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Hello All! It is my understanding that all True-Type fonts in Windows are loaded in prior to starting Windows - this makes getting into Windows quite slow if you have hundreds of them as I do. First off, am I correct in this thinking - secondly, if that is the case - can you get Windows to ignore them on boot and maybe make something like a PIF file to load them only when you enter the applications that need fonts? Any ideas? Chris

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Ejon Matejevic who was a full professor at Clarkson University, last I heard, developed the process for sticking Teflon to metals. I don't think it was a NASA project, cuz i heard he held the patent on it, and had made quite a bundle off it. Anyone from Clarkson know the Exact story. I never wanted to ask him myself.

Recently an e-mail to me mentioned: (Technically, the messengers aren't even human so it *can't* be a case of "homosexuality" -- even of rape.) [...] The Jude reference to Sodom is also meaningful only in the context of the Sodomites' "lust" for the "other flesh" of angels. Again, application to homosexual behavior in general, or to the position of gay Christians is largeely specious. *** Are angels "flesh"? No. I feel that this is saying that it was because of their lust after other men, who are flesh( or of this world). what are other opinons on this? I haven't heard much about this verse at all. In Christ's Love, Bryan

On a few computers which we have here at Sheridan College there are files which we would like to make read only. I have used the Dos attrib command but some people, who carry around the attrib program in their pockets, have still been able to erase some of the more important files. Are there any software packages which would make an entire drive read-only? An example, partition the drive into two partitions and have the first drive contain the important files which can be only read and the second drive you could both read and write. Any and all enquiries or help would be appreciated.

In this case, it was unimportant as to who set the fire. The Davidians would have burned no matter what, ESPECIALLY if the BATF/FBI set the fire as this would make the beseiged martyrs to Vernon Howell and therefore rocket to heaven. A few comments from the remaining Davidians scattered throughout the country seemed to confirm this theory (One cult member said that she wished that she had been there, and that now she would have to wait for Vernon to Return for them. She actually seemed upset that she did not burn with them). While I think that Vernon started the fire (his followers anyway), it is incidental to their reaction.

Listen guys you can talk about this the whole playoffs. I'm here in a small town in southern Illinois at school. I'm from Canada and I know that cbc and tsn have games on every night, all you have to do is go to a bar with a satellite. I have watched both games between Mon Que and toronto and detroit, not to mention Van vs Winn and with cbc. They show all goals from every game that evening so I haven't missed a goal all playoffs. Well have to go boy leafs are on Ciao.

I purchased an LCIII recently and had heard a bit about a re-work of the logic board. I opened mine up and found the same re-work, with a small chip glued to the board and a couple of green wires running from it to two other chips. I'd like to know more about it. Could anyone with any or all of the following information please post it? Thanks a bunch. 1. What does the re-work accomplish (i.e., what does it fix)? 2. What are the technical details of the re-work? (I'm looking for things such as the purpose of the chips with the new wires connected, and the pin-outs for those chips.) 3. Is a board with the re-work any different functionally from one without? 4. Could the re-worked boards be incompatible with future releases of the operating system? and, finally, 5. Should I even be concerned about any of this?

Regarding the feasability of retrieving the HST for repair and relaunching it: (Caution: speculation mode engaged) There is another consideration that hasn't been mentioned yet. I expect that retrieving HST would involve 'damaging' it considerably in order to return it to its cradle in the cargo bay. Most of the deployed items (antennas and, especially, the solar arays) probably are not retractable into their fully stowed position, even by hand. They would have to be removed by the astronauts. (The only advantage that this might yield is that we could put new panels on that don't 'ring' due to thermal cycle stresses...) I also expect that, as has been discussed, the landing loads on the HST optics structure is a big issue (but that the reentry loads are much less so.) Can the moveable optical components even be re-caged (I assume that they were caged for launch)? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Corvin [email protected] GN&C R&D Martin Marietta Astronautics ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- =============== My views, not Martin Marietta's ========================

I'm working on an audio mixer project, but I'm having trouble finding parts. I want to use op-amps for the gain control stages. The ones I have found that are good for audio are LM739 and LM833, but I cannot find either of these in the electronic parts places I've looked. Are there any good substitute op-amps and/or are there any parts suppliers in the LA area that carry this kind of thing (10KOhm dual audio taper slider pots would be nice, too). Any info would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Is there an "official DoD products-of-choice" list? If so would the appropriate party please post it. -Erc.

I have a 486 DX 33 motherboard in my pc that i'd like to speed up. I'd rather not replace the whole motherboard, instead i'd like to know if i can use a DX/2 66Mhz cpu. The BIOS is late model AMI, circa 1991, and the system crystal is approx 66.3Mhz. My question is, can i just replace the original 33MHz cpu with the new DX/2 cpu? If its possible, will there be a need for extra cooling devices such as heatsinks and / or muffin fans??

It has nothing to do with how long they have been voting, as much as HOW they have been voting. Pick up a list of the Labor parties proposals for MK prior to the election and pay attention to the order. Correlate this with the number of Arab party members eligible to vote in party elections. Further correlate this with the voting results from Arab areas. Lo and behold, you will discover that Israeli Arab Labor party members did not band together unanimously or en large for a select group of Arab candidates. This problem is further exacerbated by the rifts between Israeli Arabs. Some claim membership to right wing parties while others vote for parties that do not pass the minimum cutoff. I worked within the labor party during the late 70's elections (not this last one) as a volunteer and was privy to the voting results that were returned from the local delegates elected. At the time, the system was structured differently but it did not cease to amaze me that there was no massive effort to lobby for Arab reps. by their own delegates. Quite simply, if all eligible Arab voters became members of the Labor party and voted, they would be able to command more than %15 of the delegates. This is a power base that can not be ignored! Especially when they are not ranked high in the party (once again due to lack of political power). I have seen how the labor party works from the inside and my experience has been that, as in most political situations, the MKs act out of their own self-interest. And to answer your question, I "broke" with labor because I felt that they were heeding too much to the right-wing and ultra-orthodox coalition members. Fair enough. My take on the matter, and I will admit to the possibility that this might be seen differently is that this was a dummy argument. If he was sitting on the committee, then someone else obviously would not be. In drumming up support for his seat, MK [?] would not be averse to using this argument, or it could be used on his behalf. As to the proof presented in this article, I would find it very interesting to know who proposed the compromise along with a followup describing how the matter stands/was resolved. Let me just take this opportunity to say that I deplore such actions and groundless justifications. For the record, Roni Milo, is a brash MK (self described) from the Likud (note NOT LABOR). Quite frankly, I don't think anything he would say could surprise me. Annoy and aggravate, yes, surprise - no. Yes I do and thank you for providing it. I would be most interested in knowing how things turned out. Anyone......?

Yes, but what if my monitor only has 3 BNC's on it, and is expecting to get a composite sync signal on the "green"? There ought to be a little black box that takes the VGA signalling (which has horiz, vert, and composite sync on different pins, plus the R, G, and B pairs) and merges the green and composite sync together in the output. It's all 1V analog, as far as I know. I can build this with op-amps but I don't think I can get the shielding done well enough to handle the frequencies involved without lots of shadows and junk on the screen. Does anyone know of a VGA->RGB(composite sync on green) converter?

Yeah! I found beelzebub inside a worm...yeah, that's it! (actually it was vodka - Gordon's if I remember correctly... I didn't even buy it (of course, that's probably the reason I drank _so_ much of it that night...never again.)

Are you guys talking about the Soviet "shuttle"? It's not "Soyuz", it's called "Buran" which means "snow storm." (At least that's what they call it on Russian TV).

Warren, I agree with your premise... but... The Babe won on two teams. That's right, he was part of the Red Sox Dynasty of the 1910s. And everyone knows that the Yankee Dynsaty wouldn't have happened without thier famous bullpen catcher whose name escapes me at the moment.

<It seems silly, but while I've located things like tgif that can edit <gif files, and various tools to convert to/from gif format, I haven't <been able to locate a program that just opens a window and displays a <gif file in it. I've looked thru various faq files, also to no avail. <Is there one lurking about in some archive? Nothing sophisticated; <just "show the pretty picture"? < <Alternatively, if I could locate the specs for gif, I don't suppose it <would be too hard to write it myself, but I have no idea where to even <start looking for the spec. (Well, actually, I do have an idea - this <newsgroup. ;-) Get, xv, version 3.0. It reads/displays/manipulates many different formats.

Right on. Ticket prices are set to maximize revenue. Period. For an excellent discussion on how this works, see Gerald Scully's book of a couple of years back, titled (I think) "The Business Of Baseball". -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We will stretch no farm animal beyond its natural length [email protected] Paul Andresen Hewlett-Packard (503)-750-3511

Does anyone have a reference to the claim that the Arabs in the Moghrabi district were "squatters"? I haven't seen this in the books I have read. I haven't seen the opposite, either...

Gerald Belton) writes Here in our city, dialing either 940-7222 (newer exchanges) or 940-2222222 [ sic] will get a synthesized message. Works great for having people call you back at unlabeled pay phones. Regards, Bill

So is there any problems putting a drive formatted vertically on its side horizontally? I got a drive a few years ago with the rubber feet on the side, etc. and have used it like that since (obviously designed for that orientation). However, it doesn't fit under any of the clever places I can think of to place it, so I would really like to lay it flat and put it under a low shelf. This is probably not a "newer" drive, and it is only 70 meg, but when I bought it, it was a large drive for an average user (comparable to buying a 200 meg drive today). So is my old, 70 meg drive as fragile (or not) as a new 200 meg drive? Just curious.....

I have heard that the version 7.2 printer driver is out for the apple laserwriter ls. Has ayone heard of how or where to get this driver.

Here's the one that I used: # @(#)$Id: MH,v 1.7 90/04/06 09:44:31 sources Exp $ # SCO 3.2.4v2 bin /usr/local/bin bboards on etc /usr/local/lib/mh mail /usr/spool/mail mailgroup mail ldoptlibs -lsocket -lcrypt_i mandir /usr/man cc gcc ccoptions -traditional manuals none chown /bin/chown mts sendmail/smtp pop on debug off sharedlib off signal void sprintf int options ATTVIBUG BIND DPOP DUMB RENAME SOCKETS SYS5 SYS5DIR VSPRINTF FCNTL MHE MHRC MIME MORE='"/usr/bin/more"' POPSERVICE='"pop3"' RPATHS FOLDPROT='"700"' MSGPROT='"600"' SBACKUP='"\\043"' SHADOW curses -lcurses -ltermcap ranlib off You may want to use a different locking style; my mailbox is mounted over NFS so I use fcntl-style locking. I also applied the following tweak to sbr/makedir.c: *** /src/public/mh-6.8/sbr/makedir.c Tue Dec 15 10:55:22 1992 --- sbr/makedir.c Tue Apr 13 14:02:04 1993 *************** *** 24,30 **** #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #endif /* SYS5DIR */ ! #if defined(SVR4) || defined(ncr) #include <unistd.h> #endif --- 24,31 ---- #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #endif /* SYS5DIR */ ! #if defined(SVR4) || defined(ncr) || defined(SYS5) ! #define MAXPATHLEN 1024 #include <unistd.h> #endif That took care of everything but the man pages, which I installed by hand. Good luck, -- Steve

so. done, career Velarde hasn't been to Columbus, if I recall, for about three years. Granted, he hasn't been a full time player but when he does play I've always thought he had a good bat. He might be demoralized about not playing full time, but he hasn't been shuttled around. I think he's been in New York ever since he had 34 hits in 100 AB back in 1989, or 90, I believe. I don't think he is gold glove calibre, but he doesn't boot it around either. I think if Velarde is given a chance, he could become extremely productive. I don't have any stats to back this up, and I don't know if his Defense would cost any games, but I think he could help - and he has this year. He has 3 HR already. Same goes for Jim Leyrtiz. He has a big mouth, but he does get the job done when he concentrates. I think the situation with Leyritz is that he believes he is a potential super-star, and he gets pissed about not playing. I think he might have realized something when the Marlins or Rockies didn't select him. The Yanks need to worry about the Bullpen right now. Kamieniecki and Wickman/Militello in the bullpen? Ouch. I'm praying that the BP will return to last year's form....

Bill, No flame intended but you're way, way off base. In simple terms Kirilian photography registers the electromagnetical fields around objects, in simple, it takes pictures of your aura. -- Greg

Can people please stop the 'I think/know the BATF/FBI are completely responsible but they'll cover it up so that the investigation will show that Koresch is responsible' bs. In an investigation of this size with the feds, state, and civilians involved in the investigation it would be practially impossible to cover up. And with Republicans like Arlen Spector calling for investigations, this isn't going to be handled with kid gloves.

Well, as many a bored bike tourer can tell you, the way to steer sans hans is to push your body off to the side you want to lean. Say you want to turn left. You push your body off to the left. To do this, you have to push against something, and the only thing to push against is the ground (through the bike). Well, the apple guy (Wozniak? or was that Churchill?) says that the ground will push you right back. So, you pushed yourself off to the left by pushing on the ground to the right, and the ground pushed back toward the left. Well, that push is on both wheels. The rear wheel doesn't care (unless you have serious bearing problems) (except of course on the Spagthorpe Dragonfly, which had the revolutionary countersteering-contra-shaft-drive rear end), but the front wheel has trail. If the ground pushes the front wheel toward the left at the contact patch, the trail will cause the wheel to turn to the right. Hey, there we are. No-hands counter- steering.

I have got an Adaptec SCSI card, that comes with its own version of FDISK. The problem with DOS is that it will only see two hard disks, any more need to be done by device drivers.

Could someone please post Roger Grywalski's response? Or point me to where I could find it? Thanks a lot, S. Raj Chaudhury | Dept. of Physics | [email protected] Kansas State University | Manhattan, KS 66506 |

Oh, you mean something like moving the press back to a single location, 2 miles away from the "compound"? The press was allowing into foxholes in Vietnam, but it's "too dangerous" to allow them near the Branch Davidians?... There's something skewed about the logic here. -- Charles Scripter * [email protected] Dept of Physics, Michigan Tech, Houghton, MI 49931

brings up the issue of how the escrow agent will be paid, and the fact that the government had financial leverage if they don't cooperate. It's an important issue, especially if one of the escrow agents decides they'd rather stop offering the service. I assume that if the escrow agent isn't the government, then the contract for providing escrow service would include some termination clause like returning the keys. But who's the user paying the fees here, and what's the service? If the user is the government, then the funding's not separate from the government. If the user is the buyer, what's the service? Keeping the key for me? No thanks - I don't need, and won't buy their service! Not telling everybody my key? Sounds like blackmail! If the user is the manufacturer, does the user have a choice about buying? The alternative is to just generate the key and not escrow it, which is fine - I'd certainly pay more for this kind of key than an escrowed key! Face it, the escrow provider is providing a service the users don't want. The only people who want it are the government, not the users. What you're really talking about is either the government paying for the service, up front or per-year, either from general taxes, or from a special direct tax on wiretap chips, or on an indirect tax (forcing the manufacturer to pay the fee to the escrow agent.) I hope the escrow people have no way of finding out your name from your serial number, especially if the escrow is a government agency. Here in New Jersey, we have lots of people willing to provide that sort of services for user fees. There are people willing to keep your store from burning down for a small monthly fee, though sometimes people refuse to pay and discover that the service really was effective. If you go to a baseball game at Yankee Stadium, there are people who will watch your car in the parking lot for a small user fee. Something could scratch the paint, after all. And what a shame if your Clipper key got out!

******************************************************* 1969 karmann ghia ******************************************************* This car is in excellent running condition: ********* *49,000 mi on new engine *new tires (Aug 92) *new clutch (91) *new carb (91) *original radio (am/fm) *upholstery in great shape *burgundy exterior/ black interior This car has been well-maintained with regular tune-ups. Unfortunately, the car's previous owner had a minor front-end collision. The right front nose is dented and patched up with bondo. I have the hard-to-find part needed to repair this damage. Besides that damage, the car is in excellent condition. $1600/bo

Do you swim nude in a public swimming pool? :) I doubt sperm can penetrate swimsuit material, assuming they aren't immediately dispersed by water currents.

1993-1994 NHL Hockey Pool By Denis Papp and Chris Stoochnoff Rules: - Pick 17 players (3 LW, 3 C, 3 RW, 3 LD, 3 RD, 2 Goalies) You may pick ANY 17 players from any team. - Points for players are as follows: - 1 point per goal - 1 point per assist - 1 point per 10 PIM - Points for goalies are as follows: - 2 points per win - 1 point per tie - 1 point per assist - 1 point per 5 PIM - 2 points per shutout - 100 points per goal Entries: -Entries can be sent (by mail or ascii text file) to Chris Stoochnoff or Denis Papp on Hard Wired BBS (434-7996). -Due date for entries is the first day of regular season play. After that, no more entries will be accepted (unless it is just slightly late. If that is the case, there will be a small penalty applied to the team). -internet users can send email to [email protected] Prizes: Prizes have not yet been considered. They could range from nothing to free time on Hard Wired BBS or even something else (if you have any suggestions... please feel free to put your two cents worth in). One idea is to get whoever is willing to to submit an equal amount of money, and that will go to be the prize money. The prize money will go to the top team who has submitted to the prize pool. A list of all people who submit money will be posted, as well as those who didnt - if it is done this way. Cost: The cost... ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!! There is absolutely no fee for this pool. Note: -If you have any questions, please feel free to send them to Denis Papp or myself (Chris Stoochnoff). The players positions (ie. Brett Hull is Right Wing) will be decided by the year book I will be using. So, if you do not know a certain players position, or you are not completely sure what position he plays, then ask me and I'll tell you. -And for a great time, call the Hard Wired BBS at (403)-434-7996 (this will be the location where the pool standings will be displayed). Internet Users:

Before I even think about getting this, is it going to be posted to comp.sources.x at any time in the near future? Greg.

Is it possible to get an xterm scrollbar to come out on the right side instead of the left? Ron Shenk

I'm planning on writing several classes to build a raytracing/radiosity library on top of, and i'm wondering if anythink like this is freely available on the net before i go to it. What i need is classes like rays, vectors, colors, shaders, surfaces, media, primitives, worlds (containing primitives) and views/images. Please post or mail. -- Torgeir Veimo Studying at the University of Bergen "...I'm gona wave my freak flag high!" (Jimi Hendrix)

Could someone please tell me what the dip switches on the back of the AST Hot Shot 286 accellerator card do? I recently acquired the card and did not get any docs. any information will be appreciated. -Rob -- Robert M. Bultman | Speed Scientific School | University of Louisville | Internet: [email protected] |

OK I sold all but these, I had some offers and I accepted an offer of 25.00 for the pair from [email protected] ( Bdale Garbee ). I don't know what happened to him but he won't reply now that I accepted it so I'll offer these again.

No, and in fact, that was Ferreira's original strategy, which the troika proceeded to simply continue to implement. There wasn't exactly a radical shift in policy when he was ousted (something people seem to forget). The only real question is whether they did it as well as Ferreira could have if he stayed, or whether the basic strategy was flawed (since Ferreira has been quoated as saying he's going to do something different in Anaheim with the Ducks, my guess is that it wasn't as good in practice as it was on paper, and he's tweaking it a bit second time around). One also has to wonder whether the strategy would have been a lot better if we hadn't had those injuries, and whether we're complaining about the weather because an earthquake collapsed the root cellar. Let's also NOT FORGET that Ferreira came *THIS* close to trading Kelly Kisio, which, if the rumors I've heard are true, was over the strong objections of other aspects of Shark management and probably had a lot to do with both his ouster and the three-headed, consensus oriented GM. Imagine, for a second, where the Sharks would be today if that fax machine hadn't jammed. Especially an unhappy player that isn't playing as well because of it. Not that I'd accuse Mullen of tanking, but his motivation simply wasn't there, and that kind of thing can affect the team. Exactly. At the time they let Skriko go, we hadn't yet had the major injury bugs that killed us later. I'd much rather have Skriko around than someone like Dean Kolstad, but at that point, that wasn't the choice. And since the choice was more one of Skriko vs. someone like John Carter, I think the right choice was made for that time period.

RIght now the HST sevicing mission is listed as 11 days. before it was listed as 9 days. they just kicked up the number of spacewalks to 5, after simulations indicated that it was not do-able in 4. After all the space walking, they are going to re-boost the HST's orbit. I think right now it's sitting at 180 miles up, they would like 220. I don't know the exact orbit numbers. I know when HST was first flown, it was placed in the Highest possible Shuttle orbit. Now the shuttle can cary a thing called the EDO pallet, or extended duration orbiter pallet. It's mostly LOX/LH for the fuel cells and RCS gear, plus more O2 and canisters for the life support re-breathers. maybe more nitrogen too. THe limit on space-walking is a function of suit supplies (MASS) and Orbiter Duration. In order to perform the re-boost of the HST, the OMS engines will be fired for a long period. Now the shuttle is a heavy thing. THe HST isn't light either. THe amount of OMS fuel needed to fly both up is substantial. a small booster carried up and used to boost HST on it's own will weigh significantly less then the OMS fuel required to Boost both HST and SHUttle, for a given orbital change. From what i understand, the mass margins on the HST missions are tight enough they can't even carry extra Suits or MMU's. Now if they used a small tug, I would bet, just a wild guess, that the savings on amss margin would allow carrying the EDO pallet, extra suits, more consumables, parts for the flaky FGS sensor, parts for the balky solar electronics, and still enough for a double magnum of champagne. or the HST could even get placed into some sort of medium orbit. The reason they want a high orbit, is less antenna pointing, and longer drag life. a Whatever it is, the problem in the tilt array is a big constraint on HST ops.

Go with the Mercedes, if you can afford it. I think the 300 wagon starts around 50k, although it could be 60k. There is no comparison with any of the other cars listed.

A Yugo that will go 1/4mi in 7.7 seconds will _not_ lose on the street. That's just too damn quick. It might be wrapped around a telephone pole at the end of that quarter mile, but it will be there alone... Or you could replace the stock shifter with a Hurst short-throw shifter (available from Ford Motorsport), or any number of other after-market products to boost the performance of a Mustang or Camaro. Can you do _that_ with a '93 RX-7, or, verily, with _any_ MR-2? With the Detroit aftermarket, you can build a Mustang or Camaro which is superior to either car you mention for less than the sticker price of either. Well, gee. It works, and it doesn't break. It transmits power to the drive wheels, and it's essentially zero maintenance--and there's an aftermarket in parts for Ford and Chevy rear-ends, too. Well, the '93 Mustang Cobra (which, from all reports, uses the same running gear as '94 Mustang) has 4-wheel disks. I can't speak for the new Camaro, but I think it does, too. Also, stop and think about the markets here. The Mustang is, and always has been, a mass-market sporty car (that's where the "pony car" class came from) with a performance model. That's why it has the econo-box running gear. That was also factored into the design of the Mustang from the day Lee Iacocca conceived his baby; it was designed as a wide-market car--sporty, yet accessible--with room for performance tweaking. The cars you listed are designed for a specific market niche, and they both fit those niches very well. The Mustang, at least, does well in multiple markets; I can't speak for the Camaro. James

Well, we're almost halfway through the first round, and so far things are good in general: 1. The 2 teams that I hate most: Chicago and "Basten" are down 3 zip. (even though there is a possibility either can still win their series, yet this ego-thrashing and arrogance-smashing by the underdogs (St. Louis and Buffalo) is so rewarding). 2. Montreal is at this stage in a team's life where they are not good enough to go all the way, yet too good to be able to get some (really) good draft picks... :-( 3. Is it just me, or does anyone out there also think that this year the cup final should be played between 2 teams from the WALES? 4. Is it just because they're playing Montreal that I find the diques arrogant ***'s, or are they really? 5. Smythe-what???? I'm really getting sick of seeing Douggie and Wendel night in and night out... We should see some Canucks/Jets/Flames action...! 6. Don Cherry is an ******* alright, but hey... so are our politicians... ObLeafsJoke: Q. what do you get when you cross a maple leaf and a groundhog? A. Six more weeks of crummy hockey! ------------------------------------------------------------------ L8R, dudes... GO HABS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Shaib [email protected]

When I changed from SVR4 to SVR4.2 on my Intel box I discovered that some of my SVR4 xclients such as xload, etc would no longer work. They bomb out with the message: error: can't open display unix:0.0 Is this because they can't find the correct shared libraries, they need to be recompiled, or have I not used the correct options? Both systems use X11R5. Thanks.

Current votes for favorite goalie masks (3pts - 1st, 2pts - 2nd, 1pt - 3rd) Player Team Pts Votes -------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Ed Belfour Chicago 31 14 2. Andy Moog Boston 30 13 3. Curtis Joseph St. Louis 26 11 Brian Hayward San Jose 26 10 5. Ron Hextall Quebec 16 8 6. Gerry Cheevers Boston (retired) 11 6 7. John Vanbeisbrouck NY Rangers 10 4 Grant Fuhr Buffalo 10 4 9. Mike Richter NY Rangers 6 3 10. Manon Rheaume Atlanta (IHL) 5 2 11. Don Beaupre Washington 4 2 Ken Dryden Montreal (retired) 4 2 -------------------------------------------------------------- Others receiving less than 4pts: Mike Vernon (Cal), Clint Malarchuk (Buf/SD,IHL), Tommy Soderstrom (Phil), Ray LeBlanc (USA), Artus Irbe (SJ), Tim Cheveldae (Det), Sean Burke (NJ), Rick Wamsley (Tor,ret), Jon Casey (Minn), Bob Essensa (Win), Glenn Healy (NYI), Toy Espo (???), Gilles Gratton (???), Rod Stauber (LA), Gump Worsley (???), Pat Jablonski (TB), Grant Fuhr (Tor), Felix Potvin (Tor), Stephane Beauregard (Win), Mark Fitzpatrick (NYI), Chico Resch (NYI) Can someone please tell me which teams the (???) play(ed) for? Thanks.

[email protected] Pontificated: Can you cite an example of this. Please post an answer as I don't want to receive e-mail.

: : Isn't there a relatively new treatment for kidney stones involving : a non-invasive use of ultra-sound where the patient is lowered : into some sort of liquid when he/she undergoes treatment? I'm sure : I've read about it somewhere. If I remember it correctly it is a : painless and effective treatment. The use of shock waves (not ultrasound) to break up stones has been around for a few years. Depending on the type of machine, and intensity of the shock waves, it is usually uncomfortable enough to require something... The high-power machines cause enough pain to require general or regional anesthesia. Afterwards, it feels like someone slugged you pretty good!

Well ... Have a look at a new journal: Journal of Experimental Mathematics It has several Fields medallists on its editorial board. You want to knwo more? Try Klaus Peters in Boston or David Epstein at Warwick .

According to what I saw in a store today, the Performa 405 is not the same as an LCIII. It only has a 16Mhz 68030 while the LCIII has a 25Mhz 030. Correct me if I am wrong, because it is possible that the dealer may have forgotten to remove the description that was next to the actual computer. Dealers who sell the Performa are known to have about as much knowledge about Macs as I do about DOS machines.

And as someone mentioned earlier, from the apocryphal Book of Enoch, satan was apparently kicked out for three times asserting his own will, "I will". Hmmm...pro-choice looks kinda creepy here.

I am using a NEC 4FG with my Centris 610. The cable adapter was provided by NEC (you have to call to get this free adapter). I am also sharing it with my 486 (using a switch box and extra cables). My questions: How do you tell if it is 600x400 or 800x600 that was displayed? Or how do you change the mode(resolution)? Is there SW for this or something I have to do with the HW? I am assuming I am getting 800x600 since I have 1M VRAM and the 4FG can display 1028x768(?) with my 486.

For sale by owners who were also the builders Contemporary Cape House located in Sandwich, Ma Three bedrooms, two baths, one car oversized garage large eat-in kitchen Cathedral ceiling from to back living room deck off of kitchen and dining room 20,000 sq ft 1,696 sq ft living space full walk-out basement $139,900, creative financing a possibility

I think to some extent this is a case of stooping to their level. You assume that the general public "can't handle the truth" and then, based on this assumption, go for the fluff arguments. Then someone, who can understand a good argument, comes along and asks "why don't you just develop the spinoffs?" or "why can't we just get our spinoffs from some other program, like the military?" There are some good arguments for space development without relying on its side effects. I'm not ignoring the value of spinoffs. I simply think that the general public deserves more credit than you give them. And if you're going to use spinoffs you better make darn sure you are right. Teflon has been around since before NASA. As I understand it, Velcro was conceptualized by a french doctor who went walking in the woods and took the trouble to wonder how burrs stick to your clothes. Certainly velcro was available on hiking equipment by the early to mid sixties. I would need to see some good evidence before I believe that either of these would not be here today without NASA.

Is anyone out there knowledgeable on drug issues in Japan? I'm interested in knowing if Japan has or has ever had a problem with drugs, and how they dealt with it. I've heard, undocumented, that Japan years ago used heavy legal penalties to end a serious heroin problem. I'd like to know both sides of the story. Does anyone recall such a problem? What were laws at the time relating to drug use, drug dealing, and drug trafficking? What are the laws now? What other anti-drug measures, like education and treatment has Japan used? How are drugs regarded by the Japanese people? How effective have anti-drug measures been in Japan? Thanks for your help.

Anyone know of a good software package that will allow us to keep track of who is printing what and when? Is there any way to get Print Manager to keep a log? Is there a Print Manager replacement that will do this? How about a package that will only allow access to the system for people in a password file? I looked at Chastity, but it will let you log in without a password, and doesn't keep tabs of who got on and when. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Yeh,but : 1.Biran Sutter's playoff record as the head coach in St.L wasn't very impressive. His Blues teams were eliminated very early in the playoffs. It doesn't look like this trend will change with the Bruins. 2. Bruins have never come back to win after falling behind 2-0 in their entire 68-year history. It doesn't look like Buffalo will just lose their next two games at the Aud with the way Fuhr has been standing on his head. Basically,the Bruins will be on the golf course by next weekend. Also,it seems like the whole Boston area has gone baseball crazy after an incredibly great start by the Red Sox(best record in their major leagues as of now). I would say that 70% of the callers to the Bruins' flagship station(SportsRadio 590) are talking about the Red Sox,about 15% are yapping about the Patriots' upcoming draft,10% are on the Celtics and about 5% are on the Bruins. Somehow,no one around here is really schocked the way Bruins are folding early.

Don't forget the LAMG (Los Angeles Macintosh Group) BBS! It's the BBS for the largest Mac-only user group in the country now that BMUG is multi-platform.

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What a dope! There is no value for Mohammed Elabdellaoui to be here at a Western University. Third-worldist and Islamic brain-rot has made it impossible for him to acquire and analyze facts appropriately. The history of the efforts of the Mufti of Jerusalem to serve the Nazis in the South Balkans and set up Muslim SS Divisions is well-documented. In general, Nazism and the leader-principle resonated well among Muslim peoples. Khomeini's concept of the faqih is a recent example of such resonance. In fact, totalitarianism is etymologically a reasonable translation Islam. To be fair, the Mufti did not succeed in getting large numbers of Muslims to join the SS. But the rather small Muslim SS unit did manage to commit attrocities disproportionate to it size. There were also Muslim people who were less than enthusiastic about the attempt of Muslim leaders to entice Muslim people to serve the Nazi cause actively. And the Turkish government ignored practically all Nazi overtures even though an alliance with the Nazis against the Soviet government would have made a great deal of tactical sense. Last time I heard, the nazis prided themselves in Yes, the typical primitive Muslim psychopathological psychotic behavior upon hearing or reading a disagreeable fact -- start whining about the Jews. What a jerk. You should go back to your mindlessly stupid 3rd world country. Your brain has no business in a civilized first world country.

Sez Dave Kingman when he used to take off for Rosh Hashanna and Yom Kippur on days they coincided with the season.

Is there a tn3270 program which support xterm? I don't like x3270 at all. You can't copy with other windows. Thanks.

: >What tube does the Viewsonic 17 use? Does is support 1600x1280? I've been : >looking a a Philips 1762DT which uses a Sony Trinitron tube, has digital : >controls, supports up to 1280x1024NI, and has .25mm dot pitch - It can be : >found for under $1000. : The original poster, John Navitsky, said that he might use the monitor on : a SparcStation LX. The LX is able to generate a picture at 1280*1024 at : 76 Hz. Not officially, but I tried to set this resolution and refresh rate : and the LX came up with a non-syncing screen. Our tube obviously couldn't : handle this speed. At 67 Hz, it worked perfectly. I don't know which tube the Viewsonic 17 uses, but it has an 82khz horizontal bandwidth so you can go pretty high. I ran mine at 1280x1024x75 which was as fast as the Orchid P9000 could drive it. Also, the 17 does claim to be able to support 1600x1280, but I have no experience with that. Since I have the spec sheet in front of me I'll type some in: CRT: 17", 0.28 mm dot pitch, 90 deg deflection, RGB mediou short persisance, Tint (TM=52%), anti-static, anti-glare, anti-reflection Input Signal: RGB Analog 0.7Vp-p, 75 ohms (also has setting for 1Vp-p) Sync: H/V Separate(ttl), composite (+/-), sync on green (+/-) horizontal freq: 30-82Khz, vertical freq: 50-90Hz compatibility: PC from VGA to 1600x1280 non-interlaced, mac IIci and above controls: contrast, brightness, position, size, degauss, p-p voltage, color temp, sync select, color tuning, moire on/off. video band witdth: 135 MHz Max brightness: 120 cd/m2 at white flat field misconvergence: .35mm (max) at center, .45mm (max) at corner dimensions: 16.3"x16.22"x17.64", weight 42.6 lbs I don't know what some of those mean and don't verify their accuracy, I just typed them in. Other things they hype on the sheet are a 'double quaduple dynamic astigmatism focus'. Right. They mean they use two lenses. Advanced Invar shadow mask. ViewMatch color control which they claim is and easy-to-use system that adjusts colors to closely match printer output. As near as I have been able to figure out, this translates to separate controls for red, green, and blue. How this makes it easy to match for printer output is beyond me. But beyond the hype, the monitor is very pleasant to look at. Sharp, clear, and isn't nearly as bad as the NEC's for reflections.

$200 in Glassboro, New Jersey :(

I'm new to the MS-Windows world, and while a fairly competent Sparc/Nextstep programmer, I have no idea which development kit to purchase. I have heard good things about Borland C++ with Application Frameworks and Microsoft's Visual C++ with SDK (?) What I would like is peoples comments on which package or set of tools they find useful or productive and why. There are a plethora of other kits such as GUI toolkits available and I'm wondering which of these are best in terms of reliability, plug and go type operation, readability and so on. I'd be interested in comments on these or anything else you may find useful. I will summarize to the net if there is enough interest. Thanks, Veenu

And And Bejing = Peking, who cares about native tongue, as long as we all understand each other. Oh, not more than a few feet, I wouldn't think. I'm sorry IF your paternal grandparents died in Oswiecym or Aushwitz, which is easier to say than prove, but if so, the lesson they paid thier lives for was wasted on you. You are the expert. I often feel compelled to brag about the circumstances of my grandparent's death. 8-} A BATF offense, if true. A LOCAL offense, if true. Totally outside the BATF's domain. I didn't know the man. Just what the TV chose to tell me. I thought there were prejudicial undertones here. I would trust my daughter's judgement. I don't believe either side blindly. IF they fired first, without announcing in a beleivable way who they were ( I can pound on your door and claim to be the police, will you just lay down and take it if I do?), then he could be justified in firing on the ATF in self-defense. "His background"? What law has he been convicted of breaking in the past? Jim -- [email protected]

: Please reply to the seller below. : : 210M Formatted SCSI Hard Disk 3.5" : -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- : Rodime 3259TS (3 available) WARNING I have had bad experience with this model and I know several others who also have run into difficulties. The drives will work just a limited period of time and after that the disk will report medium error. Dont ask me for details, my disk is just stone dead. David

#> I heard the diesels are considered cleaner-burning than #> gas engines because the emit less of: Carbon Monoxide, #> Hydrocarbons, and Oxides of Nitrogen. (CO, HC, NOX). #> #> But they can put out a lot of particulate matter. I heard #> something about legislation being discussed to "clean up #> diesel emissions". Is there anything in the works to #> install "scrubbers" for diesels? How about the feasibility #> of installing them on trucks and cars? Would it be any #> different than a catylitic converter? I'd assume easier, #> since we're removing particulate matter instead of converting #> gasses. Let's hear people's opinions... #> # #VW and Mercedes have tinkered with particulate traps. Also, VW #uses a kind of turbocharger on their Jetta ECOdiesel that helps #reduce particulates as well, although I don't know the #mechanics of it. # #Many diesel cars,busses, and trucks in Europe are now being #equipped with catalysts and traps in an effort to clean up #diesel emissions, already well below legal limits anyway. # #It's a shame GM had to soil the diesel's reputation in #passenger cars and prevent further resource devotion to #research into making this outstandingly efficient engine even #further ahead of gas engines in emissions. # #erik I sure don't know what and how they measure in regards to diesel motors in cars, trucks, and busses, but I think they are probably measuring the wrong pollutants, or at the wrong time, or both. I certainly find it offensive to drive behind a diesel bus or diesel truck and some diesel cars. They stink! And it's always roll-up-the-windows panic time when one comes by or ducks in front of me when I am driving with my family. I don't think the combustion mixture is kept under very good control in diesel engines, and that's why they stink. So the invisible, unsmellable pollutants are reduced in diesels. Yeah, well so what!? Someone forgot about the visible, stinky kind, and, as far as I am concerned, those kind are just as bad. I am all for de-stinking the diesel vehicles. It'll keep the traffic signs cleaner, too. Fred W. Bach , Operations Group | Internet: [email protected] TRIUMF (TRI-University Meson Facility) | Voice: 604-222-1047 loc 327/278 4004 WESBROOK MALL, UBC CAMPUS | FAX: 604-222-1074 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., CANADA V6T 2A3

I am looking for a shareware graphics package called NeoPaint v1.1. I saw it in a shareware catalog and was hoping that I could FTP it from the net but have been unable to locate it. I have tried Archie and I have gone through the entire comp.graphics newsgroup looking for some reference to it and have found none. I have also looked through the FAQ and also no reference. The program is called NeoPaint v1.1 and if anyone has heard of it or knows where I can get it I would appreciate it. Suggestions for other PC based shareware paint programs would also be appreciated. Email me your responses.

Hi there, maybe you can help me... I have an '88 Corolla with a 5 speed as the subject line says. The gearbox seems excessivly clunky. I used to have an '85 Corolla, and it was also somewhat clunky, but it had 30,000 more miles on it, and it wasn't nearly as bad as this car! Is there fluid in the 5speed case? If there is, could it just be low, or in need of a change? As I recall, only the autos have fluid. Or am I just mistaken? Please no flames for owning an import. I also have an old Dodge, but it's not in very good shape these days...

In a word, yes. 1989 Bonnevilles prices (avg. retail):

If you get blown over riding your bike down your drive at home then it's too windy to ride...=8^D.

I ordered an external floppy drive from them 2 years ago. When I placed the order, they said it was in stock and would ship the next day. A week passed and no drive. I called them up and they said they were out of stock and my drive should ship in 2 weeks or so. Since I needed the drive right away (both my internal hard drive and floppy were dead) I cancelled my order and haven't dealt with them since.

When constructing active filters, odd values of resistor are often required (i.e. something like a 3.14 K Ohm resistor).(It seems best to choose common capacitor values and cope with the strange resistances then demanded). Is there a PD program out there that will work out how best to make up such a resistance, given fixed resistors of the standard 12 values per decade?.(1, 1.2,1.5,1.8,2.2,3.3 etc ). It is a common enough problem, yet I cant recall seing a program that tells that Rx+Ry//Rz gives Rq, starting with q and finding prefered values x,y and z.

I dunno about hat. I have friends up there on GEnie who are now saying that Ottawa's gone soft on Daigle and is thinking hard about Pronger. Daigle has shown an Attitude the latter part of this season many folks havne't liked, and after coming back from his (second) multi-game suspension for being stupid, he's really tanked in his performance. His stock is dropping like a rock. Also remember that a lot of teh "draft 1st" stuff comes from the assumption he'll be traded to Quebec for lots of prospects. It's not clear that Quebec would really be willing to pay a lot for him given his current status. He's still first round, but I don't consider him a first pick lock by any means at this point. It's also possible that the Senators are posturing to try to bring down his signing price, since Daigle has been taking some Lindros lessons during thos suspensions. No. Kariya won't go in the first three, for a very simple reason: he's not leaving college, and I don't believe ANY of the expansion teams are going to use a first for someone who won't be around for another year or two, not when there is equally good (or almost as good) stuff available that can make an immediate impact. San jose seems to be leaning heavily towards Niedermayer for that reason. Kariya could go 6th or 7th, unless a team can convince him to leave school early (which I doubt). My cut on things as they stand today: (it depends on if the Sharks can get a deal for him. I don't believe they draft him to keep him).

That's fascinating. I take it that you're expressing skepticism at the idea that those ignorant savages could have influenced the Constitution of the people who stole their continent. You could be right, but it sounds plausible to me. Is there any reason that you dismiss it out-of-hand? Here's some more: Recent scholarship has shown that in the mid-1700s Indians were not only invited to participate in the deliberations of our "founding fathers," but that the Great Binding Law of the Iroquois Confederacy arguably became the single most important model for the 1754 Albany Plan of Union, and later the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution. That this would be absent from our school texts, and from history, and from media is not surprising given the devotion Americans feel to our founding myth: Great men gathered to express a new vision that has withstood the test of time. If it were revealed that Indians had a role in it, imagine the blow to the American psyche. ... By 1754, when most of these men and others gathered to creat the Albany Plan of Union, the first try at confederation, they invited forty-two members of the Iroquois Grand Council to serve as advisors on confederate structures. Benjamin Franklin freely acknowledged his interest in the Iroquois achievement in a famous speech at Albany Congress: "It would be a strange thing...if six nations of ignorant savages[sic] should be capable of forming such a union and be able to execute it in such a manner that it has subsisted for ages and appears indissoluble, and yet that a like union should be impractical for ten or a dozen English colonies." According to Grinde, Franklin convened meetings of Iroquois chiefs and congressional delegates in order to "hammer out a plan that he acknowedged to be similar to the Iroquois Confederacy." Grinde is Professor Donald Grinde,Jr., of the University of California at Riverside whose book _The Iroquois and the Founding Fathers of the American Nation_ addresses this issue.

Hey, we could start a new game on the net. It's called 'Where's Roger?' It's similiar to 'Where's Waldo?' but instead of finding Waldo in a picture of people, we try to find Roger in a newsgroup on the net. I predict that he'll be in r.s.basketball.pro next.

This story was in the LA Times a few months ago. The Clinton administration is exploring every avenue of "revenue enhancement", but not all will be chosen.

I have a Logitech 256grays hand scanner from a PC. I'm wondering if anyone has been successful in connecting the scanner to a mac? It has the same connector and is a serial device on the pc. I can imagine the pins coniguration would need to changeed, but I'm not sure if the signal levels would be correct, and if the mac s/w would work with it. Of course the manuals say nothing about the interface, connector layout or anything H/W-ish! Any ideas?? thanx,

To really speed up the game umps need to START CALLING STRIKES the way they used to. I'm talking about making the strike zone start at the knees and go up to the top of the letters. Forget this "the strike zone is in the general area of the groin". A lot less 3-and-2 counts and a quicker game.

Check into the vopl and vogle libraries. I beleive that I still have them available on ftp.c-mols.siu.edu but I'm not sure. I haven't seen any new announcements for the software but I'm sure it's still around. I have used it to do real-time data display and analysis as well as just for producing graphs after the fact. It works well and supports numerous graphics output formats (including X.) I tried it and liked it. YOu may as well.

It is still incestuous.... :)

folks, I have a Panasonic kx-1124 (just inherited with no documentation) which is giving me a problem that i cant resolve. The paper out light refuses to go out . It starts to blink when ever i turn the power on which 2 beeps. It does allow be to go on line with green light lit, simultanously the red paper out light also remains lit -but is does not blink. Please do not give any references to manuals , as i dont have any. Thanking you all very much in advance. Sincerely

Minor quibble back at you. I am in the same general area as the Koresh compound and I can tell you that the air was quite chilly that morning, especially with the high winds that were blowing. (Of course the swiss cheese walls made it even worse. ;-)

+ +>This tactic depends for its effectiveness on the dog's conformance to +>a "psychological norm" that may not actually apply to a particular dog. +>I've tried it with some success before, but it won't work on a Charlie Manson +>dog or one that's really, *really* stupid. A large Irish Setter taught me +>this in *my* yard (apparently HIS territory) one day. I'm sure he was playing +>a game with me. The game was probably "Kill the VERY ANGRY Neighbor" Before +>He Can Dispense the TERRIBLE PUNISHMENT. + +What, a dog weighs 150lb maybe, at max? You can't handle it? + +You have, I presume, thumbs? Grapple with it and tear it's head +off! + +Sheesh, even a trained attack dog is no match for a human, +we have *all* the advantages. Look, if you are worried about being attacked by a dog, just carry some "Spot" remover with you :-). ____________________________________________________________________________ Russian Roulette is fun 5 out of 6 times

Mostly. The Q950 does have a SCSI2 controller chip as it's SCSI chip, but it does not have the chips to use the Wide or Fast SCSI-2 modes and therefore doesn't offer much more in the way of SCSI performance over the Q900. It does, howrever, have a faster I/O controller than the Q900; this is where the real speed boost comes from.

: At the risk of beginning a cascade, I'll start with a possibly cheesy : good 'ol Uhmericun: : "Our shield is freedom" Or, considering what our government has been doing for the past 50 years, perhaps this would be more appropriate: "100% Debt" --

You don't say what kind of "electronic equipment" you mean. It's hard to give a generic answer. There is essentially no solvent that won't do things like washing lubricant out of switches. When we've needed to do an emergency cleaning job on things, we've just used distilled water. The key thing to remember is to make sure the gear is *completely* dry before powering it up again. We let it dry for several days to be damn sure. I doubt that methanol has significant advantages over water. I would be very wary of CCl4, not least because it is dangerous to *you* even if it's not going to harm the equipment -- not only is it poisonous, but I believe it's now known to be carcinogenic.

That study which was in the NEJM, I think, noted that the frequency of heart surgery on patients over seventy increase with income in California (I guess richer people have more heart disease in California -) ) whereas the frequency of surgery on patients over seventy in Canada was relatively uniform across income distribution. Heart surgery was more frequent in California, but mortality and outcomes were essentially the same. The only potential problem I see with the private MRI facilty in Calgary is the self-referral problem to the facility for the doctors who have a financial interest in it, which is basically unethical...but in Canada because of our small population, there is likely only to be a few private facilities involving only a small number of doctors, and thus I don't think the self-referral problem, which is an epidemic in the US, could ever get out of hand here. It is an experiment that will be certainly be watched carefully. What likely happened is the sponsors of the private MRI which include doctors anticipated that Alberta would need more MRI's, and instead of waiting for the health planners to realize they needed another one or two, saw a business opportunity...where they would have a secure business from the public insurance side of things, and they could supplement people and businesses who want to pay cash.

: PS The first posting I saw I thought was a joke in *VERY* bad taste. My appologies : to the person who broke the news. For what it's worth... : Note: This file will also be available via anonymous file : transfer from csrc.ncsl.nist.gov in directory /pub/nistnews and : via the NIST Computer Security BBS at 301-948-5717. : --------------------------------------------------- : : THE WHITE HOUSE : I haven't been able to open an ftp session with that machine. Operating under the assumption that the address was wrong, I tried using nslookup and nicname/whois... [nnsc.nsf.net] Host or domain name Internet address [...] ncsl server = mail-gw.ncsl.nist.gov mail-gw.ncsl 129.6.48.199 ncsl server = dove.nist.gov ncsl server = ecf.ncsl.nist.gov ecf.ncsl 129.6.48.2 ncsl server = enh.nist.gov ncsl server = SUNMGR.NCSL.NIST.GOV SUNMGR.NCSL 129.6.48.12 [...] That's all I could find about the ncsl domain...oh, and I tried an MX lookup on the machine in question, which failed. Nicname/whois domain lookups at both registries failed, too. So I thought, "hey, I'm just not using the tools right" and tried calling the BBS number -- no answer. I'm probably doing something wrong...or, perhaps, the machine has been put behind a firewall. But it does look like csrc.ncsl.nist.gov has become an un-machine. If someone would try ftp'ing to it, or knows what's up, I'd really appreciate the info.

As a matter of fact, I just saw a dermatologist the other day, and while I was there, I asked him about dry skin. I'd been spending a small fortune on various creams, lotions, and other dry skin treatments. He said all I needed was a large jar of vaseline. Soak in a lukewarm tub of water for 10 minutes (ONLY 10 minutes!) then massage in the vaseline, to trap the moisture in. That will help. I haven't tried it yet, but you can bet I will. The hard part will be finding the time to rub in the vaseline properly. If it's not done right, you remain greasy and stick to your clothes. Try it. It's got to be cheaper then spending $30 for 8 oz. of 'natural' lotion.

Let me see if I got this right. Group of religious plinter schismatics erect a compound and after at least fifty years of peaceful co-existance with the outside community (having shoot outs only with each other) - this makes them dangerous. Prior history would seem to indicate they are only dangerous to themselves. Last I knew there was no National Branch Davidian Party blaming the debacle in VeitNam on Foreign Meddlers and three-two beer, calling for the Rounding up of Meat Packers, Growers and Slaughter Houses. You want tough political choices - how about letting odd balls be odd balls? (I know, this requires tolerance for those that go into Government - but we all know people who have no useful skills.) ith the death of the children everybody is getting real upset - what about the other 40 plus people? I suppose that you consider children to be property of the state with the family as custodians. (In the States its the other way around - children are parental property.) If what you consider a Corrupt Government demands that you send you children into _their_ tender care - I suppose that you will obey the State and turn you children over to their care. Sorry - I am not as enamoured of the womb to tomb cradle that is IngSoc. Gotta go, the beach is calling. chus pyotr

I have recently picked up a page scanner by the name of EZ-SCAN II model 35. The software for it was made for per-Windows 3.x windows and will not work with the newwer windows. Does any one out there kow were I could find the company that made this beast (Copyrights say 1987.) And the name GMS a division of DEST. Does anyone know if these companies still exist and if they do, do they have an email address? Or, if anyone knows of a freeware/shareware programme that is able to access this scanner.

I am going to stop reading the homosexuality posts, at least for a while, because of the repeated seemingly personal attacks on me via post/e-mail(mainly e-mail). If anyone has a specific comment, suggestion, and/or note that does not contain any name calling, etc. that they would like for me to read, send it to me via e-mail. I would like a copy of file mentioned by the moderator ragarding the exergetical issue of it. I attempted to get it via ftp but was unable.

:>On the subject of CS/CN/tear gas: when I received my initial introduction to : :You couldn't find a window after six hours? : :-- : Daniel A. Hartung -- [email protected] -- Ask me about Rotaract Have you ever been violently sick repeatedly? I have, and it was difficult to drag myself back to my bed, much less move through a building full of smoke and debris, especially when most likely already disoriented from lack of sleep and constant psychological abuse... Throw in the fact that the 'safety' outside consists of people who have shot at me and thrown grenades at me, and are currently knocking my house down with tanks, I could understand if the BD's were inclined to stay put in the center of the building...

^^^^^^^^^^ The acetaminophen is the agent of concern in overdose of this OTC medication. A single dose of acetaminophen of 10 grams or greater can cause hepatotoxicity, and doses of 25 grams or more are potentially fatal from hepatic necrosis. If I recall correctly, the metabolism of acetaminophen at high doses involves N-hydroxylation to N-acetyl-benzoquinoneimine, which is a highly reactive intermediate, which then reacts with sulfhydryl groups of proteins and glutathione. When hepatic glutathione is used up, this intermediate then starts attacking the hepatic proteins with resulting hepatic necrosis. The insidious part of acetaminophen toxicity is the delay (2-4 days) between ingestion and clinical signs of liver damage. This is NOT a nice way to die. As to taking 20-30 of these tablets, that comes to 5-7.5 grams of acetaminophen. In a normal adult, this would probably cause nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and loss of appetite.

Nanao: call 1-800-800-5202. Ask for a catalog.

I'm not sure that you can distinguish between myth and legend so neatly, or at all. A myth is more than a single story. The thought structure and world-paradigm in which that story is interpreted is as important a part of the myth as the story itself. Thus, I can think of no story which is meant to be conveyed understandably from one person to another within a single culture which won't rest upon that underlying thought structure, and thus transmit some of that culture's mythical "truths" along with it.