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  1. I think that was Denis Potvin. Who was on the Florida Panthers broadcast team.
  2. So 7 new forwards and 3 new defencemen. Maybe they'll start playing like a team by Late February.
  3. This is precisely why the money printing (or expansion of monetary supply) did not result in inflation from 2009-2221. In fact the Central Banks could not even hit their targets of 2%/year inflation.
  4. Last year Radulov had worse offensive stats than Chris Tanev.
  5. Powerful quake in Afghanistan kills at least 1,000 people The epicentre was in Afghanistan's Paktika province, near the border with Pakistan A powerful earthquake struck a rural, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, killing 1,000 people and injuring 1,500 more in one of the deadliest quakes in decades, the state-run news agency reported. Officials warned that the already grim death toll may still rise. Information remained scarce on the magnitude-6.1 temblor that damaged buildings in Khost and Paktika provinces. Rescue efforts are likely to be complicated since many international aid agencies left Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover of the country last year and the chaotic withdrawal of the U.S. military from the longest war in its history. The death toll given by the Bakhtar News Agency was equal to that of a quake in 2002 in northern Afghanistan. Those are the deadliest since 1998, when a 6.1-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tremors in Afghanistan's remote northeast killed at least 4,500 people. Neighbouring Pakistan's Meteorological Department said the quake's epicentre was in Afghanistan's Paktika province, just near the border and some 50 kilometres southwest of the city of Khost. Afghan boys site near their damaged house that was destroyed in an earthquake in the Spera District of the southwestern part of Khost province on Wednesday. Hundreds were killed after the quake struck the mountainous region in the eastern part of the country. (The Associated Press) Footage from Paktika province near the Pakistan border showed victims being carried into helicopters to be airlifted from the area. Others were treated on the ground. One resident could be seen receiving IV fluids while sitting in a plastic chair outside the rubble of his home and still more were sprawled on gurneys. Other images showed residents picking through clay bricks and other rubble from destroyed stone houses. Afghan emergency official Sharafuddin Muslim gave the death toll in a news conference Wednesday. Earlier, the director general of state-run Bakhtar news agency, Abdul Wahid Rayan, wrote on Twitter that 90 houses have been destroyed in Paktika and dozens of people are believed trapped under the rubble. Bilal Karimi, a deputy spokesman for the Taliban government, gave no specific death toll but wrote on Twitter that hundreds of people were killed and injured in the earthquake, which shook four districts in Paktika. "We urge all aid agencies to send teams to the area immediately to prevent further catastrophe," he wrote. People carry injured to a helicopter following a massive earthquake, in Paktika Province, Afghanistan, on June 22, in this screen grab taken from a video. (Bakhtar News Agency/Reuters) 'Response is on its way': UN In just one district of the neighbouring Khost province, the earthquake killed at least 25 people and injured more than 95 others, local officials said. In Kabul, Prime Minister Mohammad Hassan Akhund convened an emergency meeting at the presidential palace to co-ordinate the relief effort for victims in Paktika and Khost. The "response is on its way," the United Nations resident co-ordinator in Afghanistan, Ramiz Alakbarov, wrote on Twitter. TOPSHOT - An Afghan child is treated inside a hospital in the city of Sharan after getting injured in an earthquake in Gayan district, Paktika province on June 22, 2022. (Photo by Ahmad SAHEL ARMAN / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD SAHEL ARMAN/AFP via Getty Images) (AFP via Getty Images) After the Taliban swept across the country in 2021, the U.S. military and its allies fell back to Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport and later withdrew completely. Many international humanitarian organizations followed suit because of concerns about security and the Taliban's poor human rights record. In the time since, the Taliban has worked with Qatar, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates on restarting airport operations in Kabul and across the country — but nearly all international carriers still avoid the country, and reluctance on the part of aid organizations to put any money in the Taliban's coffers could make it difficult to fly in supplies and equipment. The Afghan Red Crescent Society, however, sent 4,000 blankets, 800 tents and 800 kitchen kits to the affected area, according to Bakhtar's director general, Abdul Wahid Rayan. The Italian medical aid group Emergency, which still operates in Afghanistan, said it sent seven ambulances and staff to the areas closest to the quake zone. "The fear is that the victims will increase further, also because many people could be trapped under collapsed buildings," said Stefano Sozza, country director for Emergency in Afghanistan. "This latest tragedy cannot but further the condition of fragility and economic and social difficulties which Afghanistan has experienced for months." Tremors felt in Pakistan and India In most places in the world, an earthquake of this magnitude wouldn't inflict such extensive devastation, said Robert Sanders, a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. But a quake's death toll more often comes down to geography, building quality and population density. "Because of the mountainous area, there are rockslides and landslides that we won't know about until later reporting. Older buildings are likely to crumble and fail," he said. "Due to how condensed the area is in that part of the world, we've seen in the past similar earthquakes deal significant damage." In this photo released by the news agency Bakhtar, Afghans look at destruction caused by an earthquake in the province of Paktika early Wednesday. (Bakhtar News Agency/The Associated Press) Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in a statement offered his condolences over the earthquake, saying his nation will provide help to the Afghan people. Mountainous Afghanistan and the larger region of South Asia along the Hindu Kush mountains, where the Indian tectonic plate collides with the Eurasian plate to the north, has long been vulnerable to devastating earthquakes. Pakistan earthquake kills at least 23, injures hundreds The European seismological agency, EMSC, said the earthquake's tremors were felt over 500 kilometres by 119 million people across Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. In 2015, a major earthquake that struck the country's northeast killed over 200 people in Afghanistan and neighbouring northern Pakistan.
  6. While it's not unheard of to manipulate the closing print (price) in this case I am going with coincidence. When there are a lot of MOC orders (market on close) the bigger players can close the stock where they wish, within reason. But it's usually done for options expiry or the last day of the quarter. Times where the closing price actually matters and not just for sh**s and giggles.
  7. My dad got to 86 which was a bit of a miracle. To all the Dad's on CDC have a great day.
  8. Corey Perry is a one man version of the Buffalo Bills. He's gonna lose in the finals for the 3rd straight year.
  9. If you're referring to me. I didn't say it was an underpay. I said WTF would Chicago do this?
  10. You're taking 69 goals out of the line up and replacing them with Atkinson's 23. How long are we projected to suck for until the drafted players can replace that production?
  11. They're entering a complete rebuild. Would you do that with a 25 year old, mostly likely overpaid, inconsistent, injury prone player? And the 1st round pick. I wouldn't mind parting with that if we hadn't traded away so many early picks the last 2 years. Chicago is said to be seeking "a young player, high draft picks, and top prospects". So we're probably out.
  12. Why does Chicago do this? So their rebuild can last way longer?
  13. "Scooby Dooby Doo" - Scoobert Doo
  14. "The Lion does not concern himself with the opinions of the sheep." Tywin Lannister
  15. Dozens dead, hundreds infected, but health authorities fight to conceal B.C. hospital outbreak findings Vancouver - A CTV News investigation into COVID-19 outbreaks in hospitals in the Lower Mainland has resulted in scant information from health authorities, which have fought disclosure even though hundreds of patients and staff have contracted the virus in hospital and dozens have died as a result. For months, multiple attempts to obtain information and documentation around investigations, responses and fallout from COVID-19 outbreaks in Lower Mainland hospitals have been met with stonewalling, redactions and insistence that no such documentation exists, even though lives were lost. Fraser Health fought a months-long battle with a freedom of information request, ultimately resulting in 79 pages of written documentation, of which 55 pages’ worth were redacted. Every page is marked “Confidential,” and some say “Confidential Do Not Distribute.” Meanwhile, a Vancouver Coastal Health privacy officer insisted that – despite the deadliest COVID-19 outbreaks taking place in that health authority – there was “no documentation” to provide under the Freedom of Information and Privacy Act. A public health officer for VCH pointed out the BCCDC does not require them to produce a report. The Information and Privacy Commissioner may ultimately decide on whether a semantic decision about what constitutes a “report” should’ve been produced under the Information and Privacy Act, which compels public bodies to produce information. The possibility that there is no paperwork would raise other issues around documenting viral transmission and mitigation efforts in lethal outbreaks during a pandemic. Fraser Health cited three sections of the act in redacting the large swathes of information: s. 22, pertaining to personal information of staff and patients, but also s. 13, “information that would reveal advice or recommendations developed by or for a public body or a minister,” and s. 17, “disclosure harmful to the financial or economic interests of a public body.” RECURRING PROBLEMS IN EARLY OUTBREAKS CTV News filed a freedom of information request after a Fraser Health communications staffer directed us to obtain the information that way, while Vancouver Coastal Health’s communications department never provided the information, despite several requests. In the few pages that contain information, Fraser Health’s outbreak reports describe common issues in outbreaks at Abbotsford Regional, Burnaby, Delta and Surrey Memorial hospitals. Among these issues were patients who were unknowingly COVID-positive moved between units, staff who didn’t distance or wear masks outside of patient treatment areas, issues with clutter and hygiene, questionable adherence to personal protective equipment rules and staff who were working while infectious. “Whether all (health-care worker) cases were infected on (the) outbreak units or elsewhere in the site and in what direction transmission occurred (patient-to-staff, staff-to-patient, staff-to-staff) cannot be determined,” say most of the reports, with most adding: “Transmission may have occurred through direct contact between cases or through contact with a contaminated environment.” While the outbreak report writers encouraged a low threshold for testing staff and patients, infection control specialists who investigated the documented outbreaks did not proactively test everyone in the hospital and instead screened for symptoms; spot-testing random people. The outbreak at Delta Hospital was particularly noteworthy because the unnamed unit where the infections took place “experienced a high bioburden of SARS-CoV-2 during the outbreak.” “Air flow measurements found the actual air changes per hour (ACH) to be below the design expectations,” the report reads. “International experience with COVID-19 and observations of super-spreading events in various settings suggest crowding and poor air flow may contribute to outbreaks.” This week, CTV News asked to speak with senior health officials at both health authorities to find out how investigations were conducted, what measures were taken in the first 24 hours, what recommendations were made and if they were implemented. Neither health authority gave an interview, nor a written statement. SWIFT DENUNCIATION OF GOVERNMENT SECRECY The executive director of the B.C. Freedom of Information and Privacy Association was taken aback by the stonewalling from health authorities. “There shouldn't be anything that they're afraid of disclosing to the public here,” said Jason Woywada. “One of the primary elements in a health-care system is providing assurance to the patient that they're going to be treated appropriately – and that means someone knows before they go to an ER or a hospital that they aren't going to get sicker by going there – that they're not going to go in with a broken arm and out with COVID-19.” He said the public needs to know that efforts are being made to quash the spread of the virus. “Making sure that communication is undertaken and there's transparency in terms of what changes have taken place is really important and that is something we'd hope we would see," said Woywada. The official opposition echoed those sentiments and added that the public could be reluctant to seek medical attention if government isn’t clear about what lessons are being learned to keep people safe from getting COVID-19 in hospital. "I think it's incumbent on health authorities to provide us with information and data that actually backs up their protocol, their procedures they have in place,” said Liberal leader Shirley Bond. “It is a pattern that has developed with this government: We continue to see a reluctance to be transparent. It's disappointing and frankly it should've been fixed long ago." MULTIPLE ACUTE CARE OUTBREAKS ANNOUNCED The two health authorities have declared dozens of outbreaks at hospitals, where staff or patients who’d been virus-free contracted COVID-19. Virtually every hospital in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley has had at least one outbreak, with hundreds infected and dozens dead. Among the worst: Burnaby General Hospital: a dozen people died and more than 100 were infected at the facility last year Lions Gate Hospital: three outbreaks, with 52 people infected and at least 16 dead in the last two Surrey Memorial Hospital: a three-month-long outbreak starting Nov. 18 saw 125 people infected on site, 13 of whom died On their websites, the health authorities only list ongoing or recent outbreaks, removing old ones after they’ve ended. Currently, Fraser Health has one at Mission Memorial Hospital, which has had at least one previous outbreak. Woywada is urging the government to be proactive with information on something as vital as our hospital system, which he maintains is in government’s best interests. “Trying to hide behind redacted documents and all these other elements and not getting the information out there as quickly as possible can erode trust in public institutions,” he said. “That's ultimately why we're advocating for more transparency. I would hope they would re-examine that."
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