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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
December 2005
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CONTENTS
Note from Judy
Windows Keystroke & Tips - Maximizing windows
Did you Know - What a person in his 50s is called
Recommendations
Arts
Education
Grammar
History
References
Science/Technology
Writing/Journalism
Judy's Photo Gallery
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NOTE FROM JUDY
1. If you're like most people who celebrate holidays in December, you
are busy buying gifts, sending cards, and trying to balance your many
activities. And soon we must begin getting our personal and business
records in order. Remember to change the dates on your website (if you
have one) on January 1.
Here's a tip: Choose from three scripts that will automatically print
the current year: they're perfect for using in the copyright area of
your website. Created by Will Bontrager, they are clean, simple, and
(as always) have more than a touch of his special creativity. (Photo in the photo gallery at bottom of the page.)
http://willmaster.com/blog/javascript/Automatically_Printing_the_Year.html
2. I hope your year has been meaningful. It's amazing how we can go
through tough times and see them as opportunities. And how we learn to
be grateful for the sweet, quiet times in life. Based on your email
messages to me throughout the year, I believe this philosophy reflects
your nature.
You are the best. Happy holidays, and may 2006 bring you much joy.
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WINDOWS KEYSTROKES & TIPS - How to Resize Windows
If you want to resize a window you're working in, go up to the title
bar at the very top of your window and double click anywhere in the
empty space. (The title bar is the one that gives the name of the
application on the left and that shows the restore/maximize and exit
buttons on the right.)
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DID YOU KNOW - If a person in his 80s is called an octogenarian,
what is a person in his 50s called?
A quinquagenarian.
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RECOMMENDATIONS
ARTS
PRINTS WITH/OUT PRESSURE:
American Relief Prints from the 1940s through the 1960s
http://tinyurl.com/7hl3l
THE POETRY ARCHIVE
The world's premier online collection of recordings of poets
reading their work.
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do
EDUCATION
KEA COLORING BOOK 3.4
Find out all about the Kea Coloring Book, download new
pictures to color in, enter our coloring in competitions,
download the latest version of the software and more.
http://www.keasoftware.com/coloring/index.php
LIBRARY, LIBRARIAN, AND LIBRARIANSHIP QUOTES
http://tinyurl.com/9vp3p
EDUCATION OASIS
http://www.educationoasis.com/
SCHOOL SANITATION
http://www.schoolsanitation.org/
GRAMMAR
COMMON ERRORS IN ENGLISH: PROFESSOR PAUL BRIANS' SITE
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html
DAILY GRAMMAR
Check your grammar knowledge. Quizzes take four minutes.
http://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.shtml
ENGLISH GRAMMAR
Special help in diagramming sentences
http://members.cox.net/teachro/
EVERYTHING ESL
http://www.everythingesl.net/lessons/
GRAMMAR CENTRAL
Links to a teacher's notes on grammar lessons as well as copies
of the lessons themselves. Be sure to check the index, which is
an alphabetized list of definitions.
http://tinyurl.com/94q5d
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 as a quick reference for your grammar questions.
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
THE ENGLISH MAZE
A web-based learning system for individuals and schools
worldwide. Students can improve their pronunciation, speaking,
reading, listening, and writing skills. The site contains
hundreds of hours of material, much of which is free.
www.englishmaze.com
HISTORY
THE CROOKED ROAD
Take a musical journey along The Crooked Road, Virginia’s
Heritage Music Trail, from Ferrum to Clintwood with back-road
stops along the way.
http://www.roanoke.com/multimedia/crooked/wb/xp-index
BOUND FOR GLORY
Bound for Glory: America in Color is the first major exhibition
of the little known color images taken by photographers of the
Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information. These
vivid scenes and portraits capture the effects of the Depression
on America's rural and small town populations, the nation's
subsequent economic recovery and industrial growth, and the
country's great mobilization for World War II.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/boundforglory/
THE MEGIDDO EXPEDITION
Why dig Megiddo? Megiddo is the jewel in the crown of biblical
archaeology. Strategically perched above the most important land
route in the ancient Near East, the city dominated international
traffic for over 6,000 years – from ca. 7,000 B.C.E. through to
biblical times
http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/archaeology/megiddo/
DOCUMENTS FROM THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS AND THE
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/continental/
TENDING THE COMMONS: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West
Virginia Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern
West Virginia, a new addition to Library of Congress' American
Memory, features digital versions of sound recordings and
photographs collected during the American Folklife Center's
Coal River Folklife Project, 1992–1999.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/tending/
REFERENCES
100 BEST COMMUNITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Gen. Colin Powell announces '100 Best Communities for Young
People' The 100 Best Communities for Young People celebrates
outstanding, innovative efforts across the country that improve
the well-being of our young people.
http://www.americaspromise.org/100Best/
INTERFAITH CALENDAR
Primary Sacred Times for World Religions
http://www.interfaithcalendar.org/
331 MOST COMMON VERBS
http://www.acme2k.co.uk/Acme/3star%20verbs.htm
THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION ON DISABILITY
http://www.nod.org
SOUNDTRANSIT
SoundTransit is a collaborative, online community dedicated
to field recording and phonography. On this site, you can
plan a sonic journey through various locations recorded
around the world, or you can search the database for specific
sounds by different artists from certain places. If you are a
phonographer, you can also contribute your recordings for
others to enjoy.
http://soundtransit.nl/index.html
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND
http://www.nfb.org/
ORGANIZATION OF WORLD HERITAGE CITIES
Created in 1993, the OWHC has been given a mandate by the
United Nations to protect the cultural, historical, and
social heritage of the world’s great cities.
http://urbo.ovpm.org/index.php?newlang=eng
NET EFFECTS: HOW LIBRARIANS CAN MANAGE THE UNINTENDED
CONSEQUENCES OF THE INTERNET
The revised and updated outline and links for a presentation
based on Marylaine Block's book of the same name
http://marylaine.com/effects.html
WORLD AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION CENTRE PORTAL
http://www.fao.org/waicent/
SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY
PHYLOTAXIS
http://www.phylotaxis.com/
FLIP: THE WORLD'S STRANGEST RESEARCH LAB
Doors in the floor, portholes in the ceiling, tables bolted
sideways to walls, stairs leading to nowhere! What kind of a
research lab is this? Meet FLIP, a very strange piece of
oceanographic equipment used by scientists at Scripps
Institution of Oceanography.
http://sio.ucsd.edu/voyager/flip/index.html
WRITING/JOURNALISM
DIGG
A technology news website that employs non-hierarchical editorial
control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather
than allowing an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage,
the users do.
http://www.digg.com
CYBERJOURNALIST.NET
Tips and talk for the wired world. Founded by newspaper publishers
in 1946, the American Press Institute is the oldest and largest
center devoted solely to training and professional development for
the news industry and journalism educators.
http://www.cyberjournalist.net/tips/
RESUME WRITING SERVICES
Resume writing tips for journalism and writing positions.
http://www.free-resume-tips.com/resumetips/writer.html
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And now, a few of my favorite photos 2005, redigitized:
Will, Mari, and Princess Leah Bontrager: November 2005
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