Re: [scifinoir2] The World Ebon today: Vogue Africa

[George Arterberry]

Arise magazine pretty much has that lane. Not 100% fashion ,but close enough.


http://www.arisemagazine.net/issues.html




From: Mr. Worf 
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, July 24, 2010 12:54:30 AM
Subject: 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  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.theworld ebon.blogspot. com/
>
>
>
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>
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[scifinoir2] Has anyone on Noir been to Comic Con?

[George Arterberry]

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 
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
 
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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.

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MUMBAI, India — It looks like an iPad, only it's 1/14th the cost: India has
unveiled the prototype of a $35 basic touchscreen tablet aimed at students,
which it hopes to bring into production by 2011.

If the government can find a manufacturer, the Linux operating system-based
computer would be the latest in a string of "world's cheapest" innovations
to hit the market out of India, which is home to the 100,000 rupee ($2,127)
compact Nano car, the 749 rupees ($16) water purifier and the $2,000
open-heart surgery.

The tablet can be used for functions like word processing, web browsing and
video-conferencing. It has a solar power option too — important for India's
energy-starved hinterlands — though that add-on costs extra.

"This is our answer to MIT's $100 computer," human resource development
minister Kapil Sibal told the Economic Times when he unveiled the device
Thursday.

In 2005, Nicholas Negroponte — co-founder of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology's Media Lab — unveiled a prototype of a $100 laptop for children
in the developing world. India rejected that as too expensive and embarked
on a multiyear effort to develop a cheaper option of its own.

Negroponte's laptop ended up costing about $200, but in May his nonprofit
association, One Laptop Per Child, said it plans to launch a basic tablet
computer for $99.

Sibal turned to students and professors at India's elite technical
universities to develop the $35 tablet after receiving a "lukewarm" response
from private sector players. He hopes to get the cost down to $10
eventually.

Mamta Varma, a ministry spokeswoman, said falling hardware costs and
intelligent design make the price tag plausible. The tablet doesn't have a
hard disk, but instead uses a memory card, much like a mobile phone. The
tablet design cuts hardware costs, and the use of open-source software also
adds to savings, she said.

Varma said several global manufacturers, including at least one from Taiwan,
have shown interest in making the low-cost device, but no manufacturing or
distribution deals have been finalized. She declined to name any of the
companies.

India plans to subsidize the cost of the tablet for its students, bringing
the purchase price down to around $20.

"Depending on the quality of material they are using, certainly it's
plausible," said Sarah Rotman Epps, an analyst at Forrester Research. "The
question is, is it good enough for students?"

Profitability is also a question for the $35 machine.

Epps said government subsidies or dual marketing — where higher-priced sales
in the developed world are used to subside low-cost sales in markets like
India — could convince a manufacturer to come on bo

[scifinoir2] Fifty Years of Exploration: Space Infographic

[Mr. Worf]

 Fifty Years of Exploration: Space Infographic by Karen
Dayin
Tech  on 16 October 2009
[image: space-infographic-1.jpg]

The National Geographic's Fifty Years of
Explorationbeautifully
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
infographicfrom
National Geographic.
Via information
esthetics

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Re: [scifinoir2] The World Ebon today: Vogue Africa

[Mr. Worf]

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  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
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[scifinoir2] Engineers creating carbon-negative Mars rocket

[Mr. Worf]

Engineers creating carbon-negative Mars rocket

By Ben Coxworth 

*16:44 July 22, 2010*
   [image: Sathyakumar Sharma with aluminum powder, which is mixed with
carbon dioxide to fuel the
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Re: [scifinoir2] The World Ebon today: Vogue Africa

[Amy Harlib]

ahar...@earthlink.net
I love it - Vogue Africa?  Of course!
Amy
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From: "Kelwyn" 
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 11:10 AM
To: 
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
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> 

[scifinoir2] The World Ebon today: Vogue Africa

[Kelwyn]

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/

[scifinoir2] Re: 10 Extremely Weird Religions

[Kelwyn]

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  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" 
> > 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   
> > 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 didn’t  
> > include it here the comments would be inundated with “where’s  
> > scientology?” 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 “Galactic Confederacy.”  
> > 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 Klassen’s 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 plo

Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Expose the NCAA, not the athletes

[Martin Baxter]

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  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 wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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 wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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 
>>> wrote:
>>>


 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