Subject: Re: ...............
From: rtotman@oanet.com (r)
Date: 10 Nov 1996 18:23:42 GMT
In article <328496CE.549F@pianeta.it>, scienza@pianeta.it says:
>
>INTERNET
>
>Some people prefear to go on thinking that the Einstein’s relativity
>theory is right , thinking that matter cannot reach and substains light
>velocity, because in this case matter would have an infinitive mass ,
>and it would be necessary to transfer to it an infinitive quantity of
>energy.
>At the same time the physics substain that at elemental material level
>the time does not exist and that in normal conditions it is not possible
>to travel in the time.
>
>As opposite to what mentioned before, the writer, after 20 years of
>research out of the pubblic ufficial circuit of the physical research,
>can prove that things are different.
>Some examples of his theories follows:
>
>-The comception of time and space given by Einstein Relativity is
>completly inconsistent applied to the case of light velocity of the
>matter , out of light along with the physical and heavy consistance of
>the material invisible particles that translate the time , (towards the
>future or the past).
>In many cases the theories substained by the physics are uncomplete or
>inadeguated to describe the reality, but because of their lack to give
>an explanation to the real phaenomenouses, they go on thinking their
>concept as the only truth.
>
>-Some information about: To travel in the time , to travel at light
>velocity , to know the explanation of the forces unification, to know
>the natural formation of the sub-elemental particles of the electricity
>of the magnetism and of the gravity.
>The writers brings explanations and cases which confutates the
>Einstein’s relativity theory , substaing that the matter can travel at
>light velocity
>The contrary is possible and it is the right explanation of the world.
>
>End of December 1996 it will be ready a book , entitled "THE
>QUADRIDIMENTIONAL UNIVERSE", where in about 420 pages with colour
>photos and pictures , the writer explains these theories and many other
>concepts not already reached by the officials science.
>Shipment: per Airmail.
>Possible markets :All countries except for Italy , switzerland ,
>Japan, Cina , URSS Countries
>DEPOSITED AND PROTECTED CONTENTS
>
>PLEASE REPLY FOR MORE INFOS :
>
>scienza@pianeta.it
>
This is an inappropriate newsgroup for such a topic. This should appear in
alt.sci.fiction or some similar group.
Subject: A GIS is ready for everybody to test!
From: nac@zot.io.org (The International NAC Society)
Date: 11 Nov 1996 10:56:17 -0500
Dear Readers:
Last week, we posted the following ads which included a wrong web address.
The correct address is http://www.io.org/~nac/
Many people ask what the system requirements of the software are. Since
we use dynamic linking libraries all through the code, the software
requires little RAM and hard disk space. If the computer has:
Windows 95 or Windows NT
Larger than 4 MB RAM
Larger than 4 MB Hard disk space
the software will work properly on small map files (<1 MB).
Now the test version of the software is ready for everybody to test all
functions of the software. If you want it, I can email you the software
(2.4 MB)free of charge. If you want to get 3.5" floppy disk, please
include US$5 shipping and handling fee.ÿï Once you have tested the
software, please send us your comments and suggestions and report all the
problems. You cam also post them on the net.
By the way, the software can import text files of lists of longitude/latitude
or UTM or other coordinates and character strings with coordinates and angles.
If you have these kinds of maps and would like to sell them, please drop an
email to our account and we will include them on our web. If you have map
converters which can extract map entities from other GIS file formats and
create node lists and character string lists, we will be happy to
list them on our web too.
Have fun to play on NACGIS Version 2.0.
Xinhang Shen
NAC Geographic Products Inc.
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| Great News! |
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| You can buy a US$999 GIS with only US$39 before Nov. 20, 1996! |
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| Contents |
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| Introduction |
| Major features |
| Discount information |
| Order information |
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Introduction
NAC Geographic Products Inc. has developed a geographic information system
called NACGIS Version 2.0 for Windows 95 and Windows NT, which has
implemented the great invention: the Natural Area Coding System. Based on
the Natural Area Coding System, NACGIS has introduced a ten-character
Universal Geographic Identity for every geographic object in the world. No
matter what size it is. Every geographic object in the world from a
continent to a parking meter can be statistically uniquely identified by its
Universal Geographic Identity (UGID).
Major features:
1. Automatic assignment of UGID's to all geographic objects.
2. Automatic links between a graphic object in the map file and its
associated document in the document database. You can use both text
searching and mouse clicking on the graphic object to retrieve the
document for reading and editing.
3 Supports transparency which allows you draw transparent graphic objects
with all pictures underneath shown in a mixed color.
4. Graphics editor's features:
a) Drawing tools:
NACGIS Version 2.0 procides two sets of drawing tools:
i) Mouse direct drafting on the screen with your specified default
line color, line type, line thickness, brush color, brush
pattern, font type, font size, font color, layer number, etc.
ii) Graphic object set-up dialog boxes to create accurate pictures.
The dialog boxs allow you input exact coordinates for polyline
nodes and polygon vertices and layer number, text escapement
angle, layer number, specify whether it is a polyline or smooth
curve and a polygon or an area, whether it is transparent, and
set up pen, brush and font parameters. You can insert or delete
nodes or vertices at any location of a polyline or a polygon.
A polyline, polygon, simple picture or a group picture can be
converted to each other by simply clicking a botton on the dialog
boxes.
NACGIS Version 2.0 can draw polylines, curves, polygons, areas, simple
pictures (ractangle, circle, ellipse, regular polygons, stars, etc.),
text objects, bitmap objects and group pictures (from an art gallery
database).
b) Manipulation tools:
NACGIS Version 2.0 provides the following graphic objects manipulation
tools:
i) Mouse and arrow keys direct draging and resizing
ii) Manipulation dialog box which allows you move an graphic object or
a group of graphic objects a specified distance or to a specified
location, exactly stretch it in x- and/or y-directions, rotate it
a specified angle arround a specified pivot, and mirror it in x-
and/or y-directions with a specified symetric center.
iii) Alignment dialog box which allows you align a group of graphic
objects to the left, center, right, top, middle, bottom.
iv) Group objects tool which allows you to create group pictures (only
one set of a group picture's data will be stored in the memory
but can be shown in as many places as you want, which will greatly
simplify your drawing and save memory). Once the group picture is
created, you can also add it to the art gallery database of the
software for later use.
v) Delete, Erase All, Undo, Cut, Copy and Paste tools
vi) Grid generator which can automatically generate the appropriate
level of the NAC grids.
5. Map viewing tools
NACGIS Version 2.0 provides the following map viewing tools:
i) Theme layers dialog box allows you select the visible layers for
the current map. It can store 120 different theme layers.
ii) Zoom In and Zoom Out tools allows you zoom in as many time as you
want and zoom back to the origanal picture.
iii) Split panes of a winow, multiple windows of a document and
multiple windows of multiple documents. NACGIS Version 2.0 allows
you to view different parts of a map in different panes or
windows, view different scales in different panes, and
compare different maps in different windows.
iv) Display of the cursor's coordinates in Longitude/Latitude, UTM and
NAC simultaneously on the status bar of the frame window.
v) Coordinate systems
NACGIS Version 2.0 supports three types of coordinate systems:
Longitude/Latitude system, UTM system and user-defined system.
You can import a map file in one coordinate system and export it
in another system (Longitude/Latitude <=> UTM).
vi) Window setting
You can set the scroll window size, window background color, the
coordinates of the top left corner of the window and suitable
scale to create the best view for the map.
6. Document editor's features
NACGIS Version 2.0 also provides a powerful document editor which allows
you to read and edit the attached document of a graphic object. The
attached document is named by the UGID of a geographic object, which can
cantain text contents with all kinds of fonts, font styles, sizes and
colors, bitmaps, and all other objects created by OLE servers such as
Excel Charts and Worksheets.
7. Help file
NACGIS Version 2.0 provides a powerful help system which has the
following features:
i) Context help
Whenever you need help for a dialog or a menu command, you can get
the help topic immediately by pressing F1. You can also press the
button with an arrow and a question mark on the toolbar and the
move the cursor to the item about which you need help and
click the left button of the mouse to get the help topic.
ii) Tooltips
NACGIS Version 2.0 provides tooltips for all menu commands and
buttons. When you move the cursor to a toolbar button, you will
see a yellow box with simple help text beside the cursor and a
bit more detail help text on the status bar of the frame window.
iii) Topics, index and word search
NACGIS Version 2.0 allows you to search help content by topics,
index and simply a word.
8. Print, print preview and printer set-up
NACGIS Version 2.0 provides you all the useful features for print, print
preview and printer set-up. It allows you print black/while or color
map, and a large map into small pieces which can be connected together
to get a large map. You can also print any part of a map if you set the
window size, the coordinates of the top left corner of the window and the
appropriate scale of the map.
9. Support of file types
NACGIS Version 2.0 mainly support its own map document files with the
extension ".nac". However, it can import and export three types of text
files: lists of polyline nodes coordinates, lists of polygon vertices
coordinates and lists of text objects (text contents, insert point
coordinates and escapement angle). In the future vertions, we will add
dxf files. NAC Geographic Products Inc. also provides you various map
documents at good prices.
Discount information
NAC Geographic Products Inc. would like to offer you a special discounted
price for the license of using NACGIS Version 2.0. The standard price for
the license for a single person using NACGIS Version 2.0 in one computer is
US$999. If you are using the software at home for non-business purposes,
you can get 50% discount. Once you have bought one license of the software,
you will get a 80% discount for the license for a future version of the same
sfotware. There is a special discount price now. If you buy the license
before November 20, 1996, you need to pay only US$39 + US$5 shipping fee
( + 7% GST if in you are in Canada). After then, the price will rise
everyday (about US$5.3 a day) until it reaches US$999.
Ordering information
You can order the license by sending us the international money order
(or a check if you are in Canada) or tell us the information of the VISA
credit card (Credit card number, holder's name, expiration date and issuing
bank name). The price is determined by the date you send out your order.
If you use credit card, you can also order it through Email, fax or phone.
Please include the exact name, company, address, phone, fax, email for each
licesee because the name and address will be embedded into the software.
Our address is
NAC Geographic Products Inc.
509-50 Stephanie Street
Toronto, ON M5T 1B3
Canada
NAC: 8CHK Q87P
Phone and fax: (416) 979 9306
Email: nac@io.org
Web: http://www.io.org
If you are doing land planning, NACGIS will be your great assistant!
If you are working on transportation, NACGIS will be your first assistant!
If you are managing natural resources, NACGIS will provide you the convenience!
If you are working on environment protection, NACGIS will be your power tool!
If you are doing marketing, NACGIS will give you extra hands, eyes and ears!
If you are managing real estate, NACGIS will let you get rid of tedious work!
If you like fishing, NACGIS will help you record the best fishing spots!
If you are a bird watcher, NACGIS will tell you where birds live and
move!
Subject: COEUR GOLDMINE MAY SHUT EARLY
From: denitegg@wave.co.nz (Denis Tegg)
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 20:17:19 GMT
GOLDMINE MAY SHUT EARLY
Waikato Times 8 November 1996
Mining company Coeur Gold NZ is considering an early shut-down of its
landslide-troubled Golden Cross mine near Waihi.
The mine, which provides jobs for about 300 people, was expected to
have enough gold and silver to mine up to about the year 2001.
But in the latest financial re-ports from Coeur Gold's parent company,
Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation, there was a net loss of $60 million
for the first nine months of this year. Last year, the company made
$2.3 million net profit for the same period. The loss includes the $53
million de-valuing of the mine because of the major landslide under
it.
Coeur Gold NZ general manag-er Richard Weston said the landslide
problems will have cost $20 million by the end of this year.
Environment group Coroman-del Watchdog said it feared the company
would close the mine without cleaning up the environmental chaos
caused by mining.
______________________
TROUBLED MINE’S OUTPUT DROPS
New Zealand Herald 9 November 1996
WELLINGTON - The troubled Golden Cross mine near Waihi suffered a
significant fall in gold output in the three months to the end of
September, while production costs rocketed.
Financial results from Coeur d’Alene Mines, which owns 80 per cent of
Golden Cross, show the mine produced 16,317 ounces of gold in the
quarter.
This was 29 per cent down on the amount produced in the quar-ter last
year.
Last month, media reports suggested the mine was losing about $50,000
a day as it tried to fix the large underground slip. Environmental
group Coromandel Watchdog feared that the company could close the
mine because of the losses. (Oh Really !!)
Last year, the mine produced 103,000 ounces of gold and had been
expected to produce 85,000 ounces this year.
Earlier this year, the Coeur Golden Cross general manager, Mr Richard
Weston, said the mine was expected to keep running for another four to
five years.
But Coeur's quarterly report appeared to cast doubt on its future. It
says: "Coeur expects it will be able to continue the mine's operations
through at least the end of 1997."
Waikato Times 8 November 1996
Mining company Coeur Gold NZ is considering an early shut-down of its
landslide-troubled Golden Cross mine near Waihi.
The mine, which provides jobs for about 300 people, was expected to
have enough gold and silver to mine up to about the year 2001.
But in the latest financial re-ports from Coeur Gold's parent company,
Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation, there was a net loss of $60 million
for the first nine months of this year. Last year, the company made
$2.3 million net profit for the same period. The loss includes the $53
million de-valuing of the mine because of the major landslide under
it.
Coeur Gold NZ general manag-er Richard Weston said the landslide
problems will have cost $20 million by the end of this year.
Environment group Coroman-del Watchdog said it feared the company
would close the mine without cleaning up the environmental chaos
caused by mining.
______________________
TROUBLED MINE’S OUTPUT DROPS
New Zealand Herald 9 November 1996
WELLINGTON - The troubled Golden Cross mine near Waihi suffered a
significant fall in gold output in the three months to the end of
September, while production costs rocketed.
Financial results from Coeur d’Alene Mines, which owns 80 per cent of
Golden Cross, show the mine produced 16,317 ounces of gold in the
quarter.
This was 29 per cent down on the amount produced in the quar-ter last
year.
Last month, media reports sug-gested the mine was losing about $50,000
a day as it tried to fix the large underground slip. Environ-mental
group Coromandel Watchdog feared that the company could close the
mine because of the losses. (Oh Really !!)
Last year, the mine produced 103,000 ounces of gold and had been
expected to produce 85,000 ounces this year.
Earlier this year, the Coeur Golden Cross general manager, Mr Richard
Weston, said the mine was expected to keep running for another four to
five years.
But Coeur's quarterly report appeared to cast doubt on its future. It
says: "Coeur expects it will be able to continue the mine's operations
through at least the end of 1997."
Subject: Re: Creation VS Evolution
From: Judson McClendon
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 15:12:18 -0600
CharlieS wrote:
> Only if you think people should have a "fear of 'God'".
> I've seen this too often to take it seriously; every time I've
> told a believer that I don't need "salvation", they've turned
> on me with the old threat "Just wait till you're standing
> before 'God' and you'll soon change your sinful ways".
> The fact is, I'm not scared of your "God" so I'm not scared
> of "His" opinion of me.
> The fact that some believers feel too scared of their "God"
> to even be able to face "Him" just shows how pathetically
> weak their so-called "faith" is in the first place.
"And I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the
body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will show
you whom you should fear: Fear Him who, after He has killed, has power
to cast into hell; yes, I say to you, fear Him!" (Luke 12:4,5, words of
Jesus)
No, you don't have to fear God. You just have to face Him at Judgement.
No choice. And your opinion won't impress God. You can argue with a
human, but you won't argue with God.
However, there is a way out. Not by ignoring God, but by receiving His
salvation in Jesus Christ. If God enjoyed destroying us, He wouldn't
have to work up a sweat doing us in. But He went to a lot of trouble to
provide a way of salvation. But if we trample under feet the salvation
provided by God, there will be no mercy. God loves you, but he will not
tolerate rebellion forever.
--
Judson McClendon
Sun Valley Systems judsonm@ibm.net
Subject: Re: oops!!!Re: career question
From: kcb@phoenix.net (K. C. Bennett)
Date: 12 Nov 1996 05:10:45 GMT
In article <32820372.443D@unb.ca>, r4uj@unb.ca wrote:
> Sorry, I wrote that message, this computer is screwed! Please just post
> any replies, as I can't seem to set this to post under my ID. Sorry.
And the original message was:
> Hello all, I'm a student taking geology at UNB, and thinking about the
> future (namely a career). I'm thinking about switching into
> environmental geochemistry, to give me more flexibilty, with a lot of
> experience with the chemistry as well as geology.
> I've read that people in this field need to be flexible, with a lot of
> subjects in their education, particularly biology. Is this true? Are
> there other areas that I should focus on (besides geology and
> chemistry)? And are there specific areas within those (like within
> biology, study microorganisms)? And would a few courses in soils be of
> much help?
> Any input on this would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance,
>
Hmmm, my first suggestion would be to take some computer courses...
Seriously, I'd recommend taking some aquatic biology, ecology, computer
and basic civil engineering and hydraulics(at least enough to be thankful
you're not an engineer...) And computer courses, particularly anything
related to 3D modeling of fluid flow, would be useful also.
Other things that you will find to be very useful, although they may very
well not appeal to you, are business and environmental law (you'll be
dealing with that a lot if you go into the environmental field) and
business classes.
K. C. Bennett