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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?More...
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
All About Indexing #7: Starting An Indexing Business, Part 1: Training
Hi, everyone! For my last two columns, I would like to talk about how one goes about starting an indexing business. I believe that the skills needed to become a good indexer are partly innate and partly acquired. My indexing teacher, the great Kari Kells, says in the introduction to her Basic Indexing Tutorial that on her first day of an indexing class she took in library school, she knew she had found the perfect career as her teacher described the way she had always automatically sorted her photos by category, and Kari nodding and smiling as she recalled her own automatic sorting of M&Ms by color, and music by genre, then alphabetical,then chronological, etc. (Anyone out there nodding and smiling at this?)
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Traveling there & here: Part 2
Having lived in NY for a number of years where the closest thing to a moose is some animal that escaped from the Central Park Zoo, worrying about moose vandalizing our motel room seemed rather cute to us, but it was no joke to the motel owners. Here in Israel, my wildlife issues consist of mosquitoes and spiders, but traveling around Israel is a relative breeze,
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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-Tos 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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The Fastrack in Robohelp
Your help authoring can become much more efficient if you learn the necessary shortcuts. Similar to my previous columns, keyboard shortcuts are not an "all or nothing" affair. Learn the shortcuts that make your help authoring easier. Although I have only worked with Robohelp, I think it is safe to assume that other help authoring tools utilize similar shortcuts. Whenever you need to learn a new help authoring application, or any application for that matter, always experiment with the various shortcuts offered.
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המגשר: תפקידו, כישוריו והכשרתו
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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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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All About Indexing #6: Interviews With Indexers
Hi, everyone! Continuing last columns discussion of the history of indexing, I have found that these days there are almost as many methods of index creation as there are indexers! At this point I felt like my book research could only take me so far, so I decided to interview a few longtime indexers to get some anecdotes on the topic. Mike Bennett, Ellen Chapman, Linda Hallinger, Pam Rider, Barbara Roos and Kamm Schreiner come from a variety of backgrounds and I learned a lot from speaking with them!
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Traveling there & here: Part One
I know from my Jewish history courses in college that the stereotype of the wandering Jew is not really based on the Jews desire to travel as much as out peoples forced travels and relocations, depending on the whims local governments. I, however, love to travel, whether by plane, train or automobile. I really thrive on the excitement of exploring new places and meeting new people. Give me my map & I am on the way!
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Attitude The Critical Third Leg
The triangle of success includes knowledge, skills, and attitude. Why is attitude important, and how can we - really- change attitude?
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Venturing into Culture: Cinema and Iconography
The Final Why
When we didnt have a manual yet, when we didnt know what to name the commands on our menus, when we needed our business cards spelled right, we couldnt have done without you, the boss said. But now the product is in release, and I dont see the ROI from fine-polishing the error messages.
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Monkey See Monkey Do
"How many bars of soap would it take to wash out the mouths of our most vulgar students? I'm not advocating such an archaic punishment, but if I hear just one more Junior High school student offer greetings and salutations to his peers with a: wassup beeach? or how'z it mother f@cker?, I am going to lose my composure and thrash someone with a complete, unabridged Webster's dictionary.More...
Working Your Way to a Faster Framemaker
Can you use Framemaker without the mouse? While it may not be as intuitive, it certainly is possible, unless you're drawing graphics, of course. Even then, you can keep your actual mouse usage to the bare minimum.
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All About Indexing #5: The Process of Index Creation
Hello again, my fellow Elephants! I would like to continue this week on the topic of how we indexindexing processes of yesterday and today and the history of indexing technologies. The American Society of Indexers (www.asindexing.org)website gives the following standard process:
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To work or not to work, but will ever I get paid?
While I search for that elusive holy grail of the perfect full-time, flex-hours, well-paid, work from home job that is both interesting and challenging, but does not have me tearing my hair out or staying up 3 nights a week, I have managed to pick up some part time work and a few freelance projects. But I am beginning to wonder if I will ever actually get paid.
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What is Coaching?
Coaching is about change, but what kind of change? This is the first column by business psychologist and coach, Dr. Carolyn Tal, to introduce and give tips from the field of professional coaching.
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Zero-Based English
Ive run into people who make a virtue out of ignorance. On both sides of the fence. Some are technical writers and they say, Because I know nothing about your product, I can serve as a model of the users point of view.
But youre nothing like our users, say the technicians, because youre not in the same business. Then they tell the writer, Because my English isnt very good, my writing can serve as a model of how to write for people whose English isnt very good.
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But youre nothing like our users, say the technicians, because youre not in the same business. Then they tell the writer, Because my English isnt very good, my writing can serve as a model of how to write for people whose English isnt very good.
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Let Your Fingers Do the Surfing
If you think that surfing is designed only for the mouse, think again. Those of you who gather a lot of information via the Internet should consider the most effective way to do it – and that involves using the keyboard!
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הליך הגישור: עקרונותיו והתנהלותו
תיאור של תהליך הגישור בפרק זה מתייחס לגישור באופןכללי כשיטה ליישוב סכסוכים בתחומים רבים סכסוכים עסקיים ומסחריים, סכסוכיםבצרכנות, בין שכנים, בין קרובי משפחה ועוד.
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All About Indexing #4: A History of Index Creation
Hi, everyone! For this column I would like to talk a little about the history of the index. I dont think this is something I learned about in indexing school, so writing this will be a history lesson for all of us!
Even before books were invented,the Greeks and Romans were already hard at work discovering different ways of organizing information. One of the first forms of written material they used was the papyrus scroll, but it was not very efficient when it came to information retrieval.
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Even before books were invented,the Greeks and Romans were already hard at work discovering different ways of organizing information. One of the first forms of written material they used was the papyrus scroll, but it was not very efficient when it came to information retrieval.
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Adventures in Shopping
Part of the fun of learning to be Israeli is learning how to shop here. Years ago, I was told that if you do not try to bargain, the shopkeeper will be offended. I think those days are long gone, but I have learned that thing are a lot more flexible here than you might imagine.
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Sticky Notes On Your Screen
I describe my pick for an on-screen version of Post-It Notes, and Mark demonstrates perl scripting.
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Reg and T.M.
There are three kinds of trademarks: our own trademarks, trademarks of other companies we like to be on good terms with, and trademarks of other companies we dont care about. We demand respect for our own trademarks, we give respect to the trademarks of other companies we like to be on good terms with, and hey, we dont much care about trademarks of other companies we dont care about.
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PowerPoint Perfection
PowerPoint is a presentations and animation tool suitable primarily for the mouse; Right? Well, not necessarily. You can perform many editing, often repetitive actions in PowerPoint with the keyboard, if you know how.
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Dupe Finders and One-Liners
Utilities for identifying and deleting duplicate digital photos; interesting survey on firewalls; and one-line Perl commands in Linux.
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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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Joining the official Merry-Go-Round: Job Networking
April 21 2008
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Finding work in Israel is not easy. A while back, before we finally decided to make aliyah a reality, and not just a \"in a few years\" thing, close friends made aliyah and ...
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Polish Up Your Image at the Terminal
The best free image-editing utilities, how to trap Web plagiarists, and all about the Linux terminal.
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Do it Yourself Keyboard Shortcuts
Let’s review. We discussed how to navigate in Windows and MS Word, sans mouse. Is it fair to say that you’re overwhelmed? Perhaps you don’t like the shortcuts I’ve explained so far. If they don’t meet your needs, you can make your own!
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All About Indexing #2: The Importance of Indexes
The most frequently-asked question that professional indexers get, it seems, is cant a computer do that? My next column will deal with the differences between an index and a concordance, which is what computers can do, but in the meantime I want to explain what an index is and why indexes are a necessary part of a book. The American Society of Indexers website (www.asindexing.org)gives an excellent overview for anyone wanting to know basic information:
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On learning Hebrew (In Hebrew and English)
This article will be shorter than some of my previous ones because I decided to write it in both English and Hebrew. Since the Hebrew (see below) will take more time (to put it mildly) and require the assistance of my current ulpan teacher to “check”, I hope you will forgive the relative shortness of this article.
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Making Much From Little: Text Expanders
Read on to learn about text-expander utilities, PhraseExpress in particular, and equation editors.
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Can it be both raw and right?
You know you guys are crazy? said old Genady. You tell one person that the way you write the material makes it right or wrong, but you ask another person to tell you whether its right or wrong before youve written it correctly and youre angry that he tries to correct the writing.
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Rule the World
Wherein I discover a screen ruler utility and offer free copies of Titan Backup Business, and Mark explains both sides of Linux window management.
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Word Outlining Made Simple
In my last article, I introduced you to keyboard shortcuts for MS Word. This time we will focus on outlining.
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All About Indexing #1: Indexing in Israel
Hi! My name is Shoshana Hurwitz,and Ill be doing a column for Elephant about a profession that seems to belittle-known in Israel (though I hope to change that!): indexing. To see an overview of my background and how I ended up becoming a professional indexer, check out my member bio page.
For my first column, I'd like to talk about how indexing is perceived in Israel. I dont believe it to be any coincidence that the very same month that I found my true calling professionally was the month that my husband, daughters and I started our journey towards aliyah, which will culminate this coming July. But as excited as I was about my new love of indexing, I was dismayed to discover that my new internet friends in Israel were not quite as much. Here in Israel,they told me, indexing is not really thought of as a profession in itself. Itis something that librarians do, something that tech writers do, but not something that just is.
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For my first column, I'd like to talk about how indexing is perceived in Israel. I dont believe it to be any coincidence that the very same month that I found my true calling professionally was the month that my husband, daughters and I started our journey towards aliyah, which will culminate this coming July. But as excited as I was about my new love of indexing, I was dismayed to discover that my new internet friends in Israel were not quite as much. Here in Israel,they told me, indexing is not really thought of as a profession in itself. Itis something that librarians do, something that tech writers do, but not something that just is.
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About Shoshana Hurwitz
I am an indexer, copyeditor and proofreader with 10+ years of experience in the publishing field and recently started my own freelance business, Hurwitz Indexing.
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A funny thing happened on the way to the electrical store, or shocking truths about Israel
Ok, so being that I worked for years as an electronics technician, I should come as no surprise that my favorite food item in Israel the new drink, Shocko.
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Creating Strong and Memorable Passwords
One of the most daunting and challenging tasks with whichour memory has to cope on an almost daily basis is remembering passwords.Modern life surrounds us with passwords, for almost any activity we need tocarry out, be it ordering books on the web, entering out computer at work oropening our free email service account from any computer other than our own. Weneed to provide strong passwords for using each of these services or computers,but we also have to make these passwords memorable, and desirably intuitive.
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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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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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