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Sharp brand "Pocket Computer" model PC-1246
Dimensions; 3.5 x 5 x 0.5 inches.
Has 15-digit LCD display
53 rubber keys (w/alphabet)
built-in BASIC prog.language
an 11-pin-socketed interface for optional cassette drive. (Don't have)
slide-over/reversable plastic cover.
Sorry, no owners manual.
A program or two still in memory.
Asking $15 + shipping (about $2 in U.S.)
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G'day all!
Does anyone know anything about front end for POVRay (X11 version)?
I mean are there things like user friendly modeller for POVRay, or any
modellers which will let me design a scene and produce a file which POVRay
can then read?
Cheers,
Tomek
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the
unuseable)
motorcycle
What happens is that (I heard this discussed on "Northern Exposure") there
is a molecular juxtaposition of the molecules in the battery and the
molecules in the concrete. This acts as an attractant to UFOs (actually
their crew members) and they arrive at the scene of the battery/concrete
combination.
Then they proceed to SUCK ALL THE ENERGY OUT OF THE BATTERIES!
Remedy: Set the battery on a nonconcrete floor.
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It wasn't "invented", but was supposed by the writers of the Constitution
to be a universal, pre-existing right. Howsomever...
Hmmm. You need to spend some time in a library, son.
When the Bill of Rights was written, in addition to the (muzzleloading)
shotgun and pistol you mention we had:
- rifles in calibers ranging from around .30 to .69 caliber and up.
- cannon with various different projectiles to choose from (and owned
by civilians).
- breech-loading rifles
In addition, semiautomatic and full-automatic firearms had been patented
and/or demonstrated by several people in various places during the preceding
century or so.
Sounds good. Any refererences to this actually happening, or is it
just exaggeration for effect following one or more incidents of someone
firing a handful of shots from something that may or may not be an
Uzi, semi- or full-auto?
Until the root conditions that justified it go away (criminal behavior,
either private or government, which should be defended against), there's
no reason it should go away.
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[snip]....
Excellent point, Mark. We should all remember that if Nixon
hadn't tried to cover up the misguided actions of some of his
subordinates in the Watergate burglary, the scandal would
never have brought down his presidency. So far, Klinton seems
to be stonewalling this the same way Tricky Dick did. His whole
case seems to be "we didn't do anything wrong". However, if
in the course of the investigation it turns out that the
gov't DID do something wrong, and he tried to cover it up,
then that's an impeachable crime, I believe...
Perhaps he is inadvertently cooking up his own scandal... Can you
say "Wacogate", little neighbor?... ;-)
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Then again, maybe $2445 for the gateway system isn't too cheap.
I have a system from Micron computers:
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An advertisement in MicroTimes (a bay area mini-Computer Shopper) from
ENCY systems in Fremont has a graphic for the P24T performance based
on MIPS (power meter v1.7): the 486DX-33 raked in about 14-15, the
486DX2-66 got about 24, and the P24T-66 got about 44-45.
Tom
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OK, Andrew, I'll provide some evidence. A friend of mine worked for an
electronics manufacturer on with a west-coast office. They routinely sold
equipment to the Japanese. One day, the Japanese started showing up with
discount demands that were amazingly close to the cost to manufacture the
products.
This company routinely sent most of the manufacturing data to the field
offices. The Japanese had simply intercepted it. So my friend, the computer
systems admin, came up with a solution. He started sending the data out
double-block-encrypted with DES.
Two days after this new distribution plan was implemented, the president of
the company got a visit from a pair of government agents. They told him to
"knock it off". The president gave in, since his company did a considerable
business with the federal government.
Now, if the government wasn't monitoring the communications, how would they
even know that the encryption system was installed? Further, since encryp-
tion isn't illegal, and DES certainly isn't, what is the basis of the
government's cease-and-desist demand?
The spooks do whatever they think is necessary, with or without the blessings
of the law. I'll say "no thanks" to Clipper, or anything else the government
produces. For the moment, double or triple DES is probably adequate. And when
the line is idle, send random garbage, just to keep 'em busy.
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Nope. I keep my Mac running all the time since it also acts as a
usenet node and exchanges mail and news every half hour (I run uAccess)
and receives all my faxes.
I do turn off the monitors hooked up to it. They produce more heat
than I want - it can be warm in my garage office in the summer. I've
got one of those handy power control centers ($25 at Fry's) to I just
flip the switch in front when I start or stop working.
By the way, this strategy seems to be somewhat endorsed by Apple since
their new Color Classic will turn off its own monitor after a certain
length of idle time.
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If in said situation. I would, reviewing other cases I've seen reported
on in the articles I've read etc.., suggest the safest legal course of action
is as follows. Warn your assailant loudly and in clear tones that you have a
weapon(Yes!Even though it's blatantly obvious now that you have it out!)
and that you will shoot him if he advances/does not cease whatever hostile
action he is currently involved in.( ie: Drop the knife or I'll shoot!)
Repeat this process three times,if you can!(not if he's pointing a freaking
gun at you himself!That's kinda impractical.) (There are variables here and
I will try to address them in turn) After said warning (considering it's
ignored) Aim center mass and fire until he drops! This is not sadism, it's
practicality.If he hasn't gone down he's still a threat!(Why I support .45)
IF HE TURNS AND RUNS DO NOT PURSUE OR FIRE AT HIS BACK! SHOT'S FIRED IN ANGER
WILL BURN YOU LATER! (Though in some cases the I can see where that might not
bother me all that much!) If you do drop him! REMAIN WHERE YOU ARE! Have a
Bystander or witness(Or Create one by yelling at the top of your lungs!)
call the police, and wait! Reholster your weapon VISIBLY! Or place it on
the ground nearby. Do not attempt to recollect your brass.The police will
use it's location to piece together the scene along with your testimony and
that of any witnesses. Mentally mark witnesses! If the police say that none
came forward let them know who you saw! Attempt to keep your weapon loaded
with the minimum required(how the hell can I phrase this?) Try to avoid special
purpose ammunition. Hollow points and Hydrashock rounds give the opposing
lawyer the type of loaded phrasing he will need to sawy the jury that you
fully intended to kill someone! The only special purpose rounds that I can
think of that would actually help your case (as it has in several) is the
Glaser Safety Slug (oh what a lovely name SAFETY SLUG) The stated purpose
and stated design parameters of the round are life savers in court.
(ie. Attempting to create a bullet which will not overpenetrate, not
ricochette, and which is designed to STOP (Not Kill (Gee, to bad the two often
cross, damn I'm real sorry that rapist is dead! NOT!) an assailant with
one shot. This, again, can be a real life saver in a hostile court.
Be as cooperative with the police as possible! Show them where you were.
Repeat your information as often as requested. They will often ask you the
same questions over and over to verify facts, and ,unfortunately, to see
if your lying. Fill out all statements and show all required identification
and weapon permits (BOOO! Down with registered citizens!Register your
politicians as deadly tax weapons needing to be confiscated!) If they are
required in your state. Contact a lawyer immediately if they decide to
hold you or that further questioning is needed. If you cannot afford one,
contact the NRA. They have a legal assistance fund.(Or at least they used to)
I DO HOPE YOUR A MEMBER! (Not my business either way though..) If I was
vague on anything, or I left some questions unanswered, you can E-MAIL
me or post here. (Preferebly E-MAIL. I don't have a load of time to review
the news)
Kane
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It is interesting, sometimes, to listen to U.S. news as seen through
the eyes of another country.......
B.B.C. world news service, on short-wave, originating out of London,
reports that a survivor of the Waco massacre states that a tank, when
making a hole in the wall of the building, knocked over a kerosene
lamp and that is how the fire started. Attempts were made by the
people inside to put out the fire, but it spread too quickly.
Has anyone in U.S. heard anything similar or are U.S. government
spin-doctors censoring such information?
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In the wake of the Waco denouement, I had email discussions with
people from this group. In particular, we discussed how cults
operate, why the FBI might be motivated to black out news or behave
the way it did, and what kinds of problems are involved in dealing
with cults and similar organizations.
I include an edited account of what I wrote. The identity of my
correspondents have (I hope) been erased. The editing process makes
the text choppy - sorry about that. I've tried to retain the
information content.
Ellipses (...) indicate where text was removed. A few of the comments
in parentheses are new, intended to make it easier for outsiders to
understand.
These notes are preliminary - feel free to criticize.
Cheers(?),
Oded
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I took a course called the MADNESS OF CROWDS, ... The course included
cults and briefly mentioned/analyzed Jonestown. (Did some external
reading too).
William Adorno ... edited a series of books on the psychology of
"evil" mass movements... starting with THE AUTHORITARIAN PERSONALITY,
University of Chicago Press, 1948 ... an attempt to figure out what
would motivate people to support fascism or be the bad guys in WWII,
and by extension in other wars, in racial lynchings ... I don't think
the books are perfect, and the study of psychopathology has advanced
..., but you can elicit Koresh types from even the first volume. So I
think they're onto something.
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How cult psychology works...
[I'm an amateur. Hope I'm not hopelessly naive.]
So long as Koresh could "own" his people, he made sure they didn't
believe there was any life out there for them, away from him.
Otherwise, he'd (Koresh) be nothing. During the siege, ex-Davidians
recounted how he convinced the people in the compound they survived
only through his intercession with God to spare their worthless souls.
Absolutely classic brainwashing technique. ... As long as they
believed him, they'd ignore BATF/FBI/Child Protective Services or even
the Red Cross asking them to come out. After all, if they ever left
him, God would catapult them straight to Hell, and the combined forces
of the US gummint, with all the goodwill in the world (doubtful)
couldn't save them for a second. If I believed it, I'd stay and die
too, like the folks in Jonestown.
For a prosaic analogy, replace a cult leader with an estranged wife
(or husband), and notice how many folks show up, kill the ex and then
themselves. That's the consequence of shattered "cultism." It really
does happen all the time. [By the way, the treasured ideal in such
cases, without which life is meaningless, is the relationship, no
matter how abusive, rather than the individual's partner.]
...
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[Why No News, Don't The Feds Owe The World An Explanation?]
I agree that official explanations are in order. I can also see good
(?) reasons for news blackouts.
... that no matter what, those people would have died, because Koresh
made sure they believed they had no lives outside his influence.
Hence it would make little difference when or how the FBI acted. He
held them hostage, as his trump against going to jail, but nothing
would really stop him from offing them. Even if the FBI went away!
Look at history. Rep Leo Ryan (and some staffers) visited Jonestown,
at the request of constituents who had relatives there. Once
Jonestown was discovered, and even though they killed Ryan and his
entourage ... they all killed themselves, because Jim Jones knew he'd
be busted. Internal arguments asking to spare the children, brought
up by some of the women in the cult, were shouted down. There are
tapes... The "logic" of saying that no matter how bad the gummint is, it
wouldn't kill the kids, was shouted down as blasphemy, and the people
who brought it up were threatened with ostracism by people who by
THEIR OWN AVOWAL would be dead within the hour. I suspect it's the
same with the Branch Davidians.
(There's a book on Jonestown by James Reston Jr., titled OUR FATHER
WHO ART IN HELL. I don't know whether it's good - never read it.)
...
The only way to prevent such a problem would be never to investigate
reports of child abuse or sexual mistreatment, or organizations buying
full-auto conversion kits or shipping hand grenades via UPS, on the
off chance of stumbling across cults that would kill themselves. ...
So, the only way the BATF/FBI could "save" those people, and future
cults, is by ignoring such signs.
I suppose there's another way - outsmarting Koresh and tricking him
into letting them go, or somehow influencing "his" people to abandon
him while he owns most of their means of communication with the world.
... a mighty tough row to hoe. ... I suspect the FBI tried to do that
with blackouts, noise and other sensory insults. However, maybe
they're not very sophisticated, or maybe the job is impossible. It's
certainly possible the guy running the show was a jerk.
...
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[Why the FBI might want to blackout during and coverup after]
... - if they were doing a poor job of weaning the BD's from
Koresh, they'd want to keep it quiet so they wouldn't be embarrassed.
... - if they were trying to wean the BD's from Koresh, they'd
want to keep it quiet so he couldn't outflank them, or well-meaning
boneheads from ANY point of view wouldn't screw it up. ... I _hate_
playing chess when the world screams in my face, especially if at
checkmate time people really die, and I could be blamed.
...
I don't think ignoring such incidents is a workable policy, unless you
deny the FBI, BATF, Child Protective Services (of whatever stripe) and
the rest of the gummint should exist at all.
(the end)
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
___________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release April 23, 1993
PRESS BRIEFING
BY DEE DEE MYERS
The Briefing Room
10:35 A.M. EDT
MS. MYERS: At 1:00 p.m., we're having a press
conference, Bill, in the East Room. And then Saturday the President
will leave here at roughly 8:00 a.m. and fly down to Jamestown. He
will spend the day there, overnight at Camp David.
On Sunday, it's unclear exactly what time he'll leave
Camp David and fly to Boston. He'll leave from Hagerstown. The press
plane will leave from Washington.
He will meet with some --
Q What kind of a plane is that he's taking?
MS. MYERS: That he's taking? He'll probably take a C-
20.
Q From Hagerstown?
MS. MYERS: From Hagerstown. Air Force One doesn't fly
out of Hagerstown, apparently.
Q How will the pool travel?
MS. MYERS: The pool will have to meet him ahead of
time. So I guess the pool will travel with the press plane and wait
for him at the airport. There is currently no provision -- and I'll
double-check, because there's currently no provision -- I think
that's standard operating practice.
Q The pool is not going to meet him and watch him get
on the plane at Hagerstown?
MS. MYERS: I don't believe so.
Q What time does he have to be in Boston?
MS. MYERS: He's going to meet there with a group of
citizens, mostly people who supported us during the campaign, at
around 1:30 p.m. We're still working out the final times.
Q At the airport?
MS. MYERS: No, it will be at the Boston Harbor Hotel.
And then he will also meet with some -- a youth group
that authored something called Project 21. The speech to the
publishers is actually at 3:15 p.m. It will be followed by Q&A. And
then after the speech and Q&A, he'll attend a reception with the
publishers, and then return to Washington from Boston. And that's it
for the weekend.
Q Has the President seen the report from -- or the
letter, communication from the foreign service officers; also,
obviously, the communication from Madeleine Albright? And what is
his reaction to their call on him?
MS. MYERS: Well, obviously, the letter was written to
Secretary Christopher. I believe Secretary Christopher received the
letter on Saturday. He reviewed it and met with the authors on
Monday to discuss their views. He believes it's an important part of
the policy-making process and is taking their views into account as
we go forward in the development of the Bosnia policy.
Q What is the President's reaction?
MS. MYERS: The President hasn't seen the letter. It
was something that was directed towards Secretary Christopher. In
terms of -- he hasn't seen specifically the letter, but in terms of
their concerns generally, what the President has said is that there
are a lot of options on the table now, including ones that weren't
there before. And I think he's, as is everybody, gravely concerned
about the situation in Bosnia.
Q Is he influenced by that? I mean, how does he feel
about the fact that all of the specialists in that area -- those desk
officers --
MS. MYERS: Many of the specialists in that area -- I
think that that is clearly part of the process. It's something --
their views will clearly be considered. I think Secretary
Christopher met with the group immediately to discuss their views. I
think he believes that there ought to be room for opinions and that
those opinions ought to be considered, particularly from people who
work closely on the issues.
Q What do you mean, there are options on the table
that weren't there before?
MS. MYERS: I think the President said last week that
there were options, such as lifting the arms embargo to the Bosnian
Muslims, that had been previously off the table that are now being
considered.
Q Dee Dee, in terms of those options, Madeleine
Albright is saying that potentially there could be unilateral action
by the U.S. if the Europeans did not go along. Is that on the table?
MS. MYERS: Well, I can't discuss anything that would --
any conversations that would have happened between Ambassador
Albright and the President. But I think the President has said he
would certainly -- is working with our European allies. He's had a
number of conversations with European leaders and is trying to build
some consensus there.
Q Will he reach a decision -- will he have anything
specific to say today?
MS. MYERS: No. I mean, in term of there will be no new
announcement of policy today.
Q Does your statement mean he has ruled out
unilateral action?
MS. MYERS: He's continuing to consult with our allies
at this point. He has said -- I think he's been fairly clear about
it, that the he believes that the U.S. needs to act in concert with
its allies on this.
Q On that point, does he believe that the U.S.,
though, does have built-in authority from the United Nations already
to take unilateral action?
MS. MYERS: Well, I think the U.N. Resolution 770 makes
it clear that you can act unilaterally in support of any humanitarian
relief effort. I think the broader point is that anything we do, any
options that we decide to pursue we will make sure that it is
consistent with U.N. authority, and if it's not, we'll work with our
allies to make sure that we get it.
Q Dee Dee, then how does the White House someone as
distinguished as Elie Wiesel, who says that not enough is being done
to stop the atrocities going on in Bosnia?
MS. MYERS: I think that that's why we're considering
additional options. I think that Mr. Wiesel's comments yesterday
were quite compelling. The situation in Bosnia is tragic. The
President is very concerned about it. He has -- I think President
Clinton has worked very hard to take further actions to continue to
isolate Serbia in the world community. Clearly, we're considering
other options because the President is concerned that perhaps it's
not enough.
Q In terms of what you were just talking about, it
sounds like Resolution 770 justifies unilateral action by the U.S. to
protect humanitarian --
MS. MYERS: I don't think it -- I wouldn't use the word
justify. It permits unilateral action by any country in protecting
the delivery of humanitarian relief. But I think that's just an
explanation of the resolution. I think any action that we take will
be consistent with U.N. resolutions or we'll work with our allies to
make sure that it is permissible or we'll get further action.
Q The President and other officials have ruled out
unilateral U.S. action in Bosnia in the past. You're declining to do
that this morning.
MS. MYERS: No, I said the President has said repeatedly
that he wants to act in concert with our allies on this.
Q That doesn't mean that he won't act alone, which
has been said before explicitly.
MS. MYERS: I don't mean to imply a change in policy.
The President has said all along that he wants to act in concert with
our allies on this.
Q One other little question. Did he know about this
letter from the foreign service officers before it hit the papers?
MS. MYERS: I don't believe so. Secretary Christopher
-- they may have had a private conversation about it. The President
has not seen it.
Q They met on Monday, right? Christopher met --
surely, he must have brought that up --
MS. MYERS: Again, they may have talked privately about
it, but --
Q Dee Dee, what you're saying is that the Albright
recommendation has been rejected, is that correct?
MS. MYERS: No, I didn't say that at all. I said I
won't -- I said I wouldn't comment on any conversations or
communications.
Q She's advocating unilateral action and you're
saying, in effect, that we will not take unilateral action.
MS. MYERS: I am not confirming anything that Madeleine
Albright may or may not have recommended.
Q Given the sometimes delicate, complicated and
frustrating nature of negotiations with the allies on this issue,
does the President find this kind of letter from 12 foreign service
officers of the State Department helpful to that process, hurtful to
that?
MS. MYERS: I think that their views are obviously being
considered. The Secretary received that memo on Saturday and two
days later he met with them in order to have a more thorough airing
of their views, of the basis for their views, to discuss in greater
detail the options that they had presented in the letter.
Q Doesn't it put some kind of pressure on --
additional pressure on him now from within his own administration to
act regardless of what the allies may or may not do?
MS. MYERS: I think clearly there's a broad policy
review underway now. And the President and his advisors are
considering a number of options, including some of those outlined in
the letter from the folks over at the State Department. Now, no
decisions have been made on that yet, but I think that there is a
through review underway, and that their opinions are being very
seriously considered.
Q If I can just follow up, I guess what I'm looking
for is what was his reaction to this letter? Did he say, good, this
bolsters my position? Or did he say, damn, this is just what I don't
need right now?
MS. MYERS: I think he said this helps contribute
substantively to the debate. It's important that all views be
considered and aired thoroughly, that before he makes a decision he
wants to have the best possible advice and information possible, and
this, I think in many ways, furthers that goal.
Q So internal advice to a Cabinet official or the
President -- it's all open now, and you wouldn't take any umbrage or
say that they were out of line?
MS. MYERS: I think that the fact that Secretary
Christopher met with them to discuss their views and make sure they
had an opportunity to have a more complete conversation about it is
conclusive evidence that their views are welcome.
Q Does the policy review include what Madeleine
Albright has suggested, and what Joe Biden and others have suggested,
which is that the previous U.N. resolutions authorize unilateral
action -- military action -- for the delivery of humanitarian --
MS. MYERS: I think all options are on the table.
Q The unilateral option is on the table?
MS. MYERS: I think all options are on the table.
Q We've had two different --
Q Isn't that a change, Dee Dee?
Q That would be a change of policy.
Q Particularly if it includes ground troops, which
has been specifically ruled out.
MS. MYERS: I think the President has been -- well, no.
I don't -- that is not --
Q Are you talking about all options?
MS. MYERS: All options -- I think the President has
been fairly clear about that. So let me just review again what he
has said. He has said that -- the President has said all options are
on the table, with the exception of the introduction of ground
troops, which he has never suggested. He has ruled that out from the
beginning.
Q Hasn't he ruled out unilateral action of any sort?
MS. MYERS: He has said that he doesn't believe the U.S.
can solve the problems in the former Yugoslavia by itself. I think
that there are a number of very complicated options on the table
right now. I don't think that -- again, I don't want to comment on
specific options that are being considered other than in the broad
categories that we've already said -- things like lifting the arms
embargo against the Bosnian Muslims, things that I think we've talked
about in broad terms. This is a very complicated situation. The
options being presented and considered are very complicated.
Q Air strikes on the table?
MS. MYERS: Again, I think that's been fairly clearly
pointed out that that's something that's being discussed.
Q Dee Dee, are ground troops on the --
MS. MYERS: No, ground troops are not being considered.
Q You said there was not going to be -- you said you
were not announcing a change of policy. Then you said everything is
on the table. We're confused. Are unilateral actions on the table?
MS. MYERS: All I can tell you is what the President has
said -- that he doesn't believe -- that he wants to act in concert
with the allies on this.
Q Wants to, but he's willing to -- I mean, if they
don't go along --
MS. MYERS: He's continuing to consult with our allies
on this. He's continuing to have discussions. He's continuing to
press them for further action. And I think that's clear. The
conversation is ongoing. We're going to continue to work with them
to find the best possible solution and next step on this.
Q Dee Dee, the allies have taken the position that to
conduct any kind of air strikes in Bosnia would have the opposite
effect of ensuring the delivery of humanitarian aid; that they feel
that their troops on the ground monitoring the delivery of that aid
would become vulnerable and the Bosnians --
MS. MYERS: I'm not sure that's the consistent -- I
mean, I'm not sure who you're referring to.
Q The British and the French.
Q Yes, the British and French. They've taken the
position that the delivery of humanitarian aid would be jeopardized
by any kind of air strikes against the Bosnian military. Does the
U.S. believe differently from that?
MS. MYERS: The President has had conversations with
both Mitterrand and Major, as you know. I think that there is a
thorough review of policy going on in those countries as well. And I
don't want to comment on the nature of the President's discussions
other than to say that he's continuing to consult with our allies as
we move forward and he's continuing to press them for further action.
And I think that process is ongoing.
Q the other day voted against any military
intervention yesterday. Does the President regard that as the end of
the line or does he does still hold out some possibility of
unilateral action? The allies have been very, very plain that they
do not want to do anything.
MS. MYERS: The consultations are ongoing. That's all I
can tell you at this point.
Q Are you saying that there won't be any announcement
on Bosnia today in the press conference?
MS. MYERS: No, that is not the intention of the press
conference.
Q What is the intention?
MS. MYERS: It's an opportunity to take questions. He
may have a brief -- I'm sure he'll have a brief opening statement,
but it is not an opportunity to outline a new policy on Bosnia. That
will not happen.
Q Can you tell us what the subject of the opening
statement is?
MS. MYERS: It's sort of a general statement of where we
are.
Q After the first hundred days, you mean?
MS. MYERS: It's not a long statement. I mean, this is
just generally. Don't look for any major policy pronouncements.
Q Do you know what the opening statement is?
MS. MYERS: But it's -- perhaps later today I'll be able
to tell you with more certainty -- I think that's still under review.
But the overriding purpose of this -- it's not a mystery; it's not
meant to be. It's just to take questions.
Q It would be helpful to know whether -- what the
opening statement is on.
MS. MYERS: Since the major purpose here is just to take
questions, it's not completely resolved yet.
Q Dee Dee, one policy that was expected last week and
that the White House, you and George seemed to indicate we might get,
would be an AIDS czar. Will he announce that today? And what's the
delay on that?
MS. MYERS: I don't think we meant to imply -- I think
we said it would happen soon. I don't think we meant to imply with
any certainty that it would be this week. It is coming soon. I
don't anticipate that happening today.
Q What's the delay? Isn't this the perfect time to
announce an AIDS czar?
MS. MYERS: I don't know that it's a delay. I think the
process is ongoing to find the best possible person and to go through
the necessary background checks, and to make sure that we've crossed
the t's and dotted the i's before we make an announcement.
Q Dee Dee, what are Zoe Baird's qualifications for
the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board? And why wasn't her
appointment announced here?
MS. MYERS: The qualifications -- I don't know if
there's a specific list; I'll have to check and see. I think there
are a number of people there on the board with different backgrounds.
Many of them have long histories in intelligence or other government
service. I think there's a broad variety of views across political
spectrum and across backgrounds that are represented there. We never
made a formal announcement other than the Chairman of the Board,
which is Admiral William Crowe.
Q Why would he appoint her, though, if the American
people and many in the Senate rejected her for another government
job?
MS. MYERS: I don't believe that the American people
ever had -- voted on her. And I certainly -- she was never rejected
in the Senate. She never went up there for a hearing. But the
President believes she's a very competent person. He's said that --
Zoe Baird -- do you understand what the question is? Zoe Baird is on
the President's Foreign Intelligence --
Q You said she never went up there for a hearing?
Q Her nomination was withdrawn after public outrage
over violating federal laws?
MS. MYERS: Right, she never -- she was never -- but you
said she was rejected by the Senate. I was just simply trying to
point out that she was never voted on by the Senate.
Q So you don't think that is any problem?
MS. MYERS: I don't think there's any problem.
Q She has been appointed to this board, is that a
fact?
MS. MYERS: Yes.
Q Does she need confirmation for this? Does she need
confirmation to be a member of the --
MS. MYERS: No. It's a presidential appointment.
Q Usually, announcements are made here at the White
House. Was there a decision not to announce her publicly?
MS. MYERS: We didn't make an announcement. People who
asked were told who the members of the board were. We didn't make
an official announcement. If anybody's interested in that we can
certainly put out the list of names.
Q I'd like to know.
Q Don't such board members -- don't you normally as a
matter of -- routinely put out releases on all these boards and
presidential appointment regardless of their dimension?
MS. MYERS: Not always. But, again, I'm happy to put
this out.
Q Isn't that the standard practice?
Q That was past practice.
MS. MYERS: Again, I'm happy to put it out. We'll put
out a list of the members of the board today.
Q Dee Dee, I don't want to try to fail to let you get
out of this swamp but -- (laughter) -- all I really want to know is
hasn't it been the practice in this administration for such
announcements to be made routinely?
MS. MYERS: I think generally but not always. And we're
happy to put that out today.
Q What is the board, what is her title, what is the
size of the board?
MS. MYERS: There is roughly a dozen members on the
board. It is a civilian board, although their are some, obviously,
retired military personnel on the board that provide input into
intelligence policy for the President. Again, the chairman of that
board is Admiral William Crowe.
Q And did he recommend Baird?
Q What's the name of the board?
MS. MYERS: It's the President's Foreign Intelligence
Advisory Board, PFIAB.
Q What's her qualification -- that she had employed
an illegal alien? Is that -- (laughter) --
MS. MYERS: Do you want an answer to the question or you
just want to make a joke?
Q Let me phrase it another way. Why shouldn't this
appointment be viewed as a pay-back for the difficulty she had a
couple of months ago?
MS. MYERS: Because it's not.
Q What's her experience in foreign intelligence?
MS. MYERS: She's an experienced attorney, someone who
the President believes is very competent and qualified. And I think
part of the mission of this board is to provide civilian input. Not
everybody on the board is supposed to be an intelligence expert; that
is not the board's mission. It is to provide civilian input for the
President as he makes decisions regarding intelligence matters. He
believes she's very qualified, very competent person, enormously
talented and has said that throughout.
Q Is this just a figment of my overactive
imagination, or was there discussion early on about abolishing the
President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board?
MS. MYERS: I don't think so. On December 24th, when he
announced all of his foreign policy advisors he announced that he
would -- had appointed Admiral Crowe as the head of the board. So I
don't believe there's ever been any --
Q Earlier than that, during the transition.
MS. MYERS: No, I don't believe so. It was announced,
again, on December 24th. Admiral Crowe couldn't be there, but it was
announced.
Q Are members paid?
MS. MYERS: I don't believe so, but I'll double-check.
Q On another subject, on Waco, how do you explain the
discrepancy between the federal reports of the autopsies of the
bodies that are coming out of Waco and the state? I guess it's the
Texas Ranger reports.
MS. MYERS: Most of the information is coming -- the
federal information is coming from the site. Clearly, there's been
some discrepancies and the Justice Department is looking into it.
Officials in the Justice Department were told, I believe the day
before yesterday, that there were several bodies found with bullet
holes. I think there's some discrepancy about that, and the Justice
Department is looking into it.
Q Is the President going to get involved in trying to
sort out what seems to be becoming a jurisdictional morass down
there, with some people withdrawing, others saying they're in charge,
but others -- Justice, FBI, Texas Rangers -- all grabbing a piece of
this?
MS. MYERS: I don't know that he's going to try to
mediate the dispute. I mean, I'll let you know if there's anything
he intends to do about it. But as you know, there are several levels
of investigation ongoing, and we're hopeful that they can work
together.
Q Is there any one agency or official down there in
charge of everything?
MS. MYERS: I don't know. I'll have to get back to you
on that.
Q What is the subject matter of Sunday's speech?
MS. MYERS: It's going to be fairly general. I don't
think it's going to be any specific announcements. I think it's
going to be sort of a --
Q Does he have a topic that he's going to talk about?
MS. MYERS: We're still working on it. But I wouldn't
look for any announcements of, like, the drug czar or something like
that.
Q Is it sort of a 100 days speech, sort of "my
excellent adventure for 100 days"? (Laughter.)
MS. MYERS: Not exactly, but I think he'll take a little
bit broader look about what's happened in the last --
Q Foreign, domestic?
MS. MYERS: A little bit of both, but I think a lot of
domestic.
Q And overview.
MS. MYERS: Yes, more of an overview than a specific
policy announcement.
Q Has there been an agreement yet on a forum by which
the President will address the gay rights march on Sunday?
MS. MYERS: It will be a letter read to the crowd by
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi.
Q Is that available?
MS. MYERS: Not yet, but it will be. Sure.
Q Are you going to put it out here or --
MS. MYERS: We'll probably put it out here on Sunday.
Q Travel next week?
MS. MYERS: Unclear.
Q What was the question?
Q Likely?
MS. MYERS: I don't --
Q Likely? Possible?
MS. MYERS: Possible.
Q What's possible?
MS. MYERS: Travel.
Q George mentioned yesterday campaign finance reform
and national service legislative proposals next week. Do you have
days yet for them?
MS. MYERS: Not yet.
Q Can you tell us which order?
MS. MYERS: Campaign finance reform first; national
service later in the week.
Q Is there any coverage tomorrow in Williamsburg?
MS. MYERS: No.
Q And any report in the aftermath of the day?
MS. MYERS: Any readout from the day?
Q Readout.
MS. MYERS: It's possible. Jeff Eller will be down
there. I think he can go through what the President did during the
day. We don't expect any photo op or anything, other than departure
here in the morning.
Q Dee Dee, the President has not made a regular
practice, as some of his predecessors have, of going to Camp David.
In fact, he's been there -- what -- once or twice?
MS. MYERS: Twice.
Q Why this weekend?
MS. MYERS: He went two weekends ago, as you know, on
the way home from his father-in-law's funeral. I think that they
found it to be a good experience and a nice way for them to spend
some time together as a family. And this is just an opportunity to
do the same.
Q There's no march there.
Q It has nothing to do with the march here?
MS. MYERS: No.
Q Since he's going to be in town Sunday morning now
instead of in Jamestown, have you thought about him making a quick
pass-by, fly-over -- (laughter) --
MS. MYERS: He'll fly straight to Boston.
Q Flying straight did you say? (Laughter.)
Q George took a question yesterday on Waco. The
President had said on Tuesday in the Rose Garden that there was a
minor disagreement on tactics between the military advisors and the
FBI. And the question was whether you knew exactly what that was and
whether it related to the use of the particular kind of tear gas. Do
you have an answer on that?
MS. MYERS: I don't. I'll check.
THE PRESS: Thank you.
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No wonder you 'wieneramus' are in such a mess. Following the Greek
Cypriot attempt to annex the island to Greece with the aid of the Greek
army, Turkiye intervened by using her legal right given by two international
agreements. Turkiye did it for the frequently and conveniently forgotten
people of the island, Turkish Cypriots. For those Turkish Cypriots whose
grandparents have been living on the island since 1571. And the next is
'Karabag'.
The people of Turkiye know quite well that Greece and the Greek
Cypriots will never abandon the idea of hellenizing Cyprus and will
remain eternally hopeful of uniting it with Greece, someday, whatever
the cost to the parties involved. The history speaks for itself. Greece
was the sole perpetrator of invasion on that island when it sent
its troops on July 15, 1974 in an attempt to topple the legitimate
government of Archibishop Makarios.
The release of Nikos Sampson, a member of EOKA [National Organization
of Cypriot Fighters] and a convicted terrorist, shows that the
'enosis' mentality continues to survive in Greece. One should not
forget that Sampson dedicated his life to annihilating the Turks
in Cyprus, committed murder to achieve this goal, and tried to
destroy the island's independence by annexing it to Greece. Of
course, the Greek governments will have to bear the consequences
for this irresponsible conduct.
THE MUSEUM OF BARBARISM
2 Irfan Bey Street, Kumsal Area, Nicosia, Cyprus
It is the house of Dr. Nihat Ilhan, a major who was serving at
the Cyprus Turkish Army Contingent. During the attacks launched
against the Turks by the Greeks, on 20th December 1963, Dr. Nihat
Ilhan's wife and three children were ruthlessly and brutally
killed in the bathroom, where they had tried to hide, by savage
Greeks. Dr. Nihat Ilhan happened to be on duty that night, the
24th December 1963. Pictures reflecting Greek atrocities
committed during and after 1963 are exhibited in this house which
has been converted into a museum.
AN EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNT OF HOW A TURKISH FAMILY WAS BUTCHERED BY
GREEK TERRORISTS
The date is the 24th of December, 1963... The onslaught of the
Greeks against the Turks, which started three days ago, has been
going on with all its ferocity; and defenseless women, old men
and children are being brutally killed by Greeks. And now Kumsal
Area of Nicosia witnesses the worst example of the Greeks savage
bloodshed...
The wife and the three infant children of Dr. Nihat Ilhan, a
major on duty at the camp of the Cyprus Turkish Army Contingent,
are mercilessly and dastardly shot dead while hiding in the
bathroom of their house, by maddened Greeks who broke into their
home. A glaring example of Greek barbarism.
Let us now listen to the relating of the said incident told by
Mr. Hasan Yusuf Gudum, an eye witness, who himself was wounded
during the same terrible event.
"On the night of the 24th of December, 1963 my wife Feride Hasan
and I were paying a visit to the family of Major Dr. Nihat Ilhan.
Our neighbours Mrs. Ayshe of Mora, her daughter Ishin and Mrs.
Ayshe's sister Novber were also with us. We were all sitting
having supper. All of a sudden bullets from the Pedieos River
direction started to riddle the house, sounding like heavy rain.
Thinking that the dining-room where we were sitting was
dangerous, we ran to the bathroom and toilet which we thought
would be safer. Altogether we were nine persons. We all hid in
the bathroom except my wife who took refuge in the toilet. We
waited in fear. Mrs. Ilhan the wife of Major Doctor, was standing
in the bath with her three children Murat, Kutsi and Hakan in her
arms. Suddenly with a great noise we heard the front door open.
Greeks had come in and were combing, every corner of the house
with their machine gun bullets. During these moments I heard
voices saying, in Greek, "You want Taksim eh!" and then bullets
started flying in the bathroom. Mrs. Ilhan and her three children
fell into the bath. They were shot. At this moment the Greeks,
who broke into the bathroom, emptied their guns on us again. I
heard one of the Major's children moan, then I fainted.
When I came to myself 2 or 3 hours later, I saw Mrs. Ilhan and
her three children lying dead in the bath. I and the rest of the
neighbours in the bathroom were all seriously wounded. But what
had happened to my wife? Then I remembered and immediately ran to
the toilet, where, in the doorway, I saw her body. She was
brutally murdered.
In the street admist the sound of shots I heard voices crying
"Help, help. Is there no one to save us?" I became terrified. I
thought that if the Greeks came again and found that I was not
dead they would kill me. So I ran to the bedroom and hid myself
under the double-bed.
An our passed by. In the distance I could still hear shots. My
mouth was dry, so I came out from under the bed and drank some
water. Then I put some sweets in my pocket and went back to the
bathroom, which was exactly as I had left in an hour ago. There I
offered sweets to Mrs. Ayshe, her daughter and Mrs. Novber who
were all wounded.
We waited in the bathroom until 5 o'clock in the morning. I
thought morning would never come. We were all wounded and needed
to be taken to hospital. Finally, as we could walk, Mrs. Novber
and I, went out into the street hoping to find help, and walked
as far as Koshklu Chiftlik.
There, we met some people who took us to hospital where we were
operated on. When I regained my consciousness I said that there
were more wounded in the house and they went and brought Mrs.
Ayshe and her daughter.
After staying three days in the hospital I was sent by plane to
Ankara for further treatment. There I have had four months
treatment but still I cannot use my arm. On my return to Cyprus,
Greeks arrested me at the Airport.
All I have related to you above I told the Greeks during my
detention. They then released me."
ON FOOT INTO CYPRUS'S DEVASTATED TURKISH QUARTER
We went tonight into the sealed-off Turkish quarter of Nicosia in
which 200 to 300 people have been slaughtered in the last five
days.
We were the first Western reporters there, and we saw some
terrible sights.
In the Kumsal quarter at No. 2, Irfan Bey Sokagi, we made our way
into a house whose floors were covered with broken glass. A
child's bicycle lay in a corner.
In the bathroom, looking like a group of waxworks, were three
children piled on top of their murdered mother.
In a room next to it we glimpsed the body of a woman shot in the
head.
This, we were told, was the home of a Turkish Army major whose
family had been killed by the mob in the first violence.
Today was five days later, and still they lay there.
Rene MacCOLL and Daniel McGEACHIE, (From the "DAILY EXPRESS")
"...I saw in a bathroom the bodies of a mother and three infant
children murdered because their father was a Turkish Officer..."
Max CLOS, LE FIGARO 25-26 January, 1964
Serdar Argic
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Review of 1989 Ford Taurus SHO -- By Gene Kim
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Background:
Last week, I bought a 1989 Ford Taurus SHO, moving up from driving
a 1987 Toyota Celica ST and a 1975 Oldsmobile Cutlass. I have been
interested in buying a SHO for about five months and have been combing
the classifieds in Denver and Chicago every week. I bought a
remarkably clean maroon/red SHO with 92K miles on it for $6800.
As far as I can tell, this is about $2000 under Blue Book and I still
have another 8000 miles before the Extended Service Plan runs out.
As one should with any pre-1991 SHOs, I made sure that the car was
already refit with the upgraded clutch and pressure plate, as well as
having been recalled for upgraded rotors and seatbelt attachments.
However, my SHO does not have the newer rod shifter -- I understand I
can get this for $230 from any Ford service center. In addition, the
car received the full tune-up at 60K miles, receiving new platinum
plugs and valve adjustment.
For a car with 92K miles on it, the car was virtually immaculate.
The clearcoat paint job was devoid of any large chips or dents,
although the front air-dam/molding was covered with lots of small
scratches -- not surprising since most of the miles were spent on the
highway.
Having driven a smaller two-door coupe for so long, I was a bit
concerned about whether I could get used to driving a larger car. To
my surprise, the size of the car doesn't bother me at all -- it seems
just as nimble as my Celica! (No comparisons with my Oldsmobile. :-)
Visibility from the driver's seat is excellent, helped mostly by of
the small the quarter-windows, aft of the back-seat door windows and
in front of the C-pillar and rear window. Parallel parking is a bit
more difficult, but other than that, I love the size.
In fact, I'm starting to appreciate the large trunk as I pack up
for a 14-hour drive to Washington, DC for the summer. More on the
ride later in this review.
Engine:
As with anyone even slightly interested in SHOs, I was very
interested in the 24-valve 3.0L Yamaha "Shogun" engine. I was not
disappointed. Base performance of the engine under 4000 rpms is
good. You can even do reasonable launches from second gear, although
I don't make a practice of this. The engine revs smoothly and eagerly
-- tooling around town does not require many shifts. This is good
since the shifter is definitely one of the weakest points of the car.
(More on this later.)
While the performance of the engine under 4000 rpms may be
unremarkable, it undergoes a Jekyll/Hyde transformation once you hit
higher revs. At 4500 rpms, a butterfly valve opens and you can
literally hear and feel the geometry of the engine changing as twelve
more valves open up. The engine soars to its 7000 rpm redline, and
you are treated to, in my opinion, the sweetest sounding V6 around.
The engine inexplicably sounds OVERJOYED to be at 6500 rpm!
I've noticed that when I drive around town, I constantly watch the
tach to see how far below 4000 rpm I am. To go from 2000 rpm to 4000,
you may have to punch the accelerator -- while torque is more than
adequate, it doesn't come fully online until those other 12 valves
are used.
Transmission:
When _Car and Driver_ first reviewed the car in 1988, they
marvelled at how Ford had put such a wimpy clutch and balky shifter
into the car. I remember driving a friend's parent's SHO in 1990, and
remember thinking about whether I had the leg strength to drive the
car in traffic -- the clutch was that stiff. That was back then.
The entire clutch assembly on my SHO has been replaced under a
Ford recall in 1991. The clutch on the SHO feels no stiffer than the
one on my Toyota Celica. In fact, the friction point seems a bit
larger and more forgiving.
When playing with the shifter with the car parked, the shifter
felt very reasonable. The 1-2 and 3-4 gates were where you'd expect
it to be, and the shifting action was smooth. On the road, it's
much the same -- but you have to shift SLOWLY! Make no mistake, it's
a clumsy shifter.
When hurrying shifts, like when I was initially trying to impress
friends, I consistently miss the 1-2 shift, often grope clumsily for
the 2-3 shift, and sometimes even muff the 3-4 shift. I find this
pretty amazing in a car like this.
It also took me several days to realize that you get the smoothest
shifts when you take your time. Seems obvious, but compared to my
Toyota and my friend's Honda, this seems atrocious and clumsy.
Someone on rec.autos noted that CRXs should blow SHOs off-the-line
because of the incredibly clumsy shifter.
I now shift much more sedately, and the shifter seems more
reasonable. When you play within these bounds, the shifter works
smoothly with no surprises. I don't know whether the rod shifter
upgrade would help at all.
Along these same lines, I initially had trouble shifting gears
smoothly. Again, slowing down the shifts and taking more care to
match revs when letting out the clutch helped immensely. This took
several days for me to get the hang of. (I think some of my problems
were because I've never had a car with enough power to balk at bad
shifts in higher gears.)
Occasionally, I have trouble shifting into reverse. The shifter
refuses to enter the gate, and I often grind the synchros trying to
get it into gear. I'll be watching this carefully in the next couple
of months.
A quirk: When I upshift and the engine drops back to 1000-2500
rpm, I hear a whirring and then a grinding noise coming from the the
engine compartment. Not terribly loud, but the passenger can
definitely hear it. I asked about it when I was looking at the car,
as do all my passengers. Apparently, this is a definitely a "SHO
sound" and is the gearbox -- apparently called "gear rollover".
Replies to my queries on rec.autos are at the end of this review.
Exterior:
As I mentioned before, I am astounded by how well the body of this
SHO has stood up. Paint chipping on the front bumper and grille are
virtually non-existent. Looking at how older Tauri sometimes
don't age so gracefully, I wonder what the guys at Ford did
differently to the SHO bodies.
The body, in my opinion, is extremely attractive with matching
color body moldings than the stock Tauri. For some odd reason, the
SHO seems different enough from vanilla Tauri to get stares at
stoplights -- of course, this could be my overactive imagination.
:-) SHOs get fog lights, a more open grille, a completely
monochromatic exterior, and a deeper ground skirt in the back with
"SHO" stenciled in relief. I've seen a couple SHOs whose owners have
colored these in with florescent colors or in black. Yuck.
I don't think the car is flashy. I like it that way. I feel
almost anonymous with all those Tauri out there, but different and
distinctive enough to those of us who care. :-)
Interior:
The interior is what really makes me feel like I don't deserve the
car. The seats are grey leather, the steering wheel and shifter are
covered with black leather, and the entire instrument panel is done in
a black/grey/metallic scheme.
The instrumentation is stock Taurus, except for the 140 mph speedo
and 8000 rpm tach. You get a center console with two cupholders, a
large compartment under the radio (great for a CD player), an armrest
that contains yet another compartment, three appropriately sized coin
holders for tollways (I think), and a compartment for holding
cassette tapes. There's map-holders in the doors, and an oddly small
glove compartment.
I spilled a whole can of Coke in the cupholder and was delighted
to find that the entire rubber holder can be removed and washed in a
sink. Hey, I'm really impressed with the ergonomics and
thoughtfulness that went into its design. And it's a 1989, before the
interior was upgraded!
The backseat is bigger than any car I've had. Why do they need so
much space? :-) (No smart-ass comments, please. :-)
The driver and passenger seat have lumbar and side bolsters. From
what I hear, it's not uncommon for the side bolsters to show wear.
Mine is no exception. The left side bolster on the driver's has
cracked and I'm not convinced the right bolster is inflating all the
way.
A big surprise for me: I forgot that SHOs don't have a normal
hand parking brake. Instead, they have the regular parking brake that
you press with your left foot. Too bad. Again, I'm getting used to
it, but it seems a bit anachronistic to me.
Ride:
The suspension is nice and stiff. Too stiff? It's stiffer than
any car I've had. A friend's new 1993 Toyota Celica ST seems tauter
and is still able to soak up bumps better. The SHO seems stiffer with
less ability to soak up bumps. Driving over railroad tracks is a
noisy and jarring affair. On the other hand, taking turns feels
wonderful because the body is so rigid and doesn't flex at all -- I
listened for that before I bought the car.
On the highway, the ride is great. When I drove the car from
Chicago back to Purdue, I had trouble keeping under 85 mph, let alone
from trying to see what 100 mph really feels like. It's a relatively
quiet ride, but the sunroof rattles. I've tried to find out what
exactly makes all the noise up there, but it seems to be the window
that rests on the rails. No easy way to get rid of it, I think.
Over the past three days, I've oscillated between thinking the
suspension is wonderful and perfect and thinking that the ride is way
too rough. (Not for me, mind you. But I wonder whether I would
advise my dad to buy one for himself.) But, I've discovered, as with
the shifter, if you take your time with shifts, you'll have no reason
to complain. Let me explain...
The ride is worst when turning and applying lots of power to the
wheels. I feel the wheels scrabbling for traction and torque steer
making the car skitter left and right. After I understood this, I
avoid the limits of traction -- and I'm a happy camper again.
It's not body rigidity, but the composure of the car.
As if matching the suspension, the steering feel is quite heavy.
My first impression of driving my SHO was how hard you had to turn the
wheel at highway speeds. It tracks straight as an arrow, but when
driving around a parking lot, the high-effort steering didn't seem so
useful. However, it's reasonable, but it doesn't communicate the road
to the driver as well as a 1993 Ford Probe GT. IMHO, it's much better
than the steering on my Celica ST.
I wonder how bad this car is during winter?
Miscellaneous notes:
GRIPES:
The rattles from the sunroof is intermittent -- some days it rattles
loudly, other days I look up wondering where all the noise went.
Activating the sunroof is sometimes very noisy -- loud squealing as
it retracts on its rails. I wonder if there is a quick fix for this.
Again, other days it completely disappears. (Function of humidity?)
Once I made the connection between the sometimes awful feeling suspension
and torque steer, I've never complained about ride.
I wish the seats had more support under the thighs. Also, I wish the
side bolsters would close more tightly.
I hear that tires for this car can get really expensive. I
currently have Goodyear GT+4s that cost the previous owner $500
for four.
I used to hate the Ford stereo systems -- whose idea was it
to use a volume *paddle*? Now, to my amazement, I don't
really mind... and sometimes think it's an okay idea!!!
Pretty ridiculous, though.
Getting up to 4000 rpm sometimes seems to be a chore. But,
this is no big deal. There is more than enough torque
down low.
I often goof up the shifting when driving with friends. It
took me a couple of days before I could really shift
smoothly from 2nd to 3rd gear. (Hard to believe, isn't it?)
My car has almost 93,000 miles on it. My parents noted that
it is almost impossible to find a low-mileage SHO.
Astute observation, IMHO. I wonder how long I can make
my SHO last -- I just bought a book titled "Drive It Forever"
for tips in this department. :-)
The goofy parking brake pedal still throws me for a loop. I once
parked the car in gear, and then accidentally let out the clutch
after I started it. The car jolted forward, and bounced off
the car in front of me -- no paint damage at all, but starting the car
is a whole new ritual for me with that fangled pedal! Also, I began
to wonder how strong that brake really is. (Today, I backed out of
parking spot today and started to drive away before I noticed
the glowing brake light. Oops.)
The driver's power window creaks when closed all the way. The same
thing happens in my parents 1989 Mercury Sable. Oddly, all the
other windows work smoothly.
LIKES:
I'm liking the interior amenities more and more each day. The
cupholders are great.
I didn't expect to use the keyless entry buttons so much, but
it really is handy. You can lock all the doors by
pressing the 7/8 and 9/10 buttons together! Neat! And
you can never lock yourself out of the car.
I really feel like I don't deserve this car. I really can't
believe that I could afford it. I got this car ten years
ahead of schedule. :-)
I love this car so much that I've been telling my parents to
look into buying one. I love this car so much that I
wrote this 13K file -- I meant to write a couple of lines
and ended up with this.
If there were a J.D. Powers Survey for used car owners, I would have
an opportunity to express my incredible satisfaction of owning this
car. I don't like thinking about getting another car, but at this
point in time, I'm sure I'd buy another SHO. For under $7000, you
can't beat it. (Next time with an airbag and ABS, though.)
Insurance-wise, this car is also a big win. I pay the same premiums
as on my 1987 Toyota Celica -- despite that it has nearly twice
the horsepower.
Other Odds and Ends:
Much to my amazement, there is no SHO mailing list anywhere.
Maybe because the _SHO Registry_ publication has filled this void. I
haven't joined yet, but I've noticed that queries about SHOs still
appear on rec.autos about once a month. Owners of SHOs are always
quick to respond, and are very vocal fans of the cars. (Maybe some
of the most vocal on rec.autos. :-)
I've put together the responses to my questions about the cars, as
well as other posts with useful information on these cars. I'll be
posting this in the form of a FAQ soon.
If anyone is interested in starting a mailing list, please speak up!
I don't know if I have the resources here at Purdue to start one, but
maybe someone out there does.
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I am happy to announce the first public release of the bit program,
an INTERACTIVE, FULL COLOR image viewer and editor based on SGI GL.
Besides typical touchup tasks, such as crop, rotate, smooth, etc,
bit offers some unique features not available in similar programs,
such as text and vector support and the separation of text and image.
The following is the relevant sections from the man page.
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Pre-Release of May, 1993 BIT(1L)
NAME
bit - Bitmap Image Touchup for SGI Workstations
DESCRIPTION
bit is an interactive full color image viewer and editor based on
Silicon Graphics GL. As a full color program, bit handles images of both
24bits and color index in a natural and efficient manner.
As an image viewer, bit allows list of images to be displayed in their
original type (24bits or color index) in any order and in any of the
many built-in styles of display. You can walk up and down the list using
mouse and keyboard, or you can let bit do the walk for you (The
SlideShow). With the pan and zoom features, large images can be viewed
in full without being limited by the window or screen size.
As an image editor, bit performs a large number of image editing and
processing tasks accurately and efficiently. It keeps information loss
at any stage of the editing process at an absolute minimum by performing
subpixel sampling automatically while conserving the input image type
whenever possible to avoid unnecessary promotion and/or quantization of
input images. You can also cut a piece of an image and paste it into
another. In addition, arbitrarily colored and sized text and simple
geometric figures can be rendered on top of an image for annotation with
the option to make them part of the bitmap or output separately to take
advantage of the higher printer resolutions (e.g. PostScript).
Bit can also be used as a graphical user interface to many existing
image processing programs by defining external bindings which in essence
turn command line oriented programs into bit subfunctions and can be
accessed by a press of a button, and best of all, the processed image
will be read back and displayed immediately. Convolution using exter-
nally defined matrices of arbitrary order can be performed dynamically
giving great flexibility in processing an image.
FEATURES
Bit performs all of its image manipulations interactively with a
continuous progress report, and once the processing is complete,
the processed image will be displayed.
Current features include
o Rotates an image by an arbitrary angle with the option of anti-aliasing
and filling the "rotated out" region with an arbitrary color.
o Scales an image by arbitrary factors in x- and/or y-directions with
the option of subpixel sampling.
o Renders text of arbitrary color, size or orientation on top of an
image with the option of rendering directly into the raster or saving
the text and raster separately, such as into a PostScript file, to
take advantage of a higher printer resolution. Besides normal text
strings, many predefined special symbols can be input conveniently as
in TeX(1), e.g., $\alpha$\small$\beta$ produces Greek alphabet alpha
followed by a slightly smaller Greek alphabet beta.
o Presents graphically the histogram of an image.
o Performs arbitrary 1-to-1 pixel transformation. The transformation
function can be specified interactively and can be of arbitrary
forms. Further, the transformation can be applied to RGB channels
separately or simultaneously and to the entire image or a portion of
it. Many difficult tasks, such as thresholding, can be accomplished
rather easily by 1-to-1 transformation in combination with the avai-
lability of graphical histograms of the image.
o Places simple geometric figures (SGFs), e.g., arrows, circles, trian-
gles etc., of arbitrary color, size and orientation into an image at
arbitrary locations addressed either in absolute pixels or in some
user definable coordinate system units, with the option of rendering
directly into the raster or save the sgfs and raster separately (e.g,
PostScript file). All SGFs can be scaled in x- and y-directions
independently or simultaneously (this is how to get an ellipse from a
circle).
o Performs edge detection. In combination with image histograms and 1-
to-1 transformation, very accurate result can be obtained.
o Performs histogram equalization.
o Performs convolution with externally defined (square) matrices of
arbitrary order.
o Crops a rectangular portion of an image.
o Cuts and pastes across images.
o Magnifies any portion of an image by any amount.
o Displays a list of images in sequence with a user specifiable pause
interval between images. (SlideShow)
o Measures RGB intensities of a pixel at any location or all pixels
along an arbitrary line with the result presented as RGB intensities
or as an intensity vs. distance plot.
o Performs image type conversions.
o Converts image formats.
o Smoothes an image (Special convolution).
o Filters an image by external programs and read the filtered image
back and display it.
o Modify an individual pixel's RGB values.
o Performs FFT on the entire image or a portion of it and display the
resulting power spectra.
o Spray and brush paint in full color (unavailable in this pre-release).
SUPPORTED FORMATS
o IRIS RGB, native to SGI IRIS
o JPEG(JFIF) format
o CompuServ GIF
o PNM(Portable Any Map), including PPM, PGM and PBM.
o XBM (X Window Bitmap)
o TIFF
o PostScript(Write only)
Hardware requirements:
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Any SGI workstation that supports RGBmode(), including indigoes.
Where to get it:
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anonymous ftp to monte.svec.uh.edu /pub/bit/bitxxx.tar.Z
where xxx is the version number. Current version is 0.73
Read src/01Readme for installation instructions after unpacking
Acknowledgement:
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JPEG support is based on the Independent JPEG groups's library Version 4.
FORMS library, developed by Mark Overmars, is used for GUI.
Both JPEG and FORMS library are included in this release.
---------------------------------------------------------------
Bit is the program you will ever need to view and annotate
images; The built-in editing features will satisfy most of
your editing needs. In addition, the external filter and dynamical
kernel will utilize any program you already have. So try it
(and you will like it).
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That was probably me.
I meant only that nobody has overreacted yet. It seemed to me that
Jerry was suggesting that people are currently overreacting, and I
vehemently disagree. I see a lot of talk, but not much action.
I see now that I misunderstood Jerry's position.
Not this bunch. They'll just bitch on the Net for a while, and
then go back to lurking.
Actually, it's not quite that bad, but it's close.
Look, we (collectively) have the power to throw the bums out, but we
don't use it. We clearly don't need to go burning things down, but we
clearly do need to throw at least some of the bums out.
Unfortunately, the bums have learned to target only small groups of
people at a single time, so the masses won't react and throw them out.
Eventually, the masses will react, unless the bums cease their
relentless encroachment on liberty and despoilment of the economy.
The sooner it happens, the less the damages will be. I don't want to
live in a war zone, either -- I want to see the bums thrown out before
they do some *real* damage.
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Robert McElwaine is the authoritative source of scientific data on Internet.
He can be reached alt.fan.mc-elwaine...
Spiros
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I need to sell two pairs of BladeRunner in-line skates (we don't use them).
One is size 9 and one is size 12. They are less than a year old and were
used very little, generally in the Corridor. They are in very good
condition.
They sell at Lechmere for $99.98 (we still have the boxes, if you want
them) and we'd like to get $85/OBO for them. Please respond by
e-mail.
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If that's the ONLY reason, I'd be inclined to doubt whether or not what
they profess is Christianity. The relationship of faith is based upon
trust. Fear and trust are generally incompatible. If my only motivation
is fear, is there room for trust? If so, there's room for faith.
If fear precludes trust, then there can't be faith.
Larry Overacker (llo@shell.com)
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Hello,
I heard that a certain disease (toxoplasmosys?) is transmitted by cats which
can harm the unborn fetus. Does anybody know about it? Is it a problem to
have a cat in the same apartment?
Thanks
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This comes indirectly from Al Morgani who works in the studio
for ESPN hockey.
The management of ESPN was reluctant to leave the Pitt-NJ game
(even though the outcome was certain) because of fear of the Wash-Ny game
going to overtime. When the Caps scored with :02 left to tie the game, Al said
he heard many people say f**K .!#$%.
ESPN is under contractual obligation to show baseball and COULD NOT
broadcast the OT of the hockey game. Next year, ESPN2 will be introduced so
baseball fans can watch baseball and hockey fans can watch hockey.
GET OFF ESPN'S BACK AND STOP POSTING ARTICLES ON THIS SUBJECT!!!
There have been to many f****n complainers about this game that it's making me
sick.
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Well, I'm not going to quote the message, but anyhow...
Mail fraud is a FEDERAL OFFENCE! PUNNISHABLE BY TIME AND
>>> BIG <<<
> > > B I G < < <
F I N E S
! ! ! !
What you can do is contact the local authorities in Arizona
where this scammer resides, inform them of the situation (if you have
proof of the transaction, that would also help), and they should be able
to take it from there.
Yeah, this guy CAN get heavily penalized for this. Don't think
that just because you have never met he cannot be prosecuted.
!!! TAKE HIM > D O W N < !!!
... hope I'm not being too foreward?...
_________________________________________________
Inspiration | ___ |
comes to | \ o baden@sys6626.bison.mb.ca |
those who | ( ^ ) baden@inqmind.bison.mb.ca |
seek the | /-\ =] Baden de Bari [= |
unknown. | |
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That was Clint Malarchuk. That was a very dangerous accident. He could he
died right there on the ice. However, he has played since
but I don't know where he is now. I think he is still playing but I'm
not positive. He was a Sabre at the time.
I don't know who skated into him though.
I remember a couple of seasons before the Malarchuk incident Borje
Salming of Toronto fell down in the crease and someone skated into
his face. That took a lot of stiches to fix.
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It was implied in the first technical posting by Dorothy Denning that the
FBI would do the decryption *for* the law enforcement agencies. It wasn't
clear to me from the post whether this would be done in realtime or not, or
whether the FBI would just decrypt the session keys for the locals, or would
do the whole message.
One thing I'm a bit puzzled by: Why aren't they doing this with a public
key scheme of some sort? You could generate two uniqe public/private pairsor
for each chip. Then, escrow the private keys with the escrow agencies. Set
the protocol up to encrypt the session key with both public keys. To decrypt
a message, both escrow agencies (in the right order, for most PK schemes)
have to decrypt with the escrowed private key. This way, there wouldn't be
thecconcern that, once the police had asked fo a warrant/wiretap, they
would have your key forver.
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A really sad op-ed appeared in my school's newpaper today. It
claimed that full-auto weapons are illegal in the U.S.
I understand that full-auto weapons made and registered before
May 19, 1986 are still legal in 40 of the 50 states. Is
Texas one of those states?
Can anyone point me to a source for info on how many people have been
killed by legal full-auto weapons in the U.S.?
And finally, I think it would be great if anyone was keeping a digest
of facts on the Waco incident. In particular, I would like a source
for the FBI/BATF mentioning the supposed methamphetamine lab, and
information on the beginning of the raid, specifically BATF
lies.
I am also interested in past BATF no-knock warrents which have lead
to personal and property damage against innocent citizens.
I intend to put together a reply to this op-ed very soon. The author
of the piece states he wants to work for the BATF. gack!
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The Libertarians believe in getting the government off the
backs of the people, so that the free market can solve problems.
Libertarians believe in an end to the welfare state, an end to
government subsidies of all sorts. The basic idea is that the
government is way too big and way too expensive, and should be shrunk
down to a reasonable size.
They also believe in a complete end to foreign aid, including
the stationing of American troops overseas. We can not and should not
be policing the world.
I agree that the people who come into this group and describe
themselves as Libertarians seem to posses the charictaristics you
describe, but heck, we're not all like this. I'm a libertarian, and
I've got a great sense of humor! :)
Adam
Adam Shostack adam@das.harvard.edu
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I don't know. I think Phil Plantier has the ugliest stance. He looks like
he's sitting on the toilet.
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CALL FOR VOTES
This is the official 2nd Call For Votes for this newsgroup.
NAME OF PROPOSED NEWSGROUP:
==========================
soc.religion.islam.ahmadiyya
CHARTER:
=======
A religious newsgroup, which would mainly be devoted to
fostering an understanding and appraisal of the Ahmadiyya Muslim
Community, its beliefs, ideology and philosophy. It will also
discuss the distinction between Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and
other branches of Islam.
In addition this newsgroup will also discuss the beliefs,
teachings, and philosophy of all the other major religions to pro-
mote universal religious appreciation, awareness, and tolerance.
The newsgroup may also be used to post important religious
events within the world wide Ahmadiyya Islamic Community.
VOTING INSTRUCTIONS:
====================
Voting is being held since the first call for votes appeared (May 4, 1993),
and will continue untill May 25, 1993 (23:59:59 GMT)
All votes should be received within this period. It gives a total
of 21 days for all to vote.
All votes in _favor_ of creation of the proposed newsgroup should
be sent in a form of a e-mail message to:
SRIA-YES@UCSU.COLORADO.EDU
with a clear statement in the body of the message like:
I vote YES for soc.religion.islam.ahmadiyya
I vote in favor of s.r.i.a.
etc.
Similarly all votes _against_ the proposed newsgroup should be
sent in a form of a e-mail message to:
SRIA-NO@UCSU.COLORADO.EDU
with a clear statement in the body of the message like:
I vote NO for soc.religion.islam.ahmadiyya
I vote against the creation of s.r.i.a.
etc.
* You may also include your vote in the SUBJECT header of your mail.
* Please make sure to include your FULL NAME, if your mailer does
not do that for you.
* One person may only vote ONCE. No matter how many e-mail accounts
s/he has. Only one vote per person shall be considered valid.
* Any ambiguous votes like "I vote YES for S.R.I.A., if ...." shall
only be considered comments and would NOT be counted as votes.
* Votes received _after_ 23:59:59 GMT, on May 25, 1993, will not
be valid and not counted.
* In the event of multiple votes being received from the same
person, only the last one will be counted. If you change your
mind regarding the way you have voted, send your new vote again,
your previous vote shall be discarded.
* Posting to USENET will NOT be counted a vote.
* Please DO NOT send any votes to the e-mail address of the per-
son who has posted this CVF. Those votes shall not be counted
either.
NOTE: An acknowledgement shall be sent to everyone who votes.Two
additional CFV's will be posted during the course of the vote.
Number(s) of "YES" or "NO" votes will not be disclosed during the
the voting period, at the end of which all votes shall be made
public.
PURPOSE OF THE NEWSGROUP:
========================
The following are the main purposes this group shall achieve:
i) To highlight the common beliefs of all major religions
and philosophical traditions as they relate to Ahmadiyya
Muslim Community.
ii) To discuss the doctrines, origin and teachings the Ahmad-
iyya Muslim Community, a dynamic world-wide movement.
iii) To expound Islamic teachings and beliefs in the Holy
Quran and Islamic traditions from the Ahmadiyya Islamic
perspective.
iv) To emphasize and discuss the similarities between Ahmadi
Muslims and followers of other religions of the world and
to explore how understanding and respect for each other's
faith can be brought about to eliminate religious intol-
erance and malice among people of all religious and phil-
osophical traditions.
v) To look into the origin and teachings of all religions in
general and of Islam and Ahmadiyya Muslim Movement in par-
ticular, and to use the commonality of origin to foster
better understanding among Ahmadi Muslims and other people
and to promote an acceptance of universality of fundamental
rights to the freedom of conscience.
vi) To point out current world problems and suggest solutions
to these problems, as offered by different religions and
systems of ethical philosophies.
vii) To investigate the implications of science on religion
with particular emphasis on the Ahmadi Muslim perspective,
but with openness to dialogue with people of all religions
and philosophical traditions with reasoned positions as to
the relationship between religion and empirical science,
logic, and scientific ethics.
viii) To exchange important news and views about the Ahmadiyya
Muslim Community and of other religions.
ix) To add diversity to the existing religious newsgroups pre-
sent on Usenet in the interest of promoting a forum for
decorous dialogue.
x) To inquire why religious persecution is on the rise in the
world and suggest solutions to remedy the ever deterior-
ating situation in the world in general and in the Islamic
world in particular.
xi) To commemorate the contributions to humanity, society and
world peace made by the founders and followers of all
religions in general and by the International Ahmadiyya
Muslim community in particular.
TYPE:
====
The group will be MODERATED for orderly and free religious dialo-
gue. The moderation will NOT prevent disagreement, dissent, or
controversy based on a difference of beliefs or doctrine; rather,
the moderators will seek mainly to discourage gratuitously deroga-
tory, abusive, or squalid language, and the introduction of issues
which are irrelevant based on the provisions of this charter.
The moderators have been chosen through personal e-mail and through
a general consensus among the proponents by discussion in news.groups.
The following moderators have been proposed and agreed upon:
Moderator: Nabeel A. Rana <rana@rintintin.colorado.edu>
Co-Moderator: Dr. Tahir Ijaz <ijaz@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
A BRIEF DESCRIPTION ABOUT AHMADIYYA ISLAM:
===============================================
The Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam, an international organi-
sation, was found in 1889 in Qadian, India. The founder of this
movement, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835-1908), was proclaimed to
be the Promised Reformer of this age as foretold in the Scriptures
of almost all major religions of the world. He claimed to be the
fulfillment of the long awaited second comming of Jesus Christ
(metaphorically), the Muslim Mahdi, and the Promised Messiah.
The claims of Hazrat Ahmad raised storms of hostility and
extreme opposition, which are often witnessed in the history of
divine reformers. Even today this sect is being persecuted especial-
ly in some of the Muslim regimes. The right of Ahmadi Muslims to
openly practice their religion and to define themselves as Muslims
has been severely restricted in many Muslim Countries. The United
Nations, human rights organizations such as Amnesty International
and top leaderships of some countries have voiced their concerns
against this denial of basic human and civil liberaties to the
members of this movement, but so far to no avail.
Despite the opposition and persecution, the movement cont-
inues to grow with a current membership of millions from around the
world in over 130 countries, who come from diverse ethnic and cul-
tural backgrounds.
The movement is devoted to world peace and strives towards
developing a better understanding of all religions. Ahmadi Muslims
have always been opposed to all forms of violence, bigotry, reli-
gious intolerance and fundamentalism.
Among its many philanthropic activities, the sect has es-
tablished a network of hundreds of schools, hospitals, and clinics
in many third world countries. These institutions are staffed by
volunteer professionals and are fully financed by the movement's
internal resources. The movement stresses the importance of educa-
tion and leadership. Its members have included a high number of
professionals as well as world class individuals.
The Ahmadiyya mission is to bring about a universal moral
reform, establish peace and justice, and to unite mankind under
one universal brotherhood.
NEWSGROUP CREATION:
==================
The discussion for this proposed newsgroup has now offi-
cially ended. Voting will be held for three weeks. If the news-
group gets 2/3rd majority AND 100 more "YES/Create" votes than
"NO/don't create" votes; the newsgroup shall be created.
ABOUT THE VOTE-TAKER:
====================
Mr. Anthony Lest has been asked by the proponents of
this newsgroup to act as an official impartial vote-taker for the
proposed newsgroup. He has no objection to use his workstation
for the purpose of vote-taking. Neither the University of Colora-
do, nor Anthony Lest has anything to do with the proposal of the
newsgroup. They are just collecting the votes as a neutral third
party.
QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS:
=====================
Any questions or comments about the proposed newsgroup
may be sent to:
Nabeel A. Rana <rana@rintintin.colorado.edu>
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What you are trying to describe is that transition point where
the front wheel actually reverses direction; turns backwards.
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Not to mention that Lankford had been hurt two nights before running
into the outfield wall. This being the reason he was available to pinch-
anything. His ribs were the problem so he could run but not hit.
Torre is no white rat but give him credit for what he is , a pretty darn
good manager. with the exception of the Felix fiasco, but i'm not sure
who's brainchild that was.
-BIL
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After hearing endless debate (READ: name-calling) over which os is better, dos
and windows or OS/2 and finally having enought resourses to play with a couple
of different operating systems, I have decided to put the two products to a
head to head test, as so many fellow newsposters have suggested. I have,
however, no desire whatsoever to use a version of os/2 which wont REALLY
do what it says (i.e. run windows apps) OS/2 2.0-2.1 will not run windows
apps in 386 enhansed mode, something that most larger windows apps require, but
OS/2 2.2, which is supposed to be in beta test, is supposed to. I have heard
that os/2 2.2 beta is available via ftp, and I was wondering if anyone knew
where to obtain a copy. I would appreciate any information, as I would like,
once and for all, to establish for myself which is the best os for my needs.
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I couldn't agree more. The Jays have a lot of power in their line-up.
So far pitching has been the biggest problem. Maybe we can get Acker back? :-)
One incident that sticks out in my mind was when Derek Bell ran back out on
to the feild after the Jays had won the division and all the players were
back in the clubhouse. Bell ran around the field with his arms in the air,
waving a big towel over his head. He looked like a big jerk, especially
when you consider he did not contribute much to the team over the whole
season. The next day, Winfield and Carter somehow got the keys to Bell's
Jeep and brought it out on to the feild before the game started. The stadium
announcer said that there was going to be a draw later in the game for Bell's
jeep. Bell really freaked out. I don't think Bell was to popular after that.
I think that Jackson might be trying a little too hard right now. He's known
for being a great outfielder, and he's not the only Blue Jay who has been
booting balls and playing generally awful.
andrew
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WARNING WARNING MAY CAUSE UNPLEASANTNESS!
It's a "make before break" type of switch. If not required, it ought to be
for high-low beams.
There might be a wee problem with this. If you use both filaments at the
same time, the bulb is tossing out a great deal more heat than normal.
Possibly enough to shorten it's life span. My Honda CRX cage [a cage that
really wanted to be a bike] had wimpy stock lights. So we used to run
around with both beams on. Made a mucho big difference - until both low
beam filaments died nearly simultaneously! This was two weeks after
finding out how nice it was to use both beams. I replaced the lights with
quartz-halogen lights and that ended the problem.
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I'm curious to know if Christians ever read books based on critique
on the religion, classical text such as "Age of Reason" by Paine,
or "The Myth Maker" by Jacobi. Sometimes it is good to know your
enemy, and if you want to do serious research you have to understand
both sides, and not solely the one and only right one.
Cheers,
Kent
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Here are the NHL's alltime leaders in goals and points at the end of
the 1992-3 season. Again, much thanks to Joseph Achkar.
Carl
Notes: An active player is a player that has scored at least one
point the past season. The points leaders follow the goal leaders.
If you find any mistakes, please send me email.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
All time NHL leading goal scorers (* denotes active player):
1. Gordie Howe Det-Hfd 801
2. *Wayne Gretzky Edm-LA 765
3. Marcel Dionne Det-LA-NYR 731
4. Phil Esposito Chi-Bos-NYR 717
5. Bobby Hull Chi-Wpg-Hfd 610
6. *Mike Gartner Wsh-Min-NYR 583
7. Mike Bossy NYI 573
8. Guy Lafleur Mtl-NYR-Que 560
9. Johnny Bucyk Det-Bos 556
10. Maurice Richard Mtl 544
11. Stan Mikita Chi 541
12. Frank Mahovlich Tor-Det-Mtl 533
13. *Michel Goulet Que-Chi 532
14. *Jari Kurri Edm-LA 524
15. Bryan Trottier NYI-Pit 520
16. Gilbert Perreault Buf 512
17. Jean Beliveau Mtl 507
18. Lanny McDonald Tor-Col-Cgy 500
19. Jean Ratelle NYR-Bos 491
20. Norm Ullman Det-Tor 490
21. *Dino Ciccarelli Min-Wsh-Det 485
22. Darryl Sittler Tor-Phi-Det 484
23. *Mario Lemieux Pit 477
24. *Glenn Anderson Edm-Tor 459
25. Alex Delvecchio Det 456
26. *Mark Messier Edm-NYR 452
27. *Dale Hawerchuk Wpg-Buf 449
28. Rick Middleton NYR-Bos 448
29. *Steve Yzerman Det 445
30. *Peter Stastny Que-NJ 444
31. Rick Vaive Van-Tor-Chi-Buf 441
32. *Joe Mullen StL-Cgy-Pit 433
33. Yvan Cournoyer Mtl 428
34. *Dave Taylor LA 427
35. Steve Shutt Mtl-LA 424
36. *Denis Savard Chi-Mtl 423
37. Bill Barber Phi 420
38. *Brian Propp Phi-Bos-Min 413
39. Gary Unger Tor-Det-StL-Atl-LA-Edm 413
40. Rod Gilbert NYR 406
41. *Steve Larmer Chi 406
42. *John Ogrodnick Det-Que-NYR 402
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Other active players:
*Bernie Nicholls LA-NYR-Edm-NJ 397
*Pat LaFontaine NYI-Buf 386
*Brian Bellows Min-Mtl 382
*Dave Andreychuk Buf-Tor 373
*Tim Kerr Phi-NYR-Hfd 370
*Bobby Smith Min-Mtl 357
*Brett Hull Cgy-StL 356
*Luc Robitaille LA 353
*Mike Foligno Det-Buf-Tor 351
*Dave Christian Wpg-Wsh-Bos-StL-Chi 340
*Paul Coffey Edm-Pit-LA-Det 330
*Brent Sutter NYI-Chi 325
*Pat Verbeek NJ-Hfd 318
*Ron Francis Hfd-Pit 311
*Cam Neely Van-Bos 292
*Ray Bourque Bos 291
*Bob Carpenter Wsh-NYR-LA-Bos-Tor 285
*Brent Ashton Van-Col-NJ-Min-Que-Det-Wpg-Bos-Cgy 284
*Doug Gilmour Stl-Cgy-Tor 277
*Rick Tocchet Phi-Pit 277
*Kevin Dineen Hfd-Phi 275
*Tomas Sandstrom NYR-LA 273
*Dale Hunter Que-Wsh 269
*Ryan Walter Wsh-Mtl-Van 264
*Brian Mullen Wpg-NYR-SJ-NYI 260
*Ed Olczyk Chi-Tor-Wpg-NYR 260
*Kirk Muller NJ-Mtl 258
*Joe Nieuwendyk Cgy 257
*Jimmy Carson LA-Edm-Det 254
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All time NHL scoring leaders (* denotes active player):
1. *Wayne Gretzky Edm-LA 765 1563 2328
2. Gordie Howe Det-Hfd 801 1049 1850
3. Marcel Dionne Det-LA-NYR 731 1040 1771
4. Phil Esposito Chi-Bos-NYR 717 873 1590
5. Stan Mikita Chi 541 926 1467
6. Bryan Trottier NYI-Pit 520 890 1410
7. Johnny Bucyk Det-Bos 556 813 1369
8. Guy Lafleur Mtl-NYR-Que 560 793 1353
9. Gilbert Perreault Buf 512 814 1326
10. Alex Delvecchio Det 456 825 1281
11. Jean Ratelle NYR-Bos 491 776 1267
12. *Mark Messier Edm-NYR 452 780 1232
13. Norm Ullman Det-Tor 490 739 1229
14. *Peter Stastny Que-NJ 444 777 1221
15. Jean Beliveau Mtl 507 712 1219
16. *Dale Hawerchuk Wpg-Buf 449 763 1212
17. Bobby Clarke Phi 358 852 1210
18. *Paul Coffey Edm-Pit-LA-Det 330 871 1201
19. *Denis Savard Chi-Mtl 423 769 1192
20. *Jari Kurri Edm-LA 524 666 1190
21. *Mario Lemieux Pit 477 697 1174
22. Bobby Hull Chi-Wpg-Hfd 610 560 1170
23. Bernie Federko StL 369 761 1130
24. Mike Bossy NYI 573 553 1126
25. *Michel Goulet Que-Chi 532 590 1122
26. Darryl Sittler Tor-Phi-Det 484 637 1121
27. *Mike Gartner Wsh-Min-NYR 583 524 1107
28. Frank Mahovlich Tor-Det-Mtl 533 570 1103
29. *Ray Bourque Bos 291 806 1099
30. *Dave Taylor LA 427 635 1062
31. Denis Potvin NYI 310 742 1052
32. Henri Richard Mtl 358 688 1046
33. *Steve Yzerman Det 445 595 1040
34. *Bobby Smith Min-Mtl 357 679 1036
35. Rod Gilbert NYR 406 615 1021
36. *Glenn Anderson Edm-Tor 459 559 1018
37. Lanny McDonald Tor-Col-Cgy 500 506 1006
38. Rick Middleton NYR-Bos 448 540 988
39. Dave Keon Tor-Hfd 396 590 986
40. *Ron Francis Hfd-Pit 311 675 986
41. *Bernie Nicholls LA-NYR-Edm-NJ 397 580 977
42. *Brian Propp Phi-Bos-Min 413 561 974
43. Andy Bathgate NYR-Tor-Det-Pit 349 624 973
44. Maurice Richard Mtl 544 421 965
45. Larry Robinson Mtl-LA 208 750 958
46. *Dino Ciccarelli Min-Wsh-Det 485 472 957
47. *Steve Larmer Chi 406 517 923
48. *Joe Mullen StL-Cgy-Pit 433 486 919
49. Bobby Orr Bos-Chi 270 645 915
50. Brad Park NYR-Bos-Det 213 683 896
51. Butch Goring LA-NYI-Bos 375 513 888
52. Bill Barber Phi 420 463 883
53. Dennis Maruk Cal-Cle-Wsh-Min 356 521 877
54. Ivan Boldirev Bos-Cal-Chi-Atl-Van-Det 361 505 866
55. Yvan Cournoyer Mtl 428 435 863
56. Dean Prentice NYR-Bos-Det-Pit-Min 391 469 860
57. Ted Lindsay Det-Chi 379 472 851
58. Tom Lysiak Atl-Chi 292 551 843
59. *Dale Hunter Que-Wsh 269 570 839
60. John Tonelli NYI-Cgy-LA-Chi-Que 325 511 836
61. Jacques Lemaire Mtl 366 469 835
62. *Larry Murphy LA-Wsh-Min-Pit 203 631 834
63. *John Ogrodnick Det-Que-NYR 402 425 827
64. *Doug Wilson Chi-SJ 237 590 827
65. *Doug Gilmour Stl-Cgy-Tor 277 548 825
66. Red Kelly Det-Tor 281 542 823
67. Pierre Larouche Pit-Mtl-Hfd-NYR 395 427 822
68. Bernie Geoffrion Mtl-NYR 393 429 822
69. Steve Shutt Mtl-LA 424 393 817
70. *Phil Housley Buf-Wpg 242 575 817
71. Wilf Paiment KC-Col-Tor-Que-NYR-Buf-Pit 356 458 814
72. Peter McNab Buf-Bos-Van-NJ 363 450 813
73. *Brian Bellows Min-Mtl 382 428 810
74. *Dave Andreychuk Buf-Tor 373 436 809
75. Pit Martin Det-Bos-Chi-Van 324 485 809
76. *Pat LaFontaine NYI-Buf 386 421 807
77. Ken Linesman Phi-Edm-Bos 256 551 807
78. Gary Unger Tor-Det-StL-Atl-LA-Edm 413 391 804
79. Ken Hodge,Sr Chi-Bos-NYR 328 472 800
80. *Neal Broten Min 249 547 796
81. Wayne Cashman Bos 277 516 793
82. Rick Vaive Van-Tor-Chi-Buf 441 347 788
83. Borje Salming Tor-Det 150 637 787
84. Jean Pronovost Pit-Atl-Wsh 391 383 774
85. Peter Mahovlich Det-Mtl-Pit 288 485 773
86. *Dave Christian Wpg-Wsh-Bos-StL-Chi 340 430 770
87. Rick Kehoe Tor-Pit 371 396 767
88. Rick MacLeish Phi-Hfd-Pit-Det 349 410 759
89. *Thomas Steen Wpg 240 511 751
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Other active players:
*Al MacInnis Cgy 185 555 740
*Luc Robitaille LA 353 371 724
*Mike Foligno Det-Buf-Tor 351 367 718
*Brent Sutter NYI-Chi 325 389 714
*Mark Howe Hfd-Phi-Det 192 520 712
*Kirk Muller NJ-Mtl 258 433 691
*Tim Kerr Phi-NYR-Hfd 370 304 674
*Adam Oates Det-StL-Bos 167 490 657
*Randy Carlyle Tor-Pit-Wpg 148 499 647
*Ryan Walter Wsh-Mtl-Van 264 382 646
*Pat Verbeek NJ-Hfd 318 313 631
*Brent Ashton Van-Col-NJ-Min-Que-Det-Wpg-Bos-Cgy 284 345 629
*Bob Carpenter Wsh-NYR-LA-Bos-Tor 285 337 622
*Brian Mullen Wpg-NYR-SJ-NYI 260 362 622
*Ed Olczyk Chi-Tor-Wpg-NYR 260 358 618
*Kelly Kisio Det-NYR-SJ 215 402 617
*Brett Hull Cgy-StL 356 247 603
*Rick Tocchet Phi-Pit 277 324 601
*Dan Quinn Cgy-Pit-Van-StL-Phi-Min 232 367 599
*Scott Stevens Wsh-StL-NJ 132 462 594
*Tomas Sandstrom NYR-LA 273 320 593
*Tom Fergus Bos-Tor-Van 235 346 581
*Dave Babych Wpg-Hfd-Van 120 460 580
*Mike Ridley NYR-Wsh 230 348 578
*Laurie Boschman Tor-Edm-Wpg-NJ-Ott 225 350 575
*Keith Acton Mtl-Min-Edm-Phi 224 350 574
*Murray Craven Det-Phi-Hfd 205 365 570
*Kevin Dineen Hfd-Phi 275 290 565
*Rob Ramage Col-StL-Cgy-Tor-Min-TB 139 423 562
*Mike Krushelnyski Bos-Edm-LA-Tor 234 319 553
*Gary Suter Cgy 124 428 552
*Pierre Turgeon Buf-NYI 218 324 542
*Troy Murray Chi-Wpg 217 324 541
*Cam Neely Van-Bos 292 241 533
*Geoff Courtnall Bos-Edm-Wsh-StL-Van 246 274 520
*Vincent Damphousse Tor-Edm-Mtl 195 320 515
*Jimmy Carson LA-Edm-Det 254 259 513
*Peter Zezel Phi-StL-Wsh-Tor 182 328 510
*Guy Carbonneau Mtl 207 302 509
*Mark Osborne Det-NYR-Tor-Wpg 202 301 503
*Chris Chelios Mtl-Chi 108 394 502
*Dave Poulin Phi-Bos 195 301 496
*Ray Ferraro Hfd-NYI 230 263 493
*Russ Courtnall Tor-Mtl-Min 208 284 492
*Joe Nieuwendyk Cgy 257 234 491
*John MacLean NJ 241 248 489
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Of course not. I would think that would be great _fun_, not having ever
felt the joy and peace the Christians speak of with a longing gaze.
This is not what I got when I believed - I just tried to hide my fear
of getting punished for something I never was sure of. The Bible is
hopelessly confusing for someone who wants to know for sure. God did
not answer. In the end, I found I had been following a mass delusion,
a lie. I can't believe in a being who refuses to give a slightest hint
of her existence.
I suggest they should honestly reconsider the reasons why they believe
and analyse their position. In fact, it is amusing to note in this
context that many fundamentalist publications tell us exactly the
opposite - one should not examine one's belief critically.
I'll tell you something I left out of my 'testimony' I posted to this
group two months ago. A day after I finally found out my faith is over,
I decided to try just one more time. The same cycle of emotional
responses fired once again, but this time the delusion lasted only
a couple of hours. I told my friend in a phone that it really works,
thank god, just to think about it again when I hung up. I had to admit
that I had lied, and fallen prey to the same illusion.
I used to believe what I read in books when I was younger, or what
other people told me, but I grew more and more skeptical the more I
read. I learned what it means to use _reason_.
As a student of chemistry, I had to perform a qualitative analysis
of a mixture of two organic compounds in the lab. I _hated_ experiments
like this - they are old-fashioned and increase the student's workload
considerably. Besides, I had to do it twice, since I failed in my first
attempt. However, I think I'll never forget the lesson:
No matter how strongly you believe the structure of the unknown is X,
it may still be Y. It is _very_ tempting to jump into conclusions, take
a leap of faith, assure oneself, ignore the data which is inconsistent.
But it can still be wrong.
I found out that I was, after all, using exactly the same mechanism
to believe in god - mental self-assurance, suspension of fear,
filtering of information. In other words, it was only me, no god
playing any part.
Oh? And I had better believe this? Dan, many UFO stories are much better
documented than the resurrection of Jesus. The resurrection is documented
quite haphazardly in the Bible - it seems the authors did not pay too
much attention to which wild rumour to leave out. Besides, the ends of
the gospels probably contain later additions and insertions; for instance,
the end of Mark (16:9-20) is missing from many early texts, says my Bible.
Jesus may have lived and died, but he was probably misunderstood.
This is easy. I believe that the world exists independent of my mind,
and that logic and reason can be used to interpret and analyse what I
observe. Nothing else need to be taken on faith, I will go by the
evidence.
It makes no difference whether I believe George Washington existed or not.
I assume that he did, considering the vast amount of evidence presented.
A liar, how do you know what my attitude was? Try reading your Bible
again.
I was willing to die for my faith. Those who do are usually remembered
as heroes, at least among those who believe. Dan, do you think I'm
lying when I say I believed firmly for 15 years? It seems it is
very difficult to admit that someone who has really believed does not
do so anymore. But I can't go on lying to myself.
Blind trust is dangerous, and I was just another blind led by the blind.
But if god really wants me, she'll know what to do. I'm willing. I just
don't know whether she exists - looking at the available evidence,
it looks like she doesn't.
Petri
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Greetings. I've recently decided to chuck the linear regulators
and learn the "black magic" art of switching power supplies...
(before anyone flames me, I KNOW, both have their place :-)
Anyways, I've built the basic up & down converters with pretty
good results (>80% efficiency) but I'm running into problems
when I try to design & build anything that puts out serious
amps... I know it can be done (I have some 5V@200A guts on my
bench) but something puzzles me: I'm using a simple choke as
the storage element (basicly a toroid with a single winding)
but ALL commercial models use transformers with MANY windings.
I traced a few and they seem to use some of the winding for
the usual error/feedback but some of the others seem to loose
me... What are they for? Better than that, anyone have a full
schematic for one of these that I could get a copy of? I'd
love to see how they manage to squeeze out so much from such
low volume :-)
My other problems (in getting high amps & good efficiency) are
1) Lack of sources of ideal components (calculated) and 2)
Limited knowledge of the whole topic... I'm doing this on my
own (not school) mind you (in fact, I have yet to take any
course that covers transistors ;-)
So, is the answer to #1 the accumulation of dead commercial
models and truning into a scavanger (not that it's not what
I'm doing now...) and #2 getting & understanding schematics
and a bit more of the [mind-boggling] theory?
Take care.
P.S. My goal is 12V @ ~25A in (car battery) -> 250VAC out and
(on the other end) 250V -> +5VDC @ 5A, -5V @ 1A, +12VDC @8A
and -12VDC @1A... the distance between the two will be
more than 100 feet (of 14-16 gauge) but less than 300 feet.
Would like to have a working model in a year or so... :-)
(Do I have a chance to make it?)
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So when they took the time to *copy* *the* *text* correctly, that includes
"obvious corruptions?"
So when they took the time to *copy* *the* *text* correctly, that does not
exclude "variant readings from the masoretic text" which are "of little
theological import"
Hey, you're the expert.
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I keep hearing people say this. It assumes that we, at some point,
had a choice at the ballot box: "Vote yes or no I want the FBI
and BATF to become latter-day Gestapos". That just isn't so.
The process is far more complex. We do not have direct control over
the bureaucracy. When we evaluate our representatives we don't often
know what their contribution is to the wayward direction of the
federal law enforcement bureacracy. To assert that we got what
we wanted is absurd.
Oh, good I feel much better now. ;-)
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Why sell them at a low price to poor people immediately? The NRA
is an educational organization too, after all, and it would be a shame
to pay all that money for new guns when these cheap guns would allow a
lot of money thus saved to be used in opening more classes. Mention
that the NRA trains our boys in blue and you've got the media between
a rock and a hard place.
"City pays $50 per gun to reduce crime."
or
"NRA to pay $50 per gun to provide training guns for police
and citizens. Classes expanded with money saved."
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Count me in for $1000.00.
Allan Lockridge
My Opinions are my own and are not for sale.
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I have the following Macintosh software for sale. Email me if interested, or
for complete descriptions. All prices are negotiable, but first offer at
asking price gets it.
Prices include First Class, 2-day shipping!!! (Outside U.S. extra)
OIDS $20
Expert Color Paint $20
RoboSport $25
Harpoon $25
Stratego $30 (Accolade version, authorized by Milton Bradley)
One-on-One (Dr. J/Bird) $15 (Original version, 68000 machines only)
MacFoxes $25 (Adult game)
Strip Poker & Blackjack $25 (Adult game)
-Justin (jslauson@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)
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"If builders built buildings like I write programs, then the first woodpecker
that came along would destroy civilization."
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Yup.
Most JPEG viewers seem to require specific video drivers since they support
only specific video cards. Some have the standard IBM BIOS video support for
the VGA 320x200 256 colour mode, but they leave out the other cards such as
the Hercules monochrome card (which by the way can give very good picture
quality if your dithering works right).
I can't remember the name of a JPEG viewer since I usually convert JPEG's to
GIF's before viewing them. But some require VESA driver for the video cards.
You don't need any special hardware to view JPEG's except perhaps for a VGA
card and maybe a 286+ processor. Most people these days program for 286+
computers and neglect the rest of the 86 processors (8086, 8088). I have a
8088 clone (a NEC V20 processor) and a Hercules card, I have had to write
some programs so that they will view GIF's and animations for the VGA and other
colour graphics boards on my monochrome Hercules card. I use Floyd-Steinberg
dithers and have found that if one does something neat with the colour palette
the resulting dithered image gives much greater detail than it normally would
when viewed on other monochrome systems. CompuShow 8.50 has FS dithering but
it does the standard thing with the image palette before dithering, my way
gives a brighter more detailed image.
Anyway, enough of my rambling in the wrong direction. The final point is, as
far as I know, you don't need extra hardware to view JPEG's other than the
VGA (and perhaps a 286 or better)
Have a day!
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Thank you very much Paul. I have always been impressed by the very human-ness of
Mary. That God chose a woman, like me, to bring into this world the incarnation
of Himself proves to me that this God is MY God. He reaches down from His
perfection to touch me. Ah, the wonder of it all :-)
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I recently came across this article which I found interesting. I have
posted it to hear what other people feel about the issue.
I realise it is rather long (12 pages in Wordperfect) by may well be worth
the read.
Except for the first page (which I typed) the rest was scanned inusing
Omnipage. Some of the f's have come out as t's and visa-versa. I have tried
to correct as much as possible.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Peter Hammond is the founder of Frontline Fellowship, a
missionary organisation witnessing to the communist countries in
Southern Africa. He has also made several visits to many East
European countries.
FRONTLINE FELLOWSHIP NEWS ISSN 1018-144X
PRAYING FOR JUSTICE
(by Peter Hammond)
To those involved in ministering to Christians suffering
persecution the imprecatory Psalms are a tremendous source of
comfort. And those of us who are fighting for the right to life
of the preborn, or battling social evils such as pornography or
crime, are beginning to appreciate what an important weapon God
has entrusted to us in the imprecatory Psalms.
THE IMPRECATORY PSALMS
Early in my Christian walk I encountered the prayers for
judgement in the Psalms and was quite at loss to know how to
respond to them. Prayers such as:
"Break the arm of the wicked and evil men; call him to account for
his wickedness ..." Psalm 10:15 did not seem consistent with the
gospel of love which I had accepted. Yet Psalm 10:15 was clearly
motivated by love for God ("The Lord is King for ever and ever;
the nation will perish from His land" 10:16, and "Why does the
wicked man revile God? 10:13), and by love for the innocent who
suffer ("You hear, O Lord, the desire of the afflicted; You
encourage them, and You listen to their cry, defending the
fatherless and oppressed, in order that man, who is of the earth,
may terrify no more." 10:17-18)
Nevertheless, I grew increasingly uncomfortable reading such
graphic prayers for God to judge the wicked as: "Pour out your
wrath on them; let Your fierce anger overtake them" 64:24; "O
Lord, the God avenges, O God who avenges, shine forth. Rise up, O
Judge of the earth, pay back to the proud what they deserve."
95:1-2; "Break the teeth in their mouths, O God; ...let them
vanish like water .. let their arrows be blunted ... The
righteous will be glad when they are avenged, when they bathe
their feet in the blood of the wicked. Then men will way, "Surely
the righteous still are rewarded; surely there is a God who
judges the earth.'" 58:6-11
Certainly I wanted God to be honoured and yes I was deeply
destressed by the prevalence of evil - but could I actually pray
for God to "pour out His wrath" on the wicked?
The scripture make it clear that these prayers are not to be
prayed for own selfish motives, nor against our personal enemies.
Rather they are to be prayed in Christ, for His glory and against
His enemies. The psalmist describes the targets of these
imprecation as: those who devise injustice in their heart and
whose hands mete out violence (58:2) those who "boast of evil"
and "are a disgrace in the eyes of God. Your tongue plots
destruction, it is like a sharpened razor, and you who practise
deceit. You love evil rather than good, falsehood rather than
speaking the truth." 52:1-3; "They crush your people ... They
slay the widow and the alien; they murder the fatherless." 94:5-
6; "With cunning they conspire against Your people; they plot
against those You cherish." 83:3; "You hate all who do wrong. You
destroy those who tell lies; bloodthirsty and deceitful men the
Lord abhors." 5:5-6.
To those unrepentant enemies of God the psalmist declares:
"Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin" 52:5;
"Surely God will crush the heads of His enemies ... of those who
go on in their sins" 68:21.
And the purpose of these prayers for justice is declared: "Then
it will be known to the ends of the earth that God rules ..."
59:13; "to proclaim the powers of God" 68:34; "All kings will bow
down to Him and all nations will serve Him " 72:11; "Who knows
the power of Your anger? For Your wrath is as great as the fear
that is due You. " 90:11
Yet despite the fact that 90 of the 150 Psalms include
imprecations (prayers invoking God's righteous judgement upon the
wicked) such prayers are rare in the average Western church.
However, amongst the persecuted churches these prayers are much
more common.
PRAYING AGAINST THE PERSECUTORS
Amidst the burnt out churches and devastation of Marxist Angola I
found the survivors of communist persecution including the
crippled and maimed, and widows and orphans praying for God to
strike down the wicked and remove the persecutors of the Church.
I was shocked - yet it was Biblical (Even the martyrs in heaven
pray "How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge
the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?" Revelation
6:10).
The initiator of the communist persecution in Angola was Agestino
Neto. Described as a "drunken, psychotic, marxist poet", Neto had
been installed by Cuban troops as the first dictator of Angola.
He boasted that: "Within 20 years there won't be a Bible or a
church left in Angola. I will have eradicated Christianity." Yet
despite the vicious wave of church burning and massacres it is
not Christianity that was eradicated in Angola but Agestino Neto.
Neto died in mysterious circumstances on an operating table in
Moscow.
In Romania I learnt of a series of remarkable incidents recorded
of God judging the persecutors of the Church in answer to prayer:
* A communist official ordered a certain pastor to be
arrested. the next day the official died of a heart attack.
* Another communist party official ordered that all the Bibles
in his district were to be collected and pulped, to be
turned into toilet paper. This blasphemous project was in
fact carried out. But the next day when the official was
medically examined, he was informed that he had terminal
cancer. He died shortly afterwards.
* On another occasion, a communist official who had ordered a
Baptist church to be demolished by bulldozers died in a car
crash the very next day.
* When an order was given to dismantle a place of worship on
the mountainside in a forest, the workmen flatly refused to
carry out the order. At gunpoint a group of conscripted
gypsies also refused to touch the church. In desperation,
the communist police forced prisoners at bayonet-point to
dismantle the structure. Yet the officer in charge pleaded
with the local Christians to pray for him, that God would
not judge him. He emphasised that he had nothing against
Christians and was only obeying strict orders. The building
was in fact reconstructed later, and again used for worship.
"They were all seized with Sear and the Name of the Lord
Jesus was held in high honour... in this way the Word of the
Lord spread widely and grew in power. " Acts 19:17,20
Nicolae Ceaucescu the dictator who ordered much of the
persecution in Romania was overthrown by his own army and
executed on Christmas day, 1989, to joyous shouts of "the
antiChrist is dead" in the streets. Many testified that this was
in answer to the fervent prayers of the long suffering people of
Romania.
Another persecutor of the Church who challenged God was Samora
Machel, the first dictator of Marxist Mozambique. Samora Machel
was a cannibal who ate human flesh in witchcraft ceremonies in
the 1960's. He pledged his soul to Satan and vowed that he would
destroy the Church and turn Mozambique into the first truly
Marxist-Leninist state in Africa. Thousands of churches in
Mozambique were closed confiscated, "nationalised" chained and
padlocked, burnt down or boarded up. Missionaries were expelled,
some being imprisoned first. Evangelism was forbidden. Bibles
were ceremonially burnt and tens of thousands of Christians,
including many pastors and elders, were shipped off to
concentration camps - most were never seen again.
A month before his sudden death Samora Machel cursed God publicly
and challenged Him to prove His existence by striking him
(Machel) dead. On 19 October 1986, while several churches were
specifically praying for God to stop the persecution in
Mozambique, Machel's Soviet Tupelov aircraft crashed in a violent
thunderstorm. The plane crashed 200 metres within South Africa's
boundary with Mozambique. Amidst the wreckage the marxist plans
for overthrowing the government of Malawi were discovered and
published. Not only had God judged a blasphemer and a persecutor,
but He had also saved a country from persecution.
In the months leading up to the first multi-party elections in
Zambia many churches fasted and prayed tor God to remove the 27
year socialist dictatorship of Kenneth Kaunda. This was done on
31st October 1991 when Fredrick Chiluba (a man converted to
Christ whilst imprisoned for opposing Kaunda) was elected
president of Zambia and covenanted to make Zambia a Christian
country.
It is recorded in history that the wicked Mary, Queen of Scots,
declared trembling and in tears: "I am more afraid of John Knox's
prayers than of an army of ten thousand".
On 3 April 1993 the Secretary General of the South African
Communist Party Chris Hani was shot dead. From the unprecedented
international wave of condolences and adulation reported one
could be forgiven for assuming that this man was a saint and a
martyr. Certainly it was not the death and resurrection of Christ
Jesus which dominated the thoughts and headlines of South Africa
this Easter, but the assassination of Chris Hani.
The stunning hypocrisy of the situation is that 20 135 people
were murdered in South Africa in 1992, yet more collective
concern and anguish were reported over the death of the head of
the SA Communist Party than for all the thousands of other
victims. Indeed the SA government, the international community
and the mass media have apparently had greater sorrow reported
over this one death than for all the 50 000 South Africans
murdered since 2nd February 1990 when the ANC, SACP and PAC were
unbanned!
Yet as a member of the ANC Revolutionary Council since 1973,
Deputy Commander of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) the ANC's "military
wing" - from 1982, and Chief of Staff of MK from 1987, Chris Hani
had approved and ordered bombings and assassinations of many
unarmed civilians. As Jesus warned: "all who live by the sword
will die by the sword " Matt 26:52.
After personally confronting Hani about his terrorist activities
at a press conference in Washington DC (where he publicly
declared his support for Fidel Castro, Col. Gaddafi, Yasser
Arafat and Saddam Hussein and defended the placing of car bombs
and limpet mines in public places during "the struggle") I told
him that I was a Christian and, while I didn't hate him, I did
hate communism and I was praying for him - that God would either
bring him to repentance and salvation in Christ, or that God
would remove him. He responded by swearing and declaring that he
was an atheist.
Several other people also prayed that God would either bring Hani
to repentance or remove him. Similarly several churches in
America have begun to pray the imprecatory Psalms against
unrepentant abortionists. In one town 8 abortionists were struck
down, with heart attacks, strokes, car accidents and cancer,
within months of these public prayers for God to stop these
killers of preborn babies.
Some praised God for His righteous acts of judgement and quoted:
"When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous and terror
to evildoers " Proverbs 21:15. Others were shocked that any
Christian could express satisfaction at the misfortune of any -
even of the blatantly wicked. Yet the Apostles prayed imprecatory
prayers (Acts 13:8-12; Galatians 1:8-9; 2 Tim 4:14-15) and so did
our Lord (Matt 11:20-24).
What then should our attitude towards the imprecatory Psalms be?
Should we be praying the Psalms? To tackle these thorny issues I
would like to present a short summary of an excellent book, "War
Psalms of the Prince of Peace - Lessons From The Imprecatory
Psalms" by James E Adams, (published by the Presbyterian and
Reformed Publishing Company):
Our Lord Jesus Christ & His apostles used the Psalms constantly
in teaching men to know God. The New Testament (NT) quotes the
Old Testament (OT) over 283 times. 41% of all OT quotes in the NT
are from the Psalms. Christ Himself alluded to the Psalms over 50
times. The Psalms are the Prayer Book of the Bible.
1. Are the imprecatory Psalms the oracles of God?
Some Christian commentators & theologians reject these Psalms as
"devilish", "diabolical ", "unsuited to the church", and "Not God
's pronouncements of His wrath on the wicked; but the prayers of
a man for vengeance on his enemies, just the opposite of Jesus'
teaching that we should love our enemies. "
Yet 2 Tim 3:16-17 declares:
"All Scripture is God breathed and is useful for teaching,
rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the
man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. "
(see also 2 Peter 3:15-16).
The fact that something in the Word of God is beyond our
comprehension is not grounds to denying or even questioning its
inspiration. To make ourselves the judge of what is good or evil
is to impudently take the place of God.
Do we imagine ourselves to be holier than God? Wrong ideas of God
have led many to become "evangelic plastic surgeons who have made
it their job to "clean up" God's Word according to their own
ideas of what is proper. They have forgotten that it is God alone
who must determine what Christianity is and what is suitable for
His Church. The essence of what many have done is to question the
authority of God's Word (like Eve's original sin of listening to
Satan's question "Yes, hath God said... ?").
The Psalms are part of God's revelation of Himself and His
attributes, and they are reaffirmed by the NT as the
authoritative Word of God. Those imprecatory Psalms which these
evangelical plastic surgeons reject as "unsuited" and "unworthy"
for the Church are the very Psalms Christ used to testify about
Himself (eg: Mark 12:36; Matt 22:43-44) and which the Apostles
used as authoritative Scripture (eg: Acts 1:16-20; Acts 4:25; Heb
4:7). See also: 2 Samuel 23:1-2.
CH Spurgeon said concerning the imprecatory Psalms, (especially
Ps 109):
"Truly this is one of the hard places of Scripture, a passage
which the soul trembles to read, yet it is not ours to sit in
judgement upon it, but to bow our ear to what the Lord would
speak to us therein. "
The rejection of any part of God's Word is a rejection of the
giver of that Word, God Himself.
2. Who is praying these Psalms?
Christ quoted the Psalms not merely as prophesy; He actually
spoke the Psalms as His own words. The Psalms occupied an
enormous place in the life of our Lord. He used it as His prayer
book and song book - from the Synagogue to the festivals and at
the Last Supper.
On the cross Christ quoted from the Psalms - not as some ancient
authority that He adapted for His own use, but as His very own
words - the words of the Lord's Anointed - which as David's Son
He truly was.
"Father, into your hands I commit my Spirit" Ps 31:5
"My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?" Ps 22:1
In His ministry Christ foretells what He will say as the Judge on
the day of judgement, and He quotes the Psalms in doing so!
Matt 7:23 "Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away
from me, you evildoers'. " Ps 6:8
In Heb 10:5 the apostle attributes Ps 40:6-8 directly to Christ
although nowhere in the Gospels is Christ recorded as having said
these words. Similarly Hebrews 2 : 12 attributes Ps 22:22
directly to Christ despite there being no record of His having
spoken these words while on earth. Clearly the apostles believed
Christ is speaking in the Psalms.
Christ came to establish His kingdom and to extend His mercy in
all the earth. But let us never forget that Jesus will come again
to execute Judgement on the wicked.
David as the anointed king of the chosen people of God was a
prototype of Jesus Christ. Acts 2:30:
"being therefore a prophet, ... he foresaw and spoke of the
resurrection of Christ. "
David was a witness to Christ in his office, in his lite, and in
his words. The same words which David spoke, the future Messiah
spoke through him. The prayers of David were prayed also by
Christ. Or better Christ Himself prayed these Psalms through His
forerunner David.
The imprecatory Psalms are expressions of the infinite justice of
God, of His indignation against wrong doing, and His compassion
for the wronged.
3. But what about the Psalms of repentance?
Christ is also the Lamb of God, the substitutionary sacrifice for
our sins. Christ in the day of His crucifixion was charged with
the sin of His people. He appropriated to Himself those debts for
which He had made Himself responsible. Our Lord was the
substitution for the sinner. He took the sinners place (Isaiah
53).
"God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we
might become the righteousness of God. " 2 Cor 5:21
In history the Psalms, especially the imprecatory Psalms, have
been understood to have been the prayers of Christ by: St
Augustine, Jerome, Ambrose, Tertullian, Luther and many others.
All the Psalms are the voice of Christ. Christ is praying the
imprecatory Psalms! All the Psalms are messianic. It is the Lord
Jesus Christ who is praying these prayers of vengeance. It is
only right for the righteous King of Peace to ask God to destroy
His enemies.
These prayers signal an alarm to all who are still enemies of
King Jesus. His prayers will be answered! God's Word is revealed
upon all who oppose Christ. Anyone who rejects God's way of
forgiveness in the cross of Christ will bear the dreadful curses
of God.
He who prays Psalm 69:23-28 will one day make this prayer a
reality when He declares to those on His left:
"Depart from me you who are cursed into the eternal fire prepared
for the devil and his angels. " Matt 25:41
All the enemies of the Lord need to hear these Psalms. *God's
Kingdom is at War.* The powers of evil will tall and God alone
will reign forever!
"With justice He judges and makes war...out of His mouth comes a
sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. He will rule
them with an iron sceptre; He treads the winepress of the fury of
the wrath of God Almighty...King of Kings and Lord of Lords. "
Rev 19 : 15
4. Are Jesus' prayers contradictory?
What about Jesus' command to love our enemies and to bless those
who curse us (Matt 5:44)?
Christ is of course the loving and merciful Saviour who forgives
sin; but He is also the awesome Judge who is coming in Judgement
on those who disobey His Gospel.
"God is just. He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you
and give relief to you who are troubled...This will happen when
the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with His
powerful angels. He will punish those who do not obey the Gospel
of our Lord Jesus. They will be punished with everlasting
destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from
the majesty of His power on the day He comes to be glorified in
His holy people and to be marvelled at among au those who have
believed. " 2 Thess 1:6-10
Jesus has power on earth to forgive sins, and He has power on
earth to execute judgement upon His enemies. In the Psalms we see
both the vengeance and the love ot God.
Even in the N.T. & in the Gospels we see imprecations.
"Woe to you,...hypocrites...blind guides...blind fools...full of
greed and self indulgence...whitewashed tombs...you snakes! You
brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to Hell ? "
Matt 23
In Matt 26:23-24 Christ quotes from Ps 69 and 109 to refer to His
betrayal by Judas.
We also need to acknowledge that Christ's prayers of blessing are
not for all. In John 17:6-9 it is clear that Christ is only
praying to the elect of God - those who have:
"obeyed your Word"... "accepted" God's Word ... and have
"believed ". (see Luke 10:8-16 - Those who reject the
message of God's kingdom will be judged.)
5. May we pray the imprecatory Psalms?
Martin Luther pointed out that when one prays: "Hallowed be Thy
Name, Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done " then "he must put all
the opposition to this in one pile and say: 'Curses, maledictions
and disgrace upon every other name and every other kingdom. May
they be ruined and torn apart and may all their schemes and
wisdom and plans run aground' . "
To pray tor the extension of God's kingdom is to solicit the
destruction of all other kingdoms, eg: Dan 2:44: "The God of
heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed ... it
will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it
will itself endure forever. "
* Advance and victory for the Church means defeat and retreat for
the kingdom of darkness. *
There is a life & death struggle between two kingdoms. The Church
cannot exclude hatred tor satan's kingdom from its love for God's
kingdom. God's kingdom cannot come without satan's kingdom being
destroyed. God's will cannot be done on earth without the
destruction of evil. The glory of God demands the destruction of
evil. Instead of being influenced by a sickly sentimentalism
which insists upon the assumed, but really non-existent, rights
of man - we should focus instead upon the rights of God.
Note Psalm 83 where the Psalmist prays against those who "plot
together" against God and His people:
"Cover their faces with shame so that men will seek your Name O
Lord... Do to them as You did to Midian, as you did to Sisera and
Jabin at the river Kishon, who perished at Endor and became like
refuse on the ground. "
The story of Sisera in the book of Judges (Chapter 4 and 5)
provides a vivid example of God's judgement on the wicked. Sisera
"cruelly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years" and they
"cried to the Lord for help" Judges 4:3. In response to those
prayers: "The Lord routed Sisera and all his chariots and army by
the sword, and Sisera abandoned his chariot and fled on foot...
All the troops of Sisera fell by the sword; not a man was left. "
Judges 4:15-16
The account then goes on to describe how Sisera escaped to the
tent of Jael where she lulled him into a false sense of safety
and then drove a tent peg through his temple with a hammer. The
song of victory by Deborah and Barak celebrated the crushing of
the head of Sisera in graphic detail (Judges 5:25-27). And it is
this that Psalm 83 implores God to again do to His enemies.. "As
you did to Sisera ..."
6. The blessings of obedience and the curse of disobedience
The imprecatory Psalms are fully consistent with the Law of God:
"If you do not carefully follow all the words of this Law,
which are written in this book, and do not revere this
glorious and awesome Name - the Lord your God - the Lord
will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants. He
will bring upon you all the diseases of Egypt that you
dreaded, and they will cling to you. The Lord will also
bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not
recorded in this Book of the Law until you are
destroyed...because you did not obey the Lord your God ...
so it will please Him to ruin and destroy you. You will be
uprooted from the land you are entering to possess. "
Deuteronomy 28:58-63
The covenant God made with His people included curses for
disobedience as well as blessings for obedience. Deuteronomy 27
records the formal giving and receiving of the covenant terms in
an awesome account:
"The Levites shall recite to all the people of Israel in a loud
voice:
"Cursed is the man who carves an image or casts an idol - a thing
detestable to the Lord, the work of the craftsman's hands - and
sets it up in secret. "
Then all the people shall say, "Amen!" "
"Cursed is the man who dishonours his father or his mother...
"Cursed is the man who moves his neighbour's boundary stone...
"Cursed is the man who leads the blind astray on the roads...
"Cursed is the man who withholds justice from the alien, the
fatherless or the widow...
"Cursed is the man who kills his neighbour secretly...
"Cursed is the man who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent
person.
"Cursed is the man who does not uphold the words of the Law by
carrying them out.
Then all the people shall say, "Amen!" " Deut 27:14-26
The New Testament confirms that the inevitable consequence of
rejecting Christ is the curse. "If anyone does not love the
Lord - a curse be on him. " 1 Corinthians 16:22
(See also: Romans 12:19-21; Hebrews 1:1-3; 3:7-12; 3:1519; 10:26-
31; 12:14-29.)
7. How can we preach these prayers?
The Church of Jesus Christ is an army under orders.
Scripture constitutes the official dispatch from the Commander-
in-Chief. But we have a problem: those who are called to pass on
those orders to others are refusing to do so. How then can we
expect to be a united, effective army? Is it any wonder that the
troops have lost sight of their commission to demolish the
strongholds of the kingdom of darkness? If the Church does not
hear the battle cries of her Captain, how will she follow Him
onto the battlefield?
Pastors are commissioned to pass on the orders of the Church's
Commander, never withholding or changing His words. One whose job
is to carry dispatches to troops in wartime would face certain
and severe punishment if he dared to amend the general's orders.
The pastor's charge is of greater importance than that of a
courier in any earthly army. There's no place tor the dispatcher
to decide he doesn't agree with his Commander's strategy.
When Jesus Christ sent seventy-two disciples on a preaching
mission, He told them to proclaim the coming of God's Kingdom (Lk
10:9) - that is, to announce that people must submit to God's
rule in their lives. Jesus instructed them to pray for peace on
any house they approach, assuring them that if anyone rejected
it, the peace would return on the disciples (verse 5). But we
must consider what He said they should do if their message were
rejected - that is, if the hearers persisted in rebellion against
God's rule - "But when you enter a town and are not welcomed, go
into its 'streets and say, 'Even the dust of your town that
sticks to our feet we wipe off against you. Yet be sure of this:
The kingdom of God is near"' Luke 10:11.
What would be the result of that denunciation? I tell you, it
will be more bearable on that day for Sodom [on which God sent
fire from Heaven in judgement for its wickedness] than for that
town (verse 12). Immediately Jesus added curses on Korazin,
Bethsaida, and Capernaum tor their rejection of His message
(verses 13-15). He then explained to the disciples the great
authority He had given them: "He who listens to you listens to
Me; he who rejects you rejects Me; but he who rejects Me rejects
him who sent Me " (verse 16). This is the fundamental basis tor
calling down God's curses on anyone: his persistent rebellion
against God's authority expressed in His Law and the ministry of
His servants.
We need to clearly and forcefully proclaim the war cries of the
Prince of Peace. Only then will the Church awake from its
lethargy and once again enter the battle. If we tail to pass on
the battle cry then a lack of urgency and confusion in the ranks
will be inevitable.
Like Psalm 1 our preaching needs to clearly show the blessings of
obedience and the curse of disobedience. The eternal truth is
that God cannot be mocked. Whatever a man sows - that shall he
reap (Galatians 6:7). The curses pronounced on disobedience in
Deut 28:47-53 were fulfilled in detail in Samaria (2 Kings
6:2&29) and in Judea (AD 70). The wrath of God upon covenant
breakers is real.
The "I" of the Psalms is Jesus Christ. The "we" of the Psalms
includes those of us in the Lord Jesus. The enemies are not our
own, individually, but those of the Lord and of His Church. The
Psalms are ot Christ as Prophet, Priest, and King. They record
Christ's march in victory against the kingdom of darkness. As
Christ is the author of the Psalms, so, too, is He the final
fulfilment of the covenant on which they are based. God will
answer the psalmist's prayers completely in Jesus Christ on the
final day of judgment. While on earth Jesus foretold the day when
He will say: "But those enemies of Mine who did not want Me to be
King over them - bring them here and kill them in front of Me"
Luke 19:27.
A fatal end awaits everyone who refuses to acknowledge and to
obey Jesus as King and Lord. Hearing expositions of these war
psalms of the Prince of Peace will remind His people that God's
kingdom is at war! The kingdom of darkness is being overcome by
the kingdom of Jesus Christ, a war in which each local
congregation of believers plays a vital part. You must rally your
battalion to put on the whole armour of God, including "the sword
of the Spirit, which is the Word of God " Eph 6:17. That battle-
readiness also involves "pray(ing) in the Spirit on all occasions
with all kinds of prayers and requests n Eph 6:18.
Christ teaches His army to pray for the utter destruction of the
enemies of God as the psalmist did: "Pour out Your wrath on the
nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that do not
call on Your Name" Ps 79:6.
To deal with the very real hurts and injustices in this world it
is necessary for us to pray for God's justice. Those who are
persecuted need the comfort of these prayers.
"Let the saints rejoice in His honour and sing for joy...May the
praise of God be in their mouths and a double-edged sword in
their hands, to inflict vengeance on the nations and punishment
on the peoples, to bind their kings with fetters, their nobles
with shackles of iron, to carry out the sentences written against
them. This is the glory of all His saints. Praise the Lord. " Ps
149:5-9
Prayer is, in fact, spiritual warfare. One weapon is prayer for
conversion of spiritual enemies; another is prayer for judgement
on those who finally refuse to be converted. We handicap the army
of God when we refuse to use both of these great weapons that He
has given us. It is at all times a part of the task of the people
nf God to destroy evil.
If you have been guilty of dulling your sword, by neglecting or
undermining these psalms, repent of that sin, sharpen your sword
anew, and go forth to do battle in the Name and for the Glory of
Jesus - until "the knowledge of the Lord will cover the earth as
the waters cover the sea" Hab 2:14.
The full book "War Psalms of the Prince of Peace " is available,
at R25, from Frontline Fellowship, PO Box 74 Newlands, 7725 RSA.
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: >: I'd really like to see such a thing developed so that interactive
: >:internet talk radio could be done. Ideally, though, it should be a general
: >:purpose device. It should be a general purpose enough device that nobody
: >:should be able to balk at its widespread use. Obviously, to make it easy
: >:for homebrewers, it should use pretty common hardware.
:
: Why don't we move down even further toward the masses by setting this
: up on an IBM PC clone(probably needs to be a 386 or a 486) with a
: sound blaster and a V.32bis modem. Those components are very widely
I concur for a PC to PC version. BUT for a interactive thing like
internet talk radio?!?! It makes me cringe at the amount of hogging such
a thing would do to the bandwidth of the internet. I mean 15 meg files getting
floated around for internet talk radio is bad enough. I have a solution; use
the phone system; take your electronics and use them on point to point
conversations through the phone and thats it. If you need to tell someone
something secret and very important wouldn't it make more sense to write it
out concisely? And if it's just a quick "YO" then use a code word and spend
your twenty cents.
Those good ol analog systems like Shortwave, Telephones, and TV's have
a use don't gunk up a nice digital packet network trying to emulate them!
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But aren't you imposing your moral standards against gay people because
you do not want to rent to, or hire, or as you put associate with, (
and I do not know of a law that requires you to associate with gay
people)? It works both ways.
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From: martin.vuille@synapse.org
Subject: Electronic Design
Does anyone know the telephone number for the circulation department
of 'Electronic Design' magazine?
MV
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I would like to prevent our Windows users from using
ctl-alt-del from within windows. I know there must be
a way to do it.
Could anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks in advance,
Mike Glynn
mike.glynn@business.gatech.edu
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Does anyone here know anything about chelation therapy using EDTA? My
uncle has emphesema, and a doctor wants to try it on him. We are
wondering if:
1. Is there any evidence EDTA chelation therapy is beneficial for his
condition, or any condition?
2. What possible side effects are there. How can they be mimimized?
Please respond via e-mail to rme1@cornell.edu
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The Catholic church has an entirely different view of Mary than do
"most" other Christian churches (those with parallel beliefs
notwithstanding). Christ, by most accounts, is the only sinless
person to ever live. I too, have trouble with a sinless Mary
concept just.
As for the related issue of the "original" sin - only Adam and
Eve will answer for that one. My children do not answer for my sins,
certainly I only answer for mine.
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Really now. Why is this the pot calling the kettle black? I am stating
that a person who shows a continually biased opinion is close-minded and that
his opinion should be ignored. Clayton is stating that a group of at least
two million (1%) American citizens are evil vicious malicious child-molesters.
Here's a hypothetical question... If Clayton said something like "all
those niggers are really stupid." (Please don't be offended, I'm not racist
but merely using an example of Clayton's malign logic). And then said he
read a report that a lot of blacks in inner cities dropped out of school, I
bet he wouldn't have your support. Yet he can claim that all homosexuals are
dishonest, evil, lying child molesters without *PERSONALLY* having a single
homosexual friend or acquaintance and you'll sit there and support him.
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*** On 04-21-93 04:50, R.x. Getter had the unmitigated gall to say this:
RG> This may be a dumb question, but I need to put a hard drive on my
RG> father's PC/XT, either MFM, RLL, or IDE. I know how to hook it up, but
RG> how do I tell the computer the geometry of the drive. On my 386, you
RG> set it in the BIOS, but I doubt that's how it's done on an XT. I
Most XT IDE controllers are responsible for keeping track of the drive
geometry and getting the information to the computer. The controller may
come with software to update its on-board BIOS, or may be designed to work
with a particular drive. Seagate drives usually have special controllers
for use on XT's, and these are tailored to the drive.
Also, you cannot low-level format an IDE drive. The low-level format is
stored on specal magnetic areas on the disk surface called "servos" (not
like the electronic use of the term) that need a higher recording bias than
the drive's recording heads can generate. Don't try to low-level format an
IDE drive!
... P.E.T.A. People for the Eating of Tasty Animals
--- Blue Wave/QWK v2.10
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Not that the question is anything important, but I am still curious:
Why is that almost all printed circuit boards are green? I have seen
a few blue ones, but no red, yellow, company logo etc. Is there a
technical reason or could it be that the marketing "geniuses" have
not tought about it (yet)?
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Gant's ML record Age 28 this season.
Year G AB BA OBP SLG HR SB CS
1987 21 83 .265 .271 .386 2 4 2
1988 146 563 .259 .317 .439 19 19 10 <-- 3rd Base Expt. year
1989 75 260 .177 .237 .335 9 9 6
1990 152 575 .303 .357 .539 32 33 16
1991 154 561 .251 .338 .496 32 34 15
1992 153 544 .259 .321 .415 17 32 10
In the majors for parts of 6 seasons, total playing time
approx 4.5 seasons.
Just looking at his hitting record, he's had 2 seasons of OPS
greater than .800, which is pretty good for an OF. His
1988 season is pretty decent for a rookie 2B. The move to
third base explains a lot of his 1989. When he returned as an OF,
he began hitting again. And of course, last year he slumped.
But no learning curve? He has obviously improved his batting eye
over the years, as well as his SB/CS ratio. As to his fielding,
he was an infielder when he was drafted, a 2Bman as he came
up through the Braves system, and then the Braves put him through
2 position changes in the space of a year. He's an adequate OF,
although not great, and at least some of your perception of his
fielding is colored by watching him learn to play the OF at the
ML level. (I know you're another long-term Braves fan :)
About playing 3B...IMO, that's the 2nd most DIFFICULT position
to field, after catcher. At SS or 2B, you need more range and
speed, but at 3B, you've got to have quick reflexes and have
a GUN for an arm. There are NO second chances at 3B, even when
playing sandlot softball! Granted, I'd still put my best
overall infielder at SS, but that's because he gets more
chances, not because the job is harder. It still amazes me
that so many teams have tried to convert other position players
to 3B. But maybe that's because the supply of "natural" 3B is
scarce.
Finally, Gant is a player who puts pressure on himself to
perform well, and works hard to improve. You don't get
those amazingly huge arms on that relatively small body without a
lot of weight work. Now, whether he's been overdoing it these
days may be a valid question, as is the question of whether
he tries too hard to make something happen during each at-bat.
But frankly, if a player is going to not live up to potential,
I'd much rather they fail by trying too hard, than by not
trying hard enough. You might be able to teach relaxation
to an adult; but at that age I don't believe you can teach
hustle.
All that said, I don't think I'd sign Gant to another long-term
contract. He's 28 now, and I think he's free-agent eligible
in 2 years, when he'll be 30. Given his career curve and
limitations, I wouldn't expect him to last much past 35
as a ML ballplayer. He might surprise me here, but Atlanta's
got some talent on the farm, and I'd rather take my chances
down the road with Nieves et al.
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Are 180 degree V-6 "Flat-Six" engines???
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I think C.S. Lewis has argued that medieval people did not all think the
world is flat.
However, this argument goes both ways. Pretend someone telling Plato that
it is highly probable that people do not really have souls; their minds
and their consciousness are just something their brains make up, and
their brains (their body) is actually ahead of their mind even in
voluntarly actions. I don't think Plato would have been happy with this,
and neither would Paul, although Paul's ideas were quite different.
However, if you would _read_ what we discuss in this group, and not
just preach, you would see that there currently is much evidence in
favour of these statements.
The same applies to the theory of natural selection, or other sacred
cows of Christianity on our origins and human nature. I don't believe
in spirits, devils or immortal souls any more than in gods.
Ah, you said it. You believe what you want to. This is what I had assumed
all along.
You might be as well planting Satan's seeds, ever thought of this?
Besides, you haven't yet explained why we must believe so blindly,
without any guiding light at all (at least I haven't noticed it).
I don't think this is at all fair play on god's part.
Your argument sounds like a version of Pascal's Wager. Please read the
FAQ, this fallacy is discussed there.
And I failed to get help from the HS because I had a wrong attitude?
Sorry, Dan, but I do not think this spirit exists. People who claim to have
access to it just look badly deluded, not gifted.
Petri
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Ford aimed for 75% US content when they designed the new Probe. In actual
practice it came out to 77% US content. If my '89 is any example the 23%
that is imported may be the engine and brakes, at least the '89 had
Missybitchy brakes.
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...
This is a common misconception, shared my many manufacturers, programmers,
and users alike. COM3, for example, is simply the third equipped COMM
port, not necessarily the one with I/O address 3E8. The BIOS just
searches sequentially through a set of potential COMM port addresses. The
first equipped port it finds will become COM1, etc. If you're playing by
the rules, you can't have a COM4 unless you have a COM3 equipped. The set
of "standard" (whatever that means) port addresses merely reflects the
order in which the BIOS searches the I/O address space in its search for
serial ports.
So, what you have is indeed COM3 at the non-standard address 2E8. Were
this address in the 4th table slot instead, programs which query the BIOS
to determine the number of installed COMM ports would not find it, as the
field in the BIOS data area which contains this number would indicate that
there are but 3 COMM ports installed. (Frankly, I don't know of a simgle
program that would actually have a problem with this.)
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[Frank's solution deleted.]
If you have access to telnet, contact nyx.cs.du.edu. It's a public access
Unix system, completly free, and all you need to for access is a verifiable
form of ID (I think he requires a notarized copy of a picture, or a check, or
some such).
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Is it realistic for the government to try to keep the details
of the encrytion algorithm secret if it intends to use evidence from
wiretaps in court? Won't defense attorneys attempt to obtain the
details of the method if the prosecution attempts to present evidence
from wiretaps in court? Is it certain that such attempts will fail?
James B. Shearer
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You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts
in you.
Isaiah 26:3
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How do I get a subscription to MacWeek. I want one, but I don't seem to be able
to find a subscription card anywhere.
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You can't customize a command line interface? Where have you been? I
can change the prompt, I can make aliases (so someone like me who is
used to say, ls, can type it on my dos machine and still get a
directory listing), and under Unix, if I don't like the command line
interface, I throw it out and get a different one. (csh, bash, ksh,
sh, etc...)
This is true.
A decent GUI for all variations of Unix? Lessee... what about Motif?
Or the stuff from MIT? (twm comes to mind...) those are pretty
standard. Heck, an xwindows program runs like it likes to -- all the
end user has to really know is how to manipulate the actual windows
with the mouse, and since it is a GUI, it's *graphical* and a bit
easier to figure out. (Something the windows people have been pressing
down our throats for some time now...)
The thing I fear is that there will be a gap between the normal users
running windows (all flavors) and the other "power" users running Unix
and other more advanced OSes. At least right now, DOS is still pretty
much king. I can bring a copy of my latest whiz-bang programming demo
over to my friends house, and since we both run DOS, he can enjoy it
too.
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Hi Fellows,
I have :
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36 pcs. 1x1-80 $102 + $5.00 for shipping. Total 107.00
--------------------------------------------------------
If interested, respond here or call 408/942-9690 Fax 408/942-9693
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Are there any graphics texts with examples/demos/projects directly in
X?
The last time I taught the course, I used a popular graphics text that
uses its own graphics package, with implementations available for
X/Mac/PC. The problem was that after the course the students were good
at programming in the artificial package, but frustrated that they
couldn't really use their skill for other work.
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Dear Netters,
My friend have brought a S3801 card with 2Mb RAM. Is there any new driver
for the card available on ftp cites? What is the newest version? She is very
interest in have a driver for 1024x768 with HiColor and 800x600 true color.
No such driver come with the card.
K.W.Mok
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I speculate, from the MykoTronx data sheet on the MYK-78, that the algorithm
is a classified cryptosystem, similar in application to DES but cleared by
the NSA for classified traffic, that has been in use for a number of years.
Myktotronx refers to it as "Government Type II encryption", which matches the
designation of one of the types of encryption available on STU-III phones,
and may be the same as a cryptosystem I have heard called "CIPHER2".
This would make sense, since this is evidently a field-proven cryptosystem
which can act as a "pin-compatible" substitute for DES. Combined with a
tappable key exchange protocol, this would offer exactly what is claimed for
Clipper: secure encryption with access via a key escrow. If this is fact the
case, it would make me quite confident of the encipherment algorithm itself.
Now, I do not know if these are in fact the same cryptosystem; my knowledge
of classified cryptography isn't even fuzzy :), it's nonexistent. However,
it would certainly have been the least-effort approach on the part of the
government: take an old military cipher that people can drop in place of DES
(and which is at least as secure), set up a key escrow scheme for law
enforcement, and promote it for public use. This also fits with Mykotronx,
who's been around but almost invisible for years.
Has anyone else made this sort of connection, or am I just hallucinating pink
elephants here? :). My curiousity has been piqued...
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[ ... ]
[ ... ]
One very interesting thing I notice about this is that the only use of
the chip key is to encode the session key for the law enforcement field.
It is not used at all by the encryption algorithm.
It seems like it would be possible to create a device that would be
otherwise compatible, but would send out a bogus law enforcement field.
This might render the device unusable with "normal" devices if there's
some sort of validation involving the law enforcement field, but it
could certainly be used with other such modified devices.
Of course, this is irrelevant if the NSA has a backdoor in the
algorithm, but it does make it possible to defeat the key escrow system.
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Damn. And I did so have my hopes up.
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
Bob Beauchaine bobbe@vice.ICO.TEK.COM
They said that Queens could stay, they blew the Bronx away,
and sank Manhattan out at sea.
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The above article is a good short summary of traditional Christian
teaching concerning the death of Mary.
Also very good is "Re: Question about the Virgin Mary" by Micheal D.
Walker. He tells the story very well.
I would like to add that in the Eastern Orthodox Church we celebrate "The
Dormition (or falling asleep) of the Theotokos (the mother of God)". The
Icon for this day shows Mary lying on a bed surrounded by the Apostles
who are weeping. Christ, in his resurrected glory, is there holding what
seems to be a small child. This is, in fact, Mary's soul already with
Christ in Heaven. The Assumption of Mary is one more confirmation for us
as Christians that Christ did indeed conquer death. It forshadows the
general resurrection on the last day. The disciples were not surprised
to find Mary's body missing from the grave. She was the Mother of the
Savior. She was the first of all Christians. She gave birth to the Word
of God. If it were not for her we would not be saved. This is why we
pray in the Orthodox Church, "Through the prayers of the Theotokos,
Savior save us."
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Hi, I just test installed kanjitalk 6.07 on my IIci
and got a black screen, a way sick looking mac icon, and when hitting the
programmers reset, a tone sequence that I guess is the infamous "tones of
death."
I was able to reboot off a floppy, removed the japanese system, and
set up the system folder on the hard drive to get system 7.01 back.
Now have no overt problems with the mac.
Any idea what caused the tones? I forget the numbers but 7fff comes to mind.
If it is some self diagnostic, why would an older system version catch it,
and not 7. ?
(I'll be moving up to 7.1 and worldscript by-and-by)
Thanks in advance,
Hiroki
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I own a Zoom V.32bis modem and I am having some strange problems, I
would like to contact the manufacturer.. but there is no address on the
box. Does any1 have their address? or telephone number?
Thanx,
Don Smith
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Has anyone, while driving a cage, ever waved at bikers? I get the urge,
but I've never actually done it.
I've bike like | Jody Levine DoD #275 kV
got a you can if you -PF | Jody.P.Levine@hydro.on.ca
ride it | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Can anyone mail me the address of Houston's Mailing List?
Thanks in advance.
J. Scott Smithers
smithers@dcseq.uscga.edu
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After seeing William Sessions on television, explaining the great lengths
to which the FBI went to determine the suicidal tendancies of David Koresh,
I got the very unpleasent feeling that Koresh had manipulated the FBI's
perceptions much the way he manipulated his own followers.
Maybe I was manipulated by the news story.
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: I was recently talking to a possible employer ( mine! :-) ) and he made a reference to a
: 48-bit graphics computer/image processing system. I seem to remember it being called IMAGE or
: something akin to that. Anyway, he claimed it had 48-bit color + a 12-bit alpha channel. That's
: 60 bits of info--what could that possibly be for? Specifically the 48-bit color? That's 280
: trillion colors, many more than the human eye can resolve. Is this an anti-aliasing thing? Or
: is this just some magic number to make it work better with a certain processor.
I'm pretty sure most industry strength image processing specific
systems (i.e. photo processing gear) use as much as 96 bits of color info.
Why? Why not, oversampling is never a bad idea especially if the
hardware's only task is image manipulation, and profressional photographers
demand professional results.
: Also, to settle a bet with my roommate, what are SGI's flagship products? I know of
: Iris, Indigo, and Crimson, but what are the other ones, and which is their top-of-the-line?
: (sadly, I have access to none of them. Just a DEC 5000/25. Sigh.)
Strange question, but anyway, there's the VGX line, the newer
Indigo^2, and the Onyx systems are the new big boys on the block (you
can get a 24 processor system with twice the graphics performance of
a reality engine). There's more, but I don't have my handy "periodic
table of sgi's" on me...
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Would you like fries with that, sir?
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The Brady Bill passed the House in 1992, but failed to reach a
vote in the Senate. As such, it never reached Bush. (Sarah Brady's
condemnation not-withstanding).
It'll probably pass the House again, and will probably pass the
Senate if they can get it to a vote. Whether of not they'll be busy
with other things will be the question. I don't expect gung-ho opposition
on the part of Senate Republicans, since they won't want to over-use their
fillibuster trump card.
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How difficult would it be to do a solar sail mission to say mercury?
Not much has been there and there is a 23?KM/s delta v to eat off.
could a solar sail, handle say adiscovery bus, and drop it into
mercury orbit, good enough for rockets to put it into some
form of polar orbit?
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Yes, they are nice ads, and even better: great prices. But this is all on
the outside. The consumer sees this and orders. Little do they know, they
will get *POOR* service (very poor). When I ordered a 105mb hard drive from
TC about 6 months ago, I received it in the mail, installed it, and
discovered it DIDN'T WORK!!! I sent it back to them, and they said they'd
send me a refund check. IT TOOK MANY, MANY, MANY phone calls and hate-mail,
as well as threats of lawsuit to get back my $250.00! In fact, it took TWO
WHOLE MONTHS of calling and threatening! Every time I'd call, I would be
put on the run-around until I finally wound up on an answering machine. I'd
leave my name and phone #, but I didn't even get called back *ONCE*. I AM
ONE PISSED OFF T.C. CUSTOMER, AND IF YOU DON'T WANT TO GET RIPPED OFF, OR
IF YOU WANT DECENT SERVICE, DO NOT --I REPEAT-- DO NOT BUY FROM THIS
COMPANY. THE MONEY SAVED IS NOT WORTH THE ULCERS YOU WILL GET. PASS THIS
WORD AROUND TO YOUR FRIENDS. Companies like this do not deserve
to stay in business, so let's not give them out hard earned money.
Discount Micro, Systems Powerhouse, and Gateway 2000 all have given me
excellent service and speed in the past. I highly recommend them to anyone.
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There is a review of 3DO in the latest "wired" magazine. You may just want
to take a trip to the local bookstore and check it out (there's some cool pics
too).
(I haven't read it yet, or I'd tell you more.. :-)
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Greeting
I am starting work on a project where I am trying to make strain gages
bond to bone in vivo or a period of several months. I am currently
using hydroxyapaptite back gages, and I have tried M-bonding the gages
to the bone. Apart from those two application methods there doesn't
seem to be much else in the literature. I have only an engineering
background not medical or biological. I would be interest in any
ideas about how to stimulte bone growth on the surface of cortical bone.
Thanks for oyur help in Advance.
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Nice touch - using the word *seem*.
--
Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com>
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The green layer is a solder-mask, and is used to make a finished board
look neat, and to avoid solder bridges, especially when using wave
soldering (or any other mechanized approach). I've seen red mask,
but most that I've seen are green.
A bakelite board will look brown in colour, and, if the solder mask
is put on, looks like a brown board with green 'paint' on either side
(or just one side) of the board.
A fibreglass board will look green from the side, because the green
solder-mask makes the board appear that colour. If you got a fibreglass
board with no mask, it would be a whitish-grey colour.
Teflon boards do exist, as well... but I'm not sure about that one.
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********* WANTED : Word Processing Typewriter ********
A friend is looking for a wordproccing electronic typewriter, preferably
with 40 char. display and spelling correction.
Send info to the addresses below:
Thanks,
-Steve
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existance.
***************************************************************************
I just thought it necessary to help defend the point that Jesus
existed. Guys: Jesus existed. If he didnt, then you have to say that
Socrates didnt exist cuz he, like Jesus, has nothing from his hands that
have survived. Only Plato and others record his existance. Many others
record Jesus' existance, including the Babylonian Talmud. Sorry guys, the
argument that Jesus may not have existed is a dead point now. He did.
Whether he was God or whether there is a God is a completely different
story, however.
*****************************************************************************
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While it may mean that in 1993, the relevant meaning comes from 1789.
Moreover, "controlled" doesn't tell you WHO's doing the controllling.
Fletcher's Political Works, pub'd in 1749, defines a "well-regulated
militia", that being the relevant phrase, as being an armed people NOT
under the control of govt. The wigged gents who argued about the
constituion used it in that way.
Feel free to provide a 1790s-era reference showing a usage other than
"individual right, not to be interfered with by govt".
Note that the first clause has a meaning - it is a restriction on
govt military power. See Scarry's University of Penn law review
article for an extended discussion. The existence of a well-regulated
militia is a necessary part of that restriction, but it is not sufficient.
-andy
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Huh? Where did you get this idea from? I think you got this
backwards. The Duo's memory is faster than its equivalent desktop
machine by 5-10% (and the rest of the powerboks). I think the
explanation for this was that it can refresh faster (in 2 instead of 5
cycles I believe). Things that could affect performance would be
factors such as use of functions enhanced in the FPU (which the Duo
doesn't have undocked). Extensions and background applications can
slow your computer down too. Real life differences in speed are likely
to be influence by the software you are running, what kind of screen
depth you are running etc.
Espen
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[story about dealing having problems w/C610's deleted]
I've had my C610 for about six weeks now with no problems whatsoever.
It's been "customized" with---
* replaced the Apple-Quantum 80 drive with a Connor 212 drive.
* installed a Tandberg SCSI tape drive in the internal bay which works
just fine (though Apple doesn't seem to be supplying front panel
bezels w/ a standard 5.25" cutout...).
It's hooked up to an Apple LaserWriter Plus and has no printing
problems at all, tested printing complex Photoshop graphics.
It has expanded VRAM and extra 8 meg SIMM, no problems.
So in sum, I have no idea what this dealer is complaining about.
-Fred
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I have many icons in IconEdit and PBIcon format and I would like to
convert them to PBM, PGM or PPM format. Do you know the formats of
IconEdit or PBIcon?
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TRry the SKywatch project in Arizona.
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Where is Roger anyway? Haven't heard from him in awhile. He must
be out on the golf course waiting for the Leafs to join him any day
now. : )
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It could also be that your shell is hogging the resources. For example,
open the apps with data files that cause resulting low system resources
with ndw 2.x as shell,
then do the same with program manager, and see if it's the shell or the
apps.
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ALL,
Finally cleaned out the storage room and have the following items
for sale:
C-64 Computer
2-1542 Disk Drives
1351 Mouse
all cables
lots of software (mostly games)
The computer and drives work (hooked it to the TV to test)
except for sound-evidently the sound chip is gone. When GEOS
was loaded, the mouse would not respond, so assume it is bad.
Could be used for the games, or for spare parts.
If interested, would accept any reasonable offers.
Send replies to ihlpl!rsbrd or call (708) 979-8816.
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