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Jane and Bucky pay the law firm of Nelson & Murdock a visit, in thanks for all that happened with the trial (and with Wakanda, but no one told poor Foggy that).
Nelson & Murdock, Hell's Kitchen
Foggy Nelson
Mentions: Jessica Jones, Tony Stark
Summer still lingers like a stubborn old ghost over Manhattan, bringing surprising warmth to a dusky evening days from November. It's a good day, a good night, for James Barnes and Jane Foster to begin paying overdue and requisite housecalls after weeks away — weeks fighting an ocean away in Wakanda.
Now home, with that believed all behind them, and having gotten rest and reacclimation back to whatever "normal life" is — actually living again without a guillotine hanging over their hands, and a perpetual crisis pressing weight on their backs, it's time to indulge the things normal people tend to do.
Like go pay a visit and a proper thank-you to the two lawyers who defended your seventy-year list of murder against the United States.
OK, almost normal people things.
Either way, in her first actual break from her consummate work — right now life is Tony Stark's lab, and business is rebuilding Bucky's lost left arm — Jane spends the better part of the day cooking. Cooking everything. It's what happens when you're honestly not sure what a certain two men even like to eat. Everything is a good catch-all. Make everything.
Unfortunately, this fierce multitasking had Jane's attention skip when it came to the one-armed Bucky and whatever the hell he was doing on his side of the kitchen. Apparently, at one point, it was supposed to be cake, but when retrieved from the oven, Jane had said, awkwardly, "Oh. That's a nice… trapezoid." That didn't go over well.
And now, across the city and at a certain law firm in Hell's Kitchen, the door opens with a curious, beseeching, "Hello?"
It's Jane Foster, looking and hearing a lot different from that wraith of a thing months ago, worried and morose. She's still painfully tiny, but in great spirits, and with her comes bearing a couple bags of food, a rolling carry-on of luggage (more food), and a Bucky Barnes (also carrying food with his one arm.) "It's us! We brought food!"
It has been a slow day for Nelson, and this is quite obvious by the way he lazily throws a hacky sack up in the air to catch it, only to throw it up again. It's a dull, repeative motion that seems to hypnotize him — and it does so, so well that he hardly hears the door open or the hello that comes from it despite his own office door being wide open to the tiny entry room. He is leaning back in his chair as he continues his repeative up-down with the hacky-filled bag. He pauses then, blinking as the thought crosses his mind. "I wonder what hacky really is…"
That's when he looks up, and blinks again at the sight of someone crossing into the room, and the familiar voice of Bucky Barnes. "Huh?"
Summer may be keeping its stubborn grip on New York City, but to judge from view when the door swings open, the turn of the seasons has brought at least some changes to the law offices of Nelson & Murdock. It's not exactly a makeover — that would require more cash flow than their fledgling partnership has at the moment — but gone are the naked wires, the half-finished Styrofoam cups of coffee, the strewn and scattered papers, and the constant din of televisions inevitably turned to the latest-breaking developments in what was dubbed first by Ben Urich and later the country as the "Trial of Two Centuries."
Instead, the lobby of their railroad office space is neat and clean, warmed with a few flourishes: potted plants here, a framed New York Times headline there, a picture of the eponymous Nelson & Murdock on the cover of the ABA Journal.
And a new office manager, too, from the look of the person sitting behind the desk who comes to a rise as Bucky and Jane enter. She's a thirty-something, pencil-skirted woman who seems just a little too-put-together for her scrappy surroundings. "Ms. Foster, Mr. Barnes," she says with a brisk, professional smile as she comes to a rise and begins circling her desk towards them. She's never met them before, but she hasn't lived under a rock for the last year, and doesn't miss a beat. "Please, come in. I'll take the food off your hands and let the partners know you're here."
"Ah, that won't be necessary, Lydia," comes the soft, wry, all-too-familiar tone of Matthew Murdock from his side-office — the one without the view. The door swings open to reveal the man himself, almost the same as ever. There are lingering blushes of sunburn on the bridge of his nose and his temples that speak to his own time away in warmer climes, a new (and much-needed) haircut — but he's otherwise same as he ever was: suit coat abandoned, sleeves rolled up, tie slightly loose at its knot. The smile might be a rarity, of course. Especially in his professional life Matt's are infrequent and often close-mouthed — this one is bright, almost boyish in its effusiveness.
"Oh, guys, you really shouldn't have," he says with rueful good humor… and means it, being able to smell as he can each part and parcel of the mobile feast Jane Foster put together for them with the powers of science. He walks into the foyer in Jane's general direction, hands spread in welcome.
Just behind Jane, the familiar-not-familiar form of Bucky Barnes hovers. Familiar, because he's broadly unchanged despite his long sojourn in Wakanda; unfamiliar, because the one way in which he has changed is fairly major: his left arm is gone.
He carries himself with about as much grace as can be expected of a fresh amputee that has the balancing advantage of a supersoldier serum. Oddly enough, he's never actually had to live without his lost arm, despite losing it over seventy years ago. When he woke up on that table, the prosthetic was already in place.
Such thoughts seem to be far from his mind for the moment, as well they should be. He is the most relaxed he has been in over half a year. Or — he would be relaxed, if not for the object he is carrying in his one arm. It is the trapezoid. He still looks annoyed that it was called the trapezoid.
At the changes the office has undergone, he turns a bemused but rather pleased glance on Jane, lifting his brows. Not bad, huh? his expression says, especially when they are greeted by a very put-together lady who was definitely not there last time they were in this office regularly. He relinquishes his trapezoid willingly — thank God Matt can't see, though Foggy might have Opinions — and turns back towards the two lawyers.
"It's no trouble," he says, "especially after all the late nights and headaches you both went through." And panthers, but that is a secret. "Business, I hear, is picking up, so one less thing to think about, the better."
This may well be Jane Foster's first time in this office, despite being the key defence witness and party to the trial of James Barnes. All of Matthew Murdock's preparation of her for testimony, for the stand — occurred all in the comfort of her home, and knowing the subject matter, all for good reason. Catching Bucky's glance, her eyebrows pop up with silent agreement.
The petite woman helps herself to a good look around, tucking a look of her dark hair behind an eye, and receiving the office manager with a quieter smile. The strange face, and one definitely in addition to knowing her name, probably has the sometimes-awkward Jane momentarily shy. She's not used to being a semi-famous face, and she's really not used to it for being reasons that are not even related to her work, her job — or her, really. "Oh," she says quietly, "thank y —"
Then a sudden Murdock. Jane definitely recognizes him, mollifying the instant she sees the lawyer. A smile breaks out across her face. Sight for sore eyes, and if her eyes aren't sore as hell. "Hey, Matt," she says fondly, abandoning her carry-on of food to shuffle forward, up on her tip-toes to steal him into a quick hug.
Behind him, she can catch a glimpse of Foggy in through the open door of his office, her eyes crinkling with affectionate welcome, hand outstretched in a barely-contained-Jane-high-energy wavewavewave.
"Um." Foggy closely examines the food that has come in their door. "Did I miss something, or are we stocking up for winter?" He glances toward Matt with his brows arched in habit more than actually seeking the man to give an opinion. He glances then toward Jane, and offers a sheepish smile with a returned wave while still holding the hacky-sack. "Hi." He lets the silence hang for a second. "How's it going?" There's something awkward in those words as if Foggy is still working through some stuff… like abandonment issues.
Then with a half-cock of his head, the shaggy lawyer regards Bucky. "You're looking chipper," he offers with a slight smirk in his voice. He notes the trapezoid with another arch of his brows, but refrains from comment. Same goes for Bucky's missing arm. Lots of lack of commenting here. Like why his partner disappeared on a long vacation without him, or why Lydia the Lovely Receptionist still hasn't asked for her weekly wages. Yeah, Foggy has Opinions.
"Well, we may not be bears, but we still welcome the gesture," Matt pivots wryly off of Foggy's quip about stocking up for the winter as he shares that quick hug from Jane and extends a hand towards Bucky. After all, Matt can't see — or can't let on that he sees — much of the interplay here. Not Bucky's missing arm, nor Jane's slow recovery from her turn as ragged little-a-avenger to something like normalcy. But what he can offer is a warm and welcoming presence as Lydia absconds with Bucky & Jane's foodstuffs sets about to stocking their nearly-empty kitchenette.
Bucky's saying business is good, and Matt shrugs a little. "Yeah, we've been getting some decent word of mouth lately," he deadpans back, swallowing a smile. Winning a high-wire, David and Goliath bout with a formidable U.S.A. in a media-frenzied legal case will do that, goes unsaid.
And for all that Matt may be all pleasant comradery, it's safe to say that even if he weren't possessed of hyper-senses, he'd be able to tell that his best friend and law partners has many as-yet unspoken opinions about many things. But for the moment he presses the entering couple instead. "Can we get you some coffee? Or, you know, a dish of your choice from the cornucopia you apparently hauled over?"
"Winter IS coming," Bucky says with half a smile, unaware that he has just popular culture meme'd. "It's the time to stock up, if there ever was one."
Relinquishing his burdens, he watches Jane with amusement as she first flusters to the attention, then shuffles forward to greet Matt. You're looking chipper, Foggy says, drawing his eye, and he returns half a smirk — and tries not to look too betrayingly guilty about his part in having Matt mysteriously vanish on Foggy again for a few months.
"Yeah, not being on death row in some country or another does wonders for the mood," he quips. "I've had enough trial-by-combat-to-the-death scenarios to last me a lifetime by now."
He takes the offered hand when Matt extends it, a quick grasp and half a shake exchanged. "Oh, coffee would be great," he says. "Jane has barely slept, and when she has it's been over top of arm prototypes."
Jane is a very expressive woman. And she makes a really expressive face around when Bucky makes that totally unironic Game of Thrones quote. Oh god, she's so embarrassed. "Are you telling people to /stock up/ for winter — people don't need to be oldmansplained, James," she says, with deep, deep suffering, albeit spoken around a grin cracked up over her mouth.
When he speaks of death rows — plural, in his case — her grin smothers down to rueful smiling, still a bit too soon or too hard for her to joke about it, though even she knows it's probably for the best she does. Wasted far too long being so mournfully deep inside her own head.
And glad to be free of that, it gives her opportunity to look on others — namely, the silent interplay between Matt and Foggy. Jane's a perceptive person, especially in the realm of /this/ sort of stuff.
There's definitely something there, something /really/ strained and /really/ awkward, and she's got a third of an idea why.
"I don't need much sleep, never did, doctoral student thing," she chirps absently, with half-a-concerned eye toward Foggy that she tries not to make too obvious. Mention of fooding is a good topic to grab onto. "And please — everyone eat! I… am not sure of allergies or intolerances or any vegetarian or related -isms. I made everything. Stew. Chili. Curry. Everything. James made… a cake. It's… good."
Foggy glances over toward Lydia is already arming the Keurig for incoming caffeine, and he snappoints to her. "Lyds is already on it." To which Lydia gives Foggy a patient smile for his nickname while also starting to fill cups from a brand new Keurig and its accompanying cups. He whispers to Matt. "That showed up yesterday. Notice the logo on the cups?" Which isn't said completely from a place of ignorance; the logo is helpfully raised as if someone knew a blind guy would be holding the cup, and Stark Industries has a very distinctive logo.
Then he tries to relax a bit more easily into a smile for the two, even while his presence still hums with unresolved issues.
The Game of Thrones reference has Foggy's brows arching, and then he dryly retorts, "Aren't you a little old for HBO?" Beat pause. "You probably don't do Social Media either, or you would know that you have just one-degree of separation from Ned Stark. Tell me, do you know what a meme is?"
Matt's head ducks and smile mutes when Bucky speaks of being off death-row in one jurisdiction or another for the first time in months. There's relief, obviously, but as with Jane, the grueling gauntlet of the last half-year — whether in the courtroom or their harrowing experience in Wakanda — makes it difficult to joke about with the ease at which the man who himself was under the knife manages. The smile comes back full-fore, if quizzical, when their conversation descends into Ned Starks and memes.
But the world of Game of Thrones memes — or any internet memes at all — is beyond Matt Murdock. Still, he has probably read the first book — probably read it at Foggy Nelson's insistence, and so he can put two and two together. Winter is Coming. Winter Soldier. lolz abound. "It's a pop culture reference," Matt softly asides to Bucky pithily, while thinking silently to himself: You know, Ned Stark is probably the only person in the world, fictional or not, with shittier luck than James Buchanan Barnes.
"Uh, yeah," Matt goes on at Jane's offering(s). "I'll defer to Lydia on the spread. We're finding that's a good tack to take with most things."
Of course, he hears Foggy's aside, about the Keuring cups, and the raised print on them. It's safe to say that he has made a note of both the machine and their benefactor, at least from the way stubbled skin tightens around the hinge of his jaw, accompanied by a slight, short nod. He has some Unspoken Opinions himself.
Bucky is a perceptive man. His job demands it. He notices the face Jane makes, and his own expression turns a little indignant. "What?" he says, cross. "It's not oldmansplaining. It's called making conversation. Didn't they teach that in rocket science school?"
He notices the mood flatten out a bit when he speaks of death rows (multiple), however. Aware it's something that he responded to a little differently than those who were responsible for trying, frantically, to keep him alive — one has the luxury of bleak fatalism when one is the person under the guillotine, without power to change the outcome — he quiets on the matter.
Foggy, as always, is quite good for lightening the mood, even when his own still seems to bear such weight towards his absentee partner.
Nelson's salvo of references has the old man looking bewildered. Is this 'Ned Stark' part of the Stark clan? He looks at Jane, then at Matt. The latter helpfully clarifies, but Bucky only looks a little less uncertain. "I'm figuring out memes," he says, and he might be getting assistance in this in the form of Jessica's barrage of them. "Most of them seem to be about cats, though."
There is a pause. Then he realizes Jane is impugning his cake. "You try to make anything with one arm," he grumbles.
"Memes are still a work in progress," is Jane's opinion on the matter, entombed in her voice many long nights of trying to educate a hundred-year-old man on the subject of 'dank memes' and the saga of Bad Luck Brian. She doesn't miss Bucky's perceptive catch where she questions the honour of his poor, lopsided cake. It is defended justly, and righteously.
Her smile goes just as lopsided, and she nudges Bucky's side briefly, playfully. "He's got emojis down pat though. Seasoned pro."
With that cup proffered up for everyone to get a peek, Jane's dark eyes catch the logo. Her eyebrows pop up. "Speaking of Starks," she says dubiously. She'd know /that/ logo anywhere. It's graciously donated her lab space and access to Tony-level resources. The man himself built her a small (and frankly incomprehensible, she has no idea what to do with it) company. "What's that? Wait, you guys aren't representing Tony Stark or anything?" A beat, and the blood drains out of her face. /He/ isn't facing any charges, is he?!
Lydia makes the rounds with cups of fresh coffee, smiling that wonderful smile as she does. She hands Foggy his Stark-emblazoned mug, and her smile goes rueful. "Mr. Nelson said no to the espresso machine though… fully automatic." Then the woman moves along to prepare the spread of food in Matt's office, because, well, has anyone really seen the whirlwind of hell that is Foggy's office at the moment?
Nelson just takes his cup and sips it without comment. Nope, he's not going to say anything. He does wait a heartbeat before snorting a bit. "You loved the book… you hated the ending. I think you were comparing yourself too much to Ned. That leads to nowhere but disappointment and tragedy." He takes another sip, still not exactly making eye contact with his partner as he does.
Bucky's mention of trying to navigate the world of memes and running into cats earns him an earnest, serious nod. "We're Egyptians all over again… writing on walls and worshipping cats."
Foggy is about to take another sip of coffee when Jane gets right on into it, and he casts a dubious look toward Matt. "Um, well. Maybe." Then Foggy shakes his head, holding up a hand. "No, no, nothing like that… um. Pepper Potts came by and offered us a gig as basically the lawyers on retainer for Stark Industries employees… not necessarily representing Mr. Stark directly." He side-eyes Matt before he takes another sip. "Something like that."
"I didn't compare myself to Ned Stark," Matt scoffs breezily. And it's true, for what it's worth — though the death of the Stark family paterfamilias had some resonances for the orphan boy. If there was a point of comparison, it was with broody Jon Snow. Matt's smile lights up again and twists wry when Foggy makes his perceptive quip about the through-line leading from Ptolemaic Egypt and modern day internet culture. "That's cute," he says.
Though the humor is utterly quashed when the matter of Stark Industries and Nelson & Murdock is brought out in the open. "Obviously we can't talk much about it," Matt adds on to Foggy's statement with a brief, perfectly politic quirk of his lips. "Even intake meetings are privileged, after all." He's always been good at keeping his feelings close to his chest, but even Matt's circumspection has its limits. He does his best to school his voice to neutrality, but there's a detectable tightness in it. "But I think the bottom line is that they're pitching us on some business. Like I told you at the party, Bucky, we're trying to be… selective… about our clientele right now."
Bucky rolls his eyes obviously when Jane cites his meme education as a work in progress. "It doesn't seem like anything that important to understand," he says, just as one might expect a hundred year old man to say. Though he does smirk a little when Jane praises his emoji game.
"It's like the man says," he retorts, with a cant of his head towards Foggy. "It's close enough to hieroglyphs that apparently even a relic like me can figure it out."
The Stark logo, however… that's something Jane catches before Bucky does. She spends much more time staring at the thing. His eyes stray to it a moment after Jane points it out, and her hesitation brings him to lapse into thoughtful silence. His reaction, being that he knew Howard, is more in the flavor of 'man, those Starks really get their paws on everything.'
Foggy's clarification, and Matt's reaction, carries a certain charged awkwardness between the two partners that the erstwhile Winter Soldier can't miss. He looks between the two, then at Jane. "Ah. Well — of course we wouldn't pry on privileged business…"
Accepting the gift of coffee ever-so-gratefully, Jane drains a good third of it right off the bat. Maybe she does need to sleep more. "Good stuff," she remarks politely, with a humoured pivot of her eyes against all Foggy's history lessons of millennials going full-redux-Egypt, and Bucky's old man grumbling.
Not that it lasts long, when both lawyers answer her question two different ways — accordingly with different levels of privilege, discretion, and /excitement/ about the whole thing.
Usually so good at picking up the little things, right now she gets blindsided by sheer professional hype for Nelson & Murdock. "On retainer for /Stark Enterprises/?" she repeats. "That's — wow. Like — wow! Career-changing and — congratulations! You'd probably have to have an entire /staff/, and, what's that — I can't lawyerese. Associates? And —"
Jane catches that glance from Bucky. She sobers immediately. Oh, she's doing that thing, and they're doing entirely opposite things. "I mean — should you guys accept. Not prying whatsoever." A beat. "I will say," Jane adds, pryingly, "I do consultant work with Tony Stark. He's a really good guy."
"And we lack a tie-breaker." Foggy's tone tries to carry some sense of chipperness, but it is easy to also detect an ice chip in it, too. He doesn't look back at Matt this time, instead sticking to his coffee, where it's warm and welcoming and only slightly bitter. In comparison. He clears his throat then, detecting the sudden weight of awkwardness settling over the office.
Unable to help himself, Foggy quips, "It isn't even Thanksgiving yet, and the uncomfortable family dinners have already started."
Which is just in time for Lydia to pop back in, announcing she has put sandwich fixings out, and wonders if the lawyers have a bowl for the chips. Foggy just turns to blink at her owlishly, and then looks to Matt. He is about to inquire about why on earth would you put chips in a bowl when the bag is good enough, but Jane is piping in with her eager and go-to attitude, which has Foggy looking a bit rueful.
"Yeah, Matt… he's a good guy," Foggy says dryly toward Murdock, but leaves it at that.
Matt accepts his cup of coffee — in his Columbia Law mug — with a note of quiet but sincere gratitude towards Lydia. He takes a slow sip, and he'll even echo Jane's endorsement with a grudging: "Yeah, it's not bad." It may be damning with faint praise, though in fairness, Matt's taste have always been ridiculously refined. See the gourmet African blends he was plying Bucky with at early hours in the morning while they prepared for the case. And, of course, his tepid reaction surely has nothing at all to do with the name and logo that accompany this particular brew. Heaven forbid.
Then Jane is waxing ecstatic and effusive over an offer that has left Matt with a sinking feeling in his gut since he first heard about it — at least until Bucky's knowing look tips her off with a knowing look. And Foggy does what he so often does in a minefield of awkwardness: calls it out, makes light of it. The familiarity of the move prompts a quiet chuckle from Matt, even if the subject matter continues to set him on edge. "Uh, yeah, Lydia, I think there's a bowl that would work for it on the top-middle shelf," says the blind man politely before turning back to the group. "Thanks, Jane," he says evenly, presumably both for the congratulations and her own two-cents on the billionaire playboy. "And it's flattering to get that kind of interest. Obviously. It's just something we have to put our heads together about. The first clients and cases we take on after Bucky's trial send a message about the kind of firm we'll be."
Foggy's echo of Jane's recommendation sees his partner let out a quiet sigh. "Anyway," Matt adds casually, in a clear attempt to table the topic. "I'm glad you're liking the work there. Anything exciting on the horizon?" A beat, another twitch of a smile: "Aside from a certain new and improved prosthetic, of course."
Bucky eyes Jane draining the coffee like no tomorrow. His own cup is sipped, though he has no commentary on whether it is good or not. Everything tastes good to a man raised mostly on Depression food and war rations.
And while Jane's reaction about the Stark-related news is quite expected and sensible, on the one hand, on the other there's also the way Foggy and Matt are looking at each other — or not looking at each other — and the tautness to their tones of voice that makes him drift a sidewise glance at her. It's not a quelling gaze, nothing that peremptory, but it is a sort of 'you seeing this?' look.
She sees it. She gets quiet. A little feebly, she endorses Stark.
Foggy quips about uncomfortable family dinners. Bucky chokes a little on his coffee.
Matt moves to clear the topic away, and Bucky is happy to let it go. "There's the prosthetic," he agrees. "First thing on the table. A couple of things we left hanging when America took the first swing." He pauses, glances at Jane — he's told her about this — before he adds quite casually, "Been catching up with Jessica, too. Seems like she's got a lot on the horizon also."
Inside a handful of minutes, Jane nearly has her coffee emptied. Bring on the caffeine. If she can no longer have magic in her arm — which helps wonderfully as a wake-me-up, by the way — then extreme amounts of caffeine will surely suffice.
Meanwhile, there is no mistaking the way the air is /thick/ between Foggy and Matt. Foggy's more tempered echo of her own words sobers Jane out of her professional enthusiasm, she answers Bucky's quick look, the pretends to be greatly interested in staring at the shallow layer of coffee left at the bottom of her cup. Jane Foster will go to Germany to fight nazis, or face off with T'Challa directly in the eye, but give her some awkwardness and it'll shut her right up. And, oh god, is this awkward.
Definitely some things are going on with Nelson & Murdock.
Relieved for a change in topic, Jane ends her grand coffee cup study to Matt's question. "Exciting?" she answers. "I… this and that. I'm helping Tony with a few things, but I'm not sure what I'm at liberty to say. Then I get sued /by you/ for it. Awkward. But, yeah, James's arm is definitely my numero uno priority. Among some other projects of mine still on the table." That comes with another rueful stare down into her coffee cup.
Jane catches Bucky's glance, tied with the remark on Jessica. Casual as ever, her smile creaks into the corners of her eyes, and she finishes her coffee.
Foggy clears his throat a bit, taking another sip from his coffee as it serves as a place to escape the awkwardness — or make it worse. Then he looks back over toward Bucky and Jane, and he offers a small smile as if apologizing wordlessly. Then he huffs a breath, and nods to Matt's office. "Well, why don't we grab something to eat… since you're trying to fatten us up." He shuffles his feet a bit, headed for the open office. He's barely following the track of conversation at this point, feeling a bit like he's definitely missing some key pieces to a very big and confusing puzzle.
"You call Tony Stark just 'Tony'…" Foggy breathes a heavy sigh and looks at Matt. "Why can't my best friend be cool?" Oh ye of little knowledge, Senor Foggy. Then Foggy starts preparing himself a sandwich.
Bucky and Jane speak in code of plans and opportunities that cross the line from one part of Matt's deeply compartmentalized life to the other. Even though he can read between the lines in a way Foggy can't, he accepts the information silently and without visible reaction. Over the course of nearly a year he's gotten half-way decent at meeting the requirements of his double life, including heretofore unknown levels of secrecy. He's not sure if that's a good thing for his character or the contents of his soul — he expects not. But he is convinced that it's necessary.
Foggy mournfully wishes that Matt were cool enough to call Tony Stark by his first name, to which Matt just shrugs his eyebrows as he follows behind Foggy into his office. "Hey, who knows? Maybe Jane'll introduce you, and you can go riding on his back as he rockets around Manhattan," quips the lawyer through a half-smile as he approaches the food with half-drunk coffee in hand. It's clearly a sore spot, this offer from a generous and well-heeled benefactor, and it will continue to be until they address it head-on instead of circling around it in the midst of company. "Anyway, yeah, let's dig in. We've got plenty of reasons to celebrate — and plenty to talk about besides billionaires and superheroes."
A beat. "Am I right?"
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"municipality" means any locality the inhabitants of which are incorporated under the authority of The Municipal Act or another Act of the Legislature, and includes a rural municipality, a local government district and an incorporated city, town or village; (« municipalité »)
"officer" means a standards officer appointed under Part I; (« inspecteur »)
"patient" means an individual who requires emergency medical response services; (« malade »)
"person" includes a natural person, corporation, partnership, limited partnership, syndicate, trustee, joint venture, an unincorporated association of persons, and a band as defined in the Indian Act (Canada); (« personne »)
"stretcher" means a mobile litter or cot designed to accommodate a person who by reason of illness, infirmity, or physical disability must remain in a horizontal position; (« civière »)
"stretcher attendant" means a person who provides stretcher transportation services; (« porteur de civière »)
"stretcher transportation service" means an undertaking which provides stretcher transportation services and includes the vehicles, equipment, personnel, and administrative systems necessary to the provision of the services; (« entreprise de transport pour personnes sur civière »)
"stretcher transportation services" means the services prescribed in the regulations for assisting and transporting persons requiring a stretcher or similar device; (« services de transport pour personnes sur civière »)
"stretcher transportation vehicle" means a vehicle designed and equipped for the transportation of persons requiring a stretcher or similar device. (« véhicule transportant des personnes sur civière »)
S.M. 1992, c. 35, s. 58; S.M. 1996, c. 42, s. 3; S.M. 2008, c. 42, s. 30; S.M. 2017, c. 13, s. 2; S.M. 2020, c. 21, s. 149.
Delegation by minister
The minister may, in writing, delegate to any person any power, authority, duty or function conferred or imposed upon the minister under this Act or the regulations.
S.M. 1992, c. 35, s. 54.
LICENCES AND STANDARDS
Licence required to operate emergency medical response system or stretcher transportation service
No person shall operate an emergency medical response system or a stretcher transportation service without a valid licence to do so.
Licence required to provide emergency medical response services or act as stretcher attendant
Subject to the regulations, no individual shall provide emergency medical response services to a patient or act as a stretcher attendant without a valid licence to do so.
S.M. 1996, c. 42, s. 4; S.M. 2017, c. 13, s. 4.
[Repealed]
S.M. 1996, c. 42, s. 5.
Employment of unlicensed individuals prohibited
Subject to the regulations, no person shall employ or engage an individual to provide emergency medical response services to a patient or to act as a stretcher attendant unless the individual holds a valid licence to do so.
Application for licence
An application for a licence shall be made in writing and shall contain the information and be accompanied by the fee and any documentation required by the regulations.
Issuing or refusing a licence
The minister may issue or refuse to issue a licence.
Decision to issue
The minister may issue a licence to an applicant if the applicant meets the requirements and standards prescribed in the regulations in respect of the type of licence applied for.
Issue of provisional licence
Subject to section 7, if the minister
(a) is not satisfied that an applicant meets all the requirements and standards prescribed in the regulations in respect of the type of licence applied for; and
(b) is satisfied that it is in the public interest to do so;
the minister may, on payment of the prescribed fee, issue to the applicant a provisional licence of the type applied for.
Licence not transferable
A licence is not transferable.
S.M. 1992, c. 35, s. 58; S.M. 1996, c. 42, s. 7.
Where a qualification prescribed in the regulations requires an applicant to have taken and passed a training course, the minister may
(a) determine the training course to be taken and passed, if not specified in the regulations;
(b) conduct the training course or make such arrangements for the training course as the minister considers advisable; and
(c) determine whether the applicant, after taking the training course, has passed it.
Where a qualification prescribed in the regulations requires an applicant to take and pass an examination, the minister may set or determine the examination to be taken and may determine whether the applicant, after taking the examination, has passed it.
Need for proposed services
The minister shall not issue a licence to operate an emergency medical response system or a stretcher transportation service unless, after consulting with each municipality in the area where the applicant proposes to operate the system or service and other persons the minister deems appropriate, the minister is satisfied that there is a need for an emergency medical response system or a stretcher transportation service in the area.
Expiry of licences
The minister may by regulation prescribe a date for the expiry of every licence, but may issue any licence for a shorter period than that prescribed where the minister considers it to be advisable and in the public interest to do so.
Conditions of licence
Any licence may be issued subject to such conditions as the minister considers requisite, and the holder of the licence shall observe those conditions.
Unauthorized equipment prohibited
A licence holder shall not
(a) store or install in an air ambulance, ambulance, or other aircraft or vehicle used as part of an emergency medical response system, or in a stretcher transportation vehicle; or
(b) use or permit to be used in the course of providing emergency medical response services or stretcher transportation services
any drug, equipment, apparatus or other item that is not authorized by the regulations.
Subsection (1) does not prevent the use of any drug, equipment, apparatus or other item by a duly qualified medical practitioner or a person designated by a medical practitioner if
(a) the medical practitioner has specified that the item be transported with his or her patient while the patient receives emergency medical response services or stretcher transportation services; and
(b) the item is removed following use for the patient.
S.M. 1992, c. 35, s. 58; S.M. 1996, c. 42, s. 10.
Suspension, cancellation of licences
The minister may suspend, for such period of time as the minister considers necessary or until a specified condition is met, or cancel any licence, where the licence holder
(a) contravenes or fails to observe a provision of this Act or a regulation made under this Act; or
(b) knowingly makes a false or misleading statment or entry in the application for the licence or in any record or report required to be kept or made under this Act or a regulation made under this Act;
or for any cause the minister considers sufficient.
An appeal may be made to the board by any person
(a) who has been refused a licence under this Part; or
(b) whose licence has been suspended or cancelled under this Part.
Notice of appeal
An appeal under this section shall be commenced by mailing or delivering a notice of appeal setting out the grounds for appeal to the board not more than 30 days after the date on which the appellant receives notice of the refusal, suspension or cancellation, or within such further time as the board permits.
Notice to minister
The board shall promptly provide a copy of the notice of appeal to the minister.
Informal proceedings
An appeal under subsection 12(1) shall be conducted on an informal basis, and the board is not bound by the rules of law respecting evidence applicable to judicial proceedings.
The board may appoint a panel of not less than three of its members for the purpose of considering an appeal, and a decision of a majority on the panel is the decision of the board.
Continuation after loss of panel member
If, after a panel has commenced considering an appeal, a member of the panel dies, resigns or otherwise becomes incapable of acting, the remaining members of the panel may complete the appeal and render a decision, and the decision is valid as though the remaining members constituted a full panel.
Powers of board on appeal
On considering an appeal, the board may
(a) confirm, set aside or vary the decision in accordance with the provisions of this Part and the regulations; or
(b) refer the matter back to the minister for further consideration in accordance with the board's instructions.
Reference to board
A reference to the board in section 12 or this section includes a panel of the board.
Appointment of standards officers
The minister may appoint one or more persons as standards officers to carry out the duties and exercise the powers imposed or conferred upon standards officers by section 15.
Entry and inspection
An officer, upon producing an identification card issued by the minister, may at any reasonable time and where reasonably required to determine compliance with this Act,
(a) enter and inspect any place, aircraft or vehicle in which the officer believes on reasonable grounds an emergency medical response system or a stretcher transportation service is operating or a person is providing emergency medical response services or stretcher transportation services;
(b) examine the equipment, installations in and contents of any place, aircraft or vehicle being inspected under clause (a);
(c) require any person to produce for inspection or copying any record or document that the officer believes on reasonable grounds contains information relevant to the administration of this Act; and
(d) conduct any tests or analyses or take any measurements.
Removal of records
An officer may remove any records or documents or other thing that he or she is entitled to examine, test, analyse or copy or otherwise reproduce but shall give a receipt to the person from whom they were taken and shall promptly return them on completion of the examination, test, analysis, copying or reproduction.
Warrant to enter dwelling place
An officer may not enter a dwelling place except with the consent of the occupant or under the authority of a warrant.
Authority to issue warrant
A justice who is satisfied by information on oath that
(a) the conditions for entry described in subsection (1) exist in relation to a dwelling place;
(b) entry to the dwelling place is necessary for a purpose related to the administration of this Act; and
(c) entry to the dwelling place has been refused or there are reasonable grounds to believe that entry will be refused;
may at any time issue a warrant authorizing an officer and any other person named in the warrant to enter the dwelling place, subject to any conditions that may be specified in the warrant.
Suspension and other action by officer
Where in the course of an inspection or examination under this section it becomes apparent to an officer that the safety or well-being of a person receiving emergency medical response services or stretcher transportation services is at risk, the officer may immediately do one or both of the following:
(a) suspend the licence, if any, of the person providing the emergency medical response services or stretcher transportation services, for up to seven days;
(b) take such other steps as may in the opinion of the officer be necessary for the immediate protection and well-being of any person receiving or about to receive emergency medical response services or stretcher transportation services.
Interference with inspection
No person shall obstruct or interfere with an officer engaged in carrying out an inspection under this section.
An officer shall prepare and submit to the minister a report in the form approved by the minister where the officer suspends a licence or takes steps to protect the well-being of a person under subsection (4), and he or she shall forward a copy of the report to the operator of the emergency medical response system or stretcher transportation service.
S.M. 1992, c. 35, s. 58; S.M. 1996, c. 42, s. 11 and 12.
Where the minister considers it to be in the public interest to do so, the minister may, by order, exempt a person from the operation of any provision of this Part or a regulation made thereunder, and in that event the provision does not apply to the person notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act.
Exemption and substitution
Where the minister considers it to be in the public interest to do so, the minister may, by order, exempt a person from the operation of any provision of this Part or a regulation made thereunder and prescribe another provision or other provisions in substitution therefor, and in that event the provision from the operation of which the person is so exempted does not apply to the person notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act, but the person shall observe the substituted provision or provisions.
Rescission of orders
The minister may at any time rescind an order made under this section, where the minister is satisfied that it is in the public interest to do so.
Automatic expiry of orders
An order made under this section expires on December 31 following the coming into force date specified in the order, if not sooner rescinded under subsection (3).
Statutes and Regulations Act does not apply
The Statutes and Regulations Act does not apply to an order made under this section.
S.M. 1992, c. 35, s. 58; S.M. 2008, c. 42, s. 30; S.M. 2013, c. 39, Sch. A, s. 52.
Minister may provide services
The minister may, subject to this Act and the regulations,
(a) provide emergency medical response services or stretcher transportation services;
(b) operate any business or undertaking of providing emergency medical response services or stretcher transportation services.
Highway Traffic Act, etc.
This Part is subject to The Highway Traffic Act, and any Act of the Parliament of Canada regulating the use of aircraft and applicable in the province, and to the regulations made under those Acts.
FINANCIAL GRANTS
Payment of grants
The minister may pay financial grants, upon the receipt of an application therefor, to any municipality or any operator of an emergency medical response system, to assist in the establishment, development and operation of emergency medical response services.
Application for grant
An application for a grant under this section
(a) shall be in a form approved by the minister; and
(b) shall be accompanied by a written proposal for an emergency medical response system, in a form approved by the minister, showing how and for what purposes the grant is proposed to be used in the system, and by such financial statements and other documents and information as the minister may require.
Modification of system
In making any grant under this section, the minister may review and, in consultation with the recipient, may modify the proposed emergency medical response system submitted by the recipient and may impose requirements to be observed by the recipient in carrying out the system.
Condition of grant
It is a condition of any grant made under this section that the recipient thereof
(a) will use the grant in accordance with its proposed emergency medical response system as submitted under subsection (2) or, where the emergency medical response system has been modified under subsection (3), in accordance with its emergency medical response system as modified under that subsection; and
(b) will observe any requirements imposed under subsection (3).
The minister may at any time cause to be audited the books, records and accounts of any recipient of a grant under this section, relating to the receipt and use of the grant, and the recipient shall render any assistance requested in the course of and for the purposes of the audit.
S.M. 1992, c. 35, s. 58; S.M. 1996, c. 42, s. 14; S.M. 2020, c. 21, s. 149.
Northern Patient Transportation Program
The minister may from time to time
(a) pay financial grants to regional authorities charged with the administration of the Northern Patient Transportation Program; or
(b) make direct payments to such persons as the minister may determine;
to be used for the purposes of that program and in such manner as the minister may direct.
"Northern Patient Transportation Program" defined
In this section, "Northern Patient Transportion Program" means the program established to provide, or to assist financially or otherwise in the provision of, transportation services required to enable persons located at places within that part of northern Manitoba specified and described in a regulation under this Act to obtain medical treatment or diagnosis that is not available at those places.
Benefits under the Northern Patient Transportation Program are available only to or in respect of persons who are residents as defined in The Health Services Insurance Act, and any question that arises as to whether or not a person is a resident within the meaning and for the purposes of this section may be determined by the board.
S.M. 1992, c. 35, s. 58; S.M. 2020, c. 21, s. 149.
Payments from Consolidated Fund
The Minister of Finance, on the requisition of the minister, may pay amounts for the purposes of this Act out of the Consolidated Fund with money authorized by an Act of the Legislature to be so paid and applied.
Regulations by minister
For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act according to their intent, the minister may make regulations ancillary thereto and not inconsistent therewith; and every regulation made under, and in accordance with the authority granted by, this section has the force of law; and, without restricting the generality of the foregoing, the minister may make regulations, not inconsistent with any other provision of this Act,
(a) establishing classes of licences and prescribing qualifications and other requirements for each class of licence;
(a.1) respecting the information and documentation which must accompany an application for a class of licence;
(a.2) prescribing the fee payable for the issuance of any licence;
(a.3) for the purpose of subsection 2(2), respecting circumstances in which an individual may provide emergency medical response services without a valid licence to do so;
(a.4) for the purpose of section 4, respecting circumstances in which a licence holder may employ or engage an individual who is not licensed to provide emergency medical response services to provide those services;
(b) prescribing a date for the expiry of licences;
(c) establishing standards and prescribing other requirements to be observed by licence holders;
(c.1) prescribing emergency medical response services and stretcher transportation services;
(c.2) prescribing drugs, equipment, and apparatus for use in providing emergency medical response services and stretcher transportation services, standards for, and where and in what circumstances the drugs, equipment and apparatus may be used;
(c.3) prescribing devices that may be used by stretcher attendants in the course of providing stretcher transportation services;
(d) specifying and describing a part of northern Manitoba for purposes of the Northern Patient Transportation Program, to which reference is made in Part II;
(e) respecting forms to be used for various purposes in respect of the administration of this Act and the regulations.
Regulation applicable to part of province
A regulation under this section may be made to apply to the whole province or any part of the province.
S.M. 1992, c. 35, s. 58; S.M. 1996, c. 42, s. 15; S.M. 2017, c. 13, s. 13.
Offence and penalty
Any person who contravenes or fails to observe a provision of this Act or a regulation made thereunder, or makes any statement or gives any information under this Act or regulation knowing it to be false or misleading, is guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction,
(a) if it is an offence under a provision of Part I, to a fine not exceeding $1,000.00 for each day that the contravention or failure to observe continues or, in the case of an individual, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 30 days or to both the fine and the imprisonment; and
(b) if it is an offence under a provision of Part II, to a fine not exceeding $1,000.00 or, in the case of an individual, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 30 days or to both the fine and the imprisonment.
Penalty in addition to suspension or cancellation
Where a licence is suspended or cancelled for the reason that the holder is guilty of an offence under subsection (1), the penalty provided in that subsection may be imposed on the holder in addition to the suspension or cancellation.
C.C.S.M. reference
This Act shall no longer be referred to as chapter A65 of the Continuing Consolidation of the Statutes of Manitoba but may be referred to as chapter E83 of the Continuing Consolidation of the Statutes of Manitoba.
Commencement of Act
This Act comes into force on a day fixed by proclamation.
NOTE: S.M. 1985-86, c. 7 came into force by proclamation on October 1, 1988.

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Sister Ines Nieves Sancho was decapitated in Central African Republic
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A 77-year-old French-Spanish nun who taught impoverished women and girls in volatile Central African Republic has been decapitated, local authorities said Wednesday.
Sister Ines Nieves Sancho's body was found early Monday in the village of Nola, located in the remote southwest near the borders with Cameroon and the Republic of Congo.
Local authorities condemned the killing but suggested it may not be linked to the ongoing sectarian bloodshed between militia groups that first engulfed the country in 2013.
"Elsewhere it's the rebels who kill, but in Nola people kill to get rich," said Official Jean Marc Ndoukou.
Authorities also said ritual crimes are not uncommon in and around Nola and perpetrators are rarely punished.
Ndoukou vowed that the unknown attackers would be punished, and the country's parliament called for an investigation.
On Wednesday, Pope Francis led thousands of people in prayer for Nieves Sancho, saying she was "barbarously killed" in the place where she taught. The Vatican said she had worked with the poor for decades.
Sectarian violence exploded in Central African Republic in late 2013 after mostly Christian and animist militia fighters retaliated against Muslim civilians following a brutal rule by a mostly Muslim rebel government. Violence engulfed the capital and the southwest where an untold number of Muslims were slaughtered as they attempted to flee to Cameroon.
Horror: Religious Sister Beheaded in Central African Republic
Details: A 77-year-old French-Spanish nun who taught impoverished women and girls in volatile Central African Republic has been decapitated, local authorities said Wednesday. Sister Ines Nieves Sancho's body was found early Monday in the village of Nola, located in the remote southwest near the...
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A French-Spanish nun, Sister Inès Nieves Sancho, 77, was killed — apparently with her throat slit — in the village of Nola in the Central African Republic on the night of May 19-20.
In Central Africa, she taught sewing and cooking and led a circle of spiritual reflection, mainly for women and young girls, enabling them to become good wives, mothers and good Christians. She also often visited the sick.
Vatican News has announced that it may be a ritual crime based on superstitions, but that has not been confirmed.
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A Spanish nun who was murdered in the Central African Republic may have been killed as part of a pagan ritual.
Sister Inés Nieves Sancho, 77, was decapitated near her home in a remote village in the west of the country. Bishop Juan José Aguirre, 64, a fellow Spaniard who has worked in the country for 19 years, said her murderers were probably on the hunt for fresh blood. "In this area on the border with Cameroon there are diamond mines and there are people who use witchcraft," he told ABC, a Spanish newspaper. "They believe that fresh blood, including that from human beings, brings luck in the hunt for these precious stones."
Sister Inés, who had worked in the country for the past 23…
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Frank Adams
By Mrs . M. W. Baumgarten
In our quest for a timely topic this week, we encountered that well-beloved and kindly remembered old gentleman, H. F. (Frank) Adams, resident of Middle Park since 1879, our oldest living pioneer.
So we asked Mr. Adams, among other things, about his early Thanksgiving feasts in Middle Park, and his mind, alert despite his 85 years, rolled back the curtain of a half century and more and brought forth memories rich with names and dates and facts as if they were of yesterday.
Unlike most of our pioneers who came in over Rollins Pass, Mr. Adams, accompanied by E. H. Kauffman, packed in over the Ute Trail from Estes Park (whence he had gone in 1878 from his birthplace in Eparta, Illinois, a few short miles from our own hometown) to Grand Lake, young prospectors lured by the dream of "gold in them thar' hills."
Their own destination was not Grand Lake, however, but a spot 18 miles up the North Fork; the mining camp that later became the flourishing town of Lulu and that is now just another legendary ghost town. There were scarcely a dozen men there that first summer, and our would-be miners, after occasional trips back to Estes for more grub, finally went back to Kauffman's ranch on the South St. Vrain for the winter.
1879 was the year of the Meeker Massacre, and Utes in North Park, sullenly defiant, tried to drive out the settlers up there by setting fire to the forests; this fire spread clear over the range to the vicinity of the Lake, eating up valuable timber as it went.
But the next spring (1880) Adams and Kauffman were back again, and with them Ben Dunche, an old trapper and prospector long familiar with Middle Park country, Frank Wendenberg, and Jack Henry. These men spent their first Thanksgiving and winter in Middle Park in a little cabin at Lulu. There was no special celebration, Mr. Adams recalled, and certainly no feast, for they had only traditional miners' fare: flour, bacon, sugar, coffee, tea, dried fruits, beans, potatoes, and Eagle Brand milk, tho of course game and fish were plentiful.
Thanksgiving 1881, however, Mr. Adams remembered with the fond pride of a hospitable host, for he and Ben Dunche entertained a number of the prospectors in their cabin, George Golden and a Mr. Churchill among them. There was not a woman in camp, so Dunche was elected cook. In search of a special treat, he journeyed down to Hot Sulphur Springs and purchased three elk which had been shot and hauled in from Beaver Creek. Did we say purchased? Well, he paid 1 cent a pound for them, if you can call that a purchase.
That winter and the following summer (1882) Mr. Adams spent at Lulu, but in the fall he left to try his luck down on the Sango de Cristo range at Placer, just over Le Veda Pass. His group of three men and a Kansas trio discovered they had claims on the same vein. (Here we pricked up our ears, anticipating a little blood and thunder action, but we were disappointed). The men very sensibly pooled their resources to sink just one hole and see if they could really find good ore. Mr. Adams later injured his hand and returned to Lulu about the 6th of July, 1883, just two days after the Grand Lake massacre, and never knew how the vein panned out.
By this time there was a growing community both at Lulu and the Lake. Judge Pettingell had come in 1881, Mrs. Tom Johnston (sister of Mrs. Pettingell) was at the lake, and Jake Young's grandmother was running one hotel there and the Schaffer House was another. Also in 1881 John Smart and a Mr. Bailey started a newspaper, The Grand Lake Prospector, for wherever man may go, the Press seems sure to follow. (Apologies to Mary and her lamb).
Strange as it may seem, Mr. Adams did not journey down to Hot Sulphur Springs until about 1886; and in 1887 or 88, Mr. Godsmark moved there from Grand Lake and started another newspaper in the old courthouse building; it was christened the "Grand County Messenger."
1892 found Mr. Adams married (Lillian Gracye Adams) and his prospecting days almost at an end. A last fling at Cripple Creek in 1897, again with his old friend and partner Kauffman, and he returned in '98 to Sulphur and set up a grocery store, his dream of finding gold never realized. There his two children grew up: Helen (the late Mrs. Emery Brown) and Robert (now in Omaha, Neb.)
At that time Sulphur boasted two hotels, the Kinney House and the Middle Park Hotel (run by one of the McQuearys), the Chattfield and McQueary livery barn, and several eating places in private dwellings.
In 1908, this miner-merchant entered on a new role – politics! And served as county judge 1908-12, clerk of the court under Judges DeFrance and McCall, and county treasurer from 1918-22.
Then his ranch on the Troublesome (which he had bought in 1910 when he sold his grocery store to Mr. and Mrs. Morgan) superseded all other interests and he devoted his efforts exclusively to ranching.
Such is the varied, picturesque life of our oldest pioneer resident: prospector, merchant, politician, rancher. And when we asked him which he had enjoyed the most, his warm brown eyes glowed and after a moment's musing, he said softly. "Mining was exciting; the grocery business paid the most money; politics was fun (until the Republicans got in!); but I was most contented on the ranch. Yes ranch life was the best."
And we, city-bred and reared, silently agreed with him.
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Unfortunately the size returned by this function is never accurate.  Here is what I am doing:
    NSAttributedString *string = [[[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:@"lorem ipsum" attributes:nil] autorelease];
    CTFramesetterRef framesetter = CTFramesetterCreateWithAttributedString((CFAttributedStringRef) string);
    CGSize textSize = CTFramesetterSuggestFrameSizeWithConstraints(framesetter, CFRangeMake(0,0), NULL, CGSizeMake(rect.size.width, CGFLOAT_MAX), NULL);

The returned size always has the correct width calculated, however the height is always slightly shorter than what is expected.
Is this the correct way to use this method?
Is there any other way to layout Core Text?
Seems I am not the only one to run into problems with this method.  See https://devforums.apple.com/message/181450.
Edit:
I measured the same string with Quartz using sizeWithFont:, supplying the same font to both the attributed string, and to Quartz.  Here are the measurements I received:

Core Text: 133.569336 x 16.592285
Quartz: 135.000000 x 31.000000

A: For a single line frame, try this:
line = CTLineCreateWithAttributedString((CFAttributedStringRef) string);
CGFloat ascent;
CGFloat descent;
CGFloat width = CTLineGetTypographicBounds(line, &ascent, &descent, NULL);
CGFloat height = ascent+descent;
CGSize textSize = CGSizeMake(width,height);

For multiline frames, you also need to add the line's lead (see a sample code in Core Text Programming Guide)
For some reason, CTFramesetterSuggestFrameSizeWithConstraints() is using the difference in ascent and descent to calculate the height:
CGFloat wrongHeight = ascent-descent;
CGSize textSize = CGSizeMake(width, wrongHeight);

It could be a bug?
I'm having some other problems with the width of the frame; It's worth checking out as it only shows in special cases. See this question for more.

A: The problem is that you have to apply a paragraph style to the text before you measure it. If you don't then you get the default leading of 0.0. I provided a code sample for how to do this in my answer to a duplicate of this question here https://stackoverflow.com/a/10019378/1313863.

A: try this.. seem to work:
+(CGFloat)heightForAttributedString:(NSAttributedString *)attrString forWidth:(CGFloat)inWidth
{
    CGFloat H = 0;

    // Create the framesetter with the attributed string.
    CTFramesetterRef framesetter = CTFramesetterCreateWithAttributedString( (CFMutableAttributedStringRef) attrString);

    CGRect box = CGRectMake(0,0, inWidth, CGFLOAT_MAX);

    CFIndex startIndex = 0;

    CGMutablePathRef path = CGPathCreateMutable();
    CGPathAddRect(path, NULL, box);

    // Create a frame for this column and draw it.
    CTFrameRef frame = CTFramesetterCreateFrame(framesetter, CFRangeMake(startIndex, 0), path, NULL);

    // Start the next frame at the first character not visible in this frame.
    //CFRange frameRange = CTFrameGetVisibleStringRange(frame);
    //startIndex += frameRange.length;

    CFArrayRef lineArray = CTFrameGetLines(frame);
    CFIndex j = 0, lineCount = CFArrayGetCount(lineArray);
    CGFloat h, ascent, descent, leading;

    for (j=0; j < lineCount; j++)
    {
        CTLineRef currentLine = (CTLineRef)CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(lineArray, j);
        CTLineGetTypographicBounds(currentLine, &ascent, &descent, &leading);
        h = ascent + descent + leading;
        NSLog(@"%f", h);
        H+=h;
    }

    CFRelease(frame);
    CFRelease(path);
    CFRelease(framesetter);

    return H;
}

A: ing.conti's answer but in Swift 4:
    var H:CGFloat = 0

    // Create the framesetter with the attributed string.
    let framesetter = CTFramesetterCreateWithAttributedString(attributedString as! CFMutableAttributedString)
    let box:CGRect = CGRect.init(x: 0, y: 0, width: width, height: CGFloat.greatestFiniteMagnitude)

    let startIndex:CFIndex = 0

    let path:CGMutablePath = CGMutablePath()
    path.addRect(box)

    // Create a frame for this column and draw it.
    let frame:CTFrame = CTFramesetterCreateFrame(framesetter, CFRangeMake(startIndex, 0), path, nil)
    // Start the next frame at the first character not visible in this frame.
    //CFRange frameRange = CTFrameGetVisibleStringRange(frame);
    //startIndex += frameRange.length;

    let lineArray:CFArray = CTFrameGetLines(frame)
    let lineCount:CFIndex = CFArrayGetCount(lineArray)
    var h:CGFloat = 0
    var ascent:CGFloat = 0
    var descent:CGFloat = 0
    var leading:CGFloat = 0

    for j in 0..<lineCount {
        let currentLine = unsafeBitCast(CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(lineArray, j), to: CTLine.self)
        CTLineGetTypographicBounds(currentLine, &ascent, &descent, &leading)
        h = ascent + descent + leading;
        H+=h;
    }
    return H;

I did try and keep it as 1:1 with the Objective C code but Swift is not as nice when handling pointers so some changes were required for casting.
I also did some benchmarks comparing this code (and it's ObjC counterpart) to another height methods. As a heads up, I used a HUGE and very complex attributed string as input and also did it on the sim so the times themselves are meaningless however the relative speeds are correct.
Runtime for 1000 iterations (ms) BoundsForRect: 8909.763097763062
Runtime for 1000 iterations (ms) layoutManager: 7727.7010679244995
Runtime for 1000 iterations (ms) CTFramesetterSuggestFrameSizeWithConstraints: 1968.9229726791382
Runtime for 1000 iterations (ms) CTFramesetterCreateFrame ObjC: 1941.6030206680298
Runtime for 1000 iterations (ms) CTFramesetterCreateFrame-Swift: 1912.694974899292

A: It might seem strange but I found that if you use ceil function first and then add +1 to the height it will always work. Many third party APIs use this trick.

A: Resurrecting.
When initially determining where lines should be placed within a frame, Core Text seems to massage the ascent+descent for the purposes of line origin calculation. In particular, it seems like 0.2*(ascent+descent) is added to the ascent, and then both the descent and resultant ascent are modified by floor(x + 0.5), and then the baseline positions are calculated based on these adjusted ascents and descents. Both of these steps are affected by certain conditions whose nature I am not sure, and I also already forgot at which point paragraph styles are taken into account, despite only looking into it a few days ago.
I've already resigned to just considering a line to start at its baseline and not trying to figure out what the actual lines land at. Unfortunately, this still does not seem to be enough: paragraph styles are not reflected in CTLineGetTypographicBounds(), and some fonts like Klee that have nonzero leadings wind up crossing the path rect! Not sure what to do about this... probably for another question.
UPDATE
It seems CTLineGetBoundsWithOptions(line, 0) does get the proper line bounds, but not quite fully: there's a gap between lines, and with some fonts (Klee again) the gap is negative and the lines overlap... Not sure what to do about this. :| At least we're slightly closer??
And even then it still does not take paragraph styles into consideration >:|
CTLineGetBoundsWithOptions() is not listed on Apple's documentation site, possibly due to a bug in the current version of their documentation generator. It is a fully documented API, however — you'll find it in the header files and it was discussed at length at WWDC 2012 session 226.
None of the options are relevant to us: they reduce the bounds rect by taking certain font design choices into consideration (or increase the bounds rect randomly, in the case of the new kCTLineBoundsIncludeLanguageExtents). One useful option in general, though, is kCTLineBoundsUseGlyphPathBounds, which is equivalent to CTLineGetImageBounds() but without needing to specify a CGContext (and thus without being subject to an existing text matrix or CTM).

A: After weeks of trying everything, any combination possible, I made a break through and found something that works. This issue seems to be more prominent on macOS than on iOS, but still appears on both.
What worked for me was to use a CATextLayer instead of a NSTextField (on macOS) or a UILabel (on iOS).
And using boundingRect(with:options:context:) instead of CTFramesetterSuggestFrameSizeWithConstraints. Even though in theory the latter should be more lower level than the former, and I was assuming would be more precise, the game changer turns out to be NSString.DrawingOptions.usesDeviceMetrics.
The frame size suggested fits like a charm.
Example:
let attributedString = NSAttributedString(string: "my string")
let maxWidth = CGFloat(300)
let size = attributedString.boundingRect(
                with: .init(width: maxWidth,
                            height: .greatestFiniteMagnitude),
                options: [
                    .usesFontLeading,
                    .usesLineFragmentOrigin,
                    .usesDeviceMetrics])

let textLayer = CATextLayer()
textLayer.frame = .init(origin: .zero, size: size)
textLayer.contentsScale = 2 // for retina
textLayer.isWrapped = true // for multiple lines
textLayer.string = attributedString

Then you can add the CATextLayer to any NSView/UIView.
macOS
let view = NSView()
view.wantsLayer = true
view.layer?.addSublayer(textLayer)

iOS
let view = UIView()
view.layer.addSublayer(textLayer)

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The interface here lists various transactions to be made from a payment queue/table. 2 basic actions are possible, Pay and Delete. Paying a transaction executes the payment and deletes the transaction from the queue. Deleting a transaction simply deletes it from the queue without any payments being made of course. A third meta action is also possible: Auto Pay which will will execute payments for the whole transaction queue, by way of AJAX, and display the result for each transaction.
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Abstract: This project examines the understudied, but prevalent, phenomenon of white racial sympathy for blacks in American politics. Reversing course from a long tradition of studying racial antipathy, I introduce and validate a new measure of racial sympathy and demonstrate its consequences for public opinion using data from national and convenience surveys. Furthermore, I undertake a variety of analyses to distinguish racial sympathy from existing measures of attitudes, including contemporary manifestations of racial animus, such as racial resentment. I find that racial sympathy is consistently and significantly associated with support for public policies perceived to benefit African Americans, even while accounting for measures of principles and racial resentment. Racial sympathy is also distinct from a generalized social sympathy, as it does not predict support for policies that benefit gays and lesbians or women. In a final set of analyses, I use a series of experiments to consider the activation of racial sympathy. Specifically, I examine the ways in which highlighting black suffering gives rise to sympathetic political behavior. Though I situate the study in contemporary American politics, I also discuss the relevance of racial sympathy to other periods in American political history such as the Abolitionist movement and the 1960s. This project is a companion to the rich literature in political science on racial prejudice. It contributes to our understanding of the multifaceted role that race plays in American politics and public opinion.
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