Today I feel polemical and I want to answer to all those people that 2 years ago said " Well, if you had to be a nanny, you could have stayed in Italy". I read many stories of girls complaining that their parents do not understand and they think it is just a waste of time. I decided to explain what this wasting of time could give you. Read carefully..
Let's say that I came here to be a nanny, and so? I did not like Italian kids and I wanted to try with the American ones ahhaha. Just kidding, all kids are cute and nice ( now all the au pairs reading my blog will be laughing). I was saying something else btw. Why do people have to care about what others do? Why do they have to care if I decide to go to Spain, Brazil, Japan to sell fidget spinners?
Did you get it? Everyone is free to do whatever she\he wants and moreover, hats off to us that had the courage to leave!
Many people think it is a wasting of time, a mistake. Leaving our own house, our country, our family to "experience other countries". Some of us gave up on the school, others on their jobs to try something new. I know, it can be hard for a parent to accept the idea of a son leaving, especially if they are not done with school. Well, everything we think to have lost or left leaving, will be found again! We do not lose anything, we only win. On all fronts.
Speaking about my personal experience, I can say that being a "nanny", as the haters call us, gave me so much, even more than I was expecting. I travelled, I visited, I discovered, I tasted, I met, I dreamt. Think about those places that you only know thanks to movies, places that seem unreal and impossible to reach. Being a nanny allowed me to visit some of them and even live in others. I'll show you some of them..
Everyone would agree if I say that one of the most important things when we live abroad is meeting new friends. If you have been abroad..you will understand me. The relatioships that start during these years are special, strong, profound because we share the same life, the same feelings, the same fears; we can talk about the same topic ( without annoying them) and these friends will be our family. In these months I met amazing people from all over the world, friends that will always have a place in my heart, friends that I want to meet again somewhere in the world. Knowing people from all over the world is an endless source of curiosity, you always discover new culture and habits, they teach you something about them and you can teach them something about your own country. You will not forget your old friends, the ones "from home". There will be that friend that will never call you or text you, you will be disappointed by some friends that will forget about you as soon as your plane takes off. But you will also find out which ones were true friends.
But the winner is..the awareness that you have changed. Yes, you did change! You look behind and you see how much you have accomplished all by yourself, you see that you are not the same person you were when you left. When we are alone, in a foreign country, even with a different language, no one is there to help you, no one will give you the answers but you will have to find them getting out from your comfort zone. You become independent, brave, confident and this is something that no one can take from you, not even when you will go back home.


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Media Release: Edinburgh celebrates La Fete de la Musique with an eclectic programme of free concerts
THE Institut francais brings the Fete de la Musique to Edinburgh with a programme of free concerts ranging from rock to pop music, with jazz and world music tones, on Friday 21 June.
La Fête de la Musique will start with a key figure of the Edinburgh music scene: Rosie Nimmo. Regular performer at this event, Rosie Nimmo and her smooth voice will take us on journey through her musical universe combining jazz, folk and blues tones.
La Clinik du Dr Poemback will add a touch of madness to this 2013 Fête. Coming straight fromBelgium, this likeable twenty-musician brass band condenses all elements of fantasy, burlesque and festivity. They will bring a vibrant energy to the Institut with an eclectic repertoire mixing the best of world music, tango, jazz and techno.
The evening will turn into a rocking hullaballoo with the Beat Poets, a band formed in 1986 by guitarist Tom Rafferty and saxophonist Keith Bruce. The Beats Poets were instrumental in bringing over the legend of the surf guitar Dick Dale to play concerts in Scotland and they also performed with legendary Memphis singer and songwriter of Big Star and the Box Tops, the late Alex Chilton, at the Glasgow Fair on Glasgow Green.
Finally, Jack and The' will close our Fête de la musique on a charming pop touch. Strongly influenced by 60s pop music, this quartet, led by Edinburgh-based French musician, Julien Lonchamp, combines catchy melodies with elaborate orchestrations and song structures.
The Bistrot will be open until late and will serve food and drinks throughout the evening.
Launched in 1982 by the French ministry for culture, La Fête de la Musique has since become an unmissable annual event. Its concept: offering free concerts on the street and in public places, performed by voluntary musicians, both amateur and professional.
Celebrated in over 110 countries around the world, including Scotland, it is now recognised as the world's largest music event.
For further information, interviews and images, please contact Vanessa Bismuth: 0131 2207751 or pr@ifecosse.org.uk
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La Fete de la Musique
Date: Friday 21 June 2013, from 6.00pm
Venue: Institut français d'Ecosse, 13 Randolph Crescent, EH3 7TT Edinburgh
FREE event. Non-ticketed. No booking required.
Full programme:
ROSIE NIMMO : 6.00 pm (50 mins)
www.rosienimmo.com
LA CLINIK DU Dr POEMBAK : 7.00 pm and 8.30 pm (2 x 30 mins)
www.dr.poembak.org
THE BEAT POETS : 7.30 pm (50 mins)
www.myspace.com/originalbeatpoets
JACK AND THE' : 9.00 pm (50 mins)
www.vimeo.com/jackandthe
The Institut français d'Ecosse is the agency of the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs with responsibility for cultural activity outside France. In Scotland, the agency is represented by the Institut français d'Ecosse (Edinburgh) which promotes French language and culture by providing French courses and organising events (film screenings, talks, exhibitions, concerts, etc.). It also aims to encourage cross-cultural exchange between France and Scotland, in cooperation with Scottish Francophile institutions. Additional information is available on www.ifecosse.org.uk or follow us on Twitter @ifecosse.
MEDIA RELEASE posted by The Institut francais. You too can post media releases (aka press releases) on allmediascotland.com. For more information, email here.
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Ohema Ohene is a London based British boutique brand that specialise in culturally influenced clothing which is sophisticated with an urban edge. The brand makes both male and female clothing.
The name Ohema Ohene is derived from a local Ghanaian language Twi. Ohema means Queen and Ohene means King.


The VB lab team return to Red Hat for the latest VB100 on Linux. Results were strong, with a clean sweep of passes, and for the most part excellent detection rates and stability. John Hawes has the details.
Once again our annual Linux test rolls around, giving the lab team the chance to take a break from Windows and dabble with something a little different. This time we return to Red Hat, with another rather reduced field of participants and the usual opportunities for simple automation making for a pleasantly low-interaction test, giving us time to work on several long-planned projects to improve and expand our data collection.
In general, stability is better with simpler command-line products, but hopes of a trouble-free ride don't usually last long in the VB test lab and we stood prepared to dive in and try to diagnose any arcane issues we might encounter. As usual with Linux products, we expected to see a range of interesting approaches, likely to test to the utmost our ability to uncover odd install and configuration methods.
Red Hat's commercial Enterprise Linux product line has been around for over a decade now, gradually evolving over time. As is generally the case with Linux versions designed for long-term stability, it lacks a few of the bells, whistles and shiny surfaces adopted by more aggressively cutting edge distros. The install process is nevertheless reasonably user-friendly and clear, with some handy basic admin tools for those not keen on digging into the nitty-gritty of configuration files.
All of our test systems were deployed with a matching image featuring basic tools including file server components. A client running Windows 7 was attached to each, using a Samba share as a network drive. All test sets were deployed to this share, and our standard performance tests tweaked slightly to allow them to be run from the Windows machines, with the Linux servers recording some performance data in parallel.
The test sets included the most recent WildList available on the 17 December test deadline – the v4.012 list, which was released on the same day. The clean sets used for false positive testing were updated with a selection of common business packages, and a selection of Linux samples harvested from a range of different Linux versions were also thrown into the mix. The sample sets used for our RAP tests were compiled daily using the latest new samples seen by our lab on each of the appropriate dates.
With all we needed in place, it was time to get our hands dirty and try out the products.
Avast's Linux server solution was provided as a pair of RPM installers, which proved simple and effective. The main daemons are controlled using start-up scripts and options, and the command-line scanner is also clean and clear with simple settings.
The main point of interest was the on-access protection, which covers shared folders on-write only, with no on-read blocking. Enabling it should be as simple as pointing it at the shares you want to be covered and starting up the daemon, but we found that this wasn't always the case, with some of our efforts failing to get it to run properly and leaving the file share inaccessible from our client. We soon got the hang of things though, and got it alerting on attempts to write dangerous items to the share.
Scanning speeds were a little on the slow side, with our standard file access speed measures rendered unusable by the lack of on-read scanning, but our set of activities showed only a small slowdown. Other than the odd start-up issues, stability was decent.
Detection was strong across the board, with good scores in the reactive sets and just a slight trailing off into the proactive areas. The WildList was covered without any problems, and there were no false alarms in the clean sets, earning Avast a VB100 award.
AVG's Linux solution came as a single RPM file providing a selection of daemons and tools, with decent usage instructions and fairly clear syntax. Configuration is mostly achieved by passing commands into the various modules rather than the more old-school method of editing files, but is reasonably simple once you've got the hang of it.
Enabling the on-access protection was as simple as passing in a path and enabling a daemon, and it seemed to work nicely from the off.
Scanning speeds were pretty fast over all file types, and although file access lag times were noticeable, they were not too heavy. Our set of tasks showed fairly minimal slowdown, and there were no problems with stability.
Detection was very good indeed, with good scores even into the later parts of the RAP sets, and the certification sets were handled well, earning AVG a VB100 award.
Bitdefender's solution was provided as a scripted RPM installer which just required executing and following some basic questions and answers.
The on-access component uses a VFS object to cover specific Samba shares. This must be dropped into place, then the Samba services restarted, with just a few small tweaks required to get it active and optimized. Operations are performed by passing in commands to a suite of tools. Configuration is adjusted in this manner too, although traditionalists will find it more user-friendly simply to dump the configuration out to a file, make alterations there and read it back in again – a process which is also fairly straightforward.
Scanning speeds were pretty decent, but accessing files on the share did seem rather slow, and once again our set of activities took a very long time to complete (something we are continuing to investigate). Stability was mostly OK, but we did note a number of scans crashing out with segmentation fault errors, and also observed some lack of complete activity recording in the logs.
Detection was strong, with a gradual decline through the RAP sets. The clean and WildList sets presented no problems, earning Bitdefender another VB100 award.
The Linux file server solution from eScan arrived as four separate RPM packages which needed to be put in place in order. The developers provided an extensive list of dependencies, but most of these were already in place on a fairly basic Red Hat install.
Some edits to the Samba configuration file were required to activate the on-access protection, which was again provided via a Samba VFS object. Configuration is mainly performed from a web interface, which is fairly clear and simple to navigate, but hard-core admins may find it annoying not to be able to monitor or make all required adjustments from the command line. A lengthy and detailed manual is provided along with the install bundle, as a PDF document.
Scanning speeds were fairly average, but we ran into a number of snags in the on-access speed and performance tests. Some parts of the performance measure seemed to upset the product somewhere, causing the Samba share to lock up and become inaccessible, repeatedly interrupting the flow of our automated measuring system. Despite our best efforts, no data could be gathered in this area. Given the loss of connectivity to the file share, this was treated as a fairly serious problem, and the product's stability is rated only 'Fair'.
Detection elsewhere seemed good though, with high scores in the reactive sets and not too much of a decline into the proactive parts of the sets, and the WildList and clean sets were handled well too. A VB100 award is earned by eScan.
ESET's multi-NIX solution is another single RPM installer with just a single dependency we found we had to fulfil for compatibility. A suite of control tools is provided, which all seemed well documented with clear and sensible syntax, and configuration is performed using the tried-and-trusted approach of editing configuration files.
For on-access protection, a few small additions are required to some of the Samba control files and the solution's own configuration, which must be followed by a restart of the services to get things up and running nice and easily.
Scanning was a little slow over archives and binaries but very rapid elsewhere, and the impact of the protection on the time taken to access files on the protected share was minimal, only noticeable over archives with the settings turned up to the max. Our set of activities also ran through very rapidly, barely showing any slowdown over the baseline measures, and stability was rock-solid throughout.
Detection was decent, with reasonable scores in the response sets and not too steep a decline into the proactive sets. There were no issues once again in the core certification sets, and ESET comfortably extends its epic run of VB100 success with yet another award.
Last up this month is Kaspersky's offering, which has caused quite some head-scratching in the past, but after several runs in the last few years is almost starting to make sense to the lab team. Another single RPM sets everything up nicely, with a set-up process asking the most important questions. Control is provided from a series of tools, the main one helpfully being labelled 'kav4fs-control', and increasingly complex strings of commands are passed in via these in lieu of the more usual configuration file method. Once again, those clinging onto the old ways can output the whole lot into a file, edit it, and read it back in – an approach we found increasingly useful.
The on-access component can operate in a range of ways, but in our case a simple Samba VFS approach seemed the most suitable and required minimal effort to set up, the product inserting the appropriate lines into the Samba config file and getting everything working nicely in next to no time.
Scanning wasn't the fastest, and accessing files showed a noticeable, if not excessive slowdown, with a similarly clear impact on the speed of our set of standard activities. Stability was mostly good, but one scan did seem to freeze up and had to be restarted.
Detection was OK, with a very gentle decline through the response sets, and the core sets were dealt with easily, earning Kaspersky another VB100 award and rounding off a successful month for all participants.
As usual in our Linux comparatives, the field of players was small and all participants have both long and distinguished histories in our tests and international reputations – helping to keep horrors and headaches to a minimum. But as is also the norm, there was plenty of room for confusion and bewilderment as the various diverse approaches had to be figured out and implemented.
Results were strong, with a clean sweep of passes once again, and for the most part excellent detection rates and stability. Our performance measures were rather curtailed this month as we focused on development of the latest version of our more in-depth Windows measuring system – a new and more regular version of which we hope to unveil in the next few months. Stability was mostly very good indeed, with little to complain about in most cases, perhaps mainly thanks to the absence of graphical interfaces; these seem to be the area most likely to introduce wobbles.
Next up is another jumbo Windows comparative (Windows 8.1). At the time of writing, testing is already complete with just the processing of results and compilation of the report to come, so we hope to have that available shortly. As usual, we welcome any comments, complaints, suggestions or criticisms, and hope to continue to improve and expand our testing offerings.
Test environment. All tests were run on identical systems with AMD A6-3670K Quad Core 2.7GHz processors, 4GB DUAL DDR3 1600MHz RAM, dual 500GB and 1TB SATA hard drives and gigabit networking, running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Standard x64 Edition. On-access and performance tests were performed from a client using the same hardware and running Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit Professional Edition, with SP1, connected to a Samba share on each test server.


You have more in common with your roofing shingles than you realize. Your roof will change its appearance and age over the years, just like we do. Even a one-year old roof looks different than a roof installed last month. Normal weathering and appearance changes are par for the course. Even if your roof is just a few years old, you may notice signs of aging roof shingles like cracks or blistering. Rest assured that these are common occurrences and do not indicate your roof will fail or was installed improperly.
In a perfect world, you could trust any roofer and eat all the ice cream you wanted without a gaining a ounce. However, we live in the real world and just like in any field, there are roofers you can trust and those you can't.
Knowing the 5 most common roofing scams can prevent you from becoming a victim.
1. A salesman representing a roofer going door to door.
Salesman is the key word here. These aren't roofers. They specialize in selling. Maybe they'll promise a free roof inspection. They'll probably find something wrong, perhaps cause some damage themselves. Then they'll offer you a free estimate, or sometimes even a free roof.


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Legacy of a Rising Star, the late Ebony Reigns
Ebony '90s Bad Gyal' Reigns striking a pose | © Ofoe Amegavie
Kwame Aidoo
It was a sad day for Ghana when Priscilla Opoku-Kwarteng (February, 16 1997 – February, 8 2018), better known as musical artist Ebony Reigns, was involved in a fatal car accident at Nyamebekyere near Mankranso on the Sunyani-Kumasi road together with army personnel Atsu Vondee and her assistant and pal Franklina Yaa Nkansah Kuri. Her talent will never be forgotten.
Her parents, Ghana-based travel consultant Nana Opoku Kwarteng and UK-based beautician Beatrice Oppong introduced her to reggae music at a young age in their home at the Accra suburb, Dansoman Last Stop. The musical influence grew on her, and she majestically embodied it in much the same vein as Jamaican artist Lady Saw when shecame out with Raw: Best Of in 1998.
Ebony '90s Bad Gyal' Reigns striking a pose | © Ofoe Amegavie
Musical beginnings
Her basic school education was at Christian Home and Seven Great Princess Academy in Accra. In December 2014, prior to enrollment for third year at Methodist Girls High School, Mamfe in the Akuapim North District, Ebony made up her mind to go at her lifetime career, with the support of her father. Her manager Ricky Nana Agyemang, also known as Bullet, knew he was the right person for this job when he received her voice note.
The bubbly and talented singer, Ebony Reigns | © Ofoe Amegavie
After signing to Ruff Town record label, the first single, Dancefloor dropped in December 2015 and took off. Her last album Bonified was talk of the town. With four hits lined up: Poison, Sponsor, Maame Hwɛ and Date Ur Fada on the charts simultaneously, she was on to take over the world.
Career successes
Good times for such a free-spirited person in Ghana meant backlash – usually about her performance outfits of choice – but the artist was never swayed from her dreams. Ebony Reigns's songs became radio hits, landing her a nomination at the 2016 Ghana Music Awards and wins at Bass Awards, People's Celebrity Awards 2017 and 4syte Music Video Awards.
The late artiste was recently nominated for the African Fans' Favorite category at the All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) 2017 edition.
Outpouring of grief
The afrobeats and dancehall queen, who also penned poetry, was looking forward to go on a European trip when the fatal accident happened. Several musicians, radio and TV faces who showed up at Ebony's one-week commemoration including Shatta Wale, Bola Ray, Fella Makafui, Obrafour, Moesha Boduong, Bukom Banku, Songo, Bisa Kdei, Sarkodie and Abeiku Santana. Heartwarming messages flowed from everywhere to family and friends.
As well as John Mahama and Dr. Bawumia, Ghana's current President Nana Akufo-Addo shared consoling words:
Saddened by the news of the death of the young, but extremely talented female artiste, Priscilla Opoku-Kwarteng, aka Ebony Reigns.
— Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) February 9, 2018
During the one-week commemoration, her father and number one fan, Nana Poku Kwarteng, outlined that the actual funeral date and venue are yet to be announced.


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Q: How deeply can you nest classes in VB Dot Net? I would have thought that the answer to this would be easy to find in S.O. or the internet, but I have not been successful. From what I have read so far, my current understanding is just 2 levels - the outer class and then any number of inner classes at level 2.

A: It appears you would like to continue to organize your code in a series of collapsible "regions", but you would like to prevent simple plain text from being used for naming.
Classes could be used for this but unless you convert all the functions and methods to Shared, they won't be accessible unless these classes are instantiated first. Plus, this isn't really what classes should be used for. I would suggest using Namespaces.
Namespaces are used to separate the naming of functions and methods so multiple with the same name can exist within the same project without issues. They must each have their own namespace which must be specified when referencing the function/method in code (e.g. NamespaceName.FunctionName).

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Here's ASA 2012
Re Caroline Crocker's "Has the American Scientific Affiliation Forgotten Their Stated Identity:
Well, sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn't. Consider eugenics:
In 1911, it editorialized about "The Science of Breeding Better Men":
The proper attitude to be taken toward the perpetuation of poor types is that which has been attributed to [Thomas] Huxley. "We are sorry for you," he is reported to have said; "we will do our best for you (and in so doing we elevate ourselves, since mercy blesses him that gives and him that takes), but we deny you the right to parentage. You may live, but you must not propagate."
The only really big institution that did not endorse eugenics was the Roman Catholic Church, and that fact was widely cited as incontrovertible evidence of the Church's "anti-science" backwardness.
Who was right in the end? Who was right? More.
"… science" has a restricted meaning in the view of many journalists. It means, for example, the truth of human-caused global warming, the necessity of human embryonic stem cell research, and the view that human mind is indistinguishable from the chimpanzee mind. "Anti-science" means, by contrast, doubt about human influence on global warming compared with the Sun's cycles, confidence that adult stem cells (especially the patient's own cells) work well, and doubt that chimpanzees really think like people.
As we start hearing the spin on what Crocker has reported here, keep this in mind: If the best they've got is, "Your view is 'anti-science,'" smell a rat.
Incidentally, it wasn't especial sanctity that prevented the Catholic Church's involvement (when most other churches did cave) in eugenics; rather, antiquity. The Church knew that the most reliable, most ancient prejudice in society is that the rabble are too numerous and that they're the reason everything is going downhill. That prejudice is usually wrong, occasionally right, but in no way a guide to decision-making. And calling it science is no help at all.
Neither, probably, were the prejudices aired at the ASA meeting.
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One Reply to "Why is "science" better than "anti-science" anyway?"
wateron1 says:
Ive been trying to stick up for ID and show some cited research by you guys. If you don't mind, and have the time, can you give me a good come back for the smoke screen below, in quotes. Was asking this person for empirical evidence for Neodarwinsim, and was hit by this:
"Hmmmm ever hear of oil and coal? Where do you think so many organic beings ended up? Why do you think they call these things "fossil fuels?" This is what we get instead of fossils in most situations.
The depth you ignorance appears limitless. You will never be able to put together a complete chain of transitional forms for every species alive today because of the difficulty of providing every step in the chain of evolution. However, there are some that are very well defined. Go look for horses or elephants as two interesting examples.
Why do you think the creatures that were alive millions of years ago are mostly extinct today? Why are there no fossils of say a red breasted robin at the same time we had dragon flies nearly 3 feet long? The reasons are simple – these species did not exist at the same time. Moreover, species like extremely large insects could *NOT* exist today because of changes in our atmosphere that occurred over time.
How do you explain species arriving and disappearing in the fossil record? Is the designer continually introducing new species and taking some away? Simple logic says one of two things must be true: 1. creation must be a continuous process for which species are created and some are destroyed. 2. There must be some mechanism of biological change that allows species to change and adapt to environmental changes. The strongest evidence is for door #2.
The *MODERN* theory of evolutionary biology does not hinge on a complete fossil record. *MODERN* evolutionary biology includes biochemistry, genetics, comparative morphology at the molecular and gross levels, and orders of magnitude more fossils than were available to Darwin. Go research retroviral markers in human DNA, chromosomal merging in human chromosome 2, pseudo gene sequences, etc.
What you need to do is read a few books about science that were written without a political or social agenda in mind. Start with Wikipedia and pull up some references. The best cure for ignorance is better information"
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Diagrams show some of the first phase of improvements slated for Fraser Highway.
Price tag grows for first phase of Fraser Highway expansion in Abbotsford
Projected cost of first phase rises from $7 million to $9.3 million
Tyler Olsen
The cost for the first phase of Fraser Highway improvements has increased substantially.
The city has put together a three-part plan to try to reduce traffic congestion on the local artery. Although the third stage of the plan will be to widen the road, the city will first install left-turn lanes at key intersections and undertake other work intended to alleviate bottlenecks.
The cost of that first phase was originally pegged at $7 million, but more design work has turned out a more-precise – and larger – estimate of the final cost. That, combined with frontage work that will add another $400,000 to the total, has increased the project's budget to $9.3 million.
The total cost of the final project is estimated at $45 million.
The city has taken heat for not proceeding directly to four-laning the road, but engineering staff say that the first phase of improvements combined with the extension of Marshall Road to King Road, will have a substantial effect on traffic flow.
In feedback sessions and online, residents have accused the city of wasting money by doing work but not immediately widening the highway.
Rob Issaac, the city's engineering general manager, said that much of the work done in the first phase of improvements will contribute to the final, widened version of Fraser Highway.
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"The works that are being done along Fraser Highway today, the majority of those works will be used in future phases," Isaac said at a recent council meeting. "They're not throwaway works. Ultimately they'll tie into the long-term cross-section along Fraser Highway."
Mayor Henry Braun said the cost of the project also requires it to be undertaken in stages.
The city's applications for federal and provincial funding for the first stage were denied. Braun said the city will make future applications for the second and third stages of the project.
The cost to widen Fraser Highway is a legacy of a trade between the city and the provincial governments decades ago. While Abbotsford once bought its airport from the feds for just $10, it didn't make out quite so well when it and the feds swapped Fraser Highway for Mt. Lehman Road.
Both roads have required expansion, but the recent widening of Mt. Lehman between the airport and Highway 1 cost $27.5 million, with the federal government and province paying for $25.5 million.
Fraser Highway, meanwhile, will cost about double that sum.
"We got the short end of that stick," Braun said.
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JBL monitors sport a new look and a new sound.Just about everyone in the music industry has heard of JBL. The company has a long and distinguished history of manufacturing monitors for recording studios and live sound applications. However, while JBL's live sound products are as popular as ever, its studio monitors have fallen out of favor during the past decade, mostly due to their harsh, ear-fatiguing high end. But far from being down for the count, JBL has jumped back into the ring with an impressive new line of speakers, the Linear Spatial Reference (LSR) studio monitor series.
Designed completely from the ground up, the four available LSR models neither look nor sound like any of JBL's previous monitors. The LSR28P is an active 2-way with an 8-inch low-frequency driver ($2,198 per pair). A perfect example of the new line, the LSR28P is impressive-looking, with patented parts and rear-panel DIP switches for tweaking everything from input levels to frequency response.
The other three models of the LSR series are the larger LSR32, a passive 3-way with a 12-inch woofer ($1,099 each); the diminutive LSR25P, an active 2-way with a 5-inch woofer ($958 per pair); and an active subwoofer, the LSR12P ($1,199).
Needless to say, these speakers must be situated on a sturdy piece of furniture. Forget about putting them on a workstation's flimsy monitor leaves - the kind that jut out from a workstation's sides and are supported by little triangular braces. Planting them on a big workstation (like the Omnirax Pro Station) or the top of a custom console desk should hold them securely. If you prefer speaker stands, make sure they are heavy-duty with wide bases so they don't tip over from top-heavy loads. For wall mounting, a wall-to-bottom bracket is a must; JBL recommends the Omnimount 100WB. However, there are no predrilled holes on the cabinet for such a bracket, so you'll have to drill them yourself - or have a licensed sound installation technician do the job.
Black with a charcoal-gray face, the LSR28Ps appear at first glance ominous and monolithic in stature. But on closer inspection, several details come to light that are all but invisible in the LSR print ads. The baffle (the faceplate to which the speakers are mounted) is separated from the cabinet body by a 11/44-inch-thick silver trim. It features a bar-top-style finish of clear gloss laminate over a silver, fiberglass-like material that is actually a special carbon-fiber-composite skin wrapped around a foam core. This design purportedly cuts coloration down to a minimum by allowing little resonance. The cabinet, made of 31/44-inch medium-density fiberboard, sports a glossy black finish.
The monitors have no grates, so the speaker cones are exposed. This is great for the sound but leaves the cones unprotected, so keep clumsy musicians bearing sharp objects (like pencils, picks, or fingernails) far away. There isn't any protective covering for the tweeter, neither a metal grate nor a miniature roll bar (the LSR25Ps feature these). Luckily, the tweeters are set quite deep into the waveguides, affording them some protection, but a misplaced finger could easily dent one of the cones.
DIP AND CONNECTA power button is located on the rear of the speaker; I prefer a more accessible front-mounted power switch. If the monitors are set over a console with their backs to the wall, reaching the button can be difficult, so the LSR28Ps are best turned on and off from a power bar. An LED on the speaker's face glows green to indicate power, and it flashes red to show clipping.
The monitor draws its juice from a standard IEC Type II power cable, and a generous 9 11/42-foot cable comes standard. Power is switchable between 115 and 230 VAC from a switch on the back of the unit. The power amp operates at either 50 or 60 Hz. A 5-amp line fuse is employed on units shipped Stateside, whereas units shipped out of the country get a 2.5-amp fuse. If you plan on taking these speakers with you outside the United States (as if hauling them to your studio isn't enough of a workout), make sure you have the right fuses packed.
The LSR28P features Neutrik dual 11/44-inch and XLR input jacks. The 11/44-inch jack is balanced but accepts unbalanced plugs. Input can be attenuated with the DIP switches by 4, 8, or 12 dB (-12 dB is achieved by turning on the -4 and -8 dB switches simultaneously). An input trim control, adjustable from 0 to -12 dB, is also provided. The trim is activated by its own discrete DIP switch and can be used in conjunction with the preset attenuation switches for fine level control.
Three low-frequency and two high-frequency DIP switches allow you to tune the speakers; these are great for adjusting the monitors' output to match the acoustics of the room. Bass can be cut or boosted by 2 dB below 150 Hz. The default low-frequency roll-off is set to a 36 dB octave slope, but it is switchable to a 24 dB octave slope for extended low end. This is excellent for monitoring subharmonic bass - you may not hear these frequencies, but you can see the woofers working. Highs can be cut or boosted by 2 dB above 1.8 kHz.
COOL SPEAKERSA 1-inch titanium-composite diaphragm tweeter handles the high frequencies. This design is said to improve transient response and reduce distortion, especially at low volumes. The waveguide surrounding the tweeter is an elliptical oblate spheroidal type with a reported 100 5 60-degree dispersion rating, a targeted listening area of ñ30 degrees horizontally and ñ15 degrees vertically - a very respectable sweet spot.
The woofer, built around a patented voice coil that JBL calls a Differential Drive, is a carbon-fiber-composite cone supported by a soft butyl rubber surround. The woofer uses two drive coils for twice the cooling surface area of traditional speakers (which use a single coil). According to JBL, this reduces spectral shift - the thermal-related effects that alter a monitor's sound at different amplitudes - and the LSR28Ps sound even across all volumes. A third coil between the two drive coils functions as a dynamic brake, limiting extreme excursion and reducing distortion at peak levels.
Though neither the woofer nor the tweeter is shielded, the monitors emit incredibly low magnetic radiation. When I first got the LSR28Ps, I assumed they were shielded and I planted them on either side of my computer monitor, about two feet away from the screen. Amazingly, there were no ill effects. According to JBL, the speaker directs its focused magnetic energy inward toward the drivers, resulting in very little magnetic leakage. Well-built computer monitors with internal self-shielding can likely sit close to the LSR28Ps; inexpensive screens with no internal self-shielding probably won't fare so well.
A dual-flared bass port that JBL calls a Linear Dynamics Aperture (imagine a tube with outward-sloping edges on both sides) is located on the cabinet's rear. The oval-shaped port is quite large, measuring about 511/42 inches wide by 311/42 inches tall - big enough to put your whole forearm into and grab the tweeter's magnet, if you feel so inclined. The port's architecture is supposed to eliminate air turbulence at high volumes, an affliction suffered by smaller, more traditional bass ports.
POWER TO SPAREThe LSR28Ps are biamplified with an active, sixth-order Linkowitz-Riley crossover set at 1.7 kHz. The custom-designed linear amplifiers were created by JBL exclusively for the new LSR series, and they pack an impressive 250W for the woofer and 120W for the tweeter. This is more than enough power to drive each transducer, and the added headroom translates, in theory, to better fidelity at high volumes.
A giant aluminum heat sink covering a large portion of the cabinet's rear helps regulate the amplifier's temperature. Even when left on for a 12-hour-plus stretch, the heat sink is still comfortable to the touch. With such efficient thermal regulation, these speakers are apt to last a long time. JBL reports that the LSR28Ps can be left on for more than 300 hours at a stretch with no problems - that's one long session.
FLAT AND PHATThe LSR28Ps are the flattest-sounding monitors I've ever heard. Although there's no such thing as completely "flat," these monitors are very unhyped and easy to listen to, with no unpleasant or ear-fatiguing frequency bumps. Also, despite the even, uncolored response curve, they provide plenty of sonic clarity: pianos sound warm and clear, kicks sound phat, guitars sound punchy, synth pads sound sweet, and vocals sound present. Compared with the LSR28Ps, other monitors of a similar ilk (Haflers, Genelecs, Meyers, HHBs) sound harsh, with exaggerated high ends and weak bottoms.
I said these monitors sound incredibly flat, but now I'm going to tell you that the low end sounds incredibly big. Somehow, the LSR28Ps pump out bass that belies their 8-inch woofers without sounding unnatural or affected (hip-hop and drum 'n' bass aficionados, take note). I attribute the large, warm low end to the LDA bass port. A lot of air moves out of this port with very little resistance, a key factor for proper porting. However, the amount of bass these speakers put out is so great that it's more than many small studios need. Using the -2 dB low-frequency cut to decrease the bass response worked well for my room (a -4 dB cut would also be nice). Keeping the monitors away from sounding boards, such as walls and corners, also helps reduce the low end.
LISTEN TO THISI used the LSR28Ps while recording and monitoring DI bass tracks to Pro Tools. I also used them to mix several electronica projects (mostly drum 'n' bass and trance) as well as an acoustic-flavored adult-alternative project by singer-songwriter Lygia Ferra. The monitors were positioned close to my other main near-fields (Hafler TRM8s), so I could swap back and forth as I mixed.
This has been said before, but it bears repeating: determining whether monitors sound good is purely subjective. I thought the LSR28Ps sounded great, but I would shy away from using them as my main near-field monitors. The LSR28Ps are just too big - in size and bass - to use in a standard close-field position. About five to six feet back from the console would be fine, but I consider this distance to be more midfield than near-field, as my near-fields are placed about three to four feet from where I sit. I would be proud, however, to use a pair of these monitors in my studio as midfields.
Bottom line: the LSR28Ps are solid in terms of both sound quality and technology. A bit more expensive than your average powered monitors, they are still competitively priced a few hundred dollars less than Hafler TRM8s and several thousand less than Genelec 1031As. JBL is to be commended on its new sound; the company has come a long way.
The LSR28Ps sound so much flatter than the older JBL monitors, as well as many competing models, that some folks will have difficulty warming up to them. But give them a chance. If you haven't heard JBL's studio monitors recently, have a listen; they're what flat should sound like.


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8 factors shaping the future of big data, machine learning and AI
AI and machine learning combined with ever-increasing amounts of data are changing our commercial and social landscapes. A number of themes and issues are emerging within these sectors that CIOs need to be aware of.
By Martin De Saulles
Contributing writer, CIO |
I've just spent a couple of days at O'Reilly's Strata Data Conference in London and got a much better idea where the world of big data, machine learning (ML) and AI may be heading. These sectors have developed rapidly over the last 5 years with new technologies, processes and applications changing the way organisations are managing their data.
The Strata conference provides a good barometer of what the state-of-the-art is in big data manipulation as well as the concerns of developers and users. Eight key points emerged for me from the event.
1. 5G will stimulate the growth of ML and result in new applications and services
I spoke with O'Reilly's Chief Data Scientist and Strata organiser, Ben Lorica about this and he sees the increased bandwidth and flexibility of 5G as well as the move to edge computing as key enablers. He pointed out that China is a leading global force in this technology but that many firms are still working out the business models for all the 5G investments they are making.
2. Changing skillsets for data scientists
Cassie Kozyrkov, Google Cloud's chief decision scientist, pointed out in her talk that as the UX for ML tools is improved, the skills required will become less technical and more focused on the ability of data scientists to work across silos and be more integrated into the business.
3. The online and offline worlds are merging
China's Alibaba ecommerce group and Amazon are experimenting with physical store spaces while bricks and mortar stores are still adapting to the new online world. It feels to me that the offline moves by ecommerce groups are offensive while the online investments by physical retailers are defensive. There is still a long way to go before this fully plays out but the expertise that companies like Amazon and Alibaba have with managing data at scale gives them a key advantage.
4. Internal data platforms are becoming essential for growth and innovation
Presentations from data scientists at Lyft and BMW showed how putting data platforms at the centre of new product development and business process management are driving innovation. While this may come naturally for digitally native companies like Lyft it is also something that traditional, industrial companies are having to engage with as data generating sensors become embedded within products.
5. Open data needs to be taken as seriously as open source software
We all know that open source software is behind the rise of many big data and ML products and services. The commercial and technical case for open source was proven years ago. However, much less attention has been paid to the importance of open data for innovation. The outputs of algorithms are only as good as the quality of the data that goes into them.
Chris Taggart, co-founder and CEO OpenCorporates, the biggest open database of companies in the world, highlighted the problems that companies run into when they rely on proprietary datasets where data provenance may be sketchy and meta data not shared across products. Open data is more transparent and does not lock firms into expensive commercial contracts that can be very difficult for companies to wean themselves off.
6. Importance of capturing and managing real-time data
While real-time or near real-time data is not always required for AI and ML projects, the ability to build systems that can handle it can be a valuable form of competitive advantage. As data-driven decision making become more embedded within organisations the competitive edge will sometimes go to those that can respond more quickly to events. The scale and breadth of offerings from Amazon Web Services in this respect show how the tools to do this are becoming easier and cheaper to access.
7. Legal and ethical issues are starting to change how firms innovate
A talk by Dr Sandra Wachter of Oxford University highlighted an issue that, I suspect, will become more discussed over the coming year or two. She pointed out that many firms are now aware of their obligations to protect personal data as initiatives such as the GDPR have come into force. However, a less discussed issue and one that regulators are still grappling with is that of inference and the decisions that are being made by embedded algorithms based on the data they are processing.
We have a right, in Europe at least, to see what data is being held on us and, to varying degrees, have it corrected or removed. However, we do not have the same redress with the assumptions that firms may be automatically making about us because of this data in areas such as credit checking and health insurance.
8. "To those that have shall be given"
As the conference came to a close, I started thinking about how smaller companies without access to the massive datasets of the internet giants or global FMCG firms will be able to compete in the age of big data and algorithmic-decision making. There is the danger, and perhaps we are already seeing it, of virtuous circles of innovation utilising network effects from online services cementing the position of large companies.
However, as Shivnath Babu, co-founder and CTO of Unravel Data Systems, pointed out to me, the internet and app economy is still capable of allowing small firms to leverage data from their apps and online activities and make an impact on markets. Perhaps this and the rise of open data emanating from public data sources will provide the basis for a new generation of start-ups to change the world in the way that Google, Facebook and Amazon have over the last 20 years.
This story, "8 factors shaping the future of big data, machine learning and AI" was originally published by CIO.
Dr. Martin De Saulles is a writer and academic specializing in researching and writing about data-driven innovation and the Internet of Things. He has a Ph.D. in Innovation Studies from the University of Sussex in the UK and worked as a technology analyst and entrepreneur before his current role as a Principal Lecturer at the University of Brighton.


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Es presentà per primera vegada a Madrid l'any (1872) fent el paper en la sarsuela El principe Lila, amb lletra de Liern i música del mestre Aceves, estrenada en els Jardins del Retiro el 16 de juny d'aquell any. L'any següent va fer el rol de doña Columba en la titulada El barbero de Rossini, dels mateixos autors, peça que també s'estrenà al Retiro el 3 de setembre, i entremig d'ambdós treballs treballà en les titulades El proceso de Cancán (Retiro, 14 d'agost), en la que li assignaren el rol de La Pavana, i Los titiriteros (Retiro, 14 d'agost) en el de la tia Pimienta. L'any següent (1874) continuà en el mateix teatre, on l'1 de juliol s'estrenà la sarsuela A orillas del mar, de Liern i el mestre Ruiz en la que hi va intervenir Manuela Moral, així com la titulada La comedianta Rufina (8 d'agost), en la que interpretà el personatge de doña Candelaria.

Encara el 1875 canta en el Retiro, el 18 de juny, el paper de doña Filomena en la sarsuela El impuesto de guerra, de Liern i el mestre Montfort, i el de doña Rosa, que era la protagonista, de Carracuca, dels mateixos autors, el 3 de setembre de 1876. L'hivern de 1884 treballà en el Teatre Romea (Barcelona), i des de llavors no se'n sap res de la seva vida.

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May Lord Ganapathi shower you with success in all your endeavors.. Happy Ganesh Chaturthy..
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If you want a giant Mickey Mouse in your bathroom then you are in luck.
This shower curtain shows you a mickey that is almost 72″ high.
Black is the background color of the curtain and that makes Mickey stand out nicely.
And this is not a vinyl shower curtain, this one is made from 100% cotton and that means it will last way longer then those plastic once without the nasty chemicals.


Many activities have been aimed at being done well and maintained adequately which are the cleaning services and are done both at the commercial areas and at the residential areas. Cleaning is among the activities valued the most since it can be difficult to operate when the place is dirty and messy. In the society, a lot of effort has been implemented with an aim of coming up with proper techniques for handling the cleaning activities. The new lifestyle that keeps people ever busy in their occupations and other activities deprive them of having personal time to do the cleaning activities in their homes. Among the many regions that have specialized in the commercial cleaning services in San Francisco and they work diligently to attain the required standards of cleaning.
Commercial cleaning services have been of great benefit to many people and areas in the society. There is no area left unturned since the group doing the work is highly trained and they have all the skills to attain the desired level of cleanliness. The large carpets used in the commercial areas and cannot be cleaned easily can be vacuumed easily with the right equipment by the commercial cleaning. It can then be easy to carry out regular vacuuming of the carpets to ensure a clean environment with the necessary conditions.
Besides, the right levels of disinfection and sanitization are provided on the various parts of the building like the windows, the door knobs and places that are in contact with the hands using the right materials and the right procedures. It is only in the commercial cleaning services where the right standards of working are arrived at. With the commercial cleaning services, it is possible to have the best cleaning services in every part of a building such as at the kitchen area where it has to disinfect adequately. The commercial cleaning services do a lot of good work to ensure cleaning and make the owners of the premises and the institutions comfortable.
Sweeping and mopping of the surfaces and floors stayed in are too exercised and they are done correctly by the commercial cleaning services using the appropriate tools and materials that make it work out well. With the advanced technology, there are new equipment that has been invented and are supposed to be used in the working environment especially by the commercial cleaning services and the only way that they can be implemented is having the right knowledge and the skills to use them appropriately which is the result of the commercial cleaners. Commercial cleaning services have their work as cleaning any surface till the correct standards are met and the place maintained well which entails using the right tools and materials of every surface.


I was at one time, a citizen of Del Mar near San Diego and I was fired after writing weekly editorials for several newspapers in which I named the bagman for local developers, one Hershell Price, who was at the time pretending not to be married to County Supervisor Pam Slater Price. When my mother died due to a Scripps Memorial doctor's administration of a fatal drug and my girlfriend married a cretin, I left in an old blue Ford with a camper shell, driving aimlessly north as far as the road might lead.
and now in an antique Southwind motor home and began a journey north that I initially thought would end, one way or another. After a couple years, I got to Seattle, where my brother lives and I was struck by the sameness of that huge, urban place, compared with other urban developments: San Diego, LA, the Bay Area, Santa Barbara, places less tolerant of me and my old motor home and my dog than I was of them. At least, I was curious and saw the differences between people. My experience was much the way Exupéry describes the asteroids visited by the little prince.
Places, where I've stayed longer, were simply those in which people were more tolerant and just as curious about me as I was about them. They also had some mysterious quality that made them this way, expressed in peculiar human and natural eccentricities. I've recorded many digital and verbal memories. But, although, people in these places tolerated my existence, my mobile lifestyle made them uneasy, they couldn't peg me and though there are people I think of with affection and would like to see again, I formed no enduring bonds, holding always open, the option of an abrupt and very easy departure.
Two years ago, my companion of 15 years, a Pomeranian, who was the very soul of love died in my arms in the middle of the night as we lay on the carpet of a redwood forest floor. The following morning and for months afterwards, I grieved with a sadness that can only be described as intolerable. Everything in the world was intolerable but especially the human beings, who were already in my eyes, pathetically self-deceived. I paid my rent, repaired the motor home to make it more seaworthy and one day, when, after paying the rent at an RV park where I lived near Fort Bragg, CA, the idiot, who was half my age and twice my size, who had that week inherited the park, called me an "irresponsible parasite" obviously not because I was a day late with the rent. Killing him was not an option because of the consequences and I realized that his judgment was not a product of anything he knew about me but rather an image created by small town gossip.
I had decided to do what I've always loved, music. I'd already removed the king size bed in the back of the Southwind to make room for a music and editing studio and enrolled at AAU. The irony of this story is that I did not until my second semester understand the power and effect that my decision would have on the quality of my life in every way.
Where and how I arrived in Santa Maria is another story, which I will eventually tell.
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namespace app {
namespace secure {

// Linux specific implementation for the secure manager of user data.
class UserSecureLinuxInternal : public UserSecureInternal {
 public:
  ~UserSecureLinuxInternal() override;

  // Overloaded constructor to set the storage schema for keys.
  // domain = Library name (e.g. "auth", "iid", "fis")
  // key_namespace = app ID (e.g. "com.mycompany.myapp");
  UserSecureLinuxInternal(const char* domain, const char* key_namespace);

  std::string LoadUserData(const std::string& app_name) override;

  void SaveUserData(const std::string& app_name,
                    const std::string& user_data) override;

  void DeleteUserData(const std::string& app_name) override;

  void DeleteAllData() override;

 private:
  // Check if there is an error, log it and free it if there is.
  // Returns true iff there was an error.
  bool CheckForError(GError** error, const char* function_name);

  const std::string domain_;
  const std::string key_namespace_;
  SecretSchema storage_schema_;
  int known_error_code_;  // If nonzero, this error was already logged, so
                          // don't be too spammy about it.
};

}  // namespace secure
}  // namespace app
}  // namespace firebase

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U.S. Reviews Military Options
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CNN reports the Pentagon has begun a review of what military options the U.S. has in the event President Obama decides to intervene in Syria. U.S. policy, the sources say, still remains focused on nonmilitary options. Syrian leaders received a visit from Russia's foreign minister Tuesday as other nations continued to distance themselves from the country. Syria has been racked by internal conflict for the past 11 months as a popular revolt has sought to overthrow the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. The Arab League and the United States, among other nations, have put forward plans for a peaceful resolution to the crisis, asking Assad to relinquish some of his executive powers. After his meeting with the president, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said his country also supported a bloodless resolution and that Assad had indicated that "he is fully committed to an end to violence, no matter its source."


Face fits, inside or outside, to the existing frame, or to the wall outside the reveal. If your window opens out the screen will be fitted on the inside and vice versa.
White powder coated aluminium, with grey insect mesh as standard.
Hinged screen - held in place by hinges and magnetic catches.
Robust profile with mitred corners, makes this screen suitable for using with side hinges.
Measure the width and height of the aperture, plus any bevelled edges on the window frame. Allow space for window handles and fittings which need to fit within the frame of the screen.
Add 28mm* of flat surface on each side ( for the screen frame to rest against).
*If you do not have enough flat surface, then you can have as little as 10mm, but the frame will overlap some of the aperture.
Any locating wedge for a cockspur handle must be included in the aperture measurements and there must be at least 28mm of flat surface beyond it.
Ensure you have an additional 17mm of flat surface for the hinges and 13mm for the magnetic catch - do not include these amounts in the manufacturing measurements you give us.
If the window handle extends beyond the flat surface you will need to build a sub frame around the window to bring the screen away from the window handle when it is closed (Subframe NOT included with product).


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Q: How to use regex expression in Katalon Studio? I have a regex expression which checks for the valid date and timezone format but when I tried to use it in Katalon, I get unexpected errors about using the slases:
^\d\d([-/])\d\d\1\d{4} \d\d:\d\d [AP]M ET$

Here's an example of the regex that seems to be working in here: https://regex101.com/r/nZC9PB/1

A: The regex expression by user should work well in some languages / platform, but in order to make it accurate to Katalon, we should use escaped character '' before '/' in '[-/]'. So that Katalon Studio can understand the regex expression correctly.
The correct regex expression should be:
^\d\d([-\/])\d\d\1\d{4} \d\d:\d\d [AP]M ET$

A: For doublequoted string in groovy you have to escape every \ and $ --> \\ and \$
But there is a slashy string in groovy where you need to escape only slash symbol / --> \/
https://groovy-lang.org/syntax.html#_slashy_string
def re = /^\d\d([-\/])\d\d\1\d{4} \d\d:\d\d [AP]M ET$/
assert "06-01-2023 11:59 PM ET" =~ re

"Ok"


The calm before the storm. Developed world financial markets (U.S., Japan and Europe) have become numb to the long-term effects of unprecedented monetary stimulus. The companies in the S&P500 are now reporting their 6th quarterly drop in revenue and 4th quarterly drop in corporate profits. The labor recovery peaked 8 months ago (job openings and unemployment) as weak hiring is catching up to weak GDP growth. After a 1% revised first half U.S. GDP growth, the second half of the year was supposed to bounce back – it has not. Yet both stock and bond markets remain near all-time highs amidst very low (by historic standards) volatility. The developed world stock markets have benefited from very low cost borrowing to facilitate share buy-backs, artificially creating higher earnings per share; bonds have benefited from Central Bank buy-backs as well.
However, these monetary maneuvers may have peaked this summer. Since then, interest rates have moved higher and the stocks which moved highest the first half of the year have dropped the most in the second half (REITs, utilities, tech). In addition, near-term election cycles here and in Europe have raised the voice of nationalism, border and trade protection. There is talk of "Italeave" ala "Brexit". We believe that the next major downturn will start in Europe where low and negative interest rates have pulled business forward as much as possible, bringing the weak economic expansion to an earlier than expected close. Initially, the U.S. will be the beneficiary of a flight to quality, but a stronger Dollar set against a falling Yen and Euro will hurt our exports and lead to our own recession.
The steep drop in financial markets early in the year aggravated fears of a near-term recession. Since then the markets have rebounded allowing fears to subside, yet we now have warning signs from the U.S. economy itself. Hiring is weak, sales are slipping and new business investments are dropping. Manufacturing remains weak and corporate profits have not gained ground in 3 quarters. All of these are classic signs of an impending economic downturn. Uneven economic growth throughout our 7-year expansion has given us several such scares in the past. The latest excuse is to blame slow growth on the rest of the world: i.e. America would be booming if not for China, which would be booming if not for Europe, which blames Japan, which in turn blames America. With uncertainty increasing from Brexit and U.S. election cycles, we continue to forecast a recession in the next 12 – 18 months.
Much has already been written and read concerning the "Brexit" decision on June 23rd. It caught the financial markets off guard and sent equities and commodities down (except gold) as bonds and REITs went up; then we had a quick reversal. It is very hard to plan for binary outcomes (i.e. heads or tails scenarios), however our "all accounts composite" only dipped 5 basis points between the time of the vote and second quarter-end. Our low equity exposure and larger real estate and alternatives allocations resulted in continued gains for the year, despite a weak stock market.
What a wild first quarter! After the stock and corporate bond markets had one of the steepest sell-offs during the first 7 weeks of the year (and the S&P 500 was down over 10%), the markets rebounded to end the quarter virtually unchanged for the year. As frustrating and scary as this was, Optivest clients were aided by our defensive start, purchases on dips and continued advances on our REIT holdings, which collectively resulted in one of our best quarters ever.
The year started off with one of the biggest "false alarm" market scares in years. Worries increased about global slowing/recession, deflation, Chinese devaluation, falling profits, excessive emerging market debt and corporate defaults due to cheap oil. The usual "safe haven" investments – gold, U.S. Treasuries and Swiss Franc – rallied, gaining momentum born from fear. Finally, oil appeared to bounce at about $28/barrel enticing "bottom fishers" who first gave the equity and commodity markets a push, then a retest of the bottom, followed by a 7 week rally ending right back where they started the year. "Safe haven" price gains have held while all of the worries remain, indicating future volatility.
2017 was a tremendous transition year for Optivest. We added industry veteran Bart Zandbergen, CFP® as Senior Wealth Advisor and Stella Choi, CFA®, CFP® as Director of Portfolio Management who was responsible for implementing our successful risk-based model portfolios for Optivest clients. As 2018 commences, we continue to refine our portfolio models and upgrade our different portfolio software systems to enhance our management and reporting capabilities.
World markets have been caught between two strong forces: 1. the Federal Reserve's desire to increase interest rates as a result of an improving U.S. job market, and 2. weakening economies in the rest of the world as a result of China's deceleration, bringing commodity prices to multi-year lows. The result produced a volatile tug-of-war causing U.S. markets to deliver the worst year since 2008 after dealing with a soaring U.S. Dollar, sinking junk bonds, low yields and crashing oil prices.
Outside of the F.A.N.G.s (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google), U.S. stocks struggled all year, commodities and emerging markets dropped in sync, liquid alternatives faltered (average hedge fund was down 3%), and old European markets advanced thanks to a devalued Euro and heavy Central Bank stimulus. Interest rates rose, leaving most bond funds with either small gains or losses (including income). 2015 was quite a frustrating year for investors as there were few winners and multiple losing asset classes.
Economic data at mid-quarter is quite mixed. On the positive side: the U.S. stock and bond markets rebounded back to beginning of the year levels; hiring was up in October; and the third quarter GDP was revised from 1.5% up to 2.1%.
On the negative side: consumer sentiment hit a 15-month low this week (on November 24, 2015); the stock and bond markets saw a very narrow rebound mostly from the "FANGs" (companies like Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google with high P/E ratios); and revenue and profits for the S&P 500 are headed toward decline for the third quarter in a row. This combination of activity has raised the P/E level of the S&P 500 up to 23 from the 20 level we witnessed over the summer (the long-term average is 15.5%). These mixed signals force us to maintain a cautious stance, avoiding U.S. equities until fundamentals improve.
While both the first and second quarter GDP estimates were revised upward, the third quarter will likely slow to under 1% (according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta). There is growing concern that worldwide economic weakness will slow the U.S. economy next year. Adding to these reservations, the S&P 500's third quarter earnings are expected to decline 4.9% (according to Reuters). This would be the second consecutive profit decline since 2009 and subsequently trigger an "earnings recession." This second decline would be attributed to our strong Dollar, falling oil prices and weak global demand; forward 12 month earnings are also forecast to fall 2%. The probability of a "garden variety" U.S. economic recession (i.e. two consecutive quarters of GDP decline) is increasing.
Overview: Optivest sold their U.S. stock holdings before the August 24th major market decline based on over-valuation and market deterioration. This is only the third time since 1987 that Optivest has de-risked portfolios to this extent. The below report explains our rationale and our future forecast.
The drop in the stock market over the last week was fast and unrelenting. Based on this reality, we want to share with you our trading activity and thoughts on the direction of the financial markets.
As outlined in our Second Quarter 2015 Newsletter, our Third Quarter 2015 Newsletter and our August 2015 Newsletter, we have been highly concerned with the U.S. stock market's high valuations. We sold about half of our direct U.S. stock market exposure in May and June after our long-term timing indicator flashed a "sell" signal; this was the first "sell" signal in 6 years and only the 3rd in 17 years.
Year-to-date financial markets are frustrating both money managers and investors alike with flat returns. The U.S. stock and bond markets are waffling; they are either up 1%-2% or down 1%-2% on a monthly basis without any discernable direction. Unfortunately, this flat performance is also accompanied by near all-time high valuations across most financial assets (except commodities and emerging markets).
In this environment we have chosen to take profits in our potentially vulnerable stock positions, seeking equity-like returns of 5%-12% in non-correlated investment strategies. This decision has resulted in improved performance for our Optivest portfolios and reduced risk exposure via these securities. Once the financial markets pick a direction – up or down – we will adjust accordingly. In the meantime, we remain cautious with our clients' hard-earned money.


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President Trump speaks during a rally Tuesday in El Paso, Texas.
Beto O'Rourke speaks to a crowd across the street from where President Trump was holding a rally in El Paso, Texas. O'Rourke directly took on Trump over border security and Trump's desire for a wall or other physical barrier.
People attend O'Rourke's rally in El Paso, Texas, on Monday.


30-year-old Ashley Yeates is not a hobbit. The Bedford, England, is a design and construction expert that's much too big to be a hobbit, although rumor has it his feet might be just as hairy–but despite these shortcomings, he decided to build a "hobbit hole" in his garden, a project that took almost a year to complete. After a tree died in the yard, he decided a hole was just the thing to take its place!
Ventilation is key while underground!


Pop music is meant to make us feel good; the Top 40 industry thrives on the happy vibes that propel its audience to listen to a song over and over. The feel-good formula for radio-friendly hits definitely requires upbeat music - but lyrics are another story. Happy-sounding songs with secret dark meanings have been tearing up the charts for years. Have you ever realized just how dark/creepy/sad/weird these dark pop songs actually are?
When he wrote "Pumped Up Kicks," Foster The People's frontman Mark Foster wanted to get into the mindset of "an isolated, psychotic kid" who'd been bullied to the point of eliminating people at his high school. Foster intentionally set the dark lyrics to more upbeat music saying, "It's a 'f*ck you' song to the hipsters in a way - but it's a song the hipsters are going to want to dance to." Touché, Mark.
And I know she'll be the.... of me, at least we'll both be numb. And she'll always get the best of me, the worst is yet to come.
"Some Nights" by Fun. was the band's first single to reach the Top 10, thanks to the song's infectious melody and impressive vocals. Its rise to the top of the charts is a little ironic, given that the lyrics are actually about the band's struggle with selling out.
According to one music blogger, "Some Nights" is about "struggling with the idea of either continuing down the band's previous path of relative obscurity, or taking a risk and trying something new, which will hopefully allow the band to find a new, larger audience."
If what they say is, 'Nothing is forever,' then what makes love the exception?
That's actually pretty depressing stuff.


You're right. I was searching with English characters when I found my game yesterday.
The did remove all 7 versions of Lazy Snakes pretty quickly.
Did everybody who had their game ripped off use xml layouts to put in the AdMob view? I'm wondering if all they do is open up the xml file and replace the AdView.
They do much more than that. My code was obfuscated and I didn't use xml layouts for Admob. They changed the original package name, added a bunch of new ad providers (webview based and notification ads) and a ton of new permissions.
The Lenovo app store finally removed the hacked copies of my game.
Hey jaym, your hacked games are still there.
I found hacked illegal copies of my game in your store. Please remove them immediately!
Can't be more straightforward than that .
RealMayo wrote: The Lenovo app store finally removed the hacked copies of my game.
How could you translate your game's name to chinese characters?:D Google translate didn't help for me.


This is a simple text just to show you how it works ... hello world!
So, you can write the previous text in virtually any kind of plain text code editor. I am using vim write now, but you can use whatever you want.
As you can see the last line of our code is a math expression written in other language called LaTeX. This is a common way to write math using a computer. Ok, let's go to the next step of the tutorial.
LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting setting to produce technical and scientific documents. It is also a common language among mathematicians and physicists who want to produce math with the computer. The old discussion Word vs LaTeX is an never ended issue, but I recommend you to learn LaTeX if you want really to write math using your computer.
There are many cheat-sheet. I recommend you the David Hamman's cheat sheet to begin.
Finally, you must transform your markdown file to other format. It is important to translate it to a universal format like pdf. In my experience Pandoc is the best tool. It can transform your previous file with three lines to a pdf file with the header, the line of text and the math expression.
Pandoc is the perfect tool to transform my markdown file to other formats like pdf or html for the web.
You can see a real example of math on the web. Good luck and improved effort.


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Report: Trump Team DID Vet Flynn, Found Dirt, Hired Him Anyway (VIDEO)
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For months now, the Trump administration has maintained they had no idea disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had accepted payments from a foreign government. The head of the transition, Vice President Mike Pence, said he first found out Flynn had taken money from the government of Turkey on the day Flynn resigned his post.
But a new report from NBC News reveals the claims from Trump, Pence, and others, are yet another lie the administration has told about the growing Trump-Russia scandal.
On Friday's edition of The Rachel Maddow Show, the host reported:
"NBC News has learned from sources close to the Trump-Russia investigation that both the Trump transition and the White House did do a background check on Flynn.
"This is in addition to his already approved security clearance. They did a background check on Flynn specifically for him to become national security adviser."
If this information from longtime correspondent Andrea Mitchell is true, how in the world can the Trump team continue to maintain that they didn't know Flynn had been working as a foreign agent when he was named to the highest national security post in the United States government?
Maddow also noted that Flynn's ties to Turkey had to be known to Pence, as the information would have shown up as part of an FBI vetting process (had that process been followed) and the information had been reported on numerous occasions via open source documents:
"One person involved tells NBC that the Trump transition was aware of Flynn's business ties to Turkey."
This week, the Trump administration has attempted to place the blame for Flynn being given a classified intelligence clearance on the Obama White House, where Flynn worked as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency before being fired from that post. But Jen Psaki, who worked in the Obama administration, commented:
"The responsibility in vetting [Flynn] belongs on the incoming administration. Clearly that wasn't done. So this is kind of an absurd blame game here."
Hearings on the Trump-Russia connection will begin again on May 8 when the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee will hear testimony from former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates and James Clapper, former director of national intelligence under President Obama.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAc0EyXRqMI
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