From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #56 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, March 10 2006 Volume 15 : Number 056 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Hey, look...a thread related to film [FSThomas ] REAP ["Pete Hitcham" ] Re: Hey, look...a thread related to film [Benjamin Lukoff ] Re: Hey, look...a thread related to film [2fs ] reap [Eb ] news you can use (100% crustacean content) ["michael wells" ] Re: news you can use (100% crustacean content) ["Sumiko Keay" ] RE: reap ["Bachman, Michael" ] Oink invites? anyone have any? ["m swedene" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 14:51:53 -0500 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: Hey, look...a thread related to film Eb wrote: > FSThomas wrote: >> Dana Reeve wasn't a smoker but she announced in August that she had >> been diagnosed with lung cancer. > > Secondhand-smoke victim? I've heard two different reports on this today. Apparently somewhere around 20% of female victims of lung cancer are non-smokers, and 10% of men. There was also another allusion to the onset possibly being triggered by stress and/or grief. Either way, it's sad. - -- FS Thomas | Interactive Developer | fsthomas-at-ochremedia.com 404.758.8616 (home/office) | 404.274.1632 (mobile) | ferraatu (AIM) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 15:22:28 -0500 (EST) From: Jill Brand Subject: Dana Reeve I read in the obit: "She was performing in the Broadway-bound play "Brooklyn Boy" in California when she had to streak home to reach her husband's bedside before he died. She gave up the role for the New York run." My friend Donald wrote Brooklyn Boy, mostly because he used to be one. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:10:16 +0000 From: "Pete Hitcham" Subject: REAP John Junkin 76 ****************************************************************** **** Please note: with effect from 6 March 2006 the new **** **** Registered Office of Johnson Matthey PLC (and all **** **** its English subsidiaries) will be 40-42 Hatton Garden, **** **** London EC1N 8EE. **** ****************************************************************** If the reader of this email is not the intended recipient(s), please be advised that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this information is strictly prohibited. Johnson Matthey PLC has its main place of business at 2-4 Cockspur Street, London (020 7269 8400). 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Apparently somewhere > around 20% of female victims of lung cancer are non-smokers, and 10% of men. But what percentage of those cancers are due to secondhand smoke? > There was also another allusion to the onset possibly being triggered by > stress and/or grief. That's definitely possible. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 16:50:25 -0500 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: Hey, look...a thread related to film Benjamin Lukoff wrote: > On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, FSThomas wrote: > >> Eb wrote: >>> FSThomas wrote: >>>> Dana Reeve wasn't a smoker but she announced in August that she had >>>> been diagnosed with lung cancer. >>> Secondhand-smoke victim? >> I've heard two different reports on this today. Apparently somewhere >> around 20% of female victims of lung cancer are non-smokers, and 10% of men. > > But what percentage of those cancers are due to secondhand smoke? I would say "an unverifiable small percentage" to the second-hand explanation. There are other causes of cirrhosis, for example, but people would look at you strange if you blamed it on secondhand drinking. From the Nat'l Lung Assoc.'s site: ... Radon is considered to be the second leading cause of lung cancer [after smoking] in the U.S. today. Radon gas can come up through the soil under a home or building and enter through gaps and cracks in the foundation or insulation, as well as through pipes, drains, walls or other openings. Radon causes between 15,000 and 22,000 lung cancer deaths each year in the United States -- 12 percent of all lung cancer deaths are linked to radon. Radon problems have been found in every state. The EPA estimates that nearly 1 out of every 15 homes in the U.S. has indoor radon levels at or above the level at which homeowners should take action -- 4 picocuries per liter of air (pCi/L) on a yearly average. Radon can be a problem in schools and workplaces, too. ... http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=35427#what >> There was also another allusion to the onset possibly being triggered by >> stress and/or grief. > > That's definitely possible. He survived his accident, what, eight years? That's a long time, and no doubt stressful. - -- FS Thomas | Interactive Developer | fsthomas-at-ochremedia.com 404.758.8616 (home/office) | 404.274.1632 (mobile) | ferraatu (AIM) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 11:45:53 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: and the reaps keep piling up... John Junkin, too. James ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 20:29:34 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Hey, look...a thread related to film On 3/7/06, FSThomas wrote: > Benjamin Lukoff wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, FSThomas wrote: > > > >> Eb wrote: > >>> FSThomas wrote: > >>>> Dana Reeve wasn't a smoker but she announced in August that she had > >>>> been diagnosed with lung cancer. > >>> Secondhand-smoke victim? > >> I've heard two different reports on this today. Apparently somewhere > >> around 20% of female victims of lung cancer are non-smokers, and 10% of men. > > > > But what percentage of those cancers are due to secondhand smoke? > > I would say "an unverifiable small percentage" to the second-hand > explanation. There are other causes of cirrhosis, for example, but > people would look at you strange if you blamed it on secondhand drinking. Wull yeah...but alcohol doesn't permeate through the air. The difference between "first-hand" smoke and secondhand smoke is simply quantity: the smoker gets the bulk of it. The same smoke spreads through the air. Wait, I lied: secondhand smoke-breathers get the *nastier* portion of smoke - because they get it unfiltered, whereas most of what the smoker inhales (unless they're Bill Clinton) is mitigated by cigarette filters. I picked up a sandwich to go this evening at a restaurant that's basically a smokers' hangout (excellent food if you eat it elsewhere though) - you could literally see the smoke hanging in the air. I probably had the equivalent of smoking half a cigarette just standing there for five minutes while they made up my order. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 18:43:13 -0800 From: Eb Subject: reap NEW YORK - Gordon Parks, who captured the struggles and triumphs of black America as a photographer for Life magazine and then became Hollywood's first major black director with "The Learning Tree" and the hit "Shaft," died Tuesday, a family member said. He was 93. Parks, who also wrote fiction and was an accomplished composer, died in New York, his nephew, Charles Parks, said in a telephone interview from Lawrence, Kan. "Nothing came easy," Parks wrote in his autobiography. "I was just born with a need to explore every tool shop of my mind, and with long searching and hard work. I became devoted to my restlessness." He covered everything from fashion to politics to sports during his 20 years at Life, from 1948 to 1968. But as a photographer, he was perhaps best known for his gritty photo essays on the grinding effects of poverty in the United States and abroad and on the spirit of the civil rights movement. "Those special problems spawned by poverty and crime touched me more, and I dug into them with more enthusiasm," he said. "Working at them again revealed the superiority of the camera to explore the dilemmas they posed." In 1961, his photographs in Life of a poor, ailing Brazilian boy named Flavio da Silva brought donations that saved the boy and purchased a new home for him and his family. "The Learning Tree" was Parks' first film, in 1969. It was based on his 1963 autobiographical novel of the same name, in which the young hero grapples with fear and racism as well as first love and schoolboy triumphs. Parks wrote the score as well directed. In 1989, "The Learning Tree" was among the first 25 American movies to be placed on the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. The registry is intended to highlight films of particular cultural, historical or aesthetic importance. The detective drama "Shaft," which came out in 1971 and starred Richard Roundtree, was a major hit and spawned a series of black-oriented films. Parks himself directed a sequel, "Shaft's Big Score," in 1972. He also published books of poetry and wrote musical compositions including "Martin," a ballet about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Parks was born Nov. 30, 1912, in Fort Scott, Kan., the youngest of 15 children. In his 1990 autobiography, "Voices in the Mirror," he remembered it as a world of racism and poverty, but also a world where his parents gave their children love, discipline and religious faith. He went through a series of jobs as a teen and young man, including piano player and railroad dining car waiter. The breakthrough came when he was about 25, when he bought a used camera in a pawn shop for $7.50. He became a freelance fashion photographer, went on to Vogue magazine and then to Life in 1948. "Reflecting now, I realize that, even within the limits of my childhood vision, I was on a search for pride, meanwhile taking measurable glimpses of how certain blacks, who were fed up with racism, rebelled against it," he wrote. When he accepted an award from Wichita State University in May 1991, he said it was "another step forward in my making peace with Kansas and Kansas making peace with me." "I dream terrible dreams, terribly violent dreams," he said. "The doctors say it's because I suppressed so much anger and hatred from my youth. I bottled it up and used it constructively." In his autobiography, he recalled that being Life's only black photographer put him in a peculiar position when he set out to cover the civil rights movement. "Life magazine was eager to penetrate their ranks for stories, but the black movement thought of Life as just another white establishment out of tune with their cause," he wrote. He said his aim was to become "an objective reporter, but one with a subjective heart." The story of young Flavio prompted Life readers to send in $30,000, enabling his family to build a home, and Flavio received treatment for his asthma in an American clinic. By the 1970s, he had a family and a job as a security guard, but more recently the home built in 1961 has become overcrowded and run-down. Still, Flavio stayed in touch with Parks off and on, and in 1997 Parks said, "If I saw him tomorrow in the same conditions, I would do the whole thing over again." In addition to novels, poetry and his autobiographical writings, Parks' writing credits included nonfiction such as "Camera Portraits: Techniques and Principles of Documentary Portraiture," 1948, and a 1971 book of essays called "Born Black." His other film credits included "The Super Cops," 1974; "Aaron Loves Angela," 1975; and "Leadbelly," 1976. Recalling the making of "The Learning Tree," he wrote: "A lot of people of all colors were anxious about the breakthrough, and I was anxious to make the most of it. The wait had been far too long. Just remembering that no black had been given a chance to direct a motion picture in Hollywood since it was established kept me going." Last month, health concerns had kept Parks from accepting the William Allen White Foundation National Citation in Kansas, but he said in a taped presentation that he still considered the state his home and wanted to be buried in Fort Scott. Two years ago, Fort Scott Community College established the Gordon Parks Center for Culture and Diversity. Jill Warford, its executive director, said Tuesday that Parks "had a very rough start in life and he overcame so much, but was such a good person and kind person that he never let the bad things that happened to him make him bitter." ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 21:00:55 -0800 From: "michael wells" Subject: news you can use (100% crustacean content) http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060308/ap_on_sc/france_new_crustacean_2 And a little something for the ladies: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4452 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 22:45:24 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: RE: reap From: Eb >Subject: reap >Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 18:43:13 -0800 >NEW YORK - Gordon Parks, who captured the struggles and triumphs of >black America as a photographer for Life magazine and then became >Hollywood's first major black director with "The Learning Tree" and the >hit "Shaft," died Tuesday, a family member said. He was 93. In my humble opinion he was on of the great American artists of his generation, so talented in so many media. Max ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 21:39:47 -0600 From: "Sumiko Keay" Subject: Re: news you can use (100% crustacean content) Darn it! I was just going to post about the furry crustacean! Sumi On 3/7/06, michael wells wrote: > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060308/ap_on_sc/france_new_crustacean_2 > > And a little something for the ladies: > > http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4452 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 00:44:34 -0600 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: I saved myself for Kinky Those of you not blessed/cursed enough to live in Texas might not be aware that Kinky Friedman is aiming to get on the ballot as an independent candidate for governor. So I just wanted to give ya'll the chance to pick up some nifty (although not cheap) campaign items for your next trip to see Robyn. And wouldn't he look lovely in a "Kinky 2006 - How Hard Can it Be" t- shirt. The new state motto: Maybe not quite as bad as South Dakota, yet... but just give us the chance! - - Steve __________ No matter where you go, there you are. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 14:38:17 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: reap From: Eb >>Subject: reap >>Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 18:43:13 -0800 >>NEW YORK - Gordon Parks, who captured the struggles and triumphs of >>black America as a photographer for Life magazine and then became >>Hollywood's first major black director with "The Learning Tree" and the >>hit "Shaft," died Tuesday, a family member said. He was 93. Max: > In my humble opinion he was on of the great American artists of his >generation, so talented in so many media. Not sure if his autobiography "A Choice of Weapons" is still in print, but I remember reading it back in high school and how he struggled with extreme adversity to become what I agree with Max on; one of the great American artists of his generation. Michael B. NP Marshmallow - Marshmallow ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:38:38 -0500 From: "m swedene" Subject: Oink invites? anyone have any? Does anyone have any Oink invites? My invite got deleted with my old email account when some kids hacked into it. Thank you in advance. Mike ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #56 *******************************