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How connected medical devices have the potential to revolutionise clinical trials
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By Dan Robinson 06 Nov 2018
Recruiting patients for clinical trials is one of the biggest challenges for pharmaceutical companies, while there is also potential for human error. But connected medical devices could change all that, as Parexel senior director Keith W Wenzel explains
Wearable technology is helping us to keep track of key health data – but connected medical devices are also transforming how data is gathered in clinical trials.
Heart rate monitors, blood pressure sensors and blood glucose meters are some of the tech increasingly being used not only by consumers but the drug development industry industry too.
These connected medical devices may soon provide a catalyst for widespread digital transformation in the industry, believes Keith W Wenzel.
As senior director in corporate IT at American pharmaceuticals giant Parexel, he has a privileged position to observe this trend.
Here, he speaks about why healthcare is undergoing "unpredecented" change and why digitisation is most keenly felt in clinical trials.
How are connected medical devices being used in clinical trials?
Pharmaceutical companies continue to be challenged with rising costs and the need to find novel ways to differentiate the drugs they are developing.
By leveraging remote, connected medical devices, these companies are able to collect both novel and supplemental data to improve the regulatory case, as well as make the case for reimbursement more compelling.
These devices typically leverage a combination of Bluetooth, cellular and Wi-Fi technology to transfer biometric data via a physical hub either plugged into an everyday electric outlet or via a smartphone app.
Paraxel senior director in corporate IT Keith Wenzel
This may usher in a new era of cost reduction courtesy of fewer site visits and fewer in-clinic procedures.
Through connected wearable and remote at-home technology, patients who aren't based close to an investigative site can collect and transmit data to the trial sites in near real-time.
This, in turn, lessens the time and geographical burden for patients who no longer must commute to specific trial locations.
Where not affecting the study, blind connected devices also allow patients to view their own medical data first-hand, rather than being given readings from a doctor, which improves overall visibility, patient engagement and study adherence.
In addition, through digital applications, patients can be alerted upcoming remote readings, blood draws and/or site visits.
Given that patient recruitment is a significant challenge for any clinical trial, the ability to recruit patients more easily, effectively, and to create a better experience for patients and site staff while reducing data collection burden, will prove invaluable for any pharmaceutical company wishing to advance the integrity and speed of development of its new treatments.
Benefits of using connected medical devices in clinical trials
Prior to the introduction of connected technology into clinical trials, a medical device, such as a spirometer or activity monitor, would need to be taken back to the site – where the data would either be transcribed into an electronic data capture (EDC) system or downloaded.
Transcription introduces human error during data entry.
Downloading creates an unnecessary data management burden for the site and the clinical research associated (CRA) to ensure that all the data was downloaded and properly transferred to the clinical data management system.
The growing sophistication of wearable technology eliminates those burdens and represents a huge industry change.
Connected medical devices can now securely and wirelessly transfer data, lowering the burden on both patients and sites, and increasing the integrity of the data in a way that was never previously possible.
For instance, once a reading is taken on a blood pressure monitor, that data is automatically downloaded to a hub, which the study subject plugs in once at home and takes his or her readings on the prescribed schedule.
All the data transfer is handled seamlessly and securely without the need for little or no manual intervention.
If the patient forgets to plug in the hub, the data is stored on the medical device until it's plugged in.
An alternative, but still secure, data transfer mechanism is via a companion app on a smartphone.
Analysing data from connected medical devices in clinical trials
The evolution of analytics when applied to remote medical devices offers two huge benefits.
First, it gives clinical trial sponsors the ability to alert researchers to safety events in near real-time and holds the promise of alerting medical staff of future safety events before they occur.
Second, predictive analytics can also be used to identify devices that have low battery, or are failing, so they can be charged or replaced before failure occurs and data is unable to be collected.
This technology will allow remote and in-clinic data to be "fused" together for sites and study teams to view side-by-side in phase one to four clinical trials – thus providing a more holistic view of a study subject's adverse events and health status.
As analytics advance in the future, this technology may also allow for fraud detection by identifying when a different person is using the device instead of the study subject.
It could detect study drop-out prediction, by identifying when a subject is becoming disengaged with the study and likely to drop out so pre-emptive action can be taken.
Connected medical devices could make clinical trials more successful than ever
As remote technology and sensors in the pharmaceutical industry become increasingly prevalent, contract research organisations and sponsors must become skilled at transferring and storing large volumes of time series data gathered from wearables devices.
Increasingly, clinical trial sponsors are conducting proof-of-concept studies and then leveraging connected medical devices in fully-fledged trials to collect novel and supplemental data in near real time.
If remote medical device data is collected and analysed effectively, study sites and teams will have access to more data than ever before and there will be an opportunity for clinical trials to be conducted more cost- and time-effectively – and more successfully than ever before.


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Templates work almost everywhere: in phrase processors, spreadsheets, task management apps, review systems, and email. Here's how to use layouts in your selected apps–and how to automatically create documents from a template–so you can make your common duties done faster.
Templates remember to build, and it's really easy to question if they're worthy of the investment. The brief answer: absolutely. Editing and enhancing a template calls for much less time than formatting something from scuff. It is the difference between copying and pasting some word, or retyping it.


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Dr. Charles Norris-Brown, has a PhD in sociology and social anthropology. Involved in development, postdoctoral learning has brought him to Nepal, India, Borneo, Appalachia and Canada.
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Trans Woman Andrea Jenkins Elected to Minneapolis City Council
She's the first transgender person elected to a major city's governing body and the first trans person of color elected to any office in the U.S.
November 07 2017 9:25 PM EST Updated November 08 2017 12:56 AM EST
Andrea Jenkins has won election to the Minneapolis City Council, making her the first trans person elected to a major city's governing body and one of the first out trans people of color elected to any office in the United States.
Jenkins won in the city's Eighth Ward, where she had been a policy aide to departing Council Vice President Elizabeth Glidden. The Minneapolis Star Tribune had endorsed her, saying she was highly qualified and well prepared for the office. She bested three other candidates. Jenkins is a Democrat; the race is officially nonpartisan, but candidates can identify with a party label. She had the endorsement of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, as the Democratic Party is known in Minnesota, and of Victory Fund. She won more than 70 percent of the vote in her ward, according to the Star Tribune.
As an aide to Glidden and previous Eighth Ward council member Robert Lilligren, Jenkins worked to revitalize the neighborhood with small businesses and arts venues, and helped organize a Trans* Equity Summit. She emphasized, however, that revitalization must not come at the expense of poor people.
During the campaign, she said her priorities include developing affordable housing, raising the minimum wage, addressing youth violence as a matter of public health, and supporting minority artists. She is a historian with the Transgender Oral History Project at the University of Minnesota as well as a poet, prose author, and performance artist who has received numerous grants for her work.
Vicroty Fund president and CEO Aisha C. Moodie-Mills released this statement: "Andrea Jenkins shattered a glass ceiling tonight – becoming the first out trans woman ever elected to the city council of a major U.S. city. Andrea ran on improving the lives of constituents in her ward, but the significance of her victory for the trans equality movement is undeniable. Americans are growing increasingly aware of trans equality and people, and this win will surely inspire other trans people to run for office and further inclusion in their communities."
A trans man, Phillipe Cunningham, and a cisgender lesbian, Jillia Pessenda, are also running for council seats in Minneapolis. Results in their races are still to come.
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Kitchener, Ontario's Bec Abbot is back in the studio recording her next CD release Not So Hip. Once again she has teamed up with producer Roy Salmond of Whitewater Productions in British Columbia.
If you didn't buy her debut album Shine Like Stars you will want to jump all over this sophomore production. It promises to be a musical treat as she has once again assembled a good supporting cast. Salmond also sits in on guitar and keys, while Phil Robertson returns on drums with Tony Lind on guitar, Robin Pirson on percussion, and Dave Olsen as the bassist.
When contacted in British Columbia Bec said she is taking a more active role in the production of this album. She attributes that to the experience of recording her debut project and the fact that she has matured both as an artist and a person.
The album which is scheduled for a November 1st release date has two songs that Bec is particularly fond of making. Stephanie is a song that talks about an extraordinary woman who has a less than positive experience with the church.
She says, "Not So Hip, the title track is a little tongue in cheek. I have a good look at myself here."
I love yuor Cd Shine like stars. Bye.


Chuck Tripi has lived a life of poetry and study since a medical catastrophe suddenly ended his flying career in 1998. After his poem "Crack-Up" was published in HFR's 47th issue, he struck up a correspondence with Managing Editor Beth Staples. His epistolary perspective on writing and the writing life has been so valuable to Beth, she wanted to share some of his notes here. He writes from Sussex County.
In a prior life, I did other things and saw differently. And how could there be poetry without these prior lives and previous vantage points?
We were flying an all-nighter from Los Angeles to New York on the 707, an airplane the élan of which will never be attained to again, one thinks and thought, wrong twice.
As happens sometimes in the middle of the night, we were cleared direct, and once the I.N.S. was set, the night turned into one of watching for the unexpected.
It's a tough racket, poetry, full of striving and missing the mark, of almost accidental successes and utterly undeserved disappointments. Shouldn't we poets, all of us, new, emerging, established, coming or going, stay awake to its pleasures and enrichments?


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"Why do you look for the living among the dead?"
Image: "Women arriving at the Tomb" by He Qi
by Rev. Dr. Krista S. Givens
We begin our Easter sermon with the cross. On a day in which symbols play an important role in our faith, the cross is one that is loaded with meaning. And as many interpretations as their are minds in the world. But I start with the cross, because – in order to reveal in the glory of Sunday – we need to understand Friday. The joy of today, the brightness of today is nothing, if we do not remember the dark.
Or as our choir sang: "Then came the morning, night turned into day. The stone was rolled away, hope rose with the dawn! Then came the morning, shadows vanished before the sun, death had lost and life had won, for morning had come!"
We begin at the cross and you may notice that Jesus is not here -it is not a crucifix. The Protestant cross is a Sunday morning cross. A "He is not here" cross. An Easter cross.
So, as we hear again, the story of Easter, let us understand it in a new way – to see the individuals, their reactions, their take-aways, and then determine our own. What does Easter mean to us? Let's look at the source, from Luke beginning in the last sentence of chapter 23 and into chapter 24:
It was the day of Preparation, and the sabbath was beginning. The women who had come with him from Galilee followed, and they saw the tomb and how his body was laid. Then they returned, and prepared spices and ointments.
Our text begins after the death of Jesus, at the crucifixion: Jesus had died, and one of the important rituals to be observed was preparation of the body for burial. So, in our opening line we are introduced to these nameless women, these first witnesses to the resurrection. But this one lines tells us a lot about these women — whom Luke names later as Mary Magdalene, Joanna and Mary, mother James and Joses.
"The women who had come with him from Galilee" – These were not just some strangers or casual bystanders, not just women doing their work, fulfilling their gender roles: these were his followers, his disciples and supporters. In chapter 8, Luke describes them during Jesus' work of preaching and teaching.
…He went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. The twelve were with him, 2as well as some women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, 3and Joanna, the wife of Herod's steward Chuza, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their resources.
Three women, who were disciples of Jesus, were there:
Mary Magdalene – who was she?
Nowhere in the bible does it state Mary from Magdala was a prostitute. Nor does it say she was the women stoned for adultery. This is a background our history and our tradition has constructed for Mary, not something that is in the Bible. (see John 7:53–8:1) We do know that she and the other women supported Jesus and his work "provided for them out of their resources". One theory is that she was never mentioned as being a wife or mother, so how would she have resources? She MUST have been a prostitute…. that's an assumption that has smeared Mary for centuries. She was from Magdala, an ancient city on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. And our text says she had been healed of "seven demons" by Jesus.
Joanna – wife of Chuza, Herod's steward.
As the wife of an important court official, she would have had sufficient means needed to travel and contribute to the support of Jesus and the disciples.
Mary, Mother of James and Joseph:
The fact that two Marys in the story have sons with the same names (James and Joseph/Joses) shows the commonality of certain names in first-century Galilee. The name Mary, in particular, was exceedingly common in first-century Palestine, hence the need to distinguish between different Marys in the Gospels, whether by way of their hometown (Mary Magdalene) or in association with their husband (Mary of Clopas) or sons (Mary mother of James and Joses). (1)
These three women witnessed the crucifixion and went home to prepare spices, a practice usually performed by close friends and family members. But while they were preparing for the burial, the time got late, the sun went down, day turned to night and it was the Sabbath. Being faithful practitioners of the Jewish faith, they rested for a full day, waiting and praying….waiting and praying….honoring the commandment of the Lord.
And at the first opportunity they had, as dawn broke that early morning after the Sabbath, they went to the tomb, carrying their spices. They went looking for the body and when they found instead – the entrance stone rolled away and an empty tomb – our text says, they were perplexed and then terrified… and suddenly two angels appeared and – instead of offering them words of comfort, instead of saying "Do not be afraid…" Instead, they rebuked the women with this question: 'Why do you look for the living among the dead?'
At that site, looking into the empty tomb, hearing the words of the angels, the women understand that their friend and teacher was much more. He was the Christ that had conquered death! So they ran immediately to tell the other disciples, who didn't believe them and called their story ridiculous. Only one dared to check it out:
But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; then he went home, amazed at what had happened.
Peter did not go out and tell the rest of the disciples or the world about it. He went home. The disciples were not convinced of the resurrection until Jesus later appeared to the disciples directly, on the road to Emmaus and then again in the upper room.
I want to return to the question asked inside the tomb, asked by the angels. "Why do you look for the living among the dead?" What an amazing question. To those women, it was a direct, literal question noting that Jesus is not among the dead; he is among the living. For us, it is a different question: Where is Jesus? Where do we find the Risen Christ? Do we expect to find him in the "dead places" while missing his presence among the living?
Let me tell you a parable to explain this idea:
A rich man returned to the church of his youth, a small crumbling church in the midst of the city. Once it had been filled with people and song, children and excitement, but now he found only 3 people. Three older ladies, who had devoted their lives to the church, but now they were tired. The rich man was moved into action and decided to donate 3 million dollars to rebuild the church. He didn't put any restrictions on the donation; instead he told them he was inspired by the words of the angels "'Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen," and directed them to rebuild the church. So the three ladies, who were the congregation, the church board and the decision makers, decided to split the money equally, giving each woman one million dollars to rebuild the church.
One woman lived in a care home and noticed that many of her friends and neighbors would gather around the piano in the gathering room to sing the songs from their youth; some folks, she noticed, were so lonely and never had even one visitor; some folks loved to help their neighbors, but didn't know how. So the woman decided to use her part of the donation to hire a chaplain, who sang hymns with the people at their bedside; who visited the people just to talk; who encouraged and organized the residents into groups that studied and volunteered and helped one another.
The second woman lived next to a school and after school she noticed many kids would stand outside her front window, waiting for the city bus to take them home. For months she was irritated by these kids who were loud and energetic and bothered her quiet life, so she went to the principal of the school to complain. The principal told her the school bus had broken down so they were not able to provide the children with transportation. So the children were forced to take the city bus, and the bus stop was right in front of her house. The woman decided to use her part of the donation to repair the school bus and invest in a fund to help needy children with bus fare.
The third woman knew exactly what she wanted to do with her part of the donation: she was very concerned with those in their city who were homeless and without a consistent food supply. She was a good cook, so she thought she could start a food program to feed all the hungry folks. But she was getting on in years and not able to cook meals for the hundred of people in the city that were in need. But she noticed that there was shelter in town that did have a feeding program. It was run by only a few volunteers but they cooked big meals with the meager supplies they had. So the third woman used her part of the donation to invest in the shelter and its food program, and with that money they were able to expand their reach into the community, hire full-time workers and provide meals to everyone who came through their doors.
The rich man returned a year later to see how the church was able to rebuild with his generous donation, but when he walked through the doors of the small crumbling building he found just the same three ladies! "I gave you three million dollars!" he exclaimed, "and nothing has come of it! The church is still crumbling and there are still only you 3 people! I gave you this money to rebuild the church!"
The women explained, "Sir, when you said you were moved by the words of the angels, we went back and reread that lesson: 'Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen." the angels said. So we invested your money where Jesus was … among the living: In those who live in the care home, in the school children and their principal and in those affected by the work the shelter."
"But you have not GROWN the church, you don't have any more members that you did before the donation. You were supposed to bring life back into this place, to bring bodies and excitement. To make THIS place a part of the living."
One woman understood the confusion, "Ah… When we read the passage, sir, we understood it differently. You wanted us to bring Jesus back here, but "He is not here. He has risen." So we went where Jesus was, among the living. Not to say that our church is dead, we are not. Jesus is here, too, in us. But he is not ONLY here."
Another woman spoke, "And we have grown our congregation! The chaplain and the folks at the care home; The children, parents and staff at the school next door; and those who are working at and those who are eating at the shelter. They are all our brothers and sisters, our congregation, ding the work of and worshipping the love of Christ. They don't need to come to us. We go where Jesus is alive and active."
'Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen." Maybe we are looking for Jesus in the empty tombs of our heart, rather than expecting him to be within us, within and among the living. Christ is Alive! Not walking around, washing our feet, sharing meals with us – alive, but here among the living! Where are the dead places in our lives that need to be buried, so that we can direct our attention to the places where Jesus is alive?
Today, on this Easter Sunday, may we too be like the women the tomb: discovering the miraculous fact that Jesus is alive!that Christ is risen! That joy and mercy and love and compassion exist in the world, among the living! May we be Easter people, not only today but everyday.Amen.
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justin-taylor/women-empty-tomb/


We have also reported that NOM also promoted Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, who Brian notes has said that gay rights is "Satan's plan" and "Satan's point of attack on the United States," claimed "Oprah [Winfrey] will have to answer to her Creator" for "promoting" homosexuality, wondered if gay TSA agents were deliberately groping passengers, attacked the US for trying "to lecture the Ugandans about homosexuality" by opposing their "kill the gays" bill, and agreed with Oklahoma State Rep. Sally Kern that homosexuality is more dangerous than terrorism and the greatest threat to America.
Faced with this vitriolic and denigrating language, NOM's response has not been to say, "that's not us, that's not our movement" — it has been to promote the vitriol-spewers as spokespersons for their movement. So it's hard to take too seriously anything NOM says about civil debate.


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Founder of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, violinist Bronislaw Huberman, died 70 years ago today
Seventy years ago, on 16 June 1947, virtuoso violinist Bronislaw Huberman died at 64. He founded the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra by bringing Jewish musicians from Nazi Europe to Palestine, giving refuge to 1,000 musicians and their families.
Bronislaw Huberman, child prodigy in 1889
Huberman was a child prodigy. He was born in Poland on 19 December 1882, began lessons when he was six, and gave his first public performance at the age of seven. At the age of nine, he moved with his father to Berlin to study with the great violinist Joseph Joachim. Soon after, he struck up a lifelong friendship with the six-year-old Arthur Rubinstein who had seen one of his concerts. In 1894, Adelina Patti invited Huberman to play in her farewell gala in London. Brahms complimented him after hearing him play his Violin Concerto in D Major when Huberman was just 14; at the same age, he made his Carnegie Hall debut.
The Huberman Stradivarius
It is likely that at this time he was already playing the 1713 'Gibson' Stradivarius, which was famously stolen from him twice. In 1919, it was recovered after just three days, but when it was stolen from his dressing room in Carnegie Hall in 1936, it remained missing for 51 years, reappearing long after Huberman's death. Joshua Bell is the violin's current owner having bought it for $4 million in 2001. The violin is now commonly known as the Huberman Stradivarius.
In her novel The Engagements, J. Courtney Sullivan sums up the stranger than fiction story of the violin's theft:
In 1936, during a fifteen-minute break from his weekly gig at the Russian Bear Restaurant in New York, a small-time violinist named Julian Altman snuck across the street to Carnegie Hall, where the Polish soloist Bronislaw Huberman was performing. Huberman travelled with a double violin case, containing two of the world's finest instruments: a Guarneri, and the Gibson Stradivarius. Having read as much in the newspaper, Altman's mother had suggested that he might steal whichever one Huberman wasn't using that night.
And so, Altman bribed a guard at the stage door with a fine cigar and snuck into Huberman's dressing room. He snatched the Stradivarius and hid it under his coat as Huberman stood onstage unaware, playing a flawless Franck sonata.
Altman concealed the violin's identity by covering it in shoe polish. He played it at weddings and pubs for nearly fifty years, only telling the truth on his deathbed.
Huberman was awarded thirty thousand dollars for the loss in the thirties. When Altman's widow brought the violin to Lloyd's of London in 1987, it was valued at over a million.
Having witnessed the First World War, Huberman was a passionate 'Pan-European' believing a united Europe as the solution to avoid future catastrophes. He even wrote a book about his ideas.
Huberman visited Palestine in 1929 and was keen to be part of the rapidly evolving Jewish music scene. In 1933, he wrote an open letter turning down an invitation by Wilhelm Furtwangler, the director of the Berlin Philharmonic, to perform with the orchestra, and in 1936 he wrote another letter, published in the Manchester Guardian, to "German Intellectuals" who he said were "guilty of all these Nazi crimes" by being bystanders as the Nazis tore up their society.
Bruno Walter wrote in his memoirs,
I was close to the artist and man, although our paths rarely crossed. Even though he completely devoted himself to his art, he was able to actively interest himself in the events of the day, of which he took part in and found a way to harmoniously balance the two, an enviable synthesis which was denied to me.
During a concert tour of what is now Israel, in 1934, the seeds were laid for forming an orchestra there, and later that year he set about finding donors.
The Palestine Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1936, which was renamed renamed the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra after the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. Many of Europe's top musicians, especially from Germany, Austria, Poland and Hungary, keen to escape from an increasingly aggressive climate, arrived in Palestine with their families. It is estimated that the formation of the orchestra saved the lives of roughly 1,000 people.
The orchestra's first concert was conducted by Arturo Toscanini, on 26 December 1936. Huberman felt an immediate affinity with Toscanini after hearing that the Italian maestro too had refused to perform in Germany as a protest against the Nazi takeover.
Huberman spent most of World War II in the United States and after the war moved to Switzerland, where he died, in Corsier-sur-Vevey, on this day in 1947.
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Town council turns down application for Albies to play at Stebo despite ground running at a loss
Alan Evans March 31, 2022
Llanelli Town Councillors have turned down an application from a successful Llanelli football club to play their games at what one councillor described as a premiere ground. The item was discussed at a recent meeting of Llanelli Town Council held on February 7.
The ground has recently been used to host walking football, which has been a great success. The pitch is considered to be one of the best in Wales and has seen world class tournaments taking place at the Penallt facility including women's football and rugby league games.
Councillor Ed Skinner who is on the Town Council's Stebonheath Development Committee said that The ground was the 'pride and joy of Llanelli' and a 'premier venue' with a 'top standard pitch', which was 'an asset to Llanelli'. The report from the meeting discussing the use by Evans and Williams Football Club highlighted concerns that the pitch would be overused. At present people pay a sum within their precept to cover the costs of the football ground. Questions have been asked in the past whether the facility is providing value for money and is maximising community use. The same can be said of the Parc y Scarlets stadium, which is predominantly used for rugby games for part of the year. Evans and Williams also applied to use that facility but were turned down.
Hugely successful: Evans And Williams
At the meeting on February 7th councillors considered a request received from Evans & Williams Sports AFC to ground share Stebonheath Park should they gain promotion to the Ardal South West League (Tier 3) as Stebonheath Park is currently the only facility in Llanelli that complies with the Football Association of Wales Tier 3 criteria. Without this agreement the club could not be promoted through the West Wales Tier system (copies of the letter together with supporting documentation having been circulated to members prior to the meeting). The Town Mayor (Councillor M.D. Cranham) reminded members that Evans & Williams Sports AFC, together with the current home football team at Stebonheath Park, Llanelli Town AFC, had previously given a presentation to members at an informal meeting where both clubs gave compelling evidence on why Stebonheath Park was critical to the development of their clubs. Following this presentation, at the request of members, the council's Head Groundsman briefed members on the current condition of the playing surface and the possible outcome of having an additional home team play their games at Stebonheath Park. Having received the presentations along with the briefing from the Head Groundsman, members further considered the request received.
It was Proposed and Seconded that the request by Evans and Williams Sports AFC to play their home matches at Stebonheath Park be declined.
An amendment was Proposed and Seconded that the Council commission an Independent Report to ascertain whether it was feasible to have these proposed additional games at Stebonheath Park. It was felt that an independent view could provide some additional information that may help members in their decision making. Members were reminded that concerns had been raised during the presentation evening regarding the detrimental effect the Evans & Williams Sports AFC home matches could have on the condition of the playing surface since during the period 4th June 2021 and 31st January 2022 there were 29 matches played plus a Wales U21 European qualifier against Moldova, which also included limited training sessions on the pitch in the days leading to the game. There was also a 1-hour training session allocated for Greece Ladies in preparation for their qualifier against Wales which was being played at Parc Y Scarlets.
A desireable venue but underutilised claim some
By the end of August 2022 there will be an additional 20 matches which brings the total to 50 matches. This is without the Carmarthenshire League and West Wales Youth Finals which take place in April/May of each year. Members had been advised that even with this number, the Head Groundsman held concerns over the prolonged activity on the pitch and there was a need to undertake annual renovations to the pitch during the close season. This was difficult to calendar, however, small renovation works are carried out throughout the season and some larger works, such as the recent sand banding, are undertaken in between the rugby league fixtures. This is only possible because their games are played during the growing season and are not reliant on a smooth playing surface.
Pitch Perfect, Stebonheath Football Ground
The issue of the high number of games had been discussed in the presentation and Evans & Williams Sports AFC had suggested only playing those matches that needed to be played at Stebonheath Park. This would restrict the Llanelli Town Development team to only being able to play half their home matches at Stebonheath Park and there would be no guaranteed availability for local and West Wales cup matches. It was also stated that the club would ask for their cup matches to be played away thereby reducing the number of home games to 15 matches and not 19 as originally requested. It was also noted in the presentation that with two home football teams at Stebonheath Park advancement by either club's teams may be restricted due to fixture congestion. It was hoped that the Llanelli Town AFC Ladies team would achieve promotion to a higher league that may require them to play their home matches at Stebonheath Park when currently they have only played one game there.
Following a request for a Recorded Vote, the Amendment was put forward first with the result is as follows: For the Amendment: Councillors S.A. Curry, M.P. Edmunds, D.Ll. Darkin, J.G. Prosser, W.E. Skinner, P.T. Warlow and J. Williams. Against the Amendment: Councillors M.D. Cranham (Town Mayor), T. Davies, J.S. Edmunds, L.A. Edmunds, C. Griffiths, S.J. Griffiths, J.E. Jones, A.S.J. McPherson, S. Najmi, S.L. Rees and B.A.L. Roberts. Abstention: Councillor N.J. Pearce. Unfortunately, due to technical issues Councillor N.J. Pearce was absent for the remainder of the meeting. The original Proposal was then put to members, with the result of the Recorded Vote as follows:
For: Councillors M.D. Cranham (Town Mayor), T. Davies, J.S. Edmunds, L.A. Edmunds, C. Griffiths, S.J. Griffiths, J.E. Jones, S. Najmi, S.L. Rees, B.A.L. Roberts and J. Williams. Against: Councillor M.P. Edmunds. Abstentions: Councillors S.A. Curry, D.Ll. Darkin, A.S.J. McPherson, J.G. Prosser, W.E. Skinner and P.T. Warlow.
RESOLVED – that the request by Evans and Williams Sports AFC to use Stebonheath Park as their home ground following promotion to Tier 3 be turned down.
The FAW's policy on the Tier 3 Licensing requirements for the club to provide a ground to play on at that level. They are: Approved Capacity Level (A criteria) 1. The Applicant must have in place an approved capacity level, which is relevant and safe for all competitions. The minimum capacity for Tier 3 clubs is 500. 2. The Applicant must; a. have in place at least 100 covered seats, which are in compliance with criteria I.15. b. Or, for clubs seeking promotion to Tier 3 at end of the 2021/2022 season, they must have 50 seats in place on 30th April 2022 to meet the seating requirement for Tier 3 Criteria to be promoted and to remain in the League for the 2022/23 season. The same club would 15 FAW Tier 3 Club Licensing Regulations – Approved by FAW National Leagues Board on 10th August 2021 require the full criteria of 100 seats by 30th April 2023 to meet the seating requirement for Tier 3 Criteria to remain in the League for the 2023/24 season.
For many years Llanelli Town AFC have played their home matches at Stebonheath but they haven't owned the stadium since 1977. The owners of Stebonheath since 1977 have been Llanelli Town Council. It's a public facility that costs Llanelli Town Council taxpayers a lot of money.
The Llanelli Town Precept is £102.26
Costs: Steboneath Expenditure
2015/16 £62,853
Loss 2015/16 £41,416
Total £250,745
The facility has been publicly run and possibly subsidised for 45 years for the benefit of one semi professional football club and a Rugby League Club. 4.2% of the precept is spent on Stebonheath. Even though Stebonheath is a public facility and the only facility in Llanelli that matches FAW Ground Criteria for Tier 3 and above, Stebonheath is classed as Tier 1, it is not available to any other club in Llanelli to hire should they gain promotion to the Welsh League.
Who is responsible for the losses?
Llanelli Town Council have a dedicated Stebonheath Development Committee made up of town councillors. They are Michael Cranham, David Darkin, Terry Davies, Matthew Edmunds, Lauren Edmunds, Jeff Edmunds, Chris Griffiths, John Jones, Sean Rees, Ed Skinner and Phillip Warlow.
All the above councillors apart from Matthew Edmunds either voted against this opportunity for an increased income stream or abstained. They also refused the opportunity for an independent pitch inspection.
Cllr Skinner said he agreed that the club needed to be developed with part of the ground being used for other activities. He said he would love to see Llanelli Town AFC in the Premier League.
Cllr Skinner said that he and the Town Council had been proactive in securing funding for the stand at the club and that he would love to see the club prosper given its history.
"I think we have to do some lateral thinking and look at ways the place could be used for community use," he said.
"If people have ideas I am sure the council would love to hear from them but I won't be standing for Town Council at the election in May. I will be standing for Rural and County Council," he said.
Concluding Cllr Skinner said that he had asked the Town Council if they would give a remit to work with Evans and Williams to develop their proposal.
He said: "I want to see Evans and Williams have as much help as possible. If you have suggestions send proposals put it forward with town council. I would like to be constructive and move forward."
He said that the council had asked the community development officer to liaise with Evans and Williams to look at grant funding.
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Q: Is there a way to exit a while loop without Ctrl+C (bash) I'm trying to run a simple loop that while the condition is true it sends some logs to the system.
example:
while sleep 1800; do
 top -b > /path/to-file.txt
 ping xx.xx.xx.xx > /path/to-file2.txt
 ps -ef > /path/to-file3.txt
done

but it looks like even after sleep 1800 the loop is not exiting and continues to run.
is there any way to create an exit point after half an hour passed? (aka 1800 seconds )

A: So i figured it out.
Using a while loop from the beginning wasn't the best idea.
i used for loop like this and it solved my problem:
TOP_LOG=/path/to/top-output.txt
PS_LOG=/path/to/ps-out-put.txt

for ((i = 0; i < $COUNT_TIME; ++i)); do
    top -b -n 1 > $TOP_LOG
    ps -ef > $PS_LOG
    echo "${i}"
    sleep 10
done

A: Your snippet in the question doesn't work because while actually runs the command and captures the exit code. If the exit code is 0 (true) the loop continues and breaks otherwise.
You can use the $SECONDS variable to get the current time in seconds.
Solution:
#!/bin/bash
END=$((SECONDS+1800))
while [ $SECONDS -lt $END ]; do
    top -b > /path/to-file.txt
    ping xx.xx.xx.xx > /path/to-file2.txt
    ps -ef > /path/to-file3.txt
done

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