At 5 oclock last Friday, at the peak of rush hour, a group of safety advocates stepped out into the middle of busy Lyndale Avenue in an attempt to cross the street. Under normal circumstances, they knew that theyd be taking their lives into their hands. This was the exact block where 54-year-old Theodore Ferrara was hit Oct. 13 while trying to scramble across the busy four-lane street that carries traffic through the dense Wedge and Whittier neighborhoods and beyond. He died three days later.

At first glance, the idea of change on Lyndale might seem hopeless. The Hennepin County arterial street has very high traffic volumes more than 24,000 cars a day. But recent moves by Ramsey and Hennepin Counties this year are signs that the conventional wisdom about four-lane roads might be changing. Both counties have become more aggressive about implementing three-lane road diets, as engineers and policy makers have begun to push the boundaries of where safety measures might work. These new designs, on streets like Broadway NE and Maryland Avenue, might be a sign of a safer approach to urban streets in the Twin Cities.

Almost all of the deadliest streets in Minnesota cities have one thing in common: They are four-lane undivided roads in walkable urban neighborhoods. These kinds of streets are particularly dangerous because they allow drivers to change lanes and speed around slowing or stopped cars. As anyone who has ever driven south down Hennepin Avenue well knows, without a turn lane, left-turning traffic can clog up the center lane for blocks, and drivers routinely speed and swerve amid the chaos.

Its these unpredictable encounters that make four-lane roads so perilous, and the speed-inducing design quickly turns deadly when pedestrians get involved. While state law requires drivers to stop for people trying to cross the street at a corner (even without a striped crosswalk), the four-lane design means that often drivers will whip around a stopped car and hit the poor soul trying to get across the street.

Traffic engineers live with the deadly outcomes because four-lane roads can handle higher volumes of car traffic, especially at intersections with stoplights. The three-lane road diet street design, where turning traffic takes up a center lane, also creates more congestion at busy intersections. Because of the traffic concerns, for years the conventional wisdom stated that three-lane designs only worked to a certain point. On any road with higher volume than, say, 16,000 cars per day, a safer three-lane would was not seen as possible, because it would create too much congestion and driver frustration.

Or at least, thats what the engineers thought would happen. This year, at least in the Twin Cities, the industry standards are beginning to change. In the wake of persistent crashes, first Ramsey and now Hennepin County are implementing four-to-three-lane conversions on arterials with far more traffic than in years past.

Honestly, the foundation really was set a few years ago when [the county] did the Johnson-to-Payne section [of Maryland], said Trista MatasCastillo, who represents the area on the seven-member Ramsey County Board. It came from the community response, and people pushing because of a pedestrian fatality there. When we have fatalities, it really gives us an opportunity to pause and reflect.

The case MatasCastillo references was particularly tragic, when a woman named Elizabeth Durham was killed by a driver of a box truck while trying to cross Maryland Avenue after putting her son on a school bus. After Durhams death, neighbors on the East Side began pushing the county to rethink how it prioritized pedestrian safety. Soon after, county engineers tried out a yearlong test of a three-lane road design on Maryland Avenue near the site of the crash. After a year of data collection, and some community back-and-forth about traffic versus safety, the changes became permanent.

This year, Ramsey County went further, making the three-lane design change on a busier part of Maryland Avenue even closer to the Interstate 35E on ramps. The new design pushes the ADT envelope the threshold of average daily traffic where three-lane designs are considered to work well well beyond the previous standards.

(For the record, the threshold varies by city and county across the country: In Chicago, the limit is 18,000; in Seattle, its 25,000 cars per day.)

Engineers tried out a yearlong test of a three-lane road design on Maryland Avenue. Later, they made the change permanent.

So this street was really dangerous, explained MatasCastillo. Public Works said people were driving average speeds at 47 mph. It is completely residential on both sides of the road. You have peoples front porches, and cars going 50 miles per hour. There were accidents frequently and pedestrians being killed.

The new design has been in place for months, and even with the high traffic volumes, few drivers have been complaining to the county.

It actually works, explained MatasCastillo, who lives just blocks away from the Maryland test. The commuters lost time was minimal, it feels safer, and people can walk.

As with their other test designs, Ramsey Countys Public Works Department has been collecting ongoing data to evaluate the traffic impacts of the change. According to Erin Labree, the deputy director of program delivery for the county, they are collecting information about speeds, crash rates, congestion wait times, turning patterns, and traffic on neighboring side streets to try to evaluate whether drivers are speeding through the neighborhood out of frustration.

Traffic volumes are really high, higher than what we thought a three-lane could handle, said Labree. Its really on the high end, but we did trials to see how it functions, and it functions relatively well. The peak hour in the morning and the evening is when we see congestion occur, but at the other the times of day it operates really well plus there are the added safety benefits for people trying to cross the road.

Even better, crashes are down on Maryland Avenue compared to how it was working in the past. Results are so encouraging that new three-lane designs are being rolled out in other places. After a series of tragic crashes this summer took the lives of three people crossing the street, county engineers have installed road-diet conversions on Larpenteur Avenue and McKnight Road on the north and east borders of St. Paul.

Our takeaway from the Maryland Avenue project it that it has been a success, said Labree. We are looking at more of our four-lane undivided roads in the county, and because traffic volumes [here] are on the higher end of what we have on other roadways, we really expect to do more of these conversions.

Not wanting to be left behind, a similar road diet revolution is gaining traction in Hennepin County. In northeast Minneapolis, where busy-but-dangerous four-lane roads have been the norm for generations, a new three-lane design is pushing past previous engineering boundaries. Earlier this fall, the county installed a new three-lane design on a key stretch of Broadway Street NE, dramatically calming traffic on what was once a chaotic car sewer.

[The county] was scheduled to do a straight mill and overlay, curb to curb, explained Kevin Reich, who represents the area on the Minneapolis City Council. But a lot of conversation had gone their direction from constituents, residents, and some of the business folks about how it functions.

Broadway NE carries around 18,000 cars per day, fewer than Maryland, but the countys decision to adopt the three-lane design means that big changes might be coming for other dangerous arterial roads throughout Minneapolis.

Broadway had been a mini-freeway from the perspective of many constituents, and they were hoping that some of these conversions could make it feel safer, and make some of traffic patterns work a little better, there are dedicated turn lanes that make it better for go and flow, explained Council Member Reich.

According to Bob Byers, an engineer for Hennepin Countys Transportation Planning Division, the Broadway road diet is the highest volume three-lane design the county has ever done. As he explained in an email, the new design has been working surprisingly well, and theyve heard mostly positive comments from community members.

Staff has been driving the corridor during the peak hours, explained Byers. The travel times appear to be very similar, within a minute or two, of what they were when it was a four-lane. This is most likely due to the chaos and left turn blocking that occurred as a four-lane [road].

The new horizons for making street safety change means that design change might finally be coming to some of the Twin Cities most dangerous streets, like Hennepin, Lyndale, Franklin, and Lowry Avenues in Minneapolis, or Dale, Hamline, or 7th Streets in St. Paul.

Dale Street, replied Trista MatasCastillo when I asked her about what streets might benefit from the next road diets. It comes up every single day, [but] it is currently not in the plan. I keep bringing it up. I hope we can do it before someone dies, that we can do these [design changes] not only in response to death but proactively.

For the people who took over Lyndale Avenue last Friday, holding signs with messages like Just Tryna walk n exist or Lives > Lanes, the changes cant come soon enough. Even during rush hour, it should not require a coordinated mass movement to simply and safely cross the street.

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Sand and Steel Fitness, a top-rated personal training and fitness gym in Alexandria, Virginia, will expand into a new state-of-the-art training facility on November 1. The new location, two and half times the size of the original gym, is conveniently located at 5418 Eisenhower Avenue in Alexandria's fast-growing West End neighborhood. A one-minute walk from the Van Dorn Metro, right off the Van Dorn Beltway 495 exit, offering plenty of parking, Sand and Steel Fitness is the ideal work-out location for anyone looking for a personal, high-quality fitness experience.

Co-owners Paul Roberts and Dawn Anderson are leaving their South Alfred Street location in Old Town in order to expand offerings and services to clients. In addition to Sand and Steel's proven personal training program, the gym will now be able to offer group classes and an open gym, as well as mobility and nutrition coaching. Classes will include yoga, CrossFit, CoreFit, powerlifting, suspension training via Total Resistance Exercises (TRX), kettlebell work, and more. To celebrate the opening of the new gym, Sand and Steel Fitness is offering 25% off personal training rates, group classes, and workout plans.

"Our expansion is a strategic move to increase member options and value. We want to provide the very best coaches, an ideal environment, along with more classes so clients can get even more out of their relationship with Sand and Steel Fitness," said Roberts. "Our new location will provide free group fitness classes to our Get Steel Strong members, a game-changer for results and value."

Passionate about helping people maintain a healthy body and move safely so that injuries can be prevented, Anderson and Roberts created their personal training program five years ago. Roberts has a background as a biomedical engineer and developed a proprietary methodology by analyzing the data of thousands of individual clients and their workout results. The team works with clients to identify goals and create plans to achieve results in the most efficient and effective way.

"People think that getting healthy is going to be hard or that they can't feel better. With our program, you only need four to six hours per month to start noticing results," added Roberts. "So many of us are living with chronic pain and stress. Our mobility training, Beyond Stretch class, and yoga offerings help reduce those issues and teach effective movement."

In addition to offering personal training and group classes, Sand and Steel offers one-one-one nutrition counseling for building customized diet and weight loss plans. A muscle mass, inflammation, and body fat scan is included with each nutrition session for tracking and modification of the member's existing diet.

Roberts studied biomedical engineering, in addition to computer science, at Johns Hopkins University, and went to law school at Rutgers. He met Anderson in 2010 at the Hogan Lovells law firm. Roberts left the firm after a weightlifting injury left him unable to type, and he began studying fitness and mobility exercises to improve his health and prevent injury. Anderson has fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue, and also turned to fitness and nutrition to provide relief. The business partners and engaged couple opened Sand and Steel in 2013.

For more information on Sand and Steel Fitness personal training in Alexandria, nutrition coaching or Alexandria CrossFit classes, visit SandandSteelFitness.com or call 703-854-9960. Follow on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

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Starting with calling the feature "Black is back."

We're once again in the unfortunate situation of reporting another failed, deeply offensive attempt by people in the fashion industry to highlight ethnic diversity. And this one is especially baffling.

On Tuesday, Diet Prada posted a page from the November 2019 issue of Elle Germany with a feature on "models of color" with the coverline "Black is back" at the top. Yes, "Black is back," as if being Black is a trend that cycles in and out of fashion. "Black is back" appears to be the theme of the entire issue, mostly referring to the color in terms of clothing, but clearly the editors of Elle Germany decided they'd just fold some human beings into the trend.

And it doesn't end there: As Diet Prada notes, the magazine couldn't even keep those human beings straight, misidentifying Naomi Chin Wing as Janaye Furman. It also made an odd choice in highlighting Joan Smalls alongside a group of relative newcomers, given that she's a modeling veteran at this point (and has hardly taken a break from runway appearances).

To make things even worse, the issue features a thin white model on the cover, as is pretty much always the case with Elle Germany, a magazine that clearly has no interest in hiring Black models and only features them in its pages when it fits a trend.

It's another case of the how-did-multiple-people-see-this-and-think-it-was-ok mystery. And another step backward for genuine inclusivity in the industry. A rep for Elle Germany did not immediately respond to our request for comment.

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So today is World Psoriasis Day. For anyone who suffers from it, we know we dont need a day for awareness. Were very aware of it.

The trouble is, the world around us isnt. And often, thats by our own design.

Before I talk about my experience with psoriasis, I want to get a few things out of the way.

Psoriasis is a genetic, systemic autoimmune disease that affects 1.6 million people in this country. Worldwide, a staggering 125 million people are affected by it which, broken down, works out to be about one in 16 people. So if you think you dont know someone with psoriasis, youre wrong. Theyve most likely hidden it from you.

The disease causes the overproduction of skin cells, leading to painful rash-like lesions that present in different parts of the body commonly, it affects the joints, limbs, trunk and scalp, but for many people, it can cover the whole body it does not discriminate.

And no, you can not catch it.

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I was one of those eczema kids, always with a rash of some sort and my parents trying desperately to stop me itching. I might have been predisposed to psoriasis, but Ive stillnever discovered the genetic link in my family.

I was 18 when I was formally diagnosed. I had just moved away to college in Bathurst to study journalism and was on my own for the first time. I relished those first few months of independence, made hundreds of friends and drank to excess (it was college there were frequent bar crawls and every week we had theme nights in the uni bar.)

The brutal Bathurst winter kicked in around the time our half-yearly exams were taking place. Ever-studious, I bunkered down in the library to prepare for my tests. Without someone to police me or provide healthier meals, I wasnt eating well or taking care of myself. I was sort of half-existing on a diet of canteen potato bake, Bathurst Maccas, lollies and cereal. In that time, I got the worst tonsilitis of my life. I could barely speak or swallow.

Then it started. A rash of tiny red dots, each slightly raised, had popped up on my chest. They were itchy, and when I scratched, they bled.

As I studied late into the night, coughing and fuelling myself with caffeine and sugar, my stress levels rose. I got itchier.

The rash quickly spread from my chest to my back, down my thighs and up my chin. When it started making its way onto my face, I knew something was very wrong. I thought I had syphilis or some terrible, unsightly STD.

I called my mum and explained the symptoms. Shes a pharmacist, and suspected it may be a fungal rash. Topical creams should be able to treat it, she suggested. So I went to the university nurse.

After a few minutes assessing the rash, the nurse took a deep breath and looked me in the eyes. Oh darling, she said, Im so sorry. She explained that I most probably had psoriasis, a condition I had never heard of.

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Erin Jackson has a lot going on. The 40-year-old commercial airline pilot flies 737s for American Airlines out of Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, and lives in a suburb of the city with her five kids (ages 12 to 19) and husband, also an airline pilot, who has two grown kids of his own.

But "I have a great support system", she said.

She and her husband try to fly opposite schedules so that someone can always be home; her ex-husband lives close by and is very involved with the kids; and her father helps out, too.

When she's not flying four-day routes across the US, Jackson also volunteers on the board of the International Society of Women Airline Pilots, which supports and recruits female pilots; women make up only 6 percent of the worldwide pilot population, according to Women in Aviation International.

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Jackson has flown for 21 years and worked as a flight instructor and regional pilot before joining American two years ago.

"People are entrusting their lives to us," she said. "As they walk onto my airplane, they're trusting that I got enough sleep, that I'm healthy and eating right, and I have the mental acuity and I've done the preparation to safely get them from point A to point B so they can relax and watch a movie."

Here's how she does that.

Q: What do wellness and self-care mean to you?

A: For me, it's a preferred lifestyle. It's not just a diet, an exercise set that I'm into right now. It's all-encompassing, everything from what I'm putting into my body to what I'm spending my time doing when I'm on the road.

Q: Take me through your routine on days when you're flying, and not.

A: My routine before I fly starts the day before, because I do meal prep. When you're gone for three or four days in a row, it's hard to eat healthy if you don't plan it out. The bag that I bring with me is half-tote and half-cooler. In the tote part is where I keep all the things that I need for flying, like my flight manuals, my work iPad, a safety vest.... In the cooler part is where I'll put my meals.

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Healthy snacks such as almonds are an essential on long trips.

I generally try to avoid eating meat; I'm not a strict vegetarian, but it's actually a little bit easier to travel knowing that I don't have to keep anything really cold. I have a really amazing bean and corn salad that I make with a cilantro dressing. I make a tofu pad thai peanut meal that I eat with rice. I also keep a bag of raw almonds in my tote. It's a fantastic snack and a great way to get some energy.

Usually I'm up by about 6:15am.If I have to work a late flight that night, I'll get the kids on the bus and come back and take a nap.

The hard thing about being a pilot is there's not always structure, so day-to-day, it's going to be different. There's variety, and you've got to have flexibility while still finding time to make sure that you know you're staying healthy. I made a commitment to myself that every day I'm home, I'll find time to work out.

I usually try to make a 9:30am class at the gym, and then I run my errands. After my errands, I come home, and I'm here for when the kids get off the bus. There's something just about every night, between baseball and basketball. All of my kids are musicians, too. We try to eat dinner together, and usually we make it work.

Q: What do you do to relax when you're on the road?

A: I do yoga in my room. I usually just lay the hotel towel on the floor and find a routine on YouTube. It's tempting to just get out of my uniform and veg the whole rest of the night, but just getting in a little bit of movement helps me feel better and brings things down for the day.

The interesting thing about being a pilot is that you're using your brain a lot to fly an airplane. I've found that if I don't find a way to physically exert some energy, I'm tired from my day, but I'm not physically tired. Sometimes I'll FaceTime my family depending on what time of day it is, or my husband if he's in another city.

And I get caught up on emails - I do this when I'm lying on the floor and I'm doing leg lifts. When you are a parent and in aviation, sometimes it's like trying to conduct an orchestra from a thousand miles away. I'm on the floor trying to get some physical exertion, and I'm emailing a teacher back or one of my board members back.

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Texting friends and family can help when you're feeling lonely on the road.

The nice thing about my husband being a pilot is sometimes I call him to unwind about my day, and he understands what I'm saying. It goes back to having a support system. I chat with my best friends almost every day over text messages, or we send each other funny memes.

Q: Do you get lonely when you're travelling? What do you do to combat that?

A: It can be lonely to be travelling on the road for so many days in a row by yourself, away from your family. We [airline employees] all have that same understanding. We have this phrase, "the four-day family". We'll say, hey, let's meet downstairs at the hotel restaurant for dinner at 6. It's a nice little camaraderie type of thing.

Q: What does your sleep schedule look like when you're on the road?

A: I have different work schedules based on what time of day I'm operating the aircraft. I always try to get a workout in. Having physical activity is imperative to getting a good night's sleep.

When I go to sleep, I always try to keep the temperature about the same as it is at home. I keep a water bottle next to me. Typically, I move the hotel air conditioning system's fan to the "on" position, so there's a little bit of white noise in the room. If I get a hotel whose air system doesn't do that, I have a white-noise app.

Q: How do you recover from jet lag and prevent getting sick?

A: Even though I don't travel across a lot of time zones, I try to make sure that I'm avoiding coffee late at night and staying hydrated so that I can go to sleep when I need to, to get my full eight hours before I fly the next day.

Not getting sick is a concerted effort. I take a multivitamin every day. I avoid drinking a lot of pop. I'm a firm believer of, if you put good things in your body and you take care of yourself, then you'll generally be a healthy person.

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Having physical activity is imperative to getting a good night's sleep.

Q: How do you keep your mind sharp?

A: I think it all goes back to what I'm putting in my body for overall health. Vitamin B really helps with mental acuity, so that's in the vitamin I take. I really try to stay healthy and balanced and get plenty of rest.

I like to read when I'm on my off time, and I play Words with Friends with a couple of friends on my phone. I actually just got a book called Nerves of Steel,by Tammie Jo Shults [the captain who landed the severely damaged Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 last year]. I review my manuals every so often, too.

Exercising your mind and doing those things helps keep your mind sharp. It's about using it just like any other muscle.

Q: What muscles are you working when you pilot a plane, and do you target those when you work out?

A: It's probably mostly my arm muscles, and some core and my legs. Takeoff and landing are the most physical parts of flying the plane. Obviously you need arm muscles to rotate and pull back on the controls when you're taking off.

When you're coming in to land, you're using your arm muscles, too. I have one hand on the thrust levers and the other hand on the yoke, and my feet are controlling the rudder to stay aligned with the runway if there's a crosswind. I still do an overall-body workout. The class I go to at home uses weights, so I'm getting toning. I think keeping tone is important.

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Takeoff and landing are the most physical parts of flying the plane, says the American Airlines pilot.

Q: What does a really good day look like to you?

A: The reason I got into the field I'm in is because I love to fly airplanes - the exhilaration of being in the air and being in control of this magnificent, beautiful machinery and dealing with the airspace and the weather. A great day for me is being able to pass on my love of aviation to somebody in some way.

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Re: Red meat, science and buffets (Oct. 5 column by Sylvain Charlebois).

Charlebois makes much of the Annals of Internal Medicine study which claims to have evidence that red and processed meats arent as unhealthy as most doctors are now saying.

There are, however, cogent criticisms of that study:

From a Sep. 30 Washington Post article, by Laura Reiley: Another critic of the study, Walter Willett, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said the Annals of Internal Medicine study also ignored solid science in the arena.

. Willett says the panels conclusions and recommendations do not reflect the studys findings. Their meta-analyses of large cohorts showed that dietary patterns with a moderate reduction in red and processed meat consumption were associated with lower total mortality by 13 per cent. If a drug brought down the number of deaths to that degree, he says, it would be heralded as a success.

.... Bonnie Liebman, director of nutrition at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, says one of the studys chief flaws is its reliance on the Womens Health Initiative study, a huge analysis of 48,000 women that had half the participants eating their regular diet and half eating a low-fat diet, which in many cases led to a half-an-ounce difference in meat consumption per day in the two groups, about a fifth of a hamburger. No surprise, there wasnt much difference in outcomes. Because of its size, the womens study may have skewed the overall results of the Annals of Internal Medicine report.

In other words, the study to which Mr. Charlebois refers did in fact show a 13 per cent reduction in mortality from a moderate reduction (note:not elimination) of red and processed meat in the regular diet. But the study doesnt support the conclusion that even those eating, say, 15 servings a week of red meat (the U.S. average), or more, can safely carry on.

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Deep learning has become a buzz word in many endeavors, and broadcasting organizations are also among those that have to start to explore all the potential it has to offer, from news reporting to feature films and programs, both in the cinemas and on TV.

As TechRadar reported, the number of opportunities deep learning presents in the field of video production, editing and cataloging are already quite high. But as is noted, this technology is not just limited to what is considered repetitive tasks in broadcasting, since it can also enhance the creative process, improve video delivery and help preserve the massive video archives that many studios keep.

As far as video generation and editing are concerned, it is mentioned that Warner Bros. recently had to spend $25M on reshoots for Justice League and part of that money went to digitally removing a mustache that star Henry Cavillhad grown and could not shave due to an overlapping commitment.The use of deep learning in such time-consuming and financially taxing processes in post-production will certainly be put to good use.

Even widely available solutions like Flo make it possible to use deep learning in creating automatically a video just by describing your idea. The software then searches for possible relevant videos that are stored in a certain library and edits them together automatically.

Flo is also able to sort and classify videos, making it easier to find a particular part of the footage. Such technologies also make it possible to easily remove undesirable footage or make a personal recommendation list based on a video somebody has expressed an interest in.

Google has come up with a neural network that can automatically separate the foreground and background of a video. What used to require agreen screencan now be done with no special equipment.

The deep fake has already made a name for itself, both good and bad, but its potential use in special effects has already reached quite a high level.

The area where deep learning will certainly make a difference in the restoration of classic films, as the UCLA Film & Television Archive, nearly half of all films produced prior to 1950 have disappeared and 90% of the classic film prints are currently in a very poor condition.

Colorizing black and white footage is still a controversial subject among the filmmakers, but those who decide to go that route can now use Nvidia tools, which will significantly shorten such a lengthy process as it now requires that the artist colors only one frame of a scene and deep learning will do the rest from there. On the other hand, Google has come up with a technology that is able to recreate part of a video-recorded scene based on start and end frames.

Face/Object recognition is already actively used, from classifying a video collection or archive, searching for clips with a given actor or newsperson, or counting the exact time of an actor in a video or film. TechRadar mentions that Sky News recently used facial recognition to identify famous faces at the royal wedding.

This technology is now becoming widely used in sports broadcasting to, say, track the movements of the ball, or to identify other key elements to the game, such as the goal. In soccer (football)this technology, given the name VAR is actually used in many official tournaments and national leagues as a referees tool during the game.

Streaming is yet another aspect of broadcasting that can benefit from deep learning. Neural networks can recreate high definition frames from low definition input, making it possible for the viewer to benefit from better viewing, even if the original input signal is not fully up to the standard.

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