John Bacon

Pinpoint motors, which have been around for awhile, are available with the feature you describe. They can also troll a specific distance from shore.

I haven't used one myself but I did speak to a sales rep at one of the shows. He did admit you do need the right bottom contours for their system to work effectively. A slope that is too flat or too steep will confuse the motor. Your concerns are definitely valid.

I am some what surprized that with so many concerned comments, not one of them examines the Canadian Government's position on carbon emissions. In November, environment minister (probably changed today) Rona Ambrose stated that "Canada remains strongly committed to Kyoto", but at a recent Senate committee meeting Abrose stated the government's intention to renege on a pledge to cut carbon emissions to 6 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. "We cannot meet the target. We have ample evidence that this is not feasible." The new plan delays any regulations on emissions until 2010 and then calls for cuts only in greenhouse gas intensity, which is a measure of the carbon produced per dollar of economic activity---a formula that allows total emissions to continue to rise as long as the economy is growing. There would be no absolute reduction in emissions until after 2020, then deeper cuts of 45 to 65 per cent around 2050. If you are really concerned about the likely reality of global warming....contact your local federal politician. Most of the world (except the US) is stunned by Canada's response to the Kyoto treaty.

On another point...do not confuse the "warmest winter" with the "warmest year". The 5 warmest YEARS on record have all occured since 2000.

At least they do have a plan to eventually cut emissions. The Liberals made a big deal out of signing Kyoto, but they never actually implemented any plans to ever reduce emissions. The Kyoto accord will not lead to a reduction in emissions, (the two most populous contries in the world are allowed to polute as much as they want under the agreement) it would only lead to Canada paying large sums of money to other contries for not meeting the targets.

Everybody dumps on Bush for not signing Kyoto; but the US's emissions only increased by 16% while Canada's increased by 25%. And the per capita emission from the US were already lower than Canada's to begin with.

So much for the Liberals committment to the environment.

 

In Scottland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.

 

I am not sure about the others; but that one is not true. That is not how "golf" was spelled back then. Plus, I think the Scotts were still speaking gaelic at that time.

I am pretty sure that the the regs specify that you must be fishing through the ice to use the second line.

I don't think the squirrels know how many nuts they gather and I've read somewhere that they only find and use about half of them. Look for nests of paper wasps and see how high in the bushes they are. Snow doesn't usually get deep enough to bury them. Check the feed beds around beaver houses and you can tell by the size of them how long and cold they expect the winter to be. All kinds of ways but they don't always hold true. The Almanac is more often wrong than right.

The paper wasps built a nest about seven feet of the ground above my garage. Should I be expecting six feet of snow in Scarborough?

 

monthly act free 6.95( which no one or no carrier can bypass)

 

Is that was Rogers told you? The cell phone companies are currently facing a class action law suite over the system access fee. It has been portrayed as a tax by the cell phone companies; but it is merely an extra charge entirely controlled by the cell phone companies.

As was explained to me by my bud, a CO, they put that in the regs. so that when, or if, they have to modify any regulations or seasons, they can actually get it passed. If there was not a closed season for any fish, regardless of species, it would be a tough haul to amend the regulations, to get them passed through the provincial parliament hearings. So, with a one day closed season, if they have to modify the regs., its easier to get through, since there is a (albeit, a one day closure)closed season already in the regulations. If there was not that closed season, it would take the MNR a couple of years or more to get new regs passed.

 

I may be a bit off base here about it, but thats what I remember.

More specifically, I believe that the province can change a season; but creating a closed season requires federal approval.

January looks . . . uh h h h . . . . interesting . . . . although their predictions are kinda vague, and open to translation, over-all, they're usually pretty close. Anybody else find any BETTER predictions? . . . . . geeze, even the resident weather guru (Vanselena) was way y y y off in HIS predictions . . . . very rare to ever see HIM wrong, eh?

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Do regularly look at the Farmers Almanac predictions and compare them to what actually happens? I haven't myself. However, I do recall reading an article stating that their predictions are rarely accurate. If I recall correctly, the article said that they were accurate 11 times in the last 50 years.

I think that there is a romantic notion that people close to the land, such as farmers, can observe how many nuts a squirrel gathers and more accurately predict the weather than modern science. I don't think that there is actually any truth to it.

I still have that snap set lure listed in the contest section I caught quite a few fish with it this past summer.

Does anybody know if they are still made. I don't think that I ever saw one in a store.

I saw one a few years ago in the Malvern area of Scarborough.

I have also seen a quite a few deer in the Port Union and 401 are lately.

Well great, now JR cannot read your response.

Kind of like at work; email goes down, IT fixes and then sends out an email to let everybody know that they log back in ...

its my winter beater and the other driver wasn't an a jerk about it so traded a bit of good Carma for a damaged hitch

 

Like the tree idea may wait till my neighbours away and give it a try ( with his tree )

 

Tinbanger

Personally, I'd still make the Lexus owner pay for the damage. If he is not a jerk, then he shouldn't have a problem taking responsibility for his mistake. If he uses his insurance to pay for his own repairs, then it shouldn't make any difference to him if the insurance covers your costs as well.

If you do try the "tree think", keep in mind that if it does work the reciever may become a dangerous projectile. A "Darwin Award" is a definite possibility.

Unless your b vent galvanized exterior is rusted, which is possible above the roof line, then it's fine. I've never seen the aluminum lining wear out. If it's rusted above the roof line, then you only need to replace the top section.

When I installed my gas dryer I was told that I could not use aluminum vent pipes because they would react with the exhaust.

Would this not also happen with a furnace and aluminum liners? Or, was I misled?

 

is there any other benefits to going to a high efficiency I am missing?

 

 

Gerritt.

If you have a high efficiency furnace you don't need to use a chimney. They are vented through the wall via a plastic pipe.

If you do not have any other appliances that require a chimney, then you may be able to remove the chimney and use that space in your house.

Because of the age and draftiness of my house, a mid was all i wanted when I got my new one. Seemed silly to put a high effieceincy unit in a low efficiency house.

I think your logic is backwards. There is more benefit to having an high efficiency furnace in an inefficient house than there is in an efficient house.

A poorly insulated drafty house mean higher heating bills; if you furnace is 15% more efficient, then you save 15% of a large bill. The same furnace in a well insulated house still saves you 15% on your heating bill; but it will be 15% of a much smaller number.

this is why I HATE the cable companies and Rogers is by far THE WORST GOING... Get a Pansat and be done with it!

 

 

Gerritt

Why would this be a reason to hate cable companies? Is it because they don't include all stations for one standard price instead of providing a choice of getting a few channels for a lower price or lots of channels for a higher price?

They provided a free preview of a specialty channel; why would that make you hate them?

When I installed my humidifier the instructions said that the unit could be installed on either the cold air or warm air duct.

However, mine is not a drum type. I don't know if that makes any difference.

For used tires; try John's Tire on Old Kingston Rd. right near the east bound Port Union exit.

I heard a story about a boat downrigging wasaga bay a few years ago. They got hooked on nets and the boat went down with the two guys.

 

Once in my boat i had to do an emergency stop. I went from full speed to neutral gave it one second then i went reverse half speed. I looked back and the stern just came up on the wave no problem. Had to buy new underware though.

 

If the boat is heavy in the stern with a big motor then i can see it getting water over the back and going down.

If its the same story I heard; it was backing the boat up into the waves in an attempt to save the down riggers that sunk the boat. If that happens, just cut the cables and buy a new set of cannon balls.

I am not sure if it is reasonable in terms of a fair price to pay for the work involved; but, couldn't you buy a 20+ year old motor for less than that?

I can remember a few years back when General Motors wanted to outsource some of their machine shop jobs. Buzz Hargrove organized a strike at GM; GM caved in and kept the jobs in house.

Buzz Hargrove and the CAW prevented GM from cutting their costs. Now, Buzz is worried that GM will not be able to compete with imports because of their high production costs. There is a certain irony to that.

Now, Buzz Hargrove wants the government to protect the domestic auto industry but does not mention anything about the CAW working with the manufacturers to help reduce costs and help them be more competitive.

I do agree that the government needs to ensure that we have equal access to China's market if we are going to allow imports from there. They need use more than we need them, so that shouldn't be too difficult to negotiate. But the unions need to realize that their employers are competing in a global economy. The CAW has been very aggresive in constantly trying to push wages higher for their members. This has been very beneficial to its members in the short term; but may very well cost all of its members there jobs in the the longterm.

The CAW cannot expect to negotiate above market wages and then have the goverment block competetion so that their employees can continue to sell overpriced product to the public.