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To: Scrapps who wrote (13288)	3/3/1998 1:44:00 PM
From: jhild	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22053

Two sides to any story it seems out in San Francisco: Tuesday March 3 11:13 AM EST 81-year-old substitute teacher accused of battery SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An 81-year-old substitute teacher has been accused of battery after she allegedly clobbered a disruptive high school student. English teacher Bella Hodesson, a 20-year veteran substitute at San Francisco's Galileo High, was giving a test on Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" last Tuesday when one 14-year-old student became disruptive. Hodesson said Monday she tried to reason with the boy and at one point their arms touched -- leading him to storm straight to the dean's office. "I touch people all the time. That's just the way I am," Hodesson told reporters Monday after news of the scuffle broke. "I didn't hit him. No way. I wouldn't even have thought of hitting him." Despite mediation efforts by police, the boy, who has not been identified, insisted on filing charges and Hodesson faces a court hearing March 31. Police Officer Eileen Murphy, who took Hodesson's thumbprint and cited her for battery, told the San Francisco Chronicle that the teacher, who stands just 5'4" and weighs 138 pounds, is no frail little old lady. "I asked her to touch me the way she touched him, and it felt like a hit to me. And I was wearing a bulletproof vest." ^REUTERS@ dailynews.yahoo.com Good thing she didn't really hit the little scholar.

To: Scrapps who wrote (13288)	3/3/1998 2:00:00 PM
From: Dick Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

Dual mode modems--- Scrapps quotes a ZOOM press release "Dualmode automatically negotiates connections in ITU V.90 mode, K56flex mode, 33.6 Kbps, or any other ITU International or Bell standard speed to achieve the fastest, most reliable connection possible" and then wonders why other K56 modem vendors can't do the same thing. They can... if they put enough memory in the modem to hold both K56 and V.90 protocols. Some early Rockwell-based versions did not... if they only have 1 meg of flash memory. 56k.com had the poop... page down to Feb 16th, where you will find Shane Lord of Sirius Technologies being quoted. Here's an excerpt: The reason for this is because the original reference design (and the single chip RCxxx56ACF/xx chipset) supplied by Rockwell to modem manufacturers for K56flex, incorporated 1 meg flash EEPROMs, as the chipset used was limited by the memory it could access. Hope this explains the fuss. As we mentioned two weeks ago when this first came out, if you have one of these modems, you can have either K56 or V.90, so you will want to hold off upgrading until your ISP has upgraded. As far as anyone can tell, this only concerns Rockwell-based client modems... the server modems apparently had enough memory from the first. Meanwhile, El Nino seems to be over... snow flurries here in Chicagoland. And I thought I could put the winter coat away.... Dick