I recently became aware of DC Central Kitchen's "Healthier Corners" program while walking to my community's corner store. One Sunday evening, I was responsible for making the dessert for Sunday dinner. My dessert of choice… banana pudding. I spice up my recipe by adding walnuts, vanilla wafers and banana slices. However, I forgot to add the actual bananas to my father's list. I asked my mom for her car keys in order to drive to our "local grocery store", when she told me, "Angel, you don't need to waste gas on 3 bananas, walk down to the corner store and get them." I burst into laughter, "Since when do WE have fresh fruits?" The corner store my mother was referring to was Jones' Deli (technically it isn't located on the corner… lol). Jones' Deli has been apart of my community forever. As a child, I remember taking at least 3- 4 trips in a summer's day for snow cones, juice, and chips. Even though the word 'deli', is apart of the stores name, the owners did not sell meat or your regular groceries… the only thing available was junk food, liquor and lottery tickets. Buying fresh fruits AND vegetables from the corner store was unheard of 5 years ago. Now, thanks to DC Central Kitchen, fresh fruits and vegetables are only a 5 min walk away from my home.
In high school I completed the majority of my required community service hours at DC Central Kitchen ( http://www.dccentralkitchen.org/). DC Central Kitchen's mission statement is simple: "[They] use food as a tool to strengthen our community." They offer jobs, food prep training, and most importantly, they offer healthier choice to many communities that are located in Washington, DC's food deserts. Before completing my community service there I thought that DC Central Kitchen was a soup kitchen for the homeless, I was unaware of the many opportunities that they offer to the residents of DC.
Outside of delivering healthier foods to corner stores, DC Central Kitchen works closely with DC Public Schools. During the school year, they employ kitchen staff at several public schools , and during the summer time DC Central Kitchen offers free meals (breakfast & lunch) to children living in the DC area. Two sites are located in my area: One summer feeding site is located directly across the street from my house, my elementary school, Plummer Elementary school, and the other site is located at Thomas ES. Although I attended Plummer ES for the majority of my elementary years, I am connected to Thomas ES through Arcadia, my younger sister attends this school, and my mother teaches at Thomas ES.
DC Central Kitchen is saving DC from food deserts one meal at a time, and I appreciate their presence in my neighborhood.
To learn more about DC Central Kitchen Healthy Corners Program click here.
To learn more about DC Central Kitchen click here.


The cover for the June Krakow Post was created by Katarzyna Zapart, a recent graduate of The Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, whose final student project won a prestigious Graphis Platinum Award for New Talent, 2014.
Her submission to the competition bested new design talent from around the world and consisted of a series of posters for Krakow's Theatre Scena STU.
Vivid and hyper-realist in style, Katarzyna's work is firmly in the tradition of superb Polish poster design, which packs wit and meaning into images in a way that makes the modern Hollywood poster look like a child's drawing.
Katarzyna is now working as a freelance graphic designer and we anticipate her designs making the world a better place to look at in the near future.
Krakow Post: Where are you from?
Katarzyna Zapart: I'm from Kraśnik, a small town near Lublin.
KP: How long have you lived in Krakow?
KZ: Three years. Before that, I lived in Lublin and Warsaw for a while. Krakow is the best of course.
KP: Were you always interested in graphic design, or did you start out in a different branch of the arts?
KZ: I think I was, but I wasn't aware of it. In high school, or maybe earlier, I decided to go into arts and I already knew it would be graphic design. Honestly, I couldn't design anything in those days, but I just wanted to be a designer. The decision was as simple as waking up in the morning.
KZ: I love Stefan Sagmeister, because he is so real about what he does. He will literally do anything for graphic design, including running naked or cutting himself. One day, I'll go to New York and cooperate with him (hopefully without cutting myself). I also admire Michał Batory – a Polish designer living in Paris.
KP: How would you describe your 'design philosophy'?
KZ: Design makes me happy when I'm sad, and keeps me sane when I'm getting crazy. I love the creative process, which is why my favourite creative field is theatre posters. I like to compress the whole story into one, metaphorical object. I also like that design has the power to make people think about what I am communicating to them. I don't have to say anything – I show it.
KP: What, for you, is a recent example of poor design that we see around us in Krakow, and what is good?
KZ: I admire Opera Rara's posters and the Jewish Culture Festival branding. What I don't like is the KRK logo – I agree with Studio Otwarte, who said Krakow should use its coat of arms instead. I also don't like the Winter Olimpics logo – it reminds me of Ukrainian patterns and colours, but nothing Cracovian or Polish.
KP: If you could design a poster for one event / performance / product at any time or place in history, which would it be?
KZ: I think the end of the world would be an interesting event. But seriously, I'd like to cooperate with theaters. Now I have a few Othello and Titus Andronicus poster ideas in the back of my mind. The bigger the massacre, the more interesting the ideas.
KP: If you could live anywhere, where would it be, and why?
KZ: I would like to travel and live in many places. I'd like to live for a while in Nepal, maybe Malta and – first of all – New York. But Krakow will be always my home, even though I wasn't born here. Even if I move to another country, I'm sure I will come back here.
KP: Where do you like to relax in Krakow?
KZ: I relax on ul. Tomasza. I also like Artefakt in Kazimierz – they have very good beers – and many other places. I'm still discovering new ones.
KP: If you were Empress of Krakow for a day, what would you change?
KZ: I would close all the Cocomo and other go-go clubs.


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Q: Select most recent change in SQL I have a table which consist of four columns:
TimeStamp | Leg1 | Leg2 | Leg3
I need to select the leg which was most recently changed as the final leg.

A: Assuming that only one leg value will change for each time stamp, this will give you the time of last change, what leg was changed, what the new value is and what the previous value was.
Here is a link to see it in action http://rextester.com/ZZHB91131
The code is here:
IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#thisTest') IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE #thisTest

CREATE TABLE #thisTest(
DateTimeStamp datetime,
Leg1 int,
Leg2 int,
Leg3 int)

INSERT INTO #thisTest (DateTimeStamp,Leg1,Leg2,Leg3) VALUES
('7/1/2016',1,1,1),
('7/2/2016',2,1,1),
('7/3/2016',2,2,1),
('7/4/2016',2,2,2),
('7/5/2016',2,2,3),
('7/6/2016',2,3,3),
('7/7/2016',3,3,3),
('7/8/2016',3,4,4),
('7/9/2016',4,3,4),
('7/10/2016',4,3,5),
('7/11/2016',4,4,5)

SELECT * FROM #thisTest

SELECT TOP 1
    DateTimeStamp as TimeOfLastChange,
    CASE
        WHEN LEAD(Leg1) OVER(ORDER BY DateTimeStamp DESC) <> Leg1 THEN 'Leg1'
        WHEN LEAD(Leg2) OVER(ORDER BY DateTimeStamp DESC) <> Leg2 THEN 'Leg2'
        WHEN LEAD(Leg3) OVER(ORDER BY DateTimeStamp DESC) <> Leg3 THEN 'Leg3'
    END AS LegThatWasLastChanged,
    CASE
        WHEN LEAD(Leg1) OVER(ORDER BY DateTimeStamp DESC) <> Leg1 THEN LEAD(Leg1) OVER(ORDER BY DateTimeStamp DESC)
        WHEN LEAD(Leg2) OVER(ORDER BY DateTimeStamp DESC) <> Leg2 THEN LEAD(Leg2) OVER(ORDER BY DateTimeStamp DESC)
        WHEN LEAD(Leg3) OVER(ORDER BY DateTimeStamp DESC) <> Leg3 THEN LEAD(Leg3) OVER(ORDER BY DateTimeStamp DESC)
    END AS PreviousLegValue,
    CASE
        WHEN LEAD(Leg1) OVER(ORDER BY DateTimeStamp DESC) <> Leg1 THEN Leg1
        WHEN LEAD(Leg2) OVER(ORDER BY DateTimeStamp DESC) <> Leg2 THEN Leg2
        WHEN LEAD(Leg3) OVER(ORDER BY DateTimeStamp DESC) <> Leg3 THEN Leg3
    END AS LastLegValue
FROM
    #thisTest
ORDER BY
    DateTimeStamp DESC

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Q: No exact matches in call to instance method 'remove' in swift Try to delete tableViewCell in swift XIB. but there is error cannot remove models
viewModel :
private var combinedItems: [combinedInboxModel] = []

func get(){} // Add combinedItems data

View Controller
override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, commit editingStyle: UITableViewCell.EditingStyle, forRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
    if editingStyle == .delete {
        viewModel.combinedItems.remove(at: indexPath.row) // No exact matches in call to instance method 'remove' in swift
        tableView.deleteRows(at: [indexPath], with: .fade)
    }
}

Why there is error remove here?


"Sumikko Grashi" is a popular character in Japan nowadays, become a game of Nintendo DS. "Sumikko Grashi" means to sit in the corner and comfortable to stay corner, this may show little general Japanese personality. Many people feel little relaxing to see these cute characters. Hope you can enjoy the writing message with relaxing and cute characters.


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package com.netflix.servo.publish;

import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
import com.netflix.servo.Metric;
import com.netflix.servo.tag.SortedTagList;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

import java.util.List;

import static org.testng.Assert.assertEquals;

public class BasicMetricFilterTest {

    private List<Metric> mkList() {
        return ImmutableList.of(
            new Metric("m1", SortedTagList.EMPTY, 0L, 0),
            new Metric("m2", SortedTagList.builder().withTag("c","a.b.c.d.M1").build(), 0L, 0),
            new Metric("m3", SortedTagList.builder().withTag("c","a.b.c.c.M3").build(), 0L, 0),
            new Metric("m4", SortedTagList.builder().withTag("c","a.b.c.d.M4").build(), 0L, 0),
            new Metric("m5", SortedTagList.builder().withTag("c","a.a.a.a.M5").build(), 0L, 0)
        );
    }

    private MetricPoller newPoller() {
        MockMetricPoller poller = new MockMetricPoller();
        poller.setMetrics(mkList());
        return poller;
    }

    @Test
    public void testFilterFalse() throws Exception {
        MetricPoller poller = newPoller();
        assertEquals(poller.poll(new BasicMetricFilter(false)).size(), 0);
    }

    @Test
    public void testFilterTrue() throws Exception {
        MetricPoller poller = newPoller();
        assertEquals(poller.poll(new BasicMetricFilter(true)), mkList());
    }
}

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Q: How to retrieve data from SQLite faster in python I have the following info in my database (example):
longitude (real): 70.74
userid (int): 12

This is how i fetch it:
import sqlite3 as lite
con = lite.connect(dbpath)
    with con:
    cur = con.cursor()
    cur.execute('SELECT latitude, userid FROM message')
    con.commit()
    print "executed"
    while True:
        tmp = cur.fetchone()
        if tmp != None:
            info.append([tmp[0],tmp[1]])
        else:
            break

To get the same info on the form [70.74, 12]
What else can I do to speed up this process? At 10,000,000 rows this takes approx 50 seconds, as I'm  aiming for 200,000,000 rows - I never get through this, possible to a memory leak or something like that?

A: From the sqlite3 documentation:

A Row instance serves as a highly optimized row_factory for Connection objects. It tries to mimic a tuple in most of its features.

Since a Row closely mimics a tuple, depending on your needs you may not even need to unpack the results.
However, since your numerical types are stored as strings, we do need to do some processing. As @Jon Clements pointed out, the cursor is an iterable, so we can just use a comprehension, obtaining the float and ints at the same time.
import sqlite3 as lite

with lite.connect(dbpath) as conn:
  cur = conn.execute('SELECT latitude, userid FROM message')

  items = [[float(x[0]), int(x[1])] for x in cur]

EDIT: We're not making any changes, so we don't need to call commit.


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The Oxford History of the Laws of England Volume VI
Author: John BakerPublish On: 2003-09-18
D., F.B.A., Downing Professor of the Laws of England, and Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge The Oxford ... The Canon Law and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction from 597 to the 1640s Helmholz isbn 0–19–825897–6 Volume II: c.900–1216 ...
Author: John Baker
This volume covers the years 1483-1558, a period of immense social, political, and intellectual changes, which profoundly affected the law and its workings. It first considers constitutional developments, and addresses the question of whether there was a rule of law under king Henry VIII. In a period of supposed despotism, and enhanced parliamentary power, protection of liberty was increasing and habeas corpus was emerging. The volume considers the extent to which the law was affected by the intellectual changes of the Renaissance, and how far the English experience differed from that of the Continent. It includes a study of the myriad jurisdictions in Tudor England and their workings; and examines important procedural changes in the central courts, which represent a revolution in the way that cases were presented and decided. The legal profession, its education, its functions, and its literature are examined, and the impact of printing upon legal learning and the role of case-law in comparison with law-school doctrine are addressed. The volume then considers the law itself. Criminal law was becoming more focused during this period as a result of doctrinal exposition in the inns of court and occasional reports of trials. After major conflicts with the Church, major adjustments were made to the benefit of clergy, and the privilege of sanctuary was all but abolished. The volume examines the law of persons in detail, addressing the impact of the abolition of monastic status, the virtual disappearance of villeinage, developments in the law of corporations, and some remarkable statements about the equality of women. The history of private law during this period is dominated by real property and particularly the Statutes of Uses and Wills (designed to protect the king's feudal income against the consequences of trusts) which are given a new interpretation. Leaseholders and copyholders came to be treated as full landowners with rights assimilated to those of freeholders. The land law of the time was highly sophisticated, and becoming more so, but it was only during this period that the beginnings of a law of chattels became discernible. There were also significant changes in the law of contract and tort, not least in the development of a satisfactory remedy for recovering debts.
The Oxford History of the Laws of England The Canon law and ecclesiastical jurisdiction from 597 to the 1640s
Author: R. H. HelmholzPublish On: 2003
Volume I : The Canon Law and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction from 597 to the 16405 Helmholz ISBN 0-19-825897–6 Volume II : c.900–1216 Hudson ISBN 0-19-826030 - X Volume III : 1216–1307 Brand ISBN 0-19-826866-6 Volume IV : 1307–1377 Donahue ...
Author: R. H. Helmholz
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
This volume traces the reception and subsequent history of the canon law in England between 597 and 1649. It covers, amongst other topics, the Anglo-Saxon laws, both secular and spiritual; the establishment of consistory courts; and the fate of the canon law during and after the English reformation. Secondly, this volume addresses the subjects under ecclesiastical jurisdiction: civil procedure and the law of proof; monetary obligations and economic regulation; testamentary law and probate jurisdiction; tithes and spiritual dues; churches and the clergy; marriage and divorce; defamation; and crimes and criminal procedure. These subjects are examined using evidence from later medieval and early modern court records, and the volume seeks to place them within the context of formal canon law. The volume also places ecclesiastical jurisdiction within the context of English society and the English common law.
The Oxford History of the Laws of England Volume II
Author: John Hamilton BakerPublish On: 2012-03-22
871-1216 John Hudson John Hamilton Baker. at times doubts seem to have been expressed as to the acceptability even of temporary grants. Take the following lease of about 900: I, Bishop Denewulf, inform King Edward my lord about that ...
Author: John Hamilton Baker
By 1216 the foundations of the English common law had been laid. This book assesses the development of law and society during the preceeding three centuries, including the Norman Conquest of 1066. It analyses the great legacy of the Anglo-Saxon realm, the impact of Norman custom, and the energetic contribution of the twelfth-century kings.
Kings as Judges
Author: Deborah BoucoyannisPublish On: 2021-06-30
New York: Longman. ed. 1996b. The History of English Law: Centenary Essays on "Pollock and Maitland." Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2012. The Oxford History of the Laws of England, Volume 2: 900–1216.
Author: Deborah Boucoyannis
How did representative institutions become the central organs of governance in Western Europe? What enabled this distinctive form of political organization and collective action that has proved so durable and influential? The answer has typically been sought either in the realm of ideas, in the Western tradition of individual rights, or in material change, especially the complex interaction of war, taxes, and economic growth. Common to these strands is the belief that representation resulted from weak ruling powers needing to concede rights to powerful social groups. Boucoyannis argues instead that representative institutions were a product of state strength, specifically the capacity to deliver justice across social groups. Enduring and inclusive representative parliaments formed when rulers could exercise power over the most powerful actors in the land and compel them to serve and, especially, to tax them. The language of rights deemed distinctive to the West emerged in response to more effectively imposed collective obligations, especially on those with most power.
Married Life in the Middle Ages 900 1300
Author: Elisabeth van HoutsPublish On: 2019-01-31
Hajnal, J., 'European marriage patterns in perspective', in Population in History. ... The Oxford History of the Laws of England. Vol. II, 871–1216 (Oxford, 2012). Hughes, Diane Owen, 'From brideprice to dowry in Mediterranean Europe', ...
Author: Elisabeth van Houts
Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300 contains an analysis of the experience of married life by men and women in Christian medieval Europe, c. 900-1300. The study focusses on the social and emotional life of the married couple rather than on the institutional history of marriage, breaking it into three parts: Getting Married - the process of getting married and wedding celebrations; Married Life - the married life of lay couples and clergy, their sexuality, and any remarriage; and Alternative Living - which explores concubinage and polygyny, as well as the single life in contrast to monogamous sexual unions. In this volume, van Houts deals with four central themes. First, the tension between patriarchal family strategies and the individual family member's freedom of choice to marry and, if so, to what partner; second, the role played by the married priesthood in their quest to have individual agency and self-determination accepted in their own lives in the face of the growing imposition of clerical celibacy; third, the role played by women in helping society accept some degree of gender equality and self-determination to marry and in shaping the norms for married life incorporating these principles; fourth, the role played by emotion in the establishment of marriage and in married life at a time when sexual and spiritual love feature prominently in medieval literature.
Author: David BatesPublish On: 2016-11-01
Autour de Lanfranc (1010–2010), 107–15 Holt, J. C., 'Politics and Property in Early Medieval England', Past and Present, ... Normandy and its Neighbours, 223–35 —— The Oxford History of the Laws of England, volume II: 871–1216 (Oxford, ...
Author: David Bates
Fifteen years in the making, a landmark reinterpretation of the life of a pivotal figure in British and European history In this magisterial addition to the Yale English Monarchs series, David Bates combines biography and a multidisciplinary approach to examine the life of a major figure in British and European history. Using a framework derived from studies of early medieval kingship, he assesses each phase of William's life to establish why so many trusted William to invade England in 1066 and the consequences of this on the history of the so-called Norman Conquest after the Battle of Hastings and for generations to come. A leading historian of the period, Bates is notable for having worked extensively in the archives of northern France and discovered many eleventh- and twelfth-century charters largely unnoticed by English-language scholars. Taking an innovative approach, he argues for a move away from old perceptions and controversies associated with William's life and the Norman Conquest. This deeply researched volume is the scholarly biography for our generation.
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Royal Bastards
Author: Sara McDougallPublish On: 2016-11-03
23 John Hudson, Oxford History of the Laws of England, 900–1216 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012) 2:445: "settlements concerning succession reached by [William's] own sons in 1091 and 1101 made clear that a son must have been born ...
Author: Sara McDougall
The stigmatization as 'bastards' of children born outside of wedlock is commonly thought to have emerged early in Medieval European history. Christian ideas about legitimate marriage, it is assumed, set the standard for legitimate birth. Children born to anything other than marriage had fewer rights or opportunities. They certainly could not become king or queen. As this volume demonstrates, however, well into the late twelfth century, ideas of what made a child a legitimate heir had little to do with the validity of his or her parents' union according to the dictates of Christian marriage law. Instead a child's prospects depended upon the social status, and above all the lineage, of both parents. To inherit a royal or noble title, being born to the right father mattered immensely, but also being born to the right kind of mother. Such parents could provide the most promising futures for their children, even if doubt was cast on the validity of the parents' marriage. Only in the late twelfth century did children born to illegal marriages begin to suffer the same disadvantages as the children born to parents of mixed social status. Even once this change took place we cannot point to 'the Church' as instigator. Instead, exclusion of illegitimate children from inheritance and succession was the work of individual litigants who made strategic use of Christian marriage law. This new history of illegitimacy rethinks many long-held notions of medieval social, political, and legal history.
The Formation of the English Common Law
Author: John HudsonPublish On: 2017-08-07
The crucial work on law in the period is by Patrick Wormald: The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth ... J. G. H. Hudson, The Oxford History of the Laws of England, volume II: 871–1216 (Oxford, 2012), covers not just the ...
Author: John Hudson
The Formation of English Common Law provides a comprehensive overview of the development of early English law, one of the classic subjects of medieval history. This much expanded second edition spans the centuries from King Alfred to Magna Carta, abandoning the traditional but restrictive break at the Norman Conquest. Within a strong interpretative framework, it also integrates legal developments with wider changes in the thought, society, and politics of the time. Rather than simply tracing elements of the common law back to their Anglo-Saxon, Norman or other origins, John Hudson examines and analyses the emergence of the common law from the interaction of various elements that developed over time, such as the powerful royal government inherited from Anglo-Saxon England and land holding customs arising from the Norman Conquest. Containing a new chapter charting the Anglo-Saxon period, as well as a fully revised Further Reading section, this new edition is an authoritative yet highly accessible introduction to the formation of the English common law and is ideal for students of history and law.
The Linguistic Past in Twelfth Century Britain
Author: Sara HarrisPublish On: 2017-10-12
... ASE, 28 (1999), 201–223 'Intermarriage in Eleventh-Century England', in Normandy and Its Neighbours, 900–1250: Essays ... (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009), pp.421–432 The Oxford History of the Laws of England, Volume II: 871–1216 (Oxford: ...
Author: Sara Harris
How was the complex history of Britain's languages understood by twelfth-century authors? This book argues that the social, political and linguistic upheavals that occurred in the wake of the Norman Conquest intensified later interest in the historicity of languages. An atmosphere of enquiry fostered vernacular literature's prestige and led to a newfound sense of how ancient languages could be used to convey historical claims. The vernacular hence became an important site for the construction and memorialisation of dynastic, institutional and ethnic identities. This study demonstrates the breadth of interest in the linguistic past across different social groups and the striking variety of genre used to depict it, including romance, legal translation, history, poetry and hagiography. Through a series of detailed case studies, Sara Harris shows how specific works represent key aspects of the period's imaginative engagement with English, Brittonic, Latin and French language development.
The Old English Penitentials and Anglo Saxon Law
Author: Stefan JurasinskiPublish On: 2015-05-19
The Practice of Penance, 900–1050. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell, 2001 . Harbus, Antonina. The Life of the Mind in Old English Poetry. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002. Helmholz, R. H. The Oxford History of the Laws of England, Vol.
Author: Stefan Jurasinski
Some of the earliest examples of medieval canon law are penitentials - texts enumerating the sins a confessor might encounter among laypeople or other clergy and suggesting means of reconciliation. Often they gave advice on matters of secular law as well, offering judgments on the proper way to contract a marriage or on the treatment of slaves. This book argues that their importance to more general legal-historical questions, long suspected by historians but rarely explored, is most evident in an important (and often misunderstood) subgroup of the penitentials: composed in Old English. Though based on Latin sources - principally those attributed to Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury (d.690) and Halitgar of Cambrai (d.831) - these texts recast them into new ordinances meant to better suit the needs of English laypeople. The Old English penitentials thus witness to how one early medieval polity established a tradition of written vernacular law.
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Events for Friday October 22, 2021
Local Theatre Productions
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Actors' NET, 635 North Delmorr Avenue, Morrisville, PA, 215-295-3694. www.actorsnetbucks.org. Christopher Durang's wacky comedy in which Vanya and his adopted sister Sonia bicker their way through late middle age in their comfortable Bucks County home. $24. 8 p.m.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Music Mountain Theater, 1483 State Route 179, Lambertville. www.musicmountaintheatre.org. Broadway musical whodunnit adapted from Charles Dickens' unfinished novel. $25. 8 p.m.
Puffs, Villagers Theatre, 475 DeMott Lane, Somerset, 732-873-2710. www.villagerstheatre.com. Original play by Matt Cox subtitled "Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic." $20. 8 p.m.
Walkin' After Midnight: A Patsy Cline Tribute, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, PA, 215-862-2121. www.buckscountyplayhouse.org. Starring Broadway's Carter Calvert backed by the Roger Cohen Band. $45. 8 p.m.


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Q: how to merge two arrays (array 1d and array 2d object) into a array using lodash I am looking for best ways of doing this. I have two arrays (array 1d and array 2d object):
let keys = [11, 12];
let values = [
[
   { name: '1', link: '1', history: '1' },
   { name: '2', link: '2', history: '2' }
 ],
 [
   { name: '3', link: '3', history: '3' },
   { name: '4', link: '4', history: '4' }
 ]
]

The end result I want is an array of map:
[
   { name: '1', link: '1', history: '1' , q : 11},
   { name: '2', link: '2', history: '2' , q : 11},
   { name: '3', link: '3', history: '3' , q : 12},
   { name: '4', link: '4', history: '4' , q : 12}
]

How do I do it the most efficient/clean way using lodash? Thanks!

This code without lodash :

let arr = [];
let keys = [ 29, 30 ]
let values = [
  [
    { name: '1', link: '1', history: '1' },
    { name: '2', link: '2', history: '2' }
  ],
  [
    { name: '3', link: '3', history: '3' },
    { name: '4', link: '4', history: '4' }
  ]
]
for (let j = 0; j < values.length; j++) {
  for (let i = 0; i < values[j].length; i++) {
    arr.push({ ...values[j][i], q: keys[j] });
  }
}
console.log(arr)

A: You may simply just use _.map

let keys = [11, 12];
let values = [[{"name":"1","link":"1","history":"1"},{"name":"2","link":"2","history":"2"}],[{"name":"3","link":"3","history":"3"},{"name":"4","link":"4","history":"4"}]]
console.log(_.map(values, (v, i) => _.map(v, o => (o.q = keys[i], o))))
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.15/lodash.core.js"></script>

or without lodash which is pretty much the same syntax wise

let keys = [11, 12];
let values = [[{"name":"1","link":"1","history":"1"},{"name":"2","link":"2","history":"2"}],[{"name":"3","link":"3","history":"3"},{"name":"4","link":"4","history":"4"}]]
console.log(values.map((v, i) => v.map(o => (o.q = keys[i], o))))

edit: I forgot that the resulting array has to be 1D.
 - The lodash variation needs to get some _.flatten over the result
 - The native js needs a .flat()
Lastly one may use lodash/fp to get some chaining style

let keys = [11, 12];
let values = [[{"name":"1","link":"1","history":"1"},{"name":"2","link":"2","history":"2"}],[{"name":"3","link":"3","history":"3"},{"name":"4","link":"4","history":"4"}]]

console.log(
  _.flow(
    // we need to use entries to get the index of fp.map
    _.entries,
    // for each array
    _.map(([i, v]) =>
      // foreach "history" of the array
      _.map(
        // merge the key to the current "history"
        _.merge({ q: keys[i] }), v)
      ),
    _.flatten
  )(values)
)

console.log(
  _.flow(
    // or its variant
    _.map.convert({ cap: false })((v,i) => _.map(_.merge({ q: keys[i] }), v)),
    _.flatten
  )(values)
)
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/g/lodash@4(lodash.min.js+lodash.fp.min.js"></script>

A: Not a lodash solution, but a universal approach for more arrays with objects for merging to get a cartesian product.

let keys = [11, 12],
    values = [[{ name: '1', link: '1', history: '1' }, { name: '2', link: '2', history: '2' }], [{ name: '3', link: '3', history: '3' }, { name: '4', link: '4', history: '4' }]],
    data = [
        values.flat(),
        keys.map(q => ({ q }))
    ],
    result = data.reduce((a, b) => a.reduce((r, v) => r.concat(b.map(w => ({ ...v, ...w }))), []));

console.log(result);
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A: You can use Array.flatMap() (or lodash's _.flatMap()) to iterate the values, and then map the sub-arrays, and add the respective key:

const keys = [11, 12];
const values = [[{"name":"1","link":"1","history":"1"},{"name":"2","link":"2","history":"2"}],[{"name":"3","link":"3","history":"3"},{"name":"4","link":"4","history":"4"}]]

const result = values.flatMap((arr, i) =>
  arr.map(o => ({ ...o, q: keys[i] }))
)

console.log(result)


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Edward Pease (Darlington, 31 mei 1767 - 31 juli 1858) was een Brits spoorwegeigenaar.

Pease werd geboren in de lokaal prominente familie Pease. Hij ging in Darlington naar school. Aansluitend bezocht hij een Quaker-kostschool in Leeds. In zijn werkzame leven was hij actief in de wolhandel van zijn familie. Toen hij vijftig jaar oud was richtte hij zijn aandacht op wat nieuws. Hij maakte zich sterk voor een tramway die de kolenmijnen in County Durham moest verbinden met de haven van Stockton-on-Tees. Hij wist een aantal lokale zakenlieden over te halen dit plan te steunen. In 1821 keurde het Britse parlement het plan goed.

In eerste instantie plande Pease een tramweg waar de wagons door paarden zouden worden getrokken. George Stephenson en Nicholas Wood, de ingenieur en manager van de Killingworth Colliery, wisten hem echter over te halen om in plaats daarvan  stoomlocomotieven te gebruiken. Stephenson werd als projectleider aangesteld. De Stockton and Darlington Railway werd op 27 september 1825 geopend. Door de dood van een van zijn zonen een dag eerder kon Edward Pease niet bij de feestelijke opening aanwezig zijn.

In 1829 trad Pease terug uit zijn spoorwegmaatschappij. Hij droeg zijn functie over aan zijn tweede zoon Joseph Pease.

Pease was een aanhanger van de anti-slavernijbeweging. Ook steunde hij Elizabeth Fry in haar campagne om het gevangeniswezen te hervormen.

Hij huwde Rachel Whitwell. Onder hun kinderen waren John Pease (1797-1868), Joseph Pease (1799-1872), Isaac Pease (1805-1825) en Henry Pease (1807-1881).

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London Short Story Prize 2018 winner announced
Spread the Word is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2018 London Short Story Prize is Guy Ware for his story the year of peace. Highly commended were A Complete History of Portraiture by Kira McPherson and Dead Shark by Emma Hutton.
There were over 500 entries to the competition, which aims to find the best stories and writers coming out of the capital. The judges, authors Guy Gunaratne and Clare Fisher, and agent Sarah Such, chose the winner from a high quality selection of stories in a variety of genres, styles and subject matter.
Judge Clare Fisher remarked that 'I was astounded by the quality, diversity and originality of this longlist. These stories will make you laugh, cry and think; they will take you to new and unexpected emotional and physical landscapes. These writers aren't merely talented – they've got flair and guts. I look forward to seeing what they do next.'
The winner receives £1,000 and a meeting with an agent. The two highly commended authors receive £250 and a meeting with an editor. Further prizes include places on Spread the Word courses, and membership to the London Writers Network. The twelve longlisted writers will see their stories published in the London Short Story Anthology 2018, produced by Kingston University Press and launched in April 2019.
Sarah Such said of the year of peace that it was 'the unanimous winner. It was the story that most moved, excited, enthralled and inspired me. Beautifully written in a spare but accessible form, by turns elegant and lyrical, a man and woman meet in London four or five times each year as their relationship evolves through remembrance of an historic coup in her father's country. Tender and begging many questions, it's a haunting story that plays assuredly with the reader's emotions.'
Guy Ware says 'I'm delighted that the year of peace has been chosen. Writing it was a gamble, so finding readers and judges who think it has paid off is a real boost. It's the encouragement I need to keep taking risks, keep pushing stories I believe in.'
Ruth Harrison, Director, Spread the Word said: 'It is evident that the short story form is thriving in London, and the quality and quantity of entries that we received show the vitality of the capital's writing scene. We're thrilled to once again be able to reward and showcase the talent that is out there.'
The full London Short Story Prize 2018 list is as follows:
the year of peace – Guy Ware
A Complete History of Portraiture – Kira McPherson
Dead Shark – Emma Hutton
Chicken Shop Girl – Katie Lumsden
Like A Blooming Discotheque – Judith Wilson
Real Estate – CG Menon
As Close As It Comes – Adam Welch
End of Terrace – Luan Goldie
First Time Ever – Erika Banerji
Granda – Ken Barlow
Madrid – B R Porter
Strange Inherited Jazz – Lou Kramskoy
Ten of these short stories will be published in The London Short Story Prize Anthology 2018, which will be launched in April 2019. More details coming soon – watch this space!


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My arrival is at Kolkata International Airport, and I then need to get a connecting flight from the domestic airport. The tickets have been booked separately, and it is only known that I have realized that I have not even checked the distance between the domestic and international airport in Kolkata.
If the distance is too far, then I don't think I would be able to make the domestic flight. I need to know the exact distance from the international and domestic airport in Kolkata, with an idea of how long it would take in rush hours and non-rush hours.
The distance between the International and Domestic airports in Kolkata is very short. In fact, you can walk from terminal to terminal without any problems. Allot at least 10 to 15 minutes for your travel time from one terminal to another. To be quite safe, make sure that you get the front seat in your plane. This way, you can easily depart and go to your next terminal after the first flight.
It depends on whether you travel during peak season but expect it to have lines especially in the immigration check. As much as possible, rush to the line to avoid being delayed in your next flight. Allot at least 15 minutes for this as well.
You'd have to wait for your luggage to arrive, 10 to 15 minutes. Then you also need to check in your luggage, again another 15 minutes.
All in all, give or take, you need an allowance of an hour or two. I hope this helps!


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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Leah Mol
Leah Mol is a writer and editor who graduated from the Creative Writing Program at UBC. She's the author of the novel Sharp Edges, and her fiction won the 2018 CBC Short Story Prize and the 2020 Bronwen Wallace Award. She lives in Toronto. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram @leahmol.
1 - How did your first book or chapbook change your life? How does your most recent work compare to your previous? How does it feel different?
My first chapbook opened up the idea of creative writing as something that could be a career. It also brought me into a writing community, which was incredibly important for me as a young writer.
My first novel, Sharp Edges, changed the way I write—I'm okay with throwing things out now, admitting when something isn't working and starting fresh, or trying a few things and making a choice. I used to be really obsessed with making everything work, like, fitting everything I wrote into a project. But now that I've written a book, I know I can write another book. I don't need to put everything into one project, because it doesn't have to be the last one.
2 - How did you come to fiction first, as opposed to, say, poetry or non-fiction?
I'm not sure what I came to first anymore. I've always been more drawn to prose—I'd argue that any poetry I've written in the past is really just prose with line breaks—and I had a long period of writing mainly nonfiction. But fiction is what I loved most as a kid, it's what I work on now as an editor, and it's the vast majority of what I read. It's what I know best.
It depends on the project. My CBC short story took me a couple hours to write the day before the prize deadline, while my Writers' Trust story took months of weekend writing and rewriting. I wrote the first draft of Sharp Edges in about three months, in 500-words-per-day chunks. I had no notes, no idea of where I was going—I just started writing one day and added to it every day until I had 60,000 words. Much of that first draft was reshaped and rewritten over another year or so, but the tone and voice were already there and didn't change.
But…it was super difficult to take 60,000 words I'd basically vomited onto a page and turn it into something that had a plot—like, painfully difficult. So for the book I'm working on now, I've spent the last couple years thinking and doing research and creating a kind of structure first.
4 - Where does a work of prose usually begin for you? Are you an author of short pieces that end up combining into a larger project, or are you working on a "book" from the very beginning?
I always know what something is going to be when I start. I've never started a short story and ended up writing a novel. But I am a person who likes vignettes and novels in pieces. I've always been a big fan of first and last lines, so I like my work to have as many sections as possible—then you get first and last line of the book, first and last line of each chapter, AND first and last line of each subsection. It's like first-and-last-line-a-palooza.
Readings are fun. I enjoy doing them (probably because I like attention?), but I don't know if most people truly enjoy watching someone read from a book. Some writers do it really well, but it's a very different skill from writing.
For me, a huge part of readings is the social aspect, and a sense of community. I've noticed a switch in the last few years that a lot of book events are now discussions with the author or panels, and I feel like I always have more incentive to buy a book if I like the author and feel I know something about them. I think it just depends on the purpose of the event—if you're selling books, I'm not sure how much a reading will accomplish. I'd much prefer to go to an open mic where everyone gets 2 minutes to read, or an event where people are trying out new material.
It depends on the project. For Sharp Edges, I was thinking a lot about society's treatment of women and girls, politics around sex work, gender expectations, sexuality, adolescence. But my focus is always character and voice.
7 – What do you see the current role of the writer being in larger culture? Do they even have one? What do you think the role of the writer should be?
Writing is a job. I do think writing can create change—I think books and television and music can build empathy and help people recognize viewpoints they'd never have been able to consider otherwise—but I don't think it necessarily works when writers set out with that as their role. A writer's role is whatever they want it to be; and that might be a career-length choice, or it might change project to project.
I couldn't write if I didn't have people reading my work through the process. I do think it's important to get a draft done before getting reads—those first pages are just so raw and tender and I can't imagine letting someone read something until I have an actual complete story, novel, etc. Even if you don't change or rewrite those pages, there's something about time and space and a sense of completeness that provides distance. But at that point, I get anyone I trust to read and give me as much big-picture feedback as they can. And for my novel, after all of those reads, my editor at Doubleday, Melanie Tutino, was really helpful with filling in gaps and making final connections. I just can't imagine moving a book from one draft to the next without editors.
I honestly don't know. I feel like every piece of advice comes with downsides and contradictions, and there's always an exception to the rule. Like, in general, as someone who has anxiety issues, I think "Other people aren't thinking about you" is pretty comforting. But also, aren't the best little joys in life when you find out someone is actually thinking about you?
So maybe the best advice is "Be kind." Nobody can argue with that.
10 - How easy has it been for you to move between genres (short stories to creative non-fiction to the novel)? What do you see as the appeal?
I've never struggled with it—but I also generally work on one project at a time, which might make it easier?
It changes with what I'm working on:
A short story—bits and pieces of writing here and there.
First draft of a novel—a specific number of words a day (and after I hit that number, I stop writing and just jot notes for myself the rest of the day).
Later drafts of a novel—usually an hour or so a day of staring at a screen and moving words around.
And then there are huge chunks of time where I don't write at all, but I think about writing a lot and read and make notes constantly. Regardless, my day usually starts with coffee and walking my dog.
I think it depends where I am in a process. I wouldn't say my writing ever really gets stalled. If I want to write 500 words, I can sit down and write 500 words. It might feel like pure garbage, but at least it's easier to write more the next day, and maybe I'll get a line or a couple words out of it that spark something new. I'd say I'm more likely to get stalled in big-picture things like structure. And that just takes time and thinking, finding some new ideas that might provide inspiration—TV, movies, books. I go for walks. Mostly, I take a lot of showers; the shower is the best place for ideas.
Clean laundry and chocolate.
I always think of my childhood home when I smell clean laundry. And the home I've had for the last decade is next to a chocolate factory.
Honestly, kind of everything. I read a ton, but it's just as likely for me to get inspiration from other forms. My characters are people, and they live in a world and notice things about that world. They have a broad spectrum of interests, and the only way for me to write that believably is to take inspiration from a wide variety of sources.
Oh my god, I don't even know how to answer this question without pages and pages of names. One of the most important writers for my work was Elizabeth Wurtzel. I remember reading Prozac Nation in high school and being blown away that someone could be so honest and brutal about themselves. It gave me a whole new idea of what writing could be. I also started reading Bret Easton Ellis around that time, and I've always admired the style and voice of his fiction.
Being a writer also luckily means getting to spend lots of time with writers. And I've been so spoiled with great writer friends who've had a huge effect on my work. Honestly, there are too many to name here, but I'm especially thinking of writers out of In/Words in Ottawa, Word and Colour in Montreal, and the UBC Creative Writing Program in Vancouver.
A few more authors who have been super influential for my writing and/or life: Heather O'Neill, Virginie Despentes, Dennis Cooper, Ottessa Moshfegh, Tamara Faith Berger, Barbara Gowdy, Carmen Maria Machado, Casey Plett, Aimee Bender, Charles Bukowski, Mary Gaitskill, Flannery O'Connor, and Miranda July.
Sometimes I say I want to travel more, but every time I travel, I mostly hate it.
Writing-wise, I feel like I'm at a point in my career where I can kind of try whatever I want (not to say that someone will necessarily buy it!), which is kind of freeing, but also, I mostly just want to write another novel. At home.
I've had a lot of jobs, sometimes four or five at once, and I think I'll probably continue to have random jobs throughout life. I get antsy and once in a while, I'll be like, "Oh, I don't have enough money"—and I decide to apply for serving jobs even though I already work full-time and work freelance and write (and another couple of side jobs that are done more for good anecdotes than money).
Right now, I work as an editor, which is a very different job than writing, but also, my life is books. Sometimes I think about what I would do if books just stopped being a thing or publishing stopped existing as an industry, and I can only imagine a terrifying dystopian world where people are, like, murdering each other to survive. If books were no longer a possibility, it'd obviously be a really shitty world where very bad things had happened.
Before I won the CBC Prize, I did seriously think about quitting writing and going back to school to become a coroner. I was really obsessed with Da Vinci's Inquest growing up, and I'm sure being a coroner would be exactly like it is on TV.
I do lots of things—I'm pretty crafty, I like playing music, I can spend literal hours watching reality TV, and as previously mentioned, I do lots of other things for money. So I could always find other things to do (to make money or not).
But there's something about that moment when you write a really good line where it seems like everything just clicks—and your brain just stops for a second and appreciates it and you feel so great. Those moments make all the bad days worth it.
Film: Pleasure, directed by Ninja Thyberg. It's a brilliant, character-driven film about the porn industry, and I loved it!
Book: I read Rosemary's Baby for the first time recently and was so impressed. I guess I should have known it was good, but it was surprisingly super great. I also really enjoyed Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.
A novel about alien abduction and pregnancy and cults and obsessive friendship.
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Kirstie Alley's ex-husband Parker Stevenson posts tribute after her death
Kirstie Alley's ex-husband Parker Stevenson is mourning the late actress after her death at age 71 .
The "Hardy Boys" alum penned a letter to the Emmy winner via Instagram Monday, alongside a throwback photo.
"Dear Kirstie," he wrote, "I am so grateful for our years together, and for the two incredibly beautiful children and now grandchildren that we have."
The "Baywatch" alum, 70, concluded, "You will be missed. With love, Parker."
Parker Stevenson shared a touching tribute to his late ex-wife, Kirstie Alley.
The former couple tied the knot in 1983, six years after Alley finalized her divorce from first husband Bob Alley.
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Tom Brady made his first red carpet appearance since he and ex-wife Gisele Bündchen divorced. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback, 45, attended Tuesday night's Los Angeles premiere of "80 for Brady," starring Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Rita Moreno and Lily Tomlin. Brady, who appears in the film as well, looked tense at first before cracking a smile for the paps. He even threw a peace sign in their direction at one point. The star athlete seemed much more comfortable when the rest of his castmates, including a starstruck Fonda, posed by his side. In his Instagram, he noted how the red carpet was...
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The Toronto International Film Festival is known for its glamorous parties full of beautiful people from the worlds of the media and entertainment elite, and this is the first year that Thirsty Thursday is going to take place during the same week as TIFF. While it isn't an official TIFF event, it is still going to be pretty awesome.
For those of you that haven't attended a Thirsty Thursday event before, the basic idea is that it is a casual get together for young people in Public Relations or Marketing. It began as a few friends meeting for drinks, and has grown into a event to look forward to every month.
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Assessing the Role of Public Housing Agencies in Addressing Homelessness
Although the number of people in the United States who experienced homelessness declined by more than 8 percent between 2007 and 2013, homelessness remains a pressing problem. As many as 1.5 million people stay in emergency shelters or transitional housing at some time over the course of a year — a number that does not include those who require but do not receive such assistance. HUD is committed to addressing homelessness and working toward the goals outlined in the Obama administration's 2010 plan Opening Doors: Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness.
A recent study commissioned by HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research investigates how public housing agencies (PHAs) contribute to efforts to prevent and end homelessness — particularly through the administration of their Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) and public housing programs. The research, "Study of PHAs' Efforts to Serve People Experiencing Homelessness," consisted of a web-based survey of the nearly 4,000 local PHAs (with an 80% response rate) and a follow-up telephone survey of 120 selected PHAs. The surveys explore the extent to which PHAs make explicit efforts to target housing assistance to homeless households, the barriers PHAs face when assisting people experiencing homelessness, how PHAs interact with community partners, and how HUD can help PHAs enhance their efforts to address homelessness.
The study revealed, overall, that 24 percent of PHAs, controlling 53 percent of all assisted housing units, make an explicit effort to target housing assistance to homeless households. For the purposes of this study, these efforts were described in three separate categories: 1) general preferences, which enable the PHA to purposefully order their waiting list to ensure that housing resources reach specified populations ahead of those who may also be eligible for housing assistance, 2) limited preferences, which function similar to a general preference, but cap the number of vouchers or units that may be allocated to a specified population, and 3) modification of screening, which refers to changes in screening procedures or other policies that may serve as barriers to homeless households seeking to access or utilize housing assistance.
Additional key findings concern which PHA characteristics are associated with targeted PHA efforts to serve homeless households.
PHAs are more likely to make an effort to serve homeless households if the PHAs are large (administering 5,000 or more units), are located in metropolitan areas or areas with large numbers of people experiencing homelessness, have statewide jurisdictions, or participate in other local efforts to address homelessness, such as Continuums of Care (CoCs) — which are regional entities established to identify and coordinate emergency, transitional, and permanent housing services for people experiencing homelessness.
PHA administration of HUD McKinney-Vento homeless assistance programs — Supportive Housing Program, Shelter Plus Care program, and Section 8 SRO Moderate Rehabilitation program — was found to have a statistically significant effect on the likelihood that a PHA would use a strong general preference. More than half of PHAs that administer these programs make a special effort to serve people experiencing homelessness.
PHAs that administer special-purpose vouchers (SPVs) for difficult-to-house groups such as nonelderly disabled persons are more likely to make efforts to serve people experiencing homelessness; 45 percent of PHAs administering SPVs make some effort to serve people experiencing homelessness compared with 20 percent of those that do not administer SPVs.
Only 17 percent of PHAs that do not administer HUD programs targeted at homeless households make efforts to serve persons experiencing homelessness in their HCV and public housing programs.
Small PHAs are less likely than larger ones to have established a limited preference for homeless households or modified screening processes, but they are just as likely as larger PHAs to use general preferences targeted to homeless households.
It is more common for a limited preference for homeless households to be established within both tenant-based and project-based voucher programs than public housing programs.
Other factors, such as the culture of a PHA or the priorities of an executive director, may also influence a PHA's engagement with homeless households, but these factors are difficult to measure. In addition, various real or perceived barriers may dissuade PHAs from engaging in efforts to serve people experiencing homelessness. The most common barrier cited by PHAs is concern that homeless applicants may be removed from the waiting list because they lack a fixed address and cannot be found when the PHA is ready to make an offer of assistance. Other barriers cited by PHAs include homeless households lacking the necessary eligibility documentation, as well as needing housing search or landlord assistance when using HCVs.
PHAs are serving formerly homeless households through numerous approaches. Many PHAs forge relationships with local public and nonprofit community organizations to identify and help persons experiencing homelessness. These community partners may refer households to the PHA; help households prepare documentation to demonstrate eligibility for housing assistance; or offer support services such as case management, food assistance, or employment and vocational training.
How HUD Can Encourage Further PHA Efforts
These research findings provide a basis for understanding which types of PHAs are currently strongly engaged in addressing homelessness, and helps shed light on potential opportunities for PHAs that have previously not made special efforts to serve homeless households. Based on their findings, the researchers recommend that HUD encourage large PHAs to establish a limited preference for homeless households, and work with their local CoC on the target population to which the limited preference should be directed, and encourage smaller PHAs to establish a general preference for homeless households. The researchers suggest that PHAs of all sizes would benefit from training to better understand and implement recent HUD guidelines (PIH Notice 2013–15 (HA)) that clarify definitions of homelessness and permissible preference policies. HUD could also encourage PHAs to learn from one another and to partner with local groups that serve people experiencing homelessness, especially CoCs.
This study provides a point-in-time snapshot of PHA efforts to serve people experiencing homelessness that can serve as a baseline from which to measure future change. The findings should guide HUD in promoting best practices and advocating for support as the Department continues to help PHAs in their work to end homelessness in their local community.
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The introduction of app-based technologies has changed the way riders find transport.
xooox was set up to make the app-transport industry fairer. It doesn't take drivers away from companies. Instead, it enables the existing industry to become more efficient in delivering a great service to riders.
xooox will allow cab companies and drivers to remain independent, but network together to offer an unrivalled service to riders across any country.
Founder: Darren Tenney, CEO
Website: xooox.co.uk
We spoke to Darren to find out the story behind Xooox.
Darren Tenney, CEO of xooox
Why did you start xooox?
I set up xooox to make the ride-hailing industry fairer for drivers. My history is in the cab business; my Grandad and Dad used to drive minicabs in the Midlands so the industry has always been in my blood. After my Dad was taken ill, I took over driving his vehicle. After a few years, I had grown those operations to become the largest fleet of minicabs operating in Worcestershire.
I loved working in the trade but I have witnessed some deep frustrations about the way the industry operated. For example, if you're a minicab driver, you 100 per cent rely on your local operator or cab firm to give you jobs. They also decide how much you earn. That works pretty well as cab drivers and their minicab operators tend to have close working relationships as they depend on each other to be successful.
But the whole minicab industry changed dramatically with the introduction of the major ride-hailing apps. With them, an algorithm decides which driver gets work and how much they get paid, and algorithms don't have much empathy if a driver needs a few days off or needs to earn a bit more cash to fund something important.
Hackney carriage drivers – that's black cab drivers in London - also have some valid frustrations. They feel as if they're at a disadvantage, and they've never really had a great way of finding passengers other than waiting at a rank or cruising around on the lookout for a customer.
xooox is an app that all drivers – both minicabs and taxicabs – can use to find their own passengers and set their own fares. That's good for passengers too, as they now have access to all sorts of vehicles all from one place.
Tell us more about the app?
xooox is different in many ways. First of all, passengers can choose between private hire vehicles and taxicabs, making a selection based on the fare, ETA, size of the vehicle, whether it's accessible or even if it's electric. No other app can offer that breadth of choice. It's radically different – and fairer – for drivers.
For the first time ever, drivers can see a map of all the passengers seeking a cab in their vicinity, and they have complete control over who they work for. They can set their prices and change them in real time if they want to get more fares.
Taxicab drivers can now find passengers without driving around, burning fuel and adding to congestion – they can let the app do the searching for them which is good for their pockets and the environment. Minicabs and their operators can supplement their existing pre-bookings with work found through xooox; there's less sitting around, fewer wasted miles and more control over their own livelihoods.
The final major difference is we're giving access to the platform behind the xooox app to all the UK's cab regulators; that's more than 350 different organisations. They can log on to see how many drivers are in their areas at any one time, checking that all vehicles have the appropriate licences. It's the first time they have ever had this street-level visibility, and it will help them enforce their rules, keeping passengers safe and protecting the incomes of all the law-abiding cabbies operating in the UK today.
xooox is now available on the Apple and Android app stores
Where's the business at right now?
We have just launched xooox. The passenger app and driver app went live on 10 May, and are now available to download on both the AppStore and Google Play Store. We're also contacting the nation's cab regulators to make sure they get the most out of their free access to the xooox platform.
What are your aims for the next year?
Our number one objective is to get as many drivers and minicab firms to sign up for xooox as possible. Because we're offering them a fair deal and more control over how they work, we believe they'll encourage their passengers to book future rides via xooox. We'll also be working hard explaining to passengers why xooox isn't just a convenient way to hail a cab, it's a fair one too.
We also have some interesting smart cities and environmental initiatives in the works – it's going to be a busy 12 months!
What's been the hardest thing about getting xooox off the ground?
The entity search technology that underpins xooox is completely different from anything that's gone before. While our software development team has taken this in its stride, filing the patent was complicated and very time-consuming.
When you start a business, you know you'll have to do these things, but it was a surprise how complex this process was. Fortunately, the patent is now filed, so we can press on with rolling out the service.
Why should more people be using in xooox?
xooox is a convenient way to hail a cab, that offers more choice to passengers but at the same time empowers – rather than enslaves – drivers. The potential market is tremendous.
Any licensed driver can sign up and use it now, which means xooox can be used nationwide, not just in a small number of cities, which is the case with other apps.
How much will it cost customers compared to other similar apps? and why is it worth it?
xooox is free to download and use. Passengers get to choose which ride they take from a list of available drivers in their area. They're in complete control over which cab they take. They may wish to pick the cheapest available, but they might prefer to select the closest, or – if they have luggage – a vehicle with a large boot.
We're providing a marketplace where drivers and passengers can strike their own deals, so the cost will depend on good old-fashioned market forces.
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This amazing Tour Package offers 3 days to enjoy one of the greatest wonders Guatemala has for you! Often times when you hear about the great pyramids of the world, the Egyptian pyramids or perhaps the Pyramid of the Sun in Mexico may come to mind. But did you know that Guatemala is actually home to one of the largest pyramids in the world? The Mirador, known to many as the cradle of Mayan Civilization, is located in the dense jungles of northern Guatemala. Enjoy with friends or family and relax while the most amazing sunset in Flores Island dazzles your eyes!
Upon arrival, you'll take a 1 hour domestic flight to Flores Island, sit on the shore aside the pristine blue waters of Lake Peten Itza, and enjoy your time on the Sunset Boat Tour of the lake and the island.
Today you'll do a Helicopter tour to visit the site of El Mirador. It is comprised of miles of unrestored pyramids and structures that have seemingly become part of the jungle. El Mirador is the home of the amazing pyramid La Danta. To give you some perspective, the base of La Danta is so vast that it would cover 35 football fields. La Danta is in fact the largest structure that has ever been built by the Mayans, and some consider it to be the largest pyramid in existence.
Today is your last day in Flores. A domestic flight will bring you back to Guatemala city International Airport where you will take your flight back home with a memory full of wonderful experiences in the Mayan world!


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Scotland's Nicola Sturgeon Makes Plans for Another Independence Referendum
By Josh Lowe On 10/13/16 at 8:10 AM EDT
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, Glasgow, October 13. Sturgeon is one of the U.K.'s devolved leaders pushing for more say on Brexit. Russell Cheyne/Reuters
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Nicola Sturgeon has promised to table legislation allowing her to call a second Scottish independence referendum, suggesting she would call for the vote if the U.K. forces Scotland into a "hard Brexit."
Speaking at the Scottish National Party (SNP) conference on Thursday, Sturgeon said that an Independence Referendum Bill will be published for consultation next week.
"I am determined that Scotland will have the ability to reconsider the question of independence—and to do so before the U.K. leaves the EU—if that is necessary to protect our country's interests," she said.
Sturgeon strongly suggested that she would call a referendum on independence if the U.K. government pushed for a so-called "hard Brexit," involving exiting the single market, for Scotland and the rest of the U.K.
"Now we face a hard Brexit imposed by the hard right of the Tory party," Sturgeon said. "Let me say this. The prime minister may have a mandate to take England and Wales out of the EU but she has no mandate whatsoever to remove any part of the U.K. from the single market."
"My message to the prime minister is this," Sturgeon said. "Scotland didn't choose to be in this situation—your party put us here…If you can't, or won't, allow us to protect our interests within the U.K., then Scotland will have the right to decide, afresh, if it wants to take a different path."
Sturgeon pledged to seek a cross-party alliance to prevent the government leaving the single market, and said that SNP MPs would vote against the so-called "great repeal bill" that the government will put before parliament in the first stage of Brexit.
And, she said, she would be publishing a plan which would protect "Scotland's interests" and keep the country in the single market as well as within the U.K., including substantial new devolution of powers over foreign affairs and immigration.
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