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Nicholes Lee Death – Obituary
24-year-old Nicholes Lee has been identified killed in a shooting at a Giant grocery store on Reisterstown Road, Baltimore on Tuesday afternoon.
Police the incident started with a heated argument, and the store’s armed guard shot two people after the verbal argument turned into a fight, the shooting began at Giant occurred around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday afternoon.
Eyewitnesses heard loud voices and then multiple shots coming from the back of the store.
According to police, a woman was left with a gunshot wound in her hand. Lee was later pronounced dead shortly after taken to the hospital.
Tributes And Condolences
Tributes and condolences are being shared across social media timelines over the passing of Lee. It is with a deep sense of loss that friends and families mourn their beloved one who has died unexpectedly.
It is in the spirit of this mourning that we extend our condolences to the family of Lee and everyone affected by the passing.
— WJZ | CBS Baltimore (@wjz) July 15, 2021
Nicholes Lee Obituary
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By Jim Forsyth
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - No criminal charges will be filed against the adoptive parents of a Russian-born boy who died in January in Texas, a prosecutor said on Monday, in a case that has intensified a dispute over international adoptions.
The January 21 death of Max Shatto, 3, sparked criminal and child welfare investigations in Texas, probes by authorities in Russia, and calls from Russian lawmakers for his younger brother to be returned to Russia.
Max was found dead in the yard of his home in Gardendale, Texas, near the oilfield city of Odessa.
A West Texas grand jury determined that there was no evidence that his adoptive parents, Laura and Alan Shatto, had committed any crime, Ector County District Attorney Bobby Bland said in a statement.
"This death was the result of a tragic accident occurring most likely on playground equipment," Bland said. "When a child dies so young and tragically, it is natural to want to hold someone accountable. However, in this case, there is no evidence to support holding anybody criminally responsible."
(Reporting by Corrie MacLaggan; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Andrew Hay)

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No Method to Pay: Every day, hundreds of thousands of American Taxpayers find that they are in debt. The rest people spend our time hoping it’s not going to be us that owe. However if you remain in a scenario where you owe the Internal Revenue Service thousands in back taxes, and you know you will not be able to pay it, you might receive an Offer In Compromise.
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An installment contract might be enabled by Internal Revenue Service if payment to tax due is impossible at one time. Although this is not a straight-out option, the first being providing a levy against taxpayers’ state tax refund. 2nd alternative is a notice of Federal Tax Lien that in fact grants Internal Revenue Service legal claim to taxpayer’s property. This is in lieu of payment for tax debt.
By working with a 3rd party company or business, the best possible strategy can be prepared. If you choose to follow this path, make certain that you are dealing with a reliable or established from. Likewise, look into the fees included.
There are 3 various charges to be familiar with. The first is failure to file. This means you just didn’t trouble sending out in your documents to the Internal Revenue Service that year. This penalty is computed from the time of the deadline to the date you actually submitted. The penalty charges 5% of your taxes due monthly you are late, up to a total of 25%. The failure to pay penalty suggests you did file, you just didn’t pay on time. The penalty is.5% for each month the tax wasn’t paid in full.
It means the commitment has actually basically intensified to the point of being out of control when you need aid with an IRS tax debt. Whether you owe the cash or not is rather of a moot point at that minute. The concern now ends up being seeking your fundamental rights to tax debt relief.
You can employ a team of experts, much of them previous Internal Revenue Service agents, to help you deal with the back tax problem. These organizations are often paired with Certified public accountants and they will quickly try to stop the collection enforcement and make settlement with the Internal Revenue Service.
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There is nobody who likes the idea of completing old, unfiled tax returns, especially if you have not gotten any notices or phone calls from the Internal Revenue Service. After all, why wake a sleeping bear, right? Well, whatever you do don’t take that mindset because one way or the other the IRS will find out about your absence of filing back taxes and they will get their cash. Not only will they get their loan, they will also tack on outrageous costs and fines. You need someone to assist prevent this situation and tax specialists who have actually been doing it for several years can help you.
There are 2 kinds of insolvency for personal people, chapter 7 and chapter 13. With Chapter 7 you can generally leave from all debt with a couple of exceptions such as state and federal taxes. You can keep specific exempt property too. There is a federal exemption list Most states have an exemption list too. Most states need you utilize the state list but some allow you to select from either the state or federal list. Property not on the list is sold to please pay creditors.
As you can see from the above short article, insolvency doesn’t just take place. There are many things that should be taken care of, and need to be done right. By following the ideas above, you can make sure that you have actually resolved all the important items that you have to take care of during your bankruptcy.


Resource management company Veolia, in collaboration with 3ti solar car park specialists, has initiated renewable electricity generation at Eastbourne District General Hospital (EDGH).
The solar car park (SCP) is predicted to generate 1,000MWh of solar-generated electricity each year and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 222 tonnes in the first year.
The new solar array comprises 2,412 solar panels installed across eight canopies that cover 400 car parking spaces.
Furthermore, the project addresses the demand for workplace electric vehicle (EV) charging by providing ten solar-powered EV charge points for staff.
This initiative is part of a £27 million energy management contract with Veolia to upgrade Eastbourne District General Hospital.
Commenting on the development, John Abraham, Chief Operating Officer – Veolia UK and Ireland – Industrial, Water and Energy said: “Achieving the NHS net zero targets and maintaining the essential patient care facilities, requires a holistic building approach.”
Tim Evans, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at 3ti added: “This project is a win-win for all parties: the SCP provides low-cost and low-carbon electricity for the hospital, car park users benefit from the cover and lighting provided by the canopies, and staff with EVs can charge their cars whilst at work.”


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We give you the inside scoop on where to look in Champaign-Urbana to find paczki and king cake, our favorite pre-Lenten indulgences.
Beads, masks, King’s Cake and more in Champaign-Urbana: everything you need to celebrate Mardi Gras with your family.
A new bakery and deli is opening in downtown Champaign in the fall.
A good cup of soup can brighten any winter day, and we’re offering a list of places in the Champaign-Urbana area you can find one.
When you’re looking for something nutritious and satisfying at the same time, hit the Champaign-Urbana salad trail.

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1. Professional Struggler
2. Hidden Track
3. Incomplete Sentences
5. Ash Wednesday
A trippy mixture of prog, rock, jazz, indie, punk and emo – math rock has a bit of everything going on. And yet it has a code, a discipline, a formula that creates its own paradigm. You hear this in other genres to a lesser or greater extent – surf, punk, classical (OK not so much that last one).
And like surf, this makes traditional ‘songs’ less common, with even vocals often used in an unconventional way, almost as a part or theme of the song, rather than the central element they more usually are.
For aficionados this is no bad thing, but for those with more vanilla tastes, it might be a bit challenging. Hong Kong, however, has proved a happy home for math, and this excellent new EP, recorded mid to late 2016, “In Complete Sentences”, the second by Emptybottles, is a worthy new contender.
Put out mid-August as a co-release from Sango Records and Sweaty & Cramped, the band – Thomas, Cha Bao and Lok – say that like the first EP, it was “recorded during a time of struggle, but we are glad our trusted friends helped us finish the record”.
Comes in with a very modern, jazzy feel, slightly atonal, until a minute in it goes all indie-rock which makes quite a contrast, accompanied by a screamo-in-the-background vocal before stopping dead in its tracks. Clever, confusing, contrary – so far, so intriguing.
Super melodic, almost funky, with beautiful contrasting guitars – one rhythm, one lead, sliding and shaping in and out of each other. Gradually builds with the lead guitar becoming almost stratospheric, while never losing that gorgeous timing and balance. Breathtaking.
Two more sparring guitars, with a rat-a-tat drumming intro, fluid, entrancing, instrumental magic. Somehow driving along at its own perfect pace oblivious to the rest of the world. Again builds up, becoming heavier, but in a totally organic way. Then, unlikely – a trumpet solo enters the fray. Things slip into half-time (is it? Or 6/8? This math stuff is a bit beyond me), the trumpet holds the same few delicate notes before it all fades out, leaving nothing but fabulous ethereal wisps in its trail.
Again that fresh, summer-like vibe with just a hint of wistfulness, like watching a perfect sunset after a wonderful holiday, knowing you’re back to reality the next day. The heavier feel and soloing, which is something of a trademark comes in again.
Those beautiful harmonic guitars are again present and correct, twisting and shimmering, almost an Afro-beat to some of its harmonies and structures before taking it right down and building it up again. The band describes the track as “perhaps their most ambiguous composition so far”.
This is lovely, inspired stuff, with wonderful playing and dreamy soundscapes which create their own special rock cosmos. My one observation might be that the vocals come across as something of an afterthought but that’s only in the context of ‘standard’ song writing, which this isn’t, as discussed earlier.
Math is a popular musical form in Hong Kong and there’s no shortage of proponents, but Emptybottles definitely has a few very appealing tricks up its highly numerate sleeves (does that work?)
– Dan Creffield
You can find this EP on bandcamp

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1. Make sure to pay Zakat
What is Zakat? It is one of the five pillars of Islam. It is also an obligation which primarily benefits the poor and the needy.
Find out today what you are required to do to fulfill this Islamic obligation, and what assets you and your family have which are Zakatable. Whether it's the family business or your wife's jewelry Also, educate your kids about this necessary pillar of Islam in a family meeting.
2. Start a family Sadaqa (charity) box
Wouldn't it be great to give charity as a family? You can do this in a systematic way by setting up a family Sadaqa box in a particular spot of the house. Then, convince each person to put a portion of their allowance or salary in this box.
One of the older kids will keep track of how much is collected. Once a month, hold a family meeting to decide exactly where the money will go, whether it's to the needy family who lives next door, the homeless shelter in the city or poor relatives abroad.
3. Have a "secret Sadaqa box"
Ideally, your left hand should not know what your right hand has given in charity. Keeping this in mind, to encourage secret charity, put a secret Sadaqa box in the home.
Make it clear why it's there and tell the kids the rule is no one can give Sadaqa in this box when other people can see them. Decide as a family where the money should be given.
4. Be in regular social contact with community members
Do you think the only people who are really living in poverty are those who ask?
Wrong. Allah says in the Quran says: The ignorant man thinks, because of their modesty, that they are free from want. Thou shalt know them by their (unfailing) mark; they beg not importunately from all and sundry (part of verse 2: 273)
There are a number of people who, due to their sense of nobility and self-respect, cannot and will not ask from others, even if they are in need. The only way such individuals can be taken care of is if community members keep a watchful eye and note how they are really doing.
It may be evident in how they dress. Or in where and how they live. Either way, the only way to really know that such people are in need is to be close to them, knowing their condition after having seen it with your own eyes.
A note of caution though: once you know someone like this is in need, don't advertise their difficult situation to others.
5. Use food wisely at parties
Where do you see so much good food wasted? Usually at dinner parties and social occasions.
Next time you have a dinner party, encourage guests in a discreet and polite manner not to waste food. Then, once the party's over, if there is plenty of leftover food, drop it off at a shelter for the homeless, a soup kitchen, or a family you personally know who is in need.
If you've got a family wedding coming up, then serve the food buffet style so people take only as much as they want. Then donate the rest of the untouched food to a shelter for the needy.
6. Have a family garage sale and donate the proceeds to the poor
Are your kids getting bored as the summer wears on? Then try out this great idea they can have fun with while helping those living in poverty.
Get everyone to take out any unwanted toys, clothes, etc. from their closets. Then organize and tag all items and hold a garage sale in your back or front yard.
All of the money should go to a shelter or soup kitchen.
7. Visit a homeless shelter or soup kitchen as a family
We become so used to just opening up the fridge when we're hungry, we forget there are countless millions who don't have this luxury.
Call up the local soup kitchen and ask if you can make the food there for one meal. Nothing fancy. Just pasta for instance. Get the family and some friends to help too. This is a good exercise not just in food preparation, but in learning the proper etiquette of dealing with the poor: with kindness, care and compassion.
8. Make it a habit to meet with people of all socioeconomic backgrounds
Have you noticed that all of your friends and social contacts are from the same economic class?
If so, make a point to meet with those who don't necessarily have as much as you and your family do. Friendship must never be based on the size of a house or bank account. Teach yourself and your kids this valuable lesson.
By socializing with the poor, you'll not only develop a sensitivity to their needs, but you will learn to relate to them with respect, not in an arrogant manner.
9. Make one "poor" meal a month in the home
What do you usually eat for dinner as a family? If you've been eating rich, heavy food, give it a break for just one day out of the month. Make a very, very simple meal. This will give everyone a real live example of what it feels like to live with much less for a day. Remind everyone that for many people, such a meal is not an unpleasant reality that happens once a month. It's a way of life.
10. Fast and make Dua for those living in poverty
One of the great things about fasting is that it makes you more aware of what it's like to live with hunger.
Do a Nafl (optional) fast for a day. Get a friend to do it with you. When it's time to break your fast, make Dua for those who are living in poverty worldwide and ask Allah what you can do to help alleviate their suffering.
"A beggar woman against the background of Saint Sophia's Cathedral fresco paintings. Kiev, Ukraine, Eastern Europe" by Mstyslav Chernov - Self-photographed, http://mstyslav-chernov.com/. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_beggar_woman_against_the_background_of_Saint_Sophia%27s_Cathedral_fresco_paintings._Kiev,_Ukraine,_Eastern_Europe.jpg#mediaviewer/File:A_beggar_woman_against_the_background_of_Saint_Sophia%27s_Cathedral_fresco_paintings._Kiev,_Ukraine,_Eastern_Europe.jpg

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It can take years or decades to learn the effects of intervention strategies to reduce the spread of AIDS, but a Brown University researcher claims success with a predictive computer simulation in a presentation at the International AIDS Society Conference in Washington, D.C.
Brandon Marshall, assistant professor of epidemiology, presented a model to accurately predict the spread of HIV among injection drug users in New York City over a decade and to make specific predictions, according to a Brown announcement. It explored six scenarios: ramping up needle exchanges, enrolling more people in substance abuse treatment programs, increasing the rate of testing, starting people on medication earlier, a combination of these four intervention strategies and sticking with the current policies.
Starting with a decade of known infection rates (1992 to 2002), it created 150,000 individual hypothetical "agents" or individuals, each of which made plausible behavior decisions such as having protected sex one day but unprotected sex the next or starting drug treatment and then dropping out.
"With this model you can really look at the micro-connections between people. It reflects what's seen in the real world," Marshall said.
Processing the massive data set required a supercomputer cluster at Brown. Even so, it took 72 hours to run each scenario, reports Scientific American. And the researchers ran each one thousands of times to ensure accuracy.
Looking at the scenarios between now and 2040, Marshall found that the most effective single intervention was to start treatment earlier, which lowered new infections by 45 percent. Increasing by half the number of people tested for HIV reduced new infections by only about 12 percent; increasing drug treatment would reduce the rate 26 percent; and expanding needle exchange programs would reduce the rate 34 percent. Combining all four of the interventions would cut infections by 62 percent.
These interventions must be scaled up immediately to have substantial effect on the spread of HIV among intravenous drug users, said Marshall, who had expected the interventions to provide better results.
Going forward, he and his colleagues are exploring the cost-effectiveness of the interventions.
HIV data is among the government-collected health information made available to researchers, policy-makers and the public in May by the Department of Health and Human Services.
And a Kaiser Permanente health challenge seeks to increase the number of providers using its toolkit of clinical best practices for treating HIV-positive people.
Meanwhile, two studies from Kenya found weekly text messages helped HIV patients adhere to their medication regimen.


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Posted in Other Transport News on 2020-03-04 13:08:35
The state government will set up its own company to collect tolls from motorists on the $15.8 billion North East Link road project.
Posted in Other Transport News on 2019-12-20 18:14:22
A consortium bidding to build the North East Link, the state's biggest ever road project, is poised to withdraw its tender for a contract worth billions of dollars.
It is the latest setback to hit the Andrews government's transport "big build" program.
Posted in Other Transport News on 2020-03-05 10:28:34
Construction giant John Holland is pushing back against a state government demand that it be financially liable for cost blowouts building the North East Link in a move that could sideline the construction company from Victoria's most expensive road project.
Posted in Other Transport News on 2020-03-05 12:18:04
In a Victorian first, a State-owned company will be set-up to collect tolls for the long-awaited North East Link with toll revenue going towards the cost of building and maintaining the missing link in Melbourne’s freeway network.

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The four members of New York Junk are survivors of the New York music scene of the early 1980s. This was the era when attention to punk rock had died down and local bands were playing basic rock and roll again. The musicians in New York Junk played in various bands during that era and now are reviving that music.
At the Bowery Electric tonight opening for the Waldos, at first New York Junk sounded like another band playing three chords fast in a garage rock way. Listening more carefully, one heard songs, real songs, songs from the soul of thinking, working class people. Guitarist/songwriter Joe Sztabnik sang with a limited range that simultaneously pushed his angst and his passions. The roar of the two guitarists then echoed those sentiments with raw and gritty rock and roll leads. It sounded simple, but it also sounded compellingly honest.
New York Junk will be opening for the Jim Jones Revue at the Bowery Electric on New Year’s Eve.


Winter from "The Four Seasons"
- Glockenspiels (2)
- Marimba (5-octave)
- Marimbas (3 small)
- Sleigh Bells (high and low)
None discovered thus far.
Although he wrote 39 operas, 73 sonatas and generous amounts of religious music, Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi is best known for his concertos. Having learned the violin from his father, a Venetian barber, Vivaldi later penned one of the most popular string pieces in history, The Four Seasons.
Written in Vivaldi's distinctive style, the composition features melodies often broken into small phrases with forceful syncopated rhythms, making it a perfect subject for percussion adaptation.
- Program Note from score
- Audio CD: Cross Timbers Middle School Honor Band (J.J. Pipitone, conductor) - 2011
- Florida: IV
- Indiana: 113 - LARGE PERCUSSION ENSEMBLES
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Cross Timbers Middle School (Grapevine, Tx.) Honors Band (J.J. Pipitone, conductor) – 15 December 2011 (2011 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Concerto for Two Flutes
- Concerto for Two Trumpets and Symphonic Band (arr. Lang) (1920?/1964)
- Concerto in B-flat (tr. Yeago) (<1742/2005)
- Concerto in C Major for Two Trumpets (arr. Rumbelow) (1996?)
- Concerto from "L'Estero armonico" (arr. Marlatt) (1711/2016)
- Concerto Grosso in D minor (arr. Cacavas)
- Concerto in C
- Four Seasons, The (1725)
- Italian Masters Suite (arr. Gordon) (1963)
- Largo (arr. Hautvast)
- Piccolo Concerto in C major (arr. Bělohoubek) (1728-29/)
- Piccolo Concerto in C major (arr. Reed) (1728-29/1962/1969)
- Viva Vivaldi (arr. Jenkins) (1963)
- Winter from "The Four Seasons" (arr. Giroux) (1725/)
- Winter from "The Four Seasons" (arr. Slawson) (1725/2009)


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That yowl of pain you heard coming from the nation’s capital on Monday afternoon was the death cry of the print newspaper business as it was cut to the heart by the buyout of the Washington Post by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Just forty years ago, during the Watergate scandal, the Post was an economic and cultural force potent enough to help take down a sitting president, and now it has itself been taken down by a guy who less than twenty years ago was working out of his garage selling books on the Internet.
The surprise $250 million deal has coup de grâce written all over it, and in newsrooms across the country, reporters and editors – those who still have jobs – will be grousing over the rich symbolism of one of the crown jewels of American journalism being snapped up by a mogul made rich by the very technology that killed the print business model. But once the grumbling dies down, those of us who care about journalism and culture may have to concede two obvious points. First, we damn well better hope Bezos succeeds where others have failed in figuring out how to produce professional-quality content in the digital age, not just for the sake of the Washington Post or even of the news business, but for the sake of cultural and artistic production in general. Second, of all the billionaires with the means to buy a major cultural institution like the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos might just be the one who can reinvent it for the 21st century.
The details of the Post deal are curious – and telling. For one thing, the newspaper’s parent company, which owns a diverse group of media and educational businesses including the Kaplan test prep company, is selling only its newspapers and holding onto its other businesses. For another, Bezos is buying the Post on his own, and won’t merge it into Amazon, the online retailing behemoth he still runs. Finally, Bezos has said he doesn’t intend to lay off employees and will keep Katherine Weymouth, granddaughter of legendary Post publisher and Washington powerbroker Katherine Graham, on as the newspaper’s publisher.
In other words, the Washington Post Company sees its signature property as a money-loser, and Bezos appears to be stepping in as a white knight to save a cultural institution from falling into disrepair. The history of these sorts of deals is mixed at best. After all, just three years ago the Post Company sold once-mighty Newsweek for a dollar to yet another billionaire, 92-year-old Sidney Harman, who brought in former New Yorker editor Tina Brown, with a plan to merge the aging print weekly with the website The Daily Beast. Harman, however, promptly died, and with the magazine hemorrhaging readers, Brown just last week severed ties between the website and the print magazine, selling Newsweek to start-up International Business Times.
As its purchase price suggests, the Washington Post is in far better shape than Newsweek was, but the paper’s core business of covering inside the Beltway news is under threat from websites like Politico. More importantly, the paper faces the same problem all legacy news organizations face, which is how to scale back its news operation to a level that is economically sustainable in a post-print era without doing fatal damage to the news gathering itself. To do that, though, requires a nuanced understanding of why the old business model failed in the first place.
There are two versions of the story of why print newspapers bit the dust, one a tech-geek fantasy, the other a more prosaic business tale. In the tech-geek fantasy version, spread by the likes of digivangelist Clay Shirky in his 2008 book Here Comes Everybody, newspapers were beaten at their own game by bloggers and regular citizens armed with iPhones and laptops who were able to deliver news faster and more cheaply than the old print warhorses. Ironically, Shirky and others who advance this theory are laboring under the same misconception that has plagued news executives for the last twenty years – namely, the assumption that the principal business of a newspaper is gathering news. Newspapers don’t sell news. Rather, they give news away for free in order to maintain a distribution system for business information, most of which takes the form of paid ads. Newspapers remained as lucrative as they were for as long as they did because until the introduction of the web browser in 1994, nothing else offered cheap access to the millions of ordinary consumers who picked up the paper that landed on their front curb every morning.
Understanding this distinction helps explain why television hurt but did not kill newspapers. Television long ago entered more homes than newspapers ever did, and in many ways TV, which includes moving pictures and sound, is a better delivery device for news. But again, news isn’t the product for sale; advertising is, and by its nature, television can only effectively sell broad conceptual ideas that can be communicated visually in thirty seconds. You can use television to convince millions of Americans to shop at Safeway, but you can’t very well use TV to tell Americans about everything that’s on sale that week at their neighborhood Safeway. And if you are trying to find a roommate or selling some old furniture, you can’t afford the thousands of dollars it would cost to run even a fifteen-second spot on a local station. For those kinds of tasks, you called up your local paper and bought a classified ad – until, that is, Craigslist and eBay came along and let people post those ads essentially for free.
To repeat: newspapers aren’t dying because they’re getting beat on news reporting. Newspapers are dying because the Internet separated the news content from the advertising revenue stream. For generations news executives thought they were selling news, while in fact they were selling a pipeline to consumers that companies and individuals paid to use. Now, the Internet itself is that pipeline, and we’re watching a wild scramble to see who will control it and the rafts of dollars flowing down its many tributaries. So far, tech giants like Apple, Facebook, Google, and, yes, Amazon, are winning that battle hands down.
This same battle, meanwhile, has been playing out across all forms of cultural and artistic expression. Twenty years ago, if a rock band wanted to find a wide audience for its music, it signed with a record label, which then recorded the band’s music and distributed it to stores across the country. Now, thanks to the ease of digital distribution, young musicians can bypass record labels and post their songs online for free. But if they want to make any real money from their work, they will almost certainly have to turn to Apple’s iTunes site and its direct pipeline to America’s ears.
A similar story has played out in the movie business, which only a few years ago could depend on DVDs rentals to make up revenue lost at the box office. Now, thanks to streaming services like Netflix, DVD rental fees have dried up and movie studios are madly turning out special-effects-laden comic-book serials in the hopes of winning over American teenagers and Chinese moviegoers, the last groups still consistently willing to pay to watch a movie in a theater (as long as it’s loud, violent, and not overly dependent on the subtleties of spoken English).
Books have been somewhat insulated from these disruptions because, so far, most readers still prefer physical books over e-books, but the terms of the battle are the same. Publishing firms, which have for generations paid writers to produce and editors to curate books are fighting tech giants Apple and Amazon, which view books primarily as loss leaders they can use to attract customers to their e-readers. So long as most readers continue to prefer printed books, publishing will limp along in its wounded state, rather like the news business after television but before the Internet. But there is a tipping point at which e-readers, and the recommendation engines controlled by the tech giants, could take over the curating role now played by publishing houses, thereby killing the publishing industry as we know it.
All of which brings us back to Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post. Over the last twenty years, much of the money and power once held by content producers – newspapers, record labels, movie studios, publishing houses, etc. – has transferred to the tech giants that now control the digital pipelines to consumers. This means that it’s much easier for any individual artist or journalist to reach an audience, which is a great and good thing, but it also means that the tech giants controlling the pipelines are taking ever increasing shares of profits.
For the past decade or so, we have been enjoying a strange hangover period of the pre-digital age. A generation of journalists and artists trained in the dead-tree era, who have few other marketable skills, have continued producing art and journalism even though they are getting paid far less for their work than they used to. But every year more of these content producers are retiring or moving on, and we are entering a new period dominated by the first truly digital generation of bloggers and artists who are faced with the task of rebuilding the culture industries out of the ashes of the tech explosion.
I and many others have argued that, so far at least, this generation has relied too heavily on memes and information derived from the legacy content producers. In journalism, this has meant hordes of bloggers feasting on an ever-shrinking supply of reported news from print-based news organizations. In film, this has meant kajillions of kids with camera phones riffing on existing story worlds, like Star Wars and Harry Potter, and uploading the results onto YouTube. As Jaron Lanier, a digital pioneer recently turned Internet skeptic, puts it in his 2011 book You Are Not a Gadget, we are a culture in danger of “effectively eating its own seed stock.”
Obviously, this cannot go on forever, but thus far the most powerful technological disrupters have shown little interest in investing in the content carried along their digital pipelines. Apple, with its market-making iPhone and iPad devices, sparked a creative revolution in the world of apps, but when it comes to cultural content like books, movies, and news, all the tech companies have done is made it cheaper and easier to get what you want, cutting deeply into the profit margins for the content producers in the process.
Amazon, which now controls a quarter of the book business, has of course played a huge role in this devaluing of cultural content, but in recent years Amazon has also quietly begun investing in content of its own. Since 2009, Amazon has launched imprints focusing on romance (Montlake Romance), thrillers (Thomas & Mercer), and sci-fi (47North), and now even general adult titles (New Harvest) and literary fiction (Little A). Compared with Amazon itself, these ventures are tiny, and they have run into trouble with rival booksellers like Barnes & Noble, which have refused to stock their titles. But whether these imprints succeed or fail, they demonstrate that Bezos has begun to wrap his mind around what it would mean if his company squeezed so much value out of the book business that publishing became in effect one long amateur hour.
So, is the Washington Post purchase a step in the same direction, an effort on Bezos’s part to invest directly in the content that fuels his billion-dollar pipelines? The short answer is nobody knows. By all accounts the deal came together quickly, and it may well be that Bezos himself is unsure just what he wants to do with the Post. For a man worth $25.2 billion, as Bezos is, a $250 million newspaper truly can qualify as an impulse buy. Perhaps this is simply the billionaire’s answer to collecting old-fashioned typewriters. Let’s hope that’s not the case because whatever you may think of Bezos and others who broke the pre-Internet business model, the fact is it’s broken – and who better to fix it than the man who helped break it in the first place?
Bezos, who has never worked in the news business, may be less attached to the dying print model than most print-news lifers and thus more willing to embrace digital-only innovations. As a man who has made his living tapping the powers of the interwebs, he may be better able to see that strict paywalls, which limit linking and bring in few dollars, are a dead end for most news organizations. As a CEO who recently bought out the reader hub GoodReads, he may be more open to recasting the newspaper as a community gathering spot, a sort of localized wiki combining conversation, community news, and event listings with ad revenues supporting a small, professional news staff. Most important, as a manager who has excelled at the long game, spending years investing in infrastructure for Amazon rather than diverting profits to shareholders, Bezos might be more willing to lose some money while figuring out how to marry news quality with profitability.
Or maybe not. Maybe the guy just wants a $250 million toy. But let’s hope not, because if that’s the case we stand to lose a lot more than a grand old newspaper that once helped take down a president.

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Automakers to meet with U.S. transportation, EPA chiefsWed, 26, Apr 2017
Mercedes-Benz undecided on future diesel sales in U.S.Wed, 12, Apr 2017
Automakers aim to strike deal with EPA, Calif. over 2025 emissions targetsTue, 11, Apr 2017
A trade group representing automakers hopes to reach a deal with California and the Trump administration over vehicle fuel efficiency standards. The White House plans to hold negotiations with car companies and California over the mpg rules.
White House seeks to slash EPA funds for emissions testingTue, 04, Apr 2017
The Trump administration would nearly eliminate federal funding for the EPA's budget for light-vehicle emissions and fuel-economy testing but will seek to raise fees on the auto industry to pay for some tests. Automakers are concerned the proposed cuts could delay certification of new vehicles and getting products to consumers.
Trump's sop to coal miners betrays the auto industryMon, 03, Apr 2017
In the name of saving coal-mining jobs - which electric utilities say won't be saved anyway - President President Donald Trump has turned his back on the skilled workers of the auto industry who are on the front lines of improving the quality of the air and America's global competitiveness.
First Shift: VW cleared to sell '15 dieselsThu, 30, Mar 2017
VW cleared by EPA to sell repaired 2015 dieselsWed, 29, Mar 2017
Volkswagen said it received approval from the EPA for dealers to sell 2015 model year diesels after updating the vehicles' emissions software. The software update is part of a required emissions repair approved by the EPA and California's Air Resources Board.
Calif. upholds Obama emissions rules, setting up clash with EPA over mpg targetsFri, 24, Mar 2017
California approved light-vehicle pollution targets that the Trump administration has put on hold, setting up a potential face-off between federal and state regulators over emissions rules that could be expensive for automakers and a headache for consumers.
Court nominee's mom was EPA lightning rodMon, 27, Mar 2017
Cost of mpg fuel standards could be 40% lower, report saysWed, 22, Mar 2017
Technologies such as turbochargers, advanced transmissions and lighter materials -- aluminum instead of steel, for example -- could reduce fuel efficiency compliance costs by 34 percent to 40 percent per vehicle from 2022-25, the International Council on Clean Transportation said in a new report.
With EPA victory comes new uncertaintySun, 19, Mar 2017
Automakers face a new wild card in the form of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, whose views on climate change and federal power challenge the foundations of the landmark deal they struck with the government in 2012.


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A PAIR OF GREEK GOLD DOUBLE LION-HEAD EARRINGS
CIRCA EARLY 3RD CENTURY B.C.
The hoop composed of twisted wires, the lion-heads naturalistically modelled with chased detailing, each terminal with bands of darts and double beaded wire collars, the upper heads with a band of ivy with granulated berries and a central Herakles knot between the beaded wire collars, mounted onto modern ear studs
1 in. (2.6 cm.) diam.; weight 9.2g and 8.9g
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Private collection, UK, acquired from the above March 1998.
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From Cupid to Kahlo to Keats — the artworks and objects that encapsulate the power of love
Insights into the enduring appeal of works that were sculpted some 5,000 years ago. Illustrated with pieces offered at Christie’s
Specialist G. Max Bernheimer explains their significance as 40 exquisite pieces from the G. Sangiorgi Collection sell in New York for $10,640,500
The story of the family-run firm that’s been a fixture in New York for 80 years, ahead of a landmark sale of furniture, porcelain, clocks, sculpture and more
From an Anatolian idol to images of the Cern nuclear research facility — a whistlestop tour arranged, for your convenience, in chronological order


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With Silver Linings, DJ Shio Otani and The Eastern Sirens.
Come down to the Brunswick Baths and brush off a banana lounge for High Tide, the first ever Brunswick Music Festival pool party. The afternoon shindig of water-filled fun in the sun will feature two sets by electro-soul trio Silver Linings, whose swimming soundtrack is set to make waves and top-notch DJ Shio Otani spinning tunes poolside for your splish-splashing pleasure. Also catch special performances by synchronised swimmers The Eastern Sirens.
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Three great social media campaigns from 2011
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From over at Memeburn – three excellent social media campaigns from 2011.
KLM — The airline (yes it still exists)
At the beginning of 2010, KLM the official airline of Holland, embarked on an aggressive social media listening exercise.
Utilising Foursquare and Twitter, KLM staff would look for passengers who had just checked in and were waiting to board their flight. The KLM staff would then quickly scan through their social media profiles to look for something that the passenger was interested in. Armed with this information, KLM then bought (from duty free) small gifts to give to these passengers.
This is not strictly a social media campaign, however the spread of the application it developed was social and the usage of the application was definitely social (so I’ll allow it).
Stella Artois a Belgian beer company created an augmented reality travel app. This incredibly handy app was quite simple to use. If you were travelling to a strange city or found yourself in a foreign country, all you needed to do was open the Le Bar Guide application on your iPhone or iPad, give it a little shake and it would point you in the direction of the closest establishment that served refreshing pints of Stella!
One of the great features of the app, was that it acted like Foursquare and let you rate the establishment where you decided to refuel on Stella. This information was then used by the brewery for market research and travelers who also used the app could ensure that the establishment that they were going to try was at least well liked by fellow visitors.
Renault, the French car manufacturer, allowed visitors to the AutoRAI motor show in the Netherlands to share their offline experience with their online friends through Facebook. When a visitor to the Renault stand saw a car that particularly took their breath away, they simply had to swipe their visitor card across the Facebook Check-in stand. The visitors access card had been preloaded with their Facebook information.
When the card was swiped this information allowed Renault to immediately post information about the car they had “liked”. This information, posted on their wall, was then shared to all of their friends and allowed them to feel and experience the show online with their friends who were actually there.


Row over Afzal Guru body set to hit Kashmir assembly, as MLA breathes fire
- Jigisha Ghosh murder case: Two convicts get death sentence, life imprisonment for one
- Ban pellet guns in Kashmir, Omar Abdullah-led delegation asks PM Modi
- PM Modi, Afghan President Ghani jointly inaugurate renovated Stor Palace
- AAP doesn't have money to fight election: Kejriwal
- Kicking off UP poll campaign, Mayawati slams BJP-RSS, SP, is soft on Congress
An Independent MLA of Jammu and Kashmir, Engineer Rashid, has moved a resolution for the upcoming session of state assembly seeking "return of Afzal Guru's body". Rashid has also invited all the mainstream political parties for a meeting to "chalk out joint strategy to get back" Guru's body.
"I have submitted two resolutions for the upcoming assembly session. One resolution seeks return of Afzal's body and the mortal remains of Maqbool Bhat. The other seeks an end to the capital punishment," Rashid said in his first press conference after his release.
"If National Conference and PDP are serious in what they are saying, they should come forward and help us to pass this resolution".
A visibly angry Rashid accused the Congress party of "murdering" Guru to pave way for Rahul Gandhi to become the Prime Minister of India. "It was done to stop Narendra Modi (from becoming the Prime Minister). Congress has a tradition of sacrificing democracy," he said. "Kashmir can't be an 'atoot ang' (integral part) of India anymore. India has closed all the doors for it".
Rashid, who represents the Langate assembly constituency, said he has invited all the mainstream political parties for a joint meeting on Monday. "I have sent a letter to all of them," he said. "Let's meet so that we can chalk out a joint strategy to get back Afzal's body".
Seeking forgiveness from the people and Afzal's family for not able to "save him from gallows", the independent legislator said the hanging has created clear divisions between India and Kashmir. "I congratulate people for the way they have unmasked the true face of Indian democracy," he said. "Today, there is no moderate and no hardliner, no pro-Indian or anti-India. India has wiped out all these divisions. Today the state of India has lost and people of Kashmir have won".
- Farm incomes may not revive despite good monsoon
- India’s new line that Pak will have to pay for cross-border terror was overdue
- Just how did Pakistan become so central to the definition of Indian patriotism?
- Why AAP needs to go back to school
- Next door Nepal: Detente in Kathmandu
- PM's Balochistan policy: Gameplan, gambit or gamble?


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Women’s health startup Inne raises $10M
Berlin-based healthtech startup Inne has raised an additional $10 million (€9.3M) in funding led by DSM Venturing.
Borski Fund, Calm Storm Ventures also participated in the round, along with angels Taavet Hinrikus (Wise), Dr Fiona Pathiraja, Rolf Schromgens (Trivago).
Inne will use the investment to continue to develop its mini lab and platform to serve more areas of women’s health and expand into the US.
The startup is expanding its progesterone tracking feature to perimenopause and adding the ability to analyse stress through a cortisol tracking strip.
Eirini Rapti, founder and CEO, Inne, said: “Inne can be the trusted partner for millions of women around the world, democratising the access to insight and information.”
NuvoAir launches remote asthma service in collaboration with 17 NHS trusts
Swedish startup NuvoAir is collaborating with 17 NHS trusts to launch a virtual asthma assessment service.
The service uses respiratory physiologists and connected home monitoring technology to assess lung function variability, and a sensor to track inhaler usage and technique.
NuvoAir founder and CEO, Lorenzo Consoli said: “We’re excited to partner with the NHS and forward-looking clinicians to redesign new care pathways for people with asthma. By blending high touch with high-tech, we’re able to help patients get on the right treatment at the right time to prevent asthma exacerbations.”
British digital health startup Healum launches research network
UK-based startup Healum has launched a research community for people with long-term health conditions, such as diabetes or heart disease.
Patients will be invited to shape the direction of how newly developed AI technology will use their information and will have the option to share their health data to help others with the same conditions.
The community is also open to healthcare providers and researchers who are interested in partnering with patients to learn what approaches work best in achieving health outcomes.
Jonathan Abraham, CEO and cofounder, Healum, said: “AI has the potential to unlock many benefits for healthcare if it is guided by the wisdom of the people that deliver and use services.”
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust joins Leeds-Israel Innovation Healthtech Gateway
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has announced it is a partner in the newly launched Leeds-Israel Innovation Healthtech Gateway.
This first of its kind in the UK initiative aims to foster collaboration and support high-growth Israeli tech firms on their expansion to the UK.
Dame Linda Pollard, chair, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, said: “This is a fantastic initiative which will enable us to strengthen our links with Israel and the health sector businesses which are at the leading edge of innovation in healthcare technology.”
Ongoing IT issues disrupt four NHS hospitals in Greater Manchester
An IT system failure at NHS hospitals in Greater Manchester, UK has led to some patients waiting for 11 hours in the emergency department.
Dr Chris Brookes, deputy CEO and CMO, Northern Care Alliance NHS Trust, said on Wednesday (25) they were still working to resolve “significant IT issues” affecting digital systems at hospitals at Oldham, Bury and Rochdale, as well as North Manchester General Hospital which is run by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.
He added that patients may experience delays across services, but personal data held by the NHS and trust was “secure and unaffected.”
AI startup VeinCV gets free access to GPU cloud Solutions
Russian medtech startup VeinCV has been given free access to the VK Cloud Solutions platform, which is based on graphics accelerators (GPUs).
The spin-out from Moscow’s Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology has developed a medical imaging system that makes blood draws easier by using neural networks to analyse near-infrared images of veins and project a venous pattern onto a patient’s body.
Oleg Rogov, cofounder and CEO, VeinCV, said: “Using VK Cloud Solutions GPUs, the VeinCV team was able to develop and train segmentation models, improving the quality of data received from VeinCV systems by 11%. The image has become better, and cloud computing has accelerated and simplified the further development of the project.”

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Seed rounds aren’t only about the cash.
Money may be the desired end result of an initial outside investment round, but the process of raising capital is ultimately about setting a course for the company, Yet Analytics cofounders Shelly Blake-Plock and Margaret Roth told a group of entrepreneurs and community members at Startup Soiree on Wednesday night. Blake-Plock described the initial investment round as a mortgage on the company’s future.
“When we started up this company, we didn’t start it for the purpose of getting a mortgage, we started it for the purpose of building a home,” he said.
The event, held at the Arch Social Club at Penn and North, was a chance for entrepreneurs to meet up in West Baltimore following the recent launch of Innovation Village.
In a club where Billie Holiday once performed, Roth and Blake-Plock shared some of the insights they gained during the big-data interoperability company’s $1.3 million raise. The oversubscribed round, led by Panther Angels, closed in November.
The process of assembling a team to carry out the vision and winning over investors outside of friends and family forces you to hone in on how to present the company to the world, the cofounders said. For the startup, which is developing a data analytics platform for training from a Defense Department API, honing in on a clear description of the company’s aim was key.
“As soon as you get very authentic about what you’re trying to do and what you’re trying to accomplish, people start saying yes,” Roth said.
They laid out a few parts of the process for other entrepreneurs in the room:
- Building a startup is an up-and-down ride. Building a team that can roll with the lows just as well as the highs is a key part of the raising a seed round. And once the pitching starts, investors are a part of that support network that must be strong, Roth said.
- Within the process of building a business, look at the tools that are available in the community. “It’s about finding the resources that can help you and not being afraid to ask for help,” Blake-Plock said.
- Ultimately, the pitch is where you convince people that your idea is worth spending money on. While giving a brief overview of the company to investors who may be new to the idea may seem to lend itself to a formulaic pitch, Blake-Plock says it’s important to remember that you’re trying to stand out. “I couldn’t do it like anyone else. I had to do it like me,” he said. Blake-Plock’s passionate pitch about building a big company in Baltimore propelled Yet Analytics to a win at Venture Pitch Day at Beta City.
The Pitch Deck
- Keep the slides concise, Roth said. Like with the pitch itself, look for ways to stand out, and convey what the company does to a group who may have never heard it before. “What it really came to was being completely honest with who we are, and not trying to fit the mold of what other people say your deck is supposed to look like,” she said.
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Voltage Controlled Oscillator
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- Earl Swartzlander, Jr., Ph.D. , Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Moises Robinson , Xilinx
- Marwan Hassoun , Xilinx
- Shahriar Rokhbaz , Xilinx
Most digital electronic circuits require clocks to coordinate the processing of data. The clocks are often formed using phase-locked loops. Phase-locked loops require an oscillator (a basic source for the clock) that has a frequency that can be adjusted by means of a control voltage. Such oscillators are referred to as voltage controlled oscillators (or VCOs).
Most voltage controlled oscillators are implemented via ring oscillators, which consist of an odd number of inverting stages with the output of the last stage being fed into the first stage. This invention consists of a single-stage ring oscillator. It also includes the capability for both coarse and fine adjustment of the oscillator frequency.
- Since only a single stage ring oscillator is required by this invention, less power is consumed than for multiple-stage ring oscillators.
- The single-stage ring oscillator is capable of operating at higher frequencies than multiple-stage ring oscillators.
- The invention is capable of oscillating over a wider range than conventional ring oscillator based VCOs.
All digital systems with multiple clocks that need to maintain a fixed frequency relationship (such as one clock is four times as fast as a second clock which is twice as fast as a third clock, etc.)
Proof of concept
- 1 U.S. patent issued: 7,315,220


text: One sea day from Laem Chabang, the Volendam docks at the Vietnamese port of Phu My (near Saigon) on December 16, 2012. Mark makes a shore excursion to the infamous Cu Chi Tunnels for some M60 target practice. A sea day later, the Volendam visits Da Nang on December 18, 2012. After a morning walk in the city, Mark takes a taxi tour to the Marble Mountains. The next day, the Volendam drops anchor in Halong Bay on December 19, 2012. A gloomy boat tour ends with a spectacular cave walk. A shopping trip and dinner in town punctuate Mark's visit to Vietnam before the Volendam sets sail for China.

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1. Give back.
There is an astute knowingness in understanding that we all have a limited perspective or lens. I have one, you have one and everyone who walks this earth has a limited perspective. And for a great many years, we as a collective have convinced ourselves that our differences are a hindrance, when in reality our differences are the very thing that makes each of us uniquely talented in ways other people are not. When we honor these differences and celebrate them for their uniqueness, we open up an entirely new kaleidoscope of possibilities we might not otherwise be able to see.
If everyone asked, “How can I help?” as opposed to “What can I get?” we would start to see a much different world take shape around us.
The universe aligns its bounty for a generous heart. We must take that first step toward serving the greater good. This is the greatest act of service we can offer. When we elevate one, we elevate all, and soon all of our common interests are met. Only then can we begin to transform the world. It is only then the better world we dream of becomes a reality.
It’s up to us to offer a helping hand to those struggling to climb the ladder. We stand on each other’s shoulders to elevate us to our ultimate accomplishments. This is a testament to a new tomorrow. We must clasp each other’s hands and take that first step together. It’s a step that every person, organization or institution can take together—if only we change our lens from competition to cooperation. From receiving to giving.
Regardless of all your hard work, unique talent, good timing or good luck, success is largely a factor of the people you make a part of your journey.
When you first start, you pursue like-minded people in your social circle. But things change. You mature. Your circle widens as your interests shift from social to professional. Although you are initially drawn to people like yourself, now you start to gravitate to people who can offer alternative perspectives—the more unrelated and diverse the individuals, the more opportunity to fill in the gaps of your limited experience, which lowers your risk.
You must network, pay attention and seek out people who not only know more but are willing to challenge and push you. Because few things are as important as gaining new perspectives. It’s easy to get lost in your ideas. Alternate perspectives can eliminate the blind spots and bring you down from the clouds.
Mentorship is a service. How can you help this person? You need to care more about their goals than you care about your own. Actually, your number one goal is to help them with their goals.
Under promise and over perform. When you get an assignment, blow them away. Do more than expected. Make their life as easy as possible. Get them excited to work with you more.
Never stop seeking help from those who are where you want to be. At the same time, don’t neglect those who could use your help.
Never let a goal become more important than helping people. Help others generously, abundantly. Help others without expectation of a return favor. Serving others will turn you into a mentor yourself. And you will always find more joy in helping others succeed than in achieving your own success.
Influencers focus on helping one another without expecting anything in return. They give and balance with their own self-interests to make giving a win-win for all parties. Adam Grant, author of the best-selling book Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Your Success, told me that “givers are not just philanthropists or volunteers… but people who enjoy helping others and often do it with no strings attached.” Grant explains that givers have the greatest opportunity to both succeed and fail in business because givers can often be taken advantage of, but the most successful givers thrive when they have their own self-interests aligned with giving.
What does it mean to be just as happy for the success of others as for our own? It’s a matter of attitude. Adopting a praising and loving attitude will help you bask in the success of those you know and with whom you feel a personal connection. This might be difficult at times, but it’s a great way to help us lead more positive lives and get more in return.
By being courageous and selfless enough to embrace others’ success, we get the benefit of greater satisfaction. We feel fulfilled instead of bitter. For example, your best friend gets a job offer at a great company and you don’t know how to feel. You might feel happy but conflicted, especially if you feel less successful at the moment. But having the courage to celebrate your friend’s success as your own can lead to personal satisfaction when you think, OK, I now know someone who works at X company! Your inner circle of affiliations and acquaintances grows, and you can feel appropriately satisfied by that.
Not only does your inner circle of affiliations grow with others’ success, but you can also potentially find personal success. For example, say your best friend’s company is advertising for other positions. Now you have an internal referral that might benefit your own career should you desire working with the same company.
Beyond seizing an available opportunity where possible, our sense of embracing others’ achievements helps to expand our own willpower. American football player and coach Vince Lombardi said, “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, nor a lack of knowledge, but a lack of will.” Our own will can be awakened, in turn, when we see the success of others.
In director Christopher Nolan’s film Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio plays a man named Cobb who uses futuristic military technology to steal people’s corporate secrets by digging into their subconscious while they sleep. Then a secretive entrepreneur named Saito hires Cobb to do something a little different: plant an idea—inception—instead of stealing one.
For inception to be successful, the idea that Cobb plants has to be simple, emotional and positive. As he explains to his team, “The subconscious is motivated by emotion, right? Not reason. We need to find a way to translate this into an emotional concept…. Positive emotion trumps negative emotion every time.” For Cobb, positive realities are much easier to transfer to others than negative ones because they create lasting change.
Out of the fantasy world and into the world of neuroscience and positive psychology, the research supports Cobb’s claim. Over the past several years, researchers have been investigating how perceptions and mindsets can be transferred to others. And as it turns out, the three best strategies for transferring positive genius to others are not that different from the ones Cobb employed. (See what they are here.)
Successful people don’t become that way overnight. What most people see at a glance—happiness, wealth, a great career, purpose—is the result of hard work and hustle over time.
To be successful, you have to use each day as an opportunity to improve, to be better, to get a little bit closer to your goals. It might sound like a lot of work—and with a busy schedule, next to impossible. But the best part is, the more you accomplish, the more you’ll want to do, the higher you’ll want to reach. So as long as you have the hunger for success, you will always have the power within you to achieve it.
Use your ambition, drive and desire to make it happen.

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Clean Harbors, Inc. (NYSE:CLH – Get Rating) gapped up prior to trading on Wednesday following a stronger than expected earnings report. The stock had previously closed at $98.23, but opened at $106.64. Clean Harbors shares last traded at $109.57, with a volume of 4,310 shares trading hands.
The business services provider reported $2.44 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.53 by $0.91. The firm had revenue of $1.36 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.23 billion. Clean Harbors had a net margin of 5.44% and a return on equity of 14.82%. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 46.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $1.19 earnings per share.
Analyst Ratings Changes
Several equities analysts have recently commented on the stock. Needham & Company LLC upped their price objective on shares of Clean Harbors from $125.00 to $140.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday. Robert W. Baird upped their price objective on shares of Clean Harbors from $131.00 to $150.00 in a research note on Thursday. BMO Capital Markets boosted their price target on shares of Clean Harbors from $104.00 to $124.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Thursday. StockNews.com upgraded shares of Clean Harbors from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research report on Thursday. Finally, Raymond James boosted their price target on shares of Clean Harbors from $135.00 to $145.00 and gave the company a “strong-buy” rating in a research report on Thursday. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating, six have assigned a buy rating and two have given a strong buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has an average rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $133.00.
Insiders Place Their Bets
Institutional Investors Weigh In On Clean Harbors
A number of institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in CLH. Lazard Asset Management LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Clean Harbors during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $27,000. UMB Bank N A MO lifted its position in Clean Harbors by 656.3% during the first quarter. UMB Bank N A MO now owns 242 shares of the business services provider’s stock valued at $27,000 after purchasing an additional 210 shares during the period. Steward Partners Investment Advisory LLC bought a new position in Clean Harbors during the first quarter valued at approximately $29,000. First Horizon Advisors Inc. lifted its position in Clean Harbors by 149.3% during the second quarter. First Horizon Advisors Inc. now owns 339 shares of the business services provider’s stock valued at $29,000 after purchasing an additional 203 shares during the period. Finally, Huntington National Bank lifted its position in Clean Harbors by 153.9% during the first quarter. Huntington National Bank now owns 391 shares of the business services provider’s stock valued at $44,000 after purchasing an additional 237 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 86.53% of the company’s stock.
Clean Harbors Trading Down 1.1 %
The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.58, a current ratio of 1.98 and a quick ratio of 1.69. The company has a market cap of $5.82 billion, a P/E ratio of 25.76 and a beta of 1.53. The stock’s 50-day moving average is $90.81 and its two-hundred day moving average is $96.60.
Clean Harbors Company Profile
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Thursday, March 29, 2012
This memorial to Tyesha Williams is on Suitland Road in Suitland Maryland. The driver of the vehicle she died in has been charged with manslaughter.
From a TV news source: A driver who left the scene of a deadly crash in Prince George's County last month is now in custody. Daron Britt, 21, has been arrested in Washington DC on a gun charge. Prince George's County Police are charging Britt with manslaughter.
Police say Britt was driving a SUV when it crashed into a tree on Suitland Road near Hil-Mar Drive in the early morning hours of February 19, 2012
Tyesha Williams, 19, was ejected from the vehicle and died on the scene.
Ms. Williams leaves behind a 2-year-old son.
Peace to her spirit, and to her family.
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Music at University of Prince Edward Island
University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown. Non-denominational university established in 1969 by the amalgamation of Prince of Wales College, founded in 1834, and St Dunstan's U, founded in 1855. In 1991 bachelor degrees were offered in arts, science, business administration, education, and music, and there was still no graduate department. Music had been taught in both merging colleges. Thomas Hahn, the first chairman of the new university's Dept of Music, also served 1969-70 as conductor of the Prince Edward Island Symphony Orchestra. Hahn was succeeded in both positions by Alan Reesor in 1970. Peter Ellis (concertmaster of the PEI SO 1968-77 and a member of the Faculty Trio with the cellist Hubert Tersteeg and the pianist Frances Gray) succeeded Reesor as chairman in 1976. Reesor returned as acting chairman 1978-9, and was succeeded 1980-6 by Hubert Tersteeg. In 1986 Alan Reesor again became chairman. In the 1989-90 academic year there were eight full-time and six part-time faculty members. One of the former, Carl B. Mathis, who became the conductor of the University Chorus and the Chamber Chorus in 1972, was chairman of the Prince Edward Island Council for the Arts in 1974. William A. Bartlett was responsible for the university band 1972-7 and was succeeded in turn by Marc Apelstadt, Hubert Tersteeg, David Shephard, Eila Peterson, and Gregory Irvine. The UPEI Jazz Ensemble was started in 1980 by James Montgomery, who directed it until 1987, followed by Tim Skelton 1987-8, and Wendy Grasdahl 1988-90, succeeded in 1990 by David Shephard, who teaches percussion at both UPEI and Mount Allison University.
Degrees offered in 1990 were a B MUS in music education, history, theory, or applied music, and a BA with a major in music. In the 1989-90 academic year, 55 students were working towards these two degrees. The department's first graduates (1972) were Allan MacLean, Faye Rogerson, Gerard Rutten, and Frederick Shepherd. The university has a concert hall equipped with modern recording facilities. The department has sponsored an annual series of recitals and concerts by students, faculty members, and guests, and the university's performing ensembles have appeared with the PEI SO. The Chamber Chorus has received grants from the Canada Council to commission works by Keith Bissell and Harry Freedman. Through its concerts and its traditional connection with the PEI SO, the Dept of Music has established a close relationship with the musical public of Charlottetown and with the schools and churches of the province. Maureen Forrester was awarded an honorary degree in 1986.


The proposed Mountain Bike Route Designation Project could add 35 miles of new trail to the Shoshone and also close some unofficial paths riders have used for years.
Ninety-eight percent of 23,475 public comments favor one or more "conservation-oriented" management goals on the Shoshone National Forest, such as special "wilderness" protections, no surface development for oil and natural gas, and additional limits on motorized use areas, according to data released by forest officials.
Comment period extended for Shoshone forest plan
The public comment period for the Shoshone National Forest management plan has been extended to Nov. 26. The Shoshone National Forest staff is in process of revising its forest management plan which will …
Yellowstone Gate editor Ruffin Prevost recently rode along on a 150 mile snowmobile tour of the lower portion of Yellowstone, taking in sights along the way such as Yellowstone Lake, Old Faithful, Fountain Paint Pot and the Lower Falls of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River.
The Bureau of Land Management has approved the first drilling project inside northwest Wyoming's Shoshone National Forest in more than 20 years, raising concerns among environmentalists.


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Former Presidential Assistant for Food Security and Agricultural Modernization and former Senate Majority Leader Kiko Pangilinan renews call for the Senate to give priority to Senate Bill 2675 or the Coco Levy Trust Fund measure as the Senate resumes plenary on Monday, January 18.
“The ball is now in the court of the Senate and we ask our senators to act swiftly. Their version of the Coco Levy Trust Fund measure must pass as they resume plenary. This will be the last chance of this Congress to preserve the fund. If this will be delayed, we will be back to square one next Congress, and our farmers will be further denied of what’s rightfully theirs,” said Pangilinan, who during his term as PAFSAM and Chairman of the Board of the Philippine Coconut Authority, was tasked by President Benigno Aquino III to conduct continuous consultations with the coconut farmers to ensure that their interests and concerns are the core of the measures that the government will take on regarding the funds.
“If the measure is not enacted, the entire amount of Php 72 billion will be commingled with all other funds in the national treasury under the one fund concept. This must be prevented by urgent legislation. The President has certified the bill as urgent. The House has passed the bill on 3rd reading. What is the Senate waiting for? We urge our senators to end the delay and act on the measure immediately,” added Pangilinan.
The Senate Bill has been in the period of amendments in plenary since March of 2015. The House of Representatives version has been certified by the President as urgent and passed on third reading last October 2015.
“We know the Senate will not pass upon this historic opportunity to right the wrongs of the past and to finally render justice to the coconut farmers from whom the levy was exacted. We are racing against time as failure to pass the Coco Levy Trust Fund measure during this Congress will mean allowing the injustice brought on our farmers by this oppressive levy to remain unaddressed,” Pangilinan ended.


Whyalla Special School Relocation, Whyalla
The design responds to the harsh, hot and arid climate of the region by utilising skillion roof forms to ensure additional northern sun and ventilation to central internal corridor spaces
The site of the Whyalla Special School comprised a mixture of semi-permanent, transportable buildings originating from the mid-1970's. As the Architect, Tectvs was given the task to start fresh on the site to create an exciting and safe learning environment. The choice to redevelop from scratch was chosen to avoid long term issues regarding the costly removal of asbestos from existing structures - and given the delicate nature of the client - enabled the project to adopt a safety-first approach. Therefore, the project brief focused on creating both a sense of place within the community and a learning environment that would allow for increased student growth. A simple, safe, cost-effective structure was required to serve as an educational gathering place for families and the community.
Responding to the needs of the context and the client was critical for the project. Tectvs adopted durable, low maintenance and residential-styled material palette throughout. This considered approach enabled improved safety for the school’s patrons and importantly allowed local trades and expertise to be used during the construction phase. The project presented Tectvs with a site that posed significant disability access issues that made it difficult to conform to the current disability requirements - as well as hindering the relationship and links between the school itself, and both the Whyalla TAFE College and the University of South Australia. Pavilion-like structures provide movement pathways and introduce shade, bringing a dialogue to the open spaces surrounding the new structures.
To create a sense of place, bricks were cleverly used as a repeatable yet decorative element. Finishes and colour selections brought indigenous aspects into the design that were extended to the surrounding landscape, embracing sustainability principles.
The school now presents itself as a striking place of learning within the community.


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Blast-off! Up into the shy goes the space shuttle. Into orbit, the astronauts get a taste of ready-to-eat food, experience zero gravity, go for space walks, and even fix a satellite. It's fun to fly aboard the shuttle...and then come back to earth.‘A young girl declares her longing to ‘fly on the shuttle into outer space.’ The familiar acts of eating, sleeping, and working become intense and special as she and the rest of the crew go about their business. The illustrations positively glow in this simple, lyrical picture book that will have nearly everyone off and flying.’ —SLJ.
1988 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book)
Best Illustrated Children's Books of 1988 (NYT)
Oustanding Science Trade Books for Children 1988 (NSTA/CBC)
Byron Barton is the author-artist of many beloved picture books for the youngest reader, including My Car; My Bus; Building a House; Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs; and Machines at Work. His books have earned numerous awards and honors, including six ALA Notable Book Awards, a New York Times Best Illustrated Books selection, five School Library Journal Best Books of the Year selections, and two Reading Rainbow books. He lives in Florida.
My son is into "space" right now and so this book is perfect. Love Byron Barton books!Published 1 month ago by Heather
Elementary, but fun. It could have been a little more exciting, after all we are talking about one of he most exciting professions ever....Published 2 months ago by Chelsea V
This book is terrific for young kids. My students are 3-4 years old. They loved it and now they all want to go to college to be an astronaut.Published 2 months ago by Tekla Borner
My 4 yo grandson loved this. We play Astronaut ant the book has been unitentionally launched a few times. It's definitely not one for before nap or bed. Read morePublished 4 months ago by Linda Sukulele
Such a cute book. My 18 month old loves it, and already knows most of the words :)Published 7 months ago by Stephanie

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We only have 2 rooms: both non smoking
Given our small scale, we do not offer a permanent reception. Our guests can enter 24h / 24 with a personal code sent by mail.
By default, no breakfast is included in the room reservation or the use of the private sauna. If desired, this can be booked. We always ask to mention the times when breakfast or use of the private sauna is desired.
price per room
99 Euro/room/night, excl. breakfast and use of the private sauna.
Both of our rooms have a queen-size bed, and-suite bathroom with toilet, walk-in shower with rain shower and hand shower, sink. No bath.
We offer 2 breakfast formulas:
Early BF: 10 Euro/pers., Incl. Coffee, tea, milk, fruit juice, bread, sweet and savory sour, yogurt, cereal and fresh fruit. This breakfast is not served personally, but the evening is ready for buffet style so the guest can serve themselves at any time of the night / morning.
Gourmet BF: 15 Euro/pers.,Including freshly brewed coffee, tea, milk, fresh juice, bread, pistolets, croissants, sweet and savory sour yogurt, cereal and fresh fruit. This breakfast is served by the hostesses at the predetermined hour (between 8h and 11h). We ask to let you know the time in advance for breakfast so that we can schedule this in our agenda.
Each breakfast must be ordered at least 1 day in advance so that we have the time to do our shopping. Breakfast is taken at -1, there is no possibility for breakfast to bed.

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Flying Magazine, 1929
This very early flying magazine was probably published in 1929.
It is full of the most wonderful articles and photographs of early flying. ‘The Machine of the Future.’ The Autogyro, The Spirit of St Louis, Zeppelin and other airships, famous pioneer flyers, early triplanes, biplanes, monoplanes and racing planes. We love these early magazines. This publication may be the only place you will see these photographs and read these accounts.
Published in Britain by The Richards Press. This magazine is nearly one hundred years old. It is in very good condition with over 60 pages of black and white photographs.

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KABUL -- The coronavirus pandemic raging across the world, in addition to upending the daily life of civilians and leaving leaders scrambling to contain the deadly virus, has also exposed the hypocritical stances that militant groups have toward public health.
As of Monday (March 30), the number of confirmed cases worldwide of COVID-19 was nearly 750,000, with over 30,000 associated deaths.
From the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan to the "Islamic State" (IS) group scattered across the Middle East and beyond, militant groups have been forced by the deadly virus to advocate for better health and hygiene -- a sharp contrast to the decades of violence and propaganda these groups have waged upon healthcare systems across the world.
The Taliban in the past few weeks has been attempting to paint itself as a group that cares about public health amid the deadly coronavirus outbreak.
This is blatantly hypocritical, analysts and citizens say, as the group for decades has attacked medical facilities, killed doctors, and blocked civilians from receiving critical vaccinations.
Suhail Shaheen, a spokesman for the Taliban's Qatar office, said in a tweet on March 16 that the group "via its health commission assures all international health organizations and the WHO of its readiness to cooperate and coordinate with them in combatting the coronavirus".
That statement contrasts with years of Taliban opposition to international healthcare efforts in Afghanistan, and specifically with the Taliban's attitude last April, when they expelled the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Red Cross from areas under their control.
In a similar expression of Taliban anxiety that was completely absent last year, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said March 15, "There are about 40,000 people living in prisons in Afghanistan where there are no hygiene or healthcare facilities, making it a serious threat."
The chastened militants know that the virus spreads rapidly and that their jailed colleagues and members on the outside alike will not stay safe, said Dr. Meena Naz of Kabul.
Therefore, they are now co-operating with health workers, Naz said.
The same militants "are responsible for the meager state of health care in Afghanistan as doctors, paramedics and nurses aren't ready to provide vaccinations and services," she said.
"They have damaged health facilities and killed health workers for giving vaccinations, which they argue were against Islamic teachings," she added.
In the just the past half year, the Taliban shut down dozens of health facilities in Maidan Wardak Province run by a Swedish aid group, and followed up a month later with a car bomb that leveled a hospital in Zabul.
These are just two of the countless examples of Taliban action that have undermined public health in the past few decades.
Across the border in Pakistan, other medics expressed similar scorn for the Taliban's sudden anxieties about disease.
The Taliban's concern for more than 5,000 of its members being held in Afghan prisons is a joke because the militants have in the past prevented health workers from giving vaccinations in areas they control, said Dr. Abdur Rauf, a former district health officer in Swat, Pakistan.
"The Taliban argued that preventive medicine was against Islam prior to occurrence of the ailment [coronavirus]," said Rauf.
"They use this tactic to tell Afghans and the world that they are concerned about Afghans' health, but the reality is that they don't care ... as they continue to jeopardise the lives of Afghans every day with their terrorist attacks," said Aminullah Shariq, a Kabul-based political analyst.
"If the Taliban really want to save ... lives, they have to agree to a ceasefire and make peace and fight the coronavirus together with the government," he said.
The Taliban have ulterior motives asking for international intervention, said Nasir Ahmadi, 26, a Kabul resident.
"They're just trying to get money from international organisations and spend it on their terrorist activities," he said.
"The Taliban put thousands of lives at risk by killing doctors and blowing up hospitals and health clinics," said Ahmadi. "This group has no plan to protect lives."
"The Taliban have narcotics labs and production centres instead of health laboratories and clinics."
Even if the Taliban had the will to help, they have no ability to fight the coronavirus, say analysts.
"The Taliban ... don't have any resources, trained doctors, medical equipment, health personnel, hospitals or clinics," said Dr. Yarbaz Khan Hamidi, chairman of the Health Committee in the Afghan Wolesi Jirga (lower chamber of parliament).
To fight the pandemic, the Taliban "have to allow doctors and other health personnel from the government to go to the areas under Taliban control", said Hamidi.
The Taliban's request for global health organisations to help fight the disease is just propaganda, say officials.
"If the Taliban had the intention to fight the coronavirus, they would agree to a ceasefire and work together with the government and security forces," said Khalid Asad, a representative of Paktika Province, Afghanistan, in the Wolesi Jirga.
Instead, "they hope to attract the world's attention," he said.
The Afghan Taliban are not the only militants to suddenly express interest in public health.
IS in its Al Naba newsletter urged operatives to steer clear of coronavirus-hit Europe, calling it "the land of the epidemic", Gulf News reported March 15.
The terror outfit, which used to encourage attacks in Europe, now urges followers in Europe who may have become ill with coronavirus to stay there and thus prevent the disease from spreading.
It instructs followers to "cover their mouths when yawning and sneezing" and to wash their hands regularly.
"The world should understand that militants ... have no regard for the public but want to stay safe themselves," said Dr. Umar Khan of Peshawar, a former employee of the WHO.
The militant groups operating throughout the world have been misinterpreting Islam for their own agenda, he added.
"Militants have no knowledge of medical matters and therefore misguide [the public] in the name of Islam," he said.
[Ashfaq Yusufzai from Peshawar and Sulaiman from Kabul contributed to this report]


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TheDumbest Question Ever Asked!
1. The Actions of God’s People.
(A) They Were Faithless.
(B) They Were Forgetful.
(C) They Were Foolish.
2. The Actions of The People’s God.
(A) His Promises
(B) His Performance
(C) His Power
(D) His Patience
3. The Actions God’s People Need to Take Today.
(A) Have Confidence in God.
(B) Call to Mind His Past Works.
(C) Carry Out His Commandments.