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Fingers crossed this may now be resolved. In terms of cpu and disk usage, everything has been back to normal levels for the last 6 or 7 hours. If this lasts through the day, I'd say we are good.

If only we lived in a world where billionaires paid for their own god-damned facilities.

I think Cui said “**** it” and left.

He’s been a beast. On much lower Carries than last year. The best rb in the league is Canadian again, and a Winnipeger. He also happens to be even better this year at blocking. He’s been phenomenal, soo happy for him

The CFL needs Cui as much as Dorman in BC... Real shame to lose him.

Thanks @Rich, I know I speak for many on here when I say that we really appreciate everything you do- thank you for all your hard work. This an awesome community that you've created here.

At this point... the CFL reffkng and the ******* command center are a ******* joke... instead of making the right call at any point, initially or as a correction they double down and post **** like this; And this statement or "reason" is not a reason at all other than, "because we say so".... **** them. I see @BaconNBigBlue disagrees- good, I would some sane explanation as to why that was not flagged. Honestly, if you disagree, I would be more than happy to hear your take on it.

The name change is not the problem. Attendance and fan interest will dry up in any market if you can't win a home game in 3 years.

Yeah, feel like I need to invest in one of these to keep rebooting the site

Pretty much what it sounds like. Probably not chucking passes but standing well behind and visualizing taking the reps, going through some motions. That way he is fully comfortable with what ever buck changes to the play book and plans for the the first drive.

Maybe they should start charging a PST 😉

that's my thought... he desperately wanted to make changes and the board wouldn't let him, so he said "aiiigh, I'm out...."

Sorry to hear this... I thought he was doing a good job at the beginning of the season to try and create some excitement around the team. The fact that the GM and Head Coach have tanked the team is definitely not on him. I feel like Cui and Jones probably butted heads and Jones won out by being tighter with the board.

Wade Miller: https://winnipegsun.com/sports/football/cfl/winnipeg-bluebombers/bombers-ceo-miller-non-committal-about-contract-extension-for-gm-walters

I was disagreeing with the Tweet not you. I 100% disagree that it was a good call. Late on a downed player and a hit to the head. The player could have easily "jumped" over. If you watch it, he actually drags his knee and hits Zach in the head with it.

Tom Richards makes a lot of excuses bit refuses to admit they ****** up going all in on Chris Jones.

Edmonton can't fire Jones without being severely hampered due to the Operations cap. This is probably the only change they can make so they have the appearance of doing something for the fans and attendance. If this is the reason for this, very unfortunate for Cui who gets handcuffed with a coach and GM he didn't hire and couldn't fire. Not sure the operations cap is the best thing for the league. Have to think that without it, Jones would have been fired long ago. Imagine if we couldn't fire Joe Mack and Tim Burke because we didn't want to be hampered by the operations cap for the next couple of seasons.

Buy the $27 seats… sit in the $65 section… I’m sure there won’t be too much competition for those seats

Cui should be CFL Commissioner. Someone who knows about building a brand in today's marketplace. Instead, we're stuck with a loser like Ambrosie. I don't think Cui could ever have done anything as the name change & the hiring of Jones all happened before he was brought in as Elks President.

So much this - imagine Wade being told he was stuck with Mack and Burke for four years…

Hot Take: Calgary is a dumpster fire that's almost as bad as Edmonton, and I say roll with Brown this week to give ZC8 some rest if he needs it........

If you're asking me, I don't even know enough to know that I don't know.

Cui was handed the mess and wasn't given the opportunity to even try to fix it. He started the season with some good marketing to get people in the seats, but there's only so much you can do from a marketing perspective when the team is so bad that fans are wearing paper bags on their heads. If he had hired Jones, then 100% I would agree with you, but the fact that the board signed that contract before hiring Cui, I can't blame him for anything that is wrong with the team right now. Agreed with others that I felt that he was like Doman in BC. Was he good at his job? Who knows, maybe he was, maybe he wasn't, but we'll never know because the team on the field is so bad that nobody can market it and create a good game day experience successfully.

Marketing Filipino fighters to Filipinos. A little bit different than managing human and financial resources of a professional football team. You guys have to pick up Dustin Neilson's podcast. Would not be surprised if scandal looming on the HR side.

The football side of things in Edmonton is pure tire fire… so yeah the YEG homegrown marketing guru who has founding and building a $1B sports marketing business on his resume is the problem… -edit- just saw JBR’s post. Haven’t heard those specifics. Figured the stadium was empty because of four straight years of sucking. Maybe a case of the pond being too small for Cui.

To celebrate with their own fans. The Riders and Lions running into Edmonton's stands is absolute stupidity and just inviting trouble.

fwiw, it sounds like it's going to be a shitty weather game Friday... as of right now we've got rain all day and a high of 13, and periods of rain with a low 7 at night. Might be a ground and pound game...

Don't even get me started on the "deal" they made to build a new arena in calgary. So angry. Just put in in Lawlers area code and let him bring it on. And then let Brady smash some fools.

I wondered if we might follow the BC way... have Zach as 3rd string. See how Brown looks with the other team having more tape on him...

oh I thought he had some starts....played regularly tho

gotta say...picture perfect eh? zero chance other than Maybe Brown, and possibly an aging out vet somewhere....prob moreso the foot soldier vets With Cup here in 2025....The key pieces to the band will be kept intact

well no need to get full dressed if u not gonna participate....but he there...going through the process....not too concerning....he's one of those vets who really doesnt even need to practice anyway

PST? What are you a🤣 Commie? 😉

for a supposed world class city, they have the shittiest facilities in the country. It's so ******* embarrassing. They were looking into co-hosting the Commonwealth Games with Edmonton as a way to get government funding for new facilities in Calgary, and just recently announced that it would cost too much money out of pocket, so they're not going to do it. Another avenue down the drain. Just the absolute worst decision makers in this province.

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Love it, but I think you hurt Maier's feelings.

No. I refuse to blame the league for Edmonton's incompetence. It's Edmonton's board who handed the keys to Jones. Gave him way too many roles, for way too many years, for way too much money BEFORE even hiring a team president. Now people are trying to blame the league? Nope. Don't buy it. How many staff's should a team be allowed to pay at once? Digging themselves in a hole so they can collect on the new league revenue sharing so we get to pay for their mistakes? F that.

Best part about McMahon is the pieces that break off the stadium, first 30k fans get concrete and rebar!

Bitcoin like any Crypto-currency requires a lot of computer power. If you know anyone that runs a Cryto-rig, they usually have several dedicated computers to do perform the operations needed to make their various transactions. To simplify it, think of these "transactions" like earning a penny for each successful one. So the more transactions you do, the more money you get. Similar to how you would mine for gold in the olden days, the computer is a pickaxe, the internet is the mine. So each computer is a miner. What malicious people do (e.g. hackers), is they try to find insecure servers. Once the hacker breaks into the computer, they installs the crypto-software, on the compromised server, and turns that into another one of it's miners. The crypto-software essentially takes over the computer, and slows down everything on the machine (e.g. like the website running this form), turning this computer now into another miner for Bitcoin. Hope that explains things in non-IT terms @Rich thanks for getting the site back up!

Rock star. Thanks Rich. Without this site, it's just work all day long.

need aBlue Jersey??...me thinks u secretly have one anyway lol

4 things revealed by Trump’s Georgia indictment Analysis by Aaron Blake Staff writer August 15, 2023 at 1:38 a.m. EDT (Edited for brevity) 1. The ‘co-conspirators’ do get indicted — in Georgia, at least The biggest way in which this indictment isn’t like the others? The Trump allies it ensnared. Smith opted this month to bring a case against Trump alone while listing six unnamed (but mostly easily identifiable) associates as unindicted co-conspirators. Willis has gone in a different direction, also indicting 18 others she says took part in the criminal enterprise. Those 18 include five of the six unindicted co-conspirators from the federal indictment, most notably former New York mayor and federal prosecutor Giuliani, who faces 13 counts of his own. The others: Powell, who is accused of orchestrating a breach of voting machines in Coffee County, Ga. Trump lawyer John Eastman, a key figure in the alternate-elector plot Trump-aligned lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, another key figure in the alternate-elector plot Former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, whom Trump aimed to install as acting attorney general and who attempted to get the DOJ to bolster baseless claims about voter fraud Others of note, who weren’t listed as co-conspirators in the federal indictment, include Meadows, Trump campaign legal adviser Jenna Ellis and state Republican Party Chairman David Shafer. These aren’t the first non-Trump white-collar defendants to be prosecuted for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election — Michigan’s attorney general recently indicted 16 alternate Trump electors, including a former state party chair — but these are the first ones close to Trump. The indictments could ramp up pressure on the defendants to provide information and possibly even serve as witnesses against Trump, either in Georgia or in the federal case, where charges could still be brought against them. 2. The indictment focuses on false statements, oaths A core Trump defense in the federal Jan. 6 case is the idea that he was merely exercising free speech. But that defense won’t work as easily in Georgia, which has a broad prohibition against making “a false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation … in any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of state government.” That law figures heavily in the indictment, with the phrase “false statement” appearing more than 100 times, including as individual counts and as part of the alleged racketeering. (The indictment lists 161 overt acts as part of the latter.) Defendants like Trump and Giuliani are accused of making false statements about voter fraud publicly, in legal filings, in hearings in Georgia and elsewhere. Another frequently included crime is solicitation of violation of public oath by a public officer. Essentially, this amounts to asking someone to violate their sworn duties, including by asking them to help overturn a legitimate election result. The most notable example: Trump’s Jan. 2, 2021, call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) during which he told Raffensperger he needed to “find” just enough votes to overturn the result. Meadows was also indicted over his role in the call. Trump and others, including Giuliani, Eastman and Chesebro, are also charged in the alternate-elector plot with various conspiracies, including to commit forgery, a charge that was also brought against the Michigan alternate electors. 3. The crimes allegedly went well past Jan. 6 One of the more striking details comes in the 38th and 39th counts — the last charges against Trump — which date to Sept. 17, 2021, nearly eight months after Trump left office. The charge has to do with a letter Trump sent to Raffensperger in which he enclosed a report alleging that 43,000 ballots in Atlanta-based DeKalb County were not properly handled using chain-of-custody rules. Trump suggested that Raffensperger “start the process of decertifying the election, or whatever the correct legal remedy is, and announce the true winner.” The indictment accuses Trump and others of having “corruptly solicited Georgia officials, including the Secretary of State and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, to violate their oaths to the Georgia Constitution and to the United States Constitution by unlawfully changing the outcome of the November 3, 2020, presidential election in Georgia in favor of Donald Trump.” After Trump left office, many Republicans urged him to stop talking about a “stolen election” for fear it would damage their party in the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. But Trump was unswayed. It wound up costing the GOP in the 2022 election, and now it’s cost Trump in the form of additional charges. 4. The political impact might not be the trial The prosecution of Trump and the others in Fulton County will stand out for one distinct reason: Unlike the federal trials (unless the rules change), it should be televised. That will seemingly bring a measure of transparency to the high-stakes proceedings and create appointment viewing — just as the House Jan. 6 committee hearings did last year but potentially with even greater numbers. But unlike the other trials, that spectacle is less likely to play out when it matters politically. The many defendants and Trump’s already crowded legal calendar make this a strong candidate for getting delayed past the 2024 election. Willis says she will ask for a trial date within six months, but that’s ambitious. That doesn’t mean it won’t matter politically. As noted above, the charges against Trump allies could matter when it comes to how the federal prosecution takes shape. Trump’s attacks on witnesses could create problems under Georgia’s witness intimidation laws, which allow bail only if there is “no significant risk of intimidating witnesses.” And there remains the possibility of Trump’s winning the 2024 election and facing this trial as a sitting president. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/15/takeaways-trump-georgia-indictment/

No way Zach plays this week. Itll be the Dru Brown airshow friday.

Dimes to dollars he supports the squashing of Roe vs Wade.

Might go to the game Friday night, first Friday night in Calgary in a while. Tickets are dirt cheap to go to McMahon.

Several dozen of us hitting refresh every few seconds should help a lot I think