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The £33K Insurance Quote
By Dave Beans, March 23, 2011 in The off-topic forum
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-12824940
A teenager has described his amazement after being quoted almost £33,000 to insure his second-hand car. Jake Redshaw, 17, from Salford, bought a six-year-old Vauxhall Corsa for £3,000 after he passed his test earlier in March. He told the BBC he expected comparison website insurance quotes to reach about £3,000 - but received a headline figure of £32,819 from the AA.
The company said the figure was a mistake and should not have appeared. Jake, from Eccles, was hoping to use his car to travel to Pendleton College, where he is studying IT, and his part-time job in a warehouse.
"The average [price] was probably about £12,000, £13,000 and the cheapest was £5,700. And I got £33,000 from AA," he told the BBC.
"I was amazed because I was expecting to pay £3,000, £4,000, but not that high.
"I can't insure it. If I want to go out I'll have to get my mum or dad to drop me off to go out. I can't be independent as I wanted to be.
"At 18 it apparently goes down, so I'll have to wait until then. But it's only a couple of months away so it's not that bad."
According to the Association of British Insurers (ABI), 12% of drivers are aged 17 to 24 - but they are responsible for almost 30% of accidents. In that age group, drivers are 10 times more likely to be involved in an accident than drivers aged over 30. A spokesman for the AA said the high risk associated with young male drivers meant the average industry quote for a UK male aged 17 to 22 was £2,750.
"Sometimes insurance companies would prefer not to have that business and rather than not quote they quote figures they do not expect to be taken up," said the spokesman.
"One of the insurance companies on our panel has produced a quote that just should not have appeared."
Last week, the Manchester-based Co-operative insurance launched a product that offers reduced rates to young drivers if they install a device to their car which monitors their driving. The AA said it would be offering a similar scheme later in 2011 and believes such products could boost the number of quotes for young drivers..
Perhaps he should just get a moped...
Perhaps he should get a succession of cheap bangers for less than £200, register them to a false name and address and not bother to tax, mot or insure them, as the fine will be less than the insurance, if he gets caught. If he doesn't get caught then he's quids in.
It's the only logical conclusion to this ridiculous situation.
It seems in every part of life, the young are getting shafted left, right and centre...
blobloblob
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Insurance companies probably use an algorithm that adds a '0' to the price every time they detect the word 'Salford'. Sad really; I know several people from Salford and none of them has ever nicked my car.
Bradbury Robinson
This was on the BBC news yesterday, in the papers and on the local news as well, not bad for something which is basically a non-story.
The numbers quoted are just arbitrary figures, the company either doesn't want the business so quotes a nonsense figure OR their algorithm has gone a bit nuts. It matters not that it is £33k, £100k, £200BN or £0.0000000000001, it's just not news worthy.
It reminded me of the numerous articles about person x selling item y on eBay and the 'bidding' has reached £100,000. Again, total non-stories.
Local news loved it though, even advising viewers to head to their Facebook page and look at some other randomly generated figures which users had submitted!
southmartin
No need to even go that far - just go to the local scrapyard and buy a V5 for a 850cc Mini for a £20 backhander... then insure that for a couple of years first.
Neil D Possitt
Location:Lincolnshire
I thought about that when I was 17, ie building up no claims on a non-existent, low insurance group car, then transfering it onto a real car. It would have been even easier then as there was no computer database when I were a lad, so you could have just invented a reg number and called it a Fiat Panda 750 or whatever.
Its clearly fraud but how would they ever prove it? Its not as if you're ever going to make a claim on the policy.
The Ayatollah Buggeri
Location:Redlands, CA, USA (expat - formerly Yorkshire)
You might not, but what if a third party makes a claim against you?
In any case, quotes like this illustrate the problem of having a product, the purchase of which is a legal requirement but the price and availability of which is not regulated. The two are fundamentally incompatible: either the legal requirement to buy motor insurance needs to go, or the industry needs to be regulated such that everyone can buy at least a third-party only policy for a small, no frills car for a legally capped price. I'd have no problem with having serious strings attached to the capped product: maximum engine size of one litre, not valid in the middle of the night, one successful claim or motoring-related conviction against you and the policy is void, etc. etc. But a situation in which a driver who has passed his test and is otherwise perfectly legal simply can't use the road legally unless he's almost a millionaire is totally unsustainable.
MC Fur Q
That's obscene, I'd insure the guy for £32k.
I was referring to the policy on the 'non-existent car'. Clearly no one will make a claim because the insured car doesn't exist!
I might have known "someone" who did that, using a non-running moped in his garage for a few years - helped when it was time to insure a Ducati....
HPC=dream
True storey : I quoted a 21 YO £27,500 on a Bentley Continental GT this week and this was his first evey car
He thought it was a great price.
but if he gets caught he will get 6 points and that will make him uninsuarable and will cost him a fortune for a long time.
if he has an accident then he is royally fooked.
I'm sure it happens a lot. When I was a teenager one or two people I knew had wrecks parked up on their parent's drive, never turned a wheel in months but were kept insured to build up no-claims for when they could afford to buy their 'proper' car. My idea was to take it a stage further and buy the insurance but just never get round to buying the car to go with it, never actually did it though.
Proving that someone is driving without insurance is one thing, but proving 'insurance without driving' would be a whole lot more difficult....
I can't see anything illegal about doing this, as long as you hold the V5 for the vehicle (especially given the level of data on inter-connected databases these days). Maybe buy a wreck, register it, then find somewhere to park it, cannibalise for parts, even sell to a breaker who is happy for you to keep the V5 in your name.
Mind you, given that new, young drivers are being quoted thousands for even the most basic level of insurance on cheap, low-risk vehicles, paying a potential £5k+ to build up 3 years' no claims bonus seems somehow counter-intuitive....
happy_renting
Virtue Signalling
I've always felt there is a similar argument for vanity number plates,
Why pay £30,000 for a number plate with your initials? Just get one made up anyway. You are less likely to be caught (you are driving on a false plate!) and the fine is a lot less than £30,000.
Legal Disclaimer: Just kidding.
Yes, I'm talking 20+ years ago when there were few databases, and insurance for young drivers in low value/low power cars cost about a tenth of what it does now.
I remember seeing the police virtually dragging a young lad out of a battered looking Volvo they had just stopped at the roadside opposite my house, with the number plate 'TOM 1' (not that exactly but something very similar.)
I was sat near a computer at the time so typed TOM 1 into a reg number search which showed it didn't exist at all. He'd presumably thought "I like the registration TOM 1 so I'm just going to get a plate made and put it on my car"
PopGun
Strange how young drivers are perceived to be 10/20 times more dangerous on the roads now then they were 20 odd years ago. Especially when you consider how much more dangerous it was to drive back then and how modern cars are much more safer and easier to drive.
Yes more people drive now, but it's all relative.
ps. Anyone got that protection against uninsured drivers on their premiums? How long do you reckon they'll last?
You wouldn't last five minutes.ANPR cameras flag up anything that doesn't match as you drive past Mr.Plod as he sits there and munches his douighnuts.They are linked to tax,insurance and MOT databases.
longtomsilver
Yep! The ANPR computers are blisteringly quick chewing through nearly a million plates per second. Some algorithm must be used as is match is up consistently in 2-3seconds.
I've just insured my motorbike at £120 fully comp (up £50 from last year but way less than when I passed in 1999 at £1,4**). One of the joys of getting on in life.


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Key elements for addressing this issue include involving local host communities in long-term planning, enhancing job opportunities, and improving sustainable environmental and ecosystem services.
The World Bank is working to expand its support for the displaced and their host communities in low and middle-income countries across the world.
Forced displacement is not a new phenomenon. Many countries—especially in the developing world—have been managing these situations for years, at times decades. The ongoing Syrian crisis has provided renewed impetus for the global community to re-think how to support local and national governments to help the displaced and hosts alike.
As the Bank works to expand its support for the displaced as well as their host communities, not only in low-income countries but in middle-income countries as well, many ongoing efforts across the world, including the Great Lakes, the Horn of Africa, and the Sahel regions, in Jordan and Lebanon, as well as in Pakistan and Azerbaijan among others, may provide insight on approaches that work.
Every situation will have its own unique challenges, but ensuring that local host communities are supported and involved in long-term planning decisions, and enhancing job opportunities are among important elements of Bank support. Supporting and enhancing sustainable environmental and ecosystem services, including integrated natural resources management, is also necessary to overcome the environmental degradation and loss of vegetation cover that can result from an inflow of large numbers of people.
" Over the years, we have found that good development programs need to be informed by a good understanding of displaced populations and the communities that host them, and the relationship between them. We must help them help each other. "
In the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes, areas hosting refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are often under-developed and underserved, and the Bank is taking a regional approach to improve access to services and economic opportunities. In Zambia, for example, the Bank is supporting both former refugees and host communities through a Community-Driven Development approach, strengthening large scale and community infrastructure to improve education and health services, as well as create economic and market opportunities. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Eastern Recovery Project focuses on developing agricultural markets in areas that have experienced high levels of population movement, benefitting hosting communities, displaced families and returnees. Through the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the Horn of Africa Project will help harmonize policies and practices related to forced displacement with the establishment of a regional secretariat for forced displacement and mixed migration.
In Azerbaijan, 7% of the population (approximately 623,000 people) is displaced. After two decades, the displaced have not been able to build self-reliance, lacking access to high quality social infrastructure and housing. The problem is aggravated by the fact that most internally displaced are hosted by already poor communities. To respond to this challenge, the government of Azerbaijan has been implementing the Azerbaijan IDP Living Standards and Livelihoods Project since early 2012 to improve living conditions and increase the economic self-reliance of the internally displaced. To ease the burden on host communities and facilitate integration of IDP populations, the project finances small- to medium-sized infrastructure projects through a community driven approach. To date, more than 400 communities throughout the country have benefitted from these infrastructure developments.
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In Lebanon where, like Jordan, refugees live amongst host communities, the Bank is providing communities with immediate relief through investing in critical infrastructure at the local level and targeted social initiatives that promote interaction and collaboration between refugees and host communities. The Bank also scaled up its support to the government's safety net program to host communities impacted by the Syrian crisis to reduce poverty and increase social cohesion. In addition, the Bank helped the public education system absorb a large number of school-age Syrian refugees, while at the same time ensuring Lebanese students also stay in school and overall quality of education is enhanced.
Pakistan has had a long history of managing displaced people—hosting over 1.5 million Afghan refugees for decades, the largest protracted refugee population globally (UNHCR). The Pakistan government is also managing a large number of temporarily displaced people within its own borders in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), supported by the Bank. The World Bank-administered Multi-Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) was formed in August 2010 at the request of the government of Pakistan and development partner countries to respond to the crisis in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), FATA, and Balochistan to support the reconstruction, rehabilitation, reforms, and other interventions needed to build peace and create the conditions for sustainable development.
In the Great Lakes and Horn of Africa, where host communities depend on traditional livelihoods, such as agriculture, fisheries, and pastoralism, the Bank is providing training to improve production practices, supporting new technologies and equipment, improving storage and processing infrastructure, and increasing access to finance. Local consultations and assessment of local markets with the communities and local governments taking the lead have informed the Bank's approach. In Zambia, for example, the project supports livelihoods ranging from access to agriculture and vocational training, to development of small-scale sub-projects or irrigation systems, for the most vulnerable former refugees and host community members.
In Azerbaijan, the IDP Living Standards and Livelihoods Project supports livelihoods-related activities that provide resources and build skills for IDPs, so that they can compete in the labor market or to start their own businesses and, down the road, to help them obtain better-paid and more secure jobs. The project supports training and grants for business start-up, forming and funding of income-generating groups in IDP communities, and provision of micro-credit for business activities. Businesses are varied in nature but usually build on the agricultural skills that IDPs brought from their home communities, including cattle husbandry, sheep rearing, and crop production, but the project also financed opening of bakeries, retail shops, catering businesses and cafés. Despite the relatively short time these income-generating groups have been operating, most already generate robust incomes. The project provides young people with vocational training and support for business start-up, and also aims to achieve gender balance and reach equal numbers of young women and men.
In Jordan, an upcoming program on "Economic Opportunities for Jordanians and Syrian Refugees" will support the Government meet its commitment for providing Syrian refugees with access to the labor market by improving the investment climate and formalizing Syrian employment by facilitating the issuance of work permits. In return, Jordan will benefit from favorable access of Jordanian goods into European markets. The World Bank will also leverage its municipal program to finance labor-intensive works benefiting both Jordanians and Syrian refugees.
In Lebanon, an upcoming program on "Roads and Employment" is expected to create about 1.5 million labor days of direct short-term jobs for low-skilled Lebanese and Syrian communities through rehabilitating the roads network of the country. Additional jobs will also be created in the supply chain industries, as well as the engineering and consultancy services in Lebanon.
Through the Pakistan MDTF, a total of 1,471 matching grants have been disbursed and an estimated 23,000 jobs have been created through this support in KP and FATA.
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Peptide ligation by chemoselective aminonitrile coupling in water
Pierre Canavelli1,
Saidul Islam1 &
Matthew W. Powner1
Nature (2019) | Download Citation
Chemical origin of life
Amide bond formation is one of the most important reactions in both chemistry and biology1,2,3,4, but there is currently no chemical method of achieving α-peptide ligation in water that tolerates all of the 20 proteinogenic amino acids at the peptide ligation site. The universal genetic code establishes that the biological role of peptides predates life's last universal common ancestor and that peptides played an essential part in the origins of life5,6,7,8,9. The essential role of sulfur in the citric acid cycle, non-ribosomal peptide synthesis and polyketide biosynthesis point towards thioester-dependent peptide ligations preceding RNA-dependent protein synthesis during the evolution of life5,9,10,11,12,13. However, a robust mechanism for aminoacyl thioester formation has not been demonstrated13. Here we report a chemoselective, high-yielding α-aminonitrile ligation that exploits only prebiotically plausible molecules—hydrogen sulfide, thioacetate12,14 and ferricyanide12,14,15,16,17 or cyanoacetylene8,14—to yield α-peptides in water. The ligation is extremely selective for α-aminonitrile coupling and tolerates all of the 20 proteinogenic amino acid residues. Two essential features enable peptide ligation in water: the reactivity and pKaH of α-aminonitriles makes them compatible with ligation at neutral pH and N-acylation stabilizes the peptide product and activates the peptide precursor to (biomimetic) N-to-C peptide ligation. Our model unites prebiotic aminonitrile synthesis and biological α-peptides, suggesting that short N-acyl peptide nitriles were plausible substrates during early evolution.
All data supporting the findings of this study are available within the main text, Extended Data Tables 1–5, Extended Data Fig. 1 and the Supplementary Information (which contains Supplementary Discussion, Supplementary Figs. 1–296, Supplementary Tables 1–16, experimental details and compound characterization data).
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We thank the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K004980/1, EP/P020410/1), the Simons Foundation (318881, 493895) and the Volkswagen Foundation (94743) for financial support. The authors thank K. Karu (UCL Mass Spectrometry Facility), E. Samuel (Mass Spectrometry, UCL School of Pharmacy) and A. E. Aliev (NMR spectroscopy) for assistance.
Department of Chemistry, University College London, London, UK
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M.W.P. conceived the research. P.C., S.I. and M.W.P. designed and analysed the experiments. P.C. and S.I. contributed equally to the experiments. S.I. wrote the Supplementary Information. M.W.P and S.I. wrote the paper and Supplementary Discussion.
Correspondence to Matthew W. Powner.
Extended data figures and tables
Extended Data Fig. 1 Chemoselective native peptide bond ligations of cysteine and lysine residues.
a, Ligation of Cys is notoriously challenging owing to its highly nucleophilic thiol side chain, which necessitates S-protection to prevent it outcompeting C- and/or N-terminal activation through degradation of the electrophilic activating agents. Protecting-group-free ligation of Cys (150 mM) is achieved through reaction with Ac-Gly-SH (50 mM) and K3[Fe(CN)6] (300 mM) in water (pH 9.5, room temperature), followed by thiol reduction (MeSH, 600 mM, pH 10.8, room temperature) to give Ac-Gly-Cys-OH in high yield (80%, over two steps) (Supplementary Figs. 112–114). b, Lys-X coupling partners (X = CN, CONH2 or CO2H) pose greater chemoselectivity challenges because they possess two amino groups (α-NH2 and ε-NH2). However, pKa-controlled native peptide ligation of Lys-CN demonstrates the pivotal role that the unusually low α-amine pKaH of AA-CN19 can play in selective ligation. Ligation of Lys-CN (100 mM) with Ac-Gly-SH (50 mM) proceeds with unprecedented selectivity in neutral water (pH 7.5, room temperature). Little or no selectivity was observed for the corresponding α-amino amide (Lys-NH2; 150 mM) and AA (Lys; 150 mM) (Supplementary Figs. 145–151). c, Selective intermolecular ligation of the C-terminal lysine residue with AA-CN coupling partner Gly-CN at near-neutral pH (pH 6.5–9.0, blue; see Supplementary Fig. 70). In the absence of Gly-CN, highly efficient intramolecular caprolactam formation is observed (red).
Extended Data Table 1 α-Amidothioacid activating agents
Extended Data Table 2 α-Aminonitrile ligation in the presence of nucleophilic competitors
Extended Data Table 3 α-Aminonitrile ligation at various concentrations and temperatures
Extended Data Table 4 Chemoselective synthesis of N-acetyl dipeptidyl amides
Extended Data Table 5 Chemoselective synthesis of N-acetyl dipeptidyl nitriles
This file contains a Supplementary Discussion, Supplementary Figures 1–296, Supplementary Tables 1–16, experimental details and compound characterization data.
Fig. 1: Sulfide-mediated α-aminonitrile ligation
Extended Data Fig. 1: Chemoselective native peptide bond ligations of cysteine and lysine residues.

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The National Post has an article on a case in Canada where a woman named Melinda Morin was convicted of manslaughter for killing her boyfriend after he kicked her in the stomach when she wouldn't get an abortion:
At trial, Morin testified she had tried to leave her boyfriend, saying she would raise the baby herself, but that [Barry Neil] Godwin didn't want the drug-addicted prostitute to have a "crack baby." They got into a heated argument and Mr. Godwin kicked her in the stomach, put her in a choke hold and came at her with a knife.
"I told him I didn't want to go for an abortion. I'd keep the baby and I wouldn't bother him. I'd take care of it myself," Morin testified. "But he didn't want to know there was a kid out there that was his. He was upset and he wanted me to have an abortion. No way around it."
CBS News has a video news story on Matt Hoffman, the college football player who donated his bone marrow stem cells to save a cancer patient's life:
… [D]octors told him that the drugs he needed to even donate stem cells would force an end to his junior year season. It was no contest.
"It's a football game. They come and go," Hoffman said. "You have a man's life. It was very easy for me to choose."
Is a pro-life group "extreme" when more than 70% of state's lawmakers (including numerous Democrats) are endorsed by and/or agree with them? In her plea for Gov.-Elect Rick Snyder (pictured left) to abandon his self-proclaimed pro-life position, Sarah Scranton, the executive director of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of MI, doesn't seem to understand the conflict between calling Right to Life of MI "extreme" and then in the next sentence noting that "more than 70% of the incoming state lawmakers [are] either endorsed by MI RTL or [are] known to hold anti-choice views."
Wesley Smith catches Michael Kinsley inaccurately describing President Bush's policy on the federal funding of embryonic stem cells. Smith is too kind in the title when he says that Kinsley doesn't know what he's talking about. Unfortunately, Kinsley does know what Bush's policy was, he just prefers to continuallylie about it.
In the Irish Times, Breda O'Brien has an editorial discussing the recent European Court of Human Rights case and pushes back against the idea that abortion is a good thing for women:
As a woman who still calls herself a feminist, it makes me furious that feminists seem to think that abortion is such a good thing for women, an absolutely necessary "right", when so often it is a somewhat brutal substitute for what they really need.
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Huge COVID protests erupt in China's Xinjiang after deadly fire
26 November 2022, 2:36 am ·3-min read
Nov 26 (Reuters) - Rare protests broke out in China's far western Xinjiang region, with crowds shouting at hazmat-suited guards after a deadly fire triggered anger over their prolonged COVID-19 lockdown as nationwide infections set another record.
Crowds chanted "End the lockdown!", pumping their fists in the air as they walked down a street, according to videos circulated on Chinese social media on Friday night. Reuters verified the footage was published from the Xinjiang capital Urumqi.
Videos showed people in a plaza singing China's national anthem with its lyric, "Rise up, those who refuse to be slaves!" while others shouted that they wanted to be released from lockdowns.
China has put the vast Xinjiang region under some of the country's longest lockdowns, with many of Urumqi's 4 million residents barred from leaving their homes for as long as 100 days. The city reported about 100 new cases each of the past two days.
Xinjiang is home to 10 million Uyghurs. Rights groups and Western governments have long accused Beijing of abuses against the mainly Muslim ethnic minority, including forced labour in internment camps. China strongly rejects such claims.
The Urumqi protests followed a fire in a high-rise building there that killed 10 on Thursday night.
Authorities have said the building's residents had been able to go downstairs, but videos of emergency crews' efforts, shared on Chinese social media, led many internet users to surmise that residents could not escape in time because the building was partially locked down.
Urumqi officials abruptly held a news conference in the early hours of Saturday, denying that COVID measures had hampered escape and rescue but saying they would investigate further. One said residents could have escaped faster if they had better understood fire safety.
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Dali Yang, a political scientist at the University of Chicago, said such a "blame-the-victim" attitude would make people angrier. "Public trust will just sink lower," he told Reuters.
Users on China's Weibo platform described the incident as a tragedy that sprang out of China's insistence on sticking to its zero-COVID policy and something that could happen to anyone. Some lamented its similarities to the deadly September crash of a COVID quarantine bus.
"Is there not something we can reflect on to make some changes," said an essay that went viral on WeChat on Friday, questioning the official narrative on the Urumqi apartment fire.
While the country recently tweaked its measures, shortening quarantines and taking other targeted steps, this coupled with rising cases has caused widespread confusion and uncertainty in big cities, including Beijing, where many residents are locked down at home.
China recorded 34,909 daily local cases, low by global standards but the third record in a row, with infections spreading numerous cities, prompting widespread lockdowns and other curbs on movement and business.
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Exploring faith can be fun
By Claire Bakker21 January 2021 0Reading Time: 2 minutes
A faith initiative is being piloted in a number of parishes across the Archdiocese to help young people explore life and faith in a fun and inspiring way.
LIFE Lessons (Living In Faith Everyday) aims to invite students primarily in public schools from Kindergarten through to Year 12, along with their parents, to attend weekly sessions of prayer, reflection and interactive games.
"Approximately 50 per cent of families in our Catholic parishes have their children enrolled in state schools, and so LIFE Lessons becomes an important way for these children to remain connected with their local parish community," Archdiocesan Pastoral and Mission Formation Coordinator Christian Nobleza said.
It is important for parents to attend the sessions so they could be active in the faith journey of their children.
"Our Church affirms that parents have a key role in developing the faith of their children, and we hope that LIFE Lessons will provide useful tools for families to continue nurturing their faith at home as well," he said.
LIFE Lessons will be run by local parish teams comprising clergy, youth ministers and catechist volunteers.
Vicar General of the Archdiocese and Wanniassa Parish Priest Fr Tony Percy is eager to get it up and running in his parish to connect young people with each other, with God and the Church.
"With the impressive growth that youth ministry in the Archdiocese has experienced over these past years, LIFE Lessons provides a platform where peer-to-peer ministry can take place in a new way," Fr Tony said.
"Pope Francis has said on a number of occasions that we are not living in an era of change, but a change of era, and a new approach is called for and we hope that it will be a raging success."
Other parishes across the Archdiocese are looking to implement LIFE Lessons this year.
Contact Christian Nobleza on (02) 6239 9826 or to be involved in LIFE Lessons at Wanniassa contact the parish office on 0404 313 743.
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package org.recommender101.recommender.extensions.bprmf;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Random;

import org.recommender101.data.DataModel;
import org.recommender101.data.Rating;
import org.recommender101.recommender.extensions.funksvd.impl.RandomUtils;
import org.recommender101.tools.matrix.SparseByteMatrix;

/**
 * Manages the data-objects of BPR-MF
 *
 */
public class DataManagement  implements Serializable {
	// HashMaps to convert from real ids to mapped ones
	protected HashMap<Integer, Integer> userMap;
	protected HashMap<Integer, Integer> itemMap;

	// HashMaps to convert from mapped ids to real ones
	protected HashMap<Integer, Integer> userIndices;
	protected HashMap<Integer, Integer> itemIndices;

	// Itembias Array
	public double[] item_bias;

	// start values for mapping
	public int userid;
	public int itemid;

	// values for initialization of the latent matrices
	public static double sqrt_e_div_2_pi = Math.sqrt(Math.E / (2 * Math.PI));
	public static final Random random = RandomUtils.getRandom();

	private double initMean = 0;
	private double initStDev = 0.1;

	public double[][] latentUserVector;
	public double[][] latentItemVector;

	// HashMap containing for each user a list with seen item
	public HashMap<Integer, ArrayList<Integer>> userMatrix;

	// matrix containing for each user/item - combination a bool value,
	// indicating whether the user has seen the item
	// was in original: public boolean[][] boolMatrix;
	SparseByteMatrix boolMatrix;
	int boolMatrix_numUsers;
	int boolMatrix_numItems;

	// number of positive entries in then boolmatrix
	public int numPosentries;

	public DataModel dm;

	// How to interpret rating data as binary data
	// Default: No (as done in original implementation)
	// If set to yes, the global item relevance threshold is applied
	public boolean useRatingThreshold = false;

	/**
	 * initializes all the needed objects
	 *
	 * @param dataModel
	 *            DataModel - the dataModel of the current training data
	 * @param numUser
	 *            Number - number of users
	 * @param numItem
	 *            Number - number of items
	 * @param numFeatures
	 *            Number - number of columns in the latent matrices
	 */
	public void init(DataModel dataModel, int numUsers, int numItems,
			int numFeatures) {

		dm = dataModel;

		userMap = new HashMap<Integer, Integer>();
		itemMap = new HashMap<Integer, Integer>();
		userIndices = new HashMap<Integer, Integer>();
		itemIndices = new HashMap<Integer, Integer>();
		userid = 0;
		itemid = 0;
		numPosentries = 0;
		userMatrix = new HashMap<Integer, ArrayList<Integer>>();

		for (Integer user : dataModel.getUsers()) {

			this.addUser(user);
		}

		for (Integer item : dataModel.getItems()) {

			this.addItem(item);
		}

		latentUserVector = new double[numUsers][numFeatures];
		latentItemVector = new double[numItems][numFeatures];

//		System.out.println("0");

		initLatentmatrix(latentUserVector);
		initLatentmatrix(latentItemVector);

//		System.out.println("1");

		item_bias = new double[numItems];
		// was before:
		// boolMatrix = new boolean[numUsers][numItems];
		boolMatrix = new SparseByteMatrix(numUsers,numItems);
		boolMatrix_numUsers = numUsers;
		boolMatrix_numItems = numItems;

//		System.out.println("2");

		this.booleanRatings();

//		System.out.println("3");

	}

	/**
	 * initializes the user/item-matrix with booleans instead of ratings
	 */
	public void booleanRatings() {

		// DJ: new version .. no need to iterate over everything
		for (Rating r : dm.getRatings()) {
			Integer user = userIndices.get(r.user);
			Integer item = itemIndices.get(r.item);
			boolMatrix.setBool(user, item, true);

			ArrayList<Integer> ratingsOfUser = userMatrix.get(user);
			if (ratingsOfUser == null) {
				ratingsOfUser = new ArrayList<Integer>();
				userMatrix.put(user, ratingsOfUser);
			}
			ratingsOfUser.add(item);
			numPosentries++;

		}

/*
		for (int k = 0; k < boolMatrix_numUsers; k++) { // was before: boolMatrix.length
			ArrayList<Integer> userItems = new ArrayList<Integer>();
			for (int l = 0; l < boolMatrix_numItems; l++) { // was before: boolMatrix[k].length
				int user = userMap.get(k);
				int item = itemMap.get(l);

				// the binary case
				if (Recommender101Impl.MAX_RATING == 1) {
					boolMatrix.setBool(k, l, true);
					userItems.add(l);
					numPosentries++;

				}
				else {

					if (dm.getRating(user, item) > 0) {
	//					// Should we only consider relevant items here?
	//					if (this.useRatingThreshold) {
	//					}

						// was before: boolMatrix[k][l] = true;
						boolMatrix.setBool(k, l, true);
						userItems.add(l);
						numPosentries++;
					}
//					else {
//						// was before: boolMatrix[k][l] = false;
//						boolMatrix.setBool(k, l, false);
//					}
				}

			}
			userMatrix.put(k, userItems);
		}
		*/
	}

	/**
	 * initiates the given latent matrix with random values
	 *
	 * @param matix
	 *            double[][] - the given latent matrix
	 */
	private void initLatentmatrix(double[][] matrix) {
		for (int k = 0; k < matrix.length; k++) {
			for (int l = 0; l < matrix[k].length; l++) {
				matrix[k][l] = this.nextNormal(initMean, initStDev);;
			}
		}
	}

	/**
	 * calculates the scalarproduct with rowdifference for the given parameters
	 *
	 * @param user
	 *            Number - the mapped userID
	 * @param items1
	 *            Number - the mapped itemID of a viewed item
	 * @param item2
	 *            Number - the mapped itemID of an unviewed item
	 * @return result Number - the scalarproduct with rowdifference
	 */
	public double rowScalarProductWithRowDifference(int user, int item1,
			int item2) {

		if (user >= latentUserVector.length)
			throw new IllegalArgumentException("i too big: " + user
					+ ", dim1 is " + latentUserVector.length);
		if (item1 >= latentItemVector.length)
			throw new IllegalArgumentException("item1 too big: " + item1
					+ ", dim1 is " + latentItemVector.length);
		if (item2 >= latentItemVector.length)
			throw new IllegalArgumentException("j too big: " + item2
					+ ", dim1 is " + latentItemVector.length);
		if (latentUserVector[user].length != latentItemVector[item1].length)
			throw new IllegalArgumentException("wrong row size: "
					+ latentUserVector[user].length + " vs. "
					+ latentItemVector[item1].length);
		if (latentUserVector[user].length != latentItemVector[item2].length)
			throw new IllegalArgumentException("wrong row size: "
					+ latentUserVector[user].length + " vs. "
					+ latentItemVector[item2].length);

		double result = 0.0;
		for (int c = 0; c < latentUserVector[user].length; c++)
			result += (Double) latentUserVector[user][c]
					* ((Double) latentItemVector[item1][c] - (Double) latentItemVector[item2][c]);
		return result;
	}

	/**
	 * calculates the scalarproduct for the given parameters
	 *
	 * @param user
	 *            Number - the mapped userID
	 * @param items
	 *            Number - the mapped itemID of a viewed item
	 * @return result Number - the scalarproduct
	 */
	public double rowScalarProduct(int user, int item) {
		if (user >= latentUserVector.length)
			throw new IllegalArgumentException("i too big: " + user
					+ ", dim1 is " + latentUserVector.length);
		if (item >= latentItemVector.length)
			throw new IllegalArgumentException("j too big: " + item
					+ ", dim1 is " + latentItemVector.length);
		if (latentUserVector[user].length != latentItemVector[item].length)
			throw new IllegalArgumentException("wrong row size: "
					+ latentUserVector[user].length + " vs. "
					+ latentItemVector[item].length);

		Double result = 0.0;
		for (int c = 0; c < latentUserVector[user].length; c++)
			result += (Double) latentUserVector[user][c]
					* ((Double) latentItemVector[item][c]);
		return result;
	}

	/**
	 * adds the given user to the userMap and the userIndices
	 *
	 * @param user
	 *            Number - unmapped userID
	 */
	public void addUser(int user) {
		userMap.put(userid, user);
		userIndices.put(user, userid);
		userid++;
	}

	/**
	 * adds the given item to the itemMap and the itemIndices
	 *
	 * @param item
	 *            Number - unmapped itemID
	 */
	public void addItem(int item) {
		itemMap.put(itemid, item);
		itemIndices.put(item, itemid);
		itemid++;
	}

	public double nextNormal(double mean, double stdev) {
		return mean + stdev * nextNormal();
	}

	public double nextNormal() {
		double y;
		double x;
		do {
			double u = random.nextDouble();
			x = nextExp(1);
			y = 2 * u * sqrt_e_div_2_pi * Math.exp(-x);
		} while (y < (2 / (2 * Math.PI)) * Math.exp(-0.5 * x * x));
		if (random.nextDouble() < 0.5) {
			return x;
		} else {
			return -x;
		}
	}

	public double nextExp(double lambda) {
		double u = random.nextDouble();
		return -(1 / lambda) * Math.log(1 - u);
	}

}

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the only problem we're now having is websites that are using SSL.
Even though we set our browser's SSL proxy to go through our nodejs proxy - no requests were obtained.
I'd love to know if there's a better way to achieve this functionality, or if you have any ideas for why the SSL requests didn't even reach the proxy server.
Just some random technical stuff:

*

*Port 8000 was used

*The proxy listened to all requests and 'console.log'ged once any request was made.

*When going directly to the proxy server like so: '127.0.0.1:8000' (without setting it as a proxy in the browser) the proxy server did get the request.

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Le vitrail de saint Thomas Becket est un vitrail gothique de la cathédrale de Sens, protégé par son inscription aux Monuments historiques. Il date du début du . Le nom de son auteur est inconnu. Il mesure cinq mètres de hauteur et deux mètres de largeur.

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Saint Thomas Becket (ou saint Thomas de Canterbury) s'est rendu à Sens à deux reprises : en 1164 pour rencontrer le pape Alexandre III et en 1170, avant de retourner de son exil français à Canterbury. Il est assassiné l'année de son retour dans la cathédrale de Canterbury.

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Cette baie porte le numéro 23 d'après le Corpus vitrearum medii aevi et se trouve du côté nord du déambulatoire du chœur; c'est la première que l'on voit de la nef. Elle présente des scènes de la vile de saint Thomas Becket (1118-1170), ancien lord grand chancelier d'Angleterre de 1162 à 1170 et archevêque de Canterbury. On trouve plus d'une dizaine de vitraux dans le nord-ouest de la France qui représentent la vie de ce saint, martyr et témoin de la liberté de l'Église par rapport au pouvoir royal.

Le vitrail comporte treize médaillons. Il est partagé en deux avec quatre médaillons et au milieu un cinquième en forme de croix. Au-dessus deux médaillons supérieurs concluent le récit. Au milieu en haut, on remarque le Christ bénissant. La lecture des vitraux au Moyen Âge se fait toujours de bas en haut.

En bas à gauche, c'est la tentative de réconciliation entre le roi d'Angleterre Henri II et l'archevêque. En bas à droite, saint Thomas Becket rentre en Angleterre par bateau. Au milieu, saint Thomas Becket atteint avec son escorte à cheval les portes de Canterbury. Immédiatement à gauche au-dessus, Thomas Becket est accueilli à la cathédrale par le chapitre des chanoines. Ensuite, il prononce une prédication devant le peuple.

Les cinq médaillons du milieu représentent les scènes suivantes : Thomas Becket reçoit une ambassade du roi d'Angleterre (en bas à gauche). Thomas Becket célèbre la messe à la cathédrale de Canterbury (en bas à droite).

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Bibliographie
 Bernard Brousse, Claire Pernuit et Françoise Perrot : Les Vitraux de la cathédrale de Sens. Merveilles du . Éditions À PROPOS, Garches, 2013. pp. 46–53,

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Vitrail de saint Thomas Becket à Chartres

Liens externes

Monument historique à Sens (Yonne)
Art gothique
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Property Guide: Buying at salvage yards
Arabella Youens October 20, 2006
Once only the domain of those in the trade, nowadays with the surge in popularity of restoration, property owners are using them as a source of materials when doing up their houses.
One of the best resources for a preliminary online rummage around architectural salvage yards in Britain is the SALVO site (www.salvoweb.com). It has a directory of both antique and reclamation yards around the countryside and is a good place to start. From that point on it depends on timing and distance to suit individual needs.
Guide to buying at salvage yards
'Measure, measure, measure,' should be the mantra. Oversized pieces can overwhelm rooms so look at the scale of what you are buy in relation to the room in which it is intended. If you are buying an original Victorian bath check that your floor can take the weight and that you have enough hot water to fill it.
Check quality
When buying marble, avoid pieces that have been painted as marble is porous and the stains are hard to get out.
Watch out for stolen items
Find out where the piece came from. Sadly, there's a lot of stolen property out there. Make sure the dealer has signed the Salvo code, which promises not to sell stolen items
If the house dates from the 18th century, it might not be very easy to find entirely authentic pieces so sometimes it will be necessary to turn to reproductions.
Be prepared to haggle. The weakness of the dollar against the pound means you face less competition from rich Americans. Do not be shy about making a much lower offer.
Some sites to look at:
Recommended is the Drummonds site on the A3 near Hindhead, Surrey (01428 609 444) which is a great spot to pick up a host of reclaimed articles from country houses.
Cox's in Moreton-in-Marsh has a strong selection of fireplaces and doors.
London Architectural Salvage and Supply Company (Lassco: 020-7749 9944 or www.lassco.co.uk, whose main site is a converted Victorian church in East London.
Drew Pritchard Ltd in Wales who specialise in stained glass and architectural antiques. Tel 01492-874 004 or www.drewpritchard.co.uk
For salvaged Victorian roll top baths or water closets, try Mongers in Norfolk. Tel 01953 851868 or www.mongersofhingham.co.uk
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The Incremental Term Loan: Concurrent with the announcements of the strategic acquisitions of Cisco Connected Devices on July 23, 2015 and of The Mill today, Technicolor will launch an Incremental Term Loan in US$ and € of c.€375 million equivalent aggregate principal amount, to help fund those transactions in conjunction with the planned Rights Offering and cash on hand. The Incremental Term Loan is being led by Goldman Sachs International as Sole Lead Arranger and Bookrunner.
The Rights Offering: Technicolor will raise up to €225 million of new equity through a capital increase with the issuance of new ordinary shares. Existing shareholders will receive preferential rights to subscribe for new shares. The Rights Offering will be launched post announcement of Q3 2015 revenues on October 21, subject to market conditions and receiving the visa from the French Autorité des marchés financiers. The terms of the Rights Offering will be announced at the time of launch. Banks are committed to underwrite the Rights Offering, subject to customary conditions. Upon the launch of the Rights Offering, the Company will publish a prospectus in respect of the Rights Offering, which will be available on the website of the Company.
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Little Downham Horse Trials is pleased to announce its support for Hannah's Willberry Wonder Pony Charity and The Wobbleberry Challenge for their final British Eventing fixture of the 2017 season.
Having already donated over £7,000 to the East Anglian Air Ambulance, this season the event will continue their charity support to the much loved Willberry Charity.
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Thanks to the generosity of the event's corporate sponsors and the private donation from Jen and Jan Le Miere, long-time volunteers at Little Downham Horse Trials, the event can offer additional prizes for the Wobbleberry competitors and will make prize money donations to their own fundraising pages.
#InspiredbyHannah flooded social media for very good reason. Hannah Francis inspired thousands of people she never met, and achieved so much in her tragically short life. The challenge aims to raise money for the amazing charity she set up, Willberry Wonder Pony.
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