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<H5>Copyright © 1998 Specialized Systems Consultants, Inc.<br>
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<li><a HREF="./lg_backpage34.html#authors">About This Month's Authors</a>
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Steve Adler</H4>
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Steve was born in Mexico City and received his education in the U. S.
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He has a Ph.D. in Physics from the State University of NY. His
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first job was working with a medical imaging group at the University of
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Texas medical school, writing software in the development effort to
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build a positron emission tomography camera.
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Since 1995 he has been a
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staff scientist for the physics department at Brookhaven National
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Laboratory. He is currently moving out of high energy
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physics into nuclear physics by joining the PHENIX experiment at the
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Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, where he'll be working on the data
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acquisition system.
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Besides physics and computing, he engages in roller blading, cycling,
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camping and travel.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Paul Anderson</H4>
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Paul is a computer hobbyist primarily, working on the FreeWorld
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BBS software(http://www.freeworldbbs.org) for Linux in his off-time and
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setting up networks with some system administration for a web-hosting
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service.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Larry Ayers</H4>
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Larry lives on a small farm
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in northern Missouri, where he is currently engaged in building a
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timber-frame house for his family. He operates a portable band-saw mill,
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does general woodworking, plays the fiddle and searches for rare
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prairie plants, as well as growing shiitake mushrooms. He is also
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struggling with configuring a Usenet news server for his local ISP.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Bill Bennet</H4>
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Bill,
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the ComputerHelperGuy, lives in Selkirk, Manitoba, Canada; the "Catfish
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Capitol of North America" if not the world. He is on the Internet at
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www.chguy.net. He tells us "I have been a PC user since 1983 when I got my start as a
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Radio Shack manager. After five years in the trenches, I went into
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business for myself. Now happily divorced from reality, I live next to my
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Linux box and sell and support GPL distributions of all major Linux
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flavours. I was a beta tester for the PC version of Playmaker Football and
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I play `pentium-required' games on the i486. I want to help Linux become a
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great success in the gaming world, since that will be how Linux will take
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over the desktop from DOS." It is hard to believe that his five years of
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university was only good for fostering creative writing skills.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Howard Cokl</H4>
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Howard is a PC Technician and ad-hoc UNIX Administrator. He has used Linux
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in a number of different applications including ISP, DHCP, etc. He is working on
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building a Beowulf style computer. He implemented this CD-ROM server and can be
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reached at coklh@karmanos.org.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Jim Dennis</H4>
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Jim is the proprietor of <A href="http://www.starshine.org">
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Starshine Technical Services</A>.
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His professional experience includes work in the technical
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support, quality assurance, and information services (MIS)
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departments of software companies like
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<A href="http://www.quarterdeck.com"> Quarterdeck</A>,
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<A href="http://www.symantec.com"> Symantec/
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Peter Norton Group</A>, and
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<A href="http://www.mcafee.com">McAfee Associates</A> -- as well as
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positions (field service rep) with smaller VAR's.
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He's been using Linux since version 0.99p10 and is an active
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participant on an ever-changing list of mailing lists and
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newsgroups. He's just started collaborating on the 2nd Edition
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for a book on Unix systems administration.
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Jim is an avid science fiction fan -- and was
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married at the World Science Fiction Convention in Anaheim.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Scott Field</H4>
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Scott has been programming and administering mainframes and PCs for 15
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years professionally. He has used C++ for about 5 years, and did COBOL
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prior to that. He is currently working as a C++ contractor in Sydney.
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Outside work he enjoys spending time with his wife and three year old
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daughter.
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He is now looking for an STL algorithm that likes renovating houses.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Michael J. Hammel</H4>
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A Computer Science graduate of Texas Tech University, Michael J. Hammel,
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mjhammel@graphics-muse.org, is an software developer specializing in X/Motif
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living in Dallas, Texas (but calls Boulder, CO home for some reason).
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His background includes everything from data
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communications to GUI development to Interactive Cable systems, all based in
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Unix. He has worked for companies such as Nortel, Dell Computer, and
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Xi Graphics.
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Michael writes the monthly Graphics Muse column in the Linux Gazette,
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maintains the Graphics Muse Web site and theLinux Graphics mini-Howto, helps
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administer the Internet Ray Tracing Competition (http://irtc.org) and
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recently completed work on his new book "The Artist's Guide to the Gimp",
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published by SSC, Inc. His outside interests include running, basketball,
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Thai food, gardening, and dogs.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Michael Holve </H4>
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Michael has been working with Linux for about five years now and
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works for Cablevision Systems in New York as a Web/Tech Administrator. In
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his spare time (ha!) he works on Everything Linux, a premiere Linux site on
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the Internet (http://eunuchs.org/linux/index.html), writes software, hacks
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until 3am and enjoys creating all manners of computer graphics.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Manuel Arturo Izquierdo</H4>
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Manuel is an archaeologist graduated at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
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Currently he is working at the National Astronomical Observatory at
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the same university. There he has two research fields: the
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Archaeoastronomy and the Digital Astronomical Image Processing.
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He has been a Linux fan for three years using it for software development
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with the Tcl/Tk package and recently the GTK toolkit.
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The Observatory's network runs only under two platforms: Linux and
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Macintosh. The Observatory is very interested in
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promoting the use of Linux in the campus.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Ron Jachim</H4>
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Ron is Manager of Systems for the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute
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where he is responsible for the systems half of the Information Systems Group.
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He has fourteen years of networking experience and both a BA and an MS in
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Computer Science. His thesis was on fuzzy queries. He can be reached at
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jachimr@karmanos.org
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Ron Jenkins</H4>
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Ron has over 20 years experience in RF design, satellite systems, and
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UNIX/NT administration. He currently resides in Central Missouri where he
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will be spending the next 6 to 8 months recovering from knee surgery and
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looking for some telecommuting work. Ron is married and has two stepchildren.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Eberhard Lisse</H4>
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Dr. Lisse is a Senior Medical Officer at the Swakopmund State Hospital
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on the Namibian coast. He is the founding Vice Chairman of the
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Namibian Internet Development Foundation (NAMIDEF) which has connected
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Namibia to the Internet in 1994 (using linux) and the country top
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level Domain Administrator for NA. He has been using Linux exclusively
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since 0.99.something.
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He is married to Martha and has two children, who prefer their
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mother's Mac LCIII to Linux (even with KDE).
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Mike List </H4>
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Mike is a father of four teenagers, musician,
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and recently reformed technophobe, who has been into computers
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since April,1996, and Linux since July, 1997.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Kevin O'Malley</H4>
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<A HREF="http://groucho.eecs.umich.edu/~omalley">Kevin</A> is
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currently working at the <A
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HREF="http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/">University of Michigan Artificial
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Intelligence Laboratory</A> as a System Research Programmer. He
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specializes in network programming and network security. His
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background includes GUI development, embedded
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systems development for medical products and programming visualization
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tools for vehicle simulations. He is currently working on the
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Michigan Adaptive Resource eXchange project (<A
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HREF="http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/MARX/">MARX</A>), a dynamic
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computational market designed to enable adaptive allocation of
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resources in large-scale distributed information systems. The project
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is part of DARPA/ITO's Information Survivability Program.
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He is co-author of the paper "An API for Internet Auctions" appearing
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in the September 1998 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Dean Staff</H4>
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Deanis a computer technician for Inly Systems and member
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of OCLUG. When not at work Dean enjoys spending time with his
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wife and two daughters and playing with his aquarium.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Peter Vertes</H4>
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Peter has a degree in Computer Security from the University of
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Massachusetts at Amherst and currently is employed at BigFoot Partners in
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New York City.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Dan York</H4>
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Dan York is a technical instructor and the training manager for a technology training
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company located in central New Hampshire. He has been working with the Internet and UNIX
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systems for 13 years. While his passion is with Linux, he has also spent the past two-and-a-half
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years working with Windows NT. He is both a Microsoft Certified System Engineer and Microsoft
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Certified Trainer and has also written a book for QUE on one of the MCSE certification exams.
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Thanks to all our authors, not just the ones above, but also those who wrote
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giving us their tips and tricks and making suggestions. Thanks also to our
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new mirror sites. Thanks also to Ellen Dahl and Amy Kukuk for their help
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with News Bytes.
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PBS has been showing a mystery series called "Jonathan Creek" that I have
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been enjoying quite a bit. The show can be quite intellectually challenging
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as each mystery is of the "locked door" variety. No car chases, no sirens, no
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explosions -- just a dead body in a locked room with all the accompanying
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questions. Quite a lot of fun, actually.
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I've never been quite sure why the
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makers of American T.V. shows feel that their audience doesn't want or know
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how to use their brains.
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Another interesting difference between American and British entertainment
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is the actors. The British don't require that everyone be uniformly
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beautiful. It's quite refreshing to see a show where the stars look like
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you and your neighbors rather than high-fashion models or movie stars.
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Have fun!
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<A HREF="http://www.ssc.com/ssc/Employees/Margie/margie.html">
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Marjorie L. Richardson</A> <br>
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Editor, <A HREF="http://www.linuxgazette.com/"><i>Linux Gazette</i></A>, <A
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<I>Linux Gazette</I> Issue 34, November 1998,
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<A HREF="http://www.linuxgazette.com/">http://www.linuxgazette.com</A><BR>
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