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zBrown

Ice climber
Dec 2, 2015 - 02:15pm PT
I read the $45 billion number for what 99% was worth in the article. Can't remember now if it was 99% or 90%.

It's ambiguous though $45 Billion may be 100%.



So,

Zuckerbergs to donate a whole bunch of money (more than all of us combined have) to charity.

Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan pledged this week to give away 99% of their Facebook shares, currently valued at $45 billion, to tackle some of the world's most complex problems over the couple's lifetime.

The pledge is one of the largest philanthropic gifts in history, but that does not mean the funds are earmarked for traditional philanthropic institutions.

The Zuckerberg Chan initiative is set up as a limited liability company or LLC, owned and controlled by Zuckerberg, not as a charitable trust or a private foundation. The structure gives the couple great latitude and flexibility both in the investments they make, from funding nonprofit organizations to making private investments to taking public stands on public policy issues, and in the activities they engage in. The couple will have the freedom to lobby lawmakers or engage in political activities and will be able to more easily enter into joint ventures with for-profit organizations.




zBrown

Ice climber
Dec 2, 2015 - 07:41pm PT
Golden State Warriors now at 20-0.


WyoRockMan

climber
Grizzly, WY
Dec 2, 2015 - 08:08pm PT
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zBrown

Ice climber
Dec 3, 2015 - 08:52am PT
In the battle of the high celebrity IQ's James Woods (184)


is leading this group at 160

Dolph Lundgren
Conan O'Brien
Lisa Kudrow
Ashton Kutcher
Matt Damon
Quentin Taratino
Steven Hawking ? What?
Reggie Jackson

Honorable mentions

Geena Davis (158)
Asia Carrera (153)

Stay tuned and thank zBrown for you not having to page through this stuff.

You do not have to post your IQ even if you don't know what it is.



Note my old friend Jayne Mansfield was pegged at either 163 or 140
Note2: Nobody is guessing Hedy Lamarr's

but

Together with George Antheil, she submitted the idea of a secret communication system in June 1941 and in 1942 received US Patent 2,292,387.

In essence, the patent covered an early version of frequency hopping used a piano roll to change between 88 frequencies and was intended to make radio-guided torpedoes harder for enemies to detect or jam.
Gene

climber
Dec 3, 2015 - 02:54pm PT
Thanks for the update, Cosmic.
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Dec 3, 2015 - 04:21pm PT
hey there say, just got the update... sending up prayers... oh my...
zBrown

Ice climber
Dec 3, 2015 - 08:11pm PT
Lasix is a drug to reduce fluid and salt build up (diuretic), a common problem in someone with COPD & heart issues

also used in liver and kidney issues

feralfae

Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
Dec 3, 2015 - 08:36pm PT
Prayers and all good intentions going out to Mouse. Glad they are dealing with the fluid issues.

Holding you in prayer, Brian.

ff
feralfae

Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
Dec 3, 2015 - 08:39pm PT
What can follow that share ?
Bushman.... That is multi-leveled deep wide and full of - 'ahh yes, I think I see' - moments.

+++++++ 1
I could feel the warm wind in my face from the canyon floor below me. Sweat drying. Crux. How long to rest before I reach for the next hold? Where?

And, yes, all those other levels as well.
Great wordsmithing, thank you.
feralfae
feralfae

Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
Dec 3, 2015 - 08:46pm PT
Ah, WY Rockman,
Lagavulin. Lovely, lovely.
Smiled and laughed. Delightful interlude.
Thank you.
feralfae
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Dec 4, 2015 - 01:59am PT
Yeah man, PLANNED & prayed for.
the second of a hoped list of issues; aimed to get him well enough for hernia surgery
steely-eyed, tough child on a ledge or far more weathered patient, hang in there !

Holding you in the lit candle of my near hart. . . In deeds and thought there are ways we all pray - for me out loud in the rocks -
out loud- Brian, you Got This! Man.

In terms of procedures I'm sure that these steps are more ledge and chimneys compared to the crux 1st. Hart thing but this vist will be the acid test to see if he is tough enough to go through more, . . I remember that on a Bob D' FA in the Gunks. . .
Where Fools Rush In, the crux is more keeping your head together- after the hard moves -where, you are in ground fall zone - balanced on a blunt nose, a ways to go to good gear. .
/thnx Bob
. I wish that everyone - Lukers & all, would post 'get wll wishes' here on the
the flames & not on the other thread.

It was an act of guzumption,
three days priory of mfm going on the 1st Tripp . . .

maybe by saying so here

Like it or not that one wins out over his flames .?
What yo do??






Thnx Bushman, swiped from the sobriety thread

/his share there
VVVV

I deleted that other thread I started...
'Post Drunk While Posting Night Friday Duh'
I was being sarcastic and on second thought,
just because I no longer imbibe doesn't mean I shouldn't try,
and let others have their fun.

Here was the poem though...

jus sayin'

I used to post drunk
Until one day I thunk
In the back of my mind
Something finally went clunk
And I cannot debunk
All those classes I'd flunk
The epiphany sunk
No more booze for this punk

-bushman
12/04/2014
hooblie

climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
Dec 6, 2015 - 08:56am PT
go mouse go. healthy up and make flame
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Dec 6, 2015 - 04:39pm PT
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zBrown

Ice climber
Dec 7, 2015 - 07:34am PT
kilroy was here!

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~Theodore Roosevelt

mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 7, 2015 - 06:46pm PT
Kilroy is here?

I've met him!

http://twitter.com/carnieroyrogers/status/634723647027052544

And I'm back in town.

Ready to clown.

Get rid of that frown.

I'll be back from down town.

I'm starved for some crab, Louie.

Back in an appropriate time span...just got in the door and there's no food!

Bistro, here I come.
zBrown

Ice climber
Dec 7, 2015 - 06:50pm PT
Glad they sent you come back home Brian. I was getting a little worried.

Welcome Home.

feralfae

Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
Dec 7, 2015 - 07:19pm PT
Mouse, glad to see you are home.

And Cosmic? Thank you for the updates.

ff
zBrown

Ice climber
Dec 7, 2015 - 07:42pm PT
A home
A home
For the strange

I have to take note of the band @2:06-2:16 with fiddle, bass, rifle and accordion

General Custer's Lonely Hearts Club Band?


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mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 8, 2015 - 12:10am PT

"Them words, 'the skies are not cloudy all day' MIGHT COULD be discouraging words, pard."--MacDrought by MFM, V, ii
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 8, 2015 - 02:06am PT
West of Modesto.
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