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hakuna matata! looking forward to the riding season. planning on doing lots of riding this year.

didn't know them blue pills take so long to take effect...

good to hear from you, Craig...hoping to ride to the Marcarl Meet with you again end of May, so get well soon. Abdul.

just to inform ontario members....... the Garmin 255W is on sale this week for 80.00 dollars at Canadian Tire Stores.

thanks for a good laugh...

UNBELIEVEABLE!!! those two were doing stuff i couldnt even THINK about! If there were only two OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALS to go around, those two should be the ones to get them. :clap2:

Thats just to make sure people using our highways have good eye sight. So for you with bad eye sight, we want you to stay on the slower local roads and we have made sure you can 'read' the signs by making them Freaking huge.

Is definately a good idea to have a smaller motor bike too, for puttering around in town or short trips, if you dont mind paying insurance for both. I have used an 89 venture and my current Shadow Ace 1100 in town, and i so much enjoy riding the Shadow around town. With the big bike around town takes the fun out of riding. My personal opinion is, the Ventures are purely touring bikes. Insurance is killing us here, though. Insuring both bikes costs me just above 2000.00 dollars....and that is just for 6 months of riding time....and i can only ride one bike at a time and have to pay another 2000.00 for the car, which is sitting idle while i am riding my bike. Go figure. oh, and i have a very good driving record without any points lost.

now thats a very personal question... unless you talking about doing the floor, and not the celebrations after the room was done!

i'm next in line... by the time you are done with the others before me...i think i should be able to trust you to do mine.

you guys are jumping to conclusions....in my opinion. Here's what I think happened. The Dog comes into the house after having burried its bone,in the back yard... and sees the girlfriend in the arms of this stranger that looks nothing like " flyingfool". Natural instincts take over the B****. ( am talking about the dog here, now).She, ( the dog,) wants to bite off a piece of rump from the stranger's rear end ....its at its eyelevel...to keep as evidence to show the Master who's out, working hard, trying to put bread and kibbles on the table for the family. The stranger panicks and there's no time to go for the door, so decides to jump out through the window head first. I would take some of that blood for testing to see if it belongs to the dog.... SO.........the dog's a keeper, and deserves rewards for sure. how much longer for this winter weather??

GOOD JOB... i like it.

Ours is a shihtzu/pomeronian mix. very aggressive when he comes across any other dog, regardless of the other dogs size. did that right from the time we got him. couple of larger dogs bit him when he was small cause of his aggressive attitude, and since then he has never been able to socialise with other dogs. excellent with people and kids, though. was meant for my son, but has become MY dog. Bought from pet shop. was priced at 1200.00 and was on sale for 800.00. which i think is still excessive....but in my view worth every cent.

works okay for me....

Looks to me like....pipes are not the only things you need to change...

depends how exprerienced and responsible the 16 yr old is.... i would stay with the 250 for a couple of yrs more. but thats MY opinion. Dad know best. go with your instincts.

saw a few bikes on the roads today here in toronto. very windy day, though.

apparently, she's a very 'good mother' too.... Developer got $4M in Mississauga land deal World Class Developments -- the company affiliated with Peter McCallion, the son of Mississauga's long-time mayor -- received a $4-million payout after a city-backed land deal fell through, newly released documents suggest. By National Post July 13, 2010 World Class Developments -- the company affiliated with Peter McCallion, the son of Mississauga's long-time mayor -- received a $4-million payout after a city-backed land deal fell through, newly released documents suggest. The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS), one of the vendors of the land, made the payment last year to settle the development firm's claim of a continuing stake in the property, even as the city worked to close a separate deal for a Sheridan College campus on the same 3.5-hectare parcel of land in the city centre. Of the $4-million, about a third reimbursed World Class for deposits it had paid. The settlement, previously undisclosed until the matter was touched on very briefly during a public hearing of Mississauga's judicial inquiry last week, has some councillors fuming. "The settlement was not reasonable," Councillor Carolyn Parrish said yesterday. "It in fact was opportunistic, in that time was of the essence for Sheridan." Though the $4-million was a liability for OMERS and not the city, she said it removed any "wiggle room" during the city's negotiations in the Sheridan deal. Ultimately, the City of Mississauga bought the land for $14-million and will lease it to Sheridan. Had councillors known the details of the settlement at the time, it is unlikely they would have agreed to pay that sum, Councillor George Carlson said. "The $4-million settlement is worth nearly 30% of the final purchase price -- a fee which is neither defensible nor reasonable," Mr. Carlson said. Councillor Maja Prentice, a staunch opponent of the inquiry, disagreed. "I don't think this is any of our business as members of council, quite frankly," Ms. Prentice said. "We have no idea what was spent [to facilitate the deal]. These are two private corporations that were doing a business deal." The vendors -- which included OMERS and its subsidiary Oxford, and the Alberta Investment Management Corporation and its subsidiary 156 Square One Limited -- filed an application in Superior Court in the summer of 2009 to confirm the World Class deal was terminated, but the development firm challenged that, ultimately leading to the settlement. The inquiry is examining whether Mayor Hazel McCallion, by virtue of her involvement in her son's deal, was in a conflict of interest. Last week, documents emerged to suggest Ms. McCallion met with OMERS chief Michael Nobrega while the World Class deal was being amended. The inquiry has also seen an email exchange between Mr. Nobrega and Michael Kitt of Oxford, in which Mr. Kitt suggests World Class may have been "using" the Mayor in the process. "It is difficult to tell her that, especially with her son involved," Mr. Kitt writes. The revelation about the payout to World Class came during the testimony of Abraham Costin, a lawyer representing Oxford and 156 Square One. Mr. Costin said he did not know of the settlement between World Class and OMERS until after the fact. "I wasn't involved in the settlement or any discussions relating to it," he said. Lawyer Don Jack, representing Square One, said settlement talks were completed before Sept. 11. Mr. Costin confirmed the final payout was $4-million, with about $1.5-million in a combination of refundable and non-refundable deposits. Tom Urbaniak, an academic with expertise in Mississauga politics, says it is too early to determine whether $4-million was a reasonable settlement amount. "It depends in part on whether the purchase-and-sale agreement was properly terminated by the vendors," he noted. "We are hearing somewhat different versions of that crucial event." motoole@nationalpost.com © © CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc

:yikes:Shocked...was looking forward to meeting Craig at the MARCARL meet as we do every year. God willing he will up and about and feeling well come May. What hospital is he in? Will surely drop by to check on him, since i live in scarborough too. Abdul.

WOW! Am speechless... simply amazing stuff.

I wouldn't take that path if it led to HEAVEN!!