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Organization: Emory University - Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 92 18:00:50 EDT
From:         "David H. Hesla" <ILADHH@EMUVM1>
Subject:      A GOOD NOTEBOOK
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene

A colleague needs a good 386 notebook.  It must weigh under six pounds.  It mus
t operate very quietly, since much of her work is done in libraries that
disapprove of clicking keys and grinding hard disks.  The screen must be free
of "shadows."  Many thanks for advice, the which may be sent to me personally,
though the matter may be of more general interest.


DAVID H. HESLA
GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF THE LIBERAL ARTS
EMORY UNIVERSITY
ATLANTA GA 30322
ILADHH@EMUVM1
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 92 10:55:57 EST
From:         Dorothy Day <DAY@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      apple crisp
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene

Mervyn,

Apple crisp may well be your apple crumble, but don't forget the
oatmeal in the crumb topping. You can add cinnamon or not as you
prefer.

Lacking Bramleys in the Midwestern U.S.A., we tend to prefer Macintosh
(forgive the disloyalty across platforms) for cooking, and the tree we
planted in the front yard to use up some of that grassland is bearing
a bumper crop. Of course, Jonathans are pretty good cookers too, but
even better eating: everything you described about Bramleys, but just
a shade less tart than Macintosh. We try to get to them before the
birds do!

Apples are one of the reasons for staying north of the Mason-Dixon
line: fresh locally-grown apples are hard to live without, and the
farther south you go, the fewer apple trees. (Of course, I wouldn't
mind an orange tree in the back yard, but it's not an even trade.)

Unfortunately, the eastern hemisphere seems to think that Apples mean
Washington red (or golden) Delicious--so the beauties you can buy in
Taiwan, for example, are always Delicious. I spent a long year once
yearning for a Jonathan...

Dorothy Day, Indiana University
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Internet: day@ucs.indiana.edu
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 92 23:23:17 -0400
From:         Tirzah Meacham <meacham@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject:      Re: help with buying a printer; 4.0
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene
              Aug 20, 92 10:50 pm

Is it the case that the laser fonts in lingua are only in 2 sizes?

Herb Basser
QueensU

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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 92 01:18:30 EET
From:         Ran Chermesh <chermesh@CHEN.BGU.AC.IL>
Subject:      No overflow: D: message
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Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene

Hi,
A disasterous error happens in my system and I wonder if anyone can suggest
ideas as to its source.
Once in a while, but quite often, when I try to save my work, I get the
following error message:"No overflow: D:". Following this message, the system
freezes, and the HD light stays on. When I reboot, instead of my original
text file, I find a zero byte file under the same name.
I tried to trace the causes of this disaster. Here're a few ideas which I've
already tested:
1. Problems with my D: RAM disk. I changed the definition in the default.set
file to C:. The problem persisted.
2. This situation might have happened after hitting the left-alt key together
with either of the following keys: left-ctrl, question mark, enter. In some
cases I saw some non-standard ascii character typed in the text. Therefore,
I suspected that the problem has something to do with my keybhe procedure.
I took it off, but the problem happened again.
3. Recently, I added a few tsrs to my autoexec.bat. I took them all off, but the
problem stayed.
Tomorrow, I may try reinstalling notabene. Still, it's now 1:10 am. I planned
to substitute the current night for the lost day, my diskettes are locked
somewhere else and looks like the ordeal isn't over!

----------
Ran Chermesh                                  E - M A I L
Behavioral Sciences Dept.                     ===========
Ben-Gurion University                  Internet: CHERMESH@BGUVM.BGU.AC.IL
Beer-Sheva 84105                                 CHERMESH@CHEN.BGU.AC.IL
Israel                                 Bitnet  : CHERMESH@BGUVM.BITNET

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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 92 11:16:00 EST
From:         STRAUSS@UNCA
Subject:      Re: Em-dash and spelling check ....Yaaay Woozley!!
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene

Bramley's must be apples!  I wish I could try 'em here. Those insidious
Red Delicious [sic] are everywhere. But we do get MacIntosh. Can't
get Macouns or Courtlands, however.

And Hendersonville, NC actually thinks they have an apple festival!
Hah!


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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 92 09:42:13 CST
From:         GA3662@SIUCVMB
Subject:      Visit
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene

Dear Assie (and other Nota Beneficiaries who may be travelling)

Carbondale is definitely NOT on the way to anywhere, but if
any of you should be passing through (or through St. Louis, which
is `only' 120 miles (200 km) away), give me an e-mail message
and my wife and I, the NB enthusiasts in Carbondale, would be
happy to see you.
                  Geoff Nathan
                  33 Heritage Hills
                  Carbondale, IL, 62901
                  (618) 549-0106
From: pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Paul J. Bodin)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene
Subject: Re: Desqview & NB crashes
Date: 20 Aug 92 02:10:33 GMT
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Tom Dayton  (John Thomas Dayton, Jr.) writes:

> NB ran fine in Desqview/X for me, until I switched to an Orchid Prodesigner/e
> video card.  Now invoking NB causes the entire screen, not just NB's window,
> to go crazy.  NB won't even run in full screen mode.  The only way to make
> it work is to run it inside Windows 3.1, or from DOS.  I've been assuming
> that NB 4.0 will have more modern video drivers, and so will not suffer
> from this problem.  My problem is not a crash, because everything seems
> to be working--I just can't see any of it.

NB 4.0 recognizes a command line parameter that forces BIOS level
video handling instead of the default direct video memory access.
This should allow it to work in any environment that is IBM PC
compatible at the BIOS level.

___________________________________________________________________________
Paul J. Bodin                         Internet: pjb3@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
Union Theological Seminary               smail: 435-52nd Street
(718) 439-3549                                  Brooklyn, NY 11220
From: RMB@CUNYVMS1 (Robert Braham)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene
Subject: RE: NB/xywrite question
Date: 19 Aug 92 18:46:00 GMT
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>Anyhow, I am a long time user of Xywrite and I'm under the impression
>that it is very similar to NB, tho not identical.  also, simpler.

>Anybody care to illuminate me?

>(former rock star turned grad student)
>Steve Miller stcmille@copper.ucs.indiana.edu

To switch from xywrite to NB is dirt easy--up until next week or so,
we're told when NB4 comes out, the only "new" keys are for help and
define, as first-level access; much of the extended keyboard mappings
are much more logical as well.  NB also prepares beforehand much of the
complexities of formatting for footnotes, and other complex documents
(not to speak of its bibliographic manager), which is conceivably
possible in XyWrite, but when I last used it (perhaps theyve come out
w/ new versions--a la carte rings a bell), were enormously difficult
to keep track of and write yourself.

BTW, loved your earlier stuff, up till _Space Cowboy_.

Robert Braham
Bitnet:   RMB@cunyvms1.bitnet
Internet: RMB@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu
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From: akerr@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Austin Kerr)
Subject: help with buying a printer; 4.0
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 01:25:57 GMT

I appreciate the advice of those of you on this list who have so much more 
expertise than I do.  We wish to buy the new printer in a few days so we
can send our old printer off with our son who will begin as a Freshman at
Oberlin College next week.  At work, without the soft fonts or the Microsoft 
Cartridge and NB 3.0 all I can do is PT 10 on our HP II printer, and I do not 
want that to be the case on the one I buy at home.

You can reply to me personally if you prefer at   kerr.6@osu.edu
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 92 11:00:43 EDT
From:         Robert Braham <RMB@CUNYVMS1>
Subject:      desperately seeking printer files
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene

To Itamar, John, Ken, Mervyn, and Paul: mwaah!, and thanks.
This notabene list thing is damn nice, thanks to the
people on it.

You'd never think that getting a pro-font cartridge in hpl laser to
cough up a few diacriticals in Times Roman would be so hard.

They print fine in Courier.  I could sneak in a call to that font
for the em-dash (the recent letters on this list made me envious
of such a nicety), but for the proportional Times Roman, no dice.
I have been advised, after sweating with the thing for many hours,
and comparing the truly bizarre relationships of a screen version,
a printd file printed to disk, and hard-copy, to cool my jets and
simply wait for Lingua, whose soft fonts even in English will take
care of these things, and I can pitch the cartridge (no pun intended).

Again, thanks to all those who responded so quickly--one day
I'll have a _real_ emergency, and it's nice to know so much
willing help is out there.

Robert Braham
Bitnet:   RMB@cunyvms1.bitnet
Internet: RMB@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 92 13:41:29 EDT
From:         Robert Braham <RMB@CUNYVMS1>
Subject:      Desperately seeking print256.tst and test.prn
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene

In order to reconfigure my printer drivers, I am told by NBI docs
that I need the files

print256.tst
test.prn

When last heard from they were on the Printer Disk #2 in my
distribution disks from NBI (then Dfly), one of them
in the \char subdirectory of the floppy.

Not having used these disks in years, they have gotten corrupted.
If anyone has them handy, could you upload these two files to me?

If I get no response, I will call NBI, although they are pretty
frazzled at the moment, for replacements.

Thanks,

Robert Braham
Bitnet:   RMB@cunyvms1.bitnet
Internet: RMB@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu

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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 92 16:53:01 IST
From:         "Itamar Even-Zohar, Porter Chair of Semiotics" <B10@TAUNIVM>
Subject:      Re: Spelling check with AU on: "ie i.e." problem (Calvados
              variety)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene
              18 Aug 92 13:06:32 GMT from <M.E.Bennun@CEN.EX.AC.UK>

It won't work, I am sorry. I have already corrected
myself. -- Itamar
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 92 10:22:23 EST
From:         Dorothy Day <DAY@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      RE: NB/Orbis shipping
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene

From what I understand, the Orbis currently shipping is the one we've
been waiting for. Not that there may not still be a bug or two lurking
somewhere, but this is a fully functional version.

Dorothy Day, Indiana University
Bitnet: DAY@IUBACS
Internet: day@ucs.indiana.edu
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Date:         Sun, 16 Aug 92 09:16:52 EDT
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From:         Allan Needell <NASSH100@SIVM>
Subject:      The joys of general.zip
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene

From: Allan Needell

Having found the solution to using the spell checker after inserting ASCII 196
dashes (without spaces) into my text in a wonderfully informative discussion
of separators and adding a customized separator table in the file General.zip
(available from TAUNIVM listserv, SIMTEL20, etc). I'd like, with ITAMAR, to
encourage other to have a look at some of the other gems in that file.

In these frustrating days waiting for NB4, its nice to be reminded how
powerful and flexible even NB3.x can be. The most useful revelation to me is
the document (HL.DOC, I think) that describes the only partially documented
help function ALT-?.

Previously, if I had to "designate" a new printer, or prepare a table of
contents, I'd go through the sequence of steps F1-PRINT-DESIGNATE (this
doesn't work if you have a directory list on the screen--in that case F1-PRINT
allows you to name a file to print, it does not bring up the next level of
menu choices). Or F1-OTHER-CONTENT-GENERATE.

What I was reminded by the document in general zip (I'm not sure I ever knew
it before) was that instead you can write "designate" or "generate" on the
command line, push ALT-? (actually since the ? is the shifted symbol it should
be ALT-/). The desired help screen appears immediately. Its a little time
saver and makes it much easier to concentrate on what you doing.

There lots of other stuff in there too.

Allan Needell
National Air & Space Museum
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC 20560  (BITNET: NASSH100@SIVM)
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From: akerr@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Austin Kerr)
Subject: Re: help with buying a printer; 4.0
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 01:42:46 GMT

In article <1992Aug21.012557.28744@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> akerr@magnus.acs.
ohio-state.edu (Austin Kerr) writes:
>I appreciate the advice of those of you on this list who have so much more
>expertise than I do.  We wish to buy the new printer in a few days so we
>can send our old printer off with our son who will begin as a Freshman at
>Oberlin College next week.  At work, without the soft fonts or the Microsoft
>Cartridge and NB 3.0 all I can do is PT 10 on our HP II printer, and I do not
>want that to be the case on the one I buy at home.
>
>You can reply to me personally if you prefer at   kerr.6@osu.edu

Much of my original message somehow disappeared into electronic oblivion.  My 
wife asked me to buy a laser printer.  We write in th eEnglish language.  I was
waiting for 4.0, but need to make a decision soon.  Will 4.0 allowe me to print
in proportional spacing, such as PT 121 or PT 102, WITHOUT having to buy a set 
of soft fonts to download or the Microsoft or similar cartridge, which is on an
HP IIP in one of my offices?  In other words, would we be happy with any laser 
printer that is HP compatible, or would we be better off with an HP with a 
cartridge?
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 92 10:57:16 GMT
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From:         Neil Brooks <Brooks@EXETER.AC.UK>
Subject:      Re: mysterious print.tmp
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene
              Norman" at Aug 16, 92 11:00 pm

Buford Norman writes:-
>
> Has anyone using NB3 figured out why you get a flash of a "file print.tmp
> not found" message, or something like that, as BN finishes exporting a
> file to ASCII?  It has only been a nuisance so far, but tonight a file was
> still printing while I exported a file, and whatever occasions the message
> about print.tmp apparently confused the printer--sent it into a perpetual
> form feed and I had to reboot.
The reason this happens is that the export feature uses the printing
mechanism of NB.  The print.tmp message is just the export feature deleting
a non-existant file BUT you got caught when print.tmp was being used by your
print.
This kind of conflict happens when people do not realise what the
software is doing behind the screen and the software has not been written
to avoid side-effects.
--
Neil Brooks, University of Exeter Computer Unit
Electronic mail: Brooks@uk.ac.exeter
Phone: (+44) 392 263946
Postal Address: Laver Building, North Park Road, Exeter EX4 4QE, Devon, U.K.
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Date:         Sun, 16 Aug 92 23:00:16 EDT
From:         Buford Norman <N290024@UNIVSCVM>
Subject:      mysterious print.tmp
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene

Has anyone using NB3 figured out why you get a flash of a "file print.tmp
not found" message, or something like that, as BN finishes exporting a
file to ASCII?  It has only been a nuisance so far, but tonight a file was
still printing while I exported a file, and whatever occasions the message
about print.tmp apparently confused the printer--sent it into a perpetual
form feed and I had to reboot.  All of this led me to muse:
   I think that I shall never see
   NotaBene greater than three;
   Upgrades are bought by fools like me--
   God only knows when it will be.
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 92 18:39:58 EDT
From:         Robert Braham <RMB@CUNYVMS1>
Subject:      Betty
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene

After being stunned by 28 messages re apples, etc., and, good
NB-list-ite that I am, reading all of them, one question still
gnaws away at me:

Have you been talking about apple Betty?  What _is_ apple Betty,
anyway?

Robert Braham
Bitnet:   RMB@cunyvms1.bitnet
Internet: RMB@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu
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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 92 20:01:39 IST
From:         "Itamar Even-Zohar, Porter Chair of Semiotics" <B10@TAUNIVM>
Subject:      Change of NB filenames -- once more
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene

Once more I had to change all the names of the various NB archives,
in order to meet SIMTEL20's requirements. SIMTEL20 would not update
any file without a 'version' tag; therefore, all of the files now
carry (with a few exceptions) the '01' version number. They have
already been given thse names on all listservs.

Here is a list of the changes:

@ren NB-AE.ZIP ====> NB-AE01.ZIP
@ren NB-DATES.ZIP ====> NB-DAT01.ZIP
@ren NB-EXPOR.ZIP ====> NB-EXP01.ZIP
@ren NB-HELP.ZIP ====> NB-HLP01.ZIP
@ren NB-IBID.ZIP ====> NB-IBD01.ZIP
@ren NB-INTRO.ZIP ====> NB-INT01.ZIP
@ren NB-SCRNS.ZIP ====> NB-SCN01.ZIP
@ren NB-UTILS.ZIP ====> NB-1UT01.ZIP
@ren NB-XPL.ZIP ====> NB-XPL01.ZIP
@ren NBBIBLIO.ZIP ====> NB-BIB01.ZIP
@ren NBCOLLCT.ZIP ====> NB-CLC01.ZIP
@ren NBGENRAL.ZIP ====> NB-GEN01.ZIP
@ren NBHERCUL.ZIP ====> NB-HGC01.ZIP
@ren NBHYPRTX.ZIP ====> NB-HYP01.ZIP
@ren NBKBD-30.ZIP ====> NBKBD-30.ZIP
@ren NBKBD-31.ZIP ====> NBKBD-31.ZIP
@ren NBLINGUA.ZIP ====> NB-LNG01.ZIP
@ren NB-UTIL2.ZIP ====> NB-2UT01.ZIP
@ren NB-UTIL3.ZIP ====> NB-3UT01.ZIP
@ren NBNEWVER.ZIP ====> NB-VER01.ZIP
@ren NBOVRLYS.ZIP ====> NB-OVL01.ZIP
@ren NBPRNTRS.ZIP ====> NB-PRN01.ZIP
@ren NBSHAPRT.ZIP ====> NBSHAPRT.ZIP (no change)
@ren NBVIRTUL.ZIP ====> NB-VRT01.ZIP
@ren PASSW-NB.ZIP ====> NB-PW01.ZIP


- Itamar Even-Zohar
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 92 05:47:04 EET
From:         Ran Chermesh <chermesh@CHEN.BGU.AC.IL>
Subject:      Screen freeze and lost file- overflow on D:
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Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene

Shalom,
A few hours ago I've posted an inquiry on notabene, reporting a problem  in
running notabene. The problem was indicated by an announcement of an overflow
failure. As a result, the screen froze and the file under procession was left
empty. This problem returned quite a few times.
I believe that I've managed to identify the source of the problem. I've
upgraded my combi drive from ver. 0.30 to version 100.  My reference to
combi in the config.sys used to be :
devicehigh=c:\combi\combi.sys 1450
With the new version, I changed it to:
devicehigh=c:\combi\combi.sys 1450 /c b

I've downloaded the former combi version and since then encountered no problems.
I'm sending a copy of this note to Vadim V. Vlasov, the author of combi.
Hopefully, he would be in a position to suggest a solution.

--
Ran Chermesh                                  E - M A I L
Behavioral Sciences Dept.                     ===========
Ben-Gurion University                  Internet: CHERMESH@BGUVM.BGU.AC.IL
Beer-Sheva 84105                                 CHERMESH@CHEN.BGU.AC.IL
Israel                                 Bitnet  : CHERMESH@BGUVM.BITNET

Phone: 972-57-472-057                  Fax: 972-57-32-766
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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 92 22:46:11 DST
From:         "Nicolai Winther-Nielsen" <INNWN@VM2.UNI-C.DK>
Subject:      Re: help printer: NEC P6+ AND LINGUA
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              21 Aug 92 16:26:26 EDT from <pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>

Thank you very much Paul,
I hope you are right about the 24-pin. Thing is, it is nice to see some of the
intermediate print outs in "final shape" - of course the final one will require
 the laser borrowing method.
If you should hear confirmation on the 8-14 points I will be happy ... I might
try to send NBI a fax to have the extra included in my shipment ...
Thanks
For this and all your interesting pieces of information
Nicolai
From: pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Paul J. Bodin)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene
Subject: Re: Cache tests
Date: 13 Aug 92 15:51:43 GMT
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Robert Lavenda writes (in part):

> It seems that the major differences between PC-Cache and Ncache on the one
> hand, and Hyperdisk and Combi on the other are in the Write speeds. It
> may be possible to adjust the writes on Hyperdisk, but as noted above, it
> was my intention to test default setups. Machine specifics: 386DX-33 clone,
> IDE controller, Seagate 107MB drive with 15 millisecond average access time.

It may be worthwhile to some of you to note that PC-Cache is actually
a version of Super PC-Kwik, licensed by Central Point Software.  As is
the usual case in such arrangements, the cache that is currently
distributed as Super PC-Kwik is an even more recent (and faster)
version of that same cache.  When I used DOS I found it to be an
excellent system accelerator.

Also note that Super PC-Kwik, when purchased in the Power Pak,
includes a RAM disk that shares memory with the cache buffers, and
that the whole thing can dynamically share its memory with other
applications that use the same kind of memory.  This is the same kind
of thing other NB-ers have noted with COMBI, and I believe that Super
PC-Kwik is a faster cache.  I was particularly happy that the RAM disk
used up memory (under NB) only when NB wrote temporary files, and that
the rest of the time *all* of the memory was used to cache the hard drive.

___________________________________________________________________________
Paul J. Bodin                         Internet: pjb3@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
Union Theological Seminary               smail: 435-52nd Street
(718) 439-3549                                  Brooklyn, NY 11220
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