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Life on the Southern Front: Introduction and Reflection
The journey to our moshav near Ashqelon from work in Tel Aviv includes a one hour train ride. I always carry my notebook PC with me to work on the train. Tonight my thoughts are about my family who have been subjected to the threats of explosions around them all day.
The bomb shelters on the moshav are too few and too far for most residents to run to. One must have faith in the Almighty who has brought us through many wars in our home land.
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Mouse Euthanasia with Camtasia
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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2008 Events
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New Column: Life on the Southern Front: Introduction and Reflection
December 30 2008 Esther Shira Stepansky under Life on the Southern Front of Israel | Comments (0)(edited 4 days, 13 hours ago)
Tags:I am pleased to announce that Israel Ivri, an oleh to Ashqelon, who is currently a technical writer for RADVISION in Tel Aviv, will be writing a new column about his experiences as a resident of what is now known as the “special situation” territory in the South. It is planned as a weekly blog, but check back more often, as he will keep us posted if anything new happens. You can find his first article at http://elephant.org.il/life_on_the_southern_front_of_israel/life_on_the_southern_front_introduction_and_reflection.htmlIsrael is a technical writer and illustrator, proficient in FrameMaker and has a background in programming, electronics, and engineering drawing.
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Time to Renew Your Membership
Membership always runs until the end of the calendar year. Now that we are entering a recession your membership in elephant is more important than ever. Keeping up on salaries and freelance rates, sharing contacts and job leads, letting potential employers know you are available and how to find you are at the heart of Elephant. For details go to the Join Now page.
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Early Bird Registration for Techshoret Conference 26 February 2009!
If you register for the Techshoret Communicators Conference before Dec. 31 you can save up to 450 NIS.
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Results of the Copy Editors Freelance Rate Survey
The 7 page report of freelance rates for Copy Editors in Israel contains a number of useful breakdowns. Access is limited to the following groups when logged in:
- Participants in the survey
- Members of elephant who participated in one of the other surveys (details at http://elephant.org.il/join_now)
- Nonmembers who participated in one of the other surveys and holds a participant-subscription (details at http://elephant.org.il/join_now)
- Nonparticipant subscribers to the elephant surveys (details at http://elephant.org.il/salarybenefits/quarterly_report_pricing.html)
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Creative Parenting Workshop
Carolyn Tal, who writes our Coaching column here on Elephant is offering a unique course on parenting in December.More...
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First Annual MarcShoret Conference a HUGE Success!
I just got home from Jerusalem and am very happy to report that the first annual MarcShoret conference was a huge success.
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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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Israel FrameMaker User Group
More than 15 people attended September 26th meeting of the Israel FrameMaker User Group in Kfar Yona. Shlomo Perets of Microtype spoke on FrameMaker's paragraph overrides. Jack Shasha of Radware gave a talk entitled "Text Insets: A FrameMaker Single-Sourcing Solution".
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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
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
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 fortnighly 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
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
“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?
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)
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The First Rain of Poetry
The first rain of the season reminds us that even if we do live in the Middle East, we still succumb to the forces of Mother Nature and her tokens. Yet, the weather wasn’t the only thing on my mind last Sunday.
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God and the Technical Writer
March 16 2007 Mumpy under Life as a Tech Writer | Comments (1)(edited 10 months, 2 weeks ago)
Tags: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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