In this issue:

• Note from Judy
• Grammar, Usage, and Style - Redundant Words and Phrases
• Recommendations
  • Arts
  • Education
  • Grammar
  • Health
  • History
  • References
  • Science/Technology
  • Writing/Journalism
  • Judy's Photo Gallery
  
  

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  NOTE FROM JUDY

1. Isn't it exciting to spot an idea that is truly innovative?
   
   That's what I discovered when I signed up for HARO (Help A Reporter Out),
   a list maintained by the truly indescribable Peter Shankman. He calls himself
   "Everyone's Expert At Something." He has many friends who are reporters,
   and thought this would be a good way to help them out. Definitely a power
   facilitator.
   
   You'll find the site here: http://www.helpareporter.com/ ,
   and more about it under Writing/Journalism below.

2. Do you belong to a group that would benefit from communicating online
   as well as in person?
   
   Try Ning.com. I just opened up a Webgrammar section, which has a forum,
   at http://webgrammar.ning.com/. Send me an email if you'd like to join, and I'll register you.
   
   You can start your own group, and have complete privacy if you wish. It's
   a dandy site. This slick social networking site was founded by Gina Bianchini
   and Marc Andreessen, who was co-founder of Netscape, and co-author of Mosaic.

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GRAMMAR, USAGE and STYLE - Redundant Words and Phrases

Use redundant phrases sparingly (or omit) in business
correspondence, articles, and other written documents. Here
are a few that people use regularly:

12 midnight (midnight)
12 noon (noon)
Absolutely essential (essential)
Added bonus (bonus)
Both of them (both)
Crystal clear (clear)
End result (result)
Exact same (exact or same)
Fewer in number (fewer)
Final outcome (outcome)
Free give-away or free gift (give-away or gift)
Inasmuch as (since, because)
Past history (history will work most of the time)
Point in time (point, time, or then)
There is no doubt that (how about "clearly"?)
Until such time as (until)

Strive to have all your documents become minor works of art.
Let them convey the message efficiently, without wasting the
reader's time. Balance messages on the page.

Big assignment? No. You can do it!

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

GRAMMAR CENTRAL
Links to a teacher's notes on grammar lessons as well ascopies of the lessons themselves.
http://tinyurl.com/94q5d

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/

THE ENGLISH MAZE
A web-based learning system for individuals and schools worldwide.

Students can improve their pronunciation, speaking, reading, listening, and writing skills.
http://www.englishmaze.com/

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
Educators can take advantage of online technology to share ideas and benefit from the work of others.

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

SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
Within the School of Earth, Society, and Environment, College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/index.html

LIBRA
Library software to organize your stuff. Turn your webcam into a barcode scanner.

Hook up your webcam, and Libra turns it instantly into a barcode
scanner. Point your webcam toward the barcode (in any orientation) on the back of your books, DVDs or CDs and Libra will auto-retrieve the product information automatically, and add it to your library. You can use a normal barcode scanner (including CueCats) too.
http://www.getlibra.com/

HISTORY

PHOTOHISTORY
A discussion list for archivists, art historians and enthusiasts of
early photography.

From daguerreotype to Kodachrome. Discuss early
photographers, cameras, collections, gallery exhibits, antiquarian techniques and creative methods, archival storage, cataloging, and preservation. The world wide membership reaches many universities, museums and noted archives.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/PhotoHistory/

WRITING/JOURNALISM

HELP A REPORTER OUT: PETER SHANKMAN
This list was originally conceived on Facebook, but since Facebook caps group emails at 1,200 people, this is the
next incarnation.

Each day, you'll receive up to three emails, each with anywhere from 2-10 queries per email. If you see a query you can answer, go for it!

I built this list because a lot of my friends are reporters, and they call me all the time for sources. Rather than go through my contact lists each time, I figured I could push the requests out to people who actually have something to say.

Also, an area just for journalists.
http://www.helpareporter.com
http://www.helpareporter.com/press/

WORDS ON THE WATER: FREELANCE WRITING BLOG
http://www.mlvwrites.com/category/writing

HEALTH

ORAL HEALTH
http://www.webmd.com/oral-health/default.htm

HEALTH ISSUES FOLLOWING A HURRICANE
http://www.epa.gov/Katrina/healthissues.html

EDUCATION

CNN HEROES: A NOTE TO EDUCATORS
"CNN Heroes" spotlights and celebrates the very best of humankind.

Students will discover the many ways that one person can contribute to society and will come to appreciate their own potential to make a difference in the world.
http://tinyurl.com/5psbnm

ARTS

THE FOX THEATRE: ATLANTA
http://www.foxtheatre.org/

THE WORKS OF UMBERTO ECO
http://www.themodernword.com/eco/eco_works.html

REFERENCES

BIBLIOBOT, THE INSTANT APPRAISER
http://www.pbagalleries.com/bibliobot/

CHINA STATISTICS
Facilities, Services and Expenditures of Public Libraries (2004)
http://tinyurl.com/5jlhdv

CHINA TODAY
China Reference and Libraries
http://www.chinatoday.com/reference/reference.htm

GIGAPAN
Development of the Global Connection Project, which aims to help us meet our neighbors across the globe, and learn about our planet itself.

GigaPan will help bring distant communities and peoples together through images that have so much detail that they are, themselves, the objects of exploration, discovery and wonder.

GigaPan consists of three technological developments: a robotic camera mount for capturing very high-resolution (gigapixel and up) panoramic images using a standard digital camera; custom
software for constructing very high-resolution gigapixel panoramas; and a new type of website for exploring, sharing and commenting on gigapixel panoramas and the detail our users will discover within them.
http://www.gigapan.org/

GOLIATH
Comprehensive, online business research center, including more than five million news articles, company profiles, and industry reports.

Generate valuable business leads or browse directories of consultants, wholesalers, and distributors.
http://goliath.ecnext.com/

JULIAN DATE CONVERTER
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/JulianDate.php

LOST TITLES, FORGOTTEN RHYMES:
How to Find a Novel, Short Story, or Poem Without Knowing its Title or Author
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/lost/

MAYAN CALENDAR: Ivan Van Laningham
Python Vuh: Mayan Calendrical Mathematics with Python
http://tinyurl.com/5f62h5

MUSCLE MEMORY
An interface to a relational database of male and female bodybuilding contest results.

Although far from complete, currently the database
contains over 113 thousand entries.
http://www.musclememory.com/

NAME THAT HYMN
http://www.namethathymn.com/hymn-lyrics-detective-forum/

NATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFERENCE SERVICE
NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.
http://www.ncjrs.gov/library.html

NATIONAL LIBRARY AND DOCUMENTATION
SERVICES BOARD:
Sri Lanka
http://www.natlib.lk/

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF CHINA
http://www.nlc.gov.cn/en/others/tushuguan.htm

PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA
http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla62/62-xial.htm

QUICK BABY NAMES
Looking for the meaning of names? Need help choosing a baby name?

Search Quickbabynames for their meanings, origins, popularity
and other information.
http://www.quickbabynames.com/

TIME-LIFE LIBRARY
Provides a volume list, pictures, descriptions, and
shopping links.
http://www.volumelists.com/series.php

U.S. NEWSPAPER PROGRAM
A cooperative national effort among the states and the federal government to locate, catalog, and preserve on microfilm newspapers published in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present.

Funding is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Technical assistance is furnished by the Library
of Congress.
http://www.neh.gov/projects/usnp.html

WORLDMAPPER
A map of the estimated number of households in the world.

A household is a social grouping, often a family, that eats together or shares a living space. The number of households per territory varies as a result of the population size and the household size.

The fewer households there are per 100 people, the bigger the size of the average household.
http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=191

YAMASAKI PLANT PHOTO GALLERY
A collection of plant photographs of Asian Countries mostly taken by Kazuo Yamasaki. The number of photos is 2229.
http://tinyurl.com/69u6c3

YOUR OLD BOOKS
Addresses some frequently asked questions about rare and older books and their values.
http://www.rbms.info/yob.shtml