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WinnCos. Breaks Ground on Boston Veterans Housing
IvyLee Rosario
Ground breaking of the Residences at Brighton Marine, Boston
Ground breaking of The Residences at Brighton Marine
A joint venture between WinnCos. and Brighton Marine—a veteran network community—has broke ground on the Residences at Brighton Marine, a $46 million Boston development that is set to offer housing and on-site services to local veterans.
The 102-unit property will be constructed on Brighton Marine's campus along Commonwealth Avenue. The 1.4-acres site is scheduled for completion by December 2019. The transit-oriented community will provide apartments for all income ranges to qualifying veterans and their families that cannot afford to both work and live in Boston.
First of its kind
The Residences at Brighton Marine is the first of its kind to offer mixed-income housing in Boston since World War II, providing homes to those with extremely low-, low- and middle-income. The community will feature apartments ranging from studios to three-bedroom floorplans, representing one of the largest private developments ever created for veterans with its 102 units. There will be 11 studios and 47 one-bedroom, 33 two-bedrooms and 11-three bedrooms. Of the total, 101 apartments will be situated in a newly developed, seven-story building and one unit will be located through the adaptive reuse of a historic building that will also offer a ground-floor community space.
The property is located near a job center and has created the first co-owned development featuring a for-profit (WinnCos.) and non-profit (Brighton Marine) partnership in the veterans housing field.
"Our administration is proud to support this important project, which will provide new affordable housing to veterans across a range of incomes, from homeless veterans to middle-income households," said Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker in a prepared statement. "The Residences at Brighton Marine will honor the service and sacrifice of Massachusetts veterans, by providing decent, safe, affordable homes, in a setting that will offer access to integrated health care and human services."
Financing for the development includes funds from MassHousing, the city of Boston's Department of Neighborhood Development and the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development. MassHousing is providing a $9.4 million permanent loan, a $14 million bridge loan and $5 million from the agency's Workforce Housing Initiative.
The DHCD will provide an allocation of federal and state Low-Income Housing Tax Credits, $3.6 million in direct support and $3.7 million from the Affordable Housing Trust Fund. The city of Boston is providing $4.1 million in financing and Bank of America will provide a $31 million construction loan and is investing more than $24 million in private tax credit equity.
The Residences at Brighton Marine is a significant step in the Baker-Polito Administration's goal of creating up to 1,000 new workforce housing units affordable to middle-income households through MassHousing's $100 million Workforce Housing Initiative.
WinnCos. and MassHousing have worked together on several projects throughout Massachusetts. In February, MassHousing arranged $16.4 million in affordable housing financing for WinnCos.' rehabilitation and long-term preservation of the historic 180-unit Wellington Community in Worcester, Mass.
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When are we going to start giving Tagovailoa the credit he deserves?
By Craniator87 Dec 2, 2020, 1:00pm EST
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Looking back at the events of the past year, if you told me at the end of last season that our team would be 7-4 right now, that we'd have one of the most talented and accomplished quarterbacks ever to come from the college ranks — much less to ever be brought into the Miami Dolphins organization — and that his serious injury would be 100% healed, he'd be 3-1 as a starter, have a passer rating eleven points higher than the guy who was drafted with the first overall pick this past Spring, while throwing for six touchdowns and zero interceptions, I'd have said you were crazy, that not even Hollywood would believe such an improbable story.
Yet, here we are, and many fans just don't seem to grasp the enormity of what our young quarterback has accomplished in such short period of time. And guys, believe me, when I say that, I mean that in a very positive sense, not from the standpoint of sitting here saying, "You don't know what's going on..", etc. I'm actually humbled by the sheer volume of football knowledge that so many guys here have; that's why I generally leave the discussion about X's and O's to other folks, who are much better students of the game than I am. I just go by what I see and what I read, and when any rookie QB wins three of his first four games, has a passer rating of a hundred and still has yet to throw the ball to someone in the wrong jersey after playing for an entire month, you've got to love that. As for his sore left thumb, forget about it — Flores is using that to buy the kid some time, to try and get the team's offensive line to be able to actually block somebody better than my grandmother. I'm sure of it.
We talk about the defense winning games for him, and they certainly did win the first game, against the Rams. But aside from that one, let's be real here — we're talking about a defense that is giving up about four hundred yards a game to most teams. We've been down on the kid for not being at his best against the Denver Broncos, but did we really expect to win that game with them running for nearly two hundred yards against us? We can't stop the run and can't run the ball ourselves, and even Dan Marino often couldn't win under those circumstances. We should be thrilled that the team finally has a true franchise quarterback, and can therefore concentrate on filling out the rest of the roster, instead of worrying so much about the quarterback position. When we look for holes in an athlete as doggedly as Dolphin fans have looked for holes in this kid, you know that means? It generally means that athlete is really, really good.
People tried to find holes in Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky and Peyton Manning, too. As for Tagovailoa's modest yardage totals thus far, I want to bring to your attention a memorable game that took place 36 years ago today, on December 2nd, 1984, during Marino and the Dolphins' Super Bowl season, against the Los Angeles Raiders. The Dolphins had 30 first downs in the game to the Raiders' 18, and Marino threw for a ridiculous 470 yards that afternoon — yet Miami still lost the game, 45-34, in large part because of two costly interceptions thrown by Marino. In the first quarter, the Dolphins had a first and goal deep in Raiders' territory, and were seemingly about to take a 7-0 lead. But Marino was intercepted by Hall of Fame CB Mike Haynes at the three yard line, and the nine time Pro Bowler took it 97 yards for a Raider touchdown.
So you wish the kid would be more of a gunslinger, and throw up more 50-50 balls? He'll get there; he's only started four games, without the benefit of a preseason and without even so much as a normal offseason or training camp. Due to our ubiquitous access to highlights, on the Internet and cable television, etc, we've been conditioned to believe that a successful NFL quarterback has to throw forty or fifty times a game for three or four hundred yards to be a star, but Tagovailoa is much more like a Joe Montana or Tom Brady than a Dan Marino or Dan Fouts, etc. What the kid excels at is his attention to detail, to reading the field and doing all the little things right, making amazingly accurate throws, ball placement, hitting receivers in stride, looking off the defensive backs, etc. It sounds so simple, but there are quarterbacks who have been in the league for years (like Fitzpatrick, for example) who don't do some of those things as well as Tagovailoa did in his first couple of starts. The kid just wins; he won in little league, he won in high school, he won in college, including a National Championship as a true freshman, and you can rest assured that he will win in the NFL.
It wasn't all that long ago that if anyone dared say a bad word about Ryan Tannehill on this site, guys would come out in the comments section with pitchforks and baseball bats, but I learned something interesting recently: according to a Chicago beat writer who covers the Bears, through both players' first 45 games, Mitchell Trubisky, whom Chicago has already given up on, had a passer rating a full three points higher than Tannehill did over the same period in his career. We also badly misread and misconstrued the entire Josh Rosen trade and his standing in the Dolphins organization throughout his time in South Florida.
The odds of the original team that drafts a QB giving up on him after just one season, and his going somewhere else and lighting up the scoreboard are extremely slim; that's why Arizona let him go so cheaply. The Dolphins had no young quarterbacks of note when they traded for Rosen, so they took a flyer on him in a low risk, potentially high reward deal. But we acted as though our quarterback situation was completely solved as soon as the trade was announced, and even went so far as to suggest Miami didn't need to draft a quarterback at all this year, because Rosen was so good.
Since Rosen was cut in August, the general managers of all 32 NFL teams have decided that he isn't worth spending a game day roster spot on, even with numerous injuries to starting QB's around the league. Yet, we're still lamenting the team waiving him, even though he told the South Florida media two weeks earlier that he was looking forward to his next opportunity. Maybe it's time we started showing that kind of support for the kid we drafted, and who is more talented than perhaps any quarterback we've had in our 55 year history. That's the wrap for today, have a great week, everybody.

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NEW FLOOD EVACUATION ROAD SIGNAGE FOR THE HAWKESBURY-NEPEAN REGION
The Minister for Western Sydney Stuart Ayres and Member for Mulgoa Tanya Davies today announced significant progress on new flood evacuation signage for the Hawksesbury-Nepean Valley.
"The area from Bents Basin near Wallacia to the Brooklyn Bridge is the most flood exposed area in NSW," Minister Ayres said.
"While we haven't seen a major flood here for some time, it will flood again – and we need to be ready for when it happens.
"The NSW Government is committed to reducing the risk to people's lives and their livelihoods from regional flooding in the Hawkesbury-Nepean – and supporting people to evacuate safely is a key part of our planning."
The Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley Flood Risk Management Strategy includes a mix of measures to improve the community's flood preparedness and help people evacuate in a flood emergency. These include new flood evacuation road signage, improved flood forecasting, communication to raise community awareness, and better flood information.
"Evacuation is the key method to save lives in a flood emergency in the valley, and the $1.8 million signage project will help direct people along key evacuation routes during a flood emergency," Tanya Davies said.
"I'm pleased to announce that work on the new signage is well underway – a draft signage system has been prepared by signage experts, and it is going through a comprehensive user testing process."
The user testing includes driving simulator testing, a phone questionnaire and technical testing in the field. Last week driving simulator testing was completed with 100 floodplain residents using the TRACSLab facilities at the University of Sydney.
The phone questionnaire started this week with a representative sample of 400 floodplain residents. It will provide further insights into how people are likely to prepare, respond and drive during a flood emergency.
"This is the first time there has been a strategic regional approach to flood evacuation road signage in NSW, so it is important that we get this right," Minister Ayres said.
The rollout of the new evacuation road signage across the Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley is scheduled to start later this year.
For more information about the Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley Flood Risk Management Strategy go to: www.insw.com/flood-strategy
Find out more about how to prepare for a flood at www.ses.nsw.gov.au


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Q: Adding a base entity for three different entities I have this scenario where I have three entities Book, Review, comment and have the following tables:

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*Books (Id, ReviewCounts)

*BookTranslations (BookId, LanguageId, IsDefault, Title, Description)

*Reviews (Id, BookId, CommentCounts)

*ReviewTranslations (ReviewId, LanguageId, IsDefault, Content)

*Comments (Id, ReviewId, Content)
Now, I want to add two other entities to the design, Vote and Report. The vote entity represent a vote the user do on all of the previous three entities, Book, Comment, Review. And the report, where the user should be able to report fake Books, inaccurate Reviews, hate and illegal Comments and fake User profiles.
The problem is, I need now to add three tables for the vote BookVotes,CommentVotes, and ReviewVotes. And four different tables for the report UserProfileReports, BookReports, ReviewReports, CommentReports.

Now, I think about adding one base table so to speak, called Entities, and another table EntityTypes, where EntityTypes contains data like "Book,Review,Comment". And the same primary key will be in Entity and Review or Entity and Book and so on. This way I will solve the vote issue, but not the report because the user can report a user profile which is a User entity. It doesn't make any sense to add the User entity to the list of the three aforementioned entities and "derive" it from the Entities "base" table too.
To be honest, I don't think the usage of one "base" table Entities make sense either, because conceptually the book, review, and comment are three totally different entities.
So, my question is, should or shouldn't I go with the "base" table solution, and if so, how should I solve the report problem?

A: I would NOT go with the single "base" table idea.   Since a single vote can only be about either a book or a comment or a review, but not about multiple items, it makes more sense to me to keep them in separate tables. Same for reports.
Databases with lots of small tables tend to perform better than databases with just a few big tables, so unless there's a modelling reason to combine the entities, I wouldn't do it.

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Strongest tremor in decades rocks Albania, residents trapped in rubble
TIRANA (Reuters) - The most powerful earthquake to hit Albania in decades rocked the capital of Tirana and nearby port town of Durres early on Tuesday, causing at least two buildings to collapse and trapping residents in the rubble, officials said.
Emergency personnel work near a damaged building in Thumane, after an earthquake shook Albania, November 26, 2019. REUTERS/Florian Goga
The 6.4 magnitude quake struck shortly before 4 a.m. local time (0300 GMT), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said, the second powerful tremor to hit the region in two months.
It was centred 30 km (19 miles) west of Tirana, at a shallow depth of 10 km (6 miles), the USGS said.
One person died in the town of Kurbin, in central northern Albania, after panicking and jumping out of a building, a Defence Ministry spokeswoman said.
Unverified video footage posted on social media showed what appeared to be a collapsed building in Durres, 40 km west of Tirana, on the Adriatic coast. Other footage showed buildings with large cracks and fallen masonry, including one apartment with most of a bedroom wall missing, and a car burst into flames apparently caused by a short-circuit from a triggered car alarm.
"Firefighters and army staff are helping residents (caught) under the rubble", in Durres and the nearby village of Thumane, the Defence Ministry spokeswoman told reporters.
An unidentified man, with a wound dressing on his right cheek, told News24 TV his daughter and niece were among those trapped in a collapsed apartment building.
"I talked with my daughter and niece on the phone. They said they are well and are waiting for the rescue. Could not talk to my wife. There are other families, but I could not talk to them," the man said.
Two government spokesmen told Reuters the biggest damage to buildings was in Durres and a few people had been taken to hospital in Tirana.
A Reuters witness described residents fleeing apartment buildings in Tirana, some carrying babies. Power was down in several neighbourhoods.
Several smaller tremors were recorded in the hour before the main quake, which also was felt in the southern Italian region of Puglia.
"We were awake because of the previous quakes, but the last one shook us around. Everything at home kept falling down," Refik, a Tirana resident, told Reuters of what happened in his sixth-floor apartment.
Located along the Adriatic and Ionian Seas, between Greece and Macedonia, Albania experiences regular seismic activity.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 shook the country on Sept. 21, damaging around 500 houses and destroying some. The Defence Ministry had said it was the most powerful quake in Albania in the last 30 years.
The Balkan nation is the poorest country in Europe, with an average income of less than a third of the European Union average, according to Eurostat data.
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The Latest: 30 migrants found in truck in North Macedonia
Associated Press August 25, 2019
In this photo taken Friday, Aug. 23, the Kupa river on the Slovenia-Croatia border is seen through the border fence in the village of Preloka, Slovenia. Police in Croatia say a migrant has died after a van carrying 12 of them plunged into a river near the border with Slovenia, early Sunday. Slovenia started erecting additional fences on its southern border with Croatia after a considerable increase in the number of migrants trying to illegally cross between the two European Union-member states. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — The Latest on migration into Europe (all times local):
Police in North Macedonia say a patrol has discovered 30 migrants in an abandoned truck parked on a local road in the southeast of the country.
Police announced Sunday they spotted an abandoned truck Saturday afternoon near the town of Strumica, which borders with Greece, and discovered 30 migrants - 24 Pakistanis, three Iraqis, two Syrians and one Sudan national.
The migrants are believed to have entered illegally from Greece and to have paid smugglers to take them north through Serbia toward Europe's prosperous heartland. Police said they were taken to a camp near the southern town of Gevgelija pending deportation to Greece.
Police say they detained a total of 10,017 migrants who entered the country illegally in the first half of the year.
Police in Croatia say a migrant has died after a van carrying 12 of them plunged into a river near the border with Slovenia.
Police say the crash happened early Sunday after the van driver refused to stop at a checkpoint and was chased by a patrol. The driver, presumably a migrant smuggler, managed to get out of the sinking vehicle, fleeing into a nearby minefield and a search for him is ongoing.
Police rescued 11 migrants from the sinking van by breaking its windows, but a woman died at a hospital.
Last week, Slovenia started erecting additional fences on its southern border with Croatia after a considerable increase in the number of migrants trying to illegally cross between the two European Union-member states.
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s duty is required for us to develop an intimate and meaningful relationship with Christ. Though this task may seem somewhat impossible, many religious orders, such as the Carmelites, help educate us on how to promote the gospel to others. Unlike most religious orders, the Carmelites do not have a founder. The original order consisted of hermits who dedicated their life to God while residing on top of Mount Carmel. Without a founder, the Carmelites look to great figures in the Catholic Church such as Elijah and Mary for inspiration. This also means that God's founding gift, or charism, to the order is not found in a particular person, but within the community. The Carmelite charism consists of several different elements; the main one being contemplation, or a quiet meditative form of prayer. Contemplation helps the Carmelites develop a very• close relationship with the Father. They can now minimize the distractions from the outside world while in turn asking God to support the needs of the world through their prayer. Some Carmelites follow their vocations and become teachers of prayer or spiritual directors. Through these positions, Carmelite priests and nuns can expand their knowledge of the gospel and help promote evangelization amongst parishioners, and even the students that they teach.
Carmelite do more than solely dedicate their lives to God; they dedicate their lives to spreading God's moral teachings to those in need of His grace. The Carmelite as a whole are very involved with communities through-out the world. Members of the Order educate their followers on a firsthand basis. Many provinces of the Carmelite Order have opened up schools or parishes in which they can further expand their instruction of the faith. To have a strong bond with Christ, we must not only know his teachings, but also make known his teachings. This means that to prove our discipleship to God, we must send forth his good news to the world. Again, to many this may seem like a daunting task. However, God does not expect his followers to go to extraordinary means to proclaim his word. Oftentimes, it is the everyday deeds that reveal God in us all. Anytime God's love is present becomes an astonishing moment. The Carmelites are a perfect example of how ordinary people can perform extraordinary deeds wilt God's guidance. The simple act of providing a Carmelite education can change the world forever. Their students not only are educated on typical school subjects, but also on morals and God's teachings. Carmelite religion classes allow students to think at a more aesthetic perspective. Unlike math, English, or science classes, a religion class teaches students lifelong lessons that can be applied immediately to almost any situation. Carmelite teachings open up students' eyes to God's grace in the world. The lessons that the Carmelites offer are considered very valuable by most of their students. Though it may not seem like it at the time, a Carmelite education changes one's life for good. For some, it may take only a few days to realize that they should continue to pass on the values that they were taught. For others, it may take years. No matter how long it takes for someone to come to terms with their faith, the Carmelites have indeed touched another life and promoted evangelization throughout the world.
I personally have had the privilege of receiving a Carmelite education. Like with many others, it truly has changed my life. I have enjoyed exploring my faith and learning about all that God has to offer. My Carmelite education has inspired me to promote evangelization throughout my community Since starting my education at Joliet Catholic, I have decided to volunteer to try to teach others about the gospel. One of my most enjoyable opportunities was working a retreat for First Communicants to prepare them for the Sacrament of the Eucharist. It was such an amazing experience to educate the children about how sacred receiving Christ's Body and Blood really is. I loved seeing them start to comprehend how great God's love for us is, and helping them understand all that He has sacrificed for us. Even at school I help promote evangelization to my fellow students. I love discussing my faith with my religion teachers and often volunteer to lead prayer and retreats so I can help inform my peers about God's teachings.
The Carmelite Order truly has made a difference in our world today. Even amongst the modernization of our lives, the Order helps remind Jesus' disciples about the importance of our faith and our relationship with our Father. Carmelites not only teach us about our Catholic beliefs, but also how to spread them to others. I am very proud to have been brought up on Carmelite teachings and I plan to hold them and promote them both now and later on in my life.


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Q: How to determine from a different folder (outside wordpress) if a visitor is logged into Wordpress The WordPress area of my site (which has registration) is in for example mydomain.com/members/
I would like to know from a PHP routine in my public_html root mydomain.com/offers.php if they are logged into the WordPress area mydomain.com/members
I have tried various things to try and get this to work without success. get_current_user_id() always returns 0 or is_user_logged_in() returns false.
If it helps to give me the correct solution, my WordPress uses the theme MH-Magazine, and uses the plugins Paid Memberships Pro and Theme My Login.

A: To use all the WordPress functions in any non- WordPress pages, you can use
define( 'WP_USE_THEMES', false );
Include_once('wp-load.php');

Then, is_user_logged_in() will work, and user cookie, session and id could be retrieve.

A: <?php
define( 'WP_USE_THEMES', false );
Include_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/members/wp-load.php');
if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {echo ' You are currently logged in.'. '
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The above code returns You are currently not logged in.
The above code when executed from the SAME folder that wordpress is in does work.
My requirement is to execute code from a DIFFERENT folder to where wordpress resides.


As I set down to write this, the stock market has fallen precipitously in the last week. Nevertheless these are the figures as of the end of September, 2018.
About 10% of our income automatically goes into our 401k accounts, and in the last three months, that's been about it. On the spending side, my daughter and I went to New York City and ended up with extra expenses for the plane ride home when our original flight was cancelled due to weather. I also took a weekend trip to Dallas with college friends. The start of school and all those fees also hit our bank account.
My husband and I have Roth IRAs and regular IRAs, and a taxable account. We deposited money in each Roth IRA this quarter and the money was taken from Lending Club and Prosper. These accounts consist of a variety of mutual funds purchased for us by our ex-financial advisor, along with Vanguard's International Bond Index Fund, Total Stock Market Index Fund, 500 Index Fund, Total Bond Market Index Fund, Dividend Appreciation Fund, Emerging Markets Fund (new this quarter) and REIT Index Fund. In the last year, our rate of return has been 6.3% overall, but year-to-date, our returns are negative as of this writing, but two weeks ago they were positive.
My 401k has a year to date positive return. It is invested in Janus Triton, Oppenheimer Int'L Small Mid Co A, MFS Government Securities Fund-A , Pioneer Fundamental Growth Fd-A, and Delaware US Growth Fund-A. My firm contributes 5% of my salary, and I contribute 6%. As of September 30, my year-to-date return was 7.36%.
My husband's 401K is with AXA and it has increased in value, though not a lot. He puts in the minimum necessary for employer match.
I have some money invested in baskets of stocks, called "Motifs"; and some invested in individual stocks. Our account totalled $10,367.76 at the end of September.
Buyback Leaders: A collection of companies that were buying back their stock. Since 2014, it has increased 112%, mostly because of NVDIA which has increased from from $69.10 to $289.
Growing Dividends: A collection of dividend paying stocks. It is up about 41.0% since purchase, whereas the S&P is up 58.4%. However, it yields over 2% in dividends yearly.
High Yield Dividend: Another collection of dividend paying stocks. It is up 23% vs 46.8% for the S&P, but the average dividend yield is over 3% per year.
Online Gaming World: This collection of gaming stocks such as Activision/Blizzard, Weibo, and Cheeta Mobile is up over 146.5% as opposed to the S&P's 48% gain.
Online Video: Includes Netflix and Adobe. Up 148% as opposed to 47% for the S&P.
NVDIA: This is a chip maker whose stock increased tremendously in 2017. When I sold a couple of motifs, I used some of the money to buy more stock in this company. It is now $281.02 per share, I bought at $235.13.
Adobe: Another stock that was great last year, but is down since I bought it.
CBL: Down since I bought it. This is a mall REIT and pays a dividend over 17% of current price.
Amazon: Up 7.4% since I bought it.
Johnson & Johnson. Down 2% since purchase.
Realty Income: REIT. Up 2.52% since purchase. Dividend over 4%.
Starwood Propertiess (hotel and resort REIT). Up 1.48% since purchase.
Visa. Up. I'm dripping all my Motif dividends into Visa right now. Current dividend 0.6%.
Weibo: Chinese company that made me a lot of money last year in the online gaming Motif. However, since I bought these shares they are down over 40% Talk about a hit!
Walgreens: Down but at least it pays a 1.87% dividend. The company is making money so I'm hoping this turns around.
While my returns have been steadily dropping for months, accounting for expected defaults, Lending Club estimates my return since I began the account at about 4.75% whereas three months ago I wrote that it was 4.66%. However, so far this year, I've lost more money to defaults than I've made in interest. Definitely not what I had in mind.
As my notes mature I'm moving the money to our Roth IRAs. . The economy on the whole is fine now; if I can't make money with Lending Club under this economy, I'm going to lose it big time if things go downhill. The profits today do not justify the risk.
My returns here have dropped as well. Three months ago my annualized net returns were 4.08%, and my "seasoned" returns--the returns on notes that are more than ten months old were 3.93%. Since all my notes are now "seasoned" those figures have merged and my estimated return is 3.55%. As I receive payments from Prosper, they are going to our Roth IRAs.
AT&T: 10 shares, average price $35.82, Current price 33.58. Dividend is $0.50 per share per quarter . No stop loss on this one; I bought it for the dividends.
Lending Club: 1 share purchased at $5.51. Current price $3.88. No dividends. No stop loss.
Visa: 2 shares purchased at $78.00. Current price $150.70. $1.38 in dividends in 2017 and $1.26 so far this year. . I have a stop loss order placed at $130.00.
Hormel: 3 shares purchased at $31.80. Current price 39.40. 2017 dividend was $0,51 per share; current quarterly dividend $0.56 per share.
Hanesbrands: 7 shares, average cost $19.20. Current price $18.43 but sold August 1 via stop loss for $19.13, Dividend is $0.15 per share per quarter.
Cardinal Healthcare. 1 share purchased November 27 for $56.42. Sold 2/5/18 for 64.98. Repurchased on 2/5 for $64.70. Stop loss sold again on 3/20 for $67.00, and repurchased for $66.50. Quarterly dividend is $0.48. Current price $51.53. .
ProAssurance. 1 Share purchased for $54.98. Pays a quarterly dividend of $0.31 but its value has fallen to $46.95, which is higher than three months ago. Maybe it will recover after all. .
Viacom: 2 shares purchased for $33.31 each. Current value $33.76. Quarterly dividend of $0.20 per share.
GE: Another dog. Purchased 3 shares at average cost of $15.90. Current value $12.00. Quarterly dividend of $0.12.
Altababa: Purchased 1 share for $80.00. Current price $67.24.
CBL: Purchased 13 shares for average price of $4.60. Sold via stop loss at $5.50 on 6/21. Repurchased at $5.48 (and added two more shares). 5 more shares on August 6 for $4.90. Stop loss sell of 15 shares on August 6 for 4.73. 10 shares re-purchased on August 7 for $4.56 Current price $3.99. Quarterly dividend is $0.20 per share.
Gamestop: Purchased 1 share accidentally. Decided to see what happened. Cost was $17.05. Current price $15.27. Quarterly dividend is $0.38.
Sprint: I earned two shares via Robinhood's referral program. Average value when awarded was $5.37. Current value is $6.54.
Macys: One share purchased for $24.00. Sold via stop loss for $36.00 on Jul 11, 2018. Quarterly dividend is $0.38.
GOV: 10 shares, average cost $10.08. This is one that I've bought and sold several times. Current value $11.29. Quarterly dividend is $0.43. Stop loss set at $15.00.
USA. 25 shares, average cost $6.49. Current value $6.81. Quarterly dividend of $0.17 per share.
GLU Mobile: Trying for a home run here. 20 shares; average cost $5.15. Current value $7.45. Stop loss set at $6.00 but I'm hoping for big things.
Zynga: 2 shares awarded via Robinhood's referral program. Average value when awarded was $4.36. Current value $4.01.
Delaware Investments Dividend Fund: 5 shares at $11.71. Current value: $13.35. Monthly dividend of $0.0961 per share.
New Residential Investments: 2 shares at $17.58. Current value: $17.82.
Denbury: Another stock I got as a referral bonus. It is an oil E&P company. Current value: $6.20.
Robinhood is an online broker that now has both an app and a webpage. They charge no commission and allow you to place limit or market orders. They also allow you to initiate bank transfers and then invest the money immediately--you do not have to wait for the transfer to complete. You do have to buy whole shares.
If you use this link to open an account with them, you and I will both receive a free share of stock. Here is a link to my review of Robinhood.
This is an online broker for whom I wrote a sponsored post. I invested $100 in Johnson & Johnson through them. They charge $0.99 per trade, so even though they sell fractional shares, I don't recommend investing less than $100.00 per trade. Stockpile had a promotion where they were giving away $5.00 worth of Apple stock so I got mine. Now the account is worth $115.31.
If you use this link, you get $5.00 worth of stock to begin your account with them, and I get $5.00 too. I wrote a full review of Stockpile a few months ago.
My portfolio, which is all in one "pie" consists of 1/4 facebook, 1/4 Crestwood Equite Partners, 1/4 Enbridge Energy Managment and 1/4 Exxon/Mobil. I've invested $100, and gotten $20 in bonuses. My account, which was opened in July, is now worth $103.58. I bought $25 worth of facebook right before it nosedived.
If you use this link you get a $10 bonus with M1 and so do I. Read my review of M1 Finance.
ABEV: 2 shares worth $4,91 each when awarded, worth $4.57 now.
AG Mortage: 2 shares worth $18,89 when purchased, worth $18.18 now.
NGL Energy Partners: 2 shares with $13.00 when purchased, worth 11.60 now.
This isn't Webull's fault. You can read my review of Webull or if you want a free share of stock, open an account with this link.
So far this year, we've made good progress toward our goals. Let's just hope the market doesn't spend the next few months taking back what it has given us in the last three months.
One thing many investors track is dividends. By this time last year my dividends totalled $5,977.07 This year they are up to $8,634.71.
Why Should I Invest in Corporate Bonds?


Look for lots of political nonsense from Dems, particularly Kamala Harris, Spartacus, and Amy Klobuchar, all of who are aiming to run for president.
Scheduled for 11:10 am ET.
The Democrats on the committee are still discussing whether they will crucify Robert Barr in a long, protracted torture session, or simply burn him at the stake. That's their only point of tactical disagreement at this point.
After three children, eight grandchildren, and a slew of young relatives, we can safely say that young people love their fast food and will eat it whenever they have the chance.
Shame on the MSM for making it an issue.


Esko, the manufacturer of cutting tables for packaging, signage & displays, has unveiled a new range of specialty tools to allow customers to finish a wide variety of applications in sign, display and packaging materials.
Some of the newest tools include a psaligraphy (paper cutting) knife tool, a perforation wheel and a braille tool. All three tools are available for usage on the Kongsberg XN, Kongsberg V and Kongsberg XL series of digital finishing systems.
Esko makes more than a hundred high-quality cutting blades, router bits and accessories and says the wide variety of tools is what truly enables customers to expand their businesses with the most creative use of materials and applications.
Esko Kongsberg has an experienced R&D team constantly developing new tools.
The new Psaligraphy (or paper cutting) knife tool cuts out the finest details in paper and folding carton, at a level not seen before. This is a perfect tool for adding creativity and value to greeting cards, promotional items or folding carton samples.
The 60 mm Perforation wheel enables users to create tear and crease-assist perforations in corrugated board up to 4 mm thick at a much higher speed than before. This tool is ideal for producing POP-materials and all kinds of packaging. Prior to this wheel becoming available, it took about 40 seconds to do 1 meter of a 3×3 perforation pattern (3 mm cut and 3 mm space). The new wheel only needs 2 seconds to do that.
The Braille tool, loaded with clear acrylic 'Braille spheres' that are inserted into small holes. These holes are milled with a special spindle to create raised dots that are readable with fingertips. The Braille tool will work on most rigid materials more than one mm thick and is used to produce signage requiring directions or inscriptions in braille.
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Species richness of alien plants in South Africa: environmental correlates and the relationship with indigenous plant species richness
Richardson et al., EcoScience, 2005.pdf (1.204Mb)
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This study explores the correlates of alien plant species richness in South Africa at the scale of quarter-degree squares (QDS; ≈ 25 x 27 km; 675km2). We considered all alien plant species for which we had records and a subset of these – those that invade natural and semi-natural vegetation. The main source of data for species richness of indigenous and alien plant species was a national database based on herbarium specimens. For invasive alien species, data were from a national atlassing project. First, we explored the importance of energy availability and habitat heterogeneity as correlates of indigenous, alien and invasive alien plant species richness. Linear regression models showed that species richness in the three groups of plants was explained by the same variables: a principal component of climatic factors and topographic roughness were the top-ranking variables for all groups. Next, we examined the role of indigenous species richness together with a range of environmental and human-activity variables in explaining species richness of alien and invasive alien plants. Results reveal an interplay of natural features and variables that quantify the dimension of human activities. If indigenous species richness is ignored, human-activity variables are more strongly correlated with alien species richness than with invasive alien species richness. Numbers of alien and invasive species in QDSs are significantly correlated with indigenous plant species richness in the 1,597 QDSs selected for analysis, a pattern consistent with findings from other parts of the world. Analysis of residuals between observed and predicted values showed that patterns differed between biomes. The results are useful for planning long-term intervention policy at the national scale; they suggest that areas with rich native biodiversity will face a sustained onslaught from invasive alien species and that ongoing management actions will be required to reduce and mitigate impacts from biological invasions in these areas.
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/330
RESEARCH: Hui C [175]
RESEARCH: Richardson D [329]
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A Niagara-area police officer has been charged with attempted murder, after another officer was shot at a rural crossroads in November.
Sgt. Shane Donovan of the Niagara Regional Police (NRPS) also faces charges of aggravated assault and assault with a weapon.
Ontario's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) laid the charges Thursday, four months after a puzzling and high-profile shooting in rural Pelham, Ont., a community about 20 kilometres east of Niagara Falls.
Donovan and Const. Nathan Parker were among a group of officers who, on Nov. 29, 2018, were investigating a collision from a few days before, around Roland Road and Effingham Street.
Donovan is alleged to have fired his weapon multiple times. Parker, 52, was seriously injured and airlifted to Hamilton General Hospital, the SIU said.
The reason for the shooting is still unclear.
Parker is a 28-year veteran of the force, according to the NRPS. In that time, he has reportedly faced multiple disciplinary hearings under the Police Services Act.
According to local media, including the St. Catharines Standard and the Welland Tribune, he pleaded guilty in 2015 to discreditable conduct and unnecessary use of force against a prisoner and was docked 120 hours pay.
NRPS Chief Bryan MacCulloch, said the shooting has had "a tremendous impact on our community and our members.
"At this time, we must respect the judicial process and allow this matter to continue to unfold before the courts," he said in a statement on Thursday.
Donovan is set to appear before a St. Catharines court on April 18, the SIU said.


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A: Why not strrev ?
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Страж портала Коллидус is a Rare spawn "floating eye" Demon found in Долина Призрачной Луны (Outland). It has 7 eyes, hence the flavour text that clarifies: Глаз стража портала Коллидуса - "Well... one of his eyes."
So question! If I'm a "Mistweaver Monk", but I have to conquest around as Windwalker (Since BLIZZ can't seem to take care of this for HEALER Class)... does this legendary CONVERT to my specific class specification or am I totally shafted with Windwalker only Legendary when I'm really a healer class?
BLIZZ - if you read this please "FIX" stuff for healers in the world. I was not excited about running around as a Melee DPS when I'm a healer class to level up and do things without GROUPING.
Stacks up to 100% increase. Each tick adds 1%. The buff does not have a "timer" so you don't have to keep channeling soothing mists. Soothing mists from jade serpent statue does not make the stacks go faster.
1. Zoning in causes you to lose all stacks of the buff.
2. Synergies well with the Mistwalk Wrap talent that allows you to walk while using soothing mist.
3. Not ideal for m+ where you might want to DPS since when you're dpsing you're not casting soothing mist. You cannot start a dungeon with 100 stacks (see #1).
Overall, one of the weaker legendaries especially given that it has our worst secondary stats.
Если на персонаже: Каждый раз, когда "Успокаивающий туман" восполняет здоровье, объем урона, поглощаемого вашим следующим "Исцеляющим коконом", увеличивается на 3%. Эффект суммируется до 50 раз.
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Motivation is the reason for people's actions. Inspired by such motivational and encouraging words "Vijay Central Education Samiti" planted a small sapling in 1999 as Vijay Central Academy Sr. Sec. School (RBSE Hindi Medium in Science, Commerce & Arts).The next step toward this aim was the establishment of Vijay Central Academy Public School in 2005. VCAPS achieved its affiliation from CBSE in 2013 and is run on a 1-hectare of land in a well-furnished building from Nursery to Class XII (Science, Commerce & Humanities).
For higher education, "Vijay Central Academy College" got its recognition from the University of Rajasthan and College Directorate in the session 2014-15. For the holistic development of the students, varied Co-curricular activities such as Meditation, Yoga, Spoken English, Handwriting class, Basic class, Inter-house activities, cultural and Literary activities, mountaineering, NCC (Naval, Infantry & Girls), Cub - Bulbul, Scout & Guide, Rover - Ranger, karate, Sports etc. have inclusive in the curriculum.
Inspired by such motivational and encouraging words "Vijay Central Education Samiti" planted a small sapling in 1999 as Vijay Central Academy Sr. Sec. School.
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In the Age of Starmer
Posted by: Gillian Gould Lazarus on: April 26, 2020
The consensus among diehard Corbynists seems to be that the new Leader of the Opposition, Keir Starmer, is a Blairite and a Zionist, not to be trusted and not to be supported. His instant outreach towards Jewish organizations placed him firmly in the enemy camp, in their eyes. Many claim that they are leaving the Labour Party and some say that they can no longer even vote Labour.
'But the Tories are worse,' comes the reply and the more moderate Corbynists advise 'Give Starmer a chance.'
'He is no different from the Tories,' reply some.
'He stabbed Jeremy in the back,' says another. They cite Owen Smith's bid for leadership in 2016, supported by Keir Starmer, or Starmer putting pressure on Corbyn to take up a Brexit position or, most damning of all, the Jewish family connections, which make them think he must be Mossad's man in Victoria Street. Others advocate remaining in the Party and making life as hard for Starmer as they believe it was for Corbyn, being opposed by the PLP at every turn.
The counter-intuitively named Jewish Voice for Labour group (at this point in time, not discernibly Labour nor, for the most part, Jewish) display a recurring message, 'Don't leave, organize,' adapting the words of American Labour activist Joe Hill: 'Don't mourn, organize.' They have attracted to themselves many of those who were expelled from Labour for antisemitism and who are thus not precisely able to leave but it is the thought that counts.
At his first PMQs, which of course occurred in the age of lockdown, Keir Starmer was civil and well-prepared, more than equal to Dominic Raab who was at the opposite dispatch box due to the Prime Minister's continuing convalescence. The word forensic is used frequently to describe Keir Starmer's approach, perhaps because of his eminent career as a barrister, Head of the Crown Prosecution Service and Director of Public Prosecutions.
It is certainly different from Jeremy Corbyn's style, honed on rallies and picket lines. There is some reason to think that the adoration of Corbyn, so emphatic in the online groups set up to support him, owes something to his intellectual mediocrity which throws into relief his supposed probity and benevolence.
Now the Corbynists are on the margins of Labour rather than the epicentre and describing themselves – as I and like-minded people did over the last five years – as 'politically homeless'.
Perhaps we are all politically homeless in 2020, or ought to be.
On the election of Keir Starmer to the leadership, several people whose views are similar to mine said that they would return to Labour, if not as members, at the ballot box at least. Some had remained members or otherwise affiliated to Labour throughout Corbyn's time as leader, believing that it would take only time and a change of leadership for the antisemitism problem to wither away.
They have the change of leader and ambience, but will the problem wither away?
The unpredictable rise of Jeremy Corbyn, his storming of Glastonbury and, as antisemitism under his watch hit headline after headline, his apotheosis in the eyes of his supporters into martyr and idol, inhibit the practice of prediction and prophecy. Who would dare to say what happens next? Who saw Covid-19 coming, six months ago?
There have been ten Labour leaders in my living memory, not counting those like George Brown and Harriet Harman who served as acting leader during the hiatus of a leadership election. The first time I was entitled to vote in a General Election, my Labour vote did not prevent Wilson losing to Edward Heath. Among Labour leaders, only Tony Blair never lost an election.
Shall I vote for Starmer's Labour when the opportunity arises?
Probably not. If the Holocaust deniers, conspiracy theorists, Israel haters and bog standard 'Jews are behind it' antisemites fly their nest in the Labour Party and make their home with the Tories or the LibDems, I might then vote Labour, if we still have a vote. If they return to the margins of politics, far from the possibility of government and if the mainstream parties manage to keep racism at bay among their membership, it will be more of a level playing field, but then Labour will still come carrying the handicap of their Corbyn years.
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Sen. Scarnati Wants Open Primaries: AP PA Headlines, Scores & Skeds
WKOK Staff | May 5, 2019 |
AP PA Headlines 5/5/19
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania is in the minority of states with closed primary elections, but the fast-growing number of independent voters is sparking a debate in Pennsylvania's Legislature about opening up party primaries. It helps that it is led by a high-profile backer, the top Republican in the GOP-controlled state Senate, Joe Scarnati.
Scarnati says allowing independent voters to cast ballots in party primaries can curb extremism in primary elections and increase voter turnout. Scarnati's bill has the support of the Senate's ranking Democrat, Jay Costa, and Gov. Tom Wolf. In Pennsylvania, the number of unaffiliated voters has grown 75% in eight years, a reflection of national trends. Here's the catch: researchers don't find that open primaries have much, if any, effect on increasing turnout or moderating politics.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Penn State is hiring an architect under a plan to build a $71 million campus art museum that could open in 2022. Philly.com says university President Eric Barron this week presented the plan, which could grow to $85 million if enough money is raised. It would accommodate two large art collections the school recently received, and supplant the Palmer Museum, which lacks parking. The school's trustees on Friday decided to hire architect Allied Works for what could be a 73,000 square-foot museum. The plan calls for it to be located in an open area next to the botanical gardens in the arboretum.
ERIE, Pa. (AP) — Family members say a Pennsylvania couple who had been married for almost 45 years died within minutes of each other. Clair "Cos" Vance had made daily visits to a care center where his 70-year-old wife, Jeanne, lived because of mobility and medical problems. But those visits stopped last week when he developed a flu-like illness and was hospitalized.
As his condition worsened, Jeanne spoke with her 75-year-old husband on the phone. She last spoke to him minutes before he died Sunday night. One of the couple's daughters was with her father when he died. She asked her aunts to go to the care center and tell her mother of his death. But when they arrived, they found Jeanne Vance dead in her room. The couple was buried together Friday.
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BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (AP) — A university in Ohio will remove from a campus theater the last name of an actress who starred in "The Birth of a Nation," considered one of the most racist movies ever made. The Blade reports Bowling Green State University trustees' 7-0 vote Friday to drop the last name of actresses Dorothy and Lillian Gish comes after the school's Black Student Union raised concerns when the little-used theater was relocated to the student union.
Lillian Gish starred in the 1915 silent film, which served as a tribute to the Ku Klux Klan and helped revive the white supremacist group. A university task force issued a report last month saying the Gish name and displays about "The Birth of a Nation" contributed to an "intimidating, even hostile, educational environment."
STERLING, Va. (AP) — President Donald Trump criticized social media companies after Facebook banned a number of extremist figures, declaring that he was "monitoring and watching, closely!!" Trump, who tweeted and re-tweeted complaints Friday and Saturday, said he would "monitor the censorship of AMERICAN CITIZENS on social media platforms." He has previously asserted that social media companies exhibit bias against conservatives, something the companies have rejected as untrue.
The president's comments came after Facebook this week banned Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones and other extremists, saying they violated its ban on "dangerous individuals." The company also removed right-wing personalities Paul Nehlen, Milo Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson and Laura Loomer, along with Jones' site, Infowars, which often posts conspiracy theories. The latest bans apply both to Facebook's main service and to Instagram and extend to fan pages and other related accounts.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows: ABC's "This Week" — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. NBC's "Meet the Press" — Sens. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., and John Kennedy, R-La. Meet the Press is on WKOK and WKOK.com at noon Sunday.
CBS' "Face the Nation" — Pompeo; Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; Reps. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., and Doug Collins, R-Ga. CNN's "State of the Union" — Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Cory Booker, D-N.J. "Fox News Sunday" — Pompeo; Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I.
PA Sports, Scores & Skeds
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Kurt Suzuki and Victor Robles hit consecutive home runs in the eighth inning to lead the Washington Nationals to a 10-8 comeback victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. It was just the third win in the last 10 for the Nationals, whose injuries continued to pile up. The Phillies play on 1070AM WKOK, while our normal programming continues on WKOK.com. Phillies play today 1:30pm, Nationals at Phillies.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Kevin Newman hit a go-ahead two-run triple in the seventh inning and the Pittsburgh Pirates rallied past the Oakland Athletics 6-4. Newman had his first at-bat in nearly a month thanks to a cut on his right middle finger and ripped a shot down the right-field line off J.B. Wendelken to bring home Gregory Polanco and Bryan Reynolds with two outs in the seventh as the Pirates won for the third time in four games. Josh Bell homered twice for Pittsburgh.
UNDATED (AP) — Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets could use the kind of break everybody else is getting in the second round of the NBA playoffs. If anybody deserved some time off, it's the All-Star center who just played 65 minutes in a game. But there's no rest for the weary now. The Nuggets and Trail Blazers will be back on the court Sunday for Game 4 of their series, surely a little low on fuel after they tied an NBA record by playing four overtimes Friday in Portland's 140-137 victory.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Toronto Raptors say forward Pascal Siakam is doubtful for today's Game 4 against Philadelphia with a right calf injury. Siakam is Toronto's second-leading scorer in these playoffs, averaging 22.9 points a game. The Raptors trail their Eastern Conference semifinal series against the 76ers 2-1.
Here are the scores from yesterday's sports events:
INTERLEAGUE
Final Pittsburgh 6 Oakland 4
Final Minnesota 7 N-Y Yankees 3
Final Cleveland 5 Seattle 4
Final Kansas City 15 Detroit 3
Final Baltimore 3 Tampa Bay 0
Final Houston 14 L-A Angels 2
Final Boston 15 Chi White Sox 2
Final Texas 8 Toronto 5
Final Chi Cubs 6 St. Louis 5
Final Atlanta 9 Miami 2
Final Washington 10 Philadelphia 8
Final Milwaukee 4 N-Y Mets 3, 18 Innings
Final Cincinnati 9 San Francisco 2
Final Arizona 9 Colorado 2
Final L-A Dodgers 7 San Diego 6
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION PLAYOFFS
Final OT Houston 126 Golden State 121
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE PLAYOFFS
Final Boston 4 Columbus 3
Final San Jose 2 Colorado 1
Final New York 3 Los Angeles 2
TODAY'S SPORTS SCHEDULE
Oakland at Pittsburgh 1:35 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Baltimore 1:05 p.m.
Seattle at Cleveland 1:10 p.m.
Kansas City at Detroit 1:10 p.m.
Boston at Chi White Sox 2:10 p.m.
Toronto at Texas 3:05 p.m.
Minnesota at N-Y Yankees 4:05 p.m.
Houston at L-A Angels 4:10 p.m.
Atlanta at Miami 1:10 p.m.
Washington at Philadelphia 2:05 p.m.
N-Y Mets at Milwaukee 2:10 p.m.
Arizona at Colorado 3:10 p.m.
L-A Dodgers at San Diego 4:10 p.m.
San Francisco at Cincinnati 4:10 p.m.
St. Louis at Chi Cubs 7:05 p.m.
Toronto at Philadelphia 3:30 p.m.
Denver at Portland 7:00 p.m.
St. Louis at Dallas 3:00 p.m.
Atlanta at Kansas City 9:00 p.m.
Written by WKOK Staff


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Robert Bruce Zoellick (Naperville (Illinois), 25 juli 1953) is een Amerikaanse bankier en politicus. Op 25 juni 2007 werd hij verkozen tot voorzitter (president) van de Wereldbank. Zijn benoeming ging op 1 juli 2007 in; hij was president tot 30 juni 2012.

De weinig omstreden Zoellick werkte tot 2006 voor de regering-Bush als onderminister van Buitenlandse Zaken; hij was gespecialiseerd in China en Darfoer en stond mede aan de wieg van de verdere vrijmaking van de wereldhandel.

Daarvoor was hij handelsvertegenwoordiger voor de Verenigde Staten. In deze functie wist hij zowel de Volksrepubliek China als Taiwan lid van de Wereldhandelsorganisatie te maken. Voorts had hij deel aan de totstandkoming van een aantal vrijhandelsakkoorden, zoals die met Singapore en Chili.

Hij heeft eveneens voor de regering van Bush sr. gewerkt.

Zoellick heeft verder een lange carrière achter de rug bij verschillende private financiële instellingen. Voor zijn voorzitterschap van de Wereldbank werkte hij sinds 2006 bij de Amerikaanse zakenbank Goldman Sachs.

In 2005 was hij reeds kandidaat om het voorzitterschap van de Wereldbank op zich te nemen maar moest destijds Paul Wolfowitz voor laten gaan. Net zoals deze was hij een voorstander van de geallieerde inval in Irak in 2003 maar in tegenstelling tot Wolfowitz behoorde hij niet tot de bedenkers daarvan.

Adviseur van de president (Verenigde Staten)
Amerikaans onderminister
Amerikaans bankier
Amerikaans topfunctionaris
Handelsvertegenwoordiger (Verenigde Staten)
Republikein (Verenigde Staten)

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ECO minerals was created by Lulu Starman in 2007 and has grown to one of Australia's favourite Vegan, natural cosmetic brands. Today ECO minerals is operated by Lulu and Michael in Byron Bay and a host of other magical staff.
Lulu has a background in science and conservation and is a lover of animals ...and amazing beauty products. It has turned out to be the perfect blend of skill and passion "I started ECO minerals with the intention of creating everything i would want and look for in a brand. An amazing product that is kind to our Planet, kind to animals and is affordable for everyone."


Pennsylvania Tea Party activist Ana Puig, who has started working with Moran to get the amendment introduced in her state, said the amendment has a lot to offer.
"It would bring back power to the states, and with everything … that the federal government has tried shoving down our throats it is imperative that we give power from the ground up and not from federal government down," Puig said.
She believes the amendment will gain even more support as increasing numbers of Tea Partiers find out about it.
"It really reflects an electorate that is frustrated, and a lot of the people that have not been involved in the process before [are] not sure what needs to be done, and they're pretty upset about [the health care] law," Rasmussen said.
Rasmussen believes Tea Party activists and most Americans have a shared desire for lower taxes and reduced spending in addition to a shared belief that politicians hold them in contempt. This sentiment, he said, has caused proposals like the "Repeal Amendment" to gain traction.
"There is no trust in government, and until that is restored there is no way to move forward," Rasmussen said. "This is tapping into that same mindset.
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'Please take a letter to the Ayatollah'
President Barack Hussein Obama (also known as President Hopenchange) has demanded asked begged pleaded with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to give up his nuclear weapons program. On Wednesday night, Ahmadinejad gave Obama his answer: He gave him the finger.
But Obama isn't going to give up on Hopenchange so easily. And so, he is going to send a letter to Ayatollah Khameni (Hat Tip: Memeorandum). By the way, Khameni is no more 'moderate' than Ahmadinejad.
The US state department has been working on drafts of the letter since Obama was elected on 4 November last year. It is in reply to a lengthy letter of congratulations sent by the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on 6 November.
Diplomats said Obama's letter would be a symbolic gesture to mark a change in tone from the hostile one adopted by the Bush administration, which portrayed Iran as part of an "axis of evil".
It would be intended to allay the suspicions of Iran's leaders and pave the way for Obama to engage them directly, a break with past policy.
State department officials have composed at least three drafts of the letter, which gives assurances that Washington does not want to overthrow the Islamic regime, but merely seeks a change in its behaviour. The letter would be addressed to the Iranian people and sent directly to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, or released as an open letter.
One draft proposal suggests that Iran should compare its relatively low standard of living with that of some of its more prosperous neighbours, and contemplate the benefits of losing its pariah status in the west. Although the tone is conciliatory, it also calls on Iran to end what the US calls state sponsorship of terrorism.
The letter is being considered by the new secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, as part of a sweeping review of US policy on Iran. A decision on sending it is not expected until the review is complete.
In Tehran, which has denounced Obama's special envoy to the country, Dennis Ross, as a 'Zionist lobbyist,' I'm sure this is what's going on outside the Presidential palace:
Yes, they're singing "Deliver the letter, the sooner the better," so that Amhadinejad and Khameni can continue to toy with America's neophyte President while Iran continues to build its nuclear weapons program. In fact, a Tehran analyst is quoted by al-Guardian as saying what the letter will 'have' to include in order to get Ahmadinejad's attention:
Saeed Leylaz, a Tehran-based analyst, said a US letter would have to be accompanied by security guarantees and an agreement to drop economic sanctions. "If they send such a letter it will be a very significant step towards better ties, but they should be careful in not thinking Tehran will respond immediately," he said.
"There will be disputes inside the system about such a letter. There are lot of radicals who don't want to see ordinary relations between Tehran and Washington. To convince Iran, they should send a very clear message that they are not going to try to destroy the regime."
Got that President Hopenchange?
At Hot Air, Allahpundit wonders whether Obama will tack an 'apology' for American behavior over the past sixty years (as Ahmadinejad has demanded) onto the letter. At Powerline, John takes this plan as a reminder of how dangerously naive Obama is about foreign policy.
Jules Crittenden has a hysterical post in which he imagines Obama and that special lady (not Michelle you fools - Hillary) working on the letter. Read the whole thing.
But to borrow an idea from Jim Hoft, maybe we should just ask Brian Williams to draft the letter. He'll tell Ahmadinejad that all the American Presidents before Obama were evil.
Don't bet on this letter bringing any change in Iranian policy either.
At 11:34 AM, NormanF said...
Iran is not going to drop its hostility towards the Great Satan in exchange for sweet talk from its leader. If Obama imagines the mullahs are going to reciprocate his gesture, he's going to be waiting til Godot comes. To say he's dangerously naive on foreign policy is truly the understatement of the century.
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Here are frequently used web resources for our staff.
DIGMORE DIgital Media Objects and Resources, is a digital learning commons that connects students, parents, and teachers to resources that support learning within the new BC curriculum framework. Students can research topics via the student e-library, which features material offered through the BC Digital Classroom such as National Geographic Kids, Gale Science in Context, Gale Issues in Context, KnowBC, and World Online Book References. There are also links to digital literacy content as well as Math, Science and Applied Skills, Design and Technology (ADST) online applications. As well, teachers will find resources that connect the core curriculum and competencies to specific resources available in DIGMORE.


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Cornelius Francis Xavier Flynn  (January 23, 1875 – February 10, 1947) was a professional baseball player.

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Baseball players from Ohio
Cincinnati Reds players
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Washington Senators (1891–1899) players
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Build Babylon.js with Gulp
====================

Build Babylon.js with [gulp](http://gulpjs.com/ "gulp") and npm ([nodejs](http://nodejs.org/ "nodejs")), easy and cross-platform

**Paths in this file are relative to this file location, currently [Tools/Gulp](https://github.com/BabylonJS/Babylon.js/tree/master/Tools/Gulp).**

# How to use it

### First install gulp :
```
npm install -g gulp@4.0.0
```

### Install some dependencies :
```
npm install
```

### Update dependencies if necessary :
```
npm update
```

## Build all the distributed files and tests (release build):

```
npm run build
```
Will generate all the files of the dist/preview release folder.

## Build all the distributed files without tests (release build):

```
gulp typescript-libraries
```
Will generate all the files of the dist/preview release folder.

## Run all the tests (release build):

```
gulp tests-all
```

## Run Integrated Web Server and watch for changes (dev build):
```
npm start
```

you can now freely test in the following URLs:
- [Playground](http://localhost:1338/Playground/index-local.html)
- [Materials Library](http://localhost:1338/materialsLibrary/index.html)
- [Postprocess Library](http://localhost:1338/postProcessLibrary/index.html)
- [Procedural Textures Library](http://localhost:1338/proceduralTexturesLibrary/index.html)
- [Local Dev Samples](http://localhost:1338/localDev/index.html)


NHS PCT, practice-based or local Government commissioners (clinical or managerial) or senior leaders in an NHS or social care commissioning organisation.
It is designed to help you by providing a robust approach to delivering change that can be easily embedded across an organisation, and gives you a head-start by putting many of the tools and templates that you need as ready-to-use documents on a CD-ROM.
an approach which, when implemented, will support organisations to achieve World Class Commissioning competency eight and will support the delivery of their strategic goals.
support your team in using the tools and techniques designed specifically for use during the project delivery process.
Project Delivery for Commissioners covers the five-step project process you need to follow to deliver improved health and healthcare.


Olivia McCarren and Daniel Gelillo, two of the leaders of a series of school walkouts that took place in Maryland this spring, met at a summer politics institute run by the office of Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland). While there, Gelillo learned the basics of community organizing. Two weeks after the Parkland shooting, he helped mobilize hundreds of high schoolers across Montgomery County to rally at the Capitol and demand federal action on gun control.


Crestview West Apartments is a Federal Way apartment community that rents out efficiency or studio floor plans with 1 bath. Rent from $1050 up to $1100. Floor area listed for these apartments between 500 and 550 square feet. Residents are offered a club house, on-site courtesy patrol, play ground, transportation.
Aside from apartments listed above for Federal Way, Washington you might be interested in nearby areas of Pacific (3.1 miles away, 2 apartment communties), Auburn (3.7 mi, 20 properties), Milton (4.2 mi, 2), Fife (5.8 mi, 8), Kent (6.1 mi, 50), Des Moines (6.8 mi, 11) and Covington (8.4 mi, 1).


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Oakhurst Neighborhood Association, Fort Worth, Texas: Bike Ride with Mayor Betsy Price TODAY!
Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price brings her "Bike Fort Worth" event to our neighborhood this afternoon at 5:30pm at Oakhurst Park. She and all who want to ride with her will depart Oakhurst Park about 5:35pm and follow a 5.2-mile route (see the map below) through the neighborhood and back and forth on Oakhurst Scenic Drive. They will wind up back at the park about 6:15 or 6:30.
ONA and the Oak Cluster Garden Club are providing refreshments and volunteers to serve them to the bikers.
COME OUT AND MEET THE MAYOR (and ride with her if you want!) and her fellow bikers and give them a big Oakhurst howdy! Come when you can, at the beginning or the end of the race. Look forward to seeing you there TODAY!


Whatever sort of fruit you cultivate, PANTHEON Farming can assist you to achieve optimal results. It's widely known that fruit and nut orchards require big investments – thousands of Euros spent on seedling materials, agrochemicals, water, and human resources. But how do you ensure a harvest bountiful enough to pay off that kind of investment? The answer lies in efficient orchard and financial management.
Alert system for increased number of pests.
Historical comparison of number of pests.
Mobile pesticide calculator for maximal effect of spraying.
Traceability of worker efficiency during harvesting, pruning.
Traceability of production costs by variety, orchard or applied technology.
Dashboards & analysis for fruits and nuts.
Codling moths can be traced via automatic pest traps. Their number is shown in PANTHEON Farming and the System warns you when it's time for spraying.
You can calculate the optimal dosage on your smartphone on location.
A precise weather forecast is one of the main factors in optimizing daily tasks, especially in orchards, where weather data is more important than in crop production.
Pruning is greatly related to fruit size and quality. We will show you how to set up norms and evidence in control in order to be able to pay workers based on their true efficiency.
Harvest is the most labor-intensive activity in the growing season. In this case we will show you how to set norms and records in control in order to be able to pay workers based on their true efficiency.
Processes are not IT supported.
Minimal or inefficient cost control.
No traceability of workers, no control of their real efficiency.
Working "by gut feeling". No overview of required work in location.
No possibility to record event and material usage on the spot. Errors in recording.
Material theft on the farm.
Lack of overview of actual quantities of produced and sold products.
Your data will be posted to the proper accounts in no time. See videos on how PANTHEON Farming is helping you to get down to business quicker.
Did you know that using mobile applications shortens data recording time per worker?


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South Sudan + 4 more
Improving care and dignity for South Sudanese women, girls
UNFPA holds strategy meeting in Nairobi
Nairobi, 10 May, 2014 — "The challenges we face in South Sudan are grave and we have a moral and humanitarian obligation to deliver lifesaving services to all the women and girls affected by the crisis."
UNFPA Regional Director, Dr. Julitta Onabanjo, made this remark today at the end of a one-day strategic meeting with UNFPA high level staff from Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda and the regional office to develop a more comprehensive approach to ensure better care and dignity for South Sudanese women and girls affected by the crisis.
The meeting was aimed at galvanizing a regional approach to the current crisis in South Sudan and neighbouring countries by ensuring that UNFPA country teams are engaged in a well-coordinated humanitarian response.
UNFPA is appealing for $25 million (Kshs. 2.125 billion) to provide critical assistance for an estimated 740,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in South Sudan and close to 200,000 South Sudanese refugees in the four neighbouring countries.
Addressing the crisis To date, UNFPA has provided reproductive health supplies to affected populations in the South Sudan crisis to reduce pregnancy-related complications and deaths and gender-based violence. This includes vials of Oxytocin, which will serve more than 500 delivering mothers, and IV fluid sets and vials of IV antibiotics; clean delivery kits and rape treatment kits.
As preparedness measures for possible flooding with the onset of the rainy season, UNFPA South Sudan, together with other humanitarian organizations, last month placed emergency reproductive health supplies in flood-prone regions of the country. This will ensure that critical services will continue to be available throughout the year to vulnerable populations. During the rainy season up to 60 per cent of areas in South Sudan become inaccessible, a situation that would compromise the scaling up of the humanitarian response to the crisis.
UNFPA is also providing medical supplies and equipment to all 10 states for reproductive health needs of affected population. To date, 36 assorted Emergency Reproductive Health Kits and bulk commodities have been dispatched to Rumbek, Wau, Awiel, Kwajok as well as to Juba.
UNFPA is also reaching out to young people in the camps to help them make informed choices to help protect them from sexually transmitted diseases and prevent unwanted pregnancies. The organisation is training groups of young people selected from each of the country's 10 states to become peer educators and share information on reproductive health and HIV prevention with other young people in the camps.
At the regional level, UNFPA promotes evidence, knowledge and innovation through integrated technical assistance to the country. In this regard, the Regional Office is learning important lessons from the South Sudan response in order to disseminate lessons within the region and the entire organisation.
UNFPA works to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled.
Susan Karuoya, Senior Communication officer, UNFPA, Kenya, +254 20 762 6705/+254 722227497
Lindsay Barnes, Regional Communications Analyst, United Nations Population Fund, East and Southern Africa Regional Office, Johannesburg. Tel: +27 11 603 5329; Cell: +27 84 8118163;
Adebayo Fayoyin, Regional Communications Adviser, United Nations Population Fund, East and Southern Africa Regional Office, Johannesburg. Tel: +27 11 603 5348; Cell: +27 79 517 0320;
United Nations Population Fund
An Evaluation of the impact of activity based reporting methodology on the reporting timelines using the regression discontinuity analysis: A case study of the Global Fund Program in Kenya
Evaluation and Lessons Learned
Kenya Red Cross
Sudan + 1 more
ACT Alliance / Caritas Appeal: Humanitarian Response to Ethiopian Refugees in East Sudan - SDN201 - EA35 /2020
ACT Alliance
Ethiopia + 10 more
Eastern Africa: Humanitarian Snapshot (December 2020)
National Action Plan for Health Security (NAPHS) 2020-2024
Govt. South Sudan


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Q: Is there any way to invert file selections on Mac OS X like we do it on Windows? I'm Windows OS lover but recently I've got Mac Notebook as a gift. So now I just want to know if is there any option under Edit that lets me invert my selection? For example, I select only files that I don't want and once I click on Invert Selection using Edit option, all the files that I didn't select will be selected instead.
Is there any similar option in OS X too?

A: The key you're looking for is Cmd.
Select the files – any view should work – then move with the mouse cursor to the empty space next to the file list. Hold Cmd and drag to invert the selection:

If you don't want to use the mouse, an alternative way would be to use AppleScript instead. Open up Automator.app, create a new Service. From the left pane, drag Run AppleScript to the right, and paste the following:*
on run {input, parameters}

  tell application "Finder"
    set inverted to {}
    set fitems to items of window 1 as alias list
    set selectedItems to the selection as alias list
    repeat with i in fitems
      if i is not in selectedItems then
        set end of inverted to i
      end if
    end repeat
    select inverted
  end tell

  return input
end run

Set this service to receive No Input from Finder.app. Like this:

Save this service as Invert Selection. Then, head to System Preferences » Keyboard » Keyboard Shortcuts, and add your shortcut to the service, for example ShiftCmdI:

Now, select any files in Finder and press the shortcut to invert the selection.
* I found this on the Apple Mailing Lists, no idea who wrote it though.

A: On windows there is another way to do this.

It should work for Mac too.

A: It's not quite the same, but there's a more natural way to do this sort of thing on a Mac: rather than selecting the files you don't want and then inverting the selection, select all files (Edit menu > Select All, or Command-A), then deselect the files you don't want with Command-click.


In the heart of the Imperial Fora, the Hotel Forum is the only Roman hotel that overlooks history, thanks to its location facing the Forum of Nerva and Augustus's Temple. From the Roof Garden restaurant, the Eternal City is truly at your feet, with the capricious memories of Dolce Vita.
Don't come visit if that's not what you're looking for, or if what you want is a quick escape through a mediocre meal. Our Italian chef will take you on a journey through the most typical flavours of tradition, through the new invention of a revisited taste, through the deliciousness of a famous bakery; our wine cellar can fulfil any desire and expectation.
Start your day with a delicious breakfast served between 7 and 10:30 at the Roof Garden: on this lovely terrace you can enjoy a variety of sweet and savoury foods along with several kinds of tea, coffee and hot chocolate.
Restaurant capacity: maximum 145 guests.
There is the possibility to have a buffet lunch on the panoramic Roof Garden restaurant of the Hotel Forum.


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Q: Some questions on partial pseudo anosov maps Let $S$ be an orientable closed 2-surface with genus at least 2 and $C$ be a non-separating essential simple closed curve in $S$.  Denote $S_{C}=S-N(C)$. Let $f$ be a pseudo anosov map of $S_{C}$. Hence $f$ induces a natural homeomorphism of $S$ which fix the $C$ pointwise, still denoted by $f$.
My  question are:

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*What does the stable lamination of $f$ look like? Does it spiral around the $C$ in $S$?

*For any simple closed curve $\alpha\cap C\neq \emptyset$, what does $f^{n}(\alpha)\cap S_{C} $ look like when $n\rightarrow +\infty$?

*Suppose there is an essential proper subsurface $F\subset S$, i.e., $\partial F\neq \emptyset$ are essential in $S$ and  $C\cap \partial F\neq \emptyset$. For any component $C\cap F$ , is there a component of $f^{n}(\alpha)\cap F$ disjoint from it when $n$ is large enough?  When $C$ is separating, is it still true?

Thanks!

A: In answering all of your questions I am going to assume that $S$ has a hyperbolic structure, and that the stable and unstable laminations are geodesic laminations. This point of view is explained in the book of Casson and Bleiler. The answers given here can be derived from what one learns in that book.
Question 1: No it does not spiral. In a hyperbolic structure on $S$, on either side of $C$ there is a subsurface of $S$ that looks like a crown with the points of the crown removed, with $C$ being the circle component of the boundary of the crown, with the top edges of the crown being leaves of the stable lamination, and with the interior of the crown disjoint from the stable lamination. The unstable lamination has a similar appearance.
Question 2: In answering this question (and the next) I am going to assume that by ``$f^n(\alpha)$'' you really mean the simple closed geodesic which is isotopic to $f^n(\alpha)$.
$f^n(a) \cap S_C$ is a union of long subsegments that stay close to the stable lamination in the $C^1$-topology, together with a finite number (independent of $n$) of subsegments that stay in the complement of the stable lamination.
Question 3. You should make a stronger hypothesis: not only should $C \cap \partial F$ be nonempty, but their intersection should be ``essential'', meaning that no component of $S - (C \cap \partial F)$ is a bigon. With that assumption, yes, this is always true, regardless of whether $C$ is separating. The reason is that you can assume, by isotoping $C$, that $\partial C$ is geodesic, and it follows that $\partial C$ intersects the stable lamination transversely; now apply Question 2 and the fact that leaves of the stable lamination are dense.


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While attending an important meeting in your office or attending a lecture in your classroom, your iPhone 13 rung loudly out of the blue and you become the center of the attraction? Has this ever happened to you? The majority…
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2018 Show Me Regional - Car Show and Cruise. Pontiac Oakland and GMC. Buick and Oldsmobile also invited. Open to the public!
Show is on Saturday, September 22nd! The show will be at Vatterot College. It's conviently located next to Krispy Kreme, pineapple whip and a food truck on site, hotels, and other local restaurants.
There will be Dash plaques, door prizes, 50-50 pot, a raffle, along with trophies. Show T-shirt with registration (while supplies last), any extras will be sold day of show.
FREE SNOWCONES AND POPCORN provided by Vatterott college. Trivia giveaways all day!
This is intended to be a family friendly event and we invite the public to come out and enjoy cars of the past! If anyone has any questions please feel free to ask. The flier has most of the info needed to register. However, if you have additional questions you can contact Dylyn Florence at 417-425-6106. Or message Our Facebook page!
If you wish to pre-register it is only $20! Register through PayPal by sending the payment to [email protected] please include all your registration details in PayPal payment details. You can also pre-register via mail by sending payment to Michael Berry. His address is listed in the flier.