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  1. Bottom line is that Kane will be our highest paid player next season and this year he was 7th in points and 6th in goals. Not good enough.
  2. Right. Because humans have perfected engineering to the point that only earthquakes can ever harm any man made structure. Nothing else could ever go wrong.
  3. Which part of the article wasn't factual? There is no opinion or bias there. To deny it is to deny reality. Nuclear power is dangerous.
  4. After being cut from the Lions in 2012, he spent 2013 playing baseball at Arizona Christian University. My bet is that he showed up to one of our free agent camps and did enough to earn another look.
  5. The destruction of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March 2011, caused by an earthquake and subsequent tsunami, resulted in massive radioactive contamination of the Japanese mainland. In November 2011, the Japanese Science Ministry reported that long-lived radioactive cesium had contaminated 11,580 square miles (30,000 sq km) of the land surface of Japan. Some 4,500 square miles – an area almost the size of Connecticut – was found to have radiation levels that exceeded Japan’s allowable exposure rate of 1 mSV (millisievert) per year. About a month after the disaster, on April 19, 2011, Japan chose to drastically increase its official “safe” radiation exposure levels[ii] from 1 mSv to 20 mSv per year – 20 times higher than the US exposure limit. This allowed the Japanese government to downplay the dangers of the fallout and avoid evacuation of many badly contaminated areas. However, all of the land within 12 miles (20 km) of the destroyed nuclear power plant, encompassing an area of about 230 square miles (600 sq km), and an additional 80 square miles (200 sq km) located northwest of the plant, were declared too radioactive for human habitation.[iii] All persons living in these areas were evacuated and the regions were declared to be permanent “exclusion” zones. The precise value of the abandoned cities, towns, agricultural lands, businesses, homes and property located within the roughly 310 sq miles (800 sq km) of the exclusion zones has not been established. Estimates of the total economic loss range from $250[iv]-$500[v] billion US. As for the human costs, in September 2012, Fukushima officials stated that 159,128 people had been evicted from the exclusion zones, losing their homes and virtually all their possessions. Most have received only a small compensation to cover their costs of living as evacuees. Many are forced to make mortgage payments on the homes they left inside the exclusion zones. They have not been told that their homes will never again be habitable. http://www.psr.org/environment-and-health/environmental-health-policy-institute/responses/costs-and-consequences-of-fukushima.html
  6. Pretty surprising. However Wally knows the value of CFL experience, we all knew he was not going to go into the season with 3 untested rookies behind Lulay... This is him telling Marcel Desjardins to PFO with his outrageous asking price for Kevin Glenn.
  7. Look what has happened from the Fukushima disaster alone!!
  8. We should be expanding hydroelectric power to never-before-seen levels. The real power is in ocean currents. The tides come in each day, and each day they go back out? Unexplainable. But that is movement on such a massive scale. We should be harnessing that power, instead of leaking radioactive material into the air like 17to85 says.
  9. Yes let's all use nuclear power. Who cares if it wipes a town off the map every 25 years or so. Efficiency is the name of the game! And nuclear waste? Forget about it! We can just bury it.
  10. No way.... the Miz is awesome...
  11. Why would he be looking to trade Westerman? Because he told Wally he won't be extending Not quite. He told Wally he didn't want to extend right now... not that he wouldn't consider it in the future. He probably wants to use this year to prove himself as a starter and get starter's money, which I'm sure Wally isn't offering at the moment.
  12. Stupid when he had 17 in the lockout season. He was on pace for 30 in that season (technically 29.something but we're rounding up to make a point) and had 19 in his sophmore season and 14 in his rookie season and he has 17 in 60 games right now, I don't care what kind of excuses you want to come up with, Kane is at least a 20 goal player and guys who can hit between 20 and 30 goals are worth more than people want to admit. Especially when they're over 6 feet tall and skate that well. Stupid? It's a fact, it can't be stupid. Guys who score between 20 and 30 a year (even though he has only actually achieved that once) generally aren't making 6 million, whether you care to admit it or not.
  13. He's only had over 20 goals once in five seasons. Awful big investment based on one decent year.
  14. http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/jets-star-slapped-with-bc-suit-253687451.html
  15. http://www.bluebombers.com/article/bombers-add-two-import-dbs Bombers Add Two Import DBs The Winnipeg Blue Bombers announce today the club has added import defensive backs Don Unamba and Phillip Benning. Unamba (6-1, 192, Southern Arkansas, February 23, 1989, in Arlington, Texas) had his most successful collegiate season in his senior year of 2012, when he finished fifth on the team with 47 tackles (37 solo), added three interceptions for 66 yards, while setting a school-record with 17 pass break-ups, in 11 starts. Unamba also blocked two punts in his final season at Southern Arkansas. He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the St. Louis Rams following the 2013 NFL Draft before being released on June 14th. Since then he moved on to another tryout with Buffalo but was released in August 2013. Benning (6-0, 180, Texas State, January 1, 1991, in The Colony, Texas) played his college football at Texas State University. In 2012, Benning recorded 32 tackles and 3 passes defended for the Bobcats as a regular defender. As a junior in 2011, he recorded 15 tackles and three pass breakups.
  16. You asked, man. I thought you honestly didn't know.
  17. Flory's statement reeked of "rookie move." This is not going to end well for the PA.
  18. Maybe Ted can work out a deal with Ralph in person now..... Ha April Fools! Got ya
  19. Buck Pierce was Buck Pierce 10 years ago
  20. Not trying to defend Pavelec, but that was not a typical "third period with a lead". The Jets were thoroughly dominated and couldn't get the puck out to save their lives. Pavelec takes his share of the blame but that was a total team collapse without question.
  21. Team totally fell apart
  22. John Beck, Chris Hart, Jarrett Lee. No CFL experience outside of Hart's time on the BC PR, but Lee and Beck are both interesting in their own ways.
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