From: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org (oppositeview-digest) To: oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Subject: oppositeview-digest V4 #231 Reply-To: oppositeview@smoe.org Sender: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk oppositeview-digest Thursday, September 12 2002 Volume 04 : Number 231 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: OV: Administrivia ["Kevin Cawthorne" ] OV: Barrowlands CDr Tree [darren@bendcable.com] OV: tribute cd ["Sam Brown" ] OV: OT: NYC a year later [Shevale@aol.com] Re: OV: OT: NYC a year later [" Lauree Perry"] OV: Happy First Birthday [" Lauree Perry"] OV: birthday wishes ["the Gardners" ] OV: Re: OT: NYC a year later ["the Gardners" ] OV: Re:NYC a year later ["Barbara Houldey" ] Re: OV: Happy First Birthday [debbsc67 ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 10:32:22 +0100 From: "Kevin Cawthorne" Subject: RE: OV: Administrivia A program I have started using is called "Mailwasher" It's free and simple to use, might be worth looking at if you are getting lots of spam! Kevin Cawthorne - -----Original Message----- From: owner-oppositeview@smoe.org [mailto:owner-oppositeview@smoe.org] On Behalf Of debbsc67 Sent: 10 September 2002 19:37 To: oppositeview@smoe.org Subject: Re: OV: Administrivia I know what you mean...spam is definately on the rise. It's getting quite a bit more aggressive as well. Somehow I've got some jerk sending up to 5 messages a day with a virus attached. What's this world coming to? I'd offer to do a tribute, but I don't want to melt anyone's equipment at the attempt, so I'd better leave that to the musicallly talented among us. :-) have a good day, debbie - --- darren@bendcable.com wrote: > Just to let everyone know, Opposite View has been > bombarded with spam > mail as of late. Up to 15 attempts a day. The > Smoe.org filter > catches them before they get to the list. This is a > good thing. > > There will be a new CDr Tree at the end of the > month. > > How many, if any, are interested in supplying a song > or two for > Volume 2 of the Del Amitri Tribute CD?? Any > musicians out there? > I'll gladly NOT contribute if we can get enough GOOD > performers to > fill out the disc!! > > Don't forget, you can browse through the OV Archives > at > http://home.bendcable.com/oppositeview > > Thanks for making OV what it is... > > Darren Holmquist > Admin. OV Mailing list __________________________________________________ Yahoo! - We Remember 9-11: A tribute to the more than 3,000 lives lost http://dir.remember.yahoo.com/tribute ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 08:54:01 -0700 From: darren@bendcable.com Subject: OV: Barrowlands CDr Tree I've had one person not receive their copy of the show, or even get an address to send their blank cdr's to. Did anyone else have a problem getting their discs? Darren ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:09:56 +0100 From: "Sam Brown" Subject: OV: tribute cd Hey all Im live in the Portsmouth area of the UK, so if anyone nearby is interested in colaborating on the new tribute disc then tell me. Im doing my AS levels at the mo, one of which is Music Technology, so I have access to some recording equipment, but not for drums! Im up for doing anything, so suggestions welcome! Byee Sam ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 14:17:05 -0400 From: Shevale@aol.com Subject: OV: OT: NYC a year later Here it is, a year later. Just like last year, the sky is a clear azure canopy, and the occasional sounds of sirens screaming down relatively empty streets punctuate the virtual veil of mourning that seems to have draped over this city, once again. This morning, at 5:56 a.m., it wasn't an alarm clock that forced open these sleepy eyes. It was the strains of bagpipers blowing "You're a Grand Old Flag" as they made their way up Bay Street to the Staten Island Ferry. The sun hadn't yet risen as we stood on the balcony and looked to our left: the pre-morning-rush-hour traffic crawled behind the battalion of bagpipers, red brake lights gleaming in the netherdarkness of early dawn lent an almost festive decor to the somber procession. To our right, we looked at the forever-changed Manhattan skyline. This morning, the skyline was swathed in a familiar fog, and looked eerily like the view of a year and a day ago, when the upper most peaks of Manhattan skyscrapers peeked over the smoky cloak of ash and debris that was borne on a breeze toward Brooklyn. As the pink glow of sunrise spread beyond the Brooklyn horizon, the final faint notes of the bagpipers floated to my sixth-floor perch. Back inside and back in bed, I couldn't help but reach out for the solace of contact with another, an assurance that I was not alone, a covenant of communion. For nearly six weeks after the attack on the World Trade Center, I was astounded at the kindness, conviviality, and compassion of New Yorkers to one another. I had never seen such a universal level of good will in this city. By Halloween 2001, this wave of virtue had begun to ebb: people had stopped making eye contact; engaging in conversations with strangers; being forgiving of the little slights that salt the typical day. Once again, subway-riding strangers were "F**k you"-ing. Perhaps you'll find it shocking, but there was an undeniable comfort in this return to normalcy. Nevertheless, it's been gratifying (albeit surprising) to witness the return of the grace so evident in the immediate aftermath of the attack. On my ride into Manhattan, someone sneezed. And someone on the other side of the aisle said, "God bless you." And a third person offered a tissue. (Maybe you can't understand the big deal, but stuff like this NEVER happens here. If you're lucky, when you sneeze, the person next to you will shuffle a bit away from you so as not to catch whatever you've got! If you're not lucky, the person next to you will make some rude remark in a LOUD voice, and then shuffle away from you! ) In general, commuters this morning were engaging in polite conversation. There aren't as many people in Manhattan today as there would be on a normal day, but the ones on the street seem to be looking at each other, acknowledging each other. The streets in and around the World Trade Center site were filled with people leaning on one another, hugging one another, and simply trying to comfort each other. Here was the community that we urbane urbanites grudgingly confess, from time to time, that we crave. Most people, myself included, seem to have been edgier, more anxious, the last couple of days. Today, repeatedly, I've heard people saying that they were unable to get to sleep last night. Puffy eyes --whether from lack of sleep or an abundance of tears-- were the de rigeur fashion accessory to this morning's ensembles. Tomorrow, I suspect, we'll have compartmentalized again the grief, and we'll be back to our callous outer selves. On the surface, all will seem right with the world. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 11:32:08 -0700 From: " Lauree Perry" Subject: Re: OV: OT: NYC a year later Sherry, Thank you for sharing what it's like there with us. Your descriptions are vivid and beautiful. Take care, Lauree ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 11:34:03 -0700 From: " Lauree Perry" Subject: OV: Happy First Birthday Also, Happy first Birthday to Louis Harvie, who came into the world a year ago. Lauree ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 14:50:51 -0400 From: "the Gardners" Subject: OV: birthday wishes I want to send out wishes for a happy birthday to little Louis Harvie. Personally, his birth on such a traumatic day here in the US helped me to remember that there is always hope for the future. Absolutely always. Susan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 15:28:57 -0400 From: "the Gardners" Subject: OV: Re: OT: NYC a year later Thank you, Sherry, for posting. I thought of you today, as well as Nigel who lost coworkers in theWTC attacks and Andrew whose sister was witness to some of the aftermath. I sent out via OV a birthday wish to little Louis, whose birth on such a day as 9/11/01 is no accident at all. Like I said last year, it is a sign to Iain, Madeline, especially Justin, and all of us here that there is hope for a future. ALways. Susan - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 2:17 PM Subject: OV: OT: NYC a year later > Here it is, a year later. Just like last year, the sky is a clear azure canopy, and the occasional sounds of sirens screaming down relatively empty streets punctuate the virtual veil of mourning that seems to have draped over this city, once again.... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 20:48:59 +0100 From: "Barbara Houldey" Subject: OV: Re:NYC a year later Dear Sherry Thank you so much for sharing your day with us. God bless you, you're in my thought and prayers. Take care. Barbara WALES UK _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 22:55:53 -0700 (PDT) From: debbsc67 Subject: Re: OV: Happy First Birthday My, my, how time flies! It seems like this was all just so recent! It doesn't feel like a year has passed already. have a great day, debbie - --- Lauree Perry wrote: > Also, Happy first Birthday to Louis Harvie, who came > into the world a year > ago. > > Lauree Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of oppositeview-digest V4 #231 **********************************