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Rain forests recede and species vanish, but wildlife and natural history films just keep coming. In this saturated market, it’s survival of the fittest, and the winners must have all their components fully formed. That includes a well- plotted, well-executed script – one of the last elements to fully evolve in this genre.
When Ellen Windemuth, managing director of Off The Fence in Amsterdam, and her team delved into the culture of the San people of the Kalahari and their ritual hunt to the death, they knew only a professional scriptwriter could properly communicate the drama and nuance of the story. ‘In order to write the script of The Great Dance, Jeremy Evans read hundreds of transcripts of interviews with the San people, and lots of history. He approached it as a feature scriptwriter. He had to get into the head of the character and think how that character would talk about his world,’ Windemuth says.
The Great Dance has been scooping up prizes at festivals around the world, some just for the writing. But even with the handshakes and the back patting, scriptwriting isn’t considered a dominant factor in a film’s success.
‘Little attention has been paid to natural history scripts other than to check them for factual accuracy,’ says Evans, whose many credits include Endurance: Shackleton and the Antarctic and Living With Dinosaurs. ‘Obviously, there are a few writers, like Sir David Attenborough, who are spellbinding storytellers, but often programs are simply lists of species, or a cycle of the seasons with observations on animal behavior. The scripts are written by producers who are highly qualified biologists or zoologists, but not primarily tellers of tales. You wouldn’t want to sit next to them on a long flight.’
Producers who give a nod to good writing by hiring an experienced professional admit that writers are often expected to contribute something significant without a lot of time or compensation. ‘You can write a draft in a day or two. But you need to give writers eight or nine days to polish it. That’s compared to 100 days of filming,’ says Jeremy Bradshaw, managing director of Bristol-based Tigress Productions and series producer for ‘In The Wild,’ which includes the award-winning Operation Lemur with John Cleese. ‘The script is given probably less than one percent of the budget.’
Part of the problem for wildlife film writers – and ultimately for the script itself – seems to be confusion or disagreement about the writer’s role. Should they give voice to a fully formed story, or help to sculpt the story itself? Kevin McCarey is a former freelance scriptwriter and director, and now the supervising producer for Nat Geo TV’s Natural History Unit. He believes in a broader definition of the writer’s role.
‘Writers are good storytellers first and good wordsmiths second. I think it’s best to bring the writer in as soon as possible. Nothing is lost and there is much to gain. Often a producer or director is very close to the material. The writer doesn’t know the filmmakers had to endure 100-degrees-plus for two weeks in the desert to get that shot – he or she only knows whether it’s interesting from a story perspective. The writer can also help the producer and editor see the clichés in terms of story structure,’ McCarey says. But McCarey also acknowledges that some projects are dictated by the footage, and for these a writer may only be needed to add a few words.
Dione Gilmour, executive producer of the Australian Broadcasting Corp’s NHU, says a limited amount of visuals call for the highest caliber of writing. ‘Pictures are sometimes restricted. Where you can be flexible is in the writing. That’s why you need a terrific writer,’ she says.
But, Gilmour senses a shift to less scripting altogether. ‘People are moving away from ‘Voice of God’ narration. Social docs with different voices keep people entertained longer. We are finding that we prefer a multiplicity of voices,’ she says.
At Nat Geo, McCarey has noticed a similar preference. ‘Often we look at a film and think it could be helped with human involvement – from scientists or even the filmmakers themselves. Good narrative is as much a creative component as good music and good pictures – until the day when animals start telling their own stories.’
Advice from the pros
‘Most natural history scripts are dead. We wanted to give it life,’ says Jeremy Bradshaw, speaking of Tigress Productions’ Operation Lemur. The film features host John Cleese as an integral part of the process, a factor that would make any picture lively, but there are other dos and don’ts.
‘Pretension and written English are the curse of the natural history doc,’ says Dione Gilmour of ABC’s NHU. ‘Make it direct. It’s spoken English, not written English. So much of it sounds like it’s just been handed out and read. Use the present tense. And don’t have too much writing, for God’s sake.’
National Geographic’s Kevin McCarey agrees. ‘Less is more, and in natural history films, less is a lot more. Set the stage, then get yourself off it.’
Everybody has a list of dreaded clichés. Gilmour’s are: ‘Fragile ecosystems’ and ‘As the sun sinks into the veldt, suddenly the night comes alive with creatures.’ McCarey cites: ‘The eternal drama between predator and prey.’
But McCarey points out that it’s not just the narration that can lapse into cliché, the structure can too. ‘God, please spare us from any more films that start with the sunrise and end with the sunset,’ he says.
Jeremy Bradshaw says a good script is one that gives the nod to classic structure. ‘Use all the traditional storytelling methods, whether that is structuring a story in three acts, using dramatic cliffhangers, or making sure that you have a protagonist – land, animals, whatever.’
Bradshaw’s best advice to natural history writers is to look beyond their own fields. ‘Watch any and all kinds of television, except the genre you’re working in, and figure out why the stories work.’


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Includes information on almost 2,000 medical disorders and concepts. Each article includes in-depth discussion of causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, procedures, and other related topics.
This book discusses epidemics and pandemics, their impact on public health, and how they shape and are shaped by political, economic, and social forces.
This guide offers online, websites, and local resources on health and medicine.
Covers topics on emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Includes full text for more than 560 journals. Download the EBSCO App for iOS and Android!
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Bruce R. Linboom, 23, of Dixon; 7:15 p.m. Tuesday in the 1000 block of Carondelet Avenue; warrant – aggravated battery, unlawful use of a weapon; taken to Lee County Jail.
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Cody D. Price, 23, of Ashton; 5:56 p.m. Monday; warrant – driving with a suspended license.
Benita A. Shaw, 23, of Chicago; 8:39 p.m. Monday at Mason Avenue and Water Street; driving with a suspended license, speeding; taken to Lee County Jail.
Joel M. Garza, 31, of Sterling; 12:15 p.m. Monday at Fifth Avenue and East Fourth Street; Whiteside County warrant – failure to appear – driving with a suspended license; taken to Whiteside County Jail.
Gualberto Cisneros, 28, of Sterling; 8:22 p.m. Monday at Second Avenue and East Fifth Street; driving with a suspended license; given notice to appear in court.
Andrew W. Guthrie, 39, of Sterling; 10:22 p.m. Monday in the 1400 block of First Avenue; Cook County warrant – driving under the influence; taken to Whiteside County Jail.
Christopher M. Surdez, 22, of Sterling; 10:30 a.m. Monday at Sterling Police Department; Lee County warrant – contempt of court; taken to Whiteside County Jail.
Cody A. Lawson, 26, of Tampico; 11:02 p.m. Monday on Avenue G Bridge; driving with a suspended license; given notice to appear in court.
Richard M. Akers, 47, of Oregon; 4:45 p.m. Aug. 5 in the 300 block of East Washington Street; no signal lamp device – no stoplight.
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Daniel L. Rosenbalm, 61, of Oregon; 12:30 p.m. Aug. 6 in the 1000 block of Third St.; violating grass, weeds city code ordinance.
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Constance Stauffer, 61, of Oregon; 8:39 a.m. Friday at the intersection of Seventh and Clay streets; disobeying a stop sign.
Jessica L. Murphy, 23, of Oregon; 8:25 p.m. Friday at the intersection of Madison and First streets; disobeying a stop sign.
Emerald G. Brass Jr., 59, of Oregon; 10:30 p.m. Sunday; disorderly conduct, aggravated assault; taken to Ogle County Jail.
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Daniel Abshari, 27, of Berwyn; 8 p.m. Tuesday; on Interstate 39; driving with a revoked license, speeding; taken to Ogle County Jail.
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After welcoming the riders and the management of the Ducati Team and the official World Superbike riders of the ARUBA.IT Racing – Ducati team, the LIVE show “Ducati Corse Racing Talk” will also continue in the upcoming weeks, every Thursday on the @ducaticorse Instagram page, with other important personalities from the Ducati world taking part to the program.
For the fourth and fifth events, scheduled for the next Thursday 23rd and 30th April 2020 respectively, it will be the turn of other two true legends for all the Ducatisti: Australian rider Troy Bayliss, World Superbike Champion in 2001, 2006 and 2008, and American Champion Ben Bostrom. Both episodes will be hosted by famous Italian presenter DJ Ringo, who will interview his guests interacting with the viewers through the comments left during the live stream.
The show, born on the @ducaticorse Instagram account, was launched for the first time on 5th April with an episode entirely dedicated to the MotoGP World Championship. On that occasion, it was British presenter Gavin Emmett to host the broadcast, inviting in succession to participate in the live chat the official Ducati Team riders Andrea Dovizioso and Danilo Petrucci, Ducati test rider Michele Pirro, Ducati Corse Sporting Director Paolo Ciabatti and the Team Manager of the Ducati Team Davide Tardozzi.
The following two episodes of the “Ducati Corse Racing Talk” were presented by 2003 Superbike World Champion Neil Hodgson, who interviewed Scott Redding and Chaz Davies, teammates at the ARUBA.IT Racing – Ducati team in World Superbike.
Moreover, in the upcoming weeks, it will also be Andrea Saveri’s turn. The reigning MotoGP eSports World Champion, who will try to defend his title this year as the official rider of the Ducati Corse eSport team, will reveal all the mysteries of the entertainment platform that has grown in recent years by also talking about his races on the saddle of the virtual Desmosedici GP bike.
Check the Ducati Corse Official Instagram page to stay up to date on the live schedules and follow all the episodes of the Ducati Corse Racing Talk. Visit Ducati Official YouTube channel to relive the past editions of the program.
Upcoming live shows on Instagram:
Thursday 23rd April at noon (Italian time) Troy Bayliss
Thursday 30th April at 19:00 (Italian time) Ben Bostrom
Thursday 7th May at 17:00 (Italian time) Andrea Saveri (Ducati Corse eSport rider)

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I just read a quite lengthy blog by a Christian discussing this question. In the end, the writer could not decide if God created Satan and, if he did, why.
It is refreshing to find people in the faith admit the faith is a confusing and lacks much semblance of logic. The idea that God, who is supposed to represent all that is good, would also represent all that is bad, is confusing.
The question of why God would create a evil Satan is mute if one accepts that the god is created in the human mind. This points to Satan as well as created in the mind. One of the most famous believer in a literal Satan is none other than Pope Francis.
So, if Satan is a creation of the mind, why do minds so enthusiastically talk of a Satan. There must be some need in humans to do this.
Nearly all stories written for either the purpose of entertaining or informing have a similar pattern. Good is confronted by evil. There is a struggle. Good eventually triumphs over evil. This pattern is also how the Bible itself plays out.
It seems, then, the human mind creates a Satan because the mind needs someone or something to defeat. If the mind has created a hero there needs to be someone for the hero to defeat. A Satan fits the bill.
We need a demon to defeat. It cannot be too big or too small.
Satan, we’re glad you showed up.
[A blog discussing Satan is linked in Comments.]

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On view in the Kenneth and Judith Riskind/Peter Salomon and Patricia Carr Morgan Gallery
Wednesday – Sunday
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Fecha de exhibición:
En exhibición en la Galería Kenneth y Judith Riskind/Peter Salomon y Patricia Carr Morgan
Horario del museo:
Miércoles – Domingo
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
This selection of the museum’s holdings of contemporary photography includes Arizona artists Mark Klett, Kate Breakey, Judy Miller, Benjamin Timpson, and Paho Mann, whose family homesteaded in Arizona and now resides in Texas. Each has a singular experience of the Southwest and offers a unique perspective on the world with distinctive photographic methods that stand out in exciting and progressive ways.
Photography represents nearly one third of the Tucson Museum of Art’s collection of contemporary art. Featuring more than 500 works by more than 80 artists, the photography collection spans traditional techniques to the latest in digital advancements. The museum presented its first exhibition of photography in 1952 and continued to feature solo and group shows of regional photography throughout the years. Photographers featured at the museum during the second half of the 20th century include Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Fritz Kaeser, Heinrich Harrer, and John P. Schaefer.
Since 2000, as artists increasingly began to work in an interdisciplinary and pluralistic fashion, the medium of photography has expanded in scope, scale, and content.
Admission is always free for TMA members!
This exhibition is included with all paid museum admissions.
¡La admisión siempre es gratis para miembros del TMA!
Esta exhibición está incluida con todas las admisiones pagadas al museo.
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Contemporary Photography is presented by Dr. Peggy Jones M.D. and Alan F. Willenbrock with support from the Contemporary Art Society.
Fotografía Contemporánea es presentada por la Dra. Peggy Jones M.D. y Alan F. Willenbrock con el apoyo de la Sociedad de Arte Contemporáneo.

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Please join City of Bothell in welcoming Amanda Dodd to Bothell City Council. In their meeting on Tuesday, October 4th, 2022, King County Council appointed Councilmember Dodd to fill vacated Council Position #6 for the remainder of the unexpired term – through December 31, 2023. Councilmember Dodd was officially sworn in during their meeting and is also expected to take the oath of office during the Bothell City Council meeting held later tonight.
Position #6 became vacant earlier this year when State Representative Davina Duerr announced her resignation.
Bothell City Council interviewed a number of highly qualified candidates in July of 2022 and in a unanimous agreement pursuant to RCW 42.12 and 35A.13.020, entrusted King County with appointing the most appropriate candidate.
City of Bothell operates under the Council-Manager form of government. The seven-member City Council serves as the legislative body of the City. The Council is responsible for setting policy, adopting the biennial budget, adopting laws and determining the services the city provides as well as the funding levels for those services.

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It officially started 7 years ago right before Halloween, but in reality, years before that… My husband and I would see each other around our small little town – I walking my cow like dog, and he walking back from the gym with his awesome long hair! Our story goes like this… I […]
Transformation doesn’t have to come in huge, cathartic moments… It can be gentle, easy, and graceful. It can be with subtle shifts of your intentions. It can be with cultivating your awareness, taking accountability for your inner workings. It can be sitting in your emotions and feeling them. It can be stepping forward […]
Hanukkah Sameach! Happy Festival of Lights. Big love & hugs. Wishing for you a day with family and friends filled with joy, laughter, connection, abundance, and much love. From our hearts to yours; share, spread, and receive love.
Reflecting back on this last year, so much changed, and yet so much remained the same. It wasn’t a cataclysmic year, thank the stars, but one that had a feeling of a never-ending multilayered flower that was starting to bloom. My petals were releasing from the tight bud, some didn’t want to release, […]
Life is so cool, at every turn there is a new phase. Every day, we wake, we breathe, we cycle through the moments. Each day compiles… to a week, a month, a year, a decade…. Within each of those cycles, each compounded moment of our lives, we can look for themes that are […]
Merry Christmas. Sending big hugs & love. Wishing for a day with family and friends filled with joy, laughter, connection, abundance, and much love. From our hearts to yours, share, spread, and receive love.
Each of us, in our own way is a rain drop, landing in the sea. We may not see our actions as having an effect, whether on ourselves or others, but they do. You could smile at a co-worker and intentionally chose to interact with them in a kind, compassionate, loving manner. Or […]
One moment, one act, spreads out into a ripple effect. Will you spread kindness, compassion, and love today?
Sometimes the thought of choosing oneself can be so complicated. Yet it is so easy. Magic happens when you chose yourself. Not the fake stuff, where a genie comes out of a tea pot, but the real stuff, your magic. Big magic. Each of us has magic within and it shows up differently […]
When I feel the sun kiss my face; I am grateful, every single time. Eating creamy, vanilla based ice cream, with chocolate sprinkles, I am grateful. Waking in a heated house in a warm bed, I am grateful. Hearing baby pitter patter as they hustle to and from, or their laughter and toddler chatter, my […]


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National University of Singapore Muslim Society (NUSMS) proudly presents to you Gold Inc. 2014: Achieving Islamic Harmony. Our concept revolves around promoting greater civic engagement between the elderly and the community at large. Gold Inc. is a fun day out reaching out to elderly members of the mosque by befriending and engaging them via meaningful activities. The activities aim to encourage inter-generational bonding between youth and elderly and within families and show appreciation of the elderly and provide opportunities for mutual learning. Through the outreach, it is hoped that the elderly will encounter new experiences, build friendships and strengthen relationships within the community in a recreational and enjoyable environment. This year, Gold Inc. started a new initiative to invite both Indian and Malay muslims elderlies so that we not only promote inter-generational bonding but hope to encourage inter-racial bonding too.
We admit that to truly fulfil our aim of promoting inter-generational inter-racial bonding, we cannot only depend on a one-off event. So, we hope that Gold Inc. 2014 has inspired to put in our best individual efforts to interact with everyone with love, improving the silraturahim among all Muslims. InsyaAllah.
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “He is not of us who does not have mercy on young children, nor honour the elderly” (Al-Tirmidhi)
Enjoy some photos from Gold Inc. 2014!
Alhamdulillah on the success of our event. Special thanks to Ustazah Mira and her colleagues from Darussalam Mosque, NUSMS EXCO, Orkestra Sri Temasek and our dear volunteers who helped make the event a success.
May Allah bless us in all that we do.
NUSMS Gold Inc. Committee 2014

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text: WS Bikes is Responsive vintage and simple WooCommerce WordPress theme designed especially for selling accessories, bicycle, biking, mountain biking, bike shop websites. But please do not let the name WS Bikes – Bicycle limit you, the theme can also be ideal for fashion, watches, jewelry and so many more. If you want your bike shop to prosper and gain new customers every day, you must make sure your theme is attractive and innovative. When it comes to their favorite sport, people invest passion and feelings and, if they consider your site is not representative for their requirements, will move forward to the competition. Your theme must charm the soul of a biker from the very first seconds it lands on your page. Slideshow is great with smooth transitions of texts and nice images. WS Bikes is 100% responsive that automatically adapts to any possible screen resolution of all mobile devices, displaying all the content in the best way. Especially, bike shop Woocommerce WordPress theme comes with unlimited color and a color picker in the admin panel. That might please the eye of our most demanding your client and increase sales with this gorgeous design.

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This Intermediate wheel throwing course 01 is a first step towards taking pottery professionally. Students will be covering a wide range of forms which includes cups, mugs, pitchers, plates and off the hump throwing.
The course will include the basics of production pottery and glaze application. Towards the end of the program, students will be working on a project where they will be developing a range of products which they will later glaze and fire as a part of the program.
Students will also be taken through the basics of how to step up and run a home studio
This is a 18 session course, spread over 12 weekends, of 3 hours per session.
Session Dates: September 10th, 18th, 24th, 25th, October 1st, 8th, 9th, 15th, 16th, 29th, 30th, November 5th, 6th, 12th , 13th, 19th (Full day) and 20th
NOTE: Please go through the dates and the respective days of the course sessions as not all sessions are being conducted on all Saturday and Sundays.
You will be working with two different cone 6 stoneware clay that is manufactured in house and used by professional ceramic artists. The class fee includes firing and 40kgs of stoneware clay, to be used during the sessions. Each student will be given a space in our big production kiln for firing their articles.
NOTE: Articles firing and glazing will happen post the dates mentioned above. Students need to opt for separate open studio sessions (if any practice is needed) and students also need to procure their glazes and other supplies required for glazing their articles.
Born and bought up in the city of arts and crafts, Jaipur. Aastha has always been influenced by the richness of culture and crafts that India has. She graduated as a craft designer in ceramics from Indian Institute of Crafts and Design and the later went to Golden Bridge Pottery to enhance her skills in pottery.
She believes that working in ceramic had endless possibilities and she hopes to keep exploring them. She loves to experiment with the materials, push its limits and discover new methods in the process.
- Registration and payment is required to secure a spot in class.
Cancellation and refund Policy:1. No refunds will be provided if the registration is not cancelled 1 week before the start of the program2. A refund of 75% will be provided if cancellation does occur before 1 week of commencement of theprogram3. Claystation will not offer refund for the sessions missed4. Claystation reserves the right to cancel or change the schedule of classes. The participant will receive full refund in the event of cancellation. However, if the classes are rescheduled, there will be no refund
Studio Closure:If the studio is forced to close due to factors outside of our control such as severe weather conditions, or an infectious disease such as Covid-19, we will make effort to reschedule the paused sessions. However we will not offer any refunds
Transfers:Transfer to an alternative class date is not possible once you register. You will need to cancel the registration for the existing program (Cancellation and refund policy will apply) and re-register for the new program
September 10 - November 20 | 1:45 PM-4:45 PM
Saturday and Sunday
Number of sessions: 20
Instructor: Aastha Sahal
Prerequisite: Beginner Wheel 02
Venue: Claystation Studio HSR Layout
Fee: 23790 Rs.


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Biosensors and Beyond: State of the Health Tech Wearable Market
Perhaps surprisingly, the first wearable dates back to the year 1778, when Swiss watchmaker, inventor and horologist Abraham-Louis Perrelet was credited with inventing the first motion-sensitive, self-winding watch capable of measuring both distance and steps while walking. Ten years later, founding father Thomas Jefferson reportedly brought the device to the newly formed United States, and as they say, the rest is history.
The first modern patent for the pedometer was granted to Englishman John Harwood in 1924. Since that time, the wearables market has all but exploded. Since the rapid adoption of devices like the Fitbit and the ECG-enabled Apple Watch, everyone seems to be using a smartwatch not only to tell time but also to keep close tabs on their personal health data.
Smartwatches are only the tip of the iceberg: Gone are the days when medtech was developed in sterile white labs helmed by pharma’s most prominent players. Today, organizations like Samsung, Google and NASA are in on the game, using their advanced capabilities and top-notch talent to develop the latest entrants into the medtech game.
Wearables are medical devices that consumers can get excited about. These devices let patients take a snapshot of their health in the moment — usually outside of the watchful eye of their physician or specialist. Using these devices, patients can build healthy habits. That’s useful for everyone, but especially for patients with chronic conditions like diabetes, hypertension or heart disease. In the U.S., the prevalence of chronic conditions creates not only a strain on the health care industry but also a high burden on the economy associated with lost productivity.
In 2016, total health care expenditures totaled $1.1 trillion, or nearly 6% of the country’s GDP. By 2019, health care spending increased 4.6% and reached $3.8 trillion. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), up to 90% of this spending goes directly toward caring for people with chronic conditions. Managing these chronic conditions through the use of wearables — or encouraging wearable use as a preventive measure — could significantly reduce the financial and practical burdens that chronic conditions create.
And, luckily for the wearable-obsessed, physicians and other health care providers are interested. A Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Inc. (HIMSS) survey found that more than half of participating providers felt that wearables helped manage patient care, with nearly 70% taking their excitement a step further and saying that they’d love to find a way to automatically receive patient data.
Outside of the exam room, wearables have found a place in clinical research: In early 2020, ClinicalTrials.gov registered roughly 460 studies incorporating wearables, with projections suggesting that 70% of clinical trials will incorporate wearables by 2025.
The State of the Industry
Today, digitization is among the highest priority of the health care industry. The why behind this is simple: Automation and digitization stand to improve patient lives and health care access, and streamline what some see as a bloated treatment paradigm. Device-based readings provide both patients and their care teams with “unprecedented” glimpses into individual health and encourage a culture of informed, data-driven decision making.
In their earliest iteration, wearables were marketed toward enthusiastic, health-conscious consumers. Today, these devices are regularly incorporated into various health care settings, from the clinic to the research lab to the home. From 2016 to 2019, the number of people using connected wearable devices across the world has more than doubled, going from 325 million to 722 million users over a span of three years. By 2022, it’s projected that wearable use will reach over one billion consumers.
Smartwatches, powered by the ubiquitous smartphone, are driving the growth of the wearables market. Ninety-seven percent of adults in the United States currently own a cellphone; among those, 85% of those are smartphone devices. With roughly 21% of U.S. adults reporting regular use of a smartwatch or wearable fitness tracker, it’s no surprise that these devices lead the market in utilization and engagement.
Outside of step tracking, wearables have also demonstrated their utility in the surgical field, with wearable sensors showing efficacy in monitoring high-risk surgical patients for adverse events like atrial fibrillation. In the field of cancer care, wearables have a proven utility in clinical research: One study, published in Clinical Genitourinary Cancer, surveyed patients undergoing systemic therapy. Although wearable and smartphone use rates were significantly higher among younger patients (100% among ages 40 to 49 compared with 38% among ages 80 to 89 years), researchers generally saw high engagement with the technologies and interest in the generated data across the entire study.
In the same study, researchers found that younger patients in particular were interested in activity tracking data — an interest that increased as patients progressed into more advanced second- or third-line therapies and were concerned about losing their ability to be active.
These tools allow both patients and physicians to monitor symptoms, take objective measurements and ultimately manage side effects like fatigue, pain, and sleep and mood disorders associated with immunotherapy treatments.
Cardiology, though, seems to have some of the most expansive applications, with clinical researchers evaluating how wearables can be used to detect everything from atrial fibrillation to complications of heart failure. In 2019, Janssen Pharmaceuticals launched the first decentralized, mobile, indication-seeking clinical trial (CHIEF-HF) that will rely on wearable devices and smartphone technology to seek FDA approval of canagliflozin for heart failure.
With a broad market and wide range of players, this is only a glimpse into the wearables market as a whole. In Part Two of this two-part series, we look at who’s who in wearables and what it’ll take to make wearables mainstream.

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Kenya is set to borrow at least Ksh.1.5 trillion in the new financial year commencing in July.
Reviewing the final budget estimates tabled in Parliament last week, the new borrowing plan matches up to estimated loan financing in the current financial year running to June 30- Ksh.1.4 trillion.
Out of its original Ksh.3.6 trillion spending plan, the government of Kenya is only expected to raise Ksh.2 trillion in revenues leaving a financing hole of Ksh.1.5 trillion.
A partly Ksh.62 billion of the deficit is expected to be funded by grants from development partners leaving behind a gap still in excess of Ksh.1.5 trillion.
Net foreign financing is tabulated at Ksh.291.3 billion and comprises Ksh.124.3 billion Eurobond and Ksh.74.3 billion from the World Bank Development Policy Operations (DPO).
Kenya’s current stock of debt is expected to close at Ksh.7.7 trillion down from Ksh.6.7 trillion in the month of June.


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If there is one fundamental move we all need, it’s this one. The dead bug is a master core strengthener that reduces back pain, improves posture, and helps us work on coordination.
It’s super important to protect the low back here by tucking the pelvis toward the ceiling until we feel out low backs touching the floor - and maintain that contact. This is what makes it difficult! Inhale the leg down while letting the belly expand, exhale the leg up while contracting core around the spine (bracing to be tickled while you have to pee).
If you’re new to these, start with bent knee marches. These are great for learning how to properly connect our breathe with the movement. Once the core is stronger, go ahead and move onto this variation. In the next variation, you can lift the arms to increase the challenge. And then finally, add in the coordinated arm movement. As one more variation, you can add a yoga block and do this on the same side; it adds a different challenge to the core.
Moving away from what is audibly described and shown in the video, here is another example of progression of this move. Also to note, once the arms are involved, this also helps with scapular stability and mobility so basically we love these.
Since pelvic alignment to protect the spine is most important, be sure to start with the first version and work your way through. Feel free to add something under your butt to help tilt your pelvis into neutral and keep it there (as shown in the video). This will get easier as you build stability, but does the same thing with or without this modification.
It can - and should be - tough to get the hang of connecting breath with movement because your body will likely instinctively want to exhale as you lower and inhale coming up. Taking the time to proprioceptively train our bodies to connect certain movements with our breath not only strengthens our deep core and pelvic floor, but it adds to the foundational stability most of us lack, and can help with aches and pains caused by poor posture and movement patterns. Retraining our brains to tell our bodies to actively engage the core and pelvic floor when exerting effort helps us instinctively protect our spines in turn helping us avoid injury, reduce/prevent chronic back pain, etc.
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It's an eerie scene. At the Map Ta Phut industrial complex in eastern Thailand, nearly built chemical plants stand idle along deserted roads. Half-finished columns are wrapped in blue plastic sheeting to protect them from the elements. Billions of dollars' worth of capital are standing there, practically abandoned in the middle of one of the world's largest chemical industry hubs.
The facilities are owned by dozens of famous chemical companies. Many are Japanese firms, such as Mitsubishi Rayon and Asahi Kasei. Dow Chemical and Bayer are there, as are the local conglomerates Siam Cement and PTT. The companies were caught off-guard when the Thai judiciary froze construction of the plants last autumn, years or just months after the Thai government had authorized the projects.
The drama at Map Ta Phut involves, on one side, residents of Rayong province who are concerned about the environmental and health impact of the chemical industry. On the other side are major chemical companies that profess an eagerness to meet or exceed any health, environmental, or safety standards imposed by the state. In the middle stands a wobbly Thai government whose task it is to resolve the thorny impasse.
The Map Ta Phut tussle will likely cut Thailand's gross domestic product by half a percentage point this year. The situation starkly illustrates what can happen when the complaints and concerns of people living near chemical plants are given short shrift for too long. As the impasse drags on, it risks causing permanent damage to Thailand's image of hospitality toward the international chemical industry.
In Chaklang, a hamlet of about 1,000 people less than a mile away from Map Ta Phut's newest chemical plants, barber and village councilor Boonchuay Chaonalun has nothing good to say about the chemical industry. He talks with a bitterness that comes from having been ignored for too many years. "The Japanese own so many plants near here, and I've never met a Japanese person," he says. But the more he describes the many problems that industry has caused for his village, the more his antagonistic stance sounds reasonable.
Financially, the industry doesn't bring anything to his village, Chaonalun says. Upon graduation, local students are unable to get jobs at nearby chemical plants, even as laborers during construction, he says. Moreover, government officials have forced villagers to sell their agricultural land on the cheap so that chemical companies can use the space to build new facilities, he asserts.
More seriously, whereas chemical company representatives are happy to tell him and other villagers about the advanced technologies they use at Map Ta Phut and the benefits their products bring society, Chaonalun says companies are far cagier in describing their production processes and the hazardous substances they handle. As a result, villagers lack vital information about how to protect themselves in case of an accident.
"To protect yourself from phosgene, you need to put a dry cloth in front of your mouth, not a wet one like I thought," he says out of the blue. It's a safety tip he learned not from the companies nearby that use phosgene to produce polycarbonate but rather from outside safety experts he sought out. Chaonalun recalls that a phosgene leak 10 years earlier killed two Map Ta Phut plant workers and injured many villagers, who later received financial compensation. The accident occurred at Thai Polycarbonates, a venture 60%-owned by Mitsubishi Engineering Plastics and the remainder owned by Thailand's TOA Dovechem Chemical Industries (30%), Mitsubishi Gas Chemical (5%), and Mitsubishi Chemical (5%).
Villagers aren't told in real time when an accident happens in Map Ta Phut, Chaonalun says, calling it an issue that has been a sore point for many years. A loudspeaker towers over the village for the purpose of instructing residents on what to do during an accident at a chemical plant, but Chaonalun claims it is activated only long after the fact. "We learn of accidents from ambulances carrying injured plant workers to the hospital earlier than we do from the alarm system," he says.
Various water problems are another sore point with Chaonalun. The rain that falls on his village is so acidic that it damages houses and stings the eyes, he claims. What is worse, he says, chemical plants that were built a decade ago have fouled the well water that his family had been using for drinking and washing. His well water is now muddy and contains elevated levels of manganese. It can still be used for washing, after it is filtered through a cloth, but Chaonalun says his family now depends on bottled water for drinking.
One of the things that most galls Chaonalun is the farce of the public hearings that are part of the environmental impact assessment process in Thailand. Companies give away money and food at the meetings, he says. Experts representing chemical companies make beautiful presentations, but there is no discussion, and in the end, all the villagers who attend are deemed to be supportive of the project, he claims.
In Bangkok, a two-hour drive from Chaklang, Dominikus von Pescatore, the general manager of Bayer in Thailand, is equally exasperated with the problems the company faces in Map Ta Phut. His frustration is directed at Bayer's inability to get regulatory clearance to fully make use of facilities it recently expanded in Thailand. Despite C&EN's numerous requests to chemical industry representatives in Map Ta Phut, von Pescatore is the only one who agreed to an interview.
"We are world leaders in the promotion of sustainable development. Our Map Ta Phut site received a safety award from the Thai prime minister last year, and our expanded facilities have actually lower emissions than before," von Pescatore says. "We are used to operating to the highest standards, and we can operate to even higher standards if needed."
The crux of the problem, von Pescatore says, is that the Thai government has not yet defined the regulatory standards that companies building or expanding facilities in Map Ta Phut must meet. Under Article 67 of the constitution Thailand adopted in 2007, new industrial projects must not only submit environmental and health impact assessment reports but also undergo review by a committee of technical experts and representatives of private organizations specializing in environmental and health issues.
Thailand has standard procedures for conducting environmental and health impact studies, but the government has not yet promulgated regulations detailing how the review committee should be run. The projects that are now frozen at Map Ta Phut had received the green light to proceed because they were complying with all existing regulations at the time. However, the Thai judiciary ruled last autumn that complying with the constitution, and its review rule, was also essential.
The freeze initially affected 76 projects, but construction on several resumed after companies lodged appeals through various channels. A spokeswoman for Dow, for instance, tells C&EN that most of the $3 billion in projects that the company is building with Siam Cement and Solvay Peroxy-Thai in Thailand are back on track after being told to stop last fall. Existing plants at the site continue to run as normal.
At Bayer, the projects affected by the court order are a 10% expansion of a plant making the plastic polycarbonate and a 25% expansion of a plant making bisphenol A, a raw material for polycarbonate and epoxy resins. Bayer has mostly completed the work but can operate the plants only at the capacity levels approved before the expansion.
The company is suing for the right to use the new capacity on the grounds that it's impossible to comply with nonexisting rules. The company also argues that no permit should be required because the expansions won't result in an increase in environmental emissions.
Von Pescatore notes that an additional element of frustration with the impasse in Map Ta Phut is that the Bayer organization has gone all out to be an upstanding corporate citizen. Senior executives from the German firm appear at meetings held periodically with Rayong villagers, even though they could delegate the entire exercise to local staff.
Moreover, according to a Bayer spokeswoman, 20% of the company's employees in Rayong are natives of the province. She further points out that Bayer provides scholarships and internships to local students who are learning to become chemical industry technicians and that the company has set up a cooperation program with the Rayong Technical College. Von Pescatore appears dumbstruck when told that villagers in the province believe that chemical industry jobs are closed to them.
Bayer started to build its presence in Map Ta Phut almost by accident a decade ago, when the firm bought Monsanto's global acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene business. It found Map Ta Phut to be a site welcoming of foreign investment and endowed with excellent physical infrastructure for the chemical industry.
Japanese investors select Map Ta Phut for different reasons, explains Verapong Chaiperm, deputy governor of the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT). "Japanese operate on the basis of relationships," he says. Companies from Japan, he says, have set up facilities in Thailand essentially on the basis of their smooth working relationships with groups such as Siam Cement and PTT, a state-owned oil refiner and petrochemical producer.
A government agency with a mandate to manage industrial parks throughout Thailand, IEAT finds itself at the center of the crisis since the judiciary issued its construction freeze last autumn. Chaiperm, a Ph.D. scientist trained as a water treatment engineer, estimates that assets worth $8.5 billion have been affected by the court order. The agency has set up an office to advise affected companies on what recourse they have to get their projects restarted.
As soon as possible, the government must pass regulations detailing how industrial investors should comply with the new constitution, Chaiperm says. But that's easier said than done. Even with a well-functioning government, it would take a year for parliament to enact new regulations.
Thailand's prime minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, has vowed to fast-track the effort, but he is not heading a stable government. His administration is the country's third in two years. Earlier this month, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators descended on Bangkok to demand new elections in the hope of restoring Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted as prime minister in 2006 by a military coup. It's hard to imagine the current prime minister devoting much of his attention to Map Ta Phut.
Since Thailand adopted its new constitution, Chaiperm says, IEAT has worked hard to seek a consensus among all stakeholders in Map Ta Phut, including the national government, local authorities, communities, and nongovernment agencies. IEAT has been coordinating a 2007 decision by the Thai government to turn Map Ta Phut into a national "pollution control zone." To allay villagers' concerns about the environment, Chaiperm says, IEAT has trained about 300 local residents since March 2008 as volunteer environmental auditors who inspect plants and grade their operational performance.
Chaiperm's opinion of Chaonalun, the village councilor from Chaklang, is that he represents a faction of particularly hard-line local residents. It's simply not true that the alarm system in Chaklang is defective, Chaiperm says. "I will talk with Mr. Chaonalun," he tells C&EN.
As for the groundwater pollution, he says manganese is often present in Thailand's water and that the Map Ta Phut area was in the past home to mining operations that could have disturbed underground water flow. Chaiperm says it's exceedingly difficult to pinpoint the source of groundwater contamination.
A consensus is emerging among some villagers and the chemical industry in Map Ta Phut that the complex should be managed as an "eco-industrial town." Under this concept, new plants can be added to the area only if they don't cause any substantial damage to the environment or a health risk. "As long as the area has still more carrying capacity for industry, we all agree on investments by clean and green industries," Chaiperm says.
One of the leading activists in Rayong province is far less conciliatory. Sutthi Atchasai, founder and head of the nongovernmental group Eastern People's Network, tells C&EN that he lobbied for the stringent environmental requirements in the country's new constitution. He was also the instigator of the citizens' lawsuits that led to the construction freeze at Map Ta Phut.
As a result of his activities, Atchasai claims through an interpreter, people he doesn't know follow him wherever he goes, and his phone line is bugged. "It's probably the investors, but I can't really know," he says. Thai authorities have not acted on his complaints about the harassment, he claims.
Atchasai's financial support mostly comes from the Thai health ministry. Except for some technical training he received from a foreign nongovernmental organization in Manila, Atchasai says he receives no foreign financial support.
Atchasai does support the eco-industrial town concept, but not to the extent that it welcomes further expansion. "There just isn't enough capacity for absorbing more chemical industry in Rayong province now," he says. It would be nice if tax revenues from the chemical industry could pay for better hospitals and schools in Rayong, he says. But the health burden on residents is simply too heavy to carry at present.
"In the past two years alone, there have been 37 accidents involving evacuations or injuries, and there's no alarm system," he says. He maintains that the incidences of asthma, leukemia, and skin rashes are abnormally high in Rayong.
As the impasse drags on, Thailand runs the risk that investors will judge the country as more trouble than it's worth. In a statement, the American Chamber of Commerce in Bangkok tells C&EN that "until the requirements under Article 67 are clarified and the supporting laws and regulations are enacted, a cloud will remain over future investments in Thailand. Investors need clarity, predictability, and stability."
But with local citizens and international investors at odds, and a wobbly government seemingly unable to mediate the impasse, it's hard to imagine when predictability and stability will return to Map Ta Phut.


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The state of emergency is unlikely to be extended, when the executive decree expires on June 30. Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngarm said this morning that the extension of the decree was not among the agenda for discussion by the Cabinet today.
“So, if the decree is not extended, there is no need for the matter to be discussed by the Cabinet and the decree will automatically expire on June 30,” said the deputy PM.
The decree was announced on March 26, as Thailand imposed lockdown measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19. It was extended at the end of April and again in May and is due to expire at the end of this month.
Political activist groups, and some opposition parties, have been demanding that the government to lift the emergency decree, claiming that the coronavirus situation has improved and the country has almost full control of the coronavirus since the 4th phase of lockdown relaxations.
They said that the government also has a hidden motive in extending the decree, mainly to restrict political activities by its rivals.
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(July 26, 2012) A team of University of California, Berkeley, scientists in collaboration with researchers at the University of Munich and University of Washington, in Seattle, has discovered a chemical that temporarily restores some vision to blind mice, and is working on an improved compound that may someday allow people with degenerative blindness to see again.
The approach could eventually help those with retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic disease that is the most common inherited form of blindness, as well as age-related macular degeneration, the most common cause of acquired blindness in the developed world. In both diseases, the light sensitive cells in the retina — the rods and cones — die, leaving the eye without functional photoreceptors.
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There are deepening divisions within the Health Services Union (HSU), with national secretary Kathy Jackson calling for the whole national executive to resign.
Other senior figures are pushing for national president Michael Williamson to stand down.
Ms Jackson was not part of those deliberations, and instead tried unsuccessfully to call her own executive meeting.
"I think that every member of the national executive should resign en masse and that they should go to election and let the members decide who they want to see running this union to root corruption out of this union," Ms Jackson told Lateline.
Mr Williamson has been suspended on full pay since last October, but denies any wrongdoing.
Acting national president Chris Brown has accused Ms Jackson of coveting Mr Williamson's job and says it is inappropriate she is involved in the discussions.
"There's some allegations that have been made public against Ms Jackson that haven't yet been fully tested yet," he said.
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Ms Jackson has rejected the claim she wants Mr Williamson's job, and is angry her demand for a full teleconference of the executive has been rejected.
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The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has issued two fines of $15,000 each after waste from the Singleton Railway Station construction site was unlawfully transported to a property at Nalley Creek Road, Millers Forest.
The EPA received information in May 2017 that waste was being deposited at the private property. EPA officers promptly visited the site – which does not hold a licence to operate as a waste facility – and found multiple stockpiles of waste which included excavated natural material as well as waste piles that showed a mixture of soils, concrete brick and timber. Some of the material at the site had been excavated as part of upgrade works at Singleton Railway Station.
While the Nalley Creek Road site does hold a development consent to build a flood mound, it can only accept excavated natural material for this purpose - that is, natural material such as clay, gravel, sand or soil that is not contaminated with materials that could put the environment at risk.
Material needs to be expertly classified as excavated natural material before it can be used under the resource recovery exemption. However, records show that that the stockpiles of waste removed from the Singleton Railway Station had been classified by an expert consultant as General Solid Waste. The waste could not be used in the construction of a flood mound and by law must be disposed of at a licensed waste facility.
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The unlawfully disposed of material has since been removed from the Millers Forest site and transported to a licensed waste facility.
EPA Acting Manager Regional Waste Compliance Steven James said while the impact on the environment had been minimal, there are strict rules that must be adhered to as soon as material is determined to be waste.
“Excavated Natural Material (ENM) needs to be carefully classified to ensure it is safe to be used, and as soon as material is determined not to fit that criteria, it must go to a licensed waste facility,” Mr James said.
“A drop in price from $85 per tonne to $2 per tonne for disposal of the waste should have rung alarm bells. There was simply not enough due diligence done by those involved.”
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A masterful synthesis of biology, psychology, anthropology, and philosophy, The Tangled Wing reveals human identity and activity to be an intricately woven fabric of innumerable factors. Melvin Konner's sensitive and straightforward discussion ranges across topics such as the roots of aggression, the basis of attachment and desire, the differences between the sexes, and the foundations of mental illness.
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Ethiopian long distance legend Haile Gebreselassie sees Facebook role in the recent massacre in Oromo region of Ethiopia
November 3, 2019
The greatest long-distance runner in history Haile Gebre Selassie of Ethiopia disclosed this past week that he is intending to sue the “social media” platform, facebook, over recent massacre in his country which claimed at least 78 lives.
If the Ethiopian government is not filing a lawsuit against the giant the American giant online social media and networking company, says Haile Gebrselassie, “it is likely that I will do it,” as reported by state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporation (FBC).
“People are dying,” he said,
The two times Olympic long-distance Gold medalist believes that Facebook has contributed a lot to the security crisis in the country in recent years.
The latest string of massacre in Oromo region of Ethiopia was triggered after radical Oromo nationalists activist and owner of Oromia media network. Jawar Mohammed, who has over 1.7 million followers on Facebook, wrote a message on facebook in the late night of October 22 accusing the government of endangering his life by removing security details.
“Some may say that they are using Facebook as a tool for struggle and freedom. Yet, it should not lead to unnecessary sacrifice. There should be caution in that regard,” Haile Gebreselassie added.
He wants Ethiopian activists in the country and abroad to weigh the impacts of their messages to their followers. He warned that the use of photo-shopped materials to incite violence will, in the end, bring about a heavy price to whoever is doing it.
He sees media outlets in the country as part of the problem too, and he says that they should exercise caution in their work.
Political situation in Ethiopia seems to be fragile due to decades of ethnic-based politics which, in recent years, has been radicalizing.
Ethnic Oromo radical youth, known in the region as qeerroo, committed atrocities massacring at least 78 people, including children and seniors taking the facebook message from the radical activist, Jawar, as a pretext to do so.
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These results suggest that hormones may have activational effects on activity changes induced by OBX and organizational effects in the marked anhedonia exhibited by female OBX mice. ... In data from the STAR*D trial, 66% of women reported premenstrual exacerbations in their symptoms  . Of note, this was associated with longer depressive episodes and shorter latency to relapse. ...doi:10.1038/s41386-018-0156-z pmid:30082889 pmcid:PMC6235879 fatcat:vvfaberi6bfsffjt4j5q3d7hpm
D. Pharmacological inhibition of proteosomal degradation prevented decreases in AMPAR-mediated synaptic currents in response to chronic stress, but had no effect in unstressed animals. ...doi:10.1016/j.tins.2015.03.003 pmid:25887240 pmcid:PMC4417609 fatcat:vdtc3i6vgvewbo3ebbnnmda65u
Kvarta MD, Harris-Warrick RM, Johnson BR. Neuromodulator-evoked synaptic metaplasticity within a central pattern generator network. ... Gray horizontal lines mark the amplitude of the initial peak gIPSP. ... D: 5-HT increases synaptic depression. ...doi:10.1152/jn.00586.2012 pmid:22933725 pmcid:PMC3545119 fatcat:gie3l3u2prguhn4oxzimtixe2m
Kvarta MD, Bradbrook KE, Dantrassy HM, Bailey AM, Thompson SM. Corticosterone mediates the synaptic and behavioral effects of chronic stress at rat hippocampal temporoammonic synapses. ... Marked morphological, functional, and volumetric brain changes correlate with stress load, depressive episode duration, and response to antidepressants (Sheline 2000; Sheline et al. 2003; Koolschijn et ... D: survival plot illustrating the proportion of rats that remained unfed vs. time in the noveltysuppressed feeding task. ...doi:10.1152/jn.00359.2015 pmid:26180121 pmcid:PMC4567614 fatcat:g3u43rhyo5dezpay5rmuc23hoy
Mark D. Kvarta: Writing -review & editing. Laura Garcia: Project administration, Writing -review & editing. Peter Kochunov: Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writingreview & editing. L. ...doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2021.102688 pmid:33991855 fatcat:zrrxulrsmnhw7he6i5se3o6bei
From left to right: (A) Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), (B) number of life stressors, and (C) Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) were all significantly higher in DRD cases compared to controls, while (D) community ...doi:10.1038/s41398-021-01369-9 pmid:33927182 pmcid:PMC8085217 fatcat:n4urkrchubgxlmnqsby6rlkzs4
B, D, and F: summary of DA (B), Oct (D), and 5HT (F) effects at the LP¡PD synapse, showing the mean amplitude of the PD graded inhibitory postsynaptic potentials (gIPSPs) to LP control waveform under control ... Thus we show our results with Oct application using only the control LP waveform (Fig. 2, D and E) . ...doi:10.1152/jn.00809.2010 pmid:21047938 pmcid:PMC3023374 fatcat:thlemxz4vvhkzc4bc6glapk2vi
AM Van Dyke and MD Kvarta are shareholders in Asulon Therapeutics, Inc. ... AM Van Dyke, MD Kvarta, and SM Thompson have filed a patent application covering the use of alpha5-selective negative allosteric modulators as fast acting antidepressants. ... Neither injection produced a significant change in social interaction (c) or sucrose preference (d). ...doi:10.1038/npp.2015.112 pmid:25900119 pmcid:PMC4569955 fatcat:e4v45l6nlbb5tcquqgbcvugi3a
(d) Anpirtoline neither enhanced SC-CA1 fEPSPs nor occluded LTP of SC-CA1 synapses (red; n=7 slices). LTP of SC-CA1 fEPSPs in control slices shown in black (n=5 slices). ... (d) Anpirtoline selectively enhanced TA-CA1 EPSCs recorded in whole-cell voltage-clamp mode, but not simultaneously evoked SC-CA1 EPSCs in a two-pathway experimental design (n=9 cells). ...doi:10.1038/nn.3355 pmid:23502536 pmcid:PMC3609911 fatcat:td3paijaa5genphztgdywblyj4
Research has yet to provide a comprehensive understanding of the genetic basis of bipolar disorder (BP). In genetic studies, defining the phenotype by diagnosis may miss risk-allele carriers without BP. The authors aimed to test whether quantitatively detected subclinical symptoms of bipolarity identifies a heritable trait that infers risk for BP. The Quantitative Bipolarity Scale (QBS) was administered to 310 Old Order Amish or Mennonite individuals from multigenerational pedigrees; 110doi:10.1038/s41398-019-0561-z pmid:31527585 pmcid:PMC6746871 fatcat:nfl35ftpmrchvne72nx24t75vu
more »... uals had psychiatric diagnoses (20 BP, 61 major depressive disorders (MDD), 3 psychotic disorders, 26 other psychiatric disorders). Familial aggregation of QBS was calculated using the variance components method to derive heritability and shared household effects. The QBS score was significantly higher in BP subjects (31.5 ± 3.6) compared to MDD (16.7 ± 2.0), other psychiatric diagnoses (7.0 ± 1.9), and no psychiatric diagnosis (6.0 ± 0.65) (all p < 0.001). QBS in the whole sample was significantly heritable (h2 = 0.46 ± 0.15, p < 0.001) while the variance attributed to the shared household effect was not significant (p = 0.073). When subjects with psychiatric illness were removed, the QBS heritability was similar (h2 = 0.59 ± 0.18, p < 0.001). These findings suggest that quantitative bipolarity as measured by QBS can separate BP from other psychiatric illnesses yet is significantly heritable with and without BP included in the pedigrees suggesting that the quantitative bipolarity describes a continuous heritable trait that is not driven by a discrete psychiatric diagnosis. Bipolarity trait assessment may be used to supplement the diagnosis of BP in future genetic studies and could be especially useful for capturing subclinical genetic contributions to a BP phenotype.
Primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) may rarely be preceded by "sentinel demyelination," a pathologic entity characterized by histologically confirmed demyelinating inflammatory brain lesions that mimic multiple sclerosis (MS) or acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM). Interpreting the overlapping radiologic and clinical characteristics associated with each of these conditions-contrast-enhancing demyelination of white matter and relapsing and remitting steroid-responsivedoi:10.1186/s12883-016-0596-1 pmid:27206499 pmcid:PMC4875602 fatcat:35vky2bqw5gopk3mus2f7vooky
more »... respectively-can be a significant diagnostic challenge. Case presentation: We describe a 57-year-old woman with an unusual clinical course who presented with multi-focal enhancing white matter lesions demonstrated to be inflammatory demyelination by brain biopsy. Despite a good initial response to steroids and rituximab for treatment of presumed tumefactive multiple sclerosis, the patient's condition rapidly deteriorated, and a repeat brain biopsy six months later was consistent with a diagnosis of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Conclusions: Early clinical suspicion for PCNSL and awareness that biopsied lesions may initially show sentinel demyelination suggestive of alternate diagnoses may be essential for early initiation of appropriate therapies and mitigation of disease progression. Clinical, pathophysiological, and diagnostic aspects of sentinel demyelination and PCNSL are discussed.
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SSD had the largest effect (Cohen's d = 1.42) then BD (d = 0.55), and MDD (d = 0.15). Hypertension had a significant effect on SMI+ (d = 0.19) and SMI- (d = 0.14). ... , Cohen's d = 1.42; 95% CI: [0.54, 2.30]) followed by BD (d = 0.55; 95% CI: [0.26, 0.84]) and MDD (d = 0.15; 95% CI: [0.10, 0.21]). Figure 5b-d and TableS4. ... We observed significant and similar effect sizes for hypertension for the whole-brain (d = 0.19, 0.14) and white matter (d = 0.22, 0.21) QRIs in subjects with SMI and controls. ...doi:10.1002/hbm.25769 pmid:35112422 pmcid:PMC8933252 fatcat:wsseunmajzc2hjhvhnvemetgtu
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Member of New Bedford Latin Kings Chapter Sentenced for Racketeering Conspiracy Charges
For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts
BOSTON – A former member of the New Bedford Chapter of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (“Latin Kings”) was sentenced today on racketeering charges. The defendant admitted to participating in a June 2019 shooting of another Latin Kings member who was in bad standing with the gang.
Shelton Johnson, a/k/a “King Shellz,” 31, was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel to 54 months in prison and three years of supervised release. In September 2020, Johnson pleaded guilty to conspiracy to conduct enterprise affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity, more commonly referred to as RICO conspiracy.
The Latin Kings are a violent criminal enterprise comprised of thousands of members across the United States. The Latin Kings adhere to a national manifesto, employ an internal judiciary and use a sophisticated system of communication to maintain the hierarchy of the organization. As alleged in court documents, the gang uses drug distribution to generate revenue, and engages in violence against witnesses and rival gangs to further its influence and to protect its turf.
Johnson admitted that he conspired with other Latin Kings members and leaders and participated in a June 2019 shooting of a member who was in bad standing with the gang. Johnson also admitted to participating in a beating of members of the Latin Kings who had violated its rules.
In December 2019, a federal grand jury returned an indictment alleging racketeering conspiracy, drug conspiracy and firearms charges against 62 leaders, members and associates of the Latin Kings. Johnson is the 15th defendant to be sentenced in the case.
United States Attorney Andrew E. Lelling; Joseph R. Bonavolonta, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Field Division; Commissioner Carol Mici of the Massachusetts Department of Correction; and New Bedford Police Chief Joseph C. Cordeiro made the announcement today. Valuable assistance was also provided by the FBI North Shore Gang Task Force and the Bristol County and Suffolk County District Attorney’s Offices. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Philip A. Mallard and Lauren Graber of Lelling’s Criminal Division are prosecuting the case.
The operation was conducted by a multi-agency task force through the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF), a partnership between federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. The principal mission of the OCDETF program is to identify, disrupt and dismantle the most serious drug trafficking, weapons trafficking and money laundering organizations, and those primarily responsible for the nation’s illegal drug supply. More information on the OCDETF program is available here: https://www.justice.gov/ocdetf/about-ocdetf.
The details contained in the charging documents are allegations. The remaining defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
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