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Texas Health Steps Offers Free CME Credits

"Texas Health Steps' award-winning online program offers FREE CE Courses to enhance your ability to provide preventive health, mental health, oral health & case management services to Medicaid eligible children in Texas." Included are courses accredited for physicians, nurses, social workers, pharmacists, dentists, dietitians, and audiologists.

Resource cited: http://www.txhealthsteps.com/

International Travel Tip

Tip from a family personally involved in the current Cairo situation:

When you travel - take your e-ticket number (13 digits) not just your reservation number. The Internet is down in Cairo and they could not look up the reservation but they could look up the e-ticket number. Also take lots of cash.

DirectMail.com -- Get Off Mailing Lists

DirectMail.com offers a registry to get off mailing lists. Their members are encouraged to use the lists to avoid sending mail to people who do not want it. Phone numbers: 888-690-2252 (toll-free) and 301-855-1700.

For additional registries see an earlier posting or click on the subject "consumer protection" on this website.

Website cited: http://www.directmail.com/directory/mail_preference/faq.aspx

Source: Fort Worth Star Telegram article 7-15-2010 by David Casstevens p.1B

Rehabilitation Encyclopedia from CIRRIE

The Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information & Exchange (CIRRIE) has developed a free online encyclopedia covering the field of rehabilitation. The articles, offered in in English, French and Spanish, are extensive and are aimed at "researchers, professionals, students, persons with disabilities, and the general public." It is supported by a grant from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research.

Website referenced:
http://cirrie.buffalo.edu/encyclopedia/en/

Demise of Delicious -- not yet!

If you have taken advantage of Delicious, the bookmarking site that enables you to reach your bookmarks from any computer, you will be sorry to hear that Yahoo intends to discontinue the service. However, Delicious later on the 17th reported it will not shut down and is looking for a new partner. This is an example of how things can change suddenly in the land of Web 2.0.

To preserve your bookmarks, you can export them. The result will be a webpage that looks like a list of links. Your descriptions will be visible, but not the subject tags. Tags are captured by the export, they are just not visible (right click and look at the Notepad source information). However, you will no longer be able to reach any bundles.

Although a number of alternatives have been mentioned, none yet appear to offer as many features. Possible options mentioned by others, but I have not studied any of them:
http://historio.us/
pinboard.in
http://www.diigo.com
http://wonderpage.com

This is an interesting article on Web 2.0 sites in general.
Websites referenced:
https://secure.delicious.com/
https://secure.delicious.com/settings/bookmarks/export
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/rip_delicious_you_were_so_beautiful_to_me.php

http://blog.delicious.com/

http://thenextweb.com/industry/2010/12/19/the-decline-of-web-2-0/

DART Opens Green and Orange Lines, Affecting Bus Routes

Major changes are happening in the DART transportation system on Monday, Dec. 6. The new Green Line will open, bringing public transportation to the northwestern part of the Dallas area. Sections of the Green Line and Red Line will be served by Orange Line trains during heavy weekday rush hour periods. Several of the new stops will have bus connections to the hospital (see the 29, 31, 409), or you can ride to the West End to connect with 2 options (29, 31). Check DART's Mobile Site for quick updates on bus locations.

For handouts on public transportation service to the hospital, see a link on the Medical Library home page.

Thanks for sharing, LA & KF!

Websites referenced:
http://www.dart.org/about/servicechange/servicechange.asp?zeon=06dec10other

http://m.dart.org/