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		<title>An addendum or two</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 04:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Drucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This topic raises a question about common usage. In my world, an addendum, like an appendix, is a supplement to a book. Publications may conclude with several of these add-ons but not usually in combination. So what is acceptable usage when a book contains more than one addendum or appendix &#8211; Addenda? Appendices? Conversationally, this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Look who&#8217;s talking</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Drucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to compose your documents by voice instead of by keystrokes? Mom probably never thought that her advice to &#8216;think before you speak&#8217; applied to technical speaking, but today, that&#8217;s all you really need to do to use dictation software. Current systems are so reliable that even a child&#8217;s voice can serve as a suitable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking tables and other nondestructive tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Drucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Broken tables. Frozen panes. Split screens. This is not debris from a crime spree. These are names of techniques used to manage documents. To carry forward the heading of a table that&#8217;s flowed on to the next page, apply the word processing command to repeat the table heading. Similarly, to cement the heading of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pomp and Circumstance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 21:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Drucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#60;Insert your institute of higher learning here.&#62; Commencement speakers are honoured and humbled to be here this day. Gathered guests are thanked for their supporting role. The speaker fervently relates the mechanism by which she/he overcame personal obstacles (while you ponder your own not-so-different circumstance). The encouraging family member, insightful teacher, and/or divine being are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mission Operations Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 06:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Drucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month marked the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission. Whether you watched the PBS documentary or the Hollywood version, the story was gripping. Yet, the life-saving manual seemed easy enough to use. Nothing fancy. The neatly typed document included handmade graphs, penciled in symbols, and annotations by James Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daylight saving</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Drucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time again. Time to skip east by one time zone in search of saving daylight hours. Alaska (daylight) Time becomes British Columbia&#8217;s Pacific (standard) Time. Each successive time zone changes the clock by one hour, until Newfoundland Time. Here, it&#8217;s offset by a half hour. So neighbouring Atlantic Time broadcasters tell listeners to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome World</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Drucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Typically before a hockey game, you&#8217;ll see transit buses destined for &#8220;Go Canucks&#8221;. In the run up to the 2010 Winter Olympics buses changed the route to &#8220;Welcome World&#8221;. Canada did a pretty good job getting the word out worldwide. With Olympic-size crowds to be welcomed, businesses and schools flexed their hours and some locals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy 2,010!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 08:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy new year, and now the great debate begins&#8230; How to say the next decade. Words from the last decade got sorted out. It wasn&#8217;t the more familiar sounding &#8220;nine-one-one&#8221; that stuck but rather &#8220;nine-eleven&#8221;. I don&#8217;t recall a debate about calling the  2000-2009 period the &#8216;oughts&#8217;.  Is that even how you say it? Two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to renew</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kiss this decade goodbye. It was a tough year whether you worked or not. iTunes, for one, has not seen much spending from this customer. But I&#8217;m less worried about Apple. On the other hand the professional society I belong to went splaaat. A financial shortfall almost closed the doors. Chapter members heard countless pleas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another day, another money</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Drucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That was the translation offered by an Asian gentleman as I paid for a bus pass. I had to know if the same symbol represented both money and dollars. They appeared to be different enough but conceptually the idiom worked. Learning the global language of money one idiom at a time. Next up: sixty-four-thousand-dollar question [...]]]></description>
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