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From: brahm@cco.caltech.edu (David E. Brahm)
Newsgroups: la.general
Subject: Beachfront U.S.A. Loses Los Angeles Lawsuit
Date: 10 Oct 1992 21:01:13 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu
Summary: 1974 anti-nudity ordinance upheld

Beachfront U.S.A. is a Southern CA "nudist activist organization" whose
primary purpose seems to be funding a lawsuit against the City of Los
Angeles, seeking an injunction against the City's 1974 anti-nudity
ordinance.  That ordinance not only had a direct effect on Venice Beach,
but also was copied by other local governments, incl. Los Angeles County.

From the "Free Beach News" (copied without permission):
   SAN FRANCISCO 14 Sep 92 -- The Ninth Circuit federal appellate court
today handed down its decision...  Declining to hear oral arguments, the
three-justice panel unanimously ruled against Beachfront... stating that
last year's United States Supreme Court decision in an Indiana case (Barnes
v.  Glen Theater) was "fatal" to the BFUSA lawsuit...
   When O'Brien (1968) was applied to the nude dancing girls who were the
target of the state government in Barnes, the U.S. Supreme Court found that
the makers of the Indiana statute banning public nudity did indeed have "a
substantial government interest in protecting order and morality."
Further, the Supreme Court found that the statute was "unrelated to the
suppression of free expression."  The Court specifically rejected the
notion that "restricting nudity on moral grounds [is] necessarily related
to expression."
   [The Ninth Circuit held,] "The [L.A. ordinance] is constitutionally
sound despite its 'incidental limitations' on plaintiffs' rights to free
expression and association."  ...quoting U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice
William Rehnquist: "Public nudity is the evil the state seeks to prevent,
whether or not it is combined with expressive activity."

   As Roxanne's father in _L.A._Law_ said, "This is the sad result of an
overly litigious society.  Naturally, we will appeal."

--
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A loose affiliation of millionaires and    |  (brahm@cco.caltech.edu)
  billionaires and Baby ...                |---- Carpe Post Meridiem! --
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Newsgroups: la.general
From: terry@pride386.PP.COM (Terry Lyons)
Subject: uuasc meeting notice
Organization: Pride Plastics, Inc.
Distribution: la
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 23:25:32 GMT


                              U  U  A  S  C    
                           M  E  E  T  I  N  G
                            N  O  T  I  C  E

TIME:           7pm - 9pm (1900 - 2100)
DATE:           Monday Oct 12, 1992
PLACE:          New Horizons computer learning center
                1231 E. Dyer Rd., Suite 140
                Santa Ana, CA  92705
                (just west of Ca-55, the Costa Mesa freeway).  (See map below.)
                (714) 556-1220  


                                   |
                                   |    Warner
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                                   |
                                   |  55
    ^                              |
   /|\             *  |            |
    |                | _STOP     / |
    N                |      |    | |    Dyer
               --------------------|-------
                  Technology       |    MacArthur
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                                          405      airport->


Hi ... well if the Sun's are willing we will see some graphics demos!
	as in  Island Write Draw and Paint and other goodies! in a 
	hands-on setting.


               Q&A  bring your unix problems ... maybe you have the answer
                    to someones baffeling question!
               local conectivity  ... lets get better conected ... do you 
                                      need a newsfeed? mail not getting 
                                      through? 


there are no fees dues or ???
to be a UUASC member you need only show up at meetings and be interested
in UNIX in all its different flavors (we think Xenix Aix xinu ...is Unix too)

terry
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From: compata@cup.portal.com (David H Close)
Newsgroups: la.general
Subject: LA metro
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 02:28:54 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: ca

Apropos the recent discussion of the LA metro, etc., I offer the following
quotation without further comment.  From the Economist, October 10.

	"Infrastructure priorities have been determined mainly by the
	size of the political pay-off.  The 1991 transport bill is
	larded with over 500 "demonstration" projects.  Such pork will
	cost the taxpayer at least $6.5 billion.  Congress can wield
	such power, and do such mischief, because federal government
	pays for up to nine-tenths of the cost of highways.

	"There is no more wasteful investment, however, that in urban
	public-transport systems.  Again, up to three-quarters of the
	cost is paid by the federal government, which has tempted many
	cities to push for glitzy systems that are used, on average,
	to only a fifth of their capacity.  Federal laws guarantee the
	security of unionized workers; the average bus driver earns
	twice the wage of even a unionized private driver.  As a
	result, according to a Heritage Foundation study by Wendell
	Cox and Jean Love, the operating cost per vehicle-mile in
	public transport systems jumped by a real 67% between 1970
	and 1988."

 Dave Close - Compata - Stockton, California - +1 209 467 8255 ("209-install")
  dave@compata.attmail.com | compata@mcimail.com | dhclose@alumni.caltech.edu
From: Joel.Ehrlich@f139.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: la.general
Subject: Writing job, in L.A., REALLY!
Date: 12 Oct 92 21:11:06 GMT
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992

I know a guy who is looking for one or more writers for his company. Writers
who need a job which won't interfere with their writing work. His company
writes resumes, business plans, newsletters, direct mail and that sort of
stuff using Word Perfect 5.1, Post Script laser printers and the like. For
more information or to arrange for an interview, contact Bill Wing at (213)
651-1701.
 

--- Maximus 2.00
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From: fishkin@usc.edu (Stephanie Fishkin)
Newsgroups: la.general,ca.general
Subject: Outta L.A. Thanks
Date: 16 Oct 1992 17:07:43 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: ca
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu


Thanks to all of you who responded to my plea!

We ended up going to Palm Springs, staying at the Spa Hotel since they
had some deal where the room price included breakfast and use of their
"spa" facilities (fairly relaxing, but not breathtaking).  We also did
the aerial tram thing. It was pricy, but the view at sunset was just
fabulous!  Too bad there's no way to go hiking in that area without 
paying for the tram, since it looks like it could be a nice place for
a day hike.  The whole experience was fast, but we are a little more
relaxed than when we left (though since we are both back at work today
I expect the tension to set in again soon).

Now I have a great big file to access next time we get away!

Thanks again!
Steph at USC


Newsgroups: la.general,ca.general
From: shla@spf.trw.com (Sheila Wallace)
Subject: Re: GET ME OUT OF LOS ANGELES (at least for 2 days!)
Organization: TRW Sensor Data Processing Center, Redondo Beach, CA
Distribution: ca
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 02:06:30 GMT

In article <1b7u4nINNt3u@aludra.usc.edu> fishkin@usc.edu (Stephanie Fishkin) writes:
>We've got two days off together AND in a row for once, so we want to
>take a mini-vacation.  Help us decide!  Here's the rundown:
>	We're leaving from Alhambra (near Pasadena if you don't know where
>this is).  
>	We are willing to drive up to 2 1/2 hrs each way. 

I'll second another poster's suggestion for Santa Barbara/Solvang,
and add that there are some great wineries in the Santa Ynez valley
just north of Santa Barbara.  The Firestone, Parker (run by Fess Parker
and his family), Austin Cellars, Santa Ynez Valley, and Zaca Mesa
wineries are the ones that I've visited for tours and tastings; there
are at least a half dozen more that I haven't visited.  You can get a 
booklet on wineries from the Auto Club of Southern California; it 
has maps, descriptions, and phone numbers.

Sheila
-- 
Sheila Wallace		(shla@spf.trw.com)
TRW, One Space Park, R2/2162, Redondo Beach, CA 90278
Newsgroups: seminars,la.seminars
From: gpham@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Gisele Pham)
Subject: Normative Expert Systems
Keywords: CS201 Seminar
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Distribution: la
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 20:22:23 GMT

DATE Thursday, October 22, 1992
TIME 4:30-6:00 P.M.
PLACE 3400 Boelter Hall
Cookies & Coffee Will Be Served
Starting at 4:00 PM

NORMATIVE EXPERT SYSTEMS 
David Heckerman
Assistant Professor
Computer Science Dept, UCLA 

ABSTRACT 

I will discuss a new generation of expert systems--called
normative expert systems.  These systems, which have been
developed for applications such as automobile repair,
jet-engine troubleshooting, and medical diagnosis, can provide
better decision support than do traditional expert systems in
domains where the accurate management of uncertainty is
important.  

This potential for improvement arises because people, including
experts, make mistakes when they make decisions under
uncertainty.  That is, people often deviate from the rules of
decision theory, which provides a set of rational principles
for how people want to behave when reasoning or making
decisions under uncertainty.  Decision theory includes the
rules of probability and the principle that a person should
always choose the alternative that maximizes his expected
utility.  

Traditional expert systems provide decision support by mimicking
the recommendations of experts.  They do so by managing
uncertainty with heuristic or ad hoc methods.  Such systems are
valuable, because they provide important information to a
nonexpert who is confronted with a confusing decision, and
because they offer reminders to users who may be stressed or
fatigued.   Nonetheless, they tend to duplicate the errors made
by experts.  

In contrast, normative expert systems use decision theory to
manage uncertainty.  The word ``normative'' comes from decision
analysts and cognitive psychologists who emphasize the importance
of distinguishing between normative behavior, which is what
we do when we follow the principles of decision theory, and
descriptive behavior, which is what we do when unaided by
these principles.  By encoding expert knowledge in a
decision-theoretic framework, we can reduce errors in reasoning,
and thereby build expert systems that offer recommendations of
higher quality.

In my talk, I will describe several graphical representations
that facilitate the construction of probabilistic knowledge
bases.  These representations include the belief network,
developed by Judea Pearl at UCLA, and the similarity network and
partition, extensions to the belief-network representation
developed by me.  The representations are mathematically
precise, yet they have a human-oriented qualitative structure
that facilitate communication between the expert and a decision
model.  I will address some of the theoretical aspects of these
representations, and describe how they can be used in practice.
I will also demonstrate a normative expert system for the
diagnosis of lymph-node diseases, called Pathfinder.
From: gauravsu@pollux.usc.edu (Gaurav Sukhatme)
Newsgroups: la.seminars
Subject: Tuesday 10/13 10:00 am. in SAL 324
Date: 8 Oct 92 22:46:14 GMT
Distribution: la
Organization: USC Mail-To-News Gateway

                     CSGO Research Seminar
		     ---------------------	
CSGO, the Computer Science Graduate Organization, 
sponsors seminars to bring together students and 
researchers in the areas of Computer Science and 
Engineering, introducing the students to the 
researchers and providing a chance for the 
researchers to get to know the students.

Some of the talks during the semester will be given 
by senior Ph.D students.

There will be one seminar every week of approximately 
one hour duration followed by a question and answer 
session. 

The seminar is at 10:00 a.m. every Tuesday morning 
in SAL 324.
		  
Next week the seminar will be:
____________________________________________________

A Model of Primate Visual-Motor Conditional Learning
_____________________________________________________

Speaker : Andrew H. Fagg
	  Computer Science Department 
          University of Southern California
____________________________________________

		ABSTRACT
		--------

This talk will present work that I have done with Michael
Arbib on modeling the behavior and neural activity in 
premotor cortex of monkeys learning to pair an arbitrary 
visual stimulus with one of a set of previously-learned 
motor responses.  The network model is comprised of a 
large number of "motor selection columns." Reinforcement 
learning is used to tune the sensitivity of these columns 
so that they learn to recognize relevant visual features 
and produce support for the the appropriate motor 
response.  Although each column is allowed only limited 
information a set of columns are able to work together 
to learn a single visual-motor mapping.  

This model has been successful in reproducing a number of 
key behavioral and neurophysiological observations.  We 
will present a number of predictions for new experimental 
outcomes and will also show how recent data may be used 
to make a number of modifications to the model.

Finally, recent work will be discussed briefly which 
attempts to extend this model in two different directions:
  first, by adding a temporal component to the generation 
of output, and second, by beginning to think about how the 
monkeys might learn how to perform the task in the first 
place.  This work will then be related to learning in 
robots.

_________________________________________________________

			Date : Tuesday 10/13/92
			Time : 10:00 a.m.
			Place: SAL 324
			Host : CSGO
________________________________________________________
From: bates@vishnu.usc.edu (Bill Bates)
Newsgroups: la.seminars
Subject: Understanding Courses of Action
Date: 14 Oct 92 23:52:50 GMT
Distribution: la
Organization: USC Mail-To-News Gateway


                 COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR

               Understanding Courses of Action

                            by

                Prof. Maria Zamfir Bleyberg
       Computing and Information Sciences Department
                 Kansas State University

                          Abstract

We have achieved the capability of building computer-based machines
that are capable of performing useful human tasks. The machines will
become accessible to people who are not computer professionals only if
they support communication in a natural language, such as English.
Computer understanding of an English text is not possible without
considering the knowlegde about how actions are performed in a
particular domain.

In this talk we examine the understanding of an English text that is
placed in a scenario of a chemical laboratory that contains several
robots, each of which can be engaged in the execution of an analytical
procedure. Our approach is based on a conceptual model in which an
analytical procedure is represented as a Petri net. The Petri net can
be viewed as a concurrent plan that encodes the connections implied in
the text. The English text describing an analytical procedure is
processed by incorporating the conceptual model into a marker-passing
model.

	DATE:	FRIDAY, OCT. 23, 1992

	TIME:	10:30 A.M.: SEMINAR

		11:30 A.M.: Q&A

	LOCATION:	SEAVER SCIENCE AUDITORIUM

	HOST:	Prof. Moldovan

		213/ 740-4477
From: larrym@randvax.rand.org (Larry McDonough)
Newsgroups: la.seminars
Subject: LA SIGCHI presentation
Keywords: Groupware, toolkits, GUI, Lotus Notes
Date: 16 Oct 92 16:53:49 GMT
Distribution: la
Organization: RAND Corp., Santa Monica, Ca.




		 GROUPWARE---FROM COeX TO LOTUS NOTES

		  LOS ANGELES CHAPTER OF ACM SIGCHI

       October 20, 1992.  Social at 6:30, presentations at 7pm
	      Main Conference Room, The RAND Corporation
		    1700 Main Street, Santa Monica
	   (near Colorado and Ocean, across from City Hall)


The 70's was the decade of centralized mainframe computing, and the
80's of local personal computing.  The 90's is the decade of networked
interpersonal computing.  Groupware is the technology that will make
it happen.  Groupware can be defined as a computer based system,
supporting two or more users working on a common task, and providing
an interface into a shared environment.  It is predicted to be a $2
billion market by 1995 and have an annual growth rate of 30%.  The
recently completed Groupware'92 conference had a large attendance with
over 30 different groupware vendors.

Groupware covers a wide spectrum of software---from extremely loosely
coupled asynchronous software like electronic mail and databases, to
tightly coupled synchronous software like shared editors.  The
presentations will be on two systems at each end of the groupware
spectrum.  Dorab Patel, of Twin Sun, will discuss the COeX toolkit
for developing synchronous groupware applications; and David Finkel,
of Evernet, will talk about Lotus Notes---the premier groupware
environment.  Both talks will focus on the architecture and
user-interface of the respective systems.  There will be hands-on
demonstrations of both systems after the talks.

Come and join us in learning about this exciting field and its
implications for future computer-human interfaces.  Have all your
questions about the systems answered by experts.  Get first hand
experience using these environments.

RSVPs are required.  Please call Larry McDonough, at (310) 393-0411
x6763, or email him at <larrym@rand.org>.  Park in the Rand parking
lot.  Please avoid parking in the small executive lot closest to the
lobby with the flag.  Snacks and soft drinks will be provided.
Donations of $1 per person are requested to defray costs.
From: hardman@throb.mcws.fidonet.org (Bill Hardman)
Newsgroups: la.test
Subject: test
Summary: ack
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 14:19:56 PDT
Reply-To: hardman@throb.mcws.fidonet.org (Bill Hardman)
Distribution: world
Organization: Bark At The Moon Productions

again
hardman


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                        *A Secret Cult*
If you don't have anything nice to say....Say something Rude!!!!
From: hardman@throb.mcws.fidonet.org (Bill Hardman)
Newsgroups: la.test
Subject: test
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 14:16:19 PDT
Reply-To: hardman@throb.mcws.fidonet.org (Bill Hardman)
Organization: Bark At The Moon Productions

again
hardman


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   hardman = hardman@throb.mcws.fidonet.org [modem (818) 352-6297]
                (Bark At The Moon Productions)
                        *A Secret Cult*
If you don't have anything nice to say....Say something Rude!!!!
Xref: sparky la.test:198 ca.test:502
From: hardman@throb.mcws.fidonet.org (Bill Hardman)
Newsgroups: la.test,ca.test
Subject: test
Summary: Testing bad feeds
Keywords: bad
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 14:13:12 PDT
Reply-To: Am I dead?
Distribution: world
Organization: Bark At The Moon Productions

test,
help me, I don't think I still have a stable connection!

hardman

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                        *A Secret Cult*
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From: rpm@wag.caltech.edu (Richard P. Muller)
Newsgroups: la.eats
Subject: Chinois on Main
Date: 9 Oct 1992 13:21:17 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Distribution: world
Reply-To: rpm@wag.caltech.edu (Richard P. Muller)
NNTP-Posting-Host: bach.wag.caltech.edu
Keywords: Mmmmmmm

	It was a friend's birthday last weekend, and I used the
occasion as an excuse to go to Chinois on Main, where I've long
wanted to eat. I was very impressed overall with the experience.
	The place is actually easy to miss, tucked away on Main
across the street and down the block a bit from World Cafe. We 
were fairly early in the evening, so the place hadn't filled when
we got there, tho' it was full when we left.
	We started with Ahi tuna sashimi tempura, which was
absolutely out of this world. We ordered vegetable fried rice
and barbequed salmon in some sort of basil sauce over noodles 
for the main course. We didn't any desert there because we had
birthday cake waiting for us. Everything was perfectly done; some
of the best food I've ever had, which is saying something.
	The service was exceptional. I don't know if it is that
good later at night, but it couldn't have been better. The decor
is really well done.
	I just loved this place. The final bill was $70, but we
didn't have any wine, so if you're a drinker your bill will be
higher.

-- 
Hack first,  	    	      			 -Rick Muller
ask questions later   	      			  rpm@wag.caltech.edu
From: rcj@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com (R.C. Jones)
Newsgroups: la.eats
Subject: Re: Buffalo BBQ ?
Keywords: Buffalo, BBQ, South Bay
Date: 9 Oct 92 18:09:02 GMT
Distribution: ca
Organization: Chevron Oil Field Research, La Habra, CA.

Don't know about South Bay but, ...
The Rong Branch resturant in Julian has Bison Burgers or
Don's Market in Santa Isabel has ground Bison meat for
about six bucks a pound. Yummy! Tastes like horse meat.
-- 
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Newsgroups: la.eats
From: bjperry@base.cs.ucla.edu (Brad Perry)
Subject: Re: Electronic Cafe in Santa Monica
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Distribution: la
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 16:34:50 GMT

In article <MAS.92Oct14080435@mipl8.jpl.nasa.gov> mas@mipl8.jpl.nasa.gov (Marc Sarrel) writes:
>Do they actually serve food there, or do they use
>the work "cafe" in a metaphorical sense?  What's the place like?
>What's its premise?
>
>--Marc

the electronic cafe is in the tradition of "get a cup
of coffee and stay for a while."  They usually have
a selection of some brownies or other snacks
to accompany your coffee.  I've been there twice --
both times for special topic meetings.  The basic
premise of the cafe is that we can use current
technology to hook the world together in interactive
electronic sessions.  They have the hardware/software
setup to show it's possible and have occasional interactive
sessions with other such cafes throughout the country
(e.g., a poetry reading interactively with an e. cafe in
San Francisco and New York, ...).

if nothing else, it's an interesting place to stop by
and look around.

Brad Perry
bjperry@cs.ucla.edu