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If you need surgery or a medical specialist Pick-A-Site.
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 Us news And World Reports publishes an on-line list of the best medical centers, which you can sort by specialty or locale. It's a bit weighted towards hospitals with academic appendages and why not!
Why Not the Best is run by the Commonwealth Fund; a non-profit. They publish government data on hospitals in an easy to read format.
Quality Check, also run by a non-profit, (The Joint Commission), lets you search for hospitals with their accreditations by zip code.
Dartmouth focuses on how effectively hospitals use health-care dollars, "especially near the end of life."
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Parking spot?
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 Primrose provides block-by-block real-time information on street-parking rules, plus parking-lot locations and fees. Available for Android, Blackberry and Iphone as well.
ParkBud for Iphone keeps track of your meter time and alerts you timely. It's also uses GPS technology to locate your car, should you lose it.
Parkdroid does the same thing for Android devices.
Parking In Motion (Android and Iphone) contains pinpoint locations of parking garages in 340 major cities and also gives the cheapest rates.
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| Free E-Books |
 Did you get or give a reader as a gift this holiday season? Firstly, you need to know that these new readers like Amazon's Kindle and Barnes and Noble's Nook are designed to allow you to borrow or exchange books with friends and relatives. Further, not all books need to be purchased. Here are some sites where you can download material for free.
Project Gutenberg has already digitizeda ton of books that are in the public domain. They are made available in a variety of digital formats at no cost. Google's got some free books too ( Scroll down to "Best of the Free" at the bottom of the page).
Finally, there's Wikibooks, a site dedicaterd to make e-textbooks available for free. |
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| Line up for a new credit reporting organization: |
 Move over Equifax, Experian and Trans-Union. CoreLogic, a financial-data firm, has unveiled a new credit report that will tap data that has "never before appeared" in traditional credit files. It may include your history of missed rental payments and child support, and whether you are underwater on your mortgage. For some consumers, the new report is "likely to reveal black marks that previously went undetected, which may damage an otherwise clean record." But CoreLogic, which has partnered with FICO to develop a new credit score based on the reports, says the added data, most of it publicly available, could also help those with thin credit files better prove their creditworthiness. Reports will be available for an estimated 100 million Americans; you can call CoreLogic at (877) 532-8778 to request" a copy of yours.
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| Sexual Dangers of the Internet; Some Facts: |
- The Internet has given sexual predators a new way of finding victims, but most of these predators are not technically pedophiles.
- 99% of the sex crimes committed through internet-initiated contacts involve the statutory rape of teenagers rather than little children.
- Pedophiles, who by definition prefer children who have not reached puberty, rarely meet victims on-line.
- Cops recently busted 70,000 (yes thousand) members of an on-line organization that exchanged child-porn.
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Words of Wisdom: The only way to keep something private on Facebook is not to post it on Facebook!
- Is you password on the worst passwords of 2011 list as compiled by Forbes Magazine? Have a Look here!
- Clean Machine: LCDs (laptop and desktop screens) don't take well to glass cleaners and ammonia. If you need to clean either, dampen a soft cloth or paper towel with plain water. Not good enough? Make a 50/50 mixture of (distilled recommended) water and white vinegar. Apply it to the cloth and not directly to the screen. Wipe with a dry fresh cloth or paper towel.
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