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Angelina County Rejects Death Penalty for Kimberly Saenz
Yesterday, April 2, 2012, a jury in Angelina County, Texas rejected the death penalty for Kimberly Saenz, a former nurse, and instead sentenced her to life in prison without the possibility of parole. They reportedly deliberated for less than an hour. Last week, the jury convicted Saenz of killing five patients at the DaVita Dialysis Clinic by injecting their IV lines with bleach in April 2008. According to the Associated Press, "she also received three 20-year terms for aggravated assault in the cases of five other patients who were deliberately injured at the facility in East Texas."
During the sentencing phase, consultant Frank Aubuchon, a 26-year Texas Department of Criminal Justice retiree, described for the jury what prison life will be
like for Saenz. He testified that she will be one of 28 women serving life in prison without parole, a sentencing option that went into effect in Texas in September 2005.
This is the second time this year that a death-qualified jury has rejected the death penalty and opted for a sentence of life without parole. Over the past five years, death-qualified juries have rejected the death penalty in at least 16 capital murder trials. Last year, new death sentences in Texas remained at a historic low level, with just eight sentences statewide.
Read more about this case from the Associated Press and the Lufkin News.
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TFN Brisbane 2018 was hosted once again by Clayton Utz on Thursday 31 May, at Level 28, Riparian Plaza, 71 Eagle St, Brisbane.
We'd like to thank Morgans Foundation who, for the third year running, provided up to $10,000 matched funding for each of the pitching organisations.
We raised $120,000 for the 3 local grassroots organisations from the excited and generous crowd on the night.
Please note that 10% of funds raised is retained by TFN in agreement with the NFPs pitching as a contribution to our operational costs. This is a giving event, if you represent a nonprofit yourself and would like to find out more about TFN, contact us here.
A Brave Life runs peer mentoring programs for young and teenage mothers, the majority of whom are from low socio-economic backgrounds. Their Live Life Brave program supports these mothers to complete their higher education; empowering them to navigate the challenges associated with being a teenage parent, so they can be a financially independent, positive role model for their child. Funding will enable them to invest in the Live Life Brave program to positively impact the lives of more young mums in the Brisbane area, plus contribute to their Baby Bundle program, which provides free essential baby items.
Melissa believes education is an important responsibility for every teen mother, so they can become financially independent and best support their child. Having been a teenage mother herself she deeply understands the importance of empowering teenage mothers to equip themselves with the knowledge to be a positive role model for their child.
Did you know, one in five (20%) Australians aged 16-85 experiences a mental illness in any given year? Australian youth have the highest prevalence of mental illness of any other age group. Pathways to Resilience was formed to address this. Specifically, the Pathways to Resilience team works in regional, remote and low-socioeconomic communities. They deliver programs designed to prevent anxiety, depression, and suicide, achieving positive outcomes for children, young people, families and communities. Funding will enable Pathways to deliver professional development and learning opportunities to Early Years Educators and workers in the child-facing sector in remote Indigenous communities across Northern Queensland.
Debbie is an experienced educator specialising in Early Childhood and has over 30 years experience across the educational field to tutoring in tertiary education. As Director of Education and Learning, she trains key stakeholders working with children in social and emotional learning programs and embedding wellbeing in the curriculum. As an author, mentor and coach in children's wellbeing, Debbie uses tools of critical questioning to engage participants in working toward innovation and change to improve the accessibility of social and emotional learning for children in educational settings.
By connecting isolated Australians with rescue animals in need, Happy Paws Happy Hearts (HPHH) is effectively addressing two significant social problems: social isolation for veterans or people living with a disability, and animal abandonment. HPHH puts individuals at the centre of its services to restore their sense of purpose. They deliver on a broad range of outcomes including improved well-being, increased social participation and new employment prospects. They are seeking funding to deliver a 6-month program where veterans will train their own rescue dog to become a support animal.


PEIE Design, Engineering, Manufacture, Supply, Erection & commissioning 2nd generation Swivel Conveyor truck Unloading system in TPM methodology with following customer delighting features.
The intention of this supply is to achieve the minimum criteria for continuous unloading of material from normal truck & stacking in desired circumference.
· Design & Development of flow sheet & Selection of equipments.
· Manufacture, Shop test & Supply .
· Supervision, Fabrication, Erection & Trial run of PEIE Supplied equipments.
Manual Ball Stop Valve - In case of power failure, Manual Ball Stop Valve is provided to bring down the Platform in the Horizontal position.
Solenoid operated Master Relief Valve - Relief Valve is provided to operate the system in desired pressure. It ensures prevention against any damage due to over loading.
Hydraulic and Electrical components capable of lifting 60 Tons at an angle of 55°, compact Power Pack with Tandem Hydraulic Pump (68 + 22 lpm) 300 Ltrs. Oil Tank, Sol. Valves, 22KW/30HP TEFC 1450 rpm Squirrel Cage 3 phases 50 cycles 440 V Induction Motor, Foundation Bolts and Control panel complete in all respects.
2 Nos. Heavy duty Hydraulic Cylinders shall be used for lifting of the tilting platform with loaded truck.
2 Nos. Hydraulic Cylinders shall be activated for raising of retractable rear stoppers.
2 Nos. Hydraulic Cylinders shall be for hook chain assembly for front hooking of the truck.
All the critical Hydraulic and Electrical Components shall be totally enclosed by a protective cover to prevent dust and rainwater accumulating on these components which is a must for dusty outdoor locations where the equipment operates.
Power pack consists of Pump, Motor, Oil Tank, Pressure Gauge, Temperature Gauge, Clogging Indicator, Filter, Solenoid Valves, PO Check Valves, Starters, Contactors, etc.
Push Button Switches for all Hydraulic operations shall be placed on the control box, which can be placed at any convenient place for better visibility of the operation.
A heavy duty centralized greasing system with hand pump and shuttle valve for easy maintenance is to be provided.
While unloading, truck to be drove on ramp and placed on hydraulic operated unloader platform made from Steel frame & structure with anti–skid chequered plate is welded on the top of the frame.
The unloading to be achieved by tilting the entire Truck chassis with platform by pivoting near to rear wheel axis and rotating about 500 to horizontal.
Unloaded material to be collected in to a hopper and to be fed through a vibro-feeder to stockpile conveyor.
The stockpile conveyor may support on wheels guided by rail to its turn around radius 10-30M circum.


Hanford Reach is the site of the top-secret Hanford Nuclear Reservation where the plutonium for the Nagasaki bomb was manufactured. Visiting the mysterious site used to require a security clearance, but since it became part of the Manhattan Project National Historic Site in 2015, any U.S. citizen can sign up for a free tour of the historic reactor B, the first large-scale nuclear reactor ever built. The surrounding area was initially set apart from development not for conservation, but as a security buffer zone. After the end of the Cold War, the decommissioning of the Hanford Site's nuclear reactors was followed by a cleanup that continues to this day, the largest such effort in the country, and to the establishment, in the year 2000, of a vast nature preserve that became Hanford Reach National Monument.
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La herida és una pel·lícula dramàtica espanyola del 2013 dirigida per Fernando Franco García, que va ser la seva opera prima com a director.

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Ana té 26 anys i treballa en el servei d'ambulància com a treballadora social. Fora del seu treball té seriosos problemes relacionals, la seva vida personal és solitària i turmentada, cosa que la porta a autolesionar-se. Ni la seva mare, ni el seu exxicot Álex ni el seu company Jaime poden ajudar-la. Ella no ho sap, però pateix el que els psiquiatres denominen síndrome borderline o Trastorn límit de la personalitat, un impediment constant per a aconseguir el que més vol: ser feliç.

Repartiment
 Marian Álvarez - Ana
 Rosana Pastor - Mare d'Ana
 Manolo Solo - Jaime
 Andrés Gertrúdix - Álex
 Ramon Agirre - Pare d'Ana
 Ramón Barea - Martín

Crítiques
Mirito Torreiro, de Fotogramas, la considera el debut més brillant del cinema espanyol en dècades, en mostrar el TLP amb concisió i rigor i sense sensacionalisme.

Premis i nominacions
Festival Internacional de Cinema de Sant Sebastià

XXVIII Premis Goya

Medalles del Cercle d'Escriptors Cinematogràfics

Premis Feroz

Fotogramas de Plata

Premis Cinematogràfics José María Forqué

Premis Turia

Referències

Pel·lícules d'Espanya del 2013
Pel·lícules dramàtiques del 2013

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Q: Using dict_xsyn extension for synonym dictionary during text search on Google Cloud SQL Cloud SQL databases support the extension dict_xsyn according to the documentation (https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/extensions). However, I can't seem to figure out how to utilize the extension. I need to reference a file containing the list of synonyms, which must be stored in $SHAREDIR/tsearch-data. I can't seem to access such directory on a managed Cloud SQL instance. The default dict_sxyn configuration appears to contain no synonyms which makes the extension rather useless. Is there any other way to utilize the extension that I might have missed? Is there a way to access the tsearch-data directory on Cloud SQL? Is there a different way to get a thesaurus (or synonym) dictionary configured for text search on Cloud SQL?

A: I'm afraid that the feature is not really supported, I found this issue tracker asking for a process to use correctly this extension.
An user highlighted that the impossibility to add the dictionary file comes into the feature to not be really supported, as mentioned in the last  comment

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Multiplex PCR for differential diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 and Influenza viruses: Dr. Ian Lipkin, director of the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health, is developing a simultaneous and differential diagnosis of SARS‐CoV‐2, influenza A and influenza B virus with appropriate reaction control using two assays that could be implemented as multiplex PCR assays. The first utilizes several sets of primers to simultaneously detect SARS-CoV-2, influenza A virus, influenza B virus, and a control gene. The second uses several other sets of primers to target three genes in SARS-CoV-2 and a control. This technology may be useful for the differential diagnosis of infections causing symptoms resembling that of SARS-CoV-2.
Deep Learning for Image-based Diagnosis of COVID-19: Drs. Helen Lu and Shih-Fu Chang of Columbia Engineering are developing a machine-learning-based COVID-19 diagnostic that would require only a microscope and tissue culture followed by software analysis. Currently, the standard method of viral detection for coronavirus is by PCR of patient sputum samples, an approach that can be time-consuming and requires sensitive equipment and expert personnel. Lu and Chang's method would simplify and expedite diagnosis by using light microscopy images of patient sputum smear, which AI would then scan for differences in cell morphology between healthy and infected states. The AI algorithm developed in this project will be deployed as a stand-alone-application or app, bypassing the need for complex imaging tools, delicate sample preparation, and personnel with extensive lab expertise.
Rapid and Direct Diagnostic Testing of Saliva Samples for SARS-CoV-2: A research team led by Dr. Zev Williams developed a rapid, one-step diagnostic test that detects SARS-CoV-2 in saliva samples. The test is based on loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) and uses a single tube that contains all of the materials needed to provide reliable results in about 30 minutes. Additional information on the technology can be found in recent news coverage by Columbia University Irving Medical Center as well as in a preprint article: Field-deployable, rapid diagnostic testing of saliva samples for SARS-CoV-2.
Portable qPCR Instrument for Ultrafast Diagnosis of COVID-19: Rover Dx's mission is to productize its ultrafast, portable qPCR platform for massively distributed infectious disease diagnosis. Spun out of Dr. Sam Sia's lab at Columbia University, Rover uses microfluidic technology to automate sample prep, and a novel approach to perform PCR 10x faster than current methods. Its sample-to-answer POC instrument will be portable (< 2 pounds), fast (< 8 minutes), and inexpensive (< $2k). Rover's first product, an ultrafast lab qPCR instrument, has shown 30 thermal cycles in 5 minutes, and is currently being tested on synthetic, then human, COVID-19 samples; results expected April 2020. Rover hopes to advance ultrafast qPCR for COVID-19 system through contract manufacture and FDA EUA before year end 2020 and complete feasibility prototypes of full sample-to-answer ultrafast POC qPCR for COVID-19 system by June 2021.
Point-of-Care COVID-19 Diagnosis: SAFE and Mayo Clinic are developing a Connected Diagnostics and Coordinated Triage Platform that enables remote point of care testing at scale using inexpensive LFIA-based rapid tests. The platform, which also incorporates exclusively licensed software developed by Dr. Sam Sia's lab at Columbia University, enables individuals to self-administer tests at home and scan the results with their mobile phone, keeping infected populations at home and providing unprecedented real-time surveillance. Positive cases are triaged remotely using crowdsourced telehealth providers mobilized through an Uber-like app. Positive cases trigger delivery of a confirmatory PCR test kit that is sent to lab partners including Quest/LabCorp, with results used to inform a remote treatment plan and reported.
Lipopeptide fusion inhibitors for prevention and treatment of COVID-19: Drs. Anne Moscona, Matteo Porotto, and Samuel Gellman are developing a set of lipopeptide inhibitors for prevention and treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection and assays for testing their efficacy. Coronaviruses infect cells by binding to cell surface receptors with the spike glycoprotein, and initiating membrane fusion between the host cell and virus. The engineered lipopeptides bind to transitional stages of the spike protein, subsequently preventing viral fusion and entry. These antivirals, which can be administered intranasally, may be used to treat and prevent the spread of novel coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2.This technology has been validated in cell culture, including an ex vivo human airway model, inhibiting SARS-CoV-2 infection of cultured cells and viral spread through airway epithelium.
Antiviral Cocktail for COVID-19: Dr. Stephen Sturley of Columbia's Department of Biology is leading a multi-departmental team of scientists in the United States, New Zealand, and Japan to develop a prophylactic and treatment for COVID-19. Sturley and Dr. Andrew Munkacsi of Victoria University of Wellington are developing an antiviral cocktail that inhibits the NPC1 pathway, therefore blocking viral replication by preventing enveloped viruses from disassembling in the lysosomes of infected cells. The antiviral cocktail combines an NPC1 inhibitor and inhibitors targeting genes selected from a list of interacting proteins. Sturley and Munkacsi, along with Dr. Szabolcs Marka from Columbia's Department of Physics and Dr. Zsuzsa Marka from the Columbia Astrophysics Lab, have identified commercially available, FDA-approved drugs that directly engage the NPC1 pathway and are ready to begin testing efficacy against SARS-COV-2. Sturley is also working with Drs. Marka and Marka to develop machine-based monitoring of NPC1 pathway engagement to determine if administered therapeutics are having the intended effect. Read more about this effort here.
Protease Inhibitors for COVID-19 Treatment: Given that anti-viral protease inhibitors have served as breakthrough treatments for other viral infections such as HIV, and given that the structure of the SARS-CoV-2 3CL protease has been reported, Drs. Brent Stockwell and David Ho propose that structure-guided discovery, optimization, and development of such protease inhibitors is feasible on a rapid timescale to develop a therapeutic option for treating COVID-19 patients. They are investigating optimization of compounds that already potently inhibit SARS1 and/or SARS2 3CL proteases and a screen of > 3 billion compounds for additional binders using a DNA-encoded library.
Monoclonal Antibodies for COVID-19 Treatment: Dr. David Ho will lead an effort aimed at developing monoclonal antibodies, molecules that can bind to the surface of the coronavirus and neutralize the infectivity of the virus. His team will try to isolate antibodies from blood cells of patients who no longer have the virus and have recovered from 2019-nCoV infection. Then they will engineer the virus-neutralizing antibodies further to optimize their potency against 2019-nCoV. The most promising antibodies will be tested against actual coronavirus in the lab as well as in animal models.
Polymerase Inhibitors for COVID-19 Treatment: A Columbia team led by Drs. Stephen Goff and Yosef Sabo will produce large quantities of polymerase and then screen hundreds of thousands of chemical compounds to identify ones that inhibit the function of the enzyme and thereby block replication of the virus. The most promising ones will again be selected as drug candidates for treatment or prevention of 2019-nCoV.
Repurposed Antivirals and Polymerase Inhibitors for COVID-19 Treatment: A team led by Dr. Jingyue Ju observed that hepatitis C and coronaviruses use a similar mechanism to replicate their RNA. They believe that a currently FDA-approved antiviral drug, sofosbuvir (for hepatitis C), as well as other approved anti-viral agents, AZT (for HIV/AIDS) and tenofovir alafenamide (for HIV and hepatitis B), may be effective against SARS-CoV-2. They have shown that these drugs inhibit the polymerase enzyme of SARS-CoV-2 and thus block its replication. Dr. Ju and his team will utilize their expertise in synthetic chemistry to generate many more such chemical compounds for testing in collaboration with Drs. Ho, Goff, and Sabo. The best chemical compounds that specifically inhibit the SARS-CoV-2 polymerase will be chosen as drug candidates.
Protease Inhibitors for COVID-19 Treatment: A team led by Dr. Alex Chavez is using a new highly multiplexed drug screening approach to rapidly screen a large number of compounds that block the protease of SARS-CoV-2. His team, in conjunction with David Ho, will select a handful of positive hits to develop into drug candidates, with the goal of advancing at least one compound into clinical trials.
Human–virus Interactome Atlas for COVID-19 Drug Discovery: Drs. Barry Honig and Sagi Shapira have created a database of predicted virus-human protein-protein interactions (PPIs). Using in-house algorithms and their supercomputer system, Honig and Shapira will identify interactions between viral and human proteins that accompany infections. These interactions will inform the researchers about possible FDA-approved drugs that may be used for therapeutics for COVID-19.
Peptides to Regulate Cytokine Storm Associated with COVID-19: Dr. Lloyd Greene has developed cell-penetrating peptides CEBPB and CEBPD that may be used to quell excessive cytokine production (cytokine storm) associated with SARS-CoV-2. Due to their cell-penetrating properties, these peptides can cross various tissue barriers to reach poorly accessible cells not reachable by other agents. By targeting transcription factors, CEBPB and CEBPD may simultaneously target multiple components of the uncontrolled cytokine response, as opposed to existing treatments aimed at single components such as the IL6 receptor. In contrast to cytokine receptor blockers or antibodies, which can elevate circulating cytokine levels via feedback loops, these peptides act at the level of transcription to directly lower cytokine synthesis. Finally, because CEBPB and CEBPD each target multiple transcription factors, they have the potential to block harmful inflammation by interfering with multiple transcriptional pathways and thus treat medical conditions that are causally associated with harmful inflammation.
A Therapeutic for COVID-19 Pulmonary Edema: Dr. Carol Troy has identified mechanisms critical for the formation of cerebral and retinal edema that are operative in COVID-19 induced pulmonary edema, a major cause of death from SARS-CoV-2. Vascular dysfunction is prevalent in COVID-19. Early data indicates that lung pathology shows a range of damage from minimal pathologic findings to blood clots, congestion, edema, and infarction, which is very similar to the pathology Troy has seen in the brain and retina. Troy's initial studies will analyze the presence of apoptotic markers and cytokines in lung tissue sections from COVID-19 patients and controls. In parallel, Troy's team will set up an in vitro system to study the effects of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein and a pseudovirus that contains the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein on primary human pulmonary endothelial cells, analyzing apoptotic markers, cytokine, and RNA expression. These will then lead to the development of a pre-clinical model in which Troy's team can test the efficacy of their lead compound.
A Compound for the Treatment of Patient-ventilator Asynchrony During Mechanical Ventilation: Dr. Paul Garcia has identified a compound with the potential to treat patient-ventilator asynchrony during mechanical ventilation. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, increasing numbers of critically ill patients develop acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), requiring treatment in the intensive care unit and mechanical ventilation. A common challenge of mechanical ventilator use, especially in the most severely hypoxic patients, is patient-ventilator asynchrony, in which the patient's breath patterns become out of sync with the ventilator. Sedatives, analgesics, and neuromuscular blockers are often administered to increase comfort and synchrony. However, with increased neuromuscular blockade, there are higher incidences of prolonged ICU stays and muscle weakness. The compound identified by Garcia is currently being used on COVID-19 patients to determine efficacy in promoting ventilator synchrony and its resulting ability to shorten ICU stays and decrease days spent on a mechanical ventilator.
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Effects of SARS-CoV-2 on alveolar epithelial cells and macrophages: Dr. Jahar Battacharya, in collaboration with Drs. Ira Tabas and Christine Garcia, is interested in understanding the basic mechanisms that SARS-CoV-2 uses to infect critical cells in the pulmonary alveoli and cause acute respiratory distress syndrome. They plan to infect mice with a pseudovirus or the spike protein to evaluate the immunologic response, as well as the mechanistic processes that occur, such as the binding of ACE2 to enter the lung and disruption of macrophage and type 2 cell communication.
Viral modeling using hPSC-derived lung organoids: Dr. Hans Snoeck, in collaboration with Drs. Megan Sykes and Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, is generating human lung organoids from embryonic stem cells or iPSCs as a resource to model COVID-19. Snoeck is using two methods: lung bud organoids that are grown on kidneys in culture and growing the organoids in Matrigel. While there are limitations, he is collaborating with Dr. Michael Shen to model the effects of TMPRSS2 and with investigators at Mount Sinai to infect the organoids with live virus. He is also collaborating with Dr. Anne Moscona.
Identifying biomarkers of COVID-19: Dr. Raul Rabadan is investigating individuals' predispositions to COVID-19, with the hope of identifying biomarkers of COVID-19 severity that can lend to immediate management of patients at risk, including cancer patients. Rabadan and his group are already leveraging their cancer genomics expertise and algorithms to analyze the UK Biobank data (comprising 500,000 individuals, with genetic and clinical data) and patient data from Columbia University Irving Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, as well as transcriptomic data from lung aspirates and patient electronic health records. This effort will help researchers better understand the SARS-CoV-2 mechanism of action.
Biorepositories for use in COVID-19 research: Drs. Muredach Reilly, Wendy Chung, Kevin Roth, and David Goldstein, along with Drs. George Hripcsak, Krzysztof Kiryluk, Soumitra Sengupta, Steve Spitalnik, and Eldad Hod, have launched the COVID-19 Biobank (COB). In partnership with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, the new biobank at Columbia University Irving Medical Center will be crucial in collecting, processing, storing, and disseminating biological specimens, biomarkers, and clinical and related data for researchers at Columbia and beyond. Columbia's Department of Pathology and Cell Biology has established a COVID-19 clinical pathological lab and intends to facilitate access to residual clinical samples. The primary focus will be to enroll COVID-19 positive patients but will also aim to enroll all patients who have been tested for the novel coronavirus at CUIMC and NewYork-Presbyterian to cast a wide net of samples. To request or contribute samples, click here.
Estimating undocumented cases of COVID-19: Dr. Jeffrey Shaman and his team used observations of reported infection within China, in conjunction with mobility data, a networked dynamic metapopulation model and Bayesian inference, to infer critical epidemiological characteristics associated with SARS-CoV2, including the fraction of undocumented infections and their contagiousness. They estimate 86% of all infections were undocumented prior to travel restrictions on Jan. 23, 2020, and that undocumented infections were the infection source for 79% of documented cases. Estimation of the prevalence and contagiousness of undocumented SARS-CoV2 infections is critical for understanding the overall prevalence and pandemic potential of this disease. Read Shaman's article here.
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Face Shields: A team of Columbia engineers led by Drs. Jeff Kysar, Yevgeniy Yesilevskiy, Anil Lalwani, Keith Yeager, and Elizabeth Hillman rapidly designed face shields for healthcare workers. Some of the designs have already been ordered by hospitals. View photos and videos of the designs here.
Isolation Unit for Intubation and Respiratory Procedures: Dr. Darcy S. Peterka and Tanya Tabachnik of Columbia's Zuckerman Institute are developing an isolation unit for intubation and respiratory procedures taking place during the COVID-19 pandemic. The device is a portable transparent glove box and barrier that sits over a patient's head and neck while allowing easy procedural access during aerosolizing procedures like intubation and extubation, protecting the healthcare provider from droplets and direct streams of contaminated air. The device is configured with a miniature filtered blower system that creates a negative pressure environment, filtering out contaminated air before release, further protecting healthcare providers in the room, and reducing cross contamination. The device allows for tubing, pressure monitoring, and easy access, and is designed to fit on a traditional OR bed.
Bag-in-Bottle-Valve-Mask Ventilator: Dr. Joseph Lidestri is developing a pneumatically driven Bag-in-Bottle to automatically actuate a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) Bag-Valve-Mask (BVM) resuscitator. A BVM is a manual resuscitator commonly used to provide positive pressure ventilation to patients who are not breathing adequately. This innovation would provide breathing assistance to COVID-19 patients suffering from severe acute respiratory syndrome by automatically actuating BVMs in the event of a ventilator shortage.
Disinfecting Foam: Dr. Ponisseril Somasundaran is developing an optimized and robust antimicrobial foam that can be safely delivered as a disinfectant with numerous applications. Typical disinfectants do not always have uniform dispersion when applied, may dissipate too quickly, and be hazardous to personnel that are applying it, resulting in an increased risk of chronic lung disease. Dr. Somasundaran is tackling these issues with the creation of a "green" disinfecting foam that is safer to use and more efficacious as an antimicrobial agent. This and other disinfecting foams are being optimized for uniform coverage and deposition, penetration, and consistency for the desired length of time. Multiple synthetic and natural surfactants and polymers are being tested, as well as a number of reagents produced by microbes that have antiviral properties. These foams are currently being in applied in several applications including West Nile Virus.
UV Sterilization System: USHIO, a Tokyo-based developer of light instruments, licensed ultraviolet light technology from Columbia in 2015 and is working to launch a product by the end of the year. The UV technology was developed by Dr. David Brenner, Director of the Center for Radiological Research at CUIMC, and acts as a sterilization system that selectively kills bacteria and viruses without damaging human cells and tissues, permitting prolonged human exposure. In health care facilities and beyond, this tool could be used to disinfect both air and surfaces that may expose patients and others to COVID-19.
Sanitation Verification System: Drs. Szabolcs Márka and Zsuzsa Márka are developing a sanitation verification system that allows a person to see where on skin or surfaces was sanitized, the duration of sanitization per surface area, last time of sanitization, and what sanitization chemical was used. This would allow authorities or employers to verify that sanitization policies were properly followed in hospitals, restaurants, and public transportation stations during infectious disease outbreaks like COVID-19.
Open Respiratory Profile Monitoring: Dr. Gerard Ateshian, in collaboration with multiple faculty in Engineering, Medicine, and Anesthesiology, developed the open Respiratory Profile Monitoring (openRPM) system to provide real-time proximal monitoring of ventilated COVID-19 patients. The standalone openRPM flow meter design is available here.
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Tony Jackson is back with his new nostalgic and traditional single, "Old Porch Swing." In the song, Tony looks back on memories of growing up, his first love, and the times he spent on his "Old Porch Swing." The new video is the follow up to his smash hit cover of George Jone's "The Grand Tour" which was a Top 40 single on the Music Row Country Breakout Chart. The music video also spent multiple weeks at #1 on CMT's 12-pack countdown, and his self titled album debuted at #31 on the Billboard Country Album sales chart earlier this year. "Old Porch Swing" is sure to be another smash hit for Tony Jackson, and a great new video you won't want to miss.
We kwamen Tony Jackson al eerder tegen: hier en hier.
You may remember Drew Baldridge from his earlier releases, "Train" and "Dance With Ya." In his latest music video for his single "Rebound," he is joined by co-writer Emily Weisband in the video and on the chorus, the two trade lines. Along with Weisband, Baldridge penned the song with Simone Simonton, and the video was directed by Dustin Wise. Drew Baldridge has also been named one of CMT Listen Up's "16 for 2016" which recognizes artists on the verge of achieving new heights in their careers.
Following up on his debut single, "Drink By Drink," Tony Jackson is back with some of country music's elite in his new cover of John Sebastian's iconic hit, "Nashville Cats." Originally written by Sebastian in 1966, "Nashville Cats" is a tribute to Nashville's endlessly creative studio and session musicians. It quickly became a hit and has been covered by many artists over the years including Flatt & Scruggs and Johnny Cash. Tony Jackson's take on the song was co-produced by Donna Dean-Stevens and Jim Della Croce, who also works as Jackson's manager. Not only is he joined by Sebastian himself in this video, but Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Steve Cropper and Steel Guitar Hall of Famer Paul Franklin also make appearances along with the legendary Vince Gill. This great start-studded video will surely be a hit with audiences that prefer the traditional, back-to-its-roots Country music of days gone by.
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The son of a United States Navy officer, United States Marine Tony Jackson began to feel a love for country music at an early age listening to Armed Forces Radio on various military bases. Now a regular performer on Richmond VA's Old Dominion Barn Dance radio show, Tony came to CRS in Nashville, TN at the urging of his manager, Jim Della Croce. It was here that he debuted his first single, "Drink by Drink" at an intimate media event on Music Row. Tony Jackson has since released the official music video for the single which premiered last week on Country Rebel.
Paul Bogart, simply put, is the epitome of traditional country music. Though his songs are fresh and he himself is young, he is an old soul with a knack of capturing time honored traditions and summing up classic sentiments. His songs are infectiously unforgettable and his fine-tuned performances never fail to garner an invitation back.
Singer-songwriter Jordyn Mallory has released her debut music video for Boat Friend. The video premiered Tuesday, May 10 as part of CMT's Artist Discovery campaign.
Directed by Les Umberger, the video was shot on Old Hockory Lake in Handersonville, Tenn. with multiple yachts, speedboats and wakeboard champion Nathan Strange included to embrace the summertime anthem.
"Boat Friend," written by Mallory with Greg Becker and Mike Shimshack, is the single release from Mallory's self-titled EP now available via Spotify.
"Two summers ago, I was in a Jeep with my girlfriends when one of the girls said 'I really wanna be single this summer but we need to find some guys with a boat,' and I said 'You don't want a boyfriend, you need a boat friend.' Everyone laughed and I immediately knew I was going to write that song," said Mallory.
At 24, the Okolona, Miss native is already making her mark within the music industry. In 2010, Mallory won a position on Simon Fuller's If I Can Dream series on Hulu.com and later became a contestant on the eleventh season of American Idol. Mallory has since been the opening act for Loretta Lynn, Jake Owen, and more. Additionally, she is already earning herself a name within the songwriting community and has co-written cuts with Kip Moore and Dan Couch.
Marie Osmond has spent 5 iconic decades in the entertainment industry and has remained an instantly recognizable figure across the globe. She has two Grammy nominations, a CMA Vocal Duo of the Year Award, numerous Billboard chart-topping singles and albums, and has entertained millions of people through film, television, radio, literature, live concerts and Broadway performances. In addition to touring all over the world, she still performs with her brother Donny at the Flamingo Hotel's Donny & Marie Showroom in Las Vegas, and has helped raise over 5 billion dollars to date as co-founder of Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. an organization that helps over 11 million children each year.
Music is Medicine marks her latest and perhaps most important studio release. It was produced by veteran Country/Pop/Latin producer Jason Deere, and features notable guest artists such as Olivia Newton-John, Diamond Rio, SisQo (Dru Hill), John Rich (Big & Rich), Marty Roe, and Alex Boye. The album was in the Top Ten albums sold the week of its release, and the new video from the title track is not only highly entertaining, but also helps raise awareness for the Children's Mircale Network Hospitals.


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Japan Princess Mako's boyfriend attempts to clear path for Royal wedding
(FILES) This file picture taken on September 3, 2017 shows Princess Mako (R), the eldest daughter of Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko, and her fiancee Kei Komuro (L), during a press conference to announce their engagement at the Akasaka East Residence in Tokyo. - The boyfriend of Japan's Princess Mako insisted January 22, 2019 his family had no financial difficulties hanging over them, after reports of a unpaid loan apparently forced a postponement to a fairytale wedding between the two college sweethearts. (Photo by SHIZUO KAMBAYASHI / POOL / AFP)
The boyfriend of Japan's Princess Mako insisted Tuesday his family had no financial difficulties hanging over them after reports of an unpaid loan apparently forced a postponement to a fairytale wedding between the two college sweethearts.
Kei Komuro and Mako, the eldest granddaughter of Emperor Akihito, had been scheduled to become formally engaged in a traditional Japanese court ceremony last year before a royal wedding planned in late 2018.
But the marriage was dramatically called off last February amid reports Komuro's family had run into financial difficulties, with his mother failing to repay a four-million-yen ($36,000) loan from a former fiance of hers.
In a statement released on Tuesday, Komuro said: "My mother and I both understand that the (financial) support from the ex-fiance of my mother has been settled."
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Komuro said that when his mother and her fiance split up in 2012, the man had said the money he had offered them during the engagement did not need to be repaid.
But he changed his tune the year after, according to Komuro, demanding the money back in a letter in August 2013.
Komuro's mother met her former partner and told him she could not repay the money and there was no further request.
Komuro said he and his mother were then "bewildered" when reports surfaced in December 2017 that the ex-fiance still wanted his cash back, just two months after the royal engagement was announced.
"My mother and I both appreciate the support we received from the former fiance, and we will make efforts to gain understanding from him," Komuro's statement concluded.
However, the former fiance said Tuesday that the claim had not been settled.
"The money trouble has not been resolved and there has not been any contact from Mr Komuro's side," he told the mass-circulation Yomiuri Shimbun.
– 'Clear the problem' –
In February 2018 the pair postponed the wedding until 2020, saying they needed more time to prepare, but rumours swirled in Japanese gossip magazines that there was more to the delay than simple money problems.
"We have come to realise that we do not have enough time to prepare for the ceremonies and our new life before the wedding planned in autumn," Mako said in a statement released through the imperial household agency at the time.
She said the announcement of their planned engagement was made "too hastily" after the news leaked out.
"We should have thought carefully whether the pace was actually right for us … Now, we'd like to have the marriage, a major life event, in a better way."
She apologised to those planning the royal wedding, blaming the couple's "immaturity". They are both 27.
Mako's father Prince Akishino told reporters in November the pair "should take proper measures" if they still hope to get married.
Unless they "clear the problem", we cannot hold the ritual for a formal engagement, he said.
The Japanese royal family has a packed schedule this year, as the 85-year-old Emperor Akihito abdicates on April 30 — the first time for more than two centuries that a Japanese emperor has stepped down.
His eldest son Naruhito is set to ascend the Chrysanthemum Throne a day later.
Mako is the eldest daughter of Prince Akishino, Naruhito's brother, and Princess Kiko.
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HBO is reportedly in talks to expand Game of Thrones into a seventh and eighth season.
Programming president for HBO Michael Lombardo revealed at the recent Television Critics Association tour that a deal is close to being completed to extend the show two more years past the upcoming sixth season.
Last summer, Lombardo declared hopes for the show to be extended to an eighth season according to GameSpot.
"[Showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss] are feeling there's probably two more years after Season 6, that's what we're looking at right now," Lombardo said at the time. "We hope that they would change their mind, but that's how they are feeling now."
The sixth season of Game of Thrones is set to premiere April 24th on HBO. Unfortunately, George R. R Martin's next book in the series will not be out ahead of it.
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You can choose your own travel route by bus and your entire journey, based on the desired direction, tourist reviews, handouts and your own financial capabilities. You can choose cheap or expensive hotels, necessary entertainment and visits to historical sites to your taste.
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The Grand Hotel Seeschlösschen is the only 5-star hotel in northern Germany with its own 36-hole golf course.
The golf course opened in 1973 in Timmendorfer Strand and was designed by the renowned golf course architect Dr. Bernhard von Limburger. As the only 36-hole course in Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg, divided into North and South course, it is now one of the most popular and most famous golf courses in northern Germany. It is an attraction for golfers of all levels and very popular with a variety of guests from home and abroad.
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Alumni Honors Presented to Daniel, Guenrich
Williams Baptist University alumni David Daniel and Jake Guenrich were honored during Homecoming festivities Saturday, Nov. 3. Daniel was recognized as WBU's 2018 Distinguished Alumnus, while Guenrich was presented the Outstanding Young Alumnus award.
Daniel, a 1974 Williams graduate, serves as the director of athletics for Jonesboro Public Schools. During Daniel's nine years in that role, Jonesboro has won 41 state championships and made several notable upgrades to its athletic facilities. He has worked a total 43 years in the field of education, coaching on all levels from 7th grade to NCAA Division 1 basketball.
Daniel (pictured above at right with Dr. Stan Norman) is active in a wide range of community and athletic organizations, and the City of Jonesboro declared David Daniel Day in his honor in 2012. He and his wife, Beverly, have two sons and four grandchildren. They are actively involved at Central Baptist Church in Jonesboro.
Rev. Jake Guenrich (right) with Dr. Stan Norman.
Guenrich, a 2010 WBU graduate, is the pastor of First Baptist Church in Walnut Ridge. The church has baptized 107 new members during his tenure as pastor and has added several new ministries, including a community food closet. Guenrich also remains active on the Williams campus, including assisting the student move-in activities each fall.
Guenrich and his wife, Stephanie, have four children.
"One of the great pleasures of Homecoming is recognizing alumni who have graduated from WBU and gone on to make a major impact through their careers and their Christian service. Mr. Daniel and Rev. Guenrich epitomize just how Williams shapes the lives of its students to make a difference in this world, and we were proud to honor both of them at Homecoming," said Dr. Stan Norman, president of WBU.
Both alumni were honored during the annual Homecoming Celebration, which was held before a large crowd in Manley Chapel.
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Q: Creating recursively a function gaining variables each iteration in Python I want to create a function foo() which gives as output another function. This output function is the sum of exponentials (or whatever) with a free parameter ai each time. This output function should have as parameters all the ai plus a free variable.
Example:
Calling foo(3) should output a function equivalent to lambda t,a1,a2,a3: exp(a1*t)+exp(a2*t)+exp(a3*t)
I tried to programm it like that:
def foo(n):
  fh = lambda t,A1:exp(A1*t)
  def fg(j):
    if (j==1):
      return fh
    else:
      return lambda t,A1,A2:fg(j-1)(t,A1)+fh(t,A2)
  return fg(n)

but it is obviously wrong. I remarked that foo(n) can be obtained via recusion by "doing" something like lambda t,a1,...,a(n): foo(n-1)(t,a1,...,a(n-1))+exp(a(n)*t) as iteration, but I didn't manage to do it in a simple way...
Thanks for help !

A: You don't need recursion. You can simply define a function, that takes an arbitrary number of arguments:
def f(t, *a):
    return sum(exp(x * t) for x in a)


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Mourinho Talking Again, But for How Long?
by Gareth Freeman - Inter Milan manager Jose Mourinho has always had a bit of a reputation as an outspoken type of fellow but that looked like it had all changed when he imposed a 'media blackout' last weekend.
The former Porto and Chelsea boss decided to snub the press after he was sent to the stands during Inter's win over Cagliari last weekend.
However, due to the club's contractual obligations with the media Inter have told Mourinho he has to speak to the press so the Portuguese tactician has no other option – and he isn't happy about it.
Speaking to Sky Italia Mourinho said: "I'm not continuing the silence because the club asked me because of contracts with you,
"If it were up to me the silence would continue."
The Nerazzurri slipped to a disappointing defeat at the hands of Sampdoria at the weekend and Mourinho was in no mood to discuss his tactics with the the press. When asked why he decided to substitute Mario Balotelli he replied: "I'm the coach, and don't have to explain my decisions to you."
It is not the first, or probably last, time the special one will fall out with the Italian press. At the start of the season he told reporters 'if something happens to me it is your fault' when Islamic extremists issued death threats against him for his reported decision not to play Sulley Muntari who was fasting during Ramadan.
His decision not to talk to the press was a disappointing one, after all his quotes are at times priceless. On the state of the Stamford Bridge pitch in his time at Chelsea he once said:
"Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists."
What does that even mean? I've got no idea but it is brilliant anyway and one of the reasons why, love him or hate him, no one can deny Mourinho is not entertaining.
It would seem for now that Mourinho has no choice but to speak to the media if Inter have forced him. The question is will he opt to move on because of it? The press in Italy are known for grilling the manager on tactics and team selections and it seems this is what Mourinho has a problem with, if he can't learn to deal with it he may chose to leave.
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Taipei, Sept. 24 (CNA) Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest maker of handsets, launched the third generation of its Galaxy Note series phone in Taiwan Tuesday to keep ahead of new entrants to the phone-tablet hybrid device sector.
The South Korean electronics giant created the phablet sector single-handedly in 2011 when it unveiled the first Note phone, which has since become a hit among consumers who prefer carrying one device rather than a separate phone and tablet.
Worldwide sales of the Note series of phones has reached nearly 40 million units over the past two years, including 10 million of the first Note and 30 million of its second-generation model, according to Samsung.
The company has sold about 800,000 Note series phones in Taiwan so far, and the figure is expected to cross the 1-million mark by the end of this year, said Andy Tu, general manager of Samsung Taiwan's mobile communication team.
"We are confident of reaching this target on the back of positive customer feedback for our Note 2 device," Tu said at the launch, adding that the Note 2 remained the third-best-selling phone in Taiwan last month based on market research data.
The Taiwan version of the Galaxy Note 3 sports a bigger 5.7-inch full-HD display, improved stylus function, a 1.9GHz octa-core 3G processor and a 13-megapixel rear camera.
The upgraded phone, with a 32-gigabyte internal memory, will hit the domestic market in October at a cost of NT$23,900 (US$808), and a 16GB model will go on sale in November at NT$22,500.
Also Tuesday, Samsung launched its smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear, featuring a 1.63-inch screen and a basic camera, which can be connected to the Galaxy Note 3 phone via Bluetooth wireless technology to make calls, check messages and take photos. The wearable device will be available from Oct. 10 at a cost of NT$9,900.
According to market research company International Data Corporation (IDC), one out of every three smartphones shipped in Taiwan during the second quarter was a phablet -- a smartphone with a screen size of five to seven inches -- reflecting the local popularity of the large form.
Phablets made up 37 percent of Taiwan's smartphone shipments during the second quarter, up from 24 percent in the first quarter, IDC said.
Taiwan's phablet market share was higher than the 21 percent average in the Asia-Pacific region (excluding Japan) and the global average of 18 percent, trailing behind only South Korea and Singapore in the Asia-Pacific region, IDC statistics show.


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For a Wonderful, Hopeful Musical, Fire Up the "Spitfire Grill"
By Karen Topham April 1, 2018 Chicago Reviews
Review by Karen Topham, American Theatre Critics Association member; photos by Zeke Dolezalek
Sometimes, these days, it seems as if we're spiraling down some dark path with no real hope of salvation or redemption. (Yes, I do know the irony of making that statement on Easter Sunday.) But every once in a while, some play comes along that reignites that spark of hope in our hearts. Refuge Theatre Project has found just such a show for its current production, the sixteen-year-old musical that dares us to believe that, no matter how dark it gets, we can still find a way to shine. Spitfire Grill, by James Valcq and Fred Alley, was first presented off-Broadway on October 2, 2001, only three weeks after 9/11 had devastated the nation. At the time, critics lauded its message of renewal and rebirth; it feels equally necessary today.
Refuge Theatre Project is known for staging plays in found spaces. (Its last show, Lysistrata Jones, about basketball players and cheerleaders, was staged in a gymnasium.) For Spitfire Grill, it has found an equally apt location: the Windy City Cafe, a breakfast and lunch place that now serves as the backdrop for this show about a small town diner and the people who find grace and expiation there.
The show's main character is Percy Talbot (Lauren Paris), a twenty-something West Virginian woman who has spent the last five years in jail and now, having gotten out, seeks to start over. Based on a photo from a travel brochure, she picks the (mythical) town of Gilead, Wisconsin because she longs to see the "colors of paradise" etched into the leaves of its trees. But Gilead, as it turns out, is practically a ghost town, and the town's only restaurant, where she seeks employment, is dying along with it. Though everyone in town eventually comes there, the owner, Hannah (Katherine Condit), has been trying unsuccessfully to unload the place for ten years. Percy comes up with the notion that Hannah should "shoot the moon" by holding a lottery of sorts: send in a $100 entry fee and an essay saying why you want the Grill and it might be yours. Soon letters are overwhelming the tiny town's post office (and its gossip-mongering postal officer, Effy (Nicole Michelle Haskins), and the contest is on.
There is nothing in this show that will particularly surprise you, from Sheriff Joe (Alex Crist) who falls for Percy to the ultimate resolution of the contest, but that is not the point. Here we are focused on life at its darkest: Percy is broken by her years in prison and feels unworthy of the good life she so desperately desires. Hannah has failed to overcome the depression caused by her son's missing status after the war. Caleb (Gerald Richardson) has spent a decade competing with the ghost of that son, the town's golden boy, and takes his frustrations out on his wife Shelby, a perpetually positive person played by Emily Goldberg. And it is the middle of winter: with so much ice and snow and nothing growing, the town feels absolutely dead.
Director Christopher Pazdernik utilizes the limited space of the Windy City Cafe beautifully, aided by a clever though minimal lighting plot by Collin Helou. Backed by the acoustic music of Jon Schneidman, the singers fill the cafe with their strong voices. (Goldberg's in particular is lovely.) Never more than a few feet from the audience, the cast brings out the power of the big numbers as well as the softness of the nearly whispered moments as we wish harder and harder that the "wild bird" Percy can learn to nest in this little hamlet.
It may not be a show full of surprises, but it is one full of sincere emotion. From Paris's plaintive opening number, "A Ring Around the Moon," to Condit's "Forgotten Lullaby," we get to know all of these people through the songs they sing, and combined they help us to understand the town. Haskins provides the comic relief for the most part, but there are moments when even Effy is moved by what is going on here. And Caleb is not simply a villain; he is afforded an opportunity to explore his own lost life in "Digging Stone," a tribute to the quarry that has shut down and the men who worked there. By the end, the town has "come alive again" in every possible way, and those who felt most adrift find acceptance, peace and love. And we who are watching are reminded that there is always a summer after the winter, that hope is possible even in the darkest of times.
Spitfire Grill is a Refuge Theatre Project production now playing at the Windy City Cafe, 1062 W Chicago Ave in Chicago, until May 5. Performance times vary; check the website . Tickets are available from Refuge Theatre Project. Find more information about current plays on our Current Shows page and at theatreinchicago.com.
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EPisode 23: Jennifer Faraone
Support for the dying and THE grieving
Jennifer Faraone is mother of two, a running coach, an author and a reiki practitioner who is soon to become an end of life doula.
Through a remarkable series of synchronistic events she realized how important end of life support is for the dying and their loved ones.
In January of this year, she came upon a traffic accident and instinctively ran to comfort a dying man named Asim.
In the aftermath of his passing, she had a strong sense she needed to write a letter to his family to let them know about his final moments. The letter found its way to them through the police department. She has since forged a close relationship with Asim's family and assisted them in honoring Asim in meaningful ways.
Deeply impacted by this time with Asim and his family and other supporting events, she purposefully embarked on formal education in how to help the dying and grieving, learning from world-renowned experts in the field. Mid-September, she will complete her certification as an End of Life Doula through the Institute of Traditional Medicine in Toronto.
EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS
Jennifer's recovery from a concussion and the need to cultivate awareness about concussions in the trail running community and in general
How reiki can help the dying
The importance of legacy projects
How to support someone who is grieving in person, at a distance and in the online space
The power of vulnerability
What you can do to follow up with someone who has lost a loved one
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It's such an honour and a privilege to spend time with someone in their final days or weeks or months because that's when you see the person for who they really are. ~ Jennifer Faraone
About Jennifer FarAone
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Jennifer has worn many hats over the years: Occupational Therapist, Health Care Project Manager, Run Coach; Author; Reiki Practitioner; Trail Runner; Mother/Wife; and more recently, an End of Life Doula. Although these roles may be distinct from one another, they share a common thread: helping others.
Her interest in End of Life care evolved following a series of deaths and events, including the deaths of several close family members, the death of a stranger, and her volunteer work in palliative care. With each of these moments, there was fear, pain, grief and suffering; but there were also moments of calmness, beauty and peace. She realized that more could be done to help and facilitate these times of transitions, and she wants to help others, including their families and loved ones, as they embrace their own mortality and face difficult decisions at the end of life.
When they know they are approaching death, their true essence and what really matters comes out. ~Jennifer Faraone
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What an exceptional meaningful interview as death and dying are such difficult subjects to discuss with those closest to us let alone friends who have lost family members. Context and background are so important in giving a speaker credibility and Jennifer Faraone in Lori's interview provided these perfectly. Powerful, thought provoking and so beneficial! Thank you. ~ Merle Tubman
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India's defence and homeland security industry is a burgeoning market that's always buzzing with procurement news of interest to companies all over the world. We've found a credible resource, India Defence Online, that seem to have their finger on the pulse of the industry.
The Indian Navy has decided to help Mauritius in becoming a global database hub, by offering to help with a unique green technology to prevent its huge servers to host data from overheating.
The increasing number of fast-track purchases for the Indian Army has triggered off suspicions of foul-play since competitive bidding and tenders are being scrapped, and a possibility has arisen that decisions were being manipulated.
During the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's visit to India last fortnight, a crucial agreement on the leasing of the K-152 Nerpa submarine was finalised.
With rapid defence acquisitions from the international arms market, India is well on its way to become the leading arms buyer in the next five years.
The Indian Defence Ministry is once again slated to favour the defence public sector units (DPSUs) in a contract for the building of the assault bridge "Sarvatra", and sideline the private Indian players for the same.


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Cut Me to the Quick
by Robert Skinner
Marcel Aristide sat in the private courtyard of The Old Absinthe House on Bourbon Street enjoying the shade and a glass of Pernod over ice. The dense heat made it seem more like August than mid-spring, but Marcel was content. He was the only customer in the courtyard, because he had once gotten the owner of the famous bar from under a blackmailer's thumb. In return, Marcel Aristide was, for a time, immune from the Jim Crow laws that kept coloreds out of such places as the Old Absinthe House. The long-ago rescue also paid for the Pernod, which was as rare as blue diamonds since the war began.
He was rattling the ice in his glass, debating whether he should indulge in another drink when Armand, the Haitian bartender approached wearing a serious expression on his broad, black face.
"Monsieur Aristide, a lady asks for you. She says it is tres importante."
"What's her name?" Marcel asked.
"She says it is Ida Deal. She says she knows you from before the war."
Long before. She was a regular at Mama Lester's Homestyle Bar and Grill across town, back when Marcel was nothing but a punk going nowhere fast. She'd been riding high then, singer and wife of band leader Tony Deal. Together they'd made sweet music, and might be still, except that Tony was a chaser. When he'd turned up in an alley with his throat cut, many thought it was Ida's doing, but that theory carried little water with those who knew her. Tony's death left Ida with a young son to raise and no money. She'd had to crawl and scavenge and worse to keep the boy fed and sheltered. He would be about eighteen now. "Tell her to come in," he said.
Ida once swept into the places she frequented like a clipper ship under full sail, but now she moved carefully on arthritic knees. A shadow of her former beauty still shown beneath the rose face powder she used on her cocoa-colored face, but her eyes were those of a runner used to coming in dead last in every race. Her smile was forced, but she gave it all she had.
"I didn't think you'd remember me after all these years," she said as she sat down across from him. Her voice still sounded like honey mixed with a dash of cayenne.
"Not so long ago," Marcel replied. "And we all wanted to be with you then."
Her smile was a bit more genuine now. "A lifetime ago, but thanks."
"You didn't come to reminisce," Marcel said. "What's the rumpus?"
She dropped her eyes a bit. "It's my son, Elliott. He's in a jam."
"How big a jam?"
"About the biggest there is," she replied, fighting a quaver. "They say he killed a woman."
"Did he?"
She stared for a moment, unable to speak. Then, forcefully, "No, never."
"Who's the woman?"
She tucked a loose tendril of hair behind her ear as she regained her composure. "Her name was Felicity Oscar. She was a hostess at Smack Johnson's club."
Marcel grunted. "'Hostess' is a polite word for the girls at Smack's dump. What was the girl to your son?"
Her lips compressed into a brittle line. "He said he was in love with her. Whatever that means coming from an eighteen-year-old boy."
"Uh, huh. How long they been playing house?"
"Two months," she replied. "I insisted he leave her alone and he moved out." Her lip trembled, and for a moment Marcel thought she might burst into tears.
"You know where he is now?"
Ida raised her large dark eyes to his, suddenly looking very old. "He called last night. Said he was staying in a rooming house just off St. Bernard Highway. I've got the address." She dug through her purse and brought out a slip of paper.
Marcel took the paper and placed it in his vest pocket. "Okay. I'll see what I can do. You still living on Esplanade Avenue?"
She nodded. "Please . . . He's all I've got." She got up and left Marcel alone.
Marcel entered the basement at New Orleans Charity Hospital and followed the signs to the city morgue. A friend had given him the name of a Negro medical student who moonlighted as a morgue attendant. Marcel found him studying an anatomy text.
"Are you Arthur Delarouse?"
A square brown face with horn-rimmed glasses peered over the top of the textbook. "Mr. Aristide?"
"Right. I heard you observed the autopsy they did on Felicity Oscar."
"Yes, sir," the young man said, rising from the desk. "Follow me." He led Marcel into a chilly room, halting at a solid wall of steel refrigerator doors. "I have to warn you, Mr. Aristide, this isn't pretty."
"Open it up," he said.
The young man adjusted his glasses, then opened the locker door and slid out a sheet-covered form. Beneath the sheet lay the nude body of a Negro girl of perhaps twenty. She'd been pretty, with big brown eyes shaded by lush lashes, a snub nose, and cushiony lips that were gently parted as though in surprise. Her torso bore the obscene marks of the autopsy, but worse was the stitched-up slash across her throat.
"She bled out quick."
"Yes," the student said in a hushed voice. "But notice how the cut travels."
Marcel looked at him with sharp interest. "Go on."
"See how it begins beneath the right ear and ends up here beneath the left jawbone?" He tilted the girl's head and traced the cut with his long blunt fingers.
Slowly Marcel began to nod as he understood. "Done with a razor, probably."
"Most likely," the student replied. "The edges of the wound are clean, not ragged. And the cut went deep, severing the larynx." He paused to look at Marcel, who studied the wound, rubbing the point of his chin. Marcel felt the young man's scrutiny and nodded that he was finished.
As they parted company at the morgue entrance, Marcel said, "You've got a good eye. If I can ever return the favor, call me at the Café Tristesse."
The young man smiled. "Can you help me with gross anatomy?"
It was past 9:00 that evening when Marcel eased his Mercury coupe to a stop on a side street off St. Bernard Highway. Leaving the car, he caught the heavy aroma of ham and cabbage on the humid night air along with the cacophony of Spike Jones's band coming from somebody's radio. He entered a shabby structure and climbed to the second floor, hearing the noises of people snoring, arguing, and making love behind the doors he passed. He paused at the end of the hall, sensing nothing from Elliott Deal's room except the sour stench of dread. He knocked on the door.
"Who—who's there?"
"Marcel Aristide. Ida sent me."
"Come in slow," a voice quavered.
Marcel palmed the knob, then pushed with his foot until the door opened enough to reveal a skinny teenaged Negro pressed against the far wall. The boy held a worn-looking .38 Colt in his trembling hand. "That's far enough. Show me somethin' says you're who you say you are."
"Act your age," Marcel snapped as he entered and closed the door. "Who else knows you're here besides Ida?"
"N-nobody."
"Then put that gun up before you shoot your foot off. We don't have time to replay the gangster movies you've seen. When did you last see Felicity Oscar?"
Elliott Deal sank down on the bed. He put the big Colt on the floor beside his right foot and dropped his head into his hands. "Sunday night. We went to the Sassafras Lounge so 'Licity could hear Louis Bras and his Hot Six."
Marcel took the room's only chair and straddled it. "How long were you there?"
"Jesus, man I don't—"
Marcel's voice suddenly cracked like a whip. "Listen, fool, you're sitting under the gallows. Slap yourself together and talk before I get bored and go home."
Deal's head snapped back, his eyes round with fear. "T-Ten o'clock. She said she had a h-headache and needed to go home. When we got there, there wasn't no aspirin, so I went out to get some. When I got back, she—she—" Deal shoved his hand into his mouth and bit it as tears leaked from the corners of his eyes.
"Okay. How many people knew you were going out that night?"
He shook his head. "Nobody. At least, nobody I told."
"Who did she tell? She must've had a girlfriend she talked to."
Deal rubbed his face. "There was a girl worked with her at Smack's place. Rosette Maron. She and 'Licity been friends ever since she started workin' there."
Marcel stared at the warped floorboards for a moment, then lifted his gaze back to the frightened boy. "That's a start. Now tell me everything you know about Felicity. And talk fast. The clock's ticking."
Marcel returned to the city near midnight and began to prowl the Negro taverns and nightspots. In each place he found someone he knew, and for a few drinks listened to gossip and rumors that sometimes held a faint ring of truth. By sunrise, he had enough to form a theory, but that's all it was. At 8:00 that morning he called police headquarters and asked to speak to Detective Eddie Park in the Negro Squad room.
"Eddie, you busy this morning?"
"Let's see," Park replied, "I got a man who tried to cut his wife for makin' eyes at a huckster, two dope fiends who held up a liquor store and shot the owner, and a woman cryin' to me because her husband run off with her beautician. And that don't count the three homicides yesterday and the—"
"I get it. Listen, you remember the Tony Deal murder?"
"Sure, man. I was in uniform when that went down. Pretty big caper, 'cept we never solved it."
"How much trouble is it for you to get the file?"
"Hmmm, now why would an enterprisin' young brutha like you care about a ten year-old murder? You got anything you want to tell me, Marcel?"
"I'll know better when I hear what the medical examiner said. How about it?"
"Okay," Park replied. "I'll cut you a break, but if this turns into something, you call me first, hear? I need a raise. Call you back in thirty minutes?"
"I can stay awake that long."
At 8:00 that evening, Marcel Aristide drove to Smack Johnson's Club, a two-story brick building on the north end of Rampart. It had been the place to go when it opened in the early 1930s, but now it was just another joint where soldiers and sailors looked for cheap drinks and one-night love affairs. The elaborate neon sign of two boxers slugging it out cast a garish ripple over the rain-washed street, and raucous Dixieland poured from the open door in buffeting waves.
Marcel entered, bracing himself against a musical onslaught that vibrated the floor beneath his feet. As he edged up to the bar, he locked eyes with the bartender, an ex-thug who went by the name Tono Albert. Tono eyed Marcel warily as he polished a glass.
"What'll it be, Mr. Aristide?"
"A martini, with two olives. And a little talk with Rosette Maron."
Tono bent to the task of making the drink, watching Marcel from under his brows. "Smack don't like people talkin' to his gals, unless they're gettin' paid."
"Pay as you go," Marcel replied. "That's always been my motto."
The bartender watched Marcel as he built the martini. He slid it in front of the younger man. "Been hearin' things about you, man. Askin' questions about Felicity Oscar. Curiosity killed the cat, and you're close to the lick that killed Dick."
Marcel sipped the martini, watching the bartender over the rim of his glass. "Quit scarin' me, Tono. You talkin' so rough because you got things to hide? I hear you and the Oscar girl had a thing some time back. Maybe you didn't like her new friend, huh?"
A nerve jumped in Tono's cheek. He stared at Marcel for a long moment, then pointed to a table. "Take a seat over there. I'll find Rosette and send her to you."
Marcel sat down at the indicated table and sipped the martini. He was about halfway through it when a tall girl with skin the color of bronze came through the crowd toward him. Her light brown hair was swept high, and her bare shoulders moved with a swagger. Her arms were firm and strong from swimming or some other exercise and went well with her square shoulders and narrow waist. She sat down at the table, removed a package of Chesterfields from her bag and put one in the corner of her mouth.
"If you want to be useful, sugar, give me a light," she said, studying him with casual disregard.
Picking up a book of matches from the table, Marcel struck one and held it out. She took his hand in hers, pushed the end of her cigarette into the flame. She looked up at him with a half smile, puffing smoke. "What you want to talk about, sugar?"
"For starts, Felicity Oscar."
Her eyes widened and she pulled away from him. "I don't know nothin'."
Marcel waved out the match and dropped it into an ashtray. "You were her best friend. I'm guessing she let you in on her little secrets, like where she was going the night she was killed."
Rosette dragged on the cigarette, then took it out of her mouth to flick the ash away. "'Licity was always foolin' around with one man or t'other. I told her it was gonna get her killed one day. She ought never to've taken up with that Deal kid."
"They'd been living together for two months. Word is they had something solid."
Rosette snorted. "Then I guess he didn't kill her like they sayin'."
Marcel smiled. "He didn't, and I can prove it."
The girl stiffened, put the cigarette back into her mouth and sucked hard on it. "Prove it, how?"
Marcel's smile grew as he stared at her. "That's between me and the cops. If I decide to tell them."
She swallowed, crushed her cigarette out in the ashtray. "I don't see why you're tellin' me all this. It ain't none of my business."
"What ain't none'a your business, baby?"
The girl's head snapped to the side, her mouth dropping open at the sight of Smack Johnson standing nearby.
"Hiya, Smack," Marcel said, lifting his glass to the big dark man. "How's tricks?"
Johnson wore a black suit over a snow-white dress shirt. His lips drew back from teeth that gleamed like marble tombstones, his eyes as flat and blank as river stones. "What you want here, Aristide?" he growled.
"Good times, man. And a pretty lady to talk to."
Smack put his huge left hand on Rosette's bare shoulder and squeezed it. "I asked you a question, baby. What's this hustler tryin' to sell you?"
"Nothin', Smack He—he's just shootin' me a line is all." Her eyes brightened with pain as the ex-boxer punished her shoulder. "Please—please, Smack."
The big man let go of her, jerked his chin, and let her scuttle by him. All the while he glared at Marcel. "Don't be comin' into my place tryin' to stir up mess, boy. You ain't got the size for it."
Marcel's face hardened as he looked up at Johnson. "The mess is already stirred, Smack. Bet you can smell it cooking, 'cause I sure can." He rose as the ex-boxer reached for him, keeping the table between them. "Thanks for the hospitality." Snagging his hat from the table, Marcel backed away from the club owner until he was far enough to risk turning his back. As he reached the street, he felt himself grinning.
Marcel rose early the next day and made several phone calls, one of which was to Detective Eddie Park. After that, he sat at his desk and wrote three identical notes on three sheets of lined note paper. The notes, all written in block capitals, read:
MEET ME THIRD STREET FERRY LANDING, 11:00 PM
OR I GO TO THE COPS.
He gave all three notes to a youngster in his employ, told him where to deliver them, then sat back to wait.
By 10:45 that night, Marcel had found a place to stand in the shadow of some tall pilings near the ferry slip. Except for the slap of water against the wharf, the night was still and sultry. He'd chosen this hiding place because it gave him a clear view of every approach to the landing. Just before 11:00, he heard the click of high-heeled shoes on the brick street, and soon recognized the athletic stride of Rosette Maron. She wore a dark dress, a hat with a veil, and carried a handbag. She found her own hiding place and slipped into the shadows.
The next visitor was bulkier, but he was a good deal quieter and moved with the caution of a man used to working in the dark. Tono Albert already had a .38 Detective Special drawn as he inspected the surrounding area. When he was convinced that he was alone, he found a hiding place of his own.
Some time after 11:00, the enormous bulk of Smack Johnson appeared. His black suit and hat gave him the appearance of some eldritch night creature, his huge hands like claws. Unlike the others, he disdained caution and walked into the open area just short of the vacant ferry slip, standing in a pale circle of yellow light. Marcel let him stand there for a couple of minutes before moving into view.
"Nice night for a walk, eh, Smack? Sorry if I'm a bit late."
Johnson turned toward Marcel's voice, his body tense with menace. "Figured it had to be you, Aristide. I told you about comin' to my place stirrin' up mess. Guess now I got to show you."
Marcel stood his ground, his right hand thrust deep inside his coat pocket. "Don't be impatient, Smack. Let's get the rest of the guests out here. Rosette, Tono, c'mon out and join your boss."
Slowly, with a caution that bordered on reluctance, the pair separated themselves from their hiding places and joined Smack Johnson in the weak circle of light. Each eyed the other with suspicion, and Smack Johnson with trepidation. Tono's gun hung by his side, but Rosette now had her hand out of sight in her handbag.
"That's better," Marcel said. "Now we're all together, I'd like to tell you a little story."
"Forget stories, Aristide. Think I'll just tear your fuckin' head off'n your li'l body," Smack said in a growl.
Marcel's pocketed hand moved, checking the big man's advance. "Not yet, Smack. See, the story concerns all of you. It's about the death of Felicity Oscar. Y'all knew her—some of you better than the others, but you all knew her." Marcel, moved, keeping his hand in his pocket. "You were her best friend, Rosette. The two of you even lived in the same apartment. I'll bet you even shared your clothes and perfume, but it wasn't so great when Elliott Deal decided he liked Felicity better than he liked you, eh, Rosette? My guess is you're the only one who knew she and Elliott Deal were going to the Sassafrass Lounge the night she was killed." The girl stiffened, her hand quivering inside the handbag.
"Yeah, that was a good guess, wasn't it?" Marcel said, circling the trio, forcing them to move with him.
"Tono knew Felicity, too," Marcel continued. "Knew her a little too well. It's usually bad policy to play with the help, but Felicity was a girl who liked variety in her men. She didn't hang around you long, did she, Tono? Too much competition, I guess."
Smack's attention had been focused on Marcel, but now he turned to stare at his bartender, and Tono shriveled beneath the big man's silent fury.
"Felicity made her biggest mistake, though, when she got to playing footsies with the boss," Marcel said, still moving in his slow circle. "Smack was used to getting his way with his 'hostesses,' but I think Felicity got under his skin a little. More than a little, eh, Smack?"
"You take chances, Aristide," Tono said. "You tricked all of us into comin' out here by makin' like you knew who killed the girl. What's to stop one of us from shuttin' you up?" His .38 was waist high now, the ball of his thumb rubbing the hammer.
Marcel grinned as though he were having the time of his life. "I'd say you haven't got much to worry about, Tono, because the person who killed Felicity Oscar is the same one who killed Tony Deal ten years ago."
"Huh?" Rosette's mouth fell open, and her eyes darted between Tono and Smack. "Ten years ago I was livin' in Jackson with my mama."
"That's right," Marcel replied. "You have no connection to that murder. Tony Deal was a chaser, and it happens he chased a little too hard after a girl named Iris Fletcher. Trouble was, Iris already had a boyfriend, a big man with a big temper. That man caught Tony in an alley and sliced open his throat with a razor. The cut was made from right to left, and Tony strangled to death on his own blood. Just the way Felicity did. And strange to say, Felicity betrayed her old boyfriend with another man named Deal—Tony Deal's son, Elliott. That cut you to the quick, didn't it, Smack?" Marcel paused in front of Smack now, his hand still in his coat pocket. Without warning, Marcel jerked the hand free, tossing an object at Smack, whose left hand reflexively snatched it like a frog grabbing a fly. Five slow seconds passed as the big man stared stupidly at the rubber toy ball he held.
"Two different people who cheated on a left-handed killer," Marcel said in the stony silence. "Smack held the razor in his left hand, looked each of them in the eye and slashed their throats from right to left." Marcel paused to let the accusation sink in, then said, "You wouldn't have come here without that razor, Smack."
Smack stood frozen for a count of ten seconds, then dropped the rubber ball as his hand streaked into his pocket and flew up with the razor. The air was suddenly full of the blade whisking free of the handle, but before the weapon reached apogee, the harsh clack of shotguns pumping froze the big man. His eyes darted to his left and right as Detective Eddie Park and two uniformed cops stepped from behind Marcel with their weapons leveled.
"Christ, but you sure talk a lot," Park complained as one of the other officers handcuffed the ex-boxer and his employees. "Another minute or two and you'd of put me to sleep, and then you'd of been meat." He shook his head, clucking his tongue. "What about these two?" He nodded in the direction of Rosette and Tono.
"Take them downtown and squeeze them a little," Marcel replied. "Rosette had to be the one who told Smack who Felicity was playing house with, and probably told him where they were going that night so he could be waiting for them. My guess is he planned to kill the Deal kid, too, but lost his chance when the boy went out to get Felicity's aspirin. Tono's out of this, but I'll bet he'll tell you things about Smack that'll help you get that raise you're looking for."
"I'll need you to come downtown, too," Park said as Marcel began to drift toward the street. "I got a report to write, and you're so good with words."
"I'll talk to Elliott, then follow you down," Marcel called over his shoulder. He continued to the street where he found Elliott Deal sitting in the back of a squad car, his face ashen, his right wrist cuffed to a ringbolt in the floor.
"W-what happened?" Elliott asked in a whisper.
"You're off the hook. After they take you down to headquarters and listen to your story, they'll cut you loose, probably."
The youngster leaned back, looking like he wanted to cry. "Thank you, Jesus."
Marcel snorted. "Glad to see you know how to be grateful, sonny, but it's gonna cost you more than that."
The youngster raised his head, his eyes flickering. "What?"
"Yesterday you were a dead man. Sure, you were still breathing, but sooner or later Smack or the cops would've found you. Then everything your mama did to raise you would've been for nothing. Lousy way to pay her back."
He dropped his eyes. "Got sick of bein' treated like a kid is all."
"So you thought you'd go out and raise a little hell," Marcel replied. "I guess you did that, all right. Trouble is, living on the edge is a real kick until the day you slip and wind up in two pieces." He straightened, tapping his fingers on the open window ledge. "Those days are over, Elliott. Tomorrow you go to work for me."
Elliott blinked, his mouth open. "I—I'm workin'? For you? Doin' what?"
"Some of it'll be boring. Some of it maybe not so clean. All of it as hard as I can make it. There's Eddie and the rest. C'mon, and we'll drive to police headquarters in my car." He opened the door and unlocked the cuffs.
Copyright©2008 Robert Skinner
Robert Skinner authored the Wesley Farrell series, and has published stories in PlotsWithGuns, Louisiana Literature, War, Literature & the Arts, and Xavier Review. He lives in New Orleans.


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Shielding has now been paused everywhere in the UK, except Wales
Two-thirds of people who have been shielding from the coronavirus in England say they are comfortable going back to work if protective measures are in place, figures suggest.
But one in 20 say they won't be returning anytime soon.
More than 2.2 million people in the UK have been staying at home with no visitors, because of a high risk of serious illness from Covid-19.
From 1 August, most no longer need to shield.
This is because infection levels in the community are falling, so the risk to clinically extremely vulnerable people is much lower than before.
Shielding has now been paused everywhere in the UK, except Wales – which is expected to follow suit on 16 August – and those parts of the UK which are subject to extra restrictions.
The figures – from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) – are based on a survey of more than 4,000 clinically extremely vulnerable people, conducted between 9 and 16 July.
It found that of the 623,000 people (28%) who were working before being advised to shield, most had either stopped working or been furloughed.
Of the rest, one in 10 was working outside their home in July, while more than a third worked from home.
When asked about their plans for working over the next few months:
half said they would return to work outside the home (313,000)
21% said they would continue to work from home
23% did not know their plans
6% said they would not go back to work (around 38,000)
One third of those shielding who normally worked said they were not at all comfortable with working outside the home. Despite this, some were already doing so, while a larger number still planned on going back to a workplace in the next few months.
This compared to 24% who were completely comfortable, and 44% who were happy to go back if their employer could put protective measures in place.
What has been the advice to clinically extremely vulnerable people?
from March onwards – letters or text messages were sent to this group by doctors, advising them to shield from other people until further notice
1 June – they can leave the house once a day, as long as they keep 2m from others
6 July – support bubbles can be formed with another household and going outdoors to exercise is allowed
1 August – advice to shield is paused and returning to work outside home is possible
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Some people with cancer who are undergoing treatments such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy
People on immunosuppression drugs
Women who are pregnant and have heart disease
People with severe respiratory conditions – cystic fibrosis, severe asthma and COPD
Some people with rare diseases such as severe combined immunodeficiency
The list does not include all elderly people, although they are strongly advised to social distance.
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