TTC saga continues on.

First we saw the ticket collector snoring on the job(Video on YOUTUBE).

Then we saw the driver go out to the ATM to collect cash, when the passengers waited on the bus for 10minutes(Video on YOUTUBE).


Now this..............the BIG Enchilada!.

If the big boss is doing Whoopie on the couch in his TTC office then why is it wrong for the guy to snooze or withdraw cash from the ATM.

More over this guy wants to be your Mayor. May be he found that the Mayors couch is larger than his one at TTC office.

If any one has the video of the interesting event kindly pass us the link so that we can all enjoy and curse TTC.

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http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontomayoralrace/article/762733--despite-scandal-it-s-full-steam-ahead-for-giambrone-campaign?bn=1

2010/02/09 14:04:00

The head of Adam Giambrone’s campaign says the young TTC chair is having “a painful day” but doesn’t think his admission of an “inappropriate relationship” with a university student will kill his dream of being Toronto’s mayor.

John Laschinger said that Giambrone is spending the day at home, reaching out to friends and advisors, many of whom have contacted him with messages of “support and sympathy” since a bombshell interview with student Kristen Lucas appeared Tuesday morning in a Toronto Star exclusive.

“I’m sure he’s listening to people and talking to people, but at this point our intention is full-steam ahead,” said Laschinger, Giambrone’s campaign chair and a veteran political organizer.

“It’s a painful day for Adam. It’s embarrassing and reflects on (live-in girlfriend) Sarah (McQuarrie) and her friends and family,” but Giambrone has been “fully frank and transparent” since the story hit, Laschinger said.

“People are proud that he took responsibility for his actions.”

Lucas told the Star’s Linda Diebel that the affair started in late 2008 when she was 19 and included late-night sex with Giambrone, 32, on the couch in his City Hall office . She said he also told her about a pending TTC fare hike long before it was public knowledge.

She said Giambrone had told her his live-in partner of many years – who’s been at his side for public events during his fledgling mayoral bid – is there for “political” reasons.

“You know I will be announcing I have a partner,” Giambrone, wrote in a text message to Lucas on Dec. 27. “It is someone named Sarah (McQuarrie), who I’ve been involved with in the past. It is important for the campaign.”

Giambrone told Lucas he hoped they could continue to see each other, assuring her: “I had to have someone political.”

In another text message, Giambrone tells her: “I still think of you when I need ... um ... stimulation.”

Also: “I like you because you’re smart and interesting. You’re also good-looking naked.”

She said they had sex for the last time on Jan. 2, this year, in her bedroom. Later, lying in bed and talking, she says she agreed to keep seeing him – as long as he told McQuarrie about their relationship.

On Monday night, responding to questions from the Star, Giambrone called his “inappropriate relationship” with Lucas “a serious lapse in judgment,” and offered his “deepest apology to my partner, Sarah, my family and friends for the pain and embarrassment my indiscretion will cause them.”

But he said the relationship with Lucas “consisted of text messages and conversations in public places only. I met her mother, having dropped her off at home.”

He added: “Realizing the mistake this relationship was, I tried to end it some months ago and finally broke off all contact.”

Giambrone did not address specific allegations, such as sex on his office couch and revealing confidential TTC information to Lucas. Lucas’s mother says her daughter told her about the fare hike before it happened.

On Tuesday, Laschinger said Giambrone is firm that he won’t say any more on the issue.

“He put out a statement. We don’t think we need to add anything further.”

At City Hall on Tuesday morning, downtown and East York city councillors trickled into a committee meeting shaking their heads and talking about the bombshell that, out of the blue, hit the seemingly squeaky-clean Miller acolyte.

Their reactions ranged from horror to bemusement.

“Shock, shock,” is how Coun. Joe Mihevc described his reaction to the Star story.

“I just read it an hour ago,” Mihevc said shaking his head. “Pain — that’s all I can say.”

Coun. Kyle Rae (Ward 27, Toronto Centre-Rosedale) quipped: “I don’t have a couch. Hmm. I’m not sure I’d use a couch.”

Deputy mayor Joe Pantalone, Giambrone’s rival for the mayor’s chair from the left-wing faction of council, looked shell-shocked as he arrived for work. He told reporters he is “surprised” by the allegations.

“I do not know what there is to know,” said Pantalone (Ward 19, Trinity-Spadina), refusing to speculate on what kind of investigation would shed light on the affair.

Another left-wing councillor and supporter of Mayor David Miller, Sandra Bussin, chided the Star for printing a “sensational” story. She waved away Lucas’s allegation that Giambrone told her confidential TTC information.

“It was quite apparent that there was going to be a fare hike – it was out in the public domain,” said Bussin (Ward 32, Beaches-East York).

Giambrone’s opponents on the right-wing faction of council were largely holding their fire. None reached Tuesday said they have immediate plans to launch a complaint with the city’s Integrity Commissioner or taken any other action that would trigger a probe into Giambrone’s conduct.

Coun. Rob Ford, who has come under fire himself for his personal life, including a drunken outburst at a hockey game, said: “One, you shouldn’t use your city hall office as a place to have sex. But the issue is his private life.

“I know how it feels when someone attacks your personal life. If he’s not doing his job as a councillor then that’s different ... Do I think it’s right? No. But that’s my personal opinion.”

Ford (Ward 2, Etobicoke North) added that he’s more offended by vast sums spent by Ontario’s health ministry on the eHealth initiative while George Smitherman — a rival of Giambrone’s for the mayor’s job — was provincial health minister than by somebody having “a girlfriend on the side.”

Denzil Minnan-Wong, who at the last TTC meeting called for Giambrone’s resignation over poor customer service and other problems at the utility, said he doesn’t know if Giambrone’s campaign – launched Feb. 1 amid a barrage of bad publicity for the TTC – will survive.

“Ultimately the voters will make their decision. The public will decide the appropriateness of Councillor Giambrone’s conduct,” said Minnan-Wong (Ward 34, Don Valley East).

“I think whenever elected officials are caught in these circumstances, it reflects badly on all of us.”

Giambrone’s rivals for the mayoral chair were also treading lightly.

• Stefan Baranski, a spokesman for mayoral candidate George Smitherman, said the former Ontario deputy premier “won’t be commenting on this today.” Baranski said Smitherman is taking a few days off, but they spoke about the Star story on Tuesday morning.

• Rocco Rossi, a former head of the federal Liberal party, said by email: “I’m not prepared to comment on a matter involving the personal life of another candidate. As for the TTC information allegation, I am not prepared to comment at this time on something that may require an investigation.

“There are allegations of confidential TTC information and decisions being shared. Maintaining confidentiality is a critical management function and an alleged breach is a serious public ethics issue. I leave it to the TTC Commission and Council to determine which internal process should be used to look into this to assure the public that no public codes of conduct have been broken.”

• Reached by phone Tuesday morning, councillor Giorgio Mammoliti declined to comment on the Giambrone bombshell.

“I don’t want (the campaign) to be bogged down with this story,” he said.

“There’s a lot more serious issues that we should all be debating ...we’re a half-million (dollars) in the hole.”

Asked Tuesday morning if Mayor David Miller will comment on the revelations, one of Miller’s spokespeople, Stuart Green, replied: “Absolutely not. We’re not commenting on that - zero.”

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Sunny Leone a true Canadian DESI now back in India !.

And here goes our Nobel Prize Winner along with Gore for climate change.

He has been castigated for the leak of data and also for the falsification of data on the Himalayan snow melting .

If he has been writing this novel where would have the time and energy to make a perfect report for climate change?.

Look at the comments below the original link where one person writes that this guy is a full time Flirt !. While he himself writes that some of the stuff in this novel is from his own life.

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http://www.hotklix.com/Hotklix/link/Entertainment/Books/Scientist-Pachauri-pens-racy-novel

Scientist Pachauri pens racy novel

Updated on Sunday, February 07, 2010, 20:38 IST New Delhi:

The UN`s top climate official, who is at the heart of a controversy over incorrect global warming data, has written a racy novel, which dishes up sex, reincarnation and a real-life Hollywood actress.

The debut fiction work is in contrast to the dry academic tomes that 69-year-old Rajendra Pachauri, head of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has previously written.

\"Return to Almora,\" which has recently hit bookshops, is laced with steamy references to the sexual urges of the protagonist Sanjay Nath who, like Pachauri, also studied engineering.

The book also weaves in lectures on the environment and the fate of Himalayan glaciers - the issue which has triggered calls for Pachauri`s resignation.

Pachauri has refused to step down over an error in which an IPCC report forecast Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035.

His novel charts the life of Sanjay who, as a young child in India, stuns his parents with the news he was a merchant in a past life and that his wife is still alive.

The 402-page tale takes Sanjay through his university days during which he loses his virginity, breathlessly describing how he was \"overcome by a lust that he had never known before.\"

Several passages from the book may interest the judges of London`s Bad Sex awards, an annual celebration of the worst bedroom scenes in literature.

After university, Sanjay travels to the United States, has dinner with Oscar-winning actress Shirley MacLaine and teaches meditation - when he finds himself distracted by the \"heaving breasts\" of his students.

\"You are absolutely superb after meditation,\" Sanjay`s girlfriend tells him. \"Why don`t we make love every time immediately after you have meditated?\"

The author, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 on behalf of the IPCC, has hinted parts of the book are autobiographical.

\"Sometimes I`d be so overwhelmed trying to capture an incident of my life for the book that I would be moved to tears,\" the father-of-three told Indian media.

Pachauri, whose previous 20 books include titles such as \"Business unusual: championing corporate social responsibility\", says he wrote the romp while on international business flights.
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And, everybody was thinking he was busy reviewing the IPCC material. The guy should have been fired. ND, Pachauri! What is with these guys. - Sunil - Dehradun

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He's a womaniser, I worked with his organisation and experienced it. You'll find that all top positions in his organisation are captured by women (u know how). He never spares a chance to touch the female staff. - Radha - Delhi

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Eeeeuw! This sounds AWFUL! It couldn't have come at a worse time for the poor, beleaguered Pachauri. Ah! He suppresses IPCC information AND writes smut! - Nandini Gopalakrishnan - Mumbai
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Sunny Leone a true Canadian DESI now back in India !.