Array-ne York Region TransitThis is an open e-mail to York Region Transit:The added comments in brackets are meant to add some insight into my thinking that day and were not included in the original e-mail sent to transitinfo@york.caRe: Route 98 Southbound scheduled for 7:54 A.M.Dear Sir/Madam:On Saturday, I had to travel to Yonge & Major MacKenzie area yesterday to meet up with the manager of Coldex in order to do some work on Saturday.So I checked the YRT schedule (thinking, hey they only messed up once so far, thats not too bad). The YRT and GO Bus stops are seperate as the VIVA stop on the Soutn west corner of Yonge at Allaura/Henderson Dr. has been fully constructed (except for the fare machines) and the sign has been unbagged indicating that YRT stops at that stop. I also said, to make figuring out which driver was at fault, that during that time between being passed by the YRT bus(7:46 A.M.) and being picked up by the GO Bus (7:54 A.M.) that I saw bus number 9801 heading northbound on Yonge on Route 98 around 7:50 A.M.(which by jove is right on schedule!) I was put on hold for five minutes so she could contact the contractor.The operator came back to say the contractor said the driver picked up three timed fares on that corner at 7:54 A.M without any incident. This is the second time a York Region Transit bus has caused me to either spend more money than I need to (the fare difference noted above) or time (see my original complaint below about another incident as submitted via your website).I will be forwarding this e-mail to Aurora Mayor Tim Jones as this is the second time in three weeks I have had issues with buses arriving early.
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-ne Since it’s Friday night, and I’d like to think I have better things to do than play on the computer(false assumption), I’m just going to post up a few notes, along with some general housekeeping items.I’ll be attending the UVA - Florida State game Saturday night. I’ll try to put up a post about the game, and the evening in Charlottesville. Actually, I’ll be shocked if the Angels even care anymore, but you can bet Joe Buck and Tim McCarver will bring it up. I’ll also be writing a lot about my hometown Richmond Spiders, who hired a guy that looks like a high school sophomore to coach a Princeton offense despite the fact that there are no legitimate guards on the roster. I’ll try to write about as much as possible, and try to keep things relevant to what’s going on in the sports world.
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-ne 10 1B Kendry Morales - AA Arkansas (Angels).306 Avg, .349 OBP, .530 SLG, 47 R, 17 HR, 54 RBIWell it took a while for the paper work to be filed and contracts to be signed but as soon as this Cuban defector got to play he started hitting. Morales is fundamentally sound from both sides of the plate with good power potential and had drawn strong comparisons in his homeland to Omar Linares prior to his defection (Omar Linares could well have been the best third baseman since Mike Schmidt if not for the Cuban embargo) so we can but wait to see how true that is.Defensively he has already impressed many with his soft hands and ability to haul in errant throws (not that he should have to do that much with the array of infield talent Anaheim has assembled).9 SS Erick Aybar - AA Arkansas (Angels).303 Avg, .350 OBP, .445 SLG, 101 R, 9 HR, 54 RBI, 49 SBThere arenât enough Erick Aybarâs in the world. A flashy shortstop with speed and athleticism, Aybar makes things happen both in the field and at the top of the order and really harkens back to the really traditional view of everything you would want from shortstop before the likes of A-Rod, Nomar and Tejada made everyone think that defence up the middle should be sacrificed for another bat and the sad thing is that with Orlando Cabrera locked up for the next few years with the big club and Brandon Wood ripping the seams off the ball Aybar could end up being the odd man out.There arenât enough Erick Aybarâs in the world.8 LHP Chuck James - AAA Richmond (Braves)13-7, 2.12 ERA, 193 K, 36 BB, 161 IP, .179 avgChuck James might not have five Aâs in his name or be a good hitting catcher but he is a dominating leftie who played at three different levels in the Braves system this year and across the three he was the toughest pitcher to hit in minor league baseball.
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-ne Rank Conference Team W L PPR 1 ACC Virginia Tech 6 0 128.336 2 PAC 10 USC 6 0 118.881 3 SEC Georgia 6 0 105.538 4 SEC Alabama 6 0 100.443 5 BIG XII Texas 6 0 97.443 6 PAC 10 UCLA 6 0 92.231 7 SEC LSU 4 1 89.556 8 BIG TEN Wisconsin 6 1 89.244 9 ACC Boston College 6 1 82.129 10 MWC TCU 6 1 79.588 11 PAC 10 Oregon 6 1 79.583 12 BIG TEN Penn State 6 1 77.150 13 BIG XII Colorado 4 2 76.990 14 BIG EAST West Virginia 6 1 76.708 15 SEC Auburn 5 1 73.926 16 ACC Miami 5 1 73.852 17 IND Notre Dame 4 2 72.176 18 BIG XII Texas Tech 6 0 71.048 19 ACC Florida State 5 1 66.519 20 CUSA UTEP 4 1 65.026 21 MAC Toledo 5 1 61.282 22 BIG XII Nebraska 5 1 59.892 23 BIG TEN Minnesota 5 2 59.737 24 BIG TEN Iowa 5 2 58.214 25 PAC 10 California 5 2 58.136 26 ACC Maryland 4 2 57.436 27 BIG TEN Michigan State 4 2 56.211 28 ACC Georgia Tech 4 2 55.729 29 SEC Florida 5 2 55.694 30 WAC Fresno State 4 1 54.275 31 BIG EAST Connecticut 4 2 52.011 32 MAC Bowling Green 4 2 50.406 33 BIG TEN Michigan 4 3 50.166 34 BIG XII Baylor 4 2 50.145 35 BIG TEN Northwestern 4 2 50.102 36 MWC Wyoming 4 3 49.347 37 WAC Boise State 4 2 46.451 38 ACC Virginia 4 2 45.908 39 SEC Tennessee 3 2 45.698 40 BIG EAST Rutgers 4 2 45.426 41 BIG TEN Ohio State 4 2 45.423 42 ACC Clemson 3 3 45.199 43 BIG XII Missouri 4 2 44.531 44 PAC 10 Oregon State 4 2 44.439 45 BIG XII Kansas State 4 2 42.563 46 BIG EAST Louisville 4 2 42.072 47 WAC Nevada 4 2 41.850 48 CUSA Tulsa 4 3 41.510 49 BIG TEN Indiana 4 2 40.839 50 PAC 10 Stanford 3 2 39.707 51 MWC New Mexico 4 3 38.471 52 CUSA Southern Miss 3 2 38.293 53 SEC Vanderbilt 4 3 37.550 54 BIG XII Texas A&M 4 2 37.397 55 MAC Central Michigan 4 3 36.763 56 IND Navy 3 2 34.869 57 MAC Akron 3 3 32.616 58 BIG XII Oklahoma 3 3 31.552 59 CUSA Houston 3 3 30.985 60 PAC 10 Arizona State 3 3 28.805 61 CUSA UCF 3 3 28.772 62 MAC Miami-Ohio 3 3 27.524 63 CUSA East Carolina 3 3 26.334 64 MWC BYU 3 3 25.905 65 MAC Western Michigan 3 3 25.166 66 BIG EAST Pittsburgh 3 4 24.854 67 CUSA Memphis 3 3 24.388 68 BIG XII Iowa State 3 3 23.533 69 MWC Colorado State 3 3 23.484 70 SUNBELT North Texas 2 3 23.405 71 WAC Hawaii 2 4 22.106 72 SUNBELT Middle Tenn 2 3 22.065 73 SEC South Carolina 3 3 20.558 74 CUSA UAB 3 3 20.464 75 PAC 10 Washington State 3 3 19.485 76 BIG XII Oklahoma State 3 3 19.352 77 CUSA Marshall 3 3 18.922 78 ACC North Carolina 2 3 18.878 79 MAC Northern Illinois 3 3 18.805 80 MWC San Diego State 3 4 18.698 81 BIG EAST South Florida 3 3 18.260 82 BIG EAST Cincinnati 3 3 16.736 83 SUNBELT Arkansas State 3 3 15.667 84 BIG XII Kansas 3 3 14.513 85 ACC North Carolina State 2 3 14.282 86 MWC Air Force 3 4 12.257 87 WAC Louisiana Tech 2 3 12.150 88 CUSA Tulane 2 3 12.063 89 MWC Utah 3 4 11.737 90 MAC Eastern Michigan 3 4 8.905 91 WAC Utah State 2 3 8.799 92 SEC Mississippi 2 4 5.339 93 BIG TEN Purdue 2 4 5.313 94 SUNBELT Troy State 2 4 4.294 95 CUSA SMU 2 5 1.874 96 SUNBELT Louisiana-Monroe 3 4 0.557 97 BIG TEN Illinois 2 4 -2.744 98 ACC Wake Forest 2 5 -5.957 99 SEC Arkansas 2 4 -6.930 100 MWC UNLV 2 5 -7.812 101 BIG EAST Syracuse 1 5 -15.068 102 MAC Ohio 2 4 -18.128 103 SEC Mississippi State 2 4 -18.544 104 SUNBELT Florida Atlantic 1 6 -33.223 105 SUNBELT Florida International 1 4 -33.460 106 PAC 10 Washington 1 5 -34.965 107 SEC Kentucky 1 4 -35.612 108 MAC Ball State 1 5 -42.527 109 SUNBELT Louisiana-Lafayette 1 5 -45.562 110 MAC Kent State 1 5 -48.499 111 WAC San Jose State 1 5 -51.627 112 WAC Idaho 1 5 -64.479 113 ACC Duke 1 6 -67.066 114 PAC 10 Arizona 1 5 -67.527 115 CUSA Rice 0 5 -71.157 116 IND Army 0 6 -82.865 117 IND Temple 0 7 -107.120 118 WAC New Mexico State 0 7 -113.366 119 MAC Buffalo 0 6 -142.777
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-ne Now It Gets PersonalWhen Sara and I got to be thirteen and Marilyn fourteen, a movement called Campus Evangelism Seminars changed our lives. The Youngs and my parents allowed us to take part in these seminars even though they were intended for college kids. This meant asking Jesus to take over and be our boss, to be in charge of everything in our lives. Jim said that we can talk to Jesus, that He’s a person, a real live person seated at the right hand of God, that He loves us individually, and He wants to have a relationship with us. He’s not just a man who lived a long time ago.There were several powerful men in the Campus Evangelism movement that made an impression on me. God never called a man to moderation and passionless Christianity. This was probably the time when I began to intentionally spend time with people who were unlike me, to teach myself to be at home in environments that were not comfortable or familiar. The idea of musicians ministering to an audience had never crossed my mind.So this band was made up of four young guys, long-haired hippies, and they called themselves Lazarus. I’ll tell more about Lazarus when I get more into the music.Some time in 1967 or ’68, the college students at Pepperdine started meeting for a separate “worship service” My parents felt I still must punch the time clock at the regular service until 12:00 noon, so I was now putting in four hours of sitting on Sunday mornings, the first three of them very willingly, the last one less so.Ron Perry, an older guy in our lives, had shared long talks alone with Sara when he was a camp counselor. No, I never did it.) Now Ron was married to beautiful Nikko Scheifele, a girl with long straight black hair and a gentle way, and they had me and Sara over for Bible studies at their house. We had been taught were that they were figurative, metaphorical, so we had never done them before.Ron and Nikko would pick me up in their VW bug early on Sunday mornings to take me with them to the long back room meeting. I practiced being very still and waiting until He said it was time to go outside to meet them, so they wouldn’t have to honk and disturb Momma and Daddy. I got better at it as time went along.It was a novel and a revolutionary concept, this idea that God actually wanted to speak to us. It took me quite awhile to figure out that it was better to start out with praying, instead of waiting until it was my last resort.Around this time, I had another life changing reading experience in Matt Young’s study. It wasn’t just the Assemblies of God and the Church of God of Prophecy and the tangential denominations any more. That meant the return of the Western Wall of the Temple (the Kotel) to Jewish hands for the first time since the Romans destroyed Jerusalem in 70 A.D. But at that time, I really wasn’t aware of this incredible milestone, or how it might relate to my life.So I read this paperback book of Matt’s and it shook my world. I was fourteen years old, and living in the home of two people who were convinced of the rightness of their beliefs, their ways, and their church. worship services for three hours on Sunday mornings (and then obediently sitting with my parents for a further hour), reading, listening to the college students and Campus Evangelism leaders, and internally questioning and changing.At some point between the ages of 14 and 17, I was sitting in the Pepperdine library doing a summer job that involved catalog cards. I was working next to another person, I believe a young lady in college, and we were conversing about the Lord, the Holy Spirit, the Church, etc. I said to her, “I’ve come to the conclusion that if this new stuff I’m learning about the Holy Spirit isn’t real, then I’m not interested anymore in the church thing.”It was a radical statement to make, because I had loved God my whole life and gone to church willingly, even addictively, never having to be forced or cajoled like some parents did their kids. But I had come to the realization that people on their own (most of all me) were incapable of living the way God wanted us to. And I wasn’t willing to turn back to a humanistic religion of personal effort (and constant failure) with an overconcern about external image (other people’s opinions, setting a good example), the way I now felt I had been living all my life.One thing that really scared my parents about the growing revival among the young people was the associated freedom of affection that flowed along with it. Boyd wrote a few words that capture for me what we were all feeling, those of us who were so hungry for God and who were not content with the church of our childhood.There’s a mystical sense of being involved togetherand, just as much to the point,wanting to be.Whether one is speaking of fulfillment, salvation, or joy,no one wants it on a private preserveshut off from others.Persons are claiming each other.Walls are coming down.A person is a signpost to another.We are beginning to see that no one makes community;he accepts communitywhere it’s atand as it is.I still attended the Vermont Avenue church during my first couple of years of college. I had always written notes to Sara and Marilyn to occupy myself during church services, and one Sunday morning I wrote an essay, a long meditation, to Sara. Just a kid, and I sort of admitted that too.“Praise the Lord for our parents and for life.“We have at some point said that your parents haven’t understood the totality of the call of Jesus. When the other missionaries were preaching, talking, living in a semi-otherworldly trance, he was building church buildings, working day to day with money, and people at their worst. They edited books from time to time, and one of them was a congregational directory of Churches of Christ. he argued, and I responded, “I think it’s terrible that they did that to their voices!”Though I tried, I never developed a taste for opera, even though I took a college class in Vocal Literature, and did my best to appreciate the operas we attended as part of the course. in life, and had enjoyed the unusual experience of living in Europe for five years.My dad was ahead of his time in his willingness to bend certain gender barriers. Mom’s favorite was always Claire de Lune by Debussy, and two other pieces she habitually played back to back, the names of which I never learned. Still, I’ll always be grateful for the amazing opportunities my folks made available to me, and the doors they opened to so much enjoyment and satisfaction.For several years we visited the Old Globe Theater in San Diego one night each summer, where our folks took Chip and me to a Shakespeare play. Bailey Circus, since it came to town at about the right time. I loved the circus, partly because I had seen the Disney movie and read the book called Toby Tyler, where a little kid runs away to join the circus. Another time they took me there to see Anna Maria Alberghetti in a musical called Carnival. In my half-doze, I would get scared that if I fell asleep, Momma and Daddy might leave me there.Mom had given up trying to teach me piano by this time. Since we were at a college, my folks decided to (quite literally) take advantage of the music faculty. I never could get through a piece without at least one error, though I didn’t seem to make the same mistake twice.I couldn’t explain it to him, but years later I realized that I was constantly on edge from Momma’s endless corrections. Chip took up the clarinet in junior high, and he continued with it in high school and college. I’m sure we attended at least one concert of theirs because it was at Pepperdine.That night, after the performance, Chip and our folks and I were walking across the street from the Fine Arts Building to our house and Daddy said, “I heard a blue note – When I was in the college choir a decade later, he conducted two performances of Mendelssohn’s St. Paul, an oratorio we performed with his orchestra.I had sung in the choir at Lockhaven, and now I learned that Airport Junior High had a musical celebrity connection. we’ll all dance the hora.Gather ‘round the table, we’ll give you a treat.Shiny tops to play with and latkes to eat.And while we are playing, the candles are burning low.One for each night, they shed a sweet lightTo remind us of days long ago.”In the Christmas/Hanukkah program we performed “It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas.” That was the first time I had heard that song, and I really liked it. I was starting to notice the connections between composers and music, and I realized that Meredith Wilson who wrote that song also wrote the musical The Music Man, which I loved when Pepperdine had put it on.Miss Waldorf encouraged me to sing in a trio with Beth Urban and Shelley Woods, including a medley from the Sound of Music. I went to a missionary dinner with her family once, and learned to cook pineapple meatballs to take as my contribution to the international-themed potluck.Beth and I used to walk around the junior high campus singing hymns together. Once, my parents forgot they were supposed to pick me up at the downtown Music Center after we went to a required performance, and Beth’s mom picked us up and let Beth stay at my house with me until my folks showed up.Shelley Woods was the first Jewish friend with whom I really communicated. This was the first time I realized that a melody could be written by one person and embellished by another. That helped me understand the haunting Victory at Sea, which I knew was composed by Richard Rodgers, my musical hero, but orchestrated by Robert and Russell Bennett.Anyhow, as she played each movement of Pictures at an Exhibition, she stopped after each selection and asked us to describe what we had envisioned as we listened.
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We went on a pumpkin hayride today.For those of you unfamiliar with the joy of the pumpkin hayride , it involves climbing into the back of a wagon and sitting on extremely hard straw. Counterintuitively hard straw. Scratchy too. Hard, scratchy straw. Which in this case, was vaguely damp from the 98 inches of rain that have fallen in the past two weeks.Adding to the Atmosphere is the diesel spewing tractor that pulls the wagon. You are behind this tractor. Since the laws of physics do not suspend themselves for pumpkin hayrides, you spend the ride deeply inhaling raw diesel fumes. An unhappy looking farmer type is in charge of driving this tractor around and around for 4 hours a day in the fall.Small children who are amped up on hot cider and frosted pumpkin cookies run around like lunatics screaming PUMPKINS!PUMPKINS!PUMPKINS!There is a petting zoo to the side of the farm. The wary animals look like they could use some seditives as the same screaming children throw hay, ripped up grass, gourds, and anything else they can get their hands on at them. Only the goats, whom I consider the gangsta’s of the petting zoo world, come close. The rest stay far, far away.At these events, I really wish they served alcohol. In fact, I would pay ten bucks a head if you served me some spiked cider to take with me on the ride. This would add to the natural high from inhaling the diesel fumes. I may go around 2 or 3 times, if this was the case. But alas. They do not. Parents would buy a LOT more pumpkins, if they boozed us up a bit.
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i was suddenly caught by this strong feeling of greed that i really wished i will strike it rich with 4 simple digits.On Thursday, i am so full of wrath that i was furious with the whole education system, the way the society is built..no..actually i was angry at myself for letting something so small take me down. Do not feel like a big time loser if u didnt do as well as u expected this time. Maybe you feel like you are laying at the bottom of the valley of failure…i will just like to share something a best friend of mine shared with me a long time ago…
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Here’s some information about Josef Mathews from LES MILLS USA:JOSEF MATHEWS - Head TrainerJosef is a master trainer in BODYPUMP®
asking me if i would play first 2 hours of 15k gtd and 5000 added on Betfair on his account for him. Have done this a couple of times in the past where i build up a decent stack or sometimes just get to the 2nd hourly break no matter what and then he takes over.We have a private arrangement for any winnings that suits us both, Also it allows me to practise my game against the higher stakes players with no financial risk to myself