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New quotes for Wed Aug 3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Central America)
Wed Aug 3 03:05:45 1994
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 1994 03:04:09 -0400
From: Central America <root@charon.MIT.EDU>
To: ca-mtg@charon.MIT.EDU
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bjobes (Beth Jobes):
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cfields (Craig Fields):
Your name is being called by sacred things
That are not addressed or listened to
Sometimes they blow trumpets
-- Kate Bush
The Red Shoes
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hss (Hany Saleeb):
If not logged in, I was geeking until: Tue Aug 2 21:03:35 EDT 1994
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* * * * If you love something, set it free; if it
* * * returns, cherish it forever!
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* * The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die
* * * nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature
* * * * * * man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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jhroh (Jae Hun Roh):
( update 8-2-94 )
I've moved again. I am in California for the month of August,
working on a project at Xerox PARC and the Exploratorium. I
expect to be back in Cambridge on August 29.
At PARC:
c/o Barbara Gable
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304
415/812-4387
At my temporary home:
415/254-1323
This fall:
1039 Mass Ave., 7A
Cambridge, MA 02138
617/491-7226
and as always
email: jhroh@mit.edu
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jtkohl (John T Kohl):
Vacation in Oregon for a week of bicycling down the coast---Aug 12 through 21.
whee!
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julio_cc (Julio E Castrillon):
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kdmiller (Kenneth D Miller):
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Last logout: Tue Aug 2 16:32:25 EDT 1994
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koolkin (Laurence F. Koolkin):
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You can reach me at 809-295-4539, or write to my home address:
48 Par La Ville, Suite 458
Hamilton HM11 BERMUDA
-Larry
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mwhitson (Michael Whitson):
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees
Yo ho, it's hot, the sun is not
A place where we could live
But here on Earth there'd be no life
Without the light it gives
We need its light
We need its heat
We need its energy
Without the sun, without a doubt
There'd be no you and me
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees
The sun is hot
It is so hot that everything on it is a gas: iron, copper,
aluminum, and many others.
The sun is large
If the sun were hollow, a millions Earths could fit inside.
And yet, the sun is only a middle-sized star.
The sun is far away
About 93 million miles away, and that's why it looks so small.
And even when its out of site
The sun shines night and day
The sun gives heat
The sun gives light
The sunlight that we see
The sunlight comes from our own sun's
Atomic energy
Scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-smashing
machine. The heat and light of the sun come from the nuclear
reactions of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and helium.
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees
-They Might Be Giants
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rlcarr (Richard L. Carreiro):
> The following is a news story that you may read for yourself in the NEW
> YORK TIMES, National edition, Sunday, July 31, 1994, p. 13 in the A sect.
>
> U.S. May Sue Foes of Plan for the Homeless
>
BERKELEY, Calif., July 30 -- Alexandra White did not want the Bel Air
Motel a seedy flophouse behind her house, converted into rooms for the
homeless.
So she complained, at meetings, in a newsletter and in a lawsuit she filed,
detailing her worries that more drug users and mentally ill people would be in
the neighborhood. Ms. White lost her battle and the conversion will soon
begin. But now she finds herself in yet another fight, this time with the
Federal Government.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is investigating
whether Ms White, her husband, Joseph Deringer, and a neighbor, Richard
Graham, violated the Federal Fair Housing Act in their campaign to stop
the project. It could sue them, and conviction carries a $10,000 fine
plus restitution of money their illegality activity [sic] might cost.
Ms. White says the agency is trying to punish her for merely speaking
against the project. "Where does speech stop and violating rights
begin?" asked Ms. White, a part-time office clerk. "I'm going to be
damed if I'll give up my rights to speak."
While it is more common for the housing department to investigate landlords
and city boards, Ms. White is one of a growing number of private citizens who
have become the objects of fair-housing complaints in the last year, said
department officials in Washington. And lawyers specializing in
housing issues say HUD has become more aggressive in investigating
complaints against neighbors of proposed projects.
More recently, HUD used the Fair Housing Act against an avowed white
supremacist who taunted and threatened a black resident in Vidor, Tex. An
administrative law judge ordered the racist to ay more than $300,000 for
emotional distress as well as $10,000 for discriminatory housing practices.
Ms. White saqid she had no intention of violating the law, which also
prohibits housing discrimination against people with disabilities, including
those with mental illness or histories of drug abuse. But is it against the
law, she asked, for neighbors to speak out against what she described as an
ill-conceived, expensive project that would bring troubled people to a
neighborhood already struggling with urban problems. [sic]
John J. Phillips, a spokesman for HUD's San Francisco office, would not
comment directly on the case, but he said there was a thin line between
speech and conduct.
"What's the difference between you saying the words that advocate for the
door to be slammed in the face and the big ugly landlord slamming the door in
the face?" Mr. Phillips asked. "When you put mental handicap and substance
abuse in there, it seems to get fuzzier."
The complaint against Ms. White was filed in November by Marianne Lawless
[sic], executive directory of Housing Rights Inc., a housing advocacy group.
Ms. Lawless said she became alarmed when she received a pamphlet, bearing Ms.
White's name and phone number, that criticized the project. Ms. White
says she was not the author of the flier.
Federal investigators asked for every article, flier and letter to
the editor that Ms. White, Mr. Deringer and Mr. Graham had written about
the Bel Air, as well as minutes from any meeting they have spoken at,
said David Bryden, their lawyer.
Adding to consternation of some, City Attorney Manuela Albuquerque recently
wrote residents involved in another dispute to warn them that their
activities could involve them in a fair-housing complaint.
Ann Brick, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern
California, called the HUD investigation disturbing. "There's a big
difference between the HUD going after a government body denying permits
and going after citizens complaining about a project," Ms. Brick said.
"We may not find their opposition admirable, but it's a fundamental
right of citizens to make their views known."
THE END
[No byline given.]
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roda (Rene M Oda):
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therese (Therese):
Don't pull too hard, like a kite in the wind
You'll break the string, when I reel you in
Don't take off flying all on your own
When you finally come knocking, there'll be nobody home
Nobody Home
- Heart
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uptown (Eddie Uptown):
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yandros (Chad Phillip Brown):
Wow, old .plan. I've been busy working on stuff for DCNS and
punting things like mail and discuss and editting my .plan file and
my homepage and such... Now that the milestones are starting to
pass I'll be catching up on some of the `less time-critical' things
in my life...
Anyway, work is going on and dealing with the Office Of People Whose
First Name is `Dean' is going on, and hacking is going on and
play/fun/twinkie/relaxation stuff is going on, and life is good, at
least in that respect.
Oh, and now I have this neat little rainbow flag in my cubicle, to
match my plastic fish and my little purple round guy and my Solaris
install disk and my original photograph, titled ``Jik, Rampant,
against a field of Nerd Stuff'', and the Zone's new CD-ROM drive and
a new (slightly larger but much nicer) monitor and a MicroSpeed
trackball instead of that icky mouse (if you can, get one of these.
It's *excellent*.). New toys are Good Things. :-)
--
...
The sun won't shine till the clouds are gone
The clouds won't go till their work is done
And every morning you'll hear me pray
If only it would rain today
I asked my baby if there'd be some way
She said she'd save her love for a rainy day
I look in the sky but I look in vain
Heavy cloud but no rain
_Heavy Cloud No Rain_, Sting
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<a href="http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/yandros/home.html">chad</a>
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