Memorial Day
weekend is a perfect excuse to drive to the lake and have
some fun, Three cheerleaders stopped at a gas station to
inflate their air mattresses, then continued happily on
their way to the lake, unaware that they had filled the
inflatable with oxyacetylene gas instead of air.
One of the
cheerleaders lit a cigarette, and the rest is history.
A
cheerleading coach described the tree sixteen-year-olds
as the best and brightest kids in school. The girls
recovered from severe burns in intensive care.
Snowball’s Chance in Hell
Two I-95
toll collectors were involved in a friendly snowball
fight when one reached out to scoop some snow from a
passing tractor-trailer rig. Manning a tollbooth is not
the most interesting job, so it’s only natural that
collectors would engage in some freestyle entertainment.
But scooping snow from a moving vehicle is not the safest
of sports. The toll collector’s hand caught in the
rig, and he was pulled from his booth and dragged to his
death.
Enraged Elephant
Yet another
safari tourist met with an early demise when she left the
safety of the tour bus, in the face of numerous explicit
warnings, in order to frame a better picture. The woman,
a volunteer with thepeace Corps, and her camera
were fatally trampled by an enraged elephant in Ruaha
National park. Let her fate remind you to “keep your
arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times.”
Sloth Sleepfalling
On a warm
summer night in the Netherlands, an Italian resident who
had picked up the habit of sleeping in the open air
during sweltering Mediterranean summer nights decided to
bed down on the roof. He climbed to the top of his
apartment and arranged a comfortable bed, but paid little
heed to the slope of the roof. Perhaps the night would
have ended more happily if he had tucked himself in
securely. Instead he fell asleep on top of his blanket,
rolled down the incline, and plunged to his death.
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BOOK REVIEWS
New
Buffalo by Arthur Kopecky
In
New Buffalo. Journals from a Taos Commune ($24.95
hardcover, University of New Mexico Press), Arthur
Kopecky presents the freedoms and obligations and the
cooperation and generosity that fuelled the experience of
living at one of the most successful collective farms of
the 1970s. By the time Kopecky arrived at New Buffalo in
the summer of 1971, the commune had endured three
distinct phases: utopian experiment of selfsufficiency,
an open community embracing all, and a decadent phase.
His arrival in Taos coincided with New Buffalo reclaiming
its original aim of becoming a sustainable community of
like-minded idealists. The journals give a clear look at
the practical side of New Buffalo economics, where
residents were successful dairy farmers and artists; the
civic side, where New Buffaloans were active in politics
and the goings-on of the surrounding community; and the
spiritual side, where an appreciation of local Native
American cultures influenced worship and ritual.
Despite
the turbulence of Vietnam, Kopecky views the era in which
New Buffalo thrived as a time of freedom and learning.
More than thirty years later, in a
much different world, does Kbopecky still possess the
same ideals he did while at New Buffalo? Are those ideals
still viable? UNM Press asutton@unm.edu
Church of Sky by Shantala
The
core of ShantaLa is the husband-and-wife team of Heather
and Benjy Wertheimer, with guests including noted guitar
virtuoso Michael Mandrell and balalaika/guitarist Tim
Ellis, harp/zitherist David Michael, viola/violinist
Julian Smedley violinist Wah!, backing singer Tina Malia,
and others.
Soul-stirring
singer/songwriter Heather Wertheimer is a guitarist, yoga
teacher and therapist whose beautiful vocals, unique
perspectives and unusual depth reflect a wide array of
human experiences. Heather was a featured vocalist in the
musical Return to Avalon, and has performed
throughout the Northwest with the groups HeartStrings and
Lonesome Taxi.
For
more information visit Ancient Future.com Records or
www.shantala music.com. Compact Disc number: AF-3003.
As A Man Thinketh by James Allen
As A
Man Thinketh is written by James Allen author of Byways
of Blessedness, The Life Truimphant, and many more. As
A Man Thinketh content include the following: Thought
and Character, Effect of Thought on Circumstances, Effect
of Thought on Health and the Body, Thought and Purpose,
The Thought-Factor in Achievement, Visions and Ideals,
and Serenity.
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Excerpted
from “ISC sets up crisis centre to protect domain
name system”
by
Online Staff, October 21, 2003
The
Internet Software Consortium has set up a crisis
coordination centre to protect the net’s domain name
system. The Operations, Analysis, and Research Centre
includes an Incident Response System, a trusted
environment enabling major network operators to
coordinate responses to threats and attacks on the DNS.
The
ISC’s actions come in the wake of a massive attack
on the 13 root servers last October. Nine of the 13
servers that manage global Internet traffic were briefly
crippled during the attack.There have been other
serious failures as well.
The
OARC will collect and characterise traffic flows on key
nameservers in order to distinguish normal versus
abnormal operation, cooperate with leading internet
researchers to provide long-term analysis of the
performance, stability, and security of the global DNS,
test patches designed in response to DNS attacks to be
tested prior to deployment, and publish material on the
web to inform the public how they and their providers can
implement and use the DNS safely.
Inside
This Issue
About the Cover ...... 3
Book Reviews .............. 15
Breaking News ................ 8
Circular Reasoning 12
Dandelion medicine .. 5
Enraged Elephant 14
Equestrian Path to Healing
and Spiritual Growth .... 1
Gluttony Men Eating Chili 4
Humor Break .............. 13
ISC sets up crisis center to protect
domain name system ... 15
As A
Man Thinketh is written by James Allen author of Byways
of Blessedness, The Life Truimphant, and many more. As
A Man Thinketh content include the following: Thought
and Character, Effect of Thought on Circumstances, Effect
of Thought on Health and the Body, Thought and Purpose,
The Thought-Factor in Achievement, Visions and Ideals,
and Serenity. 
