Patrick Daly, who chairs regional lobby organisation the Newspaper Conference, has criticised the proposed clause in the Data Protection Bill – drawn up by peers in a move to introduce sanctions on newspapers that refuse to sign-up to a state-sponsored regulator.
Patrick, who is parliamentary correspondent for the Bristol Post, Hull Daily Mail and Grimsby Telegraph, warned of the impact such legislation, as well as any possible Leveson 2-style inquiry, could have on the industry in a submission to the committee debating the bill.
The committee narrowly voted to remove the clauses relating to the Section 40-style clauses from the bill and a major enquiry into data protection issues in the media, but the Labour Party immediately pledged to reintroduce them at a later stage in the bill's passage.
In his submission, Patrick wrote: "When 200 local newspapers have closed since 2005 and online giants such as Facebook are swallowing up the vast majority of digital advertising revenue, the local press needs support to survive rather than spending valuable time and money trying to uncover skeletons that, in all likelihood, do not exist.
Tony Jaffa, head of editorial and regulatory media at Foot Anstey LLP, has also submitted evidence.


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Cape Bol'shoy Dugandzha (, Mys Bol'shoy Dugandzha, "Big Dugandzha Cape") is a headland in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia.

Geography
It is a steep-to cape lying in the western Sea of Okhotsk near the Shantar Islands, east of Cape Malaya Dugandzha ("Little Dugandzha Cape") and west of Ptichy Island.    It rises to a height of 250 m (820 ft) and forms the eastern point of Lyutsun Bay and the western point of Tugur Bay.

History

American whaleships cruised for bowhead whales off the cape between 1855 and 1889. They called it Eagle Point, because it was "inhabited only by eagles, which are very numerous". They often passed between the cape and Ptichy Island when sailing to and from Uda Gulf and Tugur Bay; they also anchored under it to obtain shelter from gales and strong winds.

References

Bolshoy Dugandzha

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Q: Missing Windows in Grub after installing Ubuntu I removed Linux Mint and fresh installed Ubuntu alongside my pre-installed Windows 7 Professional (kept as backup in case my Linux fails and because my family does not know how to use Linux), but everytime I turn on my pc it starts Ubuntu and I don't see a Grub menu to select which OS to boot. Pressing F12 shows Ubuntu and some network boots but no Windows.
Output from fdisk -l: https://pastebin.com/axG3Mz4r
/dev/sda2-3 are Windows Local Disks and /sda5 is Linux ext4 (no idea why it doesn't start at 4)
I suppose this happened because during installation from the live USB, I changed the /dev/sda1 partition (System Reserved in Windows) from NTFS to EFI and tried installing the bootloader there. That didn't work, so I changed it back to NTFS and created a new partition /dev/sda6 as EFI and installed it there instead.
Also, GParted doesn't seem to be working. It opens fine on the live USB but it just doesn't open on the installed one and it shows (gpartedbin:7225): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:41:16.528: cannot open display: when running from the terminal.
Is there a way to bring back the Grub menu so I can choose which OS to boot to?

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The Tax Institute said it has received confirmation from the Australian Labor Party (ALP) that its proposed changes to negative gearing would apply across the board to all investments, after it was widely thought that the negative gearing restrictions might only apply to property investment.
However, Professor Robert Deutsch, Senior Tax Counsel with The Tax Institute, said the overall impact of Labor's negative gearing proposals is not likely to be nearly as draconian as some sectors seem to be suggesting.
"For example, if the total of the interest and deductions related to investments exceed the investment income, the excess will not be able to be used for offset against other non-investment income.
Professor Deutsch said the policy would continue to allow people to hold for example, four, five or six properties with some positively geared and some negatively geared.
"Provided the overall positives exceed the overall negatives, there will be no problem. For investors, this is at least some good news and actually brings us into line with what happens in many other countries, for example the United Kingdom," he said.


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module Job::StateMachine
  extend ActiveSupport::Concern

  module ClassMethods
    #
    # Helper methods for display of transitions
    #

    def to_dot(*args)
      new.to_dot(*args)
    end

    def to_svg(*args)
      new.to_svg(*args)
    end
  end

  def transitions
    @transitions ||= load_transitions
  end

  def state=(next_state)
    # '*' refers to any state; if next_state is '*', remain in current state.
    super unless next_state.nil? || next_state == '*'
  end

  # test whether the transition is allowed; if yes, transit to next state
  def transit_state(signal)
    permitted_transitions = transitions[signal.to_sym]
    unless permitted_transitions.nil?
      next_state = permitted_transitions[state]

      # if current state is not explicitly permitted, is any state (referred by '*') permitted?
      next_state = permitted_transitions['*'] unless next_state
      self.state = next_state
    end
    !!next_state
  end

  def signal_abort(*args)
    signal(:abort, *args)
  end

  def signal(signal, *args)
    signal = :abort_job if signal == :abort
    if transit_state(signal)
      save
      send(signal, *args) if respond_to?(signal)
    else
      raise _("%{signal} is not permitted at state %{state}") % {:signal => signal, :state => state}
    end
  end

  def queue_signal(*args, priority: MiqQueue::NORMAL_PRIORITY, role: nil, deliver_on: nil, server_guid: nil, queue_name: nil, msg_timeout: nil)
    MiqQueue.put(
      :class_name  => self.class.name,
      :method_name => "signal",
      :instance_id => id,
      :priority    => priority,
      :role        => role,
      :zone        => zone,
      :queue_name  => queue_name,
      :task_id     => guid,
      :args        => args,
      :deliver_on  => deliver_on,
      :server_guid => server_guid,
      :msg_timeout => msg_timeout
    )
  end

  #
  # Helper methods for display of transitions
  #

  def to_dot(include_starred_states = false)
    all_states = transitions.values.map(&:to_a).flatten.uniq.reject { |t| t == "*" }

    "".tap do |s|
      s << "digraph #{self.class.name.inspect} {\n"
      transitions.each do |signal, signal_transitions|
        signal_transitions.each do |from, to|
          next if !include_starred_states && (from == "*" || to == "*")

          from = from == "*" ? all_states : [from]
          to   = to == "*"   ? all_states : [to]
          from.product(to).each { |f, t| s << "  #{f} -> #{t} [ label=\"#{signal}\" ]\n" }
        end
      end
      s << "}\n"
    end
  end

  def to_svg(include_starred_states = false)
    require "open3"
    out, err, _status = Open3.capture3("dot -Tsvg", :stdin_data => to_dot(include_starred_states))

    raise "Error from graphviz:\n#{err}" if err.present?

    out
  end
end


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Q: What is the general case of QuickCheck's promote function? What is the general term for a functor with a structure resembling QuickCheck's promote function, i.e., a function of the form:
promote :: (a -> f b) -> f (a -> b)

(this is the inverse of flip $ fmap (flip ($)) :: f (a -> b) -> (a -> f b)).  Are there even any functors with such an operation, other than (->) r and Id?  (I'm sure there must be).  Googling 'quickcheck promote' only turned up the QuickCheck documentation, which doesn't give promote in any more general context AFAICS; searching SO for 'quickcheck promote' produces no results.

A: (<*>) :: Applicative f => f (a -> b) -> f a -> f b
(=<<) :: Monad m => (a -> m b) -> m a -> m b

Given that Monad is more powerful an interface than Applicative, this tell us that a -> f b can do more things than f (a -> b). This tells us that a function of type (a -> f b) -> f (a -> b) can't be injective. The domain is bigger than the codomain, in a handwavey manner. This means there's no way you can possibly preserve behavior of the function. It just doesn't work out across generic functors.
You can, of course, characterize functors in which that operation is injective. Identity and (->) a are certainly examples. I'm willing to bet there are more examples, but nothing jumps out at me immediately.

A: So far I found these ways of constructing an f with the promote morphism:

*

*f = Identity

*if f and g both have promote then the pair functor h t = (f t, g t) also does

*if f and g both have promote then the composition h t = f (g t) also does

*if f has the promote property and g is any contrafunctor then the functor h t = g t -> f t has the promote property

The last property can be generalized to profunctors g, but then f will be merely a profunctor, so it's probably not very useful, unless you only require profunctors.
Now, using these four constructions, we can find many examples of functors f for which promote exists:
f t = (t,t)

f t = (t, b -> t)

f t = (t -> a) -> t

f t = ((t,t) -> b) -> (t,t,t)

f t = ((t, t, c -> t, (t -> b) -> t) -> a) -> t

Also note that the promote property implies that f is pointed.
point :: t -> f t
point x = fmap (const x) (promote id)

Essentially the same question: Is this property of a functor stronger than a monad?

A: Data.Distributive has
class Functor g => Distributive g where
  distribute :: Functor f => f (g a) -> g (f a)
  -- other non-critical methods

Renaming your variables, you get
promote :: (c -> g a) -> g (c -> a)

Using slightly invalid syntax for clarity,
promote :: ((c ->) (g a)) -> g ((c ->) a)

(c ->) is a Functor, so the type of promote is a special case of the type of distribute. Thus every Distributive functor supports your promote. I don't know if any support promote but not Distributive.


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pickup line
(fiction) by SigmaVirus Sat Jan 17 2009 at 4:03:06
"You know Lisa, I was having a nice, relaxing day until you called."
"Cute. But this is important. We'll see you at two — don't be late."
Jahn finished polishing the long bar and sighed as he observed the tavern. A year ago this place would have been filled with activity on a Friday evening, but things had been different for months now. Business was slow in Munich and showed no signs of picking up in the near future, especially for a tavern owned and operated by a Muslim. The bartender was a short and stocky white man, but made no secret of his religion and that kept many potential customers in this part of the city away. These days, at least.
The only two patrons in the tavern tonight were the young Hendrick, sitting in his customary booth at the far end of the room, and a traveling businessman seated at one of the small tables to the right of the entranceway. The visitor was nursing a tall lager but seemed to mostly be lost in his own thoughts, oblivious at intervals to both Jahn and his drink. Hendrick was tinkering with some new game of his, trying to fix some set of circuits or other between drinks, wiring the device to run faster, better, or without the restrictions intended by the manufacturer. Jahn didn't know the details except that Hendrick was always up to some project or other since the boy had dropped out of school.
The entrance to the tavern swung open and two brown-skinned men the size of oak trees entered along with a blast of the wintry air. Jahn smiled as he saw the large Islamic crescent necklaces that both wore, showing through their unbuttoned coats. He moved to greet his brothers, and suddenly both drew guns and Jahn froze, speechless. The closer one pointed his weapon at Jahn and spoke haltingly while the man behind looked towards Hendrick and aimed his semi-automatic.
"You are a foolish man," said the front man. "We are here for the boy and you will not interfere. If you do not cooperate, you and your family will suffer. Do not try–"
The man was interrupted by the report of a different pistol, this one fired twice by the stranger who had been seated behind them. Both of the huge men crumpled to the floor and the strange businessman moved quickly over them towards a cowering Hendrick. Jahn, still mostly in shock from the events of the past thirty seconds, could not hear his words over the ringing in his ears. The man he spoke quickly to Hendrick at the far end of the tavern. Hendrick stood up, grabbed his coat from the booth and quickly donned it as he followed the stranger back towards to the door to the tavern. Then the man spoke to Jahn.
"In just over five hours, you will awaken with a headache the likes of which you have never had. Take the pills you will find on this counter. Then report everything you saw here to the police. Leave nothing out of your report."
Then the man's hand snapped forward and grabbed Jahn's neck. Jahn felt a small prick and then saw the world swirl and dissolve before him as he fell towards the floor and blackness covered his vision.
"Made the pickup early, Lisa. I hope you don't take your time. I hate this city already."
"If only you enjoyed fine beer, maybe the wait wouldn't be so bad. We're hurrying."
Back in the light of his flat, Hendrick could see the strange man much more clearly. He called himself Adil, but the rest of his story had been so incredible that Hendrick didn't believe either the story or the name. He focused on committing the man's appearance to memory rather than try to make sense of what he had been told. The stranger was taller than average and as he watched, Hendrick could tell that he must be no more than thirty-five and in incredible physical shape. He moved around the flat with the coiled energy of a panther, ready to pounce should a target present itself. Long, almost glowing black hair was pulled into a ponytail and a small starburst tattoo adorned the spot just above his right cheekbone.
Adil — no, not Adil, the stranger — looked as if he had seen several more decades of worry and unhappiness than a normal man of his age. His features were lined and crooked and to Hendrick it seemed that he must have last relaxed sometime in a previous decade. The man threw him a glance accompanied by the barest smile — just a little thinner and the man could have passed for an avatar of Death with a rictus grin.
"Finished analyzing me yet?" The man spoke quietly to Hendrick. "I could just tell you what you want to know, but I have this strange feeling that you might not believe me." The man's smile broadened slightly after this remark and Hendrick could have sworn that he detected mirth behind the stranger's harrowed features.
"So let me get this straight. You — Adil or whatever — are here because my father, who I haven't seen in three years, once did business with your group or gang or whatever you call it. Whatever. And you're here to protect me from your rival gang who is trying to kill me to take some sort of revenge for whatever my father did? For one thing, you clearly didn't know my father to make up this sort of story, and for another thing I still don't understand why we are still sitting here if these guys are trying to kill me!"
The panther-man frowned at Hendrick's outburst and came to sit on the couch opposite him. Hendrick shrank away from him as he spoke.
"You are a very bright boy but it's clear that you aren't listening closely to what I have tried to tell you. The gang pursuing you is a local organized crime element. Their only connection to your father is that he owes money to one of their employers, a wealthy businesswoman in Stuttgart. Since they are thugs and your father is difficult to find, they decided that kidnapping you might be productive.
"Fortunately for you, I happened to be in the right place at the right time. My organization is neither criminal nor local, but your father did in fact work for us at one time and since then we have watched you grow into adulthood with great interest. You are much more talented than your father in many ways, and when we discovered that your life was in jeopardy we decided to protect you. I saved your life at that dive bar and before coming there I jury-rigged the listening devices in your apartment to return only silence — as far as these thugs know, no one is here and the device attached to your car shows up as being 200 clicks out of the city by now. This is as safe as you're going to be — especially with me here.
"Unfortunately for you, our pickup is going to be here in 20 minutes and so we have to leave the relative safety of this place. Let's get moving. And please don't argue. Someday you'll look back on tonight and laugh."
"You know I missed you Lisa honey. Looking forward to seeing you soon."
"Can it. You always romance me at the worst times. Just focus on being careful, hm?"
Adil hurried the boy out of the car and into the back entrance of the skyscraper in downtown Munich. The place was deserted at 1:45 in the morning, but nevertheless he didn't want any random observers to see something out of the ordinary. His card admitted them entry through the outer security and into the interior of the building, where Adil quickly located a service lift. Hendrick, clearly distraught but nevertheless compliant, followed along without making a sound. Once inside the life, Adil swiped his card, punched in a series of codes, and rigged the machine to take them to the building's rooftop at maximum speed. Shortly they had reached the top of the 118-story building. Climbing a single flight of stairs, Adil and Hendrick emerged onto the still, freezing air.
That was when everything went haywire.
They were surrounded by over twenty men, all of varying sizes and skin tones but none of them small and none of them white. Each wore a large silver crescent necklace that glinted with the city lights surrounding them. All appeared to be armed. One of them spoke in perfect Turkish, a language so old and dead that Adil had been sure that he was one of the few who still knew it.
"The boy is ours. You, shadow man, will not leave with your life."
It was time for action. Adil focused and the locks in his mind that held his pent-up training slid away. Swiftly, faster than any of the men surrounding them could react, the panther inside Adil emerged.
"On the ground," he yelled to Hendrick as he planted one foot on the doorjamb behind them and drew pistols from both sides of his coat. As he leapt forward, shots rang out from his weapons, felling six of the assailants as he flew through the air towards the opposite side of the roof, firing bullets faster than any normal pistol could discharge. He rolled to a stop and flipped around in under a second, sweeping a wide arc of fire through the closest men, who had started to react to his flight and turn towards him. Five more men dropped under the hail of bullets from his weapons. Somewhere in his hyper-drive mind, Adil grinned. Then he saw the three men who had been behind the stairwell exit start to move towards Hendrick as two more men, huge like the ones from the tavern, moved to block Adil's return path. And he could tell that they wore the bulk of body armor and would not be felled by bullets.
He fired a final salvo and the remaining nearby men fell, just as a deafening roar broke over the rooftop and the distant men moving towards the prone Hendrick stumbled. The two huge men remained and had drawn large automatic shotguns, training them on Adil. The cold air churned and Adil looked up towards the rapidly descending silhouette of the hybrid gunboat hovering towards them. The screams of the craft's machinery made it difficult for even Adil to think, as gyrostabilizers spun overtime and heating failsafes on the underside of the boat rebelled against the atmospheric flight for which she had never been intended. Adil saw the shakiness of the descent and realized that this would be closer than he had planned.
Then the boat's side slid open and Adil saw a black shape and a smaller white shape fall from the craft's bay door. Crouching, Adil *leapt*.
Forty feet airborne he caught the two shapes and, with the precision of the man who has performed an exercise a thousand times, flipped open the hatches on the black shape and inserted one of his pistols along with the white cartridge. Pulling a final lever into place, the shell of the casing fell away. It had always struck him as a little too nifty to go from a somatic pistol to a personal mass rifle in three seconds flat. Looking down as he reached the top of his jump's arc, he aimed and fired. By the time he landed, the final five assailants had been reduced to stains on the newly dented rooftop, Hendrick unharmed.
Adil slid out the pale green pinprick from his sleeve and gently cupped Hendrick's neck as he reached to help him up. Instantly the boy was on his feet and then clutching Adil in terror. Adil released the lever on his rifle and removed the white cartride, gripping it tightly and uttering a single word:
"Up."
They met the gunboat halfway, and then were gone. Within minutes they had reached orbit, docked, and left the fifth moon of RCYF-II, sometimes called New Bavaria, behind forever.
"I hope you know how gorgeous you are. Atmospheric flight always brings out your wild side."
"And you are always handsome after exercising. Those lines in your face won't come back for months."
"Half of that is an affectation anyway. I never look that way when we're alone!"
"I know. But you're still prettier after 30 seconds of combat than months of tedium."
"No arguments there. Maybe I should ask for better assignments."
"I'll see what I can do. Now, kiss me. Until I can no longer think."
Captain Lisa Şerefli watched the readouts of the ship's helm displays absently as she listened to the voice on the other end of the ansible connection.
"Make the rest of your scheduled stops so that nothing appears out of the ordinary. We've confirmed the nature of the resistance you and Agent Şerefli encountered and it is most definitely local, extraordinary intelligence on their part notwithstanding. We're handling it on our end. How is your pickup?"
"Despite what we have told him, he's very resistant to accepting the facts. Adjutant, I'm not sure what he really thinks or how he reconciles his experiences with those beliefs, but trusting and teachable he is most certainly not."
"Well Captain," the voice replied, "then you'll just have to be patient until you arrive. And really now. At their first meeting with us, who in four million years has believed?"
(thing) by dannye Tue Jun 02 2009 at 2:56:58
Steve was not what you'd call handsome. He had acne scars from his teen years that were not going away any time in this life. We always assumed those scars had a strong influence on everything he did. He took to challenges like a beaver takes to a tree; completely and methodically and often without a real good reason.
His dad had been a test pilot in the Right Stuff era, and he was a middle child in a large family. He had also turned into the black sheep of that large family. He was holding bitterness like a teacup at an uncomfortable garden party. It never really overflowed onto the lawn, but it was always right there in front of you being balanced precariously with just a couple of fingers.
I met him through a Sicilian guitar player ex-Marine who married a stunning brunette that they'd both swapped around a few times before some Magic 8-Ball of Love told them that it was Nick who would get that one and Steve would have to wait.
We were at a bar in Atlanta. We'd driven there to see Little Feat just before Lowell George would keel over and die in a hotel room in June of '79 in Arlington, Virginia. Oddly enough, the same Arlington, Virginia, where Nick and Steve both went to high school and where they first met. The three of us had worn out at least two copies of Sailin' Shoes and we all had a sort of calling to see that band play live. Nick couldn't make it, due to his brunette harpy of a wife telling him so, so Steve and I drove all day to Atlanta. We got there at least a couple of hours before the band was even scheduled to start, and they were known to never have started on time.
Steve prided himself on being able to say just the right thing to pick up just the right girl at just the right time. He often said that "pickup lines" were so clichéd and overused that any intelligent human could improvise and come up with better material. He considered himself some sort of Zen master at picking up girls. And, from past history, I had to say that I was often amazed at how he was able to go home with girls I would have considered out of his league. I was also amazed that Nick's wife was still fucking him on the side with everyone in the universe except Nick realizing that this was going on.
I'd seen Steve do things like go up to a really good-looking girl at a bar and just reach down and put his hand on her crotch and walk out with her less than five minutes later. He was brazen, and not very polite.
This day in Atlanta, there was a stunning blond at the bar. She was fending off suitors right and left. Steve turned to me and said, "I will have that girl." He said it like he was a Roman God issuing an edict. I just shrugged and said, "I wouldn't be surprised."
The rest of this story is what he told me when he returned from his failed conquest. I did not hear the conversation so I cannot attest to its validity. I did, however, see the transaction and the dialogue he related did seem to match what I saw.
According to Steve, his general strategy was this: The girl was so beautiful and there had been so may petitioners hitting on her with no result, he thought the best approach was to bring her down to earth. He wanted something that could put them on equal footing. So this was his opening gambit:
He walked right up to her and put his beer down on the bar assertively and looked her right in the eye and said, "You know what? I bet you and I are a lot alike. I bet you quit wiping your ass when the paper isn't brown any more, just like I do."
Without missing a beat, she said, "I'm blind. I have no idea when the paper isn't brown any longer." And she sort of looked over his head and reached out her hand just a bit, like the blind will do.
Steve came back to table where I was sitting and the band actually started early for a change. They began with their song Trouble, and I thought I'd never seen him so despondent as when Lowell George sang,
"Well, I'll write a letter and I'll send it away
And put all the trouble in it that you had today."
I did, however, see him a bit more dispirited when she walked by our table on her way out the front door with a fellow even less attractive than him. She turned around and looked right at him and winked.
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That now-viral Microsoft Songsmith video, featuring the singing family, was indeed created by the company, a Microsoft spokesperson has confirmed to me this afternoon.
And yes, that's a MacBook Pro seen in the opening shot.
There has been an awful lot of talk on the Intertubes as to whether the video was genuine, in part due to the fact that it's bloody awful. But one thing's for sure: it's sure as hell got Songsmith some coverage.
The last Microsoft ad to cause this much controversy was the series involving Bill Gates and comedian Jerry Seinfeld. It wasn't exactly well-received, and neither too has this production.
Some YouTube comments are almost angry that they voluntarily watched a video for free that they could've switched off at any point: "OMG, please, somebody stop this reasearch!! It has to be like animal testing or something," says user alemarianrtv. Geoffgc adds that, "It's like a horrible car accident you can't look away from!"
User Rigmen is more confident, however: "Clearly bad on purpose."
The idea behind Songsmith is simple: sing any kind of tune into your PC's microphone, and the software generates appropriate backing music. The two are melded together to form a cohesive sound, and voila! You're now a musician.
To try out the software and perhaps create your own ad, head over to Microsoft Research and download a free trial.


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A Trie implementation to store GRE words. Web app to search for words quickly and get the meaning.
Built in NodeJS and ExpressJS

## Usage
1. Clone this repository
2. Navigate to the folder in a console
3. Run `npm install && npm start`
4. Subsequent starts only require `npm start`

## Contributing
1. Fork it!
2. Create your feature branch: `git checkout -b my-new-feature`
3. Commit your changes: `git commit -am 'Add some feature'`
4. Push to the branch: `git push origin my-new-feature`
5. Submit a pull request :D

## History
For a detailed overview over changes to this Repository check the Master commit tree [here](https://github.com/Rishav159/gre-trie-dictionary/commits/master)

## Notes

Bugfixes are generally welcome. If you want to contribute something which changes major parts of the app, please talk to someone with commit privileges first. Nothing is more frustrating than putting a lot of work and effort into a new feature and then having the PR rejected because it doesn't fit design-wise.

If you submit a PR you must accept the Contributor License Agreement. There is no way around that, since otherwise changing the license later - even to something more permissive! - , becomes close to impossible.


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Q: Using third-party libraries with CMake I want anyone who cloned the repository can build it immediately, and don't need to install the dependencies.
Therefore, I found several ways:

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*Use git submodule and add_subdirectory.

*Use find_package to find the built libraries and the headers.

The first one takes much time to build, so I think the second might be better. To make people be able to build the project instantly, I put the the files in the project, but it saied it doesn't know the linker language. What's this? And how to solve?
Direstories:
Project Root
  lib
    SDL2
      (generated files when install)
  include
    (headers)
  src
    (sources)
  CMakeLists.txt

CMakeLists.txt:
# ...

list(APPEND CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH lib)
find_package(SDL2)

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How the pandemic brought a rising tide of hunger to Europe
In Europe -- home to some of the richest countries and most generous social safety nets -- concerns around hunger and deprivation existed long before the Covid-19 crisis.
Life wasn't easy for Patricia, even before the pandemic hit.
She struggled with mental health issues after fleeing an abusive relationship, moving herself and her children into an east London flat with nothing more than the clothes on their backs.
For the past few years, Patricia held down a job as a barista, but she was furloughed after the Covid-19 crisis exploded and the United Kingdom went into lockdown. As the money got tighter, she found herself resorting to a food bank to help feed her family.
"You feel like you're going through it by yourself with your kids, and it's hard to explain to them what you're facing at the time when they just want to eat -- they don't really understand food poverty," said Patricia, who we are only identifying by her first name to protect her identity.
"[Without help] I don't even know how to describe it, I probably would have just been in a corner," she told CNN. "Mentally, it would've just took me to another place."
Like many others in the east London borough of Tower Hamlets -- one of the most deprived areas in the British capital -- Patricia turned to the First Love Foundation.
Co-founder and chair of the First Love foundation, Aerold Bentley loads crates packed with goods for distribution.
The charity -- which gives out food to those in need on top of providing other services including housing and legal assistance -- said it saw a 925% surge in demand during the early stages of the pandemic.
"When we saw Covid coming, that was a game-changer for us," said Denise Bentley, founder of the First Love Foundation.
Bentley says the pandemic only added to the food insecurity already felt by many in the UK, especially in Tower Hamlets. "There's this heaviness in the community, a heavy feeling of 'this is just the way it is; we're overlooked, this is my lot, this is the rest of my life'... it's sad," she told CNN.
An ongoing struggle
The pandemic has only widened the ever-growing divide between the haves and have-nots.
In July, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the virus had "laid bare" risks and inequalities known for decades, and warned that "entire regions that were making progress on eradicating poverty and narrowing inequality have been set back years, in a matter of months."
But even in Europe -- home to some of the richest countries and most generous social safety nets -- concerns around hunger and deprivation existed long before the Covid-19 crisis.
In 2019, a report by Eurostat estimated that there were 92.4 million people in the EU who were at risk of poverty or social exclusion, equivalent to 21.1 % of the total population.
Another Eurostat report from 2018 revealed that 33.4 million Europeans were unable to afford a meal with meat, fish, or a vegetarian equivalent every second day -- highlighting the sheer scale of the problem across Europe.
And when the pandemic hit, things got even worse.
People receive fruit and vegetables from volunteers at a Tafel food bank in Schweinfurt, Germany in November.
More and more people in Europe's biggest cities began to fall into food poverty and rely on food banks for help -- increasing demand on an already overstretched network of largely voluntary organizations.
The Trussell Trust, Britain's biggest food bank network, said they experienced a 47% increase in need during the early stages of the pandemic, and for the first time in its 70-year history, UNICEF announced it would feed hungry children in the UK amid the growing number of kids at risk.
More widely, the European Food Banks Federation (FEBA) reported a food demand increase of around 30% across their European network of 430 food banks -- with a range of 6% to 90% in different countries -- in comparison to pre-Covid times.
Jacques Vandenschrik, president of FEBA, says that although EU nations are often seen as being the gold standard for welfare programs, food banks are having to fill in the gaps left by individual governments -- including smaller nations previously under authoritarian regimes.
"We do a job that in a communist or socialist country did not exist, because there was no need for a food bank, because the state would provide everything," said Vandenschrik. "[Food banks] would like to disappear, they would like a situation where nobody requires food aid, where food insecurity has disappeared," he added.
"To achieve this, we need to have a fundamental re-look at the whole system -- the whole system of producing food, our food feeding habits -- and look at the way food is distributed."
Food poverty fragility
The stark reality is that many people across Europe are just a couple of missed paychecks, or a traumatic life event, away from potentially needing assistance from a food bank.
"It can happen to anyone," said Patrice Blanc, president of French foodbank Restos du Cœur.
Blanc said a "tide" of hunger caused by the pandemic led to a 40% rise in food bank demand across France this year. The northern suburbs of Paris have been particularly affected, Blanc said, with hundreds of people queuing round corners of food banks every day.
"It's not them that should be shamed, but society that should be ashamed," said Blanc, adding that societal stigmas around food bank usage may be stopping people from reaping the other benefits they bring.
A volunteer at a Restos du Coeur center in Paris hands out food in October.
"What food banks provide is not only food, they provide also social relationships. Poverty is not only a question of income, it's also a question of loneliness, and the fight against loneliness."
It's a sentiment echoed by Jochen Brühl, chairman of Tafel Deutschland, a food bank that supports over 1.6 million people in Germany, Europe's biggest economy.
"Many of the people who are threatened or affected by poverty also have the issue of loneliness and psychological stress on their mind," he said. "We have been pointing out to politicians and society for many years that it is not the task of Tafel to eliminate poverty, but it is our task, or so we see it, to support people."
Brühl said that better welfare measures coupled with governmental action could be a way out for many who are struggling.
"The task of politics and society must be to put the topic of poverty more on the agenda, and through Covid, it's all focused again in a burning glass."
Panama reports 1,750 new COVID-19 cases and 44 deaths in 24 hours
The Ministry of Health (Minsa) reported that Panama registered 1,750 new cases of COVID-19, raising to 298,019 infections of the virus nationwide.
The number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients grows in Panama
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Parts of Panama Oeste and Chiriquí will be without drinking water on Monday
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CCIAP advocates the total opening of parks, trails and beaches, with measures that limit crowds
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Panama reports 2,677 new COVID-19 cases and 45 new deaths
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The members of the National Electoral Reform Commission (CNRE) approved the rules for voting in the next general elections in the multi-member circuits.
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Team's hottest forward Cole enjoying highs and lows of being a Canadien
BROSSARD, Que. - For better or worse, playing for the Montreal Canadiens has been all that Erik Cole expected when he signed as an unrestricted free agent last summer.
The Canadiens (13-12-7) got just what they wanted in Cole, a big, fast right winger who can score goals. And Cole got what he wanted: a four-year contract paying US$4.5 million per season on a playoff calibre team in a market where hockey is king.
But as ''awesome'' as Cole finds playing before 21,273 of the NHL's noisiest fans, wins on home ice have been alarmingly rare so far this season.
''As far as the appreciation level, it's been great for me to come here and play and be part of the team,'' Cole said Friday. ''At the same time, we just can't seem to get to that point where we can string together a number of wins, as other teams have done, and go on a big run.''
Cole has a goal in each of the last four games to take over the team lead with 12, one more than Max Pacioretty. Both big wingers were crowding the crease when David Desharnais, the playmaker, got his fifth of the season in a 4-3 loss to Philadelphia on Thursday night.
But with captain Brian Gionta missing the last three games with an undisclosed injury, the second unit with Tomas Plekanec and Michael Cammalleri has struggled. Cammalleri had seven shots against the Flyers, but nothing is going in for the stocky sniper.
Forwards Scott Gomez, Travis Moen and Ryan White are also injured, testing the depth on the other lines.
After spending his first nine seasons with the Carolina Hurricanes, except for a 63-game stint in Edmonton in 2008-09, Cole was ready to move.
But both the positive and negative sides of performing at the Bell Centre were evident against the Flyers.
As uplifting as the long, loud standing ovation they gave to local prospect Louis Leblanc after he scored his first NHL goal in the second period may have been, the prolonged booing after the home side failed to score on a one minute 40 second two-man advantage at the end of the first was equally intense.
''With Louis' goal, that was something awesome,'' said Cole. ''Everyone on the ice was excited for that moment and how the fans can really drive the momentum and drive up the atmosphere.''
But of the 5-on-3 failure, Cole said: ''Yeah, I was booing with them. I mean, it was something we worked on in the morning, something we talked about in the locker room; what we wanted to do and to look for. To go out there and have guys not on the same page was ridiculous, frustrating.''
The loss left Montreal 5-6-6 at home this season—five regulation wins in 17 games from a team that was 24-11-6 on home ice last season.
On Saturday night, they will close a three-game homestand against the New Jersey Devils, then play six in a row on the road, where they are 8-6-1.
''Our home record is a little tainted in that we weren't playing very good in October,'' said Cole. ''But I've also said about this crowd is that they can drive the team north or south.
''Some nights when things aren't going well, or we're in a game that is still to be decided, it's not always the most motivating factor hearing the crowd boo you for an extended period of time. It goes both ways. It's one of the things that makes it special, but it's also one of the things that can increase a visiting team's success level, for sure.
''When I was a visitor to this building it was something we would talk about: that you could get the crowd to turn on (the Canadiens) and use it to your advantage. That's why it's important for us to have better starts and gain momentum and get the crowd on our side.''
Coach Jacques Martin said the trouble at home stemmed in part from problems on the power play that they hoped were fixed when they turned to Carolina again to acquire veteran defenceman Tomas Kaberle in exchange for rearguard Jaroslav Spacek a week ago.
A previously cold Canadiens power play has scored in each of the three games Kaberle has played.
Another factor was injuries ondefence which forced Martin to give plenty of minutes to first-year players Raphael Diaz, Alexei Emelin and Frederic St-Denis, who has since returned to AHL Hamilton.
''That makes it difficult at times, all these young players are under pressure,'' said Martin. ''It's a learning process.''
Diaz has emerged as one of the team's top four defencemen, while Emelin has been in and out of the lineup since veteran Chris Campoli returned from an injury.
Leblanc scored despite having only 4:21 of ice time, and Martin suggested that despite his popularity with the fans the 20-year-old will be back in Hamilton when enough veteran forwards return from injury. So will Mike Blundin, who played only 3:12.
''He's a young player we like,'' Martin said of Leblanc. ''He still has a lot to learn.
''No doubt if we have a healthy team he would benefit from getting a lot of ice time and playing in a lot of situations (in Hamilton). That's the normal progression for a young player.''
Moen skated and said he felt better but Martin said he was doubtful to play Saturday. Same with Diaz, who missed Thursday's game with an illness. He does not expect Gionta, White, Gomez or defenceman Andrei Markov back any time soon. Gomez looked close to returning, but had a setback this week and is not skating.


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EU Referendum News
The EU Withdrawal Bill - latest in Parliament
This week the EU Withdrawal Bill (EUWB) was voted on by MPs in the Commons.
The government managed to avert any embarrassing defeats, but has made a further concession that is expected to emerge in the next few days on the role of parliament in the eventual deal struck between the EU and UK.
So what happened and where are we as the Bill is set to head back to the Lords next week?
NFU Chief EU exit and international trade adviser, Gail Soutar, takes a look at the amendments that have been made to the EUWB and what this means for the government's Brexit strategy and future legislative powers:
Customs 'arrangement'
The government defeated an amendment from the Lords calling for the government to secure an arrangement that would enable the UK to continue in a customs union with the EU.
Instead, the amendment now requires the government to make a written statement (before 31 October 2018) outlining the steps taken in negotiations to secure the UK's participation in a 'customs arrangement' with the EU.
The semantics matter here as a 'customs union' is defined at the WTO and would limit what the UK could do with respect external tariffs if it did stay in a 'customs union' or even 'the customs union' with the EU.
Future relationship to include 'Single Market or EEA?'
The Lords called on the government to continue participation in the European Economic Area (EEA) after exiting the EU. But this was rejected as it's not deemed to be government policy to remain members of the EEA (ie the Norwegian model).
Similarly, an amendment put forward by the opposition for the government to negotiate as a minimum a deal that would give the UK 'full access to the internal market of the EU, underpinned by shared institutions and regulation with no impediments to trade and common rights, standards and protections,' was also defeated, thereby freeing the government's hands in the negotiations.
Maintenance of environmental principles and standards
The government has agreed that within six months of the EUWB passing, it will publish a draft environmental bill.
This draft bill will consist of a set of environmental principles (that must include the precautionary principle, the principle of preventative action to avert environmental damage, the principle that environmental damage should be rectified at source, the polluter pays principle, the principle of sustainable development, the principle that environmental protection requirements be integrated in to the definition and implementation of policies and activities, public access to environmental information, public participation in environmental decision making and access to justice in relation to environmental matters).
The draft Bill must also include provisions to establish a public authority with powers to take proportionate enforcement action where the authority considers that the government isn't complying with the environmental law set out in the Bill.
Charter of Fundamental Rights
The Commons rejected the call from the Lords to maintain the provisions of the Charter of Fundamental Rights post Brexit, on the grounds that none of those rights should continue on or after Brexit day.
Date of Brexit
The Lords had sought to remove 29 March 2019 at 11pm as the 'exit date' off the face of the bill, preferring in its place to give Ministers powers to come forward with a statutory instrument setting out when exit would actually happen. However, MPs rejected this and instead maintained what they had originally planned, which is that 'Exit' will happen at 11pm on 29 March 2019.
Parliamentary approval of the outcome of negotiations
This is the amendment that the government appeared the most exposed to the threat of a rebellion. In the end, the Commons has agreed that Minsters will present a written statement to parliament on the outcome of the negotiations (to cover both the Withdrawal Agreement and the framework for the future relationship).
The government should also seek a motion for a resolution of the House of Commons in approving the outcome of the negotiations (the Lords would only be asked to 'take note' of the outcome of the negotiations).
Ideally, this has to happen prior to the EU Parliament deciding whether to grant its consent to the withdrawal agreement. If the resolution doesn't pass in the Commons, Ministers would have 28 days to make a further statement on how the government proposes to proceed in relation to negotiations with the EU.
Irrespective of what has been passed by the Commons, it's widely reported that the government sought to quell the rebels by promising a further amendment on the powers of Parliament on approving the outcome of the negotiations.
A subsequent amendment is expected to be tabled by the government in the coming days ahead of the Bill returning to the Lords on Monday 18 June. As yet it is not clear what further concessions the government will give the Parliament through this still to be seen amendment.
The government managed to emerge from the latest round of votes on the EUWB intact, whether the Lords will seek to send some amendments back to the Commons again when it considers the bill next week is yet to be seen. The process of 'ping pong' continues.
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Jayhawks Defeat Cyclones, 3-0, On Senior Day
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Lawrence, Kan. –
Seniors Heather Stanley and Destiny Frankenstein notched two hits apiece to lead Kansas to a 3-0 Senior Day victory over Iowa State Sunday afternoon at Arrocha Ballpark. With the win, the Jayhawks earned the Big 12 Conference series sweep and finished their regular season 30-24 overall and 8-10 in league action.
KU finished Big 12 play in a tie for fifth with Oklahoma (35-18-1, 8-10) and will be seeded sixth in the 2006 Big 12 Softball Championship. The Jayhawks will face third-seeded Baylor Thursday at 11 a.m. at the ASA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City.
The Jayhawks, starting all six seniors, scored their first run of the day in the bottom of the third. Stanley led off with a single to left and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Val Chapple. Serena Settlemier reached on a fielding error by ISU's Jennifer Bigbee that allowed Stanley to score from second and give KU a 1-0 advantage.
KU added to its lead in the fourth with three hits and two runs. Nettie Fierros walked to lead off the inning and advanced to second after tagging up on a foul out. Nicole Washburn grounded out to first base and Fierros advanced to third before Stanley singled to right field for the first RBI of the game. Chapple singled to right center and moved Stanley to third and Stevie Crisosto notched a base hit to left to score Stanley and put KU up, 3-0.
Settlemier (16-6) was solid in the circle for KU, allowing just three hits, striking out eight and walking none for the complete-game shutout. On the season, Settlemier ranks second in the Big 12 with a 1.21 ERA, including a 0.83 mark in league games.
Cyclone starter Amie Ford (10-12) gave up five hits, struck out three and walked one in three and two-thirds innings (two earned runs) to take the loss. Alyssa Ransom allowed three hits, fanned two Jayhawks and walked none in the final two and one-third innings of relief.
The KU defense was errorless and picked up an impressive double play in the top of the fifth inning when Fierros made a diving catch in left field and then threw out the runner at second. The Cyclones committed one error on the day and stranded just two on base in the loss.
Prior to the game, KU honored the accomplishments of six seniors — Frankenstein, Settlemier, Stanley, Fierros, Ashley Goodrich and Jessica Moppin — in their final appearance at Arrocha Ballpark.
-KU-


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agricultural science, ALR, British Columbia, Bylaws, California, Cindy Waslewsky, clients, Equestrian, Federal and Labor Relations Act, horses, Icelandics, Lower Mainland, Mayor Eric Woodward, Mayor Froese, Otter Co-op, ranches, Squamish, Steve Waslewsky, Township of Langley, Twin Creeks Ranch
The Greenhorn Chronicles 41: Cindy Waslewsky and Steve Waslewsky on Big Picture Operations, the Township of Langley, ALR, and Bylaws (3)
Publisher: In-Sight Publishing
Publisher Founding: January 1, 2014
Web Domain: http://www.in-sightpublishing.com
Location: Fort Langley, Township of Langley, British Columbia, Canada
Journal: In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal
Journal Founding: August 2, 2012
Frequency: Three (3) Times Per Year
Review Status: Non-Peer-Reviewed
Access: Electronic/Digital & Open Access
Fees: None (Free)
Volume Numbering: 11
Issue Numbering: 2
Section: E
Theme Type: Idea
Theme Premise: "Outliers and Outsiders"
Theme Part: 27
Formal Sub-Theme: "The Greenhorn Chronicles"
Individual Publication Date: January 15, 2023
Issue Publication Date: May 1, 2023
Interviewer(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Interviewee(s): Cindy Waslewsky and Steve Waslewsky
Image Credits: None
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN): 2369-6885
*Please see the footnotes, bibliography, and citations, after the interview.*
*Interview conducted January 2, 2022.*
Cindy Waslewsky went to Stanford University and competed on the Varsity Gymnastics and Ski Teams. She earned a B.A. in Human Biology in 1982. She earned a Diploma in Christian Studies at Regent College in Vancouver, and a BC teachers' certification from the University of British Columbia in 1984. She was the President of the Squamish Valley Equestrian Association. She is a certified English and Western coach. Waslewsky is co-owner of Twin Creeks Ranch. Waslewsky discusses: a bigger picture within Twin Creeks Ranch; a standard procedure in the industry within the Lower Mainland; the Council in the Township of Langley; particular bylaws; the industry as a whole in the Lower Mainland; the main providers of feed; and the horse is a part of their own family.
Keywords: agricultural science, ALR, British Columbia, Bylaws, California, Cindy Waslewsky, clients, Equestrian, Federal and Labor Relations Act, horses, Icelandics, Lower Mainland, Mayor Eric Woodward, Mayor Froese, Otter Co-op, ranches, Squamish, Steve Waslewsky, Township of Langley, Twin Creeks Ranch.
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Let's take a bigger picture within Twin Creeks Ranch as a whole, first, as well. With the indoor arena, the training center at the round pen, the racetrack, and the clubhouse trails, all of these combined into a package of 125 acres; how do you build this into an operational business? From what I'm gathering, a mild constricting of the environment for equestrianism, at least, in British Columbia a little bit, particularly in areas like the Township of Langley with rising property prices and, thus, a decrease in the number of people who can afford.
Cindy Waslewsky: No, that's a really good point. I mean we came in and there's hyperbole because they say the "horse capital of Canada" [Ed. I even wrote that.] or something ridiculous like that. I'm looking at it like this, "Yes, but it's shrinking rapidly", and the people who can tell me that are our feed suppliers. They're the ones that see it the most because they're seeing how much feed is being purchased for horses in our area. The land value is high, so I see a lot of boarding places. People come to us over "our boarding place is shutting down", or "it's being redeveloped", or "they're selling to somebody else', "it's difficult to afford lessons and a horse". It's fewer and fewer people that can afford that a hobby. I mean people say, "Oh, skiing is expensive." Well, skiing is cheaper than riding because when you're not skiing, then you're parking in your garage. You're not feeding your skis and shoeing your skis, and your skis don't go lame on you when you need them and get an abscess, or pull a tendon.
So, there's a lot of cost to horses to keep them well. You're shoeing them every six to eight weeks. You're getting dental work on their teeth once a year. Floating the teeth cost $200 to $400 depending on the horse. It costs about $200 now for hot shoes every six weeks, and then your whole sport is going to start at 700 a month when you start putting up your feed in. Feeding and mucking and a place to ride, you're in $700 at the bottom end. You'll see our boarding rates. If you look around, we're on the low end with two indoor arenas. But we have staff that live on the property. We bring our hay in by the B-train load. We do pelletized bedding for environmental concerns. They used to do straw way back in the day, and then they moved to shavings. Shavings are stored and you try to keep them dry. You put them in, but you still have to pull the shavings out. You almost have to put lime underneath it because of the pee, which is now urea. You don't want that to build up in the stall.
And so, what has happened, they had to switch to pellets, which we used as soon as we took over the farm. We went to pelletized bedding, which are bags, and it is pellets. You split the bag open. You add hot water, and then pop the pellets back up, and then you spread them out there. they're made of pine, so you don't have any allergies in the horses. You clean it like kitty litter. So, you take out all the manure that you get used to doing that with your fork and then where these horses pee; they're usually peeing in the same corner of their stall. So, our staffs have gotten to know the horses; they pull back the bedding and pull out all the wet stuff and it clumps together like kitty litter. So, all the wet shavings come out in a clump together and then they spread the dry stuff back up to soak up any more pee and pull that out and then cover it up and then they might put one fresh bag on top and we might put a fresh bag on maybe every other day depending on the horse and how messy they are. They shred the manure in their stall in those shredders and then there's some that poop in one little corner. You go and clean it up. It's so much easier. You get to love certain horses that are cleaner.
So, we can then spread that. That manure goes in the pile within a year. It is broken down because it's essentially dust. By the time we're taking it out of the stall; we're only taking manure and only the shavings that have pee or urine in it. So, we don't have big chunks. We have dust that breaks down very quickly. It has mostly manure, a little urine, a little bit of dust, and then we pile it. We manure spread on our property. This disposal of manure. Some places bin their manure and have to have it hauled out. I think there are places making topsoil that buy the stuff or, at least, charge you to take it away for a somewhat more reasonable price, but it is a significant expense for some of the barns: manure disposal. So, the pelletized bedding, our staff go in there with one big wheelbarrow. They can do four stalls. You would fill up one wheelbarrow with the shavings and dump them out there. Now, it's about a quarter of the waste we have to spread. It's easy. It breaks down much more quickly. So, environmentally, far better, other than the plastic bags, which they don't take for recycling. It's driving us crazy. We want to recycle these plastic bags, but they won't pick them up at the curb. They won't take them at the cycling place. We're like, "These are plastic bags, recycle them, please." That's the only downside, so far. That may get worked out. I don't know how that's going to work out. However, we're not political enough and agitating for something there.
Jacobsen: What is a standard procedure in the industry within the Lower Mainland? That is costing a lot of money and causing unnecessary expense to the owners, to the environment, and to the horses that could be changed easily. What is another example of this?
Cindy: What's something else costing people or the environment?
Jacobsen: People who own ranches or facilities, individuals who are clients, or the horses themselves, or the environment.
Cindy: Some of the mandated manure management programs. My husband did agricultural science. We built a resort in Squamish. He had worms in the soil within a year. Then they're coming along and saying we need to build this concrete bunker and put all your manure in this concrete bunker that's covered from the rain and everything else. Then you have to spray it so that it breaks down. We're like, "We have a system that is working extremely well. You're wanting us to do it this other way that is very expensive to put in. We question its efficacy." They don't want things leaching into creeks. I get that. But if you have a place that's far enough from the creek, which we truly do, out in by the trails, we don't understand why we had to go and set up a whole different system. That's expensive. Also, most horse operations, we're zoned commercial. So, our hydro rates are double what anyone else is paying. So, hydro rates are higher for any commercial operation as when you compare it to a residential.
You have people giving 'helpful advice' about things like manure management and animal care. We had cows in mud. We had someone report us to SPCA because our cows were in the mud. SPCA came out and looked at them and goes, "Well, this is how cows live!" It gets muddy when it rains for a while. Even though, we have pads around all the feed stations. We have cover places for them to have their hay and stuff. So, sometimes, people don't understand animal care. They're thinking about, maybe, their pets, what they their pets would need. I know horse boarding doesn't qualify when you have ALR land as, of course, the land reserves. You want your farm tax status. Horses don't count and boarding horses does not count as an agricultural operation.
Jacobsen: What could Mayor Froese [Ed. Former mayor, current mayor of the Township of Langley is Mayor Eric Woodward.] in the Council in the Township of Langley or other townships do to better serve the pragmatic needs of the equestrian community at large?
Cindy Waslewsky: Let me hold for a second, because this is something I would definitely like to hear from Steve on. So, Steve, there are two questions. The first question I want to think about it for a minute. What are certain restrictions or things that are creating unnecessary expense for equestrian operations and horse owners in Langley? And the second part of that question would be: Is there anything that mayor Froese or Town Hall could do to improve the viability of horse operations in this area because they are shrinking rapidly? Okay, I'm going to put on the speaker.
Steve Waslewsky: The problem would be the Federal and Labor Relations Act. It's very inflexible and very expensive. All the payroll deductions and such, a lot of our colleagues are being priced out by labor costs, which the government is creating. As for Langley, nothing really comes to mind. So, yes, because we take care of people's horses and we're not breeding, we don't get farm tax status. We do because we also raise hay and we had cattle until recently. That's how we got our farm status. Without farm status, we'd be shut down.
Jacobsen: What about particular bylaws that are helpful and in place now, or what could be proposed by the equestrian community to help themselves within their particular townships?
Steve Waslewsky: Well, probably, the number one would be that we ought to be included in it is as a farm status. A lot of places simply can't afford to be open without farm status. That's why they're shutting down. Locally, they've become much fussier about enforcing farm status, not with the equestrians, but with everybody else. I know a couple places, where they lost their farm status all to the equestrian operations. Nothing else really comes to mind. I don't deal with them much because we operate under the table and try not to attract attention. Dealing with government is like being a nail. We're very quiet about what we do and how we do it. We fall into a little bit of a niche. We exploit that niche maintaining our farm status through actual farming activity. Without that, there's no question that we would be closed. Equestrian operations take far too much property and resources of an area, where the taxes and bylaws are really set up for more intensive businesses like lumber yards and such. So, that's where we fall into a little bit of a niche.
Jacobsen: What would that do to the industry as a whole in the Lower Mainland?
Steve Waslewsky: Well, it's shrinking because the whole lower middle class is shrinking. I've been told by people, feed companies and such, that since we took over in 2004, really the entire equestrian industry has been dropped by at least a half. So, we are in a dying industry because of a dying middle class. That's more of a federal/provincial issue than it is a municipal one.
Jacobsen: Who are the main providers of feed now?
Steve Waslewsky: On a retail basis?
Jacobsen: In terms of producing.
Steve Waslewsky: It all comes from outside the area here. Otter Co-op does produce some. I'm not sure if they actually produce horse feed or not. I think they probably do. I think there's another one called Ritchie Feeds. I think they do their own stuff too, but all the rest are bringing in from outside the area.
Cindy Waslewsky: We can hot walk a horse in a circle, so that the shed low goes in a circle. So, you can hot walk your horses undercover. That's great if a horse is colicky or something like that. You need to monitor and walk the horse. You've got a space right there outside the stall to do that. So, we have crossties there and huge tack rooms that are insulated. One of our staff members lives in a suite off the same barn. She's a single girl. She worked at North Shore Equestrian Centre before she came to us, so a good experience that she's got into the vet tech program starting January 1st. Then across from the barn, we have two suites there, again staff. One's a single fellow who does basic maintenance. We have lots of equipment. So, he'll harrow the arena, clear the trails. He'll check the water lines, of course, with this cold snap; getting frozen lines working again and plowing snow, all that stuff. Then to the left of his suite or to the right of his suite is a young couple, she works in the barn and her partner is an IT guy who works from home. So, when we had this bad weather, he was out helping her in the barn, and then, as I said, one woman who has the four kids. The partner was up helping the barn too, so we had extra help.
So, having everyone live on the property, they're feeding at 7 in the morning. They're feeding at noon. They're feeding at 5. They're feeding at 9. So, to drive back and forth would not be very efficient, but you can go out there and feed at 7 in the morning, and then go in and warm up or have breakfast, you can come back out and start doing stalls and at 9:30 turn some of the horses out. Some are in what we call "in-and-outs", where they can walk out.
When people contact us, I would say about almost half our stalls are now in-and-out because what my husband did is he created more in-and-outs off the back of the barn and tried to make as many of them in-and-out stalls. Every other stall is an in-and-out because you don't want the run, the pen, to be the same width as the stall; that's too narrow. They can get cast and things like that. So, what you do is if one stall has an in-and-out, the next stall that horse gets led out to a paddock outside the next one's in-and-out, where they can run in and out at will. The next one we lead them out. So, we have good generous paddocks. Every horse has a paddock. They get turned out no matter what, e.g., pouring rain. They're out for half the day. When they have this freezing weather, they were out until almost 1 o'clock in the afternoon, and then we brought them in for their lunch because the water was freezing. Even if we gave them a bucket, it was frozen before they needed it when they got fed their lunch. You cannot feed a horse without water available to them. They need water.
So, that was a limiting factor. So, we bring them in at 1 o'clock, and then have the lunch inside. Normally, we'll keep them out as much as we can keep them out, and in the Spring and the Fall and in the Summer; they could be out 24 hours a day. They have more room in a paddock than they do in a stall. They can see their neighbor, but they each get their own feed in a feeder. That's on the rubber matting, so it doesn't fall onto the crusher. The gravel stuff that they're living on, and they have auto waters as well. We took out all the hog fuel and put in crusher, which is a blend of different kinds of sand and fills. So, it's firm and doesn't harbor fungus because we're living in the Pacific Northwest.
I grew up in California, didn't have rain, and mud fever and all these other different kinds of fungus on horses up here. But up here, you've got to be very careful that they have a blanket on. They're going to be out in the rain, so that they don't get damp and get a fungus on their back called ring sore. You can't even then put a saddle on if they get too sore. You have to stay on top of those things. So, anyway, we have staff living on the property. We have options of in-and-out stalls. Ones that you lead horses out to paddocks and back in again, and then we have a couple of what is called loafing sheds, which means it's a shelter. We have two Icelandics that love to be outside in the snow, rain; they love to be outside. They have a shelter, where they can get out of the weather, but they'll be standing outside most of the time. We do have a stall for them if the weather is really bad or the water starts freezing. We can bring them inside if we need to do that. But they love being out, they're shaggy little guys. They love being outside.
On our property, we have the main indoor arena. We have dressage letters up. We have some jumps. We have show-quality jumps. We don't set up, often, because they're heavy to lift in and out. We have other jumps that are easily put in and out for lessons and for people to practice on, but we have a multi-disciplined barn. In other words, we have people who like Western and English. In Western, you might have Reiners. You might have pleasure. You might have trail horses. In English, you might have dressage, hunter, jumper, and simply pleasure trail horses. We tend to have more older riders with a few younger people, who this is the first horse that they've brought in here. People, of course, are somewhat price conscious because it's really expensive owning a horse. It's getting more expensive because we've seen costs skyrocket. We have voluntarily increased the rates and wages for our workers. We do the same thing in a per diem; this is how many horses you have, this is how much you get per horse to clean and feed them for the day.
Now, if you have 31 horses, and that's too many stalls to do for one person, which it really is, then we say you get a secondary worker and then they get paid for the stalls they do, and you get paid the primary wage. So, it all works out. Our staff have three primary, stock barn staff people. They make up their own schedule. They talk together. They work it out. Some are at school. Some have kids. So, they work together and make up a schedule that works for them. They cover for each other. They make sure everyone's okay. Then we have another fellow, Hank, who does maintenance and, like you, he can jump into the stalls. He can do stall work. He can do buckets. He can bring the hay down for them. He does maintenance. So, he's there if anyone's sick, if anyone needs a hand, and if something happens like a pipe break or anything happens. They call him. So, they have that as well as my husband and I who live on the property as well.
Jacobsen: Is Steve available right now as well by the way?
Cindy Waslewsky: Yes, Steve's upstairs; he's not a chatty person. If you had specific questions for him, he'd be happy to answer them. He, like I said, does a lot of the maintenance. Like we mix our own footing for the arena, we mix footing for our paddock. We call it crusher because it's not that hard. So, we also have three and a half kilometers of trails, which he put in with his own GPS lining up through the woods and clearing out trails and grazing them up, putting culverts in, and then putting landscape cloth and then crusher on top. So, a nice trail that you would see at Alder Grove Park or Camel Valley Park. We have some half kilometers of trails here on the property. So, as you saw on the web page, we have a round pen, a main indoor arena, a second indoor arena, which is like the lunging arena that we have. It's a 72 x72, so it's a nice 20-meter circle with a coverall. Then we have three and a half kilometers of all-weather trails, so it's not muddy. They're a good footing. Trees fall down, branches fall, things happen with these storms, recently. We go out and clear them off, and then we have a half-mile sand racetrack.
Now, the racetrack is not what you would see for training racehorses. The inside rails are out. So, it's basically a recreational track. We still harrow it. We keep it maintained. You can go out there. You can walk around the track, trot, or do a little gallop. Sometimes, I'll take students out. We'll do a slow canter contest, and then the fastest walk contest. We're trying to train our horses to have good gaits for us to be out hacking on trails and such, and have them in control. We do our hay storage, like this year there was a real crisis for hay because of the fires, the drought, Covid, and then of course the flooding came along. So, hay is difficult, and so we bought a B-train load, which is a truck and a big trailer that's following it. A B-train load in the Fall, and then we put a deposit on another B-train load from the same hay supplier up North because it's good quality professionally grown hay.
Steve with his background in animal physiology and nutrition will be happy to advise boarders on good nutrition for their horse, but, as you probably have found, everybody's an expert. Quite frankly, it's interesting. Even when he went to UBC, lots of feed studies on pigs, sheep, goats, chickens, cows, but not many good feed studies on horses. So, you still see a backyard approach, "Oh I'm going to get the beet pulp", or "they'll get their weight up". The beet plants, it's great for hydrating your horse because you soak this pulp and some people do that to try to put weight on the horse, but I would question their more scientific knowledge of the digestive system of the horse.
We can advise boarder. But if they want this, that, or the other thing, we accommodate them because that's not livestock to them. That's not even a pet. That horse is their child. You've seen that. Have you not? These women and guys, often, their kids are grown up and gone. These horses are their family. They're their children, very important to them. So, horse boarding is a very unique business. They really think you're taking care of people's horses. We're taking care of people by taking care of their horses.
Jacobsen: Talking to clientele while working… certainly, individuals who own one or more horses feel as if the horse is a part of their own family. Also, a common sentiment, I find, among those in the equestrian industry with only a few months out of my belt granted, is the sense of a lifestyle. So, you either dive to the deep end first, or it's a foot in the door phenomenon, where once you start getting into it; more or less, you don't leave. Unless, you're forced to leave due to finances or some other catastrophic circumstance. People love it; it is their lifestyle.
Cindy Waslewsky: I have adults coming to me for lessons who have always wanted to ride. Now they're close to retirement, they now have the time. They have the money. Some of them don't have the health anymore, so we make sure they're on a horse that suits their limitations. You'll see this all the time. People come to me. They might take some lessons. Hopefully, they do take a good number of lessons and really learn horsemanship, ground manners, training techniques, and then get a horse. When they get that horse, the worst thing is to be over the horse; to get a horse that's a little too much, a little bit too athletic, too high energy, too high maintenance, not as well trained and needs more training. If you don't get someone with that knowledge, then you get a horse that becomes somewhat dangerous for that rider. Unfortunately, that horse then doesn't always get a good chance with the next owner either. They get labeled. They've developed some bad habits. I always say a horse is like a dog. Get a dog and train that dog, an ill-trained dog, an insecure dog, or an aggressive dog is not a happy dog. Indeed, it could be a danger to a person, and then you might have to put the dog down because an incident happens. I've seen that in the horse world as well with horses that are great animals, but have not had the best riding and training at some point in their life. It is human made problems in the horses that the good trainers have to go in and try to fix.
American Medical Association (AMA 11th Edition): Jacobsen S. The Greenhorn Chronicles 41: Cindy Waslewsky and Steve Waslewsky on Big Picture Operations, the Township of Langley, ALR, and Bylaws (3). January 2023; 11(2). http://www.in-sightpublishing.com/waslewsky-3
American Psychological Association (APA 7th Edition): Jacobsen, S. (2023, January 15). The Greenhorn Chronicles 41: Cindy Waslewsky and Steve Waslewsky on Big Picture Operations, the Township of Langley, ALR, and Bylaws (3). In-Sight Publishing. 11(2). http://www.in-sightpublishing.com/waslewsky-3.
Brazilian National Standards (ABNT): JACOBSEN, S. D. The Greenhorn Chronicles 41: Cindy Waslewsky and Steve Waslewsky on Big Picture Operations, the Township of Langley, ALR, and Bylaws (3). In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal, Fort Langley, v. 11, n. 2, 2023.
Chicago/Turabian, Author-Date (17th Edition): Jacobsen, Scott. 2023. "The Greenhorn Chronicles 41: Cindy Waslewsky and Steve Waslewsky on Big Picture Operations, the Township of Langley, ALR, and Bylaws (3)." In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal 11, no. 2 (Spring). http://www.in-sightpublishing.com/waslewsky-3.
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Harvard: Jacobsen, S. (2023) 'The Greenhorn Chronicles 41: Cindy Waslewsky and Steve Waslewsky on Big Picture Operations, the Township of Langley, ALR, and Bylaws (3)', In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal, 11(2). <http://www.in-sightpublishing.com/waslewsky-3>.
Harvard (Australian): Jacobsen, S 2023, 'The Greenhorn Chronicles 41: Cindy Waslewsky and Steve Waslewsky on Big Picture Operations, the Township of Langley, ALR, and Bylaws (3)', In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal, vol. 11, no. 2, <http://www.in-sightpublishing.com/waslewsky-3>.
Modern Language Association (MLA, 9th Edition): Jacobsen, Scott. "The Greenhorn Chronicles 41: Cindy Waslewsky and Steve Waslewsky on Big Picture Operations, the Township of Langley, ALR, and Bylaws (3)." In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal, vo.11, no. 2, 2023, http://www.in-sightpublishing.com/waslewsky-3.
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