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
1 sm. onion, chopped
1 c. shredded cheddar
1/2 lb. bacon, cooked & crumbled
1 c. Miracle Whip
1/4 - 1/2 c. sugar
2 tbsp. vinegar
Cut up broccoli into bite size pieces. Mix broccoli and next 3 ingredients. Combine salad dressing with sugar and vinegar. Toss with broccoli mixture 1 hour before serving. Serve cold
2 lg. heads broccoli
1/2 lb. bacon, cooked and crumbled
1 c. shredded Monterey Jack cheese
1 c. shredded Cheddar cheese
1 c. mayonnaise
3 tbsp. sugar
1 1/2 tbsp. vinegar
Cut broccoli into small flowerets. Combine broccoli, cheeses and bacon in large bowl, reserve in refrigerator until well chilled. Combine mayonnaise, sugar and vinegar until creamy. Pour over broccoli mixture just before serving and toss well. This will keep in refrigerator for 2-3 days.
Patterson Fruit Farm Market is open year round. Our hours December through May are 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and June through November 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
veggie pizza
INGREDIENTS (Nutrition)
1 (8 ounce) package refrigerated crescent rolls
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1 (1 ounce) package Ranch-style dressing mix
2 carrots, finely chopped
1/2 cup chopped red bell peppers
1/2 cup chopped green bell pepper
1/2 cup fresh broccoli, chopped
1/2 cup chopped green onions
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
Roll out crescent rolls onto a large non-stick baking sheet. Stretch and flatten to form a single rectangular shape on the baking sheet. Bake 11 to 13 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden brown. Allow to cool.
Place cream cheese in a medium bowl. Mix cream cheese with 1/2 of the ranch dressing mix. Adjust the amount of dressing mix to taste. Spread the mixture over the cooled crust. Arrange carrots, red bell pepper, broccoli and green onions on top. Chill in the refrigerator approximately 1 hour. Cut into bite-size squares to serve.
2 (8 ounce) packages refrigerated crescent rolls
2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
1 cup mayonnaise
1 (1 ounce) package dry Ranch-style dressing mix
1 cup fresh broccoli, chopped
1 cup chopped tomatoes
1 cup chopped green bell pepper
1 cup chopped cauliflower
1 cup shredded carrots
1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
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DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
Roll out the crescent roll dough onto a 9x13 inch baking sheet, and pinch together edges to form the pizza crust.
Bake crust for 12 minutes in the preheated oven. Once finished cooking, remove crust from oven and let cool 15 minutes without removing it from the baking sheet.
In a small mixing bowl, combine cream cheese, mayonnaise, and dry Ranch dressing. Spread the mixture over the cooled crust. Arrange broccoli, tomato, green bell pepper, cauliflower, shredded carrots, and Cheddar cheese over the cream cheese layer. Chill for one hour, slice and serve.
1 pkg. Pillsbury all-ready pizza crust
1 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese (I use light)
1 c. Best Food mayonnaise
2/3 c. cultured sour cream
1/2 to 1 pkg. Hidden Valley Ranch dressing mix
1 tsp. dill weed
1 tsp. garlic powder
1 tsp. onion powder
Fresh veggies chopped (I use broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, onions, mushrooms) (suit yourself)
1 sm. can ripe olives, sliced
Grated sharp cheese
Parmesan cheese
Flatten pizza crust in a large pizza pan or cookie sheet. Bake according to package directions. Mix well the cream cheese, mayonnaise, cultured sour cream, ranch dressing mix, dill weed, onion and garlic powder. Spread on cooled crust.
Sprinkle chopped veggies on next; press down. Add chopped olives. Sprinkle on grated cheese and top with Parmesan cheese. Refrigerate until ready to serve. Delicious.
1 (8 ounce) package refrigerated crescent rolls
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1 (1 ounce) package Ranch-style dressing mix
2 carrots, finely chopped
1/2 cup chopped red bell peppers
1/2 cup chopped green bell pepper
1/2 cup fresh broccoli, chopped
1/2 cup chopped green onions
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
Roll out crescent rolls onto a large non-stick baking sheet. Stretch and flatten to form a single rectangular shape on the baking sheet. Bake 11 to 13 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden brown. Allow to cool.
Place cream cheese in a medium bowl. Mix cream cheese with 1/2 of the ranch dressing mix. Adjust the amount of dressing mix to taste. Spread the mixture over the cooled crust. Arrange carrots, red bell pepper, broccoli and green onions on top. Chill in the refrigerator approximately 1 hour. Cut into bite-size squares to serve.
2 (8 ounce) packages refrigerated crescent rolls
2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
1 cup mayonnaise
1 (1 ounce) package dry Ranch-style dressing mix
1 cup fresh broccoli, chopped
1 cup chopped tomatoes
1 cup chopped green bell pepper
1 cup chopped cauliflower
1 cup shredded carrots
1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
Add to Recipe Box
My folders:
Add to Shopping List
Add a Personal Note
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
Roll out the crescent roll dough onto a 9x13 inch baking sheet, and pinch together edges to form the pizza crust.
Bake crust for 12 minutes in the preheated oven. Once finished cooking, remove crust from oven and let cool 15 minutes without removing it from the baking sheet.
In a small mixing bowl, combine cream cheese, mayonnaise, and dry Ranch dressing. Spread the mixture over the cooled crust. Arrange broccoli, tomato, green bell pepper, cauliflower, shredded carrots, and Cheddar cheese over the cream cheese layer. Chill for one hour, slice and serve.
1 pkg. Pillsbury all-ready pizza crust
1 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese (I use light)
1 c. Best Food mayonnaise
2/3 c. cultured sour cream
1/2 to 1 pkg. Hidden Valley Ranch dressing mix
1 tsp. dill weed
1 tsp. garlic powder
1 tsp. onion powder
Fresh veggies chopped (I use broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, onions, mushrooms) (suit yourself)
1 sm. can ripe olives, sliced
Grated sharp cheese
Parmesan cheese
Flatten pizza crust in a large pizza pan or cookie sheet. Bake according to package directions. Mix well the cream cheese, mayonnaise, cultured sour cream, ranch dressing mix, dill weed, onion and garlic powder. Spread on cooled crust.
Sprinkle chopped veggies on next; press down. Add chopped olives. Sprinkle on grated cheese and top with Parmesan cheese. Refrigerate until ready to serve. Delicious.
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Income tax, print
1. Thank you to God and all who help me get through a day.
2. http://www.hrblock.com/taxes/planning/tax_courses/index.html?campaignid=Yahoo0010
3. Thank goodness for the efforts of printers who are trying to be eco-friendly - including labeling with the FSC and SFI certifications
Jeffrey T. Parsons, Vice President, Business Development
Academy Graphic Communication
1000 Brookpark Road
Cleveland, OH 44109
216-661-2550 xt.18
jeffparsons@agcinc.org
www.visitagc.com
Academy Graphic Communication is doing its part in ensuring a sustainable environment. We’ve obtained both Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Chain-of-Custody Certification and Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) Chain-of-Custody Certification. Ask today how you can begin labeling your marketing communication projects with the FSC or SFI label to help communicate your sustainability efforts.
http://www.hrblock.com/taxes/planning/tax_courses/index.html?campaignid=Yahoo0010
2. http://www.hrblock.com/taxes/planning/tax_courses/index.html?campaignid=Yahoo0010
3. Thank goodness for the efforts of printers who are trying to be eco-friendly - including labeling with the FSC and SFI certifications
Jeffrey T. Parsons, Vice President, Business Development
Academy Graphic Communication
1000 Brookpark Road
Cleveland, OH 44109
216-661-2550 xt.18
jeffparsons@agcinc.org
www.visitagc.com
Academy Graphic Communication is doing its part in ensuring a sustainable environment. We’ve obtained both Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Chain-of-Custody Certification and Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) Chain-of-Custody Certification. Ask today how you can begin labeling your marketing communication projects with the FSC or SFI label to help communicate your sustainability efforts.
http://www.hrblock.com/taxes/planning/tax_courses/index.html?campaignid=Yahoo0010
Tax/Salmonella
1. Grateful to God and all who help me get through a day
2. Grateful that I can place unrelated items together in this blog - unrelated, as in salmonella and a link to a class on preparing income tax
A person infected with the Salmonella enteritidis bacterium usually has fever, abdominal cramps, and diarrhea beginning 12 to 72 hours after consuming a contaminated food or beverage. The illness usually lasts 4 to 7 days, and most persons recover without antibiotic treatment. However, the diarrhea can be severe, and the person may be ill enough to require hospitalization.
http://www.hrblock.com/taxes/planning/tax_courses/index.html?campaignid=Yahoo0010
2. Grateful that I can place unrelated items together in this blog - unrelated, as in salmonella and a link to a class on preparing income tax
A person infected with the Salmonella enteritidis bacterium usually has fever, abdominal cramps, and diarrhea beginning 12 to 72 hours after consuming a contaminated food or beverage. The illness usually lasts 4 to 7 days, and most persons recover without antibiotic treatment. However, the diarrhea can be severe, and the person may be ill enough to require hospitalization.
http://www.hrblock.com/taxes/planning/tax_courses/index.html?campaignid=Yahoo0010
Friday, July 18, 2008
STE, Creek
1. Grateful to God and all who help me get through a day
2. Grateful that I can put together unrelated items in this blog
Simplified English is a controlled language originally developed for aerospace industry maintenance manuals. It offers a carefully limited and standardized subset of English.
Proponents claim that Simplified English can:
* Reduce ambiguity
* Improve comprehension for people whose first language is not English
* Make human translation easier, faster and more cost effective
* Facilitate computer-assisted translation and machine translation
Simplified English has a lexicon of approved words and those words can only be used in certain ways. For example, the word close can be used in the phrase "Close the door" but not "do not go close to the landing gear".
Simplified English is sometimes used as a generic term for a controlled language. The aerospace standard is actually an industry-regulated writing standard for aerospace maintenance documentation. It is not intended for use as a general writing standard. The US government’s Plain English[1] lacks the strict vocabulary restrictions of the aerospace standard, but it represents an attempt at a more general writing standard.
The regulated aerospace standard has been called AECMA Simplified English, because the European Association of Aerospace Manufacturers (AECMA) originally created the standard in the 1980s. The AECMA standard originally came from Fokker, which had based their standard on earlier controlled languages, especially Caterpillar Fundamental English. In 2005, AECMA was subsumed by the Aerospace and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD), which renamed its standard to ASD Simplified Technical English or STE. STE is defined by the specification ASD-STE100, which is maintained by the Simplified Technical English Maintenance Group (STEMG). The standard contains a set of restrictions on the grammar and style of procedural and descriptive text. It also contains a dictionary of roughly 1000 approved general words. Writers are given guidelines for adding technical names and technical verbs to their documentation. STE is mandated by several commercial and military specifications that control the style and content of maintenance documentation.
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NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
FRIENDS OF EUCLID CREEK TO HOLD FIRST ANNUAL “CREEK DANCE”
South Euclid, OH, July 18, 2008 – The volunteer organization, Friends of Euclid Creek, is pleased to announce that its first annual “Creek Dance” will be held on Friday, October 10, 2008, at 6:30 P.M., at Mayfield Sand Ridge Country Club in South Euclid, Ohio.
Friends of Euclid Creek (FOEC) is a volunteer organization which works to protect and preserve the waters of the creek, its tributaries and the land which surrounds it. Through its efforts, the organization seeks to increase awareness of the benefits and beauty of the natural environment within the watershed.
Proceeds from “Creek Dance” will support projects in communities throughout the Euclid Creek Watershed, which include Beachwood, Cleveland, Euclid, Highland Heights, Lyndhurst, Mayfield Heights, Mayfield Village, Pepper Pike, Richmond Heights, South Euclid and Willoughby Hills.
Registration information may be obtained by contacting FOEC at (440)449-6119 or (216)481-4397, or by accessing the organization’s website: www.friendsofeuclidcreek.org.
2. Grateful that I can put together unrelated items in this blog
Simplified English is a controlled language originally developed for aerospace industry maintenance manuals. It offers a carefully limited and standardized subset of English.
Proponents claim that Simplified English can:
* Reduce ambiguity
* Improve comprehension for people whose first language is not English
* Make human translation easier, faster and more cost effective
* Facilitate computer-assisted translation and machine translation
Simplified English has a lexicon of approved words and those words can only be used in certain ways. For example, the word close can be used in the phrase "Close the door" but not "do not go close to the landing gear".
Simplified English is sometimes used as a generic term for a controlled language. The aerospace standard is actually an industry-regulated writing standard for aerospace maintenance documentation. It is not intended for use as a general writing standard. The US government’s Plain English[1] lacks the strict vocabulary restrictions of the aerospace standard, but it represents an attempt at a more general writing standard.
The regulated aerospace standard has been called AECMA Simplified English, because the European Association of Aerospace Manufacturers (AECMA) originally created the standard in the 1980s. The AECMA standard originally came from Fokker, which had based their standard on earlier controlled languages, especially Caterpillar Fundamental English. In 2005, AECMA was subsumed by the Aerospace and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD), which renamed its standard to ASD Simplified Technical English or STE. STE is defined by the specification ASD-STE100, which is maintained by the Simplified Technical English Maintenance Group (STEMG). The standard contains a set of restrictions on the grammar and style of procedural and descriptive text. It also contains a dictionary of roughly 1000 approved general words. Writers are given guidelines for adding technical names and technical verbs to their documentation. STE is mandated by several commercial and military specifications that control the style and content of maintenance documentation.
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NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
FRIENDS OF EUCLID CREEK TO HOLD FIRST ANNUAL “CREEK DANCE”
South Euclid, OH, July 18, 2008 – The volunteer organization, Friends of Euclid Creek, is pleased to announce that its first annual “Creek Dance” will be held on Friday, October 10, 2008, at 6:30 P.M., at Mayfield Sand Ridge Country Club in South Euclid, Ohio.
Friends of Euclid Creek (FOEC) is a volunteer organization which works to protect and preserve the waters of the creek, its tributaries and the land which surrounds it. Through its efforts, the organization seeks to increase awareness of the benefits and beauty of the natural environment within the watershed.
Proceeds from “Creek Dance” will support projects in communities throughout the Euclid Creek Watershed, which include Beachwood, Cleveland, Euclid, Highland Heights, Lyndhurst, Mayfield Heights, Mayfield Village, Pepper Pike, Richmond Heights, South Euclid and Willoughby Hills.
Registration information may be obtained by contacting FOEC at (440)449-6119 or (216)481-4397, or by accessing the organization’s website: www.friendsofeuclidcreek.org.
Lake Erie site
1. Grateful to God and all who help get me through a day
2. Grateful for Lake Erie and Lakeside
http://www.shoresandislands.com/
http://www.lakesideohio.com/
2. Grateful for Lake Erie and Lakeside
http://www.shoresandislands.com/
http://www.lakesideohio.com/
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Ecofriendly, Sun Mess
1. Grateful to God and all who help me get through a day
2. Grateful to green stuff like new dream I mean green house from YMCA and Vintage Ohio gift basket
http://www.winthedreamhouse.com/
The main-floor kitchen, decorated in shades of brown and green, is equipped with Zodiac quartz counters (more eco-friendly than granite), bamboo and glass touches that go well with the Jenn-Air appliances. There's a custom walk-in pantry, a built-in hutch cupboard, tile floors and, one of the more unusual touches, a pull-out Sharp microwave oven drawer.
3. Grateful that Sun Messenger was able to print this
http://www.cleveland.com/sunpress/communitylife/index.ssf?/base/community-0/1215095918303530.xml&coll=4
4. Grateful that Smithfield is getting eco friendly also
http://www.smithfield.com/about/ask_smithfield.php
5. Grateful to Culinary Vegetable Institute in Ohio
http://www.culinaryvegetableinstitute.com/agri-tourism.html
Some copying I could not resist from Sun Messinger
GOLF OUTING:The Marilyn B. Gula Mountains of Hope Foundation will host a "Golf for a Cure" fundraising event at 9 a.m. July 16 at StoneWater Golf Club, 1 Club Drive, Highland Heights. The event will offer 18 holes of golf, continental breakfast, box lunch and hor d'oeuvres. There will also be an auction and raffles throughout the day. All of the proceeds will go to the foundation, which funds research into the advanced stages of breast cancer. The goal of the foundation is to improve, detection, treatment and management of breast cancer. Tickets for the event are $375 and they can be obtained by calling (216) 695-7843.
AWARD WINNER:Jeanette Evans of Highland Heights was recently named an associate fellow by the Society for Technical Communication. The STC is an organization with 14,000 members, who work in fields such as a technical writer, Web site designer and technical illustrator. An associate fellowship is only given to STC members who have advanced technical writing and the profession of technical communication. "Individuals chosen to be associate fellow are the cream of the technical communication profession," STC President Mark Clifford said. "These are individuals who contribute significantly to the good of the field by conducting research, mentoring young professionals, giving presentations, and playing a large part in being volunteer leaders." Evans works for Rockwell Automation in Mayfield Heights and she has also done work for the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Philips Medical Systems. She has also taught technical communication at Cuyahoga Community College's eastern campus. Evans has been active in the Northeast Ohio chapter of STC for many years and she is currently chair of the academic relations committee.
Evans has a master's degree in technical communication from Mercer University in Atlanta. Contact Garrett at agarrett@sunnews.com or at (216) 986-5479.
2. Grateful to green stuff like new dream I mean green house from YMCA and Vintage Ohio gift basket
http://www.winthedreamhouse.com/
The main-floor kitchen, decorated in shades of brown and green, is equipped with Zodiac quartz counters (more eco-friendly than granite), bamboo and glass touches that go well with the Jenn-Air appliances. There's a custom walk-in pantry, a built-in hutch cupboard, tile floors and, one of the more unusual touches, a pull-out Sharp microwave oven drawer.
3. Grateful that Sun Messenger was able to print this
http://www.cleveland.com/sunpress/communitylife/index.ssf?/base/community-0/1215095918303530.xml&coll=4
4. Grateful that Smithfield is getting eco friendly also
http://www.smithfield.com/about/ask_smithfield.php
5. Grateful to Culinary Vegetable Institute in Ohio
http://www.culinaryvegetableinstitute.com/agri-tourism.html
Some copying I could not resist from Sun Messinger
GOLF OUTING:The Marilyn B. Gula Mountains of Hope Foundation will host a "Golf for a Cure" fundraising event at 9 a.m. July 16 at StoneWater Golf Club, 1 Club Drive, Highland Heights. The event will offer 18 holes of golf, continental breakfast, box lunch and hor d'oeuvres. There will also be an auction and raffles throughout the day. All of the proceeds will go to the foundation, which funds research into the advanced stages of breast cancer. The goal of the foundation is to improve, detection, treatment and management of breast cancer. Tickets for the event are $375 and they can be obtained by calling (216) 695-7843.
AWARD WINNER:Jeanette Evans of Highland Heights was recently named an associate fellow by the Society for Technical Communication. The STC is an organization with 14,000 members, who work in fields such as a technical writer, Web site designer and technical illustrator. An associate fellowship is only given to STC members who have advanced technical writing and the profession of technical communication. "Individuals chosen to be associate fellow are the cream of the technical communication profession," STC President Mark Clifford said. "These are individuals who contribute significantly to the good of the field by conducting research, mentoring young professionals, giving presentations, and playing a large part in being volunteer leaders." Evans works for Rockwell Automation in Mayfield Heights and she has also done work for the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Philips Medical Systems. She has also taught technical communication at Cuyahoga Community College's eastern campus. Evans has been active in the Northeast Ohio chapter of STC for many years and she is currently chair of the academic relations committee.
Evans has a master's degree in technical communication from Mercer University in Atlanta. Contact Garrett at agarrett@sunnews.com or at (216) 986-5479.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Grateful, Aug. 2/Maple
1. Grateful to God and all who help me get through a day
2. Grateful that John Quincy Adams said that if your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. So that would make pretty much everyone a leader. I said the last sentence.
Here is some more copying.
Join the Northeast Ohio STC community for a leadership workshop on August 2, 2008.
Learn how to develop a leadership plan for personal or business use, or for when you take on your role as an STC leader. This full-day workshop will be a combination of table progressions, speaker-led discussions, and group participation, coordinated by Dr. Jackie Damrau, STC Fellow.
Leadership Workshop
Preparing for the workshop
Bring your ideas for activities for the next year to help you prepare your leadership plan, and also to promote collaboration within your community. This workshop will aid and inspire you to devise a leadership plan, recruit and reward volunteers, create a PR campaign, partner with other organizations, and review your community's mission statement.
Cost
NEO STC members: Free!
Other STC members: $25
Non-members: $75
Coffee/pastries in the morning and lunch are provided.
Register
Space is limited. Register today to reserve your seat!
Read more...
Event Info
Date: Saturday August 2, 2008
Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Place: Maple Heights branch of
Cuyahoga County Public Library
5225 Library Lane
Maple Heights, Ohio 44137-1291
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
~ John Quincy Adams
2. Grateful that John Quincy Adams said that if your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. So that would make pretty much everyone a leader. I said the last sentence.
Here is some more copying.
Join the Northeast Ohio STC community for a leadership workshop on August 2, 2008.
Learn how to develop a leadership plan for personal or business use, or for when you take on your role as an STC leader. This full-day workshop will be a combination of table progressions, speaker-led discussions, and group participation, coordinated by Dr. Jackie Damrau, STC Fellow.
Leadership Workshop
Preparing for the workshop
Bring your ideas for activities for the next year to help you prepare your leadership plan, and also to promote collaboration within your community. This workshop will aid and inspire you to devise a leadership plan, recruit and reward volunteers, create a PR campaign, partner with other organizations, and review your community's mission statement.
Cost
NEO STC members: Free!
Other STC members: $25
Non-members: $75
Coffee/pastries in the morning and lunch are provided.
Register
Space is limited. Register today to reserve your seat!
Read more...
Event Info
Date: Saturday August 2, 2008
Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Place: Maple Heights branch of
Cuyahoga County Public Library
5225 Library Lane
Maple Heights, Ohio 44137-1291
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
~ John Quincy Adams
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Sac China glove
Hyehloo family!
I have arrived in Shanghai and am about to go out on my first day of
adventures! The flight was long, but I slept like a glove. The city looks
much more modern than any Western city I have been to. It is all
skyscrapers and neon lights (but not trashy, Las Vegas-style neon).
I am staying right by two large Buddhist temples in the Western part of
the city. Today I will go to People's Square, Mao Zedong's former
residence and the Bund, which is the famous area along the Huangpu
river. At night, Wei Wei, her husband and I are going to a traditional
Chinese Kunqu opera.
I have arrived in Shanghai and am about to go out on my first day of
adventures! The flight was long, but I slept like a glove. The city looks
much more modern than any Western city I have been to. It is all
skyscrapers and neon lights (but not trashy, Las Vegas-style neon).
I am staying right by two large Buddhist temples in the Western part of
the city. Today I will go to People's Square, Mao Zedong's former
residence and the Bund, which is the famous area along the Huangpu
river. At night, Wei Wei, her husband and I are going to a traditional
Chinese Kunqu opera.
Gratitude, Rock5/14/2004
1. Gratitude to God and all who help me get through a day
2. Thankful that I survived July 15 meeting with Dr. Rock
3. Very thankful I survived so long after May 14,2004 procedure
May 14, 2004 anniversary date
2. Thankful that I survived July 15 meeting with Dr. Rock
3. Very thankful I survived so long after May 14,2004 procedure
May 14, 2004 anniversary date
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Word of year history
I thought the history of the words of the year as described by wikipedia was very good to know.
Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year, a list published annually by the American dictionary-publishing company Merriam-Webster, features the ten words of the year from the English language. This list started in 2003, and is published at the end of each year. At first, Merriam-Webster determined its contents by analyzing page hits and popular searches on its website. Since 2006 the list has been determined by an online poll and by suggestions from visitors to the site.
As of 2008, only two of Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year were already dictionary entries at the time they earned their status (democracy in 2003 and integrity in 2005). 2004's Top Word, blog, was added later. The words for 2006 and 2007, truthiness and w00t, respectively, have not made it to the traditional Merriam-Webster printed dictionary as of 2008.
The Words of the Year usually reflect events that happened during the years the lists were published. For example, the Word of the Year for 2005, integrity, showed that the general public had an immense interest in defining this word amid ethics scandals in the American government, corporations, and sports.
The Word of the Year for 2004, blog, was looked up on the Online Dictionary the most as blogs began to influence mainstream media.
In 2006, Merriam-Webster received a lot of publicity as truthiness, a word coined by Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report, topped the list.
Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year, a list published annually by the American dictionary-publishing company Merriam-Webster, features the ten words of the year from the English language. This list started in 2003, and is published at the end of each year. At first, Merriam-Webster determined its contents by analyzing page hits and popular searches on its website. Since 2006 the list has been determined by an online poll and by suggestions from visitors to the site.
As of 2008, only two of Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year were already dictionary entries at the time they earned their status (democracy in 2003 and integrity in 2005). 2004's Top Word, blog, was added later. The words for 2006 and 2007, truthiness and w00t, respectively, have not made it to the traditional Merriam-Webster printed dictionary as of 2008.
The Words of the Year usually reflect events that happened during the years the lists were published. For example, the Word of the Year for 2005, integrity, showed that the general public had an immense interest in defining this word amid ethics scandals in the American government, corporations, and sports.
The Word of the Year for 2004, blog, was looked up on the Online Dictionary the most as blogs began to influence mainstream media.
In 2006, Merriam-Webster received a lot of publicity as truthiness, a word coined by Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report, topped the list.
New words for 2008
Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition, is to have about 100 new entries. Here are some that I found of particular interest.
1. air quotes n pl (1989) : a gesture made by raising and flexing the index and middle fingers of both hands that is used to call attention to a spoken word or expression
2. dark energy n (1998) : a hypothetical form of energy that produces a force that opposes gravity and is thought to be the cause of the accelerating expansion of the universe
3. dirty bomb n (1956) : a bomb designed to release radioactive material
4. dwarf planet n (1993) : a celestial body that orbits the sun and has a spherical shape but is too small to disturb other objects from its orbit
5. edamame n (1951) : immature green soybeans usu. in the pod
6. malware n (1990) : software designed to interfere with a computer’s normal functioning
7. mental health day n (1971) : a day that an employee takes off from work in order to relieve stress or renew vitality
8. netroots n pl (2003) : the grassroots political activists who communicate via the Internet esp. by blogs
9. norovirus n (2002) : any of a genus of small round single-stranded RNA viruses; specif: Norwalk Virus
10. phytonutrient n (1994) : a bioactive plant-derived compound (as resveratrol) associated with positive health effects
11. subprime adj (1995) 1: having or being an interest rate that is higher than a prime rate and is extended esp. to low-income borrowers 2: extending or obtaining a subprime loan
12. webinar n (1998) : a live online educational presentation during which participating viewers can submit questions and comments
According to the Merriam-Webster web site, all new dictionary entries are now available online, and the 2008 print update of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition, is to be available in bookstores September 1, 2008. Both feature new words and phrases that M-W determined have successfully become part of the mainstream English language through prolonged and widespread usage in a variety of publications.
1. air quotes n pl (1989) : a gesture made by raising and flexing the index and middle fingers of both hands that is used to call attention to a spoken word or expression
2. dark energy n (1998) : a hypothetical form of energy that produces a force that opposes gravity and is thought to be the cause of the accelerating expansion of the universe
3. dirty bomb n (1956) : a bomb designed to release radioactive material
4. dwarf planet n (1993) : a celestial body that orbits the sun and has a spherical shape but is too small to disturb other objects from its orbit
5. edamame n (1951) : immature green soybeans usu. in the pod
6. malware n (1990) : software designed to interfere with a computer’s normal functioning
7. mental health day n (1971) : a day that an employee takes off from work in order to relieve stress or renew vitality
8. netroots n pl (2003) : the grassroots political activists who communicate via the Internet esp. by blogs
9. norovirus n (2002) : any of a genus of small round single-stranded RNA viruses; specif: Norwalk Virus
10. phytonutrient n (1994) : a bioactive plant-derived compound (as resveratrol) associated with positive health effects
11. subprime adj (1995) 1: having or being an interest rate that is higher than a prime rate and is extended esp. to low-income borrowers 2: extending or obtaining a subprime loan
12. webinar n (1998) : a live online educational presentation during which participating viewers can submit questions and comments
According to the Merriam-Webster web site, all new dictionary entries are now available online, and the 2008 print update of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition, is to be available in bookstores September 1, 2008. Both feature new words and phrases that M-W determined have successfully become part of the mainstream English language through prolonged and widespread usage in a variety of publications.
M-W's new entries
Fresh for 2008: Merriam-Webster's New Entries
Have you ever washed down a plate of edamame with some prosecco while lounging in your infinity pool with a few pescatarian friends after a long day at the racino rubbing elbows with wing nuts? The words in bold are just a few examples of the over 100 new entries Merriam-Webster has added to our annual update of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition. To keep you busy until September 1st—when the print version of North America’s best-selling dictionary is available in stores and through your favorite online bookseller—spend some time getting to know the new additions here at Merriam-Webster Online. Use the site’s search function to look up the above words, as well as well as the following: dark energy, pretexting, soju, subprime, and webinar. For more information, please click here for a complete press release.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/#news_2
MERRIAM-WEBSTER HONORS LYRICALLY MISUNDERSTOOD LADY MONDEGREEN
Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary 2008 Update Now Available Online
SPRINGFIELD, MA, July 7, 2008—If you have ever misheard a song or poem and come up with your own version of the words, you are already familiar with the concept of the "mondegreen," one of over 100 new words included in the annual update of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition. Mondegreen—noun defined as a word or phrase that results from a mishearing of something said or sung—was first coined by author Sylvia Wright in 1954, when she wrote an article for Atlantic magazine confessing to a childhood misinterpretation of the Scottish ballad "The Bonny Earl of Moray." When she first heard the lyric "they had slain the Earl of Moray and had laid him on the green," she felt terribly sorry for the "poor Lady Mondegreen." The tradition has been going strong ever since, from "The ants are my friends," a mangling of "The answer, my friends," by Bob Dylan, to "There’s a bathroom on the right," a bungling of "There’s a bad moon on the rise," by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
To celebrate the release of this year’s new entries, Merriam-Webster OnLine (Merriam-Webster.com) is inviting the general public to submit their own favorite mondegreens—both original and overheard. Submissions are due now through July 25th, with favorites being revealed and featured online the week beginning July 28th.
2008 also features more than a few words from the growing field of culinary arts, from prosecco (a sparkling Italian wine) and soju (a Korean vodka distilled from rice) to edamame (immature green soybeans) and pescatarian (a vegetarian whose diet includes fish). Current societal trends are reflected in this year’s entries, as well. According to John Morse, Merriam-Webster’s president and publisher, webinar is "one more example of the significant ongoing trend for electronic technologies to add words to the language." Morse also comments on another, more ominous term: "Norovirus being added is part of an ongoing effort to cover terms from virology that we think the public may need to know about. Not a happy job, but one that lexicographers have to do."
All new dictionary entries are now available online, and the 2008 print update of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition will be available in bookstores across the country September 1st, 2008. Both will feature this fresh crop of new words and phrases that have successfully become part of the mainstream English language through prolonged and widespread usage in a variety of publications.
Have you ever washed down a plate of edamame with some prosecco while lounging in your infinity pool with a few pescatarian friends after a long day at the racino rubbing elbows with wing nuts? The words in bold are just a few examples of the over 100 new entries Merriam-Webster has added to our annual update of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition. To keep you busy until September 1st—when the print version of North America’s best-selling dictionary is available in stores and through your favorite online bookseller—spend some time getting to know the new additions here at Merriam-Webster Online. Use the site’s search function to look up the above words, as well as well as the following: dark energy, pretexting, soju, subprime, and webinar. For more information, please click here for a complete press release.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/#news_2
MERRIAM-WEBSTER HONORS LYRICALLY MISUNDERSTOOD LADY MONDEGREEN
Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary 2008 Update Now Available Online
SPRINGFIELD, MA, July 7, 2008—If you have ever misheard a song or poem and come up with your own version of the words, you are already familiar with the concept of the "mondegreen," one of over 100 new words included in the annual update of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition. Mondegreen—noun defined as a word or phrase that results from a mishearing of something said or sung—was first coined by author Sylvia Wright in 1954, when she wrote an article for Atlantic magazine confessing to a childhood misinterpretation of the Scottish ballad "The Bonny Earl of Moray." When she first heard the lyric "they had slain the Earl of Moray and had laid him on the green," she felt terribly sorry for the "poor Lady Mondegreen." The tradition has been going strong ever since, from "The ants are my friends," a mangling of "The answer, my friends," by Bob Dylan, to "There’s a bathroom on the right," a bungling of "There’s a bad moon on the rise," by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
To celebrate the release of this year’s new entries, Merriam-Webster OnLine (Merriam-Webster.com) is inviting the general public to submit their own favorite mondegreens—both original and overheard. Submissions are due now through July 25th, with favorites being revealed and featured online the week beginning July 28th.
2008 also features more than a few words from the growing field of culinary arts, from prosecco (a sparkling Italian wine) and soju (a Korean vodka distilled from rice) to edamame (immature green soybeans) and pescatarian (a vegetarian whose diet includes fish). Current societal trends are reflected in this year’s entries, as well. According to John Morse, Merriam-Webster’s president and publisher, webinar is "one more example of the significant ongoing trend for electronic technologies to add words to the language." Morse also comments on another, more ominous term: "Norovirus being added is part of an ongoing effort to cover terms from virology that we think the public may need to know about. Not a happy job, but one that lexicographers have to do."
All new dictionary entries are now available online, and the 2008 print update of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition will be available in bookstores across the country September 1st, 2008. Both will feature this fresh crop of new words and phrases that have successfully become part of the mainstream English language through prolonged and widespread usage in a variety of publications.
M-W new words
http://valleywag.com/5022982/merriam+websters-new-dictionary-words-for-2008
owen@valleywag.com
New words for M-W's
M-W new dictionary words for 2008
malware, netroots, and webinar
There are to be 100 or so new words in the M-W 2008 Merriam-Webster's 2008 edition, due September 1. Here are 25 of them.
Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition
2008 Copyright
New Entries
1. air quotes n pl (1989) : a gesture made by raising and flexing the index and middle fingers of both hands that is used to call attention to a spoken word or expression
2. dark energy n (1998) : a hypothetical form of energy that produces a force that opposes gravity and is thought to be the cause of the accelerating expansion of the universe
3. dirty bomb n (1956) : a bomb designed to release radioactive material
4. dwarf planet n (1993) : a celestial body that orbits the sun and has a spherical shape but is too small to disturb other objects from its orbit
5. edamame n (1951) : immature green soybeans usu. in the pod
6. fanboy n (1919) : a boy who is an enthusiastic devotee (as of comics or movies)
7. infinity pool n (1992) : an outdoor swimming pool having an edge over which water flows into a trough but seems to flow into the horizon
8. jukebox musical n (1993) : a musical that features popular songs from the past
9. kiteboarding n (1996) : the sport of riding on a small surfboard that is propelled across water by a large kite to which the rider is harnessed
10. malware n (1990) : software designed to interfere with a computer’s normal functioning
11. mental health day n (1971) : a day that an employee takes off from work in order to relieve stress or renew vitality
12. mondegreen n [fr. the mishearing in a Scottish ballad of “laid him on the green” as “Lady Mondegreen”] (1954) : a word or phrase that results from a mishearing of something said or sung
13. netroots n pl (2003) : the grassroots political activists who communicate via the Internet esp. by blogs
14. norovirus n (2002) : any of a genus of small round single-stranded RNA viruses; specif: Norwalk Virus
15. pescatarian n (1993) : a vegetarian whose diet includes fish
16. phytonutrient n (1994) : a bioactive plant-derived compound (as resveratrol) associated with positive health effects
17. pretexting n (1992) : the practice of presenting oneself as someone else in order to obtain private information
18. prosecco n (1881) : a dry Italian sparkling wine
19. racino n (1995) : a racetrack at which slot machines are available for gamblers
20. soju n (1978) : Korean vodka distilled from rice
21. subprime adj (1995) 1: having or being an interest rate that is higher than a prime rate and is extended esp. to low-income borrowers 2: extending or obtaining a subprime loan
22. supercross n (1983) : a motorcycle race held in a stadium on a dirt track having hairpin turns and high jumps
23. Texas Hold ’em n (1995) : poker in which each player is dealt two cards facedown and all players share five cards dealt faceup
24. webinar n (1998) : a live online educational presentation during which participating viewers can submit questions and comments
25. wing nut n (ca. 1900) 3 slang : one who advocates extreme measures or changes : radical
owen@valleywag.com
New words for M-W's
M-W new dictionary words for 2008
malware, netroots, and webinar
There are to be 100 or so new words in the M-W 2008 Merriam-Webster's 2008 edition, due September 1. Here are 25 of them.
Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition
2008 Copyright
New Entries
1. air quotes n pl (1989) : a gesture made by raising and flexing the index and middle fingers of both hands that is used to call attention to a spoken word or expression
2. dark energy n (1998) : a hypothetical form of energy that produces a force that opposes gravity and is thought to be the cause of the accelerating expansion of the universe
3. dirty bomb n (1956) : a bomb designed to release radioactive material
4. dwarf planet n (1993) : a celestial body that orbits the sun and has a spherical shape but is too small to disturb other objects from its orbit
5. edamame n (1951) : immature green soybeans usu. in the pod
6. fanboy n (1919) : a boy who is an enthusiastic devotee (as of comics or movies)
7. infinity pool n (1992) : an outdoor swimming pool having an edge over which water flows into a trough but seems to flow into the horizon
8. jukebox musical n (1993) : a musical that features popular songs from the past
9. kiteboarding n (1996) : the sport of riding on a small surfboard that is propelled across water by a large kite to which the rider is harnessed
10. malware n (1990) : software designed to interfere with a computer’s normal functioning
11. mental health day n (1971) : a day that an employee takes off from work in order to relieve stress or renew vitality
12. mondegreen n [fr. the mishearing in a Scottish ballad of “laid him on the green” as “Lady Mondegreen”] (1954) : a word or phrase that results from a mishearing of something said or sung
13. netroots n pl (2003) : the grassroots political activists who communicate via the Internet esp. by blogs
14. norovirus n (2002) : any of a genus of small round single-stranded RNA viruses; specif: Norwalk Virus
15. pescatarian n (1993) : a vegetarian whose diet includes fish
16. phytonutrient n (1994) : a bioactive plant-derived compound (as resveratrol) associated with positive health effects
17. pretexting n (1992) : the practice of presenting oneself as someone else in order to obtain private information
18. prosecco n (1881) : a dry Italian sparkling wine
19. racino n (1995) : a racetrack at which slot machines are available for gamblers
20. soju n (1978) : Korean vodka distilled from rice
21. subprime adj (1995) 1: having or being an interest rate that is higher than a prime rate and is extended esp. to low-income borrowers 2: extending or obtaining a subprime loan
22. supercross n (1983) : a motorcycle race held in a stadium on a dirt track having hairpin turns and high jumps
23. Texas Hold ’em n (1995) : poker in which each player is dealt two cards facedown and all players share five cards dealt faceup
24. webinar n (1998) : a live online educational presentation during which participating viewers can submit questions and comments
25. wing nut n (ca. 1900) 3 slang : one who advocates extreme measures or changes : radical
Friday, July 11, 2008
Taza, Aladdins
Taza
28601 Chagrin
Woodmere, Ohio 44122
Aladdin's Corporate
14518 Detroit
Lakewood, Ohio 44107
28601 Chagrin
Woodmere, Ohio 44122
Aladdin's Corporate
14518 Detroit
Lakewood, Ohio 44107
Gratitude, Barb, Sac, conf
1. Grateful to God and all who help me get through a day
2. Grateful to Barb for getting through her undergrad work - AM GETTING EMOTIONAL AGAIN. What can I do to tell her how happy and grateful I am?
3. Grateful that Sac put my name into book on emails from moms
4. Grateful to conference sessions
Who/What: Howard Rheingold, Keynote Speaker (author, blogger, critic, speaker)
Why: The speaker explores how current technologies are impacting and changing the way we conduct business and govern, as well as how we meet and live. Mobile phones, computers, and wireless Internet are technologies considered by the technology consultant speaker.
Impact: What present and emerging technologies could we use to deliver content to users and more effectively and efficiently do our work is a question worth asking. Using computers to deliver content, conducting virtual meetings, establishing virtual communities, and telecommuting are ways in which technology impacts how we conduct business and do work. How to use these even more effectively and efficiently in the future is the challenge. Toyota treating suppliers as a network, IBM opening their systems to others, and Lilly having a place for open discussion of issues are examples of use of technologies to conduct business in new ways.
Who/What: Content Analysis Tools and Structured Authoring (Neil Perlin)
Why: Structured authoring is content that has structure. It involves a consistent structure and consistent content. Perlin argues that the more consistent the content, the easier it is to write, read, process, and translate. Text analysis tools help create the consistent content by spotting inconsistencies. This session presented a working definition of structured authoring. Perlin notes that these efforts can help support content management.
Impact: Use of consistent terminology through our style guide and controlled vocabulary are examples of techniques that help provide consistent content while maintaining consistent structure through our architecting and tagging activities.
Who/What: Content Management Systems: Why Can't I Just Pick One? (Alan Houser)
Why: Content management systems vary in type, purpose, and features. The types covered in this session included learning content management and enterprise content management.
Impact: Finding out about these systems and how they apply in our organization can help us support our organization before and during deployment, throughout the decision of how to implement and when.
Who/What: XML the Easy Way (Tom Aldus)
Why: How to move unstructured content to DITA was covered. This included how to take Framemaker documents and using FrameMaker 8 convert them to DITA XML. Aldus notes that DITA is an XML structure and with DITA everything is a topic.
Impact: Awareness of this capability of Framemaker could be valuable. Awareness of the idea that content management can also be handled on a small scale in simple applications, using simple spreadsheets and Word files could also be useful.
Who/What: Building Your Content Management Skills (Ann Rockley)
Why: Covered an understanding of what skills are required for successful content management and learning how to gain an understanding and experience in these skills. Rockley notes that with CM the effort is 10% technical, 40% process control, and 50% governance.
Impact: We are already training to make us aware that we need to analyze architecture and usability as nothing is “out of the box” with content management. Rockley noted that 30% of CM initiates fail because people “do not think through requirements” – something we in our group are trained to address properly.
Who/What: Preparing for Successful Content Management (Robert Hanna)
Why:
The session addressed what to consider while going down the road to content management. This includes how to prepare the team for deployment.
Steps to consider before going down the road of technology acquisition that is still far off on the horizon were presented to include – prepare the team, prototype, business case, vendor selection, roll out, and review.
Impact: We are already working toward getting cooperation in acceptance of change and working in a new environment in anticipation of new technology acquisition and deployment that is far off in the future. This includes recoding current information in anticipation of new technology acquisition that is far off on the horizon. Continuation of such acceptance would be in order.
Who/What: Using Content Management to Improve Content Quality (Steve Manning)
Why: A content management system can be an effective way to manage documents after content is created. But content management can also apply to the content creation process and can help improve the quality of documentation.
Impact: Our group can continue to address when creating content how best to handle information as to whether text should be a concept, task, or reference, improving the content itself as we transition to content management. A possible application for our group is to consider which documents to convert to content management first, an application we are already considering. For example, begin the conversion process with the documents that are used the most.
Who/What: Real World Content Management (Steve Manning)
Why: Good content management in real applications relies on content models, reuse, XML, and management of the creation process for predictable content. Issues such as version control and who is allowed to change content are also critically important.
Impact: This is a good reminder of the issues we are working on, including the best practices of addressing making content predictable (establishing a pattern), planning reuse, planning repositories, remembering the goal of the right content, format, time, and audience.
Who/What: Vendor Panel, Successful Content Management (Ann Rockley, Moderator)
Why:
Granularity is an important issue as groups decide, for example, the number of files a content management program will involve. A single publication, instead of being in one file will involve many files. How granular should chunks be – a sentence, paragraph, or procedure – is an important consideration. This decision on granularity impacts the number of files in the content management system overall.
Providing enough time for the transition to content management is important. For example, Ann Rockley said you should not expect to have your content management system in place in 6 months.
Governance is a very important issue to success of a content management system, according to several panel members.
Impact: Our group is in line with many of the concerns expressed. Governance issues are addressed with our style guide. We are addressing granularity as we tag. We have considered not moving too fast.
Who/What: Developing New Skills: Ten Things You Can Learn to Move Your Career Forward
(Mark Lewis)
Why: The speaker provided his take on things to learn and understand to make an ongoing contribution to your employer and profession. Using desktop publishing and word processing and being able to communicate in your native language may not be the only skills helpful in your office or to advance yourself as a professional content expert. Relying on experience and current skills may not be enough to help your organization and career.
Impact: Items from the list to consider:
Learn more about DITA, XML, topic-based architecture, project management, podcasting, blogging.
Learn a new diagramming tool.
Volunteer to test a Web site, write a review, and/or produce help for the site.
Get published.
Earn certifications.
Volunteer to do work for an organization (for example, work on an STC Web site or newsletter).
.
2. Grateful to Barb for getting through her undergrad work - AM GETTING EMOTIONAL AGAIN. What can I do to tell her how happy and grateful I am?
3. Grateful that Sac put my name into book on emails from moms
4. Grateful to conference sessions
Who/What: Howard Rheingold, Keynote Speaker (author, blogger, critic, speaker)
Why: The speaker explores how current technologies are impacting and changing the way we conduct business and govern, as well as how we meet and live. Mobile phones, computers, and wireless Internet are technologies considered by the technology consultant speaker.
Impact: What present and emerging technologies could we use to deliver content to users and more effectively and efficiently do our work is a question worth asking. Using computers to deliver content, conducting virtual meetings, establishing virtual communities, and telecommuting are ways in which technology impacts how we conduct business and do work. How to use these even more effectively and efficiently in the future is the challenge. Toyota treating suppliers as a network, IBM opening their systems to others, and Lilly having a place for open discussion of issues are examples of use of technologies to conduct business in new ways.
Who/What: Content Analysis Tools and Structured Authoring (Neil Perlin)
Why: Structured authoring is content that has structure. It involves a consistent structure and consistent content. Perlin argues that the more consistent the content, the easier it is to write, read, process, and translate. Text analysis tools help create the consistent content by spotting inconsistencies. This session presented a working definition of structured authoring. Perlin notes that these efforts can help support content management.
Impact: Use of consistent terminology through our style guide and controlled vocabulary are examples of techniques that help provide consistent content while maintaining consistent structure through our architecting and tagging activities.
Who/What: Content Management Systems: Why Can't I Just Pick One? (Alan Houser)
Why: Content management systems vary in type, purpose, and features. The types covered in this session included learning content management and enterprise content management.
Impact: Finding out about these systems and how they apply in our organization can help us support our organization before and during deployment, throughout the decision of how to implement and when.
Who/What: XML the Easy Way (Tom Aldus)
Why: How to move unstructured content to DITA was covered. This included how to take Framemaker documents and using FrameMaker 8 convert them to DITA XML. Aldus notes that DITA is an XML structure and with DITA everything is a topic.
Impact: Awareness of this capability of Framemaker could be valuable. Awareness of the idea that content management can also be handled on a small scale in simple applications, using simple spreadsheets and Word files could also be useful.
Who/What: Building Your Content Management Skills (Ann Rockley)
Why: Covered an understanding of what skills are required for successful content management and learning how to gain an understanding and experience in these skills. Rockley notes that with CM the effort is 10% technical, 40% process control, and 50% governance.
Impact: We are already training to make us aware that we need to analyze architecture and usability as nothing is “out of the box” with content management. Rockley noted that 30% of CM initiates fail because people “do not think through requirements” – something we in our group are trained to address properly.
Who/What: Preparing for Successful Content Management (Robert Hanna)
Why:
The session addressed what to consider while going down the road to content management. This includes how to prepare the team for deployment.
Steps to consider before going down the road of technology acquisition that is still far off on the horizon were presented to include – prepare the team, prototype, business case, vendor selection, roll out, and review.
Impact: We are already working toward getting cooperation in acceptance of change and working in a new environment in anticipation of new technology acquisition and deployment that is far off in the future. This includes recoding current information in anticipation of new technology acquisition that is far off on the horizon. Continuation of such acceptance would be in order.
Who/What: Using Content Management to Improve Content Quality (Steve Manning)
Why: A content management system can be an effective way to manage documents after content is created. But content management can also apply to the content creation process and can help improve the quality of documentation.
Impact: Our group can continue to address when creating content how best to handle information as to whether text should be a concept, task, or reference, improving the content itself as we transition to content management. A possible application for our group is to consider which documents to convert to content management first, an application we are already considering. For example, begin the conversion process with the documents that are used the most.
Who/What: Real World Content Management (Steve Manning)
Why: Good content management in real applications relies on content models, reuse, XML, and management of the creation process for predictable content. Issues such as version control and who is allowed to change content are also critically important.
Impact: This is a good reminder of the issues we are working on, including the best practices of addressing making content predictable (establishing a pattern), planning reuse, planning repositories, remembering the goal of the right content, format, time, and audience.
Who/What: Vendor Panel, Successful Content Management (Ann Rockley, Moderator)
Why:
Granularity is an important issue as groups decide, for example, the number of files a content management program will involve. A single publication, instead of being in one file will involve many files. How granular should chunks be – a sentence, paragraph, or procedure – is an important consideration. This decision on granularity impacts the number of files in the content management system overall.
Providing enough time for the transition to content management is important. For example, Ann Rockley said you should not expect to have your content management system in place in 6 months.
Governance is a very important issue to success of a content management system, according to several panel members.
Impact: Our group is in line with many of the concerns expressed. Governance issues are addressed with our style guide. We are addressing granularity as we tag. We have considered not moving too fast.
Who/What: Developing New Skills: Ten Things You Can Learn to Move Your Career Forward
(Mark Lewis)
Why: The speaker provided his take on things to learn and understand to make an ongoing contribution to your employer and profession. Using desktop publishing and word processing and being able to communicate in your native language may not be the only skills helpful in your office or to advance yourself as a professional content expert. Relying on experience and current skills may not be enough to help your organization and career.
Impact: Items from the list to consider:
Learn more about DITA, XML, topic-based architecture, project management, podcasting, blogging.
Learn a new diagramming tool.
Volunteer to test a Web site, write a review, and/or produce help for the site.
Get published.
Earn certifications.
Volunteer to do work for an organization (for example, work on an STC Web site or newsletter).
.
Gratitude, vacation
1. Thank you to God and all who help me get through a day
2. Grateful that Barb completed her undergrad work, gets published, likes studying tetrahymena - NOW I AM GETTING EMOTIONAL!
3. Grateful Sacha is in China and arrived ok
4. Grateful that 4 July holiday was good
I feel compelled to write about the trip to Florida over the July 4 weekend.
What I Did on My Summer Vacation
Friday, July 4 is when we flew out of Cleveland and arrived at Shell Point Village (near Sanibel) in the early evening. Weather was good. USA3000 was good also and not an empty seat was there on our flight.
Shell Point Village people are very friendly. Dinner was at a seafood place near Shell Point Village, with fireworks heard in the distance (it was after all the 4th of July). Seafood place was on the water and what some could call romantic. Dinner included lobster bisque and grouper with a salad and rice. This was the first meal since Taza. We survived and enjoyed even tho' Taza did cross my mind a couple of times.
Saturday, after a nice (al fresco) brunch of fruit, hash browns, salad, etc. at one of the Shell Point Village restaurants, we drove to Cape Coral Health Care Center and visited with Don Wagner until dinner around 5. He is in his usual good spirits. We talked a lot about Barbara and Sacha. He said the Poconos is a place where people get married and honeymoon.
Saturday night, it was Sanibel and Captiva, with their lush vegetation and really, well, quite impressive everything. It is hard to know where to begin. The causeway itself is a wonderful drive. The vegetation on both sides of the single road leading down the island is very thick and beautiful. I am happy we drove all the way down to Captiva. This is probably the prettiest part of Florida that I have seen. It had a subtropic/tropic feel to it.
Sunday, it was Warm Mineral Springs. Many people there that day spoke Russian. We were told at the front desk that the restaurant served American and Polish food but I thought many of the dishes could pass for Russian (blini, cabbage rolls, borscht). The vegeterian entree selections were very good. The springs itself is not as warm as I expected. These springs are different from others I have been to in Arkansas and Utah. These springs are not HOT springs. They are WARM springs. I am very happy that I went. It was a most interesting experience.
Sunday night it was dinner with Wags again. We brought him Chinese. He ordered the General Tao chicken combination plate. Rick ordered the chicken chow mein combination plate. I ordered vegetable lo mein. We spent most of the evening talking but also watched a little of 60 Minutes when the story about the penny was on. The huge flat-panel TV in Wags' room (a gift from a friend) speaks of how much people like him. We brought him a Charlie Wilson's War DVD and hope to send him I'm Not There, Sweeney Todd, and The Office (first and second season). Mama Mia once it comes out would be a good choice also. So far he has not seen any of these. Don explained a lot more about his experiences as an English teacher and his education in general, getting his undergrad and grad degrees at Notre Dame.
There is a lot more to tell. More details are to come unless I fall asleep.
2. Grateful that Barb completed her undergrad work, gets published, likes studying tetrahymena - NOW I AM GETTING EMOTIONAL!
3. Grateful Sacha is in China and arrived ok
4. Grateful that 4 July holiday was good
I feel compelled to write about the trip to Florida over the July 4 weekend.
What I Did on My Summer Vacation
Friday, July 4 is when we flew out of Cleveland and arrived at Shell Point Village (near Sanibel) in the early evening. Weather was good. USA3000 was good also and not an empty seat was there on our flight.
Shell Point Village people are very friendly. Dinner was at a seafood place near Shell Point Village, with fireworks heard in the distance (it was after all the 4th of July). Seafood place was on the water and what some could call romantic. Dinner included lobster bisque and grouper with a salad and rice. This was the first meal since Taza. We survived and enjoyed even tho' Taza did cross my mind a couple of times.
Saturday, after a nice (al fresco) brunch of fruit, hash browns, salad, etc. at one of the Shell Point Village restaurants, we drove to Cape Coral Health Care Center and visited with Don Wagner until dinner around 5. He is in his usual good spirits. We talked a lot about Barbara and Sacha. He said the Poconos is a place where people get married and honeymoon.
Saturday night, it was Sanibel and Captiva, with their lush vegetation and really, well, quite impressive everything. It is hard to know where to begin. The causeway itself is a wonderful drive. The vegetation on both sides of the single road leading down the island is very thick and beautiful. I am happy we drove all the way down to Captiva. This is probably the prettiest part of Florida that I have seen. It had a subtropic/tropic feel to it.
Sunday, it was Warm Mineral Springs. Many people there that day spoke Russian. We were told at the front desk that the restaurant served American and Polish food but I thought many of the dishes could pass for Russian (blini, cabbage rolls, borscht). The vegeterian entree selections were very good. The springs itself is not as warm as I expected. These springs are different from others I have been to in Arkansas and Utah. These springs are not HOT springs. They are WARM springs. I am very happy that I went. It was a most interesting experience.
Sunday night it was dinner with Wags again. We brought him Chinese. He ordered the General Tao chicken combination plate. Rick ordered the chicken chow mein combination plate. I ordered vegetable lo mein. We spent most of the evening talking but also watched a little of 60 Minutes when the story about the penny was on. The huge flat-panel TV in Wags' room (a gift from a friend) speaks of how much people like him. We brought him a Charlie Wilson's War DVD and hope to send him I'm Not There, Sweeney Todd, and The Office (first and second season). Mama Mia once it comes out would be a good choice also. So far he has not seen any of these. Don explained a lot more about his experiences as an English teacher and his education in general, getting his undergrad and grad degrees at Notre Dame.
There is a lot more to tell. More details are to come unless I fall asleep.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
4 Seasons, resume
1. Grateful to God and all who help me get through a day
2. Grateful that there is hope that Four Seasons will return our lawnmower
3. Grateful to look forward to movies like I'm Not There, Mama Mia, The Kite Runner, and Sweeney Todd
Four Seasons - Wickliffe - 440 943- 1809
Resume update
Background Summary
Writer, editor, and communicator with a broad base of experience in developing instructions, procedures, manuals, web pages, HTML, help, business communications, medical/scientific/technical manuscripts, grants, standards. Edited documents and conducted workshops/courses on a variety of topics. Over 10 years in a medical imaging environment and contract/freelance/consulting work with a wide range of clients.
Professional Experience/Client List
Contract/Freelance/Technical Writer/Instructor (present, ongoing since 1980) - Provide technical communication-related services for clients such as:
* School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Department of Pathology - Technical writer for scientific grants (neuroscience and aging related) and National Prion Surveillance Center
* Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Office of Clinical Interfaces) - Documentation consultant (2003-4)
* Professional Development Institute, Workforce and Economic Development Division - Instructor in Technical Communications certification program (2002)
* Allen Bradley division of Rockwell International - Contract technical writer
Senior Information Developer, Rockwell Automation (2004-present) Wrote documentation for users of factory automation equipment, managing multiple priorities and evolving departmental processes over time
* Developed conceptual, reference, and task-type technical content elements and entire information products as defined in departmental models and guidelines
* Worked with a variety of functions and levels of personnel in marketing, engineering, quality, and other disciplines to gather and interpret source information
* Used the hardware and software product itself to gather information, obtain a customer perspective, and verify that content elements are complete and accurate
* Worked closely with teams to apply standard analyses to define content elements and design information products according to department model; created/provided oversight on developing graphical elements/illustrations
* Wrote article with another department member for trade publication describing the content reuse program initiated by the group to include working in task forces and implementing change at a pace where current deliverable commitments were met with success
Senior Technical Writer, Philips Medical Systems (1990-1997) Wrote documentation for medical imaging products including medical imaging workstations, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanners, medical imaging laptop, investigational applications such as advanced cardiac imaging
* Supported FDA submissions for products such as new MRI systems, medical imaging workstation, cardiac imaging applications, clinical spectroscopy, MEG sources imaging
* Developed, edited, and produced first-ever applications guides concerning use of medical imaging techniques, working with clinical applications groups and research scientist
* Developed literature on investigational medical imaging techniques including brain imaging, clinical spectroscopy, brain attack lesion/tissue intensity imaging, and cardiac imaging
* Designed and produced, as part of a team, two online help systems, one HTML based, for clinical users of medical imaging equipment
* Wrote departmental style guide, presented writer's workshops, organized and conducted surveys of users of medical imaging equipment
* Recruited and supervised student interns
Senior Standards Engineer, Philips Medical Systems (1997-2002) Developed technical manuscripts/work instructions/standards on subjects including: user and service publications (developing a corporate template), technical reports, invention disclosures, patents applications, engineering logbooks, environmental practices, product specification practices, architectural practices, precautionary statement formats, grounding practices, equipment labeling, paint standards
* As corporate committee chairperson promoted use of international/industry/internal standards
* Developed manuscripts by working with inter-company functions such as Engineering, Regulatory Affairs, Law Department, Service, and Information Technology
* Supported project management initiatives, assisted in project management database administration
* Provided IT support for web pages on life cycle management, corporate engineering standards, corporate policies and procedures, and enterprise project management (Artemis)
* Assisted management with development of corporate policies and procedures
Educational, Professional, and Volunteer Activities
* M.S., Technical Communication Management, Mercer University, School of Engineering
* B.A., Education, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
* Attended Annual Conferences of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) throughout 2008 (Philadelphia, New York, Atlanta, Dallas, Washington D.C., Toronto, Anaheim, Cincinnati, Chicago). Presented papers in Dallas, Washington D.C., Cincinnati, and Chicago. Attended Crucial Communicator conference in Cleveland in 2003.
* Associate Fellow of Society for Technical Communications, newsletter and academic relations co-chair, judge in publications competition at international level (2000/1 and 2001/2-lead judge) and local level 1993-2002, co-chair of competitions committee 2001/2, judged in high school competition 2001/2
* Member of working group, IEEE committee on revising standard for developing of software user documentation (IEEE 1063)
* Attended technical writing seminar at M.I.T.
* Freelance/contract technical translator (Russian) - Cleveland Crane & Engineering, Combustion Engineering Industrial products
* Corporate contact for Komen Race for the Cure, 2005-2008, organized Rockwell's team; member of fundraiser team for Friends of Euclid Creek, 2008; worked with Mayfield city schools as judge in science fairs and coach for Science Olympiads (ongoing)
Papers and Publications (representative)
* "Quality and Information Product Development," Proceedings, Annual Conference of the Society for Technical Communication, Arlington VA, 1999.
* "The Virtual Classroom: Real-life Experiences of Distance Learners," Proceedings, Annual Conference of the Society for Technical Communication, Arlington VA, 1999. (with S. Gonzalez, B. Roberts, R. Roberts).
* "Web Delivery of Corporate Policies and Procedures," Proceedings, Annual Conference of the Society for Technical Communication, Arlington VA, 2001. ( Also presented as "Moving Documents to a Corporate Intranet" at Technicom conference, Northeast Ohio STC, Cleveland, Ohio, 1999.)
* "Seven Steps to Successful Online Help," Intercom, 2006 (featured as one of the three most requested articles in the last 10 years) and Intercom (feature article), Society for Technical Communications, Arlington VA, November 1996. (with R. Caldanaro and M. Nichols).
* "Using Visual Techniques to Enhance Usability," Proceedings, Annual Conference of the Society for Technical Communication, Arlington VA, 1993.
* "Issues in Designing, Implementing, and Developing Online Help," Proceedings, Annual Conference of the Society for Technical Communication, Arlington VA, 1993.
* "Usability Inspection of Technical Communication," in Carol M. Barnum, Usability Testing and Research, Pearson Education, Inc., The Allyn and Bacon Series in Technical Communication, New York, ISBN 0- 205 - 315 19-4, 2002.
Coursework (Continuing Education)
* Information Development Process
* Usability Evaluation Process
* Online Information Development
* Cognition and Learning Theory
* Internationalization of Technical Communication
* Interactive Hypermedia
* Interactive Multimedia
* Human Resource Issues in Technical Communication
* Introduction to Factory Automation and various related courses
* MRI Technologist Training
* Project Management (Baldwin Wallace College)
* Benchmarking/Customer Surveying/Continuous Quality Improvement Processes
* Rhetoric and Teaching of Writing, HTML (certified by Brain Bench)
Computer Skills
* Adobe Acrobat, Framemaker, and Illustrator
* Artemis Enterprise Project Management
* Corel Office Suite (WordPerfect, Presentations), Corel Draw
* Frontpage, Unix
* MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access), Powerpoint
* Visio, Endnote
2. Grateful that there is hope that Four Seasons will return our lawnmower
3. Grateful to look forward to movies like I'm Not There, Mama Mia, The Kite Runner, and Sweeney Todd
Four Seasons - Wickliffe - 440 943- 1809
Resume update
Background Summary
Writer, editor, and communicator with a broad base of experience in developing instructions, procedures, manuals, web pages, HTML, help, business communications, medical/scientific/technical manuscripts, grants, standards. Edited documents and conducted workshops/courses on a variety of topics. Over 10 years in a medical imaging environment and contract/freelance/consulting work with a wide range of clients.
Professional Experience/Client List
Contract/Freelance/Technical Writer/Instructor (present, ongoing since 1980) - Provide technical communication-related services for clients such as:
* School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Department of Pathology - Technical writer for scientific grants (neuroscience and aging related) and National Prion Surveillance Center
* Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Office of Clinical Interfaces) - Documentation consultant (2003-4)
* Professional Development Institute, Workforce and Economic Development Division - Instructor in Technical Communications certification program (2002)
* Allen Bradley division of Rockwell International - Contract technical writer
Senior Information Developer, Rockwell Automation (2004-present) Wrote documentation for users of factory automation equipment, managing multiple priorities and evolving departmental processes over time
* Developed conceptual, reference, and task-type technical content elements and entire information products as defined in departmental models and guidelines
* Worked with a variety of functions and levels of personnel in marketing, engineering, quality, and other disciplines to gather and interpret source information
* Used the hardware and software product itself to gather information, obtain a customer perspective, and verify that content elements are complete and accurate
* Worked closely with teams to apply standard analyses to define content elements and design information products according to department model; created/provided oversight on developing graphical elements/illustrations
* Wrote article with another department member for trade publication describing the content reuse program initiated by the group to include working in task forces and implementing change at a pace where current deliverable commitments were met with success
Senior Technical Writer, Philips Medical Systems (1990-1997) Wrote documentation for medical imaging products including medical imaging workstations, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanners, medical imaging laptop, investigational applications such as advanced cardiac imaging
* Supported FDA submissions for products such as new MRI systems, medical imaging workstation, cardiac imaging applications, clinical spectroscopy, MEG sources imaging
* Developed, edited, and produced first-ever applications guides concerning use of medical imaging techniques, working with clinical applications groups and research scientist
* Developed literature on investigational medical imaging techniques including brain imaging, clinical spectroscopy, brain attack lesion/tissue intensity imaging, and cardiac imaging
* Designed and produced, as part of a team, two online help systems, one HTML based, for clinical users of medical imaging equipment
* Wrote departmental style guide, presented writer's workshops, organized and conducted surveys of users of medical imaging equipment
* Recruited and supervised student interns
Senior Standards Engineer, Philips Medical Systems (1997-2002) Developed technical manuscripts/work instructions/standards on subjects including: user and service publications (developing a corporate template), technical reports, invention disclosures, patents applications, engineering logbooks, environmental practices, product specification practices, architectural practices, precautionary statement formats, grounding practices, equipment labeling, paint standards
* As corporate committee chairperson promoted use of international/industry/internal standards
* Developed manuscripts by working with inter-company functions such as Engineering, Regulatory Affairs, Law Department, Service, and Information Technology
* Supported project management initiatives, assisted in project management database administration
* Provided IT support for web pages on life cycle management, corporate engineering standards, corporate policies and procedures, and enterprise project management (Artemis)
* Assisted management with development of corporate policies and procedures
Educational, Professional, and Volunteer Activities
* M.S., Technical Communication Management, Mercer University, School of Engineering
* B.A., Education, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
* Attended Annual Conferences of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) throughout 2008 (Philadelphia, New York, Atlanta, Dallas, Washington D.C., Toronto, Anaheim, Cincinnati, Chicago). Presented papers in Dallas, Washington D.C., Cincinnati, and Chicago. Attended Crucial Communicator conference in Cleveland in 2003.
* Associate Fellow of Society for Technical Communications, newsletter and academic relations co-chair, judge in publications competition at international level (2000/1 and 2001/2-lead judge) and local level 1993-2002, co-chair of competitions committee 2001/2, judged in high school competition 2001/2
* Member of working group, IEEE committee on revising standard for developing of software user documentation (IEEE 1063)
* Attended technical writing seminar at M.I.T.
* Freelance/contract technical translator (Russian) - Cleveland Crane & Engineering, Combustion Engineering Industrial products
* Corporate contact for Komen Race for the Cure, 2005-2008, organized Rockwell's team; member of fundraiser team for Friends of Euclid Creek, 2008; worked with Mayfield city schools as judge in science fairs and coach for Science Olympiads (ongoing)
Papers and Publications (representative)
* "Quality and Information Product Development," Proceedings, Annual Conference of the Society for Technical Communication, Arlington VA, 1999.
* "The Virtual Classroom: Real-life Experiences of Distance Learners," Proceedings, Annual Conference of the Society for Technical Communication, Arlington VA, 1999. (with S. Gonzalez, B. Roberts, R. Roberts).
* "Web Delivery of Corporate Policies and Procedures," Proceedings, Annual Conference of the Society for Technical Communication, Arlington VA, 2001. ( Also presented as "Moving Documents to a Corporate Intranet" at Technicom conference, Northeast Ohio STC, Cleveland, Ohio, 1999.)
* "Seven Steps to Successful Online Help," Intercom, 2006 (featured as one of the three most requested articles in the last 10 years) and Intercom (feature article), Society for Technical Communications, Arlington VA, November 1996. (with R. Caldanaro and M. Nichols).
* "Using Visual Techniques to Enhance Usability," Proceedings, Annual Conference of the Society for Technical Communication, Arlington VA, 1993.
* "Issues in Designing, Implementing, and Developing Online Help," Proceedings, Annual Conference of the Society for Technical Communication, Arlington VA, 1993.
* "Usability Inspection of Technical Communication," in Carol M. Barnum, Usability Testing and Research, Pearson Education, Inc., The Allyn and Bacon Series in Technical Communication, New York, ISBN 0- 205 - 315 19-4, 2002.
Coursework (Continuing Education)
* Information Development Process
* Usability Evaluation Process
* Online Information Development
* Cognition and Learning Theory
* Internationalization of Technical Communication
* Interactive Hypermedia
* Interactive Multimedia
* Human Resource Issues in Technical Communication
* Introduction to Factory Automation and various related courses
* MRI Technologist Training
* Project Management (Baldwin Wallace College)
* Benchmarking/Customer Surveying/Continuous Quality Improvement Processes
* Rhetoric and Teaching of Writing, HTML (certified by Brain Bench)
Computer Skills
* Adobe Acrobat, Framemaker, and Illustrator
* Artemis Enterprise Project Management
* Corel Office Suite (WordPerfect, Presentations), Corel Draw
* Frontpage, Unix
* MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access), Powerpoint
* Visio, Endnote
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