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But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be
my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the
earth."
Acts 1:8
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You can try SGS L6217A, it can achieve 256 current level(microstep),
teere is a circuit in the SGS-THOMSON - " Smart Power Applicatio
Manual", order code for the manual is AMSMARTPOWERST/1
Best regards,
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It's a toll for insurance companies and auto dealers to rip you
off in case of accident or trade-in.
Charlie Ellis
chellis@nyx.cs.du.edu
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I don't see this as a problem with the chip-set (a mistake), I see this
as something that was designed-in intentionally.
So it would seem that to enhance the design (from 24 to 32-bit EISA DMA)
would require an update to the chipset. An update to the chipset may
begat an update to the motherboard board design.
What I'm saing is: The motherboard manufacturer seems to be passing this
off as a simple fix. In my mind the fix is a updated chipset from HINT
along with a possible motherboard layout update. This is not simple.
If I were you I would be cautious about this.
You might look into the Advanced Integration Research (AIR) VL/EISA
motherboard. All slots are EISA/ISA capable. 2 (or 3) of the slots are
VL-bus capable. The AIR people confirmed this board supports 'real'
32-bit EISA DMA (I called them). Pentium/P5 (?) capable. Less expensive
than equivalent AMI or Micronics VL/EISA board.
Look in Computer Shopper (April '93). The ZENON ads show the AIR mother-
board. A associate bought the AIR board and is pleased with it. I'm
attempting to get the local dealer to trade out the HAWK board for the
AIR board.
Model number of AIR board (with 486-33DX) is B433EI2. You can call
Motherboard Warehouse (for example) for a price. Phone #'s included
below.
AIR (408)-428-0800
Motherboard Warehouse (800)-486-9975
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Help,
I've got an applications with a series of pushbuttons across
the top (a toolbar). I wanted to add eventhandlers to these
pushbuttons on EnterWindowMask and LeaveWindowMask so that
I can put up some descriptive text about the function of each
pushbutton as the pointer crosses over it.
I've done this fine, but I've turned up the following problem:
When the pushbuttons are sensitive I get callbacks on both of
the above events, but when they are not sensitive I only get
callbacks on LeaveWindow events. This seems odd. I would
expect this to be an all-or-nothing type of thing.
Is this a bug? If not, can someone explain this behavior?
thanks,
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this is a repost... I like to find out more about this also...
*** Message Part 2: Text ****************************************
The COSE announcement specifies that Motif will become the common
GUI. But what does this mean exactly?
- Do they mean that all "COSE-complient" apps will have the Motif
look and feel?
- Do they mean that all "COSE-complient" apps will use the Motif
toolkit API?
- Do they mean both of the above?
- Is it possible that there will be a Motif-API complient toolkit with
an OpenLook Look & Feel?
- How about an OLIT/XView/OI/Interviews API toolkit with a Motif L & F?
(I know OI already does this, but will this be considered COSE-complient?)
- Will there be more than one "standard" toolkit API or L & F supported?
- How does using ToolTalk fit in with Motif?
This is my attempt to start a discussion in order to pull as much
knowledge about these questions off the net... Feel free to e-mail
or followup.
--
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-- Gil Tene "Some days it just doesn't pay -
-- devil@imp.HellNet.org to go to sleep in the morning." -
-- devil@diablery.10A.com -
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[synopsis] Young man with inguianl hernia on one side, repaired, now has
new hernia on other side. What gives, he asks? [and he continues...]
There is the possibility that there is some degree of constipation causing
chronic straining which has caused the bowel movements. The classic
problems that are supposed to be looked for in someone with a hernia are
constipation, chronic cough, colon cancer (and you're not too young for
that) and sitting for long periods of time at the computer, reading news.
Good Luck with your surgery!
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I ran into this about six months ago. My system is a GW2000 486DX/66V,
8 megs RAM, 1Meg ATI GUP VLB. It seems the problem is that the ATI
Graphics Ultra Pro card consumes the COM4 port for some reason, so only
COM1-3 are available. I believe this is documented somewhere in the
system manuals, but I can't recall where.
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es:
xv 3.0 (shareware) supports 24-bit displays, and has lots of other
improvements over earlier versions. Definitely worth checking out
(also at export)
Jean.
--
Jean Liddle
Computer Science, Illinois State University
e-mail: jliddle@ilstu.edu
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I assumed he was referring to OS/2's 32-bit flat model addressing while DOS
(and therefore Windows) use 20-bit segmented addressing. As a programmer, I
agree that segmentation unnecessarily complicates things. It's annoying, too.
But when just a Windows user, I don't think about it much. And, I doubt many
other people think about it (or even care) when just writing a document,
calcing a spreadsheet, etc...It works and they get their work done.
Just a neutral comment:
It's funny, I think, how arguments about Windows vs OS/2 sound so very
similar to arguments about Atheism vs Christianity or something like that.
It's somehow very personal to people. Convictions are irrational and
there's nothing wrong with that--it's just...interesting.
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>> conference calls?
>It's not Clipper, it's any encryption system. I've seen a number of
>designs; they generally involve a multi-line cleartext bridge.
A 'multi-line cleartext bridge?"
^^^^^^^^^
And just were would you put that bridge? If it isn't at one of
the receiptants location, forget encryption at all. You have blown any
security you thought you might have had.
Most of the people using encrypted conference bridges these days are
military (or equivalent, like CIA and other embassy personnel),
so putting bridges on the recipient's location is normal -
it's in a vault on a military base or Ft. Meade, and the
secure phones are in sound-proof rooms with big locks on the doors
because they're talking about Classified Stuff (or Golf with Other Generals.)
That paradigm will change as we start using encrypted phones in our
offices or homes to carry on normal conversations about dinner plans
and stock purchases and meeting schedules and technical info
and the good batch of illegal frop that we got last weekend from Bob;
most people don't use sound-proof vaults, and may use bridges in their
PBX or from the local phone company (3-way calls) or Long Distance
or value-added phone company (e.g. Alliance conference bridges).
If Clipjack is mainly used for the radio portion of cellular phones,
the conferencing aspects don't change. But there may be a market niche for
trusted conference-bridge providers, though I suppose the inquisitors
would try to get a blanket wiretap authorization for many bridges,
just in case a Bad Guy might use the service.
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[deletions]
I don't necessarily object to the secrecy but I do question it, since I see no
Biblical reason why any aspect of Christian worship should involve secrecy.
But I am interested in your claim that early Christian practices "parallel"
Mormon temple ceremonies. Could you give an example? Also, why do they only
parallel Mormon ceremonies? Why don't Mormon ceremonies restore the original
Christian practices? Wasn't that the whole point of Joseph Smith's stated
mission?
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-| I am taking a course entitled "Exploring Science Using Internet".
-| For our final project, we are to find a compendium of Internet resources
-| dealing with a science-related topic. I chose Astronomy. Anyway, I was
-| wondering if anyone out there knew of any interesting resources on Internet
-| that provide information on Astronomy, space, NASA, or anything like that.
-|
-| THANKS!
-|
-| KEITH MALINOWSKI
-| STK1203@VAX003.Stockton.EDU
-| P.O. Box 2472
-| Stockton State College
-| Pomona, New Jersey 08240
Try doing a keyword search under Gopher using Veronica or accessing a
World Wide Web server. Also finger yanoff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu for a list
of Internet resources which includes 2-3 sites with Space-specific
information. I am sure Ron Baalke will have told you about what is
available at JPL etc..
best regards
Ata <(|)>.
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... in response to which ...
[ ... ]
... and ...
[ ... ]
... and ...
[ ... ]
Hey, guys. You're absolutely correct, and well on the way to winning
this battle ... and losing the war. Yes, there are serious philosophical
flaws in HR 1276. Technical ones, too -- how'd you like to sue the Feds,
lose, and have to pay _their_ "reasonable Attorney's fee" ... ? :-)
Still, I have one basic question: compared to what we've _got_ is HR 1276
(a) better, or (b) worse? This one shouldn't even take you three guesses.
If there's a good enough show of support for HR 1276, maybe for a change
_we_ could be the ones saying "it's a reasonable first step" ...
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I feel compelled to complain: the statement that recent observations
rule out merging neutron stars as sources of gamma-ray bursts is
utterly false, even though it is popular enough to make it to
BATSE press releases.
The idea behind the statement is as follows:
"if you smack two neutron
stars together, or have a neutron star be gobbled up by a black hole,
a lot of energy is released, enough for a gamma-ray burst at a
cosmological distance. But, so the reasoning continues, this energy
is released below a lot of matter, so the radiation becomes
thermalized and you expect to see roughly a blackbody spectrum.
The observed spectra are strongly non-thermal, so this model must
be wrong."
As so often, the fault lies with the imagination of the person who
was trying to prove the model wrong rather than with the model. It
may be that the initial energy release is not seen as a gamma-ray
burst, but the 'fireball' of energy and matter that is created
may spew out a relativistic flow. When this slams into the surrounding
medium, a strong flux of non-thermal gamma rays results, which may
carry off a substantial fraction of the initial total energy. All
this is not my idea: it is in a series of papers by Martin Rees,
Peter Meszaros (sorry for the missing accents:-) and co-workers.
It is certainly not a complete model, but it may well be the best one
around (summing over all proposed distance scales). An alternative
proposal for what creates the initial fireball, by the way, is the
so-called 'failed supernovae' scenario by Stan Woosley, in which
a very massive star at the end of its life collapses to a black
hole. If the stellar core was rotating, part of the infalling matter
will be temporarily halted because it is supported by centrifugal
force, and form a very dense neutron torus that accretes onto the
black hole. This beast may spew out a jet along the rotation axis,
which again constitutes relativistic flow. The rate of such
events may be much higher than that of neutron star mergers,
but the flux may be more strongly beamed, so that the net rate
of bursts observed on Earth stays the same between the two
scenarios, but the energy released per event can be a lot less
in the failed supernova scenario.
On another note: I do believe that the distance scale must
ultimately be resolved via some classical astronomical method
such as finding counterparts to the bursts at other wavelengths,
or finding a definitive signature of some known class of
objects in the distribution of positions and fluxes. Theorists
have historically not been too successfull in finding the
distance of any object by proving that there is only one
possible way in which the object can work, and therefore
it *must* be so-and-so.
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Here is a press release from the American Federation of State,
County and Municipal Employees.
Unions Point To Deadly Workplaces; AFSCME, Other Unions
Commemorate Workers Memorial Day
To: National Desk, Labor Writer
Contact: Janet Rivera of the American Federation of State, County
and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO, 202-429-1130
WASHINGTON, April 23 -- The American Federation of State,
County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and other unions
of the AFL-CIO on Wednesday, April 28, will commemorate the fifth
annual Workers Memorial Day -- a day to pay homage to the 6
million workers who are killed, injured, or diseased on the job.
This year, AFSCME will focus its Workers Memorial Day efforts an
the dangerous environment in which corrections officers must work.
Earlier this month, an AFSCME corrections officer, Robert
Vallandingham, was killed by inmates who overtook the corrections
facility in Lucasville, Ohio.
The law and order agenda of the 1980s has resulted in a steady
increase in the prison population for the past five years. On
Jn. 1, 1992, the prison population was 709,587. Projections
show a continued increase in the number of inmates, with an
expected prison population of 811,253 in 1994.
The conditions which this burgeoning prison population has
created for corrections officers is partially reflected in the
number of assaults by inmates against staff. Assaults against
staff increased dramatically between 1987 and 1989, and remain
high. In 1987, there were 808 assaults by inmates against staff,
compared to 9,961 such assaults in 1991.
The increased number of inmates has brought on the dangerous
combination of overcrowding and understaffing. For example in Ohio
officer-to-inmate ratio is 1 to 8.4 -- the second worst ratio in
the nation. The national average is 1 to 5.3. Other health and
safety issues facing corrections officers include AIDS, Hepatitis
B, tuberculosis, stress, and chemical hazards.
AFSCME has more than 50,000 members who work in the nation's
federal, state and local correctional facilities.
Correction officers are not alone in performing their jobs under
life-threatening conditions. Every year, 10,000 American workers
die from job-related injuries, and tens of thousands more die from
occupational disease. Public employees do some of the nation's
most dangerous jobs. Perilous occupations include:
-- Highway Workers - Highway workers are often injured and
frequently killed by moving traffic because work zones are
not barricaded or don't have proper lighting.
-- Health Care Workers - Hospitals have the highest number of
job-related injuries and illnesses of any private sector
employer and nursing homes ranked fifth. There were more
than 325,000 job-related illnesses and injuries in private
sector hospitals in 1991, up almost 10 percent over the
previous year. It is generally believed that health care
workers employed at public sector hospitals and nursing homes
have a significantly higher rate of injuries and illnesses
than do their private sector counterparts. Health and safety
issues facing health care workers include exposure to
tuberculosis and the HIV virus, back injuries, and high
levels of stress.
-- Social Workers - Social workers who work in mental health
institutions are often the victims of assaults and,
sometimes, fatal attacks. For instance, last October, a man
carrying a semiautomatic handgun walked into the Schuyler
County Social Services Building in Watkins Glenn, N.Y.
and fatally shot social services workers, before turning the
gun on himself. There are two basic problems. First is a
growing lack of support services for people who don't have
the help they need. Because workers are overworked, some
clients are not given the adequate amount of counselling.
Such conditions may cause clients to become more frustrated.
The "quality" of the clients is also becoming more violent,
as more are moved out of the institutions.
Nearly 2 million workers have been killed by workplace hazards
since OSHA was passed. Moreover, as AFSCME President Gerald W.
McEntee explains, OSHA does not provide workplace safety
protections for public employees.
"More than 1,600 public employees are killed each year on the
job, yet 27 states still provide no federally-approved OSHA
coverage for public employees," said McEntee. "This, despite the
fact that public employees -- highway workers, health care workers,
corrections officers, to name but a few -- do some of the most
dangerous work in our society. This year we are fighting for
passage of OSHA reform legislation to give all workers greater
rights and protections, and finally guarantee all public employees
safe workplaces. We need the public support to be successful."
Government workers suffer 25 percent more injuries than private
sector workers, and these injuries are almost 75 percent more
severe.
Public employees were exempted from OSHA when the law was passed
in 1970 and today, public employees in more than half the states
have no OSHA coverage.
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This was a popular belief in the Judaism of Jesus` time, that Elijah
would return again (as he had been taken in to heaven in a chariot and
did not actually die). However Jesus was referring to John the
Baptist not in the sense that Elijah was reincarnated as John
(remember Elijah didn`t die) but that John was a similar prophet to
Elijah. John was a fiery preacher, he wore sackcloth and wandered
rough through Israel preaching the coming kingdom. The verses that
describe him (in Mark`s gospel) can be linked to OT references about
Elijah. Hence John was similar to Elijah and Jesus was drawing the
parallels between the two just as he drew parallels with the Suffering
Servant in Isaiah (and other messianic figures) and himself.
A brief reply but I don`t have time to look up all the relevant stuff.
Suffice to say there is a very strong explanation.
Rick.
________________________________________________________________
Richard Johnston Queen`s University
73 Malone Road Belfast
Belfast
Northern Ireland
BT9 6SB
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Please note that my above comment was not intended as a flame of Ken's
call for Congressional leadership to conduct a proper investigation.
It was merely to call attention to the hazard of having Specter involved.
If anyone took it that way, I apologize.
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Hi,
I am looking an integrated circuits for my Z80-based
computer.
The circuit is called Z80-STI (Serial Timer Interrupt),
MK3801, and
made by Mostek. Mostek is called SGS Thompson today.
I have been in contact with SGS Thompson, unfortunately
they me told that Z80-STI is obsolete.
So, my question is if anyone know if I can get hold of that
circuits. Are there any companies that specialize in selling
circuits that are no longer in production? I have contacted
several electronic brokers in
Sweden, but without any success. I would appreciate if you
could give me hint where I should continue looking. Even
companies in the United States would be fine, since this
circuit is pretty crucial to me.
Thanks in advance.
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The following is based on copies I was given of some articles published in
Hearing Instruments. I would appreciate any comments about this and other
'new' technology for hearing aids.
The ReSound system was developed on the basis of some research at AT&T and
appears to take a different approach from other aids. It appears to me that
a new 'programmable' aid like the Widex just uses a more flexible (and
programmable) version of the classical approach of amplifying some parts of
the spectrum more than others and adding some compression to try and help
out in 'noisy' situations.
The major difference in the ReSound approach is that it divides the
spectrum into low and high frequencies (splitting point is programmable),
apparently based on the fact that lots of vowel information can be found in
the low frequencies, while the important consonant information
(unfortunately for me) is in the high frequencies. The two bands then are
treated with different compression schemes which are programable. They have
also developed a new fitting algorythm that builds on what they call
'abnormal growth of loudness'.
This latter is interesting and fits my own personal experience, though I
think the phrase is missleading. What appears to be the case is that as you
exceed the minimum threshold for a person with hearing loss, the deficit
becomes progresslively less compared to normals and by the time you reach
the 'too loud' point the sensitivity curves appear to converge. This means
that if you just boost all sound levels, you are overloading at the high
end for people with hearing losses. Hence what you want is progressively
less amplification as the signal get closer to the maximum tolerable point.
You want to boost low volume sounds more than high and do so potentially
differently for the low and high frequency parts of the spectrum (specially
for someone like me who is relatively normal up to 1000 cps and then falls
off a cliff).
Aids with simple compressors don't descriminate between energy in the low
and high frequencies and can therefor 'compress' useful high frequency
information because of high volume of low frequency components.
Particularly impressive was the ReSound performance with whispered speech
and in simulated restaurant noise situations.
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:>Sounds to me like someone was pulling your leg. There is only one way for
:>pregnancy to occur: intercourse. These days however there is also
:>artificial insemination and implantation techniques, but we're speaking of
:>"natural" acts here. It is possible for pregnancy to occur if semen is
:>deposited just outside of the vagina (i.e. coitus interruptus), but that's
:>about at far as you can get. Through clothes -- no way. Better go talk
:>to your biology teacher.
:
: what is the likely hood of conception if sperm is deposited just outside
:the vagina? ie. __% chance.
: -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hmmm.... I really don't know. Probably quite low overall. Why don't we
get a couple hundred willing couples together and find out ;->
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Apparently needing to clarify his comments from Thursday, Dr. Nizam
Plawaby (spelling?), the Medical Examiner for Tarrant County, Texas,
who has authority in the Waco deaths, stated that since no autopsies
had been performed, there is no evidence for bullet wounds, or
evidence against bullet wounds.
Janet Reno also stated that she had never been told of bullet wounds
by anyone in the Justice Department.
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There is a good report list on most all of the good monitors in this
months issue of Computer Shoppers magazine, with their phone munbers
and all (April issue) $2.99....Sam
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Perhaps one other thing I should have added is that Jeremiah's prophesies
about the coming destruction of Jerusalem would have been understood by
the people of that time to be a full frontal assault on their understanding
of their relationship with the Lord. Today the if the general populace
hears "prophesies" like the Portland earthquake or New York will burn
ones, they are unlikely to see it in the context of their relationship
(or lack of it) with the Lord. They are far more likely to think that
they are just the result of the fevered imaginations of a religious nutter.
That is one reason why I am always deep;y suspicious of bald judgement
prophesies without any explanation of the reasons for the judgement. This
doesn't have to be long winded. To see a relatively modern example look
at Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural speech. The relevant section is
below. It is this type of spiritual insight which was missing in both
prophesies posted here.
--- Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural speech----
Both read the same Bible, and pray
to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem
strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing
their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not
that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not he answered that of neither
has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. ''Woe unto the
world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to
that man by whom the offence cometh" If we shall suppose that American
Slavery is one of those offences which, in the provdence of God, must needs come
but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove
and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to
those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein an departure from
those divine attribute which the believers in a Living God always ascribe
to Him ? Fondly do we hope - fervently do we pray - that this mighty
scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue,
until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of
unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with
the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three
thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord,
are true and righteous altogether"
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right,
as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we
are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have
borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan - to do all which
may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves,
and with all nations.
--
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[edited]
Well for starters, why use rle files? You might have a specific program that
needs them, OK, but I tend to convert straight to jpeg format, thus a 2.4meg
24bit targa file becomes a ~80k or less 24bit jpeg.
The latest versions of XV (2.2.1 ?) and xloadimage (3.03) both handle jpeg files.
And the best way to convert to jpeg is with the c/djpeg suit. Even at 90%
quality (you can't see the difference) the jpeg is way smaller than anything
else even an 8bit gif!
Later'ish
Craig
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I've seen children do this and wondered about something. If the
mucus in one's nose collects (filters) particles going into the
airway, if a child then picks and ingests this material, might
it have a vaccinatory effect, since if the body ingests airborne
diseases or other 'stuff' on the mucus, the body might generate
antibodies for this small "invasion"?
Maybe this is why some children don't get sick very often? :-)
- tom
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Sorry -- I mean eicosapentaenoic acid.
Coincidentaly, just yesterday I was (finally) referred from the clinic
to Hanauer. I'm seeing him on May 24. I'll report what he says about
this question.
Will do.
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Perhaps the listlessness caused by thyroid deficiency could mimic
depression, or feeling unable to do anything could cause one to get
depressed, but I know of no specific effect on the brain caused by the
thyroid that would cause depression. Note that weight gain is usually
a symptom of both. Simple blood tests would indicate if a thyroid
condition is present.
I don't know if depression would cause a reduction in thyroid output,
but I would tend to doubt it. As far as I know clinical depression is
caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, and that chemical
imbalance has no direct effect on any other part of the body. A regular
everyday depression IMHO should not cause a chemical imbalance in the
body at all.
The pituitary bases its secretions of Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH)
on the level of circulating Thyroxin (there are two types T3 and T4 -
one is used as a reserve and is changed into the other -active- form in
the liver). The ratio of T3 & T4 can be affected by a number of other
hormones (estrogen, for example). Naturally, changing activity of the
body's cells would cause changes in availabilty of free thyroxin, but
the liver and a healthy thyroid should be able to balance things out in
short order.
Good sources for info on the thyroid are the Merk Manual (a physician's
reference book ) although reading it is enough to get one depressed :-)
and the Encyclopedia Brittanica (should be available in your local
library).
I hope this has been of some help.
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:
: |> Derek....
: |>
: |> There is a tool available to reset the service indicator on BMWs but the lights
: |> will come back on after 2-3 weeks. The tool is in fact illegal (in Europe
: |> atleast). It is often the case that the unsuspecting punter trots off to buy a
: |> used BMW and a few weeks later, all the lights come on! Other than that, I know
: |> of no other tool.... anyone else?
: |>
: Shaz,
:
: Hmm.. but the service indicators that I have works this way:
: There are 5 green,1 yellow, 1 red indicators.
: initially all green indicators will be on for few minutes when you start
: your car. The computer will actually "sense" how you drive your car and
: as time goes by the green indicators will start to go off one by one and
: then the yellow indicator will turn on and then the red indicator will go
: on. And you should get service when by the time green indicators are off.
:
: After service the mechanic(or you) will reset the service indicators and the
: computer starts counting again.
:
: So I expect to have a tool(or a procedure) to reset it so the green lights will
: come on and the yellow and red lights will go off.
:
: I wonder how people can do oil change themself without knowing how to reset the
: indicator.
:
: It's the first european car I have and changing oil at 15,000 miles is a
: surprise to me. and it's a big plus :-). But I wonder how that could happen
: since the oil lose its lubrication ability over time, I thought it's the oil and
: not the vehicle that determines how often we should change oil.
:
: Any BMW owner on the net? Response welcomed.
:
: PS. my initial question is "how do you seset the service indicator of a BMW"
:
: Derek
There is a perfectly legal tool available to reset the Bimmer service lights.
It will cost you 45$ from a mailorder, and buying one far outweighs
the possible consequences of destroying all the electronics if you try
di it yourself.
You wonder how people do an oil change without knowing how it reset.
Why is reseting so important? The only reason for doing
it is stop the annoyance of a red light staring at you.
Forget this 'in european cars you only need to change the oil every
15000' crap. Anyone serious about keeping their engine in good shape, and
extending its life, will change it every 3000, (inc filter). Don't wait
for the servive lights to come on before servicing the car.
I bought a bmw about 6 months ago, it had 3 green lights on. I have changed
the oil every 3000, completly flushed brake fliud, changed all filters(oil,
air and fuel, changed transmission and drive oils
and done almost all of the other things req for service 1
and a service 2. After nearly 6000 miles, I am still on 2 green lights.
After a winter in Burlington (and it is snowing today!!) that is not bad.
Good luck!
Blair
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University of Vermont posting his own ideas.........
Medical Research Facilty
Smooth Muscle Ion Channel Group
Colchester
Vermont 05446-2500
email blair@northpole.med.uvm.edu
Telephone: (802) 656-8930
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As I announced at the X Technical Conference in January, I would like to
make Imake-TeX, the Imake support for using the TeX typesetting system,
publically available. Currently Imake-TeX is in beta test here at the
computer science department of Dortmund University, and I am looking for
some more beta testers, preferably with different TeX and Imake
installations.
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Dipl.-Inform. Rainer Klute I R B : immer richtig beraten
Univ. Dortmund, IRB
Postfach 500500 |)|/ Tel.: +49 231 755-4663
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The Eighth International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences
ISCIS VIII
November 3 - 5, 1993, Antalya, Turkey
Organized by
EHEI
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Informatique, Paris, France
METU
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
in cooperation with
IEEE Computer Society Turkey Chapter,
IEEE Turkey Section
and the following universities:
Bogazici, Ege, Hacettepe, Istanbul Teknik, Yildiz.
ISCIS Advisory Board:
E.Arkun, E.Gelenbe, U.Halici, E.Harmanci, K.Inan,
Y.Karsligil, S.Kuru, N.Yalabik, U. Yarimagan, S.Yilmaz
Conference Chair Program Co-Chairs Publicity Chair
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Erol Gelenbe, L. Gun, IBM, USA Ugur Halici, METU
Duke University, USA R. Onvural,IBM, USA halici@vm.cc.metu.edu.tr
erol@egr.duke.edu P. Quinton,IRISA, France halici@trmetu.bitnet
Program Committee
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V. Akman, Turkey, E. Alpaydin, Turkey, E. Arkun, Turkey, I. Aybay, Turkey,
S. Bilgen, Turkey, A. Dogac, Turkey, A. Dogramaci, Turkey, S. Fdida, France,
J.M. Fourneau, France, E. Gelenbe, USA, G. Gonenc, Turkey, U. Halici, Turkey,
E. Harmanci, Turkey, K. Inan, Turkey, S. Jaehnischen,Germany, S. Kuru, Turkey,
M. Nivat, France, V. Paschos, France, N.Pekergin, France, J.F. Perrot, France,
M. Raynal,France, A. Stafylopatis, Greece, G. Stamon,France, G. Ucoluk, Turkey,
N. Yalabik, Turkey
Publicity Committee
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Isik Aybay, Osman Basbugoglu, Semih Bilgen, Emin Germen, Mert Sungur
ISCIS VIII is the eighth of a series of meetings which have brought together
computer scientists and engineers from about twenty countries. This year's
conference will be held in the beautiful Mediterranean resort city of
Antalya, in a region rich in natural as well as historical sites.
RESEARCH PAPERS ARE SOUGHT IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS:
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Theory of Computer Science - Computer Architecture & Systems
Artificial Intelligence - Neural Networks
Graphics and Image Processing - Computational Mathematics
Operations Research Applications - Databases
Performance Evaluation - Software Engineering
Computer Networks - Parallelism
Paper Submission: Full papers are limited to 8 pages and short
communications are limited to 4 pages. Submit five camera ready copies
(one original and four copies) of the paper and an accompanying letter by
postal mail only, so as to arrive by June 30, 1993 to:
ISCIS VIII, Attn Drs Levent Gun and Raif Onvural,
IBM E95/B 673, P.O. Box 12195, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Selected papers from ISCIS VIII will be published in the journal Information
Sciences (Elsevier - North Holland).
Poster Submission: Submit five camera ready copies of 1 page extended
abstract with an accompanying letter by July 30, 1993 to the address given
above.
Information: For required writing format, further information and
announcements, contact:
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Yes, but it's broken on OW 2.0. It does not handle multiple pages
well. If you don't have the proper PostScript commands it will
draw the entire document on the same page instead of pausing after
each page. I haven't tried OW 3.0 yet, though.
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Well, it looks like, just as Doug trumped Tim, beating him to the net
with his defensive analyses, so Tim has gotten in ahead of me.
The way I was doing it was a little different. Being me, of course, I
used equivalent averages to work out how many runs a player was worth,
and I calculated both rate of performance (fielding equivalent
average) and total performance (fielding equivalent runs). But I
compared, not to the average player, but the replacement player, and
here's why: because the positional adjustment comes built in to the
system. In the AL of 1992, the average SS is 32.9 runs above
replacement (RAR); cf, 31.6; 2B, 28.8; 3B, 26.3; LF, 26.0; RF, 24.6;
1B, 16.9. We may quibble with the exact numbers, but the order looks
substantially right.
In the equivalent average, I have always set league average to .235. I
had decided in hitting that the replacement level batter has an eqa of
.180; the name of that replacement level hitter, often as not, is
"Billy Ripken". I decided to let the replacement level fielder be the
same distance from .235 as .180, but in the opposite direction as I
have set it up; that makes for an eqa of .280. (Yes, I can add. Runs
are proportional to eqa squared; the difference between 180 squared
and 235 squared equals the difference to 279 squared, and I rounded
off for simplicity). An all-replacement fielding team would have:
Randy Milligan at first (.282), Willie Randolph (.269) at second, Leo
Gomez (.279) at third, Walt Weiss (.269) at short, Kevin Bass (.271)
in left, HoJo (.257) in center, and Eric Anthony (.277) in right. Ugh.
So, the total number of RAR for a player is the sum of his batting and
fielding RAR. I can rate them by total RAR, or RAR per some number of
batting outs, like 400. An average player has a total RAR of about 55,
30 batting, 25 fielding.
Total RAR (bat/field)
1. Bonds 152 (124/28) Ventura 124 (66/58)
2. Sandberg 143 (88/55) Thomas 122 (110/12)
3. Van Slyke 122 (91/31) Anderson 109 (75/34)
4. Grace 114 (70/44) Raines 100 (68/32)
5. Lankford 111 (76/35) Puckett 98 (76/22)
6. Pendleton 108 (71/37) Alomar 98 (75/23)
7. Finley 104 (70/34) Martinez E 97 (81/16)
8. Bagwell 101 (73/28) Mack 93 (70/23)
9. Butler 96 (74/22) McGwire 93 (79/14)
10 Sheffield 96 (85/11) Griffey 92 (70/22)
11 Larkin 96 (65/31) Devereaux 89 (56/34)
12 Grissom 95 (57/38) Henderson 88 (66/23)
13 Walker 94 (61/33) Listach 87 (50/37)
14 Justice 92 (52/40) Lofton 85 (46/39)
15 W. Clark 91 (73/18) Baerga 83 (55/28)
16 Kruk 82 (78/ 4) D. White 79 (39/40)
17 O. Smith 80 (46/34) Palmeiro 76 (54/22)
18 Gwynn 80 (47/33) Sierra 76 (52/24)
19 Hollins 80 (68/12) Carter 73 (57/17)
20 J. Bell 79 (42/37) Gonzalez 73 (60/13)
Notable entries in a per-400 batting out rating, NL: top 7 are Bonds,
177, LF; Sandberg, 130, 2b; Van Slyke, 114, cf; Grace, 107, 1b;
Larkin, 102, ss; Justice, 99, rf; Sheffield, 99, 3B. One at each
position measured! McGriff, despite +85 batting RAR, fifth in league,
finishes out of the top 20 due to a -13 in fielding. Last by position:
Galarraga 39, Stillwell -10, Hansen 30, Belliard 30 (Blauser gad a 69,
3rd in league), May 43, Dascenzo 34, Anthony 38.
In the AL, much-maligned Rickey Henderson was worth 120, second only
to Frank Thomas' 124; Ventura edges Edgar at third, 116-111; Grebeck
rates a potent 102!; Griffey edges Puckett as top CF, 93-90; Listach
nudges out Lofton among rookies, 82-80. And Alomar clearly outpoints
Baerga, 97-73. Last by position: Segui 10, Sojo 29, Palmer 22, Lewis
31, Polonia 40, Cuyler 26, V. Hayes 39.
All for now.
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No, Dave, and as an anthropologist I take great umbrage with this
misrepresentation. I sense that it is you that has made the jump from creation
(science) to religion (see above). I have characterized science/*creation
science* as rationalism/nonsense, and that it is. When people promote their
religious beliefs as science they become nonsense. Kept where they belong
they are meaningful and useful, as virtually any anthropologists will tell you,
and as I have said several times in this group. And it works the other way,
too, and I have repeatedly said so. Never have I said or meant anything
different, here or elsewhere, and I don't think my communication skills betray
me. Nor do I presume to offend people's spiritual sensibilities, as
I would hope others would not disparage mine.
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Hi Xperts!
How can I move the cursor with the keyboard (i.e. cursor keys),
if no mouse is available?
Any hints welcome.
Thanks.
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1st Tech Corp.
12202 Technology Blvd., Suite 130
PO Box 200656
Austin TX 78720-0656
800 533 1744
512 258 3570
Fax 512 258 3689
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Hi:
I have a '82 Blue TOYOTA Corolla/Tercel for sale:
Reason for seeling this great little car is my new Celica.
Car Specifications:
1982 Toyota Corolla/Tercel
5-Speed
125K miles
2 Door
Blue
Air conditioning/Heat
AM/FM stereo
Well taken care off and maintained clean
New Battery, Timing Belt, and fan belt.
Inspection sticker valid until 02/94
A tough car, generally go above 200K miles.
Make me an offer.
E-mail : reddy@ulysses.att.com
phone : (908) 582-3861 (Work)
(201) 635-3705 (Home)
Kishore Reddy
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In fact, he's a complete and total dickhead on at least 2 newsgroups
(this one and rec.sport.hockey). Since hockey season is almost over,
he's back to being a dickhead in r.s.bb.
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I was wondering if somebody knows of a PD program for converting
any graphic formats such as fig, pic, unixplot, tek, etc. to
gremlin. Thanks,
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greetings..
I'm a novice in this area. I'm trying to gather info. on standard
phone line settings.
quick questions :
> if I just want to send out a beep over the phone lines,
can I do it with some function generator & tie it up to
one of those phone wires ??
> which one of those wires should I connect to my DTMF chip
as AUDIO IN ??
any help would be much appreciated..
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Maxtor XT8670S 660 MB SCSI Drive
16ms access time
2 years old
External Casing
$777
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Yeah I think we're used to it by now. (even if some of us do change our
.sigs to root for our second favorite teams :-)
I'll be happy if they win it before I get out of school. (the way it's going
I may be here saying Piled Higher and Deeper before long)
I have a feeling that alot of people out there may not like this statement
but......
by far the worst "band wagon" fans are the PIT fans (at least at the present).
Case in Point -- I know a guy who just came to Hockey Hell(TM) from Pitt U.
Him - "How 'bout the Pens? The're F-ing awesome"
Me - "Yeah but beating up on the Devils doesn't mean alot. Wait until
they meet Boston and/or Detroit in the Playoffs start."
Him - "When do the Playoffs start?"
Me - "Uhhhh. They started a week ago."
I'm not saying that this is true of all the Waddlers fans but there seems to
be alot of them floating around who really know nothing about hockey except
that they're newly beloved Waddlers are the best team in the game right now
and when they're not the best team those fans will disappear into the woodwork.
John
Flames >> dev/null
Serious comments welcomed.
"Eat the Rich"
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must have
must
must
I've seen amps and volts, I would go for the volts
must you ask?
I would like to know how much gas I have. Of course the
gauge I have now dosen't tell me s**t so I could see not
having one in favor of a warning light at say, 50mi
OOOOOOHHHHH! how I would LOOOVE to have a vacuum gauge
on my dash!
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This has been an interesting thread to follow... and obviously this group
wasn't intended as a forum for the discussion of piracy... Has anyone seen
any estimates of the lost revenue due to pirates? I was wondering if
piracy is more rampant in Home or Corporate computing environments. I would
tend to think that business environment "piracy" is the major contributor to
this form of lost revenue. So many companies will purchase a few copies of a
software package and then employees will internally distribute them as if they
owned a site-license! What do you guys think?
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Hi everybody!
Does anyone know of companies that are currently manufacturing
encryption chips for sale to the general public? Get them while you
can! Some pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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I am working on a project and am in need of information regarding the
currents (at the head) needed to write to a hard drive and the currents
produced when reading. If anyone has information it would be much
appreciated.
mcole@nmsu.edu
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I was wondering if anyone knows of a graphics package for the PC that
will do compositing of a series of pictures?
What I mean by "compositing" is, say I have a live video clip
(digitized) panning around a living room, and a computer-generated
bird flying around the screen. I want to combine these two series of
pictures so that everywhere where the bird frames are black, I want
the living room picture to show through. Yes, I realize I can do this
with a genlock, and I do own a genlock, but I want to be able to do
manual compositing also. It's ok if I have to composite one frame at
a time; I assumed I'd have to do that anyway. But being able to
composite a series of frames would be even better.
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Volume 6, Number 11 April 25, 1993
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Food & Drug Administration News
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FDA Approves Depo Provera, injectable contraceptive
P92-31 Food and Drug Administration
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Susan Cruzan - (301) 443-3285
The Food and Drug Administration today announced the approval of Depo Provera,
an injectable contraceptive drug.
The drug, which contains a synthetic hormone similar to the natural hormone
progesterone, protects women from pregnancy for three months per injection.
The hormone is injected into the muscle of the arm or buttock where it is
released into the bloodstream to prevent pregnancy. It is more than 99 percent
effective.
"This drug presents another long-term, effective option for women to prevent
pregnancy," said FDA Commissioner David A. Kessler, M.D. "As an injectable,
given once every three months, Depo Provera eliminates problems related to
missing a daily dose."
Depo Provera is available in 150 mg. single dose vials from doctors and
clinics and must be given on a regular basis to maintain contraceptive
protection. If a patient decides to become pregnant, she discontinues the
injections.
As with any such products, FDA advises patients to discuss the benefits and
risks of Depo Provera with their doctor or other health care professional
before making a decision to use it.
Depo Provera's effectiveness as a contraceptive was established in extensive
studies by the manufacturer, the World Health Organization and health agencies
in other countries. U.S. clinical trials, begun in 1963, also found Depo
Provera effective as an injectable contraceptive.
The most common side effects are menstrual irregularities and weight gain. In
addition, some patients may experience headache, nervousness, abdominal pain,
dizziness, weakness or fatigue. The drug should not be used in women who have
acute liver disease, unexplained vaginal bleeding, breast cancer or blood
clots in the legs, lungs or eyes.
The labeling advises doctors to rule out pregnancy before prescribing the
drug, due to concerns about low birth weight in babies exposed to the drug.
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Recent data have also demonstrated that long-term use may contribute to
osteoporosis. The manufacturer will conduct additional research to study this
potential effect.
Depo Provera was Developed in the 1960s and has been approved for
contraception in many other countries. The UpJohn Company of Kalamazoo, Mich.,
which will market the drug under the name, Depo Provera Contraceptive
Injection, first submitted it for approval in the United States in the 1970s.
At that time, animal studies raised questions about its potential to cause
breast cancer. Worldwide studies have since found the overall risk of cancer,
including breast cancer in humans, to be minimal if any.
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New Rules Speed Approval of Drugs for Life-Threatening Illnesses
P92-37 Food and Drug Administration
Monica Revelle - (301) 443-4177
The Food and Drug Administration today announced that it will soon publish new
rules to shed the approval of drugs for patients with serious or life-
threatening illnesses, such as AIDS, cancer and Alzheimer's disease.
"These final rules will help patients who are suffering the most serious
illnesses to get access to new drugs months or even years earlier than would
otherwise be possible," said HHS Secretary Louis W. Sullivan, M.D. "The effort
to accelerate FDA review for these drugs has been a long-term commitment and
indeed a hallmark of this administration."
These rules establish procedures for the Food and Drug Administration to
approve a drug based on "surrogate endpoints" or markers. They apply when the
drug provides a meaningful benefit over currently available therapies. Such
endpoints would include laboratory tests or physical signs that do not in
themselves constitute a clinical effect but that are judged by qualified
scientists to be likely to correspond to real benefits to the patient.
Use of surrogate endpoints for measurement of drug efficacy permits approval
earlier than if traditional endpoints -- such as relief of disease symptoms or
prevention of disability and death from the disease -- are used.
The new rules provide for therapies to be approved as soon as safety and
effectiveness, based on surrogate endpoints, can be reasonably established.
The drug's sponsor will be required to agree to continue or conduct
postmarketing human studies to confirm that the drug's effect on the surrogate
endpoint is an indicator of its clinical effectiveness.
One new drug -- zalcitabine (also called ddC) -- was approved June 19, using a
model of this process, for treating the human immunodeficiency virus, HIV, the
cause of AIDS.
Accelerated approval can also be used, if necessary, when FDA determines that
a drug, judged to be effective for the treatment of a disease, can be used
safely only under a restricted distribution plan.
"The new rules will help streamline the drug development and review process
without sacrificing goad science and rigorous FDA oversight," said FDA
commissioner David A. Kessler, M.D. "While drug approval will be accomplished
faster, these drugs and biological products must still meet safety and
effectiveness standards required by law."
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The new procedures also allow for a streamlined withdrawal process if the
postmarketing studies do not verify the drug's clinical benefit, if there is
new evidence that the drug product is not shown to be safe and effective, or
if other specified circumstances arise that necessitate expeditious withdrawal
of the drug or biologic.
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Articles
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Research Shows Promise for Preventing or Slowing
Blindness due to Retinal Disease
National Retinitis Pigmentosa Foundation
Neutrophilic Factors Rescue Photoreceptor Cells in Animal Tests
Baltimore, MD - Researchers at the University of California San Francisco
and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. [NASDAQ: REGN] have discovered that
certain naturally occurring substances known as neurotrophic factors can
prevent the degeneration of light-sensing cells in the retina of the eye. The
degeneration of these cells, known as photoreceptors, is a major cause of
visual impairment
This research, published to in the December issue of the Proceedings of
the National Academy of Science (PNAS), holds promise for people who may lose
their sight due to progressive retinal degeneration -- currently, no drug
treatment for retinal degeneration exists. It is estimated that 2.5 million
Americans have severe vision loss due to age-related macular degeneration and
100,000 Americans are affected by retinitis pigmentosus, a hereditary disease
that causes blindness. In addition, each year more than 15,000 people undergo
surgical procedures to repair retinal detachments and other retinal traumas.
The research was funded in part by the RP (Retinitis Pigmentosa)
Foundation Fighting Blindness, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and the National Eye
Institute. It was conducted by Drs. Matthew M. LaVail, Kazuhiko Unoki, Douglas
Yasurnura, Michael T. Matthes and Roy H. Steinberg at UCSF, arld Dr. C;eorge
Yancoooulos, Regeneron's Vice President for Discovery. Regeneron holds an
exclusive license for this research from UCSF.
In the research described in the PNAS , a light-damage model was used to
assess the survival-promoting activity of a number of naturally occurring
substances. Experimental rats were exposed to constant light for one week.
Eyes that had not been treated with an effective factor lost most of their
photoreceptor cells -- the rods and cones of the retina -- after light
exposure. Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) and Ciliary Neurotrophic
Factor (CNTF) were particularly effective in this model without causing
unwanted side effects; other factors such as Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) and
Insulin-like Growth Factor (IGF-1) were not effective in these experiments.
Discussing the research, Dr. Jesse M. Cedarbaum, Regeneron's Director of
Clinical Research, said, "BDNF's ability to rescue neurons in the retina that
have been damaged by light exposure may hold promise for the treatment of age-
related macular degeneration, one of the leading causes of vision impairment,
and for retinal detachment. Following detachment, permanent vision loss may
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result frorn the death of detached retinal cells. It is possible that BDNF
could play a role in rescuing those cells once the retina has been reattached
surgically."
"Retinitis pigmentosa is a slowly progressing disease that causes the
retina to degenerate over a period of years or even decades. Vision decreases
to a small tunnel of sight and can result in total blindness. It is our hope
that research on growth factors will provide a means to slow the progression
and preserve useful vision throughout life," stated Jeanette S. Felix, Ph.D.,
Director of Science for the RP Foundation Fighting Blindness.
In addition to the work described , Regeneron is developing BDNF in
conjunction with Aingen Inc. [NASDAQ:AMGN] as a possible treatment for
peripheral neuropathies associated with diabetes and cancer chemotherapy,
motor neuron diseases, Parkinson's disease, and Alzheimer's disease. By
itself, Regeneron is testing CNTF in patients with arnyotrophic lateral
sclerosis (commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease).
Regeneron Pharlnaceuticals, Inc., based in Tarrytown, New York, is a
leader in the discovery and development of biotechnology-based compounds for
the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, peripheral neuropathies and nerve
injuries, which affect more than seven million Americans. Drs. LaVail and
Steinberg of UCSF are consultants to Regeneron.
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Affluent Diet Increases Risk Of Heart Disease
Research Resources Reporter
written by Mary Weideman
Nov/Dec 1992
National Institutes of Health
High-fat, high-calorie diets rapidly increase risk factors for coronary
heart disease in native populations of developing countries that have
traditionally consumed diets low in fat. These findings, according to
investigators at the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, have
serious implications for public health in both industrialized and developing
countries.
"This study demonstrates why we can develop coronary heart disease and
have higher blood cholesterol and triglyceride levels. It shows also the
importance of diet and particularly the potential of the diet to increase body
weight, thereby leading to a whole host of other health problems in developing
countries and affluent nations as well," explains principal investigator Dr.
William E. Connor, head of the section of clinical nutrition and lipid
metabolism at Oregon Health Sciences University.
Over the past 25 years Dr. Connor and his team have characterized the
food and nutrient intakes of the Tara humara Indians in Mexico, while
simultaneously documenting various aspects of Tarahumara lipid metabolism.
These native Mexicans number approximately 50,000 and reside in the Sierra
Madre Occidental Mountains in the state of Chihuahua. The Tarahumaras have
coupled an agrarian diet to endurance racing. Probably as a result, coronary
heart disease, which is so prevalent in Western industrialized nations, is
virtually non existent in their culture. Loosely translated, the name
Tarahumara means "fleet of foot," reflecting a tribal passion for betting on
"kickball" races, in which participants run distances of 100 miles or more
while kicking a machete-carved wooden ball.
The typical Tarahumara diet consists primarily of pinto beans, tortillas,
and pinole, a drink made of ground roasted corn mixed with cold water,
together with squash and gath ered fruits and vegetables. The Tara humaras
also eat small amounts of game, fish, and eggs. Their food contains
approximately 12 percent of total calories as fat of which the majority (69
percent) is of vegetable origin. Dietician Martha McMurry, a coinvestigator
in the study, describes their diet as simple and very rich in nutrients while
low in cholesterol and fat.
The Tarahumaras have average plasma cholesterol levels of 121 mg/ dL,
low-density lipoprotein (LDL)-cholesterol levels of 72 mg/dl, and high-density
lipoprotein (HDL)-cholesterol levels of 32 to 42 mg/dl. All of those values
are in the good, low-risk range, according to the researchers. Elevated
cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol levels are considered risk factors for heart
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disease. HDL-cholesterol is considered beneficial. In previous studies the
Tarahumaras had been found to be at low risk for cardiac disease, although
able to respond to high-cholesterol diets with elevations in total and LDL-
cholesterol.
Clinical Research Center dietitian McMurry and coinvestigator Maria
Teresa Cerqueira established a metabolic unit in a Jesuit mission school
building near a community hospital in the small village of Sisoguichi. Food
was weighed, cooked, and fed to the study participants under the
investigators' direct supervision, ensuring that subjects ate only food
stipulated by the research protocol. Fasting blood was drawn twice weekly,
and plasma samples were frozen and shipped to Dr. Connors laboratory for
cholesterol, triglyceride, and lipoprotein analyses. Regular measurements
included participant body weight, height, and triceps skin fold thickness.
Thirteen Tarahumaras, five women and eight men, including one adolescent, were
fed their native diet for 1 week, followed by 5 weeks of an "affluent" diet.
"In this study we went up to a concentration of dietary fat that was 40
percent of total calories. This is the prototype of the holiday diet that
many Americans consume a diet high in fat, sugar, and cholesterol, low in
fiber," elaborates Dr. Conners. Such dietary characteristics are reflected in
the cholesterol-saturation index, or CSI, recently devised research dietitian
Sonja Conner working with Dr. Connor. "The CSI is a single number that
incorporates both the amount of cholesterol and the amount of saturated fat in
the diet. CSI indicates the diet's potential to elevate the cholesterol
level, particularly the LDL," Dr. Connor explains. The Tarahumaran diet
averages a very low CSI of 20; Dr. Connor's "affluent" diet used in the study
ranks a CSI of 149.
The experimental design of this study reflects the importance of
establishing baseline plasma lipid levels, typical of the native diet, before
exposing subjects to the experimental diet. The standard curve relating
dietary food intake to plasma cholesterol demonstrates a leveling off, or
plateau, for consumption of large amounts of fat. Changes in dietary fat
and/or cholesterol in this range have little effect on plasma levels. "You
must have the baseline diet almost free of the variables you are going to put
into the experimental diet. The Framingham study, for example, did not
discriminate on the basis of diet between individuals who got heart disease
because the diet was already high in fat. All subjects were already eating on
a plateau," Dr. Connor says.
After 5 weeks of consuming the "affluent" diet, the subjects' mean plasma
cholesterol levels had in creased by 31 percent, primarily in the LDL
fraction, which rose 39 percent. HDL-cholesterol increased by 31 per cent,
and LDL to HDL ratios changed therefore very little. Plasma triglyceride
levels increased by 18 percent, and subjects averaged an 8-pound gain in
weight. According to Dr. Connor, lipid changes occurred surprisingly soon,
yielding nearly the same results after 7 days of affluent diet as after 35
days.
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The increase in HDL carries broad dietary implications for industrialized
nations. "We think HDL-cholesterol increased because we increased the amount
of dietary fat over the fat content used in the previous Tarahumara metabolic
study. In that study we saw no change in HDL levels after raising the dietary
cholesterol but keeping the fat relatively consistent with native consumption.
In the present study we increased fat intake to 40 percent of the total
calories. We reached the conclusion in the Tarahumara study that HDL reflects
the amount of dietary fat in general and not the amount of dietary
cholesterol. HDL must increase to help metabolize the fat, and it increased
quite a bit in this study," Dr. Connor explains.
Low HDL in the Tarahumarans is not typically an important predictor of
coronary heart disease because they do not normally consume large amounts of
fat or cholesterol. HDL remains an important predictor to Americans because
of their usual high fat intake.
Dr. Connor recommends a diet for Americans that contains less than 20
percent of total calories as fat, less than 100 mg of cholesterol, and a CSI
around 20, varying in accordance with caloric needs. Such a diet is low in
meat and dairy fat, high in fiber. Dr. Connor also comments on recent
suggestions that Americans adopt a "Mediterranean-style" diet. "The original
Mediterranean diet, in its pristine state, consisted of a very low intake of
fat and very few animal and dairy products. We are already eating a lot of
meat and dairy products. Simply to continue that pattern while switching to
olive oil is not going to help the situation."
The World Health Organization (WHO) is focusing much attention on the
emergence of diseases such as coronary heart disease in nations and societies
undergoing technological development. Dr. Connor says that coronary heart
disease starts with a given society's elite, who typically eat a different
diet than the average citizen. "If the pattern of afluence increases, the
entire population will have have a higher incidence of coronary heart disease,
which places a termendous health care burden on a society. WHO would like the
developing countries to prevent coronary heart disease, so they can
concentrate on other aspects of their economic development and on public
health measures to improve general well-being, rather than paying for
unnecessary, expensive medical technology," Dr. Connors says.
"The overall implication of this study is that humans can readily move
their plasma lipids and lipoprotein values into a high-risk range within a
very short time by an affluent, excessive diet. The present rate of coronary
heart disease in the United States is 30 percent less than it was 20 years
ago, so a lot has been accomplished. We are changing rapidly," he concludes.
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General Announcments
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Publications for Health Professionals Available from NCI (1/93)
Unless otherwise noted, the following materials are provided free of charge by
calling the NCI's Publication Ordering Service, 1-800-4-CANCER. Because
Federal Government publications are not subject to copyright restriction, you
are free to photocopy NCI material.
GENERAL INFORMATION
ANTICANCER DRUG INFORMATION SHEETS IN SPANISH/ENGLISH. Two-
sided fact sheets (in English and Spanish) provide
information about side effects of common drugs used to treat
cancer, their proper usage, and precautions for patients.
The fact sheets were prepared by the United States
Pharmacopeial Convention, Inc., for distribution by the
National Cancer Institute. Single sets only may be ordered.
CANCER RATES AND RISKS, 3RD EDITION (85-691). This book is
a compact guide to statistics, risk factors, and risks for
major cancer sites. It includes charts and graphs showing
incidence, mortality, and survival worldwide and in the
United States. It also contains a section on the costs of
cancer. 136 pages.
DIET, NUTRITION & CANCER PREVENTION: A GUIDE TO FOOD CHOICES
(87-2778). This booklet describes what is now known about
diet, nutrition, and cancer prevention. It provides
information about foods that contain components like fiber,
fat, and vitamins that may affect a person's risk of getting
certain cancers. It suggests ways to use that information
to select from a broad variety of foods--choosing more of
some foods and less of others. Includes recipes and sample
menus. 39 pages.
NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE FACT BOOK. This book presents
general information about the National Cancer Institute
including budget data, grants and contracts, and historical
information.
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NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE GRANTS PROCESS (91-1222) (Revised
3/90). This booklet describes general NCI grant award
procedures; includes chapters on eligibility, preparation of
grant application, peer review, eligible costs, and post-
award activities. 62 pages.
PHYSICIAN TO PHYSICIAN: PERSPECTIVE ON CLINICAL TRIALS. This
15-minute videocassette discusses why and how to enter
patients on clinical trials. It was produced in
collaboration with the American College of Surgeons
Commission on Cancer.
STUDENTS WITH CANCER: A RESOURCE FOR THE EDUCATOR (91-2086).
(Revised 4/87) This booklet is designed for teachers who
have students with cancer in their classrooms or schools. It
includes an explanation of cancer, its treatment and
effects, and guidelines for the young person's re-entry to
school and for dealing with terminally ill students.
Bibliographies are included for both educators and young
people. 22 pages.
UNDERSTANDING THE IMMUNE SYSTEM (92-529). This booklet
describes the complex network of specialized cells and
organs that make up the human immune system. It explains how
the system works to fight off disease caused by invading
agents such as bacteria and viruses, and how it sometimes
malfunctions, resulting in a variety of diseases from
allergies, to arthritis, to cancer. It was developed by the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and
printed by the National Cancer Institute. This booklet
presents college level instruction in immunology. It is
appropriate for nursing or pharmacology students and for
persons receiving college training in other areas within the
health professions. 36 pages.
MATERIALS TO HELP STOP TOBACCO USE
CHEW OR SNUFF EDUCATOR PACKAGE (91-2976). Each package
contains:
Ten copies of CHEW OR SNUFF IS REAL BAD STUFF, a
brochure designed for seventh and eighth graders that
describes the health and social effects of using
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smokeless tobacco products. When fully opened, the
brochure can be used as a poster.
One copy of CHEW OR SNUFF IS REAL BAD STUFF: A GUIDE
TO MAKE YOUNG PEOPLE AWARE OF THE DANGERS OF USING
SMOKELESS TOBACCO. This booklet is a lesson plan for
teachers. It contains facts about smokeless tobacco,
suggested classroom activities, and selected
educational resources.
HOW TO HELP YOUR PATIENTS STOP SMOKING: A NATIONAL CANCER
INSTITUTE MANUAL FOR PHYSICIANS (92-3064). This is a step-
by-step handbook for instituting smoking cessation
techniques in medical practices. The manual, with resource
lists and tear-out materials, is based on the results of NCI
clinical trials. 75 pages.
HOW TO HELP YOUR PATIENTS STOP USING TOBACCO: A NATIONAL
CANCER INSTITUTE MANUAL FOR THE ORAL HEALTH TEAM (91-3191).
This is a handbook for dentists, dental hygienists, and
dental assistants. It complements the physicians' manual
and includes additional information on smoking prevention
and on smokeless tobacco use. 58 pages.
PHARMACISTS HELPING SMOKERS QUIT KIT. A packet of materials
to help pharmacists encourage their smoking patients to
quit. Contains a pharmacist's guide and self-help materials
for 25 patients.
SCHOOL PROGRAMS TO PREVENT SMOKING: THE NATIONAL CANCER
INSTITUTE GUIDE TO STRATEGIES THAT SUCCEED (90-500). This
guide outlines eight essential elements of a successful
school-based smoking prevention program based on NCI
research. It includes a list of available curriculum
resources and selected references. 24 pages.
SELF-GUIDED STRATEGIES FOR SMOKING CESSATION: A PROGRAM
PLANNER'S GUIDE (91-3104). This booklet outlines key
characteristics of successful self-help materials and
programs based on NCI collaborative research. It lists
additional resources and references. 36 pages.
SMOKING POLICY: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. These ten fact sheets
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provide basic information about the establishment of
worksite smoking policies. Topics range from the health
effects of environmental tobacco smoke to legal issues
concerning policy implementation.
STRATEGIES TO CONTROL TOBACCO USE IN THE UNITED STATES: A
BLUEPRINT FOR PUBLIC HEALTH ACTION IN THE 1990s (92-3316:
Smoking and Control Monograph No. 1). This volume provides
a summary of what has been learned from 40 years of a public
health effort against smoking, from the early trial-and-
error health information campaigns of the 1960s to the NCI's
science-based project, American Stop Smoking Intervention
Study for Cancer Prevention, which began in 1991. It offers
reasons why comprehensive smoking control strategies are now
needed to address the smoker's total environment and to
reduce smoking prevalence significantly over the next
decade.
MATERIALS FOR OUTREACH PROGRAMS
CANCER PREVENTION AND EARLY DETECTION: COMMUNITY OUTREACH
PROGRAMS FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
Three kits are available for community program planners
and health professionals to set up local cancer
prevention and early detection education projects:
DO THE RIGHT THING. . . GET A NEW ATTITUDE ABOUT
CANCER COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAM. This community
outreach kit targets Black American audiences. It
contains materials to help health professionals
conduct community education programs for black
audiences. The kit emphasizes the early detection of
breast cancer by mammography and of cervical cancer by
the Pap test. It also discusses smoking and
nutrition. The kit includes helpful program guidance,
facts, news articles, visuals, and brochures.
HAGALO HOY COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAM. This community
outreach kit targets Hispanic audiences. It contains
bilingual and Spanish language materials to help
health professionals conduct community education
programs. The materials educate Hispanic audiences
about early detection of breast cancer by mammography
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and of cervical cancer by Pap tests. The kit also
discusses smoking and related issues. The kit
includes helpful guidance, facts, news articles,
visuals and brochures.
ONCE A YEAR..FOR A LIFETIME COMMUNITY OUTREACH
MAMMOGRAPHY PROGRAM. This community outreach kit
targets all women age 40 or over. It supplies
community program planners and health professionals
with planning guidance, facts about mammography, news
articles, visuals and brochures.
MAKING HEALTH COMMUNICATION PROGRAMS WORK: A PLANNER'S GUIDE
(92-1493). This handbook presents key principles and steps
in developing and evaluating health communications programs
for the public, patients, and health professionals. It
expands upon and replaces "Pretesting in Health
Communications" and "Making PSAs Work." 131 pages.
SUPPORT MATERIAL FOR COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAMS
The video and slide presentations listed below support the
mammography outreach programs.
ONCE A YEAR...FOR A LIFETIME VIDEOTAPE. This 5-minute
VHS videotape uses a dramatic format to highlight the
important facts about the early detection of breast
cancer by mammography.
UNA VEZ AL ANO...PARA TODA UNA VIDA VIDEOTAPE. This 27-
minute Spanish videotape informs Spanish-speaking women
of the need for medical screening, particularly
mammography. It explains commonly misunderstood facts
about breast cancer and early detection. The program, in
a dramatic format, features Edward James Olmos and
Cristina Saralegui.
ONCE A YEAR...FOR A LIFETIME SPEAKER'S KIT (SLIDE SHOW).
This kit includes 66 full-color slides and a number-
coded, ready-to-read script suitable for a mammography
presentation to a large group. It addresses the
misconceptions prevalent about mammography and urges
women age 40 and older to get regular mammograms so that
breast cancer can be detected as early as possible. Kit
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includes a guide, poster, media announcement, news
feature, flyer, and pamphlets on mammography. This kit
is available directly by writing to: Modern, 5000 Park
Street North, St. Petersburg, FL 33709-9989.
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They are real, and we still pay licence fees to receive TV.
The detector vans pick up the IF, true. This tells them what channel you
are watching. The can also pick up the line time base freq, and frame rate
(Try it with a LW/MW radio near telly, it picks up a sharp hum)
From this they can even watch (poor quality though) what *you* have on the
screen, by picking up re radiating junk.
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Then you better pray for me, too, because I believe that the Mighty
Invisibile Pink Unicorn does not exist. One being cannot be both "Pink"
and "Invisible." The demon (or should that be daemon?) that keeps me
from believing and saving my soul is named Logic.
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From: Wales.Larrison@ofa123.fidonet.org
If this facility is in Kaliningrad, this is not near Moscow,
it is in fact the ex-East Prussian Konigsberg, now a Russian
enclave on the Baltic coast. It is served by ships and rail,
and the intrepid traveller in Europe would find it accessible
and might even want to try to arrange a tour (??).
* Fred Baube (tm) * In times of intellectual ferment,
* baube@optiplan.fi * advantage to him with the intellect
* #include <disclaimer.h> * most fermented
* May '68, Paris: It's Retrospective Time !!
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Excerpt From: rek@siss81 (Robert Kaye)
:Just a few contributions from the space program to "regular" society:
:
:1. Calculators
:2. Teflon (So your eggs don't stick in the pan)
:3. Pacemakers (Kept my grandfather alive from 1976 until 1988)
Don't forget Tang! ::smile::
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I have an internal modem that I configure as COM4 with IRQ 3, but
when I insert that card into my DOS 5.02 PC, it shows up
as COM3, with IRQ3 and COM4's address (2E8)!
When I get into debug, and dump the data at 40:0, it shows
the address 2E8 as belonging to COM3 - even though the modem
should be at COM4.
Now, I know the modem is working correctly since I have tested
it in a different PC - and it shows up correctly as COM4, 2E8, IRQ3.
To make it work in the DOS 5.02 PC, I have to configure the
modem as COM3, 2E8, IRQ3---but though I have a comm program that
allows that, the FAX program that came with the modem does not work.
Anyway, I would like the computer to display the modem as it is set,
as COM4...
I did run a few diagnostic programs, and they did not help at all:
a few displayed the modem as COM4, and others displayed it as
being COM3.
I am not using Windows, this is just a DOS problem...Any help
or pointers appreciated....
For various reasons, I must have this modem work at COM4, thus
switching COM ports is not an answer...
(Last time I posted this, I did not get any DOS specific answer,
this time I have included all the specific information....please help!)
-----
Avinash Chopde
avinash@acm.org
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David,
While I disagree strongly with you on the issue of our trusting the government,
I think you have a good idea here. There is danger that, with funding coming
from asset forfeitures, the government could continue to promulgate a bad
product in spite of poor acceptance. Making the product pay its way (as
it must for private ventures) would be a good incentive for quality and
listening to we, the ranters. :)
-mel
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Yes. It's called RADAR.
Depends on the environment: in a static environent such as a waveguide yes, in
a dynamic environment (with objects moving about) the multipath kills this
concept.
What is the difference between vertical and horizontal?
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I need to find how to program the WD7000 FAAST SCSI controller (A 16 bit DMA
SCSI controller for the PC (ISA bus)). Can somebody point me in the direction
of some low level docs on the net? Or will I have to get hold of the
manufacturers? Who did actually make this anyway? Who will have the docs?
TIA.
PS> I don't ant the BIOS docs, I want to know how to attack this sucker from
the ground level (ie send my own SCSI commands out it from OS/2)
--
Hamish Marson, Computer Services, University of Waikato|
hamish@waikato.ac.nz. Fax +64 7 8384066 | Computers are only
Disclaimer: Remember. You heard it here first! | Human.....
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Can you tell us more?
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Is English (American, Canadian, etc.) common law recognized as
legally binding under international law? After all, we're talking about
something that by its very nature isn't limited to the territory of one
nation.
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: That more or less says it. I flicked the Penguins game on briefly and saw
: Ulf cross-check Valeri in the face. I am wondering if Don Cherry is going to
: go off on this at all in coach's corner.
And that was the ONLY infraction of this type in the game.
Come on! Wake up! Geez He's not the only player who does this
sort of thing. I think we were kind of lucky. The game was not
really all that "chippy" considering the state NJ is in about
now.
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Greetings automobile enthusiasts. Can anyone tell me if there is
a mail order company that sells BMW parts discounted... cheaper than
the dealerships.
Sorry if it's a FAQ. email replies very much appreciated.
Thanks,
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shoppa@ERIN.CALTECH.EDU Tim Shoppa
sjsmith@cs.UMD.EDU Stephen Joseph Smith
slillie@cs1.bradley.edu Susan Lillie
steveo@world.std.com Steven W. Orr
surendar@ivy.WPI.EDU Surendar Chandra
swkirch@sun6850.nrl.navy.mil Steven Kirchoefer
S_FAGAN@twu.edu Liz Fagan
TARYN@ARIZVM1.ccit.arizona.edu Taryn L. Westergaard
Thomas.E.Taylor@gagme.chi.il.us Thomas E. Taylor
tima@CFSMO.Honeywell.COM Timothy D. Aanerud
tsamuel%gollum@relay.nswc.navy.mil Tony Samuel
U45301@UICVM.UIC.EDU Mary Jacobs
vstern@gte.com Vanessa Stern
wahlgren@haida.van.wti.com James Wahlgren
Waldref@tv.tv.tek.com Greg Waldref
waterfal@pyrsea.sea.pyramid.com Douglas Waterfall
weineja1@teomail.jhuapl.edu
wgrant@informix.com William Grant
WINGB@Underdale.UniSA.edu.au Brian Wing
YEAGER@mscf.med.upenn.edu
yozzo@watson.ibm.com Ralph E. Yozzo
ysharma@yamuna.b11.ingr.com Yamuna Sharma
Z919016@beach.utmb.edu Molly Hamilton
zulu@iesd.auc.dk Bjoern U. Gregersen
The charter for misc.health.diabetes appears below.
--------------------------
Charter:
misc.health.diabetes unmoderated
1. The purpose of misc.health.diabetes is to provide a forum for the
discussion of issues pertaining to diabetes management, i.e.: diet,
activities, medicine schedules, blood glucose control, exercise,
medical breakthroughs, etc. This group addresses the issues of
management of both Type I (insulin dependent) and Type II (non-insulin
dependent) diabetes. Both technical discussions and general support
discussions relevant to diabetes are welcome.
2. Postings to misc.heath.diabetes are intended to be for discussion
purposes only, and are in no way to be construed as medical advice.
Diabetes is a serious medical condition requiring direct supervision
by a primary health care physician.
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Er, people are going to make personal attacks on Prof. Denning whether she
posts here or not. That much should be obvious from looking at the traffic
over the last few weeks. Therefore I conclude that the existence of personal
attacks is irrelevant to any decision concerning whether to post.
I suspect that Prof. Denning is actually using the attacks as an excuse for
not posting, and that the real reason for the silence is that Clipper is not
the sort of proposal any self-respecting cryptographer can support via
reasoned argument.
mathew
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yodicet>
yodicet>
Hmm. You don't say..
L.
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Right HERE!!" | New Mexico State University | /..\
(computer THIS!) | Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA 88003 | <>
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So what is your definition of "interfering with the fielder taking the throw"?
The rule book certainly doesn't have a definiton or clarification, so it's
possible to interpret the rule as saying that if the catcher has to alter
his throw to avoid hitting the batter-runner, then again we have interference.
You know, it seems that there is no way to apply this rule justly--if the
catcher (or the pitcher, say Rob Dibble, for example) throws toward first
and hits the runner running inside the baseline, the fielder takes the chance
of being ejected. Therefore he probably would throw around the runner or
(your scenario) above him.
You should note that in our American Legion League, (which uses MLB rules) we
interpret the rule to say in this very circumstance there IS interference
per rule 7.09.
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In this morning's paper (or was it on the radio?), Vizquel was quoted as
saying that he could have fielded the ball with his glove and still
easily thrown out Riles, that he barehanded it instead so as to make the
final play more memorable. Seems a litle cocky to me, but he made it
work so he's entitled.
--
Doug Dudgeon Dept. of Chemical Engineering, BF-10
dudgeon@opus.cheme.washington.edu University of Washington, Seattle
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By looking at the iris (iridology) - virtually nothing.
Looking at the retina allows one to visualise the small blood
vessels and is helpful in assessing various systemic diseases,
hypertension and diabetes for example.
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Cross, Sobel and Roberts filters for edge detection.
Can anybody direct me to these algorithms.
Paul Denize
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Paul Denize Internet: PDenize@Waikato.ac.nz
Department of Computer Science
University of Waikato phone: ++64 7 8562-889
Hamilton Ext 8743
NEW ZEALAND fax : ++64 7 8560-135
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from the two alt groups. He simply deletes them without reading them. He
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Archive-name: graphics/resources-list/part3
Last-modified: 1993/04/27
Computer Graphics Resource Listing : WEEKLY POSTING [ PART 3/3 ]
===================================================
Last Change : 27 April 1993
11. Scene generators/geographical data/Maps/Data files
======================================================
DEMs (Digital Elevation Models)
-------------------------------
DEMs (Digital Elevation Models) as well as other cartographic data
[huge] is available from spectrum.xerox.com [192.70.225.78], /pub/map.
Contact:
Lee Moore -- Webster Research Center, Xerox Corp. --
Voice: +1 (716) 422 2496
Arpa, Internet: Moore.Wbst128@Xerox.Com
[ Check also on ncgia.ucsb.edu (128.111.254.105), /pub/dems -- nfotis ]
Many of these files are also available on CD-ROM selled by USGS:
"1:2,000,000 scale Digital Line Graph (DLG) Data". Contains datas
for all 50 states. Price is about $28, call to or visit in offices
in Menlo Park, in Reston, Virginia (800-USA-MAPS).
The Data User Services Division of the Bureau of the Census also has
data on CD-ROM (TSO standard format) that is derived from USGS
1:100,000 map data. Call (301) 763-4100 for more info or they have
a BBS at (301) 763-1568.
[ From Dr.Dobbs #198 March 1993: ]
"The U.S. Defense Mapping Agency, in cooperation with their counterpart
agencies in CANADA, the U.K., and Australia, have released the Digital Chart
of the World (DCW). This chart consists of over 1.5 gigabytes of reasonable
quality vector data distributed on four CD-ROMS. .... includes coastlines,
rivers, roads, railrays, airports,cities, towns, spot elevations, and depths,
and over 100,000 place names."
It is ISO9660 compatible and only $200.00 available from:
U.S. Geological Survey
P.O. Box 25286
Denver Federal Center
Denver, CO 80225
Digital Distribution Services
Energy, Mines, and Resources Canada
615 Booth Street
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0E9 Canada
Director General of Military Survey
(Survey 3)
Elmwood Avenue
Feltham, Middlesex
TW13 7AH United Kingdom
Director of Survey, Australian Army
Department of Defense
Campbell Park Offices (CP2-4-24)
Campbell ACT 2601 Australia
Fractal Landscape Generators
----------------------------
Public Domain:
Many people have written fractal landscape generators. for example
for the Mac some of these generators were written by
pdbourke@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Paul D. Bourke).
Many of the programs are available from the FTP sites and mail
archive servers. Check with Archie.
Commercial:
Vista Pro 3.0 for the Amiga from Virtual Reality Labs -- list price
is about $100. Their address is:
VRL
2341 Ganador court
San Luis Obispo,
CA 93401
Telephone or FAX (805) 545-8515
Scenery Animator (also for the Amiga) is of the same caliber with Vista Pro 2.
Check with:
Natural Graphics
P.O. Box 1963
Raklin, CA 95677
Phone (916) 624-1436
Don't forget to ask about companion programs and data disks/tapes.
Vista Pro 3 has been ported to the PCs.
CIA World Map II
----------------
[ NOTE: this database is quite out of date, and not topologically structured.
If you need a standard for world cartographic data, wait for the
Digital Chart of the World. This 1:1M database has been produced from
the Defense Mapping Agency's ONCs and will be available, together with
searching and viewing software, on a number of CD-ROMs later this summer. ]
Check into HANAUMA.STANFORD.EDU and UCSD.EDU (see ftp list above)
The CIA database consists of coastlines, rivers and political boundaries
in the form of line strokes. Also on hanauma.stanford.edu is a 720x360
array of elevation data, containing one ieee floating point number for
every half degree longitude and latitude.
A program for decoding the database, mfil, can be found on the machine
pi1.arc.umn.edu (137.66.130.11).
There's another program, which reads a compressed CIA Data Bank file and
builds a PHIGS hierachical structure. It uses a PHIGS extension known as
polyline sets for performance, but you can use regular polylines. Ask
Joe Stewart <joes@lpi.liant.com>.
The raw data at Stanford require the vplot package to be able to view it.
(was posted in comp.sources.unix). To be more exact, you'll have to
compile just the libvplot routines, not the whole package.
NCAR data
---------
NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) has many types of
terrain data, ranging from elevation datasets at
various resolutions, to information about soil types, vegetation, etc.
This data is not free -- they charge from $40 to $90 or more, depending
on the data volume and media (exabyte tape, 3480 cartridge, 9-track tape,
IBM PC floppy, and FTP transfer are all available). Their data archive
is mostly research oriented, not hobbyist oriented. For more information,
email to ilana@ncar.ucar.edu.
UNC data tapes with voxel data
--------------
There are 2 "public domain" tapes with data for the comparison and
testing of various volume rendering algorithms (mainly MRI and CT
scans). These tapes are distributed by the SoftLab of UNC @ Chapel Hill.
(softlab@cs.unc.edu)
The data sets (volume I and II) are also available via anonymous FTP from
omicron.cs.unc.edu [128.109.136.159] in pub/softlab/CHVRTD
NASA
----
Many US agencies such as NASA publish CD-ROMs with many altimetry data
from various space missions, eg. Viking for Mars, Magellan for Venus,
etc. Especially for NASA, I would suggest to call the following
address for more info:
National Space Science Date Center
Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Maryland 20771
Telephone: (301) 286-6695
Email address: request@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov
The data catalog (*not* the data itself) is available online.
Internet users can telnet to nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (128.183.10.4) and log
in as 'NODIS' (no password).
You can also dial in at (301)-286-9000 (300, 1200, or 2400 baud, 8 bits,
no parity, one stop). At the "Enter Number:" prompt, enter MD and
carriage return. When the system responds "Call Complete," enter a few
more carriage returns to get the "Username:" and log in as 'NODIS' (no
password).
NSSDCA is also an anonymous FTP site, but no comprehensive list of
what's there is available at present.
Earth Sciences Data
-------------------
There's a listing of anonymous FTP sites for earth science data, including
imagery. This listing is called "Earth Sciences Resources on Internet",
and you can get it via anonymous FTP from csn.org [128.138.213.21]
in the directory COGS under the name "internet.resources.earth.sci"
Some sites include:
aurelie.soest.hawaii.edu [128.171.151.121]: pub/avhrr/images - AVHRR images
ames.arc.nasa.gov [128.102.18.3]: pub/SPACE/CDROM - images from
Magellan and Viking missions etc.
pub/SPACE/Index contains a listing of files available in the whole
archive (the index is about 200K by itself). There's also an
e-mail server for the people without Internet access: send a letter
to archive-server@ames.arc.nasa.gov (or ames!archive-server). In the
subject of your letter (or in the body), use commands like:
send SPACE Index
send SPACE SHUTTLE/ss01.23.91
(Capitalization is important! Only text files are handled by the
email server at present)
vab02.larc.nasa.gov [128.155.23.47]: pub/gifs/misc/landsat -
Landsat photos in GIF and JPEG format
[ It was shut down - nfotis; anyone has a copy of this archive?? ]
Others
------
Daily values of river discharge, streamflow, and daily weather data is
available from EarthInfo, 5541 Central Ave., Boulder CO 80301. These
disks are expensive, around $500, but there are quantity discounts.
(303) 938-1788.
Check vmd.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.98], the wx directory carries
data regarding surface analysis, weather radar, and sat view pics in
GIF format (updated hourly)
pioneer.unm.edu [129.24.9.217] is the Space and Planetary Image Facility
(located on the University of New Mexico campus) FTP server. It provides
Anonymous FTP access to >150 CD-ROMS with data/images.
A disk with earthquake data, topography, gravity, geopolitical info
is available from NGDC (National Geophysical Data Center), 325 Broadway,
Boulder, CO 80303. (303) 497-6958.
EOSAT (at least in the US) now sells Landsat MSS data older than two years
old for $200 per scene, and they have been talking about a similar deal
for Landsat TM data. The MSS data are 4 bands, 80 meter resolution.
Check out anonymous FTP to ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in
UNIX/PolyView/alpha-shape for a tool that creates convex hulls
alpha-shapes (a generalization of the convex hull) from 3D point sets.
The GRIPS II (Gov. Raster Image Processing Software) CD-ROM
is available from CD-ROM Inc. at 1-800-821-5245 for $49.
Code for viewing ADRG (Arc Digitised Raster Graphics) files is
available on the GRIPS II CD-ROM. The U.S. Army Engineer
Topographic Labs (Juan Perez) code is also available via FTP
( adrg.zip archive in spectrum.xerox.com )
NRCC range data
---------------
Rioux M., Cournoyer L. "The NRCC Three-Dimensional Image Data Files",
Tech. Report, CNRC 29077, National Research Council Canada,
Ottawa, Canada, 1988
[ From what I understand, these data are from a laser range finder,
and you can a copy for research purposes ]
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12. 3D scanners - Digitized 3D Data
===================================
a. Cyberware Labs, Monterey, CA, manufactures a 3D color laser digitizer
which can be used to model parts of, or a complete, human body.
They run a service bureau also, so they can digitize models for you.
Address:
Cyberware Labs, Inc
8 Harris Ct, Suite 3D
Monterey, CA 93940
Phone: (408)373-1441, Fax: (408)373-3582
b. Polhemus makes a 6D input device (actually a couple of models)
that senses position (3D) and *orientation* (+3D) based on electromagnetic
field interference. This equipment is also incorporated in the
VPL Dataglove.
This hardware is also called ISOTRACK, from Keiser Aerospace.
Ascension Technology makes a similar 3D input device.
There is a company, Applied Sciences(?), that makes a 3D input
device (position only) based on speed of sound triangulation.
c. A company that specializes in digitizing is Viewpoint. You can ask
for Viewpoint's _free_ 100 page catalog full of ready to
ship datasets from categories such as cars, anatomy, aircraft,sports,
boats, trains, animals and others. Though these objects are
quite expensive, the cataloge is nevertheless of interest for it
has pictures of all the available objects in wireframe , polygon mesh.
Contact:
Viewpoint,
870 West Center,
Orem, Utah 84057
ph# 801-224-2222
fax# 801-224-2272
1-800-DATASET
------
Some addresses for companies that make digitizers:
Ascension Technology
Bird, Flock of Birds, Big Bird: 6d trackers
P.O. Box 527,
Burlington, VT 05402
Phone: (802) 655-7879, Fax: (802) 655-5904
Polhemus Incorporated
Digitizer: 6d trackers
P.O. Box 560, Hercules Dr.
Colchester, Vt. 05446
Tel: (802) 655-3159
Logitech Inc.
Red Baron, ultrasonic 6D mouse
6506 Kaiser Dr.
Freemont, CA 94555
Tel: (415) 795-8500w
Shooting Star Technology
Mechanical Headtracker
1921 Holdom Ave.
Burnaby, B.C. Canada V5B 3W4
Tel: (604) 298-8574
Fax: (604) 298-8580
Spaceball Technologies, Inc.
Spaceball: 6d stationary input device
600 Suffolk Street
Lowell, MA, 01854
Tel: (508) 970-0330
Fax: (508) 970-0199
Tel in Mountain View: (415) 966-8123
Transfinite Systems
Gold Brick: PowerGlove for Macintosh
P.O. Box N
MIT Branch Post Office
Cambridge, MA 02139-0903
Tel: (617) 969-9570
email: D2002@AppleLink.Apple.com
VPL Research, Inc.
EyePhone: head-mounted display
DataGlove: glove/hand input device
VPL Research Inc.
950 Tower Lane
14th Floor
Foster City, CA 94404
Tel: (415) 312-0200
Fax: (415) 312-9356
SimGraphics Engineering
Flying Mouse: 6d input device
1137 Huntington Rd. Suite A-1
South Pasadena, CA 91030-4563
(213) 255-0900
========================================================================
13. Background imagery/textures/datafiles
=========================================
First, check in the FTP places that are mentioned in the FAQ or in the FTP
list above.
24-bit scanning:
----------------
Get a good 24-bit scanner, like Epson's. Suggested is an SCSI port for
speed. Eric Haines had a suggestion in RT News, Volume 4, #3 :
scan textures for wallpapers and floor coverings, etc. from doll
house supplies.
So you have a rather cheap way to scan patterns that don't have
scaling troubles associated with real materials and scanning area.
Books with textures:
--------------------
Find some houses/books/magazines that carry photographic material.
Educorp, 1-619-536-9999, sells CD-ROMS with various imagery - also
a wide variety of stock art is available.
Stock art from big-name stock art houses, such as Comstock,
UNIPHOTO, and Metro Image Base, is available.
In Italy, there's a company called Belvedere that makes such books
for the purpose of clipping their pages for inclusion in your
graphics work. Their address is:
Edition Belvedere Co. Ltd.,
00196 Rome Italy,
Piazzale Flaminio, 19
Tel. (06) 360-44-88, Fax (06) 360-29-60
Texture Libraries:
------------------
a. Mannikin Sceptre Graphics announced TexTiles, a set of 256x256 24-bit
textures. Initial shipments in 24-bit IFF (for Amigas), soon in 24-bit
TIFF format. Algorithmically built for tiled surfaces. SRP is $40 / volume
(each volume = 40 images @ 10 disks). Demo disks for $5 are available.
Contact:
Mannikin Sceptre Graphics
1600 Indiana Ave.
Winter Park, FL 32789
Phone: (407) 384-9484
FAX: (407) 647-7242
b. ESSENCE is a library of 65 (sixty-five) new algoritmic textures for Imagine
by Impulse, Inc. These textures are FULLY compatible with the floating point
versions of Imagine 2.0, Imagine 1.1, and even Turbo Silver.
Written by Steve Worley.
For more info contact:
Essence Info
Apex Software Publishing
405 El Camino Real Suite 121
Menlo Park CA 94025 USA
[ What about Texture City ?? ]
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14. Introduction to rendering algorithms
========================================
a. Ray-Tracing:
---------------
I assume you have a general understanding of Computer Graphics. No? Then read
some of the books that the FAQ contains. For Ray-Tracing, I would
suggest:
An Introduction to Ray Tracing, Andrew Glassner (ed.), Academic Press
1989, ISBN 0-12-286160-4
Note that I have not read the book, but I feel that you can't be wrong
using his book. An errata list was posted in comp.graphics by Eric Haines
(erich@eye.com)
There's a more concise reference also:
Roman Kuchkuda , UNC @ Chapel Hill: "An Introduction to Ray Tracing", in
"Theoretical Foundations for Computer Graphics and CAD", ed. R.A.E.Earnshaw,
NATO AS, Vol. F-40., pp. 1039-1060. Printed by Springer-Verlag, 1988.
It contains code for a small, but fundamentally complete ray-tracer.
b. Z-buffer (depth-buffer)
--------------------------
A good reference is:
_Procedural Elements for Computer Graphics_, David F. Rogers,
McGraw-Hill, New York, 1985, pages 265-272 and 280-284.
c. Others:
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???
[ More info is needed -- nfotis ]
========================================================================
15. Where can I find the geometric data for the:
================================================
a. Teapot ?
-----------
"Displays on Display" column of IEEE CG&A Jan '87 has the whole
story about origin of the Martin Newell's teapot. The article also has
the bezier patch model and a Pascal program to display the wireframe
model of the teapot.
IEEE CG&A Sep '87 in Jim Blinn's column "Jim Blinn's Corner" describes
an another way to model the teapot; Bezier curves with rotations for
example are used.
The OFF and SPD packages have these objects, so you're advised to get
them to avoid typing the data yourself. The OFF data is triangles at
a specific resolution (around 8x8[x4 triangles] meshing per patch).
The SPD package provides the spline patch descriptions and performs a
tessellation at any specified resolution.
b. Space Shuttle ?
------------------
Tolis Lerios <tolis@nova.stanford.edu> has built a list of Space Shuttle
datafiles. Here's a summary (From his sci.space list):
model1:
A modified version of the newsgroup model (model2)
406 vertices (296 useful, i.e. referred to in the polygon descriptions.)
389 polygons (233 3-vertex, 146 4-vertex, 7 5-vertex, 3 6-vertex).
Payload doors non-existent.
Units: unknown.
Simon Marshall (S.Marshall@sequent.cc.hull.ac.uk) has a copy. He
said there is no proprietary information associated with it.
model2:
The newsgroup model, in OFF format. You can find it in
gondwana.ecr.mu.oz.au , file pub/off/objects/shuttle.geo
hanauma.stanford.edu , /pub/graphics/Comp.graphics/objects/shuttle.data
model3:
The triangles' model.
This model is stored in several files, each defining portions of the model.
Greg Henderson (henders@infonode.ingr.com) has a copy. He did
not mention any restriction on the model's distribution.
model4:
The NASA model.
The file starts off with a header line containing three real numbers,
defining the offsets used by Lockheed in their simulations:
<x offset> <y offset> <z offset>
From then on, the file consists of a sequence of polygon descriptions
3473 vertices.
2748 polygons (407 3-vertex, 2268 4-vertex, 33 5-vertex, 14 6-vertex,
10 7-vertex, 8 8-vertex, 8 12-vertex, 2 13-vertex, 2 15-vertex,
17 16-vertex, 2 17-vertex, 2 18-vertex, 3 19-vertex, 8 24-vertex).
Payload doors closed.
Units: inches.
Jon Berndt (jon@l14h11.jsc.nasa.gov) seems to be responsible for the model
Proprietary info: unknown
model5:
The old shuttle model.
The file consists of a sequence of polygon descriptions.
104 vertices.
452 polygons (11 3-vertex, 41 4-vertex).
Payload doors open.
Units: meters.
We have been using this model at STAR Labs, Stanford University, for
some years now. Contact me (tolis@nova.stanford.edu) or my supervisor
Scott Williams (scott@star5.stanford.edu) if you want a copy.
========================================================================
16. Image annotation software
=============================
a. Touchup runs in Sunview and is pretty good. It reads in
rasterfiles, but even if your image isn't normally stored
in rasterfile format you could use screendump to make it a
rasterfile.
b. Idraw (part of Stanford's InterViews distribution) can handle some
image formats in addition to being a MacDraw like tool. I'm not
sure exactly what they are.
You can ftp the idraw's binary from interviews.stanford.edu.
c. Tgif is another MacDraw like tool that can handle X11 bitmap (xbm)
and X11 pixmap (xpm) formats. If the image you have is in formats
other than xbm or xpm, you can get the pbmplus toolkit to convert
things like gif or even some Macintosh formats to xpm.
Tgif's sources are available in the pub directory on cs.ucla.edu
(Version 2.12 of tgif at patchlevel 7 plus patch8 and patch9)
d. Use the editimage facility of KHOROS (see below).
This is just one utility in the overall system- you can essentially do all
your image processing and macdraw-type graphics using this package.
e. You might be able to get by with PBMPlus. pbmtext gives you text output
bitmaps which can be overlaid on top of your image.
f. 'ice' requires Sun hardware running OpenWindows 3.It's a PostScript-based
graphical editor,and it's available for anonymous ftp from Internet host
eo.soest.hawaii.edu (128.171.151.12). Requires Sun C++ 2.0 and
two other locally developed packages, the LXT library (an Xlib-based
toolkit) and a small C++ class library. All files (pub/ice.tar.Z,
pub/lxt.tar.Z and pub/ldgoc++.tar.Z) are available in compressed
tar format. pub/ice.tar.Z contains a README that gives installation
instructions, as well as an extensive man page (ice.1).
A statically-linked compressed executable pub/ice-sun4.Z for
SPARC systems is also available for ftp.
All software is the property of Columbia University and may not
be redistributed without permission.
ice means Image Composition Environment and it's an imaging tool that
allows raster images to be combined with a wide variety of
PostScript annotations in WYSIWYG fashion via X11 imaging
routines and NeWS PostScript rasterizing.
g. Use ImageMagick to annotate an image from your X server. Pick the
position of your text with the cursor and choose your font and pen
color from a pull-down menu. ImageMagick can read and write many
of the more popular image formats. ImageMagick is available as
export.lcs.mit.edu: contrib/ImageMagick.tar.Z or at your nearest
X11 archive.
========================================================================
17. Scientific visualization stuff
==================================
X Data Slice (xds)
-------------------
Bundled with the X11 distribution from MIT,
in the contrib directory. Available at ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu [141.142.20.50]
(either as a source or binaries for various platforms).
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Tool Suite
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Platforms: Unix Workstations (DEC, IBM, SGI, Sun)
Apple MacIntosh
Cray supercomputers
Availability: Now available. Source code in the public domain.
FTP from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu.
Contact: National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Computing Applications Building
605 E. Springfield Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820
Cost: Free (zero dollars).
The suite includes tools for 2D image and 3D scene analysis and visualization.
The code is actively maintained and updated.
Spyglass
--------
They sell commercial versions of the NCSA tools. Examples are:
Spyglass Dicer (3D volumetric data analysis package)
Platform: Mac
Spyglass Transform (2D data analysis package)
Platforms: Mac, SGI, Sun, DEC, HP, IBM
Contact:
Spyglass, Inc.
P.O. Box 6388
Champaign, IL 61826
(217) 355-6000
KHOROS 1.0 Patch 5
------------------
Available via anonymous ftp at pprg.eece.unm.edu (129.24.24.10).
cd to /pub/khoros to see what is available. It is HUGE (> 100 MB), but good.
Needs Unix and X11R4. Freely copied (NOT PD), complete with sources
and docs. Very extensive and at its heart is visual programming.
Khoros components include a visual programming language, code
generators for extending the visual language and adding new application
packages to the system, an interactive user interface editor, an
interactive image display package, an extensive library of image and
signal processing routines, and 2D/3D plotting packages.
See comp.soft-sys.khoros on Usenet and the relative FAQ for more info....
Contact:
The Khoros Group
Room 110 EECE Dept.
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Email: khoros-request@chama.eece.unm.edu
MacPhase
--------
Analysis & Visualization Application for the Macintosh.
Operates on 1D and 2D data arrays. Import/Export several different file
formats. Several different plotting options such as gray scale,
color raster, 3D Wire frame, 3D surface, contour, vector, line, and
combinations. FFTs, filtering, and other math functions, color look up
editor, array calculator, etc. Shareware, available via anonymous ftp from
sumex-aim.stanford.edu in the info-mac/app directory.
For other information contact Doug Norton (e-mail: 74017.461@@compuserve.com)
IRIS Explorer
-------------
It's an application creation system developed by Silicon
Graphics that provides visualisation and analysis functionality for
computational scientists, engineers and other scientists. The Explorer
GUI allows users to build custom applications without having to write
any, or a minimal amount of, traditonal code. Also, existing code can
be easily integrated into the Explorer environment. Explorer currently
is available now on SGI and Cray machines, but will become available on
other platforms in time. [ Bundled with every new SGI machine, as far as
I know]
See comp.graphics.explorer or comp.sys.sgi for discussion of the package.
There are also two FTP servers for related stuff, modules etc.:
ftp.epcc.ed.ac.uk [129.215.56.29]
swedishchef.lerc.nasa.gov [139.88.54.33] - mirror of the UK site
apE
---
Back in the 'old good days', you could get apE for nearly free.
Now has gone commercial and the following vendor supplies it:
TaraVisual Corporation
929 Harrison Avenue
Columbus, Ohio 43215
Tel: 1-800-458-8731 and (614) 291-2912
Fax: (614) 291-2867
Cost:
$895 (plus tax); runtime version with a site-license for a single user
(at a time), no limit on the number of machines in a cluster.
$895 includes support/maintenance and upgrades.
Source code more. Additional user licenses $360.
The name of the package has become apE III (TM).
Khoros is very similar to apE on philosophy, as are AVS and Explorer.
AVS
---
See also:
comp.graphics.avs
Platforms: CONVEX, CRAY, DEC, Evans & Sutherland, HP, IBM, Kubota,
Set Technologies, SGI, Stardent, SUN, Wavetracer
Availability: AVS4 available on all the above:
For all UNIX workstations.
Contact:
Advanced Visual Systems Inc.
300 Fifth Ave.
Waltham, MA 02154
(617)-890-4300 Telephone
(617)-890-8287 Fax
avs@avs.com Email
Advanced Visual Systems Inc. for: CRAY, HP, IBM, SGI, Stardent, SUN
CONVEX for CONVEX
Advanced Visual Systems Inc. or CRAY for CRAY
DEC for DEC
Evans & Sutherland for Evans & Sutherland
Advanced Visual Systems Inc. or IBM for IBM
Kubota Pacific Inc. for Kubota
Set Technologies for Set Technologies
Wavetracer for Wavetracer
FTP Site: for modules, data sets, other info:
avs.ncsc.org (128.109.178.23)
WIT
---
In a nutshell it's a package of the same genre as AVS,Explorer,etc.
It seems more a image processing system than a generic SciVi system (IMHO)
Major elements are:
- a visual programming language, which automatically exploits the inherent
parallelism
- a code generator which converts the graph to a standalone program
Iconified libraries present a rich set of point, filter, io, transform,
morphological, segmentation, and measurement operations.
A flow library allows graphs to employ broadcast, merge,
synchronization, conditional, and sequencing control strategies.
WIT delivers an object-oriented, distributed, visual programming
environment which allows users to rapidly design solutions to their
imaging problems. Users can consolidate both software and hardware
developments within a complete CAD-like workspace by adding their
own operators (C functions), objects (data structures), and servers
(specialized hardware). WIT runs on Sun, HP9000/7xx, SGI and supports
Datacube MV-20/200 hardware allowing you to run your graphs in real-time.
For a free WIT demo disk, call, FAX, or e-mail (poon@ee.ubc.ca)
us stating your complete name, address, voice, FAX, e-mail info.
and desired platform.
Pricing: WIT for Sparc, one yr. free upgrades, 30 days
technical support....................$5000 US
Academic institutions: discounts available
Contact:
Logical Vision Ltd.
Suite 108-3700 Gilmore Way
Burnaby, B.C., CANADA
V5G 4M1
Tel: 604-435-2587
Fax: 604-435-8840
Terry Arden <poon@ee.ubc.ca>
VIS-5D
------
A system for visually exploring the output of 5-D gridded data sets
such as those made by weather models. Platforms:
SGI IRIS with VGX, GTX, TG, or G graphics,
SGI Crimson or Indigo (R4000, Elan graphics suggested), IRIX 4.0.x
IBM RS/6000 with GL graphics, AIX version 3 or later;
Stardent GS-1000 and GS-2000 (with TrueColor display)
In any case, 32 (or more) MB of RAM are suggested.
You can get it freely (thanks to NASA support) via anonymous ftp:
ftp iris.ssec.wisc.edu (or ftp 144.92.108.63), then
ftp> cd pub/vis5d
ftp> ascii
ftp> get README
ftp> bye
NOTE: You can find the package also on wuarchive.wustl.edu in the
graphics/graphics/packages directory.
Read section 2 of the README file for full instructions
on how to get and install VIS-5D.
Contact:
Bill Hibbard (whibbard@vms.macc.wisc.edu)
Brian Paul (bpaul@vms.macc.wisc.edu)
DATAexplorer (IBM)
------------------
Platforms : IBM Risc System 6000, IBM POWER Visualization Server
(SIMD mesh 32 i860s, 40 MHz)
Working on (announced) : SGI, HP, Sun
Contact:
Your local IBM Rep. For a trial package ask your rep to contact :
David Kilgore
Data Explorer Product Marketing
YKTVMH(KILCORE), (708) 981-4510
Wavefront
---------
Data Visualizer, Personal Visualizer, Advanced Visualizer.
Platforms: SGI, SUN, IBM RS6000, HP, DEC
Availability:
Available on all the above platforms from Wavefront
Technologies. Educational programs and site licenses are
available.
Contacts:
Mike Wilson (mike@wti.com)
Wavefront Technologies, Inc.
530 East Montecito Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
805-962-8117
FAX: 805-963-0410
Wavefront Europe
Guldenspoorstraat 21-23
B-9000 Gent, Belgium
32-91-25-45-55
FAX: 32-91-23-44-56
Wavefront Technologies Japan
17F Shinjuku-sumitomo Bldg
2-6-1 Nishi-shinjuku, Shunjuku-Ku
Tokyo 168 Japan
81-3-3342-7330
FAX 81-3-3342-7353
PLOT3D and FAST from NASA Ames
------------------------------
These packages are distributed from COSMIC at least
(for FAST ask Pat Elson <pelson@nas.nasa.gov> for
distribution information). In general, these codes are for US
citizens only :-(
XGRAPH
------
On the contrib tape of X11R5. Its specialty is display of up
to 64 data sets (2D).
NCAR
----
National Center for Atmospheric Research. One of the original graphics
packages. Runs on Sun, RS6000, SGI, VAX, Cray Y-MP, DecStations, and more.
Contact:
Graphics Information
NCAR Scientific Computing Division
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307-3000
(303)-497-1201
scdinfo@ncar.ucar.edu
Cost:
.edu
$750 Unlimited users
.gov
$750 1 user
$1500 5 users
$3000 25 users
.com users multiply .gov * 2.0
IDL
---
An environment for scientific computing and visualization.
Based on an array oriented language, IDL includes 2D and 3D
graphics, matrix manupulation, signal and image processing,
basic statistics, gridding, mapping, and a widget based system
for building GUI for IDL applications (Open Look, Motif, or
MS-Windows).
Environments: DEC (VMS and Ultrix), HP, IBM RS6000, SGI, Sun,
Microsoft Windows. (Mac version in progress)
Cost: $1500 to $3750, Educational and quantity discounts
available.
See also: comp.lang.idl-pvwave (the IDL-PVWAVE bundle)
Contact: Research Systems Inc.
777 29th Street, Suite 302
Boulder, CO 80303
Phone: 303-786-9900
FAX: 303-786-9909
E-mail: info@rsinc.com
Demo available via FTP. Call or E-mail for details.
IDL/SIPS
--------
"A lot of people are using IDL with a package called SIPS. This was
developed at the University of Colorado (Boulder) by some people working
for Alex Goetz. You might try contacting them if you already have IDL
or would be willing to buy it. It's a few thousand dollars (American) I
expect for IDL and the other should be free. Those are the general
purpose packages I've heard of, besides what TerraMar has.
SIPS _was_ written for AVIRIS imagery. I'm not sure how general purpose
it is. You would have to contact Goetz or one of his people and ask. I
have another piece of software (PCW) that does PC and Walsh
transformations with pseudocoloring and clustering and limited image
modification (you can compute an image using selected components). I've
used it on 70 megabyte AVIRIS images without problems, but for the best
speed you need an external DSP card. It will work without it, but large
images take quite a while (50-70 times as long) to process. That's a
freebie if you want it"
"My favorite is IDL (Interactive Data Language) from Research Systems,
Inc. IDL is in my opinion, much better and infinitely easier. Its
programming language is very strong and easy -- very Pascal-like. It
handles the number-crunching very well, also. Personally, I like doing
the number-crunching with IDL on the VAX (or Mathematica, Igor, or even
Excel on the Mac if it's not too hairy), then bringing it over to NIH
Image for the imaging part. I have yet to encounter any situation which
that combination couldn't handle, and the speed and ease of use
(compared to IRAF) was incredible. By the way, it's mostly astronomical
image processing which I've been doing. This means image enhancement,
cleaning up bad lines/pixels, and some other traditional image
processing routines. Then, for example, taking a graph of intensity
versus position along a line I choose with the mouse, then doing a curve
fit to that line (which I might do like in KaleidaGraph.) "
[ For IDL call Research Systems , for PV-WAVE call Precision Visuals and
for SIPS call University of Colorado @ Boulder . From what I can
understand, you can get packaged programs from Research Systems, though
-- nfotis ]
Visual3
-------
contact Robert Haimes, MIT
FieldView
---------
An interactive program designed to assist an engineer in
investigating fluid dynamics data sets.
Platforms: SGI, IBM, HP, SUN, X-terminals
Availability: Currently available on all of the above
platforms. Educational programs and volume
discounts are available.
Contact:
Intelligent Light
P.O. Box 65
Fair Lawn, NJ 07410
(201)794-7550
Steve Kramer (kramer@ilight.com)
SciAn
------
SciAn is primarily intended to do 3-D visualizations of data in an
interactive environment with the ability to generate animations using
frame-accurate video recording devices. A user manual, on-line help, and
technical notes will help you use the program.
Cost : 0 (Free), source code provided via ftp.
Platforms : SGI 4D machines and IBM RS/6000 with the GL card + Z-buffer
Where to find it:
ftp.scri.fsu.edu [144.174.128.34] : /pub/SciAn
A mirror is monu1.cc.monash.edu.au [130.194.1.101] : /pub/SciAn
SCRY
----
[ From the README : ]
Scry is a distributed image handling system that pro-
vides image transport and compression on local and wide area
networks, image viewing on workstations, recording on video
equipment, and storage on disk. The system can be distri-
buted among workstations, between supercomputers and works-
tations, and between supercomputers, workstations and video
animation controllers. The system is most commonly used to
produce video based movie displays of images resulting from
visualization of time dependent data, complex 3D data sets,
and image processing operations. Both the clients and
servers run on a variety of systems that provide UNIX-like C
run-time environments, and 4BSD sockets.
The source is available for anonymous ftp:
csam.lbl.gov [128.3.254.6] : pub/scry.tar.Z
Contact:
Bill Johnston, (wejohnston@lbl.gov, ...ucbvax!csam.lbl.gov!johnston)
or
David Robertson (dwrobertson@lbl.gov, ...ucbvax!csam.lbl.gov!davidr)
Imaging Technologies Group
MS 50B/2239
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
1 Cyclotron Road
Berkeley, CA 94720
SVLIB / FVS
-----------
SVLIB is an X-Windows widget set based on the OSF (Open Software
Foundation) Motif widget set. SVLIB widgets are macro-widgets
comprising lower level Motif widgets such as buttons, scrollbars,
menus, and drawing areas. It is designed to address the reusability
of 2D visualization routines and each widget in the library is an
encapsulation of a specific visualization technique such as colormap
manipulation, image display, and contour plotting. It is targetted
to run on UNIX workstations supporting OSF/Motif. Currently, only
color monitors are supported. Since SVLIB is a collection of widgets
developed in the same spirit as the OSF/Motif user interface widget
set, it integrates seamlessly with the Motif widgets. Programmers
using SVLIB widgets see the same interface and design as other
Motif widgets.
FVS is a visualization software for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
simulations. FVS is designed to accept data generated from these
simulations and apply various visualization techniques to present these
data graphically.
FVS accepts three-dimensional multi-block data recorded in NCSA HDF format.
iti.gov.sg [192.122.132.130] : /pub/svlib (Scientific Visualization)
/pu/fvs; These directories contain demo binaries for Sun4/SGI
Cost : US$200 for academic and US$300 for non-academic institutions.
(For each of the above items). You're getting the source for the licence.
Contact
-------
Miss Quek Lee Hian
Member of Technical Staff
Information Technology Institute
National Computer Board
NCB Building
71, Sicence Park Drive
Singapore 0511
Republic of Singapore
Tel : (65)7720435
Fax : (65)7795966
Email : leehian@iti.gov.sg
---------------------------------------------------------
GVLware Distribution:
Bob - An interactive volume renderer for the SGI
Raz - A disk based movie player for the SGI
Icol - Motif color editor
---------------------------------------------------------
The Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) has been
developing a set of tools to work with large time dependent 2D and 3D
data sets. In the Graphics and Visualization Lab (GVL) we are using
these tools along side standard packages, such as SGI Explorer and the
Utah Raster Toolkit, to render 3D volumes and create digital movies.
A couple of the more general purpose programs have been bundled into a
package called "GVLware".
GVLware, currently consisting of Bob, Raz and Icol, is now available
via ftp. The most interesting program is probably Bob, an interactive
volume renderer for the SGI. Raz streams raster images from disk to
an SGI screen, enabling movies larger than memory to be played. Icol
is a color map editor that works with Bob and Raz. Source and
pre-built binaries for IRIX 4.0.5 are included.
To acquire GVLware, anonymous ftp to:
machine - ftp.arc.umn.edu
file - /pub/gvl.tar.Z
To use GVLware:
mkdir gvl ; cd gvl
zcat gvl.tar.Z | tar xvf -
more README
Some Bob features:
Motif interface, SGI GL rendering
Renders 64 cubed data set in 0.1 to 1.0 seconds on a VGX
Alpha Compositing and Maximum Value rendering, in perspective
(only Maximum Value rendering on Personal Iris)
Data must be a "Brick of Bytes", on a regularly spaced grid
Animation, subvolumes, subsampling, stereo
Some Raz features:
Motif interface, SGI GL rendering
Loads files to a raw disk partition, then streams to screen
(requires an empty disk partition to be set aside)
Script interface available for movie sequences
Can stream from memory, like NCSA XImage
Some Icol features:
Motif interface
Easy to create interpolated color maps between key points
RGB, HSV and YUV color spaces, multiple file formats
Communicates changes automatically to Bob and Raz
Has been tested on SGI, Sun, DEC and Cray systems
BTW: Bob == Brick of Bytes
Icol == Interpolated Color
Raz == ? (just a name)
Please send any comments to
gvlware@ahpcrc.umn.edu
This software collection is supported by the Army Research Office
contract number DAALO3-89-C-0038 with the University of Minnesota Army
High Performance Computing Research Center.
IAP
---
Imaging Applications Platform is a commercial package for medical and
scientific visualization. It does volume rendering, binary surface
rendering, multiplanar reformating, image manipulation, cine sequencing,
intermixes geometry and text with images and provides measurement and
coordinate transform abilities.
It can provide hardcopy on most medical film printers, image database
functionality and interconnection to most medical (CT/MRI/etc) scanners.
It is client/server based and provides an object oriented interface. It
runs on most high performance workstations and takes full advantage of
parallelism where it is available. It is robust, efficient and
will be submitted for FDA approval for use in medical applications.
Cost: $20K for OEM developer, $10K for educational developer
and run times starting at $8900 and going down based on quantity.
The developer packages include two days training for two people in Toronto.
Available from:
ISG Technologies
6509 Airport Road
Mississauga, Ontario,
Canada, L4V-1S7
(416) 672-2100
e-mail: Rod Gilchrist <rod@isgtec.com>
========================================================================
18. Molecular visualization stuff
=================================
[ Based on a list from cristy@dupont.com < Cristy > , which asked for
systems for displaying Molecular Dynamics, MD for short ]
Flex
----
It is a public domain package written by Michael Pique, at The Scripps
Research Institute, La Jolla, CA. Flex is stored as a compressed,
tar'ed archive (about 3.4MB) at perutz.scripps.edu [137.131.152.27], in
pub/flex. It displays molecular models and MD trajectories.
MacMolecule
-----------
(for Macintosh). I searched with Archie, and the most
promising place is sumex-aim.stanford.edu (info-mac/app, and
info-mac/art/qt for a demo)
MD-DISPLAY
----------
Runs on SGI machines. Call Terry Lybrand (lybrand@milton.u.washington.edu).
XtalView
--------
It is a crystallography package that does visualize molecules and much more.
It uses the XView toolkit.
Call Duncan McRee <dem@scripps.edu>
landman@hal.physics.wayne.edu:
-----------------------------
I am writing my own visualization code right now. I look at MD output
(a specific format, easy to alter for the subroutine) on PC's. My
program has hooks into GKS. If your friend has access to Phigs for X
(PEX) and fortran bindings, I would be happy to share my evolving code
(free of charge). Right now it can display supercells of up to 65
atoms (easy to change), and up to 100 time steps, drawing nearest
neighbor bonds between 2 defining nn radii. It works acceptably fast
on a 10Mhz 286.
icsg0001@caesar.cs.montana.edu:
------------------------------
I did a project on Molecular Visualization for my Master's Thesis, using
UNIX/X11/Motif which generates a simple point and space-filling model.
KGNGRAF
-------
KGNGRAF is part of MOTECC-91. Look on malena.crs4.it (156.148.7.12),
in pub/motecc.
motecc.info.txt Information about MOTECC-91 in plain ascii format.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
motecc.info.troff Information about MOTECC-91 in troff format.
motecc.form.troff MOTECC-91 order form in troff format.
motecc.license.troff MOTECC-91 license agreement in troff format.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
motecc.info.ps Information about MOTECC-91 in PostScript format.
motecc.form.ps MOTECC-91 order form in PostScript format.
motecc.license.ps MOTECC-91 license agreement in PostScript format.
ditolla@itnsg1.cineca.it:
------------------------
I'm working on molecular dynamic too. A friend of mine and I have
developed a program to display an MD run dynamically on Silicon
Graphics. We are working to improve it, but it doesn't work under X,
we are using the graphi. lib. of the Silicon Gr. because they are much
faster then X. When we'll end it we'll post on the news info about
where to get it with ftp. (Will be free software).
XBall V2.0
----------
Written by David Nedde. Call daven@maxine.wpi.edu.
XMol
----
An X Window System program that uses OSF/Motif for the
display and analysis of molecular model data. Data from several
common file formats can be read and written; current formats include:
Alchemy, CHEMLAB-II, Gaussian, MOLSIM, MOPAC, PDB, and MSCI's XYZ
format (which has been designed for simplicity in translating to
and from other formats). XMol also allows for conversion between
several of these formats.
Xmol is available at ftp.msc.edu. Read pub/xmol/README for
further details.
INSIGHT II
----------
from BIOSYM Technologies Inc.
SCARECROW
---------
The program has been published in J. Molecular Graphics 10
(1992) 33. The program can analyze and display CHARMM, DISCOVER, YASP
and MUMOD trajectories. The program package contains also software for
the generation of probe surfaces, proton affinity
surfaces and molecular orbitals from an extended Huckel program.
It works on Silicon Graphics machines.
Contact Leif Laaksonen <Leif.Laaksonen@csc.fi or laaksone@csc.fi>
MULTI
-----
ns.niehs.nih.gov [157.98.8.8] : /pub - MULTI 3.0 (Multi-Process
Molecular Modeling Suite)
MindTool
--------
It runs under SunView, and requires a fortran compiler and Sun's CGI
libraries. MindTool is a tool provided for the interactive graphic
manipulation of molecules and atoms. Currently, up to 10,000
atoms may be input.
Available via anonymous FTP, at rani.chem.yale.edu, directory
/pub/MindTool ( Check with Archie for other sites if that's too far )
[ I would also suggest looking at least in SGI's Applications Directory.
It contains many more packages - nfotis ]
===========================================================================
19. GIS (Geographical Information Systems software)
===================================================
GRASS
-----
(Geographic Resource Analysis Support System) of the US Army
Construction Engineering Research Lab (CERL). It is a popular geographic and
remote sensing image processing package. Many may think of GRASS as a
Geographic Information System rather than an Image Processing package,
although it is reported to have significant image processing
capabilities.
Feature Descriptions
I use GRASS because it's public domain and can be obtained through the
internet for free. GRASS runs in Unix and is written in C. The source
code can be obtained through an anonymous ftp from the Office of Grass
Integration. You then compile the source code for your machine, using
scripts provided with GRASS. I would recommend GRASS for someone who
already has a workstation and is on a limited budget. GRASS is not very
user-friendly, compared to Macintosh software." A first review of
overview documentation indicates that it looks useful and has some pixel
resampling functions not in other packages plus good general purpose
image enhancement routines (fft). Kelly Maurice at Vexcel Corp. in
Boulder, CO is a primary user of GRASS . This gentleman has used the
GRASS software and developed multi-spectral (238 bands ??) volumetric
rendering, full color, on Suns and Stardents. It was a really effective
interface. Vexcel Corp. currently has a contract to map part of Venus
and convert the Magellan radar data into contour maps. You can call them
at (303) 444-0094 or email care of greg@vexcel.com 192.92.90.68
Host Configuration Requirements
If you are willing to run A/UX you could install GRASS on a Macintosh
which has significant image analysis and import capabilities for
satellite data. GRASS is public-domain, and can run on a high-end PC
under UNIX. It is raster-based, has some image-processing capability,
and can display vector data (but analysis must be done in the raster
environment). I have used GRASS V.3 on a SUN workstation and found it
easy to use. It is best, of course, for data that are well represented
in raster (grid-cell) form.
Availability
CERL's Office of Grass Integration (OGI) maintains an ftp server:
moon.cecer.army.mil (129.229.20.254).
Mail regarding this site should be addressed to
grass-ftp-admin@moon.cecer.army.mil.
This location will be the new "canonical" source for GRASS software, as
well as bug fixes, contributed sources, documentation, and other files.
This FTP server also supports dynamic compression and uncompression and
"tar" archiving of files. A feature attraction of the server is John
Parks' GRASS tutorial. Because the manual is still in beta-test stage,
John requests that people only acquire it if they are willing to review
it and mail him comments/corrections. The OGI is not currently
maintaining this document, so all correspondence about it should be
directed to grassx@tang.uark.edu
Support
Listserv mailing lists:
grassu-list@amber.cecer.army.mil (for GRASS users; application-level
questions, support concerns, miscellaneous questions, etc) Send
subscribe commands to grassu-request@amber.cecer.army.mil.
grassp-list@amber.cecer.army.mil (for GRASS programmers; system-level
questions and tips, tricks, and techniques of design and implementation
of GRASS applications) Send subscribe commands to
grassp-request@amber.cecer.army.mil.
Both lists are maintained by the Office of Grass Integration (subset of
the Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Lab in
Champaign, IL). The OGI is providing the lists as a service to the
community; while OGI and CERL employees will participate in the lists,
we can make no claim as to content or veracity of messages that pass
through the list. If you have questions, problems, or comments, send
E-mail to lists-owner@amber.cecer.army.mil and a human will respond.
Microstation Imager
-------------------
Intergraph (based in Huntsville Alabama) sells a wide range of GIS
software/hardware. Microstation is a base graphics package that Imager
sits on top of. Imager is basically an image processing package with a
heavy GIS/remote sensing flavor.
Feature Description
Basic geometry manipulations: flip, mirror, rotate, generalized affine.
Rectification: Affine, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th order models as well as a
projective model (warp an image to a vector map or to another image).
RGB to IHS and IHS to RGB conversion. Principal component analysis.
Classification: K-means and isodata. Fourier Xforms: Forward, filtering
and reverse. Filters: High pass, low pass, edge enhancing, median,
generic. Complex Histogram/Contrast control. Layer Controller: manages
up to 64 images at a time -- user can extract single bands from a 3 band
image or create color images by combining various individual bands, etc.
The package is designed for a remote sensing application (it can handle
VERY LARGE images) and there is all kinds of other software available
for GIS applications.
Host Configuration Requirements
It runs on Intergraph Workstations (a Unix machine similar to a Sun)
though there were rumors (there are always rumors) that the software
would be ported to PC and possibly a Sun environment.
PCI
---
A company called PCI, Inc., out of Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada, makes
an array of software utilities for processing, manipulation, and use of
remote sensing data in eight or ten different "industry standard"
formats: LGSOWG, BSQ, LANDSAT, and a couple of others whose titles I
forget. The software is available in versions for MS-DOS, Unix
workstations (among them HP, Sun, and IBM), and VMS, and quite possibly
other platforms by now. I use the VMS version.
The "PCI software" consists of several classes/groups/packages of
utilities, grouped by function but all operating on a common "PCI
database" disk file. The "Tape I/O" package is a set of utility
programs which read from the various remote-sensing industry tape
formats INTO, or write those formats out FROM, the "PCI database" file;
this is the only package I use or know much about. Other packages can
display data from the PCI database to one or another of several
PCI-supported third-party color displays, output numeric or bitmap
representation of image data to an attached printer, e.g. an Epson-type
dot-matrix graphics printer. You might be more spe- cifically
interested in the mathematical operations package: histo- gram and
Fourier analysis, equalization, user-specified operations (e.g.
"multiply channel 1 by 3, add channel 2, and store as channel 5"), and
God only knows what all else -- there's a LOT. I don't have and don't
use these, so can't say much about them; you only buy the packages your
particular application/interest calls for.
Each utility is controlled by from one to eight "parameters," read from
a common "parameter file" which must be (in VMS anyway) in your "default
directory." Some utilities will share parameters and use the same
parameter for a different purpose, so it can get a bit confusing setting
up a series of operations. The standard PCI environment contains a
scripting language very similar to IBM-PC BASIC, but which allows you to
automate the process of setting up parameters for a common, complicated,
lengthy or difficult series of utility executions. (In VMS I can also
invoke utilities independently from a DCL command procedure.) There's
also an optional programming library which allows you to write compiled
language programs which can interface with (read from/write to) the PCI
data structures (database file, parameter file).
The PCI software is designed specifically for remote-sensing images, but
requires such a level of operator expertise that, once you reach the
level where you can handle r-s images, you can figure out ways to handle
a few other things as well. For instance, the Tape I/O package offers a
utility for reading headerless multi-band (what Adobe PhotoShop on the
Macintosh calls "raw") data from tape, in a number of different
"interleave" orders. This turns out to be ideal for manipulating the
graphic-arts industry's "CT2T" format, would probably (I haven't tried)
handle Targa, and so on. Above all, however, you HAVE TO KNOW WHAT
YOU'RE DOING or you can screw up to the Nth degree and have to start
over. It's worth noting that the PCI "database" file is designed to
contain not only "raster" (image) data, but vectors (for overlaying map
information entered via digitizing table), land-use, and all manner of
other information (I observe that a remote-sensing image tape often
contains all manner of information about the spectral bands, latitude,
longitude, time, date, etc. of the original satellite pass; all of this
can go into the PCI "database").
I _believe_ that on workstations the built-in display is used. On VAX
systems OTHER than workstations PCI supports only a couple of specific
third-party display systems (the name Gould/Deanza seems to come to
mind). One of MY personal workarounds was a display program which would
display directly from a PCI "database" file to a Peritek VCT-Q (Q-bus
24-bit DirectColor) display subsystem. PCI software COULD be "overkill"
in your case; it seems designed for the very "high end"
applications/users, i.e. those for whom a Mac/PC largely doesn't suffice
(although as you know the gap is getting smaller all the time). It's
probably no coincidence that PCI is located in Canada, a country which
does a LOT of its land/resource management via remote sensing; I believe
the Canadian government uses PCI software for some of its work in these
areas.
SPAM (Spectral Analysis Manager)
--------------------------------
Back in 1985 JPL developed something called SPAM (Spectral Analysis
Manager) which got a fair amount of use at the time. That was designed
for Airborne Imaging Spectrometer imagery (byte data, <= 256 pixels
across by <= 512 lines by <= 256 bands); a modified version has since
been developed for AVIRIS (Airborne VIsual and InfraRed Imaging
Spectrometer) which uses much larger images.
Spam does none of these things (rectification, classification, PC and
IHS transformations, filtering, contrast enhancement, overlays).
Actually, it does limited filtering and contrast enhancement
(stretching). Spam is aimed at spectral identification and clustering.
The original Spam uses X or SunView to display. The AVIRIS version may
require VICAR, an executive based on TAE, and may also require a frame
buffer. I can refer you to people if you're interested. PCW requires X
for display.
MAP II
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Among the Mac GIS systems, MAP II is distributed by John Wiley.
CLRview
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CLRview is a 3-dimensional visualization program designed to exploit
the real-time capabilities of Silicon Graphics IRIS computers.
This program is designed to provide a core set of tools to aid in the
visualization of information from CAD and GIS sources. It supports
the integration of many common but disperate data sources such as DXF,
TIN, DEM, Lattices, and Arc/Info Coverages among others.
CLRview can be obtained from explorer.dgp.utoronto.ca (128.100.1.129)
in the directory pub/sgi/clrview.
Contact:
Rodney Hoinkes
Head of Design Applications
Centre for Landscape Research
University of Toronto
Tel: (416) 978-7197
Email: rodney@dgp.utoronto.ca
==========================================================================
End of Resource Listing
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BULLSHIT ! ! !
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If you paid $19.95 for a CD, you're a fool and you got ripped off.
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Yes, you can use a stream cipher chip to hash data with only slight
modification. See:
`A fast cryptographic checksum algorithm based on stream ciphers', X Lai,
RA Rueppel, J Woolven, Auscrypt 92 pp 8-7 to 8-11.
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Is there a way to use the mouse when running a DOS app (windowed) in
win 3.1? When you window a dos apps (in enhanced mode), I can see
where the mouse cursor was, but it doesn't work! Any help
would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
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The FBI says that some of the survivors claim to have seen the leaders
of the cult talking about setting a fire, and to have smelt kerosene.
I assume this will come out at any trial that occurs as a result
of these events.
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Anas Omran...
@> But since all Jews that way, they find him a leader to follow!
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The 50 MHz external bus speed provides a hell for cache designs. Most
of the DX-50 boards have too slow caches that make them effectively
DX2-50:s. Also as someone else pointed out, local bus boards are
better off at 33 MHz bus speed. The 8k internal cache allows the
DX2-66 to be generally faster anyway.
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The goalie to whom you refer is Clint Malarchuk. He was at
that time playing with the Sabres. His team immediately prior
to that was the Washington Capitals. While he did recover and
continue to play, I do not know his present whereabouts.
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"Society" is impossible without some shared set of moralities, sense
of what is "god" and what is "bad" action and basic foundation of
something "universal".
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Heay bud, get a life in the real world.... Do you still play with your Atari
with the paddles? Geez man, open your eyes on the technoledgy of today...
I have been quoted a price from a local dealer friend of mine, that I could get a
Motherboard (386DX/33 with 64K cache, with 1 meg base ram.) for $285 !!
Here is some friendly advice, go to your favorite book store (Walden Book's)
and pick up a Computer Shoppers Guide...
You think that was aa good price wait till you see some of the OTHER goodies they sell
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) From: coates@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Jeffery David Coates)
) Subject: TEST
) Date: 23 Apr 1993 21:09:29 GMT
) Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
)
)
)
) Test
)
Failed
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STOP IT!!!! ENOUGH!!! I'm out of there! I mean, I'm a relatively sane person.
God knows I'm weak and will forgive me. But I'm not stupid enough to stay in
this place any longer. I WANT OUT!!!
Yeah, and at least one person ran back in. SOunds like a personal choice to me.
Religious fanaticsm, and a beleive that dying in the 'defense' of your beliefs,
is probably at the core of what happened in Waco. We in the west tend to
disregard fanaticsm of the type displayed by many Moslem fundamentalist groups
who see nothing wrong with dying for their beliefs/convictions. I suspect that
this same type of fanaticsm was displayed by the BDs. BUt we'll probably never
know...
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Calling Bill Gates, calling Bill Gates....
-Jason
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You're right, it is HAPP Controls, Inc., but you can buy direct from them. I
don't have a phone number with me, but anyone interested in it can email me for
it. I don't remember their button price, but the joystick price was $8.95
per dozen at last check. Should be slightly higher for one or two, but cheaper
than Parts Express. As for the trackballs, i don't know the new price either.
But I can sell you rebuilt arcade trackballs for $50. That includes new rollers
and new bearings (when nec.). I also have a pile of used joysticks and buttons
that i would be willing to sell. Please email to address below if interested.
--Donnie
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I purchased one personal computer and three for business from them. No
problems. The only time I called tech support was for a minor question
about a video driver and I had no problem getting through.
All four machines seem to be high quality and well made. A 486dx50 EISA
machine has been our network file server running 24 hrs per day since last
summer with no problems.
I hope this is helpful.
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I'm interested in obtaining the highest possible image capture in a
MS-Windows application. The resulting image must go to print and high resolution
is the name of the game. I'm familiar with (and unhappy with) composite video
capture technology. What kind of resolution can I get out of an SVHS signal?
What about RGB (and who makes RGB cameras)? Does anyone have any experience
with digital cameras?
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
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William Brandsdorfer | UUCP: !uunet!lehman.com!wbrand
Lehman Brothers | INET: wbrand@lehman.com
388 Greenwich St. | Voice: (212) 464-3835
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I am using an ibm dx-50 with EISA and local bus....and I need to get a
local bus video card....
The only hitch is that I need one that will allow me to do the fastest
anims (or flics) from ram. I have 64-megs of ram in 16-meg simms
I am using 3D-Studio from Autodesk and Imagine from Impulse...
They both write out in the .FLC format....
So does anyone know what would be the best card for showing fast anims
from ram.... ie. like the orchid, Diamond Stealth Viper, ATI....etc
any help would be appreciated.... ( I am trying to circumvent the single-
frame route)
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Ok It is for a game that is 3d and you have listed the characteristics
that you are looking for. I think you may have left out a few
important parameters.
The polygons are all convex.
They have less than N sides. (you are drawing meshes walls doors etc.)
I believe that the algorithms you can get that will only draw convex
polygons can be much more efficient than those that can draw
concave / self intersecting polygons.
This efficiency can largely be attributed to the fact that
simple convex polygons only have a left and a right edge on each scan line.
Complex (figure 8 type polygons) can be a bit trickier.
The less than N sides specification especially if it is a very small
number like 3 or 4 allow othe optimisations to be made.
Thus for a high speed game application I think you are looking for
code that exploits and is hence limited to drawing simple convex
polygons.
It may have been that they were very general purpose algorithms.
If you limit yourself to 3 or four sided simple convex polygons
I think you might be suprised how fast a c algorithm with a
asm block move to fill each scan line might actually be.
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I guess you need to be reminded of some things! Have you ever heard of the
First Amendment? I guess not. It isn't a crime to be a religous (I know
you said "sacraligious", but it isn't your place to judge his religion)
zealot in this country. REMEMBER we have freedom of religion in this country!
I guess you are selective in that respect! So what if they were "bastard"
children. They were CHILDREN! Do you condone their deaths? I pray for
your lack of a soul if you do!
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Could anyone tell me the format of GIF files. I would like to know how I
could determine the size of the picture. Also, are gif files in compressed
format? How many bits store pixel color information?
(This is probally a simple question, but I couldn't find it in the FAQ.)
email responses would be perferred
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: Has anyone else experienced anything like this? If this just means that I
: need to replace the screen then I guess I'll have to but I thought that the
: "death" of my LCD screen would be a little less dramatic when it eventually
: happened. I didn't want to take it in to be repaired before I asked on the
: net about this because I already know what they'll say: "Yep, you gotta have
: this replaced and it's gonna cost you $???."
: I've only had the computer for about 21 months.
"Only"?!? That's a long time! (echoing above posting) The way the market
is going nowadays, your machine's obsolete two weeks before you buy it.
Sounds like you'll have to sink *some* money into it for repair, but
that's sometimes necessary for equipment.
: Is that a reasonable life
: cycle for a LCD display?
I think 21 months with nothing wrong until now is quite reasonable. If
you had bought a Compaq or Toshiba, you might have reasonably expected the
machine to last longer before something went wrong; but that's a moot
point, perhaps.
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sandy santra _\/_ trevor@netcom.com
berkeley, california /\ trevor@well.sf.ca.us
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[SB] Oh yeah, Israel was really ready to "expand its borders" on the holiest day
[SB] of the year (Yom Kippur) when the Arabs attacked in 1973. Oh wait, you
[SB] chose to omit that war...perhaps because it 100% supports the exact
[SB] OPPOSITE to the point you are trying to make? I don't think that it's
[SB] because it was the war that hit Israel the hardest. Also, in 1967 it was
[SB] Egypt, not Israel who kicked out the UN force. In 1948 it was the Arabs
[SB] who refused to accept the existance of Israel BASED ON THE BORDERS SET
[SB] BY THE UNITED NATIONS. In 1956, Egypt closed off the Red Sea to Israeli
[SB] shipping, a clear antagonistic act. And in 1982 the attack was a response
[SB] to years of constant shelling by terrorist organizations from the Golan
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[SB] Heights. Children were being murdered all the time by terrorists and Israel
^^^^^^^^^^^^
[SB] finally retaliated. Nowhere do I see a war that Israel started so that
[SB] the borders could be expanded.
I agree with all you write except that Terrorist orgs. were not shelling
Israel from the Golan Heights in 1982, but rather from Lebanon. The Golan
Heights have been held by Israel since 1967, and therefore the PLO could
not have been shelling Israel from there, unless there is something I am
not aware of.
Tsiel
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Does anyone truely understand the "INVALID NORMAL ARRAY" error 3ds gives
you while rendering? It seems to present itself while rendering
complicated images. I have circumvented this problem by rendering at
the command line, however it would be nice to render inside the editor.
Is this a memory problem???
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I saw a printed up flyer that stated the person was a
"licensed herbologist and iridologist"
What are your opinions?
How much can you tell about a person's health by looking into their eyes?
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I've installed many X apps, and have that many of them Imakefiles that have
lines startingwith XCOMM in them. When I do a xmkmf to create the Makefile,
the Makefile also has the XCOMM (comment?) lines in them. I always have
to edit out these lines because the make command barfs on them. I was
wondering what these lines were for, and what I might be doing wrong that
causes the make command to dislike them. Thanks!
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Subject: CDTV, Accessories, 1084s Monitor.
Because of the 'questionable' bids being placed for the set-up, I am
including some 'guideline' prices in this REPOST. Negotiable, of course.
In anticipation of the arrival of my new computer system, I am
selling my CDTV and accessories. I am in no rush to sell this
so if you don't have the money now, but may be able to get it in
a few weeks, make a bid and let me know.
I am NOW willing to sell the pieces separately, but I will wait to sell
until they are all accounted for (at least CDTV and Keyboard Kit)
I will sell the monitor separately.
CDTV (6 months old. Mint condition. Comes with all documentation,
packaging, receipt, etc, all in mint condition. Demo disc.)
----->I will start bidding at $375 for this
CDTV Keyboard Package [Keyboard, mouse, 3.5" drive] (Comes with all
documention, packaging, receipt etc. 6 months old. Mint
turns your CDTV into a full fledged AMIGA 500 computer!)
----->I will start bidding at $125 for this
1084s Monitor (A couple years old. Very Good condition. Comes with
all documentation, packaging, and receipt if I can find it.)
----->I will start bdding at $125 for this
Software (Various titles...games, demos, etc. NOTE: I have no CDTV
discs. All software is 3.5" disc based).
----->FREE with PACKAGE deal.
Please send your best bid to io00844@maine or call (207)-581-7589.
Ask for Zero Batzell. You can leave a message if I'm not in.
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Zero Z. Batzell | CDTV Owner. "We come in peace...shoot to kill!"
(207)-581-7589 | Iguana Owner. "NCC-42 U.S.S. Heart Of Gold"
University of Maine | Video Hobbyist. "Live long and Don't Panic!!"
student with a | Star Trek TNG Fan.
(Mostly Harmless) | Douglas N. Adams Fan. MAJOR: Life, The Universe,
transfer in mind. | Orson Scott Card Fan. and Everything.
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The Enterprise is not a ship for freeloading degenerate hitchhikers.
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There are chips which perform the voice compression/expansion. They can't
be expensive, because they exist in many phones connected to PBXs or on the
PBX line cards, as well as in a lot of equipment which compresses
voice-grade circuits to save the cost of long-distance, leased T1s or
satellite circuits.
I can't remember the generic term for these chips. My impression is that
this was a big deal 10 years ago, but circuits have gotten so cheap that
it isn't done much now.
Lew
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Within the next several months I'll be looking for a job in computer
graphics software. I'm in need of info on graphics software companies.
I've checked the FAQ, the resource list, and siggraph.org, haven't found
anything. The last Computer Graphics Career Handbook that I'm aware of,
was published in 1991. It has a list of 40 companies in it, but no
tremendously specific information on any of them.
Can people please steer me towards more current and in-depth informational
resources? Thanks. I'll post a summary if there's interest.
Brandon
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: >Why not build a inflatable space dock.
: If you're doing large-scale satellite servicing, being able to do it in
: a pressurized hangar makes considerable sense. The question is whether
: anyone is going to be doing large-scale satellite servicing in the near
: future, to the point of justifying development of such a thing.
That's a mighty fine idea. But since you asked "Why not," I'll
respond.
Putting aside the application of such a space dock, there are other
factors to consider than just pressurized volume. Temperature control
is difficult in space, and your inflatable hangar will have to
incorporate thermal insulation (maybe a double-walled inflatable).
Micrometeoroid protection and radiation protection are also required.
Don't think this will be a clear plastic bubble; it's more likely
to look like a big white ball made out of the same kind of multi-layer
fabric that soft-torso space suits are made out of today.
Because almost all manned space vessels (Skylab, Mir, Salyut) used
their pressurization for increased structural rigidity, even though
they had (have) metal skins, they still kind of qualify as inflatable.
The inflation process would have to be carefully controlled. The
space environment reduces ductility in exposed materials (due to
temperature extremes, monotomic Oxygen impingement, and radiation
effects on materials), so your "fabric" may not retain any flexibility
for long. (This may not matter.) Even after inflation, pressure
changes in the hangar may cause flexing in the fabric, which could
lead to holes and tears as ductility decreases.
These are some of the technical difficulties which the LLNL proposal
for an inflatable space station dealt with to varying degrees of
success.
-- Ken Jenks, NASA/JSC/GM2, Space Shuttle Program Office
kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (713) 483-4368
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rja@mahogany126.cray.com (Russ Anderson) writes...
The fact is that Koresh and his followers involved themselves
in a gun battle to control the Mt Carmel complex. That is not
in dispute. From what I remember of the trial, the authories
couldn't reasonably establish who fired first, the big reason
behind the aquittal.
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