Friday, 6 April 2007

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BIOLOGY: GENETICS:
Researchers Identify Gene Involved in Dog Size

Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 14:06:09 -0400
From: "NIH OLIB (NIH/OD)" <(Address removed)>
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Subject: Researchers Identify Gene Involved in Dog Size

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
NIH News

National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) <http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/>

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: Thursday, April 5, 2007, 2:00 p.m. EDT

CONTACT: Raymond MacDougall, 301–402–0911,

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RESEARCHERS IDENTIFY GENE INVOLVED IN DOG SIZE

Discovery May Help Efforts to Better Understand Genetic Influences on Stature in Humans, Other Mammals

An international team led by researchers from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has identified a genetic variant that is a major contributor to small size in dogs. The findings appear in the April 6, 2007 issue of the journal "Science".

"The identification and characterization of a key genetic variant that accounts for differences in dog size is particularly exciting because the underlying gene is present in all dogs and other diverse species, including humans," said Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., scientific director of the NHGRI Division of Intramural Research. "Discoveries like this illustrate the exciting promise of genomics research for understanding the inheritance of a wide range of traits, including those that have an impact on health and disease."

The branch of the canine family tree that includes domestic dogs diverged from that of the gray wolf more than 15,000 years ago. Due to selective breeding by humans throughout history, dogs today exhibit an extremely wide range of body types and behaviors. In fact, dogs exhibit the greatest diversity in body size of any mammalian species.

In their study, researchers explored the genetic basis for size variation among dogs by comparing the DNA of various small dog breeds, including Chihuahuas, Toy Fox Terriers and Pomeranians, to an array of larger dog breeds, including Irish Wolfhounds, Saint Bernards and Great Danes. Their investigation found that variation in one gene -- IGF-1, which codes for a protein hormone called insulin-like growth factor 1, is very strongly associated with small stature across all dog breeds studied.

"We have been intrigued by the population structure of dogs, which over the years have been selectively bred, allowing us to more readily analyze the genetic causes of particular traits than is possible in humans," said the study's senior author Elaine A. Ostrander, Ph.D., chief of NHGRI's Cancer Genetics Branch. "Nearly all of what we learn from studying body structure, behavior and disease susceptibility in dogs helps us understand some aspect of human health and biology."

In addition to Ostrander and her colleagues at NHGRI, the team included researchers from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.; the University of Utah in Salt Lake City; the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of Southern California in Los Angeles; the University of Missouri in Columbia; the Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition in Leicestershire, England; and the Nestle Research Center in St. Louis. Postdoctoral Fellow Nathan B. Sutter, Ph.D. from NHGRI's Cancer Genetics Branch, served as lead author.

"By learning how genes control body size in dogs, we are apt to learn something about how skeletal body size is genetically programmed in humans. We also will increase our data set of genes likely to play a role in diseases such as cancer, in which regulation of cell growth has been lost," said Ostrander, noting that the role of the IGF-1 gene family in prostate cancer susceptibility has already been well established.

Building upon previous research showing that the IGF-1 gene plays an important role in growth, body size and longevity in mice, the dog researchers used physical observations, X-ray imaging and DNA sequencing and genotyping analysis to study Portuguese water dogs -- a breed that has an unusually wide range of skeletal size -- as well as several small and large canine breeds. This analysis revealed that differences in dog body size appeared to be associated with minute genetic variations, referred to as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), in the IGF-1 gene. Researchers then narrowed the field of SNPs associated with small size by SNP genotyping in and around the IGF-1 gene in 463 Portuguese water dogs. A similar analysis was done using 526 dogs from 14 small breeds and nine giant dog breeds.

Ultimately, the researchers analyzed DNA from more than 3,000 dogs from 143 breeds to pinpoint a specific gene sequence variant, or haplotype, associated with small size in the canine genetic code. Nearly all of the small dogs studied shared this genetic variant, implicating it as a major influence on stature in dogs.

Based on their genomic analysis, the researchers also concluded that the small size trait emerged relatively early in the history of domestic dogs. They hypothesize that small size may have facilitated the rapid diversification among domestic dog breeds by making it easier for humans to maintain them in the crowded confines of developing villages and cities, as well as making them more transportable during trade and migration.

Future aims of the study are to identify genes that control other aspects of canine morphology including, for instance, leg length and skull shape.

Three high-resolution photos depicting the wide size range among dog breeds are available at:

<http://www.genome.gov/pressDisplay.cfm?photoID=20009>;

<http://www.genome.gov/pressDisplay.cfm?photoID=20010>;

and

<http://www.genome.gov/pressDisplay.cfm?photoID=20011>.

The new finding follows on the completion of the dog genome sequence, announced in December 2005, research that is a part of NHGRI's Large-Scale Sequencing Research Network. The availability of the dog genome sequence allows researchers to better compare the human and dog genomes and narrow their search for genetic contributors to cancer and other major diseases.

Researchers can access the dog sequence data through the following public databases: Dog Genome Resources <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/guide/dog> at NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI); EMBL Bank <http://www.ebi.ac.uk/index.html> at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's Nucleotide Sequence Database; UCSC Genome Browser <http://www.genome.ucsc.edu> at the University of California at Santa Cruz; and at the Broad Institute website <http://www.broad.mit.edu/mammals/dog>. The SNPs may be viewed at dbSNP <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/SNP> at NCBI and at the Broad Institute website <http://www.broad.mit.edu/mammals/dog/>.

NHGRI is one of the 27 institutes and centers at the National Institutes of Health, which is an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services. The NHGRI Division of Intramural Research develops and implements technology to understand, diagnose and treat genomic and genetic diseases. Additional information about NHGRI can be found at

<http://www.genome.gov>

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) -- The Nation's Medical Research Agency -- includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit

<http://www.nih.gov>

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This NIH News Release is available online at: <http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/apr2007/nhgri-05.htm>.

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Date: 06 Apr 2007 01:34:33 -0700
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Subject: [Net-Gold] Animation 19

The Simpsons
http://thesimpsons.com/index.html

The Unofficial Simpsons Page
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/7524/

Guide to Springfield USA
http://www.mapofspringfield.com/

The Simpsons Archive
http://www.snpp.com/

L.I.S.A.
http://snpp.com/guides/lisa.html

Date: 06 Apr 2007 01:34:58 -0700
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Subject: [Net-Gold] Baseball 31

Lexington Blue Sox
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Akarp Baseball and Softball Club http://gnuserver.mine.nu/~gary/baseball/index.html

East Bay Giants
http://home.comcast.net/~ebgiants/

Skovde Saints
http://www.svenskidrott.se/Organisation.asp?
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Chicago Gators
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Date: 06 Apr 2007 01:35:28 -0700
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Subject: [Net-Gold] Earth Science Data Centers 11

University Library Digital Spatial Data Catalog http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?g=gisall

FSIC
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Gigateway
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WADSIS
http://www.waddenseamaps.net/

BOOKS: CHILDREN:
Mary Higgins Clark Weaves Adventure Tale for Younger Readers

Mary Higgins Clark Weaves Adventure Tale for Younger Readers
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 04/6/07
BY PATTI MARTIN
STAFF WRITER <http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007704060326>

It is "Ghost Ship" (Paula Wiseman Book/Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $17.99), a mystery and adventure book set on Cape Cod, where Clark has had a home for 30 years. Aimed at readers 6 to 10 years old, "Ghost Ship" is the story of a friendship between two boys, one visiting his grandmother on summer vacation and the other a cabin boy for a sea captain with stories to tell of his adventures on the high seas centuries before. The idea of a children's book, Clark said during a telephone interview from her home in Saddle River, came about quite by accident.

"Wendell Minor (the book's illustrator) is my good friend, and he did the covers of four of my novels," says Clark, who also owns a home in Spring Lake. "We happened to be at a party together when Wendell's editor (who was also at the party) jokingly said "You two should write a book together.' We decided that it was a good idea."

Clark describes "Ghost Ship" as "a simple story, a sea-faring story filled with adventure."

Indeed it is. The tale follows a young boy named Thomas (named after one of Clark's step-grandsons) who loves his summer visits to his grandmother's house on Cape Cod. He spends hours walking on the beach, wondering about the sailing ships of the past and imagining their stories. One afternoon, after a night of thunderstorms, Thomas digs in the sand to see what the waves might have brought to shore. Deep in the sand, Thomas finds a weathered metal belt buckle. When the young boy picks up the buckle, something magical happens a boy his own age named Silas Rich a cabin boy on a ship that sailed 250 years ago appears.

The complete article may be read at the URL above.

Thanks to Dennis M. Linsky, frequent contributor to the Philly_Traction Philadelphia transit discussion group for privately sending me this link.

Philly_Traction Philadelphia Transit Discussion Group <http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/Philly_Traction/>

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ELDERLY :
MEDICAL: RESEARCH:
TAI CHI Boosts Immunity to Shingles Virus in
Older Adults, NIH-Sponsored Study Reports

Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 09:01:39 -0400
From: "NIH OLIB (NIH/OD)" <(Address removed)>
To: (Address removed)
Subject: TAI CHI Boosts Immunity to Shingles Virus in Older Adults, NIH-Sponsored Study Reports

TAI CHI BOOSTS IMMUNITY TO SHINGLES VIRUS IN OLDER ADULTS,
NIH-SPONSORED STUDY REPORTS

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
NIH News

National Institute on Aging (NIA)
<http://www.nia.nih.gov/>

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) <http://nccam.nih.gov/>

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, April 6, 2007

CONTACT: Susan Farrer or Linda Joy, 301–496–1752,
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TAI CHI BOOSTS IMMUNITY TO SHINGLES VIRUS IN OLDER ADULTS, NIH-SPONSORED STUDY REPORTS

Tai Chi, a traditional Chinese form of exercise, may help older adults avoid getting shingles by increasing immunity to varicella-zoster virus (VZV) and boosting the immune response to varicella vaccine in older adults, according to a new study published in print this week in the "Journal of the American Geriatrics Society". This National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study is the first rigorous clinical trial to suggest that a behavioral intervention, alone or in combination with a vaccine, can help protect older adults from VZV, which causes both chickenpox and shingles.

The research was supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), both components of NIH. The study's print publication follows its online release in March. The research was conducted by Michael R. Irwin, M.D., and Richard Olmstead, Ph.D., of the University of California at Los Angeles, and Michael N. Oxman, M.D., of the University of California at San Diego and San Diego Veterans Affairs Healthcare System.

"One in five people who have had chickenpox will get shingles later in life, usually after age 50, and the risk increases as people get older," says NIA Director Richard J. Hodes, M.D. "More research is needed, but this study suggests that the Tai Chi intervention tested, in combination with immunization, may enhance protection of older adults from this painful condition."

"Dr. Irwin's research team has demonstrated that a centuries-old behavioral intervention, Tai Chi, resulted in a level of immune response similar to that of a modern biological intervention, the varicella vaccine, and that Tai Chi boosted the positive effects of the vaccine," says Andrew Monjan, Ph.D., chief of the NIA's Neurobiology of Aging Branch.

The randomized, controlled clinical trial included 112 healthy adults ages 59 to 86 (average age of 70). Each person took part in a 16-week program of either Tai Chi or a health education program that provided 120 minutes of instruction weekly. Tai Chi combines aerobic activity, relaxation and meditation, which the researchers note have been reported to boost immune responses. The health education intervention involved classes about a variety of health-related topics.

After the 16-week Tai Chi and health education programs, with periodic blood tests to determine levels of VZV immunity, people in both groups received a single injection of VARIVAX, the chickenpox vaccine that was approved for use in the United States in 1995. Nine weeks later, the investigators did blood tests to assess each participant's level of VZV immunity, comparing it to immunity at the start of the study. All of the participants had had chickenpox earlier in life and so were already immune to that disease.

Tai Chi alone was found to increase participants' immunity to varicella as much as the vaccine typically produces in 30- to 40-year-old adults, and Tai Chi combined with the vaccine produced a significantly higher level of immunity, about a 40 percent increase, over that produced by the vaccine alone. The study further showed that the Tai Chi group's rate of increase in immunity over the course of the 25-week study was double that of the health education (control) group. The Tai Chi and health education groups' VZV immunity had been similar when the study began.

In addition, the Tai Chi group reported significant improvements in physical functioning, bodily pain, vitality and mental health. Both groups showed significant declines in the severity of depressive symptoms.

"This study builds upon preliminary research funded by NCCAM, and we are delighted to see this rigorous trial of Tai Chi for varicella zoster immunity come to fruition," said Ruth L. Kirschstein, M.D., NCCAM Acting Director.

Shingles, or herpes zoster, affects the nerves, resulting in pain and blisters in adults. Following a case of chickenpox, a person's nerve cells can harbor the varicella-zoster virus. Years later, the virus can reactivate and lead to shingles.

More information about shingles is available from the NIA at

<http://www.niapublications.org/agepages/shingles.asp>

and from

<http://www.NIHSeniorHealth.gov>

a website for older adults developed by the NIA and the National Library of Medicine, also a part of NIH. More information on Tai Chi can be found on NCCAM's website at

<http://nccam.nih.gov/health/taichi/>

To reach Dr. Michael Irwin, University of California at Los Angeles, contact Mark Wheeler at

310–794–2265

<email: (Address removed)>

The NIA leads the federal effort supporting and conducting research on aging and the medical, social and behavioral issues of older people. For more information on research and aging, go to <http://www.nia.nih.gov>. Publications on research and on a variety of topics of interest on health and aging can be viewed and ordered by visiting the NIA website or can be ordered by calling toll-free

1–800–222–2225

The NCCAM's mission is to explore complementary and alternative medical (CAM) practices in the context of rigorous science, train CAM researchers, and disseminate authoritative information to the public and professionals. For additional information, call NCCAM's Clearinghouse toll-free at

1–888–644–6226

or visit

<http://www.nccam.nih.gov>

<http://www.nih.gov>

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REFERENCE: Irwin, M.R., et al. Augmenting immune responses to varicella zoster virus in older adults: A randomized, controlled trial of Tai Chi. "Journal of the American Geriatrics Society" (2007), 55(4):511–517.

This NIH News Release is available online at: <http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/apr2007/nia-06.htm>.

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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 07:08:54 -0500 (EST)
From: David P. Dillard <(Address removed)>
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Subject: [NetGold] MEDIA: HISTORY : MASS COMMUNICATION: HISTORY :
JOURNALISM: HISTORY: Sources in the History of Mass Communication

MEDIA: HISTORY : MASS COMMUNICATION: HISTORY : JOURNALISM: HISTORY: Sources in the History of Mass Communication

Sources in the History of Mass Communication <http://web.archive.org/web/20040213155148/http://www.sit.wisc.edu/
~rarabe/resources.htm>

A shorter URL for the above link:

<http://tinyurl.com/35y7t7>

Old Site Location: This Site Below No Longer Exists:

<http://www.sit.wisc.edu/~rarabe/resources.htm#Contents>

"This is an online bibliography made up of books, articles, dissertations, and other academic resources in the field of Mass Communication History. Although it is by no means complete or exhaustive, it does contain many of the newest and most frequently cited resources in a variety of research areas, as well as many of the classic older texts. Some categories are much more complete than others. At this point, the bibliography is best seen as a starting point for research. The goal is to provide, over time, a comprehensive listing of the most important and useful works across the breadth of this wide-ranging field of study and to suggest resources for scholars engaging in historical research in journalism and mass communication. Approximately 2900 titles are currently listed. New titles are added on a regular basis."

Website Table of Contents:

Textbooks and Broad Histories of Journalism
Biography and Memoirs
Bibliographies and Reference Books
Women in Mass Communication
Journalism and Politics
The Media and the Presidency
Colonial America and the Revolutionary War
The Early Republic and Rise of the Party Press
The Penny Press
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Journalism in the Late Nineteenth Century
Printing, Books, and Literacy Minority Press Postal Service
Regional and Local Journalism
Progressive Era America and the Muckrakers
Nationalism in Mass Media
Labor and Radical Journalism
Tabloids, Gossip, and Celebrity Journalism
Freedom of Press and Speech
News Services
Newspaper Histories
Magazines
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Sports Journalism
War Correspondents and Military Journalism
Propaganda and National Security
Mass Media in Wartime: The Twentieth Century
Trade Associations, Professionalization, Journalism Education,
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Press Criticism
Mass Media and Mass Culture
Communication Technology in History
Film
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Illustration and Photography
Political Cartoons and Comics
Economics of Mass Media Ownership
Mass Media and Historical Memory
Collected Columns and Essays by Journalists
Journalism in the 1940s and 1950s
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Sports Journalism [index]

Anderson, William B. "Does the Cheerleading Ever Stop?: Major League Baseball and Sports Journalism." Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 78 (Summer 2001): 339–366.

Barber, Red. The Broadcasters. New York: DaCapo, 1985.

Berkman, Dave. "Long Before Arledge: Sports and Television, The Earliest Years- 1937–1947- as Seen by the Contemporary Press." Journal of Popular Culture 22 (Fall 1988): 49–62.

Betts, John R. "Sporting Journalism in Nineteenth Century America." American Quarterly 5 (Spring 1953).

Cahan, Richard. Champions: Sports and the Chicago Daily News. Chicago History 31 (Spring 2003): 2041.

Catsis, John R. Sports Broadcasting. Chicago: Nelson Hall, 1996.

Chandler, Joan. Television and National Sport: The United States and Britain. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.

Estes, David C. "The Rival Sporting Weeklies of William Porter and Thomas Bangs Thorpe." American Journalism 2:2 (1985): 135–143.

Evensen, Bruce J. "Jazz Age Journalism's Battle over Professionalization, Circulation, and the Sports Page." Journal of Sports History 30 (Winter 1993).

Evensen, Bruce J. "Cave Man" Meets "Student Champion": Sports Page Storytelling for a Nervous Generation during America's Jazz Age." Journalism Quarterly 70 (1993) :767–79.

Evensen, Bruce J. When Dempsey Fought Tunney: Heroes, Hokum, and Storytelling in the Jazz Age. Knoxville: University of Kentucky Press, 1996.

Fisher, Heinz-Dietrich. Sports Journalism at Its Best: Pulitzer Prize Winning Articles, Cartoons, and Photographs. Chicago: Nelson Hall, 1995.

Fountain, Charles. Sportswriter: The Life and Times of Grantland Rice. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. (NY Tribune)

Garrison, Bruce, and Mark Sabljak. Sports Reporting. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1993.

Hagerman, Bonnie M. "Skimpy Coverage: Sportswomen in Sports Illustrated, 1954–2000." PhD dissertation, Ohio University, 2001.

Halberstam, David J. Sports on New York Radio: A Play by Play History. Chicago: Masters Press, 1999.

Harwell, Ernie. Tuned to Baseball. South Bend: Diamond Press, 1985.

Holtzman, Jerome. No Cheering in the Pressbox. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1974. (interwar sports writers)

Husing, Ted. Ten Years Before the Mike. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1935. (early sports announcer for KDKA, CBS)

Inabinett, Mark. Grantland Rice and His Heroes: The Sportswriter as Mythmaker in the 1920s. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994.

Jolliffe, Lee, and J. Steven Smethers. "The Role of Telegraphy in the Development of Radio Sportscasting: The Case of Baseball." Journal of Radio Studies 1 (1992): 83–96.

Koppett, Leonard. Sports Illusion, Sports Reality: A Reporter's View of Sports, Journalism, and Society. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Lamb, Chris, and Glen Bleske. "Democracy on the Field: The Black Press Takes on White Baseball." Journalism History 24:2 (Spring 1998): 51–59.

For those interested in this subject field, this will be a vital bibliographic resource.

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TECHNOLOGY: HISTORY:
The University of Houston's College of Engineering:
Engines of Our Ingenuity

The University of Houston's College of Engineering:
Engines of Our Ingenuity
<http://www.uh.edu/engines/epiindex.htm>

Over 2,200 episodes of brief discussions of specific technological or machine related matters of interest regarding the tools and technological achievements that have been developed for human use.

Some Sample Program Listings

No. 2202:
BROWNIE CAMERAS
by John H. Lienhard
<http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2202.htm>

Today, cameras and sprites. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.

We have nine flat wooden figures in our attic -- comic charicatures about a foot high. They're odd beings with round faces and spindly legs -- an Indian, a sailor, a Chinese, a policeman ... They were my father's toys when he was a toddler and they bear an 1892 copyright by Palmer Cox. These are the so-called Brownies.

Brownies were a kind of sprite in Scottish legends. Little people who came out at night. They cleaned and fixed up households -- unless they'd been offended. Then they did mischief. In the 1880's, the Canadian Cox began writing about brownies and he created those brownie images. He turned the old legends into children's stories. His brownies reflected the new evolving democratic political systems. They were completely individual -- no two alike. And they worked together without leaders.

They were also daring technologists. In one story, Cox has them finding a hot air balloon, fallen in the forest. The brownies repair it, fill it with gas, and rise into the sky. We read,

Said one: "As smoothly as a kite,
We'll rise above the clouds to-night,
And may the question settle soon,
About the surface of the moon."

Read more at the URL above.

Some Additional Program Examples

No. 2155:
GLASS AND BOTTLES
by John H. Lienhard
<http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2155.htm>

No. 2179:
SCIENCE BREAKTHROUGHS OF 2006
by John H. Lienhard
<http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2179.htm>

No. 2156:
EARTH WITHOUT PEOPLE
by John H. Lienhard
<http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2156.htm>

No. 2192:
FRANKLIN AND BALLOONS
by John H. Lienhard
<http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2192.htm>

No. 2167:
PROOF
by John H. Lienhard
<http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2167.htm>

No. 2168:
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
John Lienhard presents guest Sidney Berger <http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2168.htm>

No. 2166:
FITCH'S CIRCLE
by John H. Lienhard
<http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2166.htm>

No. 2184:
THE AIRPLANE SPEAKS
by John H. Lienhard
<http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2184.htm>

No. 2175:
THE FALL AND RISE OF BERTOLT BRECHT
John Lienhard presents guest Sidney Berger <http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2175.htm>

No. 2149:
ELECTRIC WORDS
by John H. Lienhard
<http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2149.htm>

No. 2137:
TENEMENT HOUSES
by John H. Lienhard
<http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2137.htm>

No. 2114
BLIMP
by John H. Lienhard
<http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2114.htm>

No. 2136:
WILLIAMSBURG MUSIC
by John H. Lienhard
<http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2136.htm>

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It would appear so.

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On the other hand, one can track the diffusion of a content source like this using Google or other search engine results to some perhaps surprising places like ThomasNet.

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recommended_rea_34.html?t=archive>

A shorter URL for the above link:

<http://tinyurl.com/269rtb>

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July 19, 2006
Recommended Reading
John Lienhard, University of Houston Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering and host of a daily NPR radio essay on invention and creativity, has gathered together his reflections on the nature of technology, culture, human inventiveness and the history of engineering in this book.

Engines of Our Ingenuity: An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture

by John H. Lienhard

ISBN: 0195167317
Format: Paperback, 262pp
Pub. Date: November 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Paperback, November 2003
B&N Price: $15.95

Buy at Barnes & Noble.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

A million people tune in twice each week to hear John H. Lienhard's radio program "The Engines of Our Ingenuity." Now Lienhard has gathered together his reflections on the nature of technology, culture, human inventiveness and the history of engineering in this fascinating new book.

The Engines of Our Ingenuity offers a series of intriguing glimpses into technology as a mirror, as a danger, as a product of heroic hubris. The book brims with insightful observations. Lienhard writes, for instance, that the history of technology is a history of us we are the machines we create. Indeed, our very first technology, farming, which demanded year-long care, dramatically changed the rhythms of human life and the course of our history. We also learn that war does not necessarily fuel invention (radar, jets, and the digital computer all emerged before World War II began), and that the medieval Church was actually a driving force behind the growth of Western technology (Cistercian monasteries were virtual factories, putting water wheels to work in wood-cutting, forging, and olive crushing). Lienhard also illuminates the unpredictable nature of the inventive mind, leading us through one fascinating example after another. Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla, for instance, were highly passionate, even combative figures, while the almost invisible Josiah Willard Gibbs, living a quiet, outwardly uneventful life, was probably America's greatest scientist.

Lienhard ranges far and wide with stories of inventors, mathematicians, and engineers, telling the story of the canoe, the DC-3, the Hoover Dam, the diode, and the sewing machine. The result is less history thanautobiography for the autobiography of all of us is written in our machines.

SYNOPSIS

Technology is too big to understand all at once, says Lienhard (mechanical engineering and history, U. of Houston), so his 17 essays merely sample some of the bits he has encountered in his half-century as an engineer. They are based loosely on the first year's broadcast of his daily public radio series of the same name. The 2000 edition was cloth bound. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

[Read more at the URL immediately above.]

Or one may search the precise phrase in Google

<http://www.google.com/search?q=%22engines+of+our+ingenuity%
22&hl=en&rls=DAUS,DAUS:2006–11,DAUS:en&start=90&sa=N>

A shorter URL for the above link:

<http://tinyurl.com/2zx7h8>

Which with lots of company of other sources leads to this document:

Journal of Young Investigators
Undergraduate, Peer-Reviewed Science Journal Volume Seven
FEATURE ARTICLE RECENT ISSUES | ARCHIVES | RESOURCES | JYI NEWS | ABOUT JYI
Issue 1, March 2003

Happy Meals in Kitty Hawk: How the Wright Brothers Spawned a Burger Nation

Selby Cull
Planetary Sciences, Hampshire College
(Address removed)

On Dec. 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright launched two very important things: the first controllable, powered aircraft, and the chain of events that would lead to the invention of the Big Mac. The first of these two breakthroughs is well known – every schoolchild in America knows about the bicycle repairmen who flew at Kitty Hawk. Their connection to the McDonald's fast food chain, however, is utterly unheard of.

The events leading to the creation of the McDonald's fast-food phenomenon began – unbeknownst to them – in the minds of two brothers at the turn of the last century. Orville and Wilbur Wright were an imaginative pair who built rubber-band-powered paper helicopters during their childhood in Ohio and never went to college. During the 1890s, they ran a printing press and small newspaper in Dayton, Ohio, before getting swept up in the bicycling craze of the late 1800s. Bicycles could not hold their interests for long, and, by 1896, the brothers were busy designing gliders and kites.

<http://www.jyi.org/volumes/volume7/issue1/features/cull.html>

So if interested, have a look at Engines of Ingenuity and to where Google takes the searcher with this phrase.

Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 – 4584
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<http://groups.google.com/group/net-gold?hl=en>
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General Internet & Print Resources <http://library.temple.edu/articles/subject_guides/general.jsp>
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<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/K12AdminLIFE/>

One might also want to play with this clever mispelling of ingenuity, namely enginuity in Google to see where a clever collision of two concepts in a derived word leads.

October 2005 : Enginuity – the engineering careers site http://www.enginuity.org.uk/

Of the many web sites with information about engineering careers, Enginuity is one of the best. The site is rather static (and uses frames, which we don't like) but that's the end of the drawbacks. As a starting-point for information on the different types of engineering it cannot be bettered. The information is well-written, accurate and just the right length with plenty of case studies and examples. The style of writing is enjoyable, with fun stories and interesting facts from the world of engineering. Definitely worth a visit.

Source

Site of the Month Archive – 2005
Learning Grid
<http://www.learninggrid.co.uk/whatsnew/sotm/archive/2005>

MEDICAL: COMPUTER APPLICATIONS :
MEDICAL: TESTS AND TESTING :
WOMEN: HEALTH:
Computer-Aided Detection Reduces the Accuracy of Mammograms

Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 08:16:06 -0400
From: "NIH OLIB (NIH/OD)" <(Address removed)>
To: (Address removed)
Subject: Computer-Aided Detection Reduces the Accuracy of
Mammograms

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
NIH News

National Cancer Institute (NCI)
<http://www.nci.nih.gov/>

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: Wednesday, April 4, 2007, 5:00 p.m. EDT

CONTACT: Claudia Morain
UC Davis Cancer Center
916–734–9023
<e-mail: (Address removed)>
NCI Office of Media Relations
301–496–6641
<e-mail: (Address removed)>

COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION REDUCES THE ACCURACY OF MAMMOGRAMS

Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) that uses software designed to improve how radiologists interpret mammograms may instead make readings less accurate, according to new research. Use of CAD did not clearly improve the detection of breast cancer. The research was conducted by investigators at the University of California Davis Health System, Sacramento, Calif., and colleagues in the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium, which is sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health.

The results of the study show that women who got screening mammograms at centers using CAD devices were more likely to be told their mammogram was abnormal and thus undergo a biopsy to rule out breast cancer. Findings appear in the April 5, 2007 issue of the "New England Journal of Medicine" and were funded by NCI, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the American Cancer Society.

CAD software analyzes the mammogram image and marks suspicious areas for radiologists to review, thus assisting them in determining which images could lead to in serious tumors. CAD was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1998 and has been incorporated into many mammography imaging practices, but its effect on the accuracy of interpretation has been unclear.

"This study points out the need for the use of other techniques to find cancer at its earliest stages. NCI is incorporating techniques for imaging at the molecular level into many of its studies and is also conducting studies to improve the use of CAD and conventional mammography," said John E. Niederhuber, M.D., NCI Director. "In the end, technology facilitates screening. Ultimately, treatment requires radiologists working with the examining physician and the responsible surgeon to put everything together. We worry about false positives, but we certainly don't want to miss any cancers, either."

Investigators looked at the use of screening mammography in 222,135 women who had 429,345 mammograms. The period of observation was from 1998 through 2002 and took place at 43 facilities in Colorado, New Hampshire, and Washington states. The study included 2,351 women who received a diagnosis of breast cancer within one year after screening and also received a mammogram that did or did not use CAD.

"Within three years of FDA approval, 10 percent of the mammography facilities in the country were using CAD," said lead researcher Joshua J. Fenton, M.D., UC Davis Health System. "There had been no large-scale community-based review of CAD efficacy despite the rapid adoption of this technology so we did this study to see if CAD was proving to be beneficial."

Seven facilities, representing 16 percent of the study sites, implemented computer-aided detection during the study period. With the use of CAD, 32 percent more women were recalled for more tests and 20 percent more women had a breast biopsy. Use of the software had no clear impact on the early detection of breast cancer. The study suggests that, if anything, the software may promote the detection of the least dangerous breast cancers, such as localized, in situ breast cancers. The effect of in situ cancers on breast cancer mortality remains unknown and some evidence suggests that not all develop into serious cancers.

Every time the CAD software marks a real cancer, a radiologist has to consider about 2,000 additional false-positive marks, making it very difficult to distinguish between real cancers and those that are not cancer. The authors estimate that for every additional woman diagnosed with breast cancer on the basis of CAD, 156 women are falsely recalled for more tests and 14 had unnecessary biopsies to exclude cancer.

"It's unfortunate that the use of the software has proliferated so widely before we are certain of its benefits," said Fenton. "We need studies to determine if the benefits of the software outweigh its harms and costs. There is also the potential for new studies to improve the performance of CAD software."

The authors estimate that if all mammography facilities adopt CAD, the annual cost of mammograms in the United States could increase 18 percent, or an additional $550 million nationwide.

For a Q&A on this finding, please go to

<http://www.cancer.gov/newscenter/pressreleases/CADmammographyQandA>

For more information about cancer, visit <http://www.cancer.gov>, or call NCI's Cancer Information Service at

1–800–4 CANCER

<http://www.nih.gov>

###

REFERENCE: Fenton JJ, Taplin SH, et al. Influence of Computer-Aided Detection on Performance of Screening Mammography. "NEJM", Vol. 356, No. 14. April 5, 2007.

This NIH News Release is available online at: <http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/apr2007/nci-04b.htm>.

Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 – 4584
(Address removed)
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General Internet & Print Resources <http://library.temple.edu/articles/subject_guides/general.jsp>
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html>
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<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/K12AdminLIFE/>

MEDICAL: PROFESSIONALS :
MEDICAL: PHYSICIANS :
DATABASES: MEDICAL HEALTH BIOSCIENCES BIOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY:
Clinicians Guide to New Tools and Features of PubMed

Clinicians Guide to New Tools and Features of PubMed
DENISE M. DUPRAS, MD, PHD, AND JON O. EBBERT, MD, MSC
Concise Review For Clinicians
Mayo Clin Proc. 2007;82(4):480–484 <http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com/pdf%2F8204%2F8204crc.pdf>

Practicing clinicians need to have the skills required to obtain upto- date medical information to address both the expansion of scientific knowledge and patients increasing use of the Internet.

PubMed
<http://www.pubmed.gov>

allows clinicians free access to the largest biomedical resource available. This article is the third in a Mayo Clinic Proceedings series designed specifically to help clinicians unlock the tools and information available through this valuable resource.

The amount of medical information continues to increase at an exponential rate. Staying current with important advances in medicine remains a substantial challenge for busy practicing clinicians. Patients are increasingly using the Internet to find medical information as well. Consequently, clinicians are being faced with the additional challenge of reviewing information obtained by patients and seeking the best scientific evidence to guide patient care decisions.

PubMed is a service of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) and includes more than 16 million citations from the MEDLINE database and from other life science journal databases for biomedical articles dating back to the 1950s. PubMed is searched using Entrez, an integrated, text-based search and retrieval system used by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) to search PubMed as well as genetic, protein, and taxonomy databases. The integrated nature of PubMed enables clinicians to easily access relevant journal articles that can be linked to other databases, online reference textbooks, and patient information. PubMed can be accessed from any computer with Internet access by typing the address

<http://www.pubmed.gov>

Covered in this article:

PUBMED HOMEPAGE
LIMITS
SPECIAL QUERIES
CLINICAL QUERIES
MY NCBI
OTHER FEATURES
SUMMARY
REFERENCES

The complete article may be read at the URL above.

Net-Gold posts with content regarding PUBMED may be found using this URL:

<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/msearch?
query=pubmed&submit=Search&charset=windows-1252>

A shorter URL for the above link:

<http://tinyurl.com/ygzjvr>

Including these posts:

DATABASES: MEDICAL HEALTH BIOSCIENCES BIOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY: PUBMED : DATABASE SEARCHING TECHNIQUES:
Impact in PUBMED of Truncation Upon Mapping of MESH Terms <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/16789>

DATABASES: MEDICAL HEALTH BIOSCIENCES BIOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY :
DATABASES: FULLTEXT :
MEDICAL: PERIODICALS :
PERIODICALS: ELECTRONIC: ONLINE: FULL TEXT:
UK PubMed Central Launched <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/16617>

INFORMATION LITERACY : DATABASE SEARCH TECHNIQUES:
The Reasons for Teaching and the Techniques for Imparting Information Literacy Skills in K-12 and College: Some Thoughts and Some Sources <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/16337>

DATABASES: MEDICAL HEALTH BIOSCIENCES BIOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY:
HubMed
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/15619>

UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT: FEDERAL: PUBLICATIONS : TRADEMARK:
United States Federal Government Publications and Trademarks <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/15112>

DATABASE SEARCHING END USER SEARCHING:
If You Do Not Teach How to Drive a Car: Do Not Be Surprised to Find Them Walking
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/13375>

DATABASE SEARCHING: TECHNIQUES :
DATABASES :
LIBRARIES: LIBRARIANS :
DATABASE SEARCHING: END USER SEARCHING:
A Selected Collection of Sources Discussing End User Searching and Mediated Professional Searching Comparatively and in a Training Context <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/13283>

MEDICAL: HISTORY :
MEDICAL: PERIODICALS : PERIODICALS: ELECTRONIC: ONLINE
FULL TEXT: Medical History Now Onlne Full Text <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/12122>

DATABASES: MEDICAL HEALTH BIOSCIENCES BIOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY:
PubMed: PubMed Limits Page Updated <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/11757>

MEDICAL: RESEARCH :
DATABASES: MEDICAL HEALTH BIOSCIENCES
BIOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY :
DATABASE: SEARCHING TECHNIQUES:
A Selection of Guides to Searching PubMed and
Search Tip Sources for PubMed <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/11547>

Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 – 4584
(Address removed)
Net-Gold
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold>
<http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html>
<http://groups.google.com/group/net-gold?hl=en>
<http://net-gold.jiglu.com/>
General Internet & Print Resources <http://library.temple.edu/articles/subject_guides/general.jsp>
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html>
Digital Divide Network
<http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/jwne>
Educator-Gold
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Educator-Gold/>
K12ADMINLIFE
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/K12AdminLIFE/>

SOFTWARE :
INTERNET:
Google Pack

Google Pack
A free collection of essential software <http://pack.google.com/intl/en/pack_installer.html?hl=en&gl=us>

Google Pack is:

Essential: Enjoy safe, useful software for your computer

Simple: Download and install everything in just a few clicks

Customizable: Choose only the software you want

Up to date: Get updates and new software via Google Updater

Learn more – Discuss with others

Google Updater
<http://www.google.com/support/pack/bin/answer.py?
answer=30252&topic=8326&hl=en&gl=us>

A shorter URL for the above link:

<http://tinyurl.com/275rpz>

The Google Updater is the program that downloads and installs all the software in the Google Pack. You can use the Google Updater to monitor the status of your installation, run software that's been installed, or uninstall software. A Google Updater icon will appear in your system tray and will display notifications when new software is available.

Google Software Included in Google Pack

Google Earth – 3D Earth browser

Picasa – Photo organizer

Find, edit, and share your photos in seconds
Easily remove red eye and fix photos

Google Photos Screensaver – Photo screensaver

Display photos from your PC and photo sharing sites
Watch cinematic slideshows

Google Desktop – Desktop companion
Find all your email, files, web history, and more

Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer – Search toolbar

Search from any web page and autofill forms
Block annoying pop-ups

Additional Software Included

Mozilla Firefox with Google Toolbar

Norton Security Scan – Security utility
Symantec
Detects and eliminates viruses and internet worms
Free detection updates and scheduled scanning

Adobe Reader – PDF reader
Adobe Systems

Spyware Doctor Starter Edition – Antispyware utility
PC Tools
Detects and removes spyware, adware, trojans and keyloggers
Includes Smart Updates and scheduling to protect your PC

Optional Software (Add to Pack)

Google Talk – Voice and IM application

RealPlayer – Media player

Skype – Voice, video and chat

Google Video Player – Video player

GalleryPlayer HD Images – Images

High-quality artwork and photos
Perfect for your screensaver or desktop

Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 – 4584
(Address removed)
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<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold>
<http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html>
<http://groups.google.com/group/net-gold?hl=en>
<http://net-gold.jiglu.com/>
General Internet & Print Resources <http://library.temple.edu/articles/subject_guides/general.jsp>
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html>
Digital Divide Network
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<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/K12AdminLIFE/>

PETS :
FOOD DRINK NUTRITION DIET FOOD CONTAMINATION AND POISONING:
Pet Death Toll Will Rise Much Higher, U.S. Says

Pet death toll will rise much higher, U.S. says
Massive food recall adds dog biscuits,
Broader date range
Apr 06, 2007 04:30 AM
Curtis Rush
Staff Reporter
Toronto Star
<http://www.thestar.com/News/article/200269>

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has acknowledged that the number of pet deaths related to tainted food will climb much higher than the 16 officially reported.

"This is a number we recognize is nowhere near the reality and that there are many more animals that have been affected," said Stephen Sundlof, director of the FDA's Center of Veterinary Medicine.

The FDA said that in the past three weeks it has received more than 12,000 consumer complaints, more than twice the number of complaints it receives in a year for any product.

<snip>

Meanwhile, another U.S. pet food company announced a food recall yesterday, adding to the massive recall triggered last month by Mississauga-based Menu Foods after 16 animals died of kidney failure, including some in the company's taste tests.

<snip>

The biscuits, sold at Wal-Mart stores, are not available in Canada. Also yesterday, Menu Foods expanded its original recall to include a broader range of dates, the FDA said.

China looks into pet-food links
POSTED: 5:36 a.m. EDT, April 6, 2007
CNN World <http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/04/06/china.petfood.ap/>

NEW: China is looking into a U.S. claim that it exported tainted wheat gluten

U.S. claims it came from a Chinese company in Xuzhou identified by FDA

Xuzhou company is also investigating the claim, previously denied

BEIJING, China (AP) -- China is investigating U.S. claims that a Chinese company exported contaminated wheat gluten implicated in a slew of pet deaths in the United States, a government official said Friday.

"We are investigating this," said Zeng Xing, an official with the press office of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine. The administration monitors the export of food, animals and farm products.

Meanwhile, Chinese veterinarians and animal-rights activists said they were not aware of any reports of deaths in China due to tainted pet food.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has identified a Chinese company in the eastern city of Xuzhou as the supplier of the tainted gluten. The FDA last week blocked wheat-gluten imports from Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co., saying they contained melamine, a chemical found in plastics and pesticides.

<snip>

Zeng said a report posted to the administration's official newspaper earlier this week led some to believe China denied exporting any wheat gluten to the United States. She said that the administration meant that it had never exported any wheat gluten containing a rat poison, aminopterin.

The New York State Food Laboratory last month identified aminopterin as the likely culprit in the pet food, a finding the FDA later rejected.

China Denies Role in U.S. Pet Deaths
By ALEXA OLESEN
Associated Press Writer
Published April 6, 2007, 4:05 AM CDT
Chicago Tribune
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/
ats-ap_business13apr06,0,2277811.story?coll=sns-business-headlines>

A shorter URL for the above link:

<http://tinyurl.com/2atuuf>

BEIJING -- China has denied responsibility for several pet deaths in the United States which U.S. authorities blame on a batch of chemically contaminated wheat gluten from China, state media reported.

But differing statements on whether China has even exported wheat gluten to the U.S. revealed confusion that points to serious problems in the regulation of China's exports and its dismal record on food safety.

"China has nothing to do with the pet poisoning in the United States," said a report in the official newspaper of China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, which monitors the export of food, animals and farm products.

The China Inspection and Quarantine Times said in a report on its Web site dated Tuesday that as of March 29, 2007, China had "never exported wheat or wheat gluten to ... the United States."

This contradicted comments by two employees at the Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co., this week who said the company had shipped wheat gluten to the United States.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has identified Xuzhou Anying as the supplier of the tainted gluten.

On Thursday, the Chinese company accused of selling chemical-tainted wheat gluten linked to the pet food deaths said that most of its sales were domestic, raising the possibility that people or animals in China might have been exposed to the chemical.

China has had problems with domestic food safety. In October, more than 200 students and teachers had food poisoning at a school in southern China. There have been at least eight other such incidents in the past year.

Firm denies role in pet food scare
Fri Apr 6, 2007 3:09 AM EDT
Reuters
<http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=businessNews&;
storyID=2007–04–06T070856Z_01_PEK212692_RTRIDST_0_BUSINESS-PETFOOD-
CHINA-COL.XML&archived=False>

A shorter URL for the above link:

<http://tinyurl.com/2byvdq>

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said wheat gluten from China's Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Company Ltd. contained an industrial chemical called melamine, which was suspected of causing the deaths of 16 cats and dogs.

But a manager at Xuzhou Anying told Reuters the company was cooperating with the Chinese government to investigate the allegations and insisted the firm was only a domestic feed dealer that had not produced anything itself.

"We haven't sold an ounce of wheat gluten to the U.S. and I don't understand how come they are blaming us," the manager, surnamed Mao, said by telephone.

<snip>

The FDA had said the suspect wheat gluten had been sold by Anying to ChemNutra Inc. of Las Vegas, which in turn had sold the wheat gluten to Menu Foods and a few other companies that have since recalled pet products.

Wal-Mart Dog Treats Join Pet Food Recall
By ANDREW BRIDGES
Associated Press Writer
Published April 6, 2007, 4:09 AM CDT
Chicago Tribune
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/
ats-ap_business14apr06,0,2671028.story?coll=sns-business-headlines>

A shorter URL for the above link:

<http://tinyurl.com/2c3jrl>

WASHINGTON -- The recall of pet foods and treats contaminated with an industrial chemical expanded Thursday to include dog biscuits made by an Alabama company and sold by Wal-Mart under the Ol'Roy brand.

The Food and Drug Administration said the manufacturer, Sunshine Mills Inc., is recalling dog biscuits made with imported Chinese wheat gluten. Testing has revealed the wheat gluten, a protein source, was contaminated with melamine, used to make plastics and other industrial products.

Also Thursday, Menu Foods, a major manufacturer of brand- and private-label wet pet foods expanded its original recall to include a broader range of dates and varieties. Menu Foods was the first of at least six companies to recall the now more than 100 brands of pet foods and treats made with the contaminated ingredient.

The recall now covers "cuts and gravy"-style products made between Nov. 8 and March 6, Menu Foods said. Previously, it applied only to products made beginning Dec. 3. In addition, Menu Foods said it was expanding the recall to include more varieties, but no new brands.

The FDA knows of no other pet product companies planning recalls, agency officials told reporters.

"Other than that, I think, you know, the public should feel secure in purchasing pet foods that are not subject to the recall," Stephen Sundlof, director of the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine, told reporters.

Sunshine, of Red Bay, Ala., sells pet foods and treats under its own brands as well as private labels sold by Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Kmart, Longs Drug Stores Corp. and Stater Bros. Markets. The recall included specific brands like Wal-Mart's Ol'Roy, as well as a portion of Sunshine's own Nurture, Lassie and Pet Life dog biscuit brands.

Previously, Menu Foods had recalled some wet-style dog foods it made for sale under the Stater Bros. and Ol'Roy brands as well.

The complete articles may be read at the URLs provided for each.

WEBBIB0607

Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 06:30:01 -0500
From: Laura Carlson <(Address removed)>
To: (Address removed)
Subject: [webdev] Web Design Update: April 6, 2007

+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE.
– Volume 5, Issue 42, April 6, 2007.

An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development.

++ISSUE 42 CONTENTS.

SECTION ONE: New references.
What's new at the Web Design Reference site? http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/webdesign/
New links in these categories:

01: ACCESSIBILITY.
02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.
03: DREAMWEAVER.
04: EVENTS.
05: JAVASCRIPT.
06: MISCELLANEOUS.
07: PHP.
08: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS.
09: TOOLS.
10: TYPOGRAPHY.
11: USABILITY.

SECTION TWO:
12: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site?

[Contents ends.]

++ SECTION ONE: New references.

+01: ACCESSIBILITY.

Amazon.com and National Federation of the Blind Join Forces to Develop and Promote Web Accessibility
By National Federation of the Blind.
"The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) and Amazon.com announced today that they have agreed to work together to promote and improve technology that enables blind people to access and use the World Wide Web. In a cooperation agreement, Amazon.com pledged its commitment to continue improving the accessibility of its Web site platform, while
the NFB committed to contribute its expertise in Web accessibility technologies to help further Amazon.com's efforts..." http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,81373.shtml

Amazon.com to Enhance Its Accessibility
By Bruce Lawson.
"...We urge Amazon to enhance their web accessibility to all people
with disabilities, not just blind people, and to use valid, semantic html to achieve it..."
http://tinyurl.com/2d96pt

Web Accessibility System Change: The Myths, Realities, and What We Can Learn From Two Large Scale Efforts
By Cyndi Rowland and Heather Mariger.
"As web accessibility garners increased importance and attention, there is greater emphasis on making system-wide, rather than individual changes in our efforts to create a more accessible world. This is accomplished through policy setting and implementation that places the importance of web accessibility alongside other web considerations. In the early years of web accessibility, individual developers made the commitment to create accessible web content. When it became evident
that leaving accessibility up to individual developers was not efficient, entire systems began making web accessibility a priority and a policy. Since then, many educational institutions, states, and the U.S. Federal government have implemented policies that require the web be accessible to individuals with disabilities, in line with accepted standards. The highest profile, large-scale, system change efforts
since those from the California Community Colleges and the U.S. Federal government (i.e., Section 508) have come again from a California educational system (The California State University system), and from a governmental entity (the United Kingdom). Understanding the components involved in such large-scale change may aide others in their planning
or execution of web accessibility policy." http://ncdae.org/policy/systemchange.cfm

NCDAE Tips and Tools: Principles of Accessible Design
By National Center on Disability and Access to Education.
"This fact sheet outlines 10 principles of design that, if applied,
will make web and electronic content more accessible." http://ncdae.org/tools/factsheets/principles.cfm

CSUN 2007
By Jon Whiting.
"Jon Whiting and Aaron Anderson report on their experiences at CSUN 2007. They also provide links to the slides for their four presentations: Accessibility Evaluation of Next-Generation Web Applications, Internet Delivery of Real-Time Captioning, Creating Accessible Content in OpenOffice.org, and Creating Accessible Files in Adobe Acrobat 8."
http://webaim.org/blog/2007/03/29/csun-2007/

Accessible Display: None
By Nathan Smith.
"From time to time, the necessity arises to have hidden content present in a page. In case you don't already know, simply using CSS for
display: none on the content will not cut it, because assistive technologies such as screen readers will treat this content as if it does not even exist in the DOM..." http://sonspring.com/journal/accessible-display-none

+02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.

Print Stylesheet – The Definitive Guide
By Trenton Moss.
"A print stylesheet formats a web page so when printed, it
automatically prints in a user-friendly format. Print stylesheets have been around for a number of years and have been written about a lot.
Yet so few websites implement them, meaning we're left with web pages that frustratingly don't properly print on to paper. Find out once and for all how to make the ultimate print stylesheet..." http://tinyurl.com/2deawt

CSS 101: Locate and Style Web Elements with Selectors
By Tony Patton.
"In the previous installment of my Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 101 series, I discussed how to handle multiple rules for the same element. This article covers another important CSS feature: selectors, which are used to choose elements within a Web page for styling." http://builder.com.com/5100–6371_14–6172464.html

Create Styled Sidebar Boxes
By Craig Grannell.
"Craig Grannell shows how to position content on your website in the form of sidebars, and also demonstrates how to style up page structure, headings, paragraphs, lists and links." http://www.netmag.co.uk/zine/home/create-styled-sidebar-boxes

Why Clearance Sometimes Needs to be Negative
By David Baron.
"At the CSS working group meeting in Oslo in August 2003, we came up with a concept called clearance to describe the offset used to change the position of a non-floating element that is moved by the clear CSS property. (Previously, the clear property was defined as increasing the margin.) At our meeting earlier this week in Mountain View, we
discussed a test case where the current rules cause very strange behavior. The simplest form of this test case is the following..." http://dbaron.org/log/2007–03#e20070329a

CSS Tips
By Philipp Lenssen.
"1) Color shortcuts and color conversions... 2) CSS bug hunting... 3) Media separation... 4) Center the thing... 5) Anti-aliased PNG files... 6) Quick 'n' dirty rounded box corners... 7) Opacity... 8)
Cross-browser padding... 9) CSS hacks... 10) Moving layers" http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007–03–30-n51.html

+03: DREAMWEAVER.

The Joy of HTML
By Virginia DeBolt.
"...Is writing standards-compliant web pages is a worthy goal? Is work that will go anywhere, do anything and always make sense is a worthy goal? I certainly think so. If I'm right, we have admit that Dreamweaver's Code View is worth using, at least sometimes. We have to admit that using CSS instead of presentational HTML is easier in Dreamweaver if people can experience the joy of HTML." http://www.webteacher.ws/2007/03/tip-joy-of-html.html

Introducing Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
By Kenneth Berger.
"Read about the upcoming features in Dreamweaver CS3 from Kenneth Berger, Dreamweaver product manager."
http://tinyurl.com/yraufh

Adobe Dreamweaver Tutorials
By Vitaly Friedman and Sven Lennartz.
List of Tutorials http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/04/04/adobe-dreamweaver-tutorials/

+04: EVENTS.

Web Accessibility 2.0?
National Center on Disability and Access to Education Webcast
May 16th, 2007.
3:00–4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time http://ncdae.org/webcasts/accessibility2.cfm

Web Accessibility Training with WebAIM
June 20–21, 2007.
Logan, Utah, U.S.A.
http://webaim.org/training/

+05: JAVASCRIPT.

Screen Readers and JavaScript
By Steve Faulkner.
One set of Steve Faulkner's CSUN presentation slides. http://www.paciellogroup.com/CSUN/csun-javascript-presentation.html

Building Accessible Web Applications
By Steve Faulkner.
A second set of Steve Faulkner's CSUN presentation slides. http://www.paciellogroup.com/CSUN/csun-basics.html

Simulating Attributes Selectors in IE6
By Sandra Clark.
"Especially now that IE7 supports attribute selectors, using classes in my HTML to reflect those items has become a real bummer. I really like the idea of not requiring people maintaining HTML to worry about classes. I think it makes for cleaner markup and for easier training. So, while I'm not a JavaScript maven by any means, I decided to play around with this and actually made it work..." http://www.shayna.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.display_entry&id=176

JavaScript Keyboard Accessibility
By Kevin Yank.
"JavaScript accessibility is an issue fraught with controversy and imperfect solutions, particularly when it comes to supporting the
screen reader software that many visually impaired users rely on. These difficulties have led many developers to give up on accessibility entirely, when making your JavaScript accessible to some users can be refreshingly straightforward!.."
http://tinyurl.com/2nyjbs

+06: MISCELLANEOUS.

Four Ways to Bypass Inertia
By Curt Cloninger.
"Sometimes we freeze up at the beginning of a project, and other times, we feel uninspired, or just can't move past our usual patterns or our frustration with a project's challenges. In this excerpt from the beautiful and inspiring design book by Curt Cloninger, Hot-Wiring Your Creative Process, the author stretches our minds and gives us four practical techniques for greasing those rusty little creativity wheels in our minds." http://www.digital-web.com/articles/four_ways_to_bypass_inertia/

+07: PHP.

Avoiding Frustration with PHP Sessions
By Oscar Merida.
"PHP's support for sessions make adding 'state' to your web application super easy. Bus because the illusion of state is maintained by storing a Session ID via a user's cookies, you might find yourself losing potentially productive hours chasing down bizarre client side bugs or opening up a potential security hole. Here are 4 tips to help you
avoid wasting your time and securing your site..." http://tinyurl.com/24y73j

PHP Security Tip Number 20
By Cal Evans (editor).
"To paraphrase an American Patriot 'The price of security is eternal vigilance'. You have to keep watch over your system but you also have
to keep learning."
http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/1877

+08: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS.

Latest Update from Molly
By Molly E. Holzschlag.
"..Here's a synopsis of the conversations and issues we discussed,
along with details as to how some of the challenges Microsoft is facing are being prioritized and addressed..."
http://tinyurl.com/2gapvw

+09: TOOLS.

Hex Color Picker
By Jesper.
"Lets you get and edit hexadecimal HTML color codes in the standard Mac OS X color panel."
http://wafflesoftware.net/hexpicker/

+10: TYPOGRAPHY.

The Problem With Pixels
By Wilson Miner.
"...The principle I've been operating from recently boils down to this: design for the first page load in an ideal environment, while allowing for flexibility in non-ideal, unintended and user-modified environments..."
http://www.wilsonminer.com/posts/2007/mar/16/problem-pixels/

+11: USABILITY.

Top, Right or Left Aligned Form Labels
By Luke Wroblewski.
"...As the question of top, right, or left aligned form labels comes up often for designers, here's a short overview of the pros and cons of each method..."
http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?504

UX Methods
By Jess McCullin.
"The cards briefly describe 16 different methods, deliverables, and ideas that user experience professionals can use in their practice." http://www.uxmethods.com/

[Section one ends.]

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Accessibility Information.
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Association Information.
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Book Listings.
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Cascading Style Sheets Information.
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Color Information.
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Dreamweaver Information.
http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/dreamweaver

Evaluation & Testing Information.
http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/testing

Event Information.
http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/events

Flash Information.
http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/flash

Information Architecture Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/architecture

JavaScript Information.
http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/javascript

Miscellaneous Web Information.
http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/misc

Navigation Information.
http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/navigation

PHP Information.
http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/php

Sites & Blogs Listing.
http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/sites

Standards, Guidelines & Pattern Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/standards

Tool Information.
http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/tools

Typography Information.
http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/type

Usability Information.
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This site in Beta combines its own access to selected databases including the Library of Congress online catalog with a proprietary database of source content of Carmun's own content collection. Clearly in the database area, tools like Worldcat, PubMed, TRIS, Agricola and the like would be in sum more complete sets of information sources, and the search software on each of these more precise than that provided by Carmun.

Nevertheless, Carmun is offering additional services, the service of storage for groups of records, software to create footnotes, endnotes and bibliographies that are in correct format for various style manuals and systems. In addition, there are research communities that facilitate the interaction with other researchers with similar research interests.

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Drowning in Research? Swamped Jumbos Stay Ffloat with Online Reference Sites
Matt Skibinski
Issue date: 4/6/07 Section: Features
Tufts Daily <http://media.www.tuftsdaily.com/media/storage/paper856/news/
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With April in full swing and the end of the semester breathing down their necks, Jumbos will soon find themselves camping out in the library as they study for exams and begin writing massive final research papers. For many students, even making a dent in a 10- or 20-pager means hours bent in front of a computer screen and gallons of coffee to keep them up through the dead of night.

But Jon Edson wants to change all of that.

Edson, a former American Online executive and a recent Harvard graduate student, is working with a team of seven Tufts undergraduates to help launch his new, free research Web site, Carmun.com, at Tufts and colleges nationwide.

The site allows students to find research sources online and to automatically add them to an electronic bibliography that saves the source's URL and extracts relevant citation information. The bibliography can then be saved, manipulated and shared with other users, "much like you'd organize your iTunes in a playlist," Edson said.

In addition, the site encourages users to "rate" academic sources they use so that other researchers can evaluate which sources will be most helpful.

"The site is designed to help make the lives of graduate and undergraduate students easier and richer," Edson said. "If you had only 10 minutes to do your bibliography because you have to rush off and hand in your paper, Carmun could get it done in that time."

The site is one of many online research tools, such as Refworks.com and Questia.com, that have launched in recent years as more information becomes available to students. Edson said Carmun.com is different, however, in that it allows students to collaborate online by starting "group" projects, sharing bibliographies and commenting and rating their research sources.

[The complete article may be read at the URL above.]

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Carmun
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To access Carmun other than peripherly, one must register and ample opportunities and links for that process are provided.

Members have an update section for Groups, Friendships, and Email (an Inbox).

A Get Started section offers these options:

Create a Bibliography

Organize Sources

Bookmark URLs and save citations you find online

Insert parenthetical citations and footnotes

A Help page explains briefly a host of options available to users of this resource.

Help Page URL:
<http://carmun.com/help.php#RT13>

Help Page Content

Research Tools

Bookmark URLs and save citations you find online
"Post to Carmun" bookmarks URLs and extracts citation information from sources you find in online libraries and databases and imports them to Carmun saving you time and keeping you organized.

How do I bookmark URLs and save citations?

With what sites does Post to Carmun work?

How do I use Post to Carmun?

Can I post a website to Carmun?

Create a bibliography by entering citations

How do I format citations for a bibliography?

How do I automatically generate a bibliography?

Insert parenthetical citations and footnotes while you write

How can I install Notematic?

How do I use Notematic?

Organize sources from past work

What is a project list?

How are project lists helpful?

How do I create a project list?

Who can see my project list?

Why do I want to upload citations?

How do I upload citations?

What if the citations I upload do not look right?

What if I am having trouble uploading citations?

Locate at my library

How do I use the locate at my library feature?

Will Carmun work with my school's library?

Search our database

We are in the process of building a database of
member-generated rated and reviewed sources.
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results; (i) sources that have been rated and reviewed
by our members; (ii) results generated by the
Library of Congress.

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Searching is done from the main page for bibliographic citations.

A search of the terms tourism and warming and destinations produces over 200 results including these sources.

Banarjee, Dipankar, and Gert Kueck. South Asia and the War on Terrorism. India Research Press, 2004.

Gore, Albert, and Melcher Media. An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It. Emmaus, . Rodale Press, 2006.

Clapin, Hugh. Mental Representations. 3 Apr. 2007. <http://host.uniroma3.it/progetti/kant/field/mr.htm>

Petty, Richard E., Stacey McMichael, and Laura A. Brannon. "The Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion: Applications in Recreation and Tourism." Influencing Human Behavior: Theory and Applications in Recreation, Tourism, and Natural Resources Management. 4 Champaign, IL: Sagamore Publishing, 1992. 1–13. 05 April 2007 <http://www.psy.ohio-state.edu/petty/documents/1992RECREATION
CHAPPettyMcMichaelBrannon.pdf>

Swatos, William H., and Luigi Tomasi, eds. From Medieval Pilgrimage to Religious Tourism: The Social and Cultural Economics of Piety. Westport, Co. Praeger, 2002

Mok, Connie, and Terry Lam. "Hotel and Tourism Development in Vietnam." Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing. (1998). 03 April 2007 <www.hotel-online.com>

Lasansky, D. Medina, and Brian McLaren, eds. Architecture and Tourism: Perception, Performance, and Place. English ed. Oxford ; New York: Berg, 2004

Evans, Timothy H. "Tradition and Illusion: Antiquarianism, Tourism and Horror in H. P. Lovecraft." Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy. 45.2 (2004): 176–95

Badone, Ellen, and Sharon R. Roseman, eds. Intersecting Journeys: The Anthropology of Pilgrimage and Tourism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004

Burma. Enchanting Myanmar: a guide to tourism destinations and beyond. Yangon: Ministry of Hotels & Tourism in collaboration with Swiftwinds Services, 2001-

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Combating Global Warming. New York: United Nations, 1992

Coles, Tim Edward, and Dallen J. Timothy, eds. Tourism, Diasporas, and Space. London ; New York: Routledge, 2004

Ryan, Chris, and Michelle Aicken, eds. Indigenous Tourism: The Commodification and Management of Culture. Amsterdam ; New York: Elsevier, 2005

Kursunoglu, Behram. Global Warming and Energy Policy. Ed. Stephan L. Mintz, Arnold Perlmutter and Behram N. Kursunoglu. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2001.

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New Search Engine Helps Students Navigate Library
By Melissa Lumish
Apr 6 2007
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The Library is promoting Find it! because it is a tool that searches hundreds of resources and guarantees the scholarly integrity of its results. Although Google Scholar has recently been trying to achieve this capability, most of the resources that Find it! has access to cannot be crawled by search engines, according to Koltay.

In an age of search engines, people just expect to be able to search without jumping any initial hurdles, a la Google. Find it! offers the means to search rich library content, most of which is not available via web search engines, said Anne Kenney, interim University librarian.

According to Library officials, students fail to access needed sources among the thousands of scholarly journals and databases that the Cornell libraries pay for and license.

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A single search scans the contents of hundreds of scholarly databases that the Library licenses for Cornells use, Koltay said.

In addition to being broader and deeper than Google Scholar, Find it! is also more frequently updated. Find it! can also scan databases, articles, images and other reference materials in addition to the Librarys own online catalog and digital collections.

Find it! helps you find the scholarly articles you need for your research paper, the facts you want to confirm for your presentation, the background you need for a grant proposal, said Janet McCue, Mann Library director. In searching several databases at a time, McCue pointed out, the system will eliminate duplication, sort your results and connect you to the full text.

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