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Subject: [BPR] - CH Newsletter: Sacrifice at Sea
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Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 08:22:32 -0500

From: Elesha Coffman <EleshaCH@aol.com>
Subject: CH Newsletter: Sacrifice at Sea
To: CHRISTIAN-HISTORY@LISTSERV.AOL.COM

Sacrifice at Sea
from Elesha Coffman, associate editor of Christian History

With a controversial salvage operation ongoing and a major exhibit at
Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, the Titanic has resurfaced
in the news. The doomed ship even made an appearance at the Billy
Graham Evangelistic Association's Amsterdam 2000 conference this
month, as the backdrop to an inspirational video shown to attendees.
The subject: Scottish evangelist John Harper.

Harper was born into a Christian family May 29, 1872. He became a
Christian 13 years later and had already started preaching by age 17.
He received training at the Baptist Pioneer Mission in London, and in
1896 he founded a church, now known as the Harper Memorial Church,
which began with 25 worshipers but had grown to 500 members by the
time he left 13 years later. When asked about his doctrine, he stated
it was simply "the Word of God."

While his spiritual growth followed a fairly direct uphill path, his
personal life wasn't so smooth. When he was only two and a half, he
fell into a well and almost drowned. At 26 he was nearly swept out to
sea, and at 32 he found himself on a leaky ship in the middle of the
Mediterranean. Most tragically, his wife died after only a brief
marriage, leaving him alone with their daughter, Nana.

In 1912 Harper, the newly called pastor of Moody Church in Chicago,
was traveling on the Titanic with his 6-year-old daughter. After the
ship struck an iceberg and began to sink, he got Nana into a lifeboat
but apparently made no effort to follow her. Instead, he ran through
the ship yelling, "Women, children, and unsaved into the lifeboats!"
Survivors report that he then began witnessing to anyone who would
listen. He continued preaching even after he had jumped into the
water and was clinging to a piece of wreckage (he'd already given his
lifejacket to another man).

Harper's final moments were recounted four years later at a meeting
in Hamilton, Ontario, by a man who said: "I am a survivor of the
Titanic. When I was drifting alone on a spar that awful night, the
tide brought Mr. Harper, of Glasgow, also on a piece of wreck, near
me. 'Man,' he said, 'are you saved?' 'No,' I said, 'I am not.' He
replied, 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.'

"The waves bore him away, but, strange to say, brought him back a
little later, and he said, 'Are you saved now?' 'No,' I said, 'I
cannot honestly say that I am.' He said again, 'Believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved,' and shortly after he went
down; and there, alone in the night, and with two miles of water
under me, I believed. I am John Harper's last convert." He was also
one of only six people picked out the water by the lifeboats; the
other 1,522, including Harper, were left to die.

* This story is told in _The Titanic's Last Hero_ (Moody Press,
1997). It's also part of a page with lots of Titanic facts at
http://homepages.enterprise.net/bcfgoodnews/pages/titanic.htm

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Subject: [BPR] - "Speculative Bubble" discussed in Handelsblatt
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 12:34:56 -0400

"SPECULATIVE BUBBLE" DISCUSSED IN HANDELSBLATT

In a lengthy feature article in the German economic daily Handelsblatt
on Aug. 1, Christian Conrad of Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg and Markus
Stahl of Baden-Wuerttembergische Bank AG, point to parallels between the
present "speculative bubble" in the US and the one that led to the 1929
stock market crash. In their article, titled "One Alan Greenspan Doesn't
Make a New Era," the authors present extensive data on exploding
financial asset prices and debt in the US, demonstrating that in recent
years a speculative bubble has been building up which is more dangerous
than during the 1920s.

* During the 1990s, the Standard & Poor's index of the 500 most
important US stocks increased by 400%, the Nasdaq even by 1,180%. During
its 3-year existence, the German Nemax index went up by 1,600%, to its
March 2000 peak. The proportion between market capitalization and GDP in
the US - 170% - is now much higher than in 1929, when it stood at 110%.
The exchange-traded turnover volume of securities today is 250% of
America's GDP, compared to 130% in 1929. During the 1920s, 5-10% of
American households had stock portfolios, today 49% of US households do.

* Consumer credits in the US went up from $863bn in the first quarter of
1994 to $1.428tr in the 4th quarter of 1999. Today's consumer
debt/income ratio is much higher than in 1929. Margin debt has even
increased by 75% during 1999.

* The daily turnover of OTC interest rate and currency derivatives has
increased by 85% in the last 3 years.

* While the US economy was running foreign trade surpluses during the
1920s, today there is an ever-growing US trade deficit, which makes the
US dependent on massive capital inflows.

In view of this, the authors note in their Handelsblatt article that
"various voices are now warning of a speculative bubble that could soon
burst." In addition, the question has to be raised what role Alan
Greenspan has played in all of this, because speculative bubbles depend
on "a monetary framework to finance the inflationary price structures at
stock markets." Undeniably, the Federal Reserve let loose "speculative
forces within the US economy," in contrast to the popular view that
Greenspan has so far maintained price stability.

With its "loose money" policy, notably the three rate cuts in autumn
1998, the Federal Reserve gave "the signal investors had waited for."
Consequently, "the speculative forces and the wild development of
Internet stocks ... went out of control until March 2000." While one
cannot say when exactly the bubble will burst, "it just can't go on like
this." (Strategic Alert)

SUMMER TURMOIL ON FINANCIAL MARKETS

During the first week of August, so-called "New Economy" stocks were
badly shaken internationally. Had there not been some magic late-session
rebounds on Aug. 1 and 3, which were probably linked to market
interventions of the US government/Federal Reserve "Plunge Protection
Team," down-sliding Nasdaq stocks could have triggered a chain-reaction
meltdown on stock markets globally. A taste of this could be seen on
Aug. 3: "Technology" stocks drove the Tokyo Nikkei down almost 400
points, while the Frankfurt NEMAX lost 4.1%; that day, the Nasdaq fell
4% in the first few minutes of trading, before the mysterious rebound
occurred.

Meanwhile, the American rating agency Standard & Poor's put out its
latest Financial System Stress Report, pointing to 15 banking systems,
including that of the US, which are already showing "stress symptoms."
Such symptoms are excessive reliance on borrowed funds, rapid credit
growth, high levels of corporate and government debt, and a worsening of
the bank's credit portfolios. Under certain "worst case scenario"
assumptions, problems in these 15 countries could lead to a banking
crash.

Also currency markets have been shaken. In early August, the euro has
been sliding down to $0.90 to the US dollar, near its all-time lows of
April/May. Fearing even worse foreign exchange losses, investors are
fleeing Euroland, channeling vast funds into the United States. Most
disconcerting about the euro's latest 4-5% slide, is the fact there is
no apparent reason for it. What might, however, explain the euro's
mysterious fall is the desperate need for continuing massive capital
flows into the US - to keep the financial bubble there going for some
more time.

Were the euro to fall to $0.85, according to informed accounts, that
would be a near-certain trigger for a euro sell-off panic in extremely
thin volume markets. The weakness of the euro is beginning, as well, to
impact euro-denominated corporate bond markets, where interest rates for
corporate bonds in recent days have begun to widen in relation to those
of government bonds - a sign of financial market stress. Given the fact
that European corporations have raised an all-time record volume of
corporate bonded debt in euro denomination over the past 6 months or
more, more than $110bn, the weakness of the euro could create problems
in corporate bonds sooner than expected. (Strategic Alert)

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Subject: [BPR] - Mitel Makes 'Breakthrough' Chip
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 12:37:40 -0400

Mitel Makes 'Breakthrough' Chip

Reuters
12:35 p.m. Aug. 10, 2000 PDT

OTTAWA -- Mitel Corp. said Thursday it has scored a key technical
breakthrough and produced working prototypes of a chip that could cut
costs and dramatically boost the performance of fiber-optic networks.
Shares in the phone system and semiconductor company surged by as much
as 21 percent after the announcement, as the market continued its love
affair with firms developing equipment for the red-hot fiber-optic
sector.

Mitel said it is developing a chip that will help create more lanes to
carry the voice, data and video traffic on fiber-optic networks. That
would make it cheaper and more efficient to transport information over
the glass fibers used in those networks.

Known as dense wave division multiplexing, the chip technology boosts
the number of wavelengths, or channels, that are used to carry traffic
from a single beam of light.

Mitel said it is developing a device that may cram as many as 80
channels, or wavelengths, onto a beam of light using standard
semiconductor materials.

Presently, most technology can handle 16 channels, with 40 channels
available in products that use a technique called arrayed waveguide
grating, Mitel said.

"We're working on something that has a lot more horsepower to it," said
Mitel vice president of communications Jacques Guerette.

Mitel said it is using a technique called echelle grating to boost the
number of channels rather than arrayed waveguide grating, which it said
has capacity, precision and production constraints.

With echelle grating, a laser is fired at a piece of reflective glass
shaped like a stair that is mounted on a chip. Multiple reflections are
then produced, with some wavelengths canceled and others reinforced. The
technique results in a greater number of reinforced wavelengths, and
corresponding channels, than are produced by other grating techniques,
Mitel said.

Arrayed waveguide grating splits light by creating parallel waveguides
on glass substrate, with each waveguide longer than the last so that
light entering the device comes out as different wavelengths on the
other end.

"The existing fiber-optic industry is a competitor. This is a technology
that seemingly nobody else has -- at least nobody else is talking about
it," said Duncan Stewart, a fund manager and technology analyst at Tera
Capital Corp. who holds Mitel shares. "So if it works...that's very,
very positive for Mitel."

Companies developing fiber-optic equipment for internal and external
sales include JDS Uniphase Corp., Corning Inc., SDL Inc., Nortel
Networks Corp., and Lucent Technologies Inc.

Mitel's "research breakthrough" includes capabilities in three key
production techniques, Guerette said. The company said it has several
proprietary techniques that it can patent for the chip fabrication.
Mitel said it is able to accurately control the thick layers of glass
that are deposited on a silicon base for the device, making performance
more predictable. It is able to control etching on the glass, for more
precise light reflection, and packaging of the devices, the company
said.

"Given the success that Mitel has had with their semiconductor line, I
would hedge my bets and say what they have here sounds good," said Brian
Van Steen, analyst at optical market research group Ryan Hankin Kent. "I
believe that they have something and I believe that they'll be able to
capitalize on it."

Mitel said its products, to be called LightRider, will likely be
available to key customers for testing early in 2001.

The technology is aimed at the market for urban networks, estimated
presently at $375 million by market researchers Pioneer Consulting LLC
and forecast to reach $2.04 billion by 2004.

"It's potentially interesting," Stewart said. "They claim that they can
make gratings that are much, much better than the way JDS and other
people make them -- that may or may not be true, but it certainly would
get people excited."

Stock in Mitel (MLT) added C$4.90 to C$30 on the Toronto Stock Exchange
and gained 3-3/16 to 20-1/8 on the New York Stock Exchange.

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Subject: [BPR] - "Digital Angel Breakthrough Technology Goes Live!"
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 12:41:20 -0400

"Digital Angel™ Breakthrough Technology Goes Live!"

Applied Digital Solutions will unveil an operational prototype of its
revolutionary Digital Angel technology … Chairman sees multi-billion
dollar market potential via licensing and services integrated with
Web-enabled wireless devices.

The prototype … to be unveiled at an invitation-only, New York City
event this October … represents a major communications technology
breakthrough -- the first-ever operational combination of bio-sensor
technology and Web- enabled wireless telecommunications linked to GPS
location-tracking systems.

PALM BEACH, FLORIDA, JULY 31, 2000 -- Applied Digital Solutions, Inc.
(NASDAQ:ADSX) today announced that it will host a special,
invitation-only event in New York City this coming October to
demonstrate an operational prototype of its revolutionary "Digital
Angel"™ technology. As previously announced, the prototype of the device
was to be ready by the end of this year. But Applied Digital's Chairman
and CEO, Richard J. Sullivan, said today that the development of the
technology had progressed well ahead of schedule.

In his comments announcing the October event, Richard Sullivan stated:
"We're extremely heartened by the remarkable progress made by Dr. Peter
Zhou and his entire research team, including professors and their
associates at Princeton University and the New Jersey Institute of
Technology. This technology relates directly to the exploding wireless
marketplace. We'll be demonstrating for the first time ever that
wireless telecommunications systems and bio-sensor devices - capable of
measuring and transmitting critical body function data - can be
successfully linked together with GPS technology and integrated with the
Internet. This is a gigantic leap forward, one that also links directly
to our Computer Telephony Internet Integration (CTII™) strategic focus.
At its heart, Digital Angel involves integrating the very same
communications technologies into a working system. We'll soon be ready
to move ahead to the production-design phase of Digital Angel geared to
specific marketplace applications. The key message right now is this:
Digital Angel isn't a blue-sky technology. This is real. Digital Angel
breakthrough technology is here. It's live!"

While estimates of Digital Angel's marketplace potential vary, there is
little doubt that the technology will enable Applied Digital and its
partners to tap into a multi-billion dollar market via various licensing
arrangements, Web- enabled wireless services and data transactions
handled by Applied Digital's ASP (Application Service Provider) center.

Those attending the event in New York City will see a working,
multimedia demonstration of Digital Angel's technological building
blocks. A miniature sensor device -- smaller than a grain of rice and
equipped with a tiny antenna -- will capture and wirelessly transmit a
person's vital body-function data, such as body temperature or pulse, to
an Internet-integrated ground station. In addition, the antenna will
also receive information regarding the location of the individual from
the GPS satellite. Both sets of data -- medical information and location
-- will then be wirelessly transmitted to the ground station and made
available on Web-enabled desktop, laptop or wireless devices. This
demonstration represents the first time these technologies have been
united into one functioning system.

The New York City event - at a time, date and location to be announced
later -- will feature live presentations from top Applied Digital
executives, including Richard Sullivan, Chairman and CEO; Dr. Keith
Bolton, Chief Technology Officer; and Dr. Peter Zhou, President and
Chief Scientist at Digital Angel.net Inc., Applied Digital's wholly
owned subsidiary that has been spearheading the drive to develop Digital
Angel. Those attending the event will be a handpicked group of potential
joint venture partners, as well as senior-level players in the
e-commerce, wireless and Internet industries. Key stock analysts and
media representatives will also be invited. Attendees will learn about
the history of Digital Angel and its technological underpinnings, along
with its many potential applications in the marketplace.

Digital Angel's Dr. Peter Zhou commented: "I'm particularly excited
about Digital Angel's ability to save lives by remotely monitoring the
medical conditions of at-risk patients and providing emergency rescue
units with the person's exact location. I also see great potential for
Digital Angel in the area of 'location-aware' e-commerce. This is a
whole new wireless and Web- enabled frontier in which a purchaser's
actual location is integral to making a successful sale or providing a
valuable, location-critical service."

Background on Digital Angel™

In December of 1999, Applied Digital Solutions announced that it had
acquired the patent rights to a miniature digital transceiver -- which
it has named Digital Angel. In some of its applications, the tiny device
is expected to be bonded closely to the body or implanted just under the
skin. The Company believes Digital Angel will be able to send and
receive data and be located by GPS (Global Positioning System)
technology. In addition to monitoring the location and medical condition
of at-risk patients, the Company believes Digital Angel could have other
applications that will prove to be extremely popular in the marketplace.
These applications include locating lost or missing individuals or
household pets; tracking endangered wildlife; managing livestock and
other farm-related animals; pinpointing the location of valuable stolen
property; finding lost airline baggage and postal packages; managing the
commodity supply chain; preventing the unauthorized use of firearms; and
providing a tamper-proof means of identification for enhanced e-commerce
security. For more information about Digital Angel, visit
www.digitalangel.net.

About the CTII™ Initiative

Applied Digital Solutions has successfully focused its strategic
direction and organized the company into four core business groups:
Internet, Telephony, Network and Applications. As part of this
successful transformation, the Company has positioned itself as a
leading-edge provider of Computer Telephony Internet Integration (CTII)
services. This CTII focus differentiates Applied Digital Solutions in
the e-business solutions marketplace. With CTII, Applied Digital
provides the full range of services and skills that companies need to
conduct business online. Through its four integrated business groups,
Applied Digital designs and deploys complete, front-to-back, web-
enabled e-business systems -- all with a single point of contact for the
customer.

About Applied Digital Solutions, Inc.

Applied Digital Solutions is a leading-edge, single-source provider of
e- business solutions. The Company differentiates itself in the
marketplace by enabling e-business through Computer Telephony Internet
Integration (CTII). With five-year revenue growth (from 1994 to 1998) of
64,012%, Applied Digital Solutions is ranked as the fifth
fastest-growing technology company by Deloitte & Touche in its 1999
Technology Fast 500 listing. For more information, visit www.adsx.com.

Statements about the Company's future expectations, including future
revenues and earnings, and all other statements in this press release
other than historical facts are 'forward-looking statements' within the
meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and as that term is defined in the
Private Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Company intends that such
forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties and are
subject to change at any time, and the Company's actual results could
differ materially from expected results. The Company undertakes no
obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect subsequently
occurring events or circumstances.

http://www.digitalangel.net/pr_7_31_00.htm

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Subject: [BPR] - Lesbians Listed as Baby's Two 'Mothers'
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 12:48:35 -0400

Lesbians Listed as Baby's Two 'Mothers'

UPI
Friday, Aug. 11, 2000

BOSTON – A lesbian couple in Massachusetts have won court backing to
have both their names listed as "mother" on their child's birth
certificate.

Massachusetts joins California and just a few other states that have
made similar rulings, the Boston Herald reported Thursday.

The case involved eggs from one of the women being fertilized with semen
from an anonymous donor and the resulting embryo being placed in the
other woman and carried to term.

Massachusetts Probate Court agreed to authorize both women to be named
as "mothers" on the child's birth certificate because both were
connected to the child by birth or biology and were the intended
parents.

Mary Jane Knoll donated the eggs, and Christine Finn carried the baby.
She gave birth June 23 to a son at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center.

The women requested that the birth certificate be revised to have the
"father" category replaced with a second "mother" category.

The hospital, while not opposing the request, said it was a matter for
the courts to decide.

"No one had ever requested something like this before," said Leslie A.
Joseph, the hospital's attorney.

The couple, through their attorney, said, "The decision to pursue a
court order, to have both of us reflected as his legal parents, just
made sense to us."

Judge Nancy M. Gould, in her decision, said both women could be listed
as the legal parents because one had donated her eggs so the other could
bear a child, connecting both to the child "by biology and through
birth."

The judge ordered the hospital to amend the birth certificate, replacing
"father" with another "mother" section.

The ruling, the first of its kind in Massachusetts, does not
automatically guarantee that other lesbian couples in similar situations
will automatically have their names listed on a birth certificate. Such
couples would have to also seek a court order.

The ruling was criticized by Parents' Rights Coalition, a Waltham group
that said the courts "are trying to overturn the laws of nature."

Christian Coalition of Massachusetts called the couple and their child
"an artificial family ."

http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/8/10/184742

Link via:
http://www.newsviewtoday.com

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Subject: [BPR] - The Second Coming Project
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 12:58:31 -0400

[The first time I saw this, I thought it was a hoax. But now I've seen it in a
couple more places and thought I'd send it through just so we'd all be
informed of the craziness out there.--Moza]

The Second Coming Project

The Second Coming Project is a not-for-profit organization devoted to
bringing about the Second Coming of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, as prophesied
in the Bible, in time for the 2,000th anniversary of his birth. Our intention is to
clone Jesus, utilizing techniques pioneered at the Roslin Institute in
Scotland, by taking an incorrupt cell from one of the many Holy Relics of
Jesus' blood and body that are preserved in churches throughout the world,
extracting its DNA, and inserting into an unfertilized human egg (oocyte),
through the now-proven biological process called nuclear transfer. The
fertilized egg, now the zygote of Jesus Christ, will be implanted into the
womb of a young virginal woman (who has volunteered of her own accord),
who will then bring the baby Jesus to term in a second Virgin Birth.

If all goes according to plan, the birth will take place on December 25, 2001,
thus making Anno Domini 2001 into Anno Domini Novi 1, and all calendrical
calculations will begin anew.

How Can This Be Possible?
a. Modern cloning technology enables us to clone any large mammal -
including humans - using just a single cell from an adult specimen.

b. Throughout the Christian world are churches that contain Holy Relics of
Jesus' body: his blood, his hair, his foreskin. Unless every single one of
these relics is a fake, this means that cells from Jesus' body still survive to
this day.

c. We are already making preparations to obtain a portion of one of these
relics, extract the DNA from one of its cells, and use it to clone Jesus.

No longer can we rely on hope and prayer, waiting around futilely for Jesus to
return. We have the technology to bring him back right now: there is no
reason, moral, legal or Biblical, not to take advantage of it.

IN ORDER TO SAVE THE WORLD FROM SIN, WE MUST CLONE JESUS
TO INITIATE THE SECOND COMING OF THE CHRIST.

The Second Coming Project is soliciting contributions and donations to help
us is our quest. Time is short! We must have a fertilized Jesus zygote no
later than April of 2001 if Baby Jesus is to come to term on the predicted
date. Please send all contributions to:

                                  The Second Coming Project
                                  P.O. Box 295
                                  Berkeley, CA 94701

http://www.clonejesus.com/index.html

Background information
http://www.clonejesus.com/back.html

Biblical predictions of cloning
http://www.clonejesus.com/pred.html

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