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Letters to Atticus/2.15
To Atticus at Rome[edit]
Formiae, April 59 BC[edit]
As you say, things are as shifting (I see) in public affairs as in your letter; still, that very variety of talk and opinion has a charm for me. For I seem to be at Rome when I am reading your letter, and, as is the regular thing in questions of such importance, to hear something first on one side and then on the other. But what I can't make out is this—what he can possibly hit upon to settle the land question without encountering opposition. Again, as to Bibulus's firmness in putting off the comitia, it only conveys the expression of his own views, without really offering any remedy for the state of the Republic. Upon my word, my only hope is in Publius! Let him become, let him become a tribune by all means, if for no other reason, yet that you may be brought back from Epirus! For I don't see how you can possibly afford to miss him, especially if he shall elect to have a wrangle with me! But, seriously, if anything of the sort occurs, you would, I am certain, hurry back. But even supposing this not to be the case, yet whether he runs amuck or helps to raise the state, I promise myself a fine spectacle, if only I may enjoy it with you sitting by my side.[1] Just as I was writing these words, enter Sebosus! I had scarcely got out a sigh when "Good day," says Arrius. This is what you call going out of town! I shall really be off to
- My native mountains and my childhood's haunts.[2]
In fine, if I can't be alone I would rather be with downright countryfolk than with such ultra-cockneys. However, I shall, since you don't say anything for certain, wait for you up to the 5th of May. Terentia is much pleased with the attention and care you have bestowed on her controversy with Mulvius. She is not aware that you are supporting the common cause of all holders of public land. Yet, after all, you do pay something to the publicani; she declines to pay even that,[3] and, accordingly, she and Cicero—most conservative of boys—send their kind regards.
- ↑ The spectacle Cicero hopes for is Clodius's contests with the triumvirs.
- ↑ To Arpinum (see last letter). The verse is not known, and may be a quotation from his own poem on Marius. He often quotes himself.
- ↑ This is not mentioned elsewhere. The explanation seems to be that for the ager publicus allotted under the Sempronian laws a small rent had been exacted, which was abolished by a law of B.C. 111 (the name of the law being uncertain). But some ager publicus still paid rent, and the publicanus Mulvius seems to have claimed it from some land held by Terentia, perhaps on the ground that it was land (such as the ager Campanus) not affected by the law of Gracchus, and therefore not by the subsequent law abolishing rent.

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More than four million people now work from home after a huge increase in recent years, according to a study.
The TUC said the number of regular home-workers had risen by more than half a million since 2007 and by 62,000 over the past year.
The biggest boom has been in the South East, up by 132,000 since 2007, while the South West has the highest proportion of people working from home at one in six.
Demands from staff for more flexible working and changes in technology have fuelled the trend, although the growth might be starting to tail off, said the union organisation.
The report, to mark national work from home day, said many employers were still afraid to allow staff to work away from the office.
TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: "Cheaper and quicker internet access has played a big factor in the growth of home-working in recent years.
"Modern home-working is good for the economy as it increases productivity, helps businesses hold on to talented staff, and allows people with caring responsibilities or a disability to access the labour market.
"Despite all these benefits, many employers still don't trust their staff to work from home and force them to make unnecessary, time-consuming trips into the office so they can keep an eye on them. Employers need to take a more enlightened approach to home-working as it can benefit business, the workforce and the wider economy."
Phil Flaxton, chief executive of Work Wise UK, which campaigns for flexible working, said: "Stronger economic growth has clearly boosted the number of people in work, but it has not yet boosted productivity, which is the real key to long-term prosperity in our very competitive world.
"To help achieve the productivity improvements necessary, many employers need to change their outdated attitudes to home-working and embrace new ways of working in the 21st century."
Northern Ireland is the only region of the UK where the number of home workers has fallen since the recession, the research showed.
The TUC added that around 650,000 people with a disability work from home.


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Announcing the Winners of our Hug-a-Tree Contest!
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Holder backs Tsarnaev questioning
Attorney General Eric Holder said on Saturday that "everything was done appropriately" in the questioning of the Boston Marathon bombings suspect.
"Well I mean, the decision to Mirandize him is one that…was totally consistent with the laws that we have," Holder told CNN as he made his way into the White House Correspondents Dinner. "We had a two-day period…to question him under the public safety exception, so I think everything was done appropriately."
Holder's comments regarding the questioning of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev come after several Republican lawmakers charged this week that the suspect received his Miranda warnings too quickly, possibly jeopardizing the investigation. The public safety exception allows for a delay in the administering of those warnings for suspects who could pose an ongoing threat to the public, something that was invoked for a time with Tsarnaev.
After he was informed of those rights, Tsarnaev stopped being forthcoming with information, reports have said.
Some Republicans have said that the arrival of a federal magistrate, and the subsequent delivery of the Miranda was in conflict with the FBI's plans for questioning the suspect.
"This is the Eric Holder crowd basically refusing to embrace interrogation techniques available to us to make us safe," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said earlier this week on Fox News. He added, "I know that the FBI agent and the counter terrorism experts have to be incredibly frustrated that they could not continue to interview this suspect about what awaits us as a nation. This was a big mistake."


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Sectional ladders
Glad I got this ladder, super light and durable
Metallic Ladder's 6 Foot Sections are preferred by window cleaners. Base sections are flared for added stability.
Slip resistant material at bottom of the base comes standard. Remember that you lose one foot at each connection so subtract from unassembled length to determine total assembled length. For instance ... four 6' sections have three joints and a assembled length of 21'.
Metallic Notice: Total Assembled Length of Sections Not to Exceed 21'
Metallic Notice: Metallic Ladder Mfg. Corp. neither prohibits, nor endorses the use of any specific accessories on our products. Any use of an accessory is the decion of the user. In the event that an accessory is used, it is to be used only in accordance with the instructions provided by the accessory manufacturer. Specific questions regarding accessory applications are to be directed to the accessory manufactuer.
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ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
In addition to the electronic theses found in the ASU Digital Repository, ASU Theses and Dissertations can be found in the ASU Library Catalog.
Dissertations and Theses granted by Arizona State University are archived and made available through a joint effort of the ASU Graduate College and the ASU Libraries. For more information or questions about this collection contact or visit the Digital Repository ETD Library Guide or contact the ASU Graduate College at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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- Reverse Fountain Cytoplasmic Streaming in Rhizopus Oryzae
- Diné Research Practices and Protocols: An Intersectional Paradigm Incorporating Indigenous Feminism, Critical Indigenous Research Methodologies and Diné Knowledge Systems
- Developing an Augmented Reality Solution for Mapping Underground Infrastructure
- Characterization of 2D Human Ankle Stiffness during Postural Balance and Walking for Robot-aided Ankle Rehabilitation
- Using Molecular, Cellular and Bioengineering Approaches Towards Understanding Muscle Stem Cell Biology
Activated Carbon has been used for decades to remove organics from water at large scale in municipal water treatment as well as at small scale in Point of Use (POU) and Point of Entry (POE) water treatment. This study focused on Granular Activated Carbon (GAC) and also activated Carbon Block (CB) were studied. This thesis has three related elements for organics control in drinking water. First, coagulation chemistry for Alum and Aluminum Chlorohydrate (ACH) was optimized for significant organics removal to address membrane fouling issue at a local municipal water treatment plant in Arizona. Second, Rapid Small Scale Column Tests …
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Tough week for Robert Kraft. First his truckload of illegal immigrants gets pulled over on its way to shovel the stadium. Now his driver gets ticketed for refusing to move Kraft's ride when a fire truck needed to get through.
Kraft was having lunch last month at a restaurant in the Gillette Stadium complex, when an ambulance and fire engine responded to an emergency call. The Patriots owner's car was parked outside — in the fire lane. His driver refused to move the car, so firefighters called in Foxborough police, who wrote a ticket.
But if you think Bob Kraft is taking this lying down, you don't know Bob Kraft.
[Town Manager Andrew] Gala said Dan Murphy, the Patriots' vice president for business development and external affairs, subsequently called him and said Foxboro police had ticketed Robert Kraft's car.
O'Leary said Murphy also notified him of the ticketing incident. Murphy said in an interview that Kraft doesn't have a driver, adding that he never said Kraft's driver was ticketed or that he complained about the incident.
He said he had heard about the ticket and wanted to know what had happened.
Murphy said his approach to town officials was a casual inquiry, not a complaint.
Taking the "deny everything" approach, Murphy disputes that Kraft has a driver, or that he was even in the restaurant at the time. This shouldn't be hard to prove. Considering the team, I'm sure they have the incident on film.
Ticket hikes Kraft Group-town tension [The Sun Chronicle]


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Each item descriptor includes
<property> tags that define the properties of its repository items, how they correspond to the attributes of the corresponding LDAP entry, and how they are displayed in the ATG Control Center interface. Just as in the case of the SQL repository, the
<property> tag has optional XML attributes such as
readable, and
Here is an example of a property definition that contains all the optional tag attributes:
<property name="department" ldap-name="ou" data-type="string" multi="false" display-name="Department" description="Department within the organization" default="unknown" required="false" readable="true" writable="false" queryable="true" hidden="false" expert="false"/>
See the LDAP Repository Definition Tag Reference in this chapter for full details.
For properties whose
data-type attribute is set to
enumerated, use
<option> tags to specify the property's value choices, as in the
engineerType attribute of the
engineer item descriptor:
<property name="engineerType" data-type="enumerated" default="products" description="Type of engineer: products or services"> <option>products</option> <option>services</option> </property>
This approach is again inherited from the SQL repository definition file.
Just like the SQL repository, an LDAP repository's
<property> tags can have zero or more
<attribute> child tags. These child tags allow you to associate arbitrary name/string value pairs with any attribute. The name/value pairs are added to the attribute's property descriptor via
java.beans.FeatureDescriptor.setValue, and can later be used by the application. Here is an example:
<property name="employeeNumber" data-type="string"> <attribute name="unique" value="true"/> </property>
You might use a descriptor like
unique to specify that a property value can be assigned to only one repository item within the item type. This LDAP repository feature is similar to the feature described in User-Defined Property Types.
You can also specify a property editor class to use with a property with the
editor-class attribute. For example, the following tag associates a special property editor with the password property:
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Giova is a modern, oversized, drop-shoulder house coat. Its fluid shape makes it perfect for versatile wear; Giova looks just as good with jeans as it does with a dress. Chic oversized side pockets are a playful contemporary touch, while a soft oversized collar embodies comfortable luxury.
- Oversized style
- Oversized drop shoulder house coat
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- Model is 5'9 and wearing a size 1/2
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- Outer shell: 100% Polyester
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All items included on the Sosken website are final sale. Final sale items are only eligible for exchange and store credit. No monetary refunds will be issued.
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Standard shipping within Canada and the United States is free on all orders over 100$. Express shipping options may be available for additional costs, please contact us to arrange at firstname.lastname@example.com.
We are responsible for the deliveries until they are dropped at the customers' designated place. Once the shipping courier has confirmed delivery, the package becomes the online shopper's responsibility.
Once you have the tracking number, our recommendation is to schedule notifications with the shipping company, to know when the package will be delivered and be attentive, this service is free.
Sosken Studios will gladly refund items within 30 days of purchase. Any return requests received after that deadline will be refused.
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Drop in loans for new housing construction in Australia signals market weakness that could prevent housing industry offsetting expected decline in country's resource sector in 2013
CANBERRA, Austalian Capital Territory
November 12, 2012
(AAP Australian General News )
– Another fall in loans for new housing construction suggests lower interest rates aren't working, and it's likely to cause further worry in the building industry.
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) housing finance data for September showed loans for construction tumbled by a seasonally adjusted 6.3 per cent, for the second straight monthly decline.
The contraction revealed on Monday was also the largest monthly decline in almost two years and would leave residential builders feeling "very nervous", Master Builders Australia said.
"The housing sector will be struggling for some time to come," chief executive Wilhelm Harnisch said in a statement.
"It puts at risk the Reserve Bank's assumption that the housing industry will offset the decline in the resources sector in 2013."
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has cut the cash rate by 150 basis points since November last year, and although Monday's data did not capture the impact of a 25 basis point cut in October the building sector continues to struggle.
The RBA unexpectedly left the rate unchanged at last week's monthly board meeting, when many economists had expected another reduction, and financial markets now see the next cut as more likely in February next year.
However, it was not all gloom, with the ABS data also showing owner-occupier home loans grew for a second month in a row in September, posting the largest monthly number since December 2011.
These loans grew by 0.9 per cent in September, compared to the previous month, to 46,395 mortgages.
Of these, 19.3 per cent were granted to first home buyers, the largest proportion since January this year.
Mortgage provider Loan Market noted there had been strong lending results in the first three months of the 2012/13 financial year for Western Australia and Queensland, and the two territories.
WA was up by 14.6 per cent in the September quarter from a year earlier and Queensland rose by seven per cent, while the Northern Territory surged by 17.1 per cent and the ACT was up by 6.5 per cent.
But Macquarie Research senior economist Brian Redican said the overall pace of recovery was lacklustre when compared to previous housing cycles.
"The details do not yet tell a compelling story that the housing sector is poised to take the baton from the mining construction sector and drive overall growth," Mr Redican said in a note to clients.
However, a report released by Deloitte Access Economics showed that despite a difficult global environment, including a downturn in commodity prices and concerns over Chinese growth, the value of investment projects still managed to grow by over $6 billion during the September quarter.
This was 0.7 per cent higher than the previous three months and took the total value of investment at all stages of development to $926,713 billion.
Over 50 per cent of projects were planned in Western Australia and Queensland.
TD Securities strategist Alvin Pontoh said the report provided reason not to be overly bearish on the outlook for the economy.
"Investment activity still looks robust for the next year or so," he said.
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Awesome Trip to Kuantan-Kemaman (Part 6)
>> Thursday, March 25, 2010
Dates: 26 - 28 February 2010, Friday - Sunday
Venue: Kuantan & Kemaman
Occasion: Weekend get-away with friends
Overall comment: IT WAS A BLAST!!
Day 3 - Sunday
Breakfast at Tanjung Api...
Nasi dagang is one of the more famous dishes in the east coast of Malaysia. If you happen to be in Kuantan, you should at least try ONCE what nasi dagang is all about.
I reckon the only thing that distinguishes this dish from the usual nasi lemak is the rice. In addition to that, the type of fish curry that is usually served with the rice is also different from the usual fish curry that we have at Indian & Malay restaurants.
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Beserah Beach/Fishing Village...
No one will ever think of coming here for the beach as it's not a popular beach spot. More often than not, you'll find fishing boats tied along the coast or catch the view of boats at sea. It's only because of the Chinese New Year movie, Woohoo, filmed at this area, that boosted this place's popularity.
I wouldn't have thought of bringing my friends here, but since most of us have watched the movie, they just wanted to have a "feel" and glimpse of the place.
In the movie, Woohoo, a group of children were seen sitting on the roof of this hut when they ran away after their mum scolded them.
While capturing photos near the hut, a Malay fisherman & his young son just came back from their day at the sea. Here's their income for the day!
Yeah, we asked to hold the lobster as it fascinated us...city youngsters...hahaha...
This platform is supposedly the place where the villagers place their salted fish to dry. It's also featured in Woohoo as the place where the group of young people practiced their Tiger Dance routines.
Off to Kemaman, Terengganu!
It was a really random & spontaneous idea to drive along the coast towards the next state, Terengganu. From Cherating to the border of Terengganu, it takes only a 45minutes drive. The drive was very pleasant & you'll get to witness a spectacle of villages, Malay food stalls, and beaches. It's pretty exciting, especially to those who rarely have the opportunity to indulge into such scenic views.
Hai Peng Kopitiam, Kemaman...
Our main aim to come ALL the way to Kemaman was for the famous Kemaman coffee! Yesh, believe it or not, we drove 45minutes to another state, just for the coffee. It's not as if there isn't a Hai Peng Kopitiam in Kuantan, but the excitement of driving up all the way for some refreshing beverage is just inexplicable ;)
Lovely! Hai Peng is well-known for their toasted buns & bread.
Thick, toasted bread with butter & kaya.
Check out the froth & sinful temptation. The coffee is so "kao" that you'll be high & filled with energy after just half a cup...hahaha...aromatic & smooth :)
I'm giving this 2 thumbs-up! I'll rather pay for this than for Starbucks! :D I'm sure you'll get what I mean ;)
The man enjoyed his morning newspaper, the woman enjoyed her cuppa ice-blended coffee...*aaahhhh*
If you're sleepy or if you just need some energy-booster, you MUST try this! Check out the next photo & you'll know what I mean...
You get what I mean by an "awakening" drink? :P
The photos above would have somehow tempted coffee-lovers out there for some smooth cup of 'drug'. If not, deep down inside you, wouldn't you want to somehow sink your teeth into the toast of perfect marriage? ;)
Up next is the last post of the Kuantan-Kemaman trip! Stay tuned with PerutBesi!!
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O'Zaal was an Antarian ambassador in the late 24th century. He was the race coordinator for the 2377 Antarian Trans-stellar Rally.
Captain Kathryn Janeway entered the Delta Flyer in the race. O'Zaal informed her that the race was a step towards peace for the four cultures that lived in the area. There had been war between them for years, and this would be the first time the cultures were at peace.
O'Zaal had the difficult task of juggling all the political considerations of each culture involved with the event, given that the peace among the four species was still fragile after nearly a century of war. He knew that each decision he made might offend one of the species. To settle a dispute about which culture would host the pre-game reception, he accepted Janeway's offer to host it aboard USS Voyager.
When he found out that there was a possibility of sabotage, he considered canceling the race. He decided to continue, refusing to cave into extremists. Paris, Kim, and Torres stopped the extremist named Irina, who had planted a bomb, and the race was successful and the peace held. (VOY: "Drive")


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SAN FRANCISCO – Facebook and Microsoft Corp. representatives said that after negotiations with national security officials their companies have been given permission to make new but still very limited revelations about government orders to turn over user data.
The announcements Friday night come at the end of a week when Facebook, Microsoft and Google, normally rivals, had jointly pressured the Obama administration to loosen their legal gag on national security orders.
Those actions came after Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old American who works as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, revealed to The Guardian newspaper the existence of secret surveillance programs that gathered Americans' phone records and other data. The companies did not link their actions to Snowden's leaks.
Ted Ullyot, Facebook's general counsel, said in a statement that Facebook is only allowed to talk about total numbers and must give no specifics. But he said the permission it has received is still unprecedented, and the company was lobbying to reveal more.
Using the new guidelines, Ullyot said Facebook received between 9,000 and 10,000 government requests from all government entities from local to federal in the last six months of 2012, on topics including missing children investigations, fugitive tracking and terrorist threats. The requests involved the accounts of between 18,000 and 19,000 Facebook users.
The companies were not allowed to make public how many orders they received from a particular agency or on a particular subject. But the numbers do include all national security related requests including those submitted via national security letters and under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, which companies had not previously been allowed to reveal.
The companies remain barred from revealing whether they've actually received FISA requests, and can only say that any they've received are included in the total reported figures.
Microsoft released similar numbers for the same period, but downplayed how much they revealed.
"We continue to believe that what we are permitted to publish continues to fall short of what is needed to help the community understand and debate these issues," John Frank, Microsoft's vice-president and deputy general counsel said in a statement.
Frank said Microsoft received between 6,000 and 7,000 criminal and national security warrants, subpoenas and orders affecting between 31,000 and 32,000 accounts.
Both attorneys emphasized in their statements that those affected by the orders represent a "tiny fraction" of their huge user bases.
Google did not release its own numbers, saying late Friday that it was waiting to be able to reveal more specific and meaningful information.
"We have always believed that it's important to differentiate between different types of government requests," Google said in a statement. "We already publish criminal requests separately from national security letters. Lumping the two categories together would be a step back for users. Our request to the government is clear: to be able to publish aggregate numbers of national security requests, including FISA disclosures, separately."
Facebook repeated recent assurances that the company scrutinizes every government request, and works aggressively to protect users' data. Facebook said it has a compliance rate of 79 per cent on government requests.
"We frequently reject such requests outright, or require the government to substantially scale down its requests, or simply give the government much less data than it has requested," Ullyot said." And we respond only as required by law."


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Earlier in the week a story about Martin Gilbert's search to replace his track bike in time for the Madison (with partner Zach Bell) on Tuesday made national headlines
CC editor Rob Jones is in Beijing and when he learned about the situation he talked to Martin and then started to make inquiries.
His first contact was with CSC co-founder Gerard Vroomen whose CSC bikes are .. well.. everywhere.
Vroomen made a few inquiries and was quickly able to contact the coach of the Danish Team Pursuit squad (who are all on CSC bikes) Heiko Salzwedel who happily came to the rescue with the loan of a bike.
At the track today Martin was riding around on a CSC and gave Rob the thumbs up and Canadian team manager Dan Proulx says everything is A okay for Tuesday's madison.
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IOWA CITY, Iowa – The scores of losing players in this week's $425 million Powerball jackpot did more than take an extremely long shot at getting rich. Their ticket purchases also helped fund a small but increasingly important part of their states' budgets.
Changes in the nationwide Powerball and Mega Millions games have led to some of the world's largest jackpots in the last two years, boosting sales.
Fueled by the growth of those games and steady expansion of other offerings, many state lotteries reported record revenues last year. That means a little more money for the state services that lotteries help fund, including education and public safety.
Lottery revenue, especially cash from highly hyped jackpot games, makes up a small percentage of most states' budgets. But state lottery directors say every dollar counts.


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Royals Minor League report: Aug. 10
Omaha Storm Chasers (60-61)
Sacramento 10, Omaha 8
LP: Chris Dwyer (8-10)
HR: Paulo Orlando (3)
Omaha battled back from a 10-3 deficit, ultimately leaving the bases loaded in the ninth. Paulo Orlando recorded three hits and two RBI, including a solo homer. Anthony Seratelli added two hits, two runs and an RBI. Chris Getz (2-for-4) has hit safely in all four games of his rehab stint (5-for-15). Starter Chris Dwyer allowed seven runs (six earned), eight hits and four walks over 3.1 innings. Buddy Baumann followed with 3.0 scoreless stanzas.
NW Arkansas Naturals (23-26 2nd half, 48-71 overall)
San Antonio 4, NW Arkansas 1
LP: Aaron Brooks (5-5 with NW Arkansas, 7-8 overall)
HR: None
The Naturals were held to one run for a second straight night in the Lone Star State. Aaron Brooks yielded four runs (three earned), seven hits and a walk over 7.0 innings. Zach Jackson worked a perfect eighth, lowering his ERA to 1.45, including one appearance with Omaha (5 ER in 31.0 IP). Juan Graterol recorded two hits and a run for the Naturals. He's batting .312 on the year (49-for-157) and .469 over his last 10 games (15-for-32).
Wilmington Blue Rocks (20-27 2nd half, 53-64 overall)
Lynchburg 5, Wilmington 3
WP: Cody Fassold (5-7)
HR: None
Wilmington broke up a scoreless game with three in the seventh, though the lead was short-lived as Lynchburg scored five over the final two innings. John Lamb had a strong outing, holding the Hillcats to three hits and a walk over 7.0 scoreless innings. Daniel Mateo and Micah Gibbs drove in runs for Wilmington. The Blue Rocks will host the Salem Red Sox tonight.
Lexington Legends (30-19 2nd half, 63-54 overall)
Hagerstown 8, Lexington 3
LP: Greg Billo (1-3)
HR: None
The Legends had their winning streak snapped at five games. Greg Billo, returning from "Tommy John" surgery, allowed more than one run for the first time in five outings with Lexington (4.0 IP, 5 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 3 SO). Mark Donato singled home a pair in the first. Terrance Gore was 1-for-3 with a walk, a run and his league-leading 63rd stolen base.
Idaho Falls Chukars (7-4 2nd half, 26-23 overall)
Idaho Falls 12, Grand Junction 3
WP: Patrick Conroy (5-0)
HR: None
Idaho Falls has won four in a row, including three straight at Grand Junction. The Chukars built a 12-0 lead, with Daniel Rockett recording three hits and four RBI. Humberto Arteaga and Elier Hernandez added three RBI apiece. Starter Patrick Conroy (6.0 IP+4, 3 H, 3 ER, 1 BB, 8 SO) carried a perfect game through 6.0 innings.
Burlington Royals (22-27)
Elizabethton 5, Burlington 3
LP: Cesar Ogando (0-4)
HR: None
Burlington held a 3-2 edge from the second to the eighth, when Elizabethton plated three runs. Starter Kevin McCarthy held the Twins to two runs (one earned) on five hits and no walks over 6.0 innings. Mauricio Ramos doubled, tripled and drove in a run. He's batting .317 (45-for-142) on the year.
Surprise Royals (6-7 2nd half, 16-25 overall)
Surprise 9, Arizona Angels 4
WP: Igor Feliz (2-1) HR: None
Surprise rolled to a home win, scoring six in the third and three in the eighth. Riley King capped the third with a three-run triple. Alfredo Patino posted two hits, two walks and two runs. Igor Feliz scattered two runs, six hits and a walk over 5.1 innings.


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Blazing a Trail for Brazilian Students
TC's first Lemann Fellow hopes to develop connections between schools, universities and the working world in her home country
TC's first Lemann Fellow hopes to connect schools, universities and the working world in her home country.
In Brazil, one of the world's largest and most dynamic economies, the nascent field of professional coaching is so new—and so foreign to established practice—that there is no word for it in Portuguese.
"We use the English word 'coaching,'" says Tonia de Souza Casarin, a master's student at TC in Adult Learning and Leadership who launched her own freelance coaching practice in Rio de Janeiro a few years ago.
Casarin is the first TC student to receive a Lemann Fellowship, a program of Brazil's Lemann Foundation, a major Brazilian educational philanthropy with strong ties to Columbia University. The foundation supports master's studies for Brazilian students at Columbia's graduate schools, endows the Lemann Center and Lemann Professorship in Brazilian studies, and collaborates with Columbia's Global Center in Rio.
The foundation, which has worked in Brazil since 2002 to invest in education innovation, works with schools and local governments to strengthen leadership in public education. Its fellows and grantees, including scholarship recipients like Casarin, form a network of education leaders who are expected to return home to contribute.
Casarin considers herself a case study in how Brazilian education and professional development lag behind the country's economic success. Career advising is minimal in high schools and universities, she says. Students pick fields with little information and even less support to create their own path. In particular, they lack tools to become good managers or leaders.
"I chose business," Casarin said. "And I'm pretty sure that wasn't the right choice for me." The decision was all practical, she says: coming from a family of modest means in the city of Petropolis, she felt she needed to find a job and make money right away.
After earning her undergraduate business degree in 2007 from Rio's Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Casarin worked for a telecommunications company and a consulting firm before taking a job developing a management program for a department of the Rio de Janeiro city government. "I was tired of selling cellphones to people who already had them," she said. "I was trying to find meaning in my career."
Earlier she had been mentored by a top executive at the telecommunications company, and the experience sparked an epiphany. "It was a transformative process," she said. "I wanted to mentor people, too. I saved money and I got certified in coaching, by an American guy in Brazil. I started having my own clients. They were people in their first management role—I had a lot of lawyers who were now managers and had no idea how to do it."
While working in local government, she continued her coaching practice after hours and on weekends. She still works with a few clients, holding sessions with them by Skype.
Casarin says she chose TC for its flexibility, resources and breadth of fields. "The view of education at TC is not just what happens in schools, but encompassing nutrition, health, sexuality and more. It was important for me to have a broad field."
Among the early highlights of her jam-packed TC experience (she's planning to complete the master's degree in 12 months) are her classes with leadership and adult learning scholar Arthur M. Langer, and a workshop on emotional intelligence with Terence E. Maltbia, a leader in the coaching field.
By strengthening her foundation in social and emotional learning, Casarin hopes to return to Brazil ready not just to ramp up her coaching practice, but also to build the missing connections between schools, universities and the working world. Although adults have been her focus until now, she is keen to start working with teens in Brazil, where, she says, too many opportunities remain confined to the rich and connected.
Already she is trying to do her part with a video blog she is about to launch on Estudar Fora, a Lemann-supported resource for Brazilian students considering overseas studies. There she plans to share her experiences at TC and "break the mindset that studying abroad is only for the rich."
"I'm just connecting the dots," she said. "I want to help adolescents solidify their values in their transition phase. If you develop social and emotional learning, they can overcome obstacles even if the environment is unfavorable. And it will do them good all their lives."
(Published 11/18/2013)
Published Monday, Nov. 18, 2013


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"Our products are a labour of love. Sought-out from lesser-known parts of China, we strive to personalize and re-create the sweet sentiment and attention to detail found in vintage Asian packaging design," says Fiona Hewitt. "It is our hope that these products will make your life a little sweeter every time you use them."
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State's Board of Trustees will welcome two new members to its ranks today (May 8), as the state Senate on April 9 approved gubernatorial nominees Cliff Benson and Todd Rucci. Rucci will serve until July 1, 2015, and until his successor is appointed and qualified. Benson will serve until July 1, 2016, and until his successor is appointed and qualified. They replace Ira Lubert and Alvin Clemens, whose terms have expired.
Benson is the chief development officer with the Buffalo Sabres, and was instrumental in the purchase of both the Sabres and the team's AHL affiliate, the Rochester Americans, by Sabres owner Terry Pegula. Benson also was instrumental in facilitating Pegula's $88 million donation to help launch a Division-I men's ice hockey program at Penn State in 2011. A CPA and attorney, he served the Deloitte Tax LLP organization for 37 years, including 10 years as lead client service partner, retiring in May 2010.
A graduate of Penn State, Benson earned a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and a masters of law in taxation from NYU.
Rucci is a government and community relations officer with PAP Technologies. Previously he served as the executive director of the Pennsylvania Lottery, and before that he was the assistant vice president at Susquehanna Bank's Private Banking/Sports Division, where he helped professional athletes with banking services, investment management and estate planning and trusts.
A Penn State alumnus, Rucci was a right tackle on the University's football team from 1989-1992. He also played eight seasons in the NFL with the New England Patriots.


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Well written piece Laila.
If you haven't followed the latest #bcpoli scandal, there is quite a story brewing in Victoria….and I thought it might be a good time to look back at how the legislature has been operating for nearly a decade, and what they have done to fix it.
This week, the story broke that two top BC Legislature officials were placed on paid administrative leave, following an investigation and subsequent request by RCMP for a special prosecutor. https://www.straight.com/news/1166786/top-legislature-officials-craig-james-and-gary-lenz-placed-administrative-leave-wake
But wait. It gets more interesting as time goes on. The National Post has since reported that sources indicated to them, the two were being investigated for possible fraud and theft, and that public taxpayers were the victims. https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/two-senior-officials-suspended-from-b-c-legislature-being-investigated-for-possible-fraud-and-theft-sources
An earlier report indicated this had nothing to do with expenses, that remains to be determined. What was interesting in all this, was that the investigation was initially undertaken by Daryll Plecas' special advisor, Alan Mullen. Who is Alan Mullen and why does Plecas have a special advisor? This recent story sheds some light on this: https://www.bclocalnews.com/news/ive-seen-a-lot-of-joy-and-a-lot-of-crying-life-as-a-politicians-assistant-can-be-eye-opening/
Few constituency offices have seen quite so much change as that of Abbotsford South MLA Darryl Plecas, who became Speaker of the Legislature and left the BC Liberal party in one fell swoop.
As speaker, Plecas must be seen to be impartial. At the same time, though, he remains his constituent's elected representative. So, in addition to his long-time CA, Amber Born, Plecas now employs Alan Mullen as a "special adviser."
Mullen had previously volunteered on political campaigns, first on behalf of the NDP, then for Plecas after he decided to run in 2013.
The pair had come to know each other while Plecas was a prison judge and Mullen worked as a corrections manager at Kent Institution. So when Plecas decided to accept an offer from the NDP to become Speaker of the Legislature – a job in which he can't directly advocate for policies – he tapped Mullen to perform some of the functions he could no longer do.
That includes things like meeting with groups and organizations seeking funding, and taking those requests to decision-makers in Victoria. And Mullen gushed at the results so far, saying he was surprised with the ability to be able to sit down with ministers – although he said Plecas's decision to take the speakership wasn't the reason for that accommodation.
Reports now indicate that Mullen conducted this initial investigation for nearly 7 months before handing over everything to the RCMP early this fall. That alone, has raised eyebrows, however today BC Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson and Mary Polak came forward with an affidavit, now saying that in a meeting with Plecas, he had asked for Mullen to given the position of acting Sergent at Arms. Polak and those in attendence said it was inappropriate and that was the end of it.
However, in the context of asking Mullen to fill this position temporarily, Plecas is the chair of the LMA committee and his duties as speaker are listed at the end of this post. Part of those duties is provision of security, something many reporters seem to have missed. The issue here, if any, is the perception of conflict because Mullen is also a personal friend aside from working for Plecas as a 'special advisor'.
(An initial thought that occurred to me after hearing of this position, was curiosity as to whether Linda Reid had a similar advisor, or is this unique to Plecas? I have yet to see any reporter ask this question. )
But lets move on, because I suspect this story will be occupying #bcpoli for some time. Let's go back to the past to understand a bit more about how our Legislative Assemblys financial affairs have been handled for years… and how BC mla's ignored warnings for years that conditions for … gasp.. fraud and theft were ripe in our most respected institution, before finally acting to fix things.
In 2012, Craig James made the news for his lavish expenses, that Dermod Travis of Integrity BC discovered via FOI:
It was following that debacle that it was revealed by a scathing 2012 Auditor Generals audit, that legislative affairs were a mess. Lack of bank reconciliations. No receipts. Expenses from one year classed into another. The full details are here: https://lailayuile.com/2012/07/27/politics-without-principle-makes-hypocrisy-a-governing-force-in-the-legislative-assembly/
And ironically, this wasn't a new thing – the Auditor Generals office had
recommended way back in 2007, that the Legislature provide publicly available audited financial reports, and improve internal controls to prevent fraud and misappropriation of public funds…. and it never happened. For 5 years after that, BC MLA's did nothing to fix their own financial affairs. So, one would think the 2012 stories would have created change, yes?
No.Two years later, in 2014, news broke that then speaker Linda Reid's expenses were a bit like Imelda Marcos: Lavish expensed trips, excessive legislative spending.. you get the gist. And it wasn't just Linda Reid…Raj Chouhan expensed a lavish trip as well, which he paid back. Full details on that,here: https://lailayuile.com/2014/03/26/politics-without-principle-2-0-just-because-you-candoesnt-mean-you-should/
Finally, following more than a decade of amateurish accounting practices, the BC Legislature and MLA's within it had been embarrassed enough to move towards proper accounting practices and transparency, and published their first expense reports in 2015: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Legislature+releases+detailed+expenses/10926667/story.html
It's now 2018 and the most recent LAMC Accountability report is available online to show you how and where the legislature spends its money and keeps track of it. Seems timely to show you: https://www.leg.bc.ca/content/CommitteeDocuments/41st-parliament/LAMC/LAMC_AccountabilityReport_2016-17.pdf
I can't determine what safeguards they have in place now to prevent misappropriation of funds, but it's clear that little attention has been paid to this in the past.
Darryl Plecas, in addition to speaker, is also chair of the Legislative Assembly Management Committee, which would give him access to and insight into financial matters of the legislature, and certainly affords him a unique position to see things others may not…particularly with his background in criminology.
Incidentally, he is hated by most BC Liberals…and this post I wrote explains why: https://lailayuile.com/2017/09/10/educating-ryan/ Plecas was the only person to call out Clark when she tried to pass off the NDP platform as the Lib platform in a last ditch attempt to fool voters prior to the last election. And Randy Hawes said it so well. There isn't a Liberal in that house who doesn't want to see Plecas gone…and to see him removed as Speaker which would make it possible to try and topple the current government. Frankly this aspect alone, their contempt for Plecas, taints the situation greatly.
The BC Liberals will make much noise over Mullen and Plecas, to distract #bcpoli watchers from the REAL story: what Plecas found, what evidence was handed to the RCMP and why it merited two special prosecutors. That is the story here…not Mullen. What exactly prompted this investigation in the first place?
A snapshot of current and past members of this committee are as follows:
Other info that might be helpful to understand context of duties, during this evolving story , from the link above:
Finance and Audit Committee
The Finance and Audit Committee is an advisory sub-committee reporting to the Legislative Assembly Management Committee on financial and administrative matters. It is comprised of the Speaker, the government and opposition Caucus Chairs, the Third Party House Leader, and the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly.
Speaker of the Legislative Assembly ( Darryl Plecas)
The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly is elected by its Members to serve as the Presiding Officer and Chair of the Legislative Assembly Management Committee. Under the Committee's direction, the Speaker is responsible for the day-to-day administration of the Assembly, the provision of security within the Legislative Precinct, and the management of the use of the Legislative Precinct.
( note: Plecas has a strong background in criminology- from his mla website: "Plecas was the RCMP Senior University Research Chair and Director for the Centre for Public Safety and Criminal Justice Research at the University of the Fraser Valley, where he worked for 34 years. He holds two degrees in criminology from Simon Fraser University and a doctorate in higher education from the University of British Columbia. He is the author or co-author of more than 200 books, international journal articles, and research reports addressing a broad range of public safety issues. His most recent book, which he co-authored in his current role as professor emeritus at the University of the Fraser Valley, focuses on how government professionals can make better decisions."
Clerk of the Legislative Assembly ( Craig James)
The Clerk of the Legislative Assembly is the senior permanent officer and procedural advisor to the Speaker and all Members. The Clerk manages the provision of professional and procedural advice and support to the Legislative Assembly Management Committee and the Finance and Audit Committee, and is responsible for the Assembly's administrative and financial operations.
And this link explains when and why special prosecutors are brought in. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/justice/criminal-justice/bc-prosecution-service/about/special-prosecutors
So there you have it… and this is why people like Dermod Travis of Integrity BC and Bob Mackin matter so much. I would say both have been instrumental in bringing the legislature into a state of professionalism with respect to accounting, and transparency. I will post updates to this story as they develop, in the comments below.
Well written piece Laila.
My God Wally Oppal comes crawling from under a rock back into the limelight.
Do these people ever go away and die?
When I saw the TV scrum the other night one thing that caught my eye was the unbelievable salaries and tax free expense accounts these trough snuffing hogs rake in.
Clerk of the Legislature $357,000 per year with an additional $55,000 in expenses
Sargeant at Arms : $245.000 per year and $40,000 in expenses.
Christy Clark only hauled in$197,000 plus her $5ok topup from the Libs…..
Fired them all.
Hire monkeys with darts and put the entire legislative agenda up for them to fling darts at.
Pay them in bananas and cigars.
We'd have uncorrupted decisions rendered by far more intelligent simians than the IDIOTS in charge now.
My expectation?
The NDP will pull a "Liberal". a la Basi / Virk ( BC Rail) and make this all go away with non disclosure agreements. It worked for the Fiberals right? Right? .
And that other piece of s**t Plecas trying to get his "friend" inserted at the 11th hour as the new $250k per year Sgt at arms…….Fired. No severance..
His investigation may have turned up corruption, fraud, etc and then he RUINS the moment by doing the exact same thing! IDIOT!
He should get two choices.
Removed as speaker,, banished to the back bench or Have the Title "Honorable" removed from his appointed position while he continues to spit in the face of hard working taxpayers of this Province.
I'll take one guess as to which choice his Right "Honorable" Speaker would take after realizing his obscene salary and perks might be in jeapordy…….
Who ARE these people that suck taxpayers blood like leeches and then want more?
Fire them all and start over..
To hell with the smoke and mirrors of the referendum.
Its been two years of a minority govt that appears to be starting down the same corruption road as the Liberals.
Lets have another election.
Kick them all out . Start over
The Speaker of the House "only" pulls in $150 grand plus perks.
I'm amazed Plecas didn't nominate himself for a $250 grand job….. I mean what the hell. right? Right?
How come leilayuile.com doesn't have a "reply" button ?
Plecas bio from the BC Legislature Website: focuses on how government professionals can make better decisions. Lenz and James are professionals. Has Plecas conducted his investigation via a double blind study?
Prior to his election as MLA, Dr. Plecas was the RCMP Senior University Research Chair and Director for the Centre for Public Safety and Criminal Justice Research at the University of the Fraser Valley, where he worked for 34 years. He holds two degrees in criminology from Simon Fraser University and a doctorate in higher education from the University of British Columbia. He is the author or co-author of more than 200 books, international journal articles, and research reports addressing a broad range of public safety issues. His most recent book, which he co-authored in his current role as professor emeritus at the University of the Fraser Valley, focuses on how government professionals can make better decisions.
I haven't forgotten how that slimeball Oppal enabled all the coverup at the Pickton inquiry, and cozied up to the bikers while doing it. I can't stand that creep.
….and Wally Oppal feigns outrage at anyone questioning his client's motives….
I recall Attorney General Wally's sputtering outrage when a reporter dared to question him about a Judges' comments during a trial sentencing and asked if the sentence handed down might have been too light due to the seriousness of the crime ( 2 years for sexually assaulting a minor).
"How dare you question the judiciary! I wont listen to any criticism of our Judicial system! etc etc etc…."
Any publicity's good publicity in Wally World
I have an audio loop playing in my head;
"…fired amid allegations of inappropriate and potentially criminal conduct…"
"…fired because of a flawed and rushed investigation…"
"…most of the grounds relied on were unsupported by the evidence and not true.."
"…charges were never laid and the RCMP never investigated the claims…"
Graham Whitmarsh, a former deputy health minister, made the decision to fire the workers, and even though Premier Christy Clark and officials in her office were aware of the investigation, they did not direct Whitmarsh to dismiss the employees.
NDP Leader John Horgan said pleas by Linda Kayfish, MacIsaac's grieving sister, forced the government to shine a light on the firings.
This could all prove to be very embarrassing for MR. Horgan.
The other thing I keep coming back to is how many law enforcement people have gone to politics and lost all sense of what's right…if they ever had it.
I wonder how much added stress was put on Rod McIssac because of former Health Minister Margret McDirmad's continually alluding to the line that there was an ongoing police investigation. Where did she get that from. She took over from Mike de Jong. But she continued with that shameful shit about a police investigation right up to the time of the poor guys passing. Blood boiling point gets reached with this.
2003 RCMP involved with the BC Rail trial; $6 million buyout; Failed
2016 RCMP involved in Mr. Big pressure cooker bombers, $900,000 on overtime; Failed
2018 RCMP involved with Plecasgate …… or Legisgate
NVG, takes us right back to Mulligan, don't it?
We wont even talk about the $6,000,000 pay out to Robert Dziekanski's Mother for his unecessary tasering and avoidable death at the Van airport and the police perjury at the trial….
The RCMP should be having a major rethink about their hiring practices AND their training.
Small wonder Surrey has had enough with the daily shootings and daily excuses.
And what about the revelations from ex mountie Fred Pinnock and what he said about the senior RCMP management that knew and turned the cheek to the money laundering issues along with the previous BC Liberal leadership. Now that's sick, and just made my jaw drop with anger when when i watched that news interview with him. The guys a hero for doing that interview. And does anyone wonder where the hell we're those former BC Liberal Justice Ministers and Attorney Generals. It just burns me up that the whole filthy works were complicit in screwing over British Columbians instead of serving justice in the interest of the the people. Makes one want to yell out this. WTF !!
It would be interesting to see where the tenticles reach in this case, but sadly i concur that it will most likelyburn out fast and the people will be left with the bill as always because of yet another scandal brought on by clowns, wasters, and crooks. I wonder who's going to have the most egg on their faces or faces, scapegoated possibly, tarred, feathered and dragged through the street of public opinion, and put on the political cross for crucifiction and ruin. Fallout possibilities, or will it all just wash away.
Anyways I hope we get to a public inquiry to expose the big and the bad who have really caused a lot of harm to British Columbian's. I think we've all heard some of those big names many times over that have worked, and still work with the BC governing empire.
Correction. The former BC governing empire. Still sleepy.
One more thing that boils my blood is when former Justice Minister Suzanne Anton told CBC Early Edition's Michele Eliot that it was an "unintentional failure" when asked about the BC Liberal government 's response to money laundering. More like it was all intentional F……g failure ! Where was this Justice Minister. Mind blowing, stomach turning and outrage is all i can come up with as a citizen of BC.
We must have an inquiry. Must must must.
allmost all politicans corrupt in some form?
This article is from yesterday:
"With overdose deaths mounting, Canadian police are growing frustrated at the lacklustre response of Chinese authorities, whom they allege are making their cooperation conditional on unrelated diplomatic and foreign policy objectives."
@ Laila
"Which makes me question what China got in return for cooperating on that investigation…."
Perhaps, the US Trade Tariffs delayed for a few more months?
Communist China wants to rule the world and if it takes any means necessary….so be it.
So, Mr. Horgan "regets" how this saga unfolded.
Does he see the impending embarrassment?
Is he trying to circle back before it becomes a major political blow?
Is he now starting to see who the real DR. Plecas is?
Speaking of the speaker, how can one give him any slack when he tried to slide his friend, Mr. Mullen, into a cushy job?
Speaking of the speaker, how could he not have known of his friend's history and what does this say about the credibility of either of them?
An aside to all of this; the Greens are making a big effort in the Nanaimo bielection.
Is a nice split vote a liberal dream come true?
Speaking of the liberals, can we agree the backrooms are full of big spenders, plotting the sinking of the NDP over the Plecas affair? The $$$ pledges, and pro bono offerings, must be staggering.
Until we know what is being investigated we are all just taking stabs in the dark. Perhaps Plecas really did feel he needed advisors because he was heading into unchartered territory. However, relying on a friend, does not look good. He would have been better off to check across Canada quickly and see who else was available. As to bringing Wally Opal in, that just stinks. its not that he is all that good. Not a great job on the missing women/pickton thing. He could have found some one else from another province. There are way to many insiders involved right now.
We as the taxpayer/voters have a right to know what is going on, perhaps not all the details, but are they looking into some one fixing the books, using the assets of the leg. for private gain,etc., running a betting parlour, etc. We have the right to know the subject.
Now it maybe that Plecas ha an idea of what has happened under the Liberals and decided to have a look and decided to bring in some one he trusted and had personal loyalty to him, but he really would have been better off to have brought in some one from another province.
Now speaking of money, it was with some interest I noted various oil/gas companies making charitable donations in and around Fort St. John, yes, just check the Alaska Highway news. They also have an article up about Petronas and electrification, how to win the heats of the neighbours. computers to a school………..
went back and re read your article from 2014, yikes! Yes, I suspect Plecas knew something and went back to look. No wonder the BC Lieberals are playing deflect, deflect, deflect.
doesn't matter how much they deflect what Mullen may have done or not done in the past, its about what went on while the B.C.. Lieberals were the ruling party.
Lovely Linda certainly knew how to live it up. All the while Christy was waxing on about how the government needed to deduct nickel for nickel the child support money children were receiving from their non custodial parents. the government needed the money was her line. they were grabbing $14M a year from kids when all they had to do was reign in the MLAs and their expense accounts.
What I'd like to see is an oversight committee made up of tax paying voting citizens, who are living on the money provided by the government each month you know about $1,300. They ought to have a book keeping back ground, but they might have a totally different attitude towards the spending the MLAs do. Their housing allowances are bigger than a single persons whole disability pension. Talk about income inequity. They have expense accounts which run into the tens of thousands of dollars a year and people on disability are living on money less than the poverty line.
/boys and girls in Victoria, pay attention, you are out of touch and if you keep it up, you may all find you've been replaced by a milleniual Green wearing jeans and riding a bike because they can't afford anything else. They will be more in touch with the average voter in the province. we may have a lot of jobs, but a lot don't pay enough to pay rent on a one bedroom apartment.
Maybe, just maybe…
Sam Cooper turns up the heat;
"After that stunning news today, with Canada's largest ever casino laundering case falling apart, watch for another BC-focused story Thursday. It involves VIPs at the centre of RCMP's investigations since 2015, and for me this next story includes some shocking findings."
And POCO Mayor Brad West steps up:
"Gov of BC must call Charbonneau style commission working with police & a special prosecutor to investigate and prosecute all involved in the #fentanyl #vanre connection. The integrity of our systems, the future of our province and the faith of our ppl is at stake. #bcpoli"
Regular L.Y. readers, I'm sure.
Absolutely agree.
These Eby words caught my eye as well; "a public inquiry on the role of money laundering in B.C. casinos."
No, Mr. Eby, NO. Any inquiry should encompass all facets of the money laundering industry; casinos, real estate, luxury cars, politicians, law enforcement and anything a drug dollar flows to or from.
Any inquiry should be a full judicial one, with subpoena powers and should be conducted by someone from outside BC.
Mr. Eby cannot hide behind the "stay of proceedings" can be reactivated within a year, either. Get on with it.
Gee, I wonder if France Charbonneau is looking for work?
I will be dropping a note to Mayor West asking that he stay in the camera lights on this one.
The good news is, Mr. Oppal, who is now hosting the Victoria Springer Show would have to recuse himself from any suggested inquiries.
The never ending Diary of BC has more twists than a slinky.
This whole mess is so contorted and the liberals have so much power behind them, one wonders if Mr. P isn't just some willing, well rewarded, Coleman goat, put in place with feigned contempt from the likes of Wilkinson; whatever it takes to keep the skeletons stashed behind the 3 piece suits.
Might James and Lenz have been onto something rather than up to something?
"Biggest fraud in Canadian history."
Mr. Horgan, sir, please note.
Since SNC Lavalin hold the engineering patents for SkyTrain, I wonder how many brown manila envelopes it takes to get another SkyTrain built in metro Vancouver?
several billion I'm sure……..
Sounds like Horgan is sitting on the fence as of today. My god. Another gutless politician. He was really good at spewing out the spin though. It's laughable. He just doesn't clue in. Eby seems to be, but unfortunately his dense master doesn't.
To bad and really sad that Coleman and de Jong are still are still making a living off the public. Makes my skin crawl these parasites are still around.
It always gives me a good laugh. Gordon Campbell is still at the public trough and is advisor to Dougie Ford in Ontario. All the while the "socialist" former NDP Premier of B.C., Glen Clark is President of the Pattison Group. Always gives me a good feeling.
Laila could David Eby not order an inquiry even if Horgan is to chicken shit to want one. After all Eby is the head of justice, and Horgan isn't. Yeah i know Eby wouldn't want to have a falling out, or maybe it's not legally possible and politically possible. It's to bad there's no one with the will to break rank do and what's right, and threaten to bring down Horgan if he's to timid. I wonder if Eby would be that one in a million rarity with that willpower, since he sounded way more positive than his pussycat leader. The guy would be a true Canadian hero. Horgan should just go and crawl under his warm fuzzy little blanket.
John McComb's interview with Horgan yesterday was a cannot miss listen. McComb is a pleasure to listen to. One of the best of his trade. Horgan came off as a complete insult to the public's intelligence in his explaining about the down side of an inquiry. Horgan came off as an out of touch dithering meathead. An inquiry can be as heavy duty as it needs to be, only if the will is there to make it so, but with that clowns superficial gobbledy goop sputtering one track talk it's no wonder things dont' get fixed.
As to whether Speaker Linda Reid had an advisor as has the current Speaker: YES
"After the work was done in January 2014, Reid commissioned her own security assessment by retired Richmond RCMP officer Larry Litke, who wrote an email backing up the security work she had already completed."
Going back to an earlier Post of yours Laila where you asked a similar question in response to my comment.:
"Do you think that it's a typical practice on the part of MLAs' introduction of guests (Larry Litke) in the gallery to follow up with a business offer?"
December 2, 2014 12:02 pm at 12:02 pm
Well, its been a long time coming but FINALLY we will see former head of SNC Lavalin in Court for bribery charges.
One can only hope that if they are convicted of Bribery….SNC will be BANNED from ALL federal contracts for 10 years and perhaps the Province of BC can take a long hard look at how deeply SNC has infested all levels of govt out here.
But I wont hold my breath……
If its any consolation, their share value has dropped noticeably.
As always, a voice in my head goes, "Hey! Laila has another piece up."
Since this whole debacle arose I have been shaking my head at the ill informed drivel from the usual suspects. Then there's the thinly veiled attacks on the Speaker. The one that almost had me spray my iPad with coffee was the ridiculous comparison to the Health Ministry firings. Paid administrative leave is light years apart from fired for cause*.
It's nice to see a sequential, annotated, telling of a simple story that has complex issues attached to it. Good work, thank you.
*When the "cause" turned out to be fabricated was a combination twisting the knife plus salt in the wound.
The restless train is starting to roll.
We have a restless new mayor with a voice. We have a restless scribe at the Straight. We have a restless Mr. Cooper. We have a growing restless public, all getting aboard.
The train is starting to move and we could see Mr. Horgan standing alone on the platform wondering why he missed it.
"In speaking with a friend ( staffer) in Vic,.."
All the more reason for Mr. Horgan to get out in front of this thing, do it right and fully.
Sooner (hopefully) or later more lips will loosen, annonymously or in full view that will unravel it all. Being a "rat" in these circumstances is to be considered an honor.
Ok, so Liberal Leader, Andrew Wilkinson, is calling for a JUDICIAL REVIEW.
That sounds nice doesn't it? Most ordinary people would say good for him, hand him a feather to put in his cap and believe he is "going after the government" to get to the bottom of this mess.
Those same ordinary people cannot be faulted for thinking that because, the words review, inquiry, public and judicial are all very much, rolled together, confused misused and misunderstood.
The misunderstanding is made no more evident, than that of Global News itself: "Editor's note: A previous version of this story stated Andrew Wilkinson was calling for a public inquiry into money laundering. He is actually calling for a judicial review. The story has been updated to reflect that clarification."
Calling for a judicial review is just a weak excuse for a weak process; a process that will only confirm what those ordinary people already believe. It solves nothing; it lets politicians off the hook, does not assess blame and does not lead to criminal consequences.
That would take a JUDICIAL INQUIRY.
More notably a judicial review allows the BC Liberals to avoid accountability for 16 years of, well, you pick your own word here; I'll just use corruption.
Everyone should learn the difference.
What is a Judicial Review?
"A judicial review is a review of a decision that has been made by an administrative tribunal or an administrative decision maker. A Supreme Court Justice decides whether the tribunal or decision maker had the authority to make the decision it did. It is not an appeal."
"A judicial review is a legal procedure that takes place in the Supreme Court. In a judicial review, a Supreme Court judge reviews a decision that has been made by an administrative tribunal or an administrative decision maker."
Some added backup and info:
Or, for some heavier reading the actual JUDICIAL REVIEW PROCEDURE ACT
Everyone, including MR Wilkinson should be calling for the most comprehensive inquiry possible. Damn the cost.
Clean BC: BC is moving away from fossil fuels, and expanding LNG exports at the same time.
This straightforward report by Norm Farrell should be a must read for everyone. Everyone.
I could only wish my CPP had doubled since 2012.
I have to admit John, I was innitially skeptical of various motives, on all sides, but just the optics of a graph (sp…graft?) is enough to cheer Plecas on and demand full disclosure.
He is making some pretty pointed insinuations and I hope he is acting on good advice so as to not prejudice this whole thing.
Another Norm Farrell piece on target:
"Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense."
Norm Farrell's latest piece on the "investigation" certainly is a good read. In my opinion, some one or several are might want to line up their lawyers now. There are only so many really good lawyers in this province and there might not be enough to go around.
In the past I've always been against an full blown inquiry. Focus on the present so we can get on with the work which needs to be done. i.e. schools, health care, etc. However, given the recent events I've re considered and I agree, B.C. needs a judicial inquiry into B.C. Not just money laundering in casinos but the role of media and politicians, how money was spent in the Leg. and all that good stuff, how the money made its way via real estate into high end shopping, how fent. gets into our province, how it gets distributed, etc.
It will of course cost money and we need to spend it or we will continue to be what we currently are. If politicians don't fix the problem, they might find come the next election they are all replaced by a group of bike riding, milleniuals running as independents. Well it pays more than many of them make and it comes with benefits and a pension. they are also fed up with working and not being able to afford rent on a one bedroom apartment while MLAs receive $12K a year as a housing allowance and don't need to provide receipts.
So a nice enquiry would be a good Christmas Present, oh and it needs a very tight time line, none of this a year and waiting.
To a certain party in BC ..a lump of coal perhaps?
The electricity is back on in Nanaimo, so here is a Merry Christmas to you, if I don't get back to the blog before then.
Thank you for the writing you do. It is much appreciated.
I trust your Christmas and New Years will be enjoyable and relaxing.
From the bottom of "the island" I echo the sentiments of e.a.f.
Lets see how many corners of this little piece of the globe can offer best wishes and good health to Laila Yuile and encouragement for continued feistiness from this cherished, respected fighter-author, in 2019.
I think Team Horgan better start thinking about fixing one of their major screw ups and cancel Site C, and also get on with a public/ corruption inquiry into the money laundering issues. I would think that they may want to unscrew themselves a bit, and play make up just because of the huge failure of Pro Rep. They're not very lit or hip now, in the public view by the look of things. Not at at all. Horgan should start thinking about this, and get his shit together before next election, because time flies and unfortunately the BC Liberal monster machine will sink him and his ship of fools. Reluctantly just saying. They should appreciate the reality that they really did not win the last election on their own. This Pro Rep screw up should hopefully wake them up, especially head up his ass John Horgan. That lame brain had the nerve to say the referndum was left to the voters to decide. What an ass. It was never done with transparency and full disclosure and had such a low passing line that it could not be considered as anything remotely favourable to democracy. This wasteful selfish exercise should have never taken place. Now the public are going see Horgan as completely self serving and drunk with desperation to keep power just as the morally corrupt Libs were,and still are, to get that power back, and Johnny boy may just hand it back to them on a silver platter. Unbelievable.


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Like wearing shoes through security before Richard Reid's failed airplane bombing, setting up a telephoto lens at the end of an airport runway wasn't a big deal before 9/11. Photographer John Schabel did just that between 1994 and 1996 for his intriguing portrait series Passengers, which is only now being released as a book.
He staked out several airports and snapped away with a Nikon 35 mm film camera and a 500 mm reflex lens with a 2x teleconverter, giving him 1,000 mm of zoom. He says he was occasionally asked to leave, but usually had free reign as long as he was in a public space outside the airport.
"It was a different time and there was not the same kind of suspicion of cameras," he says. "There wasn't such a sensitively about the airport."
At first Schabel attempted to shoot people in landing planes, but that proved impossible so he compromised by making pictures of passengers while the plane was still at the gate. His subjects weren't actually flying, but he says many of them appeared to have transitioned into their flying mentality, which is really what he was after.
"I felt like they were on their way at that point, they were getting into that [flying] frame of mind," he says.
While grainy and sometimes blurry, all the photos are scans of 8x10 prints he made in the darkroom. It took almost a decade for the photos to be published partly because Schabel was meticulous about putting it together. He and Jack Woody, the founder of Twin Palms, the book's publisher, took their time to ensure the book turned out the way they wanted.
We've come across several other projects that use the windows of public transportation vehicles as portrait frames. Some of them like Michael Wolf's Tokyo Compression project are more in-your-face and easier to read. But we like the distance in Schabel's work because it allows for more audience interpretation.
"I think viewers can identify with those situations and then bring their own feelings to it," he says.
Schabel won't reveal the names of the airports where he shot because he likes the idea of placeless-ness and the way it relates to air travel. Just because you change planes at the O'Hare in Chicago doesn't really mean you're in Chicago. When you're flying you're not really anywhere. Without any geographic identifiers and without any captions, Schabel's photos blend together the same way the fields blend together at 30,000 feet or the airport buildings blend together as passengers switch aircraft.
"I like that the photographs are so no-place," he says.
Almost all the photos were shot at night because the light coming from the plane helped Schabel see the passengers better. And quite a few were shot during rainstorms because the rain often lead to delays, which meant he had more time to take pictures before the plane left the gate.
There's a certain zen to the photos and that's reflected in the layout of the book. It has almost no text and each photo has its own full page. Schabel says there's no particular rhyme or reason to the ordering of the photos other than needing to fit together visually on the page.
"Sometimes you have to work really hard to keep things simple," he says.
John Schabel will be signing copies of Passengers at the International Center of Photography on February 22nd, from 6:00pm-7:30pm
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Right-hander stellar in seven innings as two-run first holds up
SAN FRANCISCO -- Chad Gaudin continued to look more like a regular member of San Francisco's starting rotation and less like a fill-in Friday night.
Gaudin limited the Arizona Diamondbacks to three hits in seven innings and didn't allow a runner past first base as the Giants outlasted the National League West leaders, 2-0.
The Giants scored both of their runs in the first inning and moved only two men into scoring position afterward. With that kind of offense, fending off Arizona required airtight pitching, and the Giants received it from Gaudin -- again.
The right-hander improved to 4-0 with a 2.23 ERA in seven starts since leaving the bullpen to replace injured Ryan Vogelsong in the rotation. Gaudin has been especially effective in his last four outings, recording a 0.77 ERA in that span.
Giants manager Bruce Bochy was inevitably asked whether Gaudin might remain a starter, particularly when Vogelsong is reinstated from the disabled list in mid-August, as expected. Bochy delivered the only sensible response he could, under the circumstances.
"We'll cross that bridge when we come to it," Bochy said. "But he has been so consistent, it would be hard to take him out."
Gaudin, who entered this season with 314 relief appearances and 75 starts on his Major League resume, has relished his prominent role. But he indicated that he won't complain if he has to relinquish it.
"Obviously, I'd like to start," he said. "If it comes down to me going to the 'pen, and that's what's best for the team, then I'll be down there ready to go."
The 30-year-old Gaudin performs with relatively little artifice. Though he'll change speeds and locations as every pitcher should, he doesn't rely on fooling hitters. Teammate Sergio Romo described Gaudin's style as "direct," adding, "There's no gimmicks. He's just really aggressive in the strike zone. As a starter, you can see his confidence growing."
Gaudin said that his approach stems from "knowing what you want to do before you go out there. You pitch with 100 percent commitment. ... I've learned the hard way it's not how nasty your stuff is or how hard you throw. It's how you go after the hitter."
Gaudin might have delivered that advice to the Giants' bullpen after he departed. The D-backs loaded the bases with two outs in the eighth, but right-hander Santiago Casilla, making only his second appearance since undergoing right knee surgery and being sidelined for close to two months, showed the Giants what they had missed. Casilla coaxed a fielder's-choice grounder to shortstop from Paul Goldschmidt, Arizona's All-Star first baseman who has eight home runs and 28 RBIs against the Giants since 2011.
"Casilla's back!" exclaimed Romo, who followed with a perfect ninth inning for his 22nd save in 25 chances.
Bochy chuckled upon being reminded that he had said he would try to "ease" Casilla back into the setup role. "You're kind of forced to bring the guy in," said Bochy, who used three other pitchers in the eighth before summoning Casilla.
Arizona starter Ian Kennedy (3-7), who had won five decisions in a row spanning 10 starts against San Francisco, lapsed only in the first inning. Gregor Blanco drew a leadoff walk and scored on Buster Posey's double off the center-field wall. Posey moved to third base on Pablo Sandoval's groundout and scored on Hunter Pence's two-out single.
Afterward, Kennedy regained his typical mastery of the Giants. "The fastballs were better [down] by the third inning," said the right-hander, who absorbed his first loss to San Francisco since Sept. 29, 2010. "I was getting ground balls. It allowed me to work better with offspeed pitches."
The reigning World Series champion Giants, striving to climb out of fourth place in the West, improved to 28-20 against division rivals and trimmed their deficit to 5 1/2 games behind Arizona.
"We can't keep looking ahead of ourselves," Romo said. "But today was a great way to start the second half."
The Giants received a scare in the eighth inning when D-backs reliever Heath Bell stepped on the left foot of shortstop Brandon Crawford, who was striving to beat the pitcher to first base after hitting a comebacker. Crawford remained in the game. "It'll be sore for a couple of days. But it's playable," he said.


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Another great COE campground. Large sites (most had plenty of room for our 35' motor coach) with most backing up to the water. Restrooms were clean. Water pressure at site and in restroom showers was very good. Picnic table and fire pit were in good shape. Two dump sites are available. Checkin was easy and the staff was helpful.
Will definitely stay here again when in the area.
Stayed a 4 Paws numerous times now and have always had a good time. There are options as to how you want to camp. This year I had one site with a fence all the way around and most recently my site had a small fenced in yard for the dogs to use. Ownership has changed as of Thanksgiving week, we will see what the new owners do. There is a laundry, dog wash and shower building that is well maintained and very modern. We visited several EXCELLENT hiking trails that had the views! Then there's sampling of local cuisine and shopping. Asheville, Hendersonville and Greenville are all nearby. Or you could easily sit at the campground and just hangout at the dog parks. For Thanksgiving they served a meal and had other events. They also have other event weekends that are a lot of fun.
We're new campers. We've only visited state parks so far. This was our first KOA stay. This place was clean and the owners are constantly working and really nice. They showed us to our campsite and brought firewood to our site when we bought it in the store. They had a cute little general store and a play set for the littles. There is a pool for warmer weather. I only gave this campground two stars because of the location of our site. I camp with my two small children and the location of this site was simply unacceptable. Even if I was alone with my husband, I would have been terrified of this site. It was SO CLOSE to a main highway that I could reach out the back window and touch it with a broom! There were no trees or anything between our site and the road. There was no guard rail. If a car ran off the road, it would hit our camper. I didn't sleep the whole time and wanted to leave early. Interior sites were okay. We won't go back.
If you happen to have loud drunk neighbors, who party until 3:30 am, the hosts will not tell them to be quiet. Someone did call the sheriff, but no one came until 10 am the next morning. They woke the drunks up to tell them to be quiet, but they were allowed to stay in the park. I give it 2 stars because this is a beautiful park.
This is a farm and outdoor event center with a 140 acre field you can camp in.
Very well maintained. We came here on Thanksgiving weekend because all other campgrounds were full. We were the only people here.
The event area, when open could be busy and noisy during the day, but is was very quiet and peaceful.
There are no defined campsites we could see. Just a giant field to set up and camp. There is no water or any hookups. You will need to pack in and pack out everything.
Very close to I-85 and easy to get to. Feels very safe. A little highway noise, but not bad.
We finally made it to Emberglow in early November 2020. It was perfect. It didn't feel like a parking lot with RVs and campers but had enough space in between each spot with plenty to do for kids and adults.
We camped at Table Rock State Park in SC in October 2020. It's a beautiful park, clean and well maintained. The weekend was a little crazy. The park was packed and many sites were filled to overflowing. I'm glad we were able to stay past the weekend to enjoy the peace and quiet. The staff was very friendly and helpful. Kayak rentals are very inexpensive, but 30 - 60 minutes is all you'll need. They were a little short staffed due to Covid, so the check-in location near the campground was closed. We had to check in at the Visitor Center, which is quite inconvenient if you're towing a rig. But all in all, it was a great stay!
For a private organized campground, this really is one of the best spots in Brevard.
Sites are all gravel. We have hammocked camped here, and this last trip, I camped in my Motorcycle trailer. Great spot to be for riding around the blue ridge mountains.
Most sites have electric and water. You will likely need to level anything you bring.
There is decent wi-fi, though it can be spotty when everyone gets on at night.
Decent 3 bar verizon coverage.
Bathhouses are super clean and the entire place has a friendly vibe. Sites are fairly close, but the trees help it feel secluded. Can be a bit noisy at night as sound carries, especially on weekends when there is more campers coming in.
Roads are tight and twisty, I had a tough time backing in my 10' utility trailer into spot 220.
No online reservation system. Not really any views. Just a nice solid campground with decent rates. About a 20 minute drive to Brevard and area attractions. But you can hit Ceasars Head Park about 5 minutes due south on 276 for some great hiking.
This is a second review after another week long stay at Mile Creek Campground. This time in a gravel spot #49.
Had 5G access entire time and easy to do business as digital nomads.
Have already spoken about how awesome this place is, but want to share inforabout site #49
This spot is the highest on the third "island" out from the mainland. It has epic 360 views. But, a lot of tree canopy and it is dirt/gravel. While the spot is very level, be very weary that the drive up to this spot is steep and curved, We barely made clearance with a 23' trailer that has a lift kit on it. This spot requires backup skills and the right equipment.
The tree canopy is nice, but when it rains, forest stuff sticks all over your rig, you'll be waxing off the debris and stains. Plus, you're solar is a no go here, but with electric and water hookups, solar not needed.
We also learned this is some really amazing mountain biking 25 minutes away in the Clemson Experimental Forest… the Isaqueena Trail system. Ranges from easy/intermediate to advanced when you get to the lower waterfall area in the southern part of the forest.
Stayed here for the weekend and Emberglow hosted a 5K. It was a great time. Great family campground. All camping sites are gravel so make sure you have some leveling blocks. They also have yurts and tree houses that look like a blast as well. Definitely will be back.