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Hi,
I'm working on a project that involves storing an application's rendering
to an X display and then playing it back again. Rather than
"reinvent the wheel", it like to find:
* a file format for saving X protocol.
* software that saves and replays such a session.
Any ideas out there? I've heard that there is a version of Xscope
that will save and replay sessions.
I'd be willing to share much of the code I develop back to the X community.
Axel............
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Posted on behalf of Craig Southeren who does not have access to
a net account:
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Can anyone provide me with a colour space transform that would
emulate the effects of red/green colour blindness? I have had
a quick look in the computer graphics literature with no results.
Perhaps someone who has access to medical information could help?
I would like to write a program (probably a PPM filter) to allow
previewing of images to check for sufficient contract for colour
blind users. Not being colour blind myself, this is a bit difficult!
Please email replies - I will summarise and repost if there is
sufficient interest
Craig
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Craig Southeren | "You can have it good, cheap,
Chief Engineer, | or fast. Any two."
Picture Start Productions | Arthur C. Clarke
email: c/- geoffw@ucc.su.OZ.AU |
phone: +61 2 959 5550 | "Educate - don't legislate"
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I need to duplicate a bunch of floppy disks (3.5") and ideally would like to
be able to keep 2 to 4 floppies busy simultaneously on a single PC.
[Yes, I know that services to do this exist.]
I know that standard ISA bus floppy controllers can only have one drive active
at a time. I know that some controllers are available that can handle 4
floppies with serialized access. I know that microchannel machines can keep
more than one floppy active simultaneously. But does anyone have a controller
for an ISA bus PC that can simultaneously keep 2 to 4 floppies going?
How about for an EISA machine?
If the limitation is a software limitation, I can work around that by using
OS/2 1.3 on my PC-286.
New or used, I'm interested.
orville
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Compared to the Second Amendment? I think it's worse.
The problem is, the devil is in the details. You know, the Brady Bill
sounds like a "good idea" too, until you discover that there is NO check,
and that the police DON'T have to allow your purchase even if you check
out, and that you have NO recourse if they don't.
Are there any loopholes here? I'm no lawyer, I can't be sure. I
would have never noticed the second one mentioned above in the Brady
Bill, for example.
The more words involved, the more details. What was that saying about
Abraham Lincoln requiring 200 words to free the slaves, and the modern
Congress requiring 3,000,000 words to describe price controls on rice?
That only works with bad laws. Good laws are like good computer programs.
Quality has to be written in from the start, not added on later.
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{>
{> >What is the difference between the US Robotics Courier v32bis external and t
{> >Sportster 14400 external? I see that the price of a Sportster has dramatical
{> >dropped to below $200 but the price of the Courier remains above $400.
{> >
{> >Anyone with knowledge of both of these modems or anyone that owns a Courier?
{>
{> The Sportster at 14.4 has v.42 error control and v.42 bis data compression.
{> This is becoming standard on all these high speed modems. The difference
{> with the Courier, is that it can run at 16.8 and only in the HST mode.
The courrier will not run at 16800 only the Dual Standard HST (the USR
modem over $600) my courrier will do up to 14,400 and with compression
error correction, much more. it will do v.32 v.32bis v.42 v.42bis
v.22 etc. etc and ASL too. (whatever asl is)
-David
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The experience you describe is why I don't like to sit with my bike in
gear - I figure there's a chance that I'll be startled in some way and
stall my bike. And I figure this is more likely than the chance that
I'll be unable to escape some situation because of the extra time
needed to put the bike in gear.
So I concentrate on avoiding situations rather than making split-second
evasive manuvers. I split lanes so I'm not at the end of the line.
(Unfortunately this is not legal in most of the country) If I can't
split (perhaps there isn't room) then I will stop near one side of the
lane so I have an easy escape, and leave my bike in gear until the next
car has stopped. I watch in my mirrors in the mean time to make sure
it will! Whether I really would have time to move should a car fail to
stop, I haven't had to find out yet. Some cars have an annoying habbit
of racing up behind you before braking heavilly, so it can be hard to
tell if they are planning to brake or not!
So in summary, position yourself for an easy exit, and then watch your
mirrors until it's all clear.
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I have a few the original IBM 10Mb harddisks for sale. They are actually
Seagate's ST412, MFM, full height, has the IBM logo and black face plate.
Each disk is checked and formatted with DOS 6.0. It can be doubled to
20Mb or so with dblspace or stacker if you so desire. Have the original IBM
foam fitted boxies and anti-static bags. I am not sure if they were ever
used, but each drive that is sent out will be quarenteed in good working order.
$30 each plus shipping cost, (about $5),
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Hello,
my name is John and I have the following comic books for sale - please
feel free to make a bid if you'd like. Add one dollar for shipping (USA).
Remember to e-mail your replies to OETH6050@iscsvax.uni.edu - as I am not a
regular on this group. thank you.
Marvel---------
Silver Surfer (current series) #1 (3 copies)
X-factor #1 (2 copies)
Excalibur #1 (the first square bound )
The Punisher #1 (2 copies)
DC Comics--------------
Watchmen #1-12 (one copy each)
The Omega Men #1,2,3 (#3 is the first Lobo appearance]
Green Arrow the longbow hunters #1 (3 copies - all autographed by Mike Grell)
#2 (2 copies)
#3 (only one copy :( )
Alternate Comic Companies -------------------
Get this......
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (not reprints!)
#2 (auto graphed by Kevin Eastman)
#3, and #4
Michaelangelo #1
Donatello #1
Aliens (by DarkHorse Press) #1 (2 copies)
Whitman Comics (1978) ----------------
Star Trek #54 (autographed by James Doohan - you know "Scotty")
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Updated April 27, 1993.
Most comics here are priced at 40% below the Overstreet Price Guide, all
comics are in near mint to mint condition.
TITLE PRICE
--------------------------------------------------------------
Alpha Flight 13 (Wolverine appears) $ 7.20
50 (Double Size) $ 1.00
51 (Jim Lee's first work at Marvel) $ 5.40
Amazing Spider-Man 267 (Peter David script, Human Torch)$ 2.10
275 (r/origin Spiderman, Hobgoblin) $ 7.20
276 (Hobgoblin appears) $ 5.40
284 (Punisher, Hobgoblin appear) $ 5.40
293 (Kraven appears) $ 4.80
294 (Kraven appears) $ 4.80
306 (Todd McFarlane) $ 6.00
312 (Hobgoblin vs Green Goblin) $10.80
315 (Venom appears) $ 9.00
320 (Todd McFarlane art) $ 4.20
321 (Todd McFarlane art) $ 4.20
323 (Silver Sable, Paladin, C. America) $ 4.20
324 (Sabretooth appears) $ 7.20
325 (Red Skull, Captain America) $ 4.20
328 (Hulk appears, last McFarlane) $ 4.40
330 (Punisher appears) $ 2.40
331 (Punisher appears) $ 2.40
337 (Hobgoblin appears) $ 2.10
338 $ 1.40
342 $ 1.40
343 $ 1.40
344 (Intro Cletus Kassady - Carnage) $ 4.20
346 (Venom appears) $ 4.20
347 (Venom appears) $ 4.20
348 $ 1.20
349 $ 1.20
350 (52 pages) $ 1.80
351 $ 1.20
352 $ 1.20
353 $ 1.20
354 $ 1.20
355 (Punisher appears) $ 1.20
356 (Punisher appears) $ 1.20
357 (Punisher appears) $ 1.20
358 (Punisher appears) $ 1.20
365 (1st App Spider-Man 2099, Holo-c) $ 3.60
Annual 24 $ 2.10
Annual 25 (1st solo Venom story) $ 4.20
Annual 26 (New Warriors, Venom) $ 3.00
Archer and Armstrong 1 (Frank Miller/Smith/Layton) $ 9.00
9 $ 2.50
10 $ 2.50
Avengers 272 (Alpha Flight appears) $ 1.00
300 (68 Pages, new team) $ 1.50
306 $ 1.00
324 (Alpha Flight appears) $ 1.00
329 (New team) $ 1.00
Annual 15 $ 2.10
Annual 18 $ 1.80
Annual 19 $ 1.50
Batman Legends of the Dark Knight 1 (blue cover) $ 3.30
3 $ 1.30
Batman Shadow of the Bat 1 (still in polybag) $ 5.00
Batman Versus Predator 1 (Prestige edition, Predator) $ 4.20
1 (Prestige edition, Batman) $ 4.20
Batman Year One (trade paperback, 1st printing) $ 8.40
Bloodshot 1 (Chromium cover, BWSmith Cover/Poster) $ 7.00
3 $ 2.50
4 $ 2.50
5 $ 2.50
Daredevil 131 (Origin Bullseye) $16.00
138 (Ghost Rider, Death's Head early app) $11.00
158 (Frank Miller art begins) $40.00
159 (Deathstalker appears, Frank Miller art) $20.00
169 (Elektra 2nd appearance, Bullseye) $ 4.50
170 (Bullseye, Kingpin appear) $ 3.00
182 (Punnisher appears, Frank Miller art) $ 6.60
183 (Punnisher appears, Frank Miller art) $ 6.60
184 (Punnisher appears, Frank Miller art) $ 6.60
196 (Wolverine appears) $ 7.20
Darkhawk 2 (Spider-Man and Hobgoblin appear) $ 6.00
Dark Horse Presents 1 (1st app Concrete, 1st printing) $ 7.20
5 (Concrete appears) $ 2.40
25 $ 1.80
32 (Annual) $ 2.40
37 $ 1.20
42 (Aliens appear) $ 3.00
Dazzler 1 (X-Men appear) $ 1.20
40 $ 1.00
41 $ 1.00
42 (Beast appears) $ 1.00
Deathlok 1 $ 2.40
Deathstroke the Terminator 1 (1st printing) $ 4.80
2 $ 3.00
Defenders 125 (Intro New Defenders) $ 1.80
152 (Double size, X-Factor appears) $ 2.00
Demon 13 (Lobo appears) $ 1.00
14 (Lobo appears) $ 1.00
15 (Lobo appears) $ 1.00
Eternal Warrior 1 (Miller cover) $11.00
2 $ 7.00
9 $ 2.50
10 $ 2.50
11 $ 2.50
Fantastic Four 112 (Hulk vs. The Thing) $25.00
337 (Simonson art begins) $ 1.00
338 (Simonson art) $ 1.00
339 (Simonsom art) $ 1.00
344 (Simonson art) $ 1.00
345 (Simonson art) $ 1.00
347 (Art Adams cover art, Wolverine) $ 3.00
348 (Ghost Rider/Wolverine appear) $ 1.80
349 (Ghost Rider/Wolverine appear) $ 1.80
350 (52 pages) $ 1.50
351 $ 1.00
352 (Simonson art) $ 1.00
353 (Simonson art) $ 1.00
354 (Simonson art) $ 1.00
355 $ 1.00
356 (Fantastic Four vs New Warriors) $ 1.00
358 (80 page 30th anniversary issue) $ 2.00
359 $ 1.00
360 $ 1.00
361 $ 1.00
362 $ 1.00
Annual 24 $ 1.20
Flash 27 $ 1.00
28 $ 1.00
48 $ 1.00
50 $ 1.00
53 (Superman/Flash race) $ 1.00
Ghost Rider 1 (May 1990, Origin, Double Size) $15.00
15 (Glow in the dark cover, 1st print) $ 5.40
16 (Spider-man/Hobgoblin cover and story) $ 2.10
17 (Spider-man/Hobgoblin cover and story) $ 2.10
Ghost Rider and Cable 1 (Sam Keith cover) $ 4.00
Ghost Rider and Captain America: Fear $ 5.00
Guardians of the Galaxy 25 (Prism foil cover) $ 2.50
Harbinger 10 (1st Appearance H.A.R.D. Corps) $ 7.00
16 $ 3.00
17 $ 2.50
18 $ 2.50
H.A.R.D. Corps 1 $ 5.00
6 $ 2.50
7 $ 2.50
Havok and Wolvreine: Meltdown 1 $ 3.00
Incredible Hulk 324 (1st app Grey Hulk since #1, 1962) $ 6.00
327 $ 1.20
330 (1st McFarlane issue) $15.00
331 (Grey Hulk series begins) $ 9.60
376 (Keown art, Grey vs Green Hulk) $ 3.60
377 (1st all new hulk, 1st prnt, Keown) $12.00
385 (Keown c/a) $ 2.40
388 (Keown c/a) $ 2.40
389 (Keown c/a) $ 2.40
390 (Keown c/a) $ 2.40
392 (Keown c/a) $ 2.40
393 (Green foil stamped cover, Keown) $ 4.80
Infinity Gauntlet 1 (Perez painted cover. Thanos) $ 6.00
2 (Thanos) $ 3.60
3 (Thanos) $ 2.40
Justice League America 46 $ 1.00
47 $ 1.00
50 $ 1.00
52 $ 1.00
Justice League Quarterly 1 $ 2.10
Justice Society of America 1 (April 1991) $ 1.00
Kamandi 1 (Origin Kamandi, Kirby art) $25.00
2 (Kirby art) $15.00
3 (Kirby art) $ 9.00
7 (Kirby art) $ 5.00
Last Generation 1 $ 2.10
Magnus Robot Fighter 21 (New direction & logo begins) $ 5.00
23 $ 3.00
24 $ 2.50
Marc Spector Moon Knight 25 (Ghost Rider appears) $ 2.10
Marvel Comics Presents 1 (Wolverine, Silver Surfer) $ 6.00
2 (Wolverine, Master of KungFu) $ 3.00
3 (Wolverine, Master of KungFu) $ 3.00
4 (Wolverine, Master of KungFu) $ 3.00
5 (Wolverine, Daredevil) $ 3.00
6 (Wolverine, Hulk) $ 2.40
7 (Wolverine, Submariner) $ 2.40
10 (Wolverine, Man-Thing) $ 2.40
11 (Man-Thing, Ant-Man) $ 1.20
12 (Man-Thing, Colossus) $ 1.20
13 (Black Panther, Shanna) $ 1.20
14 (Black Panther, Nomad) $ 1.20
17 (Ron Lim art, Black Panther) $ 1.20
18 (Ron Lim art, Black Panther) $ 1.20
19 (Rob Liefeld art, Cyclops) $ 1.20
20 (Ron Lim art, Black Panther) $ 1.20
21 (Ron Lim art, Black Panther) $ 1.20
22 (Ron Lim art, Black Panther) $ 1.20
25 (Nth Man, Havok, Blk Panther) $ 1.20
26 (Black Panther, Havok, Hulk) $ 1.20
27 (Black Panther, Havok) $ 1.20
28 (Black Panther, Havok) $ 1.20
29 (Black Panther, Havok) $ 1.20
30 (Black Panther, Havok) $ 1.20
31 (Erik Larsen, Excalibur) $ 1.20
42 (Wolverine) $ 1.80
52 (Rob Liefeld, Wolverine) $ 1.80
60 (Wolverine, Hulk) $ 3.60
62 (Jackson Guice, Deathlok) $ 4.80
63 (Poison, Thor, Scarlet Witch) $ 2.40
64 (Mark Texiera, Ghost Rider) $ 2.70
65 (Mark Texiera, Ghost Rider) $ 2.70
66 (Mark Texiera, Ghost Rider) $ 2.70
67 (Mark Texiera, Ghost Rider) $ 2.70
72 (B.W.Smith, Weapon X) $ 4.80
73 (B.W.Smith, Weapon X) $ 2.40
75 (B.W.Smith, Weapon X) $ 1.80
76 (B.W.Smith, Weapon X) $ 1.80
77 (B.W.Smith, Weapon X,Dracula) $ 1.80
80 (B.W.Smith, Weapon X) $ 1.80
81 (B.W.Smith, Weapon X) $ 1.50
82 (B.W.Smith, Weapon X) $ 1.50
83 (B.W.Smith, Weapon X) $ 1.50
84 (B.W. Smith, Weapon X) $ 1.50
85 (1st Keith art and Jae Lee) $ 3.60
88 (Keith, Wolverine, Beast) $ 2.40
97 (Ghost Rider, Cable) $ 1.20
104 (Wolverine, Ghost Rider) $ 1.00
106 (Wolverine, Ghost Rider) $ 1.00
Maxx 1 (Sam Keith) $ 3.00
Metropol 1 (Ted McKeever) $ 3.00
Mighty Mouse 2 $ 1.00
4 $ 1.00
5 $ 1.00
6 $ 1.00
10 $ 1.00
Moon Knight 1 (1980) $ 2.60
'Nam 6 $ 1.50
7 $ 1.50
52 (Frank Castle (Punisher)) $ 2.70
New Mutants 18 (Intro new Warlock, Magus) $ 5.40
88 (Rob Liefeld, 2nd Cable) $12.00
89 (Rob Liefeld, 3rd Cable) $ 9.00
90 (Rob Liefeld, Sabretooth appears) $ 7.20
91 (Rob Liefeld, Sabretooth appears) $ 7.20
93 (Rob Liefeld, Wolverine vs Cable) $ 9.00
94 (Rob Liefeld, Wolverine vs Cable) $ 9.00
98 (1st app Deadpool, Gideon, Domino) $ 7.20
100 (1st app X-Force) $ 5.40
Annual 4 (Evolutionary War) $ 1.80
Annual 5 (1st Liefeld art on New Mutants) $10.80
Annual 6 $ 1.20
Annual 7 (2nd app X-Force) $ 7.20
Summer Special 1 (Art Adams art) $ 1.80
Olympians 1 (McFarlane) $ 2.40
Omega Men 3 (1st appearance Lobo) $ 6.00
10 (1st full Lobo story) $ 6.00
Annual 1 $ 1.00
2 $ 1.00
Power Man & Iron Fist 78 (3rd appearance Sabretooth) $25.00
84 (4th appearance Sabretooth) $20.00
Power Pack 27 (Wolverine and Sabretooth appear) $ 6.00
Predator: Big Game 3 (Contains trading cards) $ 1.80
Punisher 9 (Wilce Portacio) $ 6.60
Punisher and Captain America: Blood and Glory 1 $ 5.00
2 $ 5.00
3 $ 5.00
Punisher P.O.V 1 (Starlin script, Wrightson art) $ 5.00
2 (Starlin script, Wrightson art) $ 5.00
3 (Starlin script, Wrightson art) $ 5.00
Punisher War Journal 16 (Jim Lee art) $ 3.00
29 (Ghost Rider appears) $ 1.50
30 (Ghost Rider appears) $ 1.50
31 $ 1.10
32 $ 1.10
35 $ 1.10
36 $ 1.10
38 $ 1.10
39 $ 1.10
40 $ 1.10
Punisher War Zone 1 (Die-cut cover) $ 2.50
2 $ 1.50
Ragman 1 (Pat Broderick, Origin Ragman) $ 3.00
Rocketeer Special Edition (Dave Stevens art, 1984) $ 6.00
Shadowman 13 $ 2.50
14 $ 2.50
Simpsons Comics and Stories 1 (Polybagged special ed.) $ 7.50
Solar Man of the Atom 18 $ 3.00
19 $ 2.75
20 $ 2.75
21 $ 2.50
22 $ 2.50
Spectacular Spider-Man 81 (Punisher appears) $ 8.40
93 (Answer appears) $ 1.80
94 (Cloak and Dagger appear) $ 1.80
95 (Cloak and Dagger appear) $ 1.80
99 (Spot appears) $ 1.80
116 (Sabretooth appears) $ 3.00
117 (Sabretooth appears) $ 3.00
119 (Sabretooth appears) $ 3.00
124 (Dr. Octopus appears) $ 1.50
130 (Hobgoblin appears) $ 2.40
131 (Kraven appears) $ 3.60
132 (Kraven appears) $ 3.00
140 (Punisher appears) $ 1.80
142 (Punisher appears) $ 3.00
143 (Punisher appears) $ 3.00
147 (1st app New Hobgoblin) $12.00
152 (Origin Lobo Bros, Punisher) $ 1.20
157 $ 1.20
158 (Spider-Man gets new powers) $ 7.20
159 (Cosmic Spider-Man appears) $ 4.80
160 $ 1.00
189 (1st ed Hologram, Hobgoblin) $ 4.80
Annual 10 (McFarlane story) $ 1.50
Spider-Man 1 (Gold edition, direct sale) $ 3.00
1 (Regular edition, green, unbagged) $ 3.00
5 (Lizard, Calypso appear, McFarlane) $ 2.40
6 (Hobgoblin, Ghost Rider appear) $ 3.60
7 (Hobgoblin, Ghost Rider appear) $ 3.60
13 (Black costume returns) $ 3.00
14 (Black costume, Morbius appear) $ 2.00
18 (Sinister Six, Hulk appear) $ 2.00
19 (Hulk, Deathlok appear) $ 2.00
20 $ 2.00
26 (Origin retold, hologram cover) $ 3.00
Star Trek the Next Generation 1 (Feb 1988, DC mini) $ 6.00
Star Trek the Next Generation 1 (Oct 1989, DC comics) $ 5.40
2 $ 3.60
Strange Adventures (dozens, but in varying high grades) ASK
Swamp Thing 72 $ 1.00
73 (John Constantine appears) $ 1.00
Annual 3 $ 1.20
Tales of the Teen Titans 44 (Deathstroke app/orogin) $ 4.80
Terminator 1 (Dark Horse) $ 3.60
Terminator: Secondary Objectives 1 $ 1.80
Terminator 2 Judgement Day 1 $ 1.00
Thor 374 (Mutant Massacre, X-Factor, Sabretooth app) $ 4.80
429 (Ghost Rider appears) $ 1.80
430 (Ghost Rider appears) $ 1.80
Warlock and the Infinity Watch 2 (Starlin scripts) $ 2.40
3 $ 1.50
4 $ 1.40
5 $ 1.40
6 $ 1.40
7 $ 1.10
8 $ 1.10
9 (Gamora vs Thanos) $ 1.10
Web of Spider-Man 2 $ 4.20
3 $ 4.20
4 $ 3.00
5 $ 3.00
8 (Thunder appears) $ 2.70
16 (Magma appears) $ 2.00
18 $ 2.00
20 $ 2.00
21 $ 2.00
30 (Origin Rose, Hobgoblin appears) $ 7.20
47 (Hobgoblin appears) $ 1.00
52 $ 1.00
66 (Green Goblin as super-hero) $ 1.20
67 (Green Goblin as super-hero) $ 1.20
68 $ 1.00
71 $ 1.00
72 $ 1.00
73 $ 1.00
74 $ 1.00
75 $ 1.00
76 $ 1.00
77 $ 1.00
78 $ 1.00
79 $ 1.00
80 $ 1.00
81 $ 1.00
82 $ 1.00
83 $ 1.00
84 (Rose & Hobgoblin story) $ 1.00
85 (Rose & Hobgoblin story) $ 1.00
86 (Rose & Hobgoblin story) $ 1.00
87 (Rose & Hobgoblin story) $ 1.00
90 (Hologram cover, polybagged) $ 3.60
91 $ 1.00
Annual 3 $ 1.75
Werewolf by Night 33 (2nd appearance Moon Knight) $20.00
37 (Moon Knight appears) $ 5.00
Wolverine 10 (Before claws, 1st battle with Sabretooth) $14.40
41 (Sabretooth claims to be Wolverine's dad) $ 6.00
42 (Sabretooth proven not to be his dad) $ 3.00
43 (Sabretooth/Wolverine saga concludes) $ 2.40
Wolverine 1 (1982 mini-series, Miller art) $18.00
Wonder Woman 267 (Return of Animal Man) $13.00
Annual 1 $ 1.75
2 $ 1.75
X-Factor 47 $ 1.00
51 (Sabretooth appears) $ 3.00
52 (Sabretooth appears) $ 3.00
53 (Sabretooth appears) $ 3.00
57 $ 1.00
62 (X-Tinction Agenda, Jim Lee cover) $ 3.60
63 (Whilce Portacio art begins) $ 3.60
69 (Whilce Portacio art) $ 1.20
70 (Last "Old Team" issue) $ 1.20
Annual 6 (New Warriors, X-Force appear) $ 1.30
X-Force 1 (Signed by Liefeld, Bagged, X-Force card) $25.00
1 (Signed by Liefeld, Bagged, Shatterstar card) $15.00
1 (Signed by Liefeld, Bagged, Deadpool card) $15.00
1 (Signed by Liefeld, Bagged, Sunspot/Gideon) $15.00
1 (Bagged, Cable card) $ 3.60
X-O Manowar 13 $ 3.00
15 $ 3.00
16 $ 3.00
All comics are in near mint to mint condition, are bagged in shiny
polypropylene bags, and backed with white acid free boards. Shipping is
$1.50 for one book, $3.00 for more than one book, or free if you order
a large enough amount of stuff. I am willing to haggle.
I have thousands and thousands of other comics, so please let me know what
you've been looking for, and maybe I can help. Some titles I have posted
here don't list every issue I have of that title, I tried to save space.
I am willing to trade for other comics, computer equipment, video
equipment, audio equipment, etc... Let me know what you want to trade!
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Yes. Here's what you should do.
Keep the vertices in an array, and have the polygons (triangles are okay,
but n-sided polygons are slightly more efficient) store the indices into
the array of the vertices that comprise them. You set a flag for each
vertex when you transform it, so you don't have to transform any vertex
more than once; you also do backface elimination before processing the
polygon, so that vertices that belong only to bacfacing polys don't have
to be transformed at all.
Whenever you transform a vertex, check if it's on the far side of the hither
plane; if it is, you can project it right away and store the result.
Then do your Z clip; any vertices that get produced will have to have their
projection done at that stage.
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ervice.uci.edu!network.ucsd.edu!btree!terry
Will they name Lindros captain next year or Recchi.
Geoff
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Nikkor 70-210 AF for immediate sale. Excellent condition.
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(Ali's letter deleted for brevity)
Roger,
Your responses might just exclude you from sharing your opinions,
then. You see, the same rights Ali has to mail her letter to the NHL
are the same ones that let you post replies that mow her down like
wheat at harvest-time. She never said she represented the entire
internet or the entire group rec.sport.hockey. She has every right to
state her opinion along with those of the fifty or sixty or
hundred-odd folk who've agreed to allow her to list their names on the
bottom of it. You may not agree with it. Fine. I really don't care
enough about the name change to care. Your name isn't attached to it,
so why moan and complain? If you felt her words were leading, well,
you're free to feel that way and take exception, but manners never
hurt. I personally disagree and feel her generalizations were fine
(I have the right to think and say that, too). Ali's under no
compunction to change a single word. Now, while you're free to
disagree with every word she wrote, to tear apart her character is
uncalled for. I'm posting this as a form of public reprimand. If you
tear down Ali's integrity and character publicly, you'll get chastised
publicly in return. Would it have been so hard to say, "Ali, please
be a bit more specific in your description, the way I've read it
indicates you're stating my view also, and that's simply not true.
I'd really like to see a disclaimer noting that you don't mean the
entire internet or the entire r.s.h. group attached to it, despite
your intent to list names at the bottom. Thanks. Cordially as
always," &c. Calling her a moron and an asshole just reduces the
weight of your words and the opinions of their author in the eyes of
myself, and possibly others.
Oh, and Ali, nice to see someone standing up for something, even if
it's not something I personally advocate. :-)
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Original to: wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM
G'day wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM
20 Apr 93 18:17, wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM wrote to All:
wAC> wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Bruce Watson), via Kralizec 3:713/602
wAC> The Apollo program cost something like $25 billion at a time when
wAC> the value of a dollar was worth more than it is now. No one would
wAC> take the offer.
If we assume 6% inflation since 1969, that $25B would be worth about $100B
GD reckon a moon mission today could cost only $10B. Thats a factor of ten
reduction in cost. It might be possible to reduce that number futher by
using a few shortcuts ( Russian rockets?). Asuming it gets built, I think
the Delta Clipper could very well achive the goal.
ta
Ralph
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I heard yesterday that Pocklington was talking with folks at Copps
that afternoon (yesterday).
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what does that make me for showing up with an old interceptor with worse
brakes and handling (due to bent frame) than a VMAX? and i didn't even...
uh.... well, i was more than semi-coherent when the ambulance.... uh....
nevermind.
axel
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I recently got a document describing the JPEG FIF (JFIF) file
format. I was looking thru it, but I didn't get the idea how
to determine the size of a pic in pixel without decoding the
whole image.
How do you get the height and width of a JPEG in a JFIF?
How do you determine wether it is a color or a greyscale
picture?
I wrote a small tool (lsgif) for GIF that returns the
filesize, picture size and color resolution by analizing
the header chunks. The output looks like this:
157605 bla.gif 640x 480 248C24
I use this lsgif to create index files of my archive and since
JPEG are getting more and more popular I would like to have a
similar tool for JFIF, with an output like this:
57605 bla.jpg 640x 480 C24
Please respond by email, because I don't read this news
group very often. I'll post a summary if it is useful.
Thanx in advance,
Larry
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You should post his/her email request, with proper attributes, of course, to
the newsgroup. The request then becomes a matter of rec.moto public record
and warrants the ceremonial gang-FAQing.
Glad to help,
Ride safe,
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As David Veal points out, this sort of "promotion" would be used
against gun owners by the mass media.
However, here is my proposal: offer gun safety classes in your area,
free, as a community service. Such a class would normally cost $40
or $50, so offering it free is a good promotion.
Our Gun Club has organized several of these (we just finished
teaching another one last night, in fact) and they have been
very well received. We get a lot of people who are novices
interested in guns. We even get a few who are anti-gun, but
feel they should know something about "gun safety" since members
of their family keep guns at home.
Teaching such a course gives us many desirable benefits:
(1) We have the chance to teach gun safety rules; this increases
firearm awareness and may help to reduce gun accident stats.
(2) A "gun safety" class is Politically Correct, and likely to
be viewed positively by the public and the media.
(3) Most of the students are 'normal people' (not gun enthusiasts)
and this kind of class gives us the chance to give them a
gentle introduction to firearms.
(4) Some of the students are enthusiastic, and will purchase a gun
and become more involved in shooting or personal defense.
(5) It improves the public perception of our club and gun owners
in general. Our students see that we are all reasonable,
non-aggressive, soft-spoken people, which helps to mitigate
the standard image of a hardcore gun owner. Even anti-gun
students sometimes tell us they have "something new to think
about" with regards to personal gun ownership.
(6) Sharing our experience with others is a lot of fun.
Our course is the standard NRA-certified "Home Firearm Safety"
class, and our students pay only $5 for materials. We also
teach the NRA's "Personal Protection" class, although the cost
is higher for that one since we have to purchase range time.
I think firearms safety classes are an excellent response to
gun buy-backs.
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I have the following games for sale/trade. Make an offer.
Trouble Shooter
Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?
--
brian
oplinger@ra.crd.ge.com
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Hi
I am looking for an algorithm or pointers to any papers on how to convert
Quadratic Splines to Cubic Splines or Beizeirs. If source is available
in the public domain, please let me know.
Thanks very much
-ks
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!: Concerning the proposed newsgroup split, I personally am not in favor of
!: doing this. I learn an awful lot about all aspects of graphics by reading
!: this group, from code to hardware to algorithms. I just think making 5
!: different groups out of this is a wate, and will only result in a few posts
!: a week per group. I kind of like the convenience of having one big forum
!: for discussing all aspects of graphics. Anyone else feel this way?
!: Just curious.
!
!Yes. I also like knowing where to go to ask a question without getting
!hell for putting it in the wrong newsgroup.
I am also against splitting the group. The traffic will decrease
on any given subject but the required net bandwidth will INCREASE
because of multiply cross-postings.
I just went through this with another group I continuously read.
It is now almost at the point where it is no longer worth reading.
Strongly suggest NOT doing this.
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:Hello,
:I heard that a certain disease (toxoplasmosys?) is transmitted by cats which
:can harm the unborn fetus. Does anybody know about it? Is it a problem to
:have a cat in the same apartment?
:
Having the cat around is not a problem, but the pregnant woman should not
change the litter box. Toxoplasmosis can be transmitted from the stool of
some cats.
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This will not, of course, deter the several die-hard Koreshies on
this net, who will probably claim that the Tarrant County medical examiner
(Dr. Peerwani) was coerced by the FBI into faking this evidence. Either that,
or they'll claim the FBI shot them.
The rest of us might contemplate the difficulty of determining the
cause of death from a corpse that has been reduced to a Krispy Kritter.
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I like to know how effective ProHibit is to prevent spiral meningitis
for a child who is five years old. I heard it's from Canada.
What sort of side effects , etc.
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All gimmicks! Stick with plain 'ol carnauba wax that's non-abrasive.
Eagle 1, Meguiars, Turtle Wax, and a few others are good examples.
The colored waxes just color in the scratches so they're not so
apparent. The better approach is to buff minor scratches completely
off with a cleaner/mild abrasive.
Never tried Liquid Glass, although I still have this sample they sent
me a few years back.
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This definately gets the car going, but... WD-40 is highly flammable. Explosive
even in the right conditions, like a vapour sealed inside a distributor for
eg. And contact points tend to arc a tiny bit :)
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Then by your logic, the Jews in Europe in the 1930's were the cause for
the Holocaust. Hitler told them to leave and because they didn't they
brought the whole thing on themselves. Because as you say, they could
have COME OUT of Germany.
Same for the Jews in Europe 1930's.
You don't see any evidence of the abuse -- therefore it must be taking place?
As you point out everwhere but here, it is irrelevant to this case. The
ATF is not in charge of investigating child abuse.
In obvious contradiction to the statements made by the F. B. I.
And just what are those actions that you are judging them by?
Their refusal to let the government control their lives? Their refusal
to submit to unconstitutional laws? Their refusal to behave like
cowards? Some of Texas' heros could have taken the cowardly way
out too and surrendered the Alamo. After all, all they had to do was
COME OUT. They stayed as you say by their "OWN CHOICE". Problem
is not everyone chooses to act like a groveling dog in the face of
insurmountable odds. But as you point out, they certainly do have
that right.
Bull. They did, in fact, live a quiet, religious life -- as they claimed.
The warrant was not issued because they "stockpiled weapons". It is
not against the law to own as many guns as you want -- yet (Except in
Virginia).The warrant was issued for some "gun parts" that are about the size
of a half-dollar. Certainly worth the lives of so many people, don't you
think?
You can forget that WE business. I certainly do blame them.
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Price reduced: asking $165 only!
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I thought I'd share a good experience, too. I bought the APS Quantum 240 zero
footprint drive in May '92 (back when they still used two separate LEDs on the
front panel and the case was metal). While traveling with it (it was in my
SE/30 Mac bag, on top of the Mac) this past winter, one of the plastic tabs
holding the front panel on broke, so that the right side of the front panel
was coming forward away from the rest of the drive. I lived with this situation
until it became completely intolerable (which more or less coincided with a
network shutdown at school and a trip out of town I had to take, which gave me
some dead time during which to have the drive sent out).
I called APS for an RMA # and got one, with no questions asked about how the
tab got broken (it was handled a little roughly by airline baggage handlers --
though nothing else was damaged [well, except for the internal speaker in my
modem, which wasn't that well glued down to begin with] -- yeah, yeah, I'm
never flying with my SE/30 again). And when I called back to ask whether I
could send it in a little later rather than right away, they had no problem
with that -- even when I exceeded the normal valid period for an RMA # by a
day (they're usually good for 10 days). The front panel was replaced under
warranty, and the drive was shipped back quickly (I mailed it first class
insured on a Saturday by noon from L.A. to Missouri, and it came back by Fed
Ex by Friday [I don't know exactly what day it came back because I was
traveling that week from Wednesday afternoon to Sunday afternoon]).
The only thing that could've been bad was that the first service rep I talked
to, in an attempt to prevent jeopardizing my data, suggested that I take the
drive mechanism out and send just the case. Unfortunately, I discovered the
day I was mailing the thing, that would necessitate breaking the little
seal and thus voiding the warranty! Oh, well.
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+>1. There is no such thing as non-toxic tear gas. Tear gas is non-breathable
+> remaining in it's presence will cause nausea and vomiting, followed eventually
+> by siezures and death. Did the FBI know the physical health of all the people
+> they exposed?? Any potential heart problems among the B-D's??
They certainly knew that there were pregnant women in there plus
children. I could not believe when they said that the gassing was
an attempt to "save the children" yesterday. I can't think of a much
worse sort of child abuse that pouring tear gas into a building.
+>2. Have you ever seen a tear gas canister?? Tear gas is produced by burning a
+> chemical in the can. The fumes produced are tear gas. The canister has a
+> warning printed on the side of it. "Contact with flamable material can result
+> in fire." Now, how many of these canisters did they throw inside a building
+> they admited was a fire-trap??
I have heard two things recently explaining this:
1. They pumped the gas into the building from outside via some
sort of pipe rather than by canister.
2. The sort of tear gas they are using was described as some
sort of powdery material that sticks to things. Kind of
like a powder cloud.
And once again, these are government lacky explainations and
since government stories always change, none or all of the
information might not be true.
+>This whole thing was a case of over-reaction by the officials at every step.
+>I hope it is thoroughly investigated and the responsible parties are held
+>accountable. But that is highly unlikely when you figure they are going to
+>be investigating themselves.
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For Sale 1989 Kawasaki TS (650) Tandum seating
Color: White with Blue and Red.
Jet Ski runs great and looks good.
Ziemans Trailer with locking Utility Box.
Color: Black
Ziemans Trailer is less than a year old.
Both have been garaged kept and well maintained.
$4200.00 for both
(To be sold as a set only)
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Does anyone have any experience or is familiar with the Cardinal P9000
VL-Bus graphics card? Would appreciate knowing what you think of its
capabilities. Thanks.
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A 180 degree V Ya gotta love it !>
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I dont know about Saabs but whenever there is a 'long temr tset' in a magazine
they always say that tehy're are little annoying niggles which keep on occuring
every so often... I wouldn't expect that from such a 'quality' car.... why
doesn't anything like this ever happen on BMWs? Maybe coz they're 'quality'
cars ;-)
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Don't forget Robert Blake in "Electra Glide in Blue" (where else do
you get to see a full-dress Harley playing with dirt bikes?).
And if you're going to count Smokey and the Bandit, then you darn
well better include "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure".
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I'm trying to connect a Mac SE modem port to a PC 25 way serial port,
can someone provide me with a wiring diagram for a null modem lead for
this setup.
Please use Email since my news feed is a bit quirky.
Thanks in advance
Sean Gordon
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There are several programs on sumex that allow Macs with superdrives to
read and write unix tar diskettes.
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NHL PLAYOFF RESULTS FOR 4/22/93.
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CONFERENCE SEMI-FINALS BEST OF SEVEN
PATRICK ADAMS NORRIS SMYTHE
NJ BUF (leads 3-0) STL (leads 2-0) WIN
PIT (leads 3-0) BOS CHI VAN (leads 2-0)
NYI (leads 2-1) MON TOR LA (tied 1-1)
WAS QUE (leads 2-1) DET (leads 2-0) CAL
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Quebec Nordiques (leads series 2-1) 1 0 0 0 - 1
Montreal Canadiens 0 1 0 1 - 2
1st period: QUE, Sundin 1 - (Gusarov) 1:17
2nd period: MON, Muller 1 - (Damphousse, Bellows) (pp) 1:30
3rd period: NONE
1 Overtime: MON, Damphousse 1 - (Bellows, Desjardins) (pp) 10:30
Powerplay Opportunities-Nordiques 0 of 4
Canadiens 2 of 6
Shots on Goal- Nordiques 12 4 14 5 - 35
Canadiens 11 14 13 12 - 50
Quebec Nordiques--Hextall (2-1) (50 shots - 48 saves)
Montreal Canadiens--Roy (1-2) (35 shots - 34 saves)
ATT-17,679
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Pittsburgh Penguins (leads series 3-0) 1 0 3 - 4
New Jersey Devils 1 1 1 - 3
1st period: NJD, Guerin 1 - 1:03
PIT, McEachern 3 - (Straka) 9:36
2nd period: NJD, Holik 1 - (S.Stevens) 16:32
3rd period: PIT, M.Lemieux 4 - (Murphy, Ramsey) 1:07
PIT, Taglianetti 1 - (Loney, Tippett) 7:05
PIT, Murphy 1 - (Francis, Tocchet) (pp) 9:31
NJD, Semak 1 - (Zelepukin) 9:44
Powerplay Opportunities-Penguins 1 of 4
Devils 0 of 5
Shots on Goal- Penguins 7 16 12 - 35
Devils 16 11 5 - 32
Pittsburgh Penguins--Barrasso (3-0) (32 shots - 29 saves)
New Jersey Devils--Billington (0-1) (35 shots - 31 saves)
ATT-14,974
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Boston Bruins 1 0 2 0 - 3
Buffalo Sabres (leads series 3-0) 2 0 1 1 - 4
1st period: BUF, Mogilny 4 - (LaFontaine, Hawerchuk) (pp) 1:33
BUF, Khmylev 1 - (Smehlik, Hannan) 4:42
BOS, Bourque 1 - (Oates, Donato) (pp) 17;33
2nd period: NONE
3rd period: BOS, Smolinski 1 - (Oates) 13:28
BUF, B.Sweeney 2 - (Khmylev, Carney) 14:56
BOS, Neely 3 - (Oates, Shaw) 15:57
1 Overtime: BUF, Khmylev 2 - (Hawerchuk, LaFontaine) (pp) 1:05
Powerplay Opportunities-Bruins 1 of 5
Sabres 2 of 7
Shots on Goal- Bruins 11 8 15 0 - 34
Sabres 12 11 8 3 - 34
Boston Bruins--Blue (0-1) (34 shots - 30 saves)
Buffalo Sabres--Fuhr (3-0) (34 shots - 31 saves)
ATT-16,325
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Washington Capitals 1 1 1 0 - 3
New York Islanders (leads series 2-1) 1 0 2 1 - 4
1st period: NYI, Thomas 1 - 16:37
WAS, Burridge 1 - (May, Cavallini) 18:58
2nd period: WAS, Carpenter 1 - (Ridley, Bondra) 6:18
3rd period: WAS, Elynuik 1 - (Carpenter, Ridley) 6:15
NYI, Thomas 2 - (Turgeon, King) 11:11
NYI, Turgeon 3 - (Thomas, Hogue) 19:17
1 Overtime: NYI, Ferraro 3 - (Hogue, Flatley) 4:46
Powerplay Opportunities-Capitals 0 of 2
Islanders 0 of 4
Shots on Goal- Capitals 10 8 6 1 - 25
Islanders 10 6 8 6 - 30
Washington Capitals--Tabaracci (1-2) (25 shots - 21 saves)
New York Islanders--Healy (2-1) (30 shots - 27 saves)
ATT-14,180
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Qualcomm had spare cycles in the DSPs for their new CDMA digital
cellular phones. They wanted to put strong crypto into them since they
had the capacity. The government decided to "discourage" them.
Really, none of this stuff is especially hard. All you need for a true
private phone is an ISDN codec, a vocoder (either a chip or
software), an encryptor (a chip is fine, but software is more than
fast enough), a V.32 or V.32bis modem module, and maybe a
microcontroller to run the whole thing. Its easy to do, its cheap. And
any "normal" company trying to put one out will likely get a visit
from the boys in the dark suits from Washington, just like Qualcomm
did. I suspect that companies like Cylink are tolerated because their
products are too expensive.
However, no law yet stops one from building really private phones, in
spite of the hints the administration has made when discussing the new
"crime bill" and in connection with the Clipper/Skipjack Big Brother
chip. Someone out there WILL build a unit to do all this. Better yet,
prehaps someone will produce a package that turns any 486 box with a
sound card into a secure phone.
--
Perry Metzger pmetzger@shearson.com
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I remember a post from last year indicating that a "pitch clock" was tried
in one of the minor leagues some time back and did not work. I don't remember
why they said that it did not work. Anyone remember this?
Jody McDonnel on WIP in Phil. has been saying that a pitch clock was
inevitable. How would a pitch clock work on throws to first?
Another pair of suggestions:
1. Remove the Balk rule. It is the runners responsibility to stay "safe"
no matter what the pitcher does.
2. If a pitcher throws to an occupied base more than X time (X = 3 to 5)
without successfully picking off the runner, the runner advances a base
as if walked.
The no-balk seems to give the pitcher the advantage. The base-walk allows
the runner to "challenge" pitcher to throw over to the base.
I too, find myself surfing when I know that it will be enough time between
each pitch to allow the batter to adjust his "jewlery".
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*****************************************************************************
* Lyme Disease Electronic Mail Network *
* LymeNet Newsletter *
*****************************************************************************
Volume 1 - Number 09 - 4/26/93
I. Introduction
II. Announcements
III. News from the wires
IV. Questions 'n' Answers
V. Op-Ed Section
VI. Jargon Index
VII. How to Subscribe, Contribute and Get Back Issues
I. ***** INTRODUCTION *****
In this issue of the Newsletter, we learn of the CDC's announced concern for
the "resurgence of infectious diseases" in the United States. Thanks to
Jonathan Lord for sending me the UPI release. The CDC announced they would
feature a new series of articles in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly
Report on these infectious diseases (LD is one of them). We will keep you
up to date on this series.
In addition, we feature a The Wall Street Journal article on the legal issues
surrounding LD. We also look at Lyme's effects from the perspective of
urologists in an abstract entitled "Urinary Dysfunction in Lyme Disease."
Finally, Terry Morse asks an intriguing question about a tick's habitat.
-Marc.
II. ***** ANNOUNCEMENTS *****
SOURCE: The Lyme Disease Update
SUBJECT: Call for Articles
Attention Health Care Professionals:
The Lyme Disease Update would like to publish your articles on Lyme disease
diagnosis, Lyme treatment, and the effects on Lyme on Lyme patients' physical
and mental health.
The LDU has a monthly circulation of 6,000. Our mailing list includes Lyme
patients, physicians, researchers, county health departments, and over 100
Lyme support groups nationwide. We strive to give our readers up-to-date
information on Lyme disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, and a
source for support and practical advice on living with Lyme disease.
Articles for the LDU should be approximately 900 to 1200 words and should
address Lyme disease issues in non-scientific language. To submit your
article, mail to: Lyme Disease Update
P.O. Box 15711-0711
Evansville, IN 47716
or FAX to: 812-471-1990
One year subscriptions to the Lyme Disease Update are $19 ($24 outside the
US). Mail your subscription requests to the above address, or call
812-471-1990 for more information.
III. ***** NEWS FROM THE WIRES ******
Sender: Jonathan Lord <jml4s@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu>
Subject: RESURGENCE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONCERNS CDC
Date: Thursday April 15, 1993
ATLANTA (UPI) -- A resurgence of infectious diseases blamed on newly
emerging viruses and bacteria pose a major challenge for the nation's
health care system, federal health officials said Thursday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reporting its latest
findings in an investigation of contaminated hamburger meat that
sickened hundreds in 4 states and killed at least four, said it will
put renewed emphasis on battling infectious diseases.
Part of that emphasis includes a new series titled "Emerging
Infectious Diseases" to be featured in the CDC's Morbidity & Mortality
Weekly Report, which has a wide circulation in the health community.
The issue also will top the agenda of a two-day meeting of scientific
counselors to update the CDC's draft plan for dealing with the growing
threat of infectious ailments.
"This is an issue that has been coming and we do have a responsibility
to deal with it," said Dr. Ruth Berkelman, deputy director of the CDC's
National Center for Infectious Diseases.
There were more cases of malaria in the U.S. in 1992 than in any year
since the 1960s, and Latin America is experiencing a cholera epidemic,
the first in this century, she said.
Resistance of disease-causing agents to antibiotics is also a problem.
"We are seeing much more antibiotic resistance than we have in the past"
Berkleman said. She said even common ear infections frequently seen in
children are becoming resistant to antibiotic treatment.
"Despite predictions earlier this century that infectious diseases
would soon be eliminated as a public health problem, infectious diseases
remain the major cause of death worldwide and a leading cause of illness
and death in the United States," the CDC said.
It cited the emergence since the 1970s of a "myriad" of newly
identified pathogens and syndromes, such as Escherichia coli O157:H7, a
deadly bacterial infection; the hepatitis C virus; HIV, the virus that
causes AIDS; Legionnaires disease; Lyme disease; and toxic shock syndrome.
"The incidences of many diseases widely presumed to be under control,
such as cholera, malaria and tuberculosis, have increased in many areas,"
the CDC said. It said efforts at control and prevention have been
undermined by drug resistance.
=====*=====
SOURCE: WALL STREET JOURNAL
REFERENCE: 04/15/93, pB1
HEADLINE: Lyme-Disease Ruling Raises Liability Issues
The tick that causes Lyme disease may have found a new way to cause
damage: legal liability.
A federal judge's decision holding a property owner liable for not
doing enough to protect workers from Lyme disease is getting as much
attention as the latest medical study on the disease, a flu-like
illness that can cause severe physical and mental disabilities and in
rare instances death. The decision last week has put property owners
on notice that they may have to do more than protect themselves from
the ticks-they also may have to protect themselves from litigation if
someone becomes infected while on the property.
The decision by U.S. District Judge Robert J. Ward in New York came
after a week-long trial in a case involving four track workers for the
Long Island Railroad. Judge Ward found that the workers contracted the
disease after they were bitten by ticks while on the job. He ordered
the New York state-owned commuter line to pay the workers more than
$560,000 to compensate for pain and suffering, in addition to medical
expenses and lost wages.
Summer camps, schools, companies with facilities in rural or
semirural areas, and homeowners who rent to vacationers are among the
groups that need to be worried about this ruling, says Stephen L.
Kass, an attorney at New York law firm Berle, Kass & Case, who wrote a
legal article three years ago warning property owners of the potential
liability. Even a family that invites friends over for a backyard
barbecue might be potentially liable.
Lawsuits for insect bites, while rare, aren't unheard-of. A summer
vacationer in Southampton, N.Y., last year sued the owner of the home
she rented, claiming that a tick on the property gave her Rocky
Mountain spotted fever. In 1988, also on Long Island, a jury ordered
an outdoor restaurant to pay more than $3 million to a patron who was
stung by a bee, causing an allergic reaction and permanent
quadriplegia. The judge later threw out the award, citing no evidence
that a beehive was near the restaurant.
But lawyers say that the attention to Lyme disease throughout the
country -- it's most prevalent in New England, the Middle Atlantic
states, Wisconsin, Minnesota and the Northwest -- may make this
particular insect bite a particularly litigious one.
The illness already has proved to be a source of controversy in the
courtroom over such issues as the type of medical care insurers will
cover and medical malpractice claims against doctors for not
diagnosing the disease.
Lawyers say worker's-compensation claims related to Lyme disease
have become common in some states in recent years. Payments in
worker's-compensation cases, however, are limited to medical costs and
lost earnings.
The case before Judge Ward dealt with a potentially much more
lucrative avenue for damages, because it involved the question of
negligence. Unlike the worker's compensation process, the law governing
injuries to rail workers allows for a finding of negligence and, as a
result, for additional payments for pain and suffering. Property
owners and lawyers say that negligence claims can be made in many
other situations where people are exposed to the ticks that carry the
disease.
Ira M. Maurer, a partner at New York law firm Elkind, Flynn &
Maurer, who represented the rail workers, says the decision will help
to establish "the duty of all sorts of property owners to protect
against Lyme disease."
Lawyers caution that despite Judge Ward's decision, winning a
lawsuit for damages caused by Lyme disease may prove difficult. For
one thing, victims have to demonstrate that they have pinned down when
and where they got the tick bite. Judge Ward found that the plaintiffs
in the railroad case got Lyme disease while working on property owned
by the railroad, even though none of the men remembered being bitten.
The workers, who weren't outdoorsmen likely to be exposed elsewhere to
the insects, said they saw ticks in the high grass that surrounded
some work sites.
A spokeswoman for the railroad says that there was no proof that
the four men were bitten while on the job and that the railroad is
considering an appeal. The railroad also disputes Judge Ward's finding
that it didn't do enough to protect employees. The spokeswoman says
the railroad provides track workers with insect repellent and special
pants to protect against bug bites.
Debate in the scientific community over Lyme disease could open up
some legal defenses for property owners, such as questioning whether a
victim actually has the disease rather than some other illness.
Earlier this week, the Journal of the American Medical Association
reported that doctors overly diagnose patients as having Lyme disease.
And damages awarded to a victim also might be influenced by medical
disputes over the degree of harm that Lyme disease causes.
Because of health and safety concerns, some groups and companies
already take special measures to protect against Lyme disease. Last
year, at its headquarters in Franklin Lakes, N.J., Becton, Dickinson &
Co. began using Damminix, a pesticide made by EcoHealth Inc. of Boston
that is designed to kill ticks carrying the disease. The medical-
supply company's headquarters include a 120-acre park, and the company
was worried that employees who walk on its trails for recreation might
get infected.
Ruth Lister, a spokeswoman for the American Camping Association in
Indianapolis, says that many youth camps accredited by her
organization also have begun to check children for ticks. And Carole
Katz, a member of the board of the Fire Island Pines Property Owners
Association, says her group spends $30,000 each year to treat their
100-acre site off the coast of New York with the tick-killing
pesticide.
=====*=====
TITLE: Urinary dysfunction in Lyme disease.
AUTHORS: Chancellor MB; McGinnis DE; Shenot PJ; Kiilholma P; Hirsch IH,
Department of Urology, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson
University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
REFERENCE: J Urol 1993 Jan; 149 (1): 26-30
Lyme disease, which is caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, is
associated with a variety of neurological sequelae. We describe 7 patients
with neuro-borreliosis who also had lower urinary tract dysfunction.
Urodynamic evaluation revealed detrusor hyperreflexia in 5 patients and
detrusor areflexia in 2. Detrusor external sphincter dyssynergia was not
noted on electromyography in any patient. We observed that the urinary tract
may be involved in 2 respects in the course of Lyme disease: 1) voiding
dysfunction may be part of neuro-borreliosis and 2) the spirochete may
directly invade the urinary tract. In 1 patient bladder infection by the
Lyme spirochete was documented on biopsy. Neurological and urological
symptoms in all patients were slow to resolve and convalescence was
protracted. Relapses of active Lyme disease and residual neurological
deficits were common. Urologists practicing in areas endemic for Lyme
disease need to be aware of B. burgdorferi infection in the differential
diagnosis of neurogenic bladder dysfunction. Conservative bladder
management including clean intermittent catheterization guided by urodynamic
evaluation is recommended.
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Sender: Terry Morse <morset@ccmail.orst.edu>
Subject: Question on Lyme Vectors and Compost Piles
When I visited my sister on Long Island, NY, I was cautioned to avoid the
compost heap in her back yard, as she thinks this is where she became
infected.
A friend of mine here in Oregon who has a compost heap would like me to
back that claim up with documentation. Do lyme-carrying ticks hang out in
compost heaps?
Thank you.
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VI. ***** JARGON INDEX *****
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CDC - Centers for Disease Control - Federal agency in charge of tracking
diseases and programs to prevent them.
CNS - Central Nervous System.
ELISA - Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assays - Common antibody test
EM - Erythema Migrans - The name of the "bull's eye" rash that appears in
~60% of the patients early in the infection.
IFA - Indirect Fluorescent Antibody - Common antibody test.
LD - Common abbreviation for Lyme Disease.
NIH - National Institutes of Health - Federal agency that conducts medical
research and issues grants to research interests.
PCR - Polymerase Chain Reaction - A new test that detects the DNA sequence
of the microbe in question. Currently being tested for use in
detecting LD, TB, and AIDS.
Spirochete - The LD bacterium. It's given this name due to it's spiral
shape.
Western Blot - A more precise antibody test.
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|>>|> Excerpts from "Insight" magazine, March 15, 1993
| *Paranoia part deleted.*
| Isn't Insight magazine published by the Mooneys?
I don't remember the article that you removed so I can't comment on it.
What I can comment on though is your response.
Do you really believe that what you wrote is sufficient to refute
the article? Do have any facts in addition to your opinion?
No one has time to chase down every rumor that gets printed
in the National Enquirer or whatever. The point is to wait
and see if the assertions of the (rather bizarre) original
post will be corroborated in any way. Perhaps they will.
The recent posts of the rather bizarre original poster speak
for themselves.
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This is a pet peeve of mine. I wish companies would put power switches on the
front of the equipment! If my Apple monitor had the switch on the front, I
would happily power it off at night. Almost every piece of computer equipment
I own/use has the switch on the back (including external hard drives and
modems--why?). I hope front-mounted switches become the norm, and soon.
Rich
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I am looking for a program to draw various kinds of diagrams on my Linux
system.
- It must be free.
- It must run on standard (monochrome) X with a small screen size (800x600)
No motif/openlook etc.
- It must compile under Linux with gcc/g++. Most generic unix software
works ok.
- It must produce postscript files that I can include into LaTeX documents
with dvips. Or just tell me another free program that converts one
of the supported formats to ps.
- It must produce drawings that are larger than the window size (scrollable).
I know of several such programs, idraw, xfig. tgif. I have
no experience with any of them. Features I would like in the programs are.
- ability to draw circles, arcs, straight lines, boxes and arrows.
- support for both dashed and solid line styles for all of these objects.
- support for texts in any size.
- ability to move/copy/resize/rotate any part of the drawing.
- ability to turn any part of the drawing into a library component
(e.g. a transistor symbol composed of three lines, an arrow and a circle)
- any aid (numeric coordinates, screen grid) to align parts of the drawing.
- less essential, but in fact very handy: preservation of connection.
If I move one part of the drawing, the lines that connect that part to the
rest of the drawing, stay connected.
Ideally I want the tool so general and flexible that it is comfortable to
draw electronic schematics, flow charts, logic diagrams, data flow diagrams
and block diagrams with it.
I just want to know which of the programs offer which of the features on my
whishlist and are there any other programs? How demanding are the programs
with respect to disk space, memory and CPU usage? Are any of the programs
known to work on Linux with monochrome X?
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The most current orbital elements from the NORAD two-line element sets are
carried on the Celestial BBS, (513) 427-0674, and are updated daily (when
possible). Documentation and tracking software are also available on this
system. As a service to the satellite user community, the most current
elements for the current shuttle mission are provided below. The Celestial
BBS may be accessed 24 hours/day at 300, 1200, 2400, 4800, or 9600 bps using
8 data bits, 1 stop bit, no parity.
Element sets (also updated daily), shuttle elements, and some documentation
and software are also available via anonymous ftp from archive.afit.af.mil
(129.92.1.66) in the directory pub/space.
STS 55
1 22640U 93 27 A 93120.24999999 .00044939 00000-0 12819-3 0 129
2 22640 28.4643 241.8868 0011265 284.7181 109.3644 15.91616537 580
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[reply to timmbake@mcl.ucsb.edu (Bake Timmons]
Which newsgroup have you been reading? The few anti-Christian posts are
virtually all in response to some Christian posting some "YOU WILL ALL
BURN IN HELL" kind of drivel.
Bake, it is transparently obvious that you are a theist pretending to be
an atheist. You probably think you are very clever, but we see this all
the time.
But of course *you* have dismissed them because you are an atheist,
right?
In other words, you *didn't* read the FAQ after all.
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Sounds like more of the same. Gods were used to describe almost
everything in the past. As we come to understand the underpinnings of
more and more, the less we credit to a god. Now, the not-so-well
understood elements (at least by the author) includes quarks and tectonic
drift. I guess that's better than describing the perceived patterns of
stars in the sky as heroes being immortalized by the gods.
Kinda sounds like old-earth creation--It seems that life did, indeed, evolve
from a common ancestor. What caused that initial common ancestor?
Are we going to hear another debate on causeless events? ;-)
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The OTIS Project presents...
SYNERGY: Revolt
...the first in a continuing series of collaborative
art initiatives designed to exploit the binarity
of the infosphere. This series of diversely
structured art-manipulation projects will attempt
to stretch across network boundries encouraging
use of electronic mail, fax, video, photography,
scanned "conventional" art and even sound to
create multi-artist "still" visuals in GIF and
JPG formats. Visualists from all technical levels
are welcome.
REVOLT will be structured simply. There will be
three stages of production. The first stage will
consist of all participants creating one still
work as a "starter" piece that two other partici-
pants will, in turn, manipulate. All first stage
"base" images are due by Sunday, May 23rd, 1993,
midnight Central Daylight Time.
Stage two will begin on May 24th. All images will
be sent to another (arbitrarily chosen) participant
for them to do manipulations on in anyway they see
fit. For purely digital artists, this may consist
of filtering the image through their favorite paint
program. For "analog" artists, this may well be
printing a hardcopy of the image and adding their
own part with pen, pencil or white-out then scan-
ning in the image again to be transferred on to
the third-stage artist. All second-stage works
are due by midnight on Sunday, May 30th.
Stage three is the finishing stage and will begin
on May 31st. All artists will do what they think
it takes to finish up the image they've been given
using whatever technique they see as worthy.
These images will be due on June 6th, midnight.
All involved will participate in each stage of
creation.
-----------------------------------------------------------
To join, send email/mail with the following info:
Name:
email address:
mail address:
scanner access? (color/grey/none)
printer access? (laser/postscript/inkjet/color/dot)
computer access? (mac/ibm-pc/sun/amiga/atari/NeXT/other)
output format? (tiff/targa/gif/jpeg/pict/postscript/fax
/photocopy/pcx/windows bitmap)
graphics level? (8bit/16bit/24bit/?)
ftp access?
time limitations?
Address the information to:
email: mad-celt@cwis.unomaha.edu (Andrew Booth, project manager)
(include "REVOLT" in the subject line)
mail: The OTIS Project
SYNERGY: Revolt
PO BX 241113
Omaha, NE 68124-1113
---------------------------------------------------------
Remember, all STARTER images are due on Sunday, May 23rd.
Deposit them at either of these FTP sites:
sunsite.unc.edu (/pub/multimedia/pictures/OTIS/Incoming)
or
141.214.4.135 (projects/otis/incoming)
OR
...send uuencoded images to us via email...
OR
...send hardcopies to address above...
OR
...arrange FAX exchange.
If you don't get your STARTER image in, you won't be
able to participate until SYNERGY Phase II (in mid-June).
---------------------------------------------------------
We will do our best to accomodate/facilitate image exchange
for the "technologically impaired". If you don't have
access to a scanner, but need one, we'll try to help.
If you need an image printed out and sent to you, let
us know (send an SASE if you anticipate this).
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON THE FOLLOWING:
- suggestions for use of "uncommon" mediums
(such as video stills, electronic imaging and sound)
- FAX availability times
- "copyright" considerations (appropriation)
- image conversion
- the OTIS Project in general
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Last year my nine year old son fell in love with baseball and now
likes to play and to follow the professionals. I would like to buy
him a board game so he can catch a glimpse of and practise a little of
the managerial stragegy. I am not looking for a computer game or any
type of game where manual dexterity determines the winner. I am after
something that he and his friends can spread out over a table on a
rainy day and spend some thoughtful time over.
I would appreciate the names of any recommended games. I don't follow
this newsgroup, so e-mail responses would be ideal.
....[MIchael]
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B9, Environmental Health Centre, Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa, Canada, K1A 0L2
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this is true.
this has merit but is not entirely true.
this last statement is not true. According to the CBO the United States
has a force of about 88,000 US Army personel in Europe, I do not know
if this includes a USMC division in Norway. They have available
a little more than 500 USAF attack aircraft, including various models
of the F-111, A-10, F-19A/B, and a few F-4s. {there are about 1,000
more of these available, SAFELY TUCKED AWAY AT HOME. At one time, the
US maintained 1500 MBTs {about half were M1A1} but some of these were
relocated to the Persian Gulf. I know the US has at LEAST one
aircraft carrier battle group nearby and probably a marine assault
brigade. Does anyone know if there are any B-52/B-1Bs in England?
The point is, although there are no US ground troops in Bosnia,
it is not true that that all the american forces are safely camped
outside of St. Louis.
I also understand that the administration is planning to position
troops in Macedonia. Any reaction out there to this?
Question: day before yesterday I heard that Serbia & Montenegro
had imposed additional trade sanctions against the Bosnian Serb Rebels.
This morning a NPR reported at a bridge on the Drina (sp?) verified
that only a bread truck was allowed to pass through to Bosnia.
A Serbian {who happened to be muslim}, stated that just a few months
ago no vehicle even slowed for the boarder station. Now everyone
is stopped and searched, many are turned back. Of course all I
heard was a translators version, I do not speak Serbo-Croatian.
If this is a effort on the part of Serbia & Montenegro {for whatever reason}
to push the Boserbs into accepting the V-O, is this not a good thing?
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First of all I think when ESPN covers the game they do a wonderful job, but
last night I felt the same way. I really hate watching Devils/Pens game.
Everyone knows that Devils are going to get their ass kicked, why even
bother showing them. I was so bored and these ESPN people don't seem to have
any brain. After the Sundays and last night games, they are still going to
show Devils/Pens on THU and SUN. WHat the hell are they thinking about? I
think if they keep it up like this NHL will never get a major network contract.
I'd rather see Caps/Isls game which is more exciting.
Now I just hope all baseball games are rained out on ESPN so atleast
we can get diffrent hockey games.
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Yesterday I read an article from someone who was requesting references for
introductory texts on cryptography. Although I marked the article to
return, it appears to have expired on this site.
Anyway, on one of the previous occasions when this subject arose I saved
a couple articles which made suggestions. One of the articles contained
a quite impressive bibliography. If the poster of the request (or anyone
else) would like to email me, I would be glad to send out copies of these
recommendations, including the bibliography.
David R. Conrad "No his mind is not for rent/To any god or government"
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Please take this system off my hands. I no longer use it and it is
taking up valuable room. They system consists of a Microcom PDOS Apple II+
clone with 64k on board and PDOS installed. It comes with a load of boards,
including: a disk drive board, 2 Z80 boards, a 16k board, an 80 column
board, a couple printer boards including the Grappler II+. It has 2 1/2 height
drives and a cooling fan attachement. The keyboard is of the extended
variety with builting keywords and a keypad. All of it for $170.
Brett Maraldo
- Plexus Productions
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Hi guys....
What happened?
1. Potvin didn't let six goals by.
2. Wendel and Andreychuk woke up.
3. Home ice and LOTS of yelling in the Gardens gave the Leafs
the emotional edge.
4. Refs calls (especially last night) tended to favour Leafs.
A couple of comments:
1. On Gilmour: Just because the guy isn't one of the three
stars doesn't mean he was not leading the team. Someone posted
the playoff point total and he's in something like fifth or sixth
place....plus, he walked away with the Molson cup (given for
accumulating points from the three star selection) during the
regular season.
2. On the officiating: I've heard gripes from both ends on this
one. Emotions are very high in this series; the rivalry is
one of the stronger ones I know of. I do have to agree that the
officiating last night was pro-Leaf in general (except for whoever
missed that slash on Gilmour's hand).
3. In general: I STILL think Detroit has one of the better
chances vs. Pittsburgh (though I think the Leafs would do better
against the Blues....but not as well if they made it out of the
division). Problem is, I like both these teams, though I'm
supporting the Leafs on the underdog principle. D
By the way...Gilmour tiring out is a lot like Bob Probert not
playing aggressive hockey....
By the way....I'm not any sort of expert, nor do I claim to be.
I just like watching a good matchup.
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Let me improve this one for you, then. For nearly one thousand years,
the Turkish and Kurdish people lived on their homeland - the last
one hundred under the oppressive Soviet and Armenian occupation. The
persecutions culminated in 1914: The Armenian Government planned and
carried out a Genocide against its Muslim subjects. 2.5 million Turks
and Kurds were murdered and the remainder driven out of their homeland.
After one thousand years, Turkish and Kurdish lands were empty of Turks
and Kurds.
The survivors found a safe heaven in Turkiye.
Today, x-Soviet Armenian government rejects the right of Turks and
Kurds to return to their Muslim lands occupied by x-Soviet Armenia.
Today, x-Soviet Armenia covers up the genocide perpetrated by its
predecessors and is therefore an accessory to this crime against
humanity.
x-Soviet Armenia must pay for its crime of genocide against the Muslims
by admitting to the crime and making reparations to the Turks and Kurds.
Turks and Kurds demand the right to return to their lands,
to determine their own future as a nation in their own homeland.
...On this occasion, we once again reiterate the unquestioned
justice of the restitution of Turkish and Kurdish rights and...
- We demand that the x-Soviet Armenian Government admit its
responsibility for the Turkish and Kurdish Genocide, render
reparations to the Muslim people, and return the land to its
rightful owners. The recognition of the Genocide has become an
issue which cannot be delayed further, and it is imperative that
artificial obstacles created for political manipulations be removed.
- We believe the time has come to demand from the the United States
that it formally recognizes the Turkish and Kurdish Genocide, adopts
the principles of our demands and refuses to accede to Armenian pressures
to the contrary.
- As taxpayers of the United States, we express our vehement
protest to the present U.S. Government policy of continued
coddling, protection and unqualified assistance towards x-Soviet
Armenia.
- Our territorial demands are strictly aimed at x-Soviet Armenia's.
Source: "From Sardarapat to Sevres and Lausanne" by Avetis Aharonian. The
Armenian Review, Vol. 16, No. 3-63, Autumn, Sep. 1963, pp. 47-57.
p. 52 (second paragraph).
"Your three chiefs, Dro, Hamazasp and Kulkhandanian are the ringleaders
of the bands which have destroyed Tartar villages and have staged
massacres in Zangezour, Surmali, Etchmiadzin, and Zangibasar. This is
intolerable. Look - and here he pointed to a file of official documents
on the table - look at this, here in December are the reports of the last
few months concerning ruined Tartar villages which my representative
Wardrop has sent me. The official Tartar communique speaks of the
destruction of 300 villages."
p. 54 (fifth paragraph).
"Yes, of course. I repeat, until this massacre of the Tartars is stopped
and the three chiefs are not removed from your military leadership I
hardly think we can supply you arms and ammunition."
"...it is the armed bands led by Dro, Hamazasp and Kulkhandanian who
during the past months have raided and destroyed many Tartar villages in
the regions of Surmali, Etchmiadzin, Zangezour, and Zangibasar. There are
official charges of massacres."
Serdar Argic
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As far as I know, there is no FAQ for tpg. Somebody was working
on one, but I think it "died in committee."
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I read it when it first came out, and the controversy broke. Put my name
on the waiting list at the library (that way if the book was really
offensive, none of my money would find its way to the author or
publisher), and read it, "cover to cover" (to use a phrase that seems
popular here right now).
And I *liked* it. The writing style was a little hard to get used to, but
it was well worth the effort. Coming from a similar background (Rushdie
grew up in Bombay in a muslim family, and moved to England; I grew up in
New Delhi), it made a strong impression on me. (And he used many of the
strange constructions of Indian English: the "yaar" at the end of a
sentence, "Butbutbut," the occasional hindi phrase, etc.)
At the time I still "sorta-kinda" thought of myself as a muslim, and I
couldn't see what the flap was all about. It seemed clear to me that this
was allegory. It was clear that he described some local prostitutes who
took on the names and personae of Muhammed's wives, and had not (as my
grandfather thundered) implied that Muhammed's wives were prostitutes; in
short, every angry muslim that had read even part of the book seemed to
have missed the point completely. (And I won't mention the fact that the
most militant of them had never even seen the book. Oops, I just did!)
Perhaps in a deep sense, the book is insulting to Islam, because it
exposes the silliness of revealed religion - why does an omnipotent deity
need an agent? She can come directly to me, can't she? How do we know that
Muhammed didn't just go out into the desert and smoke something? And how
do we know that the scribes he dictated the Quran to didn't screw up, or
put in their own little verses? And why can Muhammed marry more than four
women, when no other muslim is allowed to? (Although I think the biggest
insult to Islam is that the majority of its followers would want to
suppress a book, sight unseen, on the say-so of some "holy" guy. Not to
mention murder the author.)
I had much the same response when I tried to talk about the book. A really
silly argument - after all, how many of these same people have read "Mein
Kampf?" It just made me wonder - what are they afraid of? Why don't they
just read the book and decide for themselves?
Maybe the reaction of the muslim community to the book, and the absence of
protest from the "liberal" muslims to Khomeini's fatwa outrage, was the
final push I needed into atheism!
-s
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How about some citations or is this just impressionistic speculation
on your part?
For 30 years I've been laboring under the delusion that chain drives
were more efficient that shaft drives. Chain drives are also stronger.
(Ever seen a successful shaftie dragster? No.)
No flames, please! I've got both kinds of drives.
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Not very -- you just type "xloadimage" or "getx11" instead of "xv".
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As Herny pointed out, you have to develop the thruster.
Also, while much lighter, you still have to lift the mass of
the thruster to orbit, and then the thruster lifts its own
weight into a higher orbit. And you take up room in the payload
bay.
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And you shouldn't, as the matches kill more kids. So why are you bleating
about guns?
It may be tired, but it is true.
No, that's not right either. People who have both easy access and the
desire to kill, kill people. Considering that people who have the
desire to kill turn that into easy access .... (Haven't you folks
learned anything from either Prohibition or the war on drugs?)
If you don't affect the desire, you're wasting your time, not to
mention the other costs incurred.
Good for them. I note that the TM folks make the same argument. If
you'll pay their expesnses ($21 million for a reasonable size city),
they promise to meditate away all crime, disease, etc. At least
they're not promising to jail me if I don't go along with their little
plan - they're going to just sit in a room and fly, leaving me alone.
Ah, but we have evaluated gun control using before-after and it
doesn't work to reduce crime. What is the point? We can't claim that
it is symbolic, as people do get jailed.
No, they're essentially saying "we hope this will keep you from
noticing that we're not doing anything useful". Pissing away
resources isn't "caring".
Nope, you'll merely be ignored, as Wright, Rossi, and Daly were after
finishing "Under the Gun". They were supposed to prove that gun
control worked, so ....
So, who gassed them? Given their previous experience with thugs who
threw grenades before yelling "we're from the govt and we're here to
help you", would a rational person think that the feds had their best
interests at heart? Would you "know" that the gas was "non-lethal"?
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FREE-ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
by Robert E. McElwaine, Physicist
Ninety to a hundred years ago, everybody "knew" that a
heavier-than-air machine could not possibly fly. It would
violate the "laws" of physics. All of the "experts" and
"authorities" said so.
For example, Simon Newcomb declared in 1901: "The
demonstration that no possible combination of known
substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of
force, can be united in a practical machine by which man
shall fly long distances through the air, seems to the writer
as complete as it is possible for the demonstration of any
physical fact to be."
Fortunately, a few SMART people such as the Wright
Brothers did NOT accept such pronouncements as the final
word. Now we take airplanes for granted, (except when they
crash).
Today, orthodox physicists and other "scientists" are
saying similar things against several kinds of 'Free Energy'
Technologies, using negative terms such as "pseudo-science"
and "perpetual motion", and citing so-called "laws" which
assert that "energy cannot be created or destroyed" ("1st law
of thermodynamics") and "there is always a decrease in useful
energy" ("2nd law of thermodynamics"). The physicists do not
know how to do certain things, so they ARROGANTLY declare
that those things cannot be done. Such PRINCIPLES OF
IMPOTENCE are COMMON in orthodox modern "science" and help to
cover up INCONSISTENCIES and CONTRADICTIONS in orthodox
modern theories.
Free Energy Inventions are devices which can tap a
seemingly UNLIMITED supply of energy from the universe, with-
OUT burning any kind of fuel, making them the PERFECT
SOLUTION to the world-wide energy crisis and its associated
pollution, degradation, and depletion of the environment.
Most Free Energy Devices probably do not create energy,
but rather tap into EXISTING natural energy sources by
various forms of induction. UNLIKE solar or wind devices,
they need little or no energy storage capacity, because they
can tap as much energy as needed WHEN needed. Solar energy
has the DIS-advantage that the sun is often blocked by
clouds, trees, buildings, or the earth itself, or is reduced
by haze or smog or by thick atmosphere at low altitudes and
high latitudes. Likewise, wind speed is WIDELY VARIABLE and
often non-existent. Neither solar nor wind power are
suitable to directly power cars and airplanes. Properly
designed Free Energy Devices do NOT have such limitations.
For example, at least three U.S. patents (#3,811,058,
#3,879,622, and #4,151,431) have so far been awarded for
motors that run EXCLUSIVELY on permanent MAGNETS, seemingly
tapping into energy circulating through the earth's magnetic
field. The first two require a feedback network in order to
be self-running. The third one, as described in detail in
"Science & Mechanics" magazine, Spring 1980, ("Amazing
Magnet-Powered Motor", by Jorma Hyypia, pages 45-48, 114-117,
and front cover), requires critical sizes, shapes,
orientations, and spacings of magnets, but NO feedback. Such
a motor could drive an electric generator or reversible
heatpump in one's home, YEAR ROUND, FOR FREE. [Complete
descriptive copies of U.S. patents are $3.00 each from the
U.S. Patent Office, 2021 Jefferson Davis Hwy., Arlington, VA
22202; correct 7-digit patent number required. Or try
getting copies of BOTH the article AND the Patents via your
local public or university library's inter-library loan
dept..]
A second type of free-energy device, such as the 'Gray
Motor' (U.S. Patent #3,890,548), the 'Tesla Coil', and the
motor of inventor Joseph Newman [see SCIENCE, 2-10-84, pages
571-2.], taps ELECTRO-MAGNETIC energy by INDUCTION from
'EARTH RESONANCE' (about 12 cycles per second plus
harmonics). They typically have a 'SPARK GAP' in the circuit
which serves to SYNCHRONIZE the energy in the coils with the
energy being tapped. It is important that the total
'inductance' and 'capacitance' of the Device combine to
'RESONATE' at the same frequency as 'EARTH RESONANCE' in
order to maximize the power output. This output can also be
increased by centering the SPARK GAP at the 'NEUTRAL CENTER'
of a strong U-shaped permanent magnet. In the case of a
Tesla Coil, slipping a 'TOROID CHOKE COIL' around the
secondary coil will enhance output power. ["Earth Energy:
Fuelless Propulsion & Power Systems", by John Bigelow, 1976,
Health Research, P.O. Box 70, Mokelumne Hill, CA 95245.]
During the 1930's, an Austrian civil engineer named
Viktor Schauberger invented and partially developed an
'IMPLOSION TURBINE' (German name, 'ZOKWENDLE'), after
analyzing erosion, and lack of erosion, in differently shaped
waterways, and developing sophisticated mathematical
equations to explain it. As described in the book "A
Breakthrough to New Free-Energy Sources", by Dan A. Davidson,
1977, water is pumped by an IMPELLER pump through a
LOGARITHMIC-SPIRAL-shaped coil of tubing until it reaches a
CRITICAL VELOCITY. The water then IMPLODES, no longer
touching the inside walls of the tubing, and drives the pump,
which then converts the pump's motor into an ELECTRIC
GENERATOR. The device seems to be tapping energy from that
of the earth's rotation, via the 'Coriolis effect', LIKE A
TORNADO. [ It can also NEUTRALIZE GRAVITY! ]
A fourth type of Free Energy Device is the 'McClintock
Air Motor' (U.S. Patent #2,982,261), which is a cross between
a diesel engine (it has three cylinders with a compression
ratio of 27 to 1) and a rotary engine (with solar and
planetary gears). It burns NO FUEL, but becomes self-running
by driving its own air compressor. This engine also
generates a lot of heat, which could be used to heat
buildings; and its very HIGH TORQUE makes it ideal for large
trucks, preventing their slowing down when climbing hills.
[David McClintock is also the REAL original Inventor of the
automatic transmission, differential, and 4-wheel drive.]
Crystals may someday be used to supply energy, as shown
in the Star Trek shows, perhaps by inserting each one between
metal capacitor plates and bombarding it with a beam of
particles from a small radioactive source like that used in a
common household smoke detector.
One other energy source should be mentioned here,
despite the fact that it does not fit the definition of Free
Energy. A Bulgarian-born American Physicist named Joseph
Maglich has invented and partially developed an atomic FUSION
reactor which he calls 'Migma', which uses NON-radioactive
deuterium as a fuel [available in nearly UNLIMITED quantities
from sea water], does NOT produce radioactive waste, can be
converted DIRECTLY into electricity (with-OUT energy-wasting
steam turbines), and can be constructed small enough to power
a house or large enough to power a city. And UNLIKE the
"Tokamaks" and laser fusion MONSTROSITIES that we read about,
Migma WORKS, already producing at least three watts of power
for every watt put in. ["New Times" (U.S. version), 6-26-78,
pages 32-40.]
And then there are the 'cold fusion' experiments that
have been in the news lately, originally conducted by
University of Utah researchers B. Stanley Pons and Martin
Fleischmann. Some U.S. Navy researchers at the China Lake
Naval Weapons Center in California, under the direction of
chemist Melvin Miles, finally took the trouble to collect the
bubbles coming from such an apparatus, had them analyzed with
mass-spectrometry techniques, and found HELIUM 4, which
PROVES that atomic FUSION did indeed take place, and enough
of it to explain the excess heat generated.
There are GOOD INDICATIONS that the two so-called "laws"
of thermodynamics are NOT so "absolute". For example, the
late Physicist Dewey B. Larson developed a comprehensive
GENERAL UNIFIED Theory of the physical universe, which he
calls the 'Reciprocal System', (which he describes in detail
in several books such as "Nothing But Motion" (1979) and "The
Universe of Motion" (1984)), in which the physical universe
has TWO DISTINCT HALVES, the material half and an anti-matter
half, with a CONTINUOUS CYCLE of matter and energy passing
between them, with-OUT the "heat death" predicted by
thermodynamic "laws". His Theory explains the universe MUCH
BETTER than modern orthodox theories, including phenomena
that orthodox physicists and astronomers are still scratching
their heads about, and is SELF-CONSISTENT in every way. Some
Free Energy Devices might be tapping into that energy flow,
seemingly converting "low-quality energy" into "high-quality
energy".
Also, certain religious organizations such as 'Sant Mat'
and 'Eckankar' teach their Members that the physical universe
is only the LOWEST of at least a DOZEN major levels of
existence, like parallel universes, or analogous to TV
channels, as described in books like "The Path of the
Masters", by Dr. Julian Johnson, 1939, and "Eckankar: The Key
to Secret Worlds", by Sri Paul Twitchell, 1969. For example,
the next level up from the physical universe is commonly
called the 'Astral Plane'. Long-time Members of these groups
have learned to 'Soul Travel' into these higher worlds and
report on conditions there. It seems plausible that energy
could flow down from these higher levels into the physical
universe, or be created at the boundary between them, given
the right configuration of matter to channel it. This is
supported by many successful laboratory-controlled
experiments in PSYCHO-KINESIS throughout the world, such as
those described in the book "Psychic Discoveries Behind the
Iron Curtain".
In terms of economics, the market has FAILED. Inventors
do not have enough money and other resources to fully develop
and mass-produce Free Energy Equipment, and the conventional
energy producer$ have no desire to do so because of their
VE$TED INTERE$T$. The government is needed to intervene. If
the government does not intervene, then the total supply of
energy resources from the earth will continue to decline and
will soon run out, prices for energy will increase, and
pollution and its harmful effects (including the 'GREENHOUSE
EFFECT', acid rain, smog, radioactive contamination, oil
spills, rape of the land by strip mining, etc.) will continue
to increase.
The government should SUBSIDIZE research and development
of Free Energy by Inventors and universities, subsidize
private production (until the producers can make it on their
own), and subsidize consumption by low-income consumers of
Free Energy Hardware.
The long-range effects of such government intervention
would be wide-spread and profound. The quantity of energy
demanded from conventional energy producer$ (coal mining
companie$, oil companie$ and countries, electric utilitie$,
etc.) would drop to near zero, forcing their employees to
seek work elsewhere. Energy resources (coal, uranium, oil,
and gas) would be left in the ground. Prices for
conventional energy supplies would also drop to near zero,
while the price of Free Energy Equipment would start out high
but drop as supply increases (as happened with VCR's,
personal computers, etc.). Costs of producing products that
require large quantities of energy to produce would decrease,
along with their prices to consumers. Consumers would be
able to realize the "opportunity costs" of paying electric
utility bills or buying home heating fuel. Tourism would
benefit and increase because travelers would not have to
spend their money for gasoline for their cars. Government
tax revenue from gasoline and other fuels would have to be
obtained in some other way. AND ENERGY COULD NO LONGER BE
USED AS A MOTIVE OR EXCUSE FOR MAKING WAR.
Many conventional energy producer$ would go out of
business, but society as a whole, and the earth's environment
and ecosystems, would benefit greatly. It is the People,
that government should serve, rather than the big
corporation$ and bank$.
For more information, answers to your questions, etc.,
please consult my CITED SOURCES (patents, articles, books).
UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this
IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED.
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[well, actually, he didn't, but we'll pretend the real author of this
query has his name tacked in here....:-)]
while it's being mentioned, i personally prefer the moonroof/sunroof/t-top/
targa thing as well. I simply don't like cloth tops, nor the extra insurance,
nor the S**** color matching alot of companies do. If i chose a convertible,
it'd be:
a) Mazda RX7 II. I just like the way they look. It'd have to be in black,
with color matched black top(they look good!)
b) VW cabriolet. They do a suberb job of matching colors too. Also, last year
for them! {***COLLECTOR'S ITEM****}
c) mustang GT droptop...they look ok too.
i know this doesn't help, but i thought i'd do it anyway...:-)
good luck to your wife.(and you :-)
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hi, is there anybody has some example programs about using
the internationalization features in X11R5 ? Such as a small
X program just to show Chinese texts in wondows, menu bar or
icons... Thanks in advance.
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Probably won't help. I'd be willing to bet that _every_ manufacturer
used those little self-contained modules. I think Sharp made them.
Radio Shack used to sell them for a few bucks (maybe they still do.)
The module had 3 leads: power, ground and demodulated output. It
contained the photo-detector, amplifier, integrator and demodulator
all in a tiny metal can.
If you want to buy one, try Radio Shack, or else a TV repair shop can
probably order one. BTW - the carrier frequency is 40 KHz, and each
different TV/VCR/cable box/stereo manufacturer uses a unique pulse
scheme to perform each different function on their equipment.
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Hello!
I need a technique for separation of polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN)
from the peripheral blood of mice. Because of the low PMN:Lymphocyte ratio
(approx. 20:80) it«s not just as easy as the corresponding technique used
with human blood.
Yours,
Per-Arne Melander
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If you think that kind of uncalled for blanket statement will
cause censorship at Mr. Jefferson's university you are wrong.
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A few weeks ago I posted about the Phillies team personalities. Did anyone see the ESPN feature on the Phils on Monday Night. John Kruk had a great line. He was talking about people on the team always playing and not sitting out because of a minor injury. He said if they do they know we'll kick their ass. The
time I saw in was in the afternoon and it was not bleeped. When I saw it at
they bleeped "ass." Mitch Williams talked about the team being a bunch of
throwaways from other teams, and that is why they are so close. Kruk said that
they all get along this year. Last year, he said, they hated the pitchers. I
assume he was joking, but he always keeps a straight face when he talks. Oh,
What a team!!!!!
Rob Koffler
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Hmmm... how about a piece of copper wire? 0 to 5V input range, standard
TTL output, instantaneous conversion time!
[ (-: for the humor impaired ]
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Due to some problems with my IDE drive, I LL formatted the Maxitor7213AT.
Now it started to give me some errors in some applications. I was told
Maxitor has a utility called IDE_INT in their BBS, anyone tried it? Can
some one tell me what that BBS number is? Or better, can I find the file
in some ftp site? Or perhaps someone can email it to me? Thanks.
Feng
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... Wayne McGuire? Did someone prove he's anon15031@anon.penet.fi,
and he ran off to restock on PCP?
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Hey all,
I'm looking at buying a new car, but I'm confused about the insurance
coverage. This also applies to my existing car insurance policy. Does
anyone understand what the "Limited Tort Option" means. Will it lower
my rates if I opt to have it, or will it be more expensive if I opt
to have it? What does it do for me (in layman's terms please)? Is
it a good deal or should I ignore it? I'm not the type to sue anyone
at a drop of the hat nor am I the type to report every little ding to
the insurance company as a vandalism claim. Please help.
Thanks in advance.
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Hello!
I have a SE/30 and a Generation Systems 8bit PDS card for a 17"
screen.
It worked great until I upgraded from 5 to 20 mb ram.
Now with Sys7.1 and MODE32 or 32enabler it does not boot..
a tech support person said the card does not support these 32bit
fixes.
BUT: when pressing the shift key while booting (when the ext. monitor
goes black after having been grey) the system SOMETIMES boots properly!!
and then works ok with the 20mb and full graphics.
WHAT's HAPPENING???
Thanks a lot for any advice!!!
please answer by mail.
Ossip Kaehr
ossip@cs.tu-berlin.de
voice: +49.30.6226317
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I am getting desperate. I have a report that must be finished by midnight,
and W4W doesn't seem to have what appears to be a MUST! I use the autonum
field for numbering chapters, but my document is distributed amongst
several files. I just can't find a way to make Word start the numbering
at something else than 0 or 1. Of course, everything is fine in the first
file, but it's pretty stupid when ALL chapters are numbered as 1 !!!!!!!!
Please, if you have ANY solution to this (except from putting it all in
one 10M document ...) e-mail me immediately !
As I am working on th report I hardly have any time to read News, so
please e-mail me. All answers will be heartly welcome ...
In advance, thanx a lot !!!!!!
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As I don't know this book, I will use your heresay.
It depends on how he defines God. The way I understand the meaning
of that term preclues it being used in a useful way in science. Ideas drawn
from an understanding that God is supernatural precludes us from forming
scientific assertions that can be falsified, that is, where we can decide
that they are true or false within the terms of we use and useful observations
drawn from them.
Some religionists have an interest in bluring the definitions within
science to make them more reconcilable, and especially subserviant in a basic
way, to religious dogma. This pursuit always fails.
Reconciliation of science with religion involves circumventing the
tendancy to claim that either pursuit can gain absolute or certian knowledge,
or that the domain of truth in each is fundementally limited in some way. It
gererally confurs the element of uncertainty and limitations to human knowledge
while allowing for the different concerns of these separate pursuits. Science
and religion ask different questions which have imperfect and provisional
answers, at best. Science is distinctly limited in where it can ask meaningful
questions. More questions can be posed than it can answer. At the basis of
sacred language is the place where words fail us and mere assertions disolve
in contradiction.
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The Jets gave the Canucks another run for their money in an almost
identical game to the first of the series but once again came up short as
Vancouver outscored Winnipeg 3-2.
The pattern of the first game was repeated tonight, with the Canucks
scoring quickly and then going to sleep in the second period, only to stave
off a Jet comeback with opportune goals from their greater talent. The Jets
looked more dangerous in this one but it didn't make a difference in the
numbers that counted: goals.
Vancouver's big line produced again, with centre Cliff Ronning and
left winger Geoff Courtnall scoring in the first and in the second to
boost the Canucks to a 2-0 lead on giveaways by the suspect Jet defence of
Bautin and Ulanov. Mental lapses by the defence and goal-scoring talent
in opportune areas made the difference in all three Canuck goals.
However, as in the first game, the Jets worked hard to take the
game to the Canucks in the second period. The Jets dominated the second,
checking hard and penetrating the Vancouver zone without being challenged
by a Canuck team that wanted to pack it in early.
The hard work paid off late in the second, when Tie Domi caught
Vancouver goalie Kirk McLean by surprise with a sharp angle shot to make
the score 2-1.
Domi's goal gave the Jets new life as they began to take the rush
to the Canuck's collapsing defence. The Canucks were unwilling to do
anything but let McLean take shots and clear the rebounds. The Jets were
allowed to set up and make plays.
Both goalies made standup saves as the play picked up considerably.
McLean made three great saves in the second off a dancing Teammu Selanne
while Essensa was rocked by a Pavel Bure drive. Selanne looked dangerous
on the rush as the Jets pressed a series of attacks into the Canuck
zone. The Canucks, on the other hand, looked like they were offering four
checking lines in an effort to preserve their slim lead.
A series of minor penalties at the end of the second period
resulted in a one man advantage for the Jets in the early third. The
Jet's Tempo Numminen drove a puck from the point through McLean's
legs and into the net to tie the game at 2-2.
The Canuck's discordant play picked up where it left off.
This was characterized by long lead passes that either never connected
or were picked off by the Jets and individual rushes into a tight
Winnipeg defence that were never supported.
However, as in the first and second Canuck goals, a Jet defensive
lapse (re: bonehead play) stalled the Winnipeg comeback. With the faceoff
in the Winnipeg zone, Pavel Bure was left to stand in the crease with
no Jet defender anywhere near him. Bure, who had been invisible in the
game up to that point, took a rebound and managed to roof it with a
backhand even though he was off balance.
By then it was too late for the Jets to come back. Essensa made it
to the bench with one minute to go but the extra attacker did nothing
for their attack. Canucks 3, Winnipeg 2.
Next game is Friday at Winnipeg with the Jets in the hole by two games.
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I had the same inconvenience when I bought my EX-500; only I could at least
go 50 mph during the initial break-in.
Despite the high quality of motor oils and motorcycle engines these days,
I would follow the instructions, and just keep to city street riding for
the first 500 miles. Heck, those miles go by fast, and it's worth it to
know you haven't possibly screwed up your engine.
At the same time, this has all the makings of a 6-week-long thread debating
the whole break-in topic.
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Or perhaps even weird?
Hmmm, you might want to read this group more carefully; there's been a good
amount of discussion of the proposed Pluto Fast Flyby (PFF) mission that is
specifically designed to be small and cheap.
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Dear netters:
I have been scanning this news group for a while but has not found a FAQ.
Could someone enlight me where to find the FAQ if there is a one. Also,
could someone recommend a few good books about encription and decription,
about patent information, goverment regulation on this science/technology.
I will appreciate any of your help very much.
Sincerely
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-=> Quoting The Logistician to All <=-
TL> I am in need of all of the players wearing #77 in the NHL. I know now
TL> only of one, Ray Borque for the Bruins. Any help would be greatly
TL> appreciated.
TL> Thanx.
Hi there Logistician, is not Paul Coffey wearing
# 77 for the Detroit Red Wings?
That is the only other one (besides Borque) that I can think of
hope it helps.
Steve
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That's not all it says. The coverage of modifiers is in Chapter 8
of Volume Four (or chap 7 in older Athena editions), where there is about
10 pages on how to specify translations to capture
various combinations of keys or buttons.
The Xlib route uses XLookupString and there is a lot of coverage
of how that works in Volume One, chapter 9. You should read this
to understand how all the mappings work before trying to do anything
complicated.
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This isn't at all too high of a price. Keep in mind that you get *8* meg of
ram, a *local bus* IDE *and* SVGA card, a *250* mb hd, and a *15"*
monitor. The local bus IDE and SVGA really kick butt in Windows. I have
used a couple of machines with VLB in the past, and all I can do is praise
Gateway.
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Word is that the ones he let go were not his.
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My original post was:
This article will just scratch the surface of a few security
considerations, comments are requested. (email: fw@world.std.com)
My thanks to the people who responded, both on usenet and from
Oracle Corp.
The most common response was to suggest use of oracle audit
features or OPS$ passwords to control access (opinion on OPS$
included suggestions to use and not use). I was also advised to
use table views to refine the granularity of access control.
One important security consideration in networked installations
is that OPS$ accounts presume that the client host provides user
authentication. Os/2 server OPS$ users are only as secure as the
_least_ secure machine on the network. Hence you should probably
not define any OPS$ accounts on systems with PC's, or limit access
of OPS$ accounts to data with no security concerns. Unix oracle
servers provide for disabling OPS$ access over the network (orasrv
option), while relying on host security for local processes.
Internally Oracle provides powerful and well documented (sic)
audit mechanisms which the DBA will use to monitor system and
data access. These tools can be used to track the primary security
risks from within the Oracle environment.
Oracle password security is based on a proprietary usage of DES
encryption. Oracle Corp. states that the algorithm is not prone
to cleartext attack. This is a difficult claim to substantiate
since the algorithm is unknown. The concern here is that if users
choose easily guessed passwords. _If_ a cracker can gain access
to your oracle database files through the host operating system,
s/he could extract the 'cyphertext' password data and apply
cryptanalysis techniques to learn the users passwords.
As security risks go, the above scenario is pretty low severity.
Certainly once an intruder has access to the raw database files,
s/he can access to the data in them. If a cracker _could_ break
the passwords, however, s/he could do substantial damage without
alerting the auditing mechanism's, and leaving and audit trail
which would point to valid users. At present Oracle (like Unix)
provides no native means of ensuring that passwords are not
guessable.
As with all computer security, the most important defense is to
educate users in the safe choice of passwords. These techniques
are well discussed in internet rfc#1281 and the Crack manual,
(both available from ftp archive servers) and, UNIX(R) System
Security (Curry, David A. - Addison-Welsey 1992)
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How can you tell for sure? Three days haven't passed yet.
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Steve Bittrolff
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My opinion(for what it's worth) is that 40 x-rays is *way* too many.
Guidleines have been set on the number of dental x-rays and chest x-rays
that one should have over a given period of time because of all the
environmental factors that can cause cancer in humans, ionizing radiation
is one of the most potent(splits DNA and causes hydroxyl free radical
formation in tissue cells). Ultasound(like that used in seeing the fetus
in the uterus) has been shown to be extremely good at picking up tumors
in the prostate and gallstones in the gallbladder. But kidney tissue may
be too dense for ultrasound to work for kidney stones(any radiologists care
to comment?).
Most stones will pass(but it's a very painful process). Unlike gallstones,
I don't think that there are many drugs that can help "dissolve" the
kidney stone(which is probably calcium-oxalate). Vitamin C and magnesium
have worked in rabbits to remove calcium from calcified plaques in the
aterial wall. I have no idea if a diet change or supplementation could
speed up the process of kidney stone passage(but I'm pretty confident that
a diet change and/or supplementation can prevent a reoccurance). If surgery
is being contemplated, the stone must be in the kidney tubule. A second
opinion is a good idea because there are better(less damaging) ways to break
up the stone if it's logged within the kidney(sonic blasts). HMO's are
notorious for conservative care and long waits for expensvie treatments.
My condolences to your friend.
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Counterpoint SA-12
85watts per channel
very very warm tube sound, great for warming up CDs
Excellent shape
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The GS300 and SC300 have an inline 6.
Inline 4 is correct.
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Hi peeps,
Here's another of those "any ideas" type queries.
I've been given an oldish Phillips TeleVideo terminal type thingy, without
a keyboard. But no problem so far.
When I dismantled it, I discovered that it is really just a standard
RGB monitor with built in modem/ROM software etc.
Phillips kindly labelled the circuit board with the RGB inputs, so I
connected it up as a monitor and he presto it worked - sort of.
The problem is that I have no idea where to connect the Sync lines.
The display rolls continuously, but does change modes (OK only to
CGA - but useful for my laptop).
Any of you wonderful people any knowledge of Phillips monitors?
I've tried Phillips in the UK and a very helpful guy told me that
he has had several enquiries of this sort, but Phillips Computer
is now under the auspices of DEC (at least in the UK). DEC said
sorry Phillips don't make it any more. What is it anyway?
A UK support dealer said "Circuit diagrams? Sync?"
So any ideas.
John.
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A similar reason is why people at work, used to seeing SCO unix running
on a 486, are suprised when they see my Sun-3 at home running faster w/a 16MHz
68020/68881. The Sun was designed from the ground up for UNIX, the PC
wasn't.
This is why you need a gargantuan processor to run Windows. The basic
design of the box is all wrong. (Would've been better if MS had put most
of Windows on a plug-in ROM card from day one. (priced at $24.95 or
so...) People woulda loved it.
Apple had the right idea, just stumbled a bit in the execution.
-Pete
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I think you can get that at most head shops. I'm not kidding... although
it seems more appropriate for them to be selling Simple Green.
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Hi:
I am looking for tires. I would like to hear your experience on the
BF Goodrich Radial T/A tires and/or the Touring T/A especially for
size P185/70R13.
For Radial T/A: How do they do in SNOW, and WET weather? Are they quiet tires?
For Touring T/A: How many miles can they last? I believe they are in
every way equal/better than Radial T/A. Am I right?
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# |# # Can someone tell me why when Mr. Cramer spouts on about homosexuals,
# |# # he only addresses homosexual men, and never, in any post I've read,
# |# # addressed lesbians?
# |#
# |# I can't really speak for Mr. Cramer here, but I can say that a
# |# homosexual [male] is an entirely different animal than a lesbian.
# |# There is virtually nothing that is analogous or related between the
# |# aberrant behaviors practiced by these two groups of deviants.
#
# Obviously. A homosexual male is of the XY chromosome pair and the lesbian
# is of XX. Besides, what does that have to do with the price of eggs? Since
# Mr Cramer is _very_ straight, he most probably gets off to the thought of
# lesbians, like the majority of adolescent males.
#
# |# The views expressed herein are | Theodore A. Kaldis
# | Adda Wainwright | Does dim atal y llanw! 8o) |
I hate to disappoint you, but that's not the case. I don't "get off"
on lesbian sex, nor am I an adolescent. Now, when I was an adolescent,
I believed that homosexuals were just like everyone else. But I've
learned since then.
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KW> If you don't like additives, then for godsake,
KW> get off the net and learn to cook from scratch. Sheesh.
Mary Allison exclaims:
MA> EXCUSE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!
MA> Why can't people learn to cook from scratch *ON* the net.
MA> I've gotten LOTS of recipes off the net that don't use additives.
Because one simply _can't_ cook on the net, nor can one cook while ON the
net. Cooking is best done IN a kitchen, ON a stove. (Gotcha! *grin*)
(I said this out of general frustration at people (not anyone in particular)
who seem to expect packaged food to conform to their tastes. In other
words, if packaged foods are not to your liking, prepare foods that are.)
MA> If you LIKE additives then get off the net and go to your local
MA> supermarket, buy lots of packaged foods, and YOU get OFF THE NET!!
I don't have strong feelings about additives, as long as I can't taste 'em.
(As for the rest of your reply to me, I am sorry it it seemed as if i was
picking on you. I wasn't trying to do so. Please accept my apologies.)
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