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Food for Thought - May 2001

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NOTES FROM JUDY

How Stuff Works Offer
If you're a teacher with students in grades 4 through 8, you can sign up now for the free HowStuffWorks Express magazine directly from the home page. This full-color magazine brings HowStuffWorks articles right into the classroom. Once you sign up, you receive 60 free copies of each magazine issue for your class (corporate sponsors cover the cost of printing and distribution). For more information, go to this page:
http://www.howstuffworks.com/teacher-info.htm

WINDOWS KEYSTROKES AND TIPS

Text on a Website too small? Go to the Menu Bar and click on View, then Text Size. You'll see a bullet to the left of the current setting. Click to change the size of text. NOTE: sometimes Web developers specify the size of the text in such a way that you cannot change it. But it's worth a try!

Want to open a page twice? If you're on a site, and you want to review a page in more depth, use Ctrl+N and you'll get that page in a new window. Use this page to investigate other places on the site, returning to the original at your leisure.

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BROCKELMAN & FRIENDS - http://www.brockelman.com - Creative Direction; Senior Copywriting; PR & Media Relations; Advertising; Marketing; and Promotion. I recommend my colleague, Stephen Brockelman, to business people looking for solid, realistic, cost-effective answers to advertising, marketing, promotional, and communication needs. He's the best in his field.

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DID YOU KNOW?
WHEN TO USE "FORMER" AND "LATTER"
"Former" refers to the first of two persons or things. When more than two are mentioned, use "first." Examples:
1. This item is available in wood and in metal, but I prefer the former.
2. This item is available in wood, metal, and plastic, but I prefer the first.

"Latter" refers to the second of two persons or things. When more than two are mentioned, use "last." Examples:
1. July and August are good vacation months, but the latter is more popular.
2. June, July, and August are good vacation months, but the last is more popular.

Memory trick: "former" and "first" begin with the same letter, and "latter" and "last" begin with the same letter.

RECOMMENDATIONS

ARTS

FILM SOUND HISTORY: Sven E Carlsson offers tremendous references for people interested in film sound history. The entire site, Film Sound Design, according to Oxford University, offers "...an excellent collection of resources and links."
http://www.filmsound.org/film-sound-history/

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GRAMMAR

DAILY GRAMMAR A great way to check your grammar knowledge. Use the archives or sign up twice a year for daily e-mail lessons. Quizzes take four minutes, and are easy and fun. http://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.html

PROFESSOR CHARLES DARLING'S GRAMMAR SITE
An outstanding site to use as a quick reference for your grammar questions.
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm

GRAMMAR HELP: Ruth Vilmi
http://www.ruthvilmi.net/hut/help/grammar_help/

SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

FBI HANDBOOK OF FORENSIC SERVICES Guidance and procedures for safe, efficient methods of collecting and preserving evidence. Also describes the forensic examinations performed by the FBI Laboratory.
http://www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/handbook/intro.htm

THE MEDIEVAL TECHNOLOGY PAGES
An attempt to provide accurate, referenced information on technological innovation and related subjects in western Europe during the Middle Ages.
http://scholar.chem.nyu.edu/technology.html

MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONIC MUSEUM
Accredited museum of Canada's Department of National Defence (DND). The Museum's role: to educate members of the military and of the general public about the people, events and technologies involved in Canadian military communications and electronics.
http://www.c-and-e-museum.org/exhib_e1.htm

NIST STONE WALL
The stone test wall was constructed to study the performance of stone subjected to weathering. It contains 2352 individual samples of stone: 2032 are domestic stone from 47 states, and 320 are stones from 16 foreign countries. Sponsored by the National Park Service through The National Center for Preservation Technology and Training.
http://stonewall.nist.gov/

SCIRUS: SCIENCE SEARCH ENGINE
Scirus skips sites with no scientific content, concentrating only on sites with scientific content, e.g., university sites and author homepages.
http://www.scirus.com/

A SIGHTSEER'S GUIDE TO ENGINEERING
The National Society of Professional Engineers created this site to help students understand how engineering affects their lives. Learn why a particular project was chosen, e.g., architectural design, manufacturing processes, or geologic formations.
http://www.engineeringsights.org/

THE VIRTUAL CAVE
This site tells the story of caves in words and pictures: what they contain and how the contents got there. It's divided into four cave categories: Solutions, Lava Tubes, Erosional, and Sea.
http://www.goodearthgraphics.com/virtcave.html

TRAVEL

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM COMMAND CENTER
The ATCSCC regulates air traffic when weather, equipment, runway closures, or other impacting conditions place stress on the NAS.
http://www.fly.faa.gov/flyFAA/index.html

WRITING/JOURNALISM

PAPER LAKE TIMES
Created as part of a graduate-level online education class at Kean University in Union, N.J. Students learn how to become reporters. Paper Lake Times covers the schools, government and crime in the newspaper's small home town. The newspaper holds classes in Basic Reporting 101, and then sends reporters out to the streets to cover the news. http://soe.kean.edu/~scarty/

Judy's Sites or Site Affiliation:

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http://www.adventive.com/lists/icrm/summary.html

Basic Business Grammar: wz.com
http://wz.com/business/BasicBusinessGrammar.html

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http://wz.com/food/HawaiianFoodCuisine.html

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