Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Expose the NCAA, not the athletes
Exactly, Tracy. And I wish I had answers. The rage this elicits in me seems to block me from rational thought into the matter. On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Tracy Curtis tlcurti...@gmail.com wrote: That all makes sense. It doesn't make a lot of sense to target Reggie Bush as though he had power as a student. USC's former coach was the highest paid university employee in the country at around $4.4 million when he resigned. This hasn't hurt him. The NFL salary is more than $7 million. But at least in public schools the box office from sports like football and whatever else is major in the area pays for swimming, fencing, baseball, and the like. What is there to do about that? On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Tracy, I don't really have a massive experience to correspond with this. The closest I've come to the sports-money experience was during my years at Virginia State, a measly D-IIA school. During football season my last year there, I was casually seeing a young lady who worked in the stadium office as an accountant trainee. After a game we played against Troy State (nothing big whatsoever, as we weren't in the same conference and were playing each other for the first time), she had to help count down the gate. It came to a hair under 1.1 MILLION. When I ehard that number, my first thought was to wonder what serious games, like Army-Navy, Ohio State-Michigan, Notre Dame-USC and Alabama-Auburn drew in. This entire farce regarding sanctions and punishments because the players get a tiny fraction of the gate SICKENS me. PAY THE PLAYERS. Sure, it ruins the spirit of amateur athletics, some may say. IMO, it was ruined the day I sat outside that money room, looking at all of the worn bills being collated. On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Tracy Curtis tlcurti...@gmail.comwrote: I am really curious about any experiences you would like to share with the NCAA. I was an undergrad in a place where athletics didn't bring revenue to the school; but I've been in places since then were sports matter a lot. But I know that student-athletes have vastly different experiences depending on whether their sport brings in money. On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Wherein Brother Whitlock Speaks Truth to Power... http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/story/jason-whitlock-expose-ncaa-not-reggie-bush-072210?GT1=39002 The NCAA rule book is not the United States Constitution. If anything, the rule book supporting the bogus concept of “amateur athletics” is akin to the laws that supported Jim Crow, denied women suffrage and upheld slavery. The architect of the modern NCAA, the organization’s former president, Walter Byers, spelled out all of this in his 1997 *mea culpa*, “Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Exploiting the Student-Athlete.” Byers wrote: “Today the NCAA Presidents Commission is preoccupied with tightening a few loose bolts in a worn machine, firmly committed to the neo-plantation belief that the enormous proceeds from college games belong to the overseers (administrators) and supervisors (coaches). The plantation workers performing in the arena may only receive those benefits authorized by the overseers.” Byers was not and is not a Jesse Jackson sympathizer. Byers is a white, right-wing conservative from Kansas. He was the NCAA’s first president (1951-1988) and sole visionary. He admitted creating a monster. His NCAA memoir was his repentance and call for a fundamental overhaul of a corrupt organization. -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
[scifinoir2] Re: 10 Extremely Weird Religions
One day L. Ron Hubbard was sitting in his breakfast nook, reading his bible, and he had the very same eureka moment (the Bible reads like epic science fiction!). The rest is history. ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Daryle Lockhart dar...@... wrote: Yeah this is a pretty bad list. Any aren't these religions wacky? list that starts with Scientology is, to me, a hater's list. The reasons they give for saying CAW is weird are some of the EXACT same arguments I've heard raised against Christianity. Let a non believer read the Bible and it reads like epic science fiction. On Jul 22, 2010, at 5:56 PM, Keith Johnson wrote: I agree. CAW isn't really weird at all. You have animists in Africa, people who respect spirits of the land, air ,and sea in the UK, Natives here in the Americas who honor the ancestors. And as a black man, I add to your WTF with the fact that they think CAW is weirder than the racist Creativity movement?? - Original Message - From: Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 4:55:27 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] 10 Extremely Weird Religions I'm still WTFing that they think CAW is weirder than Scientology. I bet this article was written by a monotheist. -- not a monotheist. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http:// www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http:// www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http:// www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:38 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... wrote: http://listverse.com/2009/09/10/10-extremely-weird-religions/ Originally, I wasn't going to post this, but I noticed that 2 of the groups were African American. 10 Extremely Weird Religions Share This- Published September 10, 2009 by JFrater - 318 Comments We have previously published a variety of lists on strange religious practices, religions you never knew existed, and weird cults, but not a list of bizarre religions. This list is designed to fill the gap by discussing ten religions that most of us have not heard of (for good reason as you will see). Be sure to use the comments to tell us about any other bizarre religions and, especially, your own experiences of them. 10 Scientology Scientology has featured on a previous list, but if I didnât include it here the comments would be inundated with âwhereâs scientology?â questions. The Church of Scientology is a cult created by L Ron Hubbard (Elron) in 1952 as an outgrowth of his earlier self-help system called Dianetics. The Church of Scientology holds that at the higher levels of initiation (OT levels) mystical teachings are imparted that may be harmful to unprepared readers. These teachings are kept secret from members who have not reached these levels. In the OT levels, Hubbard explains how to reverse the effects of past-life trauma patterns that supposedly extend millions of years into the past. Among these advanced teachings is the story of Xenu (sometimes Xemu), introduced as an alien ruler of the âGalactic Confederacy.â According to this story, 75 million years ago Xenu brought billions of people to Earth in spacecraft resembling Douglas DC-8 airliners, stacked them around volcanoes and detonated hydrogen bombs in the volcanoes. The thetans then clustered together, stuck to the bodies of the living, and continue to do this today. Scientologists at advanced levels place considerable emphasis on isolating body thetans and neutralizing their ill effects. 9 Creativity Movement The Creativity Movement (formerly known as World Church Of The Creator), is a white separatist organization that advocates the whites-only religion, Creativity. It was also a descriptive phrase used by Ben Klassen, that included all adherents of the religion. The use of the term creator does not refer to a deity, but rather to themselves (white people). Despite the former use of the word Church in its name, the movement is atheistic. Creativity is a White Separatist religion that was founded by Ben Klassen in early 1973 under the name Church of the Creator. After Klassenâs death in 1993, Creativity almost died out as a religion until the New Church of the Creator was established three years later by Matthew F. Hale as its Pontifex Maximus (high priest), until his incarceration in January 2003 for plotting with the movementâs head of security, Anthony Evola (an FBI informant), to murder a federal judge. 8 Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth Obviously
[scifinoir2] The World Ebon today: Vogue Africa
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Re: [scifinoir2] The World Ebon today: Vogue Africa
ahar...@earthlink.net I love it - Vogue Africa? Of course! Amy -- From: Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 11:10 AM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: [scifinoir2] The World Ebon today: Vogue Africa http://fashionbombdaily.com/2010/04/21/fashion-fun-photographer-mario-epanya-imagines-6-covers-for-a-fictional-vogue-africa/ Paris based makeup artist and photographer Mario Epanya conceived of several breathtaking covers for what apparently would represent a future Vogue Africa. As you may be aware, there is currently no actual edition of African Vogue. Yes, there's a Vogue Nippon, Vogue India, and even a Vogue Australia-but no Vogue for an entire continent rich in culture, diversity, and, of course, lots of fashion. I think an African Vogue would be positively refreshing and potentially quite well received. I've heard South African fashion week is bubbling over with talent-why not have a Vogue Africa? http://www.theworldebon.blogspot.com/ Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! Groups Links
[scifinoir2] Engineers creating carbon-negative Mars rocket
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Re: [scifinoir2] The World Ebon today: Vogue Africa
They have been poaching talent from there for years. There's an S.African fashion show that is always attended by designers from Europe and the US. On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote: http://fashionbombdaily.com/2010/04/21/fashion-fun-photographer-mario-epanya-imagines-6-covers-for-a-fictional-vogue-africa/ Paris based makeup artist and photographer Mario Epanya conceived of several breathtaking covers for what apparently would represent a future Vogue Africa. As you may be aware, there is currently no actual edition of African Vogue. Yes, there's a Vogue Nippon, Vogue India, and even a Vogue Australia–but no Vogue for an entire continent rich in culture, diversity, and, of course, lots of fashion. I think an African Vogue would be positively refreshing and potentially quite well received. I've heard South African fashion week is bubbling over with talent–why not have a Vogue Africa? http://www.theworldebon.blogspot.com/ Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! Groups Links -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
[scifinoir2] Fifty Years of Exploration: Space Infographic
Fifty Years of Exploration: Space Infographic by Karen Dayhttp://www.coolhunting.com/author/karen-day/in Tech http://www.coolhunting.com/tech/ on 16 October 2009 [image: space-infographic-1.jpg] The National Geographic's Fifty Years of Explorationhttp://books.nationalgeographic.com/map/map-day/indexbeautifully charts the paths taken by astronauts on historic missions to space—including both failed and triumphant attempts—visually pinpointing specific interests in various planets and comets. [image: space-infographic-close-1.jpg] Also noted, the current positions held by spacecrafts like the Pioneer10 and robotic probes such as Voyager 1, along with current expeditions including the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Messenger mission to Mercury, lend a sense of how far we reach these days. [image: space-infographic-close-2.jpg] Learn more about the infographichttp://books.nationalgeographic.com/map/map-day/indexfrom National Geographic. Via information estheticshttp://infosthetics.com/archives/2009/10/50_years_of_space_exploration_in_one_infographic.html -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
[scifinoir2] India unveils prototype of $35 tablet computer
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[scifinoir2] Has anyone on Noir been to Comic Con?
Yeah, I know its an overexposed mess. But its on my bucketlist before I explore the east coast cons. Any tips? Thanks in advance. From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sat, July 24, 2010 12:39:43 AM Subject: [scifinoir2] Engineers creating carbon-negative Mars rocket Engineers creating carbon-negative Mars rocket By Ben Coxworth 16:44 July 22, 2010 Sathyakumar Sharma with aluminum powder, which is mixed with carbon dioxide to fuel the rocket MITS - www.mits.com Business Intelligence and Advanced Reporting Solutions for SQL and MV Carbon Fiber Tubes - DragonPlate. com/Carbon- Fiber-Tubes High performance, high quality engineered tubes. ISO 9001 Cert. Norlab Specialty Gases - www.norlabonline. com Your Single Source Gas Supplier Gases, regulators, and accessories MY MM'S® Candies - www.MyMMs.com Personalize Your Wedding, Birthday, Anniversary or Event w/MM'S® Candy Ads by Google It may be called the Red Planet, but that doesn’t mean you can’t use green technology to get there. Engineers at the University of Hertfordshire are developing a miniature dual fuel rocket, as a test model for technology that could one day result in a full-scale carbon negative rocket capable of a return flight to Mars. Their model’s motor will be powered by a mixture of carbon dioxide and aluminum, turning the CO2 into carbon in the process - this is the opposite of what is done by traditional rockets. The U of H’s Eur Ing Ray Wilkinson is leading the project, assisted by MSc student Sathyakumar Sharma from the University of Salford. They chose to use aluminum powder in their motor, because it requires very little energy to ignite, and CO2, because it is available in the Martian atmosphere. “The idea is that a Mars rocket could save a lot of cost and mass by not taking with it the propellants it needs for its return flight,” said Wilkinson. “One method of doing this is to use an easily available Martian resource, carbon dioxide, as a propellant, and burn it with aluminum or magnesium powder.” The system has already been tested in a lab setting at Indiana's Purdue University, but Wilkinson hopes to demonstrate the motor in an actual low-altitude flight later this year. He has previously developed a rocket powered by toffee, but all the data indicates that Mars has a remarkably candy-free atmosphere. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/mahogany_ pleasures_ of_darkness/
