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"The Preacher's Wife is a Witch"
On July 8, 2020 July 8, 2020 By LyndaIn Miscellaneous, online reading recommendation, other people's words, Reading
After considering and rejecting several framings for this piece over the last few days, I've decided to just let Autumn Christian's writing speak for itself, which it is more than capable of doing. This short piece "The Preacher's Wife is a Witch" suggests to me that she's a writer to watch, and you can subscribe to her newsletter and get more work like this delivered straight to your inbox here.
And as you read her cautionary tale, remember: you might be very surprised, when the time comes, at just who is willing–nay eager–to whisper your name in the ear of the witchfinder general.
New interview and more
On October 30, 2016 November 2, 2016 By LyndaIn interviews, Reading, WritingLeave a comment
First! Brian Lillie asked me lots of great questions for his blog 31 Hath October. Check out my answers (well, plus his questions) here!
Next! I wrote a chapter on "Finding Your Voice" in Writers on Writing, vol. 4, edited by Joe Mynhardt over at Crystal Lake Publishing. It's an ebook available on Amazon and is out now.
And! If you are looking for some great horror stories to read, Adam Nevill offers up a list over at The Quietus, including my story "The Dying Season" from Aickman's Heirs and lots of other great stuff.
Dancing With Shadows: The Charles L. Grant Blogathon
On September 16, 2016 September 16, 2016 By LyndaIn other people's words, Reading1 Comment
This post is part of the Charles L. Grant blogathon as curated by Neil Snowdon. All posts for the blogathon are available at that link as they appear.
I can't remember in which of two ways I first encountered Charles L. Grant: was it through his series of Shadows anthologies, or his short story "If Damon Comes"? It would have been at roughly the same time, sometime in my late teens, and both made deep impressions upon me. The short story I found in David Hartwell's anthology The Dark Descent, a book whose influence on me cannot be overstated, and it absolutely terrified me. I remember I read it over and over again, perhaps in the hopes that would somehow diminish its power, only to find the opposite happening.
It was a frightening story, but what made it work was Grant's technique: his elliptical approach to storytelling, what he did not include. There was also the mundane tragedy of the story at its core, that of a broken marriage, a broken family. Grant was a master of getting at the psychology of his characters and revealing sometimes-uncomfortable truths about human nature.
I have always been under the impression that it was Grant who coined the term "quiet horror" although as I write it now I wonder if I'm wrong, but it was a term often applied to his work. "If Damon Comes" is a masterpiece of quiet horror and demonstrates how devastating and scary such an approach can be.
And then there were the Shadows anthologies. I must have read all of them, some of them multiple times—along with Stuart Schiff's Whispers series, in my mind the two are indelibly linked—not even realizing that I was giving myself a foundational course in then-contemporary horror fiction, just reading them because I loved them. They were like a Who's Who of 1970s and 1980s horror. Ramsey Campbell, Dennis Etchison, Steve Rasnic Tem, Manly Wade Wellman, Lisa Tuttle, Joe R. Lansdale, Tanith Lee, and Melanie Tem were just a few of its influential alumni.
I met Charles L. Grant once. It was either at the very end of the 1990s or the beginning of the 2000s, at a World Horror or World Fantasy Con. I waited in line to have him sign a book for me—Jackals, not one of his best novels, and published as the commercial horror boom was waning—but I'd been reading it on the way to the convention. I was in awe of him—I was in awe of anyone who was a writer—still kind of star struck with the idea that I could walk up to these people that I'd read and admired and, well, technically make conversation although in my case it generally just amounted to me approaching them with a book held out before me like some kind of shield and shyly mumbling something about how much I liked their work before slinking away. Anyway, what I remember about meeting him was that he was gruff and funny. I handed the book to him babbling something about how I hadn't finished it yet but I was really enjoying it and he scrawled in it "Lynda, Finish the damn book!"
I love the vein of "quiet horror" in which Grant wrote. His manipulation of language and the slow burn of his storytelling isn't for every taste but rewards those who have the patience for it. And this is the perfect time to seek him out, for in my memory of his work, in Charlie Grant Land, it is always autumn.
Advance reading recs
On June 14, 2016 By LyndaIn other people's words, ReadingLeave a comment
I've had the pleasure of getting sneak previews of a couple of things coming out soon, one a short novel and one a novella.
David Longhorn is the editor of the well-regarded Supernatural Tales magazine [disclaimer: yes, I have had a few stories published there] and his debut novel proves that he's as adept at storytelling as he is at selecting stories. Sentinels is the first of a trilogy and has the same old-fashioned feel to it as a Jonathan Aycliffe novel (and here I mean "old-fashioned" as a compliment). Fast-paced and fun, Sentinels, set in England in 1940, mixes horror with international intrigue (Nazis! Spies!) and a dash of M.R. James (and maybe some Tombs of the Blind Dead, although that my just be my own undying fondness for that film coming through that made me picture the "Raggedy Men" as those scary undead Templars). I can't wait for the next installment. This is available on Amazon on June 17, and you should check it out–you can preorder it for a mere 99 cents as an ebook, and it's also available as a paperback. (Also available on Amazon UK.)
If you aren't already familiar with her, Shirley Jackson Award-nominated S.P. Miskowski writes stories about very bad, very real women. In other words, not women who are, say, bad but sexy. Or "women that you love to hate." Miskowski's characters are complex and terrifying and they probably will remind you of at least one person that you know or have known. Or maybe that's just me.
Muscadines is a very dark novella that is coming soon from Dunhams Manor Press. Here's what I had to say about it elsewhere: "Narrated in prose as languid and deceptively dreamlike as a Georgia summer afternoon, S.P. Miskowski's Muscadines feels like a fairy tale recast as a Southern Gothic—a fairy tale of the old, savage, unsanitized-for-modern-children's-consumption variety. Nobody does very bad women like Miskowski, and this deeply disturbing story further establishes her as a master at exploring the psychological terrain of the kind of women who aren't supposed to exist."
A horror mixtape with Mark West
On June 1, 2016 June 1, 2016 By LyndaIn ReadingLeave a comment
Last year, writer and all-around good guy Mark West curated a blog called King For A Year in which writers and readers went back and reread (or in some cases, read for the first time) a book by Stephen King and wrote about the experience. It was great fun for all involved, seeing what was up each week, and I went back to Carrie, a book I hadn't read since I was a teenager. So, needless to say, when Mark got in touch with me proposing a much smaller project, I leapt at the chance to join in.
This would be a single blog post: The Brit Horror Mixtape. Mark asked each of us to contribute a few words about a favorite (maybe I should make that favourite) British short horror story.
Just a single story! Harder than it looks! Would I choose something by Robert Aickman, Daphne Du Maurier, Arthur Machen, Ramsey Campbell, Lisa Tuttle? What about Oliver Onions's "The Beckoning Fair One"? I narrowed the field down by deciding I wanted to choose something by a writer who was still living, then I eliminated writers whose body of work was more influential for me than any single short story.
The choice then was pretty clear. Not that the writer I chose isn't one who has other work that has also affected me deeply, but if you asked me to name single stories (I'm not going to pick a number, because numbers are arbitrary and silly) that had profoundly affected me as a writer both stylistically and thematically but also changed, in some small way, the way that I see the world, this one would be one of the top ones on the list.
There are lots of other great choices on there as well–I was glad to see both Arthur Machen's "The White People" and Daphne Du Maurier's "The Birds" on there as well as double honors for Angela Carter along with two classic chillers, M.R. James's "The Mezzotint" and W.W. Jacobs's "The Monkey's Paw." It's actually a damn good list, a wonderful starting point for exploring British horror fiction, and you should check it out.
Interview with Steve Rasnic Tem
On January 23, 2014 January 24, 2014 By LyndaIn interviews, Reading, WritingLeave a comment
I've been reading Steve Rasnic Tem for two decades, and so when I learned he would write the introduction to my first short story collection, The Moon Will Look Strange, I was overjoyed. I was equally pleased to have the opportunity to interview him in connection with his latest collection from Swan River Press, Here with the Shadows, which is available now for pre-order and shipping next month. I got the opportunity to ask him about specific stories and themes in the book, his own approach to writing such powerful and moving fiction, and his personal history among other things. His responses were terrific, and very enlightening. You can find the interview here at the Swan River Press website, and while you're there, take a look around at some of the other books and chapbooks for sale.
Black Static #36
On October 7, 2013 By LyndaIn news, other people's words, Reading, WritingLeave a comment
Black Static #36 is out! In addition to my column, "Blood Pudding," there are stories by Jacob A. Boyd, Stephen Bacon, Tim Waggoner, Christopher Fowler, V.H. Leslie, and Ray Cluley plus Stephen Volk's regular column "Coffinmaker Blues," reviews by Tony Lee and Peter Tennant, an interview with the incomparable Nina Allan and the usual assortment of exceptional artwork.
Black Static is one of the premiere print magazines of the horror field, so if you love horror fiction and want to keep up with some of the best short fiction work being done in the genre, I highly recommend a subscription. You can also get it on Kindle in the US and in the UK.
Oh, and if you can't get enough of my writing, you can still buy my book.
"The Wife's Lament" in Supernatural Tales
On August 12, 2013 August 12, 2013 By LyndaIn news, Reading, WritingLeave a comment
My story "The Wife's Lament" is available now in the magazine Supernatural Tales #24, a fine journal edited by David Longhorn. When I first read the poem from which the story borrows its name and themes and imagery, I was fascinated by its weirdness and ambiguity and wanted to write a story about it for a long time before the right tale finally found me. Years ago, I translated the poem myself from the Old English (roughly), and bits of that translation appear in the story. Here is one translation (not mine), but the thing about this poem is that modern English can't do it justice, and what you don't get from reading anyone's translation is the confusion in the poem. It is really not clear, in the Old English, whether there is one man or two and who has "buried" her and whether that is literal or figurative–is this the lament of a dead woman, or is she still alive? What exactly has happened? The poem, in its original language, raises more questions than it answers. This might not be the case if we were native speakers of Old English; some of the confusion is over issues of syntax and word choice, and we don't have any early medieval Anglo Saxons hanging around that we can check with. Go here to hear a reading of the poem in the original Old English.
My version of "The Wife's Lament" is set in modern times. I really love this story; I hope you do too.
You can also read fiction from Stephen Goldsmith, Jane Jakeman, John Llewellyn Probert, Sean Logan, Michael J. Abolafia, and Sam Dawson (who also illustrated the cover for the ebook) as well as an assortment of reviews. The magazine is available in both print and ebook formats.
news: Nightmare Magazine sale
On November 28, 2012 November 28, 2012 By LyndaIn Reading, Writing2 Comments
I'm very pleased to report that I've sold my story "The House on Cobb Street" to the John Joseph Adams-edited Nightmare Magazine, a terrific new showcase for horror fiction that debuted this autumn. If the likes of Laird Barron, Ramsey Campbell, and Sarah Langan sound good to you, check out their October and November issues which can be purchased in e-reading formats or read online.
other people's words: 2
On November 26, 2012 November 26, 2012 By LyndaIn other people's words, WritingLeave a comment
An ongoing effort, each Monday, to point you to stuff old and new to read around the web. Mostly I'm focusing on highlighting sf/f/h fiction online, but I reserve the right to mix it up at anytime!
Today I'm linking to a back issue of Clarkesworld and a story by Nnedi Okorafor that I find interesting, in part, because it's uniquely suited for the web: From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7 is the report of a field worker on an alien planet that uses audio files and mouse-over text with the names of flora and fauna for their field guide entries. Now, the mouse-over stuff could arguably be replaced by footnotes on paper, but the audio files, of course, could not. You don't need any of those things to make the story work but they definitely enhance the futuristic field worker feel of it.
I remember in the early days of the web there was a lot of talk about hypertext and how fiction could really make use of new possibilities, but by and large that hasn't happened. I'm not really sure why, except to say that in my own case at least, I'm kind of a traditionalist when it comes to fiction; I generally like to just read stories that are well-told, whether the format's paper or electronic.
But sometimes, when I teach composition, I assign this story as an extra credit because I want students to know fiction isn't just decades-old stories in their textbook, that short genre fiction in particular is thriving online, and that short stories can potentially use this method of delivery in innovative ways.
Also, the story just kind of haunts me. I don't want to give anything away, so that's all I'll say.
And not online fiction, but an online crowdfunding fiction thing: Canadian writer and editor Michael Kelly is putting together a second volume of ghost stories Apparitions II. Your money will go toward paying professional rates to the writers, artist, and designer. And just check out this lineup thus far: Glen Hirshberg, Kathe Koja, John Langan, Sarah Langan, Mark Morris, Reggie Oliver, M. Rickert, and Simon Strantzas. Apparitions II will also have an open reading period in February 2013.


The Permanent Commission on Access to Justice was established in 2015, with the enactment of Part 51.1 of the Rules of the Chief Judge (22 NYCRR § 51.1), to continue the vital mandate of the Task Force to Expand Access to Civil Legal Services in New York. The Task Force was established in 2010 by then-Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman as part of a comprehensive effort to provide counsel to low-income New Yorkers in civil cases.
The change in status of the Task Force to a Permanent Commission was made in recognition of the Task Force's significant contributions towards increasing the availability of civil legal services, while acknowledging the work that remains to further remove barriers to justice for all New Yorkers (See then-Chief Judge Lippman's 2015 Press Release establishing the Permanent Commission).
The Permanent Commission's mission is two-fold. It provides support for the preparation of the Chief Judge's annual statewide hearing to assess the unmet needs for legal representation in civil legal proceedings involving fundamental human needs, as well as providing assistance in developing the Chief Judge's report and recommendations to the Legislature and the Executive about the level of public resources necessary to meet those needs.
The Permanent Commission's mission also concerns the expansion of access to civil legal services and the improvement of access to justice generally. The Permanent Commission has ongoing responsibility to study, analyze and develop recommendations on all aspects of civil legal services to low-income New Yorkers; to issue recommendations providing for improved and increased access; and to collaborate on access to justice issues, including expanded pro bono services and help for unrepresented litigants, with Hon. Edwina G. Mendelson, Deputy Chief Administrative Judge for Justice Initiatives.


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Improving Basecamp's accessibility - Interview with Michael Berger on how to make an existing web app more inclusive
Caution! This article was published over a year ago, and hasn't been updated since. Situation, software and support of the topic below could have changed in the meantime.
This March, Basecamp's famed Signal vs Noise blog published a great article about their commitment to improving inclusivity and accessibility of their core product. In "How we stopped making excuses and started improving Basecamp's accessibility", Michael Berger wrote about his pledge and personal mission to make Basecamp 3 more accessible to all. That article made its rounds since it is a great insight into how such developments sometimes do not start from the management level or external factors - e.g. lawsuits - but, in this case, from the quality assurance department, where Michael Berger works.
Articles like his are very inspiring - both to seasoned web developers who put an emphasis on a more inclusive web, and to companies and individuals, who just get started with the topic of web app accessibility. We should not forget that this is Basecamp - a company (or better, a team with a philosophy) to which many people are listening, that blogs regularly and publishes influential books.
Following my blog post "Building accessible web apps - where to start?", I reached out to Michael with a series of follow up questions regarding his article on Signal vs Noise. He was happy to answer my questions, and in the following, I will publish, with his permission, his valuable and insightful answers. Thanks again, Michael, for giving us really interesting insights in your work!
You wrote that accessibility of Basecamp was a topic from time to time, and there were even demonstrations of screen-reader usage. But these occasions have not lead to an accessibility agenda. What did you do differently in 2017? Was the decisive point to mark accessibility pain points as "bugs"?
Knowing that we could be delivering a better Basecamp experience for our customers with disabilities– but weren't – created a sort of tension that kept building over time. It was really eating at me! On top of that, we would have these lulls between active QA (Quality Assurance) testing on projects, which created some space for taking on new endeavors of this sort.
The initial work I did was around becoming familiar with the tools used to evaluate and test for accessibility, which gave me the understanding and language that I would need to communicate what I was finding to the rest of our team. At first I created bug reports for everything I would find. But that's not really how we schedule work at Basecamp. Changing our approach to instead raise accessibility issues as bugs during the QA phase of active feature development turned out the key to making incremental progress.
Have you consulted external experts during the changes?
Absolutely! The accessibility community is filled with great folks who jump at the chance to help each other out. To build on the many resources that you linked up in your article, there's an accessibility Slack account that I've found to be incredibly helpful. If I'm questioning how to interpret the WCAG guidance about how a given element should be coded I'll first dig through the archive of transcripts, and if I'm still not sure I'll pose my question in the #aria-patterns channel. It's wonderful having a central place to discuss these things.
The Chicago Accessibility Meetup group (there are similar groups in other cities around the world) has also been an important source of support. I've learned a lot from the presentations and connected with some great people working in the field. Marcy Sutton (of axe-core/Deque/a11y wins) gave a talk on automated testing last year, right when I was starting to look into automated accessibility testing.
The annual CSUN Assistive Technology Conference is a great event to consider going to, especially when you're just getting started in the field. I've attended the past two years and found it so worthwhile. Being in the presence of people with a variety of disabilities reminds you why you're doing this work. I've gotten a lot out of the sessions, from case studies that directly apply to my work, to topics like "Should Art Be Accessible or Inclusive?" that can expose you to a completely different side of accessibility. And on top of all that, it's another great chance to connect with people in the field. Like any conference it takes some planning to work around the low occupancy limits for the sessions and other implementation quirks, but overall I'd recommend it.
Which UI element was the biggest challenge to making accessible?
Timely question! The recently released Hill Charts feature took a bunch of work to make accessible. Hill Charts are a way to represent the progress of tasks visually on a bell curve. In addition to the inherently visual means of representing the data, data points on the chart were designed to be manipulated exclusively using a mouse (or a finger on a touch device).
When starting to look at cases like this I first turn to the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) for example patterns that seem similar to what we're designing. You can play around with the sample elements to get a feel for how the expected interactions, screen reader output, and markup required to get there.
As the feature started coming together I shared some detailed guidance on how I envisioned the experience of using Hill Charts with a screen reader and/or keyboard navigation as a recommendation for the team. We ended up using hidden slider elements that correlate with each dot on the hill, along with some javascript to watch the slider and update the dot on the hill accordingly. This complexity certainly added some time to the project, but we were able to keep our promise about incremental accessibility improvement with each new feature release.
Was it hard to get some form of "accessibility budget", internally? Even if you went into advance and developers could ask you questions regarding, extra costs certainly arose - as it is often the case, if a system is subsequently made inclusive?
This is sort of an ongoing conversation at Basecamp. The way that we first approached accessibility – incorporating testing and remediation into our QA process during new feature development – provided a useful constraint. We just need to make a single feature accessible at any given time.
Budgeting time to to make pre-existing interactions and flows accessible is bit more of a challenge. The majority of this work applies to some complex widgets, like autocomplete and picker elements for Pings (direct messages), @mentions, to-do assignments, the jump menu, and our date pickers. Our modals also need some work to ensure they lock focus and prevent a keyboard user from tabbing into the page behind the modal. Another big one is sprinkling around some aria-live so people using a screenreader are informed of new unread items and flash messages that communicate any errors (or successes) when submitting forms.
The recently launched Hill Charts feature required about an additional week of work to be made accessible. Reflecting on this project prompted us to start getting real about addressing the backlog: What will it take to get to the point where we can officially declare Basecamp 3 "accessible"? Getting to 100% accessibility may not be a realistic target, but I think we can get at least 90% of the way there with a realistic chunk of work.
Did your work and mission to make Basecamp more accessible also affect the development of its iOS, Android, Mac and Windows apps?
Absolutely. Our native apps are composed primary of web views with a variety of native adornments, so much of the work we do to make Basecamp accessible for the desktop browser automatically applies to the other platforms. Beyond that, we've taken a similar approach to improve accessibility of the mobile apps as we have for the desktop, enhancing accessibility with each new feature as it's developed.
Lately, we've started digging into some of the special hooks included in Apple's UIKit. For example, we can detect if VoiceOver is turned on and tweak the app interface so that the input to filter your list of projects is automatically presented, whereas otherwise it's shown upon swiping down on the list (you'll spot a similar behavior in Apple's native Mail app if you first turn on VoiceOver, then open the app.) I frequently turn to Apple and Google's first-party apps for ideas and inspiration. Both companies do an excellent job designing with accessibility in mind.
Apart from experiencing Basecamp with a screen reader, did you or do you use other accessibility testing tools (like aXe core, tenon.io, WAVE, browser extensions etc.)?
On the desktop, the tool I turn to most often is the aXe Chrome extension. It's great for generating a report of the types of accessibility failures that can be detected programmatically, like color contrast, semantic heading levels, proper form labelling, etc. We recently started looking into aXe core for automated reporting of these issues during development but we haven't flipped the switch yet.
On Android, accessibility scanner and TalkBack are the primary tools that I test with. While not specifically related to accessibility testing, I use Vysor to capture screenshots and screen recordings from my phone directly on my Mac.
On iOS, Apple's Accessibility Inspector built into Xcode is useful for checking to make sure that all elements have labels and touch targets meet the minimum size recommendations. From there, I've found it's mostly a matter of testing manually with VoiceOver to evaluate everything else.
It's good to remember that any automated tool only highlights a subset of accessibility issues. After running any automated testing tool it's important to test manually using screen readers (on both Mac and Windows), and checking that every interaction functions exclusively with the use a keyboard (without using a mouse).
Basecamp is known for putting many of its solutions and snippets under open source license on GitHub (for example https://trix-editor.org/). Is there a chance that you will do the same with your accessibility solutions?
This is definitely something I'd like to see happen. I'm not yet sure what form these tools would take but it would be wonderful if we could use our position to help others, especially other apps built on Rails, develop with accessibility in mind.
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It's been 12 years since Pete McBreen's book and 5 years since the Software Craftsmanship summit. So, what is the current state of Software Craftsmanship? If there is a Software Craftsmanship movement, where is it? What is it? Is it an elitist movement? Is Software Craftsmanship becoming a religion? Does it have a narrow focus? Is Software Craftsmanship just XP rebranded? Does it fit large organisations? In this presentation, Sandro will be talking about the current state of Software Craftsmanship, explaining its values and addressing some of its biggest criticisms.


The Live Chat or Live General Discussion can be found on the right hand side of the home page in WA. Just type in the box as shown below.
The purpose of the Live Chat is to give members of the WA community the opportunity to 'chat' in real time and get a quick response for issues that concern them. As it has evolved, people use in lots of different ways to support their internet marketing activities and as a member of the community. Take a look at the list below.
How should you use the Live Chat?
This is entirely up to you. Some people get irritated by the chat which has nothing to do with internet marketing, but for others it is an integral part of their experience. What's important is that you find how you can make it work for you.


Welcome to our ongoing series of Ryo's Recommendation, where Ryo from our engineering department will give you timely and useful IT advice to make your daily IT life easier.
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      "explain2": "De fleste hosttjenestene for video tilbyr denne funksjonen. Finn alternativet for å bygge inn videoen, kopier den aktuelle koden og legg den til i historien ved hjelp av alternativet for %WEBPAGE%-innhold.",
      "explain3": "Alternativt kan du hoste videoen selv sammen med en HTML-side som bruker en videospiller som %EXAMPLE%. Du legger deretter til URL-en til denne HTML-siden som en %WEBPAGE% i historien.",
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    },
    "webpageSelectorHome": {
      "lblUrl": "Kobling til nettside",
      "lblEmbed": "Bygg inn kode",
      "lblMustUseHTTPS": "Koblinger til webinnhold må begynne med HTTPS",
      "lblOR": "ELLER",
      "lblError1": "Feil, fjern ett av de to inndatafeltene.",
      "lblError2": "Innbygging av kode kan inneholde bare én %IFRAMETAG%",
      "configure": "Konfigurer"
    },
    "mediaConfigure": {
      "lblURL": "Kobling til bilde",
      "lblURLPH": "Koblinger må slutte med  .jpg, .png, .gif, eller .bmp.",
      "lblURLPHHTTPS": "https://www.example.com/image.jpg",
      "lblURLError": "Dette bildet ser ikke ut til å være gyldig. Angi en direkte kobling til en bildefil (URL-adressen skal normalt ende på .jpg eller .png). Koblinger til en webside som inneholder et bilde, kommer ikke til å fungere.",
      "lblURLErrorHTTPS": "Denne bildekoblingen er ikke gyldig. URL-en må begynne med HTTPS og slutte med en støttet filtype (JPG, PNG, GIF eller BMP).",
      "lblURLCheck": "Kontrollerer bilde...",
      "lblLabel": "Bildetekst",
      "lblLabel1": "Undertekst",
      "lblLabel2": "Tekst med musepekeren over",
      "lblLabel3": "Ingen",
      "lblLabelPH": "Skriv inn noe tekst...",
      "lblMaximize": "Ta med en maksimeringsknapp i bildehjørnet",
      "lblMaximizeHelp": "Anbefales bare for bilder av høy kvalitet",
      "lblPosition": "Posisjon",
      "lblPosition1": "Midtstill",
      "lblPosition2": "Fyll",
      "lblPosition3": "Tilpass",
      "lblPosition4": "Strekk",
      "lblPosition5": "Tilpasset",
      "lblURLHelp": "Bildekoblingen må begynne med HTTPS.

Du får best resultat når bildene er mindre enn 400 KB. Bruk komprimerte JPG-bilder med 80 % kvalitet og følgende anbefalte bildebredder: 200 piksler for hovedområde- og fortellingspanel med maksimeringsknapp og 1000 piksler for fortellingspanel uten maksimeringsknapp.

Hvis et koblet bilde tegnes sakte, laster du det opp til historien for å få bedre resultat.",
      "tooltipDimension": "Verdien kan angis i 'px' eller '%'",
      "tooltipDimension2": "Verdien må angis i piksler",
      "lblPosition2Explain": "(kan bli beskåret)",
      "lblPosition3Explain": "(blir ikke beskåret)",
      "lblPosition3Explain2": "(bredden passer alltid med panelet)",
      "lblPosition4Explain": "(kan bli forvrengt / vises skjevt)",
      "unloadLbl": "Last ut når leseren navigerer bort",
      "unloadHelp": "Hvis nettsiden har lyd- eller videomedier, beholder du dette alternativet avmerket for å forhindre at det innholdet spilles av når leseren navigerer bort. Fjern merket for eksempel for å la et lydspor fortsette å spilles av mens leseren går gjennom historien.
Hvis websiden er et program, fjerner du avmerkingen for dette alternativet, slik at historien ikke lastes inn på nytt hvis leseren går tilbake til den.",
      "embedProtocolLabel": "Last inn scenen med en sikker tilkobling (HTTPS)",
      "embedProtocolWarning1": "Hvis denne siden ikke lastes inn i historien, kan den ikke bygges inn av hensyn til nettsikkerheten. Du kan eventuelt legge til en kobling i fortellingen som åpner siden i en ny nettleserfane. Mer informasjon",
      "embedProtocolWarning2": "Hvis denne siden ikke lastes inn i historien, fjerner du merket for dette alternativet og prøver på nytt. Hvis den fremdeles ikke lastes inn,  kan den ikke bygges inn av hensyn til nettsikkerheten. Du kan eventuelt legge til en kobling i fortellingen som åpner siden i en ny nettleserfane. Mer informasjon",
      "useParentOriginLabel": "La medlemmer i andre organisasjoner få tilgang til dette innholdet.",
      "useParentOriginTooltip": "Aktiver dette alternativet bare hvis websiden er en ArcGIS-webapplikasjon som deles med medlemmer i andre organisasjoner. Organisasjonen din må ha alternativet for å logge på hos andre organisasjoner aktivert.",
      "learn": "Mer informasjon",
      "lblAltText": "Alternativ tekst",
      "placeholderAltText": "Angi en beskrivelse av dette mediet for brukere med nedsatt syn...",
      "tooltipAltText": "Angi en beskrivelse av dette medieinnholdet som brukes av hjelpeteknologi som skjermleserprogramvare. Beskrivelsen er valgfri, men anbefales for å oppfylle retningslinjene for universell utforming av nettinnhold, som WCAG og Section 508."
    },
    "editorActionGeocode": {
      "lblTitle": "Finn en adresse eller et sted",
      "mapMarkerExplain": "Brukeren ser en kartmarkør når han/hun klikker på koblingen"
    },
    "editorActions": {
      "navigate": "Naviger til en annen oppføring",
      "remove": "Fjern handling",
      "preview": "Forhåndsvis handling"
    },
    "editorActionMedia": {
      "lblTitle": "Endre innholdet for hovedstadiet"
    },
    "editorInlineMedia": {
      "lblTitle": "Sett inn et bilde, en video eller en webside"
    }
  }
});

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Q: How to work with SQLite (CRUD) in a Quasar project? I'm on a Quasar(v2) project (with Vue 3 and Composition API) and need to use an already populated SQLite file as my database.
But I'm not being able to import data from inside a vue component directly.
Maybe it has to be initialized from somewhere else (boot file or electron-main).
But I'm lost.
Anyone knows how can I make CRUD operations from a vue component using Quasar+SQLite?

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Hyacinth Macaw Project
The Hyacinth Macaw
Neiva Guedes
WHO IS NEIVA GUEDES? LEARN A BIT ABOUT HER CAREER PATH
In 1991, she began a Master's degree program in Forestry Science at the "Luiz de Queiroz" Agricultural School – ESALQ/USP, having been awarded a scholarship by CAPES. Under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Álvaro F. Almeida, she developed the study "The Reproductive Biology of the Hyacinth Macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus) in the Pantanal – MS". In the field, she worked in collaboration with North American biologist, Dr. Lee Harper. The study was conducted in the Nhecolândia Pantanal, using the infrastructure of the Fazenda Nhumirim, CPAP/Embrapa with support from the WWF and a vehicle provided by Toyota do Brasil (to get the vehicle, she became a factory test driver). Her work attracted the attention of the scientific community and in 1991, Neiva presented her initial findings on the reproductive biology of the hyacinth macaw at the 1st Brazilian Ornithology Conference, in Belém-PA, and at the Meeting of American Ornithologists in Montreal, Canada.
In October 1993, Neiva Guedes completed her master's degree, with recognition for the technical quality, innovation, and relevance of her research. She continued the project without any institutional affiliation, until March 1994, when she entered CESUP, currently UNIDERP. At the University, Neiva received total support from the directors of the institution and pursued her fight for the conservation of the hyacinth macaw.
In 1998, while based at the Caiman Ecological Reserve, she was able to hire a full-time field research assistant. Until then, Neiva would take the Toyota jeep and travel in the Pantanal for 20 to 30 days at a time, transporting equipment, food, and at most, one assistant. During that period, she relied on the help of relatives, friends, volunteers, and interns. Despite the collaboration of dozens of people in field activities, Neiva was the only person who knew all the documented nests. Besides being a researcher, she was also a test driver, a driver, a mechanic, a mountain climber, a public relations specialist responsible for obtaining funding, and the project manager.
Neiva studied the life of the hyacinth macaws in the wild and went on to manage the environment, testing and producing artificial nests, handling eggs and chicks, and above all, involving the public and publicizing the importance of keeping the hyacinth macaws free-flying in the wild. As a result, these birds, which had become increasingly rare over the past few decades, have become common and abundant in various regions of the Pantanal and the State of Mato Grosso do Sul. This fact is not only supported by the data collected by the researcher herself, but also by other scientists and local residents. Over the last 17 years, the project has become an example of conservation, serving as a reference for other Psittacidae in Brazil and worldwide.
Neiva Guedes has published various works, including articles in scientific periodicals, publications for events and conferences, and book chapters, and she has given dozens of lectures in Brazil and abroad. Neiva has trained over a hundred academics (Brazilian and foreign) in the techniques she developed for the project, and has contributed to the preparation of teaching material.
Neiva Guedes is married to Joaselei Lemos Cardoso and they have a daughter named Sophia.
curriculum vitae – Résumé
Neiva M. R. Guedes earned an undergraduate degree in Biology from UFMS (1987), a master's in Forestry Science from ESALQ/USP (1993), and a doctorate in Zoology from UNESP/Botucatu (2009). She is a professor and researcher in the Master's Program in Environment and Regional Development of the Universidade Anhanguera – Uniderp. She is the president of the Instituto Arara Azul.
Since 1990, she has worked for and coordinated the Blue Macaw Project, where she has developed studies of the basic biology and monitoring of the endangered species Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus. She promotes nature conservation management and environmental education activities. She is a member of the "Committee for the Conservation and Management of the Hyacinth Macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus)", the "Committee for the Conservation and Management of the Lear's Macaw (Anodorhynchus leari)", and the "Workgroup for the Recovery of the Spix's Macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii)" coordinated by IBAMA. She is a member of the board of Parrots International.
Her works have been published as book chapters, journal articles, and for conferences, and she has also given numerous lectures in Brazil and abroad.
Areas of expertise: Biology, management, conservation.
To see her complete resume, go to http://lattes.cnpq.br/7358580565148346
Neiva Guedes has given numerous interviews to the various media. The most recent are:
GUEDES, Neiva. Blue Macaw Project: Uma bandeira para a conservação do Pantanal. Jornal do Conselho Regional de Biologia 1a. Região (SP, MT, MS), São Paulo, year XI, n.134, p.5-9, January 2006.
ABRANCHES, Sérgio. A madrinha das araras azuis. O Eco, www.oeco.com.br, 21 de agosto de 2005.
http://arruda.rits.org.br/oeco/servlet/newstorm.ns.presentation.NavigationServlet?publicationCode=6&pageCode=83&textCode=13435&date=currentDate&contentType=html
Neiva Guedes. Ambiente Brasil, www.ambientebrasil.com.br, 13 de outubro de 2004. http://www.ambientebrasil.com.br/noticias/index.php3?action=ler&id=16482
PROJECT STUDY AREAS
Project work began in the Nhecolândia Pantanal with the support of the Fazenda Nhumirim of the Pantanal Center from Agriculture and Livestock Research – CPAP Embrapa and 13 other properties in the region. Later, at the invitation of the owners of the Pousada Arara Azul, the Project expanded to the Abobral Pantanal.
Currently, the Project focuses its research efforts in the Miranda region, because it has a Field Base in the Caiman Ecological Refuge (R.E.C.). Starting from this point, the Project is able to expand its macaw monitoring efforts to a radius of more than 57 farms in this region and other neighboring areas.
In the Mato Grosso region, research is carried out in order to monitor and track the population of hyacinth macaws in the Barão de Melgaço and Perigara regions in the Pantanal. Due to the high costs of travel and the difficult access to this region by researchers, the work is normally concentrated and carried out during the breeding period of hyacinth macaws (from July to December).
In other regions of Brazil, such as Tocantins, São Paulo and Bahia, there are researchers associated with Instituto Arara Azul, carrying out monitoring work on nests and baby birds (macaws as well as other species), under the guidance of Neiva Guedes.
In 2016, the first hyacinth macaw nest in the region of Campo Grande-MS was registered, thus marking the species' arrival in that city. To get to know more about the work performed in this region, click on Learn More.
THE FIELD TEAM
Currently, the field team consists of the Project coordinator, Neiva M. R. Guedes, four collaborating biologists, a technician in Ambiental Conservation, a field assistant, as well as the participation of interns and volunteers. (See the whole team here). Want to be part of this team? Click here:
Associate researchers participate sporadically in field activities, depending on the objectives, but once the material is collected it is sent to the research partners in the laboratories at UNIDERP, USP, UNICAMP, UNESP, and ULBRA.
The Project relies on a full-time team, generally 1-2 people in the first half and 3-6 people on the second half of the year, to develop the activities of monitoring, handling and research at Pantanal.
During the dry season, from June to November, we use the Toyota Hilux for travel and have access to almost all the nests. During the flooding season, some nests are isolated by water. In these occasions, we use tractors, boats, horses, or if necessary we go on foot, carrying all the necessary equipment in backpacks for up to several kilometers, depending upon the location of the nest.
The activities vary depending on the time of year whether the breeding period (2nd semester), the non-breeding period (1st semester), the climatic conditions, and individual needs.
Additionally, during the course of the year, we work with community involvement through environmental education for children, ranch hands, and ranch owners or in the schools, we give lectures, we conduct sewing, handicraft, and other workshops for low-income women, and we participate in fairs and exhibitions.
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GUEDES, NMR, 2015. The Hyacinth Macaw Project – Biology, Management, and Conservation. Instituto Arara Azul, Website. Campo Grande, MS, 112p.
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I am not one to grow weepy at the thought of my children getting older, but there is something about the thought of this child turning four that gives me pause.
She has always been so little, you know—fiesty and loud and sweet and little—and yet, tomorrow she turns four, an age that isn't exactly big but that does turn some sort of corner, taking her out of toddlerdom and into a new season of life, where the questions are frequent and the play enthralling.
The Maggie B. suits this season in Sarah's life and so it makes sense that she enjoys it: the story is an adventure story but a comforting one, where the objects of everyday life—soup, storms and younger siblings—are a part of the quiet action. When Margaret Barnstable, heroine of The Maggie B., wishes on a star, she wishes for a ship "named after me, to sail for a day alone and free, with someone nice for company." She gets her wish, and she and her brother sail the seas together in a comfy ship (complete with farm and fruit trees) for a single day. It is a wish I could see Sarah making.
In fact, it is a wish I might have made as a child—or might still make, if given the opportunity. Something about this book enchanted me the very first time I read it, and it has remained a favorite in our family ever since, but I am glad to see Sarah adopting it as a personal favorite now and bringing it to me while I clear the table after dinner with that sleepy question: "Will you read this to me?" The thought that she'll be reading to herself soon, that I won't hear that question from her for much longer—that might make me a little weepy. But until then, I'll enjoy those moments on the couch with Sarah's hair tickling my chin, reading The Maggie B.


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WEIBO CAMPAIGN OF THE WEEK – JANUARY 2012
Shanghai Shenhua picked out a random fan to join negotiations for the signing of Dider Drogba.
With over 5,000 comments in less than 2 hours, the campaign launched yesterday by Zhu Jun (team owner) created huge excitement amongst Chinese football fans, with social media sites buzzing with the news. With one single post, Zhu reached over 8,000 comments before the winner was chosen to accompany Shanghai Shenhua's management team on a trip to London to negotiate Drogba's deal.
For the first time a club is giving their fans the chance to play a part in the biggest transfer ever to happen in China, making them feel part of a community like never before.
The campaign is a perfect example of how the Sporting World is changing, as Social Media transforms the fan experience both on and offline (for the better, if you ask us).
The truth is that facts speak louder than words. Let's have a quick look at the numbers of Europe's Top 4 most followed teams.
Manchester Utd – 140,127 fans
Liverpool FC – 119,230 fans
Real Madrid – 103,043 fans
Inter Milan – 102,266 fans
If you then consider basketball pages and players like Kevin Garnett with 779,859 followers or the official NBA page with 11 million, you'll feel the impact of social media even more.
But that's another story…
#weibo #SportingCommunities #sport #football #LFC


Today started out gray and gloomy, but when Dan came in from the garden with our first 3 Heirloom tomatoes of the season, I was inspired to make lunch using some of the tomatoes along with a number of other items we call "mezethes" or appetizers in Greek. Remembering the sun-drenched days we spent on taverna patios in Greece, I could just taste those tomatoes that are like no others. Sweet, juicy and meaty, we could never get enough whether in a salad or just sliced on a plate. So that's what I did…sliced the tomatoes on a plate and added creamy, salty feta cheese, kalamata olives, quartered hard boiled eggs, ham and hot banana pepper rings, all sprinkled with oregano, olive oil and vinegar and pretended we were back in Greece. The only thing missing was the Retsina wine and crusty, fresh-baked bread. Mmmm…good! It hit the spot and sent me in to the computer to look, once again, at some of our photos of our many visits to Greece. Funny how a taste or a smell can take you right back to another time, another experience. Even though nothing compares to being there, the memories and photos will do for now!!
When's the last time you took a trip down memory lane??
See you next time. Yassou!
It was great-and these tomatoes were good but Greeces still were better. A nice mix of flavors that's for sure!
Our heirloom tomato seedlings are only 2 inches tall at this point, but they are So worth the wait until September, when they are huge, and red all the way through!
My favorite combination is with feta and herbs.
Your family definitely influenced my palate on Berkeley Street!
Those were the days ! Lets hope for more over there !!
Even though I had a Gyro for lunch today, it doesn't compare to what your dish looks like – and those heirloom tomatoes – Ohhhh!
Hi Maddie, I know…the heirlooms are delicious. We love having feta and olives and tomatoes with white bean salad. I like to keep that on hand, although we go through it pretty fast!!
Hi Georgia! Seems like eons ago, doesn't it??!! Fingers crossed…one of these days after everything else we'll be back!
Hi Penny, there's nothing like tomatoes from the garden, but for whatever reason, they still don't taste like the ones in Greece. They are, however, better than store-bought! Glad we could influence your palate in such a good way!
Hi Danny, I agree. All our tomatoes should taste so good!!
We try to eat this everyday…those toms look incredible..


The OcuPi unit from Starlight Xpress creates a Wi-Fi hotspot for your Oculus All Sky cam to make use of as well as recording all the nights images to an internal SD card.
Based on the 'Raspberry Pi' and utilizing software from David Schmek, this portable device will send live images to a wifi connected device like an iPad while being mounted to the mast of your Oculus. The OcuPi also includes software that can start imaging at dusk and stop at dawn automatically, and will also auto-create an mpeg movie of the previous night's frames. This unit and the Oculus both run off of 12VDC power.


You have searched though forbidden texts and are privy to powerful but proscribed magic.
Prerequisites: Int 13, ability to cast 1st-level paladin spells.
Benefit: Pick one 1st-level spell, one 2nd-level spell, one 3rd-level spell, and one 4th-level spell from the bard, cleric, inquisitor, or oracle spell lists. Add these spells to your paladin spell list as paladin spells of the appropriate level. Once chosen, these spells cannot be changed.


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#ifndef ZXING_VERSION_H
#define ZXING_VERSION_H

#include <QSharedPointer>
#include <zxing/qrcode/ErrorCorrectionLevel.h>
#include <zxing/ReaderException.h>
#include <zxing/common/BitMatrix.h>
#include <vector>

namespace zxing {
namespace qrcode {

class ECB {
private:
  int count_;
  int dataCodewords_;
public:
  ECB(int count, int dataCodewords);
  int getCount();
  int getDataCodewords();
};

class ECBlocks {
private:
  int ecCodewordsPerBloc_;
  std::vector<ECB*> ecBlocks_;
public:
  ECBlocks(int ecCodewordsPerBloc, ECB *ecBlocks);
  ECBlocks(int ecCodewordsPerBloc, ECB *ecBlocks1, ECB *ecBlocks2);
  int numBlocks() const;
  int getECCodewordsPerBloc();
  int getTotalECCodewords();
  std::vector<ECB*>& getECBlocks();
  ~ECBlocks();
};

class Version  {

private:
  int versionNumber_;
  std::vector<int> &alignmentPatternCenters_;
  std::vector<ECBlocks*> ecBlocks_;
  int totalCodewords_;
  Version(int versionNumber, std::vector<int> *alignmentPatternCenters, ECBlocks *ecBlocks1, ECBlocks *ecBlocks2,
          ECBlocks *ecBlocks3, ECBlocks *ecBlocks4);

public:
  static unsigned int VERSION_DECODE_INFO[];
  static int N_VERSION_DECODE_INFOS;
  static std::vector<QSharedPointer<Version> > VERSIONS;

  ~Version();
  int getVersionNumber() const;
  std::vector<int> &getAlignmentPatternCenters();
  int getTotalCodewords();
  int getDimensionForVersion();
  ECBlocks &getECBlocksForLevel(const ErrorCorrectionLevel &ecLevel) const;
  static QSharedPointer<Version> getProvisionalVersionForDimension(int dimension);
  static QSharedPointer<Version> getVersionForNumber(int versionNumber);
  static QSharedPointer<Version> decodeVersionInformation(unsigned int versionBits);
  QSharedPointer<BitMatrix> buildFunctionPattern();
  static int buildVersions();
};
}
}

#endif // ZXING_VERSION_H


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Zachary Levi, who stars in DC and Warner Bros.' upcoming Shazam, put the film in Hollywood screenwriting terms for the hundreds of fans who crowded into his panel session at New York Comic-Con's SYFY Wire Live Stage.
The film, set for release on April 5, 2019, centers on foster child Billy Batson, a teen-ager able to transform into the titular adult superhero Shazam, portrayed by Levi. Batson derives his heroic attributes by saying, "Shazam," an acronym for the ancient-world gods and historical figures Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles and Mercury.
The hyper-chatty 20-minute talk, conducted amid the din of one of the large halls in the Javits Center, showcased Levi's antic, verbal tendencies. Unprompted, he talked about the "self-care" of going to therapy and even lamented that while he has been doing intense physical work-outs recently while shooting the film, he has his moments of vulnerability.


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The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/2021/03/beloved-bridge-street-school-razed/)
Beloved Bridge Street School Razed
By Lester Smith | March 1, 2021
Photo by Lester Smith
On January 28, the second day of demolition, the excavator reaches into the exposed north end of Bridge Street School's gym/cafeteria to tear out more of the kitchen, which occupied the space of the original stage under the high proscenium arch. In the 1920s, the town enjoyed silent movies there on Friday nights.
It was a long, complicated story. The elementary school built on Bridge Street in 1924 to serve children who lived near the Town Center had been closed in 2004 when it was no longer needed. For years it was used for storage, a police dog training school, and a convenient location to sort and store books for the annual Friends of the Library book sale. It was also considered as the possible location for an apartment house, for conversion to serve as a new library, and most recently for adaptation and expansion into a Town community center.
The community center proposal was approved by a Town Meeting vote in 2015 appropriating $8.4 million for the project and authorizing the issuance of bonds up to that amount. But it was soon learned that the cost would be greater that what had been voted, and the proposal was not pursued by the Town administration in spite of protests by the project's supporters. Several years passed, and the building, inadequately maintained, developed mold growth and various other deterioration until the Town Building Inspector posted the doors and ordered the building remediated or torn down.
Hazardous material in the building (mostly asbestos) was removed first, as regulations now require. That work was completed, largely out of sight. Then came the very public demolition, with many residents coming to mourn the passing of the building they remembered well. One alumnus, who came to take photos, said watching was "like having your heart torn out."
The crew from Associated Building Wreckers spent more of their time sorting the rubble than in actual demolition; metal, wood, and other material had to be separated from the brick, terra cotta, and concrete rubble. But in a week and a half, there was nothing left above the floors of the main level, and a good deal of the recyclables and the rubble had already been removed from the site. By the Observer's press time, the contractor was finished with what could be done this winter. ABR has the obligation to leave the site graded smooth and seeded with grass, a job that will have to wait for the ground to thaw.
Town officials have discussed developing the spot, with its playing field alongside, as a park.
By February 2, demolition had proceeded beyond the north wall of the school's main corridor, exposing some of the fanciful murals, which many Bridge Street alumni fondly recall. The doors at the left led to classrooms 2 and 3. Room 2 was behind the elephant and his colorful friends. Photo by Lester Smith
School's out. First day of Bridge Street School demolition by Association Building Wreckers. Photo by Larry Edwards
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'90 Day Fiance' Star Ashley Martson Denies Ever Separating From Husband Jay Smith Even After Filing for Divorce
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Ashley Martson and and Jay Smith attend the Indonesian Diversity FW19 Collections: 2Madison Avenue, Alleira Batik, Dian Pelangi and Itang Yunas front row during New York Fashion Week: The Shows at Industria Studios on February 7, 2019. John Lamparski/Getty Images
Fake drama? A month after filing for divorce, 90 Day Fiancé star Ashley Martson is claiming that she and husband Jay Smith never actually split during their relationship.
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"I'm breaking the NDA and surprise: Jay and I have never separated since the day we were married," the 32-year-old wrote on Sunday, February 10, via her Instagram Story. "Breaking the NDA means I won't be paid a dime for future shows. We were made to act as if our relationship was no longer active." (The duo are rumored to be a part of the next season of 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After.)
Us Weekly previously confirmed that Martson filed for divorce from Smith, 20, on January 11 after the Jamaica native alleged that his wife was unfaithful in a cryptic Instagram post. (Smith, for his part, was previously caught talking to another girl on a dating app one day after they wed in Las Vegas in May 2018.)
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Nine days after Marston filed her divorce petition, however, the TLC personality withdrew the paperwork. The twosome, who documented their relationship on season 6 of 90 Day Fiancé, appeared to be in good spirits on Thursday, February 7, as they were spotted leaving Starbucks in New York City.
Martson also addressed a series of other reports about her on Sunday, including accusations that she was faking her battle with lupus and used the money raised by fans on GoFundMe for something other than her medical bills.
"I was very sick a few weeks ago and was admitted into the ER for a seizure and acute renal failure," she wrote on her Instagram Story. "After three doctors and many decisions regarding dialysis and a possible port placement, they first decided to try IV treatments and medications for blood calcium/potassium levels as an alternative. Fortunately, the alternative treatment was successful."
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Marston underwent surgery on January 15 two days after she collapsed at her home and was subsequently hospitalized for kidney failure. Shortly after the star's complications from lupus made headlines, a GoFundMe campaign was launched to help her pay for her treatment.
"Many of your reported the Go Fund Me as fraud, so I *did* have to prove my hospitalization so that the money would be given to me, and it was," Marston wrote on Sunday. "Thank you again. If I couldn't prove it, then the Go Fund Me would have been removed as a violation of their policies."
Us Weekly has reached out to TLC for a comment.


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Nowa Wieś – część wsi Strzeszyn w Polsce, położona w województwie małopolskim, w powiecie gorlickim, w gminie Biecz. Wchodzi w skład sołectwa Strzeszyn.

W latach 1975–1998 Nowa Wieś administracyjnie należała do województwa krośnieńskiego.

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