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  2. Ken Lay ........

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    On the day he was convicted, Mr. Lay — who was a prominent member of Houston's First United Methodist Church — told reporters that he maintained his innocence but said he was putting his fate in the hands of God. "We believe God in fact is in control and he does indeed work all things for the good," he said.

    I guess GOD had a hand in this one.

  5. You've gotta be kidding me??

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    The last straw for officials came over the weekend. On Saturday, the bear stood up on his hind legs and snarled at three overly curious hikers who saw him in the woods and tried to follow him, but got too close. Later that day, officials gave the go-ahead to a team of hunters.

    Although Bruno didn't hurt any people, he was accused of eating sheep and plundering beekeepers' hives. He also gave people a fright in the village of Kochel am See recently when he ambled around a cafe, sat on the stoop of the police station and snacked on a little girl's pet guinea pig.

    Does this sound like a metaphor for U.S. foreign policy or what? :lol:

    "There was no other solution," said Anton Steixner, an official from the Austrian state of Tyrol.

    "Even animal-rights activists should understand that this bear killed sheep and tore into rabbits purely for pleasure," Mr. Steixner said. "Rabbits are also deserving of sympathy." :lol:

  7. Toronto

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    Posted · Edited by Robert J

    That's the week I am taking off!

    Nate mentioned the main Jazz clubs

    http://www.therex.ca

    http://www.montrealbistro.com

    I don't know your budget - but you could start here. I can comment on a few of these places. They are not all budget hotels - some are quite expensive, just as much as downtown Chicago.

    http://www.budgethotels.com/listings.php?city=Toronto,ON,CA

    Here's a good map of downtown w/cultural highlights

    http://www.toronto.ca/torontomaps/pdf/visitor_map_page1.pdf

    This is the "Chicago Reader" for Toronto

    http://www.nowtoronto.com

    Things to do

    You can look through here

    http://www.frommers.com/destinations/toronto/34_indattr.html

    From this list, I'd say the Art Gallery of Ontario (though under construction), the Royal Ontario Museum, Hockey Hall of Fame, and Toronto Island (you can take a ferry for $6 and get a great view and some great photos of the city).

    I'm sure I'll come up with more when I'm not at work!

  9. Sport: 2006 Stanley Cup Game # 7

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    is # 99 still with edmonton?

    :)

    from the Globe and Mail 2 weeks ago:

    Gretzky did not want to be drawn into making a prediction for the series, but he admitted there is no doubt where his loyalties lie.

    "Once you're an Oiler, you're always an Oiler," he said. "I'm getting calls from guys I played with, from Paul Coffey to Mark Messier to Grant Fuhr. We're all happy to see the Oilers successful again."

  13. Zappa Plays Zappa

    in Live Shows & Festivals

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    Dweezil then moved on to some of his father's more challenging

    material from the 1970s. The band reproduced nearly the entire "Roxy

    and Elsewhere" album from 1974 with noteperfect execution. The

    complex, Stravinsky-like meter changes and odd note groupings of

    "Echidnas Arf (Of You)" flowed almost as effortlessly as in the

    original version. But it was during Dweezil's guitar solos,

    particularly in "Inca Roads," that the son most successfully infused

    his own voice into that of his father's, making it an evening of

    interpretation and exploration rather than mere reproduction.

    Wow, that's sounds like a good list of tunes! David, where did you get that set/recording list?

    The concert is tonight here in Toronto. It is $70 dollars, so we got a little lucky, sort of :huh:. That is still greater than my threshhold for this kind of concert. At lunch, I will see if I can get lucky with same-day tickets at a ticket kiosk. Otherwise I''ll comfort myself with the reviews and the bootlegs.

  23. What the F*ck??

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    additional facts

    c) Copyright 2006, Democrat & Chronicle. All Rights Reserved.

    Dana Buckman got more than he bargained for when he held up a Rochester auto-parts store on July 5, 2005.

    Moments after Buckman brandished a 9mm semiautomatic pistol to steal cash from AutoZone at 569 Lyell Ave., employees Eli Crespo and Jerry Vega beat him with a metal pipe and held him at bay with his own gun.

    Although a battered Buckman escaped when Crespo and Vega recovered the money and retreated into the store to call 911, he was arrested a week later, pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery and was sentenced to 18 years in prison as a repeat violent felon.

    Now, however, Buckman is suing AutoZone and the two employees who walloped him, claiming they pursued him from the store, committed assault and battery and intentionally inflicted emotional distress.

    "In some respects, you wonder if a case like this even needs a defense. It speaks for itself," said lawyer Patrick B. Naylon of the firm of Goldberg Segalla LLP, which represents AutoZone and the employees in the case.

    But lawyer Phillip R. Hurwitz, who represented Buckman in the criminal case and also filed the civil suit in April in state Supreme Court, said Crespo and Vega crossed the line by pursuing Buckman and attacking him.

    "The danger was past," Hurwitz said. "These two employees took it upon themselves to go after Mr. Buckman after he left the store."

    The lawsuit isn't frivolous, Hurwitz said.

    "Absolutely not," he said. "If it had happened in the store and they were defending themselves, it would be a whole different dynamic. These employees weren't defending themselves."

    Naylon said he intends to vigorously defend the store and its employees.

    "First, there were no charges brought against these individuals, which demonstrated that the police and the district attorney believed there was nothing wrong with catching the criminal who robbed the store," he said.

    "Second, they did not pursue him. He had forced them to the back door, and he went out the front door and came around the corner to where they were. How ironic it is that this individual has the audacity to commence an action against the people who used his gun after he pointed the same gun at them. ‹i›Please!"

    Crespo and Vega no longer work at the store. They couldn't be reached for comment.

    Buckman, 46, began his prison term in February after pleading guilty to first-degree robbery. The plea resolved other felony charges of second- and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon.

    Although Monroe County District Attorney Michael C. Green declined to discuss Buckman's chance of winning a civil lawsuit, he said the force used by Crespo and Vega appeared to be lawful.

    "There doesn't seem to be any question that they were justified," he said.

    "How that shakes out in terms of the civil law, I can't comment on."

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