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  • Bryn
    Banned
    • Mar 2007
    • 24688

    Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
    "University of Northumberland" - where's that (genuine question)?
    Castelnuovo Inglese.

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    • Anastasius
      Full Member
      • Mar 2015
      • 1842

      Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
      "University of Northumberland" - where's that (genuine question)?
      Does this help ?

      Fewer Smart things. More smart people.

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      • Old Grumpy
        Full Member
        • Jan 2011
        • 3601

        Originally posted by Anastasius View Post
        Yes, that clarifies it, thank you.

        OG

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        • Bryn
          Banned
          • Mar 2007
          • 24688

          Originally posted by Bryn View Post
          Castelnuovo Inglese.
          Known as Newcastle Polytechnic until the 1988 Education Deform Act.

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          • johnb
            Full Member
            • Mar 2007
            • 2903

            Originally posted by Anastasius View Post
            John...700 students have tested positive at the University of Northumberland. Is that reflected in the figures coming out from HMG? I don't think so.
            If the tests were carried out by the "NHS" channels (i.e. not done privately) I can't see why they wouldn't show up (but then, who knows these days). However, it takes a few days for cases to appear in the reported figures.

            The number of confirmed cases for people in the age range 15-19 suddenly doubled in the cases reported on 29th Sept and I suspect that increase is strongly connected with students returning to university (and school, perhaps).

            Code:
            [B]New cases in the Age Group: 15-19[/B]
            				Avg	% of
            				Cases	Total
            Avg of the 7 days to 28/09	 512	11.1%
            Avg of 4 days 29/09 to 02/20	1024	19.2%
            Last edited by johnb; 03-10-20, 11:37.

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            • Pulcinella
              Host
              • Feb 2014
              • 10899

              Originally posted by Bryn View Post
              Known as Newcastle Polytechnic until the 1988 Education Deform Act.
              I hope that their teaching is better than their website (unless there's something wrong with my iPad!):

              With an expanding multicultural learning community, Northumbria (University of the Year 2022), in Newcastle upon Tyne, is a UK Top 25 university for Research Power across Europe.

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              • johnb
                Full Member
                • Mar 2007
                • 2903

                Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
                Indeed, though this graph suggests that Lewis and Harris might be somewhere to avoid, but it could just be showing 3 cases where before there was only 1. I don’t know what the actual data for those islands is. If there’d been no cases before the change would be infinite!
                Quite right.

                Lewis and Harris is part of the Administrative Area "Na h-Eileanan Siar" (Outer Hebrides). There was just 1 case in w/e 20/09 and 7 cases in w/e 27/9.

                [Later]
                The percentage increase for "Na h-Eileanan Siar" shows as 608.1% rather than 600%. This is because the two case rates that were compared were each rounded to 1 decimal place. I'll correct that.

                The percentage increases in the chart are still good enough for comparisons - but I will update the chart.

                [Even Later]
                Done.

                Corrected the rounding issue and uploaded a new version. The map is unchanged but the percentages in the list are now correct and slightly different to the previous upload.
                Last edited by johnb; 03-10-20, 12:44.

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                • Serial_Apologist
                  Full Member
                  • Dec 2010
                  • 37628

                  Originally posted by Bryn View Post
                  Castelnuovo Inglese.
                  I take it there's no Tedesco there!

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                  • cloughie
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2011
                    • 22116

                    Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                    I take it there's no Tedesco there!
                    No but to begin the big one there’s Julio and Enrique the Earhole!

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                    • french frank
                      Administrator/Moderator
                      • Feb 2007
                      • 30255

                      Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                      I take it there's no Tedesco there!
                      Neuschloß the suburb of Lampertheim? Don't think there's university there
                      It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                      • Serial_Apologist
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2010
                        • 37628

                        Originally posted by french frank View Post
                        Neuschloß the suburb of Lampertheim? Don't think there's university there
                        I was thinking of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco - a sort of Italian version of the Spanish composer Rodrigo.

                        This is my interpretation of Tarantella, a wonderful piece by Castelnuovo Tedesco! He also composed 24 preludes and fugues for 2 guitars, which I had the pri...


                        Last edited by Serial_Apologist; 03-10-20, 16:51.

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                        • Anastasius
                          Full Member
                          • Mar 2015
                          • 1842

                          Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
                          I hope that their teaching is better than their website (unless there's something wrong with my iPad!):

                          https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/
                          Looks OK here.
                          Fewer Smart things. More smart people.

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                          • Pulcinella
                            Host
                            • Feb 2014
                            • 10899

                            Originally posted by Anastasius View Post
                            Looks OK here.
                            Strange: definitely weird for me.
                            Not displaying properly at all (just rechecked).
                            I can't even click on the 'Accept' cookies, which I thought might be the problem.

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                            • Old Grumpy
                              Full Member
                              • Jan 2011
                              • 3601

                              OK for me, both on PC and Android phone. Rather boring monochrome design, but otherwise OK.

                              OG

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                              • johnb
                                Full Member
                                • Mar 2007
                                • 2903

                                In case anyone is wondering about yesterday's case figure of 12,872, the full "health warning" message on the Dashboard was:

                                Due to a technical issue, which has now been resolved, there has been a delay in publishing a number of COVID-19 cases to the dashboard in England. This means the total reported over the coming days will include some additional cases from the period between 24 September and 1 October, increasing the number of cases reported.
                                When the testing was under the auspices of PHE and a major correct was made they would usually publish a breakdown of the adjustment by day. Apparently not so now that Dido Harding's crew are involved.

                                Anyway, the following compares the announced new cases for yesterday (Saturday 3rd Oct) by specimen date and those announced the previous Saturday, 26th Sept. You can see that the adjustment goes back earlier than the 24th Sept quoted in the "health warning".

                                This could be out by a considerable margin but I suspect the underlying "non-adjusted" cases would have been of the order of 7,500 to 8,000 (based on the 30th Sept and 1st Oct cases by specimen date).



                                My own "health warning": the cases by specimen date don't capture 100% of the "headline" cases by reported date, but charts are reasonably representative.
                                Last edited by johnb; 04-10-20, 11:35.

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