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Translation of the above paragraph:
"I am uninformed about the evidence for evolution. Please send me the
talk.origins FAQs on the subject."
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BLUES PLAYOFF SCORING THROUGH END OF NORRIS SEMIFINALS
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PS # NAME GP G A Pts. +/- PIM PP SH GW EN
-- -- ---- -- -- -- ---- --- --- -- -- -- --
RW 16 Brett Hull 4 5 3 8 +2 0 4 0 2 0
C 15 Craig Janney 4 2 4 6 +1 0 1 0 2 0
D 21 Jeff Brown 4 1 5 6 +1 4 0 0 0 0
LW 19 Brendan Shanahan 4 2 3 5 0 6 2 0 0 0
C 7 Nelson Emerson 4 1 2 3 +1 2 0 0 0 0
RW 9 *Denny Felsner 4 1 1 2 +2 2 0 0 0 0
LW 10 Dave Lowry 4 1 0 1 +2 2 0 1 0 0
LW 17 Basil McRae 4 0 1 1 +1 2 0 0 0 0
LW 14 Kevin Miller 4 0 1 1 -1 2 0 0 0 0
RW 23 Rich Sutter 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0
C 28 Bob Bassen 4 0 0 0 -1 6 0 0 0 0
LW 36 *Philippe Bozon 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
C 18 Ron Wilson 4 0 0 0 -2 4 0 0 0 0
D 5 Garth Butcher 4 0 0 0 +1 2 0 0 0 0
D 33 Stephane Quintal 4 0 0 0 +1 0 0 0 0 0
D 44 *Bret Hedican 4 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0
D 34 Murray Baron 4 0 0 0 -1 8 0 0 0 0
D 4 Rick Zombo 4 0 0 0 -1 10 0 0 0 0
G 31 Curtis Joseph 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
D 6 Doug Crossman 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
C 22 Ron Sutter 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
RW 38 *Igor Korolev 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
RW 39 Kelly Chase 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
D 2 Curt Giles 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
G 29 *Guy Hebert 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
* Rookie
GOALTENDING
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GP Min. GA Avg. W L EN SO SA SAVE%
31 Curtis Joseph 4 251 6 1.43 4 0 0 2 140 .957
29 *Guy Hebert 0 00 0 0.00 0 0 0 0 00 ---
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Team Totals 4 251 6 1.43 4 0 0 2 140 .957
SO -- Shutouts ; SA -- Shots Against.
Goals 13 6
1st Period 4 1
2nd Period 3 4
3rd Period 5 1
Overtime 1 0
Power-play goals 7/29 1/24
Short-handed goals 1 0
Empty-net goals 0 0
Shots 97 140
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Does anyone know what the domestic content is of any of these:
Geo Prizm, Eagle Talon, Ford Probe
?
All are made in the US, but I have been told they contain mostly
foreign parts. Please follow up directly to me, I'll post the
findings to the net if there is interest.
Thanks!
Tim Newman
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% I can't haul my big dic. around on my bike...
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...or is it a boast?
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I think they are really neat to put onto key rings. When somebody
makes the mistake of asking about it, you can *totally* geek out.
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It's my understanding that Romans 9:13 "As it is written, Jacob have I
loved, but Esau have I hated." refers not to the two individuals, but
rather to their offspring, the tribe of Jacob and the tribe of Esau
See Obadiah, for example. In fact, if you scan through the OT, you
will find similar references to the two tribes.
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[Motor-Voter stuff]
Well, there does have to be a line. And to be honest, extending
voter registration to DMVs is hardly analogous to having only one
place for registration in Alaska and opening a new one in Atlanta. More is
not always better once you've passed a certain point.
I thought the Motor Voter bill passed.
In any case, my experiance with Tennessee's voter registration
system (which you can register with by mail, by the way) is that nobody
who is interested in voting is being denied access to registration.
All it requires is just the tiniest bit of interest on the registrant's
part and thinking about the election once in the eleven months prior to
it. (Once you register it's good unless you miss for years worth of
elections of move.)
It's easy to register now. I simply don't see the value in going
out and trying to get people registered who don't have enough gumption to
even write and have the proper forms sent to them. How can we expect
responsible decisions out of these people?
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Hi.
My wife has aquired some thyroidal (sp?) deficiency over the past year
that gives symptoms such as needing much sleep, coldness and proneness
to gaining weight. She has been to a doctor and taken the ordinary (?)
tests and her values were regarded as low. The doctor (and my wife) are
not very interested in starting medication as this "deactivates" the
gland, giving life-long dependency to the drug (hormone?). The last couple of
monthes she has been seeing a hoemoepath (sp?) and been given
some drops to re-activate either her thyroidal gland and/or the
'message-center' in the brain (sorry about the approximate language,
but I haven't got many clues to what the english terms are, but the
brain-area is called the 'hypofyse' in norwegian.)
My questions are: has anyone had/heard of success in using this approach?
Her values have been (slowly but) steadily sinking, any comment on the
probability of improvement? Although the doctor has told her to 'eat
normally', my wife has dieted vigorously to keep her weight as she feels
that is part of keeping an edge over the illness/condition, may this
affect the treatment, development?
I can get the exact figures for her tests for anyone interested, and I
will greatly value any information/opinion/experience on this topic.
I don't intend this post to be either a flaming of the established
medical profession or a praise for alternatives, I am just relaying
events as they have happened.
Sincerely,
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Your wrong. Never give up. Update your program as much as possible, with a
very low price of upgrade to registered users (and *PLEASE* make sure you keep
a list of registered numbers!)...
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ag625@yfn.ysu.edu ggruscho@nyx.cs.du.edu
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I just saw a picture of the '94 Mustang in Popular Mechanics - what
a disappointment after being bombarded with pictures of the Mach III...
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I agree with you Harry, however you must also concede then that
Arab terrorism is also a tragedy of war. remember that the
Palestinians have no other effective target but civilians in
order to further their cause. If Irgun had to attack civilian
targets to terrorize in order that they might obtain some
objective, I'm sure they would have done so. I also don't
exclude Irgun's action against British soldiers as terrorism.
The British were showing signs of favoring a compromise with
regards to Palestine, and the Irgun and branch off groups made
a point to kill young British recruits so that mothers and
fathers back in Britain would get angry at Britains continued
presence in Palestine. Sounds like a form of terrorism to me,
and not much removed from Arab terrorism. We must not also
forget that Irgun, or Irgun branch off groups [more likely]
killed many jews who were not as hardline zionist as they, or
who cooperated with the British.
I'll reiterate again.... both sides are screwy, but
I'll favor the underdog in this case because I do think they
were a bit screwed.
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B urn
A ll
T he
F uckers
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I believe that things are getting mixed here.
Critizicing Israel and/or being anti-zionist is not seeing "the absolute
negatives of that culture". Maybe, because a person can see the positives
of that culture is that that person opposes zionism and the actions of the
State of Israel.
I, for one, consider the actions of the State of Israel with respect to
the human rights of the Palestinian people as an example of an action thaty
opposes what Jewish culture was suppose to uphold as an example of
respect and what the Jewish people learned about oppresion, segregation and
years in the diaspora.
He might not want to recognize that. It does not make him a self-hating
Jew, as far as I see it. At most, he is a person who is not telling
the truth.
But, so far, it seems that the blame is always put on "the other".
If you read this newsgroup, for example, Israel is never guilty by
herself. She is always responding to the actions of the "other", and
it goes as if the actions of Isreal do not also affect the response
of the "other' in a cycle that never ends. Also, there is blindness to
try to understand what the other feels and why.
There is always and excuse. There is always a rationale to explain why
things happen as they do.
And, what is the worst part for me, there seems to be all the time an
intention to try to de-humanize the "other", as if the other did not
care about their future, children, peace, etc, etc.
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Of course you do. You married it a while ago, remember?
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Hello. I have a question (or two) about the serial ports for the
powerbooks (specifically the 145 with system 7.0.1). Is there a
difference between the serial ports on the powerbooks versus
any other mac, say plus or ii?? I have heard, though not confirmed
by apple that the serial ports have problems at high speeds.
I also heard that sys 7.1's new power manager 'fixes' this problem
allowing speeds just as any other serial port.
My particular use is that I have a 6811 EVB board that I need to
interface with my powerbook via the modem port at 9600 baud.
Currently, we are interfacing using mac pluses. I set everything
up just as in lab and nothing. In fact, the powerbook locks up.
Can anyone help, inform, advise? I would appreciate it.
I would prefer email since I don't read the news at all.
I will post a summary if enough response is generated.
Thanks.
Faisal M. Bhamani
faceman@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
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which flat 4 engines have I4 style cranks?
i am 99.99% sure that subaru (and porsche) use the boxer configuration
and not the inline 4 crank that you analyzed and compared. would you
care to re-evaluate the other case of a flat four? i think that this
configuration is perfectly balanced as far as primary, secondary
forces and couples are concerned. i have an article in front of me
that says so.
the flat four is also shorter than an inline 4, so even if it is mounted
longitudinally it will not take up lots of length.. and a longitudinal
placement is easier for a 4 wheel drive drivetrain.
i think that subaru's ads hold water. in practice, their flat fours
are noticeably smoother than inline 4s and completely buzz free,
though some may not like its peculiar note. but as alfa has shown, a
boxer four can produce a spine tingling scream that only the likes of
recent hondas can approach.
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Poor person's Kirlian Photography (try this at home)
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Ranma 1/2 pt2 professionally converted to play on SNES. Asking $60 or
willing to trade for SNES: SimEarth or Dragonball Z
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It is for a business and the end product has to be a photograph.
I take damaged black and whites, usually old, some very, and repair them
by hand at present. I would like to do this by using a computer.
I am just trying to find a vendor who can convert my computer stored
images to negatives or thermal print. The customer will want his/her
copy as much as possible like a brand new original photgraph.
-- David
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May I tease out a sub-thread from this discussion?
Can you all please tell me how to remove the stickers from new houses'
appliances and outdoor lampposts? Especially the lamppost, right on
the glass. Isn't there something you can rub into stuck-on labels that
will release them from their death-grip on glass or other hard surfaces?
Many thanks for any help.
John
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Don't worry. This is a perfectly normal state of affairs. Had they
actually been using him, you should be worried.
He's recovered totally from his injury. That's why he's not
pitching...so he can rest his arm enough that he can get injured again
pitching on 38 days rest and then have fun dining in the Diamond Club in
Shea Stadium while AY struggles every day out there...
I've be quite happy to drop John Franco, just the same.
Bring back Randy Myers!
No, better make that...Bring Back Neil Allen!
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Ok I want to get a color Mac I don't care if it is an LC or a Mac II or
what but I want to go to a color machine. I'd prefer to trade my
present Mac SE system plus some cash or other equipment for the color
system as right now I'm not full of the $$$ to buy a color system
outright.
Here's what my Mac SE system has...
Mac SE 4/20 with internal 800K drive
20 Meg external
External 800K drive
ImageWriter II with 4 color ribbon
Stuff that can go with it......
I'm willing to include both of the 9600 modems and the 2400 baud modem
if the deal is right. Keep in mind that both the 9600 modems are less
than a month old and the MultiTech modem sells for about $440 or so.
MultiTech Multimodem II (9600 data/fax)
U.S. Robotics Sportster (9600 data)
Microcom QX/12K (normally will connect at only 2400 as highest
but it will do faster if connected to another Microcom)
The USR and the MultiTech are both brand-new
If interested send me e-mail at dleonard@wixer.bga.com
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Hmm. This is certainly among the things I would refer to as quack
therapy and would tend to refer to any practitioner who prescribed
laetrile (whether licensed or not) as a quack. There are unethical
behaviors (such as ordering unneccessary tests to increase fees)
which I would not lable as quackish, but prescribing known ineffective
therapies seems to me to be one of the hallmarks of a quack.
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Note that this ominous prospect is fueled by the fact that various SC
and Prime outlets are wholly or partly owned by local NHL owners.
When/If Cablevision VP Chuck Dolan's purchase of the Islanders goes
through, the Islanders will be back solidly in the SCNY fold (their
original owners were, and they've remained due to a lucrative TV
contract). The Flyer Snyders own the Philadelphia SC as well as the
Prism pay channel. There are six teams affiliated with regional SC's,
another half dozen affiliated with Prime outlets, and other locals
like HTS and NESN who have barter arrangements. With all this
cross-ownership, I was surprised that ESPN got the deal this
season!!
gld
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I've heard of NO studies, but speculation:
Why on _earth_ would there be any effect on women's health? That's about
the most absurd idea I've heard since Ted Kaldis's claim that no more than
35,000 people would march on Washington.
Ok, _one_ point: Greatly reduced chance of pregnancy. But that's it.
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Note: BMW doesnt always follow this convention.
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Put me down for a PB100 4/20 with ext. floppy, AppleTalk Remote Acces,
AC adapter, and fresh out of box (was used, but buyer switched to 140
on arrival and sold unopened box. Purchased last October for $925.
Later I bought a used PowerPort V.32 9600 bps internal fax-modem for
something like $225, I'm using right now! Works great! :)
No real complaints. I love my portable system (got a color home setup
also. Mac II). Reasoning was that MATLAB programs at school and other
simulations of dynamic control systems sometimes took hours (or
overnight) to run, tying up my Mac II. I got the PB100 with fast modem
to do light work and on-the-run stuff. I figured I'd give it to my
little sister next year when she goes to college. It's running System
7.1 now without any problems. Also I sometimes do DEC4015 terminal
emulations with MATLAB on our university's VAX_VMS (nice thing that it
benchmarks itself as an average of 230 times faster than a mac IIfx).
So, the PB100 just does graphical output and terminal emulation (not
too hard at all for it). It was a FABULOUS setup !!!! :) Weeee!!!
(By the Way, all MATLAB software was on class accounts. I was also the
TA for a class that used SIMULAB/SIMULINK. We had site-license and
take-home, then-destroy later site-release licenses... No pirating
there, incase you're wondering.... Great Program!!! )
Just like to add, whatever future system you get, you can almost never
get enuff memory.... Buy it while it's cheap - that is buy it when you
get the computer since it's usually cheaper than upgrading... I ALWAYS
run out of disk space... But I have a syquest on the Mac IIsi, so I
never worried about space before... Got several carts).
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: Well, now, Doc, I sure would not want to bet my life on those little
: critters not being able to get thru one layer of sweat-soaked cotton
: on their way to do their programmed task. Infrequent, yes, unlikely,
: yes, but impossible? I learned a long time ago never to say never in
: medicine <g> Len Howard MD, FACOG
Yes, I suppose a single layer of wet cotton would be feasible. After all,
we certainly do not make condoms out of cotton!]
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Hi netters,
Quantum LPS 240AT harddisk forsale.
3.5" frame, 1/3 height.
IDE format, master or slave
723 cyl 13 hd 51 s/t = 234.9 real megs
Access time of 16 ms.
256K cache on the drive
Asking $300.
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I have a mystery part labeled NEC AC100. It's from the low voltage
supply of an NEC Multisync I monitor. It's a three lead part in a
square package like a volate regulator or power transistor. The board
is labeled CR691 where the part goes. (Possibly an SCR?) The pin
labeled G on the board goes to a zener diode (reference voltage?); the
pin labeled T1 goes to the negative lead of a capacitor in the power
supply, and the pin labeled T2 goes to the negative side of the bridge
rectifier in the supply.
If anyone can tell me what this is, or better yet, where I can buy
one just like it, please email me at ck3i@andrew.cmu.edu. I've called
NEC's "monitor repair number" and not only do they not know what the
part is, but they don't think that they can find one to sell to me...
It makes no sense to me...
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Having read in the past about the fail-safe mechanisms on spacecraft, I had
assumed that the Command Loss Timer had that sort of function. However I
always find disturbing the oxymoron of a "NO-OP" command that does something.
If the command changes the behavior or status of the spacecraft it is not
a "NO-OP" command.
Of course this terminology comes from a Jet Propulsion Laboratory which has
nothing to do with jet propulsion.
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In order to emit blue light, a semiconductor must have a band gap energy
within the region of 2.6 to 2.8 electron Volts. According to my physical
electronics prof, you can't get an LED with that band gap. That's why you
don't find blue LEDs or, for that matter, some other colour of LEDs. That
is not to say that blue LEDs can't be found. I've seen 'blue' LEDs sold,
but they were just your typical visible light LED in a blue plastic covering.
They didn't emit very much light...
Source: Solid State Electronic Devices (Ben G. Streetman, 3d ed., Prentice
Hall)
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"Right planet, wrong universe" - Douglas Adams
"If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy" - Mr. Whizzo
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sure the
way is
on
different
Okay, so what do you do if some part of the machine (presumably the part
on which the code number or whatever that the program has fixated itself
upon goes bad, you replace that part, and now your program won't run
because it's on a "different" computer???
This is, of course, assuming that the program uses something in ROM (like
the BIOS serial number, maybe?) and not a disk-based code number.
Obviously if the drive goes bad you'll be reinstalling the stuff anyway.
I work in a computer lab which is part of the university microlab system.
We have the wonderfully fun task of maintaining well over a hundred
machines, both PC and Macintosh, as well as administering a network of
over 50 NeXT machines. I personally am concerned only with a small lab
with ten PC's and ten Mac's. (I'm not the manager, but help him with
admin often). IMHO, copy-protection schemes of ANY sort are nothing more
than a major headache for the legitimate user. Anyone who wants a copy of
your program and doesn't care about legality will get a copy. Period.
"Pirate board" or no pirate board. I too have "friends" who blatantly and
quite successfuly "hack" copy protection schemes practically in their
sleep.
Let's consider what goes on in our lab. Almost daily we have at least one
machine down, sometimes several, due to some goofball screwing up some
setting or other on a piece of software. Admittedly, we (being students,
mostly) are not the world's most efficient and effective network
administrators, but we try. Keeping even the twenty machines that are
(partly) my responsibility even vaguely looking and "acting" similar to
the average user, and maintaining "behind-the-scenes" consistency is a
real headache, but not so bad a headache as trying to remember twenty
different folder locations of Norton Utilities when some guy trashes his
disk.
Often we have hardware problems at peak "business" times and have to do
some parts-swapping to get stuff working temporarily. . . .
Well, I'll cut to the chase and quit boring y'all . . ..
The point is, often we have to re-install software and copy configuration
files etc. from machine to machine. By far the easiest way we have found
to do this is to get ONE machine working EXACTLY the way we want to, then
COPY the complete setup of this machine to the other nine (of that
machine's type). This ensures us that (for at least ten minutes) we have
ten IDENTICAL machines to work with. Having them networked simplifies
this considerably, as our major packages (WordPerfect, Windows, etc.) are
all network versions and thus only one copy to mess with.
Often, however, we need to install a package requested by some instructor
to one, some, or all of the machines for a special project. This is
usually a hand-written or shareware,etc. program similar to what I believe
the original poster was asking about. The few we have had with "copy
protection" schemes have caused nothing but NIGHTMARES for us to maintain
. .
In short, don't waste your time with a copy protection scheme. It's sort
of like outlawing guns. The criminals will get your program anyway, and
you will only be hurting the legitimate, honest user. Write a good user's
guide and tech manual, whatever else for your program (PLEASE do this
REGARDLESS of whether you copy protect the thing!!!), and only distribute
the manual to LICENSED users. Jack the price to cut your losses, but
please take a cue from the major companies (who can admittedly afford the
costs of illegal copies far better than you) and don't burden the
legitimate user with a "copy protection" scheme!
Sorry for the tirade, but it's been a long day here . . .. :-)
Mark S. Underwood
EE Student, University of Kentucky
Lab Assistant, Boyd Hall Microlab
(a tiny little division of UK Library Microlabs)
E-Mail: msunde01@mik.uky.edu
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The 68070 is made by someone other than Motorola (Signetics perhaps),
and was (if memory serves me correctly) a 68000 compatible single chip
micro type chip. IE built in extra toys like serial ports, ram
interfaces etc. So, laugh all you want, but there is such a critter!
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In the kind I have made I used a Lite sour cream instead of yogurt. May not
be as good for you, but I prefer the taste. A few small bits of cuke in
addition to the grated cuke may also finish the sauce off nicely.
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Well everybody,
After reading tons of notes by Serdar, I have come to the following conclusion.
Turkey is PERFECT, and no Turk has ever made a mistake. He has proved to me at
least that the land occupied by Turkey today, was ALWAYS lived in peacefully by
Turks. (Including Istanbul AKA Constantinople) They treat their minorities
like gods and have only done good while all of their evil neighbors attacked
them. Somehow, despite these evil neighbors capable of nothing but murder
their population has exploded to almost 60 million in Turkey alone. (Note,
Armenian worldwide population is approximately 7 million total) I want to go
to this heaven on earth and meet the race that has made Serdar possible, that
has persevered, and has become a mecca for human rights lovers. (Amnesty
International must have bad sources, Turkey would never torture its citizens,
treat minorities badly, or kidnap 7 foreign journalists last year alone, who
incidentally are still missing), what I am trying to say is I WANT TO BE A
TURK!!!!
Now back to reality. I have once again been astounded by Serdars ability to
ignore all truth, all truly difficult questions, and go on to his encyclopedia
of quotes and sources that can be pasted into any note BY THE PAGE! Anybody at
all who has believed ANYTHING he has said, please step forward. Let him know
he hasn't been wasting his time, that SOMEBODY out there can be convinced by
the volume of e-mail you can produce, not the quality of the content. Well I am
off now. I will go dream some more about that perfect place, that nirvana,
that utopia, that xanadu, that TURKEY!
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Hello,
I'm trying to use the BIOS timer interrupts (which occur every .055
seconds, or 18.2 times a second) to time people's response times, in a
psychology experiment, and the response times are on the order of .01
seconds. Is there any way I can get better precision than by counting
ticks? Or can I make the ticks occur more frequently? I'm trying to do
this in DOS 5.0 on a 386, and it would be nice if this could also work
on our old 8086 machines running DOS 2.1 (I know, I know, I don't like
them any more than you do) but this is by no means a requirement, just a
possibility.
So, basically, any information on the BIOS tick scheme and the
related inrterruots would be appreciated, as well as any information on
alternate ways of improving accuracy. Email is preferred, as I'm
planning on posting this to a few boards, and I don't read all of them.
Thanks
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Doesn't seem like those responsible for the assault were very concerned
about the welfare of the children inside. Seems like they were more
interested in flexing their muscle before the media. My reasoning?
Just ask yourself this one question:
Suppose the scenario was slightly different and we had Chelsea Clinton
being kidnapped by terrorists, holed up in a compound for 51 days.
Do you think Clinton, Reno, the FBI, and the ATF would be so eager
to use a show of force?
Nuff said.
--
Richard Mulac ck347@cleveland.freenet.edu
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(alt.security.clipper added, to keep them informed of this issue)
....
: The proposal could be modified so that if they get a court order to tap you
: and don't charge you with a crime within, say, 90 days, they have to buy you
: a new phone.
:
: If they do charge you, and you are found innocent, they have to buy you a
: new phone.
:
: :-)
Yes, but will they buy you a ticket on a time machine to allow you to
go back and use the phone with the new key instead of the phone whose
key they obtained?
It is unclear whether obtaining the key at time 0 also unlocks
messages recorded (by whomever) at earlier times. The announcement was
silent on this. The betting seems to be that once your key has been
obtained (by the authorities, by divorce lawyers, by the Mafia, by the
FBI, by lost or stolen backup tapes, by the NSA, etc.). all previous
conversations are unsecure. (Session keys are negotiated, but knowing
the private key is believed by many commentators here to break the
security. No doubt more details will emerge.)
So, the loss of a key, whether one is guilty or innocent, may mean a lot
more than merely replacing the phone.
Sort of like saying to someone, "Oh, I copied your diary. But I'll buy
you a new one."
And the system, if made mandatory (as I expect), will make such
storing of conversations much easier, I fear. For one thing, the
transmission of the escrow key field acts as a clear signal to anyone
listening, a kind of "Caller ID" and "Callee ID" on a grand scale.
Also, the phone companies may not care as much about protecting the
privacy of the calls, as they perceive them all to be useless
encrypted junk. (This is a bit of a reach, I know, suggesting that the
Clipper will make security more lax...).
Anyway, still lots of issues unresolved.
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_The_ problem with Oort cloud sources is that absolutely
no plausible mechanism has been proposed. It would have
to involve new physics as far as I can tell. Closest to
"conventional" Oort sources is a model of B-field pinching
by comets, it's got too many holes in it to count, but at
least it was a good try...
So you have a plausible model for GRB's at astronomical distances?
Recent observations have just about ruled out the merging neutron star
hypothesis, which had a lot of problems, anyhow. We have to look for
implausible models and what is fundamentally allowed independent of
models.
A paper on the possibility of GRB's in the Oort cloud just came
through the astrophysics abstract service. To get a copy of this
paper, send a message to astro-ph@babbage.sissa.it with the subject
line
get 9304001
Here is the abstract of that paper.
The currently favored explanation for the origin of \GRBs puts them
at cosmological distances;
but as long as there is no distance
indicator to these events all possible sources which are
isotropically distributed should remain under consideration. This is
why the Oort cloud of comets is kept on the list,
although there is no known mechanism for generating \GRBs
from cometary nuclei. Unlikely as it may seem, the possibility that \GRBs
originate in the solar cometary cloud
cannot be excluded until it is disproved.
We use the available data on the distribution of \GRBs (the BATSE
catalogue up to March, 1992), and
the Catalogue of Cometary Orbits by Marsden and Williams (1992) to
investigate whether there is any observational indication for correlations
between the angular distributions of \GRBs and comets' aphelia,
assuming that the distribution of aphelia direction reflect,
at least to some extent, true variations
in the column density of the Oort cloud. We also apply the $\vov$
test to both distributions.
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I heard a short blurb on the news yesterday about an herb called feverfew (?)
that some say is good for preventing migraines. I think the news said there
were two double-blind studies that found this effective.
Does anyone know about these studies? Or have experience with feverfew?
I'm skeptical, but open to trying it if I can find out more about this.
What is feverfew, and how much would you take to prevent migraines (if
this is a good idea, that is)? Are there any known risks or side effects
of feverfew?
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The whole "saddam is going to invade Saudi Arabia" was nothing but US State
Department propeganda. Saddam (and Iraq in general) never recognised the
British created Kuwait. They were trying to recover land they believed
was theirs, much like the Argentines in the Faulklands. The Kuwaitis pushed
just a little too far by taking Iraqi oil and Saddam thought he'd settle
the dispute the old fashioned way...
Everybody would have been much better off had they left the reunited Iraq
together and concentrated on taking out Saddam. A strong, united Iraq with
an elected government would have gone a long way to ridding the world of
the feudal dictatorships in the Gulf.
But of course a weak divided Arab people better suits US foriegn policy...
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ITEMS FOR SALE
I will take offers for the following items. I reserve the
right to refuse any offers.
1. Howard Miller Clock. It chimes like a grandfather clock.
2. Painting- A Tiger in the snow. It is a beautiful painting, the tiger
looks like it can jump off of the canvas and get you.
3. Mens Diamond Ring, size 10
a. 3 rows of diamonds
b. 18k gold
Call or email me.
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: Are you saying that their was a physical Adam and Eve, and that all humans are direct decendents of only these two human beings.? Then who were Cain and Able's wives? Couldn't be their sisters, because A&E didn't have daughters. Were they non-humans?
Okay all humans are direct descendents of of a bunch of hopeful
monsters. The human race didn't evolve from one set parents, but from
thousands. Do you really base your atheist on -this-?
: Considering that something like 4 out of 5 humans on this planet don't know instinctively that the Christian god exist, the claim of instinctive knowledge doesn't look like it hold much water. Or are you saying that the 4 billion non-Christians in the world must fight this instinctive urge to acknowledge God and JC.
Did I say that people were Christians by nature or did I say that
Christians hold that everyone knows of the God the Christians worship.
I would have thought the distinction obvious, sorry. Read my post
again and see what I -really- said; from what you've written, I think
you are just being agumentative. Also your word-wrap is screwed up or
you need to shift to 80 columns text ...
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Rome was under attack by barbarians, they sent for advice to some Oracle,
and she said Worship Cybele and you'll be saved. They did, they were.
Cybele was the quintessential wiccan goddess, there was Her and her son &
lover, Attis. Yucky idea if you ask me. OK the book says she was Phrygian,
from the neolithic matriarchal society Catal Huyuk (Turkey). Worshipped 1st
as Black Stone (that Kaaba in Mecca ring a bell maybe????) Carried to Rome
in 205BC to save them from Hannibal.
It gets more interesting. Romans called her Great Mother (Magna Mater),
could be the reason why so many of those Mary statues in Europe are black,
prob. IS connected to that Ka'aba they've got in Mecca, 3rd cent. AD She was
supreme Goddess in Lyons, France . . . Attis was castrated and formed into
a pine tree . . . she should be worshiped on 25 Mar . . . in Rome it was
an ecstatic cult, her priests wore drag, worked themselves up in dance and
castrated themselves in order to initiate to her, lived their lives as women.
They wore make up and jewelry and the whole bit.
Wow.
Only other such primitive transsexualism I know of goes on in India (where
else?) where they do that castration thing under some meditation maybe, I
forget by now...there's a book on that.)
Of course, that excepts that weird Russian / Romanian 18th cent. Xian cult
that did all kinds of self-castration too, I forget their name.
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I don't think that this should be worked on just in the context
of cryptography. That's sure to pose all sorts of problems for all sorts
of people.
What's needed is for someone to develop a portable telephone
quality speech<->RS232 converter. Imagine, if you will, a little box that
takes data on its serial port and puts out sound, and takes sound and codes
it to signals on its serial port. Full duplex. Now, this device is not a
cryptographic device. It's a portable poor man's sound blaster or whatever
you want to call it. It's got loads of perfectly legitimate applications
for:
a) speech synthesis (with a few nifty libraries and some samples)
b) speech recording for electronic messaging
c) building voicemail systems
d) internet talk radio
e) internet relay chat
Of course, some of the electronic messaging in item b might be
encrypted, possibly realtime, but that's the user's decision. One would
need 2 of these talky boxes and a pair of modems and some kind of cutout
to switch over, and some code on, say, a 486 laptop.
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.
It's interesting to note that I'd already talked with a couple
of folks about building such a thing, before this whole clipper thing
started. I even went so far as to track down a couple of folks who are
able to make sample units, given incentive and some time. I'd envisioned
finding a couple of folks interested in such a project and helping fund
development of a public domain board layout and parts set, that could
be published in the form of CAD drawings for a couple of major CAD
packages, and in PostScript.
Anyone interested? I'll start a provisional mailing list. Let
me know if you want on.
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: While I'm sure Sagan considers it sacrilegious, that wouldn't be
: because of his doubtfull credibility as an astronomer. Modern,
: ground-based, visible light astronomy (what these proposed
: orbiting billboards would upset) is already a dying field: The
: opacity and distortions caused by the atmosphere itself have
: driven most of the field to use radio, far infrared or space-based
: telescopes.
Hardly. The Keck telescope in Hawaii has taken its first pictures; they're
nearly as good as Hubble for a tiny fraction of the cost.
: In any case, a bright point of light passing through
: the field doesn't ruin observations. If that were the case, the
: thousands of existing satellites would have already done so (satelliets
: might not seem so bright to the eyes, but as far as astronomy is concerned,
: they are extremely bright.)
I believe that this orbiting space junk will be FAR brighter still;
more like the full moon. The moon upsets deep-sky observation all
over the sky (and not just looking at it) because of scattered light.
This is a known problem, but of course two weeks out of every four are
OK. What happens when this billboard circles every 90 minutes? What
would be a good time then?
: Frank Crary
: CU Boulder
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Pink noise is a random signal with more low-frequency components
than white noise.
If you look at the frequency spectrum of white noise at a frequency
analyzer, you will find that the spectrum power density is flat, which
means that every frequency is present in the noise signal.
Often pink noise is obtained from white noise by integrating of low-pass
filtering a white noise signal. Therefore pink noise contains much more
low-frequency components.
The effect of pink noise is sometimes used to simulate thunder or roaring
animals. An additional low-pass filter with variable cutoff frequency will
explain you why.
Enjoy it.
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Welcome to the Peace Run
You're invited to join in
a Global Relay Run... and
help light the Way.
---- Why the Peace Run ----
There's a new spirit in the Nineties: a spirit of oneness, a growing
belief in the possibility of true global peace.
The goal of the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run is simple: to
bring this spirit forward in a concrete way, to transform it into
a reality in their own lives.
Every other year, thousands of men, women and children from more
than 70 nations - passing a flaming Peace Torch from hand to hand -
join together in a relay run that virtually circles the globe.
Transcending political and cultural boundaries, they go from
nation to nation - across mountains, jungles and deserts - carrying
the message of brotherhood to all humankind.
Each person who holds or runs with the Peace Torch lights a path
for those who follow. Each time the Peace Torch changes hands, the
flame of oneness burns a little brighter - until one day it will
shine in the hearts and minds of every individual on earth.
---- Making History ----
The three Peace Runs since 1987 have achieved some historic break-
throughs: in the Middle East, a landmark run crossed the Egyptian-
Israeli border; in Europe, a precedent-setting run linked Eastern
and Western Europe with Russia; in the United States, Mexico and
Canada, entire cities were dedicated to the cause of world peace;
and in Poland, the Peace Torch was blessed by Pope John Paul II.
---- Speaking as One: World ----
---- Leaders, Celebrities - and You ----
The Peace Run has won the support of leaders the world over -
Presidents, Prime Ministers, religious leaders, sports figures and
entertainment personalities.
Its message has spread to a half billion people though newspaper
reports, magazine articles and radio and TV broadcasts, including
specials on PBS, MTV and NBC's Today Show.
reconciliation. The world must know that God wants us to live
amicably as brothers and sisters, members of one family, the human
family, God's family." - Archbishop Desmond Tutu,
Nobel Peace Prize Winner
---- How It All Works ----
Peace Run 1993 started with a five-borrough relay in New York
City on Saturday April 17, converging at various points to lead
up to the opening ceremony outside the United Nations Dag
Hammarskjold Building. There, runners from around the world
were gathered for the fourth lighting of the Peace Torch.
From there, Peace Torches are now being transported to over
seventy countries for a series of concurrent international or
cross-country relay runs including the United States, Canada,
Japan, Australia, Russia and Eastern and Western Europe. Smaller
runs will take place in the Philippines, Mexico, Israel, South
America, Egypt and elsewhere in Africa. Distance to be covered:
31,000 miles.
the minds of those who support, participate in, witness, or hear
about the event." - Carl Lewis,
Six-Time Olympic Gold Medalist
---- Who's Behind It ----
The Peace Run is sponsored by the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team, an
international running organization that believes sports can be a
powerful instrument for promoting world peace. Each year the Team
puts on hundreds of athletic events, including several world-class
ultramarathons, marathons and triathlons, in dozens of countries.
The Peace Run itself is inspired by the global peace ambassador
Sri Chinmoy, who has written and lectured extensively on peace,
offered hundreds of free peace concerts and met with countless
world figures to advance the cause of international harmony.
The Run is managed by Peace Runs International, a non-profit
organization based in the United States.
---- Take a Step For Peace ----
The Peace Runs in 1987, 1989 and 1991 attracted nearly half a
million participants. We're expecting even more people to join
Peace Run '93.
You can also join the Run - carrying the Peace Torch a few steps,
a few blocks or a few miles. Or you can come out and cheer the
runners as they carry the Torch through your community.
You can also join local celebrities and government officials in
one of the thousands of welcoming ceremonies scheduled along the
70-nation route.
Your inner support is important too. If you're a runner, each time
you go out, you can dedicate your run to the cause of world peace.
---- The Next Step is Yours ----
---- Make It One For Peace ----
For information contact:
Peace Runs International
161-44 Normal Road
Jamaica, NY 11432 USA
tel. 718/291-6637 Fax: 718/291-6978
Peace Run Canada
2456 Agricola Street
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3K 4C2
tel. 902/425-1174 Fax: 902/420-0773
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I don't agree, but I can only speak for myself. I have a good friend
whose lifestyle is very sinful. Do I hate the things she does to herself
and others? Yes. Do I hate her? Absolutely not. In fact, she tells me
repeatedly that I am the best friend she has in the world. I care about
her very much despite the fact that I hate how she lives her life.
It's very easy to fall into the progression you describe above. I've
felt it with my friend more than once. There is a very important
part of Christianity that you've overlooked above and makes it possible
to "love the sin but hate the sinner." Before I look at someone
else's life and sin, I look to myself and am as disgusted by what I see
in *me* as I see in others, probably more. Self-righteousness is
contradictory to Christianity and is what makes the progression you
describe happen. If a Christian can truthfully quote Paul and say, "Wretched
man that I am!" [Romans 7:24 (NASB)], that Christian will be able
to love the sinner and hate the sin. If we have the attitude of the Pharisee
who said, "I thank Thee that I am not like other men..." [Luke 18:11 (NASB)],
we will hate both.
-- Scott at Brandeis
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Where can I obtain a copy of the Open Look widgets? Is it obtainable on
the net somewhere, or do I need to order a copy (if so, how)?
Thanks for any help. Please email.
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I wrote a commercial program called GAME-MAKER (can you guess what
it does). What we do is have a document protect (answer Question on page x,
line y), which is a real pain. We also allow the user to register by sending
in a card, and computing a # based on their name. The system works in that
we've gotten lots of registration cards.
I hear that the program has been cracked though. Someone two people
actually called up my support--one with a question, the other wanting to
buy our graphics libraries (right!). Anyway if anyone wants to help me
catch a cracker and has the cracked version, mail me. I won't accuse
you (unless you're the cracker of course).
--
Andy Stone
- stonea@suned.cs.yale.edu
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Here is someones "biblical" claim for the characteristics of Satan:
And separately:
We have here three distinct claims concerning the results of the devil's
decision making, a specific desire, and a physical description. Now, in
support (aside from the minor detail that an author seldom writes an unbiased
account of the opposition) we see:
ISA 14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the
morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken
the nations!
ISA 14:13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into
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heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit
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also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
ISA 14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will
be like the most High.
ISA 14:15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides
of the pit.
Doesn't say sits on God's throne. Says will exhault throne above the stars.
DAN 10:12 Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the
first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to
chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am
come for thy words.
DAN 10:13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me
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one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes,
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came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.
DAN 10:14 Now I am come to make thee understand what shall be-
fall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for
many days.
See who is being discussed?
EZE 28:12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of
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Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up
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the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
EZE 28:13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every pre-
cious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the dia-
mond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the em-
erald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy ta-
brets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou
wast created.
EZE 28:14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have
set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast
walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
EZE 28:15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou
wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
EZE 28:16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled
the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore
I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I
will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the
stones of fire.
EZE 28:17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou
hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will
cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they
may behold thee.
EZE 28:18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of
thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will
I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour
thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight
of all them that behold thee.
EZE 28:19 All they that know thee among the people shall be as-
tonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be
any more.
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I had posted that it came from a survey of registered users, I
double-checked with a friendly neighborhood marketing type and
found there were actually two surveys. One of randomly selected
resellers, one of randomly selected users from the 6 upgrade
registered user database. Both surveys showed a 93% positive
rating.
-jen
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(misc.legal trimmed)
Well, that's the obvious conclusion, given your train of logic. The
corollary then is that it must be a waste of time for the party to run
candidates until the educational program has shown some results.
Followups to a.p.l.
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Medical school ? Like your fellow Austrian Dr. Mengele ??
Josh
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This might be better directed to s.r.c.bible-study, which I have begun
reading, but since my earlier notes were posted to this forum, I will
conclude here as well. A week ago, I managed to find time to consult
a Septuagint Concordance and a LXX text with apparatus at the library,
and I can now usefully conclude my look at the Greek words for love as
used in the Christian background of the Septuagintal translation of the
Jewish scriptures.
The principal result is that there is a cluster of uses of the verbal
noun from _erao:_, _eraste:s_ meaning "lover." This cluster occurs just
where one might most expect it, in the propethic image (and accusation)
of Israel as faithless spouse to YHWH. The verses in question are Hosea
2:5,7 & 10; Jeremiah 4:30, 22:20 & 22; Lamentations 1:19; and Ezekiel
16:33, 36 &37 and 23:5, 9 & 22.
[ Hosea seems to have originated this usage, which Jeremiah and
Ezekiel picked up; Lamentations is dependent on, though not
likely written by, Jeremiah. ]
The "erotic" meaning (in its allegorical use, not at all literally) is
evident. So too in English, unless you complement it with a phrase like
"of the arts" the word "lover" is going to have an overtone of sexual
relationship. There is no surprise here, but it is worthwhile to see
that standard Greek usage *does* show up in the translations from the
Hebrew! :-)
More interestingly, and some confirmation of my guess that later Koine
usage avoided the verb _erao:_ because of its homonymy to _ero:_ (say),
_eromai_ (ask), there is an error in Codex Vaticanus (normally, a very
valuable witness) where a form of _erao:_ is used in a completely absurd
context -- 2 Samuel 20:18, where the meaning *must* be "say."
In addition to the above (and the uses I have already mentioned in Proverbs),
Esther 2:17 uses the verb in its most natural application,
kai e:rasthe" ho basileus Esthe:r -- and the King loved Esther
and, rather more interestingly, 1 Samuel 19:2 supplies a modest degree of
support to the gay appraisal of the relationship of David and Jonathan:
kai Io:nathan huios Saoul e:[i]reito ton Dauid sphodra
-- and Jonathan, Saul's son, loved David intensely
[ I'm using the bracketed [i] for io:ta subscript, which I
don't yet have a reasonable ASCII convention for. ]
(The relevance of this to the gay issue is not anything implicit about
the "historical" facts, but just that a quasi-official translation of
the Hebrew text in the Hellenistic period makes no bones about using the
"erotic" verb in this context. Given the quite general usage of _agapao:_
for erotic senses, this need not mean anything "more" than _agapao:_ alone
would mean, but it DOES disambiguate the relationship, as far as this
translator goes!)
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: Yes, a lot of what OS/2 2.0 has in common with OS/2 1.x was written by you
: guys. However, many of the things that made OS/2 2.0 so much more successful
: (Win-OS/2, Workplace Shell) than previous versions were IBM work.
Win-OS/2 is IBM work? You make me laugh... Re-writing couple of thousands
lines of code to make Windows compatible with your DPMI implementation does
not make the rest of Windows IBM work...
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Darwin fish can be bought from:
--
"JOIN THE DARWINNERS (TM) Send $6 to receive your official Evolving
Fish.. wherever you want to spread the good news! Darwinners, 6671
Sunset Blvd., Ste. 1525, L.A.,CA 90028 THE GREATEST THEORY EVER TOLD!"
Jenny
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I have a Practical Peripherals 9600sa (External) modem for sale.
It's been used less than 1 year and has a lifetime warranty. I've
never had a problem connecting to any site, something I can't say
for the noname or third tier modems. Original box and manuals.
$150 (firm) Includes shipping anywhere in the Continental US.
Ken
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The problem is that the process is inherently complicated ! The IJG's code is
pretty good if you ask me, and I have watched it go through many many cycles of
revision.
Try getting a good book on the subject, that will explain the algorithms.
Specifically "JPEG Still Image Compression Standard" by Pennebaker & Mitchell,
VNR 1993, ISBN 0-442-01272-1.
BTW. I presume your comment about "good" code wasn't meant to sound as offensive
as it does.
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So I finally decided to risk this upgrade, FAQ in hand I've gathered the
pieces together. The only problem is that I haven't been able to find
anyone who's even heard of thermal tape/glue (which is what the FAQ
recommends for attaching the heat sink) I am just tempted to use duct
tape here.... anyone hae any ideas for me for attaching the heat sink to
the processor?? much thanks.
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Does anyone out there have at hand the phone or fax number for TECH POWER, who
are a PC motherboard manufacturer (may be known as TECH POWER Enterprises).
Thannks in advance
- Chris
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I was at avalon today and found texture maps in some "tex" and "txc"
format, something I've never encountered before. These are obviously
not tex or LaTeX files.
IF you have a clue how I can convert these to something
reasonable, please let me know.
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First of all (this is NOT a snide response), if you're confused about
this issue, you will stumble over a lot of other things as well. I suggest
that the weakness is your reference material. Get "An Introduction to Ray
Tracing" by Andrew Glassner for very good coverage of the raytracing
algorithm. You could also refer to the 2nd edition of Foley & Van Dam.
On to the question. The simple answer is that you just keep adding up
all the contributions and then clamping at the maximum intensity. For
example, if your intensity values range from 0.0 to 1.0, then keep adding up
and clamp the resultant values to 1.0 (you might have to clamp the lower
bound to 0.0 if you have dark bulbs, but that's another issue =^). So, you
get some illumination equation like this:
I = Lambient + Ldiffuse(light[n]) + Lreflected + Ltransparent
The contribution due to reflection is just summed with the light
intensity, as is the light due to transparency. Now, a slightly less
hand-waving illumination equation is this:
I = KaLa + KdLd(light[n]) + KrLr + KtLt
That is, each component of the illumination equation is governed by the
material constants Ka, Kd, Kr and Kt. So the maximum you can get from
transparency for a given object, for example, might be [0.4, 0.1, 0.5] for a
purple-colored glass object.
Hopefully this answers your question. I'll forward my "illumination
equation sermon" to you also.
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[...]
This reminds me... my fuzzy brain recalls that somebody was thinking
of reviving the San Marco launch platform off the coast of Kenya,
where the Copernicus satellite was launched around 1972. Is this
true, or am I imagining it? Possibly it's connected with one of the
Italian programs to revive the Scout in a new version.
That old platform must be getting pretty rusty, and there ain't a lot
of infrastructure to go with it...
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I guess your view of the video from your sofa gives you a better view than
the cops involved? I guess one can see what one wants to see after all.
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I live up in British Columbia, Canada.The cable company I use is called
Rogers Cable. Does anyone know of their scrambling techniques, and ways of
getting
around them? Any suggestions of what they might use?
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I didn't catch your posting one year ago, but I presume you like to leave out
an extra a-latch ? (I presume you allready know there is a '573 but that couldnt
be the question, could it ? ;-)
During my student-trainee project, I discouvered a nice device, it's a PSD301
from Waferscale Integration. In one single (44 PLCC I think it was) package
it contained: ROM, RAM, I/O lines and a programmable addressdecoder...
As far as I can recall, it can be hooked directly with a MCS-51 series uP ...
Neat huh ? But it needs programming before assembly, so it wasn't suitable
for my project. Perhaps usefull for you (future) plans ?
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Commericial support for exploration examples:
Also much if Baranovs exploration and Utilization of Alaska (Russian America,
also included parts of Washington state, Oregon, and N. California) was doen by
private funds (yes some royal governmental funds at times..)..
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>drug dealers, spies, terrorists, and organized crime figures (assuming
>enough probable cause to convince a judge) who need to be watched, not
>law-abiding citizens.
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The USA Today says "late this year". The question is, will hockey be moved to
ESPN2 permenantly, or will it be where they have a game of the week on
ESPN, and have a bunch of other games on ESPN2?
--
Mike Cornell | "There are a great many people in the country today who,
mac18@po.cwru.edu| through no fault of their own, are sane." -Monty Python
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Does anyone out there know where some one can become educated in the art of
repairing Macintosh computers? Also, how does one gain the prestige of being
refered to as a Authorized Apple Service person? Has anyone out there actually
done any of this or maybe even know someone who did. I would appreciate any
and all comments on this subject.
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1. Please take this out of sci.space.
2. Ayn Rand was not only born in Russia, but educated there. A lot
of her philosophy reflects not only a European education but a
reaction against certian events in Russia while she lived there.
I've heard that to the extent there is a division of modern philosophy
between the "Continental" and British/American schools, Rand belongs in
the former in terms of methodology et al, even though she was trying to
say things that would belong in the latter school.
I.e. she was trapped in the language of Kant and Hegel, even though
she was trying to say (at times) much different things.
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For Sale:
Time Line for Windows by SYMANTEC
Never Opened.. Still in wrap......
Retails for $495.00 Asking $250.00
Send E-Mail if interested.
Jonathan
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A few random thoughts on riding with a passenger:
There's no substitute for a bike with sufficient power, having taken
passengers very occasionally on the small (125 etc) bikes I used to
ride in the UK it was hard ! I'm now riding a GS1100 and that's great,
even moving from my freinds GSX600 I was riding recently. This may be due
in part to the fact that neither I, nor my regular passengers, are
particularly slimline !
I always tell passengers, stay in line with the bike on corners, that makes
their movements predictable.
My regular passengers both tend to hold either the rack or nothing at all,
I don't really like having a passenger hold onto me except for short periods.
Again that may be biased by the fact that I've had a couple of new passengers
(a friend recently for her first time on a bike) who hold on to me real tight,
making any kind of maneuvering difficult.
I've also discovered that on longer trips I prefer a passenger who moves and
shifts their weight a bit. I recently took a work collegue to a meeting (about
a 1 hour ride) and he sat totally still the whole way which left me also
sitting very still and getting a sore back.
We have a code system for turns, stop and for 'I need to shift position'.
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We are planning on buying 15-20 X Terminals. I have the article from Jim
Morton regarding prices, etc., and am looking for any other information
that will help me decide which to buy.
The terminals will be connected to a DEC 3000/400 AXP with 96Mb RAM,
running OSF/1. From what I have found out so far, it would be best to run
as much as possible in the terminal itself (X11, window manager, xterm,
etc.), and that in order to do this we need n Mb RAM in the Xterminal
(where n ranges from 4 to 10, depending on who I talk to).
What should I be looking for? What sort of questions should I be asking
the salespeople?
Thanks
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Gregg, you haven't provided even a title of an article to support *your*
contention.
You also have no reason to believe it *is* an anti-Islamic slander job, apart
from your own prejudices.
Why, yes. What's a mere report in The Times stating that BCCI followed
Islamic banking rules? Gregg *knows* Islam is good, and he *knows* BCCI were
bad, therefore BCCI *cannot* have been Islamic. Anyone who says otherwise is
obviously spreading slanderous propaganda.
I see. If someone wants to provide references to articles you agree with,
you will also respond with references to articles you agree with? Mmm, yes,
that would be a very intellectually stimulating debate. Doubtless that's how
you spend your time in soc.culture.islam.
I've got a special place for you in my...
...kill file. Right next to Bobby. Want to join him?
The more you post, the more I become convinced that it is simply a waste of
time to try and reason with Moslems. Is that what you are hoping to achieve?
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This problem is caused by a bad interaction between the way olwm reparents
windows, a misfeature of the X protocol, and a bug in the Xt intrinsics.
The Intrinsics bug is that it ignores the (x,y) position given in
ReparentNotify events. Olwm is structured in such a way that, when a window
is popped down, the last event the client receives is a ReparentNotify event.
At this point, the Intrinsics' notion of the shell's location is out of date.
If a SetValues is done using the same (x,y) position, the Intrinsics thinks it
needs to move the shell, so it issues a ConfigureWindow request to move it
there. However, a (mis)feature of the X protocol is that a ConfigureWindow
request that has no effect will generate no ConfigureNotify event. The
Intrinsics thus waits for an event that will never arrive, and times out after
wmTimeout has expired. (Actually, things are somewhat more complex because
the request is redirected to the window manager, but the net result is the
same.)
The solution is for the Intrinsics to note the (x,y) positioning information
in ReparentNotify events. This has been implemented and is available in X11R5
public fix 20. This is XBUG 5513 for those of you who are interested in
gorier details.
s'marks
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Yes we have the same problem with xinit. The problems seems to come from the
fact that the XOpenDisplay(":0") fails. If we try (on our machine
named godzilla)
setenv DISPLAY godzilla:0.0
Xibm&
xterm
It works fine, but the following will not work
setenv DISPLAY unix:0.0
Xibm&
xterm
Did we set a configuration option incorrectly? Thank you for any assistance
you can offer.
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Herb Hasler --- herb@iiasa.ac.at
International Institute for Applied Systems Anaylsis (IIASA)
A-2361 Laxemburg, Austria --- +43 2236 715 21 ext 548
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I'm looking for some recommendations for screen capture programs. A
couple of issues ago, PC Mag listed as Editor's Choices both Conversion
Artist and Hijaak for Windows. Anyone have any experience with those or
some others? I'm trying to get an alpha manual in the next few days, and
I'm not making much progress with the screen shots. :^(
I'm currently using DoDot and I'm about to burn it and the disks it rode
it on. It's got a lot of freaky bugs and *oversights* that are driving
me crazy. Tonight it decided that for any graphic it writes out as a
TIFF file that's under a certain arbitrary size, it will swap the left
and right sides of the picture [!]. Usually it confines itself to not
copying things to the clipboard (so I have to save and load pix for
editing in paintbrush) or crashing every hour or so.
The one nice thing it has, though, is it's "dither" option. You'd think
that this would turn colors into dots, which it does if you go from, say,
256 colors to 16 colors. But if you go from 256 or 16 colors to B&W,
you can set a threshold level for which colors turn to black and which
turn to white. For me, this is useful because I can turn light grays on
buttons to white, and the dark grays to black, and thereby preserve the
3d-effect on buttons and other parts of the window.
If you understood my description :^) can you tell me if another (less
buggy!) program can do this as well?
Much thanks for any help.
---------------------------------Signature---------------------------------
David DelGreco | "What lies behind us and what lies
Technically a Writer | before us are tiny matters compared
delgreco@rahul.net | to what lies within us."
| - Oliver Wendell Holmes
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My girlfriend is a smoker. She has been addicted to it for quite some time.
She has been tried a couple of times, but then always get back to it. Her
background is non-Christian, but she's interested in Christianity. I'm a
Christian and non-smoker.
I would like to collect any personal stories from Christians who managed to
quit. I hope that this will encourage her to keep on trying. If anybody ever
had a similar problem or knows a good book on it, pls reply by email.
I appreciate any kinds of helps. Thanks a lot.
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The Vatican library recently made a tour of the US.
Can anyone help me in finding a FTP site where this collection is
available.
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: I'm wondering if it's possible to use radio waves to measure the
: distance between a transmitter(s) and receiver?
:
: Seems to me that you should be able to measure the signal strength
: and determine distance. This would be for short distances (2000 ft),
: and I would need to have accuracy of 6 inches, or so.
: --------------------
You might try looking at whats available in laser locating systems. They
work best for close work( 1 mile and under).
RF is used for much longer distances in two major modes. Transponder and
phase measurment. Transponder requires you send a pulse to another station
and it returns it to you and you measure the round trip time minus the
receiver time.
Phase measurements require two or more transmitting stations sending the
same frequency signal multiplexed in time. A receiver can pick them up and
measure the phase shift between signals. Maps can be drawn that plot the
Lines of Position that correspond to a certain phase shift between two
stations.
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refrettably you are mistaken. alt.drugs was used to recruit people for the
worldwide pot religion. I, however hve no problem being in both of them
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It probably won't work with any other LC. The ones I have for the LC II
are Rev. D. No, it won't work in the IIsi's PDS slot since it's a 68030
PDS, while the LC has the 68020 PDS. The IIsi and SE/30 share the same
kind of card.
That's the 10BaseT ethernet connector.
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WHen trying to choose a resistor with a tolerance better than 1%, you
need a trimmer or to screen devices, it can't be made from adding 2
resitors of 1% value in parallel, since the smaller device will have the
error of 1% to cope with.
You have 3 choices;
a) live with the error of 1% tolerance devices for low Q circuits or low
sensitivity designs
b) buy resistors with better than 1% tolerance (Vishay/Dale)
c) use trimmers or SOT's (Select-On-Test)
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I replied:
You answered:
I think it is important to clear up your first reply. You gave the
impression that you should not use smartdrive with stacker. You are
correct re: caching the compressed drive. However, as I understand it,
you can cache the uncompressed drive. Thus if you have compressed your
disk C:, you will have a C and probably a D drive under stacker. C being
the compressed disk (which is just a large file on D:) and D being the
uncompressed disk. You should only attempt to stack D:. In fact, with
Win 3.1 and smartdrv.exe, it seems smart enough to automatically default
to stacking your A,B and D drives.
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What about ethanol? It's available here in corn country and its octane is
rated at 89 or 90 and costs the same as "normal" 87 octane.
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On 26-Apr-93 in Re: What part of "No" don't..
Please provide evidence that having a moment of silence for a student
who died tragically costs taxpayers money.
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[...]
B > Medicine has not, and probalby never will be, practiced this way. There
B > has always been the use of conventional wisdom. A very good example is
B > kidney stones. Conventional wisdom(because clinical trails have not been
B > done to come up with an effective prevention), was that restricitng the
B > intake of calcium and oxalates was the best way to prevent kidney stones
B > from forming. Clinical trials focused on drugs or ultrasonic blasts to
B > breakdown the stone once it formed. Through the recent New England J of
B > Medicine article, we now know that conventional wisdom was wrong,
B > increasing calcium intake is better at preventing stone formation than is
B > restricting calcium intake.
[...]
B > Marty B.
Marty, I personally wouldn't be so quick and take that NEJM article
on kidney stones as gospel. First of all, I would want to know who
sponsored that study.
I have seen too many "nutrition" bulletins over the years from
local newspapers, magazines, to TV-guide, with disclaimers on the
bottom informing us that this great health news was brought to us
compliments of the Dairy Industries.
There are of course numerous other interest groups now that thrive
financially on the media hype created from the supposedly enormous
benefits of increasing one's calcium intake.
Secondly, were ALL the kidney stones of the test subjects involved
in that project analysed for their chemical composition? The study
didn't say that, it only claimed that "most kidney stones are large-
ly calcium."
Perhaps it won't be long before another study comes up with the exact
opposite findings. A curious phenomenon with researchers is that they
are oftentimes just plain wrong. It wouldn't be the first time.
Sodium/magnesium/calcium/phosphorus ratios are, in my opinion, still
the most reliable indicators for the cause, treatment, and prevention
of kidney stones.
I, for one, will continue to recommend the most logical changes in
one's diet or through supplementation to counteract or prevent kidney
stones of either type; and they definitely won't include an INCREASE
in calcium if the stones have been identified as being of the calcium
type and people's chemical analysis confirms that they would benefit
from a PHOSPHORUS-raising approach instead!
Ron Roth
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-- Internet: rn.3228@rose.com - Rosenet: ron roth@rosehamilton --
* A stone on the ground is better than a stone in the body.
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Hello,
we need the code for decompression of Quicktime JPEG Pict files, as they
don't conform to usual jpeg compressors, which are available in source.
The code should be in C Pascal or Modula. The code will be used on several
platforms to view pictures over ISDN. Perhaps a special hardware will be
put around it (much less then a mac! perhaps only a DSP with some support
chips)
If the code is not available, perhaps the algorithm is available to
decompress
them.
Christian Bauer
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FOR SALE: 1990 Pontiac Grand Prix SE
2-Door Coupe,
White, White rims, Gray interior.
58K miles (mostly highway),
3.1 Litre V6 multi-port fuel-injected engine,
5 speed manual transmission.
One owner.
Options include:
A/C,
Rear defogger,
Power steering,
Power brakes,
Power windows,
Power locks,
Power mirrors,
Cruise control,
Power glass moonroof with sunshade,
Power seat/recliner (driver's),
Power seat/comfort/lumbar/headrest (both front seats),
Trunk pass-through (for skis)
AM/FM cassette stero (6 speakers),
Electronic monitor/service system with graphic compass,
Stereo controls duplicated on steering wheel,
Remote-keyless entry,
and others.
Asking $11,500.
The car looks and rides like it just rolled off
of the dealers lot. It has been garaged and pampered.
It gets an average of 27.5 mpg highway, sometimes better;
city is around 19-23 mpg, depending on how it is driven.
Selling because of baby coming soon. Need 4-door family
car. Will consider trade or partial trade with Ford Taurus,
Mercury Sable, or 4-door Pontiac Grand Am or similar American
car.
I live in the Boston,MA area.
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If you would like to sell your Technics SA-GX910 receiver, or know
someone who would like to sell it, please contact me. I'm willing
to pay any reasonable price. Thanx.
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I stopped going to A's games some years ago while I still lived inthe
Bay Area for exactly this reason. I believe the length of their games
has been institutionalized by LaRussa/Duncan. They encourage their
pitchers to be overly deliberate, to throw to first often, to study
the catchers' signals, and so on. And almost every A's hitter takes
a step out of the box after every pitch. This is not, imo, a coincidence.
This is planned. And I hate it.
As for the Gant situation, I did not see the game or the replays. But
I do wonder. What if Gant had requested a time out? Would Hirschbeck
have been required to give it to him? Could he have denied the requst?
For all he (the ump) knew, Gant could have had dirt in his eye.
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Utah raster toolkit using getx11. Convert your sun raster files (presumably) to
ppm with the pbm+ toolkit then convert ppm to utah rle format with ppmtorle which
is provided in the toolkit.
I seem to remember that Xloadimage can do 24 bit servers too.
Possibly xwud the x window un-dump program can display 24 bit images; certainly
xwd can grab them.
--
Chris Lilley
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Technical Author, ITTI Computer Graphics and Visualisation Training Project
Computer Graphics Unit, Manchester Computing Centre, Oxford Road,
Manchester, UK. M13 9PL Internet: C.C.Lilley@mcc.ac.uk
Voice: +44 (0)61 275 6045 Fax: +44 (0)61 275 6040 Janet: C.C.Lilley@uk.ac.mcc
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I remember, back before commercial mikes with the "PZM" label (for
Pressure Zone Microphone) started showing up, I read an article,
in some engineering journal, that described the principles involved.
All the physics aside, from a practicle standpoint the author's said
they built a prototype with nothing more than a small Sony lavelier
mike laid up against a large aluminum disk. In demonstrating it at
a presentation to audio engineers, this was impressive enough that
the people present were bugging them about where they could buy them.
Anyway...I want to build some to use as "choir mikes" (wide coverage).
I've had good luck using some small electret mike elements I got
from Digi-Key - most of these are limited-bandwidth, peakey units
but for a buck or two more I got the ones spec'd to go out to 20kHz
with a bit flatter response.
The distance of the mike opening from the flat plate is kind of
critical. I'm debating whether to mount it on it's side, which
puts the opening a shade under 2mm from the plate, or mounting
it with the opening actually pointing down into the plate at a
small clearance. I haven't dissected a unit like you can buy at
Radio Shack to see how they do it. Thoughts?
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I've read that exercise makes the heart pump more blood at a stroke, and
that it also makes the heart pumb slower, in order to make up for the
greater volume. My Internist, who diagnosed my AV block, slow heart rate
and PVC's, told me something different. She says that heart rate is
associated with the electrical properties of the hear muscle, not its
size. Exercise lowers heart rate and increases stroke volume, but the
effects are unrelated except for their common source. The AV block, she
asserts, is another electrical effect, which is irreversable - even when
exercise is dicontinued. PVC's are also common in runners.
So my EKG puts me in a class with trained athletes and also with heart
patients. Isn't that strange, though? Are there any not-so-beneficial
aspects to athlete's heart? Is it all good?
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The lead-acid secondary cell releases energy (electricity) with the following
chemical reaction:
Pb + PbO2 + 2H2SO4 --> 2PbSO4 + 2H20
Lead and Lead (IV) Oxide and Sulfuric Acid produce Lead Sulfate and Water
The standard heats of formation at 25 C (77 F) of the various compounds are:
Heat of formation
Compound at 25 C, kcal/mole
-------- ------------------
Pb 0.00
PbO2 -65.0
H2SO4 -193.69
PbSO4 -218.5
H20 -68.3174
The heat of reaction at 25 C is therefore -60.6 kcal per mole PbSO4 produced.
Note that lead sulfate is not very soluble (0.0048 grams per 100 grams water
at 25 C), and it will thus precipitate out of solution where the reaction is
occurring, or the cathode (positive terminal) of the battery. (I am almost
sure it is the positive terminal where the precipitate forms, but I may be
wrong. Oh well, I don't have a corroded battery to corrobate, and I don't feel
like thinking through it right now.)
What is important to notice here is that the reaction, as you knew it would be,
is exothermic, or energy discharging. If moisture with dissolved electrolytes
(acid rain) condenses on the battery, a conductive path between the terminals
may form. This will discharge the battery as the chemical reaction proceeds.
The reaction is reversible, if electricity (from an alternator or battery
charger) is put back into the battery.
Lead-acid batteries must change in chemical composition to discharge. Each
cell has all the reactants necessary for the reaction. The non-reacting posts
(terminals) of the lead-acid battery are there to remove (or add) electric
energy during a discharge (or charge). Because the reaction is exothermic, it
has a tendency to happen, though quite slowly under normal circumstances. So
while keeping the battery dry is a good idea, it is not a total solution.
To understand why lead-acid batteries DO INDEED discharge faster when stored on
concrete as opposed to wood or earth (dirt), one should recall LeChatelier's
Principle, which can be paraphrased as: anything subjected to some stress will
act to move to a more comfortable position. Here are the thermal conductivities
of a some selected materials:
thermal conductivity
material Temperature, C (F) BTU/(hr-ft-ft)(F/ft)
-------- ------------------ --------------------
diatomaceous earth, 204 0.051
natural, across strata 871 0.077
diatomaceous, natural, 204 0.081
parallel to strata 871 0.106
diatomaceous earth powder (100) 0.039
(density, 18 lb/cu.ft) (200) 0.042
(300) 0.044
(400) 0.048
(500) 0.051
concrete (cinder) --- 0.20
(stone) --- 0.54
(1:4 dry) --- 0.44
pine (across grain) 15 0.087
(parallel to grain) 21 0.20
oak (across grain) 15 0.12
maple (across grain) 50 0.11
Note that the thermal conductivity for "dirt" (diatomaceous earth) goes down
with temperature. Also, 204 C is about 400 K, and the values for earth powder
are on the same order of magnitude as natural earth. The thermal conductivity
of concrete is around a factor of 10 greater than that of dirt, and is 2-4
times greater than wood.
It is these differences in thermal conductivity that cause the battery on
concrete to discharge faster than that on dirt or wood. At any instant the
discharge reaction is occurring, energy is being released, either as electricity
or heat. (Thermal conductivity of air is about 0.015 BTU/(hr-ft-ft)(F/ft).)
During storage, except for the trickle that passes through any condensate on
the battery, this energy is mostly released as heat. The higher conductivity
surface will remove the heat proportionately faster than the lower conductivity
surface. Thus, if you perfectly insulated a dry battery on all but the bottom
surface, at any given battery temperature above the storage surface temperature,
the battery on a concrete surface will be discharging about 10 times faster
than that on dirt.
This is where LeChatelier's principle comes into play. Removing energy from
the exothermic reaction will drive the reaction further to completion. If the
reaction normally occurs at room temperature, keeping the battery at that
temperature requires the removal of any heat produced. A concrete surface is
a better heat sink than a dirt or wood surface. Store a battery in the corner
of a poured concrete basement, and you have 3 surfaces removing energy, which
"pulls" the reaction along.
Also, if water evaporates from the battery, that elevates the ratio of sulfuric
acid to water. This will tend to drive the discharge reaction.
Jeff White jhwhit01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
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