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This effect disappears if you clean your apparatus after you kirlianed the whole leaf and before kirlianing the leaf part.
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I am looking for utilities for converting GIFs/JPEGs/PS etc to xpm format? Any information appreciated. Thanks,
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Anyone from Alabama knows it should be: Is "The Bear" Catholic? Does a Pope shit in the woods?
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That was my point. If I play poker with Monopoly money I can bet anything I want. This is exactly why Christianity is missionary in nature, not just out of a need to irritate. 8-) To the people who wrote the Bible and to whom the Bible is written, there is evidence of love, but that is a cultural bias. This is a...
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*yawn* The Church of Kibology did it first and better.
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My god, how many chances do they get? Operation Move (Philedelphia, early 80's), Black Panthers (Chicago, 1969), etc., etc. Hell, we get heavily armed millenial cults out west every couple of years. Do with have to start a cascade of times the feds have been in situations like this?
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I hate to belabor the obvious once again, but if there had been an Orbiter emergency in the early stages of the original HST deployment mission, they would have HAD to land with HST in the bay. Indeed they were worried about that. One concern was the possibility that they would lose a motor or something on the way ...
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I've mentioned this study a couple of times now: Ingestion of yogurt containing Lactobacillus acidophilus as prophylaxis for candidal vaginitis, Annals of Internal Medicine, 3/1/92 116(5):353-7. Do you have a problem with the study because they used yogurt rather than capsules of lactobacillus (even though it had pos...
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Yep, you can use any type of UNIX, or maybe VMS, or buy a MAC or something... If you want longer filenames for your documents, I heard of a wordprocessor for windows which let you assign long names to files. Those long filenames could only be seen from that programs open/save dialogs though... Maybe someone knows mo...
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HELLO, I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH MY WINDOW 3.1 PROGRAM SOMETIMES WHEN I SAVE SETTINGS OF PROGRAM MANAGER THE SYSTEM CORRUPT ONE OR MORE *.GRP FILES AND PROGMAN.EXE CAN'T OPEN IT ON NEXT START. THANKS FOR ANY ANSWER. CHROBERT
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: I have seen the existance of electronics solder with a 2% silver : content that seems to have good wetting and fatique reatings. : Can anyone tell me why it is not used? (silver is not such an expensive : metal). : : : Andy : For the most part, silver-solder is not used for general soldering tasks due to the ...
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Khufu and Khafre are both patented (#5003597). Biham and Shamir showed that differential cryptanalysis can break 16-round Khafre with a chosen- plaintext attack using 1500 different encryptions. Khafre with 24 rounds can be broken with the same attack using 2^53 different encryptions. (There are probably more effici...
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If I recall, Jen said right up front how the sample set was derived. Where's the FUD? Does this mean I can flame you if I ever see you doing it? Face it - the .advocacy groups are _for_ the kind of things that you're preaching against. This is why they were created in the first place - to filter out al...
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I am very interested in hearing from all of you who are using or implementing 3-D interactive applications what types of 3-D widgets you would like to have in your applications. A 3-D widget is usually located in the same scene as other 3-D objects of the application. It may let you - manipulate application data,...
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About 50 people so far have asked, "Once the FBI gets your Clipper keys, won't they be able to read all your future and past traffic?" There has been no response from NIST, NSA, Ms. Denning, Mr. Hellman, or anyone else who might be able to give us an authoritative answer. This is troubling. Didn't NSA think about thi...
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How about half a friend? The Motorola Codex preliminary V.Fast modem (which you can by right now) does 24.4 kbps (raw) over standard phone lines. 28.8 kbps is what is usually claimed for the "final" v.fast, but you can't go out and buy that right now, the standard isn't done yet. Again, voice can be compressed qui...
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Two LH Research SM11-1 power supplies (SM10 series). 1000W, 5V, 200A (currently wired for 115VAC). Control lines: +/- sense, on/off, pwr. fail, high/lo margin, current monitor. They both work! (List price from LH Research is $824.00 f/ qty. 1-9). Asking $150 each + shipping.
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G'day Brian, I'll be blunt about this. The ONLY reasonable explanation of Roberts algorithm is in Procedural Elements for Computer Graphics Rogers McGraw-Hill Book Co. 1985 Go to the library and look at this. There is also a somewhat muddled explanation in the first edition of Newman and Sproull. The algorithm de...
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I bought a set of ARE's a few months back and decided to add locks so that I could keep my new rims. I haven't had a balance problem yet so I assume that it might be just particular to your type of stock nuts. My rims were balanced with new BFG T/A's at a speed shop to the finest setting on their bal. machine, so th...
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Some people working a few cubes over have come up with this need, and it seems that someone out there just might have done it already, and can point me to some tools that would help. What they'd like to do is: Given a window that is taking a long time to draw (because either the data is arriving over a slow link...
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In my quest for speed, I've run into a problem. 66.66 mhz and 80 mhz clock oscillators are available but I haven't found any speeds between 66.66 and 70 mhz for further testing. Fox Electronics (813) 693-0099 can make custom oscillators but if anyone knows a source cheaper than $12/osc please let me know. Some 68 and 7...
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I find it very interesting that you say there will be 2.5 million queers in the march on Washington. The largest figure I've seen in the press is 1 million and we all know how liberal the press is with their numbers. :) For another thing, 1% of 250 million is 2.5 million not 6. Maybe that's where you got the 2.5 mi...
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Well, you can't say that it don't work. The inability to read 800k mac disks is not a SW problem. Rather, it's a HARDWARE limmitation on PCs.
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Well, just when you think *nothing* will strike at a BMW-key-fob/ostrich-feather-dipped-in-silly-putty-and-varnished-solid lure, somebody comes along and inhales it right up to the lead swivel! There *is* a Dog. It's going to be pretty difficult to better (worsen?) a trolling scheme this low, though.
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Would anyone have a few extra 3479P's lying around that I could buy off of them.. Problem is that around here I can only perchase them in $30 quantities, and I don't need this, and can't take this financially right now.... If anyone can accomodate me with this PLEASE reply to BOTH for the...
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Not when the power has been cut off for weeks on end. Any generators are no doubt out of fuel, too. So all they would have is wood stoves and kerosene lanters (maybe). It is alleged that the tanks pushing in the walls knocked over the lanters, starting the fire. Remember, the FBI had bugs which they even used (il...
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Dateline Tue, 20/Apr93 03:38. In , Antonio Pera of icop@csa.bu.edu wrote to All at 1:133/411, AP> Recently, I heard the Red Sox on WROL a AP> Spanish-speaking radio station. I thought it was so AP> unreal. The Red Sox in Spanish? Anyway, I want to find AP> out how widespread this is? Being a NY native, ...
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Unless otherwise noted, I am mainly interested in USED items. If you have (any of) the following for sale, please contact me: EMail mbeck@vtssi.vt.edu Phone (703)552-4381 USMail Michael Beck 1200 Progress Street #5500E ...
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I am not a battery expert, but from recent reading, a lead acid battery will self discharge at a relatively high rate, and if stored in a discharged state, will develop a condition I think is called sulfation. In storage, either the electrolyte should be removed and replaced for use (fat chance I'd ever do that at ho...
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One more good reason for straight pipes or megaphones;-) Regards, Charles DoD0.001 RZ350 Ps: Does anyone know if Opti oils sells direct by the case load? My loacl dealership is charging 12.99 for a jug of injector oil, and it's breaking me;-)
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Boston Globe, Wednesday April 21 1993 col. 4 "Bodies found in ruins as FBI defends raid on cult ranch" col. 5 "Clinton blames Koresh, orders probe of siege" col. 2 "The children: panws in a horrifying game" pg. 18, col. 1, Editorial page "Judgment at Waco" Now the scientific and political scrutiny of the horror...
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The Waco Quiz What would you do in the following hypothetical situations? You have committed no crime. The BATF conducts a "no-knock" raid. a) Hands in air. Say "Do you have a warrant?" Think of hefty suit settlement. b) Say "You have 1 second to identify yourself as a cop or I shoot." c) Shoot. Heck, at least in f...
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I too have seen the miracle of Maxima Chain Wax. Not only does it lube and stay where it's supposed to, but I swear I can ride faster now. Yes, not only does it lube your chain, it makes you a better rider. And more attractive to members of the opposing sex. And smarter. And....
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Title says it all, I'm after a Vectrex system. If you have one and want to get rid of it let me know. I can offer cash, or possible trades with Megadrive and SNES games. Cheers Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** ** * ****** *** * | ...
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That's surprising -- I haven't seen any incompatibilities with mine, version 6.01. The version that came with my upgrade to 6.01 had some problems, but Symantec fixed those and I've haven't seen anything wrong since. I'm not running Windoze, by the way.
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In <1993Apr24.214843.10940@midway.uchicago.edu> eeb1@quads.uchicago.edu If the ONLY people proposing a "moment of silence" are doing so as a sham to sneak in prayers, then it MUST be opposed. What the HELL have prayers to do with public schooling? [I ask this question as a devout Christian.] Their kids can blood...
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Interesting development. Especially since the Feds (and the U.N.) accused Saddam Hussein of using illegal chemicals on his own citizens as well. Hmmm... Republican Guard/Iraqu Army = FBI/BATF? You decide. -- I hope very much that others who will be tempted to join cults and to become involved with people like Da...
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About two years ago I posted the following: I am planning to write a new book called "Great Canadian Scientists." Please forward your nominations to me: shell@cs.sfu.ca The rules are that the person must be a Canadian citizen. They don't have to be born in Canada or even live in Canada, but they must have (or have ...
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# # A new natonal study on male sexual behavior, the most thorough # # examination of American men's sexual practices published since # # the Kinsey report more than four decades ago, # # Right off the bat this information is flawed. "Most throrough"? I'm # sorry, but Masters & Johnson put out a report with...
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ites: I realized that my generalizations would probably have problems under scrutiny from various Asian points of view. They need to be discussed in detail, indeed. But for the purposes of this newsgroup and thread thus far and in this newsgroup, I risked oversimpli- fication. My main purpose was to emphasize tha...
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Same engine, different state of tune (less hp and maybe more torque). My friend at work regularly takes 6 people in his and it seems to haul around just fine.
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The Denver Post (supposed voice of the supposed Rocky Mountain Empire) ran the following in the 'Firearms, Supplies' classified heading on Friday, 23 April 1993. If you have an opinion about their new found wisdom, I am told that the person to speak with is one Mr. Walters, (303)820-1267. Notice The Denver Post w...
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I don't buy this at all. I think things are colored to a very large degree of preconceived notions of who the players involved are. Try this exercise: XXX is pitching today. His team scores 4 in the first inning, and 3 in the fourth. XXX gives up 0 in the 1st through 4th. In the fifth, he gives up 3 runs. In ...
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Iff the phones transmit their serial nos. as part of the message then what is to say that each phone can take that serial number and use it to generate the required key....
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See if Radio Shack has a National Semiconductor Adjustable Voltage Regulator, (National) part number: LM350T or LM350K. These devices are rated for an input to output differential of up to 35 Volts @ 3 Amps. Digi-Key Corp. has these parts, as well as several other useful regulators. If you don't have their ca...
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I'm no defender of the AEC, but it is worth noting that it is unfair to tar that organization with the decidedly minority scientific views of its former chairperson and one term Washington governor, Dr. Dixie Lee Ray. Dr. Ray's political agenda is well-known and documented. Likewise, her lack of objectivity in analys...
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Hi! I recently got hold of an old/obsolete PC. First thing I am trying to do with it, is making it work. Seems the switches in the back have been toggled since last it was used, and I do not have the manual. Can anybody help me to identify this beast, and mail me the prober switch-settings? All I know is that is is a B...
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Okay, okay. I forgot about that. Sheeesh.
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We use it as starting fluid for jet ski's. The fact that its a lubricant works very well since jet ski's are 2 cycle. It also helps when a ski floods with water because we clean the spark plus with the stuff. OB sci.electronics: I have an office/studio in my garage with a phone in it. Our wireless phone has a p...
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I'm in need of a videotaped copy of a pc (pd) program. Please let me know if you can do this.
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(Re: the newsgroup -- followups set to talk.politics.mideast where this belongs.) This may make the term 'civil war' dubious, but it does nothing to the phrase 'destroy the government'. An occupying government is still a govern- ment, and the Palestinians have made it quite clear that their goal is not simply to prev...
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For those of you still unsure whether this is satire, the jury is still out: "Also yesterday, even though the compound no longer exists, the US attorney's office here released formerly sealed documents, including a search warrant and related affidavits, that authorities planned to use when the sie...
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I am looking for a printer utility which stay in Window 3.1 as an icon and let you drag a file to it to issue the printing.
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(1) You know ed,... You're right! Andi shouldn't be comparing Israel to the Nazis. The Israelis are much worse than the Nazis ever were anyway. The Nazis did a lot of good for Germany, and they would have succeeded if it weren't for the damn Jews. The Holocaust never happened anyway. Ample evi...
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Serdar, I have been told that you are not real, your account is fake (which I confirmed by trying to E-mail you) and advised not to waste my time writing to "you". But, I get pleasure from watching you make a fool of yourself. So you stand by the statement that all Armenians are barbarians. OK, I see. Lets ...
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I have the following games for sale/trade. Make an offer. Hu-Cards: R-Type Sidearms Alien Crush Neutopia Tricky Kick Ninja Spirit Somer Assault CD: Lords of the Rising Sun Sherlock Holmes -- brian oplinger@ra.crd.ge.com
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I have an 8000S I'd like to sell. Now that I'm finished with my TAing, I don't have nearly as many appoints to miss, and I'd like to put the money toward a laptop. Asking $200. I bought it last Christmas. It's in great shape and includes (as an added bonus!) a nice, padded leather carrying case. -- Blair MacIntyre ...
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Pennicillin if i have everything correct, was a highly valuable Myco-toxin, discovered during WW2. It proved to have an amazing Bacterio-cidal effect without human toxicity. It's immediate administration showed immediate dramatic results solving problems that previously were fatal. Although initially enormousl...
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Arab citizens have the all the same rights as Jews. Arabs are exempt from military service, but that is about it. Arabs have a full voice in Israeli politics, to the degree that they choose to get involved. They may vote. There are Arabs in the Cabinet.
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Were. In urban areas.
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i heard a news report indicating research showing improved hearing in people taking vitamin A. the research showed that new growth replaced damaged "hairlike" nerves. has anyone heard about this? thanks, claude
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THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ______________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release April 20, 1993 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT DURING PRESENTATION OF TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD ...
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Sells for $570 here (Southern California) almost everywhere.
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I don't want to attack anyone's personal opinions and thus have not included any articles - but it seems to me incredibly ridiculous and pompous for someone to sit back with the benefit of hindsight and point fingers at Clinton, Reno, the FBI, or whomever. First of all, it is a knee-jerk judgement. The facts are quit...
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You haven't been facing major league pitching. Maybe more... you have to be good at the plate, and most STATS did a little study in the 1993 Scoreboard book entitled "Can you hit sacrifice flies on purpose?" A summary of the findings: Over the 5 year period, sac-fly type fly balls were produced 17.6 perc...
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I prefer InfoSelect myself, but it is a strange kind of PIM. Well, a few things might help you like the 3.1 File Manager better. 1) To get more than one window simply double click on a drive icon. That it only gives you one window to work with is a fallacy. You can drag files between windows, to any icon on...
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Uh oh, Michael; you typed "hell" and capitalized it to boot! Now Peter Nyikos will explain that you're not a real Christian! BZZT! Sorry Michael--the Nyikos Inquisition pointed out that I was hell-bound after one mildly scurrilous pun on "revealing oneself." Admitting to masturbation--well, I'm just shocked!
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Um, I think you and the Bible are the ones inside the wall. There's a really wonderful world out here. You really should peek out at it sometime. The silly things you keep saying only reinforce the fact that we *are* on opposite sides of a very high wall. I see how incredibly beautiful things are on my side, and I...
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application comp Indeed, of and Well, I thought that highmem.sys would do that too. I just took out emm386 of my config.sys, and I'm still loading my other drivers high (mouse, vga shadow bios, dos-key etc.) I haven't checked mem/c, but I believe I have managed to load them high (ie between 640KB and 10...
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These are perfectly valid points and I agree. I'm glad we (MS) are starting to remedy this situation with DOS 6 (and it will get better in future releases). You do need to be aware of some history, however. In the mid-late 80's, MS's point of view was that OS/2 was going to take over the world and DOS would be phase...
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I don't know what you mean by 'edged', but surely there are two other possibilities for an isotropic distribution: near interstellar (up to ~100 pc, i.e. within the disc), or the Galaxy's corona?
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Back in high school I used to work for a detailing company, and one of the services we offered was an engine cleaning (remove all that oil BEFORE you sell the car... ;-}). Unfortunately, we did not have a high pressure washer so we would use one several miles from the shop. On more than one occasion after washing th...
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It is 'Serdar', 'kocaoglan'. Just love it. Well, it could be your head wasn't screwed on just right. If that does ever happen, look out the window and see if there is a non-fascist x-Soviet Armenian Government in the East. "In Soviet Armenia today there no longer exists a single Turkish soul. It is in our powe...
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Is it not also an abomination that somebody would spend money on "space advertising" when those children are starving? Perhaps some redistribution of wealth would help them ...
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It seems I'm in the fortunate position to desire what many people want to sell- a miniature color tv. I require color and input for cable or vcr. I would prefer a 5inch diagonal and a tube television (not lcd). Get paid the first, make an offer by email.
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Larry - Thanks for the reply, but this isn't quite the same thing. Like I said before, I can understand why non-Christians would be denied *access* to holy ceremonies, but the ceremony itself (communion) was not secret. In fact, all four gospels record the first "breaking of the bread" in some detail. Communio...
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The following is a juxtaposition of part of an ancient text known as "de Sacramentis", usually attributed to St. Ambrose of Milan, and the canon of the traditional Catholic Mass of the Roman rite. The conclusion from this comparison is that the central part of the traditional Roman canon was already fairly well in pla...
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(Sorry about double posting, but I forgot something.) "make, use or sell" in this context have non-standard meanings: "Make" means making an encrypted message. "Use" may mean using PGP, or using an encrypted message. "Sell" would probably mean selling an encrypted message. It is the message created by a "patente...
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This would be dumb move of the nineties...Lindros is big and strong... but why give him a ball and chain on one leg and an anchor on the other to drag along. Not if Pocklington gets there first! (-...actually, if Pocklington doesn't get a better deal, he would probably go to Hamilton...taking the team out of Canada ...
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Doug Holland claims Tom Clancy has provided the recipe for nuclear bombs. Clancy himself says he has omitted certain crucial steps. Further, how do we know Clancy knows, rather than repeating what he's read or been told in the unclassified domain?
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In <1993Apr21.175443.5338@dct.ac.uk> mcsdc1jpb@dct.ac.uk (John Bell) dribbles in his nappies and manages to splutter: You know, John, if you had kept the follow-up to line here on talk politics guns, we might have taken you a bit more seriously. It would have at least implied that you had some backbone, perhaps a mo...
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Not exactly correct, but nice try. The Catholic doctrine of infallibility refers to freedom from error in teaching of the universal Church in matters of faith or MORALS. It is this teaching which is taken as doctrine.
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Oh, yea, and Chris Bosio pitched a NO-HITTER. One over the minimum, two bases on ball in the first inning, one runner left, 95 pitches. I listened to the game on radio and listening to Dave Niehaus call the game was a real treat (as long as they keep Ron Fairly quite, I doubt if anyone is better than Niehaus -- but t...
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Hi! I need a Windows 3.1 driver for the Matrox PG-1281 CV SVGA card. At the moment Windows runs only in the 640x480 mode. If you have a driver for this card, please send it with the OEMSETUP.INF to bockamp@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE Thanks!
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I hope someone can help me with the following problem - I'm sure there must be a known solution. Given a rectangle defined by -X <= x <= X and -Y <= y <= Y where X and Y are constant and a parallelogram defined by -C1 <= a*x + b*y <= C1 and -C2 <= c*x + d*y <= C2 where C1, C2, a, b, c, d are constants and b/a !...
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If the Leaf's play like they did in game one they're going to need these! Watching that game _really_ hurt! Cheers! i. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Did you watch the games????
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To: All GVC Technologies v.32 9600bps modem 9600/4800/2400/1200/300 bps operation with Automatic Speed Selection. CCITT v.32/v.22bis/v.22/v.21 full-duplex operation. Asynchronous operation. Auto-answer & auto-dial: automatically switch between data and voice transmission. Supports COM port 1-4, and IRQ 2-5 Analog/dig...
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No. Zeno's paradox is resolved by showing that integration or an infinite series of decreasing terms can sum to a finite result. Well, suppose a probe emitting radiation at a constant frequency was sent towards a black hole. As it got closer to the event horizon, the red shift would keep increasing. The period w...
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I have written a server program which makes socket connections to many nodes and collects data from that nodes periodically. I need to display this data on my X Application. I tried to invoke this server using XtAddAppTimeout which works ok. But the problem here is some time there is delay in collecting data. So I does...
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Okay, I think we all agree that singles hitters should take a strike or two and try to get on base any way they can. So the "No Power/Impatient" guys have no excuse. The "No Power/Patient" guys are doing the right thing. Now the "Impatient/Power" guys (how could you leave out the Big Cat?). Would these guys have a b...
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What's the best lease quote that anyone has seen on a Toyota Previa DX or DX All-trac for a two-year lease? If you know where I can get a better rate than $330/month, please contact me with the name and phone of the dealership.
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I know that Apple is working on an active matrix color powerbook. When is it going to come out. I heard on rumor that it will be in two months and another that it will be seen at the MacWorld Expo in Boston? What's the word?
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I saw a 3 hour show on PBS the other day about the history of the Jews. Appearently, the Cursades(a religious war agianst the muslilams in 'the holy land') sparked the widespread persecution of muslilams and jews in europe. Among the supporters of the persiecution, were none other than Martin Luther, and the Vatican....
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Yes, where commodities are concerned. Imagining that capitalist theorists had software in mind when they wrote their grand treatises on "the main point of capitalism" is non-productive.
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