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May rent. June rent. Late fees. Penalties.’

Tusdae Barr, on being evicted from her home during the coronavirus crisis

Eli SaslowAugust 15, 2020 There’s no room for disbelief in my position. I’ve had other people tell me: “Really? They’re evicting you during a pandemic? That’s crazy.” I don’t know. Maybe it is. I haven’t had time to sit and feel sorry. First I was fighting in court to keep the apartment, and then I was trying to get my things out of there before the landlord padlocked the doors. It was one big scramble. Where can I find a moving truck? How am I going to pay for storage? Who’s watching the baby? Where can we lay our heads? Which motels are safe and which ones are covered in virus?

About this series

Voices from the Pandemic is an oral history of covid-19 and those affected.

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Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am rwaldron on github.
• I am rwaldron (https://keybase.io/rwaldron) on keybase.
• I have a public key ASAFCMnDX4_ROoCLOml6x0O4xag5vvD5t_Hd_FJcoAQfbQo

To claim this, I am signing this object:

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(function( global ) {
  "use strict";

  function isConstructor( C ) {
    try {
      new C();
      return true;
    } catch ( e ) {
      return false;
    }

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Array.build

Originally conceived by Dave Herman, based on: http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/pairs.html#%28def._%28%28lib._racket%2Fprivate%2Flist..rkt%29._build-list%29%29

Rationale

There is no easy way to create an array, of user defined length, containing values that are not undefined. Easily build range functionality ontop.

Prior Art

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/*!
 * jQuery Tiny Pub/Sub - v0.X - 11/18/2010
 * http://benalman.com/
 * 
 * Original Copyright (c) 2010 "Cowboy" Ben Alman
 * Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses.
 * http://benalman.com/about/license/
 *
 * Made awesome by Rick Waldron
 *

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var five = require("johnny-five"); // or "../lib/johnny-five.js" if you're in the repo
var keypress = require("keypress");
var board = new five.Board();

function controller(ch, key) {
  console.log(ch, key);
}

board.on("ready", function() {

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# Tips for jQuery Bug Patching

# There are some assumptions made here, one being that you're 
# set up with some form of "localhost" http server and that it's running.
#  - http://www.mamp.info/en/mamp/
#  - sudo apt-get install apache2

# Get it running: 
# On Mac: 
  

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In JavaScript, all binding declarations are instantiated when control flow enters the scope in which they appear. Legacy var and function declarations allow access to those bindings before the actual declaration, with a "value" of undefined. That legacy behavior is known as "hoisting". let and const binding declarations are also instantiated when control flow enters the scope in which they appear, with access prevented until the actual declaration is reached; this is called the Temporal Dead Zone. The TDZ exists to prevent the sort of bugs that legacy hoisting can create.

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#LED API

Johnny-five includes some useful LED functions.

Defining

LED's must be registered with j5 before they can be used:

//import the library and create the board and led variable
var five = require("johnny-five"),

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A little after 8 a.m. on July 20, 2001, a couple arriving for an appointment opened an unlocked front door at an office in the Florida panhandle town of Fort Walton Beach and discovered a woman lying on the floor, dead. Her name was Lori Kaye Klausutis and she was just 28.

The police said they found no signs of foul play. The medical examiner concluded her lonely death was an accident. She had fainted, the result of a heart condition, and hit her head on a desk, he said.

Now, nearly 20 years later, Klausutis’s death has captured the attention of the country’s most prominent purveyor of conspiracy theories — the president of the United States — who has without evidence speculated that she might have been murdered and that the case should be reopened.

The reason for President Trump’s fixation: At the time of her death, Klausutis was working for a Republican congressman from Pensacola named Joe Scarborough — the same Scarborough who today, as host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, is a fierce critic of Trump and has in