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You'd take a picture of the number on what screen? The jumbo tron? Why? The winner did nothing wrong whatsoever. The Bombers appeared to not want anyone to know their mistake. When they realized the mistake especially after the winner had called, they should have alerted media to the error. It's possible the winner would never have triple checked and assumed he wasn't the winner. If I buy Lotto Max I don't go down to WCLC HQ to check the numbers.

#BREAKING: #Parisagreement adopted by nearly 200 countries glbn.ca/VO54d

Good. Read an article yesterday tjat Pens fans were hoping for a couple losses to fire the coach. They are a mess. Fire the GM too. They have very little means to turn that team around now.

Just about next year time. I know that will elicit the usual chicken little replies but every loss especially in the divisional creates a really difficult mountain to climb. They just aren't good enough often enough. Need to make decisions on Ladd and Buff. If we're Trading them for pics and prospects do it sooner rather tjsn later. Unless they think they get a bidding war at the deadline.

Sorry stopped reading when you started insulting me. Don't need a science lesson from you. As far as paying attention I don't care nearly enough to recall which poster posted what other then a couple. By the same token i assume you don't pay attention to what I post either considering the direction your post was going. So we're even!

Cbc With human-caused climate change, we puny creatures are having some powerful effects on our entire planet, including one you might not imagine was possible — making it spin more slowly. The melting of glaciers near the Earth's poles and the resulting rise in sea level is slowing down the Earth's rotation and making each day a little longer, a new study confirms. Glacier melt in B.C. mountains reaches shocking levels Photos show Patagonia's massive, melting glaciers Scientists had predicted it would happen, but to their puzzlement, they couldn't measure much of an effect. Glaciers contain a huge amount of mass near the poles, close to the Earth's axis of rotation, which runs from pole to pole. When glaciers melt, the meltwater ends up in the oceans, which have most of their volume near the equator, farther away from the Earth's axis. Just as a spinning figure skater slows down as she extends her arms out from her chest, moving mass away from the Earth's axis of rotation should slow the Earth down, says Mathieu Dumberry, a physics professor at the University of Alberta who co-authored the paper published today in the journal Science Advances. Study co-author Sabine Stanley talks to Quirks & Quarks Scientists measure changes in the speed of the Earth's rotation over thousands of years by looking at records of ancient eclipses recorded by civilizations such as the Babylonians, Dumberry said. Because astronomers know the Earth's orbit very precisely, they can predict exactly what date and time eclipses should have been visible if the Earth were always rotating at the same rate as it is today. But if the Earth were rotating at a slightly different speed, the part of the Earth facing the moon at a given point during the eclipse would be different. The eclipse records showed the Earth just wasn't slowing down as much as scientists expected as the glaciers melted, based on our most recent understanding of different factors that affect the Earth's rotation. Those include: The rise in the Earth's crust near the poles once it was no longer pressed down by the weight of ice sheets from the last ice age – a phenomenon called post-glacial rebound that tends to speed up the Earth's rotation. The pull of the moon, which tends to slow down the rotation. The numbers just didn't add up, and scientists couldn't explain why. 'Like a hamster in a wheel' The new study, led by Jerry Mitrovica, a professor of geophysics at Harvard University, found there was a piece missing. We only directly observe the rotation of the Earth's surface, but the Earth's liquid core doesn't rotate at the same rate. "It's like a hamster in a wheel," Dumberry said. "The hamster runs in one direction and the wheel [turns] in the other." Changes in the rotation of the Earth's core can be detected by changes in the Earth's magnetic field. "Earth's core has accelerated," Dumberry said. "It has been moving slightly faster in the past 3,000 years." The researchers added that missing piece of information to their calculations, along with the latest tide gauge and satellite data about the amount of sea-level rise and post-glacial rebound. They found glacier melt due to climate change since the industrial revolution has caused the Earth to slow down exactly as they had predicted. How much? Don't expect too much extra time on your hands — researchers predict that a century from now, Earth's slower rotation will make each day 1.7 milliseconds longer.

Im going to repeatedly claim, everyday that 54% of scientists believe Global Warming is not happening. Im just going to keep saying it to people. Do you think it will eventually catch on?

Former Winnipeg radio DJ Chris "Shecky" Elwick just sentenced to 7 years in prison for string of sex crimes on kids. (@mikeoncrime)

Should we discredit the consensus of ninety-five percent of the world's climate scientists because Leonardo DiCaprio is ignorant about how Calgary's weather works? If not, then why the **** does this matter? Is it relevant? Ofcourse it is. Because Dicaprio (who I love as an actor) is an environmentalist who uses his celebrity to influence average people. And its am example of people getting fed information that is either wrong or they misconstrue and then the misconceptions and/or lies get re-told. We know he's wrong. We can laugh at how wrong he is. How many people think he's right?

Well the Climate Change people make it seem like this is going to happen imminently. What's the "scientific consensus" on when we can expect mass deaths from rising oceans and mass refugees from areas where it becomes too hot to survive? And more importantly, will this 1.5 degree increase that is so horrific going to make us nice and comfy all year long in Manitoba?

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If you cheated on your taxes last year, doesnt that mean you still cheated? These people were illegally ticketed. So they didnt "cheat" and should be refunded the money. Especially when you factor in that it appears the city knew this (or became aware of it) and didnt care.

Cesaro is a great example though, of a guy that can be a lot more than he is. You could certainly argue that he doesnt have the "it" factor. And one aspect of his work that is lacking is "babyface fire". But he speaks a million languages (which is a pretty obvious thing to market) and is a great worker. I'd turn him heel and be perfectly okay with fans still cheering for him, with the idea he'd be a great face down the road. Not everyone has to be The Rock. Some people can be Mr Perfect. Some people can be Owen Hart. Some people can be Earthquake. They've forgotten how to sprinkle guys throughout the roster. Its like if they dont have a main event idea for them, then they just end up as nobodies. WWE has maybe three top guys and everyone else are low-mid card. Backstage guys call it the 500 Club. Fans call it the 50-50 club. Its the same thing. Everyone is middling.

Didnt it originally say "Most popular"?

Gotta bu Hutch tonight.

Thousands of Winnipeggers have been wrongly ticketed by the city's winter parking ban since 2011 — and no one's getting any refunds. A recent court challenge made the City of Winnipeg realize it has been breaking the rules of the provincial Highway Traffic Act. Under the Know Your Zone program, introduced in 2011, parking bans were in place for 12 hours on residential streets, either from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. or 7 p.m. until 7 a.m., depending on when plows were scheduled to go through a neighbourhood. It was up to the public to know what zone they were in and when it would be plowed. The city advertised on TV and radio and posted the zones online, but there were no signs on any streets. Thousands of Winnipeggers ticketed during residential snowplowing Winnipeggers warned to 'Know Your Zone' The Highway Traffic Act, however, only permits tickets without proper signage to be issued from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. "This recently came to the city's attention and officials are working to correct this by collaborating with the province on a resolution," the city stated in a news release on Thursday. From now on, only vehicles parked from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. on a street scheduled for plowing will face a $150 ticket and possible towing. Winter parking ban update: City of Winnipeg The city said it will no longer pursue collection on outstanding tickets from previous winter parking bans. However, those who paid tickets that would now be deemed illegal are out of luck. "If payment has been made, refunds are not possible because legally, the matter is considered settled," the city states on its website. City officials plan to speak to reporters about the new rules at 1 p.m. Class action lawsuit Todd Dube, founder of the traffic-ticket-fighting group Wise Up Winnipeg, said he will launch a class action suit against the city if it doesn't offer refunds to wrongly ticketed drivers. He estimates the city owes about $10 million. Between 2012 and 2014, the city issued nearly 25,000 residential parking ban tickets during declared snow clearing operations, according to data from the Winnipeg Parking Authority. Of those, 75 per cent were issued between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m. — an enforcement time-frame the city now says was not permitted. The whole issue came to light when Dube challenged a ticket he received last February during a snow-clearing parking ban. Dube was originally convicted but appealed the ruling on the basis of the Highway Traffic Act. The Crown eventually entered a stay of proceedings in the case, essentially exonerating Dube. He believes the reason was "to avoid having the argument heard" and letting the city's "illegal" ticketing become public knowledge. "They needed this to be as quiet as possible and for it to go away," he said. "I shouldn't have been convicted in traffic court [in the first place]. I just spent $10,000 to have the law actually heard." In addition to the ticket refunds, Dube wants the city to pay him for those court costs.

Financial Post (From October) Details of two international agreements were released on Monday. One, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which reduces trade barriers between 12 signatories, including Canada, got lots of ink. The other, which purports to control global weather, end the era of fossil fuels, and place all human activity under bureaucratic control, got very little. The pretensions of the latter text, released by the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action, ADP, which is assigned to come up with an agreement to put to the vast UN climate meeting in Paris in December, are mind-boggling. The fact that they attracted little attention means either that the media and public have no idea of the climate agenda’s implications, or that nobody takes the agenda seriously. Probably both. After all, the UN has been promoting the “urgent threat of climate change” for more than 25 years. The Paris text’s most significant feature is its lack of detail. It starts with the suggestion that the parties recognize “the intrinsic relationship between climate change, poverty eradication and sustainable development.” But although the relationship may be intrinsic, it is far from clear. Insofar as the promoters of the agreement seek to starve poor countries of financing for “maladaptive” fossil fuel development, they are promoting poverty. Developing countries want nothing to do with having wind and solar foisted on them. They are gung ho for coal. They are also interested in the annual US$100 billion of handouts, starting in 2020, that was promised six years ago at Copenhagen but that, true to form, has not materialized. Many countries, including Canada, have committed, with fingers crossed, to emissions reductions targets, but few have specific plans. Not only will a giant interlinked series of new bureaucracies oversee programmes to regulate the climate and encourage appropriate technology and development to end poverty. They will negotiate these joint wonders while ensuring sensitivity to women, natives and the disabled. Their call to action claims to be based on “the best available scientific knowledge,” yet it also incorporates “traditional” — that is, distinctly non-scientific — knowledge. Among additional “preambular paragraphs” being considered is a reference to “Mother Earth.” This is not just a spiritual add-on. As a provider of “environmental services” Gaia needs to be paid. Since she has no bank account, the UN is more than prepared to act as her proxy. The document is a compendium of parentheses, that is, wording or issues that have yet to be decided. One parenthesis suggests that the famous 2 degrees Celsius rise in global temperatures (since before the Industrial Revolution) that will put us at an existential tipping point might be changed to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Could that be a recognition of the inconvenient fact that global temperatures are refusing to rise despite unprecedented increases in the CO2 that is meant to drive them? The desperation to negotiate a deal is obvious in provisions that signatories may be able to pull out after three years, and that there are no penalties for non-compliance. And: As the Paris climate summit approaches activists are gearing up for the final push through November and into December, although the movement suffered a bit of a downer over the weekend. Hurricane Patricia, building as a major hurricane of unprecedented proportions, fizzled as a climate mega-disaster into a mere tropical storm, leaving behind no opportunities for media and negotiators to use it as a pre-Paris PR bonanza. As news of Patricia reached Europe at a climate change negotiating session in Bonn on Friday, the head of the Mexico delegation, Roberto Dondisch, said Patricia was evidence the frog was already in the boiling water. A reporter for Climate House quoted Dondish saying “I don’t think I need to say more about the urgency to get this deal done.”

Another expert weight in: Actor Leonardo DiCaprio attracted widespread derision from the people of Calgary after he cited the city’s famously unusual weather as “terrifying” evidence of climate change. “We would come and there would be eight feet of snow, and then all of a sudden a warm gust of wind would come,” DiCaprio told Variety.com, describing it as a “scary” vision of things to come. “It’s terrifying, and it’s what people are talking about all over the world. And it’s simply just going to get worse.” While Alberta winters do seem to be getting warmer lately, sudden shifts of temperature have been a Calgary winter staple for centuries. Known as Chinook winds, they are sudden gusts of warm, coastal air that coarse over the Rocky Mountains, leaving a trail of instant snow melt.

Wont take long before we must start a Provincial Election thread. I bet there will be far more consensus on that one than the Federal election. Interesting article from the Sun about the proposed St Norbert by-pass (I live in the area so Im very intrigued by this): Bypassing the truth St. Norbert mega-project is mega-problematic By Tom Brodbeck, Winnipeg SunFirst posted: Thursday, December 10, 2015 04:32 PM CST| Updated: Thursday, December 10, 2015 05:00 PM CST Infrastructure Minister Steve Ashton announced plans on Thursday to build a $400-million bypass around St. Norbert. That's funny. The Selinger government has neither the money nor the credit left to build much of anything these days. But that won't stop them from making many more of these mega-project announcements between now and the April 19 provincial election as they attempt every last trick in the book to stave off near certain defeat at the polls. The actual "government announcements" have to stop by Jan. 20 under the province's election law black-out period. Governments aren't allowed to "advertise or publish any information about its programs or activities," 90 days prior to voting day, under the Election Financing Act. But with an election period starting as early as mid-March, the NDP — like all political parties — will be able to make whatever election promises it wants, as long as the politicians making them aren't doing so on behalf of government. The St. Norbert bypass announcement was de facto an election promise. Officially it was a government announcement. But because the proposed project is so far off in the future — they haven't even started the design phase — and because government has no money to pay for it, it falls squarely in the election pledge category. Officially, the NDP says the $400-million bypass is part of its eight-year, $10-billion infrastructure spending plan (they recently extended it from a five-year, $5.5-billion plan). But they don't really say where most of this money would come from. They claim it comes largely from the extra point on the PST, which generates close to $300 million a year in additional revenue. But that money goes into general revenues. Most of the money used to pay for infrastructure projects is borrowed money. So the question becomes, how much more can the government borrow to pay for mega-projects like the St. Norbert bypass before it faces multiple credit rating downgrades? The more downgrades the province gets, the more expensive it is to borrow and the fewer options it has on where to borrow from. It becomes a downward spiral that isn't easy for governments to escape from. Which is why they should avoid it in the first place. The Selinger government was already the subject of one credit rating downgrade in July and the recipient of a warning from another bond rating agency in August. It has nearly doubled its net debt over the past eight years to $20.4 billion (which doesn't include Manitoba Hydro debt) and increased its debt-to-GDP ratio every year since 2007 to 30.9%. Manitoba Finance projects that ratio will continue to climb in the foreseeable future under the current rate of borrowing. In other words, the government is broke. They're running half-billion dollar annual deficits and they're racking up well over $1 billion a year in new debt from overspending and from financing new capital projects. So no, there is no money for projects like a St. Norbert bypass and there won't be until government cleans up its finances and starts getting its spending under control. If anything, the more the Selinger government announces, the more likely it is that taxes would have to rise — another PST hike or some other tax increase — to pay for the interest costs on the new capital spending, in addition to any new spending in the operating budget they promise. This is where governments end up when they live beyond their means for multiple years. Eventually, it catches up to them. And taxpayers are left with a massive financial mess.

I assume that stronger Hurricane in 1969 was the direct result of the impending ice age. Good thing we over-came that.

Valid explanation, so how was Harper spending those funds within the same family budget? Cats. And Cat-wranglers.

So you see SW7 and ST3 trailer. Casting Joe White as Khan...now THAT was beyond stupid. Yes, hoping our local theatres keep ST3 trailer attached to Star Wars. For STID, I actually went to see that incredibly boring Hobbit film just for the special "preview" of STID that was attached. According to Orci, they wanted to avoid casting someone that looked Middle Eastern (or latino passing as Middle Eastern like Ricardo Montalban in the original) for political reasons. Orci is a truther and thought having a character (Khan) portrayed as a terrorist AND be Middle Eastern was just too much. When asked if he would change Lincoln's ethnicity, he sarcastically remarked that one is real and the other is fiction. Which shows his lack of respect for the source material. The bigger issue with Khan is that Orci didnt want Khan, Damon Lindeloff did. They write the film as if "Khan" was not Khan and then decided it would fit after all. So in hindsight it;s not wonder this Khan was nothing like the original. Although most of the characters are nothing like the originals which is again, a lack of understanding and respect of the source material by the writers. Captain Pike was the best character and he was essentially an original character for these purposes, making him easier to write. Side note, Benicio Del Toro had been close to the Khan role but dropped out last minute. So at least initially, they were following the Ricardo Montalban route. The other aspect to STID that made it flop was, as I mentioned, Orci is a truther. The plot is a pretty obvious War on Terror analogy with Admiral Marcus as Cheney and Khan as Osama-style "terrorist" with the message that "we" are the bad guys and the "bad guys" are sympathetic. Trek is great when commenting on modern issues and War on Terror was relevant. But Orci couldnt write a fleshed out story, he couldnt make us believe "Cheney" acted from a place of legitimate concern. And thus, the plot collapsed on itself. It was simply Anti-American. The riff on Wrath of Khan at the end was icing on the cake of a lousy story. The "death" scene that was undone moments later, the Spock sobbing over the death of his recent friend more so than he did over his mother, the idea that Trans-Warp makes ships obsolete and Magic Blood eliminates death...all of it awful. A junior high creative writing class could have done better.

and when there are two sides arguing about what the data means and one side has 90% of the support then you simply write off the 10% as quacks. Science isn't opinion, if the 10% had valid interpretations they would be taken more seriously. This is how science works. For a hypothesis, test hypothesis and data either confirms or refutes hypothesis, other scientists try and replicate the data gathered and determine if your experiment was good or bad. Science is always questioning everything and it's always adapting. That's why the ice age stuff from the 70s disappeared. Not because science is wrong, but because science is always searching for the correct answer. Always. Your arguments really do sound a lot like the creationists, which is arguing from a point of not understanding the scientific process. Well I suppose we could employ the "he who yells loudest is right" or the "I say you suck so Im right" methods. But realistically, there is science on both sides. if you're saying you'd write off 10% of scientific study or result, I'd say you're simply being very closed minded. Scientists can certainly tie lay people up in knots. But there has been plenty of easy to understand opinion and information in this thread that makes it pretty silly to swallow the Global Warning stuff without a second thought. By that token, if we were able to have this discussion in the 70's you'd be telling dismissing me and others when we questioned if we really were entering an Ice Age. You'd say ofcourse we are, the "scientists" say so. The world warms and cools. What is very disingenuous is the information provided to the general public does not generally include this information. It doesnt say "at some point, the ice caps will melt no matter what humans do, at sea levels will rise, and coastal cities will be under water. It is inevitable that this will happen at some point in the life of the planet. So anyway...we sill think we can hold that off for awhile by doing this...." they dont frame it like that. They frame it like "we can stop this from happening." You cant stop it from happening. So at what point do you think there is a limit to the expense of trying? Especially versus (as others have pointed out) saving lives right now at a fraction of the cost? Do you really think all life on earth will end due to man-made global warming in the next 100 years? I dont. I hope I live for another 100 years and you do too...so I can say I told you so.

It was as much a secret as Christoph Walsh being Blofeld in spectre. They tried to deny it but everyone knew the story before the movie came out. Funny enough, I saw it twice in the theater. First showing was the hardcore fans who would have known or strongly suspected he was Khan and they reacted by laughing. The scene was so poorly done. The second time I saw it, was more of a casual audience and the reaction was a mix of silence and "Whaaaat...." in a confused way like they had heard of Khan from the original and knew this was stupid. Best part is, when the film came out, Orci went off on fans who were critical. He continued to insult fans ever since. But recently, the other writers and even Abrams himself admitted the story/script was bad and Khan was a mistake. Orci ended up getting fired from the third Trek film as writer & director. Unfortunate because his story included William Shatner which would be awesome to see.

Im almost tempted to go into lockdown mode on Star Wars info for the final week. I have tickets to afternoon showing on Friday. Im a sucker for spoilers but.... I anticipate a few surprises and/or twists and it would be cool to not know going in. Unlike say, Star Trek Into Darkness where they kept the Khan twist a secret and it was beyond stupid.