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  1. Apparently Park Place is in Toronto according to the Live8 website.

    Live8

    * African Guitar Summit

    * Barenaked Ladies

    * Blue Rodeo

    * Bruce Cockburn

    * Bryan Adams

    * The Bachman Cummings Band

    * Deep Purple

    * DobaCaracol featuring Kna'an

    * Gordon Lightfoot

    * Great Big Sea

    * Jann Arden

    * Les Trois Accords

    * Motley Crue

    * Our Lady Peace

    * Sam Roberts

    * Simple Plan

    * Tegan & Sara

    * The Tragically Hip

    * Tom Cochrane

  2. Seriously! Delgado's making $4 million/year... Lilly is about $3 mil. Damn, we're paying batista 4.75 mil/yr... and I get nervous everytime that guy comes on and tries to close it out! We could cut a mil off his salary and kept delgado. Of course I know nothing of baseball business and am just using numbers as a guideline...its all about timing of contracts and such too. If Lilly pitches a gem tonight - I take some of the above back;)

    Delgado receives just $4 million this year but makes $13.5 million in 2006, $14.5 million in 2007 and $16 million in 2008, according to terms obtained by the AP. The agreement includes a $16 million option for 2009

  3. It was an in between episode for me. Not the best i've seen and not the worse i've seen.

    Highlights for me:

    * The "artwork" of Cyrus riding the big cock.

    * Ricky having a heart attack and pulling out the bag of dirty butts from the park.

    Lowlights for me.

    * Didn't tie up the loose ends. Where was Ray in jail? Why wasn't Ricky in the same cell as his dad?

    * Where in the fuck is Bubbles' go-cart?

    P.S. With only Cory and Trevor getting shot still adds up to more people hit then on the A-Team.

  4. This is from CBC's "The Current" this morning. The opening satire is fricken halarious.

    [color:green]It's Tuesday, May 31st.

    And environmentalists are having second thoughts about an old ally. It turns out that farming soy beans, the main ingredient in tofu, may be wiping out the Amazon as fast as cattle ranching.

    Currently, according to unnamed sources, the bad news doesn't end there. Apparently solar panels are draining the sun. Attending Phish concerts decreases fertility. And Birkenstocks, they cause cancer.

    This is The Current.

    The Current: Part 2

    Soy Beans - Greenpeace

    It's been called the "Magic Bean" -- hailed by nutritionists as a wonderfood---it's rich in protein and apparently cuts the risks of all kinds of diseases. We're talking about the soy bean. And we’re afraid we’ve got some bad news about a food that's been called "nature's medicine".

    Precisely because of these many health claims, there has been a dramatic rise in soy consumption around the world. And while soy bean producers and traders have been rubbing their hands gleefully, environmentalists are worried about the crop's popularity--especially in Brazil. Because as long as soy remains lucrative, more saws will continue clear bigger swaths of the Amazon rainforest.

    Environmental group Greenpeace has been loudly criticizing the Brazilian government of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. It says President Lula should be restricting soy plantations to areas that are already cleared. On the line from Brazil we were joined by Paulo Adario. He works for Greenpeace and is the Co-ordinator for the Amazon Project. We reached him in Manaus, the capital of the Amazon state in Brazil.

    Soy King Farmer

    Brazil is the second biggest soy bean exporter in the world. And its biggest soy bean producer is a Brazilian company called Amaggi Group, owned by a man named Blairo Maggi--also known in Brazil as the "King of Soy".

    But the king is also the Governor of Mato Grosso, a state responsible for half of the Amazon deforestation in 2003 and 2004. Last week we arranged for an interview with the governor, but as of this morning we were still unable to reach him. His company representatives also refuse to be interviewed on the subject.

    We can tell you this. The governor is on the record as denying that soy production leads to the rainforest's destruction. In an interview he gave Reuters news service last week, he said he encourages sustainable farming, claiming almost half of the rainforest cut down in his state last year was legal and that 95 percent of the illegal loggers had been fined. He also said it's been 10 years since his own company actively cleared land for soy production.

    Ethical Eating

    News that soy production in Brazil encroaches on the Amazon rainforest makes shopping even more challenging for ethically conscious consumers. The other day we visited a vegan cafe called Radical Roots on the University of Toronto campus. The cafe prides itself on serving fair trade, fair labour and organic, animal-free meals. We aired what some patrons had to say about the downside to soy---a ubiquitous food in a place like this.

    Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the grocery aisle, along comes this latest dilemma. To talk about the challenges of ethical consumption, and how to make good choices about food that all seems to be surrounded by a bit of bad karma, we were joined by Lori Stahlbrand in our Toronto studio. She is a consultant to the Food Policy Council and co-author of "Real Food For a Change".

  5. I have a cabin a little NE of Parry Sound. We had the pleasure of taking a trip to the local dump last time I was there.

    That wouldn't happen to be the Dunchurch mall would it? (hehehe)

    Last summer I had a black bear run out about 20 feet in front of my bike on the Seguin trail. Thankfully it kept going.

    In the same neck of the woods. We turn off Hwy 124 just before Waubamik (15Km W of Dunchurch) and head down the "Bunny Trail" for a 1/2 hour.

    Near Ardbeg then. The "Bunny Trail" is a beautiful drive in the fall.

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