DON'T THINK (pt. 2): Paste whatever is on your clipboard right now into the window and hit SUBMIT!

What does make you present
is the ardent detour
that a slow tenderness
traces in my blood.

I do not need
to see you appear;
being born sufficed for me
to lose you a little less.

Translated by A. Poulin

(reason it was on my clipboard is cause i was considering posting it to the "posts that made you laugh out loud" thread because it TOTALLY DID, is that bad)

(CHORUS)
Secretly plotting your demise
I wanna devise a virus
to bring dire straits to your environment
Crushing corporations with a mild touch
Trash the whole computer system and revert you to papyrus
(END OF CHORUS)

I wanna make a super virus
Strong enough to cause black outs in every single metropolis
Cuz they dont want to unify us
So fuck it
total anarchy and can't nobody stop us

You see late in the evening
Fucked up on my computer and my mind starts roaming
I create like a heathen
The first cycles of this virus i can send through a modem

Infiltrate and hit your station
No microsoft or enhanced dos with mp
Society thinks theyre safe when
Bingo hard drive crashes from the rending

A lot of hackers tried viruses before
vaporize your text like so much White-out
I want it where file replication is a chore
Lights out shut down the entire White House
I don't want just a bug that can be corrected
I'm erecting immaculate design
Break the nation down section by section
Even to the greatest minds
its impossible to find

(CHORUS X 2)

We have already planned
the plan is programmed into every one of my 1000 robots
we will not hesitate
we will destroy the homo sapien
please say where you are

I wanna develop a super virus
Better by far then the old Y2K
This is 3030 the time of
global unification break right through their
terminals burn em all
slaves of silicon
corrupt politicians with leaders and their keywords

FBI and spies stealin bombs
dissipitate their plans
and (?) catch the fever

Everybody loot the stores get your canned goods
Even space stations are having a hard time
Peacekeepers seek to take our manhood
which results in a form of global apartheid

ghettos a trash dump for gas pumps
exploded and bunt out just before the great union
the last punks walk around like mass monks
ready to manipulate the database or break through em

human rights come in 100 hundredth place
mass production has always been number one
new earth has become a repundant (?) place
So its time to spread the fear (?)

for long have we tried to extend our glorious empire out to the stars
only to be driven back

(CHORUS X 2)

Dear XXXX XXXXX:

I have yet to receive the payment you told me was going out two weeks ago. Honestly, I think that's pretty lousy.
This money is nearly six months overdue, and it's hard not to be insulted that I have somehow been so consistently snubbed. While this is neither the most amount of money the XXXX XXX has owed me, nor the longest I've had to wait for it (that would be the 9 months between August 2001 and April 2002, when I received payment for work published in the former), this is the end of my patience.
I refuse to participate in this imaginary, interest-free economy. If I witheld payment on my credit card for six month, I would most certainly receive a call from a collections agent. I certainly would not be able to walk out of Safeway with a week's worth of groceries on only my word that they would get their money "in the fall." Nor could I ward off the Phone Bill with similar words. And I most certainly could not obtain a bus pass for the month of September with a vague promise to pay for it in the spring.
I find this situation degrading and intolerable. Give me my goddamned money.

yrs,
Horace Mann

Horace you're living an ODB song love it bruthah!

that's on mine too!

2. How long do you hold onto odd socks before giving up on finding their mate?

3. Who was your favorite musical artist when you were 15?
4. What shape are your fingernails in right now?

5. Two scoops: of what?

6. What's your earliest memory?
7. When does your pet look funniest?
8. What do you collect?
9. What's better than sex?
10. What things are you brand-loyal to?
11. Favorite Dr. Seuss book?

12. Best meal you've had lately?
13. Peanut Butter and ________?
14. Who's your favorite poet?
15. Where are you going on vacation this year?

16. If you could change careers tomorrow with no strings attached, what would you be?

17. Whaddya drive?

18. What's your poison?

19. The color of the carpet or the kind of floor in the room you are sitting in right now.

	
								Emergency Contacts

(I like a thread that tells me DON'T THINK - ha ha)

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(i have not yet gotten this URL to work)

Let's start as friends
Seeking soulmate
Long-term relationship
Choose life
Soul sister
Hippy chick
The soul brother
Blues man
Genuine American
Frog seeks Princess

Someone is perfect for you
(When Mars meets Venus)
Do you wanna bet your life you're gonna be perfect for them too?
(Mars meets Venus)

New age man
Shake me up
Gay guy
Romantic
German
Indian
Long-term relationship
Beauty with brains
Mrs. Somethin' said...
Are you the one, are you the one, are you the one?

Someone is perfect for you
(When Mars meets Venus)
Do you wanna bet your life you're gonna be perfect for them too?
(Mars meets Venus)
Someone is perfect for you
(When Mars meets Venus)
Do you wanna bet your life you're gonna be perfect for them too?
(Mars meets Venus)

Here's lookin' at you

[note: lyrics meant to be transferred to a Notepad file]

He is also a little punk.

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I am an English Major with a cumulative GPA of 3.749. I am available to work 6-10hrs per week. I have been awarded $3,000.00 in State Work Study funds for the 2003-2004 academic year. I will receive up to $1,500.00 for Fall Semester 2003.
I want this position because I have the essential qualifications. I have good typing skills with assured speed and accuracy and basic knowledge of Word, Excel. I also have an interest in psychology research. My current resume is attached.

Sincerely,

Melinda Irons

OH SHIT! That's my password to ALL my accounts!!!
Oh well, gotta obey the rules...

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To :xxxxx
RE: xxxx
FAX: 916-xxxxxxx

This is a statement of additional facts in the xxxxx case. I’ve attached the phone log for this case so you can see events as they unfolded.

We are concerned because the school:
• is out of the 15 day assessment plan timeline
• is out of the 50 day testing timeline
• does not reply for requests for records (test /assessment results)
• intentionally supplied parent with false information (saying testing had been done when it hadn’t; saying there was a problem with testing due to child not having glasses and not notifying parent of this until late August; leading the parent to believe they were coming for a meeting to do testing when in fact they were inviting them to an IEP)

late May 2003: The school does not respond to the parent’s request for an assessment. Advocate xxx leaves two voicemails for Principal Jxxx Wxxx notifying them that they are out of timeline in giving an Assessment Plan.

June 7th 2003 (date approximate) Parent returns signed Assessment Plan to school office, and does not receive the yellow “parent copy” from them. (on 8/28/03 parent left a voicemail for the principal and spoke with a secretary requesting a copy)

August 12th 2003 Parent calls advocate and says she hasn’t heard anything from the school about testing, and says that her son says he has not been tested.

August 12th 2003. Advocate Cxxx Sxxx informs IEP team that they are out of timeline for testing and was told by Jxxx Wxxx that the academic testing had already been done. (see phone log). Exxx Sxxx says maybe she can “get to testing him Thursday, he’s at the top of the list”. Advocate faxes release of information to IEP team.

August 18th, 2003. New Special Ed teacher Mr. Cxxx tells advocate that Ixxx has already been tested by Mr. Gxxx (former Special Ed teacher who was now Program Specialist).
Requested test results from Exxx Sxxx, who tells advocate she can’t complete testing because Ixxx doesn’t have his glasses. Advocate informs parent and parent makes sure child has glasses the next day.

August 18th, 2003. Advocate hears from mother than Rxxx Gxxx has called her, and wants her to bring her son to a meeting to talk about the testing. She signs the paper thinking it is a permission to test, but is really an IEP Conference Invitation. She informs advocate to cancel the meeting when it is explained to her what has happened. Advocate calls Dr. Lxxx Sxxx, Director of Special Education to explain the situation, and is called back by Mxxxx Cxxx, Secretary of Accountability, who tells advocate she will have Dr. Sxxx call and to date advocate has not received that call.

August 19th, 2003. Mr Cxxx informs advocate that Mr. Gxxx has completed testing, and says that he was substituting when Ixxx was pulled out for testing twice. He said Mr. Gxxx had told him to tell advocate to call only Gxxx and that Gxxx had to re-test because of the glasses. Mr. Gxxx however, had never informed the parent or the advocate that glasses were an issue in his testing. Mr. Cxxx gave the advocate a cell phone to reach Mr. Gxxx, however the cell phone did not have a voice mailbox set up on which to leave messages.

August 26th, 2003. Mr. Gxxx says he never received Authorization to Release Information and gave advocate a fax number that did not answer. Advocate faxed it to two different numbers at the District and left a voicemail at the Special Education office of the district alerting them that it has been sent. Mr. Gxxx tells advocate that he had already tested Isaac, and that Exxx Sxxxx had finished her testing.

August 27th, 2003. Jxxx Wxxx calls and tells advocate “Mr. Gxxx and Exxx Sxxx are here, and they are finishing up the testing as we speak. Can you re-fax the Authorization to Exchange Information for everyone to me? “ and indicated she would fax the test results. No results were sent as of the end of the day August 28th, and no communication was received by parent nor advocate from the IEP team. The mother requested a copy of the signed assessment form on the principal’s voicemail and asked the front office secretary for a copy.

This is a statement of facts based on my records.

Sincerely,

Cxxx Sxxx, Ph.D.
Parent Advocate

The problem is not propaganda but the relentless control of the kind of things we think about

Brian Eno
Sunday August 17, 2003
The Observer

When I first visited Russia, in 1986, I made friends with a musician whose father had been Brezhnev's personal doctor. One day we were talking about life during 'the period of stagnation' - the Brezhnev era. 'It must have been strange being so completely immersed in propaganda,' I said.
'Ah, but there is the difference. We knew it was propaganda,' replied Sacha.

That is the difference. Russian propaganda was so obvious that most Russians were able to ignore it. They took it for granted that the government operated in its own interests and any message coming from it was probably slanted - and they discounted it.

In the West the calculated manipulation of public opinion to serve political and ideological interests is much more covert and therefore much more effective. Its greatest triumph is that we generally don't notice it - or laugh at the notion it even exists. We watch the democratic process taking place - heated debates in which we feel we could have a voice - and think that, because we have 'free' media, it would be hard for the Government to get away with anything very devious without someone calling them on it.

It takes something as dramatic as the invasion of Iraq to make us look a bit more closely and ask: 'How did we get here?' How exactly did it come about that, in a world of Aids, global warming, 30-plus active wars, several famines, cloning, genetic engineering, and two billion people in poverty, practically the only thing we all talked about for a year was Iraq and Saddam Hussein? Was it really that big a problem? Or were we somehow manipulated into believing the Iraq issue was important and had to be fixed right now - even though a few months before few had mentioned it, and nothing had changed in the interim.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America. According to Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber in their new book Weapons of Mass Deception , it was used to engineer a state of emergency that would justify an invasion of Iraq. Rampton and Stauber expose how news was fabricated and made to seem real. But they also demonstrate how a coalition of the willing - far-Right officials, neo-con think-tanks, insanely pugilistic media commentators and of course well-paid PR companies - worked together to pull off a sensational piece of intellectual dishonesty. Theirs is a study of modern propaganda.

What occurs to me in reading their book is that the new American approach to social control is so much more sophisticated and pervasive that it really deserves a new name. It isn't just propaganda any more, it's 'prop-agenda '. It's not so much the control of what we think, but the control of what we think about. When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks'. (What else can the spat between the BBC and Alastair Campbell be but a prime example of this?)

With the ground thus prepared, governments are happy if you then 'use the democratic process' to agree or disagree - for, after all, their intention is to mobilise enough headlines and conversation to make the whole thing seem real and urgent. The more emotional the debate, the better. Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

An example of this process is one highlighted by Rampton and Stauber which, more than any other, consolidated public and congressional approval for the 1991 Gulf war. We recall the horrifying stories, incessantly repeated, of babies in Kuwaiti hospitals ripped out of their incubators and left to die while the Iraqis shipped the incubators back to Baghdad - 312 babies, we were told.

The story was brought to public attention by Nayirah, a 15-year-old 'nurse' who, it turned out later, was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the US and a member of the Kuwaiti royal family. Nayirah had been tutored and rehearsed by the Hill & Knowlton PR agency (which in turn received $14 million from the American government for their work in promoting the war). Her story was entirely discredited within weeks but by then its purpose had been served: it had created an outraged and emotional mindset within America which overwhelmed rational discussion.

As we are seeing now, the most recent Gulf war entailed many similar deceits: false linkages made between Saddam, al-Qaeda and 9/11, stories of ready-to-launch weapons that didn't exist, of nuclear programmes never embarked upon. As Rampton and Stauber show, many of these allegations were discredited as they were being made, not least by this newspaper, but nevertheless were retold.

Throughout all this, the hired-gun PR companies were busy, preconditioning the emotional landscape. Their marketing talents were particularly useful in the large-scale manipulation of language that the campaign entailed. The Bushites realised, as all ideologues do, that words create realities, and that the right words can over whelm any chance of balanced discussion. Guided by the overtly imperial vision of the Project for a New American Century (whose members now form the core of the American administration), the PR companies helped finesse the language to create an atmosphere of simmering panic where American imperialism would come to seem not only acceptable but right, obvious, inevitable and even somehow kind.

Aside from the incessant 'weapons of mass destruction', there were 'regime change' (military invasion), 'pre-emptive defence' (attacking a country that is not attacking you), 'critical regions' (countries we want to control), the 'axis of evil' (countries we want to attack), 'shock and awe' (massive obliteration) and 'the war on terror' (a hold-all excuse for projecting American military force anywhere).

Meanwhile, US federal employees and military personnel were told to refer to the invasion as 'a war of liberation' and to the Iraqi paramilitaries as 'death squads', while the reliably sycophantic American TV networks spoke of 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' - just as the Pentagon asked them to - thus consolidating the supposition that Iraqi freedom was the point of the war. Anybody questioning the invasion was 'soft on terror' (liberal) or, in the case of the UN, 'in danger of losing its relevance'.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to. I hope writers such as Rampton and Stauber and others may have the same effect and help to emasculate the culture of spin and dissembling that is overtaking our political establishments.

· © Brian Eno 2003

Why the fuck do people hang so long after parties? I'm a first bus out the door and home person. This infuriates me to such a massive degree.

-- Ronan (ronan.fitzgerald6@mail.dcu.ie

(I don't know why the beast keeps copying things I've just read NB Ronan this was not intentiaonal!)

Comment:  I like this sentiment a lot.

"Twoooooooo Weeeeeeeeeeks"

by Katharine Rhodes Henderson

This article was first presented at “Generation of Giving: Women, Philanthropy, and Faith,” a conference sponsored by The Women’s Studies in Religion Program of Harvard Divinity School held at the Aspen Institute, Aspen, Colorado, October 5–7, 2001.

I am happy to be here because the theme for this conference includes some of my favorite topics—women, God, and money. Each one would be wonderful to talk about separately, but when taken together, they become an irresistible assignment for me as minister, fundraiser, and mother of a daughter who has just entered college. Of the topics—God, money, and motherhood—surprisingly only talk of motherhood is allowed in most circumstances. God and money are both delicate topics, to negotiate carefully or maybe not at all. So it may be that what Eve Ensler, playwright and author of the popular off-Broadway play, The Vagina Monologues has done in raising the comfort zone for the word vagina, we are doing here this weekend for women’s relationships to God and money. Now I debated whether I could say the “v” word in this company or not, and tried it out on my 82-year-old mother—who liked it—and my 59-year-old sister—who didn’t. Yet, I decided that the squeamishness we feel about going public in any of these areas is precisely the point. Yes, vagina, God, and money are charged topics, but this means there is something of great value at stake, and we may find it well worth our time to learn to speak of it together.

In fact, these three words have more in common than we might think. The European root of the word “money” is mens, the same root from which menses , or monthly cycle, is derived. The word “money” is also derived from the Latin moneta meaning mint or money. Moneta was originally the name of the goddess in whose temple in Rome money was coined. Helen Luke, author of The Way of Woman (1972), has observed:

It is significant indeed that the goddess from whose temple, from whose womb, so to speak, sprang the coinage of our civilization has sunk into obscurity and is forgotten, while the money dedicated to her, [the goddess Moneta] has acquired an ever-increasing autonomous power and is worshipped unashamedly as an end in itself. It was certainly not by chance that the Romans set their mint in the temple of a goddess and not a god—for money is a symbolic means of exchange and therefore belongs to the feminine principle of relatedness. If, therefore, the ‘goddess’ is missing—that third transpersonal factor which gives meaning to every exchange between human beings, (whether physical, emotional, spiritual or financial)—then [we] are in acute danger. . . .  

So, what we’re here to explore is the meaningful use of money—the lifeblood of modern culture. We need to understand that when we hold these delicate topics together again, we are entering a sacred precinct. We need to appreciate that we, as women philanthropists, have a particular capacity to bring the goddess— the feminine principle, the spirit—to bear on the public issues of our time.

When I was eighteen—the age my daughter is now—I participated in a study- travel program in Germany. There I met Vera Von Trott, then in her eighties, who planted a seed in me that is only now yielding fruit, which is that women have a special role in healing the world. She grew up in a wealthy aristocratic Lutheran family in Germany. During the Holocaust her brother, Adam, participated in a plot to assassinate Hitler and was killed for doing so. Vera took the family’s fortune and land and founded a religious community to care for children orphaned during the war. Fifty years later, the community Imshausen is still there doing all kinds of risk-taking, frontline work. Just a few years ago, I realized that Vera’s example resonated with a burning, primal question which has been motivating me all my life: “Why in the face of suffering do some people simply walk by while others take notice, respond, and act?”

Before I tell you about some who have been doing just that, let me take a few moments to set the context. I have been a Presbyterian minister now for twenty years. Over that period of time I have seen a decline in my kind of religion— which is called the mainstream. Presbyterians, like Episcopalians, Methodists and others have declined numerically and are becoming invisible culturally. Presbyterians, like Jews, have some of the lowest birthrates, so issues of survival are very real. In fact, should current trends continue, we can chart the exact moment in time when Presbyterians will cease to exist at all; there’s actually a computer program to demonstrate this. In the course of these twenty years, I have seen other changes as well, like the silencing of progressive religious voices in the public sphere. I am using progressive in the sense of forward-thinking commitment to the values of justice, equity, tolerance, pluralism, as well as the transformation of society to achieve those ends.

Although Americans say they believe in God, increasingly they do not express their beliefs by belonging to organized religion. And, progressive forms of religion—like Vera Von Trott’s, or the civil rights movement, where religious conviction and progressive public commitments go hand-in-hand—have gone out of style. What we hear most are the voices of the Religious Right, while others of us are increasingly quiet so that we won’t be considered overzealous. As constitutional law scholar Stephen Carter puts it, “Religion has become a hobby; best if it’s kept to oneself, under cover and out of view.” Or, as a recent article about the Washington social scene put it, “if you use the ‘G’ word, you can’t be on the ‘A’ list.” I experience these trends viscerally—at a cocktail party—when the chatter moves to the question of, “What do you do?” Sometimes I hide behind the formal title of executive vice president of an educational institution. The word “seminary” tends to throw people off. If I’m feeling particularly provocative and say “Presbyterian minister,” this is sure to be a conversation stopper as people search their minds to make sure that nothing they previously said would have caused their eternal damnation.

Several years ago, I realized that even as progressive religion was going undercover, I was aware of a countervailing phenomenon. There were in fact women, some of whom I had known for years, who had caught my attention like Vera Von Trott did—women leaders, changing the world, who seemed to be faith motivated. God, in other words, seemed to be somewhere in their public work. It was at this point that my informal pursuit of people whose lives helped answer my primal question became formal research. I interviewed in depth twenty of these women leaders—Jews, Christians, Muslims and others—to see what I could learn about the sources and shape of their commitments. How had they found their special role to play in healing the world?

Let me give you a feel for who they are.

Over twenty years ago, Gretchen Buchenholz was taking care of some business in a municipal building in New York City when she happened to open the wrong door. She said:  

I was probably preoccupied, I no longer remember, and I was supposed to go into 250 Church Street with regard to something having to do with daycare, but instead I walked into 251, and I saw what was sickening, shocking—little children, knocking on a metal door begging for something to eat or drink. There were about 75 families there, some on the floor sleeping. The whole place stank, primarily of diarrhea. There were knuckle marks on the door, but they only went up to the height where little children could reach, and they were begging the people on the other side of the door for food. I was really outraged, but at the same time, moved to do something about it.  

Gretchen left and instinctively went to make three phone calls. One was to the head of disaster relief of the Red Cross, whom she knew from volunteer work; the second was to the deputy mayor of operations to request an immediate food delivery; and the third was to the New York Times to get a photographer and reporter. She said, “It started to spin in the press. I also went to the neighborhood deli and to McDonald’s and brought back some bags of bread and peanut butter and juice, which wasn’t enough for everybody. . . .It was really something you would be sickened by in the developing world, but here in New York City, we’re talking about a very affluent time, something so foreign.”

This experience started Gretchen on a whole new path to the founding of something as basic as the Association to Benefit Children (ABC), a multimillion dollar non-profit to “challenge and to change the myriad threats to childhood” by providing all the things needed for optimal growth: food, shelter, safety, love and education. Gretchen’s organization was simultaneously a critique of society and an alternative , embodying values that mainstream society had seemingly forgotten, namely that everyone deserves a childhood. Gretchen never thought of herself as an activist. She simply said, “I was an innocent bystander. I had no training, gift, talent or knowledge. I had quarters to make a phone call.”

Sister Helen Prejean had been “following Jesus” all her life as a nun. She did acts of charity to help poor people, but had no direct knowledge of people in need. Then she moved to the St. Thomas housing projects in New Orleans and began to see some of this firsthand. She told me:  

The presence of people in St. Thomas was life-changing for me because it galvanized a whole part of me, which had been lying there dormant. My image was that the locomotive of my faith had never connected behind all these little cars. A huge fusion of connection happened when social justice hooked onto my spiritual life. Before, I think most of my energy was vertical. I was trying to go upward to God, trying to have union with God. . .but it had never thrust horizontally with other people.  

Then someone asked her to write to a man on death row, who was convicted of the rape, torture and murder of two teenagers. She wrote and then visited him. It changed her life.  

And visiting him, it was just like something happened in my soul. I was hooked for life. There was no way I was going to turn away from this man. And I just ratcheted along and watched him being executed in front of my eyes. And it was like another baptism, that either paralyzes you or galvanizes you. And it had an effect on me. I had a mission.  

Her mission has grown into a movement against the death penalty in the United States and involves extensive speaking, nationally and internationally. She has become a well-known figure through her book, Dead Man Walking , and the movie based upon it, in which Susan Sarandon played Sister Helen.

And a third story. Originally from Pakistan, Riffat Hassan has been a successful academic in Islamic religious studies for decades. She was drawn into activism when women activists whose lives were literally at stake in Muslim countries begged her to help them counter the violence against women there. Perhaps some of you have seen the public television special on this kind of violence, called “honor” killings, where male family members—husbands, fathers, brothers, uncles—torture and kill women, often for imagined wrong-doings. Riffat has become the leader of an international organization to get assistance for these women victims; to internationalize the issue by making it visible.

Riffat’s strategy is to unite political activism with better religious arguments, drawing upon her life-long study of gender references in the Koran.

She told me:  
I began to see very clearly that there was a big discrepancy between what the Koran says about the rights of women and what was actually happening to Muslim women in Muslim countries. I also began to see how many things had happened to me because I had been born a female in a Muslim society. I started to feel very angry, and I think in a way that anger has stayed with me all these years, because I feel that the teachings are misunderstood or manipulated in such a way as to be disadvantageous to women.

Three women, three stories, and this is just a taste. What is important to note is that these encounters with need sparked a passion that had lain dormant and then reoriented these women towards unmapped territory in their lives. At close range each story is utterly distinctive and yet when you move back from them there begin to be common patterns that emerge, common themes— ways in which feminine wisdom is brought to bear on public issues. I want to tell you about three of these patterns which I feel have a direct bearing on our discussion here of God, money, and the common good.

I begin with a dance step. One I call the one-on-one systemic dance. Isn’t it interesting that the women’s first steps were intimate, modest acts between one human being and another—buying peanut butter, writing a letter and visiting a dying man, being called into action on the frontlines by colleagues? Who would think to call this leadership? Or healing the world? In fact, many of these women leaders had no prior training, no knowledge of directing non-profit organizations or leading public causes. They simply responded whole-heartedly to the particular need at hand. And yet over time, these initial acts of compassion connected the women to a nexus of complex public issues—criminal justice, child welfare, AIDS, violence against women. Individuals in need were the means by which societal ills came into focus for these women. And it was clear that they valued these concrete, intimate acts as ways of understanding the larger issues.

These women understood individuals as microcosms of social systems, which gave glimpses of the whole. They treated individuals and social systems as a continuum, so that transformation in one sphere was key to transformation in the other. There was remarkable consensus about the need to work with both individuals and systems. And to move back and forth between the two in an ongoing dance. Sister Helen Prejean described it this way:  

If I get into a ministry to people on death row and then I didn’t engage in any of the efforts to change the system of it—abolish the Death Penalty—I would be doing something charitable (accompanying people to their deaths and comforting them), but I wouldn’t be doing anything to resist the evil, and I couldn’t do that. But visiting with people on death row, that’s the anchor, the baseline. It’s the personal and every person’s a universe. Solidarity with poor people and being in the company of people suffering is an essential spiritual dynamic. Without that you begin to drift away, you put gloves on, and you begin to do these commentaries on your experiences, once removed, twice removed.

Like Sister Prejean, many of the women leaders practiced this one-on-one systemic dance. Even after their organizations became larger and more complex, and they themselves more visible non-profit executives or spokespersons for a cause, they kept the lifeline going with the intimate one-on-one connections. In fact, these connections were essential to keep them fed and sustained.

Now, how does this phenomenon of the one-on-one systemic dance relate to our work as philanthropists concerned with the common good? The stories of these women leaders, taken together, tell us this: Go toward the need or the project that moves you, even if it carries you into unknown territory. Allow yourself to respond in intimate, instinctual, modest ways. Pay attention to your outrage. Know that if you care enough, you will find a way to take the next step and the next. In the meantime, know that the simple, intimate acts, when practiced across the country and around the globe, do change social systems. Justice is intimate caring writ large. Women, who have cared intimately for individuals for centuries, have a special role to play in healing the world.

This one on one/systemic dynamic provides another insight into our relationship with money. We know that for any of us money has the power to insulate us from the wider world. At the extreme we can be so focused on our own comfort, amidst our own circle of friends like us, that we lose perspective on what the common good might be. I know this as a New Yorker who sometimes takes cabs to avoid the subway; from my occasional exposure to the privacy of chartered planes, private hospital rooms and good medical care; and gated communities that make me feel safe.

None of these is by itself necessarily problematic, but taken together they should give us pause. These women leaders kept the one-on-one encounters in their lives because, however disturbing and heartbreaking they may have been, they were also somehow a lifeline for them. Money used to insulate and isolate us from others, especially those who seem different, may well end up isolating us from our deeper selves as well.

Money used as the Romans originally intended—as a medium of meaningful exchange—becomes a force for liberation and empowerment. In a meaningful exchange, both parties give and both parties receive. In this way money becomes part of a spiritual exchange in which people encounter each other and their own deepest selves.

This brings us to the second pattern I want to discuss, which has to do with how religious convictions connect with public work, regardless of whether that work is explicitly religious . I want to clarify here that the women I interviewed were for the most part not professional religious leaders—not ministers and rabbis; several were lay people with no formal religious education or title. Many were restless, even angry at the lack of response on the part of organized religious leaders and institutions in addressing the challenges and needs of public life, or even their own religious needs. They felt that mainstream religion had been tamed, domesticated, that religious leaders and institutions were inwardly focused, taking care of their own, but not attending to healing the world. One said poignantly: “The lights in all the cathedrals have gone out, there’s nothing but darkness.” A Jewish respondent revealed that she had founded her organization in part because “she could not find a place for herself religiously” in the Jewish community around her.

Yet, despite their ambivalence about being called religious leaders, I considered them to be faith-based leaders because every one of them acknowledged the importance of religious tradition and faith in fueling their work in the world. Their very critiques of religion, in my opinion, were a hallmark of their deeper faithfulness. In some cases their work was connected to religious institutions but often it happened in alternative structures. Many of my respondents were entrepreneurs, creating organizations of their own because traditional organizations were not addressing the needs at hand. They were practicing what might be called a “resistance” faith. This form of faith does not practice complacency and does not see itself as maintaining the status quo. It is not preoccupied with doctrine and dogma. “Resistance” faith is about liberating people to be the human beings God created them to be.

If we use this broad definition of what it means to offer faith-based leadership, then all of you are potentially faith-based leaders. You, like the women in this study, can let your faith show through in your work. This means that the images you hold of God and Spirit, and your deepest convictions about how life is or should be, will inform your philanthropy. For all of us, it is a matter of appropriating religious images, theologies, messages, models and rituals and mining them for the gold and guidance they contain, without relinquishing our valid critiques of their limitations. This is to proceed with faith.

Here’s how Henna Hahn did this. She founded the Rainbow Center, a shelter for Korean women who have been abused by their American G.I. husbands. She named it after the rainbow that appeared in the biblical story of Noah in which, after the devastation of a flood, God made a covenant or promise with the people that the world would not be destroyed again. In speaking of the name, Henna said: “they need the rainbow, no more punishment.”

The Rainbow Center was a not-for-profit that provided a full range of services to women who experience bi-cultural and bi-racial challenges: direct services of shelter and food, counseling, English and citizenship classes, legal assistance, work on immigration policy and advocacy. But Henna spoke of this nonprofit as a family, modeled after the Korean cultural concept of Chin-Jeong Jip, translated as a mother’s house. She explained that in traditional Korean culture, when a woman marries, she goes to her husband’s home, where she assumes a servant role for her husband’s family. In certain circumstances, however, she may return to her mother’s house, when she has morning sickness or for a family wedding. Having a living mother with a house gives her status in her husband’s home because she always has a place to which she can return.

Henna’s own mother died of cancer when she was a child during the Korean war and for years her self-concept was as a poor motherless child. Henna, like her clients, needed a mother’s house to shelter her. Henna said: “When I opened the Rainbow Center everybody told me you are the mother of the Rainbow Center. Not! So, who is mother? God! God is mother. God is the mother and we are all the sisters. So, I’m like a big sister.”

Henna’s image of God shaped the environment of her non-profit and her own leadership. God was lowly, not powerful and mighty in the puffed up sense. For her, the “power” meant “compassionate, hospitable mother.” You could say that she viewed her own work as “mothering” an ailing society toward more complete justice by reconstituting the dynamics of the mother-child dyad in the behavior of public organizations; bringing feminine wisdom to bear on difficult public issues.

How does God look to you sitting here this evening? How do these images help you to rethink strength, courage, power, compassion, and love? Because who God is for you, what God looks like—not in the physical sense but in the heart and mind sense—can go along way toward guiding your giving and the impact you wish to have in the world. Our sacred texts and religious teachings will not give us exact blueprints to follow as philanthropists. They cannot tell us which organizations to support, how much is enough, whether to spend income only or to invade capital, to tithe before or after taxes, to adjudicate the concepts of charity and justice. But God’s own behavior toward God’s people can give us real hints as to how to define generosity.

The Bible is replete with images and metaphors of abundance: manna in the desert, blossoms in the wilderness, streams of living water appearing when desperately needed, captives being released and coming at last to the Promised Land, God’s drying every tear, the bountiful harvest—just celebrated as Sukkoth. These are images of boundless generosity. Story after story of God’s taking risks and not playing it safe, going the distance to love us. Our sacred texts provide us with a theology of abundance . These powerful images can support us in making the improbable real. How much money would it take to address your greatest passion? Let God’s love that knows no bounds be your guide.

And, as you consider what needs to be done, let your religious traditions teach you about the gap between what is and what could be. The Jewish concepts of tikkun olam , repair of the world, or of tzedakah , the obligation to pursue justice, imply that the world is not yet put right; that there is work to be done and that we are part of it. These concepts support the restlessness of a resistance faith. For Christians, the whole concept of stewardship, of being stewards of the creation, implies that everything we have is gift and that we must commit ourselves to work now for the reign of God. The very concept of working for the reign of God implies the gap between where we are and where God wants us to be. The catalyst for our generosity as human beings, as those who are directed beyond ourselves, lives in the tension of that gap. Often we want to numb ourselves to that heartbreaking tension. But the more keenly we allow ourselves to feel it, the more we will become the stewards, the leaders God intends. Most of us know what would offend God. From that our imagination can quickly move to how it could be different. What would delight God? How would God define the common good? What will we risk to work in its behalf?

As you may know, women are already some of the biggest risk-takers in terms of giving. While traditional patterns of philanthropy favor the arts, cultural organizations, and alma maters, one study of elite giving showed that women and Jews in particular support riskier social causes. As individuals and private donors, women can give to marginal, unpopular causes in ways that foundations and corporations can’t or won’t touch. So, in some ways women are already on the right track.

One third of working women in two- income households make more than their husbands. If women leverage this demographic power and decide to give more money away in meaningful exchange, think of what could happen. It could be argued that money coming from women in the next decade or two has greater potential for making a positive, powerful, progressive impact upon the world than any other single factor we know of.

My research suggests that our connection to God may be the decisive factor in unlocking this potential. Sister Helen Prejean said faith and courageous action are linked:  
 

If you don’t know your own desires, if you haven’t touched base with your own soul, then you’re easily prey to anybody coming along and saying, “You ought to do this.” So the heart of it is to get in touch with your deepest desires.What motivates me is my faith at the core of my action. My prayer is a whole way of aligning myself with the energy of God. To me the big image is energy, movement, a stream. So you put your little boat in the stream. And when you’re in the stream and God’s love is flowing through, you can be bold. You just say, for example: The death penalty is wrong, people are suffering, there’s great injustice. I will take it on.  

Aligning ourselves with God carries us into deeper relationship with ourselves and others. It can liberate our greatest passions and sustain us in our struggle for a better world. We will know better when to say yes and when to say no. But for this to happen, we must practice the art of being a small boat in a mighty stream.

If my study has wider relevance for women, and I believe it does, then there is another art that we must also practice—the art of living a seamless life. This is the third and last pattern that I want to speak to you about tonight. It has to do with living a life that overcomes classic separations between private and public, sacred and secular, matter and spirit. As we at this conference explore the meaningful use of money, we too are doing this connective work. Can God and mammon be held together?

Literally all of the women leaders in my study exhibited this trait, but it was Laura Jervis who coined the term seamlessness. Laura has spent the past twenty years developing thousands of units of housing for the poor elderly on the west- side of Manhattan. When I asked her if she considered this work a job, a profession, or ministry, she said that the personal, professional, and religious dimensions of her life all fit together as a whole:  
 
My life on the West Side is really life in community, and there is a sense of seamlessness to my life. . .which I sometimes resent a little because it can feel like there’s no escape. . . .That’s hard. But most of the time I  think it’s the right way to live. But it is a kind of public life. . .it’s the community board, it’s the churches and several synagogues, it’s the community of my organization. . .and it’s all really one. There’s a sense of symmetry and wholeness about it, which, if I were asked to, I don’t think I could sacrifice.  

This conviction that life really is all of a piece I’ve called a “feminist ethic of connection.” It is not about seeking an elusive perfection or ignoring tensions and complexities. It is a conviction that everything is connected—everything—and that there is greater integrity in living as if this were so.

Now to be sure this may in part be pragmatic, for as women we may not have the luxury of separating the different parts of our lives in the ways that men do. For most of us multitasking taken to an exponential level is how we live. But for the women I studied, knitting together the various spheres of their lives was not simply practical. It was a conviction that acting in the home and in the world in harmony with one’s deepest beliefs is the way life can best be lived. These women consciously strove to put their beliefs into practice.

For instance, they wanted both the external aims and the internal structure of their public organizations to mirror their personal ethical convictions. Also, holding an ethic of seamlessness meant believing that religious values have a place in secular settings. Henna unabashedly said that in her experience complete healing did not take place without God. Yet she was clear that her work was not to make the Rainbow sister/clients Christians, but “to help them become the whole human beings God created them to be.

We can all recognize that living a seamless life is not supported by our culture. In fact being here trying to connect all of these different topics—God, money, the common good, motherhood—is countercultural, an act of resistance faith. Think about it, our culture teaches us to compartmentalize the various parts of our lives. We must be professional over here and keep our personal lives from impinging on that space; separate your private religious beliefs from your public commitments because I’m spiritual here and a citizen there; and please keep God separate from money. In the workplace, even at high levels, people have become soulless commodities with skill sets, who can easily be transferred from one company to the next. No wonder there are so many self-help books trying to make us “whole.”

I don’t think that God sees us as compartmentalized people. One of the haunting lines in the New Testament is this: “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” In other words, follow the money and you will find out what matters most in an individual’s life or the life of a family. . .or a society. But if we follow the money in our society, what appears to matter most? Where are the treasures accumulating in our economy? Salaries for ball players or actors, Internet consumerism, blockbuster movies. Are these truly what we value most? As philanthropists, how can we put our treasure and our hearts into better alignment?

Ganga Stone, one of the women in my study, gives us an important insight here. She says: “I guess when people ask me, how do you identify what your mission is, I think you look at the thing that you understand the best, or the thing that breaks your heart the most, and you go work there. Because when you’re working in one of those areas, nothing can stop you, when you really know.”

What Ganga reveals is that finding your mission, your life’s work, is the true treasure. We might well say, “Where your heart is, there will your treasure be also.” The passion that flows from leading the seamless life is unstoppable. I have seen evidence of this in the remarkable work of the women I studied.

That same hunger for seamlessness is expressed in our best hopes for this conference. As you dare to align the financial resources at your disposal with your energy, passion, and deepest intuitions about how God wants us to live, nothing can get in your way. Nothing.

To be sure working for justice and helping to heal the world can be heartbreaking work. I don’t want to minimize that. Much of the transformation we hope for will not take place in our lifetimes. But one of the most remarkable findings of my study, and one which has been confirmed in other studies, is that however difficult it is to work on behalf of the common good, it is deeply gratifying, energizing work.When I asked these women leaders how they sustained themselves in the work, they cited the support of women friends and colleagues as one of their most important resources.

Laura said:  
My little cabal of women friends is really very important to me. We intersect at these wonderful moments and points, and we refer to each other as lifelines a lot of the time. There’s nothing we can’t talk about; they’re a touchstone for me. And we push each other. If one of us—I think it’s usually me—is being a little timid, there’s that push to be more courageous. I don’t know what I would do without that.  

In fact for those few leaders who felt the need to leave the frontline for a time, one of the biggest reasons was that they had not put enough time into meaningful relationships that supported and sustained them.

This is why we are really here; why some of us have come all the way across the country—overcoming all sorts of fears of flying—to be together. We are acknowledging that you can’t be a philanthropist/activist alone; that it takes a village to raise and sustain just one. We are here as mothers and daughters—one of the most intimate biological units, yet also one with potential for enormous conflict. Of this I am sure! So this alone is a huge step.

There are other steps just as large. We bring with us into this community- in-process all of our reluctance to trust; our desires to be loved and liked for ourselves and not for our money alone; our fear that there won’t be enough; or that we don’t know enough to do it right. We bring our experiences of the exhilaration of saying yes and the difficulty of saying no. Some of us share guilt over having money to begin with, or fears of losing it. We bring wounds of family fights and triumphs over doing well with what we have and who we are. We bring doubts about having any faith at all and experiences of faith the size of a mustard seed that can move even mountains.

And, we are not here alone. In the Christian idiom, we talk about a cloud of witnesses. There are many women who have come before, women known and unknown, the ancestors who are with us now—Gluckel of Hameln many centuries ago, a Jewish widow, who, after her husband’s death, took over his business and became a philanthropist; Catherine Beecher, who in her treatise On Domestic Economy , published in the 1830s, devoted a whole chapter to the Christian understanding of giving; she said it was the hardest chapter for her to write; Julia, the seller of purple in the Bible, who financed some of the activities of the early followers of Jesus; there are abolitionists and suffragists whose public work was undergirded by their religious convictions. There are those in your own families who belong to the cloud of witnesses: the grandmother who took you along to collect the money from the tzedakah box, who said that if someone asked you for money, they needed it more than you did, or the father with whom you went door to door every Sunday to sign up members for the ADL or B’nai B’rith; there are those of you whose mothers built houses of prayer on friendship, bake sales and bequests.

And there are those women leaders like those I interviewed who struggle on the frontlines to clothe the naked, to visit the imprisoned, to preach release to the captives, a message of hope and peace in hearts of despair, who are not afraid to look teenagers in the eye, and who must micromanage budgets to the penny to meet the next payroll. Some of these are our partners and some of these women are desperately looking for potential partners, like you, who come with ideas and resources.

All of these women, known and unknown, are our partners too.

I began this evening with the wisdom of the Romans in locating their mint within the temple of the goddess Moneta. I have spoken of some of the ways that heart and treasure become one. Let me close with one more image about the desire to create gold.

You may know the Greek myth of King Midas, who was granted his wish that everything he touched would turn to gold. At first it seemed an enviable gift. But when the food and drink he brought to his lips were also transformed to gold that he could not eat, he began to die of hunger and thirst. In one version of the story he sees his daughter approaching after a long absence and he runs to greet her with a warm embrace. To his horror she, too, turns to gold. Gold, in and of itself, is not the treasure.

I would like to suggest then that we wor an alchemy of a different sort. We, like the women leaders I studied, can be social alchemists—those who see within the crying need at hand the potential, the possibility of healing and transformation, the gold within. May we rewrite the myth-mothers and daughters, sisters all—by investing all of the resources available to us—money, energy, imagination, boldness, wisdom, and love—to transform the reality that we see before us. In this way, we will feed our own hungers, slake our thirst, and turn the gold entrusted to us into living currency, the social currency of transformation. Let us take this on, not for our sakes alone, but, perhaps now more than ever, even for the sake of the whole world.

Source: Cross Currents, Summer 2003, Vol. 53,  No 2.

wah wah wah waaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh

-- Carey (flembac...), September 1st, 2003. (Carey)
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(sidenote to Orbit: *that* was on yr clipboard?)

(god, what a nerdy clipboard I have)

Pritchert and Guthrie were wanted by the FBI for robbing six banks throughout the Southwest and Pacific Northwest. The bank robberies date back to 1997. Pritchert was released from a federal prison in Arizona in June of 1996 after serving time for a Las Vegas bank robbery. Agents say after his release he lived in Phoenix, AZ until August 1997 when he robbed a Northwest Bank in Scottsdale, AZ. Agents say Pritchert continued his crime spree with his girlfriend, Guthrie.

In March of 1999, Guthrie surrendered to the Denver, Colorado FBI. She was later released on bond. Guthrie moved to Wyoming and worked as a waitress. It is believed Pritchert and Guthrie reunited on the Internet. In April 1999, Guthrie drove to Cheyenne to meet Pritchert and resumed her life on the run with him.

Pritchert and Guthrie have led the FBI to several places including Belize and British Columbia. America’s Most Wanted profiled the bank robbing couple six times. Tips from our viewers helped track the couple to several different places during their life on the run, including a hockey game in Nova Scotia. The tips led to a near capture, but the couple was able to slip away.

Though very little information is being release about the arrest of Pritchert and Guthrie, America’s Most Wanted was able to find out that the FBI in Phoenix, AZ recently received information that Pritchert and Guthrie were living in Cape Town, South Africa. Guthrie was working as a waitress in a local restaraunt. With the help of South African Police Service (SAPS) and the Legal Attaché Office, the FBI was able to set up surveillance on the couple. On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, the SAPS and the Legal Attaché arrested Pritchert and Guthrie in their residence as they were eating dinner.

Pritchert and Guthrie where taken to a South African jail and now are awaiting extradition.

To clarify:

Carey posted her own chat transcript here.

Her post to "What are you thinking" was on my clipboard.

let's only have genuine, unthinking clipboard payouts now, please.

i drank another, y'see

-- jess (dubplatestyl...) (webmail), February 13th, 2002 8:00 PM. (link)

(from the crush-deterrant thread. i was going to find the laugh out loud thread, but meh.)

"without her mouth"?

Aren't those Greenspun's dog's names?

When the world is too much with me
Please leave, just go away
Before I lose my mind completely
Please leave, just go now
In the sidestreet something's moving
Look around, look around
All around you
Walls are tumbling down
Stop staring at the ground

They're the names of dolls.

****

"I know it takes a lot to hit the high spot, G spot, money shot ah ha!" After all these years Kat Bjelland is still singing/drawling like the world's not in front of her face, still playing those driven guitar parts with the same Rickenbacker guitar with cat stickers on. She still does those cute/silly one-footed high kicks too. Put simply, Money shot rocks, business as usual.

B-side Busiest Shopping Day of the Year might be about Kat's day job waitressing. There's no justice, but you knew that didn't you?

Mei Lewis

BOFH 2003: Episode 19

"Uh, hello..." one of the helldesk wannabes burbles as he advances cautiously into Mission Control.

"Mmmm," the PFY answers calmly.

"I was just wondering if you guys could give me some pointers for my CV."

"?"

"Oh, right! I'm applying for a technical role and just wanted some tips on how to put my resumé together to give me a better chance at getting the job!"

"I see," I respond, leaping into the conversation once I sense blood in the water... "Well, lets see... How to make your CV the one they look at..."

"Well, there's the obvious things..." the PFY chips in.

"Yes?" the wannabe asks eagerly.

"Well a lot of CVs suffer from being far too short. What can you learn about someone in two or three pages? I mean there's barely enough room to list all your primary school grades, let alone the rest of your qualifications?"

"Primary school grades? Really?"

"Oh yes, I don't know how many times I've seen them left out of a CV. You see you can tell a lot about a person's character by how well they did in primary school, which subjects and what scores. I mean people cram their CV with tertiary qualifications when every real employer knows those scores are only there to get a job.

"I prefer that the person leaves out any history of tertiary education," the PFY adds.

"Really, because this book I have about writing the best resumé says that--"

"That would be a book written by a person NOT in a technical role? Written to make money out of people wanting technical roles?"

"I..."

"As opposed to a couple of people who've employed countless people in technical roles?"

"Yes, I suppose you're right."

"So anyway, another obvious thing is you want your CV to stand out from the others."

"Yes!"

"So print it on pink paper."

"PINK?"

"Yes - it won't get lost and it will stand out from the others."

"But isn't pink a little... well... effeminate?"

"NOT if you mention 'Shagging a different bird every night' in your Hobbies and Interests," I counter.

"Shagging a different bird every night?"

"Yes, you're right, KNOBBING a different bird every night."

"Really? Isn't that a bit non-PC?"

"Yep, but you're after a technical role now, which is predominantly male dominated, so you want to appear to be one of the lads."

"Oh, I see. What else?"

"Well you'd better put down drinking as a hobby too."

"Right, anything else?"

"Well," the PFY says, "one thing I do like to see on a CV is a photo - and not one of those tiny passport jobbies, I mean a real photo, full page. There was one on a CV recently which was absolutely inspired."

"Really?"

"Yeah, the guy was a long distance runner and so he had a full page photo of him in running gear crossing the finish line in a race. You play sport?"

"No."

"Good answer - you're after a technical role after all. Which reminds me, put down 'watching TV' as a hobby too - employers like to know that they'll find their employees at home if they have to be called out after hours.

"Got any hobbies?"

"No... I used to play D&D when I was a kid..."

"Bloody fantastic. Put it in as a hobby, and have a photo of you in D&D gear as the cover page. A wizard or something."

"Really? I thought just a normal photo of me in a suit..."

"Which they'll see you in at interview time. You're trying to establish a character that people will remember - right?"

"Right!"

"How far did you get with D&D?"

"I was a 17th level Mage with a +10 Wand of Lightning!" he blurts, unable to suppress the pride.

"Right - list that in your acheivements. Oh, and put a 'Bronze lifesaving award' in too."

"Won't they check?"

"How? Anyway, if it ever came down to it, a bronze lifesaving award only means you're skilled enought to rescue someone from a handbasin, so it won't matter."

"But what if they find out?"

"No one ever checks qualifications! So while you're at it slap in some fake certifications - like MCSE, MCSA, CCNA, etc - no one really knows what they mean. If you're asked at the interview just say you didn't bring the certificates because they're framed."

"Uh-huh."

"Oh, and best to keep it informal too. So in the covering letter, don't be using things like 'Dear Sir' and 'Yours Sincerely'."

"No?"

"No! Use things like 'H3y Dud3z!!!!!' and 'LaT3R l33tR!'"

"Oh. OK."

"Well, I think that should think cover it."

"You missed out criminal record," the PFY adds.

"Oh, right. Put in something like 'breaking and entering' or 'theft as a servant' a couple of years back."

"WHY?!?!" the wannabe gasps.

"Look," the PFY says quietly, glancing around in case we're being listened to. "Occasionally, technical roles call for a little bit of the old thud and blunder - say you need to check out a user's workstation off the record - or maybe they'll want you to wander over to competitors site and uplift some information - at night. They want someone who isn't a career criminal, but who does know how to handle the black-ops, so to speak."

"Riiiight," he burbles, seeing himself as the James Bond of the technical world. "Thanks, I'll get right onto it!"

... Three days later ....

"Morning," the Boss burbles, trundling into the office with benevolence on full beam. "I've just managed to fill that technical role in R&D, and I believe you two were instrumental in helping him with that fantastic CV of his..."

Sigh.

I think I'd like to be killed now please... ®

(I genuinely have no clue what these words are doing on my clipboard.)

-- Geir Hongro (geirhon...), March 4th, 2004 11:32 AM. (GeirHong) (later)

( I have to save all my postings as my browser returns "No Message" error 1 times out of 20)

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BG23 Advancing musket 45deg (fixed bayonet)
BG24 At the ready

Infantry in slouch hat, shell jacket, no equipment

BG25 Kneeling firing
BG26 Charging (fixed bayonet)
BG27 Slouch hat, frock coat, firing
BG28 Slouch hat, frock coat, blanket roll,
advancing.
BG28a Skirimisher pack, slouch hat, mixed poses
and equipment
BG29 Assorted figures in mixed dress which is
patched and worn.

BG30 Assorted dead and wounded (6 per pack)
BG31 Command pack: Union officer, std.bearer and
drummer, adv.
BG32 Command pack: Union officer, std.bearer and
drummer, stationary
BG33 Command pack: Confederate Officer, std.bearer,
drummer, adv.
BG34 Command pack: Confederate Officer, std.bearer,
drummer, stationary.
BG35 Command pack: Infantry officer in kepi, mounted
BG36 Command pack: Infantry officer in slouch hat, mounted.
BG37 Command pack: Mounted Union General, two Staff Officers
BG38 Command pack: Mounted Confederate General, two Staff Officers
BG39 Command pack: 2 dismounted Union Generals and 4 Staff Officers
BG40 Command pack: 2 dismtd. Confed.Generals and
four Staff Officers

ZOUARVES

In kepi and full equipment

BG41 At the ready
BG42 Kneeling
BG43 Firing
BG44 Charging

In Stocking hat

BG45 Firing
BG46 Kneeling

In turban

BG47 Attacking
BG48 Charging
BG49 Command pack: Zouarve officer, std.bearer and
drummer (suitable for all Zouarves)

AT
THE GROSVENOR HOUSE HOTEL, PARK LANE,
LONDON W1

THE EVENING WILL BE HOSTED BY JIMMY CARR

WILL WYATT CBE, RTS PRESIDENT
WILL PRESENT THE AWARDS

NOMINATIONS

Actor (Female)

Kate Ashfield - This Little Life BBC Films & The Film Council present a Common Features Production in association with the Northern Production Fund and the Yorkshire Media Production Agency/Studio of the North for BBC TWO
Joanne Froggatt - Danielle Cable: Eyewitness Granada Television for ITV1
Bronagh Gallagher - Holy Cross BBC Northern Ireland in association with Radio Telefis Eireann for BBC ONE

Actor (Male)

David Morrissey - The Deal Granada Television for Channel 4
Bill Nighy - State of Play BBC in association with Endor Productions for BBC ONE
Antony Sher – Home BBC Fictionlab for BBC FOUR

Arts

George Orwell: A Life in Pictures Wall to Wall for BBC TWO
Jump London An Optomen Television Production for Channel 4
Operatunity A Diverse Production for Channel 4

Children's Drama

The Illustrated Mum A Granada Kids Production for Channel 4
Bus Life: Bad Hair Day Disney Channel
Girls in Love Granada Kids for CiTV

Children's Programme

Dick & Dom in Da Bungalow CBBC for the CBBC Channel and BBC ONE
UP2U A WisedUp Production for CiTV
Jungle Run Granada Kids for CiTV

Comedy Performance

Ricky Gervais - The Office Christmas Specials BBC Entertainment for BBC ONE
Jocelyn Jee Esien - 3 Non Blondes Brown Eyed Boy for BBC THREE
David Walliams & Matt Lucas - Little Britain BBC New Comedy for BBC THREE

Daytime Programme

Britain's Secret Shame BBC Daytime/BBC Current Affairs for BBC ONE
Trisha Anglia Television for ITV
Richard & Judy A Cactus Production for Channel 4

Documentary Series – General

Surviving Extremes A Keo Films.com in association with AAC FACT Production for Channel 4
The Last Peasants An October Film for Channel 4
National Trust Oxford Film & Television for BBC FOUR

Drama Serial

The Second Coming Red Production Company for ITV1
The Lost Prince A Talkback Production in association with BBC Films/A WGBH Boston Co-Production for BBC ONE
State of Play BBC in association with Endor Productions for BBC ONE

Drama Series

Spooks A Kudos Film & Television Production for BBC ONE
At Home with the Braithwaites 4 Yorkshire Television for ITV1
Teachers 3 Tiger Aspect Productions for Channel 4

Entertainment

Bo Selecta A Talkback Thames Production for Channel 4
Little Britain BBC New Comedy for BBC THREE
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway Granada Entertainment for ITV1

Entertainment Performance

Ant & Dec - Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway/I'm A Celebrity..Get Me Out Of Here!/Pop Idol Granada Entertainment for ITV1 / LWT Factual for ITV1 / Thames/19TV for ITV1
Jonathan Ross - Friday Night With Jonathan Ross Open Mike Productions for BBC ONE
Mark Steel - Mark Steel Lectures BBC New Comedy for BBC FOUR/Open University

Features and Factual Entertainment

How Clean Is Your House? A Talkback Thames Production for Channel 4
Holiday Showdown RDF Media for ITV1
Wife Swap An RDF Media Production for Channel 4

History

Killing Hitler Diverse Production for BBC TWO
Georgian Underworld: Invitation to a Hanging A Juniper Production for Channel 4
Colosseum BBC Specialist Factual for BBC ONE

Network Newcomer Behind the Screen

Helen Blakeman – Pleasureland A Kudos Production for Channel 4
Sarah Gavron - This Little Life BBC Films & The Film Council present a Common Features Production in association with the Northern Production Fund and the Yorkshire Media Production Agency/Studio of the North for BBC TWO
Avie Luthra - Canterbury Tales: The Sea Captain's Tale BBC in association with Ziji Productions for BBC ONE

Network Newcomer On Screen

Harry Eden - Real Men BBC Scotland for BBC TWO
Katie Lyon – Pleasureland A Kudos Production for Channel 4
Marc Wooton - My New Best Friend A Tiger Aspect Production for Channel 4

Presenter (Factual)

Melvyn Bragg - The Adventure of English/The South Bank Show LWT for ITV1
Ben Lewis - Art Safari Bergmann Pictures for BBC FOUR
Nigel Marven - Sea Monsters & Land of Giants Impossible Pictures for BBC ONE

Regional Presenter

Gerry Anderson - Anderson In … Green Inc. for BBC ONE Northern Ireland
Lucinda Lambton - Sublime Suburbia A Clementine Production in association with Carlton for the London Region
Michele Newman - It's Your Shout/Pulling Power A Carlton Production for the Central Region

Regional Programme

Chancers Tern Television for BBC ONE Scotland
Christine's Children Double Band Films for BBC ONE Northern Ireland

RTS International Award

24 (Season 2) Real Time Productions and Imagine Television in association with Twentieth Century Fox Television for BBC TWO and BBC THREE
Six Feet Under HBO for E4/Channel 4
Sex and the City HBO for Channel 4

Science & Natural History

DNA A Windfall Film for Channel 4
Motherland - A Genetic Journey Takeaway Media for BBC TWO
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World BBC Specialist Factual for BBC TWO

Single Documentary – General

Living with Michael Jackson Granada for ITV
One Life: Size Doesn't Matter BBC Documentaries & Contemporary Factual for BBC ONE
The Secret Policeman BBC Documentaries & Contemporary Factual for BBC ONE

Single Drama

This Little Life BBC Films & The Film Council present a Common Features Production in association with the Northern Production Fund and the Yorkshire Media Production Agency/Studio of the North for BBC TWO
Larkin: Love Again World Productions for BBC TWO
The Deal Granada Television for Channel 4

Situation Comedy and Comedy Drama

Peep Show An Objective Production for Channel 4
Marion & Geoff Baby Cow Productions for BBC TWO
The Office Christmas Special BBC Entertainment for BBC ONE

Soap

EastEnders BBC Drama Series for BBC ONE
Doctors BBC Drama Series for BBC ONE
Coronation Street Granada Television for ITV

Writer

Paul Abbott - State of Play BBC in association with Endor Productions for BBC ONE
Terry Cafolla - Holy Cross BBC Northern Ireland in association with Radio Telefis Eireann for BBC ONE
Russell T Davies - The Second Coming Red Production Company for ITV1

Awards will also be presented on 16 March 2004 in the following categories for which no nominations are received:

EVENT AWARD

and the JUDGES’ AWARD

FOR PRESS INFORMATION CONTACT:

BEN LOCK, ING MEDIA
TEL: 020 7247 8334
E-MAIL: ben@ing-media.com

for BOOKING DETAILS contact
EMMA BROWN, RTS EVENTS DEPARTMENT
TEL: 020 7691 2472 FAX: 020 7430 0924
E-mail: emma@rts.org.uk

Club Bit - Kid 606
Club Bit - Cex

Cat Power
Papa M
Acid Mothers Temple
Growing
James Orr Complex
Todd
TBC

Saturday 27th March
Tortoise
Boredoms
Mike Watt and the jom and terry show
Bobby Conn
Lightning Bolt
The Dishes
Fred Anderson

Nobakazu Takemura
Sun City Girls
Supersilent
Savath and Savalas
Mike Watt and the Secondmen
Lungfish
The seconds

Sunday 28th March
Shellac
McLusky
Dead Meadow
Phillip Roebuck Justice
French Toast
Stinking Lizavetta
Atombombpocketknife

Entrance
A whisper in the noise
Luke Haines
Uzeda
Arcwelder
Azita
TBC

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>Woo! Although presumably the line-up on the site is complete now, and
>there's still almost nobody there I've heard of. Not necessarily a bad
>thing, but it makes it a bit harder to get excited.

I guess so, I’m still really excited about it, I think you’ll like it. Woo! Remind me to bring you some trans am this weekend. Do you have shellac as well? Think I’ve got some somewhere…

>her really clsoe friends are still her edinburgh ones or whatever...or >sarah, I guess, who's in new york.

I guess so, but for a long time my best friends were far away, and I’ve only been making good friends here for the last year or so.

>We did, but we didn't tell anyone else, did we?

True. Ok, we’ll sort it out.

>Um...not exactly, no. She had excuses and/or explanations for it all. >Which isn't the same as agreeing with me, is it?

No. and not the same as listening, rather than hearing, either. If she’s rationalizing her behavior in her head while you’re talking, that means she can’t really be listening.

>momenr), and so the reason I've got the impression she wanted to see >me less is that she *has* wanted to see me less. There's a chicken and

well, that’s honest, so that’s something.

>egg thing there, obviously - I've only been reserved and clingy since >she's been making me feel unwanted, so her excuse doesn't quite make >sense, there must have been some other trigger. I pointed that out, >but it didn't get resolved.

That’s pretty key. It wasn’t like you just started acting weird one day and she responded. It is obviously a whole system of things.

>What, that I've been behaving that way? Or that she wouldn't like that? Or both?

That those are the problems she sees.

>wrongdoing. All that's changed is that I'm not going to see that as a >reason not to point the problems out any more. Course, that maybe

which is kind of good, because then you won’t feel like you’re bottling stuff up, which is bad.

>implies we're just going to argue more, and whether that's what I want >is...something I need to think about. But I can only see how it goes,

yep. Think it over.

>properly and know the situation. Whether or not it's going to resolve >though....dunno. So yeah, you shouldn't worry about putting me off or >anything.

Bleh, I don’t really have enough time to get into it properly. Maybe we can go off into a corner at the cheese or something. But the first thing that popped into my head when I read your email was that it all sounded a bit like my relationship with todd. (I don’t talk about him much anymore, don’t know if you remember that story. He’s the one I dated in Chicago that really bruised my heart). The whole arguing about really fundamental things, and then thinking that we’re all fine and good, and the thing is that the whole thing wasn’t solid enough to last all the problems…

>Nah, it's a good thing, I'm REALLY bored.

Cool, well write back, but I won’t get it till tonight/tomorrow. But it’ll be good to hear more.

>yeah, just realised that this afternoon - but tom's already lugged >loads of his stuff up there now. Gah.

Ah, you’ve got the biggest room, and you don’t have to move stuff and it’s all good…

-- the angry cowboy (hornymormo...) (webmail), March 4th, 2004 10:09 AM. (dick) (later) (link)

I kind of like this show. I mean, it IS very repetitive. Ray always does something dumb and his wife is sort of hoity-toity about it. But at the same time, it's all very self-mocking. I wouldn't compare it to Married with Children or Titus or Malcolm because those shows all have a tendency to make me feel awkward and uncomfortable. ELR has its serious moments but not ROSEANNE serious. And yes, the family has problems, but not the level of problems my own family has/had, so it's nice and escapist that way.

Stratified Non-probability Random Sample

Goal = 60

It's quite rare that the thing on my clipboard is a link to a faintly creepy site exposing a wrestling promoter as an internet paedophile.

sorry i haven't been in touch, slack i guess.

Life's ok. Not much to report. Band is doing really well. I'm struggling for
motivation at the moment haven't written much, we have the album demo'd but
need to get together 100k to put it all together to have a sporting chance
at being the next 'big thing' (apparently). But there are other options
we're looking into at mo. Signing to a major would be nice. Triple j are
playing highwire a bit more now, which is good. We're off to Sydney on the
6th March to support Epicure at the Hopetoun Hotel. Flying down so it will
be a 'rockstar for a day' experience, i guess.

It's not likely the album will be out till next year :( But that's cool i
guess. Our management ( yes we have management) are really good, they want
to get us down to Syd and Melb once a month and the coasts also. So lots of
travel this autumn/winter. I'd like to send Luke and Dan to the UK with our
demo and Fuck australia right off. (ala jet/ sleepy jackson style). I'll
send you a copy if you give me your details.

well that's my brain dump for this morning i'm sure there are heaps of
things to tell but the day after band practice usually comes with low brain
activity for me, plus i have a cold i think, doh......

anyways i will be in touch soon. come along and see us play at the
Troubadour on the 22nd if you like. It would be good to see you.

peace out

sime

Coachwhips (SF)
400 Blows
Other Voices (member of The Minibosses from Phoenix, AZ)
The Mae Shi
Dynasty Handbag (SF)

the web address for listening to three songs on bjork's new album.

I observe in your last week's issue a complaint of Dr. Thomas P. Knox, against Brig, Gen. Saxton, for sending him out of the Department of the South. It does not appear on what ground he was originally ordered to leave the Department, but as he went there knowing it to be under martial law, it was of course his duty to obey the order when once given; and if he disobeyed it, he became a fit subject for the Provost Marshal, and had no cause to complain. By his own showing, he undertook to set the military authorities at defiance.

I do not know why he was sent away, but can conceive of several very good reasons why he might have been. It has always been the custom in that Department, to order North those citizens who had no adequate means of support, or no useful occupation. If one quarter of those who have gone there in the guise of philanthropists could have been sent away without landing, it would, in my judgment, have been a great gain to all, and especially to the freedmen. Having some acquaintance with both parties, I can safely say that Gen. Saxton at least equals Dr. T.P. Knox in Anti-Slavery fidelity, while he infinitely exceeds him in practical judgment. The attempt to represent the election of colored delegates as being the ground of any one's banishment, is an entire injustice, as the leading white Republicans in Beaufort approved that measure.T.W.H.

-Robert Desnos

John Brannen The Good Thief (Sly Dog)

By the End of the Night Fireworks on Ice (EP) (Temporary Residence Ltd.)

Ryan Cabrera Take It All Away (produced by John Rzeznik of Goo Goo Dolls; ICE #208) (E.V.L.A./Atlantic)

Kevin Chase Another Road (Dynasty)

Chimaira The Dehumanizing Process (CD/DVD combo) (Roadrunner)

The Court and Spark Witch Season (Absolutely Kosher)

Crime San Francisco’s Still Doomed (Swami)

The Ditty Bops The Ditty Bops (produced by Mitchell Froom; drums by Pete Thomas (Attractions); ICE #208) (Warner Bros.)

Good for Cows Bebop Fantasy (Asian Man)

Home Town Hero Bitch City (enhanced CD) (Maverick)

India.Arie Remix (Motown)

Bull Moose Jackson I Love You, Yes I Do (Collectables)

Kissing Tigers Pleasure of Resistance (Slowdance)

Jens Lekman You Are the Light (EP) (Secretly Canadian)

Little Wings Magic Wand (K Records)

Moments in Grace Moonlight Survived (Salad Days/Atlantic)

Nagisa Ni Te The Same As A Flower (Jagjaguwar)

Northern State All City (Columbia)

Rosa Passos Amorosa (ICE #209) (Odyssey/Sony Classical)

Stan Ridgway Snakebite: Blacktop Ballads and Fugitive Songs (redFLY)

RuPaul Red Hot (RUCO)

Saliva Survival of the Sickest (Island)

Sasquatch Sasquatch (Small Stone)

Billy Joe Shaver Billy & the Kid (ICE #209) (Compadre)

Tracy Shedd Louder Than You Can Hear Me (Devil in the Woods)

Signer The New Face of Smiling (includes music video for "Hurricane or Sunshine?") (Carpark)

Slang More Talk About Tonight (Terminus)

Steve Smith and Vital Information Come on In (Tone Center)

Spiderbait Tonight Alright (Interscope)

St. Charles Singers Christmas in St. Charles (Proteus)

Mavis Staples Have a Little Faith (Alligator)

The Sunshine Fix (Bill Doss of Olivia Tremor Control) Green Imagination (spinART)

Steve Swallow with Ohad Talmor The Bum’s Tale (Palmetto)

The Jacob Fred Odyssey Walking with Giants (w/bonus DVD) (Hyena)

Travis Tritt My Honky Tonk History (ICE #209) (Sony)

The Uncle Devil Show A Terrible Beauty (side project from Del Amitri vocalist Justin Currie) (Compass)

Redd Volkaert For the Ladies (ICE #209) (Hightone/Rhino)

VA Bump This (Pyramid)

VA From the Jump (Def Jam)

VA American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1969, Vol. 3 (DVD same day; ICE #208) (Hip-O/UME)

VA OST Future Soundtrack for America (Barsuk)

OST Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (score by Ed Shearmur w/Jane Monheit track) (Sony Classical)

DVD VA Hip Hop Story 3: Coast to Coast (Ventura)

DVD VA Mayor of the Sunset Strip (documentary about Rodney Bingenheimer ) (First Look)

DVD VA Music from Cuba (Verve International)

DVD VA Music from New Guinea (Verve International)

DVD VA Music from Pakistan (Verve International)

DVD VA Music from Portugal (Verve International)

DVD VA Music from the Ganges (Verve International)

DVD Nick Lachey & Jessica Simpson The Nick & Jessica Variety Hour (2004 ABC-TV special) (Image)

SACD Snow Patrol Final Straw (Interscope)

1 February 2005
• Aintree Hospitals
• Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh
• Lancaster Teaching Hospital
• Liverpool Women’s Hospital
• Birmingham Women’s Healthcare
• Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospitals
• Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases
• Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull
• East Somerset
• Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch
• Frimley Park Hospital

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G Dmaj G
(Intro)

Chewing on a piece of grass
Dmaj7 G
Walking down the road
Dmaj7 G
Tell me, how long you gonna stay here, Joe?
Dmaj7 G
Some people say this town don't look good in snow
Dmaj7 G
You don't care, I know

Dmaj7
Ventura Highway in the sunshine
G
Where the days are longer
Dmaj7 G
The nights are stronger than moonshine
Dmaj7 F#m7
You're gonna go I know

Em7 F#m7
'Cause the free wind is blowin' through your hair
Em7 F#m7 Em7
And the days surround your daylight there
F#m7
Seasons crying no despair
Em7 F#m7 Gmaj7
Alligator lizards in the air, in the air

Dmaj7
Did di di di dit di di di di dit, Did di di di dit di di di di dit,
G
Did di di di dit di di di di dit, Did di di di dit di di di di dit,
Dmaj7
Did di di di dit di di di di dit, Did di di di dit di di di di dit,
G
(Did di di di dit di di di di dit)

Wishin' on a falling star
Dmaj7 G
Waitin' for the early train
Dmaj7 G
Sorry boy, but I've been hit by purple rain
Dmaj7
Aw, come on, Joe, you can always
G
Change your name
Dmaj7 G
Thanks a lot, son, just the same

Dmaj7
Ventura Highway in the sunshine
G
Where the days are longer
Dmaj7 G
The nights are stronger than moonshine
Dmaj7 F#m7
You're gonna go I know

Em7 F#m7
'Cause the free wind is blowin' through your hair
Em7 F#m7 Em7
And the days surround your daylight there
F#m7
Seasons crying no despair
Em7 F#m7 Gmaj7
Alligator lizards in the air, in the air

Dmaj7
Did di di di dit di di di di dit, Did di di di dit di di di di dit,
G
Did di di di dit di di di di dit, Did di di di dit di di di di dit,

(repeat and fade)

A midsummer Arctic blast pushed temperatures to record lows this week, causing water parks to close, beaches to empty and seemingly hearty Midwesterners to shiver beneath jackets and sweatshirts.

By midday Wednesday, it was warmer in Juneau, Alaska, (64 degrees) than it was in Chicago (61). By day’s end, the thermometer had inched only one degree higher, shattering the 101-year-old record of 65 degrees for the coolest high temperature on that date.

Thursday could be equally cold, forecasters said.

The steps would be:

1) Redemption request or notification of shareholders passing is received.
2) Date of Death is identified using death certificate or appropriate paperwork
3) Date is entered on the GBOM screen into the DATE OF DEATH field.

p. 134

"On slavery and emancipation"
[to A.G. Hodges]
Washington, April 4, 1864
You ask me to put in writing the substance of what I verbally said the other day in your presence, to Governor Bramlette and Senator Dixon.
"I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel, and yet I have never understood that the presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially [p. 135] upon this judgment and feeling. It was in the oath I took that I would, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United Sates. I could not take the office without taking the oath. Nor was it my view that I might take an oath to get power, and break the oath in using the power. I understand, too, that in ordinary civil administration this oath even forbade me to practically indulge my primary abstract judgment on the moral question of slavery. I had publicly declared this many times, and in many ways. A I aver that, to this day, I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery. I did understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government - that nation, of which that Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures otherwise unconstitu8ional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that, to the best of my ability, I had even tried to preserve the Constituion, if, to save [136] slavery, or any minor matter, I should permit the wreck of Government, country, and Constitution all together. When, early in the war, General Fremont [with accent over e] attempted military emancipation, I forbade it, because I did not then think it an indispensable necessity. When, a little later, General Cameron, then Secretary of War, suggested the arming of the blacks, I objected because I did not yet think it an indispensable necessity. When, still later, General Hunter attempted military emancipation, I again forbade it, because I did not yet think the indispensable necessity had come. When in March and May and July, 1862, I made earnest and successive appeals to the border states to favour compensated emancipation, I believed the indispensable necessity for military emancipation and arming the blacks would come unless averted by that measure. They declined the proposition, and I was, in my best judgment, driven to the alternative of either surrendering the Union, and with it the Constitution, or of laying strong hand upon the coloured element. I chose the latter. In choosing it, I hoped for greater gain than loss; but of this, I was not entirely confident. More than a year of trial now shows no loss by it in our foreign relations, none in our home popular sentiment, none in our white military force - no loss by it anyhow or anywhere. On the contrary it shows a gain of quite a hundred and thirty thousand soldiers, seamen, and labourers. These are palpable [137] facts, about which, as facts, there can be no caviling. We have the men; and we could not have had them without the measure.
"And now let any Union man who complains of the measure test himself by writing down in one line that he is for subduing the rebellion by force of arms; and in the next, that he is for taking these hundred and thirty thousand men from the Union side, and placing them where they would be but for the measure he condemns. If he cannot face his case so stated, it is only because he cannot face the truth.
I add a word which was not in the verbal conversation. In telling this tale I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and reverse the justice and goodness of God.ˇ

The impact of the centre:
What does this mean to the consumer?
What will be the wider impact on the energy business and economy in the UK?
Benefits to the environment

This module clearly demonstrates the efficiency gains from the introduction of this centre.
Content ideas:
Interview with industry analyst
Facts about efficiency gains

I DORK NY 2.0 : DETROIT VS. NYC

detroit corner:

JON OZIAS : (blackbx, dorkwave)
MICHAEL DOYLE : (burnlab, dorkwave)
MIKE SERVITO: (untitled, dbdjs)

nyc corner :

DAVID ELLIOTT: (everquest)
COWBOY MARK: (aktion)
GIBBY: (makeoutclub.com)

11pm-4am in the basement of lit.
93 2nd avenue.

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thursday august 26th, 2004

DARKWAVE BARBEQUE
(a.k.a. dorkweave bbq, a.k.a. sporkrave bbq)

w/ your hosts PLEXUS and HEARTTHROB.

28 n. 3rd st. (williamsburg/greenpoint)
at kent ave.

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saturday august 28th, 2004

an untitled nyc preview.

UNT_TL_D: POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS

a birthday celebration for:

sarah spratt
molly ozias
regina kim
mike servito

featured djs:

DEREK PLASLAIKO - ghostly, dbdjs, nyc transplant
MIKE SERVITO - blackbx, burnlab, dbdjs

debut live set by:

MARC HOULE of run stop restore - minus

music + drinks + bad behavior
detroit's untitled is coming to nyc this fall.

be an icon
be a consumer
be brand loyal
be legendary

be untitled.

presented by:

blackbx | enabler | the crucial getdown |
ghostly international | burnlab

happy ending nyc.
302 broome st. [between eldridge & forsyth]
10pm - late. this is a free event!

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sunday august 29th, 2004

NO TO THE BUSH AGENDA! :
A Massive Protest at the RNC

http://www.unitedforpeace.org
http://www.rncnotwelcome.org

assemble at 10:00AM
seventh Ave. @ 14th st.
march steps off at noon

fight the power...

It could be a rocky planet with a thin atmosphere, a sort of "super Earth," the researchers said today.

Sometimes when we’re as close as this
It’s like we’re in a dream
How can you lie there and think of england
When you don’t even know who’s in the team

Shirley,
Your sexual politics have left me all of a muddle
Shirley,
We are joined in the ideological cuddle

I’m celebrating my love for you
With a pint of beer and a new tattoo
And if you haven’t noticed yet
I’m more impressionable when my cement is wet

Politics and pregnancy
Are debated as we empty our glasses
And how I love those evening classes

Shirley,
You really know how to make a young man angry
Shirley,
Can we get through the night without mentioning family

The people from your church agree
It’s not much of a career
Trying the handles of parked cars
Whoops, there goes another year
Whoops, there goes another pint of beer

Here we are in our summer years
Living on icecream and chocolate kisses
Would the leaves fall from the trees
If I was your old man and you were my missus

Shirley,
Give my greetings to the new brunette

Okay.
So you say stuff like, "I can't wait to get some of that mmm mmm mmm v-a-gina." You see, that's how you do it. Flub it. Flip it. Tweak it a little. Tweakin', that's what it's all about.

What are some words you should never use to refer to genitalia?
Oh. Hmmm. You know, that cunt word, that's a pretty rough word. I'm sure it could be tweaked, but I haven't found a way yet. I'm working on it.

Why that word?
Well, you see, the thing is, the c is really what does it. That is harsh, whereas "pussy" has a little more mellowness to it. Pussy. Cunt. Pussy. Cunt. The "cunt" sounds too hail Hitler, you know, too much German, too much Nazi, that's the problem. You don't want to get in any trouble with the Anti-Defamation League. Stay away from "cunt" or there are going to be problems.

How do you get a slam poet to come home with you?
Buy the CD, that's a start.

Evanescent perspiration plasters hair to the her temples, her suit seems to have sagged deeply at the shoulders.