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What could two self made, high energy multi-billionaires POSSIBLY have in common?

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Beautiful is it not?
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Anyone know the name of this flower/bush?

In popular usage outside the film industry, an "A-list celebrity" is any person with an admired or desirable social status. Even socialites with popular press coverage and elite associations have been termed as "A-list" celebrities. Similarly, less popular persons and current teen idols are referred to as "B-list" – and the ones with lesser fame "C-list". Entertainment Weekly interpreted C-list celebrity as "that guy (or sometimes that girl), the easy-to-remember but hard-to-name character actor".
"D-list" (or sometimes Z-list) is for a person whose celebrity is so obscure that they are generally only known for appearances as so-called celebrities on panel game shows and reality television. In the late 20th century, D-listers were largely ignored by the entertainment news industry;
I decided to start my own list of who I consider celebrities and in what ranking they are in according to $ and fame. Feel free to share your opinions with me as well and I will consider them.
A-List
Leonardo DiCaprio
Matt Damon
Keanu Reeves
Robert Downey, Jr.
Tom Cruise
Tom Hanks
Madonna
Elton John
Julia Roberts
George Clooney (Amal is with him)
Matthew McConaughey
Will Smith
Sandra Bullock
Johnny Depp
Brad Pitt
Ryan Gosling
 
A-List actors/actresses whose careers appear to be slowing down or even halted:
Nicholas Cage
Richard Gere 
Bruce Willis
Harrison Ford
Sir Paul McCartney
Jack Nicholson
Jim Carrey
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Mel Gibson
Cameron Diaz
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Michael J. Fox 
Jennifer Aniston
Arnold Schwarznegger
Sylvester Stallone
Kevin Bacon
Steve Martin
Eddie Murphy
Clint Eastwood
Bill Cosby...... What a fall from grace and soon to be on the list below. Sad story.
Oprah Winfrey.... She owns the media world... so I can't really say her career is in decline. But she isn't seen publicly as much as her TV days.
 
Now deceased: (A List)
Elvis Presley
Michael Jackson
Princess Diana
Marilyn Monroe
Prince
Christopher Reeves
 

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http://www.deepseanews.com/2016/11/this-thanksgiving-remember-the-cranberry-bog-dolphin/

These are the words of the surviving father???   
Who else thinks this is SICK way of thinking much less speaking publicly.
Are Jehovah's Witnesses taught to think that a father has this right? Is it their studies of patriarchal times affecting his thoughts that his father in law somehow "OWNED" these women and children?
He needs mental health treatment immediately himself.

This is egregious!! ?

That is SO cool! 

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The reason for this is actually rooted in psychology. 
Smiling in primates - and often in humans - is a sign of appeasement. It's saying "I'm very happy with what you're doing."
Because of that, smiling when there is little reason to smile can be seen as a sign of compliance. It is thus a sign of low status.
In other words, fashion models don't smile because it makes them seem lower in status.
That's exactly how they don't want to appear. They want to project an image of being high status.
They want you to think "I want to be that girl. I want to have the status she has. Maybe if I buy the clothes or makeup she has on I'll have her status too."
[1] http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes....
[2] http://www.epjournal.net/wp-cont... / Smiles as signals of lower status in football players and fashion models: Evidence that smiles are associated with lower dominance and lower prestige | Evolutionary Psychology
[3] Why it's good if your boss doesn't readily smile at you
[4] OASIS
https://www.quora.com/?digest_story=1421172

“ Gigantic dinosaurs frolicked and splashed some 170 million years ago in the lagoons of what is now Scotland. That’s what a team of paleontologists has determined after discovering dozens of jumbo-sized footprints belonging to long-necked sauropods on the Isle of Skye. .......  We’re actually seeing these dinosaurs interacting with each other and interacting with their environment,” he said. The team reported their findings Monday in the Scottish Journal of Geology. "

I remember after Windows 7 came out, and before Windows 10 came out that Bill Gates was going to announce plans for Microsoft  to build a nuclear powered car, that would get 23,000 miles on a small, replaceable U235 based fission reactor about the size of a football, but there were concerns that every other product Microsoft put out, turned out to be a bomb.
... and sure enough, out came Windows 10.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
( ... merely a lame attempt at a joke ... I mean ... about the car ..... )

There was a study in the Sun not long ago that found nearly all teens were found to have the BHP chemicals of plastic in their systems, which mimic estrogen.
Should we be surprised at the explosion of transgender cases in the last 2 or 3 years? It has been found that transitioning such does not spare them from a 40% higher suicide rate than the general population.
And maybe even the explosion of homosexuality over the last few decades.

Para las pruebas se utilizó un componente químico que se adhiere al plástico para poder identificar las partículas Crédito: BBC Mundo
En todos lados, incluso en el agua. Las conclusiones de una nueva investigación son alarmantes: casi todas las botellas de agua de las principales marcas contienen pequeñas partículas de plástico.
Se examinaron 250 botellas compradas en nueve países diferentes y se descubrió un promedio de 10 partículas de plástico por litro, cada una más grande que el ancho de un cabello humano, según una investigación dirigida por la organización de periodismoOrb Media cuyas pruebas fueron realizadas en la Universidad Estatal de Nueva York, Estados Unidos .

Las compañías cuyas marcas fueron probadas dijeron a la BBC que sus plantas embotelladoras operan con los más altos estándares.
"Botella tras botella"
Sherri Mason, profesora de química en la universidad que participó del análisis dijo: "Encontramos (plástico) en botella tras botella y marca tras marca".
No se trata de señalar a las marcas en particular, realmente está demostrando que esto está en todas partes, que el plástico se ha convertido en un material tan penetrante en nuestra sociedad que está impregnando el agua, todos los productos que consumimos en un nivel muy básico", afirmó a la BBC. Actualmente, no hay evidencia de que la ingestión de pedazos muy pequeños de plástico (microplásticos) pueda causar daño, pero la ciencia intenta comprender las potenciales implicaciones.
Al comentar los resultados, la profesora Mason opinó que "los números que estamos viendo no son catastróficos, pero es preocupante".
Expertos le dijeron a la BBC que las personas en países en desarrollo donde el agua del grifo puede estar contaminada deben continuar bebiendo agua de botellas de plástico.
El año pasado, la profesora Mason encontró partículas de plástico en muestras de agua corriente y otros investigadores las detectaron en pescados y mariscos, cerveza, sal marina e incluso en el aire.
Dónde se encontró?
La investigación sobre el agua embotellada incluyó la compra de paquetes de 11 marcas nacionales e internacionales en diferentes en países elegidos por su gran población o su consumo relativamente alto de agua embotellada.
Entre las principales marcas internacionales estudiadas están: Aquafina, Dasani, Evian, Nestle Pure Life, San Pellegrino.
Y las principales marcas analizadas por país son: Aqua (Indonesia), Bisleri (India), Epura (México), Gerolsteiner (Alemania), Minalba (Brasil), Wahaha (China).
Crédito: BBC Mundo

This was my dad's favorite liquor. ;-)

My favorite beer is Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer ... which my much-more sophisticated children think is incredibly droll, and back woods.
I make a point of telling people ... like I am doing now .... that I much prefer Pabst over any of the many very pricey and "cool" beers they drink, and watch them screw up their faces and go "Ewwwww!", at the very mention of Pabst.
Then I mention "You know, Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer is the favorite beer of Clint Eastwood ....".
It is interesting to watch their disgust turn to confusion and acceptance in just three heartbeats.
... such is the power of peer pressure.
There is no one currently alive that is "cooler" than Clint Eastwood.

The loss of a loved one. 

@James Thomas Rook Jr. ... your comment made me google this... and sure enough an article from yesterday is out there:
"...Smoot-Hawley, Reynolds points out, passed the House in May 1929, and stocks were battered every time the act moved through the legislative process. On Oct. 23 of that year, a Wednesday, it became clear the tariffs would be much broader than first believed.
The very next day, of course, was Black Thursday. Markets dropped 9% in a day and kicked off a yearslong stock meltdown.
As Reynolds sums up, “market participants do not wait for a major law to pass” before retrenching their positions. In 1929, they were right to sell. Smoot-Hawley ultimately raised tariffs on tens of thousands of products, and trade policy analyst Bill Krist points out that by the end of 1934, global trade had tanked by 66% from 1929 levels.
The parallels to the current moment are distressing. The Trump tariffs are not in effect yet, and so far they are officially limited to steel and aluminum. But in coming days, stock traders will be acting on their beliefs about what the future will bring. There are signals, just as there were in 1929, that tariffs could expand from their modest start — U.S. trade partners have already said they will retaliate if tariffs go into effect, while President Trump posits that “trade wars are good.”
Even if we accept arguments like Reynolds’, tariffs were just one factor in the Depression, and most of the others aren’t substantial now. But history has provided us with a strong cautionary lesson about the real impact of tariffs, and the stock market is "
http://fortune.com/2018/03/04/did-tariffs-cause-the-great-depression/