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From: Furr@cup.portal.com (George Dalton Madison)
Newsgroups: ba.motss,soc.motss
Subject: Re: Rob Bernardo
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 08:50:34 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Because several people have remarked on it in e-mail, and the
fact that other people have been posting lyrics or poetry that
they find valuable either as remembrances or as healing, I'm
going to expand a bit on the reference I made to the song
_Thousand Cranes_ by Hiroshima.

It's almost as much the liner notes explaining the song as the
song itself:

     When we first visited Japan in 1981, we visited the
     Peace Memorial in the city of Hiroshima. There, amidst
     reminders of the horrors of nuclear warfare, was a tree
     of sorts, fashioned from literally a thousand
     multi-colored folded paper (origami) cranes. These
     cranes are a memorial to a little girl named Sadako who
     was hospitalized at age 11 with leukemia from the
     radiation of the atom bomb dropped on the city of
     Hiroshima. Her friend told her that if she made a
     thousand cranes, her wish would come true and she would
     live. She had made 644 cranes when she died.

     As this story spread throughout Japan, children sent
     origami cranes. Today, children of the world send their
     cranes to the city of Hiroshima to maintain the
     thousand cranes in memory of the little girl and the
     dream of peace.

The lyrics are very simple, repeated several times:

     Show her now that we do care
     With a love that we all share
     Send her a thousand cranes
     Send her your thousand cranes

     Show her now that we do care
     With a hope that we all share
     Send her a thousand cranes
     Send her your thousand cranes

I'm not even going to try to describe the beauty of the
accompanying music.

I don't know if anyone else will react in the same way to this,
but it's one of the first things to come to my mind whenever I
have to face such painful events. Maybe it's the spark of hope
represented by the thousand cranes; in any event, I think that
perhaps it's time I located a book on origami and started
folding.

-----
[> George D. Madison | NBCS: B8f+t+w-e+s+k+a!cv | Just say NO to razors! <]
[> It's a BEAR thing -- you wouldn't understand. <|> furr@cup.portal.com <]
From: yendluri_rao@Tandem.com (Ramarao Yendluri)
Newsgroups: ba.dance,soc.culture.indian.telugu
Subject: Bharatanatyam Arangetram
Date: 20 Aug 92 19:58:20 GMT
Organization: Tandem Computers


           Abhinaya Dance Company 
                of San Jose
                  presents

           Bharatanatyam Arangetram
                     of
              SATYASRI YENDLURI


           Disciple of Mythili Kumar
             Artistic Director of 
       Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose

                      with
         Live Orchestral Accompaniment

                       on 
            August 30, 1992, 4:00PM

                       at
             Louis B. Meyer Theater
       (corner of Franklin and Lafayette)
              Santa Clara University
              Santa Calra, California

                  Admission Free
Contact Vijaya & Ramarao Yendluri (510) 490-3253
From: fh@well.sf.ca.us (Fabian Hahn)
Newsgroups: ba.dance
Subject: Elegant Jelly Presents
Keywords: New Dance Performace Berkeley San Francisco Keriac
Date: 21 Aug 92 22:05:24 GMT
Expires: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 07:00:00 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link


			ELEGANT JELLY

     A group of german dancers will perform their new program:


		   "Dance Across the Ocean"


  	    at two locations here in the Bay Area.

 Original "New Dance" Performance works led by KERIAC with music by the 
		  "Haight Ashbury Free Band".

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Addmission is $7 - $10, Reservation/Information (415) 775-5663
All shows begin at 8 pm.

Friday and Saturday, August 21. and 22.

Motivity Studio
2525 8th St. (@Dwight Way)
Berkeley

Friday and Saturday, August 28. and 29.

Mission Cultural Center
2868 Mission (@24th St.)
San Francisco
Newsgroups: ba.general
From: edw@sequent.com (Ed Wright {Sys Admin Wienie})
Subject: jomama
Organization: Orygun Society For HUman Rustabillity Assessment
Distribution: ca
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 19:51:27 GMT


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From: savel@hal.COM (Bharat P. Savel)
Newsgroups: ba.general
Subject: Re: speeding ticket ..... how to limit the damage?
Date: 18 Aug 92 17:26:50 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: HaL Computer Systems Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: gorn.hal.com

actually it also depends on how you got caught. if it a radar gun then you can
argue it out. Calif. Microwave (i think) develops these radar guns and i 
remember talking to some engg. there. who calims that "... these guns are so
unreliable, that trees are known to have been clocked at 5 mph". 

surely there must be atleast one errorneous reading sometime and it may be you.
with this knowledge, don't know what you can do about it.
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Bharat P. Savel                                     /tmp/Design_Engineer
Ext. 1307
Motto: If we can't fix it, it ain't broke
Newsgroups: ba.general,su.market,ba.market.misc
From: hemiola@leland.Stanford.EDU (e. shen)
Subject: Re: To Everyone Giving Away Pets!
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 23:29:49 GMT


The .market newsgroups are not meant to be a forum for expressing one's
personal views.  Anne's post alerts people giving away pets to a practice
that is often deceptive.  At the very least, this information allows them
to decide for themselves whether a research lab would make a good home.

Edwin Rock's espousal of animal research, on the other hand, is impertinent.
From: tony@iti.org (Anthony Skjellum)
Newsgroups: ba.general
Subject: Soloflex (mint condition) for Sale
Summary: Want to sell like-new Soloflex machine
Keywords: Soloflex, Exercise
Date: 23 Aug 92 04:24:17 GMT

I have a hardly used Soloflex machine including butterfly and
leg attackments, and all new weight straps.  It was not right
for me so I didn't use it.

I paid about $1500 for this, and I would consider all reasonable offers.
I live in Livermore (east bay), and I would expect interested
parties to 1) pay cash, 2) provide their own transportation.

- Tony Skjellum

--
 	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.      .
"They also serve who only stand and wait." - J. Milton

Anthony Skjellum, LLNL, (510)422-1161; FAX: (510)423-2993; tony@helios.llnl.gov
From: proberts@informix.com (Paul Roberts)
Newsgroups: ba.general,su.etc,su.market
Subject: Re: To Everyone Giving Away Pets!
Date: 18 Aug 92 20:19:19 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

In article <1992Aug17.233942.3744@morrow.stanford.edu> dawn@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Dawn Burgess) writes:
>In article <1992Aug17.224044.2846@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> ginsberg@t.Stanford.EDU (Matthew L. Ginsberg) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug17.155834.14153@informix.com> proberts@informix.com (Paul Roberts) writes:
>>>
>>>Here's a short listing of advances without animals, provided by the 
>>>Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.  
>>>
>>>-  Discovery of the relationship between cholesterol and 
>>>   heart disease, the number one cause of death for 
>>>   Americans 
>>>
>>>-  Discovery of the relationship between smoking and 
>>>   cancer and nutrition and cancer, the number two cause 
>>>   of death for Americans 
>>>
>>>-  Discovery of the relationship between hypertension and 
>>>   stroke the number three cause of death for Americans 
>>>
>>>-  Discovery of the causes of trauma, the number four 
>>>   cause of death in the United States, and the measures 
>>>   to prevent it 
>>
>>etc etc.
>>
>>  ... deliberate distortion ... disgraceful ...
>> ... simply absurd.
>>						Matt Ginsberg
>>
> ... no understanding of the complex process of medical 
>research  ...
>
>Dawn

If you doubt the material that I quoted in my posting, you might care
to contact its authors at the Physician's Committee for Responsible
Medicine. This organisation claims a membership of over three thousand
M.D.s, and they are better qualified to assess the medical facts than
either Matt of I (Dawn I don't know).

I can provide contact information for PCRM to anyone who wishes it.

Paul 
Newsgroups: ba.forsale,ba.general
From: horstman@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Cay Horstmann)
Subject: 4Sale: Tix SFO->PHI 9/12/92 $60 obo
Organization: San Jose State University - Math/CS Dept.
Distribution: ba
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 14:18:34 GMT

For Sale: Northwest Airlines Ticket San Francisco -> Philadelphia (one way)

Leaves:   San Francisco Saturday September 12, 7 am (NW 350)
Arrives:  Philadelphia                         4:25 pm

Price:    $60 or best offer
Contact:  Cay Horstmann
	  Horstman@mathcs.sjsu.edu
	  (408) 865-1895
From: Art.White@f133.n914.z8.rbbs-net.ORG (Art White)
Newsgroups: ba.general
Subject: Re: Uninsured Motorist Auto Insurance Coverage
Date: 14 Aug 92 05:18:06 GMT

I second your comments about UM.  I recently worked on a case where 

one injured party signed the waiver to delete the UM coverage.  Not

long after that he was riding his motorcycle and got plowed by a man in

a large old sedan who thinks the army put wires in his head and that

the corrective lens restriction on his license requires him to keep his

glasses in the glove compartment.  Levity aside, the motorcyclist lost a

leg amoung other injures and the other driver had no insurance.  Very 
sad story.  Really UM/UIM is defensive necessity.  It's wierd out there.


 * Origin: BODY DHARMA * Berkeley CA 510/836-4717 DharmaNet (8:914/133.0)
From: rc@bacall.NOC.Vitalink.COM (Ran-Chi Huang)
Newsgroups: ba.general
Subject: Recommendations for Good Mechanics in Fremont
Date: 13 Aug 92 22:40:20 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Vitalink Communications Corporation

I'm looking for recommendations for good mechanics to repair
problems with my '85 Ford Escort.

Please mail replies to me at:	rc@NOC.Vitalink.COM

Thanks in advance

-rc
-- 
Ran-Chi Huang                            Internet: rc@NOC.Vitalink.COM
Vitalink Communications, Fremont, CA     Phone:    +1 510-440-2427
Newsgroups: ba.general
From: gwu@nujoizey.tcs.com (George Wu)
Subject: Re: speeding ticket ..... how to limit the damage?
Cc: guest@goliath.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Teknekron Communications Systems Inc.
Distribution: ba
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 01:42:11 GMT

-
     Your easiest option is to just pay the ticket.  There should be an
address on it somewhere, although some jurisdictions require a personal
appearance for some/all moving violations.  Read to ticket again.

     One ticket didn't affect my rates; I'm insured by CSAA.  Call your
company and ask.  If it does, or you're worried you might get another
ticket in the next three years and then your rates will rise, try to go
to traffic school.  Not all jurisdictions allow traffic school, and rules
vary from county to county.  At the very least, you'll have to talk to a
court clerk, maybe even a judge, to get traffic school.

     If you decide to fight the ticket, the odds aren't very good, but
*THE* book to read is "Fight Your Ticket" by Nolo Press in Berkeley.  If
you're going to fight a ticket here in California, read this book before
you do anything else.

							George


----
George J Wu, Software Engineer         | gwu@tcs.com or uunet!tcs!gwu
Teknekron Communications Systems, Inc. | (510) 649-3700
2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, 94704  | Never be the first to believe . . .
Newsgroups: ba.general
From: jorge@tfs.com (I shall return)
Subject: Re: Where are the wind-propellers?
Organization: TRW Financial Systems
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 23:13:52 GMT

From the Bay Area, take 580 east towards highway 5 SOUTH to LA or   
towards highway 210 to STOCKTON.  The windmills are located just about 3
miles before 580 meets these highways.  They are atop hills a.k.a the
ALTAMONT pass and you get there right after the city of LIVERMORE.
From: zio@garg.Campbell.CA.US (Zio zZz)
Newsgroups: ba.general
Subject: Re: Are there any scifi/anime stores in the bay area? Yes.
Keywords: scifi anime
Date: 13 Aug 92 10:53:06 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: The Land of Garg

Kermit2@cup.portal.com (Kermit N Hylen) writes:

> One of the better shops I have come across in my journeys this side
> of the galaxy is the Planet Io.  Its in the Nob Hill shopping center
> in Cupertino, next to the little post office.  Cool place.
> 
> Two years ago, I came across another one in Milpitas.  They refused
> to sell any of their excellent handmade posters.  I imagine that by
> now the need for green has probably hit home, and they figured out
> how to sell copies.  Great posters!
> 
> Kermit2

Well, the name is Planet 10 (ten), not Io, which is a moon.  Also, the post 
office no longer exists (hasn't for a year), even though a few of the 
markings are still there.  It is also a gamer's heaven, there is always SOME 
game planned every day.

--
		Zio zZz		zio@garg.Campbell.CA.US			
		Land of Garg BBS -- (408) 378-5108
Newsgroups: ba.general
From: patf@silvlis.com (Pat Fitzgibbons)
Subject: Looking for people to HIKE and CAMP with
Organization: Silvar-Lisco
Distribution: ba
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 18:00:57 GMT


   My girl friend and I moved here about a year ago
from Minnesota and we would like to join some group which
does hiking and camping. Is the local Sierra club
our best bet or are there other such organizations ?
Is there a more appropriate newsgroup I can post this to ?
--
 O O O  Patrick Fitzgibbons   /\            |         These are my opinions.
  \ /    patf@silvlis.com    /--\  Sunnyvale ) --     Any agreement with my 
   X                      /\/    \   CA     |         company is purely     
  / \        in          /  \     \                   coincidental.         
Newsgroups: ba.general,ba.singles
From: sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer)
Subject: Re: Turbo Ride?
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 18:58:34 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Distribution: ba

In article <_c8m#0b.marv@netcom.com> marv@netcom.com (Marvin Raab) writes:
>Channel 2 news had a segment tonight (8/15) on Turbo Ride, a ride
>similar to Disney's Star Tours, located near Pier 39.
>
>Anyone tried it? It looks like great fun, albeit the 5 minutes in length.
>

From the description I heard of this on the radio, it sounds very much like
the "Motion Machine" on the lower level of the new Excalibur Casino in
Las Vegas (the huge Arthurian pseudo-castle glimpsed briefly out of the
helicopter in "Honey, I Blew Up the Kid!"). Two years ago, they had one
of these things, now they have two, each running a different "show",
which changes several times a day. This one is, I believe, just 3 minutes
long (and costs $2), but it's a rollicking 3 minutes, all right. My kids
loved it (I was slightly less enthused), it really does simulate a
roller coaster or a wild chase, through motion and visual illusion.


-- 
  
        Robert Sheaffer - Scepticus Maximus - sheaffer@netcom.com
  
 Past Chairman, The Bay Area Skeptics - for whom I speak only when authorized!

       "Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
        Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has
        broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or
        where it will end."
                               - Emerson: Essay, "Circles"
Newsgroups: ba.general
From: dan@BofA.com (Dan Brockman)
Subject: Re: Where are the wind-propellers?
Organization: Bank of America, Capital Products, RMTG #5906
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 16:57:06 GMT

In article <199208131243.AA30521@comm.Tandem.COM> PORTIGAL_STEVE@TANDEM.COM writes:
>I once drove by hundereds and hundereds of wind powered propeller forr
>power generation...it was somewhere near 580, up by Livermore. I'd like to
>go back there and take some photographs, but I can NOT remember exactly
>where it was (I had been driving for 4 days at that point).

Drive around to the east side of Mt.Diablo, find the northern terminus
of the California Aqueduct (stop and ask somebody), park your car in 
the lot there, unload your bike from the rack, ride down the path
alongside the aqueduct if you are in the mood (or dont bother with
the bike, it does not matter).  Lots of windmills.  You are right, its
right on the city limits (or thereabouts) of Livermore.

-- 
 ------------------------------------------------------
 Daniel Brockman                       tel 415-953-0406, fax 415-622-2892
 Bank of America, Dept 5906, 555 Calif St
 San Francisco 94104 USA              email uunet!odinba!dan dan@BofA.COM
Xref: sparky ba.general:3514 ba.market.misc:6394
From: emufti@pyrxbooter.eng.pyramid.com (Elizabeth Mufti)
Newsgroups: ba.general,ba.market.misc
Subject: ************* URDU Instructor/Tutor Needed ****************
Date: 21 Aug 92 16:27:00 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Pyramid Technology



Looking for an Urdu instructor who could meet with
me 3-4 times per week for 2 hours for about 1.5 to
2 months.  I live in San Francisco (Westlake Dist.)
but work in San Jose so I could meet anywhere in
between.

      To contact me call 408/428-7374 days, 
      415/333-8222 eve, and email to 
      emufti@pyrxbooter.eng.pyramid.com

Thanks.
Newsgroups: ba.general,su.market,ba.market.misc
From: shedevil@leland.Stanford.EDU (Anne P. Mitchell, JD)
Subject: To Everyone Giving Away Pets!
Reply-To: shedevil@gw.home.vix.com
Organization: Fathers' Rights & Equality Exchange
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 15:12:40 GMT


Please please be careful...apparently there are scads of people, at
least in the Bay are, who will follow up on free pet (dogs and cats)
ads, and then turn the animal/s over to labs and such, receiving a fee
for their services.  One animal placement center suggests requesting
some $ amount, which can be waived once you ascertain the person is
sincere.

Annie
From: shannah@netcom.com (Teri Miller)
Newsgroups: ba.general
Subject: The Great CD Hunt
Date: 18 Aug 92 23:55:57 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)


Several times over the last few months, I've seen discussions here about
where to purchase CDs.  Today, I received a press release from one of my
favorite places to purchase CDs, the Compact Disc Connection.

The press release contains a lot of good information, so I'm going to
type it in in it's entirety.  If you don't want to see it, please press
'n' now.

Please note that I have no connection to the CD Connection, other than
as a satisfied customer.


------------------ press release from CD Connection ---------------

                        ** Press Release **

               (For Immediate Distribution) 8/1/92

For more than two years now, the Compact Disc connection, located in
Sunnyvale, California, has offered a unique combination of incredible
selection and discount pricing for audio compact discs via its on-line
computer search-and-order service.  The service features a database of
more than 50,000 compact discs at discount prices.  All categories of 
music are generously represented, from neo-classical to alternative
rock, and everything in between.

Recently added to the service is the capability to search for CDs which
contain a particular song, and to list the songs contained on a given CD.
The added information is made available via Phonolog-Select(tm), Trade
Service Corporation's industry standard song and track title database.

The most recent enhancement to the service, the Golden Ears Society,
allows customers to rate the CDs they've purchased and to see how CDs
have been rated by other CD Connection customers.  Using this feedback
loop, the system, (and other CD Connection users) will constantly get 
"smarter" about what's good and what's not.

Delivery of CDs is fast, taking from 1 to 2.5, weeks depending on the 
shipping distance.  Prices are very good.

The on-line system itself has received critical (and popular) acclaim
for its ease-of-use, performance, and simplicity.

For a free demonstration (worth more than any number of words), please
set your communications program to 8 data bits, no parity, and 1 stop
bit, at any speed up to 9600 bps, and cause your modem to dial

                        408/730-9015

For further information, please contact Kenneth Lovett, part-owner of
the CD Connection at 408/733-0801.


                   * Compact Disc Connection *

1016 East El Camino, #322        Voice: 408/733-0801  Fax: 408/733-0801
Sunnyvale, California              Up to 9600 bps Modem: 408/730-9015
                  94087          (8 data, no parity, 1 stop, full duplex)
Newsgroups: ba.general
From: GC.AVW@forsythe.stanford.edu (RAGIN CAJUN)
Subject: Re: TCI && Heritage Cable
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Distribution: ba
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 08:39:05 GMT

In article <athos-170892153432@athos.apple.com>,
athos@apple.com (Rick Eames) writes:
>Hi,
>
>I have the address for TCI so that we disgruntled Heritage Customers can
>bitch about the cost and/or service.
>
>A little background: I am moving from Scotts Valley CA where TCI owns
>United Artist Cable.  There, I get 51 basic channels, *all* of the premium
>channels, one line (no A/B switch), 2 decoder boxes and FM service...I get
>all of this for $45.  When I called to move to San Jose, I was told that I
>would have to pay around $80 for the same service.  Needless to say, I was
>flabergasted.
>
>So:
>
>TCI Cable
>Western Office
>1450 Fashion Island Blvd.  STE 450
>San Mateo, CA  94404
>ATTN: Customer Service
>
>Let's nail them.
>
>--
>Rick Eames
>athos@apple.com
>My opinions are my own, thank you very much!

As I said before this is just a office the Corporate office is out
of Denver.  I worked for these people and still own stock in the
company and my share holders vote as well as my stock report comes
from Denver.

Alma
From: jordan@IMSI.COM (Jordan Hayes)
Newsgroups: ba.general
Subject: Re: Uninsured Motorist Auto Insurance Coverage
Date: 12 Aug 92 16:50:35 GMT
Organization: Investment Management Services Inc., NYC

David Kahn <dmk@noho.Eng.Sun.COM> writes:

	I remember reading that more than 1/3 of California motorists
	are uninsured.  I don't know what the percentages are for the
	BA.

According to my last traffic school teacher, Alameda county leads the
state with an estimated 1/2 of the motorists uninsured.

Yikes!

/jordan