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From: fredh@spdcc.com (Fred Huntington)
Newsgroups: ne.general,ne.motss
Subject: Marriage of Figaro (Arlington, Melrose, Needham, Providence, Waltham)
Date: 15 Oct 92 19:29:09 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

I'm posting this for an operatic friend (appearing as Bartolo) who does not
have net access:
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Subject:      Marriage of Figaro/opera/Mozart

Here are the dates and locations for the Marriage of Figaro.  Would you 
distribute this to some of the NE news lists?  Thanks! Hope to see you 
there!  I am performing on the 7th, 13th and 15th.

Friday Nov. 6--Needham           Friday, Nov. 13--Waltham
Christ Episcopal Church          Goverment Center Hall
1132 Highland Avenue, 7:30       School Street, 7:30

Sat. Nov. 7--Providence          Saturday, Nov. 14--Arlington
Sayles Hall, Brown University    First Parish U-U Church
Main Campus Green                630 Mass Ave.  7:30
Between Waterman and George Streets
at Brown Street--  7:30

Sunday, Nov. 8--Needham          Sunday, Nov. 15--Melrose
Christ Episcopal Church          First Baptist Church
1132 Highland Avenue, 3:00       Corner of Main and Upham  3:00

Tickets:  $10 adults, $8 seniors, $5 students

For more information if you need it:  Call Longwood Opera Tel. (617) 484-4172
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: ed@odi.com (Ed Schwalenberg)
Subject: Re: Good Auto Service in Cambridge?
Organization: Object Design, Inc.
Distribution: ne
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 14:27:51 GMT

In article <16729@ksr.com> pbassett@ksr.com (Paul Bassett) writes:
  You could try out Good News Garage which is/was owned and operated by
  Klick and Klack, the Tapit brothers (sp?) of WBUR/NPR Car Talk fame.

Tappet; you've been missing out on one of the oldest jokes in the field
of car mechanics.  (Popular Mechanics used to publish articles by someone
named Tom Tappet; it was so long ago I doubt he was related to Tom'n'Ray.
Does anybody know for sure?)
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald)
Subject: Re: Good Auto Service in Cambridge?
Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA
Distribution: ne
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 05:52:34 GMT
Keywords: Auto repair

vsh@etnibsd.uucp (Steve Harris) writes:

> You'll have to look it up in the book, it's near MIT, and Tom
> and Ray (aka click and clack) are MIT grads.

Eh?  What course?  (or courses?)

Tom M. did a column for Technology Review last month that was pretty
entertaining.  It was light stuff, criticism of the ergonomics of car
dashboard design, with particular attention to things that require you to
take your eyes off the road, and to designs that were done right once
and then later broken.  I hope the column is a regular thing.

-- 
Tom Fitzgerald   Wang Labs       fitz@wang.com   "I went to the universe today;
1-508-967-5278   Lowell MA, USA                   It was closed...."
From: fkao@buengf.bu.edu (Frank Kao)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Fall Colors
Date: 8 Oct 92 13:43:51 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: College of Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Originator: fkao@buengf.bu.edu

Hi you netters out there in Maine, New Hamsphire, and Vermont.  What's the
foiliage like out there for this weekend, I am plaanning a trip to go out
there to see the colors.  Sugestions on where to go to see the colors?
Thanks
fkao

Newsgroups: ne.general,soc.libraries.talk,soc.history,soc.roots
From: psmith@dg-webo.rtp.dg.com (Peter Smith)
Subject: Re: Where can I find State populations, 1800-present?
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 20:10:04 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Data General Corp., Westboro, MA

In article <1992Oct7.191222.20515@linus.mitre.org> ptrei@bistromath.mitre.org (Peter Trei) writes:
>      I'm trying to find the total population of Massachusetts at each
>census, going back as far as possible (actually, breaking it down by
>age, race, and religion might be helpful too).

Try _Historical Statistical Abstract of the United States_, which is
in most libraries.  It goes back to colonial times.  It's available
in most libraries.
---
Peter Smith -- Data General Corp., Westboro, MA
Peter_Smith@dgc.ceo.dg.com or psmith@dg-webo.webo.dg.com
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Newsgroups: ne.general
From: wcorea@netcom.com (William C. Corea)
Subject: Re: Massachusetts Number 1!! :-)
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: ne
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 18:07:42 GMT

In article <Bw0KDq.AFo@unix.amherst.edu> twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
>In article <1992Oct12.043423.10355@netcom.com> wcorea@netcom.com (William C. Corea) writes:
>
>>Most *fatal* accidents involve speed. Since you can't go more than
>>15 MPH on most streets, it's hard to kill anybody.
>
>Eh?  You can't go more than 15 MPH on most Massachusetts roads?  News
>to me ...
>

Read carefully: I said *streets*, not *roads*. I'd guess most accidents in
Massachusetts occur on city *streets*, not rural *roads*.
From: James_J_Kowalczyk@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: How many ne.* groups are there and what are they?
Date: Thu,  8 Oct 92 16:33:08 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)


I was wondering if anyone could tell me the comprehensive list of
newsgroups in the ne.* Usenet hierarchy?

I know of the following groups (though some may be inactive):

ne.food, ne.forsale, ne.general, ne.housing, ne.jobs, ne.news,
ne.org.bcs, ne.org.decus, ne.seminars, ne.wanted.


Sorry if this information is available somewhere that I should know
about!  (My Internet connection is via Portal Communications in Cupertino,
CA, even though I live in Massachusetts.)

Thanks,
Jim Kowalczyk
Eisai Research Institute
Andover, MA 01810

James_J_Kowalczyk@cup.portal.com
From: bradlee@cg-atla.UUCP (Rob Bradlee)
Newsgroups: ne.seminars
Subject: October ACM SIGSOFT/IEEE Meeting: Dr. Eric Bush speaks on CASE selection
Keywords: CASE
Date: 12 Oct 92 15:10:51 GMT
Organization: Agfa Compugraphic Division, Wilmington, Mass. USA


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                 October 1992 IEEE/CS ACM/SIGSOFT Meeting
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Topic:    A Model for Evaluating CASE Tools

Speaker:  Dr. Eric Bush


Date:     Tuesday, October 27, 1992 - 7:00 pm

Place:	  Continental Resources / CTA Building
	  175 Middlesex Turnpike
	  Bedford, MA


The speaker will present a unified model of CASE tool capabilities, called The 
Big Picture, which can be used to consistently represent the functionality of 
any commercially available tool.  The model consists of a set of 3-D pictures 
for graphically portraying tool architecture, together with a set of 11 criteria 
for evaluating those architectures.  Examples of comparisons between Intersolv, 
Texas Instruments, Oracle, KnowledgeWare, S-Cubed, and Bachman will be used to
illustrate the application of the criteria.

About The Speaker:

Dr. Bush is currently Chief Scientist at VIASOFT, Inc.  He was previously
Executive Director of the Rosetta Stone Consortium, which he founded in 1991.
He was the founder and Chairman of Language Technology, Inc. from 1981-1991,
and is now widely regarded as the father of re-engineering for his 
contributions to the field during that period.  He is an internationally known 
researcher, author, and lecturer whose speaking style and highly intuitive use 
of graphics has made the science of software accessible to laymen the world 
over.  He received his Ph.D from Harvard University in 1980, and his B.A. 
and M.A. from Ohio State University in 1973.

Directions:
>From Boston: 128 to Route 3 North, then Route 62 East (first exit).
Turn right at the end of the ramp (first traffic light) and go half a
mile to third traffic light. Here, turn left onto Middlesex Turnpike.
Go 1.8 mile; CTA is on the right, marked by a large blue sign.

>From New Hampshire: Route 3 South to Concord Road exit in Billerica.
Turn right at the stop sign, go half a mile to traffic light, and turn
right onto Middlesex Turnpike. Go 2.3 miles; CTA is on the left (a
half mile after the 99 Restaurant), marked by a large blue sign.

There will be signs directing you to the meeting.

There will be a pay-your-own-way informal dinner with the speaker at the 
Dandelion  Green restaurant at 5:00 PM  the evening of the talk.  Dandelion 
Green is located on Mall Road behind the Burlington Mall.  For information 
about dinner call Charles Martin at (508)-371-7011.

Information: Charles Martin (508) 371-7011
             Jerry Sacks    (508) 275-1920

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-- 
Rob Bradlee  w:(508)-658-5600 X5153 
Agfa Corporation.                      ...!{decvax}!cg-atla!bradlee
200 Ballardvale St.                        bradlee@cg-atla.agfa.com
Wilmington, Mass. 01887
From: dfk@wildcat.dartmouth.edu (David Kotz)
Newsgroups: ne.seminars
Subject: Greedy Triangulation Algorithm
Summary: Dartmouth Computer Science Colloquium
Keywords: computational geometry, dartmouth college, colloquium
Date: 16 Oct 92 22:25:15 GMT
Followup-To: dfk@dartmouth.edu
Distribution: ne
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Originator: dfk@wildcat.dartmouth.edu


                          Dartmouth College
                      Computer Science Colloqium

                             Matt Dickerson
                           Middlebury College

          A Fast Expected-Case Greedy Triangulation Algorithm
                based on the Rank of the Longest Edge

                     Wednesday, October 21, 1992
                               4:00 PM
                           102 Bradley Hall

         Refreshments at 3:30pm in Faculty Lounge, 2nd floor

Abstract

For a uniform distribution of n points in a disc, we show that the
expected value of the rank of the longest edge in the greedy
triangulation is on the order of n 4/3.  Based on this result, on the
triangulation compatibility test method of Gilbert, and on the
enumeration algorithm of Dickerson and Drysdale, we then give a new
greedy triangulation algorithm which for uniform distributions in a
disc requires O n 4/3n time and O n 4/3 space in the expected case.

For additional info please contact David Kotz at David.Kotz@dartmouth.edu.

Directions to Bradley Hall:
	   anonymous ftp to sunapee.dartmouth.edu in pub/directions
-- 
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Mathematics and Computer Science
Dartmouth College, 6188 Bradley Hall, Hanover NH 03755-3551
email: David.Kotz@Dartmouth.edu    or   dfk@cs.dartmouth.edu
From: aspandia@unix.amherst.edu (ANAND SANKAR PANDIAN)
Newsgroups: ne.seminars
Subject: Panel of Native Americans on Columbus
Date: 16 Oct 92 00:41:09 GMT
Organization: Amherst College
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]



SPEAC and SCONAS invite you to a panel discussion on Tuesday, October 20,J
at 7:30 PM iat Amherst College. The panel is titled "Columbus' Legacy: J
Contemporary Native American Perspectives," and features Nativee
American speakers from around Massachusetts. Nane Pashemet, of the
Wampanoag nation, will begin the presentations by discussing the colonialJ
record, and the struggles of natives in New England over the last 400 years.J
Next, Cheryl Savageau, a poet and storyteller of Abenaki and French-CanadianJ
descent, will talk about the invisibility and fragmented identity that NativeJ
American peoples feel in contemporary America. Slow Turtle, the supremeJ
sachem (medicine-man) of the Wampanoag, will conclude by discussing prospectsJ
for a more equitable and ecologically sustainably future, and the properJ
roles of spirituality and industrial technology in society.

The panel will take place in Stirn Auditorium of the Mead Art Museum of 
Amherst College, which is in the middle of Massachusetts, easily accessible
off of the 91 Freeway. For more information, please contact Anand Pandian
(aspandian@amherst.edu, 413-542-3059). Hope to see you there!
From: roberta@magnolia.wpi.edu (Roberta Baker)
Newsgroups: ne.seminars
Subject: WPI Computer Science Colloquium 10/16
Date: 14 Oct 92 17:59:15 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: magnolia.wpi.edu


Computer Science Colloquium
Friday, October 16, 1992
11:00 a.m.
Fuller Labs 311


	  MEMORY UTILIZATION OF TRIES AND EXTENDIBLE HASHING
				   
			    Stephen Taylor
		   WPI Computer Science Department
				   

Extendible hashing is a data access method for external storage, which
may offer the performance benefits of hashing, while allowing smooth
incremental file expansion and in-order access.  Storage performance
of extendible hashing turns out to be related to binary tries.



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WPI COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
Friday, October 16, 1992 
11:00 a.m.
Fuller Labs 311

	    MEMORY UTILIZATION OF TRIES AND EXTENDIBLE HASHING

			Robert E. Douglas, Jr.
		   WPI Computer Science Department
			MS Thesis Presentation

Concurrent Engineering (CE) has already initiated a cultural change in
the design and manufacturing of new products.  CE is expected to lead
to better engineered and faster built products.  But, in order for a
company to take advantage of the power of CE, the members of product
development teams have to be educated about the CE methodology,
including issues such as how decisions made about one aspect of a
design can affect other aspects.  They also have to be educated about
the usefulness of the tools that can be used for CE, and the need for
their integration.  Those tools include intelligent agents which can
be used to offer design suggestions and criticisms.

This talk will introduce CE concepts and will define those ingredients
of CE which are essential.  It will also discuss the project to build
a CE demonstration system to be used for educational purposes. The
system, called Sneakers, provides a design environment and
demonstrates the essential aspects of CE, in a way that they can be
intuitively understood.  This research was supported by a grant from
the Design For Manufacture Institute at Digital Equipment Corporation.


 *** For directions to WPI, send email to roberta@cs.wpi.edu ***
From: aspandia@unix.amherst.edu (ANAND SANKAR PANDIAN)
Newsgroups: ne.politics
Subject: Panel of Native Americans on Columbus
Date: 16 Oct 92 00:36:25 GMT
Organization: Amherst College
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]


SPEAC and SCONAS invite you to a panel discussion on Tuesday, October 20,J
at 7:30 PM iat Amherst College. The panel is titled "Columbus' Legacy: J
Contemporary Native American Perspectives," and features Nativee
American speakers from around the state of Massachusetts. Nane Pashemet, of
the Wampanoag nation, will begin the presentations by discussing the colonialJ
record, and the struggles of natives in New England over the last 400 years.J
Next, Cheryl Savageau, a poet and storyteller of Abenaki and French-CanadianJ
descent, will talk about the invisibility and fragmented identity that NativeJ
American peoples feel in contemporary America. Slow Turtle, the supremeJ
sachem (medicine-man) of the Wampanoag, will conclude by discussing prospectsJ
for a more equitable and ecologically sustainably future, and the properJ
roles of spirituality and industrial technology in society.

The panel willl take place in Stirn Auditorium of the Mead Art Museum of 
Amherst College. Amherst College is in the middle of Massachusetts, and 
can be easily accessed off the 91 Freeway. For more information, please
contact Anand Pandian (413-542-3059, aspandian@amherst.edu). Hope to see
you there!
From: kvk@questor.sw.stratus.com (Ken Koellner)
Newsgroups: ne.politics
Subject: Re: Wild speculation on Perot. Watch the DEBATE tonight
Date: 14 Oct 92 18:09:48 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Software Engineering

Here's the rest of the story.  

Perot is getting the dope on Clinton from his KGB connections but that
is not the whole story.  Perot's connection have told him that Bush is
getting the same stuff from Yeltsin since George and Boris are in bed
together.  They planned the break-up of the USSR while Reagan was
still president and pretending to power play against evil bear in the
woods.  So Perot gets the info but he won't leak it.  Perot wi let
Bush leak the dope on Clinton (all puns intended).  Now Clinton comes
off as a pinko wimp and Bush comes off as a nosy tattle-tale who
sleeps with Russkies.  Perot now looks like the only true American
candidate, wave that flag my oh my.




-- 
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Four more years?  Just say "noe".
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From: wjm@utrcv1 (Bill)
Newsgroups: ct.politics,ne.politics
Subject: Tax Rally
Date: 12 Oct 92 12:15:00 GMT
Organization: United Technologies Research Center
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

"Throw The Bums Out / Axe The CT State Tax"  Rally

Saturday, October 17, 1992 

Noon at the Old State House in Hartford, CT

Bill Mazeika   WJM@UTRC.UTC.COM
From: gjc@mitech.com (George J. Carrette)
Newsgroups: ne.politics
Subject: Wild speculation on Perot. Watch the DEBATE tonight
Date: 13 Oct 92 13:48:20 GMT
Organization: Mitech Corporation, Concord MA

I have to get this one posted before tonights "DEBATE"
of the V.P. hopebodies. I'm predicting a possible revelation
from Perot's V.P. choice.

Follow this and tell me if I'm crazy:

Perot left the race because he thought he couldn't win.

Perot has reentered the race because he thinks he -can- win.
He knows something that the public and the pollsters don't know.

What could that be?

My wild speculation is based on three well known facts:

(1) While Perot was attempting to get aid to, identify, free,
    and otherwise help POW's held by communists in Indochina,
    Perot would find himself in close contact with those parts of
    the Soviet KGB that specialized in contacts with Americans
    with an interest in the Vietnam war outside of official policy
    channels.
(2) Bill Clinton, in his involvement with "the international peace movement"
    and particular protests against U.S. policy in vietnam, would have
    come to the attention of the KGB during Clintons visit to the USSR.
    Which ironically, was at about the same time that Perot was attempting
    to get some relief supplies to POW's that included the very man
    that Perot has chosen as his running mate!
(3) Perot has been shown to be able to investigate people he is working
    with.

Therefore, Perot has the ability to contact those agents and persons
he dealt with in the USSR. Furthermore Perot's supply of "the ready,"
i.e. hard currency, is a well known AID TO MEMORY.

Therefore, even if Bill Clinton does not remember who he met in the
USSR, or what he said or did, (so he claims), it is clear that
Perot's investigative people can contact those KGB specialists
who were involved in "certain contacts with americans" and even
obtain copies of the written reports made at the time.

My wild speculation is that those reports could be highly damaging
to the Democrat in question. 

However, Perot knows that he cannot release them directly. He knows
he needs a kind of Anita Hill situation. Some way that the media
forces him to release the damaging information. His ex-POW choice for V.P.
may be able to set up the groundwork tonight, if he is asked the
right questions by the media. Obviously some way to get the GOP
blamed for the release of the information could work also.
[On the other hand, certainly the ex head of the CIA would not
be as good as Perot at obtaining information. None of the ready
hard currency that does not need to be accounted for to a democrat
controlled congress. But our CIA is still pretty good at digging
up stuff.]

Even wilder speculation is a deal cut of some kind where Clinton
would withdraw from the race.


-gjc
From: rlcarr@athena.mit.edu (Richard L. Carreiro)
Subject: IPSM info
Followup-To: ne.politics
Organization: Digitopolitan Embassy to the US
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 19:00:53 GMT

Hello.  As a trader on the Iowa Political Stock Market, I can give some
info on it...

(1) For official info, contact ipsm@scout-po.biz.uiowa.edu
(2) the IPSM closes with the election, so it's probably too late
    to really get into it, now.
(3) It is a registered, regulated commodity futures market, approved by
    the Commodity Futures Trading Commission -- the agency that oversees
    Chicago, et al.
(4) You do indeed use real money ($5 to $500 invesment allowed), and can
    make a profit or lose money.
(5) UIowa neither makes nor loses money on the market.  There are no fees
    to be a trader, nor are any commissions charged.
(6) I can answer more detailed questions if desired, but your best bet would
    be to send mail to the above address and request a copy of the Traders'
    Manual.

Glad to be of service.


--
Rich Carreiro
ARPA: rlcarr@athena.mit.edu
UUCP: ...!mit-eddie!mit-athena!rlcarr
BITNET: rlcarr@athena.mit.edu
From: adamg@world.std.com (Adam M Gaffin)
Newsgroups: ne.politics
Subject: Re: Online election results Nov. 3
Date: 10 Oct 92 02:43:04 GMT
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA

In article <16720@ksr.com> tdh@ksr.com (Dave Hudson) writes:
>
>I hope that you are going to upload these from AP (available via
>Prodigy) rather than NES.  NES has been notoriously corrupt in the
>past, and while it seems they're not planning on lying about the
>election results again they are planning on providing only partial
>results.  AP will not necessarily be able to cover all polling places,
>but at least what they are going to provide is supposed to be
>complete.
>
>				David Hudson


We'll be using AP for the national and statewide results, but I seem to
recall that AP gets almost all of its data from NES, of which it is either
part-owner or has some sort of contract with. I know this issue came up
the last time we did this, with the Umina vote.  AP says it *will* provide
third-, fourth-, etc. party data, but that it probably won't do that until
fairly late in the evening, so don't count on seeing any early
Marrou/Fulani results (AP's been sending out a lot of pre-election
bulletins, though, so if I see any changes to the above, I'll post them).

-- 
Adam Gaffin
Middlesex News, Framingham, Mass.
adamg@world.std.com
Voice: (508) 626-3968. Fred the Middlesex News Computer: (508) 872-8461.
Newsgroups: ne.politics