ce ‘around B.C. — on é psig: me ph temas 5 . «me ae ip ak ire ah ie Sa ental lt A a “About 3 35 supporters of Dr. David Kuntz, many of them ex-patients ¢ of the orthopedic surgeon, gathered in the Carpenters’ Hall Sunday to discuss ways of pressuring authorities into: reinstating his license. - Sunday to-develop a strategy to help Dr. David Kuntz, the con- : “troversial orthopedic surgeon -from the Northwest, regain: his license to practice medicine. - - Over the past two years Kuntz | has had his license revoked by [ ‘the College of Physicians and. |. Surgeons and lost his practice and all his assets. During the in- tervening time hospitals in the _ “region have failed to attract a ; _ replacement. ‘Terrace insurance agent Frank Donahue acted as moderator for - the meeting. Donahue described Kuntz as. ‘‘a diamond in the- srough”, an expert surgeon who is respected by his colleagues in ‘the Northwest but. lacking in’ social skills, a man who didn’t . splay by the rules and offended ‘ powerful people in his profes- “ sional association, ~*: The allegations against Kuntz - were serious, Donahue said, but , the manner in which his case was treated also calls into question _. the institutions that tried him. Donahue suggested that, in ad- _ dition to a review of the case . itself, a review of the procedures used by the Workers’ Compen- ‘ sation Board (for whose clients . '; Kuntz performed: numerous ae. operations), the Medical. Ser- :- vices Commission and the Col- ree ‘ Tege of Physicians and Surgeons may also be in order. ‘“We. need - “an unbiased review,’? Donahue - _ said. ‘The allegations against Drs Kuntz are serious, but. the _. allegations against the College “ are: equally serious.” Many of those present ‘were ws formier patients of Kuntz’s who . _» said: his procedures restored “their physical wholeness after '\ standard orthopedic procedures ad repeatedly failed. Terrace resident Don Bodnar is currently: fn ‘the’ process of travelling gtiatures on petitions and "worn: affadavits testifying to -. ;.. Kuntz's. competence. He said « - “that through extensive research. _ hé'has discovered an array of er- = tots atid contradictions in infor. ee gathering FRANK DONAHUE: Allega- tlons against the College are equally serious. mation provided by the examin ing bodies. Kitimat resident Don Klie, with whom Kuntz and his family stayed after their farm in the Kispiox Valley was repossessed, said a review of the case isn’t enough. “We need. an open public inquiry. -. We need for the government. to learn that the. College {of Physicians and Surgeons) is not looking out for people’s interests.” Donahue concluded the _ Defense group formed to bring surgeon back — -WERRACE — About 35 people _ | _-from_ the Terrace-Kitimat area ~ gathered in the Carpenters’ Hall 90-minute discussion by advising the group that its options ‘are limited. He predicted that a lawsuit “‘against the rich and.- powerful” would probably. re- quire between three-and 10 years ’ and as much as $500,000 in funding. Instead, he urged them _to pressure their own doctors to act within their professional circles, and to undertake fund- raising to finance a Brassroots action group. ‘In an interview after the meeting, Donahue said he agreed to act as moderator because he was approached by the group as someone who is a competent public speaker. Noting that he doesn’t normally get involved in ‘‘causes’’, Donahue said he conducted his own examination of the cir- cumstances surrounding Kuntz’s downfall, ‘‘I became convinced after doing research that something went wrong here. The best thing I can say about the board of investigation’s research is that it was incomplete and er- roneous.’ Aggressive dogs seen as increasing problem For the first two months of this year, Animal Control Offi- cer Frank Bowsher reports, slightly fewer cats and dogs were impounded than for the same period last year but more were unclaimed and had to be de- - stroyed. According to Bowsher, 48 percent of the 109 animals . impounded this year had to be destroyed, while in 1988 only 32 percent of 113 animals were unclaimed. This is due to a six percent drop in owners claiming pets and a 10. percent drop in adoptions. _ - But, while animal lovers may be disturbed that a cat or a dog has only a 50/50 chance of survival if impounded, there’s another side to the story. There are more. dogs in town and a greater number of them are ag- gressive, Mail carriers and ‘paper boys are the prime targets, says Bowsher, and there is growing concern. ‘‘Public safety is a ma- jor concern,” he says. Bowsher says the number of call-outs due to aggressive dogs is growing and already this year two have been destroyed for unprovoked attacks. ““‘We had no way to handle these dogs,” he says. “They wanted | a piece ‘of me.”’ Another item of concern for Bowsher is the lack of control by “dog owners of females in heat. According to Bowsher, there have been several complaints of unspayed females in heat roam- me neighborhoods, but because a portion of the animal control bylaw was deleted in 1979 there is little he can do. He has asked council to re-instate the section of .the bylaw but council has — tabled the matter until he comes up with ‘appropriate wording”’. Computalk by Rainer Glannelia Certified Data Processor Video displays. — an ever-widening choice Even justa couple of years ago the computer binyer: had a fair, ly simple choice when choosing a video display for his or her. computer. Most-outlets offered either monochrome (usually. |. amber on black ‘or green on black) or basic color, which osually _ was limited to.a selection of four colors. _Now the choices are much wider, and unfortunately i in some - cases more confusing in that there is much more terminology. to’ deal with, First I’ll explain some basic terms. ‘Displays are — described by their resolution — the number of distinct points -. they display — and in the case of color displays, their color |. capability. Resolution is described in ‘pixels’, each pixel rep-.. resenting a dot on the screen. So, for example, when a display i is said to have a resolution of 640 x 200, that display would consist of 200 lines each consisting of 640 pixels per line, resulting j ina total of 128,000 pixels or dots on the screen. * Most commonly available displays have resolutions ranging ‘ftom 320 x. 200 at the low end up to 800 x 600 at the high end. There are some specialty. displays that offer even higher resolu- tions, but they are very expensive and only found in major _ graphic production facilities. One aspect of computer display capability that confuses first-— ‘time buyers is that the results one sees on the screen depend both ‘on the’hardware capability of the machine and the software's utilization of hardware features available. Hardware capability is determined by two components: the display monitor itself and, more importantly, the display adaptor. In other words, if one has only a monochrome adaptor in the machine, one would only get monochrome results regardless of the kind of display. It is a set of electronic components in the . machine that determines the nature of the display. The fun really begins when one gets into color, Here the most common choices . include Color Graphics Adaptor (CGA) which gives the possibili- ty of four simultaneous colors from a ‘pallette’ selection of 16; Enhanced Graphics Adaptor (EGA), which allows 16 colors from a pallete of 64; and the newer Video Graphics Array (VGA), _which allows 256 simultaneous colors from pallettes ranging from 1,024 to hundreds of thousands. As one moves up in the scale from CGA to VGA, resolution also increases. And of course price goes up with each step, so one can pay quite a premium for good color. Which brings us around to the question that should be asked in the first place, “Why bother with fancy color?’ If all one is using is simple text based and monochrome graphics, color is. not needed. However, some graphics applications require color and even many non-graphics application programs use color effectively so they are easier to learn and:use. . In the end when it comes to choosing your computer’s display, the best. guideline is ‘seeing is believing’. In other words, take time to examine the options at a number of computer outlets, make sure that the programs you intend to use can actually use the features of that special display adaptor, and then assess your choices before buying. . Men’s or Ladies’ cotton blend dress or business shirts expertly. laundered. 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