Gannon attended White House Christmas parties -- but who invited him?

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Gannon attended White House Christmas parties -- but who invited him?
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Former Talon News Washington bureau chief and White House correspondent Jeff
Gannon (aka James D. Guckert) attended at least two invitation-only events
in Washington, D.C.: the 2003 and 2004 White House press Christmas parties .
Gannon has been discredited by numerous charges -- most notably that he is a
Republican activist who has reproduced sections of Republican Party and
White House materials verbatim in his own "news reports," and not a true
news reporter. So the question arises: who invited Gannon to these exclusive
events?

In a February 11 interview with Editor and Publisher, Gannon claimed that
"The only connection I had with [White House press secretary] Scott
McClellan was when he got married and I sent him a card." McClellan told
Editor & Publisher that Gannon was not issued a permanent White House press
corps pass, but obtained only daily passes. And according to a February 18
New York Times article , McClellan said that White House "credentialing is
all handled at the staff assistant level."

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Cornell University - Long thought extinct, ivory-billed woodpecker rediscovered

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Cornell University News Service - Long thought extinct, ivory-billed
woodpecker rediscovered in Big Woods of Arkansas. Multiple sightings, video
footage show bird survives in vast forested areas
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BRINKLEY, Ark. - Long believed to be extinct, a magnificent bird - the
ivory-billed woodpecker - has been rediscovered in the Big Woods of eastern
Arkansas. More than 60 years after the last confirmed sighting of the
species in the United States, a research team today announced that at least
one male ivory-bill still survives in vast areas of bottomland swamp forest.

Published in the journal Science on its Science Express Web site (April 28,
2005), the findings include multiple sightings of the elusive woodpecker and
frame-by-frame analyses of brief video footage. The evidence was gathered
during an intensive year-long search in the Cache River and White River
national wildlife refuges involving more than 50 experts and field
biologists working together as part of the Big Woods Conservation
Partnership, led by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology at Cornell
University and The Nature Conservancy.

"The bird captured on video is clearly an ivory-billed woodpecker," said
John Fitzpatrick, the Science article's lead author, and director of the
Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. "Amazingly, America may have another
chance to protect the future of this spectacular bird and the awesome
forests in which it lives."

"It is a landmark rediscovery," said Scott Simon, director of The Nature
Conservancy's Arkansas chapter. "Finding the ivory-bill in Arkansas
validates decades of great conservation work and represents an incredible
story of hope for the future."

Joining the search team at a press conference in Washington DC, Secretary of
the Interior Gale Norton announced a Department of the Interior initiative
to identify funds for recovery efforts.

Through its cooperative conservation initiative, the Fish and Wildlife
Service has a variety of grant and technical aid programs to support
wildlife recovery.

"These programs are the heart and soul of the federal government's
commitment to cooperative conservation. They are perfectly tailored to
recover this magnificent bird," Secretary Norton said. "Across the Nation,
these programs preserve millions of acres of habitat, improve riparian
habitat along thousands of miles of streams and develop conservation plans
for endangered species and their habitat."

The largest woodpecker in North America, the ivory-billed woodpecker is
known through lore as a bird of beauty and indomitable spirit. The species
vanished after extensive clearing destroyed millions of acres of virgin
forest throughout the South between the 1880s and mid-1940s.

Although the majestic bird has been sought for decades, until now there was
no firm evidence that it still existed.

The rediscovery has galvanized efforts to save the Big Woods of Arkansas,
550,000 acres of bayous, bottomland forests and oxbow lakes. According to
Simon, The Nature Conservancy has conserved 18,000 acres of critical habitat
in the Big Woods, at the request of the partnership, since the search began.
"It's a very wild and beautiful place," Simon said.

The Search and the Evidence

While kayaking in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge on Feb. 11, 2004,
Gene Sparling of Hot Springs, Ark., saw an unusually large, red-crested
woodpecker fly toward him and land on a nearby tree. He noticed several
field marks suggesting the bird was an ivory-billed woodpecker.

A week later, after learning of the sighting, Tim Gallagher, editor of the
Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Living Bird magazine, and Bobby Harrison,
associate professor at Oakwood College, Huntsville, Ala., interviewed
Sparling. They were so convinced by his report that they traveled to
Arkansas and then with Sparling to the bayou where he had seen the bird.

On Feb. 27, as Sparling paddled ahead, a large black-and-white woodpecker
flew across the bayou less than 70 feet in front of Gallagher and Harrison,
who simultaneously cried out: "Ivory-bill!" Minutes later, after the bird
had disappeared into the forest, Gallagher and Harrison sat down to sketch
independently what each had seen. Their field sketches, included in the
Science article, show the characteristic patterns of white and black on the
wings of the woodpecker.

"When we finished our notes," Gallagher said, "Bobby sat down on a log, put
his face in his hands and began to sob, saying, 'I saw an ivory-bill. I saw
an ivory-bill.'" Gallagher said he was too choked with emotion to speak.
"Just to think this bird made it into the 21st century gives me chills. It's
like a funeral shroud has been pulled back, giving us a glimpse of a living
bird, rising Lazarus-like from the grave," he said.

The sightings by Sparling, Gallagher and Harrison led to the formation of a
search team, which later became the Big Woods Conservation Partnership. On
April 5, 10 and 11, three different searchers sighted an ivory-bill in
nearby areas. The views were fleeting, leaving little opportunity to take
photographs.

David Luneau, associate professor at the University of Arkansas at Little
Rock, said he thought the best chance to film the elusive bird would be to
have a camcorder on at all times. On April 25, Luneau captured four seconds
of video footage showing an ivory-billed woodpecker taking off from the
trunk of a tree.

Frame-by-frame analyses show a bird perched on a tupelo trunk, with a
distinctive white pattern on its back. During 1.2 seconds of flight, the
video reveals 11 wing beats showing extensive white on the trailing edges of
the wings and white on the back. Both of these features distinguish the
ivory-billed woodpecker from the superficially similar, and much more
common, pileated woodpecker.

On three occasions, members of the search team heard series of loud
double-raps, possibly the ivory-billed woodpecker's display drumming. On
Feb. 14, 2005, Casey Taylor of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology heard the
drumming for 30 minutes, then watched as an ivory-billed woodpecker, being
mobbed by crows, flew into view.

In addition, autonomous recording units detected sounds, among thousands of
hours of recordings, which resembled double-raps and possible calls of the
ivory-bill - reminiscent of the sound of a tin horn. Researchers say ongoing
analyses of the recordings have not yet enabled them to rule out other
potential sound sources, such as the calls of blue jays, which are notorious
mimics.

In all, during more than 7,000 hours of search time, experienced observers
reported at least 15 sightings of the ivory-bill, seven of which were
described in the Science article. Because only a single bird was observed at
a time, researchers say they don't yet know whether more than one inhabits
the area.

So far, the search team has focused its efforts in approximately 16 of the
850 square miles in the bottomland forests of Arkansas. Fitzpatrick of the
Cornell Lab of Ornithology said that the next step will be to broaden the
search to assess whether breeding pairs exist and how many ivory-bills the
region may support. To expand the area being monitored and minimize
disturbance to the endangered woodpecker, the team will continue to use
acoustic monitoring technologies as well as on-the-ground searching.
Fitzpatrick said the team will also encourage others to search for the
ivory-bill elsewhere in suitable habitats throughout the South.

Simon of The Nature Conservancy said that over the years, state and federal
agencies, conservation organizations, hunters and landowners have
aggressively worked to conserve and restore the bottomland hardwood and
swamp ecosystem. "Now we know we must work even harder to conserve this
critical habitat - not just for the ivory-billed woodpecker, but for the
black bears, waterfowl and many other species of these unique woods," he
added.

The partnership's 10-year goal is to restore 200,000 more acres of forest in
the Big Woods. The effort will include conserving forest habitat, improving
river water quality, and restoring the physical structure of the river
channels, focusing in locations with maximum benefit in reconnecting forest
patches and protecting river health.

"The ivory-bill tells us that we could actually bring this system back to
that primeval forest here in the heartland of North America," said
Fitzpatrick, who is also a member of The Nature

Conservancy's board of governors. "That's the kind of forest that I hope
some generation of Americans and citizens of the world will get to come and
visit."

For more information about the search and the efforts to save the
ivory-billed woodpecker and the Big Woods, visit .

Click here to view a video news release.

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The Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology is a nonprofit membership institution
with the mission to interpret and conserve the Earth's biological diversity
though research, education, and citizen science focused on birds. From its
headquarters at the Imogene Powers Johnson Center for Birds and Biodiversity
in Ithaca, N.Y., the Lab leads international efforts in bird monitoring and
conservation, and fosters the ability of enthusiasts of all ages and skill
levels to make a difference.

The Nature Conservancy is a nonprofit organization that preserves plants,
animals and natural communities representing the diversity of life on Earth
by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive. To date, the
Conservancy has been responsible for protecting more than 15 million acres
in the United States and more than 102 million acres in Latin America, the
Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Since The Conservancy's Arkansas office
opened in 1982, it has worked with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the
Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
as well as private citizens, corporations, and foundations, to bring into
conservation management more than 120,000 acres in the Arkansas delta.

The Big Woods Conservation Partnership includes the Cornell Lab of
Ornithology, The Nature Conservancy, Oakwood College in Huntsville, Ala.,
Louisiana State University, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, the
Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission,
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Birdman Productions, LLC, and Civic
Enterprises, LLC.

Contact: Simeon Moss
sfm4@cornell.edu
607-255-2281
Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology

Karen Foerstel
kfoerstel@tnc.org
703-841-3932
The Nature Conservancy

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UK UFO Conference - Living the Field

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LIVING THE FIELD ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2005
THE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE FOR UFOs
Discover the truth behind the most highly classified subject on Earth
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Keynote speakers: Dr Richard Haines, Nick Pope, Timothy Good, Dr Vladimir
Rubtsov, Dr Viktor Zhuravlev

The Speakers: This is a unique and privileged opportunity to hear from some
of the world�s leading experts in this field of study and to ask them the
questions you want answered.

We are delighted to announce the following world-renowned speakers will be
at our conference:

Richard F. Haines, Ph.D.

A former senior NASA research scientist working on numerous astronautical
(Gemini, Apollo, Skylab) and aeronautical projects, he was appointed Chief
of the Space Human Factors Office at NASA where he directed research &
development. A renowned UFO researcher and author, Dr Haines� specialist
topic is sightings by pilots having interviewed many military & commercial
airline pilots & spoken with many air traffic controllers to amass reports
of more than 3,000 sightings.

He is the author of many books including; Justifications and Philosophy of
the Space Age (1962); UFO and the Behavioral Scientist (1979); Observing
UFOs (1980) and Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind (1999).

Nick Pope.

Nick Pope used to run the British Government�s UFO project at the Ministry
of Defence. His investigations were on newly reported UFO incidents and
access to government files on the subject, especially when the witnesses
were military pilots or where UFOs were tracked on radar. He now continues
his research in a private capacity and is recognised as a leading authority
on UFOs and the unexplained. Nick has lectured all around the world, at
academic conferences, museums, military bases and acted as consultant on
several TV documentaries. Nick has written many books on the subject such as
�Open Skies, Closed Minds� which details his official UFO work, while �The
Uninvited� deals with alien abductions.

Nick�s talk will be entitled �The Real X-Files� and it will detail the
history and operation of the British Government�s UFO project.

Timothy Good.

Author, broadcaster & lecturer, Timothy Good is a leading authority on UFOs
and the alien presence. He has amassed a wealth of evidence, including
several thousand declassified intelligence documents. His research has led
him to be invited for discussions at the Pentagon in 1998 and at the
headquarters of the French Air force in 2002. He has been a consultant for
several US Congress UFO investigations. Timothy has written many books
including the best seller �Above Top Secret: the Worldwide UFO Cover Up�,
�Beyond Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Security Threat� and �Alien Liaison:
The Ultimate Secret.� He is known to millions all over the world and is much
in demand to appear in documentaries, conferences and TV & radio interviews.

Dr Vladimir Rubtsov.

Dr Rubtsov is Director of the Research Institute on Anomalous Phenomena
(RIAP), as well as the editor of it�s newsletter RIAP Bulletin. This
independent scientific-research body was established in Kharkiv (Ukraine) in
1992 by the Ukrainian Aerospace Company �Vertical�. Dr Rubtsov is a member
of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics, an associate member of the Society
for Scientific Exploration, a member of the Expert Group on Anomalous
Atmospheric Phenomena of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the MUFON
representative for Ukraine, as well as a co-director of the Joint USA-CIS
Aerial Anomaly Federation. Dr Rubtsov has authored more than 100 articles on
ETI and UFOs in the Soviet, post-Soviet and Western press.
His talk will focus on �Soviet Ufology: its birth, life, and afterlife�

Dr Viktor Zhuravlev.

Former Director of the Novosibirsk branch of the Siberian Scientific
Research Center on Anomalous Phenomena, Dr Zhuravlev has devoted his life to
uncovering the truth behind UFOs and has been part of eleven expeditions to
the Tunguska area and written many papers on the subject including the
dispersed substances, it�s trajectory & the geo-magnetic effect of the
Tunguska explosion.

Dr Zhuravlev actively participates in the State Program of UFO Studies, is
one of the leading members of the UFO study group & a Member of the Academy
of Sciences. He has collected first-hand information on anomalous phenomena,
analysed UFO photographs and spoken at many conferences.

His talk will be focused on the investigations of an unidentified flying
object in Severniy district of Novosibirsk region. He will also be
discussing the anomalous aspects of the Tunguska meteorite fall.

�One of the most sensational cases I ever investigated related to an
incident that occurred in the early hours of March 31, 1993. There had been
a wave of UFO sightings that night, culminating in the direct overflight of
two military bases, RAF Cosford and RAF Shawbury. The UFO was described to
me by one of the military witnesses as being a vast, triangular craft only
marginally smaller than a jumbo jet. It flew slowly over the base at a
height of around 200 feet, firing a narrow beam of light at the ground,
before flying off at high speed. � - Nick Pope, one of the UK�s top
real-life X-File investigators, who for three years ran the Ministry of
Defence�s own official �UFO Desk�.

Time: 9am - 5pm
Date: Saturday 11 June 2005
Venue: Friends Meeting House, 173 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BJ
Tickets: �129-25 (includes VAT and refreshments)
Please note: The ticket price does NOT include lunch

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BIGFOOT VIDEO SOLD TO U.S. TELEVISION SHOW
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Relatives say a northern Manitoba ferry operator has sold an unnamed U.S.
television show his video footage of a large, dark figure that some are
describing as Bigfoot.

Langford Saunders, the uncle of videographer Bobby Clarke, says there were
multiple offers for the two minute, 49 second tape. On April 16th, Clarke
was operating an automobile ferry on the Nelson River when he claimed to
have seen a dark figure walking upright on the riverbank. Clarke says he
grabbed his camcorder and recorded the figure looking directly at him, then
turning around and heading back into the bush.

Relatives say the creature was at least eight feet tall. (Winnipeg Free
Press)

Links below ...

Michigan Author Declares Bigfoot Real
Emediawire (press release), WA - Apr 26, 2005
... Shiel went on to explain how film footage claiming to show a Bigfoot is
examined by experts from many fields, including Hollywood special effects,
to look for ...

'After seeing it, I truly believe it's the real sasquatch' WorldNetDaily,
OR - Apr 24, 2005 ... As WorldNetDaily reported last year, the most famous
footage associated with the Bigfoot legend was revealed to be a hoax. Thirty
...

Calls besiege Manitoba man who shot possible Bigfoot video Grand Forks
Herald, ND - Apr 24, 2005 ... said. Saunders said one Bigfoot expert in
Washington offered to analyze the footage if they'd just turn it over to
him. Saunders ...

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Waiting for Bigfoot

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Waiting for Bigfoot > The Cryptozoologist > Breaking Story - April 27, 2005
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San Francisco-based American artist Jill Miller is participating in Norwich
Gallery's EAST 05 international exhibition, July 2 - August 20, 2005.
Although she will exhibit a performance work, she will not appear in the
gallery. At least not in the flesh.

Miller's durational performance-installation, Waiting for Bigfoot, will be
located in Northern California (also known as "Bigfoot Country") and will be
delivered to the Norwich Gallery as real-time video via satellite uplink, 24
hours a day. The artist will live at the campsite, situated in the epicenter
of Bigfoot sightings, for the entire duration of EAST 05.

Miller is interested in the philosophical, social and metaphorical
implications that Bigfoot represents. Western culture has long been obsessed
with monsters and the unknown; currently, these obsessions manifest
themselves in horror films such as Nosferatu, Rosemary's Baby, Exorcist,
Night of the Living Dead and myriad maligned "B-grade" horror films.
However, cinematic monsters are not the only creatures that dominate the
psychological landscape of Western culture.

Read the rest of this news story here at LorenColeman.com ...

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SOYLENT GREEN: GM industry puts human gene into rice

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GM industry puts human gene into rice
By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor - 24 April 2005

Scientists have begun putting genes from human beings into food crops in a
dramatic extension of genetic modification. The move, which is causing
disgust and revulsion among critics, is bound to strengthen accusations that
GM technology is creating "Frankenstein foods" and drive the controversy
surrounding it to new heights.

Even before this development, many people, including Prince Charles, have
opposed the technology on the grounds that it is playing God by creating
unnatural combinations of living things.

Environmentalists say that no one will want to eat the partially
human-derived food because it will smack of cannibalism.

But supporters say that the controversial new departure presents no ethical
problems and could bring environmental benefits.

In the first modification of its kind, Japanese researchers have inserted a
gene from the human liver into rice to enable it to digest pesticides and
industrial chemicals. The gene makes an enzyme, code-named CPY2B6, which is
particularly good at breaking down harmful chemicals in the body.

Present GM crops are modified with genes from bacteria to make them tolerate
herbicides, so that they are not harmed when fields are sprayed to kill
weeds. But most of them are only able to deal with a single herbicide, which
means that it has to be used over and over again, allowing weeds to build up
resistance to it.

But the researchers at the National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences in
Tsukuba, north of Tokyo, have found that adding the human touch gave the
rice immunity to 13 different herbicides. This would mean that weeds could
be kept down by constantly changing the chemicals used.

Supporting scientists say that the gene could also help to beat pollution.

Professor Richard Meilan of Purdue University in Indiana, who has worked
with a similar gene from rabbits, says that plants modified with it could
"clean up toxins" from contaminated land. They might even destroy them so
effectively that crops grown on the polluted soil could be fit to eat.

But he and other scientists caution that if the gene were to escape to wild
relatives of the rice it could create particularly vicious superweeds that
were resistant to a wide range of herbicides.

He adds: "I do not have any ethical issue with using human genes to engineer
plants", dismissing talk of "Frankenstein foods" as "rubbish". He believes
that that European opposition to GM crops and food is fuelled by
agricultural protectionism.

But Sue Mayer, director of GeneWatch UK, said yesterday: "I don't think that
anyone will want to buy this rice. People have already expressed disgust
about using human genes, and already feel that their concerns are being
ignored by the biotech industry. This will just undermine their confidence
even more."

Pete Riley, director of the anti-GM pressure group Five Year Freeze, said:
"I am not surprised by this.

"The industry is capable of anything and this development certainly smacks
of Frankenstein."

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AFP-Google lawsuit tests fair use / AP Takes Their Turn Challenging Google

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AFP-Google lawsuit tests fair use / AP Takes Their Turn Challenging Google
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In a frame grab of a Google news page, an AFP photo of European commission
president, Jos Manuel Barroso, is seen at center left. (AP Photo/Google)

AP Takes Their Turn Challenging Google
By Jennifer Laycock - April 13, 2005

The hard part about winning "king of the hill" is fending off a
multi-pronged attack that comes at you from all sides. Google is finding
that out the hard way and finding themselves faced with yet another
complaint about the way they do business.

On the heels of a lawsuit from French news agency AFP, Google is now facing
a similar complaint from the Associated Press. The L.A. Times ran an article
on Monday that talks about the differences between Yahoo! news and Google's
news search. The article mentioned that the Associated Press is not happy
with Google's collection and use of their material and are "in talks" with
the search engine to try and work out a deal.

There's no mention of a lawsuit, yet, but the articles quotes the AP's Jane
Seagrave as saying "We believe AP content has value online, and we expect to
be compensated for it."

The strange part about this story is that they already are being compensated
for it by the sites that publish their stories. Articles and blog posts that
I've read about this issue often point out that Yahoo! pays a content
licensing fee for the AP content while Google simply picks it up with a
spider and adds it to their index. The problem with this comparison is that
Yahoo! displays the entire text of the article so that a reader can get it
all without leaving the Yahoo! site. The Google news site displays just a
headline, text snippet and thumbnail image of the story. Google news isn't
in the business of providing content, they are in the business of pointing
people toward content.

The Associated Press seems to be making the same mistake that AFP
did...assuming that their clients won't mind if they [AP] take away a major
traffic source. Search Engine Guide documented this exact issue last month
with two articles by guest author Bob Hoffman. Hoffman, an AFP customer
explained how the lawsuit had nearly ruined his own news site and also
pointed out how the move could create long-term damage to the blogosphere.

The Associated Press and other content syndicates make their money by
selling their articles and photos to third party news sites. Those sites
make money by attracting readers which in turn help attract advertisers. By
attempting to force Google to either pay for content, or stop indexing it,
the Associated Press is putting their syndication customers in a precarious
position. While many news sites would still do just fine without being
included in the Google News engine, the reality is that Google News is a
heavy traffic producer for more than a few sites.

Thankfully, some companies seem to get the idea behind Google News. The L.A.
Times quotes Reuters spokeswoman Susan Allsopp as stating "We're very much
trying to drive traffic to our sites. There's no question that Google and
the other [news aggregator] sites are incredibly important."

Google News has just barely cracked the top ten when it comes to news site
traffic levels. According to ComScore Media Metrix Google News was the tenth
most visited news site in February of this year. They trail behind sites
like Yahoo!, AOL, MSNBC and CNN.come. However, their traffic is also up
nearly 90% from this time last year. With the site still in beta and growing
at a steady pace, it's only a matter of time before even more syndicates
start to consider the issue of indexing and traffic from the site.

With past court cases already creating a precedence for the legality of
creating links from one site to another, it seems unlikely that Google's
news service would extend beyond "fair usage" laws. At the same time, the
suit from AFP resulted in Google simply clearing all sites using AFP content
from its news index. It's possible that in the face of a lawsuit, Google
would choose to use the same method to clear AP content from the site. The
resulting loss of traffic to AP syndicates could be substantial, and it's
unlikely that customers would appreciate paying the same amount of money
while receiving less traffic.

It will be a worthwhile story to watch as the future of online news
publication and aggregation could be impacted by what happens in this case.

AFP-Google lawsuit tests fair use
By ANICK JESDANUN

NEW YORK (AP) - In a case that could set limits on Internet search engines,
the French news agency AFP is suing Google Inc. for pulling together photos
and story excerpts from thousands of news websites.

Agence France-Presse said the Google News service infringes on AFP's
copyrights by reproducing information from the websites of subscribers of
the Paris-based news wholesaler.

The issues raised by the case have profound implications for the Internet,
where anyone can be a publisher and web journals, or blogs, are becoming
more frequent destinations for seekers of news.

The lawsuit's outcome will likely hinge on whether Google can persuade the
courts that Google News constitutes permissible "fair use" of copyright
material. Legal scholars say Google could argue that it adds value by
significantly improving the news-consuming experience without greatly
harming AFP's ability to sell its service.

But in seeking at least $17.5 million US in damages, AFP says Google adds
little because its news site looks much like those of AFP subscribers,
albeit one where software and not human editors determine the placement of
stories on a page.

The U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., where the lawsuit was filed
last Thursday, will ultimately have to balance search engines' desire to
give consumers convenience, selling ads in the process, and copyright
owners' rights to control their works.

"The story (of the Internet) from day one has been one of waves of
liberalization followed by attempts at control," said Jonathan Zittrain, a
Harvard law professor. "It's rightly up to the courts and the government to
figure out where the lines should be drawn."

It's possible, though, for the courts to skirt key issues given Google's
promise this week to remove the AFP items in question, though technically
that's not something that can be done overnight.

AFP lawyer Joshua Kaufman said the lawsuit would nevertheless proceed
because damage already has been done.

The Google News service, which debuted in 2002, scans some 4,500 news
outlets and highlights the top stories under common categories such as world
and sports.

Many stories carry a small image, or thumbnail, along with the headline and
the first sentence or two. Visitors can click on the headline to read the
full story at the source website.

Yahoo Inc. has a similar service, though it uses human editors and pays some
news sources, including AFP and The Associated Press, for rights. Google
wouldn't comment on any similar financial arrangements.

In a statement, Google spokesman Steve Langdon said websites can request
removal though most "want to be included in Google News because they believe
it is a benefit to them and their readers."

In fact, AFP's own website includes a "robots.txt" file that spurns search
engines, essentially telling them to avoid indexing its news pages.

But the case is complicated by the fact that the stories come not directly
from AFP but from its subscribers, some of which might want the rest of
their sites indexed to generate ad-boosting referrals.

The fair use argument will likely draw upon a 2002 appeals court ruling that
thumbnail images serve a different, transformative function as compared to
full-size originals - and thus constitute fair use.

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LibertyThink on RAWstory - 'Jeff Gannon' is the Bush White House Lewinsky

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"Jeff Gannon" is the Bush White House Lewinsky
Monday, April 25, 2005

Secret Service Gave "Jeff Gannon" Unparalled Access to White House

No two ways around it: "Jeff Gannon" is someone's (or multiple persons')
Lewinsky.

Nothing else makes sense. The Secret Service cannot be that lax. He was
being let in on days when there were no press briefings held and allowed to
leave through multiple exits and without signing out (many long, sweaty
romps, no doubt).

I'm cranking up the e-Rolodex and will fire this one off to hundreds of
thousands, including every newspaper columnist and radio wag extant.

I bet this sick @!#$ is/was stretching Queen George, Rove, Scott McClellan
and Ken Mehlman (and mebbe Andrew Card, who reportedly swings that way). No
other story is hotter and more damaging to the Bush Admin than "Jeff Gannon."

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RATZINGER CRITICIZES UN PROPOSAL FOR "NEW WORLD ORDER"

ROME, Sep. 19, 00 (CWNews.com/LSN.ca) - Writing in the Italian newspaper
Avvenire, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger slammed the UN's proposals for a "New
World Order" targeting for special criticism the UN's goal of depopulation.

The cardinal, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,
noted that the philosophy coming from recent UN conferences and the
Millennium Summit "proposes strategies to reduce the number of guests at the
table of humanity, so that the presumed happiness [we] have attained will
not be affected." He criticized this philosophy for "not being concerned
with the care of those who are no longer productive or who can no longer
hope for a determined quality of life."

Cardinal Ratzinger noted that "at the base of this New World Order" is the
ideology of "women's empowerment," which erroneously sees "the principal
obstacles to [a woman's] fulfillment [as] the family and maternity." The
cardinal advised that "at this stage of the development of the new image of
the new world, Christians-- and not just them but in any case they even more
than others-- have the duty to protest."

Ratzinger denouces the "New World Order"

Then Cardinal Ratzinger, wrote the preface to a book by Michel Schooyans
entitled
The Gospel: Confronting World Disorder The book is a kind of Catholic
anti-globalist manifesto.

Ratzinger first denouces the NWO (specifically using the terminology "new
world order") as more or less a culmination of Marxism. He goes on to say
that a Christian is "obliged to protest" against it and that the NWO cannot
"reduce liberty to silence."

Here is the preface in full.

Preface:

From the very beginning of the Enlightenment, belief in progress has always
set Christian eschatology aside and eventually replaced it entirely.
Happiness is no longer anticipated in the afterlife but rather in this
world. The attitude of Albert Camus, who resolutely opposes to Christ�s
words �my kingdom is not of this world, his affirmation that �my kingdom is
of this world,� is emblematic of modern man�s disposition.. If in the last
century belief in progress was still a generic optimism that anticipated
progressive betterment of the world�s condition and an ever closer approach
of a kind of paradise from the triumphant march of the sciences, such faith
in our century has taken on a political turn.

On the one hand, there have been systems of Marxist orientation that
promised the attainment of the desired reign of man by way of their
ideologically-driven politics; an attempt that obviously failed. On the
other hand, efforts to build the future have been made by attempts that draw
more or less profoundly from the source of liberal traditions. Under the
title New World Order, these efforts take on a configuration; they
increasingly relate to the UN and its international conferences, especially
those of Cairo and Beijing that transparently reveal a philosophy of the new
man and of the new world, as they endeavor to map out the ways of reaching
them.

Such a philosophy is no longer utopian, in the sense of a Marxist dream. On
the contrary, it is very realistic: it determines the limits of the
well-being sought from limited means for attaining it. This philosophy
recommends, for example, without seeking to justify itself, not worrying
about taking care of those who are no longer productive nor have any hope of
a quality life. Furthermore, it no longer expects that people, used to
riches and well being, be ready to make requisite sacrifices, on the
contrary, it recommends ways of reducing the number of participants at
humanity�s table, so that at least the so called happiness, already acquired
by some, will not be touched. The typical character of this new
anthropology, which is at the basis of the New World Order, is revealed
above all in the image of woman, in the ideology of �Women�s empowerment,�
proposed at Beijing. The goal is the self-realization of women for whom the
principle obstacles are the family and maternity. Thus woman must be
liberated above all from what characterizes her and very simply makes for
her specificity: this must disappear before �Gender, fairness and equality,�
before an indistinct and uniform human being, in whose life sexuality had no
other meaning than as a voluptuous drug that can be used in any manner
conceivable.

In the fear of maternity that gripped a great number of our contemporaries,
there is something more profound at play. The other person is always, in the
end, a competitor who takes away part of my life, a menace to my Ego and my
free development. Today we no longer have a �philosophy of love,� but only a
�philosophy of egotism.� The notion that I can enrich myself simply in the
gift that I can find beginning with the other and through my
being-for-another --- all that is rejected as an idealistic illusion. But it
is precisely there that man is deceived. In effect, when he is advised
against loving, he is actually counseled not to be man.

And so, at the stage of the present development of a new image of a new
world, we reach the point where the Christian ---not only him but especially
him---is obliged to protest. We must thank Michel Schooyans for having, in
this book, given energetic voice to the protest needed. He shows us how the
idea of man�s rights that characterize the modern epoch, which is so
important and positive in many ways, suffers right at the very beginning
from the fact that it is founded on man alone and therefore on his ability
and his will to carry out the general recognition of these rights. If, from
the start, the reflection of the luminous Christian image of man protected
the universality of rights, new questions arise to the degree that this
image becomes blurred. How will the rights of the humblest be respected and
promoted when our conception of man so often is based, as our author says,
�on jealousy, anxiety, fear and even hate? How can an ideology, that
recommends sterilization, abortion, systematic contraception and even
euthanasia as the price of an unbridled pansexualism, bring men to the joy
of living and loving?� (CH 6)

It is here that we clearly find that the Christian has something positive to
offer in the struggle for future history. In effect, it is not sufficient
that he opposes eschatology to the ideology of �postmodern� constructions of
the future, Certainly he must do this and do this resolutely. But our voice
has become all too feeble and timid in this regard over the last decades. In
fact, in his earthly life mans is but a straw without meaning if our gaze is
turned away from eternal life. The same thing holds true for history as a
whole. In this sense, reference to eternal life, if it�s made correctly,
never has the character of a flight. It simply gives to earthly existence
its responsibility, its grandeur, its dignity. But precisely these
repercussions on the �intermundane� must be articulated. It is certain that
history much never be simply reduced to silence: one cannot, it is not
allowed, reduce liberty to silence. That is the illusion of the utopians.

We cannot impose on tomorrows models, which will then be yesterday�s models.
Nevertheless, we must plan the proposals for a path to the future, proposals
for generally overcoming the new historical challenges. That is what Michel
Schooyans does in the second and third parts of his book. Above all, he
proposes, in contrast to the new anthropology, the essential traits of the
Christian image of man and then applies them in a concrete way to the big
problems of the future world. (especially Chapters 10-12) He thus gives a
concrete and politically realistic and realizable content to the idea of a
�civilization of love,� so often expressed by John Paul II.

Michel Schooyans� book thus goes to the heart of the great challenges to our
historic moment with vivacity and great competence. We hope that it will be
read by people with varying orientations, that it will stir up lively
discussion and thus contribute to prepare the future models worthy of the
greatness of man, as well as insure the dignity of those who are unable to
defend themselves

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
Rome, April 25, 1997

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Guilty by Reason of Silence-GannonGate, 911 Inside Job-Media Conspiracy

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GUILTY BY REASON OF SILENCE! THE MEDIA CONSPIRACY By: Ted Lang
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It would seem as a challenge to all that have supposedly dedicated
themselves intellectually and professionally to a lifelong career which
demands both competitive motivation and meticulous research. It is a career
where such dedication will be readily rewarded by one�s peers, the best of
the best. It is a career with virtually no limitations or restrictions, save
that of required creativity and the avoidance of plagiarism. I speak of the
professional requirements and demands of the journalist.
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It started for me with the frustrations expressed on both radio and cable
television by Rush Limbaugh, voicing the injustices of an unrestrained media
which was shamelessly "liberal" and "leftist." Once so clearly pointed out
by a refreshing non-liberal voice in the wilderness of pro-Democratic
broadcast and print media journalism, it was easy to see the bias: the
astonishing hissy fits and threatened resignation of NBC�s Tom Brokaw in
trying to squelch the NBC exclusive on the Bill Clinton/Juanita Broadderick
alleged rape; the "wag-the-dog" bombing incident involving a non-offending
pharmaceutical factory in Sudan; the media assault on Special Prosecutor Ken
Starr; the Congressman Gary Condit/Chandra Levy spike by CBS� Dan Rather;
the fraudulent Bush military records, again Dan Rather; and the attempted
spike of a Newsweek exclusive involving President Bill Clinton and a
21-year-old intern that gave rise to Matt Drudge. The creation of Matt
Drudge by Newsweek�s via their shirking of journalistic responsibilities
rewarded a "journalist" that took advantage of a real blockbuster
opportunity and exclusive.

And in addition to Limbaugh�s smashing success with two books, his cable
television show, and his soaring legion of 20 million radio fans, we had
"conservative" follow-on voices such as Sean Hannity, Bill O�Reilly, and of
course the entire entourage of Rupert Murdoch�s FOXNews.

Add to this inspired response driven by the news-starved public in an era of
astonishing information and communications technology breakthroughs, the
written efforts of authors Bernard Goldberg, Mona Charen, and even
pro-gunner Dr. John Lott, Jr., and we have all the ingredients necessary to
unabashedly proclaim the undeniable existence of a "liberal" bias in the
media. And the media icon and news leader, The New York Times, has been
severely discredited by the Jayson Blair scandal with its editorial
repercussions, as well as the attendant criticism of "The Red Lady"
resultant from the Internet focus on the Walter Duranty debacle and Pulitzer
Prize disgrace of 1932. But this is where the continued reference to a
"liberal" media should end.

The dangerous domination and control of mainstream journalism by the Bush
White House, its Pentagon, and its military, is easily the greatest threat
that has been foisted upon the American people. Referring once again to the
Clinton/Broadderick affair, recall Clinton�s response when asked if a rape
took place: "Talk to my lawyer!" Any doubts here as to guilt versus innocence?

Silence is always vigorously pursued by wrongdoers � recall Clinton�s advice
to Monica and Al Gore as regards threatening inquisitiveness. Now, after no
"weapons of mass destruction," after no traces of "yellowcake," after no
ties to either terrorism, Al Quida, 9-11, or Osama, we continue to kill,
maim and torture the very people we are supposed to be bringing democracy to
after having freed them from the horrors of Saddam.

Where is the journalistic curiosity involving the suppression and spiking of
the AIPAC spy scandal? Where are The New York Times headlines as concerns
the Israel to China arms deal behind America�s back, providing enlightenment
to the nation of taxpayers that have sent trillions of our tax dollars in
support of Israel? Why isn�t more being written as regards the Gosch/Gannon
scandal? And while speaking of Gosch/Gannon, what about such a blockbuster
headline if released by the mainstream media? Wouldn�t it render the Bill
and Monica story, as well as the Gary and Chandra story, completely
irrelevant? What a way for the "liberal-left" to retaliate against Ken
Starr, George and Jeb Bush, and the entire herd of Republican elephants! A
ring of pedophilic kidnappers run by the highest elements in the Republican
Party, and our so-called "liberal" mainstream media won�t touch it with a
50-foot pole!

What other possible conclusion can any reasonably prudent, intelligent
person come to other than the fact that ALL the allegations against the Bush
regime are true? And what greater corroboration can possible exist
reflecting upon all these charges than John Pilger�s observation on the
Western media�s "Law of Silence?" Scroll down to the rape of Fallujah
[fourth paragraph from the bottom] to sample the Western media�s greatest
spike in recent times.

Was 9-11 a planned inside job by the highest levels of American government
in cooperation with Israeli intelligence, Mossad? What have you heard lately?

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notice and hyperlink intact."

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Senate OKs $81B for Iraq, Afghanistan

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Senate OKs $81B for Iraq, Afghanistan
By LIZ SIDOTI
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly approved $81 billion
for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in a spending bill that would push the
total cost of combat and reconstruction past $300 billion.

Both the Senate and House versions of the measure would give President Bush
much of the money he requested. But the bills differ over what portion
should go to military operations.

Bush urged a quick resolution of the differences and passage of a bill "that
focuses taxpayer dollars on providing the tools our troops and diplomats
need now."

The Pentagon says it needs the money by the first week of May, so Senate and
House negotiators are expected to act quickly to send the president a final
bill.

Other issues to be resolved in the competing versions include immigration
changes, a U.S. embassy in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, military death
benefits and the fate of an aircraft carrier.

"I'm confident we will be able to come back with a product, in the form of a
conference report, which the Senate can support," said Sen. Thad Cochran,
R-Miss., chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

He said the bill gives strong support to troops in the fight against
terrorism and provides needed dollars for the State Department.

Overall, the Senate version would cost $81.3 billion, compared with the
$81.4 billion the House approved and the $81.9 billion that Bush requested.

Congress has passed four similar emergency spending measures for the wars
since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. This one would put the overall cost of
combat and reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan - as well as
Pentagon operations against terrorists worldwide - past $300 billion.

The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, says lawmakers previously
approved $228 billion. The latest money is to last through Sept. 30, the end
of the current budget year. Pentagon officials have said they will have to
ask for more money for 2006.

In both the House and Senate, lawmakers struggled to give troops whatever
they needed and pay only for projects deemed urgent. Congress was leaving
other items to be dealt with in the regular budget for the new budget year
starting Oct. 1. In doing so, they were sending a message to the White House
that it cannot expect a rubber stamp from Congress on its emergency
war-spending requests.

Still, as Bush requested, the bulk of the money - about $75 billion - would
go to the Pentagon. The Army and the Marine Corps, the two service branches
doing most of the fighting, would get the most.

The House bill would add money to the president's request for defense
expenses; the Senate's would not. The Senate version would restore some
money the House cut for foreign aid and State Department programs.

The Senate bill also would provide $592 million to build a U.S. embassy in
Baghdad. The House bill does not fund the construction of a fortified
diplomatic compound.

The Senate added a requirement that the Pentagon report every three months
to Congress on how many Iraqi security forces are trained and how many U.S.
troops are needed.

The Senate also put in requirement that the Pentagon keep the Navy's fleet
of 12 aircraft carriers intact. The Pentagon had proposed scrapping one
carrier to save money.

The Senate version would increase a one-time benefit for the families of
soldiers killed to $100,000 from $12,000, regardless of whether the deaths
occurred in combat, and increase life insurance as well. The House version
limits the extra money to survivors of those killed in combat-related duty.

One of the most contentious issues facing congressional negotiators is
whether to include an immigration overhaul in the final bill. The Senate
decided to take up immigration later.

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Forced human hibernation could save lives - Study

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Forced hibernation could save human lives- study
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WASHINGTON, April 21 (Reuters) - Mice forced to breathe hydrogen sulfide --
known best for its rotten egg smell -- go into a kind of suspended
animation, U.S. researchers said on Thursday in a finding that may help save
human lives.

Although hydrogen sulfide gas is toxic in high doses, it may activate some
of the mechanisms that cause other animals to go into hibernation, they
wrote in this week's issue of the journal Science.

Finding a safe way to do this in humans could lead to new ways to treat
cancer and prevent injury or death from blood loss, or help people undergo
and recover from surgery better, said the team at Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research Center.

"We are, in essence, temporarily converting mice from warm-blooded to
cold-blooded creatures, which is exactly the same thing that happens
naturally when mammals hibernate," said Mark Roth, who led the study, in a
statement.

"We think this may be a latent ability that all mammals have -- potentially
even humans -- and we're just harnessing it and turning it on and off,
inducing a state of hibernation on demand," said Roth, a biochemist.

Bears do it, amphibians do it, and people occasionally hibernate, too. Many
cases have been documented of small children, and the occasional adult,
reviving from near-drownings in icy water after their body temperatures had
dropped and they had stopped breathing for more than an hour.

"Understanding the connections between random instances of seemingly
miraculous, unexplained survival in so-called clinically dead humans and our
ability to induce and reverse metabolic quiescence in model organisms could
have dramatic implications for medical care," Roth said.

"In the end I suspect there will be clinical benefits and it will change the
way medicine is practiced, because we will, in short, be able to buy
patients time."

In the mice, Roth's team tried doing it chemically with toxic hydrogen
sulfide, a colorless gas made by the breakdown of sulfur compounds. In high
doses it kills by stopping cell metabolism.

"When mice were exposed to 80 parts per million of hydrogen sulfide, their
oxygen consumption dropped 50 percent and their carbon dioxide output
dropped by 60 percent within the first five minutes," they wrote in their
report.

"If left in this environment for six hours, their metabolic rate dropped by
90 percent."

Lowering metabolism reduces the need for oxygen. If this could be replicated
in humans, it could help buy time for critically ill patients on
organ-transplant lists and in operating rooms, emergency rooms and on
battlefields, Roth said.

Cancer treatment might be improved, too, he said. If healthy tissue can be
put into suspended animation, it might be possible to raise doses of
radiation to kill tumor cells, Roth said.

"Right now in most forms of cancer treatment we're killing off the normal
cells long before we're killing off the tumor cells. By inducing metabolic
hibernation in healthy tissue we'd at least level the playing field," he said.

Hydrogen sulfide is toxic in high doses but the mice did not appear damaged
in any way, Roth said.

"The cool thing about this gas we're using, hydrogen sulfide, is that it
isn't something manufactured that we're taking down from a shelf -- it isn't
'better living through chemistry' -- it's simply an agent that all of us
make in our bodies all the time to buffer our metabolic flexibility. It's
what allows our core temperature to stay at 98.6 degrees, regardless of
whether we're in Alaska or Tahiti," Roth said.

04/21/2005 15:09
RTR

FLASHBACK - Travelling to Mars and hibernating like a brown bear
29 October 2004

Manned missions beyond the Moon are no longer wild dreams. For example, the
objective of ESA's Aurora programme, after exploring Mars with robotic
missions, is to send astronauts to the red planet.
�
Engineers are already considering the space systems that will be required,
from the spacecraft and propulsion systems to the life support systems, for
journeys that will last 6-9 months.

In the longer term, to destinations further afield than Mars, missions could
take years. During the long coasts between destinations, with automatic
systems in control, astronauts would face the challenge of living in a
confined space with not much to do for an extremely long periods. "Might as
well sleep it off!"

Studies initiated by ESA's Advanced Concepts Team have gone one step
further. Wouldn't it be nice if astronauts could hibernate!

EuroNews has met two biologists who are conducting, as ESA consultants,
investigations into the physiological mechanisms that mammals use to
hibernate. �
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There are marked differences between species. A dormouse goes into a deep
sleep with its body temperature dropping close to zero and its metabolism
dramatically suppressed. During its 'winter sleep', a brown bears hibernates
at near normal body temperature. Its heart rate drops by a quarter and it
will spend 3-7 months in a state of torpor, neither eating, drinking,
defecating or urinating.

For the past two years, Prof. Marco Biggiogera, at the Animal Biology
Department at the University of Pavia in Italy has been studying how an
opiate derivative inhibits the activity of living cells.

"The molecule DADLE is similar to others we have in the human brain and
resembles one of the hibernation triggering proteins in hibernators. It can
reduce the energy required by cells, whether isolated in cultures, or
present in other animals or organisms," explains Prof. Biggiogera.

"We would very much like to understand its basic mechanisms, and with this
knowledge attempt to recreate a state of hypo-metabolism in an animal, and
perhaps even one day in a human, although this is really far away."

Also involved in this study is the University of Verona. There the DADLE
molecule is injected in a rodent, specially equipped with sensors to measure
its body temperature, heart rate and other vital activities. After comparing
the animal's behaviour with that of a normal rat, the test subject's main
organs are scanned to observe any changes.

"Our preliminary results show that four hours after a DADLE injection, the
body temperature drops notably and the rat is considerably less active,"
says Prof. Carlo Zancanaro.
�
"Eventually we could adapt these hibernation triggering processes, using
chemicals or by other means, to animals such as rats who do not normally
hibernate. But concerning humans, we are still at an extremely early stage."

The research could also lead to far-reaching applications in the medical
field such as prolonging the useful life of a transplant organ or even
heart-transplant operations while patients are in a state of hypo-metabolism.

Reducing the physical and psychological requirements of an astronaut crew to
a minimum without jeopardising its safety would greatly simplify many
aspects of a long-duration space mission.

For instance, less food and water would be required, as would the amount of
pressurised space and other environmental features the astronauts would
require to maintain their psychological health. This would allow large
reductions in spacecraft mass, relaxing the requirements on the propulsion
subsystem.

Additionally, the astonaut's ability to hibernate would have a significant
benefit in abort and emergency scenarios. Of course, a suitable and
lightweight 'hibernaculum' to shelter astronauts during their 'long sleep'
would have to be designed.

The concept is not being considered for the forthcoming Mars mission, but
for longer missions to farther destinations such as the outer planets, it
could be a very useful technology. Hibernation for humans is an ethically
controversial concept, and critics may consider it as a mad scientist's
dream. Prof. Biggiogera replied with a smile: "Without such dreamers,
humanity would still be in the Middle Ages."
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"Silence machine" zaps unwanted noise - 28 March 2002
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You will soon be able to silence the deafening racket of a road drill or the
thumping beat from a nightclub without blocking the sounds you want to hear,
according to Selwyn Wright, an engineer at the University of Huddersfield in
Yorkshire, UK.

He has developed what he calls the Silence Machine. It works by analysing
the stream of sound waves from a noise source, and generating sound that is
exactly out of phase and neutralises the incoming sound waves.

The concept is already in use commercially in noise-cancelling headphones to
wear in passenger aircraft. These cancel out the jet engine noise and let
you hear the in-flight movie in peace. And flat-panel speakers that produce
anti-noise have been fitted to fighter plane cockpits to make them more
comfortable for pilots.

But Wright's system is the first that can block out a particular source of
noise to produce a personal "sound shadow" in which everything but the
unwanted noise will still be audible.

Anti-noise

His patented Silence Machine comprises microphones for sound sampling, a
powerful computer for generating anti-noise, and loudspeakers for blasting
that anti-sound at the incoming noise.

The size of the shadow areas where the sound and anti-sound waves cancel
each other can be varied by changing the number of loudspeakers or their
positions. Any microphones or loudspeakers will work, says Wright, but the
more directional they are in terms of sensitivity the better the result.

Signal processors in the computer measure the frequency of every component
in the noise signal, and use this information to create the anti-noise-sound
with an identical frequency but the opposite phase. This means that a peak
in the noise wave meets a trough in the anti-noise, cancelling out the sound.

Quiet zone

A Silence Machine suitable for use in factories is ready for
commercialisation, says Wright, who has spent two years developing the
machine with the help of a "smart award" from the UK's Department of Trade
and Industry.

While this machine is aimed at cancelling continuous, predictable noise -
such as that produced by compressors, drills and generators - a more
sophisticated version is also on the way. This will require different
software to cope with unpredictable noises such as speech and music. "We are
pretty close, but it will be a year before you can buy it in the shops,"
Wright says.

He expects an industrial-scale Silence Machine to cost around �10,000, while
smaller domestic versions will sell at about �1000. It could be used to
create quiet zones in a garden, for example, or around your house, blocking
out railway, aircraft and motorway noises, without affecting pleasant sound
such as birdsong.

If the machine can be proved to work, "it probably will have some
applications," says Tim Williamson of Britain's National Society for Clean
Air and Environmental Protection. But perhaps there are simpler ways to make
life quieter. "It would seem far easier and more sensible to avoid making
noise in the first place," he says.

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Canada Approves Cannabis-Based Painkiller

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Canada Approves Cannabis-Based Painkiller
By Beth Duff-Brown - AP

Dr. Allan Gordon, a neurologist and director of the Wasser Pain Management
Center at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, said that because Sativex is
administered as a spray, it provides controlled doses and allows the patient
to decide how much he or she needs.

Canada has become the first country in the world to approve a cannabis-based
painkille for patients suffering multiple sclerosis, a move applauded by
those with the disease an proponents of medical uses for marijuana

Health Canada, the federal agency that oversees medical care for Canadians,
announced on Tuesday it had approved the prescription painkiller Sativex,
made from components derived from the cannabis plant that have been shown to
ease pain.

The British drug company GW Pharmaceuticals, which developed the drug, said
Canada is the first country to grant regulatory approval for Sativex, which
will be marketed in Canada by Bayer HealthCare and could be in pharmacies by
summer. The drug can be sprayed under the tongue or inside the cheek,
avoiding the carcinogenic dangers of smoking pot.

New Hope for MS Patients

Medical professionals voice high hopes for the drug's success.

"The pain (of multiple sclerosis) can be absolutely excruciating and very
debilitating," said Judith H. Watt-Watson, a professor at the University of
Toronto's Center for the Study of Pain. "There's an urgent need for more
options."

Many people with multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease that affects the
central nervous system, treat their pain by smoking marijuana. But the dose
is hard to regulate and the drug is difficult to obtain legally.

About 50,000 Canadians and 400,000 Americans have MS and some 2.5 million
people are believed to be afflicted worldwide, according to the New
York-based National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

About half of MS patients suffer from chronic pain.

"It's hard to explain to someone who has never felt this type of pain," said
Steve Walsh of Ontario, who suffers from MS and was eager to try the new
drug. "It's like being plugged into an electric socket all the time. At
times, putting on clothes or anything touching me can be too much to take."

He told The Globe and Mail that he's smoked marijuana in an attempt to ease
his pain, but didn't like the feeling of being out of control.

Medicinal Marijuana

Dr. Allan Gordon, a neurologist and director of the Wasser Pain Management
Center at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, said that because Sativex is
administered as a spray, it provides controlled doses and allows the patient
to decide how much he or she needs.

Proponents of legalizing medicinal marijuana are hailing the new drug.

"This confirms that virtually everything the U.S. government has told us
about marijuana is wrong," said Rob Kampia, executive director of the
Marijuana Policy Project in Washington, D.C.. The organization is fighting
to have marijuana legalized for medical use. "This product offers patients
and doctors a new option and we hope Americans will have access to it soon."

In the United States, the federal government has classified marijuana as a
drug that is as dangerous as heroin, although 10 states have passed laws
that allow its use under medical supervision.

In 2001, Canada became the first country to adopt a system regulating the
medicinal use of marijuana for people suffering from terminal illnesses and
chronic conditions.

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Snowman Cometh - UC Berkeley Art Students Unearth the Abominable Snowman

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The Snowman Cometh - UC Berkeley Art Students Unearth the Abominable Snowman
In New Exhibit By CAROLINE PARTAMIAN
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The debate about the existence of the Yeti, the hairy Himalayan creature
commonly referred to as the Abominable Snowman, will continue for as long as
we can foresee. Professionals will continue to argue about this topic, but
we know the Yeti exists, whether he reside at Disneyland, or � Berkeley?
Yes, a handful of UC Berkeley Art students have brought alive the myth of
the Yeti with their exhibit �The Abominable Snowman,� beginning today.

Josephine Zarkovich, a UC Berkeley art student, came up with the theme for
this student-run art show with her best friend Ilsa Brink, a graphic
designer for Berkeley�s California Shakespeare Company. This fascination
with the Abominable Snowman began when the two listened to Jonathan
Richman�s song �Abominable Snowman in the Market.� Another Berkeley art
student, Matthew Siemonsma, suggested that they build a show around this
topic.

Zorkavich, Siemonsma and art student Rona Tadua recruited a group of five
students interested in the myths surrounding the icy beast. The show
includes various art forms ranging from etchings to sculptures to
installation art.

To accompany the exhibit, Zarkovich is running a documentary she produced
about the search for the Yeti in San Francisco, with the goal of proving
that he still exists. In the film, she compares human hair to the Yeti�s
hair, and flakes of a turtle shell to his toenails.

All �evidence� surrounding the Yeti has been placed into plastic bags and
displayed on a wall, with important dates regarding his existence drawn up
on a chalkboard. Zarkovich stresses the Eastern view of the Yeti, in which
he is associated more with religion and faith, rather than the Western
anthropological search for this wonder.

For Matthew Siemonsma, the Yeti represents �an allusive being, something you
can�t quite put your finger on�something you can�t quite capture or contain.
If you could, it would lose its charm.�

Siemonsma�s piece is a replication of a huge crate in which the Yeti was
shipped from Nepal. Evidently the crate was made by a man who knew that
there was no way that the creature could be shipped without breaking free,
but continued to make a shoddy crate in order to conjure some money.

Making use of large wooden panel boards and nails, the artist has simulated
the Yeti�s escape from the crate. �Live Animal� is stenciled onto the
boards, and the artist has crafted footprints leading away from the crate.

Damien Johanson, an art major and exhibit-participant, says his display is a
�presentation of recently discovered Yeti Rock Art.� He comments, �I think
that an Abominable Art Show has been waiting to take place in Kroeber, a
place where art and anthropology come together.�

The artists will present their works tonight, April 21, from 4 to 8 p.m. in
235 Kroeber Hall.

What: Student art exhibition on the Abominable Snowman
When: Up through Tuesday, April 26�time varies by day
Where: 235 Kroeber Hall
Cost: Free

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'Bigfoot' tape thrills northern community

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'Bigfoot' tape thrills northern community - CBC News

NORWAY HOUSE, MAN. � Hundreds of residents of Norway House Cree Nation in
Manitoba are convinced the Bigfoot legend is real after a local man captured
a strange creature on videotape.

Ferry operator Bobby Clarke was taking a vehicle barge across the Nelson
River at the northern end of Lake Winnipeg Saturday morning when he noticed
something on the shore.

He grabbed his camcorder and shot a 49-second clip of a tall, dark
humanoid-like figure moving on the riverbank.

"It's not a bear or human walking around," said Clarke's father-in-law, John
Henry. "You can tell by the features."

People who have seen the video say the figure is three metres tall and
resembles past descriptions of the legendary shy, hairy giant long rumoured
to inhabit remote woodlands in western parts of North America.

CBC ARCHIVES: Tracking Sasquatch

"Couple of my friends and cousins have seen it, and some of them, first
didn't believe in anything like that," said Joey Robertson. "When they seen
the video, it convinced them."

But local residents flocking to Clarke's house to see the video are now
coming away disappointed. The Clarke family has stopped showing the
videotape, saying they're arranging for an expert to enhance the video as
they hold out for the best cash offer from a media agency.

Offers have already come in from places ranging from Florida to Toronto,
they say.

Michelle Baril, a Sasquatch researcher based near Fisher Branch, hasn't seen
the tape, but she's confident the sighting really happened. Barrow says she
has investigated many other sightings, and has found that most people don't
make these claims lightly.

"I find that these people aren't looking for fame or fortune. They're just
looking to unload this. You look at this person, and you see the sincerity
in their eyes and in some cases, they're almost embarrassed to tell you,"
she says.

"I have a general idea of who's telling the truth and who's not. For the
most part, if anybody's going to open themselves up to being heckled and
ridiculed, I really don't think they're going to come up with some kind of
tale."

Linda Queskekavow, one of Clarke's neighbours, says there's nothing to be
worried about even if it turns out that Norway House is home to the
legendary Bigfoot, also known by its Canadian name Sasquatch (meaning "wild
man" or "hairy man" in the Salish language).

"That Sasquatch is not harmful," said Queskekavow, who saw the videotape. "I
think it's scared of people."

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New Pope is a Disaster for the World and for the Jews

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The New Pope is a Disaster for the World and for the Jews
Jewish Leader Denounces Selection of Cardinal Ratzinger as New Pope
by Rabbi Michael Lerner

Since the days in which he served in the Nazi army in Germany to his role as
the leader of the forces that suppressed the liberatory aspects of Vatican
II and purged or silenced the Church of its most creative leadership
(including German Catholic theologians Eugene Drewermann and Hans Kung,
Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff, and several prominent American Catholic
thinkers), to the present moment in which he is recognized as the leader
most identified with the forces of reaction and suppression of dissent
within the Church, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger has distinguished himself as a
man who can be counted on to side with the most anti-humane and repressive
forces, in opposition to those who seek to give primacy to a world of peace
and justice, " said Rabbi Lerner.

Although normally Jews would welcome any choice of leadership by our sister
religion, we have particular reason to comment on this choice.

"Jews have a powerful stake and commitment in ending global poverty and
oppression. We fully well understand that in a world filled with pain and
cruelty, the resulting anger is often channeled in racist, sexist and
homophobic directions. Both as a matter of principle, based on our
commitment to a prophetic vision, and as a matter of self-interest, Jews
have disproportionately supported liberal and progressive social change
movements seeking to end war and poverty.

So it was with great distress that we watched as Cardinal Ratzinger led the
Vatican in the past twenty-five years on a path that opposed providing birth
control information to the poor of the world, thereby ensuring that AIDS
would spread and kill millions in Africa.

And we watched with even greater distress as this Cardinal supported efforts
to involve the Church in distancing itself from political candidates or
leaders who did not agree with the Church's teachings on abortion and gay
rights, prioritizing these issues over whether that candidate agreed with
the Church on issues of peace and social justice. As a result, Cardinal
Ratzinger has led the Church away from its natural alliance with Jews in
fighting for peace and social justice and toward a stance which in effect
allies the Church with the most reactionary politicians whose policies are
militaristic and offer a preferential option for the rich.

We can't help but notice that under Cardinal Ratzinger's tutelage, the
Church began moves to elevate the infamous Pope Pius XII to the status of
saint. Instead of repenting for the failure of the Church to give
unequivocal messages telling all Catholics that they would be prevented from
receiving communion for collaborating or cooperating in any way with Nazi
rule, or for failing to hide and protect Jews who were marked for
extermination, Ratzinger has sought to whitewash this disgraceful moment in
Church history. Many Jews are outraged at a Church that denies communion to
those who have remarried or those who oppose making abortion illegal but
that did not similarly deny communion to those who participate in crimes
against humanity.

In fact, Cardinal Ratzinger publicly praised the fascist movement in the
Church known as Opes Dei and supported canonization of Josemaria Escriva,
the founder of Opus Dei, an open fascist who served in the government of
Spain's dictator Franco, and who publicly praised Hitler.

While many of us agree with Ratzinger's critique of moral relativism, he
extends that critique in illegitimate and dangerous ways, equating
secularism with moral relativism and suggesting that secularism is now
repressing religion. Ratzinger also publicly critiques all those inside the
Church who are tolerant enough to think that other religions may have equal
validity as a path to God. This is a slippery slope toward anti-Semitism and
a return to the chauvinistic and triumphalist views that led the Church,
when it had the power to do so, to develop its infamous crusades and
inquisitions. In 1997 Ratzinger called Buddhism an "autoerotic spirituality"
that offers "transcendence without imposing concrete religious obligations."
Hindusim, he said, offers "false hope," in that it guarantees "purification"
based on a "morally cruel" concept of reincarnation resembling "a continuous
circle of hell." At the time, Cardinal Ratzinger predicted that Buddhism
would replace Marxism as the Catholic church's main enemy.

Ratzinger is being falsely described as a conservative, when in fact he,
despite his publicly genteel manner, is a raging reactionary. Unlike many
American conservatives who oppose gay sexual practices but not their legal
rights, Ratzinger in 1992 argued against human rights for gays, stressing
that their civil liberties could be "legitimately limited.

Those of us in the Jewish world who have enormous respect for Christianity
and for the wisdom and beauty of the Catholic tradition are in mourning
today that the Church has confirmed for itself a destructive direction that
will hurt not only Catholics but all those who seek peace and justice in the
world.

We remain hopeful that the new Pope may return to his original more
progressive positions (pre-1968) and realize that the world needs a church
that can respond compassionately and wisely to what is needed rather than
remain wedded to dogma that is so destructive. In a statement that Ratzinger
made a few years ago, he seemed deeply aligned with TIKKUN's critique of the
selfishness and materialism of the contemporary world. We hope that he stops
blaming that on secularists and comes to understand that secularists too, as
well as people from other faiths, can be allies in the struggle for a new
ethos of love and generosity. We pray that he may find a way to bring a
better, kinder, more loving and compassionate agenda to the Catholic Church.
It is precisely because we continue to feel allied with the Church.

Meanwhile, we reaffirm our solidarity with the many millions of Catholics
who had hoped for a very different kind of Pope who would make the Church
more open to women's leadership, to prioritizing social justice, and to
returning to the hopeful spirit of Vatican II. We can say publicly what many
of you can only say privately-that this new Pope does not represent what is
most beautiful and sacred in the teachings of Jesus.

Rabbi Michael Lerner is editor of TIKKUN and author of ten books, including
Healing Israel/Palestine (North Atlantic Books, 2003) and Jewish Renewal
(Harper Perennial, 1995).

Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of the world's largest circulation progressive
Jewish magazine, TIKKUN, and rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in San
Francisco, took the unusual step of criticizing the choice made by the
Catholic Church for its new Pope, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. Lerner was
careful to make clear that he was NOT speaking as leader of The Tikkun
Community, the interfaith organization whch he co-chairs, which has NOT
taken a stand on these issues, but only as editor of TIKKUN magazine.

Published on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 by Tikkun.org

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Re: Friday the 13th, 2029: giant asteroid will narrowly miss earth

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Re: Mysterious Noise Pollution Is Known As The Hum

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Hello. I am from Sj�lland in Denmark. I have the same problems as you guys.
I used 10 years to find the source of my problems.
And I found some interesting things. Some years ago I noticed that the noise
was very strong from evening thru the hole night and to early morning. With
this in my mind, and after a very long time, I stumbled over some direct
information about the national power grids delivery of power, hour after
hour displayed. I studied this for months and found out that there were a
connection between the noise and the power delivery. When people stopped
using power from the power grid the noise became very strong all over the
area. I examined most of (in Denmark) 132 kv. and 400 kv power grid
converter stations at night. Some very violent Low frequency vibrations were
being sent out in many directions, in these hours at night. But these
vibration was not the same noise that I head at home. I read a lot about
problems for these stations. They all complain about over currency and over
voltages when people didn�t use the power available. So they installed shunt
reactors (who was using the power at night). They sometimes explode or go in
to fire because the power and the low frequency resonance is very violent.
It also backfires low frequency sound at the converters on these stations. I
read something about sound travelling at long distance under the ground and
it seems that some of the very low sounds will go very far. Especially when
resonance is the same from other power stations, in the vicinity of 20 km. I
studied a isolated power grid converter station, with no stations nearby.
Wow. Bang on target. When I went from a small distance from the station and
out to 13 km circle, the right low frequency sound were present with exactly
the same volume all over in the area. But when I reach 14 km. circle from
this station the sound disappeared. I was astonish. Sometimes the sound went
up to 20 km from this station. Especially the next day, after a rainy day.
(Humidity in the ground). I concluded that it must be ground noise, from
these converter stations, reflecting from ground surface. In Sj�lland almost
every 132 kv and 400 kv converter stations are laying in vicinity of 10 km
from each other. Very bad for us. When maintenance is done on a nearby
converter station 8 km from my house, there is silence in the area. Even
when there is other form of noise sources around, I still can hear the
incredible silence in the background. That�s also a important clue to my
problem.
There is many political interest in the Danish national power grid
company. So they wont listen to my problem.
I am now studying Schumann resonance, who explains the theory about
different wawe length of long distant sounds.
Hope you understand my bad grammer.

Have a nice day. NHH.

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New Pope is Former Hitler Youth

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Papal hopeful is a former Hitler Youth
Justin Sparks, Munich, John Follain and Christopher Morgan, Rome

THE wartime past of a leading German contender to succeed John Paul II may
return to haunt him as cardinals begin voting in the Sistine Chapel tomorrow
to choose a new leader for 1 billion Catholics.

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, whose strong defence of Catholic orthodoxy has
earned him a variety of sobriquets � including �the enforcer�, �the panzer
cardinal� and �God�s rottweiler� � is expected to poll around 40 votes in
the first ballot as conservatives rally behind him.

Although far short of the requisite two-thirds majority of the 115 votes,
this would almost certainly give Ratzinger, 78 yesterday, an early lead in
the voting. Liberals have yet to settle on a rival candidate who could come
close to his tally.

Unknown to many members of the church, however, Ratzinger�s past includes
brief membership of the Hitler Youth movement and wartime service with a
German army anti- aircraft unit.

Although there is no suggestion that he was involved in any atrocities, his
service may be contrasted by opponents with the attitude of John Paul II,
who took part in anti-Nazi theatre performances in his native Poland and in
1986 became the first pope to visit Rome�s synagogue.

�John Paul was hugely appreciated for what he did for and with the Jewish
people,� said Lord Janner, head of the Holocaust Education Trust, who is due
to attend ceremonies today to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of
the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

�If they were to appoint someone who was on the other side in the war, he
would start at a disadvantage, although it wouldn�t mean in the long run he
wouldn�t be equally understanding of the concerns of the Jewish world.�

The son of a rural Bavarian police officer, Ratzinger was six when Hitler
came to power in 1933. His father, also called Joseph, was an anti-Nazi
whose attempts to rein in Hitler�s Brown Shirts forced the family to move
home several times.

In 1937 Ratzinger�s father retired and the family moved to Traunstein, a
staunchly Catholic town in Bavaria close to the F�hrer�s mountain retreat in
Berchtesgaden. He joined the Hitler Youth aged 14, shortly after membership
was made compulsory in 1941.

He quickly won a dispensation on account of his training at a seminary.
�Ratzinger was only briefly a member of the Hitler Youth and not an
enthusiastic one,� concluded John Allen, his biographer.

Two years later Ratzinger was enrolled in an anti-aircraft unit that
protected a BMW factory making aircraft engines. The workforce included
slaves from Dachau concentration camp.

Ratzinger has insisted he never took part in combat or fired a shot � adding
that his gun was not even loaded � because of a badly infected finger. He
was sent to Hungary, where he set up tank traps and saw Jews being herded to
death camps. He deserted in April 1944 and spent a few weeks in a prisoner
of war camp.

He has since said that although he was opposed to the Nazi regime, any open
resistance would have been futile � comments echoed this weekend by his
elder brother Georg, a retired priest ordained along with the cardinal in
1951.

�Resistance was truly impossible,� Georg Ratzinger said. �Before we were
conscripted, one of our teachers said we should fight and become heroic
Nazis and another told us not to worry as only one soldier in a thousand was
killed. But neither of us ever used a rifle against the enemy.�

Some locals in Traunstein, like Elizabeth Lohner, 84, whose brother-in-law
was sent to Dachau as a conscientious objector, dismiss such suggestions.
�It was possible to resist, and those people set an example for others,� she
said. �The Ratzingers were young and had made a different choice.�

In 1937 another family a few hundred yards away in Traunstein hid Hans
Braxenthaler, a local resistance fighter. SS troops repeatedly searched
homes in the area looking for the fugitive and his fellow conspirators.

�When he was betrayed and the Nazis came for him, Braxenthaler shot himself
because he knew he couldn�t escape,� said Frieda Meyer, 82, Ratzinger�s
neighbour and childhood friend. �Even though they had tortured him in Dachau
concentration camp he refused to give up his resistance efforts.�

Despite question marks over Ratzinger�s wartime conduct, the main obstacle
to his prospects in the conclave � the assembly of cardinals to elect the
new pope � is the conservative stance he has adopted as guardian of Catholic
orthodoxy since John Paul named him to head the congregation for the
doctrine of the faith in 1981.

His condemnations are legion � of women priests, married priests, dissident
theologians and homosexuals, whom he has declared to be suffering from an
�objective disorder�.

He upset many Jews with a statement in 1987 that Jewish history and
scripture reach fulfilment only in Christ � a position denounced by critics
as �theological anti-semitism�. He made more enemies among other religions
in 2000, when he signed a document, Dominus Jesus, in which he argued: �Only
in the Catholic church is there eternal salvation�.

Some of his staunchest critics are in Germany. A recent poll in Der Spiegel,
the news magazine, showed opponents of a Ratzinger papacy outnumbered
supporters by 36% to 29%.

As one western cardinal who was in two minds about him put it: �He would
probably be a great pope, but I have no idea how I would explain his
election back home.�

One liberal theologian,when asked what he thought of a Ratzinger papacy, was
more direct: �It fills me with horror.�

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Japanese Robocop conducts security patrol at Shopping Mall

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Japanese town gets a real robocop
Tokyo, Japan

The safety of a Japanese neighbourhood was on Wednesday put in the hands --
briefly -- of a robot, which became police chief for the day in a campaign
to promote safe driving.

T63 Artemis, named after the Greek moon goddess Artemis, helped its
subordinate human officers distribute fliers on traffic safety at the train
station after its appointment as head of Hakata station and surrounding
neighbourhood in the southern city of Fukuoka.

The 157cm-tall Artemis, which has two arms and weighs 100kg, can go on
patrol with the help of a battery, police said.

Locally developed Artemis will enter the record books as the first robot
police chief in Japan, where robots are being put to growing use for security.

The World Exposition, a six-month showcase of technology in central Aichi
prefecture, has eight security robots on patrol day and night.

A Hakata police spokesperson said the robot chief "sought to attract
people's attention", particularly because "robots have been a centrepiece in
the World Exposition in Aichi".

Fortunately, the robot was not police chief on March 20, when the Fukuoka
area was rattled by an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale that
killed one person and injured hundreds more. -- Sapa-AFP

The Mainichi Dily News today (28Aug) is reporting that T63 Artemis, a robot
gave its first large-scale patrol of a shopping arcade located in Fukuoka,
Japan, Friday night, its developers said Saturday.

T63 Artemis is capable of shining lights and emitting alarms if it spots
anything untoward. On Friday night, it patrolled an 80-meter shopping
arcade, detecting and memorizing car license plates it found in the area.

Revelers who watched the T63 Artemis on its rounds stood by and watched in
amazement as it swept through the arcade. (Mainichi Shimbun, Aug. 28, 2004)

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Anomaly News 050407

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Anomaly News for the Week of April 7th, 2005
Some of the choice articles from this week's roundup ...

April 6

Fossil Apparently Human Ancestor Associated Press
Toumai. Is a fossil creature that grabbed headlines three years ago really
the earliest known ancestor of modern humans? Or does it belong elsewhere on
the evolutionary tree? And: BBC Audio ; Flesh on Bones of 'First Ape-Man'

Planet (or Is It?) Found Orbiting Star Los Angeles Times
Germans and questionable photos. First it was the Thylacine last month. Now
a team of German astronomers say it has taken the first photo of a world
outside our solar system, but others aren't so sure.

Aliens 'to Attend Royal Wedding' Agence France-Presse
Bookmakers William Hill are setting the odds of aliens landing in Windsor on
Charles & Camilla's wedding day at 10,000-1. Better odds than you winning
the lottery, actually.

Novel Interpretation of 'Monster' Sighting The Courier
Scientists researching famous historical sightings of sea serpents uncovered
more than they bargained for when they realised that a 270-year-old sighting
of a 'most dreadful' monster was more likely to have been an amorous whale.
With pic. Also: Lake Monster Inspires Unusual Wisconsin Brew ; Mystery
Creature is Pike

'Satanic Orgies' Desecrated Graveyard Courier-Mail
Brisbane. Kelvin Johnston: 'We've noticed black candles outside the
gateways, gravel witches' circles inside the cemetery, fish with stakes in
them, gutted black cats with medical gloves nearby, and anatomically
rearranged bones inside a cat carcass. And it's obvious that orgies are
taking place, as the area where they go is littered with used condoms.'
Elsewhere: Exorcist Wants Conviction Quashed

Was Discovery of Body a Coincidence or Psychic Phenomena? Associated Press
Ashburn, Georgia residents are wondering whether it was mere coincidence or
an eerie phenomena that a missing man's body bobbed up in a lake just as an
Iowa psychic drew near.

Eclipse on Pope's Funeral SA
Those who say eclipses herald history-shaping events will find support for
their belief on Friday, when the sun is briefly plunged into darkness on the
day of Pope John Paul II's funeral. Earlier: Saint's Prophecy: Only Two
Popes Remain

A Moving Experience Deep in the City's Vaults Edinburgh Evening News
Holding hands with Richard Wiseman at a recreation of a 19th-century seance
deep in the vaults beneath the Royal Mile. Were spirits contacted, or was it
simply clever jiggery-pokery?

Mother Claims Son Belonged to 'Vampire Cult' Brownsville Herald
A Brownsville mother says her son is involved in a teenage 'vampire cult'
that was recently planning to kill and bathe in their victim�s blood.

Judicial Ghosts May Still Haunt Porter County Courthouse Post-Tribune
The Indiana Ghost Trackers have been busy, lately. And not respected. At a
jail museum, investigators were 'cussed out by the ghosts of former drunk
tank' inmates.

'Something' Found at Ghostly Jail BBC News
Whatever is haunting the Bodmin Jail, it's not quite as articulate as the
cussing inmates of Indiana, judging by the unexplained 'grunt' captured as
EVP.
April 5
Haunted By the Past The Independent
Review, Steven Pile's Real Cities: Modernity, Space and Phantasmagorias of
City Life. Vampires in London? Angels in Budapest? Cities hold hints that we
still believe in the supernatural.

'Michigan Triangle' May Be to Blame for Weird Occurrences Sheboygan Press
Numerous stories have been told of unexplained disappearances, weird
happenings, periods when time seems to slow down or speed up and the
appearance of strange creatures.

Movie Asks If 'Prince of Darkness' is Responsible for UFOs Peru Tribune
What if UFOs were really angels and demons? That's the principal behind the
movie The RUFO Hypothesis. Kenneth Samples, philosopher, theologian: 'Some
say there is a distinct parallel between UFOs and demonology.' Wacky India
Daily: Terrorists Using Reverse Engineered UFO Tech

The Mystery of Postponed Deaths The Telegraph
The evidence is very intriguing, says Dr. James Le Fanu.

In the Spirit of Things New Straits Times
Searching for spirits in Kuala Lumpur.

Tarot Workshop Dispels Myths Clarion-Ledger
Michael Morris: 'I started seeing tarot as a brainstorming tool, like how
psychologists use ink blots.' Includes other views.

The Man Who Will Be President Mmegi Online
The story of Ian Khama, the son of Botswana�s first president Sir Seretse
Khama, is the stuff of fairies. Many youngsters grew up to yarns of the vice
president as a young gifted soldier with supernatural abilities.
April 4
'Miraculous' Fountain Draws Sick Crowd Sun Star
Barangay New Pangasinan. 5,000 people have converged on a miraculous
fountain seeking cures for their ailments. The water is said to have eased
back pain, cured arthritis, and returned swollen human heads and 'balls' to
normal.

Big Cat Caught on Camera Still a Mystery The Hawk Eye
Still no answers to Iowa big cat photo.

Ghost of Diana at Royal Wedding? Reuters
Cold revenge from beyond the grave? Tongues are wagging. Elsewhere:
Oppressive Presence at Bodmin Gaol ; Eerie Wick House ; Vancouver Man Takes
Ghost Hunting Seriously

Of Ghosts & Presidents Nation Online
Willie Zangani, former Press Secretary to former President Dr Bakili Muluzi.
'Some of the best ghost stories I have heard in my life had to do with the
alleged magic powers of the first President of Malawi, Ngwazi Dr Hastings
Kamuzu Banda.'

UFO Symposium Ends in Aztec Farmington Daily Times
The 8th Annual UFO Symposium in Aztec was deemed a success. The event was a
fund-raiser for the Aztec Public Library.

'Ghost Lights of Texas' Under The Spotlight Phenomena Mag
Coming up June 11 is 'The Texas Ghost Lights Conference' in Austin, Texas.
Speakers include Paul Devereux, Nick Redfern, James Bunnell (author of two
books on the Marfa Lights), Rob Riggs, more.

NASA Turns to Mexican Lake for Clues to Alien Life Reuters
Researchers say the calcified clumps of primitive bacteria lurking in pools
in the searing Chihuahuan desert could provide important clues in their
search for extraterrestrial life.

Lanterns Spark UFO Scare Stortford Citizen
Invasive wedding. The release of some 60 to 70 illuminated Thai lanterns
into the night sky over Leez Priory, near Felsted, sparked fears that aliens
were on their way.
April 3
Parapsychology: Fact of S�ance Fiction? Sunday Herald
Academic parapsychologists are in a peculiar position. If they can explain
paranormal phenomena, then they are scientific pioneers like Newton and
Einstein. If they fail, they are the intellectual heirs of the medieval
alchemists, chasing fool's gold.

'Sighting' of Tasmanian Tiger Sparks �1.2m Bounty Hunt The Telegraph
A recap. Also: Ice Age Marsupial Lion Fossil With Big Bite

Who's Counting? Why We're Not Giants ABC News
Why are there are no 30-foot-tall people walking around? Mathematician John
Allen Poulos says it's simply elementary geometry.

Seeking the Supernatural Williamsport Sun-Gazette
Ghost hunting goes mainstream. Contrary to the author's assertion, though,
there are no 'rules associated with hunting down a ghost.'

Amazon Gives Up Deepest Secrets The Observer
New species are being found in record numbers in Amazon River. Now TV
viewers have a chance to name one of them, as part of a new trend. And: Name
This Bloodsucker

Historical Sites Offer Ghost Group Fertile Turf Washington Post
That's too bad. There were absolutely no ghost sightings this night in St.
Mary's County -- not even a long shadow, a spotted suggestion -- of the
'giraffedoman,' with its human face, dog ears, neck and legs of a giraffe,
that's been rumored to prowl the county's dark woods.

Attack of the Psychic Soldiers Daily News
A review of Jon Ronson's "The Men Who Stare at Goats." Another review:
'Goats' may not be true, but it's hilarious .

Labour Minister Unfazed By 'Ghosts' ZW News
"Why do you expect me to see them when they are dead?" The continuing saga
from Zimbabwe.

Porting Extraterrestrial UFO Technologies India Daily
"Reverse engineering extra-terrestrial UFO technologies is what many
countries have used to produce world-class fighter aircrafts, cruise
missiles and ballistic missiles." Sounds like they've been reading Philip
Corso.
April 2
Tall Tales with Witches, Monkey Man, et al. Times of India
Witches, monkey man, Ganesha drinking milk, the deadly munochwa � these are
the stuff of urban legends. A look at recent stories that gripped the public
imagination.

Stargazers Attempt to Identify UFO ABC.au
Alice Springs police say they received more than 20 reports of the
unidentified object tracking across central Australian skies. And:
Astronomers Mystified

Castle Ghosts Spook Staff for Hostel This is North Scotland
The ghosts of Carbisdale Castle help to attract hundreds of visitors each
year, but they may be having an adverse effect on potential staff.

Near-Death Experiences and UFO Kidnappings RRRGroup
"Our point here is to note that the tunnel of light might give a clue to
what is going on in the dying episodes and the UFO kidnapping encounters,
and this might involve offputting scenarios to some: time-travel or parallel
universes."

Mind Control Techniques Used By Extraterrestrial UFOs India Daily
"...provide clues for the ultimate weapon in warfare � mind dominance!"
What's gotten into India Daily?
April 1
Not Even Presidents Know the Truth Phenomena Mag
The U.S. has clueless leaders -- in more ways than one.

Strangely Familiar Scientific American
Researchers are starting to pin down what d�j� vu is and why it arises. But
have you read this already? Maybe you just can't remember.

Ask Him Anything About Crop Circles Shore Publishing
Living in a snug farmhouse in North Guilford is Colin Andrews, the world's
foremost expert on a spectacular phenomenon known as crop circles.

Festival Aims to Scare up Ghosts in Close Evening News
A massive scientific experiment is set to find out just how haunted Close
really is, which as "one of the most haunted places in Scotland," draws
thousands of amateur ghost-hunters into its dark tunnels every year.

Kin, Psychic Keep Up Search for Bowersock's Body The Arizona Republic
The psychic, Dehbra Taylor of Phoenix, said she has searched for the body of
Loretta Bowersock, who has been missing since Dec. 14.

European Cases of the Reincarnation Type American J. of Psychiatry
Review, Ian Stevenson's European Cases of the Reincarnation Type. 'Unusual
... a very rare focus in psychiatric discussion.'

Joke & Folklore Scholar Alan Dundes Dies Washington Post
Obit. 'Dr. Dundes had an ample scholarly range, from Grimm Brothers fairy
tales to the Ten Commandments, from bloodsucking vampires to Cinderella. He
also made a vibrant study of everyday gross-out humor.'

'Horror' Story No Fool's Prank from '66 Vault Orlando Sentinel
The Horror of Holopaw. 'It is five feet tall, hairy, twice as broad as a man
and it walks on two feet.'

New Gadget from Japan Hailed as Ghost Detector Ireland Online
Hailed by the manufacturer, mind you. Yuichiro Saito, on GhostRadar: 'This
detects invisible phenomena and so the system is confidential. This is not a
game. This is a measuring device.'

All Human Beings Receive Extraterrestrial UFO Mind Control Signals India
Daily
UFOs may be communicating with you through Extra Low Frequency waves.

Ghosts, The Mothman & The Highgate Vampire Book of Thoth
Part II. David Farrant, ley lines, orbs.
Best Stories from the Rest of the Week
... And Some We Missed
Black Holes 'Do Not Exist' Nature
George Chapline, Lawrence Livermore Lab, thinks the collapse of massive
stars, which was long believed to generate black holes, actually leads to
the formation of stars that contain dark energy. 'It's a near certainty that
black holes don't exist.'

Bizarre Species Sightings Leave Floridians Perplexed WKMG TV
Something strange is stirring in and around St. Augustine waters.

Ghostly Tours of Nemacolin Castle Connellsville Daily Courier
Linda Davis, Mon Valley Ghost Research Society: 'We have investigated the
castle about 20 times, and every time there is something. Some nights it is
more frequent, but there is always something that happens.'

Ptolemy Tilted Off His Axis Los Angeles Times
Studying a statue of Atlas holding the sky, American astronomer Brad
Schaefer finds key evidence of what could be a major fraud in science
history. 'We have books like The Da Vinci Code about a hero who discovers
lost, ancient secrets. There are very few instances where lost secrets are
actually found. This is one.'

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Men Who Stare at Goats - Military Psi and Terror War Torture?

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Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
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From Publishers Weekly: This exploration of the U.S. military's flirtation
with the supernatural is at once funny and tragic. It reads like fiction,
with plenty of dialogue and descriptive detail, but as Ronson's
investigation into the government's peculiar past doings creeps into the
present-and into Iraq-it will raise goose bumps. As Ronson reveals, a secret
wing of the U.S. military called First Earth Battalion was created in 1979
with the purpose of creating "Warrior Monks," soldiers capable of walking
through walls, becoming invisible, reading minds and even killing a goat
simply by staring at it. Some of the characters involved seem well-meaning
enough, such as the hapless General Stubblebine, who is "confounded by his
continual failure to walk through his wall." But Ronson (Them: Adventures
with Extremists) soon learns that the Battalion's bizarre ideas inspired
some alarming torture techniques being used in the present-day War on
Terror. One technique involves subjecting prisoners to 24 hours of Barney
the Purple Dinosaur's song, "I Love You," and another makes use of the
Predator, a small, toy-like object designed by military martial arts master
Pete Brusso that can inflict a large amount of pain in many different ways
("You can take eyeballs right out... with this bit," Brusso tells Ronson).
Ronson approaches the material with an open mind and a delightfully dry
sense of humor, which makes this an entertaining, if unsettling, read.
Indeed, as the events recounted here grow ever more curious-and the
individuals Ronson meets more disturbing-it's necessary to remind oneself of
Ronson's opening words: "This is a true story."

Product Description:

In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the
U.S. Army. Defying all known accepted military practiceand indeed, the laws
of physicsthey believed that a soldier could adopt a cloak of invisibility,
pass cleanly through walls, and, perhaps most chillingly, kill goats just by
staring at them.

Entrusted with defending America from all known adversaries, they were the
First Earth Battalion. And they really weren't joking. What's more, they're
back and fighting the War on Terror.

With first-hand access to the leading players in the story, Ronson traces
the evolution of these bizarre activities over the past three decades and
shows how they are alive today within the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security and in postwar Iraq. Why are they blasting Iraqi prisoners of war
with the theme tune to Barney the Purple Dinosaur? Why have 100 debleated
goats been secretly placed inside the Special Forces Command Center at Fort
Bragg, North Carolina? How was the U.S. military associated with the
mysterious mass suicide of a strange cult from San Diego? The Men Who Stare
at Goats answers these and many more questions.

Ronson's Them: Adventures with Extremists, a highly acclaimed international
bestseller, examined the paranoia at the fringes of hate-filled extremist
movements around the globe. The Men Who Stare at Goats reveals
extraordinaryand very nuttynational secrets at the core of George W. Bush's
War on Terror.

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Telescopes see 'distant planet'

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Telescopes see 'distant planet'
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The new "planet" (right) is seen close to a relatively young star
A European team claims to have obtained the first direct image of a planet
beyond our own Solar System.

The "extrasolar planet" is said to orbit a star called GQ Lup - thought to
be like a young version of our Sun.

Similar claims have been made in the past, but sceptical scientists believe
the pictures merely show objects that share the same view in the sky.

The GQ Lup object is far more certain claims Ralph Neuhaeuser's team in the
journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.

GQ Lup and its companion are located in a star-forming region about 400
light-years away.

The "planet" has been observed by the team since 1999.

The astronomers have used image data from the European Southern
Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, the Hubble Space
Telescope and the Japanese Subaru Telescope in Hawaii.

Because it is in a young system, the planet is said to be relatively hot.
This helped the team detect the planet in the glare from its host star, the
group says.

The planet is also quite far from GQ Lup - about 100 times the distance
between the Sun and the Earth, which assisted the team in separating the
light from the two objects.

The team models the mass of the companion to be 1-2 times that of our own
Jupiter.

Astronomers have found about 130 exoplanets over the past decade, but most
of these have been detected via the gravitational "wobbles" they induce in
their parent stars.

The limitations of current technology make it very difficult to see a planet
directly.

It is expected that such images will not become routinely available until
new space-borne planet-hunting telescopes are launched in the next decade.

Some scientists have already questioned whether the GQ Lup companion is an
exoplanet. Professor Mark McCaughrean, from Exeter University, UK, said he
had concerns over the mass of the object, which by the team's own admission
could be as high as 42 Jupiters.

"Almost all current theoretical models would peg the mass of this object at
somewhere between 15 and 40 Jupiters: it's much more likely to be a brown
dwarf (a failed star), not a planet", he said.

Professor McCaughrean added that while it appeared to be moving across the
sky with the same velocity as GQ Lup, the companion could be just another
faint object in the same region as the star, without being bound to it by
gravity.

"There is no evidence whatsoever for true orbital motion of the faint source
round the bright one," the Exeter researcher told the BBC News website.

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