BBC News, Meghalaya

In the US it's known as bigfoot, in Canada as sasquatch, in Brazil as
mapinguary, in Australia as a yowie, in Indonesia as sajarang gigi and,
most famously of all, in Nepal as a yeti.

The little known Indian version of this legendary ape-like creature is
called mande barung - or forest man - and is reputed to live in the remote
West Garo hills of the north-eastern state of Meghalaya.

I was invited by passionate yeti believer Dipu Marak to travel throughout
the area to hear for myself what he says is compelling evidence of the
existence of a black and grey ape-like animal which stands about 3m
(nearly 10ft) tall.

There have been repeated reports of sightings over many years by different
witnesses in the West, South and East Garo hills.

Mr Marak estimates the creature weighs about 300kg (660lb) and is
herbivorous, surviving on fruit, roots and tree bark.

The Garo hills comprise more than 8,000sq.km of some of the thickest
jungle in India.

And as I soon discovered, there is no shortage of people who say they have
seen the creature at first hand.

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The conference ICEEA'08 is held under the World Congress on
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Lander Finds Ice on Mars, Scientists Say
Discovery Is Key Clue In Determining Whether Planet Supported Life

By David Brown
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, June 21, 2008; Page A01

Scientists with the Phoenix Mars mission yesterday declared for certain
that there is ice on the Red Planet, putting them an essential step closer
to answering the question that has driven three decades of Mars
exploration and centuries of Earth-bound speculation: Could there have
been life there?

Pictures beamed 170 million miles to Earth from the Phoenix lander atop
Mars's northern polar plain erased any doubt about the presence of ice,
they said.

But the evidence came in a roundabout way. Last Sunday, several dice-size
solids were observed at the bottom of a trench that had been dug by
Phoenix's robotic arm. On Thursday, they were gone.

WHAT
1. OSTP: URGENT RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE NEXT PRESIDENT.
On Monday, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars held a
media briefing to release a report, "OSTP 2.0, Critical Upgrade." Drawing
on the advice of former Presidential Science Advisors, the report calls on
the next President to:
1) Name a Cabinet-level Assistant for Science and Technology Policy early,
2) Integrate OSTP with other policymaking bodies in the White House, and
3) Establish mechanisms to obtain expert advice in a timely manner.
Above all, the Science Advisor must have easy access to the President.
Written by some of the smartest science-policy experts in Washington, the
report refrains from bashing the current OSTP. Whatsuch restraint.

2. SHELL GAME: PRESIDENTIAL POWER AND THE HYDROGEN HOAX.
In his 2003 State-of-the-Union Address, President Bush promised to free us
from dependence on oil from the Middle-East and clean up our environment...

Call for Papers Reminder: International Conference on Circuits and
Systems ICCS 2008
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San Francisco, USA, 22-24 October, 2008
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The conference ICCS'08 is held under the World Congress on Engineering
and Computer Science 2008. The WCECS 2008 is organized by the
International Association of Engineers (IAENG), a non-profit
international association for the engineers and the computer
scientists. The conference has the focus on the frontier topics in the
theoretical and applied engineering and computer science subjects. Our
last IAENG conference has attracted more than one thousand
participants from over 50 countries, and our IAENG conference
committees have been formed with over two hundred committee members
who are mainly research center heads, faculty deans, department heads,
professors, and research scientists from universities like Harvard,
MIT, Stanford, UCLA, UC Berkeley and Yale etc.

All submitted papers will be under peer review and accepted papers
will be published in the conference proceeding (ISBN:
978-988-98671-0-2). The abstracts will be indexed and available at
major academic...

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Probably.
On Wed 18/06/08 21:37 , "Karen Daskawicz" daskawicz@gmail.com sent:
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 9:18 PM, wrote:

Um, because you look .... dead?
-Karen Daskawicz
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Um, because you look .... dead?

-Karen Daskawicz

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I'm constantly mistaken for Jerry Garcia (and I'm a better guitarist)
but I don't look anywhere near that bad. No, that soap image looks
much more like 'Pigpen' Ron McKernan.
On Wed 18/06/08 18:03 , "Karen Daskawicz" daskawicz@gmail.com sent:
Look at picture #5 of 7. At least it isn't Jesus or the Virgin Mary
this time.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/18/offbeat.irpt/index.html

Links:

I have ocomplained on this list about this very thing, and I even
mentioned cvs as one of the worst perpetrators. The idea of a family
with restricted finances soeding money for this useless crap to treat a
child's earache makes me mightily furious.

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:55 PM, Roger Smith wrote:

It's even better! Jerry Garcia! He's dead but he's grateful.

Regards,

Joe Needham

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Karen Daskawicz wrote: