From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V3 #115 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Tuesday, April 29 2003 Volume 03 : Number 115 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [chakram-refugees] Funny Xena Reference In 1999 SF Novel ["Daniel T. Mill] [chakram-refugees] Lucy and Starship [cr ] Re: [chakram-refugees] Chakram newsletter ["Creation (Sharon Delaney)" Subject: [chakram-refugees] Funny Xena Reference In 1999 SF Novel Return To The Fractured Planet by Dave Stone FYI-- The narrator is a man. APE=Artificial Personality Embodiment. This is all of page 20. The bit after the Xena Reference is funny, so I thought I would just leave it in. ************************************************************** 'Waking with a new body is entirely outside of your range of experience,' the woman, Delbane, was saying. 'You've been prepped, posthypnotically, but it's still got to be one hell of a shock. Those restraints are there to stop you damaging yourself while you go through it.' 'OK,' I said, perfectly calm, and reasonable, and not buying any of this for one instant. 'I'm not in shock now. Could you take the restraints off?' 'You know, I'm not sure whether to envy you or not,' Delbane continued, seemingly oblivious to my heartfelt plea. 'Every other APE is fitted with a back-story cobbled together out of old parts - I mean, I was this Warrior Princess wandering around Ancient Greece, with tits of death and this incredibly horny sidekick with a quarter- staff, till a daughter of hers who was actually the Spawn of Hell sent me into the Country of the Amazons and then into the future ...' Delbane realized I was looking at her as if she had gone round the twist. 'Well, anyway,' she said a bit self-consciously. 'They give us these memory-construct stories to stop us flipping out the minute we're switched on, but you're a special case. You have to be treated a little differently. If you take a look at this, it should give you the skinny better than I ever can.' As she spoke, Delbane was pulling down a globular monitor unit on a kind of pneumatic and articulated arm attached to the ceiling. She switched it on and a 2-D logo flowered on the phosphor coating: one of those ineptly nasty and overblown images you find on fighter-plane fuselages and military-personnel tattoos, which contrive to suggest that those involved have listened to far too many bands made up of fat, pig-ugly and long-haired old gits from Birmingham with a predilection for spandex. A grinning skeleton with ragged, batlike angel wings and a flaming sword. ************************************************************* This novel is a series with the character Bernie Summerfield, a combat-trained 24th century archaeologist. The novels are an off-shoot of the Dr. Who novels. I don't know if the novels are still being published. They aren't being distributed in the U.S. BTW- Bernie "looks" a lot like Lucy. :~) ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 18:43:08 +1200 From: cr Subject: [chakram-refugees] Lucy and Starship The Auckland District Health Board has decided to keep the name 'Starship' for the children's hospital. (Stupid name IMO, based on it's alleged futuristic architecture). TV3's 6p.m. news had several quotes from Lucy, here's a transcript: Reporter (v.o. pic of the building): The name change was made without consulting the Starship Foundation, and the Health Minister believes the [hospital] board showed a lack of committment to consultation. Annette King (Health Minister): They have got an obligation to ensure they listen to their community, and the strong message they're getting, is that their community thinks that the name Starship is a suitable name. Lucy: Well, it defies logic doesn't it, I cannot see where they were coming from. Reporter (v.o. building): The Starship Foundation has raised more than 20 million dollars for the hospital, and feared the loss of the name would be a setback to fundraising. Foundation board member Lucy Lawless says the District Health Board needs to realise what Starship stands for. Lucy: Another one of the comments that were made was that Starship was not a special place, it _is_ a special place. We need to protect it. And it's important for all kids from all over New Zealand. It's a national hospital. Reporter (v.o. building): The Foundation also plans to fight today's suggestion it be called the Starship children's department. Chairman Brian Mogridge says yet again the Foundation was not consulted about the new name and that Starship is not just a department, rather a hospital. Reporter (v.o. Lucy): The Foundation believes the board can do a full gracious backtrack. Lucy: And I'm sure they can do that if they have the will. (Grins). cr ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 08:56:36 -0700 From: "Creation (Sharon Delaney)" Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] Chakram newsletter >The last Chakram newsletter I have received is #21. Does anyone know if >there have been any issued subsequent to this number? > >Thanks for your help. > >June Hi June, Issue #22 is in for approval and should start shipping in a few weeks. I've got interviews with Steve Sears and Chris Manheim lined up for this week for issue #23 which should be shipping in June. That's the latest :) Sharon Official Xena Fan Club http://www.creationent.com/outback/fanclubs/index.html ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ End of chakram-refugees-digest V3 #115 **************************************