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[Olyecology.livejournal.com] OLYecology weblog: Here's the situation: 1) Tasmania’s unique temperate rainforests have documented World Heritage value and contain the grand old-growth Eucalypts (the world tallest hardwood trees) and many unique & endangered species, such as the Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle 2) The logging company GUNNS clear-cuts an average of 20,000 hectares of these forests/per year (about 44 football fields/per day), then napalms the cleared area, and poisons hundreds of thousandS of the native (including endangered) species each year, and has been greatly accelerating these practices with the full and heavily subsidized support of the Tasmanian government and also with $150 million in federal government subsidies 3) This problem has become the largest environmental campaign issue in Australia, led by groups like the Australian Wilderness Society, and over 85% of the public favors full protection for the old-growth forests. 4) GUNNS has responded to the campaign by continuously suing the lead activists and environmental groups in the infamous “GUNNS 20” case, which has galvanized public attention, been rejected by the courts twice already, described by judges as “embarrassing”, and condemned by many civil liberty legal experts.

[Brothersjudd.com] BrothersJudd Blog: February 2006 Archives: Meanwhile, the Scriptures were translated into tribal languages, and increasingly in the later part of the century, missionaries embraced a movement of "contextualization": adapting Christianity to local traditions so that, say, a ritual dance telling a story of victory in battle might be altered and included in Christian worship as a celebration of Christ's victory over death - or so that, in the Mapleses' case, a church building might be replaced by the trees. These days, American missionaries tend to be keenly aware that, as Jonathan Bonk, executive director of the Overseas Ministries Study Center, told me, "God doesn't speak one language" and that Christian worship must take indigenous forms.

[Yabookscentral.com] James Wallace Bio at Young Adult Books Central: The protagonists are boys and girls ages 13 to 18. The villains are enemy agents and terrorists bent on inflicting destruction on America.

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