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5/3 OT || National Treasure?

knockoutking — Fri, 03 May 2013 11:35:42 -0000

Hidden Hall of Records at Mount Rushmore Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on google Share on tumblr Share on email More Sharing Services 28 Submitted by jersu on July 31, 2007 - 3:11am

The entrance to the unfinished Hall of Records at Mount Rushmore, and the close-up of the capstone and inscriptionwhich protects the titanium vault with charter documents. Special thanks to my anonymous friend for providing the photos.

A short newspaper article caught my eye awhile ago. It had mentioned that the movie production for National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets had asked permission to shoot at the Mount Rushmore National Monument in a place called the Hall of Records. I had never heard of the Hall of Records. I probably would have forgotten about the news article except a Park Service friend of mine came through town, and told me he had actually visited the Hall of Records. Now I really wanted to know more about this place. So, I called the park. Assistant Chief of Interpretation, Rhonda Buell Schier, was able to give me some answers.

It turns out that the monument sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, had an incredibly elaborate vision for the mountain that included much more than the four presidential heads we see today. He had wanted to carve the shape of the Louisiana Purchase into the mountain, and inside the shape, carve descriptions of the most significant events in American history. Logistically that plan wasn't going to work out, so he created a new plan for a Hall of Records, with the goal of creating a repository for the story of our country for future civilizations. Documents in this repository would include our nation's charter documents. Borglum had even started blasting and drilling out the cavity in the mountain for this chamber. Funding for the project was coming from the government, and they had asked that Borglum focus his efforts towards completing the faces before any more work was done on the Hall of Records. In 1941, Borglum died, and work on the project effectively came to a halt.

The idea of having a vault didn't die though. Borglum's original plan was revised a bit, but the intent remained, and in 1998, tablets with the story of our nation were sealed in a vault in the unfinished Hall of Records. Sixteen porcelain enamel panels containing the text from the Declaration of Independence, theConstitution, and the Bill of Rights, along with a biography of Borglum, and the story of the presidents, were sealed in a teakwood box, then placed in a titanium vault, and finally sealed shut under the weight of a 1,200 pound granite capstone inside the unfinished hall.

This is not a time capsule. These documents are to remain buried for thousands of years. Borglum literally had it in mind to send the message of our country to future civilizations. He said, "you might as well drop a letter into the world's postal service without an address or signature, as to send that carved mountain into history without identification."

Access to the Hall of Records is closed to the public. Because the Hall is located behind the heads, near the cliffs, public safety is a concern. Part of the story in the National Treasure movie apparently does take place in the Hall of Records, but what appears in the movie may only be aerial shots of the entrance. Set designers in Hollywood will recreate the rest. To get a glimpse of the entrance today, or to learn more about the Hall of Records, Rhonda had suggested this book which is available from the Mt Rushmore bookstore.

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knockoutking — Thu, 02 May 2013 12:26:55 -0000

FBI Can’t Crack Android Pattern-Screen Lock

BY DAVID KRAVETS
03.14.12
5:19 PM

Pattern-screen locks on Android phones are secure, apparently so much so that they have stumped the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The bureau claims in federal court documents that forensics experts performed “multiple attempts” to access the contents of a Samsung Exhibit II handset, but failed to unlock the phone.

An Android device requires the handset’s Google e-mail address and its accompanying password to unlock the handset once too many wrong swipes are made. The bureau is seeking that information via a court-approved warrant to Google in order to unlock a suspected San Diego-area prostitution pimp’s mobile phone. (For details on the pimp investigation, check outArs Technica‘s story on the case.)

Locking down a phone is even more important today than ever because smart phones store so much personal information. What’s more, many states, including California, grant authorities the right to access a suspect’s mobile phone, without a warrant, upon arrest for any crime.

Forensic experts and companies in the phone-cracking space agreed that the Android passcode locks can defeat unauthorized intrusions.

“It’s not unreasonable they don’t have the capability to bypass that on a live device,” said Dan Rosenberg, a consultant at Boston-based Virtual Security Research.

A San Diego federal judge days ago approved the warrant upon a request by FBI Special Agent Jonathan Cupina. The warrant was disclosed Wednesday by security researcher Christopher Soghoian,

In a court filing, Cupina wrote: (.pdf)

Failure to gain access to the cellular telephone’s memory was caused by an electronic ‘pattern lock’ programmed into the cellular telephone. A pattern lock is a modern type of password installed on electronic devices, typically cellular telephones. To unlock the device, a user must move a finger or stylus over the keypad touch screen in a precise pattern so as to trigger the previously coded un-locking mechanism. Entering repeated incorrect patterns will cause a lock-out, requiring a Google e-mail login and password to override. Without the Google e-mail login and password, the cellular telephone’s memory can not be accessed. Obtaining this information from Google, per the issuance of this search warrant, will allow law enforcement to gain access to the contents of the memory of the cellular telephone in question.

Rosenberg, in a telephone interview, suggested the authorities could “dismantle a phone and extract data from the physical components inside if you’re looking to get access.”

However, that runs the risk of damaging the phone’s innards, and preventing any data recovery.

Linda Davis, a spokeswoman for forensics-solutions company Logicube of suburban Los Angeles, said law enforcement is a customer of its CellXtract technology, which it advertises as a means to “fast and thorough forensic data extraction from mobile devices.”

But that software, she said in a telephone interview, “is not going to work” on a locked device.

All of which is another way of saying those Android screen locks are a lot stronger than one might suspect.

It was not immediately clear whether the iPhone’s locking system is as powerful as its Android counterpart. But the iPhone’s passcode has been defeated with simple hacks, the latest of which was revealed in October 2010.

Clearly, the bureau is none too happy about having to call in Google for help. The warrant requires Google to turn over Samsung’s “default code” in “verbal” or “written instructions for overriding the ‘pattern lock’ installed on the Samsung model SGH-T679.”

Google spokesman Chris Gaither would not say if Google would challenge any aspect of the warrant. Google, he said, does not comment on “specific cases.”

“Like all law-abiding companies, we comply with valid legal process. Whenever we receive a request we make sure it meets both the letter and spirit of the law before complying,” he said in an e-mail. “If we believe a request is overly broad, we will seek to narrow it.”

FBI Can’t Crack Android Pattern-Screen Lock

BY DAVID KRAVETS
03.14.12
5:19 PM

Pattern-screen locks on Android phones are secure, apparently so much so that they have stumped the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The bureau claims in federal court documents that forensics experts performed “multiple attempts” to access the contents of a Samsung Exhibit II handset, but failed to unlock the phone.

Forensic experts and companies in the phone-cracking space agreed that the Android passcode locks can defeat unauthorized intrusions.

“It’s not unreasonable they don’t have the capability to bypass that on a live device,” said Dan Rosenberg, a consultant at Boston-based Virtual Security Research.

A San Diego federal judge days ago approved the warrant upon a request by FBI Special Agent Jonathan Cupina. The warrant was disclosed Wednesday by security researcher Christopher Soghoian,

In a court filing, Cupina wrote: (.pdf)

Failure to gain access to the cellular telephone’s memory was caused by an electronic ‘pattern lock’ programmed into the cellular telephone. A pattern lock is a modern type of password installed on electronic devices, typically cellular telephones. To unlock the device, a user must move a finger or stylus over the keypad touch screen in a precise pattern so as to trigger the previously coded un-locking mechanism. Entering repeated incorrect patterns will cause a lock-out, requiring a Google e-mail login and password to override. Without the Google e-mail login and password, the cellular telephone’s memory can not be accessed. Obtaining this information from Google, per the issuance of this search warrant, will allow law enforcement to gain access to the contents of the memory of the cellular telephone in question.

Rosenberg, in a telephone interview, suggested the authorities could “dismantle a phone and extract data from the physical components inside if you’re looking to get access.”

However, that runs the risk of damaging the phone’s innards, and preventing any data recovery.

But that software, she said in a telephone interview, “is not going to work” on a locked device.

All of which is another way of saying those Android screen locks are a lot stronger than one might suspect.

Google spokesman Chris Gaither would not say if Google would challenge any aspect of the warrant. Google, he said, does not comment on “specific cases.”

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knockoutking — Wed, 01 May 2013 19:30:13 -0000

Psychotronic weapons From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Psychotronic weapons are a technology researched during the Cold War by the U.S.S.R, relating to mind control. The class of weapons are reportedly used against the mind to modify the thought process of humans, with the use of electromagnetic radiation and the assistance of advanced computers in order to "induce hallucinations, sickness, mutations in human cells, or even death." Underlying technologies studied included VHF generators, X-rays, ultrasound, and radio waves. Russian Army Major I. Chernishev, wrote in the military journal Orienteer in February 1997, that “psy” weapons were being researched and developed all over the world.[1] In March of 2012, Russian Defense Minister, Anatoly Serdyukov said “The development of weaponry based on new physics principles; direct-energy weapons, geophysical weapons, wave-energy weapons, genetic weapons, psychotronic weapons, etc., is part of the state arms procurement program for 2011-2020."[2][3] The program came to the attention of groups such as The National Security Agency and the Joint Forces Staff College who have analyzed Russian research into this subject.[4]

Alleged use against civilians

In studying auditory hallucinions, Ralph Hoffman, a professor of psychiatry at Yale specializing in delusions, reports that people often ascribe voices in their heads to external sources including government harassment, God, and dead relatives. Hoffman said a growing number of subjects have informed him of mind control related sites that confirm their experiences. he says "the views of these belief systems are like a shark that has to be constantly fed, if you don't feed the delusion, sooner or later it will die out or diminish on its own." Other mental health experts have looked closely at these web sites, and are careful to note that there is no way to prove that posters are suffering from mental illness. Whether or not these sites and groups are beneficial is questionable, some believe it could be delusion reinforcing, and others note that social support can be beneficial. The Washington Post reported in 2007 that there are a growing number of US citizens who allege that the government is using "psychotronic torture" against them and who campaign to stop the use of psychotronic and other "mind control" weapons.[12][13]

In 2001, Dennis Kucinich proposed legislation before the 107th Congress to ban space based and psychotronic weapons. This bill was withdrawn do to an unfavorable Executive Comment from the U.S. Department of Defense.[12] In 2008, the New York Times reported that Representative Jim Guest was also working to investigate psychotronics. “I’ve had enough calls, some from credible people — professors — being targeted by nonlethal weapons,” Representative Guest said, adding that nothing came of his request for an investigation. He added: “I believe there are people who have been targeted by this."[13]

Similar campaigns have occured in Russia with the "Victims of Psychotronic Experimentation" group attempting to recover damages from the Federal Security Service for alleged infringement of their civil liberties including "beaming rays" at them, putting chemicals in the water, and using magnets to alter their minds. These fears may have been inspired by revelations of secret research into pscyhological warfare during the early 1990s, with Lopatkin, a State Duma committee member in 1995, surmising "Something that was secret for so many years is the perfect breeding ground for conspiracy theories."[14]

Alleged use against civilians

Futbol Thread: El Shaarawy: 'No to Man City'

knockoutking — Wed, 01 May 2013 11:37:32 -0000

Futbol Thread: El Shaarawy: 'No to Man City'

Stephan El Shaarawy shrugged off interest from Manchester City today. "I’d like to stay at Milan for life."

The 20-year-old hitman was presented with the Milan News Award as best player of 2012.

Asked about the reports Manchester City are ready to break the bank in order to tempt him away, the Italy international smiled.

"I’d like to stay at Milan for life."

El Shaarawy has never hidden the fact he has been a Rossoneri supporter since childhood.

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knockoutking — Wed, 01 May 2013 11:24:29 -0000

Piano found on Britain's highest mountain

Scottish Press Association
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 17 May 2006 12.08 EDT

Paul Nelson and Andrew Hunter with the piano they found on top Ben Nevis. Photograph: John Muir Trust/PA

A musical mystery today surrounded Britain's highest mountain after a piano was discovered near its summit.

Volunteers clearing stones from the 4,418ft peak were astonished when they discovered the musical instrument on Ben Nevis. An appeal has now been launched to find out how and why the piano came to be within 200 metres of the top of the mountain.

The piano was recovered at the weekend by 15 volunteers from the John Muir Trust, the conservation charity which owns part of Ben Nevis.

The squad was removing litter and stones called cairns from the summit plateau when they spotted the top of the piano.

"Our guys couldn't believe their eyes," said trust director Nigel Hawkins.

"At first they thought it was just the wooden casing but then they saw the whole cast iron frame complete with strings.

"The only thing that that was missing was the keyboard - and that's another mystery.

"Maybe it's hidden somewhere else on the mountain."

He added that a biscuit wrapper with a best before date of December 1986 was found under the piano, giving a clue as to when it was taken there, but not why.

Volunteer group organiser Sandy Maxwell, of Glasgow, said this was the largest, heaviest and most unusual object they had found on the mountain.

"We have a constant battle against litter being left on Britain's highest mountain - but this elevates being a litter lout sky high into a completely different category. We are now trying to track down who took it there.

"We may even give them an outstanding invoice for 20 years storage of a piano under a cairn on Ben Nevis."

After finding the piano, the volunteers broke it up and asked around 30 members of the public to help carry bits off the mountain. Mr Maxwell said they believed the piano was taken to the top of Ben Nevis for a wacky stunt.

"We assume it would be a student stunt or charity run but we certainly have no record of it," he added.

"We would be very keen to hear from anyone with information about the piano."

Piano found on Britain's highest mountain

Scottish Press Association
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 17 May 2006 12.08 EDT

Paul Nelson and Andrew Hunter with the piano they found on top Ben Nevis. Photograph: John Muir Trust/PA

A musical mystery today surrounded Britain's highest mountain after a piano was discovered near its summit.

The piano was recovered at the weekend by 15 volunteers from the John Muir Trust, the conservation charity which owns part of Ben Nevis.

The squad was removing litter and stones called cairns from the summit plateau when they spotted the top of the piano.

"Our guys couldn't believe their eyes," said trust director Nigel Hawkins.

"At first they thought it was just the wooden casing but then they saw the whole cast iron frame complete with strings.

"The only thing that that was missing was the keyboard - and that's another mystery.

"Maybe it's hidden somewhere else on the mountain."

He added that a biscuit wrapper with a best before date of December 1986 was found under the piano, giving a clue as to when it was taken there, but not why.

Volunteer group organiser Sandy Maxwell, of Glasgow, said this was the largest, heaviest and most unusual object they had found on the mountain.

"We may even give them an outstanding invoice for 20 years storage of a piano under a cairn on Ben Nevis."

"We assume it would be a student stunt or charity run but we certainly have no record of it," he added.

"We would be very keen to hear from anyone with information about the piano."

4/30 OT iii

knockoutking — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:21:50 -0000

Pinky swear From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Pinky promise)

To pinky swear, or make a pinky promise, is the entwinement of the little fingers "(pinkies)" of two people to signify that a promise has been made. It is often seen in anime, where it is called a yubikiri (指切りJapanese for "Finger Cut-off"?).[1]

Example of a 3-way pinky swear

The pinky swear originally indicated that the person who breaks the promise must cut off their pinky finger.[2][dubious – discuss] In modern times, pinky swearing is a more informal way of sealing a promise. It is most common among school-age children and close friends. The pinky swear signifies a promise that cannot be broken or counteracted by the crossing of fingers or other such trickery.[3]

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Example of a 3-way pinky swear

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knockoutking — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:30:57 -0000

A picture is worth a thousand words From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The adage[citation needed] "A picture is worth a thousand words" refers to the notion that a complex idea can be conveyed with just a single still image. It also aptly characterizes one of the main goals ofvisualization, namely making it possible to absorb large amounts of data quickly.

The expression "Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words." appears in a 1911 newspaper article quoting newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane discussing journalism and publicity.[1]

1913 newspaper advertisement

A similar phrase, "One Look Is Worth A Thousand Words", appears in a 1913 newspaper advertisement for the Piqua Auto Supply House of Piqua, Ohio.[2]

An early use of the exact phrase appears in an 1918 newspaper advertisement for the San Antonio Light which says:

One of the Nation's Greatest Editors Says:
One Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
The San Antonio Light's Pictorial Magazine of the War
Exemplifies the truth of the above statement--judging from the warm
reception it has received at the hands of the Sunday Light readers.[3]

It is believed by some that the modern use of the phrase stems from an article by Fred R. Barnard in the advertising trade journal Printers' Ink, promoting the use of images in advertisements that appeared on the sides of streetcars.[4] The December 8, 1921 issue carries an ad entitled, "One Look is Worth A Thousand Words."

Another ad by Barnard appears in the March 10, 1927 issue with the phrase "One Picture Worth Ten Thousand Words," where it is labeled a Chinese proverb (一圖勝萬言).[citation needed] The Home Book of Proverbs, Maxims, and Familiar Phrases quotes Barnard as saying he called it "a Chinese proverb, so that people would take it seriously." Soon after, the proverb would become popularly attributed to Confucius. The discussion of "One Picture Worth Thousand Words" versus "One Picture Worth Ten Thousand Words" Wan yen I hua and 10.000 miles worth 10.000 books is cited in Information graphics where the concept of many in different disciplines and cultures.[5]

A picture is worth a thousand words

Despite this modern origin of the popular phrase, the sentiment has been expressed by earlier writers. For example the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev wrote (inFathers and Sons in 1862), "A picture shows me at a glance what it takes dozens of pages of a book to expound."

Computer programmer and author Fred Brooks makes an opposite statement regarding programming in The Mythical Man-Month: "Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t usually need your flowcharts; they’ll be obvious." The phrase has also been spoofed by John McCarthy, the famous computer scientist, to make the opposite point: "As the Chinese say, 1001 words is worth more than a picture."[6]

A picture is worth a thousand words From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The expression "Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words." appears in a 1911 newspaper article quoting newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane discussing journalism and publicity.[1]

1913 newspaper advertisement

A similar phrase, "One Look Is Worth A Thousand Words", appears in a 1913 newspaper advertisement for the Piqua Auto Supply House of Piqua, Ohio.[2]

A picture is worth a thousand words

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knockoutking — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:37:18 -0000

Types of restaurants

Most standalone McDonald's restaurants offer both counter service and drive-through service, with indoor and sometimes outdoor seating. Drive-Thru, Auto-Mac, Pay and Drive, or "McDrive" as it is known in many countries, often has separate stations for placing, paying for, and picking up orders, though the latter two steps are frequently combined; it was first introduced in Arizona in 1975, following the lead of other fast-food chains. The first such restaurant in Britain opened at Fallowfield,Manchester in 1986.[21]

A Montevideo McCafé

In some countries, "McDrive" locations near highways offer no counter service or seating. In contrast, locations in high-density city neighborhoods often omit drive-through service. There are also a few locations, located mostly in downtown districts, that offer Walk-Thru service in place of Drive-Thru.

To accommodate the current trend for high quality coffee and the popularity of coffee shops in general, McDonald's introduced McCafé, a café-style accompaniment to McDonald's restaurants in the style of Starbucks. McCafé is a concept created by McDonald's Australia, starting with Melbourne in 1993. Today, most McDonald's in Australia have McCafés located within the existing McDonald's restaurant. In Tasmania, there are McCafés in every store, with the rest of the states quickly following suit. After upgrading to the new McCafé look and feel, some Australian stores have noticed up to a 60% increase in sales. As of the end of 2003 there were over 600 McCafés worldwide.

Some locations are connected to gas stations/convenience stores,[22] while others called McExpress have limited seating and/or menu or may be located in ashopping mall. Other McDonald's are located in Walmart stores. McStop is a location targeted at truckers and travelers which may have services found at truck stops.[23]

Since 1997, the only Kosher McDonald's in the world that is not in Israel, is located in the Abasto mall, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.[24][25]

Types of restaurants

A Montevideo McCafé

Since 1997, the only Kosher McDonald's in the world that is not in Israel, is located in the Abasto mall, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.[24][25]

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knockoutking — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:53:45 -0000

February 5, 2013

Pick Your Poison: A Diet Mixer Could Make You Get Drunk Faster

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The same amount of liquor causes a higher level of intoxication when mixed with diet soda, compared with regular. Image via Flickr user Joel Olives

If you’re mixing up a cocktail and worried about how drunk you’ll feel after finishing it, you might be closely measuring the amount of liquor that you pour in. But recent research suggests that your choice of mixer—whether regular soda or diet—plays a key role in determining how that alcohol affects your body.

A new study, published by Cecile Marczinski and Amy Stamates of Northern Kentucky University in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research (ACER), indicates that drinking diet soda with liquor causes breath alcohol concentration (BrAC) to rise more quickly than if the exact same amount of alcohol was mixed with regular soda instead. Among the 16 participants who were tested as part of the experiment, those who’d been given diet soda as a mixer had their BrAC peak at levels 18% higher than those whose drink was mixed with regular soda.

Although there’s been speculation for some time that diet mixers could affect the way alcohol affects the body, very little research has formally tested the idea, and previous studies have merely surveyed people in bars, rather than rigorously testing participants in a lab setting. In this study, 8 men and 8 women who were all occasional drinkers were given a set level of vodka—.03 ounces per pound of body weight—mixed with either Squirt or Diet Squirt. For a 140 pound person, this works out to 4.2 ounces of vodka, the equivalent of three or four mixed drinks.

After drinking, the participants’ BrAC was tested. Those who’d imbibed with regular soda had BrACs that peaked at an average of at .077 grams per 210 liters (BrAC measures the level of alcohol per liter of breath, rather than per a given volume of blood as blood alcohol content does; as represented here, the two measures can be compared more readily). Those who’d drank diet soda, on the other hand, peaked at .091—the difference, in many jurisdictions, between driving legally and a DUI charge.

Those who drank diet soda as a mixer had alcohol levels that increased more quickly and peaked at a higher level. Image via ACER, Marczinski and Stamates

The researchers also tested the participants’ reaction times with a computer-based test, and found that the diet soda drinkers’ times were notably slower.

Interestingly, though, each participant was also surveyed on how drunk they perceived themselves to be, and the diet soda drinkers rated themselves just the same as the others. In other words, the drinkers simply judged their level of intoxication based on how many drinks they’d had, even though the contents of the drink affected how the liquor actually affected their bodies.

The scientists feel that this is the most important takeaway of the study. ”The subjects were unaware of this difference, as measured by various subjective ratings including feelings of intoxication, impairment, and willingness to drive,” Marczinski said in a statement. “However, they were above the limit of .08 when they consumed the diet mixer, and below it when they drank the regular mixed beverage. Choices to drink and drive, or engage in any other risky behavior, often depend on how people feel, rather than some objective measurement of impairment.”

The research also prompts an entirely different question—why do diet mixers increase intoxication in the first place? The researchers believe it’s because the body recognizes regular sodas (which include sugar) as food, which slows down the rate of alcohol absorption into the blood. Diet sodas, on the other hand, only include aspartame, which the body doesn’t treat as food, so the alcohol mixed in gets absorbed much more quickly.

February 5, 2013

Pick Your Poison: A Diet Mixer Could Make You Get Drunk Faster

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The same amount of liquor causes a higher level of intoxication when mixed with diet soda, compared with regular. Image via Flickr user Joel Olives

Those who drank diet soda as a mixer had alcohol levels that increased more quickly and peaked at a higher level. Image via ACER, Marczinski and Stamates

The researchers also tested the participants’ reaction times with a computer-based test, and found that the diet soda drinkers’ times were notably slower.

LSB Tailgate 6: The Aftermath

knockoutking — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 12:36:14 -0000

Tailgate information:

First of all want to thank Witt for helping out so much with getting the food taken care of. I know it wasnt as big as LSBTG 4 -- but it went off just about without a hitch. (and have to thank jamie for letting us do this crazy thing this many times)

Thanks to Darcouth (yeah, yeah, yeah) for helping out a ton with getting everything equipment wise together. sorry your trash thing got broken, but thanks for coming through!

Was awesome to see everyone -- this was probably my favorite tailgate so far. perfect location, great weather, saw tons of old faces (and a few new ones too)

via sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net

===================================

Info from Witt_ regarding September tailgate:

Potential date:

Saturday, September 28

LAA @ Texas, 705p start date

Please chime in if you think this works, if we are going to do it then (next to last home game, final home series) then we need to move ASAP on tickets and reserving that same location for our next one.

IF YOU ARE WILLING TO PAY AHEAD OF TIME FOR YOUR TICKET (SAY BY 6/1?) PLEASE LET ME KNOW IN THE COMMENTS BELOW

Tailgate information:

Thanks to Darcouth (yeah, yeah, yeah) for helping out a ton with getting everything equipment wise together. sorry your trash thing got broken, but thanks for coming through!

Was awesome to see everyone -- this was probably my favorite tailgate so far. perfect location, great weather, saw tons of old faces (and a few new ones too)

via sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net

===================================

Info from Witt_ regarding September tailgate:

Potential date:

Saturday, September 28

LAA @ Texas, 705p start date

IF YOU ARE WILLING TO PAY AHEAD OF TIME FOR YOUR TICKET (SAY BY 6/1?) PLEASE LET ME KNOW IN THE COMMENTS BELOW

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knockoutking — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:34:49 -0000

Robert the Doll From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Robert The Doll

Robert, otherwise known as Robert the Doll,[1] Robert the Haunted Doll,[2][3][4] or Robert the Enchanted Doll;[5] is a doll that was once owned by Key Westpainter and author Robert Eugene Otto. The doll is alleged to be possessed by evil spirits and has a terrifying reputation.

The doll, which is allegedly cursed, has become a fixture of ghost tours in the Key West area since it was inducted into the Fort East Martello Museum. Aesthetically, Robert resembles an early 20th century American Naval officer. Contrary to popular belief, however, the doll's hair is not made of human hair, but rather, it consists of a synthetic material resembling wool yarn.[6]

Eugene was given the doll in 1906 by an Bahamian servant who, according to legend, was skilled in black magic and voodoo and was displeased with the family. Soon afterward, it became clear that there was something eerie about the doll. Eugene's parents said they often heard him talking to the doll and that the doll appeared to be talking back. Although at first they assumed that Eugene was simply answering himself in a changed voice, they later believed that the doll was actually speaking.

Neighbors claimed to see the doll moving from window to window when the family was out. The Otto family swore that sometimes the doll would emit a terrifying giggle and that they caught glimpses of it running from room to room. In the night Eugene would scream, and when his parents ran to the room, they would find furniture knocked over and Eugene in bed, looking incredibly scared, telling them that "Robert did it!". In addition, guests swore that they saw Robert's expression change before their eyes.

When Eugene died in 1974, the doll was left in the attic until the house was bought again. The new family included a ten-year old girl, who became Robert's new owner. It was not long before the girl began screaming out in the night, claiming that Robert moved about the room and even attempted to attack her on multiple occasions. More than thirty years later, she still tells interviewers that the doll was alive and wanted to kill her.[7]

The doll is annually rotated to the Old Post Office and Customhouse in October, with the museum staff claiming that strange activity in the museum increases during such times.

The doll made an appearance at Taps CON,[8] a paranormal convention held in Clearwater, Florida in May 2008. This was the first time that it had left Key West, Florida in the 104 (at the time) years of its existence.

For individuals who visit Robert in the Fort East Martello Museum and wish to take a picture of him, according to legend, the person must ask the doll politely.[9] If he does not agree (by tipping his head to one side), and the individual takes a picture anyway, the doll will curse the person and their family.[10]

Robert the Doll From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Robert The Doll

The doll is annually rotated to the Old Post Office and Customhouse in October, with the museum staff claiming that strange activity in the museum increases during such times.

FINAL LSB TG6 Fanpost (with location/food information)

knockoutking — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:21:08 -0000

WE WILL HAVE A TIP JAR FOR WEST AT THE TAILGATE.

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Game Information:

April 20, 2013
vs Seattle Mariners
Game Time: 7:05 PM

Seating:

We will be sitting in Section 206, Rows 8, 9, 10, 11

via i.imgur.com

Imgur gallery with a few other Section 206 pictures (I think i have some from when I sat in either 206 or 207 last year at home, I will add pictures after the fact)

Food:

We will be having a hybrid food tailgate -- we will be ordering pizza, but there will be a grill for use (assuming we can find someone to bring witts grill -- anyone live in the Grand Prairie/Arlington area that can help here?)

Other items that are needed

Canopies
Tables
Trash Bin + Trash Bags
Chairs (if you want to sit)
Drinks (alcoholic, non alcoholic, water)

Items people have already agreed to bring:

2 canopies -- Matteo
Cups, plastic ware, plates, paper towels -- crazy86er
charcoal + grill -- witt_
bottled water -- kok

Location Information:
Unlike previous years, we are not having this tailgate on a Rangers owned parking lot. Although you can park at any location you prefer -- we will be holding the tailgate at the following location:
Stadium Parking's Lot #1 805 Stadium Drive Arlington, TX
This location is at the intersection of Stadium Drive and Stadium Oaks Court.
look for the large Galactic sign:

via i.imgur.com

Now for what everyone has been waiting for, the map!

via i.imgur.com

***Link to full sized map picture***
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Final reminders:

Please rec this fanpost up, and unrec fanpost #4
Please sign up for items you are bringing (need help with the list above)
If you have any issues and need to contact someone, contact me at the following number:

nine 0 three . five 6 three . five 4 four 6
If you have any questions you would like me to answer before the tailgate and do not want to post in this thread -- email me at: knockoutking dot lsb at gmail dot com

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Previous LSB Tailgate #6 Threads:

LSB Tailgate 6: Ticket Info

LSB Tailgate 6: Ticket + Food Prices
LSB Tailgate 6: Update #3
LSB Tailgate 6: Update #4 // CHANGE FOOD OPTIONS?

WE WILL HAVE A TIP JAR FOR WEST AT THE TAILGATE.

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Game Information:

April 20, 2013
vs Seattle Mariners
Game Time: 7:05 PM

Seating:

We will be sitting in Section 206, Rows 8, 9, 10, 11

via i.imgur.com

Imgur gallery with a few other Section 206 pictures (I think i have some from when I sat in either 206 or 207 last year at home, I will add pictures after the fact)

Food:

We will be having a hybrid food tailgate -- we will be ordering pizza, but there will be a grill for use (assuming we can find someone to bring witts grill -- anyone live in the Grand Prairie/Arlington area that can help here?)

Other items that are needed

Canopies
Tables
Trash Bin + Trash Bags
Chairs (if you want to sit)
Drinks (alcoholic, non alcoholic, water)

Items people have already agreed to bring:

2 canopies -- Matteo
Cups, plastic ware, plates, paper towels -- crazy86er
charcoal + grill -- witt_
bottled water -- kok

via i.imgur.com

Now for what everyone has been waiting for, the map!

via i.imgur.com

***Link to full sized map picture***
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Final reminders:

Please rec this fanpost up, and unrec fanpost #4
Please sign up for items you are bringing (need help with the list above)
If you have any issues and need to contact someone, contact me at the following number:

nine 0 three . five 6 three . five 4 four 6
If you have any questions you would like me to answer before the tailgate and do not want to post in this thread -- email me at: knockoutking dot lsb at gmail dot com

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Previous LSB Tailgate #6 Threads:

LSB Tailgate 6: Ticket Info

LSB Tailgate 6: Ticket + Food Prices
LSB Tailgate 6: Update #3
LSB Tailgate 6: Update #4 // CHANGE FOOD OPTIONS?

4/3 OT II

knockoutking — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 23:02:03 -0000

Google effect From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: poorly written. Please help improve this articleif you can. (January 2013)

The Google effect is the tendency to forget information that can be easily found using internet search engines such as Google, instead of remembering it. The phenomenon was described and named by Betsy Sparrow (Columbia), Jenny Liu (Wisconsin) and Daniel M. Wegner (Harvard) in July 2011.[1][2] Having easy access to the Internet, the study showed, makes people less likely to remember certain details they believe will be accessible online. People can still remember, because they will remember what they cannot find online. They also remember how to find what they need on the Internet.[3] Sparrow said this made the Internet a type of transactive memory.[2] One result of this phenomenon is dependence on the Internet; if an online connection is lost, the researchers said, it is similar to losing a friend.

The study included four experiments conducted with students at Columbia and Harvard.[3] In part one, subjects had to answer trivia questions, followed by naming the colors of words, some of which related to searching on the Internet. In part two, the subjects read statements related to the trivia questions and had to remember what they read. They had an easier time with those statements they believed they could find online. In phase three, the subjects had to remember the details of the statements based on whether they believed the information could be found somewhere, whether it could be found in a specific place, or whether it could not be found. They remembered the information they believed to be deleted most easily. In the final phase, the subjects believed the statements would be stored in folders. They had an easier time remembering the folder names than the statements. One conclusion: people can remember information if they do not know where to find it, and they can remember how to find what they need if they cannot remember the information.[2]

Sparrow said, "We're not thoughtless empty-headed people who don't have memories anymore. But we are becoming particularly adept at remembering where to go find things. And that's kind of amazing."[3]

Before the internet, books of information and libraries were readily available, and a similar effect could be hypothesized to have happen. In fact, in ancient Greek text The Phaedrus, Plato quotes Socrates asserting that memory becomes dependent on written text, when it is so available.

.."And in this instance, you who are the father of letters, from a paternal love of your own children have been led to attribute to them a quality which they cannot have; for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality."[4]

The internet magnifies this effect enormously because of its unprecedented availability of information, due to both faster searches and more access (particularly since the use of mobile devices such as smartphones).

Google effect From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: poorly written. Please help improve this articleif you can. (January 2013)

4/2 OT

knockoutking — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 10:41:22 -0000

Extraterrestrial real estate From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Dennis Hope)

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The Moon as seen by an observer from Earth. Some people claim that private ownership of theMoon might be possible.

Extraterrestrial real estate is land on other planets or natural satellites or parts of space that is sold either through organisations or by individuals. Ownership of extraterrestrial real estate is not recognised by any authority.[1] Nevertheless, some private individuals and organisations have claimed ownership of celestial bodies, such as the Moon, and are actively involved in "selling" parts of them through certificates of ownership termed "Lunar deeds",[1] "Martian deeds" or similar. These "deeds" have no legal standing.[1]

Private purchase schemes

A number of individuals and organisations offer schemes or plans claiming to allow people to purchase portions of the Moon or other celestial bodies. Though the details of some of the schemes' legal arguments vary, one goes so far as to state that although the Outer Space Treaty, which entered force in 1967, forbids countries from claiming celestial bodies, there is no such provision forbidding private individuals from doing so.

Many states and countries have corollaries to their real estate and property laws to prevent wanton claiming of new-found lands, that state that a simple claim to the territory is not enough; the claimant must also demonstrate "intent to occupy", something that, at this time, is obviously difficult to do with the Moon or any other celestial body.

Considering these facts, legally, the schemes' "deeds" have only symbolic or novelty value and no official governing body in the world has yet granted any legal validity to them.

The short story The Man Who Sold the Moon by Robert A. Heinlein, which was written in 1949, offers a portrayal regarding such plans or schemes, and created the concept of a Lunar Republic. Heinlein'sStranger in a Strange Land also makes reference to a space law case called the Larkin Decision.

Notable claims

Martin Juergens from Germany claims that the Moon has belonged to his family since July 15, 1756, when the Prussian king Frederick the Great presented it to his ancestor Aul Juergens as a symbolic gesture of gratitude for services rendered, and decreed that it should pass to the youngest born son.[8]

A. Dean Lindsay made claims for all extraterrestrial objects on June 15, 1936, and sent a letter to Pittsburgh Notary Public along with a deed and money for establishment of the property. The public sent offers to buy objects from him as well.[9]

James T. Mangan (1896–1970) was a famous eccentric, public relations man and best-selling author on self-help topics who publicly claimed ownership of outer space in 1948. Mangan founded what he called the Nation of Celestial Space and registered it with the Recorder of Deeds and Titles of Cook County, Illinois, on January 1, 1949.[10]

Robert R. Coles, former chairman of New York's Hayden Planetarium, started "the interplanetary Development Corporation"[11] and sold lots on the moon for one dollar per acre.[12]

Dennis Hope, an American entrepreneur, sells extraterrestrial real estate.[13] In 1980, he started his own business, the Lunar Embassy Commission.[14] As of 2009 Hope claimed to have sold 2.5M 1-acre plots on the Moon, for around US$20 per acre. He allocates land to be sold by closing his eyes and randomly pointing to a map of the Moon.[15]

Adam Ismail, Mustafa Khalil and Abdullah al-Umari, three men from Yemen, sued NASA for invading Mars. They claim that they "inherited the planet from our ancestors 3,000 years ago".[16] They based their argument on mythologies of the Himyaritic and Sabaean civilizations that existed several thousand years B.C.[17]

Gregory W. Nemitz claimed ownership of Asteroid 433 Eros, on which NEAR Shoemaker landed in 2001. His company Orbital Development[18] issued NASA a parking ticket for $20.[19]

After purchasing the Lunokhod 2 lunar lander, computer game designer and astronaut's son Richard Garriot jokingly claimed the rest of the Moon in the name of his gaming character, Lord British, under the premise that existing treaties prohibit governments from territorial claims to the Moon, but not individuals.[20]

Extraterrestrial real estate From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Dennis Hope)

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The Moon as seen by an observer from Earth. Some people claim that private ownership of theMoon might be possible.

Private purchase schemes

Considering these facts, legally, the schemes' "deeds" have only symbolic or novelty value and no official governing body in the world has yet granted any legal validity to them.

Notable claims

Robert R. Coles, former chairman of New York's Hayden Planetarium, started "the interplanetary Development Corporation"[11] and sold lots on the moon for one dollar per acre.[12]

Gregory W. Nemitz claimed ownership of Asteroid 433 Eros, on which NEAR Shoemaker landed in 2001. His company Orbital Development[18] issued NASA a parking ticket for $20.[19]

LSB TG6 Update #4: CHANGE FOOD OPTIONS? + UPDATED PAYMENT DEADLINE

knockoutking — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:10:39 -0000

Seating:

75 tickets reserved Sections 205 & 206 (Ballpark Seating Map)
If this game is during a Yu Darvish start, these tickets are in the "KIA YUNIVERSE" which is Sections 201-208 (link) -- I am finding out if we would get the included YUNIVERSE giveways if April 20 ends up falling on a Darvish start day

via i.imgur.com
The cost of tickets is a little over $27 per ticket, so I am requesting that you send me $27.50 per ticket to help cover the fees, anything over the total cost of tickets will go to Witt_ for foood

If there is interest, I will also get some tickets in the Upper Reserved area (should be about $15) -- if you want Upper Reserved Tickets please email me ASAP! again, need to know about this ASAP - email me john dot leftwich at gmail dot com

THE CUT OFF FOR TICKETS IS GOING TO BE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3 AT MIDNIGHT.

Food Information:

As it currently stands, we are having some issues with food due to the new 2013 Rangers tailgating rules. We hate to make a change both away from crawfish and make a change this late in the process, but it is what it is.
PLEASE VOTE IN THE POLL FOR YOUR NEW FOOD PREFERENCE
an option not in the poll is to see if we can have crawfish catered for around $10 per person, but doubt this is doable.

Total Cost per person:

Ticket: $27.50
Food: $10.00
Total: $37.50

(Tailgate V Cost with Food: $43.00)

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Previous LSB Tailgaet 6 Fanposts

LSB Tailgate 6: Ticket Info
LSB Tailgate 6: Ticket + Food Prices
LSB Tailgate 6: Update #3

IF YOU HAVE NOT PAID FOR YOUR TICKETS BY WEDNESDAY, YOU WILL NOT BE SITTING WITH THE LONESTARBALL GROUP.
VOTE IN THE POLL FOR YOUR FOOD PREFERENCE ASAP.

Seating:

75 tickets reserved Sections 205 & 206 (Ballpark Seating Map)
If this game is during a Yu Darvish start, these tickets are in the "KIA YUNIVERSE" which is Sections 201-208 (link) -- I am finding out if we would get the included YUNIVERSE giveways if April 20 ends up falling on a Darvish start day

via i.imgur.com
The cost of tickets is a little over $27 per ticket, so I am requesting that you send me $27.50 per ticket to help cover the fees, anything over the total cost of tickets will go to Witt_ for foood

THE CUT OFF FOR TICKETS IS GOING TO BE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3 AT MIDNIGHT.

Food Information:

As it currently stands, we are having some issues with food due to the new 2013 Rangers tailgating rules. We hate to make a change both away from crawfish and make a change this late in the process, but it is what it is.
PLEASE VOTE IN THE POLL FOR YOUR NEW FOOD PREFERENCE
an option not in the poll is to see if we can have crawfish catered for around $10 per person, but doubt this is doable.

Total Cost per person:

Ticket: $27.50
Food: $10.00
Total: $37.50

(Tailgate V Cost with Food: $43.00)

----------------------------------------------------------

Previous LSB Tailgaet 6 Fanposts

LSB Tailgate 6: Ticket Info
LSB Tailgate 6: Ticket + Food Prices
LSB Tailgate 6: Update #3

IF YOU HAVE NOT PAID FOR YOUR TICKETS BY WEDNESDAY, YOU WILL NOT BE SITTING WITH THE LONESTARBALL GROUP.
VOTE IN THE POLL FOR YOUR FOOD PREFERENCE ASAP.

Poll

WHAT IS YOUR FOOD PREFERENCE FOR THE TAILGATE

A) Boil crawfish pre-Tailgate: bring to tailgate in coolers around 4pm

6 votes

B) Traditional Tailgate: Witt takes the donated money and buys tablitas, hamburgers, hotdogs, sausage, buns, etc -- will need people to bring grills

13 votes

C) Pizza-gate: order pizza, have it delivered at a set time, eat pizza

9 votes

28 votes | Poll has closed

3/28 OT ii

knockoutking — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 20:11:04 -0000

J002E3 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


J002E3 discovery images taken by Bill Yeung on September 3, 2002. J002E3 is in the circle.		Computer simulation showing J002E3 being captured into orbit around Earth for 6 orbits and then being ejected back into a heliocentric orbit.

J002E3 is the designation given to a supposed asteroid discovered by amateur astronomer Bill Yeung on September 3, 2002. Further examination revealed the object was not a rock asteroid but instead the S-IVB third stage of the Apollo 12 Saturn V rocket (serial S-IVB-507).[1]

When it was first discovered it was quickly found that the object was in an orbit around Earth. Astronomers were surprised at this as the Moon is the only large object in orbit around the Earth[note 1] and anything else would have been ejected long ago due to perturbations with the Earth, the Moon and the Sun.

Therefore it must have entered into Earth orbit very recently, yet there was no recently-launched spacecraft that matched the orbit of J002E3. One explanation could have been that it was a 30-meter wide piece of rock, but University of Arizona astronomers found that the object's electromagnetic spectrum was consistent with white titanium dioxidepaint, the same paint used by NASA for the Saturn V rockets. Back-tracing its orbit showed that the object had been orbiting the Sun for 31 years and had last been in the vicinity of the Earth in 1971. This seemed to suggest that it was a part of the Apollo 14 mission but NASA knew the whereabouts of all hardware used for this mission; the third stage, for instance, was deliberately crashed into the Moon for seismic studies.

The only other explanation was that it was the S-IVB third stage for Apollo 12. NASA had originally planned to direct the S-IVB into a solar orbit, but an extra long burn of the ullage motors meant that venting the remaining propellant in the tank of the S-IVB did not give the rocket stage enough energy to escape the Earth–Moon system, and instead the stage ended up in a semi-stable orbit around the Earth after passing by the Moon on November 18, 1969. The Apollo 12 S-IVB eventually vanished.

It is thought that J002E3 left Earth orbit in June 2003, and that it may return to orbit the Earth in about 2032.

J002E3 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


J002E3 discovery images taken by Bill Yeung on September 3, 2002. J002E3 is in the circle.		Computer simulation showing J002E3 being captured into orbit around Earth for 6 orbits and then being ejected back into a heliocentric orbit.

It is thought that J002E3 left Earth orbit in June 2003, and that it may return to orbit the Earth in about 2032.

LSB TG6 Update #3

knockoutking — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:41:58 -0000

Time to start planning everyone. Since Adam and the Houston Astros are stealing opening day thunder, and due to the difficulties getting opening weekend tickets in bulk, I proposed that we move our official beginning of the season tailgate to a bit later into opening month. Stoners rejoice or possible just show up a little late and have the munchies. The plan is to have the tailgate before the April 20th game against the Seattle Mariners. This is a Saturday with gametime scheduled for 7:05p. (as of March 19th, the game time is still scheduled for 7:05p) With the Rangers getting the national love with Opening Night baseball and possibly the another national game in the opening homestand against the Angels, hopefully this gametime won't move.

Now for the deets:

Food: I know a guy who knows a guy that is gonna get us crawfish. Add to that potatoes, corn, mushrooms and onions and we're gonna have a proper crawfish boil. I found a recipe for fresh andouille and my guy also said he can get a deal on blue crab too. So if you're allergic to shellfish, avoid this area of the tailgate.

Location: This is where I need some help. We've held the last two (or three) LSBTG's in Lot B. The parking attendants and security are getting more and more strict on our shenanigans and without the rain last year, it may have been even tougher for everyone to sneak in. We need an in with the team or the parking people. Someone who can guarantee us a spot either in Lot B or possible back at Angrydome Island in Lot D as early as 9-10am on game day. We can collect funds and reserve 10-15 spaces again and everyone else can park elswhere and walk or wait until the gates open. CHUCK! If you're reading this, tell us what we need to to and we'll do it.

Map:

via cdn0.sbnation.com

Misc: Tables, canopies, grills for the shellfish intolerant, beer, drinks, games etc can be hashed out in the comments of this and subsequent posts.

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Seating:

75 tickets reserved Sections 205 & 206 (Ballpark Seating Map)
If this game is during a Yu Darvish start, these tickets are in the "KIA YUNIVERSE" which is Sections 201-208 (link) -- I am finding out if we would get the included YUNIVERSE giveways if April 20 ends up falling on a Darvish start day

via i.imgur.com
The cost of tickets is a little over $27 per ticket, so I am requesting that you send me $27.50 per ticket to help cover the fees, anything over the total cost of tickets will go to Witt_ for foood

Please fill out this Google form to submit information regarding your ticket interest
(link if you prefer to not do it inline:

If you already know how many people will be attending in your group, please paypal me (john.leftwich@gmail.com) $27.50 per ticket. You can always add more to your group before the cutoff date if needed. I prefer to get the paypal ASAP since I will be the one fronting the money required to hold our seats...

Tickets Paypal: john.leftwich@gmail.com
Tickets Cost: $27.50 per ticket (send as gift)

THE CUT OFF FOR TICKETS IS GOING TO BE SUNDAY, MARCH 31 AT MIDNIGHT (EASTER.) I AM CALLING MY TICKET REP FIRST THING MONDAY MORNING (APRIL 1) TO PAY FOR TICKETS!

People who have paid for tickets:

· Bradst1ck

· TargetField (x2)

· Rodney

· Crazy86er (x2)

· schooly_d

· ClosureGT -- also paid kok for food, will PP to witt this week

· Darcouth (x2)

· JAM (x2)

· cstorm -- also paid kok for food, will PP to witt this week

· matteo

· GOET

· maxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

· jonas m (x2)

As of 3/19 we are about 25% paid for the tickets

Again, if anyone has any questions -- either leave a comment in this thread or if you prefer, email me (john dot leftwich at gmail dot com)

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Food information from Witt

Food Cost: $10 / person

Food Paypal: rsauermann@att.net

People who have paid for tickets:

· crazy86er x2

· Rodney

· bradst1cks x2

· darcouth

· ClosureGT - paid for food along with ticket to me, will paypal to Witt_ this week

· cstorm - paid for food along with ticket to me, will paypal to Witt_ this week

The Cut off for food is MONDAY, APRIL 8TH

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Equipment needs:

grill (need a volunteer to bring one early, will have a bag of charcoal for community use)
EITHER:
A) 2 sawhorses + 4' x 8' sheet of plywood with hole cut in the middle to stick a trash bag underneath
OR
B) 2-3 large cafeteria tables

Google Spreadsheet Signup List for general items

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Total Cost per person:

Ticket: $27.50
Food: $10.00
Total: $37.50

(Tailgate V Cost with Food: $43.00)

----------------------------------------------------------

Previous LSB Tailgaet 6 Fanposts

LSB Tailgate 6: Ticket Info
LSB Tailgate 6: Ticket + Food Prices

Now for the deets:

Map:

via cdn0.sbnation.com

Misc: Tables, canopies, grills for the shellfish intolerant, beer, drinks, games etc can be hashed out in the comments of this and subsequent posts.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Seating:

75 tickets reserved Sections 205 & 206 (Ballpark Seating Map)
If this game is during a Yu Darvish start, these tickets are in the "KIA YUNIVERSE" which is Sections 201-208 (link) -- I am finding out if we would get the included YUNIVERSE giveways if April 20 ends up falling on a Darvish start day

via i.imgur.com
The cost of tickets is a little over $27 per ticket, so I am requesting that you send me $27.50 per ticket to help cover the fees, anything over the total cost of tickets will go to Witt_ for foood

Please fill out this Google form to submit information regarding your ticket interest
(link if you prefer to not do it inline:

Tickets Paypal: john.leftwich@gmail.com
Tickets Cost: $27.50 per ticket (send as gift)

THE CUT OFF FOR TICKETS IS GOING TO BE SUNDAY, MARCH 31 AT MIDNIGHT (EASTER.) I AM CALLING MY TICKET REP FIRST THING MONDAY MORNING (APRIL 1) TO PAY FOR TICKETS!

People who have paid for tickets:

· Bradst1ck

· TargetField (x2)

· Rodney

· Crazy86er (x2)

· schooly_d

· ClosureGT -- also paid kok for food, will PP to witt this week

· Darcouth (x2)

· JAM (x2)

· cstorm -- also paid kok for food, will PP to witt this week

· matteo

· GOET

· maxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

· jonas m (x2)

As of 3/19 we are about 25% paid for the tickets

Again, if anyone has any questions -- either leave a comment in this thread or if you prefer, email me (john dot leftwich at gmail dot com)

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Food information from Witt

Food Cost: $10 / person

Food Paypal: rsauermann@att.net

People who have paid for tickets:

· crazy86er x2

· Rodney

· bradst1cks x2

· darcouth

· ClosureGT - paid for food along with ticket to me, will paypal to Witt_ this week

· cstorm - paid for food along with ticket to me, will paypal to Witt_ this week

The Cut off for food is MONDAY, APRIL 8TH

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Equipment needs:

grill (need a volunteer to bring one early, will have a bag of charcoal for community use)
EITHER:
A) 2 sawhorses + 4' x 8' sheet of plywood with hole cut in the middle to stick a trash bag underneath
OR
B) 2-3 large cafeteria tables

Google Spreadsheet Signup List for general items

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Total Cost per person:

Ticket: $27.50
Food: $10.00
Total: $37.50

(Tailgate V Cost with Food: $43.00)

----------------------------------------------------------

Previous LSB Tailgaet 6 Fanposts

LSB Tailgate 6: Ticket Info
LSB Tailgate 6: Ticket + Food Prices

19MAR13 OT

knockoutking — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:28:20 -0000

Said the actress to the bishop From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "That's what she said" redirects here. For the EP by The Friday Night Boys, see That's What She Said (EP). For the song by The Automatic, see That's What She Said (song). For the 2012 film, seeThat's What She Said (film).

"Said the actress to the bishop", is an informal (and usually vulgar) exclamation, said for humour in the form of a punch line after an inadvertent double entendre. The equivalent phrase in North America is "that's what she said".[1][2] Both phrases are examples of Wellerisms, a literal "turn" of a phrase, changing its meaning. The versatility of the phrase and its popularity lead some to consider it a cliché.[3]

On occasion, the gender may be swapped, as in "said the bishop to the actress", or "that's what he said".[4]

[hide]

[edit]History and background

[edit]"Said the actress to the bishop"

The term, or its variant "as the actress said to the bishop", may have been used as far back as Edwardian times, and is apparently British in origin.[4][5]

The phrase is frequently used by the fictional character Simon Templar (alias "The Saint") in a long-running series of mystery books by Leslie Charteris. The phrase first appears in the inaugural Saint novel Meet the Tiger, published in 1928.[1]

The phrase "as the girl said to the soldier" is recorded in a sound test for Alfred Hitchcock's 1929 film Blackmail.[6]

[edit]"That's what she said"

By 1973, "that's what she said" had already been characterized as an "ancient one-liner";[7] it was popularized as a recurring joke in the Saturday Night Live sketch Wayne's World. In the movie of the same name, the eponymous character, Wayne, uses the phrase after his partner Garth says, "Are you finished yet? I'm getting tired of holding this" in regard to a picture he is holding.[2]

In the original BBC version of The Office, Ricky Gervais's character David Brent frequently used the phrase "as the actress said to the bishop" as an inappropriate joke. When the show was adapted for American audiences, the phrase was translated to "that's what she said" for Steve Carell's character Michael Scott. "That's what she said" became a catchphrase of The Office and was used for the show's "That's What She Said" Sweepstakes.[8]

[edit]References

On occasion, the gender may be swapped, as in "said the bishop to the actress", or "that's what he said".[4]

[hide]

[edit]History and background

[edit]"Said the actress to the bishop"

The term, or its variant "as the actress said to the bishop", may have been used as far back as Edwardian times, and is apparently British in origin.[4][5]

The phrase "as the girl said to the soldier" is recorded in a sound test for Alfred Hitchcock's 1929 film Blackmail.[6]

[edit]"That's what she said"

[edit]References

3/6 Afternoon OT

knockoutking — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:02:01 -0000

Operation Plumbbob

Operation Plumbbob was a series of nuclear tests conducted between May 28 and October 7, 1957, at the Nevada Test Site, following Project 57, and preceding Project 58.[1] It was the biggest, longest, and most controversial test series in the continental United States.

During the Pascal-B nuclear test, a heavy (900 kg) (approx 1,984 pounds) steel plate cap (a piece of armor plate) was blasted off the top of a test shaft at a speed of more than 66 km/s (41 miles per second or 147,600mph). Before the test, experimental designer Dr. Brownlee had performed a highly approximate calculation that suggested that the nuclear explosion, combined with the specific design of the shaft, would accelerate the plate to six times escape velocity.[4] The plate was never found, but Dr. Brownlee believes that the plate never left the atmosphere (it may even have been vaporized by compression heating of the atmosphere due to its high speed). The calculated velocity was sufficiently interesting that the crew trained a high-speed camera on the plate, which unfortunately only appeared in one frame, but this nevertheless gave a very high lower bound for the speed. After the event, Dr. Robert R. Brownlee described the best estimate of the cover's speed from the photographic evidence as "going like a bat out of hell!"[5][6] The use of a subterranean shaft and nuclear device to propel an object to escape velocity has since been termed a "thunder well".

This incident was reputedly used as part of the technical justification for the Orion project for possible use of nuclear blasts for outer-space propulsion.

Operation Plumbbob

This incident was reputedly used as part of the technical justification for the Orion project for possible use of nuclear blasts for outer-space propulsion.

3/6 OT

knockoutking — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:44:01 -0000

Doreen Green (Earth-616)

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Doreen Green, alias Squirrel Girl was born a mutant with squirrell like attributes. With her new powers she wished to be a usperhero. She ambushed Iron Man in a forest and hoped to impress the veteran hero, wishing him to take her under his wing as hissidekick.

Unimpressed, Iron Man politely declined, when suddenly the duo was attacked by Doctor Doom in a large aircraft. Doom captured and subdued Iron Man, and began to fly out over the ocean where he planned to dispose of Iron Man's body once he killed him. Underestimating her, Doom left Squirrel Girl to her own devices. She devised a plan, and used her ability to communicate with squirrels through an open door as the ship passed over the forest. Hundreds of squirrels answered her call and flooded Doom's ship, chewing through the wires, and swamping the evil dictator with their furry bodies. Doom exclaimed "Confound these wretched rodents! For every one I fling away, a dozen more vex me!" Iron Man was freed, they emerged victorious, and the two heroes went their separate ways.[1]

She relocated to New York City. While fighting crime in Central Park, she saved the GLA from muggers who then recruited her. Alongside her new teammates Squirrel Girl witnessed the death ofGrasshopper and became very frightened but was determined not to give up. Thanks to her "squirrel army", Squirrel Girl was able to help stop Maelstrom from destroying the world.

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After Squirrel Girl made a fuss to be certain that Monkey Joe was an official member of the team, he was apparently killed by Dr. Doom seeking revenge. In actuality, this was a rejected member of the GLA named Leather Boy in a variation of Dr. Doom's costume. Squirrel Girl found a new squirrel companion in the next issue, the only one of her "squirrel army" who had survived Maelstrom's wrath, whom she named Tippy-Toe.

Squirrel Girl and Tippy Toe managed to defeat M.O.D.O.K., Terrax, and Thanos all by themselves. Uatu, the Earth's Watcher, was on hand to confirm that the Thanos she defeated was the real thing, and not a clone or copy of any kind[2]. After M.O.D.O.K. was defeated,Dum-Dum Dugan offered her a position at S.H.I.E.L.D., explaining that they'd been watching her for some time and found her to be one of the most effective people ever at defeating powerful super villains. Squirrel Girl declined the offer, saying she was happy being with the GLA. Squirrel Girl was one of the lucky 198 to retain their powers afterM-Day.[3]

She later helped the thing defeat Bi-Beast. While visiting squirrel friends in Central Park, Squirrel Girl came across Thing fighting with Bi-Beast. She told the squirrels to retrieve the smelliest garbage they could find and place it around the combatants, resulting in everyone having to hold their noses. Bi-Beast had to use both hands to hold his noses, leaving himself defenseless, allowing Thing to knock him out.

Squirrel Girl and the rest of the newly-renamed Great Lakes Champions, who took the name after winning a poker game, registered under the Superhero Registration Act the morning the law was enacted. However, mercenary-for-hire Deadpool, assuming the Champions were un-registered, attacked the team at their headquarters (Deadpool sought to ingratiate himself with the government by capturing un-registered heroes). Deadpool was bested in combat by Squirrel Girl; his distraction at her appearance and name contributed to his inability to mount an adequate defense to her attacks.

Squirrel Girl and the again-renamed Great Lakes Initiative teamed up with Deadpool a few months later to take down AIM agents who had kidnapped a wayward Olympian God and fashioned an inebriation ray that made every superhero on the planet (save for Deadpool and the GLI) drunk. After the battle, Deadpool decided to hang around the GLI's new government-funded headquarters for a while as a "reserve member."

Squirrel Girl was a huge fan of the New Warriors, especially Robbie "Speedball" Baldwin, on whom she had a crush. She learned of Speedball's transformation into the darker hero code-named Penance after Deadpool provided her with a copy of Civil War: Front Line #10. Squirrel Girl traveled to Thunderbolts Mountain to convince Robbie to lighten up and stop being Penance. Frustrated by his current attitude and unwavering determination to remain as Penance, Squirrel Girl traveled to Latveria to use one of Dr. Doom's time machines to travel to the past and prevent Speedball from ever becoming Penance. The machine instead transported her into the future, where she encountered an alternate version of Speedball (whom she unsuccessfully tried to get to travel back to the past with her), and Mr. Immortal, who told her she has an important task to perform in the past — namely, kicking Deadpool out of the Great Lakes Initiative's headquarters.

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Futbol Thread: Wenger is losing faith in his defence...

knockoutking — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:37:24 -0000

Futbol Thread: Wenger is losing faith in his defence...

Wenger is losing faith in his defence and is apparently planning an £8m bid for Swansea's Ashley Williams in the summer.

5MAR13 OT

knockoutking — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:14:34 -0000

Carcross Desert, located outside Carcross, Yukon, Canada (60°11′14″N 134°41′41″W Coordinates: 60°11′14″N 134°41′41″W), is often considered the smallest desert in the world. The Carcoss Desert measures approximately 1 square mile (2.6 km2), or 640 acres.[1]

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Carcross Desert is commonly referred to as a desert, but is actually a series of northern sand dunes. The area's climate is too humid to be considered a true desert.[2] The sand was formed during the last ice age, when large glacial lakes formed and deposited silt. When the lakes dried, the dunes were left behind. Today, sand comes mainly from nearbyBennett Lake, carried by wind. The dunes contain a wide variety of plants, including unusual varieties such as Baikal sedge and Yukon lupine, among others.[2][3]

The Yukon Territorial government made efforts to protect Carcross Desert in 1992, but failed due to opposition from locals who use the dunes for recreational purposes.[2]

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Carcross Desert in winter.

Carcross Desert is significantly drier than the surrounding region, receiving less than 50 cm of rain per year. This is due mainly in part to a rain shadow effect caused by surrounding mountains.[4] As a result, several rare species of plant life have taken hold in the comparatively arid conditions. Carex sabulosa, or Baikal sedge, is only known to exist in four other sites in North America, mainly existing in Asia. Yukon Lupine, also unusual for the surroundings, "grows like a weed."[3] While the vegetation in the area currently locks much of the dune system in place, a large event such as a forest fire could easily clear out the vegetation and return the dunes to an active state.

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Informational sign on roadside

The dunes are used by locals for sandboarding. Tourist groups also use the area for off-road scenic tours, which is allowed on the fine-grained dunes. Other summer activities include hiking and all-terrain vehicles.[5]

In the winter, the area is used mainly for cross-country skiing and snowboarding.[2]

The nearby White Pass and Yukon Route is a popular tourist attraction, bringing many tourists each year to the Carcross area.

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[edit]Background

The Yukon Territorial government made efforts to protect Carcross Desert in 1992, but failed due to opposition from locals who use the dunes for recreational purposes.[2]

[edit]Climate

Carcross Desert in winter.

[edit]Recreation

Informational sign on roadside

In the winter, the area is used mainly for cross-country skiing and snowboarding.[2]

The nearby White Pass and Yukon Route is a popular tourist attraction, bringing many tourists each year to the Carcross area.

Weekend OT2

knockoutking — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 23:40:49 -0000

Asbestos Lady

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Victoria Murdock was the sister of "Killer" Murdock, a racketeer, and used her brother’s connections to begin a career as a criminal scientist. She provided herself and her accomplices with asbestos-lined clothing to protect them from fire, then set fires to hold back the police while they robbed banks. Wanting to exploit her asbestos gimmick even further, the Asbestos Lady looked up Fred and Nora Raymond, a pair of leading asbestos scientists, intending to force them into assisting her. The android hero of the ‘40s, the Human Torch, came to the couple’s rescue, and rounded up the Asbestos Lady’s gang while she escaped.

Determined to make the Raymonds pay, the Asbestos Lady spied on them, and when the couple left town on a train, she placed a tree trunk ahead on the tracks, derailing the train and killing them both. However, the Raymonds’ son Thomas survived, and joined a circus where he became Toro, the Fire-Eating Boy. Hearing of his act on the news, the Asbestos Lady decided to kidnap him. Expecting the Human Torch to appear again, she and her gang drove a truck full of water towards the circus and pretended to spin out of control when they saw the Torch. When the hero came to assist them, they hosed him with water and threw him in the tank. However, the Torch generated so much heat within the tank that the steam burst the truck open, and he melted the Asbestos Lady’s feet to the asphalt road to keep her from escaping.

The Asbestos Lady continued in her career, and in the midst of one crime was captured by the Black Marvel. She eventually was approached by a collection of businessmen who feared the coming of superheroes, and they funded her to continue on as the Human Torch’s chief adversary. When her brother was captured by the Torch and Toro and was ultimately executed, she attempted to take his place in racketeering, taking control of his gang and assuming possession of a disintegrator gun he had found in Germany. She tried to kill the Torch and Toro with the gun, but the Torch melted it, and she barely escaped them. In her next plot, she had her gang trap the fiery duo and throw them into a lake, then supplied one of her men with a costume which could simulate the Human Torch’s powers, sending him on a crime spree to make the authorities think that the Torch had turned against them. However, the Torch and Toro escaped the trap at the lake, and the Torch pretended to be the Asbestos Lady’s own underling until he returned her, then knocked out his imposter.

The Asbestos Lady was again imprisoned, but learned in the years that followed that she had contracted cancer due to her constant exposure to asbestos. Her final fate is unknown, but she is believed to have succumbed to the disease.

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Poll

What State is the best State?

Texas

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1MAR13 // Friday OT I

knockoutking — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:30:25 -0000

The All-Joking, All-Drunken Synod of Fools and Jesters From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Franz Lefort, a member of the Synod

The All-Joking, All-Drunken Synod of Fools and Jesters[Notes 1] (1692[1] – 1725)[Notes 2] was a club of sorts founded by Peter I of Russia. The group included many of Peter's closest friends, and its activities centered mostly around drinking and partying. The group was not without controversies; some of its parodies against the Church in particular were heavily criticized.

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[edit]The Jolly Company

As a teenager and young adult, Peter I of Russia had a large group of friends and followers. Some were childhood friends who had been with him since throughout his stay at Preobrazhenskoye or before, such as Nikita Zotov and Fyodor Romodanovsky; others were older patriotic men from respected families, such as Prince Michael Cherkassky, Prince Peter Prozorovsky and Fedor Golovin; and some others were foreigners like Patrick Gordon and Franz Lefort whose company Peter enjoyed. Together, the "cohesive group" often wandered the countryside and interrupted noblemen, asking for food and shelter for the night. Known as the "Jolly Company", there were anywhere from 80 to 200 followers within the "Company". In addition to the vast varieties of food, games, and events at the parties the "Jolly Company" held, there were also copious amounts of alcoholic beverages.[2]

In time, the Jolly Company held more and more parties within Moscow itself, often within the home of Franz Lefort. Lefort, however, had limited funds, and he could not often afford to host the Tsar. To assist Lefort, Peter first built Lefort a large dining hall, and when that grew to be too small, he built him a fully furnished stone mansion with a banquet hall that could hold 1,500 men. The hall would become "a kind of clubhouse" for the Jolly Company, even when Peter or Lefort were absent.[3]

[edit]Transformation into the "Synod"

The Jolly Company slowly "proceeded to more organized buffoonery and masquerades" as Peter gave many of the men titles that they addressed each other by, often for ridiculous reasons. For example, a boyar named Ivan Buturlin was forever known as "The Polish King" because he played the enemy in a mock battle at Preobrazhenskoye, while Fyodor Romodanovsky was first known as "King of Pressburg" and then as "Prince-Caesar". Many years later, Peter would address Romodanovsky as "Your Majesty" and even presented him as the Tsar to defeated military opponents.[4]

The Jolly Company eventually formed a group known as The All-Joking, All-Drunken Synod of Fools and Jesters, which had a "Prince-Pope", a college of cardinals, bishops, archimandrites, priests and deacons. Deacon Peter created several rituals, ceremonies, and commandments for the group, which involved primarily heavy drinking requirements,[5] and was the leader of the group, despite his lowly title.[6] The group ended up including every man of power within the Tsar's government,[6] and even real clergymen as well.[7]

In January 1695, just three years after the election of Nikita Zotov as "Prince-Pope", Peter refused to partake in a traditional Russian Orthodox ceremony of having holy water sprinkled over his head during the Epiphany Ceremony.[8] Instead, Peter and the Synod celebrated their own version of the Russian folk custom of sviatki, with partying, drinking, and even eroticism. Peter even specifically designed Zotov's election and the celebration to conflict with the traditional Church celebration.[1]

[edit]Mocking of the Church

Peter's creation of this group was not without controversy, both at the time and in the eyes of historians. Peter formed the Drunken Synod when he was just eighteen and let it continue till the end of his life. The mock-Synod angered many Orthodox Russians; many even believed because of it that Peter was the Antichrist.[9] Robert K. Massie says that this quickly changed after "Peter quickly steered the parody to a safer mimicry of the Roman Catholic Church", which did not bother as many Russians.[10] Vincent Milner-Gulland notes that the Synod has been seen in various lights – as an imitation of Hellfire Clubs, a physical manifestation of Peter's drive at modernizing Russia or of Peter's partial seizures, or simply as a way for Peter and his friends to enjoy themselves.[11]

The All-Joking, All-Drunken Synod of Fools and Jesters From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Franz Lefort, a member of the Synod

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LSB TG6: Ticket + Food Prices

knockoutking — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:10:01 -0000

Time to start planning everyone. Since Adam and the Houston Astros are stealing opening day thunder, and due to the difficulties getting opening weekend tickets in bulk, I proposed that we move our official beginning of the season tailgate to a bit later into opening month. Stoners rejoice or possible just show up a little late and have the munchies. The plan is to have the tailgate before the April 20th game against the Seattle Mariners. This is a Saturday with gametime scheduled for 7:05p. With the Rangers getting the national love with Opening Night baseball and possibly the another national game in the opening homestand against the Angels, hopefully this gametime won't move.

Now for the deets:

Map:

via cdn0.sbnation.com

Misc: Tables, canopies, grills for the shellfish intolerant, beer, drinks, games etc can be hashed out in the comments of this and subsequent posts.

Seating:

Reserving 75 tickets in the next 48 hours in Sections 205 & 206 (Ballpark Seating Map)

The cost of tickets is a little over $27 per ticket, so I am requesting that you send me $27.50 per ticket to help cover the fees, anything over the total cost of tickets will go to Witt for food (expect food information in the near future.) For comparison, last year tickets were $25+fees.

If there is interest, I will also get some tickets in the Upper Reserved area (will be about $15) -- if you want Upper Reserved Tickets please email me ASAP.

Please fill out this form to submit information regarding your ticket interest (or just fill it out below)

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People who have paid for tickets:
Bradst1ck
TargetField (2)
Rodney
Crazy86er (2)
schooly_d
ClosureGT
Darcouth (2)

THE CUT OFF FOR TICKETS IS GOING TO BE FRIDAY, MARCH 29TH. PAYMENT FOR ALL TICKETS WILL BE DUE THE SAME DAY.

Again, if anyone has any questions -- either leave a comment in this thread or email me (john dot leftwich at gmail dot com)

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Food information from Witt

Food Cost: $10 / person

Food Information: Crawfish boil + potatoes, onions, sausage and mushrooms -- also planning on doing some shrimp

Equipment: will update once witt adds the info in a comment below

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Total Cost per person:

Ticket: $27.50
Food: $10.00
Total: $37.50

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Previous FanPosts:

LSB Tailgate 6: Ticket Info

Time to start planning everyone. Since Adam and the Houston Astros are stealing opening day thunder, and due to the difficulties getting opening weekend tickets in bulk, I proposed that we move our official beginning of the season tailgate to a bit later into opening month. Stoners rejoice or possible just show up a little late and have the munchies. The plan is to have the tailgate before the April 20th game against the Seattle Mariners. This is a Saturday with gametime scheduled for 7:05p. With the Rangers getting the national love with Opening Night baseball and possibly the another national game in the opening homestand against the Angels, hopefully this gametime won't move.

Now for the deets:

Map:

via cdn0.sbnation.com

Misc: Tables, canopies, grills for the shellfish intolerant, beer, drinks, games etc can be hashed out in the comments of this and subsequent posts.

Seating:

Reserving 75 tickets in the next 48 hours in Sections 205 & 206 (Ballpark Seating Map)

If there is interest, I will also get some tickets in the Upper Reserved area (will be about $15) -- if you want Upper Reserved Tickets please email me ASAP.

Please fill out this form to submit information regarding your ticket interest (or just fill it out below)

----------------------------------------------------------

People who have paid for tickets:
Bradst1ck
TargetField (2)
Rodney
Crazy86er (2)
schooly_d
ClosureGT
Darcouth (2)

THE CUT OFF FOR TICKETS IS GOING TO BE FRIDAY, MARCH 29TH. PAYMENT FOR ALL TICKETS WILL BE DUE THE SAME DAY.

Again, if anyone has any questions -- either leave a comment in this thread or email me (john dot leftwich at gmail dot com)

----------------------------------------------------------

Food information from Witt

Food Cost: $10 / person

Food Information: Crawfish boil + potatoes, onions, sausage and mushrooms -- also planning on doing some shrimp

Equipment: will update once witt adds the info in a comment below

----------------------------------------------------------

Total Cost per person:

Ticket: $27.50
Food: $10.00
Total: $37.50

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Previous FanPosts:

LSB Tailgate 6: Ticket Info

28FEB13 OT

knockoutking — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:49:25 -0000

Viggo Mortensen's mafia mistake

Oct 1, 2007, 7:00 GMT

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Viggo Mortensen has been mistaken for a member of the mafia.

The actor - who plays a Russian mobster in new film 'Eastern Promises' - sports fake tattoos for the role and kept them on after shooting when he went out for dinner in London.

However, his etchings stunned fellow diners, who thought he belonged to a notorious gang.

Viggo told the New York Daily News newspaper: "I went into a Russian restaurant in London. People saw the tattoos and stopped talking. They must have thought I was a real mafia man. It happened a couple of times. After a while, I figured I better wash off the ink before I went out to eat."

Although those tattoos were fake, Mortensen does have a real piece of body art.

The 'Lord of the Rings' star has an 'H' on his wrist as a tribute to his son Henry.

Mortensen - who is now divorced from Henry's mother Exene Cervenka - said: "When he was little and he first started to write, he wanted to write Hs everywhere, all over my arms. It was either that or the wall, so I said, 'Go ahead.'

"One day he put one right there and it was beautiful and I thought it would be a nice memory to have. I went right down to a tattoo parlour on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles and had a guy tattoo over it."

- See more at: http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/news/article_1361243.php/Viggo_Mortensen_s_mafia_mistake#sthash.a5cqkrQq.dpuf

Viggo Mortensen's mafia mistake

Oct 1, 2007, 7:00 GMT

1 1 StumbleUpon3 COMMENT

Viggo Mortensen has been mistaken for a member of the mafia.

The actor - who plays a Russian mobster in new film 'Eastern Promises' - sports fake tattoos for the role and kept them on after shooting when he went out for dinner in London.

However, his etchings stunned fellow diners, who thought he belonged to a notorious gang.

Although those tattoos were fake, Mortensen does have a real piece of body art.

The 'Lord of the Rings' star has an 'H' on his wrist as a tribute to his son Henry.

- See more at: http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/news/article_1361243.php/Viggo_Mortensen_s_mafia_mistake#sthash.a5cqkrQq.dpuf

27FEB13 OT

knockoutking — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:26:42 -0000

Pope Benedict IX From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Benedict IX

Papacy began	October 1032 (first term)
Papacy ended	July 1048 (third term)
Predecessor	John XIX Sylvester III Clement II
Successor	Sylvester III Gregory VI Damasus II
Personal details
Birth name	Theophylactus of Tusculum
Born	c. 1012 Rome, Papal States, Holy Roman Empire
Died	c. December 1055/January 1056 (age 43) Grottaferrata, Papal States,Holy Roman Empire
Other Popes named Benedict

Papal styles of Pope Benedict IX

Reference style	His Holiness
Spoken style	Your Holiness
Religious style	Holy Father
Posthumous style	none

Pope Benedict IX (c. 1012 – c. 1056), born in Rome as Theophylactus of Tusculum, was Pope on three occasions between 1032 and 1048.[1] One of the youngest popes, he was the only man to have been Pope on more than one occasion, the only man ever to have sold the papacy, and the first verifiable papal resignation.[2]

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Benedict was born the son of Alberic III, Count of Tusculum, and was a nephew of Pope Benedict VIII and Pope John XIX. His father obtained the Papal chair for him, granting it to his son in October 1032.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia[3] and other sources, Benedict IX was around 18 to 20 years old when made pontiff, although some sources claim 11 or 12.[4] He reportedly led an extremely dissolute life and allegedly had few qualifications for the papacy other than connections with a socially powerful family. In terms of theology and the ordinary activities of the Church he was entirely unorthodox. St. Peter Damian is alleged to have described him as "feasting on immorality"; the anti-papal historian Ferdinand Gregorovius wrote that in Benedict, "a demon from hell in the disguise of a priest... occupied the chair of Peter and profaned the sacred mysteries of religion by his insolent courses."[1] The Catholic Encyclopedia calls him "a disgrace to the Chair of Peter."[3] The first pope said to have been primarily homosexual,[5] he was said to have held orgies in the Lateran palace.

He was also accused by Bishop Benno of Piacenza of "many vile adulteries and murders".[6] Pope Victor III, in his third book of Dialogues, referred to "his rapes, murders and other unspeakable acts. His life as a pope was so vile, so foul, so execrable, that I shudder to think of it."[7]

He was briefly forced out of Rome in 1036, but returned with the help of Emperor Conrad II.

In September 1044 the opposition forced him out of the city again and elected John, Bishop of Sabina, as Pope Sylvester III. Benedict IX's forces returned in April 1045 and expelled his rival, who however kept his claim to the papacy for years.

Later in 1045, in order to rid the Church of the scandalous Benedict, his godfather, the pious priest John Gratian, persuaded Benedict to resign the papacy for a sum of money, thus allowing Gratian to become Pope Gregory VI. Some also say that Benedict wanted to marry.

Benedict IX soon regretted his resignation and returned to Rome, taking the city and remaining on the throne until July 1046, although Gregory VI continued to be recognized as the true pope. At the time, Sylvester III also reasserted his claim.

German King Henry III intervened, and at the Council of Sutri in December 1046, Benedict IX and Sylvester III were declared deposed while Gregory VI was encouraged to resign because the arrangement he had entered into with Benedict was considered simoniacal; that is, to have been paid for. The German Bishop Suidger was crowned as Gregory's successor, Pope Clement II.

Benedict IX had not attended the council and did not accept his deposition. When Clement II died in October 1047, Benedict seized the Lateran Palace in November, but was driven away by German troops in July 1048. To fill the power vacuum, Bishop Poppo of Brixen was elected as Pope Damasus II and universally recognized as such. Benedict IX refused to appear on charges of simony in 1049 and was excommunicated.

Benedict IX's eventual fate is obscure, but he seems to have given up his claims to the papal throne. Pope Leo IX may have lifted the ban on him. Benedict IX wasburied in the Abbey of Grottaferrata c. 1056. According to the abbot, he was penitent and turned away from his sins as pontiff.[8]

Benedict is usually recognized as having had three terms as pope:

the first lasting from his election to his expulsion in favour of Sylvester III (October 1032 – September 1044)
the second from his return to his selling the papacy to Gregory VI (April – May 1045)
the third from his return after the death of Clement II to the advent of Damasus II (November 1047 – July 1048)

Pope Benedict IX From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Benedict IX

Papacy began	October 1032 (first term)
Papacy ended	July 1048 (third term)
Predecessor	John XIX Sylvester III Clement II
Successor	Sylvester III Gregory VI Damasus II
Personal details
Birth name	Theophylactus of Tusculum
Born	c. 1012 Rome, Papal States, Holy Roman Empire
Died	c. December 1055/January 1056 (age 43) Grottaferrata, Papal States,Holy Roman Empire
Other Popes named Benedict

Papal styles of Pope Benedict IX

Reference style	His Holiness
Spoken style	Your Holiness
Religious style	Holy Father
Posthumous style	none

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[edit]Biography

He was briefly forced out of Rome in 1036, but returned with the help of Emperor Conrad II.

Benedict is usually recognized as having had three terms as pope:

the first lasting from his election to his expulsion in favour of Sylvester III (October 1032 – September 1044)
the second from his return to his selling the papacy to Gregory VI (April – May 1045)
the third from his return after the death of Clement II to the advent of Damasus II (November 1047 – July 1048)

25FEB PM OT

knockoutking — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:15:29 -0000

Ugly stick From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Demonstration of an ugly stick

The ugly stick is a traditional Newfoundland musical instrument fashioned out of household and tool shed items, typically a mop handle with bottle caps, tin cans, small bells and other noise makers. The instrument is played with a drum stick and has a distinctive sound.

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In outports and remote villages, social gatherings such as concerts (colloquially referred to as "times"), mummering and kitchen parties, were an important part of the rural culture. The principal melody instruments were accordions and fiddles with rhythmic accompaniment from the ugly stick.

[edit]Construction

The instrument’s main body is a mop or broom handle cut to approximately four feet. An old rubber boot was attached to the bottom and a cymbal attached at the very top. At strategic intervals along the length of the shaft, nails affixed with bottle caps, felt tins and other noise makers would be nailed into the shaft. The instrument would then be decorated with items of colour and fluff to the artist's taste.

[edit]Playing

The ugly stick is held in one hand at about ¾ up the shaft and the musician would hold a drum stick in the other. The instrument would be lifted and dropped on the floor in a rhythmic fashion while the musician would strike the attachments and cymbal to embellish the sound.

[edit]Idiomatic usage

"Beaten with the ugly stick" is an American idiom for someone or something that looks ugly or unappealing.

Ugly stick From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Demonstration of an ugly stick

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[edit]Idiomatic usage

"Beaten with the ugly stick" is an American idiom for someone or something that looks ugly or unappealing.

Grantland/Jonah Keri: MLB's Super Sweet 16 Prospects Coming to a Pennant Race Near You

knockoutking — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:01:26 -0000

Grantland/Jonah Keri: MLB's Super Sweet 16 Prospects Coming to a Pennant Race Near You

With that in mind, we decided to count down the 16 players most likely to impact those races — the Machados, if you will.
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Includes Marteen (#15), MIKE OLT! (#12) and Profar clocks in at #5.

5. Jurickson Profar (Rangers)
The no. 1 prospect in baseball according to several sources, Profar has an excellent glove, hits for average and extra bases, runs well, and happens to play shortstop; that's the recipe for a future seven-win player. He also doesn't turn 20 until Wednesday, the Rangers have the very able of combination of Elvis Andrus and Ian Kinsler up the middle, and GM Jon Daniels has a firm grasp on development curves and optimal usage of young talent. "We're not interested in having a young prospect sit on the bench and play 30 games over the course of the season," he said recently. On another team, Profar could add a no. 1 (or at least no. 2) 2013 impact projection to his top-dog status on prospect lists. As is, he'll wait for an injury, a slump, a role change — anything to get his deep, deep toolkit into a starting major league job.

2/19 OT

knockoutking — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:50:48 -0000

Barbie song appeal strikes an off note for high court

By Bill Mears
CNN Washington Bureau
Monday, January 27, 2003 Posted: 3:17 PM EST (2017 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Supreme Court rejected a chance Monday to delve into the world of pop music and pop culture, declining to hear a trademark case involving a song about the perky blonde Barbie doll.

The justices refused to hear a complaint from the maker of the doll, claiming lyrics in a pop song hurt Barbie's image and the marketing of what the company calls "one of the most successful brands in history."

The song, by a Danish group called Aqua, includes the lyrics, "I'm a blonde bimbo in a fantasy world/Dress me up, make it tight, I'm your doll."

Aqua's record company, MCA, says the song and album sold about 1.1 million copies, and it was a top 40 hit in the U.S. and Europe. The group disbanded in August 2001. Lawyers for the label claim the song is a parody protected by Constitution's guarantee of free speech and expression.

But toy company Mattel claimed in court the song lyrics "associate sexual and other unsavory themes with Mattel's Barbie products." Mattel's attorneys claimed children would be confused, believing the song was somehow linked to the actual Barbie doll, which the company says "encourages girls to be anything they want."

Mattel also alleged MCA marketed the song at children. In a trademark dilution lawsuit, Mattel sought monetary damages. MCA later countersued.

A federal district judge had ruled for the recordmaker, saying, "Even if the song were considered vulgar as Mattel purports, it is a parody of the 'party girl' image Barbie may already have among some members of the general public. Absent stronger evidence that the song actually tarnishes Barbie's image, plaintiff is unlikely to succeed on its trademark dilution claims."

An appeals court agreed, with Judge Alex Kozinski saying, "With fame often comes unwanted attention." Noting the often bitter tone taken by companies in this five-year legal battle, Kozinski ordered both sides to behave. "The parties are advised to chill," he said in his ruling.

Barbie song appeal strikes an off note for high court

By Bill Mears
CNN Washington Bureau
Monday, January 27, 2003 Posted: 3:17 PM EST (2017 GMT)

The song, by a Danish group called Aqua, includes the lyrics, "I'm a blonde bimbo in a fantasy world/Dress me up, make it tight, I'm your doll."

Mattel also alleged MCA marketed the song at children. In a trademark dilution lawsuit, Mattel sought monetary damages. MCA later countersued.

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5/3 OT || National Treasure?

5/2 OT

5/1 OT ii

Alleged use against civilians

Alleged use against civilians

Futbol Thread: El Shaarawy: 'No to Man City'

Futbol Thread: El Shaarawy: 'No to Man City'

5/1 OT

4/30 OT iii

[edit]References

[edit]References

4/29 Night OT

4/24 OT

Types of restaurants

Types of restaurants

4/23 OT

February 5, 2013

Pick Your Poison: A Diet Mixer Could Make You Get Drunk Faster

February 5, 2013

Pick Your Poison: A Diet Mixer Could Make You Get Drunk Faster

LSB Tailgate 6: The Aftermath

4/16 OT

FINAL LSB TG6 Fanpost (with location/food information)

4/3 OT II

4/2 OT

Private purchase schemes

Notable claims

Private purchase schemes

Notable claims

LSB TG6 Update #4: CHANGE FOOD OPTIONS? + UPDATED PAYMENT DEADLINE

WHAT IS YOUR FOOD PREFERENCE FOR THE TAILGATE

A) Boil crawfish pre-Tailgate: bring to tailgate in coolers around 4pm

B) Traditional Tailgate: Witt takes the donated money and buys tablitas, hamburgers, hotdogs, sausage, buns, etc -- will need people to bring grills

C) Pizza-gate: order pizza, have it delivered at a set time, eat pizza

3/28 OT ii

LSB TG6 Update #3

19MAR13 OT

Contents

[edit]History and background

[edit]"Said the actress to the bishop"

[edit]"That's what she said"

[edit]References

Contents

[edit]History and background

[edit]"Said the actress to the bishop"

[edit]"That's what she said"

[edit]References

3/6 Afternoon OT

3/6 OT

Origin

Origin

Futbol Thread: Wenger is losing faith in his defence...

Futbol Thread: Wenger is losing faith in his defence...

5MAR13 OT

Contents

[edit]Background

[edit]Climate

[edit]Recreation

Contents

[edit]Background

[edit]Climate

[edit]Recreation

Weekend OT2

What State is the best State?

Texas

1MAR13 // Friday OT I

Contents

[edit]The Jolly Company

[edit]Transformation into the "Synod"

[edit]Mocking of the Church

Contents

[edit]The Jolly Company

[edit]Transformation into the "Synod"

[edit]Mocking of the Church

LSB TG6: Ticket + Food Prices

28FEB13 OT

27FEB13 OT

Contents

[edit]Biography