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Two cowboys come upon an Indian lying on his stomach with his ear to the ground. One of the cowboys stops and says to the other, "You see that Indian?"
"Yeah," says the other cowboy.
"Look," says the first one, "he's listening to the ground. He can hear things for miles in any direction."
Just then the Indian looks up. "Covered wagon," he says, "about two miles away. Have two horses, one brown, one white. Man, woman, child, household effects in wagon."
"Incredible!" says the cowboy to his friend. "This Indian knows how far away they are, how many horses, what color they are, who is in the wagon, and what is in the wagon. Amazing!"
The Indian looks up and says, "Ran over me about a half hour ago."
abbr. The international system of units of measurement. [french système international]
- n. = *te. [french from italian]
- symb. Silicon.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.


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Ignacio man suspected of running over girlfriend goes missing
By Shane Benjamin
Wednesday, Feb 22, 2017 9:25 PM
Suspect cut GPS ankle bracelet near Farmington
Police are searching for an Ignacio man suspected of skipping town on $6,000 bail after running over his girlfriend with a car.
Case Fields, 31, has been missing for nearly three months after cutting off his GPS ankle monitoring bracelet Nov. 25 near Farmington.
He is charged with felony assault, vehicular assault, false imprisonment and reckless driving.
Janelle Bilyeu said she has undergone two surgeries and may need a third on her right leg, which was crushed Oct. 28 in the west 100 block of Mill Street in downtown Bayfield.
Fields and Bilyeu were arguing about money on the 20-mile drive from Ignacio to Bayfield. During the drive, Fields began driving erratically, speeding, swerving, and banging his head on the steering wheel of his 1999 Chevy Silverado, Bilyeu told the Bayfield Marshal's Office.
After reaching downtown Bayfield, Fields pulled into a parking spot and jerked the vehicle to a stop. They continued to argue for about a minute, and as Bilyeu exited the truck, Fields put the vehicle in reverse and ran over her right leg with the right front tire, according to an arrest affidavit.
Fields said he was looking over his left shoulder while backing up and didn't realize Bilyeu had opened the door to exit the vehicle. He stayed at the scene until police arrived.
Fields has a history of domestic violence.
He served about 3½ years of a six-year prison sentence for choking Bilyeu in 2011 in front of a Durango restaurant. He was recorded on a videophone inside the jail bragging to his father that he almost snapped her neck, according to statements made during his sentencing hearing.
In a previous interview, Bilyeu expressed regret about reconnecting with Fields.
"He'll wind up killing me, and I just have to smarten up now," she said three days after being run over by the car. "Matters of the heart are really hard to explain."
Bilyeu said Wednesday she has a metal rod in her leg and about 12 screws. She remains in a wheelchair and has racked up more than $100,000 in medical bills, she said.
She's upset La Plata County Magistrate Sarah Law let Fields out on $6,000 bail, especially given his history with domestic violence.
"I'm in fear a lot," she said. "I never know if from out of nowhere a bullet is going to come or he's going to come. I'm really scared of him."
Deputy District Attorney Rich Schmittel asked for a $50,000 bail, but Law said the scheduled bail amount for a fifth-degree felony is typically $3,000. She doubled it in recognition of his violent history.
Bilyeu said she is hopeful Fields can be caught and brought to justice. A no-bail warrant has been issued for his arrest.
"I just don't want another girl to have to go through what I did," she said. "I want him found, and I want to protect other people."
Anyone with information of Fields' whereabouts can call dispatch at 385-2900 or the Bayfield Marshal's Office at 884-9636.
shane@durangoherald.com
Knapp gets 7 years in domestic violence case

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It's a popular appetizer and bar food, and North Texans love it if it's done right! Light, crispy chips are a requirement to make this appetizer a favorite!
We could go on and on, but Tex-Mex would undoubtedly be the designated food of choice, even if we had to just name one. After all, Tex-Mex is said to have been invented right here in Dallas!
Frito Pie also originated in Dallas. It's an easy-to-make favorite: take your tastiest Texas chili recipe and place on top of Fritos chips. Add cheese, onions, jalapeños, and/or pickles and you have a filling... and delightfully crunchy... meal.
Texas created this Southern favorite, and it's so good that there is an official day dedicated to the delicious entrée. It's best when served with peppered cream gravy and a side of Southern-fried okra. Pure bliss!
The pecan tree was adopted as the official state tree of Texas in 1919. Our official nut? Pecan, of course. So it's not hard to see why we make the best pecan ever from our local produce.
We also love our pecan pralines, which are sold at most Tex-Mex restaurants and are made as a holiday favorite in many households.
Did you know that these batter-covered, deep-fried creations were initially made just for Texans? Yep! Now, it's practically illegal to go to the State Fair of Texas and NOT have a Fletcher's Corny Dog. They even have a jalapeño version as well as the best-selling classic. It comes with all the mustard you can eat!
It's no surprise that the frozen margarita machine was created in Dallas; it's the perfect complement to all of the tasty Tex-Mex options around here.
Fajita meat, which is made from beef skirt, originated from Spanish ranch hands from Texas. We all love classic fajitas (served skillet-style with vegetables and heaped on a flour tortilla), but we have become quite inventive with the tasty meat, serving them on nachos, quesadillas, and tacos.
Whether it's fried butter, fried beer, fried Twinkies, or even fried hamburgers, the State Fair of Texas has it all. We love to see the creative new fried-food winners every year from the coveted Big Tex Food Awards.
This duo is unbeatable. Take Texas' Blue-Bell vanilla ice cream and pair with Waco-based Dr. Pepper. It is drink/dessert nirvana!
Stories tell that the chimichanga was an accident waiting to happen: a cook accidentally dropped a burrito into deep-fat fryer... from there, a food favorite was born!
Could a cheese-stuffed hot jalapeño wrapped in bacon be any more Texan?
There's just too much savory meat goodness in the Metroplex to list them all separately. Not only do we grill the best Texas T-bones, but our slow-cooked brisket, pork, and chicken are drool-worthy, too!
With so many robust flavors and a diverse variety of foods available throughout the Metroplex, this is by no means a full list. Rather, think of it as an appetizer. What other iconic foods would you add to this list? Share your suggestions in the comments below! We love to find new food experiences!


Date: 1973-04 Location: Sankhuwasabha Description: Women and girls from Moyan, posing for the camera and having a laugh, probably at the visitors' expense.
Date: 1973-04 Location: Sankhuwasabha Description: Young girls in Moyan shyly posing for the camera.
Date:1975-06 Location: Dhorpatan, Baglung Description: Men waiting for the clinic/hospital to open. The small clinic/hospital in the Dhorpatan valley was run for a period by a Tibetan Dr. and a Canadian Dr. Stephen Bezruchka with the help of former Peace Corps Volunteer Mary Murphy. Operations were done using flashlights for light, tools sterilized in a pressure cooker in the wood burning fireplace in a room with a dirt floor and wooden benches as operating tables.
Date:1975-06 Location: Dhorpatan, Baglung Description: Young Tibetan helper at the Dhorpatan clinic holding a captive Satyr Tragopan pheasant.
Date:1973-04 Location: Num, Sankhuwasabha Description: Porters relaxing on the other side of the Arun river waiting for the rest to come across the bamboo rope bridge at Num.
Date: 1973-04 Location: Khandbari, Sankhuwasabha Description: Selling rakshi on the way out of the Khandbari haat bazaar.
Date: 1973-04 Location: Sankhuwasabha Description: When the women working in the potato fields in Moyan discovered that the visitors had cameras, they insisted on ' dressing up' in their finery for photos.
Date: 1975-06 Location: Gurja Khani, Myagdi Description: These children from Gurja Khani seem to be the "pot of gold" at the end of the rainbow.
Date: 1973-04 Location: Num, Sankhuwasabha Description: Crossing the bamboo rope bridge at Num over the Arun River. There is a concrete base visible on the other side of the river for a new permanent bridge that has not been built yet.
Date: 1973-04 Location: Num, Sankhuwasabha Description: End view of the bamboo rope bridge over the Arun River at Num.
Date: 1975-06 Location: Gurja Khani, Myagdi Description: Gurja Khani children line up for vaccinations from the visiting doctor from the Dhorpatan clinic.
Date: 1975-06 Location: Gurja Khani, Myagdi Description: Women in the village of Gurja Khani spinning outdoors in the sun.
Date: 1973-04 Location: Bahrabise, Sankhuwasabha Description: Sel roti vendors in the Bahrabise haat bazaar hoping for customers.
Date: 1973-04 Location: Bahrabise Bazar, Sankhuwasabha Description: Man selling his home grown tobacco in the Bahrabise haat bazaar.
Date: 1973-04 Location: Khandbari, Sankhuwasabha Description: Crossing the Arun River to go to the haat bazaar in Khandbari.
Date: 1973-04 Location: Num, Sankhuwasabha Description: Bamboo rope bridge at Num over the Arun River.
Date:1975-06 Location: Gurja Khani, Myagdi Description: Woman working in the fields while her children play and sit in the shade of a homemade bamboo/leaf 'umbrella'.
Date:1973-04 Location: Khandbari, Sankhuwasabha Description: Woman in the haat bazaar preparing sel roti.
Date: 1973-04 Location: Khandbari, Sankhuwasabha Description: Mother and daughter selling tailis in the Khandbari haat bazaar.
Date: 1973-04 Location: Khandbari, Sankhuwasabha Description: People at the haat bazaar in Khandbari.
Date: 1973-04 Location: Bahrabise , Sankhuwasabha Description: People at the haat bazaar in Bahrabise.
Date: 1973-04 Location: Bahrabise Bazar, Sankhuwasabha Description: The bangle seller is doing a brisk business in the haat bazaar.
Date: 1973-04 Location: Khandbari, Sankhuwasabha Description: Blind man playing his flute in the Khandbari haat bazaar for a few paisa, rice, or other food.
Date: 1975-06 Location: Dhoropatan, Myagdi Description: Sonam Pammo, wife of the local Tibetan Dr. with her daughter.
Date: 1972-08 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Local Newar brothers and cousins dressed with ' cow' headdresses walking in the Gai Jatra procession in memory of their grandfather who died in the past year.
Date: 1973-1974 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Bhatbateni Temple festival with the images of Bhat, Bateni, and their son.
Date: 1974-02-09 Location: Bhaktapur, Bhaktapur Description: Brick kilns. One is actively burning and firing the bricks. making activities. One is being built. Another has been patially torn down and shows the fired bricks.
Date: 1975-02-24 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Beginning of the Coronation procession of King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah at 6:00 am in the fog along Durbar Marg. ( Note the statue of King Mahendra in the background).
Date: 1972 Location: Patan, Lalitpur Description: Tibetan refugee woman card weaving patterned cotton bands for belts on the roof terrace of her dwelling in Jawalakhel.
Date: 1975-02-24 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Red coated soldiers on horseback as part of the coronation procession of King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev.
Date: 1973-1974 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Bhatbateni Temple festival with the images of Bhat, Baeni, and their son.
Date: 1972-05 Location: Marpha, Mustang Description: Tibetan woman making yak butter tea for guests inside her yak hair tent at the yak herder's camp above Chhairo near Marpha.
Date: 1972-05 Location: Hyangja, Kaski Description: Tibetan girl from the refugee camp near Pokhara spinning wool for knitting.
Date: 1972-11 Location: Khumjung, Solukhumbu Description: Ang Chumji Sherpani with son flew to Lukla from Kathmandu to visit her sister, Samji at her home in Khumjung.
Date: 1972-08 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: "Elephant" in Indra Jatra procession.
Date: 1972 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Newar musicians in the bazaar for Gai Jatra.
Date: 1974-06 Location: Marpha, Mustang Description: Marpha women happily posing for a photo on the roofs of their houses.
Date: 1974-02-10 Location: Kathmandu Description: Clay soil being dug up and molded into bricks. Large brick kilns in the background.
Date: 1972-05 Location: Ghandruk, Kaski Description: Woman beating rice with a diki.
Date:1972-05 Location: Marpha, Mustang Description: Yak hair tent used by Tibetan yak herders at their camp above Chhairo near Marpha.
Date: 1975-02-24 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: The sun is casting it's glare on the golden howdah with the newly crowned King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev and his Queen Aishwarya Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah in the coronation procession through the streets of Kathmandu.
Date: 1972-11 Location: Khumjung, Solukhumbu Description: Samji Sherpani relaxing with her nephew from Kathmandu at her home in Khumjung with Ama Dablam in the background.
Date: 1974-06 Location: Marpha, Mustang Description: Four young Marpha women and 2 visitors ( Kathy Hacker, teacher at Lincoln School in Kathmandu and Jane Abbott, Peace Corps Volunteer) preparing for an early walk to Jomson before the wind comes up.
Date: 1972-05 Location: Marpha, Mustang Description: Yak at a Tibetan yak herder's camp above Chhairo near Marpha.
Date: 1974-03-05 Location: Tatopani, Myagdi Description: Women harvesting barley in the fields near Tatopani.


Thank you to everyone who visited and shared with the hop last week. Today I am featuring delicious dips and chutneys from last week's hop.
Right, on with the Hearth & Soul Hop!
Remember – Please link directly to your post, not to your home page.
Your features of Dips and Chutneys look great. I just love Chutney's and the special flavor they have. I am sharing my Slow Cooker Baked Pinto's for the party today. Looks like you are busy having fun every week, I look forward to seeing where you are going next.
Hi April! Thank you for hosting and I hope you're enjoying the weather – we certainly are!
I shared a post about the reason I tried a gluten free diet and how I'm sure it has cured my illness.
Hi Vicky! I am loving this wonderful weather! Congratulations on the book, and thank you for sharing your experience 🙂 Hope you are having a wonderful week too!
Thank you for the party, April. Hope you are doing well. This summer has been busy and I feel disconnected with everyone!
Hi Michelle. It is a busy summer this year. As long as you are having fun though, that's what matters 🙂 Thank you for visiting!
Chutney is such an essential thing for any cheese lover… it's much harder to buy in the US than the UK, so I'm looking with great interest at these recipes.
It really is, Pauline! I love chutney too. The recipes seem to be getting much more straight-forward these days and they are for smaller quantities which I really like.
Hey April – thanks so much for the feature!!! Now I need to go check out the other recipes and some of the ones linked up this week. Thanks for hosting and hope you're having a wonderful week!


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Barcelona Fear Frenkie De Jong Might Leave When Contract Expires
Posted on January 21, 2023 by index
The last summer window had been difficult for Frenkie de Jong, the Barcelona midfielder to endure. He has been constantly in the limelight as the likes of Chelsea and Manchester United tried taking him from Spotify Camp Nou.
On the other hand, Barcelona was trying to sell the angry superstar due to their financial problems, which was one of the reasons for selling him. To get the Dutchman to leave or agree to a salary reduction, his contract details had been leaked to the media and he had also been treated with legal action. Continue reading →
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Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu confirms interest in Matthijs de Ligt
Posted on March 2, 2019 by index
Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu has confirmed that the Spanish champions are looking at the prospect of signing Matthijs de Ligt from Ajax at the end of the season. The Netherlands international has improved leaps and bounds since graduating through the youth system at the Amsterdam club and he has been tipped for a big-money move during the summer.
Speaking to RKB, Bartomeu acknowledged that De Ligt is one of the players who are being tracked by the club with a view to the summer transfer window after watching him in close quarters in the past few months. He added that the club have yet to register any official approach and there is nothing to say about the transfer proceedings in regards to the teenage centre-back.
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Ajax midfielder confirms desire to play alongside Lionel Messi
Ajax midfielder Frenkie de Jong has revealed that he would like to play alongside Lionel Messi at Barcelona in the future. The Netherlands international was the subject of two failed bids from the Spanish champions during the summer and reports have suggested that the Blaugrana could make a renewed attempt at the turn of the year.
Speaking to Ajax's television channel, De Jong hinted that he would like to make the switch to a bigger club in the future whilst highlighting his preference to play alongside Barcelona legend Messi, he said:"If you end up at a superior club, you will play with world class players all over the pitch. But for me, honestly, I would like to play with Messi one day."
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November 18, 2020 Learn how HubSpot Academy, the world's leader in providing inbound sales, marketing and customer service education, adopted DITA to help solve their content creation, conversion and output needs. HubSpot's use case is exciting and unique as it pushes the boundaries of what we typically associate with DITA. Rather than producing typical technical documentation, HubSpot is using DITA to produce:
Complete lessons, courses, and certifications
Powerpoint outputs
And localizing that content in five languages
Think you know DITA? Just wait till you see the level of flexibility and scalability that HubSpot was able to bring to their content operations through the implementation of the DITA standard. This presentation will describe the implementation as it relates to changes in processes, tools, and employee behavior and skills. Presented by: Maria McCarthy started her career as an electrical engineer, with a B.S.in Electrical Engineering and Physics. She worked in the nuclear industry, and transitioned to project management in networks and communications. While raising 4 children, she saw the great need for STEM education, and wanted to help drive equity in education. Maria completed her M.Ed in curriculum and instruction and changed my career path to STEM education, curriculum development and instructional design. She spent time in the secondary and post-secondary classroom. Maria loves delivering professional development to adult learners, developing eLearning, and managing learning content management systems. She is passionate about eLearning and thrives on learning about new technologies and innovating together with others. At HubSpot, she manages the Academy Operations teams, which includes learning and development, content editing, localization processes, and the content management system. Jarod Sickler is the Documentation Manager and a Customer Success Manager at Jorsek Inc., makers of easyDITA, where he oversees the Jorsek documentation site and is involved in managing complex customer implementations of easyDITA. Simultaneously, he's a PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Rochester, specializing in metaphysics and epistemology. His dissertation focuses on the role and importance of the grounding relation in the overall metaphysical structure of epistemic justification. Slowly but surely, he's making progress on his thesis. If you're in the market for an effective sleep aid, he'll happily share his research with you. Whether it's in his research, documentation, or customer implementations, Jarod enjoys thinking through complex problems and finding the simplest and yet most powerful solution. In his spare time, Jarod tries to convince his kids that he's still cool. They aren't buying it.
September 9, 2020 This is a presentation that provides an intersection between content and design. It is a high-level practical guide to analyzing your content, deciding what you want to do with it, developing style naming conventions, and developing editorial style guides, design style guides, and style templates. Once you get to that stage, you can then consider how content management systems, automation, and xml might fit into your publishing processes. Presented by: Marie Gollentz is a Senior Solutions Consultant focusing on the European market. Prior to joining Typefi, she held a number of positions in the publishing industry in London, including at the publisher of Research Fortnight and the London School of Business and Finance. Marie holds a Masters degree in European Political Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a Bachelor's degree in Political Sciences from Sciences Po Strasbourg. She is trilingual in English, French and Spanish.
August 5, 2020 Abstract Business leaders around the globe are looking for ways to replicate the successes of innovative and disruptive organizations like Uber, Amazon, and Spotify that grow exponentially. Rather than adding 10%, they're looking for 1000%. Exponential growth is deliberate and involves organizations developing capabilities that dramatically outperform the competition. Rob Hanna explores how information-enablement across the enterprise is key to this type of performance and why we need to rethink how we create content to become Exponential Organizations. What you'll learn
The definition of "information enablement"
How your content is tied to your brand's ability to grow exponentially
How the 4th Industrial Revolution will impact global businesses, including yours
Presented by: Rob Hanna co-founded Precision Content in 2013 to change the way writers approach structured authoring. Having spent more than decades helping organizations move to component content management he realized that organizations need to take a step beyond technology and expert consultants. Without fostering the necessary standards and skills to work in these new media, organizations would continue to stall in their attempt to move to structured authoring. With this knowledge, he developed the Precision Content® methods, tools, and training. Today, Rob and his team of experts help Precision Content clients make the move to structured authoring as seamless as possible.
July 15, 2020 The Fourth Industrial Revolution, sometimes described as the perfect storm of new technologies combined with the asteroid of digital information, has forced companies to adopt new organizational structures to create and distribute content. This presentation will define the new exponential organizations, companies that grow often at 10 times faster than comparable companies, and are guided by a massive transformational purpose to deliver Information Enablement through innovations such as "Content as A Service" – CAAS. Presented by: Michael Rosinski has lead a successful career as a technology executive in the enterprise software industry. Presently, Michael is President of Astoria Software which is the premier CCMS – Component Content Management System in the Technical Product Documentation Vertical. At Astoria, he was first to market to launch the Enterprise SaaS Model and Mobility Platforms. Michael merged the Goldman Sachs venture to TransPerfect, the largest private translation company in the world. Prior to Astoria, Michael was a founding member of American Software's management team, grew revenues to $ 100M+ and made it to the Forbes Best 200 Small Companies in America list. At American, Michael completed one of the first IPO's in the ERP market, and later contributed to the successful spin off IPO of Logility in the Supply Chain Management Space. Michael leveraged his international experience as President of Augeo Software, a French/Dutch company in the PSA Professional Automation Space where Computerworld designated them as one of "The Top 100 Companies to Watch" Michael also held Management positions at Johnson & Johnson and Nestle.. Michael holds a Bachelors Degree in Management and Organizational Behavior at Rider University, and has completed MBA study at Fairleigh Dickinson University.
June 16, 2020 Unlike a decade ago, organizations face few barriers to entry if they want to develop structured content in a DITA-based ecosystem. The increasing adoption of Git as a content platform, and the maturing of DITA-focused products like oXygen have removed many of the cost barriers to implementing DITA in an elegant and scalable way. Whether a stop on a longer-term transition to a CCMS or the final destination, a mostly open-source DITA tool chain can be a valuable proving ground for a sophisticated content strategy. In this presentation, you'll learn how process, information design, scalable repository design, and smart use of oXygen and Git can be more than a short-term solution. You will also learn where Git falls short and when you should be using a DITA CCMS. Presented by: Frank Miller president/ founder of Ryffine is an industry thought-leader whose career has focused on leading enterprise client engagements and building an information development community, Frank has been involved in dozens of successful DITA implementations. In addition to partnering with many leading names in the information development and content management spaces, Frank enjoys sharing his insights on trends and facilitating the adoption of best practices throughout the community. Presented by: Rik Page is EMEA Sales and Marketing Director at Bluestream Software and has been working with both component content and document management solutions since 200. During this time, he has worked with custom DTDs and Schemas, S1000D, iSpec2200 and since 2005 DITA. Rik's practical experience ranges from data capture/content creation through to dynamic multichannel delivery. This has been achieved in a wide range of industries including banking and finance, manufacturing, central government, and education. A keen advocate of technology and innovation Rik has taken part in multiple consultancy projects and helped formulate solutions all over the world.
June 10, 2020 Abstract World has seen a very different modus operandi in the last couple of months. This only emphasizes the fact that collaborating without physically being in the same space is fast becoming the norm where team members are either located in different geographical locations or are working from home. At this time, a smooth review and collaboration process for technical content can be a real boon to your organization. In this session, Ayush Gupta, Product Manager at Adobe, will discuss how organizations can transform their mundane, time consuming and cyclic review process into a more meaningful, error-free and productive collaboration experience for Content Creators and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). Key takeaways:
Why rethink about current review processes
What are the benefits of adopting online review process for DITA content
What are the basic tenets and features of an online review process
A walkthrough of a typical collaborative review workflow and how to make it an experience for business users
Presented by: Ayush Gupta is a Product Manager for XML Documentation for Adobe Experience Manager at Adobe. He is responsible for the product roadmap, prioritization, customer success, partner relationships, and go-to-market strategy. Ayush has 10+ years of experience working in the technology industry and extensive experience in building and scaling enterprise products. Ayush Gupta on LinkedIn
June 3, 2020 In these difficult times, it's absolutely critical to demonstrate your value to your organization. As a technical communicator, your mission is to make sure you're getting the right information to the right people. Part of the solution is to find the right tools – but they will only take you so far. Good content is crucial. You must write content in a way that best suits your audience and best matches their search patterns, so they can organically surface the information they need. Join Lawrence Orin, Product Evangelist and Customer Implementation Expert at Zoomin, as he takes an intriguing look at content strategy, and reveals a down-to-earth, practical approach that will ensure your writing is making a visible impact on your company. In it this webinar, you'll learn:
Practical steps to improving your writing skills
Best practices for structuring content
How to tailor your writing to your audience
Presented by: Lawrence Orin is Product Evangelist and Customer Implementation Expert at Zoomin, where he leverages his experience as a past customer to help new customers with their implementation and content strategy. He previously led documentation teams at Radvision and Riverbed, as well as other teams in technical support and customer services. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science with Cognitive Science from University College London.
May 12, 2020 In its eighth year of collecting data, the Center for Information-Development Management (CIDM) and Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL) asked managers, information architects, writers, training developers, and more how they are addressing the challenges of meeting customer information needs. During the webinar we walk through the results of the 2020 Trends Survey, a study we have been conducting since 2012. We trace the changes in how we think about developing and delivering content. Learn how others in the information-development community are planning to respond to new customer demands for innovative approaches to development and delivery. Presented by: Dawn Stevens, President, Comtech Services and Director of CIDM has 28 years of practical experience in virtually every role within a documentation and training department, including project management, instructional design, writing, editing, and multimedia programming. Dawn is the perfect advisor to identify and remove the challenges you face in producing usable, technical information and training content. With both engineering and technical communication degrees, Dawn combines her solid technical foundation with strong writing and design skills to lead our team of consultants and specialists in providing the expertise you need. Mark Gross, President, Data Conversion Laboratory, is a recognized authority on XML implementation and document conversion. Mark also serves as Project Executive, with overall responsibility for resource management and planning. Prior to joining DCL in 1981, Mark was with the consulting practice of Arthur Young & Co. Mark has a BS in Engineering from Columbia University and an MBA from New York University. He has also taught at the New York University Graduate School of Business, the New School, and Pace University. He is a frequent speaker on the topic of automated conversions to XML and SGML.
April 8, 2020 Technical Communication is in constant change: Requirements and expectations from both authors and consumers of technical content have changed dramatically over the last decade. The rise in digital experience innovation creates new customer expectations and demands. And enterprises around the world are exploring new ways to create new Content Interaction Experiences for their customers. In this presentation, Stefan Gentz will give insights from the Adobe Technical Communication Worldwide Survey 2019/2020. TechComm professionals from 60 countries participated in the survey. He will discuss the driving factors for enterprises around the world when it comes to technical communication. Why do companies choose to work with structured content, and why do they go for a CCMS? How do they deliver their content today – and how will they provide content tomorrow? KEY TAKEAWAYS
Understand the key factors that are driving companies to move to structured content
Understand which technologies companies use to author and deliver content today
Know which are the "hottest" content delivery channels in the future to provide technical content to customers
Presented by: Stefan Gentz the Global Evangelist for Technical Communication at Adobe. Stefan's mission is to inspire enterprises and technical writers around the world and show how to create compelling technical communication content with the Adobe TCS tools. Stefan is also a certified Quality Management Professional (TÜV), ISO 9001 / EN 15038 auditor, ISO 31000 Risk Management expert and Six Sigma Champion. Stefan is a popular keynote speaker and moderator at conferences such as tekom, tcworld, Information Energy, Intelligent Content Conference, Congility, LocWorld, TCUK, STC, GALA, ELIA, TTT, Translation Forum Russia and many other. He is also a member of the Conference Advisory Board of the world's biggest TechComm event, the tekom / tcworld Conferences, and an Ambassador for the Globalization and Localization Association. He is also an active social networker on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Using DITA for Small Technical Documentation Teams
April 1, 2020 Implementing DITA with a small team of technical writers does not have to be expensive or difficult to set up. We'll go through the steps of implementing a DITA solution using GitHub for storage and workflow and Oxygen XML Editor for editing. We'll also look into how you can automate publishing and receive feedback from your end users. As a practical example we'll look into how editing, collaboration and publishing on the Oxygen XML Blog works. Presented by: Radu Coravu started working more than 10 years ago as a software developer for Syncro Soft SRL, the manufacturer of the popular oXygen XML Editor. During the last years, his main focus has been in the development of the visual XML Author editing environment and the specific-DITA support provided by oXygen. He provides support for complex integrations and helps steer the product in the right direction, all this with some development on the side.
February 12, 2020 Products are sold into markets that cross both country and language boundaries, so product documentation must be localized. Localizing documentation is made easier with DITA, a capable Component Content Management System (CCMS), and a Translation Management System (TMS). Even with these systems in place, you must always consider best practices and pitfalls. Jim will begin with an overview of the localization process, of how content flows across systems and organizations. In this context, we will discuss techniques and also wins and pitfalls in automating and streamlining the localization process. In this session, attendees will learn:
About the localization process-what are the various roles and how does content flow
About use cases and constraints-what is incremental localization and what is the relationship of localization to the product release lifecycle
About release management and localization-what role can branching play in localization
About localization tools-how do CCMS, TMS, and LSP relate in the localization process
About recent developments in automation-how can the localization process be accelerated through automation and what are the wins and pitfalls of automation
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Viewpoint: Has Keva Landrum delivered the knock-out punch to Jason Williams in the DA's race?
By Danae Columbus, opinion columnist | November 30, 2020
By most accounts former Judge Keva Landrum should be running away with the district attorney's race. Landrum has raised and spent bucket loads of money and is the politically correct gender and ethnicity. She knows how to do the job because she has done it before, albeit in an interim capacity.
When "tough on crime" was all the rage, Landrum was praised as a no-nonsense prosecutor. Now she is being attacked for her then-appropriate performance as the office holder and also is being burdened by other people's political baggage. These factors among others are keeping the window open for City Councilman at-large Jason Williams to become New Orleans next district attorney.
Williams is darn lucky that he was indicted for tax fraud last June, not last week.
Viewpoint: Protect our libraries by defeating Proposition 2
The diverse group of parents, librarians and concerned citizens that make up the Save Our Libraries coalition got a boost this week when the Bureau of Governmental Research added their voice to those opposing Proposition 2 which is on the Dec. 5 ballot.
In their analysis of the ballot proposition, the BGR said the Cantrell administration had failed to give voters "adequate information for decision making on taxes that would run for 20 years." BGR also said that Proposition 2 lacked a strategic plan or a clear roadmap for right-sizing the library's budget before reserves run out.
The library's current millage dedication was approved by the voters in 2015 under Mayor Mitch Landrieu. Mayor LaToya Cantrell is asking voters to approve a 40% cut — at least $6.5 million in 2021 — from the library's budget, which she would rededicate to funding additional early education slots at day-care centers in the community. It would be impossible to make such deep cuts from the library's budget without significantly eliminating some staff and services as well as closing branches. According to SOL researchers, many of the branches like Mid-City are old, outdated or not on city-owned property. They could be closed as a way to save rent and maintenance costs.
Viewpoint: Support public safety officers threatened with furloughs
People are getting desperate. Led by an increase in homicides and aggravated assaults, the crime wave sweeping across New Orleans and America can be blamed in large part on COVID-19 and the economic turmoil it has caused. A recent Council on Criminal Justice analysis of homicide rates in 27 U.S. cities found that the sheer number of crimes increased sharply during the summer months. Overall domestic violence and carjackings are also skyrocketing together with drug and gang violence.
Mayor LaToya Cantrell's almost singular focus on reducing the virus in Orleans Parish has successfully limited hospitalizations and deaths, especially as the virus' latest wave is wreaking havoc nationally. We applaud her for those efforts. Yet its accompanying financial devastation is driving up crime in New Orleans as desperate individuals resort to reckless acts to put a few dollars in their pockets.
Along with a very real concern about how to pay the bills during New Orleans' stalled economic recovery are factors such as an increase in gun sales, mental health issues such as depression, boredom and a lack of interaction with others.
New Orleans is a poor city where the Police Department has perpetually been understaffed and underpaid by regional and national standards.
Viewpoint: Women of color and progressives ruled the day in Orleans Parish races
By Danae Columbus, opinion columnist | November 5, 2020
From Keva Landrum to Chanel Payne, women of color and younger progressive-minded voters were the big winners in New Orleans' election earlier this week. Women of color were candidates in 21 of the 25 local races on the ballot and won outright or earned a runoff slot in almost every one.
Progressives qualified for many of the School Board and judicial seats. It's not just the candidates who were the victors but the men and women behind the scenes who poured their sweat and hard-earned money into the contests. A much-needed new generation of elected officials and consultants will continue to emerge. In the race for district attorney, former Judge Keva Landrum benefited from strong fundraising and her ability to stay on message despite attacks by outside interests. She also has to thank her besties, state Sen. Karen Carter Peterson and Mayor LaToya Cantrell, for their push.
Viewpoint: Time is running out to vote by mail
By Danae Columbus, opinion columnist | October 30, 2020
Like almost every other city and town in the nation, New Orleans enjoyed a record-breaking early voting period during which 98,259 Orleans Parish residents cast their votes for president, seven constitutional amendments, sports betting, and an alphabet soup of local races. While the vast majority of Orleans voters – 86,979 – visited one of the five early voting locations, 11,280 citizens mailed in their ballots. Almost 100 mail-in ballots have been received since early voting ending. Today (Oct. 30) at 4:30 p.m. is the last day and time to request a mail-in ballot.
Viewpoint: Business leaders eyeing potential challengers to Mayor Cantrell
Although qualifying for New Orleans mayor, City Council and other municipal offices is still eight months away, many of the same conservative business leaders who gave Mayor LaToya Cantrell the seed money that launched her campaign have begun the painstaking search for a new candidate. "LaToya won't be mayor much longer," said one multi-millionaire businessperson who was an enthusiastic early donor. Though many business owners had become disenchanted with Mayor Cantrell, they were willing to work with her for another four years until COVID-19 soured relationships. "I'm not surprised that the business community is going to put a candidate up against the mayor," said Ed Chervenak, UNO political scientist. "They are upset that she is not following the lead of Gov. Edwards, who has opened up the state much quicker than Mayor Cantrell has opened up Orleans Parish.
Viewpoint: An open letter to Mayor Cantrell: Only New Orleans can save New Orleans
Dear Mayor LaToya Cantrell:
Long gone are the days when the Louisiana Legislature is willing or even able to solve New Orleans' financial problems, especially in the years of ever-tightening budgets and Republican dominance of the upper and lower chambers. Though we appreciate you asking state leaders for an extra share of available federal dollars, surely you knew in advance it was a futile attempt.
Every city and town in Louisiana is hurting, especially those that have been hit once or even twice by storms this season. Legislators are elected to bring home the bacon. How could they explain to constituents that additional funding for New Orleans should be their priority?
The very people that can save New Orleans from even greater economic disaster are the citizens of New Orleans – the business owners small and large who are desperate for customers; the Saints fans who want to watch the games from inside the Superdome; the music lovers who want to dance at Tips, the Maple Leaf or on Frenchmen Street; the foodies who want to linger inside their favorite bistros or savor chef Meg Bickford's new Sunday brunch at Commander's Palace.
The ongoing regional and national media coverage detailing New Orleans still-strict COVID-19 restrictions has scared away many potential visitors. It has put a damper on conventions returning, on national developers' willingness to invest in our city, and on the ability of too many citizens to eat, pay the rent and keep their utilities on.
We're proud of your role in ensuring that Louisiana is one of the few states that has handled COVID-19 effectively and that cases are not exploding in our city.
Viewpoint: Campaign finance reports provide bird's-eye view of race
By Danae Columbus, opinion columnist | October 8, 2020
With the Nov. 3 elections just weeks away, the newly released campaign finance reports provide a long-awaited snapshot on how the various local races are unfolding. Several trends are evident.
Money is tight in almost every race across the board, forcing most candidates to dip into their own pockets to keep going and also attract donors large and small from outside the region. With the exception of law firms and supporters of the new PAC for Justice, many members of the business community have been sitting these races out, perhaps not realizing how important they are to public safety and quality of life. Finally, a number of more progressive donors, their associated consultants and style of campaigning are bringing generational change to our politics.
Going into the final few weeks, which judicial candidate reported the most cash on hand?
Viewpoint: To combat potential voter intimidation, make sure you're vote-ready
Although Olga J. Hedge Pedesclaux was born after women earned the right to vote, as a Black female, she faced down intimidation registering to vote in the 1940s. "They didn't want us voting and threw all kinds of barriers in the way," said Pedesclaux, a 96-year-old Donaldsonville native now living in Gentilly.
The mother of former City Councilwoman Cynthia Hedge-Morrell, Pedesclaux remembers that it took several trips to New Orleans City Hall to finally get registered. On her first attempt, officials asked Pedesclaux, then 20, to recite the entire Preamble to the Constitution of the United States.
Pedesclaux forgot to wear her wedding ring on her second try and was rejected for lying about her marital status. On the third attempt, she brought along the neighborhood ward boss, who simply stood in the back of the room while Pesdesclaux successfully completed the necessary paperwork.
Because of the intimidation she encountered just to get registered, Pedesclaux considers voting a sacred honor. "There is no reason anybody shouldn't vote in every election," she said.
Although Pedesclaux is eligible to vote by mail, she prefers to cast her ballot in person during the early voting period. "There is something special about going to the polls to vote," she said.
Viewpoint: America needs leadership from a 'gumbo coalition,' Marc Morial says
By Danae Columbus, opinion columnist | September 14, 2020
National Urban League President and former Mayor New Orleans Marc Morial was born to lead. His parents, former Mayor Ernest N. "Dutch" Morial and educator Sybil Haydel Morial, wouldn't have had it any other way. From his NORD playground days as a national champion Little League football star to his groundbreaking work in civil rights and economic empowerment, Morial has united voices and created meaningful change first in Louisiana and later across the globe.
"A good gumbo depends on diversity and inclusion, the very thing companies, schools and institutions of all kinds find themselves wrestling with," Morial said, discussing his new book "The Gumbo Coalition: 10 Leadership Lessons That Help You Inspire, Unite and Achieve."
He believes that most leaders of large organizations are not taking full advantage of America's "incredible diversity."
"America needs a national Gumbo Coalition movement right now because the ingredients for the most diverse gumbo in the world are already at our fingertips," said Morial. "We have all the spices and flavors to create all manner of coalitions."
One of only 14 Black students out of 1,000 at Jesuit High School, Morial graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown University before returning home to become a member of the Louisiana State Senate in 1992 and mayor of New Orleans from 1994 to 2002. While mayor, Morial addressed corruption at the New Orleans Police Department, reduced violent crime by almost 60%, renamed and improved the Louisiana Armstrong New Orleans International Airport and accelerated economic growth.
He also expanded the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, beefed up year-round youth programming, increased home ownership, initiated the return of the historic Canal and Rampart streetcars, strengthened ties to Latin America and the Caribbean, and brought NBA basketball back of New Orleans. During his final year as mayor, Morial served as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. He was selected to lead the National Urban League in 2003.
Morial coined the phrase "Gumbo Coalition" after a campaign supporter prepared gumbo for a party being hosted in his honor.
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By Rob Blackwelder
Because "Anna and the King" stands on its own remarkably well, it may be unfair to begin this review with a comparison to "The King and I," the most famous film adapted from the same source material. But what I found most striking about the elegant, intelligent remake is how acutely aware it made me of the insulting Euro-centricity of its predecessors.
In the same story told in 1946 ("Anna and the King of Siam"), 1956 (from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical) and 1999 (that dreadful cartoon version), widowed English schoolteacher Anna Leonowens has always been portrayed as a much wiser, civilized woman who teaches the elaborate but backwards Asian monarch to think like a European, to waltz like a European and shapes his diplomatic policy by whispering in his ear.
The prudent but powerful screenplay for this non-musical, epic remake -- directed by Andy Tennant, who so successfully reinvented Cinderella in "Ever After" -- puts this Anna (played by Jodie Foster) and this King (Chow Yun-Fat) on very equal footing, making their relationship far more combative and compelling.
The second most striking thing about "Anna and the King" is that it's absolutely gorgeous. From the vast palace grounds created especially for the film to the beautiful costumes (by Merchant-Ivory favorite Jenny Beavan) to the lush mountains of Malaysia that stand in for Siam of the 1860s, every frame of the movie is alive with visual vibrancy.
The third most striking thing about "Anna and the King" is the intricate, intimate performances of its stars, which comes as no surprise at all, as they're both irrefutably the best choices in the film biz for the title roles.
Looking period-perfect in her corsets and bustles, Foster projects palpable pensiveness and percolating pre-feminist determination under Anna's contrived and prim air of self-confidence.
And after years of being recognized in America only as the double-barreled star of outrageous Hong Kong shoot-'em-ups, Chow Yun-Fat finally gets a chance to prove the versatility he's famous for in the rest of the world, giving a meditative, noble, romantic and dashing performance, so original and so devoid of caricature that even "King and I" aficionados will forget all about Yul Brynner for the length of the film.
At its core, the story is largely the same as it has always been: Brought to Siam to instruct scores of royal children and wives in Western ways by a forward-looking king, the strong-headed and resolutely Victorian widow Anna Leonowens becomes the sovereign's friend and confidant while butting heads with him over everything from his foreign policy to the terms of her contract.
But "Anna and the King" is truer to the real Leonowens' memoirs than the classic musical ever could be. It's more pragmatic (a single dinner party does not resolve Siam's diplomatic problems) and considerably less romanticized (the king does not chicken out under Anna's scornful gaze when it comes to the horrible punishment his runaway concubine).
It examines both the imperial attitudes of England -- which looms over Siam's borders from its occupied neighbors nations -- and the sometimes barbaric practices of Siam's monarchy.
Of course, Anna and King Mongkut still dance -- although it's not the centerpiece of the movie. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is still employed as an instrument to indict slavery -- although it's read by the crown prince instead of a concubine, adding weight to its dramatic use.
But the discourse between the leads is ever so much more clever, strategic and engaging. Chow's king visibly enjoys having someone to spar with -- he finds Anna a stimulating intellectual and they share insights into each others' psyches.
Director Tennant makes wise choices and changes throughout to modernize the narrative, replacing the musical's G-rated sensibilities with more sophisticated touches of humor, irony and tenderness. He makes room for strong, relevant moments for supporting characters and employs some powerfully effective symbolism.
He also missteps now and again. Several scenes with the children come off extremely staged. The use of a subplot involving a border squabble with Burmese guerrillas seems completely unhinged as it randomly comes and goes throughout the picture, when it should hang over the story like a storm cloud. And that same subplot plays a role in the confusing, far-fetched but exciting finale.
But all Tennant's mistakes (with the possible exception of the indulgent run-time of 140 minutes) are made in the name of getting his movie out from under Rodgers and Hammerstein's long shadow, and he certainly succeeds at that.
I worry that people might not see this movie except to measure it against "The King and I," and I suppose I haven't helped with this compare-and-contrast review.
But if you've read this far, I'm guessing you're going to go anyway, so once you've seen it, give the picture a leg up and spread the word: "Anna and the King" is a wonderful movie.
Budget: $75M
Production compaines: Fox 2000 Pictures
Contactmusic.com: 3 / 5
Director: Andy Tennant
Starring: Jodie Foster as Anna Leonowens, Chow Yun-Fat as König Mongkut, Bai Ling as Tuptim, Tom Felton as Louis Leonowens, Syed Alwi as The Kralahome, Prime Minister, Randall Duk Kim as General Alak, Kay Siu Lim as Prince Chowfa, King Mongkut's Brother, Melissa Campbell as Princess Fa-Ying, Keith Chin as Prince Chulalongkorn, Mano Maniam as Moonshee, Leonowens' Indian Servant, Shanthini Venugopal as Beebe, Leonowens' Indian Servant, Deanna Yusoff as Lady Thiang, Head Wife, Ann Firbank as Lady Bradley, Geoffrey Palmer as Lord John Bradley
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Some New Year's Eve revelers might need an extra reminder to pay their property taxes before getting into the party spirit on Monday. Property taxes not paid before Jan. 1 will be assessed late-payment charges.
Boone County Collector Pat Lensmeyer said taxpayers have several options for paying their county property tax bills. Taxes may be paid online, by phone, by mail, through the drop box located at the east entrance of the Boone County Government Center at Eighth and Ash streets, or in person at the Boone County Collector's Office from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday.
Both online payments through the collector's website and phone payments will be accepted 24 hours every day until midnight Monday, at which time both systems will be blocked. Paid tax receipts will be mailed after the funds are electronically received in the collector's bank account and the payment is posted to the taxpayer's tax account. Depending on the volume of payments made online or by phone, official receipts will be mailed to taxpayers by the collector's office within five business days.
Taxpayers wishing to pay online may do so at www.ShowMeBoone.com/Collector/PayTaxesOnline.asp via credit card or electronic check. Those forms of payment also are accepted by phone. Both online payments and phone payments will be charged a fee by the processor. To pay by phone, taxpayers should have their tax bill available, call (877) 690-3729 and follow the prompts, using jurisdiction code 3517. Taxpayers also can pay online through bill pay options offered by their banks.
Although there are no additional fees for using cash or checks to pay at the collector's office, credit cards must be processed through a third party, and a 2.5 percent fee will be added.
More than 127,000 property tax bills totaling more than $160 million were mailed to Boone County taxpayers for 2012. More information on payment options is available at www.ShowMeBoone.com/Collector/PayTaxes.asp.