John and all,

I went to the address below

http://parkinsons-information-exchange-network-online.com/archive/
pac.html

Clicked on one of the: "Webcasts for the Professional and Researcher"
And was rewarded with .2 KB of an inaccessible  download

What kind of software is required to access these offerings - or are
they not MAC compatible?


On Jan 15, 2005, at 1:15 AM, John Cottingham wrote:

> This version should be easier to read with wordwrap on.
>
> I have been extremely busy on the Parkinsn Online website adding
> information
> of interest to subscribers to Parkinsn and the general public at
> large. We
> are extremely sucessful since the rollout of the Parkinsn message
> archives.
>
> Internationally, we have tripled the number of average visitors daily,
> with
> more than a 1/3 to the message archives, 1/3 to the medical articles
> and
> abstracts and information that is useful to the Parkinson's family,
> young
> and old.
>
> Our daily email messages would previously attract about 50 viewers a
> day and
> now that number is 300 and another 700 to the archive messages.
>
> The number of pages accessed by message archive viewers is about 2
> which is
> amazing since they are coming as the result of searches from Google,
> Yahoo
> and MSN and AOLSearch. They are actually reading the rest of the
> threads
> from our postings.
>
> The ability of PIENO to index other sites puts power in the hands of
> those
> who use the PIENO search box on the over 100,000 pages of information
> on PIENO.
>
> The PIENO search engine has fully indexed:
>
> PIENO of course
> The Parkinson Alliance
> DBS-STN Organization
> The Unity Walk
> Michael J Fox Foundation
> APDA Partially
> National Parkinson Foundation
> Parkinson Disease Foundation
> Northwest Parkinson's Foundation
> WeMove
> MD Virtual University
> Essential Tremor Organization
> Parkinsons Action Network
> Parkinson Society (Canada)
> Parkinson Disease Society (UK)
> National Library of Medicine
> Pfizer Family of Medicine Websites
> GlaxoSmithKline Pharma
> and several sites that contain PD abstracts
>
> When you enter a word or words in a PIENO search box, All of these
> quality
> site indexes are searched if you have All Parkinsons Organizations
> selected.
> Click on All Parkinsons Organizations and a drop down list will appear
> to
> select a particular target rather than all.
>
> The Google and PIENO boxes on the website work the same way. If you
> see a
> word or phrase (two or more words one after the other), highlight them
> with
> your mouse, holding the left mouse button down as you move the cursor
> left
> to right until all of the word or words is highlighted. Release the
> mouse
> button, put the cursor over the highlighted word or phrase and hold
> the left
> mouse button down while you drag it to the keywords box on the search
> boxes.
> When your cursor is over the keywords box, release the left mouse
> button.
> The word or words will appear just as if you had typed them. Click on
> the
> search key and voila!
>
> Search tips
>
> Every sentence must have a subject. Search engine search return the
> most
> relative choices if you use that truism. If you are searching on the
> topic
> of drooling, put parkinson as the first word and drooling as the
> second word.
>
> The PIENO search box can match ALL which means both words have to be
> on the
> page or ANY which would give you pages that have either word.
>
> Phrases are words that have to come in the same order that you type
> them.
> Enclose a phrase in quotes like "essential tremor". If you don't
> enclose the
> terms in quotes, the search box action will be governed by whether ALL
> or
> ANY is selected before you click on the search key.
>
> "resting tremor" dyskinesia as keywords would find either "resting
> tremor"
> or dyskinesia on a page if ANY was the match selected.
>
> If you would like your search terms highlighted on the pages you look
> at,
> Click the link that is labeled View with Keywords Highlighted in text
> instead of clicking on the title of the page on the search results
> page.
>
> Conclusion
>
> Last but not least, Look again at the Parkinson Answer Page at:
>
> http://parkinsons-information-exchange-network-online.com/archive/
> pac.html
> or if this line wraps, http://tinyurl.com/46kfp
>
> In June of last year, the XVIth congress of the european society for
> stereotactic neurosurgery was held in Vienna. The presentations
> webcasts are
> archived for the professional and researcher. You can see what
> advances have
> been made in treating conditions including but not limited to
> Parkinson's.
> Professor Benibid chaired the conference. For those on broadband the
> high
> quality version will do quite nicely but those on dialup connections,
> select
> the other option. The presentations require the Windows Media Player.
>
> Until next time, cheers.
>
> John Cottingham
>
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