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The Author's Corner
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~mkfitz/my_newsletter.htm
Bimonthly hardcopoy newsletter providing information on marketing both books and illustrations,
company's businesses and services, and individual's services and their works.

Copyright Crash Course
http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/cprtindx.htm
Course comes complete with a 10 question exam. Site also includes fairuse interpretation, copyright management and addresses digital issues.

Grammarcheck
http://www.grammarcheck.com
Monthly Newsletter helps you brush up on your writing and grammar skills

Time Capsule ~ On This Date In History
http://www.dmarie.com/timecap/
Through "this date in time" database.

Thoughts and Prayers for our British Friends

We have many loyal readers situated in England. We hope all our friends are OK and safe. Please let us know when you can! e-mail us at twschuettATpeoplepcDOTcom

Our prayers today will be with your and yours as you deal so heroically with this crisis.

Some comments from Londoners and others at my other home -- Blog-City:
Barns Powell: Rather than instilling fear, our reaction to this attack has made me proud to be a Londoner, and proud to be British.  I'm rather glad I didn't leave my car at work yesterday - otherwise I might have been caught up in it somewhere.

The Beeb are doing a very good job, and by far the best place for updates is here.

Dogs Must be Carried
Check his blog!

Alan Williamson (Blog-City City Planner - located in Scotland)
The BBC are doing an admirable job here, not over playing it, merely reporting facts and not making any wild assumptions.

Blog-City Mayoress Ceri Williamson:
Blog-City is housed in Dumfries, Scotland, so we're all very safe and sound. We're all watching the news as you are though. Its all happening with  incredible calm and resolve.

See the American perspective at Dean's World

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Poor Writing Costs Taxpayers Millions

States spend nearly a quarter of a billion dollars a year on remedial writing instruction for their employees, according to a new report that says the indirect costs of sloppy writing probably hurt taxpayers even more.

The National Commission on Writing, in a report to be released Tuesday, says that good writing skills are at least as important in the public sector as in private industry. Poor writing not only befuddles citizens but also slows down the government as bureaucrats struggle with unclear instructions or have to redo poorly written work. read more here