[scifinoir2] An alternative to the Bush speech tonight
While I try to follow our leaders at all times, I simply haven't been able to force myself to watch any news conferences by the idiot in the White House. So, while channel surfing to find something good on TV, I came across a great two hour program on PBS. It's a documentary on the life of Galileo, done as an historical drama with actors portraying the scientist and others in his life. Astronomy nut that I am, I couldn't resist sitting down and watching the whole thing, reliving again the wonder that Galileo must have felt as his telescope literally revealed a whole new view of the cosmos. The moons of Jupiter, closer views of Mars, stars never before seen, the surface of the moon, sunspots. Amazing. And then of course comes the Inquisition, when the Church rebuts his theories of a Sun-centered system where the Earth, rather than being the center of the universe, moves around the sun. Galileo was ultimately forced to basically recant his theories or face life in prison as a heretic. As it was he spent the rest of his life in virtual house arrest, kept there by a Church afraid of Truth. So I end up watching a show about a man whose revelation of the Truth was quenched by close-minded moralistic unyielding fools who supressed the facts in order to keep alive a lie, advance their agenda, and keep power centralized in their own hands? Men who didn't hesitate to condemn and destroy some of the best and brighest people of their time? Hmmguess I could have watched Bush's speech after all. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/galileo/about.html In this two-hour special, NOVA celebrates the story of the father of modern science and his struggle to get Church authorities to accept the truth of his astonishing discoveries. The program is based on Dava Sobel's bestselling book, Galileo's Daughter, which reveals a new side to the famously stubborn scientist-that his closest confidante was his illegitimate daughter, Sister Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun. The actor Simon Callow plays Galileo in dramatic reenactments of key moments from his life: his pioneering telescopic observations of the Moon and planets, his revolutionary experiments with falling objects, and his fateful trial before the Inquisition for heresy. Born in 1564, Galileo lived a generation after Nicolas Copernicus published his controversial theory that the Earth was not the center of the universe around which the heavens revolved. Galileo supported the idea that the Earth turned on its axis and that it, along with the planets, revolved around the sun. The view was considered absurd by most scholars since it contradicted certain passages in the Bible and challenged the commonsense experience of the Earth as a solid, unmoving object. But Galileo found merit in the idea, especially after he aimed a newly invented instrument called the telescope at the night sky and saw that the Moon and planets were far from the perfect realms accepted by the Catholic Church. His discovery of moons orbiting Jupiter and phases in the appearance of Venus, analogous to the phases of the Moon, supported the Copernican view. The Church insisted that Galileo couch his speculations in hypothetical terms only. But he stepped over the line in 1632 when he published his Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, in which a simpleton mouths the views of the then-reigning pope, Urban VIII. This was too much for the Pope, and Galileo was hauled before the Inquisition, which had tortured and burned to death malefactors for far less. Galileo's clash with the Vatican put Sister Maria Celeste in an awkward position, but she continued to correspond and meet with her father and even served as his editor. Though his life was spared, Galileo was put under house arrest, and the Dialogue was banned. But it was a Pyrrhic victory for the Church. Galileo's arguments eventually won the war for the Copernican theory, making it intellectually respectable to believe that the Earth in fact moves, says Harvard professor Owen Gingerich. Previously an obscure branch of philosophy, science was now on the road to becoming the preeminent method for discovering how the world works-thanks to Galileo. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] B5's JMS talking Trek Again
Those In The Church Of JMS, Please Skip This Column
Author: Scott Nance
Date: 06-23-2005
Source: SyFy Portal
Seriously. If you've drunk of the J. Michael Straczynski ('Babylon 5' is
the word of God!) Kool-Aid, then just proceed to the next story, 'cause you
ain't gonna like this one too much.
It seems as if JMS is still trying to get his hooks into what's left of the
television Star Trek franchise, and it still feels like a hostile takeover.
From the very beginning of the launch of Babylon 5, Straczynski set an
adversarial attitude between his series and Trek. He was quoted saying,
We're gonna kick Star Trek's ass.
Despite that, I began watching B5. I love lots of scifi, and if B5 were
good, I'd watch regardless of JMS' obnoxious comments. I can say honestly
that I gave B5 a fair shake--actually multiple fair shakes, but more on that
in a moment.
While there have been many reasoned, rational B5 fans, there has also been a
faction which took Straczynski's us-vs.-them mindset too much to heart. Such
folks were prone to call Trek garbage and tell the rest of us that B5 was
the real scifi.
All the while, JMS himself did little or nothing visible to calm such
passions, which renders a bit suspect his stated desire to suddenly take the
helm of Trek for a reboot of the franchise, as he discussed recently at
the WizardWorld convention in Philadelphia.
It seems a bit too much like the old Vietnam mentality, We have to burn
this village in order to save it.
While I'm no fan of the previous Trek regime of Rick Berman and Brannon
Braga, JMS has proven himself no more able at understanding the things that
would make good Trek work. And Straczynski would indeed be burning what's
left of Trek in order to save it.
For instance, Straczynski has an awful propensity to hand his characters
ponderous, boring speeches to read.
Which is funny, because as a friend of mine recently pointed out, in the The
Complete Book of Scriptwriting, Straczynski says to avoid long, tedious
monologues. An unbroken speech that runs as a page or more can slow the
pace of your screenplay to a tortuous crawl, he said.
And yet, in episode after episode, that's just what he does.
Of course, Straczynski had very little budget to play around with, and
letting the actors you've already paid for run their mouths is very cheap.
And, recall how I mentioned earlier that I gave B5 more than one chance.
That's true. After being initially disappointed, I would periodically (every
six months or so) check back in with the series, hoping that somehow the
show would be better. Each time I was proven wrong.
And even those occasional viewings, I finally just gave up on. That's
because Straczynski wrote B5 with soap opera-like twists and turns such that
once you missed even a handful of episodes, a casual viewer would be utterly
lost in the story.
Which is another reason JMS must be kept away from Star Trek at all costs.
Writing a show so inaccessible to the casual viewer would be poison to a new
Trek series, in which the producers would have to rebuild a broad viewership
and be as inviting to new fans as possible.
Meanwhile, SyFyPortal's Wayne Hall reports that Brad Wright, who runs the
Stargate franchise, has said he wanted to work in Star Trek when he first
became a screenwriter.
Forget JMS. When it comes time to bring back Trek, that's the man Paramount
ought to call.
Author's Note: I want to acknowledge my friends of the USS Chesapeake for
their discussion of JMS online and in the club publication, which helped
form the basis of this column.
A former entertainment journalist, Scott Nance is a member of the USS
Chesapeake, an independent science-fiction and Star Trek club in the
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[scifinoir2] Remembrance of Things Future: The Mystery of Time
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wonderful article full of topics science fiction fans love! June 28, 2005 Remembrance of Things Future: The Mystery of Time By DENNIS OVERBYE There was a conference for time travelers at M.I.T. earlier this spring. I'm still hoping to attend, and although the odds are slim, they are apparently not zero despite the efforts and hopes of deterministically minded physicists who would like to eliminate the possibility of your creating a paradox by going back in time and killing your grandfather. No law of physics that we know of prohibits time travel, said Dr. J. Richard Gott, a Princeton astrophysicist. Dr. Gott, author of the 2001 book Time Travel in Einstein's Universe: The Physical Possibilities of Travel Through Time, is one of a small breed of physicists who spend part of their time (and their research grants) thinking about wormholes in space, warp drives and other cosmic constructions, that absurdly advanced civilizations might use to travel through time. It's not that physicists expect to be able to go back and attend Woodstock, drop by the Bern patent office to take Einstein to lunch, see the dinosaurs or investigate John F. Kennedy's assassination. In fact, they're pretty sure those are absurd dreams and are all bemused by the fact that they can't say why. They hope such extreme theorizing could reveal new features, gaps or perhaps paradoxes or contradictions in the foundations of Physics As We Know It and point the way to new ideas. Traversable wormholes are primarily useful as a 'gedanken experiment' to explore the limitations of general relativity, said Dr. Francisco Lobo of the University of Lisbon. If general relativity, Einstein's theory of gravity and space-time, allows for the ability to go back in time and kill your grandfather, asks Dr. David Z. Albert, a physicist and philosopher at Columbia University, how can it be a logically consistent theory? In his recent book The Universe in a Nutshell, Dr. Stephen W. Hawking wrote, Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible. When it comes to the nature of time, physicists are pretty much at as much of a loss as the rest of us who seem hopelessly swept along in its current. The mystery of time is connected with some of the thorniest questions in physics, as well as in philosophy, like why we remember the past but not the future, how causality works, why you can't stir cream out of your coffee or put perfume back in a bottle. But some theorists think that has to change. Just as Einstein needed to come up with a new concept of time in order to invent relativity 100 years ago this year, so physicists say that a new insight into time - or beyond it - may be required to crack profound problems like how the universe began, what happens at the center of black hole or how to marry relativity and quantum theory into a unified theory of nature. Space and time, some quantum gravity theorists say, are most likely a sort of illusion - or less sensationally, an approximation - doomed to be replaced by some more fundamental idea. If only they could think of what that idea is. By convention there is space, by convention time, Dr. David J. Gross, director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and a winner of last year's Nobel Prize, said recently, paraphrasing the Greek philosopher Democritus, in reality there is. ... ? his voice trailing off. The issues raised by time travel are connected to these questions, Dr. Lawrence Krauss, a physicist at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and author of the book The Physics of Star Trek, said. The minute you have time travel you have paradoxes, Dr. Krauss said, explaining that if you can go backward in time you confront fundamental issues like cause and effect or the meaning of your own identity if there can be two of you at once. A refined theory of time would have to explain how a sensible world could result from something so nonsensical. That's why time travel is philosophically important and has captivated the public, who care about these paradoxes, he said. At stake, said Dr. Albert, the philosopher and author of his own time book, Time and Chance, is what kind of view science presents us of the world. Physics gets time wrong, and time is the most familiar thing there is, Dr. Albert said. We all feel time passing in our bones, but ever since Galileo and Newton in the 17th century began using time as a coordinate to help chart the motion of cannonballs, time - for physicists - has simply been an addendum in the address of an event, Dr. Albert said. There is a feeling in philosophy, he said, that this picture leaves no room for locutions about flow and the passage of time we experience. Then there is what physicists call the arrow of time problem. The fundamental laws of physics don't care what direction time goes, he pointed out. Run a movie of
[scifinoir2] blood type FAQs 2 of 6
Should I combine Choosing Foods based on Blood Type with the Zone or any other food choice program? Some people report positive results following a combination of two plans, while others report negative outcomes. In summary, we can not answer that question. Does Rh (+/-) factor matter? At this time, few significant differences have been noted with regard to the Rh blood type and diet. One note, O- individuals often need slightly more protein, less grain, and more careful avoidance of avoids, especially potential mold carriers. I appear to be allergic/reactive to a highly beneficial food, what do I do? Don't eat it. In the event that your body has been altered by drugs, surgery or disease, you may have different tolerances for food. The best thing to do in this situation is avoid the allergic foods and the avoids for your blood type. Choose as many beneficial and neutral foods as possible. This sensitivity may change over time. How are foods determined to be in the beneficial category? The food does not agglutinate that blood type. The food does not raise the Urinary Indican (bowel toxicity) in that blood type. The food protects against some disease with a known preference for that blood type, and does not show any negative aspects. The immunological design of the digestive tract seems to indicate a distinct ability to metabolize the food well, perhaps as a result of anthropology or other variations. The food contains an enzyme known to react positively with the antigen of that blood type. The food does not stimulate an opposing blood group antibody reaction. How are foods determined to be in the avoid category? The food has a lectin or other property that reacts adversely with the blood type. Relative acid/alkaline balance as required to digest the food is not compatible. High probability of parasite/mold populations. Causes a rise in urine Indican levels (indicating bowel toxicity). An Avoid herb or supplement is recommended (by another source) for my (diagnosed) medical condition. This will require some discernment on your part. An herb is generally considered an avoid for a blood type due to particular negative metabolic reactions that may be induced by the herb or indirectly induced as a side effect. If possible, attempt to locate a similarly functioning herb with similar benefits. Generally, a supplement is considered an avoid because it is bountiful in a well rounded, fresh food based diet for your blood type. Additional supplementation could be considered toxic. However, if you have a diagnosed deficiency of the substance, or a medical condition shown to benefit by supplementation, then the supplement may be taken. It is always wise to consult a nutritionally knowledgeable person who can monitor your health in this situation. What is Ezekiel Bread? Ezekiel, Essene and Manna breads are made from 100% sprouted grains, as opposed to all other commercially available sprouted grain breads which also have regular flour included in the recipe. The lectins in many grains are contained in the seed coat. The seed coat is actually metabolized by the seed/grain when it is germinated, thereby eliminating the lectin and rendering the food useable. New brand names of sprouted grain bread are continually coming to market. Always check the ingredient label for the presense of unsprouted flour or grain. What is Ghee? Also called clarified butter, it sounds deadly to the arteries, but actually has a rather positive effect on the cholesterol and HDL's (good cholesterol). In the intestines (B and AB's especially), ghee is converted to butyrate, a short chain fatty acid which both regulates the intestinal flora and promotes the health of the colon tissue. Ghee can be made at home, or bought in health food shops or Indian gourmet stores. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Blood type diet, FAQs, page 1 of 6
Ediets.com/bloodtype has a great link to Frequently Asked Questions for the Blood Type Diet. I'll send 6 different emails, 1 page in each, so you dont' get overwhelmed. This is great information whether you buy into this type if diet or not. Dr. Dadamo has done extensive research, and changing to his diet has helped me lots! If you don't know your blood type (O, A, AB, B), there are a few ways to find out. If you've donated blood, or been in the military, or have had blood work done, you can find out. For your own sake, and your family's sakes, you need to know your entire family's blood types. You'll see why as you read this information... Reece Jennings Where does blood type come from? Blood is universal, but it is also unique. Like the color of your eyes or hair, it is determined by two sets of genes inherited from your mother and father. Like genes, some blood types are dominant over others. My husband and I have different blood types. I don't want to prepare separate meals. How do we eat together? Many of the foods are common among the different blood types, so you'll find that you can usually share about 2/3 of the meal, with the main difference being the protein source. With more than 200 foods listed for each blood type, it should be easy to find ones you can both enjoy. What does neutral mean? Are these foods good for me? The three food categories identify the foods that are most to least beneficial to your blood type. The highly beneficial foods act as a medicine the foods to avoid act as a poison. The neutral foods simply act as foods. While neutral foods may not possess the special health benefits of beneficial foods, they're still good for you in the sense that they provide nutrients that your body needs. How do I get started? There are two methods of getting started. For the 'Cold Turkey' method, throw out or give away avoid foods and replace them immediately with neutral/beneficial foods. The other choice is to eat your stocked avoids and phase them out by replacing with neutral/beneficial foods. How long will it take to see results? That depends on where you are starting from. Some people begin to feel better and show signs of disease remission within two weeks. Usually, it takes about two months, and in some cases, it can be as long as six months for notable results to occur. Weight loss can start in as little as two weeks or as long as two to six months, depending upon your current glandular state of health. What is compliance? If you are recovering from an illness or desire weight loss, then 80%-100% of your food choices should be highly beneficial. If you are a healthy individual over the age of 55, 80% of foods should be beneficial. If you are under 55 and healthy, 70% or more of your food choices should beneficial. The remainder of your food choices should be neutral. Avoids should not be eaten. I take medication for an illness, can I stop taking it? NO! Many medications are addictive and/or have delayed effects. Do not stop without consulting the prescribing physician or other knowledgeable practitioner. How long will I have to be on this diet? Choosing foods this way represents a lifelong commitment. It is always up to you to decide what foods you eat. Some people report having adverse reactions to avoid foods after choosing beneficial neutrals for a six month period. Others report that they have a greater tolerance for previously distressing foods. Only time will tell how you will react. Why is the status of a whole food one value, and an extract or preparation of the food rated the opposite? The lectin content or antigenic propensity (allergy potential) of certain foods is modified by processing. In some cases the unhealthier form (i.e processed bread) may be acceptable if heat or milling has removed the lectin from the food. Other times processing enhances the effect of a lectin, so the native form is acceptable, but the processed form is not. Can a person's blood type change? Only in very rare circumstances and with certain forms of cancer present. The most common cause of seemingly changed blood types is the antigen sensitivity of the chemicals used to test the blood. Drugs or other factors about your blood may cause an erroneous readings. Operator error or poor lighting can result in an incorrect interpretation of the test results. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] blood type 4 of 6
Is aflatoxin a problem in peanuts?
Peanut and peanut butters are required to be inspected specifically for
aflatoxin. It is no longer believed to be a concern in commercial
preparations. It may be a problem if small private growers sell moldy nuts
direct to small buyers, like health food stores, for sale as is or as peanut
butter.
I've been reading about the potential dangers of soy, what's the story?
Soy is a good food if you are type A. By this it is meant that soy will not
make you FEEL good if you are type A. Some of the good things soy is doing
may, in fact, make you feel not so great after you eat it, but it is good
for you nonetheless. Here it is the effect of soy lectin on the blood and
immune system. These uncomfortable reactions are usually temporary. Making
sense of the recent controversial articles about soy, phytates, aromatase
and minerals:
Phytates are in soy.
Humans secrete phytase (and occasionally consume it), which is an enzyme
responsible for the breakdown of phytic acid. Some animals, namely rats,
have close to none of this enzyme. This means that in humans it won't bind
the minerals no where near as much as rats. Phytates are converted to
inositol, and phosphate in the human body which has other beneficial effects
Most tests are done on rats [and are not applicable to humans]. Phytic
acid protects against the two biggest cancer killers in men and women,
namely breast, and prostatic cancer.
The relatively low methionine levels in some phytochemicals such as soy,
limit the synthesis of polyamines necessary for tumor growth. Methionine is
problematic for type A's in other areas as well: it is linked to elevated
levels of homocysteine, a significant risk factor for artery disease.
Genistein and daidzein, the major phytoestrogens in soy are themselves
aromatase inhibitors. This is true of many isoflavones. Aromatase is an
enzyme which converts androgens to estrogens. Aromatase is located in
estrogen-producing cells including ovaries, placenta, testicular Sertoli and
Leydig cells, adipose, and brain tissues. Aromatase inhibitors are
increasingly the drug of choice for managing metastatic breast cancers which
have retained estrogen sensitivity.
High levels of the enzyme aromatase stimulate estrogen sensitive cancers.
The isoflavones (phytoestrogens) in soy inhibit aromatase. Another potential
problem with soy is that of genetic manipulation. An ever increasing amount
of soy planted in the United States has been genetically altered.
In addition, many commercial varieties of soy have been manipulated to
increase the fat and protein content of the bean. The long term results of
these manipulations are unknown, and wait to be seen. In general, organic
soy has not been altered or manipulated, and products made from organic soy
should be the soy of choice.
Should I avoid genetically engineered (GE) food?
Yes! Genetic engineering moves lectin molecules from one species to another.
Since lectins are the molecules that interact with our blood types, an OK
food can easily become an avoid. Currently, the only way to safely avoid 'GE
foods is to choose organic.
Based on the information I've read in ER4YT red meat should be consumed 3-4
times per week by type O's. I'm concerned with Mad Cow Disease.
Buckle your seat belts, because the risk of dying in an auto accident is
about 10,000 times greater than getting nvCJD ('Mad Cow') by even eating
meat in England.
From the CDC website:
The current risk of acquiring nvCJD from eating beef (muscle meat) and beef
products produced from cattle in Europe cannot be precisely determined, and
this risk in specific countries might not reflect the fact that cattle
products from one country might be distributed and consumed in others.
Nevertheless, in the United Kingdom, this current risk appears to be
extremely small, perhaps about 1 case per 10 billion servings.
In the other countries of Europe, this current risk, if it exists at all,
would not likely be any higher than that in the United Kingdom, except
possibly in Portugal. In the 12-month period ending June 15, 2000, Portugal
had about half the reported incidence of BSE cases per 1 million adult
cattle as that reported in the United Kingdom; however, Portugal has less
experience with implementing BSE-related public health control measures.
Risk? Yes. High Risk? Probably not, and considerably lower in any country
except the UK and Portugal, where because of stringent herd control measures it
is quit elow already.
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[scifinoir2] blood type 5 of 6
As far as fat content, well if you do read my books you'll know to buy low fat, hormone-free, pesticide free organic meat where the fat content approximates that of skinned poultry. Everything else is verboten. Are you an advocate of food combining? I am aware that many practitioners use food combining as part of their dietary recommendations. I do not, simply because the blood type diets do specifically what food combining attempts to do non-specifically. Proponents of food combining claim that correct food combinations are important for proper digestion, utilization, and assimilation of the nutrients our body needs to sustain life. Different foods require different digestive enzymes to aid in the digestive process - some acid, some alkaline When acid and alkaline foods come in contact, they neutralize each other and retard digestion. If the food we eat is not properly digested, it will pass through the intestinal tract without being completely broken down, getting stuck between the crevices located in the intestinal track - thereby causing the toxic wastes to ferment and putrefy. Critics claim that there's no evidence to support such contentions. Nearly all foods are themselves combinations. If you eat beans, for example, you're getting carbohydrates (sugars and starches), protein and fiber, among other things. Bread combines protein, carbohydrates, a little fat and many other things. A simple dish like macaroni and cheese, a peanut butter sandwich, or oatmeal with milk contains sugars, starches, protein and fat. Our digestive system handles food combinations very efficiently. The process begins in the mouth as we chew food and saliva acts upon it, beginning the breakdown of starches into sugars. Other enzymes come into play along the line, resulting in almost complete digestion and absorption of nutrients, no matter how they are combined. One of my friends sees a naturopathic doctor who claims that naturopathic philosophy is based exclusively on vegetarian-based diets. This association is so ingrained in the belief systems of some individuals that to even suggest appropriate consumption of animal products might actually enhance some individuals health places me somewhere between 'public enemy number I' and the devil in the eyes of several of my critics. I have even had some individuals within my own profession suggest that I had abandoned the core of naturopathic medicine by advocating good quality meat for individuals of certain blood types. Often a good question to ask is, 'what does the evidence show?' Naturopathic medicine developed from the water cure movement of Europe. Theodor Hahn is credited as being the first of the pioneers of this water cure movement to integrate vegetarian dietetic principles. He was convinced that a meat-free diet would prolong life. In fact he was so convinced of the value of a vegetarian diet that he spent a great deal of his professional life writing books and pamphlets on the subject and was the editor of a magazine called The Vegetarian'. He died of colon cancer at the age of 59. How can it be that wheat isn't good for anyone? Hasn't it been a staple in man's diet for thousands of years? Wheat as we know it in the millennia of this era is not the same as it was at the very beginning. The genetics of wheat show that its development is very complex. Today's grain has developed from three naturally occurring groups of wheat. Through natural crossings, mutations, and natural selection these have evolved into all the many varieties of wheat grown worldwide. In essence, the 'hard wheat' that we eat nowadays has a protein content as high as 13%, versus the more ancient wheats which had a protein content of, at most, about 2%. Increasing the protein content has had the effect of making wheat a viable source of protein for many people around the world, but has also increased the allergenic (gliandin, gluten and lectin containing), pro-inflammatory and metabolic-blocking portions of the plant almost seven-fold. Aside from the under-investigated metabolic effects of wheat lectin, classic hypersensitivity to wheat is found in many infants and adults. Reactions are often localised in the GI tract. In a study of asthmatic patients, 46% (children) and 34% (adults) were found to have IgE to wheat as tested by Pharmacia Upjohn, Diagnostics CAP System. In another study, specificity for wheat allergen using the same system was 98%. Wheat allergy was found to cause a persistent food hypersensitivity in atopic dermatitis patients (75% remained intolerant). In 102 grass-pollen allergic children, 12% were found to be allergic to wheat. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] FW: cruise bids farewell to earth - Satire
-Original Message- From: Borowitzreport.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 1:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: cruise farewell shocker June 28, 2005 TOM CRUISE BIDS FAREWELL TO EARTH Returns to Planet of Origin on Eve of Film's Debut Actor Tom Cruise stunned the worlds of cinema and space travel today, bidding Earth farewell forever as he returned to his planet of origin. At a launch pad on the outskirts of Malibu constructed specifically for his intergalactic journey, Mr. Cruise spoke briefly to friends, well-wishers, and Larry King, who was covering the launch for CNN. Farewell, earthlings, Mr. Cruise told the crowd. My work here is done. The actor then engaged in a twenty-minute kiss with his fiancée, Katie Holmes, whom he said he would send for later. Boarding the spaceship, Mr. Cruise delighted the crowd with the thumbs-up gesture he immortalized in the film Top Gun, then told them, I feel the need. for speed, before disappearing into the stratosphere. While many had expected Mr. Cruise to return to his own planet at some point, the timing of his departure took many by surprise, coming as it did on the eve of the debut of his summer blockbuster, War of the Worlds. Executives at Paramount Pictures, who produced the film, expressed concern that Mr. Cruise's departure from the solar system would limit his availability to appear on the late-night talk shows. But according to Buddy Schlantz, a veteran talent agent and observer of the Hollywood scene, Mr. Cruise's decision to return to his planet before the film's opening may be a masterstroke: If Tom Cruise wanted to do something to make himself more popular, leaving Earth forever was a great place to start. Elsewhere, in a deeply divided decision, the United States Supreme Court allowed the Texas State Capitol to display The Five Commandments. To unsubscribe to this e-mail list please paste the following URL: http://www.borowitzreport.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] antage.com into your browser address bar or forward this message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. www.Borowitzreport.com Waste Someone's Time: Forward to a Friend: http://www.borowitzreport.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] advantage.comrec=1163 SUBSCRIBE TODAY! Free Email Updates, click the link below or paste it into your browser. http://www.borowitzreport.com/subscribe.asp -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.6/33 - Release Date: 6/28/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.6/33 - Release Date: 6/28/2005 Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [scifinoir2] FW: cruise bids farewell to earth - Satire
--- Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If Tom Cruise wanted to do something to make himself more popular, leaving Earth forever was a great place to start. I think I definitely hurt myself when I fell out of the chair laughing at that. Thanks Tracey __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] U.S. Box Office Hits Longest Modern Slump
http://tinyurl.com/7elhp U.S. Box Office Hits Longest Modern Slump By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer2 hours, 14 minutes ago Batman Begins took in $26.8 million to remain the top movie for the second straight weekend, but it could not keep Hollywood from sinking to its longest modern box-office slump. Overall business tumbled despite a rush of familiar new titles Bewitched, a Love Bug update and the latest zombie tale from director George Romero. Revenues for the top 12 movies came in at $116.5 million, down 16 percent from the same weekend last year, when Fahrenheit 9/11 opened as the top movie with $23.9 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. It was the 18th weekend in a row the box office declined, passing a 1985 slump of 17 weekends that had been the longest since analysts began keeping detailed figures on movie grosses. Batman lifted its 12-day total to $121.7 million. Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell's sit-com update Bewitched debuted in second place with $20.2 million. Audiences were lukewarm toward the weekend's other major premieres. Herbie: Fully Loaded, with Lindsay Lohan behind the wheel of the speedy VW Love Bug, was No. 4 with $12.75 million, raising its total since debuting Wednesday to $17.8 million. George Romero's Land of the Dead, the fourth installment of the flesh-munching zombie saga from the director of Night of the Living Dead, debuted at No. 5 with $10.2 million. In narrower release, the documentary Rize, about the south-central Los Angeles dance form known as krumping, opened at No. 12 with $1.6 million. In limited release, the nature documentary March of the Penguins had a strong debut of $121,788 in four theaters. Yes, starring Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian and Sam Neill in a drama about an affair between an Irish-American married woman and a Lebanese man, opened with $29,437 in seven cinemas. Theater revenues have skidded about 7 percent compared to last year. Factoring in higher ticket prices, movie admissions are off 10 percent for the year, according to box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations. If the slump continues, Hollywood is on course for a third straight year of declining admissions and its lowest ticket sales since the mid-1990s. We're working with a pretty huge deficit that would take a lot of business to overcome, said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations. Just breaking the slump is not enough. We would have to reverse the trend and see attendance on a big uptick. Even with a big Fourth of July weekend expected from Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise's War of the Worlds, which opens Wednesday, Hollywood still may not snap its losing streak. Over the same weekend last year, Spider-Man 2 pulled in $180 million in its first six days, leading the industry to a record Fourth of July. Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at North American theaters, according to Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc. Final figures will be released Monday. 1. Batman Begins, $26.8 million. 2. Bewitched, $20.2 million. 3. Mr. and Mrs. Smith, $16.75 million. 4. Herbie: Fully Loaded, $12.75 million. 5. George Romero's Land of the Dead, $10.2 million. 6. Madagascar, $7.3 million. 7. Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith, $6.25 million. 8. The Longest Yard, $5.5 million. 9. The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D, $3.4 million. 10. Cinderella Man, $3.3 million. Tracey deMorsella, Managing Producer Convergence Media, Inc. Home of The Multicultural Advantage Phone: 215-849-0946 E-mail: tdemorsella @multiculturaladvantage.com http://www.multiculturaladvantage.com -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.2/29 - Release Date: 6/27/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.6/33 - Release Date: 6/28/2005 Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [scifinoir2] Blood type diet, FAQs, page 1 of 6
Have you tried it. I did briefly. I am not sure I buy it. Anyone else try it? What do you think? Tracey -Original Message- From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of M C Jennings Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 5:09 AM To: 10 -7; 40sRus; BBO Lost Children; scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Blood type diet, FAQs, page 1 of 6 Ediets.com/bloodtype has a great link to Frequently Asked Questions for the Blood Type Diet. I'll send 6 different emails, 1 page in each, so you dont' get overwhelmed. This is great information whether you buy into this type if diet or not. Dr. Dadamo has done extensive research, and changing to his diet has helped me lots! If you don't know your blood type (O, A, AB, B), there are a few ways to find out. If you've donated blood, or been in the military, or have had blood work done, you can find out. For your own sake, and your family's sakes, you need to know your entire family's blood types. You'll see why as you read this information... Reece Jennings Where does blood type come from? Blood is universal, but it is also unique. Like the color of your eyes or hair, it is determined by two sets of genes inherited from your mother and father. Like genes, some blood types are dominant over others. My husband and I have different blood types. I don't want to prepare separate meals. How do we eat together? Many of the foods are common among the different blood types, so you'll find that you can usually share about 2/3 of the meal, with the main difference being the protein source. With more than 200 foods listed for each blood type, it should be easy to find ones you can both enjoy. What does neutral mean? Are these foods good for me? The three food categories identify the foods that are most to least beneficial to your blood type. The highly beneficial foods act as a medicine the foods to avoid act as a poison. The neutral foods simply act as foods. While neutral foods may not possess the special health benefits of beneficial foods, they're still good for you in the sense that they provide nutrients that your body needs. How do I get started? There are two methods of getting started. For the 'Cold Turkey' method, throw out or give away avoid foods and replace them immediately with neutral/beneficial foods. The other choice is to eat your stocked avoids and phase them out by replacing with neutral/beneficial foods. How long will it take to see results? That depends on where you are starting from. Some people begin to feel better and show signs of disease remission within two weeks. Usually, it takes about two months, and in some cases, it can be as long as six months for notable results to occur. Weight loss can start in as little as two weeks or as long as two to six months, depending upon your current glandular state of health. What is compliance? If you are recovering from an illness or desire weight loss, then 80%-100% of your food choices should be highly beneficial. If you are a healthy individual over the age of 55, 80% of foods should be beneficial. If you are under 55 and healthy, 70% or more of your food choices should beneficial. The remainder of your food choices should be neutral. Avoids should not be eaten. I take medication for an illness, can I stop taking it? NO! Many medications are addictive and/or have delayed effects. Do not stop without consulting the prescribing physician or other knowledgeable practitioner. How long will I have to be on this diet? Choosing foods this way represents a lifelong commitment. It is always up to you to decide what foods you eat. Some people report having adverse reactions to avoid foods after choosing beneficial neutrals for a six month period. Others report that they have a greater tolerance for previously distressing foods. Only time will tell how you will react. Why is the status of a whole food one value, and an extract or preparation of the food rated the opposite? The lectin content or antigenic propensity (allergy potential) of certain foods is modified by processing. In some cases the unhealthier form (i.e processed bread) may be acceptable if heat or milling has removed the lectin from the food. Other times processing enhances the effect of a lectin, so the native form is acceptable, but the processed form is not. Can a person's blood type change? Only in very rare circumstances and with certain forms of cancer present. The most common cause of seemingly changed blood types is the antigen sensitivity of the chemicals used to test the blood. Drugs or other factors about your blood may cause an erroneous readings. Operator error or poor lighting can result in an incorrect interpretation of the test results. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.6/33 - Release Date: 6/28/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing
[scifinoir2] Fw: Prepare for Deep Impact
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cool! NASA Science News for June 28, 2005 On the 4th of July, a NASA spacecraft will blast a hole in Comet Tempel 1. FULL STORY at http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/28jun_deepimpact.htm?list86684 Check out our RSS feed at http://science.nasa.gov/rss.xml! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: War of the Worlds-Has Cruise's Meltdown Affected Whether You Will Go See It
Actually, there are many other meds they use to treat ADD...It depends to what degree it affects you and, in some cases, your age...Sometimes it can be something as simple as a change of diet and the patience of the parents in the case of children... Carole McDonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:As the daughter of folks in the medical profession, I get extremely worried when the world gives ONE answer to any problem. So now that world has convinced us that the ONE answer to ADD is ritalin, we feel we can rest and not look for any other cures. Kinda like the laxatives help constipation, or the pain-killer helps headaches, or the midol helps cramps fix-alls. It just gets me worried, that's all. There are so many environmental, dietary, nutritional reasons for problems and when the people of a country are told that the ONLY way to fix something is to use this ONE remedy, I'm sorry but I get nervous. Do you know which company sends all those videos to schools about ADD? Ciba-Geigy? Yep, the makers of ritalin. Ritalin helps quite a few kids but a drug given primarily (not solely, but primarily) to make a kid do well at school --a drug with some kooky side effects and which statistics show most doctors don't give their own ADD kids...a drug which fights all competitorswell, call me cynical but I'm not gonna take it. I don't trust actors to tell me what not to give to my kids. But at the same time, I don't much trust the AMA either. My doctor friends don't even trust the AMA. Remember that the drug companies have to pay the FDA to fund tests on their drugs. That means the FDA gets a lot of money from drug companies. Remember that 100, 000 people a year die from bad drug interaction. (only 10,000 for herbs and vitamins administered by folks treating themselves) Remember that the third largest cause of death in America is related to prescription drugs. Remember that the government doesn't do drug tests on kids so the percentage of a drug recommended for children is figured from adult dosages. So we can never be sure what a drug is doing to a kid. At the risk of sounding like Tom Cruise, I'll stop my medicine comment. -C --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Bosco Bosco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have followed this discussion a little bit and the Tom Cruise chemicals are bad freakout a little bit and I have to wonder a couple of things. First, Where did Tom Cruise get his medical degree? Second, are there really people who make medical and health decisions on the basis of the opinion of an actor? Yep Im a giggling both at Tom Cruise and the bevy of reactionaries who are calling him dangerous. For the record, I used antidepressants because I had various seratonin issues related to other body chemistry issues. It worked great. I got better and now I dont need them anymore. Had I not had them, I probably would not be here today. I also had a roommate who had a kid who needed ritalin. Without it he was dysfunctional in the extreme. With it he could actually go to school and function with the normal kids. he was miserable without it and well happy with it. Yep, for the record Tom Cruise is a moron. Bosco --- Astromancer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I use ritalin and the stuff keeps me straight, so I guess I'm not qualified to comment... Carole McDonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Call me odd but Tom Cruise has always left me cold. It's not the scientology thing. After all John Travolta is a scientologist and I like him a lot. The man just doesn't seem to let his soul come through. I honestly don't know his personality. As for his crazy behavior-- at last I'm beginning to see something about him that interests me. Not the Oprah couch-jumping but the three (so far) times he told off media people in the past weeks. His anger over Matt Lauer's ritalin comment certainly surprised me. And since I don't trust ritalin either, it made me like Tom a bit. As for War of the Worlds, I would probably have seen it if Tom wasn't in it. There are a few people whose movies I never see: Tom Cruise and Robin Williams being two of them. Now if James Spader, Sam L Jackson were in it, then I might cross the theater threshhold. -C - YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group scifinoir2 on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. - __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL
[scifinoir2] An alternative to the Bush speech tonight
While I try to follow our leaders at all times, I simply haven't been able to force myself to watch any news conferences by the idiot in the White House. So, while channel surfing to find something good on TV, I came across a great two hour program on PBS. It's a documentary on the life of Galileo, done as an historical drama with actors portraying the scientist and others in his life. Astronomy nut that I am, I couldn't resist sitting down and watching the whole thing, reliving again the wonder that Galileo must have felt as his telescope literally revealed a whole new view of the cosmos. The moons of Jupiter, closer views of Mars, stars never before seen, the surface of the moon, sunspots. Amazing. And then of course comes the Inquisition, when the Church rebuts his theories of a Sun-centered system where the Earth, rather than being the center of the universe, moves around the sun. Galileo was ultimately forced to basically recant his theories or face life in prison as a heretic. As it was he spent the rest of his life in virtual house arrest, kept there by a Church afraid of Truth. So I end up watching a show about a man whose revelation of the Truth was quenched by close-minded moralistic unyielding fools who supressed the facts in order to keep alive a lie, advance their agenda, and keep power centralized in their own hands? Men who didn't hesitate to condemn and destroy some of the best and brighest people of their time? Hmmguess I could have watched Bush's speech after all. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/galileo/about.html In this two-hour special, NOVA celebrates the story of the father of modern science and his struggle to get Church authorities to accept the truth of his astonishing discoveries. The program is based on Dava Sobel's bestselling book, Galileo's Daughter, which reveals a new side to the famously stubborn scientist-that his closest confidante was his illegitimate daughter, Sister Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun. The actor Simon Callow plays Galileo in dramatic reenactments of key moments from his life: his pioneering telescopic observations of the Moon and planets, his revolutionary experiments with falling objects, and his fateful trial before the Inquisition for heresy. Born in 1564, Galileo lived a generation after Nicolas Copernicus published his controversial theory that the Earth was not the center of the universe around which the heavens revolved. Galileo supported the idea that the Earth turned on its axis and that it, along with the planets, revolved around the sun. The view was considered absurd by most scholars since it contradicted certain passages in the Bible and challenged the commonsense experience of the Earth as a solid, unmoving object. But Galileo found merit in the idea, especially after he aimed a newly invented instrument called the telescope at the night sky and saw that the Moon and planets were far from the perfect realms accepted by the Catholic Church. His discovery of moons orbiting Jupiter and phases in the appearance of Venus, analogous to the phases of the Moon, supported the Copernican view. The Church insisted that Galileo couch his speculations in hypothetical terms only. But he stepped over the line in 1632 when he published his Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, in which a simpleton mouths the views of the then-reigning pope, Urban VIII. This was too much for the Pope, and Galileo was hauled before the Inquisition, which had tortured and burned to death malefactors for far less. Galileo's clash with the Vatican put Sister Maria Celeste in an awkward position, but she continued to correspond and meet with her father and even served as his editor. Though his life was spared, Galileo was put under house arrest, and the Dialogue was banned. But it was a Pyrrhic victory for the Church. Galileo's arguments eventually won the war for the Copernican theory, making it intellectually respectable to believe that the Earth in fact moves, says Harvard professor Owen Gingerich. Previously an obscure branch of philosophy, science was now on the road to becoming the preeminent method for discovering how the world works-thanks to Galileo. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [scifinoir2] Catch the AE special on Star Wars
The big question: Are they going to air this show again, or are we SOL? Keith Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:There's been surprisingly little Star Wars talk in the group. I guess few of y'all are fans, and fewer still saw Revenge of the Sith. I don't consider myself a fan the way I am for Star Trek, but I still enjoy it. Fan or not, I think you'll like the AE special on the making of the first film: A New Hope. It's amazing to see how Lucas singlehandedly pulled this vision together when everyone else--actors, crew, financial backers--thought he was nuts. At one point Star Wars almost became a Saturday morning kids' project. A real testament to the power of persevering with your dreams. Fascinating to watch how ILM invented the whole FX industry. Funny to watch Hamil, Fisher, and Ford just laugh and groan through the incredibly stilted and phony sounding dialogue. And actors working agains blue screens where they don't see the action that'll be added later is common now, but back then it was surreal and the actors thought it was hilarious. Also, a real treat to see people like William The Greatest American Hero Katt, Kurt Russell, Cindy Williams, and others reading for the parts of Luke, Han, and Leia. http://www.aetv.com/global/listings/series_showcase.jsp?EGrpType=Series http://www.aetv.com/global/listings/series_showcase.jsp?EGrpType=Series Id=11470933NetwCode=AEN Id=11470933NetwCode=AEN It is the most popular space adventure of all time and one of the most groundbreaking sagas in Hollywood history. This two-hour AE SPECIAL PRESENTATION: STAR WARS: EMPIRE OF DREAMS details how the phenomenon captured imaginations with an irresistible Force and catapulted three young performers to stardom - Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, and Carrie Fisher. But the STAR WARS trilogy didn't just change the way we look at movies. It changed the way movies are made. What began as a galactic fairy tale became a success story beyond one man's wildest dreams. While George Lucas has remained true to his own vision, it's audiences everywhere who have reaped the rewards ever since May 1977 when moviegoers first caught sight of that galaxy far, far away. For Lucas, what began as a quest for creative freedom became a philosophy, a cultural phenomenon and his own empire of dreams. The AE SPECIAL PRESENTATION: STAR WARS: EMPIRE OF DREAMS features riveting movie clips and fascinating screen tests plus interviews with George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and other cast members. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] - YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group scifinoir2 on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. - __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Early Batman Begins Reviews are great
Did anyone see Bale in Equilibrium? I almost past it up...The action sequences couldn't be denied! They were fast paced and imaginative...too bad the the plotline and script couldn't keep up with it...Or am I not giving it a chance? g123curious [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Yep. I agree. And y'all know how I feel about prequels: a good idea in theory but very difficult to implement well. Easy to mess up. About Batman Begins: Good film. Well paced. Good dialoge. Good, detailed plot. Very creative in spots. Great sets. The SFX were effective and not overwhelming. Excellent music score. This film was everything SW eps 1 thru 3 (and Enterprise on TV) tried to be, but failed miserably. I repeat: Batman Begins was everything SW eps 1 thru 3 (and Enterprise on TV) tried to be, but failed miserably. George Captain The USS Ronald E. McNair (Boston) --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are NO spoilers here. Two reviews, both giving Batman Begins an A. I'm even more pumped now than I was before. Until Narnia gets her, I have sneaking suspicion this will be my favorite movie of the year!! 'Batman Begins': The franchise finally takes wing on the big screen By ERIC ROBINETTE The Middletown Journal Batman never had super powers, but the dark knight has pulled off a super feat. For the second summer in a row, a superhero movie ranks among the best films of the year. Last year, it was Spider-Man 2, the live action pinnacle of the genre. Batman Begins is virtually its equal. snip - YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group scifinoir2 on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. - - Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Mexico Issues Stamps of Black Character
Mexico Issues Stamps of Black Character
By MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press WriterWed Jun 29, 5:11 PM ET
The Mexican government has issued postage stamps depicting an exaggerated black
cartoon character known as Memin Pinguin, just weeks after remarks by President
Vicente Fox angered U.S. blacks.
The series of five stamps released Wednesday depicts a hapless boy drawn with
exaggerated features, thick lips and wide-open eyes. His appearance, speech and
mannerisms are the subject of kidding by white characters in the comic book,
which started in the 1940s and is still published in Mexico.
Activists criticized the stamps as offensive, though officials denied it.
One would hope the Mexican government would be a little more careful and avoid
continually opening wounds, said Sergio Penalosa, an activist in Mexico's
small black community on the southern Pacific coast.
But we've learned to expect anything from this government, just anything,
Penalosa said.
In May, Fox riled many by saying Mexican migrants take jobs in the United
States that not even blacks want. Fox later expressed regret for any offense
the remarks may have caused, but insisted his comments had been misinterpreted.
Carlos Caballero, assistant marketing director for the Mexican Postal Service,
said the new stamps are not offensive, nor were they intended to be.
This is a traditional character that reflects part of Mexico's culture,
Caballero said. His mischievous nature is part of that character.
However, Penalosa said many Mexicans still assume all blacks are foreigners,
despite the fact that at one point early in the Spanish colonial era, Africans
outnumbered Spanish in Mexico.
At this point in time, it was probably pretty insensitive to issue the
stamps, said Elisa Velazquez, an anthropologist who studies Mexico's black
communities for the National Institute of Anthropology and History.
This character is a classic, but it's from another era, Velazquez said. It's
a stereotype and you don't want to encourage ignorance or prejudices.
The 6.50-peso (60 cent) stamps depicting the character in five poses was
issued with the domestic market in mind, but Caballero noted they could be used
in international postage as well. A total of 750,000 of the stamps will be
issued.
Ben Vinson, a black professor of Latin American history at Penn State
University, said he has been called Memin Pinguin by some people in Mexico.
He said the character's mother is drawn to look like an old version of the U.S.
advertising character Aunt Jemima.
The stamps are part of a series that pays tribute to Mexican comic books. Memin
Pinguin, the second in the series, was apparently chosen for this year's
release because it is the 50th anniversary of the company that publishes the
comic.
Publisher Manelick De la Parra told the government news agency Notimex the
character would be a sort of goodwill ambassador on Mexican letters and
postcards. It seems nice if Memin can travel all over the world, spreading
good news, de la Parra said, calling him so charming, so affectionate, so
wonderful, generous and friendly.
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