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Webgrammar's Food for Thought - ISSN: 1530-034X
Editor and Publisher: Judy Vorfeld
mailto:judyvorfeld@webgrammar.com URL: http://www.webgrammar.com
July 2004
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CONTENTS
Note from Judy - ESL and VCFS
Windows Keystroke & Tips - Shut down any Windows program:
Complimentary Endorsement - Meyerson Foundation
Did you Know - Has lain
Recommendations
Arts
Education
Grammar
History
References
Science/Technology
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NOTE FROM JUDY: Subscriber Karen Steffen Chung sent me a couple of
valuable ESL links. Access by going to http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/
Click on "Extras" and "Language and Linguistics."
* Missing Genetic Pieces: Strategies for Living with VCFS. A good and
trusted friend, Kas Winters, just announced publication of this intriguing
book by Sherry Baker-Gomez. Here are some excerpts from her release:
Sherry's book is titled Missing Genetic Pieces: Strategies for Living with
VCFS, the Chromosome 22q11 Deletion. It describes the history and anomalies
involved in missing just a small bit of genetic material. The foreword is
written by Dr. Robert J. Shprintzen, the man who delineated (discovered) it.
Sherry's son has the deletion and wasn't diagnosed until he was 18. She was
so frustrated with all of his health problems that she went back to school
to get a degree in nursing in her search for answers. The book contains all
the things she wished she had known when her son was younger, including
physical, developmental, mental and psychological ramifications of the
disorder. (There are 187 different anomalies associated with VCFS.)
She has included information on coping with family and couple relationship
issues, financial planning, and other things that make a huge difference
when a family has a child with a disorder. The book includes personal stories
and advice from families who have members with VCFS. Sherry has done a
remarkable job. I did the illustrations, cover design and I formatted and
edited the book.
VCFS often goes undiagnosed. Most doctors are not familiar with it and the
symptoms vary and can easily be confused with other medical problems. There
is a simple FISH test that can be given which definitely identifies whether
or not a person has Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome. This book is, I believe,
literally a Godsend to families affected by VCFS. It also offers helpful
information to anyone with any type of genetic problem and families dealing
with learning disabilities or other challenges with their children. If
anyone you know could benefit from this book, it's available at:
http://www.winmarkcom.com/vcfs.htm
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WINDOWS KEYSTROKES & TIPS - Shut down any Windows program: Ctrl+F4
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-- COMPLIMENTARY ENDORSEMENT --
Since I'm Webmaster for the Meyerson Foundation website, I get to preview
its new projects. The foundation is partnering with Northern Arizona
University in Flagstaff, Arizona, in three separate projects: Developing
assistive devices for children with disabilities, Play Through Assistive
Technology, and teacher training. Read more at:
http://www.meyersonfoundation.org/meyersondisabilityresearchproject.html
And Phase II of the Human Beams Project is in the works, to help children
walk: http://www.meyersonfoundation.org/soundandmusic.html#2
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DID YOU KNOW - Has lain
Q. I've been teaching ESL for 15 years and am still puzzled by the use of
"has lain," since I've never said it nor have ever heard anyone else use
it. How common is it? May I have good logical examples for my students?
A. I promised this ESL teacher that I'd ask my subscribers to help with
these two questions. Can you help?
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RECOMMENDATIONS
ARTS
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM
The museum is dedicated to the art of Georgia O’Keeffe and to the study of
American Modernism (1890–present). It is housed in a Pueblo Revival-style
building near the historic Santa Fe Plaza.
http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/
NEW ENGLAND RUINS
Photographer Rob Dobi traveled to over 40 sites and shot photos of former
factories, schools, and hospitals. Beautiful work.
http://photos.dobi.nu/
THE PASCHAL CANDLE
http://www.liturgy2000.com/dec_paschal_candles.html
EDUCATION
A KIDS HEART: NUMBER WORKSHEETS
Free programs for teachers and parents
http://akidsheart.com/threer/numcolor.htm
AMERICAN ENGLISH INSTITUTE
Free online materials for students in TOEFL, TOEIC, Grammar, Writing,
Listening, Speaking, Reading, Sentence Structure, Vocabulary, Idioms,
Business Idioms, Slang, and more.
www.aei.dli.com.
ASK THE SCIENTIST
Find answers to questions asked of the scientists at the Center for
Oceanic Research and Education, or ask your own question.
http://www.yankeefleet.com/WhaleWatching.cfm?P=312
CBC: ANATOMY OF A REFUGEE CAMP
Bird's-eye guide to a typical refugee camp. Site visitors are presented
with a small compass in the lower left-hand corner of the site that
allows them to maneuver through the overhead view of the refugee camp.
Some of the elements that are profiled include the food distribution point,
the vehicle entrance, the water point, the market, and the shelters. The
site also includes a selection of relevant external links, such as those
leading to Doctors Without Borders, the Red Cross, and the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/iraq/presentations/refugees/refugee.html
COMIC BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS
The Web site is designed to introduce librarians, teachers, and parents to
the rich, diverse offerings from today's comics book publishers, and to
encourage the acquisition of comic books and graphic novels in
libraries serving young adults.
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/lml/comics/pages/
LEARN SPANISH ONLINE
Free interactive Spanish lessons
http://www.spanishprograms.com/
NATIVE AMERICAN FUN
Everyone likes to have fun, especially Native Americans. This area of
Native American Rhymes offers games, crossword and word search puzzles.
http://nativeamericanrhymes.com/index.htm
TAMMY'S TECHNOLOGY TIPS FOR TEACHERS
http://www.essdack.org/tips/index.html
VOCABOLY
Vocaboly is a creative vocabulary builder for SAT, TOEFL, GRE, GMAT and
general vocabulary. Vocaboly contains five books: SAT, TOEFL, GRE, GMAT
and VOA Special English, with more than 12,000 words, each word provided
with meaning, phonetic symbol, and pronunciation.
http://www.vocaboly.com/index.php
GRAMMAR
COMMON ERRORS IN ENGLISH: PROFESSOR PAUL BRIANS' SITE
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html
DAILY GRAMMAR
A great way to check grammar knowledge. Use the archives or sign up
twice a year for daily e-mail lessons. Quizzes take four minutes
http://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.html
GRAMMAR CENTRAL
Links to both a teacher's notes on grammar lessons, as well as copies
of the lessons themselves. Be sure and check the index, which is an
alphabetized list of definitions.
http://www.longview.k12.wa.us/mmhs/wyatt/homework/grammar/gramm.html
MRS. BLUEZETTE'S GRAMMAR CORNER
"A PBS mind in an MTV world." Delightful, highly educational articles
by a wonderful English language wizard (umm...wizette).
http://www.newsblues.com/grammar.htm
PROFESSOR CHARLES DARLING'S GRAMMAR SITE
Outstanding to use as a quick reference for your grammar questions.
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
HISTORY
THE WORD ON THE STREET: Broadside at the National Library of Scotland.
For almost 300 years until the mid-19th century, broadsides filled the
place occupied today by the tabloid press. Originally they were single
sheets of paper, printed on one side only, designed to be read unfolded
and posted up in public places. At first they were used for printing
royal proclamations, acts, and official notices. Later they became a
vehicle for political agitation and what is now known as "popular
culture," such as ballads and scaffold speeches.
http://www.nls.uk/broadsides/
CENTER FOR DIGITAL STORYTELLING
A non-profit project development, training, and research organization
dedicated to assisting people in using digital media to tell meaningful
stories from their lives. Its focus is on developing large-scale projects
for community, educational, and business institutions using the methods
and principles built around its Digital Storytelling Workshop.
http://www.storycenter.org/
MAGAZINEART.ORG
Visual database of magazine cover art from the 19th and early 20th
centuries. Why magazines? Magazines shaped our lives. They came into our
homes and showed us how to dress, how to act, what to read, which way to
vote, and how to think about ourselves, literature, science, art, and
the rest of the world.
http://www.magazineart.org/
REFERENCES
ACCESS IN THE FUTURE TENSE
The Council on Library and Information Resources produces a number of
written works to inform the community of library specialists on a host
ofimportant and pressing topics, including preservation awareness,
resources for scholarship, and digital libraries. Discussions of
preservation are seldom wholly separated from those of access, but it
is remarkable the extent to which people who are not professionally
involved in preservation or conservation talk about preservation
exclusively in terms of access. What will happen to the preservation
mission of libraries or archives when they will not have to preserve
materials in order to provide access? How do we prevent preservation
from being further marginalized within these institutions?
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub126/contents.html
ATLA
Theological Libraries: Historical Sources. Compiled by David Stewart of
Princeton Theological Seminary.
http://www.ptsem.edu/grow/library/nyatla/sources.htm
BOTTLENECK STUDY - AMERICAN HIGHWAY USERS ALLIANCE
The Highway Users represents motorists, truckers, bus companies and a
broad cross-section of businesses that depend on safe and efficient
highways to transport their families, customers, employees, and products.
Our members pay the taxes that finance the federal highway program and
advocate public policies that dedicate those taxes to improved highway
and safety mobility.
http://www.highways.org/bottleneck/2004/complete.cfm
EPIN
A network of think tanks and policy institutes focusing on current EU
and European political and policy debates. Almost 40 member thinktanks
in 28 countries, including all the EU member states and accession and
candidate countries. EPIN aims to contribute to the debate on the Future
of Europe through up-to-the-minute, expert analysis and commentary and
through providing easy access to understanding the different national
debates.
http://www.epin.org
UNDERCITY.ORG
A photographic celebration of New York City and all cities. Like a living
being, a city does not willingly reveal its complexity and secrets to any
random stranger. In order to find these secrets and understand them, you
must be intimate with the city, dedicated, open to exploration, and
courageous.
http://www.undercity.org/
SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY
AUSTRALIAN CENTRE FOR ASTROBIOLOGY
The ACA undertakes research on the origin and evolution of life on
Earth, and the distribution of life beyond Earth. It is strongly
interdisiciplinary, covering the fields of microbiology, geochemistry,
planetary science, astronomy, physics and philosophy. Students and
educators can discover research and scholarship opportunities.
http://aca.mq.edu.au/
COMPARATIVE MAMMALIAN BRAIN COLLECTIONS
This web site provides browsers with images and information from one
of the world's largest collection of well-preserved, sectioned and
stained brains of mammals. Viewers can see and download photographs
of brains of over 100 different species of mammals (including humans)
representing 17 mammalian orders.
http://brainmuseum.org/index.html
INGENIOUS
Brings together images and viewpoints to create insights into science
and culture. It weaves unusual and thought-provoking connections between
people, innovations and ideas. Drawing on the resources of NMSI, the
site contains over 30,000 images which are used to illustrate over 30
different subjects, topics and debates.
http://www.ingenious.org.uk/
MICROPHONES
Take a peek at early radioand TV production, as well as the audio
science of vintage microphones, some of which are still used today.
Listen to the unique sounds of many of the mics featured, including
a clip by President Harry S. Truman.
http://www.coutant.org/
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