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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by RipBillupsRJC, May 24, 2008.
You forgot "...and can fly"
His decision making left with LB. Will a tougher coach make him better? Who knows at this point, but i don't see Joe D trading him.
CB is not Kobe, he can't take over every game, he needs better supporting cast than Kobe, and lack of it is not CB's fault.
Ideal Roster: Starters: PG - CB SG - Rip SF - Tayshaun PF - Maxiell C - Camby (In a trade for Sheed) Bench: Stuckey Dyess Finley (sign him as a free agent for experience and shooting) Re-sign Hayes? Amir Afflalo Samb will probably stay a bench warmer ???
I like the idea of signing Finley, although would we have enough to sign him?
Here are some trade options I think we should consider: 1. Rip + Dyes to Houston for T-Mac. T-Mac has had trouble in the playoffs, but he has never had the type of support we would provide. He is running out of time and has that fire that Dyes has--only he has more skill to harness it. This trade also facilitates the development of Amir and gives Tayshaun rest where T-mac can shift to SF with Billups and Stuckey manning the guard spots. RealGM: Trade Checker 2. Sheed to New Orleans for Tyson Chandler. This is a no-brainer for us, the question would be why NO would pull the trigger on it. I think that NO would like to get to the promised land, and Sheed would give them a veteran presence with very good defense on Duncan and better offensive skill than Chandler. RealGM: Trade Checker 3. Sheed to NYC for Zach Randolph. This trade is basically the opposite of the Chandler trade. You trade for Chandler for a strong defender with garbage-type offense, you trade for Randolph for strong offense with garbage-type defense. I don't think this is a good trade, though his numbers are impressive. RealGM: Trade Checker 4. Sheed to Phila for Dalembert. Depends on what Philly wants to do, but if they want cap space sooner than later and if we sweeten the deal with picks or whatever else they need it could work. I think Dalembert and his defense would work well in our system. RealGM: Trade Checker 5. Sheed to Pheonix for Stoudemire. If the Suns want to win now, then a Sheed and Shaq front court would be intimidating and could be great. Then again Shaq is aging and not so great. Also, if there is truth to Porter getting serious consideration for the head coaching job, then Sheed would only improve the transition to whatever Porter wants to implement. I'm not a fan of Amare's ego, but he does have good athleticism and a strong competitive spirit. RealGM: Trade Checker 6. Sheed to Utah for Boozer. Stranger things have happened. This may occur as a result of Boozer's "disappearance" when Utah needed him in the playoffs, also if Utah thinks they'll lose him in the next year due to his ETO. RealGM: Trade Checker
It has nothing to do with taking over the game. In fact under LB he avg less points, and played beautifully within a team concept. It could be argued that the problem is that he tries to take over every game. I'm talking will a stronger coach make him pass more, stop taking stupid unnecessary 3 pointers, and bad shots, and make him play with the team instead of by myself which he sometimes seems like he's doing. The supporting cast is not a problem. We looked better w/o Chauncey many times in this PO's. It's not because we're so much better without him, but because he in a way thinks he's so much better than the team. When he's moving the ball, getting his teammates involved, and taking opportunistic or quality shots, he's great. But lately his 4th quarter decision making has been awful, and his defense is becoming a liability.
T-mac is out of the question. He's aging, injury prone, and he demands the ball. He'd never fit in with Chauncey. Randolph is also out of the question. He's a troublemaker like Sheed, and won't bring much more to the table than Sheed did.
He had to take risks because there was nobody left: Tay, Dice and sheed had no game and rip...iso is not for him.
I was thinking about trading for McGrady after Houston was eliminated. They should be very open to deals.
You know Flip was always getting on him to take more shots.
boston has hall of famers at 3 positions and are still playing in there prime.... how many do we have... comparing rondo to stuckey is a very unrealistic comparsion to who is a championship pg stuckey will be great but not ready to be the main cog on the team quite yet
Point initially was simply that you don't have to have a top tier PG to make it to the Finals. If you put the right people around Stuckey, he will be able to run the show. My original post had us Trading Billups and Sheed for Marion and Camby. I still can't get over the Marion/ Maxiel/ Camby/ Johnson front line... Maybe the most athletic of all time.
problem with most these trades.... we don't have piston players as gm's coaching those players... I wish NewYork would have had some real talent to steal before Isiah was let go...
Please sign the following petition asking the Pistons to not break up the team. Don't Break up the Pistons Petition
Sorry, I can't do it. I want to see some changes made.
(From freep) They also mentioned something about John Paxon possibly being interested in Flip as a head coach.. If we could move Sheed for Brand or Camby and have a starting lineup like this PG - CB SG - BG SF - LD PF - Max/Brand C - Camby/Brand I like our chances a lot
I think Ben Gorden is small for his position and a defensive liability. If we really did trade for him I would put him on the bench and make Stuckey a starter. Also if you trade for Brand, you start Brand. Max would stay on the bench (in my opinion).
I want to see changes to be made as well, only pieces I'd keep in the lineup would be obviously Billups and Hamilton.
I like the idea of trading sheed to ny for randolph I worked out a trade on realgm as well before I got to your post. The pistons are going to have a lot of money come off the books (hunter hayes dixon theo walter) they could make a push for Jamison the only real good unrestricted fa out this summer and have tay come off the bench like a lot of you want. then use our draft picks to finish up the roster.
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Congratulations, well done on the kill. ^.^
nice work, quick question - would you mind posting your weapon macros by any chance?
I've tried him yesterday and after 5-6 tries and 2-3 hours of work I got him .
Thanks for this vid!^^
But.. if I had been watching your vid more carefully much less tries would have been possible.
Killed him with standard raiding glyphs/talents and didn't use the Cosmic Infuser (had much to heal ).
Apart from some stupid fails (e.g. shadowfiend/fade in p4 -.-' or cd on shadowfiend as weapons engaged^^) it worked very well as you get the rhytm^^.
I have 384 average gear with NF and VPLC as trinkets, like you... maybe the 7 Ilvl difference made... the difference^^ of surviving without the Cosmic Infuser.
But next time I'll be much better prepared.
Thanks again for this guide and vid, nice job!
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The fact that September is National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month means that childhood obesity is well accepted as an epidemic in our country. Children's Minnesota recently released a white paper that examined the issue of childhood obesity. The assessment revealed a startling conclusion from an obesity expert with the World Health Organization that "the die is cast by the age of five," referring to the prenatal and early childhood determinants of a child's likelihood of becoming obese.
The frustration is that we know the causes and even the solutions, but the pathway to success is far from clear. We know that getting kids to exercise more, eat healthier and avoid too much screen time are part of the equation. However, when we add in the factors of underlying health disparities, food deserts, the need for family-based interventions or acceptance of healthier prenatal and early childhood practices, the answers quickly become far more complicated.
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Initially supported by a grant from the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality, we've built a coalition of 15 different private and public organizations that have a vested interest and desire to promote healthy lifestyles with the Latino community. The response so far is inspiring. At our kick-off event in July, attendance far exceeded expectations with more than 200 people participating in a mini health fair that included health screenings and education on nutrition and physical activity. More importantly, we've seen a sustained interest from Latino families and other community interests. After just two months of weekly evening events that include Zumba classes and activities for children, we're already expanding our programming to include nutrition classes for families, Zumba and yoga for kids and are considering an additional night of Zumba for adults.
The growth doesn't stop there. Thanks to a newly-formed partnership between Children's and HealthPartners focused on childhood obesity, the Vida Sana project will continue to build by broadening our reach, more active recruitment within the community and incorporating elements such as BMI screenings and physician engagement. Vida Sana continues to gain interest from potential partners and others interested in highlighting how we've approached the program. As proud as we are of that growth, this program alone won't solve the problem.
The bottom line is, when it comes to the issue of childhood obesity, we can't afford to wait for the perfect solution. By building on the lessons learned from previous efforts and being flexible to allow for real-time learning and adjustment, programs like Vida Sana can make a difference. Yes, the problem is severe but, as the last several months working on this project have shown me, there's also reason to be optimistic for one fundamental reason: parents want their children to be healthy. There is no greater motivation; our job is to empower them to make the choices that will achieve that goal.
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Monday, November 16, 2009
Car Donations & Your Taxes
Recent reports indicate that the IRS isn't doing enough to ensure that donors are properly documenting their deductions for car donations or to make sure that the charities are following the new laws. While that may be true, we still urge donors to be careful when claiming these deductions. For more information, check out our Guide To Donating Your Car.
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The United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has extensive information online about Cars For Sale donations.
- December 1, 2009 at 4:12 AM
- Sarah said...
car donation could lead to tax savings - if you go about it in a careful way or it could turn out to be a total loss with the wrong people using your car and you not being eligible for tax deductions either.
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Ive been thinking about doing a Templar/Mando concept for a couple days now and I finally broke down and worked on i in illustrator for a little while. It's very basic, but has most of what I want. Please understand this isn't supposed to be a direct relation to either mandalorian armor or templar armor. Most of the responses I've gotten on the MMCC have been more like "take off the crosses, change the color, remove the loin cloth, no energy sword stick with steel, etc. I like the way it looks, however I am up for constructive criticism that still goes with the initlal idea. I do not want to change it a whole lot as I've spent the past couple of days doing random sketches figuring out what i like and dont like. This is 90% done as far as I'm concerned, but a few tweeks here and there arn't going to ruin it.
Note that any exposed undersuit areas will be chainmail with a grey cloth underneath to avoid pinching. there will be no neckplate or backplate, because of the chainmail covering the neck and the cape covering the back. The helmet is shaped a little more like a crusader helmet would be with the flattened top. The "vest" will actually continue down into the loin cloth as seen with some knights. Th belt will have the standard boba look with some pouches on both sides and a buckle in the middle.
The rest should be self explanatory so tell me what you think. Please keep in mind I am no aiming for membership in any sort of group as I already have it with m TD in the 501st, and Im not all that interested in MMCC membership with this particular suit (i have other concepts still floating in my head).
Th sword will either be blue, or red like darth vader. (think of the sword as a bastard sword turned into a halo-esque energy sword)
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First of all, apologies to all the serious Fett completists here. While I love ol' Bucket Head as much as you do, I wasn't looking to spent several years (much less several thousand dollars) on a costume -- especially since so few of my friends here in Japan have even seen a Star Wars film -- and since my wife won't let me get a mannequin for display purposes, this costume gets worn to a few local parties and then retired to a closet. Nonetheless, I've put more effort and money into this costume than any I've previously made, and I've tried to be picky when in comes to the details; at least, within the requisite time frame.
I'm happy with what I've managed to accomplish in 40 days with $400, and I hope it inspires other budget Boba makers here.
Comments and critiques are encouraged; I'll be happy to share WIP pics, if there's any interest in the production process.
Some parts only required minor modifications, but others (like the thrusters and jet pack missile) had to be completely scratch-built...
Aside from the Master Replicas blaster, I custom painted almost everything to match the Special Edition costume (although I tried to acknowledge the ESB color scheme wherever it didn't directly contradict the ROTJ version). Paints, inks and dyes used were all readily-available Japanese brands, owing to both time and budget limitations; however, I'm very pleased with the final color mix. The jet pack still needs a lot of work, of course...
Since I uploaded some close-ups for Stormrider, I'll include them here as well:
While the flight suit, gloves, and flak vest are my own custom creations, the armor, helmet, gauntlets, ammo belt, cape, jet pack, and side pouches all came from the same maker.
Can you guess who?
I'll bet some of you can identify the source!
Ted Ekering
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In an interdependent world, Russia and the nations of Central Eurasia offer immense possibilities for trade and cooperation. Yet the ignorance about these countries is profound. Winston Churchill's famous statement that Russia is a "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma" should serve as no excuse for this situation. All the nations—Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan—are open for study as during no other time in history, offering extraordinary opportunities to students and professionals.
It is in this spirit that Wittenberg offers The Russian and Central Eurasian Studies Program to its undergraduates. Through the study of Soviet and post-Soviet history, art, language, literature, music, geography, economics, sociology, and politics, Wittenberg students gain important knowledge about Russia and Central Eurasia today. Students and faculty regularly travel there to conduct research, thus keeping up with the latest developments in their fields. Some students may be stimulated enough to perform advanced work in graduate schools; others, to seek policy-making positions in the U.S. government or to engage in business activities in the area. But the fundamental purpose of the program is to produce intelligent citizens and participants in the society around them who have a thorough understanding of Russia and Central Eurasia, whatever their vocations may be.
The Russian and Central Eurasian Studies Program assumes that knowledge of Russia and Central Eurasia demands, first and foremost, an understanding of those internal cultural, political and historical forces that contribute to the life of the nations today. For without such knowledge, explaining current domestic or foreign behavior is a futile exercise in applying faulty assumptions about what the leaders and people in these nations "really" believe and why they believe it or in using frameworks that are rooted in the American experience, rather than in the perspectives of Russia and Central Eurasia.
Misperceptions about the societies and political systems in the post-Soviet area inhibit fruitful political relations and harm normal international business contacts. George F. Kennan, eminent scholar and diplomat, has said that part of the problem of American policy toward the USSR derived from a misunderstanding of the Russian historical experience and its political manifestations. The Russian and Central Eurasian Studies Program Program attempts to impart an accurate, informed view of Russia and the Central Eurasian nations, to present their realities and to increase international understanding.
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Five Russian and Central Eurasian (RCEP) students, accompanied by RCEP Director Jerry Pankhurst, participated in the Midwest Slavic Conference at Ohio State University in Columbus on Friday-Saturday, March 28-29, 2014. The students presented in a conference session on the theme "Russia's Struggles with the 'Other" from Medieval to Modern Times," which was chaired by Professor Irina Stakhanova from Bowling Green State University. Attached is a slide show of the conference session. View the pictures


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A thrilling debut in women's suspense - a ghost story set in 1920s England...
Sarah Piper's lonely, threadbare existence changes when her temporary-work agency sends her to assist a ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis - rich, handsome, scarred by World War I, and obsessed with ghosts - has been summoned to investigate the spirit of 19-year-old maid Maddy Clare, who haunts the barn where she committed suicide. Since Maddy hated men in life, it is Sarah's task to confront her in death. Soon Sarah is caught up in a desperate struggle, for Maddy's ghost is real, she is angry, and she has powers that defy all reason.
Can Sarah and Alistair's assistant, the rough and unsettling Matthew Ryder, discover who Maddy was, where she came from, and what is driving her desire for vengeance before she destroys them all?
Simone St. James lives just outside Toronto, Canada, where she works behind the scenes in the television business. She is also the author of An Inquiry into Love and Death.
©2012 Simone Seguin (P)2013 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
"A compelling read. With a strong setting, vivid supporting characters, and sympathetic protagonists, the book is a wonderful blend of romance, mystery, and pure creepiness. Simone St. James is a talent to watch." (Anne Stuart, New York Times best-selling author)
"A novel of chilling romantic suspense that evokes the lost era between the world wars that so wounded the lives of the young men and women of England and adds to the mix an inevitably dark, gothic ghost story. Read it with the lights on. Simply spellbinding." (Susanna Kearsley, New York Times best-selling author)
"A compelling ghost story, the book is written quite beautifully, weaving elements of romance and mystery with a gothic twist.… Offering a glimpse of life in England between world wars as the twentysomething ghost investigators stay at a country inn, the book proves a satisfying, chilling read." (VOYA)
"Interesting storyline but..."
The premise of the story was captivating for my pre-Halloween ghost read. The problem was that the characters never developed into characters I cared about. Gratuitous sex scenes between, practically, strangers added nothing to the storyline. I didn't feel any connection to the maudlin characters. There are better books to spend precious time enjoying. This book I was glad when it ended. This book wasn't a good choice for me. Maybe, I'm too much drawn to characters over storyline. The storyline was interesting but the characters weren't.
"Performance Takes Some Getting Used To...."
I thought maybe the reviewers here might have been too critical on the reader's delivery of the male voice, so I gave it a chance and got the audiobook because I liked how it was written. The protagonist female character had nice delivery, but, yes, her voice for the male protagonist is not appealing at all. It was very sharp and critical and pretentious-sounding. Not the kind of character male voice that you'd warm up to. Though that voice suited the employment agent that called to offer her work, it doesn't suit the male lead at all. It was just too sharp and quick delivery of the words and it made him sound like one of those rich aristocrats with their up-turned noses. If it was, instead, a female character used for that delivery, it would be equivalent to an old, very stern-sounding woman.
I don't understand how she can do the female voice so well and totally botch up the male lead. Well, I'll keep listening to the audiobook since I own it now....hopefully I'll grow out of the annoyance....I'll update my review of the story later....
"Goosebump Worthy Gothic Tale"
I am now a fan of Simone St.James. This book had romance, intrigue, and spine tingling horror. I actually got scared listening to this audio book. For those who use audio books, the narrator was excellent. The voice was pleasing and perfect for the type of book.
The story is a gothic style ghost story set in England in the 1920's. I'm starting to love all stories from the 1920's. The author sets the scenes perfectly to give her readers a sense of time and space.
One character in the book - Alistair writes about ghost phenomena and he needs a female assistant to commune with a reported ghost who is named Maddy Clare. Alistair hires the book's main character, Sarah, from a temporary agency in London. Sarah is happy to leave her dreary life in her dark room in the city if only for a brief time. Sarah soon discovers that she is very sensitive to ghosts and may be in over her head. She meets Alistair's usual assistant, Matthew Ryder, and the two have a spark of attraction from the very beginning.
The author creates a gothic suspense that entranced this reader. I enjoyed the romance in the story, as well. Wow! I can't wait for more from this author.
I would recommend this book to those who love a gothic tale with some romance. Beware....this books has some scary parts that will give you goosebumps!
"Fun romance with a scary ghost"
This book was fun to read, even though I could see what was coming from the three quarter point, I still enjoyed going along for the ride.
I liked the narrator, who was very expressive and stayed in character well.
I would definitely recommend this to people who like paranormal romances.
"Not bad, but a little disappointing"
It seems good ghost stories or stories about haunting are coming harder to come by. I looked at the reviews on Amazon for this book and it seemed promising. The story itself was good, but what went down hill for me were two things; right off the bat the reader distracted me from the story because although she read ok, I couldn't get past her voice being obviously a quite older woman trying to perform the main character of a young woman in her twenties. She also made the two main male characters sound awful. This was very distracting to me. The detailed sex scenes were, in my opinion, also quite distracting from the main plot and seemed unnecessary. It was enough to know so-and-so had slept with so-and-so without the play by play, nitty gritty details. I found this to be a sad distraction from an otherwise decent story although I forced myself to finish it.
"Entertaining but not great"
The plot in the book was good and the characters were strong and well-developed. I would take a look at another book by the author as long as it was not the same narrator.
One of the most memorable points in the book was when Sarah first went in the barn to meet Maddie. The tension builds from the moment she first hears the footsteps to the point where she finds the fire surrounding her. First contact !!
I found the narrators voice to be plodding and monotone. The result was that this book that should have left you sitting on the edge of your seat really ended up putting you in a comfy armchair with a cup of tea to keep you awake
"Best read on a dark and stormy night"
I found this to be a hard book to listen to, yet not a book I could walk away from, either. Was it because I had just recently read a rather silly book on haunted Eastern Shore properties, where no attempt was made to beguile the reader into actually believing things were going "bump" in the night? Maddy was portrayed as very real, and worse yet, appearing to different people in different guises. Maybe the twisted feeling I had in my stomach was the precursor to her moving from my iPod into me! Best read on a dark and stormy night....
The narration of Pamela Garelick was spot on.
"Maddy Clare will haunt you"
I was alone in a strange town in a hotel room when I started to listen to the tale of the haunting of Maddy Clare read by Pamela Garelick and I found myself falling into a mesmerizing and complex ghost story, The tale is an old one of a ghost seeking justice - but Pamela Garelick's performance brought out the heart stopping terror of the ghost of Maddy Clare. Maddy is not a kind and friendly ghost, she is complex and full of anger and demands. So, turn down the lights, light the fire and enjoy a traditional haunting Gothic ghost story.
"How Time Flies When You Have a Good Audiobook"
Yes. This was a great book to listen to while I re-organized my kitchen cupboards. It's under ten hours and made the time fly by.
When the narrator is first haunted by Maddy. Fantastic writing!
No. I agree that Pamela's voice is a bit deep for a twenty year old, but it didn't bother me one bit. She's very talented and I enjoyed listening to her performance. I would gladly listen to her again.
The book didn't move me, but it certainly entertained.
An old broad that enjoys books of all types. Would rather read than write reviews though. I know what I like, and won't be bothered by crap.
"A wonderful ghost story with romance."
Sometimes you just need to read for fun! This book is a great old fashioned ghost story with some 1920's ghost hunters thrown in.
It's the story of a girl who shows up dirty and disheveled and unable to talk at a farmer's door. They take her in and a few years later she hangs herself in the barn. Her ghost now haunts the barn and the ghost hunters are called in.
Alistair is a shell shocked Great War Veteran who has lots of money and nothing to do but research ghosts. He hires Sarah, a recent orphan who is working for a temporary agency, to be an assistant for a week at the haunting. Matthew is his other assistant, a badly burned veteran who can't sleep without having nightmares of the war. These three pledge to document and help Maddy Clare find peace.
This is a scary at times book with a love story thrown in for good measure. It was a quick listen and a really fun book. The characters are well drawn and the narrator does a fine job.
I will read more of Simone St. James.
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Re: Good Georgian Bay port for a Sailboat
Chamonix, the "other" one is Beacon Bay.
Consider your draft when picking your spot. You should have no difficulty at Bay Moorings or Bay Port, but Beacon Bay at the bottom of Penetanguishene Harbour is having difficulty for boats with as little as 6ft draft. Do inquire about specific draft at your allocated dock in any case, as well as maneuvring space. Otherwise, welcome to our crowd up there!
Re: Good Georgian Bay port for a Sailboat
There are lots of choices. We have only found a limited number over two seasons. We like Franklin's anchorages and close by Snug Harbour.
Kilcoursie Bay in Killbear park is fantastic, but can be busy. With kids, it is a favourite.
South of Parry Island contains limitless bays to anchor for the night. We have a few favourites that are nice and quiet. Then a bit further, we like some of the anchorages around Sans Soucci.
A bit further south is Twelve Mile Bay .. again lots of choices for the night.
All of these are within a nice sail of Parry Sound.
We expect to find many more over the next seasons.
Re: Good Georgian Bay port for a Sailboat
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We moved from Lake Ontario a couple of years ago. We have been very happy with Sound Boat Works in Parry Sound. Very knowledgeable. Decent facilities. What we love most is the sailing in the area. Lots of choices for 2 or 3 day weekends. Nice open sailing in the Sound. Great jump off point to get to the North Chanel for sumer holidays.
2 hours from Toronto.
Good point, I don't think of Parry Sound as we're in the Kitchener-Waterloo area and Midland is 2 hours, so don't think beyond that.
We're a solid day travel to get up to Parry Sound. Did Shawanaga to Midland and was 10 hours. +/-. Most of that was in the small craft route as the Bay was nasty.
Besides Hope Island, in our area, Shawanaga Island is one of our favorites. What is your typical weekend anchored out. Do you gat as far out as Franklin or stay mostly in the Sound.
Re: Good Georgian Bay port for a Sailboat
We moved from Lake Ontario a couple of years ago. We have been very happy with Sound Boat Works in Parry Sound. Very knowledgeable. Decent facilities. What we love most is the sailing in the area. Lots of choices for 2 or 3 day weekends. Nice open sailing in the Sound. Great jump off point to get to the North Chanel for sumer holidays.
2 hours from Toronto.
Good god, you no I never noticed the breakwall was gone. To be honest the weather's been so good and I had my wife and parents with me so it was more like a drive by shooting than a proper check on the boat.
Saw your post about the hospitality suite. If Judi had been with me at the boat show we would have been there for sure, but it was my dad, brother-in-law and me. Three grumpy guys ( one with a Glasgow accent so thick you would never understand what he's saying ) would have tested your hospitality to its limits.
Ah, this time of year is always tough and seems to drag on......
Speant a couple of days at the Hunter booth at the Toronto Boat Show, which helped to break up the long wait. Also met some really nice people from the sailing forums ( won't mention the sketchy one ) for a few drinks one night of the show, which was a lot of fun..
Was up early Jan. to check on the boat, which was fine.
Noticed the breakwall was completely removed and getting ready to install new. Hope it makes a difference from the powerboat wakes.....
|Hey Scott how are you doing, surviving winter? Was up at penatang at the end of Jan. just checking on my boat at one of the bays. Couldn't beleive the lack of snow, sun was shinning, it was almost warm, a good day to poke around Midland/Penatang.
Did you decide anything yet? Any more questions??
Inquiring minds want to know
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Stephane99, did you get to the Toronto Boat Show, all the marinas were there.
Do you have the Ports book yet? Ports Cruising Guides If not get it now. West Marine, Mason's etc. will have them. Do you have one yet????? It lists all the marinas, facilities, etc. for all of Georgian Bay. It also gives you all the anchorages for all of Georgian Bay. Invaluable that you don't have to guess where and how to anchor and which areas you can get to shore with the dog while you're out..... very important !!!!
Our favorite anchorage is Beckwith, Hope and Christian Islands. It's a 4-6 hour sail / motor great anchorage, you can take the dog to shore on the beaches, and clear blue water with sandy bottom. Just watch the forecasted wind direction for overnight. I've been caught a couple of times with a bouncy sleep after a bad call on wind.
Otherwise, Beausoliel Island is a National Park, so can go to shore, but are supposed to pay a landing fee, which they are cracking down on a bit more. But lots of protected anchoring and beautiful scenery, although can be busy.
Beyond that.... get the Ports book, there's lots and lots of options. I could go on for hours on all the places.
Also you can check out all the marinas online. Google their names. This is a good overview of the marinas int he area..... Marinas.com
Watch for the rates. Some marinas I found were pricing haul-out and launch separate from the docking fees.
Hindson's & Beacon Bay, may be a little shallow for your deep draft. Heard of a couple of boats with issues last year.
We're at BayMoorings, deep water, we're in 10 - 12 ft., reasonably priced and I find it's closer to getting "out there" than the other marinas in Midland.
Dutchman's Cove. Deep water, next to BayMoorings. Doesn't have the marina facilities, i.e. pool etc. but is less expensive.
Bay Port & Wye Heritage, both deep water, mix of Power and sail, more expensive, lots of marina facilities, further to getting " out there"
Midland Bay Sailing Club, less expensive but you have to do volunteer hours otherwise pay a higher fee. Use a crane for haul-out so mast has to come down every year. Only have 1-2 days for haul-out or launching, other marinas with travel-lift you pick your day and keep your mast up.
Victoria Harbour, don't know much, but worth checking out. I believe similar pricing to Penetang, but again further.
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text: Parents of a boy who was physically abused by his special education teacher won a $1 million jury award against the school district. Terrence Rideau was a severely disabled special education student in Texas public school. In April 2010, his parents suspected abuse and formally filed a complaint for the school district and child protective services to investigate. That investigation turned up evidence that Terrence's teachers and other staff physically abused the boy and didn't properly lift and move him. …Read More Leave a Comment


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Forests for People? In 1979, FAO launched a "special action programme" intended to make forestry serve local community development. Priority was given to increasing fuelwood supplies, supporting agroforestry programmes and "increasing incomes from forest-based activities." Following FAO's lead, the World Bank signalled its intention to devote an increasing share of its investment in forestry to "social forestry" programmes.
At the time, Jack Westoby told delegates to the Eighth World Forestry Congress: "I think it would be prudent to wait until we set the victory bells ringing." His caution has proved justified. In all to many cases, the need to pay off loans has led to trees being diverted to industrial uses; the profits to be made have also encouraged private investors to make over
agricultural land to tree plantations, to the detriment of the local community.
A case in point is Karnataka, which is hailed by both FAO and the World Bank as an example where social forestry has brought major improvements for the poor. In fact, the main beneficiaries have been two highly polluting pulp mills. In Africa, "Trying to grow trees for fuel in the Sahel has become an international obsession over the last decade", notes Lloyd Timberlake in his 1988 book Africa in Crisis. "But most of these attempts have ended in failure.. . In 1982, some $160 million had been spent to produce a total of about 25,000 hectares of fuelwood plantation, much of it was growing poorly."
Nicholas Hildyard
Corporate Conservation: The Tropical Forestry Action Plan FAO, however, has proved deaf to criticism of the logging industry, insisting that it is "the rural poor who are the primary agents of destruction."26 It is a view that fits neatly with FAO's uncritical assumption that the forests cannot be protected without "development" — which in practice amounts to wresting control over the forest domain out of the hands of local people and placing it in the hands of commercial or state interests. Nowhere is this bias currently more apparent than in its Tropical Forestry Action Plan (TFAP), jointly drawn up by FAO, the World Resources Institute (WRI), the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and coordinated by FAO.
Although promoted by FAO as "an emergency action plan to arrest deforestation", TFAP's approach to the problem of tropical deforestation is resolutely "business-as-usual". Far from attempting to tackle the root causes of deforestation, TFAP focuses almost exclusively on promoting commercial forestry. In Cameroon, the national plan proposes opening up 14 million hectares of pristine forest to logging, with the aim of transforming the country into the largest tropical timber exporter in Africa in the 21st Century. In Peru, TFAP proposes an increase in logging in Amazonia of between 390 per cent and
590 per cent. In Tanzania, it calls for a 23fold increase in sawnwood exports: in Nepal for a 250 per cent increase in timber production. In Ghana, TFAP makes the second tranche of its loan conditional on the lifting of a ban on the export of timber from 14 tree species.27
Whilst the original TFAP reports stressed the need for land reform, few of the national plans that have been drawn up address land ownership issues. On the contrary, rather than calling for reforms of inequitable land ownership, TFAP often requires alienation of traditional lands into government forestry estates.
Exacerbating Deforestation
Criticism of TFAP is now widespread. The first major critique, published by the World Rainforest Movement (WRM) and The Ecologist in early 1990, concluded that "on balance, deforestation seems likely to accelerate under the TFAP" and called for a moratorium on international funding for the plan.28
Subsequently, a report from the World Resources Institute — one of the bodies originally responsible for TFAP — criticized the excessive focus on the forestry sector and highlighted a number of failures at a national level, especially with regards to NGO participation.29
Finally, an independent review, com
missioned by FAO itself in 1989, reported in June 1990.30 The review is remarkable for making scarcely any comment at all on the specific projects put forward under TFAP. Although the review team made field visits to Cameroon, Ghana, Indonesia, Nepal, the Philippines, Thailand, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Honduras and Columbia, in several of which countries environmentalist criticism of national-level TFAP exercises has reached a high pitch, it devotes not one line to the specific contents of any of the national plans.
Deflecting Criticism Despite the mounting criticism, the substantive international debate on TFAP has become submerged in a bureaucratic wrangle about the structure of high-level TFAP management. WRI's main recommendations are for a new management structure for the TFAP, and a clarification of TFAP's goals and objectives. Meanwhile, the independent review confines itself mainly to recommending that TFAP should be "country-driven and processoriented" and that the four originators of TFAP should work out new "organizational arrangements". It also recommends that the name of TFAP be changed from the Tropical Forestry Action Plan to the Tropical Forestry Action Programme.
The limitation of the debate to administrative structures reflects two major interests in TFAP. The first is that of the donor and recipient governments, for which TFAP provides a framework within which a wide range of forestry aid and development loans can be coordinated, and in which national forestry plans can consolidate a number of projects into a single plan. Over the past two years, donor governments have responded to growing public concern over tropical deforestation by committing increasing sums to tropical forestry aid. The German aid agencies, for example, are obliged to spend DM300 million on tropical forest issues every year, rising to DM500 million by 1985. The British government has committed itself to spending £100 million over three years in tropical forestry aid. Clearly, it is in the interests of donor agencies that the TFAP should be efficient in providing them with a regular list of fundable projects. The same is true of recipient governments, for whom TFAP has the potential to provide badly needed foreign currency and aid.
The second major interest is that of FAO itself, which is insistent that TFAP
The Ecologist, Vol. 21, No. 2, March/April 1991 should remain under its control. The focus on the administrative failings of TFAP has enabled FAO to side-step the more substantive criticisms of TFAP's underlying policies made by WRM, The Ecologistand many groups in the South. Indeed, in an eight-page response to TFAP's critics, FAO's Director-General Edouard Saouma ignored the broader issues entirely and confined himself to rebutting what he saw as attacks on FAO's capacity to administrate TFAP, rejecting the formation of an external steering committee and blaming past failure on a cash crisis within FAO.31
Meanwhile, the FAO Committee on Forestry argues that "TFAP must be revitalized in order to demonstrate its effectiveness and achieve tangible results" and that TFAP "should be extended to all developing countries where forest resources play, or can play, an important role for socioeconomic development and environmental stability."32 Indeed, within FAO, it is clear that few question the "rightness" of TFAP as presently constituted.
Institutionalized Deforestation FAO is now making a major play to draft and administer a global Forest Convention, to be signed at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Brazil in 1992. An FAO draft proposal for the convention, leaked to The Ecologist, reveals that FAO has learned little from its TFAP critics: although the rhetoric has changed, the approach is still top-down, commercially-orientated, and, i f adopted, likely to exacerbate the deforestation crisis.33
The draft sets out three underlying "principles" on which forest policy should be based: sovereignty, stewardship and burden-sharing. The language used, however, opens the way for continued appropriation of local peoples' resources. "Stewardship", for example, is defined in terms of "ensuring the attainment and continued satisfaction of human needs for present and future generations" without specifying who is to determine these needs, this satisfaction and that attainment. Similarly, "sovereignty" of the "forest resource" is defined exclusively in terms of state sovereignty — this despite the role that governments continue to play in causing deforestation and the displacement of local peoples. The tendency to buttress state control of the forests is further encouraged by the proposal that "supreme authority" over the convention and its enforcement should be vested in a conference of governments. Worse, the relative power of member states is to be weighted according to "forest area, GNP or participation in international financial mechanisms" — a proposal that will disproportionately benefit the interests of the North.
Under a section headed "Main Obligations of Parties", the draft calls for governments to agree to an "optimal" forest land use pattern which reconciles "ecological, economic and social requirements". Beneath the rhetoric are two unsubstantiated assumptions. The first is that ecological and social requirements are compatible with the demands of the modern market. The second is that it is proper to leave to states decisions on the nature of this "optimal land use". The implications of the second assumption are made clear under a
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The 19-year-old made his first-team debut for the Gunners in last season's Carling Cup fourth-round victory over Bolton Wanderers.
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The race team's shop that I am part owner of is some 60 miles away from me with the full compliment of metal working tools/machines that we built up over the yrs.Not hard to have spent $1,000's of dollars on that.My own personal shop I have only some limited body hammers while I build up my own tools and equipment for metal fab.
I didn't even have aside from tires any rounds in the shop at all.So what I picked up from the metal salvage place while I do build up my own stuff to have in the shop surely wouldn't hurt me.
Yes those are couture gauges.
I tried a test pc inside the larger pipe.
While pounding down the smaller pipe and rolling the bigger pipe abit I got a pretty nice smooth radius the I.D. of the larger pipe.
I haven't tested this yet because I want to see what I have around in tires and I want to mount it on my portable expandable work table.
That will making it easier to work with at waist height and then I can bolt it in either right side up or upside down.
Got me to thinking after I got back home.Most metal fab guys have a tree stump hollowed out and I could turn either pipe ends into my stump.
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I have bowling ball and a smaller ball from a carnival game, I hollowed out wood smaller radius cavities by building an over arm jig for my table saw , a center point screw then raising the blade , hollow it out, drop the blade rotate the block. raise etc etc , using a 10 in blade and 7 in blade, A chain saw tooth carving blade for a 4 `1/2 grinder is fast for larger curves.
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01-26-2012, 03:01 PM #37Pro Bowl Poster
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Re: AFC North predictions for next season
My point is if youre going to get rid of every name except harrison and woodley, why keep harrison? thats an obvious youth movement in my eyes, and even if its only one year, the chances Harrison is around and effective will be highly unlikely. save the extra 5.5 and release him, allowing you to move that dead money to next year when youll hopefully have more cap room anyway.
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The Pittsburgh Steelers are already nearly $20 plus million over the 2012 projected salary cap number of $125 million and that is with just 44 players under contract
Even if they keep Harrison with all the players youre suggesting, they wont be the same team weve had trouble with in years past and will be lucky to have a winning season. especially if they plan on only playing with 34 players all season. Losing Mike Wallace, although i dont think hes the best WR on their team, will be a huge loss none the less.
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Tough to predict so far out. There is upheaval in the coaching staff right now. Will Reed stay or retire? Who will be cut, who will be drafted, who will be signed, will there be significant injuries? I think based on odds alone the Ravens will not make the playoffs.
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The only two positions on D where they would have new starters are NT (where McLendon played decently) and ILB (likely Stevenson Sylvester.
The O would be the same except for the line which was a patchwork last year because of injuries. At the moment the line would likely be:
Gilbert-Foster-Pouncey-Legursky-Colon (who would cost more to cut than it would to have him play).
Despite all the talk of a revamp, we're only talking about 2 (and possibly 1 if Foote stays) starters changing. They save most of their money by cutting veteran backups and the rest by renegotiating 2-3 contracts. They will have to replace the cut players with rookies and cheaper vets, but it's easily doable. The team should still contend next year if it can stay healthy.
If they can't stay healthy they'll be in trouble, but you can say that about most teams.
That said, the Ravens should win the div. I still see the Steelers finished second and the Bengals 3rd.
Records are too tough to predict so I wouldn't even want to take a stab at that.
I was one of those who thought the Eagles would dominate last year and look how that worked out...
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Madmikey, You can cut players, but you then have to fill those spots. That isn't free. That costs money so you really have to chop alot more than 3o million to get new players in and sign your RFA's and UFA's and 4 million for draft picks. Plus Keisel, Pouncey and Mendenhall coming off surgeries. Lot of "ifs" players off surgery you know are unknowns. As far as division Ravens look the best, but really that's just on paper-means nothing. Alot can happen. Colon who hasn't played in 2 years? Then Gilbert had shoulder surgery( usually can't weight train for a long time after that. Lots of ifs. But who knows.
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Torn labarum or rotator cuff? Yea, no lifting for a while. Rehab will be a lot of resistance exercises.
A "cleanup" or even a AC Separation? He could be back in the gym in 2 months or less depending on the severity.
I do agree that the Steelers have a lot of tough decisions to make and their fans are going to have a lot of reactions like we all did when we saw Heap and Mason's name on the cut list.Disclaimer: The content posted is of my own opinion.
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I honestly think the steelers wont get more then 6 wins, Bengals will get ten again Ravens get 11 and Browns get 6
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Im also not so sure these restructured contracts are guaranteed to happen. Woodley just signed last year, im not sure its that great of a benefit for him to restructure at this juncture.
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agree wi OP. Bengals are really tough to figure. I've read a lot of buzz about how Coach Marvin has 'his' players now and has built the team by his standards. we'll see how Dalton goes; will he progress, hit sophomore jinx, or be hurt again?
can't imagine Pigsburgh wi more than 10 wins next year.
Brownies might catch fire wi RGIII but probly not.
have to think Ravens get another 12 wins and Division."Nothing stops these Baltimore Ravens. Beat them, injure them, shove them to the bottom of the standings, drag them into a hostile environment and mount a big lead, and they just keep trudging forward like nothing fazes them." (Bleacher Report)
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madmikey - who replaced Casey Hampton? I see him as one of the most critical cogs in that defense.
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I don't see why we can't go 12-4, We are very good at home and could easily go 8-0 again 6-2 at worst with the superbowl teams being the hardest. The toughest road games are @ Houston and @ Philadelphia.


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Malkin accused unions of embezzlement, violence, and corruption. During the September 2 edition of Fox News' America Live, Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin accused labor leaders of "embezzlement," "violence," and "corruption."
Varney: There will be "[t]wo more union outrage stories to bring to you in our next half-hour." During the September 2 edition of Fox Business Network's Varney & Co., guest Joseph Caruso criticized a Securities and Exchange Commission rule that would allow more shareholders of public companies to use proxy votes to nominate board members. Caruso claimed that unions would use the rule to "wreak havoc" by nominating labor-friendly board members. In response, Fox Business' Charles Payne suggested, "So, this will be used more as a tool of intimidation than anything else." In a subsequent tease, Varney said, "Two more union outrage stories to bring to you in our next half-hour."
Cavuto likened unions to Hurricane Earl on a "collision course on our towns." During the September 2 edition of Fox News' Your World, host Neil Cavuto compared [1] unions to Hurricane Earl, saying, "The monster and the mess. Your World on top of Earl's collision course with our coast and what could be unions' collision course with our towns." Cavuto added: "And get ready for Earl's wallop and, to hear some state and local governments tell it, unions' direct hit on their wallet."
Carlson: How much of the cost of a Chevy Volt is "because you have to pay the unions so much money?" During a discussion of the Chevy Volt on the September 2 edition of Fox & Friends, co-host Gretchen Carlson asked, "How much of that money ... is because you have to pay the unions so much money?"
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23rd Annual Ambulance Chase to Raise Funds for Cass Community Social Services
DETROIT (Sept. 3, 2008) - Wayne State University Law School alumni, students and friends are invited to assist a local non-profit in its effort to enhance the local community as the Wayne State University Law School Student Bar Association Board of Governors (SBG) hosts the 23rd annual Ambulance Chase Charity Run/Walk at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008.
Each October, the American Bar Association chooses a worthy cause and encourages each ABA approved law school's students to support the cause in their local area. Profits for this year's event will once again go to Cass Community Social Services (CCSS), a Detroit-based charity dedicated to making a profound difference in the lives of those in need by providing for basic necessities, including affordable housing, promoting self-reliance, and encouraging community involvement and improvement.
"[Cass Community Social Services] greatly impacts a large number of people in this community," said Allison Bentley, SBG President. "Our goal is to assist CCSS financially through the Ambulance Chase so that it may continue to reach out to those most in need of help."
Bentley added, "Last year's race was a great success and raised more than $5,000. We hope to raise even more this year."
Consisting of a 2.2 mile race (shorter for those who prefer to walk) in which participants run/walk behind an ambulance, the event pokes fun at the stereotype of the "ambulance-chasing lawyer." Typically about 200 people run the race, with another 75-100 attending the event as spectators. All proceeds, including a $20 entrance fee, will benefit Cass Community Social Services.
This year's Chase will begin in front of the Law School, located at 471 West Palmer Street in Detroit. A barbeque for all participants and spectators will take place at the conclusion of the race. Sponsorship opportunities are still available, and there is still time to register. Please contact Allison Bentley at (248) 807-1062 or e-mail email@example.com with any additional questions. To learn more about CCSS, visit http://casscommunity.org/.
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