Smorgasbord
12
Tuesday, October 26, 1999
© Copyright 1999 by NewHeavenNewEarth
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(smor-gos-bord) n.
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CONTENTS:
LETTERS:
Consumer Protection For Spiritual Seekers
Useful & Valuable Radiation Info
LFAS: Advocating A Win-Win Position
DINO WATCH:
Paleontologists Find World's Oldest Dinosaur Fossils
Flying Dinos
Complete Mammoth Found In Siberia
Ape Fossils Boost Evolution Knowledge
APOCALYPTIC WATCH:
The Omega Code
What Happened In The Year 1000?
Millennial Fanatics Worry Israeli Government
CULTS & CONTROVERSIES WATCH:
Moonies Seek Eden In Brazilian Swamp
Mormon Church Sues Web-Based Critics
EARTH WATCH:
UN Says Time Is Running Out For The Environment
West Antarctic May Melt Completely
Computer Model Reveals Abrupt Climate Changes
Earth's Oceans Washing Away?
SPACE WATCH:
New Planet In Our Solar System?
Water Discovered In Meteorite
TECH WATCH:
Human Eggs (& Sperm) For Sale On The Web
Computer Uses Cat's Brain To See
U.S. Government Seeks Alternatives To Microsoft
IMPORTANT REFERENCES:
The Straight Dope
Encyclopedia Britannica Now Free Online!
INSPIRATIONAL STORY:
Is Your Hut Burning Down?
THE LIGHTER SIDE:
What A Bear Does In The Woods
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LETTERS:
CONSUMER PROTECTION FOR SPIRITUAL SEEKERS
I was attracted here by your advertisement of "consumer protection".
I liked the way that sounded, and this feeling was amplified by Mr. Sunfellow's
special report on "Sai Baba" (Sai Baba, 2/21/1998, <http://www.nhne.com/specialreports/srsaibaba.html>.
I am really glad to find someone who seems willing to address "the darker
side of the light".
Earlier in the decade, I was heavily involved in what I thought to
be "lightwork".
The people I was involved with formed a publication called "Ascending
Times". Our mission statement claimed our primary intent was to provide
info for personal and planetary ascension/change, and to develop light centers.
We took in lots of money, lifetime subscriptions, donations, etc. We also worked
in cooperation with another group who claimed to have a member from Telos who
was a 300 year old princess -- an ambassador to Earth. They were gathering
up people to go to Egypt for 12:12. Much money was involved. The amount is
hard to figure, as many people were forced to pay twice. Around 200 people
attempted to make the journey. Half of these never got to Egypt because when
they arrived at the airport, there were no reservations, or tickets. The half
which did make it found themselves without rooms and no flight back. We are
talking $4,000 to $5,000 per person here.
I think this is where I began to start questioning and refused to continue
trusting these people blindly with all their words of love and light and universal
peace, but I was in too deep to extricate myself gracefully (these people were
living in my house, and they took it over). I was eventually forced out of
my own house, and they moved to Canada with most of my belongings, owing the
IRS some $30,000 in taxes beside whatever they accumulated in subscription
funds and donations.
To offer spiritual peace to people and rob and disillusion them has got to
be one of the worst things one human being can do to another. I know it set
me back on my own personal spiritual development -- I have spent the last six
years sifting through the rubble of Ashtar, Melchizedeck, Jesus/Sanada, and
I almost threw the baby out with the bath water. This was far worse than losing
material things.
You guys seem on the up and up. I hope you make your readers aware
that not everyone with a beatific smile on their face is also on
the up and up. Staying "down
to Earth" is difficult when dealing with so-called spiritual masters and "evolved
people". I was not some lost soul searching for fulfillment, either. I
am trained in survival, a horticulturist/phytotherapist -- my area of expertise
is useful, edible, and medicinal plants, which is why, I suppose, I was targeted.
Well, thanks for reading this. I really feel like I have an obligation
to help people, and I met so many people who believe dolphins talk
to them on the radio,
or there are lizard people living in their basement, or they are the reincarnation
of John the Baptist, etc. It is very disheartening. What is chiefly needed
is an organization which can help people "reap truth from fields of fiction".
Sincerely,
Susan Tabor
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USEFUL & VALUABLE RADIATION INFO
How very useful and valuable the radiation info is you sent ("Radiation
Info, Kits & Remedies", 10/4/1999, <http://www.nhne.com/misc/resources0001.html>).
I just got off the phone today with the environmental control person here in
Alaska in charge of monitoring radiation. I was dismayed to discover that the
state has no plan (much less medicine) for a radiation emergency (but not surprised)
to discover that funding is due to be cut next year for the monitoring sites
here in Alaska. The amount of radioactivity from the Japanese event is not
expected to be measurable here in Alaska, but the air mass in which it happened
is on a direct impact line with Alaska! A hugely valuable wakeup call for any
Y2K nuclear events. The man I was talking to said that the Russians are building
a floating nuclear reactor in the Arctic sea -- insanity! Ice packs, thermal
stress, and other ocean born problems -- who designed the sanity part of the
human brain is what I want to know?
What a valuable service you are providing. Such diligence is rewarded, amply,
in the subtle realms. I plan to forward your piece to some key people in our
state government. Thanks again.
David La Chapelle
Juneau, Alaska
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LFAS: ADVOCATING A WIN-WIN POSITION
I really appreciate your concern for our beloved ocean friends ("U.S.
Navy & LFAS" <http://dispatch.mail-list.com/archives/nhnelist/msg00110.html>).
They are blessed creatures helping to hold a great spiritual balance for the
Earth. It is within our responsibility as stewards of a safe planet to ensure
that we do not harm these beloved ones.
I am advocating a win-win position. The cold war is over, but threats to America's
security are not necessarily less that they were 10-15 years ago. The Navy
has to be effective in dealing with new technologies in the battle area. But,
they should not be like a bull in a china shop either, doing wanton damage
to marine life, especially our precious whales and dolphins.
Not being too familiar with the LFAS technology or the living patterns of the
whales and dolphins, I have no specific course of action to recommend; but,
I would be surprised if there isn't a solution to this problem that could help
the Navy meet its needs, and be harmless to our marine friends. I would encourage
the meeting of the minds of Marine biologists, environmentalists, Navy personnel
and technology corporations, to come up with this solution. NHNE should engage
these communities with a campaign to bring everybody together in cooperation
and trust. This is not a time to be divided as we face serious repercussions
in our environment as well as in our society.
Franz Glaus
Paradise Valley, Montana
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DINO WATCH:
PALEONTOLOGISTS FIND WORLD'S OLDEST DINOSAUR FOSSILS
(Source: AFP, YAHOO, 10/21/1999)
Scientists have discovered what could be the jaws of the two oldest dinosaurs
ever unearthed. The 230-million-year-old bones of a formerly unknown species
of plant-eating dinosaur were found on the island of Madagascar, and could
predate other dinosaur fossils by two million or more years. The prosauropods
and the "exquisitely preserved remains" of eight other prehistoric
animals mark one of the most exciting paleontological finds in decades, one
of the US team told AFP. "It's very exciting. A completely new species
like this only comes up every few decades," Andre Wyss, associate professor
of geology at the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA said. The herbivores with small
heads and long necks that could walk on two or four legs would have stalked
the Earth before the oldest known dinosaurs.
"The find provides a freeze frame picture of life during the earliest days
of dinosaurs and mammals -- a picture that has been largely obscured until now," the
statement said. "The period prior to 250 million years ago is well-documented,
but from then to the Ice Ages -- an interval of 100,000 years -- very little
is known."
http://asia.yahoo.com/headlines/221099/world/940530900-91021183521.newsworld.html
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FLYING DINOS
(Source: CNN, AP, 10/14/1999)
A fierce turkey-sized animal with sharp claws and teeth may have been the first
flying feathered dinosaur, a missing link between the lumbering lizards of
millions of years ago and the graceful birds of today. Fossils of the animal,
called Archaeoraptor liaoningensis, suggest that it lived 120 million to 140
million years ago when a branch of dinosaurs was evolving into the vast family
of birds that now live on every continent. "We don't know how good a flier
it was," said Philip Currie of the ROYAL TYRRELL MUSEUM in Alberta, Canada, "but
it certainly has all of the structures you would expect to see in a flying
animal."
The fossils, to be unveiled for the first time at the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
SOCIETY'S Explorers Hall in Washington, are among a group of feathered
dinosaur remains
unearthed recently in the Liaoning Province of China. Another animal, called
Sinornithosaurus millenii, or "Chinese bird-reptile of the millennium",
had birdlike features and short downy feathers. It also was about the size
of a turkey, but probably was not capable of flight. Fossils of another feathered
dinosaur, called Beipiaosaurus inexpectus, also are being made public by the
National Geographic. This animal was larger than the others, about 7 feet long,
and apparently had stiff, narrow feathers that provided warmth. It is not thought
to have been capable of flight.
The three animals are all theropod dinosaurs, a group that included the ultimate
meat-eater, the Tyrannosaurus rex. Theropods all walked upright on their hind
legs, had long tails and were thought to be fast and deadly. The new findings
also suggest that many theropods, including Tyrannosaurus, may have had feathers
at some point of their development.
http://cnn.com/NATURE/9910/14/flying.dino.ap/index.html
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COMPLETE MAMMOTH FOUND IN SIBERIA
(Source: THE TIMES, Nigel Hawkes, 10/19/1999)
The entire body of a woolly mammoth has been exhumed from the ice of Siberia,
20,000 years after it perished. It was dug from a site on the Taimyr peninsula
on Sunday and flown by helicopter to the town of Khatanga, 150 miles away.
Bernard Buigues, a French member of the team responsible for the operation,
said that the beast, named "Zharkov" in honour of the family that
found it, was slung under the helicopter and flown to a cave dug in the permafrost
at Khatanga, which replicates the dry and chilly conditions where it was found.
Exposure to warmer or more humid conditions could cause the remains to start
decaying almost instantly. The head of the mammal was taken from the body last
year and is already in the cave, where scientists will carry out painstaking
research, he said. Buigues said it was the first time that a mammoth had been
recovered intact. Previously, the most exciting finds -- also in Siberia --
had been chunks of preserved flesh.
Two expeditions are in Siberia searching for mammoth remains: a Japanese-led
team and the international expedition, called Mammuthus, of which M. Buigues
is a member and which also includes scientists from the United States, The
Netherlands and Russia. Both groups hope to extract cells from the preserved
remains of mammoths and even use them to clone a new mammoth, using a female
elephant as a surrogate mother. Scientists hope that when the mammoth has been
unwrapped from the icy soil that has preserved it, light will be shed on how
the animals lived and why they died out, he said.
The woolly mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, well-known from cave paintings,
stood 13ft high, about the same as a full-grown African bull elephant. The
last mammoths died out as recently as 4,000 years ago, but there is still debate
about why. Some experts believe that they may have been the first species to
be wiped out by man, given that mammoth bones and tusks have been discovered
in the habitations of Cro-Magnon cave dwellers. But these may have been taken
from the bodies of dead mammoths, for no evidence has ever been found of mammoth
traps or of traces of arrow or axe blows on the bones. A more widely accepted
explanation is that the mammoths died out because of malnutrition after climate
change caused the dry vegetation that they ate to suffer a decline in nutritional
quality. There is also growing speculation that disease wiped out the giant
mammals.
Complete Article:
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/10/19/timfgnrus01003.html?999
American Museum of Natural History (current mammoth theories and research):
biobulletin.amnh.org/biobulletin/story981.html
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APE FOSSILS BOOST EVOLUTION KNOWLEDGE
(Source: USA TODAY, 10/20/1999)
A baboon-sized ape that lived in East Africa about 15 million years ago may
have been among the first primates to leave the treetops and live on the ground,
a key step in the evolutionary path that theoretically led eventually to humans.
The fossilized partial skeleton of the animal is distinctly different from
other ancient apes, prompting Ohio researcher Steve Ward and his colleagues
to identify it as the only member of a new ape genus they call Equatorius.
Hand, finger, arm and shoulder bones show strong evidence that Equatorius "spent
a lot of time on the ground," said Ward, senior author of a study in the
August 27 issue of SCIENCE. ''This is the first time that we see evidence of
that in the fossil record of apes.''
http://www.usatoday.com/life/science/lsd1.htm
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APOCALYPTIC WATCH:
THE OMEGA CODE
(Source: USA TODAY, 10/19/1999, OMEGA CODE WEBSITE)
Those of you who are fans of the Bible Code now have a hit movie, complete
with exotic locations, big name actors, dazzling special effects, a glossy
website, and the enthusiastic support of mainstream Christianity. Called "The
Omega Code," the $7 million movie grossed $2.4 million in its opening
weekend. Claudia Puig reports in the October 19, 1999 issue of USA TODAY that "Pastors
in Dallas, Atlanta and Portland each bought 1,000 advance movie tickets to
distribute to their congregations. An Oklahoma CEO purchased 1,000 tickets
for his employees. A Los Angeles woman gave out 1,600 tickets to youth groups,
who arrived by the busload."
What's all the commotion about? Here's how the movie's website describes the
plot:
"Dr. Gillen Lane is a world famous motivational speaker and mythology expert
who joins European Union Chairman Stone Alexander in a quest to unite the world
in an era of global peace. But when a revolutionary Bible Code program falls
into the wrong hands, unseen forces begin scouring the code for an even darker
secret -- the key to the ancient city Jerusalem. For it has been foretold in
the apocalyptic books of Daniel and Revelation that he who controls Jerusalem
in the last days will control the world. As Lane becomes entrapped in the Omega
Code's treacherous web of terror and deceit, he finds his world and everything
he believes turned upside down and himself on the run to save all he loves from
a power-crazed madman who may just be the 'Beast' from the book of Revelation...
the incarnation of Satan himself."
Holy Moses.
"We think there's an enormous audience of Christian people who are so starved," says
Michael Harpster, marketing chief for the movie's distributor, PROVIDENCE ENTERTAINMENT.
Marketing for the film, which will expand from 300 theaters to 400 by early November,
has been a combination of grassroots and heavy promotion on the TRINITY BROADCASTING
NETWORK, the largest Christian TV network, which reaches 70 million viewers.
Significantly, Paul Crouch, who is the film's executive producer, is also the
founder of Trinity Broadcasting Network.
So is the movie any good? Since I haven't seen it, I don't know -- but I/we
probably don't have long to wait before the movie shows up in local theaters
and video stores. In the meantime, here's where those of us who can't yet see
it in person can catch a sneak peak:
The Omega Code Website:
http://www.omegacode.com/
Movie Synopsis:
http://www.omegacode.com/NewFiles/synopsis.htm
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WHAT HAPPENED IN THE YEAR 1000?
(Source: AFP, YAHOO, SIGHTINGS Website, MILLENNIUM STUDIES Website, thanks
to Sherry Stultz)
What really happened when the first millennium arrived 1000 years ago? Was
the world thrown into an apocalyptic frenzy, or was it simply one more year,
like any other? Well, the jury is still out. It is, however, a controversial
topic. Here's how a recent AFP news story summarizes the current debate:
"The collapse of a mighty empire. Economic crisis. A deadly epidemic. The
appearance of a comet and other omens. Surges of religious fervor. Sounds familiar?
It ought to -- it seemed to many Europeans, in the year 999, that the world was
about to end. Or so we're told.
"Did it really seem that way? Not according to historians who have long
dismissed this version of events 1,000 years ago as a popular myth created by
the Romantic historians of the mid-19th century, a distortion of the reality
of European life in the late 10th and early 11th centuries. But now a
new generation of historians is challenging the orthodox view that 1000 was 'a
year like any other.'
"They are arguing that Pre-Millennial Terror was indeed a reality to our
mediaeval ancestors, probably a good deal more vivid than anything we face on
the eve of the third millennium. Apocalyptic expectations -- the fear,
or hope, among Christians that the world would end after a great final battle
between the Antichrist and the Messiah -- invariably rose in times of instability,
and the late 10th century was just such a time. The fall of the house of
Charlemagne in 987 was followed by destructive struggles for power in western
Europe. The Danes launched a series of raids on England, and anarchy and famine
were rampant in France. With preachers announcing the end as nigh, pilgrimages
were made to Jerusalem in the hope of witnessing the Final Days, and mass gatherings
called for peace.
"The problem for the 'terror' theorists is that there is little documentary
evidence to suggest that fear was widespread at the time. Orthodox historians
insist that the prevailing anxieties were all part of the sense of insecurity
to be derived from living at a time of disease, poverty, political chaos and
superstition -- all part of the daily round in the Middle Ages -- and that there
was no more millennial feeling than usual. Moreover, they note, relatively
few people knew what year it was or had any idea of chronological time.
"Richard Landes, of the CENTRE FOR MILLENNIAL STUDIES in Boston, is one
of several historians who disagree. He maintains that the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH,
anxious to ensure that its calendar could not be used to trigger an apocalyptic
panic, played down millennial speculation and kept it out of the written record
as far as possible..."
The Complete AFP Article is databased on the Sightings Website:
http://www.sightings.com/politics5/999debate.htm
"Apocalyptic Expectations around the Year 1000," by Richard Landes,
which contains a summary and rebuttal of the five main arguments concerning whether
or not there was widespread apocalyptic expectations around the year 999, can
be found here:
http://www.mille.org/1000-br.html
Still more articles and reference materials on the year 1000 controversy can
be found on the Millennium Studies Website Year 1000 Index Page:
http://www.mille.org/1000-pg.html
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MILLENNIAL FANATICS WORRY ISRAELI GOVERNMENT
(Source: NEWSROOM, CENTER FOR FREEDOM OF MIND, 10/14/1999)
Israeli security forces have stepped up monitoring of Christian cults and Jewish
fanatics whom authorities fear will try to hasten biblical prophecy at the
dawn of the new millennium. Port authorities deported 26 members of the CONCERNED
CHRISTIANS organization on October 10 before they could leave their ship. The
group, which some Israeli security officials described as a cult, reportedly
included men, women, and children, some of them mentally ill or physically
disabled, most of them Irish or Romanian. Officials said they brought four
caravans and apparently intended to live in them. Some Christians who expect
Jesus Christ to return at the beginning of the millennium camp out at the Mount
of Olives, where they believe biblical prophecy indicates the Second Coming
will occur.
Israeli officials deported 14 American members of the Concerned Christians
in January, fearing that the group planned to commit suicide at the turn of
the millennium. The cult is based in Denver, Colorado, although leader Monte
Kim Miller, 44, has been reported to be hiding in Britain. Israeli security
officials trained to handle Arab and Muslim terrorists now must learn how to
identify religious fanatics who are Christian or Jewish and who "look
like tourists," said Yigal Carmon, president of the MIDDLE EAST MEDIA & RESEARCH
INSTITUTE in Washington, D.C. He is a former security adviser on counter-terrorism
to the Israeli government.
Security officials are concerned about mass suicides of fanatics
who believe they will live eternally after their death or others
who want to hasten the
apocalypse. Authorities are especially worried about the mosque at Temple Mount,
a site that is holy to Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Christianity and Judaism
embrace divine plans of redemption that some fanatics insist requires the destruction
of the mosque, Carmon explained. "If Armageddon doesn't happen they will
make it happen." Damaging the mosque, which has been attempted in the
past, would enrage Muslims, he said. "Then you would have Armageddon."
(Original news story no longer available online.)
Most recent Israeli roundup and deportation:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/19991025/
wl/israel_christians_4.html
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CULTS & CONTROVERSIES WATCH:
MOONIES SEEK EDEN IN BRAZILIAN SWAMP
(Source: THE TIMES LONDON, 9/5/1999, thanks to the CENTER FOR FREEDOM OF MIND)
Brazil's remote southwestern Pantanal swamplands, seems an unlikely place to
create a vision of paradise on Earth. But for the controversial religious sect
formally known as the UNIFICATION CHURCH, it is a Garden of Eden in the making.
Thousands of the sect's devotees, mainly from Japan, Korea and the United States,
have flocked to this backwater corner of Brazil to help to plough the rocky
red soil.
Wearing wide-brimmed straw hats they brave long afternoons by mosquito-infested
muddy rivers to help to create the image of Utopia dreamt up by their messianic
leader, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. The 80-year-old millionaire is ploughing
millions of dollars into the vast swampy plains of Mato Grosso do Sul state,
an area the size of Britain, to build on an ambitious dream to change the world.
Faced with shrinking numbers in his devotees' ranks in the United States, where
the Moonies had more than 30,000 followers in the 1980s but now number only
a few thousand, and unable to find a site big enough in his native Korea, he
seems to be making a last-ditch attempt in Brazil to resurrect his sect. Since
1994 he has spent more than £15.6 million on a 80,000 acre site named
New Hope Ranch, is now negotiating the sale of another 200,000 acres in the
region, and says will spend £1.2 billion in the area over the next eight
years. "We plan to reforest these dusty flatlands with native species
and plant crops and show local farmers that this area can be resurrected," said
Cesar Zadusky, the Moonies' ranch manager.
Four hours' drive from the nearest big city, the site contains a vast conference
hall to seat 3,000 people, a temple, more than a dozen identical dormitory
buildings, a school and several other rectangular modern buildings. They are
an incongruent contrast to the barren surroundings. About 2,000 of the sect's
followers live in crowded, army-style dormitories, working throughout the day
on a greenhouse, vegetable gardens, laundry and taking turns to cook and wash
up.
In one corner of the ranch they have started an ostrich breeding
farm. Ostrich meat is a delicacy in Brazil's industrial capital,
Sao Paulo, and therefore
a lucrative product. In the small town of Jardim, Moon's funds have helped
build an aircraft landing strip and plans to build several hotels. Two hundred
Brazilians from neighbouring farms and the small town have already joined the
sect, most of them lured by the well-equipped school. "Before we can build
our heaven on earth we have to give education and training to the poor illiterate
locals," Senhor Zadusky said.
Brazilian politicians and leaders of the Roman Catholic Church have
voiced concerns about the Unification Church's intentions in the
poor cowboy territory
and have warned locals that Moon is a messianic anti-Christ. The Moonies consider
Jesus a failed Messiah, and their "father" the Chosen One. His preachings
mix elements of Christianity, Confucianism and Buddhism and focus much on his
self-professed ability to matchmake couples.
The popular state governor in the region's capital, Campo Grande,
José Orcirio
dos Santos has made it his mission to find out where the money is going and
why. "We are worried that Moon will try an lure the vulnerable farming
people into his sect but can do nothing if people are tempted by his money," Santos
said . Marcio Santos Monteira, Mayor of Jardim's 20,000 farming families, said: "They
are supposed to contribute to the local economy but this has not happened until
now. The question is whether their project is really meant to boost social
development or is just a way to expand their flock." But indebted landowners
throughout the state have offered to sell their lands to the sect leader. "As
long as the Moonies bring cash we will sell our poor cattle lands which nowadays
bring few returns," one farmer said. Many local politicians were also
befriended when Moon offered new ambulances to 32 small towns in the region
and helicopters for politicians at election time.
Although the owner of a sizeable business empire which includes the
WASHINGTON TIMES and a university in the United States, Moon has
shown in recent years
that he intends to take refuge in South America. He already owns a bank and
a newspaper in Uruguay. His reputation suffered in the US after he was briefly
jailed there for tax evasion in the late-1970s and, more recently, when one
of his sons was accused of being a cocaine addict. He regularly commutes between
his £6.2 million New York flat and a luxury estate in Uruguay. He has
said that he eventually hopes to take up full-time residence in the New Hope
Ranch, where he and his wife stay in a small wooden hut. "Brazil is huge,
with small mind. We will try to open it and show that Third World can become
rich," he said.
The original Times London article is no longer available on the Web. A copy
was, however, posted to the alt.religion.unitarian-univ news group:
http://x28.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=
521662347.1&CONTEXT=940961076.1591083037&hitnum=0
The Moon Organization:
http://www.freedomofmind.com/groups/moonies/moonies.htm
The Unification Church:
http://unification.org/
Smorgasbord 4:
"More About Reverend Moon":
http://www.nhne.com/smorgasbord/smorgasbord0004.html
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MORMON CHURCH SUES WEB-BASED CRITICS
(Source: SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, Sheila McCann, 10/15/1999, thanks to the CENTER
FOR FREEDOM OF MIND)
THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS (LDS) is suing longtime critics
Jerald and Sandra Tanner, accusing them of violating copyright laws by posting
information from an internal church handbook on the Internet. The Tanners run
UTAH LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRY in Salt Lake City, a nonprofit organization offering
books, a newsletter and a website disputing LDS Church teachings and practices.
Until this week, their website included pages from the Church Handbook of Instructions:
Book 1, Stake Presidencies and Bishoprics, a guidebook printed by the LDS Church
in 1998 to assist its lay clergy. INTELLECTUAL RESERVE INC. [IRI] demanded
the removal of the pages from the Internet and sued the Tanners in federal
court. IRI, created in 1997, is the Utah corporation that owns the copyrights
and other intellectual-property assets used by the church. The Tanners had
posted a chapter outlining church discipline procedures and additional pages
about requests to remove names from church membership rolls. Sandra Tanner
said she posted the information as a public service for members and inactive
Mormons interested in having their names removed.
The original Salt Lake Tribune article is no longer available on the Web. A
copy was, however, posted to the alt.religion.scientology news group:
http://x21.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=537061141.1&
CONTEXT=940962799.205520930&hitnum=4
Utah Lighthouse Ministry:
http://www.utlm.org/
Links to Related Websites:
http://www.utlm.org/navotherwebsites.htm
News Group:
alt.religion.mormon
Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints:
http://www.lds.org/
Church of Jesus Christ of the Reorganied Latter Day Saints:
http://www.rlds.org/
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EARTH WATCH:
UN SAYS TIME IS RUNNING OUT FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
(Source: GEO-2000 WEBSITE, REUTERS, 9/22/1999, thanks to Scott Hess)
THE UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME (UNEP) recently completed the most
authoritative assessment ever of the environmental crisis facing humanity in
the new millennium. The report, called "Global Environment Outlook 2000
(GEO-2000)", took two and a half years to compile and is based on contributions
from UN agencies, 850 individuals and more than 30 environmental organizations.
The report's conclusion? Planet Earth -- and all the creatures who live here,
including human beings -- are in serious trouble.
According to GEO-2000, full-scale emergencies now exist in a number of fields:
The world water cycle seems unlikely to be able to cope with demands in the
coming decades; land degradation has negated many advances made by increased
agricultural productivity; air pollution is at crisis point in many major cities;
global warming now seems inevitable; tropical forests and marine fisheries
have been over-exploited; numerous plant and animal species and extensive stretches
of coral reefs will be lost forever.
In a survey conducted by the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment
for GEO-2000, 200 scientists in 50 countries identified water shortage and
global warming as the two most worrying problems for the new millennium. Desertification
and deforestation at national and regional levels was also a frequently cited
concern.
While most issues raised by the survey are well-known, GEO-2000 also identifies
new threats such as:
-- Nitrogen's harmful impact on ecosystems
-- Increased severity of natural disasters
-- Species invasion as a result of globalization
-- Increased environmental pressures caused by urbanization
-- Decline in the quality of governance in some countries
-- New wars which impact on both the immediate environment and neighbouring
states
-- The impact of refugees on the natural environment
According to the report, "the environment remains largely outside the
mainstream of everyday human consciousness and is still considered an add-on
to the fabric of life." Institutions such as treasuries, central banks,
planning departments and trade bodies frequently ignore sustainability questions
in favour of short-term economic options. Klaus Toepfer, UNEP's Executive Director,
says that "integration of environmental thinking into the mainstream of
decision-making relating to agriculture, trade, investment, research and development,
infrastructure and finance is now the best chance for effective action." According
to Toepfer, we must "encourage the media to devote as much attention to
environmental issues as they do to crime, politics, sport and finance." In
addition, "environmental education, like mathematics, (should be) part
of the standard educational curriculum."
Global Environment Outlook 2000 Press Release:
http://www.unep.ch/earthw/geo2000.htm
Global Environment Outlook 2000 Website:
http://www.unep.org/geo2000/
Complete Report in pdf Format:
http://www.unep.org/geo2000/ov-e/ov-e.pdf
Earthwatch Home Page:
http://www.unep.ch/earthw.html
A similar report, published by the INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF RED CROSS AND
RED CRESCENT SOCIETIES, also indicated that the world is heading for a spate
of "super" disasters sparked by a mix of climate change, environmental
damage and population pressures. See Smorgasbord 11 (http://www.nhne.com/smorgasbord/smorgasbord0011.html)
for a summary.
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
World Disasters Report 1999:
http://www.ifrc.org/pubs/wdr/
Key facts from the report:
http://www.ifrc.org/pubs/wdr/keyfacts.htm
Receive news from the International Federation directly to your email address.
Automatic mailing lists will deliver news releases and Weekly News in the language
of your choice:
http://www.ifrc.org/news/liste.htm
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WEST ANTARCTIC MAY MELT COMPLETELY
(Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS, Randolph Schmid, 10/7/1999, thanks to Scott Cristal)
According to a new study, the massive West Antarctic ice sheet may be headed
for a complete meltdown. The study, which was published on the journal SCIENCE,
indicates the melting MAY NOT be the fault of global warming. Rather, the future
of the West Antarctic ice sheet may have been predetermined when the grounding
line retreat was triggered in early Holocene time, about 10,000 years ago.
The grounding line is the boundary between floating ice and ice thick enough
to reach the sea floor, and the scientists found that line has receded about
800 miles since the last ice age, withdrawing at an average of about 400 feet
per year for the last 7,600 years.
"It seems like the rate (of melting) that been going since the early Holocene
is similar to the rate right now," says Howard Conway, the leader of the
team of scientists from the UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. "Collapse appears
to be part of an ongoing natural cycle, probably caused by rising sea level initiated
by the melting of the Northern Hemisphere ice sheets at the end of the last ice
age."
The ice sheet's disappearance is of concern because of estimates
that its complete melting could raise the global sea level by 15
to 20 feet, swamping low-lying
coastal communities around the world. At the current rate of melting, that
will take about 7,000 years, the researchers estimate. While the study indicates
global warming is not causing the melting, climate change remains a problem,
Conway said: "Global warming could well speed the process. Our study doesn't
address that problem."
West Antarctica is the section of the continent south of the tip of South America.
It is covered by an ice sheet that extends about 360,000 square miles -- close
to the combined areas of Texas and Colorado.
The original article is no longer available. Complete copies of the article
can be found in various news groups, including alt.global-warming:
http://x26.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=534055045&
CONTEXT=940915955.468385914&hitnum=7
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COMPUTER MODEL REVEALS ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGES
(Source: THE INDEPENDENT, YAHOO, 9/7/1999)
The Sahara and Arabia were transformed abruptly from fertile land covered with
shrubs and grasses into a parched desert in a "brutal" period of
climatic change lasting 400 years, scientists have found. And humans were not
to blame: the cause was not farming or overgrazing, as is usually thought.
Scientists reckon that the Sahara began to turn into a desert after the Earth
underwent one of its periodic changes in orientation, starting 9,000 and finishing
about 6,000 years ago. Its tilt lessened from 24.14 degrees off vertical to
its present 23.45 degrees, while the time when the planet is closest to the
Sun shifted gradually from July to January.
Geologists think the changes were probably caused by shifts of material deep
inside the Earth's molten core. The changes altered the pattern of sunshine
on the Earth, with profound effects on many weather systems. The discovery
has implications today, as many climate researchers are worried that gradual
changes in the Earth's temperature caused by global warming will have marked
effects on ocean currents -- particularly those that warm Britain. The discovery
emerged from a new computerized climate model made by a team of scientists
at THE POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE.
Before the change, the northern hemisphere received more summer sunlight, which
amplified summer monsoons. But once the change was over, the new conditions
created a vicious feedback loop between vegetation and climate. As the African
monsoon lessened, plants began dying. As they stopped retaining water and releasing
it back into the atmosphere, the rains lessened further, until rivers and streams
dried up.
"It was very severe, ruining ancient civilizations and socioeconomic systems," said
Martin Claussen, the team's leader. In the Sahara, "we find an abrupt decrease
in vegetation, from a green Sahara to a desert shrubland within a few hundred
years". The Sahara Desert now covers 3.5 million square miles. The ancient
civilizations that had lived there -- and left rock paintings -- may have been
forced to migrate to the more fertile Nile valley and other river valleys, where
great civilizations developed.
Professor Claussen noted that changes in the Earth's orbit and tilt
will continue to occur. As to their effects, he said: "What
will happen in the future, frankly, we can only speculate."
http://www.yahoo.co.uk/headlines/19990907/
independent/p10s1_936733427.html
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EARTH'S OCEANS WASHING AWAY?
(Source: WIRED, Lindsey Arent, 9/10/1999)
Geologists from the TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY have found that the Earth's
oceans are seeping into the planet's interior five times faster than they are
being replenished. The Japanese team, led by scientist Shigenori Maruyama,
calculated that about 1.12 billion tons of water drains into the Earth's mantle
each year, while just .23 billion tons moves in the opposite direction. Maruyama
believes that over time the planet's oceans will disappear altogether. "The
world's oceans will dry up within a billion years," Maruyama told NEW
SCIENTIST. "Earth's surface will look very much like the surface of Mars,
where a similar process seems to have taken place."
While others have come to similar conclusions about the rate at which
oceans are draining, some scientists find Maruyama's theory of an
oceanless world
a bit hard to swallow. "It's a neat idea," said UC BERKELEY geophysics
professor Raymond Jeanloz. "More water is going down than coming out right
now, but in the past we thought the opposite was true -- that more was coming
out than going in. Maybe we've been in this situation many times in geologic
history before," he said.
Geoscientists generally believe that a large reservoir of water lies about
250 miles below the surface of the Earth, in the zone between the upper and
lower mantles. Water flows to the mantle through areas where oceanic plates
dive beneath continental plates, called subduction zones. The water returns
to the Earth's surface via volcanic hotspots and oceanic ridges, where molten
rock and gases are pushed up through the earth's crust. Maruyama will present
his findings at the December meeting of the AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION in San
Francisco.
http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21664.html
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SPACE WATCH:
NEW PLANET IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM?
(Source: MSNBC, Alan Boyle, 10/7/1999, thanks to Paul Anderson of The Millennium
Project)
Two teams of researchers have proposed the existence of an unseen planet or
a failed star circling the sun at a distance of more than 2 trillion miles,
far beyond the orbits of the nine known planets. The theory is aimed at answering
nagging scientific questions about how particular types of comets make their
way into the inner solar system. No telescope has yet detected this object.
But on the basis of its gravitational effect, John B. Murray, a planetary scientist
at Britain's OPEN UNIVERSITY, speculates that the object could be a planet
larger than Jupiter, the biggest of the solar system's known planets. Murray
puts the object's orbit at 32,000 AU, or 2.98 trillion miles from the sun.
Meanwhile, researchers at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette say the
object could be a planet or brown dwarf -- that is, a dark, failed star --
roughly three times the size of Jupiter and orbiting at 25,000 AU. Why hasn't
such an object been seen? Murray says that even a Jupiter-scale planet could
not be observed at the immense distances involved. The proposed object should
make one orbit around the sun every 4 million to 6 million years.
http://msnbc.com/news/320182.asp?cp1=1
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WATER DISCOVERED IN METEORITE
(Source: USA Today, 10/20/1999)
Scientists who cracked open a meteorite that fell to earth last year found
tiny pockets of briny water, providing the first close look at water not originating
on Earth, according to an article in the journal SCIENCE. While astronomers
have long thought that water flowed through asteroids and other bodies formed
at the beginning of the solar system, the meteorite's liquid cargo offered
the first chance to actually study it in a lab. The meteorite burned through
the sky and was spotted by a group of boys in Monahans, Texas, who alerted
scientists from NASA's JOHNSON SPACE CENTER in Houston. Chondrite meteorites,
such as the one found in Monahans, are thought to comprise some of the most
primitive ingredients from the early period of the solar system, and the water
in the crystals could date as far back as 4.5 billion years.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/science/lsd1.htm
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TECH WATCH:
HUMAN EGGS (& SPERM) FOR SALE ON THE WEB
(Source: REUTERS/CNN, 10/25/1999)
An entrepreneurial fashion photographer from Malibu has opened a website to
auction the ovarian eggs of beautiful women on the Internet, with opening bids
of $15,000 going up to $150,000. Called "Ron's Angels", the new website
claims to be "the only website which provides you with the unique opportunity
to bid on eggs from beautiful and healthy women." The site -- which came
under fire from experts in medical ethics -- also advised recipients they must
not only be able to afford the eggs, they must also have "substantial
financial resources to guarantee that the children that are born from these
matings have a financially secure and stable life."
Harris estimated the medical costs of assisted reproduction at $20,000 to $50,000.
Harris' fee is 20 percent of the highest bid, which is in addition to the bid.
The donors get 100 percent of the winning bid.
Currently, there are three donors -- all struggling actresses -- that are listed
on Harris' website. Would-be bidders have to pay a monthly fee of $24.95 for
details of the models, including their ages and measurements.
One of the would-be beautiful donors said she was asking $50,000
for her eggs. "I'd
rather do this than do Playboy or Penthouse," she said. Another donor
said she is studying music at college and was selling her eggs to pay for her
musical education. Harris, meanwhile, was quoted in USA TODAY as saying, "What
mother wants an ugly child -- we bid for everything else in this society, why
not eggs?"
George Annas, a professor of health law at BOSTON UNIVERSITY and
a member of the ethics committee of the AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR REPRODUCTIVE
MEDICINE, said
Harris' claims of beautiful children from beautiful donors is at least "deceptive
and misleading," not to mention "ethically ludicrous."
"There is no guarantee that the baby produced from these eggs will be beautiful
or handsome. Just look at all the beautiful women in the world whose children
look nothing like them. The only way you could ever guarantee a beautiful child
would be to clone a beautiful woman," he said.
Possibly aware that sperm necessary to fertilize the donor eggs has a say in
the looks of the resulting child, Harris promised on his website he will soon
hold a sperm auction with sperm donated by handsome young men. And it is cheaper
than the eggs, with prices ranging from $10,000 to $50,000.
Complete Article:
http://cnn.com/HEALTH/women/9910/25/
life.eggs.reut/index.html
Sperm Bank Links:
http://msn.directhit.com/fcgi-bin/
DirectHitMSNa.fcg?cmd=qry&qry=sperm%20bank
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COMPUTER USES CAT'S BRAIN TO SEE
(Source: BBC NEWS ONLINE, Dr. David Whitehouse, 10/8/1999) Sci/Tech
In what is bound to become a much-debated and highly-controversial experiment,
a team of US scientists have wired a computer to a cat's brain and created
videos of what the animal was seeing. According to a paper published in the
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE, Garrett Stanley, Yang Dang and Fei Li, from the Department
of Molecular and Cell Biology, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Berkeley, attached
electrodes to 177 cells in the so-called thalamus region of the cat's brain
and monitored their activity. The end result: the scientists saw natural scenes
with recognizable objects such as people's faces.
According to other scientists, this research has enormous implications. It
could prove a breakthrough in the hoped-for ability to wire artificial limbs
directly into the brain. More amazingly, scientists may be able to build devices
that interface directly with the brain, providing access to extra data storage
or processing power or the ability to control devices just by thinking about
them.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/
newsid_468000/468857.stm
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U.S. GOVERNMENT SEEKS ALTERNATIVES TO MICROSOFT
(Sources: FEDERAL TIMES, Stephen Trimble, THE REGISTER, John Lettice, 9/13/1999)
THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL soon will create a new office to assess the ways
federal agencies could make greater use of open-source, or nonproprietary software
that is freely available to anyone and has codes that are not secret. THE GENERAL
SERVICES ADMINISTRATION and THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY
also are involved in creating the office. Its location still is to be decided.
The new office will assess the costs and benefits of using open-source software
to operate many government computers. Also to be determined are the cost and
technical obstacles to communication between systems using open-source and
the proprietary software now in use. The government will buy $2 billion worth
of software in 2000, according to FEDERAL SOURCES INC., of Fairfax, Va., a
market research company.
A chief reason for the effort, according to advocates, is to address
concerns that MICROSOFT operating systems are vulnerable to malicious
computer viruses
and hacker attacks. This is partly because the Microsoft software is proprietary
and security vulnerabilities are more difficult to find and correct, said Przemek
Klosowski, a NIST physicist and leader of the Washington, D.C., LINUX USER'S
GROUP. Linux, an open-source operating system similar in functionality to Microsoft
Windows, is being given serious consideration as an alternative for government
computer users, the official said. Created by a Finnish graduate student
named Linus Torvalls in 1991, Linux's open code is relentlessly scrutinized
and tested by tens of thousands of systems analysts worldwide, who constantly
recommend improvements. As a result, Linux boasts a robust code that rarely
malfunctions and is extremely difficult for hackers to crack. Microsoft, on
the other hand, keeps its code secret and makes upgrades to its products on
a yearly basis. Microsoft software products have been the target of numerous
computer viruses. One of the best known was the Melissa virus that struck thousands
of government and nongovernment computers in March by exploiting vulnerabilities
in Microsoft Word 97 and Microsoft Word 2000. In June, another virus called
ExploreZip targeted vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98 and
Windows NT.
http://www.federaltimes.com/topstory.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/990913-000014.html
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IMPORTANT RESOURCES:
THE STRAIGHT DOPE
So you're trying to track down information on some pressing, but relatively
obscure subject, and you have no idea where to go. A good place to start is
the official Internet home of Cecil Adams, "world's smartest human being," and
his famous syndicated column "The Straight Dope." What kind of information
can you find on Cecil's amazing website? Here's a brief sample:
Is the earth getting heavier or lighter?
If you lit a match in zero gravity, would it smother in its own smoke?
In "Star Trek," what exactly are "star dates"?
How much do the animals used for fur coats suffer?
What year numbering system was used in the time of Christ?
What do U.S. Postal Service bar codes mean?
Can you pay $35 to get a star named after you?
Why the weird religious ravings on Dr. Bronner's soap?
Do eelskin wallets demagnetize bank teller cards?
Who gets the most pleasure from sex, the man or the woman?
Why don't magnets stick to aluminum?
Why is there braille on drive-up teller machines?
Whatever happened to adoption of the metric system in the U.S.?
Do you need a key to start an F-16?
Who invented the smiley face (besides Forrest Gump)?
Does the U.S. government keep alien spaceships at Area 51?
Is the Earth about to enter the Photon Belt, causing the end of life as we
know it?
Why is the sky blue?
Did a flying saucer crash near Roswell, New Mexico in the 1940s?
What's with this "alien autopsy" movie?
How do "human cannonballs" survive?
Are sword swallowers for real?
Did the "singing nun" commit suicide with her lesbian lover?
If rabbits don't chew constantly, will their teeth grow to incredible lengths,
causing them to starve?
Where are all the dead pigeons?
Why were dinosaurs so big?
Did medieval scholars argue over how many angels could dance on the head of
a pin?
Do "laundry balls" that supposedly replace detergent really work?
Straight Dope Home Page:
http://www.straightdope.com/
Straight Dope Columns & Search Engine:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/index.html
OK, I can't resist including an answer to the last question: "The Consumer
Reports test, published in their February 1995 issue, found no difference [between
using laundry balls and plain water]. The real surprise is that Tide didn't
perform much better than plain water. I'm not saying you need laundry balls
or disks. But the soap makers' dirty little secret, you should pardon the expression,
is that you might not need conventional detergent either!"
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/970725.html
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ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA NOW FREE ONLINE!
(Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dave Carpenter, 10/19/1999, thanks to Allen Watson)
The entire ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA -- from a-ak (an ancient East Asian music)
to Zoroastrianism (a Persian religion) -- is now available for free online.
Why? Because Britannica is in a desperate struggle for its life.
The 231-year-old publisher lost ground badly when MICROSOFT, after
being spurned by Britannica, teamed with discount-market encyclopedia
publisher FUNK & WAGNALLS
to produce a colorful, multimedia encyclopedia on CD-ROM in 1993. Britannica's
own CD-ROM version, released a year later, was low on graphics and did not
fare well. Encyclopedia Britannica had revenue of $650 million and a sales
force of 2,300 at its peak in 1989. Revenue estimates are no longer available
from the privately held company, where the work force is thought to number
about 350. House calls by salesmen, once a company trademark, were dropped
in 1996. Britannica was the first encyclopedia available on the Web in 1994,
but the reception was muted by the $85-a-year subscription fee.
With its budget, staff, and readership shrinking, Britannica is now
staking its fortunes on the Internet -- and Internet advertisers.
But does it really
stand a chance on the Net? If generating "hits" (websites visitors)
is any indication, the answer is "yes." Shortly after news reached
the public that Britannica was offering all of its resources for free, the
website was inundated with so many visitors that it was knocked offline, forcing
the company's CEO, Don Yannias, to post the following message:
"The tremendous response to Britannica.com has created a tidal wave of activity
on our site, and we are working hard to make the site available as quickly as
possible... We knew that the site would attract a significant number of users
in its first day of operation, but we had no idea that this volume of traffic
would be achieved so quickly."
http://www.britannica.com
With Britannica making an all-out attempt to capture millions of users (and
advertising revenue) on the Internet, it is probably only a matter of time
before Microsoft's Encarta is forced to follow suit:
http://encarta.msn.com/
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INSPIRATIONAL STORY:
IS YOUR HUT BURNING?
(Thanks to Renee' Marie Baumgartner)
The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island.
He prayed feverishly for God to rescue him, and every day he scanned the horizon
for help, but none seemed forthcoming.
Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to
protect him from the elements, and to store his few possessions. But then one
day, after scavenging for food, he arrived home to find his little hut in flames,
the smoke rolling up to the sky.
The worst had happened; everything was lost.
He was stunned with grief and anger.
"God, how could you do this to me?!" he cried.
Early the next day, however, he was awakened by the sound of a ship that was
approaching the island. It had come to rescue him.
"How did you know I was here?" asked the weary man of his rescuers.
"We saw your smoke signal," they replied.
It is easy to get discouraged when things are going bad, but we shouldn't lose
heart, because God is at work in our lives, even in the midst of pain and suffering.
Remember, next time your little hut is burning to the ground, it just may be
a smoke signal that summons the grace of God.
--- Author Unknown
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THE LIGHTER SIDE:
WHAT A BEAR DOES IN THE WOODS
(Thanks to Rick Rabbit)
In light of the rising frequency of human/grizzly bear encounters, the Alaska
Department of Fish and Game has issued the following advisory to hikers, hunters,
and fishermen while in the field:
It is strongly advised that outdoorsmen wear noisy little bells on their clothing
so as not to startle grizzly bears that aren't expecting outdoorsmen to be
walking in their habitat.
It is also strongly advised that outdoorsmen carry non-lethal pepper spray
with them in case of an encounter with a grizzly. The Department of Natural
Resources for Alaska states it is a good idea to watch out for fresh signs
of bear activity.
Outdoorsmen should be able to recognize the difference between black bear poop
and grizzly bear poop:
Black bear poop is small, contains lots of berries, and, occasionally, squirrel
fur.
Grizzly bear poop is large, has little bells in it, and smells like pepper.
--- Author Unknown
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