For MA Design Products, you should have a good undergraduate degree or equivalent in an area of design, or related background and proficient written and spoken English. Several years of professional experience, either before or after a first degree, is a benefit, and you must be able to demonstrate critical and innovative thinking, a design curiosity and the ability to thrive in student led projects. Applications are welcomed from candidates from related backgrounds, such as engineering, architecture, communication, sports science, medical/health, international development/NGO, economics/business, material science, technology development and user experience or user Interface.
This should describe your abilities in design, presentation and innovative thinking. It should include representative samples of; sketching, making, prototyping, model making, user engagement or testing, technical abilities and demonstrate your working process at investigative or exploratory stages of the design process as well as presentation of finished pieces.
It should also contain samples of any written work, technical studies or additional work carried out in conjunction with the design projects.
Sketchbooks and notebooks should be included (extracts submitted digitally are acceptable at application stage, and if invited for interview, you should bring sketchbooks with you).
Physical/actual objects should be represented by photographs and can be brought to interview should you be selected.
Working drawings and photographs of finished work should be dated and have attached a brief written explanation.
Test material, failures (that have been critically reflected on) and working processes that demonstrate a curiosity are valued.
Video content is welcome, but should be supported by screen shots of the work.
Please carefully check online submissions to ensure links function.
All work submitted should be correctly titled and clearly marked with your name.
Joint project work or collaborative projects must be clearly described as such. You must indicate clearly the exact role that you played in the creation of the work submitted.
Where it can be shown that you have submitted work which is not your own, as if it was your own, or it transpires that the level of your involvement in joint work has been seriously exaggerated, or where false statements have been made on an application form or other document considered by an admissions board, you may be disqualified.
Any work carried out after the submission of the portfolio or any work in progress can be brought to the interview.
You should bring sketch books samples of writing, tests trials, prototypes (if easily transportable) to your interview.
You are expected to be able to talk confidently and objectively about your own work, and about your personal ambitions for future work at the College.
Candidates who do not speak English as their first language are required to produce evidence that within the previous two years they have achieved at least 93 in the TOEFL internet test with an additional writing test score of TWE 24 or an IELTS exam score of 6.5 with 6 in writing.
Candidates who have previously been successful in interview for a place on a College Programme may be made offers on the same programme without a repeat interview.


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Q: Looping through all sheets I am trying to loop through all the sheets within a workbook. I have the following code and it works totally fine; the only issue is that it only works if I launch the macro on the first sheet; if i do it in any other it just stops after the first loop.
 WS_Count = ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets.Count
    For i = 1 To WS_Count
        Dim ws1 As Worksheet
        Set ws1 = ThisWorkbook.ActiveSheet
        'if sheet contains evdre
        Set c = ws1.Cells.Find("blabla")
        If Not c Is Nothing Then
            'do things
        End If
     Next i

I am not sure if this issue is due to the fact that the macro should always be launched on the first sheet or if there is something wrong in the code.
Thanks for any help
EDIT
In the 'do sth part I am actually creating hidden sheets (hidden copy of the one that I am active at); can that make the count mess up? and thus only work in the first sheet

A:   Dim ws As Worksheet, c as range
  for each ws in ThisWorkbook.WorkSheets
  Set c = ws.Cells.Find("blabla")
  If Not c Is Nothing Then
        'do things
  End If

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// Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.

import {FilesAppState} from '../../common/js/files_app_state.js';
import {importer} from '../../common/js/importer_common.js';
import {metrics} from '../../common/js/metrics.js';
import {str, util} from '../../common/js/util.js';
import {VolumeManagerCommon} from '../../common/js/volume_manager_types.js';
import {xfm} from '../../common/js/xfm.js';
import {Crostini} from '../../externs/background/crostini.js';
import {DriveSyncHandler} from '../../externs/background/drive_sync_handler.js';
import {duplicateFinderInterfaces} from '../../externs/background/duplicate_finder.js';
import {FileBrowserBackgroundFull} from '../../externs/background/file_browser_background_full.js';
import {FileOperationManager} from '../../externs/background/file_operation_manager.js';
import {importerHistoryInterfaces} from '../../externs/background/import_history.js';
import {mediaImportInterfaces} from '../../externs/background/media_import_handler.js';
import {mediaScannerInterfaces} from '../../externs/background/media_scanner.js';
import {ProgressCenter} from '../../externs/background/progress_center.js';
import {VolumeInfo} from '../../externs/volume_info.js';
import {VolumeManager} from '../../externs/volume_manager.js';

import {BackgroundBaseImpl} from './background_base.js';
import {CrostiniImpl} from './crostini.js';
import {DeviceHandler} from './device_handler.js';
import {DriveSyncHandlerImpl} from './drive_sync_handler.js';
import {duplicateFinder} from './duplicate_finder.js';
import {FileOperationHandler} from './file_operation_handler.js';
import {FileOperationManagerImpl} from './file_operation_manager.js';
import {fileOperationUtil} from './file_operation_util.js';
import {importerHistory} from './import_history.js';
import {FILES_ID_PATTERN, launcher, LaunchType, nextFileManagerWindowID} from './launcher.js';
import {mediaImport} from './media_import_handler.js';
import {mediaScanner} from './media_scanner.js';
import {MountMetrics} from './mount_metrics.js';
import {ProgressCenterImpl} from './progress_center.js';
import {volumeManagerFactory} from './volume_manager_factory.js';

/**
 * Root class of the background page.
 * @implements {FileBrowserBackgroundFull}
 */
class FileBrowserBackgroundImpl extends BackgroundBaseImpl {
  constructor() {
    super();
    this.setLaunchHandler(this.launch_);

    /**
     * Progress center of the background page.
     * @type {!ProgressCenter}
     */
    this.progressCenter = new ProgressCenterImpl();

    /**
     * File operation manager.
     * @type {FileOperationManager}
     */
    this.fileOperationManager = null;

    /**
     * Class providing loading of import history, used in
     * cloud import.
     *
     * @type {!importerHistoryInterfaces.HistoryLoader}
     */
    this.historyLoader =
        new importerHistory.SynchronizedHistoryLoader(importer.getHistoryFiles);

    /**
     * Event handler for progress center.
     * @private {FileOperationHandler}
     */
    this.fileOperationHandler_ = null;

    /**
     * Event handler for C++ sides notifications.
     * @private {!DeviceHandler}
     */
    this.deviceHandler_ = new DeviceHandler(this.progressCenter);

    // Handle device navigation requests.
    this.deviceHandler_.addEventListener(
        DeviceHandler.VOLUME_NAVIGATION_REQUESTED,
        this.handleViewEvent_.bind(this));

    /**
     * Drive sync handler.
     * @type {!DriveSyncHandler}
     */
    this.driveSyncHandler = new DriveSyncHandlerImpl(this.progressCenter);

    /**
     * @type {!duplicateFinderInterfaces.DispositionChecker.CheckerFunction}
     */
    this.dispositionChecker_ =
        duplicateFinder.DispositionCheckerImpl.createChecker(
            this.historyLoader);

    /**
     * Provides support for scanning media devices as part of Cloud Import.
     * @type {!mediaScannerInterfaces.MediaScanner}
     */
    this.mediaScanner = new mediaScanner.DefaultMediaScanner(
        importerHistory.createMetadataHashcode, this.dispositionChecker_,
        mediaScanner.DefaultDirectoryWatcher.create);

    /**
     * Handles importing of user media (e.g. photos, videos) from removable
     * devices.
     * @type {!mediaImportInterfaces.MediaImportHandler}
     */
    this.mediaImportHandler = new mediaImport.MediaImportHandlerImpl(
        this.progressCenter, this.historyLoader, this.dispositionChecker_,
        this.driveSyncHandler);

    /** @type {!Crostini} */
    this.crostini = new CrostiniImpl();

    /** @type {!MountMetrics} */
    this.mountMetrics = new MountMetrics();

    /**
     * String assets.
     * @type {Object<string>}
     */
    this.stringData = null;

    if (!window.isSWA) {
      // FIXME: chrome.contextMenus not enabled for Files SWA yet. See service
      // onContextMenuClicked_ for adding "New Window" item to the OS shelf.
      chrome.contextMenus.onClicked.addListener(
          this.onContextMenuClicked_.bind(this));
    }

    // Initialize string and volume manager related stuffs.
    this.initializationPromise_.then(strings => {
      this.stringData = strings;
      this.initContextMenu_();
      this.crostini.initEnabled();

      // Force disable of system notifications if the SWA feature flag is on.
      if (!window.isSWA && util.isSwaEnabled()) {
        xfm.notifications.setSystemNotificationEnabled(false);
      }
      volumeManagerFactory.getInstance().then(volumeManager => {
        volumeManager.addEventListener(
            VolumeManagerCommon.VOLUME_ALREADY_MOUNTED,
            this.handleViewEvent_.bind(this));

        this.crostini.initVolumeManager(volumeManager);
      });

      this.fileOperationManager = new FileOperationManagerImpl();
      this.fileOperationHandler_ = new FileOperationHandler(
          this.fileOperationManager, this.progressCenter);
    });

    // Handle newly mounted FSP file systems. Workaround for crbug.com/456648.
    // TODO(mtomasz): Replace this hack with a proper solution.
    chrome.fileManagerPrivate.onMountCompleted.addListener(
        this.onMountCompleted_.bind(this));

    launcher.setInitializationPromise(this.initializationPromise_);
  }

  /**
   * Register callback to be invoked after initialization.
   * If the initialization is already done, the callback is invoked immediately.
   *
   * @param {function()} callback Initialize callback to be registered.
   */
  ready(callback) {
    this.initializationPromise_.then(callback);
  }

  /**
   * Forces File Operation Util to return error for automated tests.
   * @param {boolean} enable
   */
  forceFileOperationErrorForTest(enable) {
    fileOperationUtil.forceErrorForTest = enable;
  }

  /**
   * Registers dialog window to the background page.
   *
   * @param {!Window} dialogWindow Window of the dialog.
   */
  registerDialog(dialogWindow) {
    const id = DIALOG_ID_PREFIX + (nextFileManagerDialogID++);
    this.dialogs[id] = dialogWindow;
    if (window.IN_TEST) {
      dialogWindow.IN_TEST = true;
    }
    dialogWindow.addEventListener('pagehide', () => {
      delete this.dialogs[id];
    });
  }

  /**
   * Launches a new File Manager window.
   *
   * @param {!FilesAppState=} appState App state.
   * @return {!Promise<chrome.app.window.AppWindow|string>} Resolved with the
   *     App ID.
   */
  async launchFileManager(appState = {}) {
    return launcher.launchFileManager(appState);
  }

  /**
   * Opens the volume root (or opt directoryPath) in main UI.
   *
   * @param {!Event} event An event with the volumeId or
   *     devicePath.
   * @private
   */
  handleViewEvent_(event) {
    util.doIfPrimaryContext(() => {
      this.handleViewEventInternal_(event);
    });
  }

  /**
   * @param {!Event} event An event with the volumeId or
   *     devicePath.
   * @private
   */
  handleViewEventInternal_(event) {
    volumeManagerFactory.getInstance().then(
        /**
         * Retrieves the root file entry of the volume on the requested
         * device.
         * @param {!VolumeManager} volumeManager
         */
        volumeManager => {
          if (event.devicePath) {
            const volume = volumeManager.findByDevicePath(event.devicePath);
            if (volume) {
              this.navigateToVolumeRoot_(volume, event.filePath);
            } else {
              console.error('Got view event with invalid volume id.');
            }
          } else if (event.volumeId) {
            if (event.type === VolumeManagerCommon.VOLUME_ALREADY_MOUNTED) {
              this.navigateToVolumeInFocusedWindowWhenReady_(
                  event.volumeId, event.filePath);
            } else {
              this.navigateToVolumeWhenReady_(event.volumeId, event.filePath);
            }
          } else {
            console.error('Got view event with no actionable destination.');
          }
        });
  }

  /**
   * Retrieves the root file entry of the volume on the requested device.
   *
   * @param {!string} volumeId ID of the volume to navigate to.
   * @return {!Promise<!VolumeInfo>}
   * @private
   */
  retrieveVolumeInfo_(volumeId) {
    return volumeManagerFactory.getInstance().then(
        (/**
          * @param {!VolumeManager} volumeManager
          */
         (volumeManager) => {
           return volumeManager.whenVolumeInfoReady(volumeId).catch((e) => {
             console.error(
                 'Unable to find volume for id: ' + volumeId +
                 '. Error: ' + e.message);
           });
         }));
  }

  /**
   * Opens the volume root (or opt directoryPath) in main UI.
   *
   * @param {!string} volumeId ID of the volume to navigate to.
   * @param {!string=} opt_directoryPath Optional path to be opened.
   * @private
   */
  navigateToVolumeWhenReady_(volumeId, opt_directoryPath) {
    this.retrieveVolumeInfo_(volumeId).then(volume => {
      this.navigateToVolumeRoot_(volume, opt_directoryPath);
    });
  }

  /**
   * Opens the volume root (or opt directoryPath) in the main UI of the focused
   * window.
   *
   * @param {!string} volumeId ID of the volume to navigate to.
   * @param {!string=} opt_directoryPath Optional path to be opened.
   * @private
   */
  navigateToVolumeInFocusedWindowWhenReady_(volumeId, opt_directoryPath) {
    this.retrieveVolumeInfo_(volumeId).then(volume => {
      this.navigateToVolumeInFocusedWindow_(volume, opt_directoryPath);
    });
  }

  /**
   * If a path was specified, retrieve that directory entry,
   * otherwise return the root entry of the volume.
   *
   * @param {!VolumeInfo} volume
   * @param {string=} opt_directoryPath Optional directory path to be opened.
   * @return {!Promise<!DirectoryEntry>}
   * @private
   */
  retrieveEntryInVolume_(volume, opt_directoryPath) {
    return volume.resolveDisplayRoot().then(root => {
      if (opt_directoryPath) {
        return new Promise(
            root.getDirectory.bind(root, opt_directoryPath, {create: false}));
      } else {
        return Promise.resolve(root);
      }
    });
  }

  /**
   * Opens the volume root (or opt directoryPath) in main UI.
   *
   * @param {!VolumeInfo} volume
   * @param {string=} opt_directoryPath Optional directory path to be opened.
   * @private
   */
  navigateToVolumeRoot_(volume, opt_directoryPath) {
    this.retrieveEntryInVolume_(volume, opt_directoryPath)
        .then(
            /**
             * Launches app opened on {@code directory}.
             * @param {DirectoryEntry} directory
             */
            directory => {
              launcher.launchFileManager(
                  {currentDirectoryURL: directory.toURL()},
                  /* App ID */ undefined, LaunchType.FOCUS_SAME_OR_CREATE);
            });
  }

  /**
   * Opens the volume root (or opt directoryPath) in main UI of the focused
   * window.
   *
   * @param {!VolumeInfo} volume
   * @param {string=} opt_directoryPath Optional directory path to be opened.
   * @private
   */
  navigateToVolumeInFocusedWindow_(volume, opt_directoryPath) {
    this.retrieveEntryInVolume_(volume, opt_directoryPath)
        .then(function(directoryEntry) {
          if (directoryEntry) {
            volumeManagerFactory.getInstance().then(volumeManager => {
              volumeManager.dispatchEvent(
                  VolumeManagerCommon.createArchiveOpenedEvent(directoryEntry));
            });
          }
        });
  }

  /**
   * Launches the app.
   * @private
   * @override
   */
  async onLaunched_(launchData) {
    metrics.startInterval('Load.BackgroundLaunch');
    if (!launchData || !launchData.items || launchData.items.length == 0) {
      this.launch_(undefined);
      return;
    }
    BackgroundBaseImpl.prototype.onLaunched_.apply(this, [launchData]);
  }

  /**
   * Launches the app.
   * @private
   * @param {!Array<string>|undefined} urls
   */
  launch_(urls) {
    return this.initializationPromise_.then(() => {
      if (nextFileManagerWindowID == 0) {
        // The app just launched. Remove unneeded window state records.
        xfm.storage.local.get(null, items => {
          for (const key in items) {
            if (items.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
              if (key.match(FILES_ID_PATTERN)) {
                xfm.storage.local.remove(key);
              }
            }
          }
        });
      }
      const appState = {};
      let launchType = LaunchType.FOCUS_ANY_OR_CREATE;
      if (urls) {
        appState.selectionURL = urls[0];
        launchType = LaunchType.FOCUS_SAME_OR_CREATE;
      }
      launcher.launchFileManager(appState, undefined, launchType).then(() => {
        metrics.recordInterval('Load.BackgroundLaunch');
      });
    });
  }

  /**
   * Restarted the app, restore windows.
   * @private
   * @override
   */
  onRestarted_() {
    // Reopen file manager windows.
    xfm.storage.local.get(items => {
      for (const key in items) {
        if (items.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
          const match = key.match(FILES_ID_PATTERN);
          if (match) {
            metrics.startInterval('Load.BackgroundRestart');
            const id = Number(match[1]);
            try {
              const appState =
                  /** @type {!FilesAppState} */ (JSON.parse(items[key]));
              launcher.launchFileManager(appState, id, undefined).then(() => {
                metrics.recordInterval('Load.BackgroundRestart');
              });
            } catch (e) {
              console.error('Corrupt launch data for ' + id);
            }
          }
        }
      }
    });
  }

  /**
   * Handles clicks on a custom item on the launcher context menu.
   * @param {!Object} info Event details.
   * @private
   */
  onContextMenuClicked_(info) {
    if (info.menuItemId == 'new-window') {
      // Find the focused window (if any) and use it's current url for the
      // new window. If not found, then launch with the default url.
      this.findFocusedWindow_()
          .then(key => {
            if (!key) {
              launcher.launchFileManager();
              return;
            }
            const appState = {
              // Do not clone the selection url, only the current directory.
              currentDirectoryURL:
                  window.appWindows[key]
                      .contentWindow.appState.currentDirectoryURL
            };
            launcher.launchFileManager(appState);
          })
          .catch(error => {
            console.error(error.stack || error);
          });
    }
  }

  /**
   * Looks for a focused window.
   *
   * @return {!Promise<?string>} Promise fulfilled with a key of the focused
   *     window, or null if not found.
   * @private
   */
  findFocusedWindow_() {
    return new Promise((fulfill, reject) => {
      for (const key in window.appWindows) {
        try {
          if (window.appWindows[key].contentWindow.isFocused()) {
            fulfill(key);
            return;
          }
        } catch (ignore) {
          // The isFocused method may not be defined during initialization.
          // Therefore, wrapped with a try-catch block.
        }
      }
      fulfill(null);
    });
  }

  /**
   * Handles mounted FSP volumes and fires the Files app. This is a quick fix
   * for crbug.com/456648.
   * @param {!Object} event Event details.
   * @private
   */
  onMountCompleted_(event) {
    util.doIfPrimaryContext(() => {
      this.onMountCompletedInternal_(event);
    });
  }

  /**
   * @param {!Object} event Event details.
   * @private
   */
  onMountCompletedInternal_(event) {
    // If there is no focused window, then create a new one opened on the
    // mounted volume.
    this.findFocusedWindow_()
        .then(key => {
          const statusOK = event.status === 'success' ||
              event.status === 'error_path_already_mounted';
          const volumeTypeOK = event.volumeMetadata.volumeType ===
                  VolumeManagerCommon.VolumeType.PROVIDED &&
              event.volumeMetadata.source === VolumeManagerCommon.Source.FILE;
          if (key === null && event.eventType === 'mount' && statusOK &&
              event.volumeMetadata.mountContext === 'user' && volumeTypeOK) {
            this.navigateToVolumeWhenReady_(event.volumeMetadata.volumeId);
          }
        })
        .catch(error => {
          console.error(error.stack || error);
        });
  }

  /**
   * Initializes the context menu. Recreates if already exists.
   * @private
   */
  initContextMenu_() {
    try {
      // According to the spec [1], the callback is optional. But no callback
      // causes an error for some reason, so we call it with null-callback to
      // prevent the error. http://crbug.com/353877
      // Also, we read the runtime.lastError here not to output the message on
      // the console as an unchecked error.
      // - [1]
      // https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/contextMenus#method-remove
      chrome.contextMenus.remove('new-window', () => {
        const ignore = chrome.runtime.lastError;
      });
    } catch (ignore) {
      // There is no way to detect if the context menu is already added,
      // therefore try to recreate it every time.
    }
    chrome.contextMenus.create({
      id: 'new-window',
      contexts: ['launcher'],
      title: str('NEW_WINDOW_BUTTON_LABEL')
    });
  }
}

/**
 * Prefix for the dialog ID.
 * @type {!string}
 * @const
 */
const DIALOG_ID_PREFIX = 'dialog#';

/**
 * Value of the next file manager dialog ID.
 * @type {number}
 */
let nextFileManagerDialogID = 0;

/**
 * Singleton instance of Background object.
 * @type {!FileBrowserBackgroundFull}
 */
export const background = new FileBrowserBackgroundImpl();
window.background = background;

/**
 * Lastly, end recording of the background page Load.BackgroundScript metric.
 * NOTE: This call must come after the call to metrics.clearUserId.
 */
metrics.recordInterval('Load.BackgroundScript');

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NORTHEAST INDIANA, (WOWO) – As inclement weather approaches, Indiana State Police are planning to tow abandoned vehicles along State, Interstate and U.S. Highways.
In most cases, police allow for a 24-72 hour window for abandoned vehicles to be removed before towing, but due to approaching weather, all vehicles will be towed without prior notice.
The vehicles will be towed to reduce risk to other drivers, and allow for snow removal equipment to safely clear the roadways.
If your vehicle is towed, contact the Fort Wayne Post at (260) 432-8661 for assistance.
The Indiana State Police also wish to remind drivers to take extra time when getting to their destinations this weekend, and to leave an appropriate amount of space between vehicles while traveling.
For road and weather conditions, contact INDOT Road Conditions at (800) 261-7623 or click here.


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Home » Commercial Education » Schools » Case Study: Head Teacher for a broad spectrum SEND school in the north of England
Case Study: Head Teacher for a broad spectrum SEND school in the north of England
Due to the imminent retirement of the head teacher, this broad spectrum SEND school retained The Spencer Group to help appoint a replacement within a six-week timeframe.
The project was time-critical because the outgoing head could not offer any flexibility on his retirement date, so the school wanted to minimise the risk of failing to make an appointment on the first attempt. Working in consultation with the school, The Spencer Group formulated a strategy that would produce as strong a shortlist as possible, therefore maximising the likelihood of success.
We agreed upon a national advert reinforced by a discreet executive search of 80 schools within the SEND sector. This strategy was based on the premise that the best and most effective school leaders in the market are not actively seeking new posts at any given time, but that when approached confidentially and presented with the opportunity, their interest could be engaged and cultivated into a firm application.
From this approach, we generated 18 interested parties. They were then subject to a pre-selection interview from which we produced a longlist of 12 firm applications. Nine of these applications were the result of our executive search, while three were in response to the advertisement.
On presentation of the longlist, the school selected seven applicants for interview, who were whittled down to three at the final stage of the selection day process. All three final-stage applicants had been generated by the executive search.
The school was successful in making an appointment within the six-week project life cycle, ensuring the new head teacher was in place in time to meet the deadline.

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Primark issues warning to shoppers over autumn and winter stock supply issues
Owner Associated British Foods said the fashion giant was "experiencing some delays to the handover of some autumn/winter inventory caused by port and container freight disruptions."
The clothing giant also admitted their sales were hit. (Image: Pete Stonier/Reach PLC)
Primark has issued a warning to shoppers over supply chain delays after announcing the HGV driver shortage has affected its autumn/winter stock levels.
Owner Associated British Foods (ABF) said Primark was "experiencing some delays to the handover of some autumn/winter inventory caused by port and container freight disruptions", The Mirror reports.
The clothing giant also admitted their sales were hit, with like-for-like sales down by 24 per cent compared with a four-week period from mid-June 2020.
They added that profits have partly recovered since self-isolation rules were eased.
However ABF finance director John Bason told Reuters news agency the problem was "about delays rather than cancellations", adding "All stores got this early autumn stock, we're fully stocked and ready for the season, there will be no shortages."
Sales for the third quarter to 19 June were ahead by 3% year-on-year, but for the fourth quarter to 18 September they are expected to be down by 17%, with an annual revenue forecast of £3.4billion.
"In the UK our sales were affected by the rapid and significant increase in late June and early July in the number of people required to self-isolate following contact tracing alerts - the 'pingdemic'," ABF said.
The group also pointed to high street footfall being "impacted by the caution displayed by many consumers at that time", with sales down by 24% in the first four weeks of the first quarter.
ABF said it expected underlying profits for the year to 18 September - stripping out the impact of its previously announced decision to repay furlough cash - to be ahead of the previous year as Primark's profit margin remained "strong".
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Q: Adding a JTable to JFrame I want to add  test2 to my DFrametest class, so that the table of test2 shows up in my window. I get an empty window and can't find the mistake.
public class test2 extends JPanel {

    JTable tbl;
    DefaultTableModel dt;

    public test2(){
        JLabel label = new JLabel("Course Lookup GUI");
        this.add( label );
        tbl = new JTable();
        dt = new DefaultTableModel();
        dt.addColumn("ID");
        dt.addColumn("Name");
        tbl.setModel(dt);

        try{
            Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/lagerverwaltungwin", "root", "");
            Statement st = con.createStatement();
            ResultSet rs = st.executeQuery("SELECT ArtNr, Beschreibung FROM artikel");
        }catch(Exception e){
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        JScrollPane jp = new JScrollPane();
        jp.getViewport().add(tbl);
        add(jp);
    }

}

This is my Frameclass which should have the table from test2:
public class DFrametest extends JFrame {

    private JPanel contentPane;

    /**
     * Launch the application.
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                try {
                    DFrametest frame = new DFrametest();
                    frame.setVisible(true);
                } catch (Exception e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
        });
    }

    public DFrametest() {
        setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        setBounds(100, 100, 450, 300);
        contentPane = new JPanel();
        contentPane.setBorder(new EmptyBorder(5, 5, 5, 5));
        setContentPane(contentPane);
        contentPane.setLayout(null);
        test2 t = new test2();
        this.add(t);
        this.setVisible(true);
    }

}

A: Never Use null Layout. Also donot use setBounds(100, 100, 450, 300);
use pack();
Change your DFrametest class like this
        contentPane.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
        contentPane.add(t, BorderLayout.CENTER);

Full Code of DFrametest class:
public class DFrametest extends JFrame {

    private JPanel contentPane;

    /**
     * Launch the application.
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                try {
                    DFrametest frame = new DFrametest();
                    frame.setVisible(true);
                } catch (Exception e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
        });
    }

    public DFrametest() {
        setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        //setBounds(100, 100, 450, 300);
        contentPane = new JPanel();
        contentPane.setBorder(new EmptyBorder(5, 5, 5, 5));
        setContentPane(contentPane);
        test2 t = new test2();
        contentPane.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
        contentPane.add(t, BorderLayout.CENTER);

        pack();
    }

}

A: Try to use setBounds() method since you haven't mentioned any layout (setLayout is null).
Add setBounds method before adding the jpanel to the jframe
setBounds(x-axis,y-axis,width,height);

EX:-
   setBounds(10,20,200,400);

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Garage column failure is a very common issue around the Atlanta metro area. In fact, Garage column settlement is one of the top 3 issues we see in foundation failures. So what is it and how do you fix it? If your garage column is sinking Atlas can help you!
Garage columns are the center columns between two or more garage doors into a garage. The column is generally a structural element that carries either a brick load, beam load or header load. What this means is that the column generally carries a concentrated load where other parts of the home carry a line load across a continuous footing (think of the house over the garage door openings, instead of sitting on the ground they area passed to either side of the opening).
When many houses were built, the soils for the garage were moved into the area (especially when there is a basement) and then compacted. In many cases, the builder or grader failed to compact the soils enough to carry a concentrated load. These poorly compacted soils can cause the garage column to settle over time – if you have a brick house then you will have a crack above the garage column as this happens. As a result of the failure, you may also notice sheet rock cracks in any rooms above the garage. You may see a crack on either side of the garage floor where the floor slopes towards the middle.
The fix for this failure is typically to install 1-2 helical piers. In years past, when helical piers were not used as much, we would install resistance or push piers. It was a dangerous process, that put unnecessary stress on the column and resulted in many companies having warranty issues. Overall, it's not a good idea to install a push pier under a garage column.
The typical installation for garage columns is to remove the driveway slab around the column, install 1 helical pier on either side of the column and then lift the column back in to place. Many of the cracks in the brick veneer will close, but you may still need to repoint (fill in) the mortar for a better look.
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If you're anything like us, your Christmas tree is probably still decorated, your New Year's Eve plans came together at the last second, and locking down a New Year's Day brunch was an impossible dream. Regardless, you'll still need food on the first day of 2017, so when you wake up -- in a strange city, or a stranger's bed, or both -- we've got you covered.
Behold our definitive guide to the best, most hangover-busting-est order you can get from these 14 major fast-food chains. According to OpenForNewYears (a very trustworthy blog that absolutely dominates SEO one week each year), each of these beloved brands have franchises doing business on New Year's Day, and according to math or something, there's almost definitely one serving near you. Figure out which, find some pants, and stumble in. Your perfect hangover-busting order awaits.
Regular menus. We tried to ignore tantalizing special items, because they aren't always available.
Greasiness. According to WebMD -- the also-trustworthy website you visit to convince yourself that your minor headache is actually a combination of SARS and AIDS -- grease & fat act better as a preventative hangover tactic, rather than a day-after repair move. Anecdotally, though: yep, grease'll work.
Carb content. No bread, you're dead! Beat it with wheat! Eat grain, no pain! And so forth.
Heartiness. Unlike the person you'll kiss at midnight tonight, these orders have substance.
Absence of spice. Obviously there are exceptions based on personal taste, but by and large, we reached a consensus that mega-spicy foods were not optimal for alcohol-addled stomachs.
Stay safe tonight, party hard, buy the expedited bathroom-access bracelet, then tomorrow, order one of these picks, and you're guaranteed to spend 2017 as a much wealthier, more beautiful, significantly less hungover person.
If you can find an Arby's willing to make you a Meat Mountain, for God's sake, don't miss the opportunity. That's rare, though. Assuming you can't, you're going to want to snag a Beef 'n Cheddar -- with its onion roll & cheesy sauce, it's more robust than the original -- and tack on curly fries & extra sauce. Pro tip: start with a side of mozzarella sticks. It's the smart way to ease your stomach into the new year.
Look, you can wake up with the King if you want. Cool Teens™ do it, when they're not too busy tweeting at Denny's, and, like, "vaping." But we recommend a very specific, very non-brekkie tack if you tied one/several/all on the night before. First, double up with two basic cheeseburgers off the value menu. Do NOT buy the double cheeseburger; you want two sandwiches. Why? Buns, man! That double dose of carbs (or whatever fast-food buns are made out of these days) will sustain your energy as you start stage two: the nuggets. Now, the King's nuggets are solidly average on a normal day. But this is no normal day; this is the first day of the rest of your life. Or 2017. Yeah, that. And today, you will appreciate their excellent breading and one-bite density, because you'll be able to line your vodka-addled tummy with a half-score of 'em in one sitting.
Despite being truly magnificent, it's the opinion of this hungover fast-food guide that a standard Chipotle burrito is a misstep for your substance-addled stomach. The thing is, 'Potle is healthy-ish (no grease!), but it's still a gut-busting volume of food. That's why you're dropping the tortilla and beans; there's only so much room in there before you burst, and you need to make sure it's all occupied by either meat or carbs. Keep the dairy on the edges, and pray the heavenly angels manning the line may take pity on you and load up your bowl with extra chicken.
You need the avocado, because it contains those omega-3 fatty acids to keep your heart ticking, plus potassium, and a lot of fiber so you can, you know, be rid of the night before. You need the bacon because it's got that protein, a lot of thiamin, and will elevate your mood. You need that beef because it will fill your stomach up, and tastes delicious with melted cheese on it. You need those veggies and the bun because you're trying to have a well-balanced meal here. And you need the CrissCut fries because waffle fries are the best kind of fries.
Now, when you are at your weakest state, that's no time to trifle with adorable fillings, or glazes, or God forbid, DD's stomachable-but-unremarkable array of breakfast/lunch-wiches. You need to stop the pain via a trio of the old-fashioned-style original donuts, preferably the ones with the handles, so you can dip them in coffee. Oh yeah, get all the coffee too. Now is also not the time to be around other humans, so settle back into your onesie to watch that movie where Hugh Grant pretends to be a modest British bookseller.
Normally, we recommend all sorts of tricks with your In-N-Out. Like getting it Animal Style. Or with chopped chilies. Or with a mustard-grilled patty and extra toast on the bun. Or all of the above. But when you're feeling like someone dropped a cartoon Acme anvil on your head, you don't want tricks and secrets. You want the pure double burger and cheese. With an extra side of cheese on those fries. And if you're truly looking for sublime punishment/at least one secret thing, add the Neapolitan shake too.
Oh sweet lord, if you're here between 9pm and 5am, get the chicken croissant meal. It's stacked with bacon & hash browns, then covered with sauce that's actually cheese. Oh, and it comes with tacos & Halfsies -- half curly fries, half regular. 2017 is gonna be a good year.
The bacon cheeseburger is very straightforward, and therefore good. Eat it. But the real star resides on the "Tacos & Sides" portion of Jack's menu. There, you'll find the apple bites with caramel dip, which are -- hahahaha, you didn't actually think we would recommend the freaking apple bites, did you?! No, you're here for the improbably satisfying tacos, specifically the Bacon Ranch Monster varietal. Much respect to anyone who draws false -- and glorious -- equivalency between "tacos" and "sides."
You're probably thinking Double Down. Stop thinking that, because a) the original isn't available right now, and b) you probably didn't spend New Year's Eve in South Korea. But you definitely should double down on something: the Colonel's mashed potatoes. Dose up on spud carbs via the bowl (which also brings good grease quotient via cheese, chicken, and gravy) and a second side order.
*About the tea: Your order should reflect your birthright. If you were born above the Mason-Dixon, know your limits and opt for unsweetened. Only practiced Southern stomachs raised on this saccharine marvel can handle the sweet version.
Like your BK maneuver, you're looking to double down on breading here, and these two sammies are by far your best tandem on the menu. (Double up on McGriddles at your own risk; too-sweet syrup has been known to rouse taste-memories of flavored liquor, and you probably drank some of that last night. You animal!) Sprite is exceptionally refreshing and should be ordered whenever possible. The apple pie? Get some, kid.
Are you sensing a theme? Nuggets, guys. Nuggets are the answer to your New Year's Day full-body ache, and the fact is, Mickey D's makes damn crispy nuggets. To get 30 of them into your facehole, you'll need to sauce properly: we recommend barbecue, sweet & sour, or honey mustard, but you really can't go wrong.
The beloved drive-in serves its entire menu all day, proving that a) it's possible; b) it's wonderful for doing it; and c) most other places making you jump through hoops to get their breakfasts are just cruel. BUT ANYWAY: this breakfast burrito is good enough to hold you down all day, which is good, because you're probably reading this from bed right now.
if you're here early enough, get the A.M. Crunchwrap. Don't be a moron.
Sure, it's not the most stylish order. But if you cared about style points, you wouldn't be standing shirtless in a Taco Bell covered in glitter at 1pm. Or maybe that's just us. Anyway, a heaping mountain of crescent-shaped Supreme Gorditas is your order. The spongy soft-taco shells, drenched in beef grease, form a semi-solid bond for all the toppings. This is key, because you'll get meat, cheese, tomato & sour cream in every bite. Maybe a little vomit, too. But yeah, mostly that other stuff.
The thing about Uncle Dave's delicious Baconator is... well, it's a lot. It might even be too much. You were a hero last night; you don't need to be a hero this morning. The Son swaps in normal patties for Dad's quarter-pounders, so it's a bit more manageable. Again, as always, nuggets are crucial to your success, and Wendy's honey mustard is an industry leader. If your throat is sore from all those times you screamed countdowns from 10 at random moments that weren't midnight just because it was hilarious, consider the iconic shake a great soothing agent.
Some days, you want artfully prepared breakfast tacos. Other days, you want Whataburger's weirdly excellent breakfast taquitos, stuffed with innards like egg, sausage, cheese, and actually decent bacon strips. New Year's Day, of course, is the latter. Don't forget the best-in-class sticky chicken biscuit, which'll deliver enough syrupy sugar to temporarily restore your energy.
What you're getting later: Avocado bacon burger, Whataburger Jr.
Breakfast is served from 11pm to 11am, and they're all open 24/7, but if you somehow spend that entire 12-hour period screaming "Auld Syne Lang" at strangers in your friend's Uptown apartment building lobby, congrats: you can still get one of the surprisingly solid avocado stackers on Texas toast! Supplement with a side burger, and eat them both while reviewing the poor choices you made last night.
Dave Infante is a senior writer for Thrillist, and ate New Year's Day breakfast at a Midtown Manhattan Tim Hortons once. Alone. Follow @dinfontay on Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat.


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Reshade with FP, is it poible?
Post subject: Reshade with FP, is it poible?
Hi there, today I have tryied to use https://reshade.me/ with FP with a total failure .
Does anyone could use it and show me them way? Or it just impossible to use it?
Post subject: Re: Reshade with FP, is it poible?
Last edited by backup on Mon Feb 11, 2019 8:57 pm, edited 1 time in total.
the message of reshade, does not appear at the launch of the game (bam) and crash with FP. (openGL32.dll).
re-question......which pc does it take, and which video card, to use this?
:lol: re-question......which pc does it take, and which video card, to use this?
What is Reshade supposed to do? I watched Backup's video and nothing seemed to make the FP table any better or am I missing something?
Wut, how you make it work?


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Zoo expecting delivery of new panda from China today
By James Steinberg
There's a new giant panda coming to the San Diego Zoo. His name is Gao Gao (pronounced gow gow), and he's scheduled to arrive later today after a 14-hour flight from China.
Gao Gao will immediately go into a mandatory 30-day quarantine at the zoo hospital, spokeswoman Christina Simmons said. The public will not get to see him until next month at the earliest.
At age 11, a panda in his prime, Gao Gao replaces the zoo's Shi Shi, who was returned to China without fanfare on Thursday.
Zoo officials have high hopes that Gao Gao will mate with its resident female giant panda, Bai Yun, this April.
Shi Shi, along with Bai Yun, came to San Diego from China in 1996 on a 12-year research loan. The pair was slated to return to their homeland in 2008, but Shi Shi, who proved to be a reluctant suitor, and is also old and ailing, was sent back first.
Shi Shi and Bai Yun's one offspring, the celebrated Hua Mei, now 31/2, was the result of artificial insemination. Hua Mei will go to China as early as next month under the terms of the loan agreement.
Zoo veterinarian Pat Morrison accompanied Gao Gao from the remote Wolong Nature Reserve in Sichuan province after delivering Shi Shi back to China.
The loan of the pandas from China costs the zoo $1 million a year, which goes for conservation of the endangered species. About a thousand pandas remain in the wild, in addition to a couple dozen in captivity.
Zoo officials have been mum about Gao Gao's arrival in San Diego to avoid intense media attention that they fear could further stress the animal after the long trip.
Gao Gao is to be quietly slipped onto the zoo grounds today in what amounts to a plain, unmarked package – actually a custom traveling crate – in a plain, unmarked truck.
Even zoo employees on duty today will not get a chance to see Gao Gao, who will be moved, in his crate, directly into the quarantine facility.


We're happy to announce that the ARK: Survival Evolved taming calculator is online! Now you can always go on taming prepared: know beforehand how much narcotics and food you need by simply selected the dino and its level. Everything you need will be calculated for you, including some nice other statistics such as effectiveness and the total amount of levels it will gain.
In case you run into any problems with the calculator, find information that is incorrect or have ideas for further improvements: please let us know in a comment below. Happy taming!
Took down a level 40 quetzal with longneck rifle journeyman level. Has about 159% damage. Used 19 tranq darts and it's food was Around 1900. Playing on an official server.
Thank you for your response. I still had a projectile multiplier in the dart calculations, but those don't apply to guns (duh). I totally forgot about it, but now it is fixed 😉 The calculator now indicates that you need 19 darts for the level 40 Quetzal with a 159% damage rifle, just like you mentioned.
For the love of Ark, allow a decimal longer than one tenth. I use a 2.25 taming speed.
Thanks a million… hard to find a calculator that lets you input the taming speed.
I believe the taming effectiveness on the Pachy and Paracer are incorrect based on the kibble feeding. It shows they get a very low effectiveness. I play on an official server and I know those to be incorrect.
I really like this calculator, functionality, versatility, accuracy, etc. I use it all the time. I just request that the Pachy and Paracer effectiveness be fixed. It would really come in handy. Can't wait to see how you add the oviraptor into this. Thanks all.
I see the problem. The calculations are correct, but for some reason 'Mejoberry' is selected instead of the Kibble. For now: if you press the kibble again, it will show the right quantity for those dinos, but I'm on it to fix it.
Aaaaaand.. it is fixed. Thanks for letting me know!
I put 470 tranq darts into a level 96 giga with 120% on a ramshackle gun without knocking him down. I eventually force tamed it. The torpor at lvl 144 was 152,800.
Man…….. I cant thank you enough for all the work you put into this dude…. you rock all kindsa roll….
Any chance you might be able to make a calculator that calculates exactly when the Devs will get their heads out of their asses?
116 Pararacer required 36 Tranq Darts with an Apprentice Longneck Rifle 130.3% damage to knock out. (start 99.9% +57) (end 99.4% +57) Result was a 173 Pararacer.
Great calculator. Only one I use since I found it! I just experimented with the oviraptor on an official server. Eggs feed quantity of food as follows.
Hope that helps! Keep up the good work!
You can ride the giga you know.. Saddle is I believe level 85..
I'll see when I can add such a calculator to it. The engram calculator is currently being revised, but that takes a while as the initial implementation was not the best (should have thought about some choices a little better ;p). After the revision, you should be able to save the engrams and share them with others.
Could you give an indication of how many arrows / darts you needed to bring it down? You should keep in mind that the game might not register all your shots, so it can always be a little off due to lag / bad hitboxes and the Quetzal also regenerates torpor if you wait too long between shots.
When the food becomes negative, it means that it doesn't have high enough food to be able to eat everything at once. In total it would mean that the oviraptor needs 1700 + 900 = 2600 food to eat it all, which is not possible if you only have 900 food available on the creature.
Noticed an error on the taming calculator on the bronto page, the saddle is listed as needing 185 wood when it requires 185 fiber instead.


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Now Reading: This Land Is His Land: Remembering Bob Armstrong
This Land Is His Land: Remembering Bob Armstrong
Joe Holley Mar 5, 2015, 9:20 am CST
Mention the name Bob Armstrong and chances are, even now that he's gone, the response will be a smile and then a story. Like the story former Gov. Mark White tells about the 1982 gubernatorial primary when he and Armstrong were rivals, along with a third candidate, Buddy Temple.
During a dinner at an Amarillo auction barn with some 300 people in attendance, Armstrong spoke first. "I'm the only person in this race who knows which end of a cow gets up first," he told the audience of mostly rural Panhandle Texans.
"He froze me right there," White recalled. "That's the kind of deal where you're either all right or all wrong." White said he excused himself to go to the restroom, but instead hustled back to the cattle pens and frantically looked for a cow lying down. He couldn't find one.
Despite his bovine ignorance, White went on to win the gubernatorial race, but he also went on to appoint his former rival to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission in 1985. "He was absolutely the warmest, sweetest man I've ever known," the former governor said, "but when he had something he wanted to do, he was very forceful."
White had in mind Armstrong's signature accomplishment, the state's purchase of the 212,000-acre ranch adjacent to Big Bend National Park, a purchase that more than doubled the total park acreage in Texas. For Armstrong, the acquisition of the ranch was the culmination of a 17-year dream, which made it especially fitting when, in 2014, the ranch headquarters building was named the Bob Armstrong Visitor Center.
Armstrong also was one of the founders of the Sierra Club's Austin chapter and was a fly fisherman, a pilot, a white-water canoeist, a camper, a hunter, a bird-watcher, an outdoor photographer and a golfer. "I've never known anyone who loved life more than Bob," said Mary Beth Rogers, who worked for Armstrong at the Land Office and later served as Gov. Ann Richards's chief of staff.
He died Sunday night in Austin of congestive heart failure, just a few hours before Texas Independence Day. He was 82. His wife of 31 years, Linda Aaker, was at his bedside, as were his sons Landis and Will. His daughters, Martha Louise Armstrong and Shannon Armstrong, arrived shortly after his passing.
"I've never known anyone who loved life more than Bob."
Robert Landis Armstrong was born and raised in Austin, where his father was a Ford dealer and Austin city councilman, and his mother was a teacher. He received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, served at sea with the U.S. Navy from 1953 to 1955 and was elected to the Texas House in 1963, where he developed a reputation as an "environmentalist" at a time when the term was either suspect or unknown in the Lone Star State.
In 1970, he was elected Texas land commissioner and served virtually unopposed for the next dozen years. Under his leadership, he managed to hold successful oil and gas lease sales, even though the industry had by then discovered who the environmentalists were and dealings between the two camps were strained, to say the least. He also increased royalties paid to the University of Texas as chairman of the Board for Lease of University Lands. In addition, he was the person primarily responsible for crafting the Coastal Zone Management Program, thereby setting the stage for its eventual passage under his successor, Garry Mauro.
The acquisition of the Big Bend ranch was a monumental achievement. Armstrong was well aware that the ranch was a remarkable place, home to rare plants and animals, more than a hundred springs, hundreds of unexplored Indian ruins and the second- and third-highest waterfalls in Texas. As columnist Dave McNeely tells the story, when ranch owner Robert O. Anderson, board chairman of Atlantic Richfield Co., was ready to part with it, Armstrong was ready to buy it. He quickly found out that some lawmakers weren't so eager. "We ain't buyin' no ranch," Senate Finance Committee Chairman A.M. Aikin told him.
Fifteen years later, when White named Armstrong to the Parks and Wildlife board of directors, "the stars began to line up," McNeely writes. Oil prices were down, as was the sale price of the ranch, and more lawmakers favored buying it. Longtime state Comptroller Bob Bullock came up with $10 million to buy the ranch, plus $1 million to raise Texas Rangers pay. In 1988, at a Parks and Wildlife board meeting, Armstrong made the motion to buy the ranch for $8.8 million. The motion passed unanimously.
"That was just brute force on his part, and it was a great accomplishment," White recalled.
Armstrong served as natural resources and energy advisor to Gov. Ann Richards from 1991 until 1993, when President Bill Clinton named him assistant secretary for land and minerals management at the Department of the Interior. He worked in Washington for the next five years before returning to Austin.
"Bob was of a generation of truly remarkable public servants that included people like John Hannah, Bill Hobby, Sens. Ray Farabee and Babe Schwartz—and so many others who joined intellect and wit to a generous sense of the public good," said Bill Cryer, who served as Richards' press secretary. "They seemed to enjoy their roles and brought a sense of purpose and fun to politics. And, not coincidentally, won elections. Texas is a much better place because of Bob Armstrong. That cannot be said of many."
"Texas is a much better place because of Bob Armstrong. That cannot be said of many."
Cryer is right, of course, and yet it's the Armstrong stories that his countless friends and his family members are most likely to recall.
For Cherry Kugle of Austin, briefly a GLO employee during Armstrong's tenure, stories about the famed Armstrong Campouts on his ranch north of Liberty Hill are what immediately come to mind. The gatherings began in 1971 and are held during the weekend closest to Texas Independence Day.
"On Saturday around noon," she recalled, "everyone who can-who is there, who is awake, who can stand–gathers around a very tall flag pole fashioned from a slender tree trunk in the pasture that was in the middle of the camping area. We sing 'Texas, Our Texas' as the Texas flag is raised, and no one ever knows all the words. . . . You look out for each other's kids and dogs and feed one another and share your flask or bottle around the fire. People get drunk and misbehave and sometimes fall in the fire. They are pulled out and the party continues. Over the years, relationships have been forged, marriages have been broken and much, much epic fun has been created."
Kugle added: "Bob singing 'Rosalie's Good Eats Café' used to make my dad [Bill Kugle] declare: 'That is fucking poetry!'"
"God bless Bob Armstrong for creating this magic," Cherry Kugle said. "Just one of the many wonderful things he did in his life."
Jan Reid recalls that it was Armstrong, during his campaign for governor, who persuaded Ann Richards to make her first run for public office. He called her on a Saturday morning in January 1982; she told him she was still in bed. He told her she needed to run for state treasurer, because the current officeholder, Warren Harding, was in trouble with Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle's Public Integrity Unit.
Her response, was, "Bob, you're crazy." She also told him she had no idea what the state treasurer did.
Armstrong would not be dissuaded, as Reid recounted in Let the People In, his biography of Richards: "'Listen,' he argued. 'If Warren Harding has been treasurer, you can be treasurer. We're going to be in a fix if Warren Harding is indicted; it will be an embarrassment to have him on the Democratic ticket.' A corruption scandal involving a Democratic statewide officeholder would hardly boost his chances in the governor's race. 'And,' he went on cheerfully, 'I think it's time for a woman to run statewide.'"
"He was a wonderful, endearing character," said Andy Sansom, a close associate of Armstrong's on the Big Bend Ranch acquisition. "Those who knew him well coined a verb based on his travel behavior: 'Armadillowing.' Bob never seemed to be able to go anywhere in a straight line, always seeing interesting things along the way that would divert his attention."
Sansom, the state's former Parks and Wildlife commissioner, had this to say about his old friend: "He was also, along with Garry Mauro, who succeeded him, the only Texas land commissioner who ever showed any interest in the environment, and his legacy in that regard continues today."
"God bless Bob Armstrong for creating this magic. Just one of the many wonderful things he did in his life."
Most Texans, of course, aren't aware of that legacy. They're more likely to know that he's the guy with a cheese dip named after him at Austin's legendary Tex-Mex restaurant, Matt's El Rancho. Mary Beth Rogers, a friend as well as employee, was present at the dip creation. Her boss, she recalled, would usually "head out to Matt's" two or three times a week, usually with herself and Bebe Champ in tow.
"As soon as we'd get seated," she recalled, "Bob would wander off. (He did a lot of that!) Within a few minutes he would head back from the kitchen with a big grin on his face, with this wonderful mixture of queso, meat, salsa, sour cream, guacamole and God knows what else. Matt Jr., who was a friend of Bob's, would usually come back with him, sit for a while and talk. Over time, people who had gone to lunch there with Bob would start asking for the dip Bob Armstrong put together."
"The dip became integral to the menu, and Armstrong wasn't shy about letting people know it was named for him," Patrick Beach wrote in the Austin American-Statesman obituary.
Beach quoted Armstrong's son, Will: "Once a politician, always a politician. To the end, he'd go over there and walk around and he'd say, 'Hey, is that Bob Armstrong dip you're eating? Well, I'm Bob Armstrong.'"
He was, indeed.
Armstrong was looking forward to this year's campout, scheduled for the weekend beginning Friday, Feb. 27. Told the campout had been canceled due to icy roads, he responded with characteristic optimism:
"Well, maybe we can have it next weekend."


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Group Texans for Tier One urge passage of Proposition 4
Education leaders urged passage Wednesday of a constitutional amendment that would help create more top research universities in Texas.
Voters go to the polls Nov. 3 to consider several constitutional amendments, including Proposition 4, which would create a national research university fund. Seven universities are deemed eligible to become top research institutions, known as Tier One schools.
They are Texas Tech University, the University of Houston, the University of North Texas, the University of Texas at Arlington, the University of Texas at Dallas, the University of Texas at El Paso and the University of Texas at San Antonio. Texas has three universities — the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University and Rice University — that have reached Tier One status.


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Q: Listpreference launching new activity import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.SharedPreferences;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.preference.PreferenceManager;
import android.preference.PreferenceActivity;
public class Preferences extends PreferenceActivity {
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.preferences);

    SharedPreferences SP = PreferenceManager
            .getDefaultSharedPreferences(getBaseContext());

    String listPref = SP.getString("listPref", "No City Selected");
    SP.getString("listPref", "No City Selected");
    SP.contains(listPref);

    if (listPref == "Aplpharetta") {
        Intent myIntent = new Intent(Preferences.this, Contents.class);
        Preferences.this.startActivity(myIntent);

    } else if ("Greenville".equals("Greenvile")) {
        Intent myIntent = new Intent(Preferences.this, Contents.class);
        Preferences.this.startActivity(myIntent);

    } else if   ("Houston".equals("Houston")) {
        Intent myIntent = new Intent(Preferences.this, Contents.class);
        Preferences.this.startActivity(myIntent);
    }}}

Here is the Arrays file

<string-array name="listArray">
    <item>Alpharetta</item>
    <item>Greenville</item>
    <item>Houston</item>
    <item>Tampa</item>
</string-array>

    <string-array name="listValues">
    <item>Alpharetta</item>
    <item>Greenville</item>
    <item>Houston</item>
    <item>Tampa</item>
</string-array>
</resources>

The problem I am having is making the activity start when a listpreference is selected. I have tried the two ways listed above, the list lets you select the item, but not trigger the other activity to start. The arrays list is set up without integers due to the information being populated in another part of the app. I have tried    setOnPreferenceChangeListener() and    setOnPreferenceClickListener() . With using those, the preference screen would flash up for a send and return right back to the previous screen like it is starting the activity, but doesn't stay open long enough if you need to make a change. This is my first attempt at making a preference screen, so I am not sure if I am missing something or going about this the entirely wrong way.

A: Have a look in the APIDemos for the API version that you a re using. There is a Preference Activity example with good explanations. 2 files you want to have a look at are: PreferencesFromCode.java and PreferencesFromXML.java in com.example.android.apis.app.
In short, you need to register intent for the particular preference you want.
Preference pref = new Preference(this);
pref.setIntent(new Intent().setClass(this, <Activity>.class));

This way when preference is clicked it will automatically fire the Activity you have registered for it.
UPDATE:
I have quickly created the activity and tested code below. You have said that you have tried the OnChangeListener, but for some reason it didn't work out. This works using OnSharedPreferenceChangeListener and it launches the intent when you change the value of the "list_preference".
public class ListPrefTestActivity extends PreferenceActivity implements OnSharedPreferenceChangeListener {
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.preferences);

        SharedPreferences SP = PreferenceManager
                .getDefaultSharedPreferences(getBaseContext());

        // Register OnChangeListener
        SP.registerOnSharedPreferenceChangeListener(this);
    }

    public void onSharedPreferenceChanged(SharedPreferences sharedPreferences,
            String key) {

        //Make sure the item changed was the list_preference
        if(key.equals("list_preference")) {
            //Get the value from the list_preference with default: "Nothing"
            String value = sharedPreferences.getString(key, "Nothing");

            // If the value not the default, then open google.com using intent.
            if(!value.equals("Nothing")) {
                String url = "http://www.google.com";
                Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
                i.setData(Uri.parse(url));
                startActivity(i);
            }
        }
    }
}


Emergency responders in Cheektowaga were called out to 170 calls for service on Tuesday, March 19, 2019.
12:11 am – A man came to the police station asking if an officer can call his ex-girlfriend and tell her to stop contacting him. The call was made, and both parties were advised to stay away from each other.
12:26 am – The driver of a 2008 Chevy Cobalt was arrested for drunk driver during a traffic stop on French Road.
3:42 am – A Uhaul truck reported stolen was recovered at the Thruway Plaza.
4:05 am – A male prisoner with incarceritis asked for an ambulance because he was complaining of chest pains inside the police station's cellblock. He was checked out by medical professionals and remained at the police station.
7:14 am – Doyle Hose on Williams Street filed a larceny report after an ex-firefighter did not return company equipment after several attempts to collect it.
8:12 am – A resident of the Apple Blossom Apartment Treatment Program on Old Union Road was arrested for harassment after he said he was going to "burn the place down" when he returned.
9:50 am – A traffic stop on Harlem Road netted an arrest for weapon possession.
12:14 pm – National Fuel and U-Crest firefighters investigated a gas leak inside a store at Walden Galleria after an anonymous call was placed with the gas company.
12:25 pm – A JFK student was assisted by the school resource officer and school officials.
12:48 pm – A resident on Hoerner Avenue was scammed out of $1,000 after he tried to buy a car over the internet.
2:23 pm – A homeless woman in a wheelchair was soliciting customers of the Walden Avenue Tim Hortons for money and coffee. Witnesses said the woman was not wheelchair bound and was seen running across the parking lot. She was told the next time the police come out she would be arrested.
3:08 pm – A drunk disorderly woman at Walden Galleria was transported to ECMC under the state's mental health law.
4:06 pm – A woman fell out of her car on Fath Drive and was transported to ECMC by an ambulance. U-Crest firefighters attended to the scene to help with first-aid.
5:49 pm – A resident of Rachelle Drive told the police that they were scammed out of $88,000.
8:46 pm – Four people were arrested after the stole from Auntie Anne's Pretzels at the Walden Galleria. The police made the arrest after they detained the people for disorderly conduct.
10:19 pm – Doyle firefighters responded to Pocketeer Billiards on Clinton Street for a possible drug overdose. It's not clear if the man overdosed, but he was transported to ECMC for being too impaired.
11:04 pm – A prisoner with a head injury was transported to ECMC.


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Main / theory / publications / Prolegomena for Methodological Constraint
The Necessity of a Method as a Basis for Forming a Culture of Left-Wing Opposition
It is widely known that from its very origins Moscow radical art (so-called "Moscow actionism") defined itself as left-wing art, following the great political tradition of the 20th century avantgarde. The absolute majority of texts, collective and individual declarations, manifestos, and interviews by almost all the main proponents of this movement contain an unmistakable left-wing political message. Almost no art critic took these political assertions seriously when they were made; instead, they were understood as rather obscure manifestations of artistic whimsy. In analyzing this strange tendency from today's perspective, it does not seem to be a great exaggeration to admit that a will towards method lies at the very basis of left-wing political choice, a wish to make one's own practice understandable and reproducible by others. In the past decade, this idea has passed through a thorny path of trial and error. At time, it has deviated from its main goal, but at other points, it has hit its mark, defining some of the central artistic events of the 1990s.
For me, the left-wing political choice has always been a deliberate position – I have always played an active role in the politicization of Russian contemporary art. It seems to me that from the very beginning, our only connection with the processes of international art lies in the context of the Left. After all, the majority of Russian artists was witnesses to the Great Soviet Experiment and, at the same time, was present and took part in its deconstruction. This was a unique experience.
In a certain sense, these historical circumstances forced Russian artists to experience the results of a real Choice. Undoubtedly, an accurate analysis of these fundamental social, psychological, economic, and political differences that this choice generated can be only take place within the borders of left-wing discourse. After all, during the time of its existence, the Soviet state – that is to say, what is under analysis here – constantly vowed its fidelity to the left-wing tradition. Yet the historical tragedy of 20th century is that its most humane and honest political conception, the conception that demanded both the most justice and personal responsibility, was drowned in blood, discredited, and exposed to ridicule.
Nevertheless, the artists of the 1990s saw themselves as part of the left-wing cultural tradition. This political choice occurred in parallel to the widespread anti-methodological revolt that took place in the Soviet academic organizations. During the 1990s, the absolute majority of institutional specialists (and in a broader sense, the entire intelligentsia) rehabilitated the value of individual and exclusive skills and abilities that the Soviet regime had marginalized.
All methods were rejected (first and foremost, certainly, that of Marxism) in favor of the sovereign Personality. Today, it is difficult to find anything positive in this process. The fundamental motivation of these "personalities" did not lie in the actualization of "universal human rights" or "those values common to all mankind", as it was publicly stated at the time. Instead, it lay in the attempt to privatize knowledge and personal institutional positions. This is what they really wanted. But, as a matter of fact, the social outcome of this revolt generated an alternate conception of "personality", whose slightly romanticized but otherwise organic mass-cultural image can be found in the TV show "Brigada" 1.
It is only natural that this anti-methodological revolt could not help but exert its pernicious influence on the artists of the 1990s. In Russia, the question of one's political identification did not go beyond proclaiming creative solidarity with the left-wing artistic tradition. Many texts were written in the 1990s, but only a few of them were able to avoid becoming bare declarations. The left-wing tradition has always used decrees, manifestoes, loud declarations, and other forms of public mass-medial representations. It cannot do without them, because they achieve a high degree of effectiveness. However, they have one essential disadvantage: in the absence of a well-defined methodology, their effect is short-lived and demands permanent renewal through endless repetition. Some of their parameters are dangerously close to mass culture. They have a clear tendency toward degeneration (a short history of the Soviet state). On the other hand, in the situation of brutal capitalism in the phase of its primary accumulation, every author experienced the permanent fear of losing his own place. This forced him to behave in a certain way, to take an ambivalent position: the left-wing political identification corresponded to the practice of questionable exclusivism.
Conceptualism as a Method
Even in the post-Soviet environment of the 1990s, artists remained devoted to the essential principles of methodological thinking. The circle of artists-conceptualists applied to their work a creative method that was fully mature. This method was endowed with a personal, rather ornate terminology, which combined the notions of psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, phenomenology, and structuralism. However, conceptualism was not only – and even not so much – a creative method. Above all else, it was a way of life, an ideology. While one can clearly see that the radical art of 1990s often lacked any consistency or well-developed position, conceptualism was marked by its fatal over-production. When creative method replaces ideology, social engagement, and reflection on the everyday, it definitely becomes a form of perverted elitism amongst its adepts. The attempt to extend aesthetics to every single aspect of life produced political cynicism and led to a loss of social orientation. Thus, it hardly comes as a surprise that here was (and still there is) a diffused religiousness at work in conceptualist circles, sometimes in very obscure forms. The creative method is powerless in the process of social adaptation of the individual. If it is used in this process, different forms of false consciousness – ranging from fascism to religiosity – will always replace its insufficiency.
The systemic conflict that emerged in the 1990s between conceptual artists and radical artists expressed the protest of the latter against conceptualism's pretenses at being more than just a creative method. In fact, every active figure of the 1990s recognized that the foundations of the conceptual method still were in effect, which is why they were used actively. Even the radical break from this method, which became evident in a series of art events of the 1990s, manifestly contained the methodology of conceptualism, albeit in its reversed, negative form.
Exclusivism. The Result of Privatization Hysteria
The specific behavior of the most successful artists of the 1990s expresses the anti-methodological revolt as a refusal of all understandable and reproducible methods of creation and analysis of artworks. All the different variants of this behavior achieved one thing: to single out the artist and to eliminate all possibilities for imitation once and for all. If imitation (and sometimes, even comprehension) is practically impossible for Kulik and his absurd ideology (mythology) of zoophrenia, then this position of exclusivism is rather suspicious when it is taken up by those figures of the 1990s who associated themselves with so-called left-wing art
Without doubts, the most vivid figure to refract the major contradictions of the 1990s was Alexander Brener. Brener joins exclusivism and left-wing choice, messianic ambitions and democratic rhetoric. It is not an exaggeration to state that some artists used left-wing rhetoric as a form of aesthetic distinction: Kulik as the man-dog, and Brener as the individualist-anarchist.
The remarkable entanglement and irrelevance of all established notions in post-Soviet Russia (the Red-Brown opposition, the National-Bolshevik party and so on) formed the conditions for such extraordinary arabesques. While the conceptualists understood their creative method as political position, the radical artists of the 1990s came to see their political position as creative method. For example, many readers are baffled by the extremely negative treatment that Brener adopts towards those artists who are seem to be close to his views. He proclaims all those artists who might somehow claim his place as a left-wing radical activist as enemies or "opportunists". In his attempt to privatize the left-wing position, Brener faces the fact that, primarily for its own inner configuration, this position is such an open one and not reducible to one person that he needs all the time to violently "shut" and "hold" it if he wants to keep and create the illusion of exclusiveness. In his effort to "privatize" the left-wing tradition he is similar to the official representatives of intellectual privatization: Yakovlev, Volkogonov, Radzinsky, et al. who tried to privatize Knowledge 2.
The Fragmentation of Social Relations as a Way of Avoiding Responsibility
The artists of the 1990s often resorted to another technique in creating the illusion of exclusivity. This technique was fragmentation. Usually, art fragments a broader social context and not only the structure of political identifications. Any artist will use this technique. The very fact of selling a work of art and legitimately appropriating sizable sums of money only becomes possible through the fragmentation of social relations. Brener constantly employs fragmentation as well. He fragments the historical and cultural context of the Moscow art community by letting loose a hail of accusations, reproaches, and pretensions onto all of his former friends, acquaintances, colleagues (without considering their political identification), many of whom have played a fundamental roles in his fate, supporting him morally, through intellectual dialogue, or through the organization of his career. These accusations are simply unpleasant for the people who took part in Brener's life. However, the issue at stake has nothing to do with morals or ethics. Defending his symbolic capital with fragmentation as an individualist-loner, Brener is attempting to prove his otherness, his exclusiveness. In his texts, he violently tears up the context, representing himself as a highly disinterested and severe "observer-expert" of Moscow art life. Any researcher who claims to be a professional has to ask how such a "talent" could have been born in this wretched atmosphere of careerists, losers, and untalented people?
Certainly, individualists-loners do not only emphasize their uniqueness and exclusivity, but they also continue to avoid any responsibility for their actions. Since they only see themselves in the narrow contexts of their private lives and personal choices, they fragment the consequences of their social activity. The inability to define the connection between their own actions and the social life around them becomes the basis for the emergence of a neo-liberal organization of society, where only one mediator creates connections between people, namely the market, whose forces are subject to neither criticism nor regulation. It is characteristic that the neo-liberal organization of society resists any method, that it is fundamentally anti-methodological and irresponsible. It creates a sense of the subject's powerlessness in the face of society and its laws.
Method versus Technology
How does method differ from technology? This is a serious question, with a considerable margin for substantial errors in finding an answer. Maybe it is not enough to simply declare that technology is a specific list of consecutive operations known a priori that leads to a result, while method is a clearly formulated system of thinking, which does not only demand the application of creativity in accordance with the surrounding social context, but also requires its own development. Foucault once made the fruitful observation that the key difference between Marx and his predecessors is that Marx made distinction the cornerstone in the development of his theory. According to Foucault, to be a Marxist it is necessary to differ from Marx and not to follow him. Foucault related this definition to the notion of discourse. However, in my opinion, it is also effective if it is placed in relation to method (especially if we consider that Marx did not know the notion of discourse and called his own system method). In this sense, technology is a contemporary expression of religion, of dogmatic thinking. Religious thinking is constructed according to the principles of repetition, of constant approval of the same. In this, it is very similar to technology. The entire contemporary world is quasi-religious – thanks to its saturation through technology.
However, method differs from technology in one very important aspect, which lies in its accessibility, its democratization. In order to realize itself, any technology requires industry, a system of social relationships constructed according to the principle of the production line. Industry belongs to those who have the power. It is an instrument to rule the world. A method, in contrast, is above all located in human consciousness. It rejects the principle itself of estranged de-individualized industry. A method creates individuality in a wide and understandable context of transparent social relations (which the method itself makes visible).
Novelty and the Industry of Leisure
The defense of methodological thought cannot help but bring us to the analysis of the notion of the New. In the context of 20th century culture theory, the New is a symbol of progress and development, and plays the role of political identifier of this or that artistic initiative. It is this notion (or its criticism) that serves as the center around which gigantic discursive systems are organized. One of the most recent system of this kind to attract attention in Russia consists of Boris Groys's theory of the "valorization of the profane". In his text, Groys actually places the New and fashion on the same level. Mistakenly considered by some readers as an actualization of modernist analytic strategies, its intellectual constructions actually are far closer to anti-modernist tendencies. After all, the best way to destroy the New is not by insisting on its impossibility (that is what several post-modernist discourses affirm), but by showing its relative character, its commonness, its inclusion in the everyday logic of cultural exchange.
Deeply rooted in the community of Moscow's intelligentsia, this position requires a more exhaustive analysis. First, it is connected with the loss of historical thinking. The established neo-liberal illusion of the immobility of society, its "dormancy", its "irreversibility" ultimately leads to the negation of progress and of any and all distinctions in general, including those at work in aesthetics. In fact, the distinction between high and mass culture lies in the way they are produced. Mass culture – and its making, functioning, and consumption – are linked primarily to the leisure industry. In their time, the Situationists noted that estranged labor generates an estranged form of leisure, whose main characteristic is the absence of choice. The industry of mass leisure has to meet certain conditions: speed of production and consumption, constant renovation and continuity, multi-purposefulness. These conditions guarantee the possibilities to capitalize cultural processes and gain immediate profit from them. High culture with its complicated system of differentiations is too awkward for the leisure industry. Furthermore, in order to be understood, high culture requires its reader to change his own mode of perception and to refuse many well-accepted cliches. These changes happen very slowly. Years go by before the specific distinctions between composers, artists, or writers are understood in full. These speeds do not conform to the speeds of the leisure industry and the movement of capital that it implies.
In speaking of the differences between high and mass culture, we also have to mention the other side of a fundamental difference between them. An important attribute of high culture was and still is the novelty of the artifacts that it produces. Any understanding of the New is directly connected to the methodology of its making. A new artifact is not a fortuitous miracle, unforeseen excess or a scandalous piece of news. A new artifact is the result of the evolution of aesthetic thinking, the possible new quality of a sociality that can be realized by generations to come. Adorno is absolutely right in comparing the work of art with the model of the ideal society made inside the limits of space and time.
For the cultural analyst, the New is related to the historical and contemporary contexts of art. The mutual interaction of these two contexts generates the New. It is only because the activity and variety of these contexts have today reached a high point of tension that it is very difficult to identify the New. Its appearance is usually prefigured by a rather long period of accumulation, during which the analytic efforts of humanity are arranged, but the actual transition to a new quality usually happens swiftly and takes the form of instantaneous explosion.
Art Market Vs Experiment? An Open Question
The left-wing art tradition regards the art market with the utmost skepticism. Criticizing the mechanism of mass culture, I have spoken rather skeptically about the processes of capitalization of the leisure industry and noted that high culture is too complicated to be profitable. In a way, all of the declarations above oppose the facts of artistic life in Western European and North America. From the beginning of the 1980s onward, the deep link between the art system and business has created a rather ambivalent situation in which artistic experiments destroyed all conventions of perception and were included in the structure of the commercial galleries. A similar state of affairs makes it difficult to clearly understand the relationship between culture and political processes in the West. What is all this? Can be understood as the justice and effectiveness of capitalism? Or does it entail the insufficient revolutionary drive of the same artists? Many critics of the capitalistic system became victims of the illusion of this apparent unity, fully rejecting art as a form of human display that is held in high regard. Undoubtedly, capital soils all that it touches. Furthermore, when artistic experiment becomes a market-property, it becomes highly questionable. Capitalistic relations spread the specter of corruption into all the fields of human activity. First of all, this is why left-wing analysts face the psychological goal of defending themselves from these obsessive feelings. Certainly, capitalism cannot be overcome from any exterior position, since "capital is pregnant with its own contradiction". Contemporary visual art appears to be the most transparent and obvious scene of the struggle between experiment and capital. It possesses only one, but extremely serious distinction from all other forms of creativity, namely its own materiality. This materiality is the platform and scene of struggle. One can own a work of art. In this case, the work is the quintessence of private property, the symbol of capitalism. Like in a magic crystal, it refracts all contradictions and conflicts of the capitalistic system, which is based on the idea of private ownership. If an artwork is an object for the capitalist, then for the artists it is an image (or even a model) of an ideal structure.
The problem of original and reproduction is one of the most important themes in 20th century theoretical reflection. Beginning with W. Benjamin's essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", this problem entered the daily work of practically all contemporary artists. Benjamin was somewhat premature in burying the aura of the artwork. Maybe Marx was also early in prognosticating the quick end of capitalism. Answering the sacramental question of what aura is all about – as a matter of fact, Benjamin spoke about this fundamental attribute of visual art in a rather unclear manner – we have to account for the materiality of the artwork, its corporeality which, as a result, generates shortcomings and deficiencies. There is nothing more sacramental than people crowding in front of a painting, struggling to peek over one another's shoulders or squeezing past one another to get nearer. Whereever there are shortcomings and deficiencies, the system of repression and capital arise as well. Since it has its own corporeality, visual art is closer to reality and its actual problems than any other art form. The artist gets in touch with real sociality through the art market. For the contemporary artist, it would be an inadmissible luxury and an inappropriate pretense to stay away from the market.
To Be and To Seem: Political Position and its Public Representation (In Short)
In fact, the materiality of visual art is one of its most valuable characteristics. This property stands against the contemporary condition of simulation (spectacularity) of capitalist society. As paradoxical as it may seem, when an artwork becomes an object of purchase and sale, it begins to fight against capital, becoming a catalyst for its overcoming. In other words, the fundaments of any political position consist in the corporeal structure of the artwork and not only of its reproducible image.
Since antiquity, it has been clear that excessive confidence in one's own feelings, spontaneous perceptions, and cognitive processes lead to serious, fatal mistakes. The organs of our vision tell us that the earth is flat when in fact this is not true. Distrust toward one's own perception is the basis for any scientific (methodological) point of view. This brings us back to the problem that started this text: for the left-wing activist, as for the artist, ordinary public manifestations are simply not enough. It becomes necessary to realize oneself in a configurative, corporal manner as a left-wing figure. Furthermore, in some cases, public manifestations only confuse matters and make it difficult to reveal the authentic political meaning of this or that action. (For an example, in the pop industry, the image of the anarchist-trickster is placed on the production line). The field of public manifestations has long since been an instrument for the manipulation of the masses. There is only one way of defending oneself against this manipulation, namely method, or better yet, Marxist method. Today we cannot allow ourselves the luxury of relying upon political representation alone. Only a meticulous corporeal configurative analysis is capable of bringing us to the true state of affairs. Corporeal analysis: do not trust public manifestations and do not trust anything from the public sphere in general – simulacra have captured this sphere to the full. Marxism was and still is the basis for this analysis.
1 I am alluding to an extremely popular television series in contemporary Russia, which romanticizes the gangsterism of the Yeltsin era.
2 I am referring to the official and media bearers of historical knowledge in post-Soviet Russia.


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New access demonstrates value of partnerships, Virginia's commitment to access and Capt. John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail
Caledon State Park, located on the Potomac River's Virginia shore just upstream from the Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge (US 301), is the latest access point to the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail.
The park has six new campsites dedicated to paddlers on the trail.
The access points were developed through a partnership between Virginia, the National Park Service, and the Chesapeake Conservancy.
Governor Terry McAuliffe joined Joel Dunn, executive director of the Chesapeake Conservancy, Charles E. "Chuck" Hunt, the superintendent of the Chesapeake Bay Office of the National Park Service and local partners, to dedicate the new campsites.
"Partnerships like this one bring extra expertise and resources to the effort to create more public access to the Chesapeake Bay and its great rivers, and particularly to the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail," said Dunn. He noted that creating access that enables people to explore the Chesapeake watershed's outdoors is a part of Chesapeake Conservancy's mission.
Gov. McAuliffe also affirmed Virginia's commitment to increasing public access to rivers and the Chesapeake Bay.
"Protecting the health and vitality of Virginia's waterways and promoting their use means we can connect people from all over the world with our Commonwealth's natural resources and grow our economy as well," Governor McAuliffe said.
He said his administration wanted to continue to provide more places for people to "swim, fish, put in a canoe and just be in nature."
He noted that partnering with the National Park Service, the Chesapeake Conservancy and others will create more opportunities to create public access, and he added that the Commonwealth of Virginia and the National Park Service have agreed to a memorandum of understanding to advance mutual commitments to the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail and the Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail. A focus of the trails is to bring to the region new opportunities for public access, recreation, education and heritage tourism.
"Development of this canoe-in site increases people's access to the river and to one of the country's most significant summering spots for bald eagles," said Virginia Secretary of Natural Resources Molly Ward. "This contributes to both the state park's and the trails' goals of allowing visitors to experience this area's unique natural treasures."
Canoe-in campgrounds were identified as a key need during development of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Public Access Plan and the Potomac River Segment Plan for the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail (scheduled to be completed this year). Partners are working toward adding 300 new public access sites across the bay watershed by 2025.