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09:20 Frontier Developments Daily Update: Frontier Developments Plc is listed in the Software & Computer Services sector of the London Stock Exchange with ticker FDEV. The last closing price for Frontier Developments was 999p.
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16:29 mark4231: FDEV's last game launch was Jurassic World Evolution, last June, around when the peak share price occurred - it was a bit of "buy the rumour, sell the news" (not that the game launch was a rumour). The share price got ahead of itself, and then the following fall was overdone as well. All my opinion.
22:51 yankhanson: dsct, anyone seeking to distract from the week's Planet Zoo news would simply highlight the week's Elite Dangerous news, no? :) FDEV losing its fight with Kickstarter over Elite franchise rights, the Elite Dangerous card game campaign getting cancelled, a major game update releasing with zero beta testing adding another huge slew of bugs with FDEV already forced to withdraw the most hated 'improvement', Steam recent review score down to all-time low 56%. I could go on... ... but but back to Planet Zoo. The best news is it's a game of extremely low ambition, having none of the multiplayer, console, mobile or freemium formats which FDEV's recent attempts have shown to be well outside the company's areas of competence. This means FDEV should have less difficulty this time actually delivering to a reasonable standard. The bad news is that those multiplayer, console, mobile and freemium are the big factors for commercial success in today's game markets. Limiting Planet Zoo to the rapidly declining PC Premium format certainly must be a factor behind FDEV's broker forecasting year #1 earnings so low - under a third of the previous game's. Someone said here a month ago that if this year's FDEV game turns out to be a zoo game, we can all give up hope of a share price recovery. I think he's right. And I think FDEV know it. Which is why the company decided to breach the AIM rule 11 (disclosure of price sensitive information) by failing to put the Planet Zoo news out on RNS. Of course the market found out from the press. And the share price fell.
23:17 mark4231: I fully agree endion (and DiscoDave!). I've been invested since well before Planet Coaster was released. The management of the company have delivered pretty much as they have promised. There has been occasional glitches but nothing too major, the biggest I can think of was a delay in the Horizons release. It happens. It is the way of software development. We have a rough idea of when future franchises will launch, but nothing can be set in stone because the company won't know exactly when franchises are going to be released either, they can only make a best guess from their project planning. Also, they don't know what revenue they will derive from each future release, again they can only make a best guess and market their games as best they can to achieve the most sales they can. I note that both PC and JWE have competitors, in the form of similar games to a point, on Steam but PC and JWE have both sold much better - so FDEV must be doing something right. From what I can see they are focusing on growing the company. It's true that they aren't releasing RNS to promote the share price, but should they be, or should they do what they're doing by growing the company, increasing their profit and then the share price will surely follow? Eventually! The RNS they have released over the last couple of years has been good news after good news. I agree that the recent Elite: Dangerous 2020 update news should have been RNSed, as it is big news, and in a positive way for the patient. But the information is out there, in this case on the forums - and when it is a hidden away, like in this case, us investors can take advantage of the opportunity. The players (and me) are disappointed the update isn't this year but FDEV hadn't announced a big update previously, never mind a timescale. Now, we have an announcement, and by the sound of it - and the time it is taking to be developed - it is going to be a huge update that will bring in a good amount of revenue. Another thing I would say, that sometimes it is taken as a negative that lots of people are moaning on forums about a particular game. My contrary opinion is that it is a good thing, because at least a lot of people care! If the forums are dead, then the game is dead. Those who say they're finished with Elite: Dangerous, well for the most part, they're not, they'll be back when the next big release happens I'm sure. I do think people's opinions here are getting coloured/coloured by their entry point (mine included) but also the rapid run up to £18, in my opinion, was fueled by people who didn't understand the company. Then we had a big fall and, in my opinion, has continued well past fair value and continued to fall, again fueled by people who don't understand the company. With *hindsight* the tweet that probably triggered Thursday's and Friday's falls was ill advised, but, to be honest I didn't think that until mid-way through Thursday! Perhaps, though, the subsequent falls just proved the tweet's point? Unlike many AIM companies I see no reason whatsoever to think there is anything strange going on with FDEV at all. It's a solid growing and straight forward company and I trust the management to do their best to continue to achieve that. There are risks of course but no more than you would expect of such a company. All my own opinion, I remain fully invested (and patient!), DYOR.
18:31 yankhanson: endion, you're confusing what's supposed to be in ED with what is. Your character can't die. That feature advertised four years ago still hasn't been added. There's no real plot *now* only because the plot died in last year's development cutbacks. FDev has erased it from the glossy product description. turnip, "some minor glitches might creep in". Bug reports are in the thousands. Complaints on server fails, crash to desktop, broken game actions etc. at an all-time high. Steam's running reviews score at an all-time low. Player numbers down 25% since the update's peak. FDev has cut the the newsletter output to half. In its belated admission of the most serious game breakage, FD says "No ETA" for a fix. The Lead Designer, Executive Producer and now the Community Manager have all quit. Broker forecasts a 50% earnings drop this FY. But don't let that stop you loving it all, including the 50% drop in the FDEV share price. Meanwhile I'll await with interest CEO Braben's promised announcement on the ED game's future, hoping we won't be still waiting after six months like we are for the news of his fourth game.
10:12 mark4231: czeck, I'm confident that the interim financial results will be fantastic. What the share price does in reaction I'm not going to predict, been wrong too many times - I was expecting the share price to rocket on the recent trading update but it didn't. I'm personally happy with FDEV's financial PR but your perspective is very relevant rar100 as the lack of news has contributed to the recent share price fall I'm sure. It's only long term holders like me who remembers the news and the potential therein from, say, a year ago and have the patience to wait for it to come to fruition. Related to that article and the mention of the PS5. I see the new consoles as a great opportunity for FDEV. Planet Coaster isn't on the consoles for performance reasons, I believe, so hopefully it or similar games can be released for the new consoles too. JWE feels like a console game even on the PC - it will be nice if the two platforms are much closer in style.
11:52 rar100: czeck & nimbo, Thanks to both for your input. According to ii (my inv. platform)FDEV are rated number 1 on AIM all shares for liquidity. A (googled) definition of liquidity is too much cash that could be used elsewhere and also means that a stock can be traded without those trades affecting the share price. The whole world markets are still pretty volatile and depressed imho with short term uplifts, a bit better than October but stuttering on a meaningful retrace to somewhere approaching pre-October levels. The fundamentals for FDEV may be ok (I don't know if they are)but the numbers in isolation don't make it an attractive buy imho. Mello is a chance for FDEV to reassure investors if there is scope to do this, ie, that if they know good numbers that we/the world don't, it's time to state them to stop the rot. 5th June share price was 1825 thanks to JWE hype (I'm not condemning the hype) , since then a few bits of news on updates but nothing to make the markets sit up and take notice imho. I think there are sells to take some profit made not so long back to put into other stocks before those profits are shrunk more by the continuing fall in share price If I was in profit that's what I would do right now. So hopefully good forward guidance at Mello!
11:42 endion: Great points there Nimbo1. I imagine that lansdown have been in for a while now and are sitting on a fair amount of profit. It could be that as Fdev share price increases, it crosses a threshold for how much a % of stock they are allowed to make up their portfolio. I've seen it on other stocks, where II's sell down as the share price rises to limit their portfolio exposure.
11:54 mark4231: Yes, quite possible China regulators/Tencent news has affected FDEV today - perhaps unfairly as China not a big market for FDEV at the moment I think (unless China potential built into the share price?). FDEV share price seems quite resilient at this level, famous last words. FY18 results statement on Wednesday.
08:31 hastings: Last month I went along to the opening of the new Frontier HQ and subsequently wrote the piece below. I was in two minds as to whether to post those thoughts here, wondering if there would prove enough of interest. Anyway, suffice to say I'm giving it a go, not least as a few people now have asked if I would do so and I have updated a couple of aspects in the write up. Hopefully, it may prove of interest to others and I will be following up in due course with another piece, most likely for the Cambridge News business section once again. No questions on the below though please, I'll leave others to stick to their own conclusions, which I know do differ! ---Shareholders in Frontier Developments can perhaps be forgiven for being somewhat mystified by the recent drop in it's share price, which comes on the back of a raft of positive news. The shares, which not too long ago hit £18.00, have recently retraced sharply to a current £10.50p. Hopefully, the majority of those who who have been following the Frontier story as long as I have remain well into profit, although some may understandably have elected to take a bit off the table. So, what is behind this recent rout that has seen various theories touted around on the likes of the ADVFN message board thread, which includes the notion that Frontier has been eyeing a placing. Fortunately, I recently took up an invite to attend the official opening of Frontiers new HQ on the Cambridge Science Park, which proved ideal to catch up with CEO David Braben, CFO Alex Bevis and the man spearheading the animation Jonny Watts, who has been with the company twenty odd years now. For me, as I was with a Cambrdige News colleague who was conducting the interview work on the day it presented an ideal opportunity to mingle with some of the 380 workforce that are now housed in this massively impressive building and who were enjoying the sun with cold beers, ice creams, burgers and pitza's. The atmosphere was very much akin to a carnival, the ambiance one of enjoyable enthusiasm, where some undoubtedly happy looking people took time out to enjoy the afternoon, as Mr Braben prepared to cut the ribbon, If this all sounds a bit too good to believe and appears to by-pass the issue that is burning for some holders, let me return to the matter in hand, as I asked Alex Bevis directly about the recent share price activity. Bevis explained that they were made aware that there had been a short in place, which although nothing of great size was nevertheless unwelcome, but that it is all part of the market. There had also been a bit of selling from a few very long term holders who had decided to take something off the table so to speak, which is of course nothing different than the rest of us would do. Frontier I suspect would most certainly come out and say something if anything was untoward and on that front, everything looks as positive as the recent news has conveyed, the key players here all sounding very upbeat. My own view is perhaps the share price and market cap did get a bit ahead of itself providing for that short, whilst the recent retrace has probably fueled some retail profit taking too. That said, let us get this right, in that this is no loss making blue sky jam tomorrow stock, rather, it is a quality fast growing, cash generative and profitable company with big aspirations for the future. Bevis again reiterates that as annoying as the recent fall is, they are very much looking to the long term and delivering on their business plan and that is all going very well. He points out the respected Oppenheimer Funds recent upping its stake and adds that there are other funds out there who are now sitting up and taking notice of the company as things progress further. Presumably retail shareholders are also taking a similar view, although again, eyeing some of the posts on ADVFN it would appear a few are attempting to trade FDEV, which given the limited free float appears a dangerous exercise. For the record here, I have taken a contrary opinion to the recent market trend and now averaged up, buying some further shares that has taken my average closer to the £2.00p mark. Not a hard decision for me to make, particularly as the shares now stand on forward PER of circa 24 which may well prove conservative given the most recent excellent news. Braben told me in between talking about gardens and the bumps on the Cam that he is absolutely delighted with the recent JWE numbers which he says is an absolute testament to an excellent team. And what good reading those numbers make, blowing the early forecasts for this game out of the water. Remember, the brokers originally penciled in around a million unit sales for the whole year on the JWE game before upgrading that more recently to 1.8m. In both cases, particularly the first, I wrote previously in the Cambridge News that I thought they were conservative and that Frontier could surpass these by a margin. So, the revelation that it had already achieved 1 million sales in just five weeks is an amazing result. Let's put that into some kind of context, where both Elite Dangerous and Planet Coaster took more than 9 months to achieve the same figure. Of course, JWE was launched in conjunction with the film, so naturally one would expect a decent enough result. However, the number has clearly surpassed Frontiers and the brokers expectations which translates into circa £40m of revenue already being booked in just a matter of weeks. Liberum had estimated in its last upgrade £59m of sales for JWE being achieved in the full year, which also now looks low with plenty of time ahead to ramp up further. Although historically summer is not the best of times for game sales, kids will no doubt have been visiting cinemas across the globe through the peak holiday period/s which taking in the new Jurassic film should have further fueled the interest in JWE. Then, we have the Christmas period to come, which is the real stellar time for the sector, providing for plenty of potential going forward. Looking back to last month the latest game remained on Steam's platinum best seller list which must surely bode very well for the remainder of the year. The third franchise aside, the other two are also continuing to perform well with Elite Dangerous now in its fourth year having enjoyed a record year in revenue which further proves that the model of building longevity within these games truly works. Having enjoyed an extensive tour around the building it is clear that Braben and co are building a seriously big operation here, with aspirations of surpassing its current accepted position as the UK's number one gaming company into a global major. 380 people are housed in this new ultra modern building and there is ample room to house a further 150 on a floor that at present is empty. Bevis says that they could easily have leased this out to another party if they had wished, but given they are aggressively recruiting, the preferred option is to keep it ready for its own use. Braben also tells me that acquisitions are very much on the horizon as they are now generating ample cash that can be put to good use to further drive growth. Just what form that may take is anyone's guess, but suffice to say, whatever Frontier buys will have been well thought out and will be a benefit to its growth strategy. I also had to attempt to tease a bit more out of David on the WeGame platform developed by Frontiers major shareholder TenCent which has been described as a forthcoming rival to Steam. The CEO understandably wouldn't be drawn, but my reading from speaking with him is that Frontiers games will in due course be available on this platform which would provide for a further opening to the massive Chinese market. Pleasingly, Braben tells me that its games could sell on both platforms without any conflict, which is good news going forward. Importantly though, it is worth noting the company's wider comments to me in that they are happy to add that China is already very big for them. They go on to point out that it is already doing very well in China via the Steam platform, where China features as the no.2 and no.3 country for Planet Coaster and Jurassic World Evolution respectively. Wegame is therefore an interesting incremental channel into China and clearly not a first entry point. Having taken the tour it is a truly impressive set up where all aspects of the games development to completion and sales are able to interact under one roof. There is even an extremely very smart sound proof studio room where the Dinosaur roars can be perfected and other sounds tweaked for perfection. Then there is the Space Bar, where staff chill out alongside an excellently equipped canteen, the people that work at Frontier certainly being well looked after. Talking of the next franchise all the key players sing from the same hymn sheet in that they will announce this when the timing is absolutely right. There is no hint of any delays as some on ADVFN have hinted, more I would hazzard a guess, that the company is perhaps only permitted to announce when its partner such as Universal with JWE is also comfortable to go. More importantly, Watts says they have an extensive pipeline in place which will keep the ball rolling on, new games coming through supported by the existing one's that continue to evolve and generate serious revenues. I would expect another upgrade to come through in the coming months as it really looks given the revelation last months numbers that forecasts will be surpassed. It is certainly not fanciful to see the current top end 2019 total revenues of £88m being beaten and heading closer to £100m, which in turn would deliver increased profits and EPS that would then come out close to say 50p. The latter figure would bring the PER down to 20 at the current price, a figure that looks highly attractive for a fast growing cash generative and cash rich play with a bright future. Back to the fourth franchise, it looks via the broker/s very much as though we will hear something firm on this front early next year which will then be followed by a further three to four games in subsequent years. This would, within two/three or four years provide for repeatable revenues in excess of £100m per year, which will most likely be boosted by complementary revenue streams. It is easy for some investors to get hung up on the daily swings and movement in relation to the share price, particularly if you bought at a higher price. But, the Frontier story is only just beginning to gather momentum and with more games and new initiatives set to follow through, it may prove wise to sit back and take a more long term view. Braben is very relaxed and rightly points out that when JWE was released, within a few weeks people were eagerly asking what the next game will be and that was before those excellent JWE numbers were released. At present, the markets are somewhat choppy and growth stocks that have enjoyed a good run are often the first in the firing line for a pullback. That may however provide a good entry point for those looking to invest for the first time, or, as I have done, top up at what I view as an oversold level in the bigger picture.
18:50 endion: What time was the almost million sell? I dont see it reoprted on lse, it may be delayed. I thought Id share a post from a user called MB60 over on lse, he had some interesting points on the share price movement at the time which is still relevant: "I think there are a few questions that need an answer .... Why did FDEV sign up a joint broker in August 2017? Were they unhappy with Finncap and as of now which of these two brokers are are advising Frontier on the SP, and it seems strange that Finncap is the only broker mentioned here hxxp://tools.morningstar.co.uk/uk/stockreport/default.aspx?tab=6&vw=ad&SecurityToken=0P0000Z4JZ%5D3%5D0%5DE0WWE%24%24ALL&Id=0P0000Z4JZ&ClientFund=0&CurrencyId=BAS Quote from https://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/news/market-news/market-news-detail/FDEV/13329774.html "Frontier Developments plc (AIM: FDEV, "Frontier"), a leading independent creator and publisher of video games, is pleased to announce the appointment of Liberum Capital Limited ("Liberum") as its Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker with immediate effect." I also think you have to figure out who the winners and losers are (or have been over the past 6 weeks) Before I go to far I still think the current fair value of the share price is somewhere between 1300-1400 So the winners so far are BennBridge https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/10471141/persons-with-significant-control and who ever is handling the share price (Finncap) they make money on volume and volume has been pretty good since mid May, and that includes day trading and those 'after hour' (closed door) trades As for those pesky 'day time' small trades .... my guess is either they are the small reward or loss on split second larger day trades, or BenBridge has discovered that if they keep pounding the the share price with as many trades as they can the share price simply breaks. (it has to recalculate it's value on every trade and if someone is messing with the spread then of course the value will change) Another possible ...I'm also guessing the 'shorter' is trying to put 'fear' (or confusion) into the share price ... they are trying to get investors to sell (by choice rather than stop loss) since it seems most of the stop losses have been used up. Remember Shorters will use every trick in the book to drag the share price down."
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Ed Starink (born Eduward A. J. Starink on 17 December 1952 in Apeldoorn), also known as Star Inc., is a Dutch composer, arranger, session musician and record producer. He is best known for his albums in which he cover versioned different hits, film and television themes, which were released under the Arcade record label and his Star Inc. Music label.

Biography
Eduward A.J. Starink was born on 17 December 1952 in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. Since his childhood he was fascinated by music and taught himself to play many musical instruments like the piano, flute and guitar. Later he would study classical piano and composition. During his studies, he worked for several major recording studios in the Netherlands. As a keyboardist he was engaged to accompany the Beach Boys on the Hammond organ, and also to play keyboards for David Bowie. In 1965, he played guitar, bass and piano in small bands and in 1970 he formed the group Gamma, composed the music and played the synthesizer EMS Synthi AKS in it. Starink graduated in 1976, later giving his own Music Academy lectures. In 1981 released their debut album, Cristallin influenced primarily by Maurice Ravel and in 1983 he bought the Fairlight CMI-2 and composed the "Big Brother Suite", inspired by George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four book. In that same year, he released his next album Syndrome.

In 1989, Starink co-operated with Arcade Records, and released an estimated of 30 albums of which his best known series is Synthesizer Greatest, which succeeded mainly in the European market. His first album of this series was released in that same year and peaked at No. 22 in the UK Albums Chart. On 7 October 1989 it released its sequel Synthesizer Greatest Volume 2. His 1993 album Synthesizer Greatest Gold reached at No. 29. Japanese electronic composer Isao Tomita greatly influenced his technical approach to synthesizers, among his other influences are Mozart, Bach, Scriabin and Wendy Carlos. In 1991, Ed remixed his older analog recordings in his new digital studio for the "Retrospection" album. Also he composed the main theme for the Dutch comedy film "De Zeemeerman" (1996). By 1998, Starink released "The Surround Experience" albums with many of his previous works remixed in Dolby Surround and moved with their studio to the Southern France.

From 2002 to 2003 he began to compose and research for a Universe Symphony project, in 2004 he changed his Dolby Surround for a Dolby Digital 5.1. that he would use to record the first songs of his project. In 2005 he used software synthesizers and other plugins for Logic Pro 7. By 2006 he finished pre-recording Of a total of 500 songs and began refining these basic recordings into fully orchestrated pieces, later that year he would compose a total of 1,200. In 2008 he abandoned his usual hardware equipment to focus entirely on a computerized studio. In May 2012 he released the recordings of the first part of their project entitled The Piano Works. The following year he began with the arrangements and orchestration of the second part of his project titled The Orchestral Works.

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It's been an excellent crop of new releases for Grand Seiko, and hiding amidst a healthy assortment of models came this gem — the yellow gold SBGY002. Using a new hand-winding 9R31 Spring Drive movement with a power reserve of 72 hours, the new piece mates a variation of the brand's iconic Snowflake dial with a more traditional and slender dress watch casing. Coming in north of $25K, it's obviously a different beast to the classic Snowflake model; however, the new piece is yet another example of how Grand Seiko just isn't pulling any punches when it comes to delivering impeccable design, finishing, and attention to detail when compared to any of their Swiss competition.
This piece is one of four new models in the same vein; it is flanked by a pair of platinum-cased models at the upper register, and a more restrained steel model at the other end of the spectrum. All four models were launched as part of Grand Seiko's celebration of the 20th anniversary of Spring Drive. While our topic at hand (as well as the steel model) are manufactured in the Shinshu Watch Studio, where all other Spring Drive watches are made, the platinum models are built in the Micro Artist Studio in the same complex. In the case of these Micro Artist Studio watches, dials, hands and other components are all manufactured and finished under the same roof. This is also where complex creations, like the Credor Minute Repeater, are built, among other things.
Back to the watch at hand, the biggest talking point here is the development of its 9R31 movement. Based on the 9R02 that powers the new platinum models, the calibre forgoes a new trick "torque return system" that its big brother uses to extend its power reserve to eight days, in favour of a slightly less complex execution to keep costs and complexity in check. It still uses a pair of mainspring barrels, as well as a small power reserve indicator on its movement bridge. Differentiating the two calibres when viewed from the "business end", the cover of the mainspring barrel is decorated with cutouts resembling a flower on the 9R02, and its mainplate/movement bridge is split into two large sections rather than a single piece for the 9R31. Being a Spring Drive calibre, you're still looking at an impeccable accuracy specification of within one second a day, and thanks to not using a self-winding rotor, the movement is able to pack into a modestly sized 10.2mm-thick case that measures 38.5mm across.
Good as those case proportions look on paper, this thing is an absolute hero on the wrist. I've always adored the execution of Grand Seiko hands and dials, but mating those features to a slender dress watch case is an absolute home run. Granted there's something to be said for the chunky and casual vibe of the classic SBGA211 Snowflake model, but even with the same dial texture, the two models are so vastly different when seen in the metal. That said, as cool as it would have been, there's good reason that Grand Seiko didn't cannibalise sales of the original Snowflake by offering this dial variant in a steel case. Given that this introductory anniversary model is limited to only 700 pieces, we will be curious to see if other Snowflake-dialled models (or any other elaborate dials for that matter) appear in steel cases in the years to come.


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New York City/Roosevelt Island News
Roosevelt Landings Sale Tops $1.1 Billion
Roosevelt Landings sale tops $1.1 billion as L+M Fund Management takes over the lease for the largest of the original WIRE buildings. With RIOC's approval, the deal closes on Wednesday, October 23rd.
Roosevelt Landings, as Eastwood, the "E" in WIRE reclaims community values.
A return to affordability is in the works, and maybe a name change too. A return to "Eastwood" is possible, and it will increase affordable options.
As renters aided by government subsidies left the buildings, Eastwood's open market ate up the vacant apartments. It's now at 45%, but that's changing.
L+M promises that "67% of the residential units of Roosevelt Landings will be preserved at rents, set between 80% – 150% of AMI for newly rented units. "
And not just that, but future rent increases for market rate apartments are "tied to Rent Guideline Board increases until such tenant vacates the unit."
That stems the ten-year tide of skyrocketing increases.
The Roosevelt Landings sale tops $1.1 billion, but what's in it for RIOC?
The price is $1,160,000,000 to transfer interest on the Eastwood lease to L+M. A formula yields a $1,788,429.73 transaction payment to RIOC.
A key piece making this possible is that Eastwood property taxes freeze at $6,409,969. That's the current rate, and it stays for the lifetime of the lease.
Happening fast, the $1.16 billion lease deal closes on Wednesday, this week, but L+M is already on the case.
Already aware of roof and exterior repairs, they plan to meet with tenants and learn more. But L+M wants stability. Public spaces are up for review, but "We want everyone to stay."
That's good news for the Senior Center and others contributing cultural benefits to Roosevelt Island.
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Deep dive behind the $1.1 billion Eastwood deal…
We reported earlier…
The inspiration behind a move from market rate to affordability, opposite current trends, is the dusting off of a "1960s-era city tax exemption program," according to a more responsible report in the Wall Street Journal.
Article XI, according to the Journal, "allows the city to negotiate individual deals with property owners, where the city seeks to balance the cost of lost tax revenue with the benefit of rents set at no more than 30% of median income for renter households who meet specific income limits."
But while that applies to the other four complexes in the sale, it does not apply to Roosevelt Landings because it falls under State authority.
L+M
Roosevelt Landings
WIRE buildings
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Once we decide to lose weight, many of us head to the grocery store looking for items labelled low-fat, light, diet or fat-free.
We all know that a high-fat diet can lead to weight gain, however it takes more than just eating low-fat foods to lose weight.
It's about finding a way to manage the calories we consume versus the calories we use.
Many people who choose low-fat foods are unaware that some described as having no or low fat, have usually had the fat replaced with sugars or thickeners. It's also important to note that any consumed calories that don't get used will be turned into fat stores, regardless of whether they come from fats or carbohydrates.
Most adults should get between 20 per cent and 35 per cent of their total daily calories from fat; our bodies require the good fats (unsaturated and polyunsaturated) to function properly.
The problem is that foods that are high in saturated fats also contain trans fats. Excess consumption of these foods that contain "bad fats" may lead to high cholesterol, high blood pressure and heart-related diseases.
It's very important to read the ingredients' label and not just trust the marketing claims on the front of the packaging.
Look at the serving size and how many servings you are actually eating. Four hundred or more calories per serving of a single food item is high.
Look at the calories on the label and compare them with the nutrients they offer.
Foods with added sugars may provide calories, but few essential nutrients.
Read the ingredient list and make sure added sugars are not one of the first few ingredients.
Look for foods low in saturated and trans fats and cholesterol, to help reduce the risk of heart disease. Most of the fats you eat should be polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats such as those found in fish, nuts and vegetable oils.
Better yet, try to consume fruits, vegetables, whole grains and beans, nuts and seeds, meat, eggs and dairy — foods that occur in nature. Let's try and rethink our choices this week when grabbing something to eat.
Just because it's low fat doesn't mean it's healthy.
Let's make better choices and B-Active For Life!


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Welcome to the organization @SyndaKyt!
Dillon Sneed is that dude. I love him. He's playing really well. Disappointed I don't have enough talent around him yet.
Hey sorry guys, I've been away on vacation the past week or so. Will have last week and this week's imperialism up sometime soon.
Did you get us gifts?
This has never been true in any season before this. And even if they did, the points aren't causing the pipeline/host camp/or team needs bonuses.
Good game @TheLiberator. Really exciting game, you almost came back.
TCU could very well have run a balanced scheme in this game. I've run balanced a lot and sometimes have thrown 40 passes in a game. Remember TCU was down for most of the game, so they're artificially going to pass more. If he was running a vertical scheme, I would be there would have been even more passing. Now I could be completely wrong, but Danger said he was more balanced in the shoutbox compared to last year and I'm inclined to believe him. You can question his personnel usage, but that's more of an indictment on his recruiting and just recruiting the highest potential guys instead of recruiting for a specific scheme. Granted I think we're all guilty of this to a degree, because we have to recruit what we're given, but imo that's what caused the questionable coaching decisions, because he's trying too hard to get his top players on the field instead of rolling with a scheme.
I knew something didn't look right. This makes a lot more sense now lol.


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Charles Darwin inferred nearly 200 years ago that seamounts (submarine volcanoes) 100 meters or so below present sea level were islands during the ice ages when a vast amount of water was sequestered as ice in the continental glaciers of the northern hemisphere. The coral reefs surrounding those ancient islands were able to grow fast enough to remain at or near the sea surface as the sea level rose gradually during the melting of the ice. This surmise nicely accounts for the atolls and their lagoons that persist.
I read Darwin's Origin of Species in 1938 and have been eagerly awaiting confirmation of his suggestion about the origin of atolls. Obviously this can be done by drilling 100 meters into these coral structures to reveal the underlying volcanic rocks. In recent decades several such holes have been drilled obtaining volcanic rocks in each instance.
The Origin of Species is the only ground-breaking scientific treatise ever written for the general public. Its entire first printing of 500,000 copies was sold in a few months. I was privileged to stumble on it as my "personal" textbook of biology at age 14 three years before taking an academic biology course. In preparation for writing this brief article, I searched The Origin of Species where the origin of atolls was explained. I was amazed to find only the following brief mention as part of a discussion of such temporary islands that may have been used as "halting places" during migrations of plants and animals across oceans en route to establishing life on newly formed islands for example, Hawaii. Here is the entire quotation exactly as Darwin wrote it:
"… I frankly admit the former existence of many islands, now buried under the sea, which may have served as halting places for plants and for many animals during their migration. In the coral producing oceans such sunken islands are now marked, as I believe, by rings of coral or atolls standing over them……"
Summary: Darwin's book has provided me with many insights for understanding our world and even its many small details are interesting—how else could I have remembered his brief, casual mention of how atolls arise? My source of Darwin's book for the quotation was The Cook Islands Library and Museum in Avarua. I have written more about evolutionary biology which is available on www.frantzmd.info Look in the website under the category Other Science and Technology for the article entitled "An open Letter to the Surgeon General (evolutionary biology)".
John A. Frantz, Global Volunteer, The Cook Islands, November 25, 2006
See also < www.globalvolunteers.org >


In this 1 hour TV special of the popular series Cyberchase, Motherboard sends the Cybersquad into Ecotopia to investigate where a mysterious slime came from. They soon realize that many of the animals of the Cybersite have lost their homes due to the slime and in order to fix this, they must install a new preserve and format it in a way that the animals can live comfortably. With new friend Ollie, they use an ark to relocate the animals to the new preserve and save Ollie's mom Abby & Dr. Marbles from Hacker and his henchmen Buzz & Delete.


The best kind of Batman sequel debuts at Baselworld.
Back in February, we described SIHH, the event where many watch brands tee up their releases for the year, the 'Coachella of Watches.' If that's true, than Baselworld would be like if somehow Woodstock '69 were resurrected (wait a second…). Baselworld, held every year in...Basel, is traditionally the place where watchmakers announce their most exciting upcoming releases and it's living up to that reputation so far. This year, Patek Phillippe is showing the entirety of its range—from gorgeous, John Mayer co-signed pieces to sport-ready ones—and Rolex is debuting watches that will be well worth their several-year waiting lists.
Baselworld isn't just about the watch world's biggest players, though. Smaller brands have like Oris and Zodiac have come out swinging with beautiful ways of their own to keep time. The whole medley makes for a combination worth gawking at for hours. With two days in the books, let's do just that with seven of our favorite watches from the show so far.
You can almost hear the theme music, right? Duna duna duna duna duna duna… This particular GMT, with its two-tone black-and-blue bezel, is affectionately known as the 'Batman.' (I've also heard it referred to as the 'Bruise' but Batman is a lot more fun.) It's not the watch we deserve right now, but it's definitely the one we need! The GMT-Master is an all-time classic watch that Rolex has the good sense to just keep rereleasing. Last year at Baselworld, the brand put out almost the same model, but in the iconic red-and-blue 'Pepsi' colorway—and now, people are expected to wait for years on a waiting list before they actually get that watch. So put up the Bat Signal now if you want to see Rolex's latest release sometime before 2025.
First things first: the Oris Great Barrier Reef is a gorgeous watch. The aqua-blue colorway glows at the center before giving way to the 20,000-leagues-under-the-sea darkness towards the outer edges of the bezel—stunning, yes, but also befitting a dive watch. The added wrinkle is that this dive watch is trying to make things better for, well, divers. For this release, Oris partnered with the Reef Restoration Foundation, an organization trying to rebuild the Great Barrier Reef by replanting patches of it.
As far as we know, this is one of the only watches of the bunch officially co-signed by timepiece enthusiast and world-famous musician John Mayer. "It's a winner," he wrote underneath an image of the watch posted to Instagram. "The typography is brilliant. I've never seen handwritten letters on a watch." (He added a clapping emoji for good measure.) I'm not John Mayer, but what I appreciate about Patek, and this watch in particular, is that it seems to exist in a universe where the internet and smartphones don't exist. The brand is still innovating in the underappreciated art of displaying the time and date. This is a watch that will make you never want to dig into your pocket for a phone again.
Patek Philippe is most closely associated with the kind of pretty, elegant watches that look as comfortable in a jewelry box as on a wrist. But this Aquanut, Patek's version of a sport watch, looks tough—the color way might be described as We Melted Down a Bunch of Toy Army Soldiers And Here's What We Got. Some have already taken to calling it the Grenade, which rules. The rubber strap and rugged colorway actually belies the watch's preciousness, though. While most sport watches come in stainless steel, Patek Phillipe dressed up this Aquanut in solid white gold.
Mayer also digs this one. "The watch/strap combo that inspired @patekphilippe to release the 5168g 'khaki,'" he wrote in the caption of an Instagram post on Hodinkee. "The satin-like dial finish, along with the travel time feature, means this configuration still stands on its own two feet. We love to see it." Indeed we do.
If years-long waiting lists and near-$10,000 price tags aren't your thing, Zodiac released a GMT model in a more adventurous set of colors. The tasty orange and blue bezel, officially called the 'Gulf' colorway after the Gulf Oil company that put the same color combination to use, looks like something that might perfectly top off an ice cream cone—or a wrist for that matter.
Seiko is re-releasing its classic Prospex, a watch that originally came out in 1970. This big honking 45mm watch is technically a diver but looks so indestructible it would be right at home on the battlefield. Maybe that's because it was, on the wrist of Martin Sheen's character Captain Willard in Apocalypse Now. The movie put the watch in the spotlight and is now known among collectors as simply the "Willard." If big chunky watches were on trend in the 70s, modern fashion dictates that we should be rounding back to those aesthetic preferences right about now. Fittingly, this watch, in all of its sumo-sized glory, slots right in with our big baggy pants and puffed-up Balenciaga Triple S sneakers.


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Bödeker ist der Familienname folgender Personen:

 Erich Bödeker (1904–1971), deutscher naiver Künstler

 Franz Heinrich Bödeker (1836–1917), deutscher Lithograf, Steindrucker und Fotograf in Hildesheim
 Friedrich Bödeker (1867–1937), deutscher Handwerker und Kakteenforscher
 Hans Erich Bödeker (* 1944), deutscher Historiker
 Hermann Wilhelm Bödeker (1799–1875), deutscher evangelischer Pastor
 Paul Bödeker (* 1952), bremischer Politiker (CDU)
 Petra Bödeker-Schoemann (* 1956), deutsche Landespolitikerin (GAL)
 Ralf Bödeker (* 1958), deutscher Fußballspieler

Siehe auch:
 Boedeker
 Bödecker
 Böddeker
 Böddecker


I am always looking for lightweight earrings and it's great when you can find them in a larger size.
This great looking gold toned fashion earring is 2" in diameter and is intricately structured.
The outer section is hole punched with brass ultra fine mesh strung across.
In the middle are three rows of beads with added dangle beads on the bottom.
If you're looking for a larger sized statement earring, this one is fabulous!
I am always looking for lightweight earrings and it's great when you can find them in a larger size. This great looking gold toned fashion earring is 2" in diameter and is intricately structured. The outer section is hole punched with brass ultra fine mesh strung across. In the middle are three rows of beads with added dangle beads on the bottom. If you're looking for a larger sized statement earring, this one is fabulous!


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Q: jasper reports barcode using style-Barcode I am trying to use barcode in JasperReports for which I am using the barcode4j jar.
The jars that i am using are:

*

*barcode4j-2.0.jar

*commons-beanutils.jar

*commons-codec-1.6.jar

*commons-collections.jar

*commons-digester-2.0.jar

*commons-lang-2.0.jar

*commons-logging.jar

*commons-net-1.2.2.jar

*commons-validator.jar

*db2jcc.jar

*db2jcc_license_cu.jar

*itext-2.1.7.jar

*jasperreports-4.5.0.jar

*log4j-1.2.8.jar

*poi-3.8-20120326.jar

The jrxml file content where I am using barcode is as given below:
<title>
    <band height="125">
        <frame>
            <reportElement x="0" y="0" width="555" height="40" />
            <componentElement>
                <reportElement style="Barcode" x="5" y="5" width="400" height="30"/>
                <c:Code39 xmlns:c="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports/components"    xsi:schemaLocation="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports/components    http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/xsd/components.xsd">
                    <c:codeExpression>$F{OPA_ACK_NO_PK}</c:codeExpression>
                </c:Code39>
            </componentElement>
        </frame>
    </band>
</title>

But I am getting the following error:
net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRRuntimeException: Could not resolve style(s): Barcode4j
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillObjectFactory.checkUnresolvedReferences(JRFillObjectFactory.java:1577)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillObjectFactory.setStyles(JRFillObjectFactory.java:1504)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRBaseFiller.loadStyles(JRBaseFiller.java:912)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRBaseFiller.fill(JRBaseFiller.java:804)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRBaseFiller.fill(JRBaseFiller.java:746)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFiller.fillReport(JRFiller.java:58)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperFillManager.fillReport(JasperFillManager.java:417)
at Report.Test.main(Test.java:162)

Please guide me as to what am I doing wrong?
After removing the comment for Barcode style tag, i got rid of that error and got another exception:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/batik/bridge/UserAgent
    at net.sf.jasperreports.components.barcode4j.BarcodeSVGImageProducer.createImage(BarcodeSVGImageProducer.java:69)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.components.barcode4j.BarcodeFillComponent.setBarcodeImage(BarcodeFillComponent.java:149)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.components.barcode4j.BarcodeFillComponent.fill(BarcodeFillComponent.java:113)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillComponentElement.fill(JRFillComponentElement.java:148)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillElementContainer.fillElements(JRFillElementContainer.java:570)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillFrame.fill(JRFillFrame.java:276)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillElementContainer.fillElements(JRFillElementContainer.java:570)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillBand.fill(JRFillBand.java:406)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillBand.fill(JRFillBand.java:352)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRVerticalFiller.fillTitle(JRVerticalFiller.java:323)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRVerticalFiller.fillReportStart(JRVerticalFiller.java:257)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRVerticalFiller.fillReport(JRVerticalFiller.java:128)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRBaseFiller.fill(JRBaseFiller.java:836)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRBaseFiller.fill(JRBaseFiller.java:746)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFiller.fillReport(JRFiller.java:58)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperFillManager.fillReport(JasperFillManager.java:417)
    at Report.Test.main(Test.java:169)

I added the required batik, crimson, xerces and xercesImpl jars. But I am getting the following error:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalAccessError: tried to access method org.apache.batik.bridge.ViewBox.getPreserveAspectRatioTransform([FSZFF)Ljava/awt/geom/AffineTransform; from class net.sf.jasperreports.renderers.BatikRenderer
    at net.sf.jasperreports.renderers.BatikRenderer.render(BatikRenderer.java:123)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter.exportImage(JRPdfExporter.java:1405)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter.exportElements(JRPdfExporter.java:757)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter.exportFrame(JRPdfExporter.java:2554)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter.exportElements(JRPdfExporter.java:765)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter.exportPage(JRPdfExporter.java:721)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter.exportReportToStream(JRPdfExporter.java:635)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter.exportReport(JRPdfExporter.java:383)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperExportManager.exportReportToPdfFile(JasperExportManager.java:122)
    at Report.Test.main(Test.java:172)

A: You should add library batik-bridge:
<dependency>
    <groupId>batik</groupId>
    <artifactId>batik-bridge</artifactId>
    <version>1.6-1</version>
</dependency>

A: Yesterday i had exactly the same problem, i succeded to resolve it by using:
        <componentElement>
            <reportElement x="311" y="166" width="180" height="10"/>
            <jr:barbecue xmlns:jr="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports/components" xsi:schemaLocation="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports/components http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/xsd/components.xsd" type="Code39 (Extended)" drawText="false" checksumRequired="false">
                <jr:codeExpression><![CDATA[$P{barcode}]]></jr:codeExpression>
            </jr:barbecue>
        </componentElement>

A: For me adding batik-bridge with below dependency to project pom.xml worked:
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.xmlgraphics</groupId>
    <artifactId>batik-bridge</artifactId>
    <version>1.9.1</version>
</dependency>

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It's the first time Pittsburgh will partake in the outdoor festivities since 2011. The Pens are 1-1-0 all-time in Winter Classics, winning the first one in 2008 over the Sabres and losing in 2011 to the Capitals. Where is the 2023 Winter Classic? Venue: Fenway Park Location: Boston, Mass. The 2023 Winter Classic will be played at Fenway Park, home of the MLB's Boston Red Sox. It is the first time that the NHL is repeating a venue for the Winter Classic. Fenway Park was the home of the 2010 Winter Classic when the Bruins hosted the Flyers. It is the third time that Boston is hosting the event.
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NHL Winter Classic live stream: How to watch Bruins vs. Penguins without cable in 2023The NHL is back at Fenway Park this year, as the historic ballpark is the home of the 2023 Winter Classic. The two teams are very familiar with the annual outdoor game, as the Bruins and Penguins are the participating squads in the event. It is the fourth Winter Classic for Boston and the third for Pittsburgh. There will be no shortage of star power at the game, with Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin on one side against Patrice Bergeron, Brad Marchand and David Pastrnak on the other. Here is how fans can watch the 2023 Winter Classic without cable.
The Bruins have been the NHL's best team since the start of the season and sit atop the standings with a 28-4-4 record. The Penguins have lost four straight games but still occupy the first wild card playoff spot in the Eastern Conference standings. Which team will earn two important points and earn forever bragging rights? Here's the information you need to enjoy the 2023 Winter Classic on Monday. When is the Winter Classic being played? The Winter Classic has often been played on New Year's Day, but this season's game will happen on Monday, Jan.
In addition to 2010, the Bruins faced the Canadiens in the 2016 Winter Classic at Gillette Stadium, home of the Patriots. 2023 Winter Classic jerseys The jerseys are one of the best parts of the Winter Classic, as teams design specific sweaters for the event. The Bruins and Penguins revealed their 2023 Winter Classic jerseys in late November. — BarDown (@BarDown) November 25, 2022 Boston is utilizing one of the team's previous bear logos, commonly known as the "Meth Bear", as its primary logo.
This will be the Bruins' fourth Winter Classic appearance and first since 2019. They are 2-1 in these games, including a 2-1 overtime win against the Philadelphia Flyers in the 2010 Winter Classic at Fenway Park. The Penguins are 1-1 in this event, including an exciting shootout victory over the Buffalo Sabres in the first ever Winter Classic back in 2008.
Here's a look at our full-body Winter Classic threads 💯 pic. com/N4zC6j2e3I — Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) December 2, 2022 Winter Classic odds Moneyline: Bruins -188 | Penguins +157 Puckline: Bruins -1. 5 (+142) | Penguins +1. 5 (-170) O/U: 6 The Bruins are the favorite to win the Winter Classic, according to Sports Interaction. Previous Winter Classic locations The Winter Classic has been around since 2008, with the exception of 2021 as the league did not have the event due to the delayed start of the season with the COVID-19 pandemic. In total, 13 different stadiums have been used. Seven have been MLB fields, three have been NFL stadiums and three have been college football venues.
Live Stream Of Game Tonightby Staff Writer / Pittsburgh Penguins The Penguins will provide a live stream of tonight's pre-season game between the Penguins and Toronto Maple Leafs on www. pittsburghpenguins. com Game time is 7:30 p. m. at Mellon Arena. Fans will be able to watch the raw jumbotron feed of the game (no announcers). Because of NHL video regulations, the game will be available only to viewers in the Pittsburgh region. Tonight's game is the third pre-season game in five days for the Penguins, as they prepare for their season-opening trip to Stockholm, Sweden. The Penguins split a home-and-home series with the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday and Monday. The Penguins will close out the NHL portion of their pre-season schedule Friday against the Leafs at Toronto. They will then board a plane to Stockholm on Saturday.
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How to stream the 2023 Winter Classic Live Stream (U. S. ): TNT App, Sling TV, DirecTV Live Stream (Canada): SN NOW Streaming options are available on TNT App, Sling TV, and DirecTV in the United States. Select NHL games on TNT will be available to stream in the United States. In total, 62 regular-season games will be shown on TNT and its networks, including doubleheaders on Wednesday nights. Those games can be streamed through a TV subscription in the TNT app and available on Sling TV. Sling TV offers NHL fans the ability to have access to more than 60 percent of the league's nationally televised games which can be streamed on TNT, ESPN and the NHL Network for the best price. In addition, those in Canada can stream the action on SN NOW. How to watch the 2023 Winter Classic on TV TV Channel (U.
The bear head was used as a shoulder patch for the team's jerseys starting in the 1976-77 season and was a part of the uniform until 1995. Here is a look at the full uniform setup for the Bruins. 👀 pic. twitter. com/sjfGsCP3yR — Boston Bruins (@NHLBruins) November 28, 2022 Pittsburgh is throwing it all the way back to the 1920s with its "P" logo. The crest was worn by Pittsburgh's original hockey team, the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Pirates played from 1925 to 1930, when the franchise's ownership group changed and the team was forced out of the city. Here is how the full uniform will look for the Penguins. Inspired by Pittsburgh's original NHL franchise, the 1925 Pittsburgh Pirates.
This year's showdown features multiple future Hall of Famers on both sides, several players who've won the Stanley Cup and a couple of young, exciting stars. Both teams play a fast-paced, aggressive style of hockey that typically results in plenty of goals scored. The only other meeting between the Bruins and Penguins this season was a 6-5 Boston victory in overtime on Nov. 1.
2023 Winter Classic live stream: How to watch Bruins vs. Penguins online2023 Winter Classic live stream: How to watch Bruins-Penguins at Fenway Park originally appeared on NBC Sports BayareaOne of the coolest events in sports returns to Boston on Monday when the Fenway Park plays host to the 2023 Winter Classic between the Boston Bruins and Pittsburgh Penguins.
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It is the third time the NHL has pushed the Winter Classic back one day when New Year's Day is on a Sunday. Who is playing in the 2023 Winter Classic? This year's game will be played between the Bruins and the Penguins. This is Boston's fourth Winter Classic appearance and third time hosting the event. The Bruins previously played in 2010, 2016 and 2019. The B's are 2-1-0 in the three previous occasions, defeating the Flyers in 2010 and the Blackhawks in 2019 while losing to the Canadiens in 2016. The Penguins, who played in the inaugural event in 2008, are playing in their third Winter Classic.
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BECU Offers Paperless Mortgage Story At MBA Conference
The guest speakers at the Mortgage Bankers of America's 94th Annual Convention and Expo here Oct. 14-17 had that "Who's Who" cache, with Richard Branson (Virgin Airlines) Bono (U2), Doris Kearns Goodwin (Pulitzer Prize-winning historian/author) and George Foreman (heavyweight boxing champion) on tap. A panel presentation on Oct.16 also featured...
By Staff Writer | October 23, 2007 at 08:00 PM | The original version of this story was published on Credit Union Times Magazine
BOSTON — The guest speakers at the Mortgage Bankers of America's 94th Annual Convention and Expo here Oct. 14-17 had that "Who's Who" cache, with Richard Branson (Virgin Airlines) Bono (U2), Doris Kearns Goodwin (Pulitzer Prize-winning historian/author) and George Foreman (heavyweight boxing champion) on tap. A panel presentation on Oct.16 also featured Joe Brancucci, SVP at BECU, Tukwilla, Wash., and president/CEO of Prime Alliance on how the credit union has championed availability of the electronic delivery of mortgages.BECU recently had its first successful e-mortgage closing, and Brancucci gave the audience the vitals of BECU's mortgage program and an overview of how it developed the member experience over time into a streamlined, efficient, member-friendly operation.A dose of reality and truth found Brancucci telling the crowd, "Getting a mortgage from the credit union was time consuming, fraught with miscommunication, displeasing to our members and horribly inefficient." Members expected better service from the CU and BECU "routinely disappointed" in that sphere even while surpassing in other service and product deliver, he said.And while BECU "didn't go paperless overnight," it did make incremental steps leading to that goal "as technology and the industry allowed." Members noticed immediately, said Brancucci. "Shortly after launching our online lending presence, more than 65% of our applications became self-originated by our members. No more waiting for an appointment. No more waiting for an answer. We then took the next paperless step: electronic disclosures. Not only were members pleased to have this information immediately rather than three days later, it saved us a significant amount of money."Next came online/real-time updates that informed members about progress. The next hurdle was about taking the stress out of closing day. A big leap came when BECU could deliver every closing package to the escrow company one week before closing, allowing for a thorough and unhurried review by the closing agent. "We have many closing agents in Puget Sound who've remarked to our members that they really appreciate BECU closing packages because they're on time or early, and they are accurate," Brancucci said.Then, two years ago, BECU began electronically delivering the closing package to the member in advance of the closing. That way, if members have questions, they can call the CU. Going completely electronic and fully paperless is another, but probably not the final step. But it's likely to be as well received as the earlier advances, he added.
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Received some sad news yesterday from Jan Pritchard, bird ringer extraordinaire and all round feisty girl. One of the barn owls I ringed earlier in the year has been killed after being hit by a car near Ramsgate. Why had it flown to Ramsgate? The weather has been mild, why did it feel the need to go so far in search of food?
Every year I turn down requests from farmers who wish to put up a barn owl box on their land as they are too close to either major roads or railways. Barn Owls are drawn to such places to hunt because of the rough grassland along the verges which makes an ideal site for voles and mice. The birds then become dazzled by oncoming car headlights. Such large eyes are not meant for the glare of the modern world.
In a year when barn owl numbers have plummeted to their lowest in 50 years, casualties of a late cold spring, then my barn owls in Minster were one of the success stories. They had chosen a box I had put up myself (along with my band of volunteers). A box that everyone told me would never be accepted by barn owls, and yet this feisty pair of survivors had bred five healthy chicks there, which had all safely fledged.
In this there is some consolation. This barn owl had done it's job. It had raised five healthy chicks and, with luck, they are out there now, hopefully stuffing their bellies full of voles in preparation for the winter ahead and maybe next year I will meet one of them again, in the same box, on the tree, on the marshes.
It's been one of those weeks, both exciting and terrifying and potentially life changing. Finally, after months of toying with an idea of writing about a book based on a journey across the estuary landscape of the North Kent Marshes documenting my own experiences of living in a caravan on the marshes and meeting others who have chosen to live in similar ramshackle, alternative, edge of society dwellings, I sent off my proposal to a tiny selection of London literary agents and was most surprised to receive an e-mail from one the same day.
A) but it's not right for us.
C) But our lists are currently full.
D) I would be interested to see more chapters if you have them available.
I don't have more chapters, the thing isn't written, the journey hasn't begun.
I was forced to e-mail back and confess that this is only a proposal and receive a reply along the lines of.
Well, go away and write it and come back to me when you have as I am interested.
A reply which made me want to weep with frustration on how I was ever going to find the time to research and write this book while working full time, driving hundreds of miles for work every week and trying to keep my house from falling down round my ears.
Two sleepless nights followed as my head swirled with how it could be done. how I could find the time to write and find the money to find the time to write. Should I give up everything, work and holidays, and men and family and DIY and friends and become a hermit. It is the age old writing dilemma, the age old life dilemma. An opportunity presents itself and if you don't grab it, whatever, whatever the risks, then you will forever regret it. Something has to give, but what and how?
Then, the inkling of an idea was given to me, a way it could be done, not easy, not without sacrifice, but then is anything of real worth in life ever gained with ease.
and so a plan is forming which might transform 2014, if only I have the courage to take that first step.
but when that door opens you just have to step through it and not hesitate and tell yourself the timing is all wrong because after all, the time is only ever now.
The title of this Beatles song has swum through my head all week following the 4th annual gardening garden party, which saw 15 people cram into my tiny house and garden in order to paint fence panels, weave willow fences, construct little hurdles around the flower beds, put up bird boxes, prune everything in sight and, blessed be, fix my garden gate (technically belonging to my neighbour) which has hung off it's hinges in various states of disrepair ever since I moved in and collapsed all together in the spring. Now my gate is swinging freely and my garden looks lovely, lovely, lovely once again.
We finished the day by cracking open a bottle of champagne, cutting a ribbon to officially open the gate and cramming into my kitchen to eat baked potatoes and chilli, standing shoulder to shoulder.
On days like these when a bunch of lovely people are willing to turn up my house and spend the day working in my garden on the promise of a baked potato and a glass of mulled wine I feel that I am a very lucky girl indeed when it comes to friends.
Another attempt to turn my Lithuanian housemate into an environmentalist leads to more confusion when I show her the list of tasks I am hoping will be tackled tomorrow as part of my gardening garden party.
The gardening garden party is a fabulous idea dreamt up by my solicitor when I first bought my house. The idea is that a bunch of people come to your home and do the gardening and, in turn, you feed them. It works like a dream and has been running now for four years, the first year my solicitor came too.
This year, as well as weaving a willow fence panel, fixing bird boxes and cleaning the pond I have written 'turn the compost' on the list.
"More flowers means more bees," Erika says. Erika is allergic to bees and is, understandably, not a fan.
Still, she has taken to recycling with gusto, even keeping a graveyard of old shoes in the garden.
"You can grow plants in them," she tells me.


Videology—a digital advertising platform and solutions provider—announced today that it will offer a predictive targeting solution that enables advertisers to reach their intended audience as measured by Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings.
While advertisers' interest in using digital ratings for online video campaigns is growing, the industry has been challenged with a quandary: how to target consumers based on myriad data sources derived from cookies or other third-party sources, then measure campaign performance based on age/gender criteria from a different source, such as Nielsen's Online Campaign Ratings. Nielsen uses privacy-protected data from Facebook's roughly 160 million U.S. users to deliver age and gender demos and generate GRPs. Given the granularity and overnight delivery of data, as well as comparability with TV metrics, Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings is uniquely suited for this initiative.
Demand for digital rating is growing. According to Videology, while digital ratings were first made available last year, currently over 40% of campaigns now request digital rating verification, with the number from Q3 2102 to Q4 2012 rising approximately 50%. Cross-screen ratings allow advertisers to control for a number of factors, including cross-device reach and frequency allocation.
"Because of the large number of advertisers interested in incorporating digital ratings into their campaigns, we needed to facilitate their use by better defining the relationship between data inputs and media outputs. Working with Nielsen, we were able to do just that," added Ferber.
Early case study testing showed that Videology's new tool produced a 336% lift against the targeted demo when measured by Nielsen's Online Campaign Ratings, compared to an average 116% lift achieved using high composition/scalable site targeting.
Videology reports that it can use its optimization solution across online, Smartphones and mobile devices, and several advertisers have already committed to campaigns utilizing this new offering in Q1 2013. The company plans an international roll out of the product as Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings become available. Currently, it is available in the U.S. and U.K., with rollout into Canada and Australia expected in early 2013. Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings is now available in the U.S. and U.K. and will be expanding to additional markets in 2013.
For more information, contact Michele Skettino at 917-653-0073 or Michele@videologygroup.com.


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Q: Prove algebraically that, if $x^2 \leq x$ then $0 \leq x \leq 1$ It's easy to just look at the graphs and see that $0 \leq x \leq 1$ satisfies $x^2 \leq x$, but how do I prove it using only the axioms from inequalities? (I mean: trichotomy and given two positive numbers, their sum and product is also positive).

A: Here's a hint:
$$
x - x^2  = x(1-x).
$$

A: We have$$x^2\le x\Rightarrow x^2-x\le0\Rightarrow x(x-1)\le0$$
For $x=0, x=1$ it holds as an equality. Let $x\neq 0,1$
$$x(x-1)\lt0$$
Let's consider the different cases:

$i)$ $x\gt0$ and $x-1\lt0$. It follows that $0\lt x\lt1$.
$ii)$ $x\lt0$ and $x-1\gt0$. They can't both hold.
So, it follows that $0\le x\le1$

A: Let $$x(1-x)\color{red}{<}0$$
Then $A\cdot B <0 \Leftrightarrow A<0, B>0 $ or $A>0, B<0$

A: If $x=0$ then $x^2 \le x$ is true.
If $x \neq 0$ there is the case $x < 0$: we multiply both sides of $x^2 \le x$
by the negative (in this case) number $\frac{1}{x}$ and we'd get $x \ge 1$, which cannot be when $x < 0$. So $x < 0$ is ruled out.
If $x > 0$, we multiply both sides of $x^2 \le x$ with the positive $\frac{1}{x}$ and we get $x \le 1$. This is consistent with $x > 0$ as well.
So $x^2 \le x$ iff ($0\le x$ and $x \le 1$), where we just showed the left to right, and the right to left follows by multiplication with the positive $x$, as you said.

A: $$x^2\le x \iff x^2-x\le0\iff4x^2-4x\le0\iff4x^2-4x+1\le1\iff(2x-1)^2\le1$$
$$\iff -1\le2x-1\le1\iff 0\le2x\le2\iff0\le x\le1$$

A: $x \geq x^2$
If $x = x^2$,
$x - x^2$ = $0$ (Subtract x^2 from both sides)
$x^2 - x$ = $0$
$x(−x+1$) = $0$ (Factor left side of equation)
$x = 0$ or $−x+1 = 0$ (Set factors equal to 0)
$x = 0$ or $x = 1$
Check intervals in between critical points. (Test values in the intervals to see if they work.)
$x ≤ 0$ (Doesn't work in original inequality)
$0$ ≤ $x$ $≤1$ (Works in original inequality)
$x ≥ 1$ (Doesn't work in original inequality)


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It was no surprise when Dan Patrick made Texas Monthly's Worst Legislators list back in 2013, the last time the magazine did its post-session wrap-up of the biennial madhouse we call the Texas Legislature. Patrick, as a state senator, was worst kind of ideologue throughout the session, a bully who lectured fellow lawmakers, interrupted witnesses and displayed thinly veiled contempt for anyone daring to testify against his bills…you know, the kind of hyperbolic, dog-whistle crap that gets you elected to statewide office in Texas.
Maybe Patrick really felt burned after making the magazine's 2013 list. Maybe he's still stinging from this session. Maybe he's really got the thinnest skin in politics. Whatever the reason, the lieutenant governor took the strange step yesterday of having his press office issue a whiny statement about Texas Monthly being mean to him and his friends.
For instance, how could Cecil Bell not make the cut? The cowboy-hatted Magnolia state representative made an all out assault on Texas' LGBT community this session. He's the kind of politician whose ideological agenda is so far to the right that the Texas Association of Businesses felt it had to swoop in and shut it down. The good news is that the legislature's anti-gay contingent largely came up empty handed this year, despite a record number of anti-LGBT bills filed. Maybe that means political dinosaurs like Bell are finally waltzing toward extinction.
Or consider Molly White, who also made Texas Monthly's list. You know, the freshman state representative who, on Texas Muslim Capitol Day, put an Israeli flag on her reception desk and told her staff to ask any "representatives from the Muslim community to renounce Islamic terrorist groups and publicly announce allegiance to America and our laws." Thanks, Molly White, for reminding us how society continues to make the most heinous and degrading assumptions about people in the Muslim community.
Then there's Joan Huffman, who made Texas Monthly's worst list as well as our own this year. In Patrick's press release crying about the magazine's story, he specifically defends Huffman, along with the other state senators on the worst list. Huffman truly stands out, because this session she became the type of senator who only serves to underscore the most cynical assumptions the public has about the political class. She authored the bill that upends the process for investigating corrupt politicians in this state. She was among the group of Republican senators staunchly opposed to a measure favored by the GOP-dominated House that would have required political nonprofits in Texas to disclose their donors. Then Huffman passed an 11th hour amendment to an ethics bill that would have exempted politicians from having to report a spouse's income – a provision all the more troubling when you consider the ethics complaint filed against Huffman earlier this month claiming she failed to report her husband's interests in dozens of businesses. If the allegations against Huffman turn out to be true, it would mean she literally tried to create a loophole so that she'd no longer be violating state disclosure laws. Luckily, Gov. Greg Abbott became the surprising voice of sanity in this whole mess and vetoed the bill with Huffman's spousal loophole amendment.
Check out the magazine's full list here.


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Feeling Financial Stress? Make a Goal to Organize Yourself Today!
Personal finances can be the largest cause of stress in your life. Aside from issues regarding family and friends, your finances affect more areas of your life than you may realize. One of the best ways that you can take control of this stress and your finances is to become organized. Organizing your debts can help you manage, reduce, and even avoid future debts.
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Take the time to fill in your chart, and you will be amazed when you are finished. Looking at your debt in this manner will help you set your goals.
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After you have completed your financial chart, you have a perfect picture of where you stand financially. Do you have very high credit card interest rates? Are you in more debt than you thought? Did you even realize until now how much of your income goes toward your bills?
To master your finances you must see where your money is going, apply extra money to high interest debts, and refrain from creating new debt until you have other debt paid off.
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As I waited for him to arrive, I rested my fingertips on the wood of the windowsill, staving off my fear of disappointment by redoing the numbers in my mind. At two, when he had still not come, I held onto the logic of my math problem: if he left at eleven, he'd be there by two thirty. But no, just to be safe, maybe he hit traffic, or got his cab serviced, or grabbed a fish sandwich on Route 1.
Tomlinson's story tumbles forth with the rapid urgency of a young woman searching for meaning and perhaps a bit of insight amid the chaos of unexpected wounds created by her neglectful, self-centered father. As a teenager she was smart and ambitious, seeking more than her small high school and her bohemian home life could offer. At age fifteen she left for Bard College at Simon's Rock before going on to earn a graduate degree and establishing herself as a journalist, music critic, and ghost writer. Throughout her travels to Boston, Portland (Oregon), and Los Angeles, she struggled to negotiate work, love, and friendship. With intelligent and courageous writing, Sarah Tomlinson refuses to dilute the painful realities of her life—the trauma of a school shooting, the social lubricant of drugs and alcohol, the choice of unavailable men. Tomlinson examines her life through a dual lens: one tinted by her inner child's belief that her personal value is rooted in external validation and the other a clear lens of the grown writer who recognizes her personal value rooted inside herself.
For an author, father-daughter memoirs can be tricky business. Confronting fathers directly and publicly is not easy. To write about a father is to sit in judgment upon him. Not only do cultural norms dictate that such judgments are a no-no, but an author-daughter still hopeful of paternal reconciliation has personal, after-publication fallout to consider. She might ask herself what she's trying to work out on the page, how her story reveals insights about herself, what readers might gain from those insights, and whether her private-made-public revelations might affect her relationship with her still-living father. Not an easy list of considerations.
He was halfway across the warped kitchen floor when he stopped, transfixed by the view of the treetops and sky straight ahead. He put both hands out as if to steady himself on a surfboard, bent his knees slightly as if testing the give.
At its heart, this book is a coming-of-age story about the emotional cavern created by her father's absence. Tomlinson strives to work around, if not repair, the internal damage her father did. On one level, she continually tries to deepen her connection with him—she really does want to have a relationship with her father, shortcomings and all. On another level, she comes to realize that in order to protect the newfound sense of wholeness she's strived so hard to achieve, she must keep her father at arm's length.
Good books sometimes remind us of things we already know on some level. We know that people are complicated; we know that daughters can love fathers despite their shortcomings; we know that a wounded heart can crawl back to its source of pain time and again; and we know that there may or may not be an adequate response to a child's call for parental attention. In the end, Tomlinson finds no tidy solutions. She does, however, leave readers with the glimmer of hope that some sort of peace is possible, even if it means we continue to love unconditionally the people who have disappointed us.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on July 9, 2016 by Carole Firstman.


NFC mobile phone is not strange for us. In 2004, Nokia 3220 had NFC function but that function has not been still popular.
IPHONE without NFC function, because Jobs thinks it is stupid and meaningless technology, to put it in Jobs' words that is fraud. The ex-president of FED Greenspan recall, some day in the middle of february, 2011. Steve.Jobs talked with him on NFC. However, Apples launched Iphone 6 and supported NFC function even Apple Pay be a wind vane in NFC applications after dialogue has been over 3 years. So it is the era of mobile phone with NFC coming?
NFC is short for Near Field Communication(nfctagfactory), it is kind of contactless point to point data transmission and joint development by NXP and Sony, it can near field communication among mobile devices, consumer electronics, PC and smart objects, even compatible with existing contactless IC card technology. NFC mobile phone includes NFC mould phone, it can be used for many applications through NFC function in mobile phone. So what can NFC do?
1: Mobile payment: Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and different kinds of Pay will be coming soon, make payment more security.
2: Door control access: for example our estate control access, if we have right verification code we can touch then can access, it will be more convenience than we take card everyday.
3: Data transmission: put 2 pieces NFC mobile phone and back to back, we can make photo, music data transmission through Android Beam.
4: Browsing information: put NFC mobile phone to NFC function communal facilities, you can brow the transportation, shows and weather.
5: Smart label: can set up related application in advance into label, then mobile phone touch them and make some applications come true.
6: Reading card information: for example bank card consumer recording, the balance, etc.
So we can learn NFC function in mobile phone can bring many surprises and convenience, although NFC mobile phone popularize still face many problems, and still need some time for completely coming true. We have recognized Apply Pay already to make breakthrough and attracted many followers to enter into NFC mobile phone market.
We believe that following more and more enterprises, merchants and consumers join the NFC market, they can complete the NFC industry chain further and make qualitative leap for whole NFC technology application and development.