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Newsgroups: alt.bonsai
Subject: Fungi attack
From: estewar1@husc9.harvard.edu (Eric Stewart)
Date: 8 Sep 92 23:34:54 EDT
Distribution: World
Organization: Harvard University Science Center
Summary: Mold on the moss covering bonsai pot.

I (Well, my bonsai, actually :) have a problem; I have gray mold growing
on the moss covering the soil in the pot.  I was wondering if anyone had a 
reliable cure for this (one that won't kill the tree or the moss!)

The tree is coniferous and the moss is the feathery kind.  Any help would be 
appreciated.

P.S.  I can't water it any less because it dries out extremely fast.  (It is
currently recovering from an accidental dry spell now :(

Eric J. Stewart                               estewar1@husc.harvard.edu

Newsgroups: alt.bonsai
From: andy@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Andy Hart)
Subject: HELLOO?  
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 04:10:22 GMT
Organization: CompuTrac Inc., Richardson TX
Keywords: VOID NOTHINGNESS NIL BLACKHOLE VOYAGER


HELLO?  IS ANYONE OUT THERE!  CAN ANYONE HEAR ME?   ANYONE AT ALL?

I received an email message which implies that there's some sort of 
bonsai discussion going on here.  If there is, then my receiving 
attenna is bent, cause I don't see anything here but nothingness.
Dead silence.  You could hear a pin drop in this newsgroup.

 <drip> <drip> <drip>  

Nothing but the faint dripping of bonsai water thru the tattered and 
neglected roof of this newsgroup.

Void.

Loneliness.

Emptiness.

HELLO?   <hello?>  <ello?>   <llo?>  <lo?>  <o?>   <?>




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From: dleslie@aludra.usc.edu (David Leslie)
Newsgroups: alt.bonsai
Subject: what makes bonsai bonsai
Date: 9 Sep 1992 20:23:01 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu


	I'm curious to know what is done to a plant to stunt (maybe
the wrong word) its growth. What is the general process when you take
a normal young plant and create something of the bonsai variety? 
Also, is there some sort of philosophy or story behind the idea? or
is it just for small houses ;)

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Xref: sparky alt.wais:707 alt.gopher:1267
Organization: Bar-Ilan University Computing Center, Israel
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 11:44:56 IST
From: Hank Nussbacher <HANK@BARILVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.wais,alt.gopher
Subject: Looking for comparison between gopher and www

In order to make a decision which to use here, I am looking for a document
that shows the pros and cons of gopher vs www.  Is there anything out there?
If not, can people email me their reasons for selecting one over the other.

Thanks,
Hank@vm.biu.ac.il
Newsgroups: alt.wais,alt.gopher
From: moline@gumby.dsd.trw.com (Dan Molinelli)
Subject: Re: Looking for comparison between gopher and www
Organization: TRW INC., Redondo Beach CA
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 16:45:45 GMT

 would like to take the question further: has anyone done a comparision
of gopher, wais, WWW, prospero and X.500 (features, indexing, servers,clients)?

i see features that nice in serveral products and would to summarize.

thanks in advance
dan

-- 
	Daniel Molinelli		(310) 812-2161
	TRW Space and Defense Sector, Communications Services
	moline@gumby.dsd.TRW.COM	(Internet)
Newsgroups: alt.wais
From: st1q9@jane.uh.edu (DELLA M. DEVINE)
Subject: getting a vms client working for multinet
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Reply-To: devine@pvhep.pvamu.edu (WILLIAM C. DEVINE, II)
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 17:42:00 GMT

I'm having some problems getting a vms WAIS client compiled under multinet.
I have found some sources that work for wollegong (i think) but i haven't
found any that work with multinet. I also have access to a lot of 
Hewlett Packard 9000/720 running HPUX 8.7 (i think that's the number) and
if i cannot find one for vms i could use one there. 
  Any suggestions?
                                  Thanx
                                  william c. devine ii
Xref: sparky alt.wais:706 comp.infosystems.wais:455
From: ephraim@think.com (Ephraim Vishniac)
Newsgroups: alt.wais,comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: Changes to the public CM WAIS server
Followup-To: comp.infosystems.wais
Date: 14 Sep 1992 16:50:17 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: leander.think.com


The public CM WAIS server has moved and changed. In no particular order,
here's what's new:

1. The server has moved from cmns-sun.think.com to cmns-moon.think.com
(131.239.2.100). Queries directed to cmns-sun will be handled by a
forwarding server, so there's no immediate need to change your source
descriptions.

2. Instead of an 8K CM-2 with small memory (64kbits/processor), the server
is running on a 1K CM-2 with large memory (1Mbits/processor). Since the
total memory has doubled, the server is no longer overflowing and expiring
old material.

3. The displayable text for the server is on a local disk on cmns-moon. (It
was formerly on an NFS-mounted disk.)  Since much of the query time is
spent fetching headlines from disk, the net performance of the server has
improved.

4. The server now operates 24 hours/day, 7 days/week. I expect to interrupt
it about once a month to run a batch update of the database. Newly arriving
material from various mailing lists continues to be added to the database
every ten minutes or so.

Current inventory of the server:

  WJ:  9134 documents.  (Sample of Wall Street Journal)
  TS:  75 documents.    (CM-2 Technical Summary)
 CIA:  253 documents.   (CIA World Factbook 1991)
 PUB:  8315 documents.  (Public mailing lists, currently activ-l and gnu-kernel)
 MAC:  21404 documents. (Info-Mac digest)
 SCD:  214 documents.   (Sample of Supreme Court Decisions)
 WWP:  526 documents.   (Usenet Cookbook)
 PAR:  376 documents.   (CM-2 PARIS Manual)
 KJV:  1189 documents.  (King James Version of the Bible)
NIHG:  259 documents.   (National Institutes of Health Guide to Grants and Programs)
RISK:  9247 documents.  (RISKS Digest)
SNMN:  11231 documents. (Sun-Managers mailing list)
LISP:  191 documents.   (Connection Machine *lisp reference manual)
SNSP:  10949 documents. (Sun-Spots digest)
NETS:  7396 documents.  (Info-Nets mailing list)
GBCT:  3508 documents.  (GenBank DNA sequence database)
PTNT:  338 documents.   (Sample of patent applications)
FORT:  101 documents.   (Connection Machine Fortran manual)
CMFS:  16 documents.    (Connection Machine File System manual)

Queries supplying a blank database-name search the entire server. You can
construct WAIS sources which search any combination of the above sources by
stringing together the appropriate names. For example, a source with

  :database-name "LISP FORT"

would search both the *lisp and CM Fortran manuals.

Questions or comments about the public CM WAIS server should be directed to
bug-public@think.com.
-- 
Ephraim Vishniac    ephraim@think.com   ThinkingCorp@applelink.apple.com
 Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142
        One of the flaws in the anarchic bopper society was
        the ease with which such crazed rumors could spread.
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: entpph@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Re: Similar dreams, over and over again.
Reply-To: entpph@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 03:22:17 GMT

Are there any personality traits this young woman had/has
that you also have, but are not paying attention to?

Erik Timmerman
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: entpph@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Re: Drug-induced dreams
Reply-To: entpph@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 00:03:44 GMT

With regard to drug induced insights my only point was that
SOMETIMES they're not worth the paper they're written on.
That was certainly the opinion of the person to whom it happened
when he told me the story.  I was not trying to belittle or throw out
a whole class of experience.

Erik Timmerman
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: schludermann@sscvx1.ssc.gov
Subject: Paradreaming?
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 23:36:30 GMT

    Sometime ago a stumbled on this neat effect.  After I wake up and still
feel grogy if I apply slight pressure to my eyes through the eye lids. At first
I get the usual visuals (colors, bright lights ...) I reduce the pressure just
sufficent to create a dull glow.  What happens next is very detailed & animated
images usually of people from cultures I am not familar with. The colors are
very distorted like a TV with the intensity way up high but with good edge
definitions.  Now one interesting aspect if noticed is if the night before
I was partying hard the images would continue with out any eye pressure. I've
kept this up for up to 5 mins but usually less than a min.  Any ideas what is
going on and maybe a use? I have not been able to steer the images at all
                                   Kris


Xref: sparky alt.dreams:3026 alt.consciousness:443
From: ueh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (Eric Hausgaard)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Forcing Dreams...
Date: 12 Sep 92 04:21:16 GMT
Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology

Is it a good idea to force the rememberance of your dreams if you don't 
normally remember them??
L8R
Eric H

-- 
  You don't really believe in humans, DO you?? 
   "The closer to the solution, The more problems occur"   
   It is Eleven O'Clock....Do you know what Time it is??    
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Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: cdl0915@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Christian Dylan Losinger)
Subject: Me
Reply-To: cdl0915@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 16:08:52 GMT


	I had a dream last night about skin diseases. I remember back in 6th
grade seeing a poster of various skin disorders. Some of them had what were
called rice bodies in them. Rice bodies are smallish white rice-shaped things
that sit in these skin infections and look like seeds. I remember that poster
scared the hell out of me.

	Last night I had a dream that my bodie was breaking out in these little
red cup-shaped sores with tiny white things in them. I know one of the sores
was actually a pimple on my right arm that I had noticed before going to bed -
it was one of those hard little unobtrusive ones that don't turn really red or
painful, just there. The dream was about these things and how they were wuickly
covereing my body. The dream probably only lasted a few minutes and in those
minutes I was completely covered.

	I also remember a dream I had in 8th grade where I was looking at my
thumb and as I was watching, a growth looking like a piece of brocolli grew up
and out of my thumb. I could feel the brocolli-thing , and I still can. The
thing is, this was also on that poster.

	I only saw this poster for maybe five minutes, 10 or so years ago, and
I can still feel nauseous when i think of it. yuck
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From: entpph@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: Voices.
Date: 13 Sep 92 22:11:58 GMT
Reply-To: entpph@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology

With regard to audio images:

About two years after my father died my mother was sitting in her
living room reading a book.  She was startled by my father's voice
calling to her.  She was wide awake and alert, and was taking no
medication.  The voice continued to call her by name and was so
realistic that she went downstairs to the ground level and out into
the front yard where she could indentify the direction from which the
sound came, but could see no one.

At that point the voice stopped and has not recurred in the past year.

Erik Timmerman
From: ad1y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Anthony J. Defigio)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: vitamin B6
Date: 12 Sep 92 21:53:41 GMT
	<1992Sep11.113752.1@wizard.colorado.edu>
Organization: Junior, Design, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


Forgive me if this has been brought up before, but I also recall seeing
something about a drug called DMAE about a year ago; it's supposed
to help with dream recall as well.  Does anyone know what this 
stuff is, the full name of the drug or, best of all, had any experience
with it?  I'd be grateful for any information.
From: sheena@chemeng.ed.ac.uk (Sheena MacKenzie)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: music
Date: 12 Sep 92 10:19:12 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University Chemical Engineering Department


>does anyone out there ever wake up on a given morning with a song in their 
>head. I often wake up and the first thing on my mind is a song - lyrics
>melody and all. The song is always a song i know, but often times i haven't
>heard it for days or even a couple of weeks. 

All the time. Sometimes the song is a part of the dream I've just had,
but more often it's not.

But then I'm one of those people who has a song going on in their head
most of the time when I'm awake too.

Sheena

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Sheena MacKenzie                        O O     Email:  Sheena@ed.ac.uk	
Department of Chemical Engineering,   ===U===   Tel:    +44 31 650 4868
University of Edinburgh.              =======
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: drl@sol.acs.unt.edu (Dianna Laakso)
Subject: Re: A couple of questions about dreams
Organization: University of North Texas
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 11:37:30 GMT

death@buhub.bradley.edu (Dustin Slater) writes:

>1) My friend and I have had the same dream on the same night. How wierd is
>this?

I don't think it's all that weird...it's happened to me three times with three
different people. In one case, though, the dream itself was _very_ weird.
It was a few years ago but I still remember it very clearly. My boyfriend
was taking a nap on the couch, and I was in my room studying, and fell asleep.
I had a dream that he was coming into my room (this was a lucid dream, I think)
while I was taking the nap, holding a big knife, walking towards me with the
intention to kill me. His eyes were *white*. They had no iris or pupil at all.
I woke up confused as to whether I had been dreaming or if I had actually
experienced it all. I ran to the living room. He looked at me strangely.
He asked me if I had been dreaming about him just a few minutes ago! Then
he asked me if I wanted to kill him, becasue he'd just had an awful dream
about me coming at him with a knife. He said my eyes had been like cat's
eyes, very big and with almost no pupil. We never did figure out what it
all meant...we weren't in the midst of an argument or anything like that
and seemed to be getting along fine. Curious to hear anyone's opinions
on this!

Dianna
From: georgec@eng.umd.edu (George B. Clark)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Tobacco Dreams
Date: 6 Sep 92 17:51:10 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland

I quit smoking tobacco 17 years ago, and haven't touched it since, but
sometimes in my dreams I am a still a smoker. I panic because I
believe I'm addicted again. When I awake, I am relieved to realize
it was only a dream.

I think part of the problem is that I live with someone who smokes, so
I'm constantly aware of tobacco, even if only in a negative sense.

Anyway, I am wondering whether tobacco can ruin the health of non-
smokers who sometimes smoke in their dreams. Has anyone seen any
data or studies on this?
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: u9038752@cc.uow.edu.au (roger bolton)
Subject: Re: I
Organization: University Of Wollongong
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 01:43:07 GMT

fis@evil.demon.co.uk (fis) writes:


>I dream.
now create.

Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: esposito@uncg.edu (Andrew Joseph Esposito)
Subject: Re: A dream I had the other night
Organization: chaos mostly
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 21:44:12 GMT

In article <templef.2.0@columbia.dsu.edu> templef@columbia.dsu.edu (Fred Temple) writes:
>From: templef@columbia.dsu.edu (Fred Temple)
>Subject: A dream I had the other night
>Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:31:35 GMT
>Last week, I had a dream that I built a house on a mountain.
>After the house was finished, it fell over a cliff.
>Can anyone tell me what this dream might mean?
>I'd appreciate hearing any of your opinions.

Don't build houses on mountains.

The only accurate interpretation of a dream can be done by the person who 
dreamt it.  Are you planning on embarking on some endeavor that may be 
risky, ie., building any houses on mountains?  I can't, nor do I think 
anyone else can, tell you what that dream meant.  It is your sub-
conscious -- you dive into it and tell us what you think it means.  I have 
the hardest time dealing with the dreams I remember ... my sub-conscious is 
a nasty place that really needs to be cleaned out.  But no one other 
than you can dig deep enough to uncover what it is you are trying to tell 
yourself.  A counsilor can help you ask the right questions, but you still 
need to answer them.

Sorry, I wish I could tell you that the dream obviously meant not to kill 
the mouse that is currently living in your home.  The mountain signifies the 
mountinous area that goats live on, and everyone knows goats make milk, and 
milk is used to make cheese, and ... yes, mice eat cheese.  Now, if you kill 
that poor little mouse with a spring trap, you are going to suffer a karma 
collaps and you might loose your job.  Upon loosing your job, you won't be 
able to make your mortgage payments and you will loose your home.  This also 
depends greatly on two things -- you own your home and you have a mouse in 
your house.

I'm sorry I wasn't a big help ... but it was kinda funny wasn't it?
--
Andrew Joseph Esposito

esposito@meg.uncg.edu
esposito@uncg.bitnet

--
Disclaimer:  The opinions herein are not necessarily the opions of any
sentient being, including the author.  All rights suspended due to the
election year.
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us (Gary S. Trujillo)
Subject: Re: Paradreaming?
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 17:59:06 GMT

In <1992Sep9.173630.1@sscvx1.ssc.gov> schludermann@sscvx1.ssc.gov writes:

> ...What happens next is very detailed & animated
> images usually of people from cultures I am not familar with. The colors are
> very distorted like a TV with the intensity way up high but with good edge
> definitions...

You might want to take a look at the book _Hypnagogia: The Unique State of
Consciousness Bewteen Wakefulness and Sleep_ by Andreas Mavromatis, who, at
the time of writing, was working on a PhD at Brunel University in England.
The book, which is quite well researched, it appears, was published by
Routledge and Kegan Paul, Ltd. (1987).  ISBN 0-415-05794-9.  It discusses
both hypnagogic (pre-sleep) and hypnopompic (post-sleep, such as yours)
imagery, and their possible relationship with other state of consciousness
and creativity, as well as their possible function.  The book contains
numerous illustrations and is quite worthwhile, in my estimation.

--
    Gary S. Trujillo                            gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us
Somerville, Massachusetts              {wjh12,bu.edu,spdcc,ima,cdp}!gnosys!gst
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: entpph@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Re: Drug-induced dreams
Reply-To: entpph@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 09:28:20 GMT

Some thoughts your posting stirred in me:

1. The information I have is that subliminal selling in movie theaters
didn't work and was discontinued rather than outlawed.  If the message
appeared on only one frame, and that only for a 1/50 of a second, most
people flat didn't see it.  About 15 years ago at one of the Michigan
universities there was a research project which involved projecting
a slide--I believe they used illustrations from "The Joy of Sex"_
onto a screen and then dimming it so that a movie projected over
it washed it out.  Because it was a still slide, it was there all
the time the movie played, but the audience only "saw" the slide
when the movie screen went dark; every 1/24 of a second for a
1/50 of a second.  Groups who saw the movie with the projected
background slide image (of which they were not aware) rated the
movie as much better than groups who saw just the movie.  I don't
know what happened to this piece of research; we probably would
have heard if there were some commercial application of this technique.

2. When I used to drink more than I do now I was always amazed at
how incredibly insightful into other persons psyches I became after
4 or 5 drinks.  It took me a long time to admit to myself that
booze made me dumber, not smarter.  I expect the same thing happens
on an unconscious level.  Like Leary's comment that pot makes you
dumb and sensual.  During a divorce I had Valium prescribed and I
slept 16 hours a day and had long, elaborate, epic novel length
dreams, one of which took me a whole theraputic hour to tell
(avoidance, schmavoidance).

3. Finally, a story, not about dreams, but about drug induced
insights.  A california friend of mine who was into growth
potential and est and esalen and all that was stoned in his
kitchen one night when IT came to him.  THE WHOLE THING.  THE
ANSWER.  Wow! and wow again.  He had had enough of these experiences
to know that he would forget tomorrow what he knew now, so he
got pencil and paper and he wrote IT down.  The next morning when
he awoke he remembered that he had had a terrific insight and
had written it down.  He rushed into the kitchen and, there, written
on a piece of paper were the words: "something in here smells bad."

Erik Timmerman
Newsgroups: alt.dreams