“positive news” is also in the eye of the beholder 
Dow 20,000!
20,100. Makes me nervous… I remember the boom and bust of 2000 too well.
Amazon to create 100,000 full-time, full-benefit jobs
Amazon adding jobs is not good news for my city. It means traffic will become a real cluster (it already is)!
(Note to self… Uh-oh… We need to buy that house like yesterday!!! )
The good news? Three young women from a local college spent the summer testing the chemistry of our local pond. They gave our committee a presentation of the results. Our pond was healthier than it had been for the last two years. We are going to organize a bigger presentation at their college and I’ve offered to try to get them some publicity - the college needs some good news as the are in some financial difficulties.
Haha, well it doesn’t say where the jobs will be added, so maybe you’re safe.
LOL! Even if 5,000 out of those jobs are added here it will mean several hundred to several thousand Amazombie cars added to The Mercer Mess, I mean Street.
Amazon will kill many more IT jobs with their cloud than it will add. This is not a good news.
A twitter war over…the cutest animals:
The son of a close friend was in an “accident” (actually self-inflicted, but they’re not telling many people that). He had bleeding on the brain, a collapsed lung, a broken pelvis, etc. They took him out of state for treatment, he was in such critical condition. But he pulled through and is breathing without a ventilator now. THAT is good news! He and his family will have a long, hard road ahead, but at least he has a chance now. He’s 20 years old.
Or choose to be negative. Suit yourself, tanbiko.
Well, I’m in a couple of groups, so I see – and post – stuff that could be perceived as “negative” (lol.)
But today I also breathed in relief and awe, when a a friend posted a wonderful photo of her newborn daughter’s tiny little feet. Life. Joy. Love. It sort of made my morning.
Anderson Cooper buys a bunch of ballistic vests to protect police K-9s:
^^I like Anderson Cooper, but as a K-9 grandma, I now like him even better! These dogs are truly incredibly and it’s great he’s helping protect them.
Speaking of dogs… 3 adorable and fluffy puppies were rescued from the Italian earthquake site where they had been saved in an air pocket in the hotel.
Here’s my feel good story today. What a fabulous idea. If you’ve been fortunate enough to eat at a Solomonov/Cook duo eatery, you know it will also taste good.
"It started as a simple notion: A for-profit company and a philanthropic organization partnering up to tackle the problems facing their community.
On Monday, that idea became a reality with the grand opening of Rooster Soup Company in Philadelphia — an entirely nonprofit restaurant with a charitable mission.
Rooster Soup Co. is a partnership between Federal Donuts, a popular coffee, donut and fried chicken shop in Philly, and Broad Street Hospitality Collaborative (BSHC), a nonprofit organization run by Broad Street Ministry that helps Philadelphians in deep poverty gain access to food, healthcare and even mail service.
BSHC is a unique philanthropic organization in that it offers what it calls “radical hospitality.” It serves three-course meals prepared by professional chefs to the homeless, and it is located in a high-income area of the city.
Many of the surrounding businesses were concerned that BSHC would cultivate an unwelcoming environment for the hospitality industry, but Golderer pointed out that they’re all in the same business.
“We just operate at a different price point,” he said. “You extend hospitality and make people feel like a million dollars as part of your business model, and we do it because it’s the right thing to do.”
He recalled frequently hearing people say that they wanted to help the hungry and homeless, while bemoaning that they just didn’t know how they could do so. The idea for Rooster Soup Co. was sparked by the question, “What if you could help someone who really needed it… just by eating lunch?”
Rooster Soup Co. has finally opened its doors. And the restaurant is serving a lot more than just soup, offering breakfast, sandwiches, salads, and even beer, wine and cocktails.
The restaurant’s prominent location in Philadelphia near luxury hotels and apartments is an opportunity to get a lot of business, but it also means that it doesn’t get a break on rent. Rooster Soup Co. also pays every employee a livable wage.
All of the operating costs come out of the restaurant’s revenue and the leftover profit is donated to BSHC. The business model is a new concept for everyone involved, but Golderer believes it will succeed.
“The beauty of this is that it’s a true collaboration,” he said, “where everybody brings something to the table and where they feel like they’re building something unique and powerful that couldn’t be built on it’s own.”"
Fractal, I enjoyed your good news. Hope others read it.
If this actually works out, this would be great news for a lot of people
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/317065-trump-tells-drug-companies-to-get-prices-down
@fractalmastr:
I wish him luck, but I also think blaming regulation for the cost of medicine is another one of those at least partial myths out there. First of all, do you get rid of the clinical trial process for safety and effectiveness and hope you don’t have another phen phen or Thalidomide on your hands? Do you get rid of the regulations concerning the quality of the components they are using, the certification process they are required to do?
More importantly, it leaves out that the largest cost of new drugs is the research they do (I am not talking price gouging like Mylen labs and Martin Skrivili, taking drugs on the market for years and price gouging) and also the failure rate. For every new drug they develop that works, they have many, many that never get out of the lab or clinical trials or get approval, they have R and D cost that has to be balanced by the cost of drugs that are successful (not saying there isn’t some games being played there, those R and D costs are tax deductible and I believe also can get them tax credits, and basic research often is funded in part by government grants as well), but the overall cost of failure so to speak is factored into the cost of drugs.
There are things like getting agreements from drug companies for lower prices in return for extending patent life on the drugs, so they can spread the profit lifecycle over a longer period of time, or potentially things like the government helping to support the cost of the clinical trials and so forth.