HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: joe@mivax.mc.duke.edu (Joe Hales)
Newsgroups: triangle.general
Subject: pest control
Date: 16 Oct 92 13:26:00 GMT
Organization: Duke University Medical Center
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

First, as a resident of Durham of less than one year, may I express my
appreciation to all who post to this group.  I have almost a notebook full of
helpful hints on several topics, incl. home buying, Honda sales and repair and
hardwood floor care.  I'm not sure why, but it is comforting to be able to say
"I heard it from someone" even if I have no idea who it is.

We had a pest inspection/estimate yesterday from Orkin.  They found a fair
amount (not surprising since we live next to a small forest).  I'd like to know

1) if people who use Orkin are pleased with their service.
2) if Orkin is competitvely priced (the estimate was for about $150 first time,
and $30/ month).
3) what are other options in the Durham area.
4) if anyone is successfully doing pest control by themselves and some
recommendations on how to do so and what the cost is.

BTW, does anyone know the best way to get rid of an adolescent copperhead found
living under our downspout?

Joe Hales
Medical Informatics
Duke University Medical Center
Newsgroups: triangle.gardens
From: london@calypso.uucp (Larry London)
Subject: Community Supported Agriculture
Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 19:37:32 GMT

From FARWELL@macc.wisc.edu Fri Oct  9 15:31:49 1992
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 92 09:20 CDT
From: Gretchen Farwell <FARWELL@macc.wisc.edu>
Subject: Inquiry
To: SANET-MG@oes.orst.edu

My name is Gretchen Farwell.  I am a librarian at Steenbock Memorial Library on
the University of Wisconsin - Madison campus.  We are the state resource
library for agriculture and the life sciences.
 
A current hot topic here is community supported agriculture.  Do any of you
know where I can find published material on this phenomenon?  I currently have
a pamphlet published by the Bio-Dynmanic Farming and Gardening Association
entitled "Community Related Agriculture."  I found only two references in
Agricola to this concept.  One of them is an article entitled "Vegetables for
All" from the September 1987 issue of "Organic Gardening".  I also have a
photocopy of an aticle entitled "Share the Land" from the May 15, 1991,
"Washington Post"; another photocopy of an article entitled "Fresh Hope for
the Small Farmer" (June 1989 from an unknown source).  Steenbock has also
purchased the book, "Farms of Tomorrow", by Trauger Groh and S. McFadden from
the Bio-Dynamic Farming and Gardening Association.
 
I would be grateful to receive any other sources of information about this
concept known as CSA, coummunity-supported agriculture, subscription farming,
or community farms.
 
I am also interested in finding published information on the concept of local
or indigenous knowledge as applied in "developed" (First and Second World)
countries.  There is a prodigious amount of information concerning Third World
applications of this idea.
 
Thank-you.
 
 
Gretchen Farwell
Steenbock Memorial Library
550 Babcock Drive
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 263-7574
 
E-Mail address: farwell@macc.wisc.edu
 
Newsgroups: triangle.gardens
From: seth@mivax.mc.duke.edu (HM/HS)
Newsgroups: triangle.politics
Subject: Live Free or Die
Keywords: New Hampshire
Date: 16 Oct 92 14:00:00 GMT
Organization: Duke University Medical Center
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Ya gotta love a state with a motto like that.  No wonder they are first in the
primary circus.

"Too be good, people must be FREE to CHOOSE to be good."

Big Brother is watching.  VOTE LIBERTARIAN.  
Newsgroups: triangle.politics
From: black@akebono.math.ncsu.edu (Kelly Black)
Subject: Political Groups in the Area
Organization: College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 17:41:54 GMT


I just noticed this group and can't find any articles.
I am new to the area and have some questions (lots act-
ually) about the local political groups.  Are there 
any local groups that are active in this years elections?
What sorts of organizations are active?

Thanks,
Kel

-- 
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Box 8205 / NC State Univ. / Raleigh NC 27695-8205
e-mail: black@crsc1.math.ncsu.edu
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The secluded mermaids hate European goods, which have increased male 
power. The tabooed 'male' animal, the dog (used in the chase), is an 
added danger because it can see the spirit world. Dogs walk purpose-
fully on their own, although they have nowhere to go, and they freq-
uently stare attentively into space.  - Unknown
Newsgroups: triangle.libsci
From: llw@med.unc.edu (Laurie Weakley)
Subject: LAUNC-CH Conference Announcement
Originator: llw@pelham
Organization: UNC-CH School of Medicine
Distribution: triangle
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 20:08:35 GMT


                   LAUNC-CH Annual Conference
                         March 15, 1993
             Friday Center for Continuing Education
                      9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

     The Librarians' Association at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill (LAUNC-CH) announces its Annual Conference,
to be held March 15, 1993 at the Friday Center for Continuing
Education in Chapel Hill.  The title of the conference will be:
"Total Quality Communication:  Can We Talk?"  Participants will
hear a variety of dynamic speakers address issues of communication
in management, communication through electronic technology, and
communication in the multicultural environment.  After registration
from 8:00 - 8:45 a.m., the program will begin with a keynote
address from Catherine Holderness of Salem College.  Workshops and
discussion sessions will follow, and the conference will end at
4:30 p.m.  Registration costs will be $25.00 for LAUNC-CH members,
$35.00 for non-members, $20.00 for students and retirees.  For
further information, contact Lula Avent, chair of the Conference
Committee, 962-1172.




Newsgroups: triangle.freenet
From: Bill.Hutchins@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bill Hutchins)
Subject: Next meeting of Triangle Freenet organizing committee
Keywords: freenet
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Distribution: triangle
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 05:48:27 GMT

The next monthly meeting of the Triangle Free-Net organizing committee
(the whole group, plus anyone interested in joining or learning about
Free-Nets) will be held at 5:30 PM on October 20th (Tuesday) at Duke
library. Watch this space for exact building and room number. Please, all
come..Each committee should be prepared to give a report, and have a
designated representative as a member of the new executive committee. If
possible, these representatives should be chairmen of the respective
committees.
	Watch this newsgroup for exact meeting location.



--
   The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
     North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
        Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
           internet:  bbs.oit.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80
Newsgroups: triangle.freenet
From: hallman@gibbs.oit.unc.edu (Judy Hallman)
Subject: Report on public access and electronic information
Originator: hallman@gibbs.oit.unc.edu
Organization: University of North Carolina
Distribution: triangle
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 16:25:13 GMT

To support and rtpfreenet lists:

In case you have not already seen the following article in the OIT
Newsbrief, Vol. 1, No. 21, October 12, 1992:
   Judy Hallman
-----------------------

North Carolina Technological Information Study Available In Info

In October 1991, the North Carolina Information Technology Commission
requested Governor Martin appoint a task force to study public access
issues associated with sharing of electronic information. Governor Martin
appointed Dr. Earl Mac Cormac to conduct the study and prepare a report
and recommendations. The report prepared by Dr. Mac Cormac with the
assistance of M. Jane Bolin is available in the UNC-CH campus-wide
information system, Info. From Info's main menu, select item #7,
"Publications;" then item #3, "Other publications; " and then item #3.

Topics covered in the report include "Personal Freedom Versus Freedom to
Access," "Costs of Access to Public Information," "Commercial Requests for
Information," "Drafts and Working Papers," and "Archives." The report is
presented via a two-screen menu. The appendices were copied from
hardcopies and are not included in Info; however, two letters presenting
comments and observations of the North Carolina Press Association are
included.

Judy Hallman (Judy_Hallman@unc.edu)
Office of Information Technology





Newsgroups: triangle.freenet
From: howell@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (William Howell)
Newsgroups: triangle.jobs,jobs
Subject: Computer Positions in RTP Area with ComputerLand
Date: 9 Oct 92 17:34:37 GMT
Followup-To: triangle.jobs


ComputerLand is currently interviewing and seeking highly 
skilled, talented individuals with superior problem solving 
capabilities and excellent customer service.  Current job 
openings include:

Software Support Specialists
    BS/BA strongly preferred
    2+ years PC support preferred
    Adept in DOS 5.0, Windows, MS Word, MS Excel
    Experience in Lotus 123, DW4
    OS/2 highly desirable

Senior Workstation Technicians
    GUI upgrade installs
    Master DOS 5.0, Windows 3.0/3.1

Systems Engineers
    BS/BA, Computer Science or related degree
    3+ years technical support in PC environment
    Windows 3.1; DOS 5.0; Microsoft suite of products
    OS/2 1.3/2.0, Mac System 7

Mail or FAX resumes to:
  Corporate Recruiter
  ComputerLand
  P.O. Box 14033
  Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
  FAX# 919-460-5273


Newsgroups: triangle.talks
From: losee@ils.unc.edu (Bob Losee)
Subject: Fuzzy Logic and Information Retrieval
Keywords: Extended Fuzzy Linguistic Approach to Generalize Boolean Information Retrieval
Organization: UNC Office of Information Technology
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 18:40:13 GMT


          An Extended Fuzzy Linguistic Approach to
          Generalize Boolean Information Retrieval


                      Donald H, Kraft
           Department of Computer Science (Chairman)
                 Louisiana State University
                Baton Rouge, LA  70803-4020
                            USA
                   (504) 388-1495  Voice
                    (504) 388-1465  Fax
                   kraft@bit.csc.lsu.edu

                ** Wednesday, Oct 14, 1992  4 PM **
                   ** Manning Hall, Room 117 **


Abstract


     The generalization  of  Boolean  information  retrieval
systems (IRS) is still of interest to scholars.  In spite of
the fact  that  commercial  systems  use  Boolean  retrieval
mechanisms, such systems still have some limitations. One of
the main problems is that such systems lack the  ability  to
deal  well  with  imprecision  and  subjectivity.   Previous
efforts have led to the introduction of numeric  weights  to
improve  both  document  representations  (term weights) and
query  languages  (query  weights).   However,  the  use  of
weights  requires  a clear knowledge of the semantics of the
query in order to translate a fuzzy concept into  a  precise
numeric  value.   Moreover,  it  is  difficult  to model the
matching of queries to documents in a way that will preserve
the semantics of user queries.

     A linguistic extension  has  been  generated,  starting
from  an  existing Boolean weighted retrieval model and for-
malized within fuzzy set  theory,  in  which  numeric  query
weights are replaced by linguistic descriptors which specify
the degree of importance of the terms.

     In the past, query weights were seen as measures of the
importance  of  a specific term in representing the query or
as a threshold to aid in matching a specific document to the
query.   The  linguistic extension was originally modeled to
view the query weights as a description of the  ideal  docu-
ment,  so  that deviations would be rejected whether a given
document had term weights that were too  high  or  too  low.
This  paper  looks  at  an extension to the linguistic model
that is not symmetric in that documents with a  term  weight
below  the  query  weight are treated differently than docu-
ments with a term weight above the query weight.
From: coury@duke.edu (L.A.Coury)
Newsgroups: triangle.talks
Subject: Duke Dept. of Chemistry Seminar Pgm.
Summary: Fall 1992 Program
Keywords: Chemistry, Materials, Biochemistry, Synthesis, Analysis
Date: 15 Oct 92 13:23:54 GMT
Distribution: triangle
Organization: Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC 27706

Seminar Schedule for Fall 1992
Duke University Department of Chemistry

All seminars are open to the public and begin at 3:30 p.m.
unless otherwise noted.  Seminars are preceded by a 20 min.
refreshment period in the lobby; all are welcome.  Free parking
is available behind the Chemistry bldg.  For more information,
call Dr. Lou Coury, Seminar Committee Chair, (919) 660-1547.


9/11  Dr. Carol Fierke, Duke Univ. Dept. of Biochemistry
      "Carbonic Anhydrase:  Catalysis and Inhibition"

9/18  Dr. Robert Armstrong, UCLA
      "DNA Binding Properties and Synthesis of Antitumor Drugs"

9/25  Drs. Noel Harvey and Philip Rose, Rohm and Haas Co.
      "Industrial Interviewing Techniques"; (** 2 p.m.**)

9/25  Dr. Scott Denmark, Univ. of Illinois
      "Learning About Structure, Reactivity and Stereochemistry
       Through Synthetic Methodology"

10/2  Dr. Jeremy Carver, Univ. of Toronto, Dept. of Biochemistry
      "Oligosaccharides:  How Can Flexible Molecules Act as
       Signals?"

10/8  Dr. Marius Clore, NIH Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK
      "Protein Structures by NMR"
      (co-sponsored by the Duke NMR Center)

10/9  Dr. David Williams, Indiana University
      "Synthesis of Dolabellanes:  a Novel Entry to Tricyclic Terpenes"

10/16 Dr. Richard Jones, Univ. of Texas-Austin
      "New Organometallic Precursors to Electronic Materials"

10/21 Dr. Myron Goodman, Univ. of Southern California
      "Biochemical and Kinetic Basis of DNA Synthesis Fidelity"
     
10/23 Dr. John Reardon, Burroughs-Wellcome
      "Human Immunodeficiency Virus Reverse Transcriptase:  A Pre-
       Steady-State Kinetic Analysis"

10/30 Dr. Myung-Hwan Whangbo, North Carolina State Univ.
      "Surprises in the Interpretation of STM Images"

11/6  Dr. Paul Gemperline, East Carolina Univ.
      "Principal Component Analysis of 3-Way Data Arrays and its
       Application in the Analysis of Blue Crab Shell Disease"

11/13 Dr. Paul Miller, Johns Hopkins Univ.
      "Antisense and Anticode Oligonucleotide Analogs:  Interaction
       with RNA and DNA Targets"

11/20 Dr. Slayton Evans, Jr., UNC-Chapel Hill
      "New Synthetic Methodologies Employing Organophosphorus Chemistry"

12/4  Dr. Dennis Salahub, Univ. of Montreal
      "Quantum Molecular Modeling with Density Functional Theory"

________________________________________________________________________
Program sponsored by Burroughs-Wellcome, Rhone-Poulenc, Anaquest/BOC
                 and American Cyanamid Corporations.
From: marshall@marshall.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan A. Marshall)
Newsgroups: triangle.talks
Subject: Duke Neuroscience talk: Douglas
Date: 7 Oct 92 18:24:12 GMT
Followup-To: triangle.talks
Distribution: nc


		   Duke University Neuroscience Seminar
				     
			   Dr. RODNEY J. DOUGLAS
	    MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology, Oxford University
				     
		    "SINGLE CELLS TO SILICON CIRCUITS"
				     
			 Monday, October 19, 1992
       12:30 p.m., Bryan Neuroscience Building Auditorium (rm. 103)
				     
Rodney Douglas is the person driving the silicon neuron chip written up in
Nature and highlighted by Terry Sejnowski and Pat Churchland in the October
issue of Byte.  He is a very broad ranging scientist -- experiments on
cortical neurons, computer simulations, and now silicon neuron models. He
is an excellent speaker and an engaging person.
				   
       Contact: John Moore (Duke, 919-684-5748, jwm@neuro.duke.edu)
From: marshall@marshall.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan A. Marshall)
Newsgroups: triangle.talks
Subject: EPA Neurotoxicology seminar: Geller
Date: 14 Oct 92 18:15:08 GMT
Followup-To: triangle.talks
Distribution: nc


                 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
                   Neurotoxicology Division seminar

                          Dr. ANDREW GELLER
          Center for Environmental Medicine and Lung Biology
             University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    "FOVEAL CONE LOSS AND FUNCTION IN HUMAN RETINAL DEGENERATION"

                12:00 noon, Thursday, October 15, 1992
            Room P-303, Health Effects Research Laboratory
                      Research Triangle Park, NC

             Contact: James P. O'Callaghan, 919-541-7779
From: boggs@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Donna Boggs)
Newsgroups: triangle.talks
Subject: UNC:  CS Department Colloquium
Date: 14 Oct 92 20:08:41 GMT


                    THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
                                   AT
                              CHAPEL HILL

                      COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT

                      TWO TALKS ON IMAGE ANALYSIS


                        DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM

                     ALAN COLCHESTER, M.D., Ph.D.
                 Guys Hospital, University of London

A Unified Approach to the Segmentation of Grey-Level and Dot-Pattern Images

                       Monday, October 19, 1992
                    Rm. 011 Sitterson Hall at 3:30



Informal Talk:   GABOR SZEKELY, Ph.D.
                 Communications Techology Laboratory
                 ETH, Zurich, Switzerland

Title:  The Structure of the 3D Voronoi Diagram
        Used in Finding a Medial Surface of a 3D Object

Where:  Monday, October 19, 1992 at Image Lunch at 12:00
        Conference Area 284, Sitterson Hall

Abstract:  The Medial Axis Transformation was defined by Blum as a
continuous concept. Its implementation on a discrete raster suffers under
the requirement of agreeing with both a Euclide angeometry and a topology
based on a regular metric. One elegant way to resolve this contradiction
is using the Voronoi diagram of the boundary points as a superset of the
skeleton. The microscopic details on the boundary produce a vast amount
of 'noise branches' which should be pruned by appropriate algorithms. The
known pruning algorithms can be showed to be based on a recursive scheme
which relies heavily on the hierarchical branched structure of the 2D
Voronoi skeleton. When generalizing the skeleton generation to 3D, one can
try to solve the pruning problem by the same hierarchical approach. However,
due to the extra degree of freedom, the structure of the Voronoi diagram has
a much higher connectedness, resulting in heavily aggregated structures
instead of treelike branching. The talk will overview our present understanding
about the structure of 2D and 3D Voronoi diagrams and discuss the present
difficulties.

Host:  Dr. Stephen M. Pizer, 2-1768.  Refreshments will be served  at 4:30
From: howell@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (William Howell)
Newsgroups: triangle.talks
Subject: October NC Chapter Help Desk Institute Meeting
Date: 7 Oct 92 18:13:21 GMT

The next monthly meeting of the North Carolina Chapter of
Help Desk Institute (NCCHDI) will be Tuesday, October 20,
1992 at 6:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn, Four Seasons Convention
Center in Greensboro (Intersection of I-40 and Highpoint Road).

        Cost for NCCHDI members is $15.
        Cost for non members is $20.

Please make your check for the meeting to NCCHDI and send
your check to the address below by October 14, 1992:

    NCCHDI
    P.O. Box 14474
    RTP, NC  27709-4474

Please include your name and company affiliation with the
check.

The agenda is:

    6:30-7:15pm  Cash Bar / Heavy Hors D'ouerves
    7:15-7:45pm  Chapter Business Meeting.
    7:45-8:45pm  Bill Jordan, Training Department, Duke Power


NCCHDI Membership Information:

Individual Membership            $ 25.00
Site Membership                  $150.00

Companies and individuals do not have to be members of the
national Help Desk Institute (HDI) to become members of the
local chapter.  For more information on membership, please
contact David Hunt at (919) 992-5511 or Kelly Sherrill at
(704) 382-8735.
From: marshall@marshall.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan A. Marshall)
Newsgroups: triangle.talks
Subject: NCSU Physics talk: Gell-Mann
Date: 9 Oct 92 16:23:49 GMT
Followup-To: triangle.talks
Distribution: nc


                           L. H. Thomas Lecture

                           Dr. MURRAY GELL-MANN
         Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Theoretical Physics
                    California Institute of Technology

                   4:00 p.m., Monday, October 19, 1992

                       Auditorium, 222 Dabney Hall
                 North Carolina State University, Raleigh

          "SIMPLICITY, COMPLEXITY, AND COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS"

What makes one landscape or one work of art more complex than another?
Are there different kinds of complexity?  How is complexity related to
information?  Is the fundamental description of the universe simple?  If
so, why does the world around us appear so complex?  How much of that
apparent complexity is genuine?  What level of complexity is required for
a system to be able to learn or adapt?  Are there general principles that
characterize complex adaptive systems?  The new sciences of complexity
have begun to deal with such questions.

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From: Prof. Marjorie Klenin (919)515-7457 <nwil@ncsumvs.bitnet>
      Physics, Box 8202, NCSU, Raleigh NC 27695-8202
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From: marshall@marshall.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan A. Marshall)
Newsgroups: triangle.talks
Subject: NNBM Lunch 14 Oct 92
Date: 13 Oct 92 16:07:53 GMT
Followup-To: triangle.talks
Distribution: nc

+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|  NNBM (Neural Networks & Brain Modeling) Research Lunch ANNOUNCEMENTS  |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+

o This Wednesday, October 14, Valentin Dragoi will give a presentation on
  the 1992 paper "Neuronal Networks With Spontaneous, Correlated Bursting
  Activity: Theory and Simulations," by Kowalski, Albert, Rhoades, and
  Gross.  The paper proposes a model of spontaneously active biological
  neural networks, each neuron being an excitable dynamical unit of the
  Hodgkin-Huxley type.  Networks of this type exhibit rich dynamics,
  including synchronized chaotic activity.  The simulation results will
  be discussed.

o We meet in Sitterson Hall, conference area 284, at noon on Wednesdays.
  All are invited; bring your lunch.  If you are not on the TANNS e-mail
  list but would like to be (or vice versa), please let me know.

+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|           Jonathan Marshall   962-1887   marshall@cs.unc.edu           |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: triangle.forsale
From: sascbk@gibbs.unx.sas.com (Chuck Kelly)
Subject: Woodstove Insert for sale
Originator: sascbk@gibbs.unx.sas.com
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 13:09:16 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.



After recently "renovating" my fireplace, I have a woodstove insert
for sale.  The unit is rather large and has a variable speed blower.

Asking $325.

If interested, please respond by email to sascbk@unx.sas.com or
call (leave message) at 967-3060.

Chuck Kelly
Newsgroups: triangle.forsale