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Frank Gehry's Schnabel House Press Release
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Brentwood, California "Frank Gehry'™s Schnabel House has been meticulously restored and renovated with the master architect'™s guidance and with the highest degree of craftsmanship and purpose. Melding modern and luxurious technological amenities with the celebrated architect'™s profound artistic vision, creating a masterpiece rarely matched in a residential property. This testament to art and architecture is being offered by Hitlon & Hyland, the exclusive affiliate of Christie'™s International Real Estate.
This iconic architectural home is a "village" of sculptural forms encompassing spaces that are multi-dimensional and complex. Schnabel House presents a synthesis of craft, material, textures and ideas in an extraordinary home where light and form are in constant flux as the day and seasons change.
The private and gated grounds have been designed by award-winning TK Name and include an olive orchard, mature trees, a 3,000-square foot reflecting pond off the master bedroom, an Olympic-length lap pool, dining terraces and striking views of the play of sun and starlight on the Getty Museum. 'œThe design is one I had fantasized about for my own house," Gehry has said.
In commenting on this property, Neil Palmer, CEO of Christie'™s International Real Estate says, 'œAs marketing experts of internationally remarkable properties worldwide we are delighted to be associated with Frank Gehry'™s iconic Schnabel House. This property '" a true architectural work of art fully embodies our core brand standards of prestige, and quality.'
Four-time Tony Award-winning producer, Jon B. Platt, purchased Schnabel House began in 2006 and spent five years "invisibly shepherding this house into the 21st century." The meticulous renovation introduced technological innovations and environmentally friendly innovations, while preserving the integrity of Gehry'™s original design. Most notable is that the property'™s lighting, climate controls, security cameras and audio visual equipment are streamlined into a single system, which is as easy to use as an iPad. In fact, the property is appointed with eight linked iPads, allowing it to be remotely managed anywhere in the world.
Platt currently has three productions on Broadway'"Wicked, Driving Miss Daisy, and The Book of Mormon which opens on Saturday. 'œI have had the great privilege to collaborate with the world'™s greatest artists, from Bob Fosse to Pete Townsend,' says Platt. 'œWith Schnabel House, I had the opportunity to shift creative gears and collaborate with one of the world'™s greatest architects. I have always maintained that one isn'™t so much the owner of a Gehry house as its steward. I believe it was my responsibility to maintain the Gehry vision and then do my best to pass it on. Now that the restoration is complete, the time has come for me to find the home'™s next patron.'
Frank Gehry is a Pritzker Prize winner based in Los Angeles, California and declared "the most important architect of our age" by Vanity Fair magazine in 2010. Gehry first gained international acclaim with the design of his private residence in Santa Monica, California, and has since revolutionized the architectural world with his innovative use of everyday materials in design. A pioneer in deconstructionist architecture, Gehry'™s works are often cited as pieces of functional sculpture rather than buildings. His best-known works include the titanium-covered Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles.
Platt says that a comment from UCLA professor Sylvia Lavin resonated with him. In the introduction to the 2009 book, 'œFrank Gehry: The Houses', Lavin wrote: 'œEvery inhabitant of a house by Gehry becomes an artist, as they are called on, not merely to use its spaces, but to preserve its architectures.'
About Christie'™s International Real Estate
Christie'™s, originally founded in 1766 by James Christie, pursued an innovative real estate venture in 1995 by acquiring Great Estates, a luxury real estate network founded in 1987 by Kay Coughlin. Christie'™s International Real Estate is an Affiliate network by invitation only to the world'™s most proven and qualified real estate specialists. The company has central hubs in London and New York; field offices in Beverly Hills, California, and Palm Beach, Florida; an operations centre in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and circa 130 Affiliates in Europe; North, Central, and South America; and the Caribbean as well as Asia, Africa, and Oceania. In 2010, new Affiliates were signed in Mallorca, Spain; Milan, Italy; Stockholm, Sweden; Bordeaux, France; Luxembourg; Cancun; Cayman Islands; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Toronto, Canada, as well as in the U.S., including Stowe, Vermont; Nantucket and Boston, Massachusetts; and Guildford and Ridgefield, Connecticut.


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Public health alert: hate crimes
Depression. Anxiety. Stress. Drug Abuse. Suicidal ideation.
These read like a checklist from the DSM-5.
The list, in fact, enumerates the insidious health complications of bias crimes, the surreptitious aftermath of hate-related violence that slips into the psyche of vulnerable populations poisoning the health of minds and bodies.
As caregivers, our nurses have the skills and know-how to help identify and fight these devastating illnesses in our hospitals and on our streets. We have committed to stand together to protect our most vulnerable patients and pool our professional resources to fight the health risks of hatred just as we would fight any other illness. Never in recent years has the need been more pressing.
Hate Crimes are on the rise
Across the country, communities have felt terror as hate crimes surged in 2015, escalated in 2016, and catapulted again in the first months of the new year. In 2015, according to The New York Times, hate crimes soared nationwide about 6 percent above the previous year. These bias-related incidents included "assaults, bombings, threats, and property destruction against minorities, women, gays and others."
From 2015 to 2016, year-to-year increases in hate crimes ranging from 20 to 42 percent were reported in the metropolitan areas of New York City, Chicago, Seattle and Montgomery County, Maryland. During that same period, bias crimes in New York State shot up 20 percent. And compared to the same months in 2016, New York City reported hate crimes skyrocketed in January and February of 2017, up 55 percent.
More recently, on March 22, James Harris Jackson confessed to the stabbing of Timothy Kauffman in Midtown Manhattan because Kauffman was black. In general, he [Jackson] came here to target male blacks," Chief of Manhattan Detectives William Aubry said. "He knew what he was doing ..." Kauffman, 66, was admitted to Bellevue Hospital Center, where he died.
NYSNA nurses working on the frontlines at Bellevue and other hospitals across New York State know first-hand how hate-related violence insinuates itself into our communities and the impact it can have on community health. They understand intimately the residual effects of Timothy Kauffman's murder, of a bomb threat at a Jewish Community Center in Rochester, or of a woman kicked and beaten for wearing a hajib at Kennedy Airport.
Hatred is toxic on both an individual and a societal basis
Science supports what our nurses have witnessed. According to psychologists at UC Davis, victims of hate crimes experience higher levels of depression than victims of random crime. In addition, they continue to suffer more acutely "from depression, stress, and anger for as long as 5 years after their victimization occurred." Where bias crimes are prevalent, members of minority communities, whether by sexual orientation, race, religion, or gender identity, have higher mortality and drug abuse rates — even among those who have not been targeted by violent hate crimes.
Toll on victims
Mortality rates are higher overall for LGBT people in places with extreme levels of anti-gay prejudice, one study showed. In neighborhoods where assault rates on LGBT people of all ages are high, suicidal ideation and attempts are significantly greater among LGTB teenagers; the high schoolers themselves were not necessarily victims of bias crimes.
Groups subject to collective discrimination after a specific event, like the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, also suffer higher levels of psychological distress and lower levels of happiness. This was true, according to one study, of Arab Americans living in the United States who experienced discrimination after the September 11 attacks.
Hate is bad for the haters too
Hate is not just unhealthy for its victims. It is unhealthy for those who harbor it. Studies that have looked at the impact of anger on our bodies revealed the following: just five minutes of extreme anger can compromise our immune functions for up to six hours. People with high levels of anger regularly are at higher risk for heart disease.
In addition, researchers have associated feelings of "racial resentment" with higher levels of tobacco use. This, in turn, led to negative health outcomes for people with racist feelings toward others.
Nurses stand for health and against hate
As professionals, nurses take hate crime and its health consequences seriously. We are committed to bringing our considerable skills to identifying and treating the toxic effects hate has on the health of our communities. As caregivers, we commit to caring for ALL New Yorkers and we stand with the victims of hate crimes — LGBT, Muslims, Jews, women and people of color — in our hospitals and on our streets.

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The Boot News Roundup: Country Stars Filling in for Bob Kingsley + More
Amy McCarthy
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Welcome to The Boot's News Roundup, a morning rundown of the news country music fans need to know. Read on to learn more about the latest goings-on in the country, Americana, bluegrass and folk genres.
Garth Brooks and Keith Urban are among the guest hosts who have been tapped to fill legendary country radio DJ Bob Kingsley's shoes for the rest of 2019. Urban is set to fill in for the radio legend -- who hosted the Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40 weekly radio show for decades and died on Oct. 17 -- on a special edition of the show airing Oct. 26-27, while Brooks will host the show's final four episodes of the year (Dec. 7 through the end of 2019). As previously planned, Trisha Yearwood, Little Big Town's Karen Fairchild and Kimberly Schlapman and more country women will be hosting the show in the coming weeks as well. Plans for Country Top 40 in 2020 have yet to be announced.
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Kacey Musgraves is now the proud holder of a Guinness World Record. According to a press release, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and Musgraves were presented with the world record in recognition of creating the world's largest display of coloring pages at the museum's Kacey Musgraves: All of the Colors exhibit, which runs through June 7, 2020. The rainbow-shaped display reportedly weighs more than 500 pounds, and was created with 1,550 coloring pages, submitted by Musgraves fans from more than 30 states across the country.
Photo by Scott McCormick, courtesy of Reckoning PR
The Infamous Stringdusters have announced plans to tour in 2020. The band will kick off their Future Is Now 2020 Tour in Ashland, Ore., on Jan. 16, making stops in Washington, California, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and more states before concluding on March 7 in Telluride, Colo. The Stringdusters will also release a new live album, recorded in Covington, Ky., on Nov. 15.
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Also in tour news, roots duo Shovels & Rope will hit the road in 2020 in support of their newest album, By Blood. Their trek kicks off on Feb. 13 in Athens, Ga., making stops in Colorado, Utah, Texas, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and more states before concluding on April 15 at St. Louis, Mo.'s Delmar Hall.
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the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), to explore and debate how the institution could become an academic expression of Mandela and live out the social values he stood for.
The colloquium was themed 'Dalibhunga: This Time? That Mandela?' The meaning of dali-bhunga is "convenor of the dialogue" and is a reference to the name given to Mandela after his initiation ceremony.
The grand challenges of our time remain "the challenges that Mandela engaged with almost his entire life", she said.
"They are well known, and poverty, inequality and discrimination are key among them. We need new interpretive schemes and practices to challenge them. This is the task of the university.


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We read regular submissions during two open reading periods:
Our Winter Open Reading Period runs from January 1 through January 31.
Our Summer Open Reading Period runs from July 1 through August 31. (Paused for 2022)
We're open to a wide range of forms and styles in contemporary poetry. We're always watching for new poets, quickened language, and work that offers a fresh purchase on the political or social landscape.
The editors read every poem that comes in over the transom. We respond to manuscripts we know aren't for us as soon as we've read them. The rest we circulate among the editorial board members and continue to winnow. At face-to-face, long-weekend-long meetings, we read aloud those poems in which we have strong interest and collaborate to choose an issue from among them.
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There's a person that we all have in our lives. The one who doesn't have the nicest clothes and doesn't smell or behave like we do. We could easily ignore this person, but we are called to do so much more than that.
We're called to make love a verb rather than a noun. We must spread kindness everywhere we go through our words, actions, and lives. We should also practice humility by putting other's needs before our own, not caring about being made fun of. By listening to what others have to say and by being present in their lives, we offer friendship and a caring atmosphere. There is no greater way to lead people to the greatest Love than by showing them what Love really looks like.
Who were you thinking about while reading this? I challenge you to look for opportunities to show them Love this week. You shine bright, my friend! Never stop loving or serving those around you!


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Judge revives Obama-era ban on coal sales from US lands
· Aug. 14, 2022, 11:40 am
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A federal judge on Friday reinstated a moratorium on coal leasing from federal lands that was imposed under former President Barack Obama and then scuttled under former President Donald Trump, in an order that marked a major setback to the already struggling coal industry.
The ruling from U.S. District Judge Brian Morris requires government officials to conduct a new environmental review before they can resume coal sales from federal lands. Morris faulted the government's previous review of the program, done under Trump, for failing to adequately consider the climate damage from coal's greenhouse gas emissions and other effects.
Almost half the nation's annual coal production — some 260 million tons last year — is mined by private companies from leases on federal land, primarily in Western states such as Wyoming, Montana and Colorado.
Few coal leases were sold in recent years after demand for the fuel shrank drastically. But the industry's opponents had urged Morris to revive the Obama-era moratorium to ensure it can't make a comeback as wildfires, drought, rising sea levels and other effects of climate change worsen.
Coal combustion for electricity remains one of the top sources of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, even after many power plants shut down over the past decade because of concerns over pollution and changing economic conditions.
The coal program brought in about $400 million to federal and state coffers through royalties and other payments in 2021, according to government data. It supports thousands of jobs and has been fiercely defended by industry representatives, Republicans in Congress and officials in coal- producing states.
Among President Joe Biden's first actions in his first week in office was to suspend oil and gas lease sales — a move later blocked by a federal judge — and he faced pressure from environmental groups to take similar action against coal.
The administration last year launched a review of climate damage from coal mining on public lands as it expanded scrutiny of government fossil fuel sales that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. But no changes had been announced as a result of that review.
"This decision gives the Biden administration the opportunity to make good on its commitment to seriously battle the climate crisis," said Earthjustice attorney Jenny Harbine, who represented environmental groups and the Northern Cheyenne Tribe in the case. "No progress has been made to reform the program or do what's needed to phase out existing leases."
The Northern Cheyenne Reservation in southeastern Montana is near several major strip mines. Tribal members have long fought against further development. Tribal President Serena Wetherelt said in a statement that Biden and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland need to fulfill their trust obligation and take a hard look at the effects of the U.S. federal lands energy program.
"Our lands and waters mean everything to us," Wetherelt said.
Interior Department officials were reviewing the ruling, spokesperson Melissa Schwartz said.
National Mining Association President Rich Nolan said the industry lobbying group would appeal Friday's ruling.
"This is a deeply disappointing decision with energy-driven inflation, energy affordability and energy security top concerns for Americans," Nolan said. "Denying access to affordable, secure energy during an energy affordability crisis is deeply troubling."
Officials from Montana and Wyoming had intervened in the case on the side of the federal government and argued against reviving the moratorium.
A spokesperson for Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen said the Biden administration's defense of the federal coal program was only "half-hearted" because of its close alignment with environmentalists. Knudsen spokesperson Kyler Nerison added that the decision was an example of environmentalists taking advantage of federal laws to endlessly delay energy development.
Extracting and burning fossil fuels from federal land generates the equivalent of 1.4 billion tons (1.3 billion metric tons) annually of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, according to a 2018 report from the U.S. Geological Survey. That's equivalent to almost one-quarter of total U.S. carbon dioxide emissions.
Obama Interior Secretary Sally Jewell suspended coal sales in large part over climate concerns in 2016. After Trump Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke revived the program in 2017, California, New York, New Mexico and Washington state sued. The Northern Cheyenne, joined by the Sierra Club and other environmental groups, also filed a legal challenge.
In 2017 and 2018, the most recent years for which data was available, the U.S. government sold leases for 134 million tons of coal on public land in six states, according to figures provided by the Interior Department. That's a relatively small amount compared with previous years, for example 2011 and 2012, when more than 2 billion tons were sold in Wyoming alone.
Demand for coal has plummeted as many utilities switch to natural gas or renewables to generate power.


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The Mountaineers (3-0) beat Monett 25-20 on Friday. They take on No. 9 Seneca this week.
No Springfield city teams are ranked in the Top 10 this week.
Despite losing its first game of the season Friday against Carl Junction, Ozark (2-1) is ranked again this week. The Tigers come in at No. 10 in Class 5.
Undefeated Webb City and Lamar remain in the top spots in Class 4 and Class 2 respectively.
Here are the complete statewide high school football rankings, compiled by a 15-member panel of sportswriters and broadcasters. First place votes are in parenthesis.
Rank, team, Rec., Pts., LW
1. Kirkwood (15), 3-0, 150, 2
2. Park Hill, 3-0, 124, 3
3. Blue Springs, 2-1, 123, 1
4. CBC, 2-1, 106, 4
5. Eureka, 3-0, 92, 5
6. Lee's Summit West, 2-1, 72, 7
7. Rock Bridge, 3-0, 68, 8
8. Rockhurst, 2-1, 40, 9
9. Lindbergh, 3-0, 20, NR
T10. Francis Howell, 3-0, 13, 10
T10. Hazelwood Central, 2-1, 13, 6
Also receiving votes: Ritenour (3-0), 2; Jefferson City (2-1), 1; Lee's Summit North (2-1), 1
1. Vianney (12), 3-0, 147, 1
2. Staley (3), 3-0, 130, 3
3. Fort Zumwalt North, 3-0, 128, 2
4. Liberty, 3-0, 102, 5
5. Fort Osage, 3-0, 83, 6
6. Battle, 2-1, 77, 4
7. Chaminade, 2-1, 66, 7
8. William Chrisman, 3-0, 32, 10
9. Webster Groves, 3-0, 24, NR
10. Ozark, 2-1, 23, 8
Dropped out: No. 9 Pattonville
Also receiving votes: Nixa (3-0), 5; Carthage (1-2), 4; Pattonville (1-2), 2; Raytown (3-0), 2
1. Webb City (15), 3-0, 150, 1
2. Carl Junction, 2-1, 125, 3
3. Kearney, 2-1, 114, 4
4. Parkway Central, 3-0, 97, 6
5. Hannibal, 2-1, 90, 5
6. Harrisonville, 2-1, 74, 2
7. MICDS, 2-1, 60, 7
8. Parkway North, 2-1, 45, 10
9. Platte County, 2-1, 34, 8
10. Raytown South, 2-1, 12, NR
Dropped out: No. 9 Ladue
Also receiving votes: West Plains (3-0), 8; Camdenton (2-1), 7; Grain Valley (2-1), 3; Ladue (1-2), 3; St. Mary's (3-0) 3
1. McCluer South-Berkeley (15), 2-0, 150, 1
2. Blair Oaks, 3-0, 132, 3
3. Park Hills Central, 3-0, 113, 5
4. Chillicothe, 3-0, 86, NR
5. Mt. Vernon, 3-0, 78, 8
6. Maryville, 2-1, 59, 2
T7. Center, 2-1, 51, 9
T7. Eldon, 3-0, 51, NR
9. Seneca, 3-0, 49, 10
10. Miller Career, 1-2, 29, 4
Dropped out: No. 6 Southern Boone, No. 7 Monett
Also receiving votes: Cassville (2-1), 10; Southern Boone (2-1), 10; Monett (2-1), 6; Lutheran St. Charles (3-0), 1
1. Lamar (14), 3-0, 149, 1
2. Trinity (1), 2-0, 136, 2
3. Lutheran North, 3-0, 114, 4
4. Ava, 3-0, 102, 5
5. Mountain Grove, 2-1, 82, 3
6. Centralia, 3-0, 81, 6
7. South Callaway, 3-0, 65, 7
8. Brentwood, 3-0, 36, 9
9. Lexington, 3-0, 24, 10
10. Lathrop, 3-0, 17, NR
Dropped out: No. 8 Cardinal Ritter
Also receiving votes: Cardinal Ritter (2-1), 15; Caruthersville (2-1), 4
1. Valle Catholic (12), 3-0, 145, 2
2. Monroe City (3), 3-0, 130, 3
3. Marceline, 3-0, 117, 4
4. Hamilton-Penney, 2-1, 99, 1
5. Lincoln, 3-0, 90, 5
6. Hayti, 3-0, 76, 6
7. Pierce City, 3-0, 53, 8
8. Westran, 3-0, 52, 7
9. Thayer, 2-1, 31, 9
10. Lockwood, 3-0, 17, 10
Also receiving votes: Wellington-Napoleon (3-0), 14; Plattsburg (2-1), 1


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Take The Checkers
If you have ever watched or listened to almost any form of motorsports in the past few decades you've probably heard a voice from Brooklyn describing the action. Odds are it was the Dean of American Motorsports writers, Chis Economaki. Economaki passed away Friday at the age of 92.
To be generous he had a face made for radio and a voice that could curdle milk, but had covered every form of motorsports since the age of 13 for various newspapers and magazines, as well as radio and television.
During the 60's when NASCAR was a regional personality quirk in the US South, it was Economaki that ABC tapped to cover the races for Wide World of Sports. The few races that Wide World of Sports broadcast on several weeks' delay, edited for length and barely covered with more than three cameras usually saw Chris Economaki in the pits. He covered the Indy 500, Formula 1, Le Mans and even demolition derby races for Wide World of Sports, becoming very much the voice of all motorsports on television.
The television coverage he did to reach the masses, but his real passion was as an ink-stained wretch. He wrote for, then edited, then owned National Speed Sport News until 2011.
It didn't matter if it was stock cars, modifieds, midgets, sprints, big cars, drag racing, sports cars, Can-Am, Indy cars, F1, F2, or four guys running junkers around the hay bales, Economaki covered it and loved it. You can't ask for a better career than that.
Mason Baveux On The Hockey Strike
He's a fan, we're not, so my commentary will be significantly different from his. Which would explain why we're letting Mason Baveux comment on the hockey lockout. Mason?
Thanks for the bloggery keys again lad, as there be something important in the air. The National Hockey League has locked out the players, what means there ain't no hockey, at least for the Big Show right now. For folks like Davey, it might as well mean there's no mints in Madagascar, so move on, but for the rest of us Canadians, it might as well mean the end of life itself.
Now this isn't to say there's a fungus that makes all the pucks disintegrate, or you could get cancer from hockey tape, so's it's banned, nope. It is what you call a labour issue. Like any labour issue there be two, maybe seventeen sides to the story.
The players make a jeezly great amount of money playin the game. You've all heard of some Sweedish guy signin up for 122 zillion dollars over 10 years to play the game, what's got too many vowels in his name to be able to pronounce it, let alone spell it out without the spellcheck havin a stroke.
You also know that the teams make enough money to buy small countries outright. I think Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment own about half of Ecuador and most of Trinidad right now, what they bought during the economic downturn of 2008. So's its not like nobody has any cash to spread around. There's money in the kitty.
Considering that the guy whose handlin the puck has about a 1 in 10 chance of havin his career shitcanned every time he steps on the ice, I can see why they want them big payday contracts.. They say a career in the Big Show is about six years.
Don McKenny, what was part of the Uke line in Boston, then in Toronto had his knees turned into some kind of puzzle for the doctors back then, when he caught something on the ice. Most likely some twat tossed coins on the rink, nice hot coins he'd been holding in his pocket, what melted in a bit and then Dom come a hareing around the blue line, building up some speed with the puck and over he goes, one knee pointing at Detroit, the other at Montreal and one ankle lookin to New York. Rob Gilbert was another one, what broke his back in the OHA and had spinal fusion surgery in 1960. Back then the docs knowledge of the back was "Jeeze there's a lot of bones in there", so's it was amazing he could walk, let alone skate.
Now that explains why the players want the good paydays. If you're good enough for the Bigs you have a pretty good chance you won't make it past 35 as a player, you get the money up front.
As for the owners, well, they want to maximize their return on their investment to use their terminamology. In English, that means make even more money, so's they can buy the rest of Ecuador and put a bid in on Holland. You can see where my sympathies are. They sure as shiite aren't with the owners.
The owners gotta know that there's not but a dozen folks batshit crazy enough to sit around and watch them work on the consolidated balance sheet at $100 a seat for the nosebleeds. The owners don't do shiite that people will pay to watch and they know it, but they still think they're all-friggin-mighty important. That's like sayin the cashier what puts the float in the till every day at IGA is the single most critical part of the whole process of buyin celery.
But tell 20 or 40 thousand folks that you're puttin on a hockey game and what they want to do is to go watch hockey. As well buy a $3 beer for $10 and a $2 hot dog for $12, plus pay a flat hunnert for a seat so high up you need oxygen to stay alive the whole four hours. And watch the boards change advertising every six seconds and have that goddam "Na Na Hey Hey" song played at them forty two times an hour, loud enough to rip the hairs off the beer guy's ear lobes.
The owners got sweet FA without the players and they know it. Without a bunch of butts in seats to watch hockey, the owners are going to have to make obscene amounts of money another way, like maybe gettin a friggin job?
So what happens if we lose the whole season? The players will always find a place to play the game and at least make a little money to keep body and soul together, as well as make payments on the Escalade. The owners will write it all off as a tax loss, so they's not out much.
Us fans? We can get us some too. Junior A, or CHL, or AHL. Damn fine hockey, perhaps better than some of the NHL teams out there. More gratitude from the owners for forkin out the greenbacks for their team. More gratitude from the players for comin out to watch and cheer and buy a beer and a program and a hot dog.
Plus we'd get to watch some good hockey. And that's what we really want to do. Go Marlies!
Posted in Games, Guest Commentator
Kate's Win-Win
The media pumps are whirring overtime, running hot with steamy stories about Kate Middleton's topless pictures. The Duchess of Cambridge has been the subject of much lens-time since she became betrothed, then wed to the Duke of Cambridge, or Will Wales as he's also know as to his military chums. So what's the big deal?
First, let us address Kate's goods. Not uncommonly among female humans, she has breasts. Two of them to be precise about it.
Instead of rolling the muck, we'll attempt to keep some kind of high tone to the proceedings. We will use naval architectural terms instead. Kate's are in the corvette class, like the HMCS Frederiction (K245). By contrast, Pamela Anderson another well know celebrity, who has willingly published photos of her breasts, would be described as something in the battleship, HMS Warspite (03) class.
Second, Kate and William were in France on a private vacation and as celebrities, had ensconced themselves far enough away from prying eyes that there was a reasonable assurance of some kind of privacy from the ever-present photographers. With that reasonable assurance of privacy, she chose to sunbathe topless. This is a not uncommon choice for anyone to make on a hot sunny day, on vacation in France, but being a celebrity and constant target of photographers, she ensured that there was an overabundance of assurance that there would be no prying lenses about.
Unfortunately, someone with a very long lens, almost a telescope, did manage to grab some shots of Kate's goods. Said pictures have been published, most pixelated to obscure the pigmented area of the areola, but a few have been unretouched. To use the words of a pathologist, they are unremarkable.
Which brings us to the essential question: Who cares? It would seem that too many people 'care' if that is the term, being coy about publishing, or not publishing, suing, or not suing, banning or not banning the photos.
The analogy, addressed to our female readers would be this: If your neighbour across the street were to set up a telescope, or a long lens camera to take photos of your morning ablutions or simply dressing before work, would you call the cops? The answer is almost certainly, "Hell yeah! Slap that perv in the clink!" as it should be.
Now, scale back your ability to respond by about half. As a 'celebrity' you know you have a retinue of photographers who attend your every motion outside of the bedchamber, furiously fanning the shutter to get that one shot of you with a piece of carrot stuck in your teeth, or perhaps a glimpse of undergarment while getting out of a car.
You are swarmed by them daily and in exchange for your 'celebrity' you give up even the slightest vestige of assumption of privacy. Except you are also a human, who does get a piece of carrot stuck in her teeth, needs to adjust their clothing, or even simply stop somewhere appropriate to attend to normal bodily functions. The photographers don't give you that latitude.
The savage in me would love to see Kate find a way to stalk that particular photographer who got the topless shots and return the favour: Publishing blurry, grainy shots of him (or her) picking their nose, coming out of the bathroom, or trying to shoehorn their mouth around an oversize sandwich. The headlines of "Kate Hits Back at Furtive Foto Fondler" over a blurry snap of the photographer adjusting his package after coming out of a pub would be sweet revenge. However, that isn't going to happen, even with the resources she could bring to bear as part of the Royal Family. They don't play that way and won't play that way.
The more tantalizing response would be for her to announce that, yes, those are my breasts, that's exactly what they look like. Even have the photos enlarged and on the stage, if you want to truly press home the point.
Then the twist: We're suing the photographer for violating her privacy, to the tune of several million pounds.
As soon as the case is decided, most likely in her favour, she will then donate the proceeds to Breast Cancer Research in the UK.
A sensible combination of complete disclosure that makes the photos essentially worthless and at the same time giving the media a beating with their own stupid fixations, wrapped in a fine covering of charitable awareness-raising for Breast Cancer research.
Posted in News and politics, Social Constructs


As the boys started like Barbie an (R)evolution, the Fashionistas Ken No. 06 presented 2017 a new headmold with molded hairs.(we call him Ryan, because he has the typical strong Ryan eyebrows) Unlike his predecessors (Ryan 2011 and 2012) he has an smily oppened mouth.
The headmark is: © 2016 Mattel.


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DeVos sets stage to rewrite Obama-era sexual assault guidance
Friday, July 14, 2017 2:52 PM
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Thursday blasted President Obama's sexual assault policy for failing to foster an environment of safety and fairness on college campuses.
"We need to get this right," DeVos told reporters following her meeting with sexual assault victims and those who have been wrongly accused under the current policy, saying that federal guidance should take both the victim and the accused into account.
"No student should be the victim of sexual assault. No student should feel unsafe," she declared. "No student should feel like there isn't a way to seek justice, and no student should feel that the scales are tipped against him or her."
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President Trump's administration has indicated openness to reforming the current sexual assault guidance in light of criticism that it violates the due-process rights of the accused.
The Office of Civil Rights' "Dear Colleague Letter," a document that outlined certain school policy expectations when it comes to sexual assault on college campuses, is said to be the primary culprit behind the ineffective trial system adopted by most universities around the country.
Critics frequently argue that colleges are not properly equipped to deal with sexual assault on their own, and that the matter should be handled in a court of law.
Others also criticize the "preponderance of evidence" standard used in school trials, and campaign in favor of the allowing the accused to have the right to counsel during disciplinary hearings.
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Supporters of the Obama-era policy, however, argue that it helps protect victims by encouraging them to report sexual assault without fear of retaliation from the accused.
"All their stories are important," DeVos reiterated after the meeting, according to USA Today, later adding that the stories she heard about sexual assault "reminded me of the disgusting behavior of some in our society" and underscored that "We must expect more of our young men and women."
While the Education Secretary warned that colleges and universities can't go back to an era when allegations of sexual assault were "swept under the rug," she also noted that many stories of those who have been wrongly accused under the current system remain unknown.
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According to the Department of Education, DeVos' meeting on Thursday included three separate discussions with the survivors of sexual violence, students falsely accused under Title IX, and various experts and representatives of educational institutions.
Each session lasted 90 minutes and included representatives of organizations that have rigorously campaigned to either defend or reform the current policy.


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Total equity was negative $5.7 million at September 30, 2017.
"As noted in our second quarter report, we performed some significant repairs to our Peak SWD facility in the third quarter" stated Bob May, CEO. "This resulted in a widening loss during the third quarter. As we noted in our review of2016 results, our bank has extended our loan maturity until January 31, 2018, and we are current on all of our loan obligations."