HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: wex@cs.ulowell.edu (Paul M. Wexelblat)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: recommendation - movers
Date: 5 Nov 92 16:01:27 GMT
Reply-To: wex@cs.ulowell.edu
Distribution: ne
Organization: Univ. of Lowell CS Dept.
Originator: wex@bigmax.ulowell.edu


In article <100664@bu.edu>, 564HEISER@BUMETA.BU.EDU (HEISER) writes:
|> From: 564HEISER@BUMETA.BU.EDU (HEISER)
|> Subject: Re: recommendation needed: moving companies
|> Date: 5 Nov 92 00:47:41 GMT
|> 
|> > In article <3184@ceylon.gte.com> USERID@bunny.gte.com (PERSONAL NAME) writes:
|> > 
|> >    Can anyone recommend a reliable (and reasonable) moving company in the 
|> >    128/495 Boston area, specializing in moving pianos...
|> >    Thanks.
|> 
|> 
|> On a similar topic ...  Does anyone know what the going rate is for a local
|> move .. of, say, a 2-bedroom condo or apartment, from, say, a town in 
|> metro-west to either another town in metro west (or the same town) or a
|> town in metro Boston?    Anyone know of a reputable mover (for furniture,
|> not pianos :-)


Comments on both queries

"local move" is a defined term that specifies a maximum distance
(10 miles?) such that rates are not restricted by ICC rules.
Rates for local hauls may range widely, since they are not regulated,
whilst other rates are "standardized".  Check to see if the distance you
are looking for is within the minimum distance -- some companies seem
to measure milage differently than others (not supposed to), but still call
local co's for that.

I have used Palmer in Concord for moving my 6.5' "parlor" grand four
times with no problems at all.   I have also used them for general
moving, and for some short and long-term storage; quite happy to
recommend them.

I have also been happy with PE Burke (Waltham) but have not used them
for about 20 years.  For long distance, my recollection of past
discussions here (some time ago on this too)
indicates that there has been the least upset
with Mayflower (settlement/customer service is good) no personal
experience.

I have no connection with any of the above other than being a satisfied
customer of Palmer.
-- 

	...Wex
From: gunther@world.std.com (Gunther W Anderson)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: F Line?  Mysterious Green Line Fork
Date: 9 Nov 92 16:26:48 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA

At the Boylston station on the Green Line, there is a pair of tunnels
which branch easterly (since the system is running N/S, and these
tunnels seem to fork off at right angles).  They have no tracks, but
there are (I think) overhead wires, or at least the hangers for them.
As you face south, the branch forks right, then turns left under the
main tracks.  As you face North, the branch merges from the right.

Actually, as I think about it, the south-facing branch must have tracks, since
I have on occasion seen trains (usually the wire-repair train or the
emergency train, now parked on the middle track just outside of the station)
parked there.  But the north-facing sbranch has only a gravel track bed.

What's the story on these?  Some vestige of days gone by, or an abandoned
line which never made it past planning?  Or some arcane gateway to another
dimension, perhaps all the way to the mythical New York Subway?

Inquiring minds have nothing better to do.

						Gunther
From: jfjr@mbunix.mitre.org (Freedman)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Volunteering for Thanksgiving
Date: 13 Nov 92 13:53:27 GMT
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA


  My wife and I have been thinking about doing volunteer work for
Thanksgiving instead of stuffing ourselves. Does anyone have any idea
who to contact in the area (we live in Lynnfield)

                                Jerry Freedman,Jr
From: roberta@sequoia.WPI.EDU (Roberta Baker)
Newsgroups: wpi.cs,ne.seminars
Subject: WPI Computer Science Colloquium 11/13
Date: 11 Nov 92 16:55:07 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: sequoia.wpi.edu


When I posted this announcement last week, I forgot to add that Dr.
Virginia Ogozalek is from Worcester State College.


WPI Computer Science Colloquium
Friday, November 13, 1992
11:00 a.m.
Fuller Labs 320

	   COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY AND THE GRAYING OF AMERICA:
		     A HUMAN FACTORS PERSPECTIVE
				   
			Dr. Virginia Ogozalek
		    Professor of Computer Science
                       Worcester State College
				   
An overview of current research on computer use by the elderly will be
presented, with a focus on the "Elder Connection," a human factors
research program at Worcester State College.  Studies have involved
innovative user interfaces including touchscreens, speech recognition,
and multimedia systems.  "The Future Has Arrived," a videotape about
the program, will be shown.

*** For directions to WPI, send email to roberta@cs.wpi.edu ***
From: dfk@wildcat.dartmouth.edu (David Kotz)
Newsgroups: ne.seminars
Subject: Dartmouth CS, Nov. 11: Philip Klein (Brown University)
Summary: Approximation Schemes for Shortest Paths in Planar Networks
Keywords: shortest paths, Dartmouth, Philip Klein, planar networks
Date: 6 Nov 92 14:30:06 GMT
Followup-To: dfk@cs.dartmouth.edu
Distribution: ne
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Originator: dfk@wildcat.dartmouth.edu


                           Dartmouth College
                       Computer Science Colloqium

                             Philip Klein
                           Brown University 

	   Parallel and Dynamic Approximation Schemes for Shortest Paths
                           in Planar Networks

                           Wednesday, 4:00 PM
                           102 Bradley Hall

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



						 ABSTRACT

Single-source shortest paths is a notoriously difficult problem to
parallelize efficiently.  We give the first efficient parallel
approximation scheme for shortest paths in planar networks.  Our
techniques also yield methods for maintaining approximate shortest
paths and Steiner trees in planar networks under dynamic edge-deletion
and addition.

	   		 	    		  		Joint work with S. Sairam.

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: mjc@fusion.genrad.com (Michele J. Chabot)
Newsgroups: ne.seminars
Subject: ACM Greater Boston SICPLAN November Meeting
Date: 10 Nov 92 23:52:31 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: GenRad, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: fusion.genrad.com


	   ACM Greater Boston Chapter SICPLAN

		Thursday, November 12, 1992
			8 P.M.

		Intermetrics Atrium
		733 Concord Ave., Cambridge


    A Talk on Functional Programming by Jules Gilbert


Jules  Gilbert  owns SymbTech, a small software  R&D  firm.   Mr. 
Gilbert has been a self-employed programmer and software research 
related  entrepreneur  doing business in the  Boston  area  since 
1972.  
       
This discussion introduces functional programming.
Functional  programming technology is based on the lambda  calcu-
lus,  an important programming primitive not available with  con-
ventional programming languages in popular use today.

Application areas for functionally-based programs should be quite 
numerous.  This talk relates primarily to deriving and manipulat-
ing source materials written in the C programming language.  

A specific SymbTech product which provides functional programming 
resources  with respect to C will be discussed.  This product  is 
known  as  the C/Apprentice and provides two  types  of  software 
engineering resources:

A)   Deriving  new  source.  Constructing  source  requires  the 
     existence of a formal model of the target programming language, 
     and  a  semantic methods model.  Examples of methods  based  on 
     parameterized data typing will be discussed.

B)   Maintaining  existing source.  Making changes  to  existing 
     source  also  involves the aforementioned (A)  components,  and 
     additionally, a simple tool for converting existing C source to 
     a suitable format for subsequent functional manipulation.  

(Discussion  will focus primarily on deriving new source  from  a 
 high level conceptual model of the intended program,  and not  on
 maintenance).

ACM Greater Boston Chapter SIGPLAN

Dear Colleage,

Jules Gilbert will give us a presentation of some new ways
of using functional programming approaches to compiler and application
development as our November talk.  This will give us an opportunity to
hear about some new commercial applications of functional programming
as well as to participate in a lively discussion and give some feedback
to a commercial developer.
 
We will be meeting for dinner at Joyce Chen's restaurant, 390 Rindge
Ave., Cambridge at 6:00 p.m. before the meeting.  If you wish to come,
please call "Sigplan dinner" at Intermetrics (661-1840) as early as
possible so we can make the appropriate dinner reservation.

Peter Mager
Chairperson, Greater Boston SIGPLAN

Peter Mager		| wyserd!psm@bu.edu  | 617-890-2084
28 Wimbledon Circle	| psm@bu.edu
Waltham, MA 02154	| ...bu!wyserd!psm
From: rlarowe@chpc.org (Rick LaRowe)
Newsgroups: ne.seminars,wpi.wpi.cs,wpi.ccc,wpi.edu
Subject: POSTPONED: Dan Reed at CHPC
Date: 11 Nov 92 22:28:18 GMT
Organization: Center For High Perf. Computing of WPI; Marlboro Ma

Sorry for the late notice, but weather conditions in Illinois
prevented Dan Reed from flying out today, thus forcing us to 
postpone the colloquim ("Performance Environments for Scalable
Parallel Systems") scheduled for tomorrow (Thursday, 11/12).  

It will be rescheduled for a later date.

Sorry for any inconvenience ....

Rick LaRowe
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From: dfk@wildcat.dartmouth.edu (David Kotz)
Newsgroups: ne.seminars
Subject: Dartmouth CS: Steven Reiss, Program Visualization
Summary: 11/18 4pm Dartmouth College
Keywords: dartmouth, colloquium, Reiss, program visualization
Date: 11 Nov 92 14:33:28 GMT
Followup-To: dfk@cs.dartmouth.edu
Distribution: ne
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Originator: dfk@wildcat.dartmouth.edu


                          Dartmouth College
                      Computer Science Colloqium

                             Steven Reiss
                           Brown University

                 Program Visualization: Where We Go From Here

                      Wednesday, Nov. 18, 4:00 PM
                           102 Bradley Hall

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



						 ABSTRACT

          Modern technology allows us to view our programs through the
visual representation that we normally use to describe and understand
them.  Our experience with program visualization started with multiple
views in the program development system Pecan and with algorithm
animation in Balsa and later Tango.  It continued with the programming
system Garden and has culminated with the Field programming
environment.  Building on these efforts, we are currently developing a
new visualization system that will take advantage of today's
technology to provide a flexible interface to a variety of program
visualizations.  The system will allow the programmer to define
visualizations as abstractions using queries over an object-oriented
database of information about the program.  These abstractions can
then be visualized and browsed using easily defined type-based
mappings and a generic filtering mechanism.

This talk will review our previous work, outline our current research
plans, and illustrate the status of this research.

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



-- 
-----------------
Mathematics and Computer Science
Dartmouth College, 6188 Bradley Hall, Hanover NH 03755-3551
email: David.Kotz@Dartmouth.edu    or   dfk@cs.dartmouth.edu
From: jcipolla@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (John Cipolla)
Newsgroups: ne.seminars
Subject: Aerosol Seminar
Date: 4 Nov 92 22:22:30 GMT
Distribution: ne.seminars
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA


	Mecahnical Engineering Research Colloquium Series
		Friday, November 6, 1992
		3:00 pm
		109 Robinson Hall
		Northeastern University

	Dynamics of Small Spherical Particles

		S. K. Loyalka
		University of Missouri-Columbia

	The dynamics of small particles (0.001 to 10 micron diameter) in
gaseous environments is of interest in atmospheric sciences, air
pollution control, nuclear reactor safety, astrophysics and materials
manufacturing. We will discuss some recent progress in the theoretical
description (computation) of the drag and thermophoresis on small
spherical particles, and compare the former, for example, with the
experimental data of Millikan.
Newsgroups: ne.seminars
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 11:03:15 -0500
From: tjc (Tina Jo Cantor)
Subject: seminar announcement
Newsgroups: ne.seminars,wpi,wpi.ccc,wpi.ee,wpi.cs
From: roberta@sequoia.WPI.EDU (Roberta Baker)
Newsgroups: wpi.cs,ne.seminars
Subject: WPI CS Colloquium 11/13
Date: 5 Nov 92 21:05:27 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: sequoia.wpi.edu



WPI Computer Science Colloquium
Friday, November 13, 1992
11:00 a.m.
Fuller Labs 320


	   COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY AND THE GRAYING OF AMERICA:
		     A HUMAN FACTORS PERSPECTIVE
				   
			Dr. Virginia Ogozalek
		    Professor of Computer Science
				   
An overview of current research on computer use by the elderly will be
presented, with a focus on the "Elder Connection," a human factors
research program at Worcester State College.  Studies have involved
innovative user interfaces including touchscreens, speech recognition,
and multimedia systems.  "The Future Has Arrived," a videotape about
the program, will be shown.


*** For directions to WPI, send email to roberta@cs.wpi.edu ***




































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































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: harsha@ksr.com (Paul Harsha)
Newsgroups: ne.politics
Subject: Re: What happened to non-Big Three votes?
Date: 11 Nov 92 11:41:31 EST

boba@miki.pictel.com (Bob Alexander) writes:

>I disagree.  Libertarians are more vocal on Usenet than in the general
>population.  As a result, I know many Usenet lurkers who have become
>libertarian.  If we had similar exposure nationwide, I believe (but
>obviously can't prove) that we would get several million votes for
>President.

	On the other hand you have people like me who have gone from thinking that
libertarianism is a interesting, if somewhat overly idealistic and dogmatic,
political persuasion to thinking that it is a misguided, overly idealistic,
and extremely dogmatic policial persuausion.  The more I learn about
libertarianism, the less I like it. 

-Paul
--
   Paul Harsha (harsha@ksr.com)               Kendall Square Research Corp.
From: borden@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Dave Borden)
Newsgroups: ne.politics
Subject: Re: Venting on voter registoration (was Re: Worth noting)
Date: 6 Nov 92 20:56:27 GMT
Reply-To: borden@m5.harvard.edu
Distribution: ne
Organization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA,  USA

In article <7920@transfer.stratus.com> jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com writes:
>In article <1992Nov04.233707.4875@kronos.com> richb@kronos.com (Rich  
>Braun) writes:
>> I suggested:
>> >>Why not register people at birth or at the time they receive  
>citizenship?
>> >>It'd cut down on all the voter-registration bureaucracy and silly  
>overhead
>> >>in our system.
>> 
>> lmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com writes:
>> >The answer is simple---voter fraud.  You need verification of
>> >residency.  How many states have you lived in since you were
>> >born?  Towns?  Precincts?  Since I was born in Burlington
>> >Vermont, what's to stop me from voting up there today...
>> 
>> To flesh out my proposal:
>> 
>> 	1)  Maintain a central, online database in Washington with a
>> 	    unique voter ID for every citizen.
>
>Aargh. This seems to be a cure that is far worse than the 
>disease.  I'd rather not have the government have to maintain
>such a database. Even aside from privacy issues, the bureaucracy
>needed to maintain such a database would be immense.

There's already an immense bureaucracy maintaining the information - it just
doesn't look so big because it's divided up into thousands upon thousands of
municipalities.  But the total cost of the current system to society is
probably much greater than a modern, centralized database would be.  We
already have at least one such database - the IRS.  Why not consolidate the
two?  The additional cost of adding voter registration information to the
IRS database would probably only be marginally greater than it is now, and
a huge amount of local bureacracy would be eliminated.

   - Dave Borden
     borden@m5.harvard.edu
From: cher@ksr.com (Mike Cherepov)
Newsgroups: ne.politics
Subject: Re: State Socialism
Keywords: economics, basics, zero-sum myths
Date: 8 Nov 92 21:53:39 EST
Followup-To: ne.politics
Organization: Kendall Square Research Corp.

From the righteous keyboard of Barry Shein comes the following:

>(* "State Socialism" is an invective that was often used among
>communists against the Soviet Union. It is a degenerate form of
>socialism where wealth is taken in massive quantites from the average
>person in order to enrich the insiders and powerful. Basically,
>socialism on behalf of the state rather than its citizens.)

The problem with Soviet socialism was not the *transfer* of wealth,
but the lack of its *creation*, due to the impossible command economy
system.  Note that Soviet economic growth was expressed as that of
the Net Material Product, which means that the economy was even
worse off than Brezhnev's sluggish statistics suggested.  The
NMP emphasized the "goods" produced, whether consumable or not.

Your fixation on wealth transfer also blinds you to the lessons of
the Reagan boom.  Incidentally, I believe that the deficit has been
shrinking as percentage of GNP during the Reagan years (Bush is
another matter).  As for Reagan being a socialist: his government's
budget as percentage of the GNP is something like a half of the
percentage disposed by the Swedish Socialists (60+%).  They would
not call him a Socialist in Sweden.  Nor should they in Brookline.

	Mike Cherepov
	  yours for correct nomenclature and against zero-sum myths
Newsgroups: ne.politics
From: pdsmith.mitre.org (Pat Smith)
Subject: Nashua NH residents - read this
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:03:06 GMT

Fellow Nashua-ions, it appears our Mayor - Bob Wagner is rather fiscally
irresponsible and a bit of a lier.  There is a major movement toward 
informing Mayor Wagner that his irresponsibility will not be tolerated.  
Your property taxes did not go up 6.8% as he claims, it is more like 13.2%
or 16.75% if you factor in the reval.  He also refuses to cut any of the 
budget and unless we unite and inform him that this is not acceptable, it
will continue.  He said he was not going to give salary increases to city
employees, yet 2 weeks ago he gave his assistants in his office a 7.5% raise.
These individual may be deserving but so are a lot of other folks and who 
in this economy is getting 7.5% raises.  Many city employees get cars as
part of their job including the city janitor.  Do you and I get cars as job
perks?  The school district retains and employee who has the title "attendance
clerk" for $38,000.  This person may be a swell person but these kids don't 
need an attendance clerk and we sure as hell don't need to pay someone $38,000
for this.  The school district also has over $700,000 in the budget for
psychraists.  It is a federal mandate that such be provided to the kids, but
we do not need 10 psychriastics on staff at $72,000 each.  Why cannot one or
two be on call and float from school to school.  The teachers also do not
pay ANY of their health insurance premium.  Any folks out there in the real
world get totally free health care anymore?  I pay 30% of my premium.  
I can go on and on but my point is that we are intent on making Mayor Wagner
explain the budget and cut this fluff that we don't need, don't want, and
certainly cannot pay for anymore.  Folks cannot pay for these outragious
property taxes and property values will plunge more cause who will buy
a house in Nashua without such high taxes?  There is a city ordinance which
if enough signatures are gathered (approx 4,000 is needed), we can recall 
the mayor.  The alderman would have to hold another election within I think
60 days.  We would like Wagner ousted but the real intent of this is to
make him answer the taxpayers and spend within a reasonable budget.  The Nashua
Taxpayers association does not support our approach but what they are doing
will take years and maybe get results.  Recalling the mayor will get 
immediated resuts!  Join in and become educated as to how Mayor Wagner is
picking your pocket and do something to stop him!  Look for the recall 
petition and sign it in order to make Mayor Wagner become fiscally responsible
or be replaced by someone who is and cares about Nashua and is qualified
to manage the city.  Wagner has been is Nashua 3 years and doesn't care.  He
was a book salesman and knows nothing about managing money.