Author: Terry Fitzgerald
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French Oral Expression Part 2
Common sentences Sentence Structures Connectors Introduction Écoute, j’aimerais te proposer quelque chose pour [dimanche]. Il y a une activité de [bénévolat] dans [un parc près d’ici]. Step 1: Present Case (30 seconds) Personnellement, je pense que c’est une excellente occasion de faire quelque chose d’utile pour la communauté. C’est une occasion de contribuer à une…
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French Oral Expression Part 1
Important Points Target Structure Preamble J’ai vu votre annonce concernant xxx sur l’internet et je me suis très intéressé l’opportunité. J’aimerais avoir plus d’information, auriez-vous quelques minutes pour répondre mes questions? Place / Transportation Votre annonce ne mentionne pas l’addresse, ou se trouve votre centre? People / Organization Quelle est votre horaire d’ouverture? Après avoir…
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Suspension of Project Helios and Project Io
BLUF: Due to conflicting personal priorities I’ve had to suspect Project Helios (UAF flash cards) and Project Io (UAF based course). I plan to restart the projects in Q1 2027. I firmly believe that bringing architecture frameworks, as laid out by the UAF, into enterprise operations has great value, not least to enable integration of…
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Project Io
Project Io is initiated to capture effort made towards developing a course on UAF – with a scope limited to the exam content for the Model User exam. It is likely that the course would be trialed with a test audience but the intention is to make this course an online and asynchronous course. Syllabus…
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Project Helios
The outcome of Project Helios seeks to disrupt the Systems Engineering professional development experience by radically improving the efficiency of understanding and retaining of key concepts in preparation of the Model User Exam on the OMG United Architectural Framework (UAF). This post seeks to provide an introduction to the project’s main deliverable, provide weekly snapshot…
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General Systems Theory by Ludwig von Bertalanffy – Introduction
Rationale for GST Ludwig von Bertalanffy (LvB) (1901-1972) was an Austrian biologist and was one of the founders of General Systems Theory (GST) though such a theory has not yet been articulated. “[LvB] observed that systemic processes recur isomorphically across many disciplines. For instance, systems can be stabilized by means of feedback in the physical…
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Stigmergy – a strategy to unlock mass collaboration?
TL;DR: The article explores how the concept of stigmergy—a self-organizing principle observed in ants—can be applied to enable large-scale human collaboration. By leaving visible traces of work and inviting others to build upon them, a 25-person group project was successfully completed without centralized control. This decentralized, trace-based approach led to a more creative and inclusive…
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Combating New World Screwworm: Innovative Sterile Insect Technique Explained
Increase the number of flies to decrease the number of screwworms?? I’ve been reading an unhealthy amount into the plague that is the New World Screwworm (NWS) after I saw articles introducing the strategy to stop the spread of this live-flesh eating larva, which devastates livestock, is to air drop billions upon billions of these…