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To: d:oug who wrote (12287)	11/13/1999 6:48:00 AM
From: Chuca Marsh	Respond to of 14226

OT-Linex News from yesterday: Corel Corp - Corel to launch Linux at COMDEX/Fall '99 Corel Corp COR Shares issued 60,411,209 1999-11-11 close $12.7 Friday Nov 12 1999 Dr. Michael Cowpland reports Corel will launch the Linux operating system at COMDEX/Fall '99 in Las Vegas on Monday, Nov. 15. There will also be a simultaneous, live Webcast Dr. Michael Cowpland will deliver a keynote address entitled "Understanding the benefits of Linux open source in the software industry on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 1999, at 10:30 a.m. in the conference room at the Linux Business Expo. For more information, please visit: zdevents.com ZDTV and PC Week Online will provide a Webcast replay of Dr. Cowpland's keynote within a few hours of the 11:15 a.m. PST keynote finish. Please visit any of the following sites for links to the keynote Webcast: ZDTV at: zdnet.com PC Week Online at: zdnet.com (click the tab at top of page marked "Tuesday") Corel's Virtual Press Room: corel.com Corel Linux Web site: linux.corel.com canada-stockwatch.com Anyone have Fagan's Website, I like this guy, really: Fagan says Arcturus a sell on inactivity Arcturus Resources Ltd ATQ Shares issued 4,175,501 1999-11-12 close $0.04 Friday Nov 12 1999 Brian Fagan, writing in Interim Market Report No. 25 (Nov. 9), says Arcturus Resources is a sell at four cents. Mr. Fagan recommended the stock in February, 1998, at 42 cents. He commented on its affairs on three subsequent occasions. When he recommended it, Arcturus was active on the Western Copper Holdings discovery at Zacatecas, Mexico. In the current report, Mr. Fagan says Arcturus still owns its Mexican properties, but is inactive. It also has a "small negative cash position," he writes. canada-stockwatch.com Chucka-samo

To: d:oug who wrote (12287)	11/14/1999 3:10:00 AM
From: d:oug	Respond to of 14226

Why You Never See Baby Pigeons & Why Asparagus Makes Your Pee Stink. discovery.com Why You Never See Baby Pigeons - By Hannah Holmes John Heppner, president of the National Pigeon Association. ... unlike dippy little English sparrows or robins, pigeons hide their nests. ... pigeons are parents non pareil. They lay only two eggs at a time, and spoil those babies shamefully. "The parents will feed the babies until they're totally feathered out ... time they leave the nest, they'll be about the same size as the adults. ... people eat squab ... that's when they take'em, - they're nice and plump. Squab, for the culinarily challenged, being baby pigeon. ... parents don't feed these butter-balls your typical bird baby-food. These birdlets get something called "pigeon milk," and the faint-of-stomach may not wish to explore this paragraph further. Both parents manufacture in their crop, or throat, a rich, fatty "milk" that looks, Heppner says, much like yellow cottage cheese. They ralph this delicacy up and expel it into the throats of their darlings... After eight or 10 days of this ambrosial diet, the parents begin mixing in solid food and water. "They'll eat heavily, then drink a lot of water to easily chuck up the grain," Heppner enthuses... And do the parents flinch at all this work, this cheese-making, this grain-chucking, this drinking-like-a-horse? Of course not. "If all's going along well with the first nest, they'll build another, right near by, and lay the next batch," Heppner says. "They'll take turns sitting on the next set, while the other feeds up the squabs." And they'll do that four to six times a season. So, not only are there baby pigeons, there are baby-pigeon assembly lines. And when the fledglings do finally leave the nest, Heppner says, their plumage and size are so similar to those of the flock they hang around with that only practiced pigeonophile would be able to pick out the babies. They [the babies] may be shy. "They're more timid," Heppner explains. "They won't be professional in going after the best food." So if you really want to see a baby pigeon, throw down a fried clam. That'll separate the men from the boys. Vocabulary - leaching, v. There's not much calcium in egg yolk, but by the time a baby bird exits the egg, there's a fair amount of calcium in its bones. Why ? The answer to the riddle lies in the eggshell, which thins by about 25 percent during incubation: Through a network of blood vessels, the embryo "leaches" calcium from the walls of the egg. Check out more of "The Skinny On ..." stories: Why Asparagus Makes Your Pee Stink Sewing Up Baseballs Strange Sneezing Situations The Evil Eye Why Ice Cubes Shrink in the Freezer Why Toilet Bowl Water Twirls Clockwise Why Teflon Sticks to the Pan Lunacy and the Full Moon Why Beans Give You Gas Copyright 1997 Discovery Communications, Inc.