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Christianity/Preterism

Some Christians view the subject of prophecy through a system called “amillenialism”, which means that there is no future 1000-year rule of Christ on earth. These people normally to interpret prophetic or apocalptic passages through a past lens called “preterism”, by teaching that all "apocalyptic" events described by Jesus in Matthew 24, including those described in the book of Revelation, have already happened back in 70 AD when Rome destroyed Jerusalem. Their view is that the tribulation that Jesus predicted has already come and gone. They assume that when Jesus says in Matthew 24:34 “this generation will not pass away until all these things take place” that He was saying that those who were hearing these words from Jesus’ mouth would still be alive when all this would be fulfilled.

On the other hand, non-preterists (or futurists) believe that there is a lot of evidence for a future fulfillment of these prophecies given by Jesus. They will point out that in context, Jesus is pointing ahead to a future generation that will be alive at the time when the "sign of the fig tree" occurs in history, which seems to predict the rebirth and expansion of Israel. Jesus says in Matthew 24:32-33 - Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door. Some think that the replanting of the fig tree occurred when Israel was re-born as a nation in 1948, and that the sprouting of the leaves of that fig tree refers to Israel’s geographic expansion in the Six Day War on June 7, 1967, when Israel acquired the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, the Golan Heights, and the Sinai peninsula.

It seems that Jesus is saying that when you see this happen, you know that His return to earth is near. The generation that sees this event happen won’t pass away before Jesus returns to earth. [An alternate explanation is that the phrase can also be rendered as an ingressive aorist, “until all these things begin to take place”.] We note that Jesus seems to be speaking of distant future events since four times in Matthew 24, we find the phrase “the coming of the Son of Man” (verses 3, 27, 37, 39). The preterists think that Matthew 24 is talking about Jesus “spiritually coming” in judgment to judge the nation of Israel in 70 AD. (Some think that this idea that God is “done with the Jews” helped lead to the Holy Land Crusades, as well as Hitler’s Holocaust and others persecutions of the Jewish people.) But the word “coming” is the Greek, parousia, which refers to Jesus’ bodily presence, in physical form, on the earth. Rather than this talking about a spiritual or allegorical coming, it points to a true physical coming of Christ back to rule, in person, as King on the earth.

Just one verse prior to this prophetic teaching, Jesus, speaking to the leaders of Israel, says in Matthew 23:39 that “you will not see me until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’” [This doesn’t refer to Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, for that already happened in Matthew 21.] Here, Jesus is pointing ahead to a future day when the Jewish people will welcome Him as their blessed Messiah and King. In other words, Israel’s repentance, Israel’s welcoming of Jesus as their national Messiah, will occur just before Christ’s physical return to earth. That day is prophesied in Zechariah 12:10 when the Lord says that when Jesus comes back to earth - I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.

In other words, immediately before Jesus returns, the Jewish people who are still alive at the end of the Tribulation will, in mass, trust in Jesus Christ as their only Savior and Lord. Around that same time, Zechariah 14:2-3 says that all the nations will gather around Jerusalem to fight against it, and the Lord will fight against those nations to protect Jerusalem from harm. Then verse 4 says, “On that day [the Lord’s] feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, and the Lord’s enemies will suffer from a unique plague that causes their flesh to rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes to rot in their sockets, and their tongues to rot in their mouths” – which seems to describe the effects of nuclear radiation, and written 2500 years ago.

Jesus, in Matthew 24, is talking about the same event that Zechariah 12-14 is talking about. Preterists think that Matthew 24 is talking about the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. But the fact is that Zechariah does not predict the destruction of Jerusalem, but the protection of Jerusalem. Zechariah describes a future day when Jerusalem is surrounded by enemies, but unlike what happens in 70 AD when Jerusalem is destroyed, in Zechariah, God destroys all the nations that come against Jerusalem! Therefore, it seems that Matthew 24 does not describe a symbolic “coming” of Christ to destroy Jerusalem, but rather, a physical “coming” of Christ to protect Jerusalem. Jesus also says in Matthew 24:21-22 that this will be a time of great distress, intense tribulation, unequaled by anything else the world has ever seen, and that if those days had not been cut short, no one would survive; all humanity would become extinct. So, even though the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD was horrible, it seems tha Jesus is predicting something much worse than that.

Matthew 24-25 speaks of a delay of Christ’s earthly rule as King. Matthew 24 repeatedly warns that even when we see a lot of trials, the time of Christ’s return is not here yet. Verses 45-51 teach that the master is delaying his return. In 25:1-13, the ten virgins have to wait a long time for their bridegroom to come. In 25:14-30, in the parable of the talents, the master travels to a far county (heaven) and returns only after a long time (vs. 19). The point: Jesus’ rule as King on earth (parousia) will yet be a long ways off.

Matthew seems to be explaining to First Century Jewish Christians why Jesus, their Messiah, has not yet returned to rule over the earthly kingdom like they had been expecting, that kingdom which is promised so many times in the Old Testament. They needed to understand that an entire age, the Church age, would intervene between Christ’s first and second comings, during which time the Gentiles would be included in God’s family. During this Church age, God’s plan for Israel would be put “on hold” - to be resumed later. (This idea reflects a theological template called dispensationalism.)

The book of Matthew can be outlined as a chiasm that repeats five parallel themes, pivoting around parables of the delayed kingdom in chapter 13:

Matthew 1-4 – Jesus’ qualifications as King of the Jews. Matthew 5-7 – Character of the Kingdom (now and future). Matthew 8-9 – Miracles and discipleship instructions from the King. Matthew 10 – Instructions for the Twelve about Israel. Matthew 11-12 – Israel’s opposition and rejection of her King. Matthew 13 – Parables of a postponed earthly kingdom (Church age). Matthew 14-17 - Israel’s opposition and rejection of her King. Matthew 18 – Instructions for the Twelve about the Church. Matthew 19-23 – Miracles and discipleship instructions from the King. Matthew 24-25 – Timing of the future earthly Kingdom. Matthew 26-28 – Jesus’ qualifications as King of the universe.

With this idea of a postponed earthly kingdom in mind, in Acts 1:6, when the disciples ask, “Lord, is it at this time you are restoring the kingdom to Israel?”, Jesus tells them that they aren’t privileged to know when that will happen, and in the meantime, they are to be busy obeying Christ’s commands and evangelizing the world.

The main purpose for God giving prophecy (history in advance) is not to fill one's head full of fascinating ideas, but is to fill one's heart with motivation to live a life of purity, holiness and faithfulness. God tells us about the future not so that we will have fuller heads, but so that we will believe Him when He tells us that the glory of this world is not worth chasing after (1 John 2:15-17). God reveals in advance what He's going to do, not so we can be puffed up with knowledge, but so we will obey His call to live as "aliens and strangers" in this world (1 Peter 2:11).

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Runa Simi 1/Lesson 1

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You will learn ... / runa simi...

 * Simple vocabulary
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Quechua pronunciation
For help in pronouncing Quechua words : Quechua pronunciation

Other words
Inti Sun

Killa Moon

Quyllur Star

Phuyu Cloud

Rit'i   Snow

Mallki Tree

Rapi (raphi, rap'i)   Leaf

T'ika, wayta Flower

Qiwa Grass

Quri Gold

Qullqi Money (silver)

Unancha Flag

Suwa Thief

Sunqu suwa Heart stealer, (romantic)

Urpillay, sunqullay My beloved

Ñan Street

Kura Priest

Ex 1 : Quiz
Go to the Quiz.

Ex 2 : Memory training
Write out the Quechua words, section by section.

Have 2 columns, clearly separated, and write Quechua and English. Then cover up one column (eg. English) with paper and write the corresponding words on the paper. Then try it the other way round, cover up the Quechua, and write out the words using the English as cues. This will be a little bit more difficult.

Repeat all this after an interval, the more you do it the easier you will remember the words.

If you want to add words to this page, please make sure you put them into a sentence in Lesson 2 wherever you can.
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Context
Although both North and Central America are very diverse areas, South America has a linguistic diversity rivalled by only a few other places in the world with approximately 350 languages still spoken and an estimated 1,500 languages at first European contact. The situation of language documentation and classification into genetic families is not as advanced as in North America (which is relatively well-studied in many areas). Kaufman (1994: 46) gives the following appraisal:

 * Since the mid 1950s, the amount of published material on SA [South America] has been gradually growing, but even so, the number of researchers is far smaller than the growing number of linguistic communities whose speech should be documented. Given the current employment opportunities, it is not likely that the number of specialists in SA Indian languages will increase fast enough to document most of the surviving SA languages before they go out of use, as most of them unavoidably will. More work languishes in personal files than is published, but this is a standard problem.

 * It is fair to say that South America and New Guinea are linguistically the poorest documented parts of the world. However, in the early 1960s fairly systematic efforts were launched in Papua New Guinea, and that area — much smaller than SA, to be sure — is in general much better documented than any part of indigenous SA of comparable size.

As a result, many relationships between languages and language families have not been determined and some of those relationships that have been proposed are on somewhat shaky ground.

Many of the proposed (and often speculative) groupings of families can be seen in Campbell (1997), Gordon (2005), Kaufman (1990, 1994), Key (1979), Loukotka (1968), and in the Language stock proposals.

Aymaran Languages
Aymaran (also Jaqi, Aru, Jaqui, Aimara, Haki) is one of the two dominant language families of the central Andes, along with Quechuan.

Family division
Aymaran consists of 2 languages:

 * 1. Aymara (a.k.a. Aimara, Southern Aymara, Collavino Aymara, Altiplano Aymara), usually classified into two or three subdivisions.
 * 2. Jaqaru-Kawki (a.k.a. Central Aymara, Tupino Aymara, Tupe Aymara, Cauqui, Hakaru-Kauki)
 * a. Jaqaru (a.k.a. Hakaru, Haqearu, Haqaru, Haqʼaru)
 * b. Kawki (a.k.a. Cauqui, Kauki, Jaqaru of Cachuy)

Aymara 'proper' has approximately 2.2 million speakers; 1.7 million in Bolivia, 350,000 in Peru, and the rest in Chile and Argentina.

Jaqaru has approximately 725 speakers in central Peru, while Cauqui had 9 surviving speakers as of 2005. Cauqui is little documented, though its relationship with Jaqaru is extremely close. Initially they were considered by Dr Martha Hardman (on very limited data at the time) to be different languages, but all subsequent fieldwork and research has contradicted this and demonstrated that they are very similar and mutually intelligible varieties of a single language - even to consider them different dialects would be something of an exaggeration.

Family tree

 * Aymara, Central [ayr] (Bolivia)
 * Aymara, Southern [ayc] (Peru)
 * Jaqaru [jqr] (Peru)

Quechua Languages
South American Languages are of various origins. To show your interest in the South American languages, sign up at the streams found below. This is to see the numbers of people learning, in which we, the staff, can work out our priorities. For example, if you learn Quechua, but don’t sign up at the stream, and we decide there are not enough people worth carrying on the lessons, you will miss out. So it’s to help us prioritise. So, if you’re learning, sign up at the stream.

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Introduction to Quechua/Quechua dialects

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Talk:Open design

Illich talks about this a bit in Deschooling Society, here in Chapter 6: Learning Webs under the section called Reference Services to Educational Objects. He is referring to access to the workings of objects and states at the end of the section, "A truly public kind of ownership might begin to emerge if private or corporate control over the educational aspect of "things" were brought to the vanishing point." Countrymike 03:16, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Nice. sounds like communism.... .but.... hmm............. what about research? how could research still be encouraged? what would motivate individuals to innovate? what would encourage and reward the discovery of new knowledge? Jack

Related discourse...
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/difficulties-in-moving-from-free-software-to-free-production/2008/08/10 Emesee 09:12, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

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User:DuncanInTheClouds

Hi,

This is my user page apparently.

I am a University Lecturer and Research Technician supporting a couple of departments of Research staff. I provide software and hardware development services along with Computer Support, Administration of research computers, Security patching etc.

I lecture in Object Oriented Program Development, Computer Security, Flash Animation and 3D Animation using 3dsMax.

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User:Mu301/Learning blog/2007-12

December 2007

 * It has now been one year since I started editing here at Wikiversity. I've done some minor cleanup and organization of the astronomy topic pages. I also created a few activities on observational astronomy.  This seems like a good time to reflect on the pages that I've been working on before deciding how to proceed.  I share the vision that a wiki can be a place where collaborative learning takes place.  My first attempt at pursuing that vision was the "build it, and they will come" stategy.  I hoped that by creating a well defined activity it would attract the attention of someone interested in learning the topic and they would then participate in the expansion and growth of the lesson.  I did not expect this to occur overnight.  I waited several months to see if anyone would participate or ask questions.  If anyone is doing the activities, or even just reading the pages, they have not made themselves known.  This could be due to my picking topics that are too narrow to attract interest.  It could be that the structure of the lessons or the instructions do not make it clear how to get involved.  It could just be that the community here is too small to include learners who are interested in astronomy projects.  I would be most interested in hearing feedback on the pages that I've been working on and ideas on how to get people involved in the projects.  Feel free to add comments to this page.--mikeu 16:58, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

 * The two main stated goals of Wikiversity are to "Create and host free content, multimedia learning materials, resources, and curricula..." and "Develop collaborative learning projects and communities around these materials."  The few pages that I've created are a decent start at working towards these two goals for the topics that I decided to pursue.  The question is how to build a community.  How do we attract people to participate in a collaborative learning projects?  I'm now begining to think that my first approach (build it, and they will come) is a bit naive.  Or maybe I'm too impatient to give it time to work.  In any case I've decided that it is too frustrating to develop a collaborative learning project when I have not been able to find anyone to collaborate with.  Perhaps I need to pursue a new strategy.  Something along the lines of "bring them, and show them how to build it."  My next project will involve recruiting teachers who I'll be meeting with in person and then getting them to participate in a learning project to create activities for use in the classroom.  I'll be planning the project here and documenting the progress as it unfolds.--mikeu 18:35, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

 * ....how to build learning groups at Wikiversity? There are technical (software) issues....I think it is a fact that Wikiversity could benefit from better communications tools such as an embedded threaded discussion system....flat talk pages are ancient and limited technology if you are trying to support collaborators. Wikipedia is the world's largest source of wiki editors. I think we can do better at making Wikiversity resources that would be relevant to Wikipedia editors....resources that would attract Wikipedia editors to also edit at Wikiversity. We could also help ourselves by making Wikiversity a great place to learn about Web 2.0, copyleft, wiki in general and how to participate in Wikimedia projects. Too many people come to Wikiversity and never edit...here at the start we need people who will click the edit button. I think the WIkiversity main page should be completely re-done to better attract participants (new editors). I think Community Portal should be entirely devoted to helping create and perfect ways to build communities of learners at Wikiversity. In general, in order to start to build community here it may be that we have to identify those topics that have the widest potential "audience" in order to maximize the chances of establishing lasting communities of learners who will be wiki editors. This is the way Wikipedia has developed....the more arcane topics have to wait until the community grows and people become aware of a wiki and what can be done there. Of course, there are many possible ways to advertise a specialized Wikiversity topic in the real world beyond Wikimedia projects...I think such advertisement is needed at this time to attract participants to specialized Wikiversity projects. "Build it and they will come" does not work....at least, it does not work very fast if you are building learning resources of interest to only a narrow target audience. --JWSchmidt 18:50, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

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Endocrine system

The endocrine system is a control system that mediates many processes within the body. This is brought about by the secretion of chemical messengers by the endocrine organs. These chemical messengers are known as hormones.

Types of hormone
Hormones are small molecules secreted into the blood by the endocrine organs. They can be broadly grouped into three categories:
 * Tyrosine derived hormones, such as the catecholamines and thyroid hormones.
 * Lipid hormones, which can be divided into two main subgroups; steroid hormones and eicosanoid hormones. Testosterone and cortisol are steroid hormones. Prostaglandins are examples of eicosanoid hormones.
 * Protein and peptide hormones, composed of a single chain of amino acids. Examples of small peptide hormones are thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) and vasopressin. Insulin and growth hormone (GH) are protein hormones.

Types of signalling
The typical mode of cell signaling in the endocrine system is endocrine signaling. However, there are also other modes, which are important in the body; paracrine and autocrine.

Endocrine signalling
Endocrine signals have their target organs or cells at a distant location in the body. Examples of endocrine glands are the pituitary, thyroid, and adrenal glands. Typical features of endocrine glands are their ductless nature, their vascularity and the presence of intracellular vacuoles or granules storing their hormones.

Paracrine signalling
Paracrine signals target nearby cells. Examples are nitric oxide and chemicals which promote inflammation.

Autocrine signalling
Autocrine signals act on the secreting cell.

The endocrine organs
The major endocrine glands are the pituitary (anterior and posterior lobes), thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal (cortex and medulla), pancreas and gonads. They play important roles in many homeostatic mechanisms, often working together in sequence. A number of glands that signal each other in sequence are usually referred to as an axis, for example, the Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. There are also a number of other organs that secrete hormones. The heart, for example, secretes atrial-natriuretic peptide (ANP) which is involved in the regulation of blood pressure. it can metabolize

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Technical writing/Job interview

Technical Writing is a flexible career that lets you learn for a lifetime. The demand for technical writers is strong worldwide. The conditions and pay are professional.

Landing a technical writing position is difficult for novices. It's also a challenge for those who are leaving their first technical writing job because they've outgrown it. So the advice here is targeted at them. Please feel free to create another page with advice for experienced technical writers.TWFred 07:29, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Searching and Selecting
Read the technical writer wanted ads and you'll see they mostly focus on the wrong things. Even though it is often not included in the ad, an employer is looking for a person who can think clearly, observe and interview well, distill facts into coherent information and write it at the appropriate level for the specific audience the employer has in mind.

Tools and Software Applications
My personal opinion is that focusing on the tools is bone headed. The tools are all about the same, and the concepts too. Learning any documentation tool takes only a day or two. But, being engineers with no clue about documentation (typically), the most common requirement for a posted job is some list of tools. The most common are Word, Framemaker, and Robohelp. Given that the tools are essentially the same, some technical writers simply claim to have ability in any tool mentioned in the advertisement, knowing that they will make it true if offered the job. This tactic is open to debate (perhaps on the discussion page for this article).

Knowledge of the SDLC
You should have this near the top of your list of skills. Without a good understanding of the Simplified Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), you're just playing catch-up and cannot contribute to a really strong team.

(Finally) Editing, interviewing, and writing skills
This should be the first thing, but it's sometimes not even mentioned in a 'Technical Writer Wanted' ad. But the person doing the actual hiring should know this is the reason they want you in the first place. So put this at the very top ... perhaps in the narrative section, or by listing various things you've written.
 * Editing, interviewing and writing are the most important skills.
 * If you need to brush up, use a reputable Style Guide.
 * Take particular note of writing for your audience using a 'persona' (explained in this course) - and note your use of this method in interview. This will show that you have an effective technique for tailoring your writing to match the needs of particular audiences.
 * Practice for a potential test. If you are asked to write instructions for a person who has never used an office telephone and has no concept of technology, how would you do it? Remember to focus on using information chunks, and keep structure and function top of mind: know the difference (information chunks, structure and function are explained on this course). Use a visual if at all possible.

Analytical skills
If you cannot organize the information coherently, you're lost. Similarly, if you cannot understand basic computer science principles, you're not going to help much. So anything that shows your ability to analyze situations and propose solutions is positive. Again, most ads don't even mention this.

People skills
Once again, almost never mentioned, but the real key to success as a technical writer. Emphasize this in your resume. Even a simple statement like, "I like working with people" or "I'm a people person" will do. You can teach people the writing standards and tools, but if they're someone nobody will talk to, they'll never make it as a technical writer.

During my last job interview for a Technical Writer I've been given a question: "What are the most important things in being a successful Technical Writer?" "Strong knowledge of SDLC and being a friend of all your SMEs. It's easier to get information from SMEs when they are your friends, when you don't have to bully them or beg them."

A key skill in working with people is adapting your approach to theirs - people have different styles of behaviour and different motivations. Adapting your own style according to that of the person or situation you are dealing with will help you to connect with them, and you will be much more likely to 'win their buy-in'. Demonstrating in interview that you are able and willing to do this will work in your favour.

Resumes and CVs

benefits -> functions -> structures

Benefits are for the audience, NOT YOU. Don't write about how this job will enrich you or aid your career. Tell them how you will enrich and aid THEIR quality output and commercial success.

A benefit happens when a goal is met. What are the goals of a project manager? Clearly, they want to add skills to their team, while not adding more problems. So no drama or neediness, please. Show how you're going to make the project manager's life easier.

Apply it to yourself. The audience (recipient of the benefit) is the project leader/development manager.

Benefits of having a technical writer

 * TW creates cogent, usable documentation or rewrites/clarifies inexplicit documentation authored by developers
 * TW can create and maintain permanent records of development activities
 * TW manages and coordinates documentation output
 * User instructions written by the TW support and help to sell an otherwise ephemeral product
 * User documentation that TW creates reduces customer support costs
 * Developer time is not wasted on work that they hate to do...and do poorly (saves money, improves quality/happiness)
 * TW can contribute input on User Interface development and project workflow with the development team

Functions

 * Interviewing
 * Researching
 * Audience Analysis
 * Editing
 * Writing
 * Structuring/Linking info
 * Creating or advising on Graphics and Layout

Structures that support Technical Writing

 * SDLC exists and is followed at least most of the time
 * Documentation tools
 * Training in product, standards, and culture
 * Terminology, Access to Information, Openness or Secrecy as cultural paradigm
 * Comfortable conditions/equipment
 * Suitable pay to be recognized as a member of the team

 * Note:*

A cover letter and resume combo should put those aspects into concrete terms. Show experience in performing the functions, and proof of ability to operate within the environmental structures.

The narrative would focus on benefits in declarative statements that are testable.

Past tense benefits:

 * "I wrote 25 instruction manuals"
 * "I eliminated the need for the developers to write any documentation"
 * "I created the workflow diagram that is the backbone of the UI"
 * "The new User Guide reduced support calls by 82% in one year".

Future tense benefits:

 * "I write quickly and accurately"
 * "I get along with and understand engineers"
 * "While I draft your requirement specifications, you can spend more time working with the developers and architects"
 * "Editing all the technical documents within your department to a single standard will save you from expensive misunderstandings".

These statements are all testable. Project managers like that, for obvious reasons.

Are the statements you make about yourself testable?

Resume
Your resume is your ticket to an interview. It is a marketing tool; your chance to sell yourself.

Length

 * The size of the CV that you submit depends on the nationality of the organization that you want to join. Different companies require different forms of a CV.
 * Usually two to three pages is enough.
 * "Your resume, like a diamond, could sparkle more brightly if cut" (quote amended from The Economist Style Guide's online reference to Raymond Mortimer’s comment on excellence in journalism).

Layout & formatting

 * The layout of your resume should be clear; it needs to be easy to read, uncluttered and consistent.
 * Ensure that your name is clear and contact details are prominent,it’s a good idea to have a header with your name, address and contact details (thus the reader never forgets who they’re reading about), and footer with the page number.
 * Try to stick to one or at most two font types (e.g. Calibri or Verdana), and keep headings consistent (e.g. Calibri 10pt bold, 6pt before & 6pt after, at 12pt—in Word, use Format, Paragraph to format text; or the Page Layout tab in MS Word 2007).

Content

 * A good resume will follow a structure along these lines:

1. Name (centre, bold)

2. Profile (or Career Focus)

 * This is the snapshot that should grab the reader’s attention.
 * Your profile should give a succinct picture of your most valuable skills and experience, show your professionalism and indicate where you want to go in your career.
 * Keep the language consistent in style, tone and person. It is not necessary to say "I am a person who will write in a succinct and understandable way for the audience"—instead, "A writing style tailored to the audience’s needs" is clear.

3. Professional experience

Unless you are a very recent graduate or have no relevant work experience, this is more important for prospective employers and should come before education.
 * Name the organization and period of employment, and follow this with bullet points highlighting your accomplishments, contributions and awards. Don’t be shy; shoot for the target.
 * Quantify your achievements. Ask SMEs how much time you have saved them through writing for them—perhaps 30% of their time at work, given your writing speed and level of understanding?
 * Remember not to leave gaps,clarify periods of unemployment. Did you perhaps do voluntary work or study?

4. Education

 * List either your most recent or most relevant qualifications first.
 * Include work-based training if it is relevant to the role.

5. Interests

 * Give the employer a fuller picture of you as a rounded individual.
 * Note: There is also a drawback to this. Listing your interests could give an employer reason to dismiss your resume according to his/her personal likes, dislikes or prejudices. Use outside interests with caution. Also, it is becoming less common to include this type of information unless it is very apropos to the job you're seeking. (Example: an avid exerciser applying to a health/fitness organization).

6. Referees (References) [if required]

 * Be sure to notify any referees (references) that you give that they may be contacted by prospective employers—you want them to vouch for you and promote you, after all.

Appearance
Err on the side of a professional appearance. The company culture may prove to be entirely relaxed, with everyone wearing jeans and frayed t-shirts - all the same, the project manager wants to see a candidate who has respect for the interviewer and a willingness to scrub up. Wear a suit and shirt or similar corporate attire; polish your shoes and remain aware of your posture - like your mum may have told you, sit up straight and relax your shoulders back and down (don't slump).

Pay attention to your body language and pace of speech. Don't ramble on - keep sentences concise and articulate, and answer the question; only elaborate if this will add to the understanding of the interviewer or lift your profile based on the needs of the role. Maintain eye contact without staring at the interviewer/s; if there is more than one interviewer, remember to include all in your eye contact. It is quite OK to smile or use a hand gesture or two if this comes naturally to you.

If you are nervous, be careful not to show this in your gestures. For example, if your foot tends to twitch: hide it, cover it, or stop it. The best way to avoid obvious nerves is to prepare. Even if you have had many interviews, each job is unique.

Make sure that you answer the most important questions in your practice:
 * What attracted you to this job?
 * What do you know about the company?
 * How do your skills match the requirements of the role?
 * How do you build relationships with others in a team, or with SMEs?
 * How have you dealt with a difficult [difficulty could be specified by the interviewer] situation or person in the past?

PREPARATION and PRESENTATION go hand in hand; as you polish your shoes, practise your answers out loud - and go in with confidence.

Questions

 * Can these pages be translated to other languages?
 * How can I do that?

Reference

 * Interview Questions and Training sessions

Follow up
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Extraterrestrial life/Astrosociobiology

Astrosociobiology (also referred to as exosociobiology, extraterrestrial intelligence (eti), and xenosociology) is the speculative scientific study of extraterrestrial civilizations and their possible social characteristics and developmental tendencies. The field involves the convergence of astrobiology, sociobiology and evolutionary biology. Hypothesized comparisons between human civilizations and those of extraterrestrials are frequently posited, placing the human situation in the same context as other extraterrestrial intelligences. Whenever possible, astrosociobiologists describe only those social characteristics that are thought to be common (or highly probable) to all civilizations. Since no extraterrestrial civilizations have ever been studied, the subject is entirely hypothetical and necessarily self-referential.

Methodologies
Sociobiology attempts to explain animal behavior, group behavior and social structure in terms of evolutionary advantage or strategy and using techniques from ethology, evolution and population genetics. Sociobiologists are especially interested in comparative analyses, particularly in studying human social institutions and culture.

Astrobiology is the speculative field within biology that considers the possible varieties and characteristics of extraterrestrial life. Astrobiologists speculate about the possible ways that organic life could come into being in the universe and the potential for artificial and postbiological life.

Astrosociobiologists, like evolutionary biologists and sociobiologists, are concerned with the phenomenon of convergent evolution, the evolutionary process in which organisms not closely related independently acquire some characteristic or characteristics in common, usually (but not necessarily) a reflection of similar responses to similar environmental conditions. Examples include physical traits that have evolved independently (e.g. the eye), ecological niches (e.g. pack predators), and even technological innovations (e.g. language, writing, the domestication of plants and animals, and basic tools and weapons). Astrosociobiologists take the potential for convergent evolution off-planet and speculate that certain ecological and sociological niches may not be Earth-specific or human-specific and are archetypal throughout the universe.

However, there may be limits to this kind of speculation, particularly if there is a dearth of comparable habitats to our own across the galaxy. Some thinkers, while acknowledging that biological and social evolution may follow similar patterns across the universe, also note the problem of evidence and the absence of extraterrestrial contact. Simon Conway Morris, in his book, Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe, notes life's "eerie" ability to repeatedly navigate to a single solution. "Eyes, brains, tools, even culture: all are very much on the cards," he writes. "So if these are all evolutionary inevitabilities, where are our counterparts across the galaxy? The tape of life can only run on a suitable planet, and it seems that such Earth-like planets may be much rarer than hoped. Inevitable humans, yes, but in a lonely Universe."

Assumptions
In order for astrosociobiologists to embark on speculations about the condition and characteristics of extraterrestrial civilizations, a number of assumptions are necessarily invoked:

 * 1) Extraterrestrial civilizations exist
 * 2) Extraterrestrial civilizations operate in agreement with the known laws of physics
 * 3) Extraterrestrial civilizations must in some part resemble our own, both in terms of:
 * 4) morphological and psychological characteristics, and
 * 5) civilizational traits and tendencies

In other words, astrosociobiologists assume that intelligent life arises from similar environmental conditions and similar evolutionary processes as humanity.

It is currently difficult to tell if these are valid assumptions. For example, the Rare Earth hypothesis and the Fermi Paradox suggests that we might be alone in the galaxy. It's also conceivable that aliens and their civilizations may scarcely resemble our own. Astrosociobiology also involves a fair degree of environmental determinism. Astrosociobiologists counterargue that all of these points can be countered by the Copernican principle and the self-sampling assumption (a variant of the anthropic principle). We shouldn't assume, they argue, that we're unique and we should start from the premise that we are very typical.

Possible unique aspects of Earth life
It is possible that the unique conditions on Earth allow for specific technologies to develop which would take many times longer for a civilization not having these conditions to achieve. The list of possibly unique conditions on Earth, and of related discoveries, is quite long. Some examples:
 * The Hall-Héroult process and the Bayer process, if not discovered in the late 19th Century, might have led to a delay in the creation of aluminium-dependent technologies, such as aircraft and rocketry.
 * The Moon produces tides, and offers some protection from asteroids, comets, and radiation.
 * Many discoveries were essentially accidental, such as the discovery of penicillin. Others were based on a theoretical insight, such as the transistor.

It is possible that the conditions for the creation of hydrocarbons, coal, or natural gas would not exist on other planets. These fuels were essential for us to move past dependence upon wood and animal based energy systems. Although waterwheel, wind, and solar energy technologies existed, they were not developed further until suitable industrial techniques were found to produce better materials. These techniques consume massive amounts of energy, and therefore could not be powered by the unimproved technologies. A similar argument could be made that without fossil fuel technologies, more powerful technologies, such as nuclear reactors, could not develop.

Counter-argument: abundance of alternative sources
Human perception has a natural bias towards the known energy development paths of Human civilization. It must also be noted that during both the 1973 energy crisis and the 1979 energy crisis highly industrialized societies continued to function; many moved towards developing alternative energy technologies on a massive scale under the assumption that these could provide the energy needed to continue industrial and commercial processes should fossil fuel supplies be compromised in some critical way.

Given this development, it is possible that a society could develop without a stage where fossil fuel based energy production occurs. This version of Buckminster Fuller's argument on current solar income conforms with Paul Hawken's idea of restorative economy, stating that fossil fuel based energy production is not essential nor desirable given the effects and alternatives.

Possible extraterrestrial characteristics
Given these assumptions, astrosociobiologists attempt to make predictions about those characteristics that may be common to .all extraterrestrial societies. For example, based on human experience, astrosociobiologists conclude very broadly that all civilizations go through similar developmental stages, including stone age and agrarian culture, industrialization, globalization, and an information age. Similar assumptions are made about the development of technological innovations (universal technological archetypes) and scientific breakthroughs (including the rough chronological order in which these advancements are developed). The possibility also exists for the existence of common cultural and meta-ethical characteristics of advanced societies (i.e. the notion that advanced societies will independently reach the same conclusions about ethics, morality and social imperatives). ,See Evolutionary ethics

Astrosociobiologists also theorize about the existence of developmental mechanisms that constrain and give directionality to the evolution of organisms and society itself. One such guiding evolutionary force is the notion of the megatrajectory. Posited by A. H. Knoll and R. K. Bambach in their 2000 collaboration, "Directionality in the History of Life," Knoll and Bamback argue that, in consideration of the problem of progress in evolutionary history, a middle road that encompasses both contingent and convergent features of biological evolution may be attainable through the idea of the megatrajectory:

"We believe that six broad megatrajectories capture the essence of vectoral change in the history of life. The megatrajectories for a logical sequence dictated by the necessity for complexity level N to exist before N+1 can evolve...In the view offered here, each megatrajectory adds new and qualitatively distinct dimensions to the way life utilizes ecospace."

According to Knoll and Bambach, the six megatrajectories outlined by biological evolution thus far are:

 * 1) the origin of life to the "Last Common Ancestor"
 * 2) prokaryote diversification
 * 3) unicellular eukaryote diversification
 * 4) multicellular organisms
 * 5) land organisms See Prehistoric amphibian & Prehistoric insects
 * 6) appearance of intelligence and technology

See also :- Timeline of evolution

The above presupposes that intelligence and technology cannot develop in Aquatic ecosystems. Cetaceans are intelligent as are some Cephalopods. As land based organisms we cannot work out what routes to technology may or may not be feasible under water. This is similar to Carbon chauvinism.

Some astrosociobiologists, such as Milan Ćirković and Robert J. Bradbury, have taken the megatrajectory concept one step further by theorizing that a seventh megatrajectory exists: postbiological evolution triggered by the emergence of artificial intelligence at least equivalent to the biologically-evolved one, as well as the invention of several key technologies of the similar level of complexity and environmental impact, such as molecular nanoassembling or stellar uplifting.

Along similar lines, historian of science Steven J. Dick, in his 2003 paper "Cultural Evolution, the Postbiological Universe and SETI," posited a central concept of cultural evolution he called the Intelligence Principle:

"The maintenance, improvement and perpetuation of knowledge and intelligence is the central driving force of cultural evolution, and that to the extent intelligence can be improved, it will be improved."

It is through the application of this principle, argues Dick, that speculations about the developmental tendencies of advanced civilizations can be made.

The difficultly of engaging in such speculation, however, is that it is highly theoretical; there is very little empirical evidence. Moreover, humanity hasn't progressed through these later developmental stages. Astrosociobiologists currently have no data to support the idea that human civilization will continue on into the foreseeable future. Indeed, in considering the Fermi Paradox, scientists may actually have a data point suggesting a limitation to how far advanced civilizations can develop.

However, with each advancing step that the human species takes, astrosociobiologists will assume that extraterrestrials--both past and present –will have gone through similar stages.

Civilization types
A method for classifying civilization types was introduced by Russian astronomer Nikolai Kardashev in 1964. Known as the Kardashev scale, classifications are assigned based on the amount of usable energy a civilization has at its disposal and increasing logarithmically:

 * Type I - A civilization that is able to harness all of the power available on a single planet, approximately 1016W.
 * Type II - A civilization that is able to harness all of the power available from a single star, approximately 1026W.
 * Type III - A civilization that is able to harness all of the power available from a single galaxy, approximately 1036W.

Human civilization has yet to achieve full Type I status, as it is able to harness only a portion of the energy that is available on Earth. Carl Sagan speculated that humanity's current civilization type is around 0.7.

Notable astrosociobiologists

 * Frank Drake
 * Freeman Dyson
 * Nikolai Kardashev
 * Carl Sagan
 * Frank Tipler

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Aymara The Aymaran Language
Aymaran is a South American language. Aymaran has often been grouped with Quechua as a larger Quechumaran linguistic stock, largely because about a third of its vocabulary is shared with Quechua. This proposal is controversial, however.

Please write here the translation of the text below in Aymaran.

Aymaran is a Native American language of South America.

Link to | Wikipedia in Aymaran

Learning
To show your interest in the Aymaran Language, sign up at the Aymaran stream. This will provide a record of who is learning Aymaran, so you can see who else out there speaks Aymaran and can speak to them.

Teaching
If you want to teach, please sign up at the Aymaran stream and contact the Head of Aymaran

South America Staff
Here is the List of Staff members in the South America Languages Division

Streams

 * Aymaran stream

Planned

 * Introduction to Aymaran

Other Languages

 * South American Languages Division

Department news

 * 13th December 2007 - Aymaran Department Founded

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User talk:GaeMFreeK

Welcome
Hello GaeMFreeK, and welcome to Wikiversity! If you need help, feel free to visit my talk page, or contact us and ask questions. After you leave a comment on a talk page, remember to sign and date; for it helps everyone follow the threads of the discussion. The signature icon in the edit window makes it simple. To get started, you may
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And don't forget to explore Wikiversity with the links to your left. Be bold, and see you around Wikiversity! Erkan Yilmaz ( Wikiversity:Chat, wiki blog ) 16:53, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Main Page/Concept/2007/December

Issues to resolve

 * 1) Featured content: not there yet.
 * 2) Research links: not there.
 * 3) Portal links: need tables inserting to ensure proper wrapping for smaller screens. No - did it a different way.
 * 4) Ancient Wikiversity image at top: fades to white. Can remove white and make image narrower, if others like the idea of bringing the image back at all. Done.
 * 5) Images in page: use daily rotation. Livens things up a bit.
 * 6) Text has not been changed - but perhaps it should be? Done.
 * 7) Blue - ?! Perhaps one should vary the colours of each box, like the WP main page. Prettier.

change the text
There are some suggestion for new introductory text at Main Page/Draft version 0.2. --JWSchmidt 17:48, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I put this in for you. McCormack 11:42, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Looks good to me
I particularly like the emphasis on well developed portals. I checked the click through paths to Lunar Boom Town and they all still worked properly. Mirwin 06:30, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Generally I'm liking this new draft very much. Don't like the picture on the top right though and I don't like the quote. Can we leave freedom out of it all for a while? Its just all too loaded at this point and its fracturing this whole enterprise. Perhaps something about education would be better. Countrymike 19:42, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

 * The quotes are taken from an existing daily cycle on the current (i.e. old) main page. It's not new. It's someone else's old idea which I've just moved and reformatted. There's a new one every day. McCormack 20:13, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Categories
There's quite a bit of white (or, well, blue) space at the top of this design - I'm thinking we could use this to offer the finding of resources by expandable category "menus" as is done on Commons (see image). What do you think? Would this need more vertical space, or could it ft into the top of the page? Cormaggio talk 11:24, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

 * A very cool thing to do would be to have the portals/faculties capable of opening up into departments/schools. I think this would be a good phase 2 idea. Keep it as phase 2, otherwise we'll never get phase 1 out of the door. Your suggestions are technically complex! But, of course, excellent. McCormack 11:41, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Ok! Cormaggio talk 12:01, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Perhaps you could start developing a plug-in template for this now, though. ;-)  McCormack 13:30, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

 * McCormack, you may be interested in mw:extension:tree view.Hillgentleman|Talk 16:54, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

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John Seely Brown reading group

This is an intended reading group on John Seely Brown's writings on education in the 21st century, particularly as mediated and facilitated by the internet. I hope to get this reading group going early (Jan/Feb) 2008 - however, don't let that stop you reading these materials and posting comments!

Readings

 * "New learning environments for the 21st century" - 2005 book chapter (pdf)
 * "Exploring the edge" - 2006 article in Change; shorter adjunct to chapter above (pdf)
 * "Minds on Fire" - 2008 article with Richard Adler

Participants

 * Cormaggio
 * Countrymike

Reflections, thoughts and comments on readings
..add them here

Other links

 * John Seely Brown's personal website
 * Materials on Educause (by search)
 * Google Scholar search (results will not be limited to writings on internet-based learning, nor to writings by John Seely Brown)

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Runa Simi 1/Lesson 4

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1    Juk, juq, uc, hoq 2    Iskai, iskay 3    Kimsa, kinsa 4    Tawa 5    Pichq'a, pisqa 6    Soqta 7    K'anchis, qanchis 8    Pusac, pusaq 9    Isk'un, isqon 10   Chunka 11   Chunka juq niyoq 12   Chunka iskai niyoq 13   Chunka kimsayoq 14   Chunka tawayoq 15   Chunka pichq'ayoq 16   Chunka soqtayoq 17   Chunka k'anchis niyoq 18   Chunka pusaq niyoq 19   Chunka isk'un niyoq 20   Iskay chunkay niyoq 100  Pachaj 1,000 Warank'a

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User:Weidingerc

Leave a message for Weidingerc

A warm welcome to Clay Weidinger's user page. I've just discovered the wiki platform in a whole new light after doing lots of research about how to best facilitate learning, especially among our youth, so I'll just be exploring for a bit. I'm interested in talking about the future of education and how to get there from here. In any case, if you want to contact me, you can talk me or email me.

If you haven't take a gander yet, check out TED.com.

About me
I hold Bachelor of Science degrees in Physics and Nursing. I work as a Surgical Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurse (SICU RN). I am intensely interested in I think and act according to 3 principles I've distilled down: I plan to participate in fixing every problem (ecological destruction, social injustice, communist education, death, doublethink, hegemony, boredom, ignorance, ...). I am an unfailing optimist of the realist variety.
 * Happiness,
 * Science,
 * Politics,
 * Economics, and
 * Education.
 * Enjoying life (Valuing Happiness),
 * Predicting Reality (using science and reason), and
 * Participating in Power (using community to augment my understanding of reality and experience of happiness).

Projects
Humane Culture – spend time enjoying life  Evidential culture – Collective reality exploration to create adaptive civilizing models  Liberal Democracy – Freedom is participation in power (Cicero)
 * Practicing Happiness
 * Pleasure seeking
 * Awareness and Appreciation
 * Empathy
 * Personal Endeavors
 * Paradise Fabrication
 * Epic Poetry
 * Knowledge production
 * Science - Evidence and Reason leads to a coherent and preferable world view
 * Dialogue - Criticism/ridicule is essential
 * Knowledge content
 * Happy Practices (see HCàPH)
 * Efficient Methodology
 * Knowledge distribution
 * Education
 * Media/Press
 * Personal Conversation
 * Life
 * Tribal Violence
 * Healthcare
 * Death Penalty
 * Late-term Abortion
 * Liberty
 * Rule of Law
 * Equal rights
 * Democratic govt
 * Global Guarantor of Rights
 * Personal Security
 * Freedom of Expression
 * Freedom of Employment
 * Stable Property Rights
 * Pursuit of Happiness
 * Adequate Parenting
 * Social Security
 * Education (see EC>KD)
 * Ecological Sustainability

Education
I'm still learning about this but I'm pretty sure it is the fastest way to realize all my projects. I'm gunning for a solution set that works politically and economically on a global scale. Talk this up with me.. clay 21:16, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:Weidingerc

Welcome to the Illich reading group
Weidingerc... a warm welcome to the Illich reading group. I think you'll find that Illich was another "unfailing optimist" and that his discourse is still highly relevant to the questions we are increasinly asking ouselves today. Countrymike 21:42, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

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Lunar Boom Town/Data Mining/When

Anytime feel like it.

Now is better than later.

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Lunar Boom Town/Data Mining/Where

Online and in librarys and museums. Bankruptcy and estate sales can be good places to find data. It is important to pay attention to data licensing. Personal reference data is good but it is even better if find public domain data or information that can be placed into the commons under a GPL, FDL, and/or creative commons for everyone else to use as well.

I have been told that NASA has the engineering drawings for the Saturn stack somewhere in their data warehouses. I doubt they have the rights to the manufacturing specifications for the various components that contractors and vertical chains of subcontractors used in helping manufacture the moon mission launch stacks and space vehicles.

To be able to reliably maintain our equipment in remote hostile environments we need manufacturing specifications for parts, manufacturing processes, and factory's that we can emulate on short notice if necessary.

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Lunar Boom Town/Data Mining/Why

Why data mine? Why not simply redesign everything from scratch using the massive available effort the internet can connect us to?

We may have to re=engineer competing solutions before existing patent holders will reduce their licensing fees to reasonable charges. However, any art which has already been developed can theoretically be used to reduce the cost and schedule of establishing viable space settlements.

Personally, I do not want to wait a century or two for open source cold fusion processes to be developed before settling the the solar system. If we can lease or purchase rocket engines cost effectively then let's do so. Otherwise we must organize volunteer teams willing to give away tested effective new designs.

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