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  • in reply to: Random words from "nowhere" #75405
    Rob Brandt
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    It appears that something got mangled in the template. The tip off was that this last abstract was from last year, so apparently it wasn’t as clean a template as it appeared to be. We started the whole process over from scratch and it’s now OK.

    in reply to: Random words from "nowhere" #75404
    Rob Brandt
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    Thank you all. I have searched the XML raw text already for many of these terms; some show up and others don’t. Neither “G. blainii” nor Guatteria appear in the raw XML. We are a scientific society, so my thought is that there’s some other data source being linked in here. So these words aren’t “random” in the scope of our work, but they are random in the scope of this document. We use CC for other inDesign documents as well, so this idea might have some validity.

    We noticed this issue while proofing the first draft. While continuing proofing, I encountered the following other oddity towards the end of the document:
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    870 GOSTEL, , MORGAN
    Crafting an effective elevator speech and Communicating Broader Impacts of Your Work: Networking Workshop for Students and PostDocs
    For each of us, a professional conference is an op-
    portunity to develop skills as scientists and commu- nicate with an ever-growing network of colleagues. The communication component reveals itself in different forms, yet there are some central tenants to brief profes- sional communication that should not be overlooked. The ““elevator speech” has received substantial attention recently, particularly in the sciences as the need for sci- ence communication grows due to a variety of factors — whether we share our work in public policy venues or at job interviews. Crafting an effective elevator speech requires us to think outside of our discipline and ad- dress the broader impacts of our work. This workshop will bring together students and post-doctoral fellows at different stages of their career to hone an elevator speech they have already preparedalready preparedalready pre- paredalready preparedalready preparedalready prepare- dalready preparedalready preparedalready preparedal- ready preparedalready preparedalready preparedalready preparedalready preparedalready preparedalready pre- paredalready preparedalready preparedalready prepare- dalready preparedalready preparedalready preparedal- ready preparedalready preparedalready preparedalready preparedalready preparedalready preparedalready preparedalready preparedalready preparedalready pre- paredalready preparedalready preparedalready prepare- dalready preparedalready preparedalready preparedal- ready preparedalready preparedalready preparedalready preparedalready preparedalready prepared. Following a brief introduction with helpful tips for crafting your speech, we will have a break out session to revise or modify our elevator speeches using tips from our key- note speaker, and finally, we will organize into groups to share these elevator speeches. The social atmosphere of the event will contribute to opportunities for candid, constructive feedback and we encourage participants to use this interaction as practice toward pitching your elevator speech throughout the rest of your time at the botany meetings.
    George Mason University, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, 4400 University Drive, David King Hall MSN 5F2, Fair- fax, VA, 22030
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    It’s nice to know Morgan is “already prepared”, but he doesn’t have to say it so many times! :) Again, this phrase is not found anywhere in the XML text. What’s more, this phrase was inserted into about 30 different abstracts, and Morgan’s particular abstract was repeated 216 times, mostly sequentially but not always. So, this thing is hosed in more ways than one.

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