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The main activities of DPF are: Find for penal infringements against the public and social order or againstpublic assets, services and interests of the confederation or its autarchyentities, as other transgressions with interstate or international repercussionthat demands uniform repression in accordance to the actual laws; Prevent and repress illicit drug traffic, smuggling, without any damage to theSecretary of the Treasury; Perform the function of the Maritime, Airport and Border Polices; Exert, with exclusivity, the functions of the Judicial Police of theconfederation.MetaPass, Inc.Eric Durand, Copyright Business Wire 2009. Now that the Grey Cup is over and the Saskatchewan Roughriders lost Don Cherry-style, it's the offseason and I am down to writing one CFL article a week.I have to think of things to write about. What is immediately on the horizon is Christmas.Everybody wants something for the holiday season and the CFL is no exception. Below is a list of what Santa could bring to the league, assuming it's been good this year.On the first day of Christmas, there came to the CFL...Still grieving over the deaths of Ron Lancaster and Bobby Ackles, the CFL discovers and sponsors chelation therapy and no one connected with the league ever dies of coronary heart disease or a stroke again.As a result of the impressive attendance at the Grey Cup, Calgary decides to keep the added seats permanently boosting potential attendance to over 45,000.Ottawa football fans become impatient at the return of football to the city and petition the city council, the new owners and the CFL to do something. As a result, the construction for the renovation of Frank Clair Stadium is worked out so that Ottawa can rejoin the league in 2010 as was originally scheduled.Impressed with the sold-out Grey Cup, the 62,000 Edmonton-Saskatchewan game and the 53,000 Eastern final in Montreal, Jim Balsillie, Quebecor and a third investor pay the $7 million franchise fee and are granted franchises for London, Quebec and Kitchener for 2011. Each promises to begin immediate construction on CFL-size stadiums, 35,000 for London and Kitchener, 40,000 for Quebec. Each new stadium will have the capacity to expand either permanently or temporarily if the Grey Cup is awarded.Excited by the prospect of two new rivals, London and Kitchener, which will boost attendance, Hamilton's owner works out a deal to expand the new Pan Am Games stadium to 35,000 after the games are over in 2015, with the capacity to expand if Hamilton is awarded the Grey Cup.Desperate to improve its quarterbacking, Winnipeg signs Kurt Warner after he is released by the Arizona Cardinals because of age. Season ticket sales increase.Balsillie induces Kent Austin to return and coach the new London franchise.Pinball Clemons returns to coach the Toronto Argonauts.Determined to make a splash and get the new Ottawa franchisecompetitive immediately, the team signs Michael Vick. "The CFL has given troubled players a chance before," says Ottawa's GM. "Michael has paid his debt to society and wants to move on. He wants to be a starting quarterback again so he can prove himself and wants to show the world he's a changed man by helping to rebuild this franchise." Season ticket sales take off.Based on the Kurt Warner signing, Winnipeg scraps its original plans for its new stadium and instead increases permanent seating to 35,000.Impressed by attendance at the Eastern final and excited by having Quebec in the league, Montreal scraps plans to expand its stadium to 25,000 and moves back to the Olympic Stadium. "It's something we've always wanted to do," says Alouette president Larry Smith. "We've won the Grey Cup, we've got two great new rivals Quebec and Ottawa coming into the league. Attendance for those games alone should exceed 40,000. People here are talking CFL."Ottawa induces Cameron Wake to return. "Now we've got star players on both sides of the ball," says Ottawa's GM.In football-crazy Saskatchewan, Mosaic/Taylor Field is expanded to 40,000 seats.Desperate to improve attendance, Toronto signs Tim Tebow. "We had to do something to halt the decline," says GM Adam Rita. "And the owners gave me the green light to go out and get the best young quarterback in the game. Toronto needs a star player and Tebow should fit the bill. Now we've got better quarterbacking than the Buffalo Bills. This is the next Doug Flutie who is going to take the league by storm. Now we are talking about attendance over 40,000 each game."As a result of the successful exhibition game in Moncton next year, the new stadium is expanded to 25,000 permanent seats.In view of the increased interest and expansion in the CFL, Brock, Laurentian, Carleton, Moncton, PEI, Lakehead and Dalhousie universities start football programs and join the CIS. At the same time, the CFL makes a rule change and adds one more non-import player to each roster, providing it is a Canadian quarterback. "We want to work more closely with the CIS in the future," says Commissioner Mark Cohon. "We have to increase Canadian interest in football and it starts at the lower level. Giving Canadians a chance to star in the league is essential. We have to develop the next Russ Jackson."Because of the expansion and increased interest and attendance for the CFL, TSN and the CBC get into a bidding war and both sign new lucrative television contracts with the league.In the 2011 census, it is revealed that the population of Moncton has increased to 200,000 and that of New Brunswick to more than one million. "I think we now have the population to start a permanent franchise," says commissioner Mark Cohon. "We've staged two successful, sold-out, regular season games the past two years in a CFL-size stadium. I think we can have a successful regional team in Moncton, New Brunswick like we have in Saskatchewan. All we need is an investor."In the same census, Regina has grown to 250,000 and Saskatoon to 300,000. "I think the day is not far off when we'll see two teams in Saskatchewan," says Cohon.It is also revealed that Victoria, Halifax, Oshawa and Windsor have all grown by 150,000 new residents, making their populations at or near 500,000. The CFL makes plans to play an exhibition game in each of these cities.Quinton Porter and Adam Tafralis, like Darian Durant, improve as quarterbacks. "That is good news," says Cohon. "We were having a bit of a quarterbacking crisis, but their improvement and the recent new signings means that the CFL will have star players at the key position for years to come."A sponsor steps forward and offers to back a national punt, pass and kick competition similar to the one in the United States. Cohon is delighted and the competition is launched.Quebec becomes the first expansion team to be awarded the Grey Cup game.The Buffalo Bills' threat to the CFL is terminated abruptly when the city becomes the victim of the new investors of the Los Angeles stadium and is moved to southern California. Since the NFL has no plans for a return to unglamorous Buffalo in the near future, some local investors petition the CFL to place a team there. After negotiations, the concept is widened and the CFL agrees to set up a northern New York state division within three years with teams in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany and possible expansion to Hartford and Providence.Based on the new American division, ESPN offers the CFL a new rich American television contract, far more than that offered to the NHL, provided that the CFL also sets up a western American division. Negotiations are opened with Portland, Spokane, Boise and Butte, Montana..

"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned / Nor hell a fury like a head coach scorned." ... Legend says the Roman General ScipoAfricanus sacked the strong city state of Carthage then sowed it with salt and sold its citizens into slavery.Old Scipio sure held a grudge.Bill Belichick has done much of the same thing to the crumbling Cleveland Browns.Except instead of to slavery Browns players are sent to be New York Jets.But since Belichick sent his boys west nothing will grow, there is little talent to sow, and all the dog faced fans are filled with woe.Remember when the Browns called Belichick a clown and launched him out of townBelichick has won much renown since leaving Brown town and its the Browns that look like clowns.But that isn't enough for Bill.Somewhere beneath that Darth Vader like black hood a Machiavelli man grins and goes for yet morevengeance on the vile Browns.Why else, unless to utterlydestroy them, would a brilliant coach send the Browns exassistants like RomeoCrennel and Eric ManginiIf a coach wanted todevastate an enemy franchise are there any better weapons of team destruction then theCrennel and Mangini dirty bombsAnd Belichick used Mangini twice; once to crash his ex Jet masters and finally to raze the rotting remains of Romeo's bad Browns.Maybe there is magic in Mangini but maybe its more like the dark, destructive mojo of an evil Chucky doll with a deep paranoid streak.Maybe his old coaching men areManchuriancandidates.Maybe Belichick calls Mangini after midnight and hisses a code word and Mangini begins to design yet another dreadful game plan.Maybe Belichick flashes a queen of spades and sows the seeds of sending draft picks south soCleveland can draft a California center.Maybe Belichick controls the mind of Mangini and is using his puppet to massacre a franchise that mistreated him.Maybe Jim Brown needs to don his old Fireball outfit from The Running Man and fly to New England to fight the Dark Lord to save his beloved Browns.Its that bad in Brown land.All that and Art Modell might make the hall of fame.Belichick is sending Trojan coaching horses west to level the land and its howling fans.Its bad enough to make Doctor Evil blush but the Dark Lord of New England only grins and growls.The Browns are badder then the hated Cincinnati Bungles have ever been.And that's bad.Ogre like Oakland Raider rotten, Lovie Smith Bear bad, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers bedlam are better then the Browns.The shell struck Browns look like Ypres after the Allies and the Germans were donedevastating it during the Great War. Terror comes in trios.But what more can evil Doctor Belichick doWelcome to Cleveland Coach Weis We are sure you can bring back Brady your old boy.Nooo...anything but that Cleveland cries.Andsomewhere deep in cold New England a cloaked coach cackles.Nothing will ever grow good on a football field inCleveland ever again.But Bill, like a very bad cat with a wounded bird, wants to prolong the Browns suffering.Welcome to Cleveland Coach WeisIs even the dark lord of New England that evilOr will he continue to make Cleveland quake with hisquack ex coaches . By Martinne Geller Stocks NEW YORK, Jan 7 (Reuters) - U.S. The figures, from the retail data service of MasterCardAdvisors, offer an early indication of the weakness of Decembersame-store sales, which most chains, including Wal-Mart StoresInc (WMT.N), J.C. Penney Co Inc (JCP.N) and Gap Inc (GPS.N)will report on Thursday morning. ID:nN06418196 "The headline from the holiday season is 'one of the mostchallenging seasons we've seen in decades'. "The key variable is when you look at December,(there are) signs of stabilization." Total sales at specialty retailers, which SpendingPulsedefines as apparel chains and department stores, fell 18.3percent in December.

But that is an improvement from the 20.2percent decline the sector experienced in November. Likewise, December saw specialty men's apparel sales fall11.3 percent, versus 16.1 percent in November, and electronicsand appliances sales fell 21.4 percent, versus a 25 percentdrop in November With 2008's U.S. Thanksgiving holiday falling later inNovember than in the prior year, December accounted for evenmore of the holiday shopping period. McNamara said December sales were aided by the fact thatChristmas was on Thursday, so retailers were able to drivestore traffic over the weekend immediately following withafter-Christmas discounts Lower gasoline prices may have alsohelped, he said. SpendingPulse tracks sales in the MasterCard paymentsnetwork and couples them with estimates for all other paymentforms.

WOMEN'S APPAREL, LUXURY WORSEN Despite improvement in some areas, sales trends for luxurygoods, furniture and women's apparel worsened. Specialtywomen's apparel sales fell 20.2 percent in December, a deeperdecline than the 18.4 percent decline seen in November. Sales in the specialty retail furniture and furnishingssegment fell 21.4 percent in December, versus down 20 percentin November. But perhaps most dramatic is the decline in luxury goods,which for SpendingPulse includes sales for high-endrestaurants, leather goods, department stores and jewelryretailers. Luxury sales fell 27.6 percent in December,magnifying the decline in sales the category has seen since thefinancial crisis exploded in mid-September. Luxury sales fell 4.8 percent in September, 20.1 percent inOctober, 24.4 percent in November and 27.6 percent in December,SpendingPulse said. Some of December's weakness may be attributed to severesnow storms in certain regions of the United States just beforeChristmas, McNamara said, noting that up to about 30 percent ofa jewelry store's fourth-quarter sales can occur in the 10 daysbefore Christmas.