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Lamplighter 11-22-2011 08:25 AM
Only by sherendipity, did the police catch one of the thieves on a flight stranded at O'Hare Airport

Lamplighter 11-28-2011 10:17 AM
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Not so weird or surprising for Oregonians but still news...

WRAL.com
Jeff Barnard, Associated Press
11/28/11

Wandering wolf inspires hope and dread
Quote:
GRANTS PASS, Ore. — A young wolf from Oregon has become a media celebrity while looking for love,
tracing a zigzag path that has carried him hundreds of miles nearly to California,
while his alpha male sire and a sibling that stayed home near the Idaho border
are under a death warrant for killing cattle.

Backcountry lodge owner Liz Parrish thinks she locked eyes with the wolf called OR-7
on the edge of the meadow in front of her Crystalwood Lodge,
on the western shore of Upper Klamath Lake,
and hopes someday she will hear his howls coming out of the tall timber.
<snip>
Federal protection for wolves was lifted in Eastern Oregon, but they remain under state protection.
West of Interstate 97 they are back under federal protection.

When wolves reach about 2 years old, they typically strike out on their own,
looking for a mate and an empty territory they can call their own.
And that's what OR-7 has done.

So far there have been no reports of cattle killing along his path.
FWIW, the path this wolf has taken is through some very inhospitable high desert country,
until he got closer to Crater Lake in southwestern Oregon.
.

Lamplighter 12-01-2011 11:16 AM
Tofu Explosion
OregonLive.com
11/20/11
Paul Corah, a spokesman for the Portland Fire Bureau, said investigators
were baffled at first when a woman cooking tofu in her Northwest Portland apartment
Sunday night caused an explosion that blew out a 4-by-6 foot picture window
and caused an estimated $15,000 in damage.
The woman suffered a small burn to her hand but was otherwise unhurt.



After consultation with other investigators up and down the West Coast, Corah said,
it appears grease in a pan used to cook the tofu overheated and caught fire.
When the woman put the fiery pan in the sink to douse it, the water caused
“a sudden and extreme flare-up of flaming oil” and a “massive steam production.”
.

GunMaster357 12-02-2011 06:09 AM
Now, Homeland Security can ban tofu as a terrorist weapon.

Trilby 12-02-2011 06:23 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by GunMaster357 (Post 777051)
Now, Homeland Security can ban tofu as a terrorist weapon.
Finally!

classicman 12-02-2011 09:15 PM
Santa elf quits after Groupon blunder ends in angry melee
And in Merry Ole England too ...

Quote:
LONDON — It is supposed to be the season of goodwill, but Santa’s elves were verbally abused by parents at a Christmas display after a holiday offer on discount website Groupon ended in disappointment.

Almost 2,000 families turned up to the event in York, England, after receiving an email voucher that promised train rides around a winter wonderland, according to a report in the city’s daily newspaper, The Press.

When they discovered no train, and long lines to get into the area, some parents began shouting and swearing at a female worker who was dressed as a Christmas tree.

The situation, last Saturday, became so hostile that one of the elves resigned, the report said.

Organizer Penny Ward told the newspaper: “It was a complete nightmare. Children were crying and upset. One man even verbally threatened the lady who is dressed as a Christmas tree. One of the elves was so upset that she has resigned.”
Story: 102,000 cupcakes! Small bakery burned by Groupon

She said the event was only able to handle 40 children an hour, but staff had worked beyond their normal hours and without breaks to try to ensure children did not miss out.

Groupon apologized for the error about the train but said the offer voucher was sent out with Ward’s agreement.

Last week it was reported that a bakery owner was forced to make 102,000 cupcakes after being swamped by customers taking up her cut-price Groupon offer.

Pete Zicato 12-05-2011 04:38 PM
Quote:
Since 2007 in Australia, Santas are forbidden to say, “Ho, Ho, Ho,” as it is considered derogatory to women.
According to this blog.

zippyt 12-07-2011 07:49 AM
Mythbusters' cannonball hits Dublin home, minivan

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...BA1D1M99V5.DTL

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=8457377

Zip , Zang , Bang , Pow !!!!!!

glatt 12-07-2011 08:11 AM
Woa! That article is worth the read.

The cannonball left the firing range, went through a wall, into a neighborhood, completely went through one house, damaged the roof in another, and smashed a van in the driveway of a third.

The quote at the end from Adam Savage is perfect. "I can't talk right now. *click*"

footfootfoot 12-07-2011 09:42 AM
I want to know WTF those stairs were made of. The cannonball went up the stairs and still had enough energy to go through a door, a stucco wall, travel god knows how far before plowing into a van.

Why didn't the ball travel straight through the stair riser? They must have put some English on it.

There, the 6-inch projectile bounced in front of a home on quiet Cassata Place, ripped through the front door, raced up the stairs and blasted through a bedroom, where a man, woman and child slept through it all - only awakening because of plaster dust.

The ball wasn't done bouncing.

It exited the house, leaving a perfectly round hole in the stucco, crossed six-lane Tassajara Road, took out several tiles from the roof of a home on Bellevue Circle and finally slammed into the Gill family's beige Toyota Sienna minivan in a driveway on Springvale Drive.


somebody map the path on google.

glatt 12-07-2011 09:53 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by footfootfoot (Post 778414)
Why didn't the ball travel straight through the stair riser? They must have put some English on it.
I can picture it hitting the stringer and being deflected upwards. If it came in at an angle through a little drywall on a side wall at the bottom of the staircase and encountered the top of a stringer, it could ricochet right up the stairway without even touching the steps.

edit: It would have to be a notched stringer with a diagonal top side.

HungLikeJesus 12-07-2011 09:53 AM
Perfectly round?

Spexxvet 12-07-2011 10:04 AM
Maybe it was rising as it went through the door, and never touched a step as it "raced up".

Sundae 12-07-2011 10:06 AM
I want to know WTF the man, woman and child in the first house were on - it was 4.45 in the afternoon and they were asleep. Not just asleep, but so heavily asleep they missed a cannonball comig in the front door, up the stairs and exiting through a wall.

Anyone fancy robbing a house, I can recommend one on Cassata Place.

infinite monkey 12-07-2011 10:26 AM
Watch this: through the front door, up the stairs, through the bedroom, up the street, through the van...nothing but net.

zippyt 12-07-2011 10:42 AM
Hell of a shot !!
Damn Lucky nobody got hurt
I bet they call them selfs the Miss Busters for a while
Hell they Made National news !!!!!!!!!!!

footfootfoot 12-07-2011 10:57 AM
I suspect a fun sponge will come into play

infinite monkey 12-07-2011 11:00 AM
If it was miffbusters, didn't they catch it on film? Not just the after-damage, but don't they like, film stuff, for like, that show they do? :confused:

Or did I just myth it?

zippyt 12-07-2011 11:23 AM
Oh it'll be on you tube

infinite monkey 12-07-2011 11:25 AM
I'm waiting for it to be on Snopes.

Miffbusters Pull a Fast One, Film at 11!

glatt 12-07-2011 11:49 AM
I would have huge respect for Mythbusters if they aired the segment anyway and put the family on the show and fixed up their house and gave them some money. And explained what went wrong and how they are going to prevent it in the future. In an entertaining but thoughtful way.

zippyt 12-07-2011 11:53 AM
Yeah That Would be the right thing to do

infinite monkey 12-07-2011 11:53 AM
(cue slowed down, melancholic, Mythbusters music) "Tonight, on a very special MYTHBUSTERS."

Spexxvet 12-07-2011 12:09 PM
LOL:D

Pete Zicato 12-07-2011 12:21 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sundae (Post 778425)
I want to know WTF the man, woman and child in the first house were on - it was 4.45 in the afternoon and they were asleep. Not just asleep, but so heavily asleep they missed a cannonball comig in the front door, up the stairs and exiting through a wall.

Anyone fancy robbing a house, I can recommend one on Cassata Place.
Assuming a normal or nearly normal family, I'd guess maybe it was nap-time for the kid. When my kids were little, I often napped when they did.

zippyt 12-10-2011 02:25 PM
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here is a Map of the missBusters canon ball thing ,
Daym they are WAY Lucky no body got hurt
http://www.perceptionbuilder.com/myt...cannonball-map

Sundae 12-10-2011 03:47 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pete Zicato (Post 778527)
Assuming a normal or nearly normal family, I'd guess maybe it was nap-time for the kid. When my kids were little, I often napped when they did.
Sleeping in the afternoon is not bizarre or unusual.
Sleeping through ALL THAT NOISE. I'm not saying it's suspicious. But it is unusual.

ZenGum 12-10-2011 05:16 PM
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There is NO WAY I am buying the official version here. Just look at the angles!

Attachment 35823

Lamplighter 12-10-2011 05:50 PM
Very good, Z. :D

Lamplighter 12-10-2011 06:12 PM
Although it's for real and is important, I find this announcement almost comedic
Pay attention, they are talking about inverse femtobarns of data,
not the usual sort you find around farms, ranches and colliders.

Have physicists in two experiments independently found evidence for
the Higgs particle with a mass of 125 giga*electronvolts (GeV)
— right in the ballpark predicted by the standard model of particle physics. ?

Nature
09 December 2011

Rumours of a Higgs signal at ATLAS and CMS intensify ahead of 13 December seminar.
Quote:
Physicist Bill Murray, who is leading the ATLAS search for the Higgs,
tells Nature that he cannot comment on the latest rumours.
That is because work is still in progress to analyse 5 inverse femtobarns of data
that have amassed over the summer, with a final decision to approve the current analysis
scheduled for Wednesday, 7 December. Murray also notes that such approvals are often delayed.
An additional level of management approval will also be necessary before the result
can be released at a seminar scheduled for 13 December.
"We are moving forward in our understanding of the data and approval process
but nothing will be solidly releasable for a while," Murray says<snip>
And besides all that, we need to get a new and much bigger collider:
Quote:
ViXra comments that a Higgs at 125 GeV is good news for particle physics,
because it is favoured by supersymmetric models that would imply that
other heavy particles may be found. A heavier Higgs would mean that the masses
of those particles would be too high to be accessible by the Large Hadron Collider.

Flint 12-11-2011 01:43 AM
Have you ever read a post on a subject you felt like you knew a little bit about, and subsequently been absolutely certain that you've missed the entire point due to your now apparent ignorance?

ZenGum 12-11-2011 02:24 AM
"Doc! Doc! What the hell is an inverse femtobarn?"

No, seriously, I'm into this kind of stuff and I've never heard of that.

Lamplighter 12-11-2011 09:09 AM
Femto is like "milli" or "micro", but equal to 10 to the -15th
or 0.000000000000001

A "barn" is a measure of area (10 to the -28 square meters)
or about the size of the uranium nucleus
(femtobarn = code word from WWII days of developing the atomic bomb)

And from my old math books I finally get use that famous phase:

It naturally follows that: :rolleyes:
The inverse femtobarn is how many particle collision events per femtobarn.

Oh, and here is another phase.
The derivation is left to the reader. :yelsick:


Oh, oh. Here is something that tickled me...

The Higgs particle was named the "God particle" by Peter Higgs, who said,
"No one around him would allow it to be called "that God damn particle".
.

Scriveyn 12-11-2011 09:47 AM
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God particles per femtobarn - how much is that in angels per needle point? Attachment 35832

footfootfoot 12-11-2011 10:03 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Scriveyn (Post 779440)
God particles per femtobarn - how much is that in angels per needle point? Attachment 35832
It depends on if they are fallen angels or not. Offhand, I'd say one angel per needlepoint.

ZenGum 12-11-2011 06:08 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Lamplighter (Post 779437)
Femto is like "milli" or "micro", but equal to 10 to the -15th
or 0.000000000000001

A "barn" is a measure of area (10 to the -28 square meters)
or about the size of the uranium nucleus
(femtobarn = code word from WWII days of developing the atomic bomb)

And from my old math books I finally get use that famous phase:

It naturally follows that: :rolleyes:
The inverse femtobarn is how many particle collision events per femtobarn.

Oh, and here is another phase.
The derivation is left to the reader. :yelsick:


Oh, oh. Here is something that tickled me...

The Higgs particle was named the "God particle" by Peter Higgs, who said,
"No one around him would allow it to be called "that God damn particle".
.
Yes, to the individual meanings of "inverse", "femto", "barn" and "data", but how does tha allow "5 inverse femtobarns of data"???

Okay, femto = 10 to the -28. Inverse femto = 10 to the 28. But barn is area and you don't measure data in terms of area. How can you have any amount of barns of data?

Shopkeeper, I'll have five cubic hours of oranges, please.

I suspect leg-pulling. Maybe a mishievous scientist is feeding BS to an incredulous journalist.

Lamplighter 12-11-2011 09:15 PM
I think the way to look at it is... as the collider runs over time,
the accumulated area of the particles increases.
This value needs to be corrected for the inefficiency of each specific
collider in detecting 100% of the particles (fudge factor=luminosity)

I don't really know what I just said... ;) and
maybe someone can offer a better explanation.
But, in the meantime, as quoted directly from Wikipedia

Quote:
The "inverse femtobarn" (fb−1) is a measurement of particle collision events per femtobarn.
One inverse femtobarn is equal to around 70 million million (70 x 1012) collisions.

Over a period of time, two streams of particles with a cross-sectional area, measured in femtobarns, are directed to collide.
The total number of collisions is directly proportional to the luminosity
of the collisions measured over this time.

Therefore, the collision count can be calculated by multiplying the integrated luminosity
by the sum of the cross-section for those collision processes.
This count is then expressed as inverse femtobarns for the time period (e.g., 100 fb−1 in nine months).

Inverse femtobarns are often quoted as an indication of particle collider effectiveness.
Fermilab has produced 10 fb−1 in the last decade.
Fermilab's Tevatron took about 4 years to reach 1 fb−1 in 2005,
while the Large Hadron Collider experiments ATLAS and CMS reached
over 5 inverse femtobarns of proton-proton data in 2011 alone.

Usage example

As a simplified example, if a beamline runs for 8 hours (28,800 seconds)
at an instantaneous luminosity of 300 × 1030 cm−2s−1 = 300 μb−1s−1,
then it will gather data totaling an integrated luminosity of 8,640,000 μb−1 = 8.64 pb−1 during this period.

By next year, collisions will be occurring – if all continues to go well
– at a rate producing what physicists call one "inverse femtobarn,"
best described as a colossal amount of information for analysts to ponder.
Therefore, it naturally follows in todays news that
they will also need a much bigger computer. :rolleyes:
.

xoxoxoBruce 12-11-2011 11:33 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by ZenGum (Post 779505)
But barn is area and you don't measure data in terms of area.
Horseshit per acre.

Griff 12-12-2011 05:44 AM
[baits]Good thing we didn't build that under-size one in Texas.[/tw]

ZenGum 12-13-2011 01:05 AM
Quote:

Fishermen unravel family mystery after month at sea


Uein Buranibwe, 53, and Temaei Tontaake, 26, made headlines late last month when they washed ashore in the Marshall Islands after 33 days lost at sea.

They were more than 600 kilometres from home.

Their global satellite positioning system had run out of batteries after they left their island on what should have been an 80km trip to get gas.

Marshall Islands Journal editor Giff Johnson says the men found much-needed food and water on Namdrik Island.

But he also says that one of the men discovered that his uncle, feared drowned at sea 50 years earlier, had also wound up on the same atoll and married into the community.

The men discovered that they had relatives on the island.

"That was a pretty pleasant surprise to drift at sea for 33 days and wind up on an island where you've got family members," Mr Johnson said.
More at the link.

ZenGum 12-13-2011 01:27 AM
Quote:
THE minister in charge of broadcasting standards has used the F-word live on television during children's viewing hours.
More here: http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/n...-1226220933112

infinite monkey 12-13-2011 07:55 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by ZenGum (Post 779815)
More at the link.
I think that family should consider staying away from the sea.

Pete Zicato 12-13-2011 08:51 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by infinite monkey (Post 779842)
I think that family should consider staying away from the sea.
But, his life, his lover, his lady is the sea.

(speaking of bad 70s lyrics)

infinite monkey 12-13-2011 08:55 AM
(I like that song!) :blush:

The albatross and the whales, they are his brothers.

(I like that one too!) :blush:

classicman 12-13-2011 01:19 PM
AWESOME! When is the movie coming out?

Spexxvet 12-13-2011 02:14 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by classicman (Post 779996)
AWESOME! When is the movie coming out?
They're gay, too? Cool!

Lamplighter 12-14-2011 02:59 AM
Here's followup from Higgs Boson Central.
The quote below has been re-organized to clarify the article.

Close, but no cigar. (yet)

NY Times
DENNIS OVERBYE
Published: December 13, 2011
Data Hints at Elusive Particle, but the Wait Continues
Quote:
Physicists will have to keep holding their breath a while longer.

Physicists around the world, fueled by coffee, dreams and Internet rumors of a breakthrough,
gathered in lounges and auditoriums early Tuesday morning
to watch a lengthy Webcast of the results at CERN.
“Physicists at 8 a.m.,” exclaimed Neal Weiner,
a theorist who organized a gathering at New York University.
“That’s really impressive!”

Two teams of scientists sifting debris from high-energy proton collision
in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European Organization
for Nuclear Research outside Geneva, said Tuesday
that they had recorded tantalizing hints — but only hints —
of a long-sought subatomic particle known as the Higgs boson,
whose existence is a key to explaining why there is mass in the universe.
By next summer, they said, they will have enough data
to say finally whether the elusive particle really exists.

Meanwhile, the other team, known as C.M.S.
— for its detector, the Compact Muon Solenoid —
found what its spokesman, Guido Tonelli, termed “a modest excess”
in its data corresponding to masses around 124 billion electron volts.

The physicists from the different teams are already discussing
whether these differences are significant.

The fact that two rival teams using two different mammoth particle detectors
had recorded similar results was considered good news.
They still think they will need a bigger collider.

classicman 12-20-2011 04:33 PM
Man Eats Cocaine From Brother's Butt, Dies
Quote:
A South Carolina man's brother died after police said he was forced to eat cocaine hidden in his brother's backside.

Both brothers were taken into custody on allegations they had drugs in their car.

But police told Charleston, S.C., TV station WCIV there were additional drugs hidden in 23-year-old Deangelo Mitchell's backside.

Officers said Deangelo Mitchell convinced his brother, 20-year-old Wayne Mitchell, to swallow the ounce of cocaine to hide the evidence. He died soon afterward.

"It's sickening," North Charleston Police Chief Jon Zumalt told WCIV. "I got upset when I saw the thing. I was pretty shocked on it."

Deangelo Mitchell already bonded out of jail on the drug charge, but now police are looking for him again on charges of involuntary manslaughter.
Read more:

sexobon 12-20-2011 05:13 PM
What, nothing about it being crack cocaine?

HungLikeJesus 12-20-2011 05:19 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by classicman (Post 781729)
Man Eats Cocaine From Brother's Butt, Dies


Read more:
But it doesn't say "butt," it says "backside." That can mean all kind of things.

ZenGum 12-20-2011 05:51 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by sexobon (Post 781745)
What, nothing about it being crack cocaine?
:smack: :D :lol:

Gravdigr 12-21-2011 03:19 PM
Well WTF...Did he die from an OD, from ass poison, choke to death, or what?

WTF killed the guy? Shame?

That guy sounds like a real buttmunch.

Gravdigr 12-21-2011 03:23 PM
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I guess this guy got a front seat on the Express train to Hell...
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glatt 12-21-2011 03:24 PM
What sort of a guy's name is Isabel?

Gravdigr 12-21-2011 03:51 PM
Damn! I was rereading the article and a quote from an old Dirty Harry movie sprang into my head:

Quote:
A man's got to know his limitations.

classicman 12-21-2011 04:10 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 781981)
WTF killed the guy?
OD apparently.

ZenGum 12-21-2011 05:50 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by glatt (Post 781984)
What sort of a guy's name is Isabel?
Total shithead, judging by this example.

infinite monkey 12-21-2011 06:12 PM
Why is the heading 'HEART ATTACK' there first, but smaller than the 2nd, yet more relevant, headline?

footfootfoot 12-21-2011 08:10 PM
Notice "stopped having sex with her" rather than stopped raping her.

So rape is having sex? When did they change that?

BrianR 12-22-2011 12:44 PM
Certain militant feminists have been claiming that all sex is rape for twenty years now. Keep up! :D


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