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About 90 per cent of federal loans given to the first group of Atlantic technology firms under a highly touted assistance program announced a decade ago are unpaid.

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MacDonald says a memorandum of understanding the committee is working on with Tourism Charlottetown would clearly lay out the city’s expectations and also give the city more of a say in how the money is spent.

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Good for you Councillor!  I suspect what we just heard was a pucker from a few operators.

Solo was a big pup.  At 700 grams he was a whopper.  Born with an attitude he was yipping at 10 seconds and ready to eat before mom quite understood what this little black thing was.  At two days old he climbed out of a laundry basket to get at a teat.  He is now 17 days old and what a great little guy he is.  His first two weeks were spent living the dream - suckle a tit, belch, fart and then pass out.  (What more can a male ask for?).  Now he is getting his coordination sorted out and is starting to walk around. 

One of the concerns with any pup is the weaning process.  It has to happen.  This morning, he wobbled over to mom’s breakfast dish and started to chow down.  Amazing and welcome.  Time to start offering him his own bowl.  In a few more weeks, he will be going to his new home in Nova Scotia where he will join his own pack of 3 other Canines and two people.  He is going to a dear friend of herself who lost their 7 month old male to cardiac arrest and he will have a wonderful pack to share his life.

We have worked hard not to get attached to him, but he is a winsome little rascal.  I suspect he will be a very nice boy as an adult but he will need someone who understands strong willed Sheps.

In answer to Rob’s question.  I too faced a similar decision.  Different reasons but no less shattering.  I left.  Yes, Rob it is like dying and for me the absence was like death.  Perhaps more like purgatory than death – but always with a yearning to return.  It was 23 years ago.  I have friends who have little connection with place, and it is something I will never understand.

My destiny was and is this place.  It took me 4 years, but I found my way back.  I have never regretted my return. 

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The plague has been found in a dead prairie dog in Saskatchewan’s Grasslands National Park, but staff say the risk the notorious disease poses to people is “very low.”

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After spending six weeks this summer tootling around Niagara Falls, Stratford and Waterloo, Ont. — creative ground zero for BlackBerry-maker RIM — famed physicist Stephen Hawking says the Earth is doomed and mankind should flee to space.

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Part of riding motorcycles safely is luck and experience.  Luck to make it to a point of having experience.  While experience is no guarantee, it does help.  Only last evening I was speaking with others who share my passion for riding about the plethora of 肛門の開口部 that seem to be littering our highway. 

I encountered one today.  Going East on Macintyre Road, there is a tasty little S turn toward the end of the road.  It is a beauty.  Two 45 degree turns taken at a slow speed is just plain fun.  As I approached the corners I noticed a car on the shoulder to the right and at the beginning of the turn.  The first of the turn goes left.  WARNING.  I kept watching the car and as I got quite close, it pulled out in front of me and commenced a U-turn in front of me.

Hard brake – both front and rear – assess – can I stop in time – no – assess  can I make it around his front or should I go for the rear – decision – go front – release brakes and accelerate - (subconscious seems to have noticed that car is now at a dead stop in middle of road) – make it with inches to spare.

Coast to a stop and get off bike and stride back to vehicle with intention of politely suggesting more care in operation of vehicle.  Young kid and he made the mistake of grinning. 

There are two things I know for sure.  The next time he will not grin.  The second is the next time he will not grin.

What gives me (just a little) reassurance is that my reaction was completely without conscious thought.  It was pure reaction.