⚾Feels like gang’s back together (with players finally coming back from IL), and great to be able to celebrate the O’s clinching their post-season in a 5-3 win over the Yankees where saw a lot of the spark we’ve come to enjoy the last year-and-a-half from the team!
Welcome back Mountcastle, Coulombe, Westburg, Urias, Webb, & more!
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Cataloging here a free “Link in Bio” service called BioSites.
Came acrosss this as a reasonably priced graphics editing suite -> Affinity.
Maryland must reverse its competitive decline
Maryland’s alarming slide from 22nd to 31st place in CNBC’s 2024 Top States for Business rankings is more than a statistic — it’s a glaring warning sign about our state’s economic competitiveness.
Our fall is particularly concerning in three key areas: business friendliness (from 24th to 37th), infrastructure (from 15th to 37th) and a stagnant workforce ranking (28th). Most alarmingly, Maryland ranks 47th for the cost of doing business, making it the fourth-most-expensive state for businesses to operate in. These rankings matter. They influence business decisions on where to locate, expand or invest.
A good explanation of the infield fly rule - Essentially, it prevents the defense from intentionally missing an infield fly ball and forcing a double play. ⚾️
Remarkable Paper Pro – Been enjoying the Remarkable 2 for a year, and these next improvements seem to be in all the right areas (e.g., size of screen and color). Very tempted to upgrade.
This looks like a helpful set of tools for creating personal financial wellness – Called MyBlocks, it has 5 Pillars of Financial Wellness:
Maryland to cut $1.3b from Transportation Budget
Hundreds of millions of dollars for planned transportation improvements across Maryland would be slashed for the second consecutive year under a proposed update to the state’s transportation budget, Gov. Wes Moore’s administration said Tuesday.
The cuts — totaling $1.3 billion from the roughly $20 billion, six-year transportation plan — would defer some maintenance projects like sidewalk repairs and traffic improvements, slow down the transition to fully electric state-run buses and pause the development stage of other initiatives.
30 Stoic Wisdom Sayings — Essentially all good reminders.
Liberty is the disciplining of desire so as to make the achievement of the good first possible and finally effortless.
-Classical definition of liberty as described by the ancient philosophers