You don't think you’re RICH?
Yes you are!
•You have time.
•You have food.
•You have water.
•You have a roof.
•You have health.
•You have friends.
•You have internet.
•You have freedom.
•You have technology.
•You have the gift of today.
•You have endless opportunities.
You are ALIVE & you are RICH!
You'll never get August 28th, 2026 again.
So go stack wins, be grateful, be kind, cherish loved ones, build a life you're proud of, & be thankful for every blessing!
Will Ferrell's "Old Prospector" sketch on SNL was taped during dress rehearsal but didn't make to air because the cast kept laughing so much it made the sketch run way too long for the live show. Watch Chris Kattan especially barely keep it together 😂
Michael Jordan says losing is not the opposite of winning, it is just another part of winning
“I hate losing. It’s not even a question. But I have to respect losing…”
“Because losing is a part of winning. You never just win. You’ve got to lose to win.”
“Losing is going to hurt… To a point where you look at… How can I do things different? How can I change? How can I make this team better?”
“Before you can look at someone else… You’ve got to look at yourself in the mirror. That’s how things get started. You’ve got to be willing to change.”
10 signs you're doing well in life:
1. You have a roof over your head.
2. You ate today.
3. You have a good heart.
4. You care for others.
5. You have clean water.
6. Someone loves you.
7. You try to do better.
8. You have clean clothes.
9. You have dreams.
10. You’re breathing.
@Sports1440@KevinKarius@Eddie_Steele97@SportsnetSpec Just listening to the podcast from this morning and I need to correct all 3 of you. Oilers sold out EVERY game (549) for 13 years that ENDED in 2019 so DURING the decade of darkness FYI
Canada's Defence Policy Architect Was Fired After Warning That Anti-American Rhetoric Serves Beijing. Her Lawyer Wants to Know Who Gave the Order. https://t.co/fY9nC7IkFV
More than a hundred years ago, San Francisco built a city out of jewels and then tore almost all of it down on purpose.
You are looking at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition of 1915. For ten months, on six hundred acres along the city's northern waterfront, San Francisco raised an entire fantasy metropolis of palaces, colonnades, fountains, and towers, and invited the world to walk through it. Nearly nineteen million people did.
What makes it almost unbelievable is the timing. Only nine years earlier, in 1906, San Francisco had been flattened by one of the worst earthquakes and fires in American history. Much of the city had burned to the ground. The exposition was the city's answer to the world: not only have we survived, we can build something more beautiful than anything you have ever seen.
At its heart stood the Tower of Jewels, 435 feet of triumphal arch and tower rising over the fairgrounds. Its surface was hung with more than 100,000 small cut-glass "jewels," each dangling on a tiny hook so it would tremble in the wind. By day they flashed in the sunlight. At night, more than fifty spotlights were turned on them, and the entire tower shimmered above the bay like something out of a dream. People had never seen anything like it...
Around it spread a city of wonders. The Palace of Fine Arts, a vast Roman ruin reflected in its own still lagoon, designed to evoke the beautiful melancholy of a vanished civilization. The Palace of Machinery, so enormous that an airplane was once flown inside it. Grand courts and avenues lined with sculpture, all built in a soft, unified palette of color, glowing under the new technology of indirect electric light.
And nearly all of it was designed to disappear. When it closed in December 1915, the dream city was systematically pulled down.
Only one structure was saved. The Palace of Fine Arts, the most beloved of them all, was considered too beautiful to lose. Decades later it was rebuilt, and it still stands in San Francisco today, the last survivor of an entire city that existed for less than a year...
Perhaps that’s what haunts us most: not that we built temporary palaces, but that we chose not to keep them. We built beauty knowing we would destroy it, as if beauty itself were disposable. Roger Scruton once said: "There is a deep human need for beauty, and if you ignore that need in architecture, your buildings will not last, since people will never feel at home in them."
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Lots to hate about the Vegas franchise.
But giving a second chance to Carter Hart isn't one of them.
The judge in the case didn't just find no guilt, she exonerated the accused. finding as a matter of fact there was no sexual assault, that the sex was consensual.
If you're curious to know the facts of the Hart and his Hockey Canada teammates case, here is summary of the 11 key findings of fact in judge Maria Carroccia's ruling:
1. That Carroccia found the complainant, E.M., to be both unreliable and not credible in her testimony about the events of the night in question, June. 18, 2018 in London, Ontario.
More than that, Carroccia found that E.M. had given her consent to the sex acts with the men that night. The Hockey Canada Five were always presumed innocent until found guilty under our system, but Carroccia’s finding does more than find them not guilty. It essentially exonerates them, though we will all likely agree that they acted in poor and immature fashion that night and needed to do more to treat E.M. with care.
2. The judge also found that the notion “believe all women” is a political slogan, but goes against fundamental Canadian values that work to ensure that no innocent person is found guilty without a fair trial.
3. That key video evidence from Jack’s Bar where E.M. met Michael McLeod and other Hockey Canada players that night forcefully and completely contradicts what E.M. said about the players initiating overt sexual contact on the dance flooor, and that E.M., in fact, put her hand on McLeod’s crotch area on the dance floor.
4. That key video evidence from the bar that night forcefully and completely contradicts what E.M. claimed about getting plied with drinks from the players. In fact, E.M. bought almost all of her own drinks.
5. That key video evidence contradicts what E.M. claimed about the players trying to separate her from her friends.
6. That key video evidence and E.M’s own testimony contradicts her claim that she was completely out of it that night due to alcohol consumption.
7. That E.M. had reasons to fabricate a false narrative based on numerous factors, including making things right with her own boyfriend.
8. There was repeated and consistent testimony, including from Crown witnesses Tyler Steenbergen and Brett Howden, that E.M. pushed for the players to engage with sex acts with her, and in the end Carroccia accepted this evidence as fact.
9. That there was numerous evidence of E.M.’s testimony been unreliable.
10. That E.M. had several opportunities to get dressed and to leave if she was fearful, but she left the bathroom where her clothes were and walked naked into the room full of players to continue on with their evening. This dynamic started after she had admittedly had consensual sex with McLeod.
11. That the players group chat the following day was not an effort to fabricate a story, but a group decision to simply tell the truth about what had happened with E.M.