Good morning everyone… Guess I’m the early bird today.. TGIF :)

Nice to see the leaves returning on the hillsides .Good weather . Come to think of it I have nothing to bitch about this AM.Have a geat day all.

We are continually told to be on the lookout for persons on motorbikes but what gives them the right to zip down the shoulder at break neck speed passing on the shoulder all it takes is for one person to open a passenger door and its lights out for the biker. But then again Darwin wins

Irish bankers ‘hoodwinked’ government over bailout, secret recordings show

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jun/24/anglo-irish-bankers-taped-recordings

Not ALL bikers pass on the shoulder or weave through traffic. Some of us ride by the rules and are exceptionaly deffensive drivers. There are always idiots who do stupid things whether it be bikers or regular motorists. The difference being that if someone in a 4 wheel vehical gets in a accident with a bike chances are the biker ends up seriously injured or dead.

The one thing you have to remember when getting a driving license for either a car or motorcycle…you only have to drive well once.

Interesting article, Charles. Seems the ‘Celtic Tiger’s’ booming economy of a decade ago was based more on property speculation, and the inflation of every other price there as a result, than from Ireland’s increased competitiveness in the ‘global economy’. As was made out to be the case by those here who also have mistaken what is pure ‘inflation’ for genuine ‘prosperity’.

We should look closely at all the various proposed mega-projects here to see whether the effect on us will actually be more to increase inflation, and make us pay more for everything, (from incomes that will never increase proportionately ~ forcing us to borrow ‘more’ just to live), or an actual prosperity, where our incomes are increasing relative to prices.

It’s interesting to see two bankers trying to utilise the same old technique on the Irish government that so many of their large business clients must try to pull on them, i.e., get them to lend you enough money at the outset that when you need more they can’t refuse you, because if they did, and you fail, they’ll look like idiots for ever letting you borrow as much as you did in the first place.

I dunno, PVal, the N sticker, does mean they have to be semi good, for 3 years! I know cuz, there are grandkids driving now, and at least one is aware of the consequences of it!

Last Friday around 10:00 pm I picked my family up from the airport and just as we were leaving the alarms went and they evacuated all of us. As we were driving away we saw 3 fire trucks and a rescue truck heading to the airport. Been checking all week on here to see what happened? Haven’t seen or heard a thing…..

If you want to race, go to the proper areas… Like the drag strip… It’s open this Saturday for street legals… I will be there. Don’t be stupid to think you can do it on the street, you WILL kill someone!
I ride very defensively, although in other countries, you ride aggressively and I think some people immigrating forget to change driving habits. Also the new show “don’t drive here” doesn’t help because people are dumb and will try to drive that way here!

Best regards from Abby. The sun is shining and the birds are singing. Last week some uninformed person told us that Abbotsford was the collection point for all the pollution from the big city to the west. Well nothing can be further from the truth.

There are many that do not have an awareness of the environment around them. I kept track of the air quality when we lived in PG for many years. After working in the BC Industrial site for a couple of years I ended up in the hospital with a lung infection. I am a none smoker.

And before moving to Abbotsford I also kept track of the air quality in the Fraser Valley. And at no time is the air quality as bad here as in PG.
There are no air quality monitors in the bowl residential area except the one at Gladstone Elementary which is not in the bowl. There is one at Westwood school also but it does not monitor PM 2.5 and PM 10 .

All the best to you in PG.
Cheers

Talking about driving….I live on a rural road that is on a banked sharp corner and coming from town have to turn left on to it. I, my family and friends take our lives into our own hands every time we do this manoeuvre. I try to pull over sooner to the right and let the traffic go by but sometimes that is not even enough. We have asked the highways people to move it to a safer location with no luck. I am asking for all who read this to slow down and let me get home in one piece and not have to pry my fingers from the steering wheel. Thanks for talking about this with your friends and family.

Heres a driving question:
Heading South on central then turning right (east) onto 15th. North bound traffic is vturning left (also east) onto 15th. Who would be at fault in an accident? Southbound turning right has a yield sign of course but Northbound turning left is supposed to turn “into the nearest lane” no? Yet they continually go straight across both lanes to get on the frontage street and head to Starbucks or wherever… thoughts?

Story on real estate in PG. Can we get information on the number of “real estate agents” that purchase properties in any given area.

Had a run in with a couple of them when I tried to buy farmland. The property had been listed and on the same day I wanted to offer the “sales agent” said they already had two offers. I watched for a while and the properties came up again within months at double the original asking price. I looked into who the “owners” were and tada it was a realtor and a lawyer.

I then contacted the local real estate board and they directed me to the national real estate board who then directed me back to the local real estate board.

I want to know…how many real estate agents or lawyers are buying up farmland with NO intention of every working or producing anything? Farmers…sell to other farmers if possible…give the next generation a chance (make agreements or share profits) and you may be surprised at how well the newcomers do.

PS Real Estate Agents and Lawyers, there will come a time where you will need us farmers to feed you and we may not be there or we may ask you what you do for a living before we feed you…maybe. You are making farmland so expensive that I can’t buy a lot let alone a section of land.

I want some answers but the real estate board doesn’t want to give that information up.

Interceptor:
I think it would be a 50/50 fault. Person turning right didn’t properly yield, person turning left didn’t stay in their lane. At least I think that’s how ICBC would view it, but who knows with them.
Myself, I always wait for those people turning left because you never know what they want to do – I like my truck too much to have to deal with an accident.

Working today and trying hard to understand the bill BC Hydro sends our business. There are Energy charges, Demand charges, kVarh: Power Factor charges (including a Rate Rider), Part 1 Energy charges and Part 2 Energy charges. Confused? So am I. Currently reading the BC Hydro document “A Guide to the Medium General Service Conservation Rate”. The guide says if you use less than your baseline amount (calculated from previous billings) you get a credit. WELL, that sure didn’t happen on our bill. Checked with our account online and the baseline is higher than what we used but SURPRISE, we are still being charged.

About to call BC Hydro and get some convoluted answer (I’m sure) to why this is. Anyone else have this problem with their business bills?

“Myself, I always wait for those people turning left because you never know what they want to do – I like my truck too much to have to deal with an accident.”
LOL – thats what I was sitting doing when the question occurred to me

To the teens in the red pick up truck with the lawn mower in the back threatening/screaming/swearing/blaring your horn at the car ahead of you at Tim Hortins today: I did not mind that the car was not on the trucks bumper ahead of them like you were to the car. I was behind you in the line up and I could see the truck ahead of them roll back every time it went ahead, perhaps it’s why they stayed back a few feet? After you blared your horn, you then proceeded to scream threats out your window, and use profanity at the car for “holding back the line up and not moving up the extra few feet”. I was the only car behind you and I do have your license plate, and I will try to track down the people in that car to give it to them so they can consider pressing charges for you uttering threats to them. I believe I even saw a small child in the back seat of the car you were threatening/screaming at out your window. What a nice visit I had today in Prince George. If these are the type of people here, I won’t be returning any time soon.

This is in regards to road constructions signs that are out on the roads this time of year. In Alberta, when they are done for the day they cover them, to let you know there is no construction. In BC, they are up 24 hrs a day, and they should not be on the roads on weekends, long weekends and after hours when there is no construction or crews on the road. It is endlessly frustrating, to be driving on a regular road, no sign of construction or road repair that would impede your speed other then the signs. Let’s take a lesson from Alberta.

Entitled2urstuff, so sorry you had this experience in PG. We are not all like that and I thank you for taking down the licence plate number. People need to be held accountable for their actions.

Entitled2urstuff..We have several of these types crawling arounf PG – we call them; Nauseating Distainful Pinheads…NDPers for short.

We are ridding our town of these sorts slowly.

Interesting about the seizure of guns in High River. The police said they took guns that where lying around when searching for flood victims, Sun News showed that is not true. The police where actually searching for guns. They broke into one house that was not flooded, was high and dry under the pretext of searching for people and took properly stored guns.

Where they using a secret data base as the long gun registry is supposed to be gone. Seems they new where to search.

How many people realize how toxic cfl bulbs are and that the safe benign incandescent will no longer be available in six months.

Really, Lumber1, your ignorant comments show more about your bigoted attitudes than anything else.

Nice lumber 1. Your charming attitude suggests that you’re probably more of a lumber 2.

bornandbred, we have the same confusion with BC Hydro’s billing in our business.

When we get a bill, that is.

Sometimes it comes once a month, like it always used to, generally about a week after they’ve read the meter.

Sometimes they’ll read the meter and we don’t see any bill until after they’ve read it again the next month. Then we’ll either get a bill for two months, sometimes with an explanation that the first month’s reading was inaccurate, and they’re estimating what we’ve used, and the Power Factor. And the penalty, if they don’t estimate it at 90% or over.

On the KvarH meter, that’s used to calculate Power Factor, sometimes they’ll turn the needle back to zero after reading the meter, sometimes not.

As for this new ‘baseline’ additional credit or debit, I believe it’s based on what you used in power in the same month last year.

If you use more in that month this year you’re hit with an additional charge. Less, and they give you a credit. It’s ridiculous for us, (we have a small lumber mill), because we’re not always producing a similar amount of lumber in the same months we produced that much in a year ago.

Power Factor correction with capacitors is always difficult in a sawmill, and we added more to our plant last year to try to get it up to 90% and avoid being penalised.

The electrical contractor’s measuring equipment had us at 85%, but Hydro’s meters have never registered that in any month we’ve been operating.

And the way they’ve been jacking around with their billings makes it almost impossible for us to get an accurate picture of how much more correction we really need to get up to 90%, or a lot closer to it than we have been, according to their meter readings. And we don’t even have a Smart Meter yet!

seamutt,

I’ve said this again and again. The only ones safe are the ones who refused to register firearms and I am willing to bet that the RCMP didn’t touch a home that didn’t register.

When the registry was finally shot down the RCMP did a simple “right click and save”

Don’t believe me?

Search out “scanbc” you can listen online to the local RCMP. When there is a call to attend a domestic it’s funny that the dispatch knows and informs weather firearms are present in the residence.