Don't Turn Around is a thrilling novel that is told from two POVs. We've got the 16-year-old girl who has been in the foster system all her life but recently ranaway and set up a fake foster family and got a high paying online job as a work at home man. Then we've got the other side of the story, Peter. A rich kid who is also good with computers to the point of creating an online hacking hub known as //ALLIANCE//. They end up getting entangled in a very deep and dangerous organization and that's when the excitement begins.
In all honesty throughout reading Don't Turn Around I was holding on hope for something spectacular to happen. The novel had a ton of chases and Noa used her brainy and hacking skills to get away out of every slippery situation. She was headstrong and truly independent. I mean she hacked into the foster system, created a foster family out of thin air and added herself as a foster child to them, updated the system as if social workers came for regular check ups and enlisted herself to be home schooled. However I just kept on waiting for that thing that would render me speechless or mind blown. Unfortunately it never came. I liked the plot, and how there is a bit of a post-apocalyptic feel to it with the PEMA disease. But what didn't keep me 100% invested in this novel is my emotional detachment to the characters and their eventual teaming up to fight against the forces of evil.
The plot was fantastic, the characters were super smart, but I just needed more out of it. Since this novel was all about hacking, I hoped we would see more of it. We only get the word hacking thrown in every couple of pages but you don't get to sit in with them, biting your nails, tying to break through firewalls and escape IP detection systems. If you've seen Nikita, then you know what I mean. However, even if I was left a bit disappointed due to my high expectations, Don't Turn Around was still a pleasant read and I did enjoy it. I think young adult readers who want a novel with a bit more mystery and excitement they should check out Don't Turn Around. Fans of Cold Fury by T. M. Goeglein would highly enjoy it.
I love the premise of having two people who need each other in dystopian societies. It sounds a lot like Legend by Marie Lu. Definitely going to check this one out, but I am little disappointed with lack of adventurous hacking.


(These past couple of days I have been watching a pair of female blackbirds fighting and bickering in the yard. One appears to be injured and I have surmised that it is the young of the adult which now appears to be growing impatient for it to leave her side. The adult tries to chase it away but it keeps hanging around and dashes in when there is any chance of being fed.
Mother Nature is also often a cruel neighbour who waits next door with harsh winters and her very own and very effective mechanism for dealing with the weak and injured. I wondered about drawing comparisons with the way we treat our own weak and injured but the story of the birds felt too self-contained to add another dimension. Sometimes it's best that we just observe and leave our emotional footprint out of the equation.
I don't like the smell of these candles! said Peter.
It's all I could get hold of, his mother replied.
They smell of sick and dead things!
When is the electricity coming back on?
I don't know Peter. When it can, I suppose.
Watching the TV that would never work.
A reflection in a screen of blankness.
When is Jane coming home? asked Peter.
Your sister has found a new home, mother replied.
Is it up in Heaven? asked Peter.
Yes dear, I'm sure it is. Mother smiled.
Did she take her arms and legs with her?
Ominous thunder shook the world.
Peter imagined it wasn't thunder.
Like Jane, but in a different way.
We have to go fetch water, find some food.
I'm hungry! said Peter, and bored!
I know, said his Mum, I know.
This game's not fun anymore!


The World Bank Group has advanced $721 million for mining ventures in the developing countries since it began extending financial assistance for such purposes in 1957. Of this amount $609 million was lent by the Bank and the International Development Association (IDA) and the balance has taken the form of investment and lending by the International Finance Corporation (IFC). An increasing amount of Bank Group loans to the mining sector can be expected in the decade ahead, as capital requirements grow and as known resources are depleted and demand rises.
The Bank's limited involvement in the mining sector up to now (slightly less than 2½2 per cent of total Bank Group lending) is due to a number of factors.
Mining operates at levels of physical, commercial, and political risks that are normally significantly higher than those of other industries. Mining projects require extremely heavy investments, not only in physical and social infrastructure facilities, but also in preinvestment expenditures on exploration and metallurgical testing, which, because there is no certainty of discovery, will often be written off as a loss. In addition, much of the requisite technical expertise has been, and still is, concentrated in the hands of a relatively small number of multinational corporations with free access to the capital markets of the world on their own account. The investment climate was, until recently, more stable, and nationalization and expropriation of foreign-controlled mines less customary than now. Mining was thus more readily financeable without Bank participation. And finally, the Bank itself used to be reluctant to finance governmentally owned and managed industrial enterprises, further curtailing its limited involvement in the sector.
As a rule, mining projects have been financed on a project-by-project basis, rather than in the framework of a balanced sector approach. Most projects were referred to the Bank from the outside, generally after the bulk of the contractual arrangements between the foreign private participants and the host country had been at least substantially completed. If arrangements for financing a project appeared unfair to the member country, the Bank simply refused to participate. The Bank's policy in this area has been very clear.
Where the safety of the Bank's own investment was concerned, the Bank was duty bound to influence the terms and conditions of the transaction between the private foreign investors and the host government. Beyond that, however, it did not act as the advocate of the government in its negotiations with foreign investors, but it did make sure that the government had competent legal and business advice. When necessary, the Bank has made the retention of outside legal and other counsel a requirement for its participation in mining projects and, where appropriate, has been willing to include the cost of such services as part of its loan. Whether the Bank's attitude in this area will change and become more active, and if so, what particular form this involvement may take, remains to be seen.
The Bank's procedure with mining projects, irrespective of the portion it was asked to finance, was first to be satisfied that the whole project was fair to the Bank member country where it was located, that the allocation of benefits and risks was properly balanced, that the project made economic sense, and that the investment was secure. The Bank would be unwilling, for instance, to participate in financing a railway, port facility or township which depended on a mine for its justification, without being satisfied with the project as a whole, and vice versa.
This was Bank practice in the Falcon-bridge ferro nickel mine in the Dominican Republic, where the Bank financed the power facilities as well as in the Miferma iron ore project in Mauritania, where the Bank financed the railway and port facilities. In these cases the loans were made to the mining company directly, which of course was the project entity. But the same total project appraisal was made for the Burfell power project in Iceland, serving the Alusuisse aluminum smelter, and the Volta power project in Ghana, serving the Valco aluminum smelter. Here the loans were made to the member country's government or to one of its agencies responsible for the operation of the infrastructure facilities in question. These two forms of financing—direct financing of the project entity and indirect financing of the supporting outside infrastructure facilities—involve different legal and financial problems and techniques, but the choice of the form is essentially irrelevant to the Bank's evaluation of the project as a whole. In all cases, the companies operating the mining facilities were the real parties to which the Bank looked for assumption of the risk and for security of its loan repayment. The Bank has, therefore, financed infrastructure facilities as well as production facilities proper, and depending on the particular circumstances, has lent money to a private corporation which was the project entity, as well as to a member country's government or to one of its agencies.
The choice of borrower under each loan will be resolved by reference to the particular portion of the project which the Bank is asked to and is willing to finance. Under the Articles of Agreement, the Bank would normally finance the foreign exchange cost of projects; financing local costs in these types of projects is exceptional. The Bank's participation in projects which require large foreign exchange expenditures-and mining projects in the less developed countries almost invariably fall into this category—are therefore on the whole confined to the financing of imported equipment and materials. This may have a bearing on the portion of the project that the Bank is willing to finance, and it is also a factor to keep in mind in the choice of borrower.
In the past, where the borrower was privately owned, a commitment of substantial shareholder equity or subordinated debt was required, and shareholder guarantees for cost overruns and repayment were normally sought. These usually included financial commitments to provide all funds necessary to complete and operate the project, and to repay the loan, quite apart from other more customary types of security such as mortgages of plant. In the case of the Shashe project in Botswana, the private party, a subsidiary of Roan Selection Trust, was even made to assume one half of the cost of the engineering studies of the infrastructure, financed by the IDA under a $2.5 million credit to the government, in case it did not proceed with the project.
In addition, because the Bank's practice is to charge as low a lending rate as is consistent with its own financial condition (currently 8½ per cent), and because there is no reason to give the benefit of this low rate to a private investor, the Bank has insisted that the member country's government, which must guarantee the Bank loan, charge the private party a guarantee fee equal to the difference between the Bank's and the market interest rates. On the other hand, where the loan was made to the government or to one of its agencies in support of a mining venture, the lending rate was of course the Bank's usual uniform low lending rate. But this does not mean that the government was seen as the real provider of the funds to cover the debt service of the loan. In all these cases, as the infrastructure facilities were designed to service the mining operation or enterprise, the Bank insisted on adequate arrangements to ensure that the government receive sufficient guarantee from the private participants in the mining venture to repay the debt to the Bank.
Security arrangements in these cases have taken different forms. The Bank has occasionally insisted on obtaining liens or pledges which could be enforced directly against third parties who were, for example, to be the purchasers of the mining product. Shareholder guarantees running directly to the Bank are also in this category because the Bank can enforce them by being a party to the contract. When the Bank is not a party to the arrangement, the security will run directly from the consumer or from the shareholders to the borrower, not involving a right that the Bank can enforce directly, but in effect producing a somewhat similar financial guarantee for the borrower.
From the legal point of view, a distinction can clearly be made between arrangements which give the Bank direct rights and remedies against a third party (other than the borrower), and those which do not establish a direct contractual relationship between the Bank and a third party. Financially, that distinction is perhaps less significant, because the latter arrangements, by aiming to strengthen or safeguard the financial position of the borrower, also contribute, though more indirectly, to the protection of the Bank's investment.
"Take or pay" long-term purchase contracts are a frequently encountered form of security arrangement in this type of loan. They consist, broadly speaking, of the obligation of a third party to purchase a product or service or to pay for it, even if it is not purchased—and this third party undertaking is often assigned to the Bank. In some cases, the obligation to pay exists, even if the product involved has not been produced. The third parties involved may be the shareholders of the borrower, as in the Falconbridge project. In other instances, they are outsiders interested in a steady supply of the product, for example, an Argentinian state agency as a buyer of gas transported through a Bank financed Bolivian pipeline. In some cases payments for the service or product are made to a trustee who must earmark and apportion the receipts between the various creditors, and often the government also, in accordance with priorities agreed upon before transferring any money to the private producer. There is no established pattern.
No matter what form the particular security takes, the infrastructure, if publicly owned, has to be secured by the mining operation and its sponsors. The obligation of the government as a borrower or guarantor in these cases will protect the Bank's loan, but this protection is in addition to, and not in lieu of, the security which the private investors must furnish. The specific security arrangements are in effect designed to protect the government as guarantor (or as borrower) as much as they are designed to protect the Bank as lender. There is less likelihood of the Bank having to invoke the government's direct obligation in these circumstances, and it is for this reason that such projects can receive Bank rather than IDA financing, though the country itself may normally have access to IDA funds only. Even in the unlikely circumstance of the Bank enforcing the government's direct obligation, the government will usually be subrogated to the rights and benefits of the security arrangements.
Although World Bank Group lending since 1957 accounts for less than 1½ per cent of the total investment in mining in the developing countries, this has been estimated to represent a 6-8 per cent involvement in total mineral expenditures, and a contribution of between 20-25 per cent of costs. The discrepancy arises because the object of requesting the Bank's financial participation in the past has frequently been not lack of money, but the inability to raise it without the World Bank's presence in the deal, sought for what might be termed its stabilizing influence.
However, private parties furnishing security want to be free from their commitment if government interference causes enforcement of the security, and insist on limiting their obligations to cover technical or commercial but not political risks. The subject is known in Bank parlance as the "forcemajeure" exception. Many security arrangements contain forcemajeure exceptions, releasing the private parties from their obligations to supply funds (irrespective of the technique used) for cost overruns or repayment of the loan capital in the event of political interference.
Many covenants found in loans to private parties will not apply in cases where the borrower is a government or a governmental agency providing infrastructure or production facilities for mining with the assistance of Bank financing. Where the borrower is a private corporation, its debt/equity ratio will normally be subject to limitations imposed by the Bank. So, too, a restriction on dividends to shareholders or on interest on shareholders' advances, and a commitment to keep working capital at adequate levels will be necessary. And there will normally be some real or personal security required. With governments, or governmental agencies, liens on specific revenues or assets as security for loans valid against third parties will not generally be sought, unless they are obtained by another creditor or lender participating in the financing, or where specific unencumbered assets may be seized by another creditor outside the member country. As already noted, a typical form of security that the Bank seeks in lending to a private investor in the mining sector is precisely of this kind—namely a shareholder's commitment or an assignment to the Bank of a contract to take or pay for the mining product or both.
It is the Bank's usual policy not to require specific security for its loans to governments or governmental agencies, and to permit the government in these cases to borrow on the basis of its general credit. Regarding mining projects in what would otherwise be IDA countries, the Bank relies on the security the government has—directly or indirectly—obtained from the beneficiaries of the particular project. The Bank does not, however, wish other lenders to take specific security or to acquire preferences or priorities of payment which could put the Bank in a subordinate position, or make payment to the Bank by a member country (either as borrower or as guarantor) more difficult than payment to another creditor. The Bank, therefore, includes in its agreements with members (whether as borrower or as guarantor) a "negative pledge" provision which assures it of equal and paripassu treatment if specific security or preference is later given to another lender. To be sure, the Bank has sometimes agreed to waive the right to participate in a security by virtue of the negative pledge undertaking if the circumstances justified it; but it would be less than prudent and it could weaken its position in the capital markets of the world if it did not pursue the practice of including a negative pledge covenant in its agreements with governments.
A growing Bank role in lending to the mining sector can be expected. There is likely to be more emphasis on local participation and on the fairness and openness of agreements governing the relations between the foreign and local participants. This would probably involve different legal and financial problems from those the Bank has been accustomed to, but these should not pose any real difficulties. It will, however, also entail the assumption of greater risks on behalf of already overstrained economies. It would be irresponsible to focus attention only on the profits of successful ventures without taking into account the potential for losses and failure. The bargaining power, and the geological and relevant technological knowledge of the producing countries must be strengthened, and adequate mineral policies and exploration techniques established so that the economic and social benefits of successful operations might be realized more quickly.
If the problems which now beset the industry are to be solved—and many of them are essentially political in nature—as everyone is well aware, a closer partnership between the mineral producing and the mineral consuming countries must be forged. The need for this is very urgent now because the balance of mineral reserves is gradually expected to shift toward the developing countries in the future. As a healthier country/corporate relationship is a precondition to any progress in the exploration and exploitation of new resources, governments as well as corporations will have to moderate some of the positions which have in the past led to conflict between them. Corporations will have to be more receptive to local demands (financial, economic, social, and political), and governments will have to minimize the political risks to attract the capital required for the development of new sources of supply.


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Q: This code can be rails unit test with rspec? I'm studying rails and rspec.
And I made rspec unit test (request test) on rails application.
But after searching on google, I'm wonder if my job is on right way.
Can my code be a "Unit test by function(not a method, web site's feature ex)create, show, delete..) of rails application" ?
this is my code with request test.
require 'rails_helper'

RSpec.describe 'Users', type: :request do
  let!(:users) { create_list(:user, 10) }
  let(:user_id) { users.first.id }
  let(:user) { create(:user) }

  def send_request_to_store_user(name, mailaddress)
    post '/users', params: {
      user: {
        name: users.first.name,
        mailaddress: users.first.mailaddress
      }
    }
  end

  def http_status_success_and_body_element_check(body_element)
    expect(response).to have_http_status(:success)
    expect(response.body).to include(body_element)
  end

  describe 'GET' do
    context 'Get /users test' do
      it 'test user list page' do
        get '/users'
        http_status_success_and_body_element_check('User List')
      end
    end

    context 'Get /users/create test' do
      it 'test user create page' do
        get '/users/create'
        http_status_success_and_body_element_check('create user')
      end
    end

    context 'Get /users/:id/edit' do
      it 'test user edit page' do
        get "/users/#{user_id}"
        http_status_success_and_body_element_check('edit user')
      end
    end

    context 'Get /users/:id' do
      it 'test user show page' do
        get "/users/#{user_id}"
        http_status_success_and_body_element_check('show user')
      end
    end
  end

  describe 'POST' do
    context 'test store new user' do
      it 'test create new user' do
        send_request_to_store_user(user.name, user.mailaddress)
        expect do
          create(:user)
        end.to change { User.count }.from(User.count).to(User.count + 1)
      end

      it 'test redirect after create' do
        send_request_to_store_user(user.name, user.mailaddress)
        expect(response).to have_http_status(302)
      end
    end
  end

  describe 'DELETE' do
    it 'test delete user' do
      expect do
        delete "/users/#{user_id}"
      end.to change { User.count }.from(User.count).to(User.count - 1)
      expect(response).to have_http_status(302)
    end
  end

  describe 'PUT' do
    context 'user update' do
      it 'test user information update' do
        old_name = users.first.name
        new_name = 'new_name'
        expect do
          put "/users/#{user_id}", params: {
            user: {
              name: new_name
            }
          }
        end.to change { users.first.reload.name }.from(old_name).to(new_name)
        expect(response).to have_http_status(:redirect)
      end
    end
  end
end

this is my code with test on model
require 'rails_helper'

RSpec.describe User, type: :model do
  it 'user must have name and mailaddress' do
    user = create(:user)
    expect(user).to be_valid
    expect(user.name).not_to be_nil
    expect(user.mailaddress).not_to be_nil
  end

  it 'mailaddress must include @' do
    # user = FactoryBot.create(:user)

    # If rails_helper.rb has config.include FactoryBot::Syntax::Methods,
    # Can use shortcut. Don't have to FactoryBot.create
    user = create(:user)
    # Test pass if email match with regexp
    expect(user.mailaddress).to match(/\A[\w+\-.]+@[a-z\d\-]+(\.[a-z]+)*\.[a-z]+\z/)
  end
end

A: I don't think these tests are valuable (meaningful).
Here's my reasoning:
What are these tests telling you? That the Rails router is working? That the controller is responding with the right action? Neither of these are your responsibility to test. Rails has that covered.
If you want to know "does the index page render?" and "can I CRUD a user?" then write system tests with Capybara that simulate the whole flow. That way you are testing the real-world interaction with your whole system.

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When one's own possession becomes rusty, the romance of what has happened may be as lost as the original function of the object.
I love the purple tones in this one.
What a lovely mix of oranges this one has! I would've never thought to put them together, but I love the combination.


There is world class golf, formula one, snooker, UFC and boxing to look forward to in what will hopefully be a very profitably April.
The Champions League last 16 continues, there is a big game in the FA Cup while England begin their ODI series against West Indies.
There is no shortage of football action as the Premier League season rumbles on, and its darts namesake also begins this week. We also have England in Test cricket action, the Six Nations continuing apace after an incredible opening weekend, and Ultimate Fighting Championship fights from Melbourne, Australia.
All the best tips for the coming week in sports, featuring Premier League, test match cricket, the Super Bowl and Six Nations rugby.
Arsenal have a difficult time ahead of them against Liverpool whilst Daniel Cormier may also be in trouble against the Black Beast, Derrick Lewis.
In a big week of sporting action we see the return of the Europa League, the FedEx Cup PlayOffs come to an end, Champions League Darts on the BBC and the return of Anthony Joshua to the boxing ring.
England are in action against Switzerland, Spurs host Liverpool, Golovkin and Canelo meet again in Vegas, the Singapore Grand Prix takes place and the UFC heads to Moscow.
England and India play their final test, the UEFA Nations League begins as England meet Spain and the US Open tennis comes to a close.


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This is another perfect example of why scientists don't vote Republican
Personal attacks on scientists do not a case against climate change make
(AP Photo/Bill Ingalls, NASA)
As I've been writing for a long time now, the reason that only a tiny minority of scientists are Republicans is obvious: Republican elites routinely endorse things so scientifically preposterous that they cause a strong adverse reaction in the scientific community. We saw this when Jonathan Chait wrote a piece taking apart George Will and Charles Krauthammer, whose (violently wrong) beliefs about climate change straightforwardly imply they should reject all scientific reasoning of any kind.
Josiah Neeley, who sometimes contributes to The Week, replies with "so's your old man," arguing in The Federalist that past statements and writings of White House science advisor John Holdren cast doubt on his predictions, and by extension his alarming predictions about the likely effects of future climate change. This is worth examining in detail, because it's another way that conservatives have managed to alienate scientists.
Let's get one thing out of the way first: This is an ad hominem piece. There is no attempt to disprove Holdren's predictions in detail, or even to say what they are. There is just the view that because Holdren has X history, he must be wrong about whatever else he's saying. Now, that's not always out of bounds, but it is a dangerous path to tread.
With that, let's look at the specifics.
Point 1: Holdren blames the recent cold winter on climate change. Did he say this? Yes, he made a video explaining how a warming Arctic might weaken the winter polar vortex, thereby cooling the continental U.S. while warming the Arctic. (It's a case for how overall global warming might make some regions colder some of the time.) It's plausible, though speculative; other scientists disagree, saying that the warming effect of climate change will predominate. However, the context that is missing here is that he made the video in response to the sadly typical round of conservative pundits gleefully arguing that climate change must be fake because winter is cold. Does this affect the case for climate change generally? It does not. It's a completely marginal issue.
Point 2: Holdren wrote an essay worrying about global cooling and environmental damage back in 1971. Apparently yes, this essay does exist and contains some speculation about global cooling along with warming, though I can't find the text of it aside from blockquotes from highly suspect denier blogs and WorldNetDaily. But until I can get hold of the text, the basic reality is that this is also a marginal issue. George Will has been recycling the same half-dozen 70s news articles about cooling for the past 20 years and it's been a complete crock from the start. There was never a scientific consensus in favor of global cooling, and even if there had been, it wouldn't speak to the credibility of the warming case now.
Point 3: Holdren said alarming things about overpopulation and forced sterilization. This is the meat of the case, since it makes Holdren sound like something from the fever dreams of the Bundy militia. Here's how Neeley quotes it [his emphasis]:
Holdren mused about adding sterilizing agents to the water supply, argued that "compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society," and suggested that "it would even be possible to require pregnant single women to marry or have abortions, perhaps as an alternative to placement for adoption, depending on the society." [The Federalist]
Now this is an cheap attack. After some digging, I found the section of the book in question, which is called Ecoscience (not Ecosystems, as per Neeley's source), and discovered two huge things left out here. First: Holdren was not the sole author; in fact, he's the third one. Second, this is a textbook, and the sections Neeley quotes are explanations, not endorsements. This section envisages a potential ecological crisis brought on by overpopulation, and these solutions are discussed as emergency measures.
It's true that the overpopulation anxiety of many '70s environmentalists hasn't aged well. I've written at length about why I don't personally buy it. But to quote these sections as if Holdren alone were personally in favor of them frankly verges on a deliberate smear, especially when the authors' real preference is clearly stated at the end of the section: "A far better choice, in our view, is to expand the use of milder methods of influencing family size, while redoubling efforts to ensure that the means of birth control, including abortion and sterilization, are accessible to every human being."
This whole sorry mess was hashed out during and after Holdren's confirmation hearings back in 2009, and the criticism was so baseless that he got confirmed unanimously. David Vitter asked him about whether he thought government should be concerned with population control. "No, Senator, I do not," he replied.
Thus we're brought back, again, to conservative culpability in the partisanship of climate science. Articles like this say to scientists: If we disagree with your political leanings, we're going to root through your life's work, cherry-pick the most objectionable things you've written, take them out of context, and try to destroy your reputation. In other words, join team Democrat.

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Q: Add custom action to Django inline object on the admin interface I have an admin interface that has a blog post, with inline models which are previus versions of the post.
I'd like to add an action for each one of the previous version (A revert action, custom model method)
how should I go about doing that?
its kinda similar to ModelAction actions keyword, but I want it to be inside the model view, not the list view
and also its for each inline model, not for the parent model
would love some help.
to make it clearer
my previous_version class has a function named revert. all I want is that in my blog post's view in the admin panel by each previous version I'll have a link or button or something. and pressing it will call previous_version.revert.

A: I guess the right thing to make this is Admin actions as described in documentation -
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/admin/actions/

A: You can extend Blog ModelAdmin with action revert.
Overriding inline model template to add a button, like you said you already did is a good way to do it.
Just be sure to wrap created view within admin_view and allow only post requests.


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1 new COVID-19 related death, 179 new cases, 324 recoveries reported in Wichita County, total cases now 12,774
by: Joshua Hoggard
WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — The Wichita Falls-Wichita County Public Health District reported Tuesday one more death related to COVID-19.
Case 11,158 (60 – 69) brings the total number of COVID-19 related deaths in Wichita County since the pandemic began in March to 232.
No further information will be released out of respect for the families.
For more information on COVID-19 related deaths and how they are reported, click here.
Please find the age breakdown of COVID-19 related deaths in Wichita County to date below:
0-5 6-10 11-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69 70-79 80+
New Cases in Wichita County
The Public Health District also confirmed Tuesday 179 new coronavirus cases in the county, bringing the current total case number to 12,774.
Communication and Marketing Director Lindsay Barker also reported Tuesday 324 new recoveries from COVID-19 for a total of 9,359 recovered cases in the county to date.
There are currently 3,183 active COVID-19 cases in Wichita County with 3,063 patients recovering from home.
Hospitalizations in Wichita County
120 COVID-19 patients were listed as hospitalized in Tuesday's COVID-19 report for Wichita County with 30 patients reported to be in critical condition.
Please find the hospitalization report below:
0-5 6-10 11-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69 70-79 80+ TOTAL
Stable 0 0 0 1 2 7 18 16 21 25 90
Critical 0 0 0 2 1 4 3 9 8 3 30
Officials with the City of Wichita Falls said per Gov. Greg Abbott's Executive Order GA-32, if a Trauma Services Area has more than seven consecutive days that the percentage of total hospital capacity exceeds 15%, occupancies in the county will automatically be reduced to 50%.
City officials said as of Wednesday, December 30, the TSA rate in Wichita County is at 11.67%.
COVID-19 Testing Numbers for Wichita Co.
TOTAL COVID-19 TESTS POSITIVE NEGATIVE PENDING
75,430 13,325 61,619 486
Isolation Status
AT HOME/ACTIVE HOSPITAL RECOVERED DEATH
Information provided by the Wichita Falls-Wichita County Public Health District
Updated Monday, January 18 at 4:30 p.m.
8 new COVID-19 related deaths, 250 new cases reported over weekend, total now 12,595
Health leaders continue to make plans for vaccine distribution
Health District receives no new COVID-19 vaccines this week from DSHS, unclear when more will arrive
United Regional COVID-19 critical care capacity update — January 11, 2021
COVID-19 hospitalizations rise at United Regional
Between December 19 and January 8, 3023 new COVID-19 cases were reported in Wichita County. The weekly positivity rates were as follows:
21% for the week ending on December 25
23% for the week ending on January 1
22% for the week ending on January 8.
Based on the latest trends from the Health District, the estimate is over 1,400 new cases per week for the week ending February 26, 2021.
The highest weekly case amount was reported Friday, January 1, 2021, at 1,185 cases, which was in line with the original projection for that time at 1,200 cases per week.
The estimate of over 1,400 new cases per week would be an average of 200 new cases per day.
The continued increase in the number of COVID-19 positive Wichita County residents who are hospitalized continues to be of concern.
Using linear regression analysis based on the max daily hospitalization, if the trend continues at this current rate of increase, the projection for hospitalizations at mid-February could be as high as 150 per day.
In partnership with the Wichita Falls – Wichita County Public Health District, GoGetTested will be providing fast, easy and accessible COVID-19 testing for all.
GoGetTested has opened it's COVID Response Operating System and mobile testing sites in Wichita Falls at the MPEC, located at 1000 5th Street in Wichita Falls.
All tests are free of charge, regardless of whether or not the individual being tested is insured.
Hours of operation for the site are 9:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. Monday thru Friday and 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. on Saturday. You can schedule an appointment online, although an appointment is not required in order to be tested.
Hotline hours are 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Monday to Friday, and noon–2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
The Health District would like to remind everyone that coronavirus is now in our community and that the decisions we make now regarding social distancing and following the guidelines set by the CDC will directly impact how quickly our community recovers from this virus.
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The growth of a relationship
Posted in Questions By James Hobert On November 13, 2018
When you compare Louis Erdrich's story "The Red Convertible" and James Baldwin's story "Sonny's Blues", they seem like completely different stories. "The Red Convertible" is about two brothers, Lyman and Henry, who grow up on a Native American reservation in North Dakota. The two brothers share a strong bond that is personified through their love for a certain red car that they share. They go through an amazing Journey and discover a lot about each other. On the other hand, "Sonny's Blues" is also about two brothers, however their Journey goes a completely different oute than Lyman and Henry's.
In "Sonny's Blues", the narrator and his little brother, Sonny, start out as distant and forgotten family members. Through Sonny's love for music, and his older brother's gradual acceptance, the two grow a stronger bond than ever before. Although the two are indeed about different topics, there are some parallels to recognize as well. "The Red Convertible" and "Sonnys Blues" are alike for many reasons, but the most prominent similarity is the theme of brotherhood. For instance, in "Sonny's Blues", the dynamic between the two brothers changes from eing completely distant to finally understanding each other, despite their differences.
The growth of a relationship is an important factor in true brotherhood. An example of the two brothers taking a step in the right direction is when they meet after Sonny is let out of prison. It has been a while since they have spoken last, and the older brother narrates, miet, when he smiled, when we shook hands, the baby brother I'd never known looked out from the depths of his private life, like an animal waiting to be coaxed into the light. " (Baldwin, 312) The other brother is realizing that e has never really known his baby brother because his true self was always buried beneath the mask of his drug addiction.
We can see here that the other brother is seeing that Sonny is trying to let himself "into the light", or trying to finally get himself to a better place in life. The turning point in the story where Sonny's love for music gets truly understood by his brother, is at the end of the story when he is playing his gig. The older brother states, "For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness. (Baldwin, 324) This statement by Sonny's older brother shows that he has finally opened up his heart to accept that his little brother is getting better and expressing himself through music. Like in "Sonny's Blues", Henry and Lyman go through a similar Journey in "The Red Convertible", where they discover their own Journey through brotherhood. Unlike Sonny's progression of his relationship with his brother, Henry and Lyman's relationship starts out very strong but dies out in the end. Although the two stories have different outcomes, the core theme of brotherhood is the same.
In "The Red Convertible", Henry and Lyman are best friends, and spend every moment hanging out with each other. They are inseparable, until Henrys decision to Join the army for three years tears them apart. When Henry returns, Lyman is concerned as he remembers the "times we'd sat still for the whole afternoon, Henry always had a Joke, then, too, and now you couldn't get him to laugh" (Erdrich, 74). Lyman is realizing that his brother nas changed and is disassociated wit n his tormer selt. Lyman is pain stricken because the strength of their brotherhood was slipping through his fingers.
Overall, both stories express the motivation and strength that a brotherhood can give. Despite their similarities in overall theme, the two stories are different regarding the symbols that connect the brothers. In "Sonny's Blues", the factor that allowed Sonny and his brother to break the barrier between them was his music. Living in Harlem, there isn't many ways to express yourself or let yourself be heard, so music was an escape. Through Sonny's infatuation with music, his brother was able o see beyond his drug addiction and begin to start the re-birth of their relationship.
At the end of the story, Sonny's brother was watching him play, "But Just before they started playing again, Sonny sipped from it and looked toward me, and nodded" (Baldwin, 326). At this point, it is as if Sonny's brother accepted him through the music and finally feels that connection that only brothers can share. Music is a central symbol in "Sonny's Blues" and creates a stepping stone for the two brothers' relationship to grow. On the other hand, we have "The Red Convertible", which has a uch different object that directs the story.
In "The Red Convertible", Henry and Lyman's relationship is driven by their love for their red car they had bought together. The red flashy car resembles the boys' resilient and carefree view on life, and the strength of the bond they shared in the beginning of the story. However, after Henry returns from Vietnam, he is a changed man and according to Lyman, "The change was no good. " (Erdrich, 72) Lyman hopes that "the car might bring the old Henry back somehow' (Erdrich, 75), but is let down when Henry shows no interest in he car.
Ironically, Henry ends up destroying the car which, symbolically, destroys the relationship between the two brothers as well. Like the music in "Sonny's Blues", the red car in "The Red Convertible" was a symbol for the change in the brothers' relationship. The relationship between two brothers can be transitive, whether it starts distant and grow close like in "Sonny's Blues", or the other way around as we saw in "The Red Convertible". While each story may have different symbols and storylines, we still see the theme of both – the true nature of brotherhood.
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Rose Theatre Kingston & UK Tour
April 11, 2019 ReviewsCelia Francis, Charley Magalit, David Gregory, Dr. Seuss, Isla Shaw, Katie Mitchell, Manuel Harlan, Melissa Lowe, Nana Amoo-Gottfried, Robert Penny, Rose Theatre Kingston, Sam Angell, Suba Das, Tasha Taylor Johnson, The Cat in the Hat, Vivienne King, Zoe Spurrthespyinthestalls
Reviewed – 10th April 2019
"a cabaret of excitement and a fabulous family romp"
As the Dr Seuss classic has entertained the minds of young readers for half a century, this Rose Theatre Kingston and Curve co-production of The Cat in the Hat (originally adapted by Katie Mitchell) has a lot to live up to. So how do you translate the unique writing style of such a celebrated artist to stage? Throw in an abundance of acrobatics, a plethora of singalong songs and a water gun or two and you have got a spectacle that will keep the under fives transfixed.
The story we all know and love is that of two children whose miserable rainy day is thankfully interrupted by a cat, in a hat of all garments. While trying to entertain Sally (Melissa Lowe) and her little brother, the cat in the hat (Nana Amoo-Gottfried) gets up to all sorts of tricks and chaos ensues. Standout performances are Sam Angell as Boy, Sally's incongruously Scottish yet harmlessly endearing little brother and Charley Magalit as the ever bubbly and surprisingly operatic Fish. With direction from Curve's Associate Director Suba Das, the second half revs up the pacing to fourth gear when Thing 1 and Thing 2 (Celia Francis and Robert Penny) bamboozle the crowd with seemingly infinite combinations of attractive acrobatics.
The clever design of The Cat in the Hat (Isla Shaw) repeatedly takes the audience by surprise with imaginative costume choices and a cleverly camouflaged, movable set, that plays host to a range of elements bursting out, popping up and dangling all over the place. The beautifully oversized, cartoon backdrop, inspired by Ted Geisel's original illustrations (with every prop giving a nod to the fifty-two year old publication), is set with angles and colourful lighting that reads like a book.
Performance teeters on the edge of pantomime as each character in turn asks the boys and girls (and grownups) to stand up and call out before, during and after each interactive number. Although this musical is filled with fun fantastical compositions from Tasha Taylor Johnson, most of the melodies are quite forgettable considering the rhyming genius of the source lyrics.
The Cat in the Hat is a cabaret of excitement and a fabulous family romp, albeit some way off the purrfect execution of a page to stage adaptation that one might hope for.
Reviewed by Vivienne King
Photography by Manuel Harlan
Rose Theatre Kingston until 21st April completing UK Tour
Review of The Gruffalo's Child – 4 Stars
November 25, 2017 Children, Family, ReviewsAndrew Mudie, Axel Scheffler, Catriona Mackenzie, Isla Shaw, Julia Donaldson, Lyric Theatre, Sophie Alice, Tall Stories Theatre Company, The Gruffalo's Childthespyinthestalls
The Gruffalo's Child
Reviewed – 24th November 2017
"the catchy songs get stuck in your head for hours after you've left the theatre"
Tall Stories' latest production of The Gruffalo's Child is heart-warming and the perfect family show for the run up to Christmas. The musical is adapted from Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's book, and is the sequel to The Gruffalo. The story continues on from the first instalment, and this time follows the journey of the Gruffalo's child, played by the wonderful Sophie Alice. She goes on a quest to find the Big Bad Mouse, and along the way meets all the characters we recognise from The Gruffalo: the snake, the owl, the fox and of course, the clever mouse.
The cast is made up of only three actors, but their energy fills the stage. They work extremely well together, and are perfectly in sync in all their actions. The show utilises a lot of physical theatre and this is only successful because of how well the actors work together. Catriona Mackenzie brings the character of the mouse alive, also acting as a narrator throughout. Sophie Alice as the Gruffalo's child, captures the childlike energy of the character. Andrew Mudie is particularly impressive, playing four completely different animal characters, each with his own distinct accent and personality. He easily seizes the audience's attention, even the youngest of children, and engages everyone in audience participation.
Composers Jon Fiber and Andy Shaw did a great job of transforming the short storybook into a musical. The music and lyrics are simple, but fitting to the show, and the catchy songs get stuck in your head for hours after you've left the theatre. Whilst some of the content can be considered a little dark, with the young Gruffalo threatening to eat all of the animals she meets, this is true to the original story and helps move the narrative along.
The set (Isla Shaw) is very simple, consisting of a few trees and rocks that get moved around the stage to create new settings, placing the entire focus on the fantastic trio of actors. There is the perfect balance of audience participation, and the show is interactive enough to keep young children entertained throughout. With a running time of only 55 minutes, Olivia Jacobs' direction delivers a very fast paced, delightful one act show. The Gruffalo's Child is perfect for anyone looking to take their children for a Christmas treat, especially if they are fans of The Gruffalo books.
Reviewed by Charlotte Cox
Photography by Toby Mitchell for Tall Stories
is at The Lyric Theatre until 7th January 2018


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The Longest 16 Days: Najah's Story
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"These were the longest 16 days of my life, with constant fear and one hope" – says Najah while remembering her route from her home country to Flensburg. Najah is a Syrian refugee, currently an intern at the ECMI, learning about the Danish-German border region.
Before the war
Najah spent all her life in her hometown Homs. Located in the center of Syria, Homs is the 3rd largest city. Once the most strategically and economically important city in the whole region, nowadays Homs has become a key battleground in Syria. Najah grew up in a big family, finished school and went to University where she studied English. She got married at 21 in her first year of studies. Her husband, a history teacher, journalist and a "live encyclopedia" (as Najah refers him, because of his wide knowledge on many things) helped Najah to raise 3 children as she managed to graduate from her studies. They lived peacefully and were well off, with good jobs and respect in their community. Their primary focus was to raise their children well and send them to university. But everything changed five years ago.
"War started and suffering came", says Najah. "Everything was problematic, no services, no normal life, everything got expensive, most people could not go outside their homes. I broke my leg four years ago and was on crutches for two whole years because there was no medical assistance. Life suddenly became scary and difficult. Mostly civilians and the people who did not belong to any of the fighting parties suffered most."
The longest 16 days
In search of a new peaceful life, Najah's family decided to sell everything, even against an unfair cheap price, and to leave the country. That's how they became refugees.
Within Syrian territory they were stopped number of times by the army, asking why they were going, and where. "I was mainly scared for my sons, as the army would want to take them away from us." But they crossed the border, and the family left Syria. Their journey through foreign lands started in Lebanon. "Although it is an Arabic country, the treatment was very bad. We stayed until our names were announced by security, which meant that we could depart for Turkey. We paid money to be taken from Lebanon to Izmir by boat and from Izmir to Chios Island by rubber boat. It was 1200 USD for each person and we are five in our family, it was a big amount of money for us, everything that we gathered from selling the property. Scariest of all was a rubber boat to Greece: even though it is a boat for 30 people, there were 60 of us on it. In the end, the boat crashed into a mountain, and we climbed."
After spending some days in a camp, they left Greece and the route continued from Macedonia. "We walked along the border of Serbia, experienced inhuman treatment and conditions on the way, through forests in Hungary, where a plane was flying overhead searching for refugees. We finally arrived in Austria, where people received us happily and welcomed us." In Austria Najah and her family met a Canadian journalist who suggested they go to Germany, where she and her family would have better opportunities because of their education. "We first came to Munich, people were celebrating, and we had a very good reception. As we have relatives in northern Germany, we decided to come here and that is how our trip ended" – the trip that lasted the 16 longest days of her life.
In Flensburg
"People here are very friendly, they don't differentiate between nationality and color and treat us like normal human beings, with respect," says Najah, reflecting on her impressions of Flensburg.
However, it has been almost a year since their arrival, and Najah shares her fears: "I feel despair, I feel failure, I don't see what I can be done in the job market. I love to teach, but here it is very different, a different system and very little opportunity for me. That is the situation for most refugees currently. We want to start a new life, but there are these obstacles. We had classes provided, unfortunately most of them either very general or about topics that were not really relevant to me, such as subjects related to industry or mechanics, while I am a teacher."
However, she also is happy to see that for her children it is easier, as they have already received three-year asylum documents, while Najah and her husband have not (they have 6-month temporary documents, subject to prolongation). "Our children learn German and plan to continue or start their studies over here. My oldest daughter finished two years of Psychology at the University and my son was in his first year at the French department when they stopped studies in Syria."
ECMI and the Danish-German border region
Najah is currently an intern at the ECMI. With the help of a local coaching organization, TERTIA, she received a placement at the Kompagnietor to learn about the border region and contribute with her work. From the very first day her enthusiasm and willingness to engage herself in her work was inspiring. "I read about the work of ECMI. It is interesting to know that this region went through many changes and conflicts. Some of the changes that were made since 1920 can be applied to other countries too, to solve conflicts. It is the first time I heard about this and it was very interesting".
Najah read about the work of the ECMI and the border region and prepared a short summary of it in Arabic, to be published as a flyer. The flyers will be distributed to other refugees locally at their meeting points. Today she also visited German minority organisation in Aabenraa/Apenrade, Denmark to learn more about the minority work across the border. "It was exciting to learn how minority issues are treated here and the history of the region. We feel like this is our new home, we want to settle here and learn about it."
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One of the ailments listed in "The Novel Cure" is "overwhelmed by the number of books in the world," and it's one I suffer from frequently. Elderkin says this is one of the most common woes of modern readers, and that it remains a major motivation for her and Berthoud's work as bibliotherapists. "We feel that though more books are being published than ever before, people are in fact selecting from a smaller and smaller pool. Look at the reading lists of most book clubs, and you'll see all the same books, the ones that have been shouted about in the press. If you actually calculate how many books you read in a year—and how many that means you're likely to read before you die—you'll start to realize that you need to be highly selective in order to make the most of your reading time." And the best way to do that? See a bibliotherapist, as soon as you can, and take them up on their invitation, to borrow some lines from Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus": "Come, and take choice of all my library/And so beguile thy sorrow…"
A visit to a writing group at a prison outside of Detroit, where some inmates may be able to renegotiate their cases under new laws affecting juvenile life-without-parole sentencing.


The OC signed a peppercorn lease with developer to allow him to lease our common property goods lift to the retail sector in my mixed-use development .
Retail already have 2 other lifts. The OC told everyone moving in and out that we don't have a loading zone.
My complaint to council triggered them to inspect and issue Breach notices. Is it possible for an owner to make a case for Compensation for the past 7 years of being forced to load from the streets to the foyer though a single glass door?
Is it possible to trigger a cancellation of that lease. The owner sold his interest in the retail sector 2 years ago.
You'd have to look at the terms of the lease to see if they were unreasonable or in breach of some other regulation. Regarding compensation, your fist battle would have to be to quantify the "loss" and that would keep you and your lawyers busy for months.


Buckinghamshire is my home county and includes Black Park, the first parkrun that i did on Boxing Day 2012. It also contains some of my favourite courses like Wendover Woods, Tring and Black Park itself. There's currently 9 parkruns in present-day Buckinghamshire and you could also include Upton Court in Slough if you extend it to Historic Buckinghamshire. There's also Springhill parkrun which is within the grounds of a closed prison, and as such is not accessible to members of the public. So, without Springhill I've technically not completed all of Buckinghamshire but I'm happy not to have had the opportunity to do it.
The address for Rushmere is actually in Bedfordshire but as whole course is on the Buckinghamshire side of the border, I'm including it here.


The trading of foreign currency is a financial activity that dates back to ancient times. Goldsmiths were tasked by imperial rulers to mint coins that could be traded for agricultural goods; they also became the first authorized money changers who could exchange coins minted by other empires.
Since gold was the raw material used to mint currency, the value of this precious metal was used to determine exchange rates for many centuries. The Bretton Woods agreement of 1944 effectively did away with the gold standard, thus starting a new era in currency trading as well as a the establishment of the financial exchange platform known as forex.
Banks and exchange houses located in metropolitan areas and tourism centers will buy and sell currency at market rates. An investor who believes that the British pound will recover from the rout it has suffered since the Brexit referendum of 2016 can buy and hold a few sterling notes and wait for the right time to sell them.
The forex market is open 24 hours a day and six days a week; individuals can access this market by means of an online retail platform that allows them to trade currency pairs and profit from the spread. Forex traders can take long or short market positions, and they can also add certain features to suit their style of trading. Most individual traders cannot afford to trade standard lots of $100,000; for this reason, retail brokers offer margin trading at considerable leverage, which conveys greater risk to investors.
The risk and active participation of trading forex with retail brokers can be diminished with ETFs traded on Wall Street in a manner that is very similar to the stock market. Investors can choose between single currency, multiple currency, inverse, and leveraged ETFs. These instruments are designed to track international currency index products.
Some American banks allow clients to open money market accounts or certificates of deposit in foreign currencies. In the case of money market accounts, currency conversions at market rates are performed whenever funds are deposited or withdrawn. Foreign currency CDs are similar to ETFs in the sense that they track the performance of currency index products.
All central banks offer sovereign bond notes in their national currencies; altough sales of these instruments are not normally offered to individuals unless they are physically present in the country of issuance, some investment banking firms and mutual funds make these foreign bonds and notes available to clients who agree to pay commissions and management fees.


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Richard Moodie Named Director of Coaching for the AFC Mobile Academy
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Mobile, Alabama – January 15, 2021 – University of South Alabama women's soccer coach Richard Moodie will take over as Director of Coaching for the AFC Mobile Academy.
"I am excited to announce the hiring of Richard Moodie as the club's new Director of Coaching," said Steve Wieczorek, AFC Mobile Academy technical director and first-team head coach. "It was clear to me in our work together last fall that he was the right person to lead our coaching staff and to instill our club philosophy and game model throughout the Academy."
Richard Moodie has been the head coach of the South Alabama women's soccer team since December 2016. In his three seasons with the program, Moodie has led the Jaguars to two Sun Belt Conference regular-season titles and two Sun Belt Conference tournament titles. Three players from Moodie's stint at South Alabama have played first division soccer in Europe: two in the Cypriot First Division, and one for Tottenham Hotspur of England's FA Women's Super League.
"I am extremely grateful to Steve and the board for presenting this opportunity to me. Soccer in our community is growing at a rapid pace. Our goal is to provide another platform for our youth to grow both as people and soccer players."
With the appointment, AFC Mobile Academy's boys director Ruben Risco will continue to serve in an advisory role, and will maintain his role as a first-team assistant and club ambassador.
"Ruben is a valued and loyal member of our coaching team. He stepped in for us as we were getting our Academy off the ground, and provided an invaluable service to us. We're glad to keep him on board, while finding a long-term solution for the Director of Coaching position club-wide." Wieczorek said.
Moodie is no stranger to the AFC Mobile Academy. He has been a member of the Academy project from day one, and last fall, he coached the club's 2006 girls team.
"With this being our first year as a club, it has been enjoyable to watch the growth in such a short period of time. Our goal is to create a player-centered program and maximize the potential of everyone in the club. I hope to work with our coaching staff to help achieve these goals."
As Director of Coaching, Moodie will be assisting Wieczorek as the two college coaches working to implement a club-wide vision of tactical, technical, and values-based instruction – on and off the field.
"Coach Moodie and I plan to be very hands-on, working every day to continue to improve our club standards as we strive to create an elite playing experience, centered on individual player development and goal attainment through soccer," Wieczorek said.
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Hedges for Emirati opposition figures?
Emirati officials asked Britain to extradite several opposition figures living in London in exchange for the release of British PhD student Matthew Hedges, news website Arabi21 reports.
Britain, however, rejected the request, forcing Abu Dhabi to release him later in exchange for nothing, a British source, who request anonymity, told the website.
"The UAE was hoping to be able to receive the oppositionists living in Britain in exchange for releasing the British academic," the source said.
The source said that the UAE's request outraged many British officials who told Abu Dhabi that UK laws do not allow for sudden extradition.
After an Emirati court sentenced Hedges to life imprisonment in November, the British ambassador visited five of the seven emirates - Sharjah, Ajman, Ras al-Khaimah, Umm al-Quwain and Fujairah - but not Abu Dhabi or Dubai, to send a message to Abu Dhabi that the British position was still powerful in the country.
According to the source, this hastened Hedges' release.
Moroccan activists are calling on the government to retrieve a rare copy of the Quran which is currently on display in Israel, but is owned by Morocco, according to London-based newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi.
Activists with the Moroccan Observatory Against Normalisation with Israel say they believe the National Library of Israel stole the manuscript, which dates back centuries, and is using it to recreate Israeli history.
"Zionist criminals who stole Jerusalem and Palestine, and stole their effects, archives and treasures in an attempt to falsify history," the observatory wrote on its Facebook page.
The group called on Moroccan authorities to coordinate with Palestinian authorities and file a lawsuit against the library for stealing and then displaying the Quran, and listing it as an official relic held in the library's possession.
Aziz Hannaoui, the observatory's deputy head, said that the Amazigh treasures in occupied Jerusalem were seized by Israel and needed to be rescued in an operation led by the Moroccan state.
Saudi Arabia is refusing to increase the number of Algerian pilgrims allowed into the kingdom for the upcoming Hajj season, Algerian newspaper Al-Khabar reports.
The decision comes after a recent meeting between Algeria's minister of religious affairs and his Saudi counterpart during which Riyadh refused to make any amendments for Algerian pilgrim figures, well-placed sources told Al-Khabar.
The number of pilgrims from Algeria will be limited to 36,000.
However, the kingdom has reportedly expressed its willingness to discuss ways to assist in overcoming difficulties Algerian pilgrims have faced in Mecca.


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I know many people are afraid to root their phone because of their warranty or risks. But when you know all you can do when you're rooted, risks are nothing. Also if you're afraid for your warranty, you have to know you can UNROOT your phone, it means your phone loses its root or if you have laptop, you can reinstall the original rom you had when you just bought your phone. But you have always to inquire before to do it, cause a bad manipulation can make your phone brick !
I root all my phones for years now, and i never had any issues cause i don't do it in a hurry and always inquire what are my possibilities !
Warning : I don't encourage anyone to root cause what you do with your phone is only your responsibility, i just give my view and explain why i like root.
Unlike what many people think, you don't need data or wifi connection and there is no data loss process. It means your contacts, pictures, video etc will not be affected. But in the case of something is wrong, always make a backup of your android data.
So how to root ?
with your phone and your Android version ! Also you have more luck to success at rooting, if you DIDN'T UPGRADE your phone, cause upgrade your phone strengthens the security policy of your phone, so makes the root harder like on Marshmallow with Samsung Phone and more your phone is recent, more it's harder to root. Applications you see on playstore like Root checker or Supersu don't root your phone ! They only check if your phone is rooted, or it manages your root access for your applications that need root.
What third app to root ?
No one of these apps worked for my phones ! But even if it doesn't work for me, it could work for you ! And if any third apps didn't work for you, the one solution is to root with pc.
How to root with pc ?
You can also have specific tools for some devices like Oppo that can use Oppo tool to root.
But i think the best way to have full control of your phone is to flash a custom rom that already included ROOT.


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Beckham fuels Giants to win over Dolphins
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — With the score tied in the fourth quarter, Odell Beckham Jr. somehow slipped 5 yards behind the secondary.
That turned out to be the winning margin for the New York Giants.
Beckham's 84-yard touchdown reception put the Giants ahead to stay with 11 minutes to go, and they forged a three-way tie atop the NFC East by beating the Miami Dolphins 31-24 on Monday night.
New York's Eli Manning went 27 for 31 for 337 yards and four scores. His passer rating of 151.5 was his highest since 2009, and his 87-percent completion percentage was a career high.
The Giants (6-7) broke a three-game losing streak and are tied with the Redskins and Eagles for the lead in their woeful division.
"It's a must-win, a playoff game for us," Beckham said. "They're all playoff games."
The Dolphins (5-8) were mathematically eliminated from the playoff race, extending their postseason drought to a franchise-record seven consecutive years.
"Obviously this is not where we want to be," quarterback Ryan Tannehill said, "but here we are."
In celebration of the franchise's 50th season, the Dolphins introduced their 50 greatest players at halftime. The not-so-great 2015 Dolphins topped 20 points for the first time since October, but couldn't keep up with Beckham.
He had seven catches for 166 yards and the game's final two scores. The 100-yard game was his sixth in a row, a Giants record.
"They got it to a star player, and he made plays for them," Dolphins defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh said.
Beckham missed one series when he went to the locker room due to cramps in both calves but didn't let that slow him down. And with the score 24-all, he took advantage of broken coverage to score the go-ahead touchdown.
Cornerback Jamar Taylor and seldom-used safety Shamiel Gary were the closest defenders, but Manning hit Beckham in stride at midfield and he sprinted to the end zone for his 12th TD this year.
The Giants plotted the play at the team hotel before the game.
"We got the coverage we wanted," Manning said. "We thought it would be a big play, but I didn't think he would be that open."
Beckham outplayed his close friend and former LSU teammate, Miami's Jarvis Landry, who made 11 catches for 99 yards but was flagged for a costly personal foul penalty with his team trailing in the fourth quarter.
Beckham made a 45-yard reception to set up a touchdown and had a 6-yard scoring catch. The latter pass was initially ruled incomplete because Beckham was out of bounds, but the decision was overturned by a replay review that made the score 24-all.
His final catch, a diving grab on third down at midfield, sealed the victory with less than two minutes left.
"Obviously his performance is something we all expect," Landry said. "He's just continuing to do what he does."
New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham (13) makes a catch as Miami cornerback Brent Grimes defends during the first half Monday. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


The family celebrates Christmas in the sparkling and festively-decorated crystal hall. After the abundant Christmas feast, they play music and dance together. Everyone is looking forward to opening their presents. With lots of accessories hidden behind the 24 doors.


Is Silicon Valley Trying to Make the Drug From 'Limitless'?
In the film Limitless, Bradley Cooper's character pops an NZT-48 pill and writes 90 pages of his novel in one night, then experiences nearly deadly side effects when he stops taking the fictional drug.
A class of real-life drugs called nootropics and the companies that are selling them don't claim that you'll write a novel in a day, though they do claim to offer a cognitive boost that includes enhanced memory, focus, learning ability and mental stamina, without any dangerous side effects.
Two San Francisco start-ups are currently working to popularize nootropics, and a lot of people in the Silicon Valley tech community might already be taking them, according to a story in The Guardian.
Nootrobox, which makes a proprietary blend of caffeine and L-theanine in capsule form, and Nootroo, which comes as edible silver or gold flakes and contains uncategorized chemicals phenylpiracetam or noopept, both claim to have Silicon Valley big shots as investors and users (though won't name them).
"I am trying to make a smarter, better populous to solve all the problems we have created," the founder of Nootroo told The Guardian.
Jesper Noehr, an executive with a Silicon Valley startup told the paper, "I would say that most tech companies will have at least one person on something," and described his own experiences with his own nootropic "stack" of chemicals and supplements he puts together himself as allowing him to "keep a lot of things on my mind at once."
Critics say that nootropics, which can include compounds classified as supplements, as well as chemicals that exist in more of a legal grey area with government regulators, need long-term trials before they can be deemed safe, but their popularity seems to be taking off regardless.
There's even an entire sub on Reddit dedicated to nootropics where people are trading and sharing their own personal stack recipes.


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Q: Is it possible to save maple 13 file so that svn would recognize it as a text file? So I want to share some of my maple code files with world. I would like to use google code svn for it. But as far as I know maple saves files not in a source/text way.
So is it possible to save maple 13 file so that svn would recognize it as a text file and it would be registered so that when you download it and double click on it it would open in maple for everyone who installed maple?
And does any one share maple throe google code anyway?

A: Some people write their Maple code in plaintext files. The filename extension ".mpl" is a popular choice for such source files. They can be accessed from the Maple interface (eg. GUI) using the read command.
If you have code inside a Worksheet, then you can often/sometimes get it to a plaintext source file by using the Standard GUI menubar's File->Export As.. action. In the pop-up filemanager, select "Maple Input (.mpl)" in the "Files of type:" drop-down menu below the File name entry field.
This method can export code written normally, in the main sheet, but it doesn't seem to export code that is hidden inside GUI Components, Code Edit Regions, Start-up section.
For your purpose, don't "Export As.." from a a Worksheet to either "Maple text (.txt)" or "Plain text (.txt)" since doing so adds the Maple input prompt to the start of each line. The "Maple input (.mpl)" export, on the other hand, should produce somethign that can be read directly as valid code input.

A: As far as I can understand maple uses a plain text format for typical source files, they just have another file extension. Just put them in SVN and you should be fine.


RZA says there should be a limit on how much an artist can recover after parts of their songs were sampled without consent.
Empire also snagged the top spot on the Billboard album charts this week.
Fox's hit TV show Empire ended its pristine season Wednesday (March 18) in record fashion.
Snoop Dogg's "Bush" album has a new release date.
Snoop Dogg and Pharrell have teamed up for a collaborative album, according to Snoop.
Tony Yayo says G-Unit projects have consisted of production from "guys in the basement" to top producers.
Wiz Khalifa showed support for Damien Mizdow and helped #Wizdow trend worldwide on Twitter.
Common says "it would be great for the world to see" an African-American superhero.
Daylyt issues a warning to Tyga about dissing Drake and threatens to take his chain.
Daylyt is mad and he is mad at Tyga.
A lawyer read out a verse from Ludacris' "Dancin Dirty" in court before asking if he would want his daughter to have the same experience with a young man.
"They trying to sweep me and my Niggaz under the rug huh," Layzie Bone says.
Initially, Bobby Shmurda's $2 million bail appeared to be beyond the rapper's reach.


Here is an odd one for you.
It was announced after the wedding of the Earl of Wessex that his children with the Countess of Wessex would not receive the title of HRH. I don't want to get into debate of whether their was or wasn't a letter patent. But a friend of mine noted that as the announcement was made in regard to the children of TRH The Earl and Countess of Wessex, what about when they became the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh? Will another announcement need to be made, or will Louise suddenlty get a title overnight?
They announced the children of Edward and Sophie would not be styled as a Prince/Princess of the UK with the rank of HRH, but as the children of an Earl instead. Right now, Louise is styled "The Lady Louise Windsor", which would be the same style as the daughter of a Duke.
Regardless of her style, she remains a princess of the UK with the qualification of a Royal Highness under the 1917 Letters Patent of George V as a male-line grandchild of The Sovereign. She can and could assume her legal title and style at any time without special permission of The Sovereign.
Her Ladyship is a creation of fiction, HRH Princess Louise of Wessex is simply The Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor.
Another non related question: If Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother had remarried (a severly doubtful situation) would she have become simply Mrs. John Smith, LG LT etc. or would letters have been issued to allow her to retain a part of her title eg. HM The Queen Mother, Mrs. John Smith Etc. which sound silly, also what would have happened if she had married a member of a foreign royal family.
Louise's style as Lady Louise Windsor is also fiction. The Queen has not issued a Royal Warrant allowing her grandaughter to reliniquish her title and rank as a Princess and she remains a Royal Highness.
The Queen Mother became HM Queen Elizabeth under the statutory succession in her own right when The Duke of York became George VI. Although it certainly would have required a constitutional review, she could have remarried and retained her superior rank and title as HM Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother (which was held as a dowager queen), assuming there was no objection from The Sovereign and the Government.
Could Wallis Simpson upon her marriage to the Duke of Windsor been styled as HRH Princess Edward?
If a prince has a royal dukedom, his wife is known as HRH the Duchess of Whatever, not as HRH Princess Hisname. There was no reason other than vindictiveness on the part of certain elements of the royal family for the Duchess to be denied her HRH.
My thought was that because of cases like Princess Andrew (Prince Philip's mother) and Princess Michael.
A woman who marries a prince of the UK automatically becomes "HRH Princess Husband's Christian Name" as the wife of a son or grandson of The Sovereign. If their husband is also a peer, they take their style as the wife of a peer, rather than their legal title as a princess. But they are both by virtue of marriage.
Wallis was entitled by marriage to be "HRH The Princess Edward, Duchess of Windsor", but was specifically denied royal rank by letters patent issued by George VI. The legality of the King's actions have been doubted ever since, but it was never revisited by The Queen and The Duchess remained Her Grace only.
The duke of Edinburgh's mother was also, more commonly, known as Princess Alice of Battenburg, which she was, i.e. a princess in her own right before her marriage.
Yes, however, I assume the rules of the Greek Royal House required the style to reflect only your marriage and your title followed your husband's. All of the wives of King George's sons were styled as "Princess Husband's Name" regardless of their birthright titles.
This included Princess Marie Bonaparte, Princess Alice of Battenberg and Grand Duchess Helena Vladimirovna.
The interesting aspect to this is the conflict between royal writ and common law. Common law holds that the wife takes the title and style of her husband (in this case, the HRH). However, as Fount of Honour, the Sovereign specifically denied Wallis the equal style, and in effect 'demoted' her. So whereas it is generally held that common law is supreme, it can be over-ridden by letters patent issued by the Sovereign.
As branchg says, the legality of George VI's action has been questioned, but of course never tested in a court of law.
And not likely to be tested unless a Royalist lawyer with a shovel decides to he fancies getting Wallis the HRH.
It was contrary to common law and practice, but it was also made clear when the matter was researched there is no constitutional basis for the style and title of HRH Prince/Princess of the UK, which was implemented by George II and his successors to conform to practices in the German duchies and kingdoms. Until raised to the peerage, the members of the royal family were always commoners in English precedent.
The styles presently enjoyed are personal, granted by the fount of honour and recognized as a gift of the Crown.
In Australia, she was never alluded to as anything other than Princess Alice within my and my parents' lifetimes. I don't know about the UK, but Australia usually follows its lead in these things.
And he was most unfair to describe Queen Elizabeth II in this way. The decision had nothing to do with her after all. She did not alter the Duchess of Windsor's style and title when she became Queen out of deference to her mother's feelings - perfectly understandable in my opinion. Further, The Queen went out of her way to mend the breach with her uncle, so far as it was possible for her to do so. If ever The Queen was utterly blameless in anything, this would be it!
The Duke was referring to his niece's initial decision (later quietly reversed) to end the 10,000 pound sterling he was receiving from his brother as a voluntary allowance in a letter to his wife. He believed his mother and sister-in-law were responsible for convincing The Queen to end it, which was probably true.
He never raised the issue of his wife's rank with The Queen. In 1949, he discussed it in detail with The King (again) during a personal visit and received a letter from his brother making it clear it would make no sense for Wallis to become a Royal Highness when he abdicated the throne to marry her.
If it made sense for him to retain his HRH having abdicated the throne, and having abdicated because (among other things) it was made clear to him that morganatic marriage didn't exist in Britain, then there was no way it could have been made clear that it would make no sense for her to become a Royal Highness, because it was the decision to deny it that made no sense in the context of a lack of morganatic marriage.
I agree. If The King really wanted to deny Wallis royal rank, then he should have issued letters patent revoking his brother's right to hold it (which he certainly could have done).
Well, all of these things...'should have done...', '...could have done...' don't take into account the feelings of ordinary people at the time.
Wallis Simpson, whom I believe was indeed badly done by, was absolutely abhorred in the UK and throughout the Commonwealth. In fact, in my family, she was hated with intense passion. Edward, of course, had been dearly loved, which made Wallis' 'crime' seem even worse.
When the British PM contacted the Australian PM for our view on a marriage arrangement which would allow Edward to remain King, the Australian PM said that the Australian people wouldn't stand for it. This was untrue! At the time, the Australian people knew absolutely nothing about it! It was deliberately kept out of the newspapers. In fact, one of my grandfathers returned to Australia from the UK, via the US, and brought with him American newspapers which were full of Wallis and Edward and all his newspapers were confiscated by Customs and the police.
Wallis Simpson was poorly treated in my view. My understanding is that it was expressly at the wishes of the then Queen, who despised Wallis and prevailed on her husband to thus humiliate Wallis. There was never any chance that anyone, anywhere, would defend Wallis or her rights, legal or otherwise. To be honest, I think that most sniggered at Wallis ('serves her right!') and were very happy that she was refused the title.
Well, the truth is Wallis was not an honourable woman to become Queen Consort and Edward was very selfish in abdicating the throne to marry her. Royal life is governed by duty and it was his duty to marry appropriately or not at all.
As The Sovereign, he was Supreme Governor of The Church of England and divorce was a social disgrace at the time. He knew this and still made a very conscious decision to abdicate.
I do think, however, that Wallis was unfairly blamed and punished for The Duke's own selfishness. Once he abdicated, she really had no choice but to see it through and marry him. She was marrying a prince of the UK who remained HRH and she had the right to be HRH as his lawful wife.
I would like to differ in one respect to this statement - in my family, and part of Australia, any reference I ever heard to Prince Philip's mother was always as Princess Andrew of Greece. Princess Alice when used was in reference to Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
I distinctly remember asking my grandmother, in the 1960s, why a woman would have a name like Andrew and she then explained to this child (as I then was) that as Princess Andrew wasn't born a Princess of Greece she couldn't be Princess Alice of Greece but had to take the name of her husband when in Greece. I thought it strange at the time but understand it now.
In 1969, when she died, our local paper definitely referred to her as 'Princess Andrew of Greece'. I had that paper for many years, until a fire destroyed my parent's garage in the 1980s. There was no reference, in that article to Princess Alice at all - just Princess Andrew of Greece, mother of the Duke of Edinburgh. Maybe the fact that I grew up in a very small rural town we were still keeping some older titles whereas the big cities were becoming less so by the late 60s. Remember that we were only getting about five hours a day of TV at that time too.
I never heard the use of the name Princess Alice except with regard to Princess Alice of Athlone, who died in 1981 aged 97. She was the last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria and I remember reading about her in the 1960s and 1970s whenever I could as a link to Victoria. My grandmother still had relatives living in England who sent her papers and letters about the royals until her death. I loved reading their views on things and of these people.


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Q: assignment in javascript and the var keyword I was reading the 'learning Node' book and I was stuck in a very simple issue, one that I haven't given too much thought about: assignment in javascript.
The author states that we should realize that by using the Node's REPL, the following would return undefined:
var a = 2
(undefined)

while the code below will return '2' in the REPL:
a = 2
2

why is that? the code right above is not an attribution? how come? If the var 'a' hasn't existed until that point in the code, how come it is not and attribution?

A: Per ECMA-262 § 12.2, a VariableStatement (that is, var identifier=value) explicitly returns nothing.  Additionally, a VariableStatement is a Statement; Statements do not return values, and it is invalid to put a Statement somewhere an Expression would go.
For example, none of the following make sense because they put a Statement where you need value-yielding Expressions:
var a = var b;
function fn() { return var x; }

Per § 11.13.1, assignment to a variable (identifier=value) returns the assigned value.

When you write var a = 1;, it declares a and initalizes its value to 1.  Because this is a VariableStatement, it returns nothing, and the REPL prints undefined.
a=1 is an expression that assigns 1 to a.  Since there is no a, JavaScript implicitly creates a global a in normal code (but would throw a ReferenceError in strict mode, since you're not allowed to implicitly create new globals in strict mode).
Regardless of whether or not a existed before, the expression still returns the assigned value, 1, so the REPL prints that.

A: Just guessing here - this could probably be verified by referring to the ECMAScript 5th Edition spec (but man that thing is a pain) - it probably has to do with the specification of the "var" statement vs assigning attributes to the "global" object.
When you declare a variable and assign a value to it (var a=2) the returned value is likely "undefined" because that's what the spec says the "var" statement should return.
When you assign a variable to a symbol without using the "var" statement you are actually assigning a value to an attribute of the global object of that name.  That is, a=2 is the same as saying window.a=2 and we know that assinging a value to an attribute returns the value assigned.

A: var a = 2 is a statement. Thus it has no value.

A: You are evaluating a statement list. When evaluating a statement list, the value of the last value-producing statement is returned. http://ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-12.1 - note the examples at the end of this section. If no statements in the list returned a value, then nothing will be returned (this is undefined in JavaScript).
The variable statement, does not return a value. http://ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-12.2
The assignment operator, does return a value (as well as performing the assignment). http://ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-11.13.1


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