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  IF there was ever a man who was wealthy, but was an even greater human being…..it would be Milton Hershey. Google him, but I am sure the story does not tell his whole story. He created towns (not only in Hershey Pa, but also on the sugar plantations he owned in other countries.), he created hospitals for his workers, he created schools for his workers children, he made railroads for transportation, he created his own orphanage for disadvantaged children, schooled them and gave them the choice of college or a stipend to start life with. He built a series of “McMansions” for his executives, right across the street from the factory and his executive were on call 24/7 if any trouble developed in the factory. Milton Hershey build an amusement park, a stadium, and their candy making museum in Hershey. When he and his wife were in Italy on holiday they stayed in an Italian villa that his wife fell in love with. So Milton Hershey had an architect design and build a similar large villa (I...

By  Matthew Fox    Aug. 7, 2020 Spencer Platt/Getty Images The stock market is set to continue moving higher in 2020, as "maximum liquidity" is all that matters, according to a Bank of America note published on Friday. But under the surface, there's plenty to be bearish about as low yields incite a bubble in stocks just as Main Street enters a recession, BofA said. Investors should expect stocks to keep moving higher in 2020, but 2021 will be bearish as a COVID-19 vaccine is likely to mark the "big top," according to the note. "I'm so bearish, I'm bullish," BofA's Michael Hartnett said in the note. "I'm so bearish, I'm bullish." That's how Bank of America strategist Michael Hartnett summed up his thinking on the markets in a note published on Friday, as the S&P 500 is just 1% away from making new all-time highs just as Main Street enters a recession, according to the note. A "decade-long backdrop" of low-...

By  Paul Fenn For me, a year of unalloyed hell. As I’ve shared on this site probably too many times, between the ages of 28 and 33, I had the luxury of taking five years off to travel and not work — other than when I wanted to break the terrible monotony of non-stop adventure, islands, beaches, boats, bikes, girls and reading all the books I’d never gotten to. Lots of it happened on sailing yachts. I spent the bulk of those years in SE Asia and did several blue-water yacht-hitching passages — around the Fiji Isles, Fiji-NZ, Singapore-Heart of Borneo-Manila, Manila-Okinawa, down the Pacific from Barra de Navidad (Mexico)-Puntarenas (Costa Rica), and many lesser passages mainly out of Singapore, delivering yachts to Malaysia and Thailand. There were also several cargo ship passages in Indonesia and other lands. Once I found my feet, I traveled with increasing roughness and gnarliness, in order to make my money (C$100,000) last. And to toughen up. I’d made the money as a sales exec, a...

SpinLaunch From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search SpinLaunch Inc. Type Private Industry Aerospace Headquarters 4350 E Conant St,  Long Beach, California ,  United States Key people Jonathan Yaney,  CEO Number of employees Est. 70-100 Website www .spinlaunch .com Footnotes / references California Secretary of State [1] , Crunchbase [2] , Built in LA  [3] SpinLaunch  is a spaceflight technology  development  company working on  mass accelerator  technology to move payloads to  space . [4]  As of January 2020, the company has raised  US$80 million  in funding, with investors including  Kleiner Perkins ,  Google Ventures ,  Airbus  Ventures, Catapult Ventures, Lauder Partners,  John Doerr  and Byers Family. [5] History SpinLaunch was founded in 2014 by Jonathan Yaney in  Sunnyvale ,  California . The company's current headquarters are in  Long B...

By  Daniel Oberhaus If you haven’t heard already, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is dating the electronic musician Grimes, a match that’s about as  unlikely as Musk’s timeline for settling Mars . Before the couple—henceforth known as ‘  grusk ’— made their first public appearance together at the MET Gala on Monday, Musk tweeted what would have otherwise been yet another unremarkable dad joke on the billionaire’s timeline. The tweet read “Rococo’s Basilisk,” a play on words that mixes the name for an 18th century baroque art style (Rococo) with the name of an internet thought experiment about artificial intelligence known as ‘Roko’s Basilisk.’ According to Page Six, which  broke the news of grusk , it was this non-joke that sparked Musk and Grimes’ relationship. Apparently Musk was going to tweet about ‘Rococo’s Basilisk’ a few weeks ago when he discovered that Grimes had made the same joke three years earlier and reached out to her about it. One can only speculate on the awkwa...

Today I came across an "abandoned" shirt in my wardrobe! I've used to wear it for the bed night time a couple of times but completely forgot about it: For my surprise, for the first time, I've noticed the quote on the shirt: A Tetris Painting and the Quote: "When You Fit In... You Disappear". Despite a casual shirt and a casual quote, the profundity of this sentence is amazing. If you take the time to reflect on it, we really tend to disappear in the crowd once we so-called "fit in"!  Exactly like when the blocks "fit in" and match the Tetris line. This way it begs us to reconsider... Do we really want to fit in... just to disappear? Or we want to live and follow our unique lives and achieve whichever dreams, goals, and aspirations we look for? Not really worrying with HAVING TO FIT IN part... Despite not being that religious it reminded me of this bible quote:  Revelation 3:16  16 So   because   you are   lukewarm—   neither   hot   nor ...

By Ivan Possamai - www.IvanPossamai.com - Explore - Learn - Share That ONLY YOU CAN and SHOULD…: * 1. SHAPE UP:  both physically, mentally and in your attitudes.  Our habits lead to our results .  Start by changing your heart ,  to change your thoughts ,  to modify your behaviors ,  to influence your habits,  to shape your FUTURE ! ( TAO ) * 2. EXERCISE: to live with health and disposition !  Anything looks good on you (clothing) if you look good!  Naturally when you look good … you feel good .  200 sit-ups on the Pilates ball,  30 push-ups and  18 min running (2 Miles)  daily take average only 30 minutes of your time and  guarantee you the body below so…  no excuse! * 3. REGULATE WHAT YOU EAT:  Breakfast:   Chopped fruits (papaya, banana, strawberry, melon, pineapple, etc.)  and oatmeal   Lunch:   ALWAYS eat more than half of your plate full of salad 2/4 (50% ),  (25%) 1/4...

FAE: The Big Mistake You’re Making about Other People (And How to Overcome It) I ’m cruising along in traffic when the Chevy Tahoe cuts me off before the red light. Now I’m stuck behind him, and my mind is racing. What a dick , I think.  You obviously believe you’re more important than me . Now my blood pressure is rising, I’m having a physical reaction, and suddenly I know everything there is to know about this guy.  Didn’t even give me the little hand wave. What a garbage person. Drives a car like that in the city — makes sense.  The inner monologue goes on and on. And for the rest of the drive, I look around at every other driver on the road as if they, too, are cut from the same cloth as the monster behind the wheel of that Tahoe. Of course, there are other explanations. Maybe Tahoe is rushing to the hospital, where his kid is being treated for a broken arm. Or maybe he left work early because he’s sick, and he’s desperate to get home. Maybe he just needed to squeeze ...