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Tuttle said he founded Bats Con servation International out of neces sity. The group lobbies for public and private funds to study and pro tect the creature. A major part of its mission is to handle bats’ public rela tions. The organization of about 400 people has begun a campaign to pre serve bat-cave habitats in the United States. Recently, it stepped in to keep flying foxes on the protected list in Queensland, Australia. “What’s happened through time is that I’ve seen how valuable bats are, how grossly exaggerated the human fears are, how needlessly they’re persecuted,” he said. “Bats aren’t feared in parts of the world where they’re conspicuous — but they have other problems.” Find good help in a hurry Pesticides have taken their toll on North American bats, he said. Most have died from eating insects con- tajninated by chemicals. About 1,000 species remain worldwide, he said. • Professional Typing on the Word Processor . 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Suntlax-Thursday 28tl0 Tuttle and several colleagues re peatedly approached major govern ment and private conservation- oriented organizations about help ing bats. A lot of them had a hard time “even concealing their shock that anybody expected them to help something with as bad a reputation as bats,” he said. PERSONALS PROFESSIONAL TYPING. Term papers, thesis, let ters, labs. Experienced, dependable, reasonable, 093- 8537 33t31 Tuttle is quick to point out the m benefits humans reap from bats. PROBLEM PREGNANCY? Abortion procedures and referrals—Free pregnancy testing. Houston, Texas 713/524-0548. 10t64 T YPING-EDITING. 846-3211. Yes that’s 846-3211 for fast, accurate, reasonable word processing. 33t 10 New credit card! No one refused! Also, information on receiving VISA. MASTERCARD with no credit check. Free brochure, ( '.all 602-951 -1266 extension-505. 13t3 Expert tvping and word pl ot cssing. 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University Rentals, 846-2471 or 84(5-8730. 31tl0 Slouch By Jim Earle < 4. “<4/ least, during this conference about how you can improve your grades, would you (urn off the sound?” ‘Ordurant obfuscation ists’ plague computer writings United Press International NEW YORK — Mark Goldberg doesn’t look like a literary critic. He is, in fact, the president of Tool works, a software company that de velops and sells computer programs. Goldberg becomes a literary critic when he tries to make sure the in struction booklets that accompany his products are written in English. He is part of a trend among some computer and software companies, industry observers and consumers to yell loudly about the universal lack of clarity in written material that comes with computers, programs, and accessories. “I don’t how it happens, but many computer programmers write back wards,” Goldberg said. “And unfor tunately, a lot of them write man uals.” Every industry uses its own jargon as a way to separate the insiders from the civilians. But in dealing with customers, the marketing in stinct usually takes over and every thing is written in English. Not in the computer industry. “It’s not just the computer terms like ROM, RAM, Byte, and Moth erboards that are confusing,” said a writer who asked that his name not be used, “but the normal words that are mangled beyond belief.” Words that have perfectly clear meanings have been subverted by “ordurant obfuscationists,” he con tinued. “Access used as a verb is a prime example, such as, ‘I have to access the hard-copy database.’ Translation: “I have to go to the library and look up some stuff in books.” “BASIC” isn’t very basic in the computer world. It is just one more acronym. Computer people love ac ronyms. This one stands for Begin ner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruc tion Code. To further confuse matters, BASIC is not the most basic computer code. rial or parallel varieties. Thost ignations are pretty straightforw Serial means one at a time andpaii | lei mean several at a time. Bui rei computerists call the serial pou RS-232C and the parallel pon i “Centronics-compatible.” When presented w'ith the word “boot” most people think shoes or perhaps “to get rid of,” as in “he was (xioteci out of I “Compatible” is another mangi: buzz word. Its normal defum means something is like; vrorli well as; or works well with sometk: else. But with computers and p: grams, it means it worksjustittt IBM or the APPLE — butnoiijii Being too compatible can lead multimillion dollar lawsuits. his job.” Not even close. “To boot" means to activate the computer’s operating system. That sounds like simply turning on the computer, hut please accept the fact that it means much more. Some computers go further by having “cold boots” and “warm boots.” “File” is another confusingca puter term. Its meaning chaw with the computer or softwarep age you are using. Somewhere, there is an oali database lilt* that explains files, h so far its compatibility has noil* accessed. You can even “boot-up" but for some reason there is no such thing as a “boot-down.” Surprisingly, to ac complish that you just turn the com puter off. A “port” is not a place for ships to dock hut a socket for an IO device. Several years ago a groupofn* puter tech types got together agreed on a coding system to mi sure incompatible computers cm understand each other whenim fet ing information over telephs lines. IO stands for input output — com puterese for getting information into and out of the com computer. Ports are usually divided into se ll’s too bad they can’t again and agree to use English trying to interface... er... “■ nicate with the rest of us. 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Prosecutors recommended a plea- bargained sentence of 10 years pro bation and 30 days in the Travis County jail for Cynthia Leyendecker Dominguez, who admitted posing as a nurse and taking a baby from Brackenridge Hospital on May 29. AUSTIN — Texas Democratic Party officials Monday said that al though the Democratic National Committee has sent the state only half of the $1.2 million it initially promised, there is still plenty of money to fuel the party’s election hopefuls in Texas. State Democratic Party Chairman Bob Slagle said he never really ex pected to get as much money as the DNC originally promised and repu diated reports that the national party had “written off’ Texas. “I’m privy to the states that, have been written off. They get no money,” Slagle said at a news confer ence. “Texas has not been written off. I don’t know of any state getting more money than Texas.” The DNC originally promised to funnel $1.2 million into Texas, but Slagle said the committee had trou ble raising funds for Mondale helore he “kicked the slats out of Reagan in the first debate.” The DNC instead will send about $650,000 to the state party, Slagle said, and Texas Democrats will add as much as $700,000 to that total. Slagle said Mondale outscored Presiclent Reagan in Sunday night’s foreign policy debate, although he admitted Reagan performed better than in the first debate on domestic affairs. “He (Reagan) was better than he was two weeks ago when he got run off the stage,” Slagle said. “But if you compare Reagan last night to Reagan’s image as the great commu nicator, Reagan still fell far short of the mark. Dwayne Holman, Texas coordina tor for the Mondale-Ferraro cam- pi, said the candidates»« each make at least one mort ff paign trip to Texas before ik^ 6 election. He said Mondah 1 - appear in El Paso on Friday'S Ferraro would be in Houston!! time next week. Nofirmsdiec were available. 1 Meanwhile Monday, the (ftp coordinator for the Reagai paign in Texas criticized Ifshin, the Mondale-Ferraro paign’s chief counsel, for broadcasting “communist ganda” in Vietnam in 1 Ifshin has acknowledged in' to Hanoi and termed it a y mistake. Bob Bailon of tk GOP criticized Ifshin fork “lent aid and comfort toan.^ can enemy.” Reagan called the ‘Babe Ruth’ of deficits United Press International The child, Lauren Faith Sepeda, was returned unharmed to her par ents 36 hours after the kidnapping when an anonymous tipster told po lice he saw Dominguez with the baby at a public health clinic and recog nized her from a composite drawing aired on television newscasts. Get into circulcRon! let ou- | classified section display | ntal services ... ^ a fast, efficient * y. way to do buisne; L3— 845-2611 Dominguez told authorities she hid a miscarriage from her husband and told him she had given birth to the Sepeda child after the kidnap ping. She told District Judge Jon Wisser Monday she took the child because she desperately wanted a baby. DES MOINES, Iowa — Calling President Reagan the “Babe Ruth of deficit financing,” House Majority Leader Jim Wright on Monday urged an end to economic policies that are forcing farmers, businesses and banks out of business in record numbers. The Texas Democrat said Presi dent Reagan came to office in 1980 promising to balance the federal budget by 1983 when the national debt stood at $39 billion, but Rea gan’s 1981 tax cut and record de fense budget has pushed that figure above the $200 billion mark. Wright said Reagan has added to the national deficit “by more than 50 percent” over the combined amount for the past 35 years dating from the Truman administration through the Carter years. “These policies, if allowed to go unchanged without dramatic altera tion one more year, will add more to the national debt than had been added in the first 192 years of our constitutional government by 39 presidencies beginning with George Washington through Jimmy Car ter,” Wright said. “He is the Babe Ruth of deficit financing.” The Texas congressman blamed the deficit problem on the presi dent’s $135 billion tax cut of 1981 “for the wealthiest few” and the “as tronomical” defense budget that topped $300 billion this year. He said the president’s proposed de fense expenditures for the next three years exceed $1 trillion. “We’ve got to take some serious bites out of these things I causing the deficits to soar^ nomically,” which would inti® combination of defense and' spending cuts and increased | nues, including someformofG 1 crease, he said. Wright said Congress nee^ makers who will be willingw* those hard decisions, addin’ Iowa 5th District Democratic i date Jerry Fitzgerald isjusi 3 ' I person. “We need young meninC who are independent andt^ come to grips with serious bite these hard bullets and things that are necessaryto J the budget and liveonapa'' f go policy this year and nexi)®: 12 years down the saici.