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The present DRR Status Report in Cameroon titled "Civil Defence through life-saving actions", includes Disaster Relief, notably the First Aid, Rescue, Evacuation and Emergency Assistance Techniques. It is mostly devoted to the inventory of major disasters that occurred in 2008 and the analysis of Government Policy towards DRR and other hazards.
What is published is an English summary. The Cameroon National Focal Point for DRR (DPC-MINATD), with the high supervision of the Minister of State, Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralization, has published its sixth edition of Cameroon Status Report on Civil Protection for the year 2008 in the two official languages in order to expand the impacts of this important tool of sensitization, communication, information and advocacy on DRR. The full and illustrated version in French and in English can be found at the Cameroon National Risks Observatory Website.
Prepared with UNDP, UNICEF, Cooperation and Action Service (SCAC) in the French Embassy, the National Hydrocarbon Company, the Local Council Support Fund for Mutual Assistance, National Civil Engineering Laboratory.
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December 7, 2007 Time for Lyme and the Lyme Disease Association have finalized an agreement with the Neurology Research Foundation (NRF) to support a research project to examine dysautonomia, a devastating and sometimes life-threatening neurological disorder, in Lyme disease.
The study will be led by the NRF's senior investigator, Dr. David S. Younger, MD. — a leading authority in the field of neurology research who has participated in and authored more than 100 published studies and peer-review journal articles on neurological disorders. The investigation will involve the recruitment of a large cohort of patients with early and chronic Lyme disease of the nervous system, also known as Lyme neuroborreliosis over four years, with the majority of the advocacy groups' funding to be used on the purchase of necessary equipment to support the study. In a preliminary abstract submitted to the American Academy of Neurology for publication, Dr. Younger and colleagues noted the development of dysautonomia among those so studied with early and chronic Lyme disease using the strictest of criteria for case selection of the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and New York State (NYS). The investigators concluded that dysautonomia may be underestimated and under diagnosed in all stages of Lyme neuroborreliosis.
"Time for Lyme is pleased to support this scientific investigation by such a respected organization as the Neurology Research Foundation," explains Diane Blanchard, co-founder and president of Time for Lyme. "We are galvanized by their support, as well as the support of the Lyme Disease Association, in our hope that this study will bring us closer to understanding and treating dysautonomia in chronic Lyme disease patients," Blanchard adds.
Difficulties of Dysautonomia
The autonomic nervous system is a complex, fragile and crucial system that regulates all automatic bodily functions, including respiration, heart rate, blood pressure, digestion and kidney function, among others. It is one of the main branches of the nervous system that is frequently affected in late-stage chronic Lyme disease, causing dysautonomia. According to the American Dysautonomia Institute, symptoms of the disorder include fainting, extremely low blood pressure (hypotension), light-headedness, dizziness, problems concentrating, headaches, fatigue, heart palpitations, digestive problems, exercise intolerance, insomnia, hot flashes, chills, weakness, seizures, pain, and disability.
Dysautonomia is not only a manifestation of Lyme disease. In fact, it is estimated that as many as 3 million Americans are afflicted with dysautonomia, and there are potential treatments and cures especially when recognized early and treated aggressively. "This disorder robs millions of people of their quality of life, and endangers their health and well-being on a daily basis," notes Debbie Siciliano, co-founder of Time for Lyme. "Our organization is gratified to participate in the collection of critical scientific data that not only will help chronic Lyme disease patients, but may also benefit dysautonomia sufferers in general," Siciliano concludes.
Time for Lyme has become a particularly proactive force in the area of chronic Lyme disease research this year. "Chronic Lyme disease is all-too real for the many thousands of patients who are living with its symptoms," Blanchard explains. "With the support of top-notch scientists like Dr. Younger among so many others, we are able to hope for a better understanding of this insidious disease and, ultimately, a cure."
About Time for Lyme
Time for Lyme is an organization dedicated to eliminating the devastating effects of Lyme disease and other tick-borne illness. Our mission is to prevent the spread of disease, develop definitive diagnostic tools and effective treatments, and to ultimately find a cure for tick-borne illness by supporting research, education, and the acquisition and dissemination of information. In addition, we will continue to act as advocates for Lyme disease sufferers and their families through support of legislative reform on the federal, state and local levels. For more information on our organization, please visit www.timeforlyme.org.
About the Neurology Research Foundation
The Neurology Research Foundation (NRF), a 501 (C) 3 public foundation, was founded in 1995 out of a compassionate desire to help the many individuals who suffer from debilitating and fatal neuromuscular disorders.
Our mission is to advance progress toward cure and prevention of neuromuscular disorders by providing support for promising research projects, as well as the assistance of patients, their families, and caregivers in coping with neuromuscular diseases by fostering support groups, lectures, seminars, and other participatory forums.
For more information on our organization, please visit www.neurologyresearch.org.
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How to get a ticket, guaranteed: Woman demonstrates mind-boggling bad judgment
Watch an officer's 'warning stop' turn into farcical low-speed chase
Seeing the police cherries suddenly flash in our rear-view mirror is a sight that stops most of us in our tracks, and of course, makes us pull over. Most of us are on our best behaviour around police cruisers just to avoid seeing that sight.
Most of us. But not all of us.
On a recent ride-along with York Regional Police, videographer Janet Lai and I witnessed one driver perfectly demonstrate "how to get a ticket."
In the video below, the driver draws police attention by approaching the cruiser from behind with her highbeams glaring. After she passes, she neither moves out of the passing lane and into a driving lane, nor does she appear to have any intention of turning left in the near future.
Sgt. Ryan Hogan attempts to pull up alongside her at a red light to tell her to turn into a plaza, but is thwarted by other traffic. With no other option, Hogan is forced to initiate a traffic stop from the far left lane of three in our direction.
Watch as what started out as likely just a warning stop turns into an almost farcical low-speed chase.
Once stopped, the driver complains Hogan is not doing his job by "stopping a law-abiding driver" like her and that she was "unsure of what to do" when he attempted to pull her over – though pull right and stop for emergency vehicles is a standard question on every driver's written test.
Taking it all in stride, Hogan issues a single ticket only – for "fail to carry insurance card," the least costly of her many violations to choose from. (A computer check showed the vehicle was insured.)
Frankly, that's much kinder than most of us would be in his place, since other possible charges included: fail to stop for police, fail to yield to emergency vehicle, fail to lower highbeams, driving in left lane at slower than normal rate or speed, dirty plate and colour-coating obscuring plate (tinted plate cover).
Incidentally, "no insurance card" charges are sometimes withdrawn by the prosecutor once you present a valid insurance card in court. So, deserved or not, this driver still got a huge break. Hopefully, she also learned a lesson.


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Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 234612, 8 pages
Robust Control for a Class of Uncertain Switched Fuzzy Time-Delay Systems Based on T-S Models
1Teaching and Training Center of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150080, China
2School of Automation, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150080, China
Received 30 October 2012; Revised 28 December 2012; Accepted 28 December 2012
Academic Editor: Peng Shi
Copyright © 2013 Yang Cui et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The problem of robust control for a class of uncertain switched fuzzy time-delay systems is discussed for system described by T-S fuzzy model with Lyapunov stable theory and linear matrix inequality approach. A sufficient condition in terms of the LMI is derived such that the stability of the closed-loop systems is guaranteed. The continuous state feedback controller is built to ensure the asymptotically stable closed-loop system for all allowable uncertainties, with the switching law designed to implement the global asymptotic stability of uncertain switched fuzzy time-delay systems. In this model, each and every subsystem of the switched systems is an uncertain fuzzy one to which the parallel distributed compensation (PDC) controller of each sub fuzzy system system is proposed with its main condition given in a more solvable form of convex combinations. Such a switched control system is highly robust to varying parameters. A simulation shows the feasibility and effectiveness of the design method.


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(3) Comments | Posted November 25, 2016 | 5:04 PM
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks on stage on April 12, 2016. (Photo: REUTERS/Stephen Lam)
A version of this blog originally appeared on White Cover Magazine.
Blame Facebook if you want, if you're afraid to take responsibility.
Blame the Internet...
(4) Comments | Posted February 11, 2015 | 5:40 PM
It's not enough to say that Jon Stewart was a pioneer -- that he completely invented a new form of comedy, of political satire behind a mock TV news desk, that he changed not only how politicians answered questions and handled the media, but how the media asked questions and...
(3) Comments | Posted January 25, 2015 | 10:59 PM
White people suck.
We ruin everything. We suck the authenticity out, rip out the roots, and leave a Jamba Juice behind. Then we slap a 'Fair Trade' sticker on the front and say, "Hey, look, we're into the earth and hippy stuff, too. And that shot of liquified grass will...
(7) Comments | Posted January 8, 2015 | 9:05 AM
I'm the owner of the few unpopular opinions.
Among the most serious -- I like ketchup on my fries, not on the side, I don't care if you do up your suit buttons, and I'm really starting to hate this new do-gooder Internet. (Maybe those are popular opinions,...
(4) Comments | Posted December 15, 2014 | 1:27 PM
I started to get better at writing in my final year of university. Not even that I was good -- just that I started to get better. Really useful, eh? I get a four-year degree and I don't know what I'm doing until it's far too late to matter, until...
(1) Comments | Posted November 23, 2014 | 5:06 PM
The Toronto Maple Leafs say they didn't mean to "snub" their fans last week, after a surprise 5-2 win over the Stamkos-buoyed Tampa Bay Lighting.
Whatever. If I'm a Leafs fan, I hope they did.
This team -- or any Canadian club, for that matter -- only plays...
(1) Comments | Posted September 19, 2014 | 6:42 PM
Was it all just a dream?
Remember that, a couple years ago, when even David Stern was singing the Canucks' praises. David Stern. That basketball guy who gave us a team, left the car in the rain with keys in the ignition, and then watched Memphis steal our...
(3) Comments | Posted May 31, 2014 | 3:20 PM
Thanks, party poopers.
The price tag for Vladimir Putin's Winter Olympics, (exaggerated but) reported to be around $51 billion, has apparently scared away any viable, desirable candidate for the IOC's next yet-to-be-decided Games.
Krakow, Poland withdrew from consideration for the 2022 Winter Olympics this week, following...
(5) Comments | Posted May 12, 2014 | 6:28 PM
So Michael Sam is a distraction... and Johnny Manziel isn't?
They both have last names that splatter across the back of sold-out jerseys for their respective, new NFL teams -- Sam with St. Louis and Manziel with Cleveland. They're both known - both loved, really -- for being themselves and for being themselves in very different ways. Both of them had their first professional moments broadcast to all of America - Manziel for nearly all of the first round, Sam for a groundbreaking second in the seventh.
But when Sam's moment came, he kissed a man. And when Manziel's came, he massaged imaginary dollar bills.
Manziel's cockiness is seen as a boon to the Cleveland Browns, a franchise without a championship and usually without confidence. But Sam's issue -- he's the first openly gay player drafted into the testosterone-y, always-over-compensating-for-something National Football League, although he's not the first gay player in it -- is apparently a negative. Why else would the SEC's defensive player of the year have to wait until the 249th pick to finally be selected? Was it because the Rams knew that 31 other teams wouldn't take a chance on a guy who can polish a piece of hardware nobody else earned over the past year? And why did 31 teams turn their backs on Sam? Was it because they're not sure whether his game will translate to the NFL?
If Sam's distractions aren't seen as a negative, then why are they even referred to as distractions? Because it's really so terrible for someone known for who he is to bring added attention to his team?
I wonder, was Deion Sanders and his ridiculous, over-the-top personality a distraction when he won his two Super Bowls, with Dallas and San Francisco? What about when Deion was playing baseball, as well, during the summers? A two-sport athlete dividing his time between leagues that, supposedly, demand 100% of your time all the time... that was kosher, and Sam isn't?
Charley Haley won five Super Bowls. He referred to himself as "The Last Naked Warrior" and would routinely masturbate in front of his teammates. (You read that right. And Sam kissing a dude on live TV was too gay for the NFL's viewers to handle?)
Michael Vick murdered a bunch of dogs, went to jail, then returned to the league and was signed by Philadelphia. He's now quarterbacking the New York Jets and mentoring Geno Smith, another potential first-rounder who's stock collapsed -- Manziel-style -- during last year's also over-televised first round.
Were these players distractions? Certainly. But what football fan with a brain wouldn't want them on his team, or her team?
Didn't their play dictate their value? And why isn't Sam -- who hasn't done anything but come out of the closet, probably while Haley was again climaxing in public -- afforded the same equality?
And doesn't Manziel's college resume inspire the same sort of doubt as Sam's, perhaps even more so?
Johnny Football's fall to No. 22 on the Draft's first day was seen as some sort of shocking tumble. The 2012 Heisman winner watched as another quarterback, Blake Bortles, was selected at No. 3, and the room erupted with disbelief. Us television viewers had to look at Manziel's mug every time any other player was chosen from then until three-quarters through the first round... Manziel was the star of the Draft, even though he clearly was not the star of the Draft.
Manziel is, of course, a distraction. He will be a distraction in Cleveland. He'll certainly be a distraction to Brian Hoyer.
Hoyer is the Browns' current quartberack. What was he thinking, I wonder, when Manziel was chosen... when Manziel walked on stage like Caesar, I assume, first walked into Rome... when ESPN showed Browns fans exploding into cheers, high-fiving and probably crying out of joy, like their city had just been selected to host an Olympics?
Another guy already has the job Manziel covets and, apparently, is being groomed for. Cleveland must expect Hoyer to train the guy and coax another player for the gig he's done everything to earn for himself. And they must expect every receiver, offensive lineman, and running back on that team to take a ticket in tutoring the kid.
So, Manziel is certainly a distraction. But he isn't described as a distraction, and Michael Sam is.
I heard it today while driving to work in my car, as Dave Pratt (on Vancouver's Team 1040) questioned whether or not it was worth it to take a chance on a guy like Sam. You heard it when Sam came out a couple months ago. You heard it so much that Dallas's Dale Hansen had to deliver an impassioned editorial in support of Sam on WFAA, praising the defensive star and also vilifying anyone who dared stand in his way, symbolically or physically, to the NFL.
Calling Sam a distraction, or questioning whether his talent is soured by his admission... it's a way for ignorant people -- and, make no excuse, we are ALL arrogant about most things, almost everything, and certainly about whatever Sam has gone through and will go through -- to discuss his announcement without feeling as if they're saying anything offensive while doing so. They don't mean to be offensive, but they still are. (Well, some of them mean to.)
When has the National Football League ever had a problem with attention? When has it ever hated cameras?
The NFL has its own network... it's called the NFL Network. The guys who started and ran NFL Films are in the Hall of Fame. HBO runs a documentary about one team every year called Hard Knocks, where players are followed and interviewed during training camp. The Super Bowl is the most-watched television event in America every year, and it ain't even close.
And you want to tell me that Michael Sam's sexuality is a distraction? You want to tell me that his presence in the National Football League deserves to be questioned, while Manziel sprays Cleveland with champagne and Blake Bortles, a Central Florida kid, rides in and takes over Jacksonville?
Of course you do. Because the NFL is about all brotherhood, unless you're not like them.
*This was originally published on White Cover Magazine...
(10) Comments | Posted May 7, 2014 | 6:55 PM
It's a joke. It really, truly is. But unfortunately, not everyone gets it.
Pushers for Trinity Western and its faith-based law school -- which is an oxymoron up there with civil war and old news -- would like you to believe this whole deal is about religious freedom....
(0) Comments | Posted April 14, 2014 | 7:00 PM
I have feared (as a fan, not as a citizen of the earth) nights like last night since a very specific date: May 18, 2011.
That was the night that Vancouver beat San Jose 7-3 and opened up a 2-0 series lead in the Western Conference Finals. It was also the night that Ben Eager -- the bushman goon of the Sharks who, when he choses a wiser route, is actually a pretty skilled player -- threw Daniel Sedin into the boards from behind, a good two feet off the wall and not far from the penalty box that Eager would inhabit moments later.
Daniel was unhurt, remarkably.
Eager got two minutes or something cheap and post-coitus like that, then challenged everyone in blue to a fight from behind the glass he put himself in. Eager went out and scored a late goal, cutting the lead to four.
Before the next match, all the talk was about whether Eager would play. His temper had cost San Jose a chance to contend in Game 2, they said, and Canucks fans gloated loudly that, "Hey, let him play! Our boys will just go around that talent-less sack and score!"
But I was in fear, as a fan. Daniel could have easily been carted off that night, like he was on Sunday when Calgary's Paul Byron -- an everyday AHLer who wanted to show the hockey world he existed in Game 82, a meaningless affair between two teams who collapsed long before the league's season season -- completed his check in the worst way possible, planting each of his hands on Daniel's 22 and slamming the two-goal twin into the end boards.
(And what if it wasn't Game 82 for Vancouver... what if they actually were heading to the playoffs? Wouldn't you be even more pissed off then, Canucks fans, if Sedin had to miss another first round or more because of a conscious cheap shot to your star player?)
I feared, way back in 2011, that the league's castoffs had figured out what they apparently now have: it doesn't matter if you do anything illegal in the NHL.
You'll get a refreshing, short suspension and the other team you just crippled will still be suffering from it when you get back.
Byron claimed he wasn't trying to hurt Sedin and I, of course, believe him.
Any other day, it's a pretty routine collision. But it wasn't any other day -- it was the last game of the season and Byron should know better.
If Byron expects to be an actual, 24-7 professional hockey player and not just a 5'7" on-loan mite from Abbotsford, he better learn to know better.
Then again, who says he has to?
That hit by Byron last night was a perfect showcase of the problems Brendan Shanahan has created and then left for this league going forward.
I realize being the NHL's disciplinarian is a thankless job, blah blah blah... But don't all of us have thankless jobs?
Under Shanahan's watch, the memo basically went out that the only way to take out star players was to do it illegally, and your repercussions were minor and temporary.
Like when Zdeno Chara slammed Max Pacioretty into the bench's stanchion in 2011 and then claimed it was a freak accident, like somehow the big Slovakian -- who had been playing hockey all his life, for 30-or so years -- didn't know where the benches were or what the danger was.
Like when Duncan Keith -- the dirtiest star playing the NHL -- savagely elbowed the same Sedin in the head a month out of the 2012 playoffs.
Keith got two games, which is a pretty typical length for the Shanahan regime - uninterested and unwilling to punish anyone who's last name isn't Torres. (That guy has been serving everyone else's suspensions since 2010.)
Pretty much the same thing happened with Keith in last year's playoffs, when he slashed Jeff Carter in the face in the Western Conference Final and got one game. I repeat... he slashed Jeff Carter in the face and got ONE game.
The fallout from that was minimal, because Carter wasn't hurt. I mean, I'm sure the slash in the teeth hurt, but he didn't miss any action. But still... Duncan Keith slashed another player in the head, with a full around-the-world swing, and he pled guilty for a shorter sentence, doing it all like he was the victim.
That stick was half an inch from things going a lot worse for Keith's soon-to-be Canadian Olympic teammate.
How about when Shea Weber slammed Henrik Zetterberg's head into the boards in their quarterfinal series in 2012? Zetterberg's helmet broke -- again, only chance kept him from spending months without the lights on. But Weber didn't receive a game, just because he had never been suspended before, and because Shanahan didn't feel like stepping up.
Does the league really care about concussions, or does it just care about them when somebody else is watching?
That is the danger, of course, with idolizing and then canonizing guys like Shanahan... terrific, Hall of Fame players who themselves had a hard-nosed edge to their style, who would have made the hit Byron made last night or would have tossed some guy's head into the glass when given the chance, and then they would have pled out the Canadian way - "I didn't mean it... I hope he's okay... I really didn't mean it..."
My favourite excuse is one that Byron gave last night: "You never like to see that stuff."
You never like to see that stuff?
Then why'd you do it?
But the league has always been careless about its priorities. It's not the United States or Sunrise, Florida that spoiled its brand, it was the NHL on its own. And when CONCUSSION reared its head as the newest PR buzzword for the league to pretend to cater to, the NHL went all Joe McCarthy on it and they witch-hunted the easy targets and left the Keiths and the Charas to feast on the finer things.
The league pulled itself up from its own mess and then blamed it on the janitor.
Like when Bud Selig watched baseball's biceps balloon and then pitchforked steroid users to save his own tush.
And so when I hear that Byron won't have a hearing for last night's hit, I know Canucks fans will be upset, but I don't care anymore.
What are they going to do? What if they gave Byron a hyperbolic 82-game suspension? What would that even do?
Byron's absence wouldn't hurt Calgary, it would only hurt Abbotsford. Bob Hartley would just have more to whine about. And Daniel Sedin still would have aged five years in half a second. Pundits will say the twins are getting older, that the best Canucks are past their primes, and maybe they are. But we'll never know if that's true, just like we'll never know what Paul Kariya could have been if Gary Suter hadn't rammed the Anaheim star's brain into 1936.
(*This was originally published on White Cover Magazine...)
That's the NHL right now. And it won't change until the players...
(0) Comments | Posted March 13, 2014 | 1:13 PM
It was, honestly, a bittersweet symphony.
Because the Vancouver Canucks have plenty to crow about. Their comeback win over the Winnipeg Jets -- a comeback that didn't just continue but somehow picked up steam after Ryan Kesler collided with Jim Slater and left the game, possibly left his season, with a limp -- was as inspiring as any of their late-game collapses have been depressing.
On a night that Winnipeg poured it on when it could and nearly ended it at least twice -- an Andrew Ladd backhand that trickled through Eddie Lack's crease in overtime and an Evander Kane penalty shot that just barely whistled over the goalie's glove hand and protective post -- it was these Canucks that finally celebrated a "double-you."
This win was a little more fulfilling than their Saturday trumping of Calgary, somehow.
This win perhaps comes a lot too little, much too late. The playoffs are a dream now, not a chance... Vancouver making the playoffs is, at this point, as much of a mathematical possibility as you hitting snake eyes on the roulette table tonight.
This win comes with John Tortorella softer and quite likeable, even if his debut year coaching in Canada has gone as well as one of his interviews with Brooksie.
This win comes off the hands of Chris Higgins, of course, who is second to Ryan Kesler in the team's goal-scoring race. Higgy, as he'll be affectionately known for one night, put the winner away in the shootout, on a beautiful little, Patrick Kane-ish move that the easily confusable Ondrej Pavelec was quite clearly confused on.
This win comes off the persistence of Alex Burrows, the former go-to goal guy who somehow went 35 games without a marker until tonight, when he potted two and did so quite pretty-like -- one in his typical Burrows fashion, driving for a rebound he then flicked home like it was ball hockey, and the other by baseball-ing it past Pavelec at the side of the net.
It truly is incredible that Burr could go half a season squandering so many empty nets, so many decent efforts and one-timer from the slot, and then end up putting this goal in:
It was a vintage Burrows performance tonight in Manitoba, and it was a vintage Henrik performance, too.
Captain Sedin had enough to celebrate, with his 1,000th game and all. (He'll surely get a warm reception and some sort of shiny stick when he gets to Vancouver, along with a trip to Whistler for two or something.)
But Henrik the Hart was flying tonight. He sliced through the Jets in overtime, turning their teal and blue into some sort of bubble gum-like Picasso. You couldn't knock Henrik off the puck tonight, just like you couldn't through 40 minutes on Monday.
But the Canucks blew that one, as you know. Seven third-periods goals, inexplicably surrendered to a New York Islanders team that just as inexplicably scored them.
A 3-0 lead evaporated like Vitamin C on a stove. The hard-fought two-thirds from Henrik, Kesler, and Lack didn't matter when it mattered most, and Vancouver threw away their season -- for the final time -- in front of a home crowd that just wanted to get out of the building before traffic swelled.
That, really, is how it's gone this year in Vancouver. One night to symbolize them all.
And our fans' reaction to everything -- including their early flee for the inPark lots around Rogers Arena -- makes me think, regardless of how much you've hated the move of GM Mike Gillis or the style of coach John Tortorella, that firing them is a consequence and not a solution. It's all knee-jerk right now, because there's no way any of this was planned.
The fans have checked out. They're angry, but they've checked out. Hell, they checked out in June 2011, just after they put down the Molotov cocktails.
The players have checked out, and they look exhausted. It's not Tortorella's ice time that's killing them... it's the Luongo deal, the Schneider deal, and everything that's happened in the past three seasons.
They're chewing old gum, pretending they're still sucking sugar.
Kesler wants out, either reportedly or very realistically. Injuries have taken their toll and the players haven't paid the fee. The Canucks themselves are as much to blame for their downfall as Martin Hanzal is.
But there was life tonight. There was something that didn't let them bag that third period when it would have been -- finally -- understandable.
The Canucks haven't surprised anyone all season, but they've shocked them.
And on Wednesday, it was nice to see them playing hockey. It was nice to see them win one for themselves -- for Burrows, for their coach, and for that ugly Orca on the front of their sweaters.
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(2) Comments | Posted February 7, 2014 | 10:49 AM
Here's the problem.
Everyone's talking about Sochi. It's mostly negative. But nobody's really there... including me. All I have to go on are the testimonials of a few privileged -- well, maybe not, if you've seen the photos or heard the tales --journalists, jet set super...
(3) Comments | Posted January 27, 2014 | 5:07 PM
Full marks to Los Angeles, full marks to its fans, and full marks to the NHL.
We've only seen two Stadium Series games so far, and they're easily my favourite. Sure, I get a kick out of the Winter Classic and I'll enjoy the Heritage game when it comes to...
(0) Comments | Posted January 17, 2014 | 12:25 PM
In my younger and more vulnerable years, I spent my summers in Manitoba, at our small cottage on Lake Winnipeg. Our summers were quiet. They were especially quiet when you were a kid, because you didn't have a lot besides arts and crafts and video games. Of course,...
(2) Comments | Posted November 26, 2013 | 12:33 PM
I'll be that guy. I'm the wet blanket.
Sunday was probably just great for Saskatchewan. Just grrrreeeeaaaaaaat. I'm sure they were really happy. I know they want the Grey Cup every year. (But don't we all?) I know we have to celebrate them because they celebrate our Canadian game unlike...
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I watched Kill Bill twice last weekend. I was sick and in bed the whole time and I didn't have a lot to do but drink green tea and hide my eyes.
Kill Bill came out in 2003 (on October 10, so this isn't exactly a "to the day" type...
(47) Comments | Posted October 26, 2013 | 4:26 AM
I stumbled across an interesting piece of hyperventilated literature this week. It's the typical blog post: someone with a poor grasp of punctuation rambles on, finally getting something off his or her chest, something they just couldn't possibly leave alone. Until the next day, of course, when they're onto something...
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Last Sunday, I spent Jesus's apparent day -- for the first time in nine weeks -- without Breaking Bad. Without Walter White or any of his tics, tendencies, or tacky style.
It was always that style -- that nerdy, so middle aged, so reluctant soccer dad style -- that I...
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Think of that much-overused (and sometimes incorrect) line, "It's not personal. It's business."
Well, the Edmonton Oilers could learn a lot from it. Both Alberta teams, really. It's always seemed like the Flames and the Oil believe the only ones to hire are the ones from their backyard, from their past, or from their families. To hold onto your job as a coach, general manager, or player of either one of the Wild Rose Country's only NHL clubs, you have to have won a Cup in either city.
How else can you explain the firing of now-former general manager Steve Tambellini, especially since Kevin Lowe still holds his position as president of hockey operations?
They replaced Tamby with former Oilers player and coach Craig MacTavish, of course. MacT's been in Edmonton before, and for a long time. He won a few Cups, like, 20 or 30 years ago.
The Oilers knew what they were doing then. They don't anymore.
Just listen to this trade of Q & A between Edmonton Journal columnist John MacKinnon and Lowe from Monday's press conference, courtesy of the EJ:
Kevin Lowe: "We have two types of fans. We have paying customers and we have people that watch the game that we still care about, but certainly the people who go to the games and support, we spend a lot of time talking to them, delivering our message. I would, uh, I think it's safe to say that half the general managers in the National Hockey League would trade their roster for our roster right now. And in terms of the group that messed things up (voice rising) you're talking about the group that had the team one period away from winning the Stanley Cup."
John MacKinnon: "Seven years ago."
Lowe: "And you know the cycle of that. You know we chased the dream a few years for our fanbase. Like a lot of teams do. And then at some point in that time frame we realized that's a bad plan and we made a change. We're finishing year three of that plan. Now you say to me you're getting impatient after three years?"
MacKinnon: "It's not me. It's the fans that are getting impatient."
Lowe: "And lastly (talking loudly now) I'll say that there's one other guy in hockey today that is still working in the game that has won more Stanley Cups than me. So I think I know a little bit about winning, if there's ever a concern."
Have you ever seen a more imposing example of industrial-grade denial? In Lowe's world, dissent does equal disloyalty.
Even in the video above, listen to MacTavish blubber on about how the Oilers are still paying for the five Stanley Cups the Oilers won. He alludes to the cyclical nature of the sport and how you always follow a lot of winning with a little bit of losing.
It's as if the entire management group forgets just how long ago their glory days were. It's been 23 years since the Oilers last won the Stanley Cup. It's been 25 years since Gretzky was last an Oiler. It's been a very long time since either Lowe or MacTavish played in the NHL, and even longer since they were a part of that Oiler dynasty.
If I'm an Oiler fan -- and, I really don't mind them at all -- I got even more worried watching that farce of a press conference today. I've just realized that everyone in charge of my favourite hockey team has as much value as Tim McGraw's character from Friday Night Lights.
Lowe and MacT aren't just getting jobs because of something they did a quarter century ago. They actually believe in themselves because of it.
These guys talk about hockey like daily newspaper columnists talk about print journalism.
This is a team that still has Ryan Smyth and Shawn Horcoff on its books. Lowe has his job seemingly because he's always been an Oiler -- except for all those years when he wasn't, which kind of makes him the Michael Ignatieff of hockey -- even though he no doubt had a hand in or approved in every move Tambellini made as general manager.
Lowe also bobbled two successive offer sheets to then-restricted free agents Dustin Penner and Thomas Vanek. One worked out, and it was a terrible experiment. The second didn't work out, and Lowe got lucky with that one. Without Vanek, the Oilers saved themselves some very vital draft picks and prospects -- draft picks and prospects who are now the only reason this team has a heart beat, even if it's restricted to life support and a hospital bed.
In fact, Lowe's been around for all of Edmonton's recent years, and don't go thinking he's some kind of mad genius because of a flukey playoff run in 2006 (even if he does). I don't see the Canucks bringing back anyone from 1982 -- or 1994 -- and I don't remember the Habs hanging onto Guy Carbonneau for longer than they needed to.
The Flames, for their part, have just stopped turning to anyone with the last name Sutter. They seem to think everyone from Alberta should be a Flame, and they've been playing pre-Lockout hockey ever since the Lockout.
(And, I'm talking about the 2005 lockout.)
Say what you will about the Leafs, the Canucks, the Senators, or the Jets, but at least they seem to draft and sign players because of how well they play hockey, not because of where their birth certificate was issued.
Even the Habs have finally gotten over drafting players just based on whether they're bilingual -- a tactic that hasn't worked out since before Guy LaFleur was a Viagra spokesperson -- and now they're finally in contention for a Stanley Cup. Their captain (Brian Gionta) is American, their best two rookies are British Columbian and the Belarussian-American (Brendan Gallagher and Alex Galchenyuk) and their goaltender is from a small town in Western Canada (Carey Price).
The Habs have also finally stopped listening to their fans, at last realizing that democracy isn't at its best when it's truly a democracy.
The Oilers and Flames, meanwhile, continue to talk about their futures without any concept of what a future is (although I'll give Calgary a lot of credit for finally trading Jarome Iginla and Jay Bouwmeester).
Sure, Edmonton's had some success lately with No. 1 picks like Taylor Hall, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, and Nail Yakupov, and Lowe is no doubt pretty proud of himself ("I think it's safe to say that half the general managers in the National Hockey League would trade their roster for our roster right now").
Of course, they had to finish last -- or second last -- every year to get those picks, and all three of them were consensus Number Ones.
That's not called skill. It's a silver lining.
When this season's over, both Calgary and Edmonton will have gone playoff-less since 2009.
That's not Tambellini's fault. It's Alberta's.
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Alabama FFA Membership
Local FFA Chapter Advisors in Alabama complete their chapter's membership report utilizing the National FFA Organization's Web site (www.ffa.org). You can access the national Web site as a local FFA advisor by contacting the Montgomery Office and establishing your account as a chapter advisor or transfering your account to another chapter. The goal of the national Web site is to allow students to have control of their own information and membership. Please read the guide in the Membership Documents section below to acclimate yourself to this process. Once you submit your roster to the local and then state, you will complete an invoice (see below for invoice), please do not pay using the online invoice generated through the national Web site.
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Chapters will have an option to affiliate every agriscience student for a chapter affiliation fee based on student enrollment. The affiliation fee schedule can be found by opening the membership invoice and selecting the "Affilliation Fee Schedule" tab at the bottom of the worksheet. Affiliation fee includes district, state and national dues for all agriscience students as well as the $100 chapter fee. To utilize the affiliation option, chapters must complete a chapter affiliation agreement each year and submit to Andy Chamness at firstname.lastname@example.com or P.O. Box 302101, Montgomery, AL 36130 by October 15, 2016.
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***OFFICIAL*** Alan Belcher vs. Yushin Okami Thread
Middleweight bout: 185 pounds
I've never seen their first fight but Belcher hasn't shown me anything that makes me think he can beat Okami.
Yushin 29-28 all across the board for a UD.
Yushin Okami
Belcher destroys him. Bet all my credits on this fight already.
This will be "the Talent" show.
I'm thinking Belcher takes out Okami in devastating fashion could happen early or late but I'm thinking Belcher lands something that shakes up Okami then finishes him.
Belcher with ease.
Okami via decision.
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i think belcher is good enough to put okami in trouble at some point in the fight where okami will fold like he has done before under pressure.
Okami's good, but he's not as good as Belcher. The only way Okami is going to win is with a grinding, wrestling decision, but I just see Belcher having too much for him standing and on the ground for that to happen. Belcher just man handled Palhares on the ground, Okami's not going to have anything for him!
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So...I called, told the girl what type of surgery I had and that I had waited two months for this appointment and did not want to wait another two months if I had to reschedule, but that I wasn't supposed to, and shouldn't, drive. I was beyond nice, but everyone says I am always too nice so...I don't know. Do you know what she told me? She said the doctor my appointment was with was no longer accepting new patients and if I didn't make my appointment tomorrow, she could reschedule me with another doctor, but it wouldn't be until June. So *I* said, "I guess I'll have to drive to my appointment tomorrow then." SHE said "Okay, see you tomorrow". CLICK. I was just beside myself. I had just told her my doctor said not to drive, yet I told her I was going to drive to the appointment tomorrow, and she said okay and hung up.
I was mad, yet didn't feel I had any options. I called Mark, but he's typically busy and sent him a text - much easier to reach him that way. His reply was "Are you really going to go there?", and I started thinking about it. Long term, is this the kind of place I want to care for my psychiatric needs, a place that doesn't care if I drive or not to the appointment if another doctor has told me not to, with absolutely NO compassion whatsoever? I mean wow, at least say "I'm sorry" or anything at all to show you have a heart! OR, perhaps the kind of people that are thinking I am a psychiatric patient and may not believe a word that I am saying anyway? Yes, I know it is just a receptionist or front office person, but...that person reflects on a business.
So I found another doctor - actually, one that I think I will like much, much better and is quite a bit more qualified and while I still can't get in until June, it's June the 4th which is just a little over a month away and the receptionist made it sound like that was so booked up and felt bad about it.
I called the other office back, and while yes, I was mad, I just didn't want to go there. She answered, I said my name, my appointment was tomorrow, and that I was cancelling. I was taking the phone away from my ear and heard her voice talking and just hit the "END" button. Sure enough, maybe 60 seconds later, the phone rang. I considered not answering it, but I was curious what she had to say. She said I had hung up before she had a chance to get my information and asked my date of birth. I gave it to her and then she asked , "Do you want to cancel or reschedule?"
RE-FREAKING-SCHEDULE? What the hell? She just told me if I didn't go to the appointment tomorrow, this doctor was no longer taking new patients and I could *not* reschedule. But what would be the point in arguing with her? The world would not be a better place if I told her off, repeated what she said, tried to understand what she had meant or what she meant this time. I just said "CANCEL" and hung the phone up again.
Something about the whole psychiatric experience is a very touchy subject with me.
We've lived in this neighborhood since the beginning of February, and I'm VERY pleased to say that I just answered the door and greeted a new neighbor that came to meet us! (Bailey and I!) She was extremely nice, brought cupcakes and some information about the neighborhood, kind of like a "welcome to the neighborhood" type of thing, and told me about a welcome breakfast in June for new neighbors in the last six months. We didn't talk for long, maybe five or ten minutes? She was looking inside the house and commented that we must have the same builder with similar plans because she also has marble diamonds in her hard wood floors and then she was pointing to the front of the inside of the house saying her fireplace was like that and asked about the den and I just did not want to give her a tour! (And that I had showered - I didn't yesterday - but I wouldn't have opened the door yesterday!) Thank God the maids came today at least so it looks like we are very tidy people! (And one of us is, it's just not me or the dog, although I am immensely better, but Bailey? No, he's still a mess.)
And...more of our furniture is being delivered on Saturday. And...I ordered groceries online that will be delivered tomorrow, I made dinner last night - beef stew in a crock pot that took just 15 minutes to make, but really need those groceries so Mark will have to bring home dinner (and my breakfast) tonight. I told him to get whatever - if he brings a cheeseburger, then I will eat a cheeseburger. I will just appreciate that he brings me something to eat.
I stopped reading that website where women go for hysterectomies - for support before and after. First of all, I would post how I was feeling, then read other's posts and felt bad about what I posted. I'm not saying I am doing so much better, but usually when people take the time to write who don't normally write a blog or anything, they are really needing to get something out so it sounded pretty awful, and then I would feel guilty. No, I'm not laying in bed with people bringing meals to me - I am out of bed, watching television, walking around, but also taking it easy and not doing much, not lifting anything really but the 6 pound dog to let him out and bring him in. But I don't have people here to make meals and bring them to me, either! I am here alone, all day, until Mark gets home. Yesterday he got home at 7:30 and was in bed before 9. During that time he changed his clothes, ate dinner, washed dishes, I don't know that we talked a lot - I mean we did, but he was very tired and it was late and I didn't feel great. He didn't have a chance to do anything for me, but I can't think of anything I needed to have done like other women are saying they need. He just got the necessities done and went to bed. If I am doing better than other women, maybe I started out healthier? Maybe I had a better doctor. Maybe I am taking it easier. Or...maybe more women post when they are miserable rather than when they feel good, which is more than likely, but I don't want to hear about what I might eventually feel like! That's scary! And...I kind of got mad. One lady, another one who was in bed with meals being brought to her with two or three people staying with her to take care of her house and her kids was mad at the people who were putting her kids to bed. They weren't "doing it right". She never told them how to do it, but she was mad because when they left and she was better, it would take her weeks to get them back into regular sleeping habits again. WHAT? I don't know her, I don't know the relationships she has with the people helping her, I know none of the background that could shed some light, but if someone has taken time out of their lives to help you, I say...don't criticize the way they do it, especially if you aren't paying them. Be gracious, be kind. I'm going to go for option...she had her ovaries removed and is very emotional?
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On 3/10/14, my daughter called a locksmith because she locked her keys inside her car. She called what was advertised on the internet as a local company, to assist her. When she asked the charges , she was told there is a $19 service call and $39 and up for labor.
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When I researched this company, there are several complaints on the BBB site, even though they are not BBB accredited. Other sites also have many complaints about how this company quotes $39 and up and arrive in your desperate state and charge $150. I feel my daughter was taken advantage of majorly, due to her age and because she was female and in need.
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Maps and Mirrors: Topologies of Art and Politics
€ 85,49
Besorgung - Lieferbarkeit unbestimmt
April 2001
BeschreibungThe essays in this collection explore the links and gaps between the aesthetic and the political at the intersection of philosophy and literature. They do so by interrogating some of the major voices of aesthetic and literary theory, raising important questions about the implicit political contexts and commitments of thinkers from Kant to de Man. "Political", as it is used here, points not to positions on the political spectrum but to the ways that a critic or thinker, explicitly or implicitly, says something about the good and the just. Addressing the work of figures from Adorno and Lukacs to Heidegger and Gadamer, each essayist adopts a different perspective on the ideological structures that inform the language of the text being studied.
PortraitSteve Martinot teaches in the Center for Interdisciplinary Programs at San Francisco State University.
Untertitel: New. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: NORTHWESTERN UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum: April 2001
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Hana No Shizuku
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Hana No Shizuku
About the Hotel
Property Location
Located in Ureshino, Hana No Shizuku is minutes from Ureshino Onsen Tourist Information Center and close to Todoroki-No-Taki Falls. This hotel is within close proximity of Hizen Yumekaido and Miyuki Park.
Make yourself at home in one of the 14 air-conditioned rooms featuring flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and digital programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms have complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones, housekeeping is provided daily, and you can request rollaway/extra beds (complimentary).
Enjoy recreation amenities such as hot springs or take in the view from a garden. Additional amenities at this hotel include complimentary wireless Internet access, a television in a common area, and tour/ticket assistance.
Enjoy a satisfying meal at a restaurant serving guests of Hana No Shizuku. Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge.
Business, Other Amenities
Featured amenities include complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access, multilingual staff, and an elevator (lift). Free self parking is available onsite.
Hotel Facilities
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Total number of rooms - 14
- One meeting room
- Garden
- Free self parking
- In-room accessibility
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Elevator/lift
- Multilingual staff
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Offsite parking reservations required
- Free WiFi
- Television in common areas
Room Facilities
- Daily housekeeping
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- Phone
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- Premium TV channels
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- Rollaway/extra beds (free)
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Know Before You Go
- Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.
- The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare requires all international visitors to submit their passport number and nationality when registering at any lodging facility (inns, hotels, motels, etc. ). Additionally, lodging proprietors are required to photocopy passports for all registering guests and keep the photocopy on file.


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Beetles are quite fascinating members of the insect world. There are more than 350,000 different types of beetle, more than any other species on the planet, and they are crucial to the life cycle of their natural habitats. They may be small, but they have a huge impact on life on earth.
Hard case
Beetles have skeletons on the outside, and the frog beetle's exoskeleton is a beautiful metallic hue, like the paint job on a car from the film The Fast and the Furious. Sadly, many thousands of these mini-beasts are destined for the downstairs loo, as they are bred simply to be dried and mounted in a frame.
Thunder thighs
The stout hind legs of Sagra buqueti are where he gets his name, as they resemble those of a frog. Although they look like they could launch the beetle like a grasshopper, they only help power them up slippery surfaces. Most beetle species have wings, but some, like this fellow's, have fallen into evolutionary disuse.
Crunch time
Consider the beetle to be like a gardener (in the case of the frog beetle, his garden is south-east Asia). Its mandibles and jaw are its equivalent of a trusty trowel and fork. They chew up the substrate on the forest floor and deposit their dung back into the earth to help the growth cycle. Ingenious. Also handy for scaring off rivals.
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Frog beetles are able to climb impossible angles thanks to their "sticky" feet, which in fact carry thousands of tiny hairs. When observing your beetle in a glass vivarium, you'll be able to witness this neat trick.
Dung roamin'
Estimates reckon on there being some 200 million insects to every human being. The important job of tidying up the natural world cannot be underestimated, and in their natural habitat, frog beetles break down dead vegetation and fertilise the ground wherever they go.
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GAO-04-134: Published: Oct 31, 2003. Publicly Released: Oct 31, 2003.
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The LOCAL TV Act required that GAO perform an annual audit of the (1) administration of the provisions of the Act, and (2) financial position of each applicant who receives a loan guarantee under the Act, including the nature, amount, and purpose of investments made by the applicant. In fiscal year 2002, the LOCAL TV Program was funded; however, because it was not fully implemented in that year, there were no loan guarantee applicants for GAO to audit. Therefore, this report primarily addresses whether program administration during fiscal year 2002 satisfied the provisions of the Act.
In December 2000,the Congress passed the Launching Our Communities' Access to Local Television Act of 2000 (LOCAL TV Act or Act). The Act created the Local Television Loan Guarantee Program (Program or LOCAL TV Program) and established the Local Television Loan Guarantee Board (Board) to approve guaranteed loans, totaling no more than $1.25 billion, to finance projects that will provide local television access to households with limited over-the-air television broadcast signals or cable service. The Board is comprised of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Secretary of Commerce, or their designees. The Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Utilities Service serves as Program Administrator (Administrator). The LOCAL TV Program has not been established in an expeditious fashion as specified by the Act. Given that funds were appropriated in November 2001, thus starting the clock on the 120 days allowed for completing program regulations and underwriting criteria, the Program should have been ready for implementation by March 2002. According to the Board and Administrator, three factors contributed to program delays: (1) initial uncertainties over program funding, (2) inadequate dedicated staff resources for program activities, and (3) the decision to issue a proposed rule. As of the end of August 2003, neither of these key documents, which provide the overall framework for the Program, was ready for implementation, thus delaying lending activities and ultimately, realization of improved television reception in target areas throughout the United States. Further, the full costs of administering the Program, including those incurred by the respective agencies and departments providing support to the Board, were not accumulated and charged to the program as called for by federal accounting standards. Statement of Federal Financial Accounting Standard No.4, Managerial Cost Accounting Standards requires federal agencies to capture the costs of federal programs to assist the Congress in authorizing, modifying, and discontinuing programs and to provide agencies with reliable cost data for making informed managerial decisions and evaluating performance. Further, the capacity to capture these costs going forward is key to fully recovering certain costs of administering the Program through loan application and loan guarantee origination fees.
Recommendations for Executive Action
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: The LOCAL TV Board (Board), of which the Administrator is a member, took actions to ensure that the program regulations and underwriting criteria were issued more timely. On November 26, 2003, the Board requested that the Office of Management and Budget clear the program regulations. Subsequently, the Board issued the Final Rule, which was published in the Federal Register on December 23, 2003. The Final Rule contains all of the mandatory requirements of the Program, including the program regulations and the general policies and procedures, as well as the Notice of Application Filing Deadline. The underwriting criteria, which provides guidance to the Board to assess the creditworthiness of a loan guarantee applicant, was issued simultaneously with the Final Rule and published on the LOCAL TV Board's web site. As a result of the issuance of the program regulations and underwriting criteria, the Board will be able to begin accepting loan guarantee applications, and, ultimately, target areas throughout the United States will realize improved television reception.
Recommendation: To help ensure future timely implementation of the Program, the LOCAL Television Loan Guarantee Board and the Administrator, the Rural Utilities Service, should work collaboratively to issue the Program regulations and underwriting criteria in an expeditious manner.
Agency Affected: LOCAL Television Loan Guarantee Board
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: A number of actions have been taken that are consistent with the intent of our recommendation. The President's Budgets for Fiscal Years 2006 and 2007 provided that (1) the unobligated budget authority for the program had been rescinded and (2) that the administration was not proposing additional funds for this program. Since inception of the Program, no loan guarantees have been approved for the program. Further, as of December 31, 2006, the Board no longer has authority to approve loan guarantees. Of the $2 million that was appropriated for administrative expenses, approximately $1.3 million remained unobligated. On December 13, 2004, the LOCAL TV Act Board authorized closing out one of two existing contracts after expending about $600,000. The other contract expired on December 31, 2005. Because the costs for operating the program were accounted for and that funds are no longer available for loans or loan guarantees, this recommendation was implemented.
Recommendation: To help ensure better program management and that loan application and loan guarantee origination fees are sufficient to fully cover certain costs of administering the Program, the LOCAL Television Loan Guarantee Board and the Administrator, the Rural Utilities Service, should develop a process to ensure that future costs of the Program are accumulated, documented, and reported in accordance with federal accounting standards and related guidance.
Agency Affected: LOCAL Television Loan Guarantee Board
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The Ministry of Labour has ordered Metrolinx to stop demolition at the site of the collapse as a result of the incident while they have chosen to halt construction at all sites throughout the morning
The Post looks at Toronto's halting, jerky history of underground transit construction and why the city sells used tunnel-boring equipment for pennies on the dollar
Toronto must wait until 2020 to ride the Eglinton Crosstown LRT along Eglinton Avenue; There is, however, already a train running under the street
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Tunneling is scheduled to begin early next year on the 3.25 kilometre stretc from just east of Brentcliffe Road in Leaside to Yonge Street
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An industry group is sounding the alarm over the bundling of light rail transit lines into a 'mega-project' they say will exclude smaller Ontario firms and cost taxpayers an extra $500-million
Workers are digging a lot of tunnels in Toronto this summer. But where is all the dirt going? This seems a simple question to answer. Strangely, it is not
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As the season is coming closer and closer, we're going going to bring you our thoughts of the top 20 games since the Thunder moved from Seattle to Oklahoma City. We broke it down to about to about 50 games, and then narrowed it down to 20. We decided most were going to be wins, we had one game that was a loss in the top 20, and it's easily the most memorable lost. Well, for me at least. Without further adieu:
When: March 23, 2012
Location: Oklahoma City, OK – Chesapeake Energy Arena
Final Score: Oklahoma City Thunder 149, Minnesota Timberwolves 140 2OT
Big Players: Kevin Durant 40 points, 17 rebounds; Russell Westbrook 45 points, 6 assists
In what is considered one of the best games of the season, I don't even have the best games of the season for the Thunder. In fact, I have five other games ahead of this game. This game, however, was pretty awesome. Kevin Love was out of his mind and the big boys went for 85 points. However, everyone should remember how poorly Derek Fisher played. Went from 2-for-11, including 1-for-5 from deep. Which, his poor shooting basically kept the T-Wolves in this game.
Oklahoma City and Minnesota were neck and neck for most of the game. Kevin Love did all he could for the Timberwolves, scoring 51 points, a career high for him. Westbrook was the one who got the final laugh though. Westbrook scored nine of the 20 points in the second overtime for the Thunder, giving them the 149-140 lead.
While Westbrook and Durant were going point for point with each other, it was Derek Fisher trying to shoot his way out of a slump. He even airballed a three-point attempt, reaching the climax of a bad shooting night. While he was missing shots, the Timberwolves were hitting key shots.
Oklahoma City had multiple 10 point leads in this game. However, the Wolves never gave up. After Oklahoma came out with a 12-5 run to give the Thunder the 75-65 lead. The wolves cut the lead down to six at the end of the third quarter with a 94-88 score.
The fourth quarter had the thunder up 108-101 with 4:26 remaining, but those Wolves wouldn't go away. The capped their come back off with Kevin Love hitting a three-point shot one second remaining on the clock.
In the first overtime, Minnesota gave their fans something to cheer for when they gave them a 129-124 lead with 46 seconds left in the overtime. Then Russell Westbrook attacked the rim, and scored quickly, cutting the lead to 129-126 with 36 seconds left.
After a Love travel, Durant came up clutch, yet again. He hit a three-point shot with 10 seconds left to tie the game at 129 a piece. JJ Barea missed a deep three at the buzzer, and we headed to a second overtime!
That's where Westbrook took over, and Oklahoma City never trailed in the second overtime period. Derek Fisher hit his only three-point shot with about 28 seconds to go to seal the victory. The win improved Oklahoma City to 36-12 on the season and 21-4 at home.Looking for Oklahoma City Thunder tickets? Thunder Digest has you covered at Totallytickets.com! We invite you to follow Thunder Digest on Twitter and like Thunder Digest on Facebook. Our Podcast is on iTunes. We also have a Thunder Digest Instagram account if you love fun Thunder photography!


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BEND, Ore. - As the Pole Creek Fire continues to burn, were getting a much different view. Fire information officers released new video Thursday of a burn-out operation on Three Creeks Road.
John Nokes, a firefighter on the lines, captured the moments as flames shot into the night sky Tuesday.
The video gives more insight into what firefighters are up against as they fight the flames.
"They love it," Fire Information Officer Kristen Bowles said Thursday. "That's the reason why they love to be out there, on the ground fighting the fire."
Every morning, the day shift wakes up around 5 a.m., get their breakfast, pack what they need and are on the fire lines by 7 a.m.
"When you are out on the line, the crew boss is watching their crew members," said Bowles. "They are going to mitigate if there is some fatigue. So if somebody needs to go take a 10 minute break, get out of the smoke, rotate them out of the smoke."
For 14 days straight, a crew will spend 14 to 16 hours a day building line and fighting fire. That could even be extended to 21 days, but after that, they are mandated by the government to take several days off.
"It can be tiring, especially when you start hitting that Day 13, Day 14," said Bowles.
Thanks to advancing technology, video from the fire lines is more prevalent than ever. Firefighters come back to camp excited to share what they've captured.
"We get aerial photos as well, from our air attack that's up flying," Bowles said. "He'll send them to use as he's flying over the fire. so they are pretty real-time."
It's grueling work, but sights like the ones captured Tuesday night, and the adrenaline rush of facing Mother Nature's power, make it all worth it in the end.


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Pak launches probe into 26/11, informs India
Pakistan says it's implementing the UNSC ban on Jamaat-ud-Dawa.
Islamabad: Pakistan on Friday officially confirmed that it has started investigation in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks based on the leads provided by India in the evidence dossier.
Pakistan said it has initiated a "series" of actions in connection with 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks in the first official response to India.
The response came a day after External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee asked Pakistan to use diplomatic channels and not the media to communicate with India.
Pakistan has also said that it is implementing the United Nations Security Council ban on Jamaat-ud-Dawa.
Pakistan Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir handed over a formal reply to Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan Satyabrata Pal along with a copy of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's letter to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The information was shared with Pal after a meeting at the Foreign Office in Islamabad on Friday.
A statement by the Foreign Office spokesman said that an official inquiry has already been launched as announced by the Prime Minister Gilani in his address to the National Assembly on January 13.
Pakistan has claimed that actions and steps have been taken under the international obligations in response to the United Nations Security Council ban on Jamaat-ud-Dawa and also given on the number of arrests made.
It also said that 124 suspected terrorists have been arrested in the crackdown on terror groups the websites of Jamaat have been sealed too.
However, Pakistan has maintained that since there was no extradition treaty with India so all the culprits will be tried in Pakistan itself.
Islamabad has also formed a three-member team to investigate leads from the terror dossier.
The committee headed by Additional Director General of the Federal Investigative Agency (FIA) Javed Iqbal will be allowed to exchange information directly with Indian investigation agencies.
The other two members - Khalid Qureshi and Liaquat Ali Khan - are also from the FIA. The panel will finalise its report on the Indian dossier and submit it to Gilani.
The committee has been asked to complete the probe "as soon as possible" but it will submit weekly reports to senior officials.
India had given an evidence dossier related to Mumbai terror attacks to Pakistani High Commissioner in India Shahid Malik on January 5.
Pakistan has been under tremendous pressure from India and the international community to hold fair and transparent investigation into the Mumbai attacks.
India has blamed Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba and its front the Jamaat of masterminding and executing the attacks on Mumbai.
Even Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone terrorist captured during the attacks, told his interrogators that he along with nine other terrorists who attacked Mumbai was trained in Lashkar camps in Pakistan.
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PANDORA - Advanced Training Environment for Crisis Scenarios
Funding body
Nine partner EU FP7 project worth 2.93 million Euros of which the Greenwich budget is 300,000 Euros. Winner of Joint ICT and Security Call FP7-ICT-SEC-2007-1. Grant Agreement 225387.
Start and end dates
1st January 2010 to 31st March 2012
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- Lachlan Mackinnon
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The PANDORA project is developing a novel digital support environment and crisis simulation system to enhance and expand training exercises for Gold Commanders in crisis management.
Gold Commanders are specifically engaged in the development of strategic plans to deal with a wide range of potential crisis situations that can arise in civil society. These crisis situations could be:
- Natural events, such as extreme weather, earthquake, landslides, etc.
- Transport events, such as plane, train or vehicle crashes
- Service failures, such as electrical power plant failure, water supply failure, etc.
- Health crises, such as pandemics, epidemics, containment conditions
- Technology failures, breakdown of automated control systems, central services
- Policing and terrorism events
- Some combination of some or all of the above
In order to develop strategic plans to deal with such situations, individuals who carry executive responsibility for the services and facilities identified as strategically critical within these situations are expected to work together to generate them. These individuals are identified as Gold Commanders, and their role is explicitly strategic rather than tactical (Silver) or operational (Bronze), although in practice some individuals may also have tactical or operational responsibility.
For the training offered to Gold Commanders, the focus is on strategic planning of the response to the crisis as it develops rather than operational activities. Currently, the model of training offered to these individuals consists of group-based, table-top activities led by an expert trainer. The bulk of the information provided to the trainees is paper-based, with some limited audio-visual input, and the activities take place during an intensive, time constrained training event. These events can take place in a dedicated training environment or in a standard meeting room at a Gold Commander venue, as required. The purpose of these training events is:
- To develop the collaborative skills of the trainees in formulating strategic responses across a number of organisations and events
- To develop the strategic thinking of the trainees in considering the implications of their decisions and the effects on other services
- To develop the responsive skills of trainees in developing alternative stratagems and remediating actions in the event of the failure of a strategic response
However, the existing training model has severe limitations in achieving these goals, and is almost entirely dependent on the ability of the trainer to engage and motivate the trainees, and to assess their performance subjectively in the training event.
The PANDORA system addresses the shortcomings of the existing training model, enhances the range and scope of the training events, and offers the potential for future development by:
- Offering a fully-featured multimedia environment to provide information to the trainees, including audio, video, maps, texts, email, graphics and text
- Developing a structured, timeline-based, sequence of events, crisis scenario model running in a computer-based simulation environment controlled by the trainer
- Providing real-time operational inputs demonstrating strategic decision outcomes to trainees, asking them to dynamically revise strategic plans and decisions
- Capturing trainee behaviour and emotional state, through the use of pre-event information capture, direct sensor inputs, self-reporting by trainees, and trainer inputs, and using affective media effects to induce changes to those behavioural and emotional states
- Providing a graphical virtual representation of the training environment to support on-line distributed training events
- Providing virtual characters, in any form from textual through to full animation, to engage in the event, including replacements for missing trainees, to ensure the full scenario enactment is supported in all training events
- Providing the trainer with a full control system for the training event, including the ability to change events, add new events, expand and compress timelines, provide direct interventions into the scenario, and increase or decrease the emotional stress applied to individual trainees
- Maintaining a detailed log of the training event, to permit rerun of some or all events, modelling of individual trainee performance, and capture of relevant and useful events as exemplars for future training
- Maintaining configurable scenario models, knowledge, multimedia asset and databases to enable the system to build a wide range of crisis scenarios, to use as training events for those involved in crisis management at all levels