In this issue:

• Note from Judy
• Grammar, Usage, and Style - "A" or "an" preceding an abbreviation.
• Recommendations
  • Arts
  • Education
  • Grammar
  • Health
  • History
  • References
  • Science/Technology
  • Writing/Journalism
  • Judy's Photo Gallery
  
  

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  NOTE FROM JUDY

1. Webgrammar's Discussion Forum, at http://webgrammar.ning.com/ is
   becoming a lot of fun, and I'm using it in different ways to explore
   how people who want their own social network can operate it. In some
   instances, ning.com can be used effectively in place of a website.
   Everything changes so rapidly!
   
   Ning.com can also be used to broaden the exposure of many nonprofit
   organizations or any number of community associations. It has a place
   to post blog messages, to create groups within the larger group, and
   to send personal messages. Might be a wonderful platform for authors.

   I'll keep studying it to see how you can use it.

   Twitter continues to intrigue me as a way to get important, quick
   announcements out, and as a way to connect with like-minded people.
   Take a moment to read "What's a Dry Cleaner Doing on Twitter?"
   http://www.mpdailyfix.com/2009/02/33103_pm_ann_handley_says.htm

2. THE JOYS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
   
   What a thrill to pack up my cameras and
   go picture taking with my brother. We've had such good times at the
   Wildlife World Zoo & Aquarium and Desert Botanical Garden. See some photos from DGB, where a Dale Chihuly: The Nature of Glass exhibit is going on. Amazing.

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GRAMMAR, USAGE and STYLE - "A" or "an" preceding an abbreviation.

When an abbreviation follows an indefinite article, the choice of "a"
or "an" is determined by the way the abbreviation would be read aloud,
says Chicago Manual of Style (15.9).

Acronyms are read as words, it says,
except when used as adjectives, and are rarely preceded by "a," "an,"
or "the." Initialisms are read as a series of letters and are often
preceded by an article.

Tip: In precise usage, "acronym" refers only to terms based on the
initial letters of their various elements, and read as single words
(AIDS, NATO); "initialism" refers to terms read as a series of letters
(BBC, ATM); and "abbreviation" is used for both acronyms and initialisms.

GRAMMAR

COMMON ERRORS IN ENGLISH:
PROFESSOR PAUL BRIANS' SITE
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html

DAILY GRAMMAR
Check your grammar knowledge. Quizzes take four minutes.
http://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.shtml

ENGLISH GRAMMAR
Special help in diagramming sentences
http://members.cox.net/teachro/

ENGLISH IDIOMS & PROVERBS
All pages have at least one picture each drawn by students.
http://humanities.byu.edu/elc/student/idioms/idiomsmain.html

GUIDE TO GRAMMAR AND STYLE: JACK LYNCH
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/contents.html

MRS. BLUEZETTE'S GRAMMAR CORNER
"A PBS mind in an MTV world." Delightful, highly educational articles by a wonderful English language wizard (umm...wizette).
http://www.newsblues.com/grammar.htm

PROFESSOR CHARLES DARLING'S GRAMMAR SITE
Outstanding as a quick reference for your grammar questions.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

USINGENGLISH.COM
A large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools and resources for students, teachers, learners, and academics.
http://www.usingenglish.com/

WEB ENGLISH TEACHER
Beginning teachers can find guidance; experienced teachers can find inspiration.
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/

SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY
For more than 50 years, ASLO has been a leading professional organization for researchers and educators in the field of
aquatic science, working to provide for their needs at all phases of professional development.
http://aslo.org/

CALTRANS EAGLE CAM
http://www.turtlebay.org/caltranseaglecam.php

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY ANIMATIONS
http://www.chemtube3d.com/

HEALTH

AGE MANAGEMENT MEDICINE
Well-known gastroenterologist launches Age Management Medicine
business. Knowledgable, cautious, wise. I (Judy) do some work for
Charles Baughman, M.D., and I'm impressed. Check out the FAQ section,
but note that he wants readers to check with their personal physicians
before using any supplement, etc.
http://www.baughmanagemanagement.com/

NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION FOR HEALTHCARE PHILANTHROPY
A not-for-profit professional membership association for people engaged
in the business of raising money for non-profit healthcare organizations.
http://neahp.org/

THE WORLD HEALTH REPORT 2008
http://www.who.int/whr/2008/en/index.html

HISTORY

HEADS AND TALES
Portraits of five people with compelling personal stories. Their
tales are told by analysis of components of their pictorially complex
portraits. The five are Teresa Blount, Daniel Parke II, Robert Barraud
Taylor, Thomas Fortune Ryan, and Elizabeth Dabney (Langhorne) Lewis.
From the Virginia Historical Society.
http://www.vahistorical.org/exhibits/headstales_main.htm

LIFE PHOTO ARCHIVE
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching
from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available
for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
http://images.google.com/hosted/life

PAPERS OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT, 1784-1800
http://wardepartmentpapers.org/

WISCONSIN GOES TO WAR: OUR CIVIL WAR EXPERIENCE
Collection of first person narrative accounts of Wisconsin soldiers
and citizens.
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/WI/subcollections/WIWarAbout.html

ARTS

AUSTRALIA DANCING
Hosted by the National Library of Australia, The Australia Dancing
portal provides users with access to both current and historical
information about dance in Australia.
http://www.australiadancing.org/

DARTMOUTH'S HOOD MUSEUM OF ART
http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/

SETE DIAS
Works and days of cristiana couceiro.
http://setediasete.blogspot.com/

DORIS ULMANN PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION
This site provides access to 1800 of approximately 12,000 images
from the Ulmann Photograph Collection.

Doris Ulmann (1882-1934) a graduate of the school of the Ethical Culture Society, a socially liberal organization that championed individual worth regardless of ethnic background or economic condition. Ulmann continued her education at the Columbia University Teacher's College, where she met and studied with photographer Clarence H. White. White was a founding member of Alfred Stieglitz's Photo-Secession and a leader in the Pictorialist movement.
http://boundless.uoregon.edu/digcol/ulmann/index.html

REFERENCES

BBC PRISON STUDY
The BBC Prison Study explores the social and psychological consequences of putting people in groups of unequal power. It examines when people accept inequality and when they challenge it.
http://www.bbcprisonstudy.org/

THE DIE LINE: PACKAGE DESIGN SOFTWARE
Look at the Before and After section.
http://www.thedieline.com/blog/

EVERYTHING
Slick search tool for files & folders on your hard drive
http://www.voidtools.com/

FONTS
http://sudtipos.com/fonts

GOOGLE EARTH
http://earth.google.com/tour.html

THE MAN IN SEAT SIXTY-ONE: HOW TO TRAVEL
BY TRAIN OR SHIP
http://www.seat61.com/index.html

THREE DOG BLOG
Dangerous Food For Dogs - Your Questions Answered
http://tinyurl.com/b8l78t

WRITING/JOURNALISM

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS AND EDITORS
http://www.ire.org/

ONLINE CUT AND PASTE WORD COUNTER
http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/countwords.shtml

TYPE DIRECTORS CLUB
An international organization for all people who are devoted to
excellence in typography, both in print and on screen.
http://tdc.org/tdc_site/

WILLIAM MORRIS AS WRITER
Designed to help you to start reading William Morris's poetry, letters,
and fiction. Many of the resources linked from this portal page are
free online e-texts, which makes Morris more accessible for everyone.
http://www.morrissociety.org/author.html

EDUCATION

MATHEMATICS ILLUMINATED
A thirteen-part series for adult learners and high school teachers.
The series explores major themes in the field of mathematics, from
humankind's earliest study of prime numbers, to the cutting-edge
mathematics used to reveal the shape of the universe.
http://www.learner.org/courses/mathilluminated/

NEVER MAKE A STUDY GUIDE AGAIN
http://teacheng.us/?p=40

READING ROCKETS
A national multimedia project offering information and resources
on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how
caring adults can help.
http://www.readingrockets.org/