Kanada Kev

WTF? http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2219724.html Underwater ice hockey The first ever World Cup in the new extreme sport of underwater ice hockey has been staged in the frozen White Sea lake in Austria. The first ever underwater ice hockey world cup has taken place in a frozen lake in Austria /Europics Eight nations battled it out in the freezing water under a thick ice covering - without oxygen. The no oxygen rule meant that players had to resurface frequently through special holes drilled in the ice so they could get air. Finland won in the final beating Austria 7:4.

More like two handfulls when it's time to poop'n'scoop Congrats on the new dog. Danes are real sweethearts and beautiful dogs (love the brindle coats). Have a friend who had one. It was amazing at how small it could curl itself up, relatively speaking, when chilling on the couch.

Not so hot on the actual music, but the visuals are awesome.

From 1988, this is a CLASSIC

It's a farse. I say that every year and joke at how long it takes to win a measly cup of coffee. This time, of course, I won on my first cup (just a free coffee). Coffee Time's roll-up makes you enter each cup's code online! WTF? Screw them.

Saying goodbye to our furry four-legged friends is extremely difficult. My sympathies go out to you and those who were touched by Ziggy. If it is his time to go, you are doing the right and compassionate thing. What more could somebody ask of their best friend/family? Hang in there.

ROFLMAO

You may be OK with that, but when you finally get with a woman she may think otherwise!!!

SWEET TIX!! Way to go Ollie. I'm going to try to get in a bit cheaper on the day of for the Toronto show at the Dome.

yup ... Masked and Anonymous soundtrack

Pipe Face Man

WTF? Man Learns How to Smoke Through Eye Socket This smoker from the Orient has mastered the art of inhaling smoke through his ears or eye-sockets and breathing it out his mouth. This smoker from the Orient has mastered the art of inhaling smoke through his ears or eye-sockets and breathing it out his mouth. After inserting the cigarette in his ear or eye, he scrunches up his face as he takes a drag. This creates an internal suction that most humans are, rightly so, not capable of producing. The man, from the Chinese city of Shanghai, then blows out the smoke through his mouth to the cheers of onlookers. Readers be warned: If you are retarded enough to want to try this dangerous stunt at home, be warned: smoking is still bad for you laughing Jean King, Cancer Research UK's director of tobacco control, said: 'These are certainly unusual images and he seems to be quite uncomfortable. 'What is more uncomfortable is that two-thirds of adult Chinese men currently smoke which will mean many millions of entirely preventable deaths over the next 50 years in China unless they can be helped to quit.' So be warned: don't try this at home. Certainly don't try it at home, video it, stick it on YouTube and send us the link. Really don't do that. Oh wait, it's already been done: Pipe Face Man

KevO, Right you (your roommate) are. I totally forgot about Dylan's first album. It IS all covers. For me? Penalty box ... 2 minutes feel shame

it's got to ... i really don't think that there are 12 covers on his studio albums.

theme: Songs Dylan Covered 1. Johnny Cash - I Still Miss Someone 2. Gordon Lightfoot - Early Morning Rain 3. Eric Von Schmidt - Baby Let Me Follow You Down 4. Danko/Robertson - Bessie Smith 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

we use all our plastic bags for garbage and pug shit! Ziplock get reused depending on what was in them. Sometimes the reusing of temporary storage containers can be unhealthy if not cleaned properly. Water bottles are a prime example. Most people just continue refilling them without washing them. Well, that little puddle of backwash that sits there until you refill is like a petri dish.

If it's legit, they've got full insurance and will repair and "damage" that has to be done to the unit for filming (often bust holes in walls for camera angles, etc.) Lock up your valuables, sit back and enjoy. Be sure to find out if there will be any beer babes in the ad, lock up your valuables, and be sure to get some sort of payment in free beers too .

Wouldn't this be great to be able to pop up at shows? Add a sound system/house band and you're gold http://www.amberiris.co.uk/site.htm

The NEW John Butler Trio album!

I can't wait to see this one:

From boingboing: US detains 9-year-old Canadian A reader writes, "The US is holding a nine year old Canadian citizen without charges in a 'Detention Center' in a legal limbo." From Texas cell, Canadian, 9, pleads for help Family in limbo after unscheduled stop in Puerto Rico http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070302.wtexas02/BNStory/National/home UNNATI GANDHI From Friday's Globe and Mail AUSTIN, TEX. — Even if you try to look past the eight-metre-high chain-link fence, beyond the scores of uniformed guards patrolling the perimeter and away from the cameras, metal detectors and lasers, there isn't the slightest evidence of children inside the T. Don Hutto Family Detention Center. No one is playing outside; there are no sounds of laughter. But inside the thick, whitewashed walls of this former maximum-security prison in the heart of Texas are about 170 children — including a nine-year-old Canadian boy named Kevin. Call it international limbo. Detained by U.S. Customs officials after their flight to Toronto made an unscheduled stop on American soil nearly four weeks ago, Kevin and his Iranian parents, Majid and Masomeh, feel they are being held hostage not only by the physical parameters of Hutto, but by the politics of nationality. “We can't go home because I am Canadian but my parents are not,†Kevin said in a telephone interview with The Globe and Mail — no personal interviews have been granted. Majid and Masomeh — they prefer their last name not be used — initially fled Iran for Canada in January, 1995, to seek political asylum. Majid did odd jobs, eventually becoming manager of an east Toronto pizza parlour, paying the rent for their one-bedroom apartment. In 1997, their only son, Kevin, was born. “For the first time, I was happy,†Majid said from the Hutto detention facility. “I had my family with me — it's the only family I have — we didn't have any problems and we lived happy in Toronto.†Kevin attended a Toronto school until Grade 3. Meanwhile, his parents were seeking refugee status, based on fear of persecution in Iran, but their application was denied and, in December, 2005, the family of three was deported. Upon their arrival in Tehran, Majid said he was taken away from his family to a prison cell. For three months, he was detained, beaten and tortured, he said. When he was released, the three were reunited, and, with the help of friends and relatives, they connected with a people smuggler in Tehran. “I pay him $40,000 to [get us] to Canada. It included everything: fake passports, tickets. He got $20,000 in Iran, and $20,000 in Turkey.†Carrying Greek passports — which do not require visas for entry into Canada — they travelled to Guyana, where they eventually boarded a Toronto-bound plane. Lorne Waldman, an immigration lawyer in Toronto, said that because of the heightened security measures put in place after Sept. 11, 2001, people smugglers have found alternate routes to get into Canada. “We see people coming in with very exotic and complex and convoluted routes,†he said. “Moscow was one. Guyana is another ... because the smugglers believe it was a route that was subjected to less scrutiny.†It was that belief that got Kevin and his parents onto a Zoom Airlines chartered, non-stop flight from Georgetown to Toronto. No one could have anticipated what happened next. “The woman sitting two seats behind me, she kept running to the washroom for vomiting. They put oxygen on her, and tell us to stay in our seats. They just said we have to divert to another city because of an emergency landing.†A woman had suffered a heart attack and died on board. After landing in Puerto Rico, everyone was told to disembark while emergency crew removed the body. “They say we have to pass immigration, and they say because we have Greek passport, you need to get a visa for United States. I said no, our ticket is to Toronto, we have no plan to come here.†After being held in Puerto Rico for five days, the family was brought to Taylor, Tex., about 45 kilometres northeast of Austin, to the main U.S. family detention centre for immigrants. “My luggage go to Toronto,†said Majid, 42, “and we have to stay here.†Now, the three of them are locked inside the centre that, U.S. refugee advocates recently alleged, features inadequate medical care, lack of privacy and abusive behaviour by staff toward the green-uniformed detainees. Everyone must wake up by 5:30 a.m. to take showers. They get 15 minutes to eat each meal. Everyone must be in bed by 9:30 p.m., when laser-triggered alarms are set to detect if anyone gets up. “The day is very regimented,†said Barbara Hines, a law professor at the University of Texas who runs an immigration clinic with her students — the only way many of the detainees get representation. “This is a prison. They have a head count three times a day where they have to be in their cells for an hour to be counted down.†At one point, Majid walked into the room where Kevin and his mother sleep to help them fix a broken bed. “They were told that if he violated rules, because the father's not allowed into that room, the family would be separated,†Ms. Hines said. “One of the things the detainees have reported to us is the threat of separation as a means of discipline.†The only other detention facility that holds families is in Pennsylvania, she said — but that used to be a nursing home, not a prison. “No amount of softening it [Hutto] up, as the government says, is going to change the fact that this is a secure prison facility, not a family residential centre,†she said. But an official at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Jamie Zuieback, said the “residential, non-secure setting at Hutto†was opened in May to keep families together. Kevin, meanwhile, has lost six pounds in the past two weeks because he hasn't been eating, his father said. Nearly all of the meals come from cans, Kevin complained. “Beans, beef, sometimes they give rice. But it's all garbage.†Kevin goes to school for four hours a day, of which only one is instructional. He said that since he left Toronto, he hasn't gone to a real school. “My biggest wish is to go to Canada and be free, to go to my school, go for my books,†Kevin said, his father's voice audible in the background. “I want to be safe with me and my parents, and see my teachers and my friends again.†When the consular officer at the Canadian consulate in Dallas visited the family at Hutto two weeks ago, Majid said, “he asked about our rooms and our food. Just regarding here. I asked him what he can do for us, and he said, ‘I don't promise now. But we can help Kevin, not you.' †David Marshall, a consulate spokesman, said that he could not talk about the case, citing the Privacy Act. Alain Cacchione, a spokesman for Foreign Affairs Canada, would not comment either. But Audrey Macklin, a professor of immigration at the University of Toronto, said that this case highlights the asymmetry of Canadian citizenship. “We say that if adults are Canadian citizens, then they can somehow confer protection of their citizenship on their children. But we don't allow the reverse,†she said from Toronto. “Instead, what we do is render, in effect, the Canadian citizenship of the child null, because he can't exercise it [and sponsor his parents]. It's as if his Canadian citizenship doesn't exist or is worthless because his parents don't have it.†She said that if the Canadian government wanted to protect Kevin, it could. “If protecting this child means letting the parents into Canada, is that a price worth paying? Well, I think we should seriously consider that.†If they were allowed back into Canada, Prof. Macklin said, they could seek what is called a pre-risk removal assessment based on “new facts about what happened in Iran when they were deported.†Above all else, Kevin, Majid and Masomeh say they want to live in Canada. “We want to be free and safe,†Majid said. “Our plan was to go to Toronto, Canada, because it's my son's home and our home for the past few years. We have nothing there, but we were there for 10 years and it was good.â€

WOW! Friday night ROCKED. What a great game (fuckin' McCabe blows ... nice way to allow the game to get tied up in the dying seconds). The hit on Kaberle was totally uncalled for and should have been punished with wayyy more than a 3-game suspension. That was head-hunting. Total intent to injure. There was no way he was trying to knock him off the puck! Yanic's OT goal was friggin' sweet. Last night's game against Barfalo? UGH! Good to see Tucker back.