Subject: dlvorg Activities and such ...
From: Annie (annie)
Date: Sun Oct 29 2000 - 12:33:31 CST
In this mailing:
Activity thoughts
Startrek at Hilton
Hoover Dam incident update
Tentative schedule
Activity and event suggestions
Web Sites
Administrivia
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Activity thoughts:
>> >The list of suggested activities is terrific...
>I agree. The skeleton schedule, even though some items are marked as
>tentative, is shaping up very nicely. And there is enough shifting
>around of activities (like going dancing on Friday night) from previous
>years' schedules to give things a fresher slant, while still maintaining
>the favorites that people like.
Things are shaping up. We're actually ahead of schedule, imao, on the
planning, which will make things much easier next winter and spring
when we start wrapping this thing up.
>And the list of other suggested acitivities to fill the holes is really
>great. Lots of diversity. I'm a little surprised that there hasn't
>been more discussion about filling in the gaps.
Yes, we should start discussing items that have been proposed but have
not been selected yet.
>>> ...impossible for any one person to be able to find the time to do
>>> everything.
>>
>> Very true. Nobody attends everything <snip>
>That point needs to continue to be emphasized, particularly to DLV
>virgins. Rest and pacing are very important to enjoying your entire time
>at DLV, particularly if you are planning to be there most of the days.
>There was a good discussion thread on this topic last year. Maybe that
>is a possible addition to the Web site?
We could possibly add some scheduling notes to the FAQ or even to the
"expect" page, yes.
>Also, nobody is going to like every single activity. Go to the things
>you like and skip what you don't.
>>> <snip> Friday at 1:00 PM could have a movie scheduled...
>> Ok, let's put this on the slate, with asterisks for the time being.
>What a marvelous idea. I've never gone to a movie while dressed.
OH YES YOU HAVE!! (... at the late nite, double feature, picture show ...
... i wanna go ... :)
>Obviously, I'm spending too much time in bars. :-)
>Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best.
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Startrek at Hilton:
>> * Star Trek ride at the Hilton.
>Just a brief word here...if you are a Star Trek
>fan...this really is a must see. If you are not a
>Star Trek fan, it is still a lot of fun.
I haven't seen this yet. This would be a possibility for an alternate
daytime activity. I would consider taking a vanload down there some
afternoon if there is interest.
They tell me (the ubiquitous "they") that the Warp-Core drink will
turn your mouth blue. :)
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Hoover Dam incident update:
>+HOOVER DAM SUICIDES: Deaths worry officials
>+Preventative measures considered in wake of jumps
>+By RYAN OLIVER REVIEW-JOURNAL
>+Walking toward Hoover Dam in a leopard-spotted, drag ensemble, Lance
>+Binkowski reportedly got the attention of at least a few tourists. But
>+what police believe he did next was even more shocking.
>+Still clutching his matching leopard-spotted purse, the 27-year-old
>+Milwaukee man climbed over the waist-high cement wall at the dam's top
>+and plunged more than 400 feet on Monday. He died instantly when he
>+landed on top of an eight-story building at the foot of the dam.
>+While Binkowski was seen walking along the sidewalk atop the dam and was
>+seen in mid-fall, no one actually witnessed the moment he went over the
>+edge. But police feel confident in determining the cause of death.
>+"It's apparent to me this is a suicide," said Las Vegas police Lt. Wayne
>+Peterson. "You can't just fall off the side of the dam on accident."
>+`While police are trying to figure out why a man from Wisconsin,
>+apparently with no ties to Southern Nevada, drove here only to end his
>+life at the bottom of one of its most renowned landmarks, Hoover Dam
>+officials say they're left with their own questions as well. Bob Walsh,
>+a spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, said that with three
>+suicidal jumps since June, he wonders what's drawing people to end their
>+lives at the dam and whether there's anything that can be done to stop
>+it.
>+"We've looked at and talked about different things that might be
>+considered," Walsh said. Among those, the agency is considering hiring a
>+suicide prevention specialist to make specific recommendations over the
>+next few months. Walsh said anything added to the dam, such as suicide
>+barricades, would have to conform to National Historic Register
>+standards and must allow the public as much access to the dam's
>+different levels and views as they have now. "This is a public
>+facility," he said. "But at the same time, we have concerns. It's really
>+a tragedy when something like this happens." Not to mention bad
>+publicity, Walsh said, and a disturbing event for tourists to witness.
>+The dam gets about 4,500 visitors each day.
>+Compared with other national landmarks, however, the dam's problems
>+might seem trivial. Walsh said suicides at Hoover Dam number in the 20s
>+since its completion in 1936. San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, which
>+was completed a year after the dam, has logged more than 1,000 suicides,
>+according to the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District.
>+That doesn't include suicides that weren't witnessed or bodies that have
>+never been recovered from the bay, a number many believe vastly exceeds
>+the official tally.
>+Niagara Falls officials report about 20 suicides occur there each year.
>+The Associated Press has reported about 30 suicides at New York City's
>+Empire State Building in the structure's 69-year existence. The
>+building's most recent suicide came earlier this month when a man
>+wearing a clown outfit scaled the gates of its observation deck. In
>+the valley, the Stratosphere logged its first suicide in January, and
>+Las Vegas police believe a man jumped from the resort's parking garage
>+to his death on Thursday. The Luxor has seen two suicides from inside
>+its pyramid since its construction. But Petersen said for an unexplained
>+reason, it's the parking garage at Binion's Horseshoe that seems to get
>+the most jumping suicides.
>+Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District spokeswoman Mary
>+Currie said that it was only in the past decade that bridge officials
>+began implementing measures to curb suicides at the bridge. In 1971, a
>+number of proposals for suicide barricades were rejected as either
>+ineffective, too costly or just too ugly, Currie said. "In 1992, we
>+began discussing ways that would deter suicides and not be a barrier,"
>+Currie said.
>+The district now relies on a suicide patrol, using a bicycle and
>+vehicles, improved video monitoring and maintenance workers specially
>+trained to identify suicidal individuals to curb the number of jumpers.
>+Emergency road phones on the bridge were also relabeled to in 1993 to be
>+"suicide hot lines," which can quickly patch a caller through to a
>+counselor at an existing suicide prevention center. Currie said the hot
>+line has never been used. When gate workers get a call from an
>+incoherent or suicidal person, they immediately locate the person and
>+intervene. She said the measures have allowed workers to intervene in
>+about 30 potential jumps per year.
>+Psychology professor Alan Fruzzetti, with the University of Nevada,
>+Reno, said people who jump off the Golden Gate Bridge might have
>+slightly different ideas than those who jump off a structure like Hoover
>+Dam or the Empire State Building. People at the bridge can fall into the
>+water and be swept away without notice, he said. But at the dam, where
>+their remains stay until they're removed, people inevitably notice.
>+"It's possible some people have the thought to flourish their death,"
>+Fruzzetti said. "It's also possible some of these people are severely
>+psychotic and believed they could fly." Still others, he said, could
>+simply be drunk or under the influence of drugs. Nevada has the highest
>+suicide rate in the nation. There were 268 suicides in the Las Vegas
>+Valley in 1999, down from 286 in 1998.
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Tentative schedule:
Asterisks (***) denote suggested/nonfirm items.
Wednesday: 5:00pm Dinner Someplace casual
May 2 8:00pm Pre-DLV thingy LV Lounge?
Thursday: Morn
May 3 Aft
Eve
After Keys ***
Friday: Morn
May 4 1:00pm Matinee movie ***
5:00pm Din-din Buffet
7:30pm Welcome Goodtimes
11:00pm Dance Night Gipsy, et. al.
2 AM Late Night Gambling Location tba
Saturday: Aft
May 5 Eve Kenny Kerr Show {new venue}
Midnite RHPS Paradise 6
After Barhopping
Sunday: Aft Dam tour
May 6 Eve 10 PM Folies Bergere ***
After Limo Tour of Strip ***
Monday: Morn
May 7 Aft Side trip - Rhyolite ***
Eve Bibi get-together
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Activity and event suggestions:
Those not already on schedule.
Please feel free to suggest others, and to suggest times and specifics for
any of these, either on the main DLV list or the DLVORG list.
In no particular order, what has been suggested.
* Official group photo(s)
* Golf (Michelle's personal fave :)
* Shopping
* Mary Kay open house
* Sight Seeing
* Liberace Museum
* Strat tower
* Casino Hopping
* Comedy club
* pedicures
* massages
* shopping for shoes
* dancing
* costume parties
* live music
* gaming supply stores
* Jewelry shopping
* Caesar's shopping mall.
* Star Trek ride at the Hilton.
* neon sign junkyard.
* Mock wedding
* Monday Night Football - cheerleaders
* Makeovers
* Wig shopping
* Late Night Gambling
* Grand Canyon
* Trip to Rhyolite
* SO get-together
* "straight" dance club
* Symphony concert
* Rock concert
* Group breakfast
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Web Sites:
DLV main page http://www.geekbabe.com/dlv/
Michelle Jenkins http://www.idis.com/mpj
Tina http://home.att.net/~tinatawdre/
annie http://www.geekbabe.com/annie/
Julie http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Park/9289/
Rickie's Place http://www.freeyellow.com/members2/rick121
Margeth http://www.geekbabe.com/margeth/
Melissa's Magic Realm http://www.geocities.com/melissa_t17
The Cactus Rose Club http://www.geocities.com/crc_az
Debbie Sage http://intermind.net/~sage/
Vicki's Little Page http://hometown.aol.com/vickits44/myhomepage/index.html
Mindy http://www.fortunecity.com/village/freedom/785/
Bea http://BeatrizZ.tripod.com/
Lorraine http://members.tgforum.com/lorraineadams
Julie Anne http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Chelsea/8576/
Any others? If so, send them in (just hit REPLY).
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