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417.) (rerun) Liz Renay interview
418.) Consumer Guide–Bunuel book, Ferreri's The Last Woman, and the Eastern European summer musical Hot Summer.
419.) "Deceased Artiste" tribute to Brother Theodore, cohosted by comedy expert Ron Smith.
420.) Halloween show, featuring the "vampire lesbian cycle" in Euro cinema, circa the early 1970s.
421.) (rerun) Neil Gaiman interview.
422.) D.A. Pennebaker/Chris Hegedus interview, part 1. We talk about the documentary Town Bloody Hall, a chronicle of the night in the early 1970s when "Norman Mailer met the feminists" (for a debate at NYC's Town Hall). Also: a review of the French feature The Town is Quiet.
423.) D.A. Pennebaker/Chris Hegedus interview, part 2. Discussed are Norman Mailer's features (no clips, sorry); Dylan's Eat the Document; P&H's The War Room and Startup.com; and Pennebaker's first film, the short Daybreak Express (1958).
424.) Thanksgiving tribute to '60s actors on "lean times." Featured is Hell Riders, a biker movie directed by our fave auteur, Renee Harmon, and starring Adam West and Tina Louise (!).
425.) (rerun) Leos Carax, part 2.
426.) D.A. Pennebaker/Chris Hegedus interview, part 3. Included in this segment are discussions of Pennebaker's work with Drew Associates (Primary, Crisis); his filming of the Monterey Pop Festival; his work with Ms. Hegedus on filming a Samuel Beckett original production (Rockabye); their documenting an Alvin Ailey dance number (Dance Black America); and Pennebaker's Original Cast Album: Company.
427.) "Deceased Artiste" tribute to George Harrison. Includes rare footage of Harrison in and out of the Beatles, and a "higher-tech" look for the Funhouse.
428.) "Deceased Artistes 2001" Numerous performers and creators are featured from Lorenzo Music to Jack Lemmon.
429.) (rerun of previous episode–to allow the Forces That Be to air it right this time!)
430.) Consumer guide: W.C. Fields festival at AMMI. "Deceased Artiste" tributes to Jason Miller, Ken Kesey, and Imogene Coca.
431.) Interview with Kathryn Leigh Scott, "Dark Shadows" star turned independent publisher.
432.) (repeat) Noir night, Part 1
433.) Sammy Davis, Part 3 (part four if you count the "Joey Bishop Show"). Featuring clips from Sammy's 1969 appearance on the Mod Squad and a simultaneous hosting gig on The Hollywood Palace, with guest stars Nipsey Russell, Peggy Lipton (singing a duet with Sam), Dave Madden…and the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, in perfect form (cape and all).
434.) Serge Gainsbourg, part 1. Musical clips from the singer/songwriter's TV appearances, 1958-1967.
435.) The British 1976-77 miniseries Rock Follies is featured. Musical clips and scenes featuring guest stars Tim Curry, Little Nell, and Bob Hoskins. Remember–this is the series that featured catchy pop tunes from Roxy Music's Andy Mackay, and…Rula Lenska!
436.) Brigitte Bardot, in clips from Godard's masterwork Contempt and her 1967 Xmas special, with songs written by (and co-performed by, in some cases), good old Serge Gainsbourg, Special Bardot (aka Le Bardot Show).
437.) (rerun) Noir, part 2
438.) Consumer Guide: "Rendezvous with French Cinema": reviews of Cet Amour-La, Tanguy, Betty Fisher, God is Great, I'm Not, and The Pornographer.
439.) Deceased Artistes: Lawrence Tierney, tough guy extraordinaire, and Chuck Jones, Looney Tunes animator.
441.) Aki Kaurismaki tribute. Scenes from films unreleased in the U.S.: Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana, Drifting Clouds, and I Hired a Contract Killer.
442.) (rerun) Carroll Baker interview
443.) Consumer Guide: Olivier Assayas' Les Destiness, AMMI festival "Hardboiled Hollywood," and Godard's Keep Your Right Up!.
444.) D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus interview, part 4. Discussed are Depeche Mode 101; Sweet Toronto(aka Keep on Rockin'); and the unfinished Leacock-Pennebaker collaboration with Jean-Luc Godard, One P.M.
445.) Consumer Guide time once more: Chris Marker's remarkable documentary about the rise (and fall) of the Left in world politics Grin Without a Cat; the Aki Kaurismaki oddball "hick comedy" Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses; and the East German 1973 drama (with cool period rock music) The Legend of Paul and Paula.
446.) (rerun) Our salute to "little people."
447.) "Deceased Artiste" tributes to Dudley Moore (incl. his brilliant work with P. Cook as "Pete and Dud" and "Derek and Clive") and Milton Berle.
448.) Consumer Guide: praise for CUNY-TV's French film festival (footage of the 1964 Fantomas, the Danish documentary The Humiliated (about the making of Von Trier's The Idiots), and Seijun Suzuki's Branded to Kill.
449.) Scenes from Serge Gainsbourg's only musical, the TV-film Anna starring Anna Karina and Jean-Claude Brialy. Echoes of Fellini, William Klein's Mr. Freedom, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, and A Man and a Woman in this downbeat tale of romantic longing, punctuated by some very catchy tunes by the inimitable Gainsbarre. Anna's joyous "Roller Girl" kills.
450.) Anna, part 2. Also: musical clips of Serge Gainsbourg.
451.) Ernie Kovacs tribute (clips from various shows).
452.) Tribute to George Sidney, part 1. Cohost Eric Monder introduces clips from the director's career, ranging from MGM short subjects (and "Our Gang") to vehicles for Kim Novak and Ann-Margret.
453.) George Sidney, part 2
454.) Soupy Sales interview, part 1
456.) Korean music videos–see American trends, musical genres and visual tropes copied, and in many cases, improved upon, in a selection of "K-Pop" music videos.
457.) Evil Roy Slade. Clips from the 1970s cult TV-movie, plus a mini-tribute to star John Astin.
458.) Our second tribute to little people. Scenes from an informercial, a Mexican comedy, an incredible Mexican horror film (Al Filo de Terror, in which an angry ventriloquist punishes his dummies, gets his daughter to replace one in performance, and finally receives his comeuppance…), and an update on the life of "el hombre mas pequeno del mundo," Nelson de la Rosa.
459.) (rerun) Groucho Marx on TV
460.) (rerun) Karen Black interiew, part 1
461.) Our annual Jerry Lewis tribute focus on news updates in the life of "le Roi du Crazy," as well as clips of Jer clowining around with his pal Sammy Davis Jr. in the movies, on TV, and (you guessed it) the MDA telethon.
462.) Consumer guide: reviews of video releases. Brigitte Bardot in Plucking the Daisy and Don Juan, or if Don Juan were a woman; also: The Confessions of Robert Crumb and Seijun Suzuki's classic bit of technicolor, widescreen erotica Gate of Flesh.
463.) Interview with filmmaker Claude Miller, part 1
464.) Claude Miller, part 2
465.) Interview with Francois Ozon, plus career overview.
466.) "Media Funhouse West"–Ed visits the home of L.A. memorabilia collector Wally Wingert, and focuses on Wally's stash of "Batman," Andy Kaufman and Lon Chaney Sr. collectibles.
467.) (rerun) Kiyoshi Kurosawa interview, part 1
468.) Antonio Fargas interview, part one


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Q: SQL Server CTE problem This question is in reference to my last question: SQL Server 08: Union over while
I'm writing a CTE to do what was described in that question (find available time slots over a given number of days.
I have a CTE written, but I can't quite grasp how to get my date incrementing and limited. As it stands, it only gets data from the 2011-07-30 (@ArrivalDate). Can anybody explain to me how I can get it properly incrementing, and where I'm going wrong?
Update: I've come up with a better query for getting all the available time slots
(SELECT TS.UKTNN, TS.TimeSlotID, TS.TimeSlotGroupID
 FROM FittingCentreTimeSlotGroupTimeSlots TS)
EXCEPT
(Select BFD.UKTNN, BFD.TimeSlotID, BFD.TimeSlotGroupID
 From BookedFittingDates BFD)

And here is the table structure as requested in the comments:
TimeSlotGroup
UKTNN, TimeSlotGroupID, TimeSlotGroupDesc
TimeSlotGroupTimeSlots
UKTNN, TimeSlotID, TimeSlotGroupID, TimeSlotDesc
BookedDates
UKTNN, TimeSlotGroupID, TimeSlotID, Date
Here is what my existing CTE looks like right now
Use[DEV_UKTN_DATA]
GO
DECLARE @UKTNN int;
DECLARE @ArrivalDate date;
DECLARE @NumDays int;
DECLARE @LoopDate date;

SET @UKTNN = 7;
SET @ArrivalDate = '2011-07-30';
SET @LoopDate = @ArrivalDate;
SET @NumDays = 2;

WITH GetTimeSlotsOnDays(TimeSlotGroupID, TimeSlotGroupDesc, TimeSlotID, TimeSlotDescription, AdditionalCost, UKTNN, CurrentDate, Distance)
AS
(
    SELECT TSG.TimeSlotGroupID,
           TSG.TimeSlotGroupDesc,
           TS.TimeSlotID,
           TS.TimeSlotDescription,
           TS.AdditionalCost,
           @UKTNN AS UKTNN,
           @ArrivalDate as CurrentDate,
           0 As Distance
    FROM FittingCentreBranchTimeSlotGroups TSG
    INNER JOIN FittingCentreTimeSlotGroupTimeSlots TS
               ON TSG.TimeSlotGroupID = TS.TimeSlotGroupID AND
                  TSG.UKTNN = TS.UKTNN
    WHERE TSG.UKTNN = @UKTNN AND
          TS.UKTNN = @UKTNN AND
          TS.TimeSlotGroupID = TSG.TimeSlotGroupID AND
          NOT EXISTS(
                SELECT *
                FROM BookedFittingDates BFD
                WHERE BFD.TimeSlotGroupID = TS.TimeSlotGroupID AND
                      BFD.TimeSlotID = TS.TimeSlotID AND
                      BFD.UKTNN = @UKTNN AND
                      BFD.Date = @ArrivalDate)
          --@ArrivalDate <= DATEADD(DAY, @NumDays, @ArrivalDate)

    UNION ALL --Recursion starts here

    SELECT TSG.TimeSlotGroupID,
           TSG.TimeSlotGroupDesc,
           TS.TimeSlotID,
           TS.TimeSlotDescription,
           TS.AdditionalCost,
           @UKTNN UKTNN,
           @ArrivalDate As CurrentDate,
           Distance + 1 As Distance
    FROM FittingCentreBranchTimeSlotGroups TSG
    INNER JOIN FittingCentreTimeSlotGroupTimeSlots TS
               ON TSG.TimeSlotGroupID = TS.TimeSlotGroupID AND
                  TSG.UKTNN = TS.UKTNN
    INNER JOIN GetTimeSlotsOnDays as GTSOD
               ON GTSOD.CurrentDate = DATEADD(DAY, Distance, @ArrivalDate)
)

SELECT *
FROM GetTimeSlotsOnDays GTSOD
WHERE GTSOD.CurrentDate = @ArrivalDate AND GTSOD.Distance = 0
ORDER BY GTSOD.TimeSlotGroupID ASC, GTSOD.TimeSlotID ASC
GO

A: I found an answer for this!
1) Create a function that returns a table containing the desired dates
2) Do a cartesian product of the timeslots with the dates
3) Find the exceptions between the booked dates and the cartesian product

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The Unbridled Hedonism Of The Educated Affluent Left Wing, Its Universities And Its Media Is Destroying Our Cultural Inheritance And Our Future.
October 8, 2019 / by Joel Kotkin via city-journal.org
The intellectual class across the West—encompassing its universities, media, and arts—is striving to dismantle the values that paced its ascendancy. Europe, the source of Western civilization, now faces a campaign, in academia and elite media, to replace its cultural and religious traditions with what one author describes as a "multicultural and post-racial republic" supportive of separate identities. "The European 'we' does not exist," writes French philosopher Pierre Manent, assessing the damage. "European culture is in hiding, disappearing, without a soul."
The increasingly "woke" values of the educated upper classes reflect, as Alvin Toffler predicted almost half a century ago, the inevitable consequence of mass affluence, corporate concentration, and the shift to a service economy. The new elite, Toffler foresaw, would abandon traditional bourgeois values of hard work and family for "more aesthetic goals, self-fulfillment as well as unbridled hedonism." Affluence, he observed, "serves as a base from which men begin to strive for post economic goals."
The driving force for these changes has been the ascendant clerisy, which, reprising the role that the Church played in medieval times, sees itself as anointed to direct human society, a modern version of the "oligarchy of priests and monks whose task it was to propitiate heaven," in the words of the great French historian of the Middle Ages, Marc Bloch. Traditional clerics remained part of this class but were joined by others—university professors, scientists, public intellectuals, and heads of charitable foundations. This secular portion of society has now essentially replaced the clergy, serving as what German sociologist Max Weber once called society's "new legitimizers." The clerisy spans an ever-growing section of the workforce that largely works outside the market economy—teachers, consultants, lawyers, government workers, and medical professionals. Meantime, positions common among the traditional middle class—small-business owners, workers in basic industries and construction—have dwindled as a share of the job market.
The educated, affluent class detests President Trump, whom many in the Third Estate support, and has rallied to its preferred candidate, Elizabeth Warren, who emerges from the legal and university communities and voices the progressive rhetoric common to this class. (Warren's less brainy left-wing rival, Bernie Sanders, fares better among struggling, often younger workers.) Warren's clerisy supporters represent what French Marxist author Christophe Guilluy calls the "privileged stratum," which operates from an assumption of moral superiority that justifies its right to rule. They are the apotheosis of H. G. Wells's notion of an "emergent class of capable men" that could "take upon itself the task of "controlling and restricting . . . the non-functional masses." This new elite, Wells predicted, would replace democracy with a "higher organism" of what he called "the New Republic."
For generations, the media embraced an ideal of impartiality and the validity of diverse viewpoints. Now, as Andrew Sullivan recently noted, it's almost impossible to consider the mainstream news as anything other than a partisan tool. Perhaps nothing illustrates this more than the media role in the resistance to Trump; however awful he may seem, no president, even Richard Nixon, has suffered such total opposition from powerful media, with an estimated 92 percent negative coverage from the networks, even before he assumed office.
The media's anti-Trump lockstep reflects broader changes in the industry. Reporters rarely come, as in the past, from the working class but instead from elite universities. They tilt overwhelmingly to the progressive side. By 2018, barely 7 percent of U.S. reporters identified themselves as Republicans; some 97 percent of journalist political donations go to Democrats. The ongoing media takeover by tech leaders is certain to accelerate this trend. Nearly two-thirds of readers now get their news through Facebook and Google, platforms that often "curate," or eliminate, conservative views, according to former employees. It's not just conservatives who think so: over 70 percent of Americans, notes a recent Pew study, believe social media platforms "censor political views."
Similar patterns can be seen in Hollywood, once divided between conservatives and liberals but now heavily slanted to the left. Liberal columnist Jonathan Chait, reviewing the offerings of major studios and networks, described what he called "a pervasive, if not total, liberalism." Virtually all mass-media cultural production follows a progressive script, from the music industry to theater—and now including sports, too.
Perhaps nothing has so enhanced the power of the clerisy as the expansion of universities. Overall, the percentage of college graduates in the labor force soared from under 11 percent in 1970 to over 30 percent four decades later. The number of people enrolled in college in the United States has grown from 5 million in 1964 to some 20 million today. Universities, particularly elite institutions, have emerged as the primary gatekeepers and ideological shapers for the upper classes. A National Journal survey of 250 top American public-sector decision-makers found that 40 percent were Ivy League graduates. Only a quarter had earned graduate degrees from a public university.
Orthodoxy of viewpoints in contemporary higher education is increasingly rigid. In 1990, according to survey data by UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute, 42 percent of professors identified as "liberal" or "far-left." By 2014, that number had jumped to 60 percent. Another study of 51 top colleges found the proportion of liberals to conservatives ranging from at least 8 to 1 to as much as 70 to 1. At elite liberal arts schools like Wellesley, Swarthmore, and Williams, the proportion reaches 120 to 1.
These trends are particularly acute in fields that affect public policy and opinion. Well short of 10 percent of faculty at leading law schools, such as Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, and Berkeley—schools that graduate many of the nation's leaders—describe themselves as conservative. Leading journalism schools, including Columbia, have moved away from teaching the fundamentals of reporting and adopted an openly left social-justice agenda.
Once largely a college phenomenon, progressive ideology is now being pressed upon elementary school students, a development that could transform our politics permanently. As authoritarians from Stalin and Hitler to Mao all recognized, youth are the most susceptible to propaganda and most easily shaped by the worldview of their instructors. This process has been most apparent in the environmental movement, which has elevated as its ideological battering ram the unlikely figure of Greta Thunberg, a seemingly troubled Swedish teenager. With her harsh millenarian rhetoric about the end of the world, she reprises the role played by youthful religious fanatics during the "children's crusade" of the thirteenth century or, more recently, the Red Guards, whom Mao mobilized to silence his critics.
The politicization of basic education, particularly concerning American history, is notable throughout the country but most entrenched in liberal regions such as New York City and Minneapolis. In California, schools are scrapping measures such as exit exams for more ideologically correct policies. Once a leader in educational innovation and performance, California now toils near the bottom of the pack, ranked 40th on Education Week's composite score of school performance. These poor results mean little to progressives in places like the Los Angeles Unified School District, which has banned "willful defiance" removals and suspensions in the name of racial equity. A bill that would do the same statewide is moving through the legislature, along with a massive campaign to weaken the state's charter schools. Nothing has been more illustrative of our educational establishment's far-left, racialist agenda—tinged with a strong dose of anti-capitalist indoctrination—than the draft proposal for an "ethnic studies" curriculum for the state's schools. The program has provoked fierce opposition and is unlikely to be adopted in its present form, but activists will surely keep trying.
Ethnic-studies programs are aimed at high schoolers who often lack even the most basic understanding of American history. Incapable of meeting national standards for basic grade-level English language arts and mathematics, many of these students would instead learn academic jargon like misogynoir, cisheteropatriarchy, and hxrstory—which ethnic-studies advocates, such as R. Tolteka Cuauhtin, a member of the advisory committee that worked on the draft, defend in the name of legitimating the discipline. "AP Chemistry, for example, has some very complex academic terms, difficult to pronounce, but it's expected because it's AP Chemistry," Cuauhtin explains.
The clerisy is working to undermine basic liberal democracy. In the years ahead, technology will help shape attitudes on everything from the environment to the existence of "unconscious bias" against racial and sexual minorities. China's efforts to control and monitor thought, sometimes assisted by U.S. tech firms, are likely a hint of things to come in Europe, Australia, and North America. Already we see the rise of a new political generation with little use for the Western political tradition or the cultural values that shaped it. American millennials—despite, or perhaps because of, their high educational attainment—are increasingly inculcated with the idea that America is hopelessly racist and oppressive. Their worldview includes embracing limits on free speech. Some 40 percent of millennials, notes Pew, favor limiting speech deemed offensive to minorities—well above the already-depressing 27 percent among Gen-Xers and 24 percent among baby boomers. Among the oldest cohorts, though—those who likely remember fascist and Communist regimes—only 12 percent support such restrictions. European millennials also display far less faith in democracy and fewer objections to autocratic control than Americans or previous generations. Young Europeans are almost three times as likely to see democracy as failing than their elders, and many in countries as diverse in Sweden, Hungary, Spain, Poland, and Slovakia embrace the far Right, while others, notably in Great Britain and France, favor the far Left.
With lower levels of cultural literacy and reduced interest in history, the new generation could reprise the intellectual deterioration of the Middle Ages, when, according to Belgian historian Henri Pirenne, "the very mind of man was going through degeneration." Just as the feudal prelates disdained classical culture, today's clerisy seeks to unmoor liberal culture and the Western political tradition; nearly 40 percent of young Americans, for example, think that the country lacks "a history to be proud of." Far smaller numbers than previous generations prize family, religion, or patriotism.
If one does not even know about the complex legacy underpinning democracy, including the drive for individual freedom and open discussion, one is not likely to understand when it is in peril. If we are to save our uniquely open civilization, we must counter the clerisy's efforts to discredit our past and demolish our future.
Joel Kotkin is the presidential fellow in urban futures at Chapman University and executive director of the Center for Opportunity Urbanism.
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As an anchor institution in the Humber region the University of Hull plays a vital role in its economic growth and prosperity, a new report finds.
The University of Hull directly employs over 2,000 people, and through its supply chain and business networks, supports an additional 4,100 jobs across Yorkshire and the Humber.
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The Consent Form Template and Consent Checklist were revised to incorporate seven new elements of consent for federally funded/supported research. For those approved federally funded/supported research studies that are actively enrolling subjects, investigators should submit either at the time of continuation or through a request for modification a revised consent form with the new required elements. Until such time as this review occurs studies are considered grandfathered under the current version of the Common Rule. Subjects will not be required to be re-consented based solely on these changes. For federally funded/supported studies that are closed to new enrollment the consent form will need to be revised only if there is another reason that triggers a change to the document. For example if new risks are being disclosed, at the time the consent is revised to incorporate the new risk the consent would also have to be brought into compliance with the new requirements. For previously approved non-federally funded/supported research, no changes are necessary; however, these new elements will be used as the guiding principle of consent elements moving forward.
Waiver/Alteration of Consent: If the research involves using identifiable private information or identifiable biospecimens, the investigator will need to explain in the waiver document why the research could not practicably be conducted without access to and use of the identifiable private information/biospecimens.If a waiver is necessary for federally funded/supported studies investigators must be sure to address the additional element describe above at the time the study is transitioned to the revised rule. Waiver of Documentation of Consent: There is a new provision for allowing for waiver of documentation of consent. Documentation of consent may also be waived if the subjects or legally authorized representatives are members of a distinct cultural group or community in which signing forms is not the norm, that the research presents no more than minimal risk of harm to subjects and provided there is an appropriate alternative mechanism for documenting that informed consent was obtained.
Changes to Continuing Review Requirement: Unless otherwise required and justified by the IRB, continuing review will no longer be required for non-FDA regulated federally funded research that meets the criteria for expedited review. Investigators who have non-FDA regulated federally funded research that qualifies for expedited review will be asked to provide an expected completion date of the research, which will become the expiration date of IRB approval. For previously approved research this may be provided as part of one last request for continuation (e.g. if IRIS has already generated a continuing review due task) or as part of a request for modification. The PI will be required to submit a request for modification to extend this expected completion date if necessary. The IRB may require justification for the expected completion date as it deems appropriate. Note: Continuing review is still a requirement for all FDA regulated research even if all subjects are in long-term follow-up or the research is in data analysis.
Any study that does not requires continuing review still need to submit a modification to the IRB prior to implementing changes to the conduct of that study except when the change is necessary to eliminate immediate hazards to subjects. Modifications include, but are not limited to, change in design, removal or change to survey tool, change in funding source, change to recruitment materials, adding or removing investigators, changing the title of the project, requesting additional subjects beyond the original approved number, changes to informed consent forms, or other correspondence with potential or current subjects.
With the exception of reporting changes in study personnel, once the determination is made to accept the external IRB as the IRB of Record, from that point forward the UConn Health investigator only deals with the IRB of Record for the review of continuations, modifications, unanticipated problems and non-compliance.
The Principal Investigator is responsible for knowing and following the requirements of the reviewing IRB, inclusive of requirements for reporting subject complaints, non-compliance, unanticipated problems and outcomes of audits and inspections. The PI is responsible for ensure that the research team is also aware of and follows such.
Research for which IRB oversight has been deferred to an external IRB may still be subject to audit by the UConn Health Research Compliance Monitor.
Privacy applies to the individual and confidentiality applies to the data obtained from the individual.
Therefore, the privacy of the subjects in a research study can be maintained by conducting the consent process, interviews, and procedures in a private room. The confidentiality of the subjects' data can be protected, for example, by storing the data on encrypted password protected computers.
The Revised Common Rule expanded the definition of "clinical trial" with the intention of harmonizing with the National Institutes of Health's definition. The expanded definition includes any "research study in which one or more human subjects are prospectively assigned to one or more interventions (which may include placebo or other control) to evaluate the effects of those interventions on biomedical or behavioral health-related outcomes." Importantly, the revised definition includes studies that had not previously been considered clinical trials, like social and behavioral research.
What if my study meets the expanded definition of a clinical trial?
1) If your clinical trial is funded by a Federal department or agency, the Revised Common Rule requires that your consent form be posted on a public platform, like ClinicalTrials.gov, after the trial is closed to recruitment, and no later than 60 days after the last subject visit.
2) If your clinical trial evaluates at least one drug, biological, or device product regulated by the FDA (See this decision checklist for more details), regardless of funder, you are required to register and post results on ClinicalTrials.gov.
3) If your clinical trial is NIH funded, in whole or in part, you are required to register the study and report results on ClinicalTrials.gov.
4) Regardless of funder, if you wish to comply with the ICMJE policy (followed by the BMJ, JAMA and many others journals) requiring registration as a condition of consideration for publication, you may voluntarily register your study with ClinicalTrials.gov.
For assistance with ClinicalTrials.gov, see our webpages and contact UConn Health's ClinicalTrials.gov Administrator, Ellen Ciesielski (860-679-6004) in Research Integrity and Compliance Services.
Updated: 12/27/2018 with additional agency specific guidance and information.
Effective Saturday, December 22nd at 12:00am, appropriations for fiscal year 2019 for approximately 25% of the federal government expired. Agencies who have full appropriations and are not currently impacted by the partial shutdown include Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense and Department of Health and Human Services (including NIH). Agencies that are impacted by the partial shutdown include the National Science Foundation, Department of Agriculture, Department of Transportation, Department of State, Department of Justice and NASA.
Interim guidance for agencies impacted by the partial shutdown is provided below. Additional guidance will be provided if the shutdown persists. If you have specific questions about a proposal or award, please contact Sponsored Program Services.
If the electronic system for submission is operating, the proposal should be submitted by the deadline in the solicitation in accordance with standard practice.
If the electronic system for submission is not operational or offline, the proposal will not be submitted until further guidance is received from the federal sponsor. To be safe, SPS recommends that you prepare your proposal for submission as best you can by the published deadline, even if it cannot be submitted.
Currently Grants.gov and FastLane (NSF submissions) is available and operational.
Current funded awards may continue regular activities and incur normal expenses (exception: NSF payments systems are not operational – contingency plans will need to be further discussed if the shutdown persists longer than a couple weeks).
Contact SPS prior to charging any major or capital expenses.
UConn may not receive new awards during the shutdown.
Sponsor required prior approval requests (i.e. No Cost Extension requests) may not be approved during the shutdown.
Please contact SPS with specific questions about your award.
No new funding opportunities will be issued.
FastLane and Research.gov is available for most functions but NSF will not process proposals or prior approval requests until normal operations resume.
Annual and final project reports should be submitted by the due date however they will not be processed and continuing grant increments will not be issued.
No prior approvals and no payments will be made during the shutdown.
If your grant or cooperative agreement requires access to a NASA facility or participation from NASA personnel in order to perform the instrument's stated research objectives, the guidance in paragraph (a) below is applicable. If your grant or cooperative agreement does not require access to a NASA facility or participation of NASA personnel in order to perform the instrument's stated research objectives, the guidance in paragraph (b) below is applicable.
To the extent the grant or cooperative agreement includes work performed on-site at a NASA facility, the NASA facility will not be available for the performance of such work beginning on December 26, 2018. You are instructed to commence an orderly shut-down of your onsite operations and you are to preserve resources and take all actions necessary to minimize costs incurred under the subject grant or cooperative agreement during this Government shutdown. This includes notifying your employees immediately of this orderly shutdown. Contact Sponsored Program Services immediately if this applies to your award.
Since your grant or cooperative agreement does not require access to a NASA installation, access to NASA IT resources and data, or participation of NASA personnel in order to perform the instrument's stated research objectives, you are to continue to perform research under your grant or cooperative agreement as long you have available funding. Special Condition 1260.53 Incremental Funding (for awards subject to 14 CFR Part 1260) or Term and Condition 1800.921 Incremental Funding (for awards subject to 2 CFR Part 1800) of your grant or cooperative agreement specifies the total amount of funding that has been allotted to your grant or cooperative agreement. You are also reminded the Agency is not obligated to reimburse your institution for the expenditure of amounts in excess of the total funds allotted to this grant or cooperative agreement. Your institution is not authorized to continue performance beyond that period covered by the allotted funding and is cautioned to closely manage all available funding, as additional funding will not be provided while the Agency is without appropriations. Any research performed during this time period should be carefully planned, taking into account that NASA technical and administrative personnel will not be available to support these activities during the Government shutdown. Expenses and work should not exceed the funding and time of the award even if additional funding and time is expected. Contact Sponsored Program Services if you have additional questions.
NEH is currently shut down. We expect that grant proposals may still be submitted via Grants.gov but per their website, NEH will not update information, process transactions or respond to inquiries until funding is resumed. We also do not expect NEH to issue awards during this period.
Additionally, electronic systems utilized by the Department of may not be functional (Grants Online which supports EDA and NOAA is not currently functioning).
NEA is currently shut down. We expect that grant proposals may still be submitted via Grants.gov but per their website, NEH will not post messages or respond. We also do not expect NEH to issue awards during this period.
NIFA program activities will be suspended during a shutdown. The scope of the activities includes all NIFA extramural funding programs supporting research, education, extension or a combination of two or more of these functions. This includes agency activities associated with competitively awarded, noncompetitive Federal financial assistance payments, capacity and infrastructure, endowment, and all other NIFA grant programs.
As a general rule, recipients of funded grants and cooperative agreements can continue work on their projects during any EPA shutdown. Grant recipients currently approved to utilize the Automated Standard Application Payment (ASAP) system may make drawdowns of authorized obligated levels during a shutdown. With the exception of grant recipients using ASAP, in the case of government shutdown no payment processing will be available for cost reimbursable or recipients with special award terms and conditions requiring EPA approval prior to payment disbursement (either by paper check, drawdown, or by ACT payment outside to the ASAP system). EPA staff will not be available to make payments until the shutdown ends. Recipients must stop work if they reach a point at which they require EPA involvement or approval.
UConn Health, UConn Schools of Medicine and Nursing, and The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) have announced the creation of the Connecticut Pain Consortium, a translational pain research and education collaboration which is the first of its kind in the Connecticut medical community.
The Connecticut Pain Consortium will focus on a problem of national importance: the need for fundamental and translational research on the causes and manifestations of pain, pain management, and education about pain and its ramifications.
The consortium will be led by Professor Dr. Reinhard Laubenbacher, a joint faculty member at UConn Health and The Jackson Laboratory, who also serves as Director of the Center for Quantitative Medicine at UConn Health.
To learn more, visit the Connecticut Pain Consortium website.
The Association for Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP) is an independent, non-profit accrediting body that works to protect the rights and welfare of research participants and promotes high-quality research through an accreditation process.
UConn Health's Human Subjects Protection Program (HSPP) achieved AAHRPP accreditation in 2006. As an accredited organization, our HSPP must periodically apply for re-accreditation. This is a two-step process. Step 1, which has been completed, consisted of AAHRPP reviewing all of our policies and procedures to ensure they meet regulatory and accreditation standards. Step 2 is an onsite visit by AAHRP representatives to ensure that our policies and procedures are followed. While specific dates have not yet been determined, the next accreditation site visit will occur in the spring of 2019.
During the site visit, representatives from AAHRPP will conduct interviews and review studies records to ensure that policies and procedures have been implemented effectively. AAHRPP representatives will interview the Institutional Official (Wesley Byerly), IRB members, HSPP staff, investigators and research study team members, and individuals that represent various research compliance functions, such as radiation safety, research pharmacy, scientific review, and conflicts of interest. Individuals selected for such interviews will be asked questions about regulatory and ethical issues related to research with human participants and how they interact with the IRB. Investigators and research staff will also be asked about the conduct of their research studies.
Types of training individuals have received in human subject's protections.
If you are selected for an interview, you will be notified a few weeks prior to the site visit. An educational handout will be provided to help you to prepare.
In addition, you can request an educational session with the Educational Specialist to learn more about the site visit and possible interview questions.
The deadline to submit your comments on this draft, electronically or by paper, is November 20, 2018.
To check if your trial meets the criteria for ClinicalTrials.gov registration and results posting set forth by the FDA, see the checklist found here. Applicable clinical trials include those evaluating at least one drug, biological, or device product regulated by the FDA.
If your NIH-funded study involves human subjects, check here to see if it meets the NIH's broad definition of a clinical trial and will require registration and results posting. NIH defines a clinical trial as a research study in which one or more human subjects are prospectively assigned to one or more interventions (which may include placebo or other control) to evaluate the effects of those interventions on health-related biomedical or behavioral outcomes.
Does NIH require you to register your basic science research in ClinicalTrials.gov?
NIH has released a Request for Information (RFI), Registration and Results Reporting Standards for Prospective Basic Science Studies Involving Human Participants. This RFI seeks input from the scientific research community and the general public regarding how best to implement the NIH Policy on the Dissemination of NIH-Funded Clinical Trial Information (NOT-OD-16-149) for prospective basic science studies involving human participants. NIH is specifically interested in learning more about studies that meet the NIH definition of a clinical trial (NOT-OD-15-015) but are not defined as applicable clinical trials (42 CFR Part 11), and also meet the definition of fundamental research. You can submit your comments here by November 12, 2018.
An investigational drug is one that has been tested in a laboratory and in animals and is being studied in human for efficacy and safety. Investigational drugs are not yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in the general population.
There are various mechanisms through which patients may obtain access to an investigational drug. These mechanisms include 1) clinical trials 2) the FDA's expanded access program or 3) the recently passed Federal law known as the Right to Try Law. Each of these mechanisms will be discussed below and then compared in table format.
Clinical Trials: The standard mechanism for obtaining access to an investigational drug is through participation in a clinical research trial. A clinical research trial is conducted in accordance with a formal research protocol and its purpose is to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of an investigational drug. To participate in a clinical trial the patient must have the disease or disorder that is being studied and must also meet any specific inclusion or exclusion criteria defined in the research protocol. Patients can search for clinical trials that are being conducted at https://clinicaltrials.gov/.
Expanded Access Program: If participation in a clinical trial is not possible, access to an investigational drug may be sought through the FDA's Expanded Access Program (EAP).
The individual must have a serious/immediately life-threatening disease or terminal condition.
There must not be a comparable or satisfactory alternative therapy to diagnose, monitor, or treat the disease or condition.
The individual is unable to participate in a clinical trial.
Providing the drug to the patient will not interfere with the conduct of the clinical trial.
Right to Try Law: The Right-to-Try Law (RTT) was enacted on May 30, 2018. It is intended to provide terminally ill patients a more streamlined mechanism for access to investigational drugs. The Right to Try Law provides a right to request access to the drug. The manufacturer of the drug is under no obligation to grant such requests.
Like the EAP, the RTT law allows for the use of an investigational drug by a patient who has been diagnosed with a life-threatening disease or condition, who has exhausted approved treatment options, and who is unable to participate in a clinical trial involving the eligible investigational drug. An eligible investigational drug means a drug for which a Phase 1 clinical trial has been completed but the drug has still not been fully approved by the FDA. A Phase 1 clinical trial is done primarily to determine the dose of the drug that may be given safely to humans. Determining whether the drug is actually effective comes in later phases of the trial.
Unlike the EAP, the RTT law eliminates the need for approval from the FDA and Institutional Review Board and it provides the sponsor and physician protection from liability associated with harm caused by use of the investigational drug. While the RTT law does specify that the treating physician must obtain the informed consent of the patient, unlike the EAP, the RTT law does not specify the required elements of that informed consent.
Because the RTT law is fairly new, it is not yet clear whether this mechanism will be accepted by manufacturers of investigational drugs.
The following table describes the major similarities and differences of the three current processes by which seriously ill patients may obtain access to investigational drugs.
Who can participate? Patients with a condition for which a drug is being developed who meet the inclusion criteria for the trial.
Patients with a serious/immediately life-threatening disease or terminal condition, unable to participate in a clinical trial. Patients with a serious/immediately life-threatening disease or terminal condition, unable to participate in a clinical trial.
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Argo Blockchain PLC Announces December Operational Update – World News Report
LONDON, ENGLAND / ACCESSWIRE / January 11, 2023 / Argo Blockchain plc ("Argo" or "the Company"), a global leader in cryptocurrency mining ARBARBK is pleased to provide the following operational update for December 2022.
During the month of December, Argo mined 147 Bitcoin or Bitcoin Equivalents (together, BTC) compared to 198 BTC in November 2022. The decrease in BTC mined was primarily due to the curtailment of mining operations at the Helios facility in Dickens County, Texas in response to the widespread winter storm that impacted much of the United States in late December. The Helios facility draws power from the Texas grid and can reduce electricity usage during extreme weather events or times of stress on the grid. During the winter storm, Argo joined other Texas Bitcoin miners in reducing power usage by an estimated 1,500 MW, according to the Texas Blockchain Council. Argo has always committed to being a good community partner, and the Company is proud to have contributed to the stability of the Texas power grid during the winter storm.
As of 31 December 2022, the Company held 141 Bitcoin, of which 116 were Bitcoin Equivalents.
The Company's total hashrate capacity continues to be 2.5 EH/s.
Based on daily foreign exchange rates and cryptocurrency prices during the month, mining revenue in December amounted to $2.49 million [£2.07 million*] (November 2022 $3.46 million [£2.94 million*].
Argo generated this income at a Bitcoin and Bitcoin Equivalent Mining Margin of 48% for the month of December (November 2022: 29%).
Sale of Helios to Galaxy
As previously announced on 29 December 2022, the Company closed on a series of agreements with Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. GLXY ("Galaxy") to sell its Helios facility to Galaxy for $65 million (£54 million), refinance existing equipment financing loans with a new asset-backed loan from Galaxy in the amount of $35 million (£29 million), and host Argo's mining machines at Helios. The transactions improve the Company's balance sheet and liquidity by reducing total indebtedness by $41 million (£34 million) and improving its cash position. As of 31 December 2022, pro forma for the transactions, the Company's total debt was approximately $79 million (£65 million), and its bank balance was approximately $20 million (£16 million).
The transactions with Galaxy also streamline the Company's operations. Argo maintains ownership of its entire fleet of mining machines, and Galaxy will host the fleet of Bitmain S19J Pro machines at Helios. Additionally, Argo maintains ownership of its two data centers in Quebec, which have a combined power capacity of approximately 20 MW and attractive power prices.
In connection with the sale of Helios and shifting priorities for the Company, Justin Nolan (Chief Growth Officer) and Theodore Papadakis (VP Data Center Operations) have left Argo. Argo is grateful for their contributions to the Company during their tenure and wishes them well in future endeavours.
Argo's Chief Executive Peter Wall said, "While our mining results for December were lower than anticipated, the primary driver was the winter storm which led us to curtail operations at Helios. We made this decision in order to not only reduce power usage on the grid, but also to prioritise the needs of the local community and safety of our Helios employees. After the winter storm and associated freezing temperatures had subsided, we safely brought Helios back online and resumed operations."
Commenting on the Galaxy transaction, Wall said, "These agreements with Galaxy mark the beginning of a new chapter for Argo. We built a world-class mining facility at Helios, and I believe that Galaxy has the right team and resources to build upon the foundation that Argo established. This deal also allows Argo to continue our mining operations, both at Helios as a hosted customer, as well as at our owned-and-operated facilities in Quebec. I look forward to sharing more details on our growth strategy for 2023 and beyond in due course."
Bitcoin and Bitcoin Equivalent Mining Margin is a financial measure not defined by IFRS. We believe Bitcoin and Bitcoin Equivalent Mining Margin has limitations as an analytical tool. In particular, Bitcoin and Bitcoin Equivalent Mining Margin excludes the depreciation of mining equipment and so does not reflect the full cost of our mining operations, and it also excludes the effects of fluctuations in the value of digital currencies and realised losses on the sale of digital assets, which affect our IFRS gross profit. This measure should not be considered as an alternative to gross margin determined in accordance with IFRS, or other IFRS measures. This measure is not necessarily comparable to similarly titled measures used by other companies. As a result, you should not consider this measure in isolation from, or as a substitute analysis for, our gross margin as determined in accordance with IFRS.
The following table shows a reconciliation of gross margin to Bitcoin and Bitcoin Equivalent Mining Margin, the most directly comparable IFRS measure, for the months of November 2022 and December 2022.
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(1) Due to unfavourable changes in the fair value of BTC there was a loss on the change in fair value of digital currencies in November 2022. Due to favourable changes in the fair value of BTC there was a gain on the change in fair value of digital currencies in December 2022.
* Dollar values translated from pound sterling into U.S. dollars using the noon buying rate of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as at the applicable dates
This announcement contains inside information and includes forward-looking statements which reflect the Company's or, as appropriate, the Directors' current views, interpretations, beliefs or expectations with respect to the Company's financial performance, business strategy and plans and objectives of management for future operations. These statements include forward-looking statements both with respect to the Company and the sector and industry in which the Company operates. Statements which include the words "remains confident", "expects", "intends", "plans", "believes", "projects", "anticipates", "will", "targets", "aims", "may", "would", "could", "continue", "estimate", "future", "opportunity", "potential" or, in each case, their negatives, and similar statements of a future or forward-looking nature identify forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements address matters that involve risks and uncertainties because they relate to events that may or may not occur in the future, including the risk that the Company may receive the benefits contemplated by its transactions with Galaxy, the Company may be unable to secure sufficient additional financing to meet its operating needs, and the Company may not generate sufficient working capital to fund its operations for the next twelve months as contemplated. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance. Accordingly, there are or will be important factors that could cause the Company's actual results, prospects and performance to differ materially from those indicated in these statements. In addition, even if the Company's actual results, prospects and performance are consistent with the forward-looking statements contained in this document, those results may not be indicative of results in subsequent periods. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this announcement. Subject to any obligations under the Prospectus Regulation Rules, the Market Abuse Regulation, the Listing Rules and the Disclosure and Transparency Rules and except as required by the FCA, the London Stock Exchange, the City Code or applicable law and regulations, the Company undertakes no obligation publicly to update or review any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise. For a more complete discussion of factors that could cause our actual results to differ from those described in this announcement, please refer to the filings that Company makes from time to time with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority, including the section entitled "Risk Factors" in the Company's Registration Statement on Form F-1.
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About Argo:
Argo Blockchain plc is a dual-listed (ARBARBK blockchain technology company focused on large-scale cryptocurrency mining. With mining facilities in Quebec, mining operations in Texas, and offices in the US, Canada, and the UK, Argo's global, sustainable operations are predominantly powered by renewable energy. In 2021, Argo became the first climate positive cryptocurrency mining company, and a signatory to the Crypto Climate Accord. Argo also participates in several Web 3.0, DeFi and GameFi projects through its Argo Labs division, further contributing to its business operations, as well as the development of the cryptocurrency markets. For more information, visit www.argoblockchain.com.
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A Boston-Area native, Jonathan (Jon) Menard has been developing his skills as a singer / songwriter for the last decade. Originally inspired by David Lanz, a New Age solo pianist, Jon found his true passion in life, and fell in love with the instrument's ability to harnass an entire orchestra at once. In later years, he began experimenting with the guitar, discovering a unique joy in the percussive nature of the instrument.
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With another season of question marks for the No. 2 receiver spot, the idea of how much Pitt will utilize its tight ends comes to the forefront.
Tight end coach Tim Salem said after a recent practice that his players will be targeted. "We have pass plays put in for the tight ends," said Salem. "Plus we have the guy, number 23. It's kind of nice when we catches passes. They can't just put 11 guys on 23 and leave the tight ends open. The tight ends have caught some good quality passes this spring."
When you look at everything collectively, there are plenty of reasons for the Panthers to throw more to the tight end. First, while Dontez Ford may look like the No. 2 receiver to be paired with Tyler Boyd, he and the others behind him are unproven commodities. And while Chad Voytik made real strides in his first year as the starting quarterback but also showed some inconsistencies - and tight ends are good security blankets. Pitt also has talent at tight end with good pass-catchers in J.P. Holtz and Scott Orndoff.
Despite all that, however, there's no guarantee that Pitt will necessarily target their tight ends more than they have in the past for a variety of reasons.
For one thing, head coach Pat Narduzzi has talked about utilizing the running backs, and in particular, James Conner, in the passing game. Isaac Bennett and Rachid Ibrahim were the team's top receiving targets out of the backfield, but Narduzzi has already mentioned not having backs in set roles (i.e. using some guys primarily as pass-catchers and others for toting the ball). I expect the backs to continue to get a decent load of short passes.
Second, the Panthers' running game is the clear strength of the offense. While the Panthers will throw since having Tyler Boyd is too great a weapon to ignore, James Conner is arguably the feature of the offense. There has been some talk of Conner taking a lighter load, but with other guys like Chris James, Qadree Ollison, and Ibrahim in the mix, less carries for Conner doesn't necessarily translate into more passing. Those other three guys all stand to figure into the rotation. Make no mistake about it, Pitt is going to run the ball. A lot.
Finally, there's Boyd himself to consider. Last season, Voytik often appeared to have tunnel vision and was focused on Boyd a great deal. While Voytik now has a year of experience under his belt, Boyd's talent is a difficult thing to ignore when he comes down with so many balls. What's to say that Voytik suddenly focuses less on Boyd and more on the tight ends?
Don't mistake these for reasons why Pitt shouldn't throw more to the tight end more. Last season, Holtz, Orndoff, and Jaymar Parrish combined for 29 catches and 248 yards - really, there's no reason those numbers can't increase significantly. Personally, I think targeting the tight ends a bit more can only help take pressure off of Boyd in particular. And as Salem says, team's can't throw all of their defenders Boyd's way so the tight end is bound to be open more. Utilizing that position a bit more is something that just makes good sense.
But it's one of those things that I'll have to see to believe.
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