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Also admitted that the issue with replays at IGF is a problem. I find this absurd. Firstly that a Bombers employee would screw it up and secondly that teams are relying on replays on the screen. Why can't they PVR the game and control their own replays?

Why wouldn't Adams, the offensive captain or MOs say to the ref "don't you remember that our guy checked in?"

Trouba is a RHD. Stu-trouba chiarot-Buff

I don't recall the details but I seem to recall Bush giving a pretty enthusiastic speech calling for focus on getting back to moon, establishing bases and getting a man on Mars. Now I cAnt say he funded it properly but he set an agenda for nasa. Obama scuttled it and called for private enterprise to do it. I'm not partisan on this. Both sides have failed deeply at significantly advancing space exploration. Man on Mars? Based on moon? It's simply a matter of money and desire. That's it. We could do it if we chose to.

That's partisan nonsense. When a republican was in office the talking point was Harper was too close to the President. It's absurd to think the PM can't call the President. And I don't think Canadians fall for that. Besides canadians generally don't want to be seen as too chummy with the Americans so that positioning might backfire on Trudeau @acoyne: Harper: if you really want to poison the rel’ship w/ the US, pull out of Syrian mission and tell Obama he’s continuing policies of GW Bush.

The pop Dean Malenko got when he pretended to be a masked wrestler to get at Jericho. He unmasked and it was insane. The cruiser weights were phenomenal. Jericho's whole schtick back then was really good. The return of Ric Flair and the Four Horesemen Savage's feud with DDP that put DDP on the map. Sting's fake betrayal of WCW and his transition to the crow Sting. Flairs feud with Savage that rekindled WCW's house show business. The West Texas Rednecks (hilarious) Chris Benoit's best of seven series with Booker T. The Latino World Order. Flair in the insane asylum. Honestly I wasn't even much of a wcw fan because we didn't get it here at first. But I have lots of non nWo memories. The nWo overshadowed everything else to an extent though. Bisch had a number of reasonably successful TV projects.

@stephen_taylor: Mulcair thinks the audience is stupid. Refineries would take 30 years to build and would cost $30 billion.

@evansfsc: "We have Canadians that don't have jobs because our PM doesn't have a good relationship with Barack Obama!" ...huh? #trudeau #MunkDebate @CTVNews: Trudeau suggests we have a PM doesn't like Obama. Harper responds he has a great relationship with US administration, including Obama.

This isn't going to go over well @Jenni_Byrne: .@JustinTrudeau defends terrorists having Cdn citizenship. #cdnpoli #elxn42 #MunkDebate @MelissaLantsman: Liberals: Citizenship for terrorists. What has happened to this party? @marcomendicino didn't you go after the Toronto 18? #MunkDebate @CTVNews: Trudeau: 'A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian." #MunkDebate @S_Blair1: Justin is working really hard to defend terrorists #MunkDebate

Arctic ice Hockey The Winnipeg Jets initiated their latest round of training camp cuts, and there were some reassignments of note. With Patrice Cormier, Matt Fraser and Matt Halischuk on waivers, they would appear consigned to the role of AHL call-up depth. This leaves Andrew Copp, Nik Ehlers, JC Lipon, Nic Petan and Thomas Raffl to fight over however many open forward spots there may be, an unknown number considering the abundance of defencemen still hanging around. At least one, if not two of those remaining combatants will find themselves on the chopping block in the not-too-distant future. Of the other names who have been reassigned, Josh Morrissey's chances were always hampered by Winnipeg's glut of defencemen on one-way contracts. Scott Kosmachuk was as much if not more so a fringe candidate for the bottom-six as the aforementioned Halischuk and Fraser. Brendan Lemieux generated a fair amount of buzz and speculation, but ultimately didn't curry enough favour to offset the developmental benefits of going back to Barrie. Joel Armia constitutes perhaps the only genuine eyebrow-raiser. Armia was a player expected by some to be a full time NHLer come 2015-16, prior to being a not-insignificant piece of the Evander Kane trade. As a 22-year-old former first round draft pick with a couple of AHL seasons already under his belt, he was an easy candidate to pencil in as part of the Jets apparent youth movement. But in what was likely a disappointment for the organization, he failed to blow the doors off this training camp. And if the decision was a toss-up between Joel Armia and, say, Thomas Raffl, as Mike Babcock once uttered, "The tie goes to the veteran". It must be said though, that failing to make the Winnipeg Jets out of training camp does not mean we should write Joel Armia off as a prospect or NHL possibility. Rather than playing limited minutes in the Jets' bottom-six (and almost assuredly on the 4th rather than 3rd line), Armia will likely see significant playing time in the Manitoba Moose top-six, while still under the watchful eye of the Jets braintrust. Armia struggled with the organizational system (while possibly playing injured) when first joining the IceCaps last season; another year in the AHL gives him time to further grow into it. And as a waiver-exempt player still on his ELC, the Jets can provide him that time without the risk of losing him for nothing. What do you make of the most recent wave of cuts? Be sure to share your thoughts in the Comments section below, and as always, thanks for reading!

Hollow words. Her president grounded the manned space program. American astronauts have to use Russian rockets to get to the ISS. Thats the Democrat way.

@HillaryClinton: .@NASA has found water on Mars. There is no limit to what we can discover when we explore, ask questions, and listen to science.

So you're saying we should not explore the evidence of water until we have actually felt the water in our hands? I know thats not what you're saying, Im being facetious. But this is how these guys make a living, using science and whatever else to come to conclusions about things they cant touch. They believe it to be water. Now we must go find out. I remember when that meteorite was found years ago that contained a fossil of a microbe from Mars and it was MAJOR news. There were breaking news cut ins to live TV. President Clinton did a press conference. This should immediately result in the government altering their 2020 Mars plan and sending a fully sterilized rover to the best spot to scoop up and "touch" water and test for life. In a perfect world, they'd make it a return mission and have samples sent back to Earth. No more *****-footing around.

True. But according to them, its pretty clear. No one has yet walked over and scooped up a handful of wet sand. But splitting hairs. Thats why we *need* to do just that.

Armia was a major disappointment for the jets brass Where was this quoted by Maurice or Chevy?

Hey we found flowing friggen water on Mars and the best chance of LIFE...lets NOT go there because we're too cheap to properly sterilize our equipment. What could be more important to humanity as a species than this?

New York Times: Scientists reported on Monday definitive signs of liquid water on the surface of present-day Mars, a finding that will fuel speculation that life, if it ever arose there, could persist to now. In a paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience, scientists identified waterlogged molecules — salts of a type known as perchlorates — on the surface in readings from orbit. “That’s a direct detection of water in the form of hydration of salts,” said Alfred S. McEwen, a professor of planetary geology at the University of Arizona, the principal investigator of images from a high-resolution camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and one of the authors of the new paper. “There pretty much has to have been liquid water recently present to produce the hydrated salt.” By “recently,” Dr. McEwen said he meant “days, something of that order.” In 2011, Dr. McEwen and colleagues discovered in photographs from the orbiter dark streaks descending along slopes of craters, canyons and mountains. The streaks lengthened during summer, faded as temperatures cooled, then reappeared the next year. They named the streaks recurrent slope linae, or R.S.L.s, and many thousands of them have now been spotted. “It’s really surprisingly extensive,” Dr. McEwen said. “It’s very definitive there is some sort of liquid water,” Mr. Ojha said. The perchlorate salts lower the freezing temperature, and the water remains liquid. The average temperature of Mars is about minus 70 degrees Fahrenheit, but summer days near the Equator can reach an almost balmy 70. Christopher P. McKay, an astrobiologist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., does not think the R.S.L.s are a very promising place to look. For the water to be liquid, it must be so salty that nothing could live there, he said. “The short answer for habitability is it means nothing,” he said. He pointed to Don Juan Pond in Antarctica, which remains liquid year round in subzero temperatures because of high concentrations of calcium chloride salt. “You fly over it, and it looks like a beautiful swimming pool,” Dr. McKay said. “But the water has got nothing.” “If it was too salty, they would be flowing year round,” Dr. Stillman said. “We might be in that Goldilocks zone.” R.S.L.s are treated as special regions that NASA’s current robotic explorers are barred from because the rovers were not thoroughly sterilized, and NASA worries that they might be carrying microbial hitchhikers from Earth that could contaminate Mars. In selecting the landing site for the 2020 rover, the space agency is ruling out places that might be habitable, including those with R.S.L.s.

Possibly but he's still the boss so it falls on him. He gets the credit for the good and the blame for the bad that happens under his watch. Arquette was barely under Eric's watch. Arquette came in in April 1999 and Eric returned in April 1999. So while he would have had to agree to it, it was a Russo initiative and Eric was reluctant at that time to fight with Vince. Eric was asked if he could work with Russo and Eric was trying to do so.

Brandon, Ill try and reply to each one of your points: WCW had a history of high flyers before ECW. They created the the Light Heavyweight Championship in 1991 as a vehicle for Brian Pillman (and Jushin Liger). And they had a business relationship with New Japan Pro Wrestling which had more traditional "high flyers". Where Eric first saw guys like Eddie Guerrero, Rey Misterio etc, it was a a PPV called When World's Collide featuring talent from AAA (Mexico) and produced by WCW and Eric Bischoff. That PPV was the first real national American exposure for that style of wrestling and those wrestlers. If I recall, Eric wanted to bring in Eddie and Art Barr as a tag team (they were a very good tag team) but Barr died. It is true that Eddie, Malenko, Benoit etc went to ECW and Eddie & Malenko went to WCW about a year later. But Eric wasnt clueless to those guys. Benoit had worked for WCW before (so did Eddie but I think it was before Eric's time). Paul Heyman always knew he'd lose those guys because they were too good to wrestle on the smaller stage of ECW. I dont think it's say Eric stole them from ECW. Because of the relationship with New Japan where those guys also worked, it was probably inevitable they'd work for ECW. Those guys went to WCW when Nitro launched. Eric needed more talent. This was a brand new two hour weekly show. He needed talent. And he wanted talent that was not only different and unique compared to WWE but different compared to most of his upper card which were heavyweights. Raven, for sure, he took him virtually unchanged. But that was not uncommon in wrestling back then where a guy developed a character over years and used that same character wherever he went. ECW was very over-rated to an extent. Raven was a top guy in ECW. A mid card guy in WCW which I think was appropriate. I'd use Mike Awesome as a better example if I was arguing WCW ripped off ECW. But realistically, if WCW ripped off ECW, WWE did so far more. ECW was little more than a development territory. Every one of those guys wanted to go to WCW or WWE to make more money and have a less grueling style. WWE and WCW often went after the same guys (Public Enemy for example). Sandman couldnt be Sandman in WCW. So they gave him a new name and essentially the same gimmick. But Sandman basically sucked and was little more than a great entrance and a less charismatic and talented Steve Austin. As for Austin, both Austin and Eric tell the story that Austin was miserable. He was hurt and Eric had his secretary call him and Austin said tell the MF'er im not home (or something to that effect). So Eric fired him. They both agree Austin deserved to be fired. Keep in mind, in WCW, Austin got a way bigger push than he got in WWE initially. The only reason Austin went to ECW was because he had a non-compete with WCW which wouldnt allow him to go to WWE and he was still injured. WWE dropped the ball with Austin big time and if not for Hunter getting punished in 1996 (allowing Austin to get his spot), we dont know when Austin would have exploded. Yes, he made Kevin Nash booker. And that was an awful decision. But WWE had bad bookers too. But in the late 90's, it was easier to sink a company creatively. Eric tells the story that Nash had always been very creative so he thought booking was the next logical step. He was wrong. Nash was terrible. The nWo expanded because they planned to make an nWo TV show and needed enough guys to make it a viable promotion/touring group on its own. When that didnt come to fruition, they began splitting it off into factions to try and make it more elite. But I certainly agree it was a poor idea. The WolfPac was a good idea in that it was very over, sold lots of merch. But it further buried WCW as a brand. yes, WWE created new stars because they had no choice. Vince was adamantly opposed to the idea of doing so and was probably more stubborn than Bischoff hence why Cena has been a top guy for, what, 15 years? They simply had no choice. They screwed up on Austin, they screwed up on Rocky and they are lucky they got second chances on both guys. Bret left, HBK suffered a career ending injury shortly thereafter. They had to push Austin, Rocky and Hunter. Shane McMahon had been pushing Vince to go more adult themed for ages. Shane watched ECW and UFC. Now, ECW had a major impact on WWE and WCW because they attracted a different demographic that both decided they wanted. But WWE raided ECW as much as WCW did. And Vince secretly financed ECW for a time and Paul pushed guys to WWE over WCW. As for Jay Leno, it came on the heels of using Dennis Rodman and Karl Malone and receiving a ton of publicity and large PPV buy rates (The Bash at the Beach Buy Rate was more than double the two previous months), so they went back to the well. Using celebrities is fine. Jay Leno got them some interesting media including Bisch and Hogan crashing the Tonight Show, but it was too soon after Rodman and Malone so the mainstream media mostly tuned it out and the buy rate suffered. But they had to do it when they did because part of getting Jay was doing it at Road Wild for the Sturgis Biker Rally. David Arquette was Russo's idea. It was April 25th 2000 and Eric had just returned to WCW in April and admits he was trying to get along with Vince. He was gone by July. Russo defends the move as generating a bunch of publicity, which it did, though it was a terrible wrestling idea. David donated all his pay from WCW to charity. Here's the timeline: WWE sucked in the mid 90's. WCW was arguably better (better wrestling, better talent, better angles). But WCW was losing money. Eric becomes head and immediately makes changes and cuts to get WCW out of the red. As WCW rose, WWE dropped. WCW had edgier, cooler programming. By the time WWE countered with edgier, cooler programming, they took it further. WCW wasnt able to go as far due to the corporate sensibilities and content restrictions. Thats not an excuse because they could have just been "better" without having more T&A. But WWE rode to the top on the back of almost no wrestling, lousy wrestling and loads of T&A, adult language and crash TV booking. WCW was competitive for much of 1998, after WWE had regained the ratings. But WCW suffered from corporate BS. There is no doubt Eric and many of his decisions hurt the company in late 1998 and 1999. He was too chummy with his top guys, he was reluctant (in a ratings battle) to "re-build" with newer/younger talent, made the wrong decisions (Sting, Bret, Flair to name a few). But WCW's real decline came after he was sent home. If I was arguing against Eric, I'd point to his run in TNA where they were worse creatively then when he got there but arguably better from a TV production stand point and Eric was very popular with SPIKE TV execs. Thats really his bread and butter.

I certainly noticed him and he was singled out for strong play in at least game one. So yes, that would defy the definition of invisible.

There is a difference between criticizing someone for things they deserve and criticizing them for things they dont. If you list ten things to be critical of Eric for, I will tell you which ones are true and which ones are false. When dealing with facts, opinion doesnt matter much. Sort of like saying Smackdown's rating are rising when its in comparison to one week ago and three weeks ago they had their lowest rating of the year. If you asked me to list all the things I consider myself an expert on, Id have none. Except wrestling. Opinion is: Eric was a poor booker and a lousy performer (because someone else could say they loved his angles and loved his performances. Facts are things like: turned WCW from a money loser to generating the most revenue of any wrestling company in the history of the sport.

(CNN)[breaking news update at 11:40 a.m.] NASA scientists said Monday they believe they have confirmed that water intermittently flows on the surface of Mars, a discovery that may have ramifications in the search for past or present life on the planet.

Im glad you arent a scout for the Jets if you only have "Awesome" and "Invisible" as your grading options. lol

Thats a good point except its completely untrue. At worst, he faded as camp went on but did not look like all hype or lost. Very interesting keeping Helle. I wonder if contracts and the Moose will play a part. For example, if Maurice says to Chevy, Helle is our guy, does Chevy say wellllll, but we can send him to the Moose, Hutch needs waivers and the Moose would be better with Helle and Comrie rather than Comrie and whomever...

Just a matter of time. And it will be Nordiques. Why wouldnt it be. Jets being Jets made it that much more obvious.