Food for Thought - March 2001
Note from Judy
Did you Know?
Keystroke Tips
Bonus Links
DJ Martin Foundation
One Hundred Years of Photography from the National Archives
Search for Common Ground
Recommendations
NOTE FROM JUDY
Thanks for your insightful comments, encouraging me to make changes in the way I presented the dictionary give-away. Here's what I discovered:
There is an interest in signing up for a free dictionary. By using more descriptive words to present it, many more people subscribed. While I had no entrants in January, I had 104 in February. The winner lives in the UK.
I took a poll asking those who didn't sign up to explain why. Out of 61 replies I learned that most people either had enough dictionaries or didn't want to give out personal information.
Also, I collected some excellent ideas. Each month I'll give the winner the choice of a dictionary or one hour of business services (professional mentoring) worth $50: copyediting, critiquing, etc. or coaching. The person who suggested this said, "...most people want to know how they can do better what they love to do, and I am one."
WINDOWS KEYSTROKES
F4 key displays the Address Bar History Window.
F1 key displays Internet Explorer Help. When you find the answer you need and want to print it, place your mouse over the help text, right click, then click on Print.
F11 key toggles between a full screen and one with toolbars. If you want to read more at a time, chose this function key.
BONUS LINKS
D J MARTIN FOUNDATION March 29, 2000 - British Columbia, Canada: Twenty-four-year-old DJ Martin was stabbed to death while helping a friend move his household belongings. Earlier, DJ's friend, concerned about his roommate's erratic behavior, decided to move out and asked for help. DJ cheerfully agreed to pitch in. One moment a group of people were working together, and moments later, one lay dying in the hallway after the roommate stabbed him eight times.
I encourage you to visit the site and see how one family refused to be paralyzed by grief. In less than a year, they found a way to honor DJ's memory by helping other British Columbia families of murder victims. DJ's father, Jerry - my client, colleague, and friend - is president of Better Internet Bureau.
http://www.djmartin.net
Picturing the Century: One Hundred Years of Photography from the NATIONAL ARCHIVES commemorates the end of the 20th century with a selection of photographs from the vast and varied holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA): Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island . . . the Wright Brothers fly . . . building the Empire State Building . . . a Depression-era soup line . . . Omaha Beach . . . the mushroom cloud . . . Lyndon Johnson taking the Presidential oath . . . a young marine in Da Nang . . . footprints on the Moon . . . war in the Persian Gulf . . .
SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND is a non-profit, non-governmental organization based in Washington, DC, which works in partnership with the European Centre for Common Ground in Brussels. Together, they work to transform conflict into cooperative action.
http://www.sfcg.org/
DID YOU KNOW
TOWARD AND TOWARDS - Both are correct, but "toward" is used more in American English, and "towards" is used more in British English.
UNIQUE - This word means "one of a kind," not "unusual." It's best not to modify it (don't say "very" unique or "quite" unique: just say "unique.")
WHOSE AND WHO'S
WHOSE is the possessive form of "who." Example, "Whose voice was that?"
WHO'S is a contraction meaning who is or who has. Example, "Who's the driver of that car?" (Who is the driver.)
RECOMMENDATIONS
THE AMERICAN VARIETY STAGE is a multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings. This collection illustrates the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920. Included are 334 English- and Yiddish-language playscripts, 146 theater playbills and programs, 61 motion pictures, 10 sound recordings and 143 photographs and 29 memorabilia items documenting the life and career of Harry Houdini. Groups of theater posters and additional sound recordings will be added to this anthology in the future.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vshome.html
CANADIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA ONLINE
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/
DAILY GRAMMAR Daily e-mail lessons from an experienced, effective English teacher.
http://www.dailygrammar.com
DAILY LESSON PLAN New York Times. Subjects: Economics, Geography, Social Studies, Civics
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/index.html
EARTH & TABLE is a list that functions as a roundtable discussion for those interested in growing, preserving, and preparing healthy and delicious food. Anyone is welcome to post, either in response to a discussion already underway, or to bring up a new topic. Subjects range from composting to book reviews, raised beds to casseroles. Each issue includes reader tips, questions and issues for discussion, as well as articles by moderator Ann Audette and guest authors.
http://www.earthandtable.com/
EXPLORE D.C. exploreDC.org is a creation by staff at WETA, a community licensed public broadcasting station in the nation's capital, Washington, DC. As a visitor, you will uncover fascinating stories of local history — tales of people and places in neighborhoods around town; read about African American life in Washington; learn about the planning and building of the capital city; study the US Presidents and the institutions of American government; take a virtual tour of monuments and neighborhoods; and use the Lesson Plans for creative classroom study.
http://www.exploredc.org/index.php
FOLK ART IN BOTTLES Whimsey bottles," or "puzzle bottles," are constructions or scenes assembled inside bottles. The earliest examples of the art form date from the eighteenth century, but most seem to date from 1890-1930. The most well-known form is a ship, but almost anything that can be built or whittled has been put into a bottle and can be seen here: crosses and crucifixions, fans, chairs, spinning wheels, wishing wells, photographs, buildings, tools, saloon scenes, fanciful bird trees and complicated interlocking puzzles.
http://www.sdjones.net/FolkArt
JOURNALIST EXPRESS, a "must" for anyone connected with writing or journalism. Comprehensive resources!
http://www.journalistexpress.com
KALEVALAN PÄIVÄ - THE KALEVALA DAY Kalevala is the Finnish national epic, compiled by Elias Lönnrot (1802-1884) from ancient oral poetry. The material, old Finnish ballads and lyrical songs depicting "the sons of Kalevala", were published in two editions, first 35 cantos in 1835 and enlarged edition with 50 cantos in 1849.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kalevala.htm
MOUNTAIN CITY ELEMENTARY CORNER Delightful site. Be sure and visit their polls, which ask
- What is your favorite chocolate bar?
- What is the worst food in the world?
- What is your favorite food?
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/index.htm
PATCHWORD Writers' resources
http://www.patchword.com
PEOPLE FOR EDUCATION
People for Education is made up of parents from public and Catholic schools in Ontario working together to preserve fully publicly-funded education. It believes that a fully publicly-funded education system is one of the cornerstones of the kind of civil society in which we want to live.
The organization designed an elementary school survey which tracks the effects of changes to its education system by asking parents to take yearly inventories in their schools. Every year it asks parents to count things like class sizes, portables, parent fundraising, computers, educational assistants, and gym teachers. Gathering this information allows them to measure the effect of changes as they are implemented. The data is analysed with the help of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), at the University of Toronto. Take advantage of the information in these valuable surveys.
http://www.peopleforeducation.com/
PREHISTORICPLANET.COM is a service of the PaleoClones, LLC company. We are a small group of laymen and scientists with a deep desire to share the world of natural history....dinosaurs, fossils and natural history in general.
http://www.prehistoricplanet.com/
PROFESSOR CHARLES DARLING'S GRAMMAR SITE
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm
QUOTELAND Quotations on every topic, by every author, and in every fashion possible.
http://www.quoteland.com/
RoughDraft is a freeware word processor designed with the writer in mind.
http://www.rsalsbury.co.uk/roughdraft/
SCIENCE SITES Merry Bruns is an online editor and content strategist who focuses on creating web content that communicate clearly and effectively with audiences.
She teaches classes in web communications, writing and editing at Georgetown University, the National Press Club and privately to organizations.
As principal of ScienceSites Communications (http://www.sciencesitescom.com), she's produced sites for the National Institutes of Health, numerous science organizations and business clients. With a degree in Anthropology, she's a specialist in science communications for the web, producing content that targets the general public as well as the media.
http://www.sciencesitescom.com/index.html
SPELLWEB is an evolving experiment in "sidesifting" the Web for useful patterns of information. While it can be useful, it is also for fun, and the results are not guaranteed. If you enter two misspellings of a word, it will show you which one is more popular, though neither one is right.
http://www.spellweb.com/http://www.spellweb.com/
TRYSCIENCE is a gateway to experience the excitement of contemporary science and technology through on and offline interactivity with science and technology centers worldwide. Science is exciting, and it's for everyone! That's why TryScience and over 400 science centers worldwide invite you to investigate, discover, and try science yourself. It's a partnership between IBM Corporation, the New York Hall of Science (NYHOS), the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC), and science centers worldwide.
http://www.tryscience.org/home.html
Judy's Sites or Site Affiliation:
Moderator for AudetteMedia's I-CRM List.
The I-CRM Discussion List has an audacious goal: to enthusiastically explore ways in which to delight customers and implement customer-related strategies.
http://www.audettemedia.com/
Basic Business Grammar.Judy is a WZ-ard for wz.com - helping busy people find good grammar resources. Please visit and rate the resources. I also have a 45-Second weekly e-zine and welcome your recommendations for good links.
http://wz.com/business/w/BasicBusinessGrammar.html
Hawaiian Food and Cuisine. Judy is a WZ-ard for this section of wz.com - helping busy people find delicious Hawaiian recipes.
http://wz.com/food/w/HawaiianFoodCuisine.html
Judy Vorfeld's Office Support Services
http://www.ossweb.com
Webgrammar
www.webgrammar.com
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