BPR Mailing List Digest: 11/13/99

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November 13, 1999

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Subject: [BPR] - Browser that responds to spoken commands
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Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 09:32:16 -0500

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Subject: [BPR] - Church begins fingerprinting priests
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Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 09:45:34 -0500

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CHURCH BEGINS FINGERPRINTING PRIESTS

The Archdiocese of Miami began the fingerprinting of priests, lay
workers and church volunteers Thursday as a response to allegations
of misconduct by priests. Archbishop John E. Favalora and his
bishops, setting an example, were among the 3,800 church workers
being fingerprinted. Bishops in Florida have voted to fingerprint all
personnel who deal with children, the elderly or disabled people.

http://news.excite.com/news/u/991111/13/news-fingerprints

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Subject: [BPR] - Misc. legal news items
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 09:53:29 -0500

From: "Moza" <moza7@netzero.net>

'Turn In Your Neighbor' Connecticut Law Confiscates Guns Without
Crime
By Edward G. Oliver
=A9 1999 WorldNetDaily.com 11-8-99

Ominously dubbed the "turn in your neighbor" law, a new
Connecticut gun control provision -- which proponents predicted
would be rarely used -- has already resulted in police seizing
firearms and ammunition from four gun owners since Oct. 1 when
the law took effect.

Hailed as groundbreaking by gun control advocates, the law
reportedly opens up a new frontier for gun laws in the coming
election season.

As originally written, the provision would have allowed seizure of
firearms by police based on unproven allegations by any two
persons in an affidavit to a judge. The language was later modified
to require that two police officers or a state's attorney go before a
judge with the belief, after investigation, that an individual "poses a
risk of imminent personal injury to himself or herself or to other
individuals," in order to obtain a warrant to seize the subject's
firearms. No crime needs to have been committed for the seizure to
take place.

Alleged threatening behavior, cruelty to animals, alcohol and drug
abuse or prior confinement in a psychiatric facility can be
considered by a judge in assessing whether an individual poses an
imminent risk of danger. The law requires that a hearing be held
within 14 days of the firearm seizure, although critics say in
practice the 14-day hearing will be delayed for months. If the
subject is proven at the hearing to be an "imminent risk," he loses
his firearms for one year.

More:
http://www.sightings.com/politics5/gunconf.htm

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Devoted Mother Fights Doctors Treatment Of Daughter - Loses
Custody For Two Years
                             By Michael Y. Park
           http://foxnews.com/national/110899/custodycase_park.sml
                                  11-8-99

NEW YORK - By many accounts, Tina Phifer was a model mother
who doted on her 9-year-old daughter, Amkia, took her to ballet
lessons, was meticulous about keeping her on a healthy diet and
home-schooled the bright girl so well that Amkia scored above her
peers on intelligence tests.

But according to a city agency, Phifer overstepped her bounds and
now deserves to be stripped of her rights as a parent. On the
recommendations of the Administration for Children's Services
(ACS), Amkia hasn't lived with her mother for nearly two years. And
at one point, the two weren't allowed to speak to each other for
months. It's a situation even convicted murderers don't find
themselves in as parents.

Phifer's crime? She tried to switch her daughter's doctor one day in
1997 after openly disagreeing with doctors at Montefiore Hospital
about how to care for Amkia.

More:
http://www.sightings.com/politics5/devoted.htm

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Subject: [BPR] - twinkling of an eye/book of life
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 15:55:51 -0500

From: "Moza" <moza7@netzero.net>

The Jews have a storage area in their synagogues called a genizah
where unusable books/manuscripts and ritual objects are kept
(these areas were also used to house historical documents and
questionable books). Anything containing the name of God cannot
be destroyed so they are housed in these special areas until they
can be properly buried. Needless to say, many discoveries have
been made while looking through the genizah of an older
synagogue.

One such treasure trove has been the Cairo Genizah which was
found in the attic of the Ezra Synagogue. A version of the
Amidah/"Eighteen Benedictions," which is the main element of
daily services, was found there. The Amidah ("standing") is also
known as "The Prayer" par excellence and is recited many times
during the day.

The Amidah is broken up into eighteen benedictions with the 12th
being the one we are concerned with in this article. The Birkath-ha-
Minim is the "Benediction Concerning Heretics" although in many
sources it is referred to as the "curse on the Christians." In the
past there was some leeway accorded in the wording of these
benedictions and the one found in the Cairo Genizah is worth
noting:

"May apostates have no hope and may the kingdom of
impertinence be uprooted in our day. May the Nozrim and Minim
[i.e., the Christians] disappear in the twinkling of an eye. May they
be removed from the book of the living and not be inscribed among
the just. Bless you, Lord, you who casts down the proud."
("Eyewitness to Jesus," Carsten Peter Thiede and Matthew
D'Ancona)

This, of course, ties in with the New Testament:

1 Corinthians 15:51,52 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not
all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling
of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the
dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

Revelation 20:12,15 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand
before God; and the books were opened: and another book was
opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of
those things which were written in the books, according to their
works...And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was
cast into the lake of fire. (For more on the "Book of Life" please see
the BPR website: http://philologos.org/bpr/research.htm)

This benediction was added around the time of the destruction of
the Second Temple in response to perceived threats of the
Sadducees, Boethusians, Essenes, and the early Christians who
the rabbis felt were leading the community of the Jews astray.

Sources:
Encyclopaedia Judaica
The Soncino Talmud
The Complete Artscroll Siddur

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Subject: [BPR] - Look to the skies (week of Nov 14, 1999)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 15:55:51 -0500

From: "Moza" <moza7@netzero.net>

According to Sky & Telescope, the following events are noteworthy:

Sunday, November 14, 1999: "Jupiter and Saturn, shining in the
eastern sky during evening, are the highlight of this autumn's sky.
Look to their upper left. Forming a nearly equilateral triangle with
them is the 2nd-magnitude star Hamal, the brightest star of the
little constellation Aries."

Jupiter is mostly depicted as representing God. Saturn is depicted
either as Satan or Lilith (central figure in Jewish demonology,
female). Hamal according to E. W. Bullinger in "The Witness of the
Stars" (http://philologos.org) is "the Hebrew name Taleh, the lamb.
The Arabic name is Al Hamal, the sheep, gentle, merciful." He
goes on to state that this name is mistakenly given to the brightest
star in Aries instead of being the name of Aries itself. He states
that the brightest star in Aries is called "El Nath, or El Natik, which
means wounded, slain" and either way it points to Christ.

There is also an interesting micrcosm discussed in the
Encyclopeadia Judaica which states that according to "the
ancients," members of the human body can be compared to the
heavenly bodies: "head to the outer sphere, nostrils to Venus,
mouth to Mars, tongue to Mercury, vertebrae to the signs of the
zodiac, eyes to the sun and moon, ears to Saturn and Jupiter."
(Therefore, the triangle above depicts the fact that we should listen
to what the Lamb is saying?)
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Monday, November 15, 1999: "Transit of Mercury across the face
of the Sun, visible from central and western North America in late
afternoon and Hawaii around midday. In Japan and Australia the
transit is on the early morning of November 16th. Mercury's tiny
black silhouette will barely skim inside the Sun's edge from about
21:20 to 22:05 Universal Time (November 15th), depending on your
location."

From NASA's website:
http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast12nov99_1.htm

"Monday's transit is an especially unique event called a grazing
transit. Mercury's motion across the Sun will follow a short path
near the Sun's northeastern limb. From some parts of the Earth
observers will see only part of Mercury's black disk superimposed
on the Sun. From other observing sites Mercury's entire disk will be
visible just inside the sun's northern limb. The next grazing transit
like this one won't happen until the year 2314!"

Mercury is the messenger and sometimes depicted as the
Archangel Gabriel. According to the Encyclopaedia Judaica,
however, "The rabbis of the Talmud discussed Mercury more than
any other pagan deity and apparently considered him almost
synonymous with idolatry."

(A tiny black idolater known for his great words crossing the sun?)
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"The eclipsing variable star Algol should be in one of its periodic
dimmings, magnitude 3.4 instead of its usual 2.1, for a couple
hours centered on 5:36 p.m. EST. Algol will take several additional
hours to brighten."

This star is in the head of the Medusa that Perseus is holding.
Bullinger relates that Perseus is Christ who holds the head of the
slain enemy. The head represents the "trodden under foot" and "is
also called Rosh Satan (Hebrew), the head of the adversary, and Al
Oneh (Arabic), the subdued, or Al Ghoul, the evil spirit. The bright
star, beta (in this head), has come down to us with the name Al
Gol, which means rolling round."
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Wednesday, November 17, 1999: "Leonid meteor shower late
tonight?! This is the night when a major return of the Leonid meteor
shower may -- or may not -- occur. Europe and Africa have the best
chance of being in the ideal position when (and if) a major shower
hits, but North America or Asia do have a chance to see the show
instead. Wherever you are, the time to be watching is from local
midnight until dawn on the morning of November 18th. Under ideal
dark-sky conditions, a single observer might see anywhere from
less than 100 to a couple thousand meteors per hour. For a full
report see
http://www.skypub.com/sights/meteors/leonids/9911leo.html ."

Bullinger says of this sign "Its Egyptian name is Pi Mentekeon,
which means the pouring out. This is no pouring out or inundation
of the Nile, but it is the pouring out of the cup of Divine wrath on
that Old Serpent...The Syriac name is Aryo, the rending Lion, and
the Arabic is Al Asad; both mean a lion coming vehemently,
leaping forth as a flame!" (For more info please see the chapter on
Leo in "The Witness of the Stars.")
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"Shining in the south after dark, far to the lower right of the Moon,
is the lonely Autumn Star, Fomalhaut. It's currently as high as it
ever gets."

This star is in the first constellation of Aquarius called Piscis
Australis (The Southern Fish). Bullinger states: "This first
constellation is one of high antiquity, and its brilliant star of the first
magnitude was a subject of great study by the Egyptians and
Ethiopians. It is named in Arabic Fom al Haut, the mouth of the
fish."
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Friday, November 19, 1999: "The Moon, Jupiter, and fainter Saturn
form a big curving arc in the sky tonight, in that order from right to
left."

See http://philologos.org/bpr for additional info.

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Subject: [BPR] - Nov 14, 1999 TV Programs
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 16:05:36 -0500

From: "Moza" <moza7@netzero.net>

8:00 PM Eastern

TLC - UNDERSTANDING MYSTERIES OF MEMORY - Research
of the memory illuminates amnesia, Alzheimer's disease and
gifted memory.(CC)(TVG)

9:00

CBS - AFTERSHOCK: EARTHQUAKE IN NEW YORK , part 1,
          (Drama, 1999) -- City leaders implement an emergency plan in
          the wake of a temblor while searching for their own loved
          ones.

NBC - MARY, MOTHER OF JESUS (Drama, 1999) -- Mary
struggles to accept the destiny of Jesus and dedicates her
life to sharing his message.

PBS - NEW YORK: A DOCUMENTARY FILM - "The Country and
          the City (1609-1825)" - Commerce; capitalism; diversity;
          democracy; transformation; creativity; arrival of the Dutch;
          colonial slavery; American Revolution; Erie
          Canal.(CC)(TVPG)

TLC - UNDERSTANDING THE BRAIN - High IQ; partial
brain removal; 3-D imaging.(CC)(TVG)

10:00

CNN - MILLENNIUM - "Century of the Compass" - The conquest
          of Mexico; Ivan the Terrible; medieval Japan; rulers of
          India; cabinets of curiosity.(CC)

DISC - PANAMA CANAL: THE EIGHTH WONDER OF THE
WORLD - In its scale of construction, the Panama Canal surpasses the
          pyramids and the Great Wall of China.(CC)(TVG)

HIST - AS IT HAPPENED: THE STORY OF THE BERLIN WALL -
          The barrier between the East and West tumbles in
          1989.(CC)(TVG)

TLC - UNDERSTANDING WEATHER - Tornadoes; the Gulf
Stream; El Nino; North Atlantic
oscillation.(CC)(TVG)

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