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Buying properties with smallholdings
Country Life November 25, 2011
Carter's Barn
Home-grown produce is a flourishing currency in Britain. These days, even Londoners are taking up the spade: Tom Catchpole, an investment manager with Vestra, trades eggs laid by his three hens-Jolly, Alice and Rachel-for potatoes from a colleague's farm in Yorkshire. 'It probably doesn't save us much money,' admits Mr Catchpole's wife, Polly, an organic-textiles manufacturer, who also grows tomatoes, squashes and courgettes in their garden in south London. 'But it's wonderful to know where our food comes from.'
Self-sufficiency is in keeping with the nation's more frugal mood. But Edward Heaton, a buying agent with Property Vision, has found that most would-be smallholders are driven by a desire to know exactly what they're eating. 'They like the reassurance that food hasn't been sprayed with unknown pesticides and that their chickens have lived a happy life.'
Over the past decade, Richard Girdwood of Strutt & Parker has noted intensifying demand for properties with scope to 'live off the land', just like Tom and Barbara attempted to do in the 1970s TV series The Good Life. 'Space for a vegetable garden is now a must-have for many buyers,' he explains.
Charlie Wells, a buying agent for Prime Purchase, has also witnessed the rise of the smallholder in recent years-and has had to adjust his skills to match his clients' demands. 'I'm now expected to know what soil type a property has, and how much yield you can get from the strawberry patch,' he says.
The appetite for grow-your-own doesn't stop at a vegetable patch or a chicken coop. Davina and Robert Bell keep pigs, sheep and cows in rented grazing surrounding their cottage in East Anglia, and grow peppers, tomatoes and spinach throughout the year in a polytunnel.
'A substantial proportion of the food we eat is from our own land. Our odd-shaped, homemade sausages are always a talking point at dinner parties,' comments Mrs Bell, who works at Savills.
Likewise, what started as an asparagus bed and orchard in Wiltshire for James Borradaile of Jackson-Stops & Staff in Shaftesbury has matured into a sizeable smallholding, with breeding cows, sheep and chickens. 'We wanted to know what we were eating and where it has been from birth to slaughter.'
Mrs Bell finds tending plants and animals is hugely therapeutic. 'It's an opportunity to switch off after work and busy yourself outside. You can't think about your job when you're in the
vegetable patch.'
The best smallholdings, according to Charlie Wells, are ring-fenced, with a house in the middle of the plot and outbuildings nearby. Would-be smallholders should try and buy properties with good soil quality and a vegetable garden, fencing, water troughs and coops already in place. 'That way, you'll save on start-up costs.'
The bad news is that, in the past 10 years, rising land values have pushed up the price of these types of property. 'What might have cost you £4,000 an acre 10 years ago could be double that now, and even more with a property attached,' he adds. Unless you plan to keep larger livestock, living off the land doesn't have to involve substantial acreage-the Catchpoles' garden in London measures less than a quarter of an acre.
But Mrs Catchpole concedes that even a small plot requires a degree of commitment, both financially and emotionally. 'If you're going on holiday, you have to harvest your produce beforehand, and someone will need to tend your garden and animals while you're away.' As with any hobby, there's a danger that your smallholding will become a highly competitive venture. 'Thankfully, we don't have a village fête with a biggest marrow competition,' says Mrs Bell. 'If we did, I'd be talking to mine to make them grow.'
Perfect planting
* Choose a sunny, sheltered spot close to the house
* Your beds should be at least 3ft wide, and ideally run from north to south
* Check soil acidity and alkalinity using a testing kit
* Rotate your crops every three years using the RHS's mnemonic 'British Rail Late': brassicas, roots, legumes
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Lena Bryant Malsin was a Jewish American clothing designer and entrepreneur who founded the clothing chain Lane Bryant.
Malsin (born March 1879; died September 26, 1951) was born Lena Himmselstein in Lithuania and was raised by her grandparents after being orphaned. In 1895, Himmelstein immigrated alone to the United States, settling in New York. Without family, she supported herself by working as a seamstress for a dollar a week. A gifted dressmaker, Lena quickly became skilled at her craft and within a year was earning an extraordinary wage of fifteen dollars per week.
In 1899, at the age of 20, Lena married David Bryant, a Jewish immigrant jeweler from Russia. Soon after their first son Raphael was born, David died suddenly and the widowed Lena, thrown back on her own devices, supported Raphael and herself by returning to dressmaking in their cramped Upper West Side apartment.
By 1904, Bryant's dressmaking business had become so successful that she opened a shop on Fifth Avenue with living quarters in the rear. Lena's brother-in-law lent her $300 to open a bank account as working capital, and when the bank officer accidentally misspelled her name on an account application as Lane, that became the new store name. Thus began the pioneering women's clothing enterprise known as Lane Bryant.
Lena was an innovator, well ahead of her times as a designer and an entrepreneur. According to historian Louise Klaber, at the turn of the century proper ladies who happened to be pregnant were rarely if ever seen in public. When one of Bryant's pregnant customers asked her to design something "presentable but comfortable" to wear on the street, Bryant created a dress with an elasticized waistband and an accordion-pleated skirt. She thus produced the first known commercial maternity dress. The garment liberated the increasing number of middle-class women who wanted to break with Victorian tradition. It also helped poorer pregnant women who had no choice but to go to work. The maternity dress soon became the best-selling item in Bryant's shop.
In 1909, Bryant married Albert Malsin, who became her business partner. Bryant continued as chief designer and Albert Malsin concentrated on the firm's business operations. By 1911, Lane Bryant's shop was grossing $50,000 per year. Its great potential was limited, however, because none of New York's newspapers would accept advertising for maternity clothes. Tradition still dictated that such topics were not discussed in the press. It took the Malsins until 1911 to convince the New York Herald to accept an ad. When the paper did, Lane Bryant's entire stock was sold out the next day. The company's success was now assured.
To cope with newspaper discrimination against maternity clothes advertisements, the Malsins decided to create the first mail order catalog for maternity wear. By 1917, mail-order sales revenues for Lane Bryant, Inc. exceeded a million dollars. By 1950, the company's mail order sales made it the sixth-largest mail order retailer in the United States.
Having succeeded in maternity wear and catalog sales, Lane Bryant Malsin's next great innovation was ready-made clothing for the stout-figured woman. Before World War I, no mass manufacturer of women's clothing addressed this market. After measuring some 4,500 women in her store and analyzing statistics gathered on some 200,000 others, Lane Bryant Malsin determined that there were three general types of stout women and she designed clothes to fit each type. By 1923, company sales had reached five million dollars and sales of full-figured clothing outstripped sales of maternity wear. In 1915, Lane Bryant opened its first branch retail store, in Chicago, and by 1969 the chain had grown to more than 100 stores with combined sales of $200 million.
Lane Bryant Malsin was a pioneer in customer relations and corporate philanthropy. At her suggestion, Lane Bryant, Inc. worked with the Red Cross to replace any Lane Bryant customer's wardrobe that was destroyed in a disaster. In 1947, for example, after a major explosion and fire in Texas City, Texas, the company re-outfitted 58 mail order customers whose homes were destroyed. After World War II, Lane Bryant stores became clothing donation centers to benefit displaced persons in Europe.
Lane Bryant, Inc. also pioneered in employee benefits at a time when few companies, particularly in the retail sector, offered meaningful employee support beyond wages. By 1950, the more than 3,500 Lane Bryant employees participated in profit sharing, pension, disability, group life insurance plans and fully reimbursed physician's visits and hospitalizations. When the company went public, 25 per cent of the stock was reserved for employee subscription.
On a personal level, Lena Bryant Malsin took an active role in Jewish communal charity. She supported the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, the New York Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and a number of other causes. When she died in 1951, her sons succeeded her in the business. In 1969, Lane Bryant, Inc. was purchased by another innovator in women's retail clothing: the Limited, whose founder, Leslie Wexner, has also been deeply involved in American Jewish philanthropy. Lane Bryant Malsin would probably be pleased to know that her company and name are linked with another whose values fit so well with her own.


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Orphan wells a growing problem for Alberta farmers
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There are thousands of abandoned wells, which not only means lost rents but weed issues and contamination risks
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Landowners and farmers could be left holding the bill following the bankruptcy of yet another Alberta energy company.
Calgary-based natural gas producer Sequoia Resources Corp. ceased operations last month, abandoning a number of aging oil and gas wells that need to be sealed and cleaned up.
"With Sequoia, there are 3,000 wells — 700 abandoned and then around 2,300 that are active or will need some remediation on top," said Daryl Bennett, a farmer and director of the Alberta Surface Rights Federation. "They don't have a dime in deposits with the regulator for reclamation."
In theory, there should be money set aside for that work, but that didn't happen in this case because of exemptions from provincial regulators, said Bennett.
"They granted Sequoia nine exemptions for not having to put money on deposits or make LLR (the province's Licensee Liability Rating Program) deposits for when they went bankrupt," he said. "If you turn 3,000 wells over to the Orphan Well Association, you're probably looking at, at least $500 million in reclamation costs."
Both taxpayers and landowners will ultimately be hit with the fallout, he predicted.
"There are a lot of companies that are going to be in that situation as well," added Bennett, who farms grain and canola near Taber.
There are currently 150,000 wells in the province that are abandoned or inactive, with no timeline to clean them up — some of them have been sitting for 40 years, said Bennett.
Read more: Oil companies bucking their commitments
"There are 186,000 active wells. But when (a provincially appointed panel) did the royalty review, they said that only 20 per cent of them were paying royalties," he said. "About 104,000 wells really aren't productive and they are going to be dumped as well."
And that situation could get worse, depending on the outcome of a legal dispute (known as the Redwater case) that is currently before the Supreme Court of Canada. The bankruptcy trustees winding up failed energy company Redwater Energy want to sell the corporation's remaining assets to pay off its debts. Lower courts have ruled that can happen, but the Orphan Well Association has asked the Supreme Court to overturn those rulings and instead order money be set aside to remediate its orphaned wells.
If the Supreme Court upholds the lower court rulings, the flood of abandoned wells will increase, said Bennett.
"Redwater, if that stands, will encourage industry to dump those 300,000 wells onto the Orphan Well Association and onto the taxpayer," he said. "Industry estimates to clean up all the wells existing in Alberta would be $80 billion to $300 billion," said Bennett.
Read more: Oil lease defaults hit new record
That will thrust more farmers into the messy, drawn-out process of dealing with abandoned wells, he added.
"They have to go to the Surface Rights Board to get their payment — there is a two-year delay there. A lot of them can't get mortgages on the land because the land is contaminated."
As well, he said, the Orphan Well Association doesn't do a good job of taking care of weeds, and that there may be safety issues because there is a lot of sour gas. There can also be food safety issues if the land is contaminated.
And the wells are a constant cause of worry, particularly in winter, he added.
"A lot of valves on the wells froze (this winter)," said Bennett. "If these guys go bankrupt and walk away, who is going to make sure all those valves or properties are shut off? The casing might be cracked.
"There are just a lot of problems that these landowners have to deal with. You have a hazardous site on your land and no one is responsible for it."
But the executive director of the Orphan Well Association said a substantial amount of remediation is taking place. Currently, the association is drawing on an interest-free $235-million loan from the province, said Lars De Pauw, who is based in Calgary.
"On top of that, there's still the annual orphan levy that comes from the oil and gas industry," he said. "The loan is being repaid by the industry as well, so all that funding is coming from industry. The total is close to $400 million over the next three years.
"Right now we won't be able to close all of them, but we'll make a significant reduction in those numbers of orphan wells."
De Pauw said that, so far, he hasn't received calls from farmers with Sequoia Resources' wells on their property and his organization won't be dealing with the company's wells until they are officially determined to be orphans. But once that happens, landowners have to apply to the surface rights board to obtain unpaid rent.
"It's not just the same as just receiving their cheque," he said. "They have to go through a lot of other steps. Other than having to deal with the nuisance of it, we're able to progress those through to a reclamation certificate."
The sheer number of orphan wells has delayed that process. The Orphan Well Association's backlog includes about 1,800 sites that need to go through the abandonment process and about 1,100 left to reclaim.
This will take the organization three to four years to do, he said.
"We are always looking at our inventory from a risk management perspective, said De Pauw. "Risk is the sites that have been in our inventory the longest — those are the areas that we deal with first."
Alexis Kienlen
Alexis Kienlen lives in Edmonton and has been writing for Alberta Farmer since 2008. Originally from Saskatoon, she has also published two collections of poetry and a biography about a Sikh civil rights activist. Her freelance work has appeared in numerous publications across Canada.
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It was the thick of Mardi Gras season when I landed in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Saturday morning, February 3, 2018. It's a celebration, a festival, a carnival, like no other that I have ever witnessed. Its origins date back to pagan days. The French Catholic settlers can take credit for bringing it to the New World.
By tradition, it is launched after the Christian feast of the Epiphany and continues right up until the day before Ash Wednesday – aka "Fat Tuesday." Now, that's a lot of opportunity for serious partying, with countless beads and other trinkets also getting tossed around in a friendly fashion.
If you come to Mardi Gras, bring your walking shoes and an umbrella. Trust me, you will get plenty of exercise taking in all the fun-makings. The weather is tricky. It can pivot from a sunny day to a hard rain in minutes. Bottom line, however is this — the revelers won't be stopped!
My first-class hotel, Homewood Suites by Hilton, was centrally located only blocks from the fabled French Quarter. It is there where the carnival atmosphere is mostly played out in non-stop fashion. On top of it being Mardi Gras season, the "Crescent City," on the Mississippi River was also celebrating its 300th birthday this year.
Around town — I was there for a week — there were endless street parties going on, with plenty of dancing; lavish dinners, masked balls, colorful costumes, marching bands, huge rolling floats with exotic themes; parade horses; and serious looking dudes carrying torches. I also saw, here and there, particularly in the "Quarter," a few unfortunates, perhaps on drugs and/or alcohol, sleeping off their "high" in a doorway saturated with their own urine.
In 2005, the City of New Orleans took a hard blow from the horrific effects of Hurricane Katrina. It has continued to fight back gallantly from that major disaster. Recovery has been slow, very expensive and in some areas, substantial. But some, especially in the black community, complain about being left behind.
New Orleans has a black majority, currently about 60 to 40 percent. The Catholic influence is still heavy. The current mayor is Mitch Landrieu of French ancestry. He will be replaced on May 7, 2018, by LaToya Cantrell, the mayor-elect, who is black.
In between taking pleasure in the festivities, I toured the historic battlefield at Chalmette. It's located outside of town and to get there I boarded the paddlewheel vessel, "Creole Queen," for the journey.
On January 8, 1815, the invading British imperial forces, with superior numbers, suffered a stunning defeat at Chalmette at the hand of US troops, including free blacks, under the command of Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson. He labeled the British the "common enemy of mankind." That magnificent victory launched Jackson on the path to the White House (1829-1837). It also eventually led to this popular ballad about the battle by Johnny Horton.
Enter the National WWII War Museum. Put this one on your "Don't Miss" list. It's located down on the waterfront. Actor Tom Hanks brilliantly narrated a film, "Beyond all Boundaries," on the conflict. It made my day. Next door, at the Audubon Museum, Meryl Streep, narrated a documentary on the the vanishing wetlands that surround New Orleans. Climate change and some poor planning, continue to put the fast-fading wetlands at risk.
I also enjoyed a walking tour of the Quarter with a guide. We checked out Jackson Square and the St. Louis Cathedral, along with the background on many of the Quarter's historic buildings. I was surprised to find a store in the Quarter — the Cigar Factory — that actually "makes cigars." It's at 415 Decatur Street. When you walk in you will find workers hand-rolling the cigars. The last time I saw a site like that was on my visit to Havana, Cuba, back in 2016.
The walking tour also included a visit to "St. Louis Cemetery #1." Buried there, among others, is the architect of the U.S. Capitol and the Catholic Basilica of the Assumption in Baltimore — Benjamin Henry Latrobe. He died in the yellow fever epidemic of 1820, along with his son. Latrobe was born in England, but his mother was of Pennsylvania-German stock. See This.
Close to the Latrobe's final resting place is a pyramid-sized tomb. It is owned by the actor Nicolas Cage! At one time, he also owned a number of mansions in New Orleans. The tomb is a nine-foot-tall stone monument. Not all the locals are happy about Cage's pyramid in a beloved cemetery which is held sacred by so many.
I just loved walking on Canal Street. It is the widest roadway in America. It forms the upriver boundary for the city between the Quarter and its uptown. In its middle, "the neutral ground," street cars run in a east and west directions.
One day while in the Quarter, I witnessed a "grease poll" contest held at a hotel. Four young ladies participated. There was a band, of course, to give it some drama, and an emcee, with plenty of champagne passed around to lift everyone's "spirit." The crowd loved it and gave the winner a huge round of applause.
Wherever I went on my strolls, music was in the air. On just about every street corner, particularly in the Quarter, you will find energetic music-makers; doing jazz, rock & roll, playing bag pipes, fiddles, drums, whatever; some solo performers, but most playing in a group. Indeed, music is the soul of New Orleans.
You will also find monuments in the city to its great performers of yesteryear, such as: Antoine "Fats" Domino, Al "Jumbo" Hirt and Pete Fountain. When I was younger, I saw "Fats" perform at the Coliseum in Baltimore. His ballad, "On Blueberry Hill," still rings in my ear.
No visit to New Orleans would be complete without taking in a swamp boat tour. They are found just a short hop from the city in Cajun country. In fact, my guide on this trip was of Cajun stock and he was a story-teller par excellence. I enjoyed the beauty of bayou, learning the history of the marshlands and the folks who live nearby and seeing lots of alligators, snakes, turtles and birds.
On New Orleans' Riverside is found a "Monument to Immigrants." This city is "Exhibit A" in its rich experience with growing into a major metropolitan hub, thanks to its evolving immigrant populations. Take the Irish for example. They have a rich history in New Orleans, dating back to the late 1700s, up till the present day. Check out this link.
Finally, New Orleans is a one-of-a-kind experience. If you haven't already done so – put "The Big Easy" on your bucket list!


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Q: C# .Net is there a way to know how many monitor frames have been shown, or to show something on screen for a set number of frames? I need to show something on the screen for an exact, very small, time interval. Having to work with monitors that have fixed (and relatively slow for this task) refresh rates, it will be the limiting factor - and I will have to allow the user to set the display time in a number of "frames" (= 16,(6)ms for 60Hz monitors).
I originally considered just using precise timer (based on Stopwatch class) but problem is, there is no way (that I know of) to find out how many frames were actually shown - so if I show something for, say, 21ms, I have a ~25% chance for it to be actually shown for 2 frames (33,3ms) and ~75% chance for it to be shown for 1 frame (16,6ms), depending on how the refresh 16,6ms interval aligns with my 21ms interval.
I know this can probably be done with Vsync in directX/opengl/etc, but i'd like to stay with simple windows forms, if possible. So, is there a way to either find out how many frames have been shown since some time, or intercept an event of new frame drawn on the monitor, or manually order a frame redraw or something like that?

A: It is not quite clear what do you mean by "monitor frame".
If you want to measure monitor refresh rate, then there is not much to measure. It's a fixed number, which etirely depends on monitor model and display settings. You can look it up or use win api call to get it programmatically: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd162611%28v=VS.85%29.aspx. Refrash rate is not affected by your software.
If you want to measure fps, then you need a timer (e.g. StopWatch) and a frame count. You can get the latter by incrementing some variable each time you refresh the screen. OnPaint method in your form is propbably one of the places where you can do that. Fps is not affected by monitor (unless you enable VSync).
If you want to measure fps excluding frames which were skipped due to slow refresh rates... Then i think its safe to assume, that this value equals to refresh rate if refresh rate is lower then fps, and it equals to fps if refresh rate is higher then fps.

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Our government has no more basic responsibility than providing for the safety and security of our citizens.
Americans must have complete confidence that all levels of government are working collaboratively to provide the highest level of security and protection. In Congress, David has worked hard to enhance Rhode Island's emergency management response and preparedness programs, as well as homeland security capabilities.
We must acknowledge the toll repeated tours of duty have on the men and women who volunteer to serve our country in the armed forces. It should always be a priority to bring our troops home as soon as possible.
David has visited with Rhode Islanders stationed abroad, often in areas of great danger. He has done this to thank them for their service, to ensure they know how deeply we all appreciate the sacrifices they are making, and to hear directly from them about what needs to be done to help them do their jobs and stay safe. Hearing directly from Rhode Islanders on the front lines is more valuable than hours of testimony before a Congressional committee.
As we struggle to address the growing challenges around the world and respond to the ever-changing international and domestic threats, David strongly believes we do not need to sacrifice our constitutional right to privacy to protect our country from foreign and domestic threats.
That's why David has been a strong advocate for reforming aspects of the National Security Agency's (NSA) intelligence gathering operations. For example, David has strongly opposed the government's bulk collection of telephone metadata under Section 215 of the Patriot Act and he has been a leader in addressing concerns related to the abuse of National Security Letters, by which the FBI can require companies to disclose customers' banking, telephone, internet, and other personal information without any prior judicial review.
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Multi-platinum selling singer/songwriter Sara Bareilles will release her third studio album, THE BLESSED UNREST, which is set for release on July 16th through Epic Records. Recorded in Los Angeles and New York with producers including John O'Mahony (Coldplay, Metric) and Mark Endert (Fiona Apple, the Fray, Train), this album will continue to display Sara's signature voice and stellar songwriting. The album's first single, "Brave," was co-written by Jack Antonoff from the band fun. Sara Bareilles first achieved mainstream critical praise in 2007 with her widely successful hit, "Love Song" which reached #1 in 22 countries around the world from her debut album LITTLE VOICE. Since then, the Eureka, CA native has gone on to sell over 1 million copies of her debut album, earn 3 Grammy nominations including Song of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Love Song." Bareilles' critically acclaimed sophomore release KALEIDOSCOPE HEART was released in September of 2010, debuted at #1 on the Billboard top 200 chart and has gained critical praise everywhere including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, People and Los Angeles Times. The album yielded the hit single "King of Anything," which earned a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and was certified platinum by the RIAA. In 2011.
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REVIEWED BY Leonard Pierce Aug 26, 2019
Comics and cops are, let's face it, a pretty gross combination.
In his brilliant essay "The Gentrification of Crime", Luc Sante traces a specific cultural divergence between "detective fiction" – where the protagonist may have a diffident or even adversarial relationship with the police, but is ultimately on the side of law and order – and "crime fiction", wherein the protagonist is himself an actual criminal, whether he is presented as heroic, anti-heroic, or villainous. American comics have, for the most part, stuck to the side of the law; from Dick Tracy and Crime Does Not Pay to superhero comics and modern true crime stories, they have largely been devoted to paying tribute to those who preserve the status quo, whether inside or outside the law. This has not always been by choice; just as the Hays Code and the MPAA rigidly enforced a specific and flattering portrayal of law enforcement, so too did the Comics Code Authority exert for years a pressure on creators to show cops, feds, and even vigilantes in the most flattering of lights.
Lucky for those of us who see the police as the armed wing of the ruling class, whose job is essentially to enforce property rights and suppress dissent, cops have been taking it on the chin a bit lately. Black Lives Matter – a surprisingly controversial attempt to establish the baseline humanity of African-American citizens – gave way to Blue Lives Matter, an entirely predictable attempt to valorize law enforcement by the usual means of stripping that humanity away. Politicians still have to pay lip service to the notion that cops are untouchable, but recent revelations that they join private internet groups rife with racism, misogyny, homophobia, and reactionary brutality have illustrated that the respect only goes one way. And while the police still manage to kill minorities with near impunity, they can at least, in the era of ubiquitous cell phone cameras and video virality, expect to have a few uncomfortable moments before ultimately being exonerated.
Into this milieu steps Nate McDonough, the Pittsburgh-based artist behind Grixly Comics, with his delightfully crude and messily insightful book Blue Lives. The story could not be more simple: in a ruined landscape, after an unnamed apocalypse, two police officers rehearse the minutiae of their former lives in a now-ruined world with no crime, no law, and no life. Lacking anyone else to brutalize, they threaten a huge dead skull; lacking anything else to do, they take turns playing cops and robbers with each other, bellowing to the open spaces about how they must be shown respect. They gaze up at an empty sky, swirling like a Van Gogh midnight, and suspect that somewhere there are aliens disobeying the speed limit. Finding a random graffito on a ruined concrete wall reading "THE PIGS KILLED JESUS", they alternate between self-pity and rage at this inanimate insult to their very existence, and they past the days of meaningless time searching for meager comforts and spewing a directionless anger with no target and no purpose.
This could easily slide into cheap performative defiance of the sort that spells America with three Ks (the endpapers are shiny silver pigs) if it were not for the terrifying familiarity of practically every word on the page. When the nameless officers bark at nothing – "I'm gonna blow your fucking brains out if I don't see both hands on the wheel", "I'm gonna have to ask you to ask your wife to ask your child to be silent while I inspect your vehicle", "I said stop resisting" – we get a terrifying frisson, because we have seen it all before. We have seen it on body cameras, cell phone videos, Facebook Live feeds; and it almost always ends the same way: with a person of color dead on the ground. By abstracting it to this satirical void, McDonough both sharpens it and unmoors it from reality. For once, there is no real suffering attached to the self-aggrandizing hero complex of these vicious agents of capital, but it is because they have killed the whole world. With nothing left to protect or serve, their violent rhetoric and war-of-all-versus-all mentality is all they have left; even when one of the pair dies in a fall, his dying words are a combination of the obey-or-die orders of a tyrant ("Put your fuckin' hands on the back of your head") and the self-mythologizing of a thousand bootlickers' Twitter posts ("Good and evil are separated by a thin blue line").
For fans of the collision of cops and comics, there's even a moment where the two page through a giant issue of Legend of the Lawman, and of course, like every white supremacist officer with a Punisher logo surreptitiously stuck to the side of their prowler, they speak in glowing terms of the murderous lunatic because he operates without the pretense of nicety they are forced to labor under. Again, the combination of victimization and brutality that we've seen leap off our social media screens over and over are what forms the dialogue: "He's all alone in the world and no one understands him..these plot lines inspired me to become who I am," sniffs the bull-necked brute, right before shifting gears to "Takes the war to the criminals in the street, you understand? Nothing will stop him even if he has to spill a river of blood." The simplicity of the writing fools by reifying into satire what we hear expressed earnestly by these delusional would-be civil servants every day.
McDonough's art is exaggerated and bulky, but often perfect in its directness; his work in Grixly Comics, especially in its text-heavy and static panels, often reminds me of Raymond Pettibon). The last 20 pages of Blue Lives is a collection of one-panel portrayals of the police by various guests artists; it's hit-and-miss with a few gems (I'm especially fond of Chris Judge's tattoo-art image of a "flic" with a grinning skull and Jason Young's adaptation of a scene from Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood), but it's a nice capper to a shockingly direct and effective indictment of the no longer hidden mentality of the modern policeman, forever battling and forever embattled.
FILED UNDER: Leonard Pierce, Nate McDonough, Review
One Response to Blue Lives
David Moses says:
I love this book. He posted his entire process to instagram and I couldn't wait for it to be released. Even after seeing pretty much the whole book while he was making it, holding and reading the physical artifact and being able to read as much/little as I wanted at any time was a new and thrilling experience.
acab.


Pressure vessels built by SpaceX to test its Crew Dragon designs are going through structural testing so engineers can analyze the spacecraft's ability to withstand the harsh conditions of launch and spaceflight. A pressure vessel is the area of the spacecraft where astronauts will sit during their ride into orbit. It makes up the majority of the Crew Dragon's structure but does not include the outer shell, heat shield, thrusters or other systems.
Even without those systems in place, however, the company and NASA can learn enormous amounts about the design's strength by placing the pressure vessel in special fixtures that stress the structure. SpaceX completed two pressure vessels that will be used for ground tests and two more are in manufacturing right now to fly in space during demonstration missions for NASA's Commercial Crew Program.


Electronic Arts has signed a deal with Epic Games to publish an as-yet untitled action game.
The game will be released for PC, PS3 & Xbox 360 and be developed by Epic's People Can Fly studio, based in Poland. For those of you wondering, People Can Fly were the folks behind Painkiller.
"Epic is excited to work with EA Partners to launch our next big IP on the global stage," said Mark Rein, vice president, Epic Games. "EA Partners gives independent developers like Epic the muscle of a global publisher like EA, along with the focus and flexibility of a smaller team committed to working with our individual needs."


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Politics APC Can Never Fulfill N5,000 Promise To Jobless Youths - PDP
In response to the drama at the senate on Wednesday over the "pre-election promise" of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to pay N5,000 a month to jobless Nigerian youths, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the ruling party never set out to fulfill its promise. This was made known in a...
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Politics Buhari, Judiciary, INEC Behind Our Electoral Woes - PDP
President Muhammadu Buhari, the judiciary, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Department of State Services (DSS) yesterday came under fresh attack from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the party's recent electoral reverses in Rivers and Akwa Ibom...
World Tanzania Election: CCM faces strong challenge from Ukawa
Tanzania is holding its most tightly contested general elections, as a new opposition coalition tries to end the governing party's 54-year grip on power. There has been a high turnout at voting stations, reports say. Opinion polls have put the governing Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party ahead...
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Politics Dickson, Sylva Trade Words Over Performance
The incumbent governor of Bayelsa state, Seriake Dickson and his predecessor Timipre Sylva who are locked in combat in the forthcoming election, engaged in a war of words, yesterday over who performed better as governor. According to Vanguard, Chief Timipre Sylva, who governed the state...


Support This work was supported by a grant from BrightFocus Foundation (to DS) and Research to Prevent Blindness (unrestricted grants to the Wilmer Eye Institute and University of Pittsburgh). This work is also supported by start-up funds to DS from Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh.
Sayan Ghosh, Peng Shang, Meysam Yazdankhah, Imran Ahmed Bhutto, Stacey L Hose, Gerard A Lutty, J. Samuel Zigler, Debasish Sinha; Targeting neutrophils as a novel approach for AMD therapy. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2018;59(9):3472.
Purpose : Microglia have been established as immunomodulatory cells in age-related macular degeneration (AMD). However, while other pro-inflammatory cell types, such as neutrophils, have been shown to be important in various inflammatory diseases, a role for neutrophils in AMD remains uncertain. This study was undertaken to determine whether neutrophils are involved in AMD progression.
Methods : Human AMD and age-matched control sections from the posterior pole were stained with anti-neutrophil elastase and co-immunostained with antibodies to Lipocalin-2 (LCN-2). Retina from 5 and 10 month old Cryba1fl/fl (WT) or Cryba1 KO (lacks the Cryba1 gene, which encodes for bA3/A1-crystallin) mice were used for RNAseq analysis. One year old Cryba1fl/fl and Cryba1 cKO (lacks the Cryba1 gene in RPE cells) mice were injected with DMSO (vehicle control) or Triciribine (a potent inhibitor of AKT2) intravitreally and western blots were performed on extracts from the treated and control retinas for AKT2, NF-kB–p65 and LCN-2.
Results : Our data show significant neutrophil infiltration in the sub-macular choroid and retina of human AMD samples compared to age-matched controls. Interestingly, the neutrophils in the control retina do not express LCN-2, but the infiltrating neutrophils in the AMD patient samples show elevated expression of LCN-2. Our previous data indicated that LCN-2 plays a pivotal role in activating the inflammatory response in AMD. RNAseq analysis from retinal samples obtained from Cryba1 KO mice suggested that there is significant increase in the expression of pro-inflammatory genes which are known to trigger neutrophil infiltration into inflammatory foci. These inflammatory changes were also associated with increased microglial activation in the retina of the Cryba1 KO mice. Moreover, retinal samples from Cryba1 cKO and human AMD patient samples showed increased expression of LCN-2, NF-kB-p65 and AKT2 with respect to control. Intravitreal Triciribine treatment to Cryba1 cKO mice significantly ameliorated LCN-2 expression by inhibiting the AKT2-dependent pathway in the retina.
Conclusions : Our studies suggest a critical role for neutrophils during the inflammatory response in AMD. Association of increased microglial activation with neutrophil infiltration during AMD could be of immense importance in understanding the para to chronic inflammatory transition in the disease and thereby provide novel therapeutic strategies to counter AMD.


New business is what drives Evergreen Sales Group. If you have all the business you want in the Pacific Northwest, then congratulations! If you don't, then we would love the opportunity to discuss how we may help you achieve your goals.
Evergreen Sales Group was founded in 1997 on the belief that there was a need for an experienced, fun and aggressive sales-driven agency which realizes that new business is what drives our industries forward. We provide the kind of sales and service that we expected to receive as former sales managers, retailers, and wholesale distributors, but rarely experienced.
We achieve this by relying on our diverse experiences, superior communication skills, utilizing the latest technologies, and by representing a limited number of manufacturers. Because we have remained committed to representing a limited number of manufacturers, we are proud to say that we have truly become a Northwest extension for each one of them.
We are experts on the customer base here in the Pacific Northwest, we are natives of the Pacific Northwest, our careers have been built here in the Pacific Northwest and finally we all reside here in the Pacific Northwest. Our business values are simple: We work hard to match the strengths of our manufacturers with the needs of our customers while never trading our belief in the principles of fairness, honesty and integrity while conducting our business.
Evergreen Sales Group calls on wholesale and retail customers doing business in several categories throughout the states of Washington, Oregon, Alaska and Idaho.
We have several retailers and wholesalers who do business in multiple categories and to a certain extent that shapes the products that we represent. Amazon.com, COSTCO Wholesale, Fred Meyer and BI-MART are all examples of Northwest customers that sell products into general merchandise, sporting goods, automotive, hardware, electronics and the marine categories.
We are fortunate to still have a fair amount of locally based regional retailers and wholesalers, many of them reach beyond our Pacific Northwest territory for business.
The Northwest customer base along with Evergreen Sales Group's knowledge and experience allow us to "cross-sell" many of the manufacturers' products that we represent. Many products we represent fit well into a hardware store, automotive parts store, marine store or farm & fleet store. We look for products that we can present to 3 or 4 different types of customers, enabling more opportunities of exposure for our manufacturers.
Our wholesalers are among the best in the country and are always looking for opportunities to grow their distribution channels. We work closely with them to feed products to retailers and end users alike.
No matter the industry, today's business climate is ever changing and extremely competitive throughout all channels of distribution.
We have found that our customers require much more information to help them address the issues that impact sales growth and profits when reviewing items and product categories. Depending on whom we are presenting to, "making the pitch" can be a much more sophisticated process then ever before.
Because of this, we are working much closer with our manufacturers' in developing presentations and programs to match the manufacturers' strengths with our customers needs. We like to include product POG's, interchanges, current market trends, gross margin projections, return on investment projections and NPD information where applicable.
Every customer here in the Pacific Northwest has a unique set of needs when evaluating products and product categories. Because of our extensive local knowledge and diverse business backgrounds based here in the Pacific Northwest we pride ourselves in knowing what those needs are.
In addition to "making the sale", ESG provides service and support to our customers and manufacturers tailored to the specific needs of the opportunity.
Patrick has 20 years of combined experience in the General Merchandise, Automotive Aftermarket, Hardware, Marine and Grocery categories in the Pacific Northwest and is an active working principal with account responsibilities. Patrick co-founded Evergreen Sales Group in 1997 and is now the sole principal. Prior to Evergreen Sales Group, Patrick worked for Thunderbird Lubrications (PetroCard) as a regional Manager. He started his career in the manufacturers' representative business with the Rognlien Wright Perman agency as a district manager. While a student at Gonzaga University in Spokane Pat started working for a small oil & chemical distributor calling on mass merchandisers, auto parts stores, grocery and convenience stores. It was here that he fell in love with the competitiveness of selling and pursed a career in sales.
At one time or another, Patrick has had all major account responsibility throughout the Pacific Northwest and has loved every minute of it.
Mike came to Evergreen Sales Group with 14 years of service at Fred Meyer/Kroger in Portland, OR. Mike was most recently working in Fred Meyer's Home Electronics Division where he was a buyer for imaging and wireless communication products. Mike is adept at translating his buying skills into his everyday work in sales as he has a thorough understanding of what a buyer needs to succeed in today's competitive business environment.
Mike is a detail oriented person with exceptional follow up. He also understands that quick response times and communication with our customers and manufacturers is essential. Mike is a graduate of the University of Oregon with a degree in psychology.
Carl came to Evergreen Sales Group after resigning his position with PICO Wire & Terminal where he was the Western Regional manager for 9+ years. Carl is an automotive aftermarket veteran starting his career with Fram/Autolite then working in Oregon for a manufacturer's representative's agency prior to going to work with PICO. Carl is detail oriented and is second to none in customer loyalty.
Carl has had account responsibilities throughout the years for customers in the automotive, hardware, farm & fleet, marine, heavy duty and general merchandise categories. Carl is also a proud graduate of the University of Oregon. He is a devoted family man and an Oregonian through and through.
Cindy came to ESG in 2013 with a wealth of experience working as an office manager for a personal care manufacturer based in Kirkland, WA. She loves detail work and bringing positive results to any task. Working for a manufacturer who used independent sales reps in the past, has given Cindy a unique insight into both the manufacturing & representative worlds. Cindy is very familiar with how we function to support our manufactures & customers alike.
Cindy works extensively with the Amazon.com account. She does in depth research and creates custom analysis and reports for our manufacturers in addition to her daily managerial functions.
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Ryan came to ESG from Elliott's Tire & Service where he served as service manager. Elliott's has 10 retail tire shops in the Seattle area. Prior to Elliott's, Ryan was a store manager for O'Reilly Auto Parts developing both retail and wholesale business for his store. Ryan worked at O'Reilly for over 4 years while attending Northwest University. Ryan graduated from Northwest University with a degree in Business Management. He services accounts in Washington and Idaho.
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Shaw, Daniel. "An Eye-Tracking Evaluation of Multicultural Interface Designs", BA, Boston College, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/390.
This paper examines the impact of a multicultural approach on the usability of web and software interface designs. Through the use of an eye-tracking system, the study compares the ability of American users to navigate traditional American and Japanese websites. The ASL R6 eye-tracking system recorded user search latency and the visual scan path in locating specific items on the American and Japanese pages. Experimental results found statistically significant latency values when searching for left- or right-oriented navigation menus. Among the participants, visual observations of scan paths indicated a strong preference for initial movements toward the left. These results demonstrate the importance of manipulating web layouts and navigation menus for American and Japanese users. This paper further discusses the potential strengths resulting from modifications of interface designs to correspond with such cultural search tendencies, and suggestions for further research.


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Q: Assign Lookup Field via Lookup Value in Workflow? I need to assign a Lookup Field in List A to an item from List B. In List A my items contain a Link with description, wich contains the Title i need to look up in List B. So my Workflow on List A should look like this:

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*Get Link description from current Item and store it in a variable.

*Perform some textfunctions to get the correct string to lookup in List B.

*Assign this string to the Lookup Field in current Item.

Step 1 and Step 2 are already working, but i can't get Step 3 to work. Unfortunately i can't give you the exact Error because it is in German, but it says something like "Can't convert the typed in Lookupdata in requested type."

A: You  need to get the ID of the extracted title from the lookup list and set your lookup field with this ID :

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*in the SharePoint designer workflow, in the WORKFLOW ribbon, click Local Variables.

*create & set a string local variable with the extracted title

*create a new Local variable as integer.

*set the integer variable with the ID of the lookup list item (from the lookup list)  using the extracted title variable.

*Set List A's lookup value with the Integer local variable.

*Save , Publish and test.


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McDonalds to introduce criminal background checks as Derryn Hinch outs paedophile employee named
Background Checks, Media Watch, Police Checks
Source: The Daily Telegraph
McDonalds is set to introduce criminal background checks for adult employees after Derryn Hinch used parliamentary privilege to out a convicted paedophile who was working at a Penrith restaurant.
The Human Headline revealed the man gained a job at the Penrith Panthers Leagues Club McDonalds and was offering lifts home to teenage boys.
It was claimed in the speech to the senate that the mother of a boy who had been interfered with by the man, when he ran a canteen at a baseball club, alerted the McDonalds of his prior history.
"How could a convicted paedophile get to work with teenagers at one of our most famous fast food outlets at a famous football club? How could a young victim turn up to play baseball and discover his attacker was the umpire?,'' he told the senate on Tuesday night.
"The mother of one of his young victims, I'll call him Paul, the mother saw what was going on and alerted McDonald's. She was virtually told to go jump. Told he was an employee, had a right to work there, and basically go away."
Mr Hinch claimed he had spoken to McDonalds who agreed to change hiring procedures.
"I have to give McDonald's credit for acting swiftly and decisively after my staff alerted them,'' he said.
"We alerted McDonald's on August 31. We raised many questions about the absence of criminal background checks.
"Within a week we were told that McDonald's IT department was implementing a compulsory criminal background check for over 18- year-old applicants, and predicted this will be rolled out nationally within six to eight weeks."
The explosive speech comes after the Victorian Senator — twice jailed for contempt of court and three times convicted of breaching suppression orders — named paedophiles, rapists and murderers and demanding a national register for sex offenders in his maiden speech.
Mr Hinch insists a national register must be made public so paedophiles can be easily spotted. He said only "top brass" of police had access to the register.
Unreported Crimes and Police Checks
Lack of Background Checks in Government-owned Energy Company


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NGC 42 је елиптична галаксија у сазвежђу Пегаз која се налази на NGC листи објеката дубоког неба.

Деклинација објекта је + 22° 6' 3" а ректасцензија 0-{h}- 12-{m}- 56,3-{s}-. Привидна величина (магнитуда) објекта -{NGC}- 42 износи 14,3 а фотографска магнитуда 15,3. -{NGC}- 42 је још познат и под ознакама -{UGC 118, MCG 4-1-41, CGCG 478-43, NPM1G +21.0007, PGC 867}-.

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Литература
Revised New General Catalogue and Index Catalogue, Wolfgang Steinicke, 2012. Доступно у овом фајлу са објашњењем на овој страници
SIMBAD база података, Стразбуршки центар астрономских података (CDS), Стразбур

Види још
Нови општи каталог

Спољашње везе

Интерактивни каталог NGC, IC и Месјеових објеката
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Back From the Brink: 10 Years On
Warren Buffett on why bubbles happen: People see neighbors 'dumber than they are' getting rich
Published Wed, Sep 12 20187:51 AM EDT Updated Wed, Sep 12 20189:48 AM EDT
Tae Kim@firstadopter
Warren Buffett was asked by CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin if he is worried another financial crisis will happen again.
"Well there will be one sometime," he said in an interview for CNBC's "Crisis on Wall Street: The Week That Shook the World" documentary. "People start being interested in something because it's going up, not because they understand it or anything else."
The Oracle of Omaha says the human behavior and jealously that lead to crises will forever be a part of the financial system.
Watch Warren Buffett's interview with Andrew Sorkin on the 2008 financial crisis
Warren Buffett warns that another financial crisis is inevitable.
Buffett was asked by CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin if he is worried another crisis will happen again.
"Well there will be one sometime," Buffett said in an interview for CNBC's "Crisis on Wall Street: The Week That Shook the World" documentary. The documentary airs Wednesday night at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
This week marks the 10th anniversary of Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy, which many investors regard as the seminal event of the financial crisis.
The Oracle of Omaha explained another bubble is unavoidable due to human nature, jealously and greed.
Warren Buffett.
David A. Grogan | CNBC
"People start being interested in something because it's going up, not because they understand it or anything else. But the guy next door, who they know is dumber than they are, is getting rich and they aren't," he said. "And their spouse is saying can't you figure it out, too? It is so contagious. So that's a permanent part of the system."
In the weeks after Lehman Brothers' collapse on Sept. 15, 2008, Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway took advantage of the financial meltdown by making big investments in Goldman Sachs and General Electric.
Watch: 2008 Financial Crisis: Could it happen again?
Could the 2008 Financial Crisis repeat?
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Q: Sorting arrays in Scala: performance issues val a = new Array[(Int, Int)](250000000)
... // initialization here

// #1
val b = a.sortBy(_._1)
// This part completely kills GC,
// and I allocate plenty of heap memory (30GB)
// more than it's trying to use

// #2
val b = a.sorted
// Kills GC as efficiently as #1

// #3
val b = a.sortWith(_._1 < _._1)
// This part doesn't kill GC, but
// takes long to complete (224s)
// and still requires 10GB of heap

// #4
val a = new Array[Long](250000000)
java.util.Arrays.sort(a)
// Alternative version
// which takes only 2.7GB
// and completes in 40 secs

By killing GC I mean it's working like crazy using all 16 cores (I know I can reduce # of cores for GC, but it doesn't solve the problem)
Okay, I understand there is an overhead for #3 (objects, immutable operation), not sure it should take 5x amount of time and 4x amount of heap, but it's the price I guess. But I'm puzzled with #1 and #2. Should I avoid implicit ordering as a plague? What's happening there? I'm probably doing it wrong?
Scala version: 2.12.4

A: Those methods requires it to create a copy of that array with the mapped values, then apply sorting with a custom comparator. Arrays.sort over integral values is much smarter - it can compare number directly and do not have to invoke any method to compare them.
Please find the implementation of those methods:
def sorted[B >: A](implicit ord: Ordering[B]): Repr = {
  val len = this.length
  val b = newBuilder
  if (len == 1) b ++= this
  else if (len > 1) {
    b.sizeHint(len)
    val arr = new Array[AnyRef](len)  // Previously used ArraySeq for more compact but slower code
    var i = 0
    for (x <- this) {
      arr(i) = x.asInstanceOf[AnyRef]
      i += 1
    }
    java.util.Arrays.sort(arr, ord.asInstanceOf[Ordering[Object]])
    i = 0
    while (i < arr.length) {
      b += arr(i).asInstanceOf[A]
      i += 1
    }
  }
  b.result()
}

I also think that when you have pairs of longs, you basically have memory footprint for a pair - i don't know if you also have a footprint for each long - consider using @specialized annotation to use real longs: http://www.scala-lang.org/api/2.12.3/scala/specialized.html


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Ray R. Buyer/Sales Ray's been with us for 19 years and will be thrown in with the purchase if we ever sell the company. Use the contact form with any purchasing or general questions.
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Big K.R.I.T. Taps T.I. For Trunk-Rattling "Big Bank"
Big K.R.I.T. Feat. T.I.
One of 22 new songs from K.R.I.T.
Big K.R.I.T.'s new double-disc album 4eva Is A Mighty Long Time is the Meridian, Mississippi rapper's first proper studio album in 3 years, and its his most ambitious yet. Like most of K.R.I.T's work, much of the album is self-produced, but there are also a number of notable co-producers on the LP. Mannie Fresh, Supah Mario, Organized Noize and DJ Khalil make appearances, but the most active of the rapper's collaborators is WLPWR. The Columbia, South Carolina producer is well-known for his work across Yelawolf's projects, but is also highly complementary to KRIT's unapologetically Southern compositions. He co-produces "Big Bank" with KRIT, a driving record that layers vocal samples and darting string samples on top of frenetic drums, putting an incredible amount of forward momentum on the track, and that's before the vocals even come in. KRIT and and T.I. are both known for their double-time, with the KRIT taking a more confrontational approach, while Tip generally sticks deep in the pocket. It comes early in the project and sets the tone for the maximal arrangements that are yet to come.
KRIT has previously expressed frustration with falling into the underrated category of rap, but on 4eva Is A Mighty Long Time he sounds happy to own his lane. "You shouldn't gauge your success off another person's success. Me, I can say I'm happy," he told Sway last year, adding that his main goal at this point in time is to "put out music that helped people or at least inspired them at the end of the day."
Other guest appearances on the project include Lloyd, CeeLo Green, Jill Scott, Sleepy Brown, Bilal, Robert Glasper, Joi, Keyon Harrold, Kenneth Whalum, and Burness Earl Travis II. Stream the project in full here.
Ain't tripped up, never hiccup from the drank
Pick up where I left off on the dank
Flexed out, never stressed out over chains
Stretched out, get pressed out on the grain
Woof! You hear that there
I make and wait
These motherfuckers wanna feel that there
When the wheel too big and the road ain't shit
It make it hard to steer that there
But it's big bank, big bank, big bank, big bank, one time
I wake up, cake up, cake up, then press, rewind
Big K.R.I.T. T.I.
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SONGS Big K.R.I.T. Taps T.I. For Trunk-Rattling "Big Bank"


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# Full screen mode sample

This sample shows how to use full screen mode so that your app can fill the entire screen.

The sample shows the following techniques:

- Entering and exiting full screen mode.
- Responding to changes in full screen mode.
- Launching in full screen mode.

**Note** Although the sample will compile and run, the level of functionality will depend on which build of Windows you are running and what device you are running it on.

**Note** The Windows universal samples require Visual Studio 2015 to build and Windows 10 to execute.

To obtain information about Windows 10, go to [Windows 10](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=532421)

To obtain information about Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 and the tools for developing Windows apps, go to [Visual Studio 2015](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=532422)

## Related topics

### Samples

[FullScreenMode](/Samples/FullScreenMode)

### Reference

[ApplicationView class](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.ui.viewmanagement.applicationview.aspx)

## System requirements

**Client:** Windows 10

**Server:** Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview

**Phone:** Windows 10

## Build the sample

1. If you download the samples ZIP, be sure to unzip the entire archive, not just the folder with the sample you want to build.
2. Start Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 and select **File** \> **Open** \> **Project/Solution**.
3. Starting in the folder where you unzipped the samples, go to the Samples subfolder, then the subfolder for this specific sample, then the subfolder for your preferred language (C++, C#, or JavaScript). Double-click the Visual Studio 2015 Solution (.sln) file.
4. Press Ctrl+Shift+B, or select **Build** \> **Build Solution**.

## Run the sample

The next steps depend on whether you just want to deploy the sample or you want to both deploy and run it.

### Deploying the sample

- Select Build > Deploy Solution.

### Deploying and running the sample

- To debug the sample and then run it, press F5 or select Debug >  Start Debugging. To run the sample without debugging, press Ctrl+F5 or select Debug > Start Without Debugging.

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Others have a concern for the environment but mostly just like the way hemp looks. Clothing, paper, snacks and rope jewelry made from hemp are easy to find, especially in areas with a college nearby, and tend to be worn by people who have more liberal political viewpoints.
Hemp was once a main component of textiles dating as far back as the Stone Age. Hemp comes from the cannabis plant, which certain varieties of also produce the psychoactive drug, marijuana. While industrial hemp can be imported and sold in the United States, this controversial plant cannot be grown legally in the U.S. The main suppliers of industrial hemp are found in Canada and the European Union. Though hemp must be specifically cultivated to contain enough TCP to cause a psychoactive reaction, the U.S. government's strong anti-drug policy has denied farmers an opportunity to benefit from growing an easy, sustainable crop with many uses.
While hemp was a default fiber in the past, made into no-nonsense clothing for armies and workers, it is now seen strictly as a fashion or social statement. Hemp fiber is very strong, but is prone to rotting, so you will want to take caution if you wear your hemp necklace or bracelet in the shower or while swimming. Hemp jewelry is very easy to make, and a relaxing past time for many. If there are no stores in your area that carry hemp supplies, you can find an abundance of sources online. Hemp necklaces, bracelets and belts are created using the macramé method, whereby you knot the fibers to create a rope or fabric. Stones, beads, semi-precious jewels and shells are often incorporated into hemp jewelry designs.
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The Divergent and Devastating Tentacles of Violence as a Threat to Internal Security of India, Cannot We Stop?
India is a yardstick of diversity in culture, religion, linguistics, caste and geography, it has been sensitively evolved within the ethical limits materializing the development of a composite culture, but too often it had been strained by divisive and destructive tentacles of violence born out of heterogeneous elements. The present overview tried to depict that majorly threats to the internal security of our nation falls under three varied heads 1. Armed insurgency in North east 2.Left wing extremism in certain states 3.Religious fundamentalistic driven separatism and terrorism (majorly by infiltration) in Jammu and Kashmir. Armed insurgency in North east is mainly driven for sovereignty of their concerned regions. A Wide array of armed insurgents (militant groups) operate to materialize this aim and wage regular militant attacks against civil and military establishments, extortion is the source of their funding. Their demands are born out of their cultural protection and decadal negligence which alienates them, some of the groups are NSCN (IM)( mother of all insurgencies), NSCN (K), for nagalim, ULFA for independent asom, NDFB for bodoland and others even existing feud between different tribes for instance between mizos and chakmas, mizos and reangs, Manipur meiteis and nagas, nagas and kukis to protect their inhabitable lands all these compounds to the already existing complex and vicious circle of violence. In order to counter these AFSPA has been deployed in north eastern states (persons like irom sharmila is on stike to repel it, recently Tripura has revoked it)).with respect to left wing extremism in certain states ranging from its inception in naxalbari of west Bengal to Bihar, Jharkhand, M.P.Chattisgarh, A.P and Telangana,the abujmarh forest area of Chhattisgarh is the hub of naxals,the main cause for the rose of naxalism is atrocious and unjust civil administration prevailed with feudal tendencies and deprivation of basic and developmental services culminating to the frustration and oppression prompting them to took up arms against the unjust machinery. Regarding the state in J&K it is anti India propagated religious fundamentalistic driven secessionarism which shatters the state and further accentuated by sponsoring of terrorism by Pakistan majorly by infiltration. Finally the overview concluded that the root causes of violence that threatens the integrity of India are seems to be divisive therefore regional specific multipronged strategies is required driven by sharing the fruits of development amongst the down trodden and needy people who are fundamental base for any from of extremism/sessionarism and act as bulwarks against rising tide of violence by delinking with the same along with it honest and efficient civil administration, political representation of vital stake holders and synergistic security system which all creates the conducive atmosphere for inclusive and sustainable development which is the strategic remedy to stop and dismantle the root causes of violence.


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February 23, 2008 • Debbie Elliott met Johnnie Carr more than 20 years ago on an assignment to mark the 30th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott. In the prim living room of the civil rights activist's Montgomery home, Elliott realized the tenacity of this gentle grandmotherly figure and others like her had literally changed the nation.
February 23, 2008 • Johnnie Rebecca Carr, one of the lesser-known leaders of the civil rights movement, died Friday in Montgomery, Ala., after suffering a stroke earlier this month. She was 97.
February 22, 2008 • Republican U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi was indicted Friday in Arizona on 35 counts of extortion, conspiracy, money laundering and related charges. The indictment says the congressman conspired in land-swap and insurance-fraud schemes.
February 16, 2008 • A deadly car accident in suburban Washington, D.C., early Saturday left eight people dead and three injured. Police say a driver struck a group of people standing on the side of a highway watching an illegal high-speed drag race.
February 14, 2008 • The House votes to hold White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers in contempt of Congress, setting up a constitutional showdown with the White House. They were cited for contempt in July after they refused to testify about whether eight U.S. attorneys were fired for political reasons.
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February 6, 2008 • The highest profile black candidate yet to run for president showed substantial power in the Deep South on Tuesday. In Alabama, voters say Sen. Barack Obama's big win offers evidence that the racial divide of the "Old South" has faded.
January 25, 2008 • President Bush met Friday with House Republicans on a GOP retreat at the Greenbrier in West Virginia. The president urged the congressmen to pass the economic stimulus agreement he hammered out with House leaders — and to resist changes from the left and the right.
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January 20, 2008 • How did Sen. John McCain manage to make 150,000 votes enough to win South Carolina when the 250,000 votes he got in 2000 left him a loser to George W. Bush? He had a lot of help from Fred Thompson.
January 19, 2008 • South Carolina is seen as a crucial early voting state: Its primary has consistently foretold the Republican nomination since 1980 and often sets the tone for voting in other Southern states. NPR's Debbie Elliott gives an update from Columbia, S.C.
December 18, 2007 • Congress and the president were poised to resolve their monthslong dispute over funding for the war in Iraq after the House passed a $516 billion omnibus spending measure to fund 14 Cabinet agencies and troops in Afghanistan.
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Case note: IAAF v Rita Jeptoo, CAS 2015/A/3979 and CAS 2015/O/4128
By Elizabeth Riley, Jonathan Taylor
Liz Riley discusses a recent CAS decision looking at the important question of when an athlete's conduct during anti-doping proceedings will exceed the boundaries of a legitimate defence to a doping charge, and will instead amount to a second offence of tampering (for example, due to an athlete's submission of a forged document).
These two related cases concern the international long-distance athlete Ms Rita Jeptoo. Ms Jeptoo tested positive for the prohibited substance recombinant erythropoietin (rEPO) following an out-of-competition urine test on 25 September 2014. Ms Jeptoo was subsequently charged with the commission of an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) under the IAAF anti-doping rules (which at that time were based on the 2009 version of the World Anti-Doping Code).
The charge was heard at first instance by Ms Jeptoo's national federation, Athletics Kenya (AK), which found that Ms Jeptoo had committed an ADRV and imposed a period of ineligibility of two years. The IAAF subsequently appealed that decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), requesting (among other things) an increase in the period of ineligibility due to the presence of so-called aggravating circumstances (see Article 10.6 of the 2009 World Anti-Doping Code). The CAS upheld the IAAF's appeal and imposed a period of ineligibility of four years, based on the following aggravating factors: Ms Jeptoo's repeated use of rEPO as part of a lengthy doping scheme (as demonstrated by her athlete biological passport profile); Ms Jeptoo's deceptive and obstructive conduct, which was designed to avoid the detection and proper adjudication of her ADRV; the significant sporting and financial benefits obtained by Ms Jeptoo's behaviour; and the considerable damage inflicted on Ms Jeptoo's competitors. (See CAS 2015/A/3979, paragraphs 154-163).
Ms Jeptoo also appealed the first instance decision, submitting that she bore no fault or negligence for her positive test. In support of that plea she submitted a fabricated 'medical report', which purported to show that she had been injected with rEPO by a doctor as emergency treatment for 'profuse bleeding' following a life-threatening road accident. Following further investigations, the IAAF then charged Ms Jeptoo with a second ADRV of attempted tampering (Article 2.5 of the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code). That charge was considered in separate proceedings (CAS 2015/O/4128), and the key issue was whether Ms Jeptoo's conduct during the course of the proceedings relating to the first ADRV was capable of constituting attempted tampering for purposes of Article 2.5.
A legitimate defence vs tampering
As a general principle, the CAS found that the World Anti-Doping Code definition of 'tampering can also cover an athlete's behaviour in the course of a first instance or appeal hearing', noting that the non-exhaustive list of examples of tampering in the IAAF anti-doping rules includes 'intentionally interfering or attempting to interfere with a Doping Control official, providing fraudulent information … or intimidating or attempting to intimidate a potential witness' (CAS 2015/O/4128, paragraph 146).
However, in this context the CAS also found that an athlete has the right to defend themselves and to make submissions in support of their defence, and that the mere exercise of that right would not, of itself, amount to tampering. In other words, the athlete must do more than simply put the prosecuting authority to proof of its case (CAS 2015/O/4128, paragraphs 147 and 150).
In particular, the CAS held at paragraphs 148 and 151 that 'the threshold of legitimate defence is trespassed and, thus, a "further element of deception" is present where the administration of justice is put fundamentally in danger by the behaviour of the athlete. This is the case where a party to the proceedings commits a criminal offence designed to influence the proceedings in his or her favour.' In that respect the CAS found that 'forging a document for the use of a judicial proceeding is a criminal offence not only in Monegasque law … but also under Swiss law… This surely exceeds the above threshold of legitimate defense'. Accordingly, on the facts the CAS held that 'the Athlete has committed tampering … when submitting the forged document' (paragraph 153). The CAS left unanswered the question of whether lying as party in a proceeding would also constitute a criminal offence (see paragraph 152).
In relation to sanction, somewhat fortuitously for Ms Jeptoo the CAS found, on the facts, that her conduct fell to be considered under the previous IAAF anti-doping rules (implementing the 2009 World Anti-Doping Code) rather than the current rules (implementing the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code). Accordingly, her conduct fell to be considered as part of the aggravating circumstances discussed above, rather than (as would now be the case under the 2015 rules) as a second ADRV that would carry a significantly higher sanction (here, a further period of ineligibility of eight years). The CAS nevertheless made it very clear that 'had the Athlete submitted the forged document as an isolated event in 2015, the Panel would have qualified this behaviour not only as tampering, but would have issued a separate period of ineligibility for this ADRV in line with the provisions for a second offence' (paragraphs 167-169).
Lessons for the future
Under the current 2015 World Anti-Doping Code it is clear that, depending on the facts, it is possible to charge an athlete with a second ADRV of tampering under Article 2.5 in respect of the athlete's conduct during the proceedings relating to a first ADRV.
Such a charge should, however, be carefully considered, and one key question will be whether the athlete has exceeded the boundaries of a legitimate defence. In that respect an athlete must do more than (say) put the prosecution to its proof, or advance a defence that is not accepted by a tribunal because it does not meet the applicable standard of proof. On the other hand, it is clear from the CAS awards in the Jeptoo case that an athlete's commission of a criminal offence in order to influence the proceedings in his/her favour will cross the line (in that case, through the submission of a forged document). Another example of conduct that might similarly cross the line is where an athlete suborns perjury from a witness.
It is worth noting that the ability to bring such a tampering charge is a vital component of an anti-doping organisation's arsenal in the fight against doping. That is particularly so following the removal of the 'aggravating circumstances' concept in the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code, meaning that conduct such as Ms Jeptoo's can only now be dealt with by way of a tampering charge. Absent that possibility, there would otherwise be no meaningful deterrent to such behaviour, and a strong and effective upfront deterrent is imperative given that anti-doping organisations often lack the powers and resources necessary to fully and properly investigate the bona fides of evidence provided to them.
The CAS awards can be found at CAS 2015/A/3979 and CAS 2015/O/4128.
Jonathan Taylor QC


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Aug. 24. The Jamaica Tallawahs versus Trinidad Red Steel cricket match drew a starry crowd to Sabina Park recently, with appearances from the likes of SkyGrass band members, Gary Dixon, and Tahnida Nunes.
Aug. 22. Minister with Responsibility for Sports, Natalie Neita-Headley bid farewell to Cuban Ambassador to Jamaica, Yuri Gala Lopez, during a courtesy call at Jamaica House.
Aug. 13. PM Portia Simpson-Miller joined fellow mourners PJ Patterson and Delroy Chuck, among many others, at the funeral service to celebrate the life and work of the late Douglas Manly at the UWI Mona Chapel.


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What Makes a Successful Procurement Leader? (Part 1)
- November 21, 2017 7:30 AM |
Categories: People | Tags: CIPS award, CPO, L1, Manchester Airports Group, procurement advice
Many, many words have been written about procurement leadership and what makes a successful procurement director, CPO or equivalent. We should always be careful about generalising, as every situation and organisation needs a somewhat different approach to leadership, but it is always useful to look at the key qualities, strategies and tactics that evidently successful people have demonstrated and used.
I've known George Owens for some 15 years and worked with him a number of times in three different organisations, so was delighted when he won the Procurement and Supply Professional of the Year award in Berlin recently at the first CIPS Awards Europe (in association with ProcureCon Europe). He was even more delighted that the procurement and contracts team from Manchester Airports Group (MAG) - which he led - won two awards on that evening and another at the UK CIPS Awards.
Given this success, my colleague Nancy Clinton and I made the journey up to Manchester to meet him and some of his team recently, and we've got a series of articles to come about their approach to procurement transformation. But we'll kick off today with a look at Owens himself, as we consider what other aspiring award winners might learn from his approach.
We should say that he is not a man with a huge ego – he's confident yes, but we believe him when he says that the team awards mean much more to him than the individual. As we'll see, empowering his team comes high on his list of priorities.
So after talking to him at some length, we drew out six key points that might be useful to consider.
Understanding the supply chain and different viewpoints -- Owens trained as a quantity surveyor, then worked across different roles within the capital projects and construction supply chains. "I think working for a sub-contractor, two global managing contractors and then moving to the client side, has helped me understand the whole supply chain", he says. "It wasn't by design but proved invaluable". And it helps in negotiations - "I don't always tell them this, but I can generally understand what the other party is trying to achieve!"
So getting some varied experience, but perhaps around a common broad specialism, might be a good way for the aspiring CPO to spend their early working years. While we know some CPOs who have successfully jumped around very different sectors, the deep industry experience Owens has gained undoubtedly helps with his personal credibility and the ability to hit the ground running in each new role.
A core business focus -- While he considers himself a procurement and supply chain professional, Owens constantly refers to how procurement activity must be aligned to the business goals and needs. "In one role, it took me a while to work out that supporting our front-line teams with really effective supply processes could drive their own output and increase revenue substantially". That far outweighed any price savings that could be generated. "Savings should rarely be the number-one goal once you understand what the business really wants from procurement". But he is not blind to the importance of the bottom-line effect – "we promised an in-year return of several times the cost of the function from the beginning of the MAG programme".
Highly effective stakeholder management skills – everyone knows this matters, fewer pull it off. But there is no doubt Owens is credible with senior peers. (His career is built on ex bosses and CEOs asking him to join them at their new organisations!) That comes with experience, but also that business focus we mentioned above, and a direct and confident communication style. He also speaks in the language of the business, both using financial terminology when appropriate and also talking about programmes and contracts again from the perspective of the budget holder, not a narrow procurement standpoint. That all has to be backed up with delivery of course – more of that in Part 2 tomorrow.