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There will be no Indyref2 in 2020, but Unionists must get their act together
Posted bystephenjdaisley	 January 6, 2020
If you're already struggling to keep your New Year's resolutions, spare a thought for Nicola Sturgeon, who is resolved to get a second referendum on independence out of a Tory government in the next 12 months.
Since inheriting the SNP leadership from Alex Salmond in 2014, Sturgeon has been forced into a series of increasingly ludicrous tests, pledges and rhetorical formulas to string along her impatient support base.
This has sustained her position until now but now is when it really matters. Theresa May said no. Boris Johnson said no. Brexit is happening. Nicola Sturgeon is all out of excuses. What will she pivot to next and will her grassroots finally lose its patience?
There will not be a second, legally-binding referendum on independence in 2020. It simply will not happen. Sturgeon tells her party otherwise for the same reason debtors tell loansharks they'll have their money next week.
But the First Minister can only stall for so long. Soon it will become clear that she cannot deliver and she will urge her troops to focus on winning a mandate in next year's Holyrood election. She will do this with little regard to her claims already to have a mandate over the past three and a half years.
The truth is that she doesn't have a mandate and cannot obtain one. The constitution is reserved to Westminster and winning a Holyrood poll on a pro-independence manifesto is no more a mandate for an independence referendum than securing victory on a platform of removing Trident from the Clyde would be a mandate for that.
The General Election was also supposed to have granted her a mandate but this was an election to the House of Commons and the SNP won just 47 of 650 seats. Sturgeon and her sympathisers prate about a 'democratic deficit' but they are the ones arguing against parliamentary democracy.
Bottom line: Scotland will not be leaving the Union, or even voting on it, in 2020. However that is no reason for complacency on the part of Sturgeon's opponents, not least because the SNP looks set to dominate Scottish politics for years to come. Eventually, there will be another Prime Minister like David Cameron who is foolhardy enough to concede a referendum. Fresh thinking and political steel will be needed to see off the Nationalist threat and keep the UK together in the longer term.
The future of the Union depends on four factors: economics, identity, politics and the constitution.
The UK Government must entrench and enhance the economic benefits of the Union to Scotland. Currently, those advantages include participation in the world's sixth largest economy, access to the UK single market, sharing in the UK's global footprint and trading clout, and receipt of the block grant from the Treasury.
It is important that the UK retains its competitive edge as it leaves the EU and the government would do well to put the UK single market on a more definitive footing, but the most direct route to strengthening the economic ties of the Union is through the block grant. Treasury allocations are decided by the Barnett Formula, a funding mechanism that assigns Holyrood a population-based percentage share of spending in England on matters that are devolved to Scotland. In theory, this means that spending increases down south result in more money north of the Border.
The reverse, however, is also true. Although the pro-spending consensus at Westminster is in full swing, Barnett is at the mercy of a future austerity programme. Devolved powers over income tax also make Holyrood's budget susceptible to similar spikes and drop-offs elsewhere in the UK.
To end this precarity and reinforce the Union as the source of Scotland's prosperity, Westminster should consider shifting to a formula of Barnett Plus. This would supplement the existing population-based metric with an additional allocation calculated according to need. Put simply, Barnett Plus would mean that overall funding for Scotland must increase year on year and, when the grant is set to fall, a top-up payment is allocated that reflects Scotland's distinctive social and economic needs.
Unlike the block grant, the supplement would not be at the Scottish Government's discretion to spend and would instead be targeted at areas of high deprivation and demographics who are most in need — for example, extra investment for Easterhouse or single-parent families. Not only would the Union come to mean ever-increasing investment in Scotland but in prioritising spending the UK Government would again be involved in day-to-day funding decisions in devolved matters.
Economics matter but they are not all that matter. As Brexit, the election of Donald Trump and the SNP's 45 per cent base have taught us, it is not enough to win the economic arguments because the debate is also one over identity. The Nationalists are at an advantage because their message is so temptingly simple and emotive: Scotland is a nation held back by another nation and must break free to prosper.
The Unionist argument — which begins with history, takes a detour to explore solidarity, then stalls on talk of pounds and pence — is altogether more unwieldy. The SNP has captured Scottishness and annexed patriotism to its own narrow political purposes, a task to which the institutions of the devolved state have been turned since 2007. Counteracting this will be a huge feat.
The crux of the Unionist case should be the freedom that comes with fluid identities. To endure, the Union must belong to those with Scottish or British identity or both.
A more immediate consideration is the political lie of the land. Nicola Sturgeon may not be able to deliver a second referendum but she still can — and does — use her governmental platform to promote separation. Removing her from office, or at least depriving her of a secessionist majority at Holyrood, must be the primary objective of all Unionists.
Given the decline of Labour, the Tories must broaden their appeal by championing fairness, opportunity and public services. Meanwhile, the Lib Dems will have to reassert themselves as the voice of progressive, environmentally conscious Scotland.
Finally, and most controversially, Westminster will have to reckon with the flaws in the devolution settlement that have allowed the SNP to turn Holyrood into a daily campaign rally for independence. There are deft ways to do this without handing the Nationalists another grievance.
For instance, a new Scotland Act stipulating that Scottish Parliament resources may only be used to facilitate business on matters devolved to Holyrood and that Scottish Government spending must relate to subjects on which the Scottish Parliament enjoys legislative competence. Reforming Holyrood will meet noisy and concerted opposition but it is vital to stop the ratchet effect that tugs Scotland closer and closer to the exit without a single vote being cast.
Nicola Sturgeon can gin up fire and fury but, in the end, Boris will decide and she will abide. That is no excuse for Unionist complacency. Downing Street and those across the country who value the Union must become bolder, smarter and more industrious in its defence.
'Broadening the debate' in party politics is fraught with risk. That was the reason given by otherwise sensible MPs for nominating Jeremy Corbyn in 2015. That ended well.
Coronations bring their own hobgoblins and so Scottish Conservatives should welcome the news that Michelle Ballantyne intends to stand against Jackson Carlaw. Her candidacy will allay fears that he is succeeding Ruth Davidson by divine right.
On Brexit, social issues and welfare, Ballantyne is a more authentic voice of the membership than the born-again liberal Mr Carlaw, whose Tory group seems more interested in out-spending the SNP than in questioning the size and scope of government. This appeals to bleeding hearts like me but, if my inbox is anything to go by, Conservative voters are fed up with wobble and want the Tory message to firm up.
The centre is where the party prospers but the Right should be defeated in debate rather than dismissed out of hand. That's Labour's other lesson: don't take your long-suffering supporters for granted.
Following its electoral drubbing, Scottish Labour is awash with exciting and innovative ideas. Prominent figures — as prominent as you can be while standing in an under-occupied telephone box — want to split from UK Labour, form a new party and even back Indyref2. It's called the SNP, comrades. You've invented the SNP.
Originally published in the Scottish Daily Mail. Letters: scotletters@dailymail.co.uk. Contact Stephen at stephen.daisley@dailymail.co.uk.
Posted bystephenjdaisley January 6, 2020 Posted inUncategorized
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Accelerating automation
November 4, 2021	News 215 Views
By Eric van der Heijden, Vice President of Sales, EMEA, at Lattice Semiconductor
Globally, smart factories are now leveraging advanced automation applications such as augmented reality, autonomous mobile robots, cobots, and industrial sensors. Even beyond the traditional factory floor, automation is accelerating in areas like warehouse automation and logistics using similar applications. These new working practices are practical today because of hardware improvements that provide real-time networking, high-performance processing, high reliability, low power consumption, and interface flexibility.
24/7/365 operation in industrial and logistics environments increases stress on devices, especially in systems with active drives and motors, and a single motor failure can halt operations or production. Newer computing solutions for automation, such as integrated edge AI engines, can identify these irregularities and predict failures well in advance so that operators can be alerted, parts can be pre-ordered, maintenance scheduled, and overall operational efficiency increased.
Increasingly sophisticated automation solutions require the support of leading silicon technology providers throughout the hardware and software stack. A flexible hardware architecture, at the lowest level, is critical for maintaining the pace of innovation for industrial and logistics automation solutions. Today, software development comprises the bulk of development cost and labour in industrial projects, placing great value on supporting libraries, toolsets, and ecosystem support from automation technology providers.
FPGAs suit flexible demands of automation
FPGAs with integrated processors combine the flexibility, performance, and programmability to support the rapid adoption and deployment of new technologies to meet the evolving needs of industrial automation. FPGAs, in particular, feature unique flexibility to support a range of dynamic automation computing profiles and requirements. Today's FPGAs feature very low power consumption and efficient energy usage, enabling them to be designed in smaller form factors with simplified cooling, which is critical at the network edge. FPGAs are also completely customizable, with a range of benefits over software-based solutions, such as lower latency. In addition, FPGAs support high-performance control loops, PWM, and more connected control motors per unit than comparable high-end MCUs. Lattice Semiconductor offers FPGAs with extremely low soft error rates for improved reliability, which is optimal for applications requiring high availability and functional safety.
Silicon can protect against cyber attacks
Hardware security is paramount for protection against increasingly common cyber attacks. MCU and/or software-based solutions are unable to match the real-time protection that alternatives like FPGAs provide with instant detection, high-performance coverage of multiple subsystems, and the ability to roll back to a known good state to recover from attacks, which is critical. FPGAs can be highly secure and resilient with monitors at the lowest level (beneath the operating system) — protecting firmware before/during/after boot, securing/validating code itself, and providing a root- of-trust.
Optimized libraries for automation
A flexible hardware foundation requires equally strong software support from semiconductor providers and their partnership ecosystem, particularly for automation solutions. Software development already comprises the vast majority of development costs in industrial automation and control projects, so high-quality support is crucial to project success. Lattice Semiconductor, for example, provides a base platform of lightweight protocols for real-time sense and control using Ethernet for networking (e.g., enabling multi-axis motor control over Industrial Ethernet while daisy-chained to multiple monitors). In addition, high performance FPGAs are becoming more software-friendly, offering software programming tools and graphical design environments like the Lattice Propel™ design environment (Figure 1).
Automation often incorporates several functional domains with special software requirements, including edge AI, embedded vision, and security stacked on top of lower-level software like operating systems and firmware. Access to more sophisticated software libraries and IP from semiconductor providers in these domains is particularly important for optimizing performance and power efficiency with on-chip accelerators and hardware resources.
Software and hardware programmability
While programmable hardware supporting low power, high performance computing with low latency is highly beneficial, some workloads are better controlled or implemented in software. For example, software programmability is optimal for predictive maintenance applications, and also enables development with more prevalent developer skillsets (e.g., programming in C). The combination of FPGAs with traditional processor types in heterogeneous system-on-chips, modules/boards, and integrated computing systems enables hardware-software co-processing and advanced system flexibility.
Automate – the industrial automation stack from Lattice
Automation solutions today feature many dynamic components and subsystems that must be developed in harmony to be competitive in the market. Support for motor control, edge AI, sensor fusion, functional safety, computer vision, and security all must tie neatly together in an end-to-end automation solution to accelerate adoption and commercial rollouts.
To help customers navigate these challenges, leading silicon technology providers are offering more vertical-/application-specific support to accelerate development of new workloads, such as predictive maintenance proof of concepts, experimentation with new co-processing architectures, and prototyping to new specifications/integrations. The Lattice Automate™ industrial automation solution stack, shown in Figure 2 is an example the full solution approach now available.

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A look at the people, four who alleged they were sexually assaulted as adolescents, involved in civil cases against Your Black Muslim Bakery founder Yusuf Ali Bey.
Testimony from a civil suit contends that Yusuf Ali Bey regularly beat and raped some women and girls, who said they were kept out of school, worked long hours at the bakery and often without pay.
Women and girls were afraid to report Yusuf Bey's physical and sexual abuse to authorities, because fear — and stories of others' deaths — kept them from speaking out, they testified years later.
A parent, step-parent and other adults reported suspicions of abuse of children in proximity of Yusuf Bey or in the care of his spiritual wife, Nora Bey, in at least 10 cases, with no result.


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The Trenton Project
Latinx Chambersburg and the Coronavirus Pandemic
Anna Hiltner
Anna Hiltner is a student in URB202, "Documentary Film and the City." A Princeton native, she decided this Spring to continue the class's exploration of migration by documenting the effect of the pandemic in the Latinx communities of Trenton. She worked by phone and on the streets in Chambersburg. Most interviews were held in Spanish and have been translated to English by Anna.
CHAMBERSBURG, NJ — A few months ago, Chambersburg was a bustling neighborhood of small restaurants with Spanish names and events such as the Miss Guatemala parade. Though impoverished, the neighborhood was considered a place where immigrants could make a life for themselves in the U.S. Now, the streets are largely deserted and stores are either closed or covered in signs telling customers to wear a mask and keep a six-foot-distance from others.
On March 9, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy declared a State of Emergency and a Public Health Emergency. On March 21, Murphy signed executive order 107 directing "all residence to stay at home until further notice" in response to the growing COVID-19 pandemic. As of Monday, May 18, the number of cases has grown to 5,950 in Mercer County with 408 deaths. In Trenton, there are 2,296 confirmed cases with 54 deaths. According to Laura Mora, Community Organizer at the Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund (LALDEF), most of those cases are concentrated in Chambersburg, a predominately Latinx neighborhood in south Trenton. "People are fighting to survive," Mora said.
Out of Work, Out of Time
"Chambersburg is a fascinating place," said L.A. Parker, a journalist at the Trentonian and resident of Chambersburg, in an interview. "It's going to face a setback because of the coronavirus, because a lot of the people that work here work off the books. They have no jobs now. They have no unemployment [benefits]," he said.
Among the U.S. workforce, only 16 percent of Latinx workers can work from home, while roughly 30 percent of white Americans and 37 percent of Asian-Americans can. The inability to work from home makes the situation especially difficult in Trenton where people are disproportionately likely to work in the service sector. "There are many people who work in restaurants, the mall, and cleaning," Elmer, a member of the Guatemalan Civic Association in Chambersburg, said, "and all of those have closed."
Joana migrated from Guatemala to Trenton one year ago. She settled down in Chambersburg where she lives with her husband, their four children, and four others who share the rent. Each day, she and her husband would see their children off to school and they would go to work at a factory packing meat and preparing sandwiches. "It has affected us in every way," said Joana, "We have no food, no work." She and her husband recently lost their jobs at the factory, "We asked for time off because we were very scared. We wanted to protect our children and they said it was okay. But 15 days later they said our jobs were already taken."
Leandra, a Guatemalan immigrant who cleans houses for a living, is one of many women domestic workers in Chambersburg who are also out of a job. "It has affected me a lot," said Leandra, "Since I work for cash, I can't do unemployment." Leandra now sells face masks, Clorox, and other goods from her home in an effort to make more money, using posts on Facebook and signs outside her door to advertise the informal business.
Like Leandra, Marta - who has lived in the U.S. for 24 years since coming from Guatemala - cleans houses for a living and is ineligible for unemployment benefits. "I am my own boss," Marta said, "The families that I work for have not wanted me to go since the beginning of the quarantine. I usually work for a family every day and only two of them have told me that they will pay me." "I am very scared not only for myself, but for my mom, and for my son," said Marta, who has a 13-year-old son and an immunocompromised mother who is vulnerable to the virus.
On May 7, Governor Murphy stated in his press briefing that "this is an unemployment crisis unlike that which we have ever seen before" after the department of Labor and Workforce Development received more than 1 million claims in just two months. While undocumented immigrants who work a formal job are eligible for unemployment insurance, they are not eligible for the $1,200 stimulus check made available in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, passed by Congress and signed into law by the President on March 27th. If there is one person without a Social Security number who has filed taxes in a family unit, then the entire family is deemed ineligible for the relief funds. "People who do not have papers are the most affected at the moment, because they do not have a check they receive, they have no one to help them and there is no work," said Brenda Perez, another member of the Guatemalan Civic Association.
As workers in Trenton lose their sources of income, many are no longer able to send money to their families in other countries that depend on these remittances to survive. Ervin Chavez, President of the Guatemalan Civic Association and leader of Salcajense Unidos in Trenton, notes the impact the loss of remittances has had on people in Guatemala: "It has affected our families and friends in Guatemala. We can't send income and that hurts them."
According to the World Bank, global remittances are projected to plummet by about 20% in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and shutdown. "The projected fall, which would be the sharpest decline in recent history, is largely due to a fall in the wages and employment of migrant workers, who tend to be more vulnerable to loss of employment and wages during an economic crisis in a host country," The World Bank reported last month. In Trenton's global community, this represents the loss of a vital source of income that also helps families in Latin America afford food, healthcare, and basic needs. "I want to send money to my sister and niece but I can't," said Leandra "I have to try and pay the rent, pay the bills."
The loss of income jeopardizes housing security for people like Leandra, who are now at a higher risk of facing eviction. On March 19, Governor Murphy issued an executive order declaring a moratorium on removing individuals from their homes pursuant to an eviction or foreclosure proceeding. While the moratorium buys Chambersburg's tenants time, families that are out of work and ineligible for benefits will still be unable to pay rent once the order is lifted.
As Community Organizer at LALDEF, Mora has continued to be in contact with families in the community from her home. "Many landlords terrorize the tenants by threatening to kick them out if they do not pay," Mora said, "I receive so many phone calls from people who are worried that their landlords are going to kick them out. I tell them that they have to tell the landlord that they are protected by the law and that the courts are closed so they cannot evict you right now."
Chambersburg's essential workers risk their health working in places where they can be exposed to the coronavirus. According to Charo Juega, the former director of LALDEF, the community "is even more exposed than ever to all kinds of exploitation. Now there is no income coming in so whatever little work there is tends to be very very dangerous. Those that are working are working in unhealthy and dangerous conditions."
Ana, a single mother from Colombia who rents a room with her three-year-old daughter, is an essential worker at an Amazon fulfillment center. Out of fear of exposure, Ana was able to take time off from work for the first month and a half. But in order to afford rent, health insurance, and send remittance to her 13-year-old son in Colombia, she needs to return to working at Amazon this month. "I basically need to return to work, because if I don't, they are going to suspend my medical benefits and I can't because right now I am in treatment," she said.
On May 1, Amazon workers protested from their cars at the Elizabeth Amazon fulfillment center as part of a nationwide strike that was in response to what employees called poor working conditions and protections against the coronavirus. Like the protestors, Ana fears what she may be exposed to upon return to the Amazon warehouse. "It is known that there have been people sick at Amazon, but they still want us to work," Ana said, "It scares me because I can use a machine and there is no way of knowing if someone sick with the coronavirus used it before me."
Workers were also facing dangerous conditions in small businesses in Chambersburg.
"In the first month, stores did not make sure that people came in with masks or maintained social distance," Mora said, "and that was when stores were full of people getting toilet paper. We are now seeing the consequences of that."
According to Trenton journalist Parker, "We are probably going to see the most deaths in Chambersburg because people were not receiving the information they needed from the very beginning." Lack of a local Spanish news outlet and limited translations into Spanish made things worse. "We did a disservice by not realizing that we had to tell everyone in their language about the devastation of this disease," said Parker, "Three weeks after the executive order you could walk into a laundromat and nobody would be wearing a mask or keeping six feet."
While there are some statewide television news stations in Spanish, there are no Spanish news outlets in Trenton. "Here there is no Spanish newspaper that is giving us information," Ervin said. "It continues to be pretty much word of mouth process in the immigrant community," Juega said, "That's the most trusted source."
According to Juega, "there is a lot of misinformation" that sometimes gets spread through goodwill. "There was a rumor going around that one night there were going to be helicopters hovering all over Mercer County spreading anti-virus substance to kill the virus and to please stay home because it was going to be a deadly shower," she said. Miranda, another member of the Guatemalan Civic Association, pointed out that some of the misinformation contributes to denial as well: "There are people who still think that the virus is not real."
More trustworthy information comes from the organizations and associations that work in the community. "That is why we are the ones giving the information," Ervin said. The Guatemalan Civic Association, LALDEF, the Trenton Health Team, and the Henry J. Austin Health Center have been working together to inform the community through social media about social distancing measures as well as available aid. While many receive news this way, others have limited technology. I could not talk to some of the people I tried to interview because the service was so staticky.
Even if informed about the virus, immigrants do not have access to the affordable healthcare they need. According to the United States Census Bureau, Trenton has a poverty rate of 28.4%, three times that of the state, and only 20% of residents have health insurance. "How are they going to go to the hospital if they don't have health insurance and they don't have money to pay?" questioned Mora.
Tonia, a Guatemalan immigrant and U.S. citizen who works as a domestic worker, said that even though she is better off than more recent migrants to the city, she has encountered significant difficulty navigating language discrimination at doctor's offices and qualifying for Medicare. "Many people would rather be sick than paying healthcare or dealing with the healthcare system," Tonia said.
Elmer pointed out that parents also cannot go to the hospital if they get sick because they cannot leave their children at home alone: "There are people taking natural medicines or getting antibiotics off of the black market to treat themselves at home because there is nobody to take care of their children if they leave. All of the children are studying [at home] and the parents need to be there to supervise the homework and communicate with the teachers."
ICE stays off the streets, but keeps detainees in dangerous conditions
As of May 7th, 18 detainees in Elizabeth Detention Center and 3 at Essex County Correctional Facility in Newark have been tested positive for the coronavirus, but testing of detainees is limited. These centers hold undocumented individuals suspected of visa violations or unauthorized arrival until a decision is made by immigration authorities about their legal status. Long before the advent of the coronavirus pandemic, these detention centers were under ridicule for "inadequate healthcare, indifference, and indefinite confinement." A 2019 report by the Department of Homeland Security found "serious issues relating to safety, security, and environmental health that require ICE's immediate attention" in the Essex County Correctional Facility. Now, conditions have been criticized as inadequate in preventing an outbreak within the centers. As of May 11, 84 correctional officers and 4 civilian staff at Essex County Correctional Facility have tested positive and 2 inmates have died from possible COVID-19 complications.
Nicolas Morales - an immigrant from Mexico who was let out due to health concerns by a federal judge on April 20 - wrote about his experience with the coronavirus at the Elizabeth Detention Center in an op-ed published in the LA Timeson May 8: "At nearly all times, I was packed into a large room with other immigrants. Our beds were close together, with only two to three feet between them. We shared toilets, showers, sinks, communal surfaces and breathing air. We did not have hand sanitizer or masks. We could not disinfect our shared surfaces. We could not maintain any meaningful distance among us, let alone six feet of distance. We were never permitted outside; there is no meaningful outdoor space."
At the beginning of May, a drive-by protest demanded the release of ICE detainees at the Elizabeth Detention Center and detained persons held hunger strikes in both the Elizabeth and Essex detention centers, protesting the way they were handling the pandemic in the facilities. Waldemar, a member of the Guatemalan Civic Association, said that "immigration [ICE] has released some people with medical problems with an ankle bracelet. People were refusing to eat the food and there were a lot of cases in there."
According to Mora, the presence of ICE and the police has decreased significantly. In light of the pandemic, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) has announced that it will "focus enforcement on public-safety risks and individuals subject to mandatory detention based on criminal grounds. For those individuals who do not fall into those categories, ERO will exercise discretion to delay enforcement actions until after the crisis or use alternatives to detention, as appropriate." ICE has also suspended in-person check-ins. With the closure of the courts, deportation hearings have been postponed till months later, buying immigrants more time to put together their cases.
Remote Learning: "I feel like my children are going to repeat a grade"
On March 18, Murphy ordered all schools in the state to close and transfer to remote learning. On May 4, he announced that the schools would remain closed for the rest of the academic year.
According to an article published on NJ.com on March 29, Interim Superintendent of Schools Ronald Lee said that 5,000 students - 40% of Trenton's student population of 12,600 - never accessed the online platform where the district's teachers and students could keep track of assignments and complete coursework digitally. On April 8, Mayor Reed Gusciora and Trenton Public Schools distributed laptops and planned to deliver the rest to those who could not pick them up.
The impact of closing the schools has been particularly onerous on the Hispanic immigrant communities in the Trenton area. "The virus is going to hurt education a lot," said Mora, "Many children are waiting for a tablet, waiting to see the teacher. Some parents can't even afford to have a phone." While families in Trenton have received tablets from the schools, remote learning has not been easy.
"Kids are struggling with the remote learning and parents are struggling. They are frustrated because they can't help their kids. They don't have computers, or they are given computers and do not know how to use them," Juega said. Hispanic immigrants, in particular, are less likely to have access to a computer or home internet service.
In Chambersburg, many parents are not fluent in English, presenting an extra challenge to learning at home. Jeimmin, who moved to Trenton seven years ago from Guatemala, is one of these parents. She has spent the last two months trying to help her five-year-old twins and two-and-a-half-year-old learn at home. But she has had to work through lessons in a language she barely understands. "It's hard helping them with their homework because I don't know any English so I can only help with some numbers," said Jeimmin.
"I know many parents are really worried," Mora said, "Last week, one mom told me, 'I feel like my children are going to repeat a grade."
A Community Comes Together
On May 3, The Guatemalan Civic Association collected essentials in Chambersburg to give to families in need. From 8am to 6pm they received donations of food and sanitary products from families, associations, and businesses and distributed the goods to families affected by the pandemic. Waldemar, one of the coordinators in charge whom I met at the event, said that they had 250 families on their list who requested food donations.
This is one of the many efforts by members of the community to organize and provide help to food and income insecure families. Members of the Guatemalan Civic Association have also been delivering hot meals donated by restaurants. "We have many families that are sick with the coronavirus," said Brenda, "I am delivering food to eight of those families every day." According to Mora, stores have been raising their prices, "making it impossible for people to buy what they need" and increasing the demand for donations.
The Guatemalan Civic Association uses their Facebook page to spread awareness to the Guatemalan community in Trenton. "It is difficult for the community economically, socially, and psychologically," said Ervin, "but the Guatemala Association and LALDEF are united in informing the community." LALDEF has been using their page on Facebook, their website, and phone calls to spread information. Their website includes a detailed list of resources and information for anyone who needs it. LALDEF has also been working with the Trenton Health Team and Henry J. Austin Medical Center to hand out flyers to families and businesses.
The issues of poverty, exploitation, access to healthcare, and education are part of a long history of systemic oppression in immigrant communities. Undocumented immigrants especially have a difficult time making ends meet in the United States due to fewer employment opportunities, ineligibility for most federal public benefits, additional costs due to immigration court fees, and vulnerability to landlord and employer exploitation. This combination results in a national poverty rate for immigrants that is three times the national rate. These sources of inequality have made Latinx communities especially vulnerable to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. While families were struggling long before this crisis, Chambersburg's story with the coronavirus is only just beginning.
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		if(!is_null($args->items) && is_numeric($args->items))
			$list_count = $args->items;
		if(!empty($module_info) && $module_info->module=="youtube") {
			$urlBase = getNotEncodedUrl("", "mid", $module_info->mid, "video_id", "temp");
			Context::set("outlink", false);
		} else {
			$urlBase = "//www.youtube.com/watch?v=";
		}
		//updateCache
		foreach($playlistIds as $key=>$val) {
			$playlistIds[$key] = $this->getRealPlaylistId($this->apiKey, $val);
			if($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']!="XMLHttpRequest") {
				$updater = $this->updateCache($apiKey, $playlistIds[$key], $cacheTime);
			} else {
				break;
			}
		}

		if($args->shuffle=="Y") {
			$temp = $this->getShuffledCaches($playlistIds, $list_count);
		} else {
			$temp = $this->getCaches($playlistIds, $list_count);
		}
		foreach($temp as $key=>$val) {
			$videos[] = json_decode($val->item, true);
		}
		foreach($videos as $key=>$val) {
			$videos[$key][url] = substr($urlBase, 0, -4).$val[snippet][resourceId][videoId];
			if(is_array($playlistIds))
				$videos[$key][url] .= "&category=".array_search($val[snippet][playlistId], $playlistIds);
		}
		Context::set("playlistIds", $playlistIds);
		Context::set("videos", $videos);
		$tplPath = sprintf("%sskins/%s/", $this->widget_path, (!is_null($args->skin) &&  $args->skin!="" && is_dir(sprintf("%sskins/%s/", $this->widget_path, $args->skin))) ? $args->skin : "default");
		$tplFile = "browse";
		Context::set("colorset", $args->colorset);
		Context::set("popup", $args->popup);
		$oTemplate = &TemplateHandler::getInstance();
		//var_dump(sprintf("%.9fs", microtime(true)-$this->startTime)); //ProcessingTime
		return $oTemplate->compile($tplPath, $tplFile);
	}

	//Model
	protected function getRealPlaylistId($apiKey, $playlistId) {
		$youtube = new XFYoutube(null, $apiKey);
		if(!is_null($apiKey)) {
			$return = empty($playlistId) ? "PLmtapKaZsgZt3g_uAPJbsMWdkVsznn_2R" : $playlistId;
			$result = $youtube->playlistItems->browse("id", null, $return, 0);
			if($result===false) {
				$channel = $youtube->channels->browse("contentDetails", null, $return);
				if($channel===false || is_null($channel[items][0][contentDetails][relatedPlaylists][uploads])) {
					$channel = $youtube->channels->browse("contentDetails", null, null, $return);
					if($channel===false || is_null($channel[items][0][contentDetails][relatedPlaylists][uploads])) {
						$return = false;
						break;
					} else {
						$return = $channel[items][0][contentDetails][relatedPlaylists][uploads];
					}
				} else {
					$return = $channel[items][0][contentDetails][relatedPlaylists][uploads];
				}
			}
			unset($result, $channel);
		} else {
			$return = false; //실시간 인기 동영상 - 한국
		}
		return $return;
	}

	protected function getCacheTime($id, $items=null, $page=null) {
		$args = new stdClass();
		$args->id = $id;
		if(is_numeric($items) && is_numeric($page)) {
			$args->start = $items*($page-1);
			$args->end = $items*$page;
			$args->items = $items;
			$result = executeQuery("widgets.youtube.browseSomeCacheTime", $args);
		} else {
			$result = executeQuery("widgets.youtube.browseCacheTime", $args);
		}
		return ($result->toBool()===false) ? false : $result->data->timestamp;
	}

	protected function setCache($playlistId, $no, $item) {
		$args = new stdClass();
		$args->id = $playlistId;
		$args->no = $no;
		$result = executeQuery("widgets.youtube.peruseCache", $args);

		$args->title = $item[snippet][title];
		$args->description = $item[snippet][description];
		$args->channel = $item[snippet][channelTitle];
		$args->utc = $item[snippet][utc]; //utc + 32400 = utc + 9h * 60m * 60s = kst
		$args->item = json_encode($item);
		$args->timestamp = time();
		if(empty($result->data)) {
			$return = executeQuery("widgets.youtube.insertCache", $args);
		} else {
			$return = executeQuery("widgets.youtube.updateCache", $args);
		}

		return true;
	}

	protected function setPlaylistInfo($playlistId, $totalVideos) {
		if(!is_null($id)) {
			$args = new stdClass();
			$args->id = $playlistId;
			$result = executeQuery("widgets.youtube.perusePlaylistInfo", $args);

			$args->totalVideos = $totalVideos;
			$args->timestamp = time();
			if(empty($result->data)) {
				$return = executeQuery("widgets.youtube.insertPlaylistInfo", $args);
			} else {
				$return = executeQuery("widgets.youtube.updatePlaylistInfo", $args);
			}
			unset($args);
		} else {
			$return = false;
		}
		return $return;
	}

	protected function getPlaylistInfo($playlistId) {
		if(!is_null($playlistId)) {
			$args = new stdClass();
			$args->id = $playlistId;
			$result = executeQuery("widgets.youtube.perusePlaylistInfo", $args);
			if(empty($result->data)) {
				$return = false;
			} else {
				$return = $result->data;
			}
		} else {
			$return = false;
		}
		return $return;
	}

	protected function getCaches($playlistIds=NULL, $items=20, $page=1, $asc=true) {
		$args = new stdClass();
		$args->id = !empty($playlistIds) ? $playlistIds : "PLmtapKaZsgZt3g_uAPJbsMWdkVsznn_2R"; //실시간 인기 동영상 - 한국
		$args->index = "no";
		$args->listCount = is_numeric($items) ? $items : 20;
		$args->page = is_numeric($page) ? $page : 1;
		$args->order = $asc===false ? "desc" : "asc";
		$output = executeQuery("widgets.youtube.browseCaches", $args);
		return ($output->toBool()===false) ? false : $output->data;
	}

	protected function getShuffledCaches($playlistIds=NULL, $items=20, $page=1) {
		$args = new stdClass();
		$args->id = !empty($playlistIds) ? $playlistIds : "PLmtapKaZsgZt3g_uAPJbsMWdkVsznn_2R"; //실시간 인기 동영상 - 한국
		for($i=0; $i<50; $i++)
			$temp[] = $i;
		$arr = array_rand($temp, $items);
		$args->no = $arr;
		$args->listCount = is_numeric($items) ? $items : 20;
		$args->page = is_numeric($page) ? $page : 1;
		$args->order = $asc===false ? "desc" : "asc";
		$output = executeQuery("widgets.youtube.browseShuffledCaches", $args);
		shuffle($output->data);
		return ($output->toBool()===false) ? false : $output->data;
	}

	//Controller
	protected function updateCache($apiKey, $playlistId, $cacheTime=10, $items=20, $page=1, $asc=true) {
		$apiKey = !empty($apiKey) ? $apiKey : $this->apiKey;
		$playlistId = !empty($playlistId) ? $playlistId : "PLmtapKaZsgZt3g_uAPJbsMWdkVsznn_2R"; //실시간 인기 동영상 - 한국
		$cacheTime = is_numeric($cacheTime) ? $cacheTime : 10;
		$items = is_numeric($items) ? $items : null;
		$items = is_null($items) ? Context::get("items") : $items;
		$page = is_numeric($page) ? $page : null;
		$page = is_null($page) ? Context::get("page") : $page;
		$asc = is_null($asc) ? Context::get("asc") : $asc;
		$asc = $asc===false ? false : true;

		$start = microtime(true);
		$return = new stdClass();

		if(!is_null($apiKey)) {
			$youtube = new XFYoutube(null, $apiKey);
			if(time() - $this->getCacheTime($playlistId, $items, $page) > $cacheTime*60) {
				$return->loop = 0;
				$return->updatedVideos = 0;
				while(true) {
					$result = $youtube->playlistItems->browse("snippet", null, $playlistId, 50, $result[nextPageToken]);
					foreach($result[items] as $key=>$val) {
						$this->setCache($playlistId, $return->loop*50+$key, $val);
						$return->updatedVideos++;
					}
					if(is_numeric($items) && is_numeric($page) && $asc && ($loop*50+count($result[items])>=($page)*$items || is_null($result[nextPageToken]))) {
						$return->message = "UPDATE_PART_OF_CACHE_ASC";
						$return->bool = true;
						if(is_null($result[nextPageToken])) {
							//END_OF_LIST
							$return->totalVideos = $return->updatedVideos;
						} else {
							$return->totalVideos = $result[pageInfo][totalResults];
						}
						break;
					} else if(is_numeric($items) && is_numeric($page) && $asc===false && $loop*50+count($result[items])>=$result[pageInfo][totalResults]-($page-1)*$items) {
						$return->message = "UPDATE_PART_OF_CACHE_DESC";
						$return->bool = true;
						$return->totalVideos = $result[pageInfo][totalResults];
						break;
					} else if(is_null($result[nextPageToken])) {
						$return->message = "END_OF_LIST";
						$return->bool = true;
						$return->totalVideos = $return->updatedVideos;
						break;
					} else $return->loop++;

					if($this->startTime+$this->timer<time()) break;
				}
				$this->setPlaylistInfo($playlistId, $return->totalVideos);
			} else {
				$temp = $this->getPlaylistInfo($playlistId);
				$return->totalVideos = $temp->total_videos;
				$return->message = "NO_NEED_TO_UPDATE";
				$return->bool = false;
			}
		} else {
			$return->message = "NO_APIKEY";
			$return->bool = false;
		}
		$return->time = sprintf("%.9fs", microtime(true)-$start);
		if($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']=="XMLHttpRequest") {
			echo json_encode($return);
			exit;
		} else {
			return $return;
		}
	}
}
?>

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Thanks to the auto-updating and transactional nature of snaps, PowerShell users will always have the current version direct from Microsoft.
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Maine Town's Police Department of 2 Officers Shut Down Due to 'Personnel Issue'
The move comes after the town's police chief and patrol officer were placed on leave
Published Dec 28, 2016 at 5:14 PM
WCSH
The police department in Dixfield, Maine, has been shut down.
Dixfield Town Manager Carlo Puiia said Wednesday the abrupt action comes after Police Chief Jefferey Howe and patrol officer Anne Simmons-Edmunds were placed on paid administrative leave.
Howe and Simmons-Edmunds are the department's only full-time officers in the town of about 2,500.
The manager declined to discuss the nature of the "personnel issue."
Maine Police Investigate Fake Department Facebook Pages
He tells the Sun Journal that he hopes the matter will be resolved within three to four weeks, when more information will be provided.
The Oxford County Sheriff's Department is providing coverage for the town.
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With the very fast paced way of living that many of us are forced to live with in this country – stress has become a major factor in many people's lives. As a result of the increase in stress in many of our lives, many people are now turning to anti-depressants, drugs, or alcohol to help try and calm themselves down and to help take their minds off all of the stress and uncertainty of this life.
For the people who will not attempt to rely on drugs, alcohol, or anti-depressants to help them handle the high levels of stress they are forced to deal with on a daily basis – many people are then forced to deal with the side effects that high levels of stress can have on you.
And one of the main side effects that high levels of stress can have on you is that it will shorten up your fuses. You will find yourself losing your temper with much more frequency and over things that you normally would have never lost your temper over. You will also find yourself losing your temper much more quickly than you ever had in your past.
As a result, we have some time bombs walking our streets and driving on our highways that are just ready to go off at the slightest bit of provocation. Road rage is still a major problem on some of our highways.
Accidentally cut someone off, or drive too slow for someone else's taste, and they will start honking, yelling, and cussing at you, and in some of the more extreme cases, they will literally try and chase you down, all over something that was very trivial to begin with.
To those of you who watch your local news everyday – there is case after case of people who have lost their tempers over something completely stupid and trivial, and as a result, they have either hurt themselves or hurt other people.
Parents, in some cases, have literally beat their children to death over minor disputes or over a child that was crying too long. Boyfriends have beat up or killed their girlfriends over jealous disputes. Parents have physically fought with one another, or with some of their coaches at some of their child's athletic events over minor disputes over a coaches decision, or over a bad call made by the referee or umpire.
In all of these cases – the lack of self-control over one's temper has caused some of these people to explode with rage and violence where they will literally strike out at the person that has set them off. This same scenario keeps repeating itself over and over again on a regular-daily basis throughout the entire world.
Even some Christians are operating with very short fuses. They are constantly yelling at their spouses, their children, and their co-workers. As a result, many of their family and friends want nothing more to do with them and all they do is tolerate them as best as they can.
Many marriages that have started out on a good and loving note have severely deteriorated over the years because one or both of the spouses have lost all reasonable control over their bad tempers.
They have verbally and sometimes physically beat the love right out of their marriages. As a result, many people have lost their marriages, their relationships with their children, and their good friends. No one wants anything more to do with them, and they all end up being totally alone, depressed, and miserable – all because they could not keep proper control of their bad tempers.
For those of you who are having problems with keeping proper control of your bad tempers in the high stress world in which we all live in today – realize that there is help for you in this area from God Almighty Himself.
Per the article that we have in our site titled, "The 9 Fruits of the Holy Spirit," there are two very powerful fruits and divine qualities that the Holy Spirit can start to transmit up into the core of your personality. These two fruits are the fruits of peace and self-control.
Unless you have the peace of the Holy Spirit operating in your mind and emotions – you are going to have a very hard time in handling all of the stress this life can throw at you.
You have to have a strong supernatural source of peace flowing through you, and you cannot get this kind of supernatural peace from your own emotions, or from your own mental makeup due to your own imperfections.
This kind of strong supernatural peace can only be received direct from the Holy Spirit Himself. This is why the Bible tells us that these 9 fruits are from the Holy Spirit – not from us.
The other fruit from the Holy Spirit that you are really going to need to combat this problem is the fruit of self-control. Unless you have the self-control of the Holy Spirit Himself flowing and operating through you, then you will find that your own level of self-control is not going to be good enough to give you complete victory in this area, especially if you have had this problem operating in you for a long time and it has now become a conditioned habit.
The first thing you are going to need to do is to find out what the Word of God has to say on this matter. In this article, I will give you 9 very good verses from the Bible on what God's opinion really is on being quick-tempered and having a short fuse.
Jesus Himself has told us to turn the other cheek when warranted. Many of the things people are losing their tempers over are completely unacceptable in the eyes of God. There is a time to engage, but there is also a time not to engage.
I believe there is something called righteous wrath, righteous anger, and righteous indignation. There are times that you can lose your temper, and rightly so.
God the Father really let it blow with some of the judgments He pronounced back in the Old Testament against certain groups of people – but every time God the Father would lose His temper, it was always for a very good reason.
The Bible tells us that God the Father is slow to anger, but if you manage to hit the end of His fuse – watch out!
It was also the same with Jesus when He was walking on our earth. Jesus did not mince any words when attacking some of the Scribes and Pharisees for their hypocritical behavior. He also did not hold back when the money changers were trying to use His house of worship as a place to try and sell their goods to do business.
You have to know when to engage with righteous anger and when not to. The Bible says that God the Father is slow to anger, and as such, He wants all of us to be the exact same way in our dealings with ourselves and with other people.
As you will see in one of the verses I will list below, God the Father says that it is to our own glory and to our own benefit that we learn how to overlook transgressions that are made against us.
In other words, it will be very pleasing to Him if we can learn how to let certain matters go that are not worth the time and energy to get all bent out of shape over.
The Bible tells us that it should be our aim in this life to be well-pleasing to the Lord – and losing your temper over anything and everything is not being well-pleasing to Him.
I will first start off by giving you some of the better verses from the Bible that deal with the issue of having a bad and quick temper. I will then end this article with a 2 step process that you can use if you really want to work with the Lord in trying to defeat and put to death this bad character flaw in your personality.
Here are 9 very good verses from the Bible on what God's opinion is on those who have bad and quick tempers.
Notice in the last verse that it says not to let the sun go down on your wrath. This is very good advice for all married couples who like to carry some of the arguments of the day into their beds at night.
This last verse also says that we will grieve the Holy Spirit Himself if we have a lot of bitterness, anger, and wrath operating through us. We are to learn to forgive others, just as God the Father has now forgiven all of us through the Blood that His Son has shed on the cross for all of us.
If God can fully forgive all of our trespasses, then we can learn to fully forgive others who will trespass against us. And if we can learn to forgive others, then we will be less likely to lose our tempers every time someone trespasses against us in some way.
In other words, in God's eyes, you are showing Him complete foolishness and a complete lack of understanding in what you are losing your temper over. You are looking like a complete fool and idiot to both Him and to other people with some of the trivial and foolish things you are losing your temper over. Most of the time people are not laughing with you, they are laughing at you.
The verse from Proverbs 19:19 says that a man of great wrath will suffer punishment. Sooner or later, your bad temper is going to get you into serious trouble. You are going to either lose it with the wrong person or in the wrong situation, and when that happens, there will be severe consequences. For some, it will literally mean having an early departure from this life.
Flip off the wrong guy on the highway who may have just cut you off – and he may be the last person you will ever see alive again in this life!
The verse from Proverbs 25:28 says that a man who has no rule over his spirit and emotions is like a city that is broken down without any walls. In other words, you will nave no protection from either God or your enemies if you engage with the wrong person at the wrong time.
You are leaving yourself wide open to demonic or human attack if you are not going to learn how to control your temper with how you react and respond to others – especially with those who will attempt to cross you in someway.
In the second verse above from Proverbs 16:32, God is saying that those who are slow to anger are better than the "mighty" and he who can take a city. By the way God has worded this verse, you can tell how big of a thing it really is to Him that we learn how to control our emotions, especially our emotions of anger and wrath.
I will give you a very simple 2 step process to be able to get deliverance from this condition.
1. Before God the Father will start to move to give you His supernatural help through His Holy Spirit to defeat this – you will have to agree to come into a full surrender of you and your entire life with Him. We have an article in our site titled, "The Full Surrender" in the Bible Basics section of our site.
In this article, I give you all of the Scripture verses pertaining to this full surrender that God is looking for from each one of us. I also give you a good, basic, full surrender prayer in the middle of this article on how to enter into this full surrender if you have never done this before with the Lord. Once you have entered into this full surrender with the Lord, you will now be ready for step two.
2. In this next and final step – all you have to do now is go to God the Father in prayer and put your request before Him – asking Him to help you out with this specific problem.
Tell God that you are having a problem in being able to control your temper with certain people and in certain types of situations. Tell God that you will now need His fruits of peace and self-control to be released up in you through His Spirit as two of the 9 fruits of His Holy Spirit.
Tell God that you will agree to work with Him once He starts to release His peace and self-control into your mind and emotions. Once God starts to release these two fruits into you – then you will have to work with Him on this. You will not be a passive robot in all of this. What this means is that you will have to make every concerted effort on your own to try and control the release of your quick and bad temper.
Every time you feel your bad temper wanting to explode up on you – you will have to use every ounce of mental will power to try and fight to keep it from exploding and releasing onto the person or situation that is triggering its release. Sometimes you will manage to keep it under control, other times you will not.
But if you show God that you mean serious business with Him on this, and He sees that you are doing every thing that you possibly can within your own mental will power to try and defeat this – then God will start to come to your rescue, and He will then start to release His peace and self-control into you so you can properly finish this job.
Once God's peace and self-control starts to flow into your personality through His Holy Spirit – then it will become much easier for you to keep control of your bad temper.
The Bible says it is by the power of the Holy Spirit that you will put to death the deeds of your body – and one of the deeds of the flesh and body that you will definitely want to put to death is a lousy, foul, and bad temper.
This is a powerful, supernatural type of help and work that you can receive direct from the Holy Spirit Himself if you are open and willing to work with Him on this as part of your sanctification process in the Lord.
I say I love the Lord and have been called to his purpose. For years I have battled trying to control my anger and when I kept thinking I had overcome I sadky realized i had not. Yesterday I screamed at my daughter. My husband who does not read the word as much as I do is always so calm an patient and it always convicts me. This morning I made a consious effort to look for scriptures on anger and I am grateful for this article i have found. I am hopeful neverthless that by the help of Gods spirit living in me I have already overcome. I dont have the ability ans that is why I depend ao much on Gods spirit to live through me. I am encouraged and even more humbled for this write up. I know God wants me to live victorious in every area and in that i rejoice. I purpose in my heart to work with Holy Spirit ans experience the peace in mt hime as i am delivered totalky from the anger. God bless!!!
I needed this article more than ever tonight. My father has a serious anger management issue, and although we claim to have a God-centered home, my father rules by anger in our house. My mother and all of his kids abandoned him for this reason and it has only gotten worse. Just the other day he said "God made me the way I am…he gave me this temper so that's just the way it is!". Hearing this made me shutter. I knew if I tried throwing any verses at him he would only yell at me and think I have a "holier than thou" attitude…so I said nothing; and things have only gotten worse. I want to read him this article but I'm not sure how to introduce it to him. Any way I imagine trying gives me visions of him yelling at me "are you saying this is me!?" or like he often says, "do you think you're more Christian than me!?" I don't think that there will ever be a 'decent' time to spring it on him but I truly feel that God led me to this article tonight because I have been praying for this very situation I'm in…hy father ruling his home with anger and me living in fear of offending him. He knows that I have to live my life this way and he knowingly abuses this power. I have made a decision to move out soon (I moved in with him to help support him during his divorce from my mother) and I have been trying to carefully make it known that the primary reason for my exodus is to be free from his control and subsequent wrath that his anger exhibits. This article says everything that I wish I had the courage to say in my own and has all of the Bible versus to back up what I have been saying to him. Thank you for writing this and I'm very greatful that I have discovered this website. It will now be part of my everyday Bible lessons.
"Bless those who persecute you. Bless and curse not". No need to elaborate much further.
I see what the bible say about people who are angry. But what about the person who made that person angry, especially when you try to stay calm, but they just keep pushing with their folly and crazy arguements. Is there any scripture that speak of people who provoke people to anger, I know it talks about father provoking children to wrath, but does this goes for anyone also. Is the bible saying not to get angry for any reason at all. There is punishment for the person who got angry but not for the person who made that person angry.
Go to our article "Death and Life Are in the Power of the Tongue." That article is also in the Sanctification section and will answer your question on how people should talk and express themselves in this life.


Gortagown Cottage is a lovely detached cottage located five miles from the village of Sneem in County Kerry. This cottage sleeps five people in two bedrooms, consisting of one twin and one family room with one double and one single, along with a bathroom and shower room. The cottage also has a kitchen with dining area, a sitting room with open fire and a reading room. Outside there's off road parking for three cars and a lawned garden. Gortagown Cottage is a cosy base for your Emerald Isle adventure.
The village of Sneem is situated between the towns of Kenmare and Waterville, and on the route of the Kerry Way. The village has shops, pubs and a number of cosy tea rooms, along with rows of brightly coloured houses.
Oil central heating with open fire. Electric oven and gas hob, microwave, fridge, freezer, washing machine, tumble dryer, dishwasher, TV with Saorview, selection of books. Fuel, power and starter pack for fire inc. in rent. Bed linen and towels inc. in rent. Off road parking for 3 cars. Lawned garden. One well-behaved dog welcome. Sorry, no smoking. Shop and pub 5 miles..


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Q: Limit with brownian motion I would need to verify if this answer is correct. Thanks in advance for the help.
Given $B_t$, $t \geq 0$ a brownian motion, determine
$
  \lim_{t\to\infty} \sqrt{t} P[\max_{s \in [0,t]} \{B_s\} \leq 1]
$
Where P stands for probability.
This is what i did:
$
  \lim_{t\to\infty} \sqrt{t} P[\max_{s \in [0,t]} \{B_s\} \leq 1] =
  \lim_{t\to\infty} \sqrt{t} [1-2P[B_t \geq 1]]
$
by application of the reflection principle. Now
$
  \lim_{t\to\infty} \sqrt{t} [1-2P[B_t \geq 1]] =
  \lim_{t\to\infty} \sqrt{t} [2P[B_t < 1] - 1] =
  \lim_{t\to\infty} \sqrt{t} [2\Phi(\frac{1}{\sqrt{t}}) - 1]
$
where $\Phi$ stands for the standard normal probability distribution. This is a $0 \times \infty$ indetermination since $\Phi(0)=1/2$.
Applying l'hopital rule,
$
  \lim_{t\to\infty} \frac{[2\Phi(\frac{1}{\sqrt{t}})-1]}{\frac{1}{\sqrt{t}}} =
  \lim_{t\to\infty} \frac{\frac{d}{dt}\left[\frac{2}{\sqrt{2\Pi}}\int_{-\infty}^{\frac{1}{\sqrt{t}}} \exp(-\frac{x^2}{2t}) dx -1 \right]}{\frac{d}{dt}\left[\frac{1}{\sqrt{t}} \right]} =
  \lim_{t\to\infty} \frac{\sqrt{\frac{2}{\Pi}} \exp(-\frac{1}{2t^2}) {\frac{d}{dt}\left[\frac{1}{\sqrt{t}} \right]}}{\frac{d}{dt}\left[\frac{1}{\sqrt{t}} \right]} =
\sqrt{\frac{2}{\Pi}}
$
Is this correct?
Many thanks.

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For the first time in the program's history, Congress is considering major legislative reforms to the 340B program. We invite you to join stakeholders from across the healthcare industry to discuss proposed legislative and regulatory changes, as well as other steps policymakers could take to improve the program.
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Q: How to verify user is logged in through firebase in javascript I'm trying to make a part of my website that is restricted to only that of people who are logged in.
Currently, I am able to check their login status with:
firebase.auth().onAuthStateChanged(function (user)
But I was wondering whether this was the correct option to use, as it displays the restricted page for one or two seconds before the user gets redirected to the homepage.
Are there any alternatives that provide a better solution?
Thanks in advance.

A: access firebase.auth().currentUser

A: What you are doing now with the auth state change listener is the documented, recommended approach.  You should expect that there could be some time before the sign in state is fully available to your page.  If you're finding that it takes longer than you'd like, perhaps you could change your app's UI to better handle this case.


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Dee Snider Does It For The Love Of Metal On Jamey Jasta-Produced Heavy Hitter
17 July 2018 By jesse 1 Comment
Dee Snider is a living legend. We can all agree on that, right? So when said living legend is challenged to make a modern Heavy Metal album by one of today's current icons then it's a given that our ears perk up. Luckily, the results with that current icon hit hard and play out as a relevant piece of modern metal aptly titled For The Love Of Metal.
Never mind your preconceived notions of Dee Snider. You know the ones I'm talking about: the advocate, glam metal icon, face of "parents just don't understand" in metal, or hell, even "Captain Howdy" (From the underrated slasher flick Strangeland with an appropriately killer soundtrack). It's a whole new ballgame for Snider this time around on For The Love Of Metal as he teams with Jamey Jasta (Headbanger's Ball 2.0, Hatebreed) who produced this epic slab of in your face, no holds barred METAL. I wish there was a better way to describe it but some albums just scream "METAL!" and this is (fittingly) one of those.
"Lies Are A Business" is like old school hair metal meshed with Sweden's best heavy hitters with thrashy guitars on top of absolutely pummeling drum work as Snider's uncanny voice rips through the riffs with that scream to drive into this thick breakdown at the conclusion. The first taste of the album was "Tomorrow's No Concern" and it is the best possible reintroduction to Dee Snider v.2 with a chorus that is the most hypnotic, subliminally mesmerizing slab of awesome this side of a backward-playing Ozzy record. But seriously, folks, the track is an anthemic shredder and should rightfully stand alongside Snider's other great anthems of the past.
"I gave you yesterday/Tomorrow's no concern/I gave you yesterday/You can keep it/Because today is mine!" screams Snider and if that ain't some sort of mission statement then I don't know what is.
Speaking of anthems, holy hell is "I Am The Hurricane" the epitome of that statement with that iconic voice sounding stronger than ever. And during "Roll Over You", Snider gets even more vicious spouting sweet nothing like "We fuckin' despise you!"
So you have Jasta producing and the legendary Snider belting out modern metal masterpieces but what else do you got for short attention span listeners? WELL! There's a trio of bangers towards the end of the album with some special guests that'll surely pique yer interests.
First up, Lamb Of God's Mark Morton adds some riffy goodness to "Become The Storm" then "The Hardest Way" features vocal heavyweight Howard Jones of Light The Torch (You should check out his latest album if you haven't already) who gives a soulful counterpoint to Snider's snarl while Arch Enemy's Alissa White-Gluz takes a softer approach on the somber "Dead Hearts (Love Thy Enemy)".
Closing with the biting title track coming at you like the aforementioned Lamb Of God meets Twisted Sister with a huge sing-a-long, fists pumpin' in the air chorus which culminates with Snider decreeing: "Unleash the METAL!" and "We are all fucking METAL!", For The Love Of Metal concludes with a resounding feeling of, you guessed it, METAL!
For The Love Of Metal is out through Napalm Records on July 27th. Pre-orders are up and ready for purchase by clicking here or here. For the latest on Dee Snider, including festival and convention appearances, head on over here.
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Cedar House Restaurant & Chalets features 7 spa tubs. The property offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This eco-friendly property also offers a terrace, tour/ticket assistance, and barbecue grills. For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle during limited hours is offered to guests. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
Cedar House Restaurant & Chalets has designated areas for smoking.
Located in Columbia-Shuswap A, this eco-friendly vacation home is within 9 mi (15 km) of Golden and District Museum, Kicking Horse Pedestrian Bridge, and British Columbia Visitor Centre at Golden. Kicking Horse Mountain Resort and Northern Lights Wildlife Wolf Center are also within 16 mi (25 km).
A restaurant, a bar/lounge, and concierge services are available at this vacation home. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include laundry facilities, express check-out, and tour/ticket assistance.
All 7 individually decorated homes feature free WiFi and iPod docks. Kitchens come with refrigerators and stovetops, and guests will also find upscale touches like private spa tubs and deep soaking tubs. Housekeeping is available once per stay.
Cedar House Restaurant & Chalets offers 7 air-conditioned accommodations with private spa tubs and iPod docking stations. Rooms open to furnished balconies or patios. These individually decorated and furnished accommodations have separate living rooms and include queen sofa beds. Beds feature down comforters and premium bedding. Flat-screen televisions come with cable channels and DVD players. Accommodations at this 3.5-star property have kitchens with full-sized refrigerators/freezers, stovetops, microwaves, and separate dining areas. Bathrooms include bathtubs or showers with deep soaking bathtubs, bathrobes, complimentary toiletries, and hair dryers. This Golden property provides complimentary wireless Internet access. Business-friendly amenities include complimentary local, long-distance, and international calls (restrictions may apply). Additionally, rooms include coffee/tea makers and irons/ironing boards. Housekeeping is offered once per stay and hypo-allergenic bedding can be requested.
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Following the launch of the Change Checker "Scarcity Index" early last year, the final 2017 Quarter 4 Index has now been published.
It's of little surprise that Kew Gardens maintains its top spot as the UK's most sought after circulation coin with a perfect score of 100.
The mintage figures for the 2017 50p coins were released just before Christmas and have had an effect on the Scarcity Index scores. Interestingly, the Sir Isaac Newton 50p only scores a 3/100 which is lower than we anticipated. This is mainly due to the large number of Change Checkers who list having the coin in their collection. However, we are expecting this score to increase during the next quarter due to the low mintage figure, of just 1.8 million, driving demand.
Jemima Puddle-Duck remains the most scarce Beatrix Potter 50p, with Tom Kitten and Benjamin also scoring quite highly with a score of 13 and 7 respectively. Tom Kitten and Benjamin Bunny were only released into circulation in December so requests for swaps are high. Mintage figures for these coins are also relatively high so as more people find these coins in their change it is possible these scores will decrease slightly.
Interestingly, the mintage figure for the Jeremy Fisher 50p coin has been released, however the coin is not yet in circulation.
There's not a lot of movement in our Quarter 4 £2 "Scarcity Index" update.
The Commonwealth Games Wales £2 coin takes top spot from the Commonwealth Games Northern Ireland. This is down to the very large number of swap requests for this coin in the last quarter. At 99/100 the Northern Ireland coin is still very scarce (as are the other two coins in the Commonwealth Games series) and it's very possible it will retake the number 1 spot next quarter.
We are still waiting for the Jane Austen and WWI Aviation £2 coins to be released into circulation, hence why they do not feature on our Index. We await the release of these and their mintage figures with great interest, could they be low like the Sir Isaac Newton 50p? It is possible.
Generally collectors have had to rely upon mintage figures to identify the scarcest coins. But they only tell part of the story. Trying to find a good quality coin from 15 – 20 years ago, even for a higher mintage issue, is much more challenging than a more recent issue, as coins become damaged over time and are ultimately removed from circulation.
Additionally, some designs are more hoarded than others by people who might not normally collect coins – the recent poignant First World War £2 Coin series being an example. Finally, it can be up to a couple of years before the Royal Mint eventually confirms the actual mintage for an issue.
That's why we have combined the mintage information with two other key pieces of information.
How many of each design are listed as "collected" by Change Checkers, indicating the relative ease of finding a particular coin.
The number of times a design has been requested as a swap over the previous 3 months, showing the current level of collector demand.
Importantly, as new coins are released and popularity rises and falls across different designs the Scarcity Index will be updated quarterly allowing Change Checkers to track the relative performance of the UK's circulation coins.
The Scarcity Index does not necessarily equate to value but it is certainly an effective indicator. For example, the Kew Gardens 50p coin commands a premium of up to 160 times face value on eBay.
The £1 Scarcity Index has already been published for the Round £1 coins and, because they are no longer being issued, this is now set in stone.
Today marks 20 years since the small 50p was first released into circulation.
Have I just found a rare coin? It's a question which collectors ask daily, and to help answer it, we've put together these charts showing the TOP 10 rarest coins for each of the four denominations on the Change Checker App.
How does your coin stack up against the others?
The Northern Ireland 2002 Commonwealth Games is the rarest £2 coin currently in circulation – in fact the four designs in the 2002 Commonwealth Games series can be found in the top ten chart. Others to look out for include both 2008 and 2012 Olympic Handover Two Pound Coin designs and the 2015 Royal Navy £2.
The rarest One Pound coin currently in circulation is the Edinburgh £1 – have you ever spotted one in your change? The Royal Arms is a common design which is sometimes ignored, but remember to look out for one with a 2008 date – that's actually the fourth rarest.
The Olympic Fifty Pence series is very popular with Change Checkers, but in terms of rarity, there really isn't much separating the top 10 designs. The Football 'Offside Rule' 50p was certainly one of the most talked about designs, and it also narrowly ranks as the scarcest.
As mentioned in our previous blog the rarest coin, of any denomination, is the Kew Gardens 50p. Its status as the most scarce coin has been well publicised, and as a result, many are hoarded by collectors. The chart below illustrates just how rare it is compared with other Fifty Pence designs.
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Q: sed to remove character pattern from end of line? I've seen several examples on here of something close to what I'm asking, but not quite.
I have some pipe-delimited flat files which have some extraneous column data that I want to strip out using sed.  the basic structure looks like this:
Column1|Column2|Column3|ignore
data1|data2|data3|ignore
data4|data5|data6|ignore

I want an expression using sed that will produce:
Column1|Column2|Column3
data1|data2|data3
data4|data5|data6

This should be stupid easy, but as always regular expressions and sed manage to hurt my brain.  I thought this would work:
sed "s/\|ignore//" table1.txt >filtered.txt

but this seems to do nothing.  What am I doing wrong?
NOTE:  This is GNU sed for Windows.

A: Don't escape the pipe.
$ sed 's/|ignore//' table1.txt > filtered.txt

works on my machine. (GNU sed on Cygwin.)
The idea here is that \| is the regex pipe, not the literal pipe. I don't quite know how to figure these things out, but to use (, {, or | in sed regex, you must escape them. But [ is not escaped, unless you want the literal character.

A: Change \| to |. You don't want an alternative, you want a literal pipe.
Or, if you use \|, pass -r to sed to indicate you want the extended syntax.

A: Several possible solutions here. Also, why not use cut?


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Q: How do I check if users belongs to a certain model I have models: Student, Teacher, and CustomUser.
A CustomUser belongs either to student or teacher.
When logged in, I want to check if the user is instance of student or teacher in the template html.
I've tried the following, but it doesn't work.
{% if user is a student %}
  Profile
{% elif user is a teacher %}
   Profile
{% else %}
   Error. Go signup as teacher or student!
{% endif %}

A: simply create two variables (boolean)
IsStudent, IsTeacher.
class User(AbstractUser):
   is_student = models.BooleanField('student status', default=False)
   is_teacher = models.BooleanField('teacher status', default=False)

i also, recommend following this tutorial
Good luck.


Join us to chat about fundraising efforts for Extra Life in the Richmond area and play some games with other Extra Lifers!
Our September meeting will be held at Bobby's house in Henrico.
Was just wondering if there was a way to get the location for the meeting today.


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THE FSA ELEMENTARY CHESS TEAM WON FULTON COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP
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THE FSA ELEMENTARY CHESS TEAM WON FULTON COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP AND ADVANCED TO STATE FINALS
There were over 1000 players at this event. Chess has many levels of competitive play, with tournament sections often designated by school grade. While a tournament for individual competition may have sections organized by grade or US Chess Federation (USCF, see www.uschess.orgfor more information) rating, school team tournaments are structured by grade level. Typical team sections are: K-1 (Kindergarten & 1st graders), K-3 (may overlap with K-1 and, if so, would primarily have 2nd& 3rd graders), K-5 (stronger younger players, primarily 4th & 5th graders), K-8 (middle school), and K-12 (high school).
So, how does a school create and develop a chess team, particularly a strong, competitive team? While there is no pat formula, here are suggestions for building and developing a successful, long-term program culled from schools known for their award-winning chess teams.
One of the best experiences a child can have at school is to be part of a strong, enthusiastic school team. The most successful school chess teams have consistent parent involvement over consecutive school years. The best way to improve in chess is to play often with different people at equivalent or greater skill levels than oneself. If you're fortunate to live in an area with frequent scholastic chess tournaments, take advantage of the bounty and encourage your child to play at least one a month. Kids love to be with their schoolmates as they "take on" kids from rival schools in the community, and oftentimes friendships will develop between chess kids who otherwise would have never met. Coordinating parental supervision and carpool duty is very helpful, as tournaments often span a full day and some run longer.
It may be a cliché, but teaching kids that sometimes it's not just winning, but how one plays the game, is important for both individual character and team development. Applaud the kids' best efforts and positive attitudes, and they will learn to support their teammates and feel more appreciated and confident in their own playing abilities. It's not easy to shake an opponent's hand after a loss, but a game well played can be respected in its own right. From time to time, a child should be reminded by a parent or respected teacher or coach that it's more important in life to be considered a good, decent person than just a successful player. Remind the kids when they're feeling dejected that they'll "live to fight another day" and that they can take pride in playing better and better with every match, as they learn to examine their mistakes and understand how to improve their game.
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CONGRATULATIONS TO 6TH GRADER, SHASHWAT BANSAL FOR WINNING 2ND PLACE IN STATEWIDE ATLANTIC INSTITUE ART AND ESSAY COMPETITION THIS WEEKEND
Our school hosted the award ceremony for 2016 Atlantic Institute Art & Essay Award Ceremony this weekend. It was a great event. There were many talented students from all around the state with their winning art and essays
One of our 6th grade student, Shashwat Bansal won 2nd place at the middle school level category with his essay.
Way to go Shashwat! We are very proud of you.
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You can find the colors for Block 1 here, Block 2 here, and Block 3 here.
As I mentioned in the Introduction of Gravity, the intention is that you will have fun making your Gravity quilt and have fun with the subtle color variations within the quilt blocks. There is no need to stress about precisely matching fabric or color placement from block to block.The beauty of this design, and the variety of fabrics and colors used to create it, is that each quilt will take on a subtle and distinct look and feel of its own. With that in mind, for those of you who REALLY want to know which colors I used where, I hope you will find these posts to be helpful.Tell us in the comments below: Has working on your Gravity quilt inspired you to work with colors you wouldn't otherwise consider adding to rainbow quilts? Are your Gravity quilt blocks helping you to strengthen your color usage skills? Tell us all about it in the comments!Remember to share your photos on social media with the #GravityQuilt tag & have fun!


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Fancy dress ball given by the Corporation of Melbourne in honour of H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, 23 December, 1867 [picture] / S. Calvert
Calvert, Samuel, 1828-1913
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