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HEYHEYHEYHEYHEYHEYHEYHEYHEYHEYHEY
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HEYHEYhey, hey, hey, it's ATI!HEY
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HEYHEYHEYHEYHEYHEYHEYHEYHEYHEYHEY
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-----> issue 55
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August-something, 1991.
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Special "Yeah, We're Back - Did you Miss Us?" Issue!
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= info following brought =
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= on by a need for more =
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= real information =) =
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Hi, folks. Hope you're all doing well and staying out of trouble.
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Sorry for not putting out ATI55 sooner! Hopefully, we'll be on
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a monthly or bi-monthy schedule from now on.
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What's new?
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Watching the news is a strange experience as of late, because we're
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seeing history in the making. The shape of Eastern Europe and the USSR
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is changing radically. One country (Yugoslavia? Romania?) is on the
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brink of civil war, and the USSR had a 3-day coup and now threatens
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to split up.
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On the home front, a whole host of new problems have popped up, and
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certainly all the old ones continue to plague us. It's time to
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clean house, folks.
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Prime hasn't sent me his column, Prime Anarchist World News (PAWN)
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lately. We hope to start that up again by next issue. But in the
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meantime, we present a new contrubutor and column: Media Assassin's
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Crass Commentary.
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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C R A S S C O M M E N T A R Y
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from: The Media Assassin
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Greetings, drones, dweebs and other forms of life.
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47 PERCENT OF OUR GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT GOES TO GOVERNMENT
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That's what Andre Marrou, Libertarian Party candidate for
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Presidential nomination says. In a viewer call-in question-and-answer
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session on C-SPAN on August30, Marrou stated that the federal
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government takes 22% of the nation's GNP, and state and local governments
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take another 25%. That adds up to 47%. Virtually half of what we
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produce in this country is confiscated by government to waste on whatever
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and whomever they wish.
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Think about the implications of the above. Next time you hear someone
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complain about high taxes, remember that disturbing statistic. Next
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time you hear someone complain that the government isn't doing enough
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for the victim-group-of-the-hour, remember that statistic.
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Where does the money go? Good question.
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Here's a breakdown of the items included in the proposed budget for
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fiscal year 1992 (beginning October 1, 1991). Due to the short lead
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time on this article (yeah, I know -GZ), I didn't have time to research
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whether the figures were approved by Congress or altered. I am merely
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including this to give you an idea of the massive spending of your
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expropriated tax dollars. Read on:
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FY92 % of
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Proposed Federal
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(figures as of May 1991) Funds
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(in $ millions)
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CURRENT MILITARY SPENDING 294,399.151 25.8%
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TOTAL COST OF PAST WARS 209,411.387 18.3%
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NON-MILITARY RELATED INTEREST 126,759.029 11.1%
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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 30,314.077 2.6%
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ANTI-POVERTY/SOCIAL PROGRAMS 259,794.775 22.7%
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COMMUNITY AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT 62,474.224 5.5%
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SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT 36,100.454 3.2%
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FED. EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT & BENEFIT 43,866.042 3.8%
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MISCELLANEOUS GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS 85,069.702
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less unallocated receipts: -85.000
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-2,687.000
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Pmt. to soc. sec. (off budget) -1,190.731
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Gov't. programs, net 81,106.971 7.1%
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BUDGET TOTALS 1,144,602.462 100.0%
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The two largest categories are military spending and social
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programs. Let's examine these two areas.
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The preparers of the above information, the Friends
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Committee on National Legislation, included "community and regional
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development" as a separate category. However, it is certain that
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the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) was a part of the
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aformentioned category. HUD provides many programs, such as payment
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of low-income individuals' rent in private housing (in which taxpayers
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are forced to contribute to a program that drives up the cost of housing
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for everyone), and also provides for public housing, such as senior
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citizens' buildings in which the tenants pay rent according to income
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(the remainder of the rent is paid by HUD, i.e., the taxpayer). Therefore,
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part or all of the category of "community and regional development"
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could be considered "social programs" in light of the functions of HUD.
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It could be argued that the greatest part of the federal government's
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expenses go towards social programs that productive taxpayers realize
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no benefit from.
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Military spending has proven to be quite a burden as well. I
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am sure most readers are familiar with anecdotes of "$500 hammers"
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and "$1000 toilets" sold to the taxpayers by defense contractors.
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Also, consider the stories referring to the many costly defense items
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that fail to work properly. While stories of this nature are refuted
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by government officials and industry "experts", believe them. They
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serve to illustrate how our members of our government take the privelege
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of siphening our tax dollars to their friends in the defense industry.
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Many people believe that the amount of taxes paid by themselves
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and others and the amount of government spending does not affect
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them. A review of the above information and discussion clearly reveal
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that taxes and spending do affect individuals. The taxes
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>from payroll, sales and property tax and other forms of tax diminish
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the quality of life for productive people. Remember that 47
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percent of our gross national product is consumed by government.
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If people were allowed to work and make purchases of goods
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and property without severe taxation, their quality of life would
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increase tremendously, and our economy would benefit.
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See you next time.
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Now for a tidbit someone sent me about a new COCOT (indepently-owned
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pay phone - Customer Owned Coin Operated Telephone):
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The Birth of a Cocot
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I have just had the amazing experience of seeing the birth of a
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COCOT. From a hole in the ground, to a slender metal pole, to the cozy
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blue box with magic inside.
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At first glance, it looks just like a NY Tel payphone. Nowhere does
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it say NY Tel. The top insert has all the normal info, with the
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additional "For emergencies, dial 911". Syracuse does not have 911
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service implemented, even though we pay a surcharge for it. I didn't
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try it to see if the phone was programmed.
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The insert where the phone number goes is blank. The lower insert,
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where the info on who provides what LD service is supposed to be, is a
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generic panel with fill in the blanks. Directory assistance.
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Emergency. Operator. Repair.
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The only two blanks filled in are the Emergency number (211,
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different than the upper insert says), and Operator. There is nothing
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for repair, nothing that says the LD carrier. Nothing that says who
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the owner of the phone is.
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Aha! I will dial the operator and see who the AOS is. I pick up the
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handset, and hear, in addition to dialtone, McGruff the Crimefighting
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Dog talking about neighborhood watch and taking a bite out of crime.
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How unique -- PSA's on COCOT's. I dial 0. Country music comes on. So
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does the operator. She shouts at me. I shout back. The country music
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plays on. "What number are you at" she shouts. "Don't know". "What
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city are you in?" "Syracuse." "What state is that?" How convenient in
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an emergency, dial the operator.
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I find out she works for Oasis. She asks me the number I was
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calling. I wasn't, just her. Why she thinks I would try to complete a
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call with Kenny Rogers playing loud enough that I have to shout is
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beyond me. She wrote a trouble ticket. How they will find the phone, I
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don't know. There are a lot of them in Syracuse.
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I think I know who owns the phone. I am going to call him tomorrow.
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ANAC List
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What's an ANAC? It stands for Automatic Number Anouncement. It
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refers to a number that you call that will give you a computer-voice
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reading of the phone number you're at. Telco repairmen use these
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numbers, but others sometimes find use for these numbers as well.
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Here are some that I have gathered from various sources such as 2600
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Magazine, and e-mail conversations I have had with people in different
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parts of the country:
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AREA CODE or Area NUMBER
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619 211-2111
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212, 607, 516, 718 958
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914 990
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713 380
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512 830
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213 61056, 1223 or 114 (in GTE areas)
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parts of IL 290
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408 760 or 300-xxx-xxxx (x = any number)
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parts of 919 711
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parts of TX served by GTE 970-xxxx
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502 997-555-1212
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parts of MI served by MI Bell 200-222-2222 or 200-xxx-xxxx
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191# in DMS-100 areas
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604 211 or 116
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(put 1 in front if in a step-by-step area)
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404 940-222-2222
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Atlanta area (doesn't work in suburban-Decatur area)
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412 410-4100 - downtown/suburban Pittsburgh
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410-6633 - east suburban Pittsburgh
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elsewhere in 412 - look in 410 exchange
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916 830-xxxx - Sacramento area
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206 411 (GTE Everett, WA area)
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305, 407 1-200-xxx-xxxx
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603 200-222-1111 (put 1 in front possibly)
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$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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Well, that's it for now. I hope to make ATI a monthly
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event now. I know I promised it before, but this time I really hope
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to accomplish it. I need more contributions to make this goal a little
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easier for me to accomplish. In ATI we publish items of all
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categories, but here is a list of suggestions for contributions:
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creative writing - short stories, poetry, stream of consciousness, etc.
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"slice of life" - transcripts of weird conversations, buffers of weird
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BBS posts or chat buffers
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telecom - info on telephony, BBSing, hack/phreak, computers in general,
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packet radio, etc..
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technology - ham radio, electronics, scanners, etc.
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current events/politics - local news in your area of special interest,
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comment on local/national/international issues,
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editorials, political theory
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social issues - abortion, death penalty, crime, prisons, men & women,
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homosexuality, etc.
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entertainment - books, movies, TV, Star Trek, The Prisoner, etc..
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hobbies
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science
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..and any other category you can think of!!
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Send your items in. I await them!
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In the meantime, I bid you a farewell. Look for a new ATI in late
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September/early October. Ciao a tutti!
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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ATI: part of George Bush's thousand points of light.
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