(also see our
Homework Helper and
Teen Studies pages)
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Legal Aid Network of Kentucky
http://www.kyjustice.org
250 Campsie Place, Lexington
KY 40508
The Legal Aid Network of
Kentucky serves low-income and older Kentuckians who need help
with civil legal matters.
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AAA GAS WATCHER'S GUIDE
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Budget
Worksheets
http://budgetworksheets.org/
Free printable budget worksheets, formatted for Excel or printing
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FirstGov - US
Government's Official Web Portal
http://www.firstgov.gov
Find whatever you want or need from the US
Government - a rich treasure of online information, services and
resources.
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TAXES
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Telemarketing
No-Call List - Kentucky
http://www.kycall0.net
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MONEY
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HealthFinder.gov
http://www.healthfinder.gov/
A key resource for finding the
best government and nonprofit health and human services information
on the Internet. Healthfinder® links to carefully selected
information and Web sites from over 1,500 health-related
organizations.
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MEDLINE PLUS
http://medlineplus.gov
MedlinePlus
will direct you to information to help answer health questions.
MedlinePlus brings together, by health topic, authoritative
information from
the National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health
(NIH), other government, non-profit and other health-related
organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches
are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to the medical
research
literature. It also provides you with a database of full-text drug
information
and an illustrated medical encyclopedia.
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NIH SeniorHealth
http://nihseniorhealth.gov/
Featuring health info from the National
Institutes of Health
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SARS - What
Everyone Should Know
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/sars/
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Web MD
http://www.webmd.com
Provided health information and services.
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AAA - Blue Grass / Kentucky
http://ww2.aaa.com/aaa/032/index.html?zip=40361
Vigorous involvement in travel
and motoring issues and personalized service to members.
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BedandBreakfast.com
http://www.bedandbreakfast.com
Has a comprehensive database that includes bed
and breakfasts, B&B homestays, country and urban inns, guest houses,
lodges, cabins, historic hotels, small resorts, guest ranches, and
farmhouse accommodations. Searching the B&B database allows the
traveler to find the ideal bed and breakfast inn, whether looking by
location, amenities, special needs, recipes, special packages, or
last minute availability. The website also offers reviews and maps
that make finding a B&B easy.
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Budget Travel Online
http://www.budgettravelonline.com
Arthur Frommer, one of the ultimate allies for
budget-minded travelers, has created a website that does quite a
bit. The feature "Real Deals" offers information on late-breaking
travel deals and quick getaways. Also worth a look are the "Snap
Guides," which are downloadable brochures for various cities that
include information about museums, shopping, dining and other
attractions. Audio downloads for iPods and MP3 music players are
expected to be available soon.
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Equitrekking
http://www.equitrekking.com
An international video series that
allows the viewer to explore the world on horseback. As the
show is not widely available to TV audiences, anyone with an
Internet connection can now click on the large "Go" button
near the top of the home page and choose from the assortment
of video clips listed (currently covering Spain, New Mexico
and Ireland, with more promised in the near future). Beyond
the streaming video, the website also offers travel tips, a
vacation guide, a monthly newsletter, expert advice and an
online community for high-tech equestrians. Those looking for
a true equine adventure should also check out Equitrekking's
World Vacation Guide, which includes a clickable map
highlighting horseback riding options worldwide.
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Expedia
http://www.expedia.com
Online travel planning
and flight-booking site. Purchase airline tickets online, find
vacation packages, and make hotel and car reservations.
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Five Star Alliance
http://www.fivestaralliance.com
Doesn't have the largest
inventory around, but the 1,000 plus sites have been
personally interviewed and selected by FSA's "team" of
experts. Each hotel has an "exclusive insight" section where
FSA notes what makes it a standout in the growing field of
luxury hotels. All hotels are listed for free, so there's no
bias in the choices. A major perk is FSA's guarantee that the
traveler will be satisfied with the stay at any hotel booked
on its site. If unhappy for any reason, FSA promises to work
with the hotel to resolve the issue.
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Fodor's Travel Guides
http://www.fodors.com/
Travel guides and trip
planning information.
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Hotwire
http://www.hotwire.com/
Discount travel deals you won't
see anywhere else.
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Igougo
http://www.igougo.com
Claims to have
the world's leading online travel community with 350,000
members. These members offer hundreds of thousands of opinions
on destinations across the globe, plus suggestions and photos
for everything from cheap eats and luxury accommodations to
must-see attractions and worthwhile day trips.
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Kayak
http://www.kayak.com
Searches hundreds of other websites in
real time for the best travel deals available; lets the
traveler look at a full range of airlines, hotels and car
rental agencies quickly and efficiently based on the exact
criteria selected. This means a better travel search. Results
are laid out in an extremely user-friendly manner, and
manipulating search results to zero-in on the optimal choice
can be done by simply checking or un-checking boxes along the
left side of the page.
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Lonely Planet
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/
Travel guidebooks, advice,
information and inspiration.
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Marriott Golf's "Rounds and Rooms"
http://www.marriottgolf.com
Offers an online golf resort and tee
time reservation system. The vacationing golfer can visit
before hitting the links, and book a start time simultaneously
with the hotel room. The system covers over 50 leading golf
courses worldwide.
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Orbitz
http://www.orbitz.com
Long the go-to site for
checking airfares, and for ample reason: it does such a good
job of packing flight options into a comprehensive and clear
display that nearly every other site imitates it. Just plug in
departure and destination airports, and Orbitz will alert the
traveler if a nearby airport has a cheaper fare. But Orbitz
doesn't want the traveler just to check the fares, but to also
buy the tickets. To that end, it has bulked up its airfare and
hotel packages. Sometimes the packages have some annoying
quirks, such as requiring a stop-over flight when non-stops
are available. Orbitz also includes alerts that send departure
information and hotel reviews to cell phones.
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PlacesToStay
http://www.placestostay.com
Offers a broad selection-distinctive hotels,
inns and resorts worldwide, and features the largest portfolio of
independent properties anywhere online. Search options allow the
traveler to indicate personal preferences, such as price range,
services and amenities. Color photos of guest rooms and exterior
views are given along with detailed descriptions.
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Quikbook
http://www.quikbook.com
Offers unsold rooms at independent hotels at a bargain. Other sites
sell priority placement to the top bidder. Quikbook never does.
Users always see the best deals - and the travelers can sort them
the way that makes the most sense. Its Hotel Profiles offer lots of
details about hotels: lists of amenities; proximity to shopping,
entertainment and airports; photos and maps; even comments submitted
by Quikbook customers who have already stayed at the hotels.
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Restaurant Guide
http://www.foodandwine.com/restaurants
An online guide to 2,700-plus restaurants
around the world, is available at FoodandWine.com and
TravelandLeisure.com (just add /restaurants to the addresses). The
Restaurant Guide can point the traveler to no fewer than four
recommended (and reviewed) eating spots for a destination. Coverage
is worldwide (with a current focus on Latin America, the Caribbean
and the United States), and broken down into such categories as
kid-friendly spots, best bites near sights, hotspots and best wine
lists.
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SearchParty
http://www.searchparty.com
Offers comparisons of "total cost of stay"
rather than just room rates (which often don't include taxes and
booking fees) found on other online hotel booking websites. Much
like SideStep and Kayak.com, SearchParty "spiders" its partners' web
sites to gather hotel information each time a query is entered into
the system. Its inventory already exceeds 40,000 U.S. hotels. In
addition to the website, SearchParty also offers free downloadable
software that enables online travel shoppers to compare hotel prices
even if the site at which a search is run does not actively
participate in SearchParty or other travel search engines.
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SkyAuction
http://www.skyauction.com
A fast-growing travel auction marketplace where the traveler can buy
airline tickets, room nights, tours, cruises and all-inclusive
vacations. The company negotiates special deals with leading
airlines, hotels, resorts and cruises to offer amazing bargains.
Anyone can bid with only a few mouse clicks. Most of the travel
auctions open at $1 with no reserve. Like all travel sites, port
charges, departure taxes and the like can add up. While SkyAuction
does apply these charges on its offers, the charges are disclosed
before the traveler confirms the bid.
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Site59
http://www.site59.com
Dedicated solely to
last-minute travel. The traveler can book airfare and hotel packages
anywhere from three hours to 14 days prior to departure. By buying
up unsold seats and rooms, Site59 can sell them at a discount. The
problem is that airlines and hotels have gotten pretty good at
selling their own excess inventory, so Site59's deals often aren't
so hot.
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TabletHotels
http://www.tablethotels.com
Specializes in high-end boutique
hotels-ones with personality that obsess on the details. Each
hotel is subjected to a rigorous review process. Each is
anonymously visited by someone in the company's network of
travel experts, and the experts' reports are reviewed. On each
hotel page the company lists real-time customer ratings
submitted only by TabletHotel customers who have actually
stayed in the hotel in. The website claims that its customer
service department is on par with the best concierge services,
offering fast and professional help.
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Thorn Tree
http://thorntree.lonelyplanet.com
Lonely Planet's
bulletin board for travelers to exchange information. It
offers an Accommodation Review section of 5000+ author reviews
and recommended properties in over 125 destinations.
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Travelocity
http://www.travelocity.com/
A great site for finding
inexpensive fares; membership is free, and signing up is easy.
The traveler is offered daily specials, package vacations,
airfare bargains, car rentals, hotel reservations, and a
comprehensive destination guide. However, features that appear
to be time- and money-savers are often frustrating to use. For
example, if travel plans are flexible, Travelocity will show
the dates that will get the cheapest fare, but the reviewer's
attempts to book this trip failed to produce the lowest priced
fare, saving no money but costing much patience. Travelocity
also doesn't offer as many package deals as Expedia, but the
traveler can book attractions and reserve a specific aircraft
seat, with a booking fee of $5. Travelocity is also known for
including taxes and fees in its price lists so there are no
surprises at checkout.
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Travelzoo
http://www.travelzoo.com
Employs
travel deal experts to research and test recommended deals before
publishing. They also provide tips on when offers are available and
where to find the best deals. Travelers don't book tickets on the
site but click through to the travel company itself for that. There
is no charge for the information or the company's newsletters. The
company makes its money from the travel companies who pay Travelzoo
to distribute the news about their latest offers. The hottest travel
deals are handpicked and published every Wednesday in its Top 20
e-mail newsletter.
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Tripbase
http://www.tripbase.com
Vacation ideas, destination
finder and more.
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Google Maps
http://maps.google.com
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Mapquest
http://www.mapquest.com
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Mobissimo
http://www.mobissimo.com
Search engine
performs real-time queries on over 160 websites that travelers
traditionally check manually (plus dozens of others that are often
overlooked). In a very short time, Mobissimo returns the most
comprehensive travel search results available on the web. It has the
largest network of international suppliers. It's a good place to
start if the traveler needs a flight that doesn't originate in the
United States. One drawback is that some international partners do
not accept U. S. credit cards.
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SideStep.com
http://www.sidestep.com
Searches airline websites and
other travel sites, including some international travel sites to
come up with its list of best fares. It has an online search tool,
but more features are available if you download its small software
utility (Windows only). These features allow you to compare results
on a split screen with Expedia, Travelocity and others. An
"Activities" feature allows travel planners to instantly search
dozens of relevant sites to find and plan things to do while on
vacation. As is the case with hotels and flights selected at
SideStep, tickets for each activity can be purchased directly at the
partner's web site. SideStep doesn't charge fees; it simply steers
the traveler to the site where it found the fare.
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Student and Youth Travel
http://www.statravel.com/
Travel company for students
and young adults with locations in 50 countries to
assist customers as they travel.
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Travel.com
http://www.travel.com
One of the most extensive travel sites.
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Travelers' Health
http://www.cdc.gov/travel/
Health and safety topics - what to know before you go - from the
federal Centers for Disease Control & Prevention.
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U.S. State
Department - Travel
http://travel.state.gov/
Information about passports,
visas, travel warnings, consular info, and more from the federal
government.
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Vacation Designer
www.vacationdesigner.com
"Your complete travel planner, from Desktop to
Web." It offers downloads of a software platform intended to
facilitate the research and planning of an entire vacation. Cautious
types can download a free 30-day trial version of the software --
the cost is $24.95 to continue use beyond 30 days.
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What Seat Am I In?
http://www.seatguru.com
Plane seating
charts for many airlines.
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FindArticles.com
http://www.findarticles.com
"The
Web's first free article search... vast archive of
published articles you can search for free. Constantly
updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from
more than 300 magazines and journals."
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GOOGLE -
Your Librarian's Pick!
http://www.google.com
One of the best tools
to help you find stuff online. Did you know you can "Google" a
listed phone number and get the name and address? Or "Google" just a
street address and get a map...
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Google Help
Central
http://www.google.com/help/
Learn how to search and use special features
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Froogle
Google
http://froogle.google.com
Search online shopping sites and find the
best price!
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Soople
http://www.soople.com
Not "Google" at all, it offers easier ways to use all the complex
functions available in Google. Learn to use Google as a phone
book, or to look up definitions - plus an amazing array of
calculators.
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Librarian's Index
to the Internet
http://www.lii.org
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Music - Name that
Melody
http://www.musipedia.org/
Searchable collection
of tunes, melodies and musical themes; play the melody on a keyboard
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Raging
http://www.raging.com
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SurfWax
Metasearch
http://www.surfwax.com
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Yahoo
http://www.yahoo.com
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KIDSAFE SEARCHING
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