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\section{INTRODUCTION}In robotics applications, where fast-moving agents are involved, high frame-rate video streams are necessary for agile reaction of control systems. There has been dedicated hardware for capturing high frame-rate videos; however, they are quite expensive. Therefore, increasing the frame rate with the involvement of additional processing yields more affordable high frame-rate videos and smoother slow-motion videos.

Video frame interpolation (VFI) is a vision task where a non-captured image sample is inserted between consecutive frames to increase the rate of low frame-rate videos. Since the movements appearing on the scene can be complex and their displacements are large, video frame interpolation is mostly considered as a challenging task.

The state-of-the-art methods that only use frames aim to estimate motion from consecutive images accurately. Such frame-only methods are divided into two mainstream categories, as (i) flow-based methods \cite{DAIN, BMBC, qvi_nips19,sim2021xvfi, Lu_2022_CVPR,huang2022rife}, and (ii) kernel-based methods \cite{Shi_2022_CVPR, Lee2020AdaCoFAC, Niklaus_CVPR_2017, Niklaus2021}.

Although frame-only approaches are regarded as precise when relatively short trajectories are involved, they might fail to estimate complex movements of fast-moving objects. The main reason for these algorithms fail in situations with fast-moving objects is due to the fact that they can only make linear predictions for the trajectories between keyframes to model the complex motion of the objects. Recent advances in mobile camera technologies lead more affordable (relative to the dedicated hardware) devices to have relatively higher frame-rate video recording capability, but this is also limited by the memory requirements of the devices, making it impossible to record long sequences of high frame-rate video by such hardware. Thus, the use of VFI methods still offer memory and storage efficiency.

Event-based cameras are novel vision sensors that detect only pixel-level brightness changes. The pixels in the sensor array asynchronously output information at high speeds (up to 1-$\mu s$ precision \cite{Survey}) for a high dynamic range (up to 120 dB \cite{Survey}). Therefore, event-based cameras are suitable sensors for obtaining additional information related to the moving objects in the scene. On the other hand, the asynchronous and fast nature of the event sensor implicates low data bit-rate due to the limited number of event data, while agile sensing is possible. Therefore, they provide beneficial information in temporal information that applies to VFI problem.

Recent studies \cite{Tulyakov_2022_CVPR} \cite{Tulyakov_2021_CVPR} argue that using additional information from the event-based sensors might outperform frame-only interpolation methods for VFI. The methods in \cite{Tulyakov_2022_CVPR} and \cite{Tulyakov_2021_CVPR} are follow-up studies of each other that estimate intermediate frames by warping the images after estimating the motion displacements by the help of events. The aforementioned algorithms have primarily been built on a combination of specific purpose-trained hourglass networks, which are computationally expensive due to the high number of parameters. Based on our preliminary simulations, the interpolated frames in \cite{Tulyakov_2022_CVPR} and \cite{Tulyakov_2021_CVPR} suffer from ghosting and blurring artifacts.

Transformers \cite{vaswani2017attention} are novel neural structures initially developed to model long-range dependencies in natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Researchers took inspiration from the success of the transformers in NLP and applied a similar approach to various vision tasks \cite{dosovitskiy2020image}. The idea of using transformers has been employed recently for frame-only VFI tasks both in kernel-based \cite{Shi_2022_CVPR} and flow-based methods \cite{Lu_2022_CVPR}. However, they also perform poorly in case of fast-moving objects present in the scene. Aforementioned studies inspire our work for modeling long-term dependencies using transformer structures in a lighter manner.

\textbf{Motivation.} The algorithms proposed in \cite{Lu_2022_CVPR}, \cite{Shi_2022_CVPR}, and \cite{Lee_2020_CVPR} mainly argue that if the movements of the visual content in consecutive images is encoded by a network and fused with the real images, one can achieve accurate generation of the intermediate frame as long as the optical flow modeling is accurate enough. The fact that frame-only methods suffer from modeling of complex and fast motions leads to use of additional sensor information. The event cameras might be an excellent way to capture more accurate temporal information. Additionally, the success of \textit{deformable convolutions} \cite{Deformable} for synthesizing intermediate frames motivates for a kernel-based video frame interpolation method, which should be based upon deformable convolution concept and backed up with an attention mechanism. In this work, we propose an attention-based, light-weight VFI network, namely \textit{event-based video frame interpolation with attention} (E-VFIA), that outperforms the visual quality of the current SoA event-based VFI methods in BS-ERGB dataset \cite{Tulyakov_2022_CVPR}.

The main contributions of this work can be summarized as follows:

\begin{itemize}
    \item We propose E-VFIA, the first kernel-based algorithm to utilize deformable deconvolutions to fuse event-based information and standard images for video frame interpolation with events.
    \item E-VFIA achieves significant improvement (up to $1.04dB$) against the state-of-the-art methods that use only key-frames and events together with key-frames. The proposed method achieves this promising result by approximately $2.07$ million parameters which is much less than its counterparts, making it more suitable for mobile robotics applications.
    \item We have utilized voxel grids to represent events. In order to extract the temporal information from the events efficiently, we analyze the effect of voxel grid size on the VFI performance, and it is observed that using voxel grids with higher temporal resolutions improves performance.
    \item We utilize both temporal and spatial pooling operations to associate fast-moving objects between consecutive images. By the help of such pooling operations, the objects that are moving fast are predicted better, since utilization of images at different resolutions enables data aggregation between different ends of the image.
\end{itemize}

\section{Related Work}
\textbf{Video Frame Interpolation.} VFI is a well-studied problem with mature solutions. The recent learning based methods can be divided into three groups: flow-based \cite{DAIN, BMBC, qvi_nips19,sim2021xvfi, Lu_2022_CVPR,huang2022rife}, kernel-based \cite{Shi_2022_CVPR, Lee2020AdaCoFAC, Niklaus_CVPR_2017, Niklaus2021}, and phase-based \cite{meyer2018phasenet}.

\emph{Flow-based approaches.} Essentially, flow-based methods \cite{DAIN, BMBC, qvi_nips19,sim2021xvfi, Lu_2022_CVPR,huang2022rife} estimate intermediate flow from left and right frames. Flow-based methods assume the motion in the scene is linear in its trajectory. Common architectural selections are mostly a variation of hourglass backbones; hence their performance is limited in occlusions, nonlinear trajectories, and brightness changes.

\emph{Kernel-based approaches.} Kernel-based methods \cite{Shi_2022_CVPR, Lee2020AdaCoFAC, Niklaus_CVPR_2017, Niklaus2021} aim to estimate a series of convolutional kernels that model the movements of the image patches implicitly. However, they might fail to model movements larger than the kernel size. A recent study \cite{Lee2020AdaCoFAC} enables kernel-based methods to model large motions by the development of deformable convolutions concept \cite{Deformable}. A recent promising approach \cite{Shi_2022_CVPR} extends this concept by utilizing an encoder-decoder mechanism and aims to model the long-term dependencies.

\emph{Phase-based approaches.} As indicated in \cite{Lee2020AdaCoFAC}, the method in \cite{meyer2018phasenet} takes video frames as linear combinations of different waveforms with different directions and frequencies. This approach interpolates phase and magnitude of each band of wavelet transform. This method is considered effective and efficient in both performance and runtime. Unfortunately, it is still constrained with large displacements, especially for high-frequency components.

\textbf{Utilization of Additional Sensors.} The idea of using additional information coming from an auxiliary camera has been investigated in the literature by low resolution high frame-rate cameras \cite{Paliwal_2020,gupta:2009}. It should be noted that the temporal resolutions of event cameras are significantly higher with respect to affordable low resolution high frame-rate cameras.

\textbf{Event-Based Approaches.} Event cameras offer higher dynamic range capability in addition to low data-rate and high temporal information flow. Thus, exploiting the properties of the event camera can be considered as a novel direction to investigate for VFI. Some studies \cite{Tulyakov_2021_CVPR,Tulyakov_2022_CVPR,DeblurringECCV2020 ,WeaklySupervised,EvIntSR,Wang_2021_ICCV} aim to overcome the VFI problem by using the information from event-based cameras. In a promising approach, \cite{Tulyakov_2021_CVPR} flow masks for intermediate frames from event voxels are estimated. Then, the algorithm generates artificial frames by warping the adjacent images by the estimated flow. Finally, an attention averaging module is used for fusing three sister images obtained from warping refinement module. In a two stage method \cite{WeaklySupervised}, the network fuses events with images in the first stage, whereas in the next part, the fused vectors are evaluated and integrated with a subpixel transformer network. The results in \cite{Tulyakov_2021_CVPR} are improved further by introducing a motion spline estimator, and multiscale feature fusion modules \cite{Tulyakov_2022_CVPR}. The motion spline estimator enables the pipeline to take into account the continuous nature of the movements on the scene. Since this network \cite{Tulyakov_2022_CVPR} has approximately 70M parameters for encoding the events to voxels, the number of time bins is limited in terms of memory. Such an approach leads event representation to be more blurry.

This paper addresses the primary limitations mentioned in \cite{Tulyakov_2022_CVPR} and \cite{Kalluri2020FLAVRFV}. We extend the approach in \cite{Shi_2022_CVPR} by using both events and frames. Since the event information already represents valuable details, we adopt a simpler input stage with a smaller attention mechanism, significantly reducing the number of parameters. The proposed method is relatively lightweight and can represent events in higher temporal resolution with deeper voxel grids while achieving improved interpolation results.

\section{Proposed Method}

\begin{figure*}[htbp]
    \centering{\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figures/event_to_pooling_layers.drawio-min.png}}
    \caption{Overview of the proposed method. Our method consists of three main parts. First events are represented with voxel grids. Then the voxel grids go through the SmoothNet and spatio-temporal absPooling layers. Finally, the constructed feature maps are fused with RGB frames by deformable convolutions that are embedded in parallel SynBlocks.}
    \label{archFigure}
\end{figure*}

Our aim is insertion of a non-existent image sample into a video sequence that is composed of four images and four event intervals. Let the interpolated image be denoted by \(I_0\). Assume the input images are denoted as \(I_{-2}\), \(I_{-1}\), \(I_{+1}\), and \(I_{+2}\), which represent the successive original keyframes. The input event intervals are indicated by \(E_{-2 \to -1}\), \(E_{-1 \to 0}\), \(E_{0 \to 1}\), and \(E_{2 \to 2}\) which are described in terms of voxels whose dimensions are $4 \times N_{TB} \times H \times W$ ($N_{TB}$: number of time bins, $H$: height, $W$: width).

The block diagram of the proposed system is presented in Figure \ref*{archFigure}. The proposed method is composed of two stages. The events are converted into voxel representation in the first stage and passed to the multi-head self-attention (MSA) block. The resultant vector is passed through a series of blocks in which pooling operations are performed. As a slight difference from the literature, before applying maximum pooling, the absolute values of voxel grids are evaluated. However, after the pooling operation, the polarities of the voxel grids are preserved; this stage is denoted as \textit{absPooling}.

As a result of the first stage, three feature vectors are obtained, each of which encodes information coming from different resolutions. By the help of such pooling operations, the objects that are moving fast are predicted better, since using images at different resolutions makes it easier to associate fast-moving objects between consecutive images. In order to make this association even better, both the temporal and spatial domain absPooling operations are used.

In the second stage, the feature vectors due to events resulting from the first step are provided as input to three SynBlocks (Synthesis Blocks \cite{Shi_2022_CVPR}) to fuse with RGB images. Every SynBlock takes four RGB frames and one event feature vector. Each SynBlock outputs an intermediate frame downscaled with \(l \in {0,1,2}\). The outputs of these three SynBlocks are combined to create the final output of our algorithm, which is shown in Figure \ref*{archFigure}, where \(f_{up}\) stands for bilinear upscaling, and \(O^l\) is an output of a SynBlock. Such a downscaling/upscaling structure helps the network to model trajectories of fast-moving objects better.

\textbf{Event-Volume Representation and Input Stage.}
Event data coming from an event-based camera is asynchronous and sparse. The data is usually in $\mu s$ precision in time and streamed as a series of events (packages of $[x,y, timestamp, polarity]$). In a voxel representation, timestamps in the voxel grid are accumulated according to the number of time bins. The voxels for our case have dimensions of $4 \times N_{TB} \times H \times W$ and a similar approach as in \cite{Tulyakov_2021_CVPR} is followed for the generation of the voxels. The first event interval \(E_{-2 \to -1}\) and the second event interval \(E_{-1 \to 0}\) are used directly, but the third \(E_{0 \to 1}\) and the fourth \(E_{1 \to 2}\) event intervals are utilized as time-reversed. The first stage consists of two aforementioned absPooling layers. The first pooling layer calculates absPooling operation in the temporal dimension, whereas the second pooling layer calculates the same operation on its spatial counterpart. The multi-head self-attention mechanism (MSA), whose number of heads is 16, calculates attention values over the temporal dimension. These results are fed into SmoothNet blocks and they simply include convolutional and ResNet layers, as in \cite{Shi_2022_CVPR}. This step is performed for the spatial smoothness of event feature vectors before the second (spatial) pooling operation. Therefore, the resultant three feature vectors, which encode different event-depth information, are processed in the first stage of the proposed method.

\textbf{Fusion with Frames.}
SynBlocks are adapted from \cite{Shi_2022_CVPR} and presented in Figure \ref*{figSynBlock}. SynBlocks are the main synthesis blocks that can be considered as a multi-frame generalization of \cite{Lee2020AdaCoFAC}. The input part of a SynBlock starts from unbinding operation that the feature vectors \(F^l\) are divided into four in the temporal dimension. Each of these four temporal parts passes three parallel convolutional blocks generating four sisters of convolutional kernels. Each convolutional block constructs these convolutional kernels, and these kernels are created by 2D convolutions operating over event feature maps that produce deformable kernels for images. In other words, these three kernels are weights \(W_t^l \in  R^{K \times H \times W} \), horizontal offsets, \(\alpha_t^l \in  R^{K \times H \times W} \) and vertical offsets \(\beta_t^l \in  R^{K \times H \times W} \), where \(K\) stands for the number of sampling locations of every kernel. Using these predicted kernels, the result of the deformable convolution is reached, as in \cite{Lee2020AdaCoFAC}:
\[
O_t^l(x,y) =  \sum_{n = 1}^{K} W_t^l (n,x,y) I_t^l (x+\alpha_t^l(n, x, y),y+\beta_t^l(n, x, y))
\]

Therefore, RGB frames, \(I^l_t\), are fused by the help of feature vectors, $W_t^l$, $\alpha_t^l$ and $\beta_t^l$  that are obtained from convolutional blocks to reach deformable convolution block operation \cite{Lee2020AdaCoFAC}. In the last step of a SynBlock,  \(O^l_t\) is blended with learned masks. The masks are acquired by using standard convolutional neural networks on the feature map that is the concatenation of the SynBlock input. The result of a SynBlock is obtained by elementwise multiplication,
\[
O^l = \sum_{t} B_t^l \cdot   O_t^l
\]

Finally, \(O^l_t\) vectors are elementwise multiplied with the vector output of standalone convolutional block \(B^l_t\).

As each SynBlock generates the output at scale \(l \in {0,1,2}\) the intermediate image is determined as,
\[
\hat{I}^l_0 = f_{up}(\hat{I}_0) + O^l
\] where \(f_{up}\) stands for bilinear upscaling, and \(O^l\) is an output of a SynBlock. This operation concludes the fusion of frames with event feature maps and constructs intermediate frames.

The proposed method is a relatively simple yet effective approach for the utilization of additional temporal information supplied by the events. Differing from \cite{Shi_2022_CVPR}, the initial multi-head self-attention block in the input layer is small-sized and significantly reduces the model size, while still modeling trajectories by the help of precise event information. On the other hand, it should be pointed out that the voxels are supplied into the network in a dense manner, which means the sparsity of the events is not fully exploited in our work.

\begin{figure*}[htbp]
    \centering{\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figures/SynBlock.drawio-min.png}}
    \caption{The general structure of SynBlocks. A SynBlock takes four RGB frames and one event feature vector. Using these inputs, the SynBlocks fuse the event-based information and RGB images using kernels by utilizing deformable convolutions. }
    \label{figSynBlock}
\end{figure*}

\section{Experiments and Results}
\subsection{Implementation Details}

All of our work on deep learning is performed by using PyTorch \cite{PyTorch} framework. The training has performed for 36 epochs, where the learning rate, starting from $0.0008$, is halved every eight epochs. We have used AdaMax optimizer \cite{AdaMax} with $\beta_1=0.9, \beta_2=0.999$ and the training batch size is set as $6$. The training has been executed on a workstation with two 2080TI GPUs. Due to the memory requirements, the training has been performed with images and associated events whose resolution is $256 \times 256$. We have tested and compared the proposed method with both full-scaled and downscaled frames with $256 \times 256$ resolution, since the obtained quantitative results can differ significantly with different sized images.

\subsection{Quantitative Results} All the algorithms are tested on BS-ERGB \cite{Tulyakov_2022_CVPR} dataset.  It should be noted that the test results of \cite{Tulyakov_2021_CVPR} are replicated from \cite{Tulyakov_2022_CVPR} directly. For the algorithms in \cite{Shi_2022_CVPR} and \cite{Kalluri2020FLAVRFV}, we have conducted experiments by using the codes provided by the authors and the listed the best results.

\begin{figure}[htbp]
    \centerline{\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figures/parameterplot2.png}}
    \caption{Comparison of the performance of different algorithms (FLAVR \cite{Kalluri2020FLAVRFV}, VFIT-B \cite{Shi_2022_CVPR}, Time Lens \cite{Tulyakov_2021_CVPR}, Time Lens++ \cite{Tulyakov_2022_CVPR}, and our proposed method):  number of parameters vs. PSNR values for BS-ERGB [Full Scale] \cite{Tulyakov_2022_CVPR} dataset.}
    \label{numParam2}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[htbp]
    \centerline{\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figures/parameterplot.png}}
    \caption{Comparison of the performance of different algorithms (FLAVR \cite{Kalluri2020FLAVRFV}, VFIT-B \cite{Shi_2022_CVPR}, Time Lens \cite{Tulyakov_2021_CVPR}, Time Lens++ \cite{Tulyakov_2022_CVPR}, and our proposed method):  number of parameters vs. PSNR values for BS-ERGB \cite{Tulyakov_2022_CVPR} dataset.}
    \label{numParam}
\end{figure}

\begin{table}[htbp]
    \caption{Comparison of our proposed method in BS-ERGB dataset in low resolution}
    \begin{center}
        \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|}
        \hline
        \textbf{Method} & \textbf{Input} &\textbf{\shortstack{ \#Parameters\\(M)}}& \textbf{PSNR (dB)}& \textbf{SSIM} \\
        \hline
        FLAVRFV \cite{Kalluri2020FLAVRFV}&Frames& 42.4 &31.72 & 0.9469 \\
        \hline
        VFIT \cite{Shi_2022_CVPR} &Frames& 29.0  & 32.08&  0.9449\\
        \hline
        Timelens \cite{Tulyakov_2021_CVPR} &\shortstack{Frames\\Events}& 72.2 & 28.36 & 0.9320 \\
        \hline
        Timelens++ \cite{Tulyakov_2022_CVPR} &\shortstack{Frames\\Events}& 53.9 & 28.56 &  - \\
        \hline
        \textbf{Ours} &  \textbf{\shortstack{Frames\\Events}} & \textbf{2.07} & \textbf{32.23} & \textbf{0.9581} \\
        \hline
        \end{tabular}

    \label{tabComp256}
\end{center}
\end{table}

\begin{table}[htbp]
    \caption{Comparison of our proposed method in BS-ERGB dataset in full scale}
    \begin{center}
        \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|}
        \hline
        \textbf{Method} & \textbf{Input} &\textbf{\shortstack{ \#Parameters\\(M)}}& \textbf{PSNR (dB)}& \textbf{SSIM} \\
        \hline
        FLAVRFV \cite{Kalluri2020FLAVRFV}&Frames& 42.4 &27.642 & 0.8729 \\
        \hline
        VFIT \cite{Shi_2022_CVPR} &Frames& 29.0  & 28.00 &  0.8767\\
        \hline
        Timelens \cite{Tulyakov_2021_CVPR} &\shortstack{Frames\\Events}& 72.2 & 23.97 & 0.7838 \\
        \hline
        Timelens++ \cite{Tulyakov_2022_CVPR} &\shortstack{Frames\\Events}& 53.9 & - &  - \\
        \hline
        \textbf{Ours} & \textbf{\shortstack{Frames\\Events}} & \textbf{2.07} & \textbf{29.04} & \textbf{0.8771} \\
        \hline
        \end{tabular}
    \label{tabCompFull}
\end{center}
\end{table}

Tables \ref*{tabComp256} and \ref*{tabCompFull} present the quantitative results for BS-ERGB dataset in full-scale and down-scaled to $256 \times 256$, where peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and structural similarity index measure (SSIM) values are used for comparison. Due to the rich temporal information stored in event voxels and the utilization of deformable convolutions, the proposed method clearly outperforms the current state-of-the-art event-based method by a significant margin of $5$ dB PSNR on BS-ERGB dataset \cite{Tulyakov_2022_CVPR}. Moreover, the proposed method surpasses the state-of-art frame-only method by $1$ dB, while utilizing only $6.9 \%$ of its original model size.

\subsection{Qualitative Results}
We have also compared the proposed method qualitatively by other frame-only and event-based methods with the full-scale BS-ERGB \cite{Tulyakov_2022_CVPR} dataset. Typical examples of the outcomes are illustrated in Figures \ref*{fig:qualitative_comparisons} and \ref*{fig:qualitative_comparisons2}. As it can be observed, our method provides crispier interpolated frames. Furthermore, the objects that have complex motion with non-linear trajectories are estimated more accurately compared to other techniques.

\begin{figure*}[!t]
	\begin{center}
	\begin{minipage}[h]{0.16\linewidth}
		\centering
		\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figures/fire/fire02_108_GT-overlay.png}
	\end{minipage}
	\begin{minipage}[h]{0.16\linewidth}
		\centering
		\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figures/fire/fire02_109_timelens.png}
	\end{minipage}
	\begin{minipage}[h]{0.16\linewidth}
		\centering
		\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figures/fire/fire02_109_FLAVR.png}
	\end{minipage}
	\begin{minipage}[h]{0.16\linewidth}
		\centering
		\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figures/fire/fire02_109_VFIT.png}
	\end{minipage}
	\begin{minipage}[h]{0.16\linewidth}
		\centering
		\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figures/fire/fire02_109_ours.png}
	\end{minipage}
	\begin{minipage}[h]{0.16\linewidth}
		\centering
		\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figures/fire/fire02_110_GT.png}
	\end{minipage}
    \end{center}

    \begin{center}
	\begin{minipage}[h]{0.16\linewidth}
		\centering
		\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figures/ball/ball05_58_GT-overlay.png}
		\scriptsize{Overlayed}
	\end{minipage}
	\begin{minipage}[h]{0.16\linewidth}
		\centering
		\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figures/ball/ball05_59_timelens.png}
		\scriptsize{Time Lens}
	\end{minipage}
	\begin{minipage}[h]{0.16\linewidth}
		\centering
		\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figures/ball/ball05_59_flavr.png}
		\scriptsize{FLAVR}
	\end{minipage}
	\begin{minipage}[h]{0.16\linewidth}
		\centering
		\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figures/ball/ball05_59_vfit.png}
		\scriptsize{VFIT}
	\end{minipage}
	\begin{minipage}[h]{0.16\linewidth}
		\centering
		\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figures/ball/ball05_59_ours.png}
		\scriptsize{Ours}
	\end{minipage}
	\begin{minipage}[h]{0.16\linewidth}
		\centering
		\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figures/ball/ball05_60_GT.png}
		\scriptsize{GT}
	\end{minipage}
    \end{center}
\vspace{-1mm}
	\caption{{Qualitative comparisons} against the state-of-the-art video interpolation algorithm. Our method is less prone to blur and ghosting effects. Thus, it provides more realistic increments on frame-rates of real videos.
    }
	\vspace{-2mm}
	\label{fig:qualitative_comparisons}
\end{figure*}

\begin{figure*}[!t]
	\begin{center}

	\begin{minipage}[h]{0.16\linewidth}
		\centering
		\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figures/band/elasticbands01_96_GT-overlay.png}
	\end{minipage}
	\begin{minipage}[h]{0.16\linewidth}
		\centering
		\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figures/band/elasticbands01_97_timelens.png}
	\end{minipage}
	\begin{minipage}[h]{0.16\linewidth}
		\centering
		\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figures/band/elasticbands01_97_flavr.png}
	\end{minipage}
	\begin{minipage}[h]{0.16\linewidth}
		\centering
		\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figures/band/elasticbands01_97_vfit.png}
	\end{minipage}
	\begin{minipage}[h]{0.16\linewidth}
		\centering
		\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figures/band/elasticbands01_97_ours.png}
	\end{minipage}
	\begin{minipage}[h]{0.16\linewidth}
		\centering
		\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figures/band/elasticbands01_97_GT.png}
	\end{minipage}
    \end{center}

    \begin{center}

	\begin{minipage}[h]{0.16\linewidth}
		\centering
		\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figures/water/water_138_GT-overlay.png}
		\scriptsize{Overlayed}
	\end{minipage}
	\begin{minipage}[h]{0.16\linewidth}
		\centering
		\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figures/water/water_139_timelens.png}
		\scriptsize{Time Lens}
	\end{minipage}
	\begin{minipage}[h]{0.16\linewidth}
		\centering
		\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figures/water/water_139_flavr.png}
		\scriptsize{FLAVR}
	\end{minipage}
	\begin{minipage}[h]{0.16\linewidth}
		\centering
		\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figures/water/water_139_vfit.png}
		\scriptsize{VFIT}
	\end{minipage}
	\begin{minipage}[h]{0.16\linewidth}
		\centering
		\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figures/water/water_139_ours.png}
		\scriptsize{Ours}
	\end{minipage}
	\begin{minipage}[h]{0.16\linewidth}
		\centering
		\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figures/water/water_139_GT.png}
		\scriptsize{GT}
	\end{minipage}
    \end{center}
\vspace{2mm}
	\caption{{Qualitative comparisons} against the state-of-the-art video interpolation algorithms.}
	\vspace{-2mm}
	\label{fig:qualitative_comparisons2}
\end{figure*}

\begin{figure*}

\begin{subfigure}{.24\textwidth}
      \centering
      \includegraphics[width=.8\linewidth]{figures/difference/timelens_rgb.png}
      \caption{Time Lens}
      \label{fig:sfig2}
\end{subfigure}
\begin{subfigure}{.24\textwidth}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=.8\linewidth]{figures/difference/FLAVR_rgb.png}
    \caption{FLAVRFV}
    \label{fig:sfig4}
\end{subfigure}
\begin{subfigure}{.24\textwidth}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=.8\linewidth]{figures/difference/VFIT_rgb.png}
    \caption{VFIT}
    \label{fig:sfig5}
\end{subfigure}
\begin{subfigure}{.24\textwidth}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=.8\linewidth]{figures/difference/ours_rgb.png}
    \caption{Ours}
    \label{fig:sfig6}
\end{subfigure}

\caption{Pixel-wise differences of the fire sample.}
\label{fig:fig}
\end{figure*}

\subsection{Ablation Studies}
We have conducted a series of ablation studies to better comprehend the proposed strategy. First, in order to validate the effectiveness of the multi-head self-attention mechanism, we have discarded this mechanism during simulations. Additionally, we have also analyzed the effect of Sep-STS layers proposed in \cite{Shi_2022_CVPR} on event voxels.
\subsubsection{Results for Events without Attention Mechanism}
To investigate the significance of the attention mechanism, we have trained a network without the mechanism in the input stage.

The quantitative results in Table \ref*{tabCompWoMSA} indicate that the attention mechanism in the input stage of the network increases the performance by $0.59$dB. This result is important, since the temporal attention mechanism intensifies the crucial elements of the voxels.

\begin{table}[htbp]
    \caption{Comparison in BS-ERGB dataset}
    \begin{center}
        \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
        \hline
        \textbf{Method} & \textbf{PSNR (dB)}& \textbf{SSIM} \\
        \hline
        w/o MSA &31.64 & 0.9496 \\
        \hline
        \textbf{Ours} & \textbf{32.23} & \textbf{0.9581} \\
        \hline
        \end{tabular}
    \label{tabCompWoMSA}
\end{center}
\end{table}

\subsubsection{Result for Events with Sep-STS Layers}
The authors of \cite{Shi_2022_CVPR} have introduced Sep-STS blocks for the encoder part of the network adapted from \cite{Lee2020AdaCoFAC}. We have compared the encoder of \cite{Shi_2022_CVPR} with the first part of the proposed algorithm to investigate the performance of Sep-STS blocks by using events with both approaches.

The comparative results of these experiments are given in Table \ref*{tabCompSepSTS}. Although the number of parameters presented by the Sep-STS blocks is relatively large, utilization of a simpler input stage yields better results due to the valuable temporal information in events. One can argue that Sep-STS might require more training data to yield better inference.

\begin{table}[htbp]
    \caption{Comparison in BS-ERGB dataset}
    \begin{center}
        \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
        \hline
        \textbf{Method} & \textbf{PSNR (dB)}& \textbf{SSIM} \\
        \hline
        Sep-STS Encoder & 31.19 & 0.9436 \\
        \hline
        \textbf{Ours} & \textbf{32.23} & \textbf{0.9581} \\
        \hline
        \end{tabular}
    \label{tabCompSepSTS}
\end{center}
\end{table}

\section{Conclusion}

In this paper, we propose E-VFIA, a lightweight and high quality video frame interpolation algorithm that uses frames obtained from RGB cameras, as well as event information obtained from event cameras. The proposed method encodes event information with a multi-head self-attention mechanism and fuses the encoded information with frames under deformable convolution-based synthesis blocks. Consequently, the E-VFIA achieves $3.87$ dB and $5.07$ dB PSNR improvement over the state-of-the-art event-based method for low and high-resolution images, respectively. The model achieves this result by only $3.8 \%$ of its model size. It should be emphasized that based on qualitative comparisons, our method is less prone to blur and ghosting artifacts, whereas in some cases, suffers from the color inconsistency of the fast-moving objects. Finally, it can be argued that the proposed deformable convolutions strategy is a promising approach to fuse event information and visual appearance in any vision or robotics application, specifically VFI.

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If you're g I loved the story but I hated the ending. Ten year old Winnie Foster is a sheltered and miserable girl who longs for freedom and dreams of running away. She also sees the difference between Jesse and Miles. I don't think I'd like it at all. I'll reread the book tonight in tribute to Ms Babbitt. Yeah, that's what we thought.
We can infer that the man in the yellow suit is a suspious character. That's what young Winnie Foster has to decide in this beloved novel by Natalie Babbitt. Çocuk kitabı olarak geçiyor fakat hüzünlü, ölümün kendisi gibi işte. With the Tucks, my feelings are in an unrivaled state of monopoly. GradeSaver, 7 November 2018 Web. I really don't know of any other books that explore the subject of life and perils of immortality, except for this one.
This gives the Tucks enough time to get far away from Treegap. A few weeks later, Winnie makes the big decision not to drink the immortality water that Jesse had given her. After being returned home, Winnie is woken by Jesse who begs her to help him free his parents. To this day, I still scowl at people that say that immortality is a curse. I think of Winnie's choice, how bittersweet the ending of this book was because of it. Luckily Mae hit the man in the yellow suit in the head with the gun, else things would have gone really bad. And still there are some things that remain just as beautiful as the first day you saw them, never really becoming less or more.
Wisely told in a genuine classic formula, this is a heartwarming story about the Tuck family who never grew old. Read her wonderful review by clicking on her name. She attended Laurel School for Girls, and then Smith College. More symbolism than I first recognized. In this fantasy, 10-year old Winnie stumbles upon the secret of the Tucks' magic spring. Winnie helps Jesse and Miles to break the Tucks out of jail and say goodbye to them. He tells them his plans for selling the water.
He stands for greed and selfishness. Starting with Winnie Foster When the story opens, Winnie is a bored and lonely girl of ten. Another thing that I can infer is that he was trying to get something out of Winnie. Kitapta geçen ağustos sıcağının durağanlığı gibi, yaşam ve ölüm temasını hissettiğim noktada bir yavaşlama ihtiyacı duydum. Despite really enjoying this at the time, I was left with a sad feeling after the story had ended. Many years later, the Tucks come back to Treegap, but they are shocked to find that the woods are gone; a fire destroyed them.
He gathers up the constable and heads out to retrieve Winnie. So you can't call it living, what we got The Tucks are a family doomed to live an endless life, they bear the curse of immortality. Order I think the theme of Chaos v. There is nothing unnerving about him, and yet Winnie takes a second look. Somethings that I can infer about the man in the yelllow suit are that he is very sneeky; I think he is sneeky because instead of talking to the parents of Winnie foster he decides to talk to the little girl, I think he has a trick up his sleeves because he is probally trying to monipulate the younger one. Is the downside really as bitter as the Tucks feel it is? You can't have living without dying.
So I hung onto these few keepers and found a neighbor with a young daughter who was interested in taking the rest of the books off my hands. Tuck Everlasting has remained one of my favorites. So you can't call it living, what we got. She wasnt aloud to be off it, like she was trapped in a way. I think the man the yellow suit will be a major character in Tuck Everlasting considering what we talked about in class today. It's such a magical world that feels new, big, and full of promise. He set out to find out the truth about the Tucks, and he succeeded.
She was considerate enough to pour the water over the toad's back, in which Winnie had a special connection with the toad, as all of the readers know. She becomes enamored of their slow and simple way of life and falls in love with Jesse. The one thing they never had was the privilege of choice. It means that my more mature self has picked plot holes and problems where only beauty and simplicity should reign. İyi ki 100 temel eser arasına koyulmuş, mutlaka okuyun! A name that kept reminding me of someone who'd be related to Bilbo Baggins and Peter Rabbit.
B1135 Tu Tuck Everlasting is an American written by and published by in 1975. That's the difference between what is and what if, I guess. Çocuk kitabı olarak geçiyor fakat hüzünlü, ölümün kendisi gibi işte. Even when I was ten years old, my boundaries made the world seem so small until they were expanded, so I thought that was very representative of a young child's life. The man in the yellow suit is a mysterious, yet intriguing character. In the book, to save Mae, Miles Tuck removes the window and Winnie switches places with Mae Tuck. Tadiana wrote such a beautiful review.
It's just such a wonderfully moving and surprisingly thought provoking book for being a children's story. In her experiences with the Tucks and the evil Man in the Yellow Suit, she grows, changes, and learns what life is really all about. Her pondering is interrupted by the arrival of the man in the yellow suit, who asks if her family owns these woods. Luckily, there are people like Mae to stand up and stop him, and people like Winnie willing to protect the Tucks and their secret because it's the right thing to do. I like this part in the book because you would never expect that it would happen. The stone reads that Winnie became a wife and mother before passing away at 100 years of age.


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« The Arsenal men who make a living out of attacking Arsenal
The first ever London derby in the football's top division. »
Arsenal at the end of 1917. Crowds collapse, results poor, the war drags on.
And so the war ground on, and the crowds at the football matches being played in the London Combination grew smaller and smaller. Quite why this was so I have not been able to find out. Was it because Arsenal were now losing games? That is certainly possible because by the end of November Arsenal's last nine matches had the result sequence of won one, drawn three, lost five. Or was it because the number of men free to attend games was declining?
Certainly at the rate of decline seen in these final months of 1917 it would have looked like there was hardly much point in carrying on. The average attendance during October and November, taking into account both home and away games, was (for Arsenal) 5560.
This compares with three consecutive games in September which had an average crowd of over 12,000. And the games in November included matches against Chelsea and Tottenham – the two biggest crowd draws for Arsenal.
But it is true that the results didn't help for after an excellent start to the third wartime season, Arsenal had slipped back significantly and suffered three defeats and two draws in the last five games. Thus the win on 3 November as Arsenal beat Clapton Orient at Highbury 3-1, was very welcome but the crowd of just 3,000 showed how far down the list of entertainments football matches in general and Arsenal in particular had slipped. True, Clapton was never a major attraction, but this was the lowest home crowd of the season.
Elsewhere there was not too much in the war news to cheer the hearts. The event from November 1917 now remembered was the fact that on 2 November the Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour makes the Balfour Declaration proclaiming British support for establishment of a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine. It would have been highly significant to members of the Jewish faith, but probably did not have much impact on the majority of the population.
On 7 November the third battle of Gaza was fought and finally the British forces captured Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.
Back home, the London County Council continued to wrestle with the implications of the radical proposed changes to the education that we noted earlier, and Sir Henry Norris did attend this discussion, suggesting he had an afternoon off from his War Office duties on 7 November.
The War Office at this time was divided into seven sub-sections of which I believe Lt Col Sir Henry Norris worked in the Department of the Adjutant-General one of the most senior officers in the British Army. From 1916-18 the AG was Lieutenant-General Sir Nevil Macready generally referred to as "Make-Ready" who was among other things the last British military commander in Ireland. He also served for two years as Commissioner of Police in London.
Macready was a proponent of the employment of female labour to free men to go to the front and was the man who abolished the compulsory wearing of moustaches by British soldiers, largely because he hated having one himself. Under Macready were seven sub-units of the War Office
Directorate-General of Graves Registration and Enquiries
Directorate-General of Army Medical Services
Directorate of Mobilisation
Directorate of Organisation
Directorate of Army Personal Services
Directorate of Prisoners of War
Directorate of Recruiting and Organisation
Lt Col Sir Henry Norris worked in the last of these.
Back in the day to day, on 9 November Sir Henry went to a meeting of the Metropolitan Water Board – another committee on which he had been active before the war, but which was now most of the time squeezed out of his schedule. Sally Davis gives us the reason why he went this time for this was an emergency meeting at which the Board discussed ways of preventing its home – Savoy Court – from falling into the hands of the Air Ministry. It did however eventually fall.
The re-election of Sir Henry as mayor – which throughout the war was a formality – took place on 9 November there being no other nominations for the job. It is clear from his speech of acceptance that despite all the advances it had given him in terms of honour and rank, he had very much had enough of the war which he called "disastrous".
And as we have seen it wasn't doing too much for Arsenal either. The away game with Millwall Athletic on 10 November not only failed to produce a victory but saw another decline in the crowd – this for a match that traditionally brought one of the largest wartime attendances due to the historic rivalry between the two teams, dating back to Arsenal's days in south London. 6,000 attended and it was a 2-2 draw.
It is interesting to note that the following Tuesday, 13 November, Sir Henry was again at the LCC, this time in the full meeting of the council, and after that at a meeting of the War Savings Associations. It is therefore possible that he had, in his normal style looked at the situation he was asked to consider (in this case recruitment in the south east of England), and set up appropriate systems, and was now waiting for his work to be implemented.
Meanwhile on 16 November British troops occupied Tel Aviv.
On 17 November Arsenal's severe decline in form was further confirmed with the home defeat to Tottenham by a single goal to nil. The only respite from the gloom was that the crowd was slightly up, at 9000.
The following week the issue of Fulham being a one party state arose once again. As we have seen, at the final elections before war broke out, every councillor elected was a member of the Conservative and Unionist Party, something easily explained when one looks at who could vote.
Voting had been reformed three times, but the latest reform act (the 1884 Act) still only enfranchised 18% of the adult population. They were all male, and were all middle and upper class. Not surprisingly in some areas the Conservatives won each seat.
But the Fulham Chronicle now had the bit between its teeth, and unable to write anything meaningful about the war because of the censorship, it now attacked the council head on, calling it a "wilful and bigoted…junta", and each councillor as "a toy figure…worked by a string". (Thanks to Sally Davis for those quotes).
Back with the football, on 24 November Arsenal suffered another defeat – this time to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, 3-4. 5000 were in attendance. The following week Sir Henry was once more to be found at the London County Council meeting, another sign that the urgent work he had been engaged with at the War Office had now reached a temporary pause.
The month started a little better in terms of the football with a 4-1 win over Brentford on the 1st. But the crowd was down again – this time only 4000 in Highbury.
It now looks as if the War Office work picked up once more as on 5 December Sir Henry missed another LCC Education Committee meeting.
The following Friday, the Fulham Chronicle kept up its assaults on the Council, this time complaining that they were being excluded from council meetings (as was the right of the council so to do under the laws of the time – the press were only "invited in" when the council so chose – there was no right to be there.)
And on this occasion the council would have decided as it had done in the past that it was not right that the pay of staff should be discussed in public – after all no one else had their pay open to public scrutiny. Councillors of course were not paid, but employees of the council were and here pay rises for the Town Clerk and his deputy were up for discussion.
On 8 December Arsenal continued their losing ways, going down 0-2 to Palace at Highbury with the crowd now sinking to 3,500.
The following week saw the Battle of Jerusalem as the Ottoman Empire surrendered the city and the British Egyptian Expeditionary Force took control.
Next up on the football front was a game against West Ham on 15 December, but it ended in another defeat: 2-3. 5,000 were present at Upton Park.
The following week the Chronicle was told that the council had decided to give their Town Clark a 100 guinea bonus (£105) and his deputy a 50 guinea bonus (£52 10s) to compensate for the additional work that had been taken on during the year.
In the coming days there were further meetings of the London County Council and its Education Committee, but Sir Henry attended none of them – seemingly he was now again fully occupied in Horse Guards Avenue (at its junction with Whitehall – the picture above is of course one as the buildings look today) where the War Office was housed.
And by this time it was getting particularly cold with some snow. The temperature only reached minus 1.6°C on the 19th, with a minimum below minus 5°C on the following night.
And so we entered the traditional Christmas football season, and the results picked up somewhat although to be fair Arsenal were playing modest sides.
On 22 December Arsenal beat QPR 3-0 at home. On Christmas Day and Boxing Day it was a 1-1 draw each time against Fulham (away on the 25th, at home on 26th) both games in front of 7000. And then a very poor crowd of 2000 turned up to see Arsenal beat Clapton Orient 2-1 away on 29 December.
On the final day of the year Arsenal Football and Athletic Company Limited produced its annual accounts as it was required to. These were now very late (although if anyone in Companies House complained I imagine Sir Henry would have pointed to a certain degree of work at the War Office). In reality many companies produced no accounts in the war, and quite a few simply failed to re-emerge after the war.
Sally Davis has found the Arsenal figures and reports that "Henry Norris and William Hall were owed £15838 between them; and Humphreys Ltd, who had built the grandstand at Highbury, were owed £19943."
All debts were put on hold upon the outbreak of war and therefore there was no legal means of enforcing a debt or imposing interest payments. Everyone simply had to wait for the hostilities to end.
Finally on the last day of the year the government imposed the rationing of sugar to 8oz per person. Given that everyone had sugar in their tea, this was considered an outrage.
Here are the matches for November and December 1917.
No Date Opposition Venue Res Score Crowd
10 3/11/17 Clapton Orient H W 3-1 3000
11 10/11/17 Millwall Athletic A D 2-2 6,000
12 17/11/17 Tottenham Hotspur H L 0-1 9,000
13 24/11/17 Chelsea A L 3-4 5,000
14 1/12/17 Brentford H W 4-1 4,000
15 8/12/17 Crystal Palace H L 0-2 3,500
16 15/12/17 West Ham United A L 2-3 5,000
17 22/12/17 Queen's Park Rangers H W 3-0 3,000
18 25/12/17 Fulham A D 1-1 7,000
19 26/12/17 Fulham H D 1-1 7,000
20 29/12/17 Clapton Orient A W 2-1 2,000
Four wins, three draws, four defeats. The improvement in late December had made up a little for the earlier part of the month and most of November.
The Henry Norris Files Section 1 – 1910.
Part 1. How Arsenal fell from grace.
Part 2: heading for liquidation and the first thought of moving elsewhere
Part 3: March and April 1910 – the crisis deepens
Part 4: the proposed mergers with Tottenham and Chelsea.
Part 5: The collapse of Woolwich Arsenal: how the rescue took shape.
Part 6: It's agreed, Arsenal stay in Plumstead for one (no two) years
Part 7: Completing the takeover and preparing for the new season
Part 8: July to December 1910. Bad news all round.
Section 2 – 1911
9: 1911 – Arsenal escape relegation.
10: the summer and autumn of 1911
11: 1912 and Arsenal plan to move away from Plumstead
12: How Henry Norris chose Highbury as Arsenal's new ground
13: Amid protests from the locals Arsenal's future is secured
14: Arsenal relegated amidst allegations of match fixing
How Henry Norris secured Highbury for Arsenal in 1913.
Norris at the Arsenal: 1913 and the opening weeks at Highbury
When Highbury opened, and "Victoria Concordia Crescit" was introduced
The players who launched Arsenal's rebirth and Arsenal's games in October 1913.
The rebirth of Arsenal after the move to Highbury: November 1913.
December 1913, the alleged redcurrent shirts, and Chapman comes to Highbury for the first time
Arsenal's first ever FA Cup match at Highbury and a challenge for promotion: Jan 1914
Arsenal February and March 1914; the wall falls down, the team slips up.
The end of Woolwich Arsenal and of the first season at Highbury.
Arsenal at the end of the world: May to August 1914.
The newly named The Arsenal start their first season and go top of the League
As the death toll mounts Arsenal keep playing: October 1914
November 1914: The Times journalist goes to a reserve match without realising it.
December 1914: The Footballers' Battalion formed by Arsenal chairman and others
January 1915: Arsenal players start to leave their club for their country
Arsenal in February and March 1915: the abandonment of football is announced and the result is… curious
April 1915: New revelations concerning perhaps the most important month in Arsenal's history
Norris promoted, the League loses interest but football pulls itself back together.
Arsenal move into the London Combination in September 1915
Arsenal in wartime: Norris' genius for administration comes to the fore but reduces Arsenal's playing staff.
November / December 1915: the match fixing scandal comes to the fore: Norris is armed
Section 7: – 1916
Arsenal in wartime: January 1916. The end of the first wartime league.
Arsenal, February 1916: the 2nd league and a terrible tragedy on the pitch
Arsenal: March – May 1916. The team in decline, entry to football taxed for the first time.
Arsenal wartime league tables and player appearances: 1915/16
Arsenal at war; Tottenham move out of WHL, Arsenal hit rock bottom. June to Sept 1916.
Arsenal Oct 1916: a tragic death, a slow recovery
Arsenal in wartime: November and December 1916
Section 8: 1917
January 1917: Arsenal's upturn continues, gang culture in London, turmoil in Russia.
Arsenal in February 1917: Arsenal on the up, George Allison's contribution.
Arsenal – March 1917. Measles, price rises, women start to serve.
Arsenal in April and May 1917. Norris goes missing, Arsenal continue winning.
Norris at the Arsenal: Arsenal Players in the wartime league, 1916/17
Henry Norris is knighted for setting up the Footballers' Battalion. June 1917
Sir Henry Norris promoted to Lt Colonel in recognition of his work in the War Office
September 1917: Arsenal's form definitely on the up.
October 1917: Arsenal slip into sharp decline; Norris gains a new appointment
November 9th, 2017 | Category: Arsenal

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Warm up: About 10 minutes building from Zone 1-2 to 2-3.
6×30 seconds (per leg) of single leg pedaling at 85-95rpm with 30 second recovery spinning (both legs pedal).
Main Set: 4×5 minutes pedaling 50-60rpm @ Zone 3 power. 3 minute rest interval spinning at 90+rpm (low effort, but high cadence).
3×10 seconds MAX EFFORT (out of the saddle, absolutely smashing it!) on 4:50 Z1-2 recovery interval.
During our conversation, the athlete commented that this workout "wasn't that hard," and he wondered why we wouldn't just do a Functional Threshold Power (FTP) session to achieve the desired effect? After all, one of our objectives in his training is to increase power output in general, and we're using FTP as a benchmark for measuring improvement. This was a good question.
After talking a bit more about the workout, as well as looking at the details of the power file he had sent me for the workout, I was able to determine that he had executed the session properly. We shifted the conversation to what the intention of the workout should be, which is as follows: The low cadence work in this session should feel less taxing cardiovascularly, but still be fatiguing muscularly, like lifting weights. The sprints are challenging neuromuscularly, and because these intervals are short, they tend not to fatigue skeletal muscles to a great degree, nor do they engage one's cardiovascular system as much as longer intervals might. Also, the longer rest interval helps to maintain good form in each interval.
In essence, we are taxing (primarily) one system at a time, as opposed to a FTP test, or other max effort test lasting, say, a couple of minutes or longer, which combines two or more of the systems mentioned here. This is also one reason why FTP efforts might seem more challenging, but I think it's note worthy to say that we are breaking down the work by training one specific aspect of this athlete's cycling fitness. Twenty minutes of max effort (typically used as an FTP test) is going to push an athlete very hard cardiovascularly and muscularly. The cost of an FTP session results in a fair amount of fatigue, which can last a few days afterwards and reduces the amount of quality work the athlete can do in a week. While FTP tests/workouts definitely have merit, the purpose of the above workout is actually to maximize the muscular output, while minimizing the strain on the cardiovascular system. The intended effect of the maximizing muscular output in this workout is to build bike-specific strength in the legs. We might do a different workout to address building cardiovascular fitness, but here, it's about skeletal muscles and stimulating them to become stronger in a sport specific way. The short sprint intervals towards the end of the main set are likewise addressing primarily neuromuscular fitness.
It takes time to reap the benefits of these workouts, but I think athletes adding these types of stimuli to their main sets regularly are going to see increases in power output over a couple of months. I generally prescribe this type of workout for triathletes who need/want improved leg strength specific to cycling. On average I have seen a 2-4% increase in overall power output when athletes use this type of work regularly over 8-12 weeks. The workload is not as extreme as an FTP interval, so most cyclists can do a similar set 2-4 times per week.
Trismarter Head Coach, Lee Gardner lives, trains, and coaches in Colorado Springs, CO. Lee has successfully coached age group and elite triathletes to a number of championship events, including USAT Age Group Nationals, Ironman World Championships in Kona, and Ironman 70.3 World Championships in both Clearwater & Las Vegas. For information about Trismarter coaching services and training plans, please feel free to contact us. Read more article by Coach Lee.


Shot on location, FIRES OF KUWAIT takes viewers to the very centre of blazing fields of out-of-control oil fires. The film, which was nominated for an Academy Award, highlights the massive international firefighting effort launched after more than 600 oil wells were sabotaged by retreating Iraqi troops in the aftermath of the Gulf War. FIRES OF KUWAIT is a tribute to the firefighters' heroism and ingenuity and a celebration of their ultimate victory.
A production of Black Sun Films Ltd., a subsidiary of IMAX Corporation. Executive Producer: Andre Picard. Director/ Director of Photography: David Douglas. Producer: Sally Dundas. Co-Producer: Di Roberts. Editor: Barbara Kerr. Distributed by IMAX Corporation.


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Le championnat des Pays-Bas de football féminin 2019-2020 est la treizième saison du championnat des Pays-Bas de football féminin. Il se déroule normalement du  à mai 2020 et regroupe 8 équipes. Le champion sortant est le FC Twente.

Suspendu le 12 mars 2020 après la  journée en raison de la pandémie de Covid-19 aux Pays-Bas, le championnat est définitivement abandonné par la fédération néerlandaise le 24 avril 2020. De ce fait, aucun champion n'est désigné tandis qu'aucune équipe n'est promue ou reléguée. Le classement au moment de la suspension est malgré tout retenu dans le cadre des qualifications européennes.

Format
Les huit équipes se rencontrent en match aller retour pour un total de 14 matchs chacun. Après la 14e journée le championnat est scindé en deux, les quatre premiers jouent pour le titre en match aller retour, le champion est qualifié pour la Ligue des champions féminine de l'UEFA. Il n'y a pas de relégation dans une division inférieure au terme de la saison.

Saison régulière
Classement et résultats de la première phase. Toutes les équipes sont rassemblées en une poule unique et se rencontrent chacune deux fois, une fois sur son terrain une fois sur celui de son adversaire.

Le championnat est définitivement arrêté à l'issue de la  journée. Les huit clubs conservent leur place pour la saison 2020-2021 ; le PSV Eindhoven et l'|Ajax Amsterdam se qualifient pour la Ligue des champions féminine de l'UEFA 2020-2021.

Notes et références

Lien externe
 Site officiel

Championnat des Pays-Bas féminin de football
Football aux Pays-Bas en 2019
Football aux Pays-Bas en 2020
Pays-Bas F1
Saison sportive 2019-2020 aux Pays-Bas

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Today on AgriTalk, we're talking with Iowa farmer Pam Johnson, Shaun Haney of Real Agriculture, and Jim Wiesemeyer of Pro Farmer for the Friday Free-For-All.
I had lost all respect for Jim Wiesemeyer a long time ago. He has been afflicted with Poisonous Partisan Politics for so long, perhaps he just can't see the forest for the trees? Such as the TRUTH! Sad. At least Pam, Shaun, and it appears now Chip has come to say, enough, is enough. All one has to do is face the facts, and look at the truth of the matter. See how our supposed Republican political farmer friends (???) have Coned, and continued Ruse U.S. farmers, and Ethanol Producers for all too long. The Phony, Counterfeit, Reneging, Lying Conman, Traitor/Trader Trump, and his Corrupt Crony Republican friends, have been LYING to us from the get go on their supporting our domestic ethanol blend market, and defending the RFS/RIN law. Instead, they have not only allowed, but made Corrupt/Crony deals to steal our ethanol blending market from U.S. producers in broad daylight! Anyone with any sense at all could have seen the Phony Lying Conman Trump's allegiance to the Corrupt Capitalist Criminal Carl Icahn, and should have known what was going to happen. It was all part of the PLAN! One can only imagine the very loud noises that Jim Wiesemeyer would have made had a Democratic administration issued these illegal, and absolutely unlawful RIN waivers! Or much less for that matter! Come on Jim, get real! Call it as it is! You surly don't want to be a phony too, or do you?


Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE) is renaming the security checkpoints from A, B and C to North, Central and South to facilitate easier passenger navigation to departing flights.
At CLE, passengers have the convenience that all Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoints connect to all departing gates. In an effort to improve wayfinding for passengers departing from CLE, they will be directed to TSA checkpoints by their location within the terminal, removing the concept that departing passengers must utilize the checkpoint with the same designation as the airline's flight departure gate. As an example, a Southwest passenger departing from gate B10 would go to Checkpoint B, however Checkpoint B is assigned to TSA Pre-Check only and passengers can only use that checkpoint if in fact they have TSA Pre-Check, which isn't always the case. Disconnecting the checkpoint name from the Concourse name makes it clearer for the traveler they do not need to use the checkpoint that coincides with the concourse the flight is departing.
It is important to remind passengers that our new Checkpoint Wait Times are displayed on the Check In flight display monitors and on our mobile-friendly website www.clevelandairport.com, in real-time with information being updated every minute. Passengers can simply click on "Checkpoint Wait Times" in the lower right hand corner of the airport's home page. Using this amenity, passengers can also determine at which checkpoints Pre-Check lanes is available.
The newly named Central Checkpoint will remain TSA Pre-check only. Additionally, during peak hours TSA will designate a Pre-check lane at South Checkpoint as staffing allows. The website and flight display information allows passengers to decide between the closest checkpoint and the fastest checkpoint prior to getting into the TSA security screening process.
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Philip Purser obituary | Tv
The tv critic Philip Purser, who has died aged 96 after affected by Alzheimer's illness, was one of many longest-serving and most revered pundits within the TV trade, through which he was additionally concerned as a author.
His detailed data led to him contributing to quite a few documentaries about British tv and his appointment as co-editor of the 1982 and 1986 editions of Halliwell's Tv Companion. Within the Sixties and 70s he was lively in discussions on and off display about censorship and the way forward for broadcasting, and was one of many chief adversaries of Mary Whitehouse of the Nationwide Viewers' and Listeners' Affiliation.
A journalist on the Information Chronicle till its demise in 1960, Philip vowed by no means to be "on anybody's employees" once more and have become a devoted freelance. Having reviewed tv for the Chronicle and the Day by day Mail, he determined to specialise and have become the tv critic for the Sunday Telegraph from its delivery in 1961. He was to carry the put up for 26 years, combining his important viewing with careers as a novelist and dramatist.
For his debut thriller, he selected a down-at-heel, out-of-work screenwriter, Colin Panton, because the hero of Peregrination 22 (1962), who, working reluctantly for a journey company, accompanies a tour social gathering to Spitsbergen and discovers a Nazi-revivalist conspiracy.
Though Philip's desire for unheroic heroes – extra Graham Greene than John Buchan, as one critic wrote – introduced his early thrillers complimentary critiques, they had been overshadowed by being printed concurrently The Ipcress File and The Spy Who Got here in from the Chilly dominated the bestseller lists, and cinemagoers had been queueing to see Dr No and From Russia With Love.
In 1968 he produced what many think about his greatest thriller, Night time of Glass, about 4 Cambridge undergraduates, considered one of them, like him, a provincial grammar faculty boy, who flip a rag-week dare into a real try to interrupt a prisoner out of Dachau focus camp in 1938.
His first expertise of tv drama got here when his second novel, a downbeat story of espionage and defectors, 4 Days to the Fireworks, printed in 1964, was tailored the next 12 months in ITV's Play of the Week sequence, with Denholm Elliott starring. Philip then tailored the story Calf Love for the BBC's Wednesday Play slot (1966), and contributed an episode to ITV's profitable drama sequence A Household at Struggle (1971).
Heydays Resort (1976) for Granada, starring a younger Nigel Havers, was, he maintained, an experiment in trompe l'oeil tv; a standard interval drama turning unexpectedly into one thing fairly completely different.
His Bafta-nominated drama documentary The One and Solely Phyllis Dixey (1978) for Thames TV celebrated the lifetime of the girl as soon as labelled "Britain's queen of striptease".
Born in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, Philip was the son of Phyllis (nee Palmer) and Jack Purser. His mom, a gifted artist and illustrator who turned a famous designer of illustrated postcards, and father, taking a job with Tarmac in Liverpool in 1934, moved to reside in Wirral. Philip was educated at Birkenhead faculty and, after a wartime quick course learning engineering at Cambridge, served within the Royal Engineers within the Center East and Europe within the final days of the second world warwar. He was to inform a fellow author that one of the best factor he received from his army service was to be allotted a pair of Afrika Korps-issue pyjamas, captured pristine, which lasted him "for the subsequent decade".
With peacetime and demobilisation, he enrolled at St Andrews College with the intention of turning into an engineer. However after two years he left to pursue a profession in journalism, shifting to London to affix the Information Chronicle, and so started his exploration of all method of storytelling.
Philip Purser labored as a contract journalist, contributing columns to the Oldie and writing obituaries for the Guardian. {Photograph}: Martyn Goddard
In 1990, Philip mixed his love of British movie along with his curiosity in wartime thrillers within the novel Friedrich Harris: Capturing the Hero, a tongue-in-cheek fantasy to plant an Irish-German Nazi agent among the many crew filming the battle of Agincourt (in Eire) for Laurence Olivier's movie of Henry V in 1944. The agent, Harris, working for Joseph Goebbels, is tasked with both persuading Olivier to return over to the Germans to assist battle Bolshevism, or, failing that, assassinating him. Evidently, an ample provide of Guinness and the course of the struggle thwarted the plan.
Capturing the Hero was an prolonged model of considered one of his favorite journalistic gadgets: the spoof. Notable April Fools' Day articles included the Final Nice Tram Race, impressed by his "childhood reminiscences" of Liverpool, which prompted an enormous variety of fond recollections from readers however was fully unfaithful. It went on to offer the title of his memoir (1974).
In 2005 Philip produced a "quite belated" follow-up to Night time of Glass in Lights within the Sky, about an try and smuggle proof of the Holocaust out of Europe. He continued to work as a contract journalist, contributing different biographies and ebook critiques to the Oldie and obituaries to the Guardian.
In 1957 he married the crime author Ann Goodman, and the couple lived for a few years within the Northamptonshire village of Blakesley. Ann survives him, together with two daughters, Harriet and Emily, and a son, Matthew.
Philip John Purser, journalist, critic and writer, born 28 August 1925; died 1 August 2022
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Flesh and Bone (TV Series)
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Flesh and Bone is a miniseries about a girl named Claire who joins a New York ballet company. She quickly becomes immersed in the world of ballet and all that can go along with it. Claire is an accomplished dancer, but is now being pushed to the limits as she works to better her skills and form under the scrutiny of her director. It is a gripping tale about some of the real struggles a woman faces when dancing as a professional ballerina. Sex, drugs, eating disorders, meager income, and injuries are all showcased in this drama about the world of ballet.
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In the early days, before heating, attending St John's could be a challenge and numbers fluctuated with the weather. Comments in the register include: 85 attended - roads very bad; 30 attended - boisterous weather; 18 attended - bitterly cold and heavy sleet, 16 attended - blowing a hurricane and raining in torrents; 100 attended - flies intolerable.
Sunday School, including an annual picnic to the Ballarat Gardens, which was a highlight.
Ladies Guild - who have been active since the 1920s providing fund raising and cleaned and maintained the buildings. The also provided flowers each week.
Church of England Mens' Society, formed in 1923. Debating and dances were some of the activities run by the CEMS. The society folded in 1941 through lack of members.
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Starry Skies
Starry Skies release their second album, 'Be Kind', on Fox Star Records.
It follows up 2016's debut long-player 'Ask the Animals', which was credited as Warren Macintyre and the…, the combo's principal songwriter having fully embraced his band – Heather Phillips (violin/vocals), Noel O'Donnell (drums/vocals), Jonathen Lilley (bass guitar/vocals) and John Rooney (lead guitar), plus occasional guests Chas Fraser (trumpet) Monica Queen (vocals) and Johnny Smillie (guitar/vocals).
The new album, available on 12″ vinyl, was recorded at Belle and Sebastian's rehearsal rooms and La Chunky studios, then mastered by Geoff Pesce at Abbey Road.
It was produced and engineered respectively by Johnny Smillie out of Thrumm and Belle & Sebastian's Stevie Jackson.
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Chimpanzee Attacks Human Family Member 17 years Later
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by Catherine Davis | June 22, 2021
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Duck was his name, the chimpanzee who attacked his owner's daughter. Duck lived on an animal rescue farm that housed mostly horses. This KTLA news article did not say how he came to live there. He had not attacked anyone in his family in all of 17 years. All of a sudden, he attacks the daughter and bites her, in the stomach and arms and back, sending her running for cover to the basement of her home.
Why did he wait so long to show such violent aggression? I don't believe he hid this clearly violent behavior for almost two decades. I think he developed mental illness and didn't remember his handlers daughter and saw her as a threat, and that's why he attacked her.
I don't claim to be a biologist or any such expert! I simply believe the known scientific fact that humans and chimpanzee's share the most DNA in our genome than any other animal species. So, I put two-and-two together and got 4, meaning, "I believe that since human beings develop Dementia (A group of brain-deteriorating diseases such as Alzheimer's, Luey-Bar Syndrome, and Parkinson's), chimpanzees would make good candidates whom exhibit mental illnesses similar to those seen in humans." Naturally, this is why I feel my opinion isn't far fetched from the reality of it all!
"Chimpanzees are genetically closest to humans, and in fact, chimpanzees share about 98.6% of our DNA. We share more of our DNA with chimpanzees than with monkeys or other groups, or even with other great apes! We also both play, have complex emotions and intelligence, and a very similar physical makeup." Chimps, Humans and Monkeys: What's the Difference?
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Sadly, this isn't the first time a family's pet Chimpanzee has attacked it. Years ago, a woman called her friend to come and help her with her pet Chimpanzee but that turned out to be tragic for the friend whom the chimp viciously attacked and mauled. He mauled her face and hands off… Read more about that story by clicking the link below in the Similar Story section:
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$6.46 Million Jury Verdict in Failure to Diagnose Cause of Cardiac Condition
With several other physicians, cardiologist Dr. Roy Venzon attended to Laura Staib, 39. While she was in the hospital, Staib was diagnosed as having congestive heart failure, pneumonia and sepsis. She remained hospitalized until she was transferred to a long-term care facility the following month. Four days after that transfer, Staib died. She was survived by her husband and two minor children.
The Staib family sued Dr. Venzon and his practice, alleging that he chose not to properly diagnose her cardiac condition and should have prevented her transfer to the long-term care facility until she received a proper workup.
The Staib family attorneys argued that in light of Staib's worsening condition, Dr. Venzon, the cardiologist, should have done more to determine the cause of her heart failure. The Staib family attorneys argued that a virus attacked her heart, which was the cause of her untimely death.
Posted in: Cardiology Errors, Infectious Disease and Misdiagnosis
Updated: February 18, 2022 10:02 am
Undisclosed Settlement Reached Before Jury Verdict of $2 Million in Negligent Treatment of Pneumonia
Darion Brewer was just seven months old and was sick for nine days. He was placed on Zithromax (Z-pak), an anti-biotic after being taken to a hospital emergency room and urgent care facility. He was seen by a pediatrician, Dr. Cheryl Emoto, who noted that Darion was experiencing respiratory distress and weight loss.
The doctor diagnosed bronchiolitis and prescribed Albuterol, advising Darion's family to return in a week if his condition did not improve. Sadly, four days later, Darion died. An autopsy reportedly revealed that he had suffered from acute pneumonia. He was survived by his mother.
The Brewer family sued Dr. Emoto and her medical group, alleging that the doctor had misdiagnosed Darion's condition and chose not to obtain his prior medical records including a hospital x-ray showing pneumonia.
Posted in: Hospital Errors, Infectious Disease and Misdiagnosis of Infection
$1.39 Million Jury Verdict for the Death of Patient Caused by Failure to Treat Surgical Incision
Alice Underwood, 82, underwent hip replacement surgery and rehabilitation. Six days after the surgery, she was admitted to Victor Valley Global Medical Center for treatment of a urinary tract infection and dehydration.
While she was hospitalized, she suffered a surgical site infection, which caused her incision to separate. She underwent surgery to remove necrotic tissue and then was sent to a rehabilitation facility.
Twenty-six days later, Underwood died of cardiopulmonary arrest and infection. She was survived by her three adult daughters and a son.
Posted in: Hip Replacement Lawsuits, Infectious Disease, Misdiagnosis of Infection and Wrongful Death
Updated: January 13, 2020 6:04 am
State Appellate Court Finds Expert Report Sufficient in Medical Negligence, Wrongful Death of a Child from Bacterial Infection
A Texas state appellate court has held that a plaintiff expert's report was adequate in a case brought by the parents whose child died after receiving inadequate treatment for a respiratory infection. Luz Del Carmen Rodriguez and Victor Velazquez took their infant son to the office of a pediatrician, Dr. Satbir Chhina.
A nurse practitioner diagnosed the baby as having respiratory syncytial virus and prescribed Tylenol and nebulizer treatments. Dr. Chhina later signed off on the treatment plan that was presented to him by the nurse practitioner. However, the next day, the baby became unresponsive. He was transferred to a hospital, where he died of cardio-pulmonary arrest. An autopsy revealed that the child's death resulted from sepsis originating from a bacterial infection.
Rodriguez and Velazquez sued Dr. Chhina and the nurse practitioner, alleging medical negligence. The plaintiffs offered the expert report of Dr. Armando Correa, a board-certified pediatrician who specialized in pediatric infectious disease.
Posted in: Experts, Infectious Disease and Misdiagnosis of Infection
Updated: June 2, 2019 6:26 am
$1.8 Million Wrongful Death Settlement for Failure to Diagnose Pulmonary Embolism
Ms. Doe, age 43, was hospitalized and treated for sepsis after she underwent laparoscopic surgery. Shortly after her release from the hospital, Ms. Doe experienced severe shortness of breath, tachycardia and lower back pain.
Ms. Doe met twice with Dr. Roe, an infectious disease specialist, who ordered a chest X-ray, which he deemed to be reassuring.
The same week, Ms. Doe suffered a fatal pulmonary embolism. She had been an office manager earning approximately $62,000 per year and is survived by her husband and a minor son.
Posted in: Infectious Disease, Misdiagnosis and Pulmonary Embolism
$1.53 Million Jury Verdict for Unnecessary Surgery
A $1.53 million jury verdict was entered following the jury trial of 50-year-old Joseph Miller. Miller was referred to Bay Area Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine for evaluation of a bone spur in his right heel. Dr. Vivek Sood, an orthopedic surgeon, removed the bone spur and also did an Achilles tendon reattachment.
After the surgery, Miller suffered a deep wound infection in his right foot. The infection required seven additional surgeries and extensive medical care.
Miller lost a portion of his foot because of the wound infection. He was a laborer and remained out of work for approximately three months. His lost income was more than $19,600.
Posted in: Infectious Disease, Orthopedic Mistakes and Surgical Errors
$18 Million Jury Verdict for Late Diagnosis and Treatment of Infection to Spine
Joan Simmons, 58, was experiencing acute back pain. She went to the emergency room at St. Joseph's/Candler Hospital. She was treated and released. Her back pain continued.
Eight days after the back pain started, she returned to the hospital complaining of an altered mental status. Testing revealed a blood stream infection.
An infectious disease specialist, Dr. Sarah Barbour, examined Simmons, who then began to experience progressive leg weakness.
$100,000 Cook County Jury Verdict for Late Diagnosis of Infection
Russell Kazda, 50, developed a splinter wound in his right pinky finger. A hand specialist, Dr. James Schlenker, performed a surgical procedure to remove the splinter. In doing so, Dr. Schlenker opened Kazda's palm to examine his tendon. About a week after this procedure, Kazda returned to Dr. Schlenker and was diagnosed as having an infection in that finger, which required debridements and skin grafting. Kazda now has significant disfigurement on his ring and pinky fingers resulting from that infection, which spread to the rest of his hand.
Kazda filed a lawsuit against Dr. Schlenker and his practice in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Ill., maintaining that the doctor chose not to diagnose the infection and correctly prescribe IV antibiotics.
The lawsuit claimed that the infection, pyogenic flexor tenosynovitis, was already present before Dr. Schlenker performed the procedure to remove the splinter. The lawsuit also asserted that the follow-up appointment with Dr. Schlenker should have been scheduled for the day after the surgery, which would have prevented the infection from spreading to the rest of Kazda's hand.
Updated: November 1, 2017 9:48 am
$4.25 Million Jury Verdict for Failure to Screen for Infectious Process
James Woodard was 64 years old and underwent the first of a two-part elective back surgery at the University of New Mexico Hospital. While Woodard was hospitalized, he was unknowingly exposed to MRSA, an infectious process that is hard to eradicate and usually contracted in hospitals.
One month after the first surgical procedure, Woodard underwent pre-operative procedures at the same hospital in anticipation of the second portion of his back surgery. After his second surgery, a nasal swab was positive for MRSA. Blood cultures returned two weeks later confirmed this finding. Woodard developed spinal osteomyelitis, a bone infection, and had numerous treatments, including surgeries, antibiotics and debridement to try remove the infection. Woodard required 135 days of hospital care and treatment at a rehabilitation facility.
He still requires medical care and now requires a wheelchair because of his condition. Woodard had been a city employee who planned to retire in just a few years.
Updated: July 30, 2017 8:38 pm
$5.6 Million Jury Verdict for Patient Left Paraplegic Following Late Diagnosis of Spinal Abscess
Aaron Riedel, who was 28 at the time, went to Lodi Community Hospital emergency room complaining of back pain. He told the emergency department staff that he was taking an antibiotic to treat a MRSA infection. Riedel was later discharged from Lodi Community Hospital with a diagnosis of simple muscle strain.
The next day, he returned to the emergency room with worsening back pain. Again, Riedel informed the emergency department staff about the antibiotic he was taking and his MRSA history. The emergency room physician, Dr. Christopher Kalapodis, ordered a CT scan, which ruled out a kidney stone as the cause of the problem.
Riedel was then given a dose of morphine and an anti-inflammatory before he was again discharged. The next day however, he required additional treatment in the emergency room where he was diagnosed as having a spinal epidural abscess. Despite efforts through surgery and rehabilitation, Riedel was left a paraplegic.
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Updated: July 3, 2017 7:54 am
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Northern unveils first digital train
The first fully refurbished Northern train has made it's debut today giving customers a glimpse into the future. The delivery of 243 refurbished trains is part of a multi-million pound investment programme to enhance customer journeys with new trains, more services, more seats, better stations and faster journeys.
The first, a Class 158, made its debut for customers travelling between Leeds and Lincoln.
The upgraded train gives Northern customers a brighter and more comfortable journey with new seating and more leg room – and provides them with digital improvements including USB charging sockets at every seat and free Wi-Fi throughout. In the near future, these trains will also feature customer information screens and digital seat reservations.
As well as existing fleet upgrades, Northern are currently awaiting a 98 strong fleet of new trains and the first entered testing recently and is scheduled for passenger service by the end of the year.
The train was refurbished at Arriva Train Care in Crewe and involved hundreds of hours of work from specialists in rail, engineering, electrics, lighting and audio-visual.
Ben Ackroyd, Engineering Director at Northern, said: "We have promised our customers fully refurbished trains with modern facilities, I am really proud to see this first unit out on the network.
"We are committed to delivering further improvements for our customers in the north of England and this train – which will operate across the region – is tangible proof that our improvements are on track."
Now the first unit is complete and in revenue earning service, work will continue on refurbishing the rest of the Northern fleet to ensure customers from as far afield as Nottingham to Newcastle and Scarborough to Southport can travel each day on a more modern network.
Ben added: "I am grateful to our partners across the industry who have worked hard to deliver this first-in-class train for our customers and I look forward to seeing more and more refurbished carriages out and about on the network during the coming weeks and months."
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Published by Meg Vergeront on February 20, 2014 | Permalink
A member of Congress recently introduced a bill to amend the federal Family and Medical Leave Act is several significant ways. HR 3999 would amend the current Act to provide as follows:
*Cover employers with 25 + employees (current only applies to employers with 50 + employees).
*Permit employees to take "parental involvement" leave to participate in/attend activities sponsored by a school or community organization that are related to a program of the school or organization that the employee's son, daughter, or grandchild attends.
*Permit leave for "family wellness" to allow employees to attend to routine family medical care needs, such as medical and dental appointments of children, grandchildren and spouses, or to attend to the care needs of elderly relatives, whether or not they are in nursing or group.
*Provide up to four hours of "parental or family wellness leave" during a 30-day period and up to 24 hours in a 12-month period. Employees could elect or the employer could require substitution of other accrued paid leave.
*Employees would have to give at least seven days' notice of intent to take parental involvement or family wellness leave. When taking family wellness leave, employees also have to "make a reasonable effort" to schedule the leave so to avoid unduly disrupting the employer's operations, subject to the health care provider's approval (if applicable).
It is critical for employers to keep an eye on this proposed legislation and weigh in if deemed appropriate.
Keep in mind that, whether or not the legislation passes, Wisconsin has its own Family and Medical Leave Act which has some significant differences from the federal law as it exists and as proposed. Despite the differences, employers have to comply with both.
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  end

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    it "should have text value set" do
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    end

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      subject.color.should eq Gosu::Color.rgb(255, 255, 255)
    end

    it "should have a transparent background" do
      subject.background_color.should be_transparent
    end

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      subject.border_color.should be_transparent
    end

    it "should be enabled" do
      subject.should be_enabled
    end

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  end
end