Friday, November 7, 2014 Chicago Division Administrator Karen Tkaczyk called the meeting to order and introduced the agenda. The agenda was accepted. Karen then introduced the Leadership Council for the year ending. This included Iryna Ashby (webmaster), who was not present, and Alicja Yarborough (Assistant Administrator), Amy Lesiewicz (blog editor), Stefanie Strobel (event coordinator), Matthew Schlecht (Yahoo group moderator), and Lebzy Gonzalez (website assistant). Brief reports were given regarding division activity in the past year, with suggestions for the coming year. You can find the complete Annual Meeting minutes in the Resources section of this website.
2014 Events
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Please join us for dinner at Emilio’s Tapas, one of the most popular restaurants of Chicago (Critics’ Choice Award 5 years in a row), to see old friends again and to meet new ones. WHENThursday, November 6, 7:00pm WHEREEmilio’s Tapas215 East Ohio StreetChicago, IL 60611(312) 467-7177www.emiliostapas.com_______________________________________________________________________________ MENU_______________________________________________________________________________ TAPAS FRIAS BERENJENAS BRASEADAS Grilled Eggplant rolled with goat cheese, garnished with tomato and arugula CANELÓN FRÍO DE ATÚN Cannelloni filled with tuna, asparagus, basil and tomato, topped with creamy white wine vinaigrette PAN CON TOMATE, JAMÓN Y QUESO Tomato bread with Spanish Serrano ham and Manchego cheese PATATAS CON ALIOLI Emilio’s Famous …
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by Matthew Schlecht The ATA Science & Technology Division has a solid program at the ATA 55th Annual Conference, with content that will appeal to the inner geek in all of us. S&TD includes translators working in a wide variety of language pairs with a focus on scientific and technical subject matter. Some of the S&TD presentations do have a specific language pair focus, while others discuss only subject matter, but all address the unique constellation of terminology, style, register, and background that are necessary to do translation work in this area. Our Distinguished Speaker for 2014 is Dr. Christiane …