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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn