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The Pleasant Hill Christian School's "Jacob's Fund" was begun in 1998 in memory of Jacob Cochran. Jacob was born in 1987 with "Hurler's Syndrome," a rare genetic disorder. With his "carrot top" red hair Jacob was a very visible member of the Sebastopol community and in particular Occidental Community Church. He was friendly to everyone who came to talk to him, quick to smile and loved to play ball games with his brothers Joe and Dan. Jacob had a particular affinity for colorful and often unusual socks of which his collection numbered in the hundreds. He also loved hats, from cowboy to fireman to Peter Pan, and seldom left home without one.
Jacob passed from his mother's arms to the arms of our Lord on November 22, 1998. God's provision for Jacob and his family was amazing and abundant during his short life, and upon Jacob's death the decision was made to honor God's gifts through support of PHCS.
Donations can be made to "Jacob's Fund" through the PayPal link on our home page. One hundred percent of all donations will be used to support Christian education in our community.
A major annual fundraiser for the Jacob's Fund is our December Sebastopol Holiday Home Tour.


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Penny's brace seals county cup victory
Published: 10:57 AM October 19, 2006
The under-13 Templars reached the next stage of the county cup at AC Finchley. An early James Draper header gave the visitors an ideal start, but the home side managed to equalise to leave the scores level at the break. In the second half the Templars ra
The under-13 Templars reached the next stage of the county cup at AC Finchley.
An early James Draper header gave the visitors an ideal start, but the home side managed to equalise to leave the scores level at the break. In the second half the Templars raised the pace and it was no surprise when Alex Penny was on hand to score the second goal.
Further goals from Josh Camborne-Paynter and Joe Parker made the game safe before man of the match Penny notched his second to make the final score 5-1.
Both under-15 sides bowed out of their competition after games which were decided after extra time.
Jake Lindsay-Smith scored for the Knights in normal time before Knebworth scored three unanswered goals in the extra period to move into the next round 4-1.
Two goals from Sam Fraser-Bossom and one each from Joel Strickland and Luke Farmer helped make their score 4-4 at the end of normal time before visiting Hadley Wood added two further goals to finally claim victory by 6-4.
While the under-11 Templars were powering into the third round of the country cup with a 9-1 win against Barnet Azzuru, the under-11 Lancers found their opposition, Acorn Raiders, too strong on the day and were beaten 6-0.
In the Royston Crow League, the under-sevens were in action against Pin Green. In the first game a Robbie Dewing goal helped the Templars gain a 1-1 draw, while the Crusaders came from a goal down to win their match 2-1 thanks to goals from Sean Blyth and Michael Sullivan.
The under-10 Templars suffered their first defeat of the season at the hands of Letchworth Garden City Eagles Yellows.
Despite hitting the woodwork on a number of occasions and forcing some fine saves from the Eagles goalkeeper, a late Joe Kingham goal was all they had to show in a 2-1 scoreline.
The under-10 Crusaders had far more luck as they romped to a convincing win over Letchworth Orange. Nicholas Allin scored a hat-trick and Josh Jones was on target twice.
With Daniel Bracken and an own goal completing the scoring, the Crusaders claimed the points with a 7-0 victory.
The under-10 Knights were left wondering how they ended up losing 3-1 to Arlesey Town A after dominating the game from the start. Despite all their pressure they ended up with only a second half strike from George Hewlett to show for their efforts.
The under-10 Lancers remain in third place in Division F after winning against Arlesey B.
Kier Boyd opened the scoring before James Rist celebrated his birthday by adding a second. With Boyd again on target, the Lancers ended up as 3-0 winners.
The under-12 Templars maintained their unbeaten record in Division Onr with a 5-1 victory over Letchworth Garden City Eagles. Anthony Geary and Sam Talbot were both on target twice, while Joe Fraser-Bossom also got his name on the scoresheet.
The under-12 Crusaders followed last week's first win of the season by making it consecutive victories, as two goals from Iain Robinson and one each from Toby Harvey and Josh Booth gave them a 4-1 win over Royston Town Colts.
The under-12 Knights could not build on an early Jordan Bright goal in their match with Stansted, Although Jordan added his second later in the game, the Knights were finally beaten 3-2.
In Division Four of the under-13 league both the Knights and Lancers suffered defeats. A Jamie Cronin goal could not prevent the Knights going down 3-1 to Stevenage Colts, while the Lancers were beaten 6-2 by Weston despite goals from Richard Bailey and Lewis Worcester.
The under-14 Templars produced some of their best football of the season at Bishop's Stortford Rangers but were unable to turn their dominance into goals, and finally had to settle for a point as the game finished goalless.
The under-14 Crusaders slipped to a 3-1 defeat against Fairlands with Callum Bishop's claiming the consolation goal for the home side.
Both Stotfold and the Knights went into their Division Four match boasting 100 percent records for the season. The expected close encounter brought no goals in the first half, before Luke Gatward and Harry Gregson made the important breakthrough in the second half to keep the Knights top of the league with a 2-0 win.
The under-15 Crusaders fought back from being two goals down to claim a point against Fairlands. Chris Brooking reduced the arrears just before the interval from the penalty spot, and a point was claimed just before the end when a melee in the visitors goalmouth ended in an own goal.
Josh Furness scored five times for the under-16 Crusaders and still finished on the losing side, Although the Crusaders fought back from 5-2 down to level the scores, a last minute scrambled goal by Bishop's Stortford Pelham gave them the points with a 6-5 victory.
A single James Hargreaves strike was enough to give the under-17 Crusaders all three points in their match against Bishop's Stortford.
The under-18 Crusaders continued their recent run of good form at Knebworth despite conceding an early goal.
Strikes from Martin Kingsley and Eamon Brennan gave the Crusaders an interval lead, and with further goals coming from Jonathan Poleszuk and Harry Holland in the second period, the Reds finally ran out comfortable 4-1 winners.

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ay back, at my fitness nadir, a sales guy at a specialty running store told me I should wear Asics. I was new to jogging, new to exercise for its own sake, and consequently had just finished college three pant-sizes above my ideal. After watching me clomp up-and-down the sidewalk a few times, the guy diagnosed me as a chronic over-pronator (I recall a somber, analytic air, like what you might encounter in an oncologist's office) meaning that I rolled my feet inward as they left the ground. Over time, he said, this would lead to knee, ankle and hip pain, or debilitating mash-ups of all three, so I needed running shoes with mid-sole stability and liberal cushioning. Other phrases stuck, mostly for their odd eroticism: "moderate torsion rigidity," "energy return," and "neutral ride." Fortunately, he grinned, all of my needs came neatly bundled in one pricey, state-of-the-art, Day-Glo pair of Asics.
I've since poured half a lifetime of faith and currency into Asics's over-pronation correctives. Now, as I plod into my 40s, my body dwindles and recedes, its abiding pangs tripling monthly, it seems, as everything from the hips down creaks like corroded machinery. Iliotibialis. Patellofemoral region. Soleus. These things suddenly mean something to me, as all radiate pain. It's in preparation for the grave that I've tried to resign myself to this, my mind on a vigilant appendicular death watch.
Like every running shoe company, Asics has gone deep into the curative design realms. The order of magnitude here is difficult to overstate. Injury-prevention metrics of pronation (over and under) and impact force (sometimes called "foot strike," ameliorated by cushioning or lack thereof) are the industry's theoretical guiding lights, against which all else is measured. In service to them, no amount of garbled techno-jargon and morbid joy has been spared. Asics's GEL-Kayano running shoe, for instance, aimed at over-pronators like me, employs the company's proprietary "FluidFit system," which promises "biomechanical efficiency" through a unique "dynamic taping" matrix and "external heel clutching system" and "gender specific cushioning," allowing "mild and moderate over-pronators" more "safety control" and "a more luxurious and longer run." Fair enough. But does it work?
"We've talked about this for thirty years," Joseph Hamill, professor of kinesiology and head of the Biomechanics Laboratory at UMass-Amherst, told me. "The fact is, foot pronation or impact force have never been conclusively linked with any kind of running injury, or even the prediction of injury." Hamill and I were discussing a recent review in The British Journal of Sports Medicine by a biomechanics expert named Benno M. Nigg. After digging through 40 years of research, Dr. Nigg and his co-authors concluded that most of our assumptions about running shoes and injuries are, in a word, hogwash. Pronation, it turns out, isn't a problem that requires correction or benefits from attempts to correct it via shoe design. And there is almost no evidence that impact force causes injury, or that changing or removing shoes (in the Vibram/barefoot vein) alters impact much at all.
To wit, everything we think we know about running shoes is wrong: footwear designed to somehow "fix" your running form and prevent injury – that is, basically all running shoes – according to Hamill and Nigg, are at best ineffective, at worst counter-productive. Despite decades of research and costly advances in shoe design and materials, running injuries haven't abated one lick; in fact, more than half of runners still get injured every year, a rate comparable to what it was 30 years ago.
How, then, did shoe companies drag us down the pronation/impact rabbit hole?
"If you go back thirty years to when researchers first started looking at injuries and footwear," said Hamill, "there were an awful lot of knee injuries. We tried to make a link between things like internal and external rotation of the knee and how shoes might affect it. We thought there was a natural association there, and it became dogma."
Which isn't to say that shoes aren't important vectors in running, or that barefoot running offers the surest path to righteousness, only that pronation and impact aren't reliable measures for predicting injury, or for choosing the right shoes. (To be sure, some researchers aren't convinced. David J. Pearsall, a professor of biomechanics at McGill University, thinks pronation and impact are still obvious measures for injury. "We shouldn't totally discard them," he said. "A lot of running injuries are chronic and happen over a long period of time, while others happen from running too quickly or too hard over a short period of time. The point is, they're difficult to measure. So, to ignore pronation and impact seems to me to be throwing the baby out with the bathwater.")
When it comes to choosing the right shoes, Hamill and Nigg suggest following the most scientifically sound criteria we have: comfort.
"Choose a shoe that feels good," Hamill said. Simply put, in the most comfortable pair of running shoes, you'll run more efficiently and suffer fewer injuries.
Comfort, of course, is the stickiest of wickets. It's different for everyone, and changes with body type, muscle strength/weakness, speed, stride, fatigue, previous injury, terrain, climate, age, attitude, etc., in short, a kaleidoscope of variables that spins on an enigmatic axis.
"Comfort is a very personal feeling that gets down to the psychology of running," Hamill said. "Basically, you want to feel relaxed, snug." This generally translates into a cozy foot-bed and upper, with no chafing or pinching anywhere. You also don't want to feel like you're fighting a shoe, Hamill said, which can mean it's altering your natural gait. And you want a wide range of motion – a shoe that isn't too loose or too tight, and that lets you run as your body is meant to run.
With this in mind, and in the throes of ancient ankle grief – a pain that surged and swirled from Achilles to malleolus to subtalar and back again – I tried a dozen pairs of running shoes over the course of four months, excepting Asics (too much baggage): Adidas Supernova Sequence Boost 8, Newton Gravity, Reebok ZPump Fusion and ONE Cushion 3.0, New Balance 1500v1, Mizuno Wave Rider 19 and Wave Inspire 12, Brooks Glycerin 13 and Launch 2, The North Face TRII, and Puma's Speed 600 Ignite and Ignite Ultimate (there's an obvious joke here about shoe names and NASA suborbital space flight). All were chosen purely based on comfort.
I ignored specific design parameters – for instance, Brooks' technology employs what the company calls its "Stride Signature," which is a correlation of Nigg's concept of "Preferred Motion Paths," which, in a nut, is the same thing as Hamill's comfort matrix: that is, a shoe that allows you to run the way you're body wants to run, that doesn't change your natural gait. But I liked them simply because they felt good. In fact, comfort with every pair mentioned above was through the roof. After two months, with mileage and terrain roughly commensurate, my ankle pain lessened, then gradual ebbed to nominal, until it wasn't pain at all anymore, but like a memory from an old war.
As far as I'm able to choose favorites – and this is as tough as it is laughably unscientific, since my comfort gauge was to wear each pair for about a week-and-a-half of jogging – Mizuno's Wave Rider 19 and Brooks's Glycerin 13 both had some unmeasured quality, gracefulness I suppose, or luxury, but luxury in a burly, workaday sense of the word and not in the flannel pajamas sense. They transmuted my unsightly, feral, windmill gait, bolstered my natural patterns, and excavated a long-dormant trust in being competently shod. In both I just felt, I don't know, better. So much better that, switching between the two pairs, I ratcheted up my speed and mileage considerably, even dropped a few pounds.
It's worth remembering that injury is inevitable. Bodies break down. That's what they do. No shoe is going to stop that. I'm 42. At a certain age, the best of us is in the past. "To grow old is to lose everything," Donald Hall writes. "Aging, everybody knows it." Minimizing your injuries before death takes it all requires not just self-knowledge – awareness of your limitations and heeding them – but a kind of brute honesty that most of us are plainly terrible at. We think we'll live forever so we obscure our experiences, try again to conquer Denali in flip-flops and bicycle shorts. We hurl ourselves toward the void, invoking various gods.
I kept on running, flying along the Charles River path in Cambridge, lapping the Harvard cross-country team, shouting into the wind. Then one day my knees gave out. It was a double-tweak, swift and terrible, and snuck up on me, like a lead pipe to the back of the knees, and probably had as much to do with lugging my twenty-pound daughter around all day as it did with notching up my mileage/intensity ratio. My doctor told me not to worry, that the pain will likely vanish once my daughter learns to walk. But today my knees are ruins, throbbing and buried in ice. I write this from bed.
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Are elderly people at greater risk from COVID-19?
Both the Virus and the Disease have recently been officially named. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome CoronaVirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) just as the HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) can lead to AIDS (Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome)
Different viruses can strike down some more than others more severely than another. The "Spanish" influenza pandemic of 1918–1919, which caused approximately 50 million deaths worldwide, particularly affected young adults. The Zika outbreak that raged through Brazil in 2015-2016 had an especially devastating effect on the central nervous system of the fetuses of pregnant women. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), a similar virus that started in China in 2002, affected the over 60s disproportionately. There were 8,098 reported cases and 774 deaths an approximately 10% mortality rate.
SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes COVID-19, the Corona Virus mediated disease that originated in China appears to get more dangerous with age. So far children aged 1-9 account for just 1% of all Chinese infections, and none of the deaths. Those aged 10-19 also account for only 1% of infections. Below age 35 there are exceedingly few cases but as age increases from the 40s to 80s mortality also increases markedly.
SARS-CoV-2 is likely to have come from a Wuhan seafood market where wild animals, including marmots, birds, rabbits, bats and snakes are known to be traded illegally. Corona Viruses are known to jump from animals to humans, so it's thought that the first people infected with the disease, a group primarily made up of stallholders from the seafood market contracted it from contact with animals.
In China about 80% of the cases are reported to be mild, however 20% of those diagnosed had moderate, severe, or critical symptoms, such as difficulty breathing, pneumonia and multiple organ failure. About 2.3% of overall infections have been fatal.
Italy has an elderly population, actually much older than the China's. There measures have slowed the spread but there are still major concerns about the burden on the health care system and the threat it poses, especially to older people. Measures recently introduced have the aim of avoiding a large epidemic wave with precautions including nationwide school closures which will stay in place until at least March 15th.
Many of those who have died in Italy suffered from serious pre-existing conditions as well as being elderly, such as Cancer, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Coronary Heart Disease )CHD) and Diabetes. This with the relatively mild and under-reported symptoms in the younger population makes it extremely difficult to calculate the true mortality rate but best estimates are that Italy's mortality rate is currently about 3.5 percent which is not much above the global average of 3.4 percent reported by the World Health Organization. But the COVID-19 is taking a disproportionate toll on the elderly in Italy, which has the oldest population in Europe, and the second-oldest in the world after Japan.
In Italy 23 percent of the population is 65 or older and so far of those infected in their 70s, 8% have died and nearly 15% of those 80 and older died with COVID-19.
So the older you are the likelier you are to contract a SARS-CoV-2 and develop COVID-19 infection and also suffer more morbidity and even death. Recent research in China has found that the average age of COVID-19 patients who developed Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) where fluid builds up in the lungs causing marked shortness of breath is 61. In January, Chinese health authorities were already reporting that the median age range for people who died of the disease was 75.
Early data suggested that men were more vulnerable, as they accounted for just more than half the cases and died twice as often as infected women possibly because men are more likely to be smokers than women. A World Health Organisation study from 2019 found that 47.6% of Chinese men smoke, compared to only 1.8% of Chinese women. This compares to only about 15% of the US/UK population. Women are also thought to mount stronger immune responses.
People with heart problems, diabetes, or lung issues like Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease are also at a higher risk for severe disease and death.
To be prepared keep up with news about where the virus is spreading and take the usual precautions to keep healthy as possible by getting enough rest, exercising, eating well, and having the flu vaccine. Those that follow this advice are the people who tend to be less likely to contract COVID-19 and if they do, recover faster.
The UK government has announced funding for a simple home-based test, like a pregnancy test, where people can tell if they're infected in 20 minutes or so rather than the 24-48 hours it needs now.
Simple advice to keep the doctor away!
Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, especially after going to the bathroom; before eating; and after blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing. It is also suggested that you wash hands as soon as you come into the house or office.
Cover your cough or sneeze with a tissue, then throw the tissue in the trash. If you haven't a tissue. Cough into the crook of your elbow not your hand.
Surgical masks help keep pathogens from the doctor's nose and mouth from entering the surgical field and infecting patients.
In Japan and China, it's common to see people wearing surgical masks in public in an attempt to protect themselves from pathogens and pollution. However the evidence is that these masks will not help much as they are not designed to keep out viral particles and they do not fit tightly enough around your nose and cheeks allowing unfiltered air to enter from the sides. Even those masks that are well fitting may not help much as they force the wearer to breathe in more deeply.
People sick with COVID-19, however, should wear face masks to reduce the risk of infection to people around them.
It's also important to remember that we are still in the middle of the seasonal flu season, which impacts older adults every year and it is estimated that 70-85% of seasonal flu-related deaths occurred in people aged 65+. Although there is no vaccine for COVID-19 yet, estimates vary but it is expected to take at least a year of research and development, it is not too late to benefit from your annual flu shot.
Are elderly people at greater risk from coronavirus and what should you do if they are told to self-isolate?
Your guide to helping elderly relatives lower the risk of falling ill
Are elderly people at greater risk from coronavirus?
Yes. The mortality rate for the general population is thought to be between 1 and 2 per cent. But this rises to 8 per cent to those in their 70s, and to 15 per cent for over-80s. People with underlying conditions are at even greater risk.
How can we protect the elderly?
Make sure they do not come into contact with the virus. That means anyone visiting them should be very careful about hygiene – by washing their hands and perhaps staying away if they have a cold. But don't avoid all contact – experts believe this will do more harm than good. It could mean they become isolated, exacerbating loneliness.
Should they avoid crowds?
The World Health Organisation said anyone over the age of 60 – or those with existing health conditions – should 'try to avoid crowded areas. Public Health England, however, says this advice is overly cautious until there is 'evidence of sustained and widespread transmission within the community', and the Government is keen for everyone to carry on their normal day-to-day routine.
Should relatives stay away?
No – unless anyone has been specifically told to self-isolate. But parents should be especially careful about the hygiene of young children, who should wash their hands at least four times a day.
What should you do if an elderly person is told to self-isolate?
Age UK advises that people stay in touch over the phone, by post or online – for example, by using video chat services. See if people need any shopping or help by running errands. It is important to encourage people to stay active around the house.
What if an elderly person becomes ill?
In the UK call NHS 111. They should not go to their GP without phoning first. If a GP believes they may have COVID-19 they will be tested by arrangement at home or a nominated centre. The results take 24 to 48 hours to arrive.
How will they be treated?
Most patients are taken to hospital and treated in isolation until the virus has passed. In some cases this can be very quick – only 5 per cent of patients are sick enough to require intensive care. In more severe cases treatment includes life support and can take some days.
Isn't the risk of infection higher in hospital?
No. Hospitals are safe because infection control has been so thorough since the beginning of the outbreak.
How might the advice for the elderly change?
During an epidemic, the elderly could be told to have minimal contact with the outside world because they are at such high risk – but only during the peak of the disease, which may last for three weeks.
….and this from Dr Abdu Sharkawy from an Infectious Diseases Specialist at the University Health Network, Toronto Ontario. I guess this is the best information we're likely to get direct from the horses mouth!
I'm a doctor and an Infectious Diseases Specialist. I've been at this for more than 20 years seeing sick patients on a daily basis. I have worked in inner city hospitals and in the poorest slums of Africa. HIV-AIDS, Hepatitis,TB, SARS, Measles, Shingles, Whooping cough, Diphtheria…there is little I haven't been exposed to in my profession. And with notable exception of SARS, very little has left me feeling vulnerable, overwhelmed or downright scared.
I am not scared of COVID-19. I am concerned about the implications of a novel infectious agent that has spread the world over and continues to find new footholds in different soil. I am rightly concerned for the welfare of those who are elderly, in frail health or disenfranchised who stand to suffer mostly, and disproportionately, at the hands of this new scourge. But I am not scared of COVID-19.
What I am scared about is the loss of reason and wave of fear that has induced the masses of society into a spellbinding spiral of panic, stockpiling obscene quantities of anything that could fill a bomb shelter adequately in a post-apocalyptic world. I am scared of the N95 masks that are stolen from hospitals and urgent care clinics where they are actually needed for front line healthcare providers and instead are being donned in airports, malls, and coffee lounges, perpetuating even more fear and suspicion of others. I am scared that our hospitals will be overwhelmed with anyone who thinks they " probably don't have it but may as well get checked out no matter what because you just never know…" and those with heart failure, emphysema, pneumonia and strokes will pay the price for overfilled ER waiting rooms with only so many doctors and nurses to assess.
I am scared that travel restrictions will become so far reaching that weddings will be cancelled, graduations missed and family reunions will not materialise. And well, even that big party called the Olympic Games…that could be kyboshed too. Can you even imagine?
I'm scared those same epidemic fears will limit trade, harm partnerships in multiple sectors, business and otherwise and ultimately culminate in a global recession.
But mostly, I'm scared about what message we are telling our kids when faced with a threat. Instead of reason, rationality, openmindedness and altruism, we are telling them to panic, be fearful, suspicious, reactionary and self-interested.
Covid-19 is nowhere near over. It will be coming to a city, a hospital, a friend, even a family member near you at some point. Expect it. Stop waiting to be surprised further. The fact is the virus itself will not likely do much harm when it arrives. But our own behaviors and "fight for yourself above all else" attitude could prove disastrous.
I implore you all. Temper fear with reason, panic with patience and uncertainty with education. We have an opportunity to learn a great deal about health hygiene and limiting the spread of innumerable transmissible diseases in our society. Let's meet this challenge together in the best spirit of compassion for others, patience, and above all, an unfailing effort to seek truth, facts and knowledge as opposed to conjecture, speculation and catastrophizing.
Facts not fear. Clean hands. Open hearts.
Our children will thank us for it.
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Elderly people who contract coronavirus are "not a goner" and the "great majority" of patients as old as 80 will recover, England's top doctor has said.
Professor Chris Whitty, the country's chief medical officer, sought to reassure the public that over-60s have a good chance of surviving Covid-19 if infected.
Health chiefs have warned that older people and those with pre-exisiting medical conditions such as asthma, diabetes and heath disease are more likely to fall seriously ill from the virus.
Coronavirus: Elderly people 'not a goner' and great majority will recover from disease, UK medical chief says
'It's easy to get a perception that if you are older and you get this virus then you're a goner,' says Professor Chief Whitty – Videos and an excellent article by Chiara Giordano
But Prof Witty said: "Even in the most vulnerable, oldest groups, in a very stressed health service – which Hubei was at the point when most of the data came out – the great majority of people who caught this virus – and not everybody will – survived it. The great majority, over 90 per cent.
"I think it's easy to get a perception that if you are older and you get this virus then you're a goner – absolutely not, the great majority of people will recover from this virus, even if they are in their 80s."
He added: "We intend to do what we can to make sure that they are the group that is least affected as far as we can."
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Prof Whitty's comments came in response to a question from MP Jeremy Hunt, chair of the Health and Social Care committee, who said the Chinese government had declared "80 per cent of the fatalities have been people over the age of 60".
The chief medic was grilled by the committee as the number of coronavirus cases in the UK rose to 90 on Thursday.
Earlier, Prof Whitty said Britain had moved mainly into the "delay" phase of its four-stage battle plan for tackling coronavirus.
He said new measures will be considered to try to reduce the spread of the outbreak in this second phase.
SARS-CoV-2 is spreading around the world although at the epicentre in Wuhan, China they have had at least one day of NO new cases! Keep up with the news and Keep up with the LATEST advice which may change when there is new information.
When the Facts Change, I Change My Mind. What Do You Do, Sir?
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A look at the last 72 hours in Boston, from Friday, march21, 2008 through 10am, Monday, March 24, 2008 (See recent Daily Incident summaries and earlier postings for more detailed descriptions of some of the incidents identified below).Homicides: 0 Non-fatal Shootings: 0 Non-fatal Stabbings: 8 Street Robberies: 6 Commercial Robberies: 0 Bank: 1 Other: 5 Vehicle Thefts: 16 Vehicle Recoveries: 13 Vehicle Breaks: 39 Residential Break-ins: 20 Commercial Break-ins: 10 Note: the information above is preliminary information, and should not be considered official crime statistics. The information is based on an initial review of incident reports and may not be a comprehensive listing of events. It is not a statistical analysis, but rather an initial tally of significant events. Some of the incidents included may be covered in more detail in other blog postings.


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Solo für Weiss – Todesengel ist ein deutscher Kriminalfilm von Gunnar Fuss aus dem Jahr 2022 mit Anna Maria Mühe als LKA-Zielfahnderin Nora Weiss in der Hauptrolle. Es handelt sich um den siebten Solo-für-Weiss-Film.

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Nora Weiss ermittelt erstmals an der Seite ihres neuen Kollegen Ben Salawi, der von Berlin kürzlich zur Kripo Lübeck gewechselt ist. Gemeinsam müssen sie den Mord des Psychologie-Professors Peter Marquart aufklären. Er wurde mit einem Teaser betäubt und dann in seiner Badewanne ertränkt. Ihre Ermittlungen führen die Kommissare zur 16-jährigen Schülerin Jessica Steiner, die erotische Aufnahmen von sich auf ihrer kostenpflichtigen Webseite postet. Anhand von Drohmails, die Marquart bezüglich dieses Internetkontaktes erhalten hatte, könnte darin das Tatmotiv liegen. Jessica Steiners Vater gibt an, nichts von den Aktivitäten seiner Tochter gewusst zu haben.

Noch während der laufenden Untersuchungen wird ein Kita-Leiter ermordet. Weiss und Salawi sehen eine Verbindung zum Mord an Marquart, denn auch er war "Kunde" von Jessica und auch er hatte Drohmails erhalten. Nachdem feststeht, dass die Mails von Steiner's Handy verschickt wurden, wird er festgenommen. Er hat nicht nur das stärkste Motiv, sondern auch kein Alibi für die Tatzeiten. Er gibt die Mails auch zu, leugnet aber ein Mörder zu sein. Weiss möchte ihm gern glauben, da Steiner mehr impulsiv handelt und nicht so strategisch, wie die Taten durchgeführt wurden. Ben Salawi findet eine Verbindung der beiden Opfer, die in der Vergangenheit beide in einer Erziehungseinrichtung gearbeitet hatten, bei denen es auch Missbrauchsvorwürfe gab. Falls darin das Motiv liegt, könnte es noch weitere Opfer geben. Weiss und Salawi sprechen mit der damaligen Leiterin Karin Lohmann, die den Missbrauch bestätigt und den Ermittler eine Liste der Betroffenen zukommen lassen will. Als sie sich in den, inzwischen stillgelegen, Anlagen des Erziehungsheims "Heithof" umsehen, erleidet Salawi eine Panikattacke. Er spricht daraufhin mit Weiss und berichtet, selbst ein Heimkind gewesen zu sein, was ihn angesichts ihres Falls gerade mental einholt.

Die anfängliche Distanz zwischen den Ermittlern schwindet und sie arbeiten gut zusammen. Im Moment arbeiten sie die alten Akten des "Heithof" durch und suchen nach Hintergründen zum Todesfall eines jungen Mädchens 2015. Weiss findet Angaben, wonach Leonie im dritten Monat schwanger war, als sie bei einem Fluchtversuch aus dem Heim aus großer Höhe stürzte und starb. Der ehemalige Heimbewohner Benno Vogt meinte sogar, man hätte Leonie umgebracht. Seine Beschreibung von Leonies damaligem Freund führt zu Lukas Fechner. Der ist jedoch schon drei Tage nicht mehr auf seiner Arbeitsstelle, einem Hausmeisterservice, erschienen. Von diesem Betrieb wurde auch die Kita betreut und offensichtlich war Fechner hier unerwartet seinem Peiniger von damals begegnet. Während die Fahndung nach Fechner läuft, gelingt es ihm Karin Lohmann, trotz Polizeischutzes, in seine Gewalt zu bringen. Er übergießt sie mit Benzin und droht sie anzuzünden. Als Weiss und Salawi eintreffen können sie die Geisel befreien, doch Fechner zündet sich an, weil er nicht noch einmal eingesperrt werden will. Nach seiner Aussage wurde Leonie von den beiden geschwängert und umgebracht, die er nun zur Rechenschaft gezogen hätte.

Entstehung & Veröffentlichung
Die Dreharbeiten für Solo für Weiss – Todesengel erstreckten sich unter den vorgegebenen Corona-Arbeitsschutzauflagen vom 16. November 2021 bis zum 15. Dezember 2021 und fanden an Schauplätzen in Lübeck, Kiel und Hamburg statt.

In der ZDF Mediathek wurde der Film ab dem 22. Oktober 2022 vorab zur Verfügung gestellt. Die Erstausstrahlung ist am 31. Oktober 2022 im ZDF erfolgt.

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Tilmann P. Gangloff von Tittelbach.tv nannte "Todesengel" "ein fesselnder, erlesen fotografierter Thriller." "Klaschka führt die Heldin seiner Geschichte mit einer makabren Finte ein; auch die eigentliche Handlung ist erst mal ein raffiniertes Ablenkungsmanöver. Die Morde allerdings sind echt: Offenbar hat es jemand auf die Kunden einer minderjährigen Schülerin abgesehen, die ihre freizügigen Dienste im Internet anbietet. Die Bildgestaltung ist vorzüglich, aber das war zu erwarten: Gunnar Fuß ist einer der renommiertesten hiesigen Kameraleute. Seit einigen Jahren führt er auch Regie; die Solo für Weiss-Episode ist sein erster Krimi."

Für prisma.de wertete Eric Leimann: "die neue Folge" "lebt über weite Strecken vom exakten Zusammenspiel der holsteinischen Fahnder." "Nora fordert den Neuen immer mal wieder zu einem kleinen Screwball-Duell heraus. Beide beachten dabei die alte Hollywood-Regel, derzufolge man selbst am besten gar nichts macht und stattdessen die Kamera arbeiten lässt. Im Falle der Psychologen-Villa hat dieselbe ohnedies viel zu tun. Dort hängen moderne Prachtgemälde en masse." "Das alles hat […] viel Witz und Spannung. Erst, als dann ein aufgelöstes früheres Erziehungsheim ins Visier der Fahnder gerät, verliert der Fall an Fahrt. Allzu schnell ahnt man, dass da einer späte Rache übte an Übeltätern aus der Vergangenheit. Der Plot des Drehbuchautors […] hält da mit dem pointierten Wortspiel der Protagonisten nicht mehr recht Schritt."

Oliver Armknecht von film-rezensionen.de meinte, der Film "stellt im Vergleich zum mäßigen Vorgänger eine Verbesserung dar, wenn der Mord an einem Professor aufgeklärt werden muss. Das liegt aber eher an den Figuren und dem Ensemble, weniger an dem Fall, der nicht so wahnsinnig viel Stoff zum Nachgrübeln bietet."

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Bei der Erstausstrahlung von Solo für Weiss - Todesengel am 31. Oktober 2022 verfolgten in Deutschland insgesamt 6,68 Millionen Zuschauer die Filmhandlung, was einem Marktanteil von 24,6 Prozent für das Zweite Deutschen Fernsehen entsprach. In der als Hauptzielgruppe für Fernsehwerbung deklarierten Altersgruppe von 14–49 Jahren erreichte Todesengel 0,42 Millionen Zuschauer und damit einen Marktanteil von 7,5 Prozent in dieser Altersgruppe.

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That's the vision from the St. Paul mayor's office, which hopes to turn the nearly 150-acre river bluff campus into a model for urban redevelopment.
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Meet the masterminds behind @tabloidarthistory.
With the advent of the Internet's fast-moving information exchange, it is easier than ever to forget moments in pop culture, and even important world events, that, while instantly memorable, lose their luster in a vulturous 24-hour news cycle.
Making sure you never forget some of pop culture's most iconic celebrity moments are UK-based friends Chloe Esslemont, Elise Bell, and Maryanne Soret. As recent university graduates in their early twenties, the trio created the @tabloidarthistory Instagram account, and online platform. It is dedicated to memorializing Western culture's most sensational star-powered moments with savvily on-the-nose comparisons to art through the ages.
Did you know that a Blackout-era, bewigged Britney Spears at a Del Taco drive-thru uncannily mirrors the romantic heroism of Caravaggio painting from 1607, "David with the Head of Goliath"? And could it be that Kate Moss as a Saint Laurent-clad rocker angel at this year's Met Gala bears striking resemblance to Daisy Fellowes in Schiaparelli circa 1933? We didn't know either. The new sheds light on the old masters and vice versa.
In the most idiosyncratic and often humorous fashion, Tabloid Art History explores, through the ephemera of memes (including how often Beyonce channels powers greater than herself), the ways in which all art is cyclical.
PAPER chatted with Esslemont in the UK and got the scoop on Tabloid Art History's rich source material, the real OG Kardashians, and how history (even in a pop culture context) repeats itself through an artistic lens.
I know you're in the UK, but is there anything you're excited about with the VMAs this year?
Yeah, I love that Nicki Minaj seems to be seated in front of Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott. Nicki lives for the drama, and one can hope the Kardashian camera crew is on board.
You bet! Somewhere in the world, Kris [Jenner] is getting her 10%.
Oh, trust: She's always getting her 10%.
OK, so tell me about the concept of the @tabloidarthistory Instagram. How did that come about?
Me and Elise are always talking about how two of our main obsessions are art and pop culture. We saw a few memes that touch on that; one of the most prominent ones compares Lindsay Lohan to the statue of St. Therese. The photo of Lindsay passed out in the car. I said to Elise that it would be a great dissertation topic, it's so fun to see when art and pop culture collide. There is another one of Kim [Kardashian] and North [West] in the front row at fashion shows being compared to Madonna and Child. It came out of wanting more content like that, and realizing there was a void to fill.
It's really smart, and grounds these pop culture moments that we think are isolated incidents.
Yeah, that's something I really like about not just the account but the concept of pop culture and history, you think they are unrelated. And some things do change over time, in terms of what we value in culture and society, but pop culture really at its core is about human nature. Art is of course very similar, so exploring those connections is really what makes it so fun for us.
"Pop culture really at its core is about human nature."
When you were studying art, did it occur to you at certain points that historical figures or pieces you were examining might have ties to present day moments?
I've always really loved art, but I'm not great at math or science, so that's where the humanities play a big role in what we do now. I think my interest in art, history, and English literature also stems from being really nosy, wanting to know what people were up to, and loving interesting stories.
It's funny then that the account is called Tabloid Art History, because it puts the nosiness to good use.
And it's important to remember that art and art history back then and what we think of it now is that it was the pop culture of their day. Almost like what tabloids are today in some ways.
Yes, how scandals in the art world were the hot gossip of yesteryear?
Oh yeah! I'm writing a piece for our website about the Mazarinettes, who were seven nieces of Cardinal Jules Mazarin in the 16th Century. They had lots of affairs and became mistresses of kings and poisoned people and got into a lot of scandal. My main hook for that is — I feel like a lot of people throw around that phrase, "These are the original Kardashians," but these sisters are. All the stories about them are a lot crazier than anything you'd read about Kim, Kendall, and Kylie.
People say history repeats itself, so one could argue that pop culture of today bears resemblance to events and art of the past.
It's funny: people are always people. The juxtaposition between how things are different but actually just the same, is what makes putting the account together so fun.
Do you have any favorite posts?
We have two types of posts: one is more humor-based, so a favorite is when we put a photo of Britney Spears holding a taco bag next to Caravaggio's "David with the head of Goliath." That'll be my legacy. Then we have one that's more an appreciation of a pop culture event like a music video or a film within an artistic moment. We took a Horace Pippin work and juxtaposed it to a still from Beyoncé's "Formation" video. I love just being able to take two gorgeous pieces of art by looking at a different way mainly in looking at them together.
Surely that approach brings in people who aren't that into art history.
It works the other way, too! People tell us that they start watching certain reality shows or listening to Beyoncé after seeing the parallels we'll make with varying artforms.
We've got another edition of our zine coming up, but it's an opportunity to expand on what we're doing online. The zine will feature interviews, essays, poetry, art, and illustrations. You can be limited on Twitter and Instagram to a certain number of words and characters, so here is a longform way to talk about the intersection of art and pop culture. We're looking into creating merch, too.


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Purchasing shares directly from the company?
There is no direct stock purchase plan for Netflix shares.
Dividends planned?
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Netflix offers movies and TV series with unlimited viewing via Internet. The user pays a monthly membership fee. Users do not have to sign up for certain number of months and the subscription can be canceled online. Movies and TV series are available on-demand, 24/7. Users can select, start, pause, and resume watching at their own discretion.
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The sad thing is some of the worst work I have seen (including quite an array of "fatals" - my dad was a safety engineer so I have seen the results first hand on too many occasions) have been done by so-called professionals. According to Java"font of all knowledge"phile even my Colorado wiring snafu's were due to a fully qualified idiot er, I mean electrician. In hindsight, Java is correct (as usual).
OTOH, some of the best work has also been by fully qualified professionals (my wiring at Bentley for example).
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Segue to my dear friend's new dream house - burnt to the ground 4 days after moving in - when their electrician did not bother to leave enough room between their gas HWS (in the roof) and their three phase ducted air con (also in the roof).
I hope it lead to a prosecution?
Does this look like the work of a professional?
No, it looks like the wiring loom of a bunch of potheads trying to grow a big crop in a large warehouse!
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Yep, of the best electrician that India could provide.
On the other "spare power boards anyone?" picture - if you are going to grow an illicit drug on that scale, minor OH & S regs are probably not part of your to do list either.


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There are literally hundreds of colleges out there for the normal student to have to choose from. How can you possibly decide where you want to go, what place has what programs and whether you can actually get into any of them? That's the beauty of college directories. They list all the colleges that are available to students in the United States and elsewhere and help them decided how to differentiate between them.
The College Board is far and away the most popular of all the college directories and has many thousands of students log on over the course of their senior year of high school to see what colleges fit their criteria. They have the data for pretty much every college you can think of from the University of Phoenix to Harvard with everything in between. If you want to know about other smaller liberal arts colleges, they're there. If you want to know about big technical schools, they're there too. There's really an abundance of information from sites such as the College Board.
They take your SAT scores, high school GPA and other factors that you voluntarily choose into their college search to see which ones meet the criteria of what you're looking for. You can sort by certain programs or just location or a combination of a seemingly endless number of factors. If you only want schools that have certain engineering programs, you can sort by that or if you just want a small liberal arts school in the middle of Pennsylvania, that's available too. The possibilities are numerous.
Really no matter what program you're looking for, sites like the College Board help you find it. But for some they can just be too big and include too many different schools. You can search yourself on a search engine to find more specialized college directories for just your specified field. These sites are probably smaller and more unreliable however, so proceed with caution. You can always double check with College Board information though once you see what you want on these sites.
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Q: I am getting invalid type ( struct ) error while interacting with the solidity smart contract Here is the Error Message:
Uncaught (in promise) Error: invalid type (argument="type", value="Proof", code=INVALID_ARGUMENT, version=abi/5.7.0)
Here is the solidity function

function createOffer(
        address _requestorAddress,
        address[] memory _requestedNftAddress,
        uint[] memory _requestedNftId,
        address[] memory _offeredNftAddress,
        uint[] memory _offeredNftId,
        Proof[] memory _proofsRequested,
        Proof[] memory _proofsOffered
)

Here is the struct
    struct Proof {
        address nftAddress;
        bytes32[] proof;
    }

here is the typescript code

    const tx = await contractWithSigner.createOffer(
        address,
        [counter_party_nfts_addresses[0]],
        [counter_party_nft_ids[0]],
        [my_nft_addresses[0]],
        [my_nft_ids[0]],
        [
            [
                counter_party_nfts_addresses[0],
                getMerkelProof(counter_party_nfts_addresses).proof,
            ],
        ],
        [[my_nft_addresses[0], getMerkelProof(my_nft_addresses).proof]]
    );

and here is the getMerkleProof function:
    const getMerkelProof = (addresses: string[]) => {
        const leaf = keccak256(addresses[0]);
        const leaves = addresses.map((x: any) => keccak256(x));
        const tree = new MerkleTree(leaves, keccak256, { sortPairs: true });
        const proof = tree.getProof(leaf, 0);
        const root = tree.getRoot().toString("hex");
        return {
            proof,
            root,
        };
    };

As the struct accepts two arguments 1 nftAddress and 2nd is merkleProof,
i.e
[[address,proof]]

but unable to find the correct way to do it.

A:     Proof[] memory _proofsRequested,
    Proof[] memory _proofsOffered

argument types should be array of Proof structs but you are passing array of arrays
      [
        [
            counter_party_nfts_addresses[0],
            getMerkelProof(counter_party_nfts_addresses).proof,
        ],
    ],
    [[my_nft_addresses[0], getMerkelProof(my_nft_addresses).proof]]

instead
    [// convert the inner array to obj
        {
            nftAddress: counter_party_nfts_addresses[0],
            proof    :getMerkelProof(counter_party_nfts_addresses).proof,
        {,
    ],
    [
        {
         address: my_nft_addresses[0],
         proof: getMerkelProof(my_nft_addresses).proof
        }
    ]

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Translated from Lutte Ouvrière (Workers' Struggle), the newspaper of the revolutionary workers' group active in France.
A 14-year-old boy was killed by the police recently at his home in a Rio de Janeiro slum; there were 70 bullet holes in the house.
This murder recalls the extreme and daily violence of this police force, in permanent war against the poor of the underprivileged districts of the country.
In 2019, almost 6,000 victims of police killings were identified in Brazil. This is, in proportion to its smaller population, five times more than in the United States. In 75% of the cases, the victims were black men, most often young and living in disadvantaged neighborhoods. Between 2015 and 2019, 25,000 Brazilians were killed by police in their own country.
In this country marked by the most extreme inequalities, very often the only way open to young people from the poorest neighborhoods is to join gangs or the police. The young people thus put on the front line are led to kill each other. In addition, year after year, nearly 150 police officers commit suicide.
Anti-poor violence is fueled by politicians, from the head of state, Bolsonaro, to the mayors of the largest cities. The mayor of Sao Paulo declared it openly: "The place of a bandit is not in the police station or in prison, but in the cemetery."
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COVID-19 Test: A Bonanza for Companies
Nursing Homes Are Dumping Their Residents Like Trash
Noose Found in Bubba Wallace's NASCAR Garage
Without a Massive and Determined Struggle, No Salvation for Workers!
The Federal Reserve's Debt Bubble
Trump's Anti-Immigrant Card and the Interests of the Capitalist Class
Brazil: "The Most Violent Police in the World"
Illusions in Elections Encourage Racist Violence
Eat, Drink and Be Merry—or Spread the COVID?
FCA Workers Stop Production in Metro Detroit
Rayshard Brooks: Another Victim of Police Murder
Bloody Tulsa 1921: Historical Suppression
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Kawasaki developing hub-steered superbike
When Kawasaki revealed that it had taken a 49% stake in Italian minnow Bimota late last year it left plenty of industry-watchers puzzled. What use did the Japanese industrial giant have for a tiny boutique bike-maker that's made fewer machines in its 47 year history than Kawasaki can churn out in a week? Perhaps this new patent application hints at the answer: it shows Kawasaki is working on the idea of a hub-steered bike.
In fact the idea is for a wide range of bikes, all based around a set of shared suspension and steering components.
Of course, Bimota has been a pioneer of hub-centre steering systems. The firm's Tesi, first appearing back in 1990 but in development since 1982, is probably the best-known bike ever to use the idea, despite being built in miniscule numbers and at vast expense.
Kawasaki's new patent isn't a straight copy of the Tesi layout. In fact it's got a rather different design, with a front suspension 'swingarm' that's actually connected to the main frame via a set of not-quite-parallel links at the back. A near-vertical front member allows for steering, connecting to the bars via a linkage that allows the suspension to move.
A single front shock is mounted transversely across the width of the bike, just below the steering head, with a pushrod from the front swingarm to operate it.
The theoretical advantages in terms of handling and grip are the same as most other hub-steered bikes, including the Tesi. Braking forces travel straight along the front swingarm into the frame rather than taking a roundabout route via forks and the steering head as in conventional bikes. That means there's no need for an overbuilt frame to cope with the huge leverage that forks apply under braking, and that the front suspension doesn't have to compress when you hit the anchors. In turn, that means the bike should be well-placed to cope with bumps during braking, increasing front-end grip.
All those advantages are well-known, but hub-centre steering has notably failed to take off because the bikes that use it have usually been vastly expensive – like the Tesi – or unfamiliar-feeling to ride, like Yamaha's GTS1000.
The cost issue is one that Kawasaki's design is intended to beat. In fact, the patent suggests that cost saving is one of the design's big advantages over conventional bikes.
Although there's no suggestion that each bike using the hub-steer system will be cheaper to make than a conventional, fork-using design, the patent application puts cost saving at its heart, saying that multiple, completely different bikes could be built around the same major building blocks.
The idea is that the lower section of the bike – the engine, the vestigial lower frame around it and the front and rear swingarms – could be shared across several designs. By changing only the small sections that support the seat and the bars, completely different riding positions can be achieved and, in the patent author's own words, "the cost required for the design and production can be suppressed."
Although the design here is notably different to the Tesi, there are clues hidden in the document's text that show Kawasaki could move to a much more Tesi-like layout, eliminating the parallel links that connect the swingarm to the chassis in favour of a simple pivot. The document reads: "…the pair of support link members, 14, 15, is not essential and may be omitted."
The steering system shown in Kawasaki's patent is much simpler than the Tesi's design, which is potentially good news when it comes to getting accurate feedback at the bars. Every hinge and pivot obviously introduces the possibility of slop and slack, and the Kawasaki design only introduces two hinges in the linkage between the bars and the front wheel. That's far fewer than the complex arrangement of pushrods and pivots that the Tesi uses.
Kawasaki also says it's not wedded to the steering system shown here, suggesting that it could use other designs up to and including an actuator – presumably electronic or hydraulic – rather than a direct linkage twixt bars and front wheel.
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Occasionally a customer will ask InterConnect how many breaches in a wire's insulation is acceptable. The answer is an easy one; there should not be any breaches in the insulation of any wire inside an aircraft. So why is that? And, what is a breach?
A breach in the insulation of a wire is when the insulation no longer covers the conductor. Figure 1 below shows a breach in F-16 Kapton wire. This breach was probably caused by chaffing of the wire against an object.
The green color shown in Figure 2 below represents 22 gauge wire. When you look at these wires you see: (a) green, which is the paint for the color code, (b) orange, which is the Kapton insulation, and (c) silver, which is the conductor of the wire. The wire on the far left has a small breach that you can see because the silver conductor is apparent. The middle wire has a large breach in it. The green paint is breached as well as the orange Kapton insulation leaving the silver conductor exposed. The wire on the far right is not breached to the conductor. The green paint is breached but the Kapton insulation is not.
The breaches observed in Figure 2 were probably caused by bending of the wires around some object. Because there are two wires adjacent to each other this breach is worse than others. When there are two or more breaches next to each other there is a chance of a short circuit which can lead to intermittent signals, arcing, and fires.
Aircraft wires are designed to be resistant to breaches. At the same time, they are designed to be lightweight and small in diameter. Thus, aircraft design engineers must make a decision as to how much protective insulation should cover wires, while at the same time try to reduce the size and weight of the wires on an aircraft.
When InterConnect makes wiring harnesses, none are shipped with breaches. If we accidentally nick or damage a wire during the manufacturing process, we replace the wire. It is unacceptable to have breaches in any wire. Breaches can lead to many problems in an aircraft and can even cause the loss of an aircraft, pilot and crew. InterConnect uses DITMCO wiring analyzers to test each wiring harness to make sure there are no breaches in any wire.
Bottom line is any breach in a wire's insulation is bad. In our next blog, we will show how breaches in Kapton insulation wires can lead to arcing and fires. Stayed tuned!


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Newsroom / Young Surveyor of the Year Awards 2017
By Christopher Welch
Posted On December 04, 2017 By Christopher Welch
Young Surveyor of the Year Awards 2017
G&T attended the RICS 2017 Young Surveyor of the Year Awards (YSOYA) that celebrated the industry's most inspirational young surveying professionals. G&T Associate and RICS Matrics Chairman, David Keddie, co-hosted the black tie event, which saw G&T sponsor the Young Apprentice of the Year Award.
"The standard of entries this year was outstanding, and testament to the surveying profession's renowned high standards."
G&T Associate and RICS Matrics Chairman, David Keddie
RICS Matrics Chairman and G&T Associate, David Keddie
The evening recognised up and coming talent within the profession. Individuals were nominated as a testament to their hard work and unwavering commitment to improving the industry. The evening saw eight winners, showcasing success in their role and sector.
G&T's David Keddie co-hosted the evening and commented:
"The standard of entries this year was outstanding, and testament to the surveying profession's renowned high standards. Now four years old, the YSOYA sees people come together to celebrate the growing talent in our industry. By showcasing these inspirational people, they are becoming the role models and leaders to watch in the future."
"Undertaking an apprenticeship will soon be the most important entry route of choice for those wishing to be a surveyor."
G&T Partner and Apprenticeship Champion, Chris Welch
Apprentice of the Year award
G&T is the lead employer for the 'Apprenticeship Trailblazer in Surveying' and sponsored the RICS Young Apprentice of the Year award. The award was presented by G&T Partner, Chris Welch, to the winning candidate, Kimberly Hepburn. Kimberly is a apprentice at Transport for London and recently completed her AssocRICS qualification.
"As an apprentice it was particularly inspiring to see G&T sponsor this award, truly highlighting the growth and success of such programmes and the opportunities they offer us."
G&T Apprentice, Billy Clayton
G&T Apprentices enjoying the evening
Ten G&T employees attended the evening, including young apprentices and several champions of the apprenticeship scheme from across the firm. The evening was a great success and a real celebration of the next generation of property and construction professionals.
"Awards such as this are important for the Next Generation, to show our gratitude for all their hard work. Hopefully it will inspire them to keep persevering and reassure them they're in the right profession."
G&T Partner, Katherine Clover
Find out more about our apprenticeship scheme.
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The Chartership Programme
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Passage des Orgues je ulice v Paříži v historické čtvrti Marais. Nachází se ve 3. obvodu.

Poloha
Ulice vede od domu č. 36 na Rue Meslay (přes ulici je vstup do Passage du Pont-aux-Biches) a končí u domu č. 29, Boulevard Saint-Martin. Jedná se o průchod, který vede obytným blokem. Je tedy soukromou ulicí, a proto je z obou stran uzavřen bránou.

Historie
Datum vzniku ulice není známé. Obě ulice, které spojuje, tj. Boulevard Saint-Martin a Rue Meslay, byly otevřeny na konci 17. století a krátce poté rozparcelovány. Průchod je v pařížském katastru zanesen od konce 19. století. Název ulice pochází od firmy Alexandre Père et Fils, která vyráběla harmonia (nazývaná orgue expressif), jejíž obchod se nacházel v letech 1850–1872 v domě č. 39 na Rue Meslay, hned vedle vstupu do průchodu.

Zajímavé objekty
V domě č. 29, boulevard Saint-Martin, kde je severní vstup, se narodil režisér Georges Méliès.

Reference

Externí odkazy

  Ulice na stránkách města Paříže

Orgues
Le Marais


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Q: Understanding the impact of var and val with respect to getters and setters of a property Let's say I have a Kotlin class Dog with two properties weight and weightInKgs
class Dog(val weight: Double) {
    // property without initializing works. Why?
    val weightinKgs: Double
    get() = weight/ 2.2;
}

The above code runs without errors. I know that every property in Kotlin must be initialized so why does defining a getter without initializing the property work? Secondly, when val is changed to var for weightInKgs, it produces an error asking for initialization. How does changing it to var break the code?
class Dog(val weight: Double) {
    // well its doesn't work now.
    var weightinKgs: Double
        get() = weight/ 2.2;
}

A: Every property with a backing field must be initialized. A property has a backing field if any of the following is true:

*

*You initialize the backing field at the declaration site using =.

*It has a custom getter or setter that references field.

*It uses the implicit getter or setter, which implicitly uses field.

Otherwise, it does not have a backing field.
If there is no backing field used by the getter and/or setter, there is no need to initialize one. Your first code block has a custom getter that doesn't use field.
In your second code block, you have a var and it's using the implicit setter, which uses the backing field, so the backing field must be initialized.

A: If it's not obvious, get() is a function that calculates a value (weight / 2.2) every time you call it. It's basically the equivalent to this
fun getWeightInKgs(): Double {
    return weight / 2.2
}

So that's why it doesn't have a backing field, it's not actually storing a value. But Kotlin presents these kinds of getX() functions (and set, is etc) as properties, and encourages you to use property access syntax, so dog.weightInKgs instead of dog.getWeightInKgs(). Kinda hiding the specific implementation details
If you didn't want to calculate the weight every time, and just wanted to do it once, then you'd just do
val weightInKgs = weight / 2.2

and then it would have a backing field, because that value has to be stored somewhere. You could also have a getter function that refers to a private val or var and returns the value of that, instead of giving the property itself a backing field, but if you ever need to do that kind of thing you'll probably understand why you would! That's usually for when your getter and/or setter is doing something a bit more complicated than just hiding or validating an internal data value


The Coalition for the Homeless' Client Advisory Group (CAG) was formed nearly two decades ago to give homeless and formerly homeless New Yorkers a mechanism to share common experiences, support each other, and effectively advocate for themselves. CAG meets weekly in the Coalition's headquarters to engage in activism, education, empowerment, and socialization.
CAG meetings are facilitated by the Coalition's Shelter Specialist, who leads the group in discussions about topics that directly impact their lives. CAG members identify the issues of most concern to them including conditions in homeless shelters; access to affordable housing; employment; public benefits; and other relevant City, State, and Federal policies. Members also share their personal stories and help each other cope with the trauma and stresses of homelessness.
The Coalition, as the independent monitor of the NYC municipal shelter system, is uniquely able to help shelter residents advocate for themselves, empowering them with information, education, access, and resources.
The roundtable style of the weekly meetings gives CAG members a forum for sharing common experiences and challenges in the shelters and on the streets, giving each member a valuable sense of belonging and purpose.
Outside of the weekly meetings, CAG plays a central role in the Coalition's broader advocacy efforts. In addition to helping inform other shelter residents of their legal rights, CAG members provide a voice for homeless New Yorkers to the general public and elected officials at press conferences, rallies, and marches.
CAG launched its quarterly newsletter for shelter residents, The Monitor, in June of 2018.
CAG meets 5pm-7pm every Tuesday at the Coalition's office: 129 Fulton Street in lower Manhattan. Dinner and MetroCards are provided. All are welcome!
The Monitor is a free, quarterly newsletter written by homeless and formerly homeless members of CAG.


Norwegian pregnant women who received a vaccine against the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus showed no increased risk of pregnancy loss, while pregnant women who experienced influenza during pregnancy had an increased risk of miscarriages and still births, a study has found. The study suggests that influenza infection may increase the risk of fetal loss.
Scientists at the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) published their findings online Jan. 17 in the New England Journal of Medicine. The research was conducted following the H1N1 influenza pandemic that took place between spring 2009 and fall 2010. The researchers at the NIH were from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).
Norwegian public health officials had urged pregnant women to be vaccinated. However, media reports of pregnancy losses after flu shots caused some expectant mothers to forgo vaccination.
First author Siri Haberg, MD, PhD, of the NIPH and colleagues initiated the study to help address the question of vaccine safety, by taking advantage of Norways excellent registries and medical records system. Haberg spent one year of her postdoctoral fellowship in the NIEHS Epidemiology Branch before returning home to Norway during the pandemic.
NIEHS researcher and co-author Allen Wilcox, MD, PhD, said the NIPH researchers combined data from obstetrical visits, birth records, and vaccination registries to investigate whether the influenza vaccination posed a risk to pregnancy. The study found that influenza infection increased the risk of fetal loss by up to twofold. Influenza vaccination did not increase the risk of loss. Instead, the results suggest that vaccination reduces the risk of fetal loss.
Most important is that vaccinations protect pregnant women against influenza illness, which could be harmful for both the mother and the baby, Wilcox says. If pregnant women are worried about their fetus, then getting a flu shot is a good thing to do.
Haberg adds, Pregnant women should find it reassuring that we found no harmful effects on the fetus associated with H1N1 vaccination.


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Poetry >
Expecting Songbirds
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Oftentimes narrative, and predominantly free verse, Benevento's poems mirror his Italian-American, working class roots in a predominantly black and Latino neighborhood in Queens, but they also look back on his past three decades as professor, editor and writer in the small-town, overwhelmingly white Midwest and the tensions and ironies of having lived the life of an outsider in both settings. Poems delivered with the "plain spoken ease and realism of Frost" (Walter Bargen) and which, "at their best bring to mind the exceptional work of Philip Levine and B.H. Fairchild," (Larry D. Thomas), Expecting Songbirds is an affirmation of Whitman's goal to seek the miraculous in the commonplace. Whether dealing with never quite lost loves, multi-layered lessons gleaned from nature, or a bittersweet but genuine belief in family, Expecting Songbirds stands as testament to over three decades of serious commitment to accessible poetry by a writer who has not underestimated the redeeming value in never taking oneself too seriously.
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