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The Village News :: Dictionary Day at Bonsall Elementary

The Village News :: Dictionary Day at Bonsall Elementary

12/1/2005 7:15:50 PM

BONSALL — On November 9, Bonsall Rotary Club donated over 200 English and Spanish-to-English dictionaries to the Bonsall third-graders. Participating schools were Bonsall Elementary, Bonsall West and the Vivian Banks Charter School.

Tom Ewan, past president of the Bonsall Rotary and executive director of Rawhide Ranch, started the presentation with a brief explanation of Rotary and specifically the Four-Way Test: “Is it the Truth? Is it Fair to all concerned? Will it build Good Will and Better Friendships? Will it be Beneficial to all concerned?” Then the teachers distributed the books. The Rotary Club of Bonsall was one of the first participants of The SoCal Dictionary Project, founded by Don White of the Vista Rotary. Mr. White stated that this year the project has grown to many other clubs and as far away as Missouri and Mexico with a distribution of over 50,000.

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Ovid Announces Partnerships with STM and Academic Publishers

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Ovid Technologies, a Wolters Kluwer business and global provider in electronic medical, scientific, and academic information research solutions, has announced new partnerships with Blackwell Publishing, Elsevier Bibliographic Databases, McGraw-Hill, Nature Publishing Group, and Oxford University Press (USA). As part of its strategy to expand content offerings, Ovid has entered into a product planning and development agreement with Primal Pictures with the intention to distribute 3-dimensional anatomy images on the Ovid platform.

Ovid will add more than 60 medical and nursing journals from Blackwell, a society publisher, increasing to more than 250 the total that will be available on Journals@Ovid. Ovid is also the exclusive provider of Elsevier’s EMBiology life science database, which contains more than four million international bibliographic records dating back to 1980. Eight Nature Clinical Practice journals in oncology, cardiology, and other specialties, published by Nature Publishing Group, will soon be available on Journals@Ovid. With internationally known advisory boards and editorial boards, these journals discuss key research developments, translating the findings into clinical practice. The Group’s flagship journal, Nature, is a multi-disciplinary scientific journal.

More than 20 dictionaries and encyclopedia in technology, science, and engineering from McGraw-Hill are launching on Books@Ovid, Ovid’s ebook product. Books@Ovid will also feature more than 30 reference works and textbooks in all areas of psychology from Oxford University Press. In addition, Ovid has entered into a partnership agreement with Primal Pictures, an anatomy image resource company. Based on this understanding, Ovid and Primal would develop a distribution agreement for end-users to access three-dimensional images that are relevant to and further supplement the content they’re viewing on the Ovid platform.

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Port Arthur News - Third grade students get dictionaries from Rotary

Port Arthur News
In a special project conducted by a local Rotary Club, elementary students all over Port Arthur are receiving dictionaries.

“I know it is dictionaries, but the kids really do get excited about the books,” Shannon Harris, member of the Rotary Club of Port Arthur and director for the dictionary program, said.

Since the middle of November, members of the club have been traveling to third grade classrooms to deliver the books to children to help with their educations

“It is an honor. Every one of these kids has the potential to be the president of the United States and this program will help kids to achieve goals like that,” Ed Boone, Rotary member, said about delivering dictionaries to third grade students Thursday at DeQueen Elementary in Port Arthur.

Selecting third graders to receive the books was intentionally done to help support a specific literacy problem in Port Arthur youths.

Harris said the club selected third grade students because studies showed that Port Arthur youths maintain proper levels of reading until they reach the fourth grade.

“We are delivering the books to keep them involved and motivated to read,” Harris, said.

The last batch of books will be delivered next week to Tekoa Academy by Harris.

The Rotary Club of Port Arthur has been involved with the nationwide program for four years and Harris has been the organizer for the past two.

Purchasing the books is made possible from funds collected through the club’s annual Taste of Gumbo event.

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Firefox 1.5 Adds Answers.com

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Answers.com, the answer-based search engine, and Mozilla announce that the newest version 1.5 of the popular Mozilla Firefox Web browser provides Answers.com embedded in its search toolbar for reference and definition lookup.
“We are proud to be included as the dictionary and reference solution in Firefox, which claims over 100 million downloads to date, said Bob Rosenschein, Answers CEO. “This serves as further validation of our one-stop answers approach.”

“Firefox 1.5 will deliver a better Web experience for our tens of millions of users,” said Christopher Beard, vice president of products for Mozilla Corp. “We believe that including Answers.com in the Firefox search toolbar supports our goal of providing a Web browser that empowers people to look up facts more effectively on the Web.”

Answers.com also offers extra functionality for Firefox users, including “right-click menu” lookup and a search sidebar. The extension improves ease-of-use by allowing users to look up any word by simply pressing Alt while clicking on the word.

Linux, Mac and Windows users of the popular open source browser can download 1.5 for free.

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CCNmag.com: Modern Tools to Unlock Ancient Texts

CCNmag.com: Modern Tools to Unlock Ancient Texts

Tools for ancient texts have been successfully created that will open up rare texts and manuscripts locked away in museums, libraries and archives, and promote new kinds of scholarship while also preserving large swathes of European history and culture for the future.

With funding from the IST program and the US, the CHLT project developed morphological analyzers, citation databases, visualization and clustering tools, and combined them with dictionaries to aid experienced scholars, students and the general public alike.

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Word of the day : yare

YARE
adj.
Agile; lively.
Nautical. Responding easily; maneuverable. Used of a vessel.
Archaic. Ready; prepared.
[Middle English, from Old English gearo, ready.]

yarely adv.

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What is wikipedia saying?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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The River Yare is a river on the Suffolk Broads in The Broads National Park in England.

It rises in Norwich, flows through Breydon Water and into the North Sea at Gorleston, Great Yarmouth.

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This is hard to translate no equivalents - looks like :-)

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Wow finally google returns less than half million for a dictionary defined word.
Results 1 - 10 of about 414,000 for yare

Good opportunity for folks looking for niches but hey who on earth is searching for yare… except for the river yare that is my guess…. let’s see the top results from across the web reported by Dogpile…

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1. Affordable and family friendly rooms and cabins fully equipped with …
… Looking for relaxation, good surfing, good sea food, sea kayaking to bird watching, mountain biking or just walking to the tropical Caribbean sandy beach. Family friendly rooms and cabi…
www.hotelyare.com/ [Found on MSN Search, Yahoo! Search, Ask Jeeves]
2. Yare Sailing Club
The Yare Sailing Club was reformed in 1985 to organise activities for Broads River Cruiser Class sailors on the Southern Rivers of the Norfolk Broads.
www.yaresailingclub.org.uk/ [Found on Google, MSN Search, Ask Jeeves]
3. Rowing and Sculling At Yare Boat Club, Norwich - Home Page
Information about rowing and sculling at Yare Boat Club in Norwich, with details of membership, club history and regatta results.
www.yareboatclub.org.uk/ [Found on Google, MSN Search, Ask Jeeves]
4. yare. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language …
yare. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
www.bartleby.com/61/83/Y0008300.html [Found on Google, Yahoo! Search]
5. SourceForge.net: YARE
The world’s largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications … About YARE. YARE is an open source Ragnarok Online server coded in C. More information here:…
sourceforge.net/projects/royare [Found on Yahoo! Search, Ask Jeeves]
6. Yare Egyptology
Egyptology books on CD-ROM. Birch, Bouriant, Budge, Davies, Griffith, Naville, Peet, Petrie….
www.egypt.e7even.com/yare%20egyptology/ [Found on Google, Yahoo! Search]
7. Hotel Yare is located in one of Costa Rica’s favorite destinations for …
www.hotelyare.com/Indexes.htm [Found on MSN Search]
8. Wikipedia: River Yare
Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia’s article on ‘River Yare’
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Yare [Found on Yahoo! Search]
9. Yare’s Magic: the Gathering Page
…e-mail: dwe4 at duke.edu…
www.duke.edu/%7Edwe4/index.htm [Found on Ask Jeeves]
10. River Yare: Waterscape.com
The complete guide to holidays, breaks, days out, where to go & what to do on & around UK canals, rivers, navigations & other inland waterways.
www.waterscape.com/River_Yare/introduction/wid130;… [Found on Google]
11. Crome, John - WNGA
Read a short survey of the life and career of the British artist and view an image of the 1817 painting “Moonlight of the Yare”.
Sponsored by: www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pinfo?Object=61123+0+none [Found on LookSmart Reviewed]
12. Yare Cruising! Plasticine art
… Yare Cruising! is a registered trademark of Yare Scene Inc. and is used by Yare Scene Inc under licence. All illustrations are copyright of Yare Scene Inc. All rights reserved. …
www.yarecruising.com/ [Found on MSN Search]
13. Dictionary.com/yare
Definitions of yare at Dictionary.com. Dictionary Thesaurus Encyclopedia Web Home Premium: Sign up | Login ADVERTISEMENT Dictionary - Thesaurus - Encyclopedia - Web Top Web Results for “yar…
dictionary.reference.com/search?q=yare [Found on MSN Search]
14. River Yare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
River Yare. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (Redirected from Yare) See also. Views. Personal tools. Navigation. Search. Toolbox. In other languages. Simple English
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yare [Found on Yahoo! Search]
15. SAMPA chart for English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
All active users are invited to vote in the Elections for the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAMPA_chart_for_English [Found on Ask Jeeves]
16. Yew Court
Find details of coarse fishing in Suffolk and Norfolk with advice on catching pike, tench, roach, rudd, bream and carp.
Sponsored by: www.yew-court.co.uk/ [Found on LookSmart Reviewed]
17. MIPUNTO.COM | Venezuela Virtual | Diablos del Yare
La festividad del Corpus Christi es una celebración conocida en Venezuela, popularmente, a través del ritual mágico-religioso de los Diablos Danzantes de …
www.mipunto.com/venezuelavirtual/temas/3er_trimest… [Found on Google]
18. YARE Business Park - About Yare Business Park
About Yare Business Park Yare Business Park is an ultra modern architectural masterpiece comprising of 600 plus units. It is an ideal business outlet for small and medium sized enterprises….
www.yarebusinesspark.com/about.asp [Found on MSN Search]
19. Yare Hotel (Puerto Viejo) - Hotel reviews - TripAdvisor
Yare Hotel, Puerto Viejo - Visit TripAdvisor for the web’s best advice on the Yare Hotel: unbiased reviews, travel articles, guidebook listings, and Puerto Viejo hotel comparisons. … Brow…
www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g309265-d501078-R… [Found on Yahoo! Search]
20. +Geliebt Todesengel++v8++Yare yare+
?Color me: Eight times. In celebration of the version number, posterboy is none other than Cho Hakkai.
todesengel.pitas.com/ [Found on Ask Jeeves]

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As you can see it is all about river yare… if you are looking to capitalize on this opportunity to brand on this word now is the time… going going… gone.
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the person holding the domain name doesn’t care much for the web so they just have this in yare.com

Yare
Specialists in LED Message Displays and Visual Information Services

Contact Info:
Yare Inc.
Phone: 813-495-9000
Fax: 813-251-9868

so there is someone out there who have named their business out of this word. May be there is more to this word that is visible in the surface… use the comments section to sound off…

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catch up with you all tomorrow….

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