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Discover how to knit custom-fit armscyes with ease.
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Create a ribbed pattern with a bit more stretch and flair using the brioche stitch. Here's how!
Use short row darts and vertical darts to adjust the fit of any garment.
Tips and tricks for playing with beautiful colors with stranded knitting.
Explore top down knitting and find out why it might be the best technique for your next project.
You'll love how effortlessly raglan sleeves take shape in your garment. Learn more here.
Explore color theory to learn how to select great complementary colors for your knits.
From reversible lace to netting, these lace knitting stitches will spice up your knitting repertoire!
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If you love sweaters, be sure to explore these three different types of armhole construction to understand their aesthetic differences.
Give your garments the shape you desire with blocking. Here's how.
Express your creativity! With these ideas for designing your own shawl you'll be knitting a custom wardrobe in no time.
Enjoy these quick tips for finishing your knitting with ease.
Ready to begin a new project? Explore these helpful knitting ideas will get you heading in the right direction.
Learn 2 methods for joining knitting in the round in this quick step by step tutorial.
A double-sided jacquard knit will have pattern on both sides and will be double thick. Find out more about this technique.
Get ready to begin your project! With this helpful guide you'll understand knitting abbreviations in no time.
Make even classic patterns appear modern and chic with novelty yarns like chenille, ribbon yarn, and more.
Learn how to match your knits to your size and shape by taking the right body measurements.
Learn fun techniques for finishing your knitting projects.
Create curves in your knits with short rows and a wrap stitch. Learn how here.
Want to prove to the world you're an awesome knitter? Find out how to become a certified knitting instructor.
Introducing the Peruvian knitting technique, a new needle hold for faster knitting.
Knitting projects don't end as soon as you get them off the needle. Learn tips on the final, finishing touches for any knitting projects.
Need a gift fast? Here are some ideas for knitting projects you can finish in a flash.
Get pointers on how to make knitting on double-point needles work for you.
When you get the itch to knit, these are the four knitting books you shouldn't live without.
Stroll back through time to check out some of the knitting tools our grandmothers used.
Machine knitting is a different beast from knitting by hand, offering new possibilities and different styles.
Find out how to do five of the most basic knitting stitch increases to give shape to your knit projects!
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Discover the vast world of circular knitting needles; find the most useful sizes and the projects that work best for each!
Get started with beautiful multi-color knitting by learning the main tricks to Fair Isle knitting.
Sometimes, you just want a stretchier edge, for a sock that won't pinch or a sweater that will fit over your head. Here's how!
Have you ever wondered what a nupp is? Discover this central feature of Estonian lace, and the elegant texture it can add to your projects.
Learn how any pattern can be adjusted, in terms of sizing, structure, yarns and more, to make exactly the garment you want.
Explore five essential categories of knitted sleeves to try on your next garment!
Learn the secrets to successfully selling your handknit designs.
Learn two methods for casting on in knitting: Long Tail and German Twisted.
A look into the life and work of Galina Khmeleva: knitting guru, teacher and inspiration.
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Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground, With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound.
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What more can one say about a team that has now managed to score a goal in 41 consecutive league matches? Even when performances are not what one would expect from a Scudetto winning side, Juventus still manage a win.
On Sunday, the Old Lady needed her two veterans and World Cup winners to secure a 1-0 victory but the ensuing celebrations revealed an important thing: appetites have not been satisfied and winning is of the utmost importance.
Gian Piero Gasperini sides favour a game played at a high tempo with quick passing and exhaustive tactics. It is an energetic style of play that focuses on wing-play, with men moving on the outside, overlapping diligently to create numerical superiority whenever possible.
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In his efforts to save city schools, Rochester schools Superintendent Bolgen Vargas is turning to some former high level district administrators: Ray Giamartino, Ralph Spezio, and Suzanne Johnston.
Giamartino will serve as chief of school transformation, where his primary task will be moving some of the lowest performing schools in the state to schools in good standing. He was formerly a school chief with the district overseeing 20 schools in the northeast area of the city. He left the district in 2010 to become superintendent of the East Rochester school district.
Spezio will become executive principal of School 17 when it reopens in the fall. He returns to the district after leading School 17 from 1990 to 2002.
And Johnston will serve as an outside educational expert for Joseph P. Wilson Commencement Academy. She will work as a mentor to the school’s new principal, Uma Mehta, to raise the academic performance at Wilson.
Monroe County Legislature committees are meeting this week.
Democrats have introduced legislation to restrict the gifts that county officials can accept. In an introductory memo, Democrat Josh Bauroth writes that the current prohibition on accepting gifts is too vague. Current county law prohibits county employees and officials from receiving gifts exceeding $25 if “it could be reasonably inferred” that the gift is intended to influence performance of their duties or to reward them for an official action.
“There must be a clear prohibition on accepting any gifts from those with an interest in county business,” Bauroth writes.
The Agenda/Charter Committee will take up the legislation at 6 p.m. tonight. The meeting is at the County Office Building, 39 West Main Street. Jeremy Moule
The City of Rochester’s Department of Neighborhood and Business Development will hold a public hearing to get community input it will use to update the Local Waterfront Revitalization Program. The program guides waterfront development in the city.
The meeting will cover four waterfront topics: history, vision, issues, and priorities. Participants will be asked to comment on how the city’s waterfront should be developed and how public resource should be prioritized for that development.
The LWRP update will include all of the city’s waterfront areas along Lake Ontario, the Genesee River, and the Erie Canal. The update will also identify new waterfront policies and recommendations which will guide future development and infrastructure improvements.
The meeting is from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 26, in City Council chambers at City Hall, 30 Church Street. Christine Carrie Fien
Maybe someone can sell me on the reasoning for keeping the city’s mounted patrol, because I just don’t see it.
Mayor Tom Richards’ proposal to eliminate the patrol would’ve saved a little bit of money — a paltry sum, really, in the context of the multimillion-dollar budget gaps facing the city. But cost savings weren’t really the point.
Richards wanted to redirect the patrol’s seven officers to deal with rising gang-related violence in the city. As of last month, Rochester had experienced an 80 percent jump in shootings over the last year. Hiring an additional seven officers would’ve cost the city approximately $1 million, whereas eliminating the patrol and reassigning the officers would’ve saved the city about $100,000.
Richards’ plan seems perfectly logical and prudent to me. I’m sure the horses are a wonderful PR tool and come in handy for breaking up crowds, when necessary. But cutting the mounted patrol isn’t going to stop people from opening businesses in the city or keep suburbanites from coming here. Fear — rational or not — that they’re going to get shot strolling down Main Street, will and does.
I don’t doubt the City Council members who say they received calls and letters protesting the proposed cut. But when the city held a series of meetings to get the public’s input on the upcoming budget, the citizens there said they wanted to get rid of the patrol. In fact, it was the item they most wanted cut of all possible police services.
I suppose you can argue that the system worked exactly the way it’s supposed to. The mayor proposed something, City Council pushed back, and we got a compromise; the mounted patrol will be reduced to four officers.
And I know it’s an election year, and no one likes cuts. But honestly, if we can’t cut this, what can we cut?
Add Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska to the growing list of Congress members who support marriage equality.
In an op-ed posted this week to her Senate website, Murkowski said marriage equality is a matter of personal liberty, family values, and limiting government intrusion into people's lives. She actually framed marriage equality as consistent with Republican principles.
It's worth noting Murkowski's timing. The op-ed was posted on Wednesday, a day before the Supreme Court could have released its decisions on two important marriage equality cases: the federal Defense of Marriage Act and California's Prop 8. (The court ultimately didn't release those decisions, but could next week).
At his last Coffee and Conversation meeting of the school year — monthly open forums for parents, teachers, and residents of the city school district — Superintendent Bolgen Vargas was probably prepared to address outrage over the slipping graduation rates. Rochester’s rate — well below 50 percent— had been announced the day before.
But what Vargas got instead were questions from angry parents about the most basic operational issues — customer courtesies that are standard at most used car dealerships.
A mother said she called her child’s principal several times after the child came home with bruises. She said her calls were not returned. Another mother whose son returned to the district after growing out of a local charter school said she was disgusted by the lack of interest teachers and staff showed toward her son. Her calls weren't returned, either, she said.
“You’ve got a lot of people here who just don’t care,” she said.
While a couple of parents praised Vargas and the district, they were exceptions.
The parents who came to meet Vargas were engaged city parents, the very ones school officials are always saying they don’t have enough of — the same ones they say they’re trying not to lose to charter and suburban schools.
But as one parent said to me, “If the district was a restaurant, there would be a lot of empty seats around here.”
While many of the district’s problems are linked to severe child poverty, some are caused by plain old bad management and a culture of apathy. If the district can’t serve its more engaged parents by doing something as rudimentary and important as returning calls, the idea of attracting middle income families back to the district and the city is nonsensical.
For the second time this week, Democrats in the Monroe County Legislature are calling for a countywide fracking ban.
This afternoon, three members of the caucus laid out the framework for their desired ban. They haven't drafted legislation yet; Minority Leader Carrie Andrews said they're hoping to work with at least a few Republican legislators to advance a proposal.
Democrats have tried to get fracking-related legislation passed previously. Late last year, they introduced a proposal to ban the treatment of fracking waste fluid at county-owned treatment plants. That measure, though technically still alive, stalled.
Dems say they want the new legislation to include a ban on fracking and related activities, including the acceptance and treatment of fracking fluid. And they say they want the county to ban the acceptance of other fracking wastes, such as drill cuttings, at its Mill Seat landfill. They also want the county to ban the spreading of waste brine from fracking on county roads.
Last night, City Council voted to extend a Rochester's moratorium on natural gas exploration and extraction for another year.
The resolution says the city extended the moratorium "in order to preserve and protect the public health, safety, and welfare of the residents of and visitors to the City of Rochester from known and suspected dangers from natural gas exploration and extraction, while the effects of such activities in the city can be further studied."
The resolution also says research into gas exploration and extraction in urban areas has been inadequate.
Municipal officials frame these types of moratoriums as practical matters, often citing issues similar to those mentioned above. But the resolutions also have a symbolic function. They show state officials that communities and elected officials are concerned about the effects of widespread drilling. New York State is in the middle of a multi-year review of high-volume hydraulic fracturing as a means to extract natural gas from shale formations.
Council first voted to pass the moratorium last year.
A copy of the moratorium legislation is attached below the jump.
Whatever momentum Brockport Mayor Maria “Connie” Castañeda got from her recent legal success wasn't enough to carry her to victory in yesterday’s village elections. Castañeda was soundly defeated in her re-election bid by Margay Blackman, a current village trustee and retired professor of anthropology at SUNY Brockport, 613 votes to 355 votes, according to unofficial results from the county Board of Elections.
Castañeda has been a divisive figure in Brockport politics. Her critics accuse her of wanting to dissolve the village — though Castañeda has never said so publicly. Castañeda says she’s the victim of dirty politics and that her only goal has been prudent financial stewardship.
Castañeda also faced misconduct charges stemming from the alleged illegal rental of rooms in her Brockport home. Those charges were recently dismissed, but Castañeda still faces code violation charges in the village. She’s suggested that she may sue over her arrest.
It's unlikely that Castañeda's defeat means the end of the dissolution question in Brockport. The 2010 vote, in which Brockport residents rejected dissolution, was driven by landlords who operate in the village. They could easily petition to hold another vote, despite the fact that no one on the village board appears to support dissolution at this time.
The Revitalize Brockport ticket, which included Blackman, newcomer Valerie Ciciotti, and incumbent trustee Carol Hannan swept to victory last night. Ciciotti and Hannan will serve four-year terms on the village board.
[UPDATED 5:10 p.m.] County Executive Maggie Brooks just sent out this statement responding to the report from the Comptroller's Office:
"The Comptroller has confirmed what everyone already knows: crushing state mandates are threatening the fiscal stability of local governments. Using Mr. DiNapoli’s math, Monroe County would need to raise local taxes by $100 million to stay off of his list while paying for the mandates that account for 83% of our budget. Clearly, that is not an option. If Mr. DiNapoli is serious about solving fiscal stress, he must work with his colleagues in Albany to fix the mandate problem."
Original post: The state Comptroller's Office says Monroe County is in significant fiscal stress and is perhaps the most stressed local government in the state.
This morning, the office released a list of municipalities that it considers to be under varying levels of fiscal stress. The rankings were based on aspects of 2012 finances, such as end-of-the-year fund balances, operating deficits, and use of short-term debt. The rankings also considered certain trends facing the community, including poverty levels, employment base, age of the population, and sales tax revenues.
Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposed Women's Equality Act has come under fire because of its language about abortion.
Right now, abortion is regulated through the state's penal law. Cuomo says his legislation would simply write into law the rights guaranteed under the Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision and remove regulation of abortions from the penal law. But anti-abortion rights groups — and some state legislators — say the governor is trying to expand abortion rights.
But the legislation — only one short section in it relates to abortion — really doesn't read that way. Here's the first paragraph, which is the main component of the abortion law changes:
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Gigi Hadid has officially rekindled her romance with ex-boyfriend Zayn Malik after breaking up with him a year ago. The couple sparked the rumours when Zayn and Gigi were spotted on Saturday when he attended the celebrations for her mother’s birthday. The two walked arm-in-arm while celebrating Zayn’s 27th birthday the next evening in New York City. The couple was accompanied by Gigi’s sister Bella Hadid, their mother Yolanda Hadid and singer Dua Lipa.
An international entertainment portal quoted a source that said, “Gigi and Zayn got back together right before the holidays in December. Zayn has been reaching out to Gigi for the last month and she is giving him another chance. She has always loved him and the break between the two was needed. Zayn has been working on his past music and focusing on his health and is in a really good place currently.”
Gigi and Zayn were first linked together in November 2015 before splitting up in March 2018 and getting back together in June. They split once again in January 2019. However, despite not being together they remained friends throughout the year and even appeared on the cover of a magazine in August 2017.
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Huge starfish pile washes up on Southsea Beach after storm
A HUGE pile of starfish has washed up on Southsea beach as Portsmouth continues to feel the effects of stormy weather.
Blue Reef Aquarium has advised people who come across the creatures near South Parade Pier to put them back in the sea and to wash their hands afterwards.
Cllr Donna Jones, leader of Portsmouth City Council, has tweeted out a picture of the starfish today, which have washed up after Storm Angus swept the region.
It comes after The Pyramids was forced to close yesterday due to flooding, though the gym can now be accessed via the pool reception.
A section of Clarence Esplanade was closed at the weekend as strong winds and flooding hit Southsea. Portsmouth City Council put temporary road-gate closures in place along the seafront after Storm Angus hit Portsmouth in the early hours of this morning.

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Layering the Landscape in Pastel with Beki Borman
Saturday, November 19: 9 am-3 pm
In this one day workshop, students will learn pastel drawing while focusing on landscape as a subject matter. Materials, tools, and techniques will be covered. Students will learn how to layer and blend pastels to achieve gradation, depth, and atmosphere. We will start with a few exercises to develop concepts and then we will move on to completed drawings. This class is open to all levels of experience. Students should bring sketchbook or note paper, a pencil set, blending stumps (at least 3 assorted sizes) and possible landscape photographs to work from. Most supplies are included but students may bring their own chalk pastels and toned paper.
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Award winning singer and songwriter Nyota Ndogo was furious at those who were condemning the fact that she had posted a picture of herself holding a gun. She posted this picture late last year during the ‘My Dress My Choice’ frenzy against stripping of indecently dressed women by men. She wonders why the picture has resurfaced again yet she thought people were done with it and had moved on.
According to her many celebrities have posted pictures worse things than that online. Did people want her to post nude photos of herself to keep them talking, she asks. She is angry at those using her name to get fame and also make a name for themselves.
When asked whether she was a licensed gun holder she replied that she was very much aware of what the law says and she can’t be that silly to be wielding around a weapon.

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Ashley and Geoff warned their photographers that, “This will be a nerd wedding!” As if that needed to be a warning — it’s a huge bonus!
For two awesome humans who met at a zombie larp(!), they had the amazingly nerdy wedding you would expect and it was glorious. Each guest table was decorated with a different fandom, from Harry Potter to Dresden Files to Conan the Barbarian. Their card holder was a hand-made sarlacc pit (complete with little skeleton couple). Their cake was Star Wars and Alien-themed.
Following the short and sweet ceremony, in which Ashley’s dad, dressed as Darth Vader, walked her down the aisle, they took photos inside the Cave of the Mounds. Don’t miss Ashley’s black and white dress, black veil, and killer boots…


The company’s denial came after American billionaire and ‘Twitter’ owner Elon Musk attacked the instant messaging application ‘WhatsApp’, believing that the application cannot be trusted, as he claimed, in his tweet to him, which he posted on “Twitter “.
Musk’s tweet came in response to another tweet posted by Twitter engineer Fouad Dabiri in which he indicated that the WhatsApp application was using his phone’s microphone in the background while he slept.
The ‘Twitter’ engineer attached an image of his Android phone’s settings to his tweet, showing that WhatsApp used the microphone at different times. The engineer added that the image was part of a longer timeline and asked what was going on with the application.
Musk continued in another tweet, in which he said that the founders of the “WhatsApp” application had left the company after the “Meta” company acquired it to protest the changes following the acquisition, and conducted a campaign to urge users to delete ‘Facebook’ from their devices, and they also helped develop a safer alternative to ‘WhatsApp’, which is the instant messaging application ‘Signal’.
It is worth noting that some users have also reported that they are facing a similar problem with their devices as shown by their comments on the previously mentioned tweets.
For its part, “Google” has not yet responded to anything on the matter, except that the balance is more inclined to the justifications mentioned by “WhatsApp”, given that the application provides full encryption functionality and microphone access settings they can be controlled by the Android system as well as the iPhone, and it is extremely difficult for the app to access the microphone without permission or warning the user.
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The Central Caribbean Marine Institute's latest educational initiative aims to inspire students to become stewards of the ocean, regardless of location or physical ability, by experiencing the wonders of life under the water's surface.
ReefsGoLive is a virtual underwater experience with marine scientists communicating in real-time with students in the classroom, living room or on a mobile device, through the use of full face masks worn by the diver and the ability to live stream from underwater.
"We now live in a world where information and media is available in real-time", said Tom Sparke, Education Manager at CCMI who developed this initiative. "Education needs to be tailored to connect with today's student. ReefsGoLive is an innovative tool that will engage with young students by taking them on a virtual dive with our marine scientists to unlock the secrets of Little Cayman's reefs. ReefsGoLive has the potential to change the way students interact with their pristine waters and aid in CCMI's mission to promote ocean literacy amongst young people."
The project has already been piloted with a live lionfish lesson delivered in real-time to a group of 25 students at Westwood High School in Massachusetts, USA. Teacher Mr. Michael Mao was keenly interested in the project: "The students in my class were very engaged in the lesson and indicated that it was more interesting than just watching a YouTube video", he explained. "They particularly liked the interaction with the scientists and the ability to get their questions answered immediately. It is a great way to expose students to field research and environmental issues."
"ReefsGoLive will make it possible to broadcast live underwater lessons right into any classroom that has a weblink, said Dr. Carrie Manfrino, CCMI President." The programme will help the CCMI to reach their long term goal for every child in the Cayman Islands to be ocean literate by the time they are 12 years old. Each year, CCMI offers scholarships for local school children to come over to the Little Cayman Research Centre, they host 10 local school programs, and their educators travel to Grand Cayman to teach part of their Young Environmental Leadership Course (YELC). "We have run out of space at the research centre during peak months for researchers and we have been looking for solutions. I am pleased that we will get closer to the grand vision of ocean literacy thanks to the ReefsGoLive project", she said.


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Childish Gambino hit with copyright infringement lawsuit
Actor Donald Glover, aka Childish Gambino, is being sued for alleged copyright infringement over his Grammy winning single “This Is America.” According to U.S. federal court documents obtained by TMZ, Emelike Nwosuocha, who raps under the name Kidd Wes, claims that Glover’s 2018 song is “glaringly similar” to a song he released two years prior on Soundcloud called “Made In America.”
The complaint filed in New York cites “nearly-identical unique rhythmic, lyrical, and thematic compositional and performance content contained in the chorus – or ‘hook’ – sections that are the centerpieces of both songs.” Nwosuocha also claims the flow of his song and Gambino’s are “unmistakably substantially similar, if not practically identical.”
Gambino’s “This Is America,” fueled with African drums and rhythms and social commentary, became the first rap song to win a Grammy for best song and best record in 2019. TMZ reports that Kidd Wes says he created his track on SoundCloud in September 2016 and released it on YouTube a couple months later. He claims he also registered the song with the U.S. Copyright Office in May 2017, and it was set to be the lead single on his album.
Kidd Wes hired a musicologist as well who stated “similarities in melodic contour, rhythmic triplet flow in each performance, and the lines ‘Made in America’ and ‘This is America’ are ‘likely not coincidences.” The rapper is seeking damages for lost profits and opportunities. Other defendants listed include record labels RCA, Roc Nation and the rapper Young Thug, who is credited as a writer and performing backing vocals.
Glover has not publicly responded to the allegations. Compare the tracks on the following page and see if you think Kidd Wes has a valid case.


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A few basic words as expressed in American Sign Language are presented in this book. Each page is devoted to a single word or concept, e.g., “hello,” “cat,” and “happy.” A pen-and-ink diagram of the ASL gesture or sign appears beside a full-color watercolor illustration of the object or emotion being described. Pp. 32.
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Real Madrid will host visitors Juventus at the Bernabeu in the second leg of their Champions League tie on Wednesday night, but the current holders will be without their captain Sergio Ramos.
The Spain defender picked up a yellow during the first leg in Turin which Real won 3-0, and is now suspended for this week's fixture, leaving Zinedine Zidane with a bit of a headache as Nacho Fernandez is also out due to injury.
Jesus Vallejo was thought to be in line to replace the banned skipper, but he won't be fit in time to slot in, according to Spanish publication Diario AS.
The source also claims that Brazilian midfielder Casemiro will be Zidane's choice as a replacement if he doesn't have Vallejo ready by then. If that's the case, then he will have the options of using Mateo Kovacic or Lucas Vasquez in midfield to fill in the void.
Casemiro has only played in defence for Madrid on three occasions, starting twice and replacing Ramos after the Spanish international was sent off.
AS note that Madrid failed to win all three of those games, something which could be a concern if the 26-year-old indeed lines up in defence for Los Blancos against a potent Juventus side.


Exlar has announced that the Tritex II Series AC actuator (available in linear and rotary varieties) has won a 2009 Design News Golden Mousetrap Award for Best Product under the category Motion Control/Automation, subcategory Motors & Mechanical Components.
Tritex II was one of 23 Golden Mousetrap Award winners selected from a record number of entries. The Tritex II AC actuator has 1500W operation and digital position control and combines a brushless servomotor with either linear or rotary (output) actuation within a sealed housing. The Tritex II AC actuator offers built-in mechanical converters that eliminate the need for traditional ball screw or gear reducer mechanisms, incorporating all the required position control and power electronics into the actuator itself.
The Tritex II actuator’s all-in-one design eliminates the need for an external servo amplifier and cables. The actuator operates from 100-240VAC to allow direct connection to factory power sources, and it provides multiple feedback types, including absolute feedback. Offering digital and analogue I/O, Tritex II integrates into control architectures and machine control processes by utilising popular communication networks such as Modbus, Ethernet IP, HART, Modbus TCP/IP, CANopen and CAN/J1939.


US President Barack Obama offered a very personal take on the death of Trayvon Martin, saying that 35 years ago, he could have been the unarmed black teen shot dead by a neighborhood watchman.
In a surprise appearance before reporters, Obama hailed the "incredible grace and dignity" of Martin's parents and warned that a resort to violence in the wake of the Florida court verdict would "dishonor" his death.
He also called for a review of controversial "stand your ground" laws like the one in place in Florida, which assert that citizens can use lethal force -- rather than retreat -- if they sense their lives are at risk.
"When Trayvon Martin was first shot, I said that this could have been my son," Obama said, in his first substantive comments on a verdict that has aroused an impassioned debate on US race relations.
"Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.
While he refrained from direct comment on the jury's decision to acquit neighborhood watch volunteer GeorgeZimmerman on Saturday, Obama weighed in on the larger issues of race raised by the case.
"I just ask people to consider if Trayvon Martin was of age and armed, could he have stood his ground on that sidewalk?" Obama asked.
"And do we actually think that he would have been justified in shooting Mr Zimmerman who had followed him in a car because he felt threatened?
"And if the answer to that question is at least ambiguous, then it seems to me that we might want to examine those kinds of laws," he said.


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Fears for £3 billion North East devolution deal following the fall of Boris Johnson
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Negotiations for a region-wide deal are at an advanced stage, but the sacking of Michael Gove and departure of his junior ministers from the Department for Levelling Up, coupled with the confirmation Johnson is to stand down as Prime Minister, could stall progress.
Teesside-born Greg Clark was appointed as the new levelling up secretary on Thursday lunchtime.
Labour’s North of Tyne mayor Jamie Driscoll has said whoever replaced Mr Gove would need to provide a “solution to this instability”, while Glen Sanderson, Tory leader of Northumberland County Council, has echoed the concerns.
The proposed devolution deal would also see a regional mayor elected in 2024 to govern a new combined authority covering Gateshead, Sunderland, South Tyneside, Newcastle, North Tyneside and Northumberland.
It is expected to deliver more than £3 billion of Government funding over 30 years and could generate more than 17,000 jobs, if agreed to by local council leaders.
Mr Driscoll said: “Central Government is clearly totally unstable right now. But any Government that wants to win an election needs to convince people in the English regions that it will improve their areas.
“So we might see new ministers. Perhaps the current ministers could be reappointed under a new leader – who knows?
"But the fact is, devolution works. As far as expanding North East devolution, we’re at an advanced stage of negotiations, and I’ve been in touch with ministers – and ex-ministers – today.
"But we do need a solution to this instability to make progress for our region.”
A previous bid for a North East devolution deal collapsed dramatically in 2016 amid a political split, after which Newcastle, North Tyneside, and Northumberland broke away to form the North of Tyne Combined Authority (NTCA), with Driscoll later elected as Labour mayor.
Since then, talks have restarted with a new deal thought to be close, Johnson’s resignation and uncertainty over the government’s future direction has thrown the process into doubt.
Glen Sanderson, the Conservative leader of Northumberland County Council, said: “Today we have no ministers in the Department for Levelling Up, I have no ministers to talk to about negotiations and we had been at an advanced stage.
“It falls to everyone in Westminster to deal with this matter and get ministers in position, to move forward and continue with the work we are doing.”
Amid speculation that Boris Johnson would resign but seek to stay as Prime Minister until the autumn while a replacement is elected from within the Tory party, Cllr Sanderson said that the “most important thing is that we fill or refill these posts that are crucial in the Government”.
He added: “It is crucial that we get those filled for the Government to work. [Whether Mr Johnson stays as Prime Minister until the autumn] is above my pay grade.”
Tracey Dixon, the Labour leader of South Tyneside Council, has appealed for a quick transition to address issues such as the cost of living crisis.
She added: “We need stability and surety and a focus from Government that they will work with us, helping our residents through this difficult time and building on our fantastic assets, rather than squabbling among themselves."


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Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:Planning, coordinating and performing all aircraft maintenance operations related to the company’s two Dassault Falcon 2000 LXS aircraft. This is to ensure the highest aircraft dispatch reliability and availability while following FAA regulations and manufacturer’s approved maintenance programs.
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- Look for ways to eliminate waste and reduce downtime in efforts to be as efficient as possible without compromising safety.
- Ensure that all maintenance is recorded in the proper logbook and that those logbooks are kept in a neat and easily accessible format.
- Perform pre and post flight inspections for each dispatch.
- Continuously monitor Airworthiness Directives, Service Bulletins and Manufacturer communications for each aircraft and determine applicability.
- When required, operate aircraft tugs and department fuel farm safely.
- Continuous self-improvement with ongoing education and recurrent training.
- Be willing to do whatever is necessary to insure the seamless delivery of travel related services.
- Having broad knowledge based on experience of the corporate aircraft maintenance environment and the nuances that go with operating/maintaining company aircraft.
- Holding an Airframe and Powerplant license to include an Inspection Authorization.
- Preferred (but not required) to have manufacturer’s training on the Falcon 2000 LXS.
- A Bachelor’s or Associate’s Degree in a Technical or Engineering discipline is preferred but not required.
- Positive and respectful communications skills are a must. We want to foster and maintain a cooperative, team based environment.
We offer a stable work environment, modern facilities and a high quality of life location. In addition, the selected candidate will receive a competitive salary and an excellent benefit package including (day one) Medical, Dental, Prescription Drug, Vacation, Vision, Life, LTD/STD, and Company matching 401(k). If you are interested in exploring this exceptional career opportunity with a solid, stable company, please send your resume and salary history by September 1, 2019 to: Green Bay Packaging Inc. Attn. - David J. Mogan, PHR e-mail email@example.com Thank you in advance for your interest. Due to the tremendous volume of responses, we will be unable to personally acknowledge receipt of each resume. We will contact candidates directly if there is further interest. We appreciate your understanding in this matter.
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The Piute County Sheriff's Office responded to a report of a paragliding accident Wednesday, Aug. 14, at approximately 2:20 p.m.
The missing paraglider was reported approximately five miles west of Junction.
"Piute and Sevier County search and rescue responded to do a foot search of rough terrain, North of State Route 153 on the Beaver Mountain Ranger District," said Piute County Sheriff Marty Gleave.
He said a witness observed Norman Stevens, 65, take off, said that she noticed he had slipped below his harness upon takeoff and was hanging on by his hands. At one point, the witness observed his glider wing collapse and then went out of sight into a deep canyon.
The parachute of the aircraft was located but the victim was not located at the site of the crash. A search for the subject was conducted for approximately four hours.
At approximately 6 p.m., a helicopter from Classic Lifeguard was able to locate the victim’s body from the air. The Department of Public Safety’s Helicopter was dispatched to the scene to hoist the victim from the canyon.


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Season eight of Game of Thrones marked the end of the HBO series after nine years on the air. It’s fair to say the ending of the TV series left a vast number of GOT fans dissatisfied, so much so a petition to have the series rewritten with “competent writers” gained more than a million signatures within a few days of existence. With so much attention on the show, Westeros creator George RR Martin has been questioned incessantly about how his books will end. The author has since spoken out to hint at what his A Song of Ice and Fire novels will hold.
With two books to go in Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novel series, fans will be waiting a while to see how the story ends on paper.
However, Martin has revealed he’s known how his story ends for over 20 years.
In an interview with ITV, he said: “I’ve known the ending of my books since 1993 or so,
“So I’m just moving forward with the story that I’ve always intended to tell.”
He also admitted the show moved ahead of him which “he never thought would happen,” but in a separate interview with The Guardian admitted they’re “not the same thing”.
When discussing the pressures of finishing his novels combined with the global success and ongoing comparison with the show, Martin admits the experience was stressful.
He told the publication: “There were a couple of years where, if I could have finished the book, I could have stayed ahead of the show for another couple of years, and the stress was enormous,
“I don’t think it was very good for me, because the very thing that should have speeded me up actually slowed me down.
“Every day I sat down to write and even if I had a good day – and a good day for me is three or four pages – I’d feel terrible because I’d be thinking: ‘My God, I have to finish the book. I’ve only written four pages when I should have written 40.’
“But having the show finish is freeing because I’m at my own pace now. I have good days and I have bad days and the stress is far less, although it’s still there…
“I’m sure that when I finish A Dream of Spring you’ll have to tether me to the Earth.”
Back in his chat with ITV, he also admitted the series omitted a number of subplots and characters.
As such, it’s likely to foresee these plots and figures playing a part in the novel’s ending.
He said: “The show got ahead of me several years ago, which I never thought would happen, but the show made some decisions to omit certain characters and subplots that I was dealing with,
“So they, in some sense, streamlined what they were doing. And that got them ahead of me, and I’m still working. I’m still in Westeros.”
While fans eagerly await Martin’s next novel, The Winds of Winter, there’s still no release date on the book.
Despite feeling it “freeing” the TV series, Martin still has a lot on his plate in terms of commitments way from A Song of Ice and Fire.
He’s currently working on the untitled Game of Thrones prequel series, which is believed to be in post-production.
On top of that, he has three other Game of Thrones spin-offs announced, working with the likes of Carly Wray, Bryan Cogman and Max Borenstein.
Martin will also serve as executive producer on Wild Card, a brand new WWII thriller.
How exactly the books will finish compared to the HBO series will be definitively revealed when Martin finishes his book.
Game of Thrones season 8 is available to stream and buy on Amazon Prime now.


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What is Medical Massage?
Medical Massage is outcome-based massage performed with the intent of improving conditions or pathologies that have been diagnosed by a physician. Medical Massage does not refer to any specific technique. A wide variety of modalities or procedures are utilized to focus the treatment based on the diagnosed condition.
How does Medical Massage Work?
- Have your condition diagnosed by a Medical Professional
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- Office manager or through you
- Email or phone
- I customize a massage plan based on the Medical Team’s goals (Team = the people you want involved)
- Surgeons issue a list of pre & post operation work
- Doctors, chiropractor, & physical therapist typically give post accident/trauma instructions
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It takes time to prepare & coordinate the work with other professionals.
What is Beck's background in Medical Massage?
I began performing medical massage on the set of NBC’s American Gladiators. The Set Medic, Athletic Trainer, consulting doctors, and other specialist wanted a log of the massage work I was doing & planned to do. The process I developed was so effective that the Medical Staff asked me to work with them on the set of NBC’s The Biggest Loser. Since then, I have worked with some of the top LA based Chiropractors, Physical Therapists, & Surgeons (Orthopedic, Cardiac, Plastic, ENT, & General).
Everyone has ‘their thing’. I don’t do electrical, plumbing, cut people open, adjust bones, or meddle in things that I shouldn’t. My specialty is soft tissue. I believe that 95% of the problems people face are either caused by or are exacerbated by soft tissue issues. I’ve spent over 10,000 to 15,000 hours performing massage. Not many can do what I can because they either lack the experience or training. I have consistent results that defy what many specialist feel is possible. As the client, you define the quality of my work.

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FEW shareholders of NVR Inc., a large home builder and mortgage lender, have grumbled about the compensation of Dwight C. Schar, its chief executive. Sure, he made $94 million in 2002, mostly by exercising options. But stockholders have become rich alongside Mr. Schar, who bought an interest in the Washington Redskins last year. A closer look at NVR, however, indicates that management's rewards may come at a higher cost than shareholders may realize.

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In this study we sought consensus on a list of important potential harms and benefits of using ginger for the management of NVP that should be addressed during the clinical consultation in the Palestinian clinical practice by a panel of physicians and a panel of women. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to achieve consensus on such list of potential harms and benefits of ginger in NVP using formal consensus techniques.
In this study, we used a purpose sampling technique to recruit the panel of physicians and a snowball sampling technique to recruit the panel of women. In conservative views, these sampling techniques has long been considered biased [44, 45]. However, using other randomized sampling techniques was not possible in this study as these techniques are not suitable for the type of this study. Using these sampling techniques allowed the inclusion of panel members who had prior knowledge of the subject being investigated. In this study, we recruited physicians the majority of which were gynecologists and the rest were physicians who are frequently consulted by pregnant women suffering from NVP. Currently, there is no consensus on the ideal number of panelists in a Delphi panel. Previous studies used panels ranging in size from 10 to 1000 . The number of panelists in this study was larger or similar to those previously used in Delphi consensus studies on issues in healthcare [40, 41, 46]. The advantages of the Delphi technique includes maintaining anonymity of the panelists, possibility of including panelists from different geographic locations, reduces costs and efforts to bring the panelists together compared to focus groups, and ensures immunity against individual domination of the decision compared to nominal or focused groups [44, 47].
The aim of this study was to achieve consensus on a list of the important potential harms and benefits of using ginger for the management of NVP that should be addressed during the clinical consultation. This list would be used by clinicians as a guidance on what potential harms and benefits to address during the clinical consultation. Guidelines on what clinicians should address during the clinical consultation when ginger is advised for NVP do not exist. We, therefore, believe that such lists developed through consensual methods might be beneficial in changing the behavior of physicians during the clinical consultation [14, 40, 43, 46, 48–50].
Prior studies reported high usage of herbal therapies in the Palestinian population including women who were pregnant [51–53]. In this study, 70% of the women reported being quite often recommended to use herbal therapies for their NVP. Similarly, 62% of the physicians admitted recommending quite often herbal therapies for pregnant women suffering NVP. It was reported that about 50% of the users of herbal therapies would not inform their physicians of such use . Similarly, another study reported that physicians seldom ask if the patient was using herbal therapies . Therefore, many patients end up using herbal and conventional therapies concurrently . This has been attributed to poor communication and the insufficient time allocated to the clinical consultation . The panel of women included women who had previous pregnancies, suffered NVP, and used ginger to manage their NVP. Women included in the panel were expected to provide the concerns that pregnant women suffering NVP would like their physicians to address during the clinical consultation. Interestingly, 76% of the women wanted their physicians to address the potential harms and benefits of the herbal therapies during the clinical consultation.
High response rates in both Delphi iterative rounds from physicians and women is a major strength that adds to the validity of this study. Previous studies used panels that greatly varied in size ranging from 10 to more than 1000 participants [44, 57]. Studies using the Delphi technique to achieve consensus on issues in healthcare used panels of 50 participants or less [36, 46, 50]. In this study, both panels were composed of 50 members. The panel size used in this study was either comparable to or more than those used in previous studies [36, 40, 43, 46, 50]. The panel of physicians included participants of both genders, from different geographical locations, clinical practice settings, age groups, and experience periods. The panel of women also included participants from different geographical locations, age groups, number of pregnancies, history of miscarriage, employment, and educational levels. This diversity adds to the validity and suitability of addressing the potential harms and benefits that the participants agreed upon in this study. It has been argued that in absence of gold standards, consensual methods provide means of reducing bias, promoting transparency, and validity of judgmental methods when developing certain criteria . Therefore, we believe that addressing these potential harms and benefits of using ginger for NVP during a clinical consultation approached using formal consensus method might be more appealing to clinical practitioners advising pregnant women to use ginger for their NVP.
Interestingly in this study, consensus was achieved on six potential harms associated with the potential anticoagulant effects of ginger that should be addressed during the clinical consultation by both women and physicians (Table 3). These findings are not surprising, as previous studies showed that patients wanted to hear more from their healthcare providers on the medications they are taking . The American Society of Anesthesiologists has advised that patients should discontinue all herbal therapies 2 to 3 weeks before an elective surgical procedure to avoid any potential intraoperative adverse events . Recently, Marx et al. systematically reviewed eight clinical trials and two observational studies on the anticoagulant effects of ginger . Considering the risks of bias, methodological variation, timeframe studied, dose of ginger used, and characteristics of the participants, Marx et al. concluded that the evidence that ginger affects platelet aggregation and coagulation is still equivocal and further studies are needed to illustrate a definite conclusion. However, a previous study showed that gingerols, which are compounds found in ginger, and the related compounds were able to inhibit arachidonic acid-induced human platelet serotonin release and aggregation in vitro . The potency of these compounds were comparable to aspirin. Another study showed that 8-paradol, which is a component of ginger, was a relatively potent COX-1 inhibitor and antiplatelet aggregation agent compared to four other components of ginger with antiplatelet activities . In spite of the fact that the anticoagulant effects of ginger are still inconclusive. Bleeding in the first trimester of pregnancy can have detrimental effects on the mother and her fetus. Hasan et al. reported association between heavy bleeding in the first trimester, especially when accompanied with pain, and higher risk of miscarriage in a study with 4539 women . In this study, panelists were of the opinion that physician should address the potential anticoagulant effects of ginger with pregnant women who are at higher risk of bleeding to make a better informed decision whether to use ginger or not.
Both physicians and women agreed that the risks associated with abortion should also be addressed during the clinical consultation when pregnant women are advised to take ginger for their NVP (Table 3, items 7–9). Today, there is no conclusive evidence of the adverse effects of ginger on the developing fetus. Therefore, ginger and ginger containing products are labeled differently across the globe. In the United States, ginger is “generally regarded as safe”. However, in Germany, the German E Commission on herbal medicines (does not exist anymore) recommended that ginger to be avoided in pregnancy . Moreover, the Finnish Food Safety Authority Evira recommended that ginger products, ginger tea, and food supplements containing ginger should bear a warning label as not recommended during pregnancy . Previous studies showed that ginger might be associated with spontaneous abortion and impairment of fetal development [21–23, 30]. Portnoi et al. conducted a study in Canada in which the birth outcomes of 187 women who were exposed to ginger in their first trimester of pregnancy were prospectively compared to the birth outcomes of 187 women who were exposed to other nonteratogenic medications that were not antiemetics . The comparison showed that there was no statistically significant difference in terms of live births, spontaneous abortions, therapeutic abortions, birth weight, and/or gestational age between both groups. More recently, Heitmann et al. reported on the safety of using ginger during pregnancy in terms of congenital malformations and selected pregnancy outcomes in a large cohort of 68,522 women in Norway . The study showed that 1020 women which represented 1.5% of the study population used ginger during their pregnancies. The study concluded that there was no increased risk of stillbirth/perinatal death, preterm birth, low birth weight, or low Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, Respiration (Apgar) score for the women who were exposed and those who were not exposed to ginger. Taking a conservative approach, women should be warned of the still inconclusive association between exposure to ginger and risk on the fetus and continuity of the pregnancy.
Ginger could be associated with or could worsen symptoms of other co-morbidities [19, 20, 28, 31]. Ginger might be associated with reducing blood pressure and blood sugar. Ginger can cause dehydration and allergic reactions. In this study, both physicians and women agreed that such possibilities should be addressed during the clinical consultation. Pregnant women should be warned that ginger might precipitate cardiac arrhythmias, stimulate irritable bowel syndrome, duodenal ulcer, secretion of bile, and heartburn. Physicians should address these potential harms during the clinical consultation. For example, pregnant women at risk of cardiac arrhythmias or those taking antiarrhythmic medications might be advised not to take ginger and a suitable alternative might be recommended. Similar measures should be applied to avoid the potential harm of ginger in worsen other conditions.
The views of both physicians and women were divisive whether to address the potentials of ginger inducing diarrhea, mild headache, fever, sweating, thirst, mild skin itching, and belching. It is noteworthy to mention that in many studies the seriousness of the reported adverse effects depends on the subjective judgements of the research team taking into account the possibility of these events in normal pregnancies without any interventions . Classifying the potential harms of ginger into major and minor goes beyond the scope of this study, however in general, researchers often classify harms as major when the consequence was serious or detrimental to the mother and/or fetus. When the harm was a merely discomfort and manageable it was considered minor.
Both physicians and women agreed that pregnant women suffering NVP might be informed of the potential benefits of ginger for NVP, nausea and vomiting in motion sickness, cough, flu, chronic pulmonary disease, milk production, joint pain, skin health, appetite in eating disorders, weight loss, hypercholesterolemia, diuresis, and dyspepsia. Physicians and women were divisive whether to address that ginger might induce somnolence.
When pregnant women need treatment, more care should be exerted when prescribing medications to this vulnerable group of patients. The risks should be weighed against the benefits of using a specific treatment considering the available alternatives and consequences of using or not using these treatments. The same measures should be applied when advising them to take herbal therapies.

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A group of British lawmakers have penned an open letter to Saudi officials, raising concerns over jailed women’s rights activists, following allegations they have been subjected to torture and sexual assault while in detention.
More than a dozen activists were imprisoned last May, just ahead of Saudi Arabia’s ban on women driving being lifted. Many of them were prominent campaigners for the new rights. Although some were released without charge, at least eight women and several male supporters remain in prison. All have been denied access to lawyers, and at least three of the women have been tortured and sexually assaulted, according to reports by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
The cross-party panel of lawmakers and advocates requested, in an open letter to the Saudi ambassador to the U.K., Prince Mohammed bin Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz, that they be permitted to visit the women activists in Dhahban prison to check on their condition.
“No person should be subjected to the type of treatment that has allegedly been inflicted upon these women activists while in detention,” wrote Conservative MP Crispin Blunt, who chairs the panel. “The implications of activists being detained and tortured for exercising their freedom of speech and conducting peaceful campaigns is concerning for all individuals seeking to exercise their human rights in Saudi Arabia.”
Among those detained were women’s rights activists Loujain al-Hathloul, Aziza al-Yousef, Eman al-Nafjan, Nouf Abdelaziz, Mayaa al-Zahrani, Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Saada, and Hatoon al-Fassi. Ibrahim al-Modaimeegh, a lawyer; Abdulaziz Meshaal, a philanthropist, and Mohammed Rabea, a social activist, were also detained because of their unerring support for women’s equality.
Since being detained, a number of the activists have been “repeatedly tortured by electrocution and flogging, leaving some unable to walk or stand properly,” according to a report by Amnesty International.
“In one reported instance, one of the activists was made to hang from the ceiling, and according to another testimony, one of the detained women was reportedly subjected to sexual harassment, by interrogators wearing face masks,” the report added.
A Human Rights Watch report said: “At least three women were subjected to sexual harassment and assault, including forced hugging and kissing and exposure to sexually suggestive gestures.”
Saudi Arabia has denied the allegations of torture, saying: “These recent reports by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are baseless.”
Read the full story at The Independent.


Temple Emanu-El 16th annual Mitzvah Day
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Dozens of acts of community service took place at Temple Emanu-El on Sunday, May 7 for their annual Mitzvah Day.
More than a hundred volunteers worked to provide comfort bags for the homeless and people undergoing chemotherapy.
They wrapped school supplies, created blankets for those in need, made friendship bracelets for foster children, wrapped donations of school supplies for under-served children and much more.
Rabbi Elaine Rose Glickman explained the significance of the day of service.
“Part of what our task is, our sacred mission as Jews, is to ‘tikkun-olam’, to bring repair to the brokenness that is in our world,” said Rabbi Elaine. “We at Temple Emanu-El are blessed with a tremendous social action committee, a tremendous social justice committee, we try to engage in this work all of the time, and today we come together to make as big of an impact as we can and we have a really, really wonderful time doing it. "
This was the 16th annual Mitzvah Day hosted by Temple Emanu-El.
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text: In a city like New Haven where Tony award winning theatres are all over the place, the Yale Cabaret is a great find for those seeking fresh theatre and a nice Caesar salad. The Yale Cabaret has two seasons (Term year and summer) which consist of an all student (mostly Yale but not necessarily) cast and management. Since it's cabaret you will also find a delicious rotating full menu to accompany your theatre evening. Every week is a new piece and although most of the time you'll not have heard of the work it's always interesting and worthy of your time. Call ahead for reservations as it's almost always sold out.


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Despite the slow, seemingly bottomless decline of NBC's prime-time lineup over the past decade, the network's other programming remained unaffected. Now there are signs that is changing.
NBC's "Today" show, "Tonight" show, "Nightly News" and "Meet the Press" have long led their time slots on broadcast television. Each is seeing rivals chip away at that supremacy and although different factors are at play, there are worries that prime-time problems also play a role.
"Performing this poorly in prime time year after year does have an impact on other (parts of the day)," said Brad Adgate, an analyst for Horizon Media.
NBC is averaging 6.9 million viewers in prime time this season, fourth behind CBS, Fox and ABC _ nearly 2 million behind third-place ABC, the Nielsen Co. said. That's down 32 percent from NBC's average five years ago and a whopping 55 percent off the 15.4 million people who watched NBC on a typical evening during the must-see TV era in 1996-97.
To some degree, there is an out-of-sight, out-of-mind factor at play. If you're not watching an NBC prime-time show, that means fewer opportunities to see a promo for the Jay Leno line-up that night, or who might talk to Matt Lauer the next morning. And because you haven't seen the ads for upcoming shows, you're less likely to tune in.
The "Today" show is still the industry leader, but its morning competition with ABC's "Good Morning America" is significantly tighter than it was last year.
Through six weeks of this season, "Today" has averaged 5.23 million viewers, Nielsen said. That's actually up slightly from last season, an achievement since it indicates that the replacement of Meredith Vieira with Ann Curry as co-host was pulled off without a hiccup.
Yet "Good Morning America," with 4.78 million viewers, has gained more than a half million viewers this season, closing the gap with "Today," going from 22 percent to 9 percent. "Today" has kept its loyal fans but new people are going to ABC. "GMA" sees the numbers as evidence that the addition of Josh Elliott and Lara Spencer to the team of Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos has clicked.
"You're going to get all the news and information you need and have a royally grand time," said James Goldston, "Good Morning America" executive producer.
The trend raises the possibility that ABC can seriously threaten NBC's vaunted winning streak, which would be huge psychologically and financially for NBC. "Today" hasn't lost a single week in the ratings since December 1995, a stretch of 828 weeks.
The last time ABC pulled close _ in one week of May 2005 "Today" won by only 43,000 viewers _ it resulted in a management turnover that put current "Today" executive producer Jim Bell in his job and then NBC pulled away again. "Today" is NBC's most profitable program, and doesn't want to show any sense of vulnerability. NBC notes that last season "Today" had its biggest advantage over ABC in seven years in the 25-to-54-year-old demographic on which it bases ad sales.
A positive impact of prime time for ABC: "Good Morning America" does particularly well on mornings that it features interviews with ousted "Dancing With the Stars" contenders.
Executives at NBC News don't want to point fingers at colleagues in charge of the prime-time lineup, where viewership is down 11 percent just from last season. Still, the situation forces them to look for different ways to get the word out about their material with fewer viewers available to see the evening promotions.
That lack of visibility may have hurt Brian Williams' new "Rock Center" newsmagazine, which premiered last week before 4.1 million viewers, or less than a third of what "60 Minutes" gets for a typical telecast.
"Everybody is pulling for prime time to improve," said David Corvo, senior executive producer at NBC News. "These are men and women that we know and they put an awful lot of work into it."
Williams' "Nightly News" remains the clear ratings leader in the evening news category. Although ABC's "World News" pulled closer earlier this fall, NBC has stretched out its lead in recent weeks. While still far behind in third place, the "CBS Evening News" has become more competitive since Scott Pelley took over as anchor.
NBC's "Meet the Press" was long the dominant player in the Sunday morning political chat shows, but those days have changed. Much of that was due to the death of longtime host Tim Russert in June 2008.
The real growth on Sunday morning is on CBS, where "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer has significantly improved its standing against "Meet the Press" and new anchor David Gregory and Christiane Amanpour of ABC's "This Week."
So far this season "Meet the Press" holds a narrow lead among all viewers, but there's been a big turnaround among 25-to-54-year-olds. Schieffer is now ahead in that category, while Gregory's broadcast has dropped 17 percent over the past year, according to Nielsen.
Jay Leno was the king of late-night TV for more than a decade, but that's not the case anymore. Leno has never really recovered from the failed experiment to put him in prime time.
ABC's "Nightline" leads the late-night ratings now, and this season has increased its small advantage over Leno's "Tonight" show and CBS's "Late Show" with David Letterman. The "Tonight" show is essentially flat, while Letterman is losing viewers.
Despite this trend, Letterman has taken a slight lead over Leno among the demographically prized 18-to-49-year-old viewers. That means Leno's audience, with a median age of 57, is getting older and less valuable in the eyes of the TV industry.
For NBC, these non-prime-time programs have essentially defied television gravity by staying strong as the rest of the network crumbled around them. New corporate owner Comcast Corp. seems to realize that prime time is where most of NBC's energy should be centered. Reports are that the network's entertainment division is spending aggressively during development season to become more competitive.
"Perhaps the best you can say is that there's upside if they can fix what is obviously broken," said Craig Moffett, a senior analyst for the Wall Street firm Sanford C. Bernstein.


By Mike Oitzman | April 27, 2022
Ondas Holdings Inc., a provider of private wireless data, drone and automated data solutions through its wholly owned subsidiaries, announced that American Robotics has added seven additional sites of operation approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for its automated beyond visual line of site (BVLOS) drone technology, the Scout System.
As the first company approved by the FAA to operate automated drones without human operators on-site, American Robotics continues to build upon its industry position with a portfolio of 10 operational sites across eight U.S. states associated with current and expected customers. This approval represents another important step towards scalable autonomous operations within the commercial drone industry. American Robotics won an RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award in 2021 from our sister publication Robotics Business Review.
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But the FDA decided at the last minute to hold off on authorizing emergency use of the plasma after top scientists at the National Institutes of Health argued that data on the treatment’s efficacy was still thin, the New York Times reported Wednesday. While NIH has no role in approving therapies, the Times wrote that NIH Director Francis Collins and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Director Anthony Fauci raised alarms about the lack of definitive evidence.
More than 60,000 people in the U.S. have received plasma under a “compassionate use” program run by the Mayo Clinic, and clinical trials are ongoing. But there are no results yet from randomized, controlled studies, which are considered the gold standard in medical research.
Michael Caputo, assistant secretary of HHS for public affairs, told POLITICO, “NIH has no role in approving an EUA and the person quoted” — H. Clifford Lane, the clinical director at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in the New York Times story — “did not attend key meetings on the topic.”
The FDA declined to comment on the matter. “Per policy, we are not able to comment on whether or not we will take any action regarding emergency use authorization for convalescent plasma and will render a decision at the appropriate time,” said Anand Shah, FDA’s Deputy Commissioner for Medical and Scientific Affairs.
He added that plasma is available through multiple pathways including clinical trials, a national expanded access program and single-patient request to use it in an emergency.
NIH referred questions to NIAID, which did not respond to requests for comment. An NIH source told POLITICO that concerns about the lack of definitive data had been brewing after the president appeared to latch onto plasma in recent press briefings.


Higher education’s unique storage and data requirements
COVID-19 has also brought with it a fresh set of data challenges, driven by the need for remote working and learning and the sheer amount of e-learning video data generated as a result. Across the board, the ongoing pandemic has forced a whole reappraisal of institutional data storage needs within the education sector.
Old architectures and processes suddenly no longer fit the current educational environment. These factors bring storage considerations to ‘life’, prompting discussions about how to manage diverse data types, data needs and architectures.
In the early stages of the pandemic, IT practices were largely reactive, due to the lack of ‘coping’ methods, such as policies for long-term remote working, e-learning and data access within pre-existing IT strategies. And although things have settled, IT leaders may be dealing with the aftershock of this for some time – creating yet more complexity in their roles.
Universities and research institutes alike have unique signifiers and sensitivities that define their approach to data management. These attributes, explored in a new industry report carried out by Western Digital with IT leaders from universities and research institutes across North, Central and Eastern Europe, fall into four distinct categories:
• Research data volume. As opposed to the lighter touch approach of agile business organisations, universities often find themselves contending with vast quantities of data related to research.
From enrolment to graduation, these rich learning environments are exponentially generating unpredictable amounts of different data types – smart video, video conferences, courses, tests, results, research, images, lectures and unstructured data, to name but a few – that need to be properly protected and stored. As a result of this, individual file sizes, like video, can be enormous.
This places additional strain on the data storage infrastructure within which they are managed. Naturally, this impacts the storage solutions IT leaders choose to work with, and the capabilities these technologies are required to provide in terms of security, performance, sharing and compliance.
• Organisational diversity. Universities are distinct from general business organisations because they perform a myriad of additional functions in addition to core research and operational management.
Educational organisations process personal and sensitive information about their staff and students, such as financial data, medical and personal records and so on.
All that information can be subject to specific local compliance requirements, most notably the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that all European institutions need to abide by. Therefore, having storage solutions that can comply with the proper encryption is crucial.
• Committee decision-making. Unlike the hierarchical management structure of large businesses, educational institutions are decentralised and flatter. Any decision-making on the types of data storage solutions to use tends to be made on a committee basis, as opposed to purely by senior management.
This type of decision-making challenges conventional ways where the divide between ownership and stewardship of data is more distinct.
While IT may not always know where the value resides in the data, and academics and faculty may also not understand the intricacies of data storage and management, in universities there is an effort to make decisions with an understanding of each other’s perspective.
• Collaboration culture. The traditionally open ethos of universities and their culture of collaboration and sharing of data and research is again distinct from the commonplace strategies pursued in businesses, which adopt a more secretive approach to data in order to maintain a market advantage over their competitors.
Data sharing is a fundamental requirement in academia and so can drive the requirements in choosing more bespoke IT solutions.
The transactional process of sharing data between universities is particular to each institution. While most universities take full advantage in the exchange of data across their departments, the way they share it externally differs.
For instance, a representative of a public university in northern Italy spoke of using shared cloud storage, whereas their IT counterpart at a public university in Scotland instead relies on the platforms of other universities.
Cloud storage and data governance
Some IT leaders give a lot of autonomy to ‘super users’ of data storage, such as researchers within universities, as their work drives the value of the educational institution.
A university in London spoke of modelling their data storage architecture according to the needs of their ‘super user’ researchers. Their sophisticated use of the IT infrastructure means that this data-literate cohort needs to have a key role in infrastructure decision-making.
Universities are taking advantage of cloud technology to a degree. However, given the data attributes that education IT leaders work with, and their storage priorities, on-premises solutions are still used.
According to the report, currently under a third of data in total is stored in the cloud – even less sometimes for research institutes.
One research institute in Germany stored 15 times more data on-premises as compared to the cloud. And while some are looking to move the dial in favour of the cloud, both scale and the sensitivity of data are hampering greater cloud storage adoption.
Naturally, this varies between the types of institutes and the data attributes. For example, the research found that cloud use is more heavily favoured in cases where there is much data sharing and in smaller universities.
In addition to the four categories detailed above, there is another distinct challenge facing the education sector’s data governance. Most universities surveyed have some element of data governance in place. However, policies vary in complexity, and frequently ‘tier’ data types according to sensitivity and value.
These policies often also determine whether data can be stored in the cloud, or on-premises, which can be linked to GDPR, a notable concern for European universities.
For example, operational data (financial data) and student data would likely be placed in the GDPR-sensitive tier, whereas archival data that is not often used would likely fall into the low priority camp.
Data storage is complex and there’s no one-size-fits-all solution, and both cloud and on-premises have a place. According to the survey, cloud is generally viewed as the future among most IT leaders surveyed, but on-premises solutions are still widely used.
Regardless of the solution, it must demonstrate value, scale easily and be an enabler of the future priorities and plans of the university. It must also balance levels of security and compliance, as well as smooth workflows and capacity requirements for students, academia and faculty.
Davide Villa is director of business development for Europe, Middle East, Africa and India at Western Digital.