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ANSWERS: (1) Sign Different; (2)Nose Bigger; (3) Spot Missing
From Back; (4) Tail Shorter; (5) Cloud Moved; (6) Hair Shorter;
(7) Eyelids Added
18 AUGUST 1, 2019 THE BANNER
“Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit
before a fall.”
Proverbs 16:18 (KJV)
Answer to puzzle
on page 3.
1. Round like a saucer, deep
like a cup, yet all the kings
horses cannot pull it up. What
is it?
2. How is seven different from
the rest of the numbers between
one and ten?
3. How many bricks does it
take to complete a 2,000
square foot building made
~Riddles~
entirely of brick?
4. I’m always somewhere between
the ground and the sky,
always far in the distance, always
moving further away if
one attempts to come closer.
What am I?
5. I have a tongue but cannot
talk. I have no legs but sometimes
walk. What am I?
~Answers~
1. A well
2. Seven has two syllables
and the other numbers only
have one syllable.
3. Only one, the last brick
completes the building.
4. The Horizon
5. A Shoe
From page 15.
Find at Least Seven Differences Between Cartoons!
40,000 Elephants Euthanized Before It Was
Determined That Herds Of Cows May Save The Planet
The world’s grasslands are essential
for holding soil in place, Looking at parks around the
I will carry that to my grave.”
storing water and carbon, and world, Savory saw the same desertification
happening every-
providing food. And yet, up to
one third of the Earth’s land where. That’s when he realized
surface is at risk of becoming that the key is to use animals to
desert (desertification), with mimic the behavior of ancient
potentially catastrophic consequences.
But figuring that out and keep it in natural balance.
herds that used to roam the land,
led to catastrophic consequences
for elephants. mals, cattle, sheep, and goats,
Just like old herds of wild ani-
In a TED talk, (TED Talks are move over the land, eating the
influential lectures/videos from grass, defecating, and pushing
expert speakers on education, down the vegetation, so it decays,
and can regrow. The tradi-
business, science, and technology)
the ecologist Allan Savory tional practice had been to leave
explains Holistic Management, it alone, so it would start to oxidize,
and then clear it by burn-
a land management technique
that he says can rescue grasslands.
grasses releases pollutants to the
ing it. Burning the decaying
For a long time, experts atmosphere, but also didn’t put
blamed desertification on overgrazing.
And in Africa, where soil.
essential microbes back into the
Savory was working on national
parks, he blamed el-
Management is reversing deser-
Savory claims that Holistic
ephants. So they started a reduction
of the elephant popu-
could play a big part in reductification
around the world, and
lation by selective slaughter, ing carbon in the atmosphere.
eventually killing 40,000 of the He estimates that regenerating
animals (this was back when half the world’s grasslands could
you could kill elephants with take us back to pre-industrial
impunity). But killing the elephants
didn’t work. “We shot This theory is controversial as
levels of CO2.
40,000 elephants to try to stop some say there is no science behind
it. It can’t be replicated 2yrs
the damage. And it got worse,
not better. Loving elephants as running. Some say that is the
I do, that was the saddest and point, it must be managed properly
like crop greatest blunder of my life, and
rotation.
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