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Food for Thought - November 2001

Note from Judy - New e-zine & Syndicated Writing Tips
Windows Keystroke & Tips - Move to another page or application
Complimentary Endorsement - whatsnextonline.com
Did you Know - Difference between "bring" and "take"
Recommendations

NOTE FROM JUDY

1. Starting December 1, I'll publish a new e-zine at my ossweb.com site: COMMUNICATION EXPRESSWAY. Its to help people achieve effective business presentation. There'll be a lot of help for people running small businesses, plus a monthly drawing for The Home Office and Small Business Answer Book by Janet Attard. To learn more about the e-zine, go to http://www.ossweb.com/ezine.html

2. I have just started syndicating Writing Tips on my ossweb.com site, at http://www.ossweb.com/syndicated.html. It's easy, if you have a Web site. Create a Web page with room for an article, then add the script shown on my page to that page at the spot where you want the article to appear: It will automatically appear, and once a week it will change.

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WINDOWS KEYSTROKES AND TIPS

Move to another page or application

CTRL+TAB Let's say you have five files open in an application. Using CTRL + TAB will move you between them without having to use your mouse.

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-- COMPLIMENTARY ENDORSEMENT --

B. L. Ochman, of http://www.whatsnextonline.com, is one of the finest minds in marketing. Think public relations. Think branding. As her site intro says: "Want to sell the pants off your competitors? We focus with laser-like intensity on building traffic and sales using innovative marketing techniques and tactics."

Then there's her wonderful dog, Sam, a Delta Society Pet Partner since 1993. Sam recently retired as a visiting Therapy Dog at a public school in New York City. B.L. and Sam worked with Cerebral Palsy, Down's Syndrome and autistic children bi-weekly as part of the school's Occupational Therapy program. Sam recently brought comfort to families and disaster workers at the WTC Disaster Assistance Center at Pier 94 in Manhattan.

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DID YOU KNOW?

The difference between "bring" and "take"

The Gregg Reference Manual, Ninth Edition, says that "bring" indicates motion toward the speaker, while take indicates motion away from the speaker.

Examples:

Please bring the CDs with you when you come over for coffee. Please take this file to Joshua when you go see him. You may take my copy with you if you'll bring it back tomorrow.

And the following from Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary,* which also suggests "bring to" and "take away."

BRING
1 a : to convey, lead, carry, or cause to come along with one toward the place from which the action is being regarded b : to cause to be, act, or move in a special way: as (1) : ATTRACT <her screams brought the neighbors> (2) : PERSUADE, INDUCE (3) : FORCE, COMPEL (4) : to cause to come into a particular state or condition <bring water to a boil> c dialect : ESCORT, ACCOMPANY

TAKE
1 : to get into one's hands or into one's possession, power, or control: as a : to seize or capture physically <took them as prisoners> b : to get possession of (as fish or game) by killing or capturing c (1) : to move against (as an opponent's piece in chess) and remove from play (2) : to win in a card game <able to take 12 tricks> d : to acquire by eminent domain

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RECOMMENDATIONS

GRAMMAR

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

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

THE BASIC COZY GRAMMAR COURSE
Digitally shot on location on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Conceived as a living textbook, the video uses colorful graphics to help clarify definitions, demonstrations and examples.
http://www.splashesfromtheriver.com

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HEALTH

HEALTH INFORMATION ON THE NET
This outline for a workshop Marylaine Block did at Lewis and Clark Library System contains good annotated links and a guide to evaluating health information.
http://marylaine.com/health.html

HEMOPHILIA
http://vector.cshl.org/ygyh/mason/ygyh.html?syndrome=hemo

INNER BODY
Animations, images, and descriptions of skeletal, digestive, muscle, lymphatic, endocrine, nervous, cardiovascular, male and female reproductive and urinary systems.
http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html

THE NATIONAL ALLERGY BUREAU™ (NAB™) is the section of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology´s (AAAAI) Aeroallergen Network responsible for reporting current pollen and mold spore levels to the media. The NAB works in cooperation with the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI).
http://www.aaaai.org/nab/

SOLAE
http://www.solae.com/index4.html

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HISTORY

AMERICAN ELECTROLUX: THE BEGINNING, AND THE EARLY YEARS
http://137.com/lux/

AMERICAN MEMORY
Part of the Library of Congress collections, it's a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the U. S. offering more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.
http://memory.loc.gov/

ASPECTS OF THE VICTORIAN BOOK
Production and publishing.
http://www.bl.uk/collections/epc/victorian/intro.html

CLEOPATRA
Was she a hero or a villain? A beauty or a beguiler? A brilliant leader or a ruthless destroyer? The Field Museum explores the myth and mystery of Cleopatra, Egypt´s last queen.
http://www.fmnh.org/cleopatra/

HISTORIC WEAPONS COLLECTIONS
A photographic slice of a personal collection of reproduction arms and armor.
http://www.kattnet.com/arms/

HISTORY OF RURAL FREE DELIVERY
http://www.geocities.com/fahsmn/post_office_history.htm

HISTORY THROUGH DEAF EYES
Gallaudet University is developing a traveling social history exhibition about deaf Americans. Using objects and images collected by individuals, organizations, and schools for deaf students, this exhibition will illustrate shared experiences of family life, education, and work—as well as the divergent ways deaf people see themselves, communicate, employ and adapt available technology, and determine their own futures.
http://depts.gallaudet.edu/deafeyes/index.htm

ICELANDIC MEDIEVAL HISTORY
Images of manuscripts and books published before 1901
http://saga.library.cornell.edu/

THE SEPTEMBER 11 WEB ARCHIVE
A collaboration between the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, and WebArchivist.org. Its mission: to gather and preserve web sites related to the events of September 11, 2001. Categories: Press, Government, Corporate / Business, School / Educational, Portal, Charity / Civic, Advocacy / Interest, Religious, Individual / Volunteer, Non-English.
http://september11.archive.org/

SAMUEL F. B. MORSE PAPERS
About 6,500 items, or approximately 50,000 images that document Morse's invention of the electromagnetic telegraph, his participation in the development of telegraph systems in the United States and abroad, his career as a painter, his family life, his travels, and his interest in early photography, religion, and the nativist movement. Included: correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, scrapbooks, printed matter, maps, drawings, and other miscellaneous materials. The papers included date from 1793 to 1919, but most are from 1807 to 1872.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sfbmhtml/

WARSHIPS
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/warship/

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WRITING/JOURNALISM

101 WRITING ANSWERS
Index of Writing Communities
http://www.101writinganswers.com/ac-forum/

DARE TO BE BAD
About generating ideas, breaking writer's block, and writing.
http://www.sff.net/people/julia.west/CALLIHOO/dtbb.htm

DOUBLE TAKE
It hopes to serve as an online portal where documentarians from all media come to view documentary work, to learn about upcoming exhibitions and events, to read reviews of and to purchase documentary publications and productions, and to communicate with one another about their own work and the work of others. It'll still provide a home for many of the articles, stories, photo essays, and poems found in old and new issues of DoubleTake, as well as for documentary-based educational programming like its popular Classroom Companion and a host of new and exciting ventures.
http://www.doubletakemagazine.org/

* By permission. From Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary
at www.m-w.com by Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.

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