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Saturday, July 21, 2007
Importance of Proofreading (From John, our correspondent in Narrowsburg.) A young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to helping the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church by hand. He notices however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript. So, the new monk goes to the head abbot to question this, pointing out that if someone made even a small error in the first copy, it would never be picked up. In fact, that error would be continued in all of the subsequent copies. The head monk, says, "We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son." So, he goes down into the dark caves underneath the monastery where the original manuscripts are held as archives in a locked vault that hasn't been opened for hundreds of years. Hours go by and nobody sees the old abbot. So, the young monk gets worried and goes down to look for him. He sees him banging his head against the wall and wailing, "We missed the "R", we missed the "R"!!. His forehead is all bloody and bruised and he is crying uncontrollably. The young monk asks the old abbot, "What's wrong, father?" *With a choking voice, the old abbot replies ........ * "The word was celebrate !!!!" . BOOKS ON-LINE ’Ruin' of Jamaica -- Richard Hildreth Jaina Sutras -- Hermann Jacobi No Slave-Hunting in the Old Bay State ... -- Charles C. Burleigh - Wendell Phillips - William Lloyd Garrison . Refdesk Thoughts of the Day: "If I had my life to live over again..." "If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week." -Charles Darwin ----- "In foreign policy you have to wait..." "In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out." -James Reston ----- "It takes as much energy..." "It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan." -Eleanor Roosevelt ----- "Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply..." "Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed." -Margaret Storm Jameson ----- "Humanitarianism needs no apology..." "Humanitarianism needs no apology. ... Unless we ... feel it toward all men without exception, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force in human history." -Ralph Barton Perry ----- The Refdesk Sites of the Day are: National Archives Of all documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States Federal government, only 1% - 3% are so important for legal or historical reasons that they are kept by us forever. Those valuable records are preserved and are available to you, whether you want to see if they contain clues about your family’s history, need to prove a veteran's military service, or are researching an historical topic that interests you. ----- OYEZ: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia Multimedia database with abstracts of key constitutional cases, digital audio of oral arguments, and more. Related sites: Official Site Supreme Court of the U.S. Appellate.net. ----- Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos. Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured by this NASA web site, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. ----- How Products Are Made How Products Are Made explains and details the manufacturing process of a wide variety of products, from daily household items to complicated electronic equipment and heavy machinery. The site provides step by step descriptions of the assembly and the manufacturing process (complemented with illustrations and diagrams) Each product also has related information such as the background, how the item works, who invented the product, raw materials that were used, product applications, by-products that are generated, possible future developments, quality control procedures, etc. ----- Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations The 2,100 entries in this eminently researched collection form the constellation of collected wisdom in American political debate. In fulfilling decades of requests from Members of Congress for citation of quotations, the Library of Congress compiled the most frequently asked questions of the legislature for the edification of every citizen. ----- San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection The San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection, located in the San Francisco History Center, contains photographs and works on paper of San Francisco and California views from 1850 to the present. ----- Sunday, July 15, 2007
The Refdesk Sites of the Day are: How to Clean Anthing Welcome to HowToCleanAnything.com. The idea for the site started with a group of cleaning professionals getting together to exchange tips and techniques. The idea developed in what you see today. There are more than 1300 free cleaning tips on this site, and growing every day. ----- The Why Files: Science Behind the News The mission of The Why Files, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is to explore the science, math and technology behind the news of the day, and to present those topics in a clear, accessible and accurate manner. ----- LiveScience This site explains the latest research on the planet, from human biology to the animal world and the forces of nature. ----- BOOKS ON-LINE Relationship between cohesion and casualty rates: the 1st Marine Division -- See-Abstract Relationship between force protection and mission accomplishment in Bosnia -- See-Abstract Relevance and optimal structure of the military in Jamaica in the current a -- See-Abstract . Refdesk Thoughts of the Day: "What is life but the angle of vision..." "What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so much we are." -Ralph Waldo Emerson ----- "Man is born to live..." "Man is born to live, not to prepare for life." -Boris Leonidovich Pasternak ----- "Through our great good fortune..." "Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing." -Oliver Wendell Holmes ----- "The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal..." "The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process." -Adlai Ewing Stevenson ----- "Don't forget..." "Don't forget to love yourself." -Soren Kierkegaard ----- "The curse which lies upon marriage is..." "The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength - each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence." -Simone de Beauvoir ----- |