Food for Thought - January 2003
Webgrammar's Food for Thought - ISSN: 1530-034X
Editor and Publisher: Judy Vorfeld
mailto:judyvorfeld@webgrammar.com URL: http://www.webgrammar.com
January 2003
CONTENTS
Note from Judy
Windows Keystroke & Tips - Tabbing Backward
Complimentary Endorsement - A Life Redirected
Did you Know - That vs. Which
Recommendations
Education
Grammar
Health
History
Reference-General
NOTE FROM JUDY
1. Longtime subscriber and publisher, Karl-Erik Tallmo, recently
sent me the URL of an article he'd written. I discovered that what
he documented is highly insightful and might provide insight to others
diagnosed withfibromyalgia. In the opening paragraph, Tallmo says:
As I woke up one morning in May 1993, everything changed. Life
changed. It would turn out, this was a day of the kind that
constitutes a demarcation. Everything that had happened in my
life would from then on be categorized by if it had occurred
before or after that particular date. Life took a new direction.
Controversial? Perhaps. But you may find it well worth the read.
See the URL in the Complimentary Endorsement section of this ezine.
2. Do you need to conserve paper? Consider Fine Print, which is,
in essence, a printer driver that gives you all kinds of choices:
* Print 2, 4, or 8 pages on a single sheet
* Double sided printing, booklets
* Page deletion and insertion
* Ability to combine multiple print jobs into a single job
* Save to bmp, tiff, emf and jpeg formats
* Watermarks, headers, footers
Through the years I've saved lots of paper (and perhaps even a small
tree) by using FinePrint. It's relatively inexpensive. More here:
http://www.fineprint.com/products/fineprint/index.html
3. I hope your new year is going well. My family is doing well,
and we're enjoying some new dynamics with our adopted cat, Bear.
He enjoys being put on a leash to spend some time in the back yard.
Actually, he convinced my husband, Jack, that he (the cat) was so
old and overweight that he could NEVER jump to the top of our
block fence (where he could then visit and view our neighbors). For
quite a few days, Bear played his game with finesse.
He reveled in the warmth of the desert landscaping, wandered around
the yard with a carefree indifference (we though), and nibbled on
small patches of grass. Jack felt positive that Bear would not try
jumping to the top of the fence, but continued to monitor the cat,
just in case.
Suddenly, when Jack least expected it, Bear soared to the fencetop
and triumphantly looked down on Jack. Elderly? Overweight? Perhaps,
but didn't we know that he was a fearless Lion King? He may be.
But he's now a king who wears a harness when he goes outdoors.
WINDOWS KEYSTROKES & TIPS - HOW TO TAB BACKWARD IN FORMS AND CELLS
A slick keystroke combinations for moving backward in a form, table
cell, or spreadsheet. This includes programs like Word, WordPerfect,
Quicken, Excel, QuickBooks, and QuattroPro. Use Shift+Tab. (Hold down
the Shift key then tap "Tab" until you get to your destination.
-- COMPLIMENTARY ENDORSEMENT --
Writer and publisher Karl-Erik Tallmo says:
After two and a half years of work my web magazine The Art Bin is up
online at last. The delay has been almost absurd, but it is due to my
illness, fibromyalgia, with chronic fatigue and muscle pain etc,
which keeps me from working during long periods.
I got the idea to devote an issue of my magazine to this topic, the
so-called new diagnoses, such health problems that are not considered
quite appropriate, health problems that sometimes are not recognized
by doctors and subject to dispute among scientists. The
epistemological and political matter, how one should relate to
possible but yet not proven hazards, is a cardinal problem here.
Get an overview of the contents at http://art-bin.com/aaehome.html
This is my own story, of nine years of illness with fibromyalgia,
probably caused by mercury poisoning from dental amalgam.
DID YOU KNOW - Using "that" or "which"
THAT
Generally, use "that" to introduce restrictive (essential) clauses.
When you use ESSENTIAL clauses, don't separate them from the rest of the
sentence by using commas.
Example: The book that my friend wrote is called "Fatal Games."
Tip: You want everyone to know about the BOOK THAT YOUR FRIEND WROTE. It's
not the book alone that's important: it's the book that your friend wrote.
WHICH
Generally, use "which" to introduce nonrestrictive (nonessential)clauses.
Separate a NONESSENTIAL clause from the rest of the sentence by commas.
Example: The book, which my friend wrote, is called "Fatal Games."
Tip: The book and its title are more important than its author. When using
"which" in this kind of sentence, think "by the way," or "incidentally."
It will help you understand that the words inside the commas are not vital
to the meaning of the sentence.
Which versus That: http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/notorious/that.htm
That versus Which: http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/t.html
RECOMMENDATIONS
EDUCATION
BUILD A PRAIRIE - The prairie is one of North America's great
ecosystems and a vital habitat for many plants and animals.
Over 98% of the prairie has been lost in the past 150 years,
but some people are trying to bring it back, hectare by hectare.
Restoring a prairie is a great challenge, requiring knowlege of
biology, ecology, climatology, and even economics. Are you up
for the challenge? If you choose the right plants and animals,
you can watch the prairie come to life before your eyes!
http://www.bellmuseum.org/mnideals/prairie/build/index.html
THE DIALOG TRAINING CENTER
Offers a range of training options to expand search skills and
knowledge on Dialog, DataStar and Profound — novice to power
searcher.
http://training.dialog.com/
ENGLISH COMPANION - By Jim Burke. For classroom students and
teachers.
www.englishcompanion.com
ONLINE POETRY CLASSROOM
http://www.onlinepoetryclassroom.org/
GRAMMAR
DAILY GRAMMAR
A great way to check grammar knowledge. Use the archives or sign
up twice a year for daily e-mail lessons.
http://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.html
PROFESSOR CHARLES DARLING'S GRAMMAR SITE
Outstanding to use as a quick reference for grammar questions.
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm
HEALTH
GATEWAY TO GOVERNMENT FOOD SAFETY INFORMATION.
http://www.foodsafety.gov/
SPINAL DISORDERS
http://www.spinaldisorders.com/
HISTORY
THE COMPLETE THOMAS ALVA EDISON U.S. PATENT COLLECTION
http://www.mall-usa.com/uspat/edison/
DIETS OF US MILITARY PERSONNEL 1776-PRESENT
http://www.qmfound.com/army_subsistence_history.htm
http://www.qmfound.com/army_rations_historical_background.htm
DAY OF INFAMY 1941-2001
An exhibit commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
http://www.lib.ecu.edu/SpclColl/showcase/
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS HISTORY AND MUSEUM
http://hqinet001.hqmc.usmc.mil/HD/Home_Page.htm
REFERENCE-GENERAL
ALASKA FEDERATION OF NATIVES
The mission of AFN is to enhance and promote the cultural, economic
and political voice of the entire Alaska Native community.
http://www.nativefederation.org/flash.html
HOW TO SAY "THANK YOU" IN MORE THAN 400 LANGUAGES - Jennifer Runner
http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/thankyou.htm
ONLINE BOOKS PAGE - 18,000+ Listings -- New Listings,Authors,Titles,
Subjects, Serials. Edited by John Mark Ockerbloom.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
TSAI FONG BOOKS, INC.
Asian language bookstore
https://www.bookswindow.com/AsianBook/
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