To: bpr-list@philologos.org (BPR Mailing List)
Subject: [BPR] - Oct 4, 1999 TV Programs
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 08:32:15 +0000

From: research-bpr@philologos.org (Moza)

8:00 PM Eastern

 HIST - THE MYSTERIES OF DEVIL'S TRIANGLES -
   Unexplained tragedies occur in the Bermuda Triangle and the
   Great Lakes Triangle.(CC)(TVG)

9:00

 PBS - RED FILES - "Soviet Sports Wars" - Stalin
   launches a sports program during the 1950s to prove communism
   is superior to capitalism.(CC)(TVPG)

 TLC - U.S. SWAT: ELITE POLICE FORCE - The high-tech teams
   have an evolving role in crime control.(CC)(TVPG)

10:00

 PBS - HOSTAGE - "A Deadly Trade" - Terry Waite is taken
   hostage in 1986 while negotiating with Lebanese kidnappers on
   the release of the Dawa 17.(CC)(TVPG)

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To: bpr-list@philologos.org (BPR Mailing List)
Subject: [BPR] - Syrian news (10/4/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 09:05:00 +0000

From: research-bpr@philologos.org (Moza)

LEADING NAZI CRIMINAL IS BEING SHELTERED BY SYRIA LONDON [MENL]
-- One of the world's most-wanted Nazi war criminals is hiding
out in Damascus, a German newsmagazine says.

Alois Brunner, a senior Nazi SS officer during World War II, is
living under the name Georg Fischer in a suite in the Hotel
Meridien, Der Spiegel said. Brunner is wanted by French
authorities for war crimes.

Der Spiegel based its assertion on the results of a lengthy
probe by a French investigating judge.

Syria has consistently denied to France and Germany, which have
both asked for his extradition, that the 87-year-old Brunner is
living in Damascus. He served as a top aide to Adolf Eichmann,
the architect of the Holocaust.

Der Spiegel said Austrian police placed Brunner's daughter, who
lives in Austria, under surveillance for several weeks early
this year at the request of German authorities to see if she had
any contact with her father. None was observed.

Brunner is charged with organizing the deportation and murder
of at least 130,000 Jews from Germany, Austria, France and Greece.

On Sept. 1, a French judge recommended that Brunner be tried in
absentia for allegedly deporting 250 Jewish children to
Auschwitz. The trial is expected to begin next year.

In Syria, an estimated 1,000 people have been arrested amid the
power struggle to succeed the ailing President Hafez Assad, the
London-based Al Quds al-Arabi reported on Monday. Those
arrested, Arab sources said, are supporters of Assad's brother,
Rifaat, who apparently is challenging his older brother for the
first time since he was exiled after a similar attempt in 1984.

Those arrested include military officers.

On Sunday, the London-based Al Hayat daily reported that
Syrian-French relations have improved after both sides have
apparently resolved a dispute over repayment of a $250 million
sale of six Airbus passenger jets to Syria.

On Monday, the Lebanese daily An Nahar reported that a Syrian
military court sentenced the former head of Syrian intelligence,
Bashir Najar, to 12 years in jail for embezzling $24 million.
Najar was accused of using his post to sell favors.

via: "menl" <menl@actcom.co.il>
Middle East Newsline. Monday morning.Oct. 4, 1999

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Subject: [BPR] - Infobeat News items (10/4/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 09:11:34 +0000

From: research-bpr@philologos.org (Moza)

*** Israel: Technicalities delay peace

JERUSALEM (AP) - In the first major setback in the revived peace
process, Israelis said Sunday that only technical issues delay the
opening of a land link for Palestinians between the West Bank and the
Gaza Strip. Palestinians insisted issues of principle are at stake.
The "safe passage," which had been scheduled to open Sunday, is to
provide the first unfettered route for Palestinians between the two
areas, and is key to smoothing peace talks revived last month by Prime
Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Palestinians
say the eleventh-hour delay is due to Israel's insistence that it
issue the magnetic card passes and maintain power of arrest along the
route running from the northern Gaza Strip to the southern West Bank.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561471549-f69

*** General Assembly closes debates

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Two weeks of debate at the U.N. General
Assembly ended Saturday with one question emerging as the most
contentious: Which is more important, human rights or sovereignty?
More specifically, leaders from all over the world discussed whether
regional or international organizations like the U.N. should have the
right to send troops or unleash bombs against a country to end
genocide, ethnic cleansing and other ills or is such intervention an
unacceptable violation of sovereignty? By the time the General
Assembly debate ended Saturday afternoon, many of the 144 speakers -
including 36 heads of state and 19 prime ministers - had weighed in,
and deep dividing lines had been drawn. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561452135-341

*** Iraq leaders begin military training

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq's deputy prime minister has put out his
cigar, stepped out of his office and picked up an assault rifle,
answering President Saddam Hussein's call for senior officials to
participate in military training. Tariq Aziz along with Vice President
Taha Yassin Ramadan - two of the most powerful men in Iraq - were
among the ministers and senior ruling party officials who began
military training Saturday in Baghdad, Al-Qadissiya newspaper said.
Since 1994, Saddam has called on ordinary Iraqis to volunteer for
light military training as preparation to defend the nation against
any U.S. threat. Millions of Iraqis have taken the three-week courses.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561472345-5ed
*** Also: Iraq protests U.S. diversion of ships, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561451368-e58

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Subject: [BPR] - 50,000 US, Allied Forces to stage wargames in Egypt
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 12:42:29 +0000

From: research-bpr@philologos.org (Moza)

                 50,000 US, Allied Forces to stage
                 Wargames in Egypt

                 CAIRO (AFP) -- More than 50,000 troops from Egypt,
                 the United States and nine other countries were
                 preparing to stage three weeks of wargames in the
                 Egyptian desert and off its coast, US military
                 officials said Sunday.

                 Air, land and sea forces, including a battle group
                 led by the US aircraft carrier Kennedy, would take
                 part in October 9-November 1 exercises codenamed
                 Bright Star, a military official said.

                 US Secretary of Defense William Cohen was to visit
                 Egypt for the exercises, another US official said
                 without giving a date.

                 The Bright Star maneuvers have been held in Egypt
                 about every two years since 1980 and are aimed at
                 boosting understanding and cooperation among Egypt,
                 the United States, and their allies.

                 Also taking part this year are forces from Britain,
                 the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Jordan, France,
                 Italy, the Netherlands, Greece and Germany, the
                 military official said.

                 "It`s gotten larger each year," he added.

                 Exercises will involve exchanges of information among
                 the forces, maneuvers at sea, amphibious landings,
                 tank movements in the desert northwest of Cairo, and
                 mock air attacks, the officials said.

                 Computer-aided command post exercises will also be
                 conducted, they added.

                 The United States will deploy 18,000 personnel from
                 the Navy, Air Force, Marines and the Army as well as
                 special operations units, the officials said.

                 US deployments will include those made from Shaw Air
                 Force Base South Carolina as well from the 3rd
                 Infantry Division in Fort Stewart, Georgia.

http://www.arabia.com/content/news/10_99/egypt_4.shtml

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Subject: [BPR] - Palestinians warn Benetton on factory in West Bank
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 12:44:18 +0000

From: research-bpr@philologos.org (Moza)

                 Palestinians Warn Benetton on
                 Factory in West Bank

                 RAMALLAH (AFP) -- The Palestinian National Authority
                 demanded on Sunday that Italian clothing giant
                 Benetton rescind plans by one of its associates to
                 build a factory in a Jewish settlement in the West
                 Bank.

                 Culture and information minister Yasser Abed Rabbo
                 said that plans by Benetton associate Kappa to invest
                 in the Barkan settlement in the north of the West
                 Bank "conferred legitimacy on the settlement." "The
                 investment would only encourage the settlers to seize
                 more Palestinian land," Abed Rabbo said in a
                 statement.

                 But Benetton protested on Sunday to the Israeli
                 anti-settlement movement Gush Shalom, which is also
                 involved in the campaign to stop the factory, that it
                 could not control Kappa because it only has a 34
                 percent position in the company.

                 Benetton "can only advise Kappa, not give it
                 instructions," Benetton`s public relations director
                 Federico Santor told Gush Shalom.

                 The sensitive issue of Jewish settlements in the
                 occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip is one of the main
                 sticking points in a peace agreement between Israel
                 and the Palestinians.

                 Israel captured the territories in 1967 and has since
                 authorized the building of 144 settlements which are
                 now home to 160,000 Jewish settlers.

                 In addition, construction work is forging ahead on
                 some 40 unauthorized settlements, monitors say.

                 For his part Abed Rabbo urged Arab states to join in
                 the campaign by putting pressure on Benetton to
                 cancel the plans.

http://www.arabia.com/content/news/10_99/pna_4.shtml

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Subject: [BPR] - Arutz-7 News items (10/4/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 12:52:18 +0000

From: research-bpr@philologos.org (Moza)

MEMRI: MORE DETAILS ON ARABIC "MEIN KAMPF"
Middle East Media and Research Institute <www.memri.org> has just
released more details on the sale of Adolph Hitler's Mein Kampf in
eastern Jerusalem and the Palestinian autonomy. The Arabic
translation is being distributed by Al-Shurouq, a Ramallah-based book
distributor, and is now in 6th place on the Palestinian best-seller
list. The cover of the book shows a picture of Hitler, a swastika,
and the title in both German and Arabic. Following are some excerpts
of the introduction by translator Luis Al-Haj:
 "Hitler was a man of ideology who bequeathed an ideological heritage whose
decay is inconceivable. This ideological heritage includes politics,
society, science, culture, and war as science and culture...
 "The National Socialism that Hitler preached for and whose characteristics
were presented in his book My Struggle [Mein Kampf]... this National
Socialism did not die with the death of its herald. Rather, its seeds
multiplied under each star_
 "This translation of the book My Struggle has never been presented to Arab
speakers. It is taken from the original text of the author, Adolf
Hitler. The text was untouched by the censor. We made a point to
deliver Hitler's opinions and theories on nationalism, regimes, and
ethnicity without any changes because they are not yet outmoded and
because we, in the Arab world, still proceed haphazardly in all three
fields..."

IN BRIEF
 Over 100 gravestones were vandalized in the past day in the Jewish
cemetery in Berlin. This is considered the largest Jewish cemetery in
Europe...

Arutz Sheva News Service
     <http://www.a7.org>
Monday, October 4, 1999 / Tishrei 24, 5760

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To: bpr-list@philologos.org (BPR Mailing List)
Subject: [BPR] - The Little Pill That Could Protect Your Health in a Nuclear Acci
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 14:05:40 +0000

From: research-bpr@philologos.org (Moza)

 The Little Pill That Could Protect Your
 Health in a Nuclear Accident, and Why It's
 NOT Readily Available to Everyone in the
 U.S.

 Dateline: 10/01/99

 When the recent nuclear accident -- the worst in Japan's history --
 took place on September 29, 1999 in Tokaimura, Japan, residents in
 the area were told to stay indoors, with windows and vents closed, in
 order to minimize exposure to various radioactive gases that were
 released.

 As of October 1, 1999, area residents were been told that it's safe
 to venture outside, and officials claimed that most area residents
 were not testing positive for radiation exposure. The exposure was
 reportedly contained primarily to the fifty-five people who were
 directly exposed to radiation, primarily workers at Tokaimura and
 emergency workers at the accident scene. Three of the workers are in
 critical condition and unlikely to survive their high radiation
 exposure.

 Reports indicate, however, that radioactive gases, including
 iodine-131, were released during the Toakimura accident. Iodine-131
 is the radioactive gas that was released in the Chernobyl nuclear
 accident in 1986. Radioactive iodine becomes airborne, and
 post-Chernobyl exposure to this gas in the Ukraine, Russia, Belarus
 and areas of Eastern Europe has resulted in a 10-fold increase in
 thyroid cancer in children in the region, and a quadrupling of adult
 rates of thyroid cancer.

 While residents of the area around Chernobyl are still suffering from
 exposure, some regions of Eastern Europe that were exposed to
 radiation were prepared, and were able to protect their residents
 from the thyroid dangers of iodine-131.

 The key? Potassium iodine, an inexpensive drug that, when given
 within around 24 hours of exposure, prevents the thyroid from uptake
 of the radiation, and ultimately, from the increased dangers of
 thyroid disease and thyroid cancer due to iodine-131 exposure.
 Potassium iodine was handed out in Poland after the Chernobyl crisis,
 and this action was credited with protecting the Polish people from
 increased thyroid problems now being seen in Russia, the Ukraine and
 Belarus.

 In the United States, since the Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident
 two decades ago, there has been an controversial and ongoing debate
 about making potassium iodine available to residents in the event of
 nuclear emergency.

 Physicians from the National Institutes of Health and the American
 Thyroid Association support stockpiling. The World Health
 Organization is in favor of stockpiling in areas with nuclear
 reactors, and Japan, Canada, France and Russia all have stockpiled
 potassium iodine. In most European countries -- including Germany,
 Sweden, Britain -- potassium iodide is handed out to households in
 areas around nuclear plants, and are available in central locations
 and emergency facilities for rapid distribution.

 Reports indicate that some of the workers and residents at risk in
 the area around Tokaimura have received the protective pills in the
 time after the accident.

 In the U.S., the nuclear power industry, afraid to increase the
 public's fear of a nuclear accident, accident, has consistently
 opposed stockpiling. After resisting the move for years, the U.S.
 Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) finally agreed several years ago
 that stockpiling could help protect public health in the event of an
 emergency, and planned to purchase potassium iodine for any state
 that wanted to stockpile it. The NRC later changed its position,
 claiming that it did not have sufficient budget to do so. The NRC
 asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to cover the
 costs, but FEMA said it wasn't authorized to pay. The funding for
 potassium iodine stockpiling is still up in the air, and a number of
 states with nuclear facilities have no provisions for distribution of
 potassium iodine in the event of an iodine-131 nuclear release.

 At present, Tennessee, Alabama, Arizona, Maine, California, and Ohio
 do store some potassium iodide pills near nuclear power plants.

More:
http://thyroid.about.com/health/diseases/thyroid/library/weekly/aa100199.htm

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Subject: [BPR] - Y2K could trigger end of the world, church warns
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 09:08:09 -0500

From: owner-bpr@philologos.org

South China Morning Post
Monday, October 4, 1999
Y2K could trigger end of the world, church warns

ALEX LO and RAISSA ROBLES in Manila

Members of the largest Filipino Christian congregation in Hong
Kong have been told to stock up goods for the feared Y2K
computer meltdown, an event they liken to the biblical flood in
the story of Noah's Ark.

The year 2000 may herald the end of the world, according to
some members of the Jesus is Lord Church, who are storing canned
food and money at home in preparation.

Others have booked plane tickets to unite with their families
in the event of an apocalypse.

"They must be ready in their faith any time because no one
knows when the Lord will come back again," said Gerry Vallo,
chief pastor of the movement's Hong Kong chapter.

Full story:
http://www.scmp.com/News/HongKong/Article/FullText_asp_ArticleID-19991004020845013.asp

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To: bpr-list@philologos.org (BPR Mailing List)
Subject: [BPR] - Correction: Silver and Gold
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 09:29:38 -0500

From: <owner-bpr@philologos.org>

This past Saturday we posted an article titled "Cast your Silver and
Gold to the Streets." When forwarding that article, we did not give the
correct URL. We apologize for that oversight.

The original article can be found at:

The Watchman Journal
Clifford Klees
http://www.blazeinet.com/thewatchman/000127.html

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Subject: [BPR] - What's New at BPR?
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 19:30:39 -0500

From: owner-bpr@philologos.org

Bible Prophecy Research
Additions and updates made since Sep 19, 1999
Issue #33
Monday, October 4, 1999
=========================

Hi everyone...

We have just a few things to mention with this newsletter.

> Added: October 5, 1999: Heavenly Triangle
http://philologos.org/bpr/files/Sky_Signs/ss-014.htm

"'Early October [the 5th] features a special treat as the
slender crescent Moon, brilliant Venus and blue-white Regulus
form a perfect triangle in the eastern dawn sky...'

"[The arrangement above appears as] an upside-down frowning
face :( in the sky with the two eyes being Regulus and Venus and
the frown being the crescent moon. There are some very
interesting things about this configuration: 1. the triangle
shape, 2. Regulus 3. Venus, 4. moon, and 5. the east."

==============
MISC SITE INFO

Added "The Vatican Revealed" (an A&E video) to the BPR
Reference Guide.

http://philologos.org/guide/videos.htm

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BOOK RECOMMENDATION

God at Ground Zero : The Manhattan Project and a Scientist's
Discovery of Christ the Creator
by Curt Sewell

Paperback - 300 pages
August 1997
Master Books
ISBN: 0890511764

Synopsis from Amazon.com: This is the spiritual memoir of Curt
Sewell, one of the many technicians and scientists who worked on
the Manhattan Project and who viewed the first atomic blast, an
experience which burned away his indifference toward God.

Amazon Customer Comments: "One of the best creationism books I
have read. This humbly written book presents the thinking behind
creationism and evolution with the admitted bias for
creationism. So many creationist books arrogantly try to
humiliate the evolutionists; however, Sewell presents the
strongest case for creationism I have seen while demonstrating
respect for the opposition. The personal testimony and appeal
for surrender to Christ reveal the author's sincerity in
revealing truth."

"An exceptional book, from two points of view. My friend, a
christian, and I, an agnostic both enjoyed this book very much.
From the christian's standpoint, it affirmed what he knew all
along, and also revealed new insights into his beliefs. From the
agnostics view, it proposed some very interesting theories. Some
especially hard to contend. We think this book should be read by
anyone interested in the origins of life."

"This is a well done presentation using current scientific
methods to discuss the factual (hard and fast) evidence
supporting both evolutionism and creationism. Dr. Sewell
presents the evidence with the detail and support worthy of his
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory nuclear physicist career.
He summarizes arguments from both camps which commands the
reader to evaluate his own under-lying premise -- namely, am I
drawing a 'conclusion' or supporting an 'hypothesis' in light of
the current evidence? Atheists and Christians alike will benefit
from this quantitative scientist's presentation."

--

BPR Review: I came across this book purely by accident and now
consider it a top favorite. What makes this book fun to read is
Sewell's unimposing style of writing. While a creationist
himself, he remains sensitive to the ideas of evolutionists and
does so without compromising his own viewpoint. He does this by
merely presenting the evidence of creation in the Bible against
whatever evidence there is for evolution. As the reader
progresses through the book, it becomes glaringly obvious that
the evidence for one clearly outweighs the evidence for the
other. When I was finished with it, one question immediately
came to mind: "How can anyone not believe in Divine intervention
in the making of this universe?"

As Sewell has pointed out, evolution is not a science, but a
religion. As it requires faith to believe the Bible, and
therefore its account of creation, evolution also requires a
specific belief system from its followers. It is this aspect of
the conflict that Sewell explores between evolutionism and
creationism. Creationists have long been ridiculed for
believing in creation merely because of religious purposes.
While not ignoring this accusation, for it does have some merit,
Sewell turns the tables and suggests the same is true of
evolutionists. Does an atheist believe in evolution because
there is evidence of such or because of his religious viewpoint?

My copy of this book is highlighted in many different places as
Sewell brings out several key-points that are worth remembering.
The book is also filled with many interesting quotes from
evolutionists and agnostics that would certainly surprise some
that hold to the theory of evolution.

Although technical in sections, the book is easily readable by
the layperson. The Supplementary Reading List in the back is
worth the price of the book alone in my opinion.

For more info and a Table of Contents see:
http://philologos.org/guide/books/sewell.curt.1.htm

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"That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of
atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling
of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of
philosophy." JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745)

Have a good couple of weeks!

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owner-bpr@philologs.org

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To: bpr-list@philologos.org (BPR Mailing List)
Subject: [BPR] - Off Topic: Voices of the 'End' Invitation
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 19:51:43 -0700

From: Jason Ensor <j.ensor@mailbox.uq.edu.au>

Dear All,

I've been a 'lurker' on this list for some time. Recently, I was invited
to be a co-editor on an issue of M/C (Media/Culture - a fully-refereed
internet journal, situated at the University of Queensland, Australia) -
namely, 'END'.

As the 'end' is something that I'm very interested in from a christian
perspective, I'm canvassing for some written submissions from fellow
believers which balance the secular tide of disbelief that is often the
tone of many university publications.

Hence, this invitation.

Enclosed below are excerpts from the Issue Editor guidelines pertinent to a
submission to the Journal of Media and Cultural Studies. The issue I'm
inviting anyone to submit an article for is 'End', scheduled for online
publication on 6 December 1999, and is being edited by myself, Production
Editor, Australian Studies Centre, and Felicity Meakins, Department of
English, UQ. The Series Editor is Dr David Marshall, Director of the
Centre for Media and Cultural Studies. The submission deadline is four
weeks earlier, on the 8 November. At a basic level, we've streamed two
themes in this issue; personal and public endings, including but not
limited to death, eulogies, euthanasia, endtimes, and apocalypse. This in
mind, I would like to invite writers in who may specialise or diversify in
these areas. As co-editor of the 'end' issue of M/C, I would personally
like to extend a warm invitation to members of the respective lists I am a
member of for any submission regarding the 'end'.

If there are any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me privately at:
<j.ensor@mailbox.uq.edu.au> In advance, I apologise if I have overlooked a
rule regarding this particualr type of email submission to the list and
hope that I have not voided my membership which I prize. My hope is that
there are interested writers.

All the best,
Jason Ensor

-----------------------------------------------
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE PROPHECY-DIVIDE:
M/C JOURNAL OF MEDIA AND CULTURAL STUDIES

'END'

The collective 'end' to the world as we know it is robust, diverse and
slippery in definition, frequently subject to the proximity of socially
mythologised dates. In the last century of the second millennium, popular
conceptions of the 'end' have been represented in public forums whose
disciplines range from the phobic to the pathological, from the earnest to
the comical. The 'end' often reflects an apocalyptic preoccupation with
humanity's destruction. Those of the theological persuasion, who describe
the sequence of events leading to an 'end', use a glossary which includes
exclusive terms like New Jerusalem, Gog and Magog, Mark of the Beast,
Antichrist, Armageddon, Mystery Babylon, Judgment, 666 and the Great Seven
Year Tribulation.

Yet the 'end' in both religious and secular dialogue has in times past been
associated with 1999/2000/2001AD, Russia, nuclear weapons, Prince Charles
of Wales (whose name adds up to 666 in Greek and Hebrew), Bill Gates III of
Microsoft (an ASCII 666 value), 1914 (the controversial date for the
'beginning of the end of this system of things' for Jehovah's Witnesses),
bar-codes, biochips, Mars, unidentified flying objects, the United Nations,
the European economic community, military MARC cards, the pope's title
'Vicarius Filii Dei' (a 666 addition in Latin values), middle-eastern
tensions, the Global Ethic, the Genocide Convention, the greenhouse effect,
Sunday worship, Saturday trading, the Club of Rome, Pine Gap, Canberra's
Deacon Centre, Adolf Hitler, cathode ray tubes, Barney (the American purple
dinosaur television icon), Y2K and subliminal imagery in Disney films.

But the 'end' exists too on a more individual landscape of thought. All of
us go through a journey of endings - the completion of childhood,
schooling, work, relationships, eyesight - yet all of these phases seem to
mark beginnings too. Death tends to be regarded as the ultimate personal
end, which is not to deny the constructed nature of death. This apparent
biological end is also deemed a starting point for the notion of an
other-world and the transformed body in many religious and secular
readings. Besides this aspect, death is discussed within a savoury array
of concepts and issues including mortuary and funerary practices,
necrophilia, euthanasia, exsanguination, cannibalism and forensic science.

All this and more at the end of 1999.

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                   M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture
                        <http://www.uq.edu.au/mc/>
                           mc@mailbox.uq.edu.au

Pages of particular importance include:

Contributors' Guidelines -- <http://www.uq.edu.au/mc/contribute.html>
  (Information for contributors on article format, style, etc.)
  (Also included at the end of this document.)

Upcoming topics -- <http://www.uq.edu.au/mc/contrib.html>
  (Listing of upcoming topics, with submission and release deadlines)

Editorial board -- <http://www.uq.edu.au/mc/board.html>
  (M/C Editorial Advisory board, also potential article reviewers)

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While M/C articles generally are around 1500 words in length (though this
is at the discretion of the issue editors), the feature article should
engage with the topic in more depth (about 2500 words), and should be of
particularly good quality. The status of its author in academia may also be
considered, though only as an additional criterium - an excellent feature
article by a lesser-known author should always be preferred to a mediocre
piece by a well-respected academic. At the same time, past issue editors
have found it useful to contact well-established academics as potential
feature writers.

...

It should be emphasised to writers and reviewers alike that they must be
reliably contactable via email, and that reviewers should be prepared to
review articles within days, and writers prepared to revise their work
similarly within days from the article submission deadline.

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Length and style. M/C is positioned as a crossover journal between the
popular and the academic, and the style of its articles should reflect this
placement. This means the article should engage the reader, and avoid
overly academic jargon as well as populistic simplicity. Also, since M/C is
published on the Web, articles should be accessible to Australian as well
as international readers, and shouldn't exceed the attention span of an
interested Web visitor. As a guideline, standard M/C articles should be
1000-1500 words in length, and feature articles up to 3000. Articles should
also be clearly related to the M/C issue topic. Articles should present a
clear argument without misrepresenting the facts.

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                    M/C Contribution Guidelines

Like most journals, M/C aims for a reasonably consistent writing style
across the articles it publishes, in order to maintain a high standard of
quality as well as readability. M/C invites contributions from writers from
all walks of life and fields of interest, as long as the articles are
sufficiently interesting as well as relevant to the unifying topic of the
individual issue they are intended for, and to the media and culture focus
of M/C as such. To help you write articles for M/C, and to minimise the
need for editorial changes, here are some writing and submission guidelines.

M/C is a journal for media and culture, with each issue organised around a
central topic. The topic will usually be a single term with a large number
of possible ties to issues in media and culture; for an indication of how
widely article topics can spread from the focal term, please have a look at
the M/C back issues available on the Website. Each issue of M/C consists of
one major article of about 2000-3000 words, and a number of shorter pieces
of 1000-1500 words. The major article will usually be a contribution from
an academically established guest writer we have invited, but if you feel
your intended topic would qualify for the major article, we will certainly
consider your offer. For topics and deadlines of upcoming issues, please
see the 'M/C contacts' page on the Website.

Please be aware that currently we cannot offer any payment for articles you
publish in M/C. At this point, contributions are based on a simple
exchange: you receive the recognition that comes with publishing an
article, we benefit from publishing another fine piece of writing. At the
very least, however, we recognise that the copyright for articles you
publish in M/C remains with you - if you are offered the opportunity to
publish them elsewhere, you will not need M/C's approval to do so (we would
be grateful for a mention of M/C's Web address, however).

Before you start writing articles for M/C, please provide us with a brief
abstract of the piece you intend to write. This will be used both to check
whether the article is suitable for a particular upcoming issue of M/C,
and, if we give you the go-ahead, as an article preview on an 'appetisers'
page of the Website. The abstract should be no more than one paragraph.
Also, please send us a brief bio of yourself (this can include cultural and
research interests, for example) - this should be three to four sentences
in length; for style and content examples, see our 'M/C contributors' page.

M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic; therefore,
your articles should reflect that aim stylistically. They should be
positioned between the staid style of academic and the flippant style of
popular writing; they should be thoroughly researched and include
references to relevant works, where necessary, but present their thoughts
in a way that is open also to readers not professionally involved in the
field. Again, the articles we have already published may give you an
indication of how to approach writing for M/C.

On a more technical level, we prefer the works cited in the articles to be
referenced in MLA style. Articles should be written in British/Australian
English (where 'organization' is spelt with an 's' and 'traveling' has two
'l's), and include a list of references, where necessary, as well as
indications of WWW sites to link to from within the article text itself.
Since all articles must be converted to HTML code eventually anyway, we
prefer submissions in plain ASCII (with italics and other formatting
instructions clearly indicated - italicised words may be enclosed in
_underscores_, for example) or simple HTML (italics indicated through
<I>HTML codes</I>). If you cannot save to HTML or ASCII, or need to
preserve certain formatting specifics (e.g., tables or graphics), we also
accept Word and Wordperfect file formats. If you're using Word, please make
sure you turn off the 'Fastsave' option before you save your article.

An important final point: the articles you submit to M/C should be new and
fresh works, not reworked older articles or excerpts from theses and other
projects you have been working on. Write about issues arising from your
field of interest and expertise, but please do not simply repeat what you
have already said elsewhere - articles you send to us should have been
written _specifically_ for M/C. Also, please be aware that we reserve the
right to make minor editorial changes to the articles you submit to M/C -
these include changes to grammar, punctuation and spelling. No major
alterations will be carried out without approval from you, the author,
however.

Please submit your work to the M/C address, mc@mailbox.uq.edu.au.
We look forward to reading your article!

M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture
mc@mailbox.uq.edu.au
The University of Queensland
http://www.uq.edu.au/mc/

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'Better a dry crust and with it peace
Than a house where feast and dispute go together'.
                                Proverbs 17:1-2

Mr Jason D Ensor
Australian Studies Centre
The University of Queenland
St Lucia, Brisbane, Q 4072
Australia

Tel Wk/Fax: + 61 7 3365 2478