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QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Sep 15, 2005 -> 12:45 PM) Should that be our next banner...I'm thinking YES :puke

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Sep 15, 2005 -> 12:25 PM) after much deliberation I put all three of my games on ebay. Good luck to those who didnt get tix That's mighty nice of ya to post that here.. :rolly

QUOTE(Sox1422 @ Sep 15, 2005 -> 12:23 PM) 1 Ticket for game 1 Section 105 Row 10 That's a GREAT seat!!! Second row behind the visitors BP.

QUOTE(Wong & Owens @ Sep 15, 2005 -> 12:16 PM) I got game 1, and so did some friends of mine. We struck out on game 2 though, so if anyone wants to trade some game 2 seats for game one seats-- let me know Jim got 4 extras for all 3 for my dad. Whatever he can't use I'll post. Congrats to those of you that got 'em.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Sep 15, 2005 -> 12:20 PM) 420 row G, seats 7-10 Anaheim baby Oh.. is that our official invite..???

127 row 25.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Sep 15, 2005 -> 10:43 AM) Well we'll just have to wait and see how the likes of Buerhle do IF we make it to October. Of course the main power guys like RJ etc. do turn it up then, so hopefully Mark and Jon will be able to do the same if the situation arises. Making October is a sure thing. Got games 10/1 and 10/2.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Sep 15, 2005 -> 10:33 AM) Yep besides Vlad Guerrero, Garret Anderson and Casey Kotchman, Anaheim's offense ain't good at all, and Jason would tell you that. Vlad single handedly carried the Angels to the playoffs last year... They are waaaaayyyy better then good. Jason will tell you that.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 15, 2005 -> 10:27 AM) But the wife doesn't like the idea of a two month old baby being used for autographs and pictures :rolly :headshake I can see how she might get a bit peeved at you taking pictures and getting auto's from other chicks.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 15, 2005 -> 09:39 AM) I am not going to be able to stay the weekend like usual for obvious reasons, but I am going to have to find a way to hang out for a night, and crash on someone's floor maybe... Soxfest is always an incredibly fun time, and I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone. Not only that, but go to the bar after hours if you are of age, and meet people and drink a lot. You won't regret it, well unless you are Krush. GMAFB... that kid will be plenty old enough to come to Soxfest. Don't you remember all the action from Tim Destiny got last year

QUOTE(Mr. Showtime @ Sep 14, 2005 -> 10:46 PM) I'm waiting, I love it. I can't imagine what you're waiting for.. you've got plenty of ammo.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Sep 14, 2005 -> 04:45 PM) I was thinking this is too early to book the packages. I was gonna ask if we should just book it now, but you answered that for me I don't ever remember them being able to be booked before the season ends. Usually we get the "thanks for being a great st holder, all your support, bla, bla, bla.... and don't forget to book your rooms for soxfest!!!" letter first.

Oh how sweet... :headshake http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachus..._boston?mode=PF Student displaced by Hurricane Katrina stabbed in Boston September 14, 2005 BOSTON --Two Loyola University students attending classes at Boston College after their school was shut down by Hurricane Katrina were stabbed on a Boston street early Wednesday morning. Joseph Vairo, 19, was in serious condition at Beth Israel Hospital after being stabbed twice, Boston College spokesman Jack Dunn said. An unidentified 20-year-old was treated and released. Vairo is originally from Holden. The students -- among 150 from Loyola and Tulane University who are temporarily attending Boston College -- got into an argument with five men at 1:30 a.m. outside a Store 24 in Cleveland Circle, said Officer Mike McCarthy, a Boston police spokesman. They walked away, but were attacked moments later, McCarthy and Dunn said. McCarthy said there have been no arrests, and that witnesses were being interviewed. "It's clear that they were the victims here," Dunn said. Vairo was stabbed "multiple times" in the "left and right chest area," Dunn said. "His condition is stable and he is improving," Dunn said at midday Wednesday. The other student's name was withheld pending notification of his family in Oakland. He suffered lacerations and a broken nose, Dunn said. It was not immediately known if the students had been in the New Orleans area when Katrina struck. On Sept. 6, they began attending classes at Boston College, one of many schools around the country that reached out to displaced students. "They have been most grateful for the opportunity to study here while their universities are closed and had been widely embraced by the Boston College community, which is why this random and unusual act of violence is so upsetting," Dunn said. Loyola, located in Alexandria, La., is closed for the fall semester. The school's Web site said the campus suffered only minor physical damage and will reopen for the spring semester. A spokeswoman for Loyola could not be immediately reached for comment. A call to the Vairo family in Holden was not immediately returned. The two victims were living off campus, although most displaced students are on campus. After the hurricane, the city of Boston approved an emergency permit to allow Boston College to house 100 displaced students in a building it recently purchased from the Archdiocese of Boston. "It's a very safe area, that's why it's all so surprising and upsetting to us," Dunn said of Cleveland Circle.

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Sep 14, 2005 -> 04:13 PM) Just who I thought (saw you in the thread lol). Thanks! No... thank you guys.

Assets, please. Thank you.

Can one of you mods correct my stupid ass spelling error in the subject.. Thanks.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9339191/ Katrina floods wipe out years of research Work on heart disease, cancer, AIDS, other ailments may be lost forever Updated: 1:15 p.m. ET Sept. 14, 2005 As rising floodwaters swamped New Orleans, Louisiana’s chief epidemiologist enlisted state police on a mission to break into a high-security government lab and destroy any dangerous germs before they could escape or fall into the wrong hands. Armed with bolt cutters and bleach, Dr. Raoult Ratard’s team entered the state’s so-called “hot lab,” and killed all the living samples. “This is what had to be done,” said Ratard, who matter-of-factly put a sudden end to his lab’s work on dangerous germs, which he wouldn’t name. At least Ratard’s team was able to retrieve laptop computers containing vital scientific data. Many other scientists in the region weren’t so fortunate, losing years of research, either through storm damage or voluntary destruction. Not since the torrential floods from Tropical Storm Allison, which badly damaged the Texas Medical Center in 2001, has scientific research been disrupted on such a large scale. Doctors and researchers in the Crescent City became exiles overnight, indefinitely locked out of their labs and unable to see patients. Thousands of laboratory animals — many genetically engineered with human diseases like cancer and painstakingly bred and cared for — perished along with vital tissue samples thawed in abandoned labs. 'It's irreplaceable' Important work on heart disease, cancer, AIDS and a host of other ailments may be lost forever to scientists at Tulane and Louisiana State universities’ medical schools in New Orleans. LSU lost all of its 8,000 lab animals, including mice, rats, dogs and monkeys. Many drowned. Others died without food and water and the rest were euthanized, said Dr. Larry Hollier, dean of the LSU Health Sciences Center School of Medicine. About 300 federally funded projects at New Orleans colleges and universities worth more than $150 million — including 153 projects at Tulane — were affected in some way, according to an initial survey by the National Institutes of Health. One of the biggest blows is the likely destruction of frozen urine and blood samples from thousands of patients enrolled in the Bogalusa Heart Study, the world’s longest-running racial study of risk factors for heart disease. Samples collected and frozen since 1973 thawed out when the hurricane knocked out electricity and backup generators failed at a Tulane lab in New Orleans. “It’s irreplaceable. That’s decades of research,” aid Dr. Paul Whelton, senior vice president for health sciences at Tulane. “It makes you want to cry.” If the blood and urine samples are damaged or contaminated, future tests can’t be done using them. However, Bogalusa’s chief researcher, Tulane cardiologist Dr. Gerald Berenson said he had analyzed much of the data already collected and saved it on his computer, which was not damaged. “The Bogalusa Heart Study will go on,” said Berenson who visited New Orleans, but not his lab, on Tuesday. “We’ll just have to pick up the pieces from what we have.” Dangerous germs not released Tulane cancer specialist Dr. Tyler Curiel was one of the few researchers who decided to ride out the hurricane in New Orleans in an effort to salvage decades worth of research. After the storm passed, Curiel spent the first few days transferring vials from broken freezers to liquid nitrogen tanks with the help of a flashlight. He later fled to his in-laws’ house in Denver and then returned to his lab for a day, grabbing whatever he could in an effort to save blood and tissue samples from an ongoing ovarian cancer project. But he had to leave most of his experiments behind. “This is a dramatic blow to our research,” said Curiel, who plans to temporarily relocate his lab to the University of Alabama in Birmingham. “My researchers are scattered across the country and our facilities are still contaminated.” One thin silver lining to all the lab damage: It appears that no deadly diseases were released from the area’s “hot labs,” where researchers routinely handle and store some of the world’s most dangerous germs. In Covington, just north of New Orleans, Tulane’s high-security National Primate Research Center reported only minor damage and said none of its 5,000 research animals escaped. Ratard, the state epidemiologist, said the lab he returned to appeared undamaged and untouched by looters. He wouldn’t disclose what germs the laboratory was working on when Katrina struck. All the labs in Katrina’s path that handle bioweapons defense research involving pathogens such as anthrax reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that their security wasn’t compromised, according to CDC spokesman Von Roebuck. “A few reported minor damage, but there was no issue of escape.”

As if they don't have enough problems... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9316512/ Katrina victims face identity crisis With vital records under water, proving they're themselves can be difficult

Mothers Looking Out for No. 1 In July, firefighters in Stamford, Conn., had to break a car window, against the owner's wishes, to rescue her 23-month-old son, whom she had accidentally locked inside along with the key. The kid had been sweltering for more than 20 minutes when Susan Guita Silverstein, 42 (who was later charged with reckless endangerment), implored firefighters to let her go home and get a spare key so they wouldn't have to damage her Audi A4. (For infants on an 88-degree day, 20 minutes inside is dangerous, according to the firefighters.) [stamford Advocate, 7-26-05] In August, the 14-year-old daughter of Alberta Rose of Brookfield, Wis., was found safe in Baytown, Texas, after being allegedly lured there over the Internet by a 37-year-old man. Rose had reported the girl missing 12 days earlier, but had decided, since she and her boyfriend had nonrefundable airline tickets, to head out on vacation (to Lake Tahoe), but to leave authorities her cell number, in case the girl turned up. [stamford Advocate, 7-26-05] [GMToday.com (Greater Milwaukee), 8-26-05] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Questionable Judgments In June, a judge in Edinburgh, Texas, accepted a plea bargain in which Robert W. Thompson, 46, who had pleaded no contest to aggravated sexual assault of a 7-year-old girl, was sentenced to no jail time but 320 hours of community service, to be specifically spent knitting afghans. (The judge was sympathetic to Thompson's frail heart condition.) [McAllen Monitor, 7-2-05] According to the law on the books in 1998 (since amended), Mitchell Johnson had to be released from prison in Memphis, Tenn., when he turned 21, which was in August. Johnson was the boy who, with a classmate, shot up their school in Jonesboro, Ark., that year, killing four girls and a teacher and wounding 10. According to the law, Johnson will have no criminal record and will presumably be free, for example, to buy a gun. (Several news organizations reported on Johnson's imminent release, but at press time, prison officials had not made a formal announcement.) [Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 8-12-05] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Low Probability of Rehab Said Glenn A. Reed, 31, upon being sentenced in Waco, Texas, in July to 99 years in prison as a habitual criminal (after rejecting a plea bargain that would have meant a 15-year sentence): "There's things I choose to do, like, if I go in a store and choose to take a Snickers bar, if you catch me, you catch me. If not, I'm going to go home and eat it up and go on about my business, dog." And then there is Lena Driskell, 78, who was indicted for the June jealous-rage fatal shooting her former boyfriend, age 85, in an Atlanta senior citizens' home and who told police upon her arrest, "I did it, and I'd do it again!" [san Francisco Chronicle-AP, 7-11-05] [Newsday-AP, 6-24-05] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cultural Diversity Women Rising: A majority of golfers in Iran these days are women (about 800 in number), who play wearing the traditional head scarf and tunic, according to a July New York Times dispatch from Tehran. (The country's one grass course has only 12 holes after the other six were confiscated by Revolutionary Guards, but there are several sand-based courses.) Another New York Times July dispatch, from El Alto, Bolivia, reported on "Carmen Rosa" and the Cholitas, who are indigenous female wrestlers who toss each other around the ring, wearing bowler hats, shawls and multilayered skirts (clothing of their native Aymara people), as part of a Mexican- (and U.S.-) style pro wrestling circuit. [New York Times, 7-5-05] [New York Times, 7-21-05] Reuters reported in May that Yu Haitao and his bride, Fang Shuling, had filed a complaint against their honeymoon hotel in Shanghai after Yu fell off the bed and broke his arm in front of friends and family who were preparing to give him a hard time in what is apparently a traditional "heckle the newlyweds" ceremony. Fang said the bed should have been safe to stand on. [Reuters, 5-11-05] Rudeness has become so prevalent in Japan, according to a May dispatch from Tokyo in The Times of London, that the Tokyo Metropolitan Government has convened its commission on complaints, whose translated official name is the Study Group Relating to the Prevention of Behavior That Causes Discomfort Among Numerous People in Public Places. Among the public habits bothering various complainers are putting on makeup, sitting on the floor, uninhibitedly reading pornographic magazines, wearing strong perfume and ("unexpectedly," said the Times) "using an umbrella to practice golf swings." [The Times (London), 5-7-05] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oops! Least Competent Animals: Veterinarian John Brunner was called to Milton, Tenn., in June to help release a cow that two hours earlier had stuck her head in a narrow, hollow opening in a tree and couldn't get it out. Using ropes and a tractor, Brunner freed her in 20 minutes. (Said the cow's owner, "It's a nosy animal.") And in August, police in Tenafly, N.J., used bolt cutters to remove the plastic mayonnaise jar that a coyote from the Tenafly Nature Center had gotten stuck on its snout. [Daily News Journal (Murfreesboro, Tenn.), 7-2-05] [WNBC (New York)-AP, 8-23-05] Super-Forgetful People: The director of a Canadian landmine-detection company said in August that he had flown back from Sri Lanka with TNT in his luggage that he had just forgotten about. (Three airport security systems missed it. ) And a 24-year-old man was arrested in August at the Oklahoma City airport for having a homemade pipe bomb in his luggage that he said he had just forgotten about. And when a 36-year-old woman was arrested for bigamy in Hordaland County, Norway, in June, she told officers that she had just forgotten she was already married. [Kingston Whig-Standard, 8-11-05] MSNBC-Reuters, 8-11-05] [Aftenposten (Oslo), 6-22-05] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Least Competent Criminals Recurring Themes: Christopher Franklin, 20, became the latest man to flee from police on foot (from a traffic stop in Moore, Okla., in June) only to have his getaway aborted when he tripped on his loose, baggy pants (having run only about 30 feet). And in Durham, N.C., Otis Wilkins, 45, was charged with attempted murder of his ex-girlfriend and others in July for tossing a plastic bottle filled with gunpowder into their car, except that, as sometimes happens, he missed the window, and the bottle bounced back at his feet, igniting his clothes into a fireball, sending him to the hospital. [Norman Transcript, 6-21-05] [News and Observer (Raleigh), 7-7-05] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recurring Themes It has been 13 years since Stella Liebeck won that monumental $2.9 million verdict against McDonald's after she spilled her hot coffee on her lap, causing third-degree burns (with damages later reduced to $640,000). In August, Rachel Wahrenberg filed a similar lawsuit after her 6-year-old daughter was burned over 80 percent of her body in an Estero, Fla., McDonald's. The coffee was "unreasonably" hot, said Wahrenberg, even though the actual injury this time occurred when a 79-year-old customer carrying the coffee collided with the girl on his way to the condiment counter. [Naples Daily News, 8-6-05] :headshake

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9337631/ So I guess the hospitals will also be charged. :headshake

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Sep 14, 2005 -> 10:21 AM) [tangent] It is amazing how quickly the work is getting done on the tri-state. I figured it would be a typical construction site where the road is blocked off and nothing happens for several months (see route 83 north of Devon work done a couple years ago as an example). [/tangent] I'm amazed also. The Roosevelt Toll plaza is coming along nicely.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Sep 14, 2005 -> 08:21 AM) Is that Super Bowl Sunday again? No. www.espn.com 2/6/06

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Sep 14, 2005 -> 08:49 AM) This is almost southern Iowa I'm living in. Northern Iowa, maybe, but down south here they are a bit strange. Too close to Missourah. OK.. just start walking on 80 East around... Jan 18th or so.. call me when you hit the Illinois border and I'll come pick you up.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Sep 14, 2005 -> 08:42 AM) With the car that doesn't exist? Didn't bring one to Ames, plus it'd be a HAUL. OK.. Hitchhike then.