Re: [scifinoir2] OT: 4-day school weeks gain popularity across US
Test scores went up? I have to wonder if longer days, a shorter week,and crowded classes will in the main keep yielding that result... - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 4, 2010 9:56:01 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] OT: 4-day school weeks gain popularity across US 4-day school weeks gain popularity across US By DORIE TURNER, Associated Press Writer Fri Jun 4, 9:16 am ET FORT VALLEY, Ga. – During the school year, Mondays in this rural Georgia community are for video games, trips to grandma's house and hanging out at the neighborhood community center. Don't bother showing up for school. The doors are locked and the lights are off. Peach County is one of more than 120 school districts across the country where students attend school just four days a week, a cost-saving tactic gaining popularity among cash-strapped districts struggling to make ends meet. The 4,000-student district started shaving a day off its weekly school calendar last year to help fill a $1 million budget shortfall. It was that or lay off 39 teachers the week before school started, said Superintendent Susan Clark . We're treading water, Clark said as she stood outside the headquarters of her seven-school district. There was nothing else for us to do. The results? Test scores went up. So did attendance — for both students and teachers. The district is spending one-third of what it once did on substitute teachers , Clark said. And the graduation rate likely will be more than 80 percent for the first time in years, Clark said. The four days that students are in school are slightly longer and more crowded with classes and activities. After school, students can get tutoring in subjects where they're struggling. On their off day, students who don't have other options attend Monday care at area churches and the local Boys Girls Club, where tutors are also available to help with homework. The programs generally cost a few dollars a day per student.
Re: [scifinoir2] OT: 4-day school weeks gain popularity across US
It could be that the kids were suffering from fatigue and so the extra day off gave them a little extra time to recharge. The same effect happens with adults that work 4 day weeks. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Test scores went up? I have to wonder if longer days, a shorter week,and crowded classes will in the main keep yielding that result... - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 4, 2010 9:56:01 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] OT: 4-day school weeks gain popularity across US 4-day school weeks gain popularity across US By DORIE TURNER, Associated Press Writer Fri Jun 4, 9:16 am ET FORT VALLEY, Ga. – During the school year, Mondays in this rural Georgia community are for video games, trips to grandma's house and hanging out at the neighborhood community center. Don't bother showing up for school. The doors are locked and the lights are off. Peach County is one of more than 120 school districts across the country where students attend school just four days a week, a cost-saving tactic gaining popularity among cash-strapped districts struggling to make ends meet. The 4,000-student district started shaving a day off its weekly school calendar last year to help fill a $1 million budget shortfall. It was that or lay off 39 teachers the week before school started, said Superintendent Susan Clark. We're treading water, Clark said as she stood outside the headquarters of her seven-school district. There was nothing else for us to do. The results? Test scores went up. So did attendance — for both students and teachers. The district is spending one-third of what it once did on substitute teachers, Clark said. And the graduation rate likely will be more than 80 percent for the first time in years, Clark said. The four days that students are in school are slightly longer and more crowded with classes and activities. After school, students can get tutoring in subjects where they're struggling. On their off day, students who don't have other options attend Monday care at area churches and the local Boys Girls Club, where tutors are also available to help with homework. The programs generally cost a few dollars a day per student. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
[scifinoir2] Just finished reading Seige #4
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Re: [scifinoir2] Just finished reading Seige #4
Planning a comics run next week, George. I'll check it out while I'm there. On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 5:00 AM, George Arterberry brotherfromhow...@yahoo.com wrote: Wow -- 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
Re: [scifinoir2] OT: 4-day school weeks gain popularity across US
IMO, Mr Worf, that that's the LAST thing we need. We're already lagging in education. School weeks need to be upped to six days a week, for my two cents' worth. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: 4-day school weeks gain popularity across US By DORIE TURNER, Associated Press Writer Fri Jun 4, 9:16 am ET FORT VALLEY, Ga. – During the school year, Mondays in this rural Georgia community are for video games, trips to grandma's house and hanging out at the neighborhood community center. Don't bother showing up for school. The doors are locked and the lights are off. Peach County is one of more than 120 school districts across the country where students attend school just four days a week, a cost-saving tactic gaining popularity among cash-strapped districts struggling to make ends meet. The 4,000-student district started shaving a day off its weekly school calendar last year to help fill a $1 million budget shortfall. It was that or lay off 39 teachers the week before school started, said Superintendent Susan Clark. We're treading water, Clark said as she stood outside the headquarters of her seven-school district. There was nothing else for us to do. The results? Test scores went up. So did attendance — for both students and teachers. The district is spending one-third of what it once did on substitute teachers, Clark said. And the graduation rate likely will be more than 80 percent for the first time in years, Clark said. The four days that students are in school are slightly longer and more crowded with classes and activities. After school, students can get tutoring in subjects where they're struggling. On their off day, students who don't have other options attend Monday care at area churches and the local Boys Girls Club, where tutors are also available to help with homework. The programs generally cost a few dollars a day per student. -- 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
Re: [scifinoir2] show on creating synthetic life
Fell asleep on it, Mr Worf. Just Autotuned it for Sunday. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Did anyone watch the show on the science channel on this topic? -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- 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
Re: [scifinoir2] Chinese scientists create mini 'black hole'
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Re: [scifinoir2] McDonald's pulls cadmium-tainted 'Shrek' glasses - Yahoo! News
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Re: [scifinoir2] Wildly OT: Suspect in Peru woman's slaying arrested in Chile
Another true sociopath at work, Keith. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Reminds me of how OJ Simpson was coy in his BET interview, where he said little, and then later in his book, where he bizarrely discussed the details of how to pull of the crime he didn't commit. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 4, 2010 2:49:52 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wildly OT: Suspect in Peru woman's slaying arrested in Chile Keith, he was paid somewhere between 20,000 and 40,000 USD for an exclusive interview with a producer, trying to make his bones on Holloway's bones by hoping to coax the real story of her disappearance out of him. He played that guy like Clapton on an axe. Again, may the Peruvian death penalty be slow and painful. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: How'd he get paid? - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 4, 2010 6:20:00 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wildly OT: Suspect in Peru woman's slaying arrested in Chile Keith, I look at Aruba's inability to charge his as nothing short of massive incompetence all around. That bastich played everyone like violins, even got PAID for it. I hope that Peru's death penalty is slow and painful. On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: I think I mentioned recently that, while I can watch monster movies all day long, I've never been a fan of serial killer flicks. Dracula on my front porch? Not too concerned. Creature from the Black Lagoon coming out of the drain? No worries? But a psycho killer who likes to kill woman or children or something being in the area? Very possible, if hopefully not too probable. Every time I look at this dude's face, he's given me the creeps and made me angry at the same time. From the days of Halloway's disappearance, he's had this sly/smug/dead-eyed look that's unnerving. It's hindsight now, but I can honestly say that had I met dude and known nothing of him, that look would have registered. It's tragic that Aruba could never produce enough evidence to convict this guy. The changing stories, the ludicrous stories--you thought she'd died of drugs or something, but weren't sure, so let a friend take her out to sea?--were beyond belief. I never followed the story closely, so I'm not sure just why there wasn't enough evidence, nor what if any role his two associates had in her death. At any rate, now he's struck again--unless you believe he's the victim of the two most gruesome cases of bad luck/timing in recorded history. This guy must be some kind of sociopath with a special hatred of young women. Just be thankful he's finally been caught, though unfortunately, too late for this latest victim. Does Peru have a death penalty? * http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/03/peru.murder.case/index.html?hpt=T1 *Watch Nancy Grace tonight for the latest on reports on Joran van der Sloot. Nancy Grace http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/nancy.grace/, tonight 8 ET on HLN. * *Santiago, Chile (CNN)* -- Joran van der Sloot, the suspect in a young woman's slaying this week in Peru and previously considered a suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway in Aruba, was captured Thursday in Chile, authorities said. Van der Sloot is the main suspect in this week's slaying of 21-year-old Stephany Flores Ramirez, who was found Wednesday in a Lima, Peru, hotel room registered to the Dutch man. Chilean police told CNN that paperwork showed that van der Sloot entered Chile on Wednesday. Peruvian Interior Minister Octavio Salazar Miranda said Thursday that Peru has made arrangements with Interpol to extradite van der Sloot. Van der Sloot, 23, was traveling alone in a taxi near the Chilean central coastal city of Vina del Mar when he was detained, said Douglas Rodriguez, spokesman for the Chilean Investigative Police. Van der Sloot was transported Thursday afternoon to police headquarters in Santiago, Chile's capital. TV images showed him emerging from a black police SUV at the police station. His hair, which had been black in previous images, was red and worn in a close-cropped crew cut. In Peru, a wake was held Thursday in Lima for Flores, who was scheduled to be buried later in the day. An uncle of Natalee Holloway said he was saddened by the Flores family's loss. We are disappointed that Joran has been able to do this to another young girl, Paul Reynolds told CNN. He was not held accountable for what happened to Natalee and as a result has been able to repeat his actions. Sorry this other family has to go through the same thing
Re: [scifinoir2] o/t Terence Howard In Talks To Portray Marvin Gaye
Yes, Mr Worf, after the blood test showed them as being closely related. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Wow... That is enough to start a school alright. How did they figure out that the two kids in Cleveland were related? Did they do a dna test? On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Entirely. So far, last I read (stopped doing so because it was taking too much time to keep up with the count), eight cases had been resolved, and six of the plaintiffs had come out as his children. This makes me think of Howlin' Wolf, the old bluesman. He has, at last count, 80 children by 44 different women. The only reason that anyone began to notice was when two of his children, living in Cleveland, met, without knowing they were brother and sister, fell in love and planned to marry. The mercifully state-required blood test shot that down, and those kids started a group to look for more siblings. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Who knows. They could all be valid. The man was on the road for 40+ years. He could theoretically have a school full of kids. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Mr Worf, don't know about the Hendrix movie, but the James Brown joint is knotted up in legalese, with a number of people claiming to be his children coming out of the walls for a piece of the action. Last count, there were 35 separate claims. On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: Whatever happened to the Jimi Hendrix, and James Brown movies? On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 4:47 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: Mr Worf, it could work big. Or it could blow up in a lot of faces. It's a fine line. On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: Terence Howard In Talks To Portray Marvin Gaye By Bill Johnson http://theurbandaily.com/author/billjohnson/ June 1, 2010 3:59 pm [image: terence-howard-in-talks-to-portray-marvin-gaye] Terence Howard recently revealed that he’s been in talks with director Cameron Crowe to star in Crowe’s upcoming Marvin Gaye biopic. Speaking with a reporter from Deadline Londonhttp://m.deadline.com/2010/05/cannes-terrence-howard-in-talks-to-play-cameron-crowes-marvin-gaye/, Howard said that the director approached him to star in the film, but nothing has been finalized yet. Howard’s also quoted as saying “Everybody who loves music will hate me if I get this one wrong.” Damn right. Cameron Crowe originally reached out to Will Smith to portray the legendary soul singer, but Smith declined. Another Marvin Gaye biopic, titled *Sexual Healing*, is in the works with Jesse L Martin (”Law Order”) to play Gaye. Unlike Crowe’s film, *Sexual Healing* will only deal with the final years of Gaye’s life. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- 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 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- 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 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- 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 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- 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
Re: [scifinoir2] Did anyone see Hot Tub Time Machine?
I remember that, Keith. Great example that cited my point better than I did. Hats off! On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: That would probably make more sense, or else, if time travel existed, even one person would be constantly rewriting all of history. It's the angle taken by the writers of last year's Star Trek movie. They believe you never alter time, simply shift into a new timeline. In Marvel comics, years ago an evil wizard used a necklace of power to cast a spell turnng NYC into a land of Conan-type world of barbarism and war. Everyone's mind was altered to think this reality was normal. The wizard had a grudge against Spider-Man, and had the people hunt him down and capture him. Then he crucified Peter in the great hall where he was having a feast. The Avengers and X-Men helped stop him, after Parker literlly pulled himself off the cross, where I believe he died. Another magic worker --the Scarlet Witch perhaps?--cast a spell to change what happend in the past. The necklace contained the wizard's essence, and hadbeen found by hapless mortal who was then taken over by the wizard. In the new timeline, the necklace fell into the gutter. I distinctly seem to remember them sayng that the old timeline in which Spider-Man died still existed,and they shifted the surviving heroes to the new timeline in which the new Spider-Man and everyone else was okay. Obviously the Avengers and X-Men didn't exist in that reality, as they were replaced by the old group, who alone remembered the other timeline. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 4, 2010 2:55:39 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Did anyone see Hot Tub Time Machine? Mr Worf, there are those who say that, in line with the many-worlds hypothesis of Everett and Wheeler, were you to go back and alter the past and then go back forward, you'd turn up in a divergent reality, while the one you were originally in would still be there, and you'd never be able to get back unless you ahd the wisdom to go back to the second BEFORE you altered the past and then go back. THAT would concoct a major paradox which, if you believe Hawking, wouldn't be allowed by the Cosmos. Some would say that Hawking would win out ab initio, and refuse to let you alter the past. I'm firmly in the former camp, personally. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: It took me a while to get around to seeing this film. The entire film was basically an homage to movies from the 80s which made it a little more authentic as long as you don't think about it. If you haven't seen the movie, 3 old friends, and a nephew decide to take a guy's weekend to a ski lodge that was their favorite haunt when they were in their late teens. That's all I can really say without giving away the movie. What kind of bothered me was if you travel backward in time then forward again and the world has changed, what happens to you and all of the experiences that you were supposed to have? Do you suddenly remember them? Or are you a completely different person and you have created a paradox? (a major one appeared in the movie) I know I keep bringing up this topic, so please forgive me. :) -- 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] Fwd: Rosie Huntington-Whitely Confirmed for Transformers 3
-- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Baxter martin.baxter@gmail.com Date: Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:51 PM Subject: Rosie Huntington-Whitely Confirmed for Transformers 3 To: martinbaxt...@gmail.com Alright, ladies and gents, with me, on three. One... Two... Three... WHO http://english.ohmygore.com/rosie-huntington-whiteley-confirmed-for-transformers-3-news-uk-7209.html Mind you, I've never HEARD of this site before today, so here's something to go with the story. [image: Morton-Salt-photo-by-flickr-user-_nickd.jpg] -- Between getsumei no michi and the Zero...no better place to live. (About little moments of happiness) If this isn't nice, I don't know what is. -- Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country -- 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] Fwd: Nine Hobbits That Could Happen
Let us all cringe in advance at Possibility Number Five... -- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Baxter martin.baxter@gmail.com Date: Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:59 PM Subject: Nine Hobbits That Could Happen To: martinbaxt...@gmail.com posted Thursday June 03, 2010 11:28am EDT Nine *Hobbit*s that Could Happen Genevieve Valentinehttp://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_comprofileruser=1539 Ever since TheOneRing.net dropped the newsbombhttp://www.theonering.net/torwp/2010/05/30/36920-guillermo-del-toro-departs-the-hobbit/that Guillermo del Toro was departing *The Hobbit *(citing production delays that have hamstrung the epic two-parter for nearly a year), speculation has raged. With budget problems, studio delays, and a three-year schedule that’s stretched to six, things don’t sound like they’re going to get any easier. Who’s going to direct this thing now? The *Hobbit *camp has not put forth any names for del Toro’s suggested replacement. As fans, clearly that’s our job. Below the cut, nine ways this train wreck can go. *1. Christopher Nolan * A dark thriller in which Bilbo the hobbit is conscripted into a shadowy gang of inscrutable dwarves, and a sorcerer who seems both fair and foul. In a desperate attempt to free himself, he tumbles down a mountain and will use every ounce of his courage to obtain a golden ring. Is it what he needs to save himself, or a trap from which there’s no escape? And you won’t believe the third-act twist about Bofur and Bombur. Not that it will matter either way; we won’t hear another word about the movie until it comes out. *2. George Lucas* Bilbo is a lonely young hobbit trapped in his house under the hill in a remote Shire, waiting desperately for adventure to find him. When wise and supernaturally-gifted Gandalf appears, Bilbo isn’t about to miss his chance. Along with the grouchy and in-it-for-the-money Thorin and his hirsute/hard-to-decipher backup dwarves, Bilbo will enter a world full of alien beings he’s never dreamed of, and will have to learn how to harness a magical gift in order to survive a coming war. Bonus: in 2032, Lucas will release a version in which Smaug shoots first. *3. Kathryn Bigelow* A taut, atmospheric movie about a hobbit in over his head, the flawed but compelling dwarf king that leads his quest, the glory-hungry Bard of Laketown who will come through in a clinch, and the morally-ambiguous wizard who will save them all from danger after twenty minutes of slow-motion tension about it. No need for a second movie, even, since she’d wrap it up in about eighty minutes. Frankly, it sounds good to me. Potential downside: previous casting of Bill Paxton makes her taste in actors suspect. Just because someone is letting James McAvoy play Professor X http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64R01H20100528 doesn’t mean he should be Bilbo, too. Don’t let him into EVERY franchise, for crying out loud. *4. Chris Weitz* After the money *New Moon* made, this dude could probably leverage his way into the short list. Result: a movie about Gollum sitting in a cave for two hours with a camera circling him as indie rock plays in the background, and then fifteen hours of deleted scenes about Bilbo and the dwarves that will be available on the DVD release. (At least he already has all the CGI wargs ready to go.) *5. Michael Bay* RUN! THE TROLLS ARE RIGHT BEHIND YOU, RUN, DAMMIT! RUN! I SAID RUN! *6. Alex Proyas* A moody character study of a man on a quest to discover the dark beast that’s haunted his dreams, with memorable supporting players, a monster in every shadow, and a few moments of beautiful filmmaking…just before Will Smith shows up. No lie, I’d like to see if Alex Proyas could do to the countryside what he did for cities in *The Crow* and *Dark City*, but since then he’s put out *I, Robot* and *Knowing*, which does not exactly inspire cinematic confidence. (Good news: he’s in pre-production hell on *Dracula: Year One*, so it’s not like he’s a stranger to the waiting-around rigmarole.) *7. Ridley Scott* His movies are seriously hit-or-miss, but when the script is solid he can certainly produce the rich visuals an epic requires. Sure, it would end up as a movie about the tortured Thorin’s search for redemption, and nearly all the supporting dwarves would kick the bucket, but he can film battle scenes in his sleep, and if there’s anyone who knows how to drive home the quest theme, it’s him. (Bonus: it will keep him from making the *Monopoly* movie he keeps threatening us all with.) *8. Tim Burton* Bilbo Baggins is the very loneliest hobbit of them all, until some CGI-enhanced dwarves come to take him to a magical land filled with trilling songs and a vaguely-effeminate wizard (Johnny Depp) who doesn’t like messes but, deep down, just wants to be loved by a hobbit he can look on as a son. Helena Bonham-Carter voices Smaug, who spends the second half of the movie delivering a darling series of quips on what it’s like to be
Re: [scifinoir2] Star Trek Plot Generator
Keith, you've struck gold! On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: This is a bit crude, but hilarious! I especially like the encounters and as well as, with choices like godlike being, and the Kirk delivers a speech/right hook! I'm sure more detailed versions exist out there, perhaps ones that actually show the overall results of the steps one chooses to follow... http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/trek/gen.html *The DIY Star Trek Script Flowchart* Have you ever wondered what kind of adventures the Starship Enterprise under Captain Kirk would have run into in the fourth year of their five-year mission, if it hadn't been cancelled after three? You have? Well, stop it! We all know perfectly well what they'd have run into - more of the same, as generated from the standard formula reproduced below. To create a new Star Trek (TOS) plotline, simply run through the table from the top, following any path you like as long as you only go *downwards* or *across within a cell*, and assemble its output into an episode synopsis! All resulting scripts are guaranteed to contain at least 20% authentic-style Roddenberry flavouring and are practically indistinguishable from real episodes of the Original Series, not to mention the Animated Series (ever). -- 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
Re: [scifinoir2] Fwd: Rosie Huntington-Whitely Confirmed for Transformers 3
Here's the credits that she has. 1. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Showhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1552637/(2009) (TV) Herself 2. Britain's Next Top Model http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481440/ Herself (1 episode, 2009) - Episode #5.13 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1468433/ (2009) TV episode Herself 3. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Showhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1328650/(2008) (TV) Herself - Model 4. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Showhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179303/(2007) (TV) Herself/Model 5. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Showhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0926417/(2006) (TV) Herself/Model Ummm do you think she is going to be eye candy? On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Baxter martin.baxter@gmail.com Date: Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:51 PM Subject: Rosie Huntington-Whitely Confirmed for Transformers 3 To: martinbaxt...@gmail.com Alright, ladies and gents, with me, on three. One... Two... Three... WHO http://english.ohmygore.com/rosie-huntington-whiteley-confirmed-for-transformers-3-news-uk-7209.html Mind you, I've never HEARD of this site before today, so here's something to go with the story. [image: Morton-Salt-photo-by-flickr-user-_nickd.jpg] -- Between getsumei no michi and the Zero...no better place to live. (About little moments of happiness) If this isn't nice, I don't know what is. -- Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country -- 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 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] o/t Terence Howard In Talks To Portray Marvin Gaye
They never talk about the after effects of stuff like that. Do they go to counseling? This was someone that they were ready to spend the rest of their life with and they have to turn that off. It would have to be heart wrenching. On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 3:56 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Yes, Mr Worf, after the blood test showed them as being closely related. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Wow... That is enough to start a school alright. How did they figure out that the two kids in Cleveland were related? Did they do a dna test? On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Entirely. So far, last I read (stopped doing so because it was taking too much time to keep up with the count), eight cases had been resolved, and six of the plaintiffs had come out as his children. This makes me think of Howlin' Wolf, the old bluesman. He has, at last count, 80 children by 44 different women. The only reason that anyone began to notice was when two of his children, living in Cleveland, met, without knowing they were brother and sister, fell in love and planned to marry. The mercifully state-required blood test shot that down, and those kids started a group to look for more siblings. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: Who knows. They could all be valid. The man was on the road for 40+ years. He could theoretically have a school full of kids. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Mr Worf, don't know about the Hendrix movie, but the James Brown joint is knotted up in legalese, with a number of people claiming to be his children coming out of the walls for a piece of the action. Last count, there were 35 separate claims. On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: Whatever happened to the Jimi Hendrix, and James Brown movies? On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 4:47 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: Mr Worf, it could work big. Or it could blow up in a lot of faces. It's a fine line. On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: Terence Howard In Talks To Portray Marvin Gaye By Bill Johnson http://theurbandaily.com/author/billjohnson/ June 1, 2010 3:59 pm [image: terence-howard-in-talks-to-portray-marvin-gaye] Terence Howard recently revealed that he’s been in talks with director Cameron Crowe to star in Crowe’s upcoming Marvin Gaye biopic. Speaking with a reporter from Deadline Londonhttp://m.deadline.com/2010/05/cannes-terrence-howard-in-talks-to-play-cameron-crowes-marvin-gaye/, Howard said that the director approached him to star in the film, but nothing has been finalized yet. Howard’s also quoted as saying “Everybody who loves music will hate me if I get this one wrong.” Damn right. Cameron Crowe originally reached out to Will Smith to portray the legendary soul singer, but Smith declined. Another Marvin Gaye biopic, titled *Sexual Healing*, is in the works with Jesse L Martin (”Law Order”) to play Gaye. Unlike Crowe’s film, *Sexual Healing* will only deal with the final years of Gaye’s life. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- 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 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- 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 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- 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 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- 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 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] show on creating synthetic life
The show itself covers the history of the research that produced the results. The after show is the most interesting to me because there were several groupings of people put together to discuss it. Everyone from the doctor that created it to a representative from the Vatican. On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 3:40 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Fell asleep on it, Mr Worf. Just Autotuned it for Sunday. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Did anyone watch the show on the science channel on this topic? -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- 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 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] OT: 4-day school weeks gain popularity across US
I don't think that it is the amount of time in class but the focus. There are too many distractions in school. Also I think that a lot of teachers need retraining in their teaching methods. The results of the grades going up can't be an anomaly. There are too many students that were involved. This reminded me of a topic that I wanted to bring up a while back. In the star trek world, there are so many additional topics that would have to be learned that at some point they would run out of time. They would be in their 30s before they set foot on a starship. On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: IMO, Mr Worf, that that's the LAST thing we need. We're already lagging in education. School weeks need to be upped to six days a week, for my two cents' worth. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: 4-day school weeks gain popularity across US By DORIE TURNER, Associated Press Writer Fri Jun 4, 9:16 am ET FORT VALLEY, Ga. – During the school year, Mondays in this rural Georgia community are for video games, trips to grandma's house and hanging out at the neighborhood community center. Don't bother showing up for school. The doors are locked and the lights are off. Peach County is one of more than 120 school districts across the country where students attend school just four days a week, a cost-saving tactic gaining popularity among cash-strapped districts struggling to make ends meet. The 4,000-student district started shaving a day off its weekly school calendar last year to help fill a $1 million budget shortfall. It was that or lay off 39 teachers the week before school started, said Superintendent Susan Clark. We're treading water, Clark said as she stood outside the headquarters of her seven-school district. There was nothing else for us to do. The results? Test scores went up. So did attendance — for both students and teachers. The district is spending one-third of what it once did on substitute teachers, Clark said. And the graduation rate likely will be more than 80 percent for the first time in years, Clark said. The four days that students are in school are slightly longer and more crowded with classes and activities. After school, students can get tutoring in subjects where they're struggling. On their off day, students who don't have other options attend Monday care at area churches and the local Boys Girls Club, where tutors are also available to help with homework. The programs generally cost a few dollars a day per student. -- 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 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Just finished reading Seige #4
Yeah, good stuff. The stuff with Sentry was great. Spoilers. Although, what did Osborn mean by saying he was the Angel of Death? They didn't really explain how that happened, how the formula bonded the Angel (I'm assuming that's the deal) wth Bob, or why it made him into a murdering psychopath instead of an entity that carried out missions for Heaven. And, how was Thor able to finally kill hm with that final blow, when all other deaths failed to do so? Morganna blew him into bits, his wife shot his face off, and he recovered. Stark dropped the HAMMER carrier on him and he recovered. Thor hits him with Mjolnir, and he turns into a skeleton but can't regenerate. Why is that? - Original Message - From: George Arterberry brotherfromhow...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 5, 2010 5:00:15 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Just finished reading Seige #4 Wow
Re: [scifinoir2] Just finished reading Seige #4
Thats how Bendis writes. There is never any consistency in a BMB written story. The plot lines are great, the character dialog is good, but there is never any consistency in character traits, development or actions. His whole run on New Avengers was that way. I was beginning to think the only reason he was writing the book was to make the hood into a big player. Jeff On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Yeah, good stuff. The stuff with Sentry was great. Spoilers. Although, what did Osborn mean by saying he was the Angel of Death? They didn't really explain how that happened, how the formula bonded the Angel (I'm assuming that's the deal) wth Bob, or why it made him into a murdering psychopath instead of an entity that carried out missions for Heaven. And, how was Thor able to finally kill hm with that final blow, when all other deaths failed to do so? Morganna blew him into bits, his wife shot his face off, and he recovered. Stark dropped the HAMMER carrier on him and he recovered. Thor hits him with Mjolnir, and he turns into a skeleton but can't regenerate. Why is that? - Original Message - From: George Arterberry brotherfromhow...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 5, 2010 5:00:15 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Just finished reading Seige #4 Wow
[scifinoir2] Google Today Pays Homage to Inventor of Holography
Amazing. I'm a laser and holography fanatic, and have read tons of books on the topics, but his name didn't ring a bell... Wiki article below. Also check out the Nobel site link, where Gabor's self-written bio is published. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1971/gabor-autobio.html * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Gabor Dennis Gabor (original Hungarian name: Gábor Dénes ) CBE , FRS , (5 June 1900, Budapest – 8 February 1979, London ) was a British - Hungarian [ 1 ] Jewish electrical engineer and inventor, most notable for inventing holography , for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics . Biography He was born as Gábor Dénes, [ 2 ] into a Jewish family in Budapest , Hungary . [ 3 ] He served with the Hungarian artillery in northern Italy during World War I . [ 3 ] He studied at the Technical University of Budapest from 1918, later in Germany , at the Charlottenburg Technical University in Berlin , now known as the Technical University of Berlin . [ 2 ] At the start of his career, he analyzed the properties of high voltage electric transmission lines by using cathode-beam oscillographs, which led to his interest in electron optics. [ 2 ] Studying the fundamental processes of the oscillograph , Gabor was led to other electron-beam devices such as electron microscopes and TV tubes. He eventually wrote his Ph.D. thesis concerning the cathode ray tube in 1927, and worked on plasma lamps . [ 2 ] As a Jew, Gabor fled from Nazi Germany in 1933, and was invited to Britain to work at the development department of the British Thomson-Houston company in Rugby, Warwickshire . During his time in Rugby, he met Marjorie Butler, and they married in 1936. He became a British citizen in 1946, [ 4 ] and it was while working at British Thomson-Houston that he invented holography, in 1947. [ 5 ] He experimented with a heavily filtered mercury arc light source . [ 2 ] However, the earliest hologram was only realized in 1964 following the 1960 invention of the laser , the first coherent light source. After this, holography became commercially available. Gabor's research focused on electron inputs and outputs, which led him to the invention of re-holography . [ 2 ] The basic idea was that for perfect optical imaging, the total of all the information has to be used; not only the amplitude, as in usual optical imaging, but also the phase. In this manner a complete holo-spatial picture can be obtained. [ 2 ] Gabor published his theories of re-holography in a series of papers between 1946 and 1951. [ 2 ] Gabor also researched how human beings communicate and hear; the result of his investigations was the theory of granular synthesis , although Greek composer Iannis Xenakis claimed that he was actually the first inventor of this synthesis technique. [ 6 ] In 1948 Gabor moved from Rugby to Imperial College London , and in 1958 became professor of Applied Physics until his retirement in 1967. While spending much of his retirement in Italy , he remained connected with Imperial College as a Senior Research Fellow and also became Staff Scientist of CBS Laboratories , in Stamford, Connecticut ; there, he collaborated with his life-long friend, CBS Labs' president Dr. Peter C. Goldmark in many new schemes of communication and display. One of Imperial College's new halls of residence in Prince's Gardens, Knightsbridge is named Gabor Hall in honour of Gabor's contribution to Imperial College. He developed an interest in social analysis and published The Mature Society: a view of the future in 1972. Following the rapid development of lasers and a wide variety of holographic applications (e.g. art, information storage, recognition of patterns), Gabor achieved acknowledged success and worldwide attention during his lifetime. [ 2 ] He received numerous awards beside the Nobel Prize.
Re: [scifinoir2] Just finished reading Seige #4 - Spoilers
Yeah, i was completely lost. One of the Dark Avengers books starts off with the Angel of Death killing the first born in Egypt during Moses' time. Then we flash to his wife, who tells the true origin story of Sentry,a nd they hint that he needs the formula periodically to enhance his powers, but suggested that doing so makes the Void stronger. His wife implies that his powers are more primal/mystica in nature, and Osborn later says the same. But again, they didn't delve into that, so I have no idea how or why an angel bonded to him. I mean, the incarnation of Death that Marvel always pulls out isn't by nature good or evil. It just is. So why is the Angel of Death in Bob's body turning him evil? - Original Message - From: Jeff Carter mbsj...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 5, 2010 10:16:23 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Just finished reading Seige #4 Thats how Bendis writes. There is never any consistency in a BMB written story. The plot lines are great, the character dialog is good, but there is never any consistency in character traits, development or actions. His whole run on New Avengers was that way. I was beginning to think the only reason he was writing the book was to make the hood into a big player. Jeff On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Yeah, good stuff. The stuff with Sentry was great. Spoilers. Although, what did Osborn mean by saying he was the Angel of Death? They didn't really explain how that happened, how the formula bonded the Angel (I'm assuming that's the deal) wth Bob, or why it made him into a murdering psychopath instead of an entity that carried out missions for Heaven. And, how was Thor able to finally kill hm with that final blow, when all other deaths failed to do so? Morganna blew him into bits, his wife shot his face off, and he recovered. Stark dropped the HAMMER carrier on him and he recovered. Thor hits him with Mjolnir, and he turns into a skeleton but can't regenerate. Why is that? - Original Message - From: George Arterberry brotherfromhow...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 5, 2010 5:00:15 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Just finished reading Seige #4 Wow
Re: [scifinoir2] Fwd: Rosie Huntington-Whitely Confirmed for Transformers 3
This is so funny. They have to confront head on the complete lack of acting ability required to star in a film like this. Has the girl ever acted in anything? Man, I'll be glad when the standard of beauty shifts back to voluptuous women and not these skinny, girlish looking models. Meagan Fox is prettier than most models, but I always laugh when guys talk about her great body. She's slim as heck. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 5, 2010 8:20:16 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Fwd: Rosie Huntington-Whitely Confirmed for Transformers 3 Here's the credits that she has. 1. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show (2009) (TV) Herself 2. Britain's Next Top Model Herself (1 episode, 2009) - Episode #5.13 (2009) TV episode Herself 3. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show (2008) (TV) Herself - Model 4. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show (2007) (TV) Herself/Model 5. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show (2006) (TV) Herself/Model Ummm do you think she is going to be eye candy? On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Baxter martin.baxter@gmail.com Date: Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:51 PM Subject: Rosie Huntington-Whitely Confirmed for Transformers 3 To: martinbaxt...@gmail.com Alright, ladies and gents, with me, on three. One... Two... Three... WHO http://english.ohmygore.com/rosie-huntington-whiteley-confirmed-for-transformers-3-news-uk-7209.html Mind you, I've never HEARD of this site before today, so here's something to go with the story. Morton-Salt-photo-by-flickr-user-_nickd.jpg -- Between getsumei no michi and the Zero...no better place to live. (About little moments of happiness) If this isn't nice, I don't know what is. -- Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country -- 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 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
[scifinoir2] Re: Did anyone see Hot Tub Time Machine?
I love Craig Robinson. He is hilarious in Zack and Miri Make a Porno. ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... wrote: It took me a while to get around to seeing this film. The entire film was basically an homage to movies from the 80s which made it a little more authentic as long as you don't think about it. If you haven't seen the movie, 3 old friends, and a nephew decide to take a guy's weekend to a ski lodge that was their favorite haunt when they were in their late teens. That's all I can really say without giving away the movie. What kind of bothered me was if you travel backward in time then forward again and the world has changed, what happens to you and all of the experiences that you were supposed to have? Do you suddenly remember them? Or are you a completely different person and you have created a paradox? (a major one appeared in the movie) I know I keep bringing up this topic, so please forgive me. :)
[scifinoir2] Re: Fwd: Rosie Huntington-Whitely Confirmed for Transformers 3
Jesus, she can act! (from an old PLAYERS magazine cartoon - circa 1976 - where a male movie patron blurts this while watching a 20 foot-tall, well-endowed, topless actress brandishing gun belts and machine guns on the screen) ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... wrote: Here's the credits that she has. 1. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Showhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1552637/(2009) (TV) Herself 2. Britain's Next Top Model http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481440/ Herself (1 episode, 2009) - Episode #5.13 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1468433/ (2009) TV episode Herself 3. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Showhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1328650/(2008) (TV) Herself - Model 4. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Showhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179303/(2007) (TV) Herself/Model 5. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Showhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0926417/(2006) (TV) Herself/Model Ummm do you think she is going to be eye candy? On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@...wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Baxter martin.baxter@... Date: Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:51 PM Subject: Rosie Huntington-Whitely Confirmed for Transformers 3 To: martinbaxt...@... Alright, ladies and gents, with me, on three. One... Two... Three... WHO http://english.ohmygore.com/rosie-huntington-whiteley-confirmed-for-transformers-3-news-uk-7209.html Mind you, I've never HEARD of this site before today, so here's something to go with the story. [image: Morton-Salt-photo-by-flickr-user-_nickd.jpg] -- Between getsumei no michi and the Zero...no better place to live. (About little moments of happiness) If this isn't nice, I don't know what is. -- Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country -- 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 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
[scifinoir2] Black Jesus is Coming
http://www.blackjesusthemovie.com/shell.html
[scifinoir2] Luc Besson's Angel-A
I just saw Luc Besson's Angel-A last night. I love this movie. The black and white cinematography is gorgeous and the ending is killer. I consider Angel-A the third leg of an unofficial trilogy that begins with La Femme Nakita and includes one of my personal faves The Fifth Element (the only movie I have seen more times is Pulp Fiction). ~rave!
Re: [scifinoir2] Fwd: Rosie Huntington-Whitely Confirmed for Transformers 3
Mr Worf, I really don't see how... On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Here's the credits that she has. 1. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Showhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1552637/(2009) (TV) Herself 2. Britain's Next Top Model http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481440/ Herself (1 episode, 2009) - Episode #5.13 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1468433/ (2009) TV episode Herself 3. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Showhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1328650/(2008) (TV) Herself - Model 4. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Showhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179303/(2007) (TV) Herself/Model 5. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Showhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0926417/(2006) (TV) Herself/Model Ummm do you think she is going to be eye candy? On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Baxter martin.baxter@gmail.com Date: Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:51 PM Subject: Rosie Huntington-Whitely Confirmed for Transformers 3 To: martinbaxt...@gmail.com Alright, ladies and gents, with me, on three. One... Two... Three... WHO http://english.ohmygore.com/rosie-huntington-whiteley-confirmed-for-transformers-3-news-uk-7209.html Mind you, I've never HEARD of this site before today, so here's something to go with the story. [image: Morton-Salt-photo-by-flickr-user-_nickd.jpg] -- Between getsumei no michi and the Zero...no better place to live. (About little moments of happiness) If this isn't nice, I don't know what is. -- Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country -- 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 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- 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
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Fwd: Rosie Huntington-Whitely Confirmed for Transformers 3
The Wisdom of the Ages! Thanks for bringing it, rave! On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote: Jesus, she can act! (from an old PLAYERS magazine cartoon - circa 1976 - where a male movie patron blurts this while watching a 20 foot-tall, well-endowed, topless actress brandishing gun belts and machine guns on the screen) ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... wrote: Here's the credits that she has. 1. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Showhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1552637/(2009) (TV) Herself 2. Britain's Next Top Model http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481440/ Herself (1 episode, 2009) - Episode #5.13 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1468433/ (2009) TV episode Herself 3. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Showhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1328650/(2008) (TV) Herself - Model 4. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Showhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179303/(2007) (TV) Herself/Model 5. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Showhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0926417/(2006) (TV) Herself/Model Ummm do you think she is going to be eye candy? On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@...wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Baxter martin.baxter@... Date: Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:51 PM Subject: Rosie Huntington-Whitely Confirmed for Transformers 3 To: martinbaxt...@... Alright, ladies and gents, with me, on three. One... Two... Three... WHO http://english.ohmygore.com/rosie-huntington-whiteley-confirmed-for-transformers-3-news-uk-7209.html Mind you, I've never HEARD of this site before today, so here's something to go with the story. [image: Morton-Salt-photo-by-flickr-user-_nickd.jpg] -- Between getsumei no michi and the Zero...no better place to live. (About little moments of happiness) If this isn't nice, I don't know what is. -- Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country -- 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 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- 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
Re: [scifinoir2] Fwd: Rosie Huntington-Whitely Confirmed for Transformers 3
Keith, I'm waiting as well. On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: This is so funny. They have to confront head on the complete lack of acting ability required to star in a film like this. Has the girl ever acted in anything? Man, I'll be glad when the standard of beauty shifts back to voluptuous women and not these skinny, girlish looking models. Meagan Fox is prettier than most models, but I always laugh when guys talk about her great body. She's slim as heck. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 5, 2010 8:20:16 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Fwd: Rosie Huntington-Whitely Confirmed for Transformers 3 Here's the credits that she has. 1. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Showhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1552637/(2009) (TV) Herself 2. Britain's Next Top Model http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481440/ Herself (1 episode, 2009) - Episode #5.13 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1468433/ (2009) TV episode Herself 3. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Showhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1328650/(2008) (TV) Herself - Model 4. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Showhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179303/(2007) (TV) Herself/Model 5. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Showhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0926417/(2006) (TV) Herself/Model Ummm do you think she is going to be eye candy? On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Baxter martin.baxter@gmail.com Date: Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:51 PM Subject: Rosie Huntington-Whitely Confirmed for Transformers 3 To: martinbaxt...@gmail.com Alright, ladies and gents, with me, on three. One... Two... Three... WHO http://english.ohmygore.com/rosie-huntington-whiteley-confirmed-for-transformers-3-news-uk-7209.html Mind you, I've never HEARD of this site before today, so here's something to go with the story. [image: Morton-Salt-photo-by-flickr-user-_nickd.jpg] -- Between getsumei no michi and the Zero...no better place to live. (About little moments of happiness) If this isn't nice, I don't know what is. -- Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country -- 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 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- 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
Re: [scifinoir2] Just finished reading Seige #4
Keith, I always figured that that kill stuck because of the mystical properties of Mjolnir. On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Yeah, good stuff. The stuff with Sentry was great. Spoilers. Although, what did Osborn mean by saying he was the Angel of Death? They didn't really explain how that happened, how the formula bonded the Angel (I'm assuming that's the deal) wth Bob, or why it made him into a murdering psychopath instead of an entity that carried out missions for Heaven. And, how was Thor able to finally kill hm with that final blow, when all other deaths failed to do so? Morganna blew him into bits, his wife shot his face off, and he recovered. Stark dropped the HAMMER carrier on him and he recovered. Thor hits him with Mjolnir, and he turns into a skeleton but can't regenerate. Why is that? - Original Message - From: George Arterberry brotherfromhow...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 5, 2010 5:00:15 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Just finished reading Seige #4 Wow -- 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
Re: [scifinoir2] OT: 4-day school weeks gain popularity across US
Mr Worf, I agree with you about the need for removing distractions, but still want the extra time put in. When I was in school, it was from 7:45 in the morning to 3:00 in the afternoon, with forty minutes for lunch. Extra time and work never hurt anyone. And I had the same thought regarding Star Trek as well. The closest thing to an explanation I ever got for that was from TNG, when Captain Picard, if memory serves, once implied that education in Starfleet was more-or-less an ongoing process, even while one wears the uniform. On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think that it is the amount of time in class but the focus. There are too many distractions in school. Also I think that a lot of teachers need retraining in their teaching methods. The results of the grades going up can't be an anomaly. There are too many students that were involved. This reminded me of a topic that I wanted to bring up a while back. In the star trek world, there are so many additional topics that would have to be learned that at some point they would run out of time. They would be in their 30s before they set foot on a starship. On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: IMO, Mr Worf, that that's the LAST thing we need. We're already lagging in education. School weeks need to be upped to six days a week, for my two cents' worth. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: 4-day school weeks gain popularity across US By DORIE TURNER, Associated Press Writer Fri Jun 4, 9:16 am ET FORT VALLEY, Ga. – During the school year, Mondays in this rural Georgia community are for video games, trips to grandma's house and hanging out at the neighborhood community center. Don't bother showing up for school. The doors are locked and the lights are off. Peach County is one of more than 120 school districts across the country where students attend school just four days a week, a cost-saving tactic gaining popularity among cash-strapped districts struggling to make ends meet. The 4,000-student district started shaving a day off its weekly school calendar last year to help fill a $1 million budget shortfall. It was that or lay off 39 teachers the week before school started, said Superintendent Susan Clark. We're treading water, Clark said as she stood outside the headquarters of her seven-school district. There was nothing else for us to do. The results? Test scores went up. So did attendance — for both students and teachers. The district is spending one-third of what it once did on substitute teachers, Clark said. And the graduation rate likely will be more than 80 percent for the first time in years, Clark said. The four days that students are in school are slightly longer and more crowded with classes and activities. After school, students can get tutoring in subjects where they're struggling. On their off day, students who don't have other options attend Monday care at area churches and the local Boys Girls Club, where tutors are also available to help with homework. The programs generally cost a few dollars a day per student. -- 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 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- 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
Re: [scifinoir2] show on creating synthetic life
I'll be there tomorrow, especially to hear Holy Mother Church's take on the matter. On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: The show itself covers the history of the research that produced the results. The after show is the most interesting to me because there were several groupings of people put together to discuss it. Everyone from the doctor that created it to a representative from the Vatican. On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 3:40 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Fell asleep on it, Mr Worf. Just Autotuned it for Sunday. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Did anyone watch the show on the science channel on this topic? -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- 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 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- 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
Re: [scifinoir2] o/t Terence Howard In Talks To Portray Marvin Gaye
Mr Worf, those two were in long-term counseling for it. If memory serves, they were on a talk show about it. I want to say Oprah, but I'm nto certain. On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: They never talk about the after effects of stuff like that. Do they go to counseling? This was someone that they were ready to spend the rest of their life with and they have to turn that off. It would have to be heart wrenching. On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 3:56 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Yes, Mr Worf, after the blood test showed them as being closely related. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Wow... That is enough to start a school alright. How did they figure out that the two kids in Cleveland were related? Did they do a dna test? On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Entirely. So far, last I read (stopped doing so because it was taking too much time to keep up with the count), eight cases had been resolved, and six of the plaintiffs had come out as his children. This makes me think of Howlin' Wolf, the old bluesman. He has, at last count, 80 children by 44 different women. The only reason that anyone began to notice was when two of his children, living in Cleveland, met, without knowing they were brother and sister, fell in love and planned to marry. The mercifully state-required blood test shot that down, and those kids started a group to look for more siblings. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: Who knows. They could all be valid. The man was on the road for 40+ years. He could theoretically have a school full of kids. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: Mr Worf, don't know about the Hendrix movie, but the James Brown joint is knotted up in legalese, with a number of people claiming to be his children coming out of the walls for a piece of the action. Last count, there were 35 separate claims. On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: Whatever happened to the Jimi Hendrix, and James Brown movies? On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 4:47 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: Mr Worf, it could work big. Or it could blow up in a lot of faces. It's a fine line. On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: Terence Howard In Talks To Portray Marvin Gaye By Bill Johnson http://theurbandaily.com/author/billjohnson/June 1, 2010 3:59 pm [image: terence-howard-in-talks-to-portray-marvin-gaye] Terence Howard recently revealed that he’s been in talks with director Cameron Crowe to star in Crowe’s upcoming Marvin Gaye biopic. Speaking with a reporter from Deadline Londonhttp://m.deadline.com/2010/05/cannes-terrence-howard-in-talks-to-play-cameron-crowes-marvin-gaye/, Howard said that the director approached him to star in the film, but nothing has been finalized yet. Howard’s also quoted as saying “Everybody who loves music will hate me if I get this one wrong.” Damn right. Cameron Crowe originally reached out to Will Smith to portray the legendary soul singer, but Smith declined. Another Marvin Gaye biopic, titled *Sexual Healing*, is in the works with Jesse L Martin (”Law Order”) to play Gaye. Unlike Crowe’s film, *Sexual Healing* will only deal with the final years of Gaye’s life. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- 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 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- 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 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- 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 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- 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 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E
Re: [scifinoir2] OT: 4-day school weeks gain popularity across US
Yea that's true. STNG did make it seem that folks were still learning about their craft off hours which was interesting. In a couple of episodes, folks had created something in their off time that was beneficial to the situation. The problem with the longer hours is having time for homework. A lot of teachers assign homework without taking in consideration for the other teachers. So you could end up on a daily basis with 6 or 7 hours of homework a couple of days a week. That's on top of the after school activities (soccer practice etc.) So a lot of kids start becoming sleep deprived. On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Mr Worf, I agree with you about the need for removing distractions, but still want the extra time put in. When I was in school, it was from 7:45 in the morning to 3:00 in the afternoon, with forty minutes for lunch. Extra time and work never hurt anyone. And I had the same thought regarding Star Trek as well. The closest thing to an explanation I ever got for that was from TNG, when Captain Picard, if memory serves, once implied that education in Starfleet was more-or-less an ongoing process, even while one wears the uniform. On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think that it is the amount of time in class but the focus. There are too many distractions in school. Also I think that a lot of teachers need retraining in their teaching methods. The results of the grades going up can't be an anomaly. There are too many students that were involved. This reminded me of a topic that I wanted to bring up a while back. In the star trek world, there are so many additional topics that would have to be learned that at some point they would run out of time. They would be in their 30s before they set foot on a starship. On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: IMO, Mr Worf, that that's the LAST thing we need. We're already lagging in education. School weeks need to be upped to six days a week, for my two cents' worth. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: 4-day school weeks gain popularity across US By DORIE TURNER, Associated Press Writer Fri Jun 4, 9:16 am ET FORT VALLEY, Ga. – During the school year, Mondays in this rural Georgia community are for video games, trips to grandma's house and hanging out at the neighborhood community center. Don't bother showing up for school. The doors are locked and the lights are off. Peach County is one of more than 120 school districts across the country where students attend school just four days a week, a cost-saving tactic gaining popularity among cash-strapped districts struggling to make ends meet. The 4,000-student district started shaving a day off its weekly school calendar last year to help fill a $1 million budget shortfall. It was that or lay off 39 teachers the week before school started, said Superintendent Susan Clark. We're treading water, Clark said as she stood outside the headquarters of her seven-school district. There was nothing else for us to do. The results? Test scores went up. So did attendance — for both students and teachers. The district is spending one-third of what it once did on substitute teachers, Clark said. And the graduation rate likely will be more than 80 percent for the first time in years, Clark said. The four days that students are in school are slightly longer and more crowded with classes and activities. After school, students can get tutoring in subjects where they're struggling. On their off day, students who don't have other options attend Monday care at area churches and the local Boys Girls Club, where tutors are also available to help with homework. The programs generally cost a few dollars a day per student. -- 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 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- 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 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Fwd: Rosie Huntington-Whitely Confirmed for Transformers 3
She looks like a teenager and that's why they picked her. I don't know if the beauty standards will ever shift back. Not without a collective stand on it. They have pretty much brainwashed the actresses into loosing that last 20lbs Even Beyonce doesn't have a booty anymore. On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: This is so funny. They have to confront head on the complete lack of acting ability required to star in a film like this. Has the girl ever acted in anything? Man, I'll be glad when the standard of beauty shifts back to voluptuous women and not these skinny, girlish looking models. Meagan Fox is prettier than most models, but I always laugh when guys talk about her great body. She's slim as heck. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 5, 2010 8:20:16 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Fwd: Rosie Huntington-Whitely Confirmed for Transformers 3 Here's the credits that she has. 1. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Showhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1552637/(2009) (TV) Herself 2. Britain's Next Top Model http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481440/ Herself (1 episode, 2009) - Episode #5.13 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1468433/ (2009) TV episode Herself 3. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Showhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1328650/(2008) (TV) Herself - Model 4. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Showhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179303/(2007) (TV) Herself/Model 5. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Showhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0926417/(2006) (TV) Herself/Model Ummm do you think she is going to be eye candy? On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Baxter martin.baxter@gmail.com Date: Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:51 PM Subject: Rosie Huntington-Whitely Confirmed for Transformers 3 To: martinbaxt...@gmail.com Alright, ladies and gents, with me, on three. One... Two... Three... WHO http://english.ohmygore.com/rosie-huntington-whiteley-confirmed-for-transformers-3-news-uk-7209.html Mind you, I've never HEARD of this site before today, so here's something to go with the story. [image: Morton-Salt-photo-by-flickr-user-_nickd.jpg] -- Between getsumei no michi and the Zero...no better place to live. (About little moments of happiness) If this isn't nice, I don't know what is. -- Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country -- 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 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Just finished reading Seige #4
I had to reach for that explanation as well, but again, Morgan Le Fey--one of the most powerful workers of magik in the MU--blew Sentry into pieces. One thing Marvel always says about immortals is the line, only an injury that dispersed a significant portion of his molecules would prove fatal. In short: even immortals such as gods don't recover from being scattered to the four winds. Remember Apollo in the original Trek? Yet Sentry came back from that, so I wondered how he survived Mjolnir. Now Mjolnir can generate something called the Anti Force , which I guess would disrupt other energies. I just wish they'd delved more into exactly what his being the Angel of Death meant. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 5, 2010 3:06:13 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Just finished reading Seige #4 Keith, I always figured that that kill stuck because of the mystical properties of Mjolnir. On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Yeah, good stuff. The stuff with Sentry was great. Spoilers. Although, what did Osborn mean by saying he was the Angel of Death? They didn't really explain how that happened, how the formula bonded the Angel (I'm assuming that's the deal) wth Bob, or why it made him into a murdering psychopath instead of an entity that carried out missions for Heaven. And, how was Thor able to finally kill hm with that final blow, when all other deaths failed to do so? Morganna blew him into bits, his wife shot his face off, and he recovered. Stark dropped the HAMMER carrier on him and he recovered. Thor hits him with Mjolnir, and he turns into a skeleton but can't regenerate. Why is that? - Original Message - From: George Arterberry brotherfromhow...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 5, 2010 5:00:15 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Just finished reading Seige #4 Wow -- 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
Re: [scifinoir2] Fwd: Rosie Huntington-Whitely Confirmed for Transformers 3
It's all in who makes the rules and pays the dough, which is why people of all ethnic types need to fight to have our own cinema. Rosie Perez has said that she was always told by directors that her butt was too big. They'd ask her if she could spot-reduce it, to which she always replied, My 'ghetto booty' is part of me and ain't going anywhere. Although Jennifer Lopez gets all the credit for making a round butt more acceptable--somethign I as a black person find offensive given that Sisters have had them for decades--I love that Perez has always been so proud of her physique. She is very open to say that as a Puerto Rican she has African heritage, and specifically states that it's that heritage that gives her the round behind. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 5, 2010 6:34:48 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Fwd: Rosie Huntington-Whitely Confirmed for Transformers 3 She looks like a teenager and that's why they picked her. I don't know if the beauty standards will ever shift back. Not without a collective stand on it. They have pretty much brainwashed the actresses into loosing that last 20lbs Even Beyonce doesn't have a booty anymore. On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: This is so funny. They have to confront head on the complete lack of acting ability required to star in a film like this. Has the girl ever acted in anything? Man, I'll be glad when the standard of beauty shifts back to voluptuous women and not these skinny, girlish looking models. Meagan Fox is prettier than most models, but I always laugh when guys talk about her great body. She's slim as heck. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 5, 2010 8:20:16 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Fwd: Rosie Huntington-Whitely Confirmed for Transformers 3 Here's the credits that she has. 1. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show (2009) (TV) Herself 2. Britain's Next Top Model Herself (1 episode, 2009) - Episode #5.13 (2009) TV episode Herself 3. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show (2008) (TV) Herself - Model 4. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show (2007) (TV) Herself/Model 5. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show (2006) (TV) Herself/Model Ummm do you think she is going to be eye candy? On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Baxter martin.baxter@gmail.com Date: Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:51 PM Subject: Rosie Huntington-Whitely Confirmed for Transformers 3 To: martinbaxt...@gmail.com Alright, ladies and gents, with me, on three. One... Two... Three... WHO http://english.ohmygore.com/rosie-huntington-whiteley-confirmed-for-transformers-3-news-uk-7209.html Mind you, I've never HEARD of this site before today, so here's something to go with the story. Morton-Salt-photo-by-flickr-user-_nickd.jpg -- Between getsumei no michi and the Zero...no better place to live. (About little moments of happiness) If this isn't nice, I don't know what is. -- Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country -- 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 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Fwd: Rosie Huntington-Whitely Confirmed for Transformers 3
Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net writes: It's all in who makes the rules and pays the dough, which is why people of all ethnic types need to fight to have our own cinema. Rosie Perez has said that she was always told by directors that her butt was too big. They'd ask her if she could spot-reduce it, to which she always replied, My 'ghetto booty' is part of me and ain't going anywhere. Although Jennifer Lopez gets all the credit for making a round butt more acceptable--somethign I as a black person find offensive given that Sisters have had them for decades-- For *ages*, surely. Lord bless 'em. :-) Brent I love that Perez has always been so proud of her physique. She is very open to say that as a Puerto Rican she has African heritage, and specifically states that it's that heritage that gives her the round behind. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 5, 2010 6:34:48 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Fwd: Rosie Huntington-Whitely Confirmed for ÊTransformers 3 Ê She looks like a teenager and that's why they picked her. I don't know if the beauty standards will ever shift back. Not without a collective stand on it. They have pretty much brainwashed the actresses into loosing that last 20lbs Even Beyonce doesn't have a booty anymore. On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Keith Johnson [ mailto:keithbjohn...@comcast.net ]keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: This is so funny. They have to confront head on the complete lack of acting ability required to star in a film like this. Has the girl ever acted in anything? Man, I'll be glad when the standard of beauty shifts back to voluptuous women and not these skinny, girlish looking models. Meagan Fox is prettier than most models, but I always laugh when guys talk about her great body. She's slim as heck.Ê - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf [ mailto:hellomahog...@gmail.com ]hellomahog...@gmail.com To: [ mailto:scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com ]scifino...@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 5, 2010 8:20:16 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Fwd: Rosie Huntington-Whitely Confirmed for ÊTransformers 3 Ê Here's the credits that she has. [Marker] [ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1552637/ ]The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show (2009) (TV) Herself [ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481440/ ]Britain's Next Top Model Herself (1 episode, 2009) - [ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1468433/ ]Episode #5.13 (2009) TV episode Herself [ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1328650/ ]The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show (2008) (TV) Herself - Model [ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179303/ ]The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show (2007) (TV) Herself/Model [ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0926417/ ]The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show (2006) (TV) Herself/Model Ummm do you think she is going to be eye candy? On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Martin Baxter [ mailto:martinbaxt...@gmail.com ]martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Baxter [ mailto:martin.baxter@gmail.com ]martin.baxter@gmail.com Date: Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:51 PM Subject: Rosie Huntington-Whitely Confirmed for Transformers 3 To: [ mailto:martinbaxt...@gmail.com ]martinbaxt...@gmail.com Alright, ladies and gents, with me, on three. One... Two... Three... WHO [ http://english.ohmygore.com/rosie-huntington-whiteley-confirmed-for-transformers-3-news-uk-7209.html ]http://english.ohmygore.com/rosie-huntington-whiteley-confirmed-for-transformers-3-news-uk-7209.html Mind you, I've never HEARD of this site before today, so here's something to go with the story. -- Between getsumei no michi and the Zero...no better place to live. (About little moments of happiness) If this isn't nice, I don't know what is. -- Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country -- 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 ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: [ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ ]http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: [ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ ]http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
[scifinoir2] Cool kid toys - Wandarama
This kid toy uses static electricity to levitate a small aluminum object. Check out the Wandarama: https://www.wandarama.com/ Similar to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mKxMoCr29c Check out this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GLAEgOqSes -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
[scifinoir2] Del Toro's new project
I got this from another site... Guillermo del Toro's slate includes adaptations of Mary Shelley's * Frankenstein*, H.P. Lovecraft's *At the Mountains of Madness*, Kurt Vonnegut's *Slaughterhouse-Five* and the Dan Simmons novel *Drood*, which is about Charles Dickens' secret life as a Victorian Era detective. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10007663-…http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10007663-hobbit/news/1887634/weekly_ketchup_guillermo_del_toro_gives_up_on_the_hobbit Oh god yes... Frankenstein? Victorian Era detectives? I love you Del Toro, you brilliant nerd you. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
