AS ANZAC Day approaches, the readers of the Dimboola Banner are invited to honour their ancestors and win a prize in the process.
First prize is a superb 1916-2016 Sands of Gallipoli limited edition medallion set valued at $245.00.
We are asking you to either "create diary page from 1916' – either from someone serving abroad or at home. People could be asked to share actual family history or local history. It is about getting people thinking about the times and the people. To inspire content you could publish or make available online, excerpts from the 1916 Great War Diary. This diary series was created with leading historians and artists to share the history-based story of a family's journey through the war. It has thousands of avid readers/collectors.
Otherwise why not create a 'photograph or selfie' that captures local history, the people who make up your community; or the memorials you maintain to remember our past. Regional communities have a great sense of pride and respect for our diggers of all conflicts and this is what we want to share.
Entries close on May 6 2016 and published in the Dimboola Banner on May 11.


Wander around the South Kensington neighbourhood of London as school finishes and you could be forgiven for thinking you'd been transported to a Parisian arrondissement.
Wander around the South Kensington neighbourhood of London as school finishes and you could be forgiven for thinking you'd been transported to a Parisian arrondissement. Outside the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle, next to the French Institute, the fast-paced chatter of French drowns out English as parents collect their children after a day's studying.
But until now, the capital's sizeable French community – numbering 400,000 and the largest non-English population in London – has lacked its own voice on the airwaves. While the cosmopolitan city has stations covering a multitude of tongues, Gallic tones have remained decidedly absent. Until, that is, midday yesterday and the launch of French Radio London (FRL), the brainchild of Pascal Grierson, an entrepreneur with a media consulting background.


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Rosa Santana
Lisa Navarro-Gonzales
Nicole Navarro-Velesiotis
Rosa Santana Named First Ever MWBE to Receive the MBDA's National Distinguished Supplier Diversity Award
Forma Automotive, Toyota's first Hispanic-, woman-owned direct tier I supplier, and Forma's CEO Rosa Santana were announced as the recipients of the Minority Business Development Agency's (MBDA) National Distinguished Supplier Diversity Award for 2020, marking the first time in history that a minority- and woman-owned firm was named a recipient. Previously, this award has been presented to organizations such as Coca-Cola, BP, and Home Depot.
The Distinguished Supplier Diversity Award is given to individuals or organizations whose business practices have had a significant impact on the growth and development of minority-owned businesses.
Part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, the MBDA recognizes and celebrates the nation's minority-owned firms during National Minority Enterprise Development (MED) Week. In the past, National MED Week has been held in Washington, DC, Austin, TX, and San Diego, CA. This year, in response to COVID-19, MED Week was celebrated virtually from September 14th through the 19th. Santana and Forma Automotive were officially recognized during the event's "How I Did It" series. Each session of the series was designed to get "up close and personal" with the 2020 MED Week award winners to tell empowering stories with key takeaways of uncompromising perseverance, triumph, and vision.
"It is an absolute honor to be recognized as the awardee of the MBDA's Distinguished Supplier Diversity Award for 2020 and the first minority- and woman-owned firm to have ever been named a recipient," Santana said. "Supporting other women- and minority-owned firms will always be at the heart of Forma Automotive and the Santana Group of companies, and my team and I are already looking ahead to how we can continue to provide opportunities for growth for other MBEs."
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September/October 1996 Issue
Lars-Erik Nelson
Nelson is a columnist in the Washington, D.C., bureau of the <I>New York Daily News</I>.
Q: What is different about this Congress?
A: They listened to the small-business lobby. That's the real difference between this Republican Congress and Republicans of the past. Republicans have always been for the Fortune 500: "What's good for GM is good for the country." But this is, "What's good for Godfather's Pizza is good for the country." Big business likes public broadcasting. They like affirmative action, because they know how to deal with it. They like national regulation, because they operate in 50 states, and they don't want 50 separate states setting regulations. But the small-business guys just want to get rid of the federal standards on health and safety and the minimum wage. They'd rather deal with the Alabama Legislature.
Q: Why has the GOP Congress fallen into such disfavor with the public?
A: These guys came in with their "Contract With America," and the first thing you know they tried to abolish the public broadcasting system and cut back on the school lunch program.
Q: Wasn't everything in the "Contract With America" market-tested?
A: No. Phrases were market-tested. Like, "Do you think there are too many lawsuits?" And people would say, "Yeah, there are too many lawsuits." And then the Republicans would use that as the pretext for drafting the entire tort reform bill, including a lot of specifics that were never market-tested. If the question had been, "If your car's gas tank explodes and you get burned, do you think you should be able to sue Ford for $50 million?" people would have said, "Sure!" But that wasn't the question people were asked. The Republicans did a whole bunch of things like that. The second thing that hurt this Congress was letting the lobbyists in to write legislation. That perfectly fulfilled the caricature of Republicans as pawns of big business. It's fatal when you live up to your stereotype.
Q: Didn't Democrats use lobbyists to draft legislation?
A: If the Sierra Club is invited in to write an environmental law, it's not because the Sierra Club stands to pocket a profit. It's because the Sierra Club has got views about the environment — right or wrong, it's not venality. If you let the timber companies write the environmental laws, they're going to write them to fatten their pocketbooks. That's the difference. If you let the AFL-CIO lobby you on the minimum wage, there's no AFL-CIO guy who's going to get a raise out of it. But if Herman Cain of Godfather's Pizza says, "I don't want to pay minimum wage," it's money in his own pocket.
Q: Is this just a payback or is it related to conservative ideology?
A: The Republicans feel that businessmen know best, that they are out in the real world, that they are the ones who create the jobs, and that to get the government off their backs would be great. The money finds the true believers. So they can say that they really believe that they're not doing it for the cash. Do you have to give one of these guys money to be an asshole? No, he's an asshole to begin with. But people who have money say, "This is my kind of asshole. I'm gonna give him some money." I'm sure some of these people are true believers, and they would do it without the money. It's just that without the money, they couldn't get elected.


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Showcase your photography/audio/video work with 'Flow Gallery'; the ultimate professionally developed jQuery plugin based HTML5 Multimedia Gallery.
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• Fixed a video size issue in Chrome.
• Added the ability to create a gallery instance by scanning a folder of videos.
• Custom categories can be now specified when scanning a folder of photos/videos.
• Provided the ability to specify custom labels for the various components in the gallery menu bar.
• Added the option to specify the maximum video width inside the lightbox.
• Added the option to hide the names of categories in the Filter menu for which there are no galley items present.
• Thumbnails in the gallery are now provided with alt tags containing the item titles.
• Fixed an issue with the playing of audio and videos in mobile devices.
• Fixed a problem with deep linking of items and social media sharing when the shuffle option was enabled.
• Fixed an automatic chunk loading bug when the gallery was made fullscreen.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the "columns" mode from working when the gallery container did not have an id attribute.
• Added a css fix to prevent animation flickers in Chrome.
• Fixed a bug with onscroll chunk loading that showed a brief flash of extra padding.
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• Fixed a bug with the filtering/sorting animation.
• Fixed a bug with the menubar navigation when there were albums.
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• The plugin now uses Youtube API v3.
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• Made some minor tweaks to the plugin's js and css files.
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January 9, 1984 Issue
By Stanley Mieses
The New Yorker, January 9, 1984 P. 30
Talk story about a visit to the Cloisters to see the Bonnefont Cloister herb garden, a square plot of earth, tucked within a low-walled veranda on a perch several feet above the Hudson River. Writer met Susan Leach, a young woman wearing several layers of shirts and carrying a bucket of roses in one hand and a watering can in the other. She's the horticulturist of all the Cloister's gardens and the person most directly responsible for the creation and maintenance of the herb garden. She told about decorating an indoor garden that had been re-created from late-medieval paintings on the theme of the Madonna in a rose arbor. She said the roses were representative of the Virgin. Writer asked her how she had gone about choosing the wide variety of plants in the herb garden. "The objective was to recreate an authentic medieval herb garden, so we began with Charlemagne's list," she said. "From this list, we got about a hundred of the plants. The rest were found in herbals published either before or during the Middle Ages." She showed the writer facsimiles of three such publications and quotes "Hortulus," a translation, by Raef Payne, of a long poem written in the 19th century by the abbot of a Swiss monastery, named Walahfrid the Squint-Eyed. "The herb garden is simple, it's delicate, it's fragrant, and, beyond the aesthetics, there is history and lore attached to each plant that can teach you a lot," she said. Writer asked about a plant that had low, muted green leaves, and was growing a little taller and bushier than some of its neighbors. "That's a wallflower," she said, with a smile. "Wallflowers are beautiful in spring."
Published in the print edition of the January 9, 1984, issue.
The new Netflix documentary series about a championship-gobbling team combines the savage thrill of watching an overdog dominate and the emotional pull of witnessing an underdog's rise.


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Q: Retrieving DHCP options in iOS I would like to ask if there is a way to retrieve (query) DHCP Option from DHCP in iOS (Swift/Objective-C)?
E.g. if I would like to retrieve IP address from DHCP Option 7 (Log Server), what should I do?

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Antarctica – Freedom For Humanity!
The stunning testimony of a Navy Seal about what is happening in Antarctica.
Posted on February 23, 2019 by TheLightHasWonPosted in Antarctica, DisclosureTagged Aliens, Ancient Civilizations, Disclosure, Extraterrestrial, Secret History, Secret News, Technology, Whistleblower Antarctica.
Posted on February 22, 2019 by TheLightHasWonPosted in Antarctica, UFOs - ExtraTerrestialsTagged Antarctica, Deep space, Disclosure, Extraterrestrial Races, international space fleet, interstellar trade with extraterrestrials, Navy Insiders, Oumuamua space ship, Secret Antarctic Space Fleet, Secret Space Fleet, Secret Space Program, Space programs, Technology, U.S. Cyber Command, USAF, Whistleblowers.
Posted on January 29, 2019 by TheLightHasWonPosted in Ancient Civilizations - Cities, AntarcticaTagged 8-sided octagon structure, Ancient Civilization, archeological, Artifacts, black sun, Disclosure, ExtraTerrestrials, Genetic experiments, hidden bases, hidden facilities, hieroglyph symbols, Hieroglyphs, Human-Alien Hybrids, MotherShips, Science, Secret Bases, Secret News, structure, Symbols, Technology.Antarctica, US Navy Seal, Whistleblower.
Classified government programs have identified stupendous new ruins in Antarctica, built by a group of giants with elongated skulls now called the Pre-Adamites.
ln this stunning talk we will trace the half-million- year history of the Pre-Adamites, see pictures of their ruins in our solar system, and learn how they crashed to Earth as the "Fallen Angels".
This group took control of the world and is still pulling the strings of our financial system, "hiding out in the open" in places like the Vatican. They use our co-creative powers against us and are hiding the truth about Ascension – an imminent, spontaneous evolution of humanity. Don't miss this talk, jammed with highly-classified intel from our most trusted sources!
Posted on November 14, 2018 November 14, 2018 by TheLightHasWonPosted in Ancient Civilizations - Cities, Antarctica, Disclosure, UFOs - ExtraTerrestialsTagged Ancient builder race, Ancient Civilizations, Ancient ruins, Antarctica, Arrests, Ascension, Atlantis, Bloodlines, Cabal, Christianity, Classified government programs, Cover-Ups, Craft, David Wilcock, Deep State, Disclosure, Economy, Elongated Skulls, Evolution of humanity, ExtraTerrestrials, Full Disclosure Now, FullDisclosureNow, Galaxy, Giants, History, Human History, Illuminati, inner Earth cities, Intel, financial system, Mars structures, Moon structures, NASA images, Planetary Liberation, Pre-Adamites, Pyramids, QAnon, Ra, Religion, Satanic Pedophiles, Secret History, Secret News, Secret Space Program, Solar System, Space, stolen money, the Alliance, The Law of One, UFOs, Underground Cities, Vatican.
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Notre Dame falls at state in Rickards' last match as coach
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Bob Rickards hugs Libby Rickards, his daughter, in his final match as head coach of Notre Dame soccer. { }(PHOTO/WLUK){ }
MILWAUKEE (WLUK) -- A story-book ending and a 2nd state girls soccer title was not in the cards for Notre Dame head coach Bob Rickards. The Tritons lost to Edgewood, 3-1 in a Division 3 State Semifinal.
"I think once I walk off the field it will probably hit me, but very emotional. We've been here 14 times and to know that this is my last one is a little sad. To go through the season we went through, I mean we played some really good ball in stretches and I think we just didn't have it today. Credit to them, they won a lot of the 1 v 1 battles, but I'm extremely proud of these girls," said Rickards.
Rickards will take over St. Norbert College's women's soccer program next fall.
Senior Jenna Cuene scored the lone goal for Notre Dame.


It is no secret that our electoral system has been rigged by Democratic and Republican lawmakers to ensure that their candidates face as little competition as possible. But, national sentiment is undergoing a historic sea change that could finally challenge this entrenched duopoly.
A new poll by the Washington Post and ABC News finds that Democrats and Republicans barely constitute a majority when one tallies their percentages together: less than a third identify as Democrats (31%), less than a quarter call themselves Republicans (24%), and a whopping 40% describe themselves as Independents. Of the self-proclaimed non-partisans, 18% lean Democrat, 18% lean Republican, and 9% do not lean in either direction.
This raises a basic question. If so many people are unwilling to identify with the Democratic and Republican parties, and prefer to describe themselves as Independents, why do they continue to vote for Democrats and Republicans rather than Independents or third party alternatives?
There are two conventional answers to this question: 1) these voters are not "really" Independent; rather, they "lean" toward one major party or the other but refuse to identify with the label; 2) the hurdles encountered by third party and Independent candidates are simply too great to be overcome. Clearly, however, these two issues are interrelated. Given the systemic bias in favor of the Democratic and Republican parties, voters do not really have any choice but to vote Democrat or Republican when it comes time to cast their ballots, if they vote at all.
Overcoming the systemic bias in favor of the legacy parties is one of the greatest and most pressing political issues facing the people of the United States. Obviously, the representatives and allies of the Democratic and Republican parties have little or no interest in working to reform the system that ensures their monopoly on public office at all levels of government. Yet, if just half of the eligible voters who typically opt not to vote rather than vote Republican or Democrat, instead chose to cast their ballots for a third party or Independent electoral reformer, that individual could very well win in a landslide.
Among other things, Tobin advocates the protection of voter choice, instant runoff voting, and proposes a number of election administration reforms that would not only level the political playing field, but also save tax payer money.
Of course, the conventional wisdom states that a ballot cast for a third party or Independent candidate is a "wasted vote," since such candidates have little chance of success. This is the self-fulfilling prophecy that the Democratic and Republican parties rely upon to ensure the reproduction of the reigning two-party state.
The conventional wisdom is political folly, though. When Democrats and Republicans win elections, all too often it is We the People who lose.
But, the tide is starting to turn. Hopeful signs are emerging as Americans lose patience with the Republicrats. The seeds of an Independent Revolution have been sown and are just beginning to sprout.


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Design and marketing of wireless communication systems.
Focus on industrial wireless data systems.
1996 Development of reporting systems that rely on GSM.
1998 Development of reporting systems for wind energy.
1998 Development of an energy database and expand the portfolio to include fiber optic networks.


Install this update to resolve issues caused by revised daylight saving time and time zone laws in several countries.
Install this update to resolve issues caused by revised daylight saving time and time zone laws in several countries. This update enables your computer to automatically adjust the computer clock on the correct date in 2010. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.


The common currency Euro moved lower during London trade on Tuesday after the latest economic report out of Germany underscored investors' fears of a widening slump within the Eurozone. According to Germany's Statistics Bureau, industrial production unexpectedly fell to -1.9 in November (month-over-month), well below the anticipated improvement to 0.3%. With Germany the economic driver for the Eurozone, and it is now becoming evident that the trade disputes which have been driven by the Trump administration are ultimately having a negative impact on the global economy.
As reported at 11:46 am (GMT) in London, the EUR/USD was trading at $1.1428, down 0.37%; the pair has ranged from a low of $1.14234 to a high of $1.14897 in today's session. The EUR/JPY is trading at 124.0320 Yen, down 0.03%, while the EUR/GBP was trading at 0.8898 Pence, down 0.16%.
Besides industrial output, it was reported that Germany GDP had slowed to 1.5% last year, a dismal rate not seen since 2013. The slowdown in the Euro-area is also causing concern among investors on the impact it might have on the European Central Bank's outlook. The ECB is already in the process of reining in the quantitative easing measures it has taken over the past several years and news such as this might have the ECB rethinking that policy.


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How can you not root for Kige's new team, the 12 seed Hilltoppers over UCLA? Your bracket's already FUBAR...I say, Go Fighting Towels.
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"In my opinion Big Red is a mascot."
Are you kidding me? He just said that?


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Q: Unable to run Playwright "Writing Assertions" example TL;DR
Can't get "Writing Assertions" example from Playwright Getting Started page to work.
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I'm looking at Playwright for writing tests. I'm working my way through the Getting Started examples, and am having an issue with Example #2 (Writing Assertions). I'm doing this on my work machine (macOS) and haven't had the opportunity to try it from my Linux machine at home yet, if that makes a difference.
The example in question is:
// example.spec.js
const { test, expect } = require('@playwright/test');

test('my test', async ({ page }) => {
  await page.goto('https://playwright.dev/');

  // Expect a title "to contain" a substring.
  await expect(page).toHaveTitle('Playwright');

  // Expect an attribute "to be strictly equal" to the value.
  await expect(page.locator('text=Get Started')).toHaveAttribute('href', '/docs/intro');

  // Expect an element "to be visible".
  await expect(page.locator('text=Learn more')).toBeVisible();

  await page.click('text=Get Started');
  // Expect some text to be visible on the page.
  await expect(page.locator('text=System requirements')).toBeVisible();

  // Compare screenshot with a stored reference.
  expect(await page.screenshot()).toMatchSnapshot('get-started.png');
});

The initial issue I had was with this line failing:
await expect(page).toHaveTitle('Playwright');

I was able to resolve it by changing the .toHaveTitle() to look for a regex, so now it looks like the following:
// 02_writing_assertions.spec.js
const { test, expect } = require('@playwright/test');

test('my test', async ({ page }) => {
  await page.goto('https://playwright.dev/');

  // Expect a title "to contain" a substring.
  await expect(page).toHaveTitle(/Playwright/);  // Updated to regex

  // Expect an attribute "to be strictly equal" to the value.
  await expect(page.locator('text=Get Started')).toHaveAttribute('href', '/docs/intro');

  // Expect an element "to be visible".
  await expect(page.locator('text=Learn more')).toBeVisible();

  await page.click('text=Get Started');

  // Expect some text to be visible on the page.
  await expect(page.locator('text=System requirements')).toBeVisible();

  // Compare screenshot with a stored reference.
  expect(await page.screenshot()).toMatchSnapshot('get-started.png');
});

However, when I run it, I now get the following:
❯ npx playwright test tests/getting_started/02_writing_assertions.spec.js --headed

Running 1 test using 1 worker

  ✘  tests/getting_started/02_writing_assertions.spec.js:4:1 › my test (4s)

  1) tests/getting_started/02_writing_assertions.spec.js:4:1 › my test =============================

    locator.getAttribute: Evaluation failed: Error: strict mode violation: selector resolved to 2 elements.
        at u.querySelector (<anonymous>:3:34807)
        at eval (eval at evaluate (:3:1339), <anonymous>:7:32)
        at i (<anonymous>:3:37685)
        at <anonymous>:3:37773
        at Object.run (<anonymous>:3:38253)
        at eval (eval at evaluate (:3:1339), <anonymous>:1:14)
        at t.default.evaluate (<anonymous>:3:1362)
        at t.default.<anonymous> (<anonymous>:1:44)
    =========================== logs ===========================
      retrieving attribute "href" from "text=Get Started"
      strict mode violation: selector resolved to 2 elements.
    ============================================================

       9 |
      10 |   // Expect an attribute "to be strictly equal" to the value.
    > 11 |   await expect(page.locator('text=Get Started')).toHaveAttribute('href', '/docs/intro');
         |                                                  ^
      12 |
      13 |   // Expect an element "to be visible".
      14 |   await expect(page.locator('text=Learn more')).toBeVisible();

        at /Users/me/node_modules/@playwright/test/lib/test/matchers/matchers.js:131:27
        at /Users/me/node_modules/@playwright/test/lib/test/matchers/toMatchText.js:48:22
        at pollUntilDeadline (/Users/me/node_modules/@playwright/test/lib/test/util.js:119:42)
        at Object.toMatchText (/Users/me/node_modules/@playwright/test/lib/test/matchers/toMatchText.js:47:37)
        at Object.toHaveAttribute (/Users/me/node_modules/@playwright/test/lib/test/matchers/matchers.js:130:35)
        at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/me/node_modules/@playwright/test/lib/test/expect.js:94:30)
        at __EXTERNAL_MATCHER_TRAP__ (/Users/me/node_modules/expect/build/index.js:342:30)
        at Object.throwingMatcher (/Users/me/node_modules/expect/build/index.js:343:15)
        at /Users/me/dev/playwright/playwright-test/tests/getting_started/02_writing_assertions.spec.js:11:50
        at WorkerRunner._runTestWithBeforeHooks (/Users/me/node_modules/@playwright/test/lib/test/workerRunner.js:425:7)

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Commenting out each of the await expect(...) statements simply repeats the error at the next await expect(...) statement. If I comment out all of them, then the await page.click(...) runs as expected, but the next await expect(...) fails again.
Update
So...it appears that the issue is that the issue is that the page.locator(...) as written is returning multiple elements, which should've been immediately obvious by the fact that I'm seeing the following error:

Evaluation failed: Error: strict mode violation: selector resolved to 2 elements.

So I changed the following line:
await expect(page.locator('text=Get Started')).toHaveAttribute('href', '/docs/intro');

to
await expect(page.locator('//a[text()="Get Started"][1]')).toHaveAttribute('href', '/docs/intro');

which I thought would've resolved the issue. However, now I'm getting a timeout.

A: I was able to work my way through (almost) all the issues. The one issue with the initial script that I haven't been able to resolve yet is this line:
// Expect some text to be visible on the page.
await expect(page.locator('text=System requirements')).toBeVisible();

This string appears twice on the page. In attempting various ways to search the string (i.e., xpath), my code either returned both elements or timed out. Since this was an arbitrary string on the page, rather than an element that needed to be clicked in order to proceed to the next step, I simply substituted a different string.
The working script is as follows:
// 02_writing_assertions.spec.js
const { test, expect } = require('@playwright/test');

test('my test', async ({ page }) => {
  await page.goto('https://playwright.dev/');

  // Expect a title "to contain" a substring.
  await expect(page).toHaveTitle(/Playwright/);

  // Expect an attribute "to be strictly equal" to the value.
  await expect(page.locator('(//a[translate(text(),"get started","GET STARTED")="GET STARTED"])[1]')).toHaveAttribute('href', '/docs/intro');

  // Expect an element "to be visible".
  await expect(page.locator('(//a[translate(text(),"learn more", "LEARN MORE")="LEARN MORE"])[1]')).toBeVisible();

  // Click "Get Started"
  await page.click('(//a[translate(text(),"get started","GET STARTED")="GET STARTED"])[1]')

  // Expect some text to be visible on the page.
  await expect(page.locator('(//h1[contains(translate(text(),"getting started","GETTING STARTED"),"GETTING STARTED")])[1]')).toBeVisible()

  // Compare screenshot with a stored reference.
  expect(await page.screenshot()).toMatchSnapshot('get-started.png');
});

A few items about my xpath statements:

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*I always translate my text strings to upper-case for comparison, just to harden the test against a future typo that turns "Get Started" into "GEt Started".

*The same with always referencing the xpath return set by specific element; it hardens against a second instance of the same URL being added by someone in the future.


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Secretariat's Owner, Penny Chenery, Passes Away At The Age Of 95
The following appeared on Bloodhorse.com September 17th.
Helen "Penny" Chenery, owner of 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat and a well-loved figure in her own right as a champion of Thoroughbreds and women in business and sports, died Sept. 16, in her Colorado home following complications from a stroke. She was 95.
Chenery's children announced her death through Leonard Lusky, her longtime friend and business partner.
Penny Chenery passed away September 18th at the age of 95.
Following Secretariat's retirement from racing, Chenery became an ambassador for Thoroughbred racing and remained so, even after the champion's death in 1989. She served as the first female president of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association and president of the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation.
She became one of the first women admitted to The Jockey Club, helped found the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation, and created the Secretariat Vox Populi Award, annually honoring racing's most popular horse, as well as the Secretariat Foundation, which assists and supports various charities within the racing community. Chenery received the 2006 Eclipse Award of Merit for lifetime contributions to the Thoroughbred industry, and in recent years, she advocated for laminitis research and care advancement as well as efforts to ban the use of performance-enhancing drugs in racing.
Secretariat's Triple Crown campaign and Chenery's meteoric rise in the sport were featured in the 2010 Disney Studios film Secretariat, in which she was portrayed by Diane Lane.
Chenery is survived by four children: Sarah Manning, Chris Tweedy, Kate Tweedy, and John Tweedy; and by seven grandchildren: Elena Grath, Alice McGrath, Chris Manning, Amanda Tweedy, Paige Tweedy, and Marcus Tweedy; and one stepson Jon Ringquist.
"We are deeply proud of our mother, her accomplishments, and her courage." said daughter Kate Tweedy. "As we mourn her loss, the example of her strength, her intelligence, and her enduring spirit continue to inspire us."
While the family requests that its privacy be respected for an initial week of mourning, Lusky says that plans for a future public memorial service will be announced soon.
"We have always been overwhelmed and amazed by the love and support Mom received from her many fans," John Tweedy said. "We look forward to a time soon when we can celebrate her life in a way that honors that legacy."
In lieu of flowers, the Secretariat Foundation is offering special Penny Chenery Memorial fundraising projects on behalf of selected equine-related charities. For details, visit Secretariat.com.
Chenery was born on Jan. 27, 1922, in New Rochelle, N.Y., to Christopher and Helen Chenery. Chris Chenery was a New York utilities tycoon, whose first love was his small but esteemed racing stable in his native Virginia. As a girl, Chenery inherited her father's passion for horses and rode constantly, both at home and at the Virginia horse farm, The Meadow. "I had the horse bug," she recalled. "I wasn't 'National Velvet.' Horses were just my friends."
Chenery attended the Madeira School and graduated from Smith College in 1943. Eager to aid the war effort, she joined a naval architecture firm that designed Normandy landing craft, then served as a nurse's aide in a stateside hospital. In 1946, Chenery went to France and Germany with the American Red Cross, working with demobilizing GIs—one of her most formative experiences. "You had to be 23 to go," she recalled. "They thought younger girls weren't mature enough. And they were right!"
Coming home, Chenery entered Columbia Business School, one of only 20 women in her class. Only six months shy of graduation she was engaged to Columbia Law graduate John Bayard "Jack" Tweedy. Penny's father, who had initially encouraged her to go to business school, now told her to quit and concentrate on her wedding. With deep ambivalence, she complied.
The Tweedys settled in Denver in 1950. They had four children: Sarah (1950), Kate (1952), Chris (1955), and John (1960). She threw herself into every social, charitable, civic, educational and political pursuit to which a respectable housewife was allowed, from the Junior League to Planned Parenthood. She and Jack helped found and raise the initial capital for the Vail ski resort in the early 1960s, where Jack was the first Board Chairman and General Counsel, and Penny's father was a major investor. They built a house in Vail, and skiing became her young family's passion. But it was only a matter of time before her thwarted energy and ambition would split the confines of motherhood and volunteering.
That chance to break free came in the form of a phone call on a November afternoon. Chenery's father Chris had been building a Thoroughbred racing stable since the 1940s based on carefully-selected broodmares. He had come close, twice, to achieving his life's dream of winning the Kentucky Derby. But by 1967 his health and mind were starting to fail. That fall his wife Helen died, and when Chenery received the call to return home for her mother's funeral, she realized her father needed help.
She took over management of the racing stable, with the help of her siblings, Margaret Carmichael and Hollis Chenery, and her father's business secretary, Elizabeth Ham.
The operation was losing money and nobody took her seriously. She poured herself into the work, commuting every month from Colorado to Virginia, but after two more years in the red, selling the stable seemed almost inevitable.
In 1971 her colt Riva Ridge swept the juvenile stakes and was named champion 2-year-old colt. In 1972, 'Riva' won the Kentucky Derby, fulfilling Chris Chenery's dream in the last year of his life.
That same year, Secretariat burst onto the scene, so dominating the 2-year-old races that he won Horse of the Year honors. Secretariat's 1973 Triple Crown season unfolded with record-setting performances that still stand, culminating in one of the most celebrated athletic performances of all time, a 31-length victory in the Belmont Stakes (G1).
Thrust into national prominence as the owner of Riva Ridge and Secretariat, Mrs. Tweedy—as she was known at the time—charmed the nation as an engaging and quick-witted owner, who represented her equine champions with poise, dignity, and keen business sense.
She quickly grasped her role as the voice of the silent equine hero. As she put it, "The horse can't talk—but I can."
Kevin Flanery, president of Churchill Downs said in a statement, "Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Derby family join all in Thoroughbred racing in mourning the passing of Penny Chenery. Fans embraced her as the owner of Secretariat, her legendary Kentucky Derby and Triple Crown winner and American sports icon, along with her ongoing role as the protector of his legacy and lifelong supporter of causes that promote the health and welfare of retired Thoroughbreds.
"Whether as the owner of Secretariat, the brilliant Triple Crown champion she campaigned nearly a half-century ago, or as a leader and ambassador for the sport she loved, Penny Chenery led an extraordinary life that touched Thoroughbred racing fans and others in a unique and personal way," said Alex Waldrop, president and CEO of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association. "Thankfully, her legacy will live on for many generations to come."
"We at Churchill Downs also fondly recall her 1972 Kentucky Derby victory with Riva Ridge and other occasions when horses carried her famed blue-and-white blocked silks in races beneath our Twin Spires. Mrs. Chenery's wonderful life had a deep and lasting impact on all in Thoroughbred racing and to countless individuals beyond our industry. If anyone ever deserved the title "First Lady of American Racing," it was Penny Chenery, and our thoughts are with her family, friends and all who loved her."
"Keeneland joins the Thoroughbred community worldwide in mourning the passing of Penny Chenery," Bill Thomason president and CEO of Keeneland said. "Mrs. Chenery exemplified the very best of our sport, serving as one of its most beloved and passionate ambassadors. She was a generous owner, tirelessly sharing the legacy of her great Triple Crown winner, Secretariat, with generations of fans that extended far beyond racing. Keeneland is honored to have played a role in the movie Secretariat, and to remember her 1972 Blue Grass Stakes winner Riva Ridge. We are thankful for her extraordinary contributions to racing, and we extend our deepest condolences to her family and friends."
"Penny Chenery was a true pioneer in our sport and, on behalf of the women and men of the New York Racing Association, we mourn her loss and offer our condolences to the Chenery family," NYRA president & CEO Chris Kay said. "Belmont Park is where champions are crowned and there was no greater champion for women in racing than Penny Chenery. We look forward to honoring her memory and celebrating the life and legacy of a woman so important to the fabric of racing in New York."
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Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke, center, departs the Perches funeral home in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019, after attending a service for Ivan Filiberto Manzano, one of the 22 people killed in a shooting at a Walmart in El Paso. The former El Paso congressman said he came to the border city "to remind the world that we are a binational community." (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Beto O'Rourke rejoined the presidential race on Thursday nearly two weeks after a mass shooting in his Texas hometown, using a speech in his grieving city to try to overhaul his White House bid and argue that President Donald Trump is morally unfit for a second term.
The former congressman spoke at a park close to his home, saying that what happened in El Paso, on the U.S.-Mexico border, "is an attack on America" and "an attack on our ideal of what America can be."
He blamed assault weapons and endorsed a federal buyback program for them, but was far more critical of the president for what he called fomenting hate and racist attitudes.
"We must take the fight directly to the source of this problem, that person who has caused this pain and placed this country in this moment of peril, and that is Donald Trump," O'Rourke said during an emotional, 30-plus-minute address. "I want to be the leader for this country that we need right now and that we do not have."
O'Rourke said the dual dangers of Trump and a glut of assault weapons on the nation's streets must be addressed: "I'm confident that, if at this moment we do not wake up to this threat, then we, as a country, will die in our sleep."
Aides say the next phase of O'Rourke's campaign won't simply focus on plodding through states that vote early in the presidential primary, like Iowa, which goes first, but will instead feature their candidate drawing more sharp contrasts between himself and Trump.
O'Rourke will start Friday by heading to Mississippi, where federal immigration agents last week arrested 680 Latino workers in a massive workplace sting at seven chicken processing plants, shocking their communities. After Trump took office, the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement said the agency would try to increase crackdowns at worksites believed to be employing people in the country illegally, like the Mississippi plants, by 400%.
O'Rourke was campaigning in Nevada on Aug. 3 when a gunman who denounced immigrants in an online screed opened fire at an El Paso Walmart, killing 22 people. He suspended his campaign and rushed home. Since then, he has attended funerals and vigils, visited hospitalized victims and donated blood while appearing on national television to say Trump's rhetoric helped cause the shooting — and to chide the media for not more expressly reporting that.
During that time, O'Rourke stopped sending emails to supporters asking for donations and pulled online fundraising ads, though he still accepted money via his campaign's website.
He now says he'll return to the campaign trail using a better way to woo voters than normal staples like visiting state fairs for "corndogs and Ferris wheels." Instead, O'Rourke will travel to "those places where Donald Trump has been terrorizing and terrifying and demeaning our fellow Americans."
"That's where you will find me in this campaign," he said.
O'Rourke also used his Thursday speech to declare that he wouldn't leave the presidential race to challenge Republican Sen. John Cornyn next year. He said "that would not be good enough" for El Paso and its shooting victims, since only taking on Trump will do.
Trump's reelection campaign responded that O'Rourke was using tragedy "to bolster his struggling presidential bid."
"O'Rourke's second campaign reboot is likely to end up failing just like his first," Trump campaign spokeswoman Samantha Cotton said in a statement.
O'Rourke had attempted a major strategy shift in recent months, increasing his television appearances and releasing a string of policy proposals, attempting to show he didn't prioritize political style over substance. Those efforts failed to recapture the strong buzz and fundraising O'Rourke had upon entering the presidential race in March, though, and he's remained plagued by low fundraising and polling ever since.
Last weekend, nearly the entire packed field of Democratic presidential candidates visited the state fair and other locales in Iowa, whose caucuses are now less than six months away. O'Rourke is betting that kind of personal facetime won't be necessary, as he heads elsewhere "to remind this country just who we are at our best."
"Anyone that this president puts down," he said, "we are going to do our best to lift up."
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Something nagged me throughout our recent ride around northern Nevada. In 74 days, through eight counties, over 1,100 miles, the only people we met on the trail were hunters. Don't get me wrong -they were always incredibly friendly and extremely interested in my ride. Time and time again we bonded over a shared love of Nevada, its beauty and wildness, and yes, even the animals. I can't count how many times I heard hunters say, "We're so lucky to have this," as they gestured to the land around us. But it really began to bother me that I never encountered a hiker, a cyclist, a camper, or even another equestrian. This became a regular topic of conversation between Ryan and I. Why aren't people out here using this incredible resource? we'd ask each other.
It takes a long time to plan a long ride. There are so many logistics to work out -- feed, water, gear, etc. But, even when I was planning my first ride, the one thing that didn't take long for me to decide was where to ride. I could have gone to any state, to any number of designated trails. But, it was obvious to me from the very beginning that I should take advantage of what was right outside my door.
This is one of my favorite maps. The areas in red are public lands. Ponder it for a second if you will...
Every state has some public land, though the vast majority of it is in the West. Nevada has more than any other in the contiguous 48 states (>80%). By comparison, look at Texas, which has <5% federal land. Essentially what that means is that if you were trying to do a long ride in Texas, you would be restricted to public roads because most of the state is private property.
But all those areas in red -- with a few exceptions -- are free and open for use by anyone. For me, this means I can create my own long ride routes, choose my own trails and roads from millions of acres of land, and never have to worry about getting permission from a landowner for access. I couldn't do what I do without public lands. Likewise, that opportunity is available for every other American who is interested in hiking, biking, hunting, camping, or any other recreational activity.
Unfortunately, that freedom is under threat from people who think they have more of a right to the land than others. There is a movement underway to transfer federally-managed public lands to state ownership. Proponents readily admit that under their plan, millions of acres of public land would then be sold off to help states pay for the management of their remaining lands. Make no mistake, the privatization of public lands would be the end of open access for the rest of us. I saw very real evidence of this on my recent ride.
While riding in the South Egan Range (White Pine, Lincoln, and Nye Counties) I was stopped by a parcel of privatized land. (I am not sure whether this property was sold or is being leased from the BLM.) I was shocked to discover that ALL through-routes around the parcel were fenced off and "no trespassing signs" were in place, as evidenced by the photo below. No alternate routes were created or designated. We were effectively stuck without access through a parcel of unknown size. The fence line also cut off access to a year-round spring, which are critical during a long ride in Nevada. My only option was to follow the fence line around the property and hope it would eventually put me out on the other side so I could continue on my planned route. It did, but caused much confusion, delays, and we were forced to bushwhack through rough terrain to try to figure out how to get around the property. We were unable to access the water source.
In Goshute Valley (Elko County) I was stopped by a large gold mine operation. The mining company closed the one (County-owned) through-road to all travelers. However, this was not indicated until the perimeter of the property. We arrived, discovered the signs (photo below), and were completely stumped as to how to proceed. We spoke with a contractor at the site and explained our situation. The contractor told us we were unable to travel through the mine property. When we asked for an alternate route for travelers she did not know of one. My only options were to turn around and go back the way we came or try to find a way around the property. I chose the latter. An alternate route was extremely difficult to discern, as there were no signs indicating which way travelers should go to avoid mine property. Eventually I had to just pick a road and hope I didn't get arrested for trespassing. In the end, the detour added dozens of miles and several days of extra travel to the ride.
On the east side of the Pequop Range (Elko County) we were stopped by a locked gate and no trespassing signs on the only through-road. The signs included a phone number to call for access, which was impossible to do given the lack of cell service. We were stumped by the lack of access for travelers on what had always been a public road. Later that day we met a warden from Nevada Department of Wildlife. We asked him about the gate and signs on the road as well as the ownership status of the property. He did not know the status of the property, but told us the no trespassing signs were put up by Madeline Pickens, who owns some land in the area as part of her Mustang Monument Wild Horse Eco-Resort. He added "She's bringing Texas to Nevada," apparently referencing private land.
(Note: I have not verified the status of the land where we saw the locked gate and sign. I have not verified they were put in place by someone associated with Ms. Pickens' resort. But, I include the conversation with the warden because it did happen and I think it illustrates that people with good intentions have the potential to close off public land access.)
Ryan and I scouted all three of the previously mentioned locations in advance of the ride. At the times we scouted them, they had been open and accessible. There were other questionable issues of accessibility that occurred during the ride. They involve, what I believe to be, the willful intention by some land users to limit access of other land users.
On a BLM road going into the Egan Range someone put a makeshift gate over the cattle guard. There was a chain closing the gate but no lock. There were no signs. I arrived there at the same time as a man in a truck. He got out of his truck and walked over to the gate looking puzzled. He asked me if I knew why the gate was there. I said no, but that I thought this was a public access road. He assured me it was and told me he worked for the BLM. He said the gate shouldn't be there and complained that it would only confuse people trying to access the public land, because it gives the appearance of private property.
On a BLM road in the Owyhee Desert (Elko County), we came across a fence line and gate over the road. The gate was not locked, but there was a sign identifying it as "private property" belonging to a local hunt club. I was confused as this was the only road. We looked around and found an old BLM sign hidden in the brush. (Photo below) It had been shot through several times. The arrows on the sign indicated the road we were on was indeed a public through-road. I ignored the hunt club signs and went through the property to continue on my route.
On a BLM road in the Bull Run Mountains (Elko County) we were stopped by a cattle guard. Normally where there is a cattle guard there is a side gate. In this instance the gate had "private property" and "no trespassing" signs on it. The signs identified the property as belonging to a nearby ranch. I ignored the signs and went through the gate to continue on my route. This was one of several ranches we encountered that had erected confusing "private property" signs on public through-roads.
Incidents such as these will only increase with the transfer of public lands. You may not like the federal agencies managing public lands, but do not be fooled into thinking the land would be better off under state control or on the auction block. It most certainly would not be better off for wild horses and other wildlife. This issue is only going to grow more contentious over time, especially following the recent court ruling regarding the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. Public lands belong to all of us, not just those who make the most noise. I encourage you to get to know the public land in your state (every state has some!) and discover why it is worth preserving if not for you, then for others. And please make your voice heard. There are a number of organizations who are working hard to keep public lands in public hands.
If you are an equestrian, please check out Backcountry Horsemen of America here: https://www.bcha.org/
If you are a hiker, skiier, cyclist, etc., please check out Outdoor Alliance here: http://www.outdooralliance.org/.
If you are a hunter or angler, please check out Backcountry Hunters & Anglers here: http://www.backcountryhunters.org/
The Public Lands Foundation
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My experiences with The Nevada Discovery Ride have very much reinforced the value of public lands for me. That's why I love long riding in Nevada so much and will do all my future long rides on public lands. I wish I had seen more people out enjoying public lands during my previous rides, particularly equestrians who have a stake in keeping trails open. But no matter your interest: If you don't use it, you could lose it.
#protectpubliclands
Meredith Mayeroff
I totally agree with your conclusions. We would not be better off if our public lands were transferred to state or private control. Let's keep our trails open.
I agree, we need to very aware of what is happening to our lands and the wild horses that live on them. This should be a warning sign as to what could happen if the wrong people are voted in this election. Madeline Pickins has had a lot of sabatoge with the horses on Mustang Monument and I think the fences are to protect her horses but, she should provide alternate access to roads or trails. She did however buy private ranches and not public land though. I too am tired of our lands being sold to private interests and also being used by people who don't want to pay taxes for there use. Well, enough said, I did enjoy following your ride, just wish you could have brough back that young horse that wanted stay with you:(
Mary Cioffi
I completely agree. In Nevada the powers of politics, strongly influenced by the cattle and sheep industry would quickly end the lives of wild horses on the range. Only if the rest of the country stands up to say how much they love the wild horses running free and the federal government stays in control of our federal lands do the horses have a chance of survival.
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hi thanks i think your right try and sell it on ebay and start again . how much should i pay for a decent armour ?
Yeah, sell it or get a Refund and get a better Armor from one of the Vetted Makers.
For pricing, you have to ask them, just write them a email.
No matter what vetted maker you choose from the FISD list, you can be positive that theyre cheaper than Jedirobe.
Could be great, but information is sparse as it's not been released yet. Only certain thing is that it will be expensive and hard to get as it'll be a limited edition. There are several helmet makers that offer finished helmets at an additional fee. Just ask them.
I would not recommend that helmet. There are a lot better alternatives for only a little more money.
I wish Jedi Robe would trip and fall into a sarlac pit. They sell crap armor for insane prices. It sure would be nice if FISD could telepathically sense aspiring new troops and beat JR to the punch.
Wow, it's threads like these that I am glad I found this website. I was just about to order from jedirobe when I started looking more into the 501st website which lead me here. With all the research I have been doing I now thankfully know better and have decided on RS Props armor, which I think will make me much happier. Thank you all for you research and dedication, you all have saved a rookie like me.
Glad I went the RT-MOD way instead. I ALMOST, went the same route with Jedi robe armor. Thank's to Whitearmor.net and all of these awesome members I chose Rob for my armor. Although the wait is extremely long ( or so it feels like an eternity ) It is worth the wait!. I still haven't received mine yet but my buddy did and man I am Jealous! .
LOL- well said! I made the same mistake... live and learn! Thanks for posting the comparison pics. That will be helpful to future troopers.
Ya know, isnt that jedirobe armor recast FX? Im sure its crap quality,but why wouldnt it be approveable? FX armor is still legion approveable. It looks the same. less some softer details and probably bad quality. Not that im saying to get, or even keep it, just a thought on the look of it.
The jedirobe armour is approvable. It's been done on numerous occasions. Rubies has also been approved. But just like all the other armour it has to look good and be properly fitted to the wearer. It's just that the rubies and the jedirobe take a lot more effort to reach the goal with than other armour. Given the fact that both those armours cost twice as much as an original FX and require twice the effort to other armours it's easy to see why they should be frowned upon.
Ok yea thats what i thought. I just saw people saying its not approveable...and was like why not? Its just FX basically.
Of course i get the whole crap quality and it being recast and the price hike as good reasons to not buy it. that one point just seemed a bit off.
They got it wrong. My previous post is aimed at anyone reading this in the future. I know very well that you are up to speed with the requirements - both high and low, Lou.
Mathias is quite correct! My Jedi Robe armour was unbelievably expensive for such a poor quality kit. It was supposed to be a 'ready to wear' costume and was originally chosen because of the 'Reduced Size armour' claims. Being only 5ft 4in I naively assumed that it was my size that was the reason for the dreadfully poor fit despite the the 'reduced size'. The irony was that I only became aware of the 501st through Jedi Robe's own website! As hard to believe as it sounds I initially thought that the JR armour was 'good' (despite the fit)! After spending a little time on the 501st forums I soon discovered what good armour actually looks like and wished I'd found them earlier.
Being unable to return the armour due to already modifying it I was stuck with it and forced to make the best of a bad job. Months of hard work later I did get it cleared but had to trim every part of my 'ready to wear' armour. I also had to change the neck seal, holster, gloves, bodysuit, belt, lenses and most important of all boots! This all added to the already extortionate price I had paid for this armour.
My JR armour did get me into the 501st and all my fellow UKG Troopers have made me feel very welcome. I have done 9 troops in it but even though no one has ever made any negative remarks I always felt that the armour was second class (if not lower) despite my best efforts. I am so proud to be a part of the 501st and part of this pride means that I want to represent the 501st/UKG in the best way possible. So I have now replaced my JR armour with AP and my wife also wears this armour. Both our kits required minimal trimming compared to the JR. In my case I only had to trim the forearms, shins and thighs. More importantly the quality and fit is remarkably superior. Furthermore, the cost of both AP trimmed kits is roughly about what I paid for the JR and that says it all!


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Time to stop shaming millennials for living with their parents, personal finance experts say
By Erica Alini	Global News
Posted April 23, 2017 6:00 pm
Updated April 24, 2017 6:59 am
In this Jan. 9, 2017, photo, Andrea Ledesma, 28, second from right, talks with her mother, Cheryl Romanowski, at Classic Slice pizza restaurant, where Ledesma works, in Milwaukee. .	 Carrie Antlfinger/AP
Krystal Yee was 22 when she realized she couldn't keep up with debt payments and rent at the same time.
So she asked her parents if they would take her back in.
They did, and three years later Yee had finished school and eliminated $20,000 she had accumulated in student and credit-card debt. She even managed to squirrel away $3,000 in savings.
READ MORE: The number of young Canadians going bankrupt is rising — but student debt isn't the whole story
Moving back with her parents was "the best financial decision I ever could have taken," said Yee, who is now 34 and a popular personal finance blogger.
But it wasn't easy. In addition to the enormous self-discipline it took to stick to the austere budget Yee had imposed on herself — with a $30-per-month dining out budget, for example — there was that nagging feeling that she had failed to launch.
"I felt like I had failed, like I wasn't an adult," Yee told Global News.
All of her friends had moved out, and stayed out.
And yet, a decade or so later, many of them are still paying off their student loans.
Living with mom and dad is often the financially responsible thing to do
There are many reasons why staying at home through university or returning to the parental nest after school makes sense financially, if your family can afford it, Yee says.
Pay down debt sooner
With student debt currently averaging $26,000, living at home can be a shortcut to financial freedom. It doesn't have to be a free ride, said Yee, who paid monthly rent of $150 to her parents. Still, that cut her rental and utility expenses by $500 a month compared to when she was on her own. It allowed her to earmark $1,000 a month for debt repayment out of a take-home pay of about $2,100.
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Building real financial independence
Living at home is also an opportunity to build an emergency fund, Yee said. Having one can ensure you won't have to dip back into mom and dad's pockets if you hit a rough patch once you've moved out. For millennials, that might come in handy during a short spell of unemployment between job contracts, for example.
It's also a good idea to have some money set aside for move-out costs, such as the first and last month of rent, utility set-up fees, and furniture, said Yee. When she moved out from her parents' home in Victoria, B.C. and got a place in Vancouver, the process cost her a whopping $3,000, despite the fact that her home decor mostly consisted of IKEA hand-me-downs.
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Having adult children at home doesn't have to be a complete financial loss for parents
The key to a successful co-habitation between parents and their grown-up children is open lines of communication, says Jason Heath, a certified financial planner and managing director at Objective Financial Partners.
"It's important to set parameters," he notes.
For example, it's a good idea for young adults to share their financial objectives with their parents, as well as how long it might take to reach them, said Yee.
If you're taking advantage of room and board at mom and dad's, it's also important to give back.
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That can range from paying the market price of renting their basement to helping out with a few of the monthly expenses. Besides showing appreciation for the help you're given, keeping track of bills prepares you for managing your own household once you've finally cut the financial umbilical cord, both Yee and Heath say.
And parents who had to postpone turning the the kids' bedroom into a gym for a few more years may reap financial rewards for it later on.
Another common reason for kids to stay at home, in fact, is the need to save for a down payment on a house, especially in places like Vancouver and Toronto, said Heath.
Forty-two percent of first-time home-buyers in British Columbia received financial aid from family last year, and 35 per cent did so in Ontario, according to a recent survey by online rates-comparison site RateHub.
Even provinces with less expensive real estate saw similar numbers, with 45 per cent of Quebecois, 38 per cent of Albertans, and 33 per cent of young adults in Manitoba and Saskatchewan resorting to help from the bank of mom and dad.
READ MORE: Are federal mortgage rules actually working? Not really.
But parents who allow the kids to stay with them for a few years during or after university might find that they don't need to help them buy a house, said Heath.
"What's the bigger cost? A down payment or having your kid living in the basement?" he noted.
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Keeping student debt under control
Returning to the nest is increasingly common, but the stigma persists
Forty-two per cent of Canadians between the ages of 20 and 29 were living with their parents, according to the 2011 census. That's up from 32 per cent in 1991 and 27 per cent in 1981.
WATCH: Does your adult child still live at home? So does 42 per cent of other young adults
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Does your adult child still live at home? So does 42 per cent of other young adults
The numbers in the U.S. are similar, with 40 per cent of young Americans living with relatives as of 2015, the largest share since 1940.
That's hardly surprising given today's high cost of living, said Heath.
"A lot of kids these days are doomed to be able to come up with their own down payment," he noted.
READ MORE: 6 tax credits and deductions that can save students (and their parents) a bundle
But the older generation don't always recognize this, he added. Even someone in their mid-40s who bought a house 10 or 15 years ago would have been able to do so with far smaller outlays than millennials entering the housing market now, he noted.
Yee, who now lives in Vancouver, is old enough to remember buying a condo in the city in 2011 without too much drama. It would be a different story today, she acknowledged.
"There's still a lot of that 'I had to walk to school uphill in the snow'-type of mentality among older generations," said Heath.
"But today, it's a different world."
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Q: Is the antisymmetrisation of $a^{\mu}b^{\nu}\epsilon_{\mu\nu}= a^{[\mu}b^{\nu]}\epsilon_{\mu\nu}$ with antisymmetric tensor $\epsilon$ mandatory? When in tensor algebra the product of 2 vectors with a antisymmetric tensor appear, is antisymmetrisation compulsory ? Given an antisymmetric tensor $\epsilon_{\mu\nu}$, is
$$a^{\mu}b^{\nu}\epsilon_{\mu\nu} =  a^{[\mu}b^{\nu]}\epsilon_{\mu\nu}$$
with $a^{[\mu}b^{\nu]} = \frac{1}{2}(a^\mu b^\nu  - a^\nu b^\mu)$ to be done mandatorily?
I will give a concrete example: Guaranteeing the Poincare-covariance of a field $\phi_r$  by
$$U(L)\phi_r U(L)^{-1} = S^{-1}_{rs} (L)\phi_s(Lx)$$
using $U(L) = 1-\frac{i}{2}\epsilon_{\mu\nu} \mathbf{M}^{\mu\nu}$ and $L_{\mu\nu} = g_{\mu\nu} +\epsilon_{\mu\nu}$ ($L_{\mu\nu}$ a Lorentz transformation, $g_{\mu\nu}$  the Minkowski metric tensor) we get:
$$i \epsilon_{\mu\nu}[\mathbf{M}^{\mu\nu}, \phi_r] = \epsilon_{\mu\nu} \Sigma^{\mu\nu}_{rs}\phi_s -2 \phi,^{\tau}\epsilon_{\tau\lambda}x^\lambda $$
Apparently in order to factor out the components of the antisymmetric tensor $\epsilon_{\mu\nu}$ the following antisymmetrisation is done:
$$i \epsilon_{\mu\nu}[\mathbf{M}^{\mu\nu}, \phi_r] = \epsilon_{\mu\nu} \Sigma^{\mu\nu}_{rs}\phi_s +     \phi_r,^{\lambda}\epsilon_{\tau\lambda}x^\tau  -  \phi_r,^{\tau}\epsilon_{\tau\lambda}x^\lambda $$
before the result is obtained:
$$i [\mathbf{M}^{\mu\nu}, \phi_r] =\Sigma^{\mu\nu}_{rs}\phi_s +     \phi_r,^{\nu}x^\mu  -   \phi_r,^{\mu}x^{\nu}$$
Is the antisymmetrisation necessary in order to allow to factor out the antisymmetric $\epsilon_{\mu\nu}$ ? Apart from this particular case I have seen an antisymmetrisation in a couple of cases,
so my question is not only related with this particular case.

A: No, it is not mandatory. You can choose to add the brackets as a reminder that only the antisymmetric part of $a^\mu b^\nu$ contributes.

A: It's precisely the opposite of mandatory: it makes absolutely no difference.

Apparently in order to factor out the components of the antisymmetric tensor $\epsilon_{\mu\nu}$ the following antisymmetrisation is done:
  $$i \epsilon_{\mu\nu}[\mathbf{M}^{\mu\nu}, \phi_r] = \epsilon_{\mu\nu} \Sigma^{\mu\nu}_{rs}\phi_s +     \phi,^{\lambda}\epsilon_{\tau\lambda}x^\tau  -  \phi,^{\tau}\epsilon_{\tau\lambda}x^\lambda $$

This is a misunderstanding. We are not changing the expression by antisymmetrizing it, we are just writing it in a different way. The statement $A^{\mu\nu} \epsilon_{\mu\nu} = A^{[\mu\nu]} \epsilon_{\mu\nu}$ is always true, whether $A$ itself is antisymmetric or not.


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Qatar Airways orders five Boeing 777F freighters
19th Jun. 2019 Matt Griffin
Qatar Airways Cargo Boeing 777F. Photo: © Lars Steffens
In a press conference at the Paris Air Show, Qatar Airways CEO Akbar al Baker has announced that the airline has placed an order for five Boeing 777F freighter aircraft, to join its active fleet of 15 777F's and in addition to its outstanding order for an additional six. Deliveries from this latest order will start in 2020.
The order marks a 20% increase in Qatar's cargo fleet, which also consists of two Boeing 747-8f and eight Airbus A330-200F, with another eight A330F's on lease. This new order has a market value of US $1.8 billion at list prices.
Al Baker also stated that it would be looking to replace its cargo fleet by 2025, as the airline likes to keep a very young fleet. The airline's CEO also said that Qatar would be delighted to be the launch customer for a freighter version of the Boeing 777X, if and when it's announced by Boeing. Kevin McAllister, President and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes said that at this time, Boeing are focusing exclusively on the passenger version of the 777X, the first test aircraft of which is still yet to fly.
The first flight of the 777X (777-9 variant) was originally planned for late June, but has been delayed to 'fall 2019' due to problems with the General Electric GE9X engines that will power the worlds largest twin engine airliner.
Matt Griffin
Matt is a London-based writer and reporter for International Flight Network who has been involved in aviation from a very young age. He has a particular focus on aircraft safety, accidents and technical details.


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Places / May 27, 2010
When the late-19th-century trains of progress began chugging up the slopes of the western North Carolina mountains onto the Asheville plateau, word soon spread that this little mountain village was a latter-day Garden of Eden.
Its moderate summers appealed to tourists from the South and its short winters were a balm to their counterparts up North. A visiting young New Yorker named George Vanderbilt liked the area so much that he bought 125,000 untamed nearby acres. Vanderbilt recruited Beaux Arts master Richard Morris Hunt and landscape guru Frederick Law Olmsted – and the gifted trio would open the doors to a private and lavishly appointed Biltmore Estate on Christmas Eve, 1895.
But Asheville would become known as a year-round health resort too. Doctors sent patients there to recover from respiratory ailments, including tuberculosis. Among these was Edwin W. Grove, a millionaire tonic inventor whose St. Louis physician recommended the area to him as a cure for his bronchitis and bouts of exhaustion.
Grove was a busy man. In addition to his extremely popular "Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic" that masked the flavor of quinine and prevented malaria, he worked also with Fred Seely, a Parke-Davis Company executive, to develop the first cold tablet. During the early years of the 20th century, Grove was developing one of Atlanta's newest neighborhoods, Atkins Park, and publishing a newspaper too in that city, one that Seely edited.
By the middle of 1911, Grove had decided to finance and build a hotel on land he'd bought on the side of Sunset Mountain in Asheville. Believing there was money to be made on the lots he owned nearby, he turned to Seely – now his son-in-law – to oversee construction of his new inn.
A skilled organizer and manager, Seely proved to be precisely the right man for the job. "He hired J. W. McKibben from Atlanta to take care of the engineering, and Seely served as general contractor," said Bruce Johnson, author ot "Built for the Ages: A History of the Grove Park Inn." Seely, though untrained as an architect, is generally credited as designer of the building.
At groundbreaking ceremonies on July 9, 1912, he promised to open the inn in one year – on July 1, 1913. "He hired 400 men, offering them the best wages in town, and hiring them away from other projects," Bruce said. "He took charge from the first day and ram-rodded it through."
Halfway up the slope of Sunset Mountain, the Grove Park Inn with its 150 guest rooms began to take shape. Its massive stones, some weighing as much as 10,000 pounds, were hoisted into wagons and moved by "auto train" to the site. Chains, pulleys and timbers manipulated the granite blocks inside to form twin fireplaces in the Great Hall. Each one, composed of 120 tons of granite, rose two stories high and spread 36 feet wide, designed to burn eight-foot logs.
Its roof design utilized the relatively new technology of poured concrete, which meant that it could be touted as 100 percent fireproof. "There were stone walls, and no wooden roof, but poured concrete instead with clay tiles on top," Bruce said. "It was an effective marketing tool at a time when the guests' greatest fear was a building burning down around them."
With its arts and craft furnishings by the White Furniture Company of Mebane, N.C., its fixtures by the Roycroft Copper Shop of East Aurora, N.Y, and its carpets woven in France, it was at once quite grand – and rustic too.
And it was also on time– almost.
"Seely missed the deadline by twelve days," Bruce said. "The opening banquet was held on July 12, 1913."
For years it was open only eight months out of twelve, but the inn is a nonstop affair these days. In his introduction to Bruce's book, President and CEO J. Craig Madison invites readers to take a close look at the giant oak doors at its entrance.
"There is no lock," he writes. "We operate twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, three hundred and sixty-five days a year."
For more information on the Grove Park Inn, go to www.groveparkinn.com
For more information on Bruce Johnson, go to www.askbrucejohnson.com
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The French poster for CONQUEROR OF CORINTH used the likeness of Edy Vessel (right, from THE TROJAN HORSE) for the artwork of one of the film's posters even though she's not in the movie; Genevieve Grad is the blonde star of CONQUEROR OF CORINTH and she doesn't look like Edy, in real life or on this poster. Confusing.
You have pointed out how they borrowed images from existing posters and usee them anew ... regardless of the stars involved!