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The World series of Beer Pong is coming up in Las Vegas, NV. The team crowned Beer Pong World Champion will walk away with $50,000!

Here is the pricing info -
“All WSOBP™ Packages Include

* Four-night resort stay
* Entry into The WSOBP III™ and your shot at $50,000!
* Beer for all tournament games.
* Enter-freaking-tainment! Which may include some or all of: Strippers, bands, DJ’s, special events, and more!

Package Price per person
Single-Occup. $650*
Double-Occup. $500*
*Prices may increase further based on availability and timing (e.g., if our room block fills up, the price may increase for rooms beyond our room block; if you sign up past the deadline (if we even allow it), the casino may increase the cost of the room).

To Sign up Click Here

Important Sign-Up Info

* Sign-up deadline is December 3. (This is largely out of our control, however we will try to extend the deadline as long as possible. Sign-ups up post-Dec 3rd may incur a price increase.)
* We reserve the right to end sign ups early if we reach maximum capacity (a number TBD), so you are advised to sign up as early as possible.
* If you will be rooming with another event participant, make sure that you both select the “Double-Occupancy” package.
* At this time we are not offering a “tournament-only” package (a package without resort stay). You must stay with the
* Prices may increase if our room block reaches capacity.
* Don’t forget—this event was created for pong players, by pong players! We love the game just as much as you do, so if you have any comments, complaints, or questions, please direct them to the forum and we will do our best to promptly reply.

Spectator Info:

* All spectators must be 21+
* Cover charge for spectators will be $10/day unless otherwise noted.
* If you are an event participant and you will be rooming with a spectator, choose the “Single Occupancy” package.
* If you are a spectator wishing to share a room with event participants, please stand by and check back here in the next few weeks for updated information.

WSOBP III Schedule:

NOTE: Schedule subject to change.

• Jan 1–Registration Day: Teams arrive, check in at the resort, register with WSOBP™ staff at South Point, and recieve Welcome Packets. Tables will be made available for practice games.
• Jan 2–Prelims Day 1: All teams report to the Exhibit Hall in the morning for Opening Ceremony. Official matches begin and continue throughout the day. Teams should expect to play around six games per day with one hour between each game.
• Jan 3–Prelims Day 2: Day 1 Results are posted. Teams will play their final determining matches to qualify for finals, followed by announcements & wildcard draw.
• Jan 4–Finals: Final matches culminating in one $50,000 game, followed by an Awards Ceremony.
• Jan 5–Recovery: Sleep it off, maybe play some golf, and make your way home. Start training for next year.

Satellite Tournaments

• Click here for the official list of WSOBP III Satellite Tournaments™. If you subscribe to our e-mail list you will recieve e-mail bulletins keeping you up-to-date on new events as they are added! WSOBP III Satellite Tournaments™ are run independently by bars across the country! Entry fees range from $10-$40 and allow you a chance to win your way to The WSOBP!
• Bars interested in running Satellite Tournaments, email our tournament coordinator.

Official Rules & Regulations:

• The Official rules will be similar to The WSOBP II™ rules: Quick Rules, Full Rule
• If you wish to discuss changes to the rules please do so in the forum.

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Just ran across this site the other day. If you live in Southern California, and are looking for some tournament to play in, there seem to be plenty around. Check out their website here, or click on the logo above.

Check out their shirts here

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Hush has been voted one of the top dance spots in the Ventura County area.

Hush has it all with with its classic combination of dinner, drinks, and dancing in a very contemporary environment. The drink menu is mostly wine, and many selections can be had by the glass. Bottle service is also an option at Hush. The dance floor fills up on weekend nights, courtesy of tunes spun by visiting DJs.

If you are looking for fine-dining cuisine, and an after-hours scene in one Hush might be just the place for you. Check out their site by clicking on the logo above.

Hush Restaurant & Lounge
185 E. Santa Clara Street
Ventura, CA 93001
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Voted the best live music venue in Ventura county. Nicholby’s was established in 1993, and their quality live music and dancing has kept the crowds coming back for more each and every week. Nicholby’s has two bars, 6 pool tables, darts and a few good micro brews on tap.

Hand painted walls and sculptures, a sound system that rivals L.A. clubs and and DJ that has won best DJ Ventura county 1999 Nicholby’s has it all.

Specifications:
Year Established: 1993
Holds 400 People
Ages 21 And Up
Indoor Stage
Stage Dimensions:
40′ x 30′

Food and Drink:
Full Bar
Beer and Wine
Imports
Microbrews

Nicholby’s Night Club
404 E. Main St.
Ventura, CA
805-653-2320
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This is the best news i have heard in a long time!

“WEDNESDAY, Oct. 24 (HealthDay News) — When it comes to your lungs, a couple of drinks a day may help keep the doctor away, researchers report.

Though considerable evidence has mounted that a daily dose of alcohol helps the heart, this study suggests the same may be true for lung function — even for smokers.

“This is the biggest study that’s ever looked at the possible protective effect of alcohol involving the lung,” noted study author Dr. Stanton T. Siu, chief of pulmonary medicine at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Oakland, Calif.

“We found that that if you drank less than two glasses of alcohol per day of wine, beer, or hard liquor that you had much less likelihood of developing obstructive airways disease, which includes asthma and emphysema,” he said.

“You do seem to get some benefit if you drink three to five drinks per day,” added Siu. “But it wasn’t as good if you drank just a little. And if you drank six or more, it actually had a bad effect. It made your lung function worse.”

Siu was to present his findings Oct. 24 at the American College of Chest Physicians annual meeting, in Chicago.

Previous studies have indicated that other dietary interventions — such as consuming vitamin D supplements — might offer some measure of protection against developing lung health problems.

For the current study, Siu and his colleagues analyzed the health records of almost 178,000 patients living in northern California. All had undergone exams between 1964 and 1973 as members of the same local health plan.

Exam questionnaires completed at the time recorded their smoking and drinking habits, as well as their lung function histories.

According to the surveys, 61 percent said they had already experienced some kind of cardio-respiratory illness.

An almost identical percentage said they drank less than two alcoholic drinks per day, while eight percent consumed three to five drinks daily. Just over two percent said they drank six or more glasses per day. A little more than 21 percent said they consumed no alcohol at all.

As part of their exams, all the patients also underwent a range of pulmonary function tests (PFT) designed to gauge how well a person inhales, exhales and transfers oxygen from the lungs into the bloodstream.

Stacking PFT results alongside drinking rates, Siu’s team found that so-called “light to moderate drinkers” — those who did not abstain altogether but consumed less than two glasses of alcohol per day — were the least likely to have problems with lung function.

The relationship between moderate drinking and healthy lungs appeared to hold up regardless of smoking habits or a previous experience of lung and/or heart disease.

The survey records had not broken down alcohol consumption according to type of alcohol consumed, so it’s not possible to tell from this study if any category of drink is healthier for the lungs than another.

Siu said light drinking’s protective effect roughly translates to a 20 percent reduction in the risk for developing lung disease. The link between alcohol use and lung health held steady across all ethnic groups, all age groups, and for both men and women, he added.

“There was a little more of a positive impact for women,” Siu said, “but not a huge difference. And, in fact, when we looked at three to five drinks per day, then the men did better than the women.”

A second study, also presented at this week’s meeting, found that vitamins might help keep lungs healthy, too.

In this instance, a team of researchers from Bangladesh, led by Kazi S. Bennoor from the National Institutes of Diseases of Chest and Hospital, followed a group of 200 healthy smokers between the ages of 30 and 50 for two months. They divided the participants into four groups: those told to consume 10,000 IUs daily of vitamin A; those taking 500 mg daily of vitamin C; those taking 200 mg daily of vitamin E; and those taking all three of the vitamins in combination.

All the patients had smoked cigarettes for at least 11 years.

Lung performance tests were conducted at the start of the study, at the two-month mark (when all vitamin supplementation was stopped), and six months following vitamin cessation. A fifth group of 50 healthy non-smokers who took no vitamin supplementation was also similarly examined for lung function.

Although none of the smokers achieved lung health comparable to that of the non-smoking group, Bennoor’s team found that vitamin supplementation did significantly improve lung function in all four smoking groups.

No one vitamin appeared to positively impact lung health any more than another, but the group taking all three vitamins seemed to derive the biggest benefit.

However, six months after going off a vitamin regimen, the lung health of all the smokers reverted back to levels that were below those seen after two months of supplementation.

It’s possible that antioxidant supplementation might help improve lung function, the team speculated, but such improvements are not retained when supplementation stops.

Dr. Neil Schachter, professor of pulmonary medicine and medical director of the Respiratory Care Department at Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York City, was a bit cautious on the results of both studies.

“These are interesting studies,” he said. “But, first of all, there is simply not that much literature on alcohol and lung function. So, yes, there is this thought that one or two glasses of alcohol is good for your heart and too much is not good for your health in general. And I guess their findings go along with that general statement. But, nevertheless, I’d say the jury is still out.”

“On the other hand, there’s a lot of literature on vitamin supplementation as it relates to chronic lung disease,” Schachter added. “There is a lot of evidence that diets loaded with what are considered healthy nutrients — fruits, grains, those kind of things — are associated with better lung health than those that are not. But attempts to supplement diets with vitamins in order to improve lung health have not been terribly successful. And this vitamin study was very, very small.”

“So, while I understand that certainly people would much rather make themselves well with diet than they would with medication, it’s important to recognize that this is very hard research to do,” Schachter said. “So far, the attempts to sort of pluck out the ingredients that we think are the keys ones haven’t been very successful. Much more work is needed,” he added.

For additional information on lung disease, visit the National Lung Health Education Program.” By Alan Mozes
HealthDay Reporter (http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20071024/hl_hsn/drinkortwoadaymayhelplungs)

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I saw this on the Sailor Jerry site and thought it was pretty cool. A little info about the company:

* Why treehuggers should kiss our ass *

“1. Whenever possible, we make our stuff here in the USA - so we’re not causing boatloads of global warming emissions.

2. We make quality shit in classic styles that will look good your whole life if your kids don’t steal if first - not the kind of trendy shit you throw away in a year.

3. Because we make more of our stuff here, we rely less on shitty third world factories that have slack environmental rules and treat their employees like dirt.

4. Every goddamn one of our employees bikes or walks to work. If everyone did this, we’d kick global warming’s ass from here to shanghai.

5. Our store, office and warehousing in 150 year-old re-habbed buildings - not some cookie cutter suburban office park where farmland used to be.

6. We’re a small family-owned company that is not publicly traded. So we make rational growth decisions based on our personal passions, beliefs and ideologies, not greed and quarterly profits.

7. And our rum? It’s 92 proof, which means you need buy less (and we need to ship less of it) of it to get the job done. Our bottles are simple on purpose - to make recycling easy.”(www.sailorjerry.com)

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Formerly the Treehouse, Yankee Doodles has just recently opened in Simi Valley, CA.
This is a great place to come watch games, drink with friends and shoot pool. There are quite a few pool tables, and a big selection of beer and liquor. There are also 6 plasma screens that line the top of the bar, perfect for sporting events.

DRINK SPECIALS ALL DAY - EVERYDAY 11 AM TO CLOSE!
$2 pints of Michelob Ultra, $5 for 34 oz. - $2.00 Kamikazes - $3.00 Margaritas - $5.00 Long Islands!

NEW HAPPY HOUR MENU!
2-6 PM M-F
$0.99 - Fish Taco, Bean and Cheese Burrito, Bean Dip & Chips
$1.99 - Hot Dog, Hamburger, Nachos, Quesadilla

2830 Tapo Street
Simi Valley, Ca 93063
(805)526-1130
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(3 votes, average: 2.67 out of 5)

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This is a cool hole in the wall English Pub.  Decent food, and good prices.  They also have live bands that play here occasionally.   The crowd is usually a bit on the older side, but you can find nights were it will be a typically younger, fun crowd.  This place is usually hit or miss, but always a good place to go have a drink to start the night.

2891 East Thousand Oaks Blvd.
Thousand Oaks, CA 91362
(805) 497-0070
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(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5)

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Previously this was Dakota’s Steak house up on the hill in the East end of Simi Valley. It has been transformed into a nice, trendy restaurant/bar/club. There is a huge outdoor deck with tables for eating/drinking and hanging out. Inside there is a decent sized circular bar, that is always crowded. The bar tenders here are terrible, it takes way too long to get a drink and the drinks are overpriced, especially for Simi Valley. There is a dance floor and DJ there on the weekends that is usually pretty crowded. Overall, this is a pretty cool place, and completely unexpected to see Simi Valley. Candlelight is a pretty good alternative to the long drive out to Hollywood if you leave around that area.

“Most patrons of the new Candlelight are escorted to an outside patio deck complete with a long rooftop waterfall.

The patio area extends around the outside of the dramatic bar, noticeably featuring several huge candles glowing in the darkness.

Besides a few tables on the deck and patio, there are bedlike couches for drinkers to recline on and watch the stars.

On windy nights, the small tabletop candles are extremely difficult to keep lit.

An early evening visit here was much more successful as a meal-taking experience than an ensuing later visit at dusk.

But both times were hampered by the lack of staffers, with food taking a long time to arrive from the kitchen.

The impression given here is that much more attention would be rendered to a large catered affair and that the bar and restaurant are merely open to the public because they’re there.”(dailynews.com)

2525 Stow Street
Simi Valley, CA 93063
Phone: (805) 582-9473
Hours: Mon-Fri 4pm-12am, Sat 4pm-2am, Sun 11am-12am
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Meals/hours: Open for dinner from 5 p.m. nightly
Food type: New American
Cost: Appetizers and salads from $9 to $17, main plates from $14 to $19, desserts from $6 to $13
Patio dining: Yes
Parking/valet: Free lot parking
Full bar: Yes

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An extremely modest man was in the hospital for a
series of tests, the last of which had left his bodily
systems extremely upset.

As the drunk stood there, unsteady on his feet,
staring down at the sheets, a hospital security guard,
(barely containing his (laughter), and who had watched
the whole incident, walked up and asked, “What the
heck is going on here?”

The drunk, still staring down replied: “I think I just
beat the shit out of a ghost.”
Happy Halloween:)