Friday, April 24, 2009
Young Driver's
What I think is that if a teen is responiable enough to drive and know the percautions they should take 3 driving courses all at once to be able to get their license for proof or they aren't responiable they should take it. For example (practise for 5 hours for G1=taking G1 test=if passed G1 test move on to the next level=practise for G2 license for 5 hours=taking G2 test=move on to the next level for full G if passed G2 course=practise for 5 hours for full G course=take full G course=if passed full G course you have your license) if the person looses (example=taken away by the law) their license they would have to retake the course again and repay it. If the person fails 1 course they would have to retake the whole course again and have to repay it & they wouldn't have their license until they pass the course. I think the price of the full course should be cheaper which should be about $70. Beacsue of the fact that it's so expensive.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Vaughan firm threatens to move 2,500 jobs
A Vaughan equipment distributor, being forced to relocate as Toronto's subway creeps north, is threatening to leave the province – and take 2,500 jobs with it – if it's not allowed to build a replacement facility on fertile farmland north of the provincial Greenbelt.
Toromont Industries, which assembles and distributes heavy tractors as well as grading and mining equipment, has set conditions that may force the province to choose between losing those jobs or rejecting anti-sprawl principles enshrined in its legislation.
Negotiations are quietly proceeding between the province and two major developers over a proposed 700-hectare industrial-commercial zone off Highway 400, where Toromont would be an anchor resident.
Provincial planners have questioned whether development in the area, linked to housing, could be justified under the internationally praised Places to Grow plan. There are concerns about what will follow if this first major challenge to the plan succeeds, allowing development to "leapfrog" north over the newly protected Greenbelt.
Provincial planners were set to challenge the proposal at an Ontario Municipal Board hearing. But the hearing was abruptly adjourned last year.
The Star has learned the key reason the province agreed to "settlement" discussions with the developers and their municipal supporters was Toromont's threat to move to Manitoba if it was not allowed to consolidate its operations on the Highway 400 corridor.
Ironically it's mass transit, touted as a sprawl-fighter, that has created the dilemma. Toromont's Vaughan facility will be displaced within a few years from the Highway 7 and Jane St. area, which has been earmarked for the future city centre and new terminus of the University-Spadina subway line.
The proposed new home for the company is about 40 hectares on the east side of the 400. But servicing that small property with sewer and water would be too expensive without bringing into play about 688 hectares of farmland around it as well as residential development to the west in Bond Head. There is also pressure for more development to the north.
The province is struggling to curtail sprawl, in part by capping the number of homes allowed to be built in the next 25 years. That limit is almost half of what the developers who have speculated on vast swaths of Simcoe County want.
Shoring up the jobs-creation argument has been one counter-strategy for developers, particularly those involved in the Highway 400 site, such as Metrus Developments, owned by Fred DeGasperis, and Geranium Corp., run by Earl Rumm, who made headlines recently with his controversial resort development on nearby Big Bay Point.
Doug White, mayor of Bradford West Gwillimbury and a strong supporter of the highway industrial node, wouldn't comment on Toromont's threat but acknowledged urging the province to come down on the side of jobs.
"The situation is what it is," White said. "That's who we are hoping to attract to our town, because they are the ones who want to come here. They've made it clear what their times are."
In October 2007, a representative for DeGasperis said the company was working on a deal with a major employer as an incentive for the province to allow building there. Pressure on the province, with Toromont as a lever, continued last year.
But it was the autumn downturn in the economy that emboldened local politicians like White to push the province to abandon the board hearing.
In a letter to Municipal Affairs Minister Jim Watson and deputy premier George Smitherman, White and Simcoe County warden Tony Guergis didn't mince words.
"It is critical to recognize, as you know, that a major GTA employer needs to relocate its existing industrial operations and has identified lands within the OPA 15 area ... as ideal for its head office, training, manufacturing and distribution operations," they wrote.
"This company has made it known that if it cannot relocate to this area, its next preferred operation is out of Ontario. In these times of economic uncertainty, Ontario cannot afford to lose these jobs."
Shortly after, the province announced it had appointed provincial development facilitator Paula Dill to mediate a settlement between the province, developers and municipalities. Amy Tang, a spokesperson for Smitherman, who handles the Places to Grow file, would not comment on why, pointing out that negotiations are sensitive and putting them into the public realm could affect the outcome.
"The decision to call in the provincial development facilitator was motivated by the confidence the parties could avoid a costly hearing and reach a resolution that preserves jobs while fulfilling growth plan principles," Tang said in an email. Toromont vice-president David Wetherald responded: "If we are unable to move operations to Bradford we would reconsider all our options, including moving part of our operations (including training and northern mine support) to Manitoba."
A political source familiar with the negotiations told the Star Toromont officials are serious. Toromont serves markets stretching from Alberta's oil sands to Nunavut and Newfoundland, and the site near a major highway is suited to distribution operations.
"They absolutely mean it. And they need the province to okay this by June or they are gone," the source said. "Period."
The company is said to have been hunting for a new site for several years as it became apparent the subway would arrive by 2015.
The conflict arises as many developers and speculators are finding themselves seriously limited by provincial smart-growth plans.
Under Places to Grow, the population of Simcoe County, including Orillia and Barrie, will be allowed to grow by only 247,000 (above today's 420,000) in the next 25 years. Residential building applications in the pipeline would have brought in 1.2 million people in the same period.
The provincial cap all but vaporized the most ambitious plans by developers.
That has brought proposals for industrial-commercial zones between the Greenbelt's northern edge and Barrie into focus – even though planners in the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing contended last year there was an "oversupply" of designated employment lands in south Simcoe.
Deputy ministers in municipal affairs and infrastructure in the past have challenged the county to justify its enthusiasm for the Highway 400 employment nodes.
White acknowledges that plans to build tens of thousands of homes in his municipality won't see the light of day. But the focus now is on jobs, he said.
"You would think the province would do everything they possibly to keep 2,500 jobs in this province in this economic climate."
Toromont Industries, which assembles and distributes heavy tractors as well as grading and mining equipment, has set conditions that may force the province to choose between losing those jobs or rejecting anti-sprawl principles enshrined in its legislation.
Negotiations are quietly proceeding between the province and two major developers over a proposed 700-hectare industrial-commercial zone off Highway 400, where Toromont would be an anchor resident.
Provincial planners have questioned whether development in the area, linked to housing, could be justified under the internationally praised Places to Grow plan. There are concerns about what will follow if this first major challenge to the plan succeeds, allowing development to "leapfrog" north over the newly protected Greenbelt.
Provincial planners were set to challenge the proposal at an Ontario Municipal Board hearing. But the hearing was abruptly adjourned last year.
The Star has learned the key reason the province agreed to "settlement" discussions with the developers and their municipal supporters was Toromont's threat to move to Manitoba if it was not allowed to consolidate its operations on the Highway 400 corridor.
Ironically it's mass transit, touted as a sprawl-fighter, that has created the dilemma. Toromont's Vaughan facility will be displaced within a few years from the Highway 7 and Jane St. area, which has been earmarked for the future city centre and new terminus of the University-Spadina subway line.
The proposed new home for the company is about 40 hectares on the east side of the 400. But servicing that small property with sewer and water would be too expensive without bringing into play about 688 hectares of farmland around it as well as residential development to the west in Bond Head. There is also pressure for more development to the north.
The province is struggling to curtail sprawl, in part by capping the number of homes allowed to be built in the next 25 years. That limit is almost half of what the developers who have speculated on vast swaths of Simcoe County want.
Shoring up the jobs-creation argument has been one counter-strategy for developers, particularly those involved in the Highway 400 site, such as Metrus Developments, owned by Fred DeGasperis, and Geranium Corp., run by Earl Rumm, who made headlines recently with his controversial resort development on nearby Big Bay Point.
Doug White, mayor of Bradford West Gwillimbury and a strong supporter of the highway industrial node, wouldn't comment on Toromont's threat but acknowledged urging the province to come down on the side of jobs.
"The situation is what it is," White said. "That's who we are hoping to attract to our town, because they are the ones who want to come here. They've made it clear what their times are."
In October 2007, a representative for DeGasperis said the company was working on a deal with a major employer as an incentive for the province to allow building there. Pressure on the province, with Toromont as a lever, continued last year.
But it was the autumn downturn in the economy that emboldened local politicians like White to push the province to abandon the board hearing.
In a letter to Municipal Affairs Minister Jim Watson and deputy premier George Smitherman, White and Simcoe County warden Tony Guergis didn't mince words.
"It is critical to recognize, as you know, that a major GTA employer needs to relocate its existing industrial operations and has identified lands within the OPA 15 area ... as ideal for its head office, training, manufacturing and distribution operations," they wrote.
"This company has made it known that if it cannot relocate to this area, its next preferred operation is out of Ontario. In these times of economic uncertainty, Ontario cannot afford to lose these jobs."
Shortly after, the province announced it had appointed provincial development facilitator Paula Dill to mediate a settlement between the province, developers and municipalities. Amy Tang, a spokesperson for Smitherman, who handles the Places to Grow file, would not comment on why, pointing out that negotiations are sensitive and putting them into the public realm could affect the outcome.
"The decision to call in the provincial development facilitator was motivated by the confidence the parties could avoid a costly hearing and reach a resolution that preserves jobs while fulfilling growth plan principles," Tang said in an email. Toromont vice-president David Wetherald responded: "If we are unable to move operations to Bradford we would reconsider all our options, including moving part of our operations (including training and northern mine support) to Manitoba."
A political source familiar with the negotiations told the Star Toromont officials are serious. Toromont serves markets stretching from Alberta's oil sands to Nunavut and Newfoundland, and the site near a major highway is suited to distribution operations.
"They absolutely mean it. And they need the province to okay this by June or they are gone," the source said. "Period."
The company is said to have been hunting for a new site for several years as it became apparent the subway would arrive by 2015.
The conflict arises as many developers and speculators are finding themselves seriously limited by provincial smart-growth plans.
Under Places to Grow, the population of Simcoe County, including Orillia and Barrie, will be allowed to grow by only 247,000 (above today's 420,000) in the next 25 years. Residential building applications in the pipeline would have brought in 1.2 million people in the same period.
The provincial cap all but vaporized the most ambitious plans by developers.
That has brought proposals for industrial-commercial zones between the Greenbelt's northern edge and Barrie into focus – even though planners in the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing contended last year there was an "oversupply" of designated employment lands in south Simcoe.
Deputy ministers in municipal affairs and infrastructure in the past have challenged the county to justify its enthusiasm for the Highway 400 employment nodes.
White acknowledges that plans to build tens of thousands of homes in his municipality won't see the light of day. But the focus now is on jobs, he said.
"You would think the province would do everything they possibly to keep 2,500 jobs in this province in this economic climate."
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:27 AM -0400
7 Adjectives:
1)That guy looks like he's crazy
2)That guy sounds like an idiot
3)That girl smells like flowers
4)This cheeseburger tastes like chicken
5)This blanket feels soft
6)This gold dress feels like I'm a billion bucks
7)That guy is dressing up to try and look cool
1)That guy looks like he's crazy
2)That guy sounds like an idiot
3)That girl smells like flowers
4)This cheeseburger tastes like chicken
5)This blanket feels soft
6)This gold dress feels like I'm a billion bucks
7)That guy is dressing up to try and look cool
Bad boys of Canadian fashion
This is going rogue, vogue-style.
Two of Toronto's biggest fashion labels pre-empted Toronto's LG Fashion Week, which starts Monday. And one has opted out entirely.
"Our way, we have more creative control," says Kirk Pickersgill, part of a duo with Stephen Wong behind it-label Greta Constantine, which staged its fall fashion show last night at The Courthouse. "From the moment we put pen to paper right up to the runway show ... we are control freaks."
And there's this: "That whole tent situation (at Fashion Week) always has the same people," says Pickersgill. "Our way, we get to pick and choose the people we want to invite."
Toronto Fashion Week, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, is a bi-annual event with a mandate to showcase local talent. So what happens when the local talent stage their own shows instead?
Fashion Week organizers yesterday did not return numerous calls for comment.
Thien Le, however, renowned for couture-level craftmanship, wasn't shy to share his view.
"It's a lot of money and you know what, I'm not going to get anything out of it. What's the point?"
The no-nonsense designer caters to jet-set clients at his downtown studio. "A lot of people live on hype. I don't. My clients don't care."
Le showed his collection at Fashion Week last season but won't participate next week.
Designer Philip Sparks, whose Thursday show at the Burroughes Building near Queen and Bathurst Sts. evoked the Russian musical fairy tale Peter and the Wolf, was careful to attribute his pre-Fashion Week staging to esthetics and scheduling, not politics.
"We wanted that hardwood floor, that raw industrial space instead of the slick look of the runway at the tents," he said, noting buyers enjoy the laid-back vibe.
"A lot of our boutique buyers are more inclined to come to a smaller, off-site show than to the tents, which can be overwhelming."
Fashion Week has a few hurdles, most notably price.
A new designer pays $2,500 to show at Fashion Week; a designer label can pay up to $10,000 and a retail chain can pay up to $25,000.
"You are basically a no-name and you're trying to compete at a price point with companies that have major advertising budgets," says designer Izzy Camilleri, whose business is currently on hiatus. "You think that putting yourself on the stage of Fashion Week will help. It does help get you press. I've had a tonne of press. But it doesn't help with sales." In fact, Camilleri says she showed at Fashion Week for four consecutive years but the exposure didn't lead to a single order.
Joeffer Caoc, a well-established designer who has been showing at Fashion Week for nearly a decade, begs to differ. "The media that we get out of it – that is our marketing for the season."
And if what fashion-watchers have witnessed so far is any indication, you can't see the controversy for the clothes. At Greta Constantine last night, feathers, lamé, neoprene and car seat belt celebrated the female form.
Ceri Marsh, editor-in-chief of Fashion magazine, hailed the collection as "lovely and glamourous."
"That's the great thing about fashion, there will always be designers who want to do their own thing," she said. "And people who love fashion and follow fashion will always go wherever they show."
Two of Toronto's biggest fashion labels pre-empted Toronto's LG Fashion Week, which starts Monday. And one has opted out entirely.
"Our way, we have more creative control," says Kirk Pickersgill, part of a duo with Stephen Wong behind it-label Greta Constantine, which staged its fall fashion show last night at The Courthouse. "From the moment we put pen to paper right up to the runway show ... we are control freaks."
And there's this: "That whole tent situation (at Fashion Week) always has the same people," says Pickersgill. "Our way, we get to pick and choose the people we want to invite."
Toronto Fashion Week, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, is a bi-annual event with a mandate to showcase local talent. So what happens when the local talent stage their own shows instead?
Fashion Week organizers yesterday did not return numerous calls for comment.
Thien Le, however, renowned for couture-level craftmanship, wasn't shy to share his view.
"It's a lot of money and you know what, I'm not going to get anything out of it. What's the point?"
The no-nonsense designer caters to jet-set clients at his downtown studio. "A lot of people live on hype. I don't. My clients don't care."
Le showed his collection at Fashion Week last season but won't participate next week.
Designer Philip Sparks, whose Thursday show at the Burroughes Building near Queen and Bathurst Sts. evoked the Russian musical fairy tale Peter and the Wolf, was careful to attribute his pre-Fashion Week staging to esthetics and scheduling, not politics.
"We wanted that hardwood floor, that raw industrial space instead of the slick look of the runway at the tents," he said, noting buyers enjoy the laid-back vibe.
"A lot of our boutique buyers are more inclined to come to a smaller, off-site show than to the tents, which can be overwhelming."
Fashion Week has a few hurdles, most notably price.
A new designer pays $2,500 to show at Fashion Week; a designer label can pay up to $10,000 and a retail chain can pay up to $25,000.
"You are basically a no-name and you're trying to compete at a price point with companies that have major advertising budgets," says designer Izzy Camilleri, whose business is currently on hiatus. "You think that putting yourself on the stage of Fashion Week will help. It does help get you press. I've had a tonne of press. But it doesn't help with sales." In fact, Camilleri says she showed at Fashion Week for four consecutive years but the exposure didn't lead to a single order.
Joeffer Caoc, a well-established designer who has been showing at Fashion Week for nearly a decade, begs to differ. "The media that we get out of it – that is our marketing for the season."
And if what fashion-watchers have witnessed so far is any indication, you can't see the controversy for the clothes. At Greta Constantine last night, feathers, lamé, neoprene and car seat belt celebrated the female form.
Ceri Marsh, editor-in-chief of Fashion magazine, hailed the collection as "lovely and glamourous."
"That's the great thing about fashion, there will always be designers who want to do their own thing," she said. "And people who love fashion and follow fashion will always go wherever they show."
Friday, March 6, 2009
Adverb and Adjective
Adverb:
any member of a class of words that in many languages are distinguished in form, as partly in English by the ending -ly, or by functioning as modifiers of verbs or clauses, and in some languages, as Latin and English, also as modifiers of adjectives or other adverbs or adverbial phrases, as very, well, quickly. Adverbs typically express some relation of place, time, manner, attendant circumstance, degree, cause, inference, result, condition, exception, concession, purpose, or means.
Adjective:
Grammar. any member of a class of words that in many languages are distinguished in form, as partly in English by having comparative and superlative endings, or by functioning as modifiers of nouns, as good, wise, perfect.
Describing Adjective:
1)earrings:
-sight: pink, black, white, zebra print, plastic, round
-feel/touch: smooth, hard
-taste: plain
-sound: dangling
-smell: plastic
-emotion: pretty, hot, good looking, fun
2)necklace:
-sight: pink, plastic, rubber, silver beads
-feel/touch: rubbery, smooth
-taste: cardboard box, rubbery
-sound: none
-smell: rubber
-emotion: pretty, hot, creative, good looking, fun
3)cat (cassie):
-sight: cute, mixed color, tail, pointy ears, whiskers, fat, fuzzy
-feel/touch: soft, smooth, fuzzy
-taste: hair
-sound: cat
-smell: nothing
-emotion: having a friend
any member of a class of words that in many languages are distinguished in form, as partly in English by the ending -ly, or by functioning as modifiers of verbs or clauses, and in some languages, as Latin and English, also as modifiers of adjectives or other adverbs or adverbial phrases, as very, well, quickly. Adverbs typically express some relation of place, time, manner, attendant circumstance, degree, cause, inference, result, condition, exception, concession, purpose, or means.
Adjective:
Grammar. any member of a class of words that in many languages are distinguished in form, as partly in English by having comparative and superlative endings, or by functioning as modifiers of nouns, as good, wise, perfect.
Describing Adjective:
1)earrings:
-sight: pink, black, white, zebra print, plastic, round
-feel/touch: smooth, hard
-taste: plain
-sound: dangling
-smell: plastic
-emotion: pretty, hot, good looking, fun
2)necklace:
-sight: pink, plastic, rubber, silver beads
-feel/touch: rubbery, smooth
-taste: cardboard box, rubbery
-sound: none
-smell: rubber
-emotion: pretty, hot, creative, good looking, fun
3)cat (cassie):
-sight: cute, mixed color, tail, pointy ears, whiskers, fat, fuzzy
-feel/touch: soft, smooth, fuzzy
-taste: hair
-sound: cat
-smell: nothing
-emotion: having a friend
questions of Stephan King and othe definitions
Define the following terms in either a word perfect document or on your BLOG.
Humour
1. a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor" [syn:
] 2. a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter [syn: wit] 3. (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state; "the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile" [syn: humor] 4. the liquid parts of the body [syn: liquid body substance] 5. the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it" [syn: humor] 6. the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor" [syn: humor]
-"ha ha you like men"
Allusion
a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication: an allusion to Shakespeare. the act of alluding. Obsolete. a metaphor; parable
-"to be or not to be that is the answer"
Irony
the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, "How nice!" when I said I had to work all weekend.
a technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated.
(esp. in contemporary writing) a manner of organizing a work so as to give full expression to contradictory or complementary impulses, attitudes, etc., esp. as a means of indicating detachment from a subject, theme, or emotion.
an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected.
the incongruity of this.
an objectively sardonic style of speech or writing.
an objectively or humorously sardonic utterance, disposition, quality, etc.
-"Look how nice this place is!"
Using our textbooks located on the side table read the Stephen King essay
"Why do we crave Horror Movies" on pages 22-25.
-Because they are interesting, intense, awesome, and violent
Answer questions #1,2 on page 25 in your blog.
1) With a partner, discuss some of the reasons each of you listed as you read. Do you think King’s reasons are good support for his thesis? Why?:
-Yes, because it’s good for people of not being scared of anything and plus horror movies are intense, awesome, violent and interesting. People want something to entertain them to scare them and basically horror movies are like a roller coaster.
2) a) Discuss with you’re your partner what you have learned about Stephan King. What perspective do you think he is writing from?:
-Portland, Maine, United States
b) How does King benefit from having an audience for horror?:
-Basically he was getting people to know that horror movies are like a roller coaster and plus they are really intense and exciting.
Humour
1. a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor" [syn:
] 2. a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter [syn: wit] 3. (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state; "the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile" [syn: humor] 4. the liquid parts of the body [syn: liquid body substance] 5. the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it" [syn: humor] 6. the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor" [syn: humor]
-"ha ha you like men"
Allusion
a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication: an allusion to Shakespeare. the act of alluding. Obsolete. a metaphor; parable
-"to be or not to be that is the answer"
Irony
the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, "How nice!" when I said I had to work all weekend.
a technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated.
(esp. in contemporary writing) a manner of organizing a work so as to give full expression to contradictory or complementary impulses, attitudes, etc., esp. as a means of indicating detachment from a subject, theme, or emotion.
an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected.
the incongruity of this.
an objectively sardonic style of speech or writing.
an objectively or humorously sardonic utterance, disposition, quality, etc.
-"Look how nice this place is!"
Using our textbooks located on the side table read the Stephen King essay
"Why do we crave Horror Movies" on pages 22-25.
-Because they are interesting, intense, awesome, and violent
Answer questions #1,2 on page 25 in your blog.
1) With a partner, discuss some of the reasons each of you listed as you read. Do you think King’s reasons are good support for his thesis? Why?:
-Yes, because it’s good for people of not being scared of anything and plus horror movies are intense, awesome, violent and interesting. People want something to entertain them to scare them and basically horror movies are like a roller coaster.
2) a) Discuss with you’re your partner what you have learned about Stephan King. What perspective do you think he is writing from?:
-Portland, Maine, United States
b) How does King benefit from having an audience for horror?:
-Basically he was getting people to know that horror movies are like a roller coaster and plus they are really intense and exciting.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
different things of adjective
not able to stand alone; dependent
Law. concerning methods of enforcement of legal rights, as pleading and practice (opposed to substantive ).
(of dye colors) requiring a mordant or the like to render them permanent (opposed to substantive ).
Law. concerning methods of enforcement of legal rights, as pleading and practice (opposed to substantive ).
(of dye colors) requiring a mordant or the like to render them permanent (opposed to substantive ).
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