This week I used the video camera on my iPhone and iPad to show my daily travels on my Amigo Mobility scooter.
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This week I used the video camera on my iPhone and iPad to show my daily travels on my Amigo Mobility scooter.
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For three years as a senior technical writer for Northern Telecom, I specialized in a product that links a telephone switch to computer files. In a physician’s office, for example, CompuCall provides the doctor with a patient’s records. Provision takes place when the caller ID number of the patient appears. The doctor then instantaneously is looking at your chart before you say, Hello.
Right now, I am posting marketing material I wrote on CompuCall. Then after scanning, I will display more hard core documentation; such as a study of wideband and voice capability within a sophisticated digital telephone switch.
compucall1MY PRISON CREED.
While there is a lower class I am in it;
While there is a criminal element I am of it;
While there ‘s a soul in prison I am not free.
–from Walls and Bars by Eugene Victor Debs, the great labor leader’s only published book
Mary Reilly Nichols inspired me with her Facebook tribute today:
“Happy Labor Day Everyone!
“‘I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.'”
– Labor leader and Union organizer Eugene Debs 1855-1926
Courtesy of the Clarence Darrow Digital Collection here is Deb’s 224 page book in its entirety.
Debs_Walls_and_bars_1927Here is an excerpt from Debs’ anti-War Canton Ohio speech made on June 16, 1918. This speech so inflamed President Woodrow Wilson that Wilson arranged for Debs’ 10 year sentence in the Atlanta Federal Prison. From Prison Debs was the first candidate for President of the United States to run as a convicted felon from Prison. Debs received more than a million votes in the General Presidential election while serving in prison. The winner Warren G. Harding, as Republican as they come, ironically signed the pardon freeing Debs.
Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder. In the Middle Ages when the feudal lords who inhabited the castles whose towers may still be seen along the Rhine concluded to enlarge their domains, to increase their power, their prestige and their wealth they declared war upon one another. But they themselves did not go to war any more than the modern feudal lords, the barons of Wall Street go to war.
The feudal barons of the Middle Ages, the economic predecessors of the capitalists of our day, declared all wars. And their miserable serfs fought all the battles.
The poor, ignorant serfs had been taught to revere their masters; to believe that when their masters declared war upon one another, it was their patriotic duty to fall upon one another and to cut one another’s throats for the profit and glory of the lords and barons who held them in contempt. And that is war in a nutshell.
The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose—especially their lives.
They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people…
Yours not to reason why;
Yours but to do and die.
That is their motto and we object on the part of the awakening workers of this nation.
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Seee: https://zinnedproject.org/materials/eugene-debs-canton-ohio/
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Contributing to the seminar and providing assistance with dissertation research will be Angela R. Davis, Engineering Library Liaison.
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Test question: What grammatical error did I make in the title of this post?
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Rex Harrison sings about the various ways in which English is pronounced. Here we focus on the varieties of written expression. Most notable are the requirements for formal English . Hence, the usefulness of the Chicago Manual of Style as a widely-respected resource for providing the rules and explaining them.
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Wikipedia on Style Guides: “A style guide establishes and enforces style to improve communication. To do that, it:
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Let us take a look at how these two style manuals can help you with their dissertation.
Wikipedia writes: “The Chicago Manual of Style….is a style guide for American English published since 1906 by the University of Chicago Press. Its sixteen editions have prescribed writing and citation styles widely used in publishing. It is “one of the most widely used and respected style guides in the United States.” The Chicago Manual of Style deals with editorial practice, from American English grammar and use to document preparation.”
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Here is a Penn State Library link that gives you The Chicago Manual of style on line:
“This edition also features an introduction to Unicode, the international computing standard for letters and symbols. As in the past, the manual notes conventions and practices that are specific to American English, and points the reader to other guides such as The Oxford Manual of Style (Ritter, 2002) (RR 2003/428) for assistance with British English.”
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A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that the process is reversible. Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional writers.
–POLITICS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY GEORGE ORWELL
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Graduate students are best advised to have this manual close at hand when writing your dissertation. The rules require you to format citations within the document rather than using footnotes. The earlier you understand academic requirements for on-line citations, the easier your life will be. The American Psychological Association Manual is the best resource on on-line citations. Then, converting to the style requirements of academic publications such as the Journal of Architectural Engineering would be child’s play; in my case grandfather’s play.