KNICKS SAY SKIRVIN HOTEL HAUNTED
From the New York Daily News (online version):
OKLAHOMA CITY – The Knicks were afraid, very afraid. And it had nothing to do with the Oklahoma City Thunder.
For two days, several players had trouble sleeping because they were convinced that their downtown hotel is haunted.
“I definitely believe it,” Jared Jeffries said. “The place is haunted. It’s scary.”
Eddy Curry claims he slept for only two hours Sunday night because he couldn’t stop thinking about ghosts roaming the hotel.
For years, guests staying at the Skirvin Hilton have reported ghost sightings and strange noises. Legend has it that sometime in the 1930s, a woman jumped to her death while holding her baby in her hands.
“They said it happened on the 10th floor and I’m the only one staying on the 10th floor,” Curry said. “That’s why I spent most of my time in (Nate Robinson’s) room. I definitely believe there are ghosts in that hotel.”
Assistant coach Herb Williams teased Jeffries and Curry for believing that the Skirvin is haunted, but Curry wasn’t laughing.
“There are too many stories,” Curry said. “Something is going on there.” [END]
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Gimme an ever-loving break. Is this all it takes to get into the heads of one of professional sports’ most storied franchises? Let’s look at some key statements:
* “…they were convinced that their downtown hotel is haunted.” With what evidence?
* “I definitely believe it” (Jared Jeffries)–based on what?
* “I definitely believe there are ghosts in that hotel” (Eddie Curry)–what happened?
Then the truth comes out. “There are too many stories” (Eddie Curry). Oh, so the legend, stories, and suggestion have convinced Eddie that the Skirvin Hotel is haunted. That’s how it happens for almost everyone, Eddie. I hope all NBA visiting teams stay at the Skirvin and feel the exact same way. If that happens, look for the Thunder to have come up with the perfect prescription to win an NBA championship. With this formula, the Lakers, Celtics, Spurs, Cavs, and all the rest, don’t stand a chance. File this one under “GIMME A BREAK.”
SYLVIA PREDICTS ALIENS IN 2010
“Aliens will begin to show themselves in the year 2010, they will not harm us, they simply want to see what we are doing to this planet. They will teach us how to use anti-gravity devices again, such as they did for the pyramids”
(sylviabrowne.com)
—Let the Countdown Begin—
{inspired by my sister, Tina}
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FRUIT OF THE LOONS
BY JOHN NAIL, Ph.D. [Contributing Blogger]
On Christmas day, a terrorist attempted to explode 80 grams of the explosive PETN on an airliner while it was landing at the Detroit airport; the explosive had been hidden in the terrorist’s underwear – specifically, the crotch of his underpants. SEE ABC NEWS STORY.
Not surprisingly, this incident has generated a considerable amount of political debate during this holiday week, along with new rules for passenger behavior during airline flights. One aspect that has not been discussed is ‘could 80 grams of PETN in a person’s crotch have caused an airliner crash?’
Before answering this question, I should mention that while I am not an explosives expert, I do teach Chemistry and a Weapons of Mass Destruction course that includes a very basic discussion of explosives.
One issue is that 80 grams (about 45 cc, or 1.6 ounces by volume) of PETN isn’t a lot of explosive. As demonstrated by the show Mythbusters, considerably more than 1.6 (volume) ounces of a powerful explosive (such as PETN) is required for a highly damaging explosion (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKZZLw5kTJk); the 3 cc of the high explosives (possibly PETN) in the video blew a grapefruit sized hole in a foam board. The terrorist had 45 cc of PETN, which would blow a larger hole in a foam board.
Another issue is the location of the PETN – specifically that it was inside the crotch area of the terrorist’s clothing. Had the PETN exploded, it would have seriously damaged his legs and crotch area – the only possibly fatality would have been to the terrorist, as his body would have absorbed the blast and, ironically, protected the other passengers.
Could the terrorist have caused the plane to crash? The answer is: highly unlikely, as 80 grams of PETN does not have enough explosive energy to have seriously damaged the plane fuselage or damage the controls.
At worse, the terrorist could have blown a hole in the fuselage, which would have caused the plane to depressurize. It is highly unlikely that this would have lead to any fatalities as the passengers would have the emergency breathing masks. However, for 80 grams of PETN in a person’s crotch to be able to blow a hole in the plane fuselage, the terrorists would have needed to be in a window seat and had his crotch pressed against the fuselage during the explosion. Even had this happened, the explosive shockwave would have taken the ‘path of least resistance’ which is through the terrorist’s body and not the fuselage wall. Once again, the terrorist would have fared much worse than the passengers, crew or plane.
While we often want absolute safety, we need to admit that this is impossible. It is unreasonable and impractical to find every hidden small packet of a substance that may be incorporated into a person’s clothing. The only way to ensure that another underwear bomb incident cannot occur would be to have all airline passengers remove all of their clothing prior to boarding; presumably, everyone would either fly naked or would be issued secure clothing for the flight. This wouldn’t ensure absolute safety either as a terrorist could always have an explosive surgically inserted in his or her body.
One problem with terrorism is that while we can try to guess at every method that might be used to attack us, however, we can never know what the terrorists have conceived but we haven’t. Consequently, they act and we react. As with all risk management issues, we must keep things in perspective; time and time again, we become overly concerned with unlikely risks and ignore those that are more likely to harm us.
JOHN NAIL, Ph.D., is Chair of the Chemistry Department at Oklahoma City University
GATOR IN OKLAHOMA CITY LAKE?
An alligator has allegedly been spotted in the lake at Dolese Park in Oklahoma City. Is this possible? Mistaken identity? Beaver? Muskrat? Optical illusion? Believe it or not, with all the skeptics (including myself) “debunking” the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot, this claim is actually far more possible. Maybe not a 10-foot gator, but reportedly about a 4-footer. As a kid I recall a neighbor releasing about a one year old pet gator in the sewer. Like it or not, many people have small gators as pets, and release them when they get too large to handle. So it’s possible there’s a gator in Dolese Lake, but it’s also possible this claim will be archived with the likes of Nessy and Bigfoot–as a claim without concrete evidence to support the assertion. If not found by authorities, this story will become Oklahoma legend for a long time….
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CRISS ANGEL CUTS WOMAN IN HALF
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FDA WARNS DR. WEIL FOR H1N1 CLAIM
Weil Lifestyle–the company of Andrew Weil, M.D., has been issued a “Notice of Potential Illegal Marketing of Products to Prevent, Treat, or Cure the H1N1 Virus” by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission. The warning letter is regarding claims made at www.drweil.com that one of their dietary supplements can diagnose, mitigate, prevent, treat, or cure, the H1N1 virus. The claims have since been removed from the website so there is apparently full compliance from the Weil camp.
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APOLLO 14 MOON HOAX THEORY DEALT SETBACK BY NASA CAMERA IMAGES
………… The NASA Luna Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) was launched on June 18, 2009 to address landing site certification and polar illumination–among other things. Its camera images reveal the Apollo 14 lander tracks as well as the astronauts’ footprints–damaging a longstanding belief (by some) that this lunar mission was a hoax. These images are not crystal clear, but clear enough for experts to draw the conclusion that these markings are from Apollo 14. So my question for conspiracy theorists is this: do you still maintain the Apollo 14 mission was a hoax? Do you still maintain the craft didn’t land on the Moon’s surface? Do you still maintain that the astronauts didn’t step foot on the lunar soil?
