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Translatable But Debatable - ערירי (ariri)
As a term meaning “childless,” the word ערירי (ariri) is first found where God promises to reward Abram generously and Abram asks what the point of any reward is with no one to bequeath it to: מה־תתן־לי ואנכי הולך ערירי (“what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless” — King James). It’s not the sort of response you’d expect to hear from a childless man today, for example from some elderly bachelor offered a prize on a quiz show.
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Translatable But Debatable - Gvartan
An English-speaking woman I once worked with would refer to a sturdy, muscular man as a mac, because in the media someone often calls out “Hey, mac!” to such a fellow and she reckoned it had something to do with strength, like a Mack truck. To me it makes as much sense as many other word derivations, but unfortunately none of the dictionary writers have got behind it.
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Translatable But Debatable - Mishka’im
So what are these persistences called in English — these things that can make us perceive inexactly, or act neurotically, for sedimental reasons?
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Resilience Tip - Impact vs. Memory
“You weren’t listening to me!” “Yes I was! You said…” And they in fact repeat back exactly what we have just said. Familiar interaction? And yet, have you ever felt less than satisfied when that happens?
Why this lack of satisfaction? What has happened, or perhaps more accurately, what has not happened They obviously did hear us, so what is still missing? What are we actually trying to do when we communicate?
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Observations on Design and Illustration #6: Design Resources.
Design Pet Peeve #6: The Incubation Principal: In small as well as large arenas of life, there is lag time between the beginning of an action or cause and an inevitable reaction or effect: in other words, an incubation period. Have you ever placed a glass of water with ice in it on a table, and rotated the glass slowly around? Did you notice how long it takes for the ice to start rotating as long as it doesn’t touch the glass? Or, for that matter, how long it takes the ice to stop after you have stopped rotating the glass? Molecules of water have to move by friction from the glass inward until they reach the ice: that’s a form of incubation common in the physical world. On a cosmic scale, the coldest days of winter always come after the shortest day, as do the hottest days of summer follow the longest. The same principal applies in immunology. Several communicable diseases, such as measles and chicken pox, are at their most contagious just prior to their symptoms manifesting themselves externally. Some say this is what is happening to the Earth right now; that we have passed a tipping point with our profligate misuse and cavalier “disposal” of the Earth’s resources, incubating our own destruction for centuries, and from now on, no matter what we do, our climate, air, water, and soil will continue to degrade until eventually the Earth will correct the situation by curing the disease: humans. This sounds defeatist and dire for our species, and may indeed be true, but what does design have to do with all this, you ask? Ideally, everything.
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Summary of the Jan. 13 Meeting (Emergency Preparedness at Rambam Health Care Campus)
Debbie Hemstreet provided an insider’s look at the new construction projects currently underway at Rambam Health Care Campus.
Topics Covered
- The Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital—To provide emergency acute and chronic care while under fire, the focus of the meeting, described below
- The Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital—To provide “pain free” pediatric care to serve the physical and emotional needs of children and their families
- The Biomedical Discover Tower—To conduct clinical research that leads to improved patient care in collaboration with academic institutions and the biomedical industry
- The Cardiovascular Hospital—To provide cardiovascular diagnosis, treatments, research, and disease risk reduction in one facility, using the integrated cardiovascular care model
- The Joseph Fishman Oncology Center—To provide cancer treatments including experimental treatments resulting from research conducted at Rambam that were previously unavailable
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Problem with FrameMaker 10 and solution
January 3 2013
Technical writers using FrameMaker 10 recently reported a "license expired" message when they logged in after Jan. 1, 2013. Adobe created an update that solves the problem. You can download it a http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2013/01/update-on-the-issue-of-framemaker-10-not-launching.html .
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Resilience Tip - Inner Bumps
An important resilient expectation is Realistic Optimism. We are realistic in that we expect the road of life to have bumps, and we are optimistic in that we believe we can or will be able to manage the bumps. Sometimes these bumps are external, a challenge at our work, a health issue, children that do not admire and agree with every utterance from our mouths. And sometimes these bumps are internal, we lose our temper easily, we tend to procrastinate, we react before we think.
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Israel Job Fair 2012
If you are looking for jobs that you need and are highly trained English mother tongue Olim or other highly trained Sabra’s this Job Fair is for YOU! Best of all there is NO CHARGE!
To join this job fair you MUST be registered to enter. No entry, walk-ins or guests of those registered will be permitted. Register now at
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Observations on Design and Illustration #5: Design Disciplines and Movements.
Design Pet Peeve #5: Let’s address the specific design principal of Consistency: The use of elements the same throughout a system no matter where or how they are employed; and how the lack thereof can cause stress, frustration, and sometimes dangerous situations. Since I spend a great deal of my design time on signs, I will use them as my examples. Traveling by car to a new destination without the aid of an accurate GPS unit can be highly stressful. If your destination is a major attraction such as a specific spot within an airport, the signs should lead you right to it, like Hansel and Gretel breadcrumbs strewn on a forest path. But just as in the fairy tail, sometimes those breadcrumbs mysteriously disappear mid-journey. And sometimes, the design, color scheme, size, placement, symbology, or text content change from sign to sign or location to location, making the journey all that much more frustrating.
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Resilience Tip - Pleased vs. Complacent
Organizational studies suggest that one of the things employees most desire and least feel is acknowledgement, recognition for effort and work well done. People will grumble about their boss not addressing this important issue. And yet we are often similarly neglectful in the way we relate to ourselves.
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Photos from the 6th Annual Techshoret Convention
Nadina Rosentuler and Sharon Mink posted some nice photos at http://elephant.org.il/elephant_event_photos/techshoret_conference/
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Being Proactive - Finding Freelance Technical Writing and Editing Opportunities
Professional conferences and workshops are great opportunities for freelance technical writers and copy editors. The presenters often need your professional services and
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Promoting Your Business
According to Hillel Porath of Gavoah Marketing, \"attracting clients is probably one of the hardest aspects in running a small business\". For many of us, he is right. With his permission I\'ve uploaded a copy of his 11 page list of recommendations that I think is worth reading. Click here to download...
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The Hardware Hunt
The Hardware Hunt
Only after a thorough understanding of how a computer works and boots will you be ready to shop for components and a respective operating system (OS). The hardware (HW) and OS go together because the final OS that you want on your computer often determines the type of HW that you will want to choose.
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Mouse Euthanasia with Camtasia
December 31 2008
(edited 4 year, 3 month ago)
Tags:Hi, you keyboard whiz readers! I needed to make a change in this month's featured application at the last minute. Because of some previous damage to my computer, the Captivate download did not work properly. No matter! Camtasia is an excellent tool that can do a lot of what Captivate does for less money. Unfortunately, Camtasia is no longer freeware, but you can download a 30-day trial version, as I did.
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Eye Spy
"You know your teacher is possessed by Beelzebub when his or her head rotates 360 degrees at the blackboard. But is this what it takes to effectively keep watch over a classroom while a teacher unveils a frontal lesson? All adults who work with kids instinctively understand that they love to deny their mischievous behavior when the teacher isn't looking. It's one of the hallmarks of adolescent classroom acuity. Lest you grow eyes in the back of your head, educators are in a significantly vulnerable position. So how does one fight back?
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It’s a column, It’s a blog, It’s Moving to Chelm: Is this a blog or not?
Although by nature I may not really be shy, I am used to being made fun of as the “nerd”, 4-eyes, Miss Encyclopedia, you name it. My online work has mostly been doing the design and the coding of websites, more than the writing.
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Milestones: Does the concept of Project Management Exist in Israel?
When do I stop being considered new? Probably never. Our cousin Yossi, the tour guide says that to be considered old in Israel,something has to be at least 200 years old.
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Why am I the nerd?
In today’s world, no one can know everything. Expertise is a relative term. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. When I walk into some people’s office I am the computer & internet guru. In other offices, I am the worker bee and others still, the new kid on the block.
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התשתית החוקית, האתית והמעשית
תיאור של תהליך הגישור בפרק זה מתייחס לגישור באופן כללי כשיטה ליישוב סכסוכים בתחומים רבים – סכסוכים עסקיים ומסחריים, סכסוכים בצרכנות, בין שכנים, בין קרובי משפחה ועוד.
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All About Indexing #8: Starting An Indexing Business, Part 2: Marketing
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Creating Your Home Court Advantage
June 19 2008
(edited 4 year, 2 month ago)
Tags:You may root for your home team, but how often do you root for yourself? How to develop self-talk that is positive and genuine.
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Guide for the Perplexed: Where the How-To’s Are, and Office 2007 Commands
June 16 2008
(edited 4 year, 2 month ago)
Tags:Drop in for a roundup of helpful Web sites that offer instructional content in textual form, news about a Microsoft Office add-in that helps you adapt to Office 2007, and all about run-time environments in Linux.
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Thanks for Reading
With the column of June 1, “The Final Why,” The Why of Style has concluded a two-year fortnightly run. Any future columns will be occasional. My e-mail address remains open for questions and comments: . Thanks for reading, and particular thanks to those who wrote in from time to time. — Mark L. Levinson
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Play Music and Get a Date at the Tool Bar & Grill
June 9 2008
(edited 4 year, 3 month ago)
Tags:Wherein Jonathan recommends a great simple media player and a Web site that can get you out of trouble, and Mark reviews Linux calendar utilities.
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The Final Why
June 1 2008
(edited 4 year, 2 month ago)
Tags:“When we didn’t have a manual yet, when we didn’t know what to name the commands on our menus, when we needed our business cards spelled right, we couldn’t have done without you,” the boss said. “But now the product is in release, and I don’t see the ROI from fine-polishing the error messages.”
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What the Romans Knew
Memory improvement techniques are based on finding memory pegs, on which to hang the things one wants to remember. The principle of memory pegs is simple...
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What is PDC all about?
April 19 2008
(edited 3 year, 10 month ago)
Tags:TheP eopleD evelopmentC olumns help you maximize your chances for success. These columns are currently broken into 2 groups that appear 3 times per month.
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Loops
Excerpted from my book FrameScript for Newbies Copyright [7/17/2007] by Paul Schnall
Loops are a way of moving through a book or document and running lines of code on each object of a particular type. For example, looping through every paragraph (paragraph being the object) in a document and searching for a specific word or text is easily done using this construct.
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Create Screencasts and Quick Video Captures with Jing (Totally Free)
Jing,a new project by TechSmith, is a tool that allows you to quickly capture video or an image from your computer and share it with others, such as project team members or customers.
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God and the Technical Writer
And in the beginning there was nothing. And then one day a huge bang was heard that echoed round the universe and when the smoke had cleared, all that could be seen was a giant Product Manager and a petite Technical Writer
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