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  Brotha Eric

  Date / Time: 5/24/2009 7:00 PM UTC

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  the extension

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  Date / Time: 11/19/2009 11:59 PM UTC

  Sophia Stewart Author of The Matrix

  

  Sophia Stewart, Black Author wins The Matrix Copyright Infringement Case. A story that restores faith. More power to Sophia! This little known story has met a just conclusion, as Sophia Stewart, African American author of The Matrix will finally receive her just due from the copyright infringement of her original work!!! A six-year dispute has ended involving Sophia Stewart, the Wachowski Brothers, Joel Silver and Warner Brothers. Stewart's allegations, involving copyright infringement and racketeering, were received and acknowledged by the Central District of California, Judge Margaret Morrow presiding. Stewart, a New Yorker who has resided in Salt Lake City for the past five years, will recover damages from the films, The Matrix I, II and III, as well as The Terminator and its sequels. She will soon receive one of the biggest payoffs in the history of Hollywood, as the gross receipts of both films and their sequels total over 2.5 billion dollars. Stewart filed her case in 1999, after viewing the Matrix, which she felt had been based on her manuscript, 'The Third Eye,' copyrighted in 1981. In the mid-eighties Stewart had submitted her manuscript to an ad placed by the Wachowski Brothers, requesting new sci-fi works.. According to court documentation, an FBI investigation discovered that more than thirty minutes had been edited from the original film, in an attempt to avoid penalties for copyright infringement. The investigation also stated that 'credible witnesses employed at Warner Brothers came forward, claiming that the executives and lawyers had full knowledge that the work in question did not belong to the Wachowski Brothers.' These witnesses claimed to have seen Stewart's original work and that it had been 'often used during preparation of the motion pictures.' The defendants tried, on several occasions, to have Stewart's case dismissed, without success. Stewart has confronted skepticism on all sides, much of which comes from Matrix fans, who are strangely loyal to the Wachowski Brothers. One on-line forum, entitled Matrix Explained has an entire section devoted to Stewart. Some who have researched her history and writings are open to her story. Others are suspicious and mocking. 'It doesn't bother me,' said Stewart in a phone interview last week, 'I always knew what was true.' Some fans, are unaware of the case or they question its legitimacy, due to the fact that it has received little to no media coverage. Though the case was not made public until October of 2003, Stewart has her own explanation, as quoted at aghettotymz.com: 'The reason you have not seen any of this in the media is because Warner Brothers parent company is AOL-Time Warner.... this GIANT owns 95 percent of the media... let me give you a clue as to what they own in the media business... New York Times papers/magazines, LA Times papers/magazines, People Magazine, CNN news, Extra, Celebrity Justice, Entertainment Tonight, HBO, New Line Cinema, DreamWorks, Newsweek, Village Roadshow and many, many more! They are not going to report on themselves. They have been suppressing my case for years.' Fans who have taken Stewart's allegations seriously, have found eerie mythological parallels, which seem significant in a case that revolves around the highly metaphorical and symbolic Matrix series. Sophia, the Greek goddess of wisdom has been referenced many times in speculation about Stewart. In one book about the Goddess Sophia, it reads, 'The black goddess is the mistress of web creation spun in her divine matrix.' Although there have been outside implications as to racial injustice (Stewart is African American), she does not feel that this is the case. 'This is all about the Benjamins,' said Stewart. 'It's not about money with me. It's about justice.' Stewart's future plans involve a record label, entitled Popsilk Records, and a motion picture production company, All Eyez On Me, in reference to God. 'I wrote The Third Eye to wake people up, to remind them why God put them here. There's more to life than money,' said Stewart. 'My whole to the world is about God and good and about choice, about spirituality over 'technocracy'.' If Stewart represents spirituality, then she truly has prevailed over the 'technocracy' represented in both the Terminator and the Matrix, and now, ironically, by their supposed creators. Stewart is currently having discussions with CBS about a possible exclusive story and has several media engagements in the near future to nationally publicize her victory. June 13th 2004. Sophia Stewart's press release read: 'The Matrix & Terminator movie franchises have made world history and have ultimately changed the way people view movies and how Hollywood does business, yet the real truth about the creator and creation of these films continue to elude the masses because the hidden secret of the matter is that these films were created and written by a Black woman...a Black woman named Sophia Stewart. But Hollywood does not want you to know this fact simply because it would change history. Also it would encourage our Black children to realize a dream and that is...nothing is impossible for them to achieve!'

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• Date / Time: 11/19/2009 11:22 PM UTC

  Chemicals in our Plastic

  chemicals cause effeminate behavior in boys?

  Posted by Tiffany Sharples O'Callaghan Monday, November 16, 2009 at 2:29 pm

  1 Comment • Trackback (1) • Related Topics: Baby, Personality, , phthalates, plastic chemicals

   

  

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  Prenatal exposure to common chemicals used to soften plastics may impact boys' play behavior later in life, according to new research published in the International Journal of Andrology. This new study expands on a wealth of previous research in animals showing that exposure in the womb to chemicals known as phthalates was associated with lower testosterone production, and subsequently impaired genital development. (This phenomena, known as the phthalate syndrome, has also been shown to influence sexual development in animals later in life.) And in addition to animal studies, the lead author of the current research, Shanna H. Swan, director of the Center for Reproductive Epidemiology at the University of Rochester, has also published previous findings demonstrating similar developmental issues in male human infants. This current study suggests that, not only does prenatal exposure to these common chemicals impact testosterone production, but it may also have longer term influence on gender identity and play behaviors as children grow up.

  "Play behaviours offer themselves as a test of the hypothesis that phthalate exposures during gestation may alter brain sexual differentiation and its behavioural outcomes," Swan and colleagues write. To test this hypothesis, researchers initially began with 334 pregnant women, 150 of whom ultimately participated in all phases of the research. Midway through pregnancy, phthalate levels among the pregnant women were measured using urinalysis. Four to seven years later, when the participants' children were between the ages of 3.6 to 6.4-years-old, researchers sent out questionnaires to assess the children's play preferences, and also, how their parents' attitudes might impact how they chose to play. To assess behavior, researchers used a slightly modified version of the Pre-School Activities Inventory, a widely used screening tool that measures gender-related play in small children. (Much previous research has shown that there are objectively different play preferences among boys and girls: boys tend to do more play-fighting, for example, girls tend to be more captivated by dolls than toy trucks, etc.) To determine how parental views might sway behavior, parents completed a survey that included questions such as, "What would you do if you had a boy who preferred toys that girls usually play with?" They were asked to respond with whether they would support or discourage such behavior, and how strongly. The combination of these two assessments was used to measure children's gender-related play preferences.

  What the researchers found was that, while, in girls exposure to phthalates had little significant impact on behavior, in boys, higher levels of exposure were correlated with "less masculine" preferences. What's more, exposure to specific varieties of phthalates correlated most strongly with behavioral differences—namely, di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate or DEHP and dibutyl phthalate or DBP. As the authors write, "[t]he two metabolites of DBP, as well as their sum, were associated with a decreased (less masculine) composite score in boys." Concentrations of DEHP too, the researchers found, "were associated with a decreased masculine score."

  These findings, the researchers say, suggest that phthalates indeed do "possess the potential to modify male behaviour, potentially reflecting changes to the developing brain." And, this latest research may add to growing concerns about how common chemicals used in ubiquitous plastics, such as bisphenol A, or BPA, may be impacting our health—for the worse. (A study recently published in the journal Human Reproduction found high exposure levels to BPA among Chinese factory workers were associated with sexual dysfunciton.)

  Of course, to substantiate these findings about phthalates, researchers acknowledge that more investigation beyond this relatively small sample population is necessary. But, if these results are verified through additional, rigorous research, it may pose some unique and potentially challenging questions, not only about healthy levels of exposure to common plastic chemicals, but about just what factors shape gender identity in childhood, and as we grow older. Or, as the authors put it, "[i]f replicated in a larger sample, it would be a finding with implications that extend far beyond the scope of children's play preferences..."

  
  
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• Original Air Date: 11/15/2009 10:00 PM UTC

  Does the media control your mind

  Talking about how the mass media control our thought and Decision making. Sample flowchart representing the decision process to add a new article to Wikipedia.Decision making can be regarded as an outcome of mental processes (cognitive process) leading to the selection of a course of action among several alternatives. Every decision making process produces a final choice.[1] The output can be an action or an opinion of choice.
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  • Choices
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• Original Air Date: 11/15/2009 1:00 AM UTC

  Chillin with ya Brotha

  laid back music with ya Brotha..
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• Date / Time: 11/14/2009 11:36 PM UTC

  Political cartoons

  
  
  
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• Date / Time: 11/14/2009 11:35 PM UTC

  Daniel M'Mburugu

  Nairobi - A 73-year-old man used his bare hands to tear out the tongue of a leopard that attacked him in Kenya and killed it, a newspaper said on Wednesday of an incident confirmed by the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS).
  
  The 73-year-old Daniel M'Mburugu was working in his potato garden near Mount Kenya in the centre of the country when the animal, apparently aggressive, hurtled from nearby grass and charged towards him.
  
  "It let out a blood-curdling snarl that made the birds stop chirping. I froze for some seconds, then it dawned on me that death was staring at me on the face," he told the Standard Newspaper.
  
  M'Mburugu, a peasant farmer, dropped the machete he was carrying and forced his hand into the leopard's mouth, pulling out its tongue in an act of self-defense, according to the report in the daily.
  
  "A voice, which must have been from God, whispered to me to drop the panga (machete) and thrust my hand into its wide open mouth, I obeyed," he said, explaining that the leopard sank its teeth into his wrist, but would not let go.
  
  As the struggle continued, M'Mburugu realized the animal's "breathing was belabored", prompting him to keep pulling the tongue.
  
  Villagers only responded when the animal lay dying and he gained instant status as a village hero, the paper said.
  
  "Wardens said the leopard attacked the man because it was injured elsewhere. Wild animals are usually very aggressive and attack unprovoked when injured," said KWS spokesperson Edward Indakwa.
  
  "Nevertheless, he was lucky," he added of the incident that occurred early this month.
  
  Incidents of human-wildlife conflict in the east African nation are common, mostly near game parks and national reserves.
  
  - AFP
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• Original Air Date: 11/8/2009 9:30 PM UTC

  The Truth Abot Christmas

  Revaling the true meaning behind this holiday called Christmas. Featuring The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.
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