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Bel Trew
Middle East Journalist
>About Bel Trew is a freelance features writer specialising in the Middle East. Bel reported from Egypt during the Egyptian Revolution and is currently based between London and Cairo writing on the Arab Spring. A graduate of Cambridge University, Bel was previously at Condé Nast's Tatler and has worked with the BBC, Intelligent Life, Stylist, Evening Standard, Al-Ahram weekly, Company, CityLife and In Magazines among others. Bel has worked in The West Bank, Palestine, grew up in the Gulf and has travelled extensively throughout the Middle East. Bel also covers Travel, Current Affairs, Fashion and the Arts. For commissions please email.
Bel Trew is a Middle East reporter for The Times (of London) and a broadcast journalist based in Cairo.
Email: bel.trew@the-times.co.uk
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Tag: Khan Sheikhoun
Syria: Family of 11 clung together in death
The entire Bakrieh family in Douma were found in a heap on the bathroom floor. After a gas bomb tore through their building, the parents had tried to scrub the chemicals off their children's skin. But the toxic cloud overwhelmed the family of 11 before they could protect them.
Abdullah Abu Homam, a local volunteer, said that all of them had damp clothes and foam on their mouths. Three of the children were toddlers in nappies. One of the women was still cradling her child by the sink.
"When I entered the flat they were all in the bathroom, their clothes were still wet so we believe they tried to rinse themselves in vain. Eventually they must have realised it was over so they drew closer together and died," Abu Homam said.
At 7pm on Saturday a metre-long gas bomb had punched through the roof of their four-storey block of flats in the last rebel-controlled enclave near Damascus. Video footage showed that it had landed on a bed in a top-floor room.
As many as 70 people died, the majority women and children, and 500 were injured, according to the Syrian American Medical Society. The worst hit were families who had hidden in basement shelters to escape airstrikes.
If confirmed, Saturday's gas attack would be the deadliest in Syria since warplanes dropped nerve gas on the rebel town of Khan Sheikhoun, killing 89 people a year ago.
Just hours after Saturday's killings, the Syrian government confirmed that rebels had agreed to withdraw from Douma and allow full regime control of the area. Yesterday, 20 buses carrying fighters, their relatives and civilians left the area for rebel-held districts in the north. There was speculation that Saturday's attack was a ploy to speed up the withdrawal deal. As many as 50,000 residents are expected to leave.
Everyone in the Bakriehs' building and a nearby block of flats was killed, according to Abu Homam. He described following a trail of foam up the stairwell to the bodies of a woman hugging her two daughters.
"It seemed that they tried to reach the top of the building after running from the basement because I saw the foam trail all over the stairs to the fourth floor," he said.
The gas was so strong that one man whose sister died in the building said he passed out hours after the attack when he found her body. "I tried to hug her but the smell of the gas was so intense I couldn't. I fell to the ground, could not move and blacked out," he said.
More than 1,745 people, including 400 children, have been killed since the onslaught against the rebel stronghold started in February, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
For full story click: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/syria-family-of-11-clung-together-in-death-9gqmzmdjv
HALIL EL-ABDULLAH/GETTY IMAGES
Posted on April 10, 2018 May 20, 2018 Categories Featured Work, Middle East, PrintTags Assad, Bel Trew, chemical attack, children, Douma, Khan Sheikhoun, Syria
Sarin killed my unborn baby. When will it end?
Bel Trew, Cairo
Struggling to breathe in the aftermath of the sarin gas attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun last month, Aya Fadl was one of many people rushed to the nearest hospital.
As the paramedics attached an oxygen mask to her face, she prayed she would survive — and that her unborn baby would too.
Ms Fadl was ten weeks pregnant when on April 4 a regime warplane dropped a chemical bomb on the town in northwest Syria, killing 25 of her relatives and 92 people in all.
She lived. Her baby did not.
"Days later the doctor told me that my baby had died because of the gas. I was devastated, there are no words," she said. "It felt terrible. I was 70 days pregnant at the time."
Ayaa Fadl's account of the Sarin gas attack
Ms Fadl, 25, collapsed from the poisonous fumes after stumbling upon a lorry packed with the corpses of her dead relatives. She awoke in hospital, along with her son Nadjat, two, and her husband, Alaa, 27. Three of the 25 relatives she lost died only recently, after being taken to a hospital in Turkey in a vain attempt to save their lives. One of them was aged 11, she said.
Read full article: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sarin-killed-my-unborn-baby-when-will-it-end-q8pgxp2tg
PHOTO: AYA FADL
Posted on May 17, 2017 September 23, 2017 Categories Middle East, PrintTags Aya fadl, Bel Trew, chemical attack, Khan Sheikhoun, nerve gas, president assad, Syria, Syrian Civil War
Father's tragic bid to save family from warplanes
A Syrian father who told his wife to take their babies and hide from the warplanes unwittingly sent all three of them to their deaths.
Abdelhamid al-Youssef, 29, left his loved ones with a paramedic when he saw a missile strike near his parents' home in the town of Khan Sheikhoun. He told his family before he left: take cover.
Delal, following her husband's advice, carried their nine-month-old twins Ahmed and Aya to the basement of the building, normally the safest place in an airstrike. This time, however, the warplanes shrieking overhead had dropped nerve gas — which, because it is heavier than air, quickly began to pool at the bottom of the apartment block, suffocating them.
"Hours later rescuers found them in a basement near our house, dead, with foam in the noses and mouths," Mr Youssef told The Times. "When I saw them —" he began, before breaking off into a shaky prayer. "I did not expect that. Oh God!"
He lost 22 members of his family to the nerve gas attack in Khan Sheikhoun, in the northwest province of Idlib, last Tuesday. The toxic bomb, containing what Turkish officials confirmed yesterday was sarin gas, had landed on their street.
The image of Mr Youssef weeping over the hastily dug graves of his wife and babies was one of the most heartbreaking of the many which emerged after the attack. Another, showing him carrying his dead twins swaddled in white funerary cloths, summed up the horror of the killings.
Eighty-six people, 30 of them children, were killed and 540 injured in the attack, widely attributed to the Assad regime. Fighter jets returned hours after the chemical attack and bombed the Rahma hospital where the wounded were being treated, perhaps in the hope of destroying any evidence that chemical weapons had been used.
Read full article: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/father-s-tragic-bid-to-save-family-from-warplanes-qgfh89hbz
Posted on April 12, 2017 September 23, 2017 Categories Middle East, PrintTags Abdelhamid al-youssef, Bel Trew, chemical attack, Khan Sheikhoun, president assad, Syria, Syrian Civil War
Khan Sheikhoun: 'I saw the dead bodies of 22 members of my family'
Minutes after the first missile hit, Abdelhamid al-Youssef and his young wife, Delal, scooped up their nine-month-old twins and ran down to the street, thinking it would be safer. Three more missiles landed nearby, and Abdelhamid ran back to check on his brothers.
His efforts were in vain: his brothers were dead. And when he returned to his wife and babies he found them dead too.
A few metres down the road in the town of Khan Sheikhoun, his cousin Alaa and his wife, Ayaa, and their 20-month-old son Najdat, could feel a boiling sensation in their lungs as an odourless, colourless gas seeped in through the windows.
"The air didn't smell bad at first but it became heavy, you couldn't breathe. It felt like it had weight in it," said Ayaa, a teacher. "Then our eyes started to hurt and we felt terrible."
The toxic clouds, believed to be a lethal cocktail of chlorine and nerve agent, were heavier than air, and pooled at the bottom of apartment blocks and houses — with inevitable consequences for Abdelhamid's wife and twins, and many others who had gone to ground in the mistaken belief that that would save them.
Ayaa said that a lorry arrived soon after the attack to remove the dead. "They told us we have a lot of dead people inside. I looked in — and there were my relatives," she said.
Among the heap of bodies she saw Abdelhamid's twins and wife. They looked frozen, statues of figures who had died gasping for breath. Ayaa collapsed at that point, waking up hours later in hospital. "I saw them — they were all dead. All are dead now. Why?" she asked, weeping. "We are just poor people, we are just normal."
In all, 22 members of the al-Youssef family were killed in what was one of the worst chemical attacks of the six-year Syrian war.
The airstrike took place at 6.30am on Tuesday near the town's main bakery, on Youssef street, which is named after the family who have lived there for generations. Until this week, that family was one of the largest in town.
At least 86 people, 27 of them children, were killed in the attack. The youngest were Aya and Ahmed, Abdelhamid's twins, who were buried in rough graves on Wednesday. Another 546 were injured, according to Unicef.
Witnesses said Sukhoi-22 fighter jets dropped four missiles on the area — the last of which contained the toxic gas. Footage taken at the scene showed men, women and children foaming at the mouth, convulsing and gasping for breath. Rescue workers, many of whom were later taken to hospital themselves after succumbing to the gas, stripped the victims and hosed them down.
Read full article: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/i-saw-the-dead-bodies-of-22-members-of-my-family-mqt3qmm36
Posted on April 7, 2017 September 26, 2017 Categories Featured Work, Middle East, TV & RadioTags Aya fadl, Bashar Al-Assad, Bel Trew, chemical attack, Khan Sheikhoun, sarin, Syria
Noses full of foam, eyes half closed, victims died gasping
Bel Trew, Cairo – Hannah Lucinda Smith, Istanbul
There was not much destruction to be seen in the town of Khan Sheikhoun as the warplanes vanished beyond the horizon — but any sense of relief felt by the medics who rushed in to help was short-lived. What they found instead of civilians running from flames or buried under piles of rubble were corpses; several of them in homes that appeared to have been untouched by any bomb.
In some rooms men, women and children were convulsing in their beds, foaming at the mouth. The warplanes had hit Khan Sheikhoun, in the northwestern Idlib province, at 6.30am when most people were asleep. Only when the medics and volunteers who had arrived to offer assistance themselves began to faint did they realise what had happened: the town had been gassed.
"I felt intense pain in my throat as it started to close. I felt paralysed," said Hussain Kayal, 26 one of the first to arrive. The missile had landed barely 500 metres away from his home.
"We were shocked when we couldn't see any damage or destruction. Inside the houses we found sleeping families choking. They were having seizures. Their noses were full of foam and their eyes were half closed. People were suffocating in front of our eyes."
At least a hundred people died and 400 were injured in the attack, which human rights groups said was one of the deadliest uses of chemical weapons recorded in the six-year civil war. The Assad regime has been blamed, despite its protestations of innocence.
Read full article: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/noses-full-of-foam-eyes-half-closed-victims-died-gasping-6pf9m3hhw
PHOTO: EDLIB MEDIA CENTER/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Posted on April 5, 2017 September 28, 2017 Categories Middle East, PrintTags Bel Trew, chemical attack, Khan Sheikhoun, president assad, Syria, Syrian Civil War


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SC Lede: Civil Forfeiture — Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Published February 5, 2019 at 5:30 AM EST
A.T. Shire/SC Public Radio
On this edition of South Carolina Lede, host Gavin Jackson speaks with Greenville News reporters Nathaniel Cary and Mike Ellis about their new series "Taken" about civil forfeiture by South Carolina law enforcement. The pair, along with fellow reporter Anna Lee, combed through more than 3,200 records to compile a comprehensive database of civil forfeiture incidents. Most of the seizures were tied to illegal activity while others have raised questions about the practice which has limited oversight and brings in millions of dollars in revenue.
You can read more about the series on the Greenville News webiste here.
Then South Carolina Public Radio's own Statehouse Reporter Russ McKinney stops by to quiz Gavin about South Carolina history in this week's Did You Know segment.
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Q: Kivy: Updating Line in KV Lang from Python Code I cannot seem to get the canvas line to update when the button is pressed and the data is updated. The online guide only shows the kv lang side of this issue, so I am presuming the issue lies in the python code.
this is the kv lang:
<Screen>:
    canvas:
        Color:
            rgba: 1, .3, .8, .5
        Line:
            points: self.data

    Button:
        text: 'Generate'
        size_hint: (0.15, 0.1)
        pos_hint: {'x':0.4, 'y':0.4}
        on_press: root.btn()

this is the python code:
import kivy
from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.floatlayout import FloatLayout
kivy.require('1.11.1')

class Screen(FloatLayout):

    data = []

    def __init__(self, i=0, data=[0, 0, 0, 0]):
        super().__init__()
        self.i = i
        Screen.data = data

    def btn(self):
        print('Generate')
        Screen.data = [10*self.i, 10*self.i, 100*self.i, 100*self.i]
        self.i = self.i + 1
        print(Screen.data)

class MyApp(App):
    def build(self):
        return Screen()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    MyApp().run()

A: In order for the Line to update whenever the points are updated, you need make it a ListProperty, like this:
class Screen(FloatLayout):

    data = ListProperty([])

    def __init__(self, i=0, data=[0, 0, 0, 0]):
        super().__init__()
        self.i = i

    def btn(self):
        print('Generate')
        self.data = [10*self.i, 10*self.i, 100*self.i, 100*self.i]
        self.i = self.i + 1
        print(self.data)

And you must refer to it as self.data, not Screen.data, because it is a property of the instance.

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Tag Archives: Aḥmad Zakī Abū Shādī (1892-1955)
ذکری شکسپير
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Aḥmad Zakī Abū Shādī (1892-1955), Annie Bamford, Arab, Arabic, Arabic literature, beekeeping, Cathy Rockwell, Egypt, Egyptian, England, Khalil Mutran (1872-1949), London, Marriott Library, National Poetry Month, physician, poet, Poetry Society, quatrain, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, sonnet, Special Collections, United States, William Shakespeare
"o Prince of Poetry"
Dhikrá Shaksipīr
Aḥmad Zakī Abū Shādī (1892-1955)
Egypt: al-Maṭbaʻah al-Salafīyah, 1926
PJ7808.S5 D55 1926
The Egyptian poet Aḥmad Zakī Abū Shādī was a man of many talents. Not only was he renowned as a poet and man of letters, he was also trained as a scientist and physician, and he was fascinated by beekeeping, founding professional beekeeping associations and publishing numerous works on the subject. Besides his native Egypt, he had connections to both England and the United States. He lived in England, where he earned his medical degree, from 1912-1922. In 1920, he married an Englishwoman, Annie Bamford, returning with her to Egypt 1922. Following her death in 1946 he emigrated to the United States, where he continued to be active in the fields of Arabic literature and beekeeping until his untimely death of a stroke in 1955. His private papers and many of his books are now housed in the Marriott Library Special Collections (Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi papers, 1892-1955).
Among such books is "Dhikrá Shaksipīr," whose title translates as "Remembrance of Shakespeare." In his introduction, Abu Shadi explains that it is a collection of three poems that he composed at the invitation of the Poetry Society in London to celebrate the eventual reopening of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre that had burned down in 1926. He says that the Society had invited poets from around the world to participate in this. Based on the Society's guidelines, the three poems are: A sonnet ; a quatrain suitable for posting on the wall of the Theatre ; and an unrestricted poem. This last one is a long ode in traditional Arabic poetic style in praise of Shakespeare.
In his introduction, Abu Shadi concludes with the statement that he is having this work privately published [in Egypt] to make it more accessible to the Arab reader. He laments that Arabic speakers who do not know English are missing out on Shakespearian literature, and he urges that they search out and read Arabic translations of Shakespeare's works, and recommends in particular those done by the Egytian poet Khalil Mutran (1872-1949).
"Diverse minds that tell of your guiding light humbly approached you, o Prince of Poetry
For the Theatre, despite its burning, due to your unique spirit remains a marvelous achievement for all eternity
Look, then, at the thousands gathered, whether in body or in spirit
They listen to great wisdome, sanctify8ing in you your genius; thus finding the good fortune of those who adore."
Contribution and translation by Cathy Rockwell, Special Collections Middle East Cataloger
Shakespeare is coming! The First Folio will arrive at the City Library in October.


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Astley Castle education project
Schools' Project 2010
Thanks to funding from the Heritage Lottery 160 children from four local schools visited Astley Castle during its restoration and participated in a cross-curricular project.
The children visited the site and witnessed and recorded the restoration work at different stages. Children watched craftsmen at work and chatted to some of the builders. Some groups visited when the archaeologists were in residence and were able to handle objects found during their excavations.
The children also enjoyed privileged access to the Church of St Mary the Virgin whilst work to preserve the early 17th century wall paintings was
underway. Fine weather allowed the groups to explore the extensive grounds, including the viewing mound and the medieval fish ponds.
The site visit was followed by 2 days of activities back in the classroom. Drawings made on site were turned into beautiful watercolour impressions, whilst children also shared their ideas for an interpretation trail to guide visitors around the grounds.
A number of different artists and groups have been allowed to access the site to record their own personal impressions of the restoration work in progress. Astley Art Club worked with local artist and tutor Joe Rice during the consolidation and repair stage and their results were exhibited at Bedworth Arts Centre in April 2010.
Community Art, Exhibitions and Talks
In August 2010 an exhibition at Hinckley Library featured work created by local schools with artist Gary Bedford. Gary worked with the schools over a week long project and explored the links between Astley Castle and the wider area, in particular the War of the Roses and Lady Jane Grey. Further artwork was created with the Landmark Trust's Education Officer for another exhibition at Nuneaton Musuem and Gallery in February 2011. This work explored links with local writer George Eliot. The last artwork pieces will be created during the open day events at the castle in June 2013. Family drop-in workshops with local artist Mark Stammers will look in more detail at architectural features, in particular the changes in the window styles.
Much of the work to clear self sown trees, restore pathways and create new footpaths has been done by BTCV volunteers (now TCV – The Conservation Volunteers). They have worked tirelessly in all weathers and have contributed much to the overall and ongoing maintenance of the natural habitats around the castle. New kissing gates, a bridge and steps have been built, allowing access across the parkland and allowing people of all ages and abilities to enjoy this historic landscape.
In Spring 2011, 16 volunteers were trained in how to repoint a stone wall using lime mortar. These newly trained recruits returned on site during the summer to help repoint the curtain wall.
Knot Garden
In May 2010 a competition to design a new knot garden was launched. A design by Kate Heppell was chosen from over 100 entries.
The new garden was created in phases. The site was cleared in Autumn 2010, new hedges and trees planted February 2011, with more planting in the autumn. In 2012, we surfaced the walkways with brick and hoggin and added the final touches to the planting. Volunteers have also helped to level and re seed the open areas on the moated island.


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Report: Jets Sad That Backup Michael Vick's Cool With Being Backup
Samer Kalaf
Today's Michael Vick is obviously not 2006 Michael Vick, but the Jets picked him up in an attempt to push second-year quarterback Geno Smith to suck less. Then, they told Vick they were going with Smith, barring a disaster. Believe it or not, the 34-year-old Vick accepted that he'd be a backup, and Jets coaches are reportedly sad.
From Jenny Vrentas of MMQB:
No one is intimating that Vick is washed up, which is why some Jets coaches have privately expressed disappointment that Vick didn't show up more hell-bent on winning the starting job, or at least a little more vested in making Ryan lose sleep again as he agonized over a difficult decision. His physical gifts—firing a mid-range out-route with the mere flick of his left wrist, and bursting with what he claims is still 4.4 speed in the 40—have always looked so effortless that onlookers have trouble discerning any sense of urgency in Vick's play. Nor does there seem to be any in what Ryan has called Vick's "cool customer" persona, either.
"I'm at a very good place," Vick says. "Very relaxed. Things are more laid back right now as far as football, and off the field. No stress, no pressure. Even though, when you play football, there is always some sort of pressure. But at this stage of my career, I'm just trying to refresh and regroup and see where it takes me."
To recap: the Jets tried to build a quarterback competition, micromanaged the fuck out of it, removed the entire aspect of competition, and now Jets coaches are sad that they have to stick with Geno Smith.
Photo: AP


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This quick and easy recipe is faster than getting take-away!
Combine the soy sauce, sugar and beaten egg in a bowl.
Toss in the cubed pork (about one-inch cubes) and mix really well, working into the pork.
Season the cornflour with salt and pepper, then add to the pork and egg mixture – stir and coat really well. Use a fork or tongs to pull out individual pieces.
Heat a large frying pan over medium heat and add a splash of oil. Fry the pork pieces for a few minutes until brown and cooked through. Remove and set aside.
Add the vegetables and pineapple to the oil and fry – while stirring – for a few minutes until lightly cooked.
Mix vegetables with the pork and pour over the sauce. Serve with boiled rice.
Whisk 1⁄4 cup cornflour with 1⁄4 cup water. In a large saucepan over medium heat, mix together: 1 cup water, 3⁄4 cup sugar, 1⁄2 cup white/apple cider vinegar, 1/3 cup tomato sauce, 2 teaspoons soy sauce, 1⁄2 teaspoon salt, and the pineapple juice. Bring to the boil, then stir in the cornflour mixture and cook – stirring until thick and shiny.


A Boat for the Heroes!
As mentioned in an earlier post we are currently working on a small fishing village for our Talabecland Campaign. The village is one out of three towns (in close proximity) and we were largely inspired by the river town of Flotsam from the Witcher 2 game series and Laketown from The Hobbit. So far we have built and painted some of Game Workshops Laketown sets along with villagers from Reaper Miniatures' Dreadmere setting such as the Fishwife + Crone, three Mercenaries and Jakob Knochengard. Pictures will come as soon as I have some time to snap them!
I painted it very worn down with lots of weathering (this isn't the finest boat!) I started off with Dark Shadow from Reaper, then a heavy drybrush of Brown Leather, and a little bit of Golden Skin, Thar Brown and Ardennes Green from Scale75, along with some Citadel Camo Wash and Ashen Brown from Reaper.
The accessories from Tabletop-Art were painted using Scale75 and Reaper paints aswell. Both paints have a delightfully matte finish, which looks amazing!
To show the scale of the boat, our new hero Oswald jumped into the boat for a photoshoot!


When it came to calendars, those ancient Mayans got a lot of things right. But they also missed a few bits. So TEAM 2012 (a gang of pro writers clumped up in Cancun to create a modern masterpiece) fills in the whole picture: a batch of hot, sassy Calendar Girls who are all about getting their hands on the purloined clues to what will really happen on 20/12/2012. If they can pull off the investigations and daring raids needed to keep this cosmic lore (and their own bods) out of evil hands, they just might save the world… or at least enjoy the happy ending. And they have no help but a crystal skull that's gotten hooked on stoners, a blond diver who loves dolphins maybe too much, a Black spy working against Obama's Campaign, a redheaded fire dancer, an odd assortment of thugs, priests, and crazos… and time itself.Remember: It's not the end of the world, just the end of time.


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On Saturday 27TH April, a wide variety of speakers will present on a number of interesting and current issues in MRI scanning.
Topics include Neuro MRI, Cardiac MRI, MR safety issues, diffusion, staff engagement and leadership, among others.
The study morning will take place in an informal setting and refreshments/ brunch will be included.
Cost staying at just £40.


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Established in 1986 as a platform for promoting local upcoming talent, Austin's South by Southwest festival is today the world's biggest of its type. Over the years, the SXSW has become famous for providing an international stage for up-and-coming acts hailing from Austin and across the world to showcase their talent. From The Strokes and John Mayer to Courtney Barnett and HAIM, the festival has become a stepping stone in the careers of many of contemporary music's biggest names.
As this year's edition gets up to speed, Coggles offers up our guide to the best new acts appearing at SXSW we expect to storm to success in 2018. Whether you're fortunate enough to make the trip yourself or will be watching at home via the festival's live stream, here are the five artists you won't want to miss.
Nilüfer Yanya
Hailing from West London with Turkish, Irish and Bajan heritage, 22-year-old Nilüfer Yanya lit up the music world in 2017 with her breakout single "Baby Luv". Last year saw Yanya share the stage with the likes of The xx, draw praise from The Guardian, i-D, & The FADER for her romantic, soulful indie-rock, with "Baby Luv" named among Pitchfork's songs of 2017. There is growing anticipation over what Yanya will produce in 2018, and the young artists has been widely tipped to be one of the outstanding artists at this year's SXSW festival.
Shot to notoriety after reworking Rihanna's "Work" into her native Spanish in 2016, Barcelona-based Bad Gyal has swiftly become of the Hispanic scene's most exciting emerging artists. Following up her Rihanna cover with YouTube sensation "Indapanden" and releasing her first mixtape "Slow Wine" before she was yet 20, Bad Gyal has since worked with high-profile producers such as Dubbel Dutch and sold out every major venue in Spain.
IAMDBB
Having stormed out of Manchester in 2017 with her unique blend of samba, R&B and trap which she calls "urban jazz", wunderkind Diana De Brito or IAMDDB has been touted as one to watch by most UK music critics this year. "Shade" is her swag-filled breakout single, a brash rejection of all the haters. "Bitch I'm the wave, you can go home," she proclaims in rich, smoky vocals on a track that announces IAMDBB as one of British music's best new artists.
Requiring little introduction in 2018, the latest single from Aaron Maine's synth-pop project saw Porches veer away from the impressive electronic sophistication of 2016's Pool towards a subtle, stirring sound. The track is charged with Maine's signature melancholic falsetto and features Blood Orange a.k.a Dev Hynes on backing vocals. The album it comes from, This House, followed in January and offers another accomplished dose of romantic, intricate synthpop that should be the soundtrack to your spring.
A rapper, singer and graphic designer based out of L.A., Duckwrth's infectious funk rock and electro mix will no doubt bring benevolent party vibes to Austin. Taking his cue from pioneers including OutKast, N.E.R.D, & Michael Jackson, Duckwrth comes to SXSW as a relative unknown outside his native California but will undoubtedly leave a star thanks to his irresistible charm and energy.
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"Who's there? Give me a minute," Kate yelled from inside the kitchen, but the knock on her door continued loudly.
"Who could this be?" she wondered as she turned off the water at kitchen sink and wiped her hands on the cloth napkin lying on the kitchen cabinet. She wasn't expecting anybody, and it was only her landlord, who knocks like that each time he comes to harass the tenants for rent.
"Who is there?" Kate asked again as she grabbed the door knob.
"It's me, Claire," a tiny singsong voice said from the other side of the door.
As soon as Kate opened the door, Claire grabbed her and embraced her tightly.
"Oh, my God! Kate, thank you so much! You saved my life!" Claire yelled as she held her friend in a tight embrace.
Kate felt lost for a moment. She couldn't tell exactly what she did to deserve this reaction, but she wasn't going to cut this moment of joy short, so she returned the gesture, hesitantly wrapping her arms round Claire's body.
After what seemed like forever, Claire broke the hug and moved to sit on the couch. "Do you know I would have lost all my money if I hadn't listened to you?" she stated.
Kate was still lost, but she nodded, urging her friend to continue.
"Wow! Are you serious?" Kate exclaimed, somewhat not surprised.
Some weeks ago, Claire had told Kate that she was contributing money with other professional investors, to create a new type of medical device. Kate, was against the idea immediately, and told her that she doesn't see the product making it through the FDA approval. What Claire took for pessimism angered her so much that after Claire left Kate's house upset on that day, she hadn't come around or even called Kate since that day.
Kate was happy that she was able to save her friend from a bad investment, but her joy wasn't complete because she couldn't believe that Claire could desert her when she was only looking out for her safety.
"Girlfriend, now I know your clairvoyance isn't just ordinary. I think you should earn money from this!" Claire said.
Kate snarky replied "So I should start walking around the street, claiming to be a fortune-teller and asking people to pay for predictions?".
"No, not like that! I saw something on one of the stock trading websites I follow. I think you should check it out this job opportunity."
"Is this for real? A job for psychics on Wall Street?" Kate scuffed.
"Yes! And I think you should apply. Girl, I underestimated your abilities until last night when I heard the news about that company I almost invested all that money in going bankrupt I knew you were built for making predictions like this. Go for the job Kate!"
Kate thought about it for a while, maybe this would be a lucrative opportunity to make some money for herself using the visions she sees when see practices remote viewing.
"I'll give it a shot," Kate said and took her phone to dial the number written in the job posting.


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import babylon from '../../babel-parser'
jest.mock('../../utils/resolveRequired')
jest.mock('../../utils/resolvePathFrom')
jest.mock('../../parse')
import { Documentation } from '../../Documentation'
import { parseFile } from '../../parse'
import resolveExportedComponent from '../../utils/resolveExportedComponent'
import resolvePathFrom from '../../utils/resolvePathFrom'
import resolveRequired from '../../utils/resolveRequired'
import extendsHandler from '../extendsHandler'

describe('extendsHandler', () => {
  let resolveRequiredMock: jest.Mock
  let mockResolvePathFrom: jest.Mock
  let mockParse: jest.Mock
  const doc = new Documentation()
  beforeEach(() => {
    resolveRequiredMock = resolveRequired as jest.Mock<
      (ast: bt.File, varNameFilter?: string[]) => { [key: string]: string }
    >
    resolveRequiredMock.mockReturnValue({
      testComponent: { filePath: './componentPath', exportName: 'default' },
    })

    mockResolvePathFrom = resolvePathFrom as jest.Mock<(path: string, from: string) => string>
    mockResolvePathFrom.mockReturnValue('./component/full/path')

    mockParse = parseFile as jest.Mock
    mockParse.mockReturnValue({ component: 'documentation' })
  })

  function parseItExtends(src: string) {
    const ast = babylon().parse(src)
    const path = resolveExportedComponent(ast).get('default')
    if (path) {
      extendsHandler(doc, path, ast, { filePath: '' })
    }
  }

  it('should resolve extended modules variables in import default', () => {
    const src = [
      'import testComponent from "./testComponent"',
      'export default {',
      '  extends:testComponent',
      '}',
    ].join('\n')
    parseItExtends(src)
    expect(parseFile).toHaveBeenCalledWith(doc, {
      filePath: './component/full/path',
      nameFilter: ['default'],
    })
  })

  it('should resolve extended modules variables in require', () => {
    const src = [
      'const testComponent = require("./testComponent");',
      'export default {',
      '  extends:testComponent',
      '}',
    ].join('\n')
    parseItExtends(src)
    expect(parseFile).toHaveBeenCalledWith(doc, {
      filePath: './component/full/path',
      nameFilter: ['default'],
    })
  })

  it('should resolve extended modules variables in import', () => {
    const src = [
      'import { test as testComponent, other } from "./testComponent"',
      'export default {',
      '  extends:testComponent',
      '}',
    ].join('\n')
    parseItExtends(src)
    expect(parseFile).toHaveBeenCalledWith(doc, {
      filePath: './component/full/path',
      nameFilter: ['default'],
    })
  })

  it('should resolve extended modules variables in class style components', () => {
    const src = [
      'import { testComponent } from "./testComponent";',
      '@Component',
      'export default class Bart extends testComponent {',
      '}',
    ].join('\n')
    parseItExtends(src)
    expect(parseFile).toHaveBeenCalledWith(doc, {
      filePath: './component/full/path',
      nameFilter: ['default'],
    })
  })
})


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KMOS is a television station in Sedalia, MO that serves the Kansas City television market. The station runs programming from the PBS network. KMOS is a digital educational full-power television station that operates with 100 kilowatts of power and is owned by University of Central Missouri.


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Inside the 25,000 sealed indictments fueling the QAnon conspiracy
Mike Rothschild—
Gage Skidmore/Flickr (CC-BY-SA)
There certainly is smoke, but no fire.
The central claim of the #QAnon conspiracy theory is that President Donald Trump's Justice Department has filed thousands of sealed indictments against Democratic leaders, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy elites.
All are guilty of a variety of misdeeds, horrific sex crimes, affiliation with the "deep state," and/or intent to harm the president and his administration.
And when the time is right, Trump will order the indictments unsealed, prompting a massive wave of arrests, with the accused tried in the field and sent to Guantanamo Bay for indefinite detention.
For months, the theory has lurked in the shadows of the internet, but this week it exploded when Q followers made their presence known at a Trump rally in July, prompting an outpouring of media coverage.
6,000 ppl arrested on sex trafficking
30,000 sealed indictments
25,000 orders to seize assets
Ex-Presidents all over the World arrested#CNN is worried about Stormy Daniels
Break out from your chains
Come out of the bubble
The World is changing right before your eyes#Qanon
— Anonymous (@Anon_decoder) April 6, 2018
And at the heart of the conspiracy is the 25,000 sealed indictments.
While it seems like an outlandish claim, #QAnon believers do have one very real piece of evidence at their disposal: the existence of sealed indictments is public. They can be found by searching the U.S. government's court documents access system, PACER.
PACER charges only a nominal fee for search results, and is open to the public, providing at least some information on every case currently in the federal district courts.
So working with their own resources, #QAnon researchers have made extensive use of PACER, seemingly finding tens of thousands of sealed criminal cases in district courts all over the country and compiling them in a spreadsheet.
And even more startling, that number seems to be accelerating, far outpacing the normal number of sealed criminal indictments in a year, which, according to a 2009 report from the government's own Federal Judicial Center (FJC), is just 1077.
https://twitter.com/damartin32/status/980619487048294400
In November, shortly after the #QAnon conspiracy theory first broke, the number of sealed criminal indictments handed down in just the first few weeks of November was reported as 4,289. Then, on New Year's Day, that number had jumped to over 9,000. By March 4, it was 18,500. And by early April the number stood at 24,500 – all apparently filed since October 30th.
So does the seeming existence of nearly 25,000 sealed indictments on PACER mean that "The Storm" is really coming, and we're in for a huge wave of arrests?
To get to the bottom of the claim, it's important to first understand what exactly an indictment is, and why it would be sealed.
UPDATE!!! 24,544 new sealed indictments entered from 10/30/17 thru 3/31/18 https://t.co/Asp6gExsYB
— Swamp Drainer (@FedupWithSwamp) April 2, 2018
An indictment is simply a formal accusation of serious wrongdoing, sought by a federal prosecutor, voted on by a grand jury, which usually leads to an arrest.
The Fifth Amendment requires the federal government to obtain an indictment from a grand jury in order to prosecute someone for a felony, and it's important to remember that only grand juries hand down indictments. Judges can't do it, nor can federal agencies. Or the president.
An indictment is unsealed when made public, typically when a suspect is arrested
The sealed indictments allowed the white hats to carry out their work without garnering suspicion. It also served as life insurance for POTUS because they'd be unsealed with or without him.
— #QAnon gab.ai/dekdarion (@dekdarion) April 4, 2018
Sealing indictments is a routine legal procedure, done in most cases so that the subject of the indictment doesn't know they're about to be arrested. Some criminal cases are sealed due to the age or high-profile nature of the defendant, while some are sealed for dubious or unclear reasons. (Neither PACER nor the Federal Judicial Center responded to requests for comment.)
Indictments are also not the only court documents that are sealed. Search warrants are routinely sealed; as are applications to tap phones or log calls coming to or from a phone (often known as "pen registers"), obtain vehicle tracking devices, or read email accounts.
Not all sealed documents are on PACER, and not every sealed criminal case file that comes up in PACER is an indictment. In fact, it's likely that most aren't—which is where the FJC report comes in.
https://twitter.com/Isha_Alcyone/status/980514927269023744
The 2009 report, prepared at the behest of the Judicial Conference's Rules Committee and seeking "a study of completely sealed cases in the federal district courts," did indeed find 1,077 sealed criminal cases among the over 66,000 criminal cases found in PACER for 2006.
So the conspiracy theorists number of sealed felony indictments in a "normal" year would seem to be right. Except reading on in the report makes it clear that many of those sealed criminal cases were NOT indictments.
In fact, the report only lists 284 out of 1,077 cases as "sealed indictments" that the writers were able to obtain no information on.
24,544 sealed indictments in the past 5 months. That is unheard of. If you've been involved in any kind of human rights abuse (e.g. child sex trafficking) or corruption, you should be afraid....VERY afraid. Also see EO signed on 21 Dec. https://t.co/NrHTNLf0zj pic.twitter.com/4IzjG3mSAz
— Lisa Mei Crowley (@LisaMei62) April 2, 2018
So what are the rest? 241 were sealed because of either an ongoing investigation or to protect a cooperating defendant. 180 were prosecutions of juveniles, and presumably not something Donald Trump or The Storm would take much solace in. Another 70 were misdemeanor drug offenses—again, not the stuff of conspiracy theories.
Finally, 226 were what the report calls "warrant-type cases." These are search warrants, wiretap/pen register applications, and requests for tax records. None should be counted in a tracking of "sealed indictments."
Essentially, the number #QAnon is using is factually correct, but leaves out vital context that explains that relatively few of the 1,077 are actual criminal indictments. Most are routine court matters.
March update:
Sealed indictment count now over 25,000#qanon #thestorm https://t.co/o68pTTYJHx
— Jordan Sather (@Jordan_Sather_) April 2, 2018
So then what about the massive number of sealed case found files in PACER? The #QAnon researchers aren't making them up – a random sampling of PACER records from the district courts of Washington, D.C. and the Eastern District of Virginia shows the number to be more or less accurate.
Even if not all sealed criminal cases are indictments, doesn't a massive uptick in sealed cases mean a massive uptick in sealed indictments?
It doesn't, because routine court matters in district courts are usually handled by lower-level magistrate judges. And the FLC report found over 15,000 sealed magistrate judge cases, with many others not in the Electronic Court Filing system that feeds into PACER.
A random sampling of these files showed 83 percent of sealed magistrate cases to be warrant applications or tracking devices. They are NOT indictments, but #QAnon's number includes them anyway. We know this from their own methodology.
https://twitter.com/CraigRSawyer/status/982567081378955264
A five-page PDF called "Search for Sealed Indictments on Pacer.gov" purports to train "researchers" in how to find sealed indictments. It includes not only all sealed cases, but cases clearly being handled by magistrates that are clearly NOT indictments.
Obviously, without access, it's impossible to know what's an indictment and what's a routine document. And it's possible that the government IS sealing more indictments, given the Trump administration's ramping up of gang, drug, gun, and immigration prosecutions, a response to the "American carnage" Trump spoke of in his inauguration speech.
https://twitter.com/ItsAngryBob/status/984108499742404608
But we do know, at the very least, that the massive numbers of "sealed indictments" being thrown around by #QAnon believers is inaccurate, and isn't being compared to previous years correctly.
Meanwhile, sealed indictment mania is a conspiracy theory that feeds itself, and will continue to, by adding more numbers to an essentially meaningless tally, and pretending it's a portend of things to come.
Mike Rothschild is a writer who specializes in researching and debunking conspiracy theories and fringe beliefs. He also writes about politics, history, and breaking news.


Typekit is an attempt to bring commercial typography to the web. It's a Jeff Veen & Small Batch joint and you can read about their efforts at the Typekit blog.
Typekit has monthly and annual pricing structure (I won't mention since the service isn't totally live yet, but it seems fairly reasonable for now).
This page is a sample using a trial account. You will see the Typekit badge in the lower left right if I haven't upgraded to a paid account. I've thrown in a few small things to test the fonts in weird float situations.
I love the concept of TypeKit and it's implementation. I know it is being presented as being Web Standards compliant but lets face the unwritten rule that if I wanted place a typeface I purchased from a vendor on a website I will either be using Sifr or Cufon.
Simply it will be hard to justify paying yearly for a service that a lot of clients won't find necessary. Sure it will appeal to a lot design types, myself included and I can stealth the cost in to some services I provide but it has to get wider adoption than just they type geeks.
What happens if Adobe or another the major foundry decides to open source their type for the web? Again I like the service and will probably use it but I'm not sure it's the best solution for getting better fonts on the web.
No major foundry is going to open source their type for the web. That's just crazy dreaming.
As for Sifr and Cufon, neither of them produces acceptable results for body text, and both are fundamentally hacks. Sifr also has less than stellar performance for large amounts of text.
More importantly, you are either assuming that it's legal for you to use Sifr or Cufon with the fonts you've licensed (not purchased) from a vendor, or you don't care. But for those who do care, it's worth noting that many foundries do not allow such usage with their fonts under their standard license terms.
Standardized web font techniques started in the late 90's but the problem is the same as music, movies, and TV. Easy to steal a font and use it elsewhere.
Sadly there will be a pay-gate for web typography. It will either be DRM or services like Typekit. Cufon and SIFr are replacement techniques using plugins that create more overhead and complexity than the standard font-face which should use the operating system type rendering. Cufon actually has a method to repackage a font to open-type for font-face compatibility. But as mentioned you are restricted by the license that comes with the typeface.
There are fonts out there already for font-face.
The point is that services like Typekit will start to appear. The competition will hopefully create some good choices in new web typography market that never existed before.
Also remember is up to designers to educate clients about typography. Many people don't know or care about the effort or reasons for good typography. Put these tools to the test and clients might go for it if done right and shown along side web-safe font designs.
At the very least folks will update browsers just to see the fonts.
BTW Typekit fails on iPhone. I'm not sure if iPhone Safari supports font-face or not. More browser test notes tommorow.
Finished my browser tests with Typekit. Looks like Firefox and Safari win big. Chrome stable doesn't work, but I've heard Chrome beta does. I only wanted to test with stable browsers.
Not surprising Internet Explorer looses again in weird and unusual ways. It apparently only wants to show Typekit fonts when it feels like it. It's working a little better today.
To be fair I don't think any foundry will open source it save for maybe Adobe.
Body copy text to be frank really doesn't bother me most of the time if the line height and the type is set correctly. The fact that it doesn't work on the iPhone or IE (I hate it too) is a shortcoming especially if I'm paying for a service.
Honestly though you and I may care about DRMs or licenses for fonts but many don't.
I think it's a great idea all I'm saying is that it's a tough sell. They will do well within the inner circle of web type designers but outside of that I doubt they get much adoption.
The seed conference example is perfect for showing how CSS hacks are bad for accessibility and seo. When they cut up a word like "Crown" with spans to make a drop cap it actually becomes "C rown". Search engines and screen readers might not put the word back together. The proper thing would be use a drop cap font with proper glyphs so you wouldn't cut up the word with span tags.
There are many ways to make that example accessible (jQuery, php, CSS :first-letter), but nothing would be simpler than having the right typeface for the job in the beginning.
I doubt it will be tough sell for my clients (another story for my day job at nicholls.edu, it's hard to buy pencils right now). For freelance I do mostly sub-contract work for designers and design studios. The designers are always asking for custom fonts on websites and I pull out SIFr or SIFr2 most of the time with huge performance issues. Those designers have clients used to paying thousands of dollars a year for billboards in bad locations. They generally pay less than $150 a year for a website. Another $25 or even $50 to make the website more attractive won't be a hard sell. It will beat the price (sometimes the effectiveness) of the billboard hands down.
My clients are given HTML roughs on-line not jpegs most of the time. It will be easy for me to design with something like Typekit and give the client a choice. I know in most cases the better design is going to win.
@font-face has been around since CSS2. (see https://developer.mozilla.org/index.php?title=En/CSS/%40font-face) but typographers fear the internet more than Lars Ulrich ever did. Now Typekit has a few competitors; http://fontdeck.com/ and another I can't find. The point is that foundries have a method to protect those font files they have been reluctant to let us use on the web.
Now it can only get better or worse.. in a David Carson "Raygun" sort of way.


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Steil pushes for new rules on lead and copper in water; visits southern border
Ricardo Torres
U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Wisconsin, left, and EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler talk to students from Renaissance School at Discovery World in Milwaukee on Friday. Renaissance School is located in Mount Pleasant.
U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Wis., visits the southern border on Wednesday. Steil visited parts of the border in El Paso, Texas and New Mexico.
MILWAUKEE — The public is being asked to weigh in on new rules from the Environmental Protection Agency regarding lead and copper in drinking water.
The proposed rules include requiring testing the water at all schools and daycare centers, and making that information available to the public; lowering the lead and copper trigger level from 15 parts per billion to 10 parts per billion; and requiring local water systems to notify customers within 24 hours when water samples contain more than 15 parts per billion.
The EPA will be accepting public comments online the proposal for 60 days after publication in the Federal Register. Those interested in commenting can go online to regulations.gov and search for Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-2017-0300.
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced the proposed rule changes in Green Bay on Thursday and on Friday attended a roundtable event with U.S. Bryan Steil, R-Wis., at Discovery World in Milwaukee.
Wheeler said water system officials in Wisconsin have been aggressive in testing water for lead
"I would say Wisconsin overall has really up to speed water systems that are doing a lot," Wheeler said. "There's a lot of great work going on here in Wisconsin."
Also present at the roundtable were representatives from Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Environmental Health Network, Milwaukee Health Department, and Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District.
Wheeler and Steil also met with students from Renaissance School in Racine.
The EPA has also worked with the Department of Housing and Urban Development to create a website that aggregates the different federal funding options, for both grants and loans, which municipalities can take advantage of.
"What we want to do is make sure those communities that really need to have (pipe lines) upgraded first get access to those programs," Wheeler said. "I know there's concern that we should be upgrading everything all at once, to be honest the funding for that isn't necessarily there. But the way we've developed the new regulation with the 10 parts per billion trigger is so we can focus on those communities that are most impacted."
However, Wheeler said there is still a lot of work that needs to be done regarding testing.
Wheeler said the new rules proposal includes testing before the lead service line is replaced and after it is replaced.
"In talking to the water system (officials) here, they've actually had a problem with people, after the line has been replaced, wanting to do the testing and that data is very important," Wheeler said. "There's a lot of public education that needs to occur."
Steil said to lower the number of children testing positive for high levels of lead it will take cooperation at all levels of government from the federal level down to the municipality.
Steil weighs in on tariffs, DACA, the Mueller Report and impeachment
"The rates are high in both Racine County and Rock County," Steil said of children testing positive for lead poisoning. "The rate that we want to get it to is zero … we've made significant progress over the years but this is taking a step further."
Steil visits southern border
Steil recently returned from a trip to El Paso, Texas and New Mexico to visit the U.S. southern border.
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During his trip Steil talked with border patrol agents and visited a detention facility.
"That's where we saw previously some really tough humanitarian situations where Congress in a nonpartisan way stepped up and provided funding for those individuals," Steil said. "It was an opportunity to see firsthand the impact of that funding."
Steil voted in favor of a bill that provided $4.5 billion to prevent human and drug traffickers from entering the country, increase shelter capacity for unaccompanied children and upgrade operations at the border to respond to the influx of migrants crossing the border.
Although he didn't speak to anyone that was in the detention facility, Steil said the facility was "well-run and well organized."
"I got a chance to see the food being served," Steil said. "The El Paso facility that I visited has the exact same food vendor that provides food to the U.S. military."
Steil also visited two sections of the wall built in 2008 and 2009.
"I saw where that directly abutted a wall that was constructed in 2017," Steil said.
Steil is in favor of a "physical barrier" on the southern border but at the moment does not think it needs to be built along the entire border.
"There's some key sections identified by Homeland Security as to where we need to have a physical barrier in the short term," Steil said. "From there we can continue to analyze where you go next, but there are some sections that are imperative that we act on to really assist border patrol to do their job."
To assist the migrant situation on the border, Steil is advocating for increased staffing of border patrol agents.
As of Feb 2019, according to Steil's office, the border patrol had only 19,443 agents working but the department is authorized to have up to 26,370 agents.
"Currently, border patrol is authorized to have significantly more individuals on staff than they currently do," Steil said. "They're below the necessary staffing levels they should have. But the men and women on the frontlines are doing solid work."
But addressing those who come to the southern border is just part of the overall immigration issue.
Violence and poor economies in Central and South America have caused many individuals to try to make it to the United States for a better life.
"The United States is the greatest country on the planet so there's always going to be a natural attraction where the United States is attracting people," Steil said.
Steil said the U.S. should continue to stay engaged with countries in the "northern triangle" which made up of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
"There is an opportunity for the United States to engage in the northern triangle to try to work to stabilize those countries, to bring back security for the individuals who live there," Steil said. "As well as continuing to engage economically so that there's economic and job opportunities who live there."
Steil added he is willing to look at all options to help the countries in the northern triangle.
"What is probably most relevant right now is to work with their government and assist them in their attempts to regain security in their countries before I would look at a U.S. military operation," Steil said. "There is current ongoing U.S. foreign aid to those countries and I think that's a key piece of the puzzle."
Randy Bryce Nov. 6 watch party
About 100 people, including multiple press outlets and campaign staffers, crowded into 1501 at the Branch, an event space in Uptown that hosted Randy Bryce's election night watch party.
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Voters fill out their ballots at the Dr. John Bryant Center, 601 21st St., in the midterm election on Tuesday.
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Midterm voting
Mount Pleasant voters line up at Caledonia-Mount Pleasant Memorial Park Hall, 9614 Highway K, for the midterm election on Nov. 6. The chief election clerk there said it was busy almost the entire day, with lines of people waiting to vote.
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Steil wins congressional race
Congressman-elect Bryan Steil, surrounded by family and supporters at a campaign gathering Tuesday night at Veterans Terrace in Burlington, celebrates his election to Congress. Steil is succeeding House Speaker Paul Ryan, who has represented the district for 20 years but is retiring at the end of his term.
Democrat Randy Bryce gives a speech, looking to empower an ongoing progressive movement, on election night at The Branch at 1501 in Uptown after learning that he had lost his Congressional race against Republican Bryan Steil. During the speech, Bryce credited his campaign for having a major role Speaker of the House Paul Ryan's decision to retire at the end of his current term.
Brian von Helms, a 17-year-old from Oak Creek, wears buttons from multiple Democratic campaigns on his Randy Bryce t-shirt during Bryce's election night watch party at The Branch at 1501 in Uptown on Tuesday. von Helms said that he volunteered both with the Bryce campaign and for the Democratic Party as a whole during the 2018 campaign, even though he's still too young to vote.
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Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling, center, watches election results Tuesday night with his family at the Nash restaurant, 522 Sixth St., in Downtown Racine. Schamling was re-elected Tuesday to a third term in office.
State Rep. Greta Neubauer, D-Racine, gives a hopeful speech, despite the election loss of fellow Democrat, Randy Bryce, at The Branch at 1501 in Uptown on Nov. 6, 2018 night.
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Voters queue to vote in Festival Hall, 5 Fifth St., Tuesday evening.
Joel Jacobsen, an outspoken proponent of voting district reform and a Democratic candidate for the state assembly who lost to Robin Vos in Tuesday's election, listens to Democrat Randy Bryce speak Tuesday night.
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The Branch at 1501 in Uptown offered the "Blue Wave" mixed drink Tuesday night during Democrat Randy Bryce's election night watch party.
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package cn.mrzhqiang.sample;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;

import cn.mrzhqiang.logger.BuildConfig;
import cn.mrzhqiang.logger.Log;

/**
 * 日志使用样例
 * <p>
 * Created by mrZQ on 2016/11/01.
 */
public class SampleLoggerActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    private static final String TAG = "SampleLoggerActivity";

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_sample_logger);
        // 说明Log的使用方法,关于第三方日志工具,可以在这里找到:
        // https://github.com/orhanobut/logger.git
        // https://github.com/JakeWharton/timber.git

        // 使用DEBUG常量控制日志debug开关
        // 注意,不能用Library模块下的这个常量,因为它总是false(release类型)
        Log.debug(BuildConfig.DEBUG);
        // 用这个才是正确的
        Log.debug(cn.mrzhqiang.sample.BuildConfig.DEBUG);
        // 后续的使用与系统Log完全一样
        Log.d(TAG, "调试日志");
        Log.e(TAG, "错误日志", new RuntimeException("no thk."));
    }

}


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Far North MP Stone thanks NHS Scotland staff in Parliament
By Matt Leslie
- matt.leslie@hnmedia.co.uk
Published: 15:01, 18 March 2020
| Updated: 15:03, 18 March 2020
Liberal Democrat MP for Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross, Jamie Stone, has expressed his gratitude towards the staff of the NHS for their efforts in dealing with the Coronavirus outbreak.
Far North MP Jamie Stone has co-sponsored Christine Jardine MP's motion to thank NHS Scotland staff for their work amid the Coronavirus outbreak.
Ms Jardine, Liberal Democrat MP for Edinburgh West, put forward the motion to recognise the pressure placed on doctors, nurses and support staff, as well as the risk posed to their own health while carrying out their roles.
It goes on to express gratitude to these staff members on behalf of the House of Commons, in a show of solidarity.
The motion reads: "That this House recognises the severity of the current Coronavirus outbreak and its impact on health and social care services across the UK; notes that in Scotland, there are approximately 157,000 NHS staff for a population of 5,295,400; further notes that there are over 300 hospitals in Scotland; acknowledges the immense pressure that doctors, nurses and support staff working in Scotland's NHS may face over the next few weeks or months in urban and remote areas alike; recognises the personal risk they are undertaking in carrying out their roles; and expresses its immense thanks and gratitude to these staff members for the work they are doing and will do during these difficult times."
Mr Stone said: "I am glad to have joined Christine Jardine in thanking every single person in our health and social care sector who will be working around the clock to look after us during this very difficult time
"The 150,000 NHS Scotland staff are going to be placed under an unprecedented amount of pressure over the coming weeks and months, especially after years' worth of cuts and under-resourcing.
"We are all well aware in the Highlands of the additional challenges faced by staff when confronted with our rugged geography, pothole covered roads, and the huge distances between our main towns. They, in particular, have my utmost respect.
"If you're health or social care worker in the Far North, please get in touch if there's anything I can do to help."
Coronavirus - Local News Matt Leslie


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Feline behaviorists offered explanations for a viral tweet that captured a cat's tendency to bring stuffed toys to its food bowl.
In the United States, there are more than 74 million pet cats. We love these spastic weirdos. So when Maureen Johnson, an author of best-selling young adult novels, tweeted about her parents' cat's strange behavior during a visit home early this week — it went viral.
It seemed like he was feeding them. But he also regularly eats their faces.
Was he really trying to feed his toy babies? Was he stowing away treasure? Did Sherlock think he was the leader of some kind of secret cat society? It's easy to project our human thoughts and feelings onto a cat and its behavior, but something else might be going on.
Sherlock is a seven-year-old purebred Siamese cat who lives with no other pets. He has done this collecting thing since he was a kitten, when he first received and became obsessed with these stuffed, orange toy cats.
Hundreds of cat owners and fans shared their own pet stories. Some tried to explain this behavior, suggesting Sherlock was merely taking his treasures to a safe place.
Cat behaviorists agree Sherlock's shenanigans are common cat behaviors, but they disagree about the motivation.
Mieshelle Nagelschneider, "The Cat Whisperer" and founder of The Cat Behavior Clinic in Portland, thinks that because Sherlock is chewing on the faces, near the neck where cats attack prey, and doing it in the evening when cats hunt the most, this is simply the product of a really strong prey drive.
The cat hunts the toy prey around the house and brings it back to the nest or feeding area, like an instinct. In the wild, this would prevent competition from finding the prey first. That the toys are first scattered throughout the house may also trigger the cat's seeking circuits in the brain and related "feel good chemicals," she said.
Many cats do this — with socks or toy mice, whatever they prefer — and some will even dunk the toys in water, as if to drown or immobilize them.
But she hedges a little. Because domestic cats are in a strange environment, natural instincts can manifest in odd ways. And she added that to test the behavior, Ms. Johnson's family could try putting the toys outside or in one basket, mixing up the types of toys or satisfying the cat's prey drive before bedtime with food or a wand toy.
But Dennis Turner, who studies domestic cat-human interactions at the University of Zurich and co-editor of a book called "The Domestic Cat," thinks Sherlock's antics are a learned behavior pattern.
Cats like attention — praise or scolding. After the first time Sherlock gathered toys and ate their faces, he likely received attention, which he found rewarding. This led him to repeat the behavior in order to get that reward. And just like humans get addicted to slot machines that randomly dish out money, if the cat was rewarded with attention only some of the time, the behavior probably only strengthened.
If it ever became problematic, Ms. Johnson's parents could try ignoring Sherlock. But they'd have to be consistent.


Since the T12 lamps were phased out of production more than five years ago, many consumers wonder if they could substitute the T8s instead of buying an entirely new lighting fixture. Although there are a few differences in each bulb, the two fluorescent bulbs have enough in common to be swapped out for most fixtures, with accommodations. Old fixtures can meet new safety and lighting standards to illuminate any space.
The T in fluorescent lighting stands for "tubular." The number that follows references the diameter of the fluorescent tube in eights of an inch. Therefore, if you have a T12, it is larger by a half inch to the newer T8 tubes. However, the diameter is not as important as the bi-pin base. There are two main types of bases for bulbs: The screw base and the pin base. They both connect the light bulb to the electrical voltage in order for the tube to illuminate. Pin bases have two pins that stick out of the round base. They are used for HID light bulbs, plug-in compact fluorescent bulbs and linear fluorescents. They are preferred over screw bases in some cases because they snap in place quickly, whereas a screw base takes time in an uncomfortable position to install a fluorescent tube overhead.
T8 and T12 both feature the same G13 bi-pin connector. The T8 tubes are slightly smaller at 1 inch in diameter, compared to the 1.5 inch diameter of T12 tubes. The T12 fixtures tended to use magnetic ballasts. T8 fluorescent bulbs are just as bright as the T12 – and much more economical. The T8 models cost almost half of the T12. If the room has less than 12 feet of height, a T8 can illuminate the space adequately. Color characteristics in T8s have improved dramatically so that the standard T12 with its larger tubes has become obsolete.
The energy-efficient T8 lamps give a boost of lighting to any space. Convert a T12 fixture into the energy-saving T8 with a retrofit conversion kit. Turn off the power going to the fixture at the circuit breaker. Locate the ballast cover and pry it from inside the fixture by removing the screws or tabs. With wire cutters, remove the wires from the old ballast and remove the nut or screw that secures the ballast. A hot wire is usually covered in black and red, while a neutral wire is white. The white wire completes the circuit back to the electrical panel. Place the T8 ballast in the old fixture and secure the nuts and screws. If you discover a magnetic ballast, a separate starter device needs to be found and disconnected.


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Ball is thrown into Israel's court over Palestine access
KEIR RADNEDGE in SAO PAULO: World football has thrown responsibility on the Israeli government to commit itself to the attempt to ease the freedom of access issue with Palestine.
A Palestine Football Association threat last year to demand the suspension of Israel over the issue was not pursued at FIFA Congress here today but it took a close-run diplomatic effort to keep football's own peace process alive.
An independent monitor or committee will be established to oversee the liaison system established last autumn by a FIFA task force led by president Sepp Blatter. It will be charged with reporting back to the executive committee in December.
Blatter had hoped that presidents of the football associations of Palestine and Israel could sign a memorandum of understanding ahead of Congress. But this proved impossible, despite Blatter's best negotiating efforts last month with both Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Blatter said: "I took up this matter last year with a lot of optimism and i am still optimistic but the problem between Palestine and Israel is a problem of more than 50 years so how could anyone expect that a FIFA delegation could solve this problem in one year?"
Some progress has been made. A FIFA delegation had visited both states twice, Blatter had met political leaders and a liaison mechanism for the transmission of information between the FAs had been established. He told Congress that "the mechanism has shown some positive results; not enough positives, especially on the side of Palestine but there are some positives."
Hence the proposal for the independent monitor to help the process along.
Israel had appeared to throw an obstacle in the path of the process earlier this week when it denied a travel permit to PFA deputy general-secretary Mohammad Ammassi so he could have left Gaza to travel on via the West Bank to Jordan and on to Brazil. An Israeli official had said Ammassi had failed to follow agreed procedure and submit his request at least 10 days before travelling.
Back in Sao Paulo Blatter, addressing the overall issue, said: "Now we need the full support of the Israeli government in order to facilitate this move and this co-operation is crucial in this matter."
Insisting that "there is no question of sanctions" Blatter then asked Congress to "call on Israeli government to fully support the implementation of this agreement and especially to facilitate the human relations when entering the territory of Palestine for national or international matches for goods and for persons."
Blatter's informal appeal was approved by acclamation.
Jibril Rajoub, the PFA president who had threatened to demand action against Israel, accepted the compromise in the hope of demonstrable progress by the time of next year's congress in Zurich.
He said: "Two clear messages should come out of this Congress: one to those who caused such suffering that it's time to stop and one to those who are suffering: Don't lose hope, the big family of FIFA is with you.
"I hope I can come here next year and say: 'Let bygones be bygones.' Now the ball is in the court of others."


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The Real-Life Haunted Mansion
Oct 17, 2019 Uncategorized 2 comments
The Story of the Heck-Andrews House
The Heck-Andrews House as I remember it from childhood.
Image by Michael Zirkle Photography, copyright Raleigh Historic Development Commission
I'm in love with a building. It started when I was a child growing up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Every time we'd drive through downtown, there was a certain house I couldn't get enough of, craning my neck to see it as long as possible as we drove by. I didn't know the house's name or history then, but I knew that it was gorgeous and captivating: a stately Second Empire mansion with a dramatic tower and swooping roof, all in a state of tragic disrepair, with peeling pale yellow paint, boarded windows, and withered trees. The Haunted Mansion at Disney World was fun, but to me, this was the real thing. The house was more than just physically beautiful. It emanated a magnetic sorrow; it overflowed with secrets.
Image courtesy of Preservation North Carolina Historic Architecture Slide Collection
Years passed. I grew up, I moved away, I came back. And one day when walking downtown, just down the block from the Governor's Mansion, I stopped short: there was the house. But the outside had been restored, with repaired carpentry and fresh paint. I decided to do some digging into the history of the house.
Photograph by Ian F.G. Dunn
Construction of the Heck-Andrews House began in 1869 for Jonathan McGee Heck, who made his fortune on bayonets in the Civil War, and his wife Mattie. In 1921, the attorney A.B. Andrews Jr. (who grew up in the neighboring Andrews-Duncan House) bought the house for his wife, but she died before taking up residence, and Andrews lived there alone until his own death.
The Andrews-Duncan House
Photo by J. Schwaller, Capital City Camera Club
Then in 1948, Julia Russell bought the house, where she lived with her daughter, Gladys Perry. She made few updates to it, which means a remarkable number of its original historical features are preserved, including the hodge-podge of gas, coal, and electric power mechanisms extant in the structure—there's even a stockpile of coal still in the basement.
It also means that the house fell into a continually deeper state of disrepair. In the 1960s, many of the gorgeous Victorian homes on Blount Street were razed for parking lots. A massive concrete public building went up directly behind the house. But the Heck-Andrews House remained unchanged. When Julia died in the 70s, Gladys remained as the home's sole occupant.
Gladys was known to have been a popular girl in her youth, who often went to dances and had numerous suitors. But she never married, and she lived out her years in the Heck-Andrews House alone. She became a figure of legend in the area, known to roam the streets (literally—the streets, not the sidewalks), digging through trash bins, wearing a black overcoat, dark wig, gash of red lipstick, and thick white pancake makeup that she hoped would get people to leave her alone if they thought she was a ghost.
She hoarded the trash she collected inside her home, and locals recall foul odors coming from the house. A neighbor remembers that "Although she was certainly immersed in a strange twilight world of her own, we nevertheless had no sense that she was unhappy. On the contrary, she seemed gloriously cantankerous and strangely content."
The state wanted to buy the house, as it had with most of the others on the street. They made an offer in 1977, but Gladys and her brother, the co-owner, refused. When they offered again in 1984, the brother agreed to sell his share. But Gladys still held out, declining two further offers. Finally, in 1986, the city took the house by force. They condemned it, citing its derelict condition as a fire hazard due to the chemical labs they had built next door, and took ownership.
When police entered the home in January of 1987, they found Gladys's things piled chest-high throughout the massive house, with narrow pathways carved through. They made their way upstairs through decades of her belongings and the trash she had collected—old books, calendars, glittered dancing shoes—to find her in bed, hidden behind more trash heaps. The house was freezing since she didn't pay for heat, and despite being immobile and visibly sick, she refused to let them take her to the hospital. Eventually, though, she gave in, and had to have several toes amputated due to gangrene from frostbite. The state moved her into a small apartment, and not long after, she died.
After taking possession of the home, the state cleaned it of Gladys's untold belongings by tossing everything into an industrial dumpster and carting it off. A local tells of a single box he managed to snatch from the trash. Inside were ephemera from the 1920s on, including Gladys's handwritten poems and love letters, a souvenir from the 1939 World's Fair, and an instructional air raid pamphlet from WWII. If all this was in just one box, it hurts to think of what other "trash" was discarded from inside the massive house without a glance.
The Heck-Andrews House in the 19th century
Image courtesy of North Carolina Postcard Collection (P052), UNC-Chapel Hill
In the decades since the state acquired the house, preservationists have voiced concern at the new owners' slow progress. They spent $1.2 million on exterior renovations beginning in 1999, but couldn't afford to restore the interior. So the house continued to sit empty, falling apart, nearing a condition which would put it beyond repair.
After exterior renovations
In 2016, the house found its new savior. The state sold it to the N.C. Association of Realtors, which is currently undertaking renovations, with plans to use the building for offices and event space. They're taking pains to preserve the history of the house in their restorations, and documenting the process on Instagram for those interested.
Image via Ethan Hyman, News & Observer
I don't know if I believe in ghosts. But I do know that Gladys didn't leave her house without a fight in life, and if she's still here, I'm certain she wouldn't have left it after death. There have been tales of ghost sightings at the house over the years, and a construction worker assigned to it reported feeling eerily cold inside the building—in summer, in North Carolina, with no air-conditioning. Gladys will be imprinted on her house forever, if only in our memories.
Image via visitraleigh.com
Comments about the house online are a testament to the strange and powerful hold it's had on locals' imaginations for decades. I'm okay with not being the Heck-Andrews House's only lover. A house with this much beauty and history should be appreciated by as many as possible. While there was a wonderful morbid glamour about the pre-restoration Heck-Andrews House, I'm thrilled to see that it's now in the hands of owners who care about preserving it and have the funds to do so. I wonder what Gladys would think of the restoration if she could see it—perhaps she can.
Check out these sources for more detail:
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article224919680.html
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/counties/wake-county/article29750152.html
https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/WA0020.pdf
https://www.instagram.com/heckandrewshouse/
https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=keYwv7mzP4h (3D tour of interior)
https://raleighhistoric.org/items/show/67
A Storied Structure: The Heck Andrews House — Inside Out
The Andrews-Duncan House—Back From The Brink
Reminiscences of a Raleigh Boy, Part 7: The Ghost of Blount Street [Updated]
https://rhdc.org/andrews-duncan-house
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2 Responses to "The Real-Life Haunted Mansion"
Somehow I'm afraid the realtors may become the most gruesome thing ever to happen to this house—may they never succeed in renovating its soul. Just as any place you go in the summer when you are a child is magical, and the best place in the world, any Second Empire house with turrets that you see teetering dizzily up, craning your neck to keep it in view from the back seat of a moving car driven by your parents, must always be a center of pleasurable dread. Those tubs alone look ominous.
sabooks says:
I do have mixed feelings about the realtors' association taking over the house–and about the house now having an Instagram account! I think the best case scenario would have been for a private family to buy it and use it as a family home; a family with the means and the will to restore the house with historical accuracy. But the undertaking is just so expensive that that didn't happen. To me, this is the second best outcome. It's better than the house getting demolished or bought by someone who completely updates it. The realtors do seem to care about preserving the house's historical character, so I'll take this as a win. But a part of me will always remember it in all its decrepit glory.


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Q: if else rails syntax error, unexpected ';', expecting ':' I have this code:
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Current status of your car is <%= @lead.status %>

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What I want to do is to check if my @lead exists and show lead and some picture or say that such records in db were not found. But it gives me an error:

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If I take away if else and leave just this:

Current status of your car is <%= @lead.status %>

        <%=image_tag("stat/" + @lead.status + ".jpg", :class => "status_image", alt: "status")%>

The error dissapears.
How do I fix this?

A: Just use this:
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Current status of your car is <%= @lead.status %>

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This should work and fix your problem.