Spanish language consumers guides/column

Here's a link for Spanish language consumer guides for health issues such as depression, arthritis, etc and the drugs used for these illnesses from AHRQ.

Select to access the guides. Print copies are available by sending an e-mail to ahrqpubs@ahrq.hhs.gov.

Also here is link for AHRQ's monthly health advice column & website in spanish;
AHRQ announced Consejos de Salud Para Tí, (Health Advice for You),

The column is part of AHRQ’s Información en Español Web site

Microsoft 07 manual

Here is the link to the 2007 Microsoft Manual

http://cs.its.uiowa.edu/sda/documents/LifeAfterWord2003.pdf

Maps

This looks like an excellent source of US maps - extensive and reliable.

http://nationalatlas.gov/

Very cool to play around in, too. Maintained by the Dept. of the Interior.

Retired: National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID)

The NCID has been reorganized, and its website has been retired. Its divisions and programs have now been reassigned to four national centers.

For complete information and links to the new centers, please see:

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/

Checklist for Pandemic Flu

A link for 'Pandemic Flu' checklist in multiple languages

http://www.pandemicflu.gov/plan/individual/checklist.html

PA Area Codes

This is the link to the PUC web page showing all PA area codes and where they are located

Online Language Sites

At the ARC reference mtg learned about online language sites for learning other languages, including english. The 3 sites are mostly free, although there might be some fees for some aspects of learning.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/

http://www.livemocha.com/

http://www.byki.com/

no excuse for learning a language now!