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I'm going to my sister's house. Just her and my brother-in-law and my niece and nephew and me. She's not cooking this year; they ordered from somewhere.

Elon Musk passes Bill Gates on rich list, but still lags in philanthropy Elon Musk may only be the world’s second-richest man, but he arguably holds the title for world’s cheapest. The Tesla chief has given away a paltry portion of his $128 billion fortune compared to more philanthropic billionaires like Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. Musk, 49, has donated roughly $100 million to charitable causes over the course of his career, amounting to less than 1 percent of his net worth, according to a Forbes estimate. That includes $25 million that he’s given to various nonprofits since 2002 through his eponymous foundation. Among the recipients of the Musk Foundation’s money are the University of Pennsylvania — Musk’s alma mater — and Big Green, a charity run by his brother Kimbal that sets up gardens at schools, Forbes says. The South African-born entrepreneur has also made large gifts to organizations such as the Sierra Club and the Future of Life Institute, which aims to keep artificial intelligence “beneficial to humanity.” But Musk has a long way to go to catch up with Gates, who along with his wife, Melinda, has given out around $50 billion over the past quarter-century, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy. The couple donated more than $5.5 billion to charity from 2017 to 2019 alone, most of which went to their namesake foundation, the outlet says. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has helped the software tycoon give away 10 to 20 percent of his wealth overall, Forbes estimates. The Gateses also joined forces with investment titan Warren Buffett to launch the Giving Pledge, an initiative encouraging the world’s wealthiest people to give away more than half their fortunes during their lifetime or in their will. Buffett is also a regular donor to the Gates Foundation. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whom Musk recently leapfrogged in the wealth rankings, is also a signatory of the Giving Pledge and had the San Francisco General Hospital named after him after donating $75 million to its foundation in 2015. He also helms Chan Zuckerberg Initiative along with his wife, Priscilla — and over the summer donated $30 million to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Musk’s entrance into the upper echelon of the world’s wealthiest people is a recent phenomenon driven by an explosion in Tesla’s stock price this year. If you take away the automaker’s eye-popping 2020 gains, Musk would be left with a roughly $30 billion fortune that he says is not liquid. Gates, meanwhile, has been among the world’s richest men since the 1990s. “People think I have a lot of cash. I actually don’t,” Musk testified in a Los Angeles courtroom in December 2019, noting that most of his fortune is tied up in shares of Tesla and his rocket company, SpaceX. He also said he has debt against his stock holdings. The Tesla CEO has said that all of his earthly business ventures are just a way to fund his true passion: colonizing Mars. “If there’s something terrible that happens on Earth, either made by humans or natural, we want to have, like, life insurance for life as a whole,” he said at a Mars conference this summer. Musk has, however, set lofty philanthropic goals for himself despite his limited giving so far. He’s among more than 200 individuals who have signed on to the Giving Pledge, and he tweeted in 2018 that he would sell about $100 million worth of Tesla stock for charity “every few years.” Musk has also tried to use his companies’ technology for good causes, such as when Tesla reportedly sent some of its Powerwall battery packs to provide electricity in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. SpaceX also infamously built a miniature submarine in a bid to rescue a group of soccer players who became trapped in a Thai cave in 2018 — an effort that landed Musk in court. The submarine was never used. Vernon Unsworth, a British diver who was involved in the operation, criticized the sub as a “PR stunt,” which prompted Musk to call him a “pedo guy” on Twitter. Unsworth sued Musk for defamation over the tweet, but a jury ruled in Musk’s favor when the case went to trial last year.

For the first time in 800 years, earthlings will be able to see the Milky Way’s uh... I think they meant our solar system's two biggest planets so close together it’ll look like they’re touching. Saturn and Jupiter will have a rare meeting from our vantage point on Dec. 21, 2020. The “conjunction,” or alignment, of the two planets hasn’t happened since 1226. Since the two planets are the biggest gas bodies in our solar system that won't be living in Florida soon, ??:cool: experts call this one a “Great Conjunction.” The two planets have been rather close in the sky lately, however, “it is fair to say that this conjunction is truly exceptional in that the planets get very close to one another,” Patrick Hartigan, a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University, wrote in a blog entry on the conjunction. During this year’s conjunction, “both planets will be visible in the same field of view in most small telescopes, along with some of Jupiter’s and Saturn’s moons,” Hartigan wrote. “In fact, they will be so close it may be a challenge to separate them with the unaided eye for many people.” It won’t be easy for much of the population to catch the rare celestial event, which falls on the winter solstice. The farther you are from the equator, the smaller your window to see the conjunction will be. Regardless, if you go outside around dusk (in New York City, this will be about 5 p.m.), and look toward the southwestern sky, you may have about an hour to find the two planets. It’ll help to use an app such as Google’s Sky Map, which can be held up to the sky to show where certain planets and stars are located. Conditions will have to be ideal that day, as in no low clouds fogging up the view. However, if you miss it, the two planets will still be relatively close through Christmas. So try the next day. And if you miss it again, well, the next conjunction like this will happen in 60 years. And though they may look close to our eyes, in space, they’re separated by a distance more than four times the distance between the earth and the sun.

When Musk passed Gates for 2nd richest: ( https://nypost.com/2020/11/24/elon-musk-passes-bill-gates-as-worlds-second-richest-person/ ) Does this mean his mother can stop doing those Cover-Girl commercials?

Abba will release five, rather than two, new tracks as their reunion is pushed back to 2021. The Swedish four-piece were originally going to put out new music later this year, but have been forced to delay these plans due to the coronavirus pandemic. Geoff Lloyd, co-host of the Reasons To Be Cheerful podcast, said: “I got to spend an hour […] with Björn Ulvaeus from Abba via Zoom. He’s quarantining – he’s got an island in the Stockholm archipelago. “They’ve recorded five new songs. They should have been out at the end of last year… Because of technical difficulties and the pandemic, it’s delayed things. But he promised me that the new Abba music will be out in 2021.”

Satisfying ending, though a little too neat & tidy.

When the militia men who don't believe Trump lost start a civil war and all the supply chains are broken, you can barter them for food.

1. Musial collected 3,630 career hits, the fourth-highest total in MLB history (second highest at time of retirement) -- 1,815 came at home and 1,815 on the road. 2. Musial was born on Nov. 21, 1920, in Donora, Pennsylvania, a small mining town in the southwest corner of the state. Forty-nine years later -- to the day -- Ken Griffey Jr. was born there too. Thus, as baseball historian Bill James put it, Griffey could be described as "the second-best left-handed-hitting, left-handed-throwing outfielder ever born in Donora, Pennsylvania, on Nov. 21." 3. Musial debuted as a 20-year-old on Sept. 17, 1941, at the tail end of baseball's greatest summer. Ted Williams batted .406 that year, the last player to hit .400 in a full season. Musial batted .426 -- 20-for-47 -- in 12 games. 4. Musial's nickname -- Stan the Man -- was bequeathed to him by Brooklyn Dodgers fans in 1946, who chanted "O-O-h, here comes the man again" when he walked up to the plate. Musial produced 522 career hits against the Dodgers, most by any player all time. Don Stanhouse was a pitcher who had a nine-year career, from 1972 to 1980... he was acquired by the Orioles and excelled in 1978 when Manager Earl Weaver employed him as a full-time closer. Because of his Harpo Marx hairstyle and pre-game batting practice antics – where his primal scream would entertain early ballpark arrivals – he was quickly labeled Stan the Man Unusual, a pun on the nickname "Stan the Man." 5. Musial generated 1,377 extra-base hits (the MLB record at the time of his retirement) for his career against 696 strikeouts. That margin (681 more extra-base hits than strikeouts) is the largest of its kind among all players to debut in the live ball era (since 1920). 6. Musial became the first player in National League history to win three MVP awards (1943, 1946, 1948). But perhaps more impressive, he finished top 10 in MVP voting 14 times, a record that stands to this day (for any player in either league). A Sporting News poll named Stan Musial its Player of the Decade for the years spanning 1946 to '55 (post-World War II). One voter was Joe Cronin, who served as Red Sox manager (1935-47) and general manager (1948-58) during that entire time. Over that span (under Cronin's watch), Ted Williams led MLB in all three triple-slash categories (.344/.490/.642). But Cronin did not vote Williams his Player of the Decade. He voted for Stan Musial.

I have no idea what you mean.

When A. Martinez was on the soap opera SANTA BARBARA, he was known for his skin-tight jeans which showed off a nice ass and impressive bulge. His crotch often arrived in a room several minutes before the rest of him did. This is a clip from the S6 E10 episode of Barney Miller, showing off his BIGGEST asset. He played Meryl Streep's lover in SHE DEVIL, and had a darkly-lit nude scene with Ally Sheedy in ONE NIGHT STAND.

Another amazing basket:

Another lousy episode, though I liked the interaction between Tammy & Adam.

Michael J. Fox is cutting ties with the world of acting. “There is a time for everything, and my time of putting in a 12-hour workday, and memorizing seven pages of dialogue, is best behind me,” the Canadian-American actor, 59, revealed in his new book and fourth memoir, “No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality.” “At least for now … I enter a second retirement,” the “Family Ties” star continued. “That could change, because everything changes. But if this is the end of my acting career, so be it.” The decision follows Fox, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at 29, recently noticing symptoms of the disease including memory loss, delusions and dementia, cognitive declines which he writes he had “rarely contemplated before now, much less spoke of.” These have included confusing his twin daughters and searching for his car keys — despite the fact that he can no longer drive, according to the Los Angeles Times. The “Back to the Future” star also suffered a bad fall in 2019 while filming a cameo for the movie “See You Yesterday,” just four months after undergoing surgery to remove a tumor on his spine. Fox credits his optimism for allowing his career to continue despite his physical degradation. When he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 1991, a doctor told him he’d be lucky if he was able to work another decade, a prediction which, 30 years, seven Emmy nominations and one Emmy win later, Fox has clearly defied. In addition to discussing his health and future career, Fox also touches on his family, famous friends and sobriety struggles in his book, out this week. “She’s not always a rock, but that’s okay,” he writes of wife Tracy Pollan, to whom he’s been married for 32 years. “Rocks are solid, stubborn, and immovable. That’s me. Tracy, on the other hand, has learned to keep the rock rolling.” I saw him on THE VIEW the other day & he didn't look good.

Did the townsfolk have to go to a gas station parking lot to buy their art? Dogs playing poker painted on black velvet, maybe? Dutch supermarket conglomerate Ahold Delhaize is buying a majority stake in the FreshDirect grocery delivery service as the coronavirus pandemic spurs a shift to online food shopping. The companies announced the deal Wednesday — about a year after The Post reported that Bronx-based FreshDirect was searching for a buyer — but did not disclose the price of the acquisition. The takeover will allow Ahold Delhaize to reach more customers in the lucrative Big Apple market and grow its digital business amid a COVID-19-fueled surge in digital grocery orders, according to CEO Frans Muller, who noted that FreshDirect has generated “remarkable customer loyalty” in the city since its launch 18 years ago. FreshDirect will keep its brand name and continue to operate independently under the terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the first quarter of next year. “I believe Ahold Delhaize’s global scale, focus on strong, leading local brands, and ability to utilize cost-of-goods synergies, will allow FreshDirect to achieve its full potential,” FreshDirect chief David McInerney said in a statement. New York-based investment firm Centerbridge Partners will also acquire a 20 percent stake in FreshDirect and become a minority investor alongside Ahold Delhaize, which owns the Stop & Shop, Giant and Food Lion grocery chains in the US. FreshDirect started shopping itself last year after a bungled move from Long Island City to its sprawling new facility in The Bronx caused service glitches that left it fighting to keep customers instead of expanding to new markets, as The Post reported exclusively in October 2019. Both Amazon and Walmart vetted FreshDirect’s finances, sources told The Post at the time, but neither pulled the trigger on an acquisition. FreshDirect has seen a surge in demand in recent months as the coronavirus pandemic led many shoppers to stay out of physical grocery stores. The service’s delivery time slots became completely booked in March amid a wave of virus-related panic shopping.

Dear Abby: All my boyfriend wants to do is clean the house and make love to me. He also cooks for me, massages me, worships my body, insists that I take naps and makes me laugh nonstop. What’s wrong with him? – Pondering in the Sunshine State Dear Pondering: What’s wrong with YOU? This must be a new relationship. Give it time, and I am sure you will uncover something. He has terrible taste in girlfriends.

Dinosaurs ‘were thriving’ before asteroid hit, says study Dinosaurs were “thriving” before an asteroid strike wiped them off the face of the Earth, a new study reveals. It shatters the myth that dinosaurs were already declining when a cataclysmic “mass extinction” event struck 66 million years ago. Recent research found that dinosaurs were killed off thanks to the combination of a major asteroid collision with Earth and intense volcanic activity. But scientists have long suspected that dinosaurs were on the way out anyway, after struggling to adapt to climate change. However, a new study by UK scientists revealed that dinosaurs were “flourishing” at the end of the Cretaceous period, just before their sudden demise. It goes against previous mathematical predictions that suggested the number of dinosaurs had fallen before the asteroid impact. Sadly, however, it’s impossible to say whether the now-extinct dinosaur species would’ve lived on into modern times. “As we can’t really predict the course of evolution of life, we can’t say if they would have died out, survived, or been outcompeted by other animals around after the Cretaceous,” said lead researcher Alessandro Chiarenza, a PhD student at Imperial College London, speaking to The Sun. “66 million years is a lot of time and we know that species turnover is way more rapid than that. But he added: “We do have dinosaurs around today, as we’ve got the chickens! Birds are indeed dinosaurs: just not the ones with nasty teeth and claws have gone extinct!” The new analysis by Imperial College London, University College London and the University of Bristol created wide-ranging models that mapped the changing environment and dinosaur species distribution across North America. It found that dinosaurs were likely not in decline before the meteorite impact. “Dinosaurs were likely not doomed to extinction until the end of the Cretaceous, when the asteroid hit, declaring the end of their reign and leaving the planet to animals like mammals, lizards and a minor group of surviving dinosaurs: birds,” “The results of our study suggest that dinosaurs as a whole were adaptable animals, capable of coping with the environmental changes and climatic fluctuations that happened during the last few million years of the Late Cretaceous,” Alessandro explained. “Climate change over prolonged time scales did not cause a long-term decline of dinosaurs through the last stages of this period.” The study, published in Nature Communications, reveals how changing conditions for fossilization of dinosaur remains has confused scientists. It explains that the mismatch meant that previous studies underestimated the number of dinosaur species alive at the end of the Cretaceous. “Most of what we know about Late Cretaceous North American dinosaurs comes from an area smaller than one-third of the present-day continent and yet we know that dinosaurs roamed all across North America, from Alaska to New Jersey and down to Mexico,” just like snowbird retirees! said co-author Dr. Philip Mannion, of the University College London. Researchers modeled the environmental conditions — like temperature or rainfall — that species needed to survive. The team then mapped where these conditions would have occurred across the continent and over time. This let them create a detailed picture of where groups of dinosaur species could’ve survived as climate conditions changed — rather than just where their fossils were found. Habitats that could support a range of dinosaur groups were more widespread at the end of the Cretaceous, according to scientists. However, these areas were in areas that are deemed “less likely to preserve fossils.” Most dinosaur fossils in North America are found in the western half of the continent, which was once split off from the eastern half by an inland sea millions of years ago. In the west, there was a “steady supply of sediment” from the Rocky Mountains, which created perfect conditions for fossilizing dinosaurs. But conditions in the eastern half of North America were not as good for fossilizing dinosaur remains. This means that not many fossils have been found in the eastern half, which lays the groundwork for scientific confusion. That’s because the new study suggests that climate conditions in the eastern half of the continent were fine for dinosaur survival, suggesting they would’ve “thrived.”

60-year-old woman beaten over mask dispute... A 60-year-old woman was left bruised in Brooklyn after being attacked for asking two people to stay out of an elevator if they won't wear masks, cops said Wednesday. The woman was waiting for the elevator, and asked a young man... IHOP employee slashed by customer refusing to wear mask... An enraged customer was caught on camera slashing an IHOP employee in Queens after refusing to wear a mask, police said. While trying to stab a male employee, he ended up slashing another 40-year-old female employee in the arm. She was taken to the hospital and needed seven stitches, police said.