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What I find interesting about that park's web site is that nowhere could I find that it was a religious/biblical park. Aside from the mentioning that it is alcohol-free, and that one building looks like an ark (that can hold all of those dinosaurs ) they keep the religion "hidden". Is that by plan? Hmmmmmm.

Wow! Sens drop both games in Anahiem. It's a big hole to dig themselves out of, and things can change. Just as the Ducks have won two at home, the Sens can do the same. The Sens have to figure out how to fight back against the relentless checking of the Ducks, and also have to get themselves in the right frame of mind to overcome this. Emery and Fischer (along with Volchenkov blocking shots like a madman) are the only consistent players showing up in the first two games. Murray will be shuffling the lines like crazy now to try and figure something out. Any other lineup changes for the next game? I can't believe that Ottawa got even FEWER shots on net last night! Only 16 over 60minutes? That's not how you win a Cup, even though they've been one goal games. And it's not like they were killing penalties all night. Only 4 penalties per team? I thought that would be a lot different. Maybe that will happen on Saturday when the Ducks ramp up the physical play even more.

Wicked show last night. Talk about bang for your buck! Gotta love a solid trio. They are all such important pieces in the sounds and textures that they come up with. The Australian/New Zealand influence is present and provides for a sound that is fresh. I think that we were all blown away by the drummer last night. Talk about a musician who was ON. He (Michael Barker) can really mix it up. Living in a fog today. Great times last night. Thanks!

I just called. They said that tix are available at the door. She said that people should be ok getting tickets as walk-ups. The earliest you can get them is at 7pm.

Ticketmaster usually stops selling tix for shows on the day of by a certain time (especially when the box office isn't 'connected' to their computer system). There are probably tix left at some of the record stores, and at the box office. Might be worth calling the Phoenix.

Well be sure that they keep the beers cold

Mmmmm. . . how about some Foie Gras? Damn I love that stuff. I only have it about once a year (same goes for veal) as I know that it's really not that great to support it due to the conditions the animals are kept It's good to be at the top of the food chain.

90 more minutes and then i'm outta here!!! I can't wait. Cold beers at the Brass Taps await Allison, when will you guys be getting into town?

Dutch Pot Shops to Fingerprint Customers May 30 01:17 PM US/Eastern By TOBY STERLING Associated Press Writer AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - Coffee shops licensed to sell marijuana in the southern Dutch city of Maastricht will begin fingerprinting customers and scanning their IDs this summer to help prove they're following rules governing such sales. In particular, the measures are expected to help stores show they are not selling to underage customers and that they haven't sold more than the maximum permitted to a customer on a given day. "This is not something that we are doing willingly, but with pain in our hearts," Marc Josemans, chairman of the Union of Maastricht's Coffee Shops, said Wednesday. He said shops in Rotterdam and several Dutch border cities were considering following suit. "We're very afraid we're going to lose customers over this, and to be honest we're even a little ashamed we're doing it, but the city of Maastricht has such harsh punishments that we don't feel we have any choice," Josemans told The Associated Press. Marijuana is technically illegal in the Netherlands, but cities may license shops to sell no more than 5 grams per customer per day. The shops may not sell to anyone under 18, nor permit drugs other than marijuana or hashish on the premises. Since Maastricht Mayor Gerd Leers took office in 2002, police have strictly enforced the rules, and shops found in violation are automatically closed for a minimum of three months for a single infraction, six months for a second offense, and permanently for a third. As a result, 11 of Maastricht's 26 licensed shops have been closed, leaving just 15 open. Under the new plan, fingerprints would be coupled with a digital photograph and a scan of customers' ID cards—removing all personal information except birth date—and stored on a computer system at the shop. "We're not going to give this information to anybody else, and we're not linked to each other or the Internet," Josemans said. Josemans, who is also owner of the "Easy Going" coffee shop, said the electronic system would be tested at his store Aug. 1 and used by all licensed stores by September. He said the shops already have video surveillance cameras and cooperate with police in criminal investigations, but the stored fingerprints would be too low in quality for use by police. Because of Maastricht's location near the border with Belgium and Germany and not far from France, the city of 120,000 residents gets 4.5 million "drugs tourists" a year who come just to buy weed and drive home. City spokesman Math Wijnands said the drug trade brought a host of problems, most notably petty criminals who seek to sell marijuana or other drugs in the neighborhood of the licensed coffee shops. "They know that they have a target group here, but they go about their business in an aggressive manner," Wijnands said. "That causes problems in the city center." The city is negotiating to move more than half of the remaining shops to the outskirts of town—angering neighboring countries like Belgium who object to having what amount to marijuana drive-through stores on their doorsteps. Wijnands said the city was aware of the plan by the shops to store customer data, and approved. "If they're going to take ID checks into their own hands and obey the rules as much as possible, then that's only to be applauded," he said. Josemans said the system had been vetted with the Netherlands' digital privacy watchdog, known by its Dutch acronym CBP, and did not violate any laws. A CBP spokeswoman could not immediately confirm that.

Watchit ... Yoko just might eat Heather's other leg!!! :D Does Larry King think that his caressing her leg is turning her on?

Stanley Cup Finals Gameday, and it's like a ghost town in here! Come on, my Sens fans here in the office need some good material to email back and forth. They like the stuff that I've been getting them from you guys. Gotta get some 'new' stuff, not just jokes with names/places changed to fit.

There are a whole ton of wild instruments at the following site. Pretty freaky shit http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/index.html Guitar-bass: http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/om15100.html 12-string bass: http://www.stansykes.net/photos.html Beer Bottle Organ: http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/om06300.html Contrabass Sax: http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/om08500.html Multi-neck guitars: http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/om21750.html

Here's another new museum ... looks like it would be a little more fun, albeit no closer to reality either http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/05/27/ufo.park.ap/

Kermit ambigram (try reading it upside-down) http://www.nagfa.blogspot.com/

This is another theme park along the same lines. Great little video of the "inside" This is the kind of place that I want to brainwash my kids at Kent and Us - The Lost World of Dinosaur Adventure Land

5-2 for the Ducks ... game will be riddled with penalties.

The cost, for the product/performance you will receive, is pittance. Come on out. It's a beautiful day for a show (and, like, what day isn't?) Try this one on for size ... turn it up. Go and take a step outside ....

http://worsethanfailure.com/Articles/Playground-Fun.aspx "Having moved overseas to Belgium a few years ago, from time to time I'm reminded that good, effective icon design is an artform best left to the true professionals. This is especially true when you consider that your software may be used across the world, and what may seem like common sense to you may befuddle a Belgian... or the other way around. "Although the below image is not a computer icon, I think it illustrates the point rather clearly. Either I missed out on a lot as a kid, or the playgrounds here in Belgium are a LOT more fun than the ones back home. This is a picture that I took personally of an actual playground sign in a small suburb outside of Brussels.

Thanks for those!!! Tomorrow night ... i'm psyched :) Come on out to the Brass Taps preshow: http://www.jambands.ca/sanctuary/showpost.php?post/446951/ 221 Carlton St. Toronto, ON M5A2L2 (416) 966-9440

Agreed ... it's a very good thing. I know there are a lot of Bruce haters out there, but it's their loss. Hey, i was supposed to be there but was up at summer camp instead I've got a great DVD of a chunk of that show (sbd audio too). Do you have it? If not, let me know and I'll fire you up a copy.

There's an online preview of the DVD. Just got an email with the link. Check it out: http://clearchannelmusic.com/cc-common/mfeatures/brucespringsteen2SP/

Lots of good Sens/fans pics here: http://www2.ottawasenators.com/eng/news/redirect.cfm?sectionID=photoGalleryMain.cfm You guys probably know a few of their faces. Do you know any of these ones?

Yup. Ottawa had a total of 20 hits. Ducks had a total of 30 (with Samuel Pahlsson dishing out 8, and the Niedermyers combining for 11!!). Some other interesting stats; Giveaways: Ott 14 (3 were Spezza) Ana 5 (2 were Pronger) Blocked Shots: Ott 22 Ana 13 Penalty minutes: Ott 8 Ana 14

For some reason there seem to be a whole bunch of Sesame Streets in Florida?! I thought it was in NYC. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=sesame+street&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=62.958411,98.789063&ie=UTF8&z=3&om=1