More Magazines Will Move to Cassette

You readers have told us that you're really enjoying the magazines that changed from disk to cassette format at the beginning of this year. You'll be happy to know that another 10 magazines will switch to cassette with the first issue of the year 2000. The last of the flexible disk magazines will transfer to cassette in 2001.

Switching to cassette in 2000 will be:
The Atlantic (monthly)
Discover (monthly)
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (11 issues)
Health and Nutrition Newsletters (monthly)
Magazine of the Month (monthly)
New Choices: Living Even Better affer 50 (10 issues)
Outdoor Life (monthly)
Q. S. T. (monthly)
Sports Illustrated (weekly)
True West (monthly)

Seeking Support?
Have you ever wished to join to support group in your community? There are millions of support groups, covering a tremendous number of topics -- but where is the one you need? The American Self-Help Clearinghouse, a national non-profit organization, offers an index of such groups, indexed by region and by topic. Those of you with computers can access this index by email at www.cmhc.com, or by mail. Send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to The American Self-He!p Clearinghouse, Northwest Covenant Medical Center, Denville NJ 07834.

Glucosamine Caution for Diabetics
It is always important to consider how the medications you may be taking might interact with each other. Make sure your doctor knows all the pills your taking -- even those you bought at the health food store. There are many meds you should not mix! For example, glucosamine, an over-the-counter medication sometimes used to reduce arthritis pain, is known to increase insulin resistance. As insulin resistance is the primary symptom/root cause of Type ll diabetes, if you have diabetes, you may need to steer clear of glucosamine.
Voice of the Diabetic, the publication that first carried this alert, is a quarterly magazine published by the Diabetes Action Network of the National Federation of the Blind. The Voice is free to any interested person upon request, although donations to defray expenses are encouraged. The magazine is available in print and on cassette. To subscribe, contact Voice of the Diabetic at 811 Cherry Street, Suite 309, Columbia MO 65201. Telephone: (573) 875-8911.

On the Internet
If you're a computer user with access to the World Wide Web, here are a couple of sites you might find interesting.
Audio-Bible www.audio-bible.com here you'll find a complete audio addition of the Bible (King James version) narrated by Alexander Scourby. Use the link "for the visually impaired." Hearing this requires Windows, a sound card and RealAudio software, available free at www.real.com.
INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections infomine.ucr.edu (text only) more than 11,000 academically valuable resources that have been gathered, verified, categorized and annotated by librarians at the University of California.
ALEX: Catalog of Electronic Texts sunsite.berkeley.edu/alex an extensive online collection of full-text digital documents.
If you find the World Wide Web increasingly frustrating because of its pictorial content, you might be interested in acquiring pwWebSpeak. If you have Windows 95, 98 or NT, plus a speech synthesizer such as Doubletalk or DECtalk, are "print handicapped" and will use the program for personal applications only, you may download pwWebspeak from the company's website, www.prodworks.com. For $53, you'll have one year of technical support and product upgrades. After that first-year subscription, renewals are optional.
If you do not have a speech synthesizer now, WebSpeak PLUS includes the SoftVoice speech synthesis. This version costs $150 and comes on a CD.