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Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 08:47:46 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
8:00 PM Eastern
CNN - PERSPECTIVES - "Blackhawk Down: A Story of
Modern War" - American involvement in the war in Somali; host
Christiane Amanpour.(CC)
9:00
HIST - SWORN TO SECRECY - "Nazi Gold" - Nazis amass treasure
from conquered lands and people.(CC)(TVG)
TLC - SECRET HISTORY OF THE PRESIDENCY - Marlin Fitzwater
and Jody Powell discuss moral standards; historians examine
family life in the White House.(CC)(TVG)
10:00
CNN - NEWSSTAND: TIME - Jewish refugees during the
Holocaust; homeless.(CC)
HIST - HISTORY UNDERCOVER - "Japanese War Crimes &
Trials: Murder Under the Sun" - Japanese war crimes from the
1931 attack on China through World War II lead to trials of
the perpetrators.(CC)(TVPG)
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Subject: [BPR] - Weekend News Today items (4/8,9/99)
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Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 09:00:15 +0000
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Saudi prince praises US on Yugoslavia, asks for similar treatment of
Israel
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: Arabic News
Fri Apr 9 , 1999 -- Commander of the allied troops during the Gulf
War, Saudi Arabian Prince Khaled Bin Sultan, has called upon
Washington to adopt the same tough stand it takes now in Yugoslavia
against Israel. In an article published by the London-based al-Hayat
daily on Wednesday congratulating the United States for its actions in
Kosovo, Prince Khaled said the US bias toward Israel is damaging to US
interests. He expressed his hope that there will be a day on which the
American people would realize that "it is their interest to achieve
justice and lift repression and not to abide by whatever is said by
Israel." Prince Khaled added, "We ask the US, when you are the only
superpower, to get rid of being a follower of Israel, and her
supporter, when she is oppressive or very oppressive, since Israel has
never been oppressed," so that "we" can praise you, as "we" praise you
now for your action in Yugoslavia. Prince Khaled called for greater
support for the US for its action, and for not stopping the raids
against Yugoslavia before the refugees are able to return within the
framework of a political solution for the Kosovo crisis.
Man fined for letting kids climb tree
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: Indianapolis Star
Fri Apr 9 , 1999 -- A man in New York was ticketed last month for
$1000 by two park rangers after his 9 and 11 yr old daughters were
caught climbing a Japanese white pine in Central Park. He said, "My
children have been climbing trees in Central Park for nine years. At
least give me a warning!" But officials said it was too late -- the
tree was damaged. They said they will bring photographs of broken
boughs to environmental court to prove it. The man said he would fight
the ticket, which cites him for "destruction, defacment or abuse of a
tree."
Future computers to run without electricity
Weekend News Today
By Staff Writer
Source: BBC
Thu Apr 8 , 1999 -- Powerful computers that run without electric power
could be possible in the future. Research shows that computer circuits
can be built to work without electricity. A tiny initial charge is all
that is needed. The new "logic gates" exploit the charge of captured
electrons to set off a domino-like cascade of change in stored
information. They have been developed by scientists at the University
of Notre Dame in Indiana, USA. The key to the new technology is a cell
with four tiny dots of material which can capture electrons. They are
arranged as a square. When two electrons are put into the cell, they
repel one another and end up positioned across one diagonal or the
other. These two positions correspond to the binary "0" and "1" used
in computing. Today's computers use on and off transistors for zeroes
and ones. By placing another quantum-dot cell next to the first, the
repulsive electrical charge of the electrons allows the information to
be passed on without needing an electrical current.
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Subject: [BPR] - Weekend News Today environment/disease items (4/8,9/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 09:04:33 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
Malaysia: Killer virus is first of its kind
Weekend News Today
By Staff Writer
Source: Foxnews
Thu Apr 8 , 1999 -- An outbreak of a tropical virus that has killed 90
people in Malaysia is the first of its kind and virologists are
stumped as to how it spreads, AP reported. Nine scientists from the
United States and other experts from Australia, Taiwan and Japan
arrived in Malaysia several weeks ago to help the Southeast Asian
country determine the nature of the virus believed to be spreading
from pigs to humans. Malaysian virologists flew to the United States
on March 17 with samples. Lab analyses quickly proved that the virus
wasn't Japanese encephalitis, as previously thought. Instead, it
resembled a very rare Hendra virus, first detected in Australia in
1994. The CDC finding plunged Malaysia into further confusion. Pig
farmers deserted their homes after police cordoned off their villages.
To curb the outbreak, soldiers dressed like astronauts swept through a
half-dozen pig-farming districts in an attempt to slaughter a targeted
1 million pigs.
HIV Crisis Growing in Asia, Especially Among the Young
Weekend News Today
By Staff Writer
Source: CDC HIV/STD/TB Prevention News Update
Thu Apr 8 , 1999 -- UNAIDS head Dr. Peter Piot announced last week
that 20 percent of the 7.2 million HIV-infected individuals in Asia
contracted the virus last year. During a press conference sponsored by
the Thai Red Cross Society, Piot noted that over 50 percent of the
infections were among people less than 25 years of age. Piot was in
Asia promoting the UNAIDS program, "World AIDS Campaign with Children
and Young People," which is intended to open communication about the
disease among young people. (Source: Reuters Health Information
Services
7.0 strong earthquake rocks northeastern China
Weekend News Today
By Staff Writer
Source: Yahoo!
Thu Apr 8 , 1999 -- An earthquake with magnitude 7.0 shook a wide area
of northeastern China near the border with North Korea, Reuters said.
The quake struck the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in Jilin
Province at 9.10 p.m. (1310 GMT) Thursday. The epicenter of the
earthquake was at a depth of 540 km (335 miles). Its impact was felt
in the nearby provinces of Heilongjiang and Hebei, Xinhua news
reported.
India: More tremors jolt Himalaya quake zone
Weekend News Today
By Staff Writer
Source: Yahoo!
Thu Apr 8 , 1999 -- New tremors which measured between 4 and 5 jolted
a Himalayan region in northern India late Wednesday in Chamoli, a
small town in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, which is 180 miles
northeast of New Delhi, AP said. More than 50 tremors have hit the
region after the March 29 earthquake of 6.8 magnitude. Geologists say
the aftershocks of the devastating earthquake are likely to continue
for weeks.
Venezuela hit by flooding; 3 killed; Hundreds left homeless
Weekend News Today
By Staff Writer
Source: BBC
Sat Apr 10 , 1999 -- The authorities in Venezuela have declared a
state of emergency after torrential rains caused a river to overflow.
Three people were killed and around 500 left homeless. The flooding
happened in the agricultural region of Lara, 500km west of the capital
Caracas after three days of heavy rain. Five bridges were destroyed by
the raging river. The national guard was on alert as weather
forecasters predicted more rain over the next 48 hours. Mudslide in
Colombia In Colombia more than 400 people were left homeless after a
mudslide in the hamlet of Apulo, 250km south-west of Bogota. More than
50 homes were destroyed. Residents of the Cordoba, Choco, Cauca and
Meta regions have been warned that the rains are expected to continue
for at least three more days.
Iran faces worst drought in 30 years
Weekend News Today
By Staff Writer
Source: BBC
Sat Apr 10 , 1999 -- The Iranian agriculture minister, Isa Kalantari,
says the country is facing its worst drought for thirty years because
of abnormally low rainfall. He said there was a shortfall of more than
one billion cubic metres of water for farming needs, and that in the
northwestern province of Ardebil, agriculture had been completely
destroyed. He urged farmers to ration water and to dig wells for new
supplies. Correspondents say Iran's northern provinces are usually
well-watered and humid, producing much of the country's wheat, rice
and citrus fruits.
Central US: Swarm of tornadoes said second biggest of the year; 6
killed; hundreds of homes damaged
Weekend News Today
By Staff Writer
Source: Foxnews
Fri Apr 9 , 1999 -- Tornadoes raked the central United States
overnight Thursday and into Friday, killing at least six people,
damaging hundreds of homes and causing millions of dollars damage,
Reuters reported. Montgomery Police Chief Don McGlothlin estimated
damage in Montgomery, an affluent village about 20 miles northeast of
downtown Cincinnati, at $14 million with 68 homes damaged, a third of
them beyond repair. Warning sirens sounded before the twister tore
through there packing winds that meteorologists estimated at 200 mph.
Some 400 homes in three Ohio counties were damaged and about 40,000
businesses and residences were still without power. The National
Weather Service said it had received reports of 64 tornadoes in Iowa,
Missouri, Nebraska and Illinois Thursday and Friday. There was an
estimated $8 million property damage in Iowa. Rich Thompson, a
forecaster at the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., said the
swarm of tornadoes was the second biggest of the year after one in
Arkansas in late January.
Angola: Polio outbreak paralysed 200 children
Weekend News Today
By Staff Writer
Source: Yahoo!
Fri Apr 9 , 1999 -- The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday
confirmed a polio outbreak in Angola which has reportedly paralysed
200 children, Reuters reported. WHO said it was mounting an emergency
campaign to immunise 700,000 Angolan children against the highly
infectious disease, which can invade the nervous system and cause
paralysis in a matter of hours. "Central Africa is still one of the
hot spots for polio. We need to redouble our efforts to rid that part
of the world of polio,'' a WHO spokesman told a news briefing in
Geneva. WHO experts said virology experts in South Africa confirmed
polio in the Angola cases after examining stool samples taken from
paralysed children in the capital Luanda. WHO had ''unconfirmed
reports'' that the number of cases had risen sharply to 206.
111 have been killed by mystery virus
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: Indianapolis Star
Fri Apr 9 , 1999 -- A tropical virus that has killed dozens of people
in Malaysia is the first of its kind, and virologists are trying to
determin how it spreads an American health official said. Scientists
from the US, Australia, Tqiwan and Japan have been in the country for
several weeks believe it is passed from pigs to humans. Over 229 are
believed to have been infected and at least 111 have died. Symptoms
are high fever, aches, eventual coma, and death. "This is a new,
previouisly unrecognized virus, found in humans," said a spokesman for
the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The outbreak began when
15 died last October from the Japanese encephalitis virus, confirmed
by the World Health Organization. But in February the deaths among the
villagers and farmes in the hog-rearing district of central Negeri
Sembilan rose quickly, prompting officials to see help. Virologists
quickly proved that it wasn't this virus, but instead resembled a very
rare Hendra virus, first detected in Autstralia in 1994. To curb the
outbreak, soldiers, dressed like astronauts swept through a half-dozen
pig-farmimg districts in an attempt to slaughter 1 million pigs.
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Subject: [BPR] - Calvary Contender items (4/1/99)
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Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 09:13:41 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
DON'T GET SICK IN HOLLAND! - A Journal of Medical Ethics report (Feb.)
said one in five cases of assisted suicide in Holland takes place
without the patient's consent (3/13 World). The survey also revealed
that nearly two-thirds of Dutch euthanasia cases in 1995 were not
reported, as law requires. Doctors have dangerous power to kill
patients!
MARRIAGE IN TROUBLE - BYU Prof. Brent Barlow warns that if divorce and
cohabitation trends continue, "being married could be a minority
status" within 10 years. The number of Americans marrying is down to
88% from a high of 94% (What in the World!). For the first time since
the U.S. Census Bureau began collecting data on it, a majority of
firstborn children in the U.S. are to unwed mothers (1/99 AFA Jrnl);
60 years ago it was 18%.
'INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THANKSGIVING'- The United Nations has declared
2000 the "International Year of Thanksgiving." A Thanksgiving World
Assembly was planned (for March 12-15) to bring major world religious
leaders to Thanksgiving Square, Dallas (2/28 Dallas Morn. News), to
heal relations between religions, cultures, etc.
GALVESTON HOTEL TARGETS 'GAYS' - Galveston's first hotel catering
solely to "gays and lesbians" opens this spring. Such "perversion"
centers are proliferating.
WORLD VISION'S BLURRED VISION - An internal program survey shows that
relief agency World Vision is involved in Third World population
control. The 3/6 World mentions upset "Roman Catholics such as Jon
Merrill, a World Vision food manager in Angola from 1997 to 1998." He
learned last year WV floated a funding proposal with USAID in Angola
which included a family planning component. He was told that other WV
family planning programs included all forms of contraceptives - IUDs,
birth-control pills and Norplant. A new policy may limit World
Vision's own contraceptive distribution but pro-lifers worry about the
interaction of WV with agencies that promote abortion, etc. An article
in the WV's Jan.-Mar. Together magazine said "Trees speak, of course,
in the same way that humans do...." When confronted, the executive
publisher said they have imposed another set of controls. Time will
tell the result.
FRANKLIN GRAHAM: REBEL WITH A CAUSE - That is the title of an
interesting and revealing autobiography by Billy Graham's son
Franklin. It covers his smoking, drinking and rebellious rock music
years, and how he came to succeed Bob Pierce at the helm of
Samaritan's Purse. He told of his father ministering in Poland in 1978
and praying that "the Holy Spirit would unite the hearts of Roman
Catholics and Protestants in worship together." At a later trip to
Russia, orchestrated by the Communists, he thanked Lenin for
"converting the Orthodox church" by taking its property and stripping
it of its power so it "turned to God." Franklin said, "Communist
officials carefully controlled Daddy's schedule during that trip, but
never hindered his preaching...." Why? "Daddy never spoke against
Communism in his sermons."
THE CALVARY CONTENDER
VOL. XVI NO. 7, April 1,1999
NEWS & VIEWS, NOTES & QUOTES, TO WARN & INFORM
Jerry Huffman-Editor
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Subject: [BPR] - God Campaign
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Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 09:24:17 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1999
GOD CAMPAIGN
Roadside religion goes nationwide
Warren Richey
Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
FORT LAUDERDALE
Usually when people look for signs from God, they expect subtle,
quiet messages.
But not these signs.
Last fall in south Florida, billboards throughout the region suddenly
began offering public-service announcements - signed "God."
"Let's meet at my house Sunday before the game" proclaimed one
billboard with black background and white lettering.
Another said: "What part of 'Thou Shalt Not...' didn't you
understand?" One issued a warning: "Keep using my name in vain,
I'll make rush hour longer."
The roadside announcements were actually the work of Andy
Smith and Charlie Robb of The Smith Agency in Fort Lauderdale.
The advertising firm was hired last summer by a person requesting
anonymity. Their instructions: Create and execute a marketing campaign
from September to November that would get people thinking about God.
It couldn't have come at a better time for the United States, with
nightly news programs saturated with stories of crime and details
about presidential infidelity and all the minutiae of sex, lies, and
audiotapes in Washington.
For this south Florida community, it was the equivalent of a
wake-up call - from God.
The results were immediate and impressive. Area pastors praised
the idea of the billboards. Drivers found them thought-provoking. And
some folks actually took the hint and went to church.
But perhaps the most amazing aspect of the campaign is what
happened when it was about to end. The staff at The Smith
Agency sat down at a meeting to assess the campaign. Everyone
agreed that it had been a success and the question arose what, if
anything, should be done next.
The answer came within two days in a telephone call from the
Outdoor Advertising Association of America in Washington. The
group wanted to launch "Messages from God" as a nationwide
public-service campaign.
In effect, they were asking whether The Smith Agency would
allow its messages to be spread to 10,000 billboards and bus
stops in 200 US cities.
"The most beautiful thing about this is that it is being done gratis.
There is no charge for this billboard space," says Andy Smith. The
original investment by the anonymous donor was between $100,000 and
$200,000. In contrast, the estimated value of the nationwide campaign
- all of it donated by the OAAA and its 800 member companies - is
approaching $13 million.
The campaign kicked off March 16 and will continue indefinitely,
says Sheila Hayes, OAAA communications director.
She says "Messages from God" is the most effective billboard
public-service campaign the organization has ever seen. It has
already displaced Smokey the Bear and the crash-test dummies as
the most popular campaign.
"My boss has been in the industry for 20-something years and she
doesn't recall anything like this," says Ms. Hayes. "It's fun to be
working on something that makes people laugh and talk."
For outdoor advertisers, the campaign is not only a public service,
but also a demonstration of the power of billboards to deliver a
meaningful message. The key is relevance. The messages were written by
Mr. Robb, who wanted to make the missives hit home in a 1990s kind of
way.
"We knew that putting Scripture on a billboard or preaching to
people was not going to reach the audience that we were
interested in reaching," says Smith, "those who had once been to
church but no longer attended."
The messages deal with a range of issues, including children,
career, and relationships. One message says: "That 'Love Thy
Neighbor' thing... I meant that." Another says: "Tell the kids I love
them." Still another: "I Love You...I Love You...I Love You." They are
all signed simply, "God."
Smith says the campaign has changed his life. "It was a business
thing at first," he says. "But it certainly has had a profound effect
on me and my thinking."
For starters, he's had to sort through hundreds of letters and
e-mail messages from inspired billboard viewers. And the
responses keep coming.
One of his favorite letters is from a Fort Lauderdale woman who
said her nephew stopped attending church. Then he saw a
billboard that said: "Loved the wedding, invite me to the marriage."
He returned that day to church and has been regularly attending
services ever since.
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/04/09/fp1s4-csm.shtml
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Subject: [BPR] - Harvest
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Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 19:46:23 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
1. barley = saints who rose from their graves
2. wheat = church
3. produce of vines/trees = Israel
The offering of a barley-sheaf during the Feast of Unleavened Bread
[starts the day after Passover/Pesach] opened the reaping season,
which lasted officially for 49 days, a week of weeks. On the 50th day
took place the Feast of Pentecost, also called the Feast of Weeks (Exo
34:22; Deut 16:10), the Feast of Harvest (Exo 23:16), and the Day of
First-fruits (Num 28:26). It thus took place at the end of the reaping
season, when all the wheat and barley had been cut and gathered, and
marked especially the termination of the wheat harvest (wheat being
the last of the cereals to ripen in Palestine).
(Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible)
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The harvest season was basically cut into three parts (see harvest
file) which corresponds with the three times of the year that Jewish
males were to appear before the Lord:
Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD
thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of
unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of
tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:
Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of
the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.--Deuteronomy 16:16,17
1. March/April--The early first-fruits at the Feast of Unleavened
Bread. (see The Temple: Its Ministry and Services, Feast of Unleavened
Bread, by Alfred Edersheim)
But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits
of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also
the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in
Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order:
Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his
coming. Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the
kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all
rule and all authority and power. For he must reign, till he hath
put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be
destroyed is death.--1 Corinthians 15:20-26
Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the
ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from
the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks
rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints
which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his
resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto
many.--Matthew 27:50-53
2. May/June--The latter first-fruits of the wheat harvest at
Pentecost. (see The Temple: Its Ministry and Services, Pentecost, by
Alfred Edersheim)
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with
one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from
heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house
where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven
tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they
were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with
other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.--Acts 2:1-4
John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with
water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes
I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy
Ghost and with fire: Whose fan [winnowing fork] is in his hand,
and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat
into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire
unquenchable.--Luke 3:16,17
According to Edersheim, one of the peculiar things about Pentecost was
the two wave loaves. There were two loaves but everything regarding
them was done separately (the measuring of the wheat for each loaf was
done separately, the kneading of each loaf was done separately, they
were baked separately, etc.). They were both to be used at the same
feast, but yet there was great effort expended to make sure that each
loaf was somehow different than the other.
Another thing to note is that these loaves are leavened which is
unusual seeing leaven is often associated with sin. Apparently both
loaves have an element of sin to them (or the leaven constitutes the
kingdom of God like in the parable of the yeast [Matt 13:33]. The sin
as leaven parallel is more prevalent).
Next point of interest is that one of the loaves is given to the
high-priest and the other to all the other priests. The church's
high-priest is Jesus and if we continue with the analogy of Jesus
fulfilling these feasts it looks as if at some Pentecost in the future
one loaf will be given to him and the other to the priests/Israel.
Modern Jewish observance of Shavuot/Pentecost includes this thought
that Israel is a kingdom of priests. Exodus 19-20, Ezekiel 1, and the
scroll of Ruth are read to celebrate the day Moses was given the
Torah. It's rather long, but I'd like to include all of Exodus 19-20
and Ezekiel 1 so that you can get a feeling for exactly what would be
in the minds of those coming out of the synagogue on that day (and
maybe give an idea of how they would perceive the fulfillment of
Shavuot/Pentecost some day when the Lord is given his loaf--or if that
was the day Moses as one of the two witnesses returned?).
[scripture verses omitted from email version]
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WHEAT, the chief cereal crop for human beings and animals. Rivaled
only by oats and corn, it is a primary source of flour and breakfast
foods for peoples all over the world...Many ancient peoples considered
it a gift from Heaven...Wheat is hardy and adaptable, but because of
many years of cultivation, selection, and breeding, it has become
weakened in character and has lost its ability to compete with other
plants in uncultivated areas...Although it can be raised in widely
differing climates...it would soon die out if left untended...Hundreds
of varieties of wheat have been developed and classified variously as
hard and soft, bald and bearded, red and white, spring and fall...The
plants of fall wheat produce a crown of leaves which protect the roots
during the dormant season...To prevent smashed heads and loss of ripe
grain, wheat is harvested in the dough stage, or just before it is
fully matured...The principal foreign countries competing with the
United States in the world market are Russia, Canada, Australia, and
Argentina. The United Kingdom and Europe are the chief importers,
although the United States imports great quantities to be milled and
manufactured for export.
(Collier's Encyclopedia, 1963)
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WHEAT. With the possible exception of rice, wheat is the most
important cereal crop in the world; certainly it is the most valuable.
From it, white and whole-wheat breads are made, and one has only to
observe the universal use of bread to realize the necessity of this
golden grain...It probably originated in Asia, man's earliest home,
but it was not grown in America until after the coming of the white
man...Wheat has a number of enemies. They include rust, the Hessian
fly, the chinch bug, and wheat midge.
(The Wonderland of Knowledge Encyclopedia, 1965)
rust: a reddish brittle coating formed on iron esp. when chemically
attacked by moist air and composed essentially of hydrated ferric
oxide; corrosive or injurious influence or effect; any of numerous
destructive diseases of plants produced by fungi; to degenerate esp.
from inaction, lack of use, or passage of time.
After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast,
dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great
iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the
residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the
beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.--Daniel 7:7
hessian: a German mercenary serving in the British forces during the
American Revolution; broadly: a mercenary soldier.
(Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary)
____________________
WHEAT. The principal diseases of wheat are connected with the presence
of parasitic fungi. The chief of these diseases are rust, smut and
bunt. Wheat is also liable to injury from several insect pests,
especially the Hessian fly and sawfly.
(Universal Standard Encyclopedia, 1956)
smut: matter that soils or blackens; any of various destructive
diseases esp. of cereal grasses caused by parasitic fungi and marked
by transformation of plant organs into dark masses of spores; obscene
language or matter.
sawfly: any of numerous hymenopterous insects whose female usu. has a
pair of serrated blades in her ovipositor and whose larva resembles a
plant-feeding caterpillar (see locusts).
(Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary)
____________________
Most of the wheat and barley have been reaped. So, if it is to be
found, it is scarce (notice the admonition to leave the wine and oil
alone):
And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast
say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he
that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a
voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for
a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou
hurt not the oil and the wine.--Revelation 6:5,6
Notice the difference between the produce of the ground (barley,
wheat, corn) and produce of the trees (wine, oil). Most of the produce
of the ground is harvested at the beginning and middle of the year,
but some is left to be harvested with the produce from the trees at
the end of the year.
Nehemiah speaks of this distinction between produce of the ground and
trees in chapter 10:
And to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits
of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the
LORD: And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and
our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and
of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our
God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same
Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our
tillage.--10:35,37
The tribe of Levi was divided between the priests and temple
attendants (the Jews recognize three divisions of Israel: 1. priests,
2. temple attendants and 3. everyone left over [see angel of the
church]). All these divisions are confusing but it's interesting to
see that even those who were about the business of the Temple were in
two distinct groups--though they're all Levites, they don't all have
the same job.
3. September/October--The Feast of Ingathering/Tabernacles when all
corn, wine, figs and oil have been harvested for the year. (see The
Temple: Its Ministry and Services, Feast of Tabernacles, by Alfred
Edersheim).
Could Israel be represented by the vine/trees and their produce?
[scripture verses omitted from email version]
Vine:
Psalm 80:8-19; Psalm 128; Isaiah 5:7; Jeremiah 2:21; Ezekiel 17;
Ezekiel 19:10-14; Hosea 10:1; Haggai 2:18-23; John 15:1-8;
Revelation 14:18,19
Fig Tree:
Song of Solomon 2:10-13; Jeremiah 8:13; Hosea 9:10; Joel 1:1-12;
Matthew 21:19
Olive Tree:
1 Kings 6:22,23,31-33; Jeremiah 11:15-19; Zechariah 4:1-4,11-14 ;
Romans 11:16-24; Revelation 11:3,4
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VINE... has been cultivated in Palestine from the earliest times...The
climate is peculiarly suited to the grape, which reaches perfection
during the prolonged sunshine and the dewy nights of late summer.
Vines specially flourish on the hillsides unsuited for cereals...As in
the case of the olive, the culture of the vine needs a peaceful,
settled population, as the plants require several years' care before
bearing fruit (Zeph 1:13), and constant attention if they are to
maintain their excellence; hence to sit under one's 'own vine and fig
tree' was a favourite image of peace (1 Kings 4:25; Micah 4:4; Zech
3:10). The Israelites found Palestine ready planted with vineyards
(Deut 6:11; Josh 24:13; Neh 9:25).
(Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible)
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FIG. Long before the founding of the Roman Empire, this delicious,
sweet, seedy fruit was cultivated in Asia Minor and along the
Mediterranean shores. Today its popularity has spread throughout the
world...Inasmuch as the flowers of the plant are contained within the
fleshy so-called fruit, fertilization of the plant is difficult, for
the pollen cannot be transplanted by ordinary wind and insects.
Consequently, a special method of fertilization, called caprification,
is used. Branches of the wild capri fig in blossom are tied to the
tops of domestic trees. These blossoms attract an insect known as the
fig wasp. As it seeks a place to deposit its eggs, it gathers the
pollen from the blossoms and carries it to the blossoms of the
cultivated trees. This is the only method by which the Smyrna fig, one
of the favorite varieties, can be produced, and it was necessary to
import the capri fig and the wasp before Smyrna figs could be grown in
California.
(Wonderland of Knowledge Encyclopedia)
____________________
OLIVE TREE...can continue to bear even after the gnarled trunk is
hollow. This slow-growing tree can grow to an age of 1,000 years or
more. It is difficult to kill because when the tree is cut down, new
sprouts appear from the roots around the old trunk...Olives must be
cultivated for 7 years before fruiting, and they reach maturity after
15 to 20 years.
(Anchor Bible Dictionary, Flora)
____________________
Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane,
and he said to them, "Sit here while I go over there and
pray."--Matthew 26:36
Gethsemane means oil-press place. It was an olive grove on the Mount
of Olives with a name that suggests a place where the olives are
processed into oil. Oil is a symbol both of the spirit and of
understanding. To bring forth the liquid (oil) from the olive, an oil
press causes great pressure on it. Jesus is the olive root according
to Romans 11:16, supporting every olive branch and therefore every
olive in the tree. Did he experience pressure in that place? Indeed he
did. The pressure can be seen to bring forth liquid in Luke 22:44:
And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was
like drops of blood falling to the ground.
The external fluid came forth like the internal fluid. Gethsemane
indeed!
(Gethsemane, The Open Scroll, May/June 1997,
http://home.cwnet.com:80/crm/)
Full file with all scripture verses:
http://www.mv.com/ipusers/butterfly/rev/harvest2.htm
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Subject: [BPR] - Nazareth Clashes Jeopardize Millennium Celebrations
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 19:54:21 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
Sunday, April 11, 1999: The Culture Channel
Nazareth Clashes Jeopardizes
Millenium Celebrations
NAZARETH (AFP) -- Continuing tensions between Muslims
and Christians in this town where Christians believe
Jesus spent his childhood are jeopardizing plans to
cash in on the expected millenium influx of pilgrims,
the town's Arab mayor warned Sunday.
"There is now a big question mark over whether any of
the celebrations we are planning for the millenium
will go ahead," Mayor Ramez Jeraisi told Israel
radio.
Jeraisi said that the tensions in the town over
Muslim plans to build a
mosque hard by the principal Christian pilgrimage
site, the Church of the Annunciation, were now so bad
that he had received a string of death threats.
"The situation is dangerous and I have taken
precautions to prevent any action by an irresponsible
individual bent on provocation," said the mayor, who
comes from the town's 30 percent Christian minority.
The head of the Islamic Movement, which holds a
slender majority on the town council, agreed that
Nazareth was "like a powder-keg" after communal
clashes over the planned mosque wounded 27 people
over the Catholic Easter last weekend.
"Without the building of our mosque, there can be no
solution and calm will not return to our town,"
Salman Abu Ahmed warned.
Abu Ahmed rejected an Israeli government proposal to
freeze consideration of the mosque project until
January 2001 to prevent it getting in the way of the
town's millenium celebrations.
Israeli Tourism Minister Moshe Katzav put forward the
plan at a meeting Friday with officials from the
Islamic waqf or endowments organization in Nazareth.
The Islamic Movement won its slender majority on the
town council in municipal elections in November, but
the communist mayor still managed to secure
re-election resulting in the current stand-off.
http://www.arabia.com/content/culture/4_99/nazareth11.shtml
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Subject: [BPR] - Premier's Wash. Visit Brings Realism in Sino-US Relationship
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 08:29:20 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
Premier's Washington Visit Brings Realism in Sino-US Relationship
[CND, 04/11/99] Despite his virtuoso performance, Premier ZHU Rongji
left Washington on Friday with a sense of realism about the unresolved
major differences between the two countries, AFP reported.
Using tricks in his repertoire that run the gamut of self-deprecating
humor, refreshing honesty, biting bluntness, and showing a sharp mind,
the 70-year old Zhu charmed more than a few of his hosts.
In the end, however, it was not enough. The differences between the
U.S. and the Chinese government on major issues around China's
accession to the WTO, the Kosovo crisis and NATO's bombing of Serbia,
China's human rights conditions, allegations of China-orchestrated
influence peddling, and charges of Chinese espionage of U.S. military
secrets, were too many and too wide even for Zhu to bridge.
Zhu left Washington without everything he came here for. The U.S.
backed away at the last minute from signing a comprehensive WTO
package that the two sides had been furiously negotiating for.
Zhu's Washington trip was originally intended to be a goodwill visit
to further a "strategic partnership" between the two countries. The
concept that a Sino-U.S. relationship should be based on a
"constructive strategic partnership" was conceived and unveiled in the
past two years during a presidential exchange of visits. Zhu has
frankly admitted that he thought about calling off the visit for fear
of not being able to have anything to show for it while the poisonous
anti-China atmosphere is clouding Washington. He came anyway, as he
said, to explain to the American people his government's positions, to
alleviate lingering fears of an ill-intentioned Red China, to let the
Americans vent their anger and frustrations, and last but not the
least, to try to put a finishing touch on a WTO deal.
As Zhu was winding down his Washington visit, the U.S. released
without China's prior approval detailed agreements of the WTO
negotiations, some of which China argued it did not quite agree to.
The Premier, who earlier made clear the failure to reach a WTO deal
lay more with the adverse political climate than with differences on
substantive matters, warned the U.S. against asking for more than
China was able to give. "If you want too much too soon, in the end you
may wind up with nothing," he admonished. The wide-ranging
concessions China has made, which are perceived in some quarters as
more than what the U.S. had expected, are apparently conditional on
China's accession to the WTO.
Given that Zhu was not able to fly away from Washington with a much
coveted WTO deal, some reports are already declaring Zhu's visit a
failure. Michael Oksenberg, senior fellow at the Asia Pacific Research
Center at Stanford University, obviously thought differently. "There
is a useful realism (in this trip) that has often been lacking," he
said, noting that past relationships between the two countries has
often seen wide swings as it was anchored in a love-hate pendulum. Now
"We are treating the Chinese as we do every other country around the
world," he asserts.
The Chinese, on their part, were also putting a more realistic tone on
the visit. Foreign ministry spokesman ZHU Bangzao told a news briefing
as the premier prepared to go on the next leg of the trip that a
"strategic partnership" was more of a goal for the two countries to
work towards in the next century than a reality. (LUO Zhenyuan, YIN De
An)
C h i n a N e w s D i g e s t
(Global News, No. GL99-048)
Monday, April 12, 1999
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Subject: [BPR] - Could West act against Israel?
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 12:47:59 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
COULD THE WEST ACT AGAINST ISRAEL?
Israeli officials, including Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon, do not
rule out the possibility that the West would intervene against Israel
as it is now doing in Yugoslavia. Middle East correspondent Steve
Rodan reports that it was Italy's ambassador to Israel, Gian Paolo
Cavarai, who first raised such a possibility during a meeting of
diplomats last month with Mr. Sharon. Sharon was at first stunned that
a NATO ambassador would raise such a prospect just days after the
beginning of the NATO campaign against Yugoslavia. Later, however,
Sharon admitted that Israel's Arab minority might call for autonomy in
the future, and, as a senior government source put it, "the West would
consider Yugoslavia a precedent to intervene in our part of the
region." Rodan reports that Sharon's warnings could serve as a basis
for a Jewish lobby against the NATO campaign. In his meeting with
U.S. Jewish leaders on Monday in New York, Sharon said that the Kosovo
Liberation Army is strongly supported by Iranian-backed terrorist
organizations, and that an independent Kosovo would enable Islamic
terrorism to spread throughout Europe. He appealed to U.S. Jewish
leaders to call for an end to the fighting in Kosovo.
The PA has not taken a stand on the Kosovo issue, but PA Cabinet
Secretary Ahmed Abdul Rahman appears to feel that the Palestinians can
only benefit from the NATO strike. "We must make it clear that what
is happening in Yugoslavia must serve as a lesson to Israel to
withdraw from its current policies before something similar happens to
it as what is now taking place in Yugoslavia," said Abdul Rahman.
Prince Khaled Bin Sultan, commander of the Saudi Arabian army during
the Gulf War, has called upon Washington to take the same tough stance
against Israel that it is taking against Serbia. Writing in the
London-based Saudi paper al-Hayat last week, Khaled expressed his hope
that the American people would soon realize that "it is their interest
to achieve justice and lift repression and not to abide by whatever is
said by Israel... We ask the US, when you are the only superpower, to
get rid of [sic] being a follower of Israel, and her supporter, when
she is oppressive or very oppressive, since Israel has never been
oppressed, [so that] we can praise you, as we praise you now [for your
action in Yugoslavia]."
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.a7.org>
Monday, April 12, 1999 / Nisan 26, 5759 - Day 11 of the Omer
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Subject: [BPR] - Holocaust Remembrance Day
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 12:48:48 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY
Holocaust Remembrance Day begins tonight in Israel with a public
ceremony at Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, with the
participation of President Ezer Weizman and Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu. Chief Rabbis Yisrael Lau and Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron will
recite Kaddish and Psalms. Tomorrow morning at 10 AM, two minutes of
silence will be observed while a siren is sounded across the country.
The "Every Person has a Name" ceremony will begin at 10:30 in the
Knesset, during which the names of the Holocaust victims will be read
aloud. Other memorial ceremonies will be held tonight and tomorrow.
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.a7.org>
Monday, April 12, 1999 / Nisan 26, 5759 - Day 11 of the Omer
=================
Farewell Jerusalem
By Lyse Doucet
March 1, 1999
When I first moved to Jerusalem, I was told I needed a
view -- a place to lift me above the city's noise and
torment.
So I found a flat, at the top of four flights of stairs,
not just with a window but long arched panes of glass.
They became my eyes and ears -- a perspective on this
ancient city, its present so very haunted by its past.
From there, I could watch the sun sink over the hills, a
golden wash on hard white stones.
For four years, I lived on the
edge of Jerusalem's deepest
fault line -- the main highway
which snaked through its
heart, the boundary, which
many denied, between the
city's Jewish west and its
mainly Arab east, including
the Old City with its
mediaeval walls, and the
holiest shrines sacred to
Muslims, Christians or Jews.
The highway used to be a
border dividing Jordan from Israel. And between 1948,
when the State of Israel was born, and '67 when its
troops marched in and occupied East Jerusalem, few wanted
to live in my neighbourhood, known as Musrara, on the
western edge of this line.
Gun-runners and drug smugglers
Some of it was a no-man's-land, taking the brunt of
sniper fire as Israeli and Jordanian troops trained their
rifles on each other.
Israel dumped many of its new immigrants, mainly
Sephardic Jews from North Africa, in my neighbourhood. It
became known as a den of gun-runners and drug smugglers,
and gave rise to Israel's Black Panther movement,
fighting the cause of non-European Jews.
When I arrived in early '95, the neighbourhood had
changed -- new residents were moving in. But the
tensions hadn't moved away. From my windows, I could see
them on the other side of the highway -- and hear them.
Living with violence
Sometimes it began with the screech of wheels, a loud cry
in the night from Damascus Gate, the most elaborate of
seven ancient gates in the walled city and the most
troublesome. It was here that most stabbings took place
-- of Arab shopkeepers or Jewish religious students. The
sirens would sound. Police and crowds would gather.
No matter how quickly the
BBC called, I always knew
first. Several times I couldn't
see, but could hear, the
chilling sound of a suicide
bombing.
In early '96 a Palestinian
blew up a bus at the far end
of Jaffa Street, the road
through West Jerusalem, on
the other side of my flat. A
week later, at exactly the
same time, another bus was
ripped apart. I stood at my window, waiting to see which
way the ambulances moved. A police message on my beeper
announced it was just behind me, at my end of Jaffa
Street.
I tore out of the house, arriving even before police
could cordon off another heap of twisted metal and
corpses. The world knows this as one of the most horrific
images of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
But another loud image came from a silence -- the long
pause twice a year, on Holocaust Day and Independence
Day, when a siren sounded for a minute or two.
Divided by suffering
From my window, I would watch the western side of the
highway come to a full and utter stop. People stood at
the side of their cars, pedestrians froze.
But the other side was unmoved, unchanged. The
markets bustled, people hurried to and fro.
One road -- two truths.
It became, for me, the most powerful symbol of a divided
land, of two peoples: Israelis and Palestinians, still
unwilling, unable, to recognize the other's history and
suffering, still nursing their own wounds, still needing
a righting of their wrongs.
Some ultra-Orthodox Jews also refused to pause for
thought, rejecting a Jewish State they believe only God
is empowered to bring.
They say that in Jerusalem,
every stone matters to
someone -- and often more
than one -- that every stone
has layers upon layers of
memory and meaning --
religion, politics and a
family's faded records all
twisted together.
And so it was in my last
days in Jerusalem that I
came to know that the
conflict I observed around me
had at one time been inside my flat.
My kitchen had been an Israeli military bunker.
Until 1967, it was the highest point next to Israel's
border. I had indeed found the very best view. Israeli
troops once looked where I did but theirs was a stare
over the barrel of a gun and a thick concrete wall.
The lemon tree
A Palestinian friend told me he was born next door,
before the Israelis moved in in 1948. Where his garden
once grew, there is now a block of Israeli flats.
All that's left is one lemon tree.
I was told you could smell its powerfully sweet
fragrance. And before I left, I leaned as far as I could
over the ledge of my lowest window, and I think I could
see it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/from_our_own_correspondent/news
id_287000/287606.stm
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Subject: [BPR] - Arabia On Line items (4/12/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 13:05:21 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
Japan, Egypt Discuss Palestinian Statehood
http://www.arabia.com/content/news/4_99/egypt124.shtml
Assad Irked by Sharon's Visit to Moscow
http://www.arabia.com/content/news/4_99/assad12.shtml
Abu Dhabi Honors King Abdallah
http://www.arabia.com/content/news/4_99/king12.shtml
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Subject: [BPR] - Gene Bank Acts as a High-Tech Noah's Ark
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 13:11:24 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
http://future.newsday.com/4/fmon0412.htm
-
Gene Bank Acts as a High-Tech Noah's Ark
Wildlife cloning and 'frozen zoos' could play roles in preserving some
endangered species
By Dan Fagin
Staff Writer
ON THE PRIVATE top floor of the American Museum of Natural History, at
the end of a long, dim corridor, two four-foot-tall steel cylinders
labeled "Adam" and "Eve" foreshadow the work of 21st Century
conservationists.
Inside those cylinders are the frozen genes of hundreds of rare plants
and animals from around the world, for use in high-tech efforts to
save endangered species -- and possibly, someday, to clone them.
Like the genetics laboratory atop the famous museum, labs around the
world are assembling "frozen zoos," and experts are predicting that
some of them within five years will open a new front in the battle to
preserve the Earth's biodiversity by cloning endangered gorillas,
tigers and other rare species. The Chinese government says it is
already in the early stages of a program to clone giant pandas,
although it has not announced any results.
No one thinks that research on wildlife cloning will zoom ahead in the
coming years anywhere near as fast as the cloning of farm animals,
which has become almost routine since the arrival of Dolly the sheep
in 1996. There's no profit motive to bankroll private research on
wildlife, and the technical issues are far more complicated: Wild
animals are much less genetically predictable because they haven't
been selectively bred.
But advocates of wildlife cloning believe it will play a modest but
growing role in preserving biodiversity in the coming decades, as
technical breakthroughs in cloning sheep and calves start spilling
over to help the small cluster of scientists working on wildlife.
"We're going to see cloning for conservation purposes, and I hope
we'll see it soon," said Betsy Dresser, director of the Audubon
Institute Center for Research of Endangered Species in New Orleans,
who hopes to begin cloning wildlife within 10 years.
But George Amato, who runs the genetics laboratory at the Museum of
Natural History -- and is the custodian of the "Adam" and "Eve" tanks
-- isn't likely to follow suit. While Amato sees a bright future for
gene-based techniques he is developing to help endangered species
reproduce and to identify their hereditary quirks, he's not
enthusiastic about cloning.
"I just don't have an interest in that, although I think cloning is
going to have a role to play in species conservation," said Amato, who
runs the Manhattan laboratory as director of conservation genetics for
the Bronx-based Wildlife Conservation Society.
Amato's hesitation about cloning is typical of many conservationists.
He and other experts say wildlife cloning is inevitable, perhaps
within the next few years, in light of the recent successful cloning
of sheep and domestic animals. But they also say the high cost and
technical constraints of cloning, and the lack of a profit motive, may
limit its success with endangered species.
"The technical issues are very complex, which is why there is not a
lot of cloning research right now on endangered species," said Ryuzo
Yanagimachi, a geneticist at the University of Hawaii who works on
conservation issues.
"Whether that will change in the future we don't know -- but it may."
Even if costs come down and the technology improves, researchers say,
cloning is an imperfect way to rescue endangered animals because a
species is better prepared to deal with new diseases, habitat changes
and other environmental stresses when its individual members are
genetically diverse, not identical.
Above all, conservationists fear cloning may wrongly be seen as a
quick-fix solution that can preserve animals without having to protect
their native habitats. "Cloning may not move forward very much in the
near future because many people think it takes away from
in-the-trenches habitat preservation work," Amato said.
For now, with the possible exception of the Chinese, the genetic
experimentation has involved techniques short of cloning. Some labs
are attempting test-tube fertilizations of chimps and other wildlife,
and Amato has specialized in the identification of genetic markers to
differentiate species that are very closely related.
On a recent afternoon in Amato's lab, for example, researcher Fedra
Dukakis was studying the genes of sturgeon to determine whether
populations in the Danube River, the northern Caspian Sea and the
southern Caspian are three separate species. If they aren't, the
endangered population in the Danube could be restocked from the
southern Caspian without losing another species.
But no matter what they think about cloning, most scientists agree
that the frozen zoos will inevitably be used as genetic libraries for
cloning experiments -- especially on species that are in such
desperate straits that they are virtually extinct.
"When we get down to where a species only has 20 individuals, cloning
could be an important tool that could revive a species and bring them
back," said Dresser. "I don't see cloning as the answer to everything,
but we've got to keep it in our tool kit because extinction is
forever."
Dresser even foresees a day when space colonists may take along a
Noah's Ark of cloned, frozen plant and animal embryos as they
establish Eden-like environments on the moon or the planets.
"People are not going to be content to run around on a lunar
landscape. We're going to need to learn how to repopulate and
reestablish entire ecosystems within biodomes," said Dresser, who is
writing a book on the subject called "Tigers to the Moon."
For now, she said, the priority is to collect as much frozen genetic
material as possible from threatened species, before they disappear.
"We don't know what technologies are going to be out there in 50 or
100 years," said Dresser.
"But we need to be sure there's a live DNA library ready to be called
upon in the future when we can use it to re-create ecosystems here or
in biodomed environments on other planets."
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Subject: [BPR] - Y2K Headlines
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 16:57:46 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
VOLUNTEER Y2K CORPS FORMED
(Source: Bob Sullivan, MSNBC, 4/6/1999)
The INTERNATIONAL Y2K COOPERATION CENTER, established by the U.N. in
February (Y2K Report 13), has announced formation of the "YES Corps"
-- a Peace Corps-type organization designed to match volunteer
computer Y2K experts with the world's most serious millennium mishaps.
YES Corps Website: http://www.iy2kcc.org/
Link: http://www.Y2Ktoday.com/modules/home/default.asp?id=1205
POWER INDUSTRY SAYS Y2K DRILL A SUCCESS
Link: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/wires2/0410/t_ap_0410_1.sml
PACIFICORP SETS CLOCKS AHEAD TO AVOID Y2K PROBLEMS
Link:
http://flash.oregonlive.com/cgi-bin/or_nview.pl?/home1/wire/AP/Stream-
Pa rsed/OREGON_NEWS/o0318_PM_OR--PacificCorp-Y2K
FCC: LARGE TELECOM CARRIERS Y2K READY
Link: http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9904/01/telecom.y2k.idg/index.html
LIST OF Y2K-TROUBLED AIRPORTS KEPT SECRET
Link:
http://www.computerweekly.co.uk/cwarchive/Xtra/19990318/cwcontainer.as
p? name=C4.html
PRESIDENT SIGNS SMALL BUSINESS Y2K READINESS ACT
Link:
http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/199
9/ 4/2/13.text.1
ABC PLANS 27-HOUR MILLENNIUM SPECIAL
Link:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/ap/entertainment/story.html?s=v/a
p/ 19990324/en/abc_century_s_end_2.html
TWO STATES ISSUE FOOD STAMPS BY ACCIDENT (Sources: Jeff Kass, DENVER
Link: http://insidedenver.com/news/0410retu7.shtml
Link:
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/081/nation/Y2K_glitch_delivers_food_
st amps_early_in_New_Jersey+.shtml
Link: http://www.detnews.com/1999/technology/9903/24/03240161.htm
NEW D.C. COMPUTER SYSTEM STARTS OFF WITH GLITCH
Link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-04/07/165l-040799-idx
.h tml
BRAZILIAN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT TEST GOES "HAYWIRE"
Link:
http://chicagotribune.com/business/businessnews/ws/item/0,1267,9693-96
78 -25421,00.html
Y2K COULD HOBBLE BUILDINGS
Link:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999
/0 3/22/BU42244.DTL
SUSPICIOUS ACCIDENTS IN REFINERIES & POWER PLANTS
Link:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/ts/story.html?s=v/nm/19990408/ts/
ut ilit ies_explosion_2.html
FEMA LOGIC
Link:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/ts/story.html?s=v/nm/19990322/ts/
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Jim Lord's website: http://www.SurviveY2K.com
FREE SURVIVAL MANUAL
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wild2k ("The Best of the Best of Y2K"):
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To: bpr-list@philologos.org (BPR Mailing List)
Subject: [BPR] - What's New at BPR?
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 13:15:30 -0500
From: owner-bpr@philologos.org
Bible Prophecy Research and Study List
Additions and updates made since Mar 30, 1999
Vol 1, Number 20
April 12, 1999
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Hi folks...
We have a few new items and updates to mention:
> Added: "The Legends of the Jews: Vol 1" by Louis Ginzberg
http://philologos.org/__eb-lotj
This public domain etext has been converted to HTML for online
viewing. Footnotes and additional volumes are in the works.
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> Added: Harvest: Barley, Wheat, Produce of Vines/Trees
http://philologos.org/bpr/files/h-005-02.htm
1. barley = saints who rose from their graves
2. wheat = church
3. produce of vines/trees = Israel
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> Added: The History of Syria
http://philologos.org/bpr/files/Misc_Studies/ms-018-a.htm
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> Added: Nostradamus
http://philologos.org/bpr/files/Misc_Studies/ms-019-a.htm
The Nostradamus prophecies are more popular than ever. Was he a man
of God?
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> Updated: Euphrates
http://philologos.org/bpr/files/e-004-01.htm
> Updated: Gog
http://philologos.org/bpr/files/g-001-01.htm
> Updated: Shavuot/Pentecost
http://philologos.org/bpr/files/s-005-01.htm
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The Philologos Online Bookstore
http://philologos.org/bookstore
Featured Book of the Month
The Sea of Galilee Boat : An Extraordinary 2000 Year Old Discovery
by Shelley Wachsmann
Hardcover - 420 pages (April 1995)
Plenum Pr
ISBN: 0306449501
Dimensions (in inches): 1.33 x 8.50 x 5.79
http://philologos.org/bookstore/Listings/wachsmann.shelley.1.htm
Synopsis: This remarkable true story recounts one of the greatest
discoveries of the century--finding a 2,000-year-old boat from the
Sea of Galilee. Archaeologist Wachsmann interweaves his own
unforgettable story of this challenging excavation with writings of
the past to create an extraordinary saga. 100 illustrations.
Review: Booknews, Inc. , September 1, 1995 - A nautical archaeologist
and expert on seacraft of the ancient Near East recounts his
excitement and efforts at discovering and recovering a Roman-period
boat in the Sea of Galilee in 1986. He also juxtaposes relevant texts
from Christian and Jewish history of the period. Well illustrated
with black-and-white photographs of the endeavor. Annotation
copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, OR.
The publisher, Plenum Press , April 8, 1998 Won Award from Biblical
Archaeological Society in l997. In 1997 this book won the Best
Popular Book in Archaeology Award from the Biblical Archaeological
Society.
Philologos Review: It was after reading in the BAR that this book
won the "Best Popular Book" award that I decided to purchase it. I
wasn't disappointed! Who would have thought that a book about an old
boat would be a page turner?
A Few Comments from Back Cover: "Shelley Wachsmann's tale of the
archaeological excavation of the Galilee Boat reads like a
first-class adventure story. Feeling almost as if I were an actual
participant, I found it nearly impossible to put down." -- Alfred S.
McLarren, Ph.D., Publisher, Science News.
"Dr. Wachsmann does a masterful job of recreating the excavation of
such a craft from the Sea of Galilee. A gripping read." -- Clive
Cussler, Author, Raise the Titanic.
"Provides a rare, behind-the-scenes story of scholarly detective work
on an important find from the New Testament period." -- Neil
Silberman, Contributing Editor, Archaeological Magazine.
More Info
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Philologos and BPR are one year old this month! We praise God for the
blessings that we have received during the past year. We've made new
friends (possibly even a few enemies <g>). Our continued prayer
however is that God will receive the glory for what is said and done
through our site as we seek to grow in the knowledge and love of God
and His Son. It is because of Him and for Him that we even attempt to
do this.
That's it! If you have any comments or suggestions, please feel free
to email me.
Have a good week guys.
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To: bpr-list@philologos.org (BPR Mailing List)
Subject: [BPR] - Tower of Babel found near Black Sea?
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 21:25:38 -0500
From: <owner-bpr@philologos.org>
Full story:
http://www.biblemysteries.com/press/LondonTimes3.htm
April 4, 1999
Tower of Babel is 'found' near the Black Sea
by Jack Grimston
A BRITISH archeologist claims he has discovered the site of one
of the most famous buildings in history, the biblical Tower of
Babel, in a remote region of eastern Turkey.
Michael Sanders, a classical publisher, believes new satellite
photographs from Nasa, the American space agency, and a
reinterpretation of ancient biblical texts suggest the mythical
tower actually existed - in the Pontus region of the Black Sea
coast of Turkey.
Most archeologists believe Babel was located in Mesopotamian
Babylon, the ruins of which lie north of Baghdad in Iraq.
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