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From: anneb@tecsun1.etl.army.mil (Anne Brink)
Newsgroups: dc.general
Subject: Re: Looking for Carousels!
Date: 30 Sep 92 15:34:03 GMT
Distribution: dc
Organization: U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center, Ft. Belvoir, VA.

02h@oasys.dt.navy.mil (CDR Fred C. Wyse) writes:

>My young son (2 yo) has taken a fancy to riding on carousels.  He really
>likes the "horseys" that "go up and down"! 8-)!!  We've found several
>in the area -- the one at Glen Echo is really marvellous.

As far as I'm concerned, the one at Glen Echo wins.  They have someone there 
who keeps it up.  He has in the past demonstrated _making_ carousel horses at 
the Glen Echo folk festival, and when I talked to him, he mentioned that he 
gave a course in woodcarving, where the students make small carousel horses.
(This info is 2 years out of date, caveats apply)

>To add variety to weekend outings, can anyone recommend other parks
>that have carousels and things like that?

Perhaps this is for dc.smithsonian, but is the one down on the mall going
to be out this year?

>Thanks in advance.  E-mail to me.  I'll forward a compilation to anyone
>who expresses an interest.

>						 Sincerely,
>						 Fred Wyse

				-Anne Brink
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From: bote@access.digex.com (John Boteler)
Subject: Movie "Sneakers"--anyone?
Organization: Express Access Public Access UNIX, Greenbelt, Maryland USA
Distribution: dc
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 23:17:59 GMT

I know the movie "Sneakers" has been out for about two weeks
now, but maybe we need to get a group together to
go see it, given the composition of usenet and all.

Any interest?

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From: williams@nssdcs.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Williams)
Newsgroups: dc.general
Subject: Re: X-10 remote control
Date: 30 Sep 92 14:53:35 GMT
Distribution: dc
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland

In article <RUSTY.92Sep29222032@krishna.cs.umd.edu> rusty@krishna.cs.umd.edu (Rusty Haddock) writes:
>
>Haven't look very hard, have we? :-)
>
>You friendly, neighborhood Radio Schlock sells 'em.  Two or three times a
>year they put the critters on sale and that's when I usually stock up.
>
>Sears used to sell the X-10 modules [...]
>
>DAK Industries(?) sells most all of the modules and controllers via mail
>order.
>
>Dig up a copy of Steve Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar Magazine (usually listed as
>"The Computer Applications Journal") and you should find around a half-dozen
>suppliers, some with full-page ads, in each issue.
>
>Hope this is of some help to you fellow X-10'ers out there!
>

I've noticed that not all X-10 modules are the same, with respect to 
quality.  I've gotten modules from DAK, Radio Shack, Sears, and
probably elsewhere.  The DAK lightswitch module burned out and was
hard to switch manually (you had to hit the push button *just right*).
The Radio Shack module that replaced it was slightly better but the
Sears modules I used for my front and back porch lights were the best
of all!  (Sears does still sell these BTW.)

You can also find X-10 modules in places like Hechinger's under the
Stanley label.  These are often bundled in packages to make a security
system.

Now a question: I have the PC interface for my X-10 stuff.  The
provided software is version 1.0 and it sucks.  There are several PD
replacements, but I haven't tried any yet.  Is there a later version
of the "offical" software?  A Windows version?  What X-10 software do
*you* use?  Also, I found I have to slow my PC *way* down, or the
software can't contact the interface.  This is a bizarre bug.  It
happens no matter which serial card I use.  My PC is a 386DX,
25/20MHz.  I have to use a software programs (WHOA!PC) that slows the
clock in software to something like 8 or 12 MHZ.  The native hardware
speeds are both too fast.  Very odd...

Jim


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From: ashley@oasis.gtefsd.com (Bob Ashley)
Newsgroups: dc.general
Subject: What Has Happened on WJFK-FM (106.7)??
Date: 5 Oct 92 20:31:24 GMT
Reply-To: ashley@oasis.gtefsd.com
Organization: GTE Federal Systems Division

I thought I might pose this to the Net.Readers.DC ... something to take
the thoughts off of yesterday's "Debacle in the Desert" ...

I have noticed a major shift in the musical format on the weekends and
late night hours (after the talk and progressive shows).  It used to be
classic and current rock, but now it sounds more like "musak".

Can anyone shed light on what has happened?  It's bad enough that they
have Howard Stern and those "Zoo Idiots" (Don and Mike), but now this ...


Bob - and "Barsky" on WCXR is just not the answer ...

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From: m23364@mwunix (James Meritt)
Newsgroups: dc.general
Subject: Re: Barry
Date: 29 Sep 92 19:54:45 GMT
Organization: MITRE Corporation, McLean VA

In article <BODARKY.92Sep24134216@twiz.cme.nist.gov> bodarky@cme.nist.gov (Scott Bodarky) writes:
}
}Charles.Swett@f231.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Charles Swett) writes:
}
}> What horrifies me is the message sent by his reelection: his
}> behavior was not inconsistent with their own values, i.e., they don't
}> think he did anything wrong.
}
}Perhaps they think that he did do something wrong, was caught, tried,
}convicted, and has now served his sentence, thereby paying his debt to
}society.

Perhaps they just think that a convicted drug user, womanizer, and liar
best represents a majority of their ward.  
Newsgroups: dc.general
From: louray@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Panayiotakis)
Subject: Re: Quote of the day: DC Dept. of Public Works
Organization: George Washington University
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 23:55:43 GMT

In article <1992Sep30.200803.6287@access.digex.com> electro@access.digex.com (Gary Ehrlich) writes:
>
>>It's to regulate the limited amount of public curb-side space so
>>that it can be used equitably by all who want to use it.'"
>
>Gee, it seems to me that using "the boot" on those with lots of tickets
>flies in the face of this principle.  Few things irk me more than seeing
>a perfect parking space in front of my destination occupied by a booted
>car.  I say TOW 'EM!  
>
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It seems that D.C> has no explicit law on how, or, rather, when to use th eboot.The boot may be used on someone having as few as 2 or 3 tickets, according
to an article on the Washington Post some time ago. 
Plus, the boot does not really solve the problem.  If you boot an illegally parked car, it will probably stay there longer than intended w/o the boot.  Try 
towing the violators, having a large ammount of tickets.
	
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From: williamf@umbc5.umbc.edu (TheBigBopper)
Subject: more on crime here
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus, Academic Computing Services
Distribution: dc
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 12:07:33 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.200410.4857@relay.nswc.navy.mil> you write:
>
>Well, I have lived in or around Fredericksburg for almost my entire life.
>20 of 23 years.  In that time, I have never known anyone who was the 
>victim of a major crime (knock on wood) who lives here.  I read about it
>in the paper.  I do have a friend in Richmond who was stabbed and then 
>robbed.  Sadistic *%&#$*$% stabbed him and then asked for his money.  
>Note that this was in downtown Richmond in a very "bad" neighborhood.  I
>guess maybe we should draw more general conclusions about cities.  I
>guess that is why the middle class is moving to the suburbs.
>
>Brad

 Well, I lived in Rockville for four years and now in Baltimore for three.
 In all that time I have never been the victim of a crime either and you
 can't find a more careless and absent-minded person than I am.  But thats
 not the point.  All the people who move to the suburbs to escape crime are
 only going to find that it follows them.  There is going to be a point where
 we decide that we have to confront the problems and causes of the heightened
 level of crime today and stop trying to pin it on the cities and instead on
 the disparate levels of wealth in our society.  There is some sort of myth
 thats widely believed that crime is so much worse today than it ever was.
 Not true.  At various points in the late 19th century and early 20 century
 we had tremendous levels of crime which coincided with the immigration of
 the Irish and Italians.  What we're seeing now is the results of the far more
 deadly fire power that criminals have to work with--the randomness and sense-
 lessness is NOT new.
   -William
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From: jeff_d@npri6.npri.com (Jeff Davis)
Newsgroups: dc.general
Subject: Re: X-10 remote control
Date: 30 Sep 92 15:18:12 GMT
Distribution: dc
Organization: NPRI, Alexandria VA

ray@cme.nist.gov (Steve Ray) writes:

>I was looking to buy some X-10 remote control modules, and am having
>one heck of a time finding any retailers in the area who carry them.
>My ONLY hit at this point is Security Showcase way down toward
>Clinton, MD. Here I am way up in Gaithersburg, MD, just about as far
>away from there as I can get and still be in the same metropolitan
>area. Isn't there somewhere that sells these things?

I don't know of any local places, but DAK sells them mail order.  The 
current catalog has X-10 items listed, call them at 1-800-325-0800 for
a catalog.

I also know of some places that carry x-10 macintosh controllers (CP290M) for
about $60.  They may also have x-10 modules:

Home Control : 1-800-CONTROL
Off the Shelf : 1-800-458-6427

Hope this help!

Jeff
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From: mheney@access.digex.com (Michael K. Heney)
Subject: Re: A better view on Statehood.
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 14:52:56 GMT

In article <1992Sep25.125001.13395@openage.openage.com> ghost@openage.openage.com (Glenn Host) writes:
>
>Nope. I would not support for statehood for DC if it was lily white or
>even martian green - the issue is not race but the fact the District

>is too small functionally to be a state.  Too much of the land is
>federal and what remains is too small and scattered to be a state.
>
>I agree that 'home rule' is not working due to the combination of inept
>governing and busy-bodies in Congress but statehood is not the solution.
>But DC can't complain about busy-bodies in Congress when it attempts
>(along with Alexandria's representative) to keep the Redskins in
>Washington via Congress.
>
>Part of the problem is that besides the federal government and
>tourism due to the fact of being the nation's capital there is little
>economic base for DC.   DC residents should get Representatives
>equivalant to the population but not Senators.
>

I have to agree that statehood is ridiculous (personally, I think some
of the New England states should be merged together - lump RI, CT, and
MA together; same for ME, NH, and VT, but that's another issue entirely).
I like the suggestion I heard earlier in this group - count DC as part of
Maryland for congressional purposes.  On the Senate side, it works out
very nicely - each DC resident has two Senators who they have voted for
and are accountable to them, without the absurdity of allocating two
Senators expressly to the District.  On the House side, I suppose it doesn't 
really make much difference if you give Maryland a proportional number
of reps for the combined populations of DC+MD, and then make sure that 
DC gets it's proportional share of that number, or just give DC 1 or 2
out of 435, as it's population warrents.  Either way, I would probably
have it a given that no congressional district cross the MD/DC line.
 
Of course, it's not going to happen this way - it makes too much sense.
 
 


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Newsgroups: dc.general
From: dougnews@access.digex.com (Doug Humphrey)
Subject: Re: more on crime here
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, Maryland USA
Distribution: dc
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 19:25:03 GMT

In article <4865@prcrs.prc.com> terry@prcrs.prc.com (Terry Cunningham) writes:
>In article <1992Sep30.201225.6513@access.digex.com>, dougnews@access.digex.com (Doug Humphrey) writes:
>> Whenever there are large movements of one culture into the 
>> country of another there is potential for lots of trouble as
>> everybody gets used to each other.  This is not just Italians
>> or Irish, and not just in connection with the US; look at the 
>
>Perhaps a simpler explanation would be that the increasing poulation size
>and density due to immigration results in a corresponding increase in
>the amount of everything (sewerage, housing needs, unemployment) including
>crime, until the capacity of the host country has expanded to the point
>where this influx is absorbed.

Just because it is a simpler explaination does not make it better
or more valid.  There are often complex interactions between 
social groups.

The increased population is a different factor, and a valid one,
but the differences in cultures are a factor in much crime in this
situation.  The tension between different belief systems (sometimes 
expressed in religions, sometimes in cultural traditions) and 
different cultural points of views are signifigant, and should
not be discounted.

>The crime, as I recall reading about it, was not so much the clash of
>cultures, as it was the the standard larceny found in any large urban area.
>More people, more crime.   In other words, did New York in the twenties, a
>major period of immigration, experience any more crime than London, a city
>of comparable size but with a mostly indegenous population.

I have to disagree with you.  Much of the crime was related to the
clash of cultures, inspired by the criminal elements of one social
group seeing the other social group as more "acceptable" targets for 
their crime than their own social group.  It does not always happen 
this way (example of Black on Black crime in the District perhaps)
but NY and Boston as examples of the Italian and Irish experiences
show clearly the culture clash.


Doug

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From: dougnews@access.digex.com (Doug Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Crime Here
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, Maryland USA
Distribution: dc
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 02:41:09 GMT

In article <4840@prcrs.prc.com> terry@prcrs.prc.com (Terry Cunningham) writes:
>In article <25SEP199206280779@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov>, packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer) writes:
>
>Punks with guns are spilling out of the city and into the surrounding burbs,
>cars are hijacked from "average sized males" almost daily.   
>
>How about taking your head out of the sand to see what's going on.

Our offices are in Greenbelt, and there is a nice little town
center where kids and old people and just about everyone seems
to hang out until after midnight, so you get to talk to a lot 
of them.  One concern is the opening of the Greenbelt Metro.
It is a common view here that there will be an increase in the 
number of people who come from the city to commit crimes here.
There is already a really bad car theft problem in PG county,
and they say that if you wake up and your car isn't in the 
place where you left it, you can expect a phone call in 24 hours
or so from the DC police telling you where they found it.  	

About the "randomness" of crime, that is an important dimension.
There was a time when someone would walk up to you, produce a 
weapon (or even not) and demand your wallet/money.  If you 
handed it to them, you were reasonably assured that, having 
gotten it, the perp would back off and depart.  What you had in
essence was a business deal, he threatened violence or else, you
gave him what he wanted, no violence took place.  While this is
not something that you want to see happening, it is not something
that you would get really scared to death of, something that you 
would fear for your life over.  Today, you hear of a lot of cases
where after taking your valuables, the perp or perps decide to 
kill or maim you anyway.  Just for fun.  Just for sport.  Just
because.  This is something that is completely out of your 
control or influence, and it is scary as hell.  This is what 
is different today, and it is what will cause people to 
react on their own, take their own measures, rather than 
depending on the police, who can't be everywhere at once and 
never will be able to.

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Newsgroups: dc.general
From: paul@openage.openage.com (Paul Fischer)
Subject: House for Rent in Gaithersburg
Organization: Open Age, Inc.
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 13:22:10 GMT


				Gaithersburg, Md.

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	Located minutes from I-270 and downtown Gaithersburg, you can rent
the top of this wonderful townhome.  There is a large front and back yard
and the neighborhood is very quiet.  There is an elementary school within
walking distance.  The back yard has a deck.

	The top floor has a master bedroom with a walking closet.  There are
also two smaller bedrooms and a full bath.  The main level has a kitchen, half
bath, and living room that is shared with my partner who lives in the basement.
There is a garage for storage, and a washer/dryer in the basement.

	As I mentioned above my partner lives in the basement, in a separate
apartment.  The rent is $900/month.  This includes all utilities and use
of all facilities including the washer/dryer!!!

The rooms are available as a whole set suitable for a family, or individually,
in which case the rents will vary by room size.

For more information, or to see the rooms call:

			Chris Owens:	(301) 417-0979 (day/eve)
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From: fredm@dsr.uucp (Fred Muhlenberg)
Subject: Too many squirrels.  Not enough time
Organization: DSR
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 18:34:25 GMT


Is it my imagination or are there more squirels then usual this
year who fail to make that life saving decision?

Left! Right! Left! Uh... Uh... SPLAT!


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From: tucker@mitre.org (William Tucker)
Newsgroups: dc.general
Subject: Re: Exporting Jobs to other countries.
Keywords: Re: Exporting Jobs to other countries.
Date: 6 Oct 92 17:29:21 GMT
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA, USA

In article <1992Oct3.235524.10655@linus.mitre.org> tucker@mitre.org (William Tucker) writes:
>  I've been thinking about the "recent" race to move 
>  a great deal of our manufacturing base to other
>  countries. I guess there are a number of things 
>  that bother me about it. Number one is what do we
>  do with all the people that it puts out of work?
>  There are only so may service jobs available...

You russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) respond:

What is this obsession with "service" jobs somehow being less
important than "manufacturing" jobs?  The Commerce statistics only
have 3 categories-- farm, manufacturing, and service.  That means that
lots of those high-tech jobs out there-- right, service.  By shrugging
off the service sector, you ignore reality.


I (William Tucker) respond:

I meant those jobs that are a step down from manufacturing. Working on 
lawn services, service stations, 7-11's, etc. Those jobs that have
less benifits, lower pay, require less skill. When your pay goes from 
$12.50 per hour to $5/6/7 dollars per hour you are at that point in
survival mode, especially if you don't have any medical. Since when do
manufacturing people move into the computer industry when they get laid 
off? What obsession, we have a difference in semantics/definition, I
think the context of my statements points the direction that I was 
trying to indicate.





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From: neve@nlm.nih.gov (Leif Neve)
Newsgroups: dc.general
Subject: Re: Commute, a beautiful morning...
Date: 5 Oct 92 15:56:25 GMT
Reply-To: neve@nlm.nih.gov
Organization: National Library of Medicine

In article 1757@openage.openage.com, ghost@openage.openage.com (Glenn Host) writes:
>I have seen chipmunks, possiums, deer, a skunk,
>a muskrat and numerious ducks.   And all of these animals
>were within three miles of my horse in Reston.
                                                 ^^^^^

That's funny. Horses will usually keep entire counties clear of these pests.

Leif "sorry, I couldn't resist it" Neve
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