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Keystone DLS from Indexdata
by Saiful Amin 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Hi, Has anybody tried to see how good or useful is the Keystone DL Suite developed by Indexdata (the company which developed YAZ toolkit for Z39.50)? The features looks promising and it's available under GNU License. The details are available at: http://www.indexdata.dk/keystone/ Regards, Saiful Keystone DLS The Keystone Digital Library Suite is a family of Open Source digital content management, portal management and information discovery software packaged together to provide libraries, museums and archives with state-of-the-art digital library services. KEYSTONE: CUSTOMIZED AND READY FOR USE If you are looking for a customized turnkey solution to provide your patrons with information portals and federated search services, and your staff with a digital object management system for cataloging and organizing locally created electronic objects, Index Data will install Keystone in your library, profiled for your unique needs. Our software and our support services are second to none. Just ask our satisfied customers! For libraries with the sufficient staff expertise, we offer several versions of Keystone for free downloading under a standard General Public License. Here are some of the functions supported by Keystone: * Portal Creation and Management * Federated Search Services * Harvesting Metadata from Remote Repositories * Link Resolver Services All this, and more, is available in our custom installed version of Keystone. And once we've installed Index Data software for your library, it is yours to keep and use for as long as you want, whether or not you choose to have a continuing relationship with Index Data. We think you will, however, because our service contracts provide you with all new releases along with the most responsive service available anywhere. KEYSTONE: YOURS WITHOUT EVEN ASKING Keystone is distributed under the standard General Public License, which means it is your to freely take and use, as long as you abide by the terms of the industry standard Open Source General Public License. The downloadable version of our flagship product relies on a number of lower level ID tools such as Zebra and YAZ/PHP, as well as on generic OSS tools such as database managers and XSLT processors. Please be advised that at this time it requires considerable expertise to download, integrate and customize all the separate pieces that go into making up the Keystone Suite of Digital Library Services. As time goes on we will evolve the Keystone download into a more packaged product that will be possible for non-programmers to install. KEYSTONE: AS YOU LIKE IT Many libraries have a great deal of in-house expertise, but still want limited installation services and ongoing maintenance support from Index Data's experienced staff. We can provide you with a balance between independence and a turnkey solution that meets your needs. KEYSTONE: BROWSER BASED All of Keystones rich functionality is accessible through a Web browser. No other client software is needed. The following browsers are supported: * Firefox 0.8+ * Internet Explorer 5.0+ * Konqueror 3.0+ * Mozilla 0.98+ * Netscape 7.0+ * Opera 7.23+ * Safari 1.0+ KEYSTONE IN ACTION The demoportal links to Bibliotheca, an installation of Keystone at Denmark's Electronic Research Library. You can go to the Library of Texas, which is powered by Keystone, for another example of a custom installation. KEYSTONE: COMPONENTS The Keystone Digital Library Suite has two Major Components: Keystone Organizer and Keystone Retriever. Keystone Organizer is both a content management service and a portal management service that stores all forms of digital content and facilitates metadata creation to describe that content. It also serves as the knowledge base for the federated search services, the harvesting services and the link resolver services that are elements of Keystone Retriever, as well as for its own portal management services. This means that library staff have one type of interface and one look-and-feel for all administration services and metadata creation throughout Keystone DLS. Keystone Retriever is a family of information discovery services that includes federated searching, harvesting services, and link resolution for linking from citations to full text. Index Data is also offering its Keystone Resolver either as a stand alone product or as part of its family of Keystone Retriever services. At this time Keystone Retriever uses third party electronic serials management systems to provide Keystone Retriever with the data it needs to perform its linking. ===== Saiful Amin Information Specialist Edutech India 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600006, India Tel: +91 44 28330999 Mobile: +91 98407 76214 www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong." ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Careers: Over 65,000 jobs online Go to: http://yahoo.naukri.com/

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RE: [LIS-Forum] 25,000 titles (books) in Enginering field
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 16:58:34 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Strange indeed. Will any 25,000 books do? Is there no selection, no involvement in the selection by the faculty? In my long career I have had many friends in the publishing and bookselling industry. I have seen librarians/principals/professors coming to bookstalls in late March and procuring books in a hurry to beat the deadline. Even while we buy vegetables in the market, Indians pick and choose. But when it comes to books, we "have to procure' a certain number before a certain date to meet satisfy some body. The booksellers will unload all the unsold titles, remainders they bought by shipload. Arun -----Original Message----- From: Mailing List Manager [mailto:mailman@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 2:54 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] 25,000 titles (books) in Enginering field Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 07:08:15 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] vijaya kumara" <vijayakumar71(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear All Our College is going to get National Board of Accrediation, so we have to procure 25,000 title books on Engineering field. So any one of you will help me to get the list of 25,000 titles through net/web or any union catalogue of Engineering. The Engineering field may include Aeronauticla Engineering, Biotechnology, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Electrical and Electronics, Industrial Engineering Management, Information Science Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Medical Electronics, Telecommunication Physics, Chemistry, and Mathes Wating for your good reply at the earliest Regards Vijayakumar M **************************************************************************** *********** Vijayakumar M, 080 - 28452324 Ext. 234 HOD - Library, library(a)mvjeducation.com MVJ College of Engineering, (ISO Certified Institute), Bangalore-560 067 _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Re: [LIS-Forum] 25,000 titles (books) in Enginering field
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 22:57:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Puttaraj Choukimath <puttuc(a)yahoo.com> Dear Mr. Vijay, U can check 4 these options : 1. Web-OPACs : of the technological institites like IISc, IIT's, British Council Libraries, TIFR, CUSAT, NSL, ISI's, LOC, CoOPAC, etc. (Most of these are accessible via http://www.infolibrarian.com/opac.htm ) 2. Publishers' own sites : Most of the publishers have hosted their own web sites. Some of them popular in engg. are like * http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/ * http://books.mcgraw-hill.com/engineering.html * www.prenhall.com/ * http://www.textbookx.com/browse.php?code=TEC009000 * http://www.springeronline.com/ etc. 3.U may also require 2 aquire standards 4 ur library : U can check 4 these sites - * http://www.standardsindia.com/ * http://www.wssn.net/ * http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/CatalogueListPage.CatalogueList (many of such are accessible via http://www.infolibrarian.com/spt.htm 4. Union cataloges like : * http://www.rri.res.in/htmls/library/forsadb.html * 5. Other links to the publishers: such as - * http://acqweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/acqweb/pubr/ * http://www.business.com/directory/media_and_entertainment/publishing/books/… * http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Shopping_and_Services/Publishers/… OK? ALL THE BEST. Puttaraj, A.C. AL, TISS, Mumbai.

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RE: [LIS-Forum] 25,000 titles (books) in Engineering field
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:07:30 +0530 From: shubhada.apte(a)tcs.com 25,000 books - what is the approved expenditure for the same. Because while purchasing any book , cost as well as the quality of the content inside the book, both the things are important. Any book will have a value only when it is required by somebody. It is better to ask the staff, the employees, the subject experts which books are really needed. Also circulating the subject list among the reliable vendors will also help. Thanks and regards. Shubhada Sachin Apte Tata Consultancy Services Raja Shree Bldg. 8 Tadiwalla Road Pune - 411 001,Maharashtra India Mailto: shubhada.apte(a)tcs.com Website: http://www.tcs.com -----Original Truncated Message----- Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 07:08:15 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] vijaya kumara" <vijayakumar71(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear All Our College is going to get National Board of Accrediation, so we have to procure 25,000 title books on Engineering field. So any one of you will help me to get the list of 25,000 titles through net/web or any union catalogue of Engineering. Wating for your good reply at the earliest Regards Vijayakumar M

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25,000 titles-NBA
by Francis Jayakanth 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 22:25:10 -0700 (PDT) From: gayathri sen <gayatsen(a)yahoo.com> Dear Vijayakumar, Our college has got accredited by National Board for Accreditation and was ISO certified few years back. First thing please read AICTE norms for addition of books to Central Libraries of institutions carefully. You have to calculate the no. of titles that are required based on when your institution was incorporated and what was the intake. You get this AICTE handbook in its office near central college. After you calculate, see how many you already have in each subject area in your library. The shortage can be procured in this way. 1. I am sure you have reputed publishers catalog eg. PHI, Thomson Learning, TMH, Galgotia etc etc. with you. Circulate this to different departments or call for a meeting and bring it to their notice and ask them to give a list from each dept. 2. Arrange book exibitions in different areas required. 3. Get books on approval. Tell them you do not want very expensive books- but books from reputed publishers and economy editions. 4. If you are a member of DELNET go to their site and browse subject wise or institution wise, you get wonderful collection. Their address http://164.100.247.21/basisbwdocs/Welcome.html. Check in union catalog of books CCF format. Our institutions data is also there in DELNET database. In location field you give knPESIT, if you want pesit collection. 5. You can contact me for the list too. Hope this gives you enough information. Regards, Gayathri Sen, PESIT

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Refresher course on IT for Librarians
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 11:38:38 +1000 From: Dr. Muttayya <muttayya_k(a)vsnl.com> Dear Member: Please find below a complete announcement regarding a refresher course to be conducted by Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library, TISS, Mumbai. There was an incomplete posting about this course yesterday. Sorry about it. - Moderator -------------- Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library, Tata Institute of Social Sciences is conducting a 21 days UGC Sponsored Refresher Course in the subject of Library & Information Science. The theme is Information Technology for Librarians. It is scheduled to be held from 6th to 26th Sept 2004. The objective of this Refresher Course is to make Librarians feel fresh and updated after the training is over and really contribute to the teaching learning process. The eligibility conditions are mentioned below. Application Form will be sent upon receipt of an e-mail request OR alternatively you can download the application form the library website <www.tiss.edu/library/> or from institute website <www.tiss.edu/ugcrc/> Minimum UGC Requirement for participation in Refresher Courses The Minimum UGC Requirement for participation in Refresher Courses is as follows: Here Librarian means either a College Librarian or a University Assistant Librarian/Lecturer In Library & Information Science who are in the pay scale of Rs.8000-13, 500 and above The gap in two successive Refresher Courses should normally be two years and may be relaxed if the adequate number of participants is not available or it is essential for the Librarian to fulfil eligibility condition for his/her career advancement. The College should be included in the List of Colleges under Section 2(f) of the UGC Act, even though they may not yet be fit under Section 12-13 of the same Act. If the College has not yet come within the purview of Section 2(f) but have been affiliated to a University for at least five years may also participate in the Refresher Course. The last date for submission of applications is 16th August 2004. Alternatively, for further assistance you may contact the Course Co-ordinators Satish Kanamadi Tel:022-25563290-96.Ext.285 E-mail: satish(a)tiss.edu Mallikarjun Angadi Tel:022-25563290-96.Ext.284 E-mail: angdi(a)rediffmail.com Your sincerely, Dr. Muttayya M. Koganuramath University Librarian -- ***************************************** Dr. Muttayya M. Koganuramath University Librarian Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library Tata Institute of Social Sciences P.B.No.8313, Sion-Trombay Road Deonar, Mumbai 400 088, INDIA Ph : 91-22- 2556 3289-96; Extn.281(O) 91-22- 2558 3375(R) Direct : 91-22-25513350 Fax : 91-22- 2556 2912 E.Mail : muttayya_k(a)vsnl.com Web : www.tiss.ernet.in/library *****************************************

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Number of engineering Ph.D graduates from India
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Dear All We want to know (approximate) number of engineering Ph.D students graduating from Indian educational institutions per year, and institution wise distribution of these numbers. Thanks in advance for any help in this regard. Regards Rajashekar ------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. T.B. Rajashekar Associate Chairman Tel: +91-80-23600271, 23601427 National Centre for Science Fax: +91-80-23601426, 23600683 Information (NCSI) E-Mail: raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Indian Institute of Science URL: http://144.16.72.189/raja/ BANGALORE-560012 (India) ------------------------------------------------------------- SciGate: http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/ The IISc Science Information Portal

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fixation of pay scale
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 12:01:09 +0530 From: Vijayalaxmi R Deshpande <vrd(a)powersearch.cpri.res.in> Moderator's Note: ----------------- Members who have inputs for the following posting are requested to send their replies directly to Vijayalaxmi R Deshpande <vrd(a)powersearch.cpri.res.in>. Vijayalaxmi, in turn is requested to consolidate all the inputs and post it back on the lis-forum for the benefit of other members. Please do not send your replies, for this posting, to either lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in or to mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in. Thanks for your cooperation and active participation. - Moderator ----------------Note ends here----------------- Dear Lis-forum members, I am Latha K N working as Librarian in CPRI since 1982. While fixing pay scale in V CPC, my scale was fixed to 5000 - 8000 scale instead of 5500 - 9000. Recently one more order published in Swamys News to fix all librarian's scale in 5500 -9000, when I gave representation by producing this order they are asking for original order where in central government autonomous organisation it is implemented. Kindly any of you have got this order or this is implemented let me know by return mail. Thanking you, Latha K N Librarian.

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A news report on the national Allianace
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 08:55:41 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is a report that appeared in The Communication Initiative [http://www.comminit.com/pds72004/sld-10439.html]. Best wishes. Arun National Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Basic Human Needs - India Summary Formed in May 2004, the National Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Basic Human Needs will seek to take the knowledge-led services harnessed by ICTs to all of India's 600,000 villages by August 2007, when the country celebrates its 60th year of independence. The Alliance sees itself as acting as a catalyst for technology innovation for rural ICT applications and connectivity. "It will work to bring the private sector and the academia together with strong support from civil society organizations for experimenting every innovation among the target communities." The M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) and OneWorld South Asia are jointly organising the Alliance. Main Communication Strategies The Alliance is using networking and partnership as strategies for taking ICTs to the poor and the disadvantaged in India's rural and urban communities. To begin the process of creating the alliance, 50 representatives drawn from civil society organisations, government departments, the private sector, and academia took part in consultations in May 2004. They set up 7 task forces, including connectivity, content, policy, capacity building, resources, organisation and management, and programme design. One focus of these task force activities will be how to use the ongoing efforts by the government and the private sector in creating an ICT infrastructure, human networks, and political institutions to provide multipurpose information kiosks in rural areas. "The info-kiosk of tomorrow would serve as a communication hub, providing multiple telephone and communication services to the village, a virtual academy and training center and banking, financial, insurance and trading outlet and much more." Face-to-face interaction will continue to be the Alliance's key strategy for sharing ideas and engaging in strategic planning toward the 2007 goal. These conversations take the form of "Policy Makers Workshops" like the May and July 2004 consultations. (Other such workshops were held in October 2003 and February 2004 to organise other MSRRF programmes designed to bridge the digital divide; please see Key Points, below). According to organisers, a number of key government people attended and spoke at the July 2004 meeting. According to MSRRF, these representatives expressed firm support for the National Alliance's work and a strong desire to collaborate. Here is an excerpt from the May 2004 meeting report, which indicates the Alliance's strategic direction (this document is available as a PDF document; please see contact section, below): The emergence of Rural Knowledge Centres and info-kiosk movement in our country has demonstrated that the local panchayats and self-help groups can take advantage of appropriate information and communication technologies and that they can easily access the scientific and technical knowledge they need to solve local problems and enhance the quality of their lives, as well as to communicate their own insights and needs back to Government departments and scientists. A national movement of knowledge centres needs to be established in mission mode to ensure quick implementation at the local level, create information infrastructure and locally appropriate and relevant content for rural economy through active involvement of Gram Sabhas, Local Self-Help groups and NGOs. For this a Rural Knowledge Centre Fund may be established by NABARD to cover 100,000 villages within 3 years. To provide the fillip the Government of India may provide necessary matching assistance to NABARD to the tune of Rs. 300 crores a year. These NABARD supported knowledge centres should work towards creating sustainable livelihood opportunities, and also serve as service providers and communication enablers for the landless and the poor, especially those belonging to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other Backward Classes, women and the disabled - the most vulnerable groups in rural India....It will be useful if Government can proactively promote public-private and institutional partnerships facilitating outreach of the knowledge centres to cover the unreached villages in rural India. The active participation of this elected women and men members of local bodies crucial for the success of this movement. An integrated use of the Internet and Community Radio will be an effective means of reaching the unreached and voicing the voiceless. Development Issues Technology, Economic Development. Key Points The Alliance's work will be guided by the philosophy of MSSRF's Chairman, Prof. Swaminathan. Here is a synopsis of that approach, provided by MSSRF: "His focus is people. He looks at their contexts and needs and then proceeds to satisfy those needs within their context. He is ready to use any technology that comes in handy. For example, in our Information Village (Rural Knowledge Centres) project we use noticeboards, public address systems (loud speakers put up in different streets of a fishing village) and a local language twice-monthly community newspaper along with solar (photovoltaic) energy, the Internet, spread spectrum technology and Motorola two-way radio...For us technology is often a mere enabler. What people want delivered is healthcare, education, agriculture, markets, entitlements, credit, and better livelihoods. We work towards achieving the MDGs [Millenium Development Goals]." The National Alliance is a natural progression from MSSRF's ongoing efforts to set up rural knowledge centres in several villages - efforts that can be characterised as using a bottom-up approach and involving the community from the beginning. MSSRF comments, "These are not mere kiosks. They have become an integral part of the life of the village communities." This work is described in detail in "Rural Knowledge Centres: Harnessing Local Knowledge via Interactive Media Policy Makers Workshop" [PDF] </redirect.cgi?r=http://www.mssrf.org/publications/pmw.pdf>. For a summary of this workshop, click here <http://www.comminit.com/st2003/sld-9144.html>. Additional information is available on the MSSRF website </redirect.cgi?r=http://www.mssrf.org> (click on the words "Special Programmes" on the left navigation bar). Click here <http://www.comminit.com/DiscussionForums/sld-10232.html> to find out how to participate in a related Discussion Forum entitled "Information kiosks in every Indian village by 2007 - a myth or reality?". Partners The July workshop was supported by the International Development Research Center (IDRC), Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), NASSCOM Foundation, and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. It was organised by M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation and OneWorld South Asia. Source "National Alliance on ICTs for basic human needs launched" </redirect.cgi?r=http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/8 6557/1138/2150>, on the OneWorld South Asia website. Featured in the Digital Opportunity Channel - weekly newsletter - May 20-26, which was forwarded by Atanu Garai to the bytesforall_readers list server on May 26 2004 (click here to access the archives </redirect.cgi?r=http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bytesforall_readers/>); and posting to the bytesforall_readers list server dated July 6 2004; and letter sent from Subbiah Arunachalam to The Communication Initiative on July 15 2004. For more information, contact: Subbiah Arunachalam Distinguished Fellow arun(a)mssrf.res.in <mailto:arun@mssrf.res.in> subbiah_a(a)hotmail.com <mailto:subbiah_a@hotmail.com> Prof. M.S. Swaminathan Chairman msswami(a)mssrf.res.in <mailto:msswami@mssrf.res.in> M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) Third Cross Street, Institutional Area Taramani, Chennai - 600 113, India Tel.: +91-44-22541229, 22541698 Fax: +91-44-22541319 MSSRF website </redirect.cgi?r=http://www.mssrf.org> Dr. Basheerhamad Shadrach Director, OneWorld South Asia Basheerhamad.shadrach(a)oneworld.net <mailto:Basheerhamad.shadrach@oneworld.net> Placed on the Communication Initiative site July 15 2004. Last Updated July 15 2004. Please also see: http://www.comminit.com/pds72004/sld-10439.html National Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Basic Human Needs <http://www.comminit.com/pds72004/sld-10439.html> A network formed in May 2004 is working to bring ICTs to all of India's 600,000 villages by August 2007, when the country celebrates its 60th year of independence. The National Alliance sees itself as a catalyst for technology innovation for rural ICT applications and connectivity. Networking and partnership will be key strategies for taking ICTs to the poor and the disadvantaged: "It will work to bring the private sector and the academia together with strong support from civil society organizations for experimenting" with ICT innovations. The M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation and OneWorld South Asia are organising the Alliance.

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Digital Libraries created by IIM Kozhikode, India
by JK Vijayakumar 19 Jul '04

19 Jul '04

Dear Friends, Two Digital Libraries created by Center for Development of Digital Libraries (CDDL) at Indian Institute of Management-Kozhikode (www.iimk.ac.in) is available for access 1. The first one crated basically for IIMK, is available at http://intranet.iimk.ac.in/cgi-bin/library . This DL has been created by using Greenstone Software and the same is listed at Greenstone site under examples at http://www.greenstone.org/cgi-bin/library?a=p&p=examples. The copyrighted materials like eJournals and educational videos will not be able to access from outside, as they are accessible IP based only, and the second one (Videos) is copyrighted. But this can be a model, in a practical DL setting, which also can be emulated with our own collection. Also they are now putting lots of public domain material of interest to many people. 2. The second one "www.medinfoguide.org" they did for HIN/WHO as an eLearning platform for doctors in India, which has over 12 million citations, over 1500 plus free full-text eJournals and over 1000 eBooks meticulously packaged along with a host of value added information services. You can see the page announced at at "http://www.hin.org.in/". The test bed for this product was made at the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Science, Bangalore in their 26 medical schools (you can see the site hosted at RGUHS "http://www.rguhs.ac.in/" also, at "E-Learning@RGUHS" link. Lots of our medical librarians/libraries shall benefit out of this. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Vote for the stars of Yahoo!'s next ad campaign! http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo/votelifeengine/

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