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Subject: [BPR] - Britain Changes Phone Numbers
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 09:07:47 -0400

09:06 AM ET 04/22/00

Britain Changes Phone Numbers

By CAROLINE BYRNE
Associated Press Writer

LONDON (AP) _ Britons woke up today to new telephone
numbers, but more than three-fifths of those affected have
yet to figure out what the change means for them.

The nation's telephone operators said they were braced for
chaos after more than 11.5 million phone numbers changed
overnight.

``We knew people would not bother to take it all in until
the last minute,'' said Howard Sandom of the Big Number,
the phone industry umbrella organization that has spent two
years and $32 million trying to make sure Britons were
prepared.

The change affects phone numbers in London, four other
British cities and all of Northern Ireland, with many old
numbers rendered immediately invalid.

But the British Market Research Bureau, an independent
research group, said roughly 60 percent of those affected
were not able to name their new number. A special helpline
has received 10,000 calls in the past 24 hours.

Part of the problem may be that Britons have already had
to learn new numbers two times this past decade.

In 1990, London area codes had changed from 01 to 071 or
081. Five years later, phone users were told to insert a 1
in the area code, thus changing London's to 0171 or 0181.

This time, the formula for figuring out the new number is
a little complex.

Area codes in inner and outer London will change from 0171
and 0181 to 0207 and 0208. Cardiff becomes 029, Coventry
024, Portsmouth and Southampton 023, and Northern Ireland
028.

New numbers also will be inserted between the new area
code and the old phone number.

To add to the confusion, some old numbers will run in
tandem with the new numbers for varying periods of time.
And there's more: In April 2001, mobiles and pager numbers
will be changed to start with 07.

OFTEL, the telecommunication industry's regulatory body,
said the changes are necessary to meet the massive growth
in demand for telephones, faxes and Internet access. But a
scathing report by the government's Trade and Industry
Select Committee last year was a less than a ringing
endorsement for the phone regulator.

``We find it inexcusable that a cost-benefit analysis was
not used by OFTEL to assess the impact of its current
proposals for changing telephone numbers,'' the committee
concluded.

The Federation of Small Business estimated members would
have rung up a $3.15 million bill changing everything from
business cards to signs on stores and delivery vans. But
despite the hassle, many business owners said they were
prepared.

``Everything is all set up. There was a long warning,''
said Pat Tan of the Cafe des Arts restaurant in London.

http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565919261-cee

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Subject: [BPR] - Daily W.A.R. items
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 09:18:26 -0400

POPE WARNS AGAINST RACISM, XENOPHOBIA Pope John Paul II made
an urgent plea for mankind to renounce racism and xenophobia in his
Easter message Sunday, a highpoint in the Vatican's celebrations for
Jubilee 2000. Reciting his message in lyrical style, the pope implored
Christ to "grant humanity just and lasting peace" in the third
millennium. He called for talks aimed at settling conflicts in Africa,
Latin America, in the Middle East, Asia and some parts of Europe to be
successful and asked for Christ's help so nations can "overcome old and
new rivalries by rejecting attitudes of racism and xenophobia". "Lord
Jesus, our peace, Word made flesh 2,000 years ago, who by rising from
the dead has conquered evil and sin, grant the human family of the third
millennium a just and lasting peace," he said before a crowd packed into
Saint Peter's square and adjacent streets. May mankind walk together
"towards a world more just and mutually supportive, in which the blind
egoism of the few will not prevail over the cries of pain of the many,
reducing entire peoples to conditions of degrading misery," he said as
morning fog rose to give way to sunshine. Man must "acknowledge the
inalienable value of human life," he said, calling for "individuals and
states" to fully "respect essential and authentic rights, rooted in the
very nature of the human person." The head of the Roman Catholic Church
celebrated Mass in a Saint Peter's square decked out with more than
50,000 spring flowers from the Netherlands. For the occasion the Vatican
restored an ancient tradition, dating back to the Middle Ages and
suspended in the 14th century when the papal seat was transferred to
Avignon, France, by putting up an ancient icon before the altar in the
square. The painting, Akeropita, or not painted by a human hand, is
believed to date back to the 6th or 7th century and has been venerated
by the Roman church ever since. Tradition has it that the painting,
measuring two meters (6.6 feet) by 70 centimeters, was painted by angels
and that it carries Christ's real features. After the mass, broadcast by
television networks throughout the world, John Paul II gave his
traditional blessing Urbi et Orbi (to the city -- Rome -- and the world)
and wished a happy Easter holiday in 61 languages. Late Saturday, he
kept a holy watch in Saint Peter's square on the eve of Easter
celebrations, in what he said was "the mother of all vigils". During the
long ceremony on the eve of the Catholic world's holiest holiday, held
for the first time outside Saint Peter's Basilica, John Paul II
christened 8 people, aged between 5 and 39, from Albania, Cameroon,
China, Italy and Japan. (Agence France-Presse)

ISRAELI RABBI ATTACKED BY VIOLENT MYSTIC FOR DENYING
"MESSIAH" An Israeli rabbi has been attacked for the second time in six
months by the same man, an ultra-Orthox Jew who accuses him of not
accepting another rabbi as the Jewish messiah, police said Sunday. Levy
Bistritzky, rabbi of the northern city of Safed, was seriously wounded
late Saturday when Meir Baranes tried to run him over with a car.
Baranes is due to appear in court later Sunday, police said. The two men
are both members of the ultra-Orthodox movement Habad, whose former
spiritual leader was the late rabbi Menahem Schneerson. Baranes has
repeatedly accused Bistritzky of refusing to accept that Schneerson was
the Jewish messiah. He stabbed the rabbi six months ago, sending him to
hospital for several days. A spokesman for the Habad movement said
Baranes had come to religion only several years ago following a
"mystical" experience and had been expelled from the group because of
his "violent character." Baranes recently staged an ancient ceremony of
malediction against Pope John Paul II before the pontiff's first-ever
trip to the Holy Land. (Agence France-Presse)

OUT OF STOCK In the next few days the Deutsche Borse will announce "a
merger of equals" with London's Stock Exchange - just as a shark might
propose a merger to a wounded seal. It would be easy to become upset
about the impending demise of the Exchange, but its goose was cooked
long ago by the breathtaking incompetence of successive managements and
by the relentless advance of technology. The incompetence meant that the
Exchange has been steadily stripped of its most important functions.
Settlement was moved into Crest, the derivative and traded options
market was palmed off to Liffe and even the creation of indices was
surrendered to FTSE International. Now even basic regulatory functions
are being given to the Financial Services Authority. Last week's
extraordinary accidental leak from the Exchange of its PR strategy said
there was a "danger this will be seen as Frankfurt taking over LSE". You
bet. From what I gather, the merged body will be run by Werner Seifert
from Deutsche Börse and use the German trading platform, while all the
high-growth stocks will be shipped off to Frankfurt's Neuer Markt. To be
honest, both the German and London exchanges look like anachronisms.
Technology means the large investment banks and the fund managers are
trading shares directly. The new stock markets of Europe are called
Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs, which increasingly control the
liquidity and set the price. (The Sunday London Telegraph - Commentary)

ATOMIC HAUL RAISES FEARS OF BIN LADEN TERROR BOMB
Washington fears that the Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden is trying to
develop an "Islamic bomb" following the seizure of nuclear material
being smuggled to Pakistan from the former Soviet Union. Customs
officers from Uzbekistan discovered 10 lead-lined containers at a remote
border crossing with Kazakhstan at the end of last month. These were
filled with enough radioactive material to make dozens of crude weapons,
each capable of contaminating a large area for many years. Military
analysts have described such "radiation bombs" as "poor man's nuclear
weapons", in which conventional explosives are used to spread
radioactive material. The seizure has raised fears that the wealthy bin
Laden and his fellow terrorists could be developing the capability to
unleash them on the West and Israel. The Telegraph has learnt that US
intelligence officials in the region believe that the vehicle was
carrying strontium 90. This can be used to make a radiation bomb (or
radiological weapon, as such a device is also known). Radiation bombs
are nuclear dustbin bombs - they're capable of contaminating an area
around the explosion and making a city uninhabitable. Five years ago,
Chechen rebels announced that they had planted a radiation bomb in a
Moscow park. It was dug up by Russian bomb-disposal experts. Although it
would have caused little damage because it was buried, American experts
say that such a bomb exploded above ground would be devastating. Stephen
Bryen, the former head of the Pentagon's Defence Technology Security
Administration said: "It's an ideal terror weapon, used in a city and
especially places such as subways, to cause maximum harm. There is
therefore a high possibility that [the seized consignment] was going to
terrorist groups in Pakistan and that it might well have been for bin
Laden." Reports that bin Laden has been trying to acquire chemical
weapons have been confirmed recently by Western intelligence
agencies.(The Sunday London Telegraph)

The Daily
WORLD AFFAIRS REPORT
ISSUE #163
From: MICHAEL TURNER [mailto:mykelturner@airmail.net]
Sent: Monday, 24 April 2000 2:19 PM

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Subject: [BPR] - German Jewish leader warns of rise of neo - Nazis
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 08:31:20 -0500

German Jewish leader warns of rise of neo - Nazis

BERLIN, April 22 (Reuters) - A senior leader of Germany's
Jewish community warned on Saturday of the rise of right-
wing extremism in the former communist east following an
attack on a synagogue there.

Wolfgang Nossen, a Jewish community leader in the eastern
state of Thuringia, made his remarks after right-wing
extremists celebrating the anniversary of Adolf Hitler's
birth on Thursday set fire to a synagogue in the city of
Erfurt.

"Thuringia is a marching zone and a test ground for the
neo-Nazis. While their demonstrations are forbidden in
other states, they are allowed in Thuringia," Nossen told
Reuters. Attackers threw a petrol bomb against the back
wall of the Jewish place of worship on Thursday night, but
local residents managed to extinguish the flames before any
serious damage was done, police said.

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http://www.virtualholyland.com/channels/israel_n/reuters15.htm

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Subject: [BPR] - Jordanian monarch says Jerusalem can be capital of Israel, Palestinians
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 08:32:08 -0500

 
Monday, April 24 2:30 AM SGT

Jordanian monarch says Jerusalem can be capital of Israel,
Palestinians

JERUSALEM, April 23 (AFP) -

King Abdullah II of Jordan said in a television interview
Sunday that Jerusalem could be the capital of both Israel
and a future Palestinian state.

"When we look at Jerusalem on the political level, I
believe Jerusalem has enough room for a Palestinian and
Israeli capital," the king told Israeli public television
after he returned home Sunday from his first visit to Israel.

"On the religious side, I believe that Jerusalem should be
a city for all of us," he said during the interview taped
in the garden of his palace in the Red Sea town of Aqaba.

[watch the wrap]
http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/article.html?s=asia/headlines/000424/world/afp/Jordanian_monarch_says_Jerusalem_can_be_capital_of_Israel__Palesti
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Subject: [BPR] - Re: A Response to Resurrection Sunday, Sounds Good to Me...
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Khazneh")
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 09:38:25 -0400

Say, I might as well throw in my two cents!

"Three days and three nights" is mentioned one time in the New Testament,
and twice in the OT:

1 Samuel 30:11 And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to
David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water;
1 Samuel 30:12 And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters
of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had
eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.
1 Samuel 30:13 And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence
art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite;
and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.

Jonah 1:17 Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And
Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

Matthew 12:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's
belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart
of the earth.

The last verse says 'son of man', not Jesus specifically. While Jesus often
spoke of himself as the 'son of man', I can not assume that he always
referred to himself when he used this phrase. For example, Ezekiel was
addressed repeatedly as 'son of man'. Here are a few other examples:

Psalms 4:2 O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how
long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.

Psalms 58:1 <To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David.> Do ye
indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons
of men?
Psalms 58:2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your
hands in the earth.
Psalms 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon
as they be born, speaking lies.

Ecclesiastes 3:17 I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and
the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
Ecclesiastes 3:18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of
men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they
themselves are beasts.

Job 25:6 How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a
worm?

Psalms 146:3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom
there is no help.

***

1 Corinthians 15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also
received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
1 Corinthians 15:4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third
day according to the scriptures:

It seems to me, that the three days and three nights refers to another 'son
of man', the sign that the wicked generation will get and accept, because:

John 5:43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another
shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

I am come in my Father's name [Hashem], and ye receive me not: if another
shall come in his own name [Hashemite], him ye will receive.

It seems logical to me, that simply stated, Jesus rested on the Sabbath. At
Friday sundown, he was placed in the tomb. Perhaps he rose on Saturday
evening (at the end of the Sabbath), but in any case... the Scriptural
record picks up when the women came back around dawn, and the stone had been
rolled away.

When comparing the lunar cycles on my astonomy software, Friday April 3, 33
AD would have been the 14th of Nisan, 153 x 8 days from Saturday, 1 Kislev
(26 November) 29 AD (Cf. Luke 4).

Furthermore, from 29 September 2 BC (Erev Rosh Hashanah or the beginning of
Rosh Hashanah) to 14 Nisan 33 AD = 12240 days, or 153 x 80. Therefore,
Jesus' ministry may well have been 'one tenth' of his life, a 'tithe'.

I will be curious to see if these guys prophesied despite themselves:

Matthew 27:62 Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation,
the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,
Matthew 27:63 Saying, Sir, we remember that that *deceiver* said, while he
was yet alive, *After* three days I will rise again.
Matthew 27:64 Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the
third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say
unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse
than the first.

...lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the
people, He is risen from the dead.

Also, concerning the 'heart of the earth'... is that necessarily a literal
grave?

Matthew 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon *earth*, where moth
and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Matthew 6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither
moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor
steal:
Matthew 6:21 For *where your treasure is*, there will your *heart* be also.

'Babylon' comes to mind. That would be a grave, figuratively. In Isaiah 14,
Lucifer is the King of Babylon.

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Subject: [BPR] - Re: A Response to Resurrection Sunday, Sounds Good to Me...
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Gaylene")
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 13:50:42 -0400

I just finished reading the post by "Jackie" and I also researched and came
to the same conclusion as she has concerning the Resurrection.

I also researched easter and found it to be very pagan in origin and do not
find it at all to be honoring to the Father or to the Son.

For many years I have been celebrating Resurrection Day on the day that it
actually occurs, rather than an easter sunday.

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From: ""Jackie"" <bpr-list@philologos.org>
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Subject: [BPR] - A Response to Resurrection Sunday, Sounds Good to Me...

> I just finished reading the post submitted and I too find myself
> disagreeing with the editor and agreeing more with them. I have done
some
> research on the resurrection and to my surprise my findings show that the
> resurrection took place on Saturday. The phrase "one of the Sabbaths", is
> incorrectly translated "the first day of the week" which would give the
> impression that He rose on Sunday morning.

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