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From: david@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu (David Kaufmann)
Subject: Re: The difference between a chasid and a misnagid
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-20477]: bourbon
Organization: E.E. Dept., Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 04:36:32 GMT

Well, as long as we are _good-naturedly_ telling chasid/misnagid
tales/jokes...

A chasid and misnaged happened to find themselves praying in the same
synagogue. The misnaged finished in record time, while the chasid was
still going long after everyone else was finished.

As they were the only two left, they struck up a conversation.
"Tell me," says the misnagid, "why do you take so long to daven
(pray)?"

"And tell me, why do your prayers go so swiftly?" answered the chasid.

"The words of prayer are like a fence," explained the misnaged. "I put
mine close together in order to that extraneous, distracting thoughts
not enter my mind while I am in the spiritual realms."

"Ah!" exclaimed the chasid. "My prayers take so long for the same
reason. For the closeness of the "poles" of your "fence" may as easily
keep something undesirable inside. But with my fence, I give them
plenty of room to leave."

>
>>					        (We assume, of course
>>that both the heksher and the expiration date get checked at least
>>once by all.)
>
>The chasids I know of course don't bother double checking the expiration
>date on their milk, considering that they buy 5 or 6 half-gallons at a
>time and freeze them.
>
It seems this, too, could be turned into a good joke of the day.
Thanks, Matt.

-- 

David Kaufmann
INTERNET:	david@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
Subject: Re: covenants
Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 22:18:06 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.001128.9003@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
>A short while back, I posted about the first "covenant" between G-D
>and Abraham, where he cut numerous animals in half, and God walked
>between them, affirming a covenant.  I have gotten many requests for
>the exact source, so here it is:

>Genesis 15:

>7: And he said to him, I am the L-RD that brought thee out of
>   Ur-Kasdim, to give thee this land to inherit it.
>8: And he said, L-RD G-D, by what shall I know that I shall inherit it?
>9: And he said to him, take me a heifer three years old, and a goat
>   three years old, and a ram three years old, and a turtledove, and a
>   young pigeon
>10: And he took to him all these, and divided them in the midst, and
>    laid each half against the other, but the birds, he divided not.

			........................

Hertz gives a reasonable explanation, but not why so many animals were
used.  It was apparently the custom in those days for people to make
a covenant by killing an animal, and walking between the divided parts,
with the blood of the animal being the bond established.  

While the Patriarchs rejected the polytheism of the day, the did not,
and could not, completely reject the customs of the day.  The behavior
of Eleazar in refusing to eat before discussing his mission, and Lot's
willingness to offer even his daughters to protect the strangers in his
house, are given as examples of the binding nature of the laws of 
hospitality.  To fully understand why people did certain things, it
is necessary to look at THEIR society, and THEIR customs and mores.
-- 
Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
Phone: (317)494-6054
hrubin@snap.stat.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet)  
{purdue,pur-ee}!snap.stat!hrubin(UUCP)
From: bc744@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark Ira Kaufman)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
Subject: About terrorism...
Date: 19 Dec 1992 14:13:58 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


   There has been much talk about the deportations in the context
of their political significance.  I wonder why terrorist activity
and murders on the part of Arab terrorists directed Israelis, are
not regarded as politically significant?  There seems to be a bit
of a double standard here.
   A man is kidnapped.  A short time later, his body is found out
on the side of some road, dumped like a bag of garbage.  The body
indicates that he was bound and repeatedly stabbed to death.  The
murder was carried out by an organization sworn to kill Jews.  It
is a terrorist organization with hundreds of members.  They swore
an oath to try to kill Israelis whenever and however they can.
   They are rounded up and booted out of the area.  They received
money and clothing, and then were shown the door.  This eviction,
this kicking out of terrorists is being procalimed as cruel.  But
there has been not one word of protest from a single humanitarian
or human rights group about kidnapping an innocent man, tying him
up, and repeatedly stabbing him to death.  Why does the world say
nothing about this act, but moans about the eviction of those who
have sworn themselves to perform such acts?
  Have you 'humanitarians' no standards?  Are you so biased as to
give tacit approval to such a torturous and sadistic murder?  Why
do you care more about the murderers than you do the victim?  Are
you indifferent to bloodshed if the blood being shed is Jewish?
   Jews are also human beings.  Many of you may not think so, but
we are.  Is it acceptable to kidnap someone, bind him, and murder
him by repeatedly stabbing him, if he is a Jew?  Mr. Toledano did
not ever kill anyone.  He was not a murderer.  But he was killed.
He was butchered like a piece of cattle.  And yet you who yell at
the world about the eviction of people sworn to commit such acts,
you say nothing about this man's death.
   The concept of human rights is one that should apply to people
universally.  Furthermore, if one considers deporting a person to
be worse than murdering a person, one has a distorted view of the
severity of these to actions.  Would YOU rather be given clothing
and money, and be kicked out.., or would you rather be kidnapped,
tied in rope from head to toe, and be knifed to death?
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
From: gertler@cyclone.sbi.com (Don Gertler)
Subject: Re: Jonathan Pollard...
Originator: scj@israel.nysernet.org
Reply-To: <gertler@cyclone.sbi.com (Don Gertler)>
Organization: Nysernet
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 06:45:50 GMT

clmn@ellis.uchicago.edu (Bill Coleman)
> bc744@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark Ira Kaufman) writes:

> >hostile nation, as did the Walker spies.  The information Pollard
> >provided had been promised to Israel in the first place.  America
> >seems to have gone back on its word to Israel.  The material that
> >Pollard provided aided Israel in civil defense preparation.  When
> >Scud missles were pouring down on Israel, the citizens were ready
> >in case Sadam Hussein decided to use chemical weapons.  In no way
> >did Pollard willfully hurt his country, as did the Walker's.  
> 
> I fail to see the relevance of this.  Pollard was guilty of espionage
> and was sentenced under the espionage statute.  Whether the information
> Pollard stole had been promised to Israel has nothing to do with any-
> thing.  Turning over such information is not the business of intelligence
> analysts such as Pollard.
> 
> I really hate to say it, but posts like these make one wonder whether
> American Jews in general can be trusted in sensitive positions if their
> jobs in any way involve matters of importance to Israel.

I agree.  Based on Pollard's acts, as well as the "support" he's
getting from the Jews, Jews should be presumed to have questionable
loyalties to the U.S.  Likewise, of course, based on the acts of
the Walkers, et al., and WASPs who feel they were properly
punished vis a vis Pollard, Christians should be presumed to have
questionable loyalties as well.  And wasn't there that Al Rukns
(or something like that) gang in Chicago that sold information
to one of the Arab countries?  And weren't some of the members
African-Americans?  That knocks out Blacks, Muslims and Arabs,
in one fell swoop.  So who's left?  How many Baha`is and
Zoroastrians do we have in this country.  We need someone
to run our intelligence network.

-Don Gertler
From: rice@enterprise.Berkeley.EDU (Daniel S. Rice)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
Subject: An experiment
Date: 15 Dec 1992 02:04:19 GMT
Organization: Gizmonic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: enterprise.berkeley.edu

If the following text is readable, please let me know.

						Dan

                              .
From: nwf0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (NICOLE WHITNEY FOX)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
Subject: Re: JforJ ad in Newsweek
Date: 18 Dec 92 15:26:48 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <BzEw9D.K70@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca>, pasward@maytag.uwaterloo.ca (Pau
l A.S. Ward) writes:
>In article <1992Dec17.114533.33750@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> mlsa@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (M
ICHAEL LAUREN SHERMAN) writes:
>
>>Jews for Jesus, aren't they just Goys who speak Hebrew with a forked tongue.
>>IF you are for Jesus Christ you can't be Jewish now can you, You'd pretty
>>much, by definition have to be _Christ_ian.
>
>Now, we've been through all this before.  Yes, you CAN be Jewish, even if
>you are not following Judaism.  If your mother is Jewish, you are Jewish!
>So, like it or not, there are indeed Jewish Christians out there, (though
>they are not part of the set of Legitimate Interpretations :-) just as there
>are New Age Jews, and Buddist Jews, and Hindu Jews, and Athiest Jews, and so
>on and so on and so on ...
>
Hmmmm.  I didn't realize that Judaism is a race, and not a religion.  What
does that make me?  A Jewish Jew?
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 12:08:59 -0500 
From: Stephen D Kurtz <sk4t+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Kosher Rest. in NYC

I am looking for the name and location of a particular restaurant in Manhattan.

Supposedly it is fairly fancy, serves Italian cuisine and is named
something like "Testaverde".  If anyone has knowledge of this restaurant
or others that have a nice atmosphere, please send me email to the above
address.

This is for my parents who we are sending to NY for their 30th anniversary.

Thanks and Chag Samach,
Steve
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
From: stephenp@cix.compulink.co.uk (Stephen Phillips)
Subject: Re: Haftorah Reading May 21, 1994
Cc: stephenp@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: stephenp@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:39:00 +0000


> +From         : stank@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Stan Krieger)
> +Subject      : Haftorah Reading May 21, 1994
> 
> Our synagogue has set the date of the next adult Bat Mitzvahs
> on May 21, 1994.  Does anyone know what the haftorah reading will
> be that day?

It's Sidrah Naso (my Bar Mitzvah Sidrah) and the Haftorah is from
Judges Chapter 13 Verses 2-25 (all about the birth of Samson).

BTW, what's an adult Bar Mitzvah?

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From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
Subject: Re: An open letter to David Skoll
Date: 20 Dec 92 09:34:09 GMT
Reply-To: warren@nysernet.org
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs

I propose the creation of a new group, soc.culture.jewish.andy-n-david
-- 
/|/-\/-\          "If there really was a Jewish conspiracy to run the
 |__/__/_/        world, my rabbi would have let me in on it by now.
 |warren@         I contribute enough to the shule."
/ nysernet.org 			    Saul Goodman
From: ecl@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (Evelyn C. Leeper)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
Subject: Re: Andy the Canadian twat
Date: 18 Dec 92 04:46:35 GMT
Organization: AT&T

As a woman reader of s.c.j, I find the use of the word "twat" in this
context (and indeed, in any context) offensive, and would ask that
posters refrain from using it.

Evelyn C. Leeper  |  +1 908 957 2070  |  att!mtgzy!ecl or  ecl@mtgzy.att.com
From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
Subject: Re: The difference between a chasid and a misnagid
Date: 18 Dec 92 15:13:58 GMT
Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Organization: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology
In-reply-to: david@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu (David Kaufmann)

In article <1992Dec17.215056.19971@cs.tulane.edu>, david@bourbon (David Kaufmann) writes:
>I don't think you meant to be insulting, but calling the followers of
>Rav Shach Chassidim is insulting to those who try to be. [...]

I think Isaac Balbin was using "chasid" in the literal sense of piety,
just like you used "misnagid" in the literal sense of opponent.
-- 
-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
From: mannj@acf9.nyu.edu (Jordan Mann)
Subject: Two Chassidim Jokes
Organization: New York University
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:01:22 GMT

1)I thank my roommate for this one.

An announcement is made that the Messiah is coming, and all Jews run to make
preparations.  The misnagdim start studying Torah, and the Chassidim start
drinking.  

The Messiah comes, and is greeted by the Chassidim first.  They
offer him a "l'chayim" - something to drink.  The Messiah says,  "Is this
all you have?" and the Chassidim respond, "You should have come earlier!"
Then the misnagdim greet him, and tell him a few divrei Torah that they 
managed to come up with in a hurry.  The Messiah says, "Is this all you
have?" and the misnagdim respond, "You should have come a little later!"

2)This one is an oldie but goodie.  I hope the chassidim on the net aren't
offended.

Three chassidim from different sects are arguing over which sect has the 
most saintly rebbe.  One says, "My rebbe is the world's greatest tzaddik!
Once, when my rebbe was walking to shul, he came to a huge puddle in the
street that was too wide and deep to cross.  So he said, `Puddle go this 
way!  Puddle go that way!'  The puddle split, and my rebbe walked right
through!"

"That's nothing!" replied the second chassid.  "Once, my rebbe was on the
way to a wedding.  He was already late, and he still had to travel to the
other side of a mountain.  So he said, `Mountain go this way!  Mountain go
that way!'  The mountain split, and my rebbe sped right through!"

"That's nothing!" yelled the third chassid.  "Once, my rebbe was walking
to shul on Shabbos morning, and saw a $100 bill on the ground.  But he
couldn't take it, because it was Shabbos.  So he said, `Shabbos go this
way!  Shabbos go that way!  The Shabbos split, and my rebbe took the 
$100 bill! "
--
Jordan Mann at NYU      (mannj@cims.nyu.edu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
From: solovay@netcom.com (Andrew M. Solovay)
Subject: Re: Missionary-inundating (Re: Here we go again)
Organization: Jews for Melkor
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:54:05 GMT

In article <92349.162704YZKCU@CUNYVM.BITNET> Yaakov Kayman <YZKCU@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
>In article <1992Dec14.195903.8015@nynexst.com>, schwartz@nynexst.com (Steven
>Schwartz) says:
>>
>>A personal note has a much greater impact than a group posting.
>>472 personal notes from 472 people in one's e-mail box have
>>an even greater impact.
>(in making missionaries of various types leave SCJ, that is.)
>
>Well Steven, you and I make 2. All we need is another 470 or so, and we
>can begin. We won't need anything more offensive than "Please DO leave
>SCJ." if we have enough people sending the notes. Anyone else game? It
>ought to be fun! :-) :-)

Include me in. I've already sent a civil-yet-hostile note. I've
also tried to send a polite complaint to his site administrator.
"sysop" and "sysadmin" both bounced, so I settled for
"postmaster". His repeated references to the "idiot Orthodox"
crossed the fine line between offensive and really offensive.

As Fred G. Sanford once said, "It's one thing to be *stupid*, but
it's something else to be a *dummy*, *stupid dummy*!
-- 
Andrew Solovay    

"We all have faults, and mine is being wicked."
                --- The Duke of Coffin Castle
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
From: egw@utkvx3.utk.edu (Wolpert, Edward Greenwal)
Subject: Joke to say to the missionaries
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 02:32:00 GMT

I heard this from a student in a Hebrew Class...
	How may Christains does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Answer(Holding up three fingers): One.
	[P.s. The missionaries I've told it to never seem to get it.]  :)
	Edward Wolpert
From: jlove@ivrit.ra.itd.umich.edu (Jack Love)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
Subject: Re: The difference between a chasid and a misnagid
Date: 15 Dec 1992 22:32:46 GMT
Organization: /usr/local/trn/lib/organization
NNTP-Posting-Host: ivrit.ra.itd.umich.edu

In article <1992Dec15.161016.1251@Princeton.EDU> jacobw@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jacob Solomon Weinstein) writes:
>All right... I hate to be the one to ask, but my
>knowledge of Jewish culture is generally limited to Conservative
>Judaism, so: what's a misnagid?
>I figure if I keep on asking every time I see a word I don't understand
>on s.c.j, I'll be a bocher by the end of the year.

Assuming that you're not the only one needing this data, I'll
post to the group rather than using private mail.

The term "misnagid" is the Ashkenzic pronunciation of what in
Israeli Hebrew would be pronounced "mitnaged."
				      ^   ^
It comes from the root nun.gimmel.dalet and means (in the 
participial form) "one who opposes." After the Hassidim 
appeared in the late eighteenth century, the group of 
Jews who were Orthodox and observant, but opposed to certain
Hassidic teachings, philosophies, methodologies, etc. Since
they defined themselves in terms of "opposing" the Hassidim,
they became known as "opposers."

Hope this helps.

-- 
________________________________________
Jack F. Love	| 	Opinions expressed are mine alone.
		|	(Unless you happen to agree.)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
From: CPLS13@email.mot.com (Steven_Cohn)
Subject: Re: To all Jews: STOP the negative Jewish
Organization: Motorola_CoveragePLUS
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 12:04:38 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.jewish

In article <1992Dec16.135430.28783@icd.teradyne.com>,
yaffe@icd.teradyne.com (Art Yaffe) wrote:
> 
> In article 724430329@ro, emc@doe.carleton.ca (Eli Chiprout) writes:
> >In <1992Dec15.024433.4412@netcom.com> madhaus@netcom.com (Maddi Hausmann) writes:
> >
> >>   Jews like to argue
> >
> >They do not!
> >--
> >Eli Chiprout                 
> >Dept. of Electronics, 
> >Carleton University, Canada
> >emc@doe.carleton.ca                                     
> 
> 
> Do SO!
> ---
> ********************************
> Arthur G. Yaffe
> Internet: yaffe@icd.teradyne.com
> ********************************

DO NOT!

Steven Cohn
Motorola CoveragePLUS Engineering
CPLS13@EMAIL.MOT.COM
From: levene@aplpy.jhuapl.edu (Robert A. Levene)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
Subject: Re: Shabbat question
Date: 13 Dec 92 00:47:43 GMT
Organization: Johns Hopkins University


In article <1992Dec11.162040.9056@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
jgoldber@todah.chem.utoronto.ca (Joel Goldberg) writes:

...
>  More precisely, the prohibition against  a bicycle is that if it
> breaks down, one might be tempted to either carry it or fix it. If
> a wheelchair breaks down, the same temptations (and they are stronger
> ones even) hold too.

I heard a taped lecture on this subject, and the suggestion concerning
a stroller or carriage was to kick away the broken wheel, thus
removing the temptation to fix it.  Then use the remaining wheels.

Don't rely on this advice unless you clear it with a competent
halachic authority.

Rob
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
From: mk568652@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Mitchell Kotler)
Subject: Re: Jewish STEREOTYPES - the last time
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 20:40:04 GMT
Organization: Colorado State U. Engineering College

Mr. Skoll writes:
[ ......................etc.................]
Ironically, if a non-Jew tells a Jewish joke, I get annoyed, whereas
a Jew telling the same joke wouldn't bother me.  Go figure.



> Yes! That's what I've been saying all along!  But there are certain Jews
on this net who cannot see that.  They don't understand that there are non-
Jewish readers of this group as well, thus making it look as if Jews believe 
and accept their stereotypes.  I am only taking the jokes seriously because
the audience is not strictly Jewish. I am saying "be responsible" , you "funny"
people out there.  That means you Maddi.
From: faigin@aero.org (Daniel P. Faigin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
Subject: Re: Haftorah Reading May 21, 1994
Date: 15 Dec 92 14:42:03
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
	<1992Dec15.221407.19934@ennews.eas.asu.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: soldan.aero.org
In-reply-to: makowsky@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu's message of Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:14:07 GMT

On Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:14:07 GMT, makowsky@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (David Makowsky)
said: 

> 	How does your Conservative-egalitarian congregation handle the
> issue of men getting pregnant?

I would presume that if they had kids in this fashion, they would be Jewish
:-). Oy, the "patrilineal descent" flamewar we would have then :-) :-).

Daniel
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		    "And as they say, the rest is compost"
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
From: dfs@doe.carleton.ca (David F. Skoll)
Subject: Re: CAMPAIGN TO FREE VANUNU
Organization: Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:42:01 GMT

In <92349.1313042893684@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> Andy
<2893684@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes:

>F--K OFF, you semi-literate moron.

Funny, I got a very similar response from Hank Roth of "PeaceNet" when
I wrote to him a while ago.

Perhaps he and Andy share the same ghostwriter?  They could brush up
on their vocabulary.

:-)

--
                     |         | "Step up and shake the hand
David F. Skoll       | ||||||| |  Of someone you can't stand,
|_ _ _  __   __ _ __ |  \\V//  |  You can tolerate him if you try..."
 / |  | |_|   | |  | |  __|__  |  -- Tom Lehrer, "National Brotherhood Week"
_____|________________________________________________________________________
From: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
Subject: Re: Is Failure to Support Pollard Anti-Semitic?
Date: 11 Dec 92 18:46:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.1992Dec11.184600.2769
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)


Since Matthew P. Wiener thinks I'm an "incorrigible idiot" I won't want
to burden him with any responses to his messages. Thus I've added him
to my Kill file for this group, and readers should know that my
future silence in the face of his posts will not denot assent.

David
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
From: ecl@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (Evelyn C. Leeper)
Subject: Re: Why are Jews discriminated?
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 23:14:52 GMT

In article <1992Dec12.222044.17696@colorado.edu> perlman@qso.Colorado.EDU (Eric S. Perlman) writes:
> In article <Dec.12.15.44.34.1992.2720@soliton.rutgers.edu> zzhang@soliton.rutgers.edu (ZhiZhong Zhang) writes:
> >Now my questions,
> >a) Are Jews and other whites the same race?
> >b) if they are the same race to start with, how did they grow apart?
> >c) Why, from the viewpoint of Jews, are Jews discriminated? 
> >d) Why, from the viewpoint of other whites, are discriminated?
> >I know my questions are too unspecific. But because of my lack of knowledge
> >in this subject, this is where I have to start with. I would appreciate
> >any response. Thank you!
> 
> I would strongly recommend, Mr. Zhang, that you seek out a copy of
> Dennis Prager's excellent book _Why The Jews?_  Therein he addresses
> exactly these questions and more.

I believe the classic work on this question is Jean-Paul Sartre's
"Anti-Semite and Jew."

Evelyn C. Leeper  |  +1 908 957 2070  |  att!mtgzy!ecl or  ecl@mtgzy.att.com
--
"God does not play dice with the universe."  --Albert Einstein
"Albert, stop telling God what to do."  --Niels Bohr
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