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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (2595)	1/28/2001 4:48:38 PM
From: foundation	Respond to of 12231

Maurice, Are you familiar with Joe Firmage? thewordistruth.org If not, you may enjoy his work. ben

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (2595)	1/30/2001 12:01:11 AM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12231

Mq........reports from friends in India indicate the death toll will far exceed the 20,000 killed being reported The Red Cross is accepting donations...earmark them for 'Indian Earthquake Relief...' indianembassy.org here's a list of the history of 'recent quakes' Tim Chronology of India's major earthquakes (Source: Indian Seismological Department, New Delhi) June 16, 1819: Kutch peninsula in western state of Gujarat, 8.0 on Richter scale, 2,000 dead. June 12, 1897: Shillong plateau in the eastern state of Meghalaya, 8.7 on Richter scale, 1,542 dead. April 4, 1905: Kangra valley in northern state of Himachal Pradesh, 8.0 on Richter scale, more than 20,000 dead. January 15, 1934: Indo-Nepal border, 8.3 Richter scale, more than 10,000 dead. August 15, 1950: Northeastern state of Assam, 8.5 Richter scale, 532 dead. August 21, 1988: Indo-Nepal border, 6.5 Richter scale, about 1,000 killed. October 20, 1991: Himalayan foothills of northern Uttar Pradesh state, 6.6 on Richter scale, 768 killed. September 30, 1993: Western state of Maharashtra, 6.3 on Richter scale, 7,601 dead, 15,846 injured. May 22, 1997: Central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, 6 on Richter scale, 40 dead, 500 injured. March 29, 1999: Northern state of Uttar Pradesh, 6.8 on Richter scale, more than 1,000 dead. January 26, 2001: Western state of Gujarat, 6.9-7.9 on Richter Scale, over 20,000 dead (based on news reports).

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (2595)	2/1/2001 7:52:20 PM
From: A.J. Mullen	Respond to of 12231

Speaking of things up your alley, if only in a rough geographical sense: In less than twelve hours time, Club Med will be in view of the harbour-entrance in Wellington, which is the official waypoint specified by the event organisers as marking the entrance to the Cook Strait. “The mood on board must be terrific,” commented Gilles Chiorri, “The crew no longer have to tackle the Southern Ocean, it must be nice for them to see land and other boats.” And not just any land! Grant Dalton is coming home - albeit briefly - and you can bet there will be a fleet of private boats out in the waters off New Zealand’s capital city to see him come through. Behind the big blue cat, Loïck Peyron has recovered well, and having “slowed down a bit”, as Jean-Paul Roux described it, Innovation Explorer averaged 27.9 knots over the hour preceding the last position update. www.therace.org/asp/accueil.asp Club Med is the leader of the Race of the Millennium, a non-stop, no limits sailing race around the world. Wellington is roughly half-way. Grant Dalton is the skipper. Other crewmembers are also from NZ, but the crew as a whole is refreshingly international. Only one crew in the race is from a single nation - Poland.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (2595)	7/18/2001 2:23:28 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 12231

* Cyberspace * Mq, you said: ========================================================= < This is progress, but progress with a problem. For those who can cope, it's great. For those who can't, the digital divide is going to increase at a great rate. Eugenics is continuing with a vengeance [of course it's not called that, but it's continuing anyway]. The digital divide is much more than a matter of who has computers and who hasn't. It's a matter of who is able to operate happily in the modern world with the complexity of it all. This is the time of one of those leaps of punctuated equilibrium in evolutionary history, when a new species forms. Our close relationship with chimpanzees is going to suddenly change over the next 100 years. Talk about genies out of bottles. Eating fruit from the tree of knowledge - we are making utter pigs of ourselves.> ========================================================== Here's the evidence in a study on Internet use. vny.com and when that link dies, a copy in SI:http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=16091925 ========================================== <LOS ANGELES, July 17, (UPI) -- The much-discussed "digital divide" in Internet access is closing steadily. Yet a spectacularly detailed new source of data on what sites Web surfers visit suggests that a chasm remains between how the highly educated and the less educated use the Internet. This implies that the Internet will never provide a magical cure for economic inequality, and may in fact widen the gap. .... Putting all the information in the world at everybody's fingertips most benefits those who have a knack for digesting and efficiently making sense of information. From the comScore data, it appears that people with the brainpower and the self-discipline to make it through many years of schooling are using the Web to make money, while those who didn't like school are using it to enjoy themselves and stay in touch with pals. Those are by no means bad uses. Yet, as an economic tool, the Web most helps those who could already intellectually help themselves.<<> ==================================== Brains make use of opportunity. Internet = opportunity. Therefore while all will have a QUALCOMM wireless internet connection, it will help some more than others. Mqurice