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The Misanthropic Bitch <[email protected]> Fri, 23 May 2003 22:08:02 +0000
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The Misanthropic Bitch: Providing jack-off material for white misogynists s= ince 1997 http://www.misanthropic-bitch.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D AVON.com- Free Shipping and Free Gift with your $40=20 purchase! Try top-selling Cellu-Sculpt Anti-Cellulite=20 Slimming Treatment for thinner thighs in just 4 weeks. Use=20 coupon code TOPCELL. Exp 5/31 http://click.topica.com/= caaa2FAa84xyJa99Yboa/Avon =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D I've updated my site, including a retroactive update. I should have=20 updated a few times in the past two months, but never got around to=20 uploading the files. I leave tonight for hostile territory. I think the rest of the world=20 calls it "Europe." I'll be gone for about three weeks. When I return,=20 I expect the following in my inbox: degrading photos of your=20 girl/boyfriends, gift certificates to online stores, and a new site=20 layout. Not too much to ask. Am I ready for vacation? Not at all. I haven't packed yet, and the=20 only preparations I've made are refilling my Xanax prescription and=20 mixing the liquid that makes it go down easier (Blood of Satan). Yes, I= =20 hate to fly. If I have to spend eight hours in a plane with screaming=20 infants, recirculated air, and back-to-back showings of "Spy Kids" and=20 "Spy Kids 2," I'd prefer to be comatose. Did you notice that we've gone to Orange level? Me either. Does that=20 mean they'll remove the bomb receptacles -- uh, garbage cans -- from=20 subway platforms? Oh, the stories I could tell about piss-poor security= =20 at government buildings.=20 I'm enjoying this unemploymetnt gig. Perhaps if I had been laid off and= =20 had a husband and three kids to support I'd take less pleasure in=20 sleeping until 11 a.m., but as I saved wisely and chose exile from work,= =20 it's not so bad. A few bags of Ramen noodles each day, and I'll=20 survive. So many people have congratulated me on my decision to exit the=20 workforce for a few months. "You're so lucky, you fucking bitch."=20=20 "Must be nice to take off whenever you want, cunt." "I hope you have=20 fun not being chained to a desk, you goddamn leech." Americans are funny. Even when one has the money to support oneself for= =20 an extended period of time, there's the attitude that somehow, someway,=20 you're taking advantage of the system and someone, somewhere, is being=20 screwed over. Before I made the decision to resign, I had planned on=20 taking three weeks of vacation (almost all of the time I had accrued),=20 and people were shocked that I'd "risk" taking that much time off. "If=20 they don't need you for three weeks, maybe they'll realize that they=20 don't need you at all." Great! Lay me off, so that I can collect unemployment. We all win. The thought process seems to be: How dare a young person spend the best=20 and, quite frankly, healthiest years of her life enjoying herself?=20=20 These should be the most miserable years of her life, when she longs for= =20 the escape of old-age retirement. How dare she not get married, buy a=20 house, have kids, lease an expensive car, and join us in enslavement?=20= =20 Truthfully, I thought -- and still do think -- that members of the=20 childfree movement were a few birth control pills short of a pack, but I= =20 couldn't quite grasp their complaints until becoming part of the=20 workforce and seeing firsthand how bitter so many adults are about their= =20 lot in life. Many appear to believe that they have no free will and=20 could not choose a path in life that might allow them even a glimmer of=20 happiness. Due to fantastic planning and foresight, I had the financial ability to=20 walk away from a dead-end, boring job and spend a few months traveling=20 before starting a job search. Why wouldn't I take advantage of that?=20= =20 Because there's a stigma attached to being unemployed, of being a=20 "slacker"? So what? I'm not my job. I hate work. I bet you do, too.=20= =20 That's why you save for retirement: so you can stay home and watch=20 "Matlock" reruns. I saved so that I could enjoy the time on this planet= =20 when my arteries weren't clogged, my lungs weren't at 40-percent=20 capacity, I could go ten hours without peeing, and the only arthritis I=20 have is in an ankle I broke 12 years ago. I easily could have blown my money and gone into debt like so many other= =20 people my age, but debt scares the shit out of me. I got my first=20 credit card six months ago, just so I could build that much-needed=20 credit history. My balance last month was zero dollars. No, I don't=20 have a flashy car, a two-bedroom apartment with an art nook in a gated=20 community, take-out food every night, a booming home theater, or a new=20 wardrobe each season, but why the hell do I need any of that? I get to be a money-sucking slacker, and you can't put a price on that. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALIFORNIA - A man is suing a tattoo parlor where he claims he was=20 infected with a flesh-eating virus while having an obscene tattoo=20 covered on his neck. Michael Machetti, 31, had to have skin on his neck and under his arms=20 removed after the procedure and may face additional surgeries, his=20 attorney, Ron Bakal, said. "Pretty frightening stuff," Bakal said. The negligence and product liability suit was filed April 11 in=20 Riverside County Superior Court against Bullseye Tattoo in Banning and=20 owner Sam Enriquez. It contends the studio used unsanitary equipment=20 that caused the infection and seeks unspecified damages and payment of=20 medical costs. The suit does not name Swen Raulfs, the artist who covered the tattoo,=20 but he called the suit "ridiculous." Raulfs said he has done hundred of tattoos and works only with=20 single-use, prepackaged, sterilized needles. In addition, the shop has=20 annual health inspections and its sterilizing equipment is checked=20 monthly, he said. "I have never in all the tattoos I've done, ever had a problem like=20 this," he said. Raulfs said the tattoo featured an obscene word and the numerals "666." Machetti, a telephone operator for a hotel chain, had the tattoo covered= =20 in June because it was bothering fellow employees, Bakal said. Source: AP ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW YORK - The Pentagon made an interesting choice when it hired a U.S.=20 company to build a small wireless phone network in Iraq: MCI, aka=20 WorldCom Inc., perpetrator of the biggest accounting fraud in American=20 business and not exactly a big name in cellular service. The Iraq contract incensed WorldCom rivals and government watchdogs who=20 say Washington has been too kind to the company since WorldCom revealed=20 its $11 billion accounting fraud and plunged into bankruptcy last year. "We don't understand why MCI would be awarded this business given its=20 status as having committed the largest corporate fraud in history," said= =20 AT&T Corp. spokesman Jim McGann. "There are many qualified, financially=20 stable companies that could have been awarded that business, including=20 us." "I was curious about it, because the last time I looked, MCI's never=20 built out a wireless network," said Len Lauer, head of Sprint Corp.'s=20 wireless division. The contract in Iraq is part of a short-term communications plan costing= =20 the Defense Department about $45 million, said Lt. Col. Ken McClellan. The contract with WorldCom-which plans to adopt the name of its MCI long= =20 distance unit when it emerges from bankruptcy-has prompted grumbling in=20 the telecommunications industry from people who say it was not put up=20 for bids. "We were not aware of it until it showed up in some news reports,"=20 Motorola spokesman Norm Sandler said. McClellan said he had no details on the process that led to the deal,=20 which he said was signed early this month. WorldCom spokeswoman Natasha=20 Haubold declined to comment on details of the contract. Haubold also stressed the company's overall deep relationship with the=20 U.S. military and government. In fact, a recent review by Washington Technology, a trade newspaper=20 that follows computing-related sales to the government, found that=20 WorldCom jumped to eighth among all federal technology contractors in=20 2002, with $772 million in sales. It was the first time WorldCom cracked the top 10. That $772 million figure refers only to deals in which WorldCom is the=20 prime contractor to federal agencies. The company gets much more=20 taxpayer money-exactly how much is not disclosed-from state contracts=20 and from federal deals in which it is a subcontractor. That infuriates WorldCom critics, who say the government has kept the=20 company afloat while the General Services Administration barred Enron=20 and Arthur Andersen from getting contracts after their scandals emerged. They also say it shows how little WorldCom would be hurt by the proposed= =20 $500 million fine the company has agreed to pay to settle Securities and= =20 Exchange Commission fraud charges. "The $500 million is in a sense, laundered by the taxpayers," said Tom=20 Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government Waste. Although the Iraq wireless deal is minor compared to other government=20 contracts WorldCom has won-including a satellite data pact announced=20 Tuesday with the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-Schatz=20 found it questionable. "Why would you have a company that is not really in that line of=20 business providing that service for another country?" he said. "Given=20 the circumstances and the bailout the government seems to be engaged in,= =20 that is certainly is not fair to their competitors or the taxpayers." Last year, Sprint and Global Crossing Ltd., another WorldCom rival,=20 complained to the General Accounting Office about a $450 million=20 contract awarded by the Defense Information Systems Agency to WorldCom=20 for a computer network used by Pentagon scientists. The GAO, the investigative arm of Congress, said the Defense agency=20 "relied on grossly inaccurate financial information in making a=20 determination that WorldCom was a responsible contractor." But the GAO said it lacked the jurisdiction to rule on the complaint. Source: AP ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MARYLAND - The murder rap made Jennifer Starkey miss the prom, but not=20 her graduation ceremony.=20 Friend, schoolmate - and for a few days, co-defendant - Shirley Shelton=20 said she isn't as upset about missing the big dance while behind bars as= =20 she is about losing out on her guest performance with Fort Huachuca's=20 36th Army Band, not to mention the pile of makeup schoolwork she's=20 dealing with.=20 The teen's mom, Virginia Shelton, says some of her faith in the American= =20 justice system has been lost since police roused her out of bed in=20 April, shipped her across the country on a murder count, then left her=20 to find her own way home when the charges crumbled.=20 A grainy picture from an ATM surveillance camera aired by TV's=20 "America's Most Wanted" connected the three Sierra Vista residents to a=20 June 2002 strangulation murder of a woman in Maryland. The mom, daughter= =20 and friend, authorities had said, were believed to have been trying to=20 use the murder victim's bank card.=20 The problem with that link, investigators now concede, is that the time=20 recorded by the camera was three minutes off the time recorded by the=20 ATM.=20 That meant that rather than recording a trio of suspects using a dead=20 woman's bank card, the camera had recorded a mom, daughter and a friend=20 on a trip to Washington, D.C., making an automated-teller machine stop=20 before heading to a theme park.=20 (Because a lot of families travel across the country to strangle a woman= =20 and steal her debit card.) Detectives investigating the murder of Denise Mansfield, 45, obtained=20 the tape showing Shelton, 46, her daughter Shirley, 16, and her friend=20 Jennifer Starkey, 18, using the ATM at a bank near the victim's home,=20 said Ramon Korionoff, communications director for the Office of the=20 State's Attorney in Maryland.=20 The tape showed the trio having problems with the card, inserting it=20 repeatedly. That behavior, coupled with the group being at the ATM at=20 the same time, seemed to be sufficient reason to obtain arrest warrants,= =20 he said.=20 "Between the camera and computers, it looked as if during the time=20 period when the deceased's card was being used that the three ladies=20 were possibly using that card," Korionoff said. "The times jibed up,=20 seemingly. But upon better review, it was realized they did not match."=20 (They couldn't have made a better review before shipping them across the= =20 country and holding them in custody for weeks?) He said he was not sure if his office would issue an apology to the=20 Sierra Vista trio.=20 "Obviously these three women have suffered a lot in public," he said.=20 "I'm sure we can sympathize and empathize with their plight, but as far=20 as the State Attorney's Office goes, it's one of the front-line=20 investigating techniques that led up to this error. At this point, I=20 don't know if an apology has been issued."=20 Korionoff said the review of the video turned up another suspect, but he= =20 would not elaborate because the information could tip off the man.=20 Similarly, a spokesman for "America's Most Wanted" said the program may=20 eventually air information about the dismissal of charges against the=20 Sheltons and Starkey, but that an apology was unlikely.=20 "We're always sad to find out that police have been looking into a=20 suspect who is later found to be innocent," said Philip Lerman,=20 co-executive producer. "But looking for suspects is a part of a police=20 investigation."=20 (I thought all suspects are innocent? Isn't that the basis of our legal= =20 system?) Unfortunately, he said, the women used the card right before or after=20 someone who committed the crime, noting that justice is sometimes not=20 the neatest process.=20 (And there was no way to confirm that the card used was the card of the=20 deceased woman?) That's not much consolation to two families whose lives were turned=20 upside down after pictures of the three were aired on national=20 television March 29, leading to a tip from a viewer that led Maryland=20 authorities to Sierra Vista. It landed Shelton and Starkey in jail in=20 Maryland, and the younger Shelton in a Cochise County juvenile facility=20 until their release on May 12.=20 A school security guard pulled Starkey from her U.S. Constitution class=20 on April 21 and delivered the teen to Maryland investigators who had=20 come to the southeastern Arizona town to make arrests.=20 "I had faith," Starkey said this week. "I was innocent until proven=20 guilty, and I knew they didn't have anything, and that it was just a=20 matter of waiting till I was released. The courts actually worked pretty= =20 well. It was the mistake by the detectives that was faulty," she said.=20 Shirley Shelton said she remembers being yelled at while in custody and=20 told that if she didn't tell the truth "I was going to die."=20 When Shelton asked to talk with her mother, investigators told her she,=20 too, was in custody along with her pal. The next thing she knew, Shelton= =20 said, she was locked in a Sierra Vista juvenile holding cell, in tears=20 and confused about what was happening.=20 Her mother said she's still struggling to understand the circumstances=20 that led them all to be linked to murder.=20 "I still don't know how they came to the actual conclusion that we had=20 done this," said Virginia Shelton. "Police are supposed to be thorough,=20 you know, innocent until proven guilty.=20 "They were not thorough, and neither was the media. I've lost some=20 respect for the system."=20 Michael Starkey, Jennifer's father and a master sergeant in the Army,=20 went to Maryland to support his daughter. His own investigation may have= =20 led to authorities recognizing the three-minute time discrepancy. He=20 traced the daughter's use of her ATM card and realized the time his bank= =20 recorded differed from what Maryland authorities had claimed.=20 "It's amazing that this whole process is so inaccurate," Michael Starkey= =20 said of the combination of circumstances that landed his daughter in=20 jail.=20 "There's still a lot of unanswered questions for me, and it would be=20 nice to know what the facts are," he said. "It appears to me there are a= =20 lot of inaccuracies here at a minimum, and the ability of police to be=20 able to drag people in based on those inaccuracies is surprising," he=20 said.=20 "I haven't lost my faith in the system, but it has been shaken."=20 Source: Arizona Daily Star ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ATLANTA - The patience of the graduates had worn thin. After a 20-minute= =20 wait for "Pomp and Circumstance," they started to fidget. They picked at= =20 white corsages and readjusted black ties. The chatter grew loud enough to prompt one final admonishment -- the=20 kind reserved for 11-year-olds. "If you have gum, candy, mints, get it out of your mouth. There is no=20 more talking," said teacher Shalina Hill. She surveyed the line and=20 offered one final word to the Class of 2003: "You all look very nice." Inside Jackson Memorial Baptist Church in Atlanta, this formal ceremony=20 for fifth-graders leaving Towns Elementary School rivaled any high=20 school graduation for student finery and parent emotion. A rite of passage once celebrated with a supermarket sheet cake has=20 become a formal affair from the low-income neighborhoods of Atlanta to=20 affluent suburbs of Gwinnett County. (When was it celebrated with a supermarket sheet cake? Leaving=20 elementary school for junior high school was not a noteworthy event in=20 my corner of the world.) At some schools, demand for extended family seating has moved even=20 modest promotion exercises from school cafeterias or gymnasiums to=20 off-campus venues. For every school that has an informal celebration, another sends home an= =20 invitation to parents that rivals a wedding announcement. In extreme cases, parents are renting mini-tuxes and formalwear for=20 their graduates. More often, the dress code prompts fresh haircuts and a= =20 new dress or suit coat. To attend the ceremony for Towns Elementary, Beverly Mitchell, mother of= =20 12-year-old Mariah, took the day off from her hourly job at a commercial= =20 bakery. Her boss understood. "I told him I had my baby graduating=20 today," she said. "This is a big deal." (No, it's not. These days, graduating from high school isn't a big=20 deal. You'd have to be brain dead to not make it into junior high.) The night before the ceremony, Charlotte McGuire finger-curled her=20 daughter's hair. On Thursday, she spent about an hour helping=20 11-year-old Cynteria into a white satin, tea-length dress with matching=20 patent leather shoes. The look was completed with a child's strand of=20 pearls. After the ceremony, which featured a keynote address from an Atlanta=20 City Council member, McGuire beamed. Her daughter had been recognized=20 for having all A's and B's. "This is a special moment for me and her," she said. "She's going to=20 middle school." The day would end for the family with a lunch out.=20 "Wherever she wants to go," McGuire said. The big deal made of elementary school promotions is bemusing to some. MaeBelle Slaughter, whose nephew is a Towns fifth-grader, said the=20 elementary school ceremony is misguided. "What have they got to look=20 forward to? They're going all-out like they're in high school." In Lilburn, some parents were aghast last year when an assistant=20 principal at Camp Creek Elementary suggested holding the celebration=20 after an informal field day. Instead, the school will hold its promotion= =20 ceremony next week at a nearby church that can accommodate the extended=20 families of 178 mini-graduates. "This is a moment for their families, a moment to celebrate their child=20 and a transition," said F.A. Huard, the assistant principal who last=20 year had unwittingly suggested a switch to informal celebration. If it's not as momentous as a high school or college graduation, it's=20 important to the parents, she said. "I don't give them a diploma. We don't give them degrees. We give them=20 lovely pieces of paper that go on their refrigerators." Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution=20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I updated my site around 4 p.m. on 23 May. (The April updates, too. I=20 got way behind.) By 6 p.m., the call had already gone out on the=20 super-secret jihad phone. These people are touchy, and the converts are= =20 the worst. They always are. This should give you a project while I'm=20 gone: =20=20=20 "Leslie Wier" <[email protected]> wrote: =20 Dear TMB,=20 After browsing your site, I have found that there are some issues I tend= =20 to agree with you on, and others that I don't. I am content to leave=20 most of the latter be because it is obvious that there is no swaying=20 your ambivalance. At times I can see when that's an admirable trait,=20 and at other times not so commendable, for I think that diplomacy is one= =20 of the best survival tools; however, that is not the issue. I am=20 writing you in response to your opinion concerning "the warlike nature=20 of the Muslim culture."=20=20 I am a European/American Muslim, a convert through familial relations,=20 and you must imagine that I am rightfully defensive of my religion. If=20 you knew a true Muslim, you would know that this assertion is=20 unprecidented. You cannot attribute a culture to Islam only because so=20 many different types of people are Muslims. Arabs are not the same as=20 Egyptians, and they are different than Europeans and Indians. All=20 Muslims have different cultures, thus a "warlike...Muslim culture"=20 cannot exist.=20=20 Unfortunately, people like you are brainwashed by the media into=20 believing that all followers of Islam are violent. If that were true,=20 then I don't believe the members of my local Islamic community would=20 make and serve dinner at the local homeless coalition every month. If=20 that were true, I don't believe that we would warmly invite individuals=20 of other faiths into our mosques during the month of Ramadan to share in= =20 breaking our fast. The same goes for many other Muslims across the=20 world who promote peace through good deeds. If your assertion were=20 true, do you believe that Arabs would be the most notorious throughout=20 the world for their hospitality and generosity? If it were true, do you= =20 think I would have Jewish friends?=20=20 I admit, there are Muslims that exsit....fundamentalists, that abuse the= =20 religion, but that doesn't give any individual the right to say that=20 followers of Islam are warlike. After all, who was it that fired the=20 first shots in Iraq? Not the Muslims. It is obvious you hold=20 Pro-Israeli views, and I certainly won't attack you for that, I have no=20 right to, for I am a firm believer in free speech, especially=20 unprotected free speech.=20=20 But, "Even as Israeli tanks and military personnel invade the dank=20 refugee camps they're forced to call home, they continue the struggle to= =20 form a land of their own," there wouldn't be refugee camps if it weren't= =20 for the Isralis. What about the Palestinians, whose homes were taken=20 forcefully by the Isralis, who were forced into those refugee camps?=20=20 And without a land to call their own...what do they have left but do=20 think that suicide will have an effect? You can't deny it hasn't. Now,= =20 that's not to say I condone suicide, I am firmly against it, and so is=20 Islam, but those people have nothing left to live for. What do you=20 expect? And once, the notion of Jews and Muslims living peacefully=20 together was a reality. I truely believe that both sides are to blame=20 concerning the Israel/Palestine issue, but who is it truely that is=20 forced to "struggle to maintain their way of life"? Suffering is not a=20 pick and choose issue, both sides are forced to struggle.=20 It's funny that you also believe Islam is an easy way out, that one is=20 to " do what you're told, don't ask questions." because one of the most=20 important aspects of Islam is to ask questions. Muslims are told to=20 question, told to seek knowledge. The Quran states that only two things= =20 are certain and are a result of destiny, the day you die and how much=20 wealth you will gain in your life. Thus, your interpretation of=20 "Allah's will", "With Islam, if it happens, Allah willed it. If Allah=20 willed it, it's probably because you aren't following his rules. If you=20 aren't following his rules, it's probably because you aren't praying=20 hard enough for guidance, and if you aren't praying hard enough for=20 guidance, it's probably because you're allowing in destructive outside=20 influences, and if you're allowing in destructive outside influences,=20 it's because Allah willed it, and if Allah willed it, it's not for you=20 to understand why" is incorect because Islam also states that every=20 person has free will.=20=20 If they didn't, don't you think Allah would "will" for every person to=20 be a Muslim, and by "will" I mean as you imply the connotation of the=20 word "force"? Really, do you think you would have the discipline to=20 willingly pray five times a day (because it is a choice afterall...if it= =20 weren't then every muslim would pray five times a day according to God's= =20 "will", which every Muslim doesn't), to never touch a drop of alcohol=20 because of it's detrimental effects on your mentality? It's obvious you= =20 haven't read the Quran, haven't questioned or sought knowledge because=20 the Quran provides logical and justifiable reasons for it's teachings.=20= =20 And, if you're going to point out the failures of a small percentage of=20 people who coincidentaly belong to a religion, namely Islam in this=20 case, why not also note that Timothy McVeigh was a Christian, or that a=20 Jew planted bombs at Mosques housing innocent people all across the=20 state of Florida? Or, that there was a Mosque in the World Trade Center= =20 in addition to several thousand Muslims? Or that Catholics and=20 Protestants mercilessly slaughtered each other in Ireland? Or that the=20 Israli's occupy land in Syria that doesn't belong to them? That hundreds= =20 of Catholic priests sexually abused children? The list goes on. You=20 profess to be smart, to occupy a level of intelligence above most=20 others. If this is true, then prove it by seeking knowledge instead of=20 rooting yourself so deeply into a set of opinions. Be flexible, listen.= =20 That is the true exhibition of intelligence.=20 Sincerely,=20 L.J.W.=20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -The Misanthropic Bitch Providing jack-off material for white misogynists since 1997 http://www.misanthropic-bitch.com The Misanthropic Bitch: Providing jack-off material for white misogynists s= ince 1997 http://www.misanthropic-bitch.com =3D=3D^=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D This email was sent to: = [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84xyJ.= a99Ybo.= Y3VsdHVy Or send an email to: [email protected] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. 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